The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-17 00:00:00

THE FRACAS AT HOMBURG.

In the Frankfort Europe appears the following
letter in reply to that of Mr. Labouchere, M.P.,
which we reproduced in our Saturday's impression :
" Nauheim, Sept. 12.
"I request from your impartiality the insertion of
the following observations upon the letter from Mr.
Labouchere, which was published in your num-
ber of the 11th inst., in reply to a few lines from me,
which I addressed to you on the Bth inst.
" I named no one, and I only stated a fact—that
having chastised a gentleman who had interfered in
matters which did not concern him, I had waited
three days for a visit from his friends.
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" It has pleased this gentleman to enter into the
details of a scandal for which it has not sufficed that
he should have been publicly horsewhipped. Let us
see what are the details.

"He said I was not a baron. I defied him to
prove that I bad ever said I was one ; I am, and I
sign myself as di Baroni Farina,' and none above
a hackney coachman could be ignorant of what that
meant.

"He says that on arriving at Homburg he saw
me at table with some ladies, with one of whom he
was acquainted. That is absolutely false. The lady
of his acquaintance was not at the same table at
which I was seated. Beyond that, one must lack
all shame to introduce into such an affair the word
' ladies,' which I should not have dared to do, so
sacred is the word to me.

" He says that I accosted the husband of the lady
to demand explanations, and that they were refused
to me by him. It is false. The husband of that
lady placed himself at my disposition, and I thanked
him, observing that it was with the wretch who had
concocted such cowardly calumnies that I must
settle the affair.

" He says that I lifted my cane towards him, and
that he seized me by the neck. It is false, for I
thrashed him to my heart's content. Ile assumes
the position of a man of courage, talks of correcting
and chastising, but it was at the moment when I
thrashed him that he should have turned his venge-
ance upon me.

"He states that he applied to the police, which
indeed is worthy of him, and I leave the public to
judge whether the electors who returned him to
Parliament intended him to make such use of his
position.

"He says that he is supported in his statement
by gentlemen. Well, I appeal to gentlemen of
every country—who speaks the truth, I or La-
bouchere ? I, who began by writing a quiet letter,
truthful, unimpassioned, only reciting facts as
they had occurred, having witnesses who were
present when I beat him—the Count Novarro della
Miraglia, the Count de Rocourt, and 40 others. As
to M. de Rocourt, whom I had requested to wit-
ness the affair as .a simple spectator, he is one of
those French gentlemen, brave and loyal, who
fight on account of a cross look, and who do not
know the word

"lie states, finally, that I am supported by
women, and for that I will flog him again, having
no other reply to make to him. Nevertheless, as
he seeks for an investigation, not for his sake,
but for the honour of my family, I am ready
before any commission that may be appointed to
justify to the fullest extent my means of existence.
But if I should submit myself to this humiliation
public opinion will, doubtless, demand of Labou-
chere what he has done with the flogging which
he received from an honourable man for meddling
in what did not concern him, and how he has
dared to abuse his character as an English repre-
sentative, to cover calumnies which are insufficient
to explain his cowardice.

" Accept, &c.,
" LUIGI DI BARONI FARINA.
" P.S.—lf the proposition of an investigation is
accepted, the commission shall be composed of an
equal number of French, Italian, and English
gentlemen."

WRECKS ON THE IttISEI COIS7I -
GALLAN7 LIFEBOAT SERVICES.

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ARKLOW, Sept. 12.
We were visited yesterday (says Dr. Ilalpin) with
one of the fiercest gales, for its duration, that has
ever been experienced on this coast. About nine
o'clock in the evening the services of the Arundel,
Venables lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion on this station, were called into requisition.
The smack Kate and Mary, of this port, was riding
at anchor in the bay, where a very heavy sea was
running. She bad but one boy on hoard, as the
rest of the crew were ashore. The lifeboat pro-
ceeded out, but she had only got a short distance
outside the pier head when she was regularly filled,
took stern way, and got broadside on the north pier
head. The men stood by the boat greatly stunned.
At this juncture Captain Edward Kearon jumped
off the pier into the boat, and by his judicious and
cheering advice the boat got clear, and a second
time attempted to get through the broken water,
but was again driven back, and would have been
forced against the pier had not a cross sea took her
and canted her away. With Captain Kearon's per-
suasion the men made a third gallant trial, and this
time succeeded in getting through the surf and
reaching the smack, when one of the lifeboat men
was placed on board, and the boc„t in return was
beached, as it was not considered safe to run between
the pier heads. Subsequently the smack's anchor
was slipped, and she got out of the roadstead. The
lifeboat behaved admirably, and I must also add my
testimony to the gallantry and perseverance of the
crew of the boat.

HOWTII, DUBLIN BAY, Sept. 12.
During a strong gale with heavy sea this morn-
ing (reports Staff-Commander H. D. Burney,
R.N.), a schooner was seen making for the harbour
in a disabled state with her mainsail blown to pieces
The Howth lifeboat belonging to the National Life-
boat Institution was at once launched to her assist-
ance. The vessel had by this time anchored near
the Baldoyle Sands, but drifted. The lifeboat took
off the captain, and also brought the schooner safely
into Howth Harbour, and moored her alongside the
West Pier. The crew of the lifeboat deserve great
praise for the gallant manner in which they boarded
the vessel, and saved her at the very risk of their
lives. She was the schooner Splendid, of Dublin,
bound from Liverpool to that port with a cargo of
coals.

MARKETS.---This day.

HAY.

SMITIIFIELD—Meadow hay, £2 15s Od to £4 5s ; clover,
£3 Os to £5 lOs Od; and straw, £1 16s to .£2 2s per load.
Trade quiet.

CUMBERLAND—Meadow hay, £2 15s to £4 lOs Od ; clover,
£3 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 16s Od to £2 2s per load.
A moderate demand.

WHITECHAPEL —.Meadow hay, £2 153 Oil to £1 5s Od ;
clover, £3 Os to Z. 5 los 01; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per
load. Trade slow.

COLONIAL•

TEA.—Samplos of the new season's crop by the Taeping
wore on offer, and a fair quantity has been disposed of at
from is 8d to 2s 2d per lb. About 9,500 packages are an-
nounced for public sale to-day.
SUGAR.—Business has been dull, and tho few sales
effected have been of an unimportant character, at about
previous rates.

CorrEE.—A rather largo quantity is announced for
public competition during the week, which, with the Dutch
Company's monthly sale, has caused a slight depression in
values. Tho stocks on hand, compared with those of the
corresponding period of last year, show an excess of about
2,200 tons.
RR:E.—Thew has boon a steady demand for cleaned do
scriptions, and late rates are well maintained.
COTTON.—Tho enquiries have been to a moderate extent,
and prices show no material change. The sales have been
about 1330 bales-700 Tinnivelly, good fair 61(1 to 6d ;
50 Western, fair 6(1; 20 Salem, fair 6d ; 200 Bengal,
middling fair to fully fair 5d to 51; 300 West India 91-
and GO Brazil 9d. _ _

TALLOW.—There has been no new feature in the Tallow
Market worth notice during the past week. The depres-
sion that has existed of late still continues, and no dis-
position is shown by either speculators or consumers to
come forward.

LIVERPOOL COTTON Al ARKE7—This Day.

The market opens flat, with a limited demand.
Sales probably 8,000 or 10,000 bales.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Sept. 14.
The Queen and the Prince and Princess Christian
and the other members of the royal Family continue
to enjoy their daily drives and walks at the royal
Highland residence, and are in possession of excel-
lent health. Prince Christian has had good sport
in deer stalking.
Her Majesty and court will remove to Windsor
Castle shoaly after the middle of next month.

His Highness the Prince Alexander Wassiticbkcff
and family have left Maurigy's Hotel for St. Petersburg.
The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans -returned
to Bestwood, Notts, on Saturday, from visiting Viscount
and Viscountess Halifax at Mickleton Hall. Tho noblo
duke and duchess will receive company during tho week
for partridge shooting.
The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle during the
past week entertained a select party at Clumber, Notts,
including Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marchioness
of Hastings, Viscount Andover, Lord Courtenay, LadY.
Susan Vane Tempest, Colonel Ouseley Higgins, Major
Stackpole, Captain Hawkesley, Captain Bastard, Captain
Brabazon, Mr. Fleming, Miss Heneage, &c.
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BIRTHDAY REJOICINGS ON THE iILTTE ESTATES.--'
On Thursday, on the occasion of the Marquis of But°
attaining his 20th year, ➢lr. Henry Stuart, factor on tho
Bute Estates, entertained the tenantry at a grand ball
in
the Bute Hotel. The largo hall of the hotel, Which Was
tastefully decorated with evergreens and floral devices,
was set apart for dancing, whilst in the adjoining rooms
supper and refreshments were liberally dispensed. The
company, which numbered about 300 from all ends of the
island, old and young, enjoyed themselves thoroughlY*—
Morning Journal.

THE LYCEUM THEATRE.

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been announced that Mr. Fechter would take the
part of Claude Melnotte. Some slight alterations
had been made in placing the play upon the stage,
but these were trivial, and the chief desire on the
part of the audience was to ascertain how Mr.
Fechter would delineate a character which he as-
sumed for the first time, and which there was
every reason to believe he was admirably adapted
to sustain. Nor were these anticipations unrealised,
for Mr Fechter's rendering of the character was a
complete success. llis reading was " realistic."
lle endeavoured to be as natural in the character as
the language of the author would permit, and as
free from the customary staginess as possible. BY
adopting this style he gained a great advantage in
the more rapid and melodramatic parts of the drama.
In the fourth act, where his wife is torn from him
after her pride leaves her, and is replaced by love
for Claude, he rises to his utmost height, and dis-
plays his passion with great spirit and pathos, but
with the slightest of ranting. In this see"
also Miss Carlotta Leelercq, who played Pauline,
was very effective, and both performers were en-
thusiastically applauded by the audience. In the
last act Mr. Pechter exhibited a very choice mod°,
of acting, when Claude tears the documents and
rushes into Pauline's arms. This brought the play
to the highly successful conclusion, and a crowded
and distinguished company left the theatre a little
before 12 o'clock.