The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-27 00:00:00

KILL ARNE Y.

Killarney has had a lively and unexpected season.
The little Irish town lay surrounded by its lovely
scenes—steeped in intense quiet and stupidity. Its
grand hotels were empty—its stables contained
horses, on whom the experiment has for generations
Keen tried, to ascertain the minimum amount of food
t,c &eep the animal alive till required. Irish boys of
all ages lounged about thinuyed for the want of em-
plo:‘, mint, and without even the excitement of com-
mencing to count the days when the Sassenach
would appear, and Ireland's plunder of England
begin—when Killarney would spring into life and
gaiety, and a still greater change come o'er society
than o'er the face of nature. Those only ean'tell
the intense stupidity of a gay and fashionable
tourist locality, who have remained after the summer
and into the winter season. The contrast must be seen
in both phases to be understood, between bustle and
joyous hilarity and the 'emptiness of desolation—
between mountain slopes ringing with laughter and
echoing with the shouts of pie-nic parties—and the
dreary, snow..capped, mist-covered hills—between
lakes dancing in the sunshine, sta Lied with their
boating voyagers, resounding with notes of
music and. fringed with their verdant and
overhanging - woods, and • the same lakes
lying sullen beneath the weight of Atlantic mists, or
rising in white foam as the scud flies, and whirls,
and eddies in savage gusts down the bleak and cold
mountains. Killarney, but a few days since, was
anything but the fascinating and agreeable Killar-
ney known to tourists, when a change was wrought
almost as sudden—and much more startling and
unexpected, than what we are in the habit of seeing
in the theatres, during the pantomime season. A
solitary traveller approached the town in one of the
public conveyances. He was a military, man, who
had fought in the American war, and bore on his
face disigrecable. evidence of his close contact with
the enemies against whom he had served. The
vehicle was stopped and the traveller arrested, and
forthwith Killarney sprang into life. The hills
seemed to grow armed men—families in the out-
lying districts flew for security to the town—loco-
motives
snorted into the station conveying long
trains of soldiers—the starving horses were as•o-
nished at the supply cf oats—the Irish boys of all
ages sprang into life. and activity, and Sassenach
gold began to circulate freely through the wilds of
Kerry. Killarney was invaded ; first, by a band of
Fenians; next, by a general rush of the Kerry
landed gentry ; immediately after by regiments of
British soldiers; and finally, by a body of reporters
on behalf of the irrepressible Press. Killarney, in
return, is invading England, penetrating into the I
most distant recesses—into every house—through
the clubs, reading-rooms, benches of Parliament—
the Cabinet of the Ministers and the counsels of
the Horse Guards. We are saturated with Killar-
ney, and Killarney too, out of season. If the
Fenians had planned the little excitement as an
agreeable surprise in our dullest time when there
was little news stirring, we must have confessed
that the Fenian enterprise was not wholly without
some good result. All the morning papers contain
long stories from " Special Correspondents," giving
full details of the abortive Fenian outbreak, which,
according to these accounts, has been completely
crushed. In default of facts there is no lack of rumours,
and if there beno contests to describe, still thedoings
of the military can furnish the reporter's pens with
subjects of interest. Brigadier-General Sir ALFRED
HORSFORD is in command, and has established. his
head-quarters at the Railway Hotel. The 2nd.
battalion of the GOth Rifles are established in •the
town, with detachments of the 6th, 14th, and 48th
Regiments, which, together with the artillery and
caval7,• make up some 1,500 men. The whole
district is being patrolled by this force. The penin-
sula ;:a which the rising occurred is among the
wildest and most mountainous piris of Ireland.
At the extremity of this peninsula. is Valentia, the
Irish terminus of the Atlantic cable. The Bay of
Kenmare forms a long indentation to the south,
and Dingle Bay a similar indentation to the north.
About the centre of the base of this peninsula lies
the town of Killarney, containing about 6,000 in-
habitants, and by far the most wealthy place in
that part of the country. The railway from
Mallow junction runs through Killarney and on to
Tralee, situated to the north of Dingle Bay.
Mallow is the most central post commanding the
lines between Cork and Limerick, with Fermoy
and Waterford on one side and Killarney and
Tralee on the other. The rising being confined to
the district south-west of Killarney, that town
became the base of any military operations. With
gun-boats in the bays of Kenmare and Dingle, and
a strong force at Killarney, it would be no easy
matter for the insurgents to penetrate through the
chain. Kenmare has been occupied, and parties of
soldiers despatched to beat up the wildest parts of
the mountains. The cars which carry tourists have
been put into requisition to convey troops along
the road, and if any bands still hold together they
will soon be compelled to disperse or break through
the 'line of military posts. The district is too
sterile and unproductive to sustain for any
lengthened period a body of men, and unless a
rising occurred outside in other parts of the country
it would be Madness, and, indeed, an impossibility,
for the rebels to remain under arms. It is pro:
bable, therefore, that as soon as the present excite.i
ment subsides we will hear little more of the last
Fenian outbreak till the trial of Captain Aloßiartn-
and other prisoners, revives the ke sub.., t A /
I ng °-
American Times.

The freedmen of Florida are seemingly prosperous,
and are very generally renewing their contracts.
Their number is constantly increased by arrivals
from the adjoining States. The blacks among the
Indian tribes of the Everglades are still held
in servitude, and have appealed to the military for
assistance.

THE OVERLAND ROUTE.—We understand that it
is in contemplation, when the new line of steamers com-
mence running for the conveyance of troops to and from
India by way of Suez, to permit officers-who are returning
to England on leave to take passages in these vessels on the
payment of £4O. There will be an additional expense of
3s. 6d. per day for messing during the voyage. If this is
carried out, officers will be able to cover the expense of the
journey by about Xso.—United S'ervice Gazette.

late
zing
Dom-41110,2-7, • ; i
v •
Apths
mr-t
TO THE •ED/ToR OF THE WEEKLY RithipTEla S
SIR,—I translate for you the following letter from
an ecclesiastical student in our Portuguese univer.
sity, giving a brief account to a friend in this coun-
try of a funeral service which took place in the
Cathedral of Coimbra for the repose of the soul of
the late King Dom Miguel. The letter, hurriedly
written as it is, will speak for itself ; and let me re-
mark that, ever since the news of the King's death
reached Portugal, successive funeral services have
been equally and spoil tan..ou.-ly 4)cl-forme:l in aim
every tOINn and village throughout the country with •
unequivocal dent mcerationz4 of feeling, regret, and
affectionate remembrance. The actual Governmenk -
of Portugal appear to take unreasonable umbrage at -
such manifestations. Why I kt.ow not, but there i 5
no doubt they cause uneasiness to the dominant
powers. I judge this to be the case from the
fact that having myself sent to friends in Portugal
several copies both of some printed poetry occasioned
by the King's demise, and also some copi:ss of your
paper of the.29th December last, and of the London
Sun of the lit of January, containing declarations
concerning the young .rightful king, Dots Miguel.
IL, neither the verses nor some of the newspapers
were received by the persons to whom they were
addressed. All the papers had been. properly ,
stamped here, and most certainly it was not the-
English Post-office that suppressed them. As foe::
the declarations, you know what they were; the
verses adverted to the mean and hypocritical 20
days' Court mourning, commanded at the Court of
Lisbon, and the announced intention of revoking •
the revolutionary exclusion of King Dom Miguel
and his family from his mother-country and their
rightful kingdom. Here is the translation of the
letter :

" Coimbra, February 7th, 1867.

" On the 30th of January took place in this Lusi-

tanian Athens the solemn obsequies of the late
King Dom Miguel, ordered and defrayed by Doctor
I Rodrigues, M. Lernos, of Condeixa, and by a sub-
scription of the Legitimist party in this city. I did •
not, indeed, expect that that party were still to be
found here so staunch and numerous. To me, the
enthusiasm which prevailed at his proclamation as
King, is only traditional, but the feeling yet cherished
towards him, when now, like a martyr, he has ex-
changed a temporal kingdom for a celestial one, is
manifested by ocular and auricular observation. Such
reward he must have earned, if we consider the acts
recorded of him in M. Saraiva's ' Dom Miguel en
Roma' (Dom Miguel at Rome), a testimony which I
consider to be insuspect. Indeed, the sentiment
which the lights of the funeral service enabled us
clearly to discern was not inferior in its kind to
that exhibited in the prime of the Prince's life
throughout all the country, from the shepherd's
humble cottage to the dome of the noblest
mansion. The attendance round the richly deco-
rated catafalque would not yield in dignity to that
which surounded the cradle at Queloz or the throne
at N ecessidades with the sole difference of intention -
and object. Above one hundred ecclesiastics of all
grades in the clerical hierarchy attended as well as
au immense number of persons of all classes and
ranks. The vast and perfumed cathedral could
scarcely suffice to hold the thick crowd of people,
down most of whose cheeks, both,the juvenile
ones as well as those withered by time
or the effects of suffering, shining tears were
observed freely to drop. The mournful music was
executed by voices come from Oporto and elsewhere,
and if some of them were wont occasionally,,.
to enliven with gay strains a public audience they
were not less effective now in modulating the com-
plaints of Job, the tears of David, and the deep as-
pirations of the dying Christian, hallowed by tho
Catholic religion. The pious and sorrowful feeling
thus prompted sunk profoundly in the hearts of all
present without distinction of party, sex, or age ;
and there was cause enough for it, as, whilst some -
mourned simply for a virtuous fellow-man, others
did so for their unjustly proscribed king, who, for
more than one reason, was entitled to the tears of all.
The funeral sermon was preached by Dr. Rodrigues, •
who well knew how to turn the royal diadem into a
noble crown of cypress and everlasting flowers. My
praising his sermon to you would be doing what is
done here by everybody. I will merely cite the text,
viz.—ln reyno natus, inopia consumptus. The mas-
terly tact, the conscious delicacy wherewith he con-
trived to handle such a thorny subk-ct, is admired by
all and eulogised in the highest degree, and the more
sons everybody felt that he did not utter even one-
tenth of his own ideas and convictions on the subject.
The occasion offered, indeed, great scope to ths
pathetic, and the orator knew how to avail himself
of it most fully, so as to enrapture his auditory.
Twice he sued for attention, and made, as if it were,
two exordiums and a double sermon ; still the im-
mense audience seemed as if they hardly dared to
breathe for attention all over the va,t
Everybody admits that no dead king ever had such
funeral honours, which astonished me so much the
more for their being so purely spontaneous and hav-
ing nothing official in them."

11.:c op bl foeobsr a
l asn,
This letter, addressed to a young friend of the
writer, is indeed most significant as regards the feel-
ing evoked in Portugal by the death of King Dom
Miguel. It is most remarkable that such a body of
the clergy in the third city of the kingdom, that the
members of the University, graduates and under-
graduates, of all sorts of opinions, the population of
the town of every class in society, should thus as-
semble and mix together for the purpose of paying
honour to such a " monster of tyranny and cruelty"
as King Dom Miguel was once represented to be by
the British press, Parliament, and the public, and
(proh dolor!) by Mr. O'Connell and the British Ca-
tholics at the time. It is well known—and even the
7 ivies was fully confessing it recently—that Dora
Miguel would not have lost his throne, nor the Por-
tuguese nation been put under the yoke of a rapa-
cious minority of "Freemasons and Infidels" with-
out the scandalous underhand intrigues and inter-
ventions of this country.
England it is that Portu-
gal
rertyheofdesh
et rr u
Cc thi ou
rn
cohf,
thheer
dbezesetcirna--
tdthseanhcotsutai
hostile
sanctuaries, i thev idivision
utteron
of cor-
ruption
i t has
her
people, the immense and over-increasing debt which
siton u
oi °f
n of hert°s' the
her htac
morals,
crushes her. The " prosperities," the " power," and
~ greatness" which 36 years ago were daily promised
here to Portugal by almost every newspaper, every
Liberal member of Parliament, as certain to flow
upon my poor country when Dom Pedro's charter
and his followers should have succeeded in imposing
themselves upon it, have been transformed into such
a state of things asl have pointed out Dr. Rodrigues
(the Prime Professor of Divinity in the University),
a most learned, gifted, and eloquent orator, knew
no doubt that at every sentence be wastaruttering in
pious praise of Dom Miguel's reaoylniqtatutr•yptleipr b ties his audi-
itioirnygw, ere
withcontrastingainv
which
ich t
imputationshe hisr w
e v
ol oianrt d s with
idf de-
scriptions
ttrhi
e-
bane had teemed for many years.
That they could not but be camparing
in
own minds and recollections the real state
of
things
hie theirg s
and popular feeling in the country before the revo-
lution, and those now prevailing, when, with the
exception of a few material improvements—like rail-
ways, telegraphs, &c.—which would have been
effected (and better and more cheaply too) if the
King's Government had not been crusbe4 by Eng-
land and the " Quadruple Alliance." Poor Portu-
g d gained nothing save quackery, verbiage, super-
ficial knowledge, presumption, smoking, immorality,
irreligion, tenfold taxes, reckless expenditure, ever-
swelling debt, probable bankruptcy in the end, loss
of Portugal's glorious colonial possessions, and in-
dependent nationality at last. I hope Dr. Rod-
rigues's sermon will be published, and feel sure it
will not be inferior, both in thought and lan-
guage, to any of the others already published of him,
generally inferior to none, both as to matter and
elocution, of the best models in ecclesiastical
oratory, without excepting the Bossuets, the
Flechiers, and Bourdaloues.—l remain, always, sir,
faithfully yours, "A. R. SARAIVA.
" 21, Nottingham-street, Marylebone, W.,
" Feb. 18th, 1867."

The pubicatioComprehensive Synopsis, or
Guide to the English, French, American, and Colonial
Departments of the Faris International Exhibition is
announced.

" THE SUN" NEWSPAPER.—" The Mitre"
Tavern, New Church-street, near the Alpha-road,
raddin2tun. —Mr FIZZ El (many years of Church street,
having taken the above Business of Mr. Fred. Squires, re-
ap( °tinily informs his friends and the public that "THE
SUN" (Third Edition), containing the Latest Sporting News,
Results of Races, Latest Parliamentary Debate, &c, can be
seen at his house as above "All the year round."

zp*rii*Aswtelc.l-selected and extensive Stock of WINES,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 7h. 30m.—Afternoon, Bh. Om.
To-lilositow.-Morning, Bh. 31m.—Afternoon, 91.1. 10m.

ZLj44iMPk'b-,1 Sult
14-1

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB, 27, 1867.

Considering all things, we think that Ministers
have acted wisely in withdrawing their Resolutions
and promising to bring,in a 8i11..,,__ Indeed they could
scar-cell'have expected to succeed in. their previous
endeavour in face of the strong opposition presented
to them, and it is well known that a more ungra-
cious task cannot be attempted than to persist in a
course which is stigmatised by those who object
more to the manner of proceeding than the matter
before them. In a few well-chosen sentences Mr.
DisP.AELI, last night, announced to the House the
decision to which Government had come, and ex-
plained that the object they had put before them in
bringing forward the Resolutions had been to
secure for the propositions a " fair and candid
consideration." But the experience of the previous
night had shown them that the feeling of the House
did not go with them in that respect., and they
therefore considered that they should best fulfil
their duty, and promote the public interest, by not
askiug the House to proceed any further with these
Resolutions, but to allow him to introduce a Bill at
the earliest possible opportunity. 'We have seldom
met with an instance of greater effrontery and want
of consideration than was exhibited by an hon.
member last night, when he called out at this part
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech,
" When ?" Such an interruption was both imperti-
nent and ridiculous, and showed very plainly that
idle curiosity and an attempt to appear important
superseded the usual rules of Parliamentary courtesy
and the judgment that should distinguish a legisla-
tor. Mr. DISRAELI was of course fully capable of
replying to the ill-suited remark, and said—" Of

course, it is impossible to exactly fix a day. The
Reform Bill is not like a road bill." At any rate
no time will- be lost, for the right hon. gentleman
gave it as his opinion that on Thursday week at
farthest he would be ready to submit his measure
to the consideration of the house. Surely this is
soon enough in all conscience for any one, even
the most ardent and zealous Reformer, to have
assigned as a limit to his impatience, and so soon,
indeed that we should not be surprised if a still
further delay were requisite and necessary.
Loud cheers attended the announcement of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the effect that the
Resolutions would be withdrawn ; and we there-
fore hope that the Ministers, having in this shown
their recognition of the general feeling of the House,
will be met on the part of that assembly with an
answering sympathy and good-will. No one expects
bon. members to accede to what they disapprove
of in their honest convictions, but we all know,
from sad experience, how easy it is to admit
this or that principle to be good in
the abstract, and yet to deny the right to put it in
practice. Mr. DISRAELI declared last night that
the Government considered from the tone of the
debate that had already taken place on the subject
that any bill which might be brought forward by
them would receive a fair and a candid considera-
tion, and we do not think this impression will be
weakened by anything that occurred last night in
the course of the observations that followed, if
we except those of Mr. BRIGHT, who showed
himself as illiberal and false a friend to
Reform as usual. The course pursued by Mr.
GLADSTONE was as statesmanlike as could be
expected, and we are glad for his own reputation,
as well as for the success of the great cause at stake,
that it should have been so. The right bon gentle-
man was against proceeding by Resolutions, as he
had before intimated, and, indeed, he announced to
the House that the determination of the Govern-
ment had alone prevented him from carrying out
his intention of moving an amendment to the
motion that the Speaker do leave the chair. While
he reserved to himself full discretion to
act as circumstances dictated to him, Mr.
GLADSTONE did not, as we understood
his speech, seem to hold out any desire to offer
opposition to the Ministerial measure that would be
likely to prove detrimental to it. He expressed a con-
fident hope, and further " a very earnest and sincere
desire that they might find the bill to be such that
they could not only consent to it, but even pro-
mote and expedite its passage through its earlier
stages." By this means the committee would be
the place where some issue could be best gained with
her MAJESTY'S Government. More than this, no
one can possibly ask, and this promise of
Mr. GLADSTONE, so far as it goes, signifies a
good deal, for he has had in his way as
much to contend against as the Chancellor o.
the Exchequer himself. If the one has been im.

peded in his course by the tardiness and hesitation
of his friends, the other has had to run the risk of

being pushed precipitately forward by the im

petuosity of his followers. That the combined
energy and wisdom of these two distinguished
leaders may result in the satisfactory settlement of
the vexed question of Reform is an earnest desire
—a desire that is shared, we feel convinced, by
all true liberal and real lovers of Reform.
Mr. BRIGHT'S remarks were about as in-
temperate and ill-judged as we might
have expected, but last night a little ad-

ditional ascerbity was imparted to them
from the irritation he felt at the tone adopted by

Mr. GLADSTONE. The hon. member for Birming-
ham seems ready to burst with indignation at the
idea of supporting the Government measure, and
upbraided Mr. GLADSTONE pretty plainly, endea-

vouring to build him a golden bridge of retreat, by
declaring that a little experience would show him
the impossibility of carrying out his resolve. This

observation seemed topoint oat that whatever course

Ministers might take would be useless, and that they
had better not waste the time of the House

in introducing a Reform Bill at all, and actually
going so far as to say at last that the Government

should take the franchise first, as was done last

year. To this Lord J. MANNERS very properly re-
plied by saying that the hon. member for Birming-
ham should have completed his speech by remind-
ing the house of the result of that advice being
adopted last year. No doubt there still remains a

very difficult task before Ministers, but we hope
that the worst is over for thew, and that

with firm heart and confident courage they may
march on in the path before them. He sees every

reason to expect that a settlement of this vexed
question may be come to, and if so there will be
indeed ample cause for rejoicing to all but those
who are actuated by selfish motives, and who rank
the prejudices of party before the interests of the
people.

Very great interest was naturally felt yesterday
with regard to the proceedings of the Liberal party.
The question of Reform, which has been slowly
gathering strength and gaining in importance dur-
ing the last few years, has now reached a crisis, and
much will depend on the spirit in which it is dealt
with. It is fortunate for the Liberal cause, and,
indeed, for the best interests of the country, that
the Liberal party is under the acknowledged lead of
so able, conscientious, and earnest a statesman as
Mr. GLADSTONE. his sincerity and disinterested
desire to have a good and liberal Reform Bill ac-
tually passed into law, no matter by what Govern-
ment, cannot be questioned, and he has hitherto
fully carried out the promise he made on leaving
oflice, that no personal disappointment should pre-
judice his judgment of the measures introduced by
his successor. He objected to the manner of pro-
ceeding by Resolutions, and there is no doubt that
his objection..weighed very much with the Govern-
ment, and influenced their decision respecting the
method of procedure. But while reserving to him-
self the full right of opposing any point in the bill,
or the whole bill, if he thought proper, he has
shown throughout a wish to give the Government
proposal a fair trial, and to see in what manner this
can be enlarged or amended. Such a course is not,
we regret to say, the ordinary course pursued by
Liberals, who, in their dislike to the general prin-
ciples or practices of their opponents, generally re-
fuse to look at any measure of Reform upon its
merits. But the point at issue now is, not whether
a Conservative or a Liberal Government can
best fill the Treasury bench, but how this
great and pressing question of national interest can
be most promptly and s.ttisfactorily settled. It
is in this spirit that Mr. GLADSTONE has acted, and
we are very glad to find that the counsels of mode-
ration and fair play which he gave yesterday to the
large and influential meeting assembled at his house
were accepted with such unanimity. No one expects
Mr. BRIGHT to be satisfied with any Reform Bill in
which he has not been an active participator, and
he is the last man likely to accept a concession from
his opponents, or to believe that they can offer a
good measure in real earnest. It is, therefore, no
matter of surprise to find that he was
the principal dissentient from the line of
action proposed by Mr. GLADSTONE. Neither
can it be very
astonishing to learn
.that the Adul-
lamites, as represented by Earl GROSVENOR, are