The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESIMY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1867.

The next thing I knew was from a newspaper
placard announcing the Hereford-street outrage. I
immediately suspected Broadhead was at the bottom
of it, and I was afraid I might get into trouble
about the matter. Next day I told Skidmore we
had better go to Broadhead. We went the same
evening. I said to Broadhead, " This is a rum
affair." He smiled. I said, "We never engaged
for anything of this kind." He said nothing, and
we were so confused and frightened I do not re-
member what else took place. I only remember
that Broadhead said, "We should have £7 to £lO
each to pay." We paid it. We afterwards paid the
money. We said nothing at this time about what
he was to have for himself, but when we waited upon
him about the rattening we told him that he must
pay himself for getting it done. He had often
rattened for us before, and it was usual for him to
charge for his own services. IV hen I knew that
this inquiry was about to take place I expected I
should be closely questioned, and I erased the fol-
lowing item from my cash-book—" £7 10s. scale
due ;" but as I could not find a better way of stat-
ing the fact I repeated the entry. That will account
for the erasure in my book. That was the money I
paid to Broadhead on account of the Sawmakers'
Union. The £7 103. I paid for our own Union
is not entered. That money I obtained, £4 by
the sale of saw handles, and £3 10s. I paid out
of my own pocket and recouped myself by falsi-
fying the accounts. At the first interview I had
with Broadhead I protested against the outrage,
and at our indignation meeting I characterised it as a
"fiendish, devilish, abominable" occurrence. I how-
ever paid Broadhead for getting it done, as I thought
that was the best course I could pursue. (Laugh-
ter.) I have produced all my books save the cash-
book—that I destroyed last June. There was
nothing in it that needed concealing. I destroyed
it because my predecessors in office had destroyed
their cashbooks.

Witness expressed his willingness to detail all the
cases of rattening that had come within his know-
ledge ; but the Court thought it was unnecessary to
go into them. He pledged his word that he had not
been concerned in any other outrage but the one in
Hereford-street, and he had never written any
threatening letters.
Joseph Hoyle, secretary to the Jobbing Grinders'
Union, said—Rattening is practised in my trade,
but not to any great extent. In 1862 Broadhead
arranged with me to do something at Messrs.
Holdsworth's works, as his men and our men
working there were not paying up their contribu-
tions. It was agreed that the nuts and bands should
be rattened. Shortly after Messrs. Holdsworths
were blown up Broadhead came to me for £6, our
share of the expenses. I told him I had not bar-
gained for a blowing up; he said it would work well
for us. I obtained the money from our committee,
and paid it to Broadhead. When I first acquainted
the committee they did not want to pay the money,
but I told them they would have to pay it, and keep
the matter quiet. After the money was paid we
withdrew from the Amalgamated Union, and ceased
our connection with Broadhead. Two or three years
however elapsed before we did so. (Laughter.) I
have not known of any other outrages in connection
with our trade. The rattening cases with which
the witness was acquainted were not inquired into.
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The Court then adjourned until this morning.

just now (among others General Durando) who
say that, should there be any distrarbance, the Ita-
lian army would at once enter the Papal territory
—to restore order ! No doubt they would be but too
glad of the excuse.
I have been out to the Basilica of San Paolo
fuor' le Mura to take a view of the decorations
there. They appear in excellent taste, though some
way as yet from completion. The arms of the pre-
sent Pope adorn each transept, and a triregno (the
triple crown of the Popes) is preparing over the
apse.
Down the nave are twenty large standard can-
delabra, of classical form, one standing opposite
each polished column. Over the capital of each is a
seven-branched candelabrum. Two of the spaces
between the piers were hung with deep red dra-
peries, apparently to try the effect. I hope the de-
cision will be against them, for this church is so
peculiarly rich in the colours of its marbles and
alabasters, all freshly cut and polished, that it needs
less than any other the aid of adventitious colouring.
Above the arches dividing the nave from the aisles
run two classical border patterns ; above and below
the tondi containing the mosaic portraits of the
Popes, candle-branches project at intervals from
devices purposely adapted in these borders. One
great permanent improvement has also been made
by putting a door in the north transept, afford-
ing an entrance on the side by which the church is
reached from Rome.

There are to be above 600 singers at St. Peter's in
three choirs—one, under Mustafa., where the Sistine
singers always are at great functions, near the
high Altar—one, under Capocci, in the gallery
round the dome—and the third, directed by Me-
luzzi, over the portico ; a considerable number will
be Roman college students. 'We have had a little
rain this week, which has considerably cooled the
air. I felt it quite cold driving home late from San
Paolo ; but, of course, it is intensely hot in the
middle of the day in the streets. Many people
have gone to await the feste at Albano and other
neighbouring towns, where it may, from their
elevation, be a few degrees cooler. Prince Bor-
ghese has been entertaining Mgr. Dupanloup at
Nettuno. They are now at Frascati.

Among the improvements which the present
Pope has endeavoured to introduce during his reign
there have been none more beneficial than ame-
liorating water in various towns.
h
picturesque, which, fortunately
for
e
the
instinctartist, the
of
supplythehaPf s garnished the tips of rocky
pinnacles with the beautiful outline of Italian
architecture, has one great inconvenience, and that
is, that the dwellers under that charming " sky-
line " of roofs, are out of the way of most of
the accessories and comforts of life. I re-
member once on demurring at a very heavy charge
for a very moderate repast, in a remote mountain
village, mine host exclaimed, in reply, " but re-
member you have had meat ! and meat isn't to be
had for nothing on top of a barren rock." But
the greatest privation of such a position is want
of water. Most curious are some of the contriv-
ances for securing a supply of the most necessary
of all raw materials. In some places there are
huge well-like cisterns formed of cavities in the
living rock, where the rain and melted snow of the
winter is stored up
for the long heats of summer.
In others a large portion of the existence of the
peasant women is absorbed in journeys to and
from the nearest stream, obliging them to toil in
long files, evening after evening, up the steep hill-
sides, their antique copper jars containing, perhaps,
three or four gallons poised on their heads. In
others there is a handsome fountain in the centre
of the high street, supplied by streams from yet
higher hills, adorned with the arms of some Pope
whose benefaction it is, sparing the heavier part of
their labour, and affording a pleasant sunset lounge
and gossiping-place. It has been one of the chief
cares of Pius IX. to multiply these local supplies
as far as his limited revenues will admit. The
hydraulic works of Anagni, completed in 1863,
have afforded a model for similar works both far
and near.

The aqueduct and syphon of Alatri is a great en.
gineering work ; and there have been similar un-
dertakings at Patrica, at Sezze, at Supino, and
Genazzano ; and works are in hand at Ferentino
Genzano, Paliano, and other places, among which
those of Ceccano near Frosinone, are just now at-
tracting particular attention. Two years ago there
was not the smallest provision for a; permanent
water supply. Within that time the municipality
have, by praiseworthy efforts, already built conduits
which gave the high-perched town a limited quan-
tity, but it had long been a cause of annoyance
that an abundant source of water in the adjacent
district, called Callami, could not be made avail-
able. Various schemes for bringing it into Cec-
cano, indeed, had been tried, but all had failed.
A public-spirit2d inhabitant of the place, Cava-
Here Berardi, however, has lately found the means
to surmount all the difficulties attending it, and
agreeing with the municipality to purchase the land
along the line of works, has undertaken to pay the
whole expense of the operation. The result of the
first excavations round the source of Callami was
the discovery of an ancient reservoir in the rock
grown over and filled up with the accumulations of
ages. In clearing this out several coins, some of
silver, bearing the effigy of Antoninus Pius, were
rlyP in ruins as to require coni-
found, suggesting that the original construction was
ly
of his date. Further excavations traced the whole
line of the ancient aqueduct up to the town of
PCaileiedeteeparanerciet'eobufsutitrtus(oeatbuietonti:art of it goes underground,
a third of a mile) will have
to be carried through the valley on arches. Having
completed nearly a mile, Cay. Berardi invited Sig-
nori Cavi, Branchini, Fabri, and other eminent
engineers down from Rome last week to inspect
the work.
ne
anirrd solid
epertwashighly favourable as
to itsscientificconstruction. The deli-
very will amount to more
than
of water,
bitieisincoent:pdesuatteaeddd The plan ,
com-
prises further a handsome erection, which will be
an ornament to the town and an appropriate record
of the undertaking.
Ai h letterm Turin,flour is June 17, says :
exciting great discon-
e new
vftr
ao
x upon
p
tent in this country, and the mode of its assessment
no less. The papers animadvert bitterly on the
petty invention of machinery which is to register
the number of revolutions of each grindstone per
minute,
of andask if
the resul of the promised
benefits
this
is
revolution—the realization of 44 the bet-
ter
days" promised in the hymn which was so po-
pular in 1848, " Giorni piu belli ci giova sperar."
It does not seem very
clear as yet whether the tax is
only on breadstuffs
o
kind of porridge made
frequently the staple of which, called polenta, is
frooaalsoof otnhetlliteallinandipaneopmlee—al,as
in that case it becomes.
much more serious, so far
affecting the poor entirely.
The revelations threatened by M. Brasseur seem,
however,
even
a greater source of embarrassment to
Government
than the more immediate indig-
nation of the people.
The Chamber continues,
occu ied with its grasp of the
however, to be •
Church property, p
though without appearing to see
the way of dealing with it. The Spanish banker,
Salamanca, is at Florence attempting a basis for a
new negotiation.
It was at one time pretende(
that he was backed up by Rothschild, but there is
no foundation whatever for the story. The Inde-
pendance Beige says
that direct attempts have been
made to renew negotiations with Rothschild, but
that;if he does anything it will be in the form of an
ordinary loan, leaving the Church property out of
the question.
While one or two of our ministers have enough
work on their hands in clearing themselves from
the imputations of M. Brasseur, Sig. Tecchio,
Minister of Grace and Justice, has been getting
himself into hot water in a different way. It seems
it has pleased this worthy gentleman to issue a de-
cree requiring the
few poor Capuchins who are yet
entrusted with the care of the churches of their
dispossessed Congregations to shave off their
beards ! This piece
petty tyranny has excited
of
great sympathy in
their favour. One of them ap-
peared in a pulpit on Sunday without the patriar-
chal decoration, the people, who failed to recognise
him at first, were most indignant when they learned
what had happened. << If they want to shave off
anything, let them have off a few taxes !" cried

one. "It isn't the beards of the Capuchins that
want paring, but the nails of the Italianissimi !" ex-

claimed another.

The brothers of San Camillo, who had been but
Lately summoned to the charge of the llospital of

Mantua, have just been summarily dismissed,
through some private manoeuvres of certain anti-
religious persons. The directors of the hospital, in
the very notice served on them, warmly eulogise
their labours, and express regret at the loss which
will be suffered by the sick on their departure. The

only reason assigned for the act is that they belong
to a religious congregation, and religious congrega-

tions were suppressed by the law of 7th July, 1866.
While at Nice, the bishop, Mgr. Sola, inaugurated,
on the Bth, a new chapel for the mad-house recently
established in that city, under the charge of the

congregation of both sexes of the Order of the As-
sumption, for the care of the insane. This is the
fifth large institution which has been opened under

theirlauspices, with the sanction of the French Go-

vernment, during the f arty years their congregation
has been in being. That to which we are now spe-
cially calling attention is situated at St. Pons, about

two miles out of the town.

In the discussion on the Budget, in the Florence
Chamber, on Friday, 800,000 fr. were voted for the
works of the Corniche Railway.
On examining the list of gold medals of the Paris
Exhibition, I perceive there are three or four more
Italians on it than I have mentioned before—as

Giovanni Dupre., of Siena, in sculpture ; Stefano
Ussi, of Florence, in painting ; Luigi Brunetti, of
Padua, for his anatomical preparations ; also the
Royal Italian Commission for the cultivation of
cotton.

The new Bishops of Saluzzo, Macerata, and
Tolentino have been received with most marked
demonstrations of affection in their dioceses. At

Saluzzo the municipality ref used to join in any pub-
lic act for receiving Mgr. Gastaldi ; but the prin-
cipal inhabitants having been formed into a com-
mission to give effect to the arrangements, the
syndic and members of the Municipal Council took
their part as simple citizens. The colonel of the
cavalry regiment s!:ationed in the neighbourhood,
however, did not think it inconsistent with his duty
to allow his band to give effect to the festivity In
the evening the town was brilliantly and universally
illuminated.
The Bishop of Asti's reception was even more
cordial. A special train was ordered by a sponta-
neous arrangement of some of the principal inhabi-

tants to bring him from Turin. The members of
the Municipal Council, though they dared not give
any public testimony of respect, were the first to
call upon him the following morning in their pri-
vate capacity. The way leading up to the episco-
pal residence was thickly strewn with roses and
carnations. These prelates are now already on
their way to Rome, as is also Mgr. Riccardi, the
newly-installed Archbishop of Turin, who seems
already very popular.
The Vero Messaggiere states that in the midst of
their poverty and privations Neapolitans have sub-
scribed 70,000 fr. for their contribution to the cen-
tenary of St. Peter.
The Roman correspondent of the Univers observes
that M. Raimbaux, the officer who had the good
fortune to save the lives of the Emperor and the
Czar, and at the same time to escape the danger to
which he courageously exposed himself, is brother-
in-law to M. Armand, Secretary to the French
Embassy in Rome, who, on the very morning of
the attempted assassination, had sent home to his
family the special benediction of the Holy Father !
By the way, the Empress of Russia has just sent
his wife a present of a diamond necklace, valued at
300,000 fr.
Letters from Rome announce that Mgr. Has-
soum, Archbishop of Constantinople, will be pro-
moted to the dignity of Patriarch of Constantinople
and Cilicia. The Archbishop of Paris is to start
for Rome on Monday. We learn from the Espe-
ranza that the Patriarch of the Indies has just left
Madrid by the Railway del Norte on his way to
Italy. The Cardinals of Seville and Santiago, and
about thirty bishops, are preparing for their depar-
ture. Havre has been receiving a number of pre-
lates on their way to Rome—the Bishops of Lima,
Havana, Sta. Marta, and others. The Courier de
Nantes likewise boasts the visits of some of the
bishops on their way. It says—" The Bishop of
Guadeloupe, at the earnest solicitation of the faith-
ful and clergy of St. Similien, consented to preside
at the closing office of the Mois de Marie. The
Bishop of Paul, and Mgr. de Scara, another Brazilian
bishop, officiated pontifically at Vespers and Bene-
diction in the cathedral. Mgr. de Macedo belongs
to one of the most distinguished families of Brazil,
whose members have been frequently called to Go-
vernment posts. He distinguished himself greatly
while pursuing his studies at St. Sulpice, and also
at Rome. Immediately on his ordination he re-
turned to Brazil, intending to devote himself to the
humblest labours of the ministry. On the re-
presentation of the Emperor of Brazil, the
Pope required him Soon after to undertake
the charge of the diocese of Paul, which
comprehends a territory six times as big as
France, and numbers besides a great multitude of
Catholics, 200,000 wild pagans scattered in the iri,
mense forests watered by the Amazon. The greatest
care of the young prelate has been to train up a
truly apostolic body of clergy to second his efforts
for the good of his vast diocese. Remembering the
excellent seminaries of France, he sent over above
thirty young Brazilians to be trained to the priest-
hood. Our diocese has been among the foremost
to second his wise endeavours, and the Bishop of
Para was naturally desirous to meet our bishop
on his way through Europe. He was much touched
by what he saw in our cathedral on Sunday—the
magnificence of our ceremonies and the piety of
the faithful here. He was particularly struck by
the custom we have adopted since these latter
troubles of the Church, of singing the Credo at
Benediction in solemn festivals. Is it not wonder-
ful,' he exclaimed, pressing the hand of our good
bishop, as they came out of the church together,
to come back from the New to the Old World, and
sing with you the same symbol of the Faith which
unites us all in every clime in one.' Hearing some
of our people complaining of the heat, he remarked
how pleasantly cool it was for him, and that our
sun seemed as mild as the moon in his country, for
he lives just under the equator. The Brazilian stu-
dents, at the diocesan seminary, were invited to
dine with him, and the meeting was a right joyous
one. Mgr. de Macedo is probably the youngest
member of the Episcopate. We could not take leave
of his bronzed and intelligent face without earnestly
wishing him a long life to carry out the enlightened
measures he proposes for promoting the interests
of the Church in Brazil."
The Gazette du Midi publishes the following cu-
rious statement on the faith of the report of a tra-
veller lately arrived at Marseilles from Palermo :
"The distress in Sicily being so great, and the garri-
son ready to punish the least murmur so formida-
ble, that the people bethought them of a novel kind
of pacific popular demonstration. Some thousands
of people were, when lie left, marching up and
down the Toledo with their pockets turned inside
out, but in solemn silence !"

The appointment of Lieutenant-General Sir
Patrick Grant, G.C.8., to be Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of the island of Malta and its dependencies is
gazetted.
(AnvEartscmcNT.l—henceforth no one will doubt the valuable
properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabic°.
Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings
it has already received from Invalids whose position had been
deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope,
whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years
of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "Gazette
du Midi," July 25th Rome, July 21, 1866.—" The health of
the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all
other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's
Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful
at every meal. It has pi educed a surprisingly beneficial
effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this
excellent food too highly." Wo extract' a few out of
more than 63,000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness
de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away,
debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad
digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable ner-
vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord
Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. N 0.49,832 :
" Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness,
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and
vomiting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 4G,270: Mr. James Roberts,
of Fernley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood,
liver derangement, and partial deafness Important Caution.—
Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations
to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most auda-
ciously attached.
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RAILROAD MORTALITY IN THE UNITED

STA2ES.

—•- •
Under a law of New Jersey the railway corpora-

tions of that State are required to report annually to
the Legislature the casualties to human life or limb
which occur upon their respective roads. These
reports are made every winter for the year ending
the preceding January. By the reports of last
winter it appears that during the year 1866 there
were killed outright seventy-nine persons on the
following roads :
New Jersey Central
Camden and Amboy
Freehold and Jamesburg
Canille% and Burlington
Wrest Jersey ...
Camden and Atlantic ...
Raritan and Delaware Bay
New Jersey ...
Morris and Essex
Northern ••• ..,
Paterson and Ramapo...
Belvedere Delaware

. 23
.
10
. 1
. 1
~ 1

2
17
. 13
. 2
. 6
. 1

Total 79
Supposing that this year might have been
peculiarly fatal, we turned to the reports of the
same roads for 1865, and found that during that
year they had killed 90 persons ; besides these were
a large number of persons reported as seriously
wounded during the same year.
The roads above-named are in the aggregate
less than seven hundred miles long. Assum-
ing that they are managed with as much
care, prudence, and foresight against accidents
as any roads in the country, they give us a
guida by which to arrive at a result for all the states.
If in New Jersey, under the best of management,
eleven persons yearly are killed outright for every
hundred miles of railroad, how many are killed
annually throughout the country ? It is stated in
the American Journal of Mining that there are
51,000 miles of steam railway in the United States.
By the New Jersey ratio, therefore, the annual rail-
road mortality of the country amounts to the fear-
ful number of 5,600.

But it may be said that the New Jersey
roads are used by many more daily trains than
the average of the railroads of the country,
and that, therefore, the accidents are more
numerous upon them. It is not clear either that
this is the fact, or if it is, that the result would be
materially altered. On but three of the New
Jersey roads, the 'Camden and Amboy, the New
Jersey, and the New Jersey Central, can the travel
be said to be large. The rest are little more than
neighbourhood, ways, and not at all crowded with
travel. Even if it were, it is fair to presume that
increased responsibility produces increased care,
and that the roads which carry the most passengers
take the best precautions against accidents, and
that, consequently, in proportion to the increase in
passengers carried, the danger to the public dimi-
nishes.

Some thirty or forty years ago the loss of life
upon the western waters, by the frequent explosion
of steamboat boilers, was very great, although it
never approximated to the present fearful loss by
railroads. The frequency of these dreadful occur-
rences so impressed the public mind that Congress
intervened to provide a remedy. The salutary
legislation which followed had the effect of greatly
reducing the number of casualties, until at last their
occurrence is rare. As we have argued elsewhere,
similar legislation should follow in the matter of
railways.