The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-19 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON. THURSOAY EVLNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1867.

may be supposed, the greatest excitement prevailed
in the city, and we are glad to add that great
vi goer and promptitude were shown by the authori-
ti es. Sever: d arrests were made of persons implicated
in the ret3cue, and one of those taken. William
Onfora, alias Allen, is said to be the one who fired
the fatal shot. He is said to have acted as captain
Of the rescuing party, and had been waiting with a
numb er of followers for hours before the van arrived.
The Secretary of State has authorised a reward of
£3oo:for the apprehension of KELLY and DASEY, and
the Afanchester Corporation offer £2OO for the men
concerned in the rescue. Those who were captured
were this time escorted to the Town-hall by a
aqua iron of dragoons. There is no fear but due
precautions will now be taken ; but, as usual, the
fault has been that iu dealing with reckless and
desperate characters the ordinary routine forms were
employed. If there was any reason, as there seems
to have been, to apprehend an attempt at rescue, it
would have been well to have detained the two
Fenian prisoners at the police-court until the military
were called out to escort them to gaol. A little pre-
liminary trouble would have saved much subsequent
confusion and the damage to the prestige of the civil
force. Now the lost ground can only be recovered
by the utmost vigour and vigilance. The supre-
macy of the law must be vindicated, and the insti-
gators of so daring and outrageous an attempt must
be made to feel the consequence of their venture.
Every nerve must be strained in the recapture of the
two Fenians, and we trust that the energies of the
district being thoroughly roused that they and their
followers will before long have cause to regret having
adopted Irish manners in English society.

It is well known that it is a pity to be too much
behind the scenes if we do not wish to know the full
effect of the performances ; and certainly we fear
that the eclat that may surround the Reform
Banquet, or banquets in perspective, will be consi-
derably diminished by the preliminary confessions
that are being made about the affair. The
truth is, that jealousy has had too much sway
in the matter, and by this time the Reform
League has found out its mistake, but the
difficulty is how to repair it. Last evening a
general meeting was held at their office to consider
the use, and Mr. MANTLE made some very sensible
observations. He said that if the Working Men's
Association turned out a failure that result would
be attributed to the League, and he advised the
acceptance of the concession of the Working Men's
Association that Mr. BEALES should preside at the
Banquet. "his idea was that the League Banquet
should be abandoned." A discussion followed, and
it was moved that the League should adhere to
its original proposition and have a banquet of
its own, and it was finally resolved to adjourn
the consideration of the question for a week. If
the League have any sense or discretion they will
follow the wise advice of Mr. MANTLE, and give
up their original scheme. It will be only making
the whole thing a laughing-stock if they go on like
this, exhibiting to the public that while they dictate
to statesmen how to govern the country they
cannot, or will not, settle their own business quietly.
All concerned in this affair may certainly exclaim
with the poet—
" For us, even 'Banquets' fond regrets supply."

In accordance with annual custom, the social
science philosophers of the day are mustering at
Belfast. The Congress opened last evening, under
the presidency of Lord DUFFERIN, who is this year
selected for the chief office—an appropriate selec-
tion, considering the country in which the gathering
this year is held. his lordship's opening address
was chiefly directed to Irish topics, which will no
doubt this year come in for a full share of atten-
tion. There are plenty of general matters con-
cerning the health, the education, and the
moral well-being of the people to come under
notice. No doubt trades' unionism will play
a prominent part, and we shall hear in what
manner our social reformers will propose to deal
with the difficultia of the subject. Then there is
the often-discussed question of national education
still open. We shall have the advocates of a com-
pulsory system and of the perpetuation and increase
of the present system renewing their ancient strug-
gles in the arena of argument. We hope that the
wants of the agricultural classes of the population
will be thought of in the educational section,
for the rival claims of labour and of learning
are not easy to adjust. Then there are various sani-
tary matters to be brought under the notice .of the
Public Health department. The overcrowding of
our towns, the condition of our labourers' dwellings,
the inferior and imperfect supply of water in many
of our courts and alleys, may well form the subject
of serious consideration in face of the fact that five-
tenths of the deaths from fever take place among
four-tenths of the population. Our Social Science
Congress can do gool service in many of these par-
ticulars by eliciting and classifying information,
and by summing up as it were the evidence which
they collect, so as to present it in a clear and cora-
-1 prehensive form for the verdict of the public.

an unfavourable day in general in Paris for pleasure
seeking, the number of visitors who paid for the day
was 42,751. From April Ito August 31 the receipts
exceeded 7,000,000 f. The receipts from the Ist to
10th Sept. amounted to 500,000 f., an average of
50,000 f., or £2,000 sterling a day. This amount is
equal to that of the receipts of June, the royal
month, as it is called, because Sovereigns were then
so plentiful in Paris.

A woman who obtained unenviable notoriety at
the time, Nina Lassave, has just died at Melbourne,
aged 71. She was implicated in the regicide plot
and trial of Fieschi, Pepin, and Morey against Louis
Philippe. For some years she had been married to
a rich merchant of Mulhouse, where she lived in
great luxury, and where her antecedents were either
unknown or forgotten.
The Constitutionnel states that the negotiations be-
tween Prussia and Denmark upon the subject of the
northern districts of Schleswig will shortly com-
mence at Berlin. M. Quaade will be the represen-
tative of Denmark. The Prussian Plenipotentiary
has not yet been appointed.
The Congress of the Catholic Associations of
Germany held at Inspruck has closed its delibera-
tions, and the Prince Bishop of Brixen bestowed his
Episcopal blessing upon the assembly. Nothing of
particular importance occurred. M. 0 verkamp
read a long paper, having for object the conversion
of the Russians to the Roman Catholic religion,
which was somewhat wearisome, rather, however,
because of its length than from dissatisfaction with
the arguments it adduced and the principles it set
forth. A very interesting speech was made by M.
Mcesinger, Professor at Salzbourg, who advocated
the formation of associations to give pecuniary
assistance to the Holy Father to enable him more
effectually to promote the great cause of
Catholicism.

Mazzini has written a long letter to the Unita
Italiana explaining the reasons why he would not
associate himself in any way with the so-called
Peace Congress of Geneva. In this letter Mazzini
says he has no doubt of the good intentions of the
promoters of the Congress. " Hell," it has
been asserted, "is paved with good intentions,"
but although the assembly was called a Congress of
Peace, peace could not exist except as a consequence
of liberty and justice. Liberty could not be esta-
blished except with a great struggle. Mazzini then
enumerates various points for which, in his opinion,
a great battle must be fought, including the inde-
pendence of Poland, Italian unity, Greek unity,
free Switzerland, instead of Turkey; liberty for
France, America, Scandinavia ; and a vast pro-
gramme of liberty in at parts of the globe. The
object of the struggle oust be " a great and holy
crusade—a battle of Marathon, for the benefit of
Europe, and for the triutophof the principle of pro-
gress."
The weather has been peculiar to-day. It has
given us a touch of December. A cold and violent
wind has prevailed all day, relieved or chequered
with rain, but without s gleam of sunshine. Last
night, in the country districts, there was a tempest
calculated to remind us of the equinox. The Pari-
sians, so gay and buoyast lately out of doors, have
deserted the promenade; and people are beginning
to come back to Paris from the country. It is to
be feared that the reign of summer flowers, and
indeed of summer itself, is over.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur has discon-
tinued his course of studies for a short period at the
Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, and left the
Ranger's Lodge, Greenwich-park, on Monday even-
ing, for Balmoral, on a visit to the Queen. Before tak-
ing his departure the Prince, accompanied by Lieut.
Pickard, V.C., Royal Morse Artillery, rode down to
Woolwich Arsenal, and spent some time in inspect-
ing the preparations now in progress for the expedi-
tion to Abyssinia. He was received by Captain
Gordon, C. 8., and other officials. His Royal High-
ness was much interested in his inspection of the
Lilliputian mountain batteries, which, it appears,
are pronounced to be the most effective, and will
probably be the most useful and available for the
service. With a service charge of 6oz. of powder
ancl a 71b. missile, fired at 4 degrees elevation, the
gun carries 2,000 yards, and has been proved to do
good execution at that distance. It is to be tried
as a mortar at Shoeburyness, before the shipment
of the batteries for their destination, by firing with
reduced charges of powder-20z., and a double size
shell, weighing 141 b. According to the original
arrangements, 500 rounds of shot and ammunition
were ordered to be prepared for the service of each
gun, and an amended order was yesterday received
from his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief, directing the amount of the
charges to be augmented to 1,000 rounds each gun.
The precise system of pack-saddle to be adopted ap-
pears to be still a subject of some discussion at
Woolwich. The artificers in the saddlery branch
of the Royal Carriage department are engaged night
and day in the manufacture of the saddles necessary
for the transportation of the batteries, 72 in mini -
ber, which are being made after the pattern known
as the " universal pack saddle," in use in all our
cavalry regiments, and introduced by Sergeant-
Major Bird, Bth Hussars, who superintends their
manufacture at Woolwich. Equal activity is also
employed in the :Military Store Department, night
and day, in making the pattern saddles for the
India Department officials to give out as a guide to
those whose contracts may be accepted in making
the 5,000 or 6,000 of the New Zealand pattern re-
quired, the whole of which are to be completed by
the 4th proximo. It appears to be decided on
furnishing mules for the mountain transport, six of
which will accompany each gun in the following
order :—Two for the transport of the gun and car-
riage, three to carry 20 rounds of cartridge, &e.,
each, and the sixth to be laden with 20 charged
rockets.
The freightship Muttah yesterday embarked off
Woolwich Arsensal war stores brought down from
the Tower, and ammunition from the floating maga-
zine, and sailed for the Mauritius; and the Empress,
laden with shields, ammunition, and a full cargo of
war stores, left Woolwich for Malta.

Two Vessels Lost in the Whale Fishery.

The Clara, Capt. F. Milne, of Peterhead, arrived
in that port on Sunday morning, from Davis Straits.
She brings from 60 to 70 tons of oil, the produce of
seven whales, with the bone of eight. The Clara
sailed on May 24 last year, and she has thus been
away about 16 months. She has brought the un-
welcome intelligence of the total loss of two vessels
belonging to Peterhead, one by burning and the
other by drifting on a reef. The Bullygar was lost on
the 30th Oct. last year, and the Dublin was burned a
few days after that time. The B ullygar left Peterhead
four years ago for Cumberland Gulf, where she was
employed as a tender,
for which purpose she was
built and specially fitted out in 1862. She was a
fine clipper schooner of 86 tons. The wreck took
place while the vessel was towing a whale. The
ground was known to be dangerous, and the men in
charge were cautiously feeling their way by sound-
ing ; but as the reef was a very narrow one, the lead
had missed it,
and the Bullygar grounded and
became a total wreck. The Dublin was a vessel
of 328 tons, was built in 1845, and sailed on the
15th May last year for Davis Straits, well fitted
out, and fully equipped for the voyage. She was
furnished with a new steam-engine on deck, for the
purpose of warping the ship forward, managing
part of her rigging,
and flinching. The engine
was a light one of 4 horse power. The Dublin
had been very successful at the fishing, and when
burned hal about 50 tons of oil on board, which,
of course, went to the flames.
Some of the bone on
and with the oil and bone at the
board was saved ;
fishing station before the burning of the vessel, and
what the crew have collected since, it is expected
that from 40 to 50 tons of oil are left, with four or
five tons of bone. Fortunately no lives have been
lost, although the loss of property will be rather
heavy. The Lord Saltoun, likewise from Davis
Straits, is in the
bay while we write (Monday),
with a good fishing—probably from GO to 70 tons.
This vessel started for home some days sooner than
the Clara. The Alert is not the only vessel to ar-
riYe LIVIA the whalt, Laing at Cumberland,

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE,

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

BARON VON BEUST.

REICHENBERG, Sept. 18 (Evening).

The speech made yesterday by Baron von Beust
at the banquet given in his honour was very lengthy,
and referred exclusively to Austria's internal posi-
tion. The Minister declared that his intention was
to establish Constitutionalism in the empire by
peaceful means, and he looked forward to the future
with hopefulness and confidence.

DRESDEN, Sept. 18 (Evening).

Baron von Beust arrived here this afternoon, and
was received at the railway station by the French
and Austrian diplomatic representatives. Ile pro-
ceeded immediately to his country seat at Laube-
gast.

HUNGARY.

VIENNA, Sept. 19.

It is stated that a loan has been contracted in
Paris for the nominal amount of 212 million francs
for the construction of railways in Hungary. The
issue price is 220 francs.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 19.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Germania from New York passed the Needles at
9.25 a.m. to-day.