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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1867.

THE EYRE DEFENCE and AID FUND.—
suns(AtivrioNs to be pat.l to the credit of "The
Eyre I),tence and Aid Fund," wi • li the United Service C. m-
finny (Limited), hanker 3, and :truly and navy agents, 9,
Waterloo-place, Pail mall, London ; or Messrs. smith,
Payne, and Smith, t Lotn:Jard-s re t. E.C.
All co,ninunicivirins to be addre,s,.d to the Honorary Secre-
tary, \o. 11, Wate 1 o place, ral'-mill.
11A3IILTON HUME, lion Secretary.

though, as a compensation, the design will be at
their discretion also. A short debate in the House
of Commons gave expression last week to the dis-
content felt in some quarters to the outlay proposed
on behalf of this country, but the dissatisfaction
perhaps was occa,ioned rather by the mystery of
the proceeding than the inlgnitude of the sum. The
truth is there was no help for it. We could not
have s'ood aloof from the Exhibiion, for we our-
selves sA the example of these international shows,
and we claim to be the most industrious and pro-
ductive people in the world. In point'of fact we are
so considered, for we are indulged with nearly as
much space and opportunity as all the world besides,
France herself alone excepted. The whole available
space of the central building is about 1,500,000
square feet. Of this France, according to etiquette,
appropriates one half; of the remainder 300,000 feet
are allotted to England. As exhibitors are, of
course, scrambling for ground, and discontented
with the shares assigned to them, we are the envy
of competing nations. In fact, we are taking the
lead in this wonderful show, and if all exhibitors are
to bear their own charges wo de not think that ours
are exorbitantly set at £116,000. Austria and Italy,
certainly not more competent than ourselves, are
spending their £BO,OOO each, Belgium £60,000, and
thtifty, economical Prussia £120,000. Unfortu-
nately, when Government was asked for the his-
tory of the vote, there was no clear explana-
tion forthcoming, and as most people were un-
acquainted with the conditions fixed by the
French Government, the demand for the money
took them by surprise. It happens, too, that the
public feels no great confidence in theclassof persons
who are presumed to be more or less immediately
concerned in the management of our Exhibitions,
and so the protests were general as well as energetic.
Mr. Hunt, however, though he could not explain
the origin of the vote, was able to specify its distri-
bution. Upwards of £23,000 went for " supple-
mentary buildings and park," an outlay which, after
what we have said, will be easily understood. We
have had not only to build our own detached
fabrics, but to lay out the ground around them, and
provide for their ornamental as well as useful cha-
racter in all respects. Then £15,000 is required for
management and watching, nor will that item be
much grudged when it is understood that the Eng-
lish Commissioners are taking extraordinary and
exceptional precautions for the safety of the objects
under their care. House and office expenses stand
for some £20,000, and freight for nearly £lO,OOO.
Altogether the original estimate appears to have
been for £90,000, to which £lO,OOO was added for
the charges of exhibition by the Government de-
partments, and as much more for the expenses of
jurors. In the aggregate the demand is consider-
able, no doubt; but then ourpretensions are equally
so, and, what is more, they have been successfully
maintained. Our contributions. to the park are, at
least, as attractive as those of our neighbours, and,
as to our show, it is hard to say what specimens of
industry and skill It will not comprise. As the
Trinity House will set up a model lighthouse
with all its contents, and the War Office will have
its gun -shed, and pattern 11ospital, and commis-
sariat establishment, and the Admiralty its museum
of naval architecture, to say nothing of the contri-
butions from the Houses of Parliament, the Trea-
sury, and the Record Office, we c:an readily imagine
the demand of £ll,OOO for the Departments. But,
besides all this, the show of private exhibitors will
be on the grandest and most comprehensive scale.
Since our last Exhibition at home we have had five
years of experience, and made, it may be hoped, a
corresponding advance in all departments of art and
science. This progress we have now undertaken to
display for the criticism of the world, and we must
do our best to win approval. It is a cheap kind of
rivalry after all, and, if we turn the opportunity to
good account, we may find probably that we have
made a satisfactory investment of our £lOO,OOO in
the World's Fair of 1867.

solution,;, and that he received every one of thew
without the slightest hesitation, and raised no ob-
jection to one single portion of then, except one,—
" for unexhausted improvements mad::: even without
the consent of the landlord."
A deputation from the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian body, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Wil-
son, moderator, and the Rev. Mr. Rogers, waited
yesterday on the Lord-Lieutenant in reference to
the Regium Donum. The proceedings were entirely
,private.

ANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
Incorporated by Act of Parliament, IBh7.
TENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the TENTH
ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the ATLANTIC
TELEGRAPH COMPANY will be held at the London
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, within the City of London,
on TUESDAY, the 12th day of March, 1867, at Twelve
o'clock at Noon precisely, for the purpose of receiving a
Report from the Directors and a Statement of the Com-
pany's Accounts, for the Election of Directors and Audi-
tors, and upon the general business of the Company.
And notice is hereby further given, that the Books for
the Registration of Transfers of Shares will be Closed on
and from Friday, the Ist day of March, until and including
Tuesday, the 12th day of March, 1867.
By order,
GEORGE SAW ARD,
Secretary and General Superintendent.
12, St. Helen's-place, Bishopsgate-street,
London, Feb. 25, 1867.

The banquet to the Mayor of Limerick, Mr. Tait,
on Monday evening, was very gratifying, not only
with reference to the gentleman so signally honoured,
but in its bearing on the state and prospects of the
country. Mr. Tait is a Scotchman and a Dissenter ;
he went to Limerick as an apprentice, and he is now
the owner of some of the largest establishments in
the United Kingdom, giving employment to a very
large number of people. The banquet was given
in the Theatre Royal ; covers were laid for 300.
Mr. Synan, M.P., presided ; the Lord Mayor of
Dublin, Bishop Butler, of Limerick, Sir John
Arnott, Mr. Monsell, M.P., and other leading
gentlemen were near the chairman, while the general
company represented all parties and denominations
in the city and neighbourhood. The toasts of the
Queen and the rest of the Royal Family were re-
ceived with peculiar enthusiasm. In proposing the
guest of the evening, the chairman mentioned Mr.
Tait's public services in highly eulogistic terms.
Mr. Tait had displayed all the virtues of the Scotch
nation, the steadiness, perseverance, and eminent
business talents which made men of that nation
invariably successful, but in all else, in heart and
feeling, he was more Irish than the Irish them-
selves. The chairman then proceeded to refer to
Mr. Tait's large-handed charity, to the exten-
sive employment he afforded, and to the impetus he
had given to the trade of the port by his energy,
which had started into existence an unrivalled fac-
tory, and had projected a line of steamers from the
Shannon to the Western World. The toast was
received with loud and prolonged applause.
WEXFORD, Feb. 24.
The ship Arcadian, from Liverpool for Savan-
nah, is a total wreck on South Rock ; crew saved.

nUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION
(Incorporlted by Act of Parliament, iSSO),
4, RUSSELL-STREET, COVWV T-GM !)EN. LONDON.
Prompt A DVANCMS on all description of Security. Furms
ree on application by letter to
EDWARD HARPER, Secretary.

MANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES arc per-
fectly pure an.l uncoloured. To be had of all dealers
and wholesale of JOIIN 11IIIVIES3 and SON, 107, Strand
(corner of Savoy-steps), London.

AVALUABLE PACKAGE OF TEA.-
A CIIINESN CADDY, containing. 161135. of really
good Black Tea, sent carriage free to any railway station or
market town in England, Ireland, Scatiand. or %V ales, on re-
ceipt of 4,5., by PHILLIPS and CO., -Tea Merchants, 8,
King William-aireet, City, E.C.

TEA IS CHEAPER THAN EVER.--18.6d.,
25.. 2s 6 per lb. are the prices at which PHILLIPS
and CO . Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City, Lon-
don, E.C.. are selling good and fine BLACK TEA. A. price
current post tree. 40s worth carriage tree to any railway
station or market town in the UnVed Kingdom. All goods
carriage free to all parts of London. Obs,rve— PHILLIPS
and Co. have no Agents. Sugars are supplied at market
prices. •

" THE ItUIN OF TILE FEW IS TIIE GAIN QF MANY."
THE Panic of '66 and its consequent depression
of the Colonial 3L.ricets enables the "EAST INDIA
TEA Ci IMPANY" to otter TEAS LOWER. TEIAN EVER.
Six Pounds of Goiod Tea for 6s. M. can't be dear.
The Compan,'s KAISOWS by the Clipper Ships are really
delicious.
9, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, Ilishopsgate-
street, Jan. 1, 1867.

The Fenian Raid in Ireland.

(From the Times' Special Correspondent.)

CAIIIRCIVEEN, Friday.
A meaner and a muddier place than this I have
seldom come upon in the course of my travels. It
is well situated at the foot of the mountains, and in
full view of Valentia river and harbour, and at a
very great distance looks even picturesque. But
the charm which distance lends is broken when you
have to pick your way through the dirty streets
and get a near view of the miserable dwellings in
which many of the inhabitants arc content to dwell.
Yet the town has a considerable trade. It is the
capital of a very large country district, cut off by
sea or mountain from practicable communication
with more important places, and the country people
flock to it in large numbers for the sale of produce
and the supply of their few wants. I drove through
it on the butter-market day, and the principal street
was thronged with peasants and farmers and their
carts. 'The English tongue was hardly to be heard.
Irish was evidently the mother tongue, and you
found yourself silent and helpless among the crowd,
remembering with some mortification that you may

stay within the limits of the United Kingdom, and
yet hear three languages not one word of which
you can understand. I have been assured that from
some lips Irish falls liquid and soft, with "syllables
that breathe of the sweet south ;" and one can
readily believe this; but the Irish of the Cahirci-
veen market-place seemed pre-eminently sharp and
shrill and grating—a language of all others fit for
haggling, wrangling, and the wrath which wears itself
out with words. The people bring in for sale great
plenty of butter, with eggs, wool, feathers, hides, and
other small produce. 'They carry back little, for they
want little—a bit of salt fish, perhaps (judging by
the smell, very salt), and of grocery and drapery
very meagre supplies. Their thrift startles those even
who know something of the home life of the Eng-
lish peasant. In most cases necessity may compel
this thrift, but the small farmer is given to small
economies, and in clothing and food he and his
family deny themselves many things which almost
the humblest in England regard as necessaries.
With rude appliances they manufacture the frieze
out of which their coats and cloaks are made ; linen
and woollen goods for household use or wear arc
also made at home, and it is only in preparing for
weddings and for funerals that the country people
spend with a free hand. Then extreme parsimony
is followed by extreme profusion.
_ _

Around Cahirciveen comparatively little land is
under tillage ; it consists chiefly of bog and moun-
tain land, on which a few sheep and cattle find
pasture. Among the latter the famous milker, the
Kerry cow, ought to be found, but the pure breed
has been bought up at fancy prices by the stranger.
The peasants you meet, men and women, are mostly
barefooted. Some of them seem to show marks of
Spanish descent ; jet black hair, full, dark eyes, and
cheeks coloured half by the olive, half by the rose,
are by no means unfrequent. There were types
both of the Spaniard and the Celt in a troop of chil-
dren who, just dismissed from a roadside National
School, rushed after my car, 15 of them, and kept
up with it for at least two miles on the road between
Glenbeigh and Bells. They did not shout, they did
not beg, they hardly interchanged a word with each
other, perhaps because they had no breath to spare,
but kept on at tip-top speed, looking brimful of fuu
and high spirits and enjoyment. It was cruel to
ask these children, just released from school, ques-
tions in mental arithmetic, but I did. English
children would have tailed at once, perhaps raising
with one consent as they went a groan for the un-
feeling stranger who had set them lessons out of
school. But these youngsters entered into the spirit
of the thing at once, and answered, all panting as they
were, with a vivacity and intelligence which spoke
well both for school system and schoolmaster. More-
over, when I proposed the no-ways munificent re-
ward of 6d. for division among them, the chief
spokesboy, with a charming naivete, raised objec-
tions, because he said they lived too far apart for
such an arrangement. And so we parted. As the
car drove out of Cahirciveen in the dusk, it was
exceedingly difficult to edge through the country
carts that were still standing in the street or were
now being driven home. In vain my driver shouted
in civil•lrish and very uncivil, at times even pro-
fane, English. The other drivers gave it him back
in a yet Thriller and more ear-piecing vernacular,
and got out of the way with the most provoking
deliberation, while pedestrians who had chosen the
middle of the road showed entire willingness to be
knocked down and ridden over.

Why the insurrection should have begun at Cahir-
civcen is a mystery. A story is now told to this
effect : —An insurrection had been planned and was
to have broken out all over Ireland at the same time

as the rising here. At the last moment the Fenian
plans were changed, and the rising was counter-
manded, but as Cahircivecn is difficult of access,
this order was not received by " Colonel " O'Con-
nor in time. 'The same mistake was committed at

Chester, though there is no want of communication
with that city, because the Fenian organisation is
not so effective in England as in Ireland. I cannot

help thinking that this is a mere blind in order to
covcra conspicuous and damaging failure. O'Connor

probably thought that, when Stephens's star was on
the wane, he would make a bold bid for the not

unprofitable post of Fenian Chief He selected
Kerry because he was a Kerry man and well known
there, and also because he knew the country;
particularly those very mountains to which his
prophetic instinct led him to think he and his
following might possibly have to fly. Then,

again, Cahirciveen was distant from soldiers, and