The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-20 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.

The Bishop of Salisbury held bis triennial Visita-
tion at Bridport on Thursday last, where there was
a large attendance of clergy and churchwardens.
The Charge consists principally of a vindication of
these doctrines :-1, that certain men have had in-
trusted to them by God, as fellow-workers with
Him, supernatural powers and prerogatives; 2, that
God had been pleased to give to these HisTairiAters
the power of so altering the elements of bread and
wine as to make them the channels of conveying to
the soul for its subsistence the refreshing body and
blood of Christ ; 3, that as Christ, the ascended
Lord, is ever pleading, so the clergymen, His min-
isters, plead on earth that which He pleads in
Heaven ; and, 4, that God, who alone can forgive
sins, bath delegated to them, His representatives,
the power and authority of expressing to those
fitting to receive it the pardon of their
sins. He proceeded to say that there was a
time to speak and a time to keep silence,
and he felt that the time for being outspoken had
arrived in his diocese, and he had, without any men-
tal reservation, God knew, acted on that conviction.
At this point, the Rev. William C. Templer, the rec-
tor of Burton Bradstock, stepped from his seat into
the aisle in front of the bishop, and exclaimed with
much fervour, "I believe there is a time to speak
and a time to be silent ; let those that are on the
Lord's side follow me," and he turned and walked
out of the church, followed by one of the church-
wardens. This created a profound sensation, and
intense silence prevailed for a minute or two. His
lordship manifested some emotion, but, recovering,
he said, " I would only remind you that this is a
court, and the clergy are bound to attend it, though
their consciences are not bound to receive all they
hear ; of course, a person may be punished for any
contempt of court." He then resumed the reading
of the Charge, but, before he had concluded, every
churchwarden had left the church, and there were
manifest signs of weariness among the clergy. In the
afternoon the churchwardens held a meeting, and
unanimously adopted the following address to the
bishop :
"To the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salis-
bury :—My Lord,—As churchwardens of the several
parishes within your diocese we have this day at-
tended your triennial Visitation, and heard the
Charge delivered by you to your clergy. Feeling
that we have also responsible duties to perform, in
endeavouring to preserve our Reformed Church from
innovations and practices inimical to its pure faith,
we avail ourselves of the occasion to express our
deep regret at some of the opinions and doctrines
therein enunciated. We believe them to be at vari-
ance with those principles for which our forefathers
so nobly and aSuccessf ally struggled more than 300
years ago when they protested against the errors of
the Church of Rome. Entertaining the highest pos-
sible respect for your lordship's personal character
and office, we nevertheless feel it incumbent on us
to assert our belief that unless a check is at once
and promptly made both by clergy and laity to
those innovations and practices which are alien to
the feeling of all sound Churchmen, a considerable
portion of those who are now sinoerly devoted to
the Establishment will be induced to withdraw to
dissenting places of worship, or be insidiously
attracted towards the Church of Rome, and thereby
destroy the harmony and weaken the confidence
which has so long and. happily existed among
them.—We are, respectfully, your lordship's devoted
servants,

(Here follow the names of 34 churchwardens of
the Deanery of Bridport.)

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, May 18.

Alfred Aylward was brought before Mr. Barton,
at the Head-office, yesterday, charged with " being
a member of the Fenian Brotherhood, and being
one of eight men who unlawfully assembled for
Fenian purposes at Charletnont-place, between the
hours of 9 and 10 o'clock p.m. on the 16th instant,
and being armed with a dagger-knife when arrested
by police-constable 167 B." This is the person who
was fired at and wounded at the place and time
mentioned. According to his own account he went
to meet a friend, and when walking along the canal
a man accosted him, saying, " Your friend is down
this way." In a short time he and this man were
joined by others, until the party amounted to eight.
Seven men then fired at the prisoner, who made his
escape into a field of Harcourt-terrace, and ran
down as far as Leeson-street bridge, where he got
a cab and drove to Mercer's Hospital to get his
wounds dressed, three of the shots having taken
effect. In the meantime, shortly after 10 o'clock
that night, two young men went to Lad-lane police
station, and told Acting Inspector Bennet that they
saw about a dozen men near Charlemont-bridge,
and heard shots fired, which one of them thought
were aimed at himself. Immediate inquiry was
made by a party of police, and they learned that a
wounded man was gone to Mercer's Hospital. Con-
stable Richard Ryan went there and waited in the
hail till Aylward came out, after getting his wounds
dressed, when he arrested him, and found a large
knife, or dagger, on his person. He said to the
policeman, " Who sent for you ? I have nothing
about me, only a knife. Well, I'll go over to the
station house and make a report." He was taken
to the Lad-lane station, and being asked whether
he knew the party that fired at him, he replied, " I
am no Massy. I do not." He was remanded till
Wednesday, the inspector promising to have by
that time evidence to connect him with the Fenian
conspiracy.
This arrest may lead to important results. It will
be recollected that Cody, who was found guilty yes -
terday of treason-felony, had been arrested a short
time before his trial in consequence of making a row
in Grafton-street and threatening to shoot a police.
man. The pistol which he had was a seven-chamber
revolver ; and he also had a dagger which he wore
fastened to a belt. In his possession was found a
document containing a list of the judges, jury, and
Crown counsel then engaged with the trial of Burke
and Doran. When Cody was arrested on a former
occasion he had an enormous bowie-knife " for
ripping-up Saxons." An ill-looking fellow, whose
physiognomy is almost enough to convict him, he
was unaccountably set at liberty on condition of his
going to England ; but it appears that he soon re-
turned, and, according to the statement of Corydon,
he was at the head of an assassination committee,
or club, organised by Colonel Kelly's orders. I
have seen the assassination document in question.
It is exceedingly well written„ in the hand of a
lawyer's clerk. I understand that it is being com-
pared with documents found in possession of the
prisoner Aylward when formerly in custody. If it
should be proved that he is the writer it would con-
nect him with the band of assassins. This circum-
stance helps to explain tho mystery of the shooting

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on the bank of the canal on Thursday night. The
persons who assembled there, eight in number,
would seem to have been members of that band,
and if so they had either resolved beforehand,
or were prompted by something that occurred at

the moment, to murder Aylward as a suspected
traitor. Yet he positively refused to give any in-
formation about them, assigning as his reason that
he was " no Massy." It is, however, not improbable
that Aylward will on second thoughts be willing
to save hims.,lf by giving the names of his assailants.
Baron Deasy, in the course of his charge to the
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jury yesterday evening, completely exonerated the
two prisoners Duffy and Flood from any connection
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proved to have been a member, and even in the case
of this
them-
selves to be influenced by the horror naturally in-
spired by such a detestable scheme. •
was
The Court for Crown Cases Reserved sat this
morning for the purpose of delivering judgment in
the case of the Queen v. John M'Cafferty.
The Lord Chief Justice, Chief Justice Monahan,
the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Justice Keogh, Mr.
Justice O'Brien, Mr. Baron Hughes, Mr. Justice
Fitzgerald, Mr. Baron Deasy, Mr. Justice O'Hagan,
junior
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and Mr. Justice George took their seats on the
avg bench at a quarter to 11 o'clock.
The case
The Lord Cfiief Justice r. Justice
George, as h
Court being divided in opinion.
Mr. Justice George then proceeded to deliver
judgment. Having referred to the frame of the in-
dictment, and to the evidence given against the pri-
soner by the approver Corydon and others relative
to the Chester affair, his lordship said the case re-
served was in the following terms:—
" After the aforesaid evidence had been given, it
was proposed on the part of the Crown further to
give evidence of the insurrection and acts of war
which occurred on the night of the sth :March,
1867, and thereupon counsel on behalf of the pri-
soner objected to the reception of such evidence
upon the ground that defendant had been since the
23d of February, and was on the said sth of March
a prisoner in custody in Mountjoy Prison, and that
the acts of others while be was in custody ought not
to be received as evidence ; and further, that the
defendant was not legally responsible for the acts of
others after his arrest. We ruled that the evidence
was admissible: At the close of the whole case
counsel on behalf of the defendant called upon us to
direct an acquittal on the ground that there bad
been no sufficient legal evidence by two witnesses
of any overt act of treason in the county of Dublin
for which the defendant was responsible, and that he
could not be lawfully convicted on the evidence of
the witness Croydon alone. We declined to direct
an acquittal, and allowed the case to go to the jury
on the evidence aforesaid, and the jury brought in a
verdict of guilty against the defendant on all counts
of the indictment. We have reserved for the consi-
deration of the Court for Crown Cases Reserved the
following question :-1. Whether we were right in
receiving against the defendant the said evidence of
the transactions of the night of the sth of March,
1867. 2. Whether we were right in directing (as
we did, in fact, direct) the jury that there was suffi-
cient lawful evidence on which they might find that
some or one of the said overt acts were or was done,
and the said treason committed by defendant in the
county of Dublin; if thelury should, on the evidence,
be satisfied that the said insurrection and acts of war
of the sth of March last, in the county of Dublin,
were the resultof the command and incitement of the
said directory or other governing body of the said
confederacy, of which the defendant was a member,
given prior to the arrest of the defendant? On
the first point he (Mr. Justice George) was of opin-
ion the prisoner was a principal in the treason proved
against him. The jury distinctly found that the
acts were done by command of the directory of
which, up to the period of his arrest, he was a mem-
ber, and in his (the learned Judge's) opinion they
were the acts of the prisoner himself. It was proved
that he had, at a meeting inLiverpool, proposed the
movement in Chester, which having failed it was
determined there should be an immediate insurrec-
tion in Ireland, and, evidently with the intention
of aiding and assisting in that insurrection, the pri-
soner and Flood attempted to furtively enter the
country. It was true they were arrested, but the
rising on the night of the sth of March was not alone
the probable, but the inevitable, consequence of the
plans which the prisoner, in conjunction with others,
had formed, and which he had never done anything
with a view to countermand. With respect to the
question raised as to the witnesses not having proved
an avert act of treason, he held that on the report
of the learned Judges who tried the case there was
abundant evidence to go to the jury corroborative
of the approver Corydon, and on the whole case be
was of opinion that the points raised had been
rightly decided by the learned Judges who tried
the case. The conviction should therefore be
affirmed."
A majority of the other judges having concurred,
the couviction was affirmed.

Naval and Military Intelligence.
Letters received from the Pacific squadron by
a Chatham correspondent report a numerous squa-
dron of English, French, American, and Peruvian,
vessels of war at Valparaiso at the departure of the
mail. The English ships of war included the Zealous,
20, 800 horse power, armour plated ship, Capt. R.
Dawkins, flagship of Rear-Admiral the Hon. G. F.
Hastings, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific squa-
dron; the Sutlej, 35, 500 horse power, Capt. T. P.
Coode, flagship of Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. Den-
man; the Topaze, 31, 600 horse power, Capt. W.
Dowell,C.B.; the Clio, 22, 400 horse power, Capt. N.
E. U. Tumour ; and the Reindeer, 7, 200 horse
power, Commander E. Nares. The flagship Zealous,
left Rio Janeiro on the Bth of February for Val-
paraiso, touching at the Falkland Islands for coal,
instructions being given for certain ships of the
squadron to rendevous outside Possession-bay on the
sth of March. On the 9th of March the Zealous
left Lundy-point, accompanied by the Nassau, 5,
150-horse power, for a cruise. The Sutlej was
under orders to return to England for the purpose
of being put out of commission. The Reindeer,
Commander Nares, arrived at Varparaiso on the Ist
ult , having experienced very severe weather from
the titne she left Rio. Several cases of smallpox had
occurred among the crew, the men attacked being
sent on shore to hospital at Valparaiso. A court-
martial had been held on Mr. T. Steel, master of the
Clio, on a charge of drunkenness, of which he was
found guilty and ordered to be placed at the bottom
of the list. _ _ _

A trial of the engines of her Majesty's armour-
plated ship Northumberland took place at the mea-
sured mile outside Plymouth breakwater on Thurs-
day last. The wind was from E.S.E., force 2 to 3,
the sea smooth, the weather barometer at 30.10.
This ship belongs to the same class as the Agincourt
and Minotaur.. She was built of iron by the Mill-
wall Company, and launched iu April, 1866. Her
length is 400 ft., breadth 591 t., and tonnage 6,621
tons. ller lower masts only were in ; there were
320 tons of coal on board, no stores ; draught of
water forward, 23ft.; aft, 24ft. lin. The trial took
place under the superintendence of Capt. George C.
IVilles, 0.13., of the guardship of steam reserve
Indus, and Mr. W. A. Dinnen, clrief-iuspector of
machinery afloat, Mr. R. Nicoll, assistant to the
chief engineer at Keyham, Mr. Herbert, assistant-
master-shipwright at Devon port, and several other
Government officers. The agents for the manufac-
turers were Messrs. Anderson, Gosling, and Brown.
The engines, from the manufactory of Messrs. John
Penn and Sons, are what are termed direct-acting
trunk, diameter of cylinders 112 in., of trunk 41in.,
thus producing an effective diameter of 1044 in. ;
length of stroke, lin. There are 10 boilers and

40 furnaces ; the fire grates are aft. tin. by 7ft. 9in. ;
number of brass tubes, 4,800 ; diameter, 24in. ;
length, 6ft. Bin. The screw propeller has four
blades—diameter, 23ft. 9in.; mean pitch, 23ft. 4in.;
length. lft. 114 in. ; immersion of upper edge,
Six runs at the measured mile, under full boiler
power, gave a true mean speed of 15.459. She then
made four runs under half-boiler power, showing a
true mean speed of 13.079. The engines were under
way for six and a half hours, and during the whole
of this time worked most satisfactorily. The load
on the safety valve was 2:7113 ; pressure of steam in
boilers, 26.4. Vacuum in condensers—forward,
24.71 b ; aft, 25. Number of revolutions of engines
—maximum, 611- ; mean, 60f. Mean pressure in
cylinders, 26.625; indicated horse power, 7,241.63.
The unarmoured screw gunboat Netley, one of the
four new timber built vessels recently constructed
at Haslar yard, and called " improvements upon
the old Crimea class, although like them built of
rood, was put through her official trial of speed
over the measured mile in Stuliei 13 ty, Portsmouth,
on Saturday. Her draught of water was ift. 9io.
forward and Bft. 4in. aft. The wind had a force of
about two from the south-east, and the water was
perfectly smooth. The vessel was complete in her
rig and stores, and had 30 tons of coals in her
bunkers. Her engines are of 60-horse power nomi-
nal, and drive a Griffiths's screw of 6ft. 6in. dia-
meter, 6ft. pitch, a length of blade of lft., and an
immersion of the upper edge of lft. Sin. Six runs
were made over the mile with high pressure and
four non-condensing, the mean of the engines re-
volutions in the former being 173, and the latter
193, and the mean speed of the vessel 7.177 and
7.741 knots. This rate of speed is ridiculously low
when compared with that of gun-vessels of much
larger tonnage and the same nominal power built in
rivate shipyards in this country for foreign Go-
vernments. The pressure of steam was 351 b. and
601 b., and the vacuum 25.5 in. In testing the yes-
sea four half-circles were made in 1 min. 34 sec.,
1 min. 20 sec., 1 :min. 33 sec., and 1 min. 30 sec.
The circles were completed in 3 min. 10 sec., 2 min.
44 sec., 3 min. 11 sec., and 2 min. 59 sec.

arrTiyheed saatilsinpgitheadlndiamfraomn WKittrndrsaocrheeCas.,:lieth,
tChaeptfaoiln-
Pryce, one of Messrs. Green's Blackwall fleet, has
lowing troops on board :.71.11ajor.E. W. E. Walker
R.A., 19th Brigade, in command; Lieut. G. Quit;
and Mrs. Quiu, 79th highlanders; Lieutenant C.
Skinner, Ist battalion, 19th Regiment ; Lieut. E.
M. Drew, 7th Hussars ; Assist.-Surgeon C. P. Bax-.
ter, 93d Highlanders, in medical charge of the
troops ; Capt. W. Strickland, Mrs. W. Strickland,
and five children, and Mrs. Strickland, Master A.
Foster, 172 invalided soldiers from various regi-
ments, 15 women, and 29 children. The ship left
Kurrachee on the 30th of January, and passed St.
Helena on the sth of April. The troops will be
disembarked from the Windsor Castle this morn-
ing at Spithead, and forwarded to the Royal V;c-
torie Military Hospital at Netley.
On Friday Major-Gen. Freeman Murray resumed
and brought to a conclusion his first half-yearly
inspection of the regimental depots of infantry
regiments attached to the 3d Battalion, at Chatham
garrison. In the morning the officers and men
were drawn up in review order, when the arms,
clothing, and accoutrements of each corps were in-
spected, the remainder of the day being devoted to
the inspection of the barrack-rooms, books, ac-
counts, schools, and hospitals belonging to the Bat-
talion.

With reference to the reported loss of the Wasp
in Table Bay, we are authorised to state tbat Her
Majesty's ship of that name was at Bombay, "all
well," on the 20th of April last, and that no infor-
mation of auy disaster having befallen her has been
received at the Admiralty. It will be seen, on re-
ference to our news from the Cape, that it was a
small vessel of the same name that was lost.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

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An important meeting of the stockholders of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company was held in
this city on Tuesday. April 30. The meeting
was probably the largest ever convened to delibe-
rate upon the affairs of that great corporation.
The committee to investigate the condition of the
company made their final report. As the corn.
mittee originated out of a spirit of hostility to the
road, this report was anxiously awaited, and their
conclusion, based as they are upon the most tho-
rough investigation, will be received by the great
body of the stockholders with infinite satisfac-
tion, and will, without doubt, satisfy the most
sceptical that our • great railway corporation
has been wisely and economically managed.
by Mr. Thomson and his associates. Cer-
tainly the results attained by these gentlemen
during twenty years of uninterrupted prosperity
should be, and doubtless are, satisfactory to the
shareholders, for the road has paid annually since
its organisation six per cent. cash to the stock-
holders, clear of all taxes, and in addition thereto,
as stated in the annual report for 1866, over forty-
six per cent. of additional dividends. Can any
other railway corporation of similar magnitude
show as large dividends, and yet present to its
owners a property and assets worth millions of dol-
lars more than they now stand the stockholders ?
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, we aro
informed, owns and controls, by lease and owner-
ship of stock, over fifteen hundred miles of rail-
way, all of which is connected and of the same
gunge ; is well equipped, with engines and cars,
and contributes directly to the development of a large
portion of our State and the interests of our city.
By refuting to its reports, we find that the annual
increase of freight traffic moved during the past five
years has averaged nearly 20 per cent. per annum.
It is truly a useful and magnificent corporation.
The committee substantially endorse the whole
policy and management of the company, thus pro-
nouncing the corporation to be in a sound and pros-
perous condition—indeed, much more so than the
stockholders supposed it.to be. We are glad to find
our great corporation coming out of the trying
ordeal, to which it has been subjected by its ene-
mies with such a clear and satisfactory record.
Great credit is certainly due from the stockholders
to Mr. Thomson and his able corps of officers and
employe's for the results attained under their ma-
nagement. We doubt whether there is another
corporation of equal magnitude, in this or any other
country, that can show equally good results.
• The Hudson River Railroad earned last year 18
per cent., and a better result is anticipated for the
present financial year, which closes on the 30th of
September.
The four consolidated companies which monopo-
lise the transportation business in New Jersey under
the name of the Consolidated Railroad board, held
on the Ist January, of undivided earnings
April $225,000
year.22s ,000
the president of
receives an annual
this powerful corporation, and
salary of $lO,OOO.
$11,250,000.152,250,000 againstAshb lavnelchis. aggregate debt of
preceding
The work of laying
branch
have accepted ctehpet erd
the track on the Union Pa-
cific Railroad in Nebraska, suspended in conse-
quence
moTrehethEanriefolrt
and trains are now running regularly to the North
tanileroAadprirleecefivtehde
of the recent floods, has been re-commenced,
Platte. It is intended to go on with the grading
of the road at the rate of two miles a day. The
actildec
Railroad, which extends to Salina, Kansas, fifty
sas,
miles north of Fort Riley, and passGo seventhv r
section
n ofe Commissioners
icansas
enger and
freight trains have commenced running
to that

point.
The Western and Worcester Railroad Consolida-
tion Bill and the Hoosiac Tunnel have lately occu-
pied the attention of the Massachussets Legislature.
The Railroad Consolidation Bill has passed to a
third reading in the upper branch by a vote of 26
to 6, but it has been considerably amended since it
came from the House, and, whereas it was once
acceptable to the railroad companies, it is likely to
be made distasteful to them by the innumerable
conditions tacked on. The appropriation for the
Hoosiac 'runnel has been further discussed without
action, and has been strongly opposed by Mr. Bird.
Governor Crapo of Michigan vetoed $24,000,900
of railroad aid, which was lobbied through the Le-
gislature,