The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-17 00:00:00

THE FRACAS AT HOMBURG,

"He says that he is supported in his statement
by gentlemen. Well, I appeal to gentlemen of
every country—who speaks the truth, lor La-
bouchere ? I, who began by writing a quiet letter,
truthful, unimpassioned, only reciting facts as
they had occurred, having witnesses who were
present when I beat him—the Count Novarro della
Miraglia, the Count de Rocourt, and 40 others. As
to M. de Rocourt, whom I had requested to wit-
ness the affair as ^, simple spectator, he is one of
those French gentlemen, brave and loyal, who
fight on account of a cross look, and who do not
know the word
"He states, finally, that I am supported by
women, and for that I will flog him again, having
no other reply to make to him. Nevertheless, as
he seeks for an investigation, not for his sake,
but for the honour of my family, I am ready
before any commission that may be appointed to
justify to the fullest extent my means of existence.
But if I should submit myself to this humiliation
public opinion will, doubtless, demand of Labou-
chere what he has done with the flogging which
he received from an honourable man for meddling
in what did not concern him, and how he has
dared to abuse his character as an Englis repre-
sentative, to cover calumnies which are insuh fficient
to explain his cowardice.

" Accept, &c.,
" LUIGI DI BARON! FARINA.
PS.-If the proposition of an investigation is
accepted, the commission shall be composed of an
equal number of French, Italian, and English
gentlemen."

TVI?ECKS ON TILE IttlSll COAS7 -
GALLANI LIFEBOAT SERVICE&

, Sept. 12.
- We were visited yesterday (says DrARKLOW. Elalpin) with
r; one of the fiercest gales, for its duration, that has
ever been experienced on this coast. About nine
o'clock in the evening the services of the Arundel,
Venables lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion on this station, were called into requisition.
The smack Kate and Mary, of this port, was riding
at anchor in the bay, where a very heavy sea was
running. She had but one boy on hoard, as the
rest of the crew were ashore. The lifeboat pro-
ceeded out, but she had only got a short distance
outside the pier head when she was regularly filled,
took stern way, and got broadside on the north pier
head. The men stood by the boat greatly stunned.
At this juncture Captain Edward Kearon jumped
off the pier into the boat, and by his judicious and
cheering advice the boat got clear, and a second
time attempted to get through the broken water,
but was again driven back, and would have been
forced against the pier had not a cross sea took her
and canted her away. With Captain Kearon's per-
suasion the men made a third gallant trial, and this
time succeeded in getting through the surf and
reaching the smack, when one of the lifeboat men
was placed on board, and the boat in return was
beached, as it was not considered safe to run between
the pier heads. Subsequently the smack's anchor
was slipped, and she got out of the roadstead. The
lifeboat behaved admirably, and I must also add my
testimony to the gallantry and perseverance of the
crew of the boat.

HOWTII, DUBLIN BAY, Sept. 12.
During a strong gale with heavy sea this mcrn-
ing (reports Staff-Commander 11. D. Burney,
R.N.), a schooner was seen making for the harbour
in a disabled state with her mainsail blown to pieces
The llowth lifeboat belonging to the National Life-
boat Institut:on was at once launched to her assist-
ance. The vessel had by this time anchored near
the Baldoyle but drifted. The lifeboat took
off the
inS,ands
and,
capta
also brought the schooner safely
into llowth Harbour, and moored her alongside the
West Pier. The crew of the lifeboat deserve great
praise for the gallant manner in which they boarded
the vessel, and saved her at the very risk of their
lives. She was the schooner Splendid, of Dublin,
bound from Liverpool to that port with a cargo of
coals.

In the Frankfort Europe appears the following
letter in reply to that of Mr. Labouchere, M.P.,
which wereproduced in our Saturday's impression :
" Nauheim, Sept. 12.
"I request from your impartiality the insertion of
the following observations upon the letter from Mr,
IL Labouchere, which was published in your num-
ber of the 11th inst., in reply to a few lines from me,
which I addressed to you on the Bth inst.
" I named no one, and I only stated a fact--that
having chastised a gentleman who had interfered in
matters which did not concern him, I. had waited
three days for a visit from his friends.
" It has pleased this gentleman to enter into the
details of a scandal for which it has not sufficed that
he should have been publicly horsewhipped. Let us
see what are the details.
"He said I was not a baron. I defied him to
prove that I had ever said I was one ; I am, and I
sign myself as di Baroni Farina,' and none above
a hackney coachman could be ignorant of what that
meant.
" lle says that on arriving at Homburg he saw
me at table with some ladies, with one of whom he
was acquainted. That is absolutely false. The lady
of his acquaintance was not at the same table at
which I was seated. Beyond that, one must lack
all shame to introduce into such an affair the word
ladies,' which I should not have dared to do, so
sacred is the word to me.
" He says that I accosted the husband of the lady
to demand explanations, and that they were refused
to me by him. It is false. The husband of that
lady placed himself at my disposition, and I thanked
him, observing that it was with the wretch who had
concocted such cowardly calumnies that I must
settle the affair.
"He says that I lifted my cane towards him, and
that he seized me by the neck. It is false, for I
thrashed him to my heart's content. He assumes
the position of a man of courage, talks of correcting
and chastising, but it was at the moment when I
thrashed him that he should have turned his venge-
ance upon me.
"He states that he applied to the police, which
indeed is worthy of him, and I leave the public to
judge whether the electors who returned him to
Parliament intended him to make such use of his
position.