The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. WEDNESDAY EVENUS66,, NOVEMBER 20, 1967.

sionaire appeared, and going straight to the counter,
Presented the 200 f. to the lady, saying he came by
appointment to give the money to a gentleman who
had sent for it, and who would come and claim it.
The customer got up immediately. A recognition
tooklplace between him and the commissionaire, and
a liberal recompence was made to the latter for his
trouble. The swindler paid for his Madeira and
left without delay. In the evening the lady's hus-
band, who is occupied elsewhere during the day,
came home, aud, somewhat angry, asked his wife
what was the "pressing emergency" which had
induced her to send to one of the persons with
whom he dealt rather largely for 2001., explaining,
as her reason, that her husband had inadvertently
taken the key of the cash-box, and that she had
an immediate payment to make, and could
not wait till his return. Explanation en-
sued, from which it was discovered that it was
the swindler who had sent the letter requesting the
person to whom it was addressed to send a com-
missionaire,with 200 f. in an envelope, to be given to
the proprietress of the cafe, at the counter, without
any remark, the lady promising that her husband
would call upon the gentleman to explain about it.
This ingenious device is said to have been carried
into operation in a great many instances of late.
Another nocturnal attack, of a more serious cha-
racter than the previous one, is mentioned. Tho
clerk of a brewer of St. Germain, who is in the
habit of bringing home money to his employer, has
been murdered at Quarante Sous, which leads
across the forest from St. Germain to Poissy. At
nine o'clock in the evening the cook of a rich pro-
prietor at Mesnil, between St. Germain and Mai-
son, was attacked by several ruffians, who left him
for dead, after robbing him of 180 f., which he had
been to receive for his master. The injuries re-
ceived by the unfortunate man are so serious that
he is not expected to recover. The Commissary of
Police, of St. Germain, has taken what is supposed
to be his dying declaration.

THE EXECUTION OF THE FENIANS A 7
MANCHESTER.

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Yesterday morning a meeting of the Salford
magistrates was held in the Town Hall to consider
what steps should be taken to preserve the peace on
the occasion of the execution of the condemned
convicts, on Saturday morning. The Mayor of
Salford (11. D. Pocbin, Esq.) presided. A corres-
pondence has taken place between the authorities
of the borough, the military officer in command of
the district, and the Home Secretary. From this
correspondence it will be seen that the duty of pre-
serving the peace is primarily thrown upon the
local authorities. If they should be unable to pre-
vent a riot or disturbance, or if any attack should.
be made upon the civil forces, the military may be
called to assist. It was arranged yesterday morning
to swear in one thousand special constables, and
summonses for that purpose will at once be issued
The special constables will be employed in aid of
the borough police, who will also have tho assistance
of the city police force, and a detachment of the
county constabulary.

Subjoined is the correspondence referred to :
" Sir,—l have the honour to forward to you the
enclosed copy of a letter from the Home Office, by
which you will preceive that Mr. Hardy concurs in
opinion with Major-General Sir J. Garvock that it
is the duty of the civil power to prepare a civil
force to carry out the due administration of the
law in the case of the convicts now awaiting execu-
tion in the New Bailey Prison, Salford.—l have the
honour to be &c.,
" J. W. REYNOLDS, Colonel,
" Assistant Adjutant- General.
"To the Worshipful the Mayor of Salford."
The following is the letter referred to :
" Immediate.
" Whitehall, 18th November, 1867.

" I have just laid before Mr. Secretary Hardy
your letter (herewith returned) from Major-General
Sir J. Garvock, respecting the arrangements neces-
sary to be made for the preservation of the peace
on the occasion of the execution of the Fenian
prisoners at Manchester on the 23rd instant ; and
I sin
,to acquaint yoq, for the information of the
Fiad-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, that in the
opinion of Mr. hardy the entire arrangement of the
military force should be left to the military
authorities ; and that it is the duty of the
civil power to prepare a civil force to carry out the
due administration of the law.

"If extraordinary means are used against the
civil force, or if it is in danger of being overpowered,
the military will no doubt be so placed as to afford
instant assistance.—l have the honour to be, &c.,
" ADOLPHUS LIDDELL.
" To Lieutenant• General Foster, K. H."

Emigration to Canada•

(Front the Canadian News, Nov. 14, 1867.)

Recently at the School-rooms of Esher, a place
in Surrey, the Rev. Stewart Williams in the chair, a
lecture on emigration to Canada—being the first of
a series to be given in different parts of the country
was delivered by Mr. W. F. Lynn to a crowded and
attentive audience.
Mr. Lynn commenced by comparing the relative
advantages of home and colonial life, pointing out
that a labourer in Canada secured higher wages
than in England, whilst ho paid little more than

half for the necessaries of life—that he was able to
obtain work as soon almost as he set foot in the
country—that he might easily accumulate savings,
which he had the additional advantage of being able
to lay out in the purchase of land, to be bought at
prices ranging from as low as 2s. an acre, and thus
raise his social status by becoming a substantial
farmer, owning the land he cultivated, a position
he had little chance of filling in his native country,
where the price paid for one acre would be sufficient to
render him the possessor of 100 acres in Canada, liable
to no taxes, save a small municipal rate, the whole
of which is expended on the making of roads and
improvements in the township where he resides,
and not forming a part of the Imperial revenue, as
in England ; that there were no poor rates there,
and the tax-gatherer was altogether unknown.
Mr. Lynn then, after alluding to the free grants
which it is the intention of the Canadian Govern-
ment to offer to settlers in the ensuing year, and to
ccmpanies such as the Canadian Laud and Emi-
gration Company, who offer farming land of the
best quality at the price of 43. an acre, with many

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facilities in the mode of payment which tend to
smooth the settler's way, gave a vivid description of
the country—its splendid climate, mines, gold dig-
gings, and other resources, illustrated by specimens
of minerals collected out there by himself. The
lecture was enlivened by anecdotes of personal ad-
ventures, and the lecturer concluded by showing,
with the aid of some large and well executed
pictures, the different stages of the settler's life in
clearing and cultivating his land. _

Mr. Lynn, iu the course of his lecture, proved
his various statements by reading extracts from the
official reports of the chief agent for emigra-
tion (Mr. Buchanan), and from the letters of seve-
ral settlers.iu various parts of the country ; ho also
referred to his own experience in Canada West of
the beauty of the climate, stating that the general
impression as to the severity of the cold was au ex-
aggerated one, there being only tares mouths of
actual winter weather, to which period the Cana-
dians look forward as their season of recreation, it
being passed in one continuous round of gaiety and
amusement.

At the termination, the Rev. Mr. Williams pro-
posed a vote of thanks to Mr. Lynn, which was
warmly seconded by a gentleman in the room, who,
announcing himself as a Canadian, thanked Mr.
Lynn for the eulogies he had pasw.l upon his coun-
try, but declared that he had fallen far short in his
description of the actual beauties which exist and
the advantages to be attained by emigrants of both
sexes who select this province for their future home.
As the assembly broke up, Mr. Lynn distributed
to a crowd of eager applicants a number of pamph-
lets, published by the Canalia,n Government for the
instruction of intending emigrants.

MOUNT VESUVIUS.—The Naples journals state
that on the night of thu 14th Mount Vesuvius burst out
into eruption, sending out fire and flame. The director of
the Observatory, M. Palmieri, at once sot out for the
mountain to make observations.

ATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Nov. 20.
The Italian papers admit the importance of the
speech of the Emperor Napoleon.
The Nazione says that the Emperor has touched
upon the phases of the recent troubles with much
delicacy, and adds that it sees with satisfaction that
the Emperor has declared that France considers that
the convention of the 15th September exists as long
as it is not replaced by a new international act. It
considers that it is absolutely necessary that the
Roman provinces should be left to themselves, and
that the intervention should promptly terminate.
The Opinione says that Italy can but be satisfied
to see confirmed in the Imperial speech the judg-
ment expressed by the European Powers. It re-
gards the Emperor as the first statesman of France.

The Diritto declares that the Imperial speech
considered in the point of view of French interests,
is dictated with much delicacy and happiness

ideas.

The Gazetta &Italia approves the speech. It
says that it has produced a favourable impression,
and that it skilfully touches upon all questions both
home and foreign.

The Italia is of the opinion that there is nothing
in the speech to create alarm, and if Italy does not
find in it any immediate satisfaction of her hopes,
she also does not find anything in it to discourage
them.

Railway communication between Florence, Rome,
Naples, via Foligno, will be open on the 21st inst.

An official decree names the localities which the
Minister of War will fix upon for the active divi-
sions of troops which may be mobilised.

ROME, Nov. 19.
The Pope received the French Ambassador Count
de Sartiges to-day.

Tranquillity prevails in the capital and the pro-

vinces.

THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Nov. 20.

The Duc de Grammont, French Ambassador at
this Court, congratulated the Empress Elizabeth
upon her name-day at Schonbrunn yesterday by
desiro of the Emperor and Empress of the French.
His Excellency at the same time presented her
Majesty with a bouquet in the name of the Empress
Eugenic.

RUSSIA.

Si. PETERSBURG, Nov. 19.

The new company constituted for the purchase
of the Moscow Railway has offered 130 million
roubles in addition to the engagements proposed
by the former tenders.
The navigation of the Neva has been closed.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 20.

The North German Lloyd's steamer Hansa, from
New York, has arrived here with 58 passengers for
this port, Havre, and Bremen, 39 sacks of mails
for London, $135,000 for France, and £1,200 for
Bremen. On the 7th she spoke the Hamburg ship
Sir John Lawrence, Bth the steamers Atalanta and
Hammonia, 13th the steamer William Penn, 18th
the steamer America, 19th the Bremen bark Pre-.
ciosa, and her Majesty's ironclad Viper.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Cimbria, from New York, arrived here today
with 89 passengers, and specie to the value of
$70,000 for England, and $68,100 for France, and
$l,OOO for Hamburg.

The Citnbria left New York on the 9th Nov. at
half-past one, and during her passage she spoke the
following ships :—ln latitude 4).20 N.,. 72.30 W.
passed the ship Emerald Isle bound west. In 49.42
N., and 11.30 W. she passed the ship (French)
Charger, bound east, and off the Lizard, passed the
brig Zambeze bound east. In 49.35 N. 10 W. she
passed the Bremen steamship Hansa.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
GIBRALTAR, Nov. 17.

The Ripon leaves at 1 p.m. to-day. She may be
expected at Southampton about the morning of the
22d inst.
OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL.

The Poonah, from Southampton 12th inst.;arrived
to-day at 3 a.m., and arrived at 10 a.m. for Alex-
andria.

SUEZ, Nov. 13.
Outward Mail of 27th Oct., Nov. 4.
The Rangoon left for Bombay at 10 p.m. to-day.

THE HURRICANE AT ST. THOMAS.

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (Morning).

Official advices from St. Thomas to the British
consul here state that all the officers and engineers
of the Rhone were lost. Out of 145 passengers 25
were saved, but most of the crew were drowned.
Capt. Taylor and Mr. Hodgson are among the saved
from the Wye. The town is almost in ruins. Five
steamers and GO vessels were wrecked, including a
French steamer. The loss of life is estimated at
500 persons.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, Nov. 19, Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
41- per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of month 6B 421
Credit Mobilier
Endlof month l5l 25
Credit Foncier 1337 50
End of month 1360
ItAiLwA

Bank Shares 3290
It&l'an Loan
End of month 45 90
Mexican Loan 12 50
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 321
Deferred

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.....
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman..

Account
863 k
1160
870
546}
532}

500
3471
GO
871
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THE OXFORD.

In paving the way for the introduction of Offen-
bach to our lyric boards the Oxford management
have had no small share, and it is remarkable that
with such examples before them as the operatic se-
lections from "66" and " Orphee aux d'Enfers"
our musical entrepreneurs should so long have de-
layed making the vivacious French composer a
household word among us. Offenbach, in his
" Duchess of Gerolstein," at Covent Garden Theatre,
is rapidly becoming naturalised in this coun-
try ; but hearty as may be the enjoyment
which that stage production may produce, it
cannot exceed that which nightly accompanies
the present representation of the coin poser's
"Orphee" at the Oxford. The great " cou,let" scene
creates Tfite a furore. Since we last noticed the
performances here, the Brothers and Sisters Kiralfy,
the Hungarian dancers (now five in number), have
re-appeared in some of their national dances, which
are executed with grace and wonderful abandun.
Ilaydu's facetious " Toy Symphony" also offers a
pleasant variation to more classical music. In days
when "Hungarian" princes had more spare
time on their hands than they have now, Haydn,
for the amusement of Prince Esterhazy, com-
pounded a symphony out of toy whistles,
trumpets, and cuckoos. The symphony is
given with due comic gravity by the Oxford
band. Indeed, the pilloried look of the bashful
instrumentalists, as they go through their nursery
performances, is intensely amusing. This symphony
would do finely for some gala day at Hanwell or
Colney Hatch ; but it is likewise au agreeable
rattle to those of her Majesty's subjects who are in
full possession of their faculties.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Capt. E. B. Pritchard, Lieut. E. A. Ford, and a
detachment of five non-commissioned officers, one
drummer, and 102 privates of the Chatham division
of Royal Marines have been placed under orders for
service on board the screw steamship Trafalgar,
Capt. E. K. Barnard.
Yesterday an order was issued by Sir Richard
Mayne, directing the members of the metropolitan
police doing duty at Chatham dockyard and at the
military stations to be in future armed with cutlasses
" until further orders." The order also directs that
the police " in lonely or exposed situations are to
patrol in sight of each other." For some time past
the police at Chatham dockyard have been instructed
in the sword drill, in which they have attained great
proficiency.
His Netherlands Majesty's twin sere A turret-ship
Prins Hendrik, 4 guns, 2,100 tons, 400-horse power,
Capt. Jansen, left Spithead yesterday under steam
for Plymouth Sound, Cherbourg, and Brest. On
Saturday last Capt. Jansen and his officers were
entertained at dinner by the Netherlands Consul,
the Chevalier Vandenbergh, at his residence,
Holland-house, Southsea. On Monday Admiral Sir
Thomas Pasley entertained a large party to dinner
at the Admiralty-house, Portsmouth Dockyard, to
meet Capt. Jansen and his officers. During the
stay of the Prins Hendrik at Spithead every facility
was afforded to her officers by the authorities of the
port for visiting the shipping and various matters
of interest in the port and dockyard.
A naval court-martial assembled on board her
Majesty's ship Victory at Portsmouth on Monday
for the trial of prisoners. The court was composed
of Capt. F. B. P. Seymour, C. 8., Aide-de-Catnp
to the Queen, President ; Capts. W. C. Chamber-
lain, G. Hancock, A. W. A. Hood, C. 8., and H.
Phelps, and Mr. E. Hoskins, officiating Judge-Ad-
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vocate. Mr. B. D. Sanders, carpenter of the second

class, Royal Navy, serving on board her Majesty's
screw troopship Simoom, was arraigned on charges
of "drunkenness on the 31st of August last" and
"absence from the ship without leave on the sth of
September." The prisoner pleaded guilty to the
charges and was sentenced by the Court to be dis-
missed from her Majesty's ship Simoom, to be placed
at the bottom of the list of the second-class carpen-
ters of the navy, and to be severely reprimanded.
Mr. Thos. B. Kerr, a boatswain of the second class,
Royal Navy, serving on board the Simoom, was next
arraigned before the Court on charges of drunken-
ness on July 21, 1867, and on August 30 following
ordering bottles of spirits to be passed into his cabin
from the shore without the permission of the officer
commanding theSimoom at the time, and afterwards
denying the fact. The Court found the charges
proved, and sentenced tha prisoner to lose three
years' seniority, to be dismissed from the Simoom,
and to be severely reprimanded.
'The Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs at Rio
Janeiro has conveyed the thanks of the Imperial
Government to Lieut.-Com. J. B. Michell, lately
commanding her Majesty's gun vessel Doterel, for
his conduct in saving the Brazilian steam transport
Larrego when on the point of sinking off the island
of St. Catherine's. The Larrego had a large number
of sick and wounded soldiers on board, and the ser•
vice was performed under circumstances of p.tculiar
difficulty and danger. The permission of her Ma-

jesty's Government has also been asked by the Bra-
zilian Government to present Lieut. Michell with a
magnificent chronometer in acknowledgment of his
services in saving the Larrego and her living freight.
The gun that burst in one of the turrets of the

Wivern, at Birkenhead, was a 10-in. 12f-ton smooth
' bore. Practice was being made with a spherical shot
and 301 b. powder charges at a target 1,500 yards
distant, when the breech of the left-hand gun in the
after turret was blown clean away from the tube,
struck the buffer on the side of the turret, and fell
on the floor between the rears of the two guns. The
breech just grazed the legs of the man acting as cap-
tain of the turret, but no one was really hurt, the ex-
plosion, although happening at the wrong end of the
gun, occurring above the level of the men's heads in
the turret with the exception of the " captain." The
Lords have taken fright at the accident, and given
orders that no firing shall be made at present from the
Wivern's smoothbores. The Dutch are exhibiting to
us in the Channel a turret-ship perfectly armed with
rifled 12k-ton guns, mounted on magnificent iron
carriages and slides. We have spent thousands upon
thousands of pounds sterling on " committees" and
their interminable experiments, but the British navy

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has no turret-ship with an armament equal to that
of the Prins Hendrik, nor her equal in turret equip-
ment, from the carriages and slides down to the
minutest portion of the gear and fittings. The
" battle of the guns," about which so much has
been written, has been of no advantage as yet to
the few turret-ships of our navy.
The Blonde, screw steamer, commanded by Capt.
H. Catinur, left the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, yes-
terday morning for Alexandria, with stores, for the
English hospital at Suez. This is the second voyage
the Blonde has made to Port Said.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Tuesday.

Under the heading of " The Issue," the Evening
Mail prints the following remarks in its leading
columns :—" The prisoners sentenced at Green-
street stoutly maintained their belligerent position
to the last. They denied in terms that their con-
duct involved guilt. They were, they said, Ameri-
can citizens, devoted to Ireland as the place of their
birth, but owing no allegiance to England, and
therefore guilty of no crime in making war upon
her. The issue, in fact, lay between America and
England. ' They looked to another place and
another people to see justice done.' If America
did not resent England's conduct, then 13 millions
of Irishmen in America became slaves.' If the Go-
vernment do not now understand the ' situation
they cannot blame the Fenians for want of frankness
in explaining it. The generals, colonels, and cap-
tains they have been prosecuting are avowedly the
staff of a foreign army, claiming the rights of war.
If these rights be not granted to them, Warren,
Halpin, and Costello tell them plainly enough that
13 millions of Irishmen in America will know the
reason why. To this defiance from the dock we
find added a like defiance from the press, on the
part of at least four millions of Irishmen living in
Ireland, ' unanimous,' says the Cork Examiner, in
sympathy with the Fenians.' We shall see whether
the British Government will join in the issue thus
boldly and plainly put. The blow is aimed at the
heart ; if it be not stoutly met it will do its work.
To yield before threats of force is to acknowledge
its power and to invite its exercise."
On Sunday the detective police made two arrests
in this city which they regard as important. In
Blackhall-place they captured a young man named
Feely, and in Lurgan-street a man named M'Garry.
Both the prisoners were transmitted under the
Lord Lieutenant's warrant to Kilmainhana Gaol.
Two men were brought before the magistrates in
this city yesterday and charged with making use of
seditious language. They had been shouting,
" Hurrah for the Manchester Fenians," and, when
arrested, kicked the police. The magistrates re-
manded them, that inquiries might be instituted re-
gar:ling their antecedents.

in the Court of Queen's Beach yester lay counsel
moved, on the part of " Colonel" Nagle, who is
confined iu Kilmainhata Gaol on a charge of trea-
son-felony, that the infortaltion and depositions
sworn in the case, and also an affidavit sworn
by the prisoner himself, should be returned into
Court by the Clerk of the Crown, to enable an
application to be made for admitting the prisoner to
bail pending his trial at the Sligo Assizes. Counsel
moved on au affidavit made by Mr. J. T. Scallan,
the prisoner's attorney. Mr. Justice George granted
the application.
An action for slander of a most important cha-
racter is, it is stated, pending, in which a Roman
Catholic clergyman in Belfast is plaintiff, and the
editor of a Belfast newspaper defendant. Damages
are laid at £5,000.

Sergeant Kelly, from «hose body the bullet has
been at last extracted, is now progressing very
favourably, and great hopes arc entertained of his
speedy recovery.

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