The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1858.

CIVIL SERVICE OF . INDIA.-
EXTENSION OF THE LIMITS OF AGE.—Notic3
is hereby Given, That persons otherwise eligible will be ad-
mitted as Candidates at the Examination of July, 1859, if
more than 18 and less than 23 years of age on the Ist of May,
18.59. This extension is limited to the Next examination.
Copies of the Regulations may be obtaiied on application to
the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, Dean's Yard, West-
minster, S.W.
Civil Service Commission, 9th Dec. 1858.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.—NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that on and
after WEDNESDAY NEXT, the lst December, ALTERA-
TIONS will be made in the RATES and FARES for MER-
CHANDISE, Cattle, and Passenger Traffic between London,
Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington, Huddersfield, and the
intermediate and surrounding towns and places in Lancasre
and Yorkshire. Full particitlars mty be obtained on applica-
tion at the Company's Offices and. Stations, and also of the
Company's Agents, :Messrs. • Pickford and Co., Wood-street,
Cheapside, and Messrs. Chaplin and Home, Hambro WhEn,
Thames-street.
By order, W. CAWKWELL, General Manager.
Euston Station, 20th NoVember, 1858.

ANK OF DEPOSIT,
Established A.D. 1841
3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON.
Parties desirous of Investing Money are requested to exa-
mine the Plan of The Bank of Deposit, by which a high rate
of interest may be obtained with ample security.
Deposits made by Special Agreement may be withdrawn
without notice
The Interest is payable in. January and July.
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.
Forms for Opening Accounts sent free on application.

GREAT EASTERN. Completion for Sea.--L
REFRESHMENTS.—Mr. WILLIAM DONALD, of
the St. James's Hall, begs to inform the public that he has
arranged with the Directors to supply all the Refreshments
on board during the free day admission. Tickets for Free
Admission to be had of Mr. W. DONALD, 69, Regent-street.

GEORGE HOBSON begs to call the attention
of Gentlemen to his New Autumnal Trousers, 21s. to
255. Also his New Partridge Mixture Shooting Coats.

.Excellence with Economy.
GEORGE HOBSON, 57, Lombard-street.
Established 1796.

„ J.4-43M.AisKIIMR
• .

James Watt, the fourth child of Mr. Watt, of
Greenock, son of the " old mathematician " and of
Agnes Muirhead, " a braw, braw woman—none
now to be seen like her," was born on the 19th of
January, 1736. Of weak health and precocious
talent, at six years of age it was no uncommon
thing to see him draw mathematical lines and
circles, " marking in letters and figures the result
of some calculations he was carrying on." At
fourteen his conversation was found too in-
tellectually exciting for a friend and contem-
porary of his mother's. At fifteen he was scolded
by his aunt Muirhead for idleness in watching
and experimentalising on the steam rising from a
tea-pot ; while at about the same age, " he made
himself a small electrical machine, and sometimes
startled his young friends by given them sudden
shocks from it." Few scientific men have been
more variously capable than Watt. It seemed as
if he might have succeeded in any branch of
science, speculative, mechanical, or experimental,
to which he had chosen to devote himself. He
was an excellent carpenter, as good a chemist and
physiologist as the times and his profession
allowed, a working mechanic of extraordinary
ability, an engineer, mathematician, musical in
strument maker, mathematical instrument maker,
a geometrician, astronomer, and one of the greatest
inventors the world has ever seen. For though his
name has been usually associated only with his
famous improvements in the steam-engine—" that
giant with one idea," as Coleridge called it—he
either sketched out or more vaguely foresaw very
many of the more modern inventions and disco-
veries which have revolutionised society quite
as much as this has done. Of these a copying
machine, the screw propeller, a machine for drying
linen, the consumption of smoke, heating rooms
by steam, the theory of the compound character
of water, a proposed uniformity in weights and
measures based on the decimal system, pneumatic
medicines or the treatment of lung disease by in-
halation, a machine for copying and reducing
sculpture, with others of minor importance, were
sketched or imagined by him. Some were put
into crude action, others only prophesied of as
possible, and to be turned up in the future track
of science. He also introduced into England and
extensively carried out Berthollet's invention of
bleaching linen by chlorine, to which we now owe
so much of textile beauty. But his great dis-
coveries were the various improvements he effected
in the steam-engine. This was " the weak side
of nature which he found out and took advantage
of ;" as he said every one might do if they chose.—
Literary Gazette.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.
MADAME LOLA MONTEZ.

The news of this day is all about Lola Montez.
Nothing else is spoken of. She has created quite
a furore here. Last night she effected a triumph,
as they say in the theatrical world. A few pre- •
liminary notices in the newspapers that the
" Countess of Lansfeld" would deliver a lecture
at the Rotunda sufficed to attract the largest
audience which has appeared in the great room of
that building for many years. It is capable of
accommodating about 1,600 persons comfortably;
but there was little room left for comfort last night.
Every available spot was paeked. The lecture was
announced to commence at 8 o'clock, but long pre-
viously the doors were shut against the incoming
throng, the ticket-takers hallooing out, "Full, full."
The platform, which was set apart for the holders
of "reserved" tickets, which by the way cost 3s.
each, was just as densely packed as the body of the
room, to which access was obtained for half the
money. There were but very few ladies present;
in fact, it 'was nearly altogether a " gentlemens'
party." At half-past 8 o'clock Madame Montez
made her way to the platform, and after a round
of applause proceeded to deliver her lecture " On
America and its People." She was listened to
throughout with marked attention. The composi-
tion was not without interest, and many passages
called forth laughter and applause. In the
n
course of her lecture she insisted on the folly of
Americans trying to ignore the power of the
stranger, and cited official records to show that in
the public employment the foreign element was
establishing its power. The lecture was chiefly
directed to showing her views of the social condi-
tion of the native and the immigrant races, and to
defining, by illustrations of life in America, the
distinction between iolitical and social equality.
Her delivery is animated, distinct, and pleasing.
MURDER IN KILKENNY.
The local papers of Kilkenny report the follow-
ing
" "We regret to state, on the authority of a well-
informed correspondent, that a horrible murder was
committed on Monday morning in Urlingford, the
result, it is stated, of a family difference, and the
fatal wound being inflicted, as is supposed, by a near
relative. The unfortunate victim was An old man
named Glenn, who resided with his daughter and son-
in•law, and was in the employment of Mr. P. Coyne,
Urlingford. It would seem that the son-in-law, before
his marriage with Glenn's daughter, had had a child
by some other woman, which was sent home to him
shortly after the wedding, the result of which was
a continuous scene of family bickerings. On Mon-'
day morning the old man went home to-his break-
fast from work, and shortly after an alarm was given
and he was found by the neighbours to be in a dying
state, from violence inflicted on his person, sup-
ctahthatolic the
clergyman mex-
pired
posed to have been the result of the quarrel with
his
o son-in-law. iefn-olrae the
w .
It
Roman isstated
could reach the house although he was imme-
diately sent for. The supposed murderer is, we
believe, in custody ; but as an inquest was to be
held yesterday by W. J. er, h a , F :sq., county
coroner, we reserve the further details which our
correspondent has supplied till they are authenti-
cated."

" THE APPRENTICE BOYS AT DERRY."
This distinguished club held their annual com-
memorative dinner on Tuesday evening, at the
Bilton Hotel, Sackville Street, the 7th of
December being the 170th anniversary of the
memorable shutting the gates at Derry, in
1688, by their ancestors, in the face of
tyranny and arbitrary . power. Robert Quin
Alexander, of Acton, presided most effectively, as
governor, and was ably seconded by Sir Hervey
Bruce, Bart., as lieutenant governor. Sir Hervey
Bruce succeeds as governor for the ensuing
year, and Major the Hon. Augustus Jocelyn as
lieutenant governor. Maxwell Charles Close, M.P.
for the county Armagh, was the honoured guest of
and, having proved a good Derry de-
eintnhrogu, gh the Maxwells, Lord Farnham's
—was elected and invested as an Apprentice,
sbfta°hym:ngeneral acclamation.

THE LIVERPOOL CRINOLINE AFFAIR.—The trial
of Mr. Huntingdon, corn and flour merchant, of Liverpool,
for cutting a young lady's crinoline, was resumed and con-
cluded yesterday before the local recorder. The court was
again crowded, and when, after two hours' deliberation, the
jury returned a verdict of acquittal, loud and prolonged
cheers resounded through the great hall where the trial took
place. Mr. Huntingdon, on leaving the court, received
A complete ovation.

ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, ADDIS-

COMBE.

Yesterday the public half-yearly examination of
the gentlemen cadets of her Majesty's Indian forces
took place .at the Military College, Addiscombe, in
the presence of the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India ;
Sir George Clerk, K.C.8., Under-Secretary of
State ; Sir Frederick Currie, Vice-President of the
Council ; and most. of the members of the Council,
including Sir James Hogg, Bart., Sir Henry Mont-
gomery, Bart., Major-General Sir Robert Vivian,
K.C.8., Colonel Sir Henry Rawlinson, K.C.8.,
Colonel Sir Proby Cautley, K.C.8., Messrs. Mills,
Macnaghten, Eastwick, Willoughby, Arbuthnot,
the Public Examiner and Inspector of Studies,
Major-General Sir Frederick Smith, K.H., M.P.,
Major-General Sir Frederick Abbott; C. 8., the
Lieutenant-Governor, the several professors, and a
number of visitors. Amongst the latter were the
Rev. Sir C. Furnaby, Bart., Admirals Casy and
Trotter, Lieutenant-General Sir George Pollock,
G.C.B. Sir Charles Pasley, K.C.B. ; Majors-
General Sir Harry Jones, K.C.8., Cameron, Sir
Edward Lugard, K.C.8., Portlock, Hancock ;
Colonels Russell, C. 8., Sandham, R.E., Bambrigge,
Willoughby, C. 8., Elwyn, Addison, Lefroy, Hogg,
Abbott, C. 8., Durand, C. 8., Wilde, C.it., Ross,
R.E., Simpson, Green, Morris, Harington, Baker;
the Rev. J. Coles ; Messrs. Spencer, Heaiiside,
Chalmers Vinter, Beadon, Pierson,- Glass, Camp-
bell, Hawkins, Sandoz, Plowden, &c.
Lord Stanley and the greater part of the com-
pany arrived at the College about half-past ten
o'clock, and soon after proceeded to the examination
hall, where the cadets were examined in the different
branches of fortification, mathematics, &c., by Sir
Harry Smith, the public examiner. This part of
the business having been brought to a close,
Mr. Caebear.e read the relY)rt of the public exa-
miner and inspector of studiei, which stated thrit-
-15 cadets were brought forward for examination,
and of this number six were reported to be qualified
For the Engineers—Wm. 11. Pierson, George
Strahan, Barre John Goldie, John Pennycuick,
Charles A. Sim, Henry Doveton. Robert M'Leod
Hawkins (iEgrotat) . was reserved for the Engi-
neers hereafter.

For the Artillery—John W. Taylor, James A.
Sutherland Colquhoun, Samuel Swinton Jacob,
Walter Ernest Forbes, Francis W. Major.
For the Infantry—Francis 'N. Collis.
Lord Stanley then distributed the following
prizes :

until they get acquainted, a certain repugnance
shall exist, so it is equally certain that by better
knowledge will that repugnance be dispelled.
(Cheers.) Were I addressing you this time last year,
I should have addressed a word of caution against
the popular absurdity—for it is no less—of imput-
ing to one hundred and fifty millions of mankind
a participation in the atrocities of a few criminals
and fanatics. But that sort of feeling is over in
England—it has almost come to an end ;we are
free from the influence of passion, and we have
learnt to recognise in men like Scindia, like the
Rajah of Puttealeh, like the Nizam and his minis-
ter of Salais, like Jung Bahadocr—aye, and like
the gallant native recruits who have fought side by
side with the Europeans, with no unequal courage,
against rebels and mutineers, the possession of
manly qualities that may make us well content to
recognise them as friends and supporters of British
power. (Loud cheers.) I have spoken to you as
men who aspire to, and all are prepared to struggle
for, the highest prize of life, and I hold it needless
to warn you against the vulgar temptation of indo-
lence, or extravag-ance, or pleasure. Others will
tell you, and I believe it will not be in vain, how
the brightest prospects may be clouded, and the
most vigorous energies impaired by debts hastily
contracted, and not for long years shaken off.
Others will warn you that you are one of the few
among the many, and I think you will take the
warning that in a climate not naturally congenial
to Englishmen the connection between even a slight
violation of temperance and disease of body and
mind is far more invariable and certain than at
home. I add only this : Remember (though to
some of you it may have a startling sound) that for
an European in India there is, strictly speaking,
no private life ; he is one of the ruling race—the
few among the many—one of a population so:ne
ten thousand strong among more than one
hundred millions. Thera -are,,_ little 4s
_he may
t know° or care about it, ).tlick eyes to watch his
conduct, and envious tongues ready enough to
disparage his nation and his race. This is not
merely a personal matter. A single officer who
forgets that he is an officer and a gentleman, does
more harm to the moral influence of this country
than ten men of blameless life can do good. To
you, therefore, in more senses than one, the honour
of England is committed ; you are the representa-
tives not only of our military strength, but also of
our national character. You go forth from,a col•
lege which has trained through a long series of
years many of the ablest public servants whom
the empire has ever produced. I hope that its per-
manence and its prosperity may be equal to its
deserts ; that you, its latest representatives, may
be worthy of those who have gone before, and that
among the names of those whom I address, some
names, at least, may live in the records, not only
of this college, but of the country, connected with
honourable exploits of war, or with the glory of
skilful and successful administration. I wish you
God speed, and I believe that whatever may hap-
pen you will do your duty. The noble lord sat
down amidst loud cheering.
The company then proceeded to inspect the
models and drawings, which were of the usual
character.

Lord Stanley and the visitors afterwards retired
to the official residence of the Lieutenant• Governor,
Major-General Abbott, where luncheon was pro-
vided. The day's proceeding appeared to give
general satisfaction.

THE SECRET SOCIETIES-ARRESTS IN
BANTRY AND SKIBBEREEN.

(From the Cork Examiner of Friday.)
Those towns were, on Tuesday and Wednesday,
made the scene of considerable excitement, arrests
having been made of several respectable parties for
au alleged connection with some secret political or-
ganisation. A correspondent in Bantry informs
us that on Tuesday night a mounted policeman
arrived in that town from Skibbereen, at about
8 o'clock, when, immediately after, all the police
who are not
. laid up from over duty, turned out,
with fixed bayonets, and proceeded to the rooms
occupied by the Young Men's Society. Two young
men named M'Carthy and Cullinane, who were
reading in the room, were then arrested. The
police then proceeded to the house of a widow
Sullivan, and, it is stated, refusing to assign any
reason for their conduct, arrested her eldest son.
On Wednesday morning the parties were sent off
at daybreak to Cork Gaol, escorted by a large force
of armed police. All these young men, who are
abouttwenty years of age, are exceedingly respect-
able in their line of life as shopkeepers, and bear
most unexceptionable characters. Our correspon-
dent refers to some smashing of glass and burning
of a small quantity of hay in that town, and gives
an explanation which throws rather a ludicrous
light upon the importance assigned. However, as
the matter is likely to become the subject of legal
investigation, we should prefer not entering further
into it for the present.
Another correspondent sends us the following in
reference to the same subject :

SUPPOSED SECRET SOCIETIES IN BANTRY-THE
GOVERNMENT PROCLAMATION-ITS FRUIT-

ARRISrs.
BANTRY, Tuesday Night, Dec. 7.—The truth of
your judicious and truly excellent recent articles,
on the re3ults of secret organisations, has been fully
and painfully illustrated to-night in this peaceable
little town, by the unexpected arrest of three re-
spectable young men—boys I should rather say, as
the 01de:A cannot have attained his twentieth year.
They have been arrested on sworn informations
made, it would appear, by some fellow, who is
stated to be at present in safe keeping in Cork.
The parties arrested are—Messrs. Denis Sulli-
van, Jeremiah Cullinane, and Timothy M'Carthy,
all members of respectable families of the town,
who have been thrown into a state of the greatest
terror and affliction by a proceeding so summary
and unexpected.
Report is that fourteen other arrests of a similar
nature were to-day made in Skibbercen also.
It appears that all will be removed early to-
morrow to Cork to undergo examination there in
the course of a week, before some tribunal or au-
thorities constituted for this special purpose. It is
said they will be detained in Cork Gaol (bail being
refused) until the assizes.
It is to be hoped that the suddenness and unpre-
paredness of the measures adopted will not be un-
fairly availed of, to their prejudice, by depriving
them of the advantage of competent legal assistance.
Of their guilt their nearest friends here. it appears,
are unaware, and utterly disbelieve that they have
in aught committed themselves in any manner to
justify these proceedings.
I enclose my name, in confidence, and remain,
dear sir, your obedient servant, A BANTRY MAN.
Wednesday Morning.—l open this letter to say
that the parties were sent off to Cork at a very
early hour Ijiis morning.
SKIBBEREEN.

From Skibbereen we have th. 3 following :
SKIBBEREEN, Dec. 8, 1858.—Our town this
morning presented an unusual appearance indeed.
Numbers of our respectable fellow-townsmen and
women may be seen with hurried steps and palpi-
tating hearts running to the police barracks, several
arrests having been made during the night ; 12
were arrested in their beds—all young, respectable,
though misguided men. They have been forwarded
on three coaches to Cork Gaol, under a strong police
force under the command of Sub-Inspector Potter.
They were arrested on warrants signed by Mr.
Fitzmaurice, R.M., on, it appears, an information
sworn by a man named Sullivan, from Kenmare,
son to a person, it is said, in W. S. Trench's em-
ployment, and sent specially to become a member
of the society to enable him to betray his associates.
As far as vI can learn, the parties arrested are
Dan M'Cartie, jun., Jeremiah Donovan (Rossa),
John. Stack, jun., M. Moynahane, Patrick Down-
ing, Eugene M'Carthy, M. Downing, Jerh. Driscoll,
John Shea, and others whose names I did not learn.
Immense crowds gathered round the coaches as
they left, and, strange, they were loudly cheered
by the people, men and women, until out of sight,
the prisoners themselves joining in the cheer.
No one here believed in any serious conspiracy,
nor do many yet. Your articles on the subject
were very good.
There is to ba a further examination of the pri-
soners in Cork on the 14th.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)
Yesterday fifteen young men, twelve from Skib-
bercen and three from Bantry, were handed over
to the Governor of the Cork County Gaol, on a
charge of being connected with an illegal society
called the " Phoenix Club." Their names are :
Morty Downing, Jeremiah Donovan, Morty
Moynahane, Daniel M'Carthy, Jeremiah Dris-
coll, Eugene M'Carthy, Denis Downing, Timothy
Duggan, Patrick Downing, James Stack, Thomas
O'Shea, William O'Brien, Jeremiah Cullinane,
Denis Sullivan, and Timothy M'Carthy. Three
of them were, at the time of their arrest, clerks
to a well-known solicit:r of high standing ill
skibbereen, another was a national gehool teacher