The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-06 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Nov. 5.
The sittings of the Commission Court were re-
sumed yesterday. Considerable dissatisfaction was
expressed before the Judges took their seats by the
jurors, who had been summoned for a quarter before
10 o'clock,, and were kept waiting two hours, their
lordships having been engaged in consultation upon
some matters, the nature of which did not transpire.
The impatient jurors manifested their annoyance
by stamping with their feet, as gallery audiences do
in theatres when the drop-scene remains too long
down. At length the demonstration became so
loud and general that the Sub-Sheriff was obliged
to interfere and to threaten if the conduct was re-
peated to bring the offenders before the Court.
The jurors bitterly complained of not having been
apprised that their presence would not be required
at so early an hour, but that they had been taken
unnecessarily from their business. At the sitting of
the Court at a quarter before 12 o'clock the names
on the panel were called over. " General" Louis
Octave Fariola, alias Liebhardt, was then indicted
for treason-felony. When called upon to plead he
seemed nervous and excited, and in a scarcely
audible voice pleaded guilty. William Halpin, the
alleged Head Centre for Dublin, was then put for-
ward. When called upon to plead he made a long
statement to the effect that he was not represented
by counsel, and that a conspiracy had been entered
into by the Crown lawyers and the Governor of Kil-
mainham to deprive him of the common rights of
justice. He said he had not received a list of the
jury or witnesses, and papers belonging to him had
been kept back until the last moment. On Satur-
day week the Crown bad given him the name of a
witness in America who alleged certain acts which he
could not obtain witnesses to disprove. He observed
that he was no lawyer, and perhaps might not be en-
titled to the papers, but he thought that in common
justice they ought to have been given to him in
time Le geb witnesses how Aulerica i and he added,
" If the law is such as to cover the delinquencies of
the Crown Solicitor in the case, and many others,
which I think I will introduce during the progress
of the trial, I am glad it is only English law." The
Chief Baron said the Court could not allow him to
impeach the law of the land, and assail the character
of individuals, unless he was prepared with evidence
to support his statement. He replied :—" lam
prepared with evidence to support what I say. I
only make this statement to justify the course I am
about to adopt. In consequence of those defects,
which I claim to have been wilful, I most respect-
fully decline to plead to any indictment founded on
the law which sanctions them." The Chief Baron in-
formed him that it was competent for him to show by
affidavit good reasons for not being prepared to go to
trial. He was not entitled to a list of the jury, but
would have received a copy of the panel if he had ap-
plied for it. His Lordship warned the prisoner that if
he refused to plead, the Court would be bound to
treat him in the event of a verdict being found
against him in the same way as if he had pleaded.
The prisoner replied that he intended to act as his
own counsel, and did not want a longer postpone-
ment of the trial than a few days. Mr. Anderson,
the Crown Solicitor, stated that copies of the infor-
mations had been given to the prisoner after being
sworn, and the paper which he recently received was
not on oath. The Chief Baron said if that were so
the Crown had done what they were not bound to
do, but what was proper for them to do in all fair-
ness. The prisoner intimated that he would be
ready with an affidavit in the morning, and was
then removed. In the case of " Colonel" Nagle,
the Attorney-General stated that he would not pro-
ceed with the trial at the present commission, but
would send the prisoner for trial in the county of
Sligo, where the overt act was committed. Augustus
E. Costello was next arraigned. Mr. Heron, Q.C.,
his counsel, handed in a plea of abatement, which
was overruled after argument. He then applied
for a postponement of the trial until this morning,
which was granted.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
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(From the Anglo-American Times.)

Colonel llarrison, of the Indian Army, was acct
dentally shot while shooting on Rimside Moor with a party,
among whom was Sir Ifedworth Williamson, member for
North Durham, the trigger of whose gun caught a button,
and lodged the contents of the barrel in Colonel Harrison's
leg, who died on Wednesday night.
John C. Tucker, of Boston, has been nominated
as an independent candidate for Senator in the second Suf-
folk district.
Governor Brownlow's election as United States
Senator by the Tennessee Legislature is considered doubt-
ful, in view of an unexpected opposition.
Dr. J. W. Wood, of Atlanta, Georgia, has
arrived at Paris on his mission of charity. Subscriptions
will bo received for the hospital by the house of Norton
and Co., 16, Rue Aube; Paris.
C. T. Ilulbard, Republican nominee for State
Comptroller of New York, reached home on Wednesday,
the 16th October, from Europe, and has declined the no-
mination, his constituents preferring that he should retain
his seat in Congress.

The President has appointed James Brooks, o:

the New York Express, and Samuel M'Koo, of Pennsyl-
vania, Government directors of the Union Pacific Railroad,
thus completing the list of five required by law.

General Santa Anna has been sentenced by court•
martial to an exile from Mexican territory for eight years.
W. W. Story, the well-known American scul.p.
tor, has boon selected for the execution of the statuo 01
Mr. Peabody which it is proposed to set up in London.

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General Grant, by order of the President, has
remitted the sentence on the soldiers of the United States'
army condemned by court-martial to imprisonment for
parading in green uniforms at a Fenian picnic.
Thaddeus Stevens writes to say :—" Sick as I
am, I take this occasion to thank God for our late defeat.
The Republicans have been acting a cowardly part, and
have met a coward's fate."

The removal of Professor Lieber from his post of
statistician at the War-office has given rise to the rumour
that the President fears him, as ho could show Mr. John-
son's complicity in Lincoln's assassination. Mr. Lieber's
services were dispensed with by General Grant as an itom
in his retrenchment reform, and for no other reason.
Mr. Adams grows stronger in his canvas for
Governor in Massachusetts, and Governor Bullock weaker,
more especially in the eastern part of the State ; but there
appears to be little doubt that the majority will be for
Governor Bullock.

General Badcock has accompanied General Banks
and Minister Romero to Mexico.

The name of John A. Andrews is frequently
mentioned for the second place on the Presidential ticket
with Grant.

General Dennison of Baltimore was examined on
the 16th October by the Congressional Committee inves-
tigating the form of government in Maryland. His evidence
showed the loyalty of the Maryland militia, although some
of Governor wann's staff as well as leading regimental
officers had been either rebels or sympathisers.

The American artist, Mr. Reinhardt, left London
on the 30th ult. for the United States.

The United States frigate Franklyn, with Admiral
Farragut on board, en route for the Mediterranean, arrived
at Lisbon on Wednesday. Also the American ships
Cart andaigna and Ticonderoga.

The Emperor Francis Joseph is expected at
Vienna on the 7th inst. He will visit Munich and Stutt-
gardt, and perhaps Karshuh°, on his way back.

General Banks, the Pall-Mall Gazette says, is
feeling his way in Mexico, end if Juarez and his Cabinet
are gracious, will probably be appainttod Minister in suc-
cession to Mr. Otterburgb, who became offensive to Juarez
when it was known that ho was Austrian by birth, and
was therefore removed. A likely story this!

General Sheridan's reception in Boston cost that
city 550,000.

Lion. Charles G. Loring died at his residence in
Beverley, llassttebusett, on the Bth October.

Henry S. Garrett died at Baltimore on the 11th
October. Ile was ono of its most prominent citizens.

H. K. Horton, of the well-known Boston firm
of Frank Skinner and Co., died Wednesday morning, 9th
October.

Commodore W. Young, commanding the United
States steamor Suwanee, has died at Maszanilla.

Mr. Henry Timrod, the South Carolinian poet,
has just died at Columbia. _

Mr. John R. Ridge, a Californian journalist and
poet, and the son of the chief of the Cherokee nation, is
dead.

The Nation says :—" The American
_Association
for the Promotion of Social Science will meet in New
York on the 19th, 20th, and 21st of November. It held its
third annual meeting in Boston on Wednesday week, and
listened to able addresses and papers on the present state
of social science (I)r. S. Eliot); its prospects and achieve-
ments in this country (Mr. F. B. Sanborn) ; on the popu-
la,tlol2 of laassacimotts, and clones iu tho physical

organisation of women in relation to the laws of human
increase (Dr. Nathan Allen, of Lowell); on the effects of
the condensation of population on human life (Dr..
Edward Jarvis), &e. Appropriate mention was made
of the high character and public services of the late Hon.
Charles G. Loring, and resolutions adopted deplor-
ing his loss. It ought not long to be. true, as eras
openly stated by Dr. Eliot, that this most useful
association has neither the membership nor the pecu-
niary support which it deserves. It has not even funds
with which to publish its transactions, and is dependent
upon the newspapers for reports of its proceedings. W°
hope it will command au interested audience at its k:ossions
in New York. Papers aro expected from Dr. Lieber,
Professor Dwight, and others. Mrs. Dall will speak on
the very important subject of lodging-hou-es for worries.
The first number of the National American, pub-
lished by authority of the American Industrial :League,
has reached us. This monthly publ:cation is written in
the interest of the Protectionists. The office is No.
11,
Park-place, New York. It announces that it seeks to
present in a lucid and candid manner the various ques-
tions in debate between the advocates of protection to
home industry on the one hand, and what is termed freo
trade upon the other. How it carries out this announcement
may be judged from the following paragraphs :—"
know that thousands of our countrymen, misled by the
specious sophisms of the British free-trade advocates, actu-
ally believe that this country would be enriched and
strengthened by placing the labour of its enlightened and
enfranchised citizens in competition with that of the op-
pressed and ill-paid workmen of Great Britain and Conti-
nental Europe. We know the untiring industry with
which demagogues at the press and on the stump propa-
gate under the guise of "freedom of exchange," the most
pernicious doctrines of subjection to European industrial
supremacy Thus, we believe, would be

stilled the spirit of unreasonable jealousy against
American manufacturers which has been originated
by the emissaries in this country of British capitalists, and
inflamed by an unscrupulous portion of the American
press—thus would American feel that they had a common
interest in maintaining the American market for American
producers, by this means most effectually promoting the
general prosperity of the people, and best securing the
solvency and solid power of the nation." However /acid
may be the National American, we doubt its candour, and
fear that free trade will receive but scant justice at its
hands.

The " Positive Philosophy," an oration delivered
before the Phi Beta Kappa Societies of Amherst College
and the University of Vermont, by Rev. Professor A. Y.
Peabody, has boon published in pamphlet form by Messrs.
Gould and Lincoln.

A volume of the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop's
speeches will soon be published in Boston.

The Round Table remarks :—" The University of
Cambridge has conferred the degree of LL.D. upon the
American bishops at the Pan-Anglican Synod—namely,
Bishops Hopkins, Mollvaine, Eastburn, 'Whitehouse, At-
kinson, H. W. Lee (of Iowa), Potter, Clark, Gregg, Oden-
heimer, Lay, R. IL Wilmer (of Alabama), Quintard, Kor-
foot, J. P. B. Wilmer (of Louisiana), Payne (missionary
bishop to Africa), Bedell, Talbot, and C. M. Williams
(missionary bishop to China). This wholesale honour
would doubtless have provoked ridicule had it been ren-
dered by an American college, and is not without its
amusing aspect as it is. It would not be easy, however, to
select as largo a body of men equally deserving of it.
"Mrs. Lincoln, it is stated, incorrectly we trust,
is writing a book entitled Five Years in the White
House.' "

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, which is to
be entitled "Old Town Folks," will not bo published pail
spring.

The Charlottesville Chronicle has given an amus-
ing illustration of its principles. It ought to announce that
its opinions are those of expediency. Indeed it does so ill
a naive way, in the following words :—" The astounding
revolution at the North—the certain and unexpected de-
velopment of a just and Conservative public sentiment in
that region, as evidenced in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and all
of the recent elections—has emboldened us to change our
opinion, and wo aro now in favour of an united and de-
termined effort on the 22d of this month to vote down the
proposed Convention."

During the typhoon which visited Hongkong on
tho Bth September, which caused great damage to ship"
ping, tho United States vessol Allonocacy was roportod safe,
but had lost funnel, various masts, yards, &c.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

BRISTOL-TUESDAY.

At the corn market to-day them was a slow demand for
wheat at a decline of 2s to 3s per qr. Barley is to 2s per
qr cheaper. Oats quite as dear as last week.

LEEDS-TUESDAY.

We had the usual attendance of the trade to-day, and
a fair business in wheat took glace at an advance of about
2s per qr upon the prices of last Tuesday. Good Larlcy at
late rates, but inferior is cheaper. Oats and beans un-
altered.

LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY.
We had a good attendance to-day of both the town awl
country trade at our market, but the advanced prices asked
still checked sales, and very little business was done , ;
white wheat may be quoted 4d to 6,1 per 1001 b, and red bd
to 4d lower on the week. Flour was saleable at about
is per sack and 2s per barrel lower than the rates of Tues-
day last. Indian corn very scarce, at 49s 6d to 50s per
4801 b for prime American mixed. Beans and peas declined
is to 2s per qr. Oats and oatmeal in limited request,
and slightly lower. Barley at full prices.