The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-06 00:00:00

The Fenian Trials.

DUBLIN, Friday Night.
The special commission resumed its sittings in
Dublin to-day. Charles J. Kiekham having been
placed at the bar, an application was made on his
behalf for a writ of habeas corpus to bring up T.
Clarke Luby and Charles Underwood O'Connell,
with a view to their being examined as witnesses
for him. The court granted the writ in the case of
O'Connell, who is at present in prison in Dublin,
but held that they had no jurisdiction to issue the
writ in the case of Luby, who is in gaol in England.
The trial was then proceeded with, and went as far
as the direct examination of the approver, when the
court rose. The prisoner refused to be assisted by
counsel, stating that as the evidence of Luby, who
was a material witness, had been refused him, he
considered the trial a mockery.

Mr. William Longman Las inaugurated a move-
ment for the erection of a memorial to Cowper, the poet, at
Great Berkhampstead, Berks. Mr. Longman is treasurer
to the fund.—The Reader.
The site for the new law courts will extend from
the west side of Bell-yard to St. Clement's Inn. The whole
block of houses will be swept away by the erection of the
Palace of Justice." It is anticipated that Temple Bar
will be removed, as the site will roach into Fleet-street.
The noted Shire-lane and Newcastle-court will be de-
molished.

THE LITERARY CLUB. —lt was founded in 1764
by Sir J. Reynolds and Dr. Johnson. It met first
at the Turk's Head in Gerard-street. Of authors proper,
from 1764 to 1857, it numbered Johnson and Goldsmith,
Dyer and Percy, Gibbon and Sir William Jones, Colman,
the two Wartons, Farmer, Steevens, Burney, and Malone,
Frere and George Ellis, Hallam, Milman, Montstuart El-
phinstone, and Lord Stanhope. Among politicians and
statesmen it included Burke, Fox, Sheridan, Canning,
Rrougham, and Macaulay. Among lawyers Lord Ashbur-
ton and Stowell, Sir W. Grant, Lords Cranworth and
Kingsdown, Sir W. Page Wood, and Mr. Charles Austin.
The Literary Club is now called the Johnson, and its cen-
tenary was celebrated in September, 1864, at the Claren-
don, in Bond-street. —T he Reader.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ENSUING WEEK.—Monday—Geographical, at Bi,
"Second Journey into West Equatorial Africa," M. De
Chaillu ; Syro-Egyptian, at 71, " Pharaohs of the Bible,"
Mr. Bonomi. Tuesday--Engineers, at 8, Address of the
President ; Photographic, at 8 ; Ethnological, at 8, " Phy-
sical Forms of the Lapps," Mr. Campbell ; " Ethnology of
Indo-Chinese Nations," Colonel Phayre; "Characteristics
of Scuth Sclavonic Races," Miss Irby; Zoological, at 81,
"American Caprimulgida)," Mr. Sclater ; " Breeding of
Birds iu Society's Aviary," Mr. Bartlett. Wednesday—
Literature, at 41; Microscopical, at 8, "Opaque Illumina-
tor," Professor Smith; "Illumination with High Powers;"
Geological, at 8, "Origin and Structure of the so-called
Eozoou Serpentine," Professor King and Dr. Rowney ;
uresence of Eozoon In Older Rocks of Bavaria,"
Carpenter ; " Origin of Lake Basins of New Zealand," Mr.
Locke Travers; Archwological Association, at 81. Thurs-
day—Antiquaries, at 81. "Site of Portus Lemains," Mr.
Black ; Royal, at 81. Friday—Astronomical, at 8.
Athensetun.

The records of the past year contain an average
number of deaths of wen prominent in literature
and journalism. Judge Haliburton (" Sam Slick"), Pro-
fessor Aytoun, Cardinal Wiseman, Leitch Ritchie, Sir
Lascelles Wraxall, Wingrove Cooke, James Lowe, and
Dudley Costello, have all been called away : nor will any
one connected with this journal, and professing the prin-
ciples of which it is the exponent, forget that in the April
of last year we lost our dear friend and editor, Samuel
Lucas. To literature itself the greatest loss will be the
death of Mrs. Gaskell, to whose unfinished novel, "Wives
and Daughters," the editor of the Cornhill has appended a
singularly graceful not e.— The Flaneur.

A CUNNING HAitE.—A short time ago the
Brighton harriers sustained a loss by a manoeuvre of the
hare they were following. Puss led them from the Downs,
above Rottingdean, to tte high cliffs near paltdean. Here
she crossed the Newhaven road, and made towards the
cliffs as if she meant to go over them. That, however,
was not her design, but so closely did she skirt the edge of
the cliff—here nearly 100 feet high—that it was pretty
clear the pack, if they folowed her, would come to grief.
A coastguardsman on the spot tried to turn the dogs, and
did so as regarded the greater numbers, but three of the
leaders in their headlong pursuit went right over the cliff.
Two were killed on the spot; the third escaped with some
bad bruises. Puss was successful in her manoeuvre ; she
got away from her pursuers for that day.
THE WASTE OF WAR—.The Quartermaster-
General's report of the operations for a year, commencing
with the Western campaign of Sherman, has been issued.
Its substance is thus summarised:—" Atlanta had become
a point at which an army of 90,000 men was to be supplied,
over a line of operations 300 miles in extent. We all know
the natural obstacles of mountain, wood, and flood which
the advance to Atlanta had to surmount. The unspeakable
difficulties of providing for the necessities of the troops we
can but guess at. Bat the Quartermaster's Department
rebuilt the railroads, rebuilt the bridges—one, the Etowah
bridge, 625 ft. long and 75ft. high, in six days ; another,
the Chattahoochie bridge, 740 ft. long and 90ft. high, in
four days and a half ; and at no time during the march
from Chattanooga was a train five days behind the pursu-
ing troops. Sherman having accomplished his work, and
Atlanta won, he moved toward the Atlantic coast, and cut
loose from his base cf supplies. Immediately the great
stream of those supplies was turned to meet him on the
Atlantic coast. In the dead of winter a great fleet, laden
with vast stores of all kinds, was assembled with the ut-
most celerity, and but a few days after the fall of Savannah
had removed incredible obstacles from the river of that
name and discharged its cargo upon the wharves of the
city, returning north with a great store of captured cotton.
In succession the base of supplies was removed to Beau-
fort and Goldsborough, and, indeed, through all the move-
ments subsequently, the welcome quarterraaster was always
ready. Over 100,000 men to provide for, over 5,000 waggons
to keep in repair, and over 65,000 animals to feed, were but
a part of the duties of the department--duties never ne-
glected, always well performed, and up to time. And all
this time, as all through the war, another great army was
eared for day by day in Virginia. During the year ending
Juno, 1865, there were purchased or manufactured
3,463,858 trousers, 3,708,393 drawers, 722,264 coats and
jackets, 698,187 tents, 2,372,258 blankets, 5,684,572 stock-
ings, 2,647,560 pairs of boots and shoes, and perfect Alps
of other articles. Only fancy, if you can, a pile of 16,330
drums ! A vast quantity of this material has been sold,
and much remains for use in case of need. The marine cf
the department was something gigantic-351 steamers, 111
tugs, 89 sailing vessels, 168 barges, or a total of 719 vessels,
of, together, 224,984 tons. The balance brought forward
from the previous year and sums received since foot up
$459,630,905, and of this great sum $27,924,847 remains."

EMIGRATION FROM THE CLYDE. During the
year ending the 31st of December, 1865, there have been
15,277 emigrants despatched from the Clyde, being 4,883
more than the number who sailed in 1864. Of these
10,038 have gone to the United States, 2,582 to Canada,
1,510 to Queenstown„ 230 to New Zealand, and 217 to
various other parts of the world.— Scotsman.

THE WEATHER IN AMERlCA.—Montreal papers
of the 22d. of December state that until within a few days

it had been like spring ; but on the 21st it was intensely
cold, and six or eight inchc of snow fell. The St. Law-
rence was frozen nearly half way over. It is stated that at
Ottawa the thermometer was 2 degs. below zero on the
15th, and 15 degs. below zero on the 16th. A few nights
before that, a very old mati, the mail carrier from lowa
city to Washington, lowa, being caught in a snow storm
and getting his horse fast in a mud hole, was frozen to
death.

The land required for the enlargement of the
National Gallery has beet purchased from the parish of
St. Martin's-in-the-Fieldsfor £86,000. The site includes
St. Martin's workhouse and Archbishop Tenison's Library
and Oclnolo,