The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-08 00:00:00

:IRELAND.

DUBLIN, March 7.
Yesterday, at 2 p.m. the United States' war
steamer Canandaigna, Captain Stambal, comman-
der, got up steam and left Kingston harbour, it
was stated for Belfast. During the stay of this
vessel considerable friendly intercourse took place
between the officers and the residents of Kingstown.
On more than one occasion in conversation the
American visitors expressed their opinion that the
Irish people who had taken up with Fenianism had
been rarely humbugged. I have just learnt a fact,
on undoubted authority, which shows to what a
daring extent the Fenian leaders are carrying,
the imposture. A number of bonds have ar-
rived in the City of Waterford from New York,
beautifully executed in the form of bank-notes,
signed by O'Mahony and two others. They are
for sums varying from £2O to £5O, bearing 8
per cent. interest, to be paid when the Irish Re-
public is established, with this remarkable pecu-
liarity they are bonds on the Curraghmore estate.
It is calculated, no doubt, that some of Lord
Waterford's tenants will cash these bonds, believing
that they will thereby secure their farms and the
farms of their neighbours rent-free in perpetuity.
There is reason to believe that similar bonds upon
Irish estates have arrived in other parts of the
country.
Yesterday evening, about 8 o'clock, the police, in
consequence of information received, arrested `z7
persons at the publichouse, 7, Cork-hill, not seven
perches from Dublin Castle, and not double that

distance from the Head Police-office. The officers
engaged in effecting the -capture are—Acting-In-
spectors Smollen, Smith, Clifford, Magee, Clarke,
Wolfe, Mathews, Cullen, Ennis, and Kelly, of the
detective force, accompanied by Superintendent
Campbell, and a body of police of the B
Among those on the premises at the time, and who
were taken into custody, were John Slattery and
Thomas Slattery, the proprietors of the establish-
ment, and William Slattery, their brother. Several
of those arrested were in the tap-room at the time
of the entrance of the police, and were engaged
playing cards, while others were in front of the shop
counter. Some resistance, or rather an attempt to
escape, was made on the part of one or two of the
prisoners, but without success. The majority of the
prisoners are permanent residents of the city, but a
number of them are stated to have arrived here re-
cently from Manchester. There is one soldier
among the number, belonging to the 2d battalion of
the 60th Rifles. His name is Samuel M'Cann, a
native of Manchester. James Murphy, alias
M'Cabe, another of the prisoners, is stated to
be a deserter from the 10th Hussars. The others
are nearly all labourers and artisans employed
in various parts of the city. The following
are the names of those arrec to l :—John Slat-
tery, licensed vintner, 7, Colic hill, aged 23 ;
Thomas Slattery, partner with the above, aged
22, William Slattery, aged 20 ; Michael llanlon,
13, Michael's-lane, brassfoundcr, aged 24 ; John
Joseph Lynch, 11, New-row South, labourer, aged '
22 ; Patrick Hogarth, labourer, 5, Upper Bridge-
street, aged 20 ; Edward Gorman, 6, Swift's-row,
aged 24 ; James Ryan, 159, Townsend-street, aged
26 ; James Murray, shoemaker, 24, Great Ship-
street, aged 31 ; Francis M'Cluskey, shoemaker,
8, Peter-street, aged 30 ; John Stapleton, sawyer,
4, Nicholas-street, aged 56 ; George Darker,
a newspaper folder, 31, Castle-street, aged 16 ; W.
Darker, machinist, 31, Castle-street, aged 20 ; W.
Murphy, alias M'Cabe, 16, South Great George's-
street, shoemaker, aged 26 ; Thos. Taafe, 9, Rut-
land-avenue, Dolphin-barn, machine printer, aged
19 ; Thomas Doyle, newsvendor, 7, Golden-lane,
aged 17 ; S. Wade, 6i, Little Strand-street, aged
21 ; Frederick Farrell, trunkmaker, Fishamble-
street, aged 22 ; William Sandy, shoemaker, 12,
Francis-street, aged 20 ; Thomas Joyce, tailor, 4,
Cuffe-street, aged 22 ; S. M'Cann, Ship-street Bar-
racks, 2d battalion 60th Rifles : John Walsh, 6,
Great Jervis-street, aged 23 ; W. Darey, Jones's-
road, aged 33 ; T. Kelly, waiter at Mr. Slattery's ;
Jas. Keogh, 149, Thomas-street, tobacco-spinner,
aged 55 ; Timothy Murphy, shoemaker, 29, Castle-
street, aged 87. The prisoners were taken to
Chancery-lane station.
Corporal Wm. Campbell, of the sth Dragoon
Guards, who was arrested in Belfast last Wednes-
day, on a charge of Fenianism, and brought to Dub-
lin for trial by court-martial, has been discharged
from custody. The circumstances of the case having
been investigated, Col. the Hon. G. S. Calthorpe,
commanding the sth Dragoon Guards, directed that
the prisoner should be discharged, and extended his
furlough beyond the limit originally designated.
At Boyle, on Saturday night, a party under the
direction of Sub-Inspector Lynch proceeded to the
dwelling of a man named Travers, about one mile
from the town, and found snugly concealed in the
back of a ditch the following warlike articles, in
excellent order—viz., five. pistols, a like number of
powder flasks, full of fine powder, a large quantity
of bullets, and also of detonating caps, together
with two shot pouches. Travers was instantly
arrested, and, after information duly sworn, fully
committed for trial at the present assizes.
It appears from the assizes reports that there is
very little ordinary crime in the country. Mr.
Justice O'Hagan, in addressing the grand jury on
Monday, congratulated them on the lightness of the
calendar, and made the following reference to
Fenianism :—" Some arrests have been made of
persons charged with complicity in the insane and
mischievous conspiracy which had been formed in
the country by the friends of revolution, and the
only effects of which had been to check their advanc-
ing prosperity, to drive away energy and capital,
and to excite apprehension and alarm. The execu-
tive had determined not to bring any persons to
trial at the present assizes on charges connected
with the Fenian conspiracy, and the cases to be
put before the grand jury were, therefore, of an
ordinary character ; and, whether he looked to their
number or nature, both in the discovery of crime
and the working of the law, he saw nothing but
what was creditable to the magistrates and the
police."

Donegal, which formerly gave so much trouble by
its propensity to agrarianism, seems now completely
pacific, and it is quite free from Fenianism. But
in the neighbouring county of Leitrim the case is
different. It is one of those proclaimed, and Mr.
Justice Christian told the grand jury that while
things remained as they were in that county judicial
congratulations must be reserved to a future time.

The Tamar troopship arrived alongside the Car-
lisle Pier at Kingstown at 10 a.m. yesterday morn-
ing, having on board the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regi-
ment, from Gosport, Portsmouth, and Weymouth,
for Dublin, in command of Colonel E. P. Gordon.
She left Portsmouth on Friday last at 10.30 a.m.,
touching at Portland on Saturday at :11 a.m., and
at Plymouth on Sunday, whence she sailed for
Kingstown at noon on that day, having repaired
some damage in her rigging, consequent on fouling
an iron frigate on leaving Portsmouth. The Augu-
harad, transport, is expected shortly at Kingstown
from Woolwich Arsenal with 130 tons of war mate-
rial for Dublin 90 tons of gunpowder, a quantity
of wooden targets, and a large amount of other
similar stores being among those shipped. The ship
Planet, with army stores, is also expected, having
left Woolwich on Saturday for Kingstown or Dublin.

THE RETURN OF SIR HENRY STORKS TO MALTA.--
Our Malta correspondent, writing on the 3rd, says :
—" Letters were received hero last week from Jamaica,
Stating that Sir Henry Storks hoped to complete the in-
quiry about the middle of the prevent month, and that his
excellency would be back in Malta about the beginning of
May next. The return of Sir Hen ry is looked forward to
with great anxiety by the inhabits nts, as in his absense all
affairs are at a stand-still. A meeting of council was held
on Monday last, but the proceedings were of course barren
of any great interest. Ono of the members asked the Go-
vernment whether they intended taking any precautionary
measures to prevent the active carriers of cholera, the pil-
grims, from having any communication with these islands.
The Chief Secretary replied that everything would be done
to prevent any injurious conseqmonces ensuing during the
next summer months by the expected arrival of the Haggi
in Malta on their way home fail a Mecca. The council is
adjourned until the 21st inst. ; hat before the return of Sir
Henry Storks no business of anr „groat public interest can
be expected to be transacted."

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 7.
The Queen, with Princess Louise, walked in the
grounds yesterday afternoon, and out this morning,
accompanied by her Royal Highness the PrillOES
Helena, and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe.

Princess Louise also went out driving.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by
Lieut. Haig, went to Loudon to be present at the
levee held at St. James's Palace.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied
by Prince Alfred, rode on horseback yesterdaY
afternoon.

Their Royal Highnesses dined with the Duchess
of Cambridge at St. James's Palace in the evening.

Me Queen's Levee.

By command of the Queen, a Levee was held yes-
terday at St. James's Palace by his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales on behalf of her Majesty.
Presentations to his royal highness at this Court
are, by the Queen's pleasure, considered as equiva-
lent to presentations to her Majesty.
The Prince of Wales, escorted by a detachment
of the Life Guards, and attended by his gentlemen
in waiting, arrived at the Palace from Marlborough
House about two o'clock, and was received by
the
great officers of State of the Queen's household.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred arrived, at-
tended by Lieut. Haig.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
arrived, attended by Col. Tyr Whitt.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Hohenlohe was
present at the Levee.

Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen at Arms was on duty in the State
saloons, under the command of the Lieutenant.

The Royal Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the
Guard were on duty, under the command of Capt•
Rickford, the Exun in Waiting.

New Basis for an Administration.

From the Free Press for the current month,
March, 1866 (No. 3 of Vol. XIV.), we extract the
following remarkable and striking article :
Whilst Lord Palmerston lived he ruled. That
only was done or left undone which he desired to
accomplish or prevent. The words belonging to an
prior order lingered indeed for a time, and " policy,,,
" internal policy," " Tory policy," " Whig policy,
distinctions between " internal and " external reel',"
sures" still continued to give fluency to a leader and
an apparent meaning to a phrase in a debate. Now,
at last, it is known that things were done because it
was his will to do them ; and that though these,
things pertained nominally to the domain O,L,
" Foreign Affairs," they constituted the sum an",
substance of our internal and domestic policy and
existence, either by reaction on our condition or eo
our minds.

Either expenditure was imposed by " foreign
policy," or the attention of the nation was so en-
gaged in " foreign policy," that it had none left for
domestic measures.
To such a degree was this reaction exerted, as to
reverse the effects of the great measures passed
during the period—the Reform Bill and the repeal
of the corn laws ; out of the first there having been,
worked intervention and expenditure, and out of
the second au increase of the price of grain.
But this man was a system. The system was
not perceived at the time. Nevertheless, it Was 3
system. It was met by a counter-system, disre-
garded at the time, but now at last perceived to be
a system. The first system did not consist in
maxims to be propounded for acceptance, and then
carried into effect by bill or otherwise, but in acts.
The character was, therefore, active. The counter-
system was consequently passive. It proposed to
itself to stop Lord Palmerston in what he was about.
It said—" You know not where you stand or
what you are about; your agent is playing fals°
—stop him." It emphatically used the words in
anticipation of the Crimean war : 6‘ Mauacl°
your Government" (1853). The position is c°11"
veyed in the words of Kossuth in 1855: your
policy is a negative policy; it is a personal polieY,,
Give us something specific; tell us what to do.
There was nothing to be done save to go on show-
ing that each act was injurious, in order to arrive at
that Parliamentary inquiry which might end ill
overthrowing the domination of an individual.
On the death of Lord Palmerston the seen!.
changes. Relief and breathing time is afforded not
to England only, but to the world. The eoll4nter,
system can come forth with " something sPeei',;',/
and tell the Government and the people what ""
may and ought to do."
The proposition has been made to them through
the columns of the Free Press, and consists in tll_
recovery of England's external power, placed !,.
abeyance and jeopardised by the suspension of 11,,i;
law of nations ; and the recovery the intern"'
and constitutional law, by which the prerogativ of
Le fit
the Crown may be exercised legally and wiles-0
danger. This policy is expressed in the words
often repeated in these columns. " Abrogation L„
the Declaration of Paris," " Reconstruction of the
Privy Council."
These propositions Mr. Urquhart, during til°
past month, has had the opportunity orally of punt
ting to the test in three of the most imP°r,,taer.
counties—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Northatnrrhe
land. It has not been before large assemblies. to
Foreign Affairs Committees invited their friena_s,,v,
meetings on these subjects, and the result has beer'
in all, confirmatory resolutions, or petitions to itle,
liament, or memorials to the Queen. At Newca.,sh 0,
indeed, a numerous public meeting closed wrthe
resolution to petition Parliament in favour oltest,
claims of the United States: But the sa'° wed
when put by Mr. Urquhart in his speech, she ro-
the same result, —the hearty acceptance of the Jier,
posal to rescind the great measure of Lord ralu_r a
ston's life, and to re-establish that control ove
Minister by the absence of which his life has brelig
such a calamity on the human race.
The restoration of the Privy Council, up to this
hour so offensive to all classes of politicians of
writers, has now emerged from under the ban, od
repression, and has been treated in a masterlYia3 3
unanswerable manner in a series of a PaPFL.
Liverpool journal, the reprint of which iso ejl-
within reach of the committees, having been fiot
lected for their use. In this pamphlet they Isr; `a-
confirmation of their faith, and an arsenal °J.
and
pons to use against the deluded, the perverse,
—worst of all—the indifferent. rarer'
the other subject, the Declaration or
Mr. Urquhart's visit has opportunely preceded
Gregory's motion in the House of Cominons.l,,,ich
give in extenso two letters to that gentleman, of
leave us little to say as to the debate itself, _°lloether
these letters having been written before, the
after, the motion. • oils a fl"
In these cognate and conjoint propositions
nb
is raised, and a symbol is given. Here is so
of the kind agreeable to the " spirit of the al e,,,tioa
flattering to the self-love, which is the intcrpT:re is
of that spirit. Here is something to do. -lu,„r the
at once a theme for the philosopher and a cry be
hustings. It can be discussed in journals, it
argued in Parhament. It affords a field for
.futto a
Eon as well as logic ; it may servo to iastu'istro,-
ti
on.
and afford the lever to upturn an Aden°
lifidealetdi°lbl7
bgeuabarls,
their
these l\re
re
matters there
wouldin hi
noth st a
tion
remainl gtho
us, and such thoughts would be seized on. ifsoula
value and their use ; above allfor the relief„taeYsters-.
c
afford to Ministers without a “policy,
men without chart or compass. It
such clear and high intelligence is wanting II"'
can come into vulgar and forensic debate.
is o nly,bneteath'lo.-1

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THE PEABODY FUND. A SUGGESTION.--10
Peabody trustees are fully alive, as Nve know, to the de-
Peabody
of making their splendid quarter of a millioa
realise at least 5 per cent., and a rest ; and if they '
succfev
in this, some £lO,OOO per annum will-in the course ot a I`,.
years be at their command to carry out still further ttl
truly charitable purpose of the noble American. Were ti:
°
working-classes themselves as fully alive to the importances
of this matter as they ought to be, they possess the lac 39 ~
and the organisation for co-operating in this most hurortan:
of social schemes for proinoting their own domestic conifer.
and happiness. Surely the power which can organise alcl_
spend thousands of pounds on strikes might for one
11)4'
I(ealt 1Y
turned in the direction wo have indicated. Will the
and industrial classes bf the metropolis allow 31r. real°ll
111;curJ,
and a few others to monopolise the.honour. and the
of promoting one of the greatest social necessities? W°
should like to see our bankers and merchant princes--s 4
two hundred and fifty of them—each put down hs thou,
i
sand pounds, and present this fresh quarter of a mllion t°
the trustees of the Peabody gift, as a memorial at once of
a scheme so homely and unostentatious, his munificence and their own heartfelt practical interest i°
as that of providing decent and comfortable dwellings {or
the people 'of this over-grown metropolis.—lnquirer
s, yet so wassail,