The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-21 00:00:00

IRELAND.

D ÜBLIN, May 19.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, accompanied
by Lady Wodehouse and the Hon. Miss Wodehouse,
arrived at Kingston this evening at 5 45 from Lon-
don on board the mail steamer Ulster, Capt. Trip-
hook, R.N., in command. A royal salute was fired
from her Majesty's ship Royal George, the yards of
which were manned, and from the Pier-head Fort.
His Excellency was received at the Castle Pier by
Capt. 1)e Cetto, A.D.C., Col. Musters, Dr. Hat-
chett, the Hon. Mr. Leeson, Mr. Balfour, Capt.
Roche, R.N., and Capt. Hutchinson, R.N. The pas-
sage from Holyhead was accomplished in three hours

35 minutes. The viceregal party proceeded from
Kingston to Dublin in a carriage attached to the
special mail train, and left Westland-row terminus
for the Viceregal Lodge, Phoenix Park, at 6 p.m.
I telegraphed last night that reports of the out-
break of the cattle plague in other parts of the

country had been sent to the Government, but were

not considered well-foanded. One of these came
from Ballymena, county Antrim, stating that three
cows had been shot under suspicious circumstances
within one mile of that town on the previous Fri-
day. A large market was to be held on this day,
and Mr. Dobbyn, sub-inspector of constabulary,
believing the disease to be rinderpest, suggested
that an inspector should be sent down at once. Mr.
Lambert, veterinary surgeon, was accordingly de-
spatched to the place where the cows had died—the
farm of a man named Ireland ; and, having made a
post mortem examination of one of the animals, he
pronounced that the cause of death was disease of
the liver and diarrhoea, and that there was not the
slightest appearance of rinderpest. Under these
circumstances Mr. Lambert did not consider it at
all necessary that the Ballymena market, to be held
to-day, should be prohibited.
The Northern Whig of this evening, referring to
the two additional cases reported yesterday, as
having occurred at Cabra and Ballinderry, states
that a cow belonging to Mr. M'Cartuey died ox
Friday week, and was buried. A second took ill on
Thursday morning last, and Dlr. Morrow, who has
been appointed local inspector, ordered the cow to
be destroyed yesterday, telgraphing the fact to the
Government. On the receipt of this telegram Sur-
geon Jenks started by the next train, and arrived
yesterday evening at Lisburn, in order to make a
post mortem examination, which was to be done
this morning, and in which he was to be assisted by
Mr. M'Call, a surgeon from the Veterinary Col-
lege, Glasgow, a gentleman who has had great ex-
perience of the cattle plague in Scotland.
Another report reached Belfast yesterday that the
plague had broken out at Glenmachen, the residence
of Mr. R. IV. Gordon, near Holywood. Mr. W.
Dunville, J.P., and Mr. D. Donnell, imme-
diately proceeded to the place, accompanied by Mr.
Sub-Inspector Owen and Mr. Lett, V.S., of the
Royal Horse Bazaar, Belfast, lately a Government
inspector in England. They found that one cow had
died and been buried, and that another lay ill in the
cowhouse. After careful examination the disease
was pronounced not rinderpest, but fever. Mr.
King, V.S., arrived while the examination was pro-
ceeding, and concurred in this view of the subject.
Forty of the constabulary are still in charge of
the infected district of Drennan. Mr. J. D. Barbour,
J.P., who has taken a most active part in the steps
which have been taken to prevent the spread of the
disease, Mr. Morrow, of Legacurry, the county in-
spector (Mr. Kelly), and all in authority are using
the utmost exertions to prevent the spread of the
disease, and have given the strictest orders that its
first manifestation is to be reported without the
least delay.
The Whig says :

" There is a very general predisposition to discredit the
report that the disease from which the cattle that have died
and have been slaughtered have suffered is the true rinder-
pest. By many persons of no inconsiderable experience it
is stoutly maintained, in the teeth of the Government in-
spector's official report, that the present disease is the well
known lung disease. The following letter from a gentle-
man who resides not far from Drennan expresses this view
Being in the immediate vicinity of the place which is re-
ported as being the seat of the breaking out of the cattle
plague, and having an opportunity of hearing the merits and
demerits of the case discussed by not only the farming com-
munity, but also by the landed proprietors in this neigh-
bourhood, I beg to inform you that the general impression
prevails that the authorities have been much too hasty in
jumping to conclusions in regard to the disease. Many
persons, and among others I could enumerate one or two
large land agents, are decidedly of opinion that no cattle
plague has yet actually appeared, and what has been called
the plague is only an aggravated kind of lung disease—a
thing that has been quite common in this county hereto-
fore, but to a smaller extent. I can vouch that the farmers
hereabouts almost to a man hold this opinion."
Mr. Edward Purdon, one of the proprietors of
the Irish Farmers' Gazette, who has visited the
farms on which the cattle were slaughtered, shares
these doubts. He states that the pastures are re-
markably poor, and that the ground is high and
much exposed to the easterly winds, which have been
unusally prevalent and severe this spring. From
this cause cattle are generally subject to lung disease
at this season. Last May the Messrs. Purdon had
100 head of cattle in their farm in the county of
Wexford, and 20 of them had to be driven back to
the byres stricken with lung disease. In the course
of a week ten of the number had died, five in one
day. " This," they remarked, " occurred last May
before we heard of the cattle plague ; what would
be said and done if similar cases took place this
May ?" They join in the general regret that a post
mortem examination did not take place in the first
instance, as it was urged upon the Government by
various deputations. But Professor Ferguson had
no doubt on the subject, and he thought it unneces-
sary to incur the risk of spreading the pestilence by
opening the carcases, especially as many persons of
the farmer class were present. The last difficulty,
however, might have been got over, for the con-
stabulary could have required those people to depart,
and they would have complied as readily as they
desisted from holding the fair at Hillsborough.
Professor Ferguson is preparing a full report for
the Government of the cases that came under his
own observation. But if the Inspector-General
erred, it has been on the safe side. It is much bet-
ter to stamp out a disease which is not rinderpest,
by killing and burying the animals affected, than to
allow the plague to be propogated under another
name. One thing must be said, that the authorities,
from the Viceroy down, have left nothing undone to
prevent the spread of the disease, and their efforts
have been seconded with the greatest possible alac-
rity by the magistrates, the gentry, the constabulary
officers and their men.

A telegram which appears in the third edition of
the Belfast News Letter fully confirms the view of
Prefessor Fergusson :—" Lisburn, Saturday.—This
morning Mr. Jenks, V.S., and Mr. M'Call, V.S.,
made a post mortem examination of the cow slaugh-
tered at Cabra. Their report is that it was a de-
cided case of rinderpest."
The Evening Mail has this afternoon received the
following telegram from the Governor's secretary,
Isle of Man :—" The importation of cattle and
sheep into the Isle of Man is prohibited from the
18th inst."

The magistrates of Belfast are resolved to enforce
the precautionary regulations of the Privy Council
with exemplary strictness. On Thursday two pig
drovers were brought up in custody at the police-
office, charged with travelling from Ireland to Scot-
land
and back without having the necessary regis-
tration certificates. They pleaded they had lehfet
felt
documents behind them in Scotland, not knowing
they would be required on their return ; but O was
proved that there were printed directions on them
to that effect. Mr. O'Donnell, R.M., said
bound, in the interests of the country, to impose a
penalty of The fines were not paid, and the
parties were retnoved_in

THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN GENERALS..—General
La Marmora is a tall, thin, lanky man, with a long
face, and a prodigious nose. lie has a great passion for
his profession, and is an inflexible disciplinarian. General
Cialdini is a good-looking man, below the average height,
with a bushy moustache and imperial. He has a keen
sparkling eye. This gallant officer is very popular in
Italy, and the soldiers have great confidence in him.
General Durando is a fine old man, with a grand military
aspect, and greatly esteemed throughout the Continent.
General Della Rocca, the King's principal aide-de-camp
and intimate friend, is about GO years old. His hair and
moustache aro quite white, and his general appearence is
that 9tv cliStliatid, aristocratic yottoz

The Cotton Bondholders' New Speculatio-a,

In reply to a resolution of the National Hour of
Representatives, Mr. SE WARD has communicatial a
letter which he sent to Mr. McCuLLocH, in April,
with reference to certain propositions made by the
English holders of the Rebel cotton loan, with the
peculiar modesty which distinguishes those unlucky
speculators. Failing in all efforts to obtain any
satisfaction, or hope of satisfaction, in England
those operators have induced Mr. GEORGE UNTIE„
y,
of Liverpool, to offer to the United States certain
extraordinary concessions, as an equivalent, it is
supposed, for a qualified assumption of a debt
which was incurred in an effort to overthrow the
United States Government. Mr. McllENnv's
peculiar remedy for the woes of the dupes of
,e
copy of the contra et
MASON, SLID E LL, and SLIDELL'sSu SpOpno-siirin a
aist t'wt•hoe-
feld.
United Ins thetate States
hasfirastconpilpalceet
between the defunct Confederacy and ERLANGER.
and Co., of Paris, the agents for the negoftation
of the cotton loan in Europe, the English victims
of confidence want a copy of that important
paper. This information is much desired by the
subscribers to the Rebel loan, as they wish to know
how and to what extent they have been swindled.
In consideration of the production of the document
they propose to yield up their worthless bonds to
the United States, and graciously declare that they
will waive all rights which they may have to pay-
ment out of Rebel property in England. This is
exceedingly generous, inasmuch as they have
long since discovered that there is no such pro-
perty against which they can enforce a claim. They
then propose to subscribe to a new loan for the use
of the " cotton and tobacco States," meaning those
which were in rebellion, for £5,000,000, at twenty
per centum—which means, we presume, that upon
an advance by them of £1,500,000, they shall be
entitled to the payment of five millions at some dis-
tant day hereafter.
In case that the credit of these States is restored
by such means, then a second loan of £5,0'00,000 is
to be made in three months after the first loan is
placed in the market, at sixty per cent.—in other
words, they will then pay £3,000,000, in cash, for
long bonds for £5,000,000. If the second loan is
successful, then they will pay seventy per cent.
upon a loan of £10,000,000, or the sum of
£7,000,000. In the aggregate, the offer is
that the cotton bondholders will pay £11,500,000
for £20,000,000 of long bonds ; the idea, doubt-
less, being that they will be able to make up for
their cotton bond losses by their pro fits on the new
Southern bonds. As a compensation, Mr. McllExiff
suggests that the United States will
thene usnerboealbyle to do what the English cotton bond
holders could not do, namely,—compel Messrs.
ERLANGER and Co. to pay up. In other words, Mr.
risk of recovering
buy a lawsuit, and trust to the
MCHENRY proposes that the United States shall
m
the money by execution after it has obtained judg-
ent. This is the substance of the proposal of the
men for whom Mr. MCHENRY acts as financial
agent.

To support his proposition Mr. MCHENRY pro-
duces some silly assertions that, unless these Eng-
lish speculators are secured against loss, the value
of all American securities, Federal and State, must
be depreciated
.in England, and that it will be
impossible to negotiate them unless the United
States in some way assumes the Confederate debt.
And yet, notwithstanding the eloquence of Mr.
MCHENRY, Secretary SEWARD coldly: declares, in
effect, that the United States will have nothing to
do with any proposition which emanates from men
who did all that was in their power to injure the
United States during the rebellion, and now, when
it is evident that their hopes have failed, propose
that the country which they attempted to ruin shall
recompense their losses in a bad cause. The propo-
sition is characterised by the utmost effrontery, and
the answer of Mr. SEwARD is not nearly as severe
as it might justly have been.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. —This Day.

LoNnoN, May 21.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Easterly; moderate breeze, and fine weather.
OFF PLYMOUTH, May 20.—Arrived----Mary Scott, from

Madras.

DUNDEE, May 19. —Wind S.E.—Arrived—Queen, from
Rotterdam.

QUEENSTOWN, May 21.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Africa,
from Boston.

OFF PENZANCE, May 19.—Arrived—Gladiator, from
Adelaide.

SOUTHAMPTON, May 20.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Saxon,
screw steamer, from the Cape of Good Hope. Sailed—
China, steamer, for Alexandria.
LIVERPOOL, May 20.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Persia,
screw steamer, for New York; Hallry, screw steamer, for
Rio Janeiro.

(BY TELBGRAXII.)
Monday Morning.
Arrived, May 20—FenGnrcriLEND'
from Bahia; Familiert,
Haab, from Anelan ; Resolution, from F'rederickstad.
Arrived, May 21—Jessica, from Havannall ; Tubal Cain,
from Guernsey; Anna Johanna, from Emden; Fortuna,
and Antias, from Antwerp; Fillas, from Sarpsborg ; Lilla,
from Caen.

Sailed, May 21—Retina, for Berbice ; Glendower, for
Port Phillip ; Glenbrook, for Jamaica ; Helen, for St. Kitts;
Star of the East, for the Cape of Good Hope; Anne Archi-
bell, for Sydney; Chebucto, for Jamaica; Mangerton, for
Barbadoes.

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed, May 20—Dorothy, from Barbadoes, for London;
Retina, from London, for Berbice.
Passed, May 21—Herman, screw steamer, from the east,
for the west.