The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1866.

men who entertain such opinions as this Secretary,
just referred to, the sooner a change takes place the
better. We can assure the writer of this letter, and
all who think with him, that they are wrong in
themselves, and are also doing great wrong to
others. If this FEARNEYHOUGH had committed of-
fences, nothing can possibly under any circum-
stances excuse or explain such acts as these com-
mitted in New Hereford-street. " Next to the
perpetrators themselves I abhor their conduct,"
writes the secretary in descanting upon the course
pursued by one like FEARNEYHOUGII, and while
such sentiments prevail among those who direct the
men, how can we expect improvement to take place,
or anything like freedom or fair play to exist?
Of all tyrannies none equals that exercised by
societies like these. It is time that the sense and
spirit of the country should declare strongly against
such proceedings, and, to borrow the secretary's
own expression, we consider the language he uses
far more " disreputable'. than any act which FEAR-
NEYHOUGH committed in not joining the society.
It is satisfactory to notice that a large reward has
been offered by the masters in order to bring the
offenders to justice, but we believe that if the
Trades Unions themselves do their utmost they will
have a better chance of success ; and for the cre-
dit of society at large, and the cause of justice, we
hope that before long those who have been mur-
derers at heart may receive the retribution which
they deserve.

It is certain that the condition of Mexico at the
present moment is calculated to give rise to the
most serious apprehensions for its security and
safety. It is generally believed that the Emperor
MAXIMILLIAN will have to retire from the scene of
his arduous exertions, if he is not speedily rein-
forced with men and supplied with money ; and as
the untiring efforts of his devoted Consort have been
attended with no success in Europe it is no wonder
that speculations are rife concerning the future.
The French troops are now collecting towards
the centre, and it is said that preparations
are being rapidly made for their successive enter-
tainment. It is to be hoped, at all events, that
their departure may take place peaceably, and that
no great disasters may mark the close of their stay
in America. The position of the Emperor MAXI-
MILIAN is indeed a very painful one, and those who
have all along been doubtful as to the result of this
Mexican venture must agree that he has shown a
spirit and a determination worthy of a better
cause and of more prosperous circumstances. It
is confidently asserted by some that the
Emperor NAPOLEON has found it to be impossible
to afford the assistance required of him by MAXI-
MILIAN, in consequence of arrangements he has
previously made with the United States, and hence
the failure of the expedition of the EMPRESS. If
the United States' Government are resolved that
there shall be no longer an Empire in Mexico, upon
them will devolve the serious responsibility of pre-
venting the unfortunate nation from relapsing into
the state of anarchy which previously afflicted it.

We do not wonder that so mush doubt and dis-
quietude should prevail among the inhabitants who
desire tranquillity, for under no circumstances do
their future prospects look very bright, or their
chances of security from strife very promising.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Monday Evening.

The iloniteur says that on the occasion of the
ratification of the treaty of peace concluded ou the
3d instant between Austria and Italy, the iron
crown of the kingdom of Lombardy, which had been
in the possession of the Austrian Government, was
restored by Count de Mensdorff to General Mena-
brea, Plenipotentiary of the Italian Government.
On Saturday afternoon the Emperor, Empress,
and the Imperial Prince, accompanied by the Mar-
quis de la Valette, Minister of the Interior, and M.
I)uruy, Minister of Public Instruction, embarked on
board the Chamois, stationed at Bayonne, for a sea
trip. They went as far as Fontarabie, and were at
• sea about four hours.

Monseigneur Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, has
issued a circular to the clergy of his diocese, in
which, after citing the noble example of the Em-
peror and Empress, he invites them to make a col-
lection among their parishioners for the relief of the
sufferers by the inundations.
A letter from Vienna states that exertions are
being made in Austria to effect a great development
of her relations with Italy. Several chambers of
commerce have drawn up documents having for
object modifications in the tariff of custom duties
upon the revision of the Convention signed on the
22d of November, 1851, between Austria and the
former kingdom of Sardinia. The silk manufac-
tures of Bohemia, which suffered much during the
late war, will no doubt be the first to profit by the
change, and it is hoped that fresh outlets will be
found for this article of industry in the north-east
of Italy, with which there is an easy communica-
tion by way of Vienna and Trieste. The Minister
of Foreign Affairs is engaged with arrangements

for the establishment of consuls in all the various
ports of the peninsula. _ _ _

_
A commission was about to be sent to the fields
of battle in Bohemia to examine into the extent of

the injury caused there by the late war.
The Siecle, in a review of foreign affairs, says :
" Holland is at this moment in a very agitated state.
King William the Third is not satisfied with having
dissolved the Second Chamber of the States General.
In a proclamation just issued he interferes person-
ally with the rights of the electors by asking them to
choose a Chamber with a more settled policy." In
the course of this proclamation his Majesty says—
" The continual changes of our responsible Ministers
will end in injuring the moral and material interests
of the nation. They will paralyse the power of the
Government."

" A personal intervention of the Crown in all
countries is always, a very threatening incident.
Whatever may be the motives assigned to justify it,
a Constitutional King should only use his preroga-
tive in very extreme cases."
A decree has just been published fixing the duty
upon the importation of olive oil into France as
follows :—ln French vessels, 3f. per 4001 b. In
foreign vessels, 4f. per 4001bs.
Later accounts received in Paris contradict the
report of the total loss of the packet boat Vera
Cruz and the crew in the Gulf of Mexico. The
vessel foundered a short distance from the coast,
but happily the crew and all on board were saved.
The ship and cargo were totally lost.

Accounts from Port-au-Prince announce another
terrible disaster in that town. Early on the morn-
ing of the 12th of September the greater portion of
the houses which had been saved from the late fire
were destroyed by an explosion of gunpowder and
shells which were in the Arsenal. The house of
the French Consul was totally destroyed. The
Consul-General and the Charge d'Affaires, Count
Mejan, and other individuals, exhibited great in-
trepidity. Ten persons were killed and about 30
injured. The cause of the explosion has not been
ascertained.
Among the amusements imagined by the visitors

to some of the French sea-bathing ports is a crab
race. The sportsmen, in the first instance, go to
the sea-shore and catch some of the largest and most
lively crabs they can find. They are kept in sea-
water until the day appointed for the race. Twenty,
or sometimes thirty,lof these crabs are placed in line
on the sea-shore, and kept from moving by a weight
upon the back. The ceremony is much the same as
at a horse-race. At a given signal each crab is re-
leased. The crabs are sure to make for the sea at a
slashing pace, and the judges are there to decide
which was first in the water. These crab steeple-
chases are described as highly amusing and exciting.
Of cowrie each crab is named, At liobcoff, On the

coast of Brittany, the other day there was some
rather heavy betting on Gladiateur. Of course,
Gladiateur, as usual, was the winner. It may not
be generally known that young crabs can run more
swiftly than a horse.
The Museum of the Louvre now contains 2,000
pictures, of which 560 are of the Italian school, 620
of the schools of the North, 700 French, 25 Spanish.
The rest are of various schools. In those of the
Italian school there are 12 pictures by Raphael, 3
of Corregio, 18 of Titian, 13 of Paul Veronese, 9
of Leonardo da, Vinci, and 8 of Perugini. The
northern schools are represented by 12 of Reubens,
22 Vandyck, 11 Gerard Don, 17 of Rembrandt, 11
of Philip Wouvermann, 14 of Teniers, 7 of Adrien
Ostade, 6 of Ruysdaal, 2 of Hobbema, 11 of Berg-
hern. The French school includes 40 paintings of
Poussin, 48 of Lemeur, 16 of Claude Lorraine, 20
of Philippe de Champaigne, 17 of Sebastien Bour-
don, 26 of Lebrun, 12 of Mignard, 41 of Joseph
Vernet, 1 of Largilliere, 1 of Watteau, 13 of David.
In the Spanish school there are 11 of Murillo and 6
of Velasquez.
The Emperor has ordered a bronzed medal to be
struck at the Mint commemorative of his decision
as arbitrator on the 6th July, 1864, in favour of the
execution of the Suez Canal. The inscription on
the medal will be " Junction of the Two Seas."
An unfortunate child, only nine years old, has
been arrested for stealing a piece of stuff from the
door of a mercer in the Rue St. Lazare. The child
said his mother had ordered him to steal it, and she
was watching about to see that he did so. The
wretched mother was of _ course taken into custody.

A drag-vessel, which is now in operation on the
Seine near Notre Dame, has brought up from the
bed of the river a number of bronze medals of the
date of 1710. On the obverse is the figure of the
Virgin and the infant Jesus. On the reverse, in
Roman figures, are the number of sous, from three
to 19, which the Chapter of Notre Dame gave to
the poor who were the holders of the medals, and
the amount was paid to them on application at the
Treasury of the Chapter. The year 1710, when
these medals were struck, was that which followed
the remarkable year when the winter was so cx-

tremely severe, and which was followed by three
years when much misery and destitution prevailed
in Paris. _ _

There was rather heavy rain last night, and the
fog reappeared this morning, but not so dense as it
has been generally for the last fortnight. The sun
was not visible till two this afternoon, but continued
to shine brightly until sunset. The temperature
was moderately warm.

Phrenology.

TO THE EDITOR OE TIIE SUN.

SIR,—Judging from the statement of Dr. Dono-
van, published in your journal of the 10th inst.,
this science is likely to obtain fair play at last, after
having been unfairly treated by open enemies and
indiscreet friends.
As long ago as the year 1849 I was informed
by the late Dr. Conolly, consulting physician to the
llanwell Lunatic Asylum, who showed me the wards
and premises, that in the treatment of lunacy
the science was calculated to be useful ; and the
prior governor 'of the asylum joined in a memorial
to that effect in the year 1836, which was presented
to the then Government. Since that time numer-
ous medical men in various parts of the country
have confirmed these statements, and it is gratify-
ing to find that there is on the part of the officials
generally a desire to assist those who wish to further
the cause of cerebral physiology, thereby benefiting
the human race. _ _

The case of the late criminal Jeffcrys showed the
sad consequences of an indulgence in intemperance,
and also the inutility of public executions as an
example to the multitude. Jefferys was a moral
lunatic, if not legally one, and as such he ought to
have been treated.—l am, &c.,
London, Oct. 13.

CHn. COOKE.

The Fatal Rifle Accident in Mar Forest

The following from the Inverness Courier is sen

,o us as a more correct version of this sad event :

" On Friday, the sth inst., a fatal accident hap
pened in Mar Forest, by which George Urquhart,
the head forester, was killed. It appears that in
the morning Mr. Powell, with Urquhart and another
forester, named Peter Macintyre, went out deer-
stalking on the face of Cairntoul, one of the highest
of the Grampian range, on the ridge overlooking
Glenglusechan. Mr. Powell, at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, shot at and wounded a fine stag. Fear-
ing he might escape by the pass he sent Urquhart
with a rifle, round the head of the glen, and the
latter fired at the stag and again wounded him.
John Grant, another forester, joined him, and they
followed the stag, which was only able to go at a
slow pace for about a mile down into a very steep
burn, the sides of which rose precipitously for 200
or 300 feet. Being desirous to get the stag into
more open ground before he killed him, Urquhart
tried to drive him down the burn, pushing him with
the butt end of the rifle. The stag, in his struggles
kicked the locks of the rifle, which were downwards,
breaking the hammer of one lock off and striking the
other hammer on to the cap, breaking the catch of
the lock, and so exploded the rifle. The muzzle being
pointed towards Urquhart's chest, the bullet went
right through his. side. The poor fellow stood for
a moment, then, exclaiming, " I am shot," fell back
into the arms of Grant, who was with him in the
burn. Grant laid him down and did what he could
to stop the bleeding ; but Urquhart himself said he
felt he was dying. Grant then ran to Glenglusechan
to get the assistance of Mr. Powell and Peter
Macintyre, who had in the meantime come round
the head of the glen, and were waiting at the top of
the ridge, unable to find out where Urquhart and
Grant had gone to. They immediately went to
where poor Urquhart lay, and Grant ran to the
Geldie shieling, one of the outlying lodges in Mar
Forest, about seven or eight miles distance, for fur-
ther
assistance, and thence sent a messt,nger to
Braemar, about 16 miles distance from the Geldie,
for surgical assistance, and returned himself with
the only other man at the lodge, Donald Fraser,
taking with them a deer pony. In the meantime
Mr, Powell and Peter Macintyre had been doing all
they could to comfort and relieve poor Urquhart,
who when they first came to him was perfectly sen-
sible, and related how the accident happened,
but after they had been with him about an hour
he got much weaker, and died about half-past
five o'clock. The stag Which he had followed
so keenly lay dead also in the burn within a
few feet of him. It was about 7 o'clock before Grant

and Fraser returned with the pony, and the

body of Urquhart had to be carried from the burn
to the top of the brae, and was then placed on the
pony. By this time it was quite dark, and a dense
mist came on. Mr. Powell and the three foresters
very soon lost their way. The wind was in the east
before darkness came on, and they hoped by keeping
their faces to the wind to get to the Davy burn, and
so on to the Geldie-lodge ; but after walking for
more than four hours they got into such broken and
mossy ground that it was impossible to proceed
further with the pony. It was perfectly dark, and
they laid the body on the heather, expecting they
would have to pass the night on the hill; but after
proceeding some distance further and getting on to
lower ground they saw a light, which proved to be a
fire outside the Geldie sheiling, about four miles
distant, and soon afterwards they met some of the
other foresters, who had come out in search of them
with a lantern. About two o'clock in the morning
they reached the sheiling, where Dr. Marshall, of
Braemar, and Dr. Maclaren, of Allan -a-quoich,
were waiting. The body of Urquhart was taken
home the following morning, and was to be buried
on Wednesday last. The deceased was universally
respected and liked by all who knew him. He was
a most brilliant deerstalker, prompt in determining
what course to adopt in following deer, and most
successful in getting up to them. He was altogether
as keen a sportsman as ever trod heather. The way
he met with his death was certainly most extraordi-
nary, for he may be said to hate been shot by the
stag he was pursuing.

EXETER HALL—The National Choral Society
will hold its first rehearsal this season to-worrow (Wed-
needay). Conductor, DU. Q, W. Martin.

LATEST INTELLIGE2TOE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE INSURRECTION IN CANDIA•
PARIS, OCt 16.

The Moniteur of this morning says :—" Accord-
ing to intelligence brought to Constantinople by
the Sultan's aide-de-camp, Djemil Pacha, who left
Candia on the 12th inst., no engagement had taken
place up to that date. The Turks had commenced
an offensive movement, and had occupied an im-
portant and advanced position in the direction of
Dapoconio, the principal centre of the insurrection.
This point was to be attacked on the 17th instant.
Dissension was beginning to arise among the in-.

surgcnts.

AMERICA.
(By ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.

The _Hamburg and American Company's
steamship Bavaria and the North German Lloyd's
steamer America arrived out to-day.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Oct. 16.

It is stated that Count Oppizzoni, formerly
Charge d'Affaires at Frankfort, will take charge of
the Italian Legation at Vienna until the appoint-
ment of a plenipotentiary.