The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-24 00:00:00

TH E SUN, LONDON, SATE EDAM EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1866.

and would need no comment were it not that

owing to t} ie political and other circumstances they
are just r .ow paid more deference to than is at all
consister it with right and reason. Through some
extraor linary hallucination, and some marvellous
jur;gli•ng, these upholders of negro insurrection have
co ntrived to mix up the question of the Jamaica
r( ;hellion with the Liberal cause in general, and to
t: tlk as if the Government must choose between
their support and the upholding of law in Jamaica.
In the futile attempt to please both sides the
Min istry are sure to get into trouble, and already
Mr. BRIGHT has given hints that he does not ano-
ther put faith in the wisdom of the Commission.
At .any rate Colonel EuwAnDs has done wisely in
thus coming forward to reiterate his statements re-
lative to the matter, and we trust that his decided
course will prove some check at least to the en-
croachments of these agitators. What with one
thing and the other we seem never likely to hear the
last of their views and opinions ; and even if the
Commission reports in favour of Mr. EyRE, they are
sure to declare that they are mistaken, and have
not conducted matters properly. There is no satis-
fying some people whatever is done.

The Irish Railways and the Metropolitan Rail-
way schemes last night came under the considera-
tion of the House for a short time. General DUNNE
observed that great anxiety prevailed in Ireland
respecting the course likely to be pursued by Go-
vernment, and desired to know if a report was to be
made about the Irish railways in particular. Lord
STANLEY spoke with some authority respecting the
subject, because he is a member of the Commission
on Railways, and he did not think it advisable to
have a separate report on Irish railways. The noble
lord spoke more fully on the subject in reference to
Metropolitan railways, and he stated that it would
be quite impossible for one committee to deal with
all these schemes, and he wisely proposed that the
Government should weed the list and make a pre-
liminary inquiry either by a joint-committee or by
a commission. In support of this pioposition Lord
STANLEY stated that the number of Metropolitan
schemes was nearly double now to what it was in
1864, and the experiment then made of a joint
committee of both Houses answered perfectly. It
seems, indeed, as if this plan was the best that could
be carried out, and, as Lord STANLEY said, the
Government should act without delay, and remem-
ber that " the matter is one which, through the
immense disruption of property that is involved,
materially affects the comfort of three millions of
people. Colonel WILSON-PATTEN also advised a
preliminary inquiry, but Mr. MILNER GIBSON nega-
tived the notion on a very insufficient argument, so
far as a joint committee was concerned, because he
said that many of the schemes were merely exten-
sions of existing lines, and that others were bills to
form new junctions with existing lines. The right
hon. gentleman spoke at some length on the subject,
and said that if the magnitude of these undertakings
startled them, they must remember that the require-
ments of the community were now very great, and
the crowded condition of the thoroughfares showed
the necessity for increased facilities of traffic. This
is all very true, but it seems a pity that Lord STAN-
LEY'S proposition should not be acceded to, because
so much time is lost in waiting for one thing and
the other ; and a quicker despatch in the settlement
of affairs would necessarily promote the advantage of
projectors, and also contribute to the welfare of the
community at large. But delay seems to be the motto
of the Government in everything.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

RITSSIA.

PARIS, FED. 24.

The 2Woniteur of to-day publishes a letter from
Rome stating that 'Baron Meyendorff will shortly
leave that city for Lithuania, in order to take pos-
session of the lands which the Czar has bestowed
upon him, as a recompense for his diplomatic
services.

The same journal announces that Cardinal Anto-
nelli has issued a circular announcing that the Pon-
tifical army is c3mplete, and ordering all recruiting
for volunteers to be stopped.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
BUCHAREST, FEB. 23.
A change in, the Ministry has taken place. The
following is the formation of the new Cabinet :
Foreign Affairs .. John Ghika.
Interior Demetrius Ghika.
Justice Cantacuzene.
Public Worship Rossetti.
War Lecca.

IRELAND,

DUBLIN, Feb. 23.
The police had an encounter with a body of armed
men last night, which reminds one of the scenes of
1798, and reveals the fact that the Fenians have
corrupted the military to a greater extent than had
been imagined. The conduct of the police deserves
the highest praise. They acted at the imminent
risk of their lives, and did their work well. From
the report in the Daily Express this morning it ap-
pears that shortly before 8 o'clock last evening a
party of the G division of police, with some con-
stables of the A division, under Inspectors Doyle,
Flowers, and Scally, proceeded to the publichouse
of Mr. Pilsworth, 133, James's-street, where they
had learnt a number of suspected men were assem-
bled. The house, being a double one, had two en-
trances from the street. By one of these the detec-
tive police entered, while the constables in uniform,
with Inspectors Doyle and Flowers, went in by the
other. The two parties then proceeded to a large
taproom in the back part of the shop into which
they rushed simultaneously by opposite doors. The
room was filled by men, partly soldiers and partly
civilians, some of them being armed with loaded re-
volver pistols. There was some drink in the room,
but not much. Following thedirections of Inspector
Doyle, each policeman seized a man, and, though
in some cases resistance was made, they arrested
them all in almost as short a time as it takes to state
the fact. One, a man named James Byrne, who is
supposed to be a " Centre," actually presented a
loaded and capped revolver at Acting-Sergeant
Magee, of the G division, who boldly seized the
pistol and succeeded in taking it from him without
an explosion. The capture of the entire number,
though a work of great danger and requiring cou-
rage and presence of mind, was effected without
much difficulty. There were no sentries or men on
the watch, and the promptitude of the people in
making a simultaneous entrance from both sides

into the room deprived them of all means of effect-
ing a retreat or offering a stronger resistance. The
arrests having been made, and a large crowd having
assembled in the street, Inspector Doyle at once sent
for a reinforcement of police from the A, E, and D
divisions, and despatched a messenger to the Royal
!Barracks for a party of troops. The police, under
Inspector Armstrong, and accompanied by Superin-
tendent Ryan, soon arrived, and a detachment of
the Bth Regiment was marched up from the Royal
Barracks, and by their united efforts order was pre-
served. The prisoners were removed to Chancery-
lane police-station.
The following are the names of the prisoners :
Thomas Chambers, a corporal of the 61st Regiment,
from which he deserted about nine months ago;
Peter Gaffney, Ist battalion, 60th Regiment ; David
Wall, ditto; Patrick Burke, ditto; Thomas Kelly,
ditto ; John Connell, 61st Regiment ; Patrick
M'Nulty, ditto ; Thomas Kenny, ditto ; Isaac
Cloughney, ditto ; John Abraham, ditto ; James
M'Clean, lance corporal, ditto ; Patrick Foley, sth
Dragoons; James Doyle, James Byrne, James Kee-
ley, carpenter; Dennis Cuggan, 19, Echlin-street,
builder; Edward St. Clair, and Stephen Kelly,
artist, London.
James Byrne is supposed to be a" Centre;" with
him, St. Clair, and Doyle loaded revolver pistols
were got, and another revolver was found lying on
one of the seats in the taproom, where it had evi-
dently been laid by one of the party. In Doyle's
pocket there was also found two bullets. He stated
that he was a native of Dublin, but gave no further
account of himself. Chambers would give no ac-
count of himself either, beyond the statement that
he came from London to Dublin five weeks since,
but the police recognised him as a deserter from the
61st Regiment. Byrne, who presented the pistol at
Acting-Inspector Magee, said that he had come from
London, and that he brought the revolver from
London. He is known to have been in Dublin since
Patrick's Day last. St. Clair stated that he came
from London for the benefit of his health. In his
possession were found, besides the pistol, a Roman
Catholic prayer-book, which had evidently been
much used, and a furlough, granted to Private
Michael Doyle, of the 7th Fusiliers, stationed at
Portsmouth, dated Feb. 1, and giving leave of ab-
sence till March 14 next. The pistols are of the
most finished workmanship, and are Liverpool
made. There were ten other persons seized at the
same time as those mentioned above, but they were
not detained in custody.
A head-constable of constabulary was shot in the
public street by a Fenian, at Newcastle, county
Limerick, on Wednesday night. A correspondent of
the Express gives the following particulars of this
outrage :

For some time past an American stranger—that is, an
Irish American—named Gray, said to be a cousin of the
Head Centre of that name so well known in Cork, had been
noticed in the village, and his movements closely watched.
but nothing transpired, notwithstanding, to enable the
police to arrest him. Yesterday an order for his capture was
received under the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act
and Head-constable Sullivan, a powerful man over 6ft. in
height, resolved to arrest him himself ; so, meeting this Am-
erican emissary in the street last evening, ho stopped him,
and proceeded to interrogate him as to his whereabouts.
Only a few words were exchanged, when Gray drew a double
barrelled revolver from under his coat and discharged it at
Head-constable Sullivan, whom he shot through the shoul-
der and arm, the balls passing clear out. The constable
fell to the ground, and his assassin was off before the cir-
cumstance was known to the police or townspeople. The
alarm being raised, instant search and pursuit followed, but
without avail up to 1 o'clock this day, when a message was
received from Newcastle. It is said the wounds inflicted
aro not of a character to endanger life, and as the perpe-
trator of the audacious outrage is well known, his speedy
capture is anxiously looked forward to.

Four pike-heads were on Wednesday night dis-
covered by A cting-inspector King, of the G divi-
sion, rolled up in cloth, and concealed beneath the
flooring of the house No. 20, Eustace-street. They
were at once taken to the detective-office, Lower
Castle- yard.

The military court-martial in Cork still proceeds.
Warner, the informer, was under examination yes-
terday.

The policeman Dunne, shot at Cullen, is not dead,
as reported so positively by the Limerick papers.
He is in a fair way of recovery in the infirmary at
Cashel. Private Dillon, of the 17th, has been
arrested and identified as one of the party in
Regan's house who fired on the police. He had been
on furlough from his regiment at Longstown, in the
sub-district of Glenbane, and from which he had
decamped, leaving behind him, in the.house where he
lodged, his knapsack, in which, with other things,
were a pair of braces, of which he was deficient
when arrested here last night. When taken up
he had on a forage cap, similar to the one found in
the house attacked at Glenbane, but had removed
from it the regimental number by which men are
counted off in their respective corps. He also re-
moved the like numbers from his watch-coat and
inner jacket, but his furlough revealed everything
that was necessary as to the man. A warrant for
his transmission to Tipperary was accordingly
signed, and he was transmitted by the 4 o'clock train
in charge of an escort. Constable O'Brien, who
only received a description of the soldier the day
before, deserves consideration at the hands of the
heads of the constabulary for the promptness with
which he made this important arrest.
Two young men, a stonecutter and a nailer,named
respectively James arnes Kinsella and Patrick Dunne,were
arrested by Constable Strickland and Constable
Hopper, of Bagenalstown, and committed to Car-
low gaol on suspicion of being connected with the
Fenian conspiracy. Several houses in the town and
county of Carlow were searched during the week,
but, I believe the police failed to discover any arms
or ammunition.

On Tuesday morning, John O'Kavanagh, a shop
keeper, and an elderly man, by repute one of the
leaders of the Fenian movement ; Edward O'Kava-
nagh (his son), David Slattery, of Kerrickbeg ;
John Kent, Ballylinch ; John Wall, Ballyrichard ;
Michael M'Namara Dooley, Waterford ; Edward
Fogarty, Ballyrichard ; and Cornelius O'Leary,
of Carrick, were arrested by Mr. M'Loughlin, 5.1.,
of Carrick-on-Suir. M'Namara Dooley and Leary
are late arrivals from America, and they served in
the United States army. Kavanagh, the elder, it
is stated, is the man who carried the Fenian flag at
the Carrick regatta ; and his son took a prominent
and active part on the occasion of the burial, with

Fenian honours, of a member of the society. There
was some little excitement, but it died suddenly out.

Friday Evening.
Three Fenians were arrested this morning at
Harold's-cross in a lodging-house. One of them,
named Condon, states that he is a captain in the
United States army.

Mr. L. H. Shea, a Cork magistrate, has brought
an action against Mr. E. F. Ryan, stipendiary ma-
gistrate, for trespass in sending 60 policemen to his
house, which they ransacked in search of arms and
munitions of war. Damages laid at £lO,OOO.

The Cattle Plague.

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A supplement to the London Gazette contains an
Order in Council passed yesterday, and containing
the following provisions :

" 1. The orders of the Lords of the Council, dated
November 23, 1865, December 16, 1865, and Feb-
ruary 6, 1866, are hereby continued ; and where
any local authority, under any powers given by any
of the said orders of the Lords of the Council, has
published notices or made orders within the district,
all such notices or orders which may be in force
when this order comes into operation are hereby
continuediuntil the same shall be altered or revoked
by any further order or by any local authority, sub-
ject nevertheless to the provisions contained in 'The
Cattle Diseases Prevention Act, 1865,' or in any
act which may be hereafter passed.
" 2. The powers given by the said orders, and by
this present order, to the local authority, shall be
exercised, from and after the time when this order
comes into operation, by the local authority consti-
tuted under and for the purposes of The Cattle
Prevention Act, 1866,' and not otherwise ; save that,
in any place in which there shall not be any local
authority duly constituted under and for the pur-
poses of the said last-mentioned act, until after the
time when this order comes into operation, the local
authority, for the purpose of exercising the powers
aforesaid, shall in the meantime, and until the con-
stitution of a local authority under the said act, con-
tinue to be such as is defined by the said orders of
December 16, 1865, and February 6, 1866, respec-

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ti v ely.
" 3. So much of the said orders of December 16,
1865, and of February 6, 1866, as is inconsistent
with this present order is hereby revoked.
" 4. This order shall come into operation imme-
diately on the publication thereof in the London Ga-
zette, and shall continue in force until revcked by any
further order. " ARTHUR HELPS."

A special Court of Aldermen was held yesterday
at Guildhall for the purpose of considering what
steps should be taken in reference to the act to
amend the law relating to contagious or infectious
diseases in cattle and other animals, which haS just
been passed by the Legislature.

The Lord Mayor presided, and there was a full
attendance of members of the court. A deputation
from the Markets Committee of the Court of Com-
mon Council, among whom were Mr. Rudkin (the
chairman), Mr. S. Gibbons, Mr. Banister, Mr.
Straker, and some other gentlemen were also present.
The TOWN CLERK (Mr. Woodthorpe), at the
request of the court, read the 4th and the Bth sec-
tion of the new act of Parliament, by the first of
which the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen of
the City of Loudon was declared to be the " local
authority" for the purpose of carrying out the whole
of the provisions, with the exception of making a
rate to cover the expenses incurred, the power to do
which was vested in the Metropolitan Board of
Works. The other section gives power to the local
authority so constituted to delegate these powers to
a committee in the different districts, who would
have full power to act in all matters connected with
the carrying out of the act. Mr. Woodthorpe at
the same time read a letter he had received from the
Markets Committee of them Court of Common
Council, informing the court that they had received
a letter from Sir G. Grey, calling their attention to
the provisions of the new act of Parliament, and
requesting them to make the necessary arrange-
ments for providing markets and other means
for supplying the metropolis with dead meat.
The committee were anxious to confer with the
Court of Aldermen upon the subject, in order that
they might co-operate together in effecting the ob-
ject in view, and a deputation from the Markets
Committee were now in attendance for that purpose.

Alderman SIDNEY said he thought it would be as
well if their legal adviser, the Deputy Recorder—
as this was a measure that was quite new—should
give the Court some information relating to it, and
whether they had the power to do what was pro-
posed. The question was one of a very interesting
and important character, for it really involved the
point how the inhabitants of this great metropolis
were to be supplied with food during the period that
the act was in force prohibiting live cattle being
moved, except under certain restrictions. It was a
novel position for this Court to be placed in to have
anything to do with the management of the mar-
kets, which was a duty which would be much better
performed by those gentlemen who had always un-
dertaken it, and who had very great experience ; and
he considered it would be very advantageous indeed
if this Court could co-operate with the Markets
Committee in carrying out this act of Parliament, if
it could be done.

The DEPUTY RECORDER (Mr.T. Chambers, M.P.)
said it appeared to him that there could be no doubt
that this act of Parliament gave power to the local
authority, which in the case of the Corporation was
defined to be the Court of Lord Mayor and Alder-
men, to delegate their powers to a committee, or
to such other persons as they should think fit; and
he apprehended, therefore, that they had full powers
to co-operate with the Markets Committee. In
other jurisdictions and in counties the magistrates in
quarter sessions made the rate that was necessary,
but as' this could not be done in the City of Lon-
don, the power for that purpose was vested in the
Metropolitan Board of Works.

A motion aas then made and agreed to that the
deputation from the Markets Committee be received.
Mr. RunKIN, the chairman, addressing the Court,
said that the committee had met that morning to con-
sider this important subject, and they were of opi-
nion that it was most advisable that they should
attend the court and offer their co-operation. (Hear,
hear.) The court was aware that a special sub-
committee of the Market Committee had been
appointed, who had paid great attention to the sub-
ject, and they had already formed some plans for
carrying out the proposed object, and he suggested
that this sub-committee should be specially appointed
to act with the Court of Aldermen in this important
matter.

After some little discussion a motion was put that
the whole Court of Aldermen should be formed into
a committee with the members of the special Com-
mittee of the Markets, and that such committee be
the local authority for the purposes of the act of
Parliament under discussion. This motion was
carried unanimously, and the court adjourned.

LOUIS NAPOLEON ON THE MEXICAN QUESTION.
—The New York Herald thinks the full report of
the speech of the Emperor Napoleon to the French
Legislature does not present him in the bold re-
lief on the Mexican question in which he stood
under the strong light of our first brief despatch
upon the subject. But, considering his embar-
rassiug situation, he says as much, perhaps, as
could be reassonably expected, though less than
could be desired. %\Te could hardly expect him to
say that his fatal mistake in entering upon this
Mexican enterprise, or, rather, in resolving to per-
severe in it, after having been abandoned by Eng-
land and Spain, was in that erroneous Napoleonic
idea that with the rebellion of Jeff. Davis the great
American republic had collapsed. Mischief, too,
might have resulted in France from the confession
that, the Mexican empire having proved a failure,
he had determined to withdraw and give it up.
He had his own prestige as a sagacious ruler
and as the arbiter of Europe, and he had the
dignity and honour of France to consider, as
well as the necessity of maintaining relations of
peace with the United States. In pleading,
however, his earnest desire for peace with us,
he leads us fairly to the conclusion that, with a
little further indulgence, he will gracefully atandon
his impracticable Mexican scheme.

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harm. But the present over-breeding
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serving) of pheasants offers a terrible temptation tcitr,ll3ojr.
wh.fellows, and must be put down by public opinion. '''' ssa
Ile, the only cure will bo to abolish the game fic`P'' bet
put the beasts of the wood on the same footing lass
°to ,et
would 0.-20
property. But I say that if I wero a squire
breed or feed a single pheasant. I would exterau'ro
hares and rabbits. If my farmers chose to keep n fesvllB.ed
I would have Of I 61°14
for coursing, let them ; and then
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for it., which I don't) capital shooting, and 11,3" ten
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consequences are excellent morally, and much al°r°
sport obtained."

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saiteuneer,c”liforto•linately gave one, which ,v 55 °Pei'll 6°
egg,d vast as that seen by si
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birds as voyaged with Noah in the Ark. Each gale Nag
peculiar utterance of its kind, and an animal Babel 0
thus created as they formed a procession, Ileaded,abdioll
giant, and joined by a number of Indians mourtillt ie
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Carnaval" (at the supper of svhich 3500 oystera :feh
served),
the scene cf t. Mark's, which
was set st :
extremity of the stage, with gondolas passing, and r°l"'''''
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