The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-30 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY.

The Queen is expected to arrive in town about 6
o'clock this evening, and to proceed to Kingstown
without any delay, except what will be occasioned
by a circuitous progress through the city. Accord-
ing to a notice issued by the police, the route will
be as follows :—Along the quays, north side, to
Capel-street, up Capel-street to Mary-street, and
along Mary-street and Henry-street to Sackville-
street, down Sackville-street and through West-
moreland-street, Grafton-street, and Nassau-street,
to Westland-row.

Kingstown Harbour was covered yesterday with
boats carrying visitors to and from the Victoria
and Albert. Scores of them were to be seen, with-
out a moment's intermission, pressing on with their
freights of people of all classes—conveyed there
and back" for 6d. a-head, and struggling to get near
the ladder, where one of the officers of the Royal
yacht stood inspecting the tickets and others hand-
ing up the ladies. The officers were remarkably
obliging and patient, and they certainly had no
sinecure. Every one seemed charmed with the
arrangements on board, which were in such per-
fect taste, and so admirably adapted for conve-
nience, comfort, and health, exhibiting the beauty
of utility, without anything bordering on the gaudy
magnificence so often associated with Royal uphol-
stery. Several of the crew conducted a succession
of parties through the vessel, beginning with the
kitchen and ending with the saloon on deck. Then
the visitors departed from the opposite side of the
yacht, an arrangement which prevented confusion.
The kindness of her Majesty in so freely permitting
people to view the apartments on board has been
very gratefully appreciated. In reference to the
sailing powers of the Victoria and Albert, the
Dublin Evening Mail says :

" The following simple facts, the authenticity of
which we can vouch for, suffices to set at rest the
question respecting the comparative speed of the
Queen's yacht and the City of Dublin Company's
mail steam squadron :—The Leinster made her
trial trip over the measured mile at Stokes Bay,
Southampton, a knot an hour faster than the
Victoria and Albert. The average passage of the
Leinster, Connaught, and Munster, taken for the
three months just ended, was three hours and 42
minutes. The Connaught brought over the Prince
of Wales from Holyhead in three hours and 36
minutes, against a strong head wind. The Victoria
and Albert was three hours and 58 minutes, making
the same passage on Wednesday last in smooth
water."

There has been a mutiny at the Duncannon Fort,
which commands the mouth of the Suir. The
Waterford Mall of this day states that on Tuesday
morning a party of the Royal Artillery arrived in
Waterford by the Tintern, Duncannon steamer,
with 15 of the mutineers-14 gunners and one bom-
bardier—on their way to Cork, where they are to
be tried by court-martial, with 15 others of the
same battery, who had been previously sent thither
under an escort of 50 men.

A fatal catastrophe occurred yesterday morning,
about 7 o'clock, by which six men lost their lives.
Within the last few days the shoals of herrings off
the eastern coast have been greater than have been,
known for many years, and the owners and crews
of the numerous fishing craft have been on the alert
to take advantage to the utmost of the unwonted
supply. A 1114.ger called the Goldseeker, the pro-
perty of Mr. Kelly, of Kingstown, was making for
Howth, fully freighted with herrings and having
a crew of eight men on board, when she was caught
in a squall from the south-west and went down in
seven fathoms. None of the other trawlers were
near enough to give timely assistance to the poor
fellows who struggled in the water. At length all.
but two sank to rise no more. One of the men
who were saved Leld up the other for more than an
hour. Both when rescued were almost dead from
exhaustion. They were brought to Howth, a dis-
tance of seven miles, in a lugger, and placed in the
St. Lawrence Hotel, where the usual efforts have
been made to restore them. They were themselves
unable to give any account of the occurrence.

FRENCH S7'ATESIIIEN AND THEIR
PUBLIC ADDR_ES6ES.

The Presse thus comments upon the late impor-
tant speeches of M. de la Guerroniere and M. de
Moray, at La Haute-Vienna and Puy de Dome !
The Viscount de la Liuerroniere in the course of
his address to the Council General of La Hante-
Vienna spoke, while alluding to the decree of the
24th of November, of " the political liberty which
had been spontaneously and voluntarily conceded."
We already protested yesterday against this
phrase in the name of the principles of 1789, as
the word concession is synonymous with octroi.
The object of all political association is, according
to the constitution of 1791, the maintenance and pro-
tection of the natural and immutable rights of man.
These natural and immutable rights consist of
liberty, &c. Assuming that a right is natural and
unalienable it obviously follows that it is virtually
possessed, or at least that it virtually exists, even.
at the very period that its exercise is arbitrarily
and temporarily prohibited. In point of fact
France enjoyed that right and exercised it during
37 years, and the Government, putting aside the
spontaneousness of the act of the 24th of Novem-
ber, which we are not prepared to deny, was not in.
a position either to ' octroyer' (accord), or to COD-
cede' us our liberty ; it did nothing more, because
it could do nothing more, than to return it to us.
M. le Viscomte de la Guerroniere proceeds to may
in another portion of his remarkable address—
a With teis combination of institutions so admi-
rably adapted to check abuses and to produce im-
mense good, who can now pretend to say that
France is not free ?" M. le Comte de Morny does
not go quite so far in his speech to the Conseil Ge-
neral of the Puy de Dome. After stating that his,
heart rejoices every time he sees his country pre-
sented with a fresh grant of liberty from the hands
of the Sovereign, he adds ,"I rejoice above all whcol
that granted liberty is of a commercial or civil eie-
scription ; because it is my opinion that the enjoy-
ment of such liberties should precede the concestJion
of liberties of a political nature, and that they are
less likely to produce difficulty and dangers."
It follows naturally, then, according to the above
quotation, that M. le Comte de Morny give us leave
to hope at some future period for what we are con-
gratulated by M. le Viscomte de la Guerroniere
upon having already obtained.
" Nor must the importance of the said aeeree of
the 24th of November be too much exaggerated.
With regard to the liberty of the press experience
has long proved that it constitutes the safeguard of
all the other liberties which a people can enjoY.
We hasten here to acknowledge, with considerable
satisfaction, that a recent decree has ma terially
im-
proved the status of the public journal: i in France,
and has rendered their position—indeen, their very
existence—less perilous and less prec: irious. We
must not forget that we still live und( Jr the repine
of press' warnings,' permissions to publ dab, and pre-
liminaryhe authorisations, &c. We do not deny that the
administration uses the absolute powe r with which
it is invested moderately enough, ai id much,rll:,
of late been granted to us. We pr( ;fit, it is
remember
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ARREST OF A SECESSIONIST WITH £40,000.—8Y
the arrival of the Fulton, from New York, on the 17th
inst., we learn that an arrest of a supposed agent of the
rebels was made on the 16th. A. passenger from Liverpool
by the Persia, named Serrell, who, it is alleged, boasted
while on the voyage that he was the bearer of a large sum
of money for the use of the rebel government, was arrested
by the United States Custom-house officers, on information
received from the other passengers, and upon searching his
baggage the sum of 200,000 dols. in Bank of England notes
was found therein. He was taken to the District Attorney's
office, and admitted to bail in the sum of 40,000 dols.

SURAT COTTON GOING TO THE UNITED STATES.
In a paragraph under the above heading in our publics-

tion of Tuesday it was stated that 15,000 bales of Surat
cotton were last week exported to New York. We have
reason is believe that the following aro tlie circumstances
which gave rise to the statement:—Some time since 20
bales of Surat were sent to the United States by way of
sample. On Saturday last an eminent firm purchased
15,000 bales Surat on speculation, but as yet not one bale
of that lot has been weighed over. A short time since 500
bales American were shipped to New York, and several
small orders have been executed on American account, pro-
bably with the expectation of shipment at a futura period:4
Manchester Examiner.