The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-02 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2, 180.

As in PROSPERO'S Isle, " the air is full of noises,"
deceptive sounds that " give delight," that is to par-
tizans of either side, " but hurt not"—their respec-
tive antagonists ! Flying rumours are about as thick
as swallows upon the eve of flitting. Each rumour,
moreover, in turn, sustained by reasons as plentiful
as blackberries. Yet, confidently though these
seemingly authentic statements are sent forth by their
promulgators, they are no sooner on the wing in
the clubs and in the newspapers than they are
brought down, neatly potted, by the un-
erring aim of some authoritative counter-
statemeut that is, some counter-statement
avowedly given upon authority. If each of these
preposterous rumours in succession were keenly fol-
lowed up, before being thus brought down and bagged
by those emissaries, or pretended emissaries, of the
Government or of the Opposition, who are going
about now shooting folly as it flies—the gobemouche,
beyond all doubt, would be led a pretty dance indeed,
over the hills and far away, after each wandering will
of the wisp, having about it the semblance of reliable
information.

According to the first of these most positive state-
ments as to what is going now immediately to
happen—A Vote of Want of Confidence will be
moved immediately on the assembling of the House
of Commons, and, Ministers being inevitably put in
a minority, thereupon, Mr. GLADSTONE will come in
at once before Christmas.

According to the last of these announcements
rather than predictions—Mr. MK:AEI,' is to antici-
pate any action of that kind on the part of the Op-
position by an instant resignation, by a resignation
that is to say before the meeting of Parliament. The
Daily Telegraph of this morning, flushed with the
importance, as it evidently conceives, of being the
medium of first giving to the world this most startling
announcement, says :—" To-day, from what we hear,
the public may learn that Mr. DISRAELI has placed
his resignation in the hands of her MAJESTY." How-
ever events may prove this to be a matter of fact,
the truth is simply that the rumour thus articulated
was not only out and about, strong upon the wing,
long before the Daily telegraph had caught sight or
sound of it, but had been aimed at, if not
actually brought down, by one of those myste-
rious denials already referred to as given, ore
rotundo, upon authority. Seriously speaking, it is
hardly worth while to be indulging any longer in
these alternations of confident statements and equally
counter-statements. It is of more interest, and far
more to the purpose, to analyze the results of the
General Election, as those results have now actually
come to us ; and, for the denouement—to wait. Par-
liament will meet, now, in a very few days. To-
morrow week, the newly-elected members will be
begun to be sworn in. The swearing in,
thanks to the uLiform and abreviated oath,
will be got through more rapidly than ever,
—members pledging themselves to a loyal perform-
ance of their duty by a simple belief in a GOD (hap-
pily neither Mr. MILL nor his prote'g6e Mr. BRAD-
LAUGII will be there to go through what must have
been a mere mockery on their part) and no longer
on the faith of a true CHRISTIAN. Meanwhile, now
that we may scan the actual results of the General
Election, it is of more interest than following these
flitting, flying rumours of the day, the hour,
the moment, to look to what really
and actually constitutes the outcome of
the appeal which has beeiv just now made to the
country. That may be summed up in one brief
sentence as—the net gain to the Liberals of fifteen
seats, old and new, a gain which is equivalent, as
any one knows, to thirty votes upon a division.
Such, in a very few words, is the upshot of it all. To
put the fact in another way,. the Liberals have their
previous majority upon a division, plus thirty votes.
One of the fifteen seats thus gained to them has been
gained to them in spite of a loss of one through
disfranchisement. Otherwise to express it, out
of the fifty-three seats which were disfranchised,
twenty-six of them were lost to the Conservatives,
while twenty-seven were lost to the Liberals. And
yet, in spite of that, the actual gain to the Opposition,
everything considered, is, as has been said, a gain of
fifteen scats, old and new, or an addition of thirty
votes upon a division to the majority which belonged
to the Liberals in the last Parliament. The relative
gain upon the new seats has been a gain of twenty-
seven to the Liberals as against twenty-four to the
Conservatives—giving an advantage of three (upon
the striking of the balance) to the Opposition. The
relative gain upon the old seats, on the other hand,
has been a gain of sixty-four to the Liberals as
against fifty-one to the Conservatives—yielding an
advantage (upon the striking of that balance) of thir-
teen to the Opposition. Coupling with this net gain
to the Liberals, on old and new seats together,
of sixteen, the fact that the Conservatives show a
net gain of one in the striking of the balance between
themselves and their antagonists in regard to the
fifty-three seats disfranchised—we get at the net gain
upon the whole to the Opposition of fifteen seats,
counting as thirty votes upon a division. Quod erat
demonstrandum. That, beyond anything else just
now, is a matter of the very first importance.

FRANCE, as we took occasion to remark yesterday,
has, in M. BERRYER, lost one of the greatest orators
she has ever produced, and one of the noblest
characters the age has yet seen. He leaves behind
a biography which of its own kind has few equals.
Few of his countrymen have been of more signal
service to France ; few have attained a higher posi-
tion of honour and fame ; and scarcely one
can lay claim to such political consistency,
amid such unparalleled political changes. Born
at a time when the France of yore had
already given place to a new and not a promising
substitute, when the bad monarchy had been sup-
planted by a much worse anarchy, M. BERRYER'S
career has been identified with the most remarkable
portion of French history. Ile gained his first
laurels as an advocate upon the fall of the First
Empire, and he passed through all the suc-
cessive changes of the next forty years without
losing his influence as a politician, or with-
outp once changing his political creed. Con-
sistency, in the strictest application of the
term, would, in the case of most great men, be both
impossible and unadvisable ; but M. BERRYER'S
consistency was a political phenomenon. lle was a
supporter of the I3oußpoNs, and a general upholder
of constitutional freedom.; but he was the enemy
of all arbitrary government, and a great
admirer of those institutions which at present
find their most perfect development in Eng-
land. This creed he preserved with the most
rigid exactitude. lie pleaded against the deposition
of CirARLEs X. as the legitimate heir, but he refused
all offers from LOUIS PHILIPPE, and on more
than one occasion declined to form part of

Ministries when an official position would have
fettered his free action. His steadfastness procured
him the respect of all parties ; he held a perfectly
unique position in France, for, with a reputation less
dazzling than many Frenchmen of the century, he
preserved his political influence under every form of
government. Such a career gained, as it deserved,
a European fame. England, however, especially owes
a tribute of respect to the DEMOSTIIENES of France,
for it was by M. BERRYER that one of the most im-
passioned defences of British institutions ever
heard across the Channel was delivered before
a French tribunal. In 1858 the great Indian
debate in the House of Commons had been most un-
favourably commented upon by some of the official
journalists, who have both before and since praised
English policy without measure. Our repression of
the Indian mutiny had been reviled to order.
Count DE MONTALEMBERT replied to the
inspired papers by an article in the Correspondant, in
which he brought out the bright side of constitutional
liberty as established in England, and severely con-
demned the despotic rule of the Second Empire.
For publishing this article the EMPEROR ordered him
to be indicted, and he was sentenced to fine and
imprisonment. In this great trial M. BERRYER was
the advocate for the defence. His powerful appeal
on this as on other occasions did not procure justice,
but such prosecutions proved too dangerous to be fre-
quentlyrepeated. Nothing can bemore hazardous for a
despotic Government than violent repression of free-
dom. Count DE MONTALEMBERT was pardoned for this
offence, and a second indictment against him was
never proceeded with. The last act of M. BERILYER'S
life was, curiously enough, connected with a series
of trials which is nothing more than a reproduction
of the MONTALEMBERT prosecutions. The BAUDIN
press trials, which for weeks past have been the great
topic in France, have been instituted on account of
the inculpated journals publishing subeription lists
for the erection of a monument to an individual who
was shot at a barricade during the coup d'etat. M.
BERRYER'S name was found in one of these lists,
accompanied by a letter, in which he strongly upheld
the privileges both of subscribing andof publishingthe
subscriptions. It would have been well if the EMPEROR
had listened to the warning of the distinguished
lawyer and politician who was his counsel when, as
Prince LOUIS BONAPARTE, he was tried for his life
for the Boulogne invasion of 1840. The BAITDIN
affair may not result in any serious consequences,
but it has already been attended with discredit
to the Imperit Government.

LATEST INTELL MENU.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

lIUNGARY.

PESTI', Dec. 2.

The Chamber of Deputies voted yesterday the
bills of the G-rossvardern, Klausenburg, and Cron-
stadt railways, and also a bill relative to the con-
dition of the Union of Transylvania and Hungary.
Several Roumainian members protosted against this
Union. Herr Longay, the Minister of Finance,
made a report on the favourable results of the
Ilungarian Railway loan, and stated that the re-
mainder of these bonds will be realised at par by
some bankers of Pesth and V ienna. The Chamber
of Deputies in order to expedite the remaining
labours will sit morning and evening.

AMERICA.
PER CITY OF LONDON.
NEW YORK, Nov. 21.

Full returns from the late elections show General
Grant's majority in Alabama to have been four
thousand. The Democrats and Republicans of that
State elected each three members of Congress.
General Sherman, in his report on the progress
of the India war, exculpates the white settlers
from the blame of having been instrumental in
the renewal of hostilities. The General recommends
the transfer henceforth of the management of Indian
affairs to the War-office, urging at the same time
a rigorous prosecution of the war against the hos-
tile tribes, whose forcible removal to reservations
distant from the settlements and lines of travel he
considers an unavoidable necessity.

At Boston, the IVomens'-rights Convention is in
full session. The attendAnce is large. They
strongly advocate the granting of female suf-

frage.

Advices from Cuba continue to be conflicting.
Some accounts state that the reports of the insur-
rection are grossly exaggerated. Others allege
that the Captain-General Sersundi suppresses the
publication of unfavourable news.

Five hundred insurgents are reported to have
surrendered, and obtained a pardon from Count
Balmesoda. Cesperdis is said to have assumed the
leadership of the insurrectionary forces, and had
put a system of conscription in practice, enrolling
adult male inhabitants for the war service.

From llayti it is now reported that Salnave was
repulsed in his attack upon Jcrernie Town, and
that the damage done by the gunboats has not been
considerable. Salnave, it is said, was subsequently
also repulsed at Miragoane. The troops are re-
ported to be disaffected, and the Cacos rebels to be
gaining ground.

The British frigate Niobe has g)na to Jae►nel, in
order to afford protection to the property of British

residents.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, It6B

MB. B. HOPE ON THE EPISCOPACY.

Mr. Beresford Hope has presided at a dinner of the
-Iroodhurst Agricultural Association, and in proposing the
oast of " The health of the Clergy," he said, usually they
tad coupled with the toast the health of the Archbishop
‘f Canterbury, but, as they were aware, that distinguished
Lost was now vacant. There was,.indeed, a very eminent
Ashop who had been designated to that post, but legally
le was only Bishop of London now. Last year, and for some
rears past, it had been his pride and pleasure in proposing
he health of the Archbishop of Canterbury, to point out
tis intimate acquaintance with the county over which
ate in life he was called to preside. Brought up as
le had been, and born as he had been, at Rochester,
end having spent some of his earliest years in the
ieighbouring parish of Cranbrook, he maintained to the
ast day of his life a peculiar interest in, and affection for,
;his portion of the country. He (the speaker) could scarcely
;ommand himself to speak of him, so much did he honour
said so much did he love him. Learned he was and
vise—eloquent with the eloquence of good sense, of
;oucbing simplicity and earnestness of heart—zealous he
was, in every good work, and indeed it might be said that
its work killed him. lie believed that he had thrown him-
lelf into labours, at an age of more than 70 years, which
would have pressed hard upon the back of a young man,
Ind that it was this which had brought him suddenly to
bis end. Having lost him so lately, he would call upon
111 present to honour his memory in solemn silence. At the
same time they must not only look back, but also forwarJ,
'.or though legally there was now no Archbishop of Can-
terbury, there was a bishop whom her Majesty had desig-
nated for that see, and whom next year at this time they
night expect to welcome in that august designa-
tion. He had always found him friendly, generous, and
sympathetic—earnest in every good work, and more
&nxious to find points of agreement than matters of
difference. He said this of him because it was no secret
that he (the speaker) belonged to one section of the Church
of England to which Bishop -Tait was not supposed to
belong, but in spite of that he had held intercourse with
him since he had been Bishop of London, and this
intercourse had inspired him with the highest personal
regard and the highest respect for our future arch-
bishop, and he trusted they would most cordially welcome
him and co-operate with him 'in everything. He would
not say anything upon the' retnainder of the toast, for
they were all conscious what good and true men they had
in the clergy, what they had already done, and were pre-
pared to do.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES

TRAMOBE, ARMAND, Monday.

Yesterday (writes Mr. Edward Jacob) the Austrian
barque Mea was lost in Tramore Bay ; but all the hands,
consisting of Captain D. Tomanovich and the crew of
sixteen men, were saved by the Cambridge University
Boat Club lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution,
the " Tom Egan." It was a most fearful storm, and the
boat and crew behaved very well. The vessel is a total
wreck. She was seen in the bay at four
o'clock on the morning of. the 20th, at anchor.
About seven o'clock a steamer came to her assistance,
and we launched our lifeboat at 7.30, to aid the tug in
saving the vessel and crew. The boat went two miles to
windward through a heavy sea, but ere she reached the
vessel the tug was found to have made fast to her, and
was taking her out to sea. However, after we got up our
boat about two hours, the vessel was again seen to enter
the bay without the tug, and our crew got ready. It was
now blowing a whole storm, and the vessel struck. After
repeated efforts, through tremendous seas and fearful
breakers, which completely hurled the lifeboat on the
beach, we ultimately succeeded in getting her afloat and
in rescuing the whole of the crew, consisting of sixteen.
The ship was of 600 tons registered burthen, and was bound
from Sulina with a cargo of Indian corn.

ST. ANDREWS, Monday.

At two o'clock yesterday afternoon (says Mr. A. K.
Lindesay) a vessel was seen running on the banks of
the Tay in a S.S.E. wind, with a heavy ground swell
setting in, the weather being thick and threatening; guns
were fired from the battery to warn the vessel of her
danger, and she hauled her wind, but soon bore away
again, evidently at a loss about her position. The
lifeboat immediately went out with a pilot, and
with difficulty brought the craft into the harbour
about one o'clock this morning. The master was
quite ignorant of the coast, and but for the life•
boat the vessel and crew of four men would certainly have
been lost, as the weather became very heavy as the night
advanced. The vessel proved to be the ketch Canton, of
Scarborough, Richard Ludder master, and Abraham
Appleyard, owner, 53 tons, bound from Yarmouth to
Leith, with a cargo of 520 barrels

The triends of Mr. Mall at Bradford are going to
give him to testimonial to console him under his defeat.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

On Tuesday the Crown Prince of Prussia re-
viewed the 2d battalion of the Coldstream Guards in Wind-
sor [Tome Park.

Dr. Jeri mie, Dean of Lincoln, and Begins Pro-
fessor of Divinty in the University of Cambridge will preach
the Lati❑ sermon before the New Convocation.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STABBlNG.—Elizabeth Creed, who gave her ad-
dress Great Wild-street, Drury-lane, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stabbing Martha Ben-
ham, a married woman, residing at No. 18, Little
Windmill-street.

The Dublin Express says :—" It is believed that,
the office of Solicitor-General will bo
in the event of the elevation to the Bench of the Right Hon.
ctlolenfAortrteoi uponrnoy-GeHneenrr:y Ormsby, Esq., Q. 0.1,

A telegram from Oxford states that " all the under-
graduate members of Now College are ordered down, and to
lose their term through some window breaking in College.
The names of tho offenders are not published,"
lin Eatat7ll:eo.'s presentqsays o' We have good rea-
e Ornment, holding officel
sonTthoeboDliou
vb
by so uncertain and probably so brief a tenure, is not pro-.
pared to advise her Majesty to grant permission to the Irish
Convocation to meet.

The Prosecutrix said—On Friday night between
eight and nine I was walking along Little Comp-
ton-street, when the prisoner came up and struck
me and knocked me down, and then made a stab at
my face. I put up my hand to save my face, and
the prisoner in trying to get my hand away pulled
back my finger and broke it, and I received a stab
in the arm. I remember very little more what
occurred, as I became quiet insensible through the
loss of blood, and was taken to the Charing-cross
Hospital. I have since been informed that the pri-
soner had been about all day with a pair of scissors
in her pocket to make use of on some one.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—What is the cause of her stab-
bing you?

The correspondent of the Leeds Mercury says
"I am glad to say that the Queen is quite well again. A
gentleman who had an interview with her Majesty on
Saturday tells me that she was then looking better than she
did whilst at Balmoral two months ago."
A solemn ma,s for the repose of the soul of Gioa-
chino was sung on Tuesday at the Italian Church, Hatton-
garden, the music being Mozart's "Grand Requiem," with
full orchestral accompaniment. There was a large atten-
dance.

The persons implicated in the Monmouthshire riots
during the election were brought before the magistrates on
Tuesday, at Pontypool. There are 76 rioters in custody. The
prisoners were escorted from I.lBlc by a military guard.
Further disturbances are apprehended.

The fatal railway accident which took place at
Northenden Junction on the 24th October, will no doubt
still be remembered. The inquest terminated on Monday in
a verdict of manslaughter against the driver of the passenger
train, a man named Sharp, whose negligence, it was alleged,
had caused the accident.

Prosecutor—l don't know.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Did you see anything in her
hands?

Prosecutrix—Yea ; and to the best of my belief
it was a pocket-knife, but I lost such a quantity of
blood that I became insensible. I have got two
cuts on my head as well. I never had any quarrel
with the prisoner, and she said nothing to me before
she stabbed me. Immediately she did it she ran
into a public-house and escaped, but was put out,
and she then knocked down a person who went
after her, and got away.
Julia IVoolnough said—Between eight and nine
o'clock on Friday night last I was in Little Comp-
ton-street and saw the prisoner cross the street,
unpin her shawl, and then strike the prosecutrix ;
and I afterwards saw her take out a pocket-knife
and make a stab at the prosecutrix's face.
The prosecutrix received two stabs on the bead, two
in the eye, and one on the arm, and her finger was
bent back and broken, and she bled profusely. The
prosecutrix afterwards walked a little way and
then fell, and while I was going to get some water
for her I saw the prisoner running and screamed
"Murder" and " Police." The prisoner then ran
into a public-house, thinking she could pass through
and escape, but I told the landlord what she had
done, and the landlord threw the prisoner out, and
the prisoner having knocked me down managed to
get away, and was not taken into custody till yes-
terday.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Had there been any quarrel be-
tween the prosecutrix and the prisoner ?

A return, moved for by Mr. Ayrton, was pub-
lished on Tuesday, from which it appears that the total
amount of land held by railway companies in England
at the present time is 213.2 square miles, which,
in proportion to the whole area of England, is 1-3731 d.
In Scotland the area occupied is 3C.5, and in Ire-
land 32.8, making a total of 253.6 square miles, which is in
the proportion of 1-421st to the whole area of the Unittd
Kingdom. It is necessary to observe, however, that in
some eases returns have not been received, so that this
calculation is not quite up to the mark of an accurate state-
ment.

Echoes from the Clubs says that, "according to
the programme of the Reform Club, Ministers are to bo
beaten, upon whatever amendffient may be proposed to the
Address, by a majority of ono hundred, or• thereabouts, on
Friday night, the 18th of December, or early the following
morning. On the Saturday Mr. Disraeli will wait upon her
Majesty to tender his resignation and that of his colleagues,
cull on Monday Mr. Gladstone will be summoned, and com-
manded to form an administration." It is believed that
there are four aspirants for the Foreign-office—Earl Russell,
Earl Granville, Lord Clarendon, and Sir Henry Bulwer.

Witness---There had been a few words between
them two days before, and the prisoner said that
she would lay wait for the prosecutrix.
Police-constable Dowd, C R-1 took the pri-
soner into custody, and she said she was not there
at the time.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—The prisoner will be remanded
for the attendance of the surgeon from the hospital.

THAMES..

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—A SAD CASE.—Honora
Maclean, a very respectable young Irishwoman,
was brought before Mr. Benson charged with at-
tempting to drown herself in the Thames. A
waterman named Kent, dwelling at No. 9, Spread-
eagle-street, Limehouse, saw the prisoner in the
plying place called Limehouse-hole at a late hour
last night. She jumped over a jetty into a boat,
and after divesting herself of her bonnet and shawl,
plunged into the water. She was taken out of the
water immediately by Tucker, who saved her
life.

The prisoner, who was in much grief, said
that her husband was employed in Rotherhithe,
and that she came over to the Middlesex side
of the river with some money of her husband's, and
cash entrusted to her by another person to make
some purchases, and met with a woman who in-
duced her to drink. She bought two joints of
meat for herself, and another, and some boots and
shoes for her children, and lost them all.
"John Tucker, a police-constable, No. 458 K,
said the prisoner was intoxicated when he took her
into custody, and that he understood she had been
living very comfortably with her husband, an in-
dustrious man, in Rotherhithe.

The prisoner said her baby was very ill, that she
had lost all her money, and the money of her
neighbour, and all the things she had purchased.
Mr. Benson—Who gave you the money ?
Ihe Prisoner—My husband and a widow with
two children gave me some.
Mr. Benson—And you have lost it all ?
The Prisoner—Sorrow 1 have, sir.
Mr. Benson said this was a very sad case. Here
was a woman with a family living comfortably
with her husband, and she begins drinking with an
idle and abandoned gossip, and becomes intoxicated.
All her money and her goods were gone, and she
completes her day of dissipation by making an at-
tempt on her life, to destroy her own soul and body.
He hoped this would be a warning to her for
the rest of her life. He should remand her for
a week, unless some person could give bail for
her.

Another shipwreck, the result of the late gales, is
reported. The Isaac, bound from Liverpo Ito Now York,
suffered so severely in a storm, which lasted some days, that
when comparative calm succeeded Ehe was found in a sink-
ing state. What was worse, the captain having died, the
crew refused to obey the orders of the ffrst mate. The ship
contained a valuable cargo, and 354 emigrants to America.
Happily, however, the passengers set to work at the pumps
and managed to keep the vessel afloat until they were
rescued by a passing ship. Ero this, however, water and
provisions had given out, and the passengers were begin-
uing to feel the effects of starvation.

L At the luncheon which followed -the commemora-
tion services at St. Andrew's, Wells-street, on Monday
tfternooo, the Rev. B. Webb, the vicar, said he was
:et:Tolled to say that ho had lest fei:h in what was calkd
the free and open church movement. The services of his
:Lurch had proved so attractive that it was impossible for
the churchwardens to make adequate arrangenunts fur the
:ongregations. With tho assistance of the Rev. Canon
gook ho had gone throughly into the matter, and ho did not
End that it was the practice of the primitive Church to
throw open churches indiscriminately to all comers, and in
!uture the seats of St. Andrew's would be to a great extent
tssigncd to the parishioners and communicants. Some
;pooches were delivered by the Bishop nominate of Bombay,
Ur. A. J. Beresford Hope, M.P., the Rev. Henry White,
7haplaiu of the Sayoy, qucl other centigram

The Prisoner—lt is the first time I ever became
intoxicated, your honour.
Mr. Benson—And I hope it will be the last. See
the disgrace it has brought upon you and your
husband.

The prisoner, who said that her child was very
delicate, was then removed in custody of the
gaoler, and her baby was ordered to be restored
to her.