The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-14 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

lirroitTANT FISHERY
. CASE...7A case of great importance
to fishermen-in 'tidal. parts of. navigable rivers has been
before the county magistrates at Carlisle. David Linton,
fishes man, of Longbuigh, was prosecuted for fishing with
a " haafnet," or " half-net," in. a tidal part of the River
Eden. The action was brought by the lessees of Lord Loris-
dale's Eden fisheries, and the point at issue was whether
the half-net was a fixed engine or not within the meaning
of the Salmon Fisheries Acts. Conflicting evidence having
been adduced at previous courts, the net itself was on
Saturday brought into court, in order to assist the magis-
trates in making their decision, but the justices were
unable to agree, and they recommended the Fishery Com-
missioners to hold a special court for the purpose of
deciding the matter.
HEAVY FINES ON BETTING MEN.—At the Canterbury
magistrates' sitting several persons were summoned for
erecting betting stands on Barham Downs during the
late Canterbury Races. rl he solicitor for the defendants
pleaded guilty to the charge, to which he said he could
make no answer in point of law. However, he wished to
bring under the notice of the bench the fact of his clients'
having hired the ground they occupied of the Race Com-
mittee ; and, under the circumstances, he observed that he
thought they were entitled to a mitigation of the penalty.
The magistrates held that the fact mentioned by defendants'
solicitor was no defence, and said that they should be sorry
to find " that the Race Committee encouraged so flagrant
a breach of the law." They imposed a fine of £2s—one-
fourth of the full penalty— which was immediately paid by
those of the defendants present.

THE ARBROATH MURDER.—At the Sheriff's Court,
Dundee, Cargill, the seaman who is charged with the
murder of a child at Arbroath, was again brought up.
With regard to the motive leading to the perpetration of
this horrible deed, there does not appear to be any what-
ever. To all appearances the act was simply a mad out-
burst of ungovernable passion, which wreaked itself upon
the first object that came near. Whether or not
Cargill is insane is a different matter. His conduct
during the last fortnight has been peculiar. He was
skipper and part owner of a herring-boat, but the
other owners being afraid to go to sea with him, they
agreed with the prisoner to sell the boat, and it was sold
accordingly. He is said not to have been right since
then. It is stated that he had been drinking. Last Mon-
day evening Cargill got up and rang the church bell at
Auchmithie with the view of assembling the parishioners
to church, and this act is supposed to indicate that the
man was not in his senses. He has been at sea since then,
and it is said that he cut away the drift of nets, and told
his comrades to jump into the sea after them. The accused
was again remanded.
THE ALLEGED MURDER, AT FOREST GATE.—At the
Ilford Police-court, Daniel Stobie, a painter, was charged
with causing the death of Henry Hurley, a young man
twenty-four years of age. From the evidence there was
no doubt that the deceased had come by his death through
the brutal ill-treatment of some half-dozen men, who, on
the night of the 21tb August, set upon him on the high
road near Forest-gate, and knocked him down without
provocation, and kicked him unmercifully. Several wit-
nesses deposed that the prisoner was his principal assailant,
but two witnesses gave evidence which went to prove that
the case was one of mistaken identity. Before the con-
clusion of the evidence the proceedings were adjourned.

The name of Mr. Henry Fawcett, M.P., is given
as the President in the department of Economy and Trade at
the forthcoming Social Science Congress.
The notorious Sir John Dean Paul, who was sen-
tenced to transportation for 14 years, with his two partuers,
Strahan and Bates, is dead.

The University of Virginia at Charlottesville has
been partially consumed by fire. It was established by
Thomas Jefferson.

PROBABLE VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO
AnticA.—lt is stated that the Prince of Wales contem-
plates a visit to the African continent, and that, should
his Royal Highness carry out his intention, he will most
likely visit Egypt and the cataracts of the Nile.

Messrs. Cockson and Chetwynd, earthenware
manufacturers, have been fined £5 at the Penton Police-
court for copying the design of a jug, which has been intro-
duced with great success in America by a Mr. Edwards.

' A public t4tinfonial Ilds been presented to -Mr.
Vial, at Sydney, for his courageous conduct in arresting the
hand of O'Farrell when attempting the life of the Duke of
Edinburgh., at Clontarf.

The individual who so successfully practised on
the credulity of the public at Lowestoft and Yarmouth has
got clear with his booty for the present. We understand,
however, that Inspector Berry has obtained a clue to his
whereabouts that may speedily lead to his apprehension.—
Cambridge Independent.

Two persons living near Selby have been poisoned
by eating an apple dumpling, the crust of which had been
made of old suet. A servant who also ate soma of the pud-
ding was made violently ill, but she has recovered. The
verdict at the inquest was, "that death was caused by ex-
haustion following the poisoning of the blood by the eating
of some decayed animal matter acting on an enfeebled con-
stitution."

A BOY'S HEAD BLOWN OFF. —A terrible
casualty occurred at Instow, North Devon, on Friday
evening. A little boy, son of a fisherman called Fisher-
leigh, was in the habit of taking the mail bags across the
river, from Appledore, to meet the mail train at Instow.
He came across in a boat with two gentlemen. One of
them had a gun at the bottom of the boat. On getting
out at Instow the gentleman took up the gun, which
exploded. The boy was close by, and his head came
cleanly off the body.
CAPTURE OF AN ALBACORE AT DAWLISH.—On
Friday morning, while engaged in catching pilchards on
the Dawlish beach, the fishermen discovered an immense
fish, which they with some difficulty succeeded in killing
with sticks. The fish was estimated to weigh 5001 b., and
to measure about ten feet in length, the distance between
the extremities of the forked tail being three feet. Two
experienced nautical men present stated it to be the
Albacore. The capture of this tropical fish on the west
coast is quite unprecedented. The fishermen have notified
the capture to Mr. Frank Buckland.
EDUCATION OF POLISH YOUTHS.—The Warsaw
Journal of the sth inst. publishes an order issued by the
rector of the High School of that city, enumerating the
conditions to lye fulfilled by the Polish youth desirous to
attend the lectures in that institution during the scholastic
year 1868.69. Among these stipulations one is specially
remarkable. Every student wishing to be admitted must
be furnished with a certificate from the competent police
authorities, testifying that he had taken no part in the
insurrection of 18i.;3 ; and the young men belonging to
the former Polish provinces of the empire will have to
produce a document from the governor of his district,
stating Mat no obstacles oppose his admission to the
High School.
SHOES FOR DOGS.—We call attention to the
advisability of protecting the feet of sporting dogs against
the injuries caused by short stiff stubble. We have had
some experience in using dog sleighs in North America,
and have frequently found it an absolute necessity to place
leather mocassins upon the sleigh dogs' feet when the
"crust " upon the snow has been rough and sharp. If,
through negligence, this precaution were omitted, the d ,gs
would not travel two hours without becoming severely, 1-
not hopelessly lamed. We see no good reason wby a similni
system might • not be adopted with reference to sporting
dogs, now that the corn is cut so close as to make the
stubble fcarfu ly destructive to the dogs' feet. Perhar s Ane
of cur correspondents w'il g '..e us their opinions upon
"d !vs? W r.

R011,41V AFFAII?S.

(From the Clrrespondent of the Westminster Gazette.)

ROME, Sept. 4.

The efforts of the Revolutionary party are
divided between two courses of action. The
first to procure the withdrawal of the French
troops from Italy, and the second to get
ready for another attempt at surreptitious
invasion. In regard to the first, it is now
avowed that Menabrea left no argument un-
tried to induce the Emperor to authorize him
in announcing to the Florence Parliament, be-
fore the session broke up, that the army of ob-
servation would be recalled to France ; but, of
course, without effect. The papers continue
to agitate the question nevertheless, some
trying to argue into a grievance a measure
necessitated solely by the bad faith of their
own Government, while others, adopting the
policy of asserting the wish which is father
to the thought, content themselves with an-
nouncing that the French are shortly to be
removed. Meantime news from Civita Vecchia
leads to the directly opposite conclusion. The
language of General Dumont at the banquet of
the 15th of August, and the administration of
affairs on the spot, point equally to a continued
occupation. New stables are being built, fresh
tenements for the occupation of the troops
hired, and a continuous supply of stores and
munitions continues to be received. The
second affords scope for a variety of congenial
intrigues. The key to them all is given in
Mazzini's last published " letter," which may
be analyzed thus :-1. The acquisition of
Rome is the goal of every present endeavour.
2. The mistakes of last year's campaign must
be avoided this time. 3. Consequently greater
care. must be taken to conceal the mode of
procedure. That the attempt came from without
was too apparent on that occasion ; this time
it must be managed so as to appear to be a
rising of the people.
-The French and Italian press well under-
stands this cue ; consequently we hear less
fanfaronnade about the volunteers rushing to
deliver the capital of their country ; of their
spirit of devotion and sacrifice ; of their readi-
ness for action ; of their boast of assured suc-
cess. The line now adopted is to blind Europe
to what is going on round the borders of the
Roman State. When allusion is made to the
Garibaldian bands, it is to say they are not
of heart with their enterpise, that they see
they have no chance at present, that Garibaldi
himself is changed into the most peaceful of
old men, only aspiring to end his days in rest
and retirement. The very meetings which are
planned to supply from Genoa, Turin, cirx., the
entrain which was poured out from the Geneva
Congress last year, are said to be co-operative
conferences of workmen, animated only with
desires of peaceful usefulness ; and even the
Parlamentino of Naples is to be but a friendly
meeting, to consider the electoral laws. Mean-
time, stealthily and in the dark, the requisite
agents are being poured by small instalments
at a time into Rome, who, if they can contrive
to elude the vigilance of the police, or bribe,
cajole, or intimidate them, have their instruc-
tions, at a given signal, to simulate and repre-
sent the Roman people in a rising, and carry
the place from within by a coup de main, when
I the interference of the troops from Civita
_ _

Vecchia to dispossess them would, it is thought,

be a very different matter in the eyes of Europe
than resisting an attack made from without.
One formidable obstacle to the success of
this well-laid plot is the want of coherence
be-
tween the different sections of the party. It
would depend in great measure on temper and
discretion in carrying it out, but fanaticism is
boastful and garrulous, and already the most
secret intentions have been supposed to ooze
out. More than this, the spirit of subordi-
nation is necessarily wanting. There are a
dozen would-be heads, every one with a scheme
of his own, and unwilling to submit to that of
his neighbour, so that it is always most un-
certain whether any one scheme can obtain
sufficient support to work it efficiently. This
spirit subdivides every division of the party :
thus, for example, actions and counter-actions
for charges of mal-administration of funds,
defamation of character, &c., are waging be-
tween the heads of the party which directed
the attack on Rome last year, Mistrali, Fab-
brizzi, Ghirelli, and others. All the while a
state of unrest and insecurity is maintained,
some unknown change is always at hand, and
men are kept from trusting the Government,
which at the moment happens to have the
upper hand. The local newspapers in vari-
ous towns find their account in keeping up the
ferment, which now and then breaks into open
display of discontent, as at Monte Pulciano,
where the public notices concerning the new
meal-tax have been for two months past torn
down by the people as soon as affixed by order
of the municipality, and are only now preserved
in their place by sending a number of the
boldest peasants to prison, and stationing a
guard on the spot ; and all this week at Flor-
ence the police have had work enough with
defacing the chalked-up denunciations of the
King and Government. Of course such a
state of things sets many calculating on what
the future will be, and optimists are not want-
ing who think they see clearly a not far-off
advent of a better order of things in the return
of Italy to the regime of her medic val re-
publics. A love of rule, it is thought, has been
evoked in too many breasts to subside into
submission to the ordinary framework of any
One Government. Several centres of rule must
be created to afford place for so much ambi-

tion, and that these failing, as they must, to re-
store confidence and security, will ultimately
drive the people back to implore them of the
Holy See, as the legitimate source of right, and
sovereignty, and peace.

The brilnt of any immediate attack, it is
clear, will have to be borne by the Pontifical
army, and upon its firmnes, therefore, the
ultimate advance of revolution will mainly
depend, and there is no sort of snare which
may not be expected to be laid for them in
the approaching conflict. While every con-
fidence animates us that they will be as ready
for their work, and that the care of Divine
Providence will be extended over them as mani-
festly as during their former trials, all who care
for. the cause of right and order, which is just
now as it were entrusted to their keeping,
must feel a personal interest in promoting
their efficiency ; and there is no one who may
not. Lava his part in this work. For the mo-
ment they are chiefly subject to two attacks,
one being the result of change of temperature,
which has crowded the hospitals with sick, and
already occasioned three or four melancholy
losses, among them a young Englishman, very
much liked in his company, and an Italian
artilleryman, Antonio Goldoni by name, whom
his comrades regard almost as a saint ; the
other the malicious reports of their opponents.
It has been given them to silence for ever the
accusation of inefficiency, and the epitaph of
mercenary applied to them so liberally when
untried. The untruth about them in which
Italian papers now indulge is, that they are
divided by faction and rivalry, and the old
story of the jealousy of civilians is now and
then revived. As such stories generally get
copied sooner or later into the English papers,
it may be as well to point out that the games
of last Thursday gave a more effectual prac-
tical denial to the calumny than pages of argu-
ment. Not only the various corps competed
with each other with the most friendly emu-
lation, but civilians entered the lists with them
also ; and it would be impossible to say
whether the good-humoured applause which
greeted each effort of strength or ingenuity
was more hearty from comrades or townsmen,
so general was it. Marchese Cavaletti, Senator
of Home, who is shying at Frascati, came over
to be among the spectators, and Prince Bur-
ghese carried off a prize in one of the races.
While on the subject, it will not be without
interest to your readers to add to my former
account that the four prize-takers in the foot-
race were all Irishmen, Charles McNally (Ist
comp. of the 3rd battalion), who received a
watch as first prize; James MeLoughlan (Ist