The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-07 00:00:00

ELEVEN MORE ARRESTS.

The riotous proceedings in the Chorlton-road, which led
to thirty-one arrests on Saturday, unfortunately were not
entirely checked on that day. On Sunday afternoon a
large crowd, with the usual seasoning of roughs, assembled
in Chorlton and Stratford roads to hear Murphy or
Flannigan " preach." These gentlemen, for once recog,nisin g
discretion as an important part of valour, kept
away. There were, however, other street preachers ready
to hold forth. One speaker, who appeared in his shirt
sleeves, addressed himself for nearly half an hour to a
chaffing crowd in defence of Mr. Murphy, and related
in great detail the particulars of his arrest in the
beginning of the week. A temperance advocate
succeeded, and spoke for some time, chiefly in
reply to a running fire of questions with which he was
assailed, but neither the Orangemen nor the water-
drinker succeeded in interesting more than two or three
hundred out of the thousand or more onlookers who had
then gathered in the square and on the adjoining road.
From three to four o'clock, however, the streets
became more thronged, and some degree of excite-
ment -was caused shortly before the latter hour by the
arrival on the scene of Mr. Teare, one of Mr. Murphy's
leading supporters, who was at once recognised as having
taken so prominent a part in the proceedings on the pre-
vious afternoon. It then transpired that Mr. Murphy had
left Manchester, it was said for Bolton, and that his satel-
lite, Mr. Flannigan, had returned to Northampton. The
elements of discord were not long wanting. An Irish mob
had assembled in Stevenson-square early in the afternoon,
when they were addressed by their leader, who told
them that the agitation which was going on was not a
question of religion, but a question of nationality. Ha
advised them to increase their number, and divide them-
selves. The mob (about 200) proceeded to Chorlton-road,
but a number of police were on duty, and a telegram,
having been sent to the chief detective office, a large
force of police, under the direction of Captain Palin,
was soon on the spot, and succeeded in suppressing,
the disturbance. Several of the Irish party were
armed with bludgeons, which they used pretty freely, but
without, we believe, any serious consequences. In the
course of the afternoon and evening eleven men, who were
seen to take a prominent part in the disturbance, were
apprehended and lodged in the various police-stations.
A large number of police were on duty up to a late hour,
and a reserve of the A, C, and D divisions was kept
at the Hulme Town Hall, in readiness to be called out if
necessary.

ENGLISH OPINION AND AMERICAN
POLITICS.'

The Pall Mall Ga:etle, observing that when an ambas-
sador is speaking we get as near as we are ever likely to
get to the view which the American people as a whole
take of the English people as a whok, says the expressions
of cordial sympathy used by Mr. Reverdy Johnson at
Sheffield will therefore be welcome to everyone who
wishes to see peace and goodwill flourish between
the two countries to whom the maintenance of con-
stitutional freedom has been pre-eminently entrusted;
and we hope that the people of the United States will
feel assured that the friendly words of their representative
found their full response in the breast of every English-
man whose sentiments are worth taking into account.
Mr. Roebuck's petulant insolence deprives him of
all claim to be included in this category. In one
passage of Mr. Reverdy Johnson's speech he referred
with great good sense to the differences of opinion which
Prevailed in England during the American war " as to the
causes and the justice of the struggle " in which the two
sections of the Union were engaged. lie pointed out
that these differences were only the reflection of
similar differences entertained in the United States,
and therefore that their existence among ourselves was
not a matter for surprise. The good sense and modera-
tion which characterise this view of the subject might
be considered with great advantage by some English
writers. Journalists who took the side of the North
throughout the civil war have a perfect right
to pride themselves upon the consistency of their
principles or on the accuracy of their predictions.
But an important section of politicians in England took a
view of the American Constitution for which they could at
least plead the sanction of some of the most eminent
American statesmen. According to this theory, the
conditions under which the original compact was entered
into by the several States implied in the last resort a right
on the part of any one of them to secede from the Union
if it should eventually fail to answer the purposes for
which it was designed. To those who thus argued it
seemed plain that in the possible exercise of this right lay
the only guarantee for the maintenance of that State
sovereignty which constituted the best check upon tho
encroachments of a numerical majority, and consequently
the best security for the permanence of constitutional
freedom in the United States. Whether this view was

true or false, it was quite compatible with a state of neu-
trality during the war, and with hearty goodwill to the
American people both at that time and now that the war
is over.

Mr. Bernal Osborne is so ill that be is confined to
his bed. Tic intends to take the earliest opportunity of ap-
pearing before the electors.

King Victor Emmanuel sent £l2O to the peasant
who assi.tcd in saving his life whilst out shooting, and has
besides granted him a pension for life.

FALL or A PLATFORM.—An alarming occurrenco
took place on Saturday afternoon at Wakefield, the occa.
sion being the show of the West Riding Agricultural
Society. A grand stand, thronged with spectators who
were witnessing a brass band contest, fell without warning,
and many persons were severely injured.
Several gentlemen have determined on meeting the
present railway difficulty by trying the experiment of jour-
neying from the outlying districts to the outskirts of town
by the aid of velocipedes, after the fashion recently adopted
in the neighbourhood of Paris. Ono expert traveller has
proved the possibility of outstripping the steam horse by
gliding along at the rate of 15 miles per hour.—South London
Press.

A correspondent of a Birmingham paper, who
wrote to Mr. Bright with reference to the personal payment
of rates, publishes the following extract from the hon.
member's reply :—'• The retention of the payment of
rates as a test was the act of the Tory Government ; we
were all opposed to it. It was not in Mr. Gladstone's bill of
1866, and he was most strongly opposed to it last year, and
denounced it on many occasions."
When a Government once enters upon a career of
despotism it is difficult for it to know where to halt. Who
could ever have supposed that the master of more than one
hundred legions would be compelled to make war upon pipes ?
Yet such is the fact. The Figaro of last week announces
that in the Quartier Latin a razzia was made on a quantity
of fragile clay which had been worked into tubular shape
with a bowl at the end in the form of a lantern and coloured
red.

The South London Chronicle says that the ladies of
South London aro determined not to be behind the ago in
tho assertion of their political privileges. Out of a list
roughly estimated at about 500 claimants for the borough
franchise in the parish of St. George, Southwark, scarcely
six are of the sterner sex. If their claims be disputed, and

the 494 (call them only 494) attend in person to substantiate
them, what a happy task the revising barrister will have
before him.

ERROR IN PAYING A CHEQUE.—One of the
tellers in the Clydesdale Bank, Glasgow, discovered the
other evening, when balancing his accounts, a deficiency of
£1,134. On further investigating the affair, he found that
he had paid to a Mr. David Kirkland, cheese merchant, of
the Bazaar, £1,260 instead of £126, on a cheque that had
been presented. Mr. Kirkland denies having received
more than £126 ; but he has, notwithstanding, been
arrested and remitted to the sheriff for examination.

THE REGISTRATIONS. —On Monday next, tho
14th inst., the registrations under the new Act will com-
mence, and must be concluded by the Bth October. On
Monday, Middlesex and the City of London will open the
proceedings. " Lodgers' claims "in the latter are plenti-
ful—about 700 ; and in Middlesex " ladies " will claim to
be on the register. In Marylebone the ladies will claim
" their rights "to appear on the list of voters. Lodgers
and ladies will be the great feature in the revision.

THE MASSACRE OF NATIVE CHRISTIANS IN
JAPAN.—We read in the Nagasaki Express :—" The native
Christians at Nagasaki have, it seems, at last been
sentenced to suffer death, and a body of about 150 of
them were, on the night of the 10th inst., hurried on board
the steamer Sir Harry Parkes, to be taken out to sea
and there drowned. Some fifty more, chiefly women,
were to await another Japanese steamer, and suffer the
same fate. Directly they heard what was in contempla.
tion, the foreign consuls jointly addressed a stirring re-
monstrance to the governor, urging him to rescind such a
cruel order, but the only reply they received was a recom-
mendation to mind their own business. Another nnictin,.;
of the consular body for the discussion of this matter,
though too late to do anything towards effecting this
safety of the doomed ones on board the Sir Harry
Parkes, was to be held on Saturday, the 11th July. Surely
the authorities of Christian nations will, by some means
er other, be able to bring it within the scope of their duties
to prevent such atrocities as these. The Jesuits, we
believe, claim some 40,000 convects in Japan : if the
slaughter has once commenced where will it end? Ar©
the whole of these converts to be sacrificed to the fury of
their heathen rulers:" " '