The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-19 00:00:00

" When on the scaffold high,

Or in the field we die ;"
and this sentiment was received with thunders of applause.
Referring to Mr. Gladstone and his majority of 330, he
said that he looked upon Mr. Gladstone as the head
centre of Fenianism, and the 330 as circles ; and
he had not the least doubt that in ten years
Benjamin Disraeli would be the President of the
English Republic. (Cries of " Oh, oh !") Mr. Train
went on, in a very pantomimic style, to plead the
cause of the people, and to urge his great theme
that taxation without representation is tyranny. He
repeated several times that he was the only man who
could beat General Grant for the Presidentship. Upon
his call three groans were given for the " assassination" of
King Theodore, and cheers were given for the Fenians Bar-
rett, Larkin, O'Brien, Stephens, Savage, Kelly, and the
whole of the Fenian brotherhood. In language almost blas-
phemous the lecturer proceeded withhis virulent discourse,
in the midst of which a deputation of twelve youngladies ap-
peared on the platform, headed by Miss O'Beirne, who
read an address of sympathy with Mr. Train, expressing
their feeling that it was a source of joy to them to have
that opportunity of testifying to him their unfeigned ad-
miration and approval of the noble attitude he had
assumed in America as the defender and advocate of
adopted citizens, and in England and Ireland " as the
scathing denunciator of bigotry and intolerance."

At Pilcot, in Hampshire, a tom-tit has built a
nest in the post-office letterbox. It laid twelve eggs in
less than a fortnight, and hatched nine of them.

THE BISIIOP OF HURON. —Dr. Cronyn, Bishop
of Huron, who has been a long time in England, has left
for his Canadian diocese.

FATAL ACCIDENT WITH A SCYTTIE.—At
Ax-
minster, a labourer, named Maywood, has died from the
effect of a severe gash in the abdomen, six inches long,
inflicted with a scythe by another labourer, named
Browning. The men had been having an altercation while
mowing, but the occurrence is represented as accidental,
and deceased declared it to be so in his dying depositions.
FIRE INSURANCES ON FARMING STOCK. —A
return has been published shewing that the total amount
of duty paid into the Inland Revenue Office for insurances
on farming stock against fire in England, Scotland, and
Ireland was £1,024,013 17s. 3d., the amount insured
being £79,643,401. The total allowance for collection, at
5 per cent., was £39,926 ls. 4d. In England there were,
in addition, certain charges for collection at the rate of 4
per cent., the total of which was £8,955 13s. 2d.
DEATH OF PROFESSOR ARNOTT.—The death is
announced of Mr. G. A. Walker Arnott, LL.D., the Pro-
fessor of Botany in Glasgow University. This event took
place on Wednesday. Dr. Arnott bad been for some time
in failing health, and his illness was lately complicated by
an attack of jaundice. This, however, he seemed to have
got over, and his friends up till very recently were en-
couraged to cherish the delusive hope of his restoration to
activity.

A TRADES UNIONIST SENT TO PRISON.—On
Thursday an operative bricklayer, named Thomas Butler,
was brought up by warrant at the Police-court, Liverpool,
charged with having by threats intimidated and molested
two bricklayers for the purpose of inducing them to quit
their present employment. The magistrate thought it
high time that an example should be made. The men on
strike must understand that if they chose to be idle they
had no business to interfere with those who wished to
work. There must be free trade for all. The prisoner must
go to gaol, and be kept to hard labour for three months.

The war as to the proposal to establish a foreign cattle
market is still being waged vigorously between the agricul-
turists and the "free traders," as they call themselves.
Mr. Algernon Clarke, who a few days ago contended that
free trade in foreign cattle meant dear meat, is replied to
in the Times by a writer who denies altogether this state.
rent. His argument is, that by bringing beasts to a
market in London and killing them there, meat would be
made dear in the provinces, because it would cost so much
for carriage. He contends, too, that the supposed security
against the importation of disease would not exist under
the bill ; and he appeals to veterinary evidence in proof of
his assertion that the scheme would create a far greater
danger of infection than tlq, which exists under present
regulations. _ _

The willingness with which the Chancellor of the
Exchequer consented to refer the Telegraphs Bill to a
select committee, on the condition that special instructions
should be given in order that no delay may take place,
shews conclusively that the Government are in earnest in
their endeavours to take the telegraphs under their own
control. The arguments used in its favour by many of
the most influential provincial newspaper proprietors in
the kingdom are re-echoed by some of the London press,
and it is ably pointed out by an evening contemporary that
" our telegraphic accommoiation is defective alike in
quantity and quality. It is insufficient, inefficient, and
costly beyond all reason. Even in large houses of
business, where every moment may almost be measured
by a distinct money value, it is comparatively seldom that
messages are sent through the telegraphic companies,
though private telegraphs arc largely used. In ordinary
life telegrams are sent only on the most serious emer-
gencies, and their restricted use is indicated by the shock
which many persons instinctively feel when one of the
peculiar envelopes is put into their hands. But it requires
little consideration to see that th e advantages of cheap
and easily accessible telegraphy would not be confined to-
any particular class. The result would be• to give
a quickening impulse to business generally, and bring
pewle all over the country nearer to each other."
Nothing can .be snore unsatisfactory than the present
organisation of the " intelligence department " of the tele.
graph system, as instanced by the fact that not a word was
transmitted of the speech delivered by the Prime Minister
at the banquet given to her Majesty's Government by the
Merchant Taylors' Company on Wednesday night, and
the brief summary—only seven lines—communicated of
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