The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-09 00:00:00

SALE OF LIQUOR ON SUNDAY BILL.

The committee reassembled yesterday in Room 18, when
evidence was taken in opposition to the bill. Tho first wit-
ness examined was Mr. Morrell, the secretary of the Sunday
bands and various other societies for the, opening of places of
recreation, amongst which were the British Museum and Crys-
tal Palace, on Sunday. Ho said ho altogether objected to
the bill, and ho believed the feeling of the well-informed
working, men was also contrary to the bill. lie bad hoard
of statistics being collected, but then he should greatly dis-
trust them when they were got up by interested par
ties. Ho did not think that it was fair to say
that restrictive measures had effected the great
diminution that had taken place with regard to
drinking. He thought increased intelligence had had a
great deal to do in lessening the evil. If the public-
houses were c'esed, as provided by the bill, great
inconvenience must of necessity follow. Restriction, in

his opinion, had reached its limit, and ho did not think
but it would be in consonance with the feeling of a very large
body of the public if on Sunday (waling they were com-
pelled to take their beer whilst out of doors in the evening,
and their supper when they got home. It was altogether
ridiculous to suppose they were in favour of such an
arrangement. A family man could not afford to give his
children bottled ale to drink. They could all have a little
out of a pot of beer, which cost 3d., but the ale was 10d. a
bottle, and that was a consideration. He thought all
days alike one as good as the other. He knew
how they did things in Paris, but he did not think
that sort of arrangement would suit London. It
would be, however, a great advantage if the insti-
tutions of art Nero open in the afternoon, but he did
not go in for everything as in Paris on a Sunday. The
decrease of the consumption of spirits in Scotland he attri-
buted to the same cause as in England, viz., increased
intelligence.

A woman named Hannah Russell, 104 years old
entered the Yeovil Workhouse last week as a pauper.

The Northern, Daily Express reports the funeral
of Robert Chambers, which took place on Sunday. It
was estimated that there were from 50,000 to 60,000 per-
sons in the procession.

A man named Peter Morris has been committed
for trial by the Bristol magistrates for personating the vote
of Henry Howley at the late election of that city. Ho voted
for Mr. Miles.

The eighth report of the Trades Union Commis.
sioners has been issued. It contains the testimony of Messrs.
Pickard, Normansell, Macdonald, Brown, Hewlett, Eley, and
Higginson.

PEDESTRIAN FEAT.-011 Monday an arnateu
pedestrian undertook to run twice from the Elephant and
Castle, Newington, to Croydon and back, a distance of
forty miles, within five hours. The first journey to Croy-
don and back was performed in two-and-a-quarter hours,
and the second was completed and the match won with
seven minutes to spare.

SHOCKING SUICIDE. —A young man, nameo
Patrick Hayden, 21 years of age, a private of the 86th
Regiment, stationed at the New Barracks, Gosport, has
committed suicide by discharging the contents of a loaded
rifle into his mouth, at his quarters. He was last seen
alive by a comrade named Samuel Virgent, about five
minutes before the dreadful act, who, on hearing the report
of the gun, went to the bedside of Hayden, and found him
quite dead, the upper part of his face and head being clean
blown away.
A WORKHOUSE MASTER STABBED BY A
PAUPER. —At Mallow workhouse a pauper, named
Moynehan, objecting to the quality of his rations, endea-
voured to help himself to more from a table. Mr. Fitz-
patrick, the master, interposed, and in the struggle which
ensued Moynehan stabbed the master in the abdomen with
a shoemaker's knife. Mr. Fitzpatrick's condition is very
critical, and but for the downward direction of the knife the
wound would have been fatal at once. Shortly after the
occurrence the police placed Moynehan under arrest. He
is a cripple, one of his legs having been amputated.

SHOCKING DEATH OF A PEACEMAKER. —On
Saturday evening a young man, named Reuben Nobbs, a
carpenter, residing at Welwyn, Hertfordshire, received a
fatal blow on the head with a poker from a man named
James Blow, who was figl with another man. Nobbs
was endeavouring to make between the parties, when
the poker came down upon head, smashing the skull
and forcing the eyeball out of the socket. He died in ex-
cruciating agony between eleven and twelve o'clock on
Sunday. Blow stated that he never intended to strike
Nobbs, but aimed at the other man.

POOR LAW RETURNS. —From a return which ha
just been presented to Parliament, we gather that no less
than 931,546 persons were relieved throughout England and
Wales in the twelve months ending Lady-day, 1867 ; of this
number 122,454 received help in the metropolis, which shows
an increase of 17,955 on the previous year. Tho largest
number in England during the last ten years was in 1863,
which showed a total of 1,079,382. Tho total expenditure
for 11?67 was £10,905,173, and of this sum the metropolis
came iu for £1,844,765.

THE OAKS COLLIERY.--The workmen engaged in
clearing the roads have come across two bodies in the N 0.2
board, in what is known as "Jones's Jinuy," between 800
and 900 yards from the pit bottom. They were found close
to each other, and near where a horse, which Lad evidently
been yoked to a train of corves, was lying. One of the bodies
was identified as that of a lad named John Graham, fifteen
years of age, who resided with Lis parents at Littleworth,
near Monk Bretton. The other body has not beenidentified,
although the poor fellow had on a pair of new boots.

Two MEN DROWNED. —Early on Sunday morn-
ing three men, Mr. Augustus Wynne, Mr. Arthur Hunt,
and Mr. J. Carr, accompanied by a boatman named
Gallagher, proceeded on a pike fishing excursion on Lough
Gill, near the town of Sligo. It appears that they had
entered into an agreement with each other as to
who should get each fish as it was caught. Mr.
Wynne claimed and obtained the first fish. A second
fish was about being landed when Mr. Wynne claimed
it also. This gave rise to a dispute, and all of the
parties leaned to one side of the boat to settle the point,
causing the boat to capsize. Mr. Carr and the boatman
swam safely to shore about sixty yards distant. The other
two were drowned, Mr, Hunt leaves a wife and seven
7hildren. . _
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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL CASTLE, June 5.

The Queen went out in the morning, accom-
panied by Princess Louise ; and in the afternoon
her Majesty drove to Birkhall, accompanied by
Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice.

The Prince and Princess of Wales left Marl-
borough House yesterday for Titness Park.

CARDIN.IL CULLEN ON DIE ALGERIAN

DISPU7'Ii.

Cardinal Cullen has addressed the following let-
ters to the Univers in answer to the extraordinary
assertion made by Marshal M'Mahon in the course
of his correspondence to the Archbishop of Algiers,
to the effect that "though Ireland is a very reli-
gious country," the natives, during the last famine,
used to eat each other, just as the natives of Algeria
during the past winter
Sir,—Permit me to protest, through the medium
of your very estimable paper, against an assertion
relative to Ireland, an assertion contained in a let-
ter addressed on the 21st of last April, by Marshal
M'Mahon, Duke de Magenta, to Mgr. Lavigerie,
Archbishop of Algiers. In that letter the illustrious
marshal tells the right rev. prelate (Sa Grandeur),
You will doubtless acknowledge with me that Ire-
land is one of the most religious countries in the
world. Nevertheless, during the last famine cases
of anthropophagy occurred there, just as they occur
at this moment in Algeria.' As soon as our attene
tion was directed to these words we deemed it our
duty to institute a careful inquiry to ascertain if the
fact they announced had any foundation, and in a
very short time we were informed, from sources the
most authorised—the most unquestionable, that not
a single act of cannibalism had occurred in Ireland
during the long years of famine 'which have recently
visited the country. No, notwithstanding its dis-
tress, the country never beheld the scenes of vio-
lence and murder of which the sectators of the
Koran have made so sad a display in Algeria. The
famine was, it is true, so long and so severe that it
may be said that the sufferings of the unfortunate
people (le pauvre people) were unexampled in the
world's annals. But in the midst of these trials
the people of Ireland derived from the true religion
and divine teachings of the Gospel admirable pa-
ience and resignation, and prepared to face the
anguish of hunger and death by the pious recep-

ion of the Sacrament of Penance and the lloly
Eucharist. Thus, far from attempting the life of
their neighbours, far from trying to save their own
by sacrificing that of their neighbours, even that of
their own children, as has taken place amongst the
Aussultnans of Algeria, the poor Irish Catholics—
there have been thousands of instances of this—
shared with their fellow sufferers their last morsel

of bread ; and I might quote a great number of
parents who, whilst expiring in the torments of
hunger, abstained from touching what scanty food
was left them, in order to save thereby, if po3sible,
the life of their offspring. These facts, we are
assured, will rejoice no one more than the gallant
warrior who, surely through inadvertence, allowed
the assertion to escape his pen, which we have felt
it our duty to take up. The name of Marshal

NPAlahon, who recals one of the noblest families
of the Celtic princes of Ireland, holds a high
rank among those of our Catholic chiefs, who, in
the bloody contest with Cromwell's fanatic bands,

inscribed on their banner this noble motto
:
Pro fide patria et Rege. The exalted position
occupied just now by the worthy marshal, the
well-deserved honours he enjoys, all, show how
caithfully he has preserved the traditions of
valour and devotedness for which his race have ever
been conspicuous to their king and country. But,
on the other hand, the Catholics of Ireland are

pleased to hope that ruling a distant colony in the
name of Catholic France, Catholic France, who
is not only the mother, magna parens, of the Celtic
race, but also the eldest daughter of the Church, he
will know how to uphold the sacred rights of our
iaiih, and the freedom of a religion for which so
many of his ancestors have shed their blood in this
land of suffering and martyrdom. As regards the
piestion of orphan asylums for young Arabs,
which gave rise to the letter in which the marshal
efers to the cannibalism which, in evil days, he
supposes to have polluted Ireland, Mgr. Lavigerie
has so ably discussed and set it forth, that all the
world is compelled to admit that to defend such a

cause is to defend the cause of reason, humanity,
faith, and charity—a cause which cannot but pre-
vail in Catholic France. In concluding, Mr. Editor,
allow me to congratulate you on the great services
you have rendered religion by your generous advo-
cacy of the rights of the Holy See, and the freedom
of education, and to hope you may long be spared
to pursue your mission. I beg to assure Monsieur
of my sincere esteem and deep regard.
(Signed) "t PAUL, Cardinal CULLEN,
Archbishop of Dublin, Primate of Ireland, 84c.
"Dublin, May 31."

ROMAN CATHOLICS IN PRISON.—A Parliamentary
return shows a long list of prisons in England in
which there is no provision for remunerating a clergy.-
wan for attending and giving religious instruction
to the prisoners except the chaplain belonging to
the Established Church. The following are in the
list :—Coldbath-fields Prison, which had in It
329 Roman Catholic prisoners on the 2d of April
last ; House of Correction, Westminster, which had
on that day 168 Roman Catholics; House of De-
tention, Clerkenwell, with 75 ; City Prison, Hollo-
way, 50 ; New Bailey Prison, Salford, 185 ;
42 ; Lancaster and Maidstone, 37 each ; Chester
County Gaol, 34 ; Carlisle, with 122 Roman
Catholic prisoners in the half year ; Derby and
Salop, each with 206 in the year ; Usk, with
288 in the year ; Essex County Gaol and Ilford
House of Correction with 220 between them in the
year. In the following prisons a Roman Catholic
priest is remunerated from the county purse
Birmingham, Durham, Kirkdale, Knutsford, Leeds,
Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Northallerton,
Preston, Stafford, Wakefield, Wandsworth, Win'
chester, and Worcester. At Spalding a Roma'?
Catholic priest residing at Boston is allowed 110
second-class railway fare, amounting to £2 4s. 10
the last year.

The funeral of Robert Chambers, the ex-chain'
pion of the Thames and the Tyne, took place on
Sunday afternoon at Walker, near Newcastle-on'
Tyne. From 50,000 to 60,000 persons were Pre"
sent, including some 3,000 who walked in the pro-
cession. Among these were some of the most cele,d
brated oarsmen of the day and the members of.
many friendly societies. The procession was headed
by a volunteer rifle band playing the "Dead Mash
in Saul. Every piece of elevated ground along
the route from the deceased's residence, s3'
Anthony's, Tyneside, to the burial-ground, a di°'
tance of about a mile and a half, was thronged,
'The roads and lanes leading to St. Anthony's and
Walker presented the appearance of a great muster'
ing towards a race course on a popular race dal'
being crowded not only with persons who had been
conveyed by rail and by steamboat, but by call
and vehicles of every character. In compliance
with his own wish, Chambers was buried by th
side of his mother.
POST-OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS.—The Undertnerl;
tioned offices in England and Wales will be opened
Post-Office Savings Banks on Wednesday, the let Jull;
1868 :—Bridge-street, Bolton, Lancaster ; Broal-stro;
Ali •ffield, York ; Chasotown, Walsall, Stafford ;
Croses, Carnarvon, Merioneth; I,llllllm-road (No. `29':
;AV., London, Middlesex ; Hendon, Sunderland, DurioAlr"
Flolywell, Oxford, Oxford; Manor-street, Clapham, S.\ 6
London, Surrey ; New-road, Gravesend, Kent ; 14113 j,
Elms-road, S.W., London, Surrey; Southampton-r° e,
Kentish-town, N.W., Loudon, Middlesex; West-bet"
Leicester, Leicester. off
The newspapers are teeming with references to ec.
my in tea by co-operation. iforninan and Co. have Oi 0.6
years co-operated through Agents to supply tea on li'itep
advantageous terms than by the ordinary channel; their 00
reaches tho consumer in the same pure state as it leave'
grower, as it is secured in packets.