The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-27 00:00:00

THE COLUMBUS OF TROUVILLE.

M. Alexandre Dumas, Ben., writes as follows from Trou-
ville :—" Trouville has become the fashionable sea-bathing
place. It has beaten Dieppe, Havre, Etretat, and Villier,
and rivals Biarritz. I ought to be proud of this success, for
the town is my America, and I have this in common
with Columbus, that I have not given my name to my
discovery. That event happened in 1831. The place was
then at the end of the world ; three days were required
to reach it ; and it was the Stetimus hie tandem of the
Parisian tourist. One day a commercial traveller appeared
there ; another day an artist. Neither history nor legend
has preserved the name of the former, and the remem-
brance of the latter is only due to its owner's celebrity.
He was the idealist Paul Huet, who contends in every
exhibition with the realist Courbet. I was the third
voyager who approached the locality. From the Trouville
which I found in 1831 to that of to-day there is the
difference between the Otaheite of Bougainville and that
of Dupetit-Thouars. When I first went there the
village contained fifteen or twenty fishermen's huts, a
dozen thatched cottages, a population of 150 souls, and a
single inn, the Auberge de la Plage. At present there
are 1,000 houses, 5,000 inhabitants at ordinary times, and
15,000 during the bathing season, with twenty-five hotels,
some of them palaces. In 1831 people walked about in
shirt-sleeves or blouses, sometimes even still less clad. At
this moment the rule is to dress three times a day, and
occasionally the actors of the Com4die-Francaise come and
perform there. In addition, there are splendid races,
concerts, promenades, picnics, balls, magnificent toilettes ;
in fact, all the pleasures of the seaside."

THE CRANE ACCIDENT AT MANCHESTER.

Some details are now to band of the crane accident at
Manchester. It occurred at the timber-yard of Messrs.
Bowden and Edwards, Brook-street, Manchester, by which
one man lost his life and six others were very seriously
injured. It would appear that the men were engaged in
moving a boiler weighing about seven tons, and for that
purpose two large travelling cranes were being used. The
cranes were moving along the tramways at a height of
about thirty feet, and six men were engaged in working
them, when, owing to the great weight of the boiler,
one side of the tramway gave way, and the two cranes
and the machinery which connected them—covering a
span about fifty feet—were hurled to the ground, bury-
ing the men among the debris. Another man, who was
engaged in the yard when the accident took place, was
knocked down and sustained very serious injuries. Two
other men, who were on the tramway, had very narrow
escapes. The injured men were removed to the Royal
Infirmary as soon as possible ; and one of them, a labourer,
named Thomas Murray, aged 33, residing at Sartor-
street, Charles-street, who had sustained a severe scalp
wound, died at three o'clock. Six others are suffering
severely.

THE NORTON FOLGATE MURDER.—In reply to
an appeal from the friends of the condemned convict
Mackay, the Home Secretary has intimated that he sees
no reason for interfering with the due course of law.
Mackay will be the first convict executed within the walls
of Newgate.

SHOCKING MURDER IN FRANCE.—The keeper
of a small inn in the outskirt of Buxerolles, near Poitiers,
named Gas, and his wife, have just been murdered by a
man with whom they were on terms of intimacy, and who
had dined with them on the day of the crime. He
returned to the house late in the evening when the couple
were alone, and taking advantage of a moment when the
woman had gone to the cellar to fetch something which he
had ordered, shot the husband in the head with a
revolver, and then stabbed him several times in the back.
Thinking Gas was dead, the murderer, whose name
was Babin, went to the cellar, and after breaking . the
woman's arm with a pistol-shot, and inflicting other
wounds, he threw her down a well ninety feet deep. The
husband before he expired was just able to give an alarm
to some neighbours, and to describe the nature of the
attack. The motive for the crime had been to obtain
possession of a sum of £2OO which Gas had in the house,
but which Babin was not able to find, as it was afterwards
discovered concealed in a bed. The murderer was soon
after arrested.

The Waterford Mail states that an unpleasant
rencontre took place between Sir Henry W. Barron and
Mr. S. T. Grubb in that city on Monday. Both gentlemen
were prosecuting their canvass and met in the street. Sir
Henry, says the Mail, accosted his rival, and wished to
know why he dared to canvass the city. Mr. Grubb
responded that he had as much right as his rival, and
would do so. Sir Henry, we are told, then asked him as
to the truth of some statements he heard Mr. Grubb had
made. Mr. Grubb denied having made them. Sir Henry
replied, " If you made them you are a liar," and said
" he would horsewhip him from one end of the quay to
the other ;" to which Mr. Grubb retorted " by defying
him, or any of his name, to lay a finger on him." During
the rencontre language was used by both the candidates
which sbews both of them to be well qualified to pass an
examination in Billingsgate. The most opprobrious terms
were applied to each other, and at the close of the inter-
view Mr. Grubb turned into an adjacent shop and pur-
chased a large blackthorn stick, with an immense ferule,
He was seen later in the day parading the quay, evidently
Prepared to defend himself vi ct amis.
TIIE GREAT CORNWALL CHURCH CASE. —The
Tregony Church case, which was for so many months
before the courts of law, and ultimately before the House
of Lords, has now passed its final stage, an important prin-
ciple of ecclesiastical law having been settled. The Rev.
Mr. Marshall, the patron of the rectory of Tregony with
Cul,y, Cornwall, presented to it, in 1858 the Rev. Mr.
Reid, whose " letters " were not, in the opinion of the
Bishop of Exeter, sufficiently countersigned by bishops,
although they were duly signed by three beneficed clergy.
men to whom Mr. Reid was known. The Bishop of Exeter
refused to institute him, and took no further notice of the
matter, but at the close of six months claimed the living
by reason of lapse, and collated to it the Rev. J. H. C.
Borwell, a curate of the diocese. The patron took pro-
ceedings against the bishop, and the Court of Common
Pleas held that the bishop had no right to interfere with
the patron's privilege, that what the bishop asked for in
the way of testimonials he was not warranted in insisting
upon, and that he improperly refused Mr. Reid's institu-
tion. The case went to the House of Lords, and their
lordships, acting upon the opinion of the judges, decided
that the Court of Common Pleas was right. Mr. Reid
has now, therefore, just been admitted to the living after
ten years' litigation, the patron having, after that long
ptAiggle, tilmallialegal right of presentation.