The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-05 00:00:00

THE CABMEN'S STRIKE.

At a meeting of the Amalgamated Hackney Carriage
Proprietors' Association, held yesterday at the offices,
the following resolution was unanimously adopted :
" That, as the railway companies still deny the right of
all hackney carriages to enter their stations to bring away
fares, we, the non-privileged proprietors and drivers,
refuse to enter the stations to take there any fare what-
ever; and we hereby pledge ourselves to withdraw our
cabs from the stands on Saturday morning, Septem-
ber 5, and to keep them so withdrawn every day
afterwards (subject only to a bare compliance with
the requirements of the Act) until the railway companies
shall have thrown open their stations to all cabs, subject
to proper regulations." An immense meeting of drivers
was held yesterday morning at the Orange Three,
Artillery-row, Westminster. Resolutions in favour of a
complete strike were passed. At midnight the cab-
drivers met at Hunt's-yard, Earl-street, Edgware-
road, and continued deliberating until three o'clock. Reso-
lutions in favour of a strike were passed. An aggregate
meeting of the trade is about to be held on Primrose-hill.
An excursion train having left King's-cross yes-
terday morning, almost all the excursionists had to carry
their luggage, or get it carried, to the terminus. The
utmost unanimity is said to exist between the unprivileged
masters and men, and there is every indication that to-day
London will be cablcss.

THE ABEEGELE ACCIDENT AND

FENIANISM.

The Abc rgc le coroner has received a letter from Liverpool
which is of a very extraordinary character, and which
attributes the accident near Abergele to Fenianism. It
is probably a hoax. The envelope was covered
with writing—on the top, in large writing, "On
her Majesty's service." On the right side was the word
"Immediate," and on the left corner, " Important informa-
tion ! Fenian plot ! Investigate !" The envelope was dated
Liverpool, Chester, and Abergele, August 29, 1868.
The letter sets forth that the Fenians have been
much annoyed at the honours conferred by the
Lord-Lieutenant, who has been so active and influen-
tial in putting down the conspiracy, and suggests that
" when they placed the trucks in the way, they calculated
for a certainty that the Duchess of Abercorn would
be blown up along with the rest, and which
not happening has much annoyed the Fenians here."
The letter asks whether any of the railway officials
are Irishmen and Roman Catholics, and concludes by say-
ing :—" We send you this, Mr. Coroner, by way of a loyal
manifestation against that accursed system of Popish
under-plotting Fenianism, in the hope that these hidden
traitors may be brought to justice, and the true cause of this
sad disaster which you are inquiring after be brought to
light, and the guilty parties punished. We are, Mr.
Coroner, your most obedient servants, James —, Ed-
ward —, William —, Alexander --, Charles —,
Henry —, and on behalf of others. We withhold our
surnames for the present."

The doctors in attendance on the Prince Royal of
Belgium state in their daily bulletins that no change in the
condition of their patient has taken place for several days.

The well-known chemist Schonbein has just died
at Baden. He was sixty-nine years of age, having been
born at Mitzingen, in
~Ilrurtemberg, in 1799. For many
years he had resided at Basle. Hi's name is famous as the
discover of ozone and the inventor of gun-cotton.

Two omnibus drivers were charged at Marlborough-
street Police Court yesterday with furious driving. The evi-
dence showed that they were "nursing" each other down
the Edgware-road. One omnibus was driven on to the
pavement and damaged. Mr. Knox committed ono driver
for a month, and the other for 14 days, with hard labour.

The Tipperary constabulary have arrested another
tenant-farmer, bearing the name of Dwyer, of Ballycohey,
on the suspicion that ho had a connection with the late out-
rage. The mark of a recent wound was found on his head.
and when brought before Mr. William Scully ho was idonti-
fled as having been in the yard of the farm-house on the day
of the attack on the police party.

The Rev. A. G. Manson, a clergyman at
Ramsgate, writes : " I am happy in being able to state
that I have received from each of the four candidates for
East Kent an affirmative answer to both the questions
propounded by the Church Association in the enclosed
paper," viz.:-Ist. Will you support a bill in the next
Parliament to put down the Ritualistic practices con-
demned by the Royal Commissioners ?" 2nd. " Will
you support a bill for the reform of the ecclesiastical
courts ?"

The British Medical Journal has been much amused,
not to say surprised, on looking over the out-patient acci-
dent books of the various London hospitals for two
months, to find that of 124 " titos" of different kinds en-
tered, 18 were attributed to tuna or women, which num-
ber was in excess of any other animal, with the ex-
ception of dogs, who were accused of inflicting tho large
ntrnber of 85. horse-bites numbered 12 ; cat-bites, 5 ; the
monkey and donkey being accused of one each. Tho two
remaining wore simply mntcrcd as "bites." Wo certainly
bavo no reason to be proud of our exalted position.

The four Arabs recently condemned to death at
Tlemcen, in Algeria, for the murder of the Saint Germs'
family succeeded in escaping on the 24th ult. from the prison
in which they were confined, pending the hearing of an appeal
against their sentence. They managed to liberate their feel
from the iron bar to which they wore attached, and, having
torn it up, attacked the jailor and soldier on guard, and got
away by climbing over a wall. The alarm having been
given, the quarter of the town to whieh they bad been
traced was surrounded by troops, and the criminals were re.
captured In an old house in which they had oonooaled them.
NAM Tha ohf4,t tAlrIaW wdl OttlctillY miadod.