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

THE COLUMBUS OF TROUVILLE.

M. Alexandre Dumas, sen., 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 Stetzmus hic 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 Com6die-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 hand 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 neighbour?, and to describe the nature of the
attack. The motive for the crime had been to obtain
possession of a sum of 2200 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 shews 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
urepared to defend himself vi et armis.
THE 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
Cuby, Cornwall, presented to it, in 1858 the Rev. Mr.
Reid, whose " letter 3 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
WPgglo., itourttitifiltgaa right of Presentation.

LATEST INTELL MENCE.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, August26.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :

q ver Cent.
End of month... —•— Ital'an Loan —
3 per Cent
End of month 7l 021 Mexican Loan ... 241
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 285 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncior ...1463 Home Debt —
End of month... Deferred —
RAILWAYS. Cash
Orleans ... 910
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 5BO
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 4lO
North of Spain 521
Saragossa
Roman 39

A German paper reminds us that the Prussian
plan of an Italian campaign lately divulged by
General La Marmora in the Italian Chamber was
actually carried out in 1809 by Eugene Beau-
harnais, then Viceroy of Italy. At the beginning
of the war Eugene had only 40,000 men to oppose
to the Austrian army of upwards of 56,000, com-
manded by the Archduke John. Prince Eugene
was defeated by the Austrians at Sacile on the
16th of April, and retired to Verona. When,
however, the Archduke John went north after the
battle of Ratisbon he was pursued by Eugene
and defeated on the Piave ; he was followed into
Hungary, where Eugene again defeated his ad-
versary at Raab, and, after storm;ng that
fortress, joined Napoleon's army just before the
battle of Wagram. Eugene's troops, like La
Marmora's, were chiefly composed of Italians ;
and, as shown above, they were less numerous
than those of his adversary, whereas La Marmora
had upwards of 200,000 men against only 80,000
Austrians.
The 7 imes notices the fact that a black column
surmounted by a white eagle, and inscribed with
the records of a century of failures, has been
erected in one of the Swiss Cantons in perpetual
commemoration of Polish genius and courage.
Nine times in the last hundred years have the
Polish people, according to this monument, essayed,
at the cost of infinite bloodshed, to establish or
recover their independence. Nine times have their
efforts proved abortive, but the commemoration,
nevertheless, is justified by facts. To this hour
the Poles have really preserved the purity of their
race, and retained their longings for a nationality.
They are entitled, therefore, to describe the genius
of Poland as " unsubdued." The " Polish ques-
tion " is within a certain sphere a living question
still, though we 'feed go no further than the re-
ports of this very ceremony to discover the diffi-
culty of its solution. We may suppose that the
Poles still desire to recover their country. What
their sympathizers desire is probably the example
of a successful insurrection. One difficulty in the
way of the former aspiration was freely acknow-
ledged at the meeting. Where is the country
which the Poles wish to recover ? Where and
what is their Poland to be ? Poland is the name
for almost any portion of Eastern Europe, accord-
ing to period. It once included large territories
of Russia. Some provinces, once part of Polish
dominions, are now absolutely German. In others
more specially Polish the landowners alone are
now Poles, the peasantry being Russians, and the
townspeople Jews. If language is to be the gauge
or measure of nationality, what, under such cir-
cumstances, would be the result ? It is a very
hard problem, and we cannot wonder that all at-
tempts to solve it have hitherto failed.
The Telegraph, discussing the chances of war,
observes that the issue really depends upon the
question how far the discontent of which we have
seen s)me manifestations in France is general in
that country. To that 'question nobody out of
France, and very few people in France, can give
any definite reply.. The Cardinal and the most in-
jurious defect of the Imperial system is, that it pro-
vides no adequlte means for the free expression of
public opinion ; hence the ruler and the ruled have
no sufficient means of understanding each other.
Against the triumph of the monarchical candidate
in the department of the Gard, we have to set the
victory of M. Grevy in the Jura. Against the un-
precedented sale of the Lanterne, we must place
the extraordinary list of applications for the recent
lean. Napoleon 111. knows France better than
any man living, but no amount of personal know-
ledge can supply the place of that perfect insight
into public opinion afforded by a free press and free
representative institutions. Everything, in fact,
depends upon the estimate which the Emperor may
form of the extent to which France is dissatisfied.
If he should come to the conclusion that the discon-
tent is really serious, one cannot doubt that he will
seek to gratify the popular passion for military
glory ; knowing, as he does, that the mere ap-
proach of war will stifle all domestic rivalries, and
that victory would once more identify his dynasty
with the greatness of France. But if Napoleon
111. come to this conclusion at all, he will come to
it most reluctantly. Every instinct of prudence
recommends to him a waiting policy. One of the
main causes of the weakness exhibited by the Em-
pire is the knowledge that to a great extent it
depends for its continuance on the life of one man.
But in the course of a very few years' time the Na-
poleonic dynasty will hold out fair promise of a
peaceable succession. The Prince Imperial is al-
ready more than twelve, and in another half-dozen
years he will be of an age, if need be, to ascend
the throne without the perilous experiment of a'
regency. Obviously, therefore, while his only son
is still a mere child, the Emperor has the strongest
personal motives for avoiding the terrible risk in-
volved in a contest with Germany. Nor can the
Telegraph see much reason to imagine that the
French nation is anxious for war.

FIRST WARWICKSHIRE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.—The
annual inspection of the Ist Warwickshire Rifle Volun-
teers, by Col. Sir E. F. Campbell, Bart., has just taken
place, and the result has been that the inspector has been
pleased to speak of the corps as a " credit to the county:,
To have the high testimony of so experienced an officer is
a credit to the men themselves, and speaks well for the
colonel and officers of the battalion. The corps numbered
nearly 900 men, and is under the command of Col. Ratcliff.
The men were put through a number of movements, all of
which were executed in capital style. Sir E. F. Camp-

bell, in addressing Col. Rateliff, said it was always a source
of great congratulation to inspect the battalion, because he
always saw something to praise in the way of imprcva-
mont. On the present occasion the muster was the largest
ho had ever seen of the battalion, and the men had bee❑
exceedingly steady in their drill. The entire movements,
especially the marching past, gave groat satisfaction. Ile
had therefore great pleasure in congratulating them upon
upon their high state of efficiency. With regard to the
review at Windsor, the conduct of the men of the Ist
Warwickshire was exemplary, and the battalion ought
really to be the pride of the county. Lord Leigh also con-
gratulated Col. Ratcliff, and said he could not add one
word to what Col. Sir E. Campbell had said respecting the
manner in which the men had gone through their move-
ments, except to say that he endorsed all that had been
said. Col. Ratcliff, in reply, thanked Col. Campbell for
the excellent report he had promised to make of the bat-
talion. It was very gratifying to know that their vigil-
ance and perseverance had been rewarded by kind expres-
sions of approval. He sincerely trusted that the men
would continue to improve until it could be truly said GI
them that they were the best drilled battalion in the king-
dom. The gallant colonel then congratulated Lord Leigh
on his recovery of health, and said his presence would
give an impetus to their exertions and animate them to
further improvement. Three hearty cheers were then
given by the men for the Inspector, three for Lord Leigh,
three for Col. Ratcliff, three for the Adjutant, and three
for the officers. The men then marched back to Bingley
Hall, and previously to being dismissed were addressed by
Col. Ratcliff, who thanked them for the manner in which
they had gone through their drill.

TIIE PERSIAN MAIL.—We learn by telegram from
Teheran that the Persian monthly mail which left on July

23 was robbed and tho bags taken on the Turkish frontier.

Correspondents by that mail are therefore requested to,re-
peat their letters.

A DUTY ON BOURSE TRANSACTIONS. The
North German Gazette expresses the opinion that opera-
tions on the Bourse, having assumed the character of a
special occupation, ought to pay taxes like other branches

of industry. The argument, says a Berlin letter, is not
entirely conclusive, but the more fact that it is brought
forward by the Gazette confirms the rumour that the Mini-

star of Finance intends to propose a duty on Bourse tran-
sactions,

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HER MAJESTY.

We are requested to contradict on authority the
report which has appeared in the public press of a
man having been arrested at Lucerne on suspicion
of being a Fenian with designs against the life of
the Queen. Her Majesty has been subjected to no
annoyance of any kind during her stay in Switzer-
land, and nothing has occurrel to interfere with
the excellent arrangements madefor her comfort by
the federal and local authorities.

BERNE, Aug. 23.
As already telegraphed, the statement of the
Gazette de France that two English policemen bad
arrested at Lucerne a Fenian meditating an attack
upon the Queen was based upon a complete miser
prehension of the facts. The real state of the case
lies in a nutshell. An unfortunate Englishman, one
Charles William Wood—become insane it is ima-
gined in consequence of the recent great heat—yes
detected last Wednesday attempting to penetrate
into the apartments of the Queen, evidently not,
however, with any criminal intention, but, as be
himself plainly declared, to see her Majesty face to
face. As the poor fellow had neither friends nor
relatives in the neighbourhood, in whose care be
could be placed, and further appeared only scantily
supplied with money, he was handed over,• after
having the state of his mind settled beyond all
doubt by medical testimony, by the police authori-
ties at Lucerne to those at Berne, that he might be
sent back by the English Legation to his home.

211 E ABERGELE ACCIDENT.

ADJOURNED INQUEST.

ABERGELE, Wednesday.—The inquest was re-
sumed shortly before 12 o'clock this morning be-
fore Dr. Pierce, coroner for the district. Lord
Farnham, the Hon. Robert Maxwell, Sir Henri
Edwards, and Mr. Berwick, brother of the late
Judge Berwick, were present in court. Mr. Mason,
assistant manager of the London and North-
Western Railway, represented the railway ; Mr. E•
Woods, solicitor, appeared on behalf of Thomas
Outen, Lord Farnham's servant, and others. 03
the court being opened,
Lord Farnham rose, and, addressing the coro-
ner, said the duty he had to perform was one
very painful to his feelings, but he would endea-

your to discharge it without unduly hurting the
feelings of any gentleman in the court. He
spoke the sentiments of every one who attended tlle
meeting of relatives of the deceased which was held
yesterday after the funeral, when he said that there
was a solemn impression upon the minds of all that
the duty which, in the providence of God, had de-
volved upon the coroner was one which he wile

totally unfitted to perform. (Hear, hear, and ap-
plause.) He spoke not only the sense of all those
who were there as mourners for the dead, but there
was certainly a strong and unanimous feeling co
the part of all those who had business in the court,
that there was a total absence of all dignity and of
all legal knowledge displayed by the coroner in the
conduct of the case on Tuesday ; and he, as a mow
ber of the relatives of those who were lost, should
feel it to be his duty—and he was authorised to take

the course by the declared sentiments of all the relit-
tives—to make known in the proper quarter
the absolute necessity of relieving the coroner
of the almost superhuman difficulties with
which he was surrounded in the inquiry. He CO''
sidered that the mighty interests at stake, not only'

those of the London and North Western Railway'
but of the public which travelled over the railways
of the kingdom, rendered it necessary that the con-
duct of the inquiry should be placed in other hands'
and he should communicate that view to the Home
Office. (Applause.) His lordship concluded by say-
ing he hoped he had discharged his unpleasant task
without unnecessarily wounding the feelings of the
coroner, and that was that he had done his veil
best. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Wood, solicitor, protested against the re'
marks of Lord Farnham, which he said were of P'
character such as he had never before heard ad"
dressed to a judge. (Applause.) He had himself
had no occasion to be dissatisfied with the eOO-
- of the coroner ; and, with all respect
to Lord Farnham and the relatives of those
killed by the accident, he must say that he did 006
think the unusual difficulties with which the coroner
was surrounded had been lessened by the bearing
of those gentlemen. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Parry, a juryman, here rose, and addressing
the representatives of the press, but evidently re-
ferring to the work of a single member, said he
could not refrain from expressing his dissatisfaction
with the manner in which the coroner and jury, fie
inhabitants of Abergele, had been treated by the
press. It was a most unfair thing to come there tio),
attend an inquest, and then to write " sneering
and silly remarks about the people of the village'
and even abuse the room in which the inquest well
held, calling it a4i conjuror's room," and the table
at which the jury sat a conjuror's table." (" gear'
hear," and applause.)
The Coroner (who appeared to be much agitated)
made a few remarks in reply to Lord Farriber3;
He was understood to say that he had acted in strict
accordance with the law that ruled a coroner's Ourt'
and that he had no doubt that the spirit of his 101.?_0
ship's speech emanated from the gentleman
sat by his side (Mr. Hesketh).
Lord Farnham said he had been influenced by on
single person in the remarks which he had ined,e;
He spoke his own feelings, and those of the whe:a
body of relatives of the killed. He repudiet,o
having said one single word in disparagement of t"
character of the coroner. He pitied him.
The subject then dropped, and the court proceed
to hear evidence. The first witness called was—et
Thomas Outen, brother of Edward Outen, Val
to the late Lord Farnham. The witness had yeeter#
day seen among the remains of those killed the bed);
which from the peculiar formation of the trunk 11
recognised as that of his brother. He also iclet:
tified amongst the property recovered from the 6;
a meerschaum pipe which had belonged to his 13
brother, and a prayer-book, which had been Pr:i
sented to him by Lord Lyttelton. The deceee
left a widowed mother, whom he had sup Ported.
He did not know whether he was married or lie
The evidence of identification was supported by
Thomas Davies. fied
Elizabeth Stearn, residing in London, ideal ,0
a ring belonging to her sister, Lady Chl•riaeri
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maid. She also identified a dog-collar belong;
to a dog which it was part of her sister's diltilot
take charge of, and which she always carried
in a basket.
Mr. George Wright, head porter at the Quer;
Hotel, Chester, stated that on Wednesday
foo.
Lord and Lady Farnham, with their 0
man, valet, housekeeper, and maid, slop they
the Queen's Hotel. On Thursday morning ;ter
proceeded by the mail train which left Cl° the
about 11.45, the witness accompanying than °ioto
train, and assisting in putting their luggage Da,ll
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the train. lie reeognised the portrait 0f
apt.
Chinnery's maid, and also of Lord Farnham'sv
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Sir Nicholas Chinnery, Lady Chinuery and 3,
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the lion. Judge Berwick, his sister, and a little bas
travelled in the train. All the persons he
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mentioned were put in the first four carriageef_mo
their luggage, labelled " Kingstown," in the Lou a
portion of the train. lie saw the doors cleef;P:o.
them, and the train proceed out of the sy
the doors of the carriages were not locked. .00
The evidence, as to the identity of the pc r
killed was completed, and the inquest adj Aree'ci to

Thursday.
Lord Farnham made a statement, in vibicAlldijB
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denied that anything he bad said as to the c 0 re
of the inquiry had been said from any doir,oll
disparage the coroner, and added, that he wag"tha
satisfied with the way in which the business 01
day Lad been conducted.

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A field-day of the troops in garrison was the
this morning on Woolwich-common, comprisiog the
whole of the mounted portion of the force, witb
division of Royal Marines.

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