The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-10 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

A FINE SPECIMEN OF THE
TAGRANT.—A dirty,
loathsome-looking fellow, about 30 years of age,
not suffering from any physical ailment, was charged
with vagrancy and wilful damage.
Mr. Joseph Penn, londlord of the Lord Burleigb,
Vauxhall-bridge-road, said that last night the de-
fendant came into his house and begged. He told
him to leave, when he abused him, and on being
put out wilfully broke a pane of plate glass value
30s. lie threatened complainant by swearing he
would run a knife into him.

Defendant said he was a native of South Wales,
in distress, and merely went into the house to see
whether he could get anything, when he was for-
cibly turned out, and the window was broken by
the door closing upon him accidentally.
Mr. Penn said there was another thing which he
wished to communicate to the
magistrate. De-
fendant came into the house yesterday morning,
when, complaining
of starvation, a gentleman
ordered him some bread and cheese and beer. After
the gentleman was gone defendant wanted corn-
plainant to take the bread and cheese back and give
him more beer for it.

Mr. Selfe committed defendant fOr 11 days to
bard labour in the House of Correction.

MADAME TUSSAL7D'S. A full-length portrait
model of Alexander Arthur Mackay, who was executed on
Tuesday last, in the precincts of Newgo.te, for the atrocious
murder of his mistress, Emma Grosmith, residing at Nor-
ton Folgate, has been added, with other notorious crimi-
nals, to the Chamber of Horrors in Baker—street.

DISEASED FlSH.—During last month no less than
166,988 diseased fish were seized by the meters of the
Fishmongers' Company at and near Billingsgate-market,
and on board boats lying off there. They consisted of 73
brills, 264 cod, 15 dories, 19,650 dabs, 80 guardfish, 5,500
gurnets, 87,344 haddocks, 7 hake, 8,620 herrings, 257 ling,
1,172 lobsters, 445 mackerel, 254 'Pullets, 27,361 plaice, 53
salmon (weighing 3291 b), 484 skate, 150 smelts, 2,277
soles, 968 thornb:tcks, 37 trout, 132 turbot, and 11,850
whi'ing. There were also seized 4001 b. of cod-sounds,
351 b. of eels, 1,210 bushels of mussols, 723 gallons of
shrimps, and 4 gallons of whitebait.

The will Of Caroline, Baroness Wenlock, has
been proved under £lOO,OOO personalty, Mr. Glad-
stone being oue of the executors, and as such re-
ceiving a legacy of £3OO. The Dowager Countess
of Tyrconnell has left the bulk of her fortune to
the second Ben of the E.irl of Shrewsbury, with a
reversal iu the event of his 'marrying Other -thin a'
j'totataut, br ceisthg tb be oite hims'e'lf. • • -

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY) September b.

"Peace or wary' remains the only topic of discussion here.
The excitement which various alarmist rumours caused on
the Bourse has not yet subsided. There is no further
decline in the funds ; but there is no recovery of the fall
which was caused by the report of difficulties with Italy.
The note, believed to be couched in pretty strong terms,
which has been sent from the Cabinet of Berlin
to that of Holland respecting the rupture of nego-
tiations relative to the navigation of the Rhine,
and warlike manifestations at Chalons, serve to
maintain the depression in the barometer of nations—
financial affairs. But reports yesterday pointed to a
military conspiracy at the camp of Chalons, and
a compromising manifesto from France to Prussia;
so that in a descent to a note between Prussia
and Holland, and a rumour of excitement at
the camp, we may be said to be getting on
very nicely, and may hope for smaller things
yet. The liability of mankind to panic is one of the
strangest of mental phenomena. That journalists should
make the most of any rumours that may arise, and should
invent rumours when none do arise, is quite intelligible.
But that commercial men should allow themselves to be
influenced by reports which have been repeated a thousand
times without effect, and that all classes of stockholders
should rush to sell, even at a loss, as if an enemy were at
the gates of Paris, would be ridiculous if such panics did
not produce serious results.

Beyond these reports, rapidly diminishing in gravity,
there are no facts to guide one to a solution of the war
question ; though to make up for this deficiency there are
abundance of articles in the newspapers. The Constitu-
tionnel the other day published a warlike effusion, and
afterwards expressed surprise that it should have produced
such an effect. The France publishes a lugubrious cate-
gory of the things which the Powers of Europe must not
do for fear of French intervention. The Siecle believes
that the Eastern question has been reopened through
American' intermeddling. The Americans, by the way, are
beginning to get the credit of all the diplomatic ills which
oppress humanity ; and we may possibly hear before long
that poor Mr. Seward had a share in the late Servian
tragedy. The current number of the Revue des Dcux Mondes
has some sensible remarks on the war question, showing
that the armaments of France must be intended either for
war or a not less injurious ostentation. The Golos, a Russian
journal, contains an article to spew that war is inevitable
and that the French Government is at fault. The topic
is everywhere the same, a few of the Prussian papers
alone preserving a tone of dignified reserve. It may be
asked, if war is inevitable why should the fear of war be
allowed to work its ill effects a dozen times before hostili-
ties commence ?

Dr. N6laton and the physicians who have aided him
have been able to do nothing for Count von Goltz, the
Prussian Ambassador. The accounts of the state of the
cancerous disease from which the able diplomatist has
been suffering have been more unfavourable of late, and
there is every reason to fear that all hope is at an end.
The Marseilles strike was entirely a question of wages.
Last Saturday, when the printers took their weekly pay.
ment, they made a final declaration—not the first—tha t
they would not work at the same rate. The em-
ployers would not grant the increase, and accordingly, on
Monday there was no paper, or next to none. This
was felt to be a serious inconvenience in a place like Mar-
seilles. The public nowadays must have newspapers ; but
printers' strikes generally fail because other men are to
be procured. In this case the compositors seem to have
been unable to keep the field clear, and the journals are
being reissued.
The Government affect to be very confident in the result
of the Var election, but the Opposition leaders are equally
certain of a result in their favour. The candidature of
M. Dufaure certainly affords the best chance of a Liberal
victory.

Lissagaray has completely recovered from the
severe wound he received in the duel with M. de
Cassagnac.

Nothing of fact transpires at the camp of Chalons,
_ozcept the ordinary manoeuvres, inspections, &c.

The difficulty of determining when the native of any
country still owes his allegiance to the land of his birth,
and when it may legally he transferred to another State,
is not felt in England alone. A question of allegiance has
arisen between the Governments of France and Switzer-
land. A native of Savoy has long been settled in Geneva,
and was naturalised there before Savoy was annexed to
France. The French Government, however, maintains that
the son of this Savoyard is amenable to conscription,
and as be has refused to submit himself, the French autho-
rities request the interference of the Swiss Government.
The latter have given a forcible response. They explain
that as the Savoyard was naturalised in Switzerland be-
fore Savoy was annexed to France, he could never have
been a Frenchman at all, and that neither he nor his son
owes any allegiance to France. This argument ought to
immediately settle the case in question ; but the naturali-
sation difficulty is frequently causing trouble between the
two Governments in those instances in which the natura-
lised subject was really a Frenchman until he became a
Swiss. A final determination of this brarch of inter-
national law is a most urgent necessity.
A strange letter from Florence appears in the Literte,
announcing that the Italian Minister of the Interior,
Signor Cadorna, is retiring from office to join his Pied-
montese colleagues, La Marmora, Lanza, Sella., and others.
This epistle adds that the Tuscans only are now left at the
head of Italian affairs. " Mean, narrow-minded, guided
by the principles of Macchiavelli, whom they are neverthe-
less far from comprehending ; lost in the subtleties of
scholastic policy, like the Jews of the Talmud—such are
the managers of public business. How long is this strange
situation of a Ministry without a majority or the support
of the country to last ?" The latter adds that the discon-
tented Neapolitans are organised against the Ministry,
the Piedmontese have regained their former leaders,
and a powerful league is to be organised against
Menabrea and the rest of the " mean and narrew-
minded " Tuscans. Everything is said to be
at stake in this game, even Italian unity and the
monarchy itself. But the fall of Menabrea is to replace
the Piedmontese in power, and this will form an alliance
with the members of the Left, with whom they have voted
for two years. Here is the means of removing the per-
plexity which has begun to trouble Europe respecting
Italian affairs.

Mr, R. A. Allnatt writes to the Times on the subject of
the weather. On the 7th the sun thermometer regis-
tered 122 degrees, and the maximum shade heat was 84
at four in the afternoon. On the next day the wind
shifted -to E.N.E„ became rough and squally,
and having mingled with the previous equatorial
current, produded mist, a dense cloud canopy, and a great
depression of temperature. The thermometer only regis-
tered 61 degrees in the shade, thus showing a variation of
23 degrees in 24 hours. A correspondent at Kettering
gives the shade temperature for the two days at 89.20 and
60 respectively, shewing a still greater variation.
A letter from Lord De Tableyappears in the Manchester
Examiner and Times addressed to his tenants. It assures
them that, whichever way they may vote in the candida-
ture of his son for Mid-Cheshire, no change of feeling
towards them will be created in his mind. In contrast to
this, an account is given of the way in which a Mr. War-
burton, of Arley, acts. He has seventy or eighty tenants,
and they are to go to the poll like a flock of sheep.
A correspondent writes : " Mr. Warburton has personally
waited upon Mr. Fair, a leading farmer in the district,
who is on our central committee, and after censuring
him for taking the liberty of canvassing the Arley tenants,
told him (Fair) that he (Warburton) would tell the tenants
which way they were to vote, and that Mr. Warren should
not have one vote from that estate." There is one merit
in the way Mr. Warburton acts. He is plain enough as
to what he means, and there can be no after-discussion
about intentions, as there was in the Drax business.
The appointment, mentioned some months ago, of the
Dean of Capetown to the bishopric of Bombay is confirmed.
The late bishop, Dr. Harding, was an extreme Low Church-
man, whose zeal against " innovations" once carried him
so far that he tore down a cross of flowers which had
been introduced among some Christmas decorations
And trampled it under foot. His successor is a very
decided High Churchman, so that both Bombay and Cal-
cutta will now be administered by bishops of that school.
The Bishop of Madras, Dr. Gell, is, we believe, a Broad
Churchman, like his brother, the incumbent of St. John's,
Notting-hill, who assisted Bishop Colenso in preparing for
the press his work on the Pentateuch. It is added that
the Rev. J. G. Cowan, incumbent of St. John's,
Hammersmith, will succeed Mr. Douglas in the
deanery of Capetown. If we remember rightly, this
church has already contributed to the . nnl:s of Colonial
Church dignitaries in the person of Bishop Twells.
The bishopric of Grafton and Armidale, Australia,
has been conferred upon the Rev. J. F. Turner,
vicar of North Tidworth, Wilts, and son of the late Lord
Justice Turner. Mr. Turner is a Durham University
man. The bishopric was founded only last year, end
became vacant through the drowning of the first bishop,
Dr. Sawyer. The living of Tidworth is worth about
£320 a year, with residence, and is in the gift of the Lord
Chancellor. The Church papers are still uninformed with
respect to the bishopric of Peterborough, which has now
been vacant for some weeks. Probably the absence of the
Queen has caused the delay in filling up the post. Her
Majesty is well known to take a Ipaen interest in these
appointthents, and' setae time ago vetoed one, whith was
.
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THE TUGBOAT AND THE TARA.

ALLEGED INHUMANITY.

The charge of inhumanity made against the master of
the steamtug Constitution by Captain Armstrong, the
only survivor of the ship Tara—one of the many vessels
wrecked off the mouth of the Mersey during the
sudden and disastrous gale on the evening and
night of Saturday, the 22nd August—was informally
investigated at the inquest held on Wednesday
by the Liverpool coroner on the bodies of Kinsella,
the chief mate, and Cobbett, one of the seamen
of the ill-fated ship. Captain Armstrong's allegation was
that when the hawser by which the tugboat was attached
to the Tara parted in a very early period of the gale, he
begged the master of the tug to pay out another, or stand
by the ship in her perilous position ; that the latter
refused and steamed away, leaving the ship to her impend-
ing fate of driving on one of the banks, which she after-
wards did, with the melancholy result that all on board
(21 souls) were drowned except Captain Armstrong. In
answer to this the engineer of the tugboat stated on Wed-
nesday that nothing more could have been done to save the
ship or the lives of those on board, as Captain Armstrong
refused to be towed back to Liverpool, and, owing
to the waves being so unusually boisterous, the
steamer must have been dashed to pieces had
she approached nearer the ship than she did.
A contemporary states, however, that in the very worst
gales tug-steamers, with a prospect of making good sal-
vage, go out from the Mersey to pick up the vessels in
distress outside, and they have frequently been known to
lie close by stranded vessels, whose crews they have
thus been able to rescue by means of small boats.
Another question incidentally came up in the course of the
inquiry, and it was stated by the pilot who took the vessel
out, in reference to it, that the crew of the Tara were not
nearly so bad—that is, so badly drunk—as those of many
vessels going to sea. The jury returned a verdict to the
effect that the deceased were found drowned ; they cau-
tiously avoided any expression of opinion with regard
to the part taken by the tugboat in the disaster, but they
did add a presentment to their finding, to the effect that it
would be better for vessels to lie in the river at least one
tide, after leaving dock than go to sea with drunken
crews. This was, no doubt, founded on an infe-
rence to be drawn from Captain Armstrong's
evidence, that, had his crew been more sober,
he might have got more canvas set on his vessel,
or let go Lis anchors before she struck, thus giving her a
chance of riding out the gale, as did another vessel not far
off—the Queen of Beauty. It should be added that the
engineer of the Constitution declares that his boat remained
near where the Tara was last seen by those on Loard for
some hours, until the rising tide enabled her to recross the
bar and enter the mouth of the river with safety.

THE WEATHER TABLE-THIS DAY.