The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-14 00:00:00

THE DISTURBANCES 1N POR7UGA.L.

The following details of the disturbances at
Villa Nova de Famelicao, in Portugal, have been
received :

" Prior to the 29th January a rumour was cur
rent in Villa Nova de Famelicao that there would
be on that day .some disturbance at the market
there in connection with the sale of corn, and the
authorities therefore had requested the commander
at Braga to send overn sufficient number of soldiers
to maintain order. In consequence of this request,
on the 28th January a force of 20 men of the Bth
Regiment under the command of a lieutenant, ar-
rived in the town. On the 29th ult., which was
market-day, between 2 and 3 p.m., the time at
which the corn-carts had to pass through the town,
some of the people armed with clubs prevented the
corn-carts from leaving the town. Thereupon the
military were called out, but the soldiers, seeing the
number of the populace assembled, were able to do
nothing, the commander declaring he had not suf-
ficient men, and matters remained in stain quo.
That night the alarm-bell was rung in the parish
of Calleudario, in the neighbourhood of Villa Nova
de Famelicao, and it • was said a large mob
had reassembled in the street there to prevent the
corn from passing. Matters remained unchanged
until the Ist inst., when a fresh force of 50 soldiers
of the Bth Infantry and 7th Cavalry Regiments
arrived at Villa Nova. Upon this measures were
taken, and the carters were advised not to take the
corn that day through the town. During the night
of the 2d inst. the alarm-bell was again rung in
several parishes of the district nearest the town.
On the morning of the 3d three carts were laden
for the transport of the corn, and at 9 a.m. these
started, headed by the military. When about two
kilometres from the place called De Bairial a large
number of men made their appearance, from the
midst of whom a shot was fired, and stones were
thrown at the soldiers. This compelled the military
to repel force with force, which resulted in the
death of three or four persons among the populace,
besides the wounding of many others, some seri-
ously. The mob seeing matters becoming serious,
at once fled, and order was speedily re-established.
The rioters consisted of 200 or 300 individuals, all
belonging to the lowest order. Not a single artisan
or member of the better classes took part in the
disturbance."

their respect for the master of; the Cheshire. Mr.
Corbet, we may add, is married to Miss Egerton,
eldest daughter of Sir Philip Egerton, by whom he
has two sons, the eldest of whom, and the hope of
Troy,' bids fair to keep the mastership in the
family."

TURKEY.

(From the Levant Herald of Feb. 5.)

The rumour is current that A'ali Pasha is to pro-
ceed to Paris, for the double purpose of conferring
with M. de Moustier as to the grant of quasi inde-
pendence to Crete under a Christian governor, and
of conveying in person the Sultan's invitation to
the Emperor to visit Stamboul. We register the
fact and its reported explanation for what they
are worth. It is also said that Omar Pasha will
return to Crete as soon as the Grand Vizier
leaves it.

Fuad Pasha has had three lengthened audiences
of the Sultan during the week. Yesterday the
Minister of Finance also had a long interview with
his Majesty.
On Monday Count Brassier de St. Simon, the
Prussian Minister, had an audience at the palace to
present his new letters of appointment as Minister
Plenipotentiary for the North German Confedera-
tion. His Excellency was conveyed to and from
Dolmabaktche in court carriages, with the custo-
mary ceremonial.
A new street is spoken of between Tophaneh and
the main street of Pera, which will pass close by the
Austrian and French embassies. The cost is esti-
mated at £15,000, and will, it is said, be met by the
Tophaneh department.
_ _ _

An extensive robbery was committed on Tuesday
night last in Mr. Proins's counting-house in Zum-
bullu Khan, Stamboul. The thieves, it appears,
effected an entrance to the office with false keys,
and by the same means opened the safe and got pos-
session of £14,000 in Consolides and about £l,OOO
in diamonds. The police are investigating the affair,
and several hamals and oda-bashis have been ar-
rested on suspicion.

The question of purchasing some 30 300-pounder
Armstrongs at a cost of £2,000 a gun is now before
the Admiralty.
The weather, until within the last few days, has
proved very severe in the Black Sea and the Sea of
Marmora, and there have been several heavy gales
of wind and snow-storms. On Thursday, Mr.
Hopper, Lloyd's agent in Constantinople, received
a telegram reporting the wreck of the English bark
Circassia, Captain Cooper, of North Shields, at
Counibao, near Rodosta, on the night of the 29th
ult. She was bound with a valuable cargo of wheat
from Varna to England. No one was found on
board the stranded ship, and her boats were absent,

but her captain, a skilful seaman, experienced in the
navigation of the Levant, had succeeded in reaching
a part of the coast with the whole of his crew in
safety. An agent has been despatched to the spot
to look after individual interests. We also learn
that the Champion, which recently went ashore near
Varna, is likely to prove a total wreck.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

HELSTON.

No Liberal candidate being forthcoming there is
very little excitement in the borough concerning
the pending election. The Solicitor-General, who
returned to London on Tuesday, is virtually un-
opposed, as Mr. Robert Lea, who seeks to be re-
garded as an independent Liberal, is not supported
by either party, and has not the least chance of
success. At the general election the Liberals in-
tend to bring forward again Mr. A. W. Young, who
was unseated by a committee of the present Par-
liArnent on the ground of his having been elected by
means of corrupt practices.

STOKE-ON-TRENT.

Mr. Beresford Hope issued his farewell address
:o the constituency of this borough yesterday. lie

says :

" In fulfilment of the promise I male to the members of
the Senate of the University of Cambridge, who tendered
mo their support in 1859, I have now offered myself as a
candidate for the representation of the University, in which
the promotion of Lord Justice Selwyn has made a vacancy.
_ .

I have therefore to resign the seat to which you elected
me in 1865, and I do so with great gratitude to those who
then supported me, and with kindly feeling to all the
in-
habitants of the Potteries. Though no longer your mem-
ber, I retain my interest in North Staffordshire, and I shall
always be glad, to the utmost of my power, to promote
your legitimate interests."

Both candidates for Mr. Beresford Hope's seat
are actively canvassing, and there is a probability
of a close contest. Mr. Melly addressed a crowded
meeting at Hanley on Tuesday evening, and was
very warmly received. Mr. Campbell commenced
his addresses to the constituency last night at
Longton.

A VESSEL DRIVEN FROM THE FIRTH OF FORTH
To NORWAY. Considerable uneasiness prevailed at Gran-
ton for some days pa,t, owing to the non-arrival of the

schooner Bellenden, Captain Whyte, which had left Lon-
don for Granton on Wednesday last. Mr. Gunn, Granton,
owner of the schooner, has, however, received a telegram
from the captain which has set at rest all apprehensions
for the safety of the vessel and her crew. The captain
in his telegram, which is dated " Christiansand, Sun-

day," states that the Bellenden was entering the Firth
of Forth on Friday, in ballast, when she was caught in
a severe gale and driven right across the North Sea to
the coast of Norway. Captain Whyte succeeded, with

much difficulty, in making the harbour of Christiansand,
where his vessel now lies awaiting a favourable change in

he weather.

SUICIDE BY A DEFAULTING SECRETARY.—Yester-
day an elderly man, named Thomas Farmer, a glass

bottle dealer in Thomas-street, at the back of Kennington

Park, committed suicide by shooting himself. For many

years past the deceased had been connected with several
building and other benefit societies, and from his re-

spectable position had been appointed to various offices
of trust and responsibility. Amongst other positions he
held was that of secretary to the Loyal United Friends
Gift Fund, Lodge 31, held at the Lamb and Hare Tavern,
Lower Kennington-lane. For some time past there had
been suspicions in the minds of the trustees of that fund
about the money, and the result was that an examination
of the books was made, when it was found that there

were defalcations to the extent of about £7O. The trus-

tees communicated with the deceased upon the subject,
and he made several proposals for the refunding of the
money, which he admitted he had appropriated. No ar-
rangement having been come to, however, the trustees
determined to take proceedings against the deceased. A
summons was applied for and granted, being made re-
turnable on Tuesday last at Lambeth Police-court. The
defendant, however, did not appear, and a warrant was
issued for his arrest. On the officer proceeding yesterday
morning to execute it, he was answered at the door by a
female membor of the family, and whilst in conversation
with her a loud report of firearms was heard to proceed

from the rear of the house, and the deceased was found

lying in a pool of blood with his head and face in a most
horrible state. By his side was lying a double-barrelled
gun, with which the deceased had shot himself by dis-
charging one of the barrels in his mouth. The second bar-
rel was loaded with ball, and the nipple was capped. Med i-
cal aid was at once called in, but death must have been in-
stantaneous.

FANNY KEMBLE ON LADY MACBETH.—In a mo-
mentary absence of memory, a friend of mine once sug-
gested to me the idea that Lady Macbeth's exclamation in
the sleeping scene—" The Thane of Fife had a wife; whore
is she now ?"—was a conscience-stricken reference to herself
and her own lost condition. Of course the hypothesis was
immediately abandoned on the recollection that Macbeth
never had been Thaue of Fife, and that it is Macduff's
slaughtered mate Lady Macbeth is dreaming of—the poor
dame who, with all her pretty chickens, was destroyed at
one fell swoop by Lady Macbeth's murderous cruelty. The
conversation that ensued led me to reflect on this mis-
taken suggestion of my friend, as involving a much
deeper mistake—an important psychological error. Not
only the fact was not as suggested, but a fact of that na-
ture—viz., an accusing return upon herself by Lady
Macbeth—could not be. Lady Macbeth, even in her
sleep, has no qualms of conscience ; her remorse takes
none of the tenderer forms akin to repentance, nor the
weaker ones allied to fear, from the pursuit of which
the tortured soul, seeking where to hide itself, not seldom
escapes into the boundless wilderness of madness
A very able article, published some years ago
in the " National Review," on the character of Lady
Macbeth, insists much upon an opinion that she died of
remorse, as some palliation of her crimes, and mitigation
of our detestation of them. That she died of wickedness
would be, I think, a juster verdict. Remorse is conscious-
ness of guilt—often, indeed, no more akin to saving con-
trition than the faith of devils, who tremble and believe,
is to saving faith—but still consciousness of guilt ; and
that, I think, Lady Macbeth never had ; though the un-
recognised pressure of her great guilt killed her. I think
her life was destroyed by sin, as by a disease of which
she was unconscious, and that she died of a broken heart,
while the impenetrable resolution of her will remained
unbowed. The spirit was willing, but the flesh was weak ;
the body can sin but so much, and survive ; and other
deadly passions besides those of violence and sensuality
can wear away its fine tissues, and determine its wonder-
ful fabric. The woman's mortal frame succumbed to the
tremendous weight of sin and suffering which her im-
mortal soul had power to sustain ; and, having destroyed
its temporal house of earthly sojourn, that soul, unex-
hausted by its wickedness, went forth into its now abode
of eternity.—Fanny Kemble, in Macmillan's Magazine for
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