The Sun. — 1869-05-15 (London, England)

LETTERS.  A. specimen of the threatening letters received by the members of the Cork Town Council is published. The following is a copy:—  " May sth. "God save Ireland.  ing.  " now Mr. i Cannot help noticing your Ccnduc:: towards certain partys in Cork this while back I only wants to say a few words to you the subgect if i do see any more of your silnes i shall before thisholy mont of May is out I shall with a revolver blow your oringe brains against the wall otherwise if that does not do I shall burn your house to the very ground spoin of an orange dog best now not have any mory of it for sure as you are a mortal being i shall carry out my desine all you ruffins there are other villins too that I shall meet some day at the police office i dont care for all the peelers in Cork I will do my duty if there were as many more there i mean that--and that fellow they calls - that orange dog and too i shall give that traitor a slight tuck so far shall try and have the first of the old Curr dog and traitor your house shall be burnt so sure as you have a head on your shoulders the time is at hand you may believe it you will not be spared you are going on too long so i forewarn you to have your coffin Teddy the other orang ruffians and traitors also are better have there's ready i shall say no more now you shall not know when the deed is to be done be prepaired any day from this date to the end of may.  " Cod save Ireland from the Saxon yoke." What is deemed most remarkable is that a threatening letter should have been received by 'Mr. Michael Joseph Collins, a local solicitor, who, it is said, " during the law proceedings arising out of the late Fenian rising, was the zealous advocate and agent of those who were compromised in that locality. As a member, Liberal member, of the town council and the Cork board of poor•law guardians, he ' pulls well' with his party. But on a couple of occasions lately he took a stand against the mayor that drew the anger of the people' on him, and on Tuesday he received a letter warning him, with the resident and some other magistrates, to be prepared for a sudden death. These three gentlemen are Liberals." A correspondent, alluding to the discredit cast upon the genuineness of these documents, adds: " I cannot forget that the victims of recent murders had received notices, and that it is stated to be one of the moat stringent rules of the Ribbon cede, that when a person is marked out for assassination lie must get an intimation to that effect.  The two sons of Bishop Colenso have arrived in England. One will proceed to Oxford and the other to Cambridge University.  The Marquis of Bute has been invested at Jerusalem with the spurs and sword of the celebrated Godfrey de Bouillon, making him a knight of the Holy Sepulchre. The ceremony was performed in the Latin Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre, called the Chapel of the Apparition, as it was there our Saviour is reported to have appeared to Mary Magdalene. There was mass in the morning, at which the Marquis attended, and afterwards the Latin patriarch or superior performed the ceremonies of. investment. The sword and spurs of the great crusader are highly-valued relics, used only in the investment of knights, an honour limited to men of noble b'rth and of the Roman Catholic faith.—Anglo-Italian Gaztitc.