The Sun. — 1870-05-14 (London, England)

THE L OF THE GREEK MASSACRE. " Histmicus," in a letter to the Times, examines the bearings of international law on the late Greek massacres. He insists with Sir R. Palmer that the law has been violated in the person of Mr. Herbert, and repudiates the suggestion of the Times that the excursion upon which Mr. Herbert was engaged might have deprived him of the special right to protection to which he would otherwise have been entitled. That protection extends to him at all times and in all places: The case of a minister is different from that of an ordinary traveller. The present is an offence against international law, and we can here claim to "look behind the Greek municipal jurisdiction, and to, if necessary, take the law into our own hands in a manner which would not be justifiable in the case of common travellers."  It is understood that among the amendments to the Government Ballot Bill will be one for the omission of the provisions for scrutiny and substitution of inviolable secresy ; another for removing the expenses from the candidates, and a third for the extension of the bill to municipal elections. Sir C. Dilke will probably move the first, and Mr. Fawcett the second, of these amendments.  Mr. Robert Shields, of Sarahs-town, near Crossakiel, county Meath, was fired at the other evening, through the window of the hall of his house while he was ascending the staircase. Some grains of shot touched his cheek. He had a grass farm, which the tenant said he dared not hold, and gave up. He attempted to put cattle on it himself.  The Weekly Register says it does not appear probable that any very strenuous opposition to the dogma of Infallibility will, after all, be made by the Magyar or Slave Episcopate, Magyar Strossmayer is said to have completely renounced any idea (if he ever had any) of making any opposition, beyond a verbal one within the Aula. There is every hope that the unanimity will be nearly complete. A mysterious murder is under investigation in Paris. Some persons employed in the washing barges near the Pont d'Arcole remarked two persons, apparently workmen, walking by the side of the river disputing. They disappeared under an arch of the bridge. A moment after the report of a firearm was heard, and several men, amongst them an inspector of police, hastening to the spot, found the dead body of a man lying in.a pool of blood, with the face mutilated. Mr. Edmund Yates, in a London Letter to the lI estern Mail, says :—lt is understood that Mr. Seely, the terror of the Admiralty, who has been singularly quiet this session, has been occupied in preparing a thunderbolt' which he will shortly launch at the devoted head of the First Lord. Of the nature of the charges to be brought against the department nothing specific is known, but the member for Lincoln is said to have prepared his case with great care, and to be tolerably certain of proving it. A very distressing accident happened on Thursday, at Northowram, near Halifax. Mr. John Cawthera has a coal pit there, and two of his sons, one aged twenty-six and the other fifteen, were being lowered down the shaft when the chain broke, and the cage and its occupants fell to the bottom—about fifty yards—and were killed instantly. A third brother, employed in the pit at the time had the mournfnl task of assisting in bringing the bodies to the surface, their father being also a witness of the melancholy disaster.