Se ee Ginfan HTHAT 40 YTLIOD te scale cheats a Soe Hot ® 6 COUNTY OF PERTH HERALD oa Foreign Lntelligence. AA ARAR AMAA LP LPLL DLE Soiree at the Rotundo.--Dublin. The annual soiree in commemoration of the Twelfth of July was held on Monday in the Rotundo. The room was very hand- somely decorated, and the walls hung with the banners and devices of several lodges. Nearly three thousand persons attended, most of whom wore the searfs and badges of the order. At the commencement of the proceedings the Officers of the Grand Lodge entered the room in procession, and took their places upon the platform. After tea the chair was taken by Thomas Palmer, Esq., Grand Master. Amongst those present were--Mr. George Prescott, Deputy Grand Master; Rey. G. Woods, Deputy Grand Chaplain; Mr Thomas Kenny, Grand Secretary; William J. Campbell, D. G.S.; Mr. Thomas Thompson, Mr. John Ellis, Mr. J. J. Butler, Mr. Oliver Speers, Mr. James Allan, Mr. J. Kelley, Rey. John Irwin, Mr. Samuel Warren, Mr. William Battersby, Mr. Henry Murray, Dr. Murray, Mr. T. B. Smith, Mr. J. H. Nunn, Mr. W. Mason, Mr. William Jones, Mr. Stephen Sutcliffe, Mr, William: Holmes, Mr. William Archer, Mr. William Vernon. The Chairman in addressing the meeting, said that, although the Orange Society was not in favour with persons who held the highest position in the country, still it re- joices him to see so many present who were ready to defend their country, their Queen and the Constitution (Kentish fire.) Orange men were frequently called bigots. He de- They were not met that night for the purpose of giving expression to harsh and intolerant opinions, but merely to celebrate the victory of civil and religious liberty over Papal tyranny, and so long as they could they would continue these com- memorations in the spirit of those who held Derry against the foe, with the watchword of "No Surrender' (great cheering, and Kent- nied the charge. ish fire.) The Chairman then proposed the first which was--"'Her Gracious sentiment, Majesty the Queen." The sentiment was received with great cheering, and the band struck up the Nation- al Anthem, which was sung by the choir, under the direction of Mr. Phillips. The Chairman then gave--" Albert Edward Prince of Wales, the Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal family." The Choir sang "Rule Britannia." The Chairman next gave the sentiment which was peculiarly that of the night on which they were assembled--"The glorious, pious, and immortal memory of the great and good King William." This was received with the usual Orange salute, the whole company rising, and the " Choir singing, "Arise and join the chorus. Mr. J. H. Nunn was called upon to re- spond. He deprecated in very strong terms the conduct of the Earl of Derby, and those by whom he was immediately surrounded. He said that the Earl of Derby had aban- doned Protestant principles, and had follow- ed a course which was calculated to injure the Protestant Church. He hoped that all the Protestant electors of the United King- dom who cared for their principles ~vould at the next general election remember the con- duct of Lord Derby and his party, and re- He trusted, too, that the Protestant electors of Dublin, in whose hands the issue of any contest for the representation of the city would lie, would take care not to hand them- selves over to any man who did not give evidence of his willingness and ability to pro- Before they elected any successor to Sir Edward Grogan they fuse to be misrepresented any longer. tect their principles. should take care to know the man upon whom they were about to confer so great an honour. When Mr, Benjamin Lee Guimess came forward they should see what his prin- ciples were, and what amount of aid he was willing: to render. to the Protestant ¢iuse. He deprecated 'the policy pursued by the he had refused to give to the Protestant Association ; and he trusted that the electors of the county would demand. from Colonel Taylor an aceount of his stewardship, and see to discover the justification which he would give of his conduct in uniting himself so closely with the party of the Earl of Derby, who had forsaken altogether the Protestant community and their cause (great cheering). The next sentiment was "The Earl of Enniskillen, and the Orange Lodges of Ire- land." Mr. John J. Butler, who was received with applause, responded. They were the best preservers of the British Crown, of the Queen's rights and privileges : and the Bri- tish Constitution, as well as the best friends of the Church (applause). Orangemen had no claims in high quarters, and were rather frowned down by the Lord Lieutenant. He had to complain of Lord Chancellor Brady (hisses), who, professing to be a Protestant himself, had destroyed the Protestantism of the Bar, and who had received in the course of his official career £125,000 of the public money. He heard many people speaking highly of Lord Palmerston, but he thought him a humbug, because he supported the Church in England, and damaged it in Ireland. The next sentiment was "The Hon. John Hilliard Cameron, Grand Master of North America, and our brethren in the Colonies" (Kentish fire, and prolonged cheering). »| The Rey. John Irwin, Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Canada, who was re- ceived with great cheering, responded. The Orangemen of Canada had been most un- fairly vilified and attacked on account of their conduct during the Prince of Wales' visit ; and it was alleged that they had kept the Prince from visiting Kingston ; but he could say they had only acted out of a determination to uphold their own rights. They were not intolerant, but quite the con- trary; and when the purple robes of a Romish bishop were not excluded from the presence of the Prince, they did not see why orange should be contemned. They had seen Protestants at the time of Gavazzi's visit shot down in the streets of Montreal, and yet they had acted very differently when Romish controversialists presented themselves. The laws of the order were be- fore the world, and their principles were well known. It was their rule to " be just and fear not."" He was happy to say th.t Orangeism was progressing in Canada, that he would be delighted to have the oppor- tunity of bearing back to Canada, the as- surance of the goodwill of that vast as- semblage (great cheers and Kentish fire). The Chairman next proposed "The Dublin Protestant Association, and the Alderman of Skinner's Alley; may they ever maintain the principles of Protestant truth" (applause). Mr, Thomas H. Thompson returne thanks. He said that with some persons in high places Orangeism was not fashionable, but when they saw such gatherings as that --and he thanked the Grand Master for so magnificient a display--they rebuked the fashion (hear, hear). There was no party now standing up for Protestantism. Letit be distinctly understood that there was no party in England. stariding up for Protest- antism or Orangism. . For twenty years he had been connected with a party who re- ceived the support and influence of the Protestants of Ireland, on the distinct pledge that they would support Protestant principles ; they had not done so, and he for one repudiated the Conservative party (hear, hear). They were conserving every- thing bad, and doing nothing good ; and he boldly asserted that the Protestants of Ireland would be bamboozed. if they follow- ed the Conseryative . party any longer (cheers).° | He had no contidence in Lord Derby or Mr. Disraeli (groans). If they were put into the scale, there would be a standing beam: and if both kicked the beam, so much the better (cheers and | a i " 3 Earl of Derby in dealing with' questions ld "il 'ais 5 { laughter). He would jike to hear the vital to Protestants, who had only one source ais . ~ ' ; 7 mae Ia opinion of those present with respect to --the Bible -- whence - thei? principles piodacate Cohnereuth a onserve Sin. were drawn. Wis ' The Earl of Derby, in oppos- ing the bill which proposed to ddmit thé Jews into Parlianient, made the somewhat extraordinary statement that, in respect to the high principles of _ religion, Protestants were identified with their Roman, Catholie fellow-countrymen: ('Oh !.olx!'"}, Wasthat the man to, take,.a place as: their. jexder? (no, no); - There were many freenien of the city of Dublin present, and he hoped that they would not forget their duty, but would require from Mr. Guinness at the next elec- tion an explicit statement of his views, which A Voice--What about: Guinhess ? Mr,... Butler said. he ..wes sedingly; | obliged to his friend for mentioning the | name of that' gentleman. Mr- Giinhess had a 'tremendously Jong purse; and that | | was something, but when-ke wasasked whet | he thought of the Maynooth grunt, Popish j}endowments, and other questions of that? character, he would not' give any ansier, | conténting himself with saying that he was! a moderate Conservative (groans): j "The City Representatives" was next proposed and duly responded te. A vote of thanks having been pass d to the chairman, the proceedings terminated. Ireland. The assize intelligence of the past week contains no cases of any public importance save those which appeared 'in the calendars of Limerick and Donegal. The total amount of crime has diminished, and in many places the judges have little business to do. "The country appears to be returning to a state of prosperity. Bright sunshine and promising crops are banishing the depression of the market, and opening out the prospect of an abundant harvest. Under these circumstan- ces, it is no wonder that crimes ofthe nature usually provoked by want should be unfre- quent. But the " dark blot" of agrarian crime is not yet effaced. In Limerick the last of the conspirators who procured the murder of Mr Francis Fitzgerald has met the sentence of the law' Seldom has retri- bution been so speedy and so complete as in the punishment of Beckham and Walsh, and their employers, the two Dillanes. It is satisfactory to find that Matthew Dillane, by withdrawing the plea of not guilty, estab- lishes fully the justice of the punishment which wis suffered by the others. Donegal presents a more gloomy picture than Limerick. In the Southern county the crime, so far as human justice can avail has been fully expiated ; in the North the murderer is as yet unpunished. Mr. Jus- tice Fitzgerald fairly congratulates the grand jury upon the comparitive lightness of the calendar, with the exception of the single case of Francis Bradley, accused of the mur- der of Grierson. Ata time when distress is prevalent, and provisions unusually dear, it is gratifying to know that there have only been two offences against property brought before the assizes. Donegal would, in fact, be as free from crime as any other county in Ireland but for the outrages com- mitted in one small and remote district.-- Derryveagh attained an unhappy notoriety as one of the chief strongholds of the Rib- bon conspiracy. The manly and sensible observations with which Judge Fitzgerald put aside the excuses which persons who ought to act better frequently advance for murder may do much service in the coun- try. He would not condescend to parley with assassins. It is no extenuation for the murder of a bailiff to say that he acted harshly. A firm and fearless administra- agrarian. outrages. Ribbonmen want to evade fair obligations. Legislation will not induce them to lay aside the blunderbuss, but they are cowed by the prospect of the seaffold.-- Dublin Warder. tiles. Discoveries at Ronre. In a letter lately published M. Duchésnay gives an interesting account of the discoy- eries lately made in the environs of Rome, on the spot where Constantine defeated Maxentius, that is, near Cremera, outside the Porta del Popolo. On one of the hills of that locality a villa believed to belong to Calpurnia, Caesar's wife, has this year been entirely exhumed. One of the conduit pipes found on the spot bears the name of that lady. At an insignificant depth below the surface of the soil a suit of rooms have been found which must have been the ground floor of the villa. | The walls of one of these rooms are decorated with painted landscapes; one of them represents a groye of palm and orange-trees, with fruits and birds on the branches.. The colors are per- fectly well preserved, and as vivid as if they had been painted but afew days ago. The ceilings have fallen in, but from the frag- ments it is easy to perceive that they were decorated with aerial figures similar to those discovered at Pompeii. Glass and pottery have also been found on the spot; but the great object of attraction is a beautiful marble statute of Augustus, in his triam- phal robes, open enough to reveal.a richly sculptured breastplate, the subjects of which | are Rome with a cornucopia, and the twins | by her side; Apollo with his lyre; mounted ona hyppozryph ; Diana with a hart, Mars sheathing his sword, a trophy, a triumphal ear drawn by four horses and preceeded by The feet of this statute are broken' 6ff, but hot lést': one of winged figures' of Victory. them is flmiked' by # cupid "én 'a doiphin' The statute is 'two! aid'a half inetrés ii height, aid bears é¥idence of paint ow its j surface. 'Thei busts'of Septinms Severus, his wiit, avd his sou det, 'haye-also' been found, Why cannet two slender persons ever be- come great friends ? Because they will al- ways be slight acquaintances. tion of the law is the only preventive of Terrible encounter with a Tiger, A correspondent writes from India as follows:--"I regret to have to record an- other frightful tiger accident. It appears that Captain Curtis, 6th Dragoons, Captain Bradford, Sillidar Cavalry, and another gen- tleman, were out on a shooting excursion in the vicinity of Sehore, where they, fell in with a tiger which had previously been wounded by some other sportsmen, and was in a state of furious madness. Captain Bradford raised his gun, but it unfortunate- ly would not go off. At the same moment the brute, caught sight of the party, and, giving a hideous roar, charged down upon them with the utmost ferocity. Singling out Captain Bradford, who was in the act of scrambling up a tree, the tiger made a dash at him with-a tremendous bound, and caught and dragged him to the ground. Poor Bradford having raised his arm to protect his head, the brute seized his arm, crunching it between his terrible jaws as if it had been so much rotten wood, breaking and splintering the bone, and lacerating the flesh in a terrible manner. Meantime, his companions were not idle, but, as they were afraid of hitting their friend if they fired at any distance, they advanced boldly up to the brute, and poured shot after shot into him, till at last he was rolled over by the eleventh bullet. Ferocious to the last, the brute never relinquished his hold, and fell dead in the act of aiming a blow with his enormous paw at the head of his victim. Poor Captain Bradford was carried into Sehore in a pitiable condition, mauled all over, and it was found necessary to amputate his arm at the shoulder.joint. By last ac- counts he was in a very precarious state. The tiger was of monstrous size, and said to be the largest ever seen in these parts." An Incident in Railway Tra- velling. The railway companies are sometimes as- sailed unjustly, and called to account for offences they have no power to prevent. But one of their special shortcomings has just been almost tragically illustrated on the North-Western line. There is literally no security on any English railway against outrage, fire, or murder. Ina train going on at full speed on a 50 miles run some woman may be exposed to insult, a carriage floor may be growing too hot for, its oc- cupants, two or more persons may be en- gaged in a struggle for life, and beyond those exposed to insult or extreme peril not a soul may be aware of the fact. The driver is bent on keeping time; the guard is beyond reach. The loudest screams are swallowed up by the roar of the rapidly re- volving wheels, and murder, or violence worse than murder, may go on to the ac- companiment of a train flying along at 60 miles an hour. When it stops in due course, and not till then, the ticket collector com- ing up may find a second-class carriage con- yerted into a "shambles." We are not romancing. The ease has actually occurred. Two travellers, a Mr. M'Lean and a Mr. Worland, took seats ina second-class car- riage by the Friday night express from Liverpool to London. In the same com- partment were a moody-looking Irishman and an elderly woman. The Irishman sat by one window, the woman near the other, and the two men between. Until the train passed Bletchley the sedate passanger was hardly noticed by the others. It is. true that he had now and again talked to him- self somewhat fiercely, and seemed to be threatening an invisible foe. Mr. M'Lean and Mr. Worland glanced at him, and then continued in friendly chat. Now, it so happened that the man had been insane, and was rapidly growing insane again. A wild notion was fast acquiring the strength of a fixed idea. The two men, in familiar chat, were thieves planning how they could rob him, and he was resolving to be first in the field. There was some method in his madness, for he postponetl the execution of his project until the train had fairly started on its lastrun to London. As soon as it had left Bletchley the maniac drew a knife and stabbed Mr. Worland in the head. He drew back his arm to repeat the stroke, when Mr. M'Lean, who scems, to aye. had his wits about him, knocked him_ back into his seat. Springing up, the maniac made another dash at the now insensible Worland, but here he was foiled again by, M'Lean, who gripped his-throat and his armed hand, and a close' combat began. All' the time the train flew rapidly through the country. The woman sitting near the other window had done all she could to alarm the driver by wasting her screams on the morning air, and now lay insensible from the effect of terror. The madman drew the blade of his knife through the fingers of M'Lean, and thrust with it wildly. Worland had now regained his senses, and he at once entered into the combat, getting behind the madman, and throwing him down. The maniac's yells were louder than those of the woman, they were continuous, but neither guard nor driver heard them. And so the tragedy continued, one long act, a raving . maniac, held down by the two men, all covered with blood, lighted by a dim lamp and the grey dawn. For 40 long miles this scene lasted, seen by none except those engaged in the strife, nutil a ticket-collector, hastily opening the door, saw the two gashed and haggard men bending over the exhausted madman on the blood-stained floor. Since the French police found the ,body of a murdered judge in a railway carriage nothing so terrible has occurred. Of course the madman, for he must have been mad, was taken before a magistrate, and there he gave as a reason for his conduct the explan- ation we have already mentioned--he thought the two men were about to rob him. He turns out to be an Irish schoolmaster, Michael Lyons by name, coming to London on a mixed errand of business and pleasure. Itis said that he has been confined in an asylum for a year, and of course every in- quiry will be made into his past life and character. He is now in the Bucks county gaol.--London Globe, * To the Reader. For the information of those of our readers who may not have seen our first number, we republish our opening address. : Upon the first introduction of The Perth County Herald to public notice, it will naturally be expected that we -- should give some account of ourselves; -- some foreshadowing of the course to be adopted in the future conduct of this paper; and state some of the grounds upon which we shall expect to receive a fair share of support from the newspaper readers of the County of Perth. Ky Since a paper without _ polities would be very insipid and uninviting, we shall in the first place announce our political creed. Believing Con- servatism to be the soundest of all political creeds: the most favorable to the best interests of our common country : the most productive of mea- sures of real and well-considered re- forms: the most enlarged in its ideas of progress; we shall be ee "Conservative" in politics. But al- though Conservative, we shali be "« Liberal." We shall not hesitate to raise out voice on behalf of every ne- cessary and useful reform, whenever such reform is wanted; and whenever the proper season shall arrive for the accomplishment of it We shall not _ be of the number of those who agitate _ reforms simply for the sake of agita- tion. Whatever is useful we shall re- tain: whatever is capable of improve- ment we shall strive to improve: but we shall not seek needlessly to dis- | turb existing institutions for the mere _ pleasure of remodelling or of making | experiments upon them. i We shall endeavor in the next place - to furnish ourreaders with a newspaper | in the strict sense of the word. Our -- columns will be filled with the latest | and most interesting items of domes- | tic and foreign intelligence. The na- tive born Canadian will find substan- -- tial provincial fare upon which he may safely regale witb pleasure and profit: 'The emigrant from the 'far off | isles of the sea,' the children of the rose, the shamrock, and the thistle, will find in addition many luxuries which may serve to recall fond recol- lections of their 'first love,' and strengthen their admiration and re- spect for the land of their birth. To the farmer we shall offer Agri- cultural: to the merchant, merchant tile news--the latest market intelli- gence from New York and Montreal will be found in the Herald. For the fireside we shall provide matter which the most scrupulous need not hesitate to place in the hands of their families. The utmost vigilance will be used to exélude from our columns all person- alities and all that might have a ten- dency. 1o irritate or annoy. Whilst we shall unhesitatingly express our opinion upon the various public ques- tions which may arise, we shall en-- deavor to do so with the greatest pos- sible respect for the opinions of those who may chance to differ from us. Our aim will be to elevate the public