The Sun. — London, England, 1870-04-25 00:00:00

FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION. A fatal collision took place at two o'clock on Saturday morning at the Sykes Junction of the Great Northern Railway, about seven miles from Lincoln. Two luggage trains, one from Doncaster and the other from Retford, through some mishap not yet explained, ran into each other. One of the firemen was killed., besides three horses. Several trucks were smashed, and the line was blocked for some time. HAWKERS AND THEIR LICENSES. Lord Binnaird thinks that serious evil is likely to result from the abolition of the hawker's licences. He has written a letter to Mr. Lowe explaining his views : "Reducing the amount paid for a licence on a former occasion had the effect of . adding . considerably to the number of hawkers, and , if no licence be required, they will spread like a host of locusts over the country. It would certainly diminish the number in poorhouses, as any who have the p o wer of locomotion would provide themselves with a basket, and thus great encouragement will be given to vagrancy." In theory your proposal may be thought to b enefit t h e p oorer classes, but in practice it will be the r everse ; in former days, when the means o f communication were scant, doubtless hawkers conferred a benefit on persons residing at a dis tance from a town or village ; but now that these are reached with so much greater facility the case is altered, exce pt in rare instances in the Highlands of Scotland. E v en the small shopkeepers in the country can hardly exist, purchasers preferring the market town, where the choice is greater, and the profit made in the village shops is saved. The country shopkeeper, who, as he has to stand competition with the inferior goods of the hawkers, would be a great sufferer by your proposal, for the number of hawkers would be greatly increased ; they already swarm in the country, and as a class bear a very disreput able character, carrying off all they an lay their hands upon. They are known to be receivers of stolen goods, and several instances have come under my notice where they have instigated farm servants and agricultural labourers to acts of dishonesty. Some small shopkeepers in towns take out a hawker's license, and send a man with inferior goods through the country, professing to let their unfortunate dupes have great bargains under a promise to receive payment by instalments ; watches, for instance, are frequently offered, and prove a great temptation to young lads, and the parents find at the term that their wages are arrested for their sons' debts. In Cornwall, and I believe in other counties in England, summonses before the county courts for debts to hawkers contracted by the wives and daughters of miners and others are very frequent, and many girls fall victims to these unprincipled gentry, who get them into their power.' I hope you will be induced to inquire into the circum stances connected with hawking, as although you may still persist in your proposal, something might be done to check the indefinite increase of this public nuisance, and at all events to make credit debts irrecoverable by law." POLICE ATTENTIONS. Another case has occurred of an insensible person dying in the hands' of the police. Sarah Riley was found on Sunday morning lying on the prvement in Hackney in a state of stupor. She was carried by the police on a stretcher to the Bethnal-green police station, and, according to the evidence at the inquest, was allowed to remain five hours without any care being shewn her. She was then seized with a fit ; a doctor was called in who ordered her instant removal to the workhouse. She was again placed on a stretcher, and died before she arrived at the workhouse. The jury appended to their verdict an expression of their opinion that on account of the incapacity of the police to distinguish between intoxication and disease, every person charged with being drunk and insensible or drunk and incapable should be examined by a medical man previous to his or her incarceration in a police cell. There has been, as We all know, for many years, a feud between the police aid insensible people. A constable whenever he sees an insensible person invariably thinks he smells spirits. The human log is accordingly without much tenderness securely strapped on a stretcher and deposited in a dark cell at the station, there to die or get sober, as the case may be. Some get sober, and are fined five shillings, others die and are buried. Coroners and juries generally make strong remarks in these latter cases, but nobody ever attends to them, and so we go on drinking, and dying, and muddling lives away as usual. It seems almost a pity that for fear we should pay too much atten tion to a drunken person we should occasionally kill a sick one. There can be no doubt in the case of Sarah Riley that a doctor should have been called in at once ; and, unless we are mistaken, the police have orders always to seek medical advice without delay in cases of insensibility, whether arising from drun kenness or not ; but something more than this is required. Every constable, on joining the force, should, as we have said before, be properly taught the proper mode of hand ling all persons whom their duty compels them to take charge of. Their mission is to save life and not destroy it, and a training of this nature would be far more serviceable to them and the public than any . amount of drill. It cannot be good for any person who is drunk or in a fit to be strapped on a stretcher and carried, as is Often the case, under a broiling sun to the station : long before the doctor is called in the mischief is done. An insensible person should be taken most carefully and ten derly to the nearest doctor, or institution where a doctor is to be found, unelss the police station is close at hand. If it turns out that he is drunk, let him be treated as an offender when he recovers his senses, but not before. By the exercise of a very little care and common sense we might at all events alleviate the last momentt of a few dying people, spare the feelings of their relatives and possibly save a few lives. In the case of Sarah Riley, the jury found that there was no blame attached to the police, which, if it is true that she was left for five hours without a doctor being called in, is to say the least a very indul gent view to take of the matter.—Pall Mall Gazette. LAW AND POLICE. • THE lINION HILL SILVER COMPANY.—A petition for the compulsory winding-up of the Union Hill Silver Com pany has been heard by Vice-Chancellor Malins. It was contended that it was a bubble company, that it never did any business. and was now nnnblo Su pay us cents. It appeared, however, that the shareholders had passed a resolution in favour of a voluntary winding up, and the Vice-Chancellor, holding that a compulsory order would be of no avail, as there were no assets, dismissed the petition, but without costs. ACTION BY A NEW PAPER PROPRIETOR.—In the Court of Exchequer Mr. Huddlestone, Q.C., applied to their lordships for a rule for a new trial in this case, which was tried at the last Nisi Prius sittings at Westminster, and arose out of circumstances connected with the last general election for the county of Leicester. Mr, Lee is the pro prietor of the Leicester Mail, and during the late election he was devoted to the interests of Mr. Frewen, who was a candidate for the representation of the county in opposition to Lord John Manners. Mr. Cox, a gentleman who supported the candidature of Lord John, brought an action against Mr. Lee for a libel alleged to have been published in his paper reflecting on his character, and obtained a verdict for £2O damages. Mr. Lee saw Mr. Bosworth, who acted as the election agent for Mr. Frewen, and the result of that interview was a promise from Mr. Boswbrth that Mr. Lee need not be afraid, and if Mr. Frewen would not indemnify him for the damages, he (Mr. B.) would hold him harmless. The money not having been paid an execution on Mr. Lee's goods was issued, whereby he sustained damage to his credit and otherwise to the extent of £3OO. An action was brought against Mr. Bosworth by Mr. Lee, when the ji t iry returned a verdict for the latter for that amount. It was now sought to set aside that verdict by the motion of the learned counsel on behalf of Mr. Bosworth, for a rule for a nonsuit or a new trial. Rule granted. A TROUBLESOME ASSISTANT.—A milk salesman named Wright, who employs a large number of men detected one of them adulterating his milk, and dismissed him. He set up a rival trade in defiance of theterms of his agree ment, which stipulated in case of discharge, that the em ploy& were not to carry on the business of a milk salesman within three miles. An injunction was, therefore, obtained to restrain the offender, but he has set it at defiance, and an application has now been made, in the Court of Queen's I3ench, for further measures. A rule nisi was granted, calling on the defendant to shew cause against an attachment for disobedience to the Court. NEW TRIALS.—RuIes for new trials have been granted by the Court of Queen's Bench in three compensation apes. The OM was in a case tried at Leeds where a Mrs. Jones obtained 408. damages for injuries re ceived in getting out of a carriage belonging to the North Eastern Railway Company, the porter having hurried her, and there being no proper platform. The defendant's counsel contended that she had misstated the facts, and the accident was her own fault. In the other case, the damages were £lOO. The plaintiff, a young man named Allen, a furrier in Regent-street, was a passenger by the South-Western Railway. At Twickenham he objected to some of the change given to him by a booking-clerk, and was given into custody on a false charge of attempting to rob the till. The counsel now endeavoured to shew that the clerk exceeded his duty and did not act in the interests of the company. In the other case the plaintiff had been taken into cus tody in a police raid on a cigar shop under the belief that it was a betting-house. The evidence in the case had been very conflicting, and Mr. Justice Blackburn, who tried the case, said there had undoubtedly been perjury on one side or the other. THE NEW Diurross' ACT.—An application has been made to Ivir. Baron trarawell. at Judge's Chambers, for a writ to arrest an a b scond i ng d e b tor, w h o h a d taken his garage f or America. Mr. Baron Bramwell observed that that the law now required an affidavit that the presence of the defendant was necessary, but he thought it was suffi cient when it was shewn that a debtor was about to Abscond. It there were anything in the rumour of the abolition of recorderships, the Law Times anticipates the authorities interested would probably at once organ i se an opposition to any such measure. The Government ap points recorders on the nomination of the councils of the boroughs. Clearly the councils of boroughs whose sepa,. rate sessions it might be proposed to abolish 'would be entitled to he heard on the subject, and unless the criminal business had decreased in particular boroughs, it would be difficult to see upon what ground the Government could proceed to make any change. THE TITLE OF PHYSICIAN. Sir Roundel] Palmer and Mr. Denman, 14.0 , Standing Counsel to the Royal Coll ege o f Phy s i c i ans ,. have decided that the licentiates tos of the Roy a l College of Physicians, who have obtained their li censes to practice physic, subsequently to December, 1860, are entitled to call themselves Physicians, and to hold appointments as such. Anything, says the Lancet, more unsatisfactory than this decision to the gentleman, who have paid so heavily in money, and in trouble for the positio n of c a eca . can hardly be conceived. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1870. THE RINGS AND CLIQUES OF GREAT CITIES. (From the Anglo-American Times,) Those who imagined that with civilization and education the world would progress in honesty, mo rality, and equity, must ere this have confessed how grievously they have been in error. The City of London stands convicted of being a nest of vil lainy. All sorts of plausible arguments, sophistry, and legal technicalities may be used to cloak the barefaced frauds, but their character cannot thus be changed. Liverpool and all the other large cities where much business is transacted are quite as bad. New York has gained an unenviable notoriety in this respect, though, in truth, New York is no worse than other great commercial centres, and it owes its celebrity, not to the amount of the frauds, which could not for a moment bear comparison with those of London—but to their character, and to the outspoken denunciations of the New York press. As regards the latter, we would wish to see the New York journals get credit they deserve for the course they have pursued; the more so, as it is'in striking contrast with the London journals, and as lately shown with those of Boston. The English frauds equalled the frauds of all the rest of the world put together, both in number and in the amount stolen ; not because Englishmen were pre-eminently dis honest, but because they were richer, more enter prising, and more easily gulled. flow many of the thieves, have suffered for the ruin they have spread over the kingdom either in purse or even in charac ter? A judicious silence is maintained in the press, and faw newspapers of influence ever touch on the subject. The New York journals take a different course, exposing and denouncing every fraud and its perpetrators, in language which would quickly bring the publishers before a court for libel if attempted in England. That many a villainy has been thus checkmated we feel certain, and if the press has transgressed the limits of propriety in the use of expletives, it has in the main been in a good cause. Doubtless, the first result has been to give New York a bad name ; but the truth will tell in the end, and the course taken by the press will eventually be found to favour the commercial re putation of the city. The other reason for the repu tstion is, that speculators involved the courts of law in their discreditable transactions ; and thus, by poisoning the source of justice, shocked the world. Coupled with this is the fact that the boldest and the biggest clique of operators made New York their stage. The fame of FISK. and GOULD is world wide; indeed, we doubt whether any other two men of the Anglo-American race have been for the past year so much discussed, and New York gets the credit of their doings. But whenever the veil is raised in other great cities, and we catch a glimpse of what is going on under neath, we see the same proceedings in progress though in the dark, as in New York in the full glare of that light which the press persists in throwing upon it. Massachusetts has lately figured in a rail road affair worthy of comparison with the Erie. Last month an investigation was made into the manage ment of the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Railroad. The State, through the Legislature, had advanced large sums of money to the road, and the directors were trustees under the mortgage. It appears that they issued bonds beyond the legal limit, lent the money of the Corporation to each other, making its stock a football for speculation, kicking it back wards and forwards to their own profit, but to share holders and the public detriment. Nor were they content with plundering those unwise persons who took part in a speculation where the dice were loaded, for the conspirators had .previously ar ranged that if any losses might by, chance occur they should fall on the Corporation, while any gains were to be divided by the "ring." The re sult was a charge against the road for $2,000,000 lost by speculating in its own stock. Several mil lions were extrdcted from the State, to be expended beyond its boundaries, yet no paper in Boston un dertook to expose these proceedings. One journal, however, threw itself with great energy against the " ring," and fought it out on that line for month after month (but it is published in Springfield), till by hammering away, it produced the desired effect, and the Legislature assembled after the in vestigation at the State House in Boston, full of indignation against the Massachusetts Railroad clique. Now comes the rich part of the story. aat,ui uci cio USC ivittorititnel, TE KOOTI, met the colonists, whose brethren, women, and children he had been massacring in batches. It was all their fault, who would keep fol lowing him up; let bygones be bygones, and let him live peaceably at home. But as to any expression of regret, the idea never suggested itself to the mind of TE KOOTI or the " ring." The directors certainly did make a cheerful confession of error, but thiswas a mere preface to a demand for another $5,000,000 to put things straight, and there is a chance that the sum will be voted, although the connection of the State with this railroad has already impaired the high credit which so justly attaches to Massachu setts. The brazen impudence with which the Bos ton clique greeted the Legislature finds a parallel in the Messrs. GOULD and Fisx's way of meeting the English stockholders. Turning a New York news paper man into a large shareholder from London th ey pitted him against Mr. BURT, and they appeared in the character first of the best managers the Erie ever had; second, as anti-monopoly champions, the frustrators of the designs of the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads ; third, as thetene factors of the State of New York, the defenders of the people's rights and privileges—conferring on the State through the mighty instrument they wielded the boon of the cheap transport. Then they turned on the English " ring," the Jew bank ers, as they styled Mr. RAPHAEL and Mr. HEATH, whom they asserted to be the pliable tools of the great American rings, headed by VANDERBILT, and such men. They represented themselves as suffer ing from the extortion of the English Committee, which forced the holders to stamp their shares, to pay on each a fee to carry on the war against them, making the directors who are large shareholders i n London supply funds for their own prosecution. The position in which Mr. BURT found himself m ust must have surprised him ; but this was mere fun to what afterwards occurred. Mr. GouLD, when speaking before the Senate Committee, and de scribing the unprincipled gang Mr. BURT repre sented, gave an account of an interview he had had with Mr. BURT, who exclaimed in the innocence of his heart against the publication of that conversa tion, as it had been strictly private. This just suited GOULD, as an acknowledgthent of the in torview, who proceeded to give his own version of its conversation, wherein Mr. BURT was made to describe GOULD as a paragon in railway man agement, and an extraordinary combination of ho nesty, ability, and energy. Well might the asto nished BURT exclaim—" I said so ? It is an unmi tigated falsehood !" But GOULD, nothing abashed, or even offended, continued to show how the Eng lish agent hinted at himself for treasurer. If Mr. BURT had carefully considered the form erproceedi ugs of his opponents, he would not have been surprised at the audacity with which they turned the tables on him. Was he not aware that they had entrapped the PRESIDENT of the United States into some inter views, and then used those interviews with a view to endeavour to cast a stain on the character of the foremost soldier of the Republic while occupying one of the highest posts in the world. If they could do that in the face of the American people, drag ging in the PRESIDENT'S wife, and sinking in the vortex the character of his brother-in-law and every man with whom they had any connection and whoever had crossed their path, ought Dlr. BURT to have been taken aback at a course which could have been with positive certainty foretold? New York, indeed, does deserve the celebrity to which the Empire City has attained, for she has produced the most original, the most impudent, and the grand est in conception of all the cliques formed against the public. The City of Brotherly Love can, how ever, do a big job of quiet'swindling in its quiet own way. They do not make the fuss in Philadelphia over such affairs as they do in New York ; and so a job by which $10,000,000 of good bonds held for a public sinking fund were exchanged for worth less bonds to the same amount, has not been con sidered worthy of public discussion, and is merely alluded to as a rumour. Nevertheless, for un blushing impudence, we think we might safely back a London finance company, though it would be hard to outdo the Erie clique. We have reached the end of our space, or we could tell a story of a certain association occupying fit and appropriate quarters in Threadneedle-street, in a house named after a celebrated bubble, which caps anything we ever heard from America, but we will reserve it for a future occasion. morrow becomes punishable the day after. Nay, worse with hair-splitting subtlety, it is to-day discovered that the judicial decisions of yesterday and the day before were all a mistake, and that the dealings founded thereon are to be undone, or become punishable." Now, this is attempting to prove too much ; and, like all such attempts, recoils in failure against the cause it is advanced to advocate. Men will steal whose morals are lax, whose requirements are great, and whose opportunities are abundant, wherever they are placed ; and though the law ought to fur nish them with as few opportunities as possible, yet, given these conditions, and men will steal under any circumstances, if it be the poor-box they have to rob. The Free- Trader ought to adopt the advice given to the cobbler, "to stick to his last ;" and it surely has enough to prove in the injurious influence on American industry, and the barrier to the progress of the nation of a high protective tariff, without attempting to show that the path to heaven is along the Free-trade track. For weeks the House has been occupied with the Tariff Bill, debating item by item, and in many cases the Committee of Ways and Means have been defeated by combinations for the protection of various interests. While the question is being con sidered lobbyists swarm, reporters and manufac turers leave their business to hurry to Washington in support of their special desires, and log-rolling is the order of the day. It has not, however, been till this week that the items of the highest moment were reached. On Tuesday the duty on pig iron was considered, the bill proposing $7 instead of $9 per ton. General BUTLER moved for $5, and carried the amendment by 66 to 64 in their House, 98 being absent. The correspondent of the limes says that the Pennsylvania members will try to have the bill defeated if they cannot reverse this decision when it is reported in the House from the Committee. Then followed the duty on scrap iron, when the proposal to alter the $8 per ton of duty to a quarter cent per pound on cast scrap, and a half cent on wrought scrap was lost, and General SCHENCK'S motion for $5 a ton on cast scrap was adopted. The Protectionists moved that the duty on wrought scrap should be $B, then $7, but, as both were defeated, General BUTLER proposed $5, which met the same fate, General LOGAN'S motion being carried of $6 by 71 to 56. Thus, the duty on pig iron has been reduced from $9 to $5 ; upon cast scrap from $8 to $5 ; and upon wrought scrap from $8 to $6, which may regarded as a remark able Free-Trade raid on Pennsylvania, the strong hold of Protection.--A nglo-American Times. TUE HENDON MYSTERY AGAIN. SATURDAY. It will 'be remembered that a young governess was found in ;he early part of last summer on the Midland Rail way Cor npany's line near to Hendon, having a rail way ticket in her pocket, but being insensible for some weeks, how she came there was a matter of surmise for • a long time. However, the young lady turned up as plaintiff in an action to recover damages for injuries against the Midland Railway Com pany, tried before Mr. Justice Blackburn and a special jury, who gave her £5OO damages. To-day Mr. Overend Q.C. (with whom was Mr. Wills), now moved for a new trial, on the ground that the damages were excessive. He stated that the plaintiff's medical witnesses deposed to injury to the the right arm and leg, and concussion of the brain, which might be permanent. On the other hand the defendant's testimony was that she would soon recover. He contended that as the young lady, who was a nursery governess with £l4 a year and living with the family, had received a great deal too much, as £5OO would represent £25 per annum for life, and she would have the £5OO at her death. Mr. Justice Blackburn said the witness gave her evidence clearly, and his impression was that she would recover.—The Lord .Chief Justice said their lordships were of opinion that this was not a mere question of pecuniary loss, for it must be borne in ,hind that it was also a questien of altered health and en joyment for life. There was nothing startling in the damages to call upon the court to interfere with the damages given by a special jury. THE BRIDGWATER BRIBERY PROSECUTION. SATURDAY. To-day, in the Court of Queen's Bench, Sir John Karslake, Q.C., moved for a rule calling upon the Attorney-General to shew cause why there should not be a new trial, or for a verdict for the defendant in the "Queen v. Dr. Hamilton Kinglake," recently tried before Mr. Justice Hannen at Taunton, when Dr. King lake was convicted of bribery and conspiring to bribe the electors of Bridgwater in 1868, to procure the return of his brother, Mr. A. W. Kinglake, the historian of the Crimean war. Sir J. Karslake said the principal ground for a new trial, was that Mr. Lovibond (against whom an informa tion had been jointly filed with Dr. Kinglake, but which afterwards received a free pardon), had given evidence on compulsion, and he ought not to have been compelled to give evidence as it tended to criminate him in actions then pending, the penalties of which would amount to £5OO. On the learned counsel raising the question at the trial, Mr. Justice Hannen determined that Mr. Lovibond might be called as a witness. Mr. Justice Hannen ; If I had had the power I should have reserved the question ; but I did not think I had the power to refuse the evidence. Sir John Karslake said, as the jury had given the ver dict generally on all the counts, it would be necessary to go into the facts of the case at the trial. Mr. Lovibond proved that he had had a conversation with Dr. King lake about a week before the election, and that it would be necessary to be prepared with a um of money, but that proposition went off, and nothing further was said of it ; but on the day•of the nomination Dr. King lake was said to have been at the house of a person named Prior, a banker, at Bridgwater, and credit was arranged for £l,OOO. The Lord Chief Justice : I suppose we may assume without going through the details that Mr. Lovibond's evidence was essential to the conviction ? Sir John Karslake : Yes, my lord. The Lord Chief Justice : The question then is whether Mr. Lovibond, being compelled to answer, vitiated the conviction. Sir John Karslake said he wanted a rule to enter a verdict upon particular counts. Dr. Kinglake gave Mr. Prior a cheque for £l,OOO on the eve of the election; but at twelve o'clock on the day of the election, the cause of Mr. Kinglake looking hop e l ess , D r . Kinglake went to Mr. Prior and cancelled the cheque, saying, "This transac tion is at an end ; and nothing must be done on it." Dr. Kinglake never intended to bribe ; but his advisers had told him that money was required. The case was so hopeless at twelve o'clock that Mr. Kinglake went to London, and Dr. Kinglake returned to Taunton. It ap peared, however, that at three o'clock Mr. Kinglake's chance was looking up, and Mr. Lovibond, who did not intend to bribe, appeared to have then given a note to a Mr. Mogg, which he took to Mr. Prior, who gave him £5OO, which was given to a Mr. Allen. The learned counsel argued that at any rate Mr. Lovibond was prima facie not bound to criminate himself, and though he had a pardon as against himself for that particular transaction, still it vitiated the conviction of Dr. Kinglake. The learned counsel then went into the cases bearing on the argument, and sub mitted that a rule might be granted in accordance with his motion. _ _ _ The Lord Chief Justice then delivered judgment, and said that the court was of opinion that a rule nisi ought not to be granted in this case. Mr. Lovibond, whose evidence it must be admitted, was essential to the conviction in this case, was, under the cir cumstances, not bound to answer, but was compelled to answer, and therefore, according '4o Sir J. Karslake, the evidence was improperly received as against the defen dant. His lordship was by no means satisfied he had any privilege whatever; on the contrary, he thought the witness had no privilege, and was compelled to answer. It was admitted on all hands that the pardon of the Crown would protect Mr. Lovibond against any criminal proceedings, but it was said that it did not pro tect him against liability to actions for penalties, which were then actually pending against Mr. Lovibond. His lordship had a very grave doubt whether the privilege of the witness extended to answers to questions which did not involve any penal conseoueiwPi cue crmumu ; out hie wouia not ease his judgment on that ground for the 35th section of the 17th and 18th Vic., chap. 102, was sufficient to get him over that difficulty. That enactment had made a witness placed in similar circumstances to those in which Mr. Lovibond stood not only admissible, but compellable to answer, and though it was true that it was only in reference to that particu lar action, and that it could not be carried further ; yet his lordship thought the moment the Legislature stepped in, and said that in such an action, or an action in which he was a powerful party, he might- be compelled to answer, there was then a possibility that protection did not extend. He should, however, rest his decision upon much broader grounds, and he went the length of saying that Mr. Loviband was the only person who could take any exception to his being called upon to answer the quetsions. The privilege was entirely his and not in any sense the privilege of the party immediately in the proceeding viz., Dr. Kinglake. Mr. Lovibond might have refused to answer and might have exposed him self thereby, it was true, to imprisonment for contempt or possibly for a fine, and he might or might not have been with or without remedy in such a case. This was a matter which entirely concerned the witness. If he chose to give the evidence voluntarily, and made no objection, it was clear that the evidence would have been admissible. It was, therefore, plain that it was not evidence illegal or improper to be receivedin any sense of the word. if Mr. Lovibond had been willing to give evi dence, and took no objection, there could have been no possi bility of cause of complaint on the part of the defendant for the reception of the evidence. That being so, what difference did it make that coercion, which so far as the witness was concerned, might have been impro per, though his lordship did not think, in the present case, it was, had been improperly put upon Mr. Lovibond. Mr. Lovibond might possibly have been allowed to complain ; but there was no illegality in the evidence and no irregularity or impropriety in its reception. It seemed to his lordship that Mr. Lovibond by answering in the way in which he did, avowing his own criminality and exposing himself to the consequences of the evidence he was giving, was the best possible test of the truth of the statements he made. He could not see any grounds whatever that where a witness was compelled by the judge to answer—though the witness might have cause to complain of compulsion—that that was no reason for holding that the trial was vitiated by the evidence. The other learned judges concurred. CURIOUS BEQUEST FOIL GOOD FRIDAY.—Peter Symonds, by will dated 1586, left a sum of money that a sermon might be preached every Good Friday in the church of Allhallows, Lombard-street ; and at the close of the service provides that a penny and a packet of resins or plums shall be given to each of 60 of the younger scholars of Christ's Hospital who shall attend such ser vice. This custom was observed on Good Friday. At the close of the service several other children participated in the gift, and a number of poor persons received gifts of money and bread, The sermon was preached at St, Dionis Baokchurch, Allhallows being under repair.—City Press. • THE MAILQUIS D'ANDELARRE.—siIo liazquia d'Andelarre has sent the following letter to the Pays and Parlement :—" I have just received an extract from two letters which you published, both of which announce the suicide of the Left Centre, and the request which I had made for a place in the Central Committee of the Plebiscatar Propaganda. This place, it is added, has been refused to me in spite of the intervention of the Minister of Justice. I offer the most unqualified denial to those statements, and I challenge you, gentlemen, to produce a single witness who could have authorised you to publish them. You have been in too great a hurry to ring the knell of the Left Centre, and to mourn over the destinies of " restless persons " whom you seem at present to accuse of not being restless enough. lam not unmindful of the regrets which have 132 en felt by the Left Centre in consequence of the Emperor's refusing its requests and through the resignation of the eminent Ministers who represented it in the Cabinet. But if, as you in s i nua te, cer t ain p ersons were t o cross th e Ministerial threshold, and to be called upon to fill up the. vacancies in the 011ivier Cabinet, you may rest assured, gentlemen, that you would not have to ask if the Left Centre was still in existence." Out of sixty girls taken from the Lthubeth Work house by the matron of the Industrial Home in Great Ormond-street, only one has since become chargeable to lie parish. A correspondent in. Herepath's2vay journal suggests that the various railway companies should establish pleasure grounds and gardens for various classes of tho puhlieL at thAttdistii444.4_ FREE TRADE IN AMERICA. Judging from the Free-Trader, of which the April number has just reached us, the doctrines it advo. cates are rapidly gaining ground in America. Indeed, Mr. W. D. KELLEY, of Pennsylvania, the Protec tionist champion, likens the spread through the North to wildfire, adding, "just as secessionist prin ciples once over-ran the South." The Protectionist has been established in NeW York to counteract more effectually, as it says, " the iecreasing dis semination of the pernicious Free-Trade doctrines of the Free-Trade press of the country, which in eludes within its ranks most of the influential jour nals of the United States." A leading editor of one of the Western States, writing on this subject, re marks " It looks to me as though the Protectionists were going to lose pretty much everything in the West this fall. The avalanche is growing larger and moving faster than I anticipated." Gene ral GARFIELD, in the debate on the Tariff in the House of Representatives, said if a line were drawn by the west side of Ohio, along the north side of Arkansas, there would be nine States, every one Republican, some overwhelmingly so; yet, if his calculation was accurate, out of the 57 members these States had in that House 51 would vote for a re duction in the tariff in some shape. There were be sides 50 Democrats on the floor, and, though that was denied, yet two or three leading Democratsthen proclaimed themselves Free Traders. During that debate General SCHENCK, after whom the Tariff Bill was named, and who is an honest, able, and energetic supporter of Protection, said that many things in it did not meet with his approval, that he wished to reduce the duty on coal one-fifth, but he had been overruled, and he had noticed that every man who had anything to protect was willing to have it protected, while ready to raise the cry of Free Trade with regard to everything else. It is that selfishness which makes it impossible equitably to adjust a Protective tariff, and, at the same time, renders all tariffs based on Protection so uncertain in operation and duration ; in a word, so change able, as to damage business and to scare away capital. Gen. SCHENCK is a very high-minded man ; one of those ornaments to an American Assembly that go far to redeem the corruption of others, for he is a man like the late Secretary STANTON, who has had unbounded opportunities for enriching himself, yet remains poor. Whatever General SCHENCK may say comes before the country with all the weight of a reliable honesty ; yet in Ohio, while he is held up as an example to American legislators, they talk of electing him "to stay at horre next time." A writer from the Miami University says that they returned General SCHENCK not by reason of his views on the tariff, but in spite of them, knowing him to be honest, and capable, and faithful, and hoping that he might imbibe some of the changing sentiments of the country ; but, being disappointed, though they would like to retain their old " bull dog " Representative, they object to taxing the whole country to enjoy that luxury. Senator CAT TELL presented a memorial to the Chamber on the sth April, demanding a special examination of cer tain cases in contradiction of statements made in the last Reports of Commissioner WELLS, cha racterizing them as a libel upon A nutacturers and working men ; but Mr. WELLS appears to hold his own against all assailants. What gives his side such strength is, that in general the editors, the professors, and the mass of teachers favour his views, and actively propagate them. But, on the other side, the bulk of the people have a strong leaning towards Protection, and they are not easily moved when the idea takes root that a high tariff means high wages, and the exclusion of what in America is called " the competing pauper labour of Europe." The Free.7rader leads off in its articles with " A Word to the President ;" and its word implies that the august functionary, in a late Message on the decline of American commerce, talked nonsense. Too many journals, it says, known as friendly to the Administration, are unwilling to speak frankly on such a subject ; and then it asks the PRESIDENT to accept the blunt but friendlyadvice to give to the economic questions before the people the same earnest study he gave some years ago to mi litaryproblems, "and thus refrain from insulting the intelligence of this people by pretending to advise them on subjects which he has not sufficiently studied, and which he evidently does not under stand 2" Considering the great questions of his. Administration to be economic ones, the Free- Trader feels a sense of keen disappointment " on seeing him, in a grave paper of State, involving re commendations of the most serious character, betray the most perfect ignorance of the siMplest princi ples that underlie the very question upon which he offers_ recommendations to the Congress of the United States." It is amusing in glancing over the articles of the Free-Trader to see to what lengths a dominant idea can carry the person imbued there with. Everything wrong is ascribed to the tariff, every misfortune, every crime, lies at its door. We honestly believe that the United States is quite able to step into the ring and compete with any other na tion, in a free and fair field, in any production or industry for which the country is fitted and the people have a taste. The attempt to handicap the rest of the world is a mistake, alike useless and un generous, for nations cannot legislate against their neighbours without to a great extent injuring them selves ; and with its enormous resources the l nion ought to be the Free-Trade Champion. General SCHENCK'S arguments (when he alluded to its mag nitude and the vastness of the interests concerned, as compared with little spots like England and France) would have come better from the lips of a Free-Trader. Nevertheless, the United States is progressing with wonderful speed in material pros perity in the hands of the Protectionists ; the manu facturing industries are taking root throughout the land, and it is unfair to the ruling party not to re cognise this fact, in whatever way it may be ac counted for. "What is it that causes this general demoralisation among us ?" asks the Free-Trader, and immediately proceeds to answer this interesting question by pointing to the tariff : " The citizen is harassed and ever interfered with, bur dened with an exorbitant tariff and with an enormous taxation, surrounded by official spies, entrapped where no crime is intended. What wonder that the moral sense of the people has become blunted ; that no faith is kept with a Government that keeps none itself, and that to cheat it is considered no worse than to overreach a brigand who plunders us of our own ? Who can for many days toge ther flatter himself that he understands tho laws of his country ? What is legitimate to-day is declared to be criminal_ to-morrow and what may be , palely done to- THE AMERICAN PRESS. A Cincinnati paper exhibits considerable enter prise in announcing the assassination of Julius Caesar. We heard of this occutrence some time since, and right sorry we were to hear it ; but Cin cinnati is far inland, and that which is news there is tradition elsewhere. Notwithstanding the im portance of the publication it was not issued in an extra, but in the regular edition of the paper. The editor comments upon the occurrence with ability and gloom. He says that Caesar was a man of talent, and ought to have mounted the throne. It was in apprehension of this event that he was him self mounted by Brutus and his backers, with the fatal consequence which the editor so feelingly deplores. He says, likewise, that Cleopatra's genea logical tables are stained with the scarlet of con sanguinity. Why does he rake up this old scandal. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. She couldn't help her parentage. She sinned some, repented a good deal, and the asp was punishment enough to make due atonement. We are really shocked at tne eager malignity with which our Cincinnati contemporary circulates these injurious reports about a lady who to no longer take her own part. If Marc Antony were alive the editor would doubtless receive a call from that robust Roman gentleman, d the frag ments of the journalist would be subsequently car ried home in a pillow-case. But we believe that Marc is dead. The editor says he is. "He clung to life till the last moment, and then committed suicide." So that no resentment is to be appre hended from that quarter. The expedients which provincial journalists adopt to fill their editorial columns are sometimes quite entertaining. This record of Julius Cesar and Cleopatra and the battle of Actium, inserted apropos of nothing, and com mented upon as if it were a fresh discovery, is per haps not quite so absurd as the publication of the twelfth chapter of Isaiah, which an editor of similar fertility of resource offered to his readers for three RueeeQQhr. ifiCiiPQ of hi 1 , .A sr \Vhcn cnnlnnf - hi. o'ib scribers complained, he cheerfully and magnani mously substituted the 13th. These contributions may have lacked freshness,but their piety was unim peachable. When our Cincinnati friend gets through with Caesar let him give us his opinion of Job, the probable cause of Lis boils and the market price of his she asses.---i% ew York Tribune. The same paper remarks :—" People sometimes laugh at the affection (or irony) which calls Boston ' the Athens of Americ ;' but that Bostonians generally accept the title as no more than their civic due, is pretty plain. Thus the Boston Journal, in speaking well of the current number of a cer tain magazine, says The articles are fully up to the Boston standard '—meaning, of course, that they are -‘ good.' We outer barbarians may well look, not with envy, but admiration, upon the con stant ' standard' of literary excellence which has been vouchsafed to us. In New York we may have a few tolerably successful imitators of the Bostonian graces and glories ; but as for an original and self sustained literature of our own--alas 1" The Cleveland Leader says of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Convention :—" When the woman con ventions shall be purged of feminine men who wear ringlets and part their hair in the middle, and speak in a half-falsetto voice, and of masculine women, who don trousers, crop their hair short, and talk slang in deep bass, they will command more respect." it is reported that the Protestant Bishop of Lon don is to have an assistant, or " suffra,gan" bishop, who will take the title of Bishop of Westminster. If this is true, the selection of a designation by which the Metro politan of the Catholic Church in England has been known for nearly twenty years is extremely ill-timed, and will in all probability lead to considerable confusion. Surely there must be other titles which the suffragan Bishop of London might select instead of that of West minster.— Weekly Register. The perpetrator of the outrage upon the woman Fitzgerald, near Wellington, has been arrested, and proves to be a man named Pitt. He was immediately identified by the woman, who stated that he sprung out from a gate upon her and asked her for her money. On being told that she had none, he said that he would get rid of her, and, pulling a pistol from his pocket, shot h er in the . hip. She screamed " Murder, , ' and the man then attempted to fire a second pistol, but was frightened away by a an approaching vehicle. When arrested three pistols were found upon him, two being loaded ; and he attempted to shoot the officer, but wan disarmed. During the recent visit of Sothern to Edinburgh he was asked out to dinner by the officers of the 17th Lancers. Before the wine was cleared off the table the officers pressed Mr. Sothern to perform a part of one of his characters, which, of course, he very naturally de clined. They continued, however, to press him so much that he reluctantly consented, and commenced the drunken scene from " David Garrick," when, to the astonishment of all present, he swept the cloth clean off the table, smashing glass, decanters, plates, dm, wholesale.—Court Journal. A telegram from Bells, county Meath, says :—"A private meeting of the magistrates of the county Meath has just been held here, for the purpose of considering the desirability of applying the provisions of the Peace Preservation Act to the county. The meeting affirmed the desirability, and also recommended certain changes, in order to render the organisation and efficiency of the con stabulary more complete. Amongst the recommendations are the formation of several new constabulary stations and a further increase in the number of men in disturbed districts." THEFT or £BOO.—A serious highway robbery is reported to have been committed at Old Trafford on, Thursday night. Mr. James Whalley, of Highfield terrace, Burnley, who has been on a visit to h* friends in Manchester during the past week, was found shortly after ten o'clock, in an apparently helpless condition, lying on some building land adjoining City-road. He subsequently stated to the police that as he was going to his father's house, which is in the same neighbourhood, he was accosted by two rough looking men, who knocked him down and robbed him of his money, which consisted of £250 in gold, and £450 in bank notes. The thieves seem to have performed their work in a very expert manner, without attracting 'the attention of anyone in the neighbourhood i and they got tigely away with tiatitinOtn MONETARY REP ORTS -SAT URD AY. Business in the Stock Exchange has been limited to day, and no change of importance has taken place in prices. The tone of the various markets, however, has neen good, with the exception of Consols, which have been rather weaker, at 94k, 94i for money and the May account. Reduced and New Three per Cents, 92k, 921. Bank stock has marked 234, 235. India Five per Cents have been done at 113, 113*; and India Bonds, 20s. to 255. prem ; Exchequer Bills, par to ss. prem. An increased amount of steadiness has been noticed in the demand for English railway stocks, and the inherent firmness of the market has been exemplified by the fact that the recent reactionary movement has been stayed , and the quotations have again recovered. Great Eastern has risen i; Great Western * ; London and North- Western * ; Metropolitan ; Midland* ; and North- Eastern (Berwick) *; London and Brighton, however , has receded k. Indian railway stocks have been quiet, and without change. For Canadian and foreign shares, there has been only a moderate inquiry, at about previous quotations. There his been a continuance of firmness in the market for foreign bonds, exception being taken to Turkis h Five per cents., which on realisations, have relapsed I. Chillian Scrip has been in request, and has risen IA Peruvian Five per Cents. have risen *; Spanish Three Per Cents., * ; do. (1867), *; do. (1869), * ; Italian Five per Cents., ; and Portuguese Three per Cents., Russian Scrip has also been better. In American securities very little business has been doing. The Five-Twenties and Ten-Forties Bonds have maintained late rates. Massachusetts Bonds have risen and Atlantic Mortgage Bonds I*, but Erie Shares have fallen In the market for mining shares the transactions bays been restricted, and prices have shewn no change. Baill r shares have been steady in value, with a tendency to ink provement. For Telegraph shares there has been only a moderate demand, and prices have been unaltered. Telegrap h Construction shares have been flat, and lower. In miscellaneous securities very little business has been doing, at about late rates. A fair amount of animation has been noticed in th e , money market. Capital has continued plentiful, and three months' paper has been negotiated at 21 to 3 Per cent. No bullion operations have taken place at the Bank to day, but as there is a large supply on the market, and 1 10 demand for export, considerable sums will shortly be sent into the establishment. Messrs. J. H. Schrodor and Co., have given notice that on the 2nd of May they will be prepared to reduce at par' together with the interest due the Ist of July next, the whole of the outstanding bonds of the Peruvian Four and-a-Half per Cent. Loan of 1862, amounting to £952,900, less interest at the rate of 1 per cent. per anneal from the day of payment to the Ist of July. A prospectus has appeared of the Thetis Marine 1110' lance Company (Limited), with a capital of £200,000, in £2O shares, with power to increase to £400,000, by a second issue of shares. £1 per share must be paid on application , £1 10s. on allotment, and a further £2los. per share three months after allotment. _ _ The Belgian Government has not only resolved to reduce the postage to auniform rate of 10c. ,but has also consented to a reduction to la for correspondence destined for local' ties, such correspondence to be written on the back of card, and posted without an envelope, after the sy - steal established in Austria in October last. Paris advices state that there is some talk of a ne/ / 1 Bank of Turkey for the ostensible purpose of aiding 311° assisting in the execution of public works. MARKETS-SATURDAY. LONDON PRODUCE MARKETS, SATURDAY. —Privately tll° business doing to-day has been very moderate. The demand , tea has been restricted, but prices have been maintained. it'„, sugar has been dull, and there has been very little inquiry " refined goods. Coffee has been in limited request. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKE T` SATURDAY.—The supplies of potatoes have been moderate. 1.1 2 . trade has been'steady, at our quotations :—English straws, rzt''. to 130 s. ; regents, 100 s. to 120 s. ; Scotch regents, 100 s. to 12 05 " rocks, 90s. to 100 s. ; and French, 755. to 1005. per ton. . LONDON WOOL MARKET, SATURDAY.—The position .1 the wool market has been unaltered. At the public sales e' colonial produce there has been a good attendance, and bidding; have been brisk. A large quantity has been taken for export, 01 qualities suitable for this purpose have realised id. per lb. nio re money than during the last series. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET SATITRTO:, --There has been a good supply. The demand has not be e n active, but prices have ruled firm, as follows :—Prime mead ow 0 47 hay, 80s. to 85s. ; inferior ditto, 605. to 70s. ; rowen, 50s. ~ 655. ; prime clover, 110 s. to 1265. • inferior ditto, 80s. to 5 5;,,' prime second-cut clover, 100 s. to 'llos. ; inferior ditto, 805. " 505.; and straw, 20s. to 30s. per load. LONDON METAL MARKET, SATURDAY.—There has been moderate demand for Scotch pig iron, at 58s. 9d. cash. Tin ba! been firm, but hardly so active, at full prices. Copper has been quieter, LONDON OIL MARKET, SATURDAY —Linseed oil has b een quiet, at 82s. 3d. to 325. 6d. Rape has been steady, at 425. to 425. 9d. English brown spot. LONDON TRADE REPORT, SATURDAY.—TaIIow has been quiet, at 445. 3d. spot. T •icet LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—The ra— Asap. Q port and spectuation. Imports, 25,625 bales. - . BELFAST LINEN TRADE REPORT, SATURDAY.—Linen g • - :: Brown Powerlooms :—Demand continues very dull, and stood slightly increased. No change to note in prices. Medium an heavy goods havebeen in slightly better demand. Handlooms:.,,, Production very much decreased. Prices for good makes 1 0 "1 steady. Linens, bleached and finished :—Home deman steady. Advices from New York say that the demand for lint' goods had fallen off very much. The Continental markets .. 1 1 4 without change, the demand being still limited. Yarns : market has been without any noticeable feature since our I,s' report. Demand still continues quiet, orders being only 1 ,,N „ . immediate requirements. Prices remain nominally unchangr, Flax :—The Irish markets exhibited very small supplies of ' l 7,i this week, with a slow sale, at unchanged prices. There nothing new from any of the foreign markets.—" Northam Whig.COß " K BUTTER MARKET, SATURDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 1 3 1 5 , L. seconds, 1335. •, thirds, 995. ; fourths, 81s. ; fifths, 60s. ; 5ix.„7,171 not quoted ; 950 firkins in the market. Mild cured : firsts, 149. " seconds. 128 s. ; thirds, 108 s. ; 30 firkins in the market. It is understood that Mr. Valentine O'CoOr Blake, the son of a gentleman who retired in favour of Jr . G. H. Moore at the election of 18.68, will, in all probabilifil offer himself as a candidate for Mayo. Mr. George Hudson, ex-railway-king, has, it i 5 stated, been offered the post of mana ge r of the Sunderland Docks, at a salary of X 2,000 a year. SECESSION OF A CHURCH CONGREGATION. ---A Free Church of England has just been opened at Wheeltoll' near Blackburn, nearly the whole congregation of t y parish of Heapey having seceded from the parish chur' o The secession appears to have been caused some time s_o by the refusal of the vicar, the Itev. S. Fisher, nominate as curate the Rev. J. Shaw, who for a 101 l time had taken the vicar's duty during his illness, so the appointment of another gentlemen in his place. ~.6 .11. 4 impulse was given to the movement by some reports ww.t. were in circulation in reference to the church funds of w" parish. LAD zhnszitErr.l—Avoid Medicines—they always aggra • ~g chronic complaints; but Du Barry's delicious ' h ea lth- r estor. l l, Revalenta Arabic°, Food, which yields three times the nour i , s , 4 ,, , mentor the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remed- I ",j and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, a? ti ,. - 0 lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional gularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We - 1 tract a few oat of the 68,000 cures:—" The Pope's health restor6e6, by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—"R0 me , July 21, 1 8 , , —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially 13 _,I, u ,'"fy abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself es to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which Ile constw,i,- a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surpr i s i n gly tidal effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise cilia e'""Ol lent food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. d oe r No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Breham, of seven years' 00 0 complaint, Wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a ner v od palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness',. f it the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many 570 dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agony ,"; j or dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, fiatw e So; spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly." Cure _ sr , 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 rod diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement , partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the .1;0 unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which , authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attachvip ; In tins, at is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb is 6d; 51b 11s.: 1 21 b,50 24 lbs 4 s.— lso Du BARRY'S REVALENTA RABIC& CEICT eu pO POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 14 cups at 2s, for 2 4 . bbs at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 288 cups at 3 0s, for 576 cups a",,ot —being about - one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins free of carriage in England on r.c.Aipt of Post Office Or .I.„d BAR RY Du DAmma - thud. uo., No. 77, Regent-street, London; and Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. HICKLEY - On the 26th inst , at Ashcot, the wife of Captain V. H. Hickley, R.N., of a 'daughter. ROSSLYN— On the 22d inst., at 32, Bruton-street, the C° lll3- toss of Rosslyn, of a son. MARRIAGES. BOUVERIE —NELsow —On the 21st - Met, at Charlton —A, Saints', Wilts, the Hon. and Rev. B. P. Bouverie, tbd son of Earl Radnor, to the Lady Constance Jane, 00 0 ° 11 daughter of Earl Nelson. TODD —PAGE —On the 21st inst., at All Saints, Upper 1 0 „. r... wood, Alfred, eldest son of John Todd, of Belmont-Po.' Lee, to Emma Jane, daughter of William Page, of OrO ° don. DEATHS. LEICESTER —On the 21st inst., at Holkham, Juliana, o ° ll/2° tess of Leicester, agel 44. PAYNE—On ths_2fst inst., Sir Oradea Gillies Payne, Bart., of Blunham gouse, Bedfordshire, agod 76. London: Printed and Published by WILLiAM ANDREW„e' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN `office, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in 'Lc, COuutY of • Middlesex.—Alcaadiv, April 26, 1876. 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