The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-31 00:00:00

THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF PERSONATING WOMEN. Park and Boulton, the two men charged with persona ting women with the intent to commit a felony, were yesterday brought up for further examination at Bow•street, when the following additional evidence was heard for the defence : Mrs. Louisa Peck, of 36, Southampton-street, Strand, said her husband was a managing clerk, and they let lodgings. Lord Arthur Clinton became her lodger from September to November, 1868. He occupied the draw!uk room floor, and during the three months he resided there she had seen Lady Arthur Clinton, his wife, tome to the house. He was visited by gentlemen, and Mr. Boulton lived with him. Lord A. Clinton took the lodgings for both. Both were absent on one occasion to go to Scarborough to attend a theatrical .performance, and they were absent about a f or t n i g ht, b u t s h e -ieas slot Awe. He had a sitting-room and bedroom in the aktrue &I% atid there was a bed in the bedroom and itting-room. Witness could not say in which bed Boulton alert s but both beds were occupied. Mr. Park visited at the *use once or twice, but she could not say whether it was Mors they went to Scarborough. No one to her know ledge Went in the room after they retired to rest, and she should not allow it. She did not know whether Park or Anyone slept on the couch, and she did not know how they Slept the night Park %vaa at the house. Witness never saw Boulton in female attire, and he was in the house every day as an ordinary lodger, and dressed as a gentleman. She heard one evening from her servant that they had dressed for a theatrical entertainment, and in female attire. Witness had seen Mr. Thomas and he was always dressed as a. gentleman. She had seen Mr. Cumming often dressed as o, gentleman. Boulton was never guilty of any familiarity whatever, and the conversation she heard wag proper. There were no terms of endearment used, and they conducted themselves as gentlemen should do. Maria Dian was servant at her establishment during the time the prisoners lodged with her, and she assigned as a reason for leaving her service that she was delicate. She said that she was in a consumption, and that the place was too hard for her. Duffin never made any complain' to her of the conduct of Boulton and Lord A. Clinton on any subject whatever. Witness had been to the Treasury Office a fortnight ago, and her statement was taken down in writing, and questions were put to her in reference to Boulton and Lord Arthur Clinton, and she answered those qnestions truly. She had not seen Maria Duffin since she left her service, and no application was ever made to her for her character. Duflin told her that she was going to be married, and witness was not aware that her servant was going into half a dozen different places. After seeing Maria Duffin's evidence, witness communicated with Mr. Abrams, the defendant's solicitor, and the memorandum produced is what she gave voluntarily to him. It is untrue that Mr. Thomas came as a gentleman, and went out dressed as a female, and only once did Mr. Boulton dress as a lady. Cross-examined—She had never seen Hart's writing nor had she ever received any letter from him. Boulton did look effiminate, but she had never seen him painted. She fancied Boulton was a woman, as he looked as such. Witness did not say at the Treasury that she thought Boulton, Park, and Thomas were women dressed as men, but she said she was told that Thomas had a mother living near Russell-square, and that he was an illegi timate son of some duke. She might have said at the Treasury that they looked as ladies, but would swear he did not say they were women dressed up as men. She did not believe they were women at any time, and had never heard Boulton called " Melia Clinton." Witness was away from home in Sep tember. She had never seen any cards with the name of Lady Arthur Clinton on them. Lord A. Clinton did not to her knowledge visit Wight and Louis Charles Hart. She would swear that she did not say at the Treasury that Lord A. Clinton used to visit Mr. Wight, and that she believed it was through that he took their rooms. She did say that she refused Lord Clinton three times, but at last he sent his piano in and took possession. Lady Arth ur Cli n to n came but she did not think she was a proper person. She was refused admittance, but not by witness. She came while Lord Arthur Clinton was away, and witness did not see her. Witness had not the slightest doubt as to Boulton's sex at any time, and he always behaved himself as a man. She never saw a hair-dresser at her place, and if he came it was not to her- knowledge. Lord Arthur Clinton and Bennett returned from Scarboro' together, Two velvet skirts and velvet jackets were left behind as well as two ladies' walking-dresses. The photographs produced were Mr. Hert (Park) and Lord Arthur Clinton. By Mr. Besley—Mr. Hert conducted himself with pro riety, and she heard that he was in the service of the est-office. Mr. Wight conducted himself as a thorough gentleman. The reason why she considered the person who called as Lady Arthur was an improper person was from what she had been told. Via, Clarke , 29 years of age, said she went to Mrs. a V ark's service n May, and left in April. Duffin was in the same service. Witness was there at the time. Lord Arthur (Minton and Boulton lodged at the house. She slid not know what bed Park slept in. Nord Arthur and Boulton slept there on the same fight. Witness made the beds while Lord Arthur and Boulton remained, and Maria Duffin assisted her. At all times the bed in the dressing-room was used during the time Boulton and Lord Arthur Clinton lodged at the house. She saw Boulton once in female costume, and that was in the evening. Mr. Boulton told her that Mr. Park and himself were going to an amateur per formance, and she saw them get into a cab, and they let themselves in when they came home with a latch key. Boulton was not generally in the habit of dressing in "female's clothes. She used to accuse him of being a, female, and he used to pass it off as a joke. Witness had !Token to Park, and she had never heard any indecent or improper conversation between them. She never heard Lord Arthur address Boulton as my dear, or my darling. She had newer seen Cumming- or Thomas dressed as women. Park used to say for two or three days at a time while Lord Arthur and Boulton lodged at Mrs. Peck's, but she 4auld not tell which slept in either bed. Each had latch keys, and as a rule they generally came in after she had Crone to bed. She took Boulton for a female, but she did hot see him wear a wedding ring. She had heard him sing, and he had a womanish voice. Sne thought he was Lfemale all the time he was at the house, and. ord Arthur used to address him as Ernest. She remem bered a lady and gentleman coming to see Boulton, and they were represented as his father and mother. She heard Mrs. Peck say that she thought that Boulton must be a man, or his father and mother would not have visited him if he was a woman dressed up in man's clothes. Not withstanding the visit, she still thought Boulton was a woman. The hairdresser used to come once or twice a week, and would dress Boulton and Park's hair, but she did not know his name. His shop was opposite Drury-lane Theatre in Brydges street. Knew Thomas Cummings and Hanns who visited the house. She thought Park was a lady as well as Boulton. When they went out as women Boulton dressed in white muslin, and. Park in black silk, as she understood to an amateur performance. By Mr. Besley : Boulton was not when at home dressed in a loose dressing gown and shirt. The lady called to see Lord Arthur when he was ill before he went to Scar borough, and she was shown up to him. Others visited Lord A. Clinton besides Boulton and Park, and they all behaved themselves as gentlemen and with propriety : Mr. Arthur Gladville, examined by Mr. Besley, said he was a dealer in work, of 36,Southampton-street, and occu pied the second floor of Mrs. Peck's house. He saw Lord Arthur and Boulton almost daily, and Park was a fre quent visitor. Boulton, except on one occasion, dressed as a gentleman. On that occasion he was invited to see the little party before they went out. Park and Boulton were dressed as ladies, and Lord Arthur in evening dress, and he was told that they were going to a theatrical entertainment at the West-end. One was dressed up as a young woman, and the other more matronly. The door of the sitting-room of Lord Arthur Clinton' was as frequently open as shut. He certainly should have heard if there had been anything coarse. He never suspected anything to the contrary-that they were gentlemen. By Mr. Poland : Did not know anything of Boulton more than as he had stated. He never had any conver sation with either of them, but was lodging in the houso at the time Mr. Wight and Mr. Hart lodged - there. Mr. Flowers said it might be useful to the counsel for him to inform them that he had made up his mind to commit the defendants for trial, and he did not think, con sidering the conflicting evidence, that he could do otherwise. That might influence the counsel in their addresses, as his impression was, under the circumstances, that the less that was said perhaps would be the best. Mr. Besley, at the close of the last witness's evidence, addressed the bench, and said the case was one of the most extraordinary which had ever come before a court of justice. He alluded to the charge being made of the principal offence, and observed that Mr. Poland had asked him to commit the defendants fora conspiracy in 1868. He said that the defendants should not be called upon to answer a charge so long back. He asked the magistrate, as he had made up his mind to commit them for trial, to commit, not for conspiracy, but for a misdemeanour. He said, also, if the temptation was not in money he should like to know what it was, as no money was found on them of any amount, and Mr. Gibbins and Lord A. Clinton had paid the bills. As there was no evidence in that direction, he asked that the prisoners should be committed for the minor offence of misdemeanour. He asked that all prejudice should be thrown aside. Mr. Flowers ultimately committed the prisoners to ta se their trial at the next session, for the committal o f . the grave offence, and also on a minor charge. On Leins asked if they had anything to say Park stood up an emphatically " I am innocent of such a gross charge." his father, leaving the Court, Boulton shook hands with Ins father, who had attended the several examinations, and. Park with his brother and others of their friends, and they were then removed without ball being acceotsa LABOULAYE AND THE COLLEGE DE FRANCE. Laboulaye, who has been so roughly treated by the students of the College de France on account 'a his nomination to the Senate, has written to M. Julien, the head of the College, to propose the suspension of his course of lectures. At his last attempt he was not, he says, allowed to utter a word, but large sous were even thrown at his head, and ladies who accompanied him were annoyed by the rioters. He is not the man to submit to such insults, but if the autho rities wish to maintain the law they must invoke the aid of the police: Af. Laboulaye thinks it becomes an old pro fessor to pity the madmen who insult him. It is the office of public opinion to condemn outrages which attack alike the citizen and the professor, the liberty of opinion and the liberty of instruction. M. Laboulaye has been professor in the college for twenty years. LAW AND POLICE. EXCITING SCENE IN COURT.—In connection with the case of Roe, a lunatic, a very unusual scene occurred on Friday in the Irish Court of Chancery. A conditional order had been made some time since that an attachment should issue against Miss Ellen Roe, sister of James Roe, a lunatic, if she did not give him up to the guardian ap pointed by the court. Mr. Morgan Cavanagh argued that his client was always . ready to give up the lunatic and bad him then in court for that purpose. The Lord Chancellor directed him to be given up to Mr. Nicholas Roe, the guardian appointed by his lordship. The poor fellow, on hearing this, clung to his sister, and wept bitterly. Ie declared he would rather die than leave her. The guardian proceeded to remove him, and a desperate scene of dragging, pulling, and screaming ensued. The Lord Chancellor was obliged to leave the bench, and ordered the court to be cleared, which was done with great difficulty. THE RIGHTS OF YEARLY SERVANTS.—A case connected with the affairs of the late Marquis. of Hastings came before Mr. Church, the chief clerk, at Rolls' Chambers. A claim was made by Mr. Ward, who had been the Marquis' agent in the management of his estates, at a salary of £350 a. year ; and the contention was whether he was a yearly servant, and entitled to six months' notice at the end of the year. Mr. Church held that the hiring was yearly, and that Mr. Ward was entitled to proper notice at the end of the year, when he was entitled to the full salary. He allowed. £5 ss. for costs. A CONVICTION THIRTY YEARS OLD.—A singular appli cation has been made in the Court of Queen's Bench, the object being to get rid of the result of a conviction for perjury nearly thirty years ago. So long ago as 1841. the applicant, who was clerk to an attorney, made a statement on oath in the course of some law proceeding which was untrue. He was indicted for perjury, and convicted, but strongly recommended to mercy by the jury, on the ground that he had been under pressure from his employer who was defendant in the cause tried. He was called upon to enter into recognisances to come up for judgment when called upon—the usual form for avoiding a sentence. The applicant had never been called upon, and the pro secutor now being dead, it was not likely he would be, as his representatives concurred in the application. The court granted a rule nisi. A curious feature in the case was that the case was uriginally tried in the same court as now Mr. Justice Coleridge being the judge, while Sir John Coleridge, Solicitor-General, now makes the appli cation. ACTION AGAINT THE COUNTESS D'ALTEYRAC. The case of Geoghegan ,v. D'Alteyrac „was tried before Mr. Justice Brett, and a common jury, in the Court of Com mon Pleas, at Westminster. The plaintiff, Mr. Michael John Geoghegan, was the solicitor to the Countess D'Alteyrac, who went through the Bankruptcy Court last year, after her unsuccessful suit against the hereditary Grand Chamberlain, with whom she had lived for some years under a marriage, which was subsequently found tobe invalid. Mr. Geoghegan's bill of costs up to August last, when her ladyship changed her solicitor, amounted to £l2O 3s. 10d., and of this he had received £25, leaving a balance of £95 3s. 10d. He now threw off three guineas for possible error in calculating cab-hire, and asked for £92. The bill was presented in October, and in April last the defendant had promised to pay the balance, but had failed to do so. Some disappointment was expe rienced by the non-appearance of the Countess to defend. His lordship told the jury that they would not be much wiser if they saw the bill of costs, for no man living could understand such a thing unless he should be an attorney himself. He directed a verdict for the amount sought. Verdict for the plaintiff accordingly. THE SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION PETITION.—The ques tion of the taxation of election petitions has been raised in the Court of Common Pleas. A rule was moved for on the ground that the master had allowed too much in his taxation of the costs in the Southampton election case. The Recorder of London had obtained a rule on the ground that too little had been obtained for his coats on petition. On the peti tion being heard, the Recorder and Mr. Hoare defended separately, and the petition was dis missed with costs. The petitioners now complained that the master had allowed too much on the taxation of Mr. Hoare's bill of costs. The whole claim was £5,643, the master had taxed off £3,539, and had allowed £2,104. He had allowed £367 10s. for instructions for brief. Mr. Hoare had subpoenaed 303 witnesses, 104 of whom had been disallowed as immaterial. One of the objections raised was that 45 of the Witnesses had been subpoenaed by the Recorder and Mr. Hoare, and the Master had allowed their full costs - in both bills, so that they had been paid twice over. As it did not appear on the affidavits what sum had been paid these witnesses, the matter was adjourned until they had been awarded. The IDENTITY OF A MARE.—An action was brought in the Court of Common Pleas respecting the identity of a mare which was stolen from the defendant more than a year ago. He prosecuted a "gentleman named Dredge" for stealing the animal, and obtained a convic tion. He afterwards got the mare back, and the plaintiff now claimed her as his property. The question was, was the mare in the defendant's possession was the one stolen from the defendant or one stolen from himself. The plaintiff called several witnesses, and said the mare recognised him when he spoke to her. A verdict for £25 was given for the plaintiff—the sum to be reduced to a shilling if the animal were given up. A TAILOR BUILT IN.—A tailor named Thomson recently obtained £4O damages against Mr. Hill, a builder, for depriving him of the light necessary for his trade. The case has now been carried to the Court of Common Pleas. It appeared that defendant had built a new house in the court in which plaintiff resided and had run it up some sixty feet higher than plaintiff's cottage. As the court was only seven or eight feet in width, the light was obstructed, and plaintiff's business fell off, so that from earning 455. per week he was reduced to penury. The Lord Chief Justice observed that builders frequently ran uy their houses in this way, regardless of the interests of neighbouring parties, and running the chance of mak ing some subsequent arrangement. The court sustained the verdict. IMPRISONMENT OF SUNDAY GAMBLERS. —Henry Hutchin son and Thomas Carr were charged at the Clerkenwell Police Court with playing at pitch and toss at Clerkenwell and St. Luke's. The police proved that the defendants were playing at pitch and toss and making use of bad language. The inhabitants complained greatly of the nuisance occasioned by Sundaygamblingin the streets. The defendants admitted looking on at the gambling, but denied that they were themselves tossing. Mr. Cooke said the cases were proved to his satisfaction. He then sentenced each of the defendants to three days' imprisonment in the House of Correction. The defendants asked that a fine might be inflicted, but the application was refused. ILLEGAL FISHING. —A man named Zachariah Talbot has been charged at Windsor with using a "trimmer" to take fish in the Thames, contrary to the bye-laws of the Thames Conservators. He pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s. and costs. Two men were charged with a similar offence, and a small fine inflicted. The Conservators are anxious to put a stop to the illegal fishing that goes on in summer-time. WELSH " BUNDLING. "—A case heard at the Aberyst with County Court revealed a custom among Welsh ser vants that would be more honoured in the breach than the observance. Two young men, farm servants, sued Mr. Charles Jeffreys, a gentleman of independent means, for an assault. Each of the plaintiffs laid the damages at £5O. It appears to be the frequent custom for Welsh servant girls to invite their lovers to the houses of their employers after the family have gone to rest. In the present instance, Williams and Jenkins visited the housemaid and cook of Mr. Jeffrey's, and were smuggled up stairs into the girls' bedroom, at nine o'clock, the latter joining them at ten. The men lay on the bed with their coats off chatting to the girls, which interesting occupa tion in Wales, goes under the name of " bundling," About three o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Jeffrey was awoke by hearing strange voices, and alarmed her husband, who on making a search, found the plaintiffs hiding under the bedclothes. On being discovered they rushed downstairs, followed by Mr. Jeffreys, who bela boured them most unmercifully, so much so, in fact, that the nose of one of them was broken, and both received such a castigation that they were obliged to seek medical advice and assistance. With some severe strictures on the immoral tendency of the custom, the judge left the case to the jury, who considered the plaintiffs had been the subjects of unnecessary violence, and gave them 215 each, with full costs. The Huntingdon Race Committee have decided, in consequence of the action of the authorities with regard to the forthcoming Epsom meeting, not to let any of the land on the racecourse for list betting. This will entail a considerable loss on the committee, the land so let having produced over £4OO per annum. The subject of "Union with other Presbyterian Churches " was discussed in the Established Assembly yesterday, a resolution being carried expressive of the Assembly's desire to promote the union of all Churches having a common origin and adhering t 3 the same confes sion of Faith. The Assize Court of Naples has delivered its sen tence upon the band of brigands which captured Mr. Moens and Mr. Murray. The chief, Manzi, and two others are condemned to death, nine of the prisoners are sentenced to penal servitude for life, three to twenty-one years' imprisonment, and one to twenty years. The Derby Memorial Statue - Fund is being sub scribed to not merely by his own political followers but by those who entertained different political views to those of the late earl. Many of the great city companies have already subscribed to the fund, and the Marquess of West minster has offered to subscribe the sum of £5O. At Leeds Police-court yesterday, Mr. Bruce, stipen diary magistrate, handed tothe chief constable a threaten. ing letter he had received, The letter accuses Mr. Bruce of not doing justice to the working classes; and states that he must " look out, or he may be shot some fine day." Mr. Bruce expressed his belief that the letter bad been written by some one of a higher position than working men. A great sensation has been produced in Belgium by the acquittal of .a writer charged with defamation against the managers of the Financial Societies, directed by M. Langrand-Dumonceau. At the close of the trial new prosecutions were entered into against the managers, and the books and papers of the incriminated societies were seized. This strange affair has excited the greatest curiosity in the Belgian capital. The action for libel, brought by Mr. Edmunds against the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe the Right Hon. James Stansfeld, and the Right Hon. George Alexander Hamilton, alleged to have been published by them in a Treasury Minute, arising out of the late arbitration in this cause celebre, will come on for trial at the sittings after the present Term, before a special jury, at Guildhall, in the Court of Common Pleas. The damages are laid at 825,000, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY' 31, 1870. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES. ZECH NOTIONS OF AUSTRIA'S FUTURE. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, referring to the Bill for the Repeal of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, says :—lf Archbishop Manning returns from Rome, as is expected, with a cardinal's hat, he will, on being presented at Court by the Duke of Norfolk, claim to take precedence not only of his Grace as premier peer of England, but of Archbishop Tait as premier prelate. As Prince of a foreign State, this would not so much provoke comment ; and as the law now stands it could only be in that capacity that he could be received. But the Government Bill now pending in the House of Lords will remove the style and title of Archbishop of Westminster ; and he will consequently present himself as Cardinal Arch bishop thereof. At present Cardinal Cullen takes pre cedence at the viceregal court and table of the Duke of Leinster, the primate, and the Chancellor of Ireland. But he is not recognised, and cannot be by the law as it stands, as Archbishop of Dublin. When the Titles Act shall have been repealed, he will as a matter of course assume that appellation, and thus the same question will be raised, in all probability on both sides of the Channel. The New Free Press of Vienna says that a curious memorandum on the present Austrian crisis has been pre sented to Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne at Paris, by the well-known Czech leader, Dr. Rieger. In this document the political aims of the Czechs are described as the re storation of an independent Bohemian kingdom, comprising Bohemia, Moravia; and Austrian Silesia, and the subse quent annexation to this kingdom of Prussia Silesia, the Lansitz, and the Slovak districts of Hungary. These objects, Dr. Rieger thinks, cannot be attained by revolutionary agitation, but only by a war in which Austria would become the ally of France against Prussia. The first consequence of such on alliance would, he thinks, be the restoration of the Bohemian kingdom, which would in that case be the natural ally of France, as they would both have the same enemy—Prussia, and the French armies could arrive in Bohemia more rapidly than those of Prussia could at Frankfort. SEWARDS BIRTHDAY. AUBURN, May 16. Some fifty young ladies of Wells College Aurora, arrived here to-day, accompanied by Henry Wells, Presi dent, and other officers of the College, to visit Mr Seward, on this the sixty-ninth anniversary of his birthday. After a collation Mr. Seward dismissed the young ladies with a pleasant speech, and turning to Mr. Welts, and the friends who had assembled to witness the festivity, said : " Mr. Henry Wells—l give you my sincere thanks for this new and most touching demonstration of a life-long friendship. Many years—more than thirty years—ago, you came to me in the Legislature in Albany every week in your periodical arrivals from New York to encourage Me in studies which seemed too arduous for one so inexperienced as I was. On the other hand, I encouraged yon in laying the simple foundations of a commercial institution which, under your persevering care and management, has since crowned you with riches, while it has increased the wealth and prosperity of the - United States and many foreign countries. How little did I know then, or for a long time afterward, -that the riches you were then accumu lating were being laid up in store, not for your self, family, or successors, but for the nation and mankind, I knew you first as Henry Wells, the assiduous special carrier ; I greet you now as Henry Wells, a public benefactor. This fact might teach us how hazardous are the judgments which we pronounce upon contemporaries in active life. • What a crowd of thoughts the very men tion of an improved system of female education suggests ! We are a people of forty millions, moving on to become quite soon four hundred millions. We are claSsified in more than forty states and territories—theoretically fra ternal, but practically distrustful, sometimes inimical, and I lately, I lament to say, hostile. We are separated from neighbouring countries by prejudices, jealousies, and hates hardly less than by mountains, lakes, rivers, and seas. We seem to be equally unwilling that they shall be united with us, or that they shall be dependent on any other Power, or even that they shall be independent. Our public councils are confused and passionate. We seem to be incapable of willing our national will without tur bulence, and working our national• work without vio lence and war. Leaving unsaid everything that concerns extension of the Republic, it is manifestly the mission of the United States to harmonise these several civilisa tions of the American continent and blend them into one. They have already attained great similarity. All the American States are Christian, and practically they are all Republican nations, with universal suffrage of all sects and conditions of men. Although some of these States still retain loose commercial and political connections with Europe, it is nevertheless true that only American ideas, generated and fostered in the United States, pervade the continent, and only American systems of commerce find a secure place upon it. We all know that Christianity is charity, and that republics re-, quire peace and fraternity. There must be a fault in our education. Everybody holds that intellectual education is an indispensable condition of universal suffrage: No education can be complete for our, national purposes that cares for the mind only and leaves the heart untrained. Man may perhaps train the mind successfully, but the heart must run wild. That is denied the assiduous and tender care of women. That education, there fore, is not universal which unequally trains the two sexes. No education •is effectual which is conducted exclusively in schools ' colleges , and univer sities, leavino• ignorance and prejudice, bigotry and vice, at the fireside and in the family circle. It is there that the child is most inquisitive, and of course it is the mother who always dwells there, who chiefly must give him the knowledge he solicits. The education of woman, however it may be allowed to differ in regard to the faculties cul tivated, must, nevertheless, be as extensive and as thorough, at least, as the education of man. Society is continually protesting against our inattention to these great but simple truths. We have everywhere, at home and abroad, questions of woman's rights, wrongs, powers and prerogatives, and of the proper balance of the sexes in social life and in the State. Whatever may be the course or end of these debates, I think you may rest as sured, Mr. Wells, that the proceedings which you have taken in founding a corporate university for the thorough education of women.separately, to be conducted by women alone, is a practical, bold advance in the right direction. May your days be prolonged to witness its beneficial re sults of instruction and example." TRADE AND NAVIGATION. The accounts of the trade and navigation of the United Kingdom for the four months ending 30th April, 1870, have just been published among the parliamentary papers. They are divided under several heads—articles free of duty, articles subject to duty, computed real value of principal articles imported, exports of British and Irish produce, and their declared value, shipping . and articles charged with excise duties. The variations in the import of corn are considerable. In the four months ending April 30th, 1868, the imports of corn were 1,796,431 cwts. In the same period of 1869 they rose to 4,179,910, and in this year they were 2,719,069, while barley and oats shewed little variation in the three pears. The import of raw cotton, which dimi nished by 700,000 in 1869 as compared with 1868, increased one million cwts. between 1869 and 1870. The import of paper, which was only 77,898 cwt. in 1868, was this year 109,833 cwt. The imports of iron and steel have some what increased, while silver ore has falleh from £36,416 value to £11,244. Silk has largely increased, and timber • diminished. West India sugars shew fluctuations proving that the trade stands in need of the changes introduced by Mr. Lowe's last budget. The'exports of British and Irish produce shew page after page of closely printed figures whose amounts and whose declared money value are reckoned in many instances by millions. The total amount of cotton yarn exported in the first four months of 1870 was 59,475,167, and its declared value £4,876,900. The declared value of the 2,053,777 lbs. of cotton manufactures exported in the same time was £18,170,056. Less gratifying is it to find under the head of duty paid spirits that the total quantity "retained in the United Kingdom as beverage only" is steadily increasing being in 1868, 4,963,856 gallons, and in 1870 5,422,232 gallons. ACCIDENT IN RICHMOND PARK. On Saturday evening, as a party of six gentlemen *ere taking a drive through Richmond Park, in a drag drawn by four horses, one of the leaders took fright, kicked against a tree, and twisted round towards the drag, which was overturned with much force. All .the gen tlemen were thrown out, and were more or less seriously injured. One who had fractured his leg, and another who was less seriously injured, were taken to the Castle Hotel. Another who had received a severe fracture of the skull, was taken to the Richmond Infirmary, where he still lies in a very dangerous state. The gentleman suffer'ng from fracture of the skull is Mr. G. Hodder. who is well known in literary circles ; the one who broke his leg Sis Mr. Allen, also a literary gentleman. Mr. Beales is the name of the other gentle man, who was taken to the Castle. The drag was driven by Captain Haworth, who, although injured, returned to to town the same night. Captain Ha,worth's son was also in the vehicle. The Rev. Joseph Baly, son-in-law to the late rector, the Rev. W. J. Coope, has been appointed to the living of Falmouth, which is in the patronage of the family. Sat HARRY PARKES.—It is reported in the East that Sir Harry Parkes, the present British Minister for Japan, is likely to be accredited to Pekin. At the request of the Government of Victoria no newspapers, book-packets, or packets of patterns, ad dressed to that colony will, until further notice, be forwarded by the route of San Francisco and New Zealand. THE LEADERS OF THE FENIAN RAID ON CANADA. —A. correspondent informs us that " General " O'Neill was apprenticed to the business of a house painter in Clonmel, and that " General " Gleason was - in 1848 serv ing in the Irish constabulary and stationed at Donny brook.—Post. The dispute between the Blochairn men and their employers, which bas brought about the lock-out in the Scotch iron trade, is to be referred to arbitration. The employers are said to be willing to accept the decision of the arbiters as final and binding, if the men will guaiantee to resume•work as soon as it is given. LEGAL EDUCATION.—A law contemporary believes that the legal education scheme of the committee on which Mr. Quain,Q.C., and others are engaged is now virtually ready for issue, and may be expected to be placed before the public almost immediately. The committee recom mend a certain modification of the scheme formerly pro posed by Mr. Jevons ; and it is intended to introduce a bill before the end of the present parliamentary session. "A. strange movement" is said to have begun in Ireland among the professional and academic classes in favour of the greater localisation of the powers of Government in domestic matters. A conference was held some days ago in Dublin, at which certain well known physicians, lawyers, and professors and fellows of Trinity College, with a score or two of landed proprietors were present ; and which resulted in a private circular being addressed to persons of similar position in life inviting their co-operation and advice. bDRIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A POSTMAN.— On Saturday last Francis Ninnis, late a rural messenger at Ludgvan, Penzance, was charged before the county magis trates, for having on or about the 12th of April last embezzled the sum of ninepence, the property of the Post master-GeneraL—Mr. E. S. Boyns appeared for the prosecution, and stated that Mrs. Treglown, of Ludgvan, entrusted 9d. to Ninnis, as rural messenger, to register and pay the postage of a letter to her son in America. Instead of doing this he kept the ninepence, posting the letter as unpaid, and it had to be paid by the receiver. Upon these facts Mr. Boyns asked for a remand for a week.—Prisoner was accordingly remanded, bail being refused.— Western Morning News. A. CURIOUS DROWNING CASE.—An inquest was held at Monk Bretton to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Jane White, an innkeeper's daughter, fifteen years of age, whose body was found in the Wakefield and Barnsley Canal. On the previous evening she was in company with a young man named Stephenson, who said that she seemed tipsy, and tried several times to push him into the water. They slept in a field together until daylight, and then she did actually push him into the water. He swam across the stream, and she exclaimed, "You look just like a drowned rat." Eventually he left her, and the next he heard of her was that she was dead. A verdict of " Found drowned " was recorded. TRADING IN DISEASED MEAT.—Not a week passes but brings before us more and more urgently the necessity for stricter regulations respecting the sale of diseased meat, From Leicester comes the case of a whole family poisoned, and with difficulty recovered, by eating putrid sausages. From Turvey, in Bedfordshire, we have a story of a cow being slaughtered in the last stage of disease, and sent up to the metropolitan market for the benefit of meat-eating Londoners. And we do not hesitate to say that for every case of the sort of which we hear there are twenty which do not reach us, but which are over looked or hushed up. We require a very much more stringent law to reach every person who dabbles in diseased meat. MANCHESTER NAVIGATION.—It is stated that the amount of earthwork required for the construction of this navigation would be about equal to one-third of the quantity of the rock and earth removed in making the Suez Canal. To shew with what facility large cuttings may be executed by tho powerful steam-dredgers of the present day it is mentioned that the dredging of the Clyde has taken twenty-one years to accomplish, and that the Suez Canal Company have executed three times and a half the same amount in one month, and at Toulon about the same result as in dredging the Clyde was accomplished in nine years. It is stated that Mr. Hamilton Fulton, the engineer, consider the Manchester Navigation may be finished under favourable circumstances, in three years. A. SMUGGLER CAPTURED.—EarIy on Friday morning last Mr. Taylor, R.N., chief officer in charge of the Ventnor Coastguard Station, . received intelligence that a sailing-boat was landing a number. of casks in Steel Bay, about two, miles east of Ventnor, and close to Luccombe Chine. Mr. Taylor instantly called up a boat's crew, and had a four-oared galley launched .from• Ventnor 8ay,... in. . order to pull round Dunnose • Point, . and, . if. possible,. to cut off the supposed smuggler. In twenty-five minutes from the intelligence being reported at Ventnor station the Coast guard boat reached the spot where the tubs had been landed. The smuggler had taken his departure on the first alarm; and was now seen about four. miles from the shore, standing off into the Channel with a fair breeze. It seemed doubtful whether the Coastguard boat could overtake him ; but she immediately made off in full pursuit, the men bending to their oars in fine style. After a very long pull, and a good deal of dodging on the part of the pursued, the boat was captured a good distance out in the channel, as far as the eye could reach from the cliffs. There was only one man, Noah Williams, of Ventnor, in the boat, but he was made prisoner, and brought back to Ventnor, about ten o'clock, in his own boat, by two of the coastguard men. Some other men who had not been able to regain their boat on being surprised when landing theirliquids in Steel Bay, had made good their escape by climbine• the cliff. , AN UNWELCOME PROMISE.— ri Paris corres pondent tells the following anecdote of the Grand Hotel, Paris. It must be premised that the prevailing' epidemic has excited great alarm among the visitors. " A lady, rather excited, rushed down to the counting house,' and asked hurriedly of one of those small tight-clad boys who are on duty in the precinct, Have you the smallpox in the house,' and the boy, who . " perfectly understands ,English, replied, No ; but we expect it - every minute; and when it arrives I will send it up to the chamber of Madame !' " A NEW OCEAN CABLE. The prospectus of a new cable uniting England with the United States will soon be made public. It is a light one, patented, and it is proposed to make Wales and Rhode Island its termini. The capital stock of the com pany, which is styled the New York and London Tele graph Company, is £650,000, or about one-seventh of the capital stock of the Consolidated Franco and Anglo- American Cable Company. This will, it is believed, enable the new company to do business at a much lower tariff than at present prevails. Lord Dudley is chairman of the company ; Sir W. Canning, engineer. Ex-Senator Arnold, of Rhode Island; William T. Blodgett, Eugene Kelly, H. G. Marquand and G. Ticknor Curtis will be the New York directors of the undertaking. The cable is contracted for, and will, it is expected, be laid before. September 1, 1871. Able cable men express the belief that great difficulty will be experienced in finding a favor able landing on the coast of Rhode Island, on account of the shoal water and anchorage, and some point in New Jersey, near Sandy Hook, has been named as most feasible for the American terminus. Connection could then be made with New York, the great centre of tele graph-business, by means of a land line, thus avoiding the expensive tariffs over land lines in Rhode Island. THE WIDOW OF GENERAL THOMAS. It seems that the nation has another destitute widow on its hand; whose case appeals most strongly for sympathy and aid. Mrs. General Thomas is said to have been left in destitute circumstances, and her case calls for an exercise of the same liberalty which was extended to. Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Rawlins. General Thomas was obliged to rely solely upon his pay during all the time he was in the army,, neither he nor his wife having other resources. We can readily understand that under such circumstances the widow should be left poor. The Washington Chro nicle says :—" This is not a Government which provides Munificently for the families of its heroes, and although Mrs. Thomas is far too genuine a lady to ever let escape a word of complaint, it is still apparent that her comfort in future will depend more than has been generally sup liosed upon the generosity of her friends." —New York Times. NEW AND OLD DELUSIONS. From America, the land of wonders, has come lately a healer of diseases by imposition of hands, who profess to work by love and by the help of the Holy Angels. The world is no wiser than it was, and any experiment upon its credulity, if made boldly, is certain to succeed. Dr. Newton, from America, is prepared to work miracles on something more than the apostolic scale ; and if he were to give twenty-four hours' notice of his visit to any town in' England, the largest room in that town would not hold the patients that would assemble to be healed by him. He appeared lately in London, and the lame, blind, and deaf collected at Cambridge Hall, Newman-street, Oxford-street, and almost persuaded themselves that his touch relieved their sufferings. The room and the 'ap proaches to it were so densely crowded that nobody could get near the prophet except by pretending to need his help, and thus it happened that many persons who were perfectly well when they entered the room were also perfectly well when they quitted it, and were regarded by the multitude as proofs of a divine agency which had come among them. There were other persons grievously, and, according to ordinary practice, incurably afflicted with lameness or other disability, who could only have been brought to the Healer by great exertion of their friends and great suffering to themselves ; and these cases shew how wide and deep is the credulity which-is ready to wel come any pretender to supernatural power in the treat ment of disease. Sir Benjamin Brodie consoled his pro fessional brethren upon the spread of homoeopathy by as suring them that, if this particular delusion could be banished, some other delusion would occupy its place. There seems to be no limit to the success either of quack doctors or of bolder impostors who set themselves above all doctors ; and it is hardly to he expected that any im provement of primary, secondary, or any other - education will render the great mass of the public le.. 6-nllible than they are. The original followers of Mesmer belonged to the polished and sceptical society of Paris, and the Ame ricans are not more fertile in mechanical invention than in all the forms of delusion and imposture. They sent us 'Spiritualism, and now they have sent us Dr. Newton. To do the new prophet jus tice, he appears to believe firmly in himself, and when he said to a lame woman " Love me and walk," it is probable that he expected both pro cesses to be simultaneously performed. It may be allowed that some of the visitors to Cambridge Hall either may have been, or may have fancied that they were, better after their visit. The familiar description of the working of the homoeopathists "by faith and , powdered sugar ' embodied a principle which is appli: cable to all varieties of quackery. The scientific physician who has learned by 'much study the littleness of human knowledge does not promise more than he can perform, while the impudent pretender to science of which lie only knows enough to misapply its language promises every thing, and if nature performs something he claims and usually gets the credit of it. There is no reason why the imagination, which is powerful in nervous disorders, should not be beneficially affected by a visit to Dr. New ton as well as to others who have claimed similar gifts before him. The medical advisers of railway companies imaginary, and it is quite p os s i b l e that the cure, as consider that nervous produced o disorders dueed b y a r a e mental frequently effort. well as the disease, may be The inexhaustible credulity of the public can welcome Dr. Newton from America without wavering in its allegiance to the established miracle-workers of native growth. In gratitude for Dr. Newton's visit, we venture a a di s discovery ve and y r to express the hope that Morrison's pills are taken in o A f m a e universal rica.Th The the proprietors of his panacea would doubtless assure o in rriso the n le to t the abated, Parliament that the Contagious Diseases Act might be remedy y ens h io a ns ve o not f M advantageously reduced to a singld clause requiring in fected persons to take his pills regularly. In exchange for the manipulations of Dr. Newton, we offer to Aram ica the pills of Morrison, although we beli ev e that the manipulations would do no harm , which is more than we would venture to affirm concerning the pills. They are offered as a universal remedy, as appears from a recent publication, in which John Morrison, the son of the origi nal hygeist, recommends them as a substitute for vaccina tion, of which he is a resolute opponent. He informs readers that in his youth he was attacked, after vaccina tion, with small-pox, and his father told him to trust in the pills, and he did trust in them. It was an affecting example of filial piety that was shewn by the younger Morrison, in taking at the bidding of his father fifteen pills twice a day, by way of assisting nature to get rid of the poison of small-pox. He has now succeeded to the chief priesthood of the hygeian system, and he ought to honour the memory of its founder by singing daily the well known air, " The pill-boy, the pill-box, the pill-box of my sire." He opposes vaccination by Scriptural as well as scientific argument. He asks whether Our Lord ever mentioned that the Kingdom of Heaven was composed of little children who had been vaccinated. The highest authority for his system after the Bible is Shakspere. who is supposed, when he made the Ghost in " Hamlet" speak of " a most instant tetter " on his body to have described in a prophetic spirit the evils which vaccination would inflict upou the human race. The memorial to James Morrison in the Euston Road is adorned with a figure of the British Lion, who ought properly to be taking a pill, and it has some lines of Shakspere inscribed on it. The belief in the efficacy of the pills appears to have been held as firmly by those whom James Morrison employed as by his own son. We 'are not aware that a traveller for a wine or beer merchant would be required to drink his employer's liquor except in the hours of duty ; but every one concerned in selling Morrison's pills seems to have delighted in opportunities of proving their efficacy in his own person. Thus we find an agent for the pills, whose sphere of duty was in Nottinghamshire, coming forward at a time when cholera was rife to assure the public that a certain remedy might be found in a prompt and plenteous exhibition of the extraordinary powers of the powers of the pills. And when this agent had, or supposed himself to have, cholera, he acted up to his own advice by taking portentous quantities of the pills. He was fully convinced that if the Universal Medicine could not reach his case, nothing could ; Bo he continued taking doses varying from thirty to fifty pills, and in less than a month he, or what was left of him, resumed the duties of the agency. Such is the story which is told in one of Morrison's publication, and unless it and other stories like it are fabulous, there must be, or have been, people capable of taking these pills by thirty or fifty a day for a month, and, as it would seem, of relishing them. There are other people who find the taking of a single pill' a highly disagreeable process ; but tastes are various. Of course if you are seriously ill, and believe that Morrison's pills will cure you, they will be taken with a table-spoon or fire-shovel if necessary. The only difficulty we feel after after reading this and other descriptions is to conceive what would happen to a person who went on taking the pills after he got «•ell. We suppose that such a person would get better than well. As the Universal Medicine has vanquished all other complaints, it might be given to the Irish to cure them of shooting landords. The Government is rednced to that helpless and hopeless condition in which individuals aro ready to resort to quackery. It may well be asked in Ireland- 7 " Who will shew us any good?" Saturday Review. The steamboat War Eagle was burned at La Crosse, Wisconsin, and the persons on board were forced to escape by jumping into the water. A negro and a white boy were drowned. The fire communicated to the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad depot and the. elevator building, which were destroyed. The fire originated from a lamp dropping into kerosene leaking from a barrel on the steamer. THE GREEK MASSACRE. The London correspondent of the New York World sends over the startling rumour, which is circulating in England, that the late seizure and execution of English travellers by brigands in Greece was a shrewd political movement on the part of the opposition to the Greek ministry. It was thought that the responsibility for any injury to the tourists would fall upon the Government, and that public opinion in Greece and the demands of Great Britain would force the ministry to retire. Indeed, the War Minister has already resigned. If this rumour should prove to be well founded, the Greeks will certainly deserve the credit of devising the most profound. piece of political strategy of which there is any record. The mea sures are a little harsh, it is true ; but as in love and in war, so in politics—all things are fair. Tammany must abdicate in favour of the Greek opposition.—Boston Advertiser. STEAMSHIP COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND CALIFORNIA. The public mind of the world is kept on the stretch of ex citement and anticipation by one great project after another to bring all nations into rapid communication with one an other. Atlantic telegraph cables, the Suez Canal, the great continental Pacific Railroad, new steamship lines to different and the most remote parts of the globe, the proposed ship canal across the Isthmus of Central America, the Pacific telegraph cable project to connect China and the East gene rally with the American Continent, and many other grand works, show the wonderful progress of the age. One of the latest of these great projects is the establishment of steam. snip communication between Australia and California. The steamer Idaho, which arrived at San Francisco fr m Hsno lulu, Sandwich Islands, oti the sth of t his month, brought the mails and passengers that came from Australia by the steamer Wongawonga. There were one hundred and forty passengers, nearly all of whom were. en route to England. This is anew line, and is intended either to connect with the line betw en the Sandwich Islands and San Francisco, or to ply directly from Sydney and Auckland to California. The Wongawonga was full of passengers, and the mills from Now South Wales and New Zealand were very large. The time from Sydney to San Francis o ries thirty-niue days, and from Auckland thirty-one days. Much better time than this will soon be made. We believe the passage has been made from Australia to England in forty days by this route and by the Pacific Railroad and Atlantic steam ships. This is great progress in the commerce of the Pacific and in traversing so large a portion of the globe. The Wongawonga was to be followed by the City of Adelaide and the City of Melbourne, two other steamers of the new line. A few years ago, just before the gold discovery in California, the Pacific Oceau,except along the Ameri an coasts, was little traversed by . ships of commerce. There were only a few traders to the Sandwich Ishitids and the island s of the South• Pacific and the whale ships that navigated that vast ocean. Now there are steam lines to China and Japan, 'to the Sandwich Islands, and to the different countries of Australia. What a revolution within so short a time! But we are only on the eve of still greater pro gress. By the aid of telegraphs and . steam power the English speaking people on each side of . the vast Pacific will soon etevelope an extensive commerce between themselves and among the islands and countries in and bor dering that ocean. The dense populations of Asia will soon feel this too. But our own country is destined to obtain the greatest share by faz of this commerce. San Fran cisco will become, probably, second only to New York in commercial importance. Wo shall draw the surplus .population of China and other countries of Asia to do our labour cheaply, and we shall increase largely our ex portations and importations. Indeed, we can hardly imagine what the next twenty years will develop in the way of trade and intercourse and in the march of civilization in Asia. We have no doubt that a large portion of the travel between England and Australia will come this way. If it be a little farther than by the Indian Ocean, Suez and the Mediterranean, it is more direct, with fewer changes, and probably less expensive. The Pacific is a delightful ocean to navigate, and with steamship and railroad connections all complete we think the passage this way can be made in as short or in shorter time than by the other route. The one hundred and forty passengers in one steamer en route for Europe by San Francisco and the Pacific Railroad gives an idea of what may follow.. In view of these developments and prospects we recommend Congress and our enterprising merchants to turn their attention to the trade of the Pacific Ocean. A great future is before. us in that part of the world if we will seize the opportunities that are within our reach.--New York Ilerald. A LILLIPUTIAN SHIP ON THE ATLANTIC. A vessel is about to start from Liverpool for New York where it is expected to arrive within the next forty days, which measures only twenty feet from bow to. stern, and will be manned by two men—the owner, Captain Pimorez, and Captain J. C. Bulkley—whose skill is expected to guide the frail craft safely across the Atlantic. The only other living think on board is a Newfoumlland dog. The tiny vessel is called the City of Ragusa, and is rigged as a yawl, capable of . spreading about seventy yards of can vass. There is also a two-bladed propeller, which can be worked by hand in case of necessity, but which may be hoisted out of the water so as not to be a drag when the wind is favourable: The vessel is covered throughout its whole length and lined inside to the flooring, and has a cockpit amidships. The limited space below is fitted up with as much comfort as circumstances will allow. There is a patent cook-stove on board, mid provisions for three months. A snug sleeping-place is furnished for the skipper, when not on the watch. The tanks of the vessel are capable of holding one hundred gallons of water, which can be allowed to escape in case of necessity, and the working of the propeller acts as a pump to keep the hold dry. The owner of the Ragusa and Captain Bulkley have carefully studied their course and feel confident of reaching New York in safety. The Suez Canal, it is now contended, will finan cially fail, because the receipts are small and the expenses heavy, the single item of dredging out the desert sands drifted in by the winds eating fearfully into the tolls. But it will not fail ; for if necessary all the European States on the Mediterranean, having had a taste of its good fruits, will combine to secure the crop.—Neza York Herald. IMMIGRATION—STILL THEY COME.—Last week nine thousand Europeans were landed in this city from emigrant ships, in search of new homes. From Ireland and Germany came five thousand, in about equal propor tions, while England and Sweden had the bulk of the "remainder. Sc we draw from the from the best physical ' and intellectual sources of the old world—and we improve all we get.—New York Herald. TOO MUCH COTTON AND TOO LITTLE. CORN: From the accounts of the Southern papers, in relation to the prospect of the crops on the second week in May, it seems that the universal complaint at some points is that too much hunt has been planted in cotton and too little in corn, so much so as to warrant the prediction that from present appearanceir " cotton seed will have to take the place of corn for man and beast next fall and winter." This is unfortunate. Before the var it was the great mis take of the South to be obliged to buy from year to year the actual necessaries of life and rely for payment thereof upon the growing staple, and when ,the crash came she was like an unprovisioned garrison, filled with brave men with empty stomachs. The South must rely more upon her awn fields for her breadatuffs and provisions and less upon the grain and bacon of the great West. If a lesser breadth of cotidn be planted the price of the staple will be correspondingly increased, in consequence of a dimin ished supply, and in any event ; provided in the meantime plenty of corn and grain be planted, they will have plenty of food for man and beast without paying five-fold for the same to the West and California. The danger of the South in the future lies in having too much cotton and too little corn.—New York Herald. THE RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN MISSOURI. • ST. Louis, May 15. The evidence before the coroner's jury yesterday plainly shewed that the extra freight train which came in colli sion with the passenger train at Eureka, on Thursday, was running outside of instructions, and had used from ten to fifteen minutes more of the, express time than the special orders had alloted to it, The conductor and engi neer of the extra train swore that they ran precisely ac cording to orders, and if there was a mistake it arose from a difference in watches. The weight of evidence is strongly against them, however, and the coroner ordered the arrest of William Odor, the conductor, and he was placed in the calaboose. The fact that Odor, and his engineer, Tracy, left the spot instantly after the collision, because, as they assert, they feared personal violence, while the conductors and other employes of the passenger-train remained and worked nobly for the release and relief of. the sufferers, is generally regarded as consciousness of having done wrong, and strengthens the belief that they alone were to blame for the collision. The wounded generally are doing well, and are receiving the care of some of the best surgeons and physicians in this city. The railroad company are doing everything for their comfort, and will recompense them for losses, so far as money can do so, without suit or expense, The remains of the dead have been placed in metallic cases, and will be deposited in the cemetery vault subject to the orders of their friends. The pecuniary loss of the acci dent to rolling stock is about $30,000. The reported death of H. E. Fleming, the chief engineer of the Tabo and Acosho Railway, is incorrect ; he was in the train, but left at Sedalia. All the bodies of the killed by the late accident, except two, have been claimed by their friends and forwarded to their homes. The coroner 'a jury will probably render their verdict to-morrow. Two grimly amusing incidents are also related, among several very painful ones. When news of the smash-up reached the U. S. Express Office in St. Louis, it was heard that the messenger,. Mr. Warner, was among the killed. Directions were given to have a rough box made and sent at once to the depot, to receive the remains, and also ordered from the undertaker a metallic coffin. The rough box was sent to the depot, and on its arrival there the parties in charge found Warner, the messenger, sitting on the platform alive and well ! He was not quite ready to be put into the box. He was waiting to receive the express money, chest, which had been rescued from the ruins, and was in one of the cars. A German, lying among the rubbish, called lustily for a doctor, and said his legs were broken off. He was lifted up, and then it was found that he had not received a scratch, but was terribly frightened. Another man was lying on his back, and he, too, wanted a doctor ; said he was sure he was killed. He was raised to his feet, and was as sound as a dollar. He had lost one of his shoes, and he begged Mr. Smizer to find his shoe for him. Mr. S. politely invited him to go to a certain hot place down below. One man who was but slightly injured was served with refresh ments, which so far revived him that he stole the napkin and fork that had been brought for his use. ANOTHER RAILROAD ACCIDENT. A terrible accident has recently occurred on the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, near Mead's Basin. A construction train was passing over the long trestle work over the Pegannoc River, when the timbers' gave away, precipitating the train into the river. The cars were smashed and several persons, em ployes of the company, were seriously injured. Two are reported to have been killed. The names of the injured persons and further particulars of the accident have not been obtained, there being no communication with the point where the accident occurred, except by the country roads and the half-completed branch railway, in the con struction of which the train was employed. A series of fatal accidents have occurred on tins branch since the commencement of its construction. DRESS FASHIONS IN PARIS. Our special fashion correspondence from Paris of the 26th of April is particularly lively and attractive. It is pro gressive and hopeful in idea and expression. Fashion shrunk back somewhat from the rough facts and materialistic influ ences of the plebiscitum. Its inspiration remained, how ever. It was kept alive in the domestic circle, worshipped by beautiful eyes, propagated from house to house by elo quent, lisping, and prattling tongues, and appealed to, and pleaded for, by elegant hands. Fashion is an etherial essence, particularly in the minds of refined and cultivated persons. So fashion remained, while the public agitation was almost forgotten in Paris. Napoleon had his triumph. The "yes" cud " no " of the plebiscitum had been spoken and duly enumerated. The yes "or no "of the young ladies to one of the most important social questions of the world, as well as for their own individual earthly future, was just as difficult to arrive at as ever. They toyed with love billets lovingly, at the moment when the glittering name and overshadowing dynasty of Napo leon were being placed in the balance against paper ballots. Style was struggling against the weather. April remained fitful at its close, and May was about to fight its way into sunshine and flowers. Our special writer describes some of the most aristocratic toilets which were displayed at the French Court, enumerates the different dress materials which were most patronised in the city, and tells our readers how they were made up. From the same pen we have an animated report of the brilliant scene which was wluessed on the turf at Lone•champs. John Bull and Brother Jona than, Turkey and France were well and gallantly repre sented. " Young' America was greeted in special compli ment by Nubar Pacha, and Lord Lyons joined hands with Minister Washburne. " Young" France was made jubilant by the fame and name of he American yachtmen, while the representative of ancient Egypt, speaking for the present ruler of the land of the Pharaohs, bowed his fezzed head in graceful • and grateful compliment to the youthful representative of the free and independent news paper press of the young and giant nation of the , West. French men-of- war's men and . yachtmen gave a " God speed" to the Stars and Stripes. The memories of the early alliance of the naval ensigns of the two great nations, France and America, were active in their hearts and found vent on their tongues. The aristocratic and popular commiuglement reported by our special writer—a meeting of aged diplomats, of the valiant soldiers, and of the noble spirited young men of the two countries —will go far to render these memories enduring, and thus inscribe the esto perpetua in Paris and Washington.—Nero l'ork Herald. The Goloss received yesterday says that it has good authority for stating that it is Prince Orloff who is to succeed Baron Brunnow as Russian Ambassador in England. Prince Orloff was formerly ambassador in Belgium. LADVERTISEMENT. j Consumption, and all nervous bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and accolorated by drugs of eve, y description, but perfe tly curable by Do BARRY'S health-restoring Revalente Arabic°. Food, as proved by - thousands of cases which had been eOusidered hopeless ; such as indigestion (dyspepsia', cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrhcea, all gastric derangements, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nor vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sink ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c. We quote few: -The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No G 8,41- "Rome, July 21, 1866. The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta itrabica Food• of which he consumes a plateful at every meaL It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du Midi,' July 2 Cure No. 46,270.—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs' spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Cure N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford of many years dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescrib able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, -cough, con stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly" Important Caution.—Beware of the many uusavourf and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is 11d; 1 lb Zit 9d; 2 lb Is 6d; 51b 11 s.; 121 b 22s' 24 lbs 4 s.— A lso Du BARRY's BEVALEN TA RAMA CHOCOLAT E POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for It cups at 2s, for 24 curl at Is 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 288 cups at 30m, for 576 cups at 55s —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order.; BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London a n all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. On the 27th inst., at Compton-place, SUSS3X, Mrs. Cecil Fo'jambe, of a son and heir. - On the 27th inst., at IJeavitree, Exeter, the wife of G. Losw ther Crofton, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. On the 26th inst., at Ipswich, Samuel Thomas Harwood, of Battiswood oldest son of Thomas Harwood, Esq., of 13,1 stead Hall, Suffolk, to Fanny Maria, eldest daughter of the late James Curling, Esq., Albert-square, Clapham. On the 26th inst., at Holy Trinity Church, Paddington, 11. F. Travers, Esq., son of the late Major-General Sir It- Travers, K.C.8., to Eleanor Cecilia Anne, daughter of the late H. Prico, Esq., Commander R.N., of The Moor ings, Menai Bridge. DEATHS. On the 28th inst., at 7, Arlington-street, the Hon. Franc's Petro, aged 64. On the 27th inst., suddenly, at Westminster, Samuel Laing juu., Esq., barrister-at-law, aged 27. ---.. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDIIEW,9, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 1 12 s Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the o°llll4' °f Middlesex.—Tuesday, May 31, 1870. NO. 24. KINAHAI 0 nerve the Re' "411 LL. his,rl celebrate; Prize N 1 (+dal. Pure 11,1 d 018 ` 14 in 1.1( Wes 4 gants is %nu b, AREA NiUTIJAL 1- (Inc° RUSSEI; MO. 4bi • or Leaßello], e Weekly, mo Po „. .tree on ref MR W. S WITH his t to , and SKI EGYPTI. Saturday) at 8• !Tared no ex en 'lThrashing his sa be secured in adl At Mitchell's Royi S 'ox, One, Two, a ROYAL ~: ::, : ,:,, hr gac : : : ::sisna g tt et s t BROTHER tic 'tempted ?di on y: M a T n e9 Styled LE PETIT " 1 3r, Messrs. 1101 house with th ,Araong the Art XATE GARSTONE •jouNia Mr. P. vt 1 11 1 1 6 1:8 4 , 11 . Y 1:8 i ra ln' o Eu x ßB S_ o fli t s. ffi l a ' c Chairman 117 Sp E C AL Nn , e Q lharmouie o wi t. This EYenir ADAME Ituker.str added.— , I gnial Lunette e aPitittion of Persons of 7to.ctt" copy of th too , _ 6a. ()pet ARGYLL extraordin v , the Shadow_ t he electric ligh Pate it , comb hav e iu sic Selections had the gi g e brated extensivel Orch4 s —S.Sign Lui of ad d i livF,ned to the e • ates, L. Si Thomas Pitts: OLP..RicAI i ANUAL It ASS N ORAN C The NINTH BO ;ill -Prot Polk 41:trancefis effec Premiums, and p t° nla over later P erms of Prof obtained from • a, St., Jamees. i h r l r llpenac_er t il mv j E enngt s CO: so ci rglled pe a l __Lu, with pow( v ll ' oll lll invest e( '' p e°llll,l g meml 1 sPectuses rti"wlBatSeia' 0 1 7 0 i e n can ere j s b t A _es Inv , (l ab o u ' ve n tb , w r i a th t4 ra at Will of subsc Ott ees, 33, N( METRO] ps The Line alo ' 111( Ige and I3la k,tat ions at Cht IdaY 30,1870. tQUITY Notice is het °olitilis Society Flog theou 11() NDAY, tl am nue for th e '1069. The MaY 28th, 1£ Dt.SCC bilio q create I:llmalifi e to a alitEddgie s i:ltl ll B;' g e ru in VVilliatnih a aquatr st atup. co 8 A -7" London- Liverpoc Manches Birrning] Wolverh Bristol— Notting] "nd u ST and AL pward TnORI hi p en ( went a o l fl T D A st auth , be an d manuf i sisjesty 14( Ivr"r• 'ken. L9sItINE ALI Ele t /eating stud t 2 5, io. 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