The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-11 00:00:00

N°. 22,454.

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AN TUESDAY next, " THE SEASIDE ;
XJ alas. ROSELEAF OUT OF TOWN." By Mr.
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STRATFORD.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has for
1•,. SALE fourteen COTTAGES, containing six rooms, and
producing £2lB Bs. per annum.l (Long lease. Price £l,BOO.
Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Pant's.

WALTHAMSTOW.-Mr. ANDREW HIND
has for SALE a HOUSE, containing six rooms,
garden, good supply of water, and land sufficient for three
houses. Price £250. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane,
St. Paul's.

BLOOMSBURY.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has
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substantial RESIDENCE, suitable for a lodging or boarding
house, containing 16 rooms. Rent £6O. Price £2OO. Offices,
corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's.

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and
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FINCHLEY.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has to
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and outhouses, good supply of water, kitchen garden, and
paddock 24 acres. Rent £45. Office , corner of Little Carter-
lane, St. Paul's.

an Entirely New Entertainment, at the Polygraphic Hall,
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at eight (except Saturday); Saturday Mornings at three.—
Stalls, and box stale, 35.; area, 25.; amphitheatre, le. A
Plan of the Stalls may be seen, and Seats secured at the Hail
from eleven to five.
Next Morning Performance, Saturday, May 7, at three.

FULHAM.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has to LET
a detached HOUSE, 12 rooms, kitchen, and usual
offices, garden, greenhouse, &c. Rent £7O. Twenty years'
lease and fixtures £l5O. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane.
St. Paul's.

DALSTON.—Mr. ANDW. HIND has to LET
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Rent £36. Offices, 1, Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's

RICHMOND.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has to
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and offices, with large garden. Rent £65. Offices, corner of
Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's.

DEVONSHIRE.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has
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best bedrooms, three dressing rooms, two W. C's., two
nurseries, five attics, and housekeeper's offices. Stables,
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of six acres. Good hunting and fishing. Sixteen acres of
pasture and orchard land may be had. Rent £BO. Offices,
corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's.

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FOREST OF SHADOWS !

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"The figure of Fame, winged and trumpeted, passing and
repassing through the Magic Fountain, is so complete an
Illusion that it welinigh ceases to be illusory."--Morning
Star, Feb. 11 _ _

MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL
GALLERY; established 28 years at the Bazaar,
Baker-street

NEW ADDITION.—A full length model of ARTHUR
JOHN DEVINE, who recently suffered the extreme penalty
of the law in front of Newgate for the murder of Mr. Duck,
in Little Chesterfield-s'reet, Marylebone, is now to be seen
in the Chamber of Physiognomy at Madame Tassaud's His-
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Admittance, Is. ; extra rooms, M.

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FESTIVAL DANSANT ! Revival of popular Dances, new
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celebrated Band. Doors open at half-past Eight. Commence
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For Children's and Ladies' Hier it is most efficacious and
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BOOKS on Feeding and the proper Management of Game,
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N.B.—Advices received daily of the efficacy of the Spanish
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EXHIBITION, 1862.
FRANCIS TUCKER dr CO., Wax Chandlers, dro.,
To the Queen and the Prince of Wales.
(Established 1720.)
The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862,
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manufacture.
A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis
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WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS,
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Third quality . • ..........is. Id. per lb.
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Black Deer, Hippolyta,Melandra, Nebuchadnezzar. Venison,
Merry Maid, Amelia, Lucky star, Evelyn, Lady Williams,
Roseneath, and John Davis.
Betting-5 to agst Almack, sto 1 each agst Crisis and
Lufra, 8 to 1 agstExchequer, 10 to 1 agst Hippolyta, 100 to
S agst Melandra, 23 to 1 each agst Aurelian and Anglo-
Saxon, and 25 to 1 agst Lucky Star.
With a slight delay, an admirable start was effected.
After running a few strides Aurelian took a commanding
lead, followed by Lufra, Bacchus, Exchequer, Crisis, Argo-
naut, Black Deer, Almack, and Principal in a body, the
rear division following in close company to the bend into
the straight, on fairly entering which Amelia died away.
Her place wag immediately taken by Bacchus, who, in
company with Lufra, Principal, Crisis, Almack, and Ex-
chequer on the lower side, carried on therunning to half-way
up the hill, where Crisis took it up, followed by Exchequer,
Anglo-Saxon, and Aurelian, the three running nearly
abreast, At the stand, Anglo-Saxon came out wide on the
left, and won in a canter by two lengths ; Crisis defeated
Exchequer by a length and a half for second money, and a
neck separated the third and fourth ; Melandra was fifth,
Stockinger sixth, Principal seventh, Hymettus eighth, and
Black Lily next. The last lot comprised Amelia, Lady
Williams, Evelina, and John Davis.
The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. Rather less than three

mob were satisfied.

meat,

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exactly as the prison clock gave the last stroke of
six human justice and the inhuman curiosity of the

The headless body was placed in a coffin, and the
coffin in a carriage. The good priest who stood by
his side to the labt moment of his life did not quit
him in death. He entered the carriage containing
the coffin, and, still praying over it, accompanied it
to the cemetery, and saw it laid in the earth.

The curiosity of the people did not end with the
execution ; they rushed towards the spot where the
carriage stood or to the scciffold, in order to touch
the boards, and it rc (inked all the ands of the
large body of police and of the Moun'ed Paris
Gusrds to keep them at a distance and maintain
order. Though the deed was over, the crowds
lingered some time on the spot, and the morning
was far advanced before they retired.

Had Pommerais' sentence been commuted, the
penalty of death must have disappeared altogether
from the Code. Now that the wretched man has
paid the penalty of the crime of which he was
found guilty, not to speak of others of which
it is said there were strong suspicions, I may
say that public opinion was unanimous as to his
guilt. The humanitarians themselves, who are
trying to get up a movement for the abolition of
capital punishment, have not a word to say for this
man. Among all classes the conviction is the same
—that he had committed a foul murder under cir-
cumstances most aggravating, and for vile purposes.
A commutation in his favour would have roused
bad blood among the lower classes. They knew that
only a few days ago a butcher's boy who had mur-
dered a man at Versailles, and mutilated the body
of his victim to conceal his crime, suffered death on
the scaffold. Were mercy shown to one who had
far less to plead in his favour, it would have been
attributed to his position in society ; and not a
working man in France but would have said that
the one had no mercy shown him because he wore
a blouse; while the other escaped the guillotine
because he spoke and dressed like a gentleman.
The Emperor's kindness of heart would have in-
clined him, had there been any fair pretext, to
save the criminal from the ignominy of a public
execution, out of regard to the prayers of the father
and the tears of the wife. But the fact that the
jury, who are ever ready to avail themselves of a
trifle to add the saving clause to their verdict, de-
tected not a single extenuating circumstance; that
the Court of Cassation, after long and anxious de-
liberation, absolutely negatived his appeal ; that
only a minority of the jury would sign the petition
in his behalf; and that the majority of the Minis-
ters urged that the law should take its course, made
it impossible for the Emperor to act otherwise. The
prisoner's counsel, M. Lachaud, exerted himself
greatly after the sentence was pronounced. As I
have already mentioned, he had an audience both
of the Empress and the Emperor. The Empress,
who listened to the supplications, shed tears while
she heard the wife's story, but nothing could be
done to justify disturbing the verdict or the deci-
sion of the Superior Court. The commutation of
the sentence on La Pommerais would, I repeat, have
been followed by the abolition of the penalty of
death, and the guillotine would have disappeared
from France for ever.

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Lord Derby and the University of, Cixfoid.
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Oxford, Jun'e-40.
Professor Conington presents his compliment§ c,
the Editor of The Sun, and requests the favour of
"the insertion of the enclosed correspondence be-
tween Lord Derby, as Chancellor of the University-
of Oxford, and himself.
" 124, High.street, Oxford, June 4.
" My Lord,—Several newspapers during the paat
week have contained a report of a dinner of a Uni-
versity Conservative Association, which took plena
in ()afore, on Saturday, May 2'. I find there tlmt
after your lordship's health had been proposed in'a
speech which dwelt on your position as leader of
the Conservative party ;n the country, the teas.;
was responded to by Dr. Wynter, Pres Cent of
John's College, as Chancellor's Secretary.
" I do not know whether your lordstip's atten-
tion has been called to this fact ; hut 1 etti hardly
doubt that you must regard it with d:s4prebatien.
" An assoriation to promote the objects of one of
the parties in the University may be, desirable or
unde:slrable, hut at any rate it is capable of defence.
But it would surely be indefensible if it attempted
to claim the patronage of one who, as Chancellor of
the University, is charged with the interests of the
whole acadern'ical body, not of this or that party.
Yet this is what is virtually done, when one who is
paid by the University as an official of the Chan-
cellor speaks in that capacity at a dinner of an
avowedly party character.

" You; Lordship has shown more than once of
late, by your guarded language in discussing Uhi7
versity matters in the House of Lords, that you re-
gard your position as head of the University as
quite separable from your position as head of the
Conservative party in the country. Surely the
same distinction should hold good in the case of your
Official Secretary. -Whatever may be his private
opinions on University piffles, in his connection
with yoar Lordship as Chancellor's Secretary, his
duties are to the University as a whole, not to one
of its parties.

"I will only add that, as the retort to which I
have called your Lordship's attention is public, it
may be necessary to publish this letter, together
with any answer with which your Lordship may
favour me.

"I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's obedient humble servant,
" /01IN CONINGTON.
" I shall send a copy of this letter to Dr. Wynter.
" To the Earl of Derby, &c."

Of the origin and history of this famous instru-
ment of punishment an erroneous idea generally
prevails. The popular version is that it was in-
vented in 1785 by Joseph Ignatius Guillotin, an
eminent physician, and deputy for Paris in the Con-
stituent Assembly. This is not correct. An instru-
ment differing from the guillotine only in its heavy
and cumbrous construction already existed in Italy.
It was known in Genoa by the name of nutnuaja,
and it was by that ntanuaja that Beatrlce Cenci
was beheaded at Rome in 16Q5. The maiden, an
instrument not unlike the guillotine, was long
known in Scotland, and it was employed on the
RFgent Morton, who is said to have introduced it.
It was used, also, in Halifax, Yorkshire, in the
reign of Queen ElzAbeth. The Duke of Montmo-
rency was beheaded at Toulouse in 1632 with the
711 anu

All that Dr. Guillotin, who was a man well
known for his humanity, had to do with the matter,
was preparing the draught of a law in the Consti-
tuent Assembly, in 1789, to the effect that the mode
of inflicting death on criminals should be the same
for all alike, without distinction of nobles or ple-
beians; in fact, that it should be uniform. Before
the Revolution of 1789 the inequality that existed
during life was maintained in death ; the noble was
beheaded, the villain hung from the gallows. But
the inequality was a trifling grievance in compari-
son with the cruelty which accompanied the exe-
cution, There was the stake and faggot for those
convicted of sacrilege or heresy; the tearing from
limb to limb by horses for regicide; the breaking
on the wheel, with the additional refinements of
barbarity for crimes of other descriptions.

Railway and Public Companies in Parlia-

"St. James's-square, June 5, 1864.

Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your letter of yesterday, in which you call
my attention to the fact that at a recent ' dinner of
a University Conservative Association' my health
was proposed in my political character, and re-
sponded to by Dr. Wynter, President of St. John's
College, as Chancellor's Secretary;' and you ex-
press no doubt but that ' I must regard this fact
with disapprobation.' I confess that lam unable
to follow you to this conclusion.

Further evidence in favour of the East London
Railway occupied the committee on metropolitan
railways yesterday, Mr Bowley, manager of the
Crystal Palace, being examined in its behalf. He
appeared to be of opinion that the proposed line
would furnish facilities to the vast population of
the east end of London, in connection with the
fresh air and scenery of Sydenham, and the at-
tractions of the Crystal Palace, and stated that
since the Palace had been opened, now for some 8
or 9 years, upwards of 15 million people and visited
it. Mr Burke, the engineer of the line, was also
examined at considerable length. The case for the
Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway was opened.
It proposes to run from their station at Dunbridge
to the Great Western west of Stroud, to raise
£27,000 by extension shares and £9,000 by loan,
to attach a preferential dividend to unissued shares
to the amount of £20,000 in the company's
Engineer-
ing capital of £66,000, and to contract With the
Great Western and Midland to work it.
evidence chiefly engaged the committee on the
North Staffordshire Company's new lines, Messrs.
Bouch, Forsyth, and Harrison being examined by
Mr. Denison, Mr. Aspinall, and others, The com-
mittees on the Brecon and Rbymney, and St. Helens
and Lancashire lines, were
en
tails and clauses. In the committee
onl l day on de-
t heSheffield
heffi e
ld
Inundation Water Bill, Mr. Denison opened the
opposition to the measure on behalf of the inhabi-
tants and corporation of Sheffield and the district,
who object to being taxed for damage occasioned
by a public calamity. In Lord Redesdale's com-
mittee the bills of the Oswestry, Ellesmere and
Whitchurch,
Docks, Royston and Hitchin, Exmouth
Holy well Railway, East Norfolk South
Eastern 1 and 3 Bills, and London, Chatham, and
Dover, for establishing steamboats between Rams-
gate, Boulogne, and Rotterdam, wee passed.

" I may premise that neither had I any previous
notice of the intention of having such a dinner, nor
have I, since it has taken p]ace, had any intimation
given to me respecting it, except that which I have
derived from the public press and from your letter.
" You do me justice in inferring from my
' guarded language in discussing University matters
in the House of Lords, that I regard my position
as head of the University as quite separable from
my position as head of the Conservative party is
the country,' and I hope that as Chancellor I have
never done anything to indicate a confusion in
my own mind between the duties imposed upon
me in these ssveral capacities. But, on the other
hand, I must claim for my Private Secretary the
most entire liberty of expressing, in any way that
ho may think fit, his own personal views on
public subjects; and while I rejoice that I
have the political sympathy of a man so distin-
guished in the University as the President of St.
John's, I cannot admit that his personal connexion
with me rendered him an unfit exponent of ney
thanks (bad I known of the fact) for the expression
of the Association as to my political conduat. You
will, I am sure, allow me to remind you that the
zin.2 of Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the
University is one of very long recognised standing,
but that on the death of my predet:essor the Dike
of Wellington, the University declined to continuo
Lhe salary; that Dr. Wynter consequently accepted
the office wholly independently of any obligation
to the University, and as my Private Secretary
without salary ; and that it was not till a consider-
able time had elapsed that the University sane•
tioned a greatly reduced salary, Cancellarii qui
nunc est, secretario.' As long as Dr. Wynter per.
forms his duties as Private Secretary to my satisfac.
tion I do not claim for myself, still less can I admit
to anyone assuming to speak on behalf of the Uni.
varsity, the right of calling in question any expres-
sion of his political opinions ; and if, agreeing with
me, my Private Secretary be present at a public
meeting, there is nothing extraordinary in his tak•
ing on himself, in the absence of any one more
intimately connected with me, the duty of acknow-
ledging the compliment paid to me.—l have the
honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,
" Professor Conington. "DERBY.

" P.S. You are at perfect liberty, in pursuance of
your announced intention, to public this correspon•
deuce."

" 124, High-street, Oxford, June 6.

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"My Lord,—l beg to thank your Lordship for
the very full explanation of your views, into which
you have been so courteous as to enter, in reply to
my letter of the 4th, at the same time that I regret
to find that those views are not what I had ventured
to predict.

ilf I offer one or two additional remarks on the
matter, I do so in justice to my own meaning, not
with a wish to draw your lordship into farther cor.
respondence.

"My position was, that while the Chancellor's
Secretary is free to express his political sympathies
in any way he pleases, in his private character or in
any other public capacity, as Secretary he is limited
by his relation to your lordship as Chancellor and
to the University.

" In support of this I took the liberty of appeal-
ing to the distinction which your lordship appeared
to recognise in your own conduct between your
academical and your political position. Your lord.
ship has had the goodness to assure me that I
rightly appreciate your view of this distinction;
and your language evidently shows that so far from
regarding it as arbitrary, to be observed or neglected
at pleasure, you feel that to ignore it would india
cate a confusion between' different duties.' lam
unable, then, to understand the grounds on which
you seem to claim a liberty for your Secretary as
Secretary which you emphatically disclaim for
yourself as Cnancellor. He represents your Lord-
ship, not in your political, but in your nog-political
character : he cannot, it seems to me, rise as your
the el a s
mi himself.
I a m
non-political reptesentative to acknowledge a poli-
tical toast without involving your Lordship in
,v,
afraid of entering into details which might lead me
away from the immediate object of confusion
lith
regard
duties'
as
s office w
of Secretary,
this correspond-
ence. I will, therefore, merely observe that, as far
as I have been informed (and I took pains, when
the question of salary was
agitated two years ago,
to obtain informat )
, the cessation of
payment by the
University depended on the
cessation of duties which had been abolished before
the present Secretary was appointed. But I would
respectfully submit that the receipt of a salary from

the University nridcr whatever eircumstanerp, places
trs-en a Private Secretary in a relation to the Univer-
sity as well as to the CLancellor, and entitles mcin.
ben of the University to comment en anything in
his public conduct which they may think. incon-
sistent with that position. And it is simply as a
member of the University, and not as 'assuming to
speak' in any character which does not belong to
me, that I have ventured to address your lordship.
"I have the honour to be, my lord, your lord.
ship's obedient humble servant,

" JOHN CONINGTON.

The Eirl of Deiby, &c."

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