The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-16 00:00:00

CONDITIONS,

In all cases instructions to forward Telegrams are received
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room, and are'not to be copied. .
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following Thursday ; orders received on Thursday MORNING can
commence on the following Monday. .-
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current quarter if the service is not to be continued.
WILLIAM SAUNDERS, Proprietor.
112, Strand, London, W. 0., December 1, 1870.'

EAMEN'S HOSPITAL -(late Dreadtiought):—'
"...3 Notice is hereby given, that this HOSPITAL is now RE.
dOVED to the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Green.
wich, where any seaman, needing medical or surgical care, will
be admitted on personal application, as heretofore, without in•
troduction or recommendation. The Society's offices are re•
moved from the City to the same-building.
KEMBAJJ COOK, House-Governor and Secretary.

THE BANKRUPTCY OF THE O'DONOGHUE.
Saturday was the day fixed for the public examination
in the case of The O'Donoghue, M.P., before the Hon.
W. C. Spring Rice, at the Bankruptcy Court, Lincoln's
Inn, on which occasion the Trustee or estate were repre-
sented by counsel and the bankrupt himself by attorney.
It will be remembered that the examination was adjourned
tc the present time for the purpose of facilitating the com-
pletion of an arrangement with creditors, none of whom
were desirous of placing undue pressure upon the bank-
rupt. It was now stated that during the interval, a meet-
ing of the creditors had taken place, but that no definite
result had been arrived at ; and under these circumstances
a further postponement was asked for, so that the credi-
tor's might again have an opportunity of consulting to-
gether on the question. There being no opposition, the
Hon. W. Spring Rice granted an adjournment for two
months.

A NEW APPLICATION OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
A new grievance, says the Pall Mall Gazette, has arisen
which maybe turned to valuable account by experts in
the science of the rights of man. At the last meeting of
the Middlesex magistrates a discussion took place as to
Whether photographic likenesses might to be taken of per-
sons committed to the House of Detention at Clerken-
well for further examination or for trial, who
were suspected of having been previously con:
victed, and respecting whose antecedents informa-
tion was sought. The Chief Commissioner of
Police, it was stated, had requested that likenesses might
be taken of all such persons ; but the visiting justices ex-
pressed their doubts as to their power to compel uncon-
victed persons to submit to such a process, and they had
informed Colonel Henderson that they were willing to
comply with his application on the understanding that no
compulsion of any kind should be used towards a
prisoner in procuring a photograph. It was urged
on constitutional grounds that an untried person ought
not to be compelled to have his likeness taken
against his will. On the other hand, it was stated that
obtaining the likenesses of suspeCted persons would tend
greatly Co further the ends of justice, as it might be the
means of previously convicted persons being recognised
by the police-officers who did not see them in person
while awaiting their trial. The further consideration of
the subject was postponed for the present. but with every
respect for constitutional liberty, it is to be hoped that the
Middlesex magistrates will, if necessary, allow the British
Constitution to be slightly stretched in the case of sus-
pected prisoners in the interests of law and justice.
Photography by force is a very mild form of tyranny.
Cartes de visite of the highest dignitaries in the realm are
daily exhibited in the shop windows without the permis-
sion of the eminent but unfortunate men whose personal
defects or attractions, as the case may be, are thus subjected
to public criticism. Photography is nut painful if properly
applied, except in cases of extreme ugliness, where the
friends of the photographed often suffer intensely ; and if
we allow visits to he paid by the police to suspected pri-
soners for the purpose of identification, we surely need not
be squeamish as to permitting their cartes de visite to cir-
culate freely among the members of the police force. The
Middlesex magistrates may perhaps remember in their
schooldays the following remark by a Latin poet—
Quis, solein dicere falsum
Audeat ?