The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-12 00:00:00

TWEEDLEDITM AND TWEEDLEDEE.

The vague wis lom of Mr. Albert Darley's justice
in finding a decision in favour of the Middleton
Hunt, in Yorkshire, a few days since, has been con-
sPered as worthy of more than ordinary notice.
The magistrate in question, who himself was accus-
tomed to ride with foxhounds, having listened at-
tentively to the allegations of cruelty to the two
horses of the Hunt who, were unfortunate enough to
die before they got home, thus delivered his opinion
on the case:—
It is cruel to ride a horse to death. If you ride a horse
till it is so far exhausted as to die of it, it is not, in my
opinion, an act of cruelty. If he dies there and then it is
an act of cruelty. I do not consider it an act of cruelty
unless he drops under you. Suppose a poor coster-
monger drove a horse until it died, if it died there and
then it would be cruel. If a horse were exhausted and
died a quarter of an hour after, I should say it 'was not
cruelty.
The essence of this reasoning has puzzled the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and no
doubt will engage the thoughts of any one deeply
interested in the question of hunting. It
is enough for • ordinary outsiders to remember
henceforth that the old injunction in the
Scripture, that a merciful man will be
merciful to his beast, is only to hold good
while a huntsman has his feet in the stirrups.
If the sportsman rides the animal to the point of
death, he should therefore get quickly rid of the
saddle (which probably for personal reasons might
also be advantageous) if ho wants to be accounted
guiltless of the poor horse's death.

by the Ist of January, 1872. The South
A ustralian Government have underl,aken the
responsibility of constructing the overland line, which
constitutes the chief difficulty in connection with
the scheme. The tenour of the last reports encourages
one to think that several hundreds of miles of the•
hue must haV9' been laid by those . who
constructed the extreme sections from Port Darwin
southwards, and Port Augusta northwards.
Good accounts have been receive 1 from the ex-
plorers who were sent out to examine and report as
to the best route for the line through the heart of
the Continent. The explorers had, it was reported,
reached a point within eight hundred miles of Port
Darwin, and as the contractors of the north section
would have covered a large portion of that distance,
no difficulty was expected in connecting the norto
and central portions of the work.

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Jan. 11.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by her Royal
Highness Princess Christian, and attended by the Dowager
Duchess of Athole, drove out yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty went out this morning, accompanied by
Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and the Marquis of
Lorne.

Prince Arthur and Princess Beatrice also went out.

THE ROYAL MARRIAGE.

It is stated in high circles that the Bishops of London
and Oxford, following the example of the Archbishop of
Canterbury, have expostulated with those in authority
against the marriage of the Princess Louise taking place
during Lent. Archbishop Tait is reported to have
informed the Queen before he left England that such an
innovation, repeated again, would cause deep pain to
every sober, devout, and old-fashioned member of the
Established Church.—Church Herald.

MR. MONSELL AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.
The Post master-General having paid a visit to Rath-
keale on Tuesday, a demonstration of popular satisfaction
at his promotion was made. The town commissioners
presented him with an address in which they stated that

his appointment gave them great hope that the day is not
far distant when the Emancipation Act will be carried
out in its entireity by admitting Catholics to the highest
offices in the State ; they also regarded it as an indication
that the policy of the government would not be hostile to
the Holy Father. Mr. Monsell in reply, spoke at con-
siderable length on Irish politics, expressing satisfaction
with the results of the Legislation of the last two sessions.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
An important divisional order has been issued by
the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief. For the
future, after a regiment has been out route
marching or practising outpost duty, subalterns and
officers commanding picquet or outpost duty are to
draw up reports and sketches of the operations
performed. This is with a view of testing the ability of
the officers concerned, for those whose productions are ap-
proved, will be excused from furnishing them for the
future ; but those who shew a want of ability will be
recommended to apply to garrison instructors for im-
provement.

An order has been received at Wcolwich from the War.
Office directing that recruiting should be re-opened for the
Royal Engineers, and a notice has been posted at the
Barrack-gate, setting forth the peculiar advantages of the
corps to young men of intelligence and respectability, and
urging candidates to embrace the present opportunity
without delay. The standard height is 5 feet 6 inches,
and recruits must know a trade, those most in request
being carpenters, cabinet-makers, sawyers, coopers,
wheelers, masons, bricklayers, plasterers, slaters, black-
smiths, tinmen, plumbers, painters, glaziers, and tailors.
The notice also states that there are also required " a
few architects, land-surveyors, draughtsmen, printers,
photographers, collar-makers, and miners," and as a new
troop of engineer-drivers is to be formed for the field tele-
graph train, a few young men of 5 feet 4 inches, and with-
out trades, will be accepted.
It is supposed at Chatham that the general depot batta-
lion stationed there will be abolished at the end of the
present financial year, and that a new plan of providing
for the depot companies of regiments serving abroad will
be adopted, doing away with the system now in operation
in many cases of attaching depots to regiments stationed
at home.
The Turkish officers attached to the Channel Fleet
were, at the request of the Turkish Ambassador, dis-
charged from the several ships before the vessels left the
anchorages where they have been lying during the Christ-
mas holidays.
The Dublin Artillery Regiment of Militia within ten
days after it received orders to recruit enrolled 140 men,
and the strength of the regiment is now fully up to the
standard required.
A newly-erected Sailors' Home and reading-room at
Kingstown was opened on Tuesday by Admiral Sir
Burton M`Namara, in presence of a numerous assem-
bl'e. The first stone of the building was laid by the
Earl and Countess of Spencer on the 4th of May last.

MARRIAGE OF A DAUGHTER OF THE DUKE DE
GUAMONT.—The marriage of Le Comte de Bregonne with
Mdlle. de Gramont (daughter of the ex-Minister of
Foreign Affairs for France) was celebrated on Saturday at
the Oratory, Brompton, among a large circle of illustrious
personages now residing in this country. The bride wes
magnificently attired in white satin and Brussels lace,
and the Due de Gramont gave her away. The bride-
groom will return to Bordeaux in the course of a few
days.

THE ECLIPSE EXPEDITIONS.—News has been
received from Mr. Brothers, who was stationed at Syra-
cuse, that five photographs of the eclipse were obtained
during totality. One of these, number 4, shews the
corona "as it was never seen on glass before." The
eclipse was well seen at this station. At Catania, where
Mr. Lockyer's party was stationed, nothing was seen ; at
Augusta (farther south) very little ; but at Syracuse, the
southernmost station of all, the clouds which concealed
the earlier stages of the eclipse, passed away from the s'in
about five minutes before totality, "disclosing," writes
Mr. Brothers, "a scene I shall never forget."
STRANGE ROBBERY.—Two men, attired in the
garb of Catholic priests, appear to have entered into a
clever conspiracy, with the object of robbing a Rochdale
hotel-keeper. They paid occasional visits on Sunday
evenings, about service time, undoubtedly to seek out
chances of robbery. Last Sunday they went, ordered
brandy, and then entered into apparently friendly
altercation as to which should pay. The cash-box was
taken out by the barmaid, thus affordinff the men the
opportunity of seeing its whereabouts. 'Shortly after
their departure the barmaid heard a noise, which
aroused her suspicions, and she again saw the " priests "
leaving. Subsequently, the discovery was made that the
drawer in which the cash-box was kept had been broken
open, and the box itself carried off. The amount in it at
hat time was fortunately only small, £260 having been
removed about half an hour before.
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TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH A.USTRA-
LIA.—There seems every probability of telegraphic com-
munication being established before the end of the present
year between London and Adelaide, South Australia.
The great difficulty in the scheme is the construction
of the direct line across the continent from Port
Augusta, at the head of Spencer's Gulf, in Southern
Australia, to Port Darwin, on the Northern coast.
But the South Australian Government have undertaken
the sole responsibility of constructing the overland
line —about 1,600 miles of wire—at a minimum estimated
cost of 2120,000. The explorers, who have penetrated
to a point just within the tropics, report that they have
found " splendidly grassed land, well watered, with
abundance of timber, and more than one deep and wide
flowing river."
" HIGHLAND CouslNs."—A. good deal has been
written of late about the ancestors of Lord Lorne and the
Princess Louise. We have not, however, seen any notice
taken of one who was not only a citizen of Glasgow, but
a common ancestor of both, viz. John Stuart, Earl of
Lennox, who died about 370 years ago. He had his
country residence at Crocstoun Castle, in Renfrewshire,
and his town residence in the High-street of Glasgow.
The exact site of the house cannot now be pointed out,
but the city records slew that his garden or orchard now
fc,rms part of the Glasgow Gasworks. He married
Margaret Montgomerie, a daughter of Lord Eglinton,
and had nine children. Matthew, the eldest, is now re-
, presented (through Henry Lord Darnley) by her Majesty:
Robert is represented by the Earl of Darnley ;
William died unmarried ; John is represented by a per-
son in the humble ranks of life ; and Allan by Lord
Blantyre; Elizabeth, the eldest daughter (married John
Earl of Argyle), is represented by the Duke of Argyle ;
Marion (married Lord Crichton) is represented by the
Marquis of Bute ; Janet (married Lord Ross) is repre-
sented by the Earl of Glasgow • and Margaret (married
Colquhoun of Luss) is represented by Sir James Coiqu-
houn. It would thus appear that Lord Lorne and the
Princess Louise are not only descended from a Glasgow
citizen, but are what people north of the Tweed call
Highland cousins. If Her Majesty has not yet fixed on
a title for Lord Lorne, we would respectfully suggest
" The Duke of St. M ungo.—Glavow Herald.

The Westminster Review, No. 77.—A horribly realistic
dissertation on the " Literature of Diabolism and Witch-
craft " leads off the January number of the Westminster.
Its compiler puts under contribution Dr. Glanvil and Dr.
Webster, and Dr. Bekker, and Sir Thomas Brown in his
" Religio Medici," and King James VI. in his
"Demonologie," and Jean Bodin in his 1580 treatise on
"La Demonomanie des Sorciers," but he passes sub
silentio Sir Walter Scott and his popular chap-
ters of antiquarian gossip about the marvels
told in regard to the black art of " Demono-
logy." The literature of diabolism and witchcraft
certainly furnishes ample store of facts for one of the
darkest, gloomiest, miserablest chapters in that " History
of Human Error" dreamt of by Mr. Caxton, but never
achieved as his opus magnum. By way of compensation,
the readers of the Westminster, after they have quaffed
to the dregs this cup of hell-broth anent Diabolism, are
refreshed in palate and flavour, in heart and soul and
imagination, by a charming criticism oh the " Poetical
Writings of Mr. Dante Gabriel Rossetti." The
reviewer has a thorough appreciation of his theme.
High as the praise he awards to the artist-poet is, through-
out, it is in no way at all extravagant. It is justified in
every particular by the quotations. Even the two first ex-
cerpts would suffice of themselves in that way—that is,
in justification. A delicious sonnet on January, from
Folgone da, San Geminiano, and a perfectly exquisite
rendering of a most lovely piece by Franco Sacchetti,
descriptive of a group of girls gathering flowers in a wood-
land scene, and caught and scattered by a thunderstorm.
Fragmentary passages, too, mere phrases, broken lines,
casual similes, here cited in abundance with brilliant
effect, serve to convince the reader that the critic is writing
within the mark in his most cordial panegyrics. What
can be finer than Rossetti's saying of Dante :
" Like flame within the naked hand
His body bore his burning heart ;"
or of the sea's listless chime—

"Time's self it is, made audible,
The murmur of the earth's own shell ;"
or of dawn—

" The wind-stirred robe of roseate grey,
The rose-crown of the hour that leads the days ;"
or of that night, glimpse in a couplet—
" Outside 'tis merry in the wind's wake
In the shaken trees the chill stars shake."
As varied themes occupy the rest of the number, as Sir
Henry Bulwer's " Life of Lord Palmerston," and the
Social Condition of England in the Reign of Henry VIII.,
and "Professor Grote and the Utilitarian Philosophy," and
the inevitable political disquisition of the quarter on
France and Germany. Closing a very goodly instalment,
come the usual notices of contemporary literature, theology,
and philosophy, Politics and Sociology, Voyages and
Travels, Science, but not Art, History and Biography,
and the Belles Lettres.

AN AMERIOAN QUARREL.

The hostility which has so long smouldered betweezi
President Grant and Mr. Sumner found vent in the
Senate on December 21 in a bitter attack on the Presi-
dent by Mr. Sumner. The Patriot, a Washington Demo-
cratic paper, published on that day an account of an attempt
alleged to have been made by a distinguished New Eng-
land Senator to bring about a reconciliation between
the Chief Magistrate and the Chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, in which it was stated that
the President utterly refused to be reconciled. He accused
Mr. Sumner of having spoken evil of him in public ;on-
veyances, of having grossly abused him both in Boston
and in the West, and of having attacked him in Execu-
tive Session of the Senate, and attributed dis-
honest motives to him. For all these offences, he
said, were he not President of the United States, he
should hold Mr. Sumner personally responsible, and
should demand satisfaction from him. As soon •as the
Senate met, Mr. Sumner asked leave to make a personal
explanation, and, after having the article from the Patriot
read, denied having ever accused the President of dis-
honesty, or having' attacked him in a manner unbecoming
a Senator. Shortly afterwards a resolution, proposed
by Mr. Morton, for the appointment of a commission to -
visit San Domingo, and report on its resources, came
up for debate. Mr. Sumner rose to oppose it.
He condemned in unsparing terms the assumption by
General Babcock of the title of " Aide-de-camp to the
President " in his negotiations with Baez, and no less
bitterly the President's conduct in the matter, accusing
him of usurping the war-making power by threatening
Hayti with the navy if she lent aid to Baez's enemies.
The President, ho said, could send commissioners without
permission from Congress, and, therefore, he characterized
Mr. Morton's resolution us a scheme to commit Congress
to the principle of annexation. On his senatorial respon-
sibility he asserted that Baez was kept in power by the
United States navy, which, in fact, was being used to
coerce the people of both Hayti and San Domingo, and
he challenged anyone to deny the fact. He attacked the
President's Message so intemperately that he was called
to order, and spoke bitterly of the attempt, which he
ascribed to the President, to oust himself from the chair-
manship of the Foreign Relations Committee. Mr.
Morton replied to this attack, which he characterised
as most unprovoked and unjustifiable, and as clearly
proving that Mr. Sumner, as an avowed enemy of the
Administration, ought not to be left at the head of the
most important of the Congressional Committees. He
concluded by asserting that the annexation of San
Domingo was more desirable than that of Canada, for
which Mr. Sumner was so eager. The discussion was
continued amid the greatest excitement, and the indul-
gence of bitter personalities. Mr. Conklin; said Mr.
Sumner had stabbed the President like an assassin,
and that he ought to be summarily displaced
from the Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr•
Chandler described Mr. Sumner's attack as the most
brutal attack ever made in the Senate Chamber. The
President, however, has not rested satisfied with his
friends' defence of him. He asserts that previous to
bringing forward officially the San Domingo proposal, he
visited Mr. Sumner to consult him about it. That he
left the senator with the conviction that he would support
it. General Babcock also visited him, and after a con-
versation of several hours, left him with the same impres-
sion as the President had. In this General Babcock fullY
confirms the President's assertion.

Another Eldoralo of coal and ironstone will
soon be worked in Derbyshire. The Glendon Iron Com-
pany have leased the minerals under the Ma,pperleY
estate, and two shafts are already being sunk. It is ex-
pected that the field will produce between eight and nine
million tons of coal. It is proposed to erect in con'
nection with the works furnaces for the manufacture of
iron.
WRECK OF THE STEAMER ARIES AND LOSS OF
SEVEN LIVES. —On Friday intelligence was received in
Liverpool to the effect that the steamship Aries, Captain
Peyton, had been totally lost, and that the chief officer
and a portion of the crew perished. A Philadelphia des-
patch, dated Christmas Day, states that the steamer rail
ashore on the morning of the 23rd, about seven o'clock,
on the bar, near Henford, the sea at the tune
being exceedingly high. The moment the steamer
struck, one of the boats, manned by the chief officer anti
six men, was sent off to take soundings. The boat, hos'
ever, was upset before getting any great distance frail
the steamer, and the chief officer and four of the seamen
were drowned. The two others succeeded in getting: O
the bottom of the boat, where, after a few hours' suffer°l"l
they were frozen to death, and were afterwards washed
ashore near Cape May. The Aries, after being ashore
for several hours, was got off the bar, but the -damages
sustained are so extensive that the vessel will become 5
complete wreck. hiS
AMENDMENT OF THE PATENT L AWS.--?-.-
important question, which has formed a topic for pre;
traded discussion at several successive meetings of th
British Association, and which the manufacturing c°lll,
munity has long felt to be one ripe for legislative inter
rence, was the subject of a judicial utterance by 1-,°r(
Romilly, Master of the Rolls, yesterday. A suit 113
been instituted by one London firm against another fer 0
injunction to restrain an alleged infringement of a Pateeir
for the construction of window shutters the Pee„d
liarity of which was that they were w°lllie
up by means of a spring coil. That t
defendant bad made shutters of a similar kind was not
denied, but his lordship was of opinion that he had Si°t,
0.
been guilty of an infraction of the law, and therefore _
missed the case with costs, remarking that half the I,*
dactions which emanated from inventors in this emnie
ought not to be patented at all. The law could not
til
considered to be established on a satisfactory basis 111 A,
one great existing deficiency was removed —and that_
ciency was the absence of such powers as
.would enforce
the filing of specifications which would explicitly dese;r;he
every peculiarity of the invention. The vagueness 010'0'6
specifications at present involved interminable Chan
suits.

THEATRICAL SCANDAL.—At the BOW-Street police
Court on Tuesday, Miss Alleyne, manageress of ft.ll:o'
Globe 'Theatre, was charged with having assaulted IN-ii-t
Varcoe, an actress, on Boxing-night. It seemed tlit,',
on Madame Colonna, the dancer, obtaining an erl69loli
Miss Alleyne requested the complainant to • go st
the stage again, and that to enforce her reglisto
she pushed complainant and stuck her nails 'llO
her neck, which was bare at the time. In addiqvie
to this, Miss Alleyne, it was said, used very unbeeeplaWs
language.—For the defence, it was urged that .o'o,
Alleyne, acting for the ballet master, who wag absetbe
had a right to insist on the complainant going 01 use
stage again, and was justified in pushing her. The At.
of her nails by defendant was denied, and it was e°llere
to be shewn that the marks on complainant's neck sv,s.
caused by bugles worn on the sleeve of defendant's dry
—The defendant was fined a and costs,

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