The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-09 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

DEFRAUDING A RAILWAY COMPANY.—James
Whitehead, a boy about 15 years of age, was
charged with travelling from Birehington to Lon-
don, without having previously pail his fare, and
with intent to avoid payment thereof.
Mr. Francis, o❑ behalf of the company, said the
prisoner paid his fare from Margate to Birching-
ton, 31, and then came o❑ to London, a ss. 10d.
fare, without any money in his pocket. The com-
pany did not wish to press the charge, but rather
thought he had run away from home, and should be
sent back by the parish.
In answer to the Migistrate,
P, ironer said a man told hint h e cpuld get work
in London.

Mr. Arnold reprimanded the prisoner and dis-
charged him, tAiing Mr. Francis he could give him
no assistance in the matter as to sending him

wine.

BUDGET OF PE nsoNAL.—The Hon. It. C. Schenck,
of Ohio, is the present "Father of the House."—At Hud-
son, New York, Mrs. Mary Ann Rivers has received a
verdict for 63,500 against her father, henry G. Beecher,
for slander. -- In Richmond, Virginia, Jan. 14, J udge Un-
derwood released from custody a coloured man, named
Samuel Baker, under sentence of death, for murder, on the
ground that the court which sentenced him was illegal under
the Reconstruction Acts.—On Jan.ls E.W. Allen presented
his credentials to the President as Minister from the Sand-
wich islands.—Rev. Benj. J. Bowie, a Baptist Minister,
committed suicide at Grasshopper Falls, Kansas, Jan. 11.
—Mr. Sumner, in his late speech invented the now word
"ridiculosity." Mrs. John Morissey is very ill in New
York.—P. I'. Barnum is meditating a visit to Cuba.—
Brigham Young is preparing to put in operation a cannon
foundry, with a powder mill. lie isgetting ready for the Con •
gressional anti-polygamyßill.-Illere is a sample of the kind of
men women select for their husbands. Francis Mills fatally
stabbed his second wife in Brooklyr, New York, on the
night of Jan. 16. He bad served a term in the State Prison
for killing his first wife.—Pechter must bo indeeda remark-
able actor. A New York critic in a recent notice said of
him :—" Mr. Fechter, who had played very quietly
throughout the first two acto, made a burst in the third
act."—Captain George J. G. M'Dougall, of the Danish
navy, has arrived in New York, commissioned by his
Government to examine the navy and navy-yards of the
United States.—Mrs. Scott- Siddons has hit on a good
way of utilizing a gift from the Queen. She has placed
on exhibition in a New Orleans jewellery shop a brace-
let presented to her by Queen Victoria, after areading to the
Royal Family at Osborne Palace. It is of solid gold, in
the form of a coronal, studded with thirty diamonds and
fourteen rubies.—Miss Emma Webb and Miss Laura
de Force Gordon are to have a public discussion in San
Francisco on Woman's Rights. Miss Webb takes the Con-
servative side.—T he lion. Sam. S hellabarger, United States
Minister resident at Portugal, and family, and Bishop
Cox of Ohio, arrived at New York from Europe Jan. iS.—
Jeremiah D. Peabody, Esq., of Zanesville, Ohio, on his
way to attend the obsequies of the late George Peabody,
his brother, was, while at New York, "the guest of his
two sons, George H. Peabody, residing at the Gramercy
Park House, and Arthur J. Peabody, at the Brevoort,"
but we are not informed how ho managed to divide him-
self between them.—Bishop Lynch of Toronto is to be
created Roman Catholic Bishop for Ontario.—Governor
Geary's inauguration took place at Harrisburg, Jan. 17.
The President nominated Henry B. Swope to be U. S.
Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, Jan. 17.—The fund
for the benefit of Edwin M. Stanton's family has
reached 100,000 dollars.—The New Orleans Republican
says that General Mower died poor, and his family
are left without the means of support.—Miss Fre,
derika. Rollin edits, publishes, sets up, and works
off a weekly newspaper in Norteltja, Sweden.—A Maine
soldier has had his name removed from the pension rolls,
saying he has regained his health and does not need the
pension. Commissioner Van Aernam wrote to him that
his name "should go down into history as a worthy ex-
ample for the coming generations."—The Hon. William
Gleason, Long Island, formerly a member of the Legisla-
ture, and recently a candidate for Congress, has announced
his intention of retiring front the practice of the law, and
engaging in the Christian ministry.—W. R. Babson, of
Brooklyn, has been appointed Inspector of Customs by
Collector Grinnell, in the place of Alvin Sturtevant, re
signed. Frederick Douglass is proposed for Governor of
of the now territory of San Domingo.— The lion. Israel
Washburn°, the father of the fatuous Washburne family,
is dangerously ill at his home in Maine. His age is 83.
General Canby-, Jan. 19, directed James C. Taylor, Attor-
ney-General elect of Virginia, to assume his office, Con-
gress having removod his disabilities. -Dr. Jolt❑ H.
Carnochan has been appointed Health Officer of the Port.
of New York by Governor Hoffman.—Gan. Gilmore li is
arrived in Europe on a two months' tour, for the purpose of
making engineering investigations for the Gove,rnment.
Mrs. Augusta J. Evans Wilson, the sensational Southern
authoress, was serbusly if not fatally injured by a rail-
road accident near Cleveland, Tennessee.—John Allen, the
" wickedest," is training fighting pups.—Daniel Pratt
has challenged his groat competitOr for the Presidential
nominatio❑ in 1872, George Francis Train, to a discussion
of the tariff and cognate questions, at the New York Aca-
demy of Music.—Ex-Governor English, of Connecticut, is
again to be nominated for Governor by the Democrats of
that State.—On Thursday, the '27th Jan., at Cincinnati,
Ohio, United States, by the Right Rev. Bishop Rosencrans,
Kenelm Thomas Digby, M.P. for Queen's County, Ire-
land, was married to Elizabeth, the second daughter of,
the Lion. W. Groesbeck.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENf

lIOLSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the
woolsack at five o'clock.

The Marquis of HUNTLEY moved, and the
Earl of FINGALL seconded, an address to her
Majesty in answer to her most gracious Speech.
The noble lords in doing so referred to the various
paragraphs containel in the document, and ex-
pressed a hope that the bills to deal with the ques-
tion of the tenure of land in Ireland, education, and
the removal of the tests in the Universities would all
be of such a character as to meet with the approval
and sanction of their lordships.
Lord CAIRNS then entered into a minute exa-
mination of the Speech, and expressed his opinion
that, although it was not all that could be desired,
it was of a nature that did not call for any amend-
ment. Passing lightly over the measures recom-
mended in the Speech, he criticised with some
severity the paragraphs relating to the present state
of Ireland and the existence of a2ratian outrage.
He quoted statistics of crime in 1869 to show that
out of 59 cases of murder or other heinous offences,
including 18 assassinations, in one only had the
criminal been discovered and committed for trial.
He reviewed the declarations made by Mr. Glad-
stone, Mr. Bright, and Lord Clarendon during
the last fourteen months, and the encouragement
thereby offered to agitation ; then, passing from
the expressions to the conduct of the Govern-
ment, he asserted that during the last twelve-
month they had abdic.tted the first duty of a
Government—to repress outrages and enforce
security for property and life. The sad truth was
that there was no country in Europe in which
property and life were more insecure than in
Ireland at the present moment. He then referred
at some length to the case of Mr. Madden and
the Lord Lieutenant of Leitrim, and concluded by
a solemn protest against a Government which had
failed to secure the first end and object of civi-
lisation.

Earl GRANVILLE expressed his sincere grati-
fication in seeing Lord Cairns again fill the post
which he occupied last session as leader of the
Conservative party in that House. Ile defended
the absence of any allusion to the colonies on the
ground that it was unnecessary, and said, however
bad the state of Ireland might be, it had been
worse in former years, and he instanced the years
1833, 1847, and 1852. Avoiding as much as pos-
sible the language of recrimination, he gratefully
accepted the declaration of the Opposition leader
that their lordships would disregard party feeling
in dealing with this most grave subject of the tenure
of land iu Ireland.

Earl GREY agreed with Lord Cairns that there
had been for some months in Ireland a suspension of
all law and of all security.

The Address was agreed to, and their lordships
adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING.

The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock, at
which hour both sides of the House was very fully
attended.

NEW MEMBERS.

The following new and re-elected members took their
seats : —Mr. Ayrton, Mr. C. Brooke (East Cheshire), Cap-
tain Greville-Nugent.(Longford), Mr. Holland (Merioneth-
shire), Mr. J. li. Shuttleworth (Hastings), Lord C. Hamil-
ton (King's Lynn), Mr. Gordon (Aberdeenshire), Mr.
W. H. Gladstone (Whitby), and Captain Seymour, for
Antrim.

At 20 minutes past four Mr. Gladstone entered the
House, and was received with loud cheers from the Go-
♦ernment side of the House.
NOTICES OF MOTION.

Mr. GLADSTONE said that on Thursday, the 10th
inst., he should move that the Hou-e do resolve that
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa being adjudged guilty of
treason he is incapacitated from sitting in that Hcuse on
his election for Tipperary, and that Mr. Speaker do issue
his warrant for the election of a member.