The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-07 00:00:00

THE BRISTOL ELECTION.

We understand that Mr. Berkeley really has resigned
his seat for Bristol. In the event of three Liberal candi-
dates being brought forward, as seems likely—Mr.
Hodgson being the choice of one section, Mr. Odger
coming out as a working man's representative, and Mr-
Robinson urging his claim as a local man—the Conserva.
tives will bring forward Mr. Phillip Skinner Miles, whose
family influence in the town is great, and who previously
contested the borough.

It is said that the Marquis of Bute is about to jolt_
his yacht at Gibraltar, and go a long voyage to Australia and
New Zealand.

A verdict of wilful murder has been returne
against the men concerned in the death of Smith, the tramp,
at Ecelesfield.

John Bull states that the Bishopric of Sierra Leone
has been offered to the Ituv. Henry Cheetham, Vicar of
Quarndon, near Derby.

The ✓ohn hull learns with great pleasure that the
Bishop of Hereford bag conferred the vacant canonry in his
cathedral on the Rev, Dr. Jebb.
The great Conservative banquet in the City takes
place next Wednesday. John Bull, and its correspondent,
complain earnestly that a tolitical dinner party should be
called for a Wednesday in Lent.

Bishop Twells, according to the Church Review, is
present in London, and has recently been examined by
three medical men of high standing, who have pronounced
him not to be of sound mind.

On the third reading of the War Office Bill, by
which Mr. Cardwell proposes to create two new Under
Secretaries in the War Department, Mr. J. Feilden, mem-
ber for the East Riding of Yorkshire, will move its rejec-
tion.

The case of Henry Goodwin, charged with mali-
ciously destroying a number of pictures at his father's resi-
dence, Wigwell Hall, was before the Crown Court at Derby
assizes. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and sentence was
deferred.

The South London Press contradicts on authority
a a ateinent which has been made, that the illness of the
Roy. Newman Il;:11 has become alarming. Mr. Hall was
last heard of at Jerusalem, and was no worse than he
had been.

A petition, asking for inquiry into the conduct
of the Norwich Election Commissioners during the late
inquiry, has been forwarded for presentation to the House
of Commons. Some of the local Conservatives are dis-
satisfied with the manner in which the inquiry was con-
ducted.

The directors of the Brighton Railway Company
are preparing a statement on the question of compensa-
tion, more especially as it may be illustrated by the expe-
rience of the late New Cross accident. The Railway News
believes it will be shewn that for every £lOO paid by the
company for compensation, nearly £BO are absorbed by tke
lawyers. •
The Rev. Dr. Steere, Rector of Little Steeping,
who went out with Bishop Tozer on the formation of the
Central African mission, writes stating that he has ro-
ceived letters from the bishop, in which the right rev.
prelate informs him that the whole district as yet occu-
pied by them them is being ravaged by cholera, and that
the people of Zanzibar are dying by hundreds or even
thousands.

Among the Parliamentary papers issued to day
was a return of the number and tonnage of transports
employed in the Abyssinian expedition, the time each one
was employed, the rate per ton, &c. An account of the
receipts and disbursements connected with the Duchy of
Lancaster. for the year ending December 21st 1869, has
been published, and also furnishes correspondence relating
to the impoitation of South Sea Islanders.

The Western Daily Standard of Saturday an-
nounced its own decease. This paper was started at Ply-
mouth about a year ago, in order to advance the Conservative
cause in the western counties; it ascribes its failure to the
apathy and indifference of the party. Just before this paper
started another journal, the _Herald, originated with the same
obj,ct, died, after a brief existence of ninety days. The
Nail, a weekly Conservative journal, projected by Mr. C. J.
Mare, who was unseated at Plymouth, was discontinued in
18G2, after ten years' existence.

•
"REVIVAL" SERVICES BY A BISHOP. The
Bishop of Rochester purposes holding special services
during the week commencing Marchl3 in Saffron Walden
and several parishes in the neighbourhood. The object of
these services is to awaken the careless by reminding them
of God's anger and judgment against sinners, and to com-
fort and encourage godly persons who are cast down under
a sense of their own manifold shortcomings. The Bishop
will be aided by the Bishop of Colombo and Archdeacon
Ady.

_RAILWAY SLEEPING UAERIAGats.—The Economist
draws attention to a plan for 7-0-2.1‘.1Li• .r; sleeping accommo-
dation in railway carriages, which _ iit ' thinks merits atten-
tion. What the inventor, Mr. I-Emrl4...m. of Glasgow,
proposes, is to make use of the existing compartments of
railway carriages, his arrangement permitting them to
be used either for sitting or sleeping at the will of the
passengers. Unless when used for sleeping, the compart-
ments will present almost exactly their present appear-
ance, and the sleeping arrangement will consist- in first- I THE SALT LAKE ClTY.—General Schaffer, o,
class carriages of one shelf, in second-class carriages of Illinois, the new Governor of Utah, has left for the Salt
two shelves—placed at equal distances above the present Lake City. He has received important instructions from
seats, of equal breadth with them, and extending in the Washington. In advocating his bill for the prevention of
same direction. The arrangement is in short similar to , polygamy, Mr. Cullom declaredthat the longer the attempt
that of berths in ships; and the railway berths may be i was delayed the more difficult would it be to obtain suc-
made equally, if not more commodious. It would intro- ' cess. The first step must be to substitute a United States
duce needless technicality to explain the mechanism judiciary for the territorial one. His bill would render
by which the change in the compartment will the Mormons ineligible to vote or to hold office. The
be effected—the inventor has two or three ways of doing Mormons were not likely to offer a general resistance, but
it ; the point is that the mechanism is simple, not liable in any case it was the nation's duty to get rid of a relic of
to get out of order, and so easily and quickly worked that 1 ';arbarism. which was a stigma on the country. -
the passengers themselves can apply it in a minute without 1
throwing any labour on the railway servants. Of course TELEGRAPHIC IRREGULARITIES. —" Verbatim"
under this system a first class compartment could hold furnishes the Times with an interesting statement, which
only four, and a third class only six passengers, but these . does not redound much to the credit of the Submarine
numbers, the Economist thinks, are quite sufficient for long . Telegraph Company. The Govertiment Telegraphic
iournevs.
Department will be be pleased. to see that it is not the
TILE PROFESSOR OF STARVATION.—The chair- only telegraphic institution found fault with. In May
man of the bench of magistrates before whom the criminal 1569 " Verbatim" telegraphed bo a friend in India,
charge arising out of " the death of the Welsh Fasting C paying £2 17s. for the emit of the telegram. Long after
he heard that the message had never reached his friend.
Girl " is being heard has received an extraordinary tender of
evidence. A " person," in a " well-written " letter, bearing jHe thereupon demanded back his money. His letter to
the London postmark, has declared himself to have "great the company was not answered, and on calling to remon-
experience in protracted fasting," and offers to fast under strate at the office, he was told that inquiries would be
made, which would occupy about eight months. Sable-
the strictest surveillance for one month. In short, he will
be happy to enable the magistrates to commit upon him- quently he was told that it might take fifteen months
self the act alleged 3.3 a crime against the accused. The bofore he could have the satisfaction of knowing why his
p-oposition is novel, as though the judge and jury telegram had not been delivered. Delays in transmitting
s pltinnly investigating a charge of murder were invited ts•-lezrams to India appear to be becoming notorious.
by a lady or gentleman, who had no objection to COHMISSIONS.—IVe believe that it is contemplated
bocorne a victim to try their hand at murder, with to hold a large meeting of officers on an early day at one
Ce feelings of the prisoner at the
the amiable intention of being
bar. It is a pity the able to enter into
of the service clubs, with a view of .petitioning the Crown
chairman of the bench did not publish the name of the and Parliament against the abolition of prices paid over
regulation for commissions without compensation to their
Professor of starvation, as he thought it worth while to holders, as well as to decide upon what further action it is
mention the fact of his havin? received a communication
necessary to take to avert a measure which must subject
of the nature described. The incEvidual in question might
drive a lucrative trade by fasting in public, pay 4$ all officers to severe pecuniary loss.-7A my and Navy
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