The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-15 00:00:00

A. MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT RHYL.

A very mysterious affair—mysterious that is according
to the facts which are before us—is reported from North
Wales. Under date " Rhyl, Saturday," a correspondent
writes :—" A shocking tragedy occurred here this morning.
Miss Cecilia, the only daughter of Mr. Alexander
McEwen, a rich foreign merchant of No. 2,
Shipley - street, having visited a friend, was pass-
ing along Wellington-road, towards home, when a
gun was fired from a house window near the Royal Hotel.
The bullet lodged in the young lady's head, and shot her
dead on the spot. The gun is supposed to have been dis-
charged by two boys." A further message throws no
light whatever upon the occurrence. The inquest was
opened in the afternoon of Saturday at the Royal Hotel.
The nursemaid to Mr. McEwen said she saw deceased
going along with a baby in her arms. She heard the
report of a gun, and saw deceased fall. Picked her up.
She was dead. e jury found a verdict, "'Mat the de-
ceased was killed by a gunshot wound, but by whom the
gun was fired there was no evidence to shew."

Among the recent curiosities of American legislaa
tion is a bill which has been passed by the New York Senate
providing for the abolition of punishment for drunkenness.
We have not heard of its fate in the House of Assembly.

AMERICAN LITERATITRE.—According to Messrs.
Sampson Low's monthly bulletin, " during the year 1869,
2,165 books, including new editions, have bnen published
in the United States. Of these 1,680 were original Ame-
rican works, 367 were reprints of English books, and 118
were translations or reprints of works published on the
Continent of Europe. 400 original American books of
1869 were imported and registered in England. A classifi-
cation of the subjects of the gross number results as fol-
lows :—Theology, 271; juvenile works, 327 ; fiction, 409 ;
law, 133 ; arts, sciences, and fine arts, 124 ; trade, com-
merce, and political economy, 80 - travel and geographical
research, 82 ; history and biography, 143 ; poetry and the
prams, 123 ; year books and annual publications, 123;
medicine and surgery, 93 ; educational works, 55."
ALLEGED INFRINGEMENT OF UOPYRIGHT.-II
the Court of Session on Friday, Lord Jerviswoode was
engaged in takine.., a proof in connection with an action
raised by
_Messrs. A. and C. Black, publishers, Edinburgh,
against Messrs. Alexander Murray and Son, publishers,
Queen-square, London, for infringement of copyright.
The summons concludes tor 22,000, " in name of damages,
and as reparation for the loss and injury sustained by
the pursuers through the defenders' wrongous invasion
of the pursuers' copyrights of the edition of the " Min-
strelsy of the Scottish Border,' in 4 vols. forming a por-
tion of the poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, in 12 vols.,
edited by J. G. Lockhart, with. Sir Walter Scott's intro-
ductory remarks, notes, and music to various ballads ; of
the edition of the poem " On the Massacre of Glencoe,"
forming a portion of the said poetical works, in 12 vols. ;
of the second edition with the author's introduc-
tions, alterations, and notes, forming a portion of the
Waverley Novels, in 48 vols. ; and of " Tales of My
Landlord." It is further submitted that the defenders
should be enjoined to deliver to the pursuers all copies of
the books published by the defenders in 1869,
entitled " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," and
remaining unsold; also that the defenders should
be interdicted from printing, publishing, or selling the
said pirated book. The defenders deny the whole material
allegations on which the pursuers rest their claim. They
maintain that the pursuers have no exclusive right under
the statutes cited to the passages alleged to have been
pirated, and that the editions of Scott's poetical works
founded on by the pursuers are not such as to-confer any
special copyright, apart from any copyright existing in tio
original editions of such works.

THE. PROGRESS OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN AMERICA.
—Certainly the Women's Rights movement is progressing
in America. A firm of ladies are acting as stockbrokers
in New York, Utah has given women the suffrage, and
now Wyoming has not merely done as much as Utah, but
has made a lady, a Mrs. Esther Morris, a justice of the
Peace. A correspondent of the New York World of Feb.
26th thus describes the lady judge :—" Mrs. Morris is
above the average stature, and 180 pounds. She has
stronglyoa marked and masculine features, her whole ap-
iasnindicating strength of both purpose and muscle.
home), but she
her
occa-
sion of her
is, and fifty-seven years of age, and acknowledges it ; and
perhaps always has been, one of the ' strong-
breakfast shaw 9
minded.' She
h
fa his dis;"peiev'ltpoef
never delivered any lecture (away from
Itire
first writes for, the Revolution. On the
ourt day she wore a calico gown, worsted
green , „ 1.,, green ribbons on her hair, and a
lad; correspondentspoii tm nt , con-
fessed that, according but
itmakesmusnt secretobe .
to his
that she.waacccount, Mrs. Morris chewed
s.possessed of the first requisite for her new office
render to her the docketr predecessor having refused to sur-
the office, she issued and other papers appertaining to
brought before her,
his
warrant for his arrest. When
not ready, and aske le
attorney stated that he was
next day. His demand for an adjournment to the
day "the court-room was '" granted. On the next
the shops in the immediate againcrowded with spectators,
business suvended. Her Honourc
vicinityl being closed, and
her seat at the table." The defendants
and dignified, took
dis-
charge of the prisoner for informality inc.aiensel moved a
motion was sustained, and the prisoner dischl'agrra,nt Tho
was immediately arrested and brought ba,ck ag;i:dH* But he
sel then moved his discharge, on the ground. that theis c°uunrt.
had no jurisdiction, and that the judge claiming to beecj th
successor of Stillman was an interested party, &c. ~ For
the credit of the Woman's Rights party, and to the
honour of Mrs. Morris be it said, she here saw that she
had been misled, and she had the good sense to see that
Ate was in the wronie s Mg cf:524. was dismissed,--P
AralLGazette. -- -

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