The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-22 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS.

An Account, lursuant to the Act 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 32,
for the week ending Wednesday, July 20, 1870.
ISSUE DEP LRTMENT.
Notes issued £34,546,550 ' Governmt. Debt.£ll,ols,loo
Other Securities.. 3,984,9 oti
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silva'. Bullion

£34,546,550
BANKING

£34,546,550

Proprietors'Capi-
tal
Rest
Public Deposits
(including E-
xchequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div.
Accounts
Other Deposits.. 19,808;575
Seven Days and
othor Bills 439,844

?ARTMENT.
Governmt. Secu-
rities(including
Dead Weight
Annuity) ..., £12.507,779
Other Securities 20,172,894
Notes 10,282,103
Gold and Silver
Coin

- -
£43,856,743

£43,856,743

THE ENCLOSURE OF TOOTING COMMON.
Mr. Thompson, lord of the manor of Tooting, having
enclosed twenty-six out of the sixty-three acres comprising
Tooting common, and thus excluded the inhabitants of the
vicinity from the enjoyment of airy recreation thereon,
an action was brought against him by Mr. Betts and
other freehold tenants of the manor, to establish their
commonable rights, and on Wednesday morning Lord
Romilly delivered judgment in the suit. His lordship
said that the origin of the manor was very old, it being men-
tioned in Domesday, and subsequent records on court rolls
conclusivelyproved that commonable rights had existed from
time immemorial. On that principle, therefore, there
was no doubt that the plaintiffs had established their case.
But several points had been raised by the defence—first,
whether a certain few of the freeholders could sue on be-
half of the whole ; secondly, whether freeholders could
sue in the name of persons having other commonable
rights ; and thirdly, whether the plaintiff was not barred
from prosecuting by reason of an alleged compromise.
On all those points his lordship held against the lord of
the manor, and declared that the plaintiff was entitled to
an injunction to restrain the defendant from erecting the
fence in question so to interfere with the free access of the
inhabitants, the depasturing of cattle, and the removal
of gorse as heretofore. The costs would follow the
result.

THE BIRMINGHAM MURDER.—On Wednesday,
at the Warwick Assizes, before Lord Chief Baron Kelly,
John Eagan, 19, blacksmith, was indicted for the wilful
murder of Bernard Garrity, at Birmingham, on the 18th
June last. Prisoner at first pleaded guilty, but with-
drew the plea on the Judge intimating that he
should be compelled to pass the usual sentence
of death. The deceased lived in Edgbaston-street, Bir-
mingham, and on the night of the 18th June the pri-
soner went there, and was irritated at a girl, who lodged
with deceased, refusingto go out with him for a walk.
Prisoner went into the street, and commenced throwing
brick-ends, one of which struck the deceased on the head,
and fractured his skull. He was taken to the Queen's
Hospital, where the operation of trepanning was per-
formed ; but inflammation of the brain supervened, and
death ensued. The jury found the prisoner guilty of
manslaughter, and his lordship sentenced him to ten years'
penal servitude. The prisoner's mother, on hearing the
sentence, created a scene in court, and the prisoner was
borne, shrieking, from the dock, by the warders in
attendance.

THE GREAT EASTERN.—No ! there is nothing
like the Great Eastern in the world ; no sight which pre-
serves its freshness in the same way; no structure, no
mechanical contrivance, no monument of successful
labour, which continues to impress the visitor so forcibly,
however experienced he may be. Numerous as are the
voyages I have taken in her, and pleasantly familiar as
are the great vessel's decks and saloons, I find myself
holding breath as we draw under her bows ; and then the
beautiful proportions and the vast and graceful sweep and
lines, elicit the old encomiums and the old warmth. The
coat of white paint given her at Heart's Content, after the
French cable was laid, seems to have been renewed ; and,
in fact, as we learn later, Captain Halpin had the ship
whitewashed from stem to stern only three days ago. This
was done for a purely practical purpose. White is, of
course, a cooler colour than black, and the coolness is a de-
sideratum when electric cables have to be carried through
low latitudes ; so the Great Eastern has been once more
made to look like a huge iceberg, or some mammoth hybrid
of the seal kind, floating its mighty length, and dwarfing
by comparison the handiwork of man. This coat of white-
wash made, it should be mentioned, an immediate differ-
ence of no less than eight degrees in the temperature of
the cable-tanks. A pair of grey carriage-horses taking
their morning exercise composedly up and down one side
of the deck, with a, groom at their heads, was the first
sight greeting us when we stepped on board, and it told
the old story of the vast gulf there is between the Great
Eastern and every other ship in the world. —The Ocean
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