The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-14 00:00:00

The Darien Project.

The news from the Isthmus of Darien is very
unfortunate. We were all in hopes that soon the
Suez Canal triumph would be repeated,
and that South America would be severed
from the northern part of the Continent,
as Africa has been separated. from Asia. The inte-
rests of commerce and civilisation demand the,
voyage round Cape Horn should be dispensed with
in the same way as the voyage round the Cape of .4
Good Hope. But it is not to be at
present. The surveying expedition sent out
by the American Government report, before
the completion of the task, that the enterprise
is impracticable. No canal can be made. Such a
decision, however, is too much at variance with the
spirtef the age and the requirements of commerce
to be accepted as final. The Suez Canal was often
pronounced to be one of the most impracticable of
undertakings.

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LAW AND POLICE.

BUILDING A TAVERN. —A motion has been made in Vice
Chancellor Malin'i Court for an injunction to restrain a
person named Box fr6m building a tavern on ground at
Wimbledon, belonging to the Church of England Provi-
dent Building Society. The plaintiff and defendant had
purchased adjoining plots, and the plaintiff, who was
building a private house on his plot, complained that the
creation of a public-house was contrary to the conditions
under vialeh the property was sold, and calculated to
deteriorate the estate. The Vice-Chancellor was of
opinion that the defendant's proposal to build a public-
house on ground set apart for shops was an infringement
of the conditions, and granted an injunction.

THE NEW CROSS ACCIDENT—MORE DAMAGES.—In the
Court of Common Pleas a Mrs. Christmas obtained a ver-
dict by consent for £lOO6 against the Brighton Railway
Company forinjuries sustained in the New-cross accident.
A RAILWAY COMPANY AGREEING TO HEAVY DAMAGES.
—k the Court of Common (leas, before Lord Chief
Justice Bovill and a special jury, the case of "Christian
v. the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Com-
pany " was heard. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine represented
the plaintiff, an elderly lady, whose ankle was
dislocated in the disastrous accident at New Cross
in July last, when the London Licensed
Victuallers and their friends were returning from
the fête at the Crystitl Palace. The charge of negligence
wds not disputed ; the only question was that of 'compen-
sation for the injuries received. The plaintiff was carried
into court in a chair, and appeared to have suffered very
muck, being in a nervous condition. After the plaintiff's
Medical attendant had been examined, the counsel for the
company agreed to a verdict for £1,060, which was
accordingly awarded by the jury.
A RANIERUPIP CORONER.—At the Bankruptcy Court
there was an examination and order of discharge sitting
under the bankrUptcy of Charles Joseph . Carttar, the
coroner for West Kent. This was a fifth petition against
the bankrupt, filed upon the let of t)ecember last by W.
R. Preston, solicitor, of Basinghall-street, on behalf of
Mr. Charles GraSam Carttar, public accountant, of Cole-
mui-street, for a debt of £550, money lent. —His
Honour said this was the fifth bankruptcy, and
he objected to the Court being made a convenience of.
—Mr. Preston said that two of the.bankruptcies had been
superseded. If an adjournment were granted for three
months, the bankrupt would set aside £3OO out of £5OO
per annum, and there was every pr,ospect of the arrange-
ment being carried out. His honour said that if he in-
dulge&in the luxury of a sixth appearance, the New Act
of Bankruptcy would deal with him very differently. The
sitting was then adjourned until the 15th of July next,
at the bankrupt's expense,

MISS-MITFORD'S CORRESPONDENCE.—A curious dispute
respecting the correspondente of Miss Mitford has arisen
between her executor, Mr. larness and her old servant,
Mrs. Sweetman on one hand, and' 14Ir. L'Estinnge, who
wrote and published the " Life of Miss Mitford " on the
other. The plaintiffs alleged they had a right to Min
Mitford's letters which was infringed by the publication
of the book in question.
MR. BEWICKE AGAIN.—Mr. Bewicke's case has been
brought before the Court of Common Pleas. It will be
remembered that an action for libel was brought
against Mr. Bewicke by his father-in-law, a
professional gentleman in Northumberland, to
whom he had sent a letter bearing an in-
sulting superscription through the post. A verdict was
found for the plaintiff. Damages £5OO ; and a rule for a
new trial, on the ground of excessive damages, has now
been refused, on the ground that the libel was against a,
professional man, and it was impossible to estimate
the damages.

THE LUDGATE-HILL ROBBERY --James Webb, who
described himself as a fitter without any home, was
brought up at the Guildhall charged with a daring rob-
bery on Ludgate-hill. The offence was of the most daring
character, as it was committed et eleven o'clock in the day,
when the street was crowded. The prisoner was seen loit cling
near the shop of Mr. Benson, jeweller for some time.
suddenly sent his elbow through one of the
windows, will/eh are ten feet high by seven
feet broad, shattering the glass into pieces.
Webb then snatched up two watches -and a chain,
valued together at £35, and made off with them., doing
great damage to the ether articles that were in the win-
dow. The plate glass was worth £l2 or £l5. The
damage done to the goods not taken was about, £5O. The
prisoner, who had nothing to say in defence, was fully
Kniamitted for trial.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A SOLICITOR'S CLERIC—At
the Mansion-house, John Clark, a law writer, casually em-
ployed by Mr. Macreath, solicitor, of Cornhill, was charged
with stealing £l7O. He waylaid a junior desk, who had
been sent to the National and Provincial Bank in Thread-
needle-street to get a cheque for the amount named
cashed, and represented that he was to take the
money from him, when he absconded. In con-
sequence of information sent to the police he was
apprehended late on Thursday nigh, helplessly drunk,
in his bed at his lodgings. £139 was found on him ;
the remainder, it appeared, he had squandered in drink
and treating. He was fully committed to Newgate for
trial.

WOMEN TN MEN'S- CLOTHES.—The example of Messrs.
Boulton, Park, and Co., has been followed in Dundee by
a couple of foolish girls, who dressed themselves on Wed-
nesday morning in the clothes of men, and paraded Con-
stitution-road at an early hour. The danuiels were so
pleased with their adoption of the "habits " of the
" other sex " th`at they gave vent to their delight in a
series of yells that made night in that quarter perfectly.
diragreeable. The end of it was that the police-
men, attracted by the extraordinary noise, cut short
the parade, and marched the " young men " captive to the
police cells, where they were compelled to lie till ten
o'clock. The prisoners subsequently confessed that they
were girls. When Charged with a breach of the peace on
Thursday the defendants pleaded guilty, and the Bailie
without comment sentenced each of them to ten days' im-
prisonment, or a fine of 10s. The fine was at once paid,
and the girls were allowed to leave the police buildings
amid the laughter of all assembled.

A FLAT BETWEEN TWO SHARPS.—Ar the Huddersfield
Court House two " swells," named Charlesworth and
Robertson, were charged with robbing a farmer named
Ellis. The old' man went to ,a fair to buy two cows, and
met the prissmers, who told him a long taie about having
had someponey left to them, and that they had recovered,
as the result ora lawsuit, £BOO from a railway company.
They induced him to bring out his money, and produced
several new chamois purses, and presenting one to Ellis,
one of them professed to secure the money in the new
purse. £23 10s. was entrusted to him, but the men,
by ringing the changes, kept the money, and returned
gllis a new purse containing only 18 new half-pennies.
They then left the public-house, under the pfetence
going to purchase something to eat, but they were note
wen again until apprehended.—They were remanded.

It is officially stated that the number of persons
billed in the railway accident in Belgium on Saturday
night did not exceed twelve. Forty persons were injured,
but all theses are dolhg well.

HEALTH OF COUNT BISNARCIC.—The Correspon-
dance Provinciate says that Count Bismarck's recovery
progresses but slowly. This is supposed to intimate that
the Count's indisposition will prevent his appearance at
Berlin during the visit of the Emperor of Russia.
who will pay a short visit to that city on his way to Ems,

TALENT IN A.MERlCA.—American versatility kaa
often been the subject of remark. A striking instance of
it is given in the evidence of one of the witnesses at the
M`Farland trial. Mr. J. C. Howell thus described his
various occupations :—Have been in the diaguerreotype
business one year ; carried it on in Freep3rt, Illinois • pub-
lished a paper five months'at Freeport ; practised dentistry
in 1849; practised it ten years altogether; was a drug-clerk in
Ohio ; in 1840 worked on a farm ; have been in the
Government service since 1861; was a clerk in the Indian
Department in Washington City ; sold patent rights in
1864 ; was in that business one year • was inspector of
customs in New York City in November, 1864 ; held that
office for two years ; then I came to the hair-pin business ;
consider myself now an inventor.—Pall Mall Gazette.

M. Barbieux, the managing (Editor of the Rappel,
has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment and a fine
of 5,000 f. and costs, for publishing on the sth of May an
article signed " Victor Hugo," and entitled " Victor Hugo,
on the Plebiscite."

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