The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-29 00:00:00

MORNING E lON.

CHAPMAN & CO.'S ENTIRE WHEAT
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packets, 3d., 6d., and Is., and tins, 3s.
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A. NEW WEST-END CLUB.—On Monday a club,
situated in Regent-street, opposite the Polytechnic Insti-
tution, was opened under the name of " The Corinthian."
The premises are very extensive, and the coffee, reading,
smoking, and other rooms are not only elegantly furnished,
but also admirably adapted to the purposes of the club.
The management of the club will be guided by laws
similar to those by which the " Carlton" is regulated.
We understand that already between five and six hun-
dred members, including merchants, clergymen, officers of
both the services, professional as well asprivate gentle-
men, members of the civil service, &c., have given it their
names for membership.
THE BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL.—This monster musi-
cal treat has, so far, turned out a great success. In the
vast volume of music required to fill the ambitious pro-
gramme everything may not be in all perfection, but the
general effect is certainly superb. In an affair so hastily
gotton up connoisseurs and delicate critics may find some-
thing to complain of, but that the performance is popular
and gives great pleasures to the masses of the people there
can be no doubt. Therefore we call it a decided success.
It affords a grand attraction for our country cousins, espe-
cially as there is a performance by day as well as by night.
Great affairs of this kind leave a good deal of benefit be-
hind, apart from the large amount of money they bring
into the city. There are expansive ideas about them,
pleasant social intercourses springs from them, and art
gathers friends, admirers and students out of them. Mon-
ster musical festivals, therefore, are not all noise nor all
sensation. There is a great store of good at the bottom of
them. We are glad that this commemoration of Beethoven
has all the elements of success in it.—. New York Herald.
VIRGINIA.—The corps cadets of the Virginia
Military School, Lexington, will give a grand ball to the
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graduating class on the ninety-fourth anniversary of
American Independence, Monday, July 4. It is plsant
to see that so interesting an event is to be celebrated upon
so patriotic a day. We congratulate the ancient Domi-
nion upon " old times coming back once more." In this
connection we may state that the Washington Literary
Society of the University of Virginia have a celebration
on the 27th instant, as a handsomely engraved note of in-
vitation assures us. These are evidences that the right
kind of reconstruction is taking root in Virginia, and that
the blusterings of frothy politicians are giving way before
a high-toned, moral, intellectual, and patriotic sentiment
all over the,old Commonwealth.—New York Herald.
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was serious at first but having dwindled to mere threats
will result in nothing else. We are glad to have this ex-
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just as rich districts are groaning for labourers. The
Crispins unwisely stay with strange perverseness in the
crowded towns of Massachusetts, seeking to control
wages by organisation, instead of voluntarily going where
skilled labour dictates its own price - and as long as they
thus " glut " their own market they must expect em-
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A FRENCH IRRECONCILABLE

The Revolutionary party has sustained a severe loss in
the death of Armand Barbes, who died at the Hague yes-
terday afternoon, after a long and painful illness.
Barbes, it is true, took no active part in the recent move-
ments of his party, but at one time he filled a prominent
place in its annals, and he assisted in maintaining the
theoretical dignity of the Republicans by his unquestion-
able sincerity and devotion to his cause. He
spared neither life, liberty, nor fortune, in the
interests of the Republic. He was never one of
those who incite others to action, and take care to keep
themselves aloof from danger. He has not inaptly been
compared to Garibaldi, whose chivalrous self-devotion
and courage he emulated, and whose political sagacity he
did not excel. The history of Barbes, it has been justly
said, is the history of all the plots since 1830. He was
the leader of the insurrection of May 1839, and headed
the band who attacked the Conciergerie and killed Lieu-
tenant Drouineau. Brought before the Chamber
of Peers and condemned to death, the forti-
tude of Barbes never faltered. Clothed in
the terrible camisole de force, he calmly awaited
the s4mmons to the scaffold, and his " Two
days kinder ,condemnation to death" skewed how
completely he was master of himself and of his thoughts.
The reprieve which has allowed us now to chronicle his
death at The Hague was as remarkable as the man for
whom it was obtained. The poem of Victor Hugo con-
taining the line "Thanks for a cradle; thanks for a
tomb " was transmitted to the King the very night before
the day fixed for the execution. The poet prevailed over
the politician, and the reprieve was given. Barbes was
liberated by the events of Feb. 1848, but he had not learned
prudence. He was again involved in plots and conspi-
racies, this time against the Republic itself. He took
part with Blanqui, Raspail, and Huber in the scheme of
framing at the Hotel de Ville a new revolutionary ad-
ministration. He was an important character at this
epoch, for he was President of the Club of the Revolution,
Governor of the Luxembourg, Colonel of the 12th Legion
of the National Guard, and member of the Constituent
Assembly. For his participation in the manifesto of the
15th of May he was imprisoned in Vincennes, and subse-
quently sentenced by the High Court of Bourges
to imprisonment for life. Barbes remained at Belle Isle
until 1854, when a letter from him on the Russian War,
displaying his real patriotism and sincerity, came under
the notice of the Emperor, and obtained his pardon. Re-
leased from Belle Isle, the stubborn republican re-
fused to profit by imperial clemency, and coming
to Paris gave himself up to the authorities.
However he was left free, and became a voluntary exile,
feeling no doubt that his part in France was played out.
He finished his days in Belgium, and died as he had lived
a high-minded and self-sacrificing, if mistaken, man. A
writer in the Liberte says of him that "Prisoner Barbes pro-
tested against his gaolers ; set free, against his liberators
under the monarchy he conspired against the monarchy ;
under the republic he conspired against the republic. If
he h been a dictator he would have plotted against his
own dictatorship. Could even a society of saints satisfy
such a character ?"

THE HEBREW BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.
The case of Keyser v. Moryosef was resumed in the
Bail Court, yesterday, before Mr. Justice Hannen
and a common jury. It was an action brought by a
Jewess, the keeper of a lodging-house in Aldgate, against
one of her co-religionists, who lodged in her house, for an
alleged breach of a promise to marry her, which
promise the defendant denie
appeared that the
d. From the evi-
dence given yesterday, it
parties had lived together as husband and wife
for some weeks • and while it was sworn by the plaintiff
that this was absequent to the promise, it was contended
by the the that the plaintiff used it as a pretext for
endeavouring to wheedle a promise out of him. The
evidence endeavouring
was was directed towards proving that the
plaintiff's conduct with other frequenters of the house
was most unbecoming. The jury, after being locked up
for some time, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—
damages £25.

ACTION FOR THE LOSS OF A FATHER
AND MOTHER.
The case of Walden v. the Great Northern
Brett Raianlwdaa spe-
y Co.
was tried yesterday, before Mr. Justice
cial jury in the Court of Common Pleas. It was an action
by two young men, sons of a farm bailiff, to recover
damages from that company for the loss of their father
and mother, by an accident on the railway at Welling
Junction Hertfordshire, on the 20th of October last. On
that day Mr. and Mrs. Walden were passengers by a
train which was passing the junction points, when it
suddenly left the line, one half being over-
turned and smashed, and the other half running
along towards Hertford. Several passengers were killed,
including Mr. and Mrs. Waldon. It was contended by
the plaintiffs that the accident arose from the pointaman
shutting the points before the whole of the train had
passed over them ; while the company ascribed it to a
defect in one of the t
carriage-wheels, for which they
could not be held responsible. The quesic nof liability
had been determined against the company in another case,
but they were not willing to accopt this decision as
final, and accordingly they defended again. The jury
found a verdict for the plaintiffs, and assessed the
s.—Another action, arising out of the
damages
ac arranged on the conclusion of the
same accident,
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above case.

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IMPORTANT DIVORCE CASE.
Lord Penzance, in the Court of Divorce, yesterday, gave a
most important judgment in the cause of Yeatman v. Yeat-
man and Rummell, which settled the point whether a
decree for judicial separation, on the ground of desertion,
would be a bar to a petition for a dissolution of a marriage
on the ground of adultery. In this case the facts were
somewhat remarkable. The petitioner, a barrister, sought
for a dissolution of his marriage with the respondent, on the
ground of her adultery with the co-respondent—the Baron
von Rummell. The parties were married in 1852, and
they lived together till 1856 when they went to Germany,
and the petitioner left his wife there under circumstances
which were afterwards held to be legral desertion, and
since that period they had never cohabited together.
After 1858 the petitioner prayed that the marriage might be
declared null and void, on the ground that at the time of the
marriage Mrs. Yeatman was insane. In 1862 he brought
another petition for a divorce, on
in G the germany ; round of
but the
the re-
spondent's adultery with a person
wife alleged the desertion. As the court was not satis-
fied with the proof of the adultery, the petition failed,
and Mrs. Yeatman was not necessitated to go on with
her plea. In 1868 the p.etitioner again brought a suit,
and it was tried before a jury, who were not satisfied with
the proof of adultery. As to the present petition, Lord
Penzance was of opinion that the adultery was satisfac-
torily proved; but he thought that the fact of the deser-
tion prevented Mr. Yeatman from obtaining a decree nisi
for a dissolution of marriage. His lordship also allowed
the wife all her costs.

•
THE GODRICH DIVORCE CASE.
In the Divorce Court, yesterday, the cause "Godrich v.
Godrich," was again mentioned.—Mrs. Godrich, who
applied in person, asked that the cause, which is to be
re-tried, might be heard before a special jury.
—Lord Penzance said that on a previous day
Mrs. Godrich had elected to have the cause
tried before the court itself without a jury. It was not
usual to allow a person 'to change their minds.—Mrs.
Godrich referred to the fact that two of the witnesses in
the cause had een indicted and found
up guilty
of perjury. Her solicitor had thrown
case in consequence of the court refusing to
compel the husband to give a bond of security
for costs. Lord Penzance said that the last order made
was simply that the cause should not be heard these sit-
tings. He could not again consider the question
of Mr. Godrich giving security for costs. Mrs.
Godrich said she was unaware of the application for a
postponement of the trial till she saw it in the papers.
Lord Penzance said the case was down in'thelist as an un-
defended one. It had not as yet been reached, so that no
injustice was done by it being postponed.—Mrs. Godrich
again asked the learned judge to consider the question of
her husband giving a bond for the costs. She was
allowed to go on with her case, but was in a state of utter
impecuniosity.—Lord Penzance said he could not do so.—
The case will therefore be once more tried at the Michael-
mas sittings.

GODRICII V. GODRICII.—In reference to the let-
ter from Mrs. Godrich which appeared in the Standard on
Monday, a Mr. Crawford writes :—" As the landlord of
the house (in Trevor-square) named by Mrs. Adelaide
Godrich, I shall be obliged by your allowing me to state
that she does not reside there, and that all communica-
tions and donations forwarded to that address will be
refused."
There are yet wretches living in Lancashire who
take delight in the spectacle of seeing cocks pecking each
other to death. Fifty men thus engaged were found last
Saturday by the Preston police, in the Bee-hive Inn,
Marsh-lane, in that town, the landlord taking a promi-
nent part in the brutal sport. Resistance was offered to
the police, but several fellows were arrested.