The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-01 00:00:00

EXCLUSION OF STRANGERS.

The Daily News thinks that Mr. Henley's remarks on
Monday evening upon the exclusion of strangers, that
is to say, of reporters, from the gallery of the House
of Commons, were marked by the manly good sense
which usually characterises his speeches; and we
may, perhaps, be permitted, with the sincerest
respect and deference, to express so little regret that they
did not receive a more congenial reply from the Prime
Minister. For the 'present Mr. Gladstone declines
to do anything. The Government have no proposal
to make with respect to the exclusion of reporters,
and they see no nebessity for referring the sub-
ject to a committee. We regret that Mr. Gladstone
should have taken this attitude. We regret still more the
ground on which he justifies it. Mr. Gladstone has titles
so many and so indisputable to the respect, confidence,
and gratitude of the Liberal party and the country, that
his errors are more to be deplored, and require to be more
earnestly combatted, than those of inferior men.

The Post declares that when Mr. Cranford exercised
what the Prime Minister has properly called the " power"
and not the " privilege" of a member of Parliament to
have the galleries cleared, so many years had elapsed
since the last occasion on which that power had been used
that- it was not unnatural for the proceeding to excite
some little resentment. The Government have con-
sidered whether it was necessary to prevent the recurrence
of that event. The result of that consideration is that
they have no proposal to make to the House for the alte-
ration of the practice on the responsibility of the Govern-
ment. We confess we do not see that there is anything
to quarrel with in this decision. It has been
reported that Mr. Crauford's object in excluding
strangers from the House was to clear the Ladies' Gallery,
In his speech on Monday he entirely disclaimed such an
intention, believing, as he did, that the ladies of England
require no compulsion to make them close their ears to
discussions they ought not to listen to. In point of fact,
before Mr. Fowler's motion came on the ladies, upon a
hint of what was coming, had quitted their " cage "—all
except two. Two strong-minded women maintained
their position, and' will probably bear Mr. Cranford a
grudge for the rest of their lives for turning them out.
'They have succeeded in justifying the unusual course
adopted by Mr. Crauford, and they have also given
ft striking proof of the mischief which must arise when-
ever women depart from the line of duty Providence ht
assigned them.

OURIOVS ROBBERY AND RESTORATION.—SOIDe
nights since a post of the guard in Brussels was robbed of
eight Albini rifles under circumstances of the greatest
mystery, It was at first supposed that they had been
thrown into the canal and preparations were on foot. to
drain and search for them. Strange to tell, on Saturday
n last, a late passer-by observed on the Boulevard de
Waterloo, at midnight, a carriage stopping before a house.
Just as he noticed it, the vehicle started off at a gallop,
and at the same moment the house door was opened by
General Thibaut, who resides there, and who narrowly
escaped being hurt by the fall of what had been placed
against the door, namely, the eight Albini rifles, enclosed
in two bags. The general took in the rifles, which were
next morning handed over into proper custody, and the
whole affair remains as great a mystery as before.

REJECTED SuiTons.—No one can be infidel enough
to doubt that ladies whose unlucky lot it is to reject
the affections they have won, feel all the sympathy they
profess for the sufferings of which they have been the
cause. Yet with its regrets and remorse, it is
not in the most angelic feminine nature to be insen-
sible to the glory of involuntary triumphs ; to
think, without some thrill of pleasure, on the
sorrows of its victims. There are women, of course, who
hunt down hearts for the sheer pleasure of the sport,
and parade their bruised and bleeding trophies as a
veteran Indian carries at his belt the scalps he has torn
away in a score of razzias. We suspect there are few of
the sex who can resist gratifying a pardonable vanity by
taking some one into the secret of the tribute paid their
fascinations ; who have the strength of kindness to do the
best they can for their lover next to acceptinc, him, and
consign to oblivion the episode he unpleasantly figured in.
Unless an offer be so wild as to amount to an insult, in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the gentleman may
find comfort in thinking he has left pleasant memories
With the lady to whose happiness he would have conse-
crated his life.—Front" Against Time," in the " Cor2zhill
Magazine.

DEMOLITION OF A MARTELLO TOWER AT RYE.
—An important experiment with gun-cotton was made
on Tuesday, at Rye, upon the martello tower No. 36,
rendered famous by a previous experiment with Dr. Gale's
non-explosive mixture of gunpowder. This tower, the
walls of which were twelve feet thick at the base, was
entirely and safely demolished by 2001bs. of gun-cotton,
fired by electricity. Tha gun-cotton was in five-inch discs ;
Ond none of the (tapirs, not even single bricks, was blown
Away to the extent of fifty yards from the bnildhur.