The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-22 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Sales pi obably 12,000 b,les. The market was

quiet.

ACCIDENT TO MR. SOTIIEIIN.—Oa Thurtchy Mr.
Sothern, during a run with Baron llothschild's staghouude,
met with another severe accident. He was going at
racing speed at a double, when his horse swerved and took
the fence sideways, landing the ride' with his face against
a tree. After a considerable loss of blood, he was
lifted into the saddle and contrived to get back to
Leighton Buzzard, where he was properly attended to.
He is now under the care of Sir Henry Thompson, and,
though much bruised, will soon be able, it is hoped, to
move about again. Mr. Sothern, who has lately been re-
cruiting Lis health by country air and exercise, was at the
time of his mishap a guest of Baron Rothschild; and,
feeling somewhat better than he has been for some little
time past, he yielded to the temptation of a day's favourite
sport.
BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND COI-
FORTING,—The very agreeable character of this preparation has
rendered it a general favourite. The 'Civil Service Gazette' re-
marks:—" The singular success which Mr. Epps attained by his
homeopathic preparation of cocoa has never been surpassed by
any experimentalist. By a thorough knowledge of the natural
laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition,
and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected
cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a deli-
cately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doc-
tors' bills." Made simply with boding water cr milk. Sold
only iu tin-lined packets, labelled "J JULES Errs & Co., Ihunceo-
pattlieClieutists, Loudon.

Last night Mr. Elliman, while replying to a toast
at a Volunteer dinner at Slough, suddenly expired. Mr.
Charsley, the coroner for Bucks, was so overcome by the
occurrence that ho went into a fit, which lasted for twenty
minutes.

One of the Welsh papers publishes a statement—
wtieh another discredits—to the effect that a certain Mr.
Kyftin Roberts has received a letter from Mr. Gladstone,
announcing the Premier's intention to appoint a Welsh
bishop to the vacant Welsh see—Et. Asaph.

Daniel Wright has been committed for trial by the
Manchester Magistrates on a charge of fraud. The prisoner
had been in the habit of advertising for clerks, and demand-
ing from the applicants deposits of £lOO for their good
behavi(,ur.

Mrs. Jefferson Davis, the wife of the ex-President
of the Confederate States, has recently been the guest of a
well-known Southern merchant, resident at Garston, and at
whose mansion a splendid entertainment was given in her
honour a few nights ago.

A. sale of furniture, publicly announced to be held
in Buckingham Palace-road, was stopped by Dr. Aldis,
the medical officer of health for St. George's, Hanover-
square, in consequence of the house being infected with
scarlet fever.

The Law Times says :—The only foundation for
the rumoured retirement of Mr. Justice Willes would
appear to be that his lordship's fifteen years' term expires
during the present year. In our hearing the report has
been contradicted upon good authority.

l\lgrs. Manning and Deschamps have, according to
the Globe, restricted the dogma of. Papal infallibility, which
they will be ready to accept in matters of faith and
morals, and it is hoped that the compromise will be una-
nimously accepted by the Council.

Another Church " Union " is proposed. The
Evangelicals are not altogether satisfied with the Church
Association in its litigious attitude. They have therefore
held a preliminary meeting, attended by a number of the
most notable of the party. It was resolved to form the
Evangelical Church Association. A committee was formed
to carry out the design.

There will, it is feared, be some delay in the prose-
cution of the Voysey case. The Act of Parliament requires
the presence in the Council for the hearing of such an
appeal of either the Archbishops of York or Canterbury
or the Bishop of London. But the two last are excluded
by the same Act, by reason of their share in the prosecu-
tion : and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who alone is
left legally competent, is too ill at present to take his
place at the Council.

A singular case, under tile Masters and Servants
Act, came before the magistrates at Bolton yesterday. It
transpired that 116 pieces of cloth, belonging to Messrs.
Hardcastle and Co., of Firwood, were being bleached in their
establishment, when they received extensive damage by a
nail in one of the company's mangles. £5O damages were
sought by the firm from the mangler, a man named Holt
whose duty, the plaintiffs alleged, was to lift and examine
each piece of cloth that passed through the machine. As
116 pieces of cloth were injured it was declared that he had
been negligent. The bench dismissed the case, as no proof
of contract of service was forthcoming.

The Coroner's inquest on the 27 men killed at the
rlatts Bridge Colliery explosion, near Wigan, was con-
cluded yesterday—Mr. Hyson, the Government inspector,
and Mr. Pickard, the miners' agent, being present. They
were both of opinion that the men were all dead before the
search was given up. The jury returned a verdict in
accordance with the evidence, finding that there was no evi-
dence as to the origin of the explosion, and recommending
that, in future, no shot should ho fired in this colliery with-
out the direction of the fireman. No blame was attached -to
any prson.

The Preston Herald reports some startling in-
rormation respecting a trial which has ended in a man
being sentenced to penal servitude for life. In 1867
a moulder named James Farraday, who lived in tlack-
burn, received that punishment on being convicted of
attempting to murder Agnes Lakeland, who said that un-
der pretence of putting his arm round her neck ho in-
flicted a wound in her throat, which the medical man
stated was very nearly fatal. Since then ono or more un-
successful efforts have been made to obtain a remission or,
commutation of the sentence upon Fat raday. Ultimately
however, an affidavit was made by Agnes Lakeland that the
wounds in her throat were self-inflicted, and that Farraday
was innocent of the crime for which he was suffering,
whereupon he .was released. and has since raturnsd to Blac,-
burn. •