The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-29 00:00:00

FLOGGING A GAROTTER.

William Leonard, who was sentenced to seven
years' penal servitude and twenty-five lashes for ga-
rotting a lady, has undergone, the latter part of his
sentence in Newgate. The punishment was rendered,
if possible, still more ignominious by the fact that
Calcraft, the hangman, inflicted it. The method of
the operation is thus described by the reporter.
Leonard, a strong, muscular young fellow, about
20, vas introduced to the executioner, who ran his
artni through holes in a transverse bar, his legs being
encased in a scut of box. Calcraft advanced his lett foot,
and throwing back his shoulders in a quiet, business--
Wm way, brought the nine tails of the cat down
transversely on the culprit's back. The first blow
produced a low,° cry, the second induced a
supplication that the executioner would hit be-
tween the shoulders, and not lower down.
This request was unnoticed, and Leonard next
slArieked out, " Oh, Lord, have mercy upon me. It is
burning me. It is cutting me iu two. Oh, have
mercy, and I'll pray for you. Oh, it is killing me."
The continuation of the process may be " better
imagined than described." The beneficent act would
have been completed by the presence of a few of the
ruffianly class to which Leonard belongs, who might
have been induced to pause before resuming their
cowardly avocation.

A TELEGRAPHIC FLEET.

In a few days one of the largest and best
equipped telegraph expedition that ever left
these shores will start for the West Indies.
The whole squadron will comprise no fewer
than seven large vessels carrying between
them more than 4,200 miles of submarine cable.
These cables represent the united labours of three
companies which have been working together, and a
capital of L 1,150,000. The admirable working
of the Cuba Cable, as it is called, messages
having actually been sent from the London Stock
Exchange to Havana, and answers received
in three hours? has naturally led the
other West Indian Islands to seek similar
facilities for trade. The lines now to be laid
will connect the islands with North America, and
thence with Europe, while in the south communica-
tion will be afforded to the east and west coasts of
South America. In fact by these lines all South
America and the West Indies will be as easy Of
access for messages from Europe and India as New
York and Boston are now.

Mn. J. N. LOCKYEIt ON tc THE SUN."

Mr. J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., has delivered
the second of his four lectures at the Royal
Institution, on "The Sun." Nearly the whole of the
lecture was devoted to the historical phase of the
subject. Mr. Lockyer explained that although the
spots on the sun looked dark in comparison with the
brilliancy of the surrounding photosphere, they
were in reality brighter than the full moon
appeared to be to the naked eye. The
spots, he said, gave a clue to the time
of the rotation of the sun upon its axis, for they
always made their appearance on the same side of
the disc, and travelled across the half of it, visible
from the earth, in about fourteen days, taking
twenty-eight or twenty-
nine days to make a com-
plete revolution. With regard to the "Corona," which
the astronomers purpose to study during the coming
solar eclipse, the lecturer seemed inclined to believe
that rather than being a portion of the sun, which
was the prevailing opinion, it was for the most part
an optical effect produced by the atmosphere of the
earth.