The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-16 00:00:00

THE METROPOLITAN AND PROINCIAI'
PRESS.

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The lieb'nontist Considers that a marked change is passing
over the position of the metropolitan press, and that
it is losing influence; vigour, and circulation. Two pape3'
the Ste Anti the morning Pall Mall Gazette have died,
withinsix
morningt e year,papers te da fourre ief eft,
ittion
of
fhe
whichl s fewth
e _A years.dv 0. Only
ns:
and the Post, are supported by class connectiocar
No European capital has so few, daily.
naffs, and their total circulation is proltrabel—Y
not equal to half that of the Paris or -D4.4
York press. There is a lack of energy about tn.,
proprietors. Only two jouri;als have anything like a gri;
foreign staff ; only one seems t,..`
any kind ;grid the telegraph wire is almost unused. 1°
York
mass of information Which a
Herald, for ekample, Will pubis&
have a provincial sto1i,„(.);
jour,:al like the New ,
fres].
morning—toe.
news from all parts of the world, whole columns of
grams by cable letters front all the cities c-f theUnl ,G
-
seems wonderful td men who study the j.„-ndon
is ne ,
well
papersand note how they are filled. Nothing IX, a dings
reported in them except Parliamentary procb• sort
which are well reported because it is traditional to h
them well, and members complain; we know net
what justice, that even those grow` -Worse and War°6'
Of municipal news there is next to nothing—of count/
news nothing at all unconnected with imperial paties '
T;
In the whole London Press there is not so nig
as a letter from Scotland, while Manchester might be
almost on the verge of civil war without London knowing
that anything had occurred in Manchester. Time No'
when the London papers were the only ones which e%°t"
cised any political power. Men repeated the Times
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their opinion, and to quote the ideas of a provino4:
paper seemed an absurdity. Now it is doubt"
ful whether provincial papers do not reflect
opinion more accurately than Loruion pap de_
The political importance of London itself has
dined, and no longer sways the country. rowertr:;
passed to an electorate which does not take its -vjew "`itg
London society, or even from London,—which prei.".°
own views, its owri politics, and, to a growing e
tent, its own men. There is even a dislocatiolf
of ideas beten Lonon and he rovince°
so great that anwe articled , reflecting vetry accurately
the ideas of the club world, is criticised in :Manchester or
Birmingham because it reflects them, as an expression to
be scrutinised with something of hostility, not accepted n 6
a guide. At the same times while their opinions hale
thus lost weight, the London journals have lost thl
ancient monopoly of news. The' telegraph has equalise
the position of almost all localities. Birrningl33l33,,,
knows everything of importance as soon
Belgravia, and Edinburgh reads the gossip of the lobbies
at the moment when it is being read in Lonon,
Indeed, Birmingham is apt to hear the news first of the
two. There are difficulties, too, in the nature of the trade,
A successful newspaper is extremely profitable, but the
capital requited is considerable, and the adventure is 00°
that can hardly be attempted by an association. Cougg
tition becomes in Consequence extremely difficult,
are inclined to.believe that, apart from accident, the fay
of the London Press and the rise of the provincial prey
will continue until we see something like the stat 4
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things in America, where each journal, however spode
finds geographical limits to its circulation, and the
journals of the greatest city have no universal influell
and only a nominal precedence in the newspaper worl t
a change which in England will be a very gre,3o
one indeed will make provincial opinion t'-`
opinion of the great trading cities—much more inlan;
r-c
tial than t hat somewhat oveautious and feeble, b
acute set of ideas usually described as "London (wird°.
There is crudity very often in the opinion of the Pr°
vinces, but it is masculine and broad, which opinion a"
present in London certainly is not.

A TALE FRO\I CHILL
A horrible story of brigandage reaches us from Chill'
Don Gomez y Lagoberon, a famous bandit captain whie'
from his fastnesses in the Sierra Brofunda, has long c 1.5,
fled the Chilian authorities, was recently pursued,
the brigands under his command, by a body of trooPsi
which succeeded in cutting him off from his followers, an
driving him to take refuge in a cavern situated near the
summit of one of tile lofty mountains constituting tn
above-named range. In this cavern he had ccink
cealed a .female captive, whose husband he hp':
robbed and slain, and whom he • lad for some 0117,
compelled to live with him as his mistress. • The soldie?.
made several attempts to reach the entrance to th;
cavern, to which there was only one means of aocess--/
mere mountain goat track ; but Lagoberon, a man
gigantic stature and Herulean strength, rolled heavy roos-'
down upon them, and succeeded in beating them ott, aft°
several men had been severely injured. The officer in
command, unwilling to sacrifice his troops uselessly, re-
solved to starve the bandit out, and " sate down" before tIl e
place. After two days' blockade, however, the soldiersgre, ,
weary of so tedious snd humiliating an expedient, so they
improvised an escalade of the robber-chieftian's strong
hold, and succeeded in capturing him. To their holly"
they found that Lagoberon had cut off one of his unforW
nate companion's breasts, and eaten it. The poor woman
was discovered in a dying state, having sustained °'
fearful loss of blood ; and she expired shortly after
her rescue from the clutches of her barbarc4l'
paramour. The butcher was conveyed to Taler,,
where he was promptly tried and condemned • t
death by the garotte. In South America, execution
follows sentence with startling rapidity ; and Gomez W
straightway 'conducted to the scaffold, guarded by a stroO,
escort of mounted gendarmes. While the execution°,
was engaged in adjusting his toilette de snort, the convio
drew a whistle from his pocket, and blew a whistle from
his pocket, and blew it sharply ; whereupon about sixty
of his men, who had introduced themselves amongst the
crowd surrounding the scaffold, rushed upon the gendarmes,
and massacred them ere they could offer any resistance',
They freed Lagoberon, and completed their enterpr''
in a manner not devoid' of a certain ghastly humour, by
garotting the executioner; after which they escape"
almost unscathed, to the mountains. There they
are probably still at liberty, practising their pre-
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fession to the terror of the whole country round.
should be observed that to facilitate their flight they
" annexed" the horses of the fallen gendarmes ;
and that a good many of them seized women
the throng gathered upon the place of execution, car-
rying them away, flung across their saddle-boWs•
The social condition of Chili as revealed by this narrative
is one of almost hopeless degradation, only to be equalle
by that of Mexico, Greece, and certain districts of Centre',
Africa, where murder, lust, and rapine are the rules
life. Civilisation penetrates but slowly into these savage
countries, of whose existence we are scarcely l ever re:
minded save by some appalling and revolting incidea
like the Marathon massacre, or the cannibalism of Del'
Gomez y Lagoberon.—Daily Telegraph.

The Broad Arrow believes it is quite true that Sir
William Mansfield has been offered the command in Ire"
land, but it is not so certain that he has accepted it.
The National Rifle Association are busy prepari”,4
for the annual camp-out at Wimbledon. The camp wld
be ready to receive occupants on the Bth of July, ail
the shooting will commence on the 11th of that month.
HYDROPHOBIA.—A writer in the Leipsic Journal
gives the following as a cure for hydrophobia :—" Take
immediately, warm vinegar, wash the wound clean
therewith, and then dry it ; afterwards pour upon th,e
sore a few drops of muriatic acid, because mineral
destroy the poison of the saliva, and the evil effects of the
latter is neutralised."
The appointment of Prince Dittrichstein-Alensdortf
(not Dietrichstein-Mensdorff as given by Reuter's tele-
grams) in the room of Lieutenant Field-Marshal Bar.°ll.
Koller, as Governor of Bohemia, is hardly likely to ,g 3"
satisfaction in that country, or to foster a better under'
standing between Vienna and Prague. Prince Dittricii"
stein-Mensdorff has the reputation of being a strong Co%
servative, and thoroughly German in his views.—Pal
Mall Gazette.
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BIRTHS.
On•pie 13th inst., at Loughborough-park, Brixton, the Wife

of Frederick iloble of a son. -
On the 10th, at 64, Regent's Park-road, Mrs. Henry Brooks,
of a daughter.

_MARRIAGES.
On the I.th inst ,at Cheam, Thomas Frith, eldest son of
Thomas Millward, Esq., of Malden, Surrey, to Mary 14-13°'
eldest daughter of Mr. William Thorns, of Cheam, Stool'
On the 12th inst , at Folkestone, Alfred Goodman, Esq., of
Leeds, to Ellen, youngest daughter of the late Samtlo
Gatliff, Esq, of the same place.