The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-16 00:00:00

THE IRISH LAND BILL IN THE LORDS.

The Post hopes that before the bill has passod through
Committee, the Marquis of Salisbury will be able to
realise its true character, and to divide its provisions into
somewhat less invidious categories than those of " white,
grey, and black." Of those provisions which he charac-
terises as " white" he approves ; and we doubt not that
upon further consideration he will find its " grey " and
" black" provisions neither so grey nor so black as he is
at present disposed to paint them. We are con-
fident that before the Land Bill is returned to the
House of Commons many of the disparaging comments
which were made upon it on Tuesday will either be re-
called or will not be repeated ; and looking both to the
arguments which were advanced by the Opposition in re-
spect of this bill, and to the spirit by which they were
animated, we have the fullest confidence that in a few
weeks, at the outside, it will not 'only be incorporated in
the Statute book, but will carry a message of peace to the
homes of the Irish people.

The remarkable probate suit in which Dr. Goss,
the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, is the plaintiff,
again came before Lord Penzance yesterday, and, after
some further evidence had been taken, the hearing was
once more adjourned.

FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE DEE.—Since Saturday
two more fatal accidents have occurred on the Dee, near
Chester. On Tuesday evening about 7 o'clock a horse-
breaker, named Henry Sidebotham, attempted to cross the
river at shallow water, expecting that the horse would
swim. A few yards from Flintshire both the man and the
horse were drowned. An inquest was held on Wednes-
day, when a verdict of accidental death was given. On
Wednesday, at noon, a party consisting of Mr. and Mrs.
Alsopp, Mrs. Nicholson, her nurse, and children, left
Chester in a pleasure boat to take a trip up the river.
Having gone two miles, they went on shore to take re-
freshments. Mr. and Mrs. Alsopp got into the boat again ;
on Mrs. Nicholson getting in the boat capsized. Mrs.
Nicholson was saved, but Mr. and Mrs. Alsopp were
drowned. The nurse and children did not get into the
boat. The bodies have been recovered. The deceased
lived at Rock Ferry, near LiverpooL
HOERIBLE ACCIDENT.-011 Tuesday evening an
lug:nest was held at Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, on the
bodies of Thomas Baston, carpenter, and Ann Larman,
who were killed upon the Great Northern Railway on
the previous night. The pair were attempting to cross
the line near the station about midnight, but were checked
by the passing of a local luggage train. They stood on
the down line metals to wait until they could pass, and
were caught by a fast Manchester luggage train which
runs through without stopping. The driver's attention
was attracted by some broken glass flying in his face ; the
train was stopped, and one of the lamps was found
smashed and covered with human hair and blood. The
party who went in search found some fragments of female
apparel, then a woman's hand, and further on her head,
ghastly, and completely stvered from the trunk.
A little further on the mangled corpse of the man was
found, with the skull stove in and the feet cut off. The
remains of the woman's body were scattered in all direc-
tions, but were collected as nearly as possible and placed
in the porter's room. The jury returned a verdict of
accidental death, and advised precautions to make the
level crossing less dangerous. The deceased woman lived
in the locality; Baston's relatives reside at Oxford.