The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-21 00:00:00

DEATH FROM FIRE.

AQUATICS AT OXFORD,
The second of the series of the Oxford University
summer eight-oar races took place last evening, when St.
John's gained second place by bumping Brasenose near
home. Pembroke caught Merton. Magdalen bumped
St. Edmund's Hall, and New College bumped OrieL

OUTRAGE WITH VITRIOL.
At the South Shields Police-court, yesterday, a man
named John Wilson was committed for trial at the
ensuing assizes for throwing vitriol on a woman.

The woman Jane Cameron, charged with dangerously
wounding William Webster, was brought up again at the
South Shields Police-court yesterday. Webster, in his
deposition in Newcastle infirmary, said he alone was to
blame. The prisoner attacking him in fun, Cameron was
discharged, the magistrates declaring there was' not suffi-
cient evidence to justify her committal for trial.

SUPPRESSION OF LIST BETTING BY
GOVERNMENT.

The Government have determined to abolish the whole
of the list betting at Epsom, and the Clerk of the Course
and Messrs. Barnard and Langlands have already receiv, d
notice not to let any part of the ground they hire from Mr.
Briscow, the lord of the manor, for list betting. There
will also be an attempt to put down the bag-men. •

THE MONEY MARKET

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OMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Much quietness has been noticed in all departments of the
Stock Exchange to-day. For both railway and foreign
bonds the demand has been to a very moderate extent, and
no important movement has been noticed. Consols have
beim tolerably tirm nt 94} to 941 for delivery, and 94 3s 6d
to 94 5s 6d for June account; Reduced and New Three per
Cents., 924 to 924; Exchequer Bills, par to 5s ptem ; Bank
Stock has marked 236.
The market for English Railway Stock has been dc'void
of any feature of importance, but the tendency has been
favourable. G eat Northern A has risen 1; North Eastern,,,
; whilst Groat Western, Lancashire, and Yorkshire,..il.
London, and North Western and South Eastern have each
improved
The discount market has been fairly supplied with capital.
The demand for accommodation has not been active, auc2.
three months' paper has been negotiated at 2i to 3 per cent.
It is stated that a scheme is in progress for the re-organi-
sation of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway. It is
proposed to obtain a forecloser and afterwards transfer the
railway, on behalf of all creditors, to General M'Clellan, Mr
Duncan, Mr Duncan, of Dunean, Sherman, and Co., of Now
York; and the Hon. A. G. Thurman, United States Senator
from Ohio.

A now Maritime Assurance Company, with a capital of
2,000,000 f. (.£80,000), in shares of 5,000 f. each, has boon
formed at Paris. Several influential bankers have taken,
part in the establishment of it.

Paris advicos state thew is a vague talk of a loan for fho
Danubian Principalities, of another for the City of St.
Petersburg, of a third for the Meridional Railways of Italy,
and of some others.

JUNIOR CONSERVATIVE CLUB,--A crowded meet.
ing of the members and candidates for membership of this
club was held yesterday afternoon, at. the office of the Me •
tropolitan Conservative Association, 40, Parliament-street.
There were present Alexander -Rivington, Esq. (in the
chair), Captain J. Russell Clipperton, Messrs, T. Agg-
Gardner Robert Kell, S. R. Townshend Mayer (late hoe,
see.), o:Graham Carttar, J. Moyr Smith, A. P. Hobson,
H. B. Harrington, J. B. Byers, Horatio Brandon, H. J.
(hWithers, Wollaston P. Pym, C. A. White, J, Murray Dale
on. sec.), &c. Mr. Dale gave a long explanation of the pro-
ceedinps of the committee with the " National Union,"
and concluded by stating it was supposed to be impossible to
establish a first-class club on the low rate of subscription to
the present, and that consequently the "National Union"
contemplated establishiug a club under a new name and
with a higher • ate of subscription. Mr A. P. Hobson moved,
*and Mr Pym seconded, " That the Junior Conservative Club
be dissolved and all subscriptions ke returned forthwith.'
Both gentlemen spoke at length, and said that it was
derogatory to the party for the committee any longer to
retain the money subscribed. Mr Graham CArttar moved,
and Mr Brandon seconded, by way of amendment, " That
immediate steps be taken to open the Junior Conserva-
tive Club, but that all persons wishing to withdraw
should receive back their subscriptions on application to the
bankers." Mr. Carttar referred t the delay as unaccount-
able, and tali that with such a nucleus as existed a good club
might be formed with the trouble, Messrs. Kell, Agg-
GardneT, Mayer, Clipperton, and others, addressed iho
meeting, and on a show of 'bands the amendrneu, was
carried by a tnaisrity of 18. Several gentlemen did not
vote. The present committee then tenaered their resigna-
tions, and Mr. Dale was authorised to forma now committee.
With a vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting was ad-
journed until the 17th of June, when it was hoped Mr.
Dale would be able to report that a sufficient number of
members
not takenhad been oljtaitked, that premises were in view,
if ,

Yesterday evening Miss Caroline Wills, daughter of
Mr. J. 'Wills, of Ealing, died from the effects of
burns received in saving the life of a little girl
while at a wedding party. Miss Wills attended
a wedding at Putney on the Ist of April, and
while the festivities were going on a little girl went too
near to the fire, and her clothes ignited. Miss Wills suc-
ceeded in extinguishing the flames, but in so doing her own
diess caught fire, and she• was so severely burnt that
her life was despaired of. Medical assistance being ren-
dered she, however, so far revived as to be able to bear
the journey home, surviving her injuries until yesterday.

THE WEEKLY PRESS.
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE GREEK GOVERNMENT.

The Saturday Review thinks even Sir Roundell Palmer's
authority will fail to persuade Parliament or the country
that the Greek Government ought to be held formally
responsible for the murder of English subjects, or even of
a member of the Legation. " Historicus," who lately
quoted a text-book to prove that ambassadors are excep-
tionally sacred, was probably right in his opinion that the
person of Mr. Herbert was as inviolable as that of Mr.
.Erskine • but the safety of an ambassador or of a king
can only be secured by the ordinary law which provides
equally for the protection of the humblest alien sojourner.
Two or three years ago the Emperor of Russia, during a
vist to Paris, narrowly escaped assassination at the hands
of a Pole; and a French jury returned a verdict which
exempted the criminal from capital punishment. No
attempt was ever made to hold the French Government
responsible for the insufficiency of the precautions
which had probably been taken for the security of
the Emperor ; nor would ordinary negligence have fur-
nished a ground for diplomatic reclamation, unless it ap-
peared that it was exceptionally displayed in the sse of
the Imperial guest. The robbery which lately occurred
at the house of the American Minister in London, though
it caused general regret, was never supposed to raise an
international question. If the burglar had aggravated his
crime by the murder of any member of the Legation, in-
vestigation and punishment would still have belonged to
the ordinary tribunals. To make a case against the Greek
Government it would be necessary to prove either active
complicity, or refusal to allow to English subjects and to
the Secretary of the English Legation whatever protection
is afforded to the Greeks themselves ; yet it is notorious
that Greek robbers select their victims without regard to
race or language, except indeed that they suppose
foreigners, and particularly Englishmen, to be enormously
rich. Unless national honour imperatively requires formal
satisfaction it is not altogether desirable to provide the
Greeks with a new excuse for neglecting their duties.
The attempt to distinguish the case of Mr. Herbert from
that of his companions would not even have the advan-
tage of expressing English feeling. The Government of
Italy, with exactly the same cause of complaint, will not
be disposed to press hardly upon Greece. The possibility
that a foreign diplomatist might be seized by robbers in
Calabria or Sicily would alone be sufficient to restrain the
zeal of Italian Statesmen. It is said that some English
travellers whe were a few years since seized by robbers
and held to ransom were mistaken for the Prince of Wales
and his party. The precedent of holding the Govern-
ment responsible for private crime would be dangerous to
a State which, notwithstanding vigorous and partially
successful efforts, has not suppressed the trade of open
robbery. The whole matter may be safely entrusted to
the prudende of Lord Clarendon.