The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-19 00:00:00

" THE DAY'S DOINGS."

At the Mansion House, yesterday, Mr. Ribton, bar-
rister, appeared before the Lord Mayor on behalf of the
proprietors and publishers of an illustrated journal, called
The Day's Doings, to complain of proceedings that had
been taken in reference to the journal in question, and he
stated that they had suffered considerably in consequence
of the remarks that had been made by his lordship, two
publishers having countermanded orders which they had
given of 600 and 500 copies per week. The learned
counsel stated that the picture which had been
complained of was a representation of a picture that
had been exhibited in the Paris Exhibition in 1867,
of which he produced photographs, and he contended that
there was no more indecency about it than about an en-
graving in another illustrated journal—the statues in the
Crystal Palace, or a representation of Leda and the Swan,
which could be seen in that court. The Lord Mayor,
however, adhered to his opinion, that he could not allow
the paper to be sold in the streets, and stated that it was
now too late to appeaL If, however, a similar charge was
brought before him, he would convict, and then grant a
case for appeal.

"ENGLAND'S DIFFICULTY" AND OUR GER-
MAN AND IRISH POLITICAL ELEMENTS.

" England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity." This
is the predominating idea among all Irishmen the wide
world over. Hence, with a unanimity in this Franco-
Prussian war which would otherwise be inexplicable, we
find the Irish element in every quarter of the globe, as,
by a sort of spontaneous combustion, firing up for France.
Irishmen everywhere are seized with some idea that the
present difficulty of England in reference to the Conti-
nental war will almost certainly bring about " Ireland's
opportunity." The imposing popular demonstrations
which have already taken place in Dublin and other
cities in Ireland in behalf of France have been the
expression of the universal sympathy of the Irish race in
America. The French sympathy demonstration of the
20th ult. in Dublin was a very remarkable affair. There
was no public notice given of it ; it was a public surprise
party, and yet there was a gathering of many thousands
of men and some thirty bands of music in the procession
as it settled round the residence of the French Consul.
There was a small riot, too, when the local police pro-
ceeded to take away from the procession a new flag blend-
ing the national colours of Ireland and France. Doubt-
less, too, with any encouragement from the leaders of
this sympathy meeting, serious consequences to life and
property would have followed ; but as it appears after the
general gathering was scattered by the police, some hun-
dreds of the populace rallied at Beresford•place, -where
they were addressed by Mr. P. J. Smithe, and advised to
" retire in peace," and that " his exhortation, so soothing
to their feelings, was quickly obeyed." He had spoken their
sentiments in favour of France and Ireland—for "France,
the protector of the oppressed, and Ireland, the Poland of
the West." He had said that "we remember '9B, when the
cry in Wexford was, 'Kill a Hessian for yourself r
and that Ireland " repudiates the foul language of the En-
glish press and that Ireland is a distinct nation ;" and such
was the soothing exhortation which dispersed this rem-
nant of the meeting without further proceedings of vio-
lence. Other detachments, especially the bands, suffered
considerably from their collisions with the police ; but
still this populous outpouring in Dublin, as an Irish mani-
festation, is suggestive of nothing less than a
general rebellion in Ireland the moment England
becomes actively involved in the difficulty of Prussia with
France. As in a conflict between the Germanic and
Celtic races, the natural position of Ireland and Irish-
men in this war is on the side of France ; as a conflict be-
tween the Saxon oppresser and the Celtic ally of Ireland,
this war naturally draws Ireland to the cause of France ;
and as between Catholic France and Protestant Prussia
the Irish Catholic would hold himself a traitor to his
faith to side with the German. Yet all other considera-
tions with the overwhelming national party of Irishmen,
in Ireland and out of Ireland, are merged in the predomi-
nant idea of seizing any and every occasion which looks
to Ireland's liberation. As against England, therefore,
the universal Irish sentiment of the United States in this
wards in favour of France, whatever the disposition of
Rome and of the Pope by Napoleon. The political
influence, then, of our Irish Americans, considcrinF their
power in the democratic party, will, most likely, if this
European war goes on even a month or two longer
determine the democratic party itself to speak in favour
of France. Some of its most active newspaper organs
have already taken this side in the contest, and,doubtless,
in view of holding intact the important Irish element of the
party. But what of the Germans and the German
democrats? This question suggests a serious democratic
difficulty; for, to go no further, the German democrats of
this city probably hold the balance of power, in city and
State, as between the democratic and republican parties.
Supposing, then, that England is drawn into this Con-
tinental war, will not the immediate effect here be such a
pressure from the Irish democrats as to compel the
democratic party to speak out for France, and against the
administration as sympathizing with Prussia and England ?
We think that such may be the effect of "England's
difficulty " and " Ireland's opportunity." What, then ?
Why then our German domocrats, en masse, will range
themselves on the side of the republican party and the
administration. Even now there are signs which cannot
be mistaken of this political separation between our Irish
and German born citizens ; and with Sigel as the Repub-
lican candidate for Governor this fall, and as the repre-
sentative of " Fatherland" against the Bonapartes, who
can doubt what will be the vote of every German voter in
the State? Every man of them will vote for Sigel. This
thing may come to pass. General Grant's administration
stands already accused of deliberately and for political
effect sympathising with Prussia and the Germans. The
Republican party leans to the side of Prussia as plainly
as we see the democracy inclining to France. The
Republicans have much to hold and something to gain
from their sympathy, while the democrats from theirs
may lose the city and State of New York in the coming
fall election. The question hangs, perhaps, upon England.
Should she be drawn into this Franco-Prussian war—as
from present appearances she will be—our democratic
party, by the powerful Irish element thereof, will be
drawn into a manifesto for France, while England, con-
senting to our ultimatum on those Alabama claims, and
otherwise taking care to cultivate peace and good will
with our Government, will hardly shake the republican
party as the friends of Prussia and the Germans. This
view of the subject we commend to the consideration of
such of our democratic organs as are disposed to be a little
too noisy as advocates of the cause of France; for in this
contest the Germans everywhere, like the Irish, are a
unit.—New York Herald,

Sir J. G. Tollemache Sinclair, Bart., M.P., has
announced his intention of giving a piece of ground for a
park to the people of Thurso.
THE, RUSSIAN EMBASSY.—The announcement that
Baron Brumiow was about to leave for Paris to enter
upon his diplomatic duties is premature. His Excellency
has no intention of leaving Chesham-house for the present.
HEARING OF THE NORWICH ELECTION PETITION.
—The hearing of the Norwich election petition has just
been appointed by Mr. Justice Byles to take place on
Tuesday, the 13th September.
THE BRECON ELECTION PETITION.—The recog-
nisances in this petition have been filed, and the 21st inst.
is the day for taking exceptions to their validity. Mr.
Justice Mellor will try the case, but the trial is not ex-
pected to take place before October.
A CAUTION TO RECEIVERS OF STOLEN GOODS.—
At the Central Criminal Court, Sampson Isaacs, a White-
chapel tailor, and Thomas Musgrove, a carman, were con-
victed on Thursday of stealing and receiving a quantity of
cloth, the property of a West End tradesman. It was
shewn that for many years they had induced young men
to rob their employers ; and Baron Martin, in passing
sentence, said they had been guilty of as gross a crime as
could be committed in the city of London. Tfiey must be
kept in penal servitude for ten years each.
THE NEW LAW RELATING TO ABSCONDING
DEBTORS.—The new act to facilitate the arrest of abscond-
ing debtors has been printed. The provisions of the
Bankruptcy Act (1869) have been extended. The court
may now cause a debtor to be arrested after a debtor's
summons, if it appears that there is reason to believe that
he is about to go abroad with the view of avoiding pay-
ment of the debt for which the summons was granted, or
of avoiding the service of a petition inbankruptcy,of avoid-
ing appearing to such petition, or of avoiding examination
in respect of his affairs, or otherwise avoiding, delaying, or
embarrassing proceedings in bankruptcy. He can apply
to dismiss the summons, or to pay up security, and
to be discharged out of custody. The following provision
is comprehensive :—" No arrest shall be valid or pro-
tected under this Act unless the debtor, before or at the
time of his arrest, shall be served with the debtor's sum-
mons." The Act has immediate operation.
A BATTLE WITH BURGLARS.—At the Liverpool
Assizes on Wednesday, two notorious burglars, Charles
Smith and William Sanderson, who had been many
times previously convicted, were each sentenced to
ten years' penal servitude for a burglary at the
house of Mr. Travis, a merchant, residing in Lower
Breck-road, Liverpool. One of the county constabu-
lary, Salthouse, who was passing in plain clothes,
caught the prisoners in Mr. Travis's cellar, and had a
desperate encounter with them, during which they stabbed
him several times, and attempted to strangle him. They
then ran off, but Salthouse gave chase, and seizing hold
of Smith, after another fierce battle succeeded, with the
assistance of another officer who came up, in taking him
into custody. Sanderson was subsequently captured by
a gentleman living near, who had been aroused by the
fracas, and who brought Sanderson to bay with a loaded
gun.

PRICE 1 C,
STAMPED

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIA.GE.-A
COURTSHIP OF "TEN YEARS."

At Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion-square yesterday an action i
the Common Pleas for breach of promise of marriage wa
heard before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell and a jury, to
assess the amount of compensation to be awarded. The
defendant bas allowed judgment to go by default. The
damages were laid at £2oo.—Mr. Macrae Moir was counsel
for the plaintiff, Sarah Bray, a housekeeper in a family
at Hastings; and Mr. George Chapman appeared
for the defendant, John ( arter, a gentlemen's coach-
man. -The plaintiff is now 37, and hai been twenty years in
service, afid had saved some money. In the year 1858
both were in service in Sussex. In the next year they
were engaged, and for more than ten years they had cor-
responded. There were upwards of 200 letters from the
defendant, some of which were read. The most of them
began with the expression, "My dear Sarah." They
were, as the learned Under-Sheriff said, "rather prosy."
In 1869 the plaintiff came up to London to Queen's Gate,
where the defendant had been in service since 1862,
and found two addresses of young women.
She wrote to him, and the result was the
action, as she intended to see herself righted.
The plaintiff was the only witness. She came
up from Hastings and proved the statement made. Her
own letter, after she bad discovered the addresses of the
young women, was read, and appeared to be sensibly
written. No evidence was called on the part of the de-
fendant. He had, it appeared, 255. a week, and £l9 a
year for clothes. He was still unmarried as far as she
believed. Mr. M. Moir asked for substantial damages
after a courts hip of more than ten year. A man was not
to trifle with the feelings of a woman and then discard her.—
Mr. Grove Chapman addressed the court, and ridiculed
the idea of housekeeper bringing an action for breach
of promise of marriage against a coachman. They might
hear of a crossing-sweeper doing the same thing. (Laughter).
—The learned Sheriff explained to the jury that a man,
whether rich or poor, was not to break his promise of
marriage. Both were in humble circumstances—one a
cook and the other a coachman—and the only question
was one of damages. In such a case reasonable damages
only were to be expected.—The jury assessed the damages
at £BO.

THE EXTRAORDINARY CONSPIRACY CASE.
At Central Criminal Courlyesterday, before Mr. Baron
Martin, Henry Banks (34), accountant, and Julius Lawrence
(39), solicitor, who were convicted of conspiracy on
Wednesday, and sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour
were further indicted, together with Bartholomew
Silvester Sainsbury (58), auctioneer and house
agent, for conspiring to obtain money by fraud
from the Society for the Relief of Poor Debtors ; and
Sainsbury was further charged with committing wilful
and corrupt perjury in certain depositions in the Court
of Bankruptcy, and with conspiring with the other
prisoners to commit the said offence. The conspiracy was
similar to that proved on Wednesday, Sainsbury having
signed consent to judgment in the Lord Mayor's Court,
and undergone a " friendly arrest " in order to pass
through the Bankruptcy Court by means of fictitious
descriptions of debts and creditors. On his release, he
endeavoured to obtain assistance from the society, stating
that his detaining creditor's name was Woods, and that
the process had issued from the Court of Queen's Bench.
He denied that Banks was his detaining creditor, and
that judgment was signed in the Mayor's Court. The
result was that the society refused to give the money,
and the present proceedings were instituted. Nothing
transpired in the course of the case to implicate
Lawrence : and his lordship intimated, at the close of
the case for the prosecution, that there was no
evidence to shew Bank's claim to be other than genuine.
There was no evidence except upon the first count, that
of attempting to obtain money from the society under false
pretences. For the defence Woods was called, and said-
he authorised Banks to recover a debt from Sainsbury.
His lordship having summed up, the jury returned a ver-
dict of guilty against Sainsbury, and, by his lordship's
direction, they acquitted Banks and Lawrence.
In passing sentence, Mr. Baron Martin said it
was perfectly clear that the bankruptcy pro-
ceedings had been a fraud from beginning to end. The
bankruptcy law had been applied to a case never
ntended by the Legislature, and had been abused
in a manner which was a disgrace to the adminis-
tration of justice in this country. At the same time,
the prisoners' case differed from that of the men
who had systematically carried on the proceedings
for cheating the creditors and the society. He should
therefore make some distinction in the sentence, and thus
give effect to a rec Immendation which had been made by
the officers of the society. The prisoner would be impri-
soned for three months.

THE WAR. —THE FRENCH BLOCKADE.—We
learn from Great Grimsby that in consequence of the war
the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railwayshas
discontinued for the present its line of steamers to Ham-
burg.

Au exhibition of works of art and industry was
formally opened on Wednesday at Great Horton, Brad-
ford, by Lord Frederick Cavendish, M.P. The Mayor of
Bradford, Bishop Ryan, Mr. J. Behrens, and other
gentlemen took part in the ceremony.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Christian are still at Malvern, occupying one part of the
Foley Arms HoteL On Wednesday afternoon, their
Royal Highnesses drove down to Madresfield Court, to
Lord Beauchamp's archery meeting.

His Royal Highness Prince Leopold and their
Royal Highnesses Princess Victoria and Princess Maud
of Wales met the Royal train on Wednesday evening at
Reading, and accompanied her Majesty to Balmoral.
There was a large crowd at the station, from whom the
Royal party received a loyal demonstration.

As a proof of the alarm now generally felt through-
out France, we may mention that in many cases the
parents of English children at French schools have
received circulars from the proprietors of those establish-
ments stating that they can no longer hold themselves
responsible for the children's safety, and advising their
immediate return home.—Globe.

Mr. Thomas Cook, the tourist agent, says, in reply
to a grumbler, that he has gone through Switzerland since
the 20th of July, and so far from prices being doubled in
consequence of the war, he only found one hotel in his
correspondence where the charges had been at all in.
creased, and that was at a point of the greatest pressure,
where prices of provisions had been greatly augmented.
There a franc was added to the dinner charge, and other
prices slightly increased.

We who live in the metropolis are very gratified
to learn that Mr. Ayrton, First Commissioner of Works,
is at present on an official visit to Edinburgh, that on
Tuesday he inspected Holyrood Palace, the Museum of
Science and Art, the Parliament House, and that he also
visited Mr. Steel's studio, for the purpose of seeing the
progress of the Scottish Memorial to the Prince Consort.
There is no reason to believe but that sight-seeing of this
kind will lead to the aesthetic improvement that seems so
much wanted in the gentleman who has charge of our
ornamental parks and buildings.—Echo.

THE HORSE SHOW AT DIIBLIN.—In the opinion
of the most competent judges, the display in the yards of
Leinster House is fully equal to that at Islington, whether
as regards the number or the quality of the horses. The
quality of the horses, indeed, is this year exceptionally
good. The great work of Tuesday was the high jump
over timber. The performance of both horses and horse-
manship was of a high degree of excellence ; in fact it was
all that could be desired. The prizes were awarded after
a most exciting contest, and every one acquiesced in the
ustice of the award.—Globe.

• Sin ROBERT COLLIER.—A London correspondent
of the Manchester Courier writes :—What a ridiculous
figure Sir Robert Collier has made of himself,
first accepting, then resigning, the Recordership
of Bristol in deference to the ignorant complaints
of a handful of obscure constituents. I have seen it
remarked that the salary of £650 a year is larger than
Sir Robert has drawn for a long time from his private
practice. That is perfectly true, but it would be unfair
to attribute his acceptance of the office, which has been
not unfrequently assumed by former Liberal law officers
to pecuniary inducements. Ele has ample private means
of his own, at least Lady Collier has, and is under no such
temptation. It is not generally known, perhaps, that Sir
Robert is a most accomplished amateur artist.

THE BLOCKADE OF GERMAN PORTS.—A supple-
ment to the London Gazette, published last evening,
notifies that Earl Granville has received from Her
Majesty's ambassador in Paris particulars with reference
to the blockade of German ports in the North Sea. The
commander-in-chief of the French fleet has issued the
following declaration : " That from the fifteenth day
of August, 1870, the coast of Prussia and the North
German Confederation, extending from the Island of
Baltrum to the north of the Eider, with its ports, rivers,
havens, roads, and creeks, is kept in a state of effective
blockade by the naval forces under our command, and
that friendly or neutral vessels will be allowed a delay of
ten days to complete their lading and to quitthe blockaded
ports. '

SINGULAR CASE.— k very singular case has been
tried at the Guildford Assizes. A young woman named
Bibby sued a widow named Sarah Parkes, and the two co-
executors of the late Mr. Parkes's estate, for £1,150. The
sum consisted of two cheques and a promissory note
drawn by the late Mr. Parkes in her favour. It appeared
that Mr. Parkes had kept two establishments, in one of
which his wife and daughters lived and in the other the
plaintiff, who passed as his wife under the name of Mrs.
Bibby. The plaintiff knew of the real wife's exist-
ence, but Mrs. Parkes had no suspicion of the
existence of her rival, and did not discover it until after
her husband's death. The note and cheques were said to
have been given as provision for Mrs. Bibby's three chil-
dren. The facts stated by the plaintiff were not disputed
by the defendants, who, however, objected to pay the
money under the circumstances. Chief Justice Bovill
said the best course would be to take a verdict for the
plaintiff, and then the court above could decide if he was
entitled to recover. This course was agreed to.

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V.AUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.-
Lessees—Messrg. H. J. Montague, D. James, and T.
Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 7 30, CUPBOARD LOVE, by F.
Hay. After which, at 8, a new and original Comedy, in
Three Acts, entitled TWO ROSES, by James Albery. To
conclude with the successful Burlesque, DON CARL( iS ; or,
The Infante in Arms. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, H.
Irving, G. Honey, W. H. Stephens, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames
Welly Power, Amy Fawsitt, T. Lavis, and A. Newton.

Doors will be open at 7. Overture at 7.30.
N.B.—Mr. David James will shortly appear in a new farce,
entitled " Chiselling."

EVENING EDITION.