The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-05 00:00:00

TILE CITY OF BOSTON.

The gloomy forebodings that hang over the non-
, arrival at Liverpool of the Inman steamship City of
Boston become more and more verified as day after
• day passes, and the vessel fails to make her appear-
ance. Offers of sixty guineas premium of illsur-
i.ance on the ship and cargo can with
difficulty find a response on the part of the
underwriters. The City of Boston sailed from Mali-
' fax on the 28th of January, and has, consequently,
been thirty-five days out. She is an Al ship, built
of iron, with a draught of twenty-two feet of water.
Amongst numerous passengers, it is said that she is
bringing over the staff officers And their families of
the Royal Artillery, ordered home from Canada on
. account of the army reductions. her cargo was
varied, and of great value. There is yet a hope
which is clung to. by the underwriters and the
friends of those on board, that the vessel,
having her steam power disabled by the
fearful weather reported lately in the Atlantic,
been driven southward, and is attempt-
make her way slowly to some port under sail.
iorchant captains at Liverpool are sanguine of
peing the case, and believe that the noble vmel
'et return in safety.

A NEW LIFE BELT.

y improvement on our present appliances for
-?; life from drowning must be welcomed in the
;e of a method in all respects satisfactory. Cork
Iry and inconvenient; bladders of all sorts are
to collapse, or to cause dangerous accidents by
lg. A new form of lifebelt has been invented
ant do G. Liancourt, a French gentleman who
ag been engaged in various exertions for some

method of preserving life from shipwroclz
'owning. The beltcontainsquuditienwhich bulfair
der it superior to any of the old patterns. J t
uovant that when one is floating by it in fret!'
it is not practicable to force the body under
oy any ettort. its buoyancy would, of course
:eh greater in the sea, and one of its greatest
tages is that it cannot be otherwise than close-
'to the body. When punctured by munerow.
les there in not the slightest facility for the
of air, the tissue closing up as fast as the
ures are made.

TUE DISSENTING DEPUTIES.
Charles Reed, M.P., was president of the
ig on Thursday of the dissenting deputies. tie
Iced the half-yearly business, and remarking
signs of the times, said that the present was a
I comparative peace in the House of Commons,
would be a source of_satisfaction, since the

parry government, ma
. bitterness of party spirit might for a time be quenched
in view of the great public questions that demanded
the unbiassed consideration of both parties in the
State. Mr. Reed eulogised the spirit in which the
Government education measure had been framed.
Amongst other points, Nonconformists were agreed
upon this—that while no denominational teaching
should be allowed in any aided school, no regulation
should be permitted to exclude the Bible from the
school-room, or the appeal to it in the process of
moral culture or daily discipline. He saw no reason
for undue haste in the passage of the bill, for the
whole demand for speedy legislation was based upon
a most exaggerated view of the utter ignorance of
the people.

1 SELF-ACCUSATION.
Though most people must have had, or ought to
have had, quite enough of the Mordaunt divorce
case, a story which a clergyman tells in the Thrace is
worth reproduction. The event, which oc-
curred twenty-five years ago, is given as evidence
that such a delusion ter that under which Lady
Mordaunt has been represented to labour is not
impossible. A lady, who had recently given birth to
a child, confessed that her, medical attendant, and not
her husband, was the father. The husband's affec-
tion was strong, and he therefore made her a suitable
provision, leaving her to reside alone, but en-
tertaining no thought of legal proceedings.
The clergyman promised to watch over the
forlorn condition of the wife. He called upon her,
accompanied by his own wife, and with the following
result:—" The unhappy lady alluded with many tears
to her infatuated guilt, adding, as an aggravation to
her shame, that she had exposed herself to the ob-
servation of her faithful servants, and even of her
elder children. I left her with deep commise-
ration, but was somewhat surprised, in talking over
the case with my wife, to find that she entertained a
suspicion of the genuineness of the tale of misery.
The cause of suspicion was this, that in the midst of
floods of tears my wife had observed that the lady,
after some moving sentence, took the handkerchief
from her streaming eyes to watch the effect upon me,
and detected the lurking smile which so often accom-
panies the weeping simulation of hysteria or insanity."
And so it turned out. The lady's health returned ;
the strictest inquiry spewed that the story of guilt
was the creation of a distempered brain; and the wife
was restored to her husband.

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