The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1870.

SH AR B LIST.

PERFECT ARCHITECTURE.

RAILWAYS-ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

The proceedings at the inquest on the man killed in the
recent accident at Bldckfriars Bridge appear to have been
highly satisfactory to all concerned—unless, indeed, to
the unfortunate man's family, and such inquisitive persons
as would like to know why the arch gave way.
There was an enthusiastic boncurrence on tye
part of all the witnesses that no arch ever was built
of so perfect a description in every respect as this which
broke in two and killed the man. Mr. T. Walker, the
contractor's manager, declared the arch to be " perfect
and entire ;" the bricks were not defective, the work had
been well done ; more time had been allowed for this arch
than for any of the others. The witness admitted that the
arch had been rather unequally weighted, and perhaps
this had caused the accident. Mr. Baker, the engineer's
chief assistant; would not admit this, however. Even if
the arch had been overweighted ott brie side, it would not
have come down as it did without warning ; the work Wad
very solid, and "done in an admirable manner;" the
mortar quite good, the arch not of an unusal span. As
to the cause of the accident, he ascribed it to a " combi-
nation of unfortunate circumstances ;" and what those
circumstances Were we fail to gather from the report.
On the contrary, everything is pronounced per-
fect. The verdict of the jury is also remarkable: It was
"Accidental death," with a remark that a little more care
should be taken in the loading of the arches, but that
everything had been done in this instance that could have
been wished. The jury would have been more logical had
they added a caution against building arches in too per-
fect a manner—that is at least the drift of the evidence.
We can only hope that when the Metropolitan Railway is
finished it will not be found to have too much of this kind
of perfection about it.—Pall Mall Gazette.

Closing Business
Paid. Nauls. Quotations. done.
St Bristol and Exeter , 100 78 80 80
St Caledonian 100 731 741 73.1.
St Cambrian lOO 15 20
20 Cornwall all 21 31
St Dublin and Belfast Junction 100 . . . .
St Dun, Prth, and Aber. Jnnc 100 70 72 •
20 East London all 4 6
20 DO
20 Do
St Glasgow and S.Western 100 116 117
St Great Eastern lOO 42 421 421 1 1
St Do East Anglian, No. 2 100 61 7*
St Great North of Scotland 100 15 16
St Great Northei a 100 121 122 121
St Do A lOO 126 127 1261
St Do B lOO 126 128
St Gt. So. and West (Ireland) 100 98 100
St Great Western Consolid 100 71 711 72
St Do South Wales 100 68 70
St Do West Midland—Oxford 100 44 45
St Do do Newport-100 86 38
St Lancashire and Yorkshire 100 130 131 1294
St Loud, Bright'n, and S.Coast 100 43 431
St Loud, Chatham, and Dover 100 144 154 16
St Do Metrop Extension A 100 9 11
St London and North Western 100 126 f 1271 1271 1
St Loudon and South Western 100 881 89
St Manch, Shef, and Lincolnsh 100 51 51 521
St Do New. issued at £5O dis 30

St Metropolitan lOO 791 80 77
St Do Preferred... lOO ... ...
St Do Deferred 100
10 Do Redeemable all .4
14 10
St Metropolitan District 100 37 38 371 f
St Midland lOO 124 k 125 126 k i
St Do Birmingham and Derbyloo 92 94 96
St North British. • ....100 34 35
St Do Edin, Perth, and Dunde.loo 13 15
St North Eastern—Berwick —.lOO 126* 1271 1851
St Do Leeds 100 89* 90* 89
St Do York...
St Do Stockton and Darlingta 100 178 180
St North Loudon lOO 120 122
10 Do New, 1868 6l If I i
St North Staffordshire 100 59 61
St North and So. West. Junct 100 102 105
St Rhymney lOO 52 54
St Shropshire Union 100 62 63
St South Devon 100 46 48

The rumour that Mr. Darcy Irvine, or Castle
Irvine, had been fired at through the window of his resi-
dence, is confirmed, and it is now reported that both Mr.
Irvine and his butler had a narrow escape. The police are
scouring the district, but up to the present time no arrest
has been made,
The matches between the Cambria and the
Sappho; the English and American yachts; will cont.
mence on the 10th inst. Three races are to be sailed, the
two first sixty miles to windward; and the third ()ter a
triangular course.
The weavers of Bury have determined that a re=
quest shall be made simultaneously by the weavers of
Bury; Blackburn, and East Lancashire for an increase
equal to the amount taken off their wages last year, which
was promised on the revival of trade. A circular to this
effect has been sent to each eniployer:
M. de Malarce, a French political economist, is at
present in England on a scientific mission, being charged
by the French Government to study certain questions of
an economical nature, especially the institutions tending
to an inaprovenient in industrial production by the prac-
tical edheation Of women of various classes of society.

St South Eastern 100 761 771 771
St Do Preferred ...100 1091 1101 1111 12
St Do Deferred... lOO 41 411 444 I
St Staines, Wok'ham, Jt Wok'g. all 121 131
St Taff Vale
10 Do 0 6 3 6
St Waterford and Cent. Ireland 100
10 Waterloo and Whitehall

A telegkam from St. Petersburg to the. Temps
announces that an insurrection of the Kirgliisei had
broken out on the shores of the Caspian Sea. The insur.:
gents have taken the fort Alexandre,in one of the bays
of the Eastern coast, and made thirty-eight prisoners.
Toops have been sent from the western (Caucasian)
ore:

The strike of the Glasgow joiners has virtually
terminated in a kind of drawn battle. While most of the
Masters yielded to the demands the men; some nineteeri
shops continued to work ten hours—the nine hours' move
went having, in these cases, been unsuccessful. Yester-
day, however, the joiners in the employment of Mr.
prassey, contractor for the Union Railway—fifteen in
number—have struck work, in consequence of being
kefused the nine hours' system and the advance of a half.
penny per hour.

The Dublin Freeman denounces "Lothair " as the
most immoral production of the day.
LONGEVITY IN THE COUNTY COURTS. - The
county courts have recently afforded two curious instances
of extreme age in litigants, coupled with extraordinary
vigour. At the Selby Court, on the 16th instant, an action
was brought by a dentist against an old lady of 78 for a
set of teeth. She appeared in person, and we are
told " the vivacity of the defendant greatly enlivened
the proceedings." Curiously enough; at the same court, on
the 28th ult., a female plaintiff conducted her own cases
although she had attained the venerable age of 104. We
are not surprised to hear that ' • she was accommodated
with a chair whilst stating her case," which, we are happy
to say, she gained.—Law Times.
The cost of the National Uallery, exclusive of trio
sum expended in the purchase of pictures, has been during
the last five years as follows :—For the year ending
81st March, 1866, £5,523195. 7421. • 1867, £5,736 15s. 2d. ,
1868, £5,386 B.s. ld. ; 1869, £5,310 2s. Bd. ; 1870,
£7,565 4s. 7d. This last sum includes £2,008 Os. for the
purchase of the library of the late Sir Charles Eastlake.

Joseph Green Wilson, who was yesterday com-
mitted for trial at Wem for shooting his father with two
balls from a revolver, had an interview with his father--
the first that had taken place since the lamentable occur-
rence. It was most affecting; especially on the part of
the father, almost the only words which escaped the
son being, I did not do it father; it will be known some
day who did."

The members of the International Working Men's
Association resident in London are, it is stated, about to
call a general meeting of that body in the course of the
present week, for the purpose of protesting against the
insinuations which have been made to the effect that
there was complicity amongst some of the London mem-
bers of the Association with respect to the plot to assas-
sinate the Emperor of the French.

The Uologne oTazette says that a Californian savant
named Hanley has created a great agitation in San Fran-
cisco by pointing out in a recent work that there were
Chinese in the country a thousand years before the,
Spaniards. Several German papers have thereupon re-
marked that as long as live-and-twenty years ago Pro-
fessor Neumann, of Munich, produced proofs from
Chinese sources of the discovery of America by that
people. Earlier still, Desguignes affirmed that Chinese
books spoke of a land in the east which can have been no
other than America.

Abraham Crossley, an earthenware manufacturer,
at Hunslett Hall, was yesterday summoned before the
Leeds stipendiary magistrate, at the instance of Mr.
Lickards, sub-inspector of factories, charged with having
employed boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen
during prohibited hours, It was proved that on the even-
ings of the 6th and 7th ult. four boys were kept at work
by the defendant between six and eight o'clock, and on a
previous occasion until eleven o'clock at night. The in-
formations were twelve in number, and the minimum
penalty in each case was imposed, the total being £l6, in
addition to costs.

We have reason to understand that the report
which appears in a naval contemporary that Captain the
Hon. F. A. C. Foley will take the place of First
Lord's Secretary, is untrue. He will have command
of the Indus, guardship of Reserve at Devonport, at
present held by Captain W. S. Luard, C. 8., who takes
the place of the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, the latter, having
attained his flagrank, giving up the post of superintendent
of Sheerness Dockyard. Captain Stanhope, serving as
flag captain, and in command of the Ocean in China, has
received by telegraph the offer of the appointment of
First Lord's Secreary. Should he refuse it—which is
improbable, as he has been absent from England for
nearly four years—rumour says it will be offered to
Captain Tryon, C.B.—Glebe
Poor. CORBET.—Mr. B. Corbet, the editor of the
Mark Lane Express, was present at the dinner of the
Farmer's Club, which took place at the Salisbury Hotel
last night, and read a paper in which he advocated
the adoption of the Lincolnshire tenant-right
agreement throughout the country. In the dis-
cussion which followed there was much of per-
sonaltK. Mr. Smyth wanted Mr. Corbet to toll
them ow they could grow corn at ss. a bushel, and be-
have loyally towards their Queen and Constitution. Mr.
S. Sidney though they ought to receive Mr. Corbet as a
prodigal son, and kill the fatte.l calf for him, as it was
the first time he had ever heard a paper read by him
in which there was not an ill-natured remark about some-
body. The discussion lasted a considerable time, and
was every now and then enlivened by some attack upon
Mr. Corbet.

A SUPPOSED FENIAN CENTRE.—OWCn MgDonald, an
Irishman, supposed to be a Fenian Centre, has been
brought up on remand, before-the Bishop Auckland
magistrates, charged with treason felony. The prisoner,
and three other men, were apprehended for the share
the share they had taken in a rather serious breach of the
peace. On two of the men were found six-chambered re-
volvers, dartially loaded ; while M`Donald himself was
armed with a couple of the same weapons. From these
and other circumstances the police were induced to
search McDonald's house, where they found a copy of
rules belonging to the Irish Republican Brotherhood cer-
tain other documents, some revolvers, and ammunition.
The bench did not feel justified in committing the prisoner
on the charge of treason-felony, but bound him over in
the sum of £5O and two sureties of £25 each, to be of
good behaviour for six months. His three companions
were also bound over for the same time in similar recog-
nizances. The documents and arms were ordered to be
detained by the police.

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SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
COMMERCIAL TREATIES.

The Times remarks that the triumph of Free Trade
never appeared more firmly established than it was
throughout the debate of Tuesday night. Mr. Birley had
scarcely begun his speech when he made it plain that his
own sentiments on the subject are harmless and even
praiseworthy. The point he desired to impress upon the
House was that the import duties into France still re-
mained so high as to restrict our exportations to our neigh-
bours, and to pretent any trade whatever in some com-
modities. Every one can agree in this statement, and
a Select Committee is not wanted to prove its truth.
Whether as a practical consequence of it we
should be zealous in season and out of season in lecturing
the French Government upon the propriety of still
further reducing their import duties, or whether we
should quietly wait till the French nation learn that
such a course would be to their advantage, is a matter on
which opinions may differ, but this doubt is not likely to
be eluddated by a Select Committee. The truth, how-
ever, remains clear that Mr. Birley does not wish us in
any way to retrace our paths and we are happy to free his
name from a misapprehension he bioUght upon himself.
More than this ; it may be said that of all who
had a kind word to say in favour of the motion—and they
were but seven speakers out of a score who took part in
the debate--four only appeared as Protectionists, and the
wildest of these four protested, to the amusement of the
House, that he was not speaking against Free Trade. It
was thus made evident that the policy of commercial free-
dom stands more firmly than ever. It has even acquired
a mystical authority. Those who cannot understand the
arguments in its favour pay homage to its name, and re-
pudiate the suggestion that they are disbelievers. Free
Trade is like the Circulation of the Blood, the Newtonian
Theory of the Solar System; the geological proof of the
Antiquity of the World ; very many educated men would
probably fail if they attempted to demonstrate these
theories even in the quietness of the family circle, but all
accept them as part of the inherited science of humanity.
The Standard says that in discussing the Treaty of
Commerce with France on Tuesday night, the House of
Commons wandered so far away from the question at
issue as to make the result of the smallest possible value
to the country, The question, as raised in the terms of
Mr. Birley's motion, was simply one of the appointment
of a select committee to inquire into the operation of the
treaty of 1860: Unfortunately the debate was
suffered to fall away into A general review of
our commercial policy, and into discussion upon
the elementary principles of free trade. Had it
been confined within the limits of Mr. Birley's Motion it
is impossible to see how the Government could have re-
fused the inquiry which was asked for. We certainly did
not Maker the treaty with France solely for the sake of the
consumers, for If we had we should have insisted upon ab-
solute free trade on eith6r side ; whereas the author of the
treaty himself has told us that lie thought less of free trade
when he made it than of the political relationS between
the two countries.