The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-16 00:00:00

JACKSON'S TRIUMPH.

The Rev. J. Jackson, the vicar of Ledbury, who was
recently convicted of immoral conduct in the Court of
Arches, has returned to that parish, and was received
with a great demonstration of opinion against the
decision of that court. Several floral arches were
placed across the streets, flags were suspended from
many of the houses, and from 800 to 1,000 persons
assembled, including a large number of the poor parish-
ioners. On his appearance at the railway station, cheers
broke forth from the large assemblage. The rev.
gentleman thanked his neighbours and parishioners for
the kind reception which they had given him, even when
suffering from what he, and he might say a large
portion of the public, considered an unjust decision,
the effect of which had been to reduce him to a state of
poverty.

BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. DAMAGES, £so.—ln the
Bail Court, Miss Reeves brought an action for breach of
promise against Mr. Adams, a civil engineer, living in
Walworth-road. The plaintiff was a servant at Forest-hill,
and in August last she went with the defendant from London
Bridge to Forest-hill, and, according to plaintiff's story,
defendant seduced her in the railway carriage. She
afterwards visited the defendant, and ultimately she
went to live with him. After being there
for a few weeks, according to the plaintiff's
evidence, she left because the defendant would- not per-
form his promise to marry ; the defendant, on the other
hand, alleging that it was on account of the plaintiff repre-
senting herself to the tradesmen thatshe was Mrs. Adams.
Two sisters of plaintiff were called, and corroborated de-
fendant's promise to marry. The defendant (who was
described by his own counsel as ` an ugly man ")
did not deny the improper intercourse, and
that he gave her money for it ; but he
emphatically denied ever having made a promise of mar-
riage. The plaintiff indignantly scouted the idea that she
had ever had any affection for the defendant, who was
" perfectly blind ! " The jury gave a verdict for the
plaintiff, damages £5O.

Amongst the Parliamentary papers published to-
day are Report of the select committee on the Burials Bill,
Index to the Report of the Committee on the Tramways
Bill, and return of Expenditure for Diplomatic and Con-
sular Establishments in 1868.

A meeting of card strippers and grinders has been
held at Oldham, and has decided that the whole of the
operatives of tilt town who are employed in the carding-
rooms should form a union to resist, as they allege, any
encroachment which might be attempted.

SPIRIT OF TH 14', PRESS.
THE EMPEROR AND HIS MINISTRY.
'The Times, in discussing the changes in the French.
Ministry, remarks that M. 011ivier becomes thus the be-
ginning and end of the 011ivier Ministry, and the Cabinet
attains a character which may either win over to it or
array against it the whole of the Chamber and country.
Whatever signal errors may have marked M. 011ivier's
conduct during his late tenure of office, whatever proofs
of excessive complacency may, with more or less justice,
be imputed to him, he is certainly still far from being irre-
trievably committed to any system of government incom-
patible with the extremely liberal principles he has in-
variably professed throughout his career. The future
liberties of France, he has himself proclaimed, would be
gauged by the degree of zeal exhibited by the nation
in behalf of its Sovereign and Government during
the ordeal of the Plebiscite. It is but right that M.
011ivier and his Sovereign should shew their sense of the
belle majorite which the Minister sued for, and which has
been vouchsafed to him so far beyond his own expepta-
tion. The French people, in M. 011ivier's estimation, has
deserved well of its Government. Such Constitution as
was deemed best suited to its wants and interests has been
bestowed upon it. Is it too much to ask that this Con-
stitution should be immediately brought into operation,
that the people should soon be admitted to the exercise of
their newly-established rights, and that the Government
bhould be conducted in obedience to, or at least
in harmony with, the wishes of a true majority
of the nation—a majority in a Chamber obtained
by a fair and honourable appeal to the
nation's suffrage ? Such, we conceive, are the questions
with which men of all Liberal parties will immediately
beset the new Administration ; they are the questions
which M. 011ivier and the Emperor, who places so much
confidence in that statesman, will be called upon to
answer. The Emperor and his Ministers have, in the
Plebiscite, had their own way completely. They have
carried everything before them with a good fortune which
has been as surprising to themselves as mortifying to
their adversaries. But they have now reached the point
where their adversaries awaited them. On what majority
will the new 011ivier Ministry depend for support in the
present Chamber ? What chances has it of improving its
position by the election of a new Chamber.