The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-27 00:00:00

WORK FOR THE HOUSE.

The prospects of the appropriations grow more favour-
able, and there is hope that they may be completed at an
early day. The River and Harbour Bill was passed yes-
terday, and the others are in good legislative shape. So
much of important legislation which ought to have been
finished has been neglected, and so' little time remains
in which to repair that neglect, that we had
hoped to hear the proposition made to thin
out that immense House Calendar by a general
sweep of the many personal bills .and unimportant mea-
sures • but with a singular perverseness the House,throng' h this session as the last, and indeed session after
session, has chosen to delay and postpone, until finally
the vital measures will have to be disposed of in the most
summary manner. It is painful to see days and nights
wasted in such idle discussion as the one on the Mission
to Rome when we know that Appropriation bills
or Funding schemes will in consequence of that
wasted time have to be debated and decided upon
in the few hours of a closing session when members' minds
are fixed on other matters, and only Chairmen of Com-
mittees talk or think of the public interests. The Appro-
priation Bills are not the only ones before the House on
which, during the current month, action must be had.
We trust members will not fail to remember that the
debt is to be funded, the franking privilege abolished,
Georgia admitted, naturalization regulated anew, and
navigation interests revived, besides dozens of other
measures which demand immediate attention and action.
—Hew York Tribune, June 14.

THE BOSTON " IRREGULARITIES."
BOSTON, June 11.

In the United States District Court, this afternoon,
Justices Clifford and Lowell on the bench, and a crowded
court-room, Charles Mellen and Charles H. Ward, two
of the principals in the State-street irregularities, of
which they were convicted over a year ago, ap-
peared for sentence. The third party, F. Hart-
well, was represented by his counsel. Mr. Morse,
who said that at at the time he received notice of
sentence Hartwell was in Philadelphia, or some
part of Pennsylvania, as agent of the Connecticut
Life Insurance Company. He immediately wrote him,
and had just received a reply that it would be impossible
for him to be here this afternoon, and he had no hesita-
tion in saying that Hartwell would be present at any
futurej day he might be required. 'District-Attorney
Hillard requested his presence Tuesday, when he should
moved for sentence.

The District-Attorney then moved for sentence on
Ward and Mellen, remarking that it was a most painful
duty ; but as it was one made by virtue of his office he must
discharge it. After stating the nature of the indictment
under which they were convicted, he said that the
amount that the jury had found to be embezzled was
100,000 dols. Under the statute the prisoners would be
required to pay a fine corresponding to this amount, but
the Government did not expect that either of them would
be able to pay this large amount, and at the expiration of
their term, if he still held office, he should deem it his
duty to ask the Executive to remit the fine, and if not in
office, he thought his successor would cheerfully do so. As
to the term of imprisonment he had nothing to urge on
the Court. _ _

Mr. Paine' their counsel, introduced testimony shewing
the excellent character hitherto borne by both defen-
dants, and closed with an appeal to the clemency of the
court. _ _

Judge Clifford reviewed at length the nature of the
case of which they had been convicted. The court could
not think that they had been unjustly convicted, nor
could it take into consideration the fact that
they had aided the Government in its investi-
gations. The question of fine was not discre-
tionary with the court, for the act of Congress had
provided that it must be equal to the amount
embezzled. The term of sentence, however, was dis-
cretionary to a certain extent. After dwelling further
upon the law, the court ordered that Mellen be sentenced
to two years imprisonment in the State jail at Greenfield,
and to pay a fine of 100,000 dols., and that Ward be im-
prisoned in the Suffolk County Jail for the same term,
and pay a fine of like amount. Mellen received the
sentence with composure, but Ward wept bitterly. Their
friends crowded around them to express sympathy
until they were removed from the court-room by the
Marshal.

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BIRTHS.
On the 21st inst., Viscountess Emlyn, of a son.
On the 23d inst., at Shooter's-hill-road, Blackheath, the wife

of C. W. Bourne, of a son.
On the 23d inst., at The Oaklands, near Birmingham, the
wife of George Graham, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

On the 23d inst., at Old St. Pancras, Peter Marshall, Esq.
of 5, Bow churchyard, to Catharine Shewring, widow of
the late Mr. Mark Shewring, and elder daughter of Mr.
W. Bing, of Corsham, Wilts.
On the 23d inst., at St. Mary's, Battersea, Arthur Howlett,
Esq., of Kingston-on-Thames, to Alice Eugenie Jane, only
surviving daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel John Wood,