The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-15 00:00:00

SHARE LIST.

RAILWAYS-ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

Closing Business
Paid. Name. Quotations. done.
St Bristol and Exeter lOO 77 79 78
St Cal, donian 100 751 761 75
St Cambrian lOO 15 20
20 Cornwall all 21 31
St Dublin and Belfast Juuction 100
St Dun, Prth, and Aber. June 100 70 72
20 East London. all 4 6
20 Do
20 Do
St Glasgow and S.Western 100 111 113
St Great Eastern lOO 371 392 Z;9l
St Do East Anglian, No. 2 100 61 71
St Great North of Scotkiud 100 13 16
St Great Northern 100 119 120 120
St Do A 109 126 127 1261
St Do B 100 126 128
St Gt. So. and West (lreland) 100 98 100
St Great Western Consolid 100 681 691 694
St Do South Wales 100 68 70
St Do West Midland—Oxford 100 44 45
St Da do Newport 100 36 38
St Lancashire and Yorkshire 100 1251 1271 1291
St Loud, Bright'n, and S.Coast 100 4:3 431 461 1
St Lond, Chatham' and Dover 100 144 15+ 161
St Do Metrop Extension A 100 9 11
St London and North Western 100 1261 1271 1271
St Loudon and South Western 100 88* 89* 90*
St Manch, Shef, and Lincolnsh 100 51 511 52
St Do New. issued at £5O dis 3O .
St Metropolitan lOO 791 80 781
St Do Preferred... lOO ...
St Do Deferred 100
10 Do Redeemable 111 91 101
St Metropolitan District 100 37 38
St Midland ...100 1241 125 1261
St Do Birmingham and Derbyloo 92 94
St North British. lOO 34 35 341
St Do Edin, Perth, and Dunde.loo 13 15
St North Eastern—Berwick lOO 1261 1271 1331 5
St Do Leeds 100 841 851
St Do York
St Do Stockton and Da.rlingta 100 178 180 1811
St North London 100 116 118
10 Do Now, 1868 62 1+ 11
St North Staffordshire 100 59 61
St North and So. West. Junct 100 102 105
St Rhymue7 lOO 52 54
St Shropshire Union 100 62 63
St South Devon 100 46 48
St South Eastern 100 761 771 781
St Do Preferred ...100 1091 1101 111
St Do Deferred... lOO 41 41*
St Staines, Wok'ham, & Wok'g. all 12* 131
St Taff Vale
10 Do C 6 3 6
St Waterford and Cent. Ireland 100 ••• •••
10 Waterloo and Whitehall

MISCELLANEOUS,

10 Anglo-Mexican Mint
25 Australian Agricultural 2Ol 16 17
25 Austn Mort Land and Fin, L 5 1d pr
10 Baugparah Tea Estate, Lim all 3 5
10 Berlin Water Works, Lim
5 Bombay. Gas, Limited all 5 54
5 Ditto, New 4 pr 4pm
50 British American Land
20 British Indian Tea, Limited all 24 31
27 Canada Company all 78 80
20 Ceylon Company, Limited lO 4 3d
20 Ditto, A shares
25 City of London Real Prop, LlO 7 6d
30 City of Milan Improvment L all 4 5
50 City Offices, Limited
50 Colonial, Limited 2O 1.d.. pr
50 Commercial Union (Asso)
10 Corn of African Merch, L
20 Continental Union Gas, L
25 Copper Miners of Bngland,
Pref 71 per cent all 5 7
100 Corp of London Bonds, 1877, •
44 per cent all
100 Ditto, 1879, 42 par cent
100 Ditto, 1882, 44 per cent
10 Credit Fonc of England, L all 24 3:
50 Credit Fonc of Mauritius, L 10 24 14d
St Crystal Palace
St Do, Preference lOO 91 99
St Do, 6yer cent Perp Debentloo 108 113
50 E India Land Credit & Fin L 7 5 4d
32 Ebbw Vale 271 104 10d
100 Egypt 9 p ct Viceroy's Loan
gua by Egyptian Gov all 1004 1014 1014
20 Egyptian Corn and Trading L 4113
3 English and Austr Copper, L 24
15 Eng and Foreign Credit 74 4 3d
10 European Gas all 17 18
10 Do, new...
6 Fairbairn Engineering 5 ld p
20 Fore-street Warehouse, L 13 34 44p
100 Foreign and Col Gov Trust
and Loan 6 per ct Bonds... all 97 96
10 Gen Credit and Discount, L 71 4 id
15 General Steam Navigation l4 29 31.
50 Home and Col Marine Ins, L' 5 1d p
20 Hudson's Bay (Governor and
Co. of Adventurers of Eng
trading into) all 12 124
50 Imperial Continental Gas 434 131 136
50 India Rub, Telg Works, L 45 57 59
10 International Finau Soc, L 5 14 lid
20 Italian Irrigation Canal, Cav all 44 42
100 Ditto, 6 per cut Bonds, red all
1870 all 63 65 644
50 Laud Securities, Limited 5 2 ld
25 London African Trading lO
50 Loud Financial Assoc, Lim 3O 18 17d 11
4 Loud Gon Omnibus, Limd
50 Lend & Glasg Engin, Limd 25 16 16d
20 London and Prey Marine
St Madras Irrig & Canal, guar 100
spc by India Gov lOO 103 105
50 Merchant Shipping, Limtd all 32 37
10 Natal Land and Col Co., Lim all 34 44
25 National Discount Co, Lim 5 111 114
10 National Steamship, Limd all 14 144
1 Nerbudda Coal & In, Ld 6s 6d
1.0 New Consolidated Dis Ld
5 New Quebrada, Limited 4112 44 44d
25 N Zealand Lu & Merc, &c 24 1p
25 N Zealand Trust & In, Ld 5 14 14p
10 North Assam Tea, Limited 7 7 scl
10 Do, B all d
St N British Austral, Limited 100 60 70
50 N British & Mercan lusnce 64 23 234
25 Ocean Marine insurance 5 15 16p
5 Oriental Gas, Limited
5 Do, New
10 Otago & South Invest, Ld 2 4d ip
5 Ottoman Gas, Limited all 2 21
St. Peel Riv Lnd & Min, Lim lOO 31 33
50 Peninslr & Oriental Steam all 43 45 424
50 Do., New, 1867 lO :31 2d
50 Rhymney Iron ........... all 271 281
15 Do, New all 84
25 Rio Janeiro City Im., Lmtd all 191 20
20 Rio Janeiro Gas, Limited
100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 52 51
St. Scot Aus Invest, Limited lOO
20 Societe General de l'Etnpire
Ottoman 8 24 34
25 South Australian Laud
20 Tel Construe & Maintenance _

(lira and redaced) all 36 361 37
20 Thames & Mere Mn Ina, L 2 21 2,1 p
St. Tobacco (Ital 6p c Loan) all 86 86
10 Trustand Agency of Austra-
lasia, (Limited)
20 Tr &LnCo of Up Canada 5 ip
50 Union Marine Liverpool, Ld 5 6 61p
20 Union Steam Ship, Ld
15 United Dis Corpora, Lmtd ... 6 '2 ld
20 Univer Mar (Ins), Lmtd 5 44 stp
10 Upper Assam Tea, Lmtd ... all 1 1
30 Van Diemen's Land 281 7 9
100 Viceroy of Egypt Mort Ln. all 85} 864 84
50 Warrant Finance, Limited 12 8 6d
50 WI & P Steam, Limited ... 20 4 3d

COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
THE SUEZ CANAL.

The Times is gratified to find the report on the Suez
Canal confirm the most favourable expectations. There
are various difficulties in the navigation, to be accounted
for by the fact that the canal is not yet complete. It was
opened prematurely; and many improvements have yet to
be added, which are not even promised before the close of
the present year. In all probability it will take longer
to effect them thoroughly, but still their completion is
only a matter of time, and we may therefore look upon
the canal as already successful, so far as its promoters
are concerned. They have not only accomplished their
gigantic work, but they have every reason to believe
that it will endure. Their triumph bids fair to be a last-
ing one. It is quite a different aacl obviously a much more
important question how far the work itself is likely now
that it is accomplished, to produce the remarkable results
which were so confidently predicted for it before its com-
pletion, and upon this question the report throws valuable
light. We all remember what these predictions in the
main were, how the maritime trade of the world was to
be revolutionised, and England no longer to remain com-
mercial mistress of the seas. If, indeed, the Suez Canal
were a sea, then this country might possibly fare ill
in the coming race ; but, successful and gigantic from
many points of view as the work is, it is, after all,
only what the report before us calls a " continuous
dock," through which very large vessels cannot be taken,
despite every possible precaution, without risk of
" frequent groundintc and consequent delay." This is the
stubborn practical difficulty which bids fair to be fatal to
the promised " revolution " in the maritime world.
Vessels must be built specially adapted to suit the
physical characteristics of the Canal, iron screw steamers
having an advantage over all others. Such vessels have
been now for some time in course of rapid construction in
this country, and, as we possess far greater facilities for
their construction than other countries our merchants
have only to shew their usual energy and enterprise to
secure the lion'S share of the new traffic that will pass
through the Canal. It seems to us that, whether the Canal
is or is not as largely used as its more enthusiastic promoters
anticipate, this country has nothing to fear in the way of
cummercial rivalry from other nations. In the latter
case we shall retain our original vantage-ground ; in the
former we shall acquire a still superior position, in con-
sequence of the special facilities we enjoy for building
vessels adapted to the Canal. We are, of course, assum-
ing that these facilities will be made the most of, and this
seems likeiy to be the case if our merchants go on as they
have begun. They were the first to use the Canal, and
they are now taking the most judicious course for main-
tainins, their supremacy on it. The highly satisfactory
characterb of the Report we have been discussing ought to
encourage them to persevere.

23 Messages

PARIS
TO

Fountainbleau

Vienna

Canada Government, 6 p c, Jan
and July ,1877-84 100 104 1051 106
Do, 6p c, Feb and Aug lOO 102,-103
Do, 6p c, Mar and Sept 100 1051 106 k
Do, 5p c, Jan and July . .... lOO 941 951 97
Do, 5p c, inscribed stock lOO 94 96
Do, 5p c, Dominion of, 1903 lOO 951 961 951.
Cof Good Hope, 6p c, Dec, 1873 100 103 105
Do, 6 p c, April and Oct, 1890-
1900 100 111 113
Do, 6p c, April and Oct, 1880-90 100 109 111
Do, 6p c, Jan and July, 1891 lOO
Do, 5 p c, April 15 and Oct 15,
1900 100 1021 1031
Ceylon, Nov, 1878, 6p c 100 109 111
Do, 1872 lOO 103 105
110, 1882 and 1883 100 112 114
Mauritius, 6p c, 1873, Jan & July 100 102 104
Do, 1878, Jan and July 100 106 108
Do, 1882, May 15 and Nov 15 100 107 109
D 0,1595-6, Feb and Aug 100 111 113
Natal Gov 6p c, April & Oct 100 108 1111
Do, 6p c, May and Nov 100 107 109
New Brunswick Gov 6 p c, Jan and
July 100 104 105
N. S. Wales Gov 5 p c, 1871 to
1876, Jan acrd July lOO 1001 1011
Do, 5 p c, 1888 to 1896, Jan and
July 100 101 102 1011
Do, 5 p c, red by ann draws,
from 1867 to 1875.. 106 100 1011
Do, 2 per c, annual draws, 1872
to 1898 100 1001 1011
New Zealand 6p c, 1891 100 107 109
Do, 5p c 100 97 98
Do, Jan, April, July, Oct 100 971 981 97-}
Do., 6p c, 1891, Mar and Septloo 108 110
Do, p et, 1891, June and Dec 100 107 109
Nova Scotia Gov, 6 p c sterling,
1875, Jan and July lOO 1021 1031
Do, 1886 lOO 1041 1051
Queensland G per ct, 1882-85, Jan
and July 100 1081 1091
Do, 1891, Jan and July 100 1081 1091
S Australian Government, 6 p c,
1869-77 lOO
Do, 1878-92 100
Do, 1893-1908 100 110 111
Tasmanian, 6 p c, 1895, Jan and
100
108
110
Du,au6d pjcu lye
d, 1893 to 1897
Victoria Govt, 6 p c, Jan and
July, 1891 lOO 113 114
1
Do, April and Oct, 1883-5 lOO 1131 1141 1101-
Do, 5p c, Jan. and Ju1y,1894 100 101 1021 1021-

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1870.

GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT OF
TELEGRAPHS.

-a

One of the subjects exciting most interest in the
United States, as in the rest of the world, is tele-
graphy. It is repeatedly discussed in Congress, and
forms a never-failing text for lea-ling arti&e writers,
pamphleteers, and authors of higher pretens,ons.
We have before us the elaborate speech in which
the Hon. C. C. Washbourn, on the 22d December
last, introduced his proposition to transfer the tele-
graphs of the United States into the hands of the
Government; and a still more elaborate work by
Mr. George Sauer on the telegraph in Europe,
lately printed in Paris for private circulation. By
both, the subject is exhaustively treated, as the rise
and progress of telegraphy are traced, not only in
the United Status, but in all other countries, and
its working in each, skilfully and truthfully com-
pared. Both the late American Consul at Brus-
sels and the Representative from Wisconsin have
arrived at a conclusion not generally held by their
countrymen, that the telegraph ought to be in the
hands of the Government, just as ought the post.
Indeed, it anything, the reason is stronger for the
telegraph than for mail matter. Both contend that
communication by telegraph nearly resembles cor-
respondence by letter; a telegram being nothing
more than an open letter, and the very fact that it
is open makes it all the more necessary that Go-
vernment officials should have the handling of such
confidential communications. Whatever reasons
exist for the servants of the nation doing the work
of receiving, transmitting, and delivering letters
are at least equally applicable to messages, for
the latter is but the supplement of the other,
the avant-courier, the light troops preceding the
shock of heavy battalions ; still all essentially
one. Mr. Sauer, in discussing the transfer of the
British wires into the hands of the Government,
observes that it was not accomplished without
consideration, nor suddenly. The most formidable
resistance was offered by the old companies. The
struggle ended in complete victory to the Govern-
ment, but the victory was the result of a long and
searching inquiry. Only a few weeks have elapsed
since the inauguration of the new system, and the
weekly statements published by the Post-oh lice
authorities furnish already unmistakeable evidence
that the most sanguine expectations will be rea-
lized. The tariff has been reduced to a moderate
and uniform rate, and the traffic having largely
increased, promises to reach the maximum estimate
of receipts. The boon thus afforded to the public
is of incalculable value, while an ever increasing
source of revenue has been created to the public
Treasury. The New York Times stated some time
back that " the Senate Committee on Post-offices,
at their meeting, heard Mr. Orton, president of the
Western Telegraph Company ; and, further, that
statistics were submitted showing that telegraph
rates are not higher in the United States, according
to distance, than in many European countries, and
lower than in several. The average rate per mes-
sage (it has been asserted) from Paris to the twenty-
six principal cities in France is 1 2-10th mules per
mile, and the same in Italy." We give a tabular
statement showing the distance from Paris to
twenty-six cities having a population of 40,000
persons and upwards, proving clearly that the
assertions are conceived in error. In lieu of 1 2-10
mines per mile, it should have been 0-10 mines, or
rather 68-100:

Distance from Paris to—
Avignon
Besangon
Bordeaux

Brest

Calais 297
Caen
Dijon 315 „
Grenoble
Havre 228 „
Lyons
Lille

Marseilles 863
Metz

Average for mess,
2( messages at 1. franc

7,600 miles at $520
The following table, giv.
went of French and Aim
lopes the errors referred

Venice ••• ••• "•
Frankfort ... •••
Bremen ••• •••
London .•• ••• •••
Stuttgart ..• ••• ***
Lyons...

Montpellier
Nancy
Nantes
Nisnies
Orleans
Rennes
Reims l6O „
Rouen
St. Etienne
Strasbourg
Toulon
Toulouse
Tours 234 „

Total
7,600 miles

'age, 292-3 miles
26 francs $5 20.
to 681-000 cents per mile.
in; a comparative state-
nican rates,
to :

further deve-

Berne ••• •.• ".
Havre ... •••
••• •••
Brussels •••

Marseilles_ ... •••

DIST.

Miles.

DIET.

Miles.

,NOES.

'Kilom.

,NCES.

IKilom

Florence ••• "'
Olmutz ••• ••'

TAR:

Frs.

Frs.

Rome ... ..• "' "'
Cadiz ... ••• ••• ...

Naples ••• ••• •••
Brindisi ••• ••• •••
•" •..
Stockholm ..• •••
Pesth ••• •••
Madrid •.• •••
Berlin. ••• ••• •..
Dresden ••• ••• •.•

Nice . •.• •••
Amsterdam ...
Presburg
Copenhagen ...
Tours ...
St. Petersburg
Barias•.• •••
Athens •••

The assertion is demolished by a reference to Mr.
Sauer's work, page 176, that while the total num-
ber of messages sent over the Western Union Tele-
graph Company's lines during the year ending 30th
June, 1867, were 10,067.768, the average cost not
exceeding 57 cents—the average cost in Europe
has been 81 cents—for Mr. Sauer's carefully pre-
pared tables demonstrate that the average rate in
Europe did not exceed 39-53 cents in 1868, though
the European messages were calculated at twenty
words and those of the Western Union at ten words
each. The United States and the United Kingdom
are the countries most averse to Government inter-
ference in private enterprise, and it is a singular
fact, but one which has been clearly brought out
by Mr. Sauer, that the construction of the lines
have in them been beyond comparison the most
costly and wasteful. From the beginning of tele-
graphic operations to the close of the year 1867,
France expended on her wires $4,781,104, while
four companies, calculating the dollar at four
shillings, had expended in the United King-
dom $11,797,270. For her expenditure France
got 23,090 miles of telegraphic lines, with 70,330
miles of wires, and 355 miles of submarine cables,
:bough England got but 15,990 miles of lines and
76,501 miles of wires. Hence the cost per mile of
telegraphic line was $216 in France, or $65 per
mile of wire, contrasted with $737 and $154 re-
spectively in England, which, being interpreted
into plain English, means that in the country where
the wire was the cheaper, the Company-construction
entailed four times the cost of the Government-con-

struction in the dearer country. And what is the
result ? Why, that the telegraphic facilities in Eng-
land are far inferior to what are enjoyed in France.
Thos3 who have had an insight into Company-con-
coction in England understand the reason of the
difference. In contrasting the wire in America
with Europe, taken as a whole, it ape irs that the
cost of the Western Union Comp ,ny 's lines vari d
according to the loca.ion and circums,.ances from
$l5O to $l,OOO per rude. The average is estimated
at $4OO per mile of po'en and wires. The amount in
Europf? 51.0W3 an average cost of $lO3 86 per mile
of wire, embracing ever/ clime from Gibralttir to
the Arctic regions, the c-st of submarine cables in
the Med,terranean, the Baltic, and the North S:a.
The Amer:can newspapers 'have lately been filled
with accounts of the break down of the British
Goverinnent in its attem,t to work the tele!,raph.
It is always a goo I plan to fix an idea in the
minds of the people generally, for once implanted,
there are thousands from whom it will be impos-
sible to eradicate the false notion when rooted.
Mr. Sauer expresses the utmost confidence that Mr.
Washburn's bill, which bad been referred to a
special Committee of the House, with powers to
call for persons and pipers, will eventually be car-
ried. It is his opinion that it will bring facts to
light which will abundantly prove the advantage of
Government telegraphs, a conclusion all unbiassed
Persons are compelled to arrive at who study the
subject. We would not imagine that they were
about to arrive at this conclusion in America from
reading the American papers as well as the remarks
made in Congress, but we bow to the practical
knowledge acquired by Mr. Sauer's long-continued
study of the telegraph, which makes him a far
better judge of what is likely to happen than those
who have not devoted their special attention to
the subject. Although he enters into a history of
the telegraph from the days when the feeble fluid
was transmitted through a wire 700 feet, by Stephen
Grey, a pensioner of the Charter-House, in 1727,
to the present, we nowhere come across the name
of Francis Itonalds, who was knighted the other
day by her Majesty, in consideration of his having
been the original inventor of the electric tele.
graph ; a fact to which we desire to draw Mr.
Sauer's attention. If such an honour belongs to
Sir Francis honalds, he should not be without a
place in so elaborate a work as that of Mr Sauer ;
if it does not, Sir Francis should not be held up to
the gaze of an admiring public ; and as Mr. Sauer
is certain to see this article, we will expect, in com-
mon with many of our readers, a few words on the
subject from him.*

* Sir Francis Ronalds has repudiated the honour
awarded him in the Times since this article was written.
The Prime Minister stated that the distinction was " in
acknowledgment of his early and extraordinary labours
in telegraphic investigation." The first paragraph, which
appeared in the Times, was calculated to call forth com-
ment; but Sir Francis Ronalds is not responsible for it,
and modestly states what his claims are. He invented
and employed a perfectly efficient electric telegraph in
1816, and fully described it in 1823.

lathe excellent monthlycircular of the Wall-street
bankers, Messrs. Henry Clews and Co., it is contended that
the Treasury is now in a less favourable'position for resum-
ing'payment on its notes than it was one or two years ago.
The coin owned by the Treasury is barely 8 per cent. of
its demand notes, and the continued sale of its surplus
gold necessitates a severe contraction of the legal-tender
circulation. This these bankers consider to be the Secre-
tary's policy, one of the means designed being that clause
of the Funding Bill, which authorizes the Treasury to ex-
change 4 per Cent. Bonds for 11. S. notes without limit, and
also the ninth clause, proposing an unlimited issue
of new bank currency so long as it moves with a con-
current cancellation of an equal amount of legal ten-
ders. The measures broached in Congress have the
reverse effect of that intended ; unsettling prices, and
spurring speculative movements in Wall-street, which
has lost its composure, and followed with unreason-
ing excitement the constantly varying proposals at Wash-
ington, and the Firm remarks :—" Out of the general con-
fusion an idea has sprung up that, in some unknown man-
ner, we have suddenly come to verge closely upon the
specie basis; although it is difficult to see what, beyond
the fall in gold to close upon 110, there is to suggest such
an opinion."

The North German Correspondent observes with
pleasure in the monthly report of the German Chemical
Society in Berlin (Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft zu Berlin')
a considerable number of young Englishmen and Ameri-
cans who are at present attending the University in Berlin.
An interesting paper on the history of the platina bases is
furnished by Mr. Charles Gordon, which, it learns from
the same report, had been previously read at a meeting of
the society by its author.
The exports of wheat from the United States
during 1869, according to the report of the Bureau of
Statistics, amounted to 31,360,649 bushels, valued at
$46,413,633, giving an average value of 51 35 cents a
bushel. The exports fur 1868 were 12,927,412 bushels,
valued at $21,786,116, giving an average of $1 68 cents
a bushel. The increase of 1869 over 1868, therefore,,
amounted to 21,133,237 bushel=, and $24,627,517. The
exports of cotton for 1869 amounted to 722,618,9291b5.,
valued at $187,762,477, giving 26 cents as the average
value per pound. The exports of cotton for 1868 amounted
to 786,600,7761b5., valued at $165,962,187, giving 21 cents
as the average value per pound. The decrease of quantity
in 1869 amounted to 63,981,847, but owing to the higher
price of the cotton the increase of value was $21,800,290.
THE BUILDING ACT. —A journeyman bricklayer has
been summoned, at Wandsworth, for not having plastered
the inside of the flues of some houses he had been building,
which would cause the chimneys to smoke. He was fined
50s. and costs.

FRAUDS BY A CHlLD.—Elizabeth Jordan, a girl of 13,
has been charged at Southwark with obtaining Bs. and
2s. worth of postage stamps from a Post-office receiver,
and also with endeavouring to obtain a sovereign from
the branch post-office, Somerset House, and two half-
crowns from a receiving house. The girl went into
the Somerset House office, and asked for two shillings
worth of stamps. When the clerk asked her for the
money she said she had put a sovereign on the counter
which he had taken up. He took the stamps away and
sent her for her mother,telling a messenger to follow her.
She went into a post office in the Waterloo Road, and tried
the same trick, asking for three shillings, and declaring
she had given two half-crowns for them. She-was given
in charge, and a third witness appeared against her, who
had actually been deceived by a similar story, and given
her eight shillings and two shillings worth of stamps for
a pretended half-sovereign. The ingenious juvenile thief
was committed to Newgate for trial.
EMBEZZLEMENT BY A SECRETARY.—SamueI Taylor, for-
merly secretary of the Victoria Land and Building
Society, has been charged at the Birmingham Quarter
Sessions with embezzling a large sum of money. His total
defalcations are believed to be about £3,000. He pleaded
guilty, and as the counsel for the prosecution supported
the plea of the defendant's counsel for a lenient sentence,
he escaped-with three months' hard labour.
CURIOUS TERMINATION OF AN ELOPEMENT CASE.—
Charles H. Dixon was charged at Leeds with stealing a
quantity of feminine attire and children's clothing, the
property of George Gruham. The prisoner had gone off with
the wife of the prosecutor, she having taken a large amount
of property with her. It was contended by the prisoner's
counsel that the things taken were necessaries alone
for a woman and a comin? baby. After a
lengthy and amusing examination, in which the
use of each article was described, and about which the
learned Recorder expressed himself entirely ignorant, " in
consequence of his having no wife to provide for." The
jury agreed with the counsel_ for the prisoner, and returned
a verdict of not guilty. -

MANSLAUGHTER IN THE ISLE OF MAN.—A very painful
case has come under investigation at Douglas, Isle of Man.
A man named John Kelly, a widower, with several
children, married a widow, with children of her own. Both
the man and his new wife were habitual
drunkards, and the man's youngest child was
eighteen months old, and was so neglected that it
died from want and exposure. It was kept lying on straw
nearly naked, and was literally starved to death. A
coroner's jury found a verdict of Manslaughter against
the father, who was committed for trial.

A DRUNK AND DISORDERLY CHILD.-At the Rochdale
Police Court Rosanna Whitely, ten years old, the daugh-
ter of a hawker, was brought up charged with being
drunk and disorderly. It was proved that she was
in the habit of going from one public-house to another
asking the customers to let her drink. In this way she
got intoxicated. This was not her first offence. The
mother of the child said that her daughter was unmanag-
able, and was subject to fits, and the magistrates discharged
her, warning the parents that they ought to look afterher
better.

A FATHER FINED FOR PUNISHING HIS SON.—At the
Kidderminster Police-court a man named James Thatcher
was summoned for punishing his own son, a boy apparently
of 11 years, but who stated he was only nine. The father
was summoned at the instance of his sister-in-law, the
boy's aunt. The beating was proved to have been unduly
severe, and the bench inflicted a fine of 10s. and costs, or
fourteen days imprisonment with hard labour.

THE CHARGE OF SCANDAL AGAINST A HEREFORDSHIRE{
CLERGYMAN.—The case of Martin v. the Rev. Mr. Jack-
son, late rector of Ledbury, Herefordshire, including
charges of a very serious nature against the moral charac-
ter of the rev. gentleman, was brought to a conclusion
after occupying the time of the learned judge, who pre-
sided over the Court of Arches at Westminster,
for six days. Sir John B. Kerslake and the
Queen's Advocate having addressed his lordship for
their respective clients, the Dean of Arches (Sir R. J.
Phillimore), stated that the importance of the question at
issue, both as to the defendant and to the Church of
England generally, required he should weigh and consider
carefully the whole of the voluminous evidence laid before
him in the case before delivering his judgment: He
complimented the learned counsel engaged on both sides
for the zeal, ability, and skill displayed, and for the fair
manner in which each had conducted his client's case.
He announced that he would give judgment at an early
date in the ensuing (Easter) term.