The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-20 00:00:00

LOSS OF A YARMOUTH SMACK.

Intelligence has just been received of the total loss of
the smack Rochdale, of Yarmouth. Early on Saturday
morning, during a heavy fog, the smack ran on the
north end of Hasborough sand. She however got off
again, and the crew went to the pumps ; but
she made water so fast that they were obliged to take to
their boats, and they shortly afterwards saw the vessel go
down. After several hours pulling the crew were
picked up by the sloop Hercule, and subsequently landed
at Yarmouth.

Un Good Friday the Liverpool Tramways Com-
pany conveyed 7,074 passengers.

During the past winter ➢ldlle. Nilsson has given
six concerts in Paris for benevolent objects. They have
produced more than £2,800.
A billiard match for £lOOO iq announced to take
place in Dublin between Gannon, the Irish champion,
and Dufton. of London.

IGHT IN A COUNTY COURT.—The Warrington
Guardian states that at the Crewe County Court, in the
case of " Tomkinson v. Barton," a dispute between two
horse-dealers, his Honour, Judge Harden, nonsuited the
plaintiff, who immediately on this rushed at the de-
fendant, who was sitting on a form among the spectators,
and began to belabour him savagely with his fists, de-
fendant crying out, " Oh, dear, he's broken my jaw."
Plaintiff was immediately pulled off him and taken before
the judge, who said that this was only the second case of
assault in open court that he could remember. He sen-
tenced Tomkinsori to five days' imprisonment.

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A LIVERPOL EDITOR IN A Frx.—The editor of
the Liverpool Mercury seems in a sort of mental obfusca-
tion anent the Brighton Review. He says the event
" came off yesterday, and ought to have been a success ;
but we have received two reports, and they contradict
each other flatly. The first is short, concise, and severe.
It says the marching past could not well have been worse,
that the orders were vague, that companies were
thrown out, and that there were lots of stragglers ' • it
mentions that neither the Prince of Wales nor the
Duke of Cambridge were present, that no regular
troops took part, and, in fact, implies that the
whole affair was a failure. The second is—gush-
ing !—too rich a treat to be withheld. Such
sentiment by telegraph is tantalising to a
reader eager for facts; but the writer at length stoops low
enough to inform us that ' the review was as perfect a
success as the best friends of the volunteer movement
could desire.' On the horns of such a dilemma we must
remain in doubt as to the real merits of the case."
DISSENTERS AND THE CONSCIENCE CLAUSE.—
Many excellent clergymen find themselves unable to com-
prehend why Nonconformists put little faith in the opera-
tion of a " conscience clause "in rural schools. Perhaps
a letter from the Rev. H. M. Fletcher, vicar of
Derry Hill. Caine, Wiltshire, may help them to see that
there is a difficulty, and that Dissenters have reason to
dread it :—" There are few things that we are more
inclined to resent than the continually-made assumption
that it needs but that a Conscience Clause be passed
into law, and schoolmasters and schoolmistresses
will at once be found willing to sacrifice their
consciences to its requirements. We are per-
suaded better things of very many good members of
Christ's Church, now at work as witnesses to the truth.
No enemies to the truth seem to us more dangerous than
those who, professing to believe it in its fulness, either
themselves hide it from the world which hates it, or hire
others as teachers on the condition that in their teaching
they will refrain from teaching any part of it to those
scholars who are perhaps most closely affected by it, if
their parents• disbelieve or dislike it." This letter ap-
peared in the last number of the Guardian, and it accords
very closely with the spirit of other letters which have
been published in the same paper. We wonder if Mr.
Forster sees the Guardian.—Birmingham, .Daily Post.
A. SCENE IN THE IRISH PARLIAMENT.--Lord
Northbury, then Mr. Toler, went circuit as judge the first
circuit I went as barrister. He continued my friend as
warmly as he possibly could be the friend of anyone, and
I thought he was in earnest. One evening, however,
coming hot from Lord Clare's, at that time my proclaimed
enemy, he attacked me with an after-dinner
volubility which hurt and roused me very much.
I kept indifferent bounds myself ; but he was
generally so very good-tempered that I really
felt a repugnance to indulging him with as tart a reply as
a stranger would have received, and simply observed that
" I should only just give him that character which de-
veloped itself by his versatility—namely, that he had a
hand for every man, and a heart for nobody !" and
I believe the sarcasm has stuck to him from that day to
this. He returned a very warm answer, gave me a wink,
and made his exit. Of course I followed. The Serjeant-
at-Arms was instantly sent by the Speaker to pursue
us with his attendahts, and to bring both refractory
members back to the House. Toler was caught by the
skirts of his coat fastened in a door ; and they laid hold of
him just as the skirts were torn completely off. I was
overtaken in Nassau-street ; and, as I resisted, was
brought, like a sack, on a man's shoulders, to the ad-
miration of the mob, and thrown down in the body of the
House. The Speaker told us that we must give our
honours forthwith that the matter should proceed no
further. Toler got up to defend himself ; but as he then
had no skirts, to his coat, made a most ludicrous figure;
and Curran put a finishing stroke to the comicality of the
scene, by gravely saying., that "it was the most un-
paralleled insult ever offered to the house; as it appeared
that one honourable member had trimmed another
honourable member's jacket within these walls, and nearly
within view of the Speaker !" A general roar of laughter
ensued. I gave Ay honour as required—l think with
more good will than Toler ; and would willingly have
forgotten the affair altogether, which he apparently never
did.—Sfr "Watch Barrington's Personal Sketches of His Own
Time.