The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-14 00:00:00

THE RECENT CONFESSION OF MURDER.
The Melbourne Argus says it is believed that something
decisive will result from the investigations which the
police are making with the view of ascertaining the truth
of the confession made in London by the man Dyer of the
murder by him of his mate George Wilson, at the Mia-naia
Creek, Newstead, in 1857. Wilson's remains which had
been interred in the Campbell's Creek Cemetery, near
Castlemain, were exhumed on the 4th inst., and
Dr. Norman Gow, who held the postmortent ex-
amination on the murdered man, had no difficulty
in identifying the skull, which he said he
could have picked out among a thousand. The
records of the cemetery told that on the 9th day of
January, 1858, a body had been found in the Mia-mia
Creek, parish of Tarrengower, and that on the 11th of the
same month it was buried in compartment B, No. 242.
The age was set down at twenty-six, the 'name unknown.
After clearing away the earth adhering to the skull, two
holes were perfectly distinct, as if made by the point of a
pick. There were two depressions fradturing Ihe skull, as
if made by the same instrument. A warrant was granted
by the Castlemain Bench for the apprehension of George
Dyer, in England, as the murderer of Wilson.

AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS!
The number of newspapers published in English-
speaking America is about 5,319. It is difficult to state
with exactness, for they spring up and die by hundreds
during every year. Delaware has only 13, and New York
806. New England has most newspapers in proportion to
its population, and the country journals have the largest
average circulation, being about 1,000 copies weekly. In
New York and Pennsylvania they will average about 700 ;
in the valley of the Mississippi proper about 350 ; and
in the South about 250. There are about 550 dailies,
varying in circulation from the neighbourhood of 200
daily to 100,000. New York is the great centre
of newspaper commerce. There are 32 dailies in that
city ; six in German, two in .French, one in Scandina-
vian, and the rest in English. Seven of these dailies are
know as " the New York Associated Press," and supply
all the rest of the country with news, which they sell.
They print 112,000,000 sheets annually, and receive
$2,500,000 from advertisements • Their total receipts are
about $5,600,000. The other 25 dailies print 110,000,000
sheets annually, and their receipts are about $3,100,000
in all. So it will be seen that the New York daily xess
alone has an income of $8,700,000 contributed by the
public for the purpose of knowing the news of the day.
The other periodicals of the city, semiweekly, weekly,
monthly, and quarterly, issue 156,000,000 copies during
the year, and their total receipts are about $17,000,000.
Philadelphia is next after New York in number of
dailies, of weeklies, and of other periodicals, and also
prints the greatest quantity of sheets in a year. Sixteen
dailies supply the Quakers with mental nutriment,although
the quality is not high nor the enterprise of the managers
great. Their dailies are inferior to those of Boston,
Chicago, Cincinnati. and St. Louis, and are no better
than those of Pittsburg-, Louisville. or San Francisco.
Boston is the third in importance and the newspaper
business is prosperous there. Large dividends are
declared, news is paid prompt attention to, and thewriting
on mnay Boston dailies would do honour to any journal in
the world. The Hub, however, is no longer such a centre
for news as Chicago, whichdistributes intelligence to six or
seven States, aggregating three times the population of
New England. The Chicago dailies are conducted ably,
have vast resources, large circulation, and full advertising
columns. They perform for the West the part that New
Yorks does for the East. Every editor in the habit of look-
ing over exchanges knows that the New York State dailies
are substantially compiled from those in the city, those of
New England from Boston and New York, and other
parts of the Union from other centres. Nearly all the
country daily newspapers in the United States are con-
densed from those of one of the above places or from
Cincinnati, where some dailies of great importance are
published, Baltimore, St. Louis, New Orleans, or
San Francisco. The Albany papers are ex-
tracted from New York contemporaries, Harris.-
burg from Philadelpia, Toledo from Cincinnati,
and so on. Besides the places we have mentioned,
Pittsburg, Louisville, Detrot, and Charleston main-
tain a half-way independence. New York State has the
greatest number of newspapers, daily, weekly, and every
other way ; Pennsylvania follows, and then Illinois.
Although the latter State has less population, it surpasses
Ohio, which follows it in order of importance. The South
ern States have few papers, and their importance is very
little. Many of them are edited by carpet-baggers, who
batten on the spoils of the public, and the real Southern
aristocracy evidently does not look with a favourably eye
upon journalism. On the Pacific coast the population
is
too sparse for profit to be expected, and San Francisco
nearly monopolizes it.—New York Times.

FREE CHURCH MOVEMENT.—Lord Ebury and
several members of Parliament have sent letters of syna-
pathy to the promoters of the Free Church School Room
and institute now in course of erection in the neglected
district of Barns-green, near Horsham, where e very lag°
proportion of the adult population can neither read nor
write.

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAUB.—The Times
of India says the opinion is now entertained in quarters
likely to be well informed that the Punjaub is not to be
dismembered, as was at one time rumoured. The frontto
ier
will still be directed from Lahore, and not delegated
any separate authority. Measures will, at the same time,
be adopted to keep the Supreme Government more
fully and more promptly informed regarding Frontier
affairs.
THE COUPON STAMP.—The Chancellor of the EX'
chequer is to be congratulated on an act of discretion
which, at the same time, does honour to his courage. In
compliance with the very cogent remonstrances of City ra6o
interested in foreign securities, Mr. Lowe has consented to
abandon his projected ld. stamp upon coupons. One could
feel almost grateful to a Chancellor of the Exchequer fel:
the proposal of an obnoxious tax, and then the subsequol'
handsome withdrawal of it. A tentative policy in finance);
if it bereally only tentative, is not a bad thing, althogv
it is scarcely possible that any class would graciously allo
themselves to be taxed simply brcause a Minister ni3a°
a trial. In the case before us, Mr. Lowe had precedents,
notably in the penny stamps on documents witness
the passing of money. Nothing need be 63'
against these, for the very simple reason that they
are established, and have entered into our habits, al;
stituting part of every day life. Besides, they Were„
great relief from the oppressive stamp duties of the 13' -D.
economic period. But the proposition to enact a stolai
on coupons is a very different affair; not only becauseelit
is now, but because it would bring with it results on,
much more injurious character than the trifling inc° t
venience of the ordinary penny stamp. We sheaved 13sci,
week what these would be—an appreciable ellen.
to the lucrative business in foreign loans and se to
rities which tends yearly to flow more and more
this market, because this market is known to be honeeisy
and safe. Well, it might be said, a penny would
weigh nothing in the scale against honesty and atil'a
But there is the mistake ; it would weigh not (0
paltry copper, but the annoyance, the irritatitgt
the bother, the delay in critical times, which 0-.4
always be reckoned on when the scales of credit be
finance are nicely balanced. Our own, what nosiness
called our internal transactions in this busw,,,,
of paying and receiving money, let them be subject te,etti",
impost ; but in dealings with foreign securities lea',
free. It is not the sole, but it is one influence which br7d,
those dealings into this great financial centre of the niig
Mr. Lowe deserves thanks for his readiness to perceiT,eitb-
own error, and his really good sense and courage 102' bis
drawing from a false position. These words fr°l-,001
private secretary say all :—" The provision fora Pboir
stamp on coupons will be expunged from the Stang? The
solidation Bill when the Bill goes into committee. ,
Chancellor of the Exchequer is thanked. —The BelM"
oroto,
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BIRTHS. , wrio'
On the 10th inst., at I, Upper Brook-street, Mrs. t"'
thesly Dgby, of a daughter. ()-
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On the 9thi inst., at Redwall, Dartmouth, the wife
John Corbett, R.N., C. 8., of a son.
MARRIAGES. Ple .°,
On the 9th inst., at the parish church, S. Lawronc°4sse-;
Thanet, Henry Gray Brydono, Esq., of Pet wor-:,tbovJ
to Sophia Marianne, eldest daughter of the late A'
&O.
Crofton, Esq., J.P., barrister-at-law. ill e, •oe
On the 9th inst., at Holy Trinity Church, Marvlebo,,,,dt
Vanneck Blois, Esq., of Southwold, Suffolk, to ug-t. yer
Frances, daughter of George Marshall, Esq., °f
nard's.
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DEATHS
On the 11th inst., at 70, Upper Gloucester-place'
0 pa'
square, Richard teele, Esq., aged 86.
On the 10th. inst., S
at 16 Esser street, Strand, Jan'e
Bendy, aged 64.
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3iliddlosex.—Tuoday, Juno 14, 1870.