The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-25 00:00:00

THE AMERICAN PRESS.

A Cincinnati paper exhibits considerable enter-
prise in announcing the assassination of Julius
Caesar. We heard of this occutrence some time
since, and right sorry we were to hear it ; but Cin-
cinnati is far inland, and that which is news there
is tradition elsewhere. Notwithstanding the im-
portance of the publication it was not issued in an
extra, but in the regular edition of the paper. The
editor comments upon the occurrence with ability
and gloom. He says that Caesar was a man of
talent, and ought to have mounted the throne. It
was in apprehension of this event that he was him-
self mounted by Brutus and his backers, with the
fatal consequence which the editor so feelingly
deplores. He says, likewise, that Cleopatra's genea-
logical tables are stained with the scarlet of con-
sanguinity. Why does he rake up this old scandal.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum. She couldn't help her
parentage. She sinned some, repented a good deal,
and the asp was punishment enough to make due
atonement. We are really shocked at tne eager
malignity with which our Cincinnati contemporary
circulates these injurious reports about a lady who
to no longer take her own part. If Marc Antony
were alive the editor would doubtless receive a call
from that robust Roman gentleman, d the frag-
ments of the journalist would be subsequently car-
ried home in a pillow-case. But we believe that
Marc is dead. The editor says he is. "He clung
to life till the last moment, and then committed
suicide." So that no resentment is to be appre-
hended from that quarter. The expedients which
provincial journalists adopt to fill their editorial
columns are sometimes quite entertaining. This
record of Julius Cesar and Cleopatra and the battle
of Actium, inserted apropos of nothing, and com-
mented upon as if it were a fresh discovery, is per-
haps not quite so absurd as the publication of the
twelfth chapter of Isaiah, which an editor of similar
fertility of resource offered to his readers for three
RueeeQQhr. ifiCiiPQ of hi 1,.A sr \Vhcn cnnlnnf -hi. o'ib
scribers complained, he cheerfully and magnani-
mously substituted the 13th. These contributions
may have lacked freshness,but their piety was unim-
peachable. When our Cincinnati friend gets
through with Caesar let him give us his opinion of
Job, the probable cause of Lis boils and the market
price of his she asses.---i% ew York Tribune.
The same paper remarks :—" People sometimes
laugh at the affection (or irony) which calls Boston
' the Athens of Americ ;' but that Bostonians
generally accept the title as no more than their
civic due, is pretty plain. Thus the Boston Journal,
in speaking well of the current number of a cer-
tain magazine, says The articles are fully up to
the Boston standard '—meaning, of course, that
they are -‘ good.' We outer barbarians may well
look, not with envy, but admiration, upon the con-
stant ' standard' of literary excellence which has
been vouchsafed to us. In New York we may have
a few tolerably successful imitators of the Bostonian
graces and glories ; but as for an original and self-
sustained literature of our own--alas 1"
The Cleveland Leader says of the Ohio Woman
Suffrage Convention :—" When the woman con-
ventions shall be purged of feminine men who wear
ringlets and part their hair in the middle, and
speak in a half-falsetto voice, and of masculine
women, who don trousers, crop their hair short,
and talk slang in deep bass, they will command
more respect."

it is reported that the Protestant Bishop of Lon-
don is to have an assistant, or " suffra,gan" bishop, who
will take the title of Bishop of Westminster. If this is
true, the selection of a designation by which the Metro-
politan of the Catholic Church in England has been
known for nearly twenty years is extremely ill-timed, and
will in all probability lead to considerable confusion.
Surely there must be other titles which the suffragan
Bishop of London might select instead of that of West-
minster.— Weekly Register.

The perpetrator of the outrage upon the woman
Fitzgerald, near Wellington, has been arrested, and
proves to be a man named Pitt. He was immediately
identified by the woman, who stated that he sprung out
from a gate upon her and asked her for her money. On
being told that she had none, he said that he would get
rid of her, and, pulling a pistol from his pocket, shot her
in the . hip. She screamed " Murder,, ' and the man
then attempted to fire a second pistol, but was
frightened away by a an approaching vehicle. When
arrested three pistols were found upon him, two being
loaded ; and he attempted to shoot the officer, but wan
disarmed.

During the recent visit of Sothern to Edinburgh
he was asked out to dinner by the officers of the 17th
Lancers. Before the wine was cleared off the table the
officers pressed Mr. Sothern to perform a part of one of
his characters, which, of course, he very naturally de-
clined. They continued, however, to press him so much
that he reluctantly consented, and commenced the drunken
scene from " David Garrick," when, to the astonishment
of all present, he swept the cloth clean off the table,
smashing glass, decanters, plates, dm, wholesale.—Court
Journal.

A telegram from Bells, county Meath, says :—"A
private meeting of the magistrates of the county Meath
has just been held here, for the purpose of considering
the desirability of applying the provisions of the Peace
Preservation Act to the county. The meeting affirmed
the desirability, and also recommended certain changes, in
order to render the organisation and efficiency of the con-
stabulary more complete. Amongst the recommendations
are the formation of several new constabulary stations and
a further increase in the number of men in disturbed
districts."

THEFT or £BOO.—A serious highway robbery is
reported to have been committed at Old Trafford on,
Thursday night. Mr. James Whalley, of Highfield-
terrace, Burnley, who has been on a visit to h*
friends in Manchester during the past week, was
found shortly after ten o'clock, in an apparently
helpless condition, lying on some building land adjoining
City-road. He subsequently stated to the police that
as he was going to his father's house, which is in the same
neighbourhood, he was accosted by two rough looking
men, who knocked him down and robbed him of his
money, which consisted of £250 in gold, and £450 in bank
notes. The thieves seem to have performed their work
in a very expert manner, without attracting 'the attention
of anyone in the neighbourhoodi and they got tigely away
with tiatitinOtn