The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1870.

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ground for flea works, water for -bridging, cost of
brushwood, &c., is not required by any other arm of
the service. These views are laid down in the me-
morial to Mr. Cardwell.

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proper authorities to ascertain the precis,' It appears from an 'official report at St. Petersburg that
causes of those mysterious deaths that have fro): , Russian imports, especially articles of luxury, have con-
time to time occurred in our madhouses, both put'., : siderably increased of late. The increase in the importa-
and private. Ho says that in his researches 110 1: . tion of tea during ;the year was 80,000 cwt.. and in
examined, "not the medical attendants and othe
coffee 70,000 cwt. On the other hand, the exports
servants of an asylum whose interest it is to veil ugly have
been gradually diminishing, and there has been a
truth, and sprinkle hells with rosewater, but a num-
ber of ex-patients who had never been too mad considerable decrease in the exports of corn, flax, and
to observe, and ex-attendants, male and female, who wood. The increase of imports is readily to be accounted
had gone into other lines of life, and could now for by the late tariff reduction.
afford to reveal the secrets of these dark places." . THB ISLAND OF ST. THOMAS.
These very attendants have told him that " the The Pall Mall Gazette learns, on good authority, that
keepers know how to break a patient's bones president Grant Ind his entire Cabinet have decided that
without bruising the skin," and that " the the honour of the United States demands the prompt con-
doctors have been duped again and ,again elusion of the purchase of St. Thomas, negotiatod by Mr.
by them." In this letter Mr. Reads enumerates
Seward. High time, too. This purchase of St. Thomas
several cases, the facts of which he has carefully col- has been an unquestionable discredit to America. Mr.
lected, where wilful cruelty has resulted in death.
Seward represented to the Danish Government that the
He chews us the evidence that was given at inquiries
chiefly by medical men and attendants. The result United States wanted the island very badly, and were
was generally a complete failure of justice. willing to pay a fair price for it. The sum was agreed
In conclusion, to prove the importance he attaches to upon, and the Danes made every preparation for handing
the subject, ho offers "a reward of £lOO to any over the possession, when Congress refused to ratify the
parson or persons who will give such evidence as may bargain. The affair has remained in this state until now.
lead to the conviction of the person or persons who The behaviour of the United States has been a flagrant
have killed William Wilson, by kneeling on him, by example of disregard for the honour and interests of a
walking (knees downwards) upon. him."
"it is
friendly nation.
interest," he says, "that c'oses men s minds in these
dark places. We must employ the same instrument
to open them ; it is our only chance."

TM: FINSBURY 3FURDER.
The unfortunate Cecilia Aldridge, who was so
barbarously murdered in Finsbury last Friday night,
appears to have been one of a large family. No
fewer than twenty young women have represented
themselves to be the sisters of the murdered
woman, and all within less than a week. In
every instance the police have carefully
investigated the pretended relationship, which
has invariably turned out to be an attempt at
fraud. One young woman was an excellent imposter;
she could command bitter tears at discretion, and
displayed acute grief at the sight of her "sister's"
body. But she, too, was found out. ller mother
told the police her daughter had given her trouble
from childhood through a habit of falsehood. Of
course, the object in these cases is to excite substan-
tial sympathy ; and great, indeed, must be the desire
of gain which would induce a woman to claim
kindred with a person such as Cecilia Aldridge seems
to have been.

We have often heard used the phrase "to lie like
a tombstone." An example in support of the phrase may
be found in Handel's tomb in Westminster Abbey, which
gives both the day and the year of his birth wrong, if the
contemporary register is correct.

There is some prospect that a revival of pugilism
will be attempted in the United States very shortly. Jem
Mace and Tom Allen, both Englishmen, are endeavouring
to get up a match for some 2,500 dollars aside and the
"champion belt of America." Up to January 3rd, how-
ever, the two parties had not been able to come to an
agreement, and so this great encounter yet remains in
abeyance.

A telegram from Dublin states that the steamer
Fairwater foundered, after collision with another vessel.
The Fairwater was a very fine vessel, and when the colli-
sion occurred was on a voyage from Penarth to Cork. The
crew were all saved. The barque J. Mann, which arrived
at Plymouth on Monday, reports the wreck of a large
vessel in about lat. 48 N, long. 63 W. Portions of wreck,
cargo, and deckload were floating about. The Cornet, of
Liverpool, is a total wreck at Maceio.

The appeal of the Rev. James Kelly, incumbent of
St. George's Church, Liverpool, against the judgment of
Lord Penzance, whereby a judicial separation was decreed
on the wife's petition, was commenced to-day, before the
learned Judge-Ordinary, Baron Channel, and Justice
Hannen. The greater part of the sitting was occupied by
the rev, respondent reading a portion of the correspon-
dence in the case, and he had only got to four out of the
nine points on which he objects to the judgment when the
court adjourned.

The Pall Mall Gazette, in its notice of the death of
Dr. Rowland Williams, states that only four of the writers
of the "Essays and Reviews" are now alive. This, says the
Globe, is a mistake. Mr. Baden Powell and Dr. Rowland
Williams are dead. The other five are living, namely :
Dr. Temple, Bishop of Exeter; the Rov. B. Jowett, Professor
of Greek in the University of Oxford ; the Rev. 11. B. Wil-
son, Rector of Great Slaught on ; the Rev. Mark Pattison
Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford; and Mr. C. W. Goodwin
(a brother of the Bishop of Carlisle), who is one of her Ma-
jesty's Consuls abroad.

An inquiry was held yesterday at Wednesbury
into the death of Ann loran, aged 70, whose death was said
to have been accelerated by ill-treatment on the part of the
relieving officer. The deceased woman had 2s. a week from
the parish, and l.s. a week from her daughter-in-law. A
fortnight ago she sent fur her parish money, being too
ill to fetch it, but the officer refused to give it. She then
went het self, but was refused the money. She
went again later and received it, but was attacked with a
fit of apoph xy in the pay room, from which site dii d. The
jury returned a verdict that death proceeded flora apoplexy,
caused by cold and exposure, cud added that they thought
the relieving officer was culpable iu compelling the attend-
ance of the woman, knowing her ago and illness. This
verdict they desired might be laid befo.e the Board of
Guardians.

FOREIGIc NOIT/r=

PRYNCE PIERRE PIONLPAIITE nt ITALY.

Our correspondent in Rome,writing on the 15th, layst-tr
"Prince Pierre Bonaparte's affair has caused great interest
here, as he is by birth a Roman, and resided here in his
youth. He was banished from the Roman States for a
crime very similar to that he has just committed, the
murder of an officer of gendarmerie, named Cagiano, the
brother of the late cardinal at that name. Prince
Pierre was then a resident of Viterbo, and was
in the habit of going out armed with
pistols to seek discreditable adventures in the homes of
the citizens and peasantry, to whom he was a perfect
object of terror. Cagiano was sent to arrest him, andhaving
been previously on friendly terms with him, did so without
violence, simply requesting the Prince to follow. The latter
did so, but as soon as they reached a dark lane in Viterbo
the Prince took out a pistol and shot the poor officer dead.
These details are matter of notoriety here, and are a suffi-
cient indication of the violent and cowardly character of
the Prince. But for the influence of his father, Lucien
Bonaparte, he wouldl have been sent to the galleys, but in
respect to his family he was allowed to escape."