The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-01 00:00:00

AMERICAN NOTES.

A correspondent, writing from Philadelphia on Novem-
ber 14th. says :—" M. Treilhard arrived at New York on
November 12th, and at once telegraphed the fact to Wash-
ington, at the same time making an inquiry of the Go-
vernment as to his reception there. M. Treilhard, if
will be remembered, upon the suicide of M. Pre-
vost Paradol, was appointed by Napoleon the
French Envoy to Washington. Napoleon has since
been overthrown ; M. Treilhard has received no endorse-
ment from either the Paris or Tours Government ; and
M. Berthemy (Paradol's predecessor) now represents
France at Washington. It is understood that the Ameri-
can Government has advised M. Treilhard that he will
not be received in Washington in a diplomatic capacity,
and that M. Berthemy will continue there until relieved
by the French authorities. The steamer Ontario re-
cently sailed froth New York for " Cowes and a market,"
carrying 73,620 muskets, 20,950 carbines, 500 rifles,
500 revolvers, 55 cannon, and 17,785,352 cartridges—total
value, $1,853,497—a1l designed for the French army. On
the 11th of November, at St. Charles, above St. Louis,
where a railway bridge is being built across the Missouri
river, a span gave way, precipitating 25 persons into the
water, 16 of whom were killed and nine injured. The cause
of the disaster was the breaking of a wire rope while the
men were hoisting a heavy column. Fourteen bodies have
been recovered. Near Columbia, South Carolina, on the
10th of November, a passenger train on the railway from
Greenville, Tennessee, fell through a trestle, three pas-
senger coaches being precipitated to the ground, a distance
of 25 feet. Four persons were killed and some 15 injured.
The receipts of cotton at the Southern shipping
ports are greatly increasing iu amount. Thus for
the week ending the 11th of November the receipts
were 132,065 bales as compared with 106,406 bales
for the previous week, and 94,108 bales for the
corresponding week of 1869. The total receipts for the
period since the Ist of September are 678,550 bales, as
compared with 626,613 bales for the corresponding period
last year. The cotton movement this year is thus shown
to be in excess of last year, and the large receipts now
are in some measure accounted for by the heavy rainfalls
recently which have wade the Southern rivers navigable.
The exports this year are 281,106 bales, against 258,992
bales last year.

THE NEW BISHOP OF MADAGASCAR.—The Rev.
R. H. Baynes, Bishop-Designate of Madagascar, is the
son of a deceased Baptist minister, of excellent reputa-
tion, at Wellington, in Somerset.
Some agitation has been set on foot in London-
derry to make Lough Swilly the port of call for the
United States and Canadian packets, instead of Lough
Foyle. The wreck of the Cambria on innistrahull
which island is said to be in the way of steamers coming
from America, has been the cause of this agitation.
The Eclucati,,n Bill for Ireland is, the Irish Times
learns, drafted, and all its main provisions have been
decided on. It will be a comprehensive measure, dealing
with the question of university as well as other branches
of education in Ireland. Considerable changes will be
proposed in the Queen's Colleges. These institutions are
o be placed on a new basis.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY UNION AND THE Rus-
SIAN NOTE. —At the Cambridge University. Union on
Tuesday night a warm debate took place on the following
subject, introduced by Mr. J. F. Moulton, 8.A., Fellow
of Christ's College :—" That in the opinion of this house
to go to war with Russia would be not only a blunder but
a crime." The motion met with strong opposition, and
was eventually lost by a majority of 110 against 41.

A. VICAR'S RIGHT TO PEWS IN A PROPRIETORY
CHAPEL—The Dean of Arches (Sir R. J. Phillimore) has
decided in the case of the vicar of All Saints, Leamington
—theßev. J. Craig v. Watson et alios—that a vicar has no
prescriptive or other right to an allotment or distribution
of seats or pews in a parish church or proprietorial chapel , ,
as against the interests of his parishioners, the contention of
Mr. Craig being that he had, by reason of private sub-
scriptions to the enlargement of the nave and chancel of
the church, and by purchase from his predecessor, the
Rev. Robert O'Dowd, acquired, in addition to other
claims, a right to let and dispose of a certain number of
pews, which were also claimed by the churchwardens on
the part of the parishioners generally.
CURIOUS SAILORS IN A CUNARD SHIP.—A
strange revelation was made before the Liverpool stipen-
diary on Tuesday, in connection with the Cunard line. It
appeared that two drapers' assistants being out of employ-
ment, had applied to a sailors' boarding-house keeper
to get them to sea. He sent one of them to a vessel,
and he was rejected because he was not an able seaman.
The Cunard steamer Aleppo being about to go on
her voyage shortly after, the boarding-house keeper
sent the two young men in October to ship as substitutes
for hands that were short, cautioning them to say that
they were able seamen. It was found on the voyage
that they knew nothing of their duties, and on the
return of the vessel Messrs. M`lver traced the imposition
to a man named Murphy, and had him fined in the
full penalty of £lO, or two mouths' imprisonment, for
shipping sailors without a licence. The magistrate made
some strong comments on the public danger of such a
trick.
MANSLAUGHTER IN LONDON. Mr. W. J.
Payne and a jury were engaged on Tuesday in investi-
gating the death of the woman Stevens, alleged to have
been caused by two women, who were examined at the
Southwark Police-office on Monday, and remanded. Mary *
Ann Sullivan, of 53, King-street, Borough, said that on 1
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Mrs. Stevens from the landing down the steps, and after- .
wards she saw deceased lying at the bottom of the stairs,
with Mrs. Shepton and another woman, named Hannah
Stedgall, standing. over her. The two tried to lift the
deceased, who was Insensible, and, not being able to do so,
they dragged her downstairs into the kitchen by her
heels. In reply to the Coroner, the witness stated that
the women were so desperate that she was afraid to inter-
fere. At one o'clock witness went down to the kitchen,
and found the deceased with her clothes in great dis-
order, lying on her back, apparently asleep. A basket
was over her head, and a chair was on the top of it. Late
in the afternoon the two women, Shepton and Stedgall,
carried the deceased to the street, and left her lying on
the flagstones. She was then carried to the police-station •
on a stretcher, and was found dead in her cell in the
evening. The medical evidence proved that death had
resulted from injury to the brain, that might have been
caused by a fall downstairs. The jury returned a verdict.
of " Manslaughter " against Anne Shepton and Hannalt.
Stedgall.

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