The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-31 00:00:00

ACCIDENT IN RICHMOND PARK.

On Saturday evening, as a party of six gentlemen *ere
taking a drive through Richmond Park, in a drag drawn
by four horses, one of the leaders took fright, kicked
against a tree, and twisted round towards the drag, which
was overturned with much force. All .the gen
tlemen were thrown out, and were more or less seriously
injured. One who had fractured his leg, and another
who was less seriously injured, were taken to the Castle
Hotel. Another who had received a severe fracture of
the skull, was taken to the Richmond Infirmary, where
he still lies in a very dangerous state. The gentleman
suffer'ng from fracture of the skull is Mr. G.
Hodder. who is well known in literary circles ;
the one who broke his leg Sis Mr. Allen, also a literary
gentleman. Mr. Beales is the name of the other gentle-
man, who was taken to the Castle. The drag was driven
by Captain Haworth, who, although injured, returned to
to town the same night. Captain Ha,worth's son was also
in the vehicle.

The Rev. Joseph Baly, son-in-law to the late rector,
the Rev. W. J. Coope, has been appointed to the living of
Falmouth, which is in the patronage of the family.

Sat HARRY PARKES.—It is reported in the East
that Sir Harry Parkes, the present British Minister for
Japan, is likely to be accredited to Pekin.

At the request of the Government of Victoria no
newspapers, book-packets, or packets of patterns, ad-
dressed to that colony will, until further notice, be
forwarded by the route of San Francisco and New
Zealand.

THE LEADERS OF THE FENIAN RAID ON CANADA.
—A. correspondent informs us that " General " O'Neill
was apprenticed to the business of a house painter in
Clonmel, and that " General " Gleason was-in 1848 serv-
ing in the Irish constabulary and stationed at Donny-
brook.—Post.

The dispute between the Blochairn men and their
employers, which bas brought about the lock-out in the
Scotch iron trade, is to be referred to arbitration. The
employers are said to be willing to accept the decision of
the arbiters as final and binding, if the men will guaiantee
to resume•work as soon as it is given.

LEGAL EDUCATION.—A law contemporary believes
that the legal education scheme of the committee on which
Mr. Quain,Q.C., and others are engaged is now virtually
ready for issue, and may be expected to be placed before
the public almost immediately. The committee recom-
mend a certain modification of the scheme formerly pro-
posed by Mr. Jevons ; and it is intended to introduce a
bill before the end of the present parliamentary session.

"A. strange movement" is said to have begun in
Ireland among the professional and academic classes in
favour of the greater localisation of the powers of
Government in domestic matters. A conference was
held some days ago in Dublin, at which certain well-
known physicians, lawyers, and professors and fellows of
Trinity College, with a score or two of landed proprietors
were present ; and which resulted in a private circular
being addressed to persons of similar position in life
inviting their co-operation and advice.

bDRIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A POSTMAN.— On
Saturday last Francis Ninnis, late a rural messenger at
Ludgvan, Penzance, was charged before the county magis-
trates, for having on or about the 12th of April last
embezzled the sum of ninepence, the property of the Post-
master-GeneraL—Mr. E. S. Boyns appeared for the
prosecution, and stated that Mrs. Treglown, of Ludgvan,
entrusted 9d. to Ninnis, as rural messenger, to register
and pay the postage of a letter to her son in America.
Instead of doing this he kept the ninepence, posting the
letter as unpaid, and it had to be paid by the receiver.
Upon these facts Mr. Boyns asked for a remand for a
week.—Prisoner was accordingly remanded, bail being
refused.— Western Morning News.

A. CURIOUS DROWNING CASE.—An inquest was
held at Monk Bretton to inquire into the circumstances
attending the death of Jane White, an innkeeper's
daughter, fifteen years of age, whose body was
found in the Wakefield and Barnsley Canal. On
the previous evening she was in company with
a young man named Stephenson, who said that
she seemed tipsy, and tried several times to push him into
the water. They slept in a field together until daylight,
and then she did actually push him into the water. He
swam across the stream, and she exclaimed, "You look
just like a drowned rat." Eventually he left her, and the
next he heard of her was that she was dead. A verdict of
" Found drowned " was recorded.

TRADING IN DISEASED MEAT.—Not a week passes
but brings before us more and more urgently the necessity
for stricter regulations respecting the sale of diseased
meat, From Leicester comes the case of a whole family
poisoned, and with difficulty recovered, by eating putrid
sausages. From Turvey, in Bedfordshire, we have a story
of a cow being slaughtered in the last stage of disease, and
sent up to the metropolitan market for the benefit of
meat-eating Londoners. And we do not hesitate to say
that for every case of the sort of which we hear there
are twenty which do not reach us, but which are over-
looked or hushed up. We require a very much more
stringent law to reach every person who dabbles in
diseased meat.

MANCHESTER NAVIGATION.—It is stated that the
amount of earthwork required for the construction of this
navigation would be about equal to one-third of the
quantity of the rock and earth removed in making the
Suez Canal. To shew with what facility large cuttings
may be executed by tho powerful steam-dredgers of the
present day it is mentioned that the dredging of the Clyde
has taken twenty-one years to accomplish, and that the
Suez Canal Company have executed three times and a
half the same amount in one month, and at Toulon about
the same result as in dredging the Clyde was accomplished
in nine years. It is stated that Mr. Hamilton Fulton,
the engineer, consider the Manchester Navigation may be
finished under favourable circumstances, in three years.

A. SMUGGLER CAPTURED.—EarIy on Friday
morning last Mr. Taylor, R.N., chief officer in charge of
the Ventnor Coastguard Station, . received intelligence
that a sailing-boat was landing a number. of casks in Steel
Bay, about two, miles east of Ventnor, and close to
Luccombe Chine. Mr. Taylor instantly called
up a boat's crew, and had a four-oared galley
launched .from• Ventnor 8ay,... in. . order to pull
round Dunnose • Point, . and, . if. possible,. to cut off the
supposed smuggler. In twenty-five minutes from the
intelligence being reported at Ventnor station the Coast-
guard boat reached the spot where the tubs had been
landed. The smuggler had taken his departure on the
first alarm; and was now seen about four. miles from the
shore, standing off into the Channel with a fair breeze.
It seemed doubtful whether the Coastguard boat could
overtake him ; but she immediately made off
in full pursuit, the men bending to their oars in
fine style. After a very long pull, and a good deal
of dodging on the part of the pursued, the boat was
captured a good distance out in the channel, as far as the
eye could reach from the cliffs. There was only one man,
Noah Williams, of Ventnor, in the boat, but he was made
prisoner, and brought back to Ventnor, about ten o'clock,
in his own boat, by two of the coastguard men. Some other
men who had not been able to regain their boat on being
surprised when landing theirliquids in Steel Bay, had made
good their escape by climbine• the cliff. ,
AN UNWELCOME PROMISE.— ri Paris corres-
pondent tells the following anecdote of the Grand Hotel,
Paris. It must be premised that the prevailing' epidemic
has excited great alarm among the visitors. " A lady,
rather excited, rushed down to the counting house,' and
asked hurriedly of one of those small tight-clad boys who
are on duty in the precinct, Have you the smallpox in
the house,' and the boy, who . " perfectly understands
,English, replied, No ; but we expect it- every minute;
and when it arrives I will send it up to the chamber of
Madame !' "