The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-20 00:00:00

first two days approached £55,000.

The British Medical Journal states that by special
order of the French Minister of Instruction Miss Garrett,
licentiate of the Apothecaries' Societies of London, has been
admitted to and successfully passsed the first of the series
of five examinations for the degree of doctor of medicine,
without being compelled, as usual, to reside and attend tho
courses. Three other ladies are being educated in the medi-
cal schools of Paris.

A severe contest is anticipated at Blackburn when
the now writ is issued. Mr. J. G. Potter, the defeated
Liberal candidate at the late election, will bo again in the
field, having probably for his colleague Mr. John Morley,
editor of the K rtnightly Review, and Mr. N.J. K. Shuttloworth,
who contested North-East Lancashire in November. The
Conservative candidates will most likely be the sons of the
late members, Messrs. Hornby and Feilden. The Pall Mall
Gazette ssys Captain Ifozier, it is said, will offer himself to
the constituency on Liberal Conservative principles.
At the Manchester Assizes on Thursday Mr. Justice
Lush and a special jury were engaged the whole of the day
in a case in which Mr. Thomas Sagar, an ironfounder at
Burnley, sought to recover compensation from the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire Railway Company, for injuries received
by him in August, 1865, when travelling to Manchester. The
engine of the train in which he was a passenger broke down,
and an engine that was following dashed into the disabled
train, the plaintiff receiving injuries, followed by paralysis,
which, it is feared, will shortly prove fatal. The damages
were laid at £lO,OOO, and the jury awarded £4,000.

Mr. Beecroft, late member for the borough of Leeclit,
died in London on Thursday, after a short illness. Mr. Beecroft
was first returned to Parliament in June, 1857, and ho re-
tained his seat until the dissolution last year. He thcn re-
signed rather than go through the fatigue of a contest, and
the result justifies the step he then took. Mr. Beecroft was
a Conservative in politics, but he was highly esteemed by
all parties in the borough. Ho was born in 1809, and was
married in 1842 to the daughter of Mr. George Beaumont,
of Halifax, who survives him. He was a West Riding ma-
gistrate, and a deputy lieutenant of the same division of the
county.

A very singular instance of the occasional absurdity
of the Engliislt poor law has just occurred at Birmingham.
A working man named Simpson, who had emigrated to the
United States, sent for his wifeand eight children, who were
being supported by the parish, paying their passage from
Liverpool to New York. The guardians pa'd their
expenses from Birmingham to Liverpool, amounting to
£B, thereby relieving the ratepayers from a continu-
ous and indefinite expense, and bonefitting the family.
Tho auditor, however, disallowed the charge, and the
Poor-law Board refused to sanction it. The Board
of guardians requested the chairman not to pay the
money, and accordingly a distraint has been levied on his
goods for the disputed sum.

Dr. Petermann, the originator of the first German
expedition to the north pole, announces, says the Pall Mall
Gazette, that a second expedition is to leave Bremer-
haven in the first week of June. The expedition will consist
of two ships, milled the Greenland and tho Germania. The
object of this expedition, as of the former one, is to investi-
gate the polar regions along the coast of East Greenland north
of the 75th degree of north latitude. It is to be provided
with a strong scientific staff, and to pass the winter in the
Arctic regions, so as to return by October, 1870. The
Greenland is to serve as a transport, and also to keep up the
communication with Europe, and will return this winter,
having the Germania, to pursue its journey alone.
The `surrey coroner has just held an inquiry at Ber-
mondsey res., ecting the death of Annie Burden, a dress-
miller, aged 23 years, who, it was alleged, was on Monday
night wilfully drowned by Icing bushed into the Thames.
Eliza Frewen, a young wOrnan, said she used to meet de-
ceased every evening. On Monday she was in the company
of Harry Kent. There was a young woman named Eliza-
beth Smith with her. Coroner : Was the deceased a re-
spectable gir ? Witness : Yes ; she did not speak of Harry
Kent as her sweetheart. Th:sy left me and Elizabeth Smith
at eleven Ccl ek at night. They wont towards Dockhead.
The deceased was not addicted to drink. On Monday night
Harry Kent gave her drink. Harry Kent is a lightertnan.
Kent led her away from the direction of her home on Mon-
day night towards the river. The coroner's officer said that a
man had, at two in the morning, heard a man near the river
cry out, " Annie, Annie, where aro you ?" Coroner (to
Kent): I shall ask you no questions; but I shall bind you
aver in recognizancee to appear at the next sitting of the
,:curt. If you do not come forward I shall issue a warrant
for your arrost. The 99r9UorA42k_i 9.4 tJ,Q jowl