The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-03 00:00:00

AG_RICULTUR.4L PROSPECTS'.

The 21Iag,iet in its review of the grain trade says :
" The showers which have visited most districts during
the week have beneficially affected the crops. The com-
plaint that the want of moisture was limiting the pro-
ductive powers of the plant has thus been removed, and
we have now to chronicle the further improvement in the
condition of the crops. Rapid progress to maturity
has been made, and there is no doubt that the harvest
will be much earlier than was anticipated ; in fact, in
some parts near Newmarket and West Suffolk a slight
beginning has been made, and it is possible that that the
harvest will shortly be general. The providential advent
of settled weather has completely dissipated the fears for
the safety of the crop, and it is now generally admitted
that it will prove equal, or at all events not far short of
the average of seasons. The root crops have undergone
a marked improvement. Previously suffering from want
of moisture, the rain has effectually remedied this evil,
and has removed the apprehensions of a failure of the
crop. Junging from present appearances, the yield is
likely to be extremely satisfactory, both as to quantity and
quality."

MR. WHALLEY AND THE "PETER-
POROUGH TIMES."

An appeal against the judgment of Vice-Chancellor
Stuart, in the case " Mill v. Whalley, M.P., and
others," was concluded on Monday in the Court of Chan-
cery, before Mr. Justice Giffard. His Honour had
granted an injunction restraining the defendants from
printing and publishing the Peterborough Times, and from
retaining the premises and plant, or interfering with or
molesting the plaintiff in his business, the in-
junction being granted on condition of the plaintiff
undertaking to pay, on or before the let of
September, the sum of £3OO purchase-money
of the paper and interest. Mr. Green, on the part of the
appellants, now sought the reversal of the Vice
Chancellor's judgment, on the ground that it was contrary
to the principles and practices of that court. The
injunction should not have been granted until the
purchase-money bad been paid into court.— Mr.
Dickinson, Q.C., argued that Mr. Mill had been
prever.ted from paying the money when due in con-
sequence of the act of defendants in taking forcible
possession of the premises, and preventing him
from carrying on the business, which alone could have
enabled him to pay.—His lordship said he was of opinion
that the Vice-Chancellor ought not to have granted the
injunction until the money had been paid. He, therefore,
ordered that the defendants carry on the paper and keep
an account of the profits, and that if the money be paid
by the Ist September the injunction should go out, as
ordered by the court below.

On Sunday, as Admiral Sir Augustus William
James Clifford, Bart., C. 8., Gentleman Usher of the Black
Rod, was proceeding along the passage at the foot of the
stircase leading from the House of Lords to the river front
he sustained a fall, breaking his knee cap. Sir Augustus is
in his eighty-second year. This morning ho was progress-
)ur favourably.

We have to record the death of Professor J. Beets
Jukes, 111. A., F.R.S., Director of her Majesty's Survey of
Ireland, and Professor of Geology to the Royal Collage
Science. He was geological surveyor of Newfoundland in
1839. and was naturalist on her Majesty's ship Fly on a
voyage to New Guinea and the shores of Australia in 1841.
In 1846 he was appointed to a post on the geological survey
of the United Kingdom. lie was the author of various con-
tributions to geological science.
MAXIMILIAN'S WIDOW AND NAPOLEON.—The
aversion of the Empress Charlotte for every token of the
Emperor of the French is so well known that in a general
way all busts and portraits of him are sedulously kept
out of her sight. Nevertheless, it happened inadvertently
the other day that at a county villa a large marble bust
of him stood in one of the rooms. It is reported that she
discovered it instantly on entering the apartment, and,
saluting it loudly with the title of Betrayer, she ran up to
the pedestal, and, with an almost incredible exertion of
strength, dashed it to the ground.
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THE PARSON ASLEEP.—The Chester Chronicle
records a most amusing incident at a local country church
a Sunday or two back. The parson, after the morning
service, took luncheon and went to sleep, trusting to be
awakened in the afternoon for church. But the servants
forgot him ; and he slept on after time for beginning
evening prayers. The sexton tolled the bell, the bell
told the people to come to church, but the parson was not
told. The church was filled ; but not the reading desk
The people were beginning to go away, when the minister
was sought for, found, and brought refreshed to his work.
OUGHT TO HAVE KNOWN Him.—An individual
possessing unmistakable evidence of African extraction
was arraigned for larceny. The judge, as of right, was
dignified, but said, with severe presence, " Are you guilty
or not ?" " Sar !"—" Did you steal these clothes ?" he
repeated. "Golly, boss, 'dare never done it."—" This man
says you did." •' He ain't notbin' but white trash."—"And
what are you ?" "Me ! Why, don't you know me? I
rid wid you in the percession. I helped to lead you
home when you got 'tired' that night. Don't yer 'mem•
ber me now ?" There was the " suddenest" nob pros. in
that darkey's case that judicial annals afford an example
of. So mnch for the advantages of good society.—Ameri•
can Paper.
A MUSEUM AT SEBASTOPOL.—The Invalide Russe
says :—" The committee charged with organising the new
museum at Sebastopol has decided on placing in it oil por-
traits of Nicholas 1., Alexander 11., and the Grand Dukes
Nicholas, Michael, and Constantine. The first acquisi-
tions to be made for the museum will be the lithographed
portraits of the defenders of Sebastopol, models of the
Russian and foreign ships which took part in the defence
and siege, the Russian and foreign publications, engravings,
stamps, &c., relative to the Crimean War, pictures repre-
senting the defence of the place and all the siege work—
in a word, models of all the arms employed during
the struggle of which Sebastopol was the theatre. The
museum will be opened, if possible, for the 15th of
August.

LORD BROUGHAM AND THE GREAT SEAL AT
ROTHIEMIIRCHUS. —At Rotbiemurchus, then the residence
of the Dowager-Duchess of Bedford, Lord Brougham,
when Chancellor, found a large party of English
ladies, with whom he had romped so familiarly that
to be revenged on him they stole the Great Seal, and
hid it where neither he nor his attendants could dis-
cover it. This was rather a serious practical joke, for
without the Great Seal the Government is at a stand-
still. The Great Seal alone gives validity to the most
important acts of the Executive Government, and
every grant in the Sovereign's name, bearing the impres-
sion of it is, in point of law, conclusively authentic. At
last he was in such real distress about it that the ladies
took compassion on him, and assured him it was in the
drawing-room, and that he might find it blindfold, one of
them assisting him by playing loudly on the piano when
he approached it. He was blindfolded accordingly, and by
the hints which the piano gave him he dragged the bauble
in due time from a tea-chest.
STRANGE SUICIDE OF A SERVANT GIRL.—On
Monday Dr. Lankester held an inquest in Bloomsbury,
on the body of Charlotte Matilda Hopkins, aged 17, who
was found dead in bed on Friday morning last, in Bernard-
street, Russell-square. It was alleged that she had
destroyed her life by taking poison, owing to the receipt
of a letter from an emigration society, informing her that
if she did not fulfil the terms of the agreement she
had signed she would be liable to imprisonment.
During the proceedings a letter was read, in which
the deceased wished her friends good-bye, and hoped God
would forgive her. She also sent her love to various
friends. The mother said that her (laughter was
in great fear about the letter she had received from
the emigration society ; because she did not carry
out her agreement, she would be liable to a penalty of
1;10, or three months' imprisonment. A juror wished to
know the name of the society, when he was answered
from the body of the court that it was the Servants'
Emigration Aid Society, whose agents had been round
Bloomsbury and other squares, setting forth the advan-
tages of emigration to the servants, and cfferii g tin m
assistance. Several had gone out under their auipicer.
The coroner said there was nothing wrong in ths.4. If,
however, means were used to force them out against
their inclination, in the event of a change of mind, it was
decidedly illegal. The jury said they should like to have
the rules of the society who were instrumental in the
emigration of servants. Ultimately they returned a Ter-
diet of "Suicide with oxalic acid while in an mound
PtAtsixiiPsl.",