The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-14 00:00:00

THE POOR MAN AND HIS BEER.

On Monday morning the Liverpool magistrates
had 279 " cases" to deal with. Two hundred and
twenty-four were Sunday drunkards, so that the
drink-shops were responsible for just four-fifths of
the crime of that one day. What a cruel thins it
would be to " rob a pour man of his beer."

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From the .4nglo-11merican Times.)

NEW YORK, June 26.
We have had a most irregular season, both as
regards temperature and weather, gales, rain, fogs;
unusual cold for summer, and now unusual heat.
On Monday the heat was intense, on Tuesday the
cold was chilly, and the country deluged with rain.
The event of the week has been the sudden death
of Mr. Raymond and his burial, but I need not
dwell on this, as you must have already noticed
so important an event. There is a rumour that
Mr. George Wilkes was to take his place on the
Times, but little credit is attached to such reports.
There will be no present alteration, as the Times
can run now as it did while the late Mr. Raymond
was in Europe, as well as in Congress ; of course
there have been numerous applications, and rumour
has placed many literary men in the seat of the
deceased journalist. Mr. George Jones is the pub-
lisher ; the proprietors associated him with Mr.
Raymond in the entire management ; he now suc-
ceeds to the chief place, and the paper will be con-
ducted under his supervision. August Belmont and
his family left in the Cuba for Liverpool, and it is
no exaggeration to say that American representa-
tive men of all classes are just now more to be
found in Europe than on their own side of the At-
lantic. Independent of members of our leading firms
in this city you have the senior partner of the great
Philadelphia banking- house of Drexel, and Mr. Wa-
lker, of Boston, but he is commissioned by his State to
negotiate a loan. A representative of Jay Cooke
and Co. has also crossed. This firm has taken an
interest in the construction of a new railroad to the
Pacific, north of that now opened, and its wealth
is so enormous that that alone is sufficient to
insure the accomplishment of a work even of
such magnitude. Senators and Representatives
from Congress, leading lawyers, journalists,
artists, doctors of divinity and of medicine have
also left in great numbers. Talking of doctors,
the Eclectic Medical Society of this State met
in Steinway hail, when the opportunity was
taken to accuse Dr. Bowisby, of Brooklyn, of sell-
ing medicine of the dispensary intended for the
poor, and he replied by submitting charges of a
like nature against other members. Dr. Newton
read an interesting paper on the vegetables used
in practice, asserting the crude roots and juices to
be more potent than the concentrated prepa-
rations usually substituted. The small-pox scare
has been followed by a yellow fever scare,
and the hospital ship, Illinois, is the scene of its
ravages. There have been some deaths, amongst
them that of an officer of the navy, but it
does not spread, and small-pox is said to be de-
creasing. The Rev. Dr. Greenleaf, rector of
Emmanuel Church, died.suddenly of heart disease,
when sitting in his chair. He was a brother of the
late Dr. Greenleaf, of Cambridge, and son of Judge
Greenleaf, of Harvard. Delegates from the Na-
tional Banks assembled at the St. Nicholas Hotel,
with the Hon. T. M. Pomeroy, of Auburn, as:vice-
president, to consult as to the National Bank in-
terest, and seventy-five were selected to adopt Plea-
sures, the expenses to be defrayed by assessing the