The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-01 00:00:00

EDMUND KEAIV'S DEB U?.

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC;JOITENALS.

THE STRIKE AT PRESTON.

The Times observes that the improvement in the revenue ! There was another numerously attended meeting of the
in the quarter just closed is a fact to be remembered in I masters, on Wednesday, the object being to discuss the
making provision for the year just beginning. But it ! " situation," and consider the measures requisite for pro-
must be observed that the future thus foreshadowed tecting the interests of the trade in the present crisis. The
depends upon three circumstances, one of which, we are various statements put forth since the last meeting were
told on authority, is very uncertain. The first is the ' mentioned, the embarrassing condition of the cotton trade
maintenance of the elasticity the revenue has exhibited was commented upon, and the inability of working to a
during the last three months. The state of trade does profit at the present price of the raw material and labour
not justify any sanguine prediction that this elasticity was referred to. No disposition to deviate from their
will endure, and, perhaps, points the other way, original proposal—a reduction of 10 per cent—was shewn
but we incline to the opinion that it may on the whole be by the masters ; such a change in remuneration as
trusted to continue. The second circumstance is freedom it will necessitate was deemed essential ; and the meet-
from any further extraordinary expenditure for some time ing eventually broke up with a firm conviction
to come, an exemption we can never rely upon when the that the step which the manufacturers had taken was a
extent and multiplicity of our national interests are con- ' right one. It seems to be now certain, unless a compro-
sidered.
The last circumstance is the absence of any raise is come to in the meantime, that in a week from now
further calls from India in respect of Abyssinian expendi- the operatives employed in between twenty and thirty of
ture, and, while this is the most doubtful element of the the mills in Preston will be out on strike. -- A meeting of
three, it is the one which may be most quickly resolved, the Preston Amalgamated Trades' Council was also con-
Should Mr. Love be able to inform the House next vened to consider the letter received from Mr. Mundella,
Thursday that be is free from future M.P. A large number of operatives in Preston belong to
claims, his first
Budget may be launched under happier auspices than any the militia regiment, which annually assembles in the
t )wn at this time of the year ; and for several weeks from
of us have dared to hope.
The Doily P; cars considers that the revenue return for 1 the present the funds of the trades union will be consider-
the quarter is very similar to its predecessor. There is an ably relieved by their absence. Deputies sent from Preston
increase of about the same amount cn most of the prin- into different parts of the country report favo itil
eys as
cipal heads of receipt ; and in the Customs, where there is to the support they have received for the opera - on
a decrease, the amount is rather less than it was in the strike.
—__ -—-- - -- -- -- --- -= ----=- - - --- -- -
previous quarter. Altogether the net increase is £731,000,
but this includes two items—£2o4,ooo of property tax and ROBBERY OF £50,000 IN TIIE CITY,
0
£179,000 miscellaneous—which cannot fairly be reckoned robbery, which is said to have
resulted in the lo
when the revenue is taken as an indication of the national I A. curious system of
r°bof £50,000 to a well-known
company of great
progress. The miscellaneous always fluctuates, and the ' wealthss and longstanding in the City,
rates and collection of the property tax have for the periods
discovered,
in question been somewhat irregular. Deducting these has just been and a reward of £2OO has been
two sums there is a net increase of £410,000, which offered for the apprehension of a
Thegeman suspected
gentleman
may be properly considered a sign of elasticity, and ,of being concerned in the affair. suspected party,
NI r. Benjamin Higgs, was assistant book-keeper, and
the amount is large enough, after the returns to which a --r•
confidential position'
at the office of tsl”
we have been lately accustomed, to justify a good deal
occupied
Ventrala Gashis salary b •
Company, being £lBO ayes:.
of satisfaction. Actually there is a gross increase of he
Gr
eat
He lately informed some of his City business friends that
£472,000, 1 iz., Excise, £248,000 ; stamps, £44,000 ; taxes,'
he had married a ward in Chancery, whose wealth was so
£17,000 ;Post Office, £lOO,OOO ; and Crown lands, £l,OOO.
great that he did not exactly know what it amounted
The disagreeable feature is the want of response in the
to. He took to living in style, and ordered a mansion
Customs, which seduces this gross sum by £G2,000 ; but
to be built for himse?: at a cost of £12,500. The
the Customs do not so readily indicate the beginning of
site fixed upon was near Richmond. There was some
improvement as the Excise, and we may rest satisfied
land near the house, which he wanted for pleasure grounds,
with the diminution in the amount of the falling-off. The
and he bought the freehold of it for £3OO an acre. He had
account for the whole year is by no means so satisfactory.
iron railings put round a meadow at a cost of £1,500. The
The unfavourable returns of the first two quarters of the
house, when completed, was beautifully furnished. The
year are far from being wholly recovered. While there is
an apparent gross increase of £3,555,000, and a net in-
gentleman used to give sumptuous dinner parties,
crease of £2,901,000, sve find that this ismore than accounted and lie introduced his guests to his wife and
two daughters. Some of his guests were aware
for by the increase of £2,441,000 on the property tax,
of the amount of his salary, but he told them that
due to the higher rate and the arrears left of the
he was one of the largest shareholders of the com-
previous year, and of .£769,000 in the miscellaneous.
pany, and that he merely remained in the inferior posi-
Looking at the ordinary branches of revenue only there
tion in which he was so that he might be able to see that
is a decrease of £226,000 in the Customs, £323,000 is
he was not robbed. Everything went on well for
stamps, and £15.000 in taxes—total, £564,000 ;- and an
increase of £300,u00 in the Excise, £30,000 in the Post him until a few days ago, when the books were inspected.
£345,000 ; It was then discovered that an extensive system of
Office, and £15,00u in Crown Lands—total,
chewing a net falling off of £219,000 for the year. The forgery and robbery had been carried on, and that the
panic of 1866 by the depression it caused has told most seal of the company had been fraudulently attached to
heavily on the year just past. It is only now we have a documents, and money raised upon them. The sum stolen
falling off on the whole financial year. In the year pre- is said to be
.£50,000. The clerk has fled, but a warrant
vious there was a real expansion of somewhere about has been issued for his apprehension, and a reward offered.
£300,000. It may be hoped, however, that as the tide has He is know to have had a large sum with him when ho
k
begun to turn, we have seen the worst of the crisis, and absconded.
that every quarter of next year. and the whole year, will
I EMBEZZLEMENT OF £B,OOO BY A
chew a continuous improvement. I SECRETARY.
The Telegraph says the unpleasant ciicumstance about
the reduction in Customs revenue is, that all articles of
luxury have gone less into consumption recently. Our At the Salford Hundred County Police-court, on Tues.
day, HenryJac
people have consumed less tea, coffee, sugar, tobacco, kson, secretary to the Astley and Tyldesley
spirits, wine, and even fruit, within the last few months, Coal and Salt Company, whose defalcations are alleged to
exceed £B,OOO, was brought up on remand on charges
and the revenue tables show the effect. No circumstance
could more painfully testify to the hampered and lessened of forgery and embezzlement. The principal wit-
means of our great consuming middle class. But the ness, Mr. John Adatnson, accountant, Manchester, and
resulted auditor to the company, stated that the prisoner, in his
disclosed has another aspect. It is impossible
capacity as secretary, had the charge of the cash. In the
to doubt that, in the present circumstances of that
portion month of February last witness went over to Tyldesley,
of the community which is exposed to the full
where he saw the prisoner, and asked him to produce his
incidence of direct taxation, every addition to the
income tax provokes a corresponding retrench. balance sheet. That document, in the prisoner's hand.
writing, was given to him, and represented a balance of
meat in personal expenditure. Even in times of prosperity
we should expect such a result ; when times are bad it is £12,839 12s. 6d. as being the amount due to the bank.
Under date of December 5, he found in the rough cash
inevitable. The ability to bear burdens is then in the
book an entry of £950 for `' bank sundries," and on
aggregate much smaller, and the inducements to lessen
the 22nd of December an entry to the same bank of
the infliction are proportionately stronger. It is to be
hoped that Mr. Lowe will bear this consideration in mind £1,393 ; but upon examination it was found in the cash
when he arranges his financial proposals fOr the year, and book the latter amount had only been £393. On the 31st
of the same month there was another entry in
will endeavour, by retrenchment, reduction, or postpone-
the rough cash book of the item " bank sundries " £1,512,
ments, to avoid laying a heavier weight on that portion of
and here again the original sum appeared only to have
the community which is too honest to evade the tax-
been £512. In this way the prisoner was charged with
gatherer—but which will, nevertheless, unquestionably
having in all forged a pass book to the extent of nearly
stint in one direction if over-pressed in another. The
£4,000. Four charges of embezzlement were also preferred
income tax, though obnoxious and unpopular in the
highest degree, is an efficient financial screw ; but an against the prisoner, but it being proved that there
were entries of his having received the cheques in
excessive application of it may in some measure defeat the
end sought by its operation. : each case in his pass hook, the sitting magistrates decided
that as the essence of embezzlement was " non-account-
The Star says that it is not very pleasant to contem- ing," and that as in this case the prisoner had in reality
Plate the predicament in which we find ourselves placed.
Apparently, after borrowing £1,000,000 from the Bank, baccounted for the cheques, this part of the case could not
e sustained. The prisoner was committed for trial on
nve have absolutely less money in the Exchequer than the the other charges.
demands coming due by £1,845,018. To expect any
lightening of the intolerable burden of taxation is in such
circumstances hopeless. We shall be fortunate indeed if
we escape an additional 3d. of income tax, which, most
unfortunately, would just provide for the deficiency. The A LIBEL CASE.—At Leeds, on Wednesday, an action
by Mr. Dunning, surveyor for theborou h of
• temptation to use this ready instrument of adjustment was brought '
will be almost irresistible. Middlesborough, against the editor of the Middlesborough
News, for a libel. The article complained of severely
The Standard thinks it has been proved to demonstra-
Lion that Mr. Gladstone's scheme for dealing with May. censured Mr. Dunning's appointment as surveyor, which
rooth College involves not only a flagrant injustice to the office it declared bins to be quite incompetent to fill on
Irish Church, but a distinct breach of faith. In regard to account of his multifarious occupations as ironmaster,
the first, the building charge on its fabric is remitted, manager of gasworks, and agent for the Middlesborough
while the enormous debt of nearly a quarter of a million Estate. No witnesses were called on either side, and the
on the glebe-houses of the Irish Church is exacted to the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 40s.
last farthing. Moreover, care is taken in the case of the ELECTION Rsors.—At Monmouth several persons have
been tried for taking part in election riots at Aberyschan
Irish Church that the money compensation may be
and Blacnavon. The greater part of them were found
exhausted in the payment of life interests, while by the
plan of commutation adopted in the case of Maynooth, nuilty, and sentence was deferred.
the authorities of the Roman Catholic Church are placed WILFUL MISCHIEF.—On Wednesday, at the Dover
Sessions, Mr. Tait and Mr. Duncombe Shaf to were
in possession of a sum with which they can purchase an
endowment of at least £12,000 a year, although, as charged with maliciously destroying the fittings of
a correspondent recently pointed out to us, it would be a first-class carriage on the South-Eastern Railway.
a the journey from Charing-cross to Dover thesey
the easiest thing in the world for them to realise.
• .£40,000 a year out of it. The injustice of this is flagrant two gentlemen amused themselves by throwing the
cushions, blinds, carpets, &c., out of the window, and
and patent ; that it constitutes a gross breach of
cutting the cloth and padding of the seats. Doubts
faith is scarcely less obvious. Mr. Gladstone declared were raised as to the jurisdiction of the court, and
ever and over again in the course of his campaign in South.
, the recorder concurred in the view of the counsel,
west Lancashire, that, in abolishing the Maynuoth Grant, and no bill was sent to the grand jury. The recognisances
as a consequence of sequestrating the revenues of the of the accused were not discharged, as it was understood
Irish Church, he would not sanction any proposal for that the South-Eastern Company would prefer the chargt
handing over any portion of those revenues to the Roman
Catholic Church. In the preamble of the bill he lays it against them at the approaching assizes.
ASSAULT IN THE HUNTING FIELD.—At the Barnsley
down as tl.e very basis upon which he asks Parliament to Police court, on Wednesday, a case was tried which excites
legislate, that, while it is expedient that the Church should
much interest among sportsmen. It appeared that-on the
be disestablished, its property " must be applied to the
advantage of the Irish people, and not for the maintenance 20th ult., while the Badsworth hounds were chasing a fox
near Barnsley, a farmer, named .Newsome, came up to
of the Church or clergy of any other persuasion, nor for
the teaching of any religion." We do not hesitate to say the horsemen with a poleaxe, and aimed a blow at one of
that the proposed transfer to the authorities of Ma them, which fortunately missed its object, but struck his
May-
horse, wounding it severely. Two gentlemen who were
nooth of a capital sum, convertible into a permanent
present gave evidence, and the defendant was fined £3 and
annuity of at least £12,000, is a distinct violation of these
the expenses. The assault was not committed in the
public and formal engagements. In fact, the bill does that .
svhich its preamble says must not he done, and which Mr. farmer's own field but in one adjoining his land.
Gladstone himself declared never should be done. And COMIC SINGERS.—At the Sheffield Town Hall, George
our sense of this faithless conduct is none the less acute Leybourne, the well-known comic singer, appeared to
when we consider the motive by which it was instigated.
comic singer, named Fancourt. The affair was
aansoitii-etr a charge of assault preferred against him by
The Poet declares that the poor have a great many moren co
claims to consideration, and an undoubted right equally le►vi e• comic than tragic in its nature, the disputants
been friends until Mr. Fancourt took
with the well-to-do classes to beneficial legislation, but it offencean'
cannot admit that they have an exclusive claim to the ofbim atnesomething his friend and rival said
challenged him to fight, a challenge
title of the People of England, notwithstanding the inter- which Leybourne accepted, seemingly in jest, and the
pretation which Mr. Morley has attempted to affix to the bench fined h'
phrase in his speech at Blackburn. "In my opinion," .to
givemuchrm is. and Os. costs. The fine did not appear
, 1
two concern to the defendant, who handed in
said Mr. Morley, "the poor are the people of England,
obsovereigns, requesting that the change might go to
just as when we speak of the army we mean the rank and the
file." It must be owned that the new nonsense 13
or-
ox.
of extreme Liberals is to the full as absurd,
and certainly quite as likely to be mischievous,
as the antiquated nonsense of the old ultra Tories.
The doctrine of the divine right of kings, and the
classification of the working men by the noblesse of the
French ancien regime as canaille, were not a whit more
extravagant than the theories of national organisation
which there seems a disposition to put forward just now,
in which it is claimed that there shall be a despotism of
numbers, and that the sole functions and only rights of
the rich shall consist in their carrying on their backs the
burdens of the poor. Mr. Morley appears to think that
the result of his ideas put in action would be the removal
of poverty from the face of the land. People more
p - ticsl and less fanatical will probably come to
. ac .
the conclusion that Morley ism thoroughly carried
out would lead no further than to the destruc-
tion of property, while men of military knowledge
might tell the propagandist of these new interpretations
that an army constituted of only rank and file would cer-
tainly be squandered the first time it was brought into
presence with a Stifficu'ty. That there are poor, or, in
a Teeple," is in Mr. Morley's
ot:lcr words, that there '
opinion canned by the fact that there is a Government
administered by property. Let it be in the hands of those
who lave none, and instead of the wearing of broadcloth
Icing an accident, it will become a universal practice. In
short, England will, if these ideas are well promulgated
and thoroughly enforced, become a perfect Jack Cade's El
Dorado, and the fountains in Trafalgar-square will flow
with champagne and claret.

LAW AND POLICE.

In a suburban church near Birmingham, a
Sunday or two ago, the clergyman in charge preached
a sermon so thoughtful and eloquent, and so much above
the preacher's ordinary level, as to attract general atten-
tion from the congregation. One of the hearers, however,

fancied that the discourse was not unfamiliar to him ; and
being of an inquiring turn of mind, he hunted it up, and
found it, in print—one of a series of essays contributed
by Mr. E. W. Dale to Dr. Macleod's magazine, Good
IVlrds.

ANARCHY IN AMERlCA.—Outrages of all kinds
continue to be perpetrated in Georgia. A Kuklux editor
denounces a Unionist doctor as a coward and liar
for having blackballed him at a Unionist club, where-
upon the doctor takes his trusty rifle, and waits in his
own room till the editor passes his window, when ho kills
him by a " pot shot." The sheriff locks the doctor up, but
the Kuklux arrive in the night and break open the gaol,
and take the doctor out and riddle him with balls. Other
Knklux operations are negro floggings and ravishingi
by the dozen all over the State. The Lower House in
the State Legislature passed the constitutional amend-
ment, with the view, as one of the minority said,
to "give Butler a dose of nigger suffrage in Mas-
sachusetts ;" but in the Senate this consideration
was not deemed sufficiently powerful, and the amend-
ment was rejected. The combined refusal of both branches
to admit the negro members has led the Committee of the
United States Senate to " report "a bill providing for the
restoration of military rule in Georgia ; but the committee
are unable to agree in their recommendation about it, and
it is very doubtful whether it will pass, or, if it does pass,
in what precise shape. The whole affair is a very disagree.
able one to deal with, and yet something must be done to
restore order. The country is expecting great things from
Grant, but Congress has nut left him men enough in the
army to do anything with the strong hand, Affairs ja
Texas got E42llCt

The Bury Post London correspondent states that
when Mr. Bright, in the Irish Church debate, predicted
that the fall of the EstaFlishment would dispose Irish
Catholics to Protestantism, Dean Stanley nudged 4.b.ch
bishop Manning, who sat with him, and
.49_th laughed
vicamay.

At Drury Tithe nothing had for a long time suc-
ceeded till, on the 20th. of January, 1814, a little
shabby man with fine eyes—a new recruit from
Exeter—appeared as Shylock. He was a poor
slighted actor, one Edmund Kean, who, only a few
weeks before, had entered Dorchester foot-sore and
hungry, carrying on his back his eldest child, who
was dying of whooping-cough. He had been play-
ing melodramatic parts, and harlequins and savages,
through Devonshire and Dorsetshire, and at Dor-
chester had been lucky enough to catch the eye of
Mr. Arnold, the Drury Lane manager, who had
engaged " the great little man with the fine Italian
face," for a term of three years, at a salary rising
to ten pounds a week. "My God," he said, burn-
ing with ambition and brandy, for he &ready drank
bard, " if I should succeed now, I think it will drive

me mad."
A few nights after Lis child died : he drenched
hi:nself with brandy, then, throwing himself on the
corpse, covered it with kiss, s, and swore he would
wake it from the dead. This child (Howard) had
acted with him at Teignmouth in "Pizarro" and
" Charon and Achilles."
At the time of his Drury Lane engagement Kean
was all but starving in his lodgings at No. 21, Cecil-
street,
Strand. Ile hal come up to town with bor-
rowed money, and he had not paid his rent for two
whole months ; but the good Glel maid, his land-
lady, was merciful to the eccentric debtor, and, con-
trary to Mrs. Siddons, who had said, "'There is too
little of him to do anything," prophesied his success
to his believing wife : " There is something about
Mr. Kean, ma'am," she said, " which tells me he
will be a great man."
" Richard the Third" was to have been the open-
ing play, but Kean was afraid of his stunted stature
being unfavourably contrasted with the heroic figure
of John Kemble, and he had therefore said, " Shy-
lock, or nothing !" The actors, at the rehearsal,
disliked his innovations, and Raymond, the stage-
manager, predicted his failure. As a class, actors
and stage-managers are liberal in such predictions,
and do not believe much in unrecognised genius.
Fuseli used to eat pork that he might dream of
devils ; Dryden took purges before writing an ode ;
ossop had peculiar dishes for every character—

roast pig fur tyrants, steaks before " Measure for
Measure," boiled mutton for "Romeo," and pudding
for " Tancred." Kean, so well inured to fast's, forti-
fied himself for once with good beefsteak and stout ;
then tied up his wig, collar, black silk stockings,
and red hat in a pocket-handkerchief, thrtirt them
into the pocket of a drab coat with great capes, and
saying he only wished he was going to be shot,
trudged through the snow on a cold, dismal, fore-
boding evening, to the bright, noisy theure.
There was a scanty but an appreciative audience.
Kean's generous friend and patron, Dr. Drury, of
Harrow (Byron's master), was there, and saw, the
moment Kean took his position and leaned upon his
cane, by his quick, flashing eye, and resolute
staccato manner—sinister, vigilant, hard, and re-
yen geful—tbat he meant to do or die : it was Caesar,
or nothing. The first scene went flat. In the
third act, with Tubal, however, he triumphed ; and
the trial scene brought down the house in glorious

,hunder.
" That day," says Mr. Proctor, " he overcame

the Nervii."
Pope and Powell followed Kean to the humble
dressing-room which he shared with two or three
others, and uttered these delicious words , " You
have made a hit to-night, sir." " You have done
wonders, sir; you have saved the theatre."
Arnold, the manager, however, sent fur Kean,
and said, " You have exceeded our expectations, sir.
This play will be repeated next Wednesday."
In the meantime two kind fellow-lodgers at No.
21, Cecil-street, had hurried back to tell Kean's
anxious, half-despairing wife of his triumph. Pre-
sently upstairs raced Kean, wild with joy. "Mary,"
he cried, "my fortune's made. Now you shall ride
in your carriage." Then he caught Charles out of
his cradle, kissed him, and exclaimed, " Now, my
boy, you shall go to Eton ;" then he gave a deep
sigh, and said, " 0 that Howard was alive now !
but he is better where he is." The happy couple sat
up all night castle-building.
On the second night of Shylock £325 was taken
at the doors. 'I he public already felt a great dra-
matic genius had arisen to fill the vacant throne of
Garrick. After the third performance Whitbread
tore up the first contract and offered Kean £2O a
week. After six Shylock nights he essayed "Richard
the Third," terribly afraid of a failure. It was,
however, a great success. His Richard was not
princely, but it was satanic and terrible. The point
in the death-scene, where with savage impotence he
strikes at h:s adversary after his own sword has
broken, lie in copied from the death of an officer in
Spain. Being pure nature, it was of course thought
by the more superfine critics to be vulgar and want-
ing in dignity. The fourth night Kean played
Richard the doorkeepers took £6UO ; the first night
he played Hamlet £660.
" I hear he is an admirable Harlequin," said an
envious actor. " That I'm certain of," replied
radiant, generous Jack Bannister, " for already he
has leaped over all our heads."
Gold now showered upon Kean as if he was a
second Danae. He is described by an eye-witness
as having bank-notes lying in heaps on his mantel-
piece, table, and sofa ; while Charles Kean, then a
little boy with rich curling hair, was playing with a
handful of guineas on the floor.. Kean's first benefit
had produced about £1,150. Ladies were there,
who approached Mrs. Kean as if she had been a
divinity, and eyed Charles, who had just mounted
a large wooden horse, as if he were a young Prince
of Denm(irk. An anonymous nobleman sent the
great actor £lOO ; Mr. Whitbread put a draft for
£5O in Charley's band; Mrs. Coutts sent £5O; the
Drury Lane committee presented the new actor not
long after with £500; and four of the shareholders
of the great theatre gave him each a share. The
golden ball was at his feet ; he bestrode the theatri-
cal world. "
In January, 1816, Kean ascended another round
of Fame's ladder by acting "Sir Giles Overreach."
He at once surpassed Kemble in his favourite part.
It was one of his most perfect performances, and
there was unity in it that was wanting in his Ham-
let and his Macbeth. My friend Dr. Doran, an ex-
cellent judge, who saw Kean in this part, especially
remembers the bad man's scornful answer to Lovel's,
" Are you not moved with the sad imprecations ?"
"Yes, as rocks are
When foamy billows split themselves against
Their flinty ribs; or as the moon is moved,
When wolves, with hunger pin'd, howl at her brightness.'
His voice was flute-like at the word " moon," creat•
ing a scene by a mere monosyllable ; the last line he
gave sharp and fiercely ; then, glancing upwards,
he threw supernatural music, that led every hearer
into fairyland, around the one final word " bright-
ness." During his last dying speech, Mrs. Glover,
who played with him, fainted from emotion; ladies
were seized with hysterics in the side-boxes ; and
Byron, who might have had too much claret at his
club, suffered what he was pleased to call "a con-
vulsion fit." The first night Kean played Sir Giles
the loving wife whom he afterwards so cruelly
wronged, eager for his return, met him at the door,
and saw victory in his eyes.
" Well, Edmund," said she, "what did Lord

Essex think of it ?" (Lord Essex was a hanger-on
of greenrooms.)
"D— Lord Essex, Mary," said the conqueror,
still flushed with his triumph, " the pit rose at me !"
—Walter Thorubury in Belgravia.

The American Artisan of March 10 hr.s an ex-
cellent illustration of Messrs. Bibley and Wade's in-
genious apparatus for receiving and delivering mail bags
while a train is in rapid motion, which has been satisfac-
torily tested on the Boston and Albany Railroad. The
new method was tried on a train going from Worcester
depot. "Ba3s were taken up at Newtown Corner, New-
tonville, West Newton, and Natick, and at Auburndale a
basket containing a live dove, two bottles of wine,
crackers, wine glasses, cigars, &c., was suspended, and was
easily scooped up while the train was proceeding at its
average speed-83 miles an hour. The dove was un-
injured, and the bottles of wine were found intact. Wher-
ever the bags were suspended at the proper distance the
experiment was thoroughly successful.''
G. Augustus Fuller, formerly of the Merchant
Union Express Company, has been appointed general
superintendent of the expreso businesi on the Erie Utta-
r(*) which will hereafter be trahsactod by the company.