The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-03 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Augsburg Gazette has received from an official cor.
respondent, an explanation of the sudden termination of
the newspaper war between Austria and Prussia. The
North German Gazette was brusquely pulled up by

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Count Bismarck, because the latter had conceived a
plan of resuming friendly relations with Austria.
The Prussian Chancellor has sounded Count Beust,
and has submitted to him the details of a scheme

by which Austria is to have her own way in the
East, provided Prussia be allowed a similar privilege in
the West; this meaning, it is to be presumed, carte blanche
to operate in South Germany.. These insidious overtures
have been rejected by Austria. Hence the Augsburg
gazette is on the look-out for another assault upon Austrian
policy by the Berlin journals.
Witrtemberg has just contracted a loan of over two
millions, for the purpose of completing the railway system
of the country. The railroads of Wiirtemberg are con-
structed and worked by the State, the Foreign Minister
and the Master of the King's Household sharing the
management. The work seems to be prudently carriedon,
and hitherto considerable profits have been realised.
TURKEY AND GREECE.
The intelligence from the East becomes more and more
perplexing. A telegram from Berlin asserts that Greece
has aco.ptcd the declaration of the Powers, making only
one reservation which can g 1
papers are still confident ofn:Tepieia''c'e-fu-l.-
f,.ilie, nee
solution. But the
nf a sa,,guinary
VietWiMint7e. TurKs and the Montenegrins
chews that the chance of Greece receiving aid from the
troublesome semi-independent neighbours of the Porte is
by no means "so remote as the Paris sou ii-official
journals asserted it to be. Meanwhile, the Greek
Government continues to drain -the country of its
resources. The Foreign Minister has sent a circular to
the Greek consuls, instructing them to open subscriptions
in their bureaux for the loan of -23,600,000 voted by the
Chamber of Athens. This document appeals to Greek
residents abroad, declaring that the independence of the
country is now seriously menaced.
The Etendard acknowledges that the declaration of the
Conference published the other day in these columns is
perfectly correct. But the semi-official psper is sorely
puzzled to divine how the document found its way into
the columns of the Independance Beige, from which the
Paris journals copied it. The explanation is simple. The
Levant Herald first published it, not the Belgian paper,
and there can be little doubt that the Eastern journal If ever there was a case in which law overrode
obtained it from the Turkish Government. The full text, lustice, that case was before the Court of Criminal
in fact, differs in one essential point from the summary Appeal a day or two back. A fellow had been
first given. It contains a distinct intimation that Greece sentenced at thef ii\nla;luchnedsatersictsoizlestatoinr decoyingtii
is guilty of a breach of international law, and is bound to two
ugirls away from rand there syeducino, one of theemm, toa
respect it for the future. The protocol as given in the
girl only only sixteen years of age. The indictment was
Levant Herald is a triumph for the Porte ; hence its
for taking the girl out of her father's possession; but
" indiscreet publication." The Times Berlin correspon- the prosecution could not prove that the prisoner
dent thinks that the Marquis de Lavalette will be to knew that he was taking her out of her father's
blame should an unsatisfactory answer arrive from Greece. custody. The Court of Criminal Appeal has declared
He had, previous to the final vote of the Conference, that this must be proved before an indictment can
assured the Greek Minister that all the Powers had in be sustained. That is to say, a man who keeps him-
view was to tender advice, and not to sit in judgme self in ignorance of the guFdiansliip of young girls
No unconditional acceptance of the declaration will be may act as he likes—he isnot breaking the law.
demanded.
Clearly, the whole law requires revision.
MR. BAKER ON CRIMINALS.
Mr. Baker has addressed another letter to the
Times respecting the best mode of repressing crime.
He is, he tells us, constantly receiving letters from
magistrates and governors of gaols agreeing in
the two essential points of the cumulative
system of punishment and the long super-
vision after discharge. It has been said
. with truth that a necessary condition of the vitality
of crime is a certain amount of success, and Mr.
Baker reminds us that success is inseparable from
long practice, which cannot be attained without
many detections. By a system of supervision, then,
we may hope to keep the aspiring criminal so long out
of practice that it shall become impossible for him
to reach the highest point of his profession.
Two modes of supervision have been suggested to the
public. One is that in every case of conviction,
there shall be a certain period of supervision beyono
time explraLlvia or -am achtentx. The other is 41..
the judge should pass a long sentence—such in ten
years for a third offence—telling the pnsonei
that he will be allowed a license at the
end of some years of good conduct, subject to
re-imprisonment if found in suspicious circum
stances. Mr. Baker himself thinks this would be
much the more efficacious plan ; for if a man who
has completed his sentence is brought up on a trifling
charge, such as being seen in bad company or
loitering near a door, he can only be sentenced to a
`very short imprisonment. On the other hand, if his
old sentence be still in force, his license can be
revoked, and the knowledge of this will put a check
upon his actions.

SOCIAL MEETING OF 'WORKING MEN.
A meeting of an interesting nature was held the
other evening at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-
street, at the invitation of Mr. S. Morley, M.P., to
hear an address from the Rev. C. Neville " On the
political future of working men." Mr. Morley
opened the proceedings by expressing his
sympathy with the object of the meet-
ing. He thought it very desirable that
the various classes which were being brought to
share in the government should arrive at a common
ground of action on public questions. He well re-
membered the dying words of Judge Talfourd, that
" the great want of the age is more sympathy between
i,
classes." Mr. Neville, in commencing his address,
fentamiit, the
source that the welfare of the poorest man
in the country was of as much moment as that
of the greatest or the richest. All were equal in the
sight of God, and therefore that system of legislation
was the best which promoted the good of the work-
ing people, because they were by far the most
numerous class. Mr. Neville then touched upon
some of the subjects of the day, and announced him-
self to he a hearty advocate of the Ballot. With
regard to social questions, his looked upon public-
houses as a great curse to the working man,
and the source of a great deal of misery both to him-
self and his family. Recognising the 'difficulty of
iealing with that question, he would give working
men a permissive power of legislating for themselves
in the matter. He was strongly in favour of
retrenchment and economy, though he wished to see
it effected with the utmost consideration for those
whose employment would in consequence cease.
After some discussion, cordial thanks were voted to
Mr. Neville and the chairman.
JUSTICE AND LAW.

AUSTRIA.

Dr. Giskra, the Austrian Minister of the Interior, has
been nominated to the dignity of Grand Cross in the Order
of the Crown of Italy. The Italian and Austrian journal?
have availed themselves of this event to exchange cour-
tesies. It is agreed that a good understanding exists
between the two States, that there can now be no hostility
of interests whilst their .intlismial policy is in accord. In
both countries Constitutions • m is recognised ; in both
a conflict is going on against the powers opposed to
nrocress. •

ilLsv4LANEbus NEWS.

THE OPENING OF PAILLIA3IMNT,

• There seems.stilto be a great 'deal of doubt as to
:the intention of the Queen to open Parliament. The
Advertiser comes forth with the notice that, " not-
xithstanding the announcement which appearea
'yesterday in one •of • our contemporaries, to the
',effect that the Queen will open the new Parlia-
mant in person, there is good reason to believe
that no such determination has been communicated
by her Majesty to the First Lord of the Treasury or
the Comptroller of the Household." It is to be hoped
that the Post—the best-informed of the papers on
Court matters—is correct in its original state-
ment.

EARL RUSSELL ON IRELAND AND MR. cmciasTnn

FORTESCUE.

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• It is the fashion now-a-days to address letters
through the press to persons in authority, to print
An epistle and give it to the public at the same time
as to the person* it addresses, The Times forgot this
jn criticising Earl Russell's letter, and made inqui-
ries as to what Mr. Chichester Fortescue thought of
the matter, he haVing first read Earl Russell's pro-
duction. The Chief Secretary for Ireland now writes
to the Times, • declaring that the noble earl never
f' submitted" his pioduction to him before sending it to
the press. Lord. Russell has not communicated to him
the contents of any one of the three letters which he
has associated . with Mr. Fortescue's name. This,
once for all, puts Earl Russell's plans outside the
Cabinet, and makes him stand alone in what ho has
done.

THE ISLE OF DOGS STAILVATION CASE.

The narrative of the death of Catherine Spence
and her child was so horrible that it has stirred up
the inspectors, guardians, and clergy of the district,
and they have published various statements in the
newspapers in order to remove the unfavourableim-
pression produced by the first account. The clerk to
the guardians says that Spence had been earning a
comparatively large sum of money-265. Bd.
in three weeks, in addition to Gs. given by the
clergyman and 4s. Gd. by the guardians. " On the
Tuesday preceding the woman's death the man
borrowed a shilling to purchase some food, and dur-
ing the night of that day and early on the following
morning he earned Cs. Gd. by working in the Mill-
wall Docks, out of which sum he repaid the borrowed
money and purchased other articles of food with
the remainder, and the food so purchased was
actually being cooked on the Wednesday after-
noon, when the salt to which reference has been
made was sent for to flavour it with. At this
time the woman was in a public-house drinking with
some of her companions, ana she did not return home
until late in the evening, when, being unwell, the
medical officer was sent for, and gave her beef
tea, brandy, and eggs ; she was then lying on
a bedstead, which :was furnished with bed,
rug, and blanket " It is impossible to reconcile this
statement with that of the surgeon who made the
post-mortem examination. He found the stomach of
the woman utterly empty, and had no doubt that she
had died of starvation. There is no such diffi-
culty
• in comparing the statements respecting the
woman's husband. It is not denied that he is mad ;
and the sdiranse of his wife's habits given by the

clerk to the guardians renders it only 7()0 prov3rne.
that drink, the great source of poverty, madness, and
death, had no small share in this dismal tragedy.

OVEREND AND GURNEY.
Dr. Adam Thorn, of Gower-street, the prosecutor
in re Overend, Gurney, and Co., has addressed a
letter to the papers, in which he says that the pro"
ceedmgs have now reached a point at which 1115
main object—the thorough investigation of the
whole truth—promises to be at last attained/
inasmuch as the defendants, from their remarks
on Wednesday last, appear to contemplate
some defence or other which hitherto theY
have kept in the background. Under these
circumstances he feels bound to afford them tile
opportunity of going before a jury, and he trusts
that God may vindicate the right. After compli-
menting Mr. Howell and Mr. Lewis on their sblB
assistance, he asks whether in fighting this national
battle, as in a commercial empire like ours it no
well be called, lie may not reckon upon the support
of all those who are interested in the momentous
issue. Already he has received generous help, £lOO
from one donor, for instance ; and he is anxious .oassociate with himself any two donors who will aid
him in the administration of the fund.

The product of the precious metals in the United
States during 1868, it is stated, amounts to $66,500,000,
divided as follows : —California, $20,000,000 ; Nevadl,
$18,000,000 ; Montana, $12,000,000 ; Idaho, $6,000,000 ;
Oregon, $5,000,000 ; Colorado, $4,000,000 ; Washington
Territory, $4,000,000 ; Arizona, $250,000 ; and New
Mexico, $250,000. The yield of placer mining, it is re-
ported, has fallen off, but the machinery for the extraction
of the metals from quartz rock is run with greater skill,
so that the product is increased. The so-called improved
methods of crushing the quartz have all been abandoned/
and the use of old-fashioned stamps has been revived.
These stamping machines, however, are used with
greater care, and the ore is more finely pulverized,
so
that a greater per centage of gold is extracted. It
is asserted that the famous Comstock lode, discovered in
1865, has become poorer the deeper the shafts are driven,
so that the product has greatly diminished, and the former
surprisingly valuable returns have greatly diminished.
The White Pine district of Nevada, on the other band,
has been extensively and profitably worked, and silver
valued at $1,000,000 has been mined during the last sit
months. Drought has interfered with mining in Idaho,
and too much rain has produced the same effect in Cali-
fornia. The excessive cost of transporting provisions and
machinery has reduced the profits of the miners in the
new territories, and thus has discouraged the thorough
development of the mineral resources of the Pacific coast.
It is anticipated that the opening of the Pacific RailwsY
will excite more vigorous efforts in the mining operations
of the country.—Public Ledger.
Abraham Kipp, of Sing Sing, New York, hits
patented an improvement consisting in a certain combisa-
tion of double pistons working in cylinders, which are
arranged radial to a central shaft and operating- in a dil'ec_t
manner through yokes on or in connection with a crans.
secured to the shaft; also a valve having a fixed character
relatively to the crank, whereby a most simple and ern,
cient steam engine is produced, and which may be us°'
either as a motor for driving purposes, a pump, or a meter.
A Mormon leader, Jesse C. Little, is now in the
Eastern States arranging purchases for an important 105;
nufacturieg enterprise projected at Salt Lake city.
is a Massachusetts man, and is said to be on the look °l',,
for "females" to replenish the harems of the " saints ;
but we have little doubt what reception he will receive
from the Yankee girls. The manufacturing enterpriso
will at first be confined to waggons and agricultural 01'
plements. for which the metal and castings will for the
present be imported, but will eventually be home-made.
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COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evenutp

Amsterdam Short ... 12 111 ... 12 0
I Do •3 Ms. ... 12 1i ~„ 12 11
Rotterdam — ... 12 1} ... 12 11
Antwerp -... 25 35 .941 25 40
Brussels — .25 35 .o. 25 40
Hamburgh —
. .... 13 10 ... 13 101
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main . 1191 . 1201
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Vienna — ... 12 25 ... 12 321
Trieste _- 12 25 ... 12 325
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Petersburg
Copenhagen — 9 20 ... 9 24
Berlin
Madrid..
~ 471 48
Cadiz
... 481- ... 48i
Leghorn
Milan — ... 26 90 ... 27 0
Genoa
Naples
Palermo — ... 26 90 ... 27 0
Messina
Lisbon 521 521
Oporto —
... 52, ... 521
Rio Janeiro —
... •••
New York
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