The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-09 00:00:00

THE ELECTION PETITIONS.

The application to change the venue of the South Hants
petition from Winchester to Southampton has been made
to Mr. Justice Willes. The respondents brought the
motion before his lordship at Chambers, but he said he
must hear the other side before he would make any
order.

The Horsham petitions have also been before Mr.
Justice Willes. In respect of one petition an application
was made to make an order of withdrawal, as the ques-
tion raised would be decided in the pending petitions. No
application was made for costs. His lordship made the
order of withdrawal.

An application was soon after made on the part of the
petitioners in the late Blackburn election petition for an order
under the recent rules for the return of the deposit money,
£l,OOO. On the part of the respondent it was stated that
there was no affidavit that the witnesses had been paid.
Mr. Justice Willes said that he should require such an
affidavit. In the Bradford case it was shewn that the

claims were discharged. It was stated that in the present
case each party was to bear his own cost, and it was
proposed that the money should either be repaid to the
petitioners or their solicitors. His lordship said there
would be one rule in all the cases. There was about
£30,000 deposited in the Bank of England, and as a
number of applications would be made he must be satisfied
that the claims were discharged.
BRECKNOCK PETITION.

The inquiry into the return of Mr. Howel Gwyn for
Brecknock is being investigated before Mr. Baron Martin.
Mr. Serjeant Ballantine appears for the petitioners, and
Mr. Giflard for the respondents.
In opening the case, Mr. Serjeant Ballantine said : 'The
constituency of the borough numbered 794. At the last
election Mr. Gwyn polled 372 votes, and Mr. Price, the
Liberal candidate, 357, leaving Mr. Gwyn in a majority
of 15. Mr. Price's election expenses amounted to only
£250, while those of Mr. Gwyn were returned at £1,193.
Mr. Price would state that this £250 was all that had
been expended by him. Mr. David Thomas, a well-
known respectable solicitor of Brecon, was the election
agent for Mr. Gwyn. That gentleman had originated
the entire system of bribery and corruption. He found
among the expenses returned of Mr. Gwyn's election
the sum of £525 as paid to Mr. D. Thomas for his services.
Altogether the law charges in Mr. Gwyn's election
accounts amounted to £968. Among the sums paid were
items of £35 and £24 for private constables. On referring
to the list of these special constables it was found that
several of them were children of the age of two years, who
through the agency of their respective papas received the
amounts set against their names. He should shew the
employment of George Thomas and James Morgan. (These
are the two persons against whom true bills were
found at the late Brecon Assizes for bribery. The principal
witness would be one John New, a railway employd, who
VMS a Liberal in politics, and who voted for Mr. Price.
He should show that G olden had spoken to New on the
subject of his vote, and had told him that if he voted for
Mr. Gwyn there would be " something coming after the
election ; "that in November—the day before the election—.
Golden took New to Mr. D. Thomas's house, and there
told him that a gentleman would have a parcel for him.
Subsequently James Morgan was pointed out to him,
and New was told that he (Morgan) was the man
who would "do the business." On the evening of the
nomination New met Morgan by appointment on a
railway bank, and Golden told him, "Go up there and
there will be a person to meet you." He went "up
there," and found a man whom the petitioner alleged was
George Thomas, but George Thomas denied it. However,
whoever it was, the person whom New met "up there"
dropped a parcel into his hand, after asking him " if he
was a railway man?" and the parcel, on being opened,
was found to contain £5. He afterwards met Morgan,
who, in reference to the £5, said it was "to keep Gwyn
in." He suggested that Mr. David Thomas had set all
these bribers and others in motion, and that that proved
the point of agency. The learned serjeant gave a
humorous account of three persons who had been treated
to a champagne supper at the Castle Hotel, which
had such an effect on them that one of them
was heard screaming out in the night for " retsy ,"
and another, a clergyman, was obliged t) borrow
a clean neckcloth of a waiter next day in order to
make a decent appearance. Fourteen public-houses had I
also been opened on the day of election. by agents of Mr.
Gwyn, and others before the election. As to the allega-
tion of undue influence and intimidation, the learned ser-
jeant stated that a tenant of Colonel Pearce had been told
that if he did not vote for Mr. Gwyn he would have to
leave his house, and the tenant, one Lewis, had been taken
up to the poll with forty others to vote against his con-
victions. He had been canvassed by Mr. Probert, an
agent for Colonel Pearce, in company with Mr. Gwyn.
John New, being called;corroborated the story told by the
counsels. George Thomas, was, he declared, the man who
had given him the money, nor was his evidence shaken in
cross-examination. Other evidence, clearly establishing
bribery, followed.

James M'Donald, aged 25, a labourer, residing at
Stockport, has been sentenced to death for the murder of
James Nally, at Murple, last December. Baron Channel, who
tried the case at Chester, has recommended the prisoner tothe
mercy of the Crown, inasmuch as ho was intoxicated when
he took Nally's life. M'Donald and Nally had been both
drinking all the evening of the murder, and when they at
last reached the prisoner's lodgings, M'Donald in a sudden
at, seized a knife and stabbed his victim in the neck, caus-
ing almost immediate death.

HUMBUG AND HYPOCRISY.--When, followed by
his footman carrying the Bible and the Prayer-book, an
En :ishman r a ei to c . rch in all the majesty of self-
consequence and self-ido:atry, as if he were not about to
worship God, but God was about to worship him, it would
be wrong to call him a hypocrite ; but to call him a
humbug is not uncharitable. The humbug begins by im-
posing on himself before imposing on the rest of the world,
and he half believes that he is a man of honour and
integrity. If England is the paradise of humbugs, it is
the purgatory of hypocrites, while Scotland is the paradise
of hypocrites and the purgatory of humbugs. To be a
hypocrite would cost the Englishman more trouble than he
likes to expend, and would be in-.:ompatible with his frank-
ness.—" Scottish Characteristics: a Prelection,"in
Fraser's Magazine.
Our lady readers possibly may feel interested in
learning what has since become of the twelve you
ng
ladies whom her Majesty some nine-and-twenty years 117
Y
chose as her bridesmaids, and who carried
the Royalabo
train in the Chapel Royal on the day of her marriage to
the late Prince Consort (February 10, 1840). Two of
them were married during that year : • Lady Mary A. F.
Grimston to Vi! n,unt Folkestone, eldest son of the Earl
of Radnor; and Lady -Elizabeth A. G. Howard to the
Hon. and Rev. P. R. Grey. Two others were married
in 1841—Laily Prances E. Cowper to Viscount Jocelyn,
eldest son of the Earl of Roden ; and Lady Ida H. Hay
to Viscount Campden, now Earl of Gainsborough ; in
1342 Lady Sarah F. C. Villiers married Prince Nicholas
Esterhazy ; in 1813 Lady Catherine L. W. Stanhope
marled Lord Dalmeny, eldest son of the Earl of Rosebery ;
in 1844 Lady Elizabeth West married Mr. F. C. Hastings
Russell, heir-presumptive to the dukedom of Bedford ;
in 1847 Lady Jane Harriet Bouverie married Mr. William
Ellis, and Lady Eleanora C. Paget married Sir
Sandford Graham, Bart. ; in 1849 Lady Mary
Charlotte Howard married Lord Foley, and Lady
Caroline A. Lennox married the Earl of Bess-
borough ; and lastly, in 1851, Lady Adelaide Paget married
the Hon F. W. Cadogan. Of these fair ladies three are
dead—Lady Gainsborough, the Princess Esterhazy, and
E.
Lady Graham ; one of them, Lady Jocelyn, is a widow ;
and one of them, Lady Dalmeny, having remained some
years a widow. is now Duchess of Cleveland. --G uardian.

THE RECTOR OF LIVERPOOL ON TO

IRISH CHURCH.

In consequence of the Rev. Augustus liampbell, ieeter
of Liverpool, not being able to attend the "demonstre'
tion" in the town on Monday evening, he sent a lettel
stating his views on the subject. This judgment (he said)
"deliberately condemns Mr. Gladstone bill as a need'
lessly revolutinary measure, utterly incompetent to effect
the wished-for pacification of Ireland." At the safe
time, however, he is bound to confess that he cannot hoPe
—neither does he wish—that the Irish Church should
remain as it is. " Earnestly desiring, (ho goes on to say),
to maintain Protestant Christianity in Ireland, I do not
wish to maintain Protestant ascendancy, or the present',
distribution of the revenues of the Protestant Church*
I see no reason why future Irish prelates should
sit in the House of Lords, or be entitled to lora'
incomes, or political precedence and privileges; still leas
do I see why clergy should be paid for doing nothing*
England, moreover, owes an enormous debt to Ireland* ,
She is bound to make every compensation she can to the'
Roman Catholics for past injustice, provided she does e°
without injustice and wrong to the Protestant cause. She
is hound to respect not only their rights, but their feel'
ings, and remove, as far as possible, their sentimental
grievances, but she must not sacrifice truth to peace."

ENTHRONEMENT OF THE BISHOP OF

LONDON.

The ceremony of enthroning the Bishop of London;
which took place in St. Paul's Cathedral, on Thursday
did not excite an inordinate degree of interest among
either the clergy, the laity, or the general public.
Indeed, the proceedings altogether, with the excey'
tion of the choral portions of the service, were
not of a very attractive kind. The first portion a
the ceremony took place not in the cathedral, but in the
Chapter House, which is situated in the midst. of the
draper's shops nestling round Wren's•buildings, and
not materially adding to its beauty. On hie
arrival at the Chapter House, the Right Rev. Dr.
Jackson, attended by his chaplains, was received by the
Very Rev, the Dean, Dr. Mansell, the archdeacons,
canons, and prebendaries, and other dignitaries and offi.
cials of the cathedral, and, being conducted to his seat/
was made the subject of the following brief address from,
the Commissary of St. Paul's to the Dean :—" Very
Rev. Mr. Dean, I present to you the Right Rev.
Father in God John Jackson, Bishop of London, and
beg that he may be enthroned according to the usual
custom, and that the mandate to that effect frons,
the Archdeacon of Canterbury may be read by
the registrar of the diocese." The mandate of the
appointment being read by the registrar, the
Commissary, turning again to the Dean, said, " Vet/
Rev. Mr. Dean,--On behalf of the Bishop of London, I
pray you to take upon you the burden of the execution of.
the mandate, and to proceed according to the tenor
thereof." To this, as a matter of form, the Dean con'
sented, anti the procession, headed by the clergy of the
diocese in their robes, was formed, and moved to the great
door of the cathedral.

In the cathedral the reserved places in the chancel and
transept were nearly all occupied before half-past two
o'clock; and the public, admitted generally at the north
entrance, pressed upon the barriers along-that side of the
nave. The smaller organ at the east-end of the cathedral
sounded the key note, and theprocessional anthem of Goss
began as the crowd of white surplices spread out and
advanced in regular order along the nave. The preben•
daries, as the procession reached the choir, filed off right
and left to their stalls. The reading of the mandate
having been disposed of, a part of the psalm, " Oh, praise
the Lord," was beautifully sung by the cathedral choir.
The prayers were intoned by the Rev. Benjamin Morgan
Cowie, 8.D., and the lessons were read by the Rev. W.
Calvert, M.A., minor canons. The service proper to the
enthronement was followed by Evening Prayer, Handel's
magnificent "Hallelujah Chorus" terminating the

ceremony.

THE GOLD DIGGINGS IN SUTHE.RLAND.

The latest reports from the North as tothe golddiegingi
in Sutherland are to the effect that the gold fever excite-
ment has considerably abated since free diggging has been
put a stop to. Very little is now heard of the success of
the diggers, only it is known that the average luck con-
tinues to be maintained. Up to Saturday last 145 licenses
were issued, so that the ijnber of licenses represents the
number of diggers at work on the Kildonan and Suisgill
burns A few of those, however, who paid their pound
and were not so successful as they have expected have
got tired of the business, and gone home. On the
other hand, it is expected that some forty or
fifty additional licenses will be given out this week,
raising thd number of licensed diggers to 200. The
Crown royalty of 10 per cent. on the value of the gold
found was collected on Saturday, but we have not heard
what amount was received. The Crown tax has to be paid
weekly, we understand. A good deal of dissatisfaction
exists in reference to the impost of a pound a month, and
the oppressive tax of ten per cent. A digger who earns a
pound a week, to meet these requirements, has to pay 75.,
leaving only 13s. to himself. Such high terms act as a
prohibition to those that can't pay the money in advance.
Many would willingly pay from 7s. to 10s. a month who
could not raise a pound. It is hoped (says the Northern
Ensign) that the monthly charge will be reduced to such
a figure as will enable many of the poor and unemployed
people in the neighbourhood to take advantage of the digg-
ings, more especially at a time when no other remunerative
work can be procured. No sales of gold could be effected
here on Saturday night last. Ths jewellers having with!
drawn their orders, the local agents were not in a position
to purchase. The cry from the diggings, therefore, ig
" Gold buyers wanted." Several diggers were here on
Saturday purchasing materials for tents, and report that
they were obliged to leave their lodgings in consequence
of the shepherds with whom they lived having received
notice from their employers that they were not to house
diggers any longer. Mr. Wilson, Inverness, last week
purchased gold to the value of £lO4 14s. 5d., making bI
entire purchases up to Saturday £431.

The reports of the state of M. de Montalembert's
health aro alarming; he has talon no nourishment for the
last two days but a' few spoonfuls of milk, and is very weak
indeed.

Henry Jenkins, who at the last Bristol Assized
was condemned to death for the murder of Fanny Reeved
at Fedminster, has been respitect pending the argument
upon the point of law reserved at the trial.

FIRE IN THE NEVADA SILVER MINES.—A cable
telegram announces that thirty-six miners lost their lives
on Wednesday by extensive fires in the shafts of three
silver mines.
The Church Association, who were the chief pro-
moters in the suit "Martin v. Mackonochie," have deterl
mined upon instituting a suit against the Rev. Mr. Purchas,
of Brighton, with a view to test the question of the legality
of the Eucharistic vestments and processions in church.
These questions were not raised in Mr. Mackonochie's case.
The master carpenters and joiners of Sheffield have
given all their men formal notice to leave as a preliminary',
it is understood, to changing their mode of payment from
the day to the hour system. As the effect of the change
will be to restrict the men's wages in winter, it is appre7
'tended that they may not accede to the change.
The house-painters of the West Riding have
agreed to the appointment of a board of conciliation, to
which is to bo referred all disputes respecting wages and
other matters which may arise between the employers and
employed. The board is to consist of nine employers and
the same number of operatives, who are to be elected annu-
ally, and whose decision upon that matter is to be final.
A singular case has just been heard at the Sheffield'
County Court. Mr. Plimsall, M.P., was sued by a coach•
man, lately in his employ, for a month's wages in lieu of
notice. In consequence of a dispute the plaintiff gave his
master notice, but they could not agree about his accompany-
ing him to London. The plaintiff therefore loft suddenly.
The judge reserved his decision.

SANDWICH BOARDS.—The Chief Commissioner
of the Metropolitan Police and the advertising agents are
at issue respecting the size of the boards which shall be
carried by " sandwich" men about the streets. The agents
declare that unless the regulation size prescribed by
Colonel Henderson is enlarged by a few inches, the
theatrical managers will withdraw their boards, and hun-
dreds of poor men would thus be deprived of their em-
ployment. The matter was brought under the notice of
the Marlborough-street police magistrate on Thursday,
who, while expressing hi„ belief that Colonel Henderson
had acted with every consideration, suggested that the
few inches asked for might well be conceded.
TABLE-TALK.—Three or four years ago it was
remarked, in a leading article of the Times on longevity,
that each of the peers who had died during the preceding
nine months had reached upwards of 70 years. A striking
contrast this to a fact recorded by Mr. W. Longman
who tells us, in his recently-published "History of
Edward III.," that "in the middle ages the deaths of a
great proportion of the English nobility, even when °cow
sioned by natural causes, occurred when they where under
forty years of age." To such an extent was this the case,
that their " eldest sons, though commonly the offspring of
very early marriages, very frequently became wards of the
Crown by reason of their minority, to the serious damage
of their own estates, and to the great advantage of 01
sovereign."—Guardian.