The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-29 00:00:00

EMIGRATION TO CANADA.

The Hon. Mr. Hobart writes to the Times to
acknowledge some more contributions to the East
London Family Emigration Fund. The intention
of this society is to give direct assistance to the poor,
and to afford relief to the overcrowded labour
market in the East of London. Mr. Hobart adds
that he has met with a most satisfactory letter from
an emigrant sent out by the fund last April. The
man declares that there is plenty of work in Canada
for all who like to go out there, and that all seem to
live well.

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE TELEGRAPHS(
The Times, in stating that the Government aro
taking active precautions to adopt the telegraphic
system, says that the question of which signalling
instrument shall be adopted has been under con-
sideration. It was stated some time since that
Government had decided upon adopting tither the
Norse or the Bright system, but it has been rtnnolred
recently that a pkeference will be given to the
Wheat-stone instrument.

CHILDREN ON THE TRAPEZE.

Certainly we have had enough C' frightful cx-
amplt,s" of the danger of trapeze performances.
Men's performances are questionable enough, though
there is hardly much to fear where practice had made
perfect, as in the case of Leotard ; that women should
take tic -dangerous flights is meat reprehensible,
but what shall be said of a child suspended at th 3
height of sixty feet, and compelled to go through
the usual swinging and standing to the " amuse-
ment" of the spectators: Such a spectacle is just
now to be witnessed at Cheltenham. In that
town a child, advertised as 4 years cf age, though
probably a trifle older, hangs nightly by its heels, by
the back of its head, by one
.arm and one leg, to a
bar suspended twenty yards above ground. A
correspondent writes :—" As a father, .1 indignantly
protest against the cruelty, cupidity, and dcinorallsinry
tendency of such a sight; and, as a medical -man,
cannot but express my conviction that the unhappy
child, by such a performance, mast end its days in
. ;f ;+ e, th' all but
certainty of an innifecliatelatality.l-

MANUFACTURING DE-UNE:AIMS

The power of _making anybody drunk has not yet
been granted to the publicans, as one of their number
recently discovered. The migistrates of Liverpool
found thcmclves compollel to draw the line last
week. They had before them a licensed victualler.
one Caroline Hammond, charged with permitting
drunkenness. The prisoner had served three
girls, of 13 or 14 - years of age, with
three pints of beer. One of the girls was found
by a police constable, soon after being served, very
ill in the street. The magistrates, -we arc told,
" severely censured the keeper of the public-house"
and fined her £3 and costs, observing that " but for
her previous good character a heavier penalty would
have been inflicted."

FOREIGN NOTES.

THE MAZZINI PLOT.

Amongst the papers found on one of the persons re-
cently arrested at Milan is a letter by Mazzini, which has I
just been published. Judging by this epistle it would
seem that the hopes of the Mazzini party are not in the
ascendant at present. The outbreak which recently took
place at Milan was a Republican scheme, but the mine
was exploded too early. Mazzini regrets this premature
action in his letter. Still more seriously does he corn-
plain of the dissensions amongst the members of his party.
It appears that several military men who had been won
over were by no means flisposed to submit to the control
of the arch-agitator. They aimed at taking the direction
of the movement, and they held to the belief that the
best policy would be to wait for some home or foreign event
in order to commence the work of insurrection
under favourable puspices. Mazzini is not of
that opinion. Though he thinks the raising of the
standard at Milan was badly concerted, he is not
the less conv;nced that the time is ripe for the overturning
of the monarchy. Ire suggests an agitation on the sub-
ject of Rome in all the aid cities, with a View to prompt
and decisive action. A hearty initiative, lie says, would
upset the monarchy which, has lost its two strop eat sup-
ports—the inertia of the agricultural population and the
confidence of the army. From this it is clear that the
recent outbreaks were due to Mazzinian influences. The
Contutionnet attributes the riots i❑ Belgium and France
.to the. same cause.