The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-09 00:00:00

INDIA.

The following are the principal items of news by tho
Bombay mail, just arrived:—

The accounts from the famine districts are somewhat
less alarming than hitherto.

A good deal of rain has fallen in the North-West Pro-
vinces, which has had the effect of lowering the prices of
corn throughout the western part of those provinces.
The contemplated interview between Lord Mayo and
Shere Ali, at Peshawur, has been abandoned.

The Bishop of Calcutta has put forward a scheme for
the establishment of a Christian mission at Mandalay.
the King of which does not object to Christianity.
Dr. Douglas, Bishop of Bombay, presided at a public
meeting in Bombay, for the first time, on the occasion
of
.the anniversary gathering of the Church Missionary
Society.

A bill has passed the Bombay Legislative Council em.
powering the Government Commissioners appointed to
inquire into the recent fatal accident on the Bhore Ghaut
incline of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.
The Bombay creditors and contributories of the Cora.
mercial Bank Corporation have unanimously adopted the
compromise proposed by the official liquidator.
A bill is to be introduced at the next meeting of the
Legislative Council of Bombay for the prevention
of the adulteration of cotton and the better suppression
of frauds in the cotton trade in the Bombay Presidency.
The bill also provides for the expenditure of part of the
revenue derived from cotton, on the improvement of the
growth of cotton, and of machinery applicable to the pre-
vAration of cotton for export.

4.N EXECUTION AT CONSTANTIONPLE.

Another of these locally rare sacrifices to justice occurrea
on Wednesday morning in a street near Ak-Serai. The
victim in this case was a Mussulman Albanian, named
Hassan, who about a fortnight ago violated and then mur-
dered a woman at Scutari. He had entered the house, in a
lonely quarter of the Asiatic suburb, in the daytime, and,
finding the womanbalone, perpetrated his double crime, and
afterwards decamped with what light valuables he could
carry off. The police, for a wonder, succeeded in tracking
him, and, as he was identified by some one who had seen
him enter the house, he finally confessed the crime during
his second or third examination at the Zaptieh. From the
first there was no chance of his escaping capital punish-
ment, but his sentence was, as usual, concealed from him,
till the last. The execution had been delayed for some
days owing to the difficulty of finding a gipsy—the usual
finisher of the law in Stamboul—to undertake the job for
the modest fee offered by the authorities. The Zingaree,
however, holding out for better pay, a policeman was at
length induced to do the work, and, without previous
hint of his fate, the murderer was roused from his sleep at
sunrise on Wednesday to go down, as he was told, to a
steamer for exile to Trebizonde. On reaching the spot
selected, the party of police escorting him halted, and the
first intimation the wretch had of his fate was the question
if he desired to say his prayers. He replied in a negative,
and the executioner then advanced and attempted to
throw a looped cord over his head. 3lanacled though he
was, he resisted for some minutes, struggling fiercely, and
screaming in a manner which, early as the hour was,
speedily gathered a crowd into the previously empty
street. At length the cord was got round his neck, and,
after a further short resistance, he was
,strangled into
insensibility. This done, the body was hitched up to a
hook in the door-post of a neighbouring butcher's shop,
with the feet barely off the ground, and left to die out
thus, under watch of a single zaptieh. As usual, there
was no excitement among the spectators, and in less than
half an hour after the murderer was dead only same three
or four loiterers lingered near the spot. About 1 p.m.
the body was cut down, and carried off in a sack for
burial.—Levant Herald, Jan. 24.

Mr. Hatton Hamer Stansfeld, who for many years
filled the office of official assignee in the court of the late
Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque, and who for some years has
acted as provisional assignee in the winding up of old insol-
vency cases, has been appointed to fill the vacancy in the
post of official assignee in Mr. Commissioner Holroyd's
court, vacant by the dismissal of Mr. Edwards.

At the Derby Assizes Mr. Hugh Brookes surren-
dered to answer a charge of "practising intimidation,
on the 13th of July, 1868," upon George Thornley,
a voter for the southern division of the county
of Derby, by means of a threatening letter, in older to in-
duce him to give his vote. After a long inquiry, his lord-
ship expressed his opinion that the indictment had not been
maintained, and a verdict was returned for the defendant.
lqr. Shirley Brooks, in writing in the Illustrated
London News, says : " Good Friday has been selected by
certain Reformers of the less-considered sort for a proces,
sion in honour of the late Ernest Jones. Otte reads that
some kinds of hymns are to be sung, and that a meeting is
to take place in Trafalgar-square. I suppose that it is of
no use to ask such persons to reconsider their intention ;
but could Ernest Jones have foreseen anything of the kind,
he would have declared it, both in regard to the choice of
the day and the ridiculous ceremonial, detestable. Mr.
Ernest Jones was a gentleman."

THE NEW TRADE MOVEMENT.—The adjournea
meeting of ironmasters and ironworkers was held on Mon-
day at Darlington, when the committee of five masters
and five men presented rules for the formation and guidance
of a court of arbitration and conciliation. Most of the
works in the North of England were represented by the
masters and by delegates on the part of the men, and the
discussions were of a harmonious and promising character.
The meeting, which occupied seve:Al hours, discussed
the rules, a code being ultimately adopted. It was
decided that the board of arbitration should consist of
one operative and one employer from each firm, the ope-
ratives to select their representative by ballot ; that a
president and vice-president, one from the operatives and
one from the employers, be elected annually ; that the
board meet once a quarter at Darlington, Stockton, New-
castle, and Middlesborough, alternately. The question of
an advance of wages was again raised by the men, who
pressed their claim, and said the ironworkers were almost
ready to strike in some of the districts. It was decided'
that the board of arbitration should meet at an early day,
and consider the demand.
THE TOWER HAMLETS CONSTITUTIONAL Asso-
CIATION.—BANQUET TO MR. COOPE. 011 Monday night
the first anniversary of the Tower Hamlets Conservative
Association was celebrated by a banquet at the Cannon-
street Hotel, in honour cf the candidature of Mr. Coope
The chair was taken by Mr. R. Wigram. There were
about 300 persons present, amongst whom were Mr. Mow-
bray, M.P., Mr. Fowler, 'M.P., Mr. Round, M.P., Mr. Pell,
M.P., Mr. Charrington, Major Holt, Mr. Fairclough, Mr.
Morgan Howard, Mr. J. Fletcher, Mr. Ashton, Rev. Mr.
Bray, &c. After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts,
the chairman proposed the toast of the evening
"Mr Coope, our Friend and Future Member." The ch.-
curnstarces undo: which Mr. Coope stood for the Tower
Hamlets were peculiar, and he looked upon the amount
of support he received as a sign that the tide was turning
in favour of Conservatism in this country. The result in
South Lancashire did not afford stronger evidence of the
feelings of the people of the country than did the last
election in the Tower Hamlets. The Towel H was
a working men's constituency, and their supi.ort of his
friend Mr. Coope—a support which was nearly
crowned with success—sheaved that they were begin-
ning to see who were their real friends. He had
now, on behalf of the Tower Hamlets Constitutional
Association, to present Mr. Coope with an address.
Mr. Coope said when he heard of this banquet he was
afraid at first that it might be regarded as an offer of
c mdolence under defeat, but when he recollected that in
the most Radical borough in the kingdom, and possessing
one of the largest constituencies, he was only defeated by
the small majority of 400, he felt that the result of. the
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