The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-19 00:00:00

GOVERNMENT AND THE TELEGROP

The Marquis of Hartington has given public notice tbA
application is to be made to Parliament in the Preseiliit
session for leave to introduce a bill and pass an Act
effect the following objects :-1. To alter, amend, exte%'
and enlarge the powers and provisions of the TelegraPd
Act, 1868 (hereinafter called the Act of 1868), and, ,r,„B
be, to repeal some of the powers and provisions of such
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2. To make better provision for the protection of the obi'
Revenue, to arise under the provisions of the Act of 1868
and of the proposed Act. 3. To confer on the Postmaster.
General the excluqive privilege of collecting
and trans'
mitting, for money or other valuable consideration, dessages by electric and other telegraphs throughout the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and,
create exemptions from such privilege. 4. To Pr°l)'"
the establishment of any new undertaking and the forto3.
tion of works for the purpose of collecting or transmittig,
for money or other valuable consideration, message° b 2:
electric and other telegraphs in the United Kingdom; 3ndt,-
extension of any existing works belonging to any corort
corporation, or persons, for the conveyance of messageT,
electric and other telegraphs in the United Kingdon'li
money or other valuable consideration ; and to extiogn's
all rights and privileges connected with such ctistniga
works ; and to confer, vary, or extinguish other rights and
privileges in connection with the carrying into full 11:a
complete effect the objects and purposes of the iatenct
Act. The solicitor to the Post Office is to act 111 °
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capacity for the bill, and Messrs. Wyatt and
Parliament-street, are the parliamentary agents.

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE SIAIIIO

TTV INS.

A correspondent of Land and Water furnishes Bode
interesting particulars of his acquaintance with th
Weep
Siamese Twins. In the year 1830 he lived for some Wee,„
under the same roof with them, and was in dailyrntee
course with the " good gentle creatures." At that tlit
there was nothing painful in the contemplation of 034
misfortune. Being lithe and supple, they were capable
enjoying much freedom and even variety of moven°
Their lively dispositions made them most amusing ooh
panions, and they were wont to mimic the odd rern;7o.
made of them in public. Even at that period Chang .
less active than his brother, and would afford entertsi
ment to lookers-on by putting his foot on a chair, 1111,0
saying in a voice of mock authority, "Eng, tie my shoe
a request which was always complied with. One eveilie
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a merry party of half-a-dozen or so assembled,
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Siamese Twins and the narrator being of the party- S°"-so
thing being said of a hill in the neighbourhood, it Iv
resolved to visit it, and having clambered up, the Whe:o
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party, the Siamese in the centre, started off fall ortai
over the smooth and steep descent. In the midst tr,
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came upon a hurdle fence, four or five feet higl3,l3ef°a;
which all the party except the twins suddenly stePPe.t!
they, " with the agility of young deer, leaped over ltd
On going to the Egyptian Hall the other day, the fi'tbe
of their young days was painfully shocked at
appearance of the twins, and the contrast toi
presented to the image in his mind. 'll f
having unfortunately grown an inch or two to
the
t,j)
than Chang, the constant leaning on one another fr'"
brought about a deviation in the spine of each,
andligament that unites them has grown more rigid ?
time, so that they cannot move so freely as in other aseid
These painful impressions have been, however, gre!,e,
diminished since he has seen them in their quiet Wei
affectionate and happy, retaining the Christian narael to
their friends after forty years of absence, and carefiz..%
chew how kindly they had been remembered. Tll°',6
Chang and Eng are very intelligent, their long reside,/iy
in a remote part of the States has kept them unspoileoo
the world and its ways, and to their friend they We' l);
none of the attractiveness of the " Siamese youth'
knew and loved so many years ago.

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Lord March was on Saturday returned IV"-
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opposition for West Sussex.
It is stated that the living of St. Mary, Nei
ton, has been conferred on the Rev. W. D. DlaclaQlt
M.A., honorary secretary to the London Diocesan 0110/
Building Society, and curate of Enfield, Middlesex.
emoluments will probably be about £2,000 per annul°.
Glad,
While most of the other members of Mr. byo
stone's Cabinet have been brought up at various Pilo
schools, Mr. John Bright forms a marked exception t°ol
rule. He received his early education at a small Pare
school in Yorkshire, and must have left that school 0,
young, as at fifteen he was perched on a stool in 113
facturer's counting-house to learn business.
THE OAKS COLLIERY. —The explorers at .004
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in the Oaks Colliery a few days ago found a watellolo
waistcoat pocket which belonged to a young' re
named John Harper, of Ardsley, whose body W3.5,,,,01
covered on the 9th of November last from the first
of No. 2 Jenny. On being wound up, the watch
seem to have sustained the least injury.
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CABINET COUNCIL. —At the Cabinet Council 'epi,
at Downing-street on Saturday, the Ministers Prirebsor
were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord
cellor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Kireberkti
the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon' 0 d
Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke
Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right
of.
Hugh Childers, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Rightaigbi
0-. J. Goschen, the Marquis of Hartingtun, and the J."
Hon. C. Fortescue.
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At the last monthly meeting of the. Society
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parte,ilio
Bishop of Ely in the chair, the business proceeded si)
tolerable smoothness until th a for inooreff'ejl'
members arrived, when Mr. J. C. Colquhoun, the oil
known Protestant champion, and chairman of the 0111101
Association, was rejected on the ballot, the numberBn,
declared to be, ayes, 29 ; noes, 40; majority agahl"tice
A scene of considerable excitement ensued, and lad
was given to re-propose Mr. Colquhoun at
meeting.
ACCIDENT AT THE SURREY THEATRE. —On -a,. Ole
day night, when " True to the Core " was finished atoll
Surrey Theatre, the crowd in the gallery rushed out, t),
pressed so heavily against the barrier on the secon,l
ing, where checks were being given, as to force it Olio
its place. Of course a great portion of the crowd pie
precipitated down the lower stairs, and several Pe
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were seriously hurt. One man had his leg broken, ell rd.
had an arm broken, and a third had his ribs fractliile
These three were taken to Guy's Hospital. Several °t
persons also suffered severely.
HYDROPHOBIA IN A FLOCK OF SHEEP.--
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the past two or three months hydrophobia has been 4'9'1.0)
ingly prevalent in the neighborhood of Preston, of
especially so in the town itself. Many valuable dlit)
all breeds have been destroyed at the police-station
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prussic acid, the whole number, good, bad, and indiffeVitee
amounting to two or three scores, or more. About t" r
weeks ago nine lambing ewes, the property of Mr. Prlir;
Bradley Hall Farm, Croston, six miles from PreLd
were bitten by a strange dog, and having since o'll' all
undoubted symptoms of rabies, have just been
destroyed. The lambs were preserved.
" GOOSE " WHEAT. —Some years since II .9100.
goose was shot in Washington Territory, and a few g
ee
of wheat were taken from its craw. Being very
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and full, they were preserved and planted. The Yietiotil
found to be so great as to lead to its propagation, "c#
this variety, which is known in the territory as the "5; 008
wheat," has become a standard one in that section Of the
country. Samples of this wheat were recently sent °jot
agricultural department at Washington. Upon exan°ooo
the samples at the museum, of which there are some
varieties, the same wheat was found, being one 19f_„ jt
samples sent from the Paris Exposition, and gros"
Cuenca, in Spain.— The Gardener's Magazine.
DULCE Doalusr.—Everybody knows the old
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Winchester holiday song beginning "Dulce Doultl'ol
but it is not everyone who is familiar with the etqlt i 0
the circumstances under which it was composed-
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traditionally reported to have been the production deg
poor solitary boy some three centuries back, who °to
tamed at school during the summer holidays, and
pining under the " Domtun Elm" for his far-distant h°o4'
in a day when there was no such things as railwalBool
telegraphs, left this sweet legacy behind him. It ts'
that he died of a broken heart before his schoolfellow tio
turned to the " college ;" but it is only fair to add that
tradition is not borne out by the tone of the stanzas 1%00
compose the song, which, though loving and tender,'
decidedly of a joyous character.—Guardian.
DELIGHTED BUFFALOES BRADAWLS 010
SCRATCHERs.—The buffaloes found in the tQlegraPit lee°
of the overland line a new source of delight on the treeto,
prairie—the novelty of having something to '3ertA,4o'
against. But it was expensive scratching for the "the
graph company ; and there, indeed, was the rub, I°l.oo
bisons shook clown miles of wire daily. A bright r 911
struck somebody to send to St. Louis and Chicago °were
the bradawls that could be purchased, and theee.olo,
driven into the poles with a view to wound the 01Ater'
and check their rubbing propensity. Never was a gteorA
mistake. The buffaloes were delighted. For the theft'
time they came to the scratch sure of a sensation ir'oef
thick hides that thrilled them from horn to tail. , al)°,
would go fifteen miles to find a bradawl. They J°43 she
huge battles around the poles containing them, $l/1.01
victor would proudly climb the mountainous heap ,
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and hump of the fallen, and scratch himself into Wise
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the bradawal broke or pole came down. There
no (.1 omand for bradayls fronatheii.g.gmissziozol.9'
first invoice,