The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-15 00:00:00

THE NEW LAW COURTg.

rine Builder thus criticises the change of site made
by Mr. Lowe in the new law courts :—" The pre-
sent plan of the Government offers no single
excuse for the change of site. Even the
arguments that were used to support Sir Charles
Trevelyan's original site disappear. If a smaller building
than was at one time thought necessary will suffice, it
can as well be placed on the Strand (or miscalled
Carey-street) site, already in our possession, as next the
Embankment, ar.d with infinitely better effect with
reference to the adornment of Lyndon than if it be buried
behind the houses on the south side of the Strand. The
land already bought offers a noble position for a noble
building ; and its superiority with reference to the greatest
convenience to the greatest number is so universally
admitted as to require no argument."
A rumour is in circulation, which must be taken for
what it is worth, that her Majesty's Government have

under their consideration plans for the erection of a new
General Post Office—more particularly in connection with
the new telegraph system and probably the money-order
business, on the C'arey•street site. A large number of
houses have recently been pulled down in St. Martin's-le-
Grand for the extension of the present General Post
Office.

A St. Petersburg paper announces that an
Englishman is about to undertake a ride on a bicycle from
that city to Moscow.

Among the passengers by the City of Antwerp,
which left Liverpool on Thursday, were more than twenty
English actors and actresses who have taken engagements
at the New York theatres.
A BOARD OF GUARDIANS IN A Fix. —The

Limerick Board of Guardians having overdrawn their
account by nearly £6,000, the local bank has refused to give
further credit until the interest due is paid.

On Friday a return was issued showing the
quantities cf sugar imiortcd into the United kingdom, the
quantities retained for Lone conEumpt ion, together with the
rates of duty charged thereon. In 1868, 11,796,161 cwts. of
unr, fined sugar were iml orted, and 729,865 cwts. of refined
sugar end suzar-eandy. The quantity retained for actual
cousumpt:on in the United Kiugdom ameuuted to 10,729,601
cwts. ; and uet revenue from duties on sugar of all sorts was
£5,425,181.
A telegram from Cork on Friday s'a'es that it is as
yet uncertain whether Mr. James Murphy, who was selected
by the Liberals of the Town Council On Thursday, to be Mr.
O'Sullivan's successor Neill consent to be put in nomination.
At first be was disinclined to tab() the scat whose former
occupant had been rendered notorious, but on being pressed
he determined to reconsider the overture, and be will give
a definite answer to-day. His acquiescence would
virtually instal Lim as Mayor, inasmuch as the Liberals
form a major:ty of the Town Council, and he is the first
object of their choice.
A WILTSHIRE CENTENARIAN.—There died last
week, at Oare, in the parish of Wilcot, Wilts, Matthew
' Baden, at the age of 106,1 years, having been born at
Pewsey in the month of February 1763. He has left a
numerous offspring of children, grandchildren, great-
grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren. His eldest
daughter, now living, is verging on EO years, and has
children and grandchildren many. Matthew Baden did
not marry till after he was 30 years of age. He died
respected, in his own little freehold cottage at Oare, after
a confinement to his bed of four days only.

THE POET LAUREATE.—It is stated that Alfred
Tennyson, Poet Laureate, has a new volume nearly
ready ; in fact, it was intended to be published this month,
but as yet the title is not quite settled. Tennyson is,
perhaps, the
and hasthemost a
fastidious of authors as regards his pro-
ductions,)printing-press at home, so that his
works are composed by his own hands as well as by his own
head. His copy comes to the publisher in type. The
only other English author who equals him in this parti-
cular is Charles Dickens, who is most careful as
regards MS.
A DOMESTIC BANK ROBBED.—A lady in Glasgow
employed a cabinet maker to remove her furniture on
Wednesday. She had some accounts to pay, for which she
kept £74 in the house, and for greater security, as the money
was in notes, she concealed them between the mattresses in
her bed. When making preparations for removing she
forgot that the notes were secreted in the bed. The trades-
men engaged in shifting the furniture found the notes, but
said nothing about them. About an hour afterwards the
lady remembered that the bed contaihearnd ing the money
of had
been removed, and concluded, as she nothing it,
it must have been appropriated by
the workmen. She
said nothing to them, but sent for the police. Two detec-
tive officers arrived, and on examining the workmen, found
all the money in possession of two of them. Their names
are John Hardie and John Baird, both cabinetmakers.
DARING ROBBERY.—A daring robbery has been
committed in that foul and dangerous place, Rosemary-
lane, lately renamed Royal Mint-street, Whitechapel.
An Italian gentleman in a cab was being driven along the
lane towards London at the rate of between five and six
miles an hour, when a daring thief, who must have seen
him enter the vehicle two or three minutes previously,
ran alongside the cab for a distance of a hundred yards
thrust his arm into the cab, and made a violent snatch
at the foreigner's gold chain, carrying away part of it, and
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for the first time, for a few h, urs ; and that he bad been
in all the capitals of Europe, and had not been robbed
before.

THE " IMPROVEMENT" OF llynE PARK. The

alterations in Hyde Park in the way of artificial mounds

do not seem to have given satisfaction generally. A depu-
tation, representing the inhabitants of Park-side, Knights-
bridge, has waited, by appointment, on the Eight Hon.
A. If. Layard, at the o:lice of Works, to draw his atten-
tion to the embankment and plantation which have been
recently formed in Hyde Park, in the immediate rear
of their houses. It was explained that the mound,
together with the trees and shrubs, were a very
great annoyance to the occu:Aers, as they shut out
bgli'; and air from the back rooms, and quite hid the
view of the park, hitherto enjoyed, besides rendering
the houses damp and unhealthy. Mr. C. Mercier pointed
out that the growth of the saplings which had been
planted was very rapid, and in the course of a short time
would quite block out the light from the studio window.
Mr. Layard, in reply, said tliatle should regret extremely
that any interests should suffer by the alterations, and
promistd that he w,.u'd have a report drawn up upon the
case, and that he would be only too happy to meet the
wishes of the deputation as fad as Pooikle.