The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-03 00:00:00

MR. GR EN VILL E URR.3Y.

Mr. Williamson, the chief of the detective force,
in whose hands the warrant granted by Mr. Knox,
the police magistrate, for the apprehension of
Mr. Grenville Murray has been placed, has
not yet been able to execute it, Mr. Murray, it is
believed, being still in France. A sharp look out
has been kept at the various ports. There is a
rumour that Mr. Murray intends to surrender as
soon as it is convenient to himself to do so.

FIRE IN THE WANDSWORTH-ROAD.--THIS DAY.
—This morning, between the hours of three and four
o'clock, a fite, attended with considerable destruction of
property, took place in the premises belonging to Mr. E
Clarke, pork butcher. The premises and contents were
totally destroyed, and the roof burned off.

The London Grocer draws attention, in its number
of Saturday, July 17, to the:fate attending the clergymen,
military officers, members of-the aristocracy, and others,
who persist in invading all manner of trades, in all
manner of disguises, of which the co-operative-store-dodge
is tLe latest. The extraordinary success following on the
shop in the Haymarket, which has actually succeeded, in
these hard times, in getting people to pay for the privilege
of buying indifferent things, at a high price, with ready
money, has encouraged many imitators. Give; such
conditions, any goose can make a fortune, and these are
the conditions attending the grocery in question. But
nothing so awakens the public from a delusion as many
practising on it, and the numerous institutions of that
character, startad in all parts of London, have shown that
the principle is only the retrogression of a great city to
the plan found necessary in a colonial village. The
general store is a back-woods' settlement institution, but
we doubt whether it is required in London, particularly
with its board of directors, who learn nothing of any one of
the numerous articles traded in, except as it appears on
table, after going through a mysterious process known
only to cooks. In noticing the petition for winding up
The Legal, Clerical, and Medical Co-operative Society
(Limited)" the Grocer is not surprised to find these gentle-
men after their brief career, in the " winding-up" court,
wherever that may be. The Grocer shrewdly suspects
that it is somewhere in the neighbourhood of Chancery-
lane, where the company had erected its coat-of-arms,
consisting of a lion, a flying horse, a griffin, and a lamb, with
the motto Juncta Avant. This organ of the trade invaded
by these amateurs (they have done so to some purpose in
the Haymarket), hopes the" suspensory process takes place
in some locality where theyjmay remain and serve as a con-
spicuous beacon or warning to those who may hereafter be
tempted to embark in a joint-stock argosy in search of a
golden fleece to be derived from retail dealing in tea,
coffee, tobacco, and snuff. In conclusion, we would re-
mark that these learned and reverend gentlemen, in pur-
suing the classical studies necessary to fit them for their
respective professions, must, we should imagine, have met
an aphorism which is as true at the present day as when it
was written nearly two thousand years ago, and which, if
they had remembered it, might have been the means of
saving both their pockets and their amour propre. We
allude to the appropriate adage, Ne actor ultra crepidam
" Cobbler, stick to your last."

The dinner at which General Blair distinguished
himself at Long Branch continues to furnish a subject for
comment in New York, and numerous are the letters to
the daily papers and their comments thereon. Frank
Blair has Wi Wen to the New York World denying that his
conduct could be construed into an insult to the associa-
tion which had invited him to the banquet. Instead of
intending to wound their feelings his object was to com-
pliment the Union Army, by showing that it had triumphed
over foemen worthy of its steel ; adding, "My intention
and meaning could only have been perverted by men who
had been taught by such heroes as Butler to relish a diffe-
rent kind of steal." Poor Butler! If any ono was ever
born with a silver spoon in his mouth, that gentleman was
the infant ; and spoons of all sorts have been flourished in
his face ever since. General Blair alludes to his reluctance
to attend those army reunions, as they are used as Radical
stalking-horses, and this occasion justified his suspicion,
"as his compliment to the gallant soldiers of the Union
was used as the means of a gross and indecent insult to
an invited guest." This is one way of putting it; but,
that it is susceptible of another construction may be seen
by those who read files of New York papers, in which he
and his letter are severely condemned, An uncalled-
for insult to a Union General, and attributing to the as-
sembly of Union officers a gross and indecent insult to
an invited guest, do not tend to throw oil on that trou-
bled water.