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

On Friday, at the Barnsley Court House, two boys,
named Wildsmith and Hepworth, both aged 10, were
charged with setting fire to the Beavor Bobbin Mill at
Barnsley. It will be remembered that the fire
took place several months ago. and property to
the value of £lO,OOO was destroyed. The origin
was unknown, but within the last few days two boys have
made a confession implicating two of their companions.
The former boys, Goodyeer and Waugh, appeared as wit-
nesses for the prosecution of Wildsmith and Hepworth.
Goodyeer said that both the prisoners worked at the mill
in the same room with him, and he had been asked by them
to bring some matches, which he did. Waugh said that
a few days before the fire Hepworth asked him if he would
agree to be with him to set the mill on fire. On the
evening of the fire he saw Hepworth go to the stove.
Three weeks later Hepworth told him that he and Wild.
smith fired the mill. The prisoners, who made no answer
when charged, were committed to the assizes for trial,
bail being accepted.

ART AND ,LITERARY GOSSIP.

Mr. Arthur Sullivan has resigned the conductorship of
the Civil SefiriCB Musical Society.—Mr. Bandmann and
Miss Milly Palmer (Mrs. Bandmann) are about to start for
Melbourne.—ln announcing the departure of Mrs. Scott
Siddons for England, some of the American papers
state that it is her intention to return in Septem-
ber, and to reside permanently in the United States.—
A discovery of "lost letters" has just been made, which is
:+f singular interest—nothing less curious than the sup-
pretseee. ecirrespondence of Charles the First with his friends
on the eve of the battle of Naseby.—The 100th anniversary
of Hegel's birth occurs this yea; and it is proposed to erect
a centenarm monument to him in Berlin. A subscription
has been set on foot in this country by Dr. J. Hutcheson
Stirling.—The Rev. George Gilfillan has refused the
offer of an henoraly degree from an American college,
on account of the "scandalously indiscriminate and partial
manner" in which such honours have recently been con-
ferred.—The musical festival to be held at Bonn next year,
in celebration of the centenary of Beethoven's birth, will
take place in the Court of the University. It is to be
converted for the occasion into a spacious concert-hall,
capable of seating three thousand persons —Signor Naudin,
says a French paper, is engaged to sing in Cairo for five
months, at the rate of 25,000 f. a month, in addition to a
benefit.—lt is stated that the authorities of the Charing cross
Hospital have threatened the managers of the Charing-
cross Theatre with an injunction, alleging that the beat-
ing of the drum in the orchestra is ruinous to the patients in
the hospital.— A musical brrleeque entitled "Crossing the
Line," first produced on board the Galatea in March, will
sh-ortly be brought out at a West-end theatre. The author
is a Lieut. Poore, R.M.A., and the holder of the copyright
Mr. Walter Montgomery.

On Saturday a gentleman named Williams,
engaged in the City, whilst walking along Wood-lane, Shep-
herd's-bush, was attacked with a sunstroke. He shortly
afterwards expired.

A charge of overcrowding one of the New Brighton
steamers was heard at the Liverpool Police Court on
Friday, when penalties amounting to £l6 were imposed by
the magistrates.

Mr. Angus Cameron, the Iligblander who won
the Queen's prize at Wimbledon two years ago, has just
made another important addition to Ids trophies. At Edin-
burgh, on Thursday, Angus gained the Caledonian Chal-
lenge Shield, valued at £5OO, wi:h a score of fifty out of
a possible sixty. The winning score wa; two points above
the h7ghest sera ever before ninAe in the fame competition.

Froth a PittliamentAry return ju...t publishc•l,
it appears that (luring the yesr 18C5 :.93,046 ve•sse•ls in-
ten d and cleared.tha ports of the ruited Kingdom. 'Their
aggregate register was C 9,215,209 tons. During the year
1,007 vessels, carrying 298,142 tons, were sold and tans-
ferre,l; 071, earrylng 181,1128 ten., were Wrecked; of these
oily 50 were ftealn vess,le v, ssils were Lte•ke•n up
1,110 vessas, re•gistt•red to carry 30J,:.73 tons, mro placed
upon the register.

It has been decided Ly Connell of the National
Rifk Association that, es the inLeLitat,t; of l'L:tiley and
Wimbledon, and the Volunteers thc mat•lves, Lave complained
cf the great crowd hitherto resorting to the Wimbledon
camp on Sundays .there will be uo admission to the camp on
Sunday, the 4th of July, and two following. Sundays, except
by the usualpasses and special Sundaypasses issued through
the officers in command of volunteer corps in camp. ,No
carriages of any kind will bo admitted.

The President was to leave Washington June 8
in a special car attached to the 9 o'clock train, for West
Point, New York, to a!tend the annual examination of the
cadets at the Military Academy, accompanied by Mrs.
Grant, their two children, Nellie and Jessie, Mr Dent, fa-
ther of Mrs Grant, Mrs Cramer, sister of President Grant,
and her husband, Secretary Rawlins, and Secretary Cox.
Secretary Rawlins will visit his family in Connecticut be-
fore his return. The President's eldest son, Master Fred.
Grant, is a cadet at the Military Academy. The Rev. M.
J. Cramer, United States Consul at Leipsig, and a brother-
in-law of President Grant, arrived at Washington June 5,
accompanied by his wife, an I both stopped at the Execu-
tive Mansion, and were to go with the President to West
romt,

from West Point, the President intended to stop a few days
in New York with Mr. Corbin, his brother-in-law. General
Grant's private secretary, Brevet Brig. Gen. Horace Porter,
was to remain on duty in charge of the Executive-office for
the purpose of transacting the ordinary business. Assis-
tant-Secretary Richardson has been commissioned to act
hereafter, in the absence of Mr. Boutwell, who left Wash-
ington with the President, but did not accompany him to
West Point, proceeding to his home in Massachusetts,
whence he was to join the President at Boston. On the
17th the President attended the Musical Peace Jubilee,
and on the 18th he reached New York, meeting with an
enthusiastic reception at Springfield and Worcester en
route. Up to the 21st he remained in the Empire City, at
at the house of Mr. A. T. Stewart, when he left for
Washington.

GAOL DISTURBANCES.—In Ohio there have been
gaol risings. From the prison in Columbus eleven con-
victs escaped, and in Cleveland County Gaol the plan for
a general delivery was almost successful. In the former
(Juno 6) the turnkey Mahe,: t unlocked the doors of two
prisoners, whose good conduct had obtained for them the
privilege of unlocking the other cell doors. Both dashed
at him and struck him down, enveloping his head in a
sheet, tying a handkerchief tightly over his mouth, and
with his Let strapped together he was deposited in a cell
minus keys and pistols. The doors being unlocked, eleven
of-the prisoners coolly walked out and dispersed, but seve-
ral were afterwards seen together with arms, and a reward
has been offered for their apprehension. The prisoners
were not however, so fortunate with turnkey Koehler
of the Cleveland County Gaol. About the same time on
the same day as in Columbus, Mr. Koehler, according to
custom, unlocked the cells, when two notorious ruffians
sprang upon him as previously concerted, knocked him
down, but in spite of their efforts to choke him, his shouts
brought assistance, and the attack was defeated. The
burglar Flynn availed himself of the opportunity of
the general confusion to slip into the cell of a prisoner
namedGll i,whohadig yen evidence against him, and
ferociously attacked him.
AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND ENGLISH CLAIMANTS.
—The manner in which American inventions are some-
times adopted iu other countries and supplied with names
that wholly disguise their origin has been exemplified in
unnumbered instances, among which niay be 'noted the
so-called Paixhan gun, invented by Colonel Bamford, but
called after the Frenchman who introduced it into his own
country; the Drummond light, devised by an American
physician, bat deriving its cognomen from an English
lieutenant ; the gas engine, brat made to operate with any.
t h!ng liko pl-aetcal success by a Philadelphia inventor, but
moat widely known as the work of a Parisian improver;
and, the " Abyssinian pump," so termed because used by
the British forces in the Abyssinian expedition, although
invented by an officer of the American army to meet the
wants of the soldiers in the great civil war."—American
Artisan.

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