The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-25 00:00:00

VIE EDMUNDS SCANDAL.

The irhitratore resumed their sitting on Saturday,
when Dar. Field proceeded to read, as part of the case for
the Crown, the shorthand notes taken at the "Patent
office Inquiry," 18.64. By so doing the learned counsel
N7auted to bring home to Mr. Edmunds the sum of £7,872
which the Crown has given him credit for in the total
claim of £22,511 6s. 10d.
The lirmf, George Denman, at the close of Mr. Field's
address, asked Mr, §eymour if he could admit anything on
behalf of his client.

After a consultation, the arbitrators said that they were
prepared to admit the discounts, subject to the question
as to how far Mr. Edmunds was liable for the discounts
received by his deputy, Mr. Euscoe. The sum so admitted
would be £5,131 133. 6d.

Mr. Pollock, QC.: Do you admit, then, that part of that
was made out of the public money, and part from Mr.
Edmunds's money ?

Mr. Seymour : Oh, no ; we simply admit that the sum
named was received.

Mr. Augustus Gipp, finance clerk in the Patent Office,
Wu next called, and having given some evidence, the court
adjourned.

A MYISTE.RIOUS MUBDE.R IN B.RUSSEDS.

A mysterious murder has been perpetrated in Brussels. It
seems that for some time the house No. 7, Rue do Bra-
t ant, the street which bounds the arrival side of the
Northern Railway Station, has been occupied by two
ladies named 'Van de Poel, mother and daughter— the
former 75 and the latter 88 years of age. These ladies,
though pretty well off, were somewhat miserly in their
habits, and among other things denied themselvc s the com-
fort of a servant. They lived a very retired life, and were
seldom spoken to or seen by their neighbours. Last
Sunday their niece called upon them, but her appeal
to the bell met no response, and she observed upon
the door a paperbearing the word " Absent." She returned
on Wednesday, and finding things in the same condi-
tion became alarmed and applied to the police.
The door was broken open, and the two ladies
were found dead in the drawing-room. The mother
was resting on the sofa, and the daughter was
lying in a pool of blood on the floor. Both had evidently
been killed by blows from some heavy instrument, such as
a hammer. None of the furniture had been disturbed, and
although thero was a. good deal of valuable and easily-
removable property about nothing was missed. It is
supposed that the murder was committed on Thurs-
day night, because in the passage of the house were
found copies of the newspaper to which the deceased
subscribed, dating from Friday morning. The authori-
ties are investigating the circumstances of the crime, but
as yet, as far as we are informed, no clue has been discovered
to the murderers. The neighbours beard no cries or any
unusual noise in the house where the crime was committed.

THE " NATIONAL" PRESS ON MR.
GLADSTONE'S LETTER.

The Irish " national" papers affect great anger at the
refusal of the Government to release the Fenian prisoners
The Nation says the decision "is not only painful, but
shocking." "No amnesty!" it exclaims. " This cannot be
the end of that appeal which has so moved the heart of
Ireland. Far otherwise it is and must be. A momentous
issue has been raised to-day, and the Irish people will not
shirk it." The Flag "thanks England for the lesson.
It is the last constitutional appeal that will come from
this land." The Irishman heads its article, "The Oppres-
sor's Reply." It is only (it says) a " declaration of govern-
ment by terror, a defiance of the Irish nation." "If this
be the rule of government in Ireland for the future, as it
has been in the past, we have reason to thank Mr. Glad-
stone for reminding us that, thank God, Fenianism is not
extinct either in the United Kingdom or in America' In
its existence we have some means of openingthe prison doors
and of delivering our people from Government by
terror and torture." The same journal says :—" Ws
listened to his (Mr. Gladstone's) promise. We offered him
a test. We asked for the restoration of the victims as a
sign of the abandonment of the policy to which they were
sacrificed. We accepted Mr. Gladstone's justification of their
conduct. We demanded from him an atonement for the
crime which he acknowledged his nation has committed
against the Irish race. The policy of conquest has been
only abandoned to give place to a reign of terror." The
People of Ireland declares that " the English people have
elected to give the lie to all their professions ef sympathy
with struggling nationalities, and to virtually say to
.Kossuth,. Garibaldi, Mazzini, Jefferson Davis, and the
other exiled revolutionists whom they feted and
flattered, "Our professions of sympathy with the op-
pressed of all nations were hollow shams." This refusal
(it adds) "has taught the Irish people, for the ten
thousandth time, the lesson which they are always
forgetting—that they have no voice in the Government of
this country, and that the Inle of Wight has more influ-
ence in deciding the policy of the English Cabinet than
Ireland has." "He (Mr. Gladstone) has defied Ireland.
We await the reply of the Irish nation."

It appears that Prince Louis Murat, who was sup-
posed to have slung his hammock before the mast, and
who certainly joined the French Navy as a common sea-
man, enjoys certain privileges not accorded to tars in
general ; he messes with his captain, has his own cabin,
and will, no doubt, be spared every unnecessary hard-
ship.

Four Royal accouchements are expected either
next month or in December, viz.:—The Princess of Wales,
the ex-Queen Sophia of Naples, the Princess Margaret of
Italy, and the Duchess of Parma. The Pope has promised
to be godfather to two of the expected infants, those of
the ex-Queen of Naples and the Duchess of Parma
Francis 11. and his Queen have been hurrying back to
Rome, in order that the birth may take place on Italian
soil.—Court Journal.

SIGN OF PROGRESS.—A gratifying proof of the
growth of Liberal and tolerant principles might have beer
seen in our police-court the other day, when a Catholic, i
Wesleyan, and a Quaker were the sole occupants of thy
magisterial bench; and, so far as could be observed, th
business of the court was conducted as efficiently, and witl
as much dignity, as in the good old days of intoleranc
and exclusiveness.—Preston Guardian.

A GIFT FILO3I 'rug SEA.—The tidal wave, whici
threatened to sweep away the Northumbrian village o'
Newbiggin, threw upon the shore a splendid prize to com
pensate the inhabitants for their alarm. On the tide re
ceding a huge whale, measuring over fifty-four feet is
length and twenty in girth, was found upon the shore. As
immense• quantity of oil is expected. The monster had bees
badly injured among the rocks, and had thus become power
less to resist the tremendous waves which bore in upon th
shore.

SecretEiry Boutwell has been addressing a larg
meeting in Philadelphia in behalf of the Republican can
didates for State offices. The most generally interesting
portion of his speech concerned the public debt, which h
declared ought to be honestly paid in gold or its equiva
lent. There were, he said, differences of opinion in th
country as to the mode of payment, but the policy of th
Administration was that it should be paid, principal an
interest, according to the terms of the contract, in coin o
that which men will receive as equivalent of coin. Ther
was no cause to be discouraged at the amount of the deb
which had been reduced several hundred millions of dollar
within the last four years, and even if they had a larg
reduction of taxation the interest bearing debt would b
extinguished in thirty years.

AN ATLAS OF THE MOON.—During the lat
meeting of astronomers in Vienna, eight leaves of J.
Schmidt's new atlas of the moon were submitted to thei
inspection, and highly approved of. They are the result o
nearly thirty years' study, commenced at Hamburg, Bonr
and Olmutz, and completed at Athens, after the astrono
mer whose work they are had accepted the position o
director of the Observatory at that city. The atlas is t
consist of 25 plates, which are six Paris feet in diameter
twice the size of Lohrmann's and Madler's lunar map,
Nor is their size the only point in which they excel th
earlier work. While only 5,000 craters are marked on th
latter, from 20,000 to 30,000 are to be found on th
Athenian map, and a proportionate number of mountain
hills, &c., have been exactly determined. Since the dif
appearance of the crater, Linnaeus, which was confirmed i
1806, has proved that changes take place on the moon'
surface of dimensions great enough tole observed on on
earth, the want of a large and enlct lunar map has bee
keenly felt, and this want M. Schmidt has now supplied.
Before the Bir►uinghatn rnagi-4ratts on Friday
flecego B. Norman, hdely manager ar.d traveller t
Messrs. Louis Keller and Co., dealers in precious stone!
Birmingham, was charged with tint ezzling sums
money amounting, Mr. Keller said, to £2,000. Fo
three or fcur years back transactions of a fraudulen
nature have been traced. As the books were entirely i
Norman's hands, he Las been enabled to elude detectim
and to maintain a highly resp etalle position till noi,
Ho was most respectably connected; his father WO
lately a member of the Town Council. On Fliday
fewer than two ald, rmen, two town councillors, and fit
or six other gentlemen of position in Birmingham spoke i
the highest terms of the character he has always borne. Mi
Cutter, who prosecuted, said that in consideration for th
prisoner's family he would ask for a summary convictio
cnly. Norman, who felt his position keenly, pleaded
as i the beach took time to coxiaider their aontencd.