The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-27 00:00:00

A SPEECH BY SENATOR SintiNEß.

Senator Sumner made a speech on Wednesday at the
Massachusetts Republican Convention, in which ho
said that ho had no doubt the debt would be paid dollar
for dollar, both principal and interest, in gold. With regard
to Cuba, he saw no belligerency as a fact that Government
could recognise. He referred to the Alabama question,
and said that ho would not sot any price on tho
debt England owed the United States. Ho would not
make any formal demand for a dollar of money or a word
of apology, but would leave the reparation to
England. The question had been asked why not lay
claim against France for injuries done, but France had not
injured American commerce through an enemy's blockade-
runners being built under her shelter. Referring to Canada,
Mr. Sumner said he was certain that one day the whole land
would be joined under the government of the United
States.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

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The will of the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Baron
Taunton, was proved on the oth inst., under £140,000 per-
sonalty. Ho bequeaths to his executor, Lord Northbrook,
a legacy of £250,- and to his other executors, each £5OO.
Legacies and annuities are left to his servants.
His estates in America he directs t 3 be sold, and the pro-
ceeds arising therefrom to be applied to the same purpose
as his other estates. To Lady Taunton, his second wife,
youngest daughter of the sixth Earl of Carlisle, who is
provided for under her marriage settlement, ho leaves, be-
yond all other provision and interest under his will, an im-
mediate legacy of £1,003 and his mansion, Quantock
Lodge. He leaves to his daughter, the wife of Captain A.
E. A. Ellis (Grenadier Guards), a legacy of £5,000 and his
estates in Essex ; and to his daughter, the Hon. Mary
Labouchere, £10,00) and his estates in Somersetshire, in
addition to the property they are entitled to under his
lordship's marriage scttlement. His lordship leaves no
male issue or successor to the title.

The man Taylor, who was sentenced to death at
the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday for the murder of
his corporal at Devonpert, was taken to Exeter on Thurs-
day, where he will remain till his execution.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, with their
children, have left Wildbad for Baden. They will return
to England by way of Brussels. The Princess remained
eight weeks at Bade; and it is stated that her Royal High-
ness greatly enjoyed her stay.

At the Sheffield Brewster Sessions on Thursday a
beorhouse, rejoicing under the title of " Tho Three Cor-
ners of Hell," I►ad its licence refused. There are about
1,200 applications in the borough, and the magistrates have
refused a large number.

Dr. Moberly, Bishop elect of Salisbury, has nomi-
nated as his examining chaplain, tho 11ev. R. W. Church,
vicar of Whatley, and that gentleman will preach on the
occasion of the consecration, on the 28th of October. The
other chapels named by tho Bishop aro the Rev. Precentor
Lear and the Rev. R. F. Wilson, rector of Rownliams.

A rumour is current in Paris that General Count
do Flahaul,, Grand Chancellor of tho Legion of honour, in-
tends to resign his office on account of Lis ago And infirm
health. Should ho do so there will bo a general movement
among the groat dignitaries of the empire.

The Beverley Election Commission were engaged
on Thursday in the examination of Mr. Cooko, solicitor. 110
said that at Walker's election ho instructed young Walker
to take £2OO to liemplay to pay out for voters' expenses.
Champney, the solicitor, denied all that Cronhelm had said
respecting him.

Mr. Henry Munster, who unsuccessfully contested
Cashel against Mr. J. L. O'Beirne, has issued his address to
the electors of Tipperary. Ho declares for the popular
form of tenant-right, and upon matters of general policy
proclaims his complete accord with the opinions of Mr.
Gladstone.

In addition to the gentlemen whose names we have
given as forming the committee of tho Land Tenure Re-
form Association, the following have consented to join it:—
Mr. R. M. Carter, M.P., Mr. Montagu Chambers, M.P., Q. 0.,
Mr. Joseph Guedalla, Mr. 0. Wren Roskyns, M.P., Mr. T.
E. Cliffo Leslie, Mr. G. Osborne Morgan, and Professor
Francis W. Newman.

The Liverpool magistrates have just suit a batch
of alluged perjurers for trial. They aro accused of having
committed the offence -whilst giving evidence in dofence of
a beerhouse case heard in the polico court. It is notorious
that the most gross perjury is frequently resorted to in these
cases, but great difficulty exists in making the offenders
amenable to the law.

The authorities of Liege were informed on the
arrival of the French National Guards that their band
would give a concert for the benefit of the poor of the town.
The concert came off on Monday evening, and was ex-
tremely well attended. The excellent band of the National
Guards comprises sixty musicians. It performed ten
pieces in the most creditable manner, and received the
greatest applause. The profits of the concert amounted to
over a hundred pounds.

According to the London correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian, General Prim and ➢i. Olozaga inquired
in their late audience at St. Cloud, what view the French
Emperor would take of the abandonment of the island of
Cuba by Spain nominally to the inhabitants, but eventually
with a view to its annexation to the North American Re-
public. The Emperor replied—" If you must lose the colony
sooner or later, it had bettor be sooner, while you are likely
to got some millions for doing so, than later, when you wall
probably get nothing."

It was rumoured in Leamington on Thursday that
the man Joseph Archer Raffe —who having voluntarily given
himself into the custody of the police on Monday, and con-
fessed to having fired the out-buildings on Mr. Oldham's
farm on Sunday last—had since confessed that be was the
would-be assassin of a Danbury carrier named Dodd some
years since. It is stated that the prisoner, at the magis-
terial examination, as well as for a long time past, has pre-
sented the appearance of a man who had "something on
his mind."

On Thursday morning a woman with a child in her
arms was an occupant of a carriage coming from Leeds to
Hull, and when near to Brougb, on the woman leaning
against the door, it suddenly opened, and the child fell
out of her arms. The poor woman was unable to com-
municate the affair to the guard, and thus the train
proceeded on to Ferriby. At that station, the poor mother,
whose feelings can be better imagined than described, re-
ported the circumstance to the officials, and she was allowed
to proceed back by another train to Brough, where, on
arrival, she found to her inexpressible joy, the child, appa-
rently none the worse for the fall.
An accident of an alarming nature occurred in a
dwelling-house at Salford on Wednesday evening. The
house is ono of a kind which are voi y common in the neigh-
bourhood of the Adeiphi, and which are known as single
houses, consisting only of a ground floor with a largo cellar
underneath, and an upper apartment. The ground floor in
the house in question was occupied by a woman named Mrs.
Rosanah Murray. On Wednesday night 1G or 17 persons
assembled in Mrs. Murray's house for the purpose of "wak-
ing" the body of Mrs. Murray's daughter, who had died
some low days previous. The people had not been long in
the house when the floor, which consisted of stone flags,
supported by timber couplings, suddenly gave way and fell
into the cellar underneath, a distance of at least seven or
eight feet. The corpse, and the people assembled, with the
furniture, were precipitated to the bottom of the cellar. A
great portion of the furniture was 4eatyoye6, but f9rtn*telr
do Mill Marten were sustained:

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