The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-20 00:00:00

and this case was going on as actively, as if a man
of character, culture, and intelligence had been be-
trayed into a breach of the law under some great
provocation, instead of one belonging to the criminal
class designedly seeking out a policeman to whom
he owed a grudge for having discharged bis duty
faithfully, and shooting him on his beat. Sympa-
thizing friends visit this coarse ruffian in numbers,
and his table is supplied by them with every deli-
cacy, while the activity displayed in the attempt
to defeat justice is astonishing. Indeed, the
execution of REAL will be considered a triumph
of law--a result we will learn before going to press.*
It is not surprising that crime should prevail where
;t stalks abroad with such impunity. The jury
who could find a verdict of Not Guilty, on the plea
that the prisoner had been sane up to the moment
and sane the moment after, but insane while coin-
witting a cruel and deliberate murder, held out a
premium to such acts. It would be wise to have
less of sentiment and more of dry legal evidence; to
finish with the verdict and sentence, discouraging
to the utmost after proceedings, and to control the
pardoning power by compelling those who exercise
it, fully to state their reasons. TWICIIELL'S was an
infamous murder, yet all sorts of logal quibbles
have been resorted to to enable the culprit to escape
the penalty. Punishment is inflicted not to aveng,,
but to deter; but if it be in the highest degree un-
certain, and nearly all the chances of getting off are
in the culprit's favour, the law, instead of deterring,
offers inducements to crime. Society at large will
then suffer, for men become criminals, who otherwise
would not. A man argues—l have the grand chance
of escaping detection; but, if caught, everything is
in favour of my evading the law, and such an argu-
ment, if well grounded, will create criminals by the
thousand. The New York State prisons are said
to be iu a terribly embarrassed financial condition.
The cost of the management of Sing Sing, Auburn,
and Clinton Penitentiaries in 1868, was $500,000
over and above their earnings. The Legislature at
first refused to approve a deficiency bill of $3OO, 000
to meet this balance, but on the representation of
the Controller that unless the bill was passed, the
prison doors would have to be opened and the con-
victs set free, the action was reconsidered and the
bill passed.

* He has received a respite.

BUTLER GET7ING UGLY.

It is said that BEN BUTLER is much annoyed at
not being nominated for the Chairmanship of the
Committee on Ways and Means. Speaker BLAINE
selected the Committees, and Mr. SCHENCK was his
choice for the post BUTLER so coveted. It is no
sop to him to get the Reconstruction Committee,
or the Judiciary Committee ; what he wanted was
the post of power, the Chairmanship of that Com-
mittee which reports on affairs wherein the House
is supreme ; as in the Foreign Affairs Committee
in the Senate, which makes CHARLES SUMNER al-
most the equal of the Secretary of State, as does
the Chairmanship of the Ways ani Means Com-
mittee of the House make Mr. SCIIENCK little less
powerful than the Secretary of the Treasury. BUT-
LER'S vindictive, and he intends to make both the
Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee pay for his chagrin.
He has already given the latter a dose be did not
like, and which has made him look uncommonly
queer. " I know all your ins and outs," said
BUTLER, "and some day or another they shall be
investigated." Now this may appear a very ordi-
nary threat to those who are not aware that
BUTLER got permission, of which he fully availed
himself, to ransack all the offices for telegrams,
to get information that would convict the " re-
creant seven" in the Impeachment Trial, of cor-
ruption. Though he did not find the evidence he
sought, he got something else he thought might
be useful hereafter. What he got. none can tell,
but he shakes his bead and looks ominous while
throwing out dark hints, and those with anything
on their conscience quail. If all our "ins and
outs" were known we would like to be on good
terms with those who knew them, and this is the
sort of power that BUTLER is just now exercising
over Congress. Considering it was Congress that
delegated to him the authority which gave him the
means of acquiring this terriorism, the punishment
is singularly appropriate. Mr. SCHENCK. was one
of the most earnest in pressing for a conviction
against ANDREW JOHNSON, and in getting up the
persecution of the " seven," the chief step for which
was empowering General BUTLER to break open
boxes in search of evidence. For some time it was
thought that Mr. SCIIENCK would fight it out on
the gauntlet then thrown down ; but he thought
better of it, and, apparently frightened, has left the
fiel Ito BUTLER. That gentleman has a telling way
of "putting things," however scrupulous, as may be
gathered from this, that because he found no evidence
against the accused seven, he declared it was just
as he expected, as such " cunning rascals" were not
likely to leave traces. Had he discovered any, his
was the eye to detect at once the full significance;
and it is not impossible, that a brain so active was
engaged in forecasting the future, and treasuring
up the faux pas he discovered among his friends.
Though he secured no evidence against the recreants,
it is known that he obtained enough to implicate
some Senators who voted for conviction, and it is
believed that other telegrams passed into his posses-
sion, interesting to members of the House. The
Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
writing on this subject, says :—" The only definite
thing which has leaked out concerning BUTLER'S
purposes, and what he knows, is that he intends to
press the matter, and says that he has sworn testi-
mony to the effect that a whisky man drew an im-
portant whisky clause in the revenue bill for
SCHEYCK, and that the latter was in the ring with
the witness. When BUTLER attempts to make the
House believe this or any similar charge of its im-
portance, then the tug of war will come. Thee it
is expected that BUTLER will be charged with sell-
ing out himself to the whisky ring, and agreeing,
for certain considerations, to suppress evidence
taken before his Committee to investigate the
failure of Impeachment. And as a matter of like
character the House may for the first time learn
what evidence was taken concerning Sena-
tor POMEROY which it was deemed best to sup-
press. And if the notes are destroyed, as the
witnesses are still alive, it may be possible to
astonish even Mr. BUTLER. At least some friends of
General SCHENCK incline strongly to that opinion."
BUTLER got up another scene in the House on April
Fool's Day, of all others, during the debate on the
Mississippi Provisional Government Bill, introduced
by him. He had possession of the floor, when Mr.
DAWES, his colleague from Massachusetts, asked
him to yield for a question. " No, Sir," said he,
" I cannot open my mouth that some gentleman
does not come down my throat." Mr. DAWES in-
sinuated that it would be a very repugnant place to
him, and continued to press for his question, when
BUTLER sternly said he would not yield. Mr. DAWES
urged that he simply wanted the ordinary cour-
tesy, and he was going on when his colleague again
rudely broke in, declaring he would not be catego-
rically catechised. These scenes are now of weekly
occurrence in the House, with BUTLER always in
the foreground.—Anglo-American 7imes.

The American Bible Society has commissioned
the Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Vermilye and Henry Dickinson
to attend, as its representatives iu London next month,
on the opening of the new house for the British and
Foreign Bible Society.
The Plymouth church members at Brooklyn are
raising funds to place a colossal statue of Henry Ward
Beecher in the group which is to adorn the Lincoln monu-
ment at Washington, at a cost of SG,OOO.

A remarkable revivAl of religion is prevailing in
Carbondale, Illinois. During eight weeks more than two
hundred persons were received into the Methodist church
of that place on probation, General John A. Logan among
the number.

Rev. George Bowler, well known for his vigo-
rous efforts in the war to raise the 46th Regiment, of
which ho was for a few months colonel, died very sud-
denly on Friday morning, March 26, in Nashua, N.H.
Secretary Boutwell has appointed Messrs. A. T.
Stewart, Horace Greeley, sod William Orton as the com-
mission to look atter the construction of a new Post-office
in Now York City, for which Congress appropriated
$200,000. Mr. Mullett, the Government architect, is to
superintend the work.