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The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-31

LAW AND POLICE.

ATTEMPTED Munprn.—At Maidstone, Susanna Carter
was charged with attempting to murder William Glover
and Mary Anne Groombridge, at Word. The prisoner
had lived with Glover for some years, and became jealous
when a niece of hers came to live with them. She left
the house, but afterwards returned, and put some poison
in the coffee-pot. It was proved that she had been to a
chemist's shop in the neighbourhood and got some
packages of a preparatian for destroying vermin.
When her room was searched a packet of the powder
similar to that traced in the contents of the coffee-pot was
found. The prisoner, in defence, said she wanted the
powder to make a paste for her hand. The jury found
the prisoner guilty, and the judge sentenced her to ten
years' penal servitude.
A GAS ExpLosioN.--At the Cambridge Assizes, an
action was brought by a tradesman named Burrows to
recover damages caused by an explosion of gas. The
defendants were a private gas company, and
the explosion complained of resulted from an
imperfect pipe laid down on the mulling of the day
on which it occurred. The question was whether there
was carelessness en the part of the company in not having
tested the pipe, or on the part of the plaintiff in carrying
a lighted candle near it. Verdict for the plaintiff for
£279 for the amount of the sum insured, and £125 for the
other injuries suffered.
London, England, 1869-07-31

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
ire as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hemp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street,Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland- street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ale deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories aro recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes,-"I
never road a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. 900 PER 6ec.12
Of. QuAturetreet Ovoids, ,
London, England, 1869-07-31

THE PATENT LAWS.

Mr. ➢lacfie, M.P., renews his attack in the Daily
News upon the Patent Laws. He still holds that a
monopoly makes an invention dear, and he still re-
fuses to recognise the force of the objection that an
invention makes production cheaper or the product
better, and that it is useless unless sold to do so. Ho
further contends that to pay an inventor in the way
we do is eminently unsatisfactory ; is unfair to the
inventor, for he rarely obtains the royalty for him-
self ; is unfair to the nation because it is a
dear way of paying. He denies that Switzerland
has suffered by the abolition of the Patent Laws,
pointing out, first, tha t it is no argument for patentsthat
one country, standing alone, is spoiled of her works
through the operation of unwise laws in the nations
surrounThig her; and, secondly, that Switzerland
does in effect obtain the benefit of what is imparted
to other countries. Mr. Macfie, moreover, contends
that a system of State rewards can easily be carried
out, if care be taken that the inventions for which
acknowledgments are given are practically useful.
The _Beehive, as representing the working men, very
earnestly protests against Mr. Maefie's conclusions. It
acknowledges that there is something in the argument
that no patents ought to stand in the way of further
improvement ; and admits that practically they often
do. But our contemporary holds strongly that an
inventor has ,property in what he discovers ; the
State must recognise that. Patents are not held for
ever, and the monopoly might be so modified as to
take away the principal objections to it.

SECRETARYSHIPS.
Captain Galton was appointed by rumour a few
days ago to the post of Secretary to the Treasury,
about to be vacated by the appointment of Mr.
Hamilton as Irish Church Commissioner. Another
gentleman is now found by the same authority for
the post. A London correspondent of a Scotch con-
temporary writes :—" I understand that the post of
Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, abouttobecome
vacant by the appointment of Mr. G. A. Hamilton
to the position of Irish Church Commissioner,
will be conferred upon Mr. St:instal." The same
correspondent has the following :—" The office of
Secretary of State for Scotland, should the Govern-
ment determine to create it, will, I believe, Le filled
up by Mr. Paxter, who, in his present post, has won
golden opinions from both sides of the House."
This latter is a very ingenious guess at a future
event. The Governmiont has not yet determined
to create an officer, and yet the officer has been
fixed upon.
London, England, 1869-07-31

HOME for the lIELPLESS.—ST. JAMES'S
DIOCESAN HOME for FEMALE PENITENTS
(Hammersmith), under the immediate direction of the
Bishop of London. The work carried on by a Sisterhood,
"in faithful accordance with the principles of tho Re-
formed Church of England." FUNDS greatly needed
COUNCIL.
The Bishop of LONDON,
Rev. J. W. Ayre i Major-Gen. Rt. Hon. Percy
Rev. F. G. Bloomfield Herbert, M.P.
Hon. and Rev. F. Byng Rey. J. E. Kempe
Rev. R. G. Baker Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys
Rev. S. Brooke Rev. S. W. Lloyd
The Lord Clinton Rev. A. Martineau
Rev. W. Cadman Rev. W. D. Maolagan
E. Charrington, Esq. Rev. Daniel Moore
Rev. E. L. Cutts, Chaplain!, Rev. J. Moorhouse
Rev. E. Capel Care J. D. Morton, Esq.
Rev. J. E. Cox Rev. Canon Nepean
Octavius Coope, Esq. Rev. E. Parry
Arthur Currie, Esq. John Pearson, Esq., Q.O.
Rev. J. Connell -j Rev. G. F. Prescott
Rev. 0. W. Purse Rev. F. Noll_

C. J. Freake. Esq.
J. S. Gillist, Esq.
Rev. Dr. F. Hessey
H G. Heald, Esq.
R. Hook, Esq., Treasurer
Subscriptions will be recei
Messrs. Harries, Farquhar,
Secretary, Rev. S. W. Lloy
man-square, to whom commi

R. T. Pigott, Esq.
R. R. Pym, Esq.
Hugh H. Seymour, Esq.
R. Wade, Esq.
Loftus Wigram, Esq.
[red by any of the above ; by
and Co; and by the Hon.
I, 14, Seymour-street, Port-
wications may be addressed.
London, England, 1869-07-31

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

GOODWOOD RICES—YESTERDAY.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOUS.
Out and Outer

DUKE OF RICHMOND'S PLATE.
Vespasian
Midsummer.
Returned
Eight ran.
NURSERY STAKES.

Morphia 1
Gertrude
Free Trado
Twenty-three ran.
NASSAU STAKES.

Morna..
Orphan
Scottish Queen
Music..

1
2

4
CHESTERFIELD CUP.

Vespasian
President Lincoln 2
Brambridge
Fourteen ran.
MARC II STARES.

Prince Imperial 1
'fit Bit

Venice..

3

Seven ran.
STRAFFOED STAKES.

W.O

lIER MAJESTY'S PLATE.
London, England, 1869-07-31

RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.

WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(Perfected and Exhibited in the Groat Exhibitions
of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred
Medical men to be the most effective invention in
the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel
spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a
soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi-
site resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Maio Pad and
Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that
it cannot bo detected, and may be worn during sleep. A
descriptive circular may bo had, and the truss, which can-
rot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circumference of
the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the
manufacturer,
Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage,
Is. A Double .Truss, 81s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage,
ls. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage,
is. 10d.

Post-office Orden; to bo made payable to John White,
Post-oifico,

NEW PATENT
L-ILAS TIC STOCKINGS,
II 2 I KNEE-CAPS, eic., for Varicose Veins and all cases
of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, ere. They
are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and aro
drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d.,
10s., and l Cs. each. Postage, 6d.
JOIIN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.'
London, England, 1869-07-31

IMPORTANT TO SPECULATORS.

THREE SPLENDID SPECULATIONS may
actually be strongly recommended as affording every
prospect of Great Success.
With a Single Stake of £2 you can realise £26,090!! with
£8 £37,000! ! with .£20,000!!
For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TILLOT,
General Merchant, Guernsey.

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74. g o Proposed. Z Assured. Premiums.
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£ s. d. £ s. d. £s. d.
18.58 4,802 1,023,140 0 0 3,318 654,140 0 0 21,347 16 5
1863 ,13,244 2,779,666 0 0 9,746 2,037,383.0 0 63,507 19 10
1868 17,466 4,861,803 .5 9 13,699 3,752,967 4 3 122,257 17 6
Tota. 35,512 8,664,109 5 9 26,763 6 444,490 4 8 207,113 13 9
The net premium income has increased to
the sum of ...... ................................. £216,704 1 7
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The net premium income has L
the sum of
The interest on investments and
of receipt yield

otheritems

!1,276 18 1

Making a total income of £237,980 19 8
The claims were 335, amounting to the sum of £127,886
12s. id.
The balance of the year's income was £68,026 9s. 4d.
The assets of the association at the close of the year
amounted to £667,493 Bs. sd.
The directors draw special attention to the fact that the
next bonus valuation will take place at the end of the year
1872, and that all polices effected on the profit scales prior
to the 31st December, 1869, will be, entitled to participate
in the same.
The directors also draw attention to the successful esta-
blishment during the past year of the Britannia Fire
Association, under the auspices of the Briton. The direc-
tors believe that the establishment of a Fire Company, to
work in active co-operation with the Life, will tend much
to the advantage and profit of both institutions. It is
scarcely necessary to remark that the capital funds and
constitution of each office are quite separate and distinct.
By order of the Board,
JOHN MESSENT, Actuary and Secretary.
London, March 18, 1869.
London, England, 1869-07-31

THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN.

Tins EVENING, at 7.30, THE SMOKED MISER. After which,
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr. J.
C. Canner, Mr. (3:Honey, Mr. C. Coghlan, Mrs. HermannVezin,
Mrs. C. Horsman, &c.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough.
Tins EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr
Clarke. THE TOODLES. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne,
James, Fenton; Mesdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To
conclude with THE CHOPS OF TIIE CHANNEL. Mr. D.
James,

ROYALTY THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss M Oliver.
TIM EVENING, at 7.30, A ROVING COMMISSION. After
which CHECKMATE. Followed by THE MILITARY BILLY
TAYLOR. To conclude with IN FOR A HOLID kY Mr
Dewar, Mr. Danvers. Miss M. Oliver, Miss Saunders, &c.

PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton

..
TILTS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne,
Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss
C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING
HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, al
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 andB all the year round.

ROYAL AL El AMB RA PALACE. THREE BALLETS
Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-office
open from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL G All DENS, Rogerra-pack, OPEN daily (ex-
cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mendaya, 6d. Children
under twelve, ed

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London, England, 1869-07-31

DOG LICENSES.—CAUTION.
THE COMMISSIONERS of INLAND RE-
VENUE GIVE NOTICE that all DOG LICENSES
granted in the year 1868 expired on the 31st December
last, and every person keeping a dog in the current year is
required forthwith to take out a new License.
The duty payable for each dog kept is Five Shillings.
The penalty for keeping a dog without License is Five
Pounds.
A License is not transferable from one person to
another.
A License may be obtained by the owner giving his
name and address, and the name of the place where the
dog is kept, on application at
The Office of the Collector of Inland In the neigh-
Revenue, bourhood of the
The Office of the Distributor of Stamps applicant's re-
Or sidonce.
A Money Order Post Office.
Licenses will also be granted by the several Supervisors
of Inland Revenue.
Persons residing at a distance from any of the above
offices, by transmitting with their application Inland
Revenue (Receipt) or Postage Stamps for the proper
amount of duty, to the Collector of Inland Ravenna for
the Dis rict, will receive a license in return by post.
WM. CORBET P, Seeretarv.
London, England, 1869-07-31

FRANCE.

PARIS, July 31'
It is asserted that an Imperial decree, gran/4
an amnesty to political offenders, will be issued 0/4
promulgation of the Senatus Consultum.
The Constitutionnel of this morning denies the
report that Marshal Neil was seriously ill and would
resign his post.
BOURSE, July 30.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows :

11 per Cent.
End of month... Italian Fives 55
..--
3 per Cent -
..,
End of month 72 27} Ottoman Loan ... 3''„, ..--.
Credit Mobilier
End of month — Spanish Threes ... 29/ 25
Credit Foncier 1735 24
Home Debt
....
End of month... Deferred --
RAILWAYS.
- -

Cash
Orleans ... 955
Northern .... lO9O
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern,,... 6l7k
Western
Eastern .. --
Sardinian
Austrian B67i
Lombard 570
North of Spain --
Saragossa
Roman 53
London, England, 1869-07-07

GENERAL DUCE.

The ex• Governor of Cuba, General Dulce, who was
compelled by the volunteers to resign, has arrived in
Spain, and has met with a very bad reception. The
inhabitants of Santander got up a hostile demonstration
on his landing, and he was surrounded with a furious
mob crying for his execution. A similar welcome awaited
him at Reinosa and Valladolid. The Spaniards are
profoundly affected at the prospect of losing their fine
possession, and they complain that General Duke acted.
far too leniently towards the insurgents. What will they
think of the conciliatory policy which, a cable telegram
informs us, has been adopted by Caballero de Rodas?
London, England, 1869-07-07

AUSTRIA AND THE CZECHS.

The Austrian Government has not yet been able to
settle its difficulties with the Bohemians. Nothing will
satisfy the latter except, truck a complete recognition of
their nationality as the Hungarians have already obtained,
and this the Emperor Francis Joseph has not found
himself in a position to concede. An attempt
has recently been made to get over the nationality
aspirations of the Czechs by dividing them, by
separating Moravia from Bohemia, and by creating a dis-
tinct province of the former. But this disingenuous idea
has met with the failure which it merited. The Moravians
saw through the artifice at once. It was not difficult to
divine that if the Austrian Government refused to concede
an autonomy to the Bohemians, it would not grant that
right to the Moravians, except to further its own pur-
poses. The latter, therefore, have held a great meeting
at which community of race with the Bohemians
was solemnly affirmed. The inhabitants of the two pro-
vinces proclaim the same grievances, and look to the same
means of reparation. The Bohemians remain the great
stumblingblock in the way of Austrian progress,
and it is clear that their case cannot be met by such
shallow artifices as this expedient of dividing them into
two peoples.
London, England, 1869-07-07

AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS.

The genial weather is producing the genial farmer.
Gloomy and rather crusty a little while back, when
the rain threatened to destroy his hay and to spoil
his wheat, he is now more hopeful, and his organs
in the press tell us that the period of anxiety has not
been so very damaging after all. The Chamber of
Agriculture Journal, with regard to wheat, says that
" the blooming time has been passed under favourable
conditions," and though our contemporary is pre-
pared for great variations in quality and
quantity, and does not speak very decidedly,
it is confident that hot weather will pro-
duce an improved crop. The Mark Lane
Express is hardly so sanguine. The wheat bloomed,
the Express fears, at a most ungenial time, and now
there • are indications of rust on the ear. " The
barley, too, is threatened, and looks bad ; and so do
some species of oats." The South-West, however,
seems to be' free from the causes of despondency
which are noticed elsewhere. The report to the
Mark Lane Express from Exeter: contains the
passage, " Farmers say their wheats promise well,
and so do beans, peas, and oats."
London, England, 1869-07-07

THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN.
Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN
EVERY EVENING, at 7.30, the very laughable fare THE
SHORED MISER.

At 8 o'clock, Sheridan's inimitable remedy of THE SC ROO r,
FOR SCANDAL. Supported by the following celebrated
artistes :—Batty Sullivan, J. C. Cowper, George Honey, W. H.
Stephens, Charles Coglan, D. Evans, Lin Rayne, A. Bernard,
E. Dyes. and W. Arthur; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Jane
Rignold. Miss Louisa Thorne, Miss Amy Fawsitt, and Mrs.
Charles Horeman

Acting Manager—AmOnY SULLIVAN.

OYAL STR AN I) THEATRE.
1 A Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanhorough.
THIS EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Cle.rke
and Belford: Mesdames Burton and Hughes.
After which. JOAN OF ABC: Messrs Thorne. Tames. Fen
ton, Turner, Chamberlaine; Mesdames Burton, L. Maitland, Rze.
To conclude pith HUE AND DYF
London, England, 1869-07-07

A LAW THAT WANTS ALTERING.

Mr. Shapland, of Southmolton, calls attention to
a law which, as he rightly says, very much wants
altering. Recently a lad was brought up before
the magistrates charged with stealing leather scraps
worth 2s. The magistrates said they had no alterna-
tive but to send the lad to prison. Mr. Shapland,
as his attorney, called the attention of the Bench to
the 108th section of the Larceny Act (24th and 250
Vic., c. 06) which provides that where any person shall
be summarily convicted before a magistrate of any
offence against the Act, the magistrate may dis-
charge him on making satisfaction to the party
aggrieved for damages and costs. The magistrates
said that the section did not apply to the Act under
which they were acting, 18th and 11th Vic., C.
128. Consequently, although the lad received a good
character from his master, and was recommended
to mercy, he was made a gaol bird for life.
One cannot help wondering why the master should
have taken the extreme step of placing the boy in
the dock, when a reprimand would probably have
answered the purpose of preventing the repetition of
what was expressly stated to be a first offence. But
if masters are thus severe in enforcing the law that
is the more reason why it should be made a 9
merciful as possible. Mr. Shapland proposes that
short Act should be passed declaring that the section
of the first-mentioned Act should apply to the
second.

HUMAN HYMNS.

An old grievance is proclaimed in a new place,
and the protest against " human hymns " made in the,
Scotch Free Church General Assembly is re-echoed
by the convicts of the Irish Prison of Spike Island.
The prisoners wanted their worship to be as free
from earthly associations as possible, and refused to
sing any but "inspired " lines. In this case the
creed would seem to be better than the men.
London, England, 1869-07-07

[THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon.
THIS EVENING. at 7. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. Bel-
more and Mrs. Leigh Murray.
At S o'clock. EVE. Mr. Benjamin Webster: T‘fessrs.Henry
Neville. J. G. Taylor; Miss Furtado, Miss Lillie Lee, and Mrs
Alfred Mellon.
And DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBER
WELL: Mr. G. Delmore, Mrs. L. Murray
London, England, 1869-07-07

DEATHS.

BYAM—On the sth inst., at Westwood, Southampton, Sir
William Byam, aged 77.
CLINTox—On the 4th inst., at Heanton Satchville, North
Devon, the Lady Clinton, aged 34.
HALLAM —On the 3d inst., at Newcastle-under-Lyme, JO'
Hallam, Esq., J.P., aged 57.

London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS'
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office N 0.112, Strati"
in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesev"
Wednesday, July 7, 1869.,
London, England, 1869-07-07

DOG LICENSES.-CAUTION.

THE COMMISSIONERS of INLAND RE-
VENUE GIVE NOTICE that all DOG LICENSES
granted in the year 1868 expired on the 31st December
last, and every person keeping a dog in the current year is
required forthwith to take out a new License.
The duty payable for each dog kept is Five Shillings.
The penalty for keeping a dog without License is Five
Pounds.

_ __.
A License is not transferable from one person to
another. _ _

A License may be obtained by the owner giving his
name and address, and the name of the place where the
dog is kept, on application at _ _ _ _

The Office of the Collector of Inland' In the neigh-
Revenue,
bourhood of the
The Office of the Distributor of Stamps
applicant's re-
Or
sidence.
A Mosey Order Post Office.
Licenses will also be granted by the several Supervisors
of Inland Revenue.

Persons residing at a distance from any of the above
offices, by transmitting with their application Inland
Revenue (Receipt) or Postage Stamps for the proper
amount of duty, to the Collector of Inland Revenue for
the Dis riot, will receive a license in return by post.
WM. COBBETT, Secretary.
London, England, 1869-07-07

MINISTERIAL DIVISIONS.

A newly-started Conservative paper, the Western
Mail, states that there has been a quarrel in the
Cabinet, in consequence of Lord Granville's conduct
of the Irish Church Bill in the Upper House. The
usual Cabinet Council was held at Bruton-street, in
consequence of Lord Granville's indisposition, and
" regret was expressed that Ministers had opposed the
Duke of Cleveland's amendment after the decision
on Lord Salisbury's, the main object of Ministers
being the passing of the bill and the conferring of
advantages on the Roman Catholics. On another
point Ministers are exceedingly wroth. Mr. Glad-
stone and Mr. Bright declare that the concession of
Earl Granville to allow the Irish bishops to retain
their seats in the House of Lords for their lives is
opposed to the principle of disestablishment." No
journal, except our Cardiff contemporary, seems to
be in the secrets of the Cabinet.
London, England, 1869-07-07

THE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.--G. R. GLENIE,
Sporting Library, 4. Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-road,
lelivers the LATE VDITION of "THE SUN " at the earliest
possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver
3cpiee in Town. the Suburbs, and in many parts of the country
it a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles by
9.45 o'clock . . .

Orders by poet punctually attended to
London, England, 1869-07-07

52, Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5.

DR. KING'S DANDELION and QUININE
LIVER PILLS (Without Mercury',
The very best remedy for
BILE, WIND, INDIGESTION, ACIDITY, HEADACHE,
HEARTBURN, &c.,
And acknowledged by many eminent surgeons to be the safest
and mildest pills for every constitution.
In boxes at ls. lid., 2e. 9d., and 4s. Cd., at all chemists.
London, England, 1869-07-07

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The Exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society
opens on Monday, at Manchester. The Exhibition
ground is eighty acres in extent, and belongs to Sir
Humphrey de Trafford. It is perfectly flat, so that
the show yard will have none of the charms offered
by the sloping ground at Plymouth,with its magnifi-
cent view of sea and moor. The Prince of Wales is
the president of the society, and the following
gentlemen are the stewards of departments :—Live
Stock : Mr. Wells, M.P., Mr. Davies, and Mr. Jacob
Wilson. Implements : Sir E. Kerrison, Bart.,
Sir A. K. Macdonald, Bart., Major Wilson, and Mr.
C. Wren Hoskyns, M.P. (steward elect). Finance
and Show-yard Receipts : Major General Viscount
Bridport, Colonel Kingscote, M.P., Mr. Bramston,
Mr. Randell, and Mr. Torr. Forage : Mr. Davies.
General Arrangement of Show : Mr. Brandreth
Gibbs.
London, England, 1869-07-07

AI:ISTRIA AND THE CZECHS.

The Austrian Government has not yet been able to
settle its difficulties with the 13ohemians. Nothing will
satisfy the latter except such a complete recognition of
their nationality as the Hungarians have already obtained,
and this the Emperor Francis Joseph has not found
himself in a position to concede. An attempt
has recently Leen made to get over the nationality
aspirations of the Czechs by dividing them, by
separating Moravia from Bohemia, and by creating a dis-
tinct province of the former. But this disingenuous idea
has met with the failure which it merited. The Moravians
saw through the artifice at once. It was not difficult to
divine that if the Austrian Government refused to concede
an autonomy to the Bohemians, it would not grant that
right to the Moravians, except to further its own pur-
poses. The latter, therefore, have held a great meeting
at which community of race with the Bohemians
was solemnly affirmed. The inhabitants of the two pro-
vinces proclaim the same grievances, and look to the same
means of reparation. The Bohemians remain the great
stumblingblock in the way of Austrian progress,
and it is clear that their case cannot be met by such
shallow artifices as this expedient of dividing them into
two peoples.
London, England, 1869-07-07

THE GRACE OF OLD AGE.

Old age is now a requirement in a clergyman.
Witness an advertisement in the Times :—" The
trustees of a small country living are prepared to
appoint a rector. He must not be under 75, with
unexceptionable references. Grons income about
2300 a year; population, 150. Good house and
garden. Church recently restored. Apply to
Clericus, &c." For every wrong, say the lawyers,
there is a remedy. Is there no wrong done to the
parishioners to whom the gentleman over 70 is to
administer the comforts of religion ? These scandals,
much more than those to which the attention of the
public is being directed by rival associations, are
afflicting the Church.
London, England, 1869-07-07

DEATIIS.

BYAM—On the sth inst., at Westwood, Southampton,
William Byam, aged 77.
CLINToN—On the 4th inst., at Heanton Satchville, North
Devon, the Lady Clinton, aged 34.
HALLAM —On the 3d inst., at Newcastle-under-Lyme, J'l°.
Hallam, Esq., J.P., aged 57.

London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS'
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office N 0.112, Strap'
in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex''
Wednesday, July 7, 1869.;
London, England, 1869-07-07

ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE
INSURANCES.

-71111 E Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE
COMPANY, in anticipation of the above, beg to intimate
that on all new I, surances now effected there will only be
payable (provisionally) the proportion of Duty for the time
between the date of the Order and Midsummer Day next.
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES:
Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverppol,
and
Lombard-street, London.
CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING.

Important Announcement.
Increased Share of Life Profits.

ALL NEW INSURANCES, with Participation, EFFECTED
AFTER IST JANUARY, 1868, will become entitled to an INCREASED
SHARE OF THE PROFITS, in accordance with the Resolution
passed at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
JOHN H. MCLAREN, Manager.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

KING'S COLLEGE- HOSPITAL, Portugal-
street, Lincoln's-inn.—The Committee earnestly
APPEAL for FUNDS to defray the heavy current ex-
penses. Assistance is urgently needed.
F. ALFRED BEDWELL, Vice-Chairman.
JAMES BLYTH, Secretary.

ROBERT MARTIN COLE, deceased.—Pur-
suant to an Act of Parliament, 22 and 23 Vic.
cap. 35, intituled "An Act to further Amend the Law
of Property and to relieve Trustees," NOTICE IS
HEREBY GIVEN, That all Creditors of R. M. Cole,
late of No. 22, Sydney-street, Fulham-road, Brompton,
in the county of Middlesex, Commander in the Royal
Navy (who died on the 6th day of April, 1869),
and whose will, with a codicil annexed, was duly
proved on the 7th day of June, 1869, by Joseph Marsh,
one of the Executors therein named, and all other
persons having any claim or demand against the
Estate of the said Robert Martin Cole, are hereby required
to send particulars in writing of their claims and demands
and of the nature of the securities (if any) held by them to
me, the undersigned 3. Chapple, of No. 25, Carter-lane, in
the city of Lon don,Solicitor to the said Executor on or before
the 31st day of July next, after which time the said Execu-
tor will proceed to distribute the assets of the said Robert
Martin Cole, amongst the persons entitled thereto, having
regard only to the debts or claims of which the said
Executor shall then have bad notice, and that the Exe-
cutor will not be liable for any debt or claim of which he
shall not then have had notice.
Dated this 24th day of June, 1869.
J. CHAPPLE,
Solicitor for the Executor.
London, England, 1869-07-07

MARRIAGES.

BLAKESLY—GARDNER—On the sth inst., at Christ Churcli,
Battersea, Frederick William, eldest son of Frederick
Blakesly, of Hampton, to Adeline, second daughter of
John Gardner, of Sutton, Surrey.

HAMILTON— SIMEON—On the sth inst., at the British Bni-
bassy, Paris, Henry C. Hamilton, Esq., t°
Letitia, daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Charleo
Simeon.
London, England, 1869-07-07

MR. BRIGHT AND THE REFORM CLUB.

There is no probability of peace being restored
between Mr. Bright and the club which has so long
been almost his home. As the facts of the case
become known, the surprise increases that Mr. Bright
should have proposed his nominee, who, it appears,
has been for three years a resident in London, and
certainly was not entitled to temporary admission as
a stranger. Mr. Bright seems to think that
he must submit to authority only when
its exercise is agreeable to himself ; yet it is diffi-
cult to understand how a club, or any Government,
could be carried on if individuals, instead of submit-
ting to the laws, or endeavouring to improve them,
acted in defiance of authority. The Reform Club has
called a meeting for the 22nd instant, with a view to
revising its system of election; but it is to be feared
that the course taken by Mr. Bright will not facili-
tate a settlement of the question. The right hon.
gentleman has taken refuge in the Atheneum, by
the rules of which club he obtains admission as a
Cabinet Minister without election.
London, England, 1869-07-07

THE SITUATION IN FRANCE.

The Paris correspondent of the Post has been adopting
the American system of " drawing " politicians. Meet-
ing an old member of the Corps L6gislatif, the representa-
tive of the fashionable journal took opportunity to ask
him what he thought of the new Chamber. The old deputy's
opinion on the subject was very unfavourable. He believed
that France was at the beginning of parliamentary troubles.
The Opposition were very violent, and a feeling of personal
hostility was growing up. " For the moment a perfect
babelisme prevails. None of us are sure whether the
Emperor is going backwards or forwards, or whether we
are to expect the status quo. He has a majority at his
disposal. That majority desires a move forward. I look
to the moderate Reformers as the only salvation for
France and the Emperor. We have amongst us a party
of reaction, and we have a revolutionary party. Both
are equally dangerous."
London, England, 1869-07-07

A FREE PORT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.

A free port is about to be established in the African
State of Tripoli, at a point on the coast of the Mediterranean,
due south of the western end of Candia.- Every induce-
ment will be held out to foreigners to settle at this new
port, which is to be called Tebrouk. No taxes will be
imposed on the inhabitants for ten years, and they will be
furnished with tools, and even with food for the first.
twelve months. An English company has been deputed to,
construct the works necessary for commercialanddefensive
purposes. It is expected that this free port will, through
the opening of the Suez Canal, become a place of some
importance.
London, England, 1869-07-07

rIIEATRE noyAL, HA YMARKET.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, FAMILY JARS : Mr. Ccmpton and Mrs
F. tzwilliam.

After which, MARY WARNER: Messrs. Howe, Compton,
,Kendal, Rogers, and Clark; Mesdames Bateman, C. Hill,White,
Ls .vs. &e.
And 111 ,H LIFE DELnW STAIRS: 7,Tes9rs. Buckstone,
Howe, Kendal ; Mesdames F. Wright, and F. (.; wynn.
Box-office open daily.
Commence at Seven.
London, England, 1869-07-07

AIR. DINNEY.

The retirement of Mr. Binney from his pastorate
suggests the reflection that there has been a great
and happy progress of late years in Christian charity.
It is not so very long ago that Mr. Binney declared
of the English Church that it had destroyed
more souls than it had saved. There W
nothing of this fierce denunciation in 11$
farewell sermon. True he lamented and con'
demned the " Catholic" movement, but at
the same time he bore witness to the fact that the,
Church was, by congresses and convocations and
special services, and the popularising of her cathe'
drals, doing something to convert the heathendan
of our large towns. And in this matter Mr. Binney
is merely a type of theologians generally. Thor
zeal has increased, their bigotry has decreased.

A TH RE E -LEG GED SPARRO W.—A sparrow with
three legs was captured by some boys in North Sheilds last
week. The third leg had five claws. The bird died shortly
after being caught.—Newcastle Journal.
London, England, 1869-07-07

THE UNIVERSITIES AND WOMEN.

The University of Cambridge has lately enlarged
its sphere of influence and usefulness. The principle,
first adopted some fifteen years agol of examining
candidates not members of a university, and in other
places than a university town, has been extended
from schoolboys to schoolgirls. The result in the
first case was so satisfactory, was found to give so
much precision to tuition, thereby affording both
teachers and taught just the one thing they
needed, that the women who have lately
been claiming greater rights for their sex
asked that the examination might be extended to
girls. They saw well enough that before the
" rights" can be granted there must be an increase of
qualifications. If women obtain the franchise at all,
it will not be until they have received a very different
sort of education from that which the report of the
Schools Inquiry Commission chews they have been
receiving hitherto. Hence it is that at this present
moment girls over 18 years of age are undergoing
examination at Leeds and London by examiners from
the University of Cambridge.
London, England, 1869-07-07

GENERAL DULCE.

The ex-Governor of Cuba, General Dulce, who was
compelled by the volunteers to resign, has arrived in
Spain, and has met with a very bad reception. The
inhabitants of Santander got up a hostile demonstration
on his landing, and he was surrounded with a furious
mob crying for his execution. A similar welcome awaited
him at Reinosa and Valladolid. The Spaniards are
profoundly affected at the prospect of losing their fine
possession, and they complain that General Duke acted
far too leniently towards the insurgents. What will they
think of the conciliatory policy which, a cable telegram
informs us, has been adopted by C aballero de I-lodes?
London, England, 1869-07-07

DEATHS.

BYAM—On the sth inst., at Westwood, Southampton, Sir
William Byam, aged 77.
CLINTON—On the 4th inst., at Heanton Satehville, North
Devon, the Lady Clinton, aged 34.
HALLAM On the 3d inst., at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Jno•
Hallam, Esq., J.P., aged 57.

London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS.
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SHE Mee N 0.112, Strand
in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Bliddlesex.-.
Wednesday, July 7,1869.;
London, England, 1869-07-07

ANOTHER LINE TO BRIGHTON.

The engineers will have a third line to Brighton
if they can; they-want only the means. Another
line is now proposed. Mr. James Samuel, M.1.C.E.,
has issued his plans for a competitor to the present
company. He advocates frequent light trains and
improved carriages, and thus hopes to reduce the
working expenses. He proposes to start from the
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway at Penge
station, and follow the course of the line for which
an Act was obtained in 1866 by the Chatham and.
Dover and South-Eastern Companies (but since aban-
doned) for a distance of about twelve miles to theend
of the Tatsfield Tunnel. Thence he would proceed to
Oxstead, crossing the mainline of the South-Eastern
Railway a little beyond Godstone station. He would
then cross the East Grinstead line about two miles
to the west of East Grinstead, thence by West
Heathley in a nearly direct line to the west corner
of Chailey Common, crossing the Keymer Branch
Railway near Chiltington, and the Lewes line near
Falmer, running nearly parallel with the latter, and
terminating close to the Grand Parade of the North
Steyne at Brighton. The length from Penge to
Brighton is 45f miles, from Ludgate-hill to Brighton
521 miles, and from Victoria Station to Brighton 52i
miles.
London, England, 1869-07-07

al E7‘ll3rn(NAli

The Third Edition of " The Sun " of last Evening was
published in time for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

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CARLISLE RACES-THIS DAY.
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London, England, 1869-07-07

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London, England, 1869-07-07

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it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A
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the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the
manufacturer,
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London, England, 1869-07-07

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THEATEE- nol-AL, HOLD OEN.

Tins EVENING, at-. 30, VIE SMOKED MISER. After ‘vhich,
THE SCHOOL For, SCANDAL: 31r. Barry Sullivan, Mr. J.
C. Covc p.r, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. C. Coghlan, Mrs. HermannVezin,
Mrs. C. Hursman.

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Tills EvENixn, SCHOOL: 'Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague,
Addison, Glover, and Baneroft; Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss
C. Addison, end Misc Nisrie -Wilton. After which, A WINNING
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open from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Itegeti'azir, OPEN daily (ex-
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Ude: rusty, 6d.

OWN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
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enamel from decay, au.l imparts a ptenrant fraurnuee to
the breath. Prim Is. 6,l.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper
Thames-street, London.
London, England, 1869-07-07

AN IRISH LIBEL CASE.

An interesting and important action for libel has just
been concluded in the Court of Exchequer of Dublin,
before Mr. Baron Fitzgerald and a special jury. The case
arose out of the murder of Mr. Anketell, the station-
master, of Mullingar. The plaintiff was the Rev. Michael
Gogerty, a Roman Catholic clergyman of Mullingar, and
the defendant Mr. John Robinson, proprietor of the
Daily Express. The plaintiff claimed £l,OOO damages for
a libel on him contained in two letters in the Dublin
Express. The alleged libel consisted of two letters published
on the Bth and 10th of March last. In the first letter,
which was written by the Rev. C. P. Reichel, vicar of the
parish, it was stated that 'Mr. Anketell had for some
time known be was " a marked man ;" that on the 16thof
December last he took the writer aside on the platform of
the station, and, to quote the words of the letter, told him
that "his dismissing a railway official had been referred
to from the altar of a Roman Catholic chapel in such
terms as induced two most respectable Roman Catholics,
both personally known to me, to go to him and disavow
all sympathy with what had been said." The second letter,
signed "A Looker-on," referred to Mr. Reichel's, and
asked why a priest should not be amenable to the law, and
remarked that it would be too much to expect that Cardinal
Cullen would suspend him. The defendant pleaded that
the words were a fair and bond fide comment on the con-
duct of the plaintiff, and were published without malice.
The facts were that Lawrence Moran, a railway police-
man, who had been a great many years in the employment
of the railway company, had been dismissed, and that a
great many persons who thought him a very estimable
servant addressed a memorial to the directors to have him
reinstated, and also raised a subscription for him. The
subscribers to this testimonial stated that they thought
him hardly treated. The Rev. Mr. Gogerty was s':ed
to recommend the matter to his congregation, and he
did so in the chapel on the 6th of December last.
He said nothing hostile to Mr. Anketell, and did
not even mention his name, but he said that Moran
had been hardly treated on account of his religion.
It seemed that this was not so ; Moran was dismissed
because he disobeyed Mr. Anketell's orders, but there was
a strong feeling against the station-master in the neigh-
bourhood. The case for the plaintiff was that the letters
alleged that he was the instigator of the murder. But
several Roman Catholics gave it as their opinion that the
plaintiff committed an indiscretion, and that they had
told him so. The juiy did not think the letters_ said much
more. They found a verdict for the defendant, at the
same time exonerating the plaintiff from any intention to
injure Mr. Anketell, and stating their belief that his
object was charitable.
London, England, 1869-07-07

A,ZAMARIT.A N FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN
and CHILD LIEN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman-
square. The only free Hospital for diseases of women
2,746 patients were treated last month without letters of
recommendation. Subscriptions and donations are much
needed, and will be received by Messrs. Hatchard, Picca-
dilly ; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.; Messrs. Barclay, Coutts,
Glyn, Ransom; and by the Secretary.

THE HOSPITAL for WOMEN, Soho-square.
—Bankers : Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co. ;
Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co.—The Committee
APPEAL very earnestly for CONTRIBUTIONS. The
HospitaLis now open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri-
days to out-patients who are treated without letters of
recommendation.

HENRY B. INGRAM, Secretary.

THE ASSOCIATION for the WELFARE of
the BLIND, 210, Oxford-street, and 127, Euston-road.
Patroness—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
This Institution affords employment in various ways to
172 blind men and women.
Pensions to various amounts are granted to the blind
who cannot earn their own living.
500 blind men and women aro applying for help, which
cannot be given for WANT of FUNDS.
Contributions will be thankfully received by the Secre-
tary, Rev. C. B. REID, M.A.
London, England, 1869-07-07

PRIZE-FIGHTING IN AMERICA.

Judging by the comments in the American papers on
the recent prize-fight, our cousins are not proud of the
noble sport which they have inherited from us. Prize-
fighting has been driven out of England, and has taken
refuge in the United States ; but the Americans unhesi-
tatingly declare that they will have none of it. The
sport lost its " ancient nobleness " here ; but it has
sunk to a lower level on the other side of the
Atlantic. The crowds which muster at these
reunions consist of the lowest of the low ; the fighting
itself is mere scrambling and throttling, not boxing. It
is alleged by some that the referee between M'Coole and
Allen was bribed to give his decision in favour of the
latter. The New York Herald remarks that the only
remaining question to be settled in connection with these
pugilistic gentry is to estimate the cost of accommodating
them in gaol.

"ALCOHOLISM."

The Philadelphia Public Ledger notes that habitual
drinking is largely on the increase in the United States.
What it calls " chronic alcoholism " is now becoming a
common cause of the removal of officers from the army.
In the ordinary walks of life, too, this moat deadly of
epidemics is spreading alarmingly. The high price of
genuine spirits having introduced inferior whiskies and
brandies, the fatal effects of the morbid taste for liquors
are more and more to be observed.