The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-04 00:00:00

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It is stated positively that it was not decided
yesterday that her Majesty would open Parliament in per-
son. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to say that
she will do so if her health permits.
Earl Granville, as leader of the Ministerial
party in the House of Lords, has issued invitations fur a
dinner on the 15th inst., to a numerous party of the sup-
porters of the Government.

The Guardian says :—" While the recent Synod
in New Zealand requested Dr. Jenner to withdraw his claim
to the Bishopric of Dunedin, Bishop Selwyn requests tho
Dunedin people to withdraw their opposition to Bishop
Jenner. The last-mentioned Bishop is now on his way to
Now Zealand, where he will try conclusions with his recal-
citrant flock."

Mr. Dunbar Isidore Heath, lath Vicar of Reading,
Isle of Wright, who was six and a half years ago deprived
of his living for false teaching, writes to the Church
News tLat the judgment of the Privy Council which
was then given against him implicitly condemned
the most cherished doctrine of the Ritualists, the continuous
offering of Christ in the Eucharist. He refers to p. 239 of
Brodrick and Freemantle's Ecclesiastical Judgments in sup-
port of his assertion.

A life convict in the Penitentiary at Columbus,
Ohio, named James English, murdered M. H. Pennell, fore-
man of one of the shops in the institution, on Wednesday,
because he threatened to report him for neglecting his
work. English attacked Pennell in the shop with a hatchet,
while the room was full of workmen. He cut his head open,
and after he had fallen, made a second stroke at him, hack-
ing his neck horribly. English was placed in the dungeon.
He has before committed two murders.

A lady of distinction gave a fancy ball in Paris
not long since, and, in order to be distinguished, placed a
servant at the door to announce the costumes as they
entered. A couple of ladies appeared hi full ballroom
dress. "What costume shall I announce?" asked the
servant. "We are not in costume," they replied. " Two
ladies without costume," shouted the servant, to the horror
of everybody.—Court Journal.

A deputation, introduced by Mr. Beach, M.P.,
consisting of Dr. Hodgson, Mr. Payne, Dr. Aldom, Mr.
Barrow Rule, Mr. Weymouth, Dr. Schmitz, Mr. Honey,
Mr. Rossiter, Dr. Schaeble, Mr. Oppler, Rev. E. Hedges,
Mr. Wyles, Mr. Long, Mr, Horton, Mr. Robertson, and
several other gentlemen, had an interview on Wednesday
with the the Lord President of the Privy Council, on the
subject of scholastic registration. After the objects of the
association had been fully explained, his lordship expressed
the great pleasure the interview had afforded him, and pro-
mised to give the subject his most serious consideration.
A case of importance to the sporting fraternity
was heard by the Liverpool stipendiary magistrates on
Tuesday. Samuel Johnson, the keeper of a public-house
in Clayton-street, the former occupier of which made a
large fortune by racing sweeps, was summoned for having
unlawfully used a room in such house for receiving money on
the contingency of a certain lottery not authorised by Act
of Parliament. John Sidebottom, a shopkeeper in Rich-
mond-row, was summoned for a precisely similar of-
fence. The prosecutions were instituted under the 42d
George 111., chapter 119, section 2, by which the de-
fendants had rendered themselves liable to a penalty
of £5OO, or to be committed for trial at the Quarter
Sessions. Only ono case was gone into, it being proved
that a woman had purchased tickets tor racing sweeps at
the defendant Johnson's house, and that those tickets
were referred to in a list of prizes. The magistrate thought
that a prima facie case for trial had been made out, but he
allowed the matter to stand over for a month, on the un-
derstanding that the " sweeps," or lotteries, or whatever they
were called, were entirely done away with.

CAN Sum THINGS BE ?—Bronislaus Szwarc, one
of the most able and popular of the leaders of the Polish
national movement of 1861-2, disappeared mysteriously
a few months after the insurrection broke out. He has
just found means to communicate with his friends, who,
after making every effort to find out what had become of
him, had given him up for lost. His story, like that
of most of the Polish leaders, is a very sad one. He
was the son of a Polish refugee in France, and in 1860
it6tained the appointment of engineer to the St. Peter::-
burg and Warsaw hails ay, the greater part of which
was constructed under his superintendence. His patriotic
feelings, however, soon aroused the suspicions of the
authorities, and he fled to Warsaw, where he took an
active part, under an assumed name, in the national
organisation which was then forming. On Christmas eve
1862 he was arrested by the police, and after a desperate
resistance was overpowered and confined to the citadel.
After a long inquiry, in the course of which it is said
he suffered torture, he was sentenced to death. The
Empress Eugtsnie having interfered in his behalf as a
French subject, the sentence was commuted to trans-
portation, and he was ordered to be sent to Siberia.
Scarcely had he arrived at Moscow, however, when
a second order arrived ordering him to be forwarded
to some other destination, but what this was his friends
have until a few weeks ago striven in vain to discover. It
now appears that for the last five years he has been
chained to a wall in one of those fatal casemates, lying
below the level of the river Neva at Cronstadt, where so
many political prisoners have died a miserable death.
Those who have seen him there, and who knew him at
Warsaw when he was a handsome, spirited young man,
say that it is now quite impossible to recognise him. He
is a cripple, prematurely old, utterly broken down by
disease and suffering, and without a spark of his old
encrzy left,