The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-24 00:00:00

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2d, in'theptown, he was doing GOD and himself
service, too. . Indeed, this kind of double service—
acting fr6'l3l what he calls " mixed" motives—was
his settled pLctn• On this account he did not like
to dolls oharitiCs through the vicar. They were
" half-benevolent, ,ialf-politiCal in their object"—
s-hed carefully, he thought
though, when he Wei
the benevolent scale weni.` down and the political
one kicked the ceiling. He pr: (erred, therefore, to
the vicar, as his agent, one M‘GIa.TA., whose " be-
nevolent " use of £7OO with which Le furnished
him made him, he says, " very popular." Still, as
it was a " double transaction," be did not like to
mix the vicar up with it. He did not know at the
time " that M'GALL had been tried and cor_victed
at Edinburgh." We see this agent, selected by
Mr. GORDON for " double transactions," was absent
on Wednesday when he was inquired for by the
Commissioners. He was last seen in Edin-
burgh. As to Mr. STAPLETON, his was the
ordinary case of having spent £3,000 at the
election of 1852, without knowing how it went,
but having behaved much better ever since.
As we have already observed, however, we can see
no useful result to follow all this investigation.
Nothing will be done. The Commissioners will be
well paid ; they will produce a costly blue
book ; but the interest and utility of the whole
thing will be, just what belongs to the newspaper
reports.

The public have recently been made acquainted
with the fact cf the, at present, failure of the tele-
graphic line laid in the Red Sea, and, under the
terms arranged with the Government of the day,
by the company forming this line, the country have
not only to bear the disappointment and incon-
veniences, but have also to pay a large annual sum
to the Red Sea Company for the next fifty years
(£34,000 per annum). It cannot, therefore, be
denied that there is a national interest in this
undertaking, exceeding any ordinary proprietary
rights, and that a searching investigation should
at once be instituted, to ascertain the true causes of
the disaster ; more particularly so, as in every di-
rection reports are current that the failure of this
and other submarine lines has arisen from defective
workmanship in the cables or jobbery of interested
parties, and is not traceable in the most remote de-
gree to any inherent difficulties in the science of
telegraphy. In this science, like all others, in its
early application, mistakes must be expected, and
all interested in its full development would do well
to be guided by the advice of those whose professional
position entitle them to attention, and not to
allow the occasional opinion of writers in
the daily Press to influence their judgment on
scientific subjects, upon which such writers cannot
but be very incompetent authorities.

All reasonable doubts, however, on this subject
will soon, we trust, be dispelled, by the publication
of a mass of facts obtained by the committee of the
House of Commons appointed to inquire into the
position of the various submarine telegraphs laid
dowß, in whose report, when published, the cause
of the present failures of this and other lines will
be clearly shown to arise, as above stated, from
defective workmanship, with the connivance, it is
feared, of friendly if not self-interested and jobbing
supervision ! And now, instead of the construction
of submarine lines of telegraph being from our
want of knowledge impossible, as some short time
since it was considered, it is unquestionably the
reverse—and with the abundance of practical in-
formation gained within the last few years, any
future failure of the action of submarine wires need
not be apprehended in any case where proper men
are selected as contractors for the cable, and prac-
tical electricians of eminence engaged to examine
and watch its manufacture, and to test it before
being submerged.

Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and the
Prince Adolphus leave the Duchess of Cambridge's resi-
dence at Kew to-day for Germany. The departure of their
royal highnesses is hastened by the intelligence, received
by telegraph, of the serious illness of the Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In consequence of the news of the
indisposition of the grand duke the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary have delayed their visit to Mr. and
Lady Elizabeth Drummond at Cadlands.
The Princess Kotschoubay and suite arrived at
the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, last night, from
Ostend.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester are pro-
longing their stay at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone.
The Earl of Sandwich has arrived at the Pavilion
Hotel, Folkestone.
The Hon. Colonel Lindsay, M.P., and Lady
Sarah Lindsay have left town for Scotland.
Colonel Burnaby has taken his departure for
Syria.

•The fleet to accompany the Emperor Napoleon
to Algiers is to be composed of the Aigla and the Reine
Hortense imperial yachts, conveying their Majesties and
suite; the ship of the line Eylau and the iron-cased frigate
Gloire, serving as an escort; the Vauban carrying baggage,
and the Ariege and the Sovre having on board the hdrses
of the Emperor and of the Cent-Gardes. •

VOLUNTEERS TO GARIBALDI.--Abolit fifty gen-
tlemen have now enrolled their names as volunteers in the
company at present forming in this city to aid Garibaldi.
It is to be trusted that a subscription list will be opened for
purpose of paying the expenses of this gallant band to Len •
don, from whence they will be forwarded to Garibaldi's
head-quarters to aid in the cause of Italian liberty.—Cale-
donian Mercury.
REVISION OF THE LISTS OF VOTERS OF THE CITY
OF LONDON.—Yesterday afternoon notice was given by Mr.
G. W. K. Potter, the secondary of the City, and published
at the Guildhall, that T. Y. M'Christie, Esq., the barrister
appointed to revise the list of voters for the City of London,
under the statute Bth Vic., cap. 18, would hold a court for
such purpose in the Court of Common Pleas in the Guild-
hall, on Tuesday, the Bth day of September next, at eleven
, o'clock in the forenoon. The secondary and overseers of
the several parishes will then attend,'and deliver in to the
revising barrister the several lists made by them respec-
tively, and also the original notices of claims and objections
' received by them. The list of notices of liverymen will be
first received, and afterwards the parish lists and notices
according to the order in which the parishes stand in the
register, i.e., according to the polling places. The revision
of the lists of liverymen will be immediately afterwards
commenced, and proceeded with in alphabetical order till
they are concluded. Subsequently the revision of the parish
lists will be entered upon and proceeded with in the order
in which they stand in the polling districts. The clerks of
the companies of liverymen and the overseers are required
to attend when their lists are respectively revised.

THE METROPOLITAN SUBTERRANEAN RAILWAY.
—Yesterday a numerous body of workmen were engaged
in hoarding in an extensive block of buildings situate in
Paradise-street, Britannia-street, and Chad's-row, King's-
cross, which have been purchased by the railway company.
These will be immediately taken down and the site cleared,
it being intended to excavate to the required depth for the
construction of the brick arches, the process of tunnelling
being considered by experienced engineers to be extremely
hazardous in •this spot in consequence of the surface of tho
ground being much lower than that in the New-road, and
not allowing a sufficient amount of solid matter above the
shield used in tunnelling.

GOVERNMENT EMlGRATlON.—HerMajesty'sEmi.
gration Commissioners chartered yesterday afternoon, the
23d inst., the British Trident, 1,340 tons, to sail from Bir-
kenliead for Sydney, New South Wales, at .£l5 6s. 3d. per
statute adult ; to be ready for the reception of her passen-
gers on such day as the commissioners may appoint between
the Ist and Sth October. The commissioners have adver-
tised for tenders on Thursday next, the 30th inst., for a
vessel to proceed to Algot& Bay, to be ready for the reception
of passengers about the 9th October, and limited to 200
statute adults.

HERTFORDSHIRE JUSTICE.--The following ap-
peared in the St. _Albans Times of Saturday :—" A Juvenile
Delinquent. —Ruth Harrison, a girl 12 years of age, was
charged with an assault upon Elizabeth Kirby, a child about
five years old. Mrs. Eliza Biggs said—l live in Sopwell-
lane. About 5 o'clock on Tuesday evening I was sitting in
my house, when I heard some children crying. I went out
and asked what was the matter, when a girl named Jane
Lambeth told me that Ruth Harrison had been beating
Elizabeth Kirby. Ruth Harrison was prownt and said she
had hit the child, and would hit her again. Jane Lambeth,
a little girl eight years old, said—l saw Ruth Harrison hit
Elizabeth Kirby with her fist upon her back. 1 went in-
doors, and when I came out again I saw the defendant hit
the little girl again. The defendant, who was accompanied
by her mother and sisters, said she was collecting horsedung
in Sopwell-lane, when the girl Kirby came up and kicked
her basket about, and she did hit her twice with her hand.
The mayor said it appeared to be a very trivial case ; still
an assault had been committed. The magistrates had de-
termined to put the fine as low as possible—namely, 6d.;
but the expenses were 10s. The amounts must be paid in
14 days, or the defendant be imprisoned for 10 days in de-
fault. The mother of the defendant said she hoped the
magistrates would send her child to prison at once, as their
work was so bad that it would be impossible to pay the
amount. The mayor told her that the 14 days would be
given them to pay the amount in, but the child would have
to go to prison if it were not then paid."