The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-04 00:00:00

AN 1L t- USED ARCHBISHOP.

(Front Punch.)
Ask him to pay his own librarian and keep his
library in order, with only £15,000 a-year ! hasn't
he Lambeth and Addington to keep up ?
And why should he spend money on what he never
uses? llow often, I should like to know, has the
Venerable Archbishop taken a book down from the
shelves of that musty old bookroom since his insti-
tution to the province ? Like Lord Palmerston, he
has a great deal too much to do to read printed
books. Even if The Fathers of the Church were
not stale, and the folio divinity of the sixteenth and
seventeenth. centuries out of date, the Archbishop
has quite enough employment to keep abreast of the
Guardian and the Record, to read long-winded pro-
tests of the Evangelical Clergy against Ritualising
bishop, or the charges of Ritualising bishops made
in the teeth of protesting clergy and churchwardens.
As for answering either, still less reconciling them,
or judging between them, the archbishop has no lei-
sure for anything so laborious.

Supposing the archbishop referred the question o j
the keeping up of the library and the payment of
the librarian's salary to the Pan-Anglican Synod ?
Flere would be one practical question, at all events,
for the Septuaginta et duo to deal with.
The suggestion to transfer the books to the British
Museum deserves consideration. Perhaps there
could hardly be a more appropriate place for these
relics of middle-age learning and theological ear-
nestness, than beside the remains of other extinct
species —such as the mammoth and the mastodon.

Th 3 Escape of l'Brieu from Cloumel Gaol,

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O'Brien, a most troublesome prisoner all through,
was confined in a cell from which it was naturally
believed escape would be impossible. The walls of
this cell were some five or six feet thick. Light is
admitted by one solitary window, a narrow opening,
protected with double bars of iron, set transversely
and embedded with lead into heavy blocks of
stone. The outer door was of wood sheeted
with iron, the inner, a heavy iron gate, both
well fastened outside with double locks and
strong bolts and bars. Into this cell the
prisoner was looked at six o'clock on Wednesday
evening last; and about 11 o'clock the same night
the governor of the gaol, Mr. R. Grubb, in taking
his accustomed round, visited the different cells with
a turnkey, amongst others O'Brien's, and saw that
the prisoners were in bed and that all was right,
and brought the keys with him to his own room.
Nothing further transpired until six o'clock the
next morning, when it was discovered that
O'Brien's cell was untenanted. Upon exa-
mining the cell it was found that the lower half of
the heavy iron grating of the window had been cut
through in part with a file or some sharp instrument,
the remainder being forced by some means from its
leaden socket, while one of the side blocks of lime-
stone had been broken in two, and the loosened part
removed. The iron grating and broken masonry
were found in the cell with the prisoner's hat, which
was filled with pieces of cement and limestone; also
a stout bar of iron skilfully sharpened at one end
and tied round with a cloth to protect the hand and
to lessen the sound while working. The bar was cut
off from the iron support of the metal stovepipe,
which the prisoner had found means to procure or
remove from its place at the end of the corridor
while passing to his cell. There were found in addi-
tion some pieces of rod iron, finely pointed ; a
rude iron hammer, a knife, and a small coil of
rope unopened. From one of the remaining window
bars a thin rope, doubled, hung loosely, reaching
some 8 feet down outside, the window itself being
full 30 feet from the walk below, leading to the
main entrance. By this means the prisoner is
supposed to have lowered himself to a level with
the iron gallery, or passage from the press-room
to " the drop," and, having been drawn across,
if he had an accomplice, or, which is just pos-
sible, having swung himself over to the passage
gallery, in which one of the sheets of the prisoner's
bed was found, with the ends double stitched to-
gether, he scaled the railing, crossed the roof of the
gate-house barefooted, and got upon the parapet of
the outer wall of the prison, from whence it is be-
lieved he descended into the street some 18 or 20 feet,
by means of another rope, which was also found hang-
ing from one of the embrasures. His boots were
found on the walk under his cell window, tied
together, as if they had been hung across his arm,
but had slipped off. It was a fine moonlight night,
and the place where the escape was effected is not
50 yards from the Richmond police barrack.--
Clonmel Chronicle.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

BRISTOL-THURSDAY.

On our market to-day there was a short supply of Eng-
lish wheat, which was taken freely by millers at an advance
of fully 3s por qr. In foreign wheat, which met a good
inquiry, prices wero 2s dearer. Malting barley sold freely
at is to 2s per qr over the rates of last market ; grinding
very scarce, and high currencies wero realised. Oats in
dull demand, and prices unaltered. Beans at about is over
previous tales, as also Indian corn, but not much doing.