The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1868.

scores and hundreds of thousands besides, to re-
peal the Corn Laws. I say lam amazed that
on so clear a question it should be neces-
sary to make so great an effort to bring Par-
liament and the people to comprehend their true
interests." And yet it was so ; and it is only iu
remembrance of the fact of its having been so, that
the country can to the full appreciate its own
profound and lasting obligation to men like Mr.
COBDEN, Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. VILLIERS, Mr. GIBSON,
and others who were associated with them in that
grand movement. Cogently put—put with all the
poignancy of wit and all the force of a syllogism—
was the great truth those patriotic reformers were then
during so many years vainly striving to bring home
to the popular judgment, when Mrs. SOMERVILLE
wrote that memorable sentence (so aptly quoted
yesterday by Mr. BRIGHT in his speech at Edinburgh)
—" Surely as much food as a man can bay, with as
much wages as a man can get, for as much work as
a man can do, is not more than the natural, inalien-
able birthright of every man whom GOD has created
with strength to labour and with hands to work."
Noble words—a noble utterance : than which, as Mr.
BRIGHT said yesterday "nothing can be more
simple, nothing more true, nothing more conclu-
sive." And yet, for all that, words embodying
a truth which could only be beaten into shape
upon the sounding anvil of the Anti-Corn-Law-
League. Of that League the two foremost men,
beyond all comparison, were Mr. COBDEN and Mr.
BRIGHT. Mr. COBDEN was there, at the head of them
all, facile princeps. But after him, directly after
him, stood forth the name of Mr. BRlGHT—distancing

all competitors. Not one of the other members
of the League approached him in energy, in eloquence,
in burning and soul-born enthusiasm. His enthusiasm
has never abated, his energies hare never relaxed, his
eloquence has ripened, so to speak, and has become
in a manner so far perfected by practice that he is
recognized by Whigs and Tories alike, by Liberals
and Conservatives, as the first of all the Orators of
his time, as Lord DERBY is still, when at his best, the
first of all Debaters. Always impulsive and impetu-
ous ; often--to our thinking—mistaken in his
views, ungenerous in his denunciations, and ex-
travagant in his assertions, Mr. BRIGHT is
throughout (we cannot but think, even when we re-
gard him as the most mistaken, the most ungenerous,
and the most extravagant) actuated by the highest
and the most unimpeachable motives, motives the most
patriotic and the most conscientious. His faults,
however, were not among the faults of Mr. COBDEN.
The latter—without those faults, faults of all the
most fatal to an administrator —was, more than once
during the closing years of his life, offered in
vain high position among the Cabinet Ministers,
under Lord PALMERSTON'S Premiership. It is very
generally understood, now, that, upon the formation of
the next Liberal Government, a position of that kind
will not only be offered to, but accepted by, Mr. COB-
NEN'S many years colleague, Mr. BRIGHT. In the
interests of his country, and in those also of his own
reputation—if only ho could temper his judgment to
the equable serenity of his great coadjutor
in the days of the League ! If only he
could acquire somewhat of the calm and
force of toleration Perhaps—with the responsibili-
ties of office (it is our only hope in his regard) there
may come that mitigation of what we may call his
constitutional arrogance : there may eome at last—
when it is most:needed---some shew at least of gracious
toleration towards his antagonists.

IT is stated that no fewer than 201 cases are down
for trial at the Divorce Court for the term which
opened on Monday. This is an unusually and
lamentably large number. It may be said that they
bear only an infinitesimal proportion to the number
of marriages. But as it is generally only in the last
extremity that husband or wife resort to Sir JAMES
WILDE, it is to be feared that the proportion of
unhappy marriages is anything but infinitesimal.
In most of these two hundred and one cases

patience has been tried beyond endurance. In
a far larger number the last ounce has not yet
been laid upon the overburdened back; yet there
has been misery where there ought to have been
happiness, cruelty where there ought to have been
tenderness, constant bickerings where there ought
to have been words of love, blows where there ought
to have been caresses. As a rule, it is only when
the measure of sorrow has run over that a man or a
woman will proclaim to all the world that a
cruel blunder has been made, that happiness
and honour have been shipwrecked. The Divorce
Court no more represents the number of
wretched marriages than the Registrar-General's
returns of deaths represent the number of persons
suffering from headache or any other ailment
that is not fatal. But while men and women will,
for the most part, refrain from appearing before the
judge, even when they have good reason to seek his
aid, there are a few that resort to him whom
he ought to dismiss with censure. It is very clear
that the Divorce Court is in danger of being used by
immoral persons as a means of escaping from a bond
which checks their licentiousness. A pair, of loose
morals, who have got tired of each other and wish
to enter upon other connections, will deliberately
connive at each other's sin, in order to obtain a dis-
solution of the marriage bond. There are, again,
men who will deliberately marry girls of damaged
reputations with the intention of suing for a divorce
when weary of the union, knowing well that they will
always be able to find arguments in support of their
suit if they will but place their frail partners in the
way of temptation. Cases like these require the
keenest discrimination on the part of the judge. It
is the interest of all parties to deceive him ; while he,
acting in the interests of public morality, has to exer-
cise all his faculties in defending himself against
deception. Sir JAMES WILDE has already shewn
that he is not easily misled. We should not be sur-
prised if some of these two hundred and one cases
afford him further opportunity for exposing and
frustrating an immoral conspiracy.

NEW DIVORCE .ACT..—The new Act passed in the
]ate session will practically take effect during the present
sittings of the court. Where there is no appeal, the re-
spective parties are at liberty to marry again as soon as
the decree absolute is pronounced.

CHANCERY SALES.—The official returns show that
817 sales of estates were made last year under orders of the
Court of Chancery. The amount realised was £2,000,551.
In the preceding year the amount was £1,787,518.
TIIE CIVIL SERVICE.—The thirteenth report
of her Majesty's Civil Service Commission, together
with appendices, was published yesterday morning. The
report itself contains a summary review of all the
proceedings of the commissioners from May, 1855, up
to the last day of Juno in the present year. During
that period the total number of candidates whose names
have appeared upon the lists have been 59,658. Tho
actual number. however, which came before the board for
their decision was 46,523, and of these certificates of qua-
lification were granted in 28,596 cases. Of the remainder,
however, only 9,461 were rejected as abso7utely dis-
qualified.
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INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN
HEAVY MAILS.

GIBRALTAR, Nov. 3.
The Delta left at 8 a.m. to-day for Southampton,
where she may be looked for on the evening of the
7th inst. All well.

AMERICA.

ELECTION OF GRANT AND COLFAX.

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.
General Grant and 111 r. S. Colfax are elected

President and Vice-President of the United States

the Republicans having carried nearly all the

Northern States by increased majorities.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.

Closing Prices.—Gold closed at 1334. The
highest price during the day was 133/, and the
lowest 1331.
Sterling Exchange on London, 109/.
5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1091 ; ditto,
1885, 1074 ; ditto, 1865, 1104 ; 10-40 United
States Bonds, 106.
Illinois, 1444 ; Erie, 404.
Cotton—Middling upland, 254.
Petroleum—Standard white, 30.
Flour—Extra state, $6 70 to $7 30. Corn—Old
mixed, $ll6.

ROUMANIA.

BUCHAREST, Nov. 2.

The rumour which for the last few days has been
current here that M. Ledeschine, the brother-in-law
of Menotti Garibaldi, was enlisting troops in Bulgaria
is entirely untrue. He came to this city to esta-
blish a Water Cure Institution at Moyerelli, near
Bucharest, but the scheme, owing to the want of
capital, has been given up.

POLICE IN TELLIG EN CE— This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STEALING MARKED MONEY.—Robert Noble, a
young man in the employ of Mr. Job Keevil, whole-
sale and retail cheesemonger, of No. 273, Oxford-
street, as a shopman, was charged before Mr. Tyr-
whitt with stealing a half sovereign, the money of
his master.

Mr. Froggatt appeared for the prosecution, and

in opening the case said that the prisoner bad been
in the employ of the prosecutor about six months,
and during that time he had lost a considerable
sum of money, and yesterday Sergeant Cole of the
C division having been communicated with, he
took such steps as led to the detection of the pri-
soner as the thief. Mr. Froggatt then called

Mr. Tray ton White, foreman to Mr. Keevil, who
said that during the past six months he had fre-
quently missed money—always gold. Yesterday,
about four o'clock, he counted the money in the
gold till, and found three sovereigns, two half-
sovereigns, and a £5-note. At five o'clock he
again counted the money, and found the amount to
be the same as before, and any gold which had been
taken ought to have been dropped into the till, of
which he (witness) kept the key. About half-past
five Sergeant Cole, who had previously been com-
municated with, came in and called the prisoner
into the back parlour, and he was then taken into
custody.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the witness said he
had missed considerable sums from the till at diffe-
rent times.

Mrs. Grant proved receiving a half sovereign from
Sergeant Cole marked with a cross on the top of
the corner, and on going to the shop of Mr. Keevil
yesterday, and making a purchase of the prisoner,
gave him the halt sovereign. The prisoner
put the half sovereign into the till with the
silver, and in taking out some silver to give her
change she noticed him take out the half sove-
reign, lay it on the table, and then placed a piece
of paper over it, and she then communicated with
Sergeant Cole.

Sergeant Cole of the C division, said that in
consequence of a communication from Mr. Keene,
he marked half a sovereign and gave it to the last
witness, and in consequence of information he went
yesterday afternoon to Mr. Keevil's and called
the prisoner into the parlour in the presence of Mr.
White, and told him that he (Cole) was a police
officer, and asked him if he had any objection, as
Mr. Keevil had been losing large sums of money,
to show him what money he had about him. The
prisoner said he had one half-sovereign, but after-
wards said he had two, and in producing them one
was the marked one, and he (Cole) then told him
that he should take him into custody. The prisoner
replied, " Well, I do not know how I came to do
it, and what possessed me to do it 1 cannot tell.
It is the first time I ever did anything of the
sort, and I hope Mr. Keevil will forgive me and
bail me."

The prisoner, who was in tears after being con-
victed, said--I have nothing more to say but
that I took the half-sovereign, and I am very
sorry for it.

bir. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for trial.

WESTMINSTER.

A WELL-DRESSED SCAMP.—A gentlemanly-look-
ing well-dressed young man, who gave the name of
Alexander Shann, and appeared about 25 years of
age, was charged with robbing lodging-houses
where he had gone under the pretence of looking
for apartments.
On Tuesday fortnight the prisoner went to the
house of Mrs. Wood, 6, St. Holbrake-terrace, St.
John's-hill, New Wandsworth, and inquired about
rooms for himself and his daughter, a little girl at
school. He was shown them, and while Mrs. Wood
went down into the kitchen to get a pen and ink he
went up stairs again, and was met coming down by
Mrs. Wood. The excuse he made was that he went
up to look for a book-case to put his books in. Di-
rectly he went a gold watch and chain, value £l2,
were misses, and he was not seen again until in

custody.
He was not so fortunate at 3, Montpelier•square,
Brompton, the house of Mr. Morier, on Wednesday
week. He was shown over the rooms, stating he
had come from India, and while upstairs a watch
was taken out of a drawer. He was detained in
the drawing room, and after a policeman was
fetched the watch was found by the servant on the
drawing room shelf. It was not there when he
entered the house, but in one of the bedrodms he
had visited. At the station he refused his name
and address.
He was remanded till Tuesday.

THE BISHOP OF OXFORD O.ZY 'SLAVERY.

The Bishop of Oxford spoke at the annual meeting of
the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, held• at
Liverpool on Monday. At the close of a long and elo-
quent address, the right rev. prelate observed : One of the
objections put forward to the Universities' Mission was that
because great difficulties, great disappointments, and deep
sorrow had attended its first movements, therefore they
had better abandon the thing and give it up hi despair.
Now he maintained that that was an absolute want of
faith. When had there ever been anything done
for God, as to which hi did not test the faithfulness
of those who set about doing it by bringing them into the
winter of adversity, in order at onoe to try and to per-
fect their trust? He thought there were reasons why
they should expect difficulties in the beginning of this
work. They should remember that the efforts of
Britain for the conversion of Africa was not a mere
thanks offering, but rather an expression of true penitence
for misdoing. They saw the great cause of the suffer-
ing of Africa at the present moment in the miserable
demoralisation wrought by the accursed slave trade.
Who had been the principal abettors and fomentors of
that trade, but we, the people of England? It should be
remembered that mere sorrow for the past was not repent-
ance. True repentance was in trying to make amends for
the wrong that had been done. His lordship resumed his
seat amid loud applause.