The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-10 00:00:00

DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 8.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Edwin Donald
Baynes, Richard Weston Mara, LL.D., Thomas Wood-
cock, and Henry Berkeley, Esqrs., to be members of the
Executive Council of the Island of Antigua. Her Majesty
has also been pleased to appoint William Henry Hall,
Esq., to be a member of the Legislative Council of the
Bahama Islands.
WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 9.
Royal Artillery—Second Captain Francis Henry William
Nisbott to be Captain ; Lieut. George Lloyd Engstrom
to be Second Captain, vice Nisbott.

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Commissariat Department—William Servantes to be As-
sistant Commissary-General.
Military Store Department—Deputy-Assistant Superin-
tendent of Stores Robert Mead to be Assistant Superin-
tendent of Stores.

EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE
are the properties of Lamplough's Pyretic Saline, curing the
worst headaches, sickness, skin, or biliary affections. Pleasant,
palatable, and invigorating. sou by all Chemists.—[Advt.]

that is not perfectly consistent with a settled purpose on
their part to bring in a bill of their own whenever they
have a chance of doing so. Hence they avoided enuncia-
tions of principle, and enlarged upon hypothetical practical
evils. The scheme was commendable, and its adoption might
possibly be desirable. But what was to be done were
best done slowly, and, indeed, 'twere better not done at
all, by the present Parliament. The only good, hearty,
thoroughgoing opponent was Mr. Leeman, the honourable
member for York, a gentleman in whose bosom the fine
gold of patriotic ardour seems to have mingled wonder-
fully well with the baser metal of regard for the railway
interest. He hates espionkge, and he loves block
signals. If, by the bill, Wl the telegraphs in the
country are placed under the control of Government,
we may possible be scandalised at finding private messages
stopped in transitu and laid upon Prime Ministers'
tables. Again, if railway companies have to pay for
their messages, telegraphic instructions for moving
40,000 waggons and carriages daily can no longer be
forwarded, The anti-climax is really touching. The
sanctity of private messages, and the easy moving about
of railway vans ; the old English hatred of espionage, and
" the modern directors' unwillingness to pay for the
privilege of using the wires ! When such names conjoin,
and such considerations concur, who can stand against
them, or fail to follow where their enunciator and expo-
nent leads ? The only difficulty is in ascertaining exactly
which way he is going, because he seems hardly to have
made up his own mind upon the point, seeing that he
began by moving that the bill be read a second time that
day six months, and ended by moving that it be sent to a
select committee.
In dealing with the same subject, the Standard charges

the Opposition with using factious tactics to get rid of the
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bill. Just as the leaders of the Opposition strove to burke
the Reform Bill by talking against time, and devising one
scheme after another in taking it ont of their rivals'

hands, so do they meet the Telegraphs Bill with pleas for
delay. Mr. Goschen, for example, was compelled to
admit that he was " rather favourable to the Govern-
ment propoSitiOn," and Mr. Gladstone himself " believed
the principle to be a practicable, perhaps a desirable
one." But neither of the right honourable gentlemen
appeared able to act upon their beliefs and convictions.
Strangely enough, both those ex-Ministers were sensitive
and apprehensive about the possible influence of the
telegraphs on a general election, " when priority in the
transmission of messages might involve the most serious
consequences." The same argument might, and may still,
be used against the State monopoly of the Post Office.
Our trust in both cases must be in the influence of public
opinion to prevent any abuse of this kind ; and when we
find two leading politicians at once so anxious to postpone
the bill which they do not venture to oppose in Coto,
and so apprehensive about its possible influence upon an
election which is now not far off, we cannot help being
reminded of the proverb, Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.
The Telegraph has no reason to be dissatisfied with the
nature of the debate on the Electric Telegraphs Bill, since
the course recommended by the Government is precisely
that which it suggested a fortnight back. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer, who moved the second reading, an-
nounced his willingness to have the measure handed over
to a select committee for detailed examination ; and Mr.
Leeman, who led the opposition, also preferred that form
of inquiry to the risk of defeat by moving a distinctly
hostile amendment. The Ministerial recommendation
will, no doubt, be adopted by the House at a future day ;
and we shall be much surprised if, out of the testimony
that will be adduced before such a tribunal as a select
committee, conviction do not dawn on the minds of some
who are at present hostile to the plan.
The Star has not the least sympathy with Mr. Leeman
in the wholesale hostility which he displays to the Govern-
ment scheme. It is absurd to suppose that the railways
would be deprived of any facilities essential to their busi-
ness, much less of any facilities essential to the security
of life. Indeed, it is not to be supposed that, under
Government administration, any conspicuous
short-
coming in the public telegraph service
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be permitted by. Parliament, which would have
con-
stant opportunities, as upon all other subjects,
of bring forward abuses. The real difficulties do not
in the direction which Mr. Leeman indicated. klieriee
may be in the very nature of the work something which
unfits it to be undertaken by Government. There may be
temptations in it for Government which would inevitably
create scandals. The enterprise may be too colossal.
The financial arrangements may be too onerous. On
these and many other points there may be reasons for
pausing and for investigating. . But there is no reason to
suppose that the railways will suffer, or that ordinary
private messages will be either delayed, or pried into, or
ill-delivered.

Who could have imaginqd exclaims the Daily ltiew3,
that whenever the time should come for the Russian

for the ad vantage
Government to propose practical reforms
of foreign commerce, it would find its measures resisted by
the English merchants on the spot ? Well, anybody who
knows what a British factory is, and always has been,
would lave imagined it. A faetory is a commercial
trades union, arid its members invariably judge every
public measure by its real or supposed bearing on their
interests. The changes which the Russian Government
has lately made are in the spirit of free trade, as they
diminish local charges on commerce. But the merchants,
who have fur half a century resisted this, go to the
Minister of Finance, and ask that they may he rescinded,
professedly because they wish to retain a necessary hold
on the shipmaster, but really in order to protect their own
exorbitant charges. They have been long accustomed to
levy a kind of black mail, and are naturally indisposed to
relinquish the practice. We trust the Minister of Finance
will stand firm, and not allow the wise and liberal mea-
sures to be defeated by an interested combination. The
St. Petersburg factory was abolished by Act of Parlia-
ment, and has never been sanctioned by the Russian
Government, and it must not be allowed to rob the ship.
masters. Their coalition is one " in restraint of trade,".
and is injuring trade daily. Their proceedings maybe
found to require the interference of her Majesty's Govern-
ment; in any case, Lord Stanley would do well to keep eve upon them. his

ACTION FOR INJURIES SUSTAINED.—In the Dail Court
the case of Storey v. Ashton has been heard. It was an
action brought by the father of a child to recover compen-
sation for injuries sustained. The plaintiff is a letter-
sorter, and the defendant a wine merchant, and it seems
that the cart of the latter, when being driven by one of
his men, ran over a child of the plaintiff, as it was playing
with some others in the City-road. From the evidence
given on behalf of the plaintiff, the driver, in the language
of one of the witnesses, was " too jolly to care about what
he was cluing." After the accident the vehicle was driven
at a very rapid pace, and would not have been stopped
but for a gentleman driving after and overtaking it. For
the defence it was contended that the servant was using
the cart for his own business, and, consequently, the
defendant was not liable. The judge reserved this ques-
tion of law, and the jury found £BO damages.

FICTITIOUS CLAIMS TO PROPERTY.—In the Court of
Exchequer, Mr. Jones, Q.C., moved, on behalf of Mr.
Alfred Leigh, a solicitor, for a rule calling upon the
Incorporated Law Society to chew cause why his
name should not be restored to the rolls of the
court. Mr. Leigh was struck off in 1864 for
inducing certain persons to commence and carry
on a suit for the recovery of some property in the
North to which they had no title. The Court refused
the application on the formal ground that the affidivits
were in the Queen's Bench, whereas the matter properly
belonged to this court.—Baron Martin observed that,
particularly in the North, claims of a fictitious charactet
were constantly being put forward to property; such
proceedings ought to be stopped if possible.
POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.—At the Central Criminal
Court, Benjamin Spall was indicted for stealing a post
letter containing a£s note. It appeared that on the very
same day the letter was missed the prisoner changed the
stolen note at a public-house in Pentonville, and he wrote
his name upon it, and when he was questioned he said
that his uncle had given him the note to get changed,
which was proved not to be true. Subsequently the
accused said that another deliverer on an adjoining round
had given him the note to change ; but this also was proved
to be a false statement. Having been found guilty, the
prisoner was sentenced to six years' penal servitude.

ASSAULTING AND INTIMIDATING WITNESSES. —Cases of
this description having been so frequently before the
magistrate at the Marylebone Police-court, he has given
notice that in future all persons charged with offences of a
like character, either against witnesses or the police, will
be committed for trial.

THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY.-Be-
fore the Lords Justices the directors of this company ap-
pealed from a decision of Vice-Chancellor Stuart, where
his Honour overruled the demurrer to the bill in this
suit. The bill, which was one of/ immense length, in-
volving very complicated transactions between the railway
company and their contractors, Messrs. Peto and Co., was
filed for the purpose of setting aside tome securities upon
alleged surplus lands of the company, which were given
early in the year 1860 to secure £135,000 to the Imperial
Company, and two sums of £190,000 and £llO,OOO to the
General Credit Company; and also to have the accounts
between the railway company and Peto and Co. taken.
The General Credit Company put in a demurrer to the
bill on the ground of multifariousness—that is to say, that
the suit related to a great many transactions with which
they had no concern, and that they ought not, therefore,
to have been made parties to such a suit. The Vice-
Chancellor overruled this demurrer, and the General
Credit Company appealed. The appeal was dismissed.

MORTGAGES ON A COMPANY'S TOLLS.—Before Vice-
Chancellor Giffard, the case of Hopkins v. the Proprietors
of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal Navigation Com-
pany was heard. The plaintiff, a mortgagee of the above-
named company, instituted this suit to compel them to
pay his mortgage money. The company insisted that so
long as they paid the plaintiff's interest they could not,
according to their Act of Parliament, be compelled to pay
the principal. The Vice-Chancellor directed accounts to
be taken, and appointed a receiver.

In the Isle of Wight wheat has been in ear for
the last forthight, and harvest there will, it is expected,
commence in the middle of July. This will be unusually
early. In Dorsetsbire the hay harvest is now at full
swing, the crop of meadow grass will be light, but the
clover crop will be a good one. The late barley wants
rain. The early and wall•fruit crops in the south of
England are failures. The apples have suffered, but owing
to the quantity of blossom there will, it is believed, be a
fair crop.

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The surplus of the Indian collection, exhibitea
at Paris last year, has, during the last six days, been dis,
posed of at the rooms of Messrs. Christie, Manson, and
Woods, in King-street, St. James's-square, by order of
the agent for the Government of India. Subjoined are
the most important objects :—Four splendid square Cash-
mere shawls, of various colours, produced 165 guineas,
and six others, 385 guineas ; a magnificent Cashmere hall
carpet, of large dimensions, made at Srinuggur, of the
finest Cashmere wool, with exquisite border, brought 160
aninasuit.

The (Ecumenical Council to be assembled
on the eighth of December, 1869, is naturally
a matter of speculation, and we are not in the
least surprised that it should engage the atten-
tion of a journal to which every Englishman
looks for early and sufficient information con-
cerning important events. The Times, in no
unfriendly spirit, naturally turns to Archbishop
Manning to see what he has to say on a
subject peculiarly within the sphere of his
knowledge, and seems surprised at his pre-
dicting that " the Council would make an
epoch in the way of reaction against the anti-
Christian revolution in Europe." It is not,
however, as the Times suggests, a new or
sudden idea in Archbishop Manning to attri-
bute to the coming Council a political import-
ance. On the contrary, in a Pastoral letter,
published last year, entitled " The Centenary
of St. Peter and the General Council," from
which, in another page, we extract the passages
alluded to, he points out, among other things,
the probable effects of the Council on the poli-
tical state of Europe.
The Times, it is evident, has not as yet
given its mind to the consideration of the
political importance of the gathering togethei•
under the headship of the Pope of the leaders
and representatives of the Catholic world.
Such an assemblage of .men of one mind, with
one purpose in their hearts, whose zeal and
love of their Church is, as even their enemies
concede, beyond every other aim or object,
cannot meet together in council at Rome under
Pius IX., without being inspired with a new
and indomitable energy, and a united deter-
mination, as the representatives and leaders of
two million Catholics, to put down, wherever
it is to be met with, that small but intensely
active and, for the moment, dominant party
which usurps in too many countries of Europa
leadership over the peoples, which arrogates
to itself the right to speak in the name of
the age in which we live, which, in violation
of eternal justice, has set up a new standard
of right and wrong, imposing its oivn will
as law over the vast majority who are quiescent
only because they. ave not as yet fully realized
that they have
,but to speak out with the
determined voice of men, who will take no
denial, in order to see this tyrannical anti-
Christian Revolution—which now rides
roughshod over their rights and over their
religion—fall like the walls of Jericho before
the trumpet. Both for good and evil this is
an age when ideas are spread with marvellous
rapidity. Great changes are now-a-days sudden.
The (Ecumenical Council, before its results even
are forecast, may give an impetus to the minds
of the vast majority of the peoples, may re-
kindle in many countries theslumbering embers
of religious zeal, until on a sudden Europe may
again witness a new crusade arise to rescue
religion, justice, liberty, and the Holy See of
Peter from the tyranny of the modern enemies
of the Cross. Under the actual circumstances
of the peoples of Europe, tyrannized over for
the most part by the Revolution in possession
of the Governments, it is sheer folly in the
Times to speak of the vast majority of the
people of Italy or Austria "as almost hopelessly
estranged from the creed of their fathers." The
Times is not more happy in this reckless asser-
tion than in its ecclesiastical chronology. The
very reverse is the case. The vast majority
of the people in either country is deeply
attached to the creed of their fathers. Apathy
and fear are not to be reckoned on for ever.
Apathy may vanish on a sudden, fear may
change into courage at the dictates of faith;
and what more likely than the approaching
General COuncil to bring about, as Archbishop
Manning predicts, a " reaction against the
anti-Christian Revolution in Europe ?"
Westminster Gazette.

La., Wells Hubbard of Me., Alfrel R. Field of
Mass., Hampton Briggs of Mich., P. C. Amberly
of Minn., C. E. Stevens of Nebraska, John H.
Bailey of N. 11., Thomas H. Bartlett of N. J.,
Hamilton Harris, of N. Y., William R. Meyers of
N. C., Israel Green of Ohio, James Horne of Pa.,
Lysander Flagg of R. 1., B. F. Whittemore of
S. C., L. C. Hank of Tenn., 11. H. Langley of
texas, William H. Grant of Vermont, and N. 11.
Peck of Nevada. Maryland declined to name a
committee man until her contested seats should be
settled. The committee on resolutions was as fol-
lows :—David C. Upton of Ala., William Morse
of Ark., J. W. Woodman, of Ct , C. S: Taylor of
Del., H. M'Coy of Ga., Herman Rester of 111.,
Ried W. Thompson of Incl., George M. Dodge,
of lowa, B. F. Simpson of Kansas, Charles Eger-
ton of Kentucky, IV. B. Benson of Louisiana,
Eugene Hall of Me., Francis W. Bird of Mass.,
M. 0. Holmes, jr., of Md., Robert R. Beach of
Mich., R. M'Laren of Minn., Robert T. Venhorn
of Miss., R. W. Turner of Nebraska, C. E. Delong
of Nevada, James F. Briggs of N. H., J. John
Davison of N. J., Charles Andrews of N. Y., L.
D. Hesse of N. C., John C. Lee of 0., H. R.
Kincaird of Oregon, S. E. Dimick of Pa., Rowland
G. Hazard of R. 1., B. O. Duncan of S. C., Wm.
G. Elliott of Tenn., G. W. Paschall of Texas, W.
H. Johnson of Vt., Lysander Hill of Va., Robert
C. Brown of West Va., and Horace Rubles of
Wis. A motion to admit the Territories was op-
posed on the ground that committees that cannot
vote in the election ought not to nominate, and it
was referred to the Committee of Credentials.
When California was reached in the call of States
for the committee, Mr. Sears rose to make an ex•
planation, showing that the gentleman who con-
tested the seats of the Californian delegates voted
a Copperhead ticket at the last election in that
State. He and a few others had met in a back
room, and had selected delegates for the Conven-
tion. "We polled 40,00 J votes and represent the
Union Republican party of California, while the
party this man represents only polled 2,000, out of
whom they could not find ten men to accept the
position he occupies. We ask this Convention to
give us our seats as they of right belong to us, and
not cast a stain upon us and raise this man to
the dignity of a contestant." The person alluded
to, B. R. Nickerson, of California, rose to reply,
stating that they were prepared to submit the ques-
tion to the Committee on Credentials, to whom it
was referred at the request of several delgates.
The rules of the Ilouse of Representatives were
adopted for the government of the Convention,
committees on permanent organization, resolutions
and rules were appointed, and a motion adopted that
all resolutions be referred without debate, after
which a recess was taken until 5 o'clock. At the
evening session, Hamilton Barris, chairman of the
committee on permanent organization, reported the
name of Joseph R. Hawley of Connecticut for per-
manent President, and the Convention received the
announcement with tremendous applause. The
President was conductel to the chair by Ex-Gover-