The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-03 00:00:00

711 E CONVICTED JOURNALISTS.

Mr. Sullivan's paper, the Weekly News, reports that
both that gentleman and Mr. Pigott are bearing up
admirably under the trying circumstances of their position.
It says : " Mr. Sullivan is in good health and spirits ; and
the numerous marks of sympathy which he has already
received, the throng of visitors who daily leave their cards
for him at the prison gates, are cheering indications of the
esteem in which he is held by those whose opinions he
values most highly, and whose approbation, we feel cer-
tain, is dearer to him than personal liberty. ' Stone walls
do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage,' and the con-
sciousness of having acted rightly, and of having laboured
in a good and noble cause, is often sufficient to take the
sting from suffering and deprive captivity of its terrors."
The rea(lers are promised a portrait of Mr. Sullivan nest
week.

Meanwhile it may be interesting to notice what effect
has been produced upon the " national" organs by the im-
prisonment of their proprietors. The IVeckl y News has a
cartoon headed "Mrs. Britannia sits for her portrait." The
scene represented is a court of justice ; Britannia presides,
her countenance having some slight resemblance to an
eminent judge who has been much concerned in Fenian
prosecutions. In front is a scroll, on which are inscribed
tha words " Habeas Corpus Suspension," " Press Prose-
cutions," " Arms Acts." At her right side reposes the
British lion, looking very old and feeble, but with jaw dis-
tended, .evidently growling. In her left hand is hertrident
with a black cap on the prongs. In front of the judgment
seat is the artist, who may be intended for Mr. Sullivan,
having a pen and a sheet of paper, on which he has written
' Constitutional Liberty," " Freedom of the Press,"
" Right to carry Arms." At his right stands a female
form representing Liberty, with the cap raised on a wand,
and behind him are four figures with lawyers' wigs on,
possibly meant for the law officers. The spectacles which
appear worn by one of them are a tolerably good likeness
of the Attorney-General's, and a roll of papers in his left
hand, which by a stretch of imagination may be taken
for an indictment, strengthens the conjecture that it has
been drawn for him. In his right hand he points a pistol
at " the artist's " head, who, pursuing his work under
such difficulties, may perhaps be excused for having pro-
duced so poor a performance, especially after the editorial
flourish which accompanied the announcement of it last
week. Underneath are the words : " Under the direc-
tions of the law officers of the Crown, our artist sets
about depicting Britannia in a thoroughly loyal and satis-
factory manner. The correctness of the likeness may not
at once be perceived ; but if anyone fails to recognise the
resemblance, we can only say, on behalf of our artist, that
he has carefully followed out his instructions, and that a
stricter adherence to the original could only be attempted
at the risk of an indictment for sedition and six months'
imprisonment in Richmond."

The Irishman evinces its animus without the aid of
cartoons. It prints in full the indictment against Mr.
Pigott, and prefixes an explanation in these words:—
" On account of the lateness in the week of the days on
which the trial of the Irishman took place we were unable
to do full justice to the case for the prosecution by publish-
ing the indictment in extenso. We take the earliest oppor-
tunity of remedying that by giving it in our columns.
May we be permitted to acid the customary remark, that
1 we do not neee:;mrily agree with all our contemporary
says?'" By this expedient the Irishman is enabled to
give its readers the benefit of a re-issue of all the seditious
Publications for which the proprietor has been condemned
to a year' i;i:prisonnient.

DISHONEST TEADESMEN.— A return has been
issued of the convictions for false weights and measures in
the metropolis for the first six months of 1867. In Fins-
bury 78 persons were convicted, 75 of them for the first
time ; in 11farylebone the convictions were 19, all first
offences ; St. Pancras furnished 30 offenders, but the return
does not say in many cases whether the conviction was a
first, second, or third offence. Mr. Henry Lack, cheese-
monger, is returned as having been convicted a third time.
He was fined 10s. Westminster returns 110 convictions,
mostly for fir .it offences.