The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-08 00:00:00

THE DOVER MURDER.

The warrant for the execution of the culprit Thomas
Wells, for the murder of Mr. Walsh, the station-masterat
Dover, was received by Major Bannister on Friday, and
was read over to the condemned man, who received the
announcement with great composure. At half-past
seven the same morning the Holy Communion was
administered to him by the Rev. W. F. C. Fraser, the
chaplain. On Thursday he was visited by his father,
two sisters, two aunts, and the youdg woman with whom
he kept company. The interview was very painful and
distressing, the culprit being the only one who maintained
anything like fortitude. The scaffold has been erected on
a level with the ground, the earth being excavated
beneath to admit of the drop. The execution— the first
under the Execution Within Prisons Bill—will be held, in
accordance with the Act, within the gaol, at half-past
ten on Thursday morning, when a black flag will be
raised on the wall of the prison, over the old scaffold, when
the bolt is drawn. After the body has been suspended an
hour it will be cut down, when the flag will fall. A
coroner's inquest will be held on the body within twenty-
four hours, and the verdict of the jury will be posted on
the gates of the gaol, In future the capital sentence
will be inflicted on Monday, instead of Thursday, as
heretofore.

It is announced in a Belfast journal that Mr.
blekens will make a " farewell visit " to that town during
the autumn, and "read" in the Ulster Hall.

Messrs. Day and Co., the iron shipbuilders at
Northam, near Southampton, have received an order to
build a monster steamer for the Royal Mail Company.

Adelina Patti, now the Marchioness de Caux,
is passing her honeymoon in Paris. The young mar-
chioness was present at the opera on Monday eve ni :g in
an open box in the dress circle, when the " Trouv ere " and
the " Giselle " were represented. Notwithstanding the
heat of the weather the theatre was crowded.

CONSCIENCE MONEY.—The money remitted to
the Chancellor of the Exchequer by sundry persons for
conscience sake in the financial year 1867-68 amounted to
£4,688. In the preceding year repentance produced a
larger sum, £5,087, which was more than the Chancellor's
salary.

The following is a specimen of Western
eloquence :—" Where is Europe, compared with America?
Nowhar ! Where is England ? Nowliar ! They call
England the mistress of the sea, but what makes the sea?
The Mississippi makes it, and all we've got to do is to
turn the Mississippi into the Mammoth Cave, and the
English navy will be floundering in the mud !"

The Commons are not treated with much consideration
when they make their appearance in the Upper House.
The peers do not even rise when the Lords Commissioners
enter the House, and are seated clueing the ceremony of
prorogation ; the Commissioners wear their hats ; but Mr.
Speaker, the First Minister of the Crown, and the rest of
the Commons have to stand at the bar all the time. The only
acknowledgment of their presence is at the entry of the
Speaker, which is the signal for an interchange of
bows between the right honourable gentleman and
the Commissioners. These bows used to be three in
number ; at the last prorogation they were cut down to
one. The clerks at the table utterly ignore the Commons,
acting, no doubt, upon ancient precedent and practice.
The Clerk of
.the Crown continues bowing at intervals to
the Lords like a Chinese Mandarin, but studiously turns
his back on the Commons. On the last occasion the mem-
bers of the Lower House stood at the bar for -nearly an
hour, the Serjeant-at-Arms with the mace on his shoulder,
Secretaries of State and members of the Cabinet
hustling each other like boys at a show. When the Queen
opens or prorogues Parliament in person, the scramble
for a place at the bar turns the House of Lords into a
bear-garden. The Commons might demand better treat-
ment and accommodation, with the terrible threat a
tte.PPing the kopplies as their ultimatum.

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HER MAJESTY.

PARIS, August 6.

The Queen, travelling as Countess of Kent, ac-
companied by Princess Louise, Prince Leopold,
and Princess Beatrice, arrived at Paris by railroad
at 7 o'clock this morning.
Her Imperial Majesty the Empress of the French
visited the Queen at the Embassy.

Her Majesty drove to the station in the evening,
accompanied by Lord Lyons, and left Paris for
Lucerne.

The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, At-
tended by the Hon. Mrs. Hardinge.