The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-05 00:00:00

A JURYMAN IN TROUBLE.

A man named William King, charged with steal-
ing a bag of money, was called upon at the Surrey
Sessions to surrender to his bail. After some bawl-
ing on the part of the officers of the court, a
respectably-dressed man came forward, and
introduced himself with the formula "Here I am."
He was immediately ordered into the dock,
and the indictment was read. The man began
to tremble at the onerous words " did feloniously
and wilfully steal," and said, sotto voce, to Mr. Cook,
the gaoler, " Please, sir, it's all a mistake." The
Gaoler : " Oh, there's no mistake; you listen to the
indictment." The clerk of the peace having read
the indictment, asked, in the usual form, "Prisoner,
Pow say you—are you guilty or not guilty ?"
risoner : "If you please, :my lord, there is some
mistake." The Clerk of the Peace : "We shall sea
that presently. Are you guilty or not guilty ?*
Prisoner : "If you please, my lord, lam a juryman."
T,his man will doubtless make an excellent juryman
in future, having realised in some measure the un-
pleasant position of a prisoner with his life or liberty
at peril. If other jurymen could go through a
similar course of training, perhaps they would be a
little more careful in the preparation of their

( From the Anglo-American Times.)

We have long suspected it, but now we know
that the Philadelphia correspondent of the Times is a
prophet. It is true that be has not been fortunate when
he based his calculation of coming events on careful sur-
veys, therefore he has dropped that, and adopted the style
of the inspired men of old, who spoke of things still in the
future as past. This may deceive the readers of the Times
unless explained, and therefore we desire to observe, that
the election in lowa does not occur till the 3d November,
though the correspondent, on the 16th October, said
"that the election in lowa had, as usual, gone Republican,
and that the party had lost none of its candidates there."
It is a pity, when in this prophetic trance, that he did not
write more fully, as many of the candidates would,
above all things, have desired to know the particulars.
In prophesying in the Times, where n aurally we would
look for a prophet, he ought to handle subjects of inte-
rest to its readers. Had he told thvin the result of the
elections now abiut to take place in Scotland, Ireland,
Yorkshire, or Lomb!), he would have removed from the
minds of many a load of anxiety, but few have cared what
was going to occur in Iowa; while published in America,
it would have been of the greatest interest, and thus this
prophet wastes his gifts. It may be, however, that he
well knows a prophet has no honour in his own country,
and he prefers seeking it here, where he might have a
chance, if it were not for the cable.

The officers of the Easthampton (Massachusetts)
Farmers' Club for the ensuing year are—President, Ansel
B. Lyman; Secretary and Treasurer, Watson li. Wright.
Harding G. Woodard, of Greenfield, who killed
Walter G. Coombs by a blow from a whip stock, ha 3
been held to bail in the sum of $lO,OOO, which was readily
obtained, several citizens volunteering to act in that
capacity.

The death is recorded of Francis De Witt, who
was a native of South Hadley, and lived for more than 20
years in Ware. Ile was a member of the State Senate
from Hampshire county for tw•o years, and was Secretary
of State in 1836-513, preceding lir. Oliver Warnor, the pre-
sent Secretary, in that office.

The veteran coaductor, James Parker, who for
29 years has had &large of the morning and evJuiug ac-
commodation train between Springfield and Worcester,
Massachusetts, has finished his course, and will aeon
enter on the less active duties of a new office, the super-
intendency of sleeping cars, established on aceouLt of tho
increasing business of the Boston and Albany Railroad. It
is calculated that since Oct. 4, 1839, he has travelled
1,500,000 miles.

Marshall Field, head of the great Chicago dry
goods hcuse of Field, Leiter, and Co., whose sales for 1668
will reach 510,000,000, was born in Conway in 1835, and
began business in Chicago in 1856.
The bodies of the five men who were burned in
the central shaft of the Hoosac tunnel, last October, were
recovered, Thursday, Oct. 15, placed in coffins, and taken
to North Adams.

Joshua P. Blanchard, a well known contributor
to the religious press, and for many years an active officer
of the American Peace Society, recently died in Boston at
the age of eighty-six years. Thirty years ago he was a
book-keeper in the Eagle Bank.

Brigham Young's newspaper divides its editorials
between efforts to establish the purity of Mormonism and
to hurry up the grading of the Pacific Railroad. Brig-
ham Young has thirty-five marriageable daughters to dis-
pose of, the sooner mankind aro hurried up the hotter for
the girls. _ _

By the wreck of the schooner Dashing Wave,
near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Monday morning,
Oct. 12, Captain Ezra Hall of Camden, E. B. Crockett of
Searsport, and a man named Ellis of Camden lost their
lives.

Mr. Pu Pont, elected in 1859 Chief Justice of
Florida, and reappointed by the Governor in 1863, and
ought to be Chief Justice till 1872, has informed the people
of Florida that he considers himself not dead, but sleep-
lag. He says :—" Circumstanced, however, as I am, de-
prived of the aid of the Executive to sustain the Judi-
cial Department in the exercise of its legitimate func-
tions, and opposed to the entire legislative and mili-
tary authority of the United States, 1 have no other
alternative than to announce to you a suspension of
the exercise of the functions of my office as Chief Jus-
tice until such time as the same may be resumed
without endangering the peace and good order of so-
ciety." After giving much good advice to the citi-
zens as to their behaviour towards settlers from the East,
North, or West, he tells them to set their faces as a flint
against the unwelcome intruders, who are the instruments
of an infamous and heartless tyranny, while they extend
the right hand of fellowship either to those who come for
reereation or to establish themselves iu Florida as citizens.

Herr Von Grabow, of New York, has been ap-
pointed to the post of Consul-General of the North Ger-
man Confederation at Caracas, the capital of Venezuela.

Senator Conness, of California, arrived in Spring-
field, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, the 13th Oct., and left
on the 15th. He was.a guest at the Massitsoit, at G. H.
Harrison's and at Rufus Elmer's. At the residence of the
latter he was serenaded in the evening by the armoury band
attended a crow of armourers and other citizens, to whom
he made a speech on the eight-hour law, assuring them
that if the administrators:of the law refused to allow for
eight hours' work a full day's pay, Congress would cor-
rect the mistake. When called on afterward by the ward
seven Grant Club, with their glee club, he spoke cheering
words on the present aspect of the campaign, acid said the
recent elections insured Grant's success.

The Lighthouse Board has given notice that the
Granite Bay Beacon heretofore marking the shoals ex-
tending from Canonicus Point in Providence River, Rhode
Island, has been prepared for illuminating apparatus, from
which a fixed white light will be exhibited for the first
time on November 5. The light will be visible in clear
weather at a distance of about 11 nautical miles. A fog
bell is attached to this station which will be rung during
thick weather. The light at Nayal Point, immediately
opposite, will bo discontinued from the sth of November.
The annivcvary of the discovery of America was
celebrated on Monday, October, 12, iu Boston, by tlth Ita-
lian Mutual Relief Society, that people holding proudly to
the fact that Columbus was born in Genoa. A procession
of about 150 Italians paraded the stree's, and iu the even-
ing addresses by distinguished Italians were made iu Mer-
cantile Hall, the State and city Governments biing in at-
tendanco by invitation. There are 2,000 Italian residents
in Boston, and the president of the above-named Fatriotic
society is Signor G. M. Fiuotte. This account does not
bear out the statement in a letter to the limes that the
number of Italians in America, could bo counted on the '
fingers.

The Public Ledger says :—Mr. Burlingame, ac-
cording to despatches received by the Atlantic Cable, will
succeed in carrying out the obi-cts of his mission. ills
personal intercourse with the prominent men in London
appears to have effected a favourable impression, and the
attacks in the English newspapers upon the treaty nego-

tiated with Mr. Seward, and upon the objects of the mit
sion, have ceased to appear. Despatches received in Lon-
don from all parts of Europe show that the Continental
nations are favourably disposed towards Mr. Burlingame'
and that he and his associates will ba cordially welcomed
at the different Courts.

The Westfield (Massachusett) Athermum Asso-
ciation has raised $7,000 of the proposed library fund of
$lO,OOO. Stitnpson and Co., the well known manuftw
turers of piano legs in that place, have presented the asso-
ciation with a piano valued at $BOO.
Grace Church (Episcopal), at New Bedford,
lately abolished the pew rent system, and the amount
subscribed for expenses already exceeds what has ever
been raised from pew rents: It would be well that such
an example could be followed.

Four more German prelates and professors hare
been summoned by the Popo to assist in th u preliruingl
preparations for the (Ecumenical Council, viz. —Monfatl4,
from Mayence; Dieringer, from Bonn ; Giese, of Munster;
and Ilefele, of Tubingen. No wonder that the prevalence
of German dignitaries and their influence are already b°-
ginning to form the subject of complaints in certain pat'
cal and ecclesiastical quarters.
_ _

Considerable excitement has been caused in Eng"
land by the rumour that there will bo no race for the
Derby in 1869 or 1870. A portion of tho course at Epson,
has, it is stated, passed into the hands of a gentleman oil
refuses to let it to the committee of management. Should
no arrangement be come to, entries for the Derby in th°
next and following year will have to be cancelled, 881
according to the conditions of entry, the race cannot he
run elsewhere.

A. D. Briggs and Co., the bridge builders, of
Springfield, Massachusetts, have just made two importan
ti
contracts. One is to construct the bridge for the Slier°
Line Railroad over tho Connecticut river near its mouth,
which is to be 1,200 feet long ; to consist of six spans
of the Howe truss bridge, 165 feet each, and an iron
draw of two 275 feet long ; with piers after a ne‘g,
invention, made up of piles encased with drums c):
iron, and filled with concrete ; to be finished next
June, and to cost about $200,000. The Hartford people
are fighting the enterprise in the courts, and the case l°
to be heard first ou their claim for, an injunction in the
United States Court in November; but not much delay le
expected in building the bridge from this movement. The
other contract is for an iron bridge 50 feet long and oU
feet wide over the Harlem and New Haven Railroad
track near West Farms in Westchester county, New Yori,:,
and forming part of a grand southern boulevard that is to
sweep around on the high laud of the Sound shore from
the Harlem River to Jerome Park, and be occupied by flu°
suburban residences.

The six prizes offered last term to the members
of the junior class in Yale college have been awarded 0
Edward P. Clark of West Springfield ; Dwight W.Larnea
of Plymouth, Ct.; Charles E. Shepard of Dansville, N. Ir'i
Edwin R. Stearns of Wyoming, 0.; Charles H. Strong' °I
New Orleans, La. ; and Thomas J. Tilney of Brooklyn,
N. Y. Yale college has 118 seniors, 114 juniors, 113 soPh°-
mores, and 170 freshmen, with a prospect of 10 110r0
when all the conditional men are admitted. The theolo'
gical department of the seminary numbers 25 studentB,
the law 15, the medical 20, and the scientific 130; total,
676 students, with 51 instructors.