The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-15 00:00:00

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DM -PARIS.

( FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.:
PARIS, FRIDAY, Feb. 14.
With respect to the inauguration of a responsible Minis-
try in France, the official papers make no sign. La France
understands that there is something of great importance
in the air ; but the Imperial Government does not move
per saltunz, and, in my opinion, no such great leap in
obscuro is likely to be taken until the time, which may
come, when the departmental elections go against the
Government or threaten to do so. Referring to this rumour
the Temps says :—" Several journals imagine themselves
entitled to hope that this great reform is near at hand ;
if it be so, we have no need to say how it will be
welcomed by liberal France." Meanwhile the current of
rumour to-day flows in a fresh direction. Immense efforts
are now, it is sail, being made to induce the Emperor to
postpone the law on the right of meeting, and to have the
next CICCL.,-,113 fe before the Army Law and the new
Press Law have put weapons into the hands of the Oppo-
sition, which they would be able to use with good effect in
the coming contest.

A short but expressive petition is being signed in the
suburbs of Paris. It sets forth that "there is no political
reason why they should he deprived of the right assured
by law to all the communes of France, of electing their
municipal councils; and demands to be replaced in that
matter in the conditions of common right."
The Polish refugees are going to celebrate the 20th
February with great solemnity. It is the centenary of
the foundation of the Confederation of Bar, at which the
renowned Kosciusko presided, and enunciated the liberal
and patriotic ideas associated with his name.

The Court of the Queen of Spain has been scandalised
by a letter published in the Independance. The corre•
spondence in question announced the appearance of a
brochure in Madrid reflecting on Queen Isabella. The
Ind ependance now announces that in publishing this letter
it by no means appropriated the calumnious imputations,
nor wished to convey as its own anything disrespectful to
her Majesty.

It is a long time since death wrought so busily amongst
our carans. During 1867 the Academy lost eight
members, and already this year it has lost three more—
Serres, Brewster, and Foucault. There are several places
still vacant, and among them are those of Faraday and
Brewster. Following the common bent of Gallic genius,
some of our Crudits have discovered that Brewster was not
the first in ventor of the kaleidoscope. Porta, they say,
described it in 1565. Whether that be true or not, we cer•
tainly owe it to Brewster, and it is much more likely that
it was an original discovery with him than that he found
it in musty records 250 years old.

It was always understood that the loan of M. Magne
was not all that was required. It is stated by a Havre
journal that the Minister of War asked for 40 millions
more than the Minister of Finance. Another loan is only
a matter of time.

The Avenir National and the Liberte touch on the
Alabama difficulty. The former remarks that a bad h:
policy is sure to be punished sooner or later, and
considers it more good luck than good manage-
ment that France is not involved in a dispute with
the United States on similar grounds. The Avenir
admits that the gravity of the .situation has been
exaggerated. Thanks to the play of free institutions, the
all-powerful voice of the people will be heard above the
turf. ulent clamour of Washington politicians. If Presi-
dent Johnson wishes to play the role of Jackson, he will
have behind him neither the country nor its representa-
tives. 'lle LibcrM attaches importance to the former
hostility to England which made Mr. Johnson a sort of
Marquis de Boissy in the States. It ignores, however,
that since his installation as President he has received the
moral support of England to a large extent.
It is reported here that both the submarine cablesbetween
Boulogne and Folkestone and between Dover and Calais
arc broken. It is surmised that they have been lifted by
the anchors of vessels driven in the late storm. Measures
are being taken to snake the repairs. At present all the
telegrams come by the cable to Dieppe.
According to the Courrier des Etats Unis the French
Government have a colonial difficulty. A sect of fire-
raisers has sprung up in the Island. of Guadeloupe, and
they are producing immense disasters day after day. The
sect is composed of blacks, some of whom have been
arrested and put to death.
The craft of Paris thieves has often been noticed. A
few days ago a gentleman received three tickets for the
opera. They were sent anonymously. An attractive
piece was on the boards, so his wife and niece accompanied
him. On returning at one a.m. he discovered that the
favour of free tickets was due to chevaliers d'industrie—
sharpers, who, in his absence, had recouped themselves
by removing 1,500 f. from his desk.
The Assize Court of La Corse has just sentenced to hard
labour for life a woman named Castola, convicted of burn-
ing a rival to death. The victim of the outrage was the
wife of a man named Antona, and the perpetrator was his
mistress. The accused pretended that the unhappy wifo
had fallen into the fire in one of the epileptic fits to which
she was subject ; but there was evidence to chew that the
defence was false.

The French Minister of the Interior, M. Pinned, has
made a curious blunder in speaking on the Press Law.
Combating an amendment in favour of trial by jury, he
referred to the law of 1810 as an involuntary concession on
the part of the then Keeper of the Seals, M. de Serre. It
so happens that M. de Serre was one of the most liberal
men of that epoch ; that he proposed the law, and sup-
ported it by an eloquent speech. After this, M. Pinard,
on the principle reniam damus petimusque, will surely
be merciful with the press for their more venial blunders.

The King o! Prussia has taken to chiding the leading
members of the Conservative party who opposed Count
Bismarck in the matter of the Hungarian Provincial
Fund. He has given them to understand that he identifies
himself thoroughly with his Ministers, and cannot con•
skier himself at all apart from the Cabinet. The old
feudalists look upon universal suffrage and concession in the
diroction of self-government as encroachments on the
sacred principle of absolutism. M. Bismarck has there-
fore to educate his party, and the King is assisting the
master.

Telegrams in the continental papers state that the Pon.
G ~vernm en t have taken stringent precautions against
any revolutionary movement on the frontiers.

The agency known as the North Eastern Correspon
dence sends a telegram to the Paris papers, stating
that a vast conspiracy has just been discovered in
Bulgaria. In Servia the national element goes on ferment-
ing. The ViCovan, the organ of the Government, says, in
reply to the Great Powers : " We have to choose between
liberty without peace, or peace without liberty. How can
people whose national existence is not assured seal their
impotency by maintaining peace ?"

The conflagration at Paris, by which the printing works
of M. Abbti Migne, famous for the production of religious
works, were destroyed, has thrown 400 persons out of
employment. The damage is estimated at 4,000,000 f.

The Anglo-American Times says there is no disguising
the fact that public opinion in the United States is under-
going a change on the question of redeeming the National
Bonds in greenbacks. Were it not for the barometer
which the gold-room keeps before the eyes of the people,
the inducements to stray into a fools' paradise would be
greater than they now are. Money is plentiful at the
chief American markets, but gold steadily rises. The true
policy, says the Anglo-American, is to fund the national
debt in interminable gold-bearing bonds, and thus settle a
question which has done so much during the last few
months to injure the credit of the United States.
The Anglo-American is severe upon the Standard for its
sensational American intelligence. It observes that the
man represented as preparing an Alabama ultimatum
cordially received Mr. Thornton ; gold showed a tendency
to fall ; Congress was ordering the sale of surplus iron-
dads and the reduction of military expenditure ; in a
word, there was not the slightest sign on the part of the
nation of the sanguinary intentions attributed to the
President. Apropos of the arrival of Mr. Thornton, it is
curious that the first person he encountered when he
mounted the gang-plank was a full-blooded, athletic
Fenian, who offered to carry his trunk.

The trades unionists having arranged their points of
discussion with Mr. Gladstone, the interview is to take
place on the afternoon of Tuesday next, at the town
residence of the right hon. gentleman in Carlton-house-
terrace. There are to be no set speeches, and, for the sake
of information on both sides, the conference is to be of a
colloquial nature.

Mr. Ernest Jones has been lecturing at Glasgow on
" The Hereditary Land Caste "—the means by which the
aristocracy obtained the land, and the effect of their
monopoly. According to the Scoesnut, he drew a fright-
ful picture of the " crimes" by which the British aris-
tocracy had obtained their possessions, and declared that,
while the nobility of other lands had redeeming quali-
fications, "it was reserved for British aristocracy to
combine the crimes of all the others without one
of their redeeming acts." He charged the 30,000
landed proprietors with the destruction of British agricul-
ture, with ruining the foreign commerce of the kingdom,
with destroying the home trade of the country, and with
creating a continually growing weight of pauperism. In
short, there was no more useless, more mischievous thing
than hereditary aristocrats—" they owe an apology to
mankind for being in existence." Mr. Jones, therefore,
called on his hearers tp join the nr. and ¢rcat Cruriplde.for
c0de.4.014:5.c4 of the Igo;

FE

?PON.;

The annual meeting of the subscritiers to the London
Fever Hospital has been held at the Freemasons' Hall,
Great Queen-street, under the presidency of the Earl of
Devon, the President of the Poor-law Board. Dr.
Buchanan presented the report of the physicians, and this
pointed out that during the last six years, of all the hos-
pitals in England, this one had received the largest number
of medical cases within its wards, and that whereas
the patients of other institutions were generally the
only persons benefited by the hospital treatment, this
hospital benefited in no small degree those from
among whom the patients were taken, so that the
institution was entitled to the very first rank for usefulness
among the great charities of the country. From 18d1, at
the end of which year the present epidemic of typhus
began, the total admissions to the hospital had been more
than half the numbers admitted since the foundation in

1801, sixty years before, 32,250 having been received
during the longer period, while in the six years named
ar many as 18,152 persons had had the benefit of the
charity extended to them. It was satisfactory to the
physicians to report that there were signs of abate-
ment in the epidemic which has so ravaged the metro-
polis, as the number admitted last year was smaller
than in the three preceding years. Fewer typhus cases
were admitted in 1867 from the great divisions of London,
with the exception of the Eastern, where the " fever had
doubtless been maintained by the operation of one of its
chief causes—destitution." It was observed that, as
usual, typhus was almost exclusively a disease of pauperism.
Several of the attendants had been seized by the fever, and
four had died. Added to the report were several valuable
tables and notes by Mr. Hugh Owen, the hon. secretary,
who classified the patients received into the hospital as
members of private families, clerks and other inmates of
houses of business, domestic servants, working men and
members of their families ; and, lastly, the pauper poor.
The first three classes paid a fee of a guinea on admission,
the fourth were generally admitted free, while for
those sent to the hospital by the parish authorities only
a shilling a day was paid until recently. The latter class
had been greatly increasing, owing to the enlightened
view of parochial authorities as to their duty to the fever-
stricken poor, they being now sent to the hospital
instead of being treated in their crowded homes ;
but the payment received was considerably less than
half the cost of the patients to the hospital. As the new
Act will entail the necessity upon the guardians of
erecting asylums, this class of patients will in time cease ;
but Mr. Owen considered that there would be a great
increase of other classes of patients who did not at present
avail themselves of the hospital. It was stated that the
donations to the hospital fell off to the extent of £2,000,
through the eroneous idea that the new Act would relieve
the hospital ; the fact being that it has and will have the
very same course of working for some time that it has
hitherto pursued.

Some importance is attached to Lord Arthur Clinton's
Irish resolutions, and it is stated that an active whip on
each side has already begun.

The John Bull furnishes some items of news with respect
to the contest for the vacant seat at the Cambridge Uni-
versity. The canvassing is being carried on with much
spirit. Mr. Cleasby is very strong among the lawyers
%nd among the residents, but among the country
:tlergy and landed gentry Mr. Beresford Hope has
a very large majority. Harrow comes out strong in
bis support, while Eton inclines to Mr. Cleasby.
Of M.P.'s, the latter gentleman's committee muster three
Subordinate members of the administration (the Solicitor-
General, Viscount Royston, and Lord R. Montagu), Mr.
G. Cubitt, the Hon. R. Dutton, Mr. F. S. Powell, Mr. R.
Benyon, Mr. Baggallay, Sir J. Neeld, Mr. B. Woodd, and
Mr. G. E. Bentinck ; the Right Hon. Sir E. V. Williams,
Mr. Loftus Wigram, Mr. Forsyth, the Dean of Ripon, the
Archdeacon of Salop; Hon. Canons Gifford, Clayton, and
Hopkins; Prebendary Marshall, the Revs. Sir N. Chinnery,
T. T. Perowne, S. Gedge, and H. Twells; Mr. Beckett Deni-
son, Q.C., Mr. R. D. Baxter, the Hon. E. Ashley, and the
Astronomer Royal. An endeavour has been made at
Cambridge to represent that Mr. Beresford Hope's com-
mittee was not justified in publishing the Bishop of Lich-
field and New Zealand as vice-chairman ; but now that it
has been agreed to withdraw the names of all peers, there
can be no reason for withholding the terms of Bishop
Selwyn's letter, as it has been publicly stated that Canon
Selwyn gave his support to Mr. Cleasby because his
brother's name had been used as chairman without consent
given or leave asked. The bishop wrote :" My vote, if
I have one ; my interest, if I have any ; my name on your
committee, if it be of any use—all are at your service."
Among those who will not vote are Mr. Justice Black-
burn and Mr. Gorst, M.P.

The Conservatives of South Leicestershire have deter-
mined not to sit down quietly under their late defeat.
They have resolved to bring out Lord Curzon, the sitting
member, and Mr. Albert Pell, who was worsted by Mr.
Paget in November. Of course the recent contest can
afford no indication whatever of what may be the result of
a fight under the £l2 county franchise.

ProfesQr Newman writes to the Star on the subject of
the late election at the Oxford University of a Professor of
Political Economy. So much has been said in the columns
of our contemporary against the successful candidate, that
Mr. Newman feels bound to come forward to justify his
friend. He cordially values the talents, efficiency, and
political action of Mr. Rogers, and admits that the Oxford
residents were collectively favourable to him. This is
ostensibly verified by the fact of their having passed the
statute in December without which Mr. Rogers would not
have been eligible to take the post again. Mr. Newman
is not an M.A., and consequently could not vote. Pro-
bably, if he had been able, he would have voted for Mr.
Rogers, on account of the manner in which his (Mr.
Rogers's) opponents attempted to damage him. But
those opponents were not, contends the writer, Mr. Price's
friends ; and, looking on the question impartially, there
is reason for all to rejoice in Mr. Price's election.
Mr. Rogers, too, is much younger than Mr. Price. It is
nearly thirty-eight years since the latter took his degree,
and his non-election would have been a far harder blow
than to Mr. Rogers, who is some twenty years his junior.
As to Mr. Rogers's political opinions, though Professor
Newman has the greatest interest in them, yet it must be
admitted that Mr. Rogers does not stand alone with regard
to them.
Murphy, the Anti-Popery lecturer, has succeeded in
again creating a disturbance. This time the scene of
operations is Oldham. There was considerable skirmish-
ing on Thursday night, but no actual violence seems to
have been perpetrated.

The prosecution of Mr. Pigott, the proprietor of the
Irishman, has assumed a curious phase. On learning that
a warrant from the bench was necessary to compel his
appearance for trial, he left the Dublin Commission Court,
and the police have since been unable to execute the
warrant.

The intended retirement of Sir Richard Mayne from the
Chief Commissionership of the Metrqpolitan Police, which
has been frequently hinted at, is now contradicted by
authority.

The Sheffield Filesmiths' Union have made overtures to
the Manufacturers' Association for the establishment of a
court of arbitration, and it is believed that such a board
will speedily be established in that town.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. —We understand that the
arrangements with regard to the new class of Foreign
Royal Academicians are practically complete, although no
Immediate elections will take place, or until the new build-
ings for the Academy in Burlington Gardens are ready for
the reception of pictures. This delay is a necessity, as the
now class of members will receive privileges in respect to
exhibiting their works at the Royal Academy which are
like those already possessed by the members. There is to
be no limit set to the extending of the numbers of the
foreign academicians from a minimum of five. Nomina-
tions for elections are to come from the council, not from
individual members, although, we suppose, the latter may
urge to the former the claims of distinguished men to
the honour.—Athenaeum.

M orton.

A " BABY FARMER."—An adjourned inquest
has been held at Pontesbury, Shropshire, upon the body
of Edward Lee, a child three months old, the illegitimate
son of Elizabeth Lee, a domestic servant residing at Stoney
Stretton. From the evidence of several witnesses it ap-
peared that on the 16th of December a woman named
Many Anne Taylor, the wife of a labourer, undertook to
nurse the deceased on consideration of the sum of 2s. to
be paid weekly, and that when the child was given into
her charge it was in a healthy state. On the 31st of De-
cember the mistress of Elizabeth Lee visited the child,
and found it to have undergone a great change, being then
remarkably thin and sickly in appearance. It was, never-
theless, permitted to remain with Mrs. Taylor till last
week, when it died. The doctor who made a post-mortem
examination of the body stated that it was a well-grown
child for its age, but extremely emaciated, weighing not
quite Slb. There were marks about the arms, legs, and
feet, as if dirt had been allowed to accumulate upon the
person of the child. Upon opening the body and ex-
amining the stomach he found it to contain a dessert
spoonful of food. From the state of the lungs he was of
opinion that the immediate cause of death was inflamma-
tion of the lungs, greatly accelerated by want of proper
food and nourishment. The jury returned the following
verdict :--" We are of opinion that Mary Ann Taylor is
Guilty of ill-treatment and general neglect of the person
of Edward Lee, and that from such ill-treatment and
neglect he died." The coroner said that such a finding
a mounted to a verdict of manslaughter, and Mrs. Taylor
vas accordingly committed for trial at Shrewsbury Assizes,
ai being accepted for 49; ap'pearanco, •

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. 14.

Her Majesty went out this morning, accompanied
by Princess Beatrice, and attended by the
Duchess of Athole.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
drove out yesterday, attended by the Countess of

The Prince of Wales hunted with his harriers
near Slough yesterday.
ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.—His Royal Highness
the Princo of Wales (accompanied by Colonel Koppel and
Lord Methuen) honoured this theatre with his presence
last evening.

THE EARL OF DERBT.—We learn by telegraph
from Liverpool that the Earl of Derby was much pros-
trated yesterday, and was unable to leave his bed. He is
not suffering so much from pain as from tho extreme
weakness which has succeeded his recent severe attack of
gout. It is not expected that he will be able to be in Lon-

don for about ten days or a fortnight. Drs. Bickersteth
and Gorst are constant in their attendance.—Morning
Post.

LATEST INTELL MENGE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SPAIN.
MADRID, Feb. 14 (Evening).

It is reported that Senor Bravo Murillo will be
appointed Governor of the Bank, and Senor Sal-
verria Vice-Governor.

It is considered that the triumph of the insurrecA
ion in Peru will be favourable to peace with Spain.

THE WAR IN THE BRAZILS.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 23.

Advices from Paraguay:statethat:no fighting had
taken place since the departure of the last mail.
President Lopez was:fortifying his position and
making a road in the Chaco.
The Marquis de Caxias was inactive.
Sickness prevailed in the army and fleet.
Some anxiety was beginning to be felt in Rio as
to the result of the war, there appearing to be no
hope of an immediate termination.
The cholera was still very bad at Buenos Ayres,
and had spread to all parts of La Plata. Business
was completely paralysed at Buenos Ayres.
The revolution in the province of Santa Fe was
very serious.

Eichange is very dull, the banks not being in-
clined to draw at 171. Sovereigns are quoted -14
mils 200 reis. Gold 50 per cent. premium. Coffee
higher : good first 6,900 to 7,200 reis for superior
luality. Flour firm.

HUN GARY.

PESTII, Feb. 14 (Evening).

The trial of M. Bocszoernienyi, for publishing in
his newspaper the revolutionary manifesto of Kos-
suth, has been definitively fixed to take place on
the 27th inst.