The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-13 00:00:00

NECESSITY 0.

PROSECUTOR.

At the sitting of the Central Criminal Court, on Satur-
day, before the Right Hon. the Recorder, the jury handed
his lordship the following paper, which they had duly
signed :—" We, the undermentioned jurors, serving at the
Central Criminal Court, beg to recommend to your lord-
ship's especial consideration as the result of our practical
experience in the discharge of our duties, the institution of
a public prosecutor, it being our opinion that important
cases for the Crown would by this means be more carefully
prepared, that the ends of justice would be more fully and
satisfactorily met, and that eminent counsel into whose
hands the depositions only are placed at a moment's notice
would thereby be relieved of the anxiety and great respon-
sibility imposed upon them from the want of proper oppor-
tunity to study the all-important interests committed to
their charge."

The learned Recorder said that the paper should be
sent to the proper authorities.
The Solicitors' Journal of Saturday contained an article
dealing with this question, and strongly advocating the
appointment of a public prosecutor.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND.

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It has been decided that, owing to the limited time at
the disposal of his Royal Highness, it will be impossible for
him to receive in person all the addresses which it has been
pyrposed to present to him ; and the only exception that
has been made is in the case of the Lord Mayor and Cor-
poration of the City of Dublin.
His Royal Highness will cross from Holyhead in her
Majesty's yacht, and will be escorted to the entrance of
Kingston Harbour by the following squadron of war ships:
The Minotaur, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Warden,
C. t., Captain Goodenough ; Achilles, Captain Vansittart ;
Warrior, Captain Boys ; Defence, Captain May; Helicon,
Commander Field ; Enchantress, Staff-Commander Petty;
and the Pigeon (gunboat). The ships will anchor in
Kingstown Roads, and, weather permitting, they will
remain until his Royal Highness's re-embarkation and
departure.
The number of persons to be present at the ball to be
given by the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress on the
17th is limited to 1,000, and all the invitations have been
issued. The national ball, also to be given to the Prince
and Princess, is fixed for the 22nd, and it is expected
to be one of the most brilliant fetes ever witnessed in
Dublin.

It is reported that the Prince and Princess of Wales will
pay a second visit to Ireland in August next, and will be
present at the National Cattle Show of the Royal
Agricultural Society at Londonderry. Their Royal
Highnesseswill then be the guests of the Lord-Lieutenant
and the 111archi3ness of Abercorn, at Baron Court.

The Queen and the Royal Family will leave
Windsor Castle on Saturday next for Osborne, and re-
main there about four weeks previous to their departure
for Balmoral..—Court Journal.

A conference of Yorkshire Sunday school
teachers, representing 470 schools and upwards of 100,000
scholars, has been held at Sheffield, and papers were
read upon questions affectinv the welfare of these insti-
tutions.

It has been resolved to hold a review of the
voltutteer regiments belonging to Edinburgh and its neigh-
bourhood in the Queen's Park, on Saturday, the 4th July
next.

VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO ALDERSHOT.—Her
Majesty the Queen will, it is expected, pay a visit to
Aldershot this week. Wednesday will probably be the
day selected for the royal visit.

SION COLLEGE. —The election of a president of
Sion College, in succession to the Rev. William Rogers,
rector of Bishopsgate, will take place on Tuesday, May 12.
The election, which rests with the fellows, is absolutely
free, though the senior dean is usually elected. The senior
dean for the present year is the Rev. John Henry Coward,
M.A., of Pembroke College, Cambridge, rector of St.
Benet's, Paul's-wharf. The junior dean is the Rev. F. G.
Blomfield, rector of St. Andrew Undershaft, a son of the
late Bishop of London.

The Ncetion, can " scarcely believe that the
`responsible advisers' of her Majesty would attempt to
send the Prince of Wales, at this time, in so ostentatious a
manner to Ireland, if they had not made up their minds
to the granting of an amnesty for the political prisoners,
convicts as well as suspects." The same joirnal gives in
another column a list of the " Irish political prisoners in
the prison puns of FALgiencl," and of " those put to death
by the hands of the common hanUman." This is not the
way to obtain the bt on it craves for the persons confined in
Trek Id.

THE NATIONAL REFORM UrrioN. —On Saturday
evening a meeting of the London executive committee of
the National Reform Union was held at the London
offices, Parliament-street. Mr. Mason Jones occupied the
chair. A sub-committee was appointed to arrange for the
coming meetings to be held in the metropolis in favour of
Mr. Gladstone's resolutions about the Irish Church. These
meetings, as already announced, will take place at St.
James's Hall on Thursday evening, Earl Russell in the
chair ; at the Metropolitan Tabernacle ; and again at St.
James's Hall, on the 23rd idst.

THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. - Intelligence
comes from Farnham to the effect that the Bishop of
Winchester continues to make good progress towards
recovery. His lordship is drawn about in his garden when
the weather is warm and fine. The Bishop of Manchester
will hold confirmations for the Bishop of Winchester in
the suburban deaneries of Surrey in the first fortnight of
June. The business of the diocese is transacted by the
two archdeacons, under commission from the bishop,
Archdeacon Utterton acting in Surrey, and Archdeacon
Jacob in Hants.

A MAN CHOKED BY EATING RAW BEEF. —A
retired farmer, named Thomas Little, living at Low
Crossby, near Carlisle, has been choked by attempting to
swallow a large morsel of raw beef. It appears that the
deceased bought a piece of raw beef, and cut off two or
three lumps and put them into his mouth ; he then walked
out into the yard, and on coming back fell down and died.
A post-mortem examination chewed that the beef was
wedged in the man's throat in such a manner as to pre-
vent it from passing down the gullet. It formed a piece
three inches in length, two in width, and of considerable
thickness, and would weigh about a quarter of a pound.
THE ROYAL VISIT TO NORTH WALES.—It has
now been decided that the visit of the Prince and Princess of
Wales to one of the principal towns of North Wales shall
take place on the return of their royal highnesses from Ire-
land, en route for London. It is the desire of the High Sheriff
of Carnarvonshire, and those acting in concert with him,
that the demonstration on the occasion of the Royal visit
shall be a national one, and with this object a committee
has been formed, comprising the lord-lieutenants, the high
sheriffs, and the magistrates of the counties, and the
mayors and corporations of the towns of North Wales.
This committee will meet at Rhyl to arrange the
details of the reception, and to draw up an address
which will be presented to the Prince of Wales in the
name of the Welsh nation. All the towns and communities
being included in this address, the trouble of receiving
and replying to a series of corporate addresses will be
spared to their Royal Highnesses. Bangor was the town
first named as the place of reception, but the peculiar
claim of Carnarvon, as being the birthplace of the first
Prince of Wales, has been recognised, and, subject to the
approval of the Prince, the address of the Welsh people
will be presented to him in Carnarvon Castle.

Dn. LIVINGSTONE. The Transvaal Argos of
January last publishes the following interesting intelli•
gence on the authority of Captain J. Fenwick Wilkinson:—
" The captain informs us [that he has just arrived from
Marico, where he had seen Mr. Marthinus Swarts, an ele-
phant hunter, well known in this republic, and who had
just returned from one of his annual shooting excur-
sions in the interior, near the Zambesi. That whilst en•
gaged in hunting at a certain point above the Victoria
Falls, in the month .of July last, he had spoken to a
number of natives, who informed him that they had
acted as guides to Dr. Livingstone, whom they praised
highly, and who, they stated, had dismissed them at
the Chief Retanga, giving them at the same time
various presents. These natives had come a distance of
twenty days' journey on foot from Central Africa, to
where Mr. M. Swarts met them, viz., at some distance
above the Victoria Falls, as already stated. The doctor
was well at the time they left, and no attempt had been
made on his life ; on the contrary, he was exceedingly
popular, and was everywhere well received. From what
these guides stated to Mr. Swarts, it appears that the
doctor had explored some very large river, and was about
retracing his steps when they left him. Cepopo is the
name of a chief the other side ' of Retanga, whom they
stated the doctor had visited. We have no reason to
doubt the truth of this information ; on the contrary, we
have every reason to believe it to be correct, particularly
as the information was voluntarily given to Mr. Swarts by
the natives, who seemed to be proud of having acted as
guides to the doctor, and at the time this information was
volunteered to Mr. Swarts he was not even aware that
considerable anxiety was felt for the fate of the doctor
had he known this, be states, he would have been more
particular in his inquiries. This intelligence will, we
doubt not, be hailed with extreme satisfaction wherever if
is received,"

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 12.
The Queen drove out yesterday morning, accom-
panied by Princess Beatrice.

Her Majesty, Prince and Princess Christian,
Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold,
and Princess Beatrice attended divine service this
morning in the private chapel.
Prince and Princess Christian remained to lun-
cheon with her Majesty.