The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-06 00:00:00

A JUST APPEAL.

The miscreants who blew down the walls of Clerken-
well Prison could hardly in their fury have contem-
plated the amount of suffering they would came.
Loss of life, of health, of subsistence followed, and
the day may be far distant when there will be none
left who have directly or indirectly suffered by their
deed. A correspondent of the Star tells a melancholy
tale of a poor man who lost his sight by the
explosion, and who seems to have bid farewell
at once to the light of day and to everything
that makes life happy or even tolerable. He
was rendered unfit for work, and, being unable to
support his wife, she deserted him, taking with her his
only child. He was then obliged to ask someone to
lead him round to his poor aged mother, who gets a
scanty living by charring. They have since been
struggling on on the smallest pittance, the parish
having refused to allow him anything unless he will go
into thehouse. He is very desirous of doing something
for a livelihood, and for a few pounds he could buy a few
articles to dispose of at a profit, as he is well known
in the trade. The appeal will hardly be in vain ; at
the same time those wretches who so strangely
escaped the vigilance of the law may see a specimen
of the results of their heroic deed.

MAD DOCTORS' THEORIES.

A member of the United Service Institution, one
Fairfield, has been convicted at the Middlesex
Sessions on a charge of stealing several hundred coins
from that institution. The robbery appeared to have
been a very artful one, and conducted with an ability
which would have done credit to many a profes-
sional rogue. But, as is usual in these cases, the
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the law now stands, Dr.
Forbes Winslow is altogether out of court. He may
bring his crotchets before the notice of Parliament,
but when they were stated to the House on one occa-
sion by an honourable member they were received
with loud laughter.
THE "COUNTESS OP DERWENTWATER."

at last been taken, and
"Catuntess of Derwentwater,"
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should trespasser
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on the Queen's high-
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there so long, snapping her fingers at the authorities
and playing with her sword when the policeman
appeared, t e
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countess can understand. Of her
claims
we cannot judge, seeing that
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the very papers whch she says would prove it
have never been produced. But the story
eeoure thanss we
is a string of improbabilities. It commenced with
the contradiction of a commonly-received tradition,
to say the least—the death of the real Count before
marriage—and it ends with an absurdity, that Lord
Palmerston stole her papers. It sets aside also a
settlement which was come to with the supposed
representatives of her family, on the part of the
Government, and ignores the confiscation which pre-
ceded that settlement. But still, that the case may
be settled, we are glad that it is not to rest on the
decision of the magistrates, but that it is to be carried
to a higher court.