The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-16 00:00:00

TILE LATEST SCAN:UL.

-The public, whose craving for scandal and sensa-
tion is insatiable, are so very accommodating as to
keep up a perennial supply which the press has only
to cook and garnish. Otherwise, what would be-
come of the great dailies and the catch-penny
process by which they keep up their great
machinery and pour over the country their long
columns of type. Now the scene is in a
police court, then in that of the Queen's Bench.
In the one the actor may be a Madame Rachel, in
the nther the Lord Chief Justice of England. From
Belgrave-square there is a delightful elopement—in
Clerken well a diabolical explosion—under an office
floor is discovered a trunk full of human bones--but
the horrified gazers are almost immediately in full
pursuit of the missing Spoke. Yet, constant as is
the supply within the area of a few miles of St.
Paul's, the emissaries of the Press are abroad over
the world in search of interesting items. Sir
WTi ham Mansfield, from India, furnishes a Pickle
Case =Mr. Eyre, from Jamaica, a triangle, and " a
cat," tipped with piano Wire. Andrew Johnson
keeps America alive with an excitement which finds
an echo in London, during his trial, " as the greatest
criminal of the age," while King Theodore belies
conjecture, blowing out his own, and not his pri-
soners', brains. The sensational items of the week
at least to the date at which we write are the
" slang wanging" between the highest judges of
the second highest court of the realm anent Mr.
Justice Blackburn's charge to the grand jury in the
Eyre case, and the charge against Madame Rachel,
involving as a side issue an accusation against that
pride of the British peerage, Lord Ranelagh. A
scandal to be perfect in England must Involve—
however unjustly—the name of a lord, and happily
in this instance the British snob is not disappointed.
Mrs. Mary Tucker Borradaile, described by a re-
porter as a lady fifty years of age, wearing a quan-
tity of reddish hair curled over her forehead, alleges
that she has been stripped of every shilling she
had,. amounting to £4,000, in her matrimonial
pursuit of his lordship., Madame Rachel being
the deOgner and the instrument in• the scheme.
The evidence of the plaintiff is something too
good to be. silently passed. Considering that she is
a woman of some half-century's experience, that
she is a widow, and has therefore been initiated
into all the delights of matrimony; had she herself
not given the evidence it could scarcely be credited.
Of course she visited Madame Rachel to be male
" beautiful for ever ;" of course this result was to
end in a grand matrimonial alliance ; and of course
such advantages were only to be purchased by hard
coin. A heavy sum was required for being made
" beautiful fur ever," and a still heavier for the
advantageous matrimonial alliance. One of the
ceremonies preparatory to both events -was the
bath, in a room where crevices afforded a view of
the beauties it was Madame Rachel's business to
put a new polish upon. Then Madame Rachel
is alleged to have told the widow that the
noble lord was ravished by the appearance she
put in through the crevices. An interval fol-
lowed, and the. person representing Lox d Ranelagh,
who by the same token must have been one
.of no
ordinary beauty if at all like, kept up a Passionate
correspondence, evidently excited by the bath scene.
Of course love and mammon were mixed in " Wil-
liam's" effusions, and the lady first paid £l,OOO to
Madame Rachel, then £1,400 said by Madame
Rachel to be needed by Lord Ranelagh for Volun-
teering purposes, small sums being thrown in here ,

and there as demanded, together with larger sum
for diamonds arid trousseau. When the fountain
of the dupe began to fail, and she urged Madame
Rachel, to wliom her trousseau had been sent, for
her money or her clothes, Madame Rachel told her
to go and ask ber dear William for them, and then
by degrees the lady of mature age, whose glass
might have told her how completely she bad
been swindled in the first condition, and that
on which the other was supposed to binge,
became aware that she was the victim of a
conspiracy. The most " plucky " proceeding
the ambitious widow, who thus recklessly rushed
into the matrimonial market with Madame Rachel
as a guide, was in bringing the case before the
public. Whether her story be- true or not it re-
quired an extraordinary degree of moral courage to
face the position in which she voluntarily placed
herself. If the can establish the case she will cer-
tainly do good, for one of the safe-guards of the
schemers who thus plunder is, that the victims so
dread publicity that they submit to the robbery
rather than become the laughing-stock of the public.
Of course Lori Ranelagh, who was present at the
investigation, solemnly deuie.l all knowledge of the
letters or of Mrs. B:riTodaile, whom he had never
seen till about two months ago, when he had met
her at the solicitor's office, while the transactions, of
which she was the dupe, began about two years ago.
The magistrate demanded twO good bail of /1,000
each, and remanded the else. This investigation
is of unusual importance, or we would not, as it
has still to be tried, now allude to h, nor, indeed,'
at any other time. It involves either the punish-
ment due to a gross and systematic swindle, or to
a vile attempt to entangle people in a discreditable
proceeding ; such, for instance, as Lord Ranelagh,
who solemnly affirms his total ignorance of the
transaction. The public are indebted to Mrs. Borra-
daile, however the case may go, for giving the law
an opportunity of making an example of a detest-
able'criminal, for a crime is involved of which some
person must be guilty, and it will be the magistrate's
business to,discover who the person is. Recently a
woman. had the courage to brave public ridicule,
in exposing what the judges pronounced to be a
gross imposition ; and if every one acted as Mrs.
Lyon did in the Spiritualist case, there would be
fewer victims, for the profession of victimizing would
become too dangerous to suit the book of many
male or-female rascals.—.4nylo -American limes.

THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNITED

SLITES.

Mr. U‘CULLOCH has published his Statement of
the Public Debt of the United States to the Ist of,
June, and the figures, as usual, have been for-
warded to England in roan d numbers. The total Debt
was then $2,643,500,000, against $2,639,500,000 on
the Ist May, being an increase of $4,000,000. The
cash in the Treasury had decreased by a larger
sum, being $133,500,000, against $139,000,000 on
the Ist May, which shows a loss of $5,500,0001
making a total against the nation of $9,500,000.
The Statement of Ist May, as compared with that
of Ist April, showed a total gain of $18,680,000.
Up to May, money was accumulating in the Tres'
sury for the payment of the half-yearly interest
then due on Government Bonds, amounting to over
$27,000,000 in gold, equal in . currency to
• $38,000,000. This sum has been paid, and the
consequence is an increase in the apparent in'
debtedness. The Pall-Mall Gazette seizes all or
portunities of twisting any subject it can to the'
disparagement of the United States, and tbia
loss to the Treasury affords an opportunity. Net
a word was said of the large increase of the
May, amounting to nearly double the sum repre-
sented by the loss of Ist June ; not a word was said
of the enolmaus payment of interest in the interval;
the bare fact being seized as it offers a chance of
damaging the credit of the United States. Mr•
BRIGHT is dragged in to explain away his state-
ments and predictions about the ease and rapidity
with which the Americans are to pay off their debts:
Let him, now explain to the public how much
the debt has actually been reduced since the close
of the war, and further account for the fact that an
increase of four million dollars took place in the
total amount in the month of May just past. At
the same time there was a decrease of cash iii tha
Treasury to the extent of five millions and a half."
A portion of the explanation-desired is given above,
and we may reply for Mr. Bright, who perhaps never
sees the Pall Mall Gazette, to the other question
asked. On March Ist, 1866; the debt of the United
states bad reached the sum of $2,827,868,930. The
present return thus shows a total reduotiou in two
yearn and g quarter of $188,369,000, or little short
of 30 millions sterling—the decrease being at the rate
of fully £12,000,00 annually—and this is in the
face of one of the most disastrous commercial years
ever known in the United States. The revenue for
the year will certainly be over $400,000,000, and le
likely to reach $450,000,000; which will leave 3
good surplus. The receipts from the income tag
and the duties on imports are greater than contem-
plated in the original estimates. Both mainly de'
pend on the state of business, which is now rapidly
reviving throughout the Union. The revenue feels
the effects of prosperity much more speedily than that
of England, because every American is more or
less connected with business. The surprising fact
is that the cmintry should have passed through its
period of depression following on the total derange'
ment clued by the great war with so little dis-
aster. It is the only nation in the world that could
thus have passed through the ordeal ; and there was
not a financier of Europe who three years ago believed
it to be possible even iu America. There is some'
thing absurd in the fact that the financial smash a°
long predicted as likely to follow on the close of the
war in the Unite States should have really taken
place in England. We believe that Mr. BRrala
will soon be justified by the event in asking Eng-
lishmen to admire the ease and rapidity with which
Americans pay their debts. There is certainly 00
moral to be drawn from the latest monthly state-
ment injurious to the United States, as insinuated
in the Pall Mall. As we can scarcely believe that
the writer who penned the " Occasional Note" was
ignorant of the facts, we are compelled to
think that he must have intended to pervert
their meaning. Let our readers glance at the
money article of the Springfield Republican (to be
found to-day in our columns), intended solely for
circulation in the richest States of the Union among
well-informed Americans, and not " cooked" Of
Europeans, and they will see what opinion is hela,
in the United States of the value of the National
Bonds.

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