The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-02 00:00:00

He has thus cheaply boughs the honour of 'being
placed in the same category with that celebrated
clergyman who, while the Bishop of Salisbury was
charging . his clergy, called out to those who were
"on the Lord's side' to follow him out of the church.
At the same time he will be "written down an ass."
Sacrilegious acts are somewhat lightly committed
now-a-days. However objectionable the offerings of
the Brighton inhabitants may be. to their fellow men,
it should be remembered that - even the censers cf
those who rebelled against Moses were consalered
" holy" and reserved for the use of the altar, though
the rebels theniselves were
_destroyed.

THE EDMUNDS FCAI,DALf

Cur old. acquaintance Mr. Leonard Edmnnds
turns up agdn. It appears that in the case of
Edmunds v. Greenwood, which came before the
CoLvt of Common Pleas the other 'thy, the counstl lot
the .lefendant said it was a mystery how rep or'.
appeared in the papers. Mr. Edmunds eleare :Au the-
myste.ty in the -case of the- 1:nal report of -McKim
Greenwood and Ilindmarch. . Ile says : "Ilia
document bears date the Cta of July, 1805, Lnd it i 2
addressed to the Lord Chancellor. Lord Westlimy
resigned the Great Seal the following day, July 7-
For this reason, no doubt, the document in quastlyn
fell dead. It was g,t up behind my back. It "%VP
kept a profound secret. No copy was ever sent is
!ale. 1. never of it. I never had a s-aspicion
that any :-lucn ac.)cument had an existence until the
2nd of Januai.y,lK6 (more than six months and a
half after its pretended date), when I found it pub-
lislntd at length in all the London papers, and all
on the same day. Ey Mr. Greenwood's authority
the report in question was lithographed, and litho-
graphed copies were forwarded to Mr. B. Woodcroft
by Mr. Greenwood's authority. Subsequently, Lord
omilly, the Master of the Rolls, directed Mr. Wood-
croft to print the same, and the Queen's printers
printed officially, and according to order, 2...50 copies,
and transmitted the whole to Mr. Woodcroft. Mr.
Woodcroft admits that, by order of Lord Romilly,
he sent printed copies of the same to all the London
newspapers, with a letter addressed to the several
editors requesting insertion." F.
THE CHELSEA SITHGEONc

There has been a dispute about the verdict in the
case of the woman who died in the surgery of Powell
at Chelsea. The reporters first gave the verdict as
one of " wilful murder" against Powell. This was
afterwards contradicted ,by a juryman, who stated
that deceased was found to have died from natural
causes accelerated by Powell's treatment. One of
the reporters now writes that this Juryman, Mr.
Jackson, and his fellows signed their names
to the verdict of " wilful murder," and were
present while the coroner made out his warrant.
The reporters were requested to leave the court
while the jury deliberated. This reporter heard a
remark made by a juryman when the witnesses had
been bound over to appear at the Old Bailey. He
said, " Then you will persist in that nasty word F"
Murder is one of the ugliest words in the English
language, for it represents one of the ugliest deeds.
Surely it exhibits a bad state of things when jury-
men seek to bar criminal prosecutions through
fastidiousness.