The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-29 00:00:00

He has been unmercifully fleeces, but by process
of /au', and he finds he has been merely paying to
pile on his head a huge liability. flow to escape
being crushed into a Court of Bankruptcy is now Oa
poor man's difficulty, and the amount of dirt he must
eat ere he can enjoy the privilege of being let alone
in total ruin is a warning to all who know the cir-
cumstances. The injured his to appear before the
injurers to pray for time or for a mitigation of the
penalty he has incurred for his faith. "We cannot
make flesh of one and fowl of another," is the reply
of the men whose nam ,s are appended to the false
assertions and figures which beguiled, and those
who assured him that no money beyond what he
had paid would b 3 required unblushingly sly that
he had no right to in3ur a liability which he was
not prepared to liquid ste. The extraordinary
spectacle is then seen of the ro'her using the terrors
of the law against the robbe I, of solicitors threaten-
ing writs and imprisonment, of judges announcing
that a hideous swindle has been perpetrated in a
correct legal form, and therefore the duped are
liable and the beguilers justified by law. Who is

it that frames these acts of Parliament under
which with impunity an OVEREND-GURNEY, a Con-
tract Corporation, a Joint Stock Discount Swindle
ca❑ safely be perpetrated ? They arc composed
of two classes--those wholly ignorant of business to
whom the Nation alludes, and those who have
profited by the Acts they have managed to
carry through Parliament. Nobody hears of the
members being ruined, for they are either large
landed proprietors and manufacturers, or wealthy
commercial men who understand the under-current
of business, and some of whom, however they might
lead in a mania, make as much or more in the after
panic which they know how and when will super-
vene. Success is the god of an Englishman's
idolatry, and is accepted, no matter how attained,
as the proof of worth. The converse is elually
true, and failure, no matter how incurred, is dis-
grace ; therefore the duped is the culprit, and the
cheat the shining light of society so long as he can
carry on without exposure. As these atrocious joint-
stock swindles lead to no exposure so far as their
concoctors are concerned, they form the best system
of robbery yet devised, though appalling in the
amount of misery and torture incurred by the
entrapped. A ilindoo mother, by way of rebuke
to her son who recoiled from joining the Thugs to
whom he belonged by hereditary right, purchased
and choked for him a multitude of sprats which lie
finished. " Now," said she, " calculate the loss of

life that went to furnish that one meal, yet over a
single life you make this bobbery." The CREATOR haS
so framed creation that we must prey on each other,
the weaker being devoured by the stronger, anti this

ii the law of existence upon which these promoters
work. The only hope is in dissipating the ignorance
of business which has made England the happy hunt-
ing-ground of the trapper. There is no necessity

for enacting laws to aid him in his operations, but
no legislation will shield his victims if they wilfully
remain ignorant of his wiles. The only safety is
in knowledge of business, or power to apply tests
to men and things, and to analyse balance-sheets.
The basis of the information necessary is one of the
foundation-stones of Christianity—the utter wicked-
ness and depravity of human nature. Those who
hold up glittering baits areas much actuated by be-
nevolent motives as the fisherman who dances a
gaudy fly before the eyes of a salmon, and let the
fish who feel inclined to rise be wise in time and
know a bait from a feed, or they will swallow the
hook, and be played, to the delight of the angler
and to his ultimate gain, in a substantial dinner.

Wilkes' Spirit says of Daly's now piece, "A Flash of
Lightning," "that the title of the piece is derived from
the stage fact that a flash of lightning through an open
window picks up a gold chain, melts and scatters it over
the coals in a scuttle, and a young girl is suspected of the
theft. Of course she is finally proved to be innocent, after
many hair-breadth 'seal es by' flood and field."' The cast
is extremely good, with one or two outrageous exceptions,
to whom we will pay our respects in the future, as the
piece is destined to a run. Mr. Daly deserves great credit
for enterprise, untiring industry, and liberality, but we will
fancy hint more of a dramatist if he will dissolve partner-
ship with the stage carpenter. If we seem captious,
the young author will remember that eternal fault-
finding is the price of dramatic excellence, and vin
are not much given to adulation of men and things-
Fanny Motant goes to Selwyn's Theatre in Boston next
season. Wyl,l Hardinge, husband of Belle Boyd, is elocu-
lionising in California. The White Fawn is running like
a winner at Chicago, and is already in its second week,
and as crowded as on the opening night. The manage-
ment have sensibly refused to comply with the general
western desire to encore everything which strikes the fancy.
Excursion parties are now made up from the adjacent
towns to Chicago, and Messrs. Jarrett and Palmer will
reap a large interest front their costly, risky eaterprise.
Don John Wallack has dismissed the cares of business from
his mind, and with his family gone down to his charming
residence at Long Branch for the summer. Madame
Agatha States remains in New York, and is en-
gaged, wo believe, for the fall with Maretzek. Billy
Floyd is back from New Orleans. Mrs. Bowers
is taking a tour through the interior of California.
Frank Lawlor goes to Europe for a few months' recrea-
tion. Couldock and daughter are at Piper's Opera House,
Virginia amity. W. H. Hamilton, long treasurer of the
Metropolitan Theatre in San Franciser, is afflicted with
cancer of the tongue, and is about to visit Europe to con-
sult the most eminent medical authorities. James Stark
is running a Theatre Melbourne, Australia. John
Wilson, circus man, of world-wide notoriety, is back in
California. Mrs. John Wood will not come back. "Humpty
Dumpty" crowds the -New Chesnut, in Philadelphia.
"Under the Gaslight" is still drawing at the Arch. Joe
Jefferson is presenting tho old Knickerbocker Rip to the
Quakers in Philadelphia."
A city census, just completed, represents the
population of Chicago as a little over 240,009, an increase
of 40,000 since November, 1866. The women are slightly
in the majority.
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Births.
BARING —On the 26th inst., nt 1, Chester-place, Chester-
square, Mrs. Charles Baring, of a son.
FLOULKER—On the 26th inst., at 86, Sloane•street, ISO'

Edmund Floulker, of a son.
TAYLOR—On the 26th inst., at 21, Gloucester-crescent,
R3gent's-park, N.W., Mrs. Seth Taylor, of a son.
Marriages.
CLARKE —HOWLEY—On the 25th inst., at the Church Of
St. Andrew's, Westland-row, Dublin, Henry .0. Clarke,
Esq., of Ateombo Court, Gloucestershire, to Henrietta,
youngest daughter of the late Sir John Howley, lien
4i Majesty's First Serjeant in Ireland.
RUSSELL—HENRY—On the 27th inst., at St. Stephell
Church, Westbourne-park, William C. Russell, secoa
son of 11. Russell, Esq., of Kensington-gardens-squall,
and Portswuod, Hants, to Ann Maria Alexandrine,
eldest daughter of David J. Henry, Esq., of 55 Kensipr
ton-gardens-square.

Deaths.
Anmrr—On the IGth inst., at 'Ashley House, St. Saviour.l'
Jersey, Lieut.-Oulouel L. J. A. Arrait, Royal Digineel'

aged 42.
LONG—Os tho 26th inst., at 51, Queen Aune-stroet, Cav'W
dish-square, G. Long, Esq., bencher of Gray's-inn.
PAINTER—On the 27th inst., at 4, Beaufort-gardellsl
Brampton-road, Richard Painter, surgeon, aged 71.
SIMPSON—On the 23d inst., at Little Carterton, near Stagy'
ford, Robert. C. Simpson, Esq., aged 91.
WALLET—On the 25th inst., at Stanway, Essex, Stepbell
Waller, Esq., aged 57.

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