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

TIIE LATEST SCAN:).AL.

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 other the Lord Chief Justice of England. From
Belgrave-square there is a delightful elopement—in
Clerkenwell a diabolical explosion—under an office
floor is discovered a trunk full of human bones•—but
the horrified gaz3rs are almost immediately in full
pursuit of the missing Speke. 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
Widiam 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 designer 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 made
" 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 for ever," and a still heavier for the
advantageous matrimonial alliance. One of the.
ceremonies preparatory to Loth 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 Lord 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-
teeriug purposes, small sums being throWu iu here

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and there as demanded, together with larger sum
for diamonds and trousseau. When the fountain
of the dupe began to fail, and she urged Madame
Rachel, to whom her trousseau had been sent, for
her money or her clothes, Madame Rachel told her
to go and .ask her dear William for them, and then
by degrees the lady of mature age, whose glass
might have told her how completely she had
been swindled in the first condition, and that
on which the other was supposed to hinge,
became aware that she was the victim of a
conspiracy. The most " plucky " proceeding of
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 she can establish the case she will cer-
tainly do good, fur one of the safe-guards of the
sche:ners 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 Lord Ranelagh, who was present at the
investigation, solemnly denied all knowledge of the
letters or of Mrs. Birrodaile, 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 age.
The magistrate demanded two good bail of Zl,OOO
each, and remanded the case. This investigation
is of unusual importance, or we would not, as it
has still to be tried, now allude to it, 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 (lid 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.—Anglo-American Tim s.

THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNITED

STATES.

Mr. M'Cur.Locn 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 round 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 09,000,000 on
the Ist May, which shows a loss of $5,500,000,
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 Trea-
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 op-
portunities of twisting any subject it can to the
disparagement of the United States, and this
loss to the Treasury affords an opportunity. Not
a word was said of the large increase of the Ist
May, amounting to nearly double the sum repre-
sented by the loss of Ist June ; not a word was said
of the enormous 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 in 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 _fall Gazette, to the other question
asked. On March Ist, 1866, the debt of the United
States had reached the sum of $2,827,868,950. The
present return thus shows a total reduction in two
years and a quarter of $188,369,000, or little short
of 30 millions sterling—the decrease being at the rate
of fully £12,000,C00 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 is
likely to reach $450,000,000, which will leave a
good surplus. The receipts from the income ta%
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 country should have passed through it 3
period of depression following on the total derange-
ment caused 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 in America. There is some"
thing absurd in the fact that the financial smash se
long predicted as likely to follow on the close of the
war in the Unitel States should have really taken
place in England. We believe that Mr. BRIGIIT
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 I.l°
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 t°._
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 cur columns), intended solely fc'e
circulation in the richest States of the Union ainoq.
well-informed Americans, and not " cooked" f°,l
Europeans, and they will see what opinion is bel`;
in the United States of the value of the National
Bonds.

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Births.
AU
KERR— On the 12th inst., at Dalkeith House, N. 13.1 T
Victoria Kerr, of a daughter.
PAULL—On the 13th inst., at 38, Devonshire-place,
the wife of Henry Paull, Esq., M.P., of a daughter.
STEWART—On the 14th inst., at 24,. Green-street, tli
Lady Isabella Stewart, of a son. '

Marriages.
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ARTMAR—STANBROUGII-- ~ St. .° On tho 13th lust., at h
Eaton-square, Capt. Henry Carlton Arymar to f4ro
Rosalie, widow of the late Walter Stanbrough•
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ROLFE—NicuoLsoN—On the 13th inst., at Groat Pa i
Charles H. Rolfe, Esq., of Hall Gate, Doncaster, to f'rof
Howard, daught.3r of the Rev. H. Nicholson, vie°
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Great Paxton, Hunts.

. Deaths.
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CHowNE—On the 13th inst., at Ealing,Middlese%, c-'-- r
E. Chowne, Esq., M.R.0.8., aged 64. East'
DOWSON —On the 13th inst., at Meads Houss, near
bourne, Joseph. Dawson, E....q., aged 38. ' ' rtolr
RAYMONT— On the 10th inst., Edward Raymont, ..'
well-hill, St. Alban's, aged 48. e oslir"
SAWYER—On the 13th inst., Mr. Rowe Sawyer, ca ~,
park, Hampton Court, aged 58. of 0'
STEVESS - On the 13th inst., Mark Stevens, 'DI'
Benwell-road, Highbury-hill-park, N., aged 48.
—....e.

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