The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-27 00:00:00

THE DIPLOMATIC SEUVICE.

Mr. LABOUCHE LIE moved that, in the opinion of this
house, all sums required to defray the expenses of the
diplomatic service ought to be annually voted by Parlia-
mout, and that estimates of all such sums ought to be sub-
mitted in a form that would admit of their effectual
supervision and control by that house,. The hon. member
referred to a number of cases in which pensions were now
paid, although the recipients were not beyond rendering
further service to the country. lie also condemned the
system of sending expensive missions abroad for the in-
vesting certain persons with the Order of the Garter,
which he thought could very well be done by the am-
bassadors resident at the places. It was very pleasant,
no doubt, to the noblemen selected to go out ou such
business, but it was not so to the tax-
payers. (Hear, hear.) lie also thought the system of
agencies, as at present carried out at the Foreign-office,
was highly objectionable, and ought to be abolished.
Lord STANLEY said some of the recipients of pen-
sions alluded to by the hon. gentleman had retired as long
as thirty years ago, but ho was not responsible for more
than three of the pensions alluded to. The greatest en-
deavour was made at the Foreign-office to keep down the
expenditure, but he could not consent to the cutting down
the salaries of those who had left the country on the un-
derstanding that a certain sum would be paid for their
services. The rule was to place at the disposal of the Fo-
reign office a lump sum of £lBO,OOO, with the understand-
ing that there was not to be any further money voted for
diplomatic service. If the expenditure of that sum was
questioned, it was open to bring the whole subject under
the consideration of the house. He must oppose the mo-
tion of the hon. gentleman opposite.
Mr. OFIILDERS regretted that the noble lord had
thought it his duty to oppose the ►notion of the hon. mem-
ber for Middlesex. He thought that there was much in
the present system that might be altered with advantage
to all parties, and thefefore he had hoped that a different
course would have been adopted.

Mr. D. Griffith and Mr. Alderman Lusk supported the
motion, and Mr. W. Lowther also made some observations
correcting exaggerations of Mr. Labouchere.
On a division the motion was carried by 76 to 72.

The subject of accidents in coal mines was brought be-
fore the house by Mr. GREENE, who read numerous ex-
tracts from the inspectors' reports and from the evidence
before select committees, and discussed the various pre-
♦entive measures which had been suggested, such as an
increase in the number of inspectors, the appointment of
sub-inspectors, improved education of men and managers,
and an alteration in the law limiting the liability of the
mine-owners. He moved for a Royal Commission to in-
quire into tho subject.
Mr. JACKS° N, on behalf of the coal-owners, ex-
pressed their willingness to accept and carry out any sug-
gestions for the prevention of accidents, for none were
more interested in the safety of mines than they. He
strongly recommended a subdivision of districts and an
increase in the number of inspectors.

Mr. PO WELL was arguing in favour of an addition to
tho staff of inspectors, when the house was counted out at
half-past 7 o'clock.

PROBABLY THE WORST JOURNAL IN

ENGL AND.

A great broadsheet of huge, coarsely-executed
woodcuts, representing, in a style of art the bad-
ness of which has never been surpassed at any
period of our uncivilisation, every kind of violent
and murderous act, every foul and diabolical crime,
every incident marked by special characteristics of
noisomeness, horror, or cruelty, which the annals
of the week preceding the publication-day of this
grievous sheet have furnished for the benefit of
the morbidly disposed part of the British pub •
lie. Only the worst crimes are comm.mo-
rated here. has some wretched child been
tormented with rare ingenuity by an unnatural
parent has some miserable woman been assailed
with more than common ferocity by her husband ;
has a father been murdered by his son, or a son by
his father ; has an ardent lover blown out his sweet-
heart's brains, or his own, or both his sweetheart's
and his own ; here, as surely as the Saturday comes
round, we have thrust before our eyes, certain
great woodcut. illustrations of such horrors, the
original ghastliness of the subjects being supple-
mented by the additional grimness which the vilest
and rudest execution can impart.
illustrations may be enjoyed free of expense, by
those who choose to study them in the shop win-
dows ;'not so the letter-press. 'This the public must
pay for, and, as it does pay for it, it is logical to
conclude that the public likes it. Lit us examine
for a moment what the public does like. it likes—
else why should it pay money to get them 2 de-
tailed accounts of all sorts of ugly and terrible
transactions. It likes graphic descriptions, with
particulars, of human remains discovered under
mysterious circumstances and in an advanced state
of decomposition. It likes—judging by the titles
of the different articles—to read of Brutal Assaults,
of Fearful Murder and Suicide by a Father, of At-
tempted Wife Murder at Bury, of a Frightful
Case of Suicide at the Bristol Union, of a Charge
of Murder against the Servant of a Duke, of a
Dreadful Assault with a Bar of Red-hot Iron. •

Bat what this particular public seems to like best of all
is a detailed history of the last hours of some well
known malefactor—a kind of murderers' Court
Circular. Such a history is furnished of the final
scenes in the life of Miles WetlAerill. The narrative
is subdivided into sections, each with a heading or
title of a stimulating character. Conduct of the
Culprits since their Sentence of Death—Wether-
hill's Interview with his Relatives and Sweetheart—
Wetherhill's Last Letter to a Friend—Timothy
Faherty—The Gallows and Barricades—The Crowd
—The Culprits—The Pinioning—The Official Pro-
cession to the Scaffold—Last Preparation of all—
Calcraft threatened. The subject indicated under
these headings receives careful treatment, the details
being (to employ an expressive phrase much in use
among French artists) "caressed" with affection.

. We are imitative creatures, and the in-
• •
ffuence of bad example is notoriously great in
the criminal world. Any offence of an exceptional
kind,and distinguished by exceptional characteristics,
is sure to be followed btanether and another, won-
derfully like the first iu all respects. . . The
area sneak, who objects to the nature of his recep-
tion at the house where his young woman resides, and
where no followers are allowed,determ ines in like man-
ner, as he broods over his wrong, "he'll do for them
people as Miles Wetherill did for them Plows at
Todmorden." He adds, moreover, that he
doesn't care if he swings for it," and, to do him
justice, when the time comes for swinging, it seems
as if this boast were well founded, and he really
does not care very much after all. Is he sustained
by the thought that his picture will appear in the
next number of the Police News, with the hangman
attending to him on one side, and the clergyman in
his surplice attending to him on the other ?
Dickens's " All the Year Round."

A posthumous opera by M. Gustave Fay
" Fiesko," has been given at Pesth.
Madame Ristori has been producing a grew
effect in Havana.

Heir Berwald, a Swedish celebrity as a com-
poser, and the director of the Stockholm Con-
servatory, died the other day, aged seventy-one.
A theatre now being built at -Bassett°, Signor
Verdi's native place, bearing the composer's name,
is to be opened this autumn.
Mr. Wingfield Digby, of Sherborne Castle, has
allowed the Master of the Rolls to make a copy of
all the historical papers of his ancestors, the Earls
of Bristol.
A WOMAN KILLED ON THE RAILWAY.—On Satur-
day, as the Scotch express train was within a mild of
Usworth Station, or the North-Eastern line, an old woman,
named Maria Hind, who happened to be walking on the
line, wa§ knpckccl down gad

NOTICE.
The Fourth Edition of " The San" of last Evening, con-
taiuing the Latest Betting and Races at Epsom, was
published at 7.30 p.m.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

EPSOM RACES—Turs DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
BENTINCI PLATE.

Airdrie
Laird of Scutlaud
Milton

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Eight ran.
THE DERBY.

BLUE GOWN (Wells) 1.
KING ALFRED (Nal-luau) 2
SPECULUM
PAUL JONES
ORION
.(Clement) 0
GREEN SLEEVE
ROSICRUCIA.N (Custance) 0
ST. RONAN (Jeffrey) CI
LADY ELIZABETH (Fordham) 0
FRANCHISE (Challoner) 0
FOREST KING (J. Snowden) 0
COCK 0IJ"I'llE WALK (IL Day) 0
MAID OF MASHAM COLT (Cameron) 0
SAMSON
VISCOUNT (J. Osborne) 0
CAP-A-PIE (J. Grimshaw) 0
SEE-SAW (Maidtuent) 0
SUFFOLK (Daley) 0

Eighteen ran. Won by half a length.
Betting-13 to 8 agst Lady Elizabeth, 4to 1 agat,
Blue Gown, 12 to 1 each agst Rosicrucian and Sei.
folk, 14 to 1 each agst Paul Jones and Orion, al to
1 each agst Pace 4nd Speculum, and 25 to 1. agst
any other.

A good start was effected, and the horses kept in
a cluster till reaching Tattenham Cosner, but Lady
Elizabeth never took a prominent part in the
race. On descending the hill there was the usual
tailing off, and the cheers from the supporters,
of Sir Joseph Hawley were tremendous as
they passed the Grand Stand, as Blue
Gown, ridden patiently by Wells, shook off the
challenge of King Alfred, and won easily by half
a length. It was at first supposed that Suffolk was
second, but the hoisting of the number of King
Alfred, the Baron's second representative, settled
the question. Speculum a bad third.

Pace broke down in the preliminary canter, and
did not run.

TIME, AS TAKEN BY BENSON'S CHRONOGRAPH.
h. min. BCC.
Start 3 ... 17 ... 0
Arrival ... 3 ... 19 ... 43i

Duration of race... . 2 431
MANOR STAKES.

Regula
......
Valentia •• ....... ...... 2
Rhododendron
Sixteen ran.
• BURGH STAKES.

Cyclamen
Lelia
Little Coates

Fif teen ran.
EPSOM TOWN PLATE.

Lily .. 1
Lore Derby ••
Sir Oliver

'Twelve ran.

GOING TO THE DELZBY.

THIS DAY.

Several years have rolled away since the great
thoroughfares leading out of the metropolis, even
on a Derby-day, presented such au animated and
crowded state as they did this morning. Nothing
could equal the brilliancy of the scene.
on account of the rich trappings of the fours in
hand, and the gay colours of the " post boys"
riding the horses iu the West-end traps. The rich
dresses of the ladies who accompanied their hus-
bands were gorgeous, and reminded the many thou-
sand spectators of what might have been seen at the
Italian Opera House on a great night.
As early as six o'clock in the morning thousands
of pedestrians turned out and took up their posi-
tion on every piece of vantage ground leading
from Hyde - park Corner, along the Vauxhall-
bridge-road, Pitnlic), over Vauxhall-bridge to the
Swan at Stockwell. Up to this point an un-
broken line of people of both sexes had
congregated to witness the richly caparisoned
horses and equipages conveying the company to-
wards the Downs at Epsom. The most crowded
spots along the route were at the Elephant and
Castle and Kensington Park. At those places strong
bodies of the L, M, and P divisions of police were
placed on duty, but owing to the removal of the
gates, which for years used to cause such obstruction
and confusion at this particular place having been
removed, enabled the carriages to pass along with-
out any detention, and none of those unavoidable
accidents which were of frequent occurrence in
former years happened. In the immediate vicinity
of Clapham-common the scene was one of great
bustle, and the common itself presented an im-
mense moving mass of heads. To pro-
vide for the amusement of the company there
were all the appliances of a fair, for there were
games of Aunt Sally, stalls for the sale of ginger-
bread, hot stewed eels, pickled salmon, and other
eatables and .drinkables. There were also several
troupes of " Unreal Christy Minstrels " and itine-
rant bands of musicians. Very little inconvenience
was occasioned along the roads until the vehi-
cles reached Tooting, and here the plot cum-
mencad to thicken, for some of the horses be-
coming fatigued it was found necessary to halt
for a short time, so as to water the nags, but the
confusion, however, was considerably less than it
used to be on former years on the Derby day.
This may be accounted for in a great measure to the
accommodation provided, as will be seen below, by
the railway companies having their termini in the
heart of the metropolis.

THE JOURNEY FROM WATERLOO RAILWAY STA-
TION. —A special cheap train left this station at a
quarter past nine o'clock, and long before that time
an immense multitude had assembled outside the
station, and long as the train was it was
inadequate to accommodate the pumber of per-
sons iu attendance, but another train was put
on, and was started fifteen minutes later, and
every carriage was completely crammed. Other
trains were kept running until half past 1 o'clock
this afternoon.

THE LONDON-BRIDGE RAILWAY STLTION.—The
whole of the open spaces leading to the entrances to
the South-Eastern Railway were crowded for hours
before the time announced for the first Derby train to
start, and great confusion prevailed amongst the
many thousands congregated together. Beyond
the fact of a few women fainting in the crowd no
accident took place. The trains kept filling as
fast as they could be made ready, and the living
freights were conveyed in safety to the Downs.