The Sun. — 1868-07-29 (London, England)

RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans ................................ BB2 N orthern 1153 Lyons and Mediterranean ......... . 933 Southern..... 370 Western ....................................... 573 Eastern ............ .. Sardinian .................... . Austrian Lombard ..... : North of Spain Saragossa Roman  (Limited)," A joint-stock undertaking of a somewhat nove: character has just been brought out in Scotland It is entitled the " Money Order Company of Great Britaina with a proposed p 20,000 shares of £lO each. capital ta lof an di2 Irelandoo,oo oin , The prospectus states that the company has been troafnsmitting small sums establishing a cheap formed secureed fr of money, and a tariff of charges is given which, mtheediupmurpfoorse it is stated, will prove highly remunerative. This scale is much lower than the Post-office rates, the average difference being about onehalf. From the nature of the business to be transacted respectability of direction and management is obviously an essential preliminary to the acquiring of public confidence. This requisite is attained by the list of the names presented as constituting the provisional committee, which includes many of the leading citizens of Edinburgh, Leith, and Dundee. It is to be presumed that the scheme will receive its chief support in Scotland, but, should it succeed a peculiar result will follow.. Whether extended to England or not, the Post-office, which has no legal monopoly of money-order remittances, must either at once reduce its scale of charges or lose part of its most profitable source of revenue. A swift and terrible doom, says the Daily e 7 legraph, has overtaken the murderers of Prince Michael. Fourteen of them have been condemned to death ; two, Prince Alexander Karageorgievich and his secretary, are to suffer twenty years' penal servitude ; twenty years' hard labour in a fortress has been awarded to another ; and the least guilty of the conspirators is to be imprisoned for five years. The severity of the sentences, coupled with the attitude of the foreign Powers and the resolute bearing of Turkey, may read an opportune lesson to those restless Pansclavists who are still troubling the Danube and neighbouring provinces with their abortive intrigues. Continental agitators would do well to ask themselves, also, whether, on the whole, political assassination pays. We do not ask whether political assassination is just, for that question brings up ideas which we cannot expect them to understand, far less to share. We put the matter on no higher ground than that of profit and loss. Abraham Lincoln is dead, but his death only lent strength to Abolitionism. Prince Michael is dead, but the objects of his murderers have not been brought a whit nearer. The Emperor of the French is not dead, though select committees of assassins have again and again met to see how they might best send him to a world in which coups d'e"tat and press laws would be beyond his reach ; but, somehow, their hostility has missed its mark, and the effort to shoot him down without giving him a chance of defence has done more than a host of Persignys could have accomplished to make his hold on the French throne  secure.