Runcorn and Widnes Examiner. — 1871-04-01 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

OOO.  Mr. Trevelyan, in his speech on the honorary colonelcies, and alluding to the Duke of Cambridge, said "The Commander in Chief received a salary of £4,000 a year, and he had a coloneley of £2,000. The Times, in its report, suppresses the whole of this passage. That great journal never hesitated to garble a report to serve a purpose, but there was a time when it would not have withheld iniormation from the public for so mean a purpose as toadying a Royal Highness. Let me say by the way that the honorary eoloneleies are entirely sinecures. They cost £lOO,OOO a year, for which no service whatever is rendered.  It used to be said "murder will out," but that was before the days of the county constabulary Everybody has heaid without surprise that the gra,id jury  has cut the bill against the men in custody on suspicion of having murdered Mr. Forrest. When once the case got into the hands of the police it was felt that the real muiderers were safe from detection. It appears from the J udge'li charge that the chief evidence against the men committed was the courrespoudence of certain foot prints with the shoes of the supposed criminals, and the expression of one of them on being arrested that he knew the reason of the arrest. It appears further that at all times the correspondence of foot prints is very doubtful evidence, and as in this case the prints were allowed to remain exposed to wind, weather, accidents, and designs for three weeks, that kind of evidence must have been altogether worthless. As to the exclamation of one of the prisoners that he knew why he was arrested, it seems as if the Judge thought that under the circumstances it was just the thing an innocent mass would say, and that nobody but a policeman would have seen any evidence of guilt in it. I believe this the third case of wilful murder in the neighbourhood, the perpetrators of all of which have been undiscovered. If Mr. Powis's game is not better protected in burtonwood district than human his is, the county is very badly served. The clerk to the committing magistrate, and the magistrate himself, had a narrow escape through tins finding of the jury. If the case had gone for trial, the extraordinary proceedings at the hearing before the bench, which have been so severely censured by Mr. Moore and Mr. 13retherton, would not have escaped remark by counsel, and probably by the Judge. The chastisement of rods which has already been inflicted would almost certainly have been followed by a chastisement of scorpions. It is no wonder that an uneasy . to say angry feeling should be expressed by the public when they see that the perpetratuts of a crime by winch an old and respected townsmen has suffered so sad a fate, and his friends and family so cruel a bereavement, remains undizcovered.  /let  We live in eventful times. We see one great military nation crushed by another great military nation. Paris marching on Berlin, and Berlin marching into Paris. We have seen an Emperor in military custody, and an imperial exile and dreamer awaking amidst the strangely sympathetic cheers of otu countrymen at Claislehurst. Where is the "temporal power" of the Pope Disappeared with the " eldest sou of the Church At home we are about to turn our army inside out, and to legalise the Ballot. We have just married a daughter of the Queen of England to a member of the House of Commons. Moreover we seem to be cultivating earthquakes, and a not dissimilar operation) we ate baptising the Quakers At least I hear so. A clergyman at Bank Quay has publicly declared that he has subjected no fewer thiui four Quakers to this ceremonial. This clergyman forgets, I imagine, that ours is not one of "the ages of faith." In the meantime we commend this reverend allegatur to the attention of the Society of Friends. As to baptising the Society of Friends, I imagine that Dr. ILassingliam's virtues are not likely to be written in that kind of water.  ME.