The Sun. — 1869-02-25 (London, England)

KEITH.—.. After a rigid examination in the Court of Bankruptcy, Mr. B. 11. Keith, of the late firm of Belding, Keith, and Co., was honourably acquitted, on Thursday, of any participation in the events which su unexpectedly wrecked that house. 'We wore not aw ire that such charges had over been brought against him, as we thought that the extraordinary circumstances which destroyed the business were known to have been caused by an aberration of mind iu the partner then remaining in London, and which eventually led him into suicide. The assignees opposed, on the grounds of excessive expenditure, rash and hazardous speculations, and contracting debts without reasonable expectation of payment, but Mr. Commissioner Bacon not only acquitted Mr. Keith of these charges, but fully acquitted the firm. He remarked on one item of expense for entertaining customers, that it was the ordinary and well known practice of all large mercantile houses in London, and, ho asserted, that had it Lot been for the sudden departure, in so unlooked-for a manner, of Mr. Belding the business might have gone on. Indeed it is now believed that the house would have been a marked success had it not been for the unfortunate infirmi y Mr. Belding is supposed to have inherited. There is no use, however, in crying over spilt milk, and we now allude to those facts only to do an act of justice we consider to be due to Mr. Keith, to whom our article written on the receipt of the astounding intelligence of the failure of this firm did injustice and gave pain. His Honour said that Mr Keith had bean unfortunate, but not culpable, and had acquitted himself in the face of the Court and of his creditors with credit to himself, and an order was granted for an allowance to him out of the estate, an unusual circumstance, proving how very favourable was the impression left on the Commissioner's mind. Now that velocipedes are the fashion the following paragraph from the Philadelphia Post may be of interest : —l, The latest vehicular invention (but still, like great many inventions, one of the earliest known) is the property of a Milesian of Philadelphia. He calls it a wheelocipede.' It has the advantage of only needing one wheel, and is not only one of the most useful of this description of vehicles, but absolutely the safest. The operator rests his feet on the ground, and his whole body upon his feet, and guides the arrangement by means of a pair of bars. It is capable of use in building operations, for the conveyance of earth, sand, and such materials, and will doubtless su persede, in the end, all the bicyles and other descriptions of velocipedes." The lands granted according to the Report of the Secretary of the Interior to the United States Senate, under existing laws for railroads and waggon roads to States, Territories, and corporations, up to Jan. 30, 1867, is 21,561,000 acres; for canals nearly 4,500,000 acres. The quantity certified to the following-named States since that date is as follows : —Minnesota, for railroads, 670,000 acres; California, railroads, 26,000 acres; Wisconsin, waggon roads, 72,000 acres; Oregon, waggon roads, 19,000 acres ; Michigan, canals, 280,000 acres; making a grand total of 27,000,000 acres. sian papers as announcing the presence, in St. Petersburg, of the American General Sharma n• The General having . The Angle-Italian Gazette alludes to " the Rus • been communication with the Government, it is The It o the new President elect, General Grant • ussian invented this, or been deceived, for papers have either have elie believed thated n heis c h arg e d with a niiss,ion on behalf f Generala have Sherman, having just concluded the Indian War, m St. Louis about the time they wrote. His next post will most probably be that vacated by Grant. There are now nineteen lighthouses on the Pacific beena t coast, and it is proposed to erect sixteen others, five to be built next summer. LADVKRTISEMENT —Consuription, and all bilious, nervous, stomach,and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica. Fool, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered ng'aonuet, sleeplessnessollpPsayat: hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, "0/ sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derange_ resents, hcemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervous' biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, cramps, influenza,rtaieins p,s eruptions,snroaiss einssinn hysteria,at hu nausea ehaeaan iasniedkne neuralgia,easr irritabilityr h evene umi nat pregnancy r scidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, h ewde healthdj3rea h, . Barry's Btl,4rleo3snLcohra:::i bronchitis, hr scrofula,ea,nja t,blye 2: tightness Gn the6e_s_s of th espee healthial restoredl. sce, pseaai Food.s sinking Ct ut hr ee pNifitotO: the Holy quo t e Father tfhe :7;7 sThe excellent,Po °b abandoning 1).1 er' Yall other remedies, he has confined entirely Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he cons to Du Barry's consumes a plateful at every meal. It has pro laced a stir • prisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness excellent food too hicdal • " From cannot praise this o 3. the "Gazette du Midi,' July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberta, chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirt timber mer spitting of blood, liver derangement,3 years' partial deafness lungs, Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de ,s li.,Ciardutieuetaennaensts.—of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,837. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness and vomiting.—MariaJoly." ImportantCaution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at ls. 11d. ; 1 lb. 2s. ad.: 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; S lbs. lls.;12 lbs, 225. ; 4 lbs, 40s, - Also DußiusY's