The Sun. — 1870-02-09 (London, England)

WESTMINSTER.  DEFRAUDING A RAILWAY COMPANY.—James Whitehead, a boy about 15 years of age, was charged with travelling from Birehington to London, without having previously pail his fare, and with intent to avoid payment thereof. Mr. Francis, o❑ behalf of the company, said the prisoner paid his fare from Margate to Birchington, 31, and then came o❑ to London, a ss. 10d. fare, without any money in his pocket. The company did not wish to press the charge, but rather thought he had run away from home, and should be sent back by the parish. In answer to the Migistrate, P, ironer said a man told hint h e cpuld get work in London.  Mr. Arnold reprimanded the prisoner and discharged him, tAiing Mr. Francis he could give him no assistance in the matter as to sending him  wine.  BUDGET OF PE nsoNAL.—The Hon. It. C. Schenck, of Ohio, is the present "Father of the House."—At Hudson, New York, Mrs. Mary Ann Rivers has received a verdict for 63,500 against her father, henry G. Beecher, for slander. -- In Richmond, Virginia, Jan. 14, J udge Underwood released from custody a coloured man, named Samuel Baker, under sentence of death, for murder, on the ground that the court which sentenced him was illegal under the Reconstruction Acts.—On Jan.ls E.W. Allen presented his credentials to the President as Minister from the Sandwich islands.—Rev. Benj. J. Bowie, a Baptist Minister, committed suicide at Grasshopper Falls, Kansas, Jan. 11. —Mr. Sumner, in his late speech invented the now word "ridiculosity." Mrs. John Morissey is very ill in New York.—P. I'. Barnum is meditating a visit to Cuba.— Brigham Young is preparing to put in operation a cannon foundry, with a powder mill. lie isgetting ready for the Con • gressional anti-polygamyßill.-Illere is a sample of the kind of men women select for their husbands. Francis Mills fatally stabbed his second wife in Brooklyr, New York, on the night of Jan. 16. He bad served a term in the State Prison for killing his first wife.—Pechter must bo indeeda remarkable actor. A New York critic in a recent notice said of him :—" Mr. Fechter, who had played very quietly throughout the first two acto, made a burst in the third act."—Captain George J. G. M'Dougall, of the Danish navy, has arrived in New York, commissioned by his Government to examine the navy and navy-yards of the United States.—Mrs. Scott- Siddons has hit on a good way of utilizing a gift from the Queen. She has placed on exhibition in a New Orleans jewellery shop a bracelet presented to her by Queen Victoria, after areading to the Royal Family at Osborne Palace. It is of solid gold, in the form of a coronal, studded with thirty diamonds and fourteen rubies.—Miss Emma Webb and Miss Laura de Force Gordon are to have a public discussion in San Francisco on Woman's Rights. Miss Webb takes the Conservative side.—T he lion. Sam. S hellabarger, United States Minister resident at Portugal, and family, and Bishop Cox of Ohio, arrived at New York from Europe Jan. iS.— Jeremiah D. Peabody, Esq., of Zanesville, Ohio, on his way to attend the obsequies of the late George Peabody, his brother, was, while at New York, "the guest of his two sons, George H. Peabody, residing at the Gramercy Park House, and Arthur J. Peabody, at the Brevoort," but we are not informed how ho managed to divide himself between them.—Bishop Lynch of Toronto is to be created Roman Catholic Bishop for Ontario.—Governor Geary's inauguration took place at Harrisburg, Jan. 17. The President nominated Henry B. Swope to be U. S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, Jan. 17.—The fund for the benefit of Edwin M. Stanton's family has reached 100,000 dollars.—The New Orleans Republican says that General Mower died poor, and his family are left without the means of support.—Miss Fre, derika. Rollin edits, publishes, sets up, and works off a weekly newspaper in Norteltja, Sweden.—A Maine soldier has had his name removed from the pension rolls, saying he has regained his health and does not need the pension. Commissioner Van Aernam wrote to him that his name "should go down into history as a worthy example for the coming generations."—The Hon. William Gleason, Long Island, formerly a member of the Legislature, and recently a candidate for Congress, has announced his intention of retiring front the practice of the law, and engaging in the Christian ministry.—W. R. Babson, of Brooklyn, has been appointed Inspector of Customs by Collector Grinnell, in the place of Alvin Sturtevant, re signed. Frederick Douglass is proposed for Governor of of the now territory of San Domingo.— The lion. Israel Washburn°, the father of the fatuous Washburne family, is dangerously ill at his home in Maine. His age is 83. General Canby-, Jan. 19, directed James C. Taylor, Attorney-General elect of Virginia, to assume his office, Congress having removod his disabilities. -Dr. Jolt❑ H. Carnochan has been appointed Health Officer of the Port. of New York by Governor Hoffman.—Gan. Gilmore li is arrived in Europe on a two months' tour, for the purpose of making engineering investigations for the Gove,rnment. Mrs. Augusta J. Evans Wilson, the sensational Southern authoress, was serbusly if not fatally injured by a railroad accident near Cleveland, Tennessee.—John Allen, the " wickedest," is training fighting pups.—Daniel Pratt has challenged his groat competitOr for the Presidential nominatio❑ in 1872, George Francis Train, to a discussion of the tariff and cognate questions, at the New York Academy of Music.—Ex-Governor English, of Connecticut, is again to be nominated for Governor by the Democrats of that State.—On Thursday, the '27th Jan., at Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, by the Right Rev. Bishop Rosencrans, Kenelm Thomas Digby, M.P. for Queen's County, Ireland, was married to Elizabeth, the second daughter of, the Lion. W. Groesbeck.  IMPERIAL PARLIAMENf  lIOLSE OF