The Sun. — 1870-04-25 (London, England)

THE AMERICAN PRESS.  A Cincinnati paper exhibits considerable enterprise in announcing the assassination of Julius Caesar. We heard of this occutrence some time since, and right sorry we were to hear it ; but Cincinnati is far inland, and that which is news there is tradition elsewhere. Notwithstanding the importance of the publication it was not issued in an extra, but in the regular edition of the paper. The editor comments upon the occurrence with ability and gloom. He says that Caesar was a man of talent, and ought to have mounted the throne. It was in apprehension of this event that he was himself mounted by Brutus and his backers, with the fatal consequence which the editor so feelingly deplores. He says, likewise, that Cleopatra's genealogical tables are stained with the scarlet of consanguinity. Why does he rake up this old scandal. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. She couldn't help her parentage. She sinned some, repented a good deal, and the asp was punishment enough to make due atonement. We are really shocked at tne eager malignity with which our Cincinnati contemporary circulates these injurious reports about a lady who to no longer take her own part. If Marc Antony were alive the editor would doubtless receive a call from that robust Roman gentleman, d the fragments of the journalist would be subsequently carried home in a pillow-case. But we believe that Marc is dead. The editor says he is. "He clung to life till the last moment, and then committed suicide." So that no resentment is to be apprehended from that quarter. The expedients which provincial journalists adopt to fill their editorial columns are sometimes quite entertaining. This record of Julius Cesar and Cleopatra and the battle of Actium, inserted apropos of nothing, and commented upon as if it were a fresh discovery, is perhaps not quite so absurd as the publication of the twelfth chapter of Isaiah, which an editor of similar fertility of resource offered to his readers for three RueeeQQhr. ifiCiiPQ of hi 1,.A sr \Vhcn cnnlnnf -hi. o'ib scribers complained, he cheerfully and magnanimously substituted the 13th. These contributions may have lacked freshness,but their piety was unimpeachable. When our Cincinnati friend gets through with Caesar let him give us his opinion of Job, the probable cause of Lis boils and the market price of his she asses.---i% ew York Tribune. The same paper remarks :—" People sometimes laugh at the affection (or irony) which calls Boston ' the Athens of Americ ;' but that Bostonians generally accept the title as no more than their civic due, is pretty plain. Thus the Boston Journal, in speaking well of the current number of a certain magazine, says The articles are fully up to the Boston standard '—meaning, of course, that they are -‘ good.' We outer barbarians may well look, not with envy, but admiration, upon the constant ' standard' of literary excellence which has been vouchsafed to us. In New York we may have a few tolerably successful imitators of the Bostonian graces and glories ; but as for an original and selfsustained literature of our own--alas 1" The Cleveland Leader says of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Convention :—" When the woman conventions shall be purged of feminine men who wear ringlets and part their hair in the middle, and speak in a half-falsetto voice, and of masculine women, who don trousers, crop their hair short, and talk slang in deep bass, they will command more respect."  it is reported that the Protestant Bishop of London is to have an assistant, or " suffra,gan" bishop, who will take the title of Bishop of Westminster. If this is true, the selection of a designation by which the Metropolitan of the Catholic Church in England has been known for nearly twenty years is extremely ill-timed, and will in all probability lead to considerable confusion. Surely there must be other titles which the suffragan Bishop of London might select instead of that of Westminster.— Weekly Register.  The perpetrator of the outrage upon the woman Fitzgerald, near Wellington, has been arrested, and proves to be a man named Pitt. He was immediately identified by the woman, who stated that he sprung out from a gate upon her and asked her for her money. On being told that she had none, he said that he would get rid of her, and, pulling a pistol from his pocket, shot her in the . hip. She screamed " Murder,, ' and the man then attempted to fire a second pistol, but was frightened away by a an approaching vehicle. When arrested three pistols were found upon him, two being loaded ; and he attempted to shoot the officer, but wan disarmed.  During the recent visit of Sothern to Edinburgh he was asked out to dinner by the officers of the 17th Lancers. Before the wine was cleared off the table the officers pressed Mr. Sothern to perform a part of one of his characters, which, of course, he very naturally declined. They continued, however, to press him so much that he reluctantly consented, and commenced the drunken scene from " David Garrick," when, to the astonishment of all present, he swept the cloth clean off the table, smashing glass, decanters, plates, dm, wholesale.—Court Journal.  A telegram from Bells, county Meath, says :—"A private meeting of the magistrates of the county Meath has just been held here, for the purpose of considering the desirability of applying the provisions of the Peace Preservation Act to the county. The meeting affirmed the desirability, and also recommended certain changes, in order to render the organisation and efficiency of the constabulary more complete. Amongst the recommendations are the formation of several new constabulary stations and a further increase in the number of men in disturbed districts."  THEFT or £