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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2689, 29 September 1871, Page 3

Supreme Court.-Tlic case for the prosecution terminated at a little after four o’clock this afternoon. Mr Barton intimated that it was not his intention to call witnesses, where upontheCourt adjourned to to-morrow when the counsel for the defence will address the jury. The Germans unanimously declare that the mitrailleuse docs very little execution after all. The Hon, David A. Wells, formerly Com. missioner of the Revenue in the United States, has written a letter on the probable rate of interest which must prevail in the the United States during the next quarter of a century. He thinks It cannot bo less than seven per cent. A drama called “Sid, or the Family Legend, produced at the Grecian Theatre, London, is an attempt to turn to piolitthe Tick borne trial. Its hero personates a rich man, known to be dead, and on the strength of a strange resemblance that exists, becomes possessor of large estates. The denouement of the ph.t is unexpected, for the hero though an imposter in intention, finds he is not so in fact, having been changed at nurse and being the legitimate owner of the property into which he has come,