The Express. — London, England, 1866-10-25 00:00:00

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Um LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25. Wssw the guardians of St. Marylebone deter mined to carry out the provisions of the Houseleas Poor Act they did so in spite of their professed convictions, and without attempting to conceal their hostility to the new law. By speeches at board meetings, by florid denunciations in public and private, by the action of their officers, and through their local press this feeling made itself felt. Some of our readers will remember the mis statements of a sensational Marylebone overseer before one of the police magistrates of the district, and how statistics afterwards proved to be false were illustrated by some highly imaginative histo rical examples. Queen Elizabeth was brought into court to prove the immorality of extending food and shelter to the houseless, and the days in which vagrants were whipped and branded mourn fully quoted as the time when they " roamed about with impunity." Such was the spirit in which the working of the Houseless Poor Act was watched by many guardians and local officials of this great pariah, and such the prevailing feeling when it was loyally determined to give a pernicious measure a fair chance, and to prove, by obeying the Houselesa Poor Act in its entirety, how utterly it fell short of the requirements of the day. But the Marylebone guardians did not do things by halves, and their "casual" arrangements were eventually placed upon a footing equal to any and superior to most workhouses in the metropolis. There were hitches, as when the run upon this ono parish became disproportionate, and when the people illegally refused admission elsewhere claimed admission there. There were difficulties, as when the provisions for sternly enforcing the labour test were inadequate, and tickets given for the stone-yard were calmly torn up by the paupers, who departed in the morning, and preferred sleeping without working to working for their breakfast. There were protests, such as the burlesque speech of a well-known parish orator, who declaimed to an excited public meeting on the lust for " Money, money, money !" being at the root of every innovation suggested by the Poor-law Board, past, present, and to come. But the up shot of it all is, that after two years' experience of the working of the act this parish is able to show us a fair balance-sheet, with the numbers relieved, and their individual and aggregate cost clearly stated. In the time named, 44,759 persons have been admitted to their casual wards at a coat of 8971. 3s. 4d., or something under fivepence per head. Wards have been altered and fur nished ; provisions, clothing, and superinten dence found ; fires have been maintained all night in the winter ; woollen sleeping gar ments have been provided for all ; and, including supper, bed, and breakfast for between forty and fifty thousand souls, the cost has been less than 900/. The plan of separating the confirmed "roughs" from the unfortunates whose necessities compel them to seek shelter in the casual ward has been consistently adhered to. The official in charge has been entrusted with the task of discriminating between the two classes, and it is said that the result has been unfailingly satisfactory. The sta tistics now furnished show, moreover, a striking decrease in the offence of clothes-tearing. But three convictions are recorded under this head against fifty-five in the previous half-year. Other offences have been as large in proportion to the number relieved 'as in any previlms term. Twenty eight men, thirty-two women, and seven children, out of the number taken into the casual wards in the half year, have been pronounced sick by the doctor and taken into the house. Ad mission is now gained by means of tickets given on application at the Marylebone police-station ; and the wards are regularly visited once a week after midnight by the inspector and superintendent of police of the district. With the exception of clothes-tearing, which seems to have decreased all over the metropolis, the number of offences has not decreased since police assistance has been secured. These particulars are interesting but inconclusive. They prove that the houseless can be efficiently sheltered at a moderate cost ; and that with mode rate care the rascal can be weeded out from the merely unfortunate. But the general question et metropolitan vagrancy is unaffected. We knO* that Marylebone suffered for a time because other parishes threw the onus of their burdens on it ; and we know, too, that vi! on a given evening five w0ra......._ convicted of illegally refusing shottef ts main ant women who came to Marylebone after tryilt in vain for shelter at such places as Clerkenwell and Martin's-in-the-Fields. But how far it is 'tin allabillid If this fashion can be only known to the masters of the several workhouses and the poor wanderers themselves. The Poor-law Board may draw its own conclusions from the returns sent in, but neither the Marylebone guardians nor the public have any guarantee that their strict obaerv ance of the law is not exceptional, and, with winter approaching, it is highly desirable that the statis tics of other parishes should have equal publicity with this. It will probably be remembered that the Clerkenwell board, for example, only provided casual wards after repeated wanderers exposures, and that they are peremptorily closed to independent observers. The police will take care that there is no repetition of the hideously disgraceful manes we described last winter ; but to what extent the destitute are admitted, and how far they are refused, are matters as absolutely at the discretion of the guardians as ever. Marylebone may be bearing its proper proportion of a common burden, or it may be unfairly taxed through the shiftiness of its neighbours. No one can possibly tell. What is known is that the Bouseless Poor Act has worked in the main satisfactorily in a parish confessedly hostile to it, but in which it was determined to obey the law, instead of evading or defying it. The Marylebone authorities may, how ever, ask with propriety that the "casual " stalis ; tics and discipline of other metropolitan workhouses shall be made public, and we trust this may be done before the inevitable winter discussions and are forced upon tug. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (TIID3 DAY.) MR MORTON rxro'd DUZZICIL Attaching little weight to the resolutions of an audience who were ready to give something better than an impartial hewing, the Times looks into the deliberate statement by Sir M. Peto himself for an explanation of his transactions in the matter of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, and the result is to find the questions at issue obscured rather than elucidated by the involved and prolix exposition. When money was raised to pay off a million and a quarter due on Lloyd's bonds, the company still owed the money by means of which those securities had been called in. The company In their next step want into the market and issued debentures on the strength of stook not one penny of which had been paid up, and at this critical point of the COMP, when we want to know how it happened that deponents could be found to go before a magistrate and make the requisite oath that half the capital bad been actually paid up, so that debentures could be raised, Sir Morton's explanation fails us. Although he had been lust/Med as financial counsel to the company and bad advised the creation of this stock, avowedly with the clew to the issue of debentures, he says be had nothing whatever to do with the issue of those debentures, and that the remarks on the transaction should be applied to the firm of solicitors under whose advice the company acted. He say' the same thing as to the transaction inlB6l, when, at the time when an issue of debentures wail contemplated, he gave the company a receipt for 429,7001., as payment for work under contract, and the company returned to Sir Morton Peto and Co. a receipt for precisely the same sum as payment for share capital. This transaction was cer tainly looked upon as collusive—as representing a forma tion of capital which bad never been formed, for the pur pose of pledging it in the money market. As to the over issue of debentures, his explanation now is that these documents were so informal, so imperfect, or so defective, that they are not to be regarded as genuine debentures at at On this the Times asks what, then, was the nature of the security whioh they conveyed to the financial com pany ? Somebody must have come off poorly in such& trans action. If he wishes to obtains favourable opinion, it can only be canted by different arguments from those which he here employs. It is no justification of a transaction to say that solicitors allowed it ; still lees, to say that other people have done the same, or that nothing under the circum danoes could have been done better. The &or condemns more than one transaction, but adds that nothing was done for the purpose of making extrava gant profit for the firm of Peto and Co., but all went to keep up the railway company with which he was use elated. Beating this in view, it is at least unjust to hold Sir Morton Febo and his partners up to pub'io obloquy, if the railway company and its officials, including its solici tors, are to be regarded as tictims. 111111BERS OUT OT PARLIAMUft._ The Daily News describes Sir Stafford Northeote, who has just been addressing an agricultural audience in North Devon, as precisely the man for a ministry which, like the present, is simply a Ministire pear affaires—which prac tically holds office in order to carry on the business of the country until its successors shall be appointed. Like Lord Stanley, he concerns himself rather with social and administrative than with directly political subjects, and like him also, though wanting in the mental habit and complexion which would make the word liberal applicable to him, has neither the temper of a partisan nor the prejudices of a tory. His remedies for the unsatisfactory condition of agri cultural industry, amounting to the intimation that the peasants of England must be subjected to a judicious system of patronage and benevolence, are very triviaL Agricultural labourers in England can never hope to own a rood of the soil they cultivate ; and the conversion of land under tillage into pasture lend further tends to dimi nish their numbers. The economic laws which are making I England a " pleasure ground " for the wealthy must of necessity evict its peasants to other countries or dismiss them to other pursuits. In his proposals for neutralising the joint action of these causes, Sir Stafford Northoote trifles with a great subject. Still if his suggestions are carried out to peasants who remain they will be better labourers for being better treated, and when they go they will carry away a better feeling towards us. In the economic and patriotic sense, kindness, like honesty, is the best policy. The Herald accepts the spit it in which Mr. Forster and Mr. Hugessen have approached the subject as a happy augury for the future of reform. It is important to notice the fact that there is one section of the liberals who are prepared to justify their denomination, and to accept a reform measure even from the hands of Lord Derby. That such is the general feeling among the mass, even of the I working classes, the Herald has no doubt whatever ; and it trusts the event may show that the confidence which has been placed in the present government was not un deserved. For the first time for many a year, observes the Star, the liberal party is beginning to know what real union is, and how priceless is the boon of an honest leadership founded upon mutual trust, and upon a thorough appreciation of the difficulties to be overcome and the duties to be per formed. The Guildford banquet is the latest illustration of the truth of the proposition we have laid down. The ' somewhat discordant notes which were sounded by Mr. Charles Buxton only made the general agreement more con spicuous. MISCICLANEOCS TOFICS. In America, the Daily Irma remarks. the proposal to give the suffrage to the coloured men is not directly be fore the constituencies, yet men are everywhere feeling that they must make up their minds about it. Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts. and Rhode , Island make no distinction among their citizens on the ground of their complexion. New York makes a distino- Hon by demanding that a coloured citizen to be qualified to vote shall prove himself to be the owner of a freehold worth 230 dollars. All the other States have mocumbed to the prejudices created and foe tend by slavery, and have confined the exercise of the franchise to the white ram. But there has been a growing feeling through the North that this is a limitation which cannot be sustained oonsistently with the principles of their Repubilean govannent. There would be no objection to the lupwdlioa by any d the States of restrictions cm igno rance ar incapacity, provided that those restrictions created only diequalificatione that might be surmounted, and were impartially applied to white and black. * EVENING, OCTOBq W 25, isi Zl ion the Timei ;i1 is utterly incompahenslie that • lilts the Kim of Ronny, one wield whom no amp of tyratny can be alleged, and who ;meld have de parted at peace with his subjects, should cling in the mere shadow of kingly dignity, and accept • position from which the very illusion of power is removed. The cohe sive extension of Shuman nationality may be son acting with an intensity with which all the ambition of Prussia can hardly keep pace. The partiality of the Times, how ever, is for the work and not for the workmen. Against his opponents Count Bismarck has evinced little regard for truth, nous for the faith of his engagements. His dealings with the King of Holland and his treatment of the Danish &hi/wedge's are instances of an abuse of power amounting to a positive insult to European opinion ; and the ordinance by which the late subjects of Denmark in the Duchies were forbidden to subscribe for a wedding gift to the Princess Dagmar rusts upon the whole Prussian government and nation a brand of meanness which all the prowess of their army in the field can warmly efface. The Pat takes the appointment of Mr. Bolt to the office of Attorney-General to show that Lord Derby, in the dis tribution of legal patronage, is disposed to pay greater regard to professional qualifications than to political ser vices. Mr. Holt is • liberal conservative in polities, bat he has never taken an active or distinguished part In the discussion of general ar professional questions. Whether he has sidficient energy and strength to conduct reforms of the law through the stormy debates of the House of Commons remains to be seen. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE FUTURE POLICY OF AUSTRIA. REPORTED ADVICE OF M. BEIIBT. According to the Augsburg Gazette M. de Beast has completely adjured his anti-Prussian senti ments. He has, it is added, embodied his opinions in a document which has been laid before the Vienna authorities. In these notes the for mer Saxon , minister counsels Austria not to mix herself up any longer with Gorman affairs, to leave Prussian unification to develop itself without interruption, to show itself as con ciliatory as possible towards Prussia, and to main tain the most cordial relations with her. M. de Beust goes even farther. According to him, Austria must entirely abandon the Southern States of Germany to their fate, without seeking, even in the purely platonic measure of the lati tude which is left to her by the treaties, to en courage the reunion of those states in one special confederation ; and not only does M. de Beust foresee that the isolation in which he wishes to leave the countries of the south would lead to their successive absorption by the northern oonfe deration, but he considers this result eminently desirable for Austria. The Nord remarks that with his new principles M. de Beust seems rather fitter in his ministerial office for Berlin than for Vienna. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN PRUSSIA. A new journal is about to be published at Berlin under the title of the Zukusift (Future), edited by the well known radical chief M. Jacobi. In the course of the programme which has been iaaued of the new paper we read sa follows : He who has clearly before his eyes the end of Ger man unity will recognise that the exclusion of thousands of German men from the common country ; that the separation of Germany by the line of the Maine cannot be lasting ; that the national unification of the people and the development of the power of the state are only desira ble things when they increase on the basis of ex internal liberty and political autonomy. As regards ternal action, the democratic party is wider no illusion as to the power and extent of its means. To maintain the sentiment of national community in Germany will be the work prescribed first. The internal labour to which we must devote ourselves with the cold and serious constancy of a duty to be accomplished is greater and mere powerful. And there nearly everything has to be commenced anew. It is necessary that the spirit of political parties should descend from the parliament to the people — the source of all power; it is necessary to create in the bosom of the people•clearness and soundness of political ideas, honesty and sincerity of political faith, in order that the first roll of the drum may not again confound everything ; it is nsoesary that from this honesty and this 'locality should arise the union and courage essential to all political action. It is to offer a rallying point for this common la bour that we publish this journal. 1866. ---- EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDS AT WHITBREAD'S BASWERY.-(SSIS DAY.) Rich- This forenoon an bmairy was held by Mr. a deputy co roner, st the Green Gate 'Tavern, Cit 77 to the death of William Ward, aged 30 years, who committedjentene. Tho deceased was employed as a labourer at Wbitbre Brewery in Chiawell-street, St. Luke's. He was of a gloomy and morose temper. Within the last few days he was suspended for using violent language to • foreman, but on blu e t better behaviour he erne plena& on &in. lie aPPeered to converse 'with his brother,. with whom he lived at 20, Free-street, fit. Luke's principally upon the best way of getting rid of oneself. dearequently said to him that he would Tike to know the best way to get rid of himself, for he was tired of life, but he did not know what to do. Hie brother and his landlady tried to joke him out of this state of mind. The manner of his suicide was deposed to by Daniel Freeman, • "leather holder," or • person whose duty it was to fill casks with beer from the vats by means of leather pipes. On Tuesday morning, at 9 o'clock, he was underneath vat No. 19, which was empty of beer, but was filled with embank. Acid gas. lie beard a inciter match struck at the top of the vat, which was 27 feet high, and he called out twice, but received no sneerer. He ran up to the top of the est, and there he found a light burning, and the name " W. Ward" chalked on the beam over the vat in large letters. He raised an alarm, and the deceased was seen lying at the bottom of the vat, quit* dead. No one dared enter the vat, and drags had to be employed to get deceased out. Dr. Yarrow said that he was called in to the deceased, and found him quite dead. His fees wee distorted and the body swollen. He had been killed by carbonic acid tag, and death must have been instantaneous. A light was instantly extinguished when lowered into the vat, which was 27 feet deep, and was filled with the deadly gas to within a foot or two of the top. It was stated that the deceased who had been tong ears- It at the brewery, was perfectly acquainted with Nee nature of the pa, and that without doubt he knew well what he was doing wheelie jumped into the vat. Latterly he had complained of " not feeling se he ought," and said he wished to end it. The Coroner having summed up, The jury returned a •verdict, "That deceased committed suicide by leaping into a vat filled with carbonic acid gas, at Whitbread's brewery, while hi a state of unsound mind." LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. downlink:suer Winslow,) DI lt< BONSURT. The bankrupt was described as a commission Milford Haven. Debts, 370. This was the I examination and diaoharge. Mr. Aldridge, repressaeing the official assignee, mined the bankrupt so to debts of 601. and 1881., vrY had retuned as due to hint for houses sold answer% being unsatiefeatery, Ms Honour adjour tn i cam for further inquiry. rat U JOIDI The bankrupt was a interbank of Great Cartarday, Debts, 619/. ' • amens and property held, about nix Mr. Reed opposed the bankrupt _pasong hi s tion ; Mr. Denny appeared for tors; credi and' for the bankrupt. The bankrupt, in examination, stated that at of his arrest his books were at his private home. goods were sold while be was " in chancery," and told him that the house had been completely Did not know what had bosom of his books. 1 them home for the purpose of looking over then. bankrupt is July, 181;5, and got his order of dint November last, in which month he spin beg an and had contracted 6194 of debts in six months. An adjournment was ordered for additional somata DC is TILLZEL. The hankrupe was described as a master-marina, of Lower Thames-street. He now applied for his or* d discharge and also for release from custody. There was no opposition. Mr. Aldridge seated that the cam was a sen The bankrupt had only one debt, 201 .. due to pt Nitro-Phosphate or Blood Manure Company (Limited} pa s rose claimed the amount as money o ys re, by the bankrupt for the freight of • skip ; , who disputed the Mains, bad been arrested rat writ of espies, and bad been in prison five sioatha In answer to the court, the bankrupt stated that h • wife and family lived at Si. Helier's, Jersey, but natio had no property there. Ilia Honour granted the order of discharge, and de s made an order for the bankrupt's release. IN II H. AND H. L. LINDOS. The bankrupts were general merchants, of li t•T Thames-street, and of Lisieux, in Normandy. The *a debts were 3,817/. . • no assets. Mr. Knew, for the assignees, stated that me of On bankrupts bad been adjudicated by the Registrar innin g . the other was bankrupt on his own petition see asked that the proceedings might be amalgamated. Hie Honour doubted whether he had power to maks auk an order, one of the bankrupts having been adjoined h V rism Mr. Aldridge suggested that the proper course esti& Isa for e. creditor to present a joint petition against boy bankrupts. After refiring to some authorities and ucartainirg tke i the official assignee did net object to the course hie Honour made the order for annexing the Mr. Munns stated that the property in Frame had Om seised by the creditors there, and the property in Forlud had been exesigned to the French house. His Honour said he should require some explanatio as to the large deficiency. One of the bankrupts stated that it arose in a put measure from their inability to fulfil their contracts esd being made liable for " differences." Ultimately the sitting was adjourned for the Oa"; to furnish an explanatory statement of the way is lid their debts had been incurred, and what had boxes dais Iroperty. PVISM I 1 / 1 1 713 D t JAMS Veiny war! de plinu • •I l • . •i t ' IMS i 7 ... -. Thaws Ditiei . ..• 78 gra/ brow , m Int* OW de Wm which li toll be e tee ; Wye , •ll ti allued the the elation 1 driflali• g' . a libb ws. t" 11 empara4"ar. I . ow e eh, det tt liz."ll6. the : u.hia/1414:1141°°"1:494:bs'adadr.hilb 4 ‘ in* ' ft the distil lad his eg o The defend anractei lit ate Aldrille If i di.,,,,,,: ...,„t„. ort , . Jr.. The 5 1 6 9001 aeooeati. 1/0707 1, Men/ "Arias, of ' -who as his area a t bona the o newn-bare glik4 had ea : eta the Anita :1111uPerak toirenn, am ), Ta s p i p flea -.--•-.......1. th litre Court. BALMORAL, OCT. 23. The Queen went out accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Ron. Emily Cathcart. Princess Christian drove with the Duchess d'Aumale to the Linn of Dee. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall on matters relating to the cattle plague. The Lords present were the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Mr. Harrison attended the committee. Deopatehes were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Offence . of Canada. The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, Queen's °canoe', k.c., at his lordship's residence, No. 7, Eaton square, on Friday, November 2 (the first day of llichaelmas term), at 12 o'clock. PROROOATION or PARLIAIKENT.—(THIS Dart.) — This morning the ceremony of proroguing the imperial parliament was performed in the House of Lords with the customary formalities, but without any of the exciting interest which ordinarily marks the close of a session. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, held a levee yester day afternoon at the Horse Guards. It was numerously attended. Accounts received yesterday report an improve ment in the Marl of Clarendoa's health. Viscount Hamilton will accompany his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to St. Petersburg, to be pre sent at the wedding of the Czarewitch and the Princess Dagmar. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland left Dun robin Cutle for the season on Tuesday, for Tarbert House, Ross-shire, where they propose staying for a week, and will then proceed to Stafford House. The Earl of Dalhousie has left Claridge's Hotel for Brechin Castle, N.B. The death is recorded of the Hon. Henry E. Dormer, ensign in the GOth Rifles, who died on the 2nd inst. at London, Canada West. The gallant officer was the youngest eon of Lord and Lady Dormer, and was born Nov. 2J, 1844. Prince Napoleon, attended by Colonel Ferri- Pisani, has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. The Archdeacon of Surrey yesterday read his annual charge to the metropolitan clergy of the diocese of Winchester, in the Lady Chapel of St. Saviour's, South wark. He spoke of ritualism, the decrease in the number of candidates for holy orders, the prospects of the church, and several other topics of interest to the clergy. Kensington Church, which Bishop Blomfield need to designate the ugliest in his diocese, is nevertheless convenient and capacious, and it appeared sufficiently sub stantial for many years. But some months ago symptoms of decaywere disoovered,which induced the churchwardens to have it carefully examined by two architects, who have united in condemning it as incapable of being used for pub lic worship more than two or three years longer. The vicar and churchwarden' are exerting themselves to raise subscriptions for a new edifice, worthy of a great metropo litan parish. The Cardinal Prince John Scitoveky, Arch bishop of Gran and Primate of Hungary, who has just d'ed, addressed the following letter to the Emperor of Austria a short time before his death :—" Gran, Oct. 13. Eternity is near ! The God of mercy and of truth calls me. I resign my soul into his hands. But before leaving this lire I cannot omit to place at the feet of your Majesty my most warm thanks for the numerous testi monies of favour I have received from you. I wish your Majesty a long l'fe, joy, and happiness, slci I pray God that the success of the glorious go- Ten:anent of your Majesty may find one of its most brilliant illustrations in the splendour and aggrandisement of th e church and of my dear country. May Almighty God bless your Majesty, the Empress, Prince Rodolphe, heir to the throne, and the Archduchess Gisele, and may the bene diction of God rest for all time upon the entire Imperial house'—Cardinal JOHN SCTIOVSKT." THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALE/I.—NOR WICH, WEDNESDAY.-officiftl notice has been received that two troops of Dragoons Guards will be sent to serve as an escort to the Prince and Princess of Wales on the;r visit to this city. To-day the town council met for the purpose of finally determining upon the address to be p -vented to the Prince. The address will be presented on Wednesday in the Connel Chamber at the nildh►ll, which is now being fitted up for the purpose. An address will afterwards be presented in the same place by the bishop and clergy of the diocese. The general nature of the an angements has been already indicated. After the morning performance in connexion with the festival on Wednesday, tl-eir royal highnesses will proceed to Chapel Field, where they will plant two trees to commemorate their visit. The Prince will then be escorted to a drill shed built for the Norwich volunteers, and the building will be formally opened by him. The illuminations at Norwich, on We dn esday evening, will be on a very exten sive scale, and altogether the Prince and Princess will re ceive a right royal welcome in old Norwich. LORD SHAFTESBURY ON CHUBAIi QUESTIONS. In addressing a Bible Society meeting at Salisbury on Tuesday evening, Lord Shafteelsuay said that whilst they felt interested in the circulation of the Scriptures abroad, their greatest interest just now should be for home. He confessed that he stood aghast when he saw arch dire ful heresies rising up under the name of tiactarianism. Tractarianism was not, however, the right name. It was full-blown, arrogant, insolent popery rising up in the church of England on the one hand. and cold-blooded, scientific rationalism on the other. They were apparently antagonistic, but in reality they were one and the same thing. Whether they built up popery in the country, or whether they fostered neology or rationalism, the result would be to bring the great masa of the people to one deal level of unbelief and infidelity. Such an effect indeed was being already produced. What he feared was not that the people would become papiste—not that they would become regularly established neologiets, but that they would fall into as utter state of indifference about religion. Rationalism was the most fatal thing that be could possibly conceive, and the only way to obviate it WAS by the most diffused circulation of the Scriptures. With the progress of all these heresies, the circulation of the Scriptures inns:coed also. So far from diznieishing the demand for the Scriptures was greater every week ,• and that was a matter for which they mart all heartily thank God. There was one thing against which he would warn them. He did not know that he ever read any ;king with more horror and dismay than he did the statement of one of the bishops of the colonial church, that there was not throughout the whole of the Scriptures any command to worship our Lord as God ; a statement that ad aside the whole tenour of the Scriptures and some of the most magnificent texts to be found in the whole range of the Bible. But he would not say anything further on the point, for he could not trust himaell to speak upon it. He knew perfectly well that if he were to speak upon it he might break out into great warmth. A rote had been sent up to the platform asking his opinion on " Ease Homo." He could only repeat the statement that he made at the meeting of the Pastoral Aid Society, and for which he had been attacked, that in his opinion it was the vilest book that had ever been written. It was perfectly true that at the Pastoral Aid meeting he used • e prodigiously strun g-- expression ; but he could not retract a word of it. He k n ew that it might be no strong for the public, bet it wee sot too strong to express the truth. Be could not, therefereretreet a single syllabi*. CANDLICWICI. W ARD.—III compliance with a unanimously signed requisition, Mr. C. Y. Game, of Can non-street. Kea consented to serve in the above ward. THE POLISH JEWS. - - A letter from Wilna contains the following : The Jews here are threatened with a religious propa gandism of a terrible kind. An association has been formed, the object of which is to force the Jewish population out of a country where they have been established for eight centuries, and to compel them to emirate to the Caucasus or the banks of the Admix. The Wits& Joursusi has said openly that the country must be cleansed of this leprosy, and that the Jews must be either converted or exterminated. General lCauffmann, the governor of the province, has directed the municipalities and the heads of families to subscribe to this journal ; he has further or dered schoolmasters to read it to the peasantry, in order to prepare their minds for the work of extermination. The society has amongst its members many public fe tionaries, amongst others the inspector of primary educa tion. The Jews are anxious to lay their case before the government of St. Petersburg, which has in many ways improved their position, and which seems to be entirely i g norant of this infamous made of propagandism. But unfortunately the state of siege prevents them from doing so. STATE OF SPAIN. The Journal des Debats of this clay says : The provincial deputations of Spain have been di solved and the municipal councils are to be entirely remodelled, although, under the terms of the law, only a partial reno vation of them can take place. The government, how ever, has assumed to itself the right to decree others:se, hoping for the future ratification of the act by the Cham bers, on the simple ground that the present composition of these councilswasnot agreeable to them. The members were electedataperiodwhenliberal ideirshad still some influence, but in the present state of public opinion this influence — to use the language employed in the report presented to the Queen —has become quite intolerable. What is now wanted are municipal councillors who have the " habit of discipline," and who will not be disposed to ex aggerate the importance of their humble func tions. Such modest men are certainly to be found, but still, as one can be sure of nothing, and the sin of pride may take possession of the best-disposed, it is intended to restrict by law the duties of the councils. general and provincial deputations. The government an nounced that it would forthwith take into consideration new measures in order to found society on its true basis. The present law is probably a portion of these measures ; and certainly if the government has seriously resolved on saving society, it does not falter in the employment of the means for that purpose. The transportations continue without intermission. Fernando Po is every day receiving new secessions of departed Spaniard', who are sent to die of yellow fever. The prisons are full of ruined prisoners, who are kept in gaol without knowing why; and if everybody is not absolutely arrested —if there are still inhabitants abroad in Madrid, it is because the prisons are full and there is no place where they can be confined. From time to time, however, there are vacant places, and those are soon filled up. It is, therefore, only a question of patience, and each one may reasonably expect that his turn in prison will come round.. The Name: cabinet is establishing public tranquillity and consolidating order in Spain much in the same fashion as the Russians in Poland. (sicTEß's =mitAm.) ITALY. FLORENCE, Ocr. 25. The King will receive a Venetian deputation at Turin on the 4th November, who will communicate to his Majesty the result of the Plebiscitum. On the evening of the following day his Majesty will set out for Venice, arriving in that city on the 7th November. The King will be accompanied by the Presidents of both Chambers of the Legislature, the Ministers, and his military household. Four hundred and nine Venetian residents in Florence voted for union with Italy. Only one negative vote was recorded. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ocr._2s. Prince Charles arrived here yesterday, and im mediately had an audience of the Sultan, by whom he was received with special attention and the highest honours. The Palace of Kutechulu has been placed at the disposal of the prince during his stay in this city. PACIFIC MAILS. ST. NAZAIRE, OCT. 25. The steamer Washington has arrived here with the mails from the Pacific, 1,000,000 francs in specie, and 900 tons of merchandise. The health of all on board is good. The Washington, one of the steamers belonging to the Compagale Generale Treaserlaatique has arrived at St. Nearby. She left St. Martha at 4th Oetober, Mar. tiaique, 9tb, and Aspinwall, 20th. She brinp 54 per wagers. BOOKS FOR SAILORS. TO THE EDITOR 07 THE HIPHIDIB. Sin,—There is one class who are without a vote, and without the chance of voting, if even they had ; they make no murmurs, though without them our country would be poor, and it is they who bring all the riches to the country. Most of them would be entitled to • vote if the suffrage was decided by educational merits. Nearly all can read, many can read well, but they are • neglected class, and the opportunity for reading is denied them. Generally they are so situated they cannot buy books — their wages are often unpaid until they are so situated that they receive all their pay just when they are likely to lose it ; and, even if they had their wages paid monthly, they could not buy even a penny paper daily, if they wished. How can we help this clam? They don't want a vote, but they want books, and no greater act of kindness can be done to them than by pro viding them with that which they cannot buy for the greater part of the year, and which too often their masters will not or cannot give to them. I allude to sailors. Not one ship in ten is supplied with books for the crew. Any odd numbers of periodicals, Chamberes Journal, Honor hold Words, Good Words , &c. , are moat acceptable. We have been making • collection for distribution among sailors and emigrants, and in six months have received above 150 volumes of the Illustrated London News, many volumes of the Cornlall, Sunday at Home, the British Workman, Punch, hc.,and have had whole volumes bound and odd numbers have been given away. We have received over 2,000 volumes of books besides, and have made up nearly 50 good libraries for large ships, all supOlied and taken on board free of charge of any kind. We have also distributed large numbers of Bibles, Testaments, and Prayer Books and school books, slates, tic— in emigrant ships. The railways on both sides of the Thames carry parcels of books free, when_ directed by goods train from . . London to the mission. Will you, sir, use your influence to get us more books, more periodicals ? We only ask for such as are put sway. We shall take care that they are made of real benefit to those who will most prize them. We counted upon the underwriters helping us in thus doing something to improve the tone of those who bad charge of both ship and cargo in which they had the greatest interest, but as many decline, we hope still to carry ou the work if we are but supplied with books to distribute. The mission is merely s branch work of Holy Trinity parish here.—l am, &c., JOHN SCARTIT, Acting Chaplain. St. Andrew's Waterside Church Mon, Gravesend, Oct, 23. - - - "In nothing," says the Times, "is the contrast between Germany and Italy more striking than in the number of patriots and statesmen by whom the cause of each of the two countries has been forwarded and its des tinies matured. Against the Belho, Gioberti, D'Azeglio, Manin, Farini, Iticesoli, Garibaldi, Massini, and a hundred others whose names are household words throughout Europe, Ormany can only produce that solitary and very questionable Bismarck." The Ceurrier de Lyon has the following :—" We learn on good authority that the painful position to which the silk weavers of this city have been reduced by the prolonged industrial crisis is the object of lively solicitude in a high quarter, and there is every reason to hope that good results will follow. M. Brosset, President of the Chamber of Commerce, and M. Arles Dufour, of the sam e body, who have gone to Paris on a mission connected with the condition of the silk manufacture, are expected back immediately, and will doubtless render an account of what has passed." A St. Petersburg letter says :—" Different net works of railways have been constricted either by the government or by private companies, and the lines already in working are the following :-1. St. Petersburg to Mos cow. 2. Moscow to Nigni-Novgorod. 3. St. Petersburg to TsartkoeSelo. 4. St. Petersburg to Peterhoff. 5. St. Peters burg to Warsaw. G. Wilna to the Prussian frontier. 7. Riga to Dunaburg. 8. Moscow to Riasan. 9. Moscow to Jaroslaw. 10. Odessa to Balta. The government is, besides, forming a line from Moscow to Orel and Kourak , and has granted to some foreign capitalists concessions to continue the Dunaburg network so Vitebsk, and thence to Oral. The state has also undertaken the works for a line to unite Poti, Tiflis, and Bakon, and is making surveys for other collateral branches." COMMERCIAL TRAVZLLERS' SCHOOLS, PINNER. —A meeting of the friends of this useful institution was held last evening at the London Tavern to commemorate the anniversary of the opening of the schools in 1855 by his Royal Highness the late Prince Consort. Mr. George Rockdale occupied the chair, and in the observations ad dressed to the meeting said that was the day set apart to celebrate the opening of the institution. It was called the " Orphans' Day," and had for some years been selected for the 'impose of making a simultaneous collection at the commercial hotels throughout the United Kingdom in sup port of the funds of the schools. He was happy to say that the system had been highly successful, and he trusted that every exertion would continue to be made to maintain the institution in an efficient state. A circular was read which bad been addressed by the chairman to town travellers, calling attention to the advantages offered by the institu tion, and soliciting their support and co-operation in car rying out the objects for which it was established. At present there are 182 children educated and maintained in the schools, and the receipts during the year amounted to 8,9321., of which his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who is the patron of the institution, contributed fifty guineas. At the meeting last evening the usual collection was made, and a handsome sum was subscribed. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. GUNNERY EXPRRIMSNIS. —Yesterday another I important series of experiments took place upon the Palliser chilled shot and shell, and Firth steel ellen. The I Palliser shells were made of Pontypool iron, with thinner bodies to allow of larger bursting charges ; and they pene trated with ease the thick 8-inch armour plates, the 18-inch teak backing, and the double akin of two 9-16th inch plates, causing more terrible destruction at the back of the target than anything witnessed on the last trial some few weeks ago. One 9-inch Palliser shell was fired at the Warrior target under circumstances intended to represent a distance of 2,000 yards, bet probably in reality equalling some greater distance between that range and 3,000 yards • the penetration was com plete. and the teak baking was set on Ire, the flames quickly coming through the shot-hole. The 7-inch Palliser shells also did great work. Mr. Firth's 7-inch steel shells had heads formed of the peculiar curve designed by Major Palliser, an ogivel, of I's diameter, and had been tempered to a marvellous degree. The new Warrior target No. 28 was completely penetrated by them ; the fore parts of the shells, perfect in form even to their extreme points, coming through memo distance to the rear. The result of these experiments is briefly stated to be that the Palliser shot and shell, doing week of the vary best quality at ler than half the east of steel, are decided upon for the national ammunition, while the manner in which the 'teal has been brought up to the requirenseuts of the time will justify the liestien of the steel suggiied under previous contracts. Mrs. .51 Malslam oceserned 'sick ffol Of Obis Mr. ME sod, app The ii;ri between 1 bled in L emtb been Pei Wang d tie irstel Thai twit beingeu man tl is the ma, the pries theow tam pr th hei and A A 7eni tto Bovil the I we nod of Si edmi Chet the won CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) (Before the Recorder.) THE CHARGE OF PERJURY AGAINST TWO POLICEMEN. . Mather:Maya and William Barry, two pole:easel& of the S division, both very young men, nirrendied tin .: their trial upm a charge of having committed effifelpe jury upon exa mination before the meaner is Marylebona police.court and at the Middlesex rewies Both defendants pleaded not guilty, but Wimp • against the defendant Barry was first proceeded with. Mr. Sleigh, Mr. Stirling, and Mr. M. Williams BY ducted the prosecution ; Mr. Cooper, Mr. Gradisola& Turner appeared for the defendant. The circumstances under which this chugs ine pawl will be fresh in the recollection of the public, sad the case, from the position of the defendants, append is create a good deal of interest. It will be r-menbbeeinsdd th the defendant Berry and the other constable Ha ps Mk two young men, named Charles Pierce and Henry Dye, ids meek on suiipition of having attempted to coma a burglary at the house onto gentles= s eed Gloutiester-enseent, Regpark, sad t was tried upon that charge at the Middies: a sioue and acquitted, and the present indicant was then preferred against the defendants. The alkyls on the part of the prosecution was that the chugs tin was so made was entirely false, and that so far finite young men Pierce and Dye having bees take it ns garden in Glomester-crxecent, they were not Irks ad they had gone some distance from that spot. The load counsel for the prosecution entered at some lag* rile, the facts of the case, awl said that icoordisin Jh instructions the young men against whore ths sine was made were respectable young wen, who in been engaged at their ordinary occupancies alai N Ala in the evening on which the occurrence took die, mid they had been walking with a young soma' end as other young men at a place called the Slips, near the Ho gent's-perk, and they were on their way home when were apprehended. Pierce and Dye were called as witness, sad eq were examined at considerable length, the sdet their testimony being to declare that there was set dr slightest foundation for the charge that was made sped them, and that they were not apprehended st din IP I indicated by the defendants. Ina trial was proceeding when oar report la] (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) George Toakley, 38, was charged with felonirilial * ing a bill of exchange for payment of the sum II bit ss. 10d., the property of the Postmaster-General The Solicitor-General and Mr. Metcalfe pry 6 the prisoner was defended by Mr. Bibton. The facts of the case will be fresh in the recants al the public, as they have appeared within the last fredsri The prisoner appeared to have induced a law sing named Sale to steal letters containing valuabics, WW I them over to him to dispose of, and the offence mea d ' established. The prisoner was found guilty, a nd sentenced a lO years' penal servitude. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) THE LEEDS BANKING COMPANY CAM. Edward Orem/and, the late manager of the lek, B an king Company, surrendered, in discharge of Midi* answer several indictments which had been foeed ba r him some months past, and the trial of which bla from time to time postponed from various cams. , The prisoner was now first arraigned on an isdie lsid „ charging him for that he, whilst manager of th e law Banking Company, did, with intent to deceive divesth?t holders in the said banking company, unlawfuyy Inn , certain false statements in a document purPotatZi. report of the directors of the company. To this the prisoner pleaded not guilty. u pon an WO ° The prisoner was next arraigned charging him with having committed wilful and ell perjury in an affidavit sworn by him at Leeds ea de January, 1864, before Mr. William Sykes Wald , 11 : missioner, for administering oaths in that district fer i Court of Chancery. To this indictment he pleedli4 guilty, as also to a third indictment for pejo/ , affidavit sworn by him before the same authority "' Bth July, 1864. Mr. 10. D. Keane, Q.C. (specially retained). yr. II and Mr. F. Lewis appeared for the prosecution, , was instituted by the Leeds Chamber of Comoro Serjeant Bellantme (specially retained), Mr. OiNstd/5 (also specially retained), an d Mr. Sleigh apposed' . prisoner. The primmer, having been given in charge to tla the indictment charging the perjury alleged to muted by him on the Bth July 1864, 1864, Mr. D. D. Keane to open the case on of the prosecution. The leanawl gentleuianooo7.• by detailing to the jury the various duties Meat jok manager by the several statutes regulating baste and then stated that the perjury alleged *Pm 'Z. Donor consisted in an affidavit sworn by him al 02 1101 rrio curacy of the weekly and monthly re t urns requirek of the average emanate of the no tes and bills, ba h s o e and in circulation. On an investigation it bad bra Mined, and be believed would be shown, that thee +/ had been falsified. and that the prisoner had IWOOM in the number of notes in circulatiuu was stroseak some instances to between 8,000/. and 9,00%. "' n one case to the amount of Zi ,ooo/ . , loss thee.a. true circulation. On this the Perjury was m ei The formal proof was then given of the ~ the company, and of the swearing of the affi 111„ ~ 11 prisoner. The case, which involves a long dereilLo counts, is likely to occupy the entire day, if rest"also. THE TRILL OP RISK ALLAH REV.—At Stilt the oourt was crowded on Tuesday, the woon_d triaL A. letter from the capi tal sa y s :—" 11,0 the accused was sustained in a wonderful moue .t adjournment of the assmination. When the certain elopes was wider question, he left the dock, ed, stepping across the floor of the wet, lensed by the sentry, 'misted the jury in their IA the Papers. The peeddent, who hat the,!TL i p quitted the Wfbnes4 permitted the seenisW proceeding on Risk Allah's part for a few olis•Q then motioned, him to return. The day's ea** "" vane= the ease but little." r She was to ate rt In aro mitten: elther a nr ner. twee fa rled wo erowd Soto ow eeferal goner Mr. other taboo Mr. with hi Aug; bet not Ili Dot? re biz on Na