The Express. — London, England, 1864-09-10 00:00:00

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To . op!RIZIPONDENTIL Alt sresesseets tatebdeT for •: Tiejlbs - e7e" Tondos Smelly* Power. must be at the dim le, Boassetseskost. tq Two o'clock os the day el pabliceilom. rsrxcna s. TEM IMMO, BORN T7C . ZOOD — LUCK. Mr. D. Murray. And THE STREETS OF LONDON. Mews. J. W. Ray, David Fisher, D. Murray, J. Nelson. H. Forrester, and H. Mellon Mrs. H. Marston, Misses Barnett and Gwynn. IMITA.NNIA THIS EVIIWMO. MrTINV AT THE NORE.- Singing Ty Mr. H. Clifton and Mr. J. H. Stead Madame Pleon.—Mr. G. W. Jester. —Concluding with THE DRUNICABIYS CHILDREN. HIGH HAT= AT LONDON THI. DAT /10111 1 / 1 4, tL Alfersorm. 811. 611. Tu-xoitauw 'doming. sh. .ArlsracKe. 913. 32a. LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. AMONG the revelations made by the Officer of Public Health none are more startling than those which relate to Infant Mortality. Few of our read ers will be prepared to learn that there are whole dis tricts in England—rural districts, they are called— where a deliberate practice of infanticide is the custom of the country. Not that it is of that horrible kind of which the Coroners of the Metro politan districts denounce the prevalence to an alarming extent ; but if less direct in its criminality it is certainly-more destructive to the young growth of the population, and, if possible, more revolting in its deliberate and unnatural cruelty. A certain average of infanticide is, it seems, quite accepted in the large manufacturing towns, as a destructive agency of tolerably regular operation. So we find these places spoken of as " Inland " tidal " to a higher or lower rate. Of course, one meaning of this awful term is, that in these crowded dwelling-places the battle of life being always a struggle, mothers are compelled to bear more than their share in the conflict ; all that forms a home is shattered, and the younger the children the more fatal is the conse quence. "Infants who should be at the breast " are improperly fed or starved, or have " their cries of hunger and distress quieted "by those various fatal opiates which " are in such request at the centres of our " manufacturing industry." The well-known sani tary defects of the houses in which the manufac turing population live, and to which much infant mortality is due, are to a great extent remediable ; but here we meet with a problem of social science hard to deal with. We cannot suppose that any thing but the fiercest want can so far dull the mother's natural love of her child as to lead her to this dire neglect, and the effort to meet this want is one that it is difficult to say should not be made. We cannot prevent those mothers from leaving their wretched homes to go to the mill ; the question ia, can any practical means be found for protecting the unfortunate offspring Inquiry made officially into the operation of these causes of infant life destruction in towns ha, shown that, while the children ware perishing under all this neglect and mismanagement, the mothers were becoming more and more " denaturalised " towards their offspring ; commonly not troubling " themselves much at the death, and even some " times (it was believed) taking direct measures to " ensure it." To give some definite representation of the extent to which this destructive agency of young life is at work, here are the figures showing the infantile death rates. The lowest rate of any district in England is 7,047 per 100,000 children living under one year of age ; in 15 other registration districts the annual death-rate is 9,085 per 100,000 living. These may be taken as the fair average of infant mortality. But in 62 districts it becomes from 20,000 to 22,000, and in Hoo in Essex, Wolverhampton, Ashton- under , Lyne, Preston, Nottingham, Stock port, and Bradford it reaches 25,000, while in Wisbech and Manchester the death-rates are nearly equal—a dense manufacturing city and a retired rural district--being respectively 26,001 and 26,125. The discovery of this enormous mortality of an agricultural district, equalling the obviously noxious agencies in their most concentrated form in a great city, was at first sight quite unaccount able. It was concluded that there must be some destructive force at work here foreign to that which arises in all collective employments ; but on investigation it turned out that the same causes precisely were producing the same effects. It was discovered that in consequence of the quantity of land in these wide marshy districts being reclaimed and brought under cultivation, female labour of every grade had been brought into use, exactly as we see is the case in the mill and mining districts. Dr. liretza, the medical officer who examined into this painful subject, came to this conclusion, and with a certainty impossible to gainsay. The opinion of about seventy medical practitioners and others well ac quainted with the condition and habits of these poor people, agreed completely that a more fatal enemy had been introduced than the agues and fevers which prevailed in those dis tricts before they were cultivated, by this employ ment of mothers and the whole female population in the fields. It appears that largo " pugs" of women, girls, and buys are worked together under the charge of an " undertaker," who contracts with the farmer. These gangs will travel many miles from their village, dressed in short petticoats, often with coats and boots, and sometimes trou sers, "looking wonderfully strong and healthy, " but tainted with a customary immo " rality, and heedless of the fatal results " which the love of this busy and independent life " is bringing on their unfortunate offspring pining "at home." %V 0 need not enlarge upon the THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1864. opportunities of immorality and crime which mast be encouraged by this " gang" system. The num ber of infant victims is doubled by it, and cruelty towards these illegitimate children is exercised without the least compunction. The ordinary custom is that " the mother, as soon es she can rise " from her confinement, goes sway to work, leav- " ing her infant to any one who will take care of " it. The child is fed on lumpy sop, dirty and' " smoky, from • cup kept on the bob, and never " cleaned, whence the fermented and sooty mass ' "is heaped into the infant's month. So-and-so " has another baby,' the neighbours say, " you'll see it won't live.' " And the prediction is very seldom wrong ; either the child is killed by " the normal operation of the " diet," says Dr. Huxrrs, or through a surer process of deliberate starvation, perhaps through an intentional or accidental overdose of the opium in the shape of cordial of some sort universally given. As the old nurses, who all take opium, occasionally administer of their own bottle to the infants left in their charge, a surgeon is not unfrequently summoned "to find half-a -" dozen babies, some snoring, some squinting, all " pallid and eye-sunken, lying about the room, all " poisoned." The surgeons in these parts happily have invented an ingenious way of administering an emetic by injecting sulphate of zinc solution into the stomach through • catheter tube—a remedy which it is well should be known, as it often eaves life otherwise irrecoverably gone. When these little victims die, either from the starvation of " ablactation," or from the deadly opiate, the case is commonly reported by the parent to the registrar, who is quite familiar with them, and tills up " Debility from birth, no medical " attendant," " Premature birth," or anything but the real cause of death. The whole affair is so common an occurrence that, as Dr. Hrirrzit observes, " the public opinion of the neighbours " seldom goes beyond a sneer or • sarcasm on the " occurrence of • quarrel perhaps months or years " after." The only course suggested to be taken to oppose and eradicate this dreadful evil, over which the Coroner and the Registrar seem to have so little power, is the establishment of infant nurseries under the charge of the Poor Law officials, or by private charity, under proper medical supervision, where the younger children of mothers working in these gangs could be taken care of while they are away. Something also might be done, it is thought, by imposing a license on the sale of opium. A more stringent inspection of the Medical Officers, the Registrars and the parish authorities should, at any rate, afford the means of checking such mon strous and unnatural cruelty. Inc noun. BALMORAL, Sire. 8. The Queen, accompanied by the Ducheseof Saxe C•barg and Princess Louise, drove to the Lynn of Quoich yesterday. The Prince.. Helena, attended by the Hon. Harriet Phipps, drove to Birkhall. On Monday, notwithstanding the col& and boisterous weather, her Majesty, attended by the Duchess of Coburg, drove up through the Ballochbois Forest in an open carriage. The party crowed the Des a► the old bridge of Invereauld, and returned to Balmoral Castle by the lover Hotel and Moueltrie. On Wednesday evening her Majesty spin drove up by Invercaukl and Braemar. The day was fine, and the Queen and party appeared to enjoy the beautiful drive very much.—Dundee Adurret.er. A letter from Bonn states that Prince Alfred of England will arrive there in the autumn, and will studylor • year at the university, where, as will be well remembered, the late Prince Connors passed • portion of his youth. The Earl Russell, an one of the Secretaries of State, will relieve the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, on the 12th inst., in attendance on the Queen at Ramon]. The noble earl, with the Countess and Wire Russell, are staying at Windermere, for • tour of the lakes. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, who re turned from Broeket-hall, Hants, last evening, will leave town early in the ensuing week for Breedlands. Lord and Lady Stan ley of Alderley, and Hon. Mimes Stanley have been staying on a visit to Lord and Lady Wensleydale. at Ampthill.park. Bedfordshire. The nobie lord and family intend to leave to-day for Alderley•park, Cheshire. The Marquis of Sligo has arrived at the St. George's Hotel. The Earl Cadogan is again seriously ill, but not worse than be was in the summer. Several members of his family are in town owing to his illness. The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam and Ladies Fitz william have arrived at Wentworth Howe, Yorkshire, from their seat in Ireland. The noble earl and counter will entertain a select party at Wentworth during the Donnuiter ram. The Earl of Westmorland has left the Sk George's Hotel. The Earl and Countess of Scarborough will re ceive a large party at Sandbeek Park, near Rotherham, during the Donceater nee meeting. The Earl de Grey and Ripon and his son, Viscount Goderich, ore now doling at Nocton Hall. V iscounteas Jocelyn and Hon. Misses Jocelyn base left Switzerland for Torio. Lord and Lady William Osborne have left England on a tour in Germany. The Highlands and Wanda of Scotland are now within 24 hours' distance of London, and there in every prospect that before the close of another year there will be an iron road from the Lands' End to John o' Groat.. ALl , Easncrr. —lt is very generally reported throughout the division that Colonel H.S. H. Priooe Ed ward of Saxe-Weimer, Grenadier Guards, will succeed Major- General David ituraell, C.B. (whose period of service hu very nearly expired), in command of the 3rd Brigade.— Co,trd Scrricr THE BATH MEETING OT THE BRITISH ASSOCIA TION.- The preparations for the 34th annual meeting of the British Association are now in a forward state. Appli cations for tickets are pouring in from all parts, and the attendance will be exceedingly numerous. Amongst the emi ' rent personages who have already signified their intention to be present at the meeting are the Earls of Cork, Ennio. killen, and Nelson, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Bishop of Oxford, Bishop Coleuso, Lady Franklin, Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir John Bowring, Sir W. Jardine, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Sir William Armstrong, Sir Edward Belcher, and many others. The programme of the pro oeediogs for the nine days, as at present arranged, is annexed:—Wednesday—Meeting of the general committee in the Guildhall, at 1 p.m., for the election of sectional officers, &c. ; first general meeting in the Theatre ►t eight p.m., when Sir W. G. Armstrong, C. 8., LLD., F.R.S., will resign the chair, and Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., Ac., will samaras the presidency, and deliver the iaangural address. Thursday—The eight sections will open at 11 a.m. in the rooms mentioned above. A cooveraxione, in the Aseembly. rooms, commencing at 8 p.m. Friday—The sectioes as usual. Professor Roscoe's lecture in the Theatre, on "The Chemical Action of Light," at 8.30 p.m. Saturday—The sections as usual. Excursion to Frome. ilolwell, and the Valli.; excursion to Stanton Drew and Radstock. Evening banquet in the Guildhall, given by the mayor. Moeday— The sections.. usual. Meeting of general committee io the Assembly-room. at 3 p.m. to decide upon the place of meet, ing in 1865. Dr. Livingstone's address canonising his explo rations in Africa during the list six years, io the Theatre, at 8 3') p.m. Tuesday—The sections as usual. Microsco pical soiree in the Assembly-rooms at S p.m. The instru manta eolleeted will be insured during their railway transit for not lase than 6,000 f. Wednesday—Concluding general meeting at 3 p.m. in the Assembly-rooms. Evening banquet in the Guildhall, given by Mr. Tite, M.P. Thursday—Ex- COTSIOO to Bristol sod Clifton ; excursion to Salisbury, Old Sarum, and Stoneheage.—Batt CArosidt FINANCIAL RESULTS OF THE BIRMINGHAM FESTIVAL. (From the Birmingham Post of this day.) TOTAL BOKMAItY OF TUT WITH.-1864. Tuesday, September 6—Fint day Wednesday „ 7—Second day 2,980 18 3 Thursday „ B—Third day Friday „ 9—Fourth day £12,452 1 9 DOUBLR EXECUTION AT LEEDS.-(THIS DAY.) This morning the executions of Myers and Bar- glom—the former charged with wife murder, and the latter with murdering John Cooper—took place at Armley poi, neer Leeds. Yesterday, the workmen commenced the erection of the scaffold, sad in the field adjoin ing the Armley-read some enterprising speculator had built a large platform, commanding • " good view" of the scene of execution. The toll-hones keeper in front of the gaol had erected • similar stage or gallery. Yesterday morning, the governor (Mr. Keene) visited Oar- Omen, and the lad almost immediately bunt into tears. Upon being requested not to leave the world without throwing any further light on the murder of Cooper, which he might be able to do, he, in substance, reiterated his former statements. He acknowledges being on the scene of the murder, but decline that Cantos (the bill against whom was thrown out by the grand jury) had previously persuaded him to accompany him, and that the latter struck the fatal blows. The plunder was then divided between them. " I cannot," said Sargisson, "give any more information. I saw Denton take • hedge stake out of the hedge, and knock Cooper dove. Denton then lost hie cap, and in looking about for it I got the blood on my trousers. He told me I was sot to my anything about it, and that I wee to burn my clothes." This statement Ssrgimon most steadfastly declared to be the truth. Mr. Tuckwell, the chaplain, placed his awful position before the convict in the most solemn way imaginable, but Sergi's= still adhered to the above statement. He says, in addition, "If 1 could my anything that would free him (Denim) I would, bet it was he who struck the blow." Of the spiritual Dos dition of Myers, the chaplain also reports favourably ; sta ting that since Sunday last, when the "condemned sermon" was preached, he has been greatly softened. On Monday, he was visited by hie eider, his son, hie son-in-law, his daughter in-law, and his other children. It could not be expected that the meeting would be otherwise than • painful one, or that the attitude of children towards one who bad de prived of life • tender and faithful mother could fail to be embarrassing. Mr. Tuckwell told them of the inter views he had had with their father, of his contrition, of his having prayed that they might be enabled by God's grace to withstand the temptations through which be him. self had fallen, and of his having expressed the hope that as he wu so soon to appear before his Maker, he would be merited by them that they forgave him the grievous injury his crime had inflicted on them. All of them were deeply affected by the narrative, and showed their pity and revived affection by kilning their unhappy father. All of them, at the request of Mr. Tuck well, knelt down sod prayed. Myers was moved to tears. and said, " I swore I would never kneel, but I will do so now." Since that time he has been visited by Mr. Thomas Gxlsoe, • missionary in coo nexion with the Society of Friends, who had administered spiritual instruction to him when he was lying in hospital after the unsuccessful attempt on his own life ; by the Rev. Mr. Alderson, of Wakefield, who had also an interview with Sergiason ; and yesterday by three cousins, two of them females from Skelmanthorpe, near Huddersfield, and by his brother. (By mimic TELZORAPH.) LEEDS, SATURDAY MORNING. Myers and Sugision were executed in front of fArmley Gaol at 9 this morning. There were from 80,030 to 100,000 people present. &ninon died persisting in the statement that he did not strike the fatal blow, but errs present at the murder. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. EIGHTEEN PASSENGERS INJURED. An accident occurred yesterday near the Wortley Junction of the Great Northern Railway —the pamenger train which left the Central Station, Leeds, at 12.10 p.m. for Bradford, coming into collision with • West Yorkshire coal train. The accident remitted is eighteen of the pas sengers being injured —one of them severely ; and from what we have learned there is so doubt that it was caused by gross oarelesauess on the part of the engine driver of the passenger train. About 2C3 yards past Holbeck Statism, where the line branches off on the right hand to Armlet and Bradford, and on the left to Wakefield, the points are pro tected by *levels ; and about 309 yards further on, at the Armley points, there is soother signal post. AN the train approached the first signals the pointillism exhibited a green flag. on the display of which it became the duty of the driver to proceed slowly, so as to be able to pull up on the shortest notice. Disregarding this caution, the driver proceeded at the usual speed, and only when within thirty or forty yards from the Arnim points, became aware that a coal train was approaching the points from another direc tion. He immediately shut off steam, and did all in his power to stop the train, but. finding that a collision was inevitable, be jumped from his engine, and escaped un injured. The fireman followed his example, but the guard, whose name is Landon, remained at his post, and, by immediate application of the break, tended to slacken the speed of the train. The cotillion took place exactly at the Armley manta. The enigmas were much damaged ; and the first carriage of the passenger train—a third-clue one—also suffered from the shock, the buffers being broker and one of the partitions stove in. Eighteen of the passengers sus tained injuries by the force of the °ammeters, fortunately only in one case of a serious nature. Mr. Balmer and Mr. Smith, surgeons, were on the spot shortly after the occurrence of the accident, and attended to the injured passengers, all of whom, with the exception of • woman named Mary Addy—who was sent to the Leeds Geocral Infirmary—were able to proceed to their respective homes. The poor woman, Mary Addy, is seriously injured on various parts of the body. She resides in Beverley, and was on her way to Stanningley, to visit her mother. The coal train had come from Braniley, and consisted of empty wanons, which had to be deposited at the various coal-pit, on the line to Wakefield. The driver of the passenger trains by whose negligence the accident occurred, is named Brown, and has been for many years in the employment of the company. The accident muted • very slight obstruction on the line, but the traffic was resumed in about as hour after the oxurrenos.—fredo Mereury of this day. HEROIC CONDI:CT.—We have pleasure in record ing so act of exemplary courage and generosity by a young gentleman, • native of Dublin, as we find it related with warm and deserved expression of admiration in the noir, a Dieppe journal, of the 30th of August. The lad. only 14 years of age, who gallantly rescued the child from drown ing, was Master Isaac D'Olier Lees. second son of the late Dr. Catboirt Lees, of Fitswdliatmsquare. " Yesterday," mays La Vigie, "at 4 in the evening, a boy named Nothias, who was looking at the fishermen on the pier, fell into the Duquesoe basin, where the water is deep. Listening only to the voice of pity, another child, aged 14, Isaac D'Olier Lees, native of Dublin, threw aside his fishiag rod and sprang resolutely into the water from • height of 30 feet. The child was nearly exhausted when the generous boy MK ceeded, not without much effort, in holding him up in the water till they were both taken into • boat. This noble act wee performed in the presence of an enthusiastic crowd. What adds greater honour to the young hero is that the wall was quite smooth, and there was nothing to hold by." The mayor of Dieppe has sisoonneed his intention to pre. sent a silver medal to Master Lees, who certainly well merit. that distinction. —DrUin /Inning Mail. SHOCKING AND FATAL ACCIDRNT AT CRCRCH FENTON TO A YORK RICRITECE—On Tuesday evening lest • very sudden and singular accident occurred at Church Fenton, at the brickyards belonging to Mr. Graham. of York, whereby one gentlemaa, well-known is this city, lost his life, and two other perssos were more or less injured. On the premises was a large eight hole brick or the kiln capable of burning some 40,000 ordinary draining tiles, and this building had fallen somewhat out of repair. The manager of the work', William Palmer, commouicated to his employer, Mr. Graham, the state of the build ing, and the latter gentleman promptly took ma ma to restore or rebuild the worn out structure. Ac cordingly on Wednesday afternoon last, be went to view the place, aosoropanied by Mr. John Hornsey, of this city, architect. After spending • short time in looking at the place, about half-past 5 o'clock Mr. Horsley pro ceeded to make his measurement, preparatory to drawing his intended plan for re-building the place, and for that purpose went inside the kilo. With him were Mr. Graham, Palmer (the manager), and his sou, and also a labourer named Cawthorn.. Mr. Hammy mounted a ladder and procee led to take the dimensions of the spring of the arch, and while he was so occupied, Mr. Graham and his manager went out of the place to have some convereatioo. Just after this time Mr. liorosey had apparently finished his labours and was desesading the ladder to leave the place when, without the slightest premonitory warning, the roof fell in with a frightful crash. At the entrees, to the kiln wei found Palmer's lon jammed by the legs between a wheelbarrow and the welL la the right corner of the kilo, up to the waist in fallen bricks, stood the labourerCawthoiroe, his face streaming with blood, from wounds in the head. He had noticed the building 'pries way, sad had just time to jump into a corner, sad thus wisps certain death. As it is, the wounds are very severe, and he sow bee be a very dan gerous state. Greens were sow heard in another career of the kilo, and. after • lapse of nearly • quarter of an hour, Mr. Hornsey was taken from the miss. Although suffering most later:oily, he was quite sensible, end asked that his sister might be seat for. About 40 minutes after be had been rescued, sod before the arrival of the medical oaken. he breathed hie last The deessesd's injuries were of the most frightful description. His skull was bastes in in more than one place, and his jawa, about the month, dread fully torn and laserated. His right thigh, right knee, and right leg were aboekiagly mangled, and his right sem was broken. It is also believed that he had sustained fracture of the ribs, besides severe internal int1114(111. Mr. Hornsey followed the profession of an architect, and was meet highly respected sad esteemed ; therefore we amid scarcely add that his untimely death will be regretted by a large circle of Meads.— Yorkshire Gazetic. LATEST INTELLIGENCL DENMARK AND GERMANY. The commission for fixing the delimitation of the frontier line between Denmark and the Duchies, and which is shortly to proceed to Jutland and Sleewig, is to consist of Lieutenant- Colonel Schonfeld, for Austria ; Colonel Thile. for Prussia ; and Colonel Bauffmann, for Denmark. (utrita's =maw's.) PROBABLE VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES TO SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, Sm. 9. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales are expected here at the end of this month. A letter of invitation has been addressed to them by the King of Sweden, and a Swedish man-of-war will be despatched to meet them. ITALY. TURLN, S. 10. The National Bank of Italy has raised its rate of discount to 8 per cent. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (moat ova ows coaaserossarr.) PARIS, FRIDAY Evisass. The French press has placed itself most unre servedly on the aide of Denmark, and the more that power is bullied by Germany the more does the wrath of each writer increase. This vast literary net work represents the feeling of the na tion, and yet France stands idly looking on, and satisfies herself with giving vain advice, abusing England for being as motionless as she is, and enjoying every telegram which shows some thing rotten in the alliance between the two plun dering powers. To-day Denmark throws obstacles in the way of a final arrangement, and with two future sovereigns billing and cooing in her capital, shows resistance. The French press sees something decidedly diplomatic in these visits, and sings peens to think that Germany must relinquish some of her claims in presence of these august travellers, as if their opinions at Copenhagen were stronger than in London and St. Petersburg. Yesterday the leading journal here proved, in a clever manner, that the whole expenses of the war should fall upon the Duchies, as if men greedy of gain would be likely to pay attention to public law. Now Prussia seems on the point of seix;ig on the Duchies for herself, but Austria appeals to the Diet, and Russia shows her teeth. Then Austria and Prussia lay aside all other causes of quarrel to overawe the secondary States, and the secondary States are reminded by France of the old confederation which Napoleon I. pro tected. Austria wishes her non-German posses sions guaranteed, but Prussia refused this unless conceded more than an equivalent. However, it may be asked if this arrangement has been concluded. Austria is said to be on the point of recognising Italy, and two explanations may be given for this unexpected event. Prussia may have satisfactorily guaranteed Venice, and again, if diplomatic rela tions be established between Vienna and Turin this offer, which could hardly be refused by the advisers of King Victor Emmanuel, would give anything but satisfaction to the party of action. These are the various themes which have occupied French writers for a week past, but the relationships in which the different powers stand one to another is on all sides admitted to be a mystery. The visit of Minister Roon appears to have borne speedy fruit, for already come telegrams that the Prussians are constructing at Kiel dock and basins on the model of those of Cherbourg. M. Ganesco, formerly editor of the Courrier du Dimanche, has got into trouble with his new paper, the Europe, brought out at Frankfort, for having published severe remarks respecting the conduct of M. Bismarck. M. Genesee appears no friend to established authority; he was banished from France, and now runs the risk of having the same sentence passed on him by the Diet. The Nord states that the Duke De Grammont- Caderousse has died of a pulmonary disease, at Biarritz. Last week it was rumoured thst this nobleman breathed his last in Spain. The Minister of Public Instruction in France, in order to encourage young people to motions their studies after leaving school, proposes to found • prize in every cantos for the child of 15 or the youth of 18 who, while employed in manual or agricultural labour, shall have best retained or improved the instruction he received at school. The primula to consist of • deposit in the savmgs•bank. The expense is to be defrayed by the Minister of Public In struction, or by the department, if sufficient funds are not provided by private coati ;butions. A few days ago the leading members of the Female National Committee in Galicia were tried at Cracow and sentenced to more or less prolonged impri sonment. The Countess Ostraerska, who had the care of the funds of the committee, is to be imprisoned for live years, the Counteu Wochicka and Madame Zebrowska for ten months, and four other ladies for periods varying between six and three mouths. According to the Galician correspondents of the Views papers, persons are still arrested in the streets of Cracow and Lemberg on sus picion of being connected with the revolutionists io Miamian Poland. A public meeting has been held in Kanturk for the purpose of making arrangements to present a congratu ktory address to the Right Hon. the Earl of Egmont upon his assuming formal possession of the Kanturk family estate, lately the subject of well.koown litigation. Hi lordship arrived at Lohort Castle within the past few days, and this is cleaned a fitting oca•inn to tender him the best wishes sod cordial respect of the tenants on the property. The result of the deliberations of the meeting wee that a depu tation was appointed to wait upon Lord Egmont and consult his oonvenience ma to receiving the address, &c. " The cotton crisis in Orance,' says the Moni teur, " which has been so severely felt by the operative class, seems to have well nigh passed away. The commrop- Urfa of cotton io France during the first three months of the present year Wei 30,1:18.:r87 kilos., one-third more than in the same period of 1841, and one-third less than in the same period of 1860. The mischief caused by the war in America is therefore in • fair way of being remedied. Before 1861 no lam than 60 per omit. of the whole supply of cotton came from America ; the imports from that country are now scarcely two per cent. of the whole, and there seems every probability that ere long the French colonies of Algeria, Guyana, and the West ladies will pro duce as much cotton as Frames requires." . - A Chamounix letter states that a serious accident occurred three days back near that town. IL Lenient, Protestor of Rhetoric at the College Napoleon of Paris, was visiting with his wife and several other parsons the arch formed by the glacier at the source of the Arveyron, when, in passing along the foot of the Moraine, a large atone rolled down the monatsin and struck M. Lenient on the head, knocking him by the force of the blow into the river. He was taken out and reoveyed to his hotel, but at the time of writing the letter referred to ha had not recovered con. ecionanees, and the secrameat bad been administered to him is extrentia. The writer of a Paris letter, in the Indespendance Beige. says :—" Negotiations have bees opened with the Archbishop of Paris for the purpose of removing the ob. slacks opposed to the baptism of the children of Prince Na poleon. As is well known, the situation in which Victor Emmanuel, the intended godfather, is placed in relation to the church, had prevented the Bret baptism. The Emperor's cousin will not consent to the ceremony for the second of the princes taking place before the obstacles to the baptism of the ant shall have been removed. To obtain this result is tte object of the present negotiations, and there is so doubt that it will be attained." 1861. Toeiday E 2,702 7 10 Wednesday Thunday Friday Subsequent donations, he 944 17 7 £11,453 0 0 Increase in receipts of 1864 over 1861 £999 1 9 From Ada statement it will be seen that, ea was ex pected, the festival has proved a remarkable financial sooner. The receipts are about 1,0001. in excess of those at the festival of 1861, which produced 11,453/. The total of the festival which has Just closed hr only been exceeded twice during the history of these meetings—in 1834 (the opening of the Town-ball), when the receipts amounted to 13,5271. ; and in 1855, when the total pro ceeds were 12,745/., only 2931. above those of the present Festival. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S LAST STORY. Mr. Hotten has just published au exquisite frag meat—the beginning of • new story by the late Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was to be called " The Dolliver Romance." It treats solely of an aged old apothecary, Dr. Dolliver, sod his great granddaughter, Panels. The doctor's only child " had died the better part of • hundred years before, and Es graadchildren, a numerous and dimly-remembered brood, bad vanished along his weary track, in their youth, maturity, or incipient age, till, hardly knowing how it had all happened, be found himself tottering onward with an infant's small fingers in his nerveless grasp." The intensity of desolation which the old man felt, and the weight of his yams, are sketched with the sweetest pathos, delicacy, and sympathy. AU the younger portion of the inhabitant. unconsciously ascribed • sort of aged immortality to Grandsire Dolliver's infirm and reverend presence. They fancied he had been born old, and "that he could the better tolerate his aches and incommodities, his doll eats and dim eyes, his remoteness from human intercourse within the crust of indurated years, the cold temperature that kept him always shiver ing sod sad, the heavy burden that invisibly bent down his shoulders—that all these intolerable things might bring • kind of enjoyment to Grandsire Dolliver, as the life-long conditions of his peculiar existence. But, alas, it was& ter rible mistake." And then Hawthorne gives • voice to all the dull misery of an old age so desolate. Yet there were momenta when he would suddesly take brighter hues of life, when little Pupae was walking with him. " His chilled sensibilities had probably been touched and quick ened by the warm contiguity of his little companion, through the medium of her hand, as it stirred within his own, or some inflection of her voice that set his memory ringing and chiming with forgotten sounds. While that music lasted, the old man was alive and happy. And there were seasons, it might be, happier than even them, when Pansie had been kissed and put to bed, and Grandsire Dol liver sat by his fireside gaging in among the massive coals and absorbing their glow into those cavernous abysses with which all men communicate. Hence come angels or fiends into our twilight musings, according as we may have peopled them in bygone years. Over our friend's face, in the rosy flicker of the fire-gleam, stole an expression of repose and perfect trust that made him as beautiful to look at, in his high backed chair, as the child Pawls on her pillow ; and sometimes the spirits that were watching him beheld a calm surprise draw slowly over his features and brighten into joy, yet not so vividly as to break his evening quietude. The gate of Heaven had been kindly left ajar, that this forlorn old creature might catch a eilErell within. All the night afterwards he would be semi-oonscious of an intangible blase diffused through the fitful lapses of an old man's slumter, and would awake at early dawn with • faint thrilling of the heart-strings, as if there had been music just now wandering over them. . . ." At the last word of this extract the pea was laid down. Hawthorne's human work was over. He died quietly in • fainting fit during the night, soon after writing the above. The conservative journal the Press heartily ap proves of the prosecution of servants who absent themselves from church on Sundays, and rebukes Lord Townshend for attempting "to hinder a Christian widow in her kind en deavour to do her full duty to those committed to her charge!" Cord Stanley, M.P., presided yesterday at the Lancashire general sessions in Preston. The motion to grant a sum, not exceeding 401., for the purchase of vest ments, chalice, linen, crucifix, candlesticks, and other article'', in order that the Roman catholic chaplain might celebrate service in the Preston gaol after the manner of him church, led to a long and animated disetudon, strong oppo sition bring offered to the grant by several of the magis trate,. Oo a division, however, the motion was carried by 24 votes to 19. We read in the Atheneum :—" At the moment of going to press we receive from Sir John F. W. Henschel • copy of • circular addressed to him, requesting his sig nature to • declaration on the delicate subject of science and religion ; also • oopy of • letter which Sir John has sent to his correspondent, declining, for reasons stated, to sign such a declaration. The papers arrive too late for in sertion this week ; but we announce the fact of their receipt. because we know that thousende of inquirers will be glad to hear that so eminent • man as Sir John Herschel has raised his voice against this effort to degrade scientific bodies into hostile sects." We have good reason to believe that Lieut.- General Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8.. Adjutant-General to the Forces, will succeed General Sir George Brown, G.C.8., KB., as Commander of the Force. in Ireland at the ex piration of Gwent Brown's command on the Ist of April next.—Gßiled Service Ga:etk. The GEORGIA.—We are informed that the go vernment has declined to interfere in the care of the steamer Georgia, seized off Lisbon by the Federal frigate Niagara. Times. ADMIRALTY MEDITIRRANRAN CRON?. —We understood that his Groom the Doke of Somerset. First Lord of the Admiralty and Rear• Admiral the Hon. J. R. Drum mood, CB., will leave Whitehall ori the ht proximo for Marseille.. there to embark ia the Admiralty yacht fur Serriee Gautte. THE REPRESENTATION or SOUTH Dt'RHAM.—A meeting of some of the leading liberals of this division wag held at the King's Head, Darlingtoo. on Monday. Lieut.- Colonel Benefield, of Hurworth Hones, occupied the chair, and the following members of liament were peewit : H. Pease, Es q. (South Durham ) ; R. D. Shaft*, Eaq. (North Durham) ; W. Henderson, Eaq. (Durham city) ; H. Fen wick. Esq. (Sunderland) ; Right Hoo. W. Hutt (Oateebead); W. B. Beaumont, Fee. (South Northumberland). It was determined to brie( forward another liberal candidate at the next election, It being considered that the state of the register fully warranted such a course, and Captain Frede rick Beaumont, of the Royal Eogineers—consio to W. B. Beaumont Eaq., M.P.—was the gentl e m an spok en o f as likely to be brought forward to stand with Mr. Pena.— Darlington and Stockton Times. REIGATE—It i 8 said to be the intention of the Hon. E. T. Monson to become a candidate for the repre sentation of Reigate in parlisment at the next general election. His brother, Lord Mormon, it will be remem bered, was M.P. for Reigate until he succeeded to the peerage. Tim Nrw Potiez HAT. —For the reason that nothing could be uglier than the hat so long worn by the Metropolitan Police, we rejoice in the substitution of the new helmet for that heavy head-covering, which was the most unserviceable article man has knows. The new hat, although preferable to the old one, is by no means a sue !o es, whether as regards serviceableness or beauty ; which last will assuredly follow the perfect adaptation of the article to its function. It seems to us too high io the body, so that the condensee of the wearer is put out of proportion with the black mass above it. . This is strongly apparent in the front view, where the upright sides are seen to be ugly, and not in accordance with the contour chosen by nature when she moulded the face of man, and set out the entitle curves of his cranium above the visage. For this roans we recom mend Six R. Mayne, who is probably not meddled with in so slightly showy a matter as the clothing of humyrmi dons, either to study for himself the contours of the human skull, or to consult some intelligent artist who has already done so, so that he may benefit by added know ledge in time for the next supp ly of hats to the police. ' The countenances of the " foroe" would assuredly wear a less ' lugubrious expression than they do if the serviceable brims of their new " Islets"— such is the proper name of the hat now ' adopted —were made to droop lees than ie sow the can with ' them ; the depressed corners of the mouth of a melancholy constable are iatensitied in expression by the echo of its form which is produced by his hat's too much sloping rim. At the same time that this change may be adopted, we recommend that a Dearer approach than is at pretest made by the rims in question to a horizontal lfoe should be se cured. These alterations would certainly, as respect" denetural advantages, afford increased protection to the wearer rigaiost blows, and, by diminishing the quantity of material employed, reduce the weight of the garment. We . should not advise the reduction of the height of the crest : as now worn, but rather the reveres. —Atlienreum. The Bishop of Winchester has consented to at- I teed at the Hartley Institution, Sonthaingeon, on the 30th ' inst., to distribute the prier to the easeasefal candidates as the Oxford local examinations. FATAL OMNIBUS ACCIDENTS. 1149l7ESTS.—(THIB DAY.) This morning Dr. Lankester held an inquiry at the Middlesex Hospital, reepecting the death of James Rem aged 30, who was killed by being pitched off the top of en omnibus. Mr. Sydney Garrett, 43, Great Wildwtresit, said tint on Sunday evening last, between 8 and 9 o'clock, he sra, walking with his wife down the Merylebonaroad. He saw an omnibus standing at Gloucester-place, setting &Ara perseingem It then went on, end witnem's wife call. d out, Oh dear, look at that!" She saw the deceased turn a somersault, and fall from the top of the oratibusno the ground. Witness saw the deceased lying on the gromd. He ran after the omnibus, and called out " Stop ; d o , . t you see what you hays done." The conductor came back. He said that he beard some money drop, and somethin g touched his shoulder, but he did net see anything. It was rather dark at the dine. Withers carried the doxowd to the hopitel in a cab. Mr. Ferguron, house-surgeon, proved that the deceased'. spine was fractured by the fall. His head was cut ope n . Hs died almost immediately. • " ' " ' The Coroner adjourned the inquiry for the attendance of some of the presager by the omnibus. Theseus. coroner then held another inquiry relative to the death of a man unknown, who was run over and lulled on Monday evening last. Eliza Gay, 24, High-street, Bloomsbury, said that last ' Monday, at about 8 o'clock in the evening, she was stinging at bet street door, when she saw the deceased Crollf•iiq fLt street. lie fell right before an omnibus, and it weot o v er him. The driver pulled up directly, but not until both wheels bad pared mew him. Witness believed tLe man to be somewhat the worse for liquor. The omnibus was going rather slowly at the time. It was stated that the deceased's clothes were marked "No. 680," and it was inferred that he was either a deserter or • convict. The omnibus which tun over him plied lett/ern Victoria Station and Haverstock-hill. The driver wan taken into custody but it was shown that he was blamele--s. it was at fist supposed that the deceased had cow:tatted suicide. The Coroner having summed up, The jury returned • verdict of " Aocideatel death." THE PANIC IN THE ADELPHI THEATRE. LATEST PARTICULARS.-SEVERAL PER.' iN. LNJ URED. It is scarcely possible to describe the scene 1:1-t night in the Adelphi Theatre. Some fool or scoundrel is the gallery shouted out several times at the top of Li, voice '• Fite !" This so alarmed some females sitting near hire that they screamed and also cried out " Fire." Thi, led the greater part of the audience to believe that the theatre was actually on fire, and the women screamed out, " Escape for your lives !" The immense number of persons in the house then _presented a fearful picture of a struggle for life Or death. The audience rose Cc muse and rushed toward, the usual means of entrance. The consequence was that the crowd leaving were met by others coming in, and a dead "lock" took place at each door ; women. in their anxiety to leave the theatre, were forced down ; sou., in the crowd were so wedged to gether: that they swooned. A gentleman of the name of Horatio Prater, of 6, Commercial road, Bayswater, was forced down as be attempted to rush out of the pit, and was trampled upon by at least It) perion. Stich were the shrieks and cries of the people, especially from the women, that the unfortunate gentleman wee not seen to be lying prostrate on the floor, and many, ie their anxiety to leave, tumbled over him, and they in consequence received sundry bruises. Mr. loom. tor Brennan, of the F division of police, with R number of his men, were fortunately on the spot at the time, and the first-named officer entered the lobbies and mimed the people that there was nothieg to fear, that no fire of any description had taken place. At the mine time Mr. Anson was telling those who were strag gling to leave that everything was perfectly safe, that the alarm had been eansed by some scoundrel in the gallery. Unfortunately during the excitement the fellow managed to eecape. Order having at length been restored, the house was again filled, and the performances were re sumed and concluded without any further interruptioe. Mr. Prater was conveyed on a stretcher to Charing-crow Hospital, whee it was found that, besides receiving several serious internal injuries, his left arm near the shoulder was brokee. He remains in the hospital under the care of Dr. Hancock. The other persons injured were enabled to return home, _ ABSENTEEISM. TO THE EDITOR or THE EXPRERY. Sia,—For a man to make a rapid tour through a country. as Sir Robert Peel did through Galway and Kerry, and report on the state of the people, is worse than seem. less. A prima must go and stay in a district before it is possible to know the real state of the country ; and I will defy any man of common sense or honesty to do so without Coming to the conclusion, we must have an absentee tax. Go nearly where you will sod inquire " Whose land is that!" "My Lord So-and-So," or, " Mr. So-and-So," living abroad, or in England—the lands running to west', and poverty stamped on all. Oh, it makes a man's heart ache at the dreary eight. I oor Kerry, where I am living, and doing what little I can for the people, is the focus of absenteeism. In London this year I sought the acquaintance of some of our large proprietors, and tried by every argument, and then of self-ioterest, to induce them to employ the people, and thus stein the fearful tide of einigration—but " let them go" was the cold response to all my efforts. I then felt, if these men are so little alive to the cry of duty or interest, it is the bounden duty of the legialatuns to compel them to contribute towards their starving poor. I then began to think how could the tax be brought into practical operation. Not by patting it into the heeds of government, who have more than their share of Irish public money already, but collect it through the medium of the poor law, without soy additional expense—for there the value of ail land" are knowo—and to have the sums laid out among the people on Mime estates se the landlords may like best—either in draining, reclaiming land, road making, building better habitations for the poor, or any of the thousaod things wanting to be done. A land lord or his agent would only have to show his books to see what amount of the 20 or 25 per cent. (as might be deter. mined upon) would have to be levied. I merely throw out these practical hints, and hope the subject will never be allowed to slumber till it is the law of the land. —I am, &c., T. BEALE BROWNE, Crotts., Kerry, and Salpertoo-park, Gloucestershire. A New PEER. —Th ere is a rumour in political circles that prior to the next meeting of parliament a new peer will be created in the pesnon of Mr. William Alex ander Mackionoo, M.P. for the borough of Rye. The Lou. gentleman has been a member of the Home of Commons with scarcely any interir.ission since Jima, 18.10, and has always been a thick and thin supporter of the whip party. It is understood that Captain Mackinnon, his son, will be • candidate for the borough of Rye, on the elevat i on of Mr. Mackinnon to the Upper House.lStimexpzpress. MILITARY BALL AT WlND,9oR.—YesterdAy even hag the officers of the Ist Battalion of Soot. Fosairs Guards, who have been doing garrison duty at Windier Castle shim April last, gave • grand ball at the Infantry Barracks, Windsor. The oSicers' tent was erected at the entrance and tastefully decorated with choice exotica and festoons of beautiful dowers as • reception room, and as elegant and commodious toot from the Castle was also erected in the barrack-square, communicating with the officers' house, where an elegant supper warn provided. The walls of the mess room were also tastefully festooned. la this spacious apartment the dancing took place. The qua drille bead was formed by the members of the regimental band under the direction of their master, Mr. Godfrey, who presided at the pianoforte. The company begat to arrive at half-past 9 o'clock, when dancing immediately com menced, and continued with much animation until 12 o'clock, when the ladies and gentlemen proceeded to the supper Met. After supper dancing was resumed. Lieutaaant. Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Hay and Colonel and Mrs. holed Somerset were uoavoidably absent owing to the death of the Duke of Cleveland. ^ T xi tNDoQs L OF FISH. —One evening last week the seine of Tagnmmina was shot, and so great was the number and weight of shad enclosed therein that all the men of the neighbourhood, who were collected for the parries, could Dot draw in the net. Their efforts were coutioned for three days and three nights, but without success. In the meantime, however, four boatloads were taken out of it by means of baskets sod other coatrivances, and, in the end, they had to cut the net. On the thud day the fish began to die in great numbers, to such an extent that the air for some dist me. along where they bane been cut by the action of the waves is very disagrees's', impregnated with the odour arising from their decompos ing bodies. Had the fishermen succeeded in drawing in the 'Moe, it is thought that 40 boats could not have held all the Soh it contained. All along the coast large quantities of shad have been sees within the put week.—Skisherreti Eagle. SHOCKING ent - nrir.—At Greenwich yesterday a girl was found in the marketplace in an almost el haunted state, and with a long iron chain fastened around her seek by OMAN of a padlock. The girl, who is supposed to be about 11 years of age, was discovered by the market constable, having evidently made her escape from some place of confieemeet. Her condition was truly pitiable, and in addition to her sufferings from long coefinemeet, her emaciated state indicates that she has also endured the horrors of stervatioe. The only thing that could be sneer tabbed from her is that her name is Sarah White. Her mild appears to be is such a state that she is unable to name the place she has escaped from. The police were at once communicated with, and the unfortunate creature was removed to the Greenwich union, where she remains, under the treatment of Mr. Sturtoo, the house surgeon. The police are making strict inquiries about the matter. SCHPICCTED SuICIDL —Mr. WIII. Murray, bro ther to Sir P. R. Murray, Hart., of Ochtertvre, Perthshire, is suspected of having poisoned himself at Newcastle. For some time past he has ben residing in that town, and at • late hour on Wednesday night wee in company with several gentlemen at the Central Exchange Hotel. While the company Weft *aiming themselves deceased was observed to empty the contents of a phial into a glass and immedi ately drink it off. He Unsteady became ill, sod u be rapidly became worse, he was speedily cnveyd to the in firmary, whore be soon after exrired. The of the unfortanate man. who formerly, it srpears, held a commis- Mon in the army, have bees apprised of the sad Greet. L"..,zd... Ethoi • to iii olice aiiho p a t al the p., Wines inst. moard a k ee cms the readapt . ' i ached the Wain. 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