The Express. — London, England, 1866-03-12 00:00:00

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THE REFORM BILL A DOUBLE NUMBER Or TUK "EX PRESS" Will be published TO-MORROW, containing a ;verbatim report of the Speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in introducing the Reform Bill of the Government, together with the discussion thereupon, the comments and criticisms of the Daily Journals, and all the News of the day np to the hour of going to press. 12 o'olo*k. most be at the office not later they LONDON. MONDAY. MARCH 12. Tams is some danger that the break-up of the Joint Stock Discount Company may be attended with injurious consequences to a far larger class than those persons who are interested in it as shareholders or creditors. The public, it is notations, habitually act too much upon mere im pulse in their transactions in the Stock Exchange, whether as regards investments or sales. For months or even years together they will go on bidding eagerly against one another for shares in some sort of investment which suits their taste at the• time, and many cases are on record in which the moat extraordinary prices and the most ex travagant premiums have been paid by reason sim ply of the excessive competition of buyers. In course of time a check comes ; perhaps one of the imitative schemes which have sprung out of the inordinate demand oomes with a crash to the, ground ; perhaps a company, who profess , to carry on business simply as discounters of legitimate commercial paper travel far out of their province into speculative " financing" upon a prodigal scale, with the result naturally to be ex pected. Then the alarm and disgust of the public are probably proportionate to the excessive favour which they had previously ettended to new com •psnies, and a multitude of persons, who had here tofore been considered steady investors, appear as blind sellers. Property of undoubted value, well administered, and having nothing whatever in com mon with the speculative schemes which have been I the cause of the consternation, is literally sacrificed. To blame the Stock Exchange, as some do, and to inveigh against its members, as though they were the principal agents in producing depre ciation, and the sole gainers, where so many other people lose, is idle in the extreme. There are, of course, both within the Stook Exchange and amongst the public, a large number of what nay be termed merely superficial speculators, who closely watch and endeavour to rush in advance of the stream of events. These are always, as the came may be, the most rabid sellers or the most sanguine buyers, and they are occasionally instrumental in pushing the movement of prices to its extremist I point. But this class, after all, has little power, nor has the entire Stock Exchange much more. The regulation of prices rests practically in the halide of the general public. If the public become sellers en mane in simple fright, the Stock Exchange dealers, who have neither the means nor, probably, the disposition to take the varied mass of stock flung suddenly upon them, must of course put prices down. The remedial operation of this is usually twofold— holders become less inclined to Bell as prices fall, and fresh buyers of a stronger class are attracted. Occasionally, however—and there are indications even now that this point has been reached—the unreasoning alarm is so general that losses which are absolutely needless become widely diffused. It teems to be a fitting moment Ifor calm reflection. lf a speculative "discount" company fails, the area of the disaster,' after all, is circumscribed, and shrewed investors will do best by assuming that the exposure of directors' shortcomings is more likely, in the long run, to benefit than to damage the joint stock principle ; for, if the great body of shareholders in public companies are possessed of common sense, they will take steps, after a scandal of this sort, so to tie up the hands of directors and managers that its repetition shall be rendered less easy. After all, if two or three companies fail dis astrously, what is the amount of loss compared with the enormous benefits and gains which have been conferred upon the community by the joist dock principle ? Where one bank has in volved its shareholders in loss, how many have proved sources of wealth to all coo -1 corned ? Financial companies naturally suffer 1 to some extent from the mere fact of their being as yet experimental in their character ; but mere youth, if a fault, is one which ovary year THE CATTLE PLAGUE LEGISLATION. The Times g:vvi some idea of the hopeless confusion into which the legislation of the cattle plague has Mien. Tracing the conflicting orders which Wiwi from the Privy Council up to the time at which parliament took up the question, the Times fellows the government bill through both houses, and, having pointed out the relation of the act to the orders, sketches the experience of Mr. Hunt's measure, which has just beta returned to the Commons in a state of confusion impossible to describe. The prohi bition of the movement of cattle, and its exceptions, are mercilessly stricken out, aed the traffic on common roads, so far u we can understand, is left to be regulated by orders in council ; so that it is contemplated that there shall be henceforth three laws in force—the two sots of parlament and the ceders in oonnefl. Having thus mutilated the act sent up to them, the Lords proceeded to fresh legislation of their own, which, it seems exceedingly probable, will meet with as little favour from the Commons as th e legislation of the Common. did from the Lords. The Times bores, how ever, that if the Commons see fit to disagree to the Lords' &madman, they will, at any rate, spare the clause which prchibite movement on canals or rivers so long as there is prohibition of movement en railways, arid the clause which forbids the holding of fairs and markets for the next three mouths. The result of all our legislation seem only too likely to be that we shall endure many evils in order to get rid of the cattle plague, and fail to get rid of it after all. =LDS AND DIZAINCE. Assuming that the proprietors of the Joint-dock Dis count Company will is soy cue here to put up with a beery law sod that the public roandence In even the soundest undertakinp has been shakes, the Daily New proceed! to remark that the business of • discount oempeay 'primps the most difficult of all bushman to WWI& an a sae sad durable foot*, only two 4 ~. THE ifjPRESS, MONDAY EVE : "43I, MARCH 12,4'186ti: .1"1"1 tends to correct, and there can be, nopmsible reason todoubt that a strict adherenpson 1,,U partel the leading fi nancial and credit componitmathe plait principles which lie at the root .of the of thif joint stock banks—establishments which were at one period still more vehemently decried—will be attended with encouraging results in their case also. In a word, it will be lamentable if the public should be turned away from wholesome and legitimate enterprise merely because one or two mismanaged companies have deservedly gone to the wall. It any reader has fondly imagined the disgrace ful evils of Clerkenwell and Lambeth to be glaring exceptions, not to be found elsewhere in the metro politan district, he would do wisely to make a pil grimage to Rotherhithe. Naked men and boys are packed away there four in a bed, the bed being the raised door of the casual wards, and the wards small closets without windows, light, or fire, Clondemned by the Poor-law Board and by every one who has seen them as shockingly unfit for their purpose, these wretched dens are maintained by the guardians of Rotherhithe as appropriate places in which to thrust unwashed casuals out of sight. Nor have these gentlemen the excuse so speciously put forward by those Clerkeuwell guardians who oppose reform. The Rotherhithe workhouse stands on five acres of ground, and has ample vacant space on which might be erected casual wards, labour sheds, bath rooms and every appliance suited to the reception and discipline of vagrants ; but the guardians prefer the cultivation of vegetables and garden stuff, and in spite of advice, entreaty, and warning, continue to stow vagrants away in the vile places we describe. A,t first sight it is very difficult to imagine for what these closed-in cupboards were originally designed. They are too large, and dark, and noisome for rab bit hutches, too cramped and small for one-stall stables, and are not fitted either in shape or size for coal cellars or potato sheds. They are situate under a projecting portion of the old house, now used as a receiving-ward and for workshops; and from the uniformity of their stout wooden door., and the substantial character of their outside fastenings, re semble nothing so much as a menagerie in which to place beasts too obscene to be allowed the light of day. Nor does their appearance belie their original use. Built in the bad old times, as appropriate places in which to confine pauper lunatics, the idiot and the imbecile, the• harmless maniac and the dangerous madman, have all been immured here to shout and yell and frantically gnaw their hearts out in darkness and In solitude. it occasionally happens even now that a mad pauper ib fastened up here for a day or so until arrangements can be made to transfer him to an asylum. In this case the mode of restraint is ex ceedingly primitive. Bedding material is so fastened over the patient's body that he has not full use of arms or legs : this done, he is per mitted to toss and roll and gibber within the limits of his tether, those within bail being comfortably certain that he can neither harm them nor escape from his dungeon. These are the exceptional uses to which the Rotherhithe dungeons are put in the present day, and though we commend the exception to the strin gent attention of the proper authorities, it is their sightly oeoupation by vagrants we are considering now. Let it be clearly understood that we are not speaking of small rooms in which the bed occupies nearly all the available space ; but of beds in which there is not an inch on any side between the framework and the four walls. If the upper shelf of a dining-room sideboard were fitted with a bag of straw, and four undressed dolls stretched on it side by side, with their feet towards the door, which door was made a third of the usual size so as to keep a considerable corner in darkness, the reader would have a fair model of the casuals inthe Rotherhithe wards. In the first of these two per fectly naked men were lying close together on Sa turday night. There was no pretence at division, and no shelf for clothes. Each man's suit lay on its owner's body, so es to supplement the two rugs providshi by the workhouse, and both sleepers seemed bewildered when asked why they slept naked instead of keeping on their shirts. The usual pestilential stench came forth directly the door was opened, and those present endeavoured to peer into the dark hole where these poor wretches lay. They would have a task of work in the morn big, but had not been bathed. The dens for women and young children are in another yard, but are in every particular the same as the men's, save that a better supply of rugs is provided. There has been some grandiloquent talk lately as to the manufastory of vagrants and the contamina tion and deterioration of the honest labourer whose necessities compel him to spend a night in a casual ward. Condemning a man to sleep for long hours in a horribly poisonous atmosphere is perhaps as cient a way of weakening and rendering him unfit for manual labour as the most malicious could I desire ; and apart from the depravity it invites and `the indecency it insists upon, the Rotherhithe system assuredly does this. The Guardians here have not a shadow of excuse. They hove space on which to build, and the expense of new casual wards would be repaid them out of the common fund. They have in the same enclosure a new in firmary, which is airy and well appointed ; and an old workhouse, which has to be propped and sup ported to prevent its crumbling and falling to *owl from internal weakness and decay. They know and have partially tried the right, and deli berately approve and uphold the wrong, as if to confound the theorists who would have us be lieve that were parochial bodies left to themselves, their action would be politic, sensible, or humane. The Marquis of Lansdowne and Earl Russell have enbecribed to the Rooney memorial to Lard Palisade°. At the meeting of the members of the Royal In stitution an Friday evening, Sir Jobe Lubbock delivered a lecture as "The Transformation of lnaecta" The Lord Mayor takes the chair at the dinner of the General Theatrical Fund on the 28th inst. The Winter Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours will dose on Saturday next, the 17th instant. The "sending-in days" for the Royal Academy are the 9th and 10th of April. Eugene Pellet= is at work on a sequel to his " Babylon Modem." It is to be entitled "La Luxe," and his Moods say will hit very hard and aim vary high. itadderecktatsch, the Berlin Punch, line a sketch in which Prawns and Austria as Roman gladiators are ad vancing towards a throne, on which Louis Napoleon is seated, clad in the toga, and his Mow encircled with the laurel wreath of the victorious Impostor. The two gin,- diatom hold their "words on high in the fashion of their ancient prototypes what about to light far t►e amuse ment of their tynuinio lords, while pronouncing the ominous formula used in the Roman circus on inch =a non; Morituri to seutosit. The Imperator looks down upon them with ineffable delight. In June next year the centenary of the Martyr dom of St. Peter will be celebrated at Rome. At the mom time, a oirrespondent of the Timm nye, it is de cided to hold an (Ecumenical Council, to which the Roman catholic prelates from all parte of the world will be in vited. - A dead meat market is about to be established at Solribarapka. • .44 . Olni (TalliktAY.rr Tali 'Landsat "smuts. The Times finds in the electoral returns a con alTratiall of the statement which it has frequently made that a gradual enfranchisement of the working climes has been produced by the rise in prices consequent on the development of trade and the gold discoveries. In 1832 the 101. householder was at the lowest a small tradesman ; now every fourth 101. householder is • working MAO, living on weekly wages, sad the proportion is yearly increasing. No one had guessed before these returns how many work ing mew had been admitted to the register. If the qualifi cation were reduced from a 101. to a 61. rental about one half of the borough electors would then belong to the working-clams. Many will flatter themselves from thee* returns that a mild memorize will settle the question, but • mere increase in the number of voters would ag gravate anomalies which are now a subject of complaint. We should have side by side small and corrupt boroughs, represented too frequently by mere obstructives, and large boroughs and oonaty constituencies enormously swollen in size but yet outvoted. It would be impossible to maintain such a position, and popular indignation would then force on • reform which would carry away with it all the useful functions which small boroughs do as a matter of fact discharge. It is imperative that a redistribution of seats should be brought forward at once. To dream of stopping short at enfranchisement is a policy so short-sighted that, until we are better informed this evening, we shall not believe that any government has seriously conceived It to be possible. The Daily News observes that Mr. Gladstone will show this evening whether he is • great statesman or simply • great financier —a mere politician with a speciality. The statistics, in which Mr. Gladstone's hand may perhaps be traced, are comprehensive and exact, and cannot be an elaborate apparatus for inaction. The returns show the elastic adaptability of the meth-abused Reform Act of 1832 to the growth of the nylon is wealth and numbers, though the fact that the proportion of the people panels lag the franchise to the entire population has not increased in 34 years proves the necessity of further reform. Taking counties and boroughs, we learn that five-sixths of the population have little more than a tenth part of direct political power, and no one will contend that this arrange ment is prised facie • jut one. The returns, on the other hand, get rid of the bugbear that it would be dangerous to admit the British workman to the franchise, for it turns out that this formidable creature has enjoyed it for a long time in a degree quite sufficient to give him the opportunity of working mischief if he possessed snob • desire. As the working classes have practically no share in the oountry repeesent►tios, and the counties have for the mast part opposed the beneficent changes which Mr. Lowe celebrated last session with almost lyric enthusiasm, it is fair to infer that their votes were given for those very asap', and the fact should modify his distrust. There is no reason to look with suspicion on the clam of working men, or to dread the comprehension of a yet larger number of them within the electoral pale. The widget extension of the borough franchise hoped for from the government, a 61. rental trenches, would leave the balance of power in the hands of the existing conatituen. cies. In the boroughs the old voters would be to the new as two to one, the new being 236,000, the old 489,100. The county orastituancies would still be in the ,hands of the nos-working deism ; and a lower rate of suffrage there would bring in a higher clam of voters. The Post places the highest value upon these returns, and regrets that they were not published before, or that the Reform Bill had not been poetponod. The champions of the working classes will namely be prepared to find low many of them there are on the minter, and they will have to acknowledge the disproof of the mramption that working men were virtually unrepresented. If the standard were as low as • 61. rating qualification they might be able to control the lest of the community, and it remains to be seen, whether, in presence of these figures, the government will proposs or parliament accept any such proposal. The oraclusira to which, in the opinion of the Herald, the statistics point, is that the Reform Bill is the last thing that is required. At all events "they Irresistibly suggest that is any re-distribution of seats the 'Lams of the counties ought first • of all to be con sidered, and that whatever is taken from the small boroughs is due to the counties. All that is required is some additional acid special admission, some fancy fran chise, for those superior workmen who accidentally happen not to live in 104 haulm. Bus the Herald secs everywheite s general apathy, even s general feeling of dimwit, towards the whole subject, and declares as a matter within its own knowledge that the government neither wish nor expect the bill they are about to propose to become law. The Telegraph is coovinoed that Mr. Gladstone will have little difficulty in showing that whereas, under peculiar and exceptional circamstasera some boroughs have smog their electors large bodies of mechanics, the waking-classes of Embed are very inadequately represented by that pro. portion of the enfranchised which la drawn from their ranks. Perhaps the silliest theory yet broached is, that any exten sion bill which includes redistribution must fail because of the opposition it would provoke from the pro. se bed seats. Their hostility can make little difference. for such rotten boroughs as Caine, Arundel, and Tavistock, know well that electoral change of any kind brings their inevitable fate nearer ; they are not such lambs es to lick the shepherd's band to-day without observing that the knife is sharpened for to-morrow. The Tekpraph premeds to mention various reasons which lead everybody, it says, to conclude that the editorial remarks in the Times on the subject of reform, have emanated from the back benches of the Rouse of Oommons, and axe steeped is the verjnioe of private resentment. Considering that there are about five millions of working men in England, and only 125,000 of them enjoy the franchise, the Star says the fact that these 125,000 con stitute • quarter of the voters of the country has surely very little that is startling in it, especially if we remember that the operatives cannot influence the other three-fourths of the electors, and indeed are Fable to influences exercised by the other electors which in a large number of cram are practically coercive. The descriptions in the returns, too, seem to be capable of coraprrheodivg a wide range of persons not usually thought of when we speak of the working classes. A liberal reduction in the counties, a 6/. rental franchise in boroughs, and the sweeping away of the ratepaying clauses, are the measures to which the statistics point, and we trust the moderate expectations of the country will be to this extent fulfilled. The Star does not anticipate that there will be scything like • genuine party debate to-night. After Mr. Gladatoaes speech the rest will probably not be more that an affair of Free Lances on either side. The tory tactics are to endeavour to vote the bill out of the house by the aid of the pseudo liberals. ) pf the ninny projeds within the leek tea or The vs y t eare difficta hn ty vin=eh t i h e e ved a permanent o proper pyease:lcl: ,mita held ‘t sellaei n ort notice. A new asupplify has frequently no Atria but to discount mond elms securities, and the conductors are coostaatly exposed to the temp tation of embarking in hazardous transactions, or where is the dividend to ecru from ? Even if only este investment! are accepted, there is at all times the tab of a look up of capital fora& indefinite period. To employdeposits liable to be called is on a few days' notice on loans at long dates Is contrary to all sound principles of commeros. Bankers who have employed their cash reserves in these deposits withdraw them at any semblance of approaching danger ; but if the funds are last out on long date, how am the discount company meet the unexpected demand, for the securities they bold, even of intrinsic value, are of that description which few bankers, and leant of all, the Bank of England, would care to look at ? Finally, • joint-stork company, starting on the business of a small private hoses, is especially exposed to risk, for the original partnere, who are pretty certain to be on the board, no beget feel the want of capital which obliged them in their former position frequently to refuse apparently lures , five Unease:time, and hence, from a desire to do the bedt i they can, they are led to embark in enterprises previously beyond their reach. If the present evil should make , director. more alive to the responsibility they accept, and shareholders more vigilant in investigating the manage ment of their property, a valuable lateen will have been learnt, although at the cast of much suffering and much lose. IS TOPICS. The Times reviews the dimension originated by Sr Robert Peel upon the suppression of the smoke nuisance, and anti cipates some good from it ; for, while manufacturers may see their way to economy and profit, it will be every Englishman's intend to prevent the gratuitous waste of en exhaustible material, on which the industry, wealth, end greatness of his country depend• The superior efficacy of a linen duty upon dogs to ea assessed tax appears to the Tines quite obvious. The alleged owner of a dog knocked on the heed for poach ing would be rare to protest that be was about to return him for taxation next year, whereas a Roane, to be valid at all, must have been procured beforehand. Whether each an arrangement would be satisfactory to " thane portions of the community who ate much attached to the keeping of dogs, and who do not suffer from them as others do," is more than we can say, but it oaramends itself to commas sense too manifestly to be rejected by the dog interest, if there be one, in the Rouse of Oommoas. It appears from the mower of the President of the Poor law Buried to Kr. Kinnaird that Clerkenwall is under a load act which enable, the gusrams to defy the authority of the board in the shameless wile which are connected with their casual wards. The Daily Naos wonders to what en taut them guardians represent the opinion of the ratepayers, and whether the local feeling is in favour of perpetuating nubile scandal at the public wet. Twelve other parishes in the metropolitan district have also the privilege of being able to thwart the Poor-law Board whenever ith suggestions or advice run counts to the wishes of the local authorities. After Rester, however. Kr. Villisra will introduce his pro- mimed bill foe amending the administration of the poor-law in the metropolis, and it is earnestly to be hoped that a compreherrive scheme for parochial reform will then be submitted to the home. _ . --- Observing that oat of 30 millions of inhabitants We eau - - scarcely persuade 30,000 young men • year to enter our army, and that of every 100 entitled to leave after • 10 years' en. garment 40 take advantage of it, the Daily News urges that in the new commthion the ten-year men who have left, and who can now speak without fear or favour, should be asked why they left. Our previous commissions hays been oonteat, it seems, with the evidence of °films and recmdting sergeants. It is to be hoped that the present one will thither depend solely on officiala to tell us where official rules are hard al, nor on colonels and captains to tell us why the privates take their discharge and recruits won't come in. The Post Oates that no overtures have been made to the British government to bring shout an amicable settle seat of the dispute between the two great German powers re specting the ultimate posteriors of the Elbe Duchies. Matters are not yet ripe for an ultimatum. Councils of ministers have been frequently held of late at Berlin, sad, though annexation Is agreed npoo, unanimity as to the MN= has not been arrived at. The Ring and the Crown Prises are opposed to the views entertained by Coant veal Bismarck and others of the royal advisers. The Herald much regrets to hear that, although the most distinguished members of the Roman catholic laity had =premed their entire setisfaction with the uniform oath for members of parliament, as suggested by Lord Derby and Mr. Dirreeli, and it was therefore supposed that a =Analog of this long-vexed question, acceptable to all honourable men, bad been thus strived at, Dr. Manning and others of the Roman prelates have declined to eans don the proposal, and have denounced any parliamentary oath which implies any recognition of the Act of Bottler meat, or of the supremacy of the Qum. ..,..—....- LDory. Vacancies from all other e►aed ere to be filled op as they emir. •• Id. Commanders to be 'Wired at 66, or when phydeslly =Ai kr Berri" and to be allowed to retire at 50, with the mei/at of the Adrobsity, on the temp d the order is hineil of 9th July, 1864. "15. Lientinaats to be retired at 56, or when physisally unlit for marries, and to be allowed to retire at 45, with the consent of the Admiralty, on the terms of the order in maned of 9th July, 1864. " 16. Time served by naval officers Jaclyn employments oonneoted with the navy, which doss not entitle them to [civil superasaue.tion, is to be allowed to rerdron towards increase of half or retired pay in the proportion of one year for every two served is such away. " Admiralty, March 9, 1866." (Signed) "0. PAGIT. PROMOTION IN THE NAVY. This morning was issued for the information of parliament the following oopy of a scheme signed by Lord 0. Paget, proposed for inerewdng the flow of promotion amongst Detain classes of officers of the Royal Navy: "1. Compulsory retirement to beextended %Gall the exe cutive lists. "2. Admirals to be retired on attaining 70 years of spa or when physically unfit for service. "3. Vice-admires to be retired at 68, or when physi cally unfit for service. "4. Rear-admirals to be retired at 65, or when physi cally unfit for service. "5. Fkg-oftioen at present on the active list, who may be retired under these regulstions, will retain all the privi leges of rising in rank and pay to which they are now en titled ; bat no flag-offiesr, who has not hoisted his flag, will be considered eligible for the appointments of vice and rear admirals of the Unite' Kingdom, or for promotion to the rank of admiral of the flee'. _ _ "6. The active flag list to be reduced to 85:—Ad mirals of the fleet and admirals, 21 (but not to be more than three admirals of the fleet at one time) ; vise-admirals, 2r ; rear-laminas, 42 ; total, 85. This redaction to be made gradually, by only filling up two out of every three vacancies mused by the removal of flag °Soars who aoeept Greenwich passions, and by retiremeati from age, whether optional or compulsory. Vaosecies from all other causes are to be filled up as they occur. Vacancies on the list of officers on reserved half-pay in re ceipt of service pensions, and the lint of flag officers of Greenwich Hospital, will not be filled up. "7. Flag ofileers, at present on the entire list, who have hoisted their flags, or been employed at the Ad miralty, are to be allowed to retain their places on the active list it they should prefer it; but they may be placed on the retired list at their own request, with the consent of the Admiralty. Officers coming on to the flag list after ttis date will be subject to ',propulsory retire- ment at the ages speeded above, whether they have served or not. " & Captains to be retired at 60, or when physically unfit for service, on the terms of the crier in council of the 9th of July, 1864. Those at present on the active list, who, before attaining the age of 60, shall have served the aeceseary time to qualify them for promotion to the active Sag Bet, are to be allowed to retain their plane on the active lies, if they should prefer it ; but no captain will be eligible for promotion to the active flag list after 60 years of age, or if physically unfit for service. " 9. Officers promoted to therank of captain after this date will be subject to compulsory retirement on attaining 60 years of age, whether they have served or not. " 10. Captains of 60 years of age, who have served the necessary time to qualify them for promotion to the active flag list, and who remain on the captains' list until pro moted to rear•admfral, will be placed on the retired list, bat will be allowed to rise by itealor.ty to the rank and pay of vice-admiral and admiral respectively. Captains who have served their time, but who retire voluntarily before revis ing the top of the list, will not be entitled to rise to higher pay, as flag officers, then 25e. a day, in accordance with the order in cionsail of 9th July, 1864. " U. Captains who have not served their time for active Sag rank, sad who have been unemployed for tee years, to be retired en the terms of the order in council of 9th Jaly, 1864. "12. Captains to be allowed to reties on attaining 50 years of age, with the ocresent of the Admiralty, on the terms of the order In conned of 9th July, 1864 . "13. The captains' list to be redoeedgransily to 250, by filling up only two out of every three reausales anent by aprolireatate from that rat, why optimal at mama. THE LATE MR. G. W. GORDON. This morning was published, for the information of parliement,theriorrespondesee in relation to the removal of the hue G. W. Gordon from the magiArary la Jamaica •nd the connected with the Monet Bey lock-up case. In July, 1862. Governor Eyre transmitted a variety of papers to the Duke of Newcastle describing the result of a session held in St. Thomu-in-thsEast for the purpose of inquiring into certain charges preferred by Gordon !against the rector and the parochial authorities. Mr. Eyre trusted his grace would approve of the removal of Mr. Gordon, whom he anuses of having been guilty of wilful and deliberate misrepresentation, from the oommir aka of the pesos. Among the papers thus sent is a letter from Mr. Gordon to the Duke, setting forth in stroog terms the state of the Monet Bay lock-up, and the absence from the pariah of any alehouse or hospital. A fortnight later Mr. Ey re wrote along despatch to the Duke giving a narrative of the inquiry. In August Mr. Eyre told the Doke he be lieved Mr. Gordon to be " a most mischievous perm, and one likely to do a great deal of harm amoept uneducated sod excitable prams, such as are the lower clauses of this country." Other letters were addressed by Mr. Gordon to the Colonial Minister, and were forwardsdby Mr. Eyre with momenta Mr. Eyre states in one dispatch that the press of the agony, all the newspapen being under the editorship or control of coloured parsons, bad supported Mr. Gordon. He also says that the improprieties shown to have exited at Mersin Bay lock-up wen certainly of the most disgusting kind, and that there was great neglect of duty or. the part of the magistracy generally, and of the churchwardens in particular. In September, 1862, the Dace of Newoestle tells Mr. Eyre he is unable to censor in the views which he has taken of the proceediop of the justices, and that he can not repri the recapitulation contained in his despatch "as an accurate and complete statement of the facts disclosed in the evidence." His grace points out mierepreeentediene of Mr. Gordes's statements by Mr. Eyre, and ea7l that the look-up-house bed sever been visited by any of the justices till it was visited by Mr. Gordon, and that there could be no doubt that the pees and disgraceful abuses charged by Mr. Gordon against the lock-up house did exist in it up to the time it was visited by him. The Dube observes that the magistrates bad refused to hear eleven out ci fourteen witnesses te.dersd by Mr. Gordon, and that he wee ci opinion "that Mr. Gordon rendered a substantial public service, though a tardy or, io representing to you the abuses which he detected, and that the justices took a discreditable course in over looking the facts which were proved before them, and /apprising the evidence by which he was prepared to prove more." Mr. Gordon's charge against the rector. however, was a wilful and unpardonable representation ; road whilst his true acknowledges the service rendered by him, he says this misrepresentation has tendered his re moval from the commissios of the peace a just and neon. ssry consequence. His grace thinks, however, that the men whose ace was described by Mr. Gordon met with no abundant measure of charity and humanity, either from the relator, the churchwarden, the doctor, the gaoler, or Mr. Gordon himself. His grace cautions Mr. Eyre &piste , rejecting Mr. Gordon's complaints as unworthy of attention. " The repeerenations of a parson who has made false end un founded imputations me to be regarded se doubt with dis trust, when resting only epos his personal credit, but when a serious amount of abase is proved to have existed, and evidence has been eapprsesed, the information obtained from such a pitmen may be useful as indicating the direc tion in which Inquiry should be made." Ia October, 1882, Mr. Eyre replies to the Duke, "Although disapproving of Mr. Gordon's conduct in some particulars, I did not nedervalue the disclosures brought to light by his agesey, but at owe urged upon the juatiose throughout the island the duty and necessity of forgo/ally visiting all places of conflaemest within their districts." He pee on to my that it is very difficult to obtah compeisst sod trustworthy persona either for the public departments or for the magistracy. In the mom month his grace tells Mr. Eyre be presumes that he has communicated to Mr. Gordon so mush of the foregoing despatch as relates to his conduct ; but on Jan. 9,1863, be hes to repeat this request—the iaformation having bees conveyed to Gordon in a very brief note—and writs, to Mr. Eyre, " I think that Mr. Gordon is entitled to be made acquainted with the precise grounds on which I pro. coded is sanotioniog his climbed from the magistracy, sad with this view I have to instruct you to furnish him with a copy of my despatch of the sth of September." The Governor meets with another rebuke from the late WPM Nininerrelative to a documentwhich Mr. Eyrelsed met describing the character of a meeting held is the perish of St. Thomas-in-the-Eon. What this account actually contained we are unable to say, as a line of asterisks ti given at ter the words " I have now the honour to forward a report furnished to me confidentially ;" bat the nature of the statemeets may be gathered from the following de test& written in reply in the following month by the Doke of Newcastle. His grace says, "I have remind your despateh, No. 84, of the 23rd ultimo, covering a report on the public meeting held on the 27th August, in the parish of Bt. Thanes-in-the-East. The ineloeure NOW= a series of rejections upon the private characters of the persons who attended the meeting in favour of Mr. Gordon, into the truth or error of which I have no disposition to inquire ; and I take this opportunity of observing to you that I feel we you will find it most conducive to the public intend* you have at heart to occupy yourself rather with the Judson of sots sad prooeedinp with which you Dave to deal than with the private characters of the per nos who may assail or defend them." VICTOR HUGO'S NEW WORK. Victor Hugo's new work, " Lell Travailleurs de la Kw" is dedicated to the Woad of Guernsey. It runs thus :—" I dedicate this book to the rock of hospitality aad liberty—to that little nook of old Norman land in which dwells a small noble seafaring people—to the 61e of Gateway, rough and gentle, my actual asylum, my pro bable tomb." The following is the preface : "Religion, society, nature; these are the three struggles of moo. They are at the same time his three wants. He must believe, hews the temple ; he must create—hence the city ; he must live—henoe the plough sod ship. But these three problems oontaiu three wars. The mysterious difficulty of life arises from ell three. Man has to meet obstacles under the form—superstition, under the form— prejudice, under the form—element. A triple asaaki (fatality) presses on us—the ananke of dogmas—the awoke of laws, the amide of things. In Notre Dame de Paris the author exhibited the first ; is Les Miserable* he exposed the second, in the present book he initiates the third. To theme three fatalities which envelope moo Mien is added an interior fatality, a supreme anaake—the hams. heart." According to the Prussian custom, prayers were to be offered up yesterday in Prussia for the Princess Boys!, who is shortly mpeoting an leo ease t 3 her family. Attempts are making to establish a co-operative More at Altos, in Hants, to supply meat at a moderate price. It is expected that in a few days a further batch of Fades prisoners will be met t, the movie depot at Spike lased, whither a party of sappers &A others have already proceeded to saperiatend the ereMion cf huts for their asoommodation. The Tycoon hu sent seven young Japanese to Emilia to learn the language cad to study naval sni WS- W, science. Serious complaints are about to be male to the ITaited States goverameat in unesquesee of the New York Peit-olthse mad* English male in sash slow steesaers se the Arego end Felton. These 'ewe% o3eopy about four tees days is ateosing the Alia:die. Steamers, rack se Names, On at* make the prow fa sine dam LAW INTELLIG] (THIS DAY.) HOIJBE 01, LORDB.-A WILLIAMS V. MAZIMMO : -?AMILLOPI This ems mane lakes the hums oni tabus of an appeal from a dual°. of Westbasy, aid was the filet of thpeer I referred to this tri under the repay Ad of 1861, buna by l which the Lo he deems the matter ci law or equity ruptcy to be of suakient difficult o a r s 4; the daisies of their lordships' certify a case for their osesideratioo. Thomas Williams, the appellant, be the Prolusions] Life Amoureuse Comps in 1847, which was ordered to be wou I and he was Owed cm the list of °mad! of that year. In October 1881, the A came into operation. Oa May 1 d ,1862,1 Oostfibtitories by the omeasser dent), and In June, 1864, a further ell of which was paid by the appellant. the respondent petitioned tor an a mew against the appellant, be not the cuandesiocor in beakraptcy do being of opinion that the petitioning sot contracted after the paring of 1861, within the meaning of section appeal to the Lord I , or, his k the commadoner, and remitted the mike, and the ape palleat was dr oa further appeal the Lord Ohs= adludiestion, red the present appea questions were whether the sum ord. as official manager to he pad by the contracted after the pacing of the Ba and whether, assuming it to be such which an adjudication in beakrui founded. The appellant °alluded I effect of the Winding-up Acts were any new indebtedness or liability oe tories, and that the 90th section ci did not bring parsons not being trad lion of the baalauptcy laws, wham *Mooing creditor arose oat of or i made previous to the pawing of actual liability to pay is subsequent The respondent's argument was for talk made in Kay, 1862., and Sus debt accrued or became due from the the debt on which the adjodkat therefore °entreated after the psi Apt, 186 L Hr. J. Napier Higgins and Mr. 8 the appellant; Hr. Bacon sod h respondent. The owe was argued on the month, and judgment was now give The Lord Chancellor said that question involved, it wee usemeary which the 90th make had in view not a trellis °mid not net be DU contracted before the sat of 1861, al adenstion, be bad no hesitation I entered into before the passing of construed to apply to a liability * fact enema the apt came into no objection to this liability t sash a debt as could justify an scljr of a pence not being a trader Westbury should, is his opinion, b insured in the coeds below vegeta Lord Ohalmsford—Laying down was not under his etatutable ion of an ordinary creditor in rot beekeeper., • and coneurriag on tl that th ere did not exist in this oaa arediters debt to Meetly an adjudie Lord Kinpdown also coacarred did not oonstitute a new debt, b amount due, and the appeal was at EQUITY 001 (Before the Master of ▪ ANOLO-OILUE MAN navies His lordship pgae . judgment in said, was an eyelashes by two she company. His lordship reed from Act the grounds 2=, ille therein prescribed I wise. The first four of questionto the present owe ; q was whether it wee *Judaea with the other larmias t 6 appl C aatiou it was nese dition of the outplay. His lord point, after carefully reading the sad sates of the shotibend s faveurahly of the prespecta wen properly naffed os and heavy also - mats, &a The supp was valuable, and, having regsr his lordship thought the associatic good returns wakes crippled penmen and heavy loam. If t the course would be clear, • have been dismissed. The tacked the directors of the et obliged to appear in their own dale the directors may afford troll sharehetders without giving up. It was the duty of dire these folly to explain the affl the shareholders. Besides a case were brought against His lordship said so plea by wbk by the directors wittiest lasing pa holders, in the games of Krim be sanctioned by the court. 111 120th aid 130th dames of the art to the mount tobepaid to %eau hag the sherehoblees had knowledi the reuniumeatica emissive. ilo • directors' remuneration. This w the public liked to subscribe th the evideooe disclosed another made public. net, the charm& paid up shares, 7501. is cash from foe which was mid to be the nant might being to bear in the admin business. Tore might have hese pr WY sot divulged to the public. I as between the directors thsrawit not be thereby 'tapered as regard ,• it might be otherwise. Acs Mr. flagon. If this had b 1 own money, the use would h directors ought to have roe of income, but if directors any advantages sot &Wooed to could not be approved of, and it' sate between the advantages to The concern was one requiring r of the oostract for the mesa Xmas' broker, commissi on paid by the shipbuilders, in wl wu to share. The court the principles applicable to true In the cue of " Mr. Hudson v. 1 pany," his lordship had held that a director out of dealings Is rope noises such dealing be quite with pany. is this coacera large calls plaoeof misingmoasy through lb at a grestaaordice. His 'ion to be paid to the Imperial n shares given to the Railway Fios detrimental to she interests of the practice of raising mosey by t his lordship thought there was for the concern. The coed might have afforded ground for ' improper and unsound in the ground for winding-up a woven: insolvent, but far from it. The be dismissed, and with costa. L appears ace of the several parties, liming to the court to resist at their own risk. la say otl no limit to the costs. If e and the amiefailed he would get cc eircumatsoces in each of the cam his lordshi p midis& bad hesitated c Admiral :Mot, the Imperial Fine Finance Ocespaay, Kr. For, Mr. .1 all appeared separately =ol in the petition. AA to disproved, and he would have hit Elliot, his lordship read the all, clearly of opinion that the schen that there was no collusion. and bees gives to the admiral but fe the 3,0001. and 7501. without the holden. moreover, if the dead before the petition e the charges would not have been ethideeed under what eirenenti eselieg. As to the Railway Fie aphid them could not be uteri // it did, a wholly collateral Is Fez was wholly unfonaded, and The charge 'gated Havresordato sientially tree. He bad paid no m the oompany took shares in fader bus no eats. As to Xanos, the eh were wholly disproved. He modern Greek which his I was genuine, mad whit& el ci the °oedematous ; bat esumimice from e builds Is Admiral Elliot, to his lords charges of baud were wholly give outs of his separate appeem AMA to ides the essistanes of to bands. end amok chow to its out have derived so basalt fro/ the known to the shareholders and His kadship co eluded an slabs this is merely an sallies, with a to the mode in which this pet The politica so doubt was presented in another name, and , affidavits pon matters et whichi I Thy had g add simply tee *moth'