The Press. — London, England, 1856-12-20 00:00:00

THE PRESS. DECEMBER '2O, 1856. admit, would neithPr be so pleasant nor so unrestrained as the existing system of independent messing ; but these are trifling considerations compared with the control and supervision a captain and his first lieutenant would exercise over the junior officers in one of the most important but most neglected points concerning the future welfare and honourable career of the "youngsters" in her Majesty's navy. In no profession is a boy left so uncontrolled in his use of wine and spirits. At that early age he wants neither ; but by habitual use of both, he soon acquires an habitual taste for both ; and how many p rom i s i ng boys are ruined in consequence, the Admiralty books can tell. It is this evil which wants control, and it can never be controlled under the present independent system of separate messes. The murderer of Mr. LITTLE is still at large, and the police of Dublin still rest under the imputation of inefficiency. In these days, when great and revolting crimes have become so frequent in circles where its existence was unsuspected, we are driven to the conclusion that a portion of English society has arrived at that state in which to be tempted and to yield to temptation are the same thing, and to yield to temptation and to shrink from no crime to conceal the result are equally synonymous. Ros so: and REDPATH cheated, and were found out. It is, perhaps, fortunate that they were not tempted to destroy all chances of detection (as PALMER hoped to do) by a still deeper crime. They, indeed, might have shrunk from murder. But of a dozen men placed in the same situation, there would always be some to whom homicide would be less repulsive than disgrace. When crime goes hand in hand with education, a detective must exercise acute ratiocinative faculties in looking for the criminal he seeks. No false delicacy should stand in the way of a most searching and open exami nation into all the circumstances of this most mysterious and ap palling transaction. H.M.S. " RESOLUTE." Ship ho! going free through the sleet and roar, A sturdy broad•bowed craft, With the English ensign at the fore, And the stars and stripes abaft. " What ship ! what ship!" cried the pilot's crew, As under her lee they shoot; And the captain hails, from the forecastle rails, " The good ship .Resolute " With never a trenail started, A-taunt from her keel to truck, As when with her crew she parted While the great bergs strained her and struck. To bring a New's Year's gift here My country did me depute " Oh ! a heartier cheer you shall never hear Than theirs for the Resolute! Twelve hundred miles she had drifted, A year and four months through, Wherever the wild wind shifted, Wherever the currents drew. But a touch she could feel was on the wheel, And by unseen mariners manned, With her rigging good still onward she stood In the rocks of the Labrador land. 'Twas there that aboard a whaler Brave Hartstein saw her aground, And, like a daring sailor, Sailed home in her safe and sound. Then the Yankee riggers fitted her, And the Yankee people paid Two thousand score of dollars or more That the gift might be grandly made. Then nine times nine for the Resolute ! 'Tis a gift with a right good grace ; In our Queen's " I thank you " shall be heard The thanks of the English race. Long so may the Eagle and Red Cross Together float and be furled ; Then back to back we'll dare, good lack, The " balance " of all the world ! A STREET ROW. The Metropolitan Central Board is discovered sitting. Before it are several maps of London, and a variety of elementary works on biography. The CHAIRMAN.—Order, order. Now, don't quarrel, gentlemen. I dare say we can settle all your claims ; only let us do things in order. A MEMBER.—Order be hanged. I want to be hoff; but before I go I want to have my street settled. The CHAIRMAN.—What do you mean by your street, sir? A MEMBER.—What do I mean? I mean this. Wot are we mcetin' for? The CHAIRMAN.—We are meeting to consider the report of the committee to whom we intrusted the duty of choosing new names for such London streets as require them, namely, streets of which there are duplicates. A Facetious MEMBER —Duplicates of streets ! Fancy taking a btreet to my undo's, 1213 A Democratic MEMBER.—ICS what the aristoxy does precious often, Thoy they call it a mortgage. A Sympathetic MEMBER.—Ah ! you may well say that. Original MEMBER.—Very well, then, this is wot I have to say. Wot street's to be called after me. Say the word, and there's a nend. The CHAIRMAN.—NIy dear sir, I fear that in the allocation of the titles— The MEMBER.—D--n elocution and titles, too. I'm a Radical. I insist that some street—and a good 'un, mind, and none of your back slums—shall be called after this nigger. If Tomkinson and Job binson. and Snoggs, there, has streets, old George Grubb has a street, or knows the lesson why. The CHAIRMAN.--11 Mr. George Grubb will listen for a moment he shall know the reason why. The name Grubb, though both respectable and euphonious, has associations which the honourable member, doubt less an admirer of Pope's— The MEMBER.—Blowed if I admire any of them. I thought this here Pius wit , 4 a brick, but he's no better than the rest, and oppresses Naples and Malta, and all tbat, as bad as the others. Besides, what's Popes to do with me, nor Pagans neither ? The CH AIRMAN.—I am slightly misapprehended. Will the honourable member let me remind him that there was a Grub-street, and that within a few years back it changed its name to Milton street ? The MEMBER.—ViCh shows there 's room for another Grubb-street. Now I'll tell you the street I'll have. have Great George-street, Westminster. I see nobody's got that, so I enterfere with nobody. It shall be called Great Grubb-street ; or, for that matter, as my name's George, you may may call it Great George Grubb•street. Is that settled, 'cos I've got liver and bacon for dinner, and that aint good cold, you know? Sympathetic MEMBER.—Ah ! you may well say that. Several MEMBERS.—No, no. Out of the question. The MEMBER (dercely).—Wot do you mean by out of the question ? Out of my eye, and out (Amy elbow, and now what's o'clock? I'm as good as anybody here, or as anybody who aint here. The CHAIRMAN --That proposition, my dear Sir, is indisputable, but your original position is less tenable. We have certainly decided not to interfere with certain nomenclature, and the street you select will retain its original appellation. Now lam sure that as a sensible man, and a Radical who despises worldly distinctions. you will see how very valueless is the honour you covet. The MEMBER.—That's neither here nor there. If other chaps want it, it must be good for• something ; and if other chaps have it, I'm entitled to it. Now there are twenty of them as I see here who are to have it, and to have streets called after• 'em, and I'll be twenty-one. Facetious MEMBER.—Yes, then you will be at years of discretion, and not make a goose of yourself. The MEMBER.—You'II keep a civil tongue, or maybe get a punched head. (Sensation, and cries of " Order, order.") A MEMBER. —Sir, I rise to order. Facetious MEMBER (sotto voce, however).—Yes, order Grubb. MEMBER.—To order, Sir, I repeat. The eyes of Europe are upon us. We are a model Board, and we have done wonderful things. We have drained London—at least we have sent some plans to Sir Benjamin Hall—and now we look round far other work, and find that the names of the streets aro the next matters of urgency. While trying to give them good names, do not let us exchange bad names among ourselves. Sympathetic MEMBER —Ah ! you may well say that. Original MEMBER.—Who talked of bad names? Is George Grubb bad names ? I should like to hear somebody say so. The CHAIRMAN —lndeed you would not, Sir, nor would he be justi fied in saying so. But a name may be very good to a cheque— ha ! ha! and friend Grubb signs a good many, gentlemen—or in parish books, or elsewhere—and yet not so good in large letters at the corner of a street. The MEMBER.-But Grubb's as good as lots of the names as you've agreed upon. It's as good as Hadler, the Jew, or Hobbes, as picks locks, or Boiler, whoever he is. The CHAIRMAN.—BoiIeau, my dear Sir. The MEMBER.—WeII, O's water, aint it, in French; and Bobo must be a boiler, I suppose. Don't you pick me up before I fall down. Well, then, here's Coke—what's Coke ?—for a name. Might as well call it small coal at once. Then there's Stowell, which is an informer, and now in quod—precious respectable party—and Grant, of the fixer, and Davy—which you might as well have called Locker, it sounds better—and Cabbage. What's Cabbage ? The CHAIRMAN.—Babbage, my dear Sir. He invented a remark able counter. The MEMBER.—I bet it aint a better counter than mine—solid mahogany, as smooth as glass. However, if he's a respectable tradesman I don't object. But I stand on my rights, and I'll have a street called by my name. Fair play's fair play. Sympathetic MEMBER.—Ah ! you may well say that. The CHAIRMAN.—I fear that you will compel me to take the sense of the Board. The MEMBER.—If you put it in your eye you'll see none the worse (Sensation.) The CHAIRMAN —Gentlemen, Mr. Grubb moves that Great George street, Westminster, or some other street, be called Grubb-street. Who seconds the proposition ? Facetious MEMBER —I move, Sir, as an amendment, that, in stead of the word " Grubb," we insert the word " Chrysalis." (Roars of laughter.) (The mover qf the resolution was left punching the • head of the mover of the amendment when the reporter left.) umnii