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Admission, ls.; on Mcndays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. .vuei SIIIL LONDON, IUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1869. The manner in which the Press is conducted in France has long been a subject of anxiety to all lovers of freedom, awl as the successive pro ( mises made on its behalf have been broken a feeling of indignation has arisen in many quarters. Pru dent in almost everything else relating to public affairs, in this important respect the EMPEROR has made a great mistake, and materially injured his in fluence, to say nothing of the danger to his repu tation. Some interest will be felt in the disclo sures that have just taken place in regard to the retirement of M. SEGUIER, the I'rocureur-Imperial of Toulouse from his high official position. 'The cause of his resignation is as creditable to himself as it is disaparaging to those above him. The reasons which he gives may not be exactly new in substance, but it is certainly unusual to meet with an explanation of this kind from one well versed in the details. M. SEGUIER'S letter is a peep behind the scenes that will attract attention, and let us hope awaken con science in certain quarters. He informs the Minis ter of Justice that he gives up his post in con sequence of his being unable to endure any longer the reproaches of his superiors, for his moderation in conducting the press pro secutions. In firm and decided language, forcible from its very reticence, the Baron goes on to say that " to address the Court, under the surveillance of a secret police, and to press for judgment dictated beforehand in Paris by the Minister of Justice, are things which do not suit me." Further on he de clares that he cannot any longer endure the bitter reproaches that have been heaped upon him for some time past on account of his conduct in Press affairs. Here is the testimony of a valid witness, one who speaks what he does know and testfies of matters in which he has been deeply concerned. What a revelation of the systen► which has prevailed in France do we not meet with in the brief but impres sive sentences of the letter of the ex-Procurcur. Well may it be said of M. SEGUIER that nothing which occurred during his appointment became him so well as his mode of quitting it. He stands forth in a character rather unusual among his countrymen, that of a thoroughly independent man. The French are proverbial for their professions of attach ment to libaty, but they do not often act up to the standard of their faith, and verify their statements by the sacrifice of their interests and the forfeiture of their posi ion. While we honour and respect this patriotic man, let us hope that his private loss may be a public gain, and that the ocandal and reproach which will attach SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1869 itself to this affair may penetrate to the innermost recesses. The voice of public opinion is hushed, the press is gagged, but the words of an ex-official, the language of one who denounces the system which has made a mockery of justice, cannot be put aside or overlooked. The words of M. SEGUIER'S letter are trumpet-tongued, their sound is gone out into many lands, and legions of police cannot stop their pro gress nor the decrees of the most arbitrary Minister of Justice effect the unjust work of their suppression. Only one way remains for the authorities, and if they really wish to obliterate the effect of this handwriting on the walls of their Senates and their Courts of Justice, let them lose no time in undoing the evil work and redeeming past errors by present acts of grace and magnanimity. It has been prophesied that the EMPEROR will in his speech on the 18th put the finishing touch to his grand work of building up the national edifice. It is quite impossible to say with certainty if this is likely to be the case or not, but of one thing we may be perfectly assured, that the only way in which he can attain the cud will be by setting the French Press at liberty. Let him but speak the magic word of deliverance, and the emanci pation of the exponents of national truth and justice will be the crowning act of his career and the sign- manual of his good faith and sincerity. It has been said that the French Press is not worthy of the trust that has been so long reposed in that of other lands, but confidence begets confi dence, and as no life is so unsafe as that of the autocrat whose every movement is watched by armed guards, so no thrones and governments are so insecure as those which will not brook a word of criticism, or allow the whisper of reproach to be heard. The best that can be hoped for the French and their Imperial ruler is that he will at inqt .00 the importance of making this great change. The elections that come on in May will take a very diffe rent turn if the policy of the Government with respect to the Press be well defined in its liberative tendency, but there are two sides to every question, and the kings and potentates of the world must suc cumb to the same rules as those which regulate the meaner classes of humanity. The Emperor NAPO LEON has now a glorious chance before him, and a golden opportunity awaits him ; but if he miss them, through neglect or wilfulness, he must take the con sequences, and reap what he has sown. The world is now expecting his decision, and will ratify the wisdom of an enlightened choice, but he must not hesitate, for he will have no power eff restitution in the future, and can put no finishing touches to his work in those distant days, when the historian shall track his footsteps on the sands of time, and when what is left undone or imperfect now shall remain undone and imperfect still. THE shame with which we read the letter from Shanghai, just published in the Times, is mitigated only by the satisfaction which we feel at seeing that this shame is shared by the Times itself. There is nothing particularly novel in the story told by the correspondent ; it is, in fact, but a tame repetition of a tale too often told before. There was no grand scenic effect of red-hot cannon balls falling into a densely peopled city, nor British ships of war steaming triumphantly past wooden batteries and painted guns. It is just such a tale as a dozen years ago would have excited the leading journal into transports of indignation against Chinese treachery and insolence, into transports of satisfaction at British energy and pluck. But, happily, the times are changed, and so are we. Cieis Romanus no longer controls the fleets and armies of Britain ; and instead of the Minister who bullied the weak and offered his cheek to the strong, wehave one who understands that justice and courtesy are as much due from nation to nation as from man to man. So the leading journal, follow ing, as is its wont, the change of popular sentiment, now condemns conduct exactly similar to that which it used to comm., , A, confesses sonic shame" at " this victorious episode in our Asiatic history," which is, nevertheless, very much less shameful than that other episode, which was thought so glorious, exactly a dozen years ago. The facts are brieflytold. Certain British mis i sionaries took to preaching in the streets of Yang chow, and with the usual British contempt for every thing that is foreign, they attacked the Chinese religion. It was not ST. PAUL'S way of making converts, and if the missionaries had studied that , inimitable missionary discourse on Mars Hill, they might have made more converts, and would certainly have avoided the occurrence of incidents that are difficult to reconcile with Christian teaching. The Chinese, hearing their religion abused, took to insulting and attacking the mis sionaries. One of them lost an eye, another lost some property. For this outrage our Consul at Shanghai, Mr. MEDHURST, demanded compensation. Yangchow is not one of the Treaty ports, and it may therefore be questioned if Mr. MEDHURST had any right to interfere. But, assuming that he had, the mode in which he enforced his demand was most culpable, though, unhappily, not at all extraordinary. First of all, instead of referring the matter to Sir RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, our properly-accredited Minister at the Chinese capital, he undertook to conduct the affair himself ; that is, he did the very thing which the admission of a Minister to Pekin (a hard-won con cession) was intended to prevent. Mr. MEDHURST went to Nankin with a gunboat, and obtained a promise of compensation, which, in Chinese fashion, was attempted to be evaded so soon as the gunboat was withdrawn. Probably he expected no otherwise, and he then—still without consulting Sir RUTHER FORD ALCOCx—ordered up Admiral KEPPEL's flagship, the Rodney, a 90-gun ship, in order to enforce compliance. Of course, if China were any thing like a match for England this would be nothing less than a declaration of war—made, be it remem bered, by an English subordinate official, without the smallest authority. As it was, the Chinese were only too well used to this style of argument the logic of the strong hand, the syllogism of the shell. So Mr. 3IEDHURST, accompanied by several officers and a guard of marines, went to the 'Viceroy at Nankin, TSENG-KWO-FAN. Mr. MEDHURST was received with every honour. Redress was promised, but he refused to accept the promise without a material guarantee. So, by way of humiliating the Chinese to the uttermost, he demanded that a certain gunboat should be handed over to him. Now this was the first of the new gunboats which the Chinese had received. It was, morever, the vessel fixed upon by the 'Viceroy to proceed to the seat of his new government. Nor was this all. This " spirited" British Consul, who was thus making war on his own authority, insisted that the Chinese authorities should erect a stone pillar at Yangchow, detailing the circumstances of the outrage and of the reparation. As regards the surrender of the gun boat, the Viceroy and his colleagues " alternately stormed and entreated." He felt that instead of leaving Nankin triumphant, he should have to drift out ignominiously, humbled and defeated in his first collision with the foreigners, his guns powerless, the first of his new gunboats at the mercy of our fleet. It was the more intolerable because he had arranged that an immense procession of Mandarins should escort him, and that his departure should be a high festival. His counsellors denounced the demand as impossible. They asked, as well they might, if it was of the amicable nature which these negotiations were said to be. " TSENG," says the correspondent, " turned in his agony to the subordinate consular officers of the party, and begged them to intercede with their chief." Of course we can anticipate the rest. " Mr. MEDHURST was firm, and the gunboat was given up." How could it be otherwise when the " spirited " British Consul was pointing significantly to the Rodney and her ninety glum, and the fate of Canton was seen to be in store for Nankin ? But not even I yet was the aforesaid spirited Consal satisfiel. He had heaped humiliation upon humiliation. le had got possession of the Viceroy's gunboat ; he lad got the pillar engraved with the narrative of Chinese discomfiture ; he had been received wit' salutes ; he and his 400 marines (for they had iicreased to that number) were entertained in a palace ; but they had been taken through the bok streets. So they intended on departing to arade the principal streets, and to post far and tide a pro clamation announcing to all the Chines the defeat of their rulers. Most magnanimous of spirited Consuls It shews how little Anglo-Chinese mderstand the change which has come over British f.telng at home, that the Shanghai correspondent of the Times appends to his narrative a fulsone etlogy of Mr. MEDirunST, together with the usual tirate against the " intolerably insolent and obstructive' Mandarins, whose conduct made the operaticns described absolutely essential. This letter amears exactly a week after Lord CLARENDON'S annourcement of the new policy which is to be adopted in China. This policy the leading journal had appro7(d, and it was, therefore, bound to differ from it correspondent as to the conduct of Mr. MEDRMST. Shanghai says " great credit is due to \r. MEDatatsT," and, "it is fortunate that the Shanghai consulate was so well filled at Ihe emergency." Printing-house-square "confesses mile shame at the whole of this victorious episod3 in our Asiatic history." That, as we have said is the one sole redeeming circumstance of this " niserable quarrel." The only satisfaction that we can deive from it is that in quarters where the prompt and caidign punishment of "barbarian insolence" used to be ;onsidered the pro per sequel to British bullying, it isnow admitted that "the virtua lcertainty that this couitry can compel the Chinese to yield to any number of such demands as it pleases to make ought to render its officers peculiarly rigid in scrutinising the justice of elairna by bkcb countrymen for vengeance." In a word, we have at last learnt what our own great poet taught us 300 years ago— It is excellent to have a giant's strength, But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. But shame on us that China, the oldest empire in the world, should have been compelled to call in the aid of America, all but the youngest republic, to instruct us ; that the Emperor of the Celestials should have been forced to call in a Yankee to teach us manners. LATEST INTELL IGENCE. (REIITER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. The louse of Representatives passed to-day, by 119 votes against 47, a bill repealing the Tenure of Office Act. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 12. The National Steamship Company's steamer the Queen, from New York, arrived off here at 10.30 last night, and, having landed passengers, proceeded for Liverpool. GREENCASTLE, Jan. 12. The Allan steam s hi p Hibernian, from Portland on the 3d inst., arrived in Lough Foyle at 8.20 this morning, with mails and passengers. She landed the London mails, and proceeded for Liverpool. INDIA. BOMBAY, Jan. 8. 71bs. Skirtings, 4r. 15a. ; 841bs. Shirtings, Cr. ; 40's Mule Twist, 101. Market active. Cotton firm. Freights to Liverpool, 50s. CALCUTTA, Jan. 9. 71bs. Shirtings, sr. 2a. ; 8+ do., 6r. 2a. ; 40's Mule Twist, sa. Bp. Market dull. ir. Exchange on London, 1 11-16. 4 per Cent. Government Securities, 941 ; 5 per 51 per Cent. do., 1194. Cent. do., 1081 ; Freights to England—Rice, 30s. The Bank of Bengal has reduced its rate of dis count 1 per cent. ,Fll kiNCE. BOURSE, Jan. 11.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :- 4/ per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7O 40 Credit Mobilier '2Bl 25 End of month 282 50 Credit Fonder 1 552 End of month — Bank Shares 3llO Italan Loan — Ead of month — Mexican Loan 24 25 DI. Bonds Spanish Threes ibine Debt.... Deferred Ns. RAILWA' Cash Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... Western ............. 610 Eastern ............ ....................... 570 Sardinian . ..... 49 Austrian Lombard ............. 4381 North of Spain Saragossa Roman ........ 50 THE RIGHT HON. J. TV. HENLEY AND THE TENANT FARMERS. In a paper on " Tenant Right," read by mr. C. H. Lattimore, at a meeting of the Horts Chamber of Agri. culture, the following statement was made :—" After I MIS examined before the committee of the House of Cora. mons, Mr. Henley called me aside, and told me he could defy any man living to argue successfully against the claim I made on behalf of the tenant farmers. I was struck at this, and asked whether he was sincere ; and he replied, 'Of course lam ; here are no witnesses.' I then told him that if that were so I was surprised at his brow. beating the witnesses ; and I asked him why he did not take the other side. To this he replied, Why, don't you see that if your views were carried out the tenant farmers would he as independent of the landlords as the landlords are of the tenants ?' I then asked why they should not be so under commercial rents and commercial tenures ; and he replied, If the farmers took your view of the case it might be so ; but we (the landlords) don't intend to emancipate the tenant farmers. We are going to amuse them with Protection.' And then, offering his hand, he said Good-bye.' Within a short time of that Mr. Henley was addressing the electors of Oxfordshire as the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, President of the Board of Trade. The evidence given before the committee is shelved in a blue-book, and tenant right is still to be won. You hint a doubt and hesitate, dislike to give the tenant the protection of the laws." To this Mr. Henley has replied :—" An article was shewn to me yesterday, in which Mr. Lattimore is reported to have made a statement at the Hert fordshire Chamber of Agriculture of a conversation, alleged to have taken place between himself and me, after his examination before the committee on agricultural customs in 1848. I know no reason why Mr. Lattimore should wish to injure or misrepresent me, and therefore can only say, if I had any conversation with him, he must 111.ve entirely misunderstood or forgotten what took place twenty-one years ago. Those who have read Mr. Latti more's evidence, or who know me, will, I think, be cer tain that it is impossible I could have said what he states, and to a perfect stranger. To others I would say that, soon after the repeal of the corn laws, I took an active part in breaking up our county protection society, and giving the balance of our funds to the county hospital. I aecnii..d eo join n.lo, ntlier Am}, societies in the county or elsewhere, and at public dinners said I could nna no ground to seek a change of the law ; and I did this to pre vent persons misleading themselves, or being misled by others. These were my acts. I deny using the words, or anything like them" MUSH SUBJECTS Ilv PARAGUAY. The following letter will dissipate the false im pressions promulgated in interested organs respect ing the treatment of foreign subjects by L o p ez: — "Paraguay, Oct. 25, 1 868.—rould y ou b e ki n d enough to write and let me how of the welfare of my relations ; it is now aear l y f our years since I heard from them i They will be glad to learn that I am quite well, and never enjoyed better health in my life. It may be a o r f est assured that I or lay relations again, bl a o n un y tg o t f i theym m e y abne c df o o u yr n oe t ul r y alsosm e een any an a ay r y e not wanting for any thing which is needful for our comfort or happi ness ; and I do not fear but that I shall continue to have friends so long as I eideavour to serve my employers in a manner in which I also would wish to be served. I have not room to say more, further than to tell you that I like the country and the people very much. His Excellency the Presi dent is the principal friend I have. You would be pleased to hear of his Excellency's many repeated acts of kindness to me. You probably already know much of this country from those who have been here and returned to you again, but perhaps no other Englishman (with the exception cf Capt. --) is better able to speak of it, by comparison with other nations, than myself ; for after I left your service and entered as an engineer officer in the service of her Majesty, I visited nearly every nation of the old world, and I am able to say, speaking generally that the people here are immeasurably superior to the people of England or of any other nation I have yet seen in one great respect-- namely, they are Christians not in name only but in practice. All that you have heard of their bravery has not beqn overrated ; thyare brave be cause they are good. And my happiest reflection here is, that I am an humble serTant of such a noble race of people." Several Mash subjects have recently arrived in London horn Paraguay, Lopez having paid their expenses.--Liverpool Albion. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A RAILWAY GUARD.—On Saturday night Thomas Marshall, the guard of a passen ger train running between Leeds and Huddersfield, was stepping into his van, when he missed his footing, and fell by the sido of the metals, the wheels of a passenger carriage passing over ono of his legs. He expired in a few hours. Deceased was about twenty-sir years of age, and unmarried. ST. MARY- LE-BONE BANK FOR SAVINGS (76, Welbeck• street, Cavendish-square).---The progress of this bank during the past year has been of a satisfactory description, as appears from the following statement : Received from 1,726 nsw and 15,337 old depositors, £83,039 Os. 7d.; repaid to 8,248 depositors in part and 1,400 in full, 87,100 16s. 3d ; increase, open accounts, 326 ; money, £4.,938 45. 4d. Number of accounts remaining open, 82,91; aramt due ! 4318,633 12 w, VI. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The Washington correspondent of the New York, Times, writing on the 29th ult., states that the Alabama nego tiations have suffered no serious delay, notwithstanding the change in the British Cabinet. The answer to Mr. Seward's amendments to the protocol, which amendments were printed in brief in the Times of Dec. 1, was received from Reverdy Johnson, by telegraph, on the 19th instant. The British Government accepts all of Mr. Seward's amendments, to wit : It agrees to abolish the distinction between the Alabama claims and other claims contained in the original draft of the protocol, which eliminates from the treaty the fourth, fifth, and sixth articles, which articles, as they originally stood, also required that in the peculiar class of Alabama claims a unanimous decision of the commissioners should be required, but the distinction between the claims being abolished, this requirement falls with it, and Mr. Seward's amendment that a majority be sufficient to decide any case is acceded to. Great Britain also agrees to the amendment that the commission shall sit in Washington, and that the umpire selected shall be subject to the ratification of the Senate. On the 2n ! - Ii instant Mr. Seward replied to Mr. Johnson's despatch, proposing several additional modifications, none of them, however, of a very serious character. He desires that the treaty shall be styled a "protocol" instead of a " convention ;" but this is not indispensable. He further desires that the protocol be signed here instead of in London, so that it may be immediately transmitted to the Senate, together with the Naturali sation and San Juan Boundary Treaties, now ready to be sent in, though this is not indispensable. He further proposes a change in the mode of selecting the umpire, to wit, that when the commission cannot:decide a case, they shall report their disagreement to their respective Govern ments, and if an umpire be not agreed upon by the said Governments within six months, then the commission are to select each side a name for itself, and the umpire is to chosen by lot. Mr. Charles Saville Roundel], the late candidate Clitheroe, has accepted the post of private secretary to Earl Spencer, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. The subject of Mr. Gladstone's communication to Good Words is announced as " The Duties of a Citizen of is ' , zee State." The ,Journal de Paris contains a piece of news. The only surviving son of the Duke d'Aumale, a lad of 14, the Duke de Guise, broke his leg in the hunting-field in Worcestershire last Tuesday. He is in a fair way of recovery. A MEMORIAL OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.- A. Car penter in Washington prizes among his best treasures s scrap of paper on which is written :—" If you have piece of board to spare, please let Tad have it.--A. LIN COLN." It was brought to him by the boy while he was at work at the White House.—New York Tribune. The other day at the Sheriffs' Court, in Glasgow, ) curious question was raised as to whether a chimney sweep could claim to be carried as a passenger. Broadfoot, a master chimney-sweep, sued the proprietors of an om nibus for having refused to carry him in their conveyance. The defendants slated that they had to personal objection to Mr. Broadfoot, but they objected to his sooty clothes. To have taken him as a passenger would not have been consistent with a due regard to the other passengers. The sheriff, having heard witnesses, sustained the defence. He held that the defendants were not bound to carry the chim ney-sweep, because it would have been oppressive to thy other passengers for them to have done so, and injurious to the general traffic. Some interesting particulars concerning the Island of Cephalonia, on the coast of Greece, were given by Sir John Sebright, the Englisn Consul. It appears that the currant crop in 1867 was abundant beyond all precedent, and the quantity of fruit throughout was of superior excel lence. The yield amounted to no less than nine thou sand two hundred tons, the greater quantity of which was exported to the British isles. In consequence, however, of the tremendous fall in price oaused by the glut, and merchants calculate that they lost from 30 to 40 per cent, on the capital embarked. It is now suggested that an agitation should be commenced in favour of obtaining from the British Govern ment the entire abolition of the duties on currants imparted into England, where the principal, almost the only, market for the article is found. To the Paris journal, La Liberte, seems to be en trusted the onerous duty of keeping up the supply of candi dates for the Spanish throne. It uplifts and debases tho princes of every house with an indifference which would have been monstrous in any other age, but which is perfectly en regle in this generation of royal bankruptcy. It has now the pleasure of st a ti ng th at the Italian Governme nt, still harping after Spain, has withdrawn the candidature of the Duke of Aosta, and substituted Prince Thomas, son of the late Duk e o f G enoa, the nep h ew t o King Victor. This young pretender is only 14 years of age, and the change has be en ma d e i n order to gra tify P r im's predilection for the sweets of a regency. The candidature is supported by Russia and Prussia, and the Italian journals are much in its fav our . P rince Thomas i s now a t Harrow finishing his studies. A NEW FAMILY KNITTING MACHINE.—This latest example of Yankee ingenuity has been brought to Leeds within the past few days by Mr. W. Wemyss Kennedy, of Edinburgh. Unlike the circular knitting machines hitherto in use, which knit merely a straight tubular web, the Lamb machine is fitted for all descriptions of work, plain or fancy. The prin ciple is the same which a lady employs with her hand knitting needles, and the saving in time achieved may be judged of from the fact that a yard of plain work can be produced in ten minutes, and a pair of socks in half an hour. As in the case of the improved sewing machines, all the work accomplished by this wonderful invention is complete. The heels are knitted into stockings, the toes are narrowed off, and the mechanism is such that either two or two score needles may be employed. The machine can be attached to a common table, and is easily operated by hand, with a crank. The American papers give the particulars of a singular railway accident which occurred recently. On the night of the 22nd ult, the eastern-bound train of the Sioux City Railway was thrown off by a broken rail, near Farley, and the rear car, containing about thirty passengers, was precipitated over a forty-foot embank. ment. The growth of young timber checked the violence of the fall, or fearful loss of life must have ensued. So great was the foi ce with Nvhich the car was thrown from the train, that the rear platform of the car which preceded it was carried away. Both ends of the car thrown off were a wreck, and the scene within it beggars description. The capsizing of the car threw the passen- gers over and among each other in confusion. The stove was hurled from its place, and one man was thrown upon it ; another had the misfortune to have it rolled over him As soon as the passengers and attach& of the train could hasten to the rescue they did, expecting to find the dead and dying on every hand, but not one passenger wal dangerously injured. The car was, however, fired by till — 4 - T SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times observes that England lies sick of pauperism, and robust as may be the constitution of the patient, this constant and increasing drain upon it is a very serious matter. The new and somewhat peculiar mendicity society now being tried at Blackheath seems toleffer one of the most successful methods yet tried of dealing with the evil. The society works in concert with the relieving officer of the district, and by a system of ticket-giving entirely dispenses with direct relief, except in two cases, that of a starving beggar who has a piece of bread given him, and of a destitute man going to get employment who receives a third-class ticket. The Times thinks the conjunction of the parish officers with the society a most important feature in this plan. So long as the two systems— he system of public universal relief and the system, or no system, of private charities — go on together side by side, without mutual concert, there must be waste, confusion, and inefficiency. There can be no guage of pauperism no com plete register of individual cases of mendicancy, and no uniformity in the administration of relief. These jarring systems weaken the sense of responsibility in the Poor-law officials. Guardians are d:sheartenNl, who see that while they are trying to keep clown mendicancy the public are doing all they can to encourage it. Relieving officers naturally grow careless if, for au,ht they know to the contrary, the pauper who applies to them for relief to-day received yesterday, or may receive to-morrow, far larger assistance from some charity or private benevolent hand. And then society, absorbed in private almsgiving, cr content ing itself with subscriptions to general charities, relaxes its vigilance upon the administrators of the Peor-law ; and the result is in some cases indis criminate relief, in others defective relief or the improper refusal of it, and all the irregularities notorious in the present workhouse system. We do not, of course, imagine that the authors of the Blackheath Mendicity Society have discovered a panacea for pauperism. Such an institution does not attempt to stop any of the sources of pauperism except the great one of promiscuous charity, and its success must much depend upon the energy and fidelity of the relieving officer ; and in many of the large parishes the staff of the board of guardians as at present constituted is inadequate to sift the cases of mendicancy, and the ordinary public relief is disbursed with next to no dizscrimins,Lioin. On the other hand, such a society evidently tends to strengthen the hands'of the Poor-law authorities. The members of it must be keenly alive to the necessity of a good Po r-law system with good men to work it, and relieving officers will not only obtain through the society valuable information respecting their districts, but will be more likely to discharge their duties efficiently knowing they are watched and criticised by those without. Though local in operation, the proposal is, so far as it extends, systematic and complete, it admits of indefinite extension, and while moderating, in proper cases, the inevitable harshness of the poor laws, it increases their general efficacy. The Standard comments upon the changes which the new Bribery Act will be likely to produce in Irish elections. The motion in the Common Pleas in Dublin, in the case of the Sligo petition, throws light on the contemporary history of Ireland. The petition was against the return of Major Knox, the Conservative member for the borough of Sligo. The motion decided on Friday was an application on the part of Major Knox to have the place of trial changed from Sligo to Dublin. It was contended that the excited state of the neighbourhood would prevent a fair trial of the petition, The decision is of great importance, being the first in favour of a change of venue under this Act, and it is also of consequence in sheaving the condition of this part of Ireland. The evidence proved that a great deal of intimi dation had been used to check the support of Major Knox, and the 'Standard observes that these scenes throw some light on the marvellous sway which the bishops and priests exercise in Ireland. It is not the mere terror of disobeying them that gives weight to their words. It is that in some of the subtle ramifications of the Roman Catholic religious system the priests have always the means of making their wrath felt, and their flocks cannot see any escape from the toils short of absolutely breaking with their Church. This policy is a dangerous one to push 0 extremes. It must sooner or later alienate the Irish masses from the Roman Church, as it has done those of France and Italy, but meanwhile it may be painful enough to convulse our whole political system and render constitutional government in Ireland a hollow mockery. If the priestly party find that their violence defeats its object, they may seek some more legitimate means of carrying out their views. The promptness with which the Irish Court of Common Pleas has recognised the dangers of the evil in the present case is a hopeful augury. The Daily News compares the manner in which the criminal law is carried into effect in New York and in New England, and illustrates the difference by two recent verdicts. In one case a man, named Cole, committed % fearful murder. and was a ,,,,;+1-0,1 , iio Komi,' or In sanity, though there was no evidence to that effect. In Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the other hand, a highly respected church deacon was tried for murder, and con. demned to twenty years' imprisonment, though his mothei had been insane, and the asylum physician gave it as his opinion that the deacon was insane when th murder was committed. Had it not been for a doubt whether the murder had not resulted from a struggle, he would have been executed. The leniency of New York is, in the opinion of the Daily News, a dangerous symptom. We are debarred from supposing that the jury was in fluenced by hostility to capital punishment, for it is now the custom in the United States, in all procedures for murder of the first degree, to interrogate each juryman on that point, and to retain only such as are favourable to capital punishment. But whatever may be the causes of this extra. ordinary verdict, the salient fact is that a man freely walks the streets of New York to-day, who, in almost any other civilised community, would be confined nr executed as a danger to society. And when such a fact is possible we need not wonder at Erie-wars, Whiskey ring-aristocracies, or fraudulent voting. The condition of society in New York has been much used to illustrate the ultimate tendencies of popular government ; but when we turn to the populous towns and cities of New England, where the governmental forms are even more radically democratic than in New York, we find life and property as secure as in any other part of the world. The fact is, the people of New England are remarkably democratic in their dealing with crime, as they showed some years ago, when they hung the Harvard Professor, Dr. Webster, and as they have now again shewn in dealing with the hitherto respectable and rigidly righteous Deacon Andrews. By the side of Plymouth Rock right still means right, and wrong wrong, as it did when the lowly pilgrims buts there the first pine -wood State-house and church in one. New England has a large society for the abolition et capital punishment, but so long as the penalties for crime remain on the statute-book they are carried into effect with certainty, and without regard to persons. It is to be hoped that the extreme to which matters have gone in New York will lead to a reformation. Street bogs led to street pavements. The highwaymen who occupie'd London after dark at the close of the seventeenth century led to the lighting of our streets. We anticipate, therefore, that things there will go on from bad to worse, while we have no doubt that there are enough upright and sensible men in New York to take care that the lessons of evil shall not be lost, and that eventually even the whiskey-ring shall find, in a strict sense, the end of that rope of which it would seem enough has certainly been given to it without fulfilling the prophecy of the proverb. The Telegraph states that eaormous mischief or signal good may result to the Church of England from th e meet ing held at the Freemasons'' Tavern. It is for the purpose of considering how the ritualistic clergy should act in view of the recent decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. According as the chiefs of the High Church party give prudent or rash advice, so may the Church receive new vigour or lose a host of zealous sup porters. The three traditional causes before the ritualists. They may defy or evade the judgment; they may accep s it, and make the best of their new position; or, submitting to it under protest, they may agitate for a revision of the Prayer Book. We may rather anticipate that, yielding for the present to the Privy Council, they will emphati cally protest against the decision, and agitate for a revision of the Prayer Book. To that policy Englishmen could have no objection. Apart from the question whether the ritualistic aims are wise or not, such a course is manly, straightforward, and English. Moreover, it is the course suggested by the divines who revised the first Liturgy of the English Church. In the preface to the Prayer-book those great divines use words which seem ae if they had been written with an eye to the present troubles, and the importance of which it woulc be difficult to overrate. " The particular forms of divine worship, and the rites and ceremonies appointed to be used therein, being things in their own nature indifferent and alterable, and so acknowledged, it is but reasonable that upon weighty and important consi derations, according to the various exigency of times and occasions, such changes and alterations should be made therein as to those who are in places of authority should from time to time seem either necessary or expedient." In other words, the Prayer Book tells the Ritualists that if they wish for a revision of the Liturgy they must use the ordinary means to persuade the people of England that such a change is desirable. Hence, as Sir Robert Peel's advice was " Register ! Register ! Register !" the advice which they might fitly receive is " Agitate ! Agitate ! Agitate !" Toelay that course is open to the ritualistic meeting ; it may be taken or re• jected ; but in either case the consequences may be momentous, and, if the policy of defiance or evasion bi adopted, the result may be at once disastrous an,' irreparable. The Stgr makes some observations upon a pamphlet lust published, on the working classes, written by a Daughter of the People. It is not wanting in ability. but its tone is prejudicial, an d th e writer forgets that the best missionary among the poor is political progress. The Daughter of the People labours under the disadvantage of knowing too much. A woman so well informed may be° as prejudiced as possible against agitators, but all her anger against them does not prevent her leaving on her readers' minds the impression that the agitators and the trades unions ens often right, and that the masters and society are often wrong. If she will think a little more deeply this Daughter of the People will perceive that agitators of the bad sort can only flourish where injustice and ignorance co-exist. Bind them together for the burning—give education and tree political institutions—and all classes will thrive and be at peace, though no class may exhibit superhuman . Arktit pr pelf:controj, rt kfirtubr. , HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 11. Her Majesty walked and drove in the grounds this morning, attended by Lady Churchill. Princess Louise walked out, attended by the Hon. Florence Seymour. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out. Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor and Lady Elizabeth Grosvenor left Osborne to-day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. STP,EET OUTIZAGE.—AIfred Anderson, described as a barber, was charged before Mr. Tyr Whitt with attempting to rob and assaulting Miss Rose Ema nuel, residing at 22, Henrietta-street, Manchester square. Miss Emanuel said that about nine o'clock the previous evening sho was walking along Coventry street in company of her parents' servant, when the prisoner and another man pushed against her and nearly knocked her into the road, and directly afterwards came up to her again and put his hand against her pocket, bnt she prevented him taking anything from her. The prisoner then called her a bad name and knocked her down in the road, and had anything been passing she would have been run over. Determined not to let the prisoner escape, she followed him until he was taken into custody. The complainant's evidence having been corrobo rated, Police-constalle John Harris, 77 C, said that while crossing Piccadilly the previous night about 9 o'clock he heard a cry of "Stop thief," and seeing two females running after the prisonr he stopped him, and asked what was the matter. The prisoner replied, " Oh, nothing ;" but on the complainant coming up she said that the prisoner had attempted to rob her, abused her, and knocked her down, and he then took the prisoner to the station. The prisoner's defence was that he had mistaken the complainant for another sort of person. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was clear that the prisoner was one of those dangerous fellows who haunted that part of the town at night, and his defence was only an aggravation of his offence. He would be committed for six months' with hard labour. ROBBERY—A KIND PROSE C UTOR.—Richard Hold way, in the employ of Mr. Daniel Howard, uphol sterer and decorator, 26, Berners-street, Oxford street, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing thirteen and a half yards of carpet, of the value of £3 7s. 6d., the property of his employers. Mr. Jeans, pawnbroker, of Cleveland-street, said that on Saturday morning the prisoner brought a roll of carpet and offered it in pledge, and, in an swer to his questions, said that he had purchased it at Howitt's, in Holborn, and had the receipt for it at home. He sent his assistant with the prisoner to see the receipt, but on getting to his place the pri soner said his children had torn it up. Yesterday the prisoner came again respecting the carpet, which he (Mr. Jeans) had detained, and on his pressing the prisoner for a further account of the way he became possessed of it, he said that in an unguarded moment he had taken it from his em ployer, and that if he would let him have it again he would replace it. Mr. Howard identified the carpet as his propert y and said the prisoner had been employed by him for two years. He wished the prisoner to be dealt leniently with, although, at the same time, he felt that, Laving a number of persons in his employ an example ought to be made. The prisoner, who seemed very dejected, made no defence. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed him for two months with bard labour. ESTMINST ER. AN EXTRAORDINARY FANCY FOR PLANTS AND T;LowEßS.—Emmn. Clarke, a showily-dressed girl of about 17, was placed at the bar charged with stealing two geraniums in pots from 197, Bucking' ing Palace-road. William Cammeaton, 311 B, said that at about one this morning he saw the prisoner step from the doorway of 197 with something 'concealed under her cloak. Witness stopped her, and found she had the garden pots and plants concealed. Mr. Arnold—Was she sober ? Witness—Yes, your IVorship, she was. Mr. Arnold—What did she say ? Witness—She said she found them. Charles Valleys, 197, Buckingham -palace-road, said that the plants were safe at his parlour window. A person could reach and take them by getting upon the railings. He did not wish to prosecute her for taking them. Mr. Arnold—you don't mind her taking them-' perhaps rather like it. Prisoner—l am very sorry. Sergeant Matthews —This is not the first tiros the prisoner bas been here. She was charged two or three years ago with another girl for committing the same offence. Mr. Arnold—What was done with her ? Peter Smith, 163 B, said she was convicted and fined 2s. 6d. on that occasion. Mr. Arnold (to prisoner)—What do you say to this statement that you have been previously con' victed of a smilar offence? Prisoner—lt is true. Mr. Arnold—You seem to have a great fancy for thin s . .c +l-iiq sort. I shall now convict you of unlawfully possessing, awl or in de fault 10 days. MR. P. B. PHILLIPS'S READINGS.—Lest evening, new "reader" appealed to the judgment of the metropel v tan public. The debutant was Mr. P. B. Phillips, wh ° gave his first reading in England in the Victoria gall Archer-street, Bayswater, choosing his subjects from the works of Shakspere, Hood, Dickens, Tennyson, and °there' Mr. Phillips has many qualities which fit him for the pall of a reader—among others an expressive countenance, se' a strong clear voice. He reads prose, whether serious e t humorous, a great deal better than poetry. His re nderief; of " The Death of Joe" from " Bleak House," and a eonil ° sketch from "All the Year Round," entitled "Pray ee l : ploy Major Namby," was really excellent. He rendarsa full justice alike to the tender pathos of the former and t o the rather broad humour of the latter of these selectionSt and his exertions were rewarded in the one case by tb ° laughter, and in the other by the tears of his appreciativ e auditors. " The Song of the Shirt," " Th e B r idge °' Sighs," "The May Queen," and the trial scene from the " Merchant of Venice," concluded the entertainment. .I 4j the close of the reading Mr. Phillips was recalled to lux desk and loudly applauded. A NEW METAL.—For a considerable time f. variety of experiments have been carried on by Messi'n' Pyke, of Thavies Inn, to test the quality of a new met al combination, called Abyssinian gold, which they W e discovered, and a result has been arrived at that far 0 '; ceeds the most sanguine exp ec t a ti ons. Th e new m ete; has all the appearance of 18 cara t go ld ; i n we i ght as well as in colour, it does not t arn i s h , an d , most i mportant o f all' it takes the most brilliant polish, and is alike throughou t ' The most exquisite articles of jewellery have been ma de up in the new metal, and without the applicatio n of aquafortis it is quite impossible, even for an tO d perienced person, to discover the real quality o f the "gold," as it withstands rubbing and scraping. At on; time aluminium b r o nze wa s to supersede gold as a me t a in which articles of jewellery would bo beautifully a ° cheaply manufactured, but the old fault, namely, dig' colouration, soon showed itself, and thus it was throw n aside. With the now metal now at command that gr . . defect has been most successfully surmounted, and in "i very short time the Abyssinian gold will come into gene ra l use, especially as its cost will not be above one-fourth ° t hat charged for even jewellers' gold. TILE THAMES.—Yesterday the water, which 1 1: considerably on Saturday, and flooded the low-lying 111° ,, to a considerable depth at Maidenhead, Windsor, Vt . Egham, Staines, and the district around, began to rece de. The " Cobler," the noted watermark by which it is kno vt o whether the Thames is in or out of bounds, was W l l visible out of water yesterday morning, and last night was plain that the river had rapidly gone down towardnl proper level. Yesterday being the anniversary of the death 4 General Count Lunnyski, a requiem mass for the repo se of his soul was celebrated at the Polish chapel, Gower' street, by the Rev. E. Podolski, which was attended 11) ; many of his countrymen residing in London, who do 11° cease to deplore this irreparable losO to Poland.