The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-13 00:00:00

/ - 1 MOSES and ,ON. EXCELLENCE WITH CHEAPNESS. 1 1 VERY ARTICLE of CLOTHING, _J READY-MADE or MADE to AIEASURE, FOR ALL CLASSES. PRICES BASED ON READY -MONEY SYSTEM A . N UNEQUALLED in EVERY DEPARTMENT. STOCK A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT for BOY'S CLOTHING. OVERCOATS IN EVERY S i YLE AND M A TF.RIAL. OVERCOATS from 19s. to £5. BOOTS and SHOES. HOSIERY and DRAPERY. A_ND HATS and CAPS, IN GREAT VARIETY. A LARGE STOCK of BLANKETS, at unusually Low Prices. COMPLETE OUTFITS for ALL CLIMATES. ALL GOODS MARKED in PLAIN FIGURES ARTICLES NOT APPROVED OF EX CHANGED or the MONEY RETURNED. AN easy and accurate System of Self-measure, introduced by E. MOSES and Son, has served to extend their connection to all parts of the kingdom. ORDERS by POST promptly and carefully attended to. L IST of PRICES, with Rules of Self-measure, Patterns and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. MOSES and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS A. are CLOSED every Friday Evening at sunset till Saturday Evening at sunset, when business is resumed until 11 o'clock. EMOSES and SON. Ready-made and Bespoke • Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers. Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the London addresses of E. MOSES and CON:— CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 156, AIINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDG 83, ALDGATE BG, ALDGATE 7, ALDGATE 88, ALDGAT E 89, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 506, NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD-STREET 508, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENTIAINI-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 253, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. SPECIAL NOTICE.—In consequence of frequent misrepre sentations, E. MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ any travellers or agents, and that their WV Establishments are the above-mentioned. lIHEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. ChattPrton. Doors open at half-past is, commence at 7. Box-office open from I , till 5 daily. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE GIRLS ( , F THE PERIOD; a Musical Folly. • Followed by, at 7.45, HENRY IV. (First Par.): Falstaff, Mr. Dillon; Hotspur, Mr. Phelps; Messrs. Ryder, Sinclair, Wil son, M'lntyre, &c.; Miss Stuart and Mrs. Vandenhoff. To conclude with a Grand Ballet of Action entitled BF DA. T HEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Ken dal, Clark, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal ton. dtc. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton. A stley, &c,; Mesdames Cavendish. Burke, Hill, .tc. Concluding with RUR L FELICITY: essrs. Buekstone, Kendal, Rogers, Clarke, Weathershy, White, tic.: Mesdames Chippendale, Fitzwilliam, Laws, G Wynn, Wright, &c. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. 1111EATRE ROYAL, AI)ELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS V,VENING, a new farce, entitled A. DAYS FISHING. Mr. G. 3elmore, Mr. C. 11. Stephenson. Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. At 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr. Benin nun Webster, Mr Arthur Stirling, Mr. G Belmore, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Ash ley, Mr. Stuart, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Vies Lennox Grey, &c. Commence at Seven. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Li) Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining THIS EVENING, at a quarter to 8, anew Drama. in four acts, entitled MARIE ANTOINETTE : Louis XVI., Mr. William Rignold ; Count Fersen, Mr. J. G. Shore ; The Dauphin (five years old), Miss Lydia Howard; Marie Antoinette, Mdlle. Bea trice; Messrs. Dominick Murray, D. Leeson. New Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds, Mr. Dayes, and Mr. Matt. Mogan. New Dresses, bow Properties. I receded by THE SECRET. o conclude with a new Comedietta, entitled A CUP OF TEA. Mdlle. Beatrice. _ _ Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. daily from 10 till 5. Box-office open NEE CROPOLITAN ;ma GREAT WESTERN lIAILW AYS. OXFORD AN!) CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE, Irednestlay„ll arch 17. Passengers will he booked through from Westminster Bridge, Victoria, Brompton. South Kensington, and all intermediate station.: up to Paddington, to and from Hammersmith. Passengers wi!l be required to change from the Metropolitan Company's Praed-street Station to the Paddington Station of the Great Western Railway Company, from whi.h a Special service of Trains will run. lyiss EMILY FAITLIFULL will Repeat her LE , ;TU E on the ComECon and Claims of Women, with " Special Reference to their Higher Education," on THURS DAY EVENING, March 13, at the HANOVER SQUARE ROOMS. To commence a , 8.30 pre•Asely. Tickets msy be had at Messrs. Mitchell's, - happell's, Lamborne and Cock's, and Mr. Babb s, Bond-street; Mr. 011ivier, Old Bohd-street; Messrs. Cocks, New Burlington-street: Keith and Prowse, Cheapside ; Hays, 4, Royal Exchange Buildings; Mr. Hall, at the Rooms; and at the Vic oria Press, Princes-street, Hanover-square. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. ~ o le Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Tins EVENING, at 7. (lIRLS OF THE PERIOD. Followed by HENRY IV. (First PAM). Hotspur, Mr. Phelps; Falstaff, Mr. Charles Dillon. Concluding with BED A. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanhorongh THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE VIDOW HUNT. Clarke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames But ,sn and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD OF Th.L CLOTH OF GOLD Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M Long more, F. Hughes, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude orith HUE AND DYE. Messrs ROYAL AMPHITHEA FRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN • he world-renowned °NBA. whose extraordinary feats on the FLYING TRAP ZE perfectly electrified the Metr polls last Autumn, will appear ;VERY EVER ING. Onra's performance is now, more than ever, unquestionably superior to that of Leo tard, or any other performer on the trapeze. His double somer saults from the flying bar are incredible, and, to use a hackneyed phrase, must be seen to be believed. Onra challenges the world. The matchless ScENES in the ARENA, as usual. including Herr OSCAR C A RRE and his magnificent tud of Performing Horses. and the Star Company of Equestrians, Acrobats, Gymnasts, and Clowns. " Such a varied entertainment, so replete with excite ment, amusement, and evidence of refined skill, has never before beenintroduced to the metropolis."—Daily Telegraph, Oct. 30. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9. 0, BROWN AND THE BRAHMIN S: Messrs. Marshall. Warner, David fisher, Andrews, Hurlston, and J. Clarke: esdames C. Thorne, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Arnoll, Henry.le, Be rend, Hughes, and Stephens. ST. GE OR GE 'S HALL, Regent-street. FIRST APPEARANCE SINCE 1862. Great and triumphant success. Never in the annals of Ethiopian minstrelsy has a company made such a decided hit. New and beautiful Songs, Dances, Burlesque Sketches, &c., and the highly successful burlesque THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S OF LONDON, EVERY EVENING. ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY MINSTRELS (Proprietors, Messrs WILSOM and MONTAGUE) The Only Company of Christy's who have had the honour to appear, by special command. before THE QUEEN AND COURT. NEARLY ONE HUNDRED PERFORMERS. EVERY EVENING at EIGHT. WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS at THREE and EIGHT. Special Grand Performance for the People every Satur lay night at eight. 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Afterwhich, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. THIS ErENING. at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravagsnza, THE VERY GRAND DIITCH—S CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, ETery Night, at 8 Wednesdays and aturdays, at 3 and 8 a ll the year round. ROYAL AL (lAMB RA PALACE. THREE BALLET?, Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 3. Is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's -peak, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children under tweice, 6d. „p ity l Spn THE " bUN" NEWSPAPER.—G. R. GLENIE delivers the LA TE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn, ; Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford, 9.45. 'THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " fr_ supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by W. &LEXA. , DER. (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, Ao. 4, Old Cavendish street, Oxford-street LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GUARDIAN. GR. 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SMITH'S " Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden town. rrHE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN' at JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand. THE BENEVOLKNT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRICK. (Instituted in the year 1784.) Under the Patronage of her MAJESTY and his Royal Highness the Prince of WALES. The EIGHTY-SIXTH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL of this Society will be celebrated at Willis's Rooms, King street, St. James's, on ST. PATRICK'S DAY, the 17th March, 1869. The Earl of CORK and ORRERY, K.P., in the Chair. VICE-PRESIDENTS. The Duke of Devonshire, K.G. The Earl of Bessborough. The Earl of Charlemont, K.P. The Lord Otho Fitzgerald, M.P. The Lord George Hamilton, M.P. The Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, G.C.B. The Viscount Crichton, M.P. The Right Hon- Chichester Fortescue, M.P. Sir Ralph Howard, Bart. STEWARDS. Captain the Hon. Robert W. Grosvenor, M.P. The Right Hon. John Wilson Patten, M.P. C. Weguclin, Esq., M.P. Captain J. C. Wentelin. Sir Edward Coey. Arthur H Smith Barry, Esq., M.P. Sir Richard J. Theodore Orpen. The Hon. Temple Harris-Temple. John Ivatt Briscoe, Esq., M.P. Edmund Haviland Burke, Esq., M.P. William Thomas Charley, Esq., M.P. James Courtenay, Charles M‘Garel, Esq. Charles Brinsl , y Marlay, Esq. Joseph Radcliff, Esq. J. F. Corscalen, Esq. The Musical Arrangements will be under the direction of Mr. Land, of the London Glee and Madrigal Union. Dinner on Table at Seven o'clock punctually. As this Festival affords to Irishmen in London the op portunity of uniting in the celebration of the National Anniversary, the Committee earnestly hope for a nume rous and influential meeting. Tickets, 21s. each, to be had at Willis's Rooms, and at the schools in Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road. The Children dine, as usual, on St. Patrick's Day, at the schools, at One o'clock. THOMAS KIPPAX KING, Jun., Secretary. IVIETROPOLITAN and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE, Wednesday, March 17. The ordinary service of Trains between the City and Ham mersmith will be susuen le l from 11. noon tq, 7 p.m-, and a Special service of Trains will run at frequent intervals during that period, calling at all intermediate stations. The Fares between ‘I otropolitan Stations and Stations ou the Hammersmith and City Line and Kensington (Addison-road) will be as under:- Ist Class !.:(1 Class 3d Class Single Journey .. Return Journey 2s GI 2s Od Gd THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET THIS EVEN - ING, ING THE WI \ 1): Messrs. Henelal Ba...,kstone. jun., Mis , Laws. &e. Afier which, HOME: Sotheru, Chippendale!. &c.: Me:,laniesCaveneli ,, h, Burke, &c. Concluding with RURAL FELICITY. Commence t 7. PI; iNC ESS'S TH F.ITR E. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. TIES EVENING. at 7. to commence with THE SECRET. At a quarter to 3, MARIE ANTOINET TE: 3!r W. Itignold, Mr. G. Sh , •re, Mr. Dorr.inek Murray: 31,111 e. Beatrice. Conclud ing with _CUP OF T, A: Mdfle.Beatrice TBEAIiIE-P,OYAL, Trus EVENING, at 7. A DAY'.-; FISHING. 111 r. G. Belmore, I , r. Stephenßon, Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. At 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Ben. Webster. A. Stirling, U. Belmore, It. Phillips , Ashley, Stuart; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, we.. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee ant Manageress, Mrs. Swanhorough. Tffis EVENING, at 7.10, THE WID( ) W HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ; 3liss Bufton. Tti E FIELD OF THE C. OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; s! esdames Maria Longmore. B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL• TUN EVENING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.10, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 0.40, BROWN AND TIIE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall,Warner. David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar nold, and Stephens QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, 3Tr. W. H. Liston. T UTS EVENING. NOT ° GUILT Y : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Lionel Tirough • IT. Irving S.Tmery, Miss Hodson, &c. A fter which, TtiE STEEPLECII ASE: Mr Toole. With OUR CLERKS. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Tuts Ev , - ixo, BLOW 1 , 1)R BLOW: Messrs. Cowper, Ye ville, Parselle, and George Honey; Mesdames Lydia Foote, &C. After which, LUCRETIA BORGIA M.D.: IWSS Fanny Josephs, and George Hon e y . To conchute with AUNT CHARLOTTE 'S MAI •. Mesdames Larkin, Weathersby. ROYAL AMP FIIT II EAT R E AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Tuts EVENTSG, the Great Came Troupe and magnificent Sind f 50 Hor ses; a l so Oura, Alfred Bradbury, A. Carte, ttc THEATRE-ROYAL. OLYMPIC. THIS EVENING, at 7, PAPER WINGS : Messrs. H. ‘Vigan , IT. No Rle, E. Atkin s , H . V aug h an, H. C ooper, an d Smithson: Mesdames Furtado, Sehavev, N. Harris, and mt. Henry. After which TIIK YELLOW PASSPORT. Messrs Neville , IL Neville, Atkins. Taylor, Taughan, G. Vincent, &e.; Miss Fur ado and Mrs Caulfield. LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1869. Diminish pauperism, and there will be not much argument left in favour of Compulsory Education. A considerable section of the humbler classes, natu rally enough, evidences a readiness to see the State saddled with a responsibility which ought to belong, on the contrary, to the population itself. Let poverty among the masses be diminished—let pauperism, in other words, be teduced—and the parents, now de pressed by circumstances, and rendered indifferent as to the continuance of their children i❑ ignorance, will no longer betray this disposition to devolve upon the Government the duty of caring for their offspring. Yesterday, in the House of Commons, the member for Stoke-upon-Trent brought forward Ilis motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the condition of the young children in the larger and more popular towns of the United Kingdom. The motion was seconded THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1869, by Mr. GEORG& DIXON, the member for Birmingham. It led to an animated and lengthened discussion ; the upshot of it all being that the proposal for a Select Committee was declined on the part of the Govern ment by the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who intimated, however, on behalf of himself and his colleagues, the readi ness of her MAJESTY'S Ministers to assent to the appointment, for the purposes of that sug gested inquiry, in lieu of a Select Committee, of what will be manifestly far more to the purpose, an Official Commission. An inquiry of any kind into the matter referred to, as a means for affording justifi cation, as one might say, for Legislative interposi tion between the humblest and poorest portions of the community and the pernicious influences of pro found ignorance, is obviously of itself a thing quite superfluous. It is equivalent, very much to the elaborate demonstration of a self-evident proposi tion. It is more idle in its way than going to market to buy a hatchet to break eggs. Before one atom of additional evidence is obtained we know all about it. There are official blue-books in existence showing, as plainly as that two and two make four, that the dense stupidity and profound ignorance of enormous ma-ases of our fellow-creatures and fellow-countrymen, far and wide all over these wealthy and flourishing islands, present to view a spectacle nothing less than frightful and appalling. The fact that this is so, has, years upon years ago, been proved to absolute de monstration. Nothing can make the lamentable result more apparent or more absolutely undeniable. Nevertheless, it may be accepted at once, we fear, as not one jot less a matter beyond contradiction, that some such tedious process as that of a bran new in quiry must be gone through before anything in the way of practical legislation, upon the question of popular or national Education, can be adventured upon by the QUEEN'S Government. The latest lights —we premise that is the meaning of this inevitable necessity—the latest lights have to be thrown into the darkeat places, before anything can be done towards the dissipation of that darkness by the state. Manifestly, however, it is au alternative as to whether the inquiry shall be made by a Select Committee or by au Official Commission. According to the member for Stoke-upon- Trent, the former is preferable. Wisely running counter to this opinion, the right hon. gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department accords to the latter his decided preference, and the preference also, of course, of his colleagues in the Administration. And, beyond all manner of doubt, the result likely to be arrived at by means of an official Commission would be more dispassionate, would be less influenced by precon ived notions than one attained through a Select Committee—among the members of which would necessarily be found the avowed advocates of the system known by the expressive title of Com pulsory Education. The decision of Ministers upon this subject must, therefore, be regarded as, upon the whole, satisfactory. intrinsical:3, there will be not much good iu any in quiry. It will serve this beneficial purpose, ievertheless, that it will be a step in advance, and, as we must- trust, of course, in the right direction. Already it is a satisfactory circumstance in itself that the session has no further advanced than this when the crying need for Educational legislation is proclaimed aloud within the walls of the new ParliAnent. The want that has to be made good must, perforce and that before much longer, be in some measure satisfied. Ignorance and Pauperism have alike to be dealt with. To deal with one, without having any regard to the other, would be simply an absurdity. They must be treated harmoniously and sympathetically side by side. If possible, they should be taken in hand simultaneously. Btu - , if precedence must needs be accorded to one of the two, it ought certainly, by rights, to be accorded to Pauperism in preference to Ignorance. Raise the condition of the lowliest classes—lift them out of pauperism —and we shall hear no more of this rough-and-ready remedy for ignorance, Compulsory Education. Mn. CARDWELL has been as fortunate as Mr. CIIILDERS. Monday night saw the triumph of the First Lord of the Admiralty, Thursday night that of the Secretary of State for War. Both statesmen shewed such a philosophic comprehensiveness and such a complete mastery of details that it would be difficult to say which of the two acquitted himself the better. Both had to make a maiden budget speech ; but Mr. CHILDERS had an advantage which Mr. CARDWELL had not ; he had served in an inferior capacity the department over which he now presides. On the other hand, Mr. CARDWELL was better off, inasmuch as he has not, like his colleague, taken the place of one of the most popular members of the II ouse ; one, too, who, perhaps, knows more about the duties of the post he filled than any man living. It is easier to follow Sir JOHN PAKINGTON than Mr. Cosuty. Without going into the minutire of the army estimates, it may be well to point out that there are two great principles which have governed Mr. CARD WELL'S policy of reduction : concentration of troops at home, and thorough supervision and control by the department. We have already mentioned that it is to Mr. ARTHUR MILLS, then the Conservative member for Taunton, that the country is indebted for the thorough exposure of the reprehensible, wasteful, and dangerous system by which our troops were for many years scattered over the world. Mr. CARDWELL acknowledged the good services rendered by that gentleman, and pointed out how for some time past successive Governments have modified this state of things, either by the recall of troops, or by compelling the colonies to pay for them. As Secre tary for the Colonies it became Mr. CARDWELL'S duty to order back the 10,000 troops with which the New Zea landers were fighting the Maories. His successors, the Earl of CARNARVON and the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, followed in his track ; and he is simply travelling still farther in the direction which nearly half-a dozen Ministers have taken. This policy is now for the first time about to be applied to Canada. It has not been extended to that vast country hitherto for " exceptional" reasons, those reasons being the Trent affair of seven years ago, and the Fenian raids of more recent times. On both of these occasions Canada was imperilled through her connection with the mother country. In neither matter was she individually concerned. It was, therefore, our duty to supply her with the troops she wanted. Yet it may fairly be questioned if it was not her duty to pay for them. however that may be, the obligation on our part is now over. Fenianism is exploded. No one fears that the United States will attack Canada. The colony, large as it is, would not be worth the cost of a war to a country which already possesses boundless tracts of uninhabited land. Canada—the New Dominion—can walk alone. The control of the army is a matter of less interest e l b i , 81 f w o pl r eods it es possess s o m : o o r zaipl t ip e t ra c e l r a i cal tae ff . atihi l . se t trtaehlliajeins tanoa o i heea c t iv ilia Mall, o n u s o w f t t h h o e u t v a r r e i o fo u r s Hi f l t g i n ct t i o on aries those a t b et I N I N a , e ll e n the War Office and the Horse Guards. Clearly, how - evdt, Mr. CARDWELL has done wisely in superseding that committee of artillerymen hastily appointed by the late Government just before its retirement from office. It is to be hoped, too, that the appointment of an e7:perienced military man like Captain VIVIAN as assistant to the Minister of War and adviser on purely military matters, will be of service. There is still one work which Mr. CARDWELL has to accom plish, greater even than the reduction of the estimates or the reorganisation of the Control Department— the establishment of a proper army of reserve. At present we have merely the disjecta membra of that force. It will require all the energy and t] ability of the present Secretary of State to bring into a harmonious, vital whole those at present dissevered forces, the Militia, the Volunteers, the Pensioners, and the Yeomanry. It is satisfactory to learn from Mr. CARDWELL that he has not overlooked.this im portant work, and that he does not despair of accom plishing it. Is all probability the constituency of Beverley has at length earned the reward for which it has so long and so industriously striven. A borough must be corrupt indeed when it becomes necessary to bribe from 800 to 1,000 electors in order to give the candi date at the head of the p 0111,151 votes. No decision which has yet been given by the judges admits of less doubt on both counts. Sir H. EDWARDS and Captain KENNARD were no more duly elected as the repre sentatives of Beverley than one of the voters who were bought with an odd number of half-crowns. And there can be equally little doubt that after a long period of immunity, during which an organised system of buying place and power was carried on, Beverley stands convicted of utter corruption, such as disfranchisement alone can adequately punish. Under the new Reform Act, a contest in the little Holder ness borough might reasonably be expected to prove as close and interesting as any in England. In most manufacturing towns the conclusion is fore gone for the Liberals, and in rural constituencies for the Conservatives. But Beverley is an interesting hybrid. It is the market town for a large and fertile district, and is likewise famous for the construction of implements. The inhabitants divide their attention between iron works and market produce. However Conservative Beverley might have been under a select oligarchy of farmers, shopkeepers, and freemen, a keen contest might have been expected under a democratic franchise. Even the danger of intimidation is at least balanced, for one or two of the largest employers of labour are ad vanced Liberals. The free and independent electors, however, have been carefully trained to remarkable unanimity. It is common to make a political engine of municipal elections, but nowhere else can be found a more perfect example of a constituency taking time by the forelock, and providing for the greater event in settling the less. Here there was no vulgar bribing for the occasion ; the voters were bought wholesale at the municipal elections, and kept permanently in stock for the parliamentary struggle. A few wire-pullers had the management of an organisation by means of which the municipal elections were settled to the advantage of their own party. Sometimes £l5O was spent in bribing electors at a low figure. Sometimes the cost was greater, and on one exciting occasion no less than £3OO was dis tributed amongst the voters. But whether the sum spent was small or great, the Liberals invariably found themselves in a minority of about two to one. This was one way of preparing for the election to Parliament. Then the freemen of the town—before the Reform Act they numbered 850 out of 1,400 voters—had the right of pasturage over a large plot of ground ; and by Act of Parliament twelve pasture masters were elected to control this right and take care of the pasture. Formerly these pasture masters were chosen equally from the two parties, but of late they were all of the dominant and Conservative type. But worse remains. The pasture masters not only had the spending of a considerable sum in connection with the free land, b u t th ey h a d th e di s t r ibution of £1,400, left as a lega c y, and intended to be divided in con siderable am oun t s amongs t poor f ree m en w h o h a d sustained loss of stock. This money, shameful to relate, was divided in small sums, so as to defeat the object of the testator. Its management was so judicious that out of thirty-three who received this money and voted twenty-six polled for the successful members. Here, it is clear, was an admirable foundation for eligible Conservative candidates to build upon. Sir H. EDWARDS and Captain KENNARD did not fail to make the most of it. The former is chairman of the Beverley Waggon Company, and knew nothing of the bribery. But Mr. NORFOLK was manager of the same company, and this able deputy provided him self before the municipal election with £BOO, which he worthily spent. The usual sum required at the annual trafficking in votes was about £l5O, but as the municipal election took place only a fortnight before the greater event, prices ruled much higher. Buyers, too, were much more anxious than usual. Though the ordinary price of a municipal vote is five shillings, on this occasion the lowest price was fifteen shillings, whilst the total sum distributed was five times the average amount. Eight hundred voters could be bought for £1 each, but as seven half-crowns were a very common offer, it is clear that more voters must have sold themselves in advance at the mu nici pal contest. The result was proportionate haveroporti never for miatetothe means employed. The years past found their way into the town council, but on this occasion they gave up the struggle early in the day, as unusually hope less. It will be seen, therefore, that the bribery for which this election has been declared void was wholly indirect bribery. Nothing was done in the way of vote traffic on the day of the parlia mentary election. The prime mover, Mr. NORFOLK, carefully abstained from any interference on that day; but the object of his disbursements a fort nighte previously is not the less evident. The ou £BOO was to return Conservative co uncillors, but spentto elect not Sir H. EDWARDS and Captain KENNARD. The ordinary policy at the lesser contest is to provide for the greater ; but here the provision was excessive, and out of proportion to the comparatively moderate bribery of previous years. There is every reason for supporting all the judge's conclusions. There is no ground for doubting that knowledge of what was going on was withheld from the two candidates, for this is generally the case. But it is certain that bribery was ex t e nsively employed on their behalf, and that their election is void. Finally, the whole constituency is disgraced by one of the worst stories of corruption ever revealed, and Beverley in justice must surrender the privilege which it has held so long. The petition has clearly proved the neces sity of dealing with municipal and parliamentary corruption at the same time. It is additional testi mony, too, to the value of the new law, for it is doubtful whether these disclosures would have been made before a committee of the House of Commons. It is proposed to convene a public meeting in Dublin for the purpose of considering the propriety of erect ing a national monument to the memory of Lord Gough. A Cabinet Council will be held at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, Downing-street, to-day. The Government have sent a protective force of eight policemen, with a constable, to occupy the railway station at Mullingar. The execution of the two men, Dolan and M'Conville, who are confined in Durham gaol, will, under 'present arrangements, take place on Monday week, the 22d instant. Between four and five o'clock on Thursday afternoon, as the wife of a farmer named lodge was crossing the rails at Farington station, near Preston, the London express train came up, caught her, and killed her instantly. _ • , A collision occurred at Athy, Ireland, on Tuesday night, between an express train from Kilkenny and some cattle waggons which were shunting at the time. No lives were lost, but the fireman received a slight injury. The waggons, carriage, and engine were smashed to atoms. A telegram from Shrewsbury states that the r olice have found iu an old outhouse at Bretchell, Shropshire, the body of a child with its head cut open. A domestic servant named Pugh has been arrested, and will bo brought up for examination to- day. TheAthenmuni thinks that the announcements that Mr. Revordy Johnson will preside at the next annual dinner of the Newspaper Press Fund, are surely a little hasty. Events on the other side, says our contemporary, makes it very uncertain whether Mr. Johnson will be in England as lute as June. It is expected that the Viceroy will accompany the Prince and Princess of Wales on their return to Alex andria, where a grand ball will be given in their honour. Subsequently the Prince of Wales will probably visit the Suez Canal, and from this, it is said, he will leave for Jeru salem, where he will remain during Holy Week. .e CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY, March 12. Lord Lyons has had a long interview withthe Empercr and then another with the Marquis de Lavalette. These diplomatic visits are at once set down to the credit of the Belgian difficulty, and, as it would appear, with some reason. The railway affair has become of at least sufficient importance to warrant the intervention of other nations. The statements that England has made representations on the subject must now be accepted as true, whilst Prussia is reported to have taken up a very jealous attitude. But, though public opinion is disturbed enough at present, appearances are ir. favour of a quiet settlement of this railway affair. The letter of the Pope to Monseigneur Darhoy, the Archbishop of Paris, which so unwarrantly made its appearance in the third edition of M. Emile 011ivier's book, is said to have given some annoyance in high places here, on account of the absolute negation of the civil authority which it appears to uphold. The Church of Rome has on the whole a strong friend in the Emperor, but he dislikes the too positive assertion of spiritual supremacy. There is another item of intelligence from Imperial circles. It was asserted that the difference between Baron Hauss mann and M. Rouher had been smoothed down by the Emperor's interference, but news from a very good source says the reverse. The two Ministers are still as hostile as ever. The public is feverish with anxiety to know what line Baron Haussmann will take when the City of Paris Loan comes on in the Senate ; but for this, I fear, people will have to wait until the event takes place. Baron Haussmann has not divulged his intentions to anybody, for the simple reason that he does not know them himself. A new candidate for the Presi• dency of the Senate has appeared on the scene. This is the Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat. Amongst items of election news I may mention that M. de Montalembert has been spoken of for the Doubs de partment, but it is not likely that he will be brought for- ward. The Liberal committee of the third circumscription of the Doubs having to find a candidate to run against the Marquis de Con6gliano, considered M. de Montalem bert's chance, but ultimately chose M. Pidoux. M. de Montalembert is in very bad health just now, and, besides, he gained very few votes in 1563. On dit that the inde pendent candidature of M. Casimir Perier, in the Aube, is becoming very dangerous to the official nominee, M. De Plancy, An exciting scene, unfortunately attended with a calami tous termination, has occurred at Strasbourg. The first floor of a house at the corner of two streets was a Protestant reading room, kept by Madame Lange. On opening the rooms three mornings back she found them in flames, which extended in a moment to the staircase, and cut off the retreat of the persons living above. M. Lirant, proprietor of the house, with his wife and sister-in-law managed to get down from their apartment on the second storey by means of a rope ; a photographer, named Kolb, with his family, on the fourth floor, also escaped by a ladder placed from his window to that at the back of an house forming the opposite side of the angle. M. Debes, on the third floor, succeeded in passing to an adjoining house along a slight projection in the wall, and, by clinging to the outside shutters, his mother and sister followed him, but his wife in making the attempt fell on the pavement, and received such injuries that she died shortly afterwards. Mr. DeUs's brother-in-law also jumped into the street, and was killed. The house was en tirely burnt clown. A remarkable criminal case is now being heard in Paris. Two young girls have been carried off together by a man of business, named Plovier, and were sent back to their parents safe and uninjured in any way, after three weeks' detention. One of these girls was 20 years of age, the other 19. They are the daughters of a manufacturer in good position, and had each of them a dower of not less than £12,000. Plovier is neither young nor handsome, but he possesses the allurements of the tongue and pen, and seems to have wished to marry the eldest for her fortune, whilst she on her part not less desired to marry him. But why both were taken away is not quite clear. As, however, the two are over 16, it will be necessary for the parents to prove that fraud was used in carrying them off, and this, to all appearance, will be difficult. The wreck of the Cambria, a large screw steamer trading between Trieste, Messina, and London, is re- ported. She was lost on the homeward voyage on the coast of Sicily. The captain, one passenger, and eighteen seamen were drowned. Ten others were save? COUBTS-MARTIAL COMMISSION. The f.rst report of the Commissioners to inquire into the Constitution and Practice of Courts-Martial in the Army has been presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of her Majesty. The Commissioners delay the final report, but make suggestions respecting the present system of punishments for military offences. Penal servitude is the most severe form of tunisliment in use, and it is advised that recourse be had to it, only in those cases which demand d's missal from the army. With regard to the discipline main tained in military pri,ons, the commissioners are of opinion that the prisoners should not le associated. They recommend that a central military prison be established, and that it should be worked upon the "separate system." All the punishments for repressing drunkenness have hitherto proved ineffectual. A punishment by fine has been sug gested, and the Commissioners concur in this opinion. With respect to the punishment of non-commissioned officers they advise that the rule may be to a certain extent relaxed, which reduces them to the ranks upon being tried by court martial. WRECK ON THE GOODWIN SANDS. Before daylight on Thursday morning, while the wind was blowing strong from the northeast, the Ramsgate lifeboat Bradford, in tow of the steamer Aid, proceeded out in response to signals from the Gull Light-ship. Ott nearing the Goodwin Sands a vessel was seen ashore on the north west spit, with a tar barrel burning as a signal of distress. The lifeboat was then towed to windward of her, and slipped. Sail was made on the boat, but when about fifty fathoms off the ship, the lifeboat struck the sand heavily. The Broadstairs' lifeboat—Samuel Morrison Collins — had also come out and grounded, the sea breaking fearfully over both boats. The falling tide fixed the Brad ford hard and fast on the sand. The crew of the stranded ship, meanwhile, shouted for assistance, and after some difficulty a line was got from the vessel to the lifeboat, and a hawser hauled into the latter. A number of the lifeboat men plunged into the sea, and wading through the heavy surf, boarded the ship. The master requested them to do their best to save the lives of his crew and the vessel. After great labour and risk the ship came afloat, when she was taken in tow by a steamer into Ramsgate harbour. She was the schooner Pride of the West, of Penzance, bound from Yarmouth to Hayles with a cargo of flour. The crime of horse stealing has for some time past prevailed to a great extent in the upper parts of the county of Essex. But the most daring raid of this kind was made at Ilford on Wednesday night. Six fine agri cultural horses, valued at the sum of £240, belong ing to Mr. Lake, farmer of Aldborough Hatch, were bedded up for the night at seven o'clock. At nine it was found that the stable had been opened, the horses unhar nessed, and all taken away. They were traced in the direc tion of London, and over Bow Bridge, but there the clue failed. The horses have not been found, but some gypsies, who were in camp near, are in custody. Mr. Justice Keogh, in sentencing prisoners con victed of rioting at the Limerick election, said that it was perfectly useless to talk of freedom of election if mobs were to be allowed to go abroad, as in that city, carrying sticks, life-preservers, pieces of rope, and handkerchiefs with stones in them. If mobsmen were to be al lowed to go out into the streets and flourish weapons over the heads of every elector who was opposed to them, it would be far better that Limerick should have no represen tative at all. Judge Keogh sentenced the prisoners to six months' confinement each, with hard labour. The sixteenth report of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales has been issued. They have made, during the year 1868,2,047 orders authorising sales of charity estates, building or other leases,transfers of stock,establishing new schemes,and application tothelaw courts. The amount of stock transferred in the year was £458,092. At the close of 1868 the total amount of the various stocks and shares vested in the official trustees was £3,443,029, held by them upon 4,951 accounts. '1 ho only scheme the com missioners had prepared during the past year with the view to its being submitted to Parliament, is for the Tre vilson charity, affecting the parish of East Newlyn, in Corn wall. The strike and lock-out of South Lancashire miners still continues ; with no signs of abatement. The proprietors of the Denaby Main Colliery have within the last few days made an effort to stock the pit with men from Stafford shire. On Wednesday evening last a number of the men locked out saw the new corners and managed to persuade them to return to their homes. The men expressed a willing ness to do so, and a few of them retuned to their comrades at the pit and persuaded them to go home also. The result was that about 60 of the "black sheep" left. The majority left Mexbro', headed by those locked out with a large flag. They were repeatedly cheered on the way by some thousands of people. Those locked out received their first pay yesterday at Mexbro', at a cc,styl about 4100. who a f i csm still_cleterpArted 42_1.1211_2AC' bfill,ls: OF THE 2IIBLIC JOURNALU. The Saturday Review is busy discussing what is the proper legislative office of tile Lords, and what scope remains for their superfluous energies. The Lords may be regarded as an initiating and as a revising legislative body, and it must be considered what they can properly initiate, and how they can properly revise. Lord Russell said that the initiating functions of the Lords lay properly in matters ecclesiastical, diplomatic, and legal. As tc ecclesiastical queseions, the attribution to the Lords of a constitutional aptitude for dealing with them probably suggested itself to Lord Russell as a compliment to the bishops. But this was clearly a mistake. The bishop. are not meant to legislate for the Church, but to defend it. They initiate nothing ; they remain passive, and see as far as possible that things are not changed to their detriment. The repeal of the Test Act, Catholic Rman• cipation, the suppression of half the Irish bishops, disen• dowment and disestablishment of the Irish Church, are the sort of ecclesiastical measures carried by modern English Parliaments ; and the rustic who waited till bishops initiated them would gaze a long while at the river of time. In diplomacy, PArliament does not so much legislate as express opinions for the guidance of the Secretaryof State ; and here it is quite true that the Lords can, and often do, take the initiative with much success ; and a debate in the Lords on any international or diplomatic question generally commands great attention and respect. But one evening every other session is about all that falls to the lot of the Lords as an opportunity of shewing their excellence in this department of public affairs. Diplo matic discussions, to he valuable,!must be very rare. There remains the law ; and here it must be owned that there is, as matters now stand, a lamentable waste of very valuable legislative power. The experience and the knowledge and the leisure of the Law Lords are not nearly enough uti lised for the reform of those portions of the law which everyone knows ought to be reformed, but which it is no one's business to reform. The main duty of the House of Lords must, however, necessarily be that of revising the legislation of the Commons, and the Lords are fully jus tified in asking that they should have every possible facility given them for discharging this duty properly. Lord Russell suggests that the best method of securing this time would be to alter the time of year up to which the estimates are framed, so that the discussion in the House of Commons of these estimates should be thrown later than it is now, and be put after the mass of their legislative work for the sessionwas d em. Then the Commons would be discharging the complex and lengthy financial duties which belong exclusively to them, while the Lords were revising the bills sent up to them. This suggestion deserves consideration, as also does that of Lord Granville, that many bills might be permitted to begin in the Lords which must now begin in the Commons, because they have some faint and remote tinge of a money bill about them. The extreme jealousy of the Lords with which the Commons used to be animated in all money matters may perhaps be mitigated now that the supremacy of 'the Commons has been estaonshed. The Spectator, referring to Lord Salisbury's remarks on the spread of education having nothing to do with the diminution of . crime, says : For our parts, much as we respect the group of administrative statesmen of both parties, there is not one of them whom we cannot easily conceive, if born under less propitious circumstances, and brought up without education, as being nanie, like all the rest of us, to fall into positive crime. Lord Salisbury, strong and able as he is, is undoubtedly a strong partisan, liable to very narrow views—witness this utterance about education and crime—and not indisposed to be arrogant and overbearing in asserting them. Suppose he had had no education, no means of living, and no social rank to widen and soften him, does anybody doubt but that he might have been one of the dangerous classes—the very dangerous classes himself ? His slight hardness in defence of property rights might just as well have been excessive hardness in assaulting them--they come from the same root at bottom.—and if he had taken to burglary, none of the crew would have been so violent against the " peelers," or a bitterer stickler for his share of the " swag." His old opponent in the Commons, on the other hand, Mr. Forster, the Vice-President of the Council, had he been brought up outside the worldof education and social amenities, though he would have been quite as formidable as Lord Salisbury, would have beenterrible in a different way. He, it may be, might have been drawn into a trade union, and on behalf of such a brotherhood have become a desperate character —a terrible picket against the "knobsticks," an enthusiastic rattener, a stern executionerof the unlawful laws of such an ignorant and tyrannical Vehmgericht. Nay, if we may let our imagination dwell at all on so very delicate a field as the possible affinities of illustrious and intellectual men for different classes of transgression of the law, had they had none of the advantages which Lord Salisbury thinks so utterly without bearing on crime or " moral depravity," is it so absolutely impossible to imagine that—in another and very much worse world —some disreputable double of Lord Derby, instead of taking a leap in the dark " to dish the Whigs," might have made his enemy stand and deliver on Hounslow Heath, on pain of receiving a couple of balls in his head, and ridden to York in some incredibly short time to prove an alibi? or that some unfortunate wretch with a strange whiff in him of Lord Russell, might have been charged with feloniously placing obstacles across the rail road with intent to throw the up-train off the rails, to gratify a grudge against some of the passengers? Is there absolutely no conceivable world in which Mr. Bright might have been a prize-fighter, or Mr. Lowe a body snatcher, or Lord Westbury a devotee of vivisection practised in open contravention of the law against cruelty to inferior creatures, or Mr. Goschen an accomplished coiner, or Lord Stanley a dangerous tramp and beggar? Would Mr. Disraeli be quite unimaginable as a Leicester square conspirator against foreign Governments under the guise of a melancholy pedlar of steel pens, or Mr. Gladstone a s a promoter of bubble companies, or the Bishop of Oxford as a begging-letter writer? Is no conception more inconceivable than that someatias of Mr. Walpole's should have been taken up for singing doleful ditties about the streets, with six starving children as his companions, and without strict adherence to history in his lugubrious nar rative? or that same smiling bumpkin, resembling a village Granville, should have been charged with turning his bonhomie to bad purpose in some country fair, by acting "bonnet" to the local dicer? The Saturday Review is dissatisfied with Mr. Bright's language respecting the matter of f a l se we i g ht s an d measures and adulteration, to which Lord Eustace Cecil the other evening called his attention. How comes it that in the parish of St. Pancras the inspectors state that the crying evil of the day is that the parish authorities screen and conceal the numerous cases of deficient weights and measures brought under their notice ? Why is not the supervision of weights and measures made a matter of police, and not of municipal regulation? and why should not the magistrates be compelled to publish these lists? The whole thing ought to be taken out of the hands of these wretched vestries. No, says Mr. Bright; trade would be impossible if we interfered. They interfere in France, they interfere in Prussia, they interfere every where where it is admitted to be one of the first duties of Government to protect the poor and i gnoran t and starv ing ; and even where lawis halting, and it is difficult to reach offenders in a thinly populated country such as America, the law of Lynch supplements the statutes. But i n England the British tradesman ought not to stand this. Better shut up his shutters than submit to the degradation of honest dealing. Mr. Bright at the Fishmongers' Hall said that, in his own person, he had in the public interests so far neglected business that he was almost in the condi tion of Mr. Shell, who was, according to his own account, sent to the Board of Trade because he knew less about trade than any other man in Parliament. We make Mr. Bright a present of this extenuation of the character which he is pleased to give of the British retailer. We trust that Mr. Bright is, as he seems to suggest, ignorant of the real character of his clients. His picture of them is scarcely engaging. Pope talk s o f th e "tradesman meek and much a liar." Mr. Bright describes him as much a liar, and bound to be so by the stress of competition, but anything but meek. Mr. Bright's retailer not only cheats, but must c h ea t, an d must not b e interfered with in his cheating. We regret to say that there is much truth in this. The lower you descend in trade, the less economical and the more unsound is its working, The small retail tradesman has no capital, or only such as he borrows at an extravagant price ; the retail publican is much in the same condition. They deal in perishable articles ; they are bound to give credit ; they are open to competition ; th e mone y th a t they have is not enough to pay interest, to remunerate their own labour, and to keep their families ; and adulteration and false weights are their only resource. Humanitarians will say that, if you throw additional difficulties on the small retailer, you are suppressing a useful element in society. This is just what we deny. We believe that the public good, and the true interests of trade, would be advanced by diminishing retail trade as it is now carried on in poor neighbourhoods, and that both vendors and consumers would be benefited by improving a good many retailers from off the face of the town. The John Bull, in reviewing the achievements of the members of the Government, declares that the good buys have said their lessons very well, and been sent back to their seats with a pat on the back. The Premier has put up Mr. Childers and Mr. Cardwell as his pet pupils, and their easy translation will, on the whole, do credit to the Liberal establishment. But we must not be dazzled by the kind of plodding work which passes occasionally for brilliant scholarship. Mr. Childers and Mr. Cardwell are the industrious boys, not the geniuses of Mr. Glad stone's school. The Ministry having committed itself to economy, the heads of the great spending departtnents— theAdmiralty and War Office— were forced to economise as best they could, and it is only just to say they have done their work, from the purely ispular point of view, without much clumsiness. Mr. Childers had to save, and his estimates appear nearly a million lighter than they were before. Mr. Cardwell had to save, and he has knocked off a clear million or more. Theseoarefacts— great facts—dear to the British taxpayer, f whatever politics he may be, and the encomium passed on the two good boys from the Opposition benches was not altogether undeserved. The credit of such of their retrenchments, however, as are safe they cordially acknowledge to be due to their predecessors in office ; and Mr. Corry and Sir John Pakington will probably in detail criticise the weak points of the Government schemes, while Lord Elcho on Friday night gave notice of motion as to the formation of an army of reserve. As to Mr. Childers's scheme for turret ships, to draw twenty-six feet of water without masts, it is simply absurd, the ships, as Mr. Corry, who knows more probably about the navy than any one in the House, says, being, .ahli‘uu4llpr sea-o'li purposes and for coast defence — ---' --"*"" BRADFORD ELECTION. THE NOMINATION. As we have already mentioned, the nomination of th e candidates for Bradford took place on Thursday, am id a most disgraceful riot. The proceedings were appointed to take place in the open air. The crowd did u° l gather long before the hour of commencing, for shortly before eleven o'clock there were not more than a fe w hundreds gathered in front of the hustings. The n umberi however, rapidly increased, and by the time the pr o ' ceedings were fairly in progress there would be a s many present as at the first nomination, about 5 0 ,° °(1 being present, the whole side of the hill being black wi th people, and both sides were equally hearty in the vocifers' tions with which they interrupted the speakers. Through' out the whole of the proceedings, indeed, the people n3an i ' fested a degree of turbulence which ultimately provoked the row which brought the proceedings to an abrupt ter nation. The Mayor having asked if any elector ha d a candidate to propose, Mr. S. Storey, who O s greeted with cheers and hisses, proposed Mr. ThomPs° ll ', During his speech a miniature battle of the standar° ensued, a fight taking place for one of the boards bean a the placard, " Hands up for Thompson." Ultimately it's v : got down and pieces of the board torn off. Another gr eat surge took place, and a board of each party came to grie f ' and disappeared in small pieces. One of the bearers 0., thrown down and had a narrow escape from being traroPle`: upon. Alderman Brown, who was received with gi ll ' cheering, then proposed Mr. Edward Miall. Mr. Thon3Ps a . . /1 then came forward to address the assembly, and W'r received with much uproar, the proceedings being sudden')„, interrupted and brought to an unexpected conclusion' The feelings of the mass up to this time had evident ly been growing more and more angry, and the vari ati : attacks on the board-holders to which we have allude"' and others which took place, had placed in the band of many of the roughs weapons which could be 1 with not a little effect to suppress any manifestation ° feeling to which they might happen to be opposed. ./ .115 2 at the close of Alderman Law's speech in seconding 1 : Miall, a fresh attack on a board, one of Thornils° ll ; ° ' which was close to the centre of the hustings, was 1 306 and assailants and defendants came to bl o ws. Whilst was going on similar proceedings had taken Pl ace , away at the back of the crowd, and in the middle of i 4 stones began to fly. So sudden and unexpected was occurrence that it would be difficult to say from whiff; side the first stone was thrown, and indeed it was no until stones and pieces of wood began to fly about 1 4 1 thickly that the people around seemed to understs' ri that anything of the kind was going on. Then t ila dense massing of the crowd prevented easy retreat' though there was a speedy shrinking back from t h „ a centre of the fight, and once the missiles began to tell, people on Thompson's side of the hustings ran to the ha e ' l ' of the hustings, leaving the space they had occupied CO paratively clear. It was only a momenta r y retreat, hi l t ever, for many, and having filled their pockets w t , stones, they returned, firing the stones right into the thie: of the crowd on the Miall side, and they in their turn 11 , a : to flee, only to return and dispute in a similar manner tm i possession of the field. In this warfare both women and men took an active part, and the force with whiat stones were thrown shewed there was little regarc l l 6 consequences. The police made a charg e t o disperse w t , rioters, but they were too few in number to deal with t l f mass of people, and it was not possible to single ! ti n the offenders. During this a consultation had t ake ; place on the hustings, and the mayor announced t b . ,,, a a poll was demanded, and adjourned the proceed i°l7 , The rioters paid no attention, to the intiinat i l i g they were evidently quite exasperated by t ., 8 time, and so strong was political passion that e 0 saw women most respectably dressed hurling B t °ll 4 and pieces of wood at the opposite party. After this aut had lasted for about five or ten minutes a general a tta ig 0 was directed to the hustings, and the parties on both ,c were glad to beat a retreat, the stones, clay, mu d ' f i ba sticks being freely thrown at any of the occupants were visible. The reporters were not spared ei ther i and they were glad to abandon their occupation aniii seek shelter underneath th e husting s . S e veral Pl a tt , were taken into custody, alth oug h s t re nuous en ° _. d for their rescue were made. Ulti ma t e ly the riot b er- 9 to subside for lack of men to keep it up, and th eli nti number of Mr. Miall's supp o rt ers ga th e red in fr°- p r i and, in answer to a call f ro m th e h us ti ngs , ga ve three elle ; for,Miall. As the crowd dispersed and s t o ne-0 00 re became moredangerous to the thrower f ro m his being I n % easily seen, the row quieted down, and after a ch eer Thompson the proceedings in a manner came to 3 clo g As may be supposed, all this stone-throwing di d take place without some people being hurt, theneo considering the ferocity of the attacks, fewer persensl e er e been injured than might have been anticipated. - " o f were a dozen taken to Dr. Terry, L ee ds-road. Al °a 'o them had head cuts, though som e h a d sev ere injurieso the face. Three of the cases of injuries to the he ad ly reported as being very bad. Two pers o n s were so severeof injured that they had to be taken to the InfirraarP to n ' these one, a man named Wilkinso n Waddingt. was struck on the right eye by a stone, which ha s fr o tered the ball completely, and destroyed for ev e Lipg sight of that eye. The other, a lad named Kirpl , P € . oB in Silsbridge-lane, had a severe cut on the left side c° he head. The blow, from a half-brick, was so severe ths'totes was completely stunned and f e ll to the ground. Se that all lie recollects before falling is that a nunl°` young women, seemingly mill hands, struck him. THE POLLING. tbA The polling took place yesterday, and resulted ill triumphant return of M r . Miall. The official de clailt.o , i ijg , of the poll was mad e a t s i x o ' c l oc k last e ven The mayor stated that th e num ber ' ol° n il oy voted for Mr. Mi a ll was 9,243, an d f or Mr. Tb °/: %1 5 01; 7,086 He therefore decl are d M r . Mi a ll t o have be en - oci elected. Mr. Miall took the lead in the morning'd kept far ahead of Mr. Thompson during the enure His majority was f requen tly 1,700, 1,500 , and 1,4 ' ° A ll e a . his opponent. The town w a s p er f ec tly qu iet a l l there was an absence of much of the excitemen t rent at the last election. The d e f ea t o f Mr. Tiou'ij c ° oo. ascribed to the desertion of a lar ge nu mber of the e i j e- bei% who voted for Mr. Ripley, and wh o had Pro llise-t votes to Mr. Thompson. REPORTERS FOR THE (E CUMENICAL Coulruitiel A communication from Rome states that the all tli e °r th 9 are engaged in organising a service of reporters I° A ,' bbe proceedings in the cEcumenical Council. The ;all Vigidius Marcheses, a Piedmontese, has been 1:u - ri e •t the Holy Father at the head of the s horthand W I bs° This ecclesiastic, a subject of the Icing of I t° ;'' 6 14 only been in holy orders five years. Before Po n °,;:rg' the vows, he was for a long time first reporter to liament of Turin. fr)t )° DESTRUCTION OF A NATURAL BILID C4. 40 11 ' of the most interesting natural curiosities la Ceill itiai sj " The Tolmen," or as it is sometimes called, " 11° 0 011 ! has just been destroyed. It was s ituat e - Rock," midway between Penryn and I lelston to the the high road, and weighed about 800 d tOns. ov l l t d r,h:l 3 lo e* long, l l4ft. high, and 19ft. in breadth, a It was placed in a most extraordinary p w os a i s o ti b o i n e i ct l i p it t ° l this fact, as well as its immense interest to tourists as well as to the gweoalsogaist, The 1 1,1:1:0 1 it t ested on the point of two detached rocks, and ande'"Toi' was a free passage. Immediately beneath " veil men" was a valuable granite quarry which 1 10 ere worked to the depth of 40 feet, close up to the oe Y,ysoa ld the Main Rock rock rested. This has been rented had A one, who, unknown to the proprietor, Mr lieshenTbior hole bored underneath the rock and charge d ' en a t it t ' a when fired, threw the Tolmen off its bed, and °llse roll into the quarry, 40 feet below. ode FORBIDDING THE BANNS. —A summa r y p e at . °: of in t 9 0 ostforbiddingJohn ihew:G t o h ao e r r yf assizes a h n ao n m s o has fwe ear re r f formed and mott, m indicted for breaking into the dwelling' of farmer, living at Clontur , of Leitrim, The • evidence went to shew that 0 1 3 r 1 , tof the gang, and, proceeding to th e house en the nig h pot the 2 Gth of November, directed i n the • cak.mi e o d end. a sob s a, : n b nr j io e en. c u t with a sledge. Thi s was prompt anddotnheembyto breakAiT keroacoioviijr l e efficient manner. Meanwhile two shots into the kitchen window. M`GarrY dee-ode prudent a de b to retreat upstairs. The party, be' vi° , s „ breach, entered the house, and M`Derinott, Djoo w hi i s th hand in practice, struck Mrs. 111`GarrY 3 Sel ikl ere 'al tril :. the sledge. O'Brien, having learnt that r e dolv" t had gone upstairs, directed M`Dermott to " el e , u n g- , De cal the stairs and bring down the old scoundrel." I‘-`:-becl set about obeying the order, and bad del: 13 ° 1 7:0 0 f : balusters and posts of the staircase when 1‘1`631:1 to 1) _: down from his hiding-place. O'Brien held a Pielfj be breast, and swore that he would shoot the tha t for concealing his brother. He was assured snotty' was not in the house. A search was m ade i ll °ll i t be room and in the barn, entrance being aid of the sledge, and they were obliged t° without finding the object of their seaob: fof explanation of the scene was that young' ( r l3 4 . l , ri e e . pre °° ; whom they were looking, was about to marry "%a tutor's daughter against the wish of his familY , " - en t tb e merely wished to carry him away in order to Pr e . v ,, alliance. Their visit, however, only accelerated fee' clor riage, which was celebrated by the registrar in n ee of t e a afterwards. A question was raised in the defence:cote° prisoners as to whether they could legally b e 13196 illt erIt ' under the \Vhiteboy Act, as there was no rnaic!otiti a oi to . injure the dwelling-house. The jury c°llvAileell prisoners on one count, and Chief Justice ' O, - 0 0 ° effected Dieo, reserved the point for the dec ison of Criminal Appeal. 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