The Sun. — London, England, 1869-11-26 00:00:00

TIIE KING OF THE BELGIANS, The metropolis on Thursday suffered from a plethora of mayors. More than a hundred of these dignitaries, who resemble the lilies of the field in this respect—but in this only—that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of them, headed by the chief magistrate of the City of London, passed, a resplendent phalanx, through the streets on their way to Buckingham Palace, to do honour to the Queen's cousin, the King of the Belgians. To the physiognomist and the tailor the spectacle must have been specially instructive, affording as it did to the former an unprecedented opportunity of observing how the heads of civic corpora tions look, and to the latter how they dress. The deputa tion which waited upon his Majesty to present him with the national address was not, however, confined to mayors. Lord-lieutenants, high sheriffs of counties, army, militia, and volunteer officers, and distinguished public and private civilians took part in the proceedings, the whole number which entered the Royal precincts of Buckingham Palace approximating to 600, all being in uniform, official, or evening dress. The Lord Mayor and the civic authorities, the lord lieutenants and high sheriffs of counties, and the members of the National Committee proceeded in procession from the Mansion House, through Cannon-street, St. Paul's churchyard, Ludgate-hill, Fleet-street, Strand, Charing cross, Pall-mall, and St. James's Park, to the Palace ; the mayors, ex-mayors, and chief magis trates of England, in their official robes, attended, in many instances, by their mace-bearers, pro ceeded from Albert-gate, along Piccadilly and St. James-street, and joined the first part of the procession at Marlborough House; a third branch, consisting of Army, Navy, Militia, and Volunteer officers, formed at Storey's gate, St. James's Park, and joined the two former at Marlborough House. Many of the houses along the line of route displayed flags, the Belgian ensign being especially prominent. Rosettes of orange red and black, the colours of the King's nationality, were used as decorations by the members composing the deputation. The ball-room of the Palace was the apartment placed at the disposal of the committee by her Majesty the Queen, for the ceremony of the day. At the upper end of the room, facing the orchestra, a chair of state was provided for the King, a space in the centre being reserved for the most distinguished of the memorialists. The general body of the deputation were seated on the three tiers of crimson satin-covered seats, which run round three sides of the ball-room. The Lord Mayor of London, accom panied by Lord Napier of Magdala, entered shortly before twelve, and the various other mayors followed in rapid succession. The appear ance of their beadles and mace-bearers, who were attired in costumes of the most diversified and eccentric cut and colour, as they stood drawn up in line in the back ground, was one which could not fail to strike the spec tator with wonder that any human beings could be found, in the first place, to design such liveries, and in the second place, to wear them. The King and suite were ushered into the room at ten minutes after twelve. His Majesty was in uniform, and wore the Order of the Garter. The lameness from which he suffers owing to a severe attack of rheumatism, caught fifteen years ago, being very perceptible as he walked across from the entrance to the chair of state. Having taken his stand on the raised dais, the Lord Mayor of London said that he was the bearer of an address to his Majesty from the people of England, signed by more than 300 Mayors and other ire portant personages. The Mayor of Manchester, he stated, was at Suez, or he would have taken part in the demonstration. His lordship called upon Captain Mercier to read the address, which he did in a manner which would certainly have driven a pro fessor of the art of elocution frantic. His Majesty, at its conclusion, advanced from the dais a few yards towards the centre of the room and read a lengthy reply. To all who had taken part in the demonstration in his hcnou' he tendered his heartfelt thanks. "It is," continued his Majesty, "with unmixed satisfaction that I see the strength and the cordiality of the ties which bind England and Belgium to each other thus affirmed by the Englisl people through those who represent them on this occa sion. Nor can I find words sufficiently strong to express my sense of this spontaneous demonstration of goodwill which is added to the constant kindness of your gracious Queen for whom I entertain, if I may humbly say so, a truly filial affection, and to the many eminent men who have allowed me to succeed to a part of the friendship they entertained for my father. It finds a cordial response in my heart. Devoted as lamto my country and its insti tntions, the desire of the people of Belgium to culivate and increase their intimacy with you greatly gratifies me. In you they beheld a great example of political wisdom and moral energy which have led to the firm establishment of constitutional government—thal most happy alliance between power and liberty. In honouring you they honour a people who have known how to combine the blessings of freedom with those of good government and good order, and who having by indorai table energy and sound principle achieved an immense prcsperity themselves, only desire to sec other nations in possession of equal advantages, and wish to assist in preserving the peace of the world. To the pleasure I have derived from the visits of your countrymen, you have been pleased to add the gratification I feel at this moment at the cordial manifestation of your feelings towards me. If it is given me during my reign to justify in some measure these too flattering tokens of your kindness, the encouragement which I receive in this country, as well as the example it gives me, will have greatly conduced to that result. Whatever may be the success which Providence may grant to my intentions and my efforts, I beg you to be convinced that pus wishes for the happiness and the peace of all nations will find an echo in my heart, and that within the narrow limits of my influence, nothing will, at any time, be dearer to me than to assist towards the realisation." His Majesty concluded his reply by again thanking the deputation. The Lord Mayor then introduced Lord Napier and others who were present, to each of whom the King addressed a few courteous words before he retired, which he did amidst loud cheers. The address was enclosed in a handsome casket bearing the following incription " Presented to their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians by the British Nation, November, 1869." On the sides there will be views of London, Dublin, Edinburgh and St Asaph's.. At two o'clock a second deputation—this time composed of commanding officers of volunteer regiments—waited upon the King at Buckingham Palace to present an address. This was read by Lord Elcho, who said it would receive many more signatures than were at present attached to it, though these numbered tOO or 400, and were the names of representative men it connection with the volunteer movement. The address which bore the signatures of the Prince of Wales,the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Christian and Prince Teck, referred with gratitude to the hospitality shown to English volunteers by the King and the people of Belgium, and expressed great regret at the absence Cl the Queen. Ills Majesty, in reply, said: "Ithank you for the address you have just presented to me. It is with much satisfac. tion I meet you again in your own country, on a soil of which loyalty to your Queen and patriotic enthusiasm have made you the voluntary defenders. lam much grati fied at the opportunity thus afforded to me of expressing once more the pleasure with which I have seen the Belgians render homage to the spirit which animates you, for an organisation such as yours cannot but be a source of advantage to every one who prizes his country's institutions. I have learned the full value of independence, and it is my earnest wish that the increasing rapidity of communication may still further diminish the distance between our shores, and that time, as it passes away, may unite the two countries still more firmly, and may strengthen and confirm the kindly sentiments you have expressed to me here to-day. I will not fail to report to the Queen the regret you have been good enough is express for her absence. It was a source of great disap pointment to her to be unable at the last moment to accompany me, for you must be aware she has always asp great a pleasure as myself in visiting this country. We shall both of us value most highly the pre sent address as a new and precious token of your good wishes, for which I beg you again to accept my sincerest , ind most grateful thanks." The King having cordially shaken hands with Lord Elcho and some other of the officers present, left the ball room loudly cheered. The Lords of the Admiralty have directed that no boys in her Majesty's ships at home or abroad are in future to be transferred to the rating of carpenters' crew except in her Ma;esty's ship Impregnable. In the event of a vacancy taking glace fur a carpenters' crew in any of her Majesty's ships abroad, which it is absolutely necessary to fill up, suitable men for the rating may be entered from the shore, but only as non-continuous service men, who are to be discharged to the shore on the ship paying off. THE DEUWENTWATER ESTATES.-011 Saturday Mr. W. Stainthorpe, sheriff's officer, proceeded to Grey Mare Hill, and seized part of the stock on the farm be longing to Mr. Drummond, who had paid his half-year's rent, 411, to the "Countess of Derwentwater." Eleven lambs were taken possession of, but on Monday, upon Mr. Drummond paying the amount of rent and costs, his lambs wore liberated. We understand that the ,",countesses in demnified Mr. Drummond from 4111004 1i &meta iho affair..-4/editnn apron,. EXTENSIVE FRAUD BY A STOLE. 11BOKE.R. At the Central Criminal Court, William M`Lachlan, 39, stockbroker, pleaded guilty to an indictment which charged him with converting to his own use divers securities of the value of £lO,OOO, which had been entrusted to him as a broker for safe custody, by Sir John Bingham and others. The prisoner was employed in the ordinary course of business as a stockbroker, and was entrusted with securities of great value, but instead of realising the securities. and placing the proceeds in the bank to the credit of those for whom he acted, he pledged the stock to cover a speculative account in the Stock Exchange. In mitigation it might be stated that the prisoner refunded £1,500, of which the trustees knew nothing. Mr. Serjeant Sleigh, with whom was Mr. Warner, Sleigh for ill lefence, said the prisoner pleaded guilty, with a full scuse of the enormity of the offence, and he threw himself unreservedly in the hands of the court. Up till a recent date he bore the character of an honest man, but he had yielded to the temptation, at the instigation tf a person who knew he had the securities, and from time to time the stock was pledged until the fraudulent conver sion to which he had pleaded guilty was com pleted.—Mr. Justice Brett said he took a very serious view of the offence, and he could not regard it as any mitigation that the prisoner had yielded to the temptation of another person, because he himself was an experienced man of business of mature age. It would be easy to be honest if there was no temptation. The sentence of the court was that he be kept in penal servitude for five years. LAW AND POLICE. TIIE BANK OF HINDUSTAN, CHINA, AND JAPAN.—AII appeal from Vice-Chancellor Stuart in re the Bank of Hin; dustan and China has been.heard in the Court of Chancery. The appellant, Mr. Kintrea, transferred 145 shares in the company to Mr. M`Lachlan, the transfer being approved by the directors and registered. Six months later, a winding-up order was made, and the liqui dators discovered that M`Lachlan had paid nothing for the shares, and that he was only the steward of a steam vessel with only a per week. They accordingly moved for the substitution of Mr. Kintrea's name as shareholder, and the Vice-Chancellor made an order accordingly, believing that Mr. Kintrea intended to keep an interest in the shares if they proved valuable, but meant to avoid liability in case of a winding up. Mr. Kintrea appealed from this decisien, but Lord Justice Giffard affirmed the order, and dismissed the appeal, with costs. A PATENT CASE.—A case to determine the validity of a patent granted to a Yd. Pocheron for improvements in the manufacture of glass has been tried in the Rolls' Court The chief point was the substitution of tanks or basins for the fire clay pots usually employed in holding the molten material, and the plaintiffs, Messrs. Caninngton, of Liverpool, alleged that the defendants, Messrs. Nuttall, of St. Helen's, had erected a tank or furnace, which was an infringement of the patent. Certain issues have been tried before a jury in the Rolls Court, and they found the verdict for the plaintiff. THE MERTIIYR TYDVIL BOARD OF HEALTII.—Tho case of the Merthyr Board of Health came again before the Rolls Court. It will be remembered that the Master of the Rolls made an order restraining the Board from allowing the sewage of Merthyr Tydvil to flow into the Taff. It now appeared that temporary deodorising and filtering works could be erected within three months, but that twelve months must elapse before tho permanent irri gation scheme is in operation. The deodorising was a tem porary expedient to abate the nuisance. After some discussion sequestration was suspended for three months. THE NATIONAL AND PROVINCIAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY. — It was stated in Vice-Chancellor Malins's court that a , harcholder of the National and Provincial Assurance Company had at length been found, on whom it was now proposed to serve the winding-up petition. The Vice- Chancellor made the order. TUE EXPORTERS' DIRECTORY.—A motion was made be fore Vice-Chancellor James to dissolve an injunction restraining the publication of a work in course of prepara tiers by the defendants, Messrs. Wright, entitled, " The Handbook, or Manufacturers' and Exporters' Directory of Great Britain," and in restraint of any piracy from the plaintiffs " Business Directory," which has before been the subject of Chancery suits. The plaintiff's name is Morris and he has previously been defendant in an action brought ly Messrs. Kelly. The Vice-Chancellor, after hearing the rguments, said that when the work was published, and the ;ause brought to a healing, the court could more accurately letermine the question of piracy. If he were to restrain he defendants from publishing there would be no means A compensating them if the plaintiff were wrong in his :•ontention, while if, when the work was published, it should turn outn piracy, the court make the defendants and their' printers responsible. The injunction must be lismissed, costs to be costs in the cause. A SUMMARY CONVICTION.—An application was made in the Court of Queen's Bench on behalf of a young man, lamed Huntley, who had been sentenced to six days' im prisonment, as he believed illegally, and who desired .o obtain a copy of his conviction. He was walking !tome through a weed and picked up some cheinuts, ying on the ground. For this he was charged with steal ing fruit, and sentenced to six days' imprisonment with hard labour. His attorney made affidavit that he had been unable to obtain a copy of the conviction, and a Iva/dames to the justices was asked for, but refused on the ground that the refusal of the justices to produce the document was not clearly shewn. THE CASE OF AN ATTORNEY.—In the Court of Exche - quer an application was made on behalf of Mr. Alfred Leigh, formerly an attorney, practising at Warrington, to be reinstated on the rolls of the court. He was struck off in 1864, for misconduct in obtaining £l3O from an old and illiterate farmer on false pretences. He had suffered six months' imprisonment in Flint gaol, ant had returned £7O to the old man, and the counsel submitted that under these circumstances he had purged his offence, and should be allowed to resume practice. The Lord Chief Baron said they should not be doing their duty if they placed such a man in a position to obtain the rust and confidence of clients, and the rule was discharged. FOG ON TEE MEnsEY.—On Thursday morning a dense fog hung over the Mersey, and during the morning the Woodside ferry-boat Lancashire ran foul of the City of Path, lying in the river, and lost her smoke-stack. The Lancashire had only just been repaired from the damage caused by a previous collision, Mr, Grant Duff declines to be nominated a seconc time for the Rectorship of Aberdeen University, since the name of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell has been mentioned. Except in a political contest, Mr. Grant Duff says he would not provoke a comparision between himself and Sir William S tirling-Maxwell. UNITY.—A. correspondent of the Guardian tells an anecdote in illustration of the tendency of that move ment of our times which ostensibly aims at the establish ment of the unity of the Christian Church. He says that an English clergyman actually connect ed with the move ment in question has lately been paying a visit to one of the English colonies in France. " While there," says the narrator, "he talked much and plausibly and peacefully about his prayer and desire for unity, but he illustrates his meaning by never going to the English services, but regu larly to Mass, taking with him a young niece,who hitherto had been a regular attendant at the English Church. Per contra, he professed the liveliest Times-writing indignation when he heard that the church was lent during two or three summer months to the French Reformed congrega tion. 'Why,' said ho, they are Protestants !" FOUND HIS MATCH.—In a court of quarter ses sions, a petty case was being tried. A well-known crimi nal lawyer, who prides himself upon his skill in cross examining a witness, had an odd-looking genius upon whom to operate. The witness was a master shoemaker. "You say, sir, that the prisoner is a thief " "Yes, sir ; 'cause why, she confessed it."—" And you also swear that she bound shoes for you subsequent to the confes sion? " " I do, sir."—Then (giving a sagacious look to the curt) " we are to understand that you employ dishonest people to work for you, even after their rascalities are known?" "Of course, how else could I get assistance from a lawyer? "—There were roars of laughter, as the witness stepped off the stand with all the gravity of a fashionable undertaker. A NOVEL COLLECTOIL—We have read or heari of collectors of all possible and impossible objects. Phleg matic Dutchmen have been known to pay fabulous sums ' fur dubious tulips ; china collectors will give unheard-of prices for plates and &ulcers, which become a source of con stant anxiety to them ; others, again, with a patience worthy of a nobler preoccupation, have been knowiNo ob tain an almost complete collection of postage-stamps. eßui M. Nestor-Roqueplan, the author of " Parisine," &-c., upon a line of collecting in which he has certainly had no predecessors, and in which, for a time at least,he need foal but few rivals. And thus he may, we hope, obtain cheaply the objects of his search. M. Roqueplan —not the manuscrips of old plays, or the wigs of great actors, or the rouge-pots of dead actresses, but simply— warming-pans. In his apartment in the Boulevard Haussmann he has devoted a gallery to the exhibition of these Utensils "de la vie intime." There you may see more or less authentic warming pans of Diane de Poitiers, Mary - Queen oft Scots, Catherine 'de Medicis,, Gabrielle d"Es . .treibes,?tfdalle,lmdeLa V An a lltioeinretledijecis„.dt on4tasnotero.dt.me. Zelizo - TB E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY' EVENING, _ NOVEMBER 26, 1869 METROPOLI7AN GOSSIP —lhursday. The death of Mr. Justice Hayes will relieve the judges from an embarrassment. It will be remembered that Mr. Disraeli, in order to carry out the provisions of his Bribery Act, appointed three judges, of whom the late judge was one, in order that there might be the same number who might devote themselves to hearing election petitions. During the present year the three senior puisnes have been pretty busy, but the three next in seniority, who have been chosen for the ensuing year, will have nothing to do. Under these circumstances it is possible that Mr. Gladstone, who has already saved the country £6,000 a year by not filling up Lord Justice Selwyn's place, may think it desirable to save a further £5,000 a year by not filling up Mr. Justice Hayes's. Should the Premier decide otherwise, there will be no lack of Liberal lawyers to accept the vacant ermine. Of course neither the Attorney-General nor the Solicitor- General will take it ; they look for something higher. Notwithstanding Mr. Disraeli's denial that he was ever connected with the Representative newspaper, the general impression is that the Guardian is right when it tells the right hon. gentleman that he knows better. Perhaps many of your readers have forgotten a speech made in the House of Commons by the leader of the Opposition, on the 18th of February, 1853, on which occasion he attacked Sir Charles Wood for some remarks which the latter had made to his constituents at Halifax. As Mr. Disraeli then dis tinctly claimed to belong to the press, I will take the liberty of quoting one or two sentences. He said: " There is no doubt that there is a considerable prejudice in this country against the present ruler of France, because he has terminated what we esteem a parliamentary constitution, and has abrogated the liberty of the press. It is unnecessary for me to say, that it is not probable I shall ever say or do anything which should tend to depreciate the influence or to terminate the power of Parliament or the press. My greatest honour is to be a member of this House, in which all my thoughts and feelings are concentrated ; and as for the press I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other scutcheon." Now it may be said that Mr. Disraeli was simply . speaking as a novelist, and not as a journalist, but this explanation can hardly hold water, for when the right hon. gentlemen alluded to the Emperor Napoleon as having " abrogated the:liberty of the press," he must have alluded to newspapers. As it is, Mr. Disraeli has not come out of the contest with flying colours. Of the elections, immediate and proximate, which are to come off, the greatest interest attaches to the impending struggle in Southwark and to the Irish elections. In the South London borough there is reason to expect a complicated and interesting struggle. The working men seem bent upon running a candidate of their own, and I am well informed that a large body are fully disposed to sink all differences arising from individual pre ference and to unite upon the artisans representative who may secure the suffrages of the greater number. The middle - class Liberals will have their candidate, perhaps two. A ballot is spoken of to decide whether the Liberals shall unite upon returning Mr. Odger or a middle-class representative, but in some quarters I know there is little disposition to give way on either side. With a working-man candidate and Sir F. Lycett or Mr. Labouchere in the field, the Liberal interest will still be safe—so hope less is the Conservative minority ; but should both the latter persist the weaker side will not be without hope. With respect to the Irish elections, the voting for Tipperary is now going on, and the dates for Queen's County and Longford are not yet fixed. But all these Irish elections present this one noticeable feature — the unanimity of even middle class candidates and land lords in yielding to extreme demands. The chosen of Waterford has pronounced for fixity of tenure; Mr. Heron has not been able to make himself popular in Tipperary by still greater concessions ; whilst Mr. Pease, the candidate for Queen's County, who was thought "below the mark" has found it necessary to give in his adhesion to the favourite land doctrine. These facts go to prove more than that fixity of tenure is the popular remedy for the land grievance. They shew that the control of Irish elections is passing from the hands of those who formerly pulled the wires, and that the people are beginning to manage their politics for themselves. There is a talk of " Captain " Bertrand Payne coming out as the Conservative candidate for Southwark. This gentleman is at the head of the well-known publishing firm of Moxon and Co., and is a captain of volunteers, in which capacity he has had some serious differences with his men. Mr. Payne is a Roman Catholic, and it is, there fore, somewhat remarkable that he should be on the Conservative side. The special services are the most prominent feature of London life during the present week. If the largeness of the number of worshippers attending them, and the unanimity with which clergy of all schools have engaged in them, be any test of success, then these services have been most successful. There seemed at first a danger that they would be confined to certain well-known "advanced" churches, and that they wsuld be attended by the upper classes exclusively. Services only at churches like All Saints, Margaret-street (where the Prince and the Princess of Wales are frequent attendants), and St. Mary Magda lene, Paddington, which is attended by worshippers be longing to the professional classes, would have failed to meet the object which the promoters of the nilssions had at heart. But when the clergy in the East-end and in Southern London joined in the movement, thero was good hope of a successful issue. That hope has been abundantly realised. The churches standing in the poorest and most crowded districts of the metropolis have been thronged day after day, in the morning before daybreak, and late at night, by the poor, many of whom probably had never entered a church before except to get married. It is impos sible to estimate the value of the impression produced by the clergy who conducted the missions. But that the mis sions have not been useless may be judged from the following incident, related by one of the preachers. After one of the services a poor woman came up to him, and placing a packet in his hands, said: " I was so miserable this morning that I intended to use this, but, after hearing you to-day, I cannot, and so I give it to you." The packet consisted of deadly poison. I believe that the mission originated with Mr. Benson, of Cowley, near Oxford. This gentleman, who is one of the most energetic of the clergy in Bishop Wilberforce's late diocese, has established in his parish a Brotherhood, called the " Evangelist Fathers' They take vows, wear a monastic dress, and hold themselves ready to go to any part of the world, or to do any work of evangelisation which may be assigned to them. But the London Mission has been by no means confined to the High Church clergy. Mr. Hugh Allen, once notorious as the opponent of Mr. Bryan King, has taken part in the movement, and has had a daily celebration in his church, as well as other services. The truth is that the clergy of London are fast awaking to the terrible truth that at least one-third of the inhabitants are as really heathen as the savages of the least known island. They are beginning to see that there is room for all parties and sections, and work enough for them to do without attacking each other. Nor is this all ; they see that it is absolutely necessary to devise some special remedies for this terrible state of things. Five-and twenty years ago the aspirations of High Churchmen did not extend beyond reading " Dearly Beloved " morning and evening. Now, they see that it is essential to use greater latitude and have greater variety. Thus it comes to pass that at the very time when the Dissenters are adopting very largely alliturgy, Churchmen are resorting to extempore prayers, to prayer-meetings, and special ser vices. For some time past there has been a special service for working men at the beautiful church of St. Mary, Red cliff, Bristol, held at 6.30 a.m., and it hasbeenattended daily by about fifty of the persons for whom it is intended. This movement will, no doubt, spread in London, and in course of time we shall see a latitude that would have shocked the originators of the Tractarian movement. While Convocation has been fifteen years settling special lessons for Ash Wednesday, and has not even yet settled them, the clergy have taken the whole question into their own hands, and have devised, for instance, an entirely new service for Good Friday, and are now, as we have seen this week, resorting to special services, in the hope of winning the souls whom the Prayer Book has failed to reach. It is by a sad coincidence that this, which is one of the most remarkable movements of the day, should have reached its culmination at the time that the prelate to whom London owes so much was lying upon a bed of dangerous sickness. No one has done more to evangelise our heathen capital than did Bishop Tait. The magnificent fund which he originated will be a lasting memorial of his energy ; will be a witness to the fact that in these days the chief pastors of the Church were willing to spend and be spent in the service of their Master. I lately paid a visit to a Roman friend at the Oratory, in Brompton, and was surprised to find how large was the liberty allowed to the inmates, so far as regards reasline non-Roman books. The library contained • such works of Carlyle's, Buckles, Leckey's, and yet all were accessible to all the Brothers. Still on Roman subjects, I may mention that nothing has been done as yet to give Cardinal Wise man a tomb worthy of his reputation and position. It is nearly five years since he was buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery at Kensal-green, and yet, in a recent visit, I found nothing but a black wooden cross and an uninscribed stone to mark the resting-place of him whom the Roman Catholics revere as the restorer of the hierarchy in England. I am aware that it is intended to commemorate the Cardinal's achievements by a splendid cathedral hereafter, but as s Archbishop Manning has declared that he will not lay one stone until he has enough funds to carry the building a than this service. long way towards completion, it is pretty certain that the present generation will not live to see it erected ; so for many a year to come the first Archbishop of Westminster will have for memorial only a deal cross and a flag-stone. Anglicans would have treated the Cardinal less shabbily Travellers by the Underground Railway who should happen to emerge into daylight at Portland.-road Sta tion would be struck by a very remarkable building which is being erected in Great Portland-street. It is of brick and stone, and in the Moresque style, and is of very large size. This is the newJews' synagogue,which, when completed, will far exceed any other building of the kind now in England. The cost of it will be about £24,000, and I believe that Sir Antony Rothschild, brother of the member for the City, is providing most of the funds. In syna- brogues the sexes are not only separated, but are placed in different parts of the building. The men occupy the floor and the women the gallery. The south-east end, elevated above the general level, is the echol, or sanctuary, a domed recess, within which is the aron-hakkodesh, or sacred receptacle for the scrolls of the Pentateuch. In the centre of the building is the al anemar, a raised platform, whence the precentor, surrounded by the choristers, conducts the SU,. • •••••.• The appointment of the Rev. Frederick Farrar as one of the Queen's honorary chaiilains is another indication of the Sovereign's preference for clergymen of the Broad Church school. Independently of that consideration, Mr. Farrar well deserves the honour, for he is a most accom plished man. He has been mainly instrumental in introducing scientific teaching into the school curricu lum at Harrow. For this and other services to science he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is known also a$ a writer of tales for schoolboys, of sermons, and of a work on language. But his most fascinating book is his " Seekers after God," written for Macmillan's "Sunday Library." He has been rapidly rising into prominence at Harrow, and being still quite a young man has probably as good a chance of a bishopric as any man of his age. Thd new Master of RUgby, Mr. Hayman, is known to the literary and scholastic world chiefly as the author of a very fine edition of the Odyssey. I presume that his testi monials were of a very high order. They must indeed have been magnificent to have beaten those of another candidate, Mr. Walrond, who, though a layman, was strongly recommended by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of Chester, the Deans of Westmin ster and Durham, Dr. Temple, Dr. Scott, of Baliol, and Pr ofessor Jowett. He was supported also by Mr. Goschen, Sir Edward Ryan,'Sir J. G. S. Lefevre, and a large number of distinguished university professors. For some time past the clerks at the various post-offices in London have been practising the art of telegraphy, so as to be ready for the approaching transference of the tele graphs to the Post-office department. Dummy instruments have been arranged, at which the clerks have been working and learning the signs and manipulation. At present when a shopkeeper allows his shop to be used as a post-office he is paid £l3 a year and a commission upon all the stamps that he sells. But of course he will expect to receive a much larger payment when he undertakes the telegraphic work in addition. I believe that the sum has not yet been fixed. I am assured that the statement respecting the failure of Columbia Market is not well founded. The munificent foundress of the institution, I have good reason for know ing, considers it anything but a failure, and is well pleased with the result. Considering that we are now only a month from Christ mas week, the literary world is singularly stagnant. Gari baldi's work upon Rome in the nineteenth century is anticipated with some eagerness, and with not a little anxiety by these friends of the General who think that the sword rather than the pen is his weapon. The book has been translated by Mrs. Chambers, wife of Garibaldi's old friend, Colonel Chambers—a colonel, • that is, in the Italian, and a general in the United States army. A trenchant anonymous pamphlet entitled "No more Sole Patrons and Soul Auctions," has been published by Stanford, and comes, if I mistake not, from the pen of Sir John Bowring. The writer points out. the great mischief which arises from the present system of appointing incumbents, and from the sale of livings, and would have the clergy elected by a body in which the patron should count for two votes, the bishop of the diocese for one, the churchwardens, as representing the parish and the incumbent, should reckon for two, and the communicants, as the essence of the congregation, also for two. The patron would nominate his candidate in the first instance, and would thus have priority, and if there were a majority of votes in his favour the candidate would be elected. If the majority were adverse, then the communicants, the delegates, and the people's church warden would present their candidate. If he failed to obtain a majority then the two candidates, together with one naked by the Bishop, would be put up, and the one having the largest number of votes would be elected. The writer believes that the present system of patronage cannot possibly last much longer, and that the fate of the Irish Church Establishment, which fell at the first blast of the ram's horn, should be a lesson to English Churchmen. In order to strengthen the funds of the Alexandra Orphanage for Infants of Hornsey Rise, and to defray the cost of the new building recently erected, a volume, called " The Alexandra," is to be published. The con tributions are by well•known authors connected with popular literature, among whom are Mrs. S. C. Hall, Tom Hood, Andrew Halliday, and many others. The illustrations are by distinguished artists, all of whom, as well as the writers, render their services gratuitously. The work is well got up, and I can only re-echo the hope of the committee that success will attend their efforts. MISCELLANEOUS NE WS. SO UTIMAII.K. There is every prospect of the Liberal interest in Southwark being dangerously divided at the forth coming contest. Mr. Labouchere is in earnest; the working men seem determined to put up either Mr. Odger or Mr. Bradlaugh ; and now it is confidently affirmed that Sir F. Lycett will go to the poll. Ills chances of success are not few. Ile will have the undivided suppor t of th e Nonconformist elect ors of ' a s well as that of the numerous body of o f whose cause Sir Francis is a warm teetotallers,t heboro ugll advocate.. A ballot, such as that adopted in the case of Mr. Milner Gibson and Mr. Ernest Jones at Man chester, is earnestly enjoined by Liberal electors of all sections, so as to avoid a split. The Conservatives are on the alert, and it seems likely that Mr. Morgan Howard will stand. Colonel Beresford says he has no intention of contesting the borough. the very hola stop of throwing them off, puhlie opinion should be consulted. It was not for Lord Granville alone, but for the people of England to declare what should be done in the matter. He announced that a correspondence had been entered into between Earl Grey, Lord Carnarvon, and Sir Bartle Frere, and that a document was preparing which, it is hoped, will present a complete solution of the New Zealand difficulty. Mr. Wilson suggested weekly meetings of colonists. Other Australian representatives were not less decisive in their criticism. Mr. Westmoreland, of Jamaica, protested against the whole colonial policy of the Government. His colony was in a deplorable condition. Sir George Grey followed suit. He called for an unequivocal declaration of Earl Gran ville's intentions, and demanded that the whole sub ject be at once referred to Parliament. A resolution condemning the doings of the Government was unani mously approved. LONGFORD. It is stated that the seat left vacant for Longford, by the elevation of Colonel Greville-Nugent to the peerage, will be fought for by a son of the new peer. In the matter of politics as was the parent so will be the son. - A. correspondent of the Evening Poet affirms that the Liberal party are quite united, and mean to retain the seat. IPSWICH POLITICS. Mr. Adair and Mr. West, the members for Ipswich, have been laying before their constituents a " c'rect card " of past and future meetings at St. Stephen's. Mr. Adair pronounced in favo ur of hen's© University Tests Bill and for economy, but not for economy of a kind that would imperil honour, in dependence, or efficiency. With respect to the land, he made the usual declaration that the tenant must have protection against harsh and cruel treatment from his landlord. Mr. Adair, however, held that evictions are neither numerous nor easy to bring about, and that they aro almost invariably the conse quence of arrears in rent. If a landlord wishes to evict a tenant he has to give notice to the relieving officer of the union that lie must prepare to receive the evicted man and family into the poor house ; he must also . give notice to the sheriff; and he is also bound to give notice to the tenant before he is evicted. Fanciful evictions, apart from non-payment of rent, are quite the exception, and not the rule. Mr. Adair was sure the Government Bill would provide some means of affording protection against such evictions, and at the same ti me that it would respect the rights of the owners, a n d p r otect them in the enjoyment of their property. Fixity of tenure, Mr. Adair thinks, is altogether out o f the question. Mr . West sup ported the Ma nc h es ter Union scheme o f education ; he hoped that the licensing evil will be dealt with ; and expressed an opinion in favour of the Ballot. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE TELEGRAPHS. The Times, in its money article, expresses a Y' doubt—which h as f oun d vent in more than one quarter—whether the Government will b e able to take the tele gra ph s i n h an d before the end of January. Great exertion s are b e i ng made to commence business on New ear s Dav but it is not at all ce rtain that the desired. result will be attained. It is re p orted that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will not appear in the market as a borrower of the amount to be raised for compensation, but will meet it temporarily or other wise by alj ustments in connection with various branches of the public accounts. OUR COLONIAL POLICY. A. 'very important meeting of colonists, repre senting the interests of the Australian and North American colonies, Jamaica, Tasmania, Newfound land, the Cape o f G oo d H o pe, and other places, was held in London on Wednesday - , to discuss the rela tions between. England and her dependencies. Mr. Wilson ? of Australia, is one of those who condemn the policy of the present Government. He regards the late despatch of Earl Granville, refusing to allow the 18th Regiment to remain in New Zealand, asinsulting and unsym p a th e ti c . It was, he said, quite a newidea that the colonies had become an incumbrance, a less, and &nuisance. but before a Government took AMICABLE SYMPTOMS. Signs of moderation are dimly visible in one or two places in Ireland. Sligo has set the example of hold ing an amicable conference of landlords and tenants, and Longford has just imitated the good deed. A. strong representation of both owners and occupiers has assembled in the latter county to consider resolu tions which are to be submitted to a county meeting. Justices of the peace, deputy lieutenants, the local gen try, and the Roman Catholic clergy and the tenants mus tered in good force. A cheering spirit of conciliation was manifested, especially on the part of the landlords. The resolutions proposed were, indeed, very sweeping. The first stigmatised the present land laws as unsatis factory—sanctioning injustice, and often bringing about the confiscation of the tenant's property; the second and third pronounced for fixity of tenure with a valuation of rents; and two others claimed a reclamation of waste land, and denounced absenteeism. The resolutions in favour of fixity of tenure and rents at a valuation were adopted. TENANT-RIGHT IN ENGLAND. The tenant-right demand, if granted in Ireland, will soon be raised in England. What is just for Ireland (say the English farmers) must be right for England. The Shropshire Chamber of Agriculture has already discussed. the claim, and acknowledged it. A. long debate upon the subject took place a day or two back at Wenlock, and the chamber passed the following resolution : " That it is necessary for the encouragement of a better cultivation of the soil that legislation should be ob tained to give to the tenant compensation for his unex hausted improvements in the case of buildings and drain age, the landlord's permission having previously been obtained." This conclusion is significant, as being arrived at by a farmers' club. SAINT DAY IN IRELAND. The anniversary of the execution of the "Man chester Martyrs " was duly observed in divers towns of Munster. At Cork there was a procession of about 1,000 persons, accompanied by bands playing the " Dead March." Large patrols of police paraded the streets, but there was no disturbance. In enagh numbers of people assembled in the streets wearing mourning badges and green rosettes, but there was no procession. An application was made to the Rev. Mr. Ryan, P.P., to celebrate a special Mass for the repose of the martyrs' souls. This is the cler gyman who apologised for, if he did not positively praise, the practice of " tumbling over " landlords with revolvers. But Mr. Ryan seems to have thought that his speech at the Tipperary nomination had carried him quite far enough. lie refused to cele brate the Mass. THE FENIAN KELLY. The imaginative concoctor of certain telegrams sent from London to an Irish contemporary has been muddling matters very miserably lately. He an nounced within a very few days the discovery that the man Martin recently arrested in London was Kelly ; that Lord Ohelmsford was ill ; and that the Speaker was about to resign his post. The two latter statements we were able to contradict yesterday. Lord Chelmsford is in capital health ; Denison has no present intention of vacating the chairmanship of the House of Commons. The first story—that about the Fenian Kelly—is now falsified by a communication from Mr. Thomas Conolly, the working man visitor to the United States. Mr. Conolly declares that while the papers of London were discussing Martin's identity, he (Conolly) was speaking to Kelly in the New York Post Office. Mr. Conolly adds : "I have also seen many of those men who were released, and I assure you they are all industriously employed. I have not heard of a single man released who is loafing about, and I am of opinion if the other prisoners are released, they will conduct themselves in a proper manner." MR. JUSTICE HAYES. The removal of Mr. Justice Hayes by death from the judicial bench deprives the country of a sound lawyer and a genial judge. The deceased was not a great man. He was not even a good speaker; his addresses to juries at Nisi Prius were spoilt by his rapid utterance. But his legal information was immense ; and he rose simply by his talent for know ledge. He never entered ParliaLtent, 'lover telupt ,? to enter ; so that his appointment by ..)rd Cairns, in 180'.-1-', was in no sense political. The eccasyl bad reached his 63rd year ; he was called o the bar in 1830, became seljeant-at-law in 1850, cal live years afterwards was made Queens counsel. The late judge was noted for his humour. He pub iAled several comico-legal poems, full of puns and hard blows at the present system. THE PROSECUTION OF ➢IR. 3IACKONOCIIIE. The rumoured renewed prosecution of Mr. Mac konochie turns out to be true. The incumbent of St. Alban's, Holborn, has been served with notice of motion to the Privy Council. The Church Associa tion allege that Mr. Mackonochio has not complied with the monition as to the elevation of the ele ments in the Holy Communion, as to prostration before the consecrated elements during the prayer of consecration, and the use of lighted candles, when not required for the purpose of giving light. The promoter prays their lordships to declare that the de fendant has not complied with the monition ; further prays that the monition may be enforced in such manner as may seem meet to their lordships ; and asks that " right and justice may be effectually done." TILE INDEX. Sir George Bowyer, the Roman Catholic cham pion amongst the Times' correspondents, writes defending the proceedings of the Roman Index, especially in its treatment of Mr. Ffoulkes. Sir George explains that the "Congregation " as the Roman censorship is called—does not judge cif men, bitt of books; it has nothing to do with authors, it deals only with their works. Thus the Index did quite right in not calling upon Mr. Ffoulkes to explain. It simply set forth that a certain work was not of the kind for good Catholics to read. True, the Congregation does sometimes call upon an author to exp . urge a passage; but that course is taken always in the case of " orthodox" writers, who, there is reason to believe, have been betrayed into heresy. Sir George Bowyer looks upon Mr. Ffoulkes's work as " a laboured and strenuous attack against the Roman Catholic Church." Such a pamphlet had (he urges) no claim for special consideration. THE EXODUS. " Westward, ho 1" is still the cry in the manufac turing districts. No trade seems to be quite good enough to maintain all its members ; the stream of emigration is carrying off artisans of every class. Especially is this th© case in the coal and iron districts of South Wales. At Merthyr, Aberdare, Ponty pool, and other centres of population it is an ordinary occurrence to witness the departure of 100 to 120 able-bodied workmen weekly. Tho passage money of a large number of them has been paid by relatives or friends who left their native homes years ago, and who have since so far prospered as to be able to render this assistance to their connections. The United States is the favourite destination. ➢Zany go to Canada, and a few to Australia. LIFE ASSURANCE. A. meeting of policy-holders of different offices, and representing interests to the extent of £250,000, has been held in London, to take measures for the general protection of policy-holders and annuitants. An association is to be formed. The full scheme will be published shortly. OTHELLO. The modern Othello, according to the Telegraph, is Henson, the Wood-green murderer. Between Shakspere's prey to jealousy and the crimi nal who has just been sentenced to death there is, our contemporary thinks, a remarkably close parallel. Perhaps the comparison may be cor rect in some respects, but there is one material diffe rence which ought not to be overlooked. The Des demona of Venice wa3 a wife, the Desdemona of AVoJd green was a mistress. Even the Telegraph so far appreciates this distinction as to allow that Henson must certainly be hanged ; and it is noteworthy that no influential journal regards the provocation which the murderer undoubtedly did receive as a just reason for a remission of sentence. It would, it is agreed, be too much if justice began to regard people who live together according to law and people who live like cattle on the same footing. A NOVEL CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS. A correspondent of tho Liverpool Mercury is so alarmed at the amount of drunkenness in his native town that he has been casting about him for a cure. He presents his plan in the form of two sugges tions. (1) He proposes that every publican should be obliged by law to keep and maintain in perfect order, fixed on the exterior front of his premises, and placed within reach of all passers-by, a water fountain in regular supply. The obvious reason for such a reauirement is that a WWI may slake his thirst. - (2.) That policemen On seellig 'a drunken man—neither noisy nor incapable—should ,as a warning to any who may be in the neighbourhood, ring a small bell until the man is out of sight. TIIE SECOND SON OF THE LATE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER. Comments have been freely made upon the late Marquis of Westminster's will. Popular rumour has it that while the present marquis is a millionaire, rolling. in wealth, his younger brother has been willed a paltry £2,000 a year. The story is circumstantial enough. It has received con firmation from a letter apparently authoritative. Yet it receives a legal contradiction from the solicitors to the Grosvenor family. These gentlemen write that the whole thing is a misconception. " The letter in question was not written by authority, and it contains several inaccuracies, which, when the will has been proved, those who take interest iu the matter will have the opportunity of correcting." MORE NATIONAL ROBBERY. The Convention of Ecuador have imitated the neat financial example set by the Government of Mexico. Juarez and his subordinates found out a new and highly effective way of getting rid of a national debt. They refused to pay interest on the Mexican bonds, and now that the price is low in the market, as a natural consequence of repudiation, they are buying them up at one-seventh of their original value. Ecuador is about to do the same thing. Some months ago the President of this South American Republic had the impudence to affirm that inability to pay a debt was a reasonable excuse for renouncing it altogether, and accordingly payment was suspended. The Parliament has sanctioned the robbery, and has authorised the Presi dent to buy up the bonds, which may now be had at £lO each. THE WATER SUPPLY OF 711 E METRO- POLLS. Yesterday a very fully attended meeting of the St. Pancras Vestry was held at the Vestry-hall, Camden-town, for the purpose of considering a pro posal before the Metropolitan Board of Works, to make application in the ensuing session of Parlia ment for powers to purchase the whole of the plant and interest of the existing Water Companies, and ,o take into their own hands the distribution and control of the future water supply of the metro polis. Mr. Churchwarden Turner presided, and both the members of the Metropolitan Board,Mr. Francis Healey, and Mr. Silas Taylor, were present. Mr. GIBB, the vestry clerk, read the proposal submitted to the Metropolitan B, a d of Works by the Works and General Purposes Committee of the Board, recommending the board to signify its ap proval of the views of the Royal Commission on Water Supply. These were to the effect That it is a matter of vital importance that an abundant supply of water should be provided for all classes of the population, as well as for gene ral purposes ; that for these purposes there should be a power of levying as at Manchester, Glasgow, and elsewhere, two rates—one alspecial or domestic rate on all dwelling-houses, the otherla public or general rate upon all ratea'file property ; that no trading company should be permitted to levy or expend such compulsory rates, and that, therefore, the future control of the water supply should be intrusted to a responsible public body, with powers conferred on them for the purchase and extension of such works, and for levying the rates referred to. That this plan offers the only feasible means of introducing efficiently the system of constant supply and for securing a compulsory supply to the poor; we believe that it would tend to economy, to the improvement of the quality of the water, and to insure the proper provision for public objects, and for extinguishing fires, and that it would in crease the probability of beneficial results from the purification of the Thames." Mr. HEALEY, the senior member of the Metro,- politan Board, said this recommendation of the Royal Commission, that the future distribution and water supply of the metropolis should be placed in the hands of a responsible body, could only apply to one of three such bodies—either the -Metropoli- tan Board of Works, the Board of Trade, or to some highly-paid special commission. It had been the tendency of all Governments of late, no matter to what party they belonged, to support centralisa- tion, and now they were striving to take away the very last remnant of local self-government they possessed, even to absorbing the interests of trading companies. When this scheme for buying up die Water Companies came before the Metropolitan Board he should give it his most determined oppo sition. (Hear, hear.) In the first place, he should do so bec Luse they had very little, if any, fault to find with the water as at present supplied; secondly, on the ground of expense. The transfer of the ser vice pipes would cost £8,000,000, and the rate payers of the metropolis would have to be taxed £3,000,000 more for the adaptation of their cis terns. Besides this the companies were entitled by law to 10 per cent. beyond what their plant and interest was worth. He should like to know where all this enormous amount of capital was to come from. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Mr. SILAS TAYLOR, the other member of the Me tropolitan Board, entered into an elaborate state ment of various schemes which had been proposed for supplying the metropolis with water ; some pro jects requiring a capital of 13 and 14 millions of money. The New River Company had lately ex pended £BOO,OOO, and the East London Company £700,000 in filtration reservoirs, and that would all have to be paid for. Even if the population of the metropolis were five millions, it would only at the present average rate require 175,000,000 gallons per day, whereas the existing Water Companies could supply 180,000,000 gallons. Ile regretted to say that the committee upon this subject were unani mous in recommending the Board to carry out the views of the Royal Commisioners in buying up the existing companies. Mr. COPEMAN moved :—" That this Vestry is of opinion that in the event of any future legislation with regard to the supply of water to the metro polis, the constant service system ought to be promptly introduced, and that it is a matter of vital importance that au increased supply of water should be provided for all classes of the population for domestic purposes, as well as for general and public purposes, street watering, cleansing public fountains, &c., and for extinguishing fires; such increase of supply to be provided by the existing Water Companies ; and that controlling powers over such companies with regard to rates, and also the mode of levying the same, should be arranged by Act of Parliament." He charged the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board and Mr. Ayrtou with coquetting together to arrange this scheme, and said there was not a greater friend to centrali sation in Parliament than the latter gentleman. Mr. ADDIS seconded the motion. Mr. JENKINS denounced the proposal as another plan to centralise power iu the hands of the Metro politan Board, a course whch could only lead to a frightful increase in the taxation of the ratepayers, as had been instanced in the case of the fire en gines, as exhibited in that parish, where au ex penditure of about £4,000 had been increased to £2,000 without any additional protection. (Hear, hear.) Mr. RANGER said the report of the Royal Com mission dealt in generalities, and was based upon no data, and was therefore valueless. He hoped they would determinedly oppose this. Mr. T. ELDRIDGE moved the following amend ment :—" That this Vestry is of opinion that it is very undesirable that the Metropolitan Board of Works, or any other central Board, should be em powered to purchase the interest of the existing Water Companies, as such a course would cast ad ditional burdens upon the metropolitan rat,.-payers to the extent of several millions sterling. That this Vestry is further of opinion that all that is necessary is that the ll,.)ard. of Trade or the Metro politan Board should have power to call f or reports fromthe Water Companies, and to institute any necessary inquiry or supervision to compel the companies adequately to fulfil their obliga tions with regard to the water supply of the me tropolis." Mr. Eldridge argued that the resolution proposed did not strike sufficiently at the root of the contemplated evil. Ile considered the Aletro politan Board was by far moie an irresponsible W p ater pr op e C r t o y m o p f a i e e s e , t e h m a p n t thet buyexi s . 11 o a t . I I i d , a t u h i ae companies b to od a y tt would be absolutely ruinous. (Hear, hear.) It is was a well-known fact that every £lOO share the New River Company was worth £20,0p 0 • Ile should like to know where the money was to come from to buy up that company. (Ilear, hear.) Mr. YOLLAND seconded the amendment. Mr. NORTH said the Government were reducing Imperial taxation, but they were doing all they could to increase local taxation and to centralise power in the hands of irresponsible Boards. r ile whole scheme was another job for this o bj , ct. After some further discussion the original motion was negatived, and the amendment carried by 3 large majority and ordered to be forwarded to the Metropolitan Board. THE PROPOSED NEW PRISON FOR MIDDLESE' The November adjourned general session for the county of Middlesex was held at the Sessions-ho ese, Clerkenwall-green, yesterday. There was a very large attendance of magistrates, great interest beilig felt in the proposition which was to come before th e court to erect a new county prison at ilighberY" vale. Mr. POW ALL presided. The Clerk of the Peace read a report from the special committee appointed to inquire when and O what terms a site suitable for the erection of a ne, prison thereon may be obtained. The report stated that the committee, as they were empowered to do by the resolution of the Court, on the 16th J lll l' had entered into a provisional contract for the P ut t chase of a site containing 121 acres, situate Highbury-vale, for the sum of £12,2k0, and this committee recommended that the Clerk of the re a : o shall, with as little delay as possible, o btain t % sanction of the Secretary of State for the 1 -I ° n/ Department to the purchase. The Report having been read, The CLERK of the PEACE read memorials ;rOlll the Clerkenwell Vestry and from a meeting of rate• payers of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, P r of testing against the proposed expenditure £130,000 for the new prison. Mr. WYATT moved that the site in question ig t suitable and eligible site. Notice of an ame ndinell „ had been given ; but after all, what did the sition on behalf of the ratepayers amount to? °°lii's two parishes had memorialised against it. A t t tv moment they bad 570 prisoners in differen t conn s ' a gaol; and in most cases the authorities of shoat gaols would only accept them on the condition t . ° e. they might return them on three months' 13(41 : 6 They paid for these prisoners at the rate of V' the year each, and the conveyance to and fro m in prisons cost about £2 additional ; w hereas as Coldbath-fields the cost of the prisoners 'l' ng only a little more than £l6 a head, after dedneof the value of their earnings, so that the e° 3t ier , farming the prisoners out was no slight inat`ri, Then they had to pay to these various county b ) ei sons for a certain number of prisoners whether tays were there or not ; and, in fact, they were 311:11ei paying for from 60 to 80 prisoners more than ',v. had. If the new gaol were built on the site pile posed it would be within 20 minute,' driv e " ivg gesions house, which would be an immen se 33 sof of time and trouble. There were about 12/ Bcre a d land, close to the common sewer and with in g 36 water supply. Mr. TURIsiEE seconded the motion. im e Mr. Sergeant PAYNE moved, as an atuca"—nti " That the building of a new prison for t his co the having been strongly objected to by some of s local boards, not only on account of the enor"-0, expense which it will bring upon the r atePaY ri , against their consent, but also because the ini.Peg sonment of old offenders who have been mall ti—ej convicted has altogether failed to produce all g o t be effect, and is a great and useless burden uP ° l l) eta s honest inhabitants of the county, this court u;enottl it right to withhold its approval of the previ67l to contract which the committee were authorise at ' enter into, subject to the approval of the court the present session." Mr. FREWEN seconded the amendment. g ei it Sir SYDNEY WATERLOW said they bad at Pr";.bir from 550 to 600 prisoners farmed ou t, an' .Teci should not this system continue? It w as app° re• by the Home Secretary. By a parliameu t t r ,ls it turn, which was made up to the 30th Sept., 1 ' t he appeared appeared that there was accommodatiou il (410 various prisons of the south of England f°' male prisoners more than they already eouti3:,r'esoa and he was informed by Colonel 1-100u - o S that the number of prisoners now in o °. a nd probably smaller than it was at that tilde' i oo the authorities would be very glad to enter order arrangements to take Middlesex prisone rs in oe to ease them of a portion of the expens e ' la rge tendency of criminals was to centre in the se re towns, and the prisons in the rural districts 00 0 comparatively empty. The cost of each P ris t bel in Coldbath-fields was £2l lls. 3 d ., arti% the could farm them out for £22 a head, which W-„stiog more economical mode, taking the cost of ere- 0 00 the prison into consideration. It would b e 01' o than unjust, it would be wicked, to refuse t 0, lice the buildings already in existence , and tpoote' pend the money of the ratepayers in e rectiog 0 43 Il h The CHAIRMAN put the amendment, :ocl it hands were held up for it, and 35 again st it, - wasconsequently declared carried. he CO in' Sir S. WATERLOW then suggested that t : co op mittee be instructed to place themselves is crest munication with the authorities of the d. gaols. t hat Mr. GLOSSOP said they were already de' r '' Dtlo' the Court then proceeded with the °tber ness. MARKETS.-7 his Day. LIVERPOOL COTTON. 1 , 0 T Nor. 26.—Sales probably 10,000 bales. quiet. COURSE OF EXCfIANGS• Amsterdam - Short ... 11 18 "" il ii Do Rotterdam — ... 12 1 ". 2 5 40 Antwerp — ... 25 35 '" 2 5 101 Brussels Hamburgh — ... 13 10 ... s 1311 Paris ' Ditto . Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1201 "' 12 70 Vienna __ ... 12 6 5 ". 129}. Trieste - ”. 12 65 ". -- .... 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