The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-22 00:00:00

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The Directors of this Company, in deference to an ob jection not unfrequently urged by persons invited to as sure, that the ordinary mode of Life Assurance is in their opinion defective or uncertain, by reason of the operation of the customary conditions, have resolved to promulgate the present Tables, and to issue Assurances under them which shall be absolutely Unforfeitable, Unconditional, and Unchallengeable. For the reason referred to, many persons hesitate or decline to assure .on the ground that, in the event of in ability or unwillingness to continue payment of their pre miums, the Assurance will become forfeited. To this class of the public the system now introduced will espe cially commend itself, being entirely free from all condi tions of forfeiture on account of non-payment of premium, or from any other cause whatever; while at the same time it absolutely guarantees at decease, when even a de fault is made in payment of the premium, a fixed sum in respect of every premium paid, bearing the same propor tion to the total amount assured as the number of pre miums actually paid may bear to the whole number origi nally contracted to be paid. Besides this importa - nt advantage, every policy will ex pressly state what sum can at any time be withdrawn on the discontinuance of the assurance. The assured will thus always have the option of retain ing either an ascertained fixed sum payable at decease, or, in case of need, of withdrawing a certain amount, ac cording t . the duration of the Policy, such amounts being set forth on every Policy, and rendering unnecessary any future reference to the Company on these points, as is the case with ordinary assurances. Creditors assuring the lives of debtors will appreciate this feature as one greatly protective of their interests, and it will- likewise commend itself to bankers, capitalists, and others who are in the habit of making advances collaterally secured by Life Policies, as they can at any time learn, by mere inspection, the exact value, either immediate or re versionary, of a Policy of this description. Every Policy issued on this plan will be without any conditions as to voyaging, foreign residence, or other usual limitations. By this freedom from restrictions of all kinds the objections before referred to will be entirely removed, and the Policies will become at once positively valuable as actual securities. In addition to the foregoing statement of advantages, the number of premiums is strictly defined. The longest terra provided for is twenty-five years, and the shortest five years, as shown by the Tables. Thus, bankers, credi tors, and others holding policies of this class as security, may always know the utmost amount they may be called upon to advance so as to maintain the full benefit of the Assurances—a matter of great importance where policies are held as collateral security. It is only necessary to add that, as a consequence of the policies under these tables being unforfeitable and uncon ditional, they will also be unchallengeable on any ground whatever. They may therefore be aptly termed Absolute Security Policies. The PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY pos sesses an income of £215,000 a year. Its position is un• questionable, and it obtains the largest amount of new business of any office in the Kingdom. SPECIAL AGENTS WANTED. HENRY HARBEN, Secretary. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street. London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, - 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. ChatbArton. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THIS EVENING at 7, the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. Followed by, at 7.45, MACBETH: Mr. Phelps; Messrs. Ryder, H. Sinclair, J. Rouse, Barrett, M'lntyrc, &c.; Mrs. Howard Paul, Miss Poole, Miss M. O'Beirne. To conclude with a Grand Ballet of Action entitled BV.DA. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, RAISING THE WIND: Messrs. Ken dal, Clark, Rogers, Buckstone, jun., and Mesdames Laws, Dal ton, &n. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ton, A stley, &c,; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Hill, Azc. Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR. essrs. Comp ton, Kendal, Weathersby, Buckstone, jun., &c. ; Mesdames Caroline Hill, Slott. Gwynn, &c. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL. Mr. G. i3elmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 13 to 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr Arthur 3tirmig, air. cf Relmore, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Ash ley, Mr. Stuart, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. Miss Lennox Grey, &e. Commence at Seven. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. 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 Anteinotte, Mdlle. Bea trice; Messrs. Dominick Murray. D. Leeson. New Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds, Mr. Dayes, and Mr. Matt. Mogan. New Dresses, new Properties. Preceded by THE SECRET. To conclude with a new Comedietta, entitled A CUP OF TEA. Mdlle. Beatrice. 'doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. POYAL STRAND THEATRE. I 1., Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs F wanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs Clarke: Belford, Joyce: Mesdames Butt In and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD 01? T 1 CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M. Long more, F. Hughes. L. Maitland. &c. To conclude with HUE AND DYE. ROYAL AAIPHITHEA THE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN". The most varied Entertainment in the metropolis.—THlS EVENING, Herr Oscar Carre will introduce his Six splendid Trick Horses—Topaze, Saladin, ^ edjid, Tancredi, Freischutz, and Abdallah—pronounced by the entire Press to be matchless for symmetry, breeding, and intelligence In a dition, the Incomparable Scenes in the Arena, including Engand's Champion Equestrian, Mr. A. Bradbury, Mr. A. Carre, NJ r. A. Salamonsky, Mdlles. Salamonsky, Montero, A malia, Schwartz, and Krembser, "The trick horses are magnificent animals, every lover of horses should make it a special duty to witness the stud."—Standard. "Many. persons form their estimate of a circus from some of those exhibitions which travel through the provinces; the Hol born Amphitheatre is as far above them as Patti s singing is above that of a street ballad-singer."—Court Journal, Jan. 2. Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per formances Wednesday and Saturday, commencing at Half-past Two. GLOBE THE ATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. At 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9.'0, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. 3larshall, Warner, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlston, and J. Clarke: Mesdames C. Thorne, L. Morgan, Brennan, FoUntain. Arnold, Henrade, Be rend, Hughes, and Stephens. S GEORGE'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 nit. Every song was encored on the first night of performance. 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Followed by MACBETH. Concluding with BEDA. a THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Tins EVINING, RAD , ING THE WIND: Messrs. Kendal Buckstone, jun., Miss Laws, &c. Afier which, HOME: Sothern, Chippendale, &c. ; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, &c. Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR: Messrs. Compton. Kendal, Buckstone, jun., Weathersby, &c.; Mesdames C. Hill, Scott, Gwynn, du Commence at 7. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. Tess EVENING, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At a quarter to 8, MARIE ANTOINETTE: Mr W. Rignold, Mr. J. G. Shore, Mr. Dominick Murray: Mdlle. Beatrice. Conclud ing with A. CUP OF TKA: 11 dl' e. Beatrice. THEATRE-ROYAL. ADELPHT. This EVEN - irsa, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMILKRW ELL. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Ben. Webster, A. Stirling, G. Belmore, R. Phillips, Ashley, Stuart; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, &c. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9.40, BROWN AND TIIE BRAHMINS: Messrs. Marshall,Warner, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar nold, and Stephens ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. THIS EVENING. at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Bufton. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; NI esdames Maria Longmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with HUE AND DYE QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston. This EVENING, A RACE FOR A DINNER. After which, NOT GUILTY: Messrs. J. L. Toole, L. Brongh, H. Irving, S. Emery. Miss Hodson, &c. With THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS: Mr Toole. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Tuts EVFNING, AUNT CHARLOTTE'S MAID. Mr. E. Price, Mesdames Larkin, Weathereby. After which, FETTERED: Messrs. Cowper, eville, Parselle, Drew, Brunton, W. Arthur, Bartleman, and George Honey; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Turner, Marlbro, Hodson, and Fanny Josephs. To conclude with LU CRETIA BORGIA, M.D.: Miss Fanny Josephs, George Honey. THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. THIS EVENING, at 7, SL ASHER & CRASHER: Messrs. Atkins, iaughan, G. Vincent, &c.; Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which, at 7.45, PAPER WINGS : Messrs. H. Wigan, H. Neville, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and Smithson; Mesdames Furtado, Schavey, N. Harris, and St. Henry. ROYALTY THEATRE. Luger the Management of Miss M.Oliver. TUTS EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Mime M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar, &c. To conclude with FAMILY JABS. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And INTRIGUE. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, the Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, A. Carre, etc. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. This ErENTsG, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravagsnza„ THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET:4, Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. la. Box-offi ce open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mendays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. jr 4! illy • '7' t!... , ;) • *lllt LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 22, 1869. Those who appreciate the importance of our mer cantile marine will see with satisfaction that the ex- President of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has made some more remarks on the subject. He has directed his attention this time to marine in surance, and has succeeded in showing its importance in matters beyond those which are pecuniary. Great improvement is called for in the manner in which the rate of premium is conducted, and a little considera tion cannot fail to show the evils which result from the present system. The underwriters have for the most part adopted the injudicious system of basing the rate of premium upon the classification of the ship, irrespective of the character of the com mander and the quality of the nautical instruments that are employed. It is indeed an anomalous state of affairs, and it is only surprising that something should not have been done in the matter before this ; but public attention is often slow in observing such inconsistencies until some chance arouses it. It is in every way unfair that the careful and conscientious shipowner should be called upon to pay as much as the careless and indifferent one. While it is certain that the sea has risks which cannot be avoided, it is also very evident that far greater hazard must be run by an unseaworthy ship, badly equipped and with an indifferent crew, than by one which possesses the due requisites for a voyage, and has a careful commander. It is truly observed in this letter referred to that our underwriters c m do much if they like to render the State important ser vice, and that it is most important that " the living agency whence alone these vessels must derive their safety should be brought out and maintained by the highest state of efficiency." It is to be hoped that these judicious remarks may receive the attention they so justly merit, and that those most specially re ferred to will take heed to their ways, for it is evident that a reform is loudly called for. The suggestion contained in the concluding paragraph of this state ment is likewise wt l worthy of attention. It is to the effect that the Government should aim at render ing it impossible for unseaworthy and insufficiently equipped vessels to leave our ports. The under writers should be more careful in the discharge of their duties, and encourage the efforts which are made by the conscientious shipowner, while last, and not least, the shipowner himself should remember the " deep responsibility" which rest upon him if he fails in the fulfilment of h;s duty to the ship. The large shipowners who are self-insured enjoy comparative immunity from loss, and this is owing to the care and caution they adopt in guarding against those causes from which great sacrifice of life and property have arisen. It is scarcely necessary to impress the im portance of these considerations on all whom they may concern, and if the result of these communications be to awaken a spirit of inquiry into the causes of recent disasters with a view to find a remedy the objects of the writer will surely be attained. Wherever there is an error there should be found a willingness to im prove, and if the present system of underwriting be a bad one let it be amended, changed or controlled as the case may be ; but let us not fold our hands while property is being sacrificed, and the national charac ter for maritime efficiency remains at a discount. On Friday evening a measure of some importance was introduced into the House of Commons and read a first time. 'The subject may not possess many special attractions to distinguish it from the host of bills and motions which press on the notice of members at the opening of every session ; it refers, indeed, to a branch of our Administration which is singularly unsuccessful in gaining the attention of our legislators. Indian affairs, whether they refer to finance or famine, to cotton cultivation or the transfer of the seat of Government, are alike apt to weary the litening M.P.'s. Few of them have studied Indian subjects, and they do not attempt to understand them. It i s d ou btful whether any thing less momentous than a mutiny would have in duced the House of Commons to go patiently through the clauses of the great Act of 1858. The question involved in Mr. GRANT DUFF'S Bill, however, is one whose importance c an b e readily app reciatedby any town. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1869, P one who takes the trouble to think. We have, ou the one band, a vast range of country, watered in many parts by broad and flowing rivers, but lying beneath a tropical sun, and subject, in its remote dis tricts, to long seasons of drought and terrible periodi cal famines. On the other side, we have great wealth, great engineering skill, and all the resources of a highly civilised and enterprising nation, yet, for some unexplained reason, we cannot combine the two. We cannot bring the science which con structed the Bridgewater Canal and the New River, and which has taught the wayward waters to rise and sink to given heights at our bid ding, to relieve the distress of India by bringing to its aid the resources of European skill and science. The fatal lethargy and indolence of the old company days seem to have clung to their successors. It is only very recently that Anglo-Indian authorities hare been inclined to listen with any degree of patience to the earnest representations of those best informed on the subject. Sir ARTHUR COTTON, who devoted forty years to the study of the subject, could hardly command attention for his wise and timely counsels with respect to irrigation. Sir JOIIN LAWRENCE indeed expressed himself favourably, and in his very last address to Anglo Indians in the capacity of Governor-General, he dwelt strongly on the advantages which a good water system would confer upon India, both with regard to the fertilizing of the soil and the consequent pre vention of famine, and to the extension of com merce by the means afforded for the cheap, easy, and rapid transit of goods. Still, though much has been done of late compared to the previous inaction, there is much, very much, yet remaining nnaccomplished. The work is vast and costly, and the arrears are very heavy. When once Englishmen and Anglo-Indians really appreciate the immense benefits which must accrue to both races from so rational a measure they will not, we should imagine, be inclined to indulge in the dolce far niente, which is otherwise too apt to check the energies of our Reformers in Bombay and Calcutta. Mr. GRANT DUFF'S bill has for its object the confirmation and execution of arrangements made between the Secretary of State in Council of India and the East India Irrigation Canal Company, and for other purposes connected therewith. It was read the first time without opposition. Tan Bishop of LONDON has lately been taken to task by some of the " religious" journals, because he spoke of them as " Church, not religious newspapers." The public will support the Bishop against the journals. With a very few honourable exceptions, chief among them the Guardian, the so-called religious press is the most irreligious institution of our time. It is so because charity is the one absolutely indispensable essential of true religion; and of that the " religious " press is utterly destitute. It is so because of all sins of the spiritthere is none greater, none which has been denounced by the author of our religion with more severity, or threatened with more tremendous punishment, than that attri buting to evil inspiration the good deeds and words of a theological opponent which is the most charac teristic feature of the Church papers. Devout Christian men have trembled at what they be- lieve to be the growing estrangement between science and religion. To our mind, a far more serious symptom is the complete divorce of theology from religion. The odium theologicum always bore a pre-eminently bad reputation, and now, so far as the Church papers are concerned, "hatred" is the only emotion connected with theology. Unfortu nately we cannot suppose that this evil spirit is con fined to the journals in which it is manifested. The supply is created by the demand. If there were no rd e e u a m e a r s act and of to such rea j d ou . journals ey ther e e et wo e u n l d d r b e e_ no , such as there were never so many "religious " newspapers as there are now (the one evil result of the cheap press), so there was never so mach bitterness, wrath, clamour, and evil speaking as there is at the present time. That this is so was abundantly shewn at the late elections. Secular politicians hit each other pretty hard ; but they were courtesy and gentleness them selves compared with the reverend politicians who entered the field. We told at the time how one clergyman denounced Mr. GLADSTONE as PONTIUS PILATE, another as JUDAS ISCARIOT, another as deserving of a worse punishment than a murderer. Even now that the excitement of that contest has subsided so far as laymen are concerned, too many of the clergy are fomenting the flame of angry passions which should have died out. For instance, there is published in a recent number of an organ of the Low Church party a letter from one of the most notorious of these firebrand writers. The letter is headed " Mr. GLADSTONE'S Treachery," and it sets forth that the PREMIER is engaged in a plot for the extinction of the Royal supremacy and the ruin of the QUEEN'S Protestant throne, and the heinousness of this offence is increased by the fact that the traitor-Premier's sovereign is a woman and a widow. We might remark, in passing, that this traitor is at least very open in his treachery, that his plots are at least all concocted in open day, according to the writer's own sheaving, for he appeals in support of his charge to Mr. GLADSTONE'S own official announcement of his intentions. But the main point to which we would call the attention of the clergy, and of " religious " politicia . ns in general, is that this writer and his numerous fellows attribute to the PRIME MINISTER deliberate and conscious wickedness. It is in doing this that they shew themselves so much worse than secular politi cians. Both religious and secular politicians have a perfect right to think that Mr. GLADSTONE'S policy is wrong, is even ruinous to both State and Church, and the more they think that the more they are bound to say it. They have a perfect right to vote against, and canvass against, and speak against the measures of the present Govern ment ; but they have not the right to say that those measures are planned with the intention of doing mischief. The fact is that the clergy, espe cially the country clergy, mingle so little with the world, and hear and read so entirely one side of the question, that they at last come to believe that there is only one side, and that all those who do not adopt it must be dishonest and wicked. The best thing they can do is to order their " Church, not religious, newspapers" to be discontinued. THE history of the Dagenham Docks is, indeed, an extraordinary narrative. Seldom has a Government, which sins more in omission than commission, been guilty of such an inexplicable act of arbitrary inter ference. The story as given in our columns on Saturday, is simple, the facts beyond doubt. Far beyond the Eastern confines of London, in the Essex marshes, is situated a small lake, which it has been proposed to convert into docks. The site is some distance from London, but land there is cheap, the position very advantageous for some purposes,and communication with the entire railway system is immediate. A company was formed to transform the waste into a port. Three Acts of Parliament were obtained. The public subscribed much of the capital, and the works were commenced. Land around the lake was bought, and by the spring of 1868, though the clocks were still in posse, a pier had been made with all necessary appliances for landing and unloading, warehouse accommodation had been provided, and a railway station was close at hand. It was thought that this part of the works might at once be put into operation. The water is deep at this point of the river, the situation is well adapted for storing dangerous goods, and much business had been secured beforehand. But when application was made to the Customs' Commissioners for the necessary license to land goods free of duty, it was decisively refused. It vain it was shewn that would be injured, th e wor k s i n ision, Very many facttlae whole ousp pertenpdreocibyy such a dec merchants having no direct connection with the company testified to the advantage of the Dagen ham site, the three Acts of Parliament were brought to bear upon the Commissioners, but eight months of negotiation have effected nothing. The license is still withheld, and the entire operations of the company are stopped. The merits of the case have been fully examined. The Customs' Commissioners have urged pleas which must courteously be termed arguments, their case has been given in its entirety, and there is not, therefore, the slightest danger of a one-sided state ment. With a brevity that is not in this instance the soul of wit, the Commissioners declare that the " docks are not wanted." To this objec tion there is the obvious reply that many persons who have special acquaintance with the nature of the commerce for which the Dagenham works are chiefly intended, give their opinion that the docks would be a public benefit. The trade in certain classes of goods could be carried on more readily and safely, certainly more cheaply, whilst the complete command of the metropolitan railway system would in great measure neutralise the disadvantages arising from the remote situation of Dagenham. The argument that sufficient accommo dation already exists is of no value, even if strictly true. If any portion of the community can provide betterandcheaper accommodation, and another section desires it, the right must be allowed, making all due allowance for restraint in this species of compe tition. Considering the great increase in the com merce of the Thames, there is no just reason for refusing an addition to the metropolitan docks, which, for the most part, do not lack business. But besides, it is more than doubtful whether the Com missioners had any right to raise the question of competition, which is strictly a Parliamentary question, and has already been decided in favour of the company. On three different occa sions, at considerable intervals, a Parlia mentary committee has approved this recla mation of the wilderness. The highest authority has finally settled all rights of monopoly. It is true that the Commissioners do not condemn the entire dock project as not needed, but only the landing wharf arrangements; but it would be idle to point out how greatly this part of the scheme affects the whole. As the Commissioners have gone so far, it is possible that they may have kindly decided, in the interests of the shareholders, that the property would not pay. Here proba bilities are against them. The London Docks Ireturn small dividends because the cost of land near the centre is so enormous. This is the prime cause of dock difficulties in London ; but the case at Dagenham is very different. The cost of the lake was comparatively so small that the works will be constructed for one-sixth of the expense entailed in the docks at Wapping. The company calculate, not unreasonably, to charge rates 30 per cent, lower than those paid higher up the river. In the second place, the Commissioners feared the premises were remote and lonely. So was the site of the Tower of Babel before the children of men turned their steps to the plain of Shinar ; but the scene became lively enough after that. Dagenham will be a town un t o it se lf a s soon as the work s are finished, and will be quite populous enough for the purposes of the company. Considering that the remoteness and loneliness of the site are in many respects great advantages, considering that without these qualities the swamp would never have been invaded, the plea is sheer nonsense. The company may reasonably inquire why Thames Haven, a Customs station, thirty-eight miles from London, is less remote and lonely than Dagenham, eleven miles distant. After these specimens it would be hopeless to expect much of Custom-house logic, and it is not surprising to find that it steadily grows worse as it proceeds. It is dreaded that if this privilege be given to one wharf, a similar claim will be made on behalf of twenty-six others. Nobody knew, before the Commissioners laid dowii the rule, that the just title of one party was to be set aside because other parties might possibly set up the same title. Are the shareholders to lose their capital because the owners of other wharves may apply for land ing powers, when these have no special Act of Parliament in their favour, and are in no respect upon the same footing as the company ? Lastly, it is property thought the Dagenham will involve increased cost in protecting the revenue —which is, indeed, a grave plea, and rises very nearly to the ingenuity of the traditional Dutchman, who, being recommended to save one-half of his fuel by a patent stove, resolved to have two and save it all. There can be no doubt that the privilege of landing free goods at Dagenham will involve some cost of supervision ; it is clear that this cost will be saved by refusing the privilege ; and it is equally clear that the economical Commissioners might save a good deal in one way by giving uP all protection of revenue. But if the argument does not lead to this conclusion, it leads to nothing. The revenue depends upon trade, not trade upon revenue ; and the lesser must be held - . -- subordinate to the greater. If the Commissioners pretend to arrange the business of the country to suit the convenience of their d epar t men t , th ey are assuming a function which was never conferred by Parliament. In this case the company have offered to pay the whole cost of the Officers required. Such are the grounds upon Which the business of this company has been suspend e d, workmen turned out of employment, and a large capital consigned to inactivity. Beyond doubt the department has a right to interfere ; beyond doubt it has the power to withhold the privilege demanded. But in this instance the power has been grossly abused. It has been exercised arbitra rily, and to some extent in defiance of a higher authority; whereas Parliament never authorised the department to protect the revenue at the expense of trade—quite the reverse. Instead of interfering very charily with commerce, the Commis sioners have in this case acted as if they enjoyed all the Imperial authority of French officials from whom paternal admonitions are accepted in the due course of business. The company bring reasonable proof that their undertaking is sound, but this really does not affect the question. If the Dagenham Docks resembled many other City speculations—if the en- terprise be ill-advised, and if the necessities of the port do not require the accommodation---all this ought to have been decided before the authorisation was granted, not aft er £lOO,OOO has been spent. If the Commissioners have discovered that it is their business to protect shareholders, their inter ference is of no avail now that a large proportion of the capital has been sunk in the marsh ; if it be part of their functions to investigate the necessities of trade, they should endeavour to keep their decisions in harmony with the Acts of the Legislature. They have virtually reversed an Act of Parliament, and it is for Parliament at once to deal with the question, The iron screw steam storeship Alegmra, 4, Staff Commander Jabez Loane, from Sheerness, arrived on Friday at Plym ou th, w here she will emba r k supernumeraries for ships on the South American station, and will probably leave to-day for the Brazils. The screw steam frigate Bristol, 31, Captain Frederick W. Wilson, was towel on Saturday from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound, where she received her powder and ammunition. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. N. S. Fox Digby to command the Minstrel, vice Medlycott, promoted ; Lieut. Joshua Cole, Lieut. Arthur P. Douglas, and Lieut. Francis C. R. Biker to the Excellent. NAVAL HOSPITAL COMNIISSION. --- This Commis sion, appointed by the Lords of the Admiralty, consisting of Dr. C. Murchison, Mr. T. Holmes, and Mr. Robert Ellis, completed its inquiry into the orgauisation of naval hos pitals by a careful inspection of Haslar Hospital, termi nating on Thursday. The result of this inquiry will shortly be submitted to the authorities, together with the recommendations suggested during its coui se. The hos- pitals visited have been the Melville Hospital at Chatham , the Royal Hospital a t Pl ymout h , an d H as l er H osp i tal. ' The organisation of the marine infirmaries at Portsmouth and Plymouth has also been carefully inquired into. • IMIRESPONDENOE FROM PARIS. ffROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY, February 21. The semi-ofiScial papers were greatly mistaken in their claculations respecting the Belgian railway affair. They raised a furious storm when the measure passed the deputies, and then suddenly calmed down, hoping their rage had produced a salutary effect upon the senators. They did produce a very salutary effect—in favour of the Bill. Forty-three senators assembled at the sitting on Saturday, - thirty-six voted in favour of the Bid, the remaining seven absenting themselves. Nor does it even appear that these seven were actuated by any fear of France, or that in any respect they took a French view of the question. Some of them, at least, approved of the general principles of the law, but objected only to same provisions of detail. This comparative unanimity shews clearly that there is no hesitation what ever in the country on this question. So far as public opinion is represented by the two Chambers,it is decisively against the dictation which the French journals have attempted. A despatch from the great manufactory of untrustworthy intelligence—the Havas agency—led people here to the conclusion that the Senate was much impressed with the manifestations of the Paris journals, and anxious to avoid the displeasure of Belgium's formidable neighbour. Nothing of the kind is the fact. As is usual in all such cases, the insults offered to Belgium have only had the effect of uniting all parties against a common enemy. At this critical juncture the Catholic opposition has rendered timely aid to the Government. One of the leading members of this party spoke energeti cally in favour of the measure, and greatly facilitated the task of M. Frere Orban, the Minister. It remains to be seen whether the final passing of the law will raise another storm amongst the French journals. I think it scarcely probable. The situation has once more grown pacific. Count Bismarck has made a speech in some measure retracting his violent tirade on the Sequestration Bill, and the Prus sian journals are multiplying assurances that Germany has no share in the Belgian business. There can be no doubt, too, as to the tone of public opinion here. It is all on the side of peace. The official journals may write now one way, now ano th er , b u t th e .• _ _ opinion of the country remains unchanged. Many facts go to prove this. It is reported, from a very good authority too, that some of the Government deputies who were present at the reception on Thursday expressed to the Emperor their regret that the Government papers should have taken up such a warlike tone, and assured his Majesty that the country was anxious for peace. Deputies who support the Government are not in the habit of expressing their thoughts thus freely, and it may safely be doubted Whether any such observations were made. But if the deputies did not say this, they thought it. Their election addresses—all on the side of peace—are an indis• putable reflex of the sentiments of the nation. There will be a great day in the Corps L4gislatif to. morrow. M. Gamier Pages will open the discussion on the City of Paris Budget, and a stirring debate is this time all but inevitable. The discussion is expected to last till Thursday, and M. Thiers, Jules Simon, and other notables will speak. It is believed that M. Thiers, faithful to the views which he has expressed under other regimes, will argue that by the monumental renovation of Paris, the Government has introduced an element of luxury in dwellings and public buildings which has seriously affected the morals of the nation. So at least it is affirmed, though what conclusion M. Thiers is to deduce from his argument I am not told. The law of public meeting is already bearing its judicial fruit. Seven or eight orators who have made speeches of A character which the Minister of the Interior tabooed in his letter have been summoned before the tribunals. Others are now " under consideration." The man who sticks to one style of dress is sure to be in the fashion once or twice in his life. So with other things. Sedan chairs are again coming into vogue. The Princess Netternich and three other ladies have adopted them-- though their use of them is confined to going to and from church. Duels and elopements are "in" just now. The young hope of the Bourbon house and the fair American lady have gone off again, the mamma still taking care to be pre. sent to look after the match. A marquise, of the mature age of 52, with married daughters in high positions, has found it necessary to her happiness to carry off a young man of 28. The two are now wanted. The women, too, have been at the bottom of one or two duels. In one, be tween a clerk and a propriitaire, the latter bored a hole through the arm of the former, and all ground of quarrel vanished after this satisfactory operation. Both parties were quite contented. An English waiter was found murdered in the Champs Elystces a night or two ago. He was waiter at one of the London West-end clubs. The motive for the crime is per fectly inexplicable, as he was found with his money in his pocket. THP WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY. Monday, Feb. 22, 8 cm. Nairn Aberdeen Leith Shields ... • Scarborough Yarmouth Helder Cux haven Skudesnscs Ardrossan Greencastle Holyhead Liverpool Valentin Cape Clear Roch is Ft Penzance • Plymouth . Weymouth Portsmouth London C'peGrisNez Brest L'Orient Roche fort Blarritz Corunna Brussels Paris Strasbourg Lyons Toulon Heart's Con- tent 19 a.m. local time) 2992 29'675. XXPLANA! Barometer corrected and reduced t letter r, rising ; f, falling ; s, steady— _ of the mercury within last 14 hOi shade. Extreme Force with its D Z.—calm. Weather : b.—blue sky ; I.—lightning ; m.—naisty, lac rain ; a. —snow ; t.—thunder. _ . daring last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMAIiKS. S. E. N.E. E. N.E. S. E. E.B.E. B.E. N.E. N.E. E.S.E. S.S.E. N.B. 1:12.c O.T. f. b. o.m c.o. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. 30'07f. 30'17r. 3015 r. 3019 r. 3018 r. 30'06f. 2n9 S. E. E.N.E. E.N.E. Extreme 1 1 2 2 2 7 N. E. S.S. E. B.E. N.B. N.E. o 32 deg. at sea level. The indicates direction of motion 1. Thermometer exposed in section during last 24 hours. ,—clouds, detached ; f. - fog zy ; o.—overcast, dull r.— 'all, snow or hail melted) During Saturday night a sudden decrease in pressure amounting to about o.3in. occurred at the entrance of the Channel, accompanied by an equal increase at our northern stations ; and yesterday morning readings on our N.E. coast were about three-tenths of an inch higher than that at Brest. Since then, however, a recovery has occurred in the S.W. (the low pressure haring moved eastward), but during last night a fresh decrease has set in at Nairn. Readings are now very uniform. Temperature yesterday rose generally, although the winds were easterly, but to-day it has fallen again, except at Nairn. Yes terday morning easterly winds of generally moderate strength set in at all stations ; but at Corunna and Toulon N.W. and N.E. gales were blowing. This morning the winds in the north and west have fallen light, and veered to S.E. and S., but moderate to strong N.H. breezes continue on the Continent and our S.E. coasts. Rain hal fallen at most stations, with sleet in London. The sea is rather high at Yarmouth. The Marquis of Hartington has written to the Man chester Guardian emphatically denying the statement that be has purchased the residence of Mr. Green Price, the member who has just vacated his seat for the Radnorshire Boroughs. " The Prussian officials here," says a usually well informed R oman corres p on d en t i n a l e tter of the 14th, " are talking of an approaching war with Austria, and the struggle may be said to have begun at the Vatican, where Baron d'Arnim uses every effort to defeat the negotiations of Count de Trauttmansdorff. In this design he is zealously supported by M. de Walonieff, the envoy of Russia, and even by the ambassador of France, that Power desiring that the holy See shall have no other ally but herself. Count de Trauttmansdorff, however, is energetically aided by the Minister of Bavaria." The London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury says: —"I hear, upon what I believe is excellent authority, that the bill to be brought forward by Mr. Gladstone on the Ist of March will not, as is generally supposed, be a frag ment only of the scheme he contemplates, but will be complete in itself, dealing with the whole of the vexed questions raised by the proposal of disestablishment, and more especially with that "money part of tho bill" which so rust y people persh.t in regarding as the rock upon which the Ministry is doomed to split. lam assured that the measure will fulfil every pledge Mr. Gladstone gave last session, and more pArticularly his pledges with reference to the appropriation of the funds at present belonging to the Church. Whatever else they may be applied to, those funds will assuredly not he used for any religious purposes. The danger of a compromise of this kind has entirely passed away, and the Ministry will go straightforward upon the course which it marked out for itself in the famous resolu tions of last year."— The same authority says, yesterday (Thursday) was a great day at the Reform Club. No less than fifteen new Members of Parliament wore ballotted for, and all, I am happy to say, were elected. Amongst theit number was Mr. Bolckow, the new mem ber for Middlesbro'. Mr. Harvey Lewis, who cau hardly continue to retain hi:l scat for Maryleboue beyond the end O'f.the present week, is not a member of the Reform. Mary. tame lass been almost as unfortunate initfi Tarltiuuentsry-• SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times, in discussing the present difficulty about the volunteers and the Government grant, observes that nobody can deny that the element of national defence now constituted by our volunteer force is both valuable and economical. It is valuable because it supplies us with numbers, and numerical weakness is the great defect of our regular army. Nor should it be forgotten at this point of the case that our volunteers have their own reserves. The effective strength of the force at present is about 160,000, but we may probably suppose that as many more have passed through the ranks since 1850, and retired after more or less training. The great majority of these would be still available in case of actual emergency, so that we may regard our volunteer army as being 300,000 strong. The force, too, now comprises upwards of 20,000 trained artillerymen, and when we turn to the cost of all this establishment, and find it put at no more than 2380,000 a year, it becomes impossible to say the charge is exorbitant. Up to this point, indeed, we mai assume that in no one item of the national expenditure does the country get more for its money. Nevertheless, it is not to be forgotten, and, indeed, it has been rather bluntly stated in our correspondence, that if a volunteer force is far cheaper than a force of regular troops it is also far less available for the manifold exigencies of actual service. The cost of the article is certainly within compass, but so also is its utility, and if the price is to be reconsidered, the product will naturally be reconsidered also. We suspect the concluding words of the memorial go very near the truth of the whole matter, and that " the organisation of the force might be greatly improved, and its consequent efficiency increased," without any fresh charge on the Exchequer or fresh tax upon the volunteers themselves. The Post says that it is the especial misfortune of this country, and perhaps the direct consequence of our system of party government, that particular questions, involving a political significance, and frequently occasioning the rise and fall of Ministries, acquire a fictitious importance, ind occupy almost entirely the time of the Legislature, which might on some occasions be more usefully devoted to other subjects. We are far from maintaining, of course, that the great party questions of the day—Reform, the Ballot, the Irish Church, and two or three others which might be mentioned—are not important; but we are insisting that there are other questions which are at least as important, but which, as they involve no political consequences, unluckily excite a minor interest, and are either neglected altogether, or, if they are not neglected, are dealt with in a patchwork fashion by thinly attended houses. And yet there can be little question that there are many of these subjects —we might instance local taxation, municipal government, poor law administra tion—in which reform is really needed as urgently as it is in the Irish Church. The destinies of a Church, con nected as they are with the destinies of a party, will engross, there can be no doubt, the attention of overcrowded Houses. The comfort of a few thousand paupers, if it is referred to at all, will certainly excite only a languid discussion in a thinly-attended sitting. There is danger, therefore—a danger which must be apparent to everyone who studies the proceedings in Parliament—that Parlia ment may not devote the time to the solution of the great administrative problems of the day which their importance and their difficulty equally demand, and this danger is increased by the fact that these questions really affect so many interests, and involve so many distinct issues, that it would be impossible for any private member to deal with them from the broad point of view from which, if they are touched at all, they ought to be regarded. The Herald regrets that Lord Malmesbury's retirement from the Conservative leadership in the Upper House should have passed unnoticed. No statesman of the present day has been so unfairly and ungenerously treated by his political opponents as Lord Malmesbury. Because the organs of the Radicals and the rank and file of the party had hardly heard of his lordship before he accepted the Foreign Secretaryship in 1852, they assumed that he could know nothing of foreign affairs, and have ever since repeated the same ridiculous assumption. The fact is that we have hardly ever had a Minister at the Foreign Office so thoroughly conversant with the whole range of foreign politics as Lord Malmesbury, and never one who took a sounder and more dispassionate view of the questions with which he had to deal. The characteristics of Lord Malmesbury's foreign policy are caution and coolness, and these are precisely the qualities which we want in England from a Foreign Minister. His lordship never caressed any grand projects for setting the world to rights, or wrote dispatches with no other purpose than to tickle the groundlings, like Earl Russell. His policy was always a sensible an 1 judicious one, and its soundness received on both occasions when he left office the testimony of his successors. Lord Malmesbury led the House of Lords well. He would have continued to lead with ability, and to the perfect satisfaction of his political friends, the Conservative party, if his health had been equal to the task. Unfortunately the experience of last year shewed that his forces are unequal to the labour, and he retires with the thanks and the good wishes of the party generally, as well as of his colleagues and friends. The retirement, however, is not au abandonment of poli. tical life, or a withdrawal from that part in the guidance of the Constitutional party which has, for so many years, devolved upon him. The Telegraph approves of the manner in which Mr. Forster deals with the religious difficulty j in his new mea sure on education. Nor should we be justified in post the removal of the last traces of sectarianism from post poning national schools of England. It is a scandal that, in schools which are supported by national property, the son of a Dissenter or a Roman Catholic must attend the ministrations of the English Church, or else leave the classes. By all means let education be religious ; but it is not a reli gious duty to make a boy take part in a serv i ce which, th ou gh good and holy in itself, evoke s i n hi m or his p are nts feelings of hostility or even of malevolence. Mr. Forster proposes to repeal, without delay, those rules which convert the national class-rooms into scenes of religious dispeace ; and also the regulation, which applies to many endowed schools, that the head master must be a clergyman. At one time, when the whole nation professed the same creed, and when the ranks of the clergy supplied the greatest number of scholars, no harm ma y have been done by the decree that grammar should be taught by none but gentlemen in holy orders. That time has long passed. The country is now split up into sects, and by far the largest number of scholarly men are most decidedly not clergymen. Hence, under the present system, the masters must be chosen from a limited class, and the best scholars must be excluded. That is another absurdity which Mr. Forster means to remove by what has been infelicitously designated as the " temporary " part of his bill. In some quarters it has been assumed that the whole measure is " temporary." That is a complete mistake. The commission by which the reform is to be executed will, of course, speedily cease to exist, but the effects will remain, and when a complete system of educational machinery shall be created, the changes proposed by Mr. Forster will fit into the further alterations that may be necessary. His bill points the way to so great a reform, that, if passed, it will suffice in itself to make the session memorable. The Standard refers to the Thames Embankment, and condemns the scheme of the proposed viaduct. Even before the Thames Embankment has been open to public traffic it is first to be invaded and cut up from below by the navigators of the Metropolitan Railway Company, and then to be oppressed from above by a viaduct passing along the finest portion of its length, in connection with a roadway from Charing Cross to Wellington-street. The ratepayers have already been put to a great expenditure in the construction of the Embankment ; they are now to be taxed in a further sum of £245,000, which is to be spent in undoing the best part of that costly work. As usual, no one knows precisely who has committed us to this absurd muddle. It is our privilege only to learn that the job is to be undertaken —just on the eve of its commencement. We are told that there is no room for any surprise in the matter. The roadway has been in contemplation for many years. The ratepayers have known all about it from the beginning, and if they have not given the subject their deliberate consideration they ought to have done so. Both the Board of Works and the Commissioner of Works profess to be equally ill pleased with the undertaking ; yet Mr. W. Cowper declares, in the true spirit of officialism, that the thing has been regularly discussed and settled. and that being settled we have no remedy but to spend our money and spoil the Thames Embankment. It is not unreasonable to demand that where we have so many authorities, boards, and departments, all devoted to the one purpose of public works, there should be someone at least who should be responsible —someone to check noto rious abuses and to abate acknowledged nuisances ; some one to exercise a general supervision over the local bodies ; and if without any authority to originate what is useful and good, to preserve us at least from such evil and mischievous designs as this of the roadway across the most important and valuable portion of the Thames Einbankment. ATROCIOUS MURDER IN SUNDERLAND. —On Saturday night an atrocious murder was committed in this town. About ten o'clock an unfortunate girl named Fitzsimmons was found in a room in Baines's-lane, by a neighbour, under the bed, dead, in a pool of blood. There were two punctured wounds, penetrating the heart, and four stabs in the breast and back. She was last seen alive at two in the afternoon, and was then in the company of a sailor, who accompanied her home. The murderer escaped. From his appearance he is thought to be an Irish American. ll*lll.lipppmci to hgvg left for LowlOnt .~J ---.~.~ .a»-- _ . eirnt nritifn HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 2 1 . The Queen, accompanied by Princess Lou ise and Princess Beatrice, and a tt en d e d by the Dowager Duchess of Athole, drove through Park' burst Forest. Prince Leopold is progressing satisfactorily. LATEST INTELL MENG% (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PORTUGAL. LISBON, Feb. 2 1 . The Portuguese press strongly condemns t b° recently revived idea of an Iberian Union. A regatta of the crews of the British squaclr ° now lying in the Tagus has been held here. THE CAPE MAILS. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 22, 9 a•nl' The Royal mail steamship Norman with th e Cape mails has just arrived here. BOMBAY MAIL. ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 2 2 • The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steanie r4 Poonah and Tanjore sailed at 9.15 yesterdol morning. The former may be expected at Marseilles 00 the 27th inst., and the latter at Southampton abo o the morning of the 6th proximo. SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 2 2 . The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam er Syria, with the heavy I.39mbay mail, has arrive d here, with 18 passengers, £2,552 in specie, and 0 packages of cargo. GIBRALTAR, Feb. 11. The British bark Blenheim, 48 days from Ne vi ' castle, was burnt on the 9th inst. The crew we re landed here on the 15th. Exchange on London, 491 to f ; on Paris, 5 . 18 Madrid, par. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb. 19.—Three o'clock.—The mark te closed as follows : q per Cent. 8 Lad of month... ItaFan Fives 57 3 per Cent End of month 7l 47i Mexican Loan 24 Credit Mobilier End of month-. 295 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier ...1622 50 Home Debt End of month... Deferred •-• RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans , 9,7.5 Northern ... llB7f Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 622} _ _ _ Western Eastern • • 585 Sardinian Austrian 6581 Lombard 47Bi North of Spain • Saragossa Roman 47 POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Dag. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. STEALING MONEYS BELONGING TO A Lonoz.--/If Balchin, senior trustee of C our t L or d Cli ve , N o . 1, 98 the Ancient Order of Foresters, held at No. 231, Oxfo'" street, was brought before Mr. Ty rw hitt on a warrant b ; 4 Sergeant Maveety, N division, charged with stealing sum of £585 the money of the Lodge. t Mr. Charles James Mackenzie, of No. 37, Harmau-s-r ee d Kingsland, secretary of the lodge, said that the lodge ha d some money invested in the New Three per Cents, I ': the prisoner, who was the senior trustee and sub-se e ' t ; tart', had £5O given to him, which he was to ad d or .V. 5, divided on the stock and interest, but two I , three meeting nights passin g , an d no t see i ng the Po soner. he made in qu i r i es a t th e s t oc kb ro k ers, and 1011° that the pri soner h a d not i nvested the 133°Lienic s a and on the nther t rus t ees go i ng to the bank the, f(te that the pri s o ner h a d rece i ve d the dividend, and it vias;n-g that the prisoner had l e ft hi s l o d g i ngs, prev i ous ly off his furniture and saying ho was going abroz.d. i' s ho night while with th e o ffi cer h e me t t h e pr i soner, wilt ° was taken into custody. Sergeant Mavetly, 43 N, said that on telling the P ri :, soner last night th a t h e s h ou ld t a k e hi m i n t o custody . (1 - the warrant he made no reply, but at the station he sal he had not the money, he made use of it, and Was 't er t ", sorry. He also said that he made use of the move t o go into business, failed, and had no money. He had s. ask fora remand as he had not been able to get the Wee sary witnesses in attendance. e . The prisoner, who appeared very d e j ec ted, W 5 r - manded. WESTMINSTER. SUBSTANTIAL JUSTICE. —Jesse Wren, a Cabdriver, 5/1 charged with drunkenness, furious driving, and seriottl jury to a hard-working woman. tot Police-constable 335 B said that at eleven o'clook night he was on duty in Lupus-street, Pimlico, whe r° , l3 saw the defendant with his cab. He was driving 8, %, - ,5 rate of ten miles an hour, and ran over a woman, wh 0 .,",,a obliged to be conveyed to the hospital. Witness f ° ", the defendant was drunk, and took him into custodr Ho hurried away after he had caused the accident. , o Prosecutor asked the magistrate to be lenient with '" accused. Mr. Selfe said it was very kind of her, and sugg e sted that as she was a poor woman she should be Cc'"? pensated. ca 11 The proprietor readily consented, and gave her £.l„, the defendant was then fined 20s. for the public off e' THAMES. A p A COOL TttrEr.—Thomas Townsend, aged 29 ye Br- ' 4 Anglo-American seaman, was charged with stealing s i° the moneys of Qarl Gratz, and Bs., the money of Ant°°' Witz. All the parties were dwelling in a German i0dg, i13 0 ,5 house, No. 26, Cable-street, Whitechapel,-and in the 11 1, 0 time the prisoner abstracted two half-crowns froal trousers pocket of Gratz, and one s hilli ng from the tr i f e - i sera pocket of Witz. Whe n th e y found their loss t ' f - d, communicated with Mr. Heinrich Druer, their lan d ta, who at once susp ec t e d th e p r i soner . H e was sear e "` o . but nothing was found in his pockets or about his ci° 111 : His boots w ere remove d f rom hi s f ee t, an d in thetaid half-crowns were found. The prisoner immecliatelf °a r o to Gratz, " I h ave go t it. I t oo k it ou t o f your tro d° pocket last night." The shilling was not recovered- Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to three months 1 prisonmeDEATH I nt and hard labour. N THE Dock.—Henry Death, aged 36, of Victoria-terrace, West Ham, Essex, sawyer, Geo. Steed,26, of No. 7, Jupp-row, Stepney, farrier, and William „ ee t more, of 36, Wall-street, and 3, Abbey-road, both in Ham, were charged with stealing, on the 9th inst., 8 ' h 20 felloes, 12 spokes, a pair of pulley sides, and three ib.9 planks, the property of Mr. William Acocks, timber rser chant, in the Horseferry Branch-road, Batcliff, &Or . Steele, the elder, 50, of Lawton-cottage, Jupp-row, °"1/:. ney, was charged with feloniously receiving the pr o p s '" he well knowing it to be stolen. - Mr. Charles Young and Mr. Pelham solicitors, defet i- • $ the prisoners, against three of whom a strong Prim a aci case was established. 1 00 4 Death and Cadmore were seen loading a cart w i th A A on Mr. Acocks premises, and the younger Steele was 7.2e1: ing. The wood was found on the elder Steele's Prel32`,:lo but the evidence that he had a guilty knowledge of it rather weak. ,d to Mr. Paget remanded all the prisoners, and con geal ' take bail for the elder Steele. Bai was offere for D. Mr. l Paget said he could eath not part with Dea th, an d h° must go to prison. Mr. Joseph Bates, engineer, borne on the .7 - 14 of the Indus for disposal, was tried on Tburs: on board the Royal Adelaide, at Devon Port, °"tbe charge of drunkenness. Captain Napier, of ili ot Lion, presided over the Court, and Mr. W ri t e, Eastlake officiated as Deputy-Judge-AdOc-er The charge having been proved, the pr ies was sentenced to be dismissed from her IV.lilie3"" service. ARMY AND NAVY SAVINGS.—It is generally be; lieved in well-informed circles that the saving ye ar wbie,lll4 Childers will propose to effect during the financisl It of 1869-70 will be from £900,000 to a million sterlinPuieu is expected that the saving in the Army Est i m ates, s v o pa are now nearly completed, will be something oer million sterling.—Army and Navy Gazette. ; s ta ted ILLNESS OF THE EARL OF GLASGOW - " It fq - e that the Earl of Glasgow, who has been for Boyle tilfceitt full health, has had an ag gravated attack of indise'"-1 within the last few days. rt t(1 re