The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-25 00:00:00

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Wor of to ° - 0 ,0 iberi stash Y the 40 or doeio • -sr old , tbe de for o ,, e r tea otr Ticangi° St. I ‘ er' t r' lg • or''' e 0131 c •rori c - e Nv T be les. 0 ,ptell 1 0 01 )- 0 31) ?Stl , ; Vi c - ;t c o t' e t. the ' n t °ltect,if fai r 4 1 ,1 3rs , /3 ,0 hs S ec i j )11 0 Id (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) FENIAN ATTACK ON CANADA. (BY ATLANTIC CABLE.) NEW YORK, May 25. The Feni an movement i s genera l a l ong t h e b or d er o f th e States but no ne o f th e par ti es h ave y e t crosse d. Bands of thrri fifty to th ree h un d re d are p rocee ding northward on ,__ v arious lines of ra il wa y. Armed companies have left "licago and Milwaukee Five hundred have arrived at S t• Alba ns, i n Vermont,. close to Canadian frontier. Fif tee- u corps of Can a di an i n f an t r y artillery are to be sent to- President Grant has issued a proclamation, containing a war ning against illegal expeditions, and declaring the t rt ies engaged i n th em f or f e iti ng the protection of the ve rninent. He also enjoins officers of the United States to defeat and arrest them. The Montreal Volunteers are tinder arms. A GREAT FIRE IN QUEBEC. great fire ha s t a k en place at Quebec. Five hundred houses and two ships have been burned. Further parti- Illall3 are not to hand on account of communication being interrupted. THE BRISTOL ELEOTION PETITION. 41 the trial of the Bristol Election Petition, to-day, John ' t°B t , general d ea l er , p r o v ed that a stranger, whom he con 'et , a Liberal man in the moon, offered witness, in his ltab le, 20s. f or a rabbit, on condition that he would vote for Robinson, Witness wanted 255. for it, which the stranger ii -11se d, and the b L rgain was not completed. Mr. Sergeant a„uantine intimated that at present he did not intend to call "idence. PLYM OUTH, SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION. a large meeting held at Plymouth Guildhall yester day, of the i n h a bit an t s o f th e th ree t owns , th e Mayor of Ply mouth presiding, it was decided, on the motion of the h : Y r of Devonport, seconded by Mr. Collier, brother of A ttorney -General, that the Social Science Association 1 1 1 01141 be i nv it e d t o h o ld its congress for 1872 in e enth Devonport, and Stonehouse, and a large and d 4.40 ntial committee was appointed to carry this resolu te into e ff ect. A su b scr i pt i on li s t w ill b e o p ene d f or th w ith the community. There was another meeting of factory wo, "'An last night, at which the money subscribed in the 841 ° 118 public works was distributed. MURDER IN CORNWALL. ye sterday as a party were returning from Cornwall °l4l tY Races a dispute arose about a newspaper. A (lilsrrel f o ll owe d , an d J o h n D enn i s , o f F a l m o u th, was struck While on the ground several times, and killed. I le strik e o f power-loom weavers at Dysart has now resulted in a lock-out, the Messrs. Normand and Sons fi L v 'llg intimated that their works will not be opened until s'"her notice. Great excitement continues to p revail. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT BATH. TUESDAY Night. THE DERBY. to 50 on Macgregor (offered—take 60 to 50) 9to 1 agEt Camel (offered -1000 to 100 taken and wanted) 1 000 to 15 agst Bonny Swell (offered) Very little doing. ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS — THIS. DAY. P lacebos and Morgan la Faye f. SCRATCHINGS. - So Heston Stakes—Fancy Boy and Birdseoker. Stakes—Lady Rachel, Balveme, Lgetitia, Lurley Lath Handicap -Bosworth, Antias, Flash, Bonnie Katie, St r ,,„"e, Dentelle, Cauldron, Chilworth Whimsical, West - on, Albuera, and Sulphur. Weigh i ts raised 21b. CITY BETTING. 1r ESTERDAY. Even. Macgregor (taken and offered) 9 to 1 agst Camel (offered) 100 to *pit Bridgwater (offered taken 20 to 1) 20 to 1 agst Prince of Wales (take 25 to 1) 20 to 1 agst Kingcraft (offered) 33 to 1 agst King o Scots (taken) 50 to 1 agst Recorder (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Recorder, with a win to-day (taken) PLACE BETTING. • 6to 1 agst Prince of Wales (taken) OAKS. 7to 2 agst Sunshine (offered—take 4to 1) 7to 1 agst Pate (offered —take Bto 1) GRAND PRIZE OF PARIS. sto 2 agst Sornetto (offered—take 3 to 1) sto 1 agst Recorder (offered) 10 to 1 agst Prince of Wales (taken) 100 to 7 agst Coutts (wanted) 11EITING AT MANCHESTER-TUESDAY. DERBY. Even on Macgregor (offered) 9 to 1 agst Camel (offered) 10 to 1 agst Sunshine (offered) 20 to 1 agst Prince of Wales (taken) 20 to 1 agst Kingcraft (taken) 20 to 1 agst Palmerston (taken) 22 to I agst Bridgwater (taken) 25 to 1 agst Normanby (offered) 40 to I agst Cymbal (offered) (. 6 to 1 agst Recorder (taken) 500 to 5 agst Ptarmigan (offered) p ROYAL LONDON YACHT CLUB. th,7 l3ll owin g in the wake of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, th - i n tetnbers of the Royal London Club yesterday sailed n itti p ' ;,, ,,,j ' a ,P l e ly ning match for first-class cutters, of 30 tons and re ' r us, the prizes being two pieces of plate, value 04PFetively 100 guineas and 50 guineas. The course prosed was from Erith, round the Nore Lig.ht, th at ' J ack to Rosherville; but owing to the light wind ki r , Prevailed during the morning it was found nacos to bring the steamboats to anchor off Southend I° l the yachts to go round. The following six entered 7 8 t s tarted, the numbers denoting the statione :—Fiona, Johann, Mr E Boutcher ' • Rose of Devon, 148 tons, Mr E. t00; 8 9, n Muriel, 40 tons, Mr H. Bridson ; Vanguard, 60 &1 0 1 . Verschoyle; Julia, 109 tons, Mr a G. G. F. ; Vindex, 45 tons. Mr A. Duncan. The time allow- Pei% Iv " 30 seconds per ton up to 50 tons, and 20 seconds di rA -° , above that tonnage. The start took place under the rtit,, tio n of the Commodore, Mr A. Arcedeckne, the prepa lewl gun being fired at 11 hours 2 minutes a.m., fol- Y4 e :„ by the final signal exactly five minutes later. er o , - ,_ about a mile above Southend pier the steamboat Ytt 0" to and fired a couple of guns as a signal for the ep: - ` 8 to round. As they bore up for the steamboat the ipdeotcle they presented was truly magnificent ; a finer sight, lt ee d, has probably never been witnessed on the Thames. the as nearly a dead heat back to the Chapman. Ultimately I natj as secl the flag-buoy off Rosherville, concluding the at Rose o f D e v o n. 511 40m 23s ; Fiona, 5h 40m 20s ; 6 1k -1 n 5 h 46mVanguard, 5h 49m 5s ; Vindex, bh tiri zt :7; Julia 5h 51m 50s. The Muriel thus took the first u3r time, and tte Vindex the second. LONDON GAZETTE—L st Evening, ~Th WINDSOR CASTLE, MAY 1 4 . Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Gentr al i uthood on William Brown, Esq., C. 8., late Accountant. n the War Department. 't he „ S FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 21. ueen has been pleased to approve of Mr. David L- 1 4itj ci t_tt a e Consul at Victoria, Vancouver's Island, for the esof America. b Th e n MAY 23. 'Set ""sen has been pleased to approve of Senor Feodoro \relit44! as oa. Vice-Consul at Liverpool for the United States of BANKRUPTS. - r ri e of Adjudications and First Meetings A of Creditors. TO Surrender under the Bankruptcy Act 1869. ;_ In London. bs Lainß entt, ju . n , Queen's-road, Peckham, dealer June 8, at 11. J ° 7l. -, ae ,. e Horne, Upper Bedford-place, Russell-square, Natu, at 111. late 1 . 1 ee'4lliel Charles Marchant, New North-road, Hoxton, nsed victualler, June 6, at 12. Pro FIRES IN THE METROPOLIS. AV o t , rl 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning up to 6 a.m. to-day _ u 0 , ,,,,, tiliees,„took place in London, and, with the exception 9f Veati ' were of an insignificant character. The one in .-)ep u ` 4l occurred in the premises belonging to Mr. R. P. 6t reet ett, , au , oilman, carrying on business at No.d ,Q,kne St Luke's. It commenced from some unknown a ble ;" the front . shop, and owing to the highly combne- Ar'o -4 tnre of the stock in trade the flames made fearful 4/ wa r r e P' and seizing upon the stairs the fire travelled Nos 8 the premises also ignited the first and seco . nd 1 , 1 0. 62 0 f the belonging to Mr. R. E. Rice, chermst, 126 igad„ Mr- Bridges, the chief foreman of the Metropolitan h 4)ot baaod a powerful body of firemen hastened Bennett te M ere a not until the shop and contents of Mr. t, ar e •4estroyed. and the remainder seriously destroyed y and '' '' 3 / 4 t er , au(' heat. The loss will fall upon the Queen N at tin Pire_offices The premises of Mr. Rice, the che eib' 4 " also severely damaged, some of the upper roca . us 48 lii -tir ed h : y burnt Out and the rest of the house greatly in -4lnituil' heat, water, ' &c. Unfortunately, the owner was ti oldo u r l d • The premises of Mr. Walter Butcher, No. 128, ane, also received some .ciamage by heat, smoke, &c. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1870. THE - UXBRIDGE TRAGEDY. ARREST OF A SUSPECTED ACCOMPLICE, [CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.] A young man, named Robinson, was apprehended in High Wycombe, last night, on suspicion of being con cerned in the Denham atrocities. He came into High Wycombe yesterday, and at a public-house he described to several persons the position in which the bodies of the victims lay. His description corresponded with one for warded to the police, and he had in his possession an army discharge, which also led to suspicion, as the murderer is thought to be a soldier. When taken he said he had not been to Denham. He was brought before the magistrate this morning and remanded. CAPTURE OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER. Last evening a man named John Jenkins was arrested at Reading, on suspicion of being the perpetrator of the seven murders at Denham, near Uxbridge. The follow ing particulars have been -collected :—lmmediately after the police at Reading had received telegraphic details of the murder from Superintendent Dunham, of the Uxbridge police, Detective Tolman saw a man cross the bridge near the police-station. , He did not then interfere with him, but went on further, expecting to meet ,uperintendent Dunham, who was to come by train. He met the superintendent some few hundred yards further, and having given him a description of the man he had just met, they went together and followed him up London street. The prisoner was then in company with a well-known bad fellow of the town, and two men were kept in view by the superintendent and detective as they wended their way into Silver-street, a low resort of thieves and prostitutes. Jenkins and his associate en tered the Oxford Arms, where Detective Tolman saw them sitting in the tap-room. Immediately the prisoner saw Tolman he put his hand into his pocket. The detec tive seized his hand and pushed his own hand into the man's pocketa and pulled out a loaded pistol. Superintendent Dunham put on the handcuffs, and said to the prisoner, " I arrest you on a charge of murdering seven people at Den ham." Jenkins replied, " I never murdered man, woman, dr child, but I know who did." Prisoner was then brought to the police-station, followed by some hundreds of people who closed round the gates, and soon increased to a mob. Prisoner was at once placed in a cell, and two of the police men locked in with him. In his pocket were found seve ral slugs, which looked as if they had been cut off an iron rod. Prisoner was dressed in what are said to be the mur dered man's clothes, which consisted of a skull cap, white blouse, and boots. He is stated to be a boiler maker, and in appearance he looks like an engine driver. Not long after he had been placed in the cell a cabman recognised the prisoner as a man who had offered him the ticket of a watch and guard for sale in the Great Western tap, near the Reading Railway Station. The cabman said he was half-inclined to purchase the dupli cate,but did not do so. The cabman when he looked through the lattice, at once said " That is the man." The prisoner looked up and said, " I am the man, what do you want ?" He came and put his face to the lattice, and asked if they would give him some beer. Sergeant Robey told him they did not allow beer. The prisoner continued to press his face to the lattice, and endeavoured to stare the reporters out of countenance. He is apparently between forty and fifty years of age, and has very jet black whiskers,and dark piercing eyes. Evidently he was getting more excited as the evening wore on. There is little doubt that the prisoner intended to shoot himself if it had not been for the activity of the detective who took the revolver from him. Jenkins arrived in Reading about 11 yesterday morning and was seen hanging about the town all day. It is stated that when passing near the scene of the murder early on Monday morning he accosted a woman, and afterwards a policeman, and told them that there had been a fearful row between a man and his wife. Prisoner was then dressed in ragged clothes. The friends of the deceased afterwards found some clothes in the blacksmith's shop, and on these being shown to the police man he immediately recognised them as those he saw on the man who had accosted him. The prisoner next spoke to a tramp, and was dressed then in a dark suit. He slept with the tramp that night ; and it appears that the tramp afterwards gave information to the police, and Superin tendent Dunham at once proceeded in the direction of Reading, accompanied by the tramp. Superintendent Dunham, Tolman, the detective, and the tramp afterwards proceeded to Silver-street to obtain an entrance to the Borough Arms. They pretended that they were searching for a woman, and thus gained the tap room. Immediately the prisoner saw the tramp he recognised him and put his hand in his pocket for his pistol. During the day the prisoner sold some clothes to a Mr. Lyon, a dealer in second-hand clothes, Union-street, Reading. The clothes consisted of a tunic and waistcoat, and he received ss. 6d. for them. This money was found on him. The prisoner when in the cell continued to assert that 'he neither murdered man, woman, nor child. Mr. Boyes, the deputy-governor of the county gaol, has recognised him as a prisoner who had served eighteen months in Reading gaol, which sentence only expired four months ago. It is stated that the prisoner only came out of Coldbath-fields one month since. By 8, the chief constable of Bucks having arrived, preparations were made for conveying the prisoner to the railway station. The crowd outside the police station had become very clamorous, and the fact that the prisoner was to be removed caused many hundreds of people to assemble at the railway station. Detective Tolman was then despatched for a cab. Six strong men went into the cell, andthe prisoner quietly sub mitted to de handcuffed with an additional pair of irons. He then requested that they would be quick and be off. He was then conducted to the cab, surveying with evident fear the swaying crowd on the bridge as it pressed forward to catch a glimpse of him. Superintendent Purchase, however, had well placed his men, and the prisoner was escorted safely to the cab amidst the groans and hisses of the multitude. At the railway station a still more excited crowd waited to receive him. The railway officials were on the alert, and the prisoner was quickly and safely transferred from the cab to the railway carriage, which, after some delay, was attached to the eight p.m. train. The not is still much excited. Jenkins declares that he is not the murderer, but that to-day he will confess who he is. deal of blood on the floors. There were pools of blood in some of the rooms. One of the bodies appeared to have been dragged from the wash-house. I then went into the forge, which is a building adjoining the house. The door was just closed. I found there the body of Emmanuel, the father, lying flat on his face, with his hands stretched out. He had apparently been dragged. The body was covered with a sack, an apron, and an old cost. There was a pool of blood a few yards from the body, apd part of the poker which I produced was lying near the body. The two pieces of poker correspodd with the shovel and tongs found in the parlour of the house. Some clothes were found in a room of the house this morning, in my presence. I went up stairs. Three beds had apparently been used. There was no evidence of any struggles. Elizabeth Simpson, wife of a groom, living at Cheapside, near Denham, said :—On Sunday morning last, having lost the key of one of my doors, I went in search of it, and when near the Plough Inn I saw a man coming from the direction of the deceased's house. It was then about seven o'clock. He had a greenish, middle sized bag in his hand, and it appeared to be about half full. I overtook him when I reached the main road. He asked me if I was hurrying to meet the train. I walked with him for about three-quarters of a mile. He at length said, " I was nearly running over a man and his wife last night. she had a baby in her arms, and a boy at her feet. The husband threatened to throw her in the cut, and the boy as well." I asked her why she did not go home, and she said she was afraid of her husband. I said I would go a long way to assist a woman, and I told the husband that if he did not go quietly with his wife he would go with me. The husband asked me who I was, and I said, " A man ;" and I struck the man that was speaking to his wife. Ye also added that he had spent nearly the whole night with them, and it had taken him a long distance out of his way to save the wife. On Saturday night at about eight oclock I saw the deceased, Emanuel Marshall, returning home with his wife in a cart. He had a white smockfrock on, but there were no children. The man I met had dark clothes on, and on leaving me he asked me where I lived, saying he would return the key if he found it. " Why, I live near your house," having mistaken him for Mr. Marshall. He told me, however, that he was a stranger ; and I said, " Then I saw you come out of Marshall's house just now." He said, " You did. That man, his wife, his mother, and his children are all gone for a holiday this morning." I said, " I suppose they started by the six o'clock train ?" and he replied, " Yes, at about half-past five." While I was talking two men passed ; one was Thomas, the son of Mr. Arnold, but.l did not know the other. Job Sparks, residing at Foundry-terrace, Uxbridge, said he was the brother of Charlotte Marshall. Emanuel Marshall had an old-fashioned watch and a gold chain of his father's. He had been to Mr. Butcher, pawnbroker at Uxbridge, and saw a guard which he believed to have belonged to Mary Ann Marshall. The shoes which Emanuel was supposed to have worn on Saturday were not to be found. Mary Ann Sparks of Waterloo-road, Uxbridge Moor, stated that Charlotte Marshall was her sister. She last saw her on Friday night, when she came to her house, accompanied by her sister-in-law, Mary Ann Mar shall, who was about to be married. It had been reported that Marshall had two brothers away in Australia, and that one of them had recently returned, but she was not aware there was any foundation for the statement. She was not aware that any unpleasantry had taken place be tween any members of the family. Emanuel had been deficient of money, and he complained that he was unable to obtain what was owed him. At this juncture, the inquest was adjourned till Friday next- LATEST PARTICULARS. Since the holding of the inquest yesterday, some addi tional evidence of an extraordinary character has been brought under the notice of the police. It would appear from the statements of several persons who will be called by the coroner to give evidence before him at the ad journed inquest that last Friday evening a poorly-clad man, believed to be the man now in custody, called at a small shop in Bell-yard, Uxbridge, kept by the wife of a cab-driver, named Bullen, and said that he was a tramping blacksmith, and was in the habit of of visit ing Uxbridge. He wished a lodging at her house. She allowed him to sleep in one of her rooms. He appeared to be possessed of but very little money. On Saturday he said to Mrs. Bullen, " I am going to call upon my brother, for I want to get some money from him ;" and shortly afterwards he left. When the landlady next saw him his entire dress was altered. He was attired in a black cloth coat that was too large for him, a waistcoat that was so small that he could only fasten two buttons across his chest, a pair of black cloth trousers instead of his old corduroys, and a white straw hat with a piece of black riband tied round the brim. She said to him, " You have jumped into a new suit of clothes 1" He replied, "Yes, I have ; I told you I was going to my brother's. I went to him this afternoon, and he has given me them." He then left the woman's house, and other inquiries proved that he entered a public-house in the neighbourhood. The landlord of the Bell Tavern, Bell-yard, observed the man, who only gave the name of Jack, enter his house, at five o'clock on Sunday evening. The manner and ap pearance of the man were singular. He ordered a quan tity of ale, not only for himself, but for every other per son at the bar. Shortly bef or the house closed he called in three young women, the names of two of whom were Elizabeth Selwood and Susan Burton. After he had treated the young women to a quantity of ale he accom panied them to a house in the Chequers-yard. All the other inmates of the house had retired to rest, but before they could get to sleep they were alarmed by hearing the strange man slipping down the stairs in his stockings and trying their room doors. When asked what he wanted, he replied, " She won't get me a pot of ale." One of the young women lodging in the house then said that she would go and beg a pot from a landlord in the neighbourhood. She dressed, went out, and shortly afterwards returned with the ale. She handed the can to the strange man, who took it from her ; he then drew a new bright steel-barrelled pistol from the side pocket of his coat, and, holding it in front of her forehead, said, " I can now do for the whole lot of you. I can do for every one in the house." The man then turned upon his heels and went upstairs. All again tried to go to sleep, but about a dozen times during the night they were again and again alarmed by hearing him slipping down stairs in his stockings, and trying each of their doors. The scene in the room with one of the women and the man during the night appears to have been a dreadful one. He frequently stood over her with the pistol, and threatened to shoot her. She states that she was afraid that he would carry his threat into execution, and it is altogether surprising why she did not try to escape when he left the room for the purpose of entering those of her fellow-lodgers. In the morning the man, who said his name was Jack, and gave no other, left the house, and returned to Mrs. Bullen's, where he took breakfast. To-day the prisoner gives the name of John Jones. On being spoken to this morning the prisoner asked for " more grub," and said if it was not given him he would have none all day. He told Mrs. Dunham that two other men had committed the murder, and had given him the clothes of the murdered man, and he said with an oath that people would now believe he did it because he had the clothes on. The police have changed his clothes, and have got those of the murdered man, and those which the murderer wore when the murder was committed. The latter are spotted with blood. The pri soner carries himself with much bravado. MPERIAL PA ULU AIEN F. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TIIESDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT. Lord LIFFORD complained of the manner in whicl: petitions had been got up against the bill; the signature 3, he said, in many cases being those of mere children. RATING POWERS AND CONSTRUCTION BILL. Earl of KIMBERLEY moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to confer additional powers on the Board of Trade as regarded the mode of construc tion and expenses in carrying out these works. The bill was read a second time. NORWICH VOTERS' DISFRANCHISEMENT BIL. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR this bill was. read a second time. IRISH CHURCH ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Lord REDESDALE moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to remedy an omission in the Act of 1869. The Act which came into operation on the Ist of January last year directed that all monies that might arise between that time and the present should be paid to the commissioners, who were required to pay the proceeds to those entitled to receive it, but where a vacancy occurred, and no person was appointed to the benefice, no direction was given what was to be done with the money. The bill remedied this defect, and had the approval of the authorities of the Irish Church. After a short discussion the bill was read a second time. POOR RELIEF (METROPOLIS) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. Their lordships adjourned shortly before six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. The Speaker took the chair at five minutes to four o'clock. VTR HORSE DUTY. Mr. HANBURY-TRACY asked the Sectretary to the Treasury if his attention had been called to the circum stance that sixty-one farmers, who were carting mate rials gratuitously for the rebuilding of the Trefeglwys Welsh Calvinistic Methodist chapel had been forced by the Excise officer to take out licenses for their horses, amounting in all to £3O 10s., and that the Building Fund of the chapel had had to recoup to them that amount ; and whether farmers were liable for horse duty when gratuitously carting materials for building and -repairing churches, chapels, and schools, and if so, whether it was the intention of the Government to take any steps for altering the law in that respect. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said his attention had been drawn to the subject, and if the excise made a charge under such circumstances they had been in error. The provisions of the Act applied to horses kept solely for use in agriculture. If a farmer lent his horse for a gratuitous service, such as that described, no duty would have to be paid ; but if the horses were let out and a profit made on .the transaction, then farmers forfeited the privilege and became liable for duty. Mr. BASS asked whether plough-horses carrying people to church would be chargeable with duty. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that whether for going to church or other places, if the service was gratuitous no duty would be charged, but if a profit was made then duty would have to be paid. Mr. GLADSTONE then addressedthe House. He remarked that his hon. friend had entered into an historical discus sion of great historical interest, and he was bound to say that having been led to give some attention to that aspect of the subject, he was not able to read the history of Wales precisely in the same sense. He was, however, disposed to attach greater consequences to that unwise and anti-national policy which was pursued for a great length of time by this country, and of which the State church appointments were unfortunately made the medium, than the consequences to what his hon. friend attached to it. He was not surprised that his hon. friend was struck by the quantity of the facts which attached to the condition of the church in Wales. There was to a certain extent a resemblance between the case of the church in Wales and the case of the Church in Ireland ; but that resemblance should not be exaggerated, if they considered and en deavoured to compare them with respect to numbers. His hon. friend said that he thought the Churchmen of Wales might be reckoned at about one-sixth part of the popu lation. He believed that the Churchmen themselves were accustomed to claim that they were about one-fourth of the population, but whichever of these figures might be ,nearer the truth, there was no doubt that it was a disproportion very remarkable in the case of a church purporting to be the church of the nation. It was not indeed at all in correspondence with the dispro portion which prevailed in Ireland, because there one ninth or one-tenth of the people were members of the Established Church. There was another point in which the Welsh Church corresponded with that of the Irish Church, and it was this, that so large a pro portion of her members belonged to the upper classes which were not able to provide them selves with the ministers of religion, and therefore in whose special and peculiar interest it was most difficult to make any effectual appeal for public resources and support. But with regard to other points the case of the Welsh was widely different from the Irish Church. In the first place it was quite impossible to compare the breadth of the severance between the Established Church in Wales and noncon formity, and that between the Irish establishment and the Roman Catholics of that country. He did not mean simply upon theological grounds, but he meant also upon the grounds of sympathy or hostility of sentiment. The whole case was entirely different. There was a strong and sharp antagonism between the Established Church and the Roman Catholic Church throughout Ireland, and the ecclesiastical antagonism was complicated and embittered by the mixture of political ques tions even graver than the ecclesiastical contro versy of the country, so that the effect as a whole was this, that the several portions of the population were placed almost in an attitude of standing social hostility. Whatever view might be taken of the anomalous position of the Church in Wales, his hon. friend would be the first to admit that it would be the most gross exaggeration to profess that any thing like a resemblance of the general position exist ing as between the Welsh and the Irish in the attitude of members of the Church on one hand and the members of non-conforming bodies on the other. Again, the reli gious differences in Ireland were based in the ancient his tory of the country, whilst the religious difference in Wales was entirely modern. All these things shewed that if from any cause the discussion of the question of the Irish Church had led to this early discussion of the case of the Church in Wales, still it would be a most precipitate and erroneous conclusion to assume that there was a substantial identity between them, even if they confined their view strictly to what was within the limits of Ireland in the one case, and within the limits of Wales in the other. With regard to there being no warrant for the existence of national establish ments of religion, he thought his friend had wholly failed to prove that it was so, and he thought the proof of it was this, that although it was quite true that Welsh Noncon formity was comparatively recent, yet it had taken its root in the country, and had become the popular religion of the country more than half a century ago ; and at that time his noble friend would have found it most difficult, if not absolutely impossible, to find even the faintest trace of a controversy with regard to the establishment of a religion. The growth of Welsh dissent was, in his opinion, owing to the cruel anti national policy which was pursued even for a longer time than the hon. gentleman had stated in regard to ecclesiastical appointments in that country. Mr. Gladstone went on to say that it was not practically possible to separate the case of Wales from the case of England. The object of the hon. gentle man was obvious, and he might say that they were not prepared to enter upon a crusade against the English Church Establishment. Government did not think it was their duty in the first place to endeavour to determine that question by any abstract resolution for national dis establishment. If there were those who considered that national establishments were opposed under all circum stances to the principles of the Christian religion they did not belong to that number. The House divided, when there appeared—Ayes 45, noes 209. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACTS (1866-1869) THE CORONER'S INQUEST. Mr. Charlsley, the coroner for South Bucks, opened an inquiry at the Swan Tavern, yesterday morning, into the circumstance attending the deaths of Emanuel Marshall, the father, aged 35 ; Charlotte, his wife, 34 ; Mary Ann, ' his sister, 32 ; Mary, the eldest child, 8 ; Theresa, 6 ; Gertrude, 4 ; and Mary Marshall, the grandmother, 77. A jury of 15, with the Rev. Charles Joyce, the curate of the parish of Denham, as foreman, having been sworn, they proceeded to view the bodies, and returning to the inquest room, Charles Trevener, No. 27, of the Bucks police, deposed : lam stationed at Denham. I have been there 12 months, and have during that time known the deceased persons. I have been into the house once or twice. They were all living together. Emmanuel Marshall was the tenant of the house. He was an engineer by trade. Mrs. Mary Marshall (deceased) is his mother ; Cuarlotte Marshall was his wife; Mary Ann Marshall was his sister, and the chil dren his daughters. At eleven o'clock on Saturday morn ing last I saw Emmanuel Marshall at work in his shop. He came out 'and spoke to me as I passed. The children, Mary and Therera Marshall were playing in the road in front of the house. The deceased man was in the habit of working late. I have known him to work all hours of the night, and sometimes all night long. I did not pass the house again on Saturday, nor did I go close by the house on Saturday. I passed the house along the main road. On Sunday . morning I came from Red Hill into the village, which is about a mile and a half. This was about ten minutes before three. I then met a man alone. I did not perceive that he had anything with him, except a quantity of clothes on. It was just getting daylight. He had a low deer-stalker (a felt hat) on, a very old dark coat, and under that a short light one, Both coats were buttoned tightly. He had cord trousers on and thin shoes. As we were passing he said, " I wish I had seen you before, policeman." I said " What's the matter now ?" He said, " There was a man and his wife come into Uxbridge and were going along the cut, and the man threatened to throw his wife into the cut. If he had thrown her in I would have thrown him in. I asked him if he knew anything of them. He said, " No, I am quite a stranger about here." I said, " Where do you belong to ? " He said, I am going along the road from Oxford. Which is my best road ? " I told him to go along the village, and when he got fifty or sixty yards away I followed him. I called to him and he stopped, and I said, " I will show you the way." He thanked me, and after I had directed him, he bid me good night, and went. Coroner ; How far was he from the house where the bodies lie ? Witness ; About a third of a mile. He was near this house, Which way was he coming?—From Uxbridge. How did you know of the murder first ?—A young man came down to the village and told me that the house had been found open, and the bodies had been discovered. I went to the house and found the doors open. I found two bodies—the wife and the sister—lying just inside the door. The head of the wife was lying towards the door, and the sister's feet were towards her head. A petticoat was over over them. About two feet from them was the sledge hammer produced, which is covered with blood. I then went into the workhouse and found the bqdies of the three children and the grandmother. Near two of the children who lay together I found the axe produced, which is also covered with blood. The bodies of the children were not covered with anything,but there was something covered over the grandmother. All'the deceased persons with the excep t tion of the wife, had night clothes on. The wife had her dress partially driven on over her night-dress. There were extensive wounds on the heads of all the bodies, and a great POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(Tats DAY.) A CHECKTAXER CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING A GIRL.— George Chadwick, a checktaker at the (xford Music Hall, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Marl borough. street Police-court, with indecently assaulting a girl named Elizabeth Sadler, general servant to Mr. Norman, a jeweller, of No. 10, Wells-street, Oxford-street. After hearing the evidence given by the girl's mother, and Dr. George Ross, of Hart-street, Bloomsbury-square, Mr Alsop addressed the magistrate at considerable length on the prisoner's behalf, stating that, while admitting that the prisoner had kissed the girl, he was instructed, on his part, to indignantly deny that any assault had been committed on her. Mr Tyrwhitt said it was a case he should certainly send for trial. On the application of Mr Alsop, the magis trate said he would take two bails in £lOO eaoh for the prisoner. AN IMPUDENT T }IMF. —John Mahony, aged 19 years, a bold and desperate thief, was brought up at the Thames Police Court, charged with stealing a silk handkerchief valued at is. 9d., from the person of George Merroit, a Greek seaman belonging to the Drotornidt, lately under repair in New Crane Dock, Shadwell. The prisoner met the foreigner in Shadwell, and after asking him if he had auy money, and impudently demanding liquor, he took a handkerchief out of his pocket, and was about to decamp with it, when the Greek seized him, took off his cap, and began to call for the police in broken English as loud as he was able. James Locker, a 'once constable, was soon on the spot, and the Greek made signs that he had been robbed, The hand kerchief was found on the prisoner, who impudently declared he had never stolen it, and gave a false address. George Foster, a etective of the H division, said he knew the prisoner to be a confirmed thief, and among other convic !ions was one on the 4th of March, 1867, when he was sen tenced to two years' imprisonment and hard labour ; a sum mary conviction, when he was sentenced to three months' hard labour ; and another summary conviction, when the Prisoner was sentenced to six months' hard labour. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was again sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. ROBBERY PRO A CARRIAGE.—MichaeI Holland, a lad about 16, was charged at the Westminster Police-court with stealing a sealskin bag containing a gold spirit flask, a gold and turquoise double-headed scent bottle, a card case, and other valuables, the goods of John A rkwright, from a car ringe. The prisoner went coolly up to the carriage as it was standing in Lowndes-street, and observing the coachman turn his bead for a moment, he opened the door, seized the bag and ran off with it, but was fortunately stopped and the property recovered. Mr Arnold said it was a daring rob bery, and be could not secede to the request of the mother to deal leniently with him. He would not be doing his duty to the public, and what had been said of his character made the case worse? It was not a case of necessity or want, or sudden temptation that 4istrees might drive a man to. He was sentenced to six months' hard labour. DINVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is recommended by the medical profession in preference to French brand . Sup plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. , Quotations gn application to Messrs DUNVILLE & Co., Royal Irish Dis tilleries, Belfast ; or at their London Offices, 4, Beaufort Buildings Strand, W.C. PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS BILL. Mr. LEATHAM asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether, since the Parliamentary Elections Bill, which stood for second reading on Monday next, had been post poned, he was able to name a day after Whitsuntide when the second reading of this bill would be taken. Mr. GLADSTONE said he could not fix the date for pro ceeding with the bill, but they were desirous of doing so without the least delay. There were the Educa. tion Bill, the University Tests Bill, and the Parliamentary Elections Bill are to be disposed of, and they could not all be taken together. The Government proposed to proceed first, with as much speed as possible, with the Education Bill. That disposed of, the others would be taken up without delay. CATTLE PLAGUI Sir S. IBBETSON asked whether the Government had received any official intelligence with_ respect to the re ported outbreak of cattle plague in Doubs, in France Mr. FonsTER said inquiry had been made, and from intelligence received it appeared at present that the report was unfounded. However, a sharp look out would ba kept. THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH IN WALES. Mr. WATKIN WILLIAMS called attention to the position and state of the Established Church in the dominion and principality of Wales, and moved the following resolu tions :—" That, in the opinion of this House, it is right that the Establishment of the Church and its Union with the State should cease to exist in the said dominion and principality. That it is just and expedient that the public endowments enjoyed by the Church Esta• blishment should, after making provision for all vested interests, be applied to the suppqrt of a national and un denominational system of education for the said dominion and principality of Wales." He said that the Church in the prin cipality was comprised in, although it was not absolutely co-extensive with, four dioceses, which extended over an area of 4,734,000 acres. The population of Wales, accord ing to the census of 1861, comprised within the dioceses was 1,111,780, and according to the best estimate he could form the population now was 1,220,000 in the Principality. The total revenue of the Church was, abcording to the best estimate he could make, £350,000 per annum. It had four bishops, four deans, 13 canons residentiary, 10 archdeacons, and numerous minor dignitaries, with a parochial clergy amounting, in round numbers, to 1,000, although he found that they were put down at 733. The Church established in the Principality of Wales was an ancient and venerable institution. It was not like the Church in Ireland, an alien Church, forced upon the people by the conqueror and oppressor. It wasnot, and he thought he was right in saying so, regarded by the people with feelings of hos tility. Indeed he might say that in many respects it was regarded with affection and veneration. If, therefore, he succeeded in shewing that the Established Church in Wales had not succeeded in gaining the affections and confidence of the people; if it were not the trusted and loved teacher of religion, the question naturally arose what was the cause of it. It could not be from want of opportunity, nor from the want of the most favourable opportunity. It was not because it had been regarded by the people with hostility, as the Established Church in Ireland had been. The question was of course a most serious one. The answer to the question why the Church in Wales had not succeeded in gaining the confidence of the people would give them the solution to the problem, which he intended laying before the House, and according to the answer would depend whether the remedy for the existing state of things, was a separation of the Church from the State, and a removal of its endowments to other purposes or a re-modelling of the Church, and an endeavour to constitute it upon a different and more practical basis. After the most care. ful and anxious study of the subject, he had come to the conclusion that the true reason why the Established Church in the Principality of Wales had failed was the same that applied throughout Europe, that the people had come to think that the establishment of religion by the State was unscriptural and injurious bo the cause of true religion. The hon. gentleman then dealt with the subject historically, remarking that up to the middle of the eighteenth century namely 1745, no great progress had been made in the cir. culation of the Scriptures in the Welsh language, As a fact, every effort had been made by the English to Angli, else the Welsh, and although he had been sneered at and ridiculed for saying so, he would repeat his statement that it was the most gross error if they wished to anglicise the people of the Principality by making them understand English to endeavour to exterminate the Welsh language. He said that a revolution in thought was taking place throughout the Continent of Europe and the whole of the civilised world, in comparison with which the Re formation, and the revolution of thought that took place upon the introduction of the printing press, was abso- lutely as nothing. The railway system and the inter communion of tnought through the medium of the press, was annihilating old notions, and everybody was destroy ing each other's preconceived ideas and prejudices. (Cheers and laughter.) It had been said that if they disestab lished the Church in Wales, they might as well disestab lish the Church in Cornwall or Yorkshire. All he could say was that Cornwall and Yorkshire should look after themselves—(hear, hear.)—He had been told that it was premature to bring the subject forward, but he did not think, if it were put, that an end should be put to the state of things, that st was too soon. At the same time he did not pretend to say his countrymen were impatient as to the result. All he pould say was that they felt that the time hag come when the House would listen and pay attention to the question. His object would be obtained by what he had already said and done. He believed that if the measure he suggested were carried out it would con duce to religion and morality in the Principality. When the whole facts were ascertained he believed the House with its spirit of moderation would do the Principality the justice they required, REPEAL. Mr. WILLIAM FOWLER, at twenty minutes past seven, was about to move for leave to bring in a bill to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts, when Mr. CRAWFORD called the attention of the Speaker to the presence of strangers. The result was that the occupiers of the strangers' gal lery, the ladies, and the reporters had to withdraw. The discussion was conducted with closed doors until a quarter past eleven, when the debate was adjourned. HORSE RACING. Mr. T. HUGHES moved for leave to bring in a bill t o amend the laws relating to horse racing. In speaking of the evils of horse racing he alluded to the melancholy results of turf betting, pointing to the cases of bank ruptcy which had occurred merely from speculation on horses. He said, too, that he had witnessed the rise of many illiterate men to fortune simply through good luck in regard to horse racing. He called the attention of the House to the fact that he had received many anon ylnous letters, abusing him for the notice - which he had given, and remarked that turf betting had degenerated into a trade. The state of things had become so bad that it was high time something should' be done unless the matter was to become hopeless. It appeared to him that it was impossible any longer to rely upon the Jockey Club, although he quite admitted that they still believed that they had the power to set all things right. The bill, which he asked leave to read a first time, in the first place proposed to abolish two year old racing, and in the second place to return to the state of the law as it stood before the year 1833. He also proposed to introduce into the !bill a clause providing that any person who took a deposit of money for the pur pose of a bet on the understanding or contract that some thing was to be returned on a certain event turning out one way or anot her, should b e amenable to the penal ties of the Betting Act; that was to say he should be fined the sum of £3O, a third going to the poor of the parish where the act was committed and two-thirds to the per son who prosecuted the offender. Sir H. HOARE seconded the motion. He spoke against the immorality and evils arising from betting. In the course of the discussion Viscount ROYSTON as- serted that the House bad no right to legislate on such a subject. His opinion was that the bill would do no good. He argued that they could not put a stop to betting, because it was a contract, a matter of honourable feeling, which the law could not control. The members of the Jockey Club, he said, were wiling to do all they could to put a stop to what was called the Abuse of the turf. The House had never yet interfered with questions of pub lie sport. Air. BERNAL OSBORNE thought that the House was totally incompetent to deal with the subject of two-year old racing. It would be a work of supererogation to bring in a bill. It would be printed at the expense of the public, and they would hear no more about it. He thought they might leave the matter to the Jockey Club to legislate upon. He would like to know what the Government in tended to do. Mr. BRUCE thought there was great good sense in what the last speaker had said with reference to two-year-olds. That matter, he thought, might be left to the Jockey Club. With respect to betting he should be glad, on the part of the Government, to put down betting trans actions, Mr, HUGHES said that if the Home Secretary had in the Bill he was going to introduce provided for the subjects which he embraced in his bill he should not have pressed it. At a quarter to one the house divided on the motion, with the following result :—Ayes, 132 ; noes, 44. KENSINGTON-ROAD IMPROVEMENT BILL. Mr. AYRTON nominated the following select committee on the Kensington-road Improvement Bill :.-414r. Charles Howard, Sir Rainald Knightley 4 Mr, Potter Sir Frederick Heygate, and MT. Ayrton. Sir H. HOARE moved that the order for the appoint ment of the committee be discharged, and remarked that the bill contained a novel principle. Mr. LOCKE complained of the contemplated removal of the forty-eight trees, and urged the First Commissioner of Works to ask an adequate sum if they gave up a por tion of Hyde Park, in the same way as the Metropolitan Board of Works had to pay £30,000 for building the em bankment on a portion of the foreshore which they had reclaimed. Mr. CUBITT complained that the Government had not laid their plans fully before the House. Mr. BRUCE on the part of the Government, u n d er t oo k to give the H ouse the fullest information as, to the plans, The names of the chosen by M r . A yr t on were a sufficient guarantee that the inquiry would be an impar tial one. '- Mr. SamtnlA said the ground which was to be given for £2,000 was worth '21.00,000. Re objected to the composi tion of the committee. On a division the order was discharged. MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY BILL. At five minutes to two the House went into committee cp. the Married Women's Property Bill, and with the ex ception of one, 'vhich was omitted, the clauses were agreed to. The House adjourned at two o'clock. THE MONEY MARKET AND cOMM FIRCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocx. To-day being the commencement of the fortnightly set tlement in shares and foreign bonds, business in the Stock Exchange has been only to a moderate extent. Neverthe less a healthy feeling has been , 'at the same time preva lent, and the value of most classes of securities has been maintained. Consols, however, have continued quiet at 941 to 941 for delivery and the June account. Re duced and new Five per Cents., 92i to 921; Exchequer Bills, par to 5s prem ; Bank Stock has marked '233 to 234 India 5 per Cents. have boen done at 114 to t 141; and India Bonds at 20s to 25s prem. _ _ The market for Foreign Bonds has been without feature of importance. The business doing has not been extensive, but the tendency generally has been favourable. Spanish 1867 to 1869 have been in request at full quotations In the market for English Railway Stocks there has been a sarong demand for North Eastern at an advance Of 1, otherwise no movement of importance has taken place. Indian Railway stocks have been quiet, and wi hout change. Canadian shares have been inactive, but not lower. In Foreign shares very little business has been doing. Telegraph Construction shares have been in request, and have marked 34f to 34k. Hooper's Telegraph Works have been done at 2i to 31. , Bank Shares have been firm, and the quotations have been well maintained. For Telegraph Shares there has been only a moderate demand, but Falmouths have risen I. At an extraordinary meeting of the Caledonian Rail way Company held in Glasgow, yesterday, Thomas Hill, Esq., presiding, authority was granted to raise a nominal sum of £988,521, by the creation and issue of new shares or stocks, which the company are empowered to raise by certain acts of Parliament, and to exercise to the extent of £361,884 the power of raising money on mortgage by these and other acts. A considerable amount of discus sion took place as to the expense connected with law and Parliamentary business, and the loss arising from the competition with the North British Company. Mr. George Smith moved that the directors be asked to reconsider the question with a view of lessen ing the 'call upon the shareholders at present, but he ultimately did not press the amendment, and the chairman's motion, to grant the authority asked, was car ried. In the course of the discussion, the chairman men tioned that the Caledonian board were to have a meeting with the North British directors, perhaps next week, when he h2ped some arrangements might be come to beneficial to both companies. MARKETS—(Tats DAY.) MARK-LANE. The grain trade at Mark-lane this morning has been in a very quiet state. The supplies of English wheat have been only moderate, but they have been sufficient to meet all inquiries. In all qualities sales have progressed slowly, at the late reduction. The show of foreign wheat has been tole ably good. The trade has been steady at the quota tions of Monday. The supply of barley has been moderate The inquiry has been restricted, but prices ruled firm. Malt has been dull at late ra es. Oats, the show of which hes been moderate, have been in healthy request, at full quota tions. Beans have been quiet, but firm, and peas have realised extreme currencies. Flour has sold slowly, at Monday's quotations RECOVERY OF STOLEN DIAMONDS. On the 24th of March Mr. Hart, a diamond merchant, carrying on business in Paris, but an English subject, was robbed of diamonds and Paris obligations to the amount of more than £5,000. A woman who had been in his employ disappeared about the same time, leaving with a man. The French police being communicated with traced the parties from Paris to London, but all further trace failed. Mr Joe Emanuel, solicitor, Austinfriars, communicated, on behalf of Mr. Hart, with the authorities at Scotland-yard, and the man suspected, it was found, had left Southampton for America. On the suspected man arriving at New York he was asked what property he had to declare sub ject to duty, and not being, it would seem, aware that dia monds were liable to duty in America, he replied that he had none. In consequence of his suspicious manner he was searched at the Custom-house by Inspector Lee, and the whole of the diamonds and Paris obli gations were found on him. Not being in a posi tion to pay the duty the diamonds were detained. The person in whose possession the diamonds were found applied to his friends in London for money to enable him to pay the duty. The latter ultimately found its way into the hand of the police at Scotland-yard, and, the whole of the facts be coming known, instructions were forwarded to the authori ties at New York to detain the property. Mr. Joel Emanuel having communicated with Lord Clarendon at the Foreign office, and with the Home Secretary, his lordship at once telegraphed to the English Consul to claim the diamonds as the prope ty of an English subje t, and directions were forthwith sent to her Majesty's Minister at Wash ington to the like effect. Mr. Hart is about to proceed to America to claim the property, and the result will be the fortunate recovery of the whole of the diamonds stolen from him. Mr. Richard Saker, the actor, brother of Mr. Edward Saker, Lessee of the Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool, is dead. The Budget of the Brazilian Empire for 1868-9 shews an increase of revenue of £1,520,000 over the previous Budget. Thus, notwithstanding the war, the expenditure will not exceed the resources of the Treasury. The inquest on the Rev. Bramwell Smith, late chaplain of St. John's, Deritend, has resulted in a verdict to the effect that deceased committed suicide while in an unsound state of mind. The division list touching the University Tests Bill shews that the Conservatives were not especially enthusiastic in opposing the measure. The 66 who voted against it are composed almost entirely of the leaders and a few followers of the Charley and Newdegate class. The bulk of the party seems to have felt no interest In the matter. The Spanish Order of Noble Ladies, which has just been conferred on Madame 011ivier, carries with it the title of " excellency," and confers a rank equivalent to that of Grandee. The cordon consists of a violet ribbon and white stripes, to which a medal is attached. There are at present in France ten °tiler ladies who have the right to wear it. The Leeds Mercury of yesterday prints a petition which it says has been numerously and influentially signed, both by clergymen of the Church of England and ministers of Nonconformist bodies, as affording the basis of a compromise on the religious difficulty. The exclu sion of religious teaching from schools is deemed unde sirable ; but it is allowed that in rate-supported schools' no distinct formulary should be taught. Earl Russell will bring forward the following motion in the House of Lords after Whitsuntide That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, stating that this House has seen with great satisfaction the spon taneous expressions of loyalty and attachment to the British Crown which have lately emanated from many of the colonies. That this House humbly prays her Majesty to appoint a commission to inquire into the means best fitted to guarantee the security of every part of her Majesty's dominions." REFUGES FOR HOMELESS AND DESTITUTE CHIL DREN. —The annual meeting of the subscribers and friends of this charity was held last evening in Exeter-hall, under the chairmanship of the Earl of Shaftesbury, and at tracted a very large attendance. The platform, exce t the front seats, was occupied by a choir of 600 boys and girls, including the sailor lads from the training ship Chichester, and their admirable singing, under the direz tion of Mr, J. Froudman, contributed in no slight degree to the satisfaction of the auditory, who encored some of the pieces, an unusual o ourrence at this and similar gatherings. Mr. W. Williams, the secretary, gave an outline of the report, from which it appears that the admissions into tho Boyc' Refuge in the year 1868 numbered 369, or more than one a day. In 1869 only 350 were received, just under one each day, of whom 147 were sent from various casual wards and other night shelters, The average weekly number in the refuge for the year was 15,0. Three hundred and seventy boys were tient away during the year, including 146 to the Chichester and 136 to the l ountry Home. Their in-. dustrial work last year realised £BB4 7s. Bd. During the year 151 boys were received on board the Chichester, and 142 were placed out, leaving 198 on board at the *lose of the year. Of the 111 inmates in the Girls' Refuge at the close of 1 68, and 52 received in 1869, 38 were sent to service, and three restored to their friencis, leaving 122 in the refuge at the close of the year. The total number ad mitted up to the end of 1869 was, L,158 boys and 968 girls ; and those who had left for s rvice were V 03 boys and 700 girls. Including a balance of £9ll 2s. 7d., the re ceipts since the last audit had amounted to £10,477 55.-9 d. The payments for the year for the maintenance of all the operations amounted to £18,772 18s* 4d., leaving £1,615 108. in hand. Tb adoption of the report was moved by Bishop Ryan, and seconded by the Rev. W. Allanson. A resolution, proposed and seconded by th e Revs. E. Bayley and Y'. W. Essery, was also passed, calling for continuous and increased efforts on behalf of the charity. 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