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The Waterworks Committee of the Corporation of the City of Viand:tester is prepared to issue, free from all official charges, ANNUITIES for LIVES, jointly or sepa rately, in such amounts as may suit investors, on security of the Borough Rates of the City, and the Rates, Rents, and other Waterworks Property. Applications, personally or in writing, may he made or sent to the City Treasurer, or to Mr. &Trey, Waterwork, Offices, Town Hall, Manchester. By order, JOSEPH HERON, Town Clerk. Town Hall, Manchester, January 6, 1870. THEAnt 14: Y A T.. DR ITRY- LAN E Sole Lessee and Manwer, Mr. F. P... obatterton. THIS F.VENIN(;, at. 7, I'M NOT MYSELF AT ALL. At 7.45, ItEAUTV AN!) THE BEAS r ; or, OLD MOTHEr BiTNC II : Misses Jessie Yokes, Victoria Yokes. Bosina 'Yokes Kate Santley, ITudspeth. ant Thirriet Coveney; Messrs. Fred. Yokes, FtrittainWright, `V. F. Yokes, F. Moreland, Rowella, Barry Boleno. lIIIEATRE ROYAL, 'IA YAIARKET Sole Lessee. Mr. Tlnclo4one. ' THIS EVENING, A KISS IN TUE DARK. 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Belmore and Mrs Leigh Murray. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Ssranhorongh Tins EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOODLES. 3nd ISO. Concluding with THY CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G A.ROENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. ROYAL AL fT AMP R t‘. PALACE. THREE BALLET 3 Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office open fromil to 4. ‘ll' 7 J - Ct . Anig t z-bw , Sint LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 18, 1870. IT has long been more than suspected that the Government designs to throw the Civil Service open to general competition ; and at length we learn that a very large and sweeping scheme of reform is under consideration. The complaint against the present organisation is that the system both of choosing and of paying the public servants is much too uniform. All are selected by the same process of nomination, accompanied in most cases with a test examination ; and whilst those clerks who do the lower kinds of labour get more than the market price of their services, the higher officials aro decidely underpaid. The few who do the brain work, who carry out the general pDlicy laid down by the Ministry for the time, and the ruck, who are only animated copying presses, stand much on the same footing. It cannot be doubted that a twofold evil is produced by such an arrangement. In the first place the higher prizes are so few and poor that the nation does not get the best men. In the ordinary walks of life the very same ability, and the very same work command three or four times the salary allowed in the Civil Service. It is obvious enough that the public loses by such a disparity. In the second place the labour of the commonest desk character is paid for at prices which, though not excessive in themselves, aro considerably above the current rate. Many young men of education and abilities, who would ensure fair success in the ordinary professions, settle down as machines in the Government departments, hoping for advancement, which they cannot all obtain, and discontented with a reward which, though below their deserts, is above the services they render. This unsatisfactory system the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER pro poses, it is said, to abolish by a reform of a very root and branch kind. lie thinks of dividing the Civil Service into two distinct grades. The desk work shall not in future he done by men who have passed high examinations, but by ordinary clerks, who will be hired at the current rates, and will be in all respects like the desk-men of any commercial firm. If dismissed they will not be entitled to either pension or compensation. To the higher classes of servants only brainwork will be allotted; they will be chosen by open competition of great severity ; and their salaries are to be considerable—say 400 or £5OO to commence with. If removed, they would be entitled to compensation. Should this bold reform be adopted—and it is tolerably certain that we are on the eve of a change of some kind—certain material advantages may be reasonably looked for. It could be brought into operation as readily as any other scheme of the kind, and if intro duced gradually it could not hurt existing interests. By offering high pay for really important work, the State would get the best service, which is not the case at present. These superior posts are to be perfectly open, and the fairness and equality of the competition ought, in the case of an exclusive ser vice, to more than outweigh whatever advantages may attach to the principle of selection. If promotion went ,ity favour under the new system, it is clear that the complaint of high connections being the only road to advancement in the public service would bo much more justifiable than it is now. To lessen the number of good posts, increase the pay attached to them, and yet retain the nomination system, would undoubtedly extend the discontent now felt by men who are debarred from making the most of their qualities, through lack of the necessary " interest." Moreover, the great objection urged against the principle of open competition has less force when the posts to be filled up are few. If admission to a very large service were unrestricted, it is quite possible that certain objectionable charac ters might get in. But such a result can hardly happen when the service is small, and the conditions of entrance very onerous. With respect to the subordinate officials, there can be no reason why the State should pay more than a private individual fur similar work, and therefore the proposal to reduce the routine duties to salaries at the market rates cannot be unjust. It is obviously a waste of power and money to employ an educated gentleman to do the work of a copying machine, or at most of a common transcriber. It is contrary to all principle to expect the State to go to any other than the cheapest market. Another a lvantage claimed for the change is that it would enable the Administration to increase or diminish at pleasure the subordinate stall: At present every civil servant regards his post as a sort of leasehold for which he must be paid in case of de privation. Under the proposed system the heads of departments could dismiss any subordinates whose services were not needed. So they could; but it is to be hoped that their power would be sparingly used. Insecurity of office is objectionable, even if the servant be well aware of the nature of the bargain he is con cluding. Moreover, the great requirement now is not so much facility for varying the staff employed, as for permanently reducing it in departments where there is an excess of labour. The grievance is not that there are too many servants kept on at one time and too few _ctLaWther , but that the staff in' certain Tin SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1870 offices - is permanently oirtrgrovir'C' The other advan tages mentioned are substantial; this last can be of comparatively little avail. Wau.sT the pauper is unhappily demanding such a large share of public attention, the claims of the numerous class which just floats above the destitution line must not be overlooked. The care of the one is scarcely less difficultt than that of the other. To feed the multitude who are more or less dependent on parochial relief is hard, but not less important and perplexing is the task of preventing an equally numerous host who contrive to support existence by their own efforts from joining the ranks of their still less fortunate brethren. There is always allarge proportion of our countrymen who are shivering on the brink of pauperism, and ever in jeopardy of toppling over. These need assistance and encourage ment, and yet aid of any kind is a perpetual danger and a snare to them. They require continual moral support, and sometimes material assistance ; but self-respect and independence are not too abundant amongst our poor, and they are apt to disappear altogether under the baneful influence of prodi gal aid. Facilis descensus avoid ; now-a-days the descent to beggary is pleasant and easy. To discover means of giving the poor assistance which is not charity, and encouragement which does not take the place of self-reliance is difficult ; but it is important, and, more over, not impossible. One plan, of which Lord HATIIEIILEY is the leading representative, has been found to work well. A small organization is formed in any parish, and mission women, chosen from the class amongst whom they labour, go round to the poor and collect trifling sums—a few pence— which are stored up for the benefit of the donors. The poor women meet in a room, where they have pleasant reading, and where they are taught to work upon the useful articles which their own savings have purchased. They receive simply the value of their money laid out to the best advantage. Last year between £7,000 and £B,OOO was collected in this way. Similar in design, and capable of still greater results if extensively adopted, is Mr. RusxlN's plan. Some time ago he purchased two or three tenements habited by the poor— common lodging houses in fact—put them in thorough repair, and engaged a lady to collect the rents, and in general to fulfil the duties of agent. This really excellent and sound piece of philanthropy is, we are glad to say, finding imitators. Lady DIXIE and Lady STOPFORD BROOKE have each isTrited capital in the old dwellings _of the poor. The merits of such a scheme are several. It involves no loss to the benefactor, and is no direct charity to the benefitted. It is notorious that the poor pay enormous interest on the capital of their landlords, and therefore Mr. RUSKIN and his coadjutors in the good work can charge a moderate rent without loss. The poor get a good dwelling-place, for a weekly sum smaller than that which they usually pay for a bad one. For this feature alone the scheme deserves the highest praise since bad dwellings are one of the most powerful influences which tend to the discom fort and demoralisation of the poor. Next to drink, the miserable hovels in which the labouring classes are constrained to live are most baneful to their moral and physical well-being. Mr. Rusimr's plan, however, goes further than this. The lady who col lects the rents is enabled without any artificial expedient to become acquainted with the real wants, sufferings, and efforts of her tenants. Her mission is ostensibly one of business, not of charity ; but with the open design of rent-collecting is combined the secret one of watching for an opportunity to do good. She sees who are industrious and who are idle ; who are profligate and who are deserving; whose misfortunes are beyond their control, and whose are the effect of their own misdeeds. It is notorious that " regular " charitable agents are looked upon either with distrust or with greedy and unjust expectations. The house-agent has a mission which gives her a prima facie pretext for her visits. The poor take her into confidence without that sus picion or embarrassment which is so frequently the result' of more formal visits. The lady can give encouragement, advice, and instruc tion without imposing any burden. And when the worst conies, and there is no other hope, she can represent a case for active assistance on the fullest information, and without fear of imposture. The system is so sound and thoroughly free from objection that its adoption on the largest scale is in all respects to be desired. Miss HILL and her new allies are not alms-givers, but only exceptionally kind landladies, which is precisely what the poor require. A sad affair is reported from Norbury. gatekeeper and Lis wife quarrelled. The man appears to have loaded a gun, at the same time making a threat. The woman afterwards shot the man with this gun - acciden tally, sho says. It is believed that she afterwards intended to commit suicide. The London correspondent of the Scotsman says he has reason to believe that, notwithstanding the guarded manner in which Mr. Bright has spoken of the measures which will be submitted to Parliament during the ensuing session, Mr. Forster's Education Bill is in a forward state of preparation. The funeral of General Sir Pe Lacy Evans took place this morning at Kensal Green Cemetery. The funeral was, in accordance with the wishes of the deceased, con ducted in a simple and unostentatious manner. Six mourning coaches and a number of private carriages fol lowed the remains. In searching yesterday among the ruins of . the Star and Garter Hotel at Richmond some bones were dis covered, which are believed to be those of Mr. Lever, the unfortunate manager. As soon as it is ascertained that they are human bones, an inquest will be held. Thousands of persons yesterday visited the scone of the disaster. Addressing a meeting held at Oldham on Satur day, to inaugurate a Working Men's Association, Mr. Bib bert, M.P., took a very encouraging view of the public finances In the course of a few years, he said, he thought the national expenditure might be reduced £8,000,000. Mr. Platt, M.P., was also present at the meeting, and spoke upon education. A young man named William Cane, aged 20, died at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on Monday morning from the effects of injuries received at the explosion which occurred on Saturday at the oilshop of Mr. Vickers, of 32, Aldersgate-street, City, while deceased and two lads named Henry Roberts (who died on Saturday) and William Knight were pouring some "Brunswick black" varnish from one can into another. A public meeting, called by the High Sheriff of Shropshire, was held in the Shire Hall, Shrewsbury, on Saturday, for the purpose of considering what steps should bl taken to induco the council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England to select Shrewsbury for holding the show of 1871. Lord 11111, the Lord Lieutenant of the county, presided. The desirability of the show being held at Shrewsbury was affirmed by resolution, and an influential committee was arpointed to promote the object. Professor Blackie has been speaking at Edin burgh on education. As to a Scotch schoolmaster at present his occupation was either beggary or banishment. He was either banished to Oxford, where ho might ultimately have his port wine after dinner, or he remained in Scot • land, and did not feel himself on a par with other people. He was pushed into scorner, and called " dominie," and wus despised by the people, who wore not worthy of his honest labours. Tho whole system of education must be re formed. Yesterday afternoon an attack was made upon Andrew Watts, warder in the Deven County Gaol, at Exeter, by a prisoner. The details, as usual with matters transpiring within the walls of that prison, are kept secret, but it is alleged by the Western Morning News the prisoner had secreted some stones in his cell, and yesterday afternoon assaulted the warder who came to visit him, and afterwards stabbed him,and then attempted to escape. In this, however, he was foiled. The injuries to the man are so serious that further medical aid had to be called to him last night. The want of another judge in the Court of Queen's Bench will be again felt this week. This morning the At'orney-General was mentioning the case of the Bridg water election petiiton, when the Lord Chief Justice said that Justice Blackburn, before whom the original motion was made, wou'd be present on Thursday; and, added his Lordship, "as this Court will have to furnish a judge for the full Court of Divorce we shall only have sufficient judges to sit in this court, and therefore the sittings at nisi pries on that day cannot take place. This shows how much an additional judge is noniirtcL" LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. STRACEY AND OTHERS. To-day, on the motion of the Crown, a rule was granted to call upon Mr. Stracey and others, against whom an indictment had been preferred for bribery and corruption at the last Norwich election, to show cause why a suggestion should not be entered on the indictment to charge the venue from the city and county of : the city of Norwich, to some other county which the court might direct, on tho ground that party political feeling was so intense, and so much excitement prevailed in the city of Norwich, as to render it impossible to have the indictment properly and fairly tried. DIVORCE COURT. THE MORDAUI , .iT CASE. This morning before the Judge-Ordinary, Lord Penzance, Sergeant Ballantine asked for the peti tioner that an early day be fixed for the hearing of this case as far as the issue now before the Court Is to the sanity or insanity of the respondent. It is the well known case of Mordaunt v. Mordaunt, Cole, and Johnstone. Mr. Searle, for the respondent, said he had no abjection, and was content to abide by the judg ment of the court. The Judge Ordinary said there was no reason why there should be any departure from the ordinary rule. The case had not been delayed in any way, but set down in due course, and would come on in the ordinary way. There were only five probate cases to be tried before special juries, and it was a question whether under all the circumstances, and the lelays as to the special juries in the Divorce Court he the (Judge Ordinary) should probably think it advisable to give the special juries for di vorce priority to those of probate, and his lordship had determined to do so in one - case in which the witnesses were up in London last Term, and that— A.tkinson v. Atkinson and Gath—would be put first on the list. He (the Judge Ordinary) must de ,;line to accede to the application of the learned Sergeant. Application refused. POLICE INIELLIGENCE-IThis Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SINGULAR APPLICATION.—A respectable-looking female, who stated that she resided in the neigh bourhood of Fitzroy-square, applied to Mr. Tyr what for a summons under the following circum stances :—The applicant said that on returning to her lodgings rather late on Christmas Eve, her landlord, an old gentleman, invited her and another female into his apartments to take a " glass of something." They then accepted the offer, it being Christmas Eve, and while they were in the room the old gentleman kissed them under the mistletoe. This appeared to have given great offence to his wife, and to have engen dered in her mind a feeling of jealousy, notwith standing that her (applicant's) husband was up stairs at the time, and she had since been subjected to severe threats. Mr. Tyrwhitt supposed the applicant did not kiss the husband, be being an old man ? (Laughter.) The applicant said she did not. Mr. Tyrwhitt granted a summons. WRONG IN HIS LAW.—James Chalmers, a ser vant, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk and disJrderly. Police-constable William Crab, 147 C, was on duty in Jermyn-street last night, and heard the prisoner, who was in company of some prostitutes, making a great disturbance and shouting at the top of his voice. On requesting the prisoner to go away, he refused to do so, saying that he lodged with a policeman and that he knew what the law on the subject was, and on taking him into custody he said that the magistrate could only fine him ss. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner 20s. tIIE EARL OF DERBY ON CRIME AND CRIMINALS. The remarks of the Earl of Derby, at Manchester, on 41onday, at the meeting of the Prisoners' Aid .eciety )ver which he presided, were not by any means lengthy. Alter expressing his sympathy with the work of the society, the noble earl went on: I think I may fairly congratulate you, on behalf of the Prisoners' Aid Society, .n the fact that that institution, although upon a small scale, is making steady and rapid progress in the work which it has to do. In the past twelve months we save not much to complain of, although, as we all know, the last two or three years have not been very favourable to the support of any charitable or philan thropic undertaking. The subscriptions and donations for 1869 are something under £l6O, which is rather less than the year before ; but then it must be borne in mind that a good deal of the duty which formerly devolved spon us is now taken off our hands by the kindred society established at the other end of the county-- tt 'West Derby—rcunded upon principles precisely similar to ours, and, to a great extent, sup ported by the same persons. The general result of our three years' work is this : 418 persons have had their cases inciuired into, 32.1 have received assistance, and of those 321, 1 - .05, or nearly two-thirds of the whole, .tre known to be doing well. Thirty have turned out badly, and the remaining 86 have left this part of the country, and cannot be traced; but it is fair to say that of those, 86 a good many arc known to have emigrated, and it may therefore be presumed that they are in a fair way to earn an honest living. No doubt it may be said that these results arc not numerically great, and that is true ; but if we had in this country what we ought to have, and I believe shall have—an institution of this characti r con nected with every considerable gaol in the country, so that no prisoner, having gone through his term of punish ment, shall be turned loose upon the world without hav ing the offer of honest employment—l say, if that were the case, you would find that a very real and substantial _mpression had been made upon the great mass of crime. I don't want to overstate the case. lam not, perhaps, one of those persons who take a very rose-coloured view of what this society or agency is about to do ; and I suspect that the future will differ very much less from the past than many sanguine and amiable people are apt to think. I certainly don't look forward to a time when our gaols shall be without inmates, or our judges have no prisoners to try. Education may do something; the growth of temperate habits among the population may do, and I think will do a great deal ; and increased clean liness, decency, and comfort in the houses of the poorer classes will have its effect. But after all has been done that can be done by these means, there will always, I am afraid, be some of the worst of society who are hope lessly perverse ; there will always be some who are easily led away by bad companions—misled, it may be, bcthe example of their own parents and nearest relatives; there will always be some who, with an exaggerated dislike to work in any form, have acquired a most unfounded idea that a life of crime is an easy and a pleasant one; and there will be some, too—they are not, I think, as rare a class as might be supposed—who seem to have hardly enough of mental power of any kind—hardly enough of sense or intellect to know clearly what the meaning of the words right and wrong is. There is yet another class to add to these. I mean those who, though not exactly what we call habitual criminals, yet get their living in the main by vagrancy and begging, and when those resources fail, sometimes find out worse means of making out their sub sistence. Between all these classes lam afraid that what ever may be done by schools, by model dwellings, and by temperance teaching, there will always be work enough both for the magistrate and for reformatory agencies. And I look upon it that our function—the function of this society—is twofold : First, and mainly, to see to it that, so far as our operations extend, no man or woman wishing to leave off a life of crime shall be forced back into it by inability to find honest employment. Secondly, which is also a matter of some importance, we want to deprive any plausible scamp who, having served out his time in Man chester gaol, had afterwards gone back to his old habits and associates—to deprive such persons of the excuse with which they are always ready, viz., that they wanted to live honestly, but could not find anybody who would employ them. To such a person the magistrate who tries him may fairly say, " Did you go to the Prisoners' Aid Society? You knew of its existence. You knew it was ready to help you. Did you or did you net ask them for work? and if you did not what do you mean by saying that you could not find employment ? " We have taken a great step in the last year or two in the passing of the Habitual Criminals' Act. We have to recognize the fact that although with our utmost vigil ance and our utmost care the prevention of individual and isolated offences is impossible, still, that it is possible, and it is our duty, to protect society against the existence of the class which lives to make war upon property. I hope, for my part, that the powers conferred by that Act will be seriously and strenuously exercised It it no cruelty, it is kindness, to society to fol low up, to pursue, to hunt down, as it were, men who live by breaking the law, and to make them feel that that is a kind of business which does not pay. But if, on the one hand, the law be, as it ought to be, inexorable towards those who continue in wrong-doing, so, on the other hand, I say that society should be merciful to those who are willing to amend. It is not by severity alone, it is not by kindness and humanity alone, but it is by using severity and kindness each in the proper time and proper place, that we can effectually make wa• upon crime. The Right Hon. Edward Sullivan, the newly appointed Master of the Rolls for Ireland, took his seat on the bench for the first time on Monday. A. LION CAGED.—Prince Pierre Bonaparte's neighbours will not be sorry to lose him, for a short time at all events. One of the Paris papers states that the Prince kept a lioness in a cage at his residence. It was a most intelligent animal, but was the cause of much uneasi ness at Auteuil. Since the late unfortunate result of his Highness's momentary loss of temper, the lioness has been removed to the Jardin des Plantes, where it may now be seen. TEE REDUCTIONS.—Some time ago the Admiralty held out an inducement to clerks at Chatham to retire, by offering an addition of ten years' service in making the calculation for the superannuation allowance, provided the retirement took place before the end of this financial year. The same offer has now been made to the profes sional officers of Chatham Dockyard, and it is reported that already some of them have expressed their willing ness to accept it. MUSICAL SERVICES. —Concerning musical services Archbishop Arundel and William Thorpe exchanged some decided words. `• And the Archbishop said to me," Master William Thorpe tells us, in the record of his " Examinations," "Lewd losel, is it not lawful for us to have organs in the church to worship therewithal God ? And I said, Yea, sir, by man's ordinance; but the ordinance of God, a good sermon to the people's understanding were much more pleasant to God. The Archbishop said that organs and good delectable songs quickened and sharpened men's wits more than should any sermon. But I said, Sir, lusty men and worldly lovers delight, and court, and travail to have all their wits quickened and sharpened with divers sensible solaces."--Jeafferson's Book about the Clergy. THE MODERN COLLISEUM.—The Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences, Kensington, has been nearly roofed in. The huge building at present is remarkable for size rather than for beauty. Its vast proportions dwarf every structure near. It reduces Mr. Gilbert Scott's Albert Memorial to the dimensions of a toy. There is reason, however, to hope that the hall, when finished, will receive some mitigation from statues, decora tive terra-cottas, and especially from a ceramic frieze, now in course of execution, under contract with Messrs. Minton, at the South Kensington Museum. In one of the private rooms of the museum it is a pretty sight to witness a company of some eight or ten girls busily at work in putting the mosaics together, like so many child ren's puzzles which have to be pieced and fittedto pattern. The tessera consist of small tubes of earthenware manu factured in various sizes and colours, the mosaic being put together with the face downwards on a cartoon of paper. - - - - WHEN DOES DEATH SUPERVENE P— The execution in Paris has revived the old question whether death instantaneously follows upon the seve rance of the head from the body. In a letter to the Gaulois, Dr. Pine. asserts that decapitation does not immediately affect the brain. The blood which flows after decapitation comes from the large vessels of the neck, and there is hardly any call upon the circulation of the cran i u m. The brain remains intact, nourishing itself with the blood retained by the pressure of the air. When the blood remaining in the head at the moment of separation is exhausted, there commences a state, not of death, but of inertia, which lasts up to tho moment when the organ, no longer fed, ceases to exist. Dr. Pinel estimates that the brain finds nourishment in the residuary blood for about an hour after deca pitation. The period of inertia would last for about two hours, and absolute death would not ensue till after the space of three hours altogether. If, he adds, a bodiless head indicates by no movement the horror of its situa tion, it is because it is physically impossible that it should do so, all the nerves which serve for the transmission of orders from the brain to the trunk being severed. But there remain the nerves of hearing, of smell, and of THAMES. STEALING TEA FROM THE DOCKS.—Thomas Tucker, aged 33 years, was brought before Mr. Lushington, charged with stealing five ounces of tea in the West India Dock. The prisoner was stopped as he was leaving the dock by Thomas Cooke, a constable, and five ounces of tea, valued at a shilling, were found in his boots. He-said, in his defence, that he had been at work among the teas i❑ the warehouse, and the tea fell into his boats. The constable was of opinion it was im possible for more than a fragment or a grain or ,wo of tea to fall under his feet. Mr. Lushington could not admit the defence, and sentenced the prisoner to 14 days' imprisonment and hard labour. John Macarthy, aged 63 years, a lame man, was charged with stealing six ounces of tea in the same dock. He was detected as he was leaving the dock. He had six ounces of tea concealed about his person in two parcels in his flannel drawers. One parcel in paper was made fast behind his drawers, and the other also in paper tied under his knee. The prisoner bad met with an accident while employed in the dock 2 years ago and lamed. The dock company continued his pay of 15s. per week, and he did odd jobs about the dock without being required to do any hard work. Prisoner said, in his defence, that he picked up the tea in a corner of the dock where a pile of it had been swept. _ . Henry Young, the constable who took the priso ner into custody, said that the tea was quite clean. Mr. Lushington said there might be some doubt about the last case, but none about this. He sen tenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one month. WESTMINSTER. CHARGE OF FRAUD.—Robert Jones, a man of tall stature, aged 37, was charged with obtaining £5 from Mr. Bullock, builder, 219, Ebury-street, by means of false and fraudulent pretences. Prisoner went to Mr. Bullock on the 11th inst., and represented that he had received a letter from his mistress, a Mrs. Calender, 123, Ebury-street, who was in the country ; he was to fetch a box from the railway station and pay five guineas for it, and if he had not money enough he was to go to Mr. Bullock and ask him to let him have some. Mr. Bullock believed him, and advanced the money, Mrs. Calender never authorised him to get the money, and it was entirely fraudulent throughout the whole of the proceedings. The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was com mitted for trial. THE MEMBERS FOR BRADFORD. --4- -- I Mr. Forster and Mr. Miall addressed their con stituents at Bradford last evening. The Vice- President of the Council commenced his speech by mentioning four questions on which it was ex pected that Parliament might legislate in the ap proaching session—lrish land tenure, education, licensing, and the ballot. With respect to the first, the right hon. gentleman deemed himself perfectly safe in assuring his hearers that the Ministry would not swerve from their intention to do justice to Ireland. He then acknowledged the fair spirit in which the Opposition had received the Endowed Schools Bill of last year, and with respect to " the educational measure of this year" anticipated a similar absence of party feeling. Mr. Forster did not disclose any details of the Government plan, but he expressed his belief that when it was produced it would command the attention of almost all of those whose real and chief object is the education of the people. He also believed that the measure could be passed this year. The importance and urgency of the question was such that no economical or religious difficulty must be allowed to stand in the way. If the public money must be spent, no religious differences must hinder the carrying out of an elementary secular education. TIIO U SANDS OF PRESENTS AT PARKINS:AND G OTTO'S. —Portrait albums, dispatch boxes, writing cases, dressing cases, dressing bags, envelope cases, blotting books, inkstands, desks, stationery cabinets, bookslides, work boxes, tea caddies, hand bags and reticules, card cases, purses, scent bottles, cigar cases, card trays, pocket books, ornamental articles in china, bronze gilt, and elegantly mounted for mantel shelf, drawing and library tables; bagatelleboards. indoor croquet and indoor games of all kinds; Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Services in every typo. Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly new and fresh. Small articles carefully selected and sent post paid upon pre payment. Catalogues free. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. it is ctecitied, says the Times, that M. Rochefort is to r. raised to the dignity of a hero and a martyr. Thei Legislative Body has authorized the prosecution of the Deputy of the First Paris District. The Marseillaise and its Editor will have to take their trial before a Correc tional Tribunal, on the charge of having insulted the Emperor's person and family, and incited the people to insurrection and civil war. Such has been the will of M. 011ivier and the other members of the new French Ministry. We would not lightly venture upon blaming their resolution. It is fair to presume that they best knew what they were doing, and it remains to be seen how far events will justify their policy. Judging from a distance it would seem that scarcely ever was a mea sure adopted against which more unanimous warning had been given. There were no two opinions on the subject among the friends of the Ministers or among their opponents. Arguments of no little weight were urged to shake their determination. With the trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte, it was observed, the Ministers ought to have their hands sufficiently full. The interest arising from a mere press prosecution would be sure to pale by the side of a trial for homicide ; and the sight of a Prince in the dock would draw all attention from the appearanee of a journalist in the same predicament. M. Rochefort had never been worth the notice that was taken of-him, and of late his faint-heartedness and mistrust of his followers had not only rendered him harmless, but even useful in allaying the commotion himself had raised. All these considerations, however, although they might and, perhaps, should have had duo weight before the Chamber was first addressed on the subject, became of no avail when the proposal was formally made. It is not for a Govern ment on its first coming into power, and in the midst of a momentous crisis, to recede from an important step delib erate'y taken. Between M. 011ivier and M. Roche fort, between rational freedom and senseless revolution, the challenge has been given and accepted; the war has been declared, and it must be fought out. But for that fatal Auteuil tragedy the contest might have been looked upon as decided, and the trial of strength might have seemed superfluous. But Prince Pierre Bonaparte, perhaps unwittingly, aroused the sleeping lion, and it is absolutely necessary that his newly-appointed keepers should shew courage enough to beard and strength enough to tame him. It was hardly necessary that M. 011ivier should de clare that he and his colleagues looked upon the procuring leave to prosecute M. Rochefort as a Cabinet question. Even without this strong adjuration, the Chamber was sure to support the Ministry on such a subject, and to sacrifice, if necessary, its own inclinations to the exigen cies of the occasion. It is not a case in which every deputy has consulted his own judgment. By far the greater number of them have acted as M. Thiers professed that he would do. His convictions, he said, were against the prosecution; his vote should be for it. The Telegraph advocates a change in the class of clerks employed in the Civil Service. A married man obliged "to keep up appearances" in London, with a wife and children, on a salary of £2OO a year cannot be a very ener getic or contented clerk; he must detest the position. And yet the work, regarding it as a marketable commo dity, is often overpaid. But if an open competitionbrought into the service a humbler class of men—men like the sergeants in the British army—very intelligent and trust worthy, but with wives who work hard, and rough rosy children who require no nurserymaid, the change would be great. One hundred a year secure is wealth to a working man, while it is " genteel" starvation to a gentleman; a man of humble society could support ten children on the £2OO a year, which to the well-born married clerk of fastidious habits is a painfully small pittance. We do not say, that even all these considerations would induce us pass any absurd decree, saying that the Civil Service is to be kept for the working man, and "tabood" to the aristocrat; but, con sidering that the work done is, as a rule, humble enough, ..onsidering that ordinary steadiness and intelligence can master it ; considering that the salaries we can give are as a rule not enough to support "gentlemen" who follow the old, but ip some cases indispensable, prac tice of taking a wife—then we say that it might be a gain if the opening of the service brought in men of an humbler grade. An Irish sportsman, who found some bog land newly reclaimed, and, as a result, " red snipe," exclaimed, " The country is going to the devil !" " The service is going to the devil !" will be the exclamation of some " exquisite " forced to sit next to a new clerk in fustian or corduroy. But if the work done is inferior, if the wages are low—in fact, "corduroy" work and " corduroy" wages—why always summon gentlemen in purple and fine linen, who like to fare sumptuously every day, to execute most ordinary tasks? Of course there are situations—even whole departments—where we do require educated gentlemen, and we should -take care to get them and pay them well. But let us not have a staff of civil " oilicers and gentlemen" to do what could be carried out by a civil army of sergeants, corporals, and `private soldiers " of the pen. The Daily Yews thinks that Mr. Forster's speech at Bradford justifies the expectations which the public have formed of it. It was known six weeks ago that the Government had an Education Bill to submit to Parlia ment. Mr. Forster on Monday said that he expected to carry it this session, and that not as a party measure, but with the aid of both sides of the House. If any mem ber of the House of Commons is entitled to count upon the candour and public spirit of opponents, it is the Vice-President of the Committee of Council ; no man has so well proved the power of conciliation as he. We hope that Mr. Forster may be as fortunate with his Bill for the education of the children of the poor as he was with his Endowed Schools Bill. His emphatic language at Bradford with reference to the importance of legislating at once shows the high place which the Govern ment assign to their Education Bill among the measures of the session. Mr. Forster thinks that " when the work is done it must be done completely ;" "an efficient system " of national education must be established; and no economical or religious or irre ligious difficulty must be allowed to hinder the achieve ment of that design. We can do no more than refer to the very decisive language in which Mr. Forster declared the necessity of securing to every child the means of an eleemosynary secular education. We must return to the consideration of this speech, which we believe is destined to inaugurate n new era in the history of national educa tion in this country. The Pall 211 - all Gazette declares that on education Mr. Forster was outspoken to some purpose. That is a subject as to which we do need confidence that the Government has courage; and if Mr. Forster speaks with the voice of his colleagues, then our minds may be at rest on that score; soon we shall have an Education Bill against which "no economical, or religious, or irreligious difficulty will be allowed to stand." As we read those words we are half inclined to withdraw all we have said about the stump ; for certainly nothing has been heard of so cheery a nature from that or any other elevation for many a day. And besides that, the Government, Mr. Forster says, will deal with the licensing system and the trades' union question (of which also we are very glad to hear) ; and he hopes, even after what Mr. Bright has said on the subject, that Mr. Gladstone will find time to permit the introduc tion of a University Tests Bill. Mr. Forster spoke for himself boldly throughout his whole harangue. Ho sturdily advoCated the entrance of working men into Par liament ; he was almost vehement in expressing his admi ration of the present state of things on the Continent (especially of the progress of affairs in France), and of his belief that in America we shall never lose a friend, nor in our colonies the strength of the empire. Altogether, Mr. Forster's speech was a good, loud, frank speech—cheerful and cheering. The Standard observes that it is the unfortunate peculiarity of Liberal statesmanship that it is apt to increase the difficulty of dealing with an admitted grievance by exag gerating its magnitude or misrepresenting its real charac ter. Last year we were told that the Irish Church was the cause of Irish discontent. It was "the shameful affront of Protestant ascendancy," which lay at the bottom of Fenianism and disaffection, and the policy of disestablish ment was forced upon the Legislature as the all-sufficing cure. Yet the Irish Church Act has proved a total failure, and the state of the country is infinitely worse than it was twelve months ago. There is too much reason to fear that a similar blunder will mar the efforts of the Ministry in dealing with the land question. They are en couraging the people to cherish hopes which no Govern ment can satisfy. Mr. Sinclair speaks with authority upon these points in his double capacity as a landlord and a tenant farmer. His conclusion, in spite of the exag gerations of Mr. Bright and agitators of the same kidney, is, that " the increase of rent in Ireland has progressed at a much lower ratio (some thirty per cent.) than in England and Scot land, and, in fact, that the Irish grievance in this respect is one which would be laughed out of court in either country." As for the " excessive competition for the pos session of land," it at present resolves itself into a compe tition for "free land." As Mr. Sinclair points out, the Irish peasant has the acuteness to see that his land lord has not raised his rent in the ratio which the increased value of agricultural produce would entitle him to do. He p with the "that , he has got hold of a go o d thing, which the assistance of a paix a tout prix Government, he is determi ned to hold upon his own terms." Is not this the se cret of man y threatening notice and many a landlord ass assination Mr. Bright holds out to them the prospect of getting " free land "by the action of Parliament. In the meantime they employ the pistol and the bludgeon, and the geutio agency of lilolly_Msp.kre, .to the name Ontl. 01111 " ,~3"•~.f~:t HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 17. Her Majesty, accompanied hy her Royal High ness Princess Beatrice, walked in the grounds this morning. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Christian and Princess Louise also went out. LATEST INTELL WINCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Jan. 17. The North German Lloyd steamer Weser arrived here at 8 a.m. to-day. The Europa (of the Anchor line) arrived here yesterday. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 121 a ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 121/ ; the lowest, 1211. Sterling Exchange on London lOB, 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll5/. cc " 1885 llbk. " 1867 ll4k. 10-40 it 112 k. Illinois 142. Erie 22/. Cotton—Mid. upland 2sic. Petroleum—standard White 3llc. Flour, extra state, ss.oc. to $5.60c. Corn, old mixed, sl.2c. BOSTON, Jan. 17. The Inman steamer City of Boston arrived out yesterday. GREENCASTLE, Jan. 18. The Allan steamer Prussian, which left Portland at 7 on the evening of Bth inst., arrived in Lough Foyle at 7.25 this morning with 38 cabin and 19 steerage passengers. The London mails were not landed. BREST, Jan. 18. The Transatlantic Company's steamer St. Laurent, from New YOrk, arrived here at 3 a.m. to-day. She brings 62 passengers and $24,400 in specie. BOMBAY MAIL. GIBRALTAR, Jan. 17. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon leaves at 2 p.m. to-day for Southampton. All well. She may be expected early on the morn ing of the 22d inst. (Saturday). THE BANK OF MADRAS. BOMBAY, Jan. 10. The Bank of Madras has declared a dividend of 8 per cent., and not 5 per cent, as previously an nounced. FRANCE. PARIS, Jan. 18. No serious disturbances are reported to have oc curred last night. The Gazette des Tribunaux of to•dap says : "About six o'clock some 400 individuals stationed themselves near the Palais Bourbon, shouting 4 Vive Rochefort,' Vive la Republique,' , A bas 011ivier.'" The crowd was dispersed by the sergeants-de fine, but assembled:again in the Rue d'Aboukir in front of the office of the .11arseillaise uttering the same cries as before. Another group, numbering about 200 persons, traversed the Rue Saint Denis, vociferating sedi- tious cries. At about 11 p.m. a crowd, principally composed of lads and children, passed along the Boulevard Montmartre singing the " Marseillaise," and shout ing " Vive Rochefort." Some of the passers-by and the neighbouring tradesmen quickly dispersed them with sticks. At midnight cavalry patrols traversed the Boulevards at a walking pace, and the sergeants de-yille dispersed any groups:that had collected. BOURSE, Jan. 17.—Three lo'clock—The mark t .closed as follows : iper Cent. End of mouth per Cent End of month 73 30 'redit Mobilier 207 50 Transatlantic 192 50 ;redit Foncier 1752 50 Paris Gas 1650 Bank Shares 2890 -- Ital'an 'ivos 55 05 Austrian Fives - lOttoman Loan Do. Debt 44 Spanish Threes 26 50 Home Debt — Deferred RAILWAYS, Orleans ... Cash. 970 Western Northern ... ll3O Strasburg • • 590 i,yons and Mediterranean Southern..... 605 Sardinian Austrian BOO Lombard 5151 North of Spain 56 Saragossa Roman 49 1111% 7 7 ROPO LITAN FIRES—(This Day). Four fires were returned by Captain Shaw to the Board of Works as having taken place in the me tropolitan district since 6 a.m. of the previous day. One fire happened in the extensive premises be longing to Mr. H. Vickery, a wheelwright, carry ing on business at No. 548, Old Kent-road. It commenced in a range of workshops 130 feet long, and owing to the inflammable nature of the stock in trade the flames in the course of a few minutes extended over the entire building and rushed through the roof. Numerous engines arrived and plenty of water procured, but in spite of the exer tions of the firemen, the fire could not be cot quered until a serious amount of property had been destroyed, in fact the whole of the workshops are reduced to a complete wreck. The loss will fall upon the Atlas and Queen fire offices. Another alarming fire also took place in the premises, belonging to Mr. R. Aldridge, plumber, &c., No. 10, High-street, Peckham. When dis covered the flames had taken the complete posses sion of the ground floor. The engines having been sent for, they and the fire-escapes attended, and the firemen went to work, but they were unable to extinguish the fire, until the ground floor was burned and the rest of the building severely da maged by fire, water, &c. Insured in the Alliance Fire-office. A very destructive fire took place in the carpen ters and builders' workshops, belonging to G. Brown and Co., situate in the Old Ford -road. The fire originated from some unknown cause in the upper workshop, which was about 25 feet long and 15 feet wide. Before any attempt could be made to extinguish it the flames broke through the roof and rose high i nto the air. The lower floors were saved, but the upp er work shops were burned out. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DAY) Sales probably 12,000 bales. The market -was active. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be called "The Royal Irish Distillery." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening. 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