The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-22 00:00:00

V AUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND._ Lessees--Messr 4 H. J. Montague. D. James, and T. Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 7 30, CUPBOARD LOVE, by. F. Hay. Atter which, at S, a new and original Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO 110,-ES. To conclude with the new and successful fiurlesque. DON CARLOS; or, The Infante in Aims Supported by Messrs. H. .J. Montague, 11. Irving, G. Honey, w, IL Stephens, and T. Thorne; Mesdames Neily Power, Amy Faw sitt, 1' Levis, and A. Newton. Doors open at Seven. Cummence at 7.30. THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at Mr. BEAVINIQNT'S , " The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1870. During several years past the terrible conviction has been growing upon us that the crime of infan ticide here iu England, but more particularly here in Loudon, has been increasing and multiplying. Nearly ten years have elapsed since the late mem ber for Finsbury, Mr. DUNCOMBE, as about the last act of his political career, moved for certain sta tistics, which were therefore, in due course of time, produced and laid upon the table of the House of Commons, showing the prevalence between 1850 and 1860 of this same heinous atrocity of infanti cide. In one sense, it is surely the cruelest and the most dastardly of all murders that is when one takes into account the utter helplessness and the touching dependency of the tender victims sacrificed. So far from this infernal crime in any way diminish in frequency, it would actually appear, from many ghastly witnesses to the contrary that have been but very recently brought to light, to have become systematized into a trade, known for some time under its significant title of Baby Farming. As if it were so many head of cattle that were being dealt with, infants have been trafficked in quite delibe rately and systematically. They have been cleared out of the way at the rate of £5 a head. Little EMILY, and FREDDY, and JOE, and WILLY have been left, for a five pound note a piece, to the tender care of Mrs. WATERS, or Mrs. OLIVER, or Mrs. HURLEY, or Mrs. WILLIS, or Mrs. BLACKBURN—for the miserable crea ture has been known by those, and it may be other names indiscriminately. The disclosure brought to our knowledge through the agency of a sergeant of detectives within these last few days, beyond a doubt surpasses all that had been feared through our recent investigations. The public had heard with a shudder of abhorrence that here and there all about the waste places in the neighbourhood of Brixton, the dead bodies of infants had been picked up, in old rags, in brown paper parcels, in this place and in that place, and all of them in a more or less advanced stage of decomposition. At length, step by step, the den in which these atrocities had been perpetrated has been traced through the sagacious investigations of the detective bent on its discovery. A detestable advertisement inserted in one of the weekly newspapers, one of the foulest of the foul aborninatioLs, dubbed by a Saturday Reviewer the garbage of journalism, affords the clue by means of which we seem to have got at last to the heart of this horrible labyrinth. Then, when WATERS, otherwise OLIVER, otherwise NURLEY, otherwise WILLIS, otherwise BLACKB URN, was at length discovered, it turned out that her house-room was littered with the dirty, neglected, emaciated forms of sickly and some of them seemingly dying infants. A narcotic drug labelled " Paregoric Elixir" was found in a bottle upon a table close by a sofa on which five of these poor little helpless mortals were huddled up together. Laudanum was frequently sent for by the baby farmer under the pretence of toothache, but presum ably for insidious administration. Lime had been procured, a lump of it had been placed for an hour in a jug of water, a dessert spoonful of which had been then put into each infant's feeding-bottle. One of the dead infants picked up the other day was wrapped in a piece of brown paper on which was found written the name of Mrs. WATERS. And it is Mrs. WATERS, who is now iu custody charged with cruelty in carrying out her trade of Baby Farming, and more than that under dire suspicion of the @rime of infanticide. The question as to this woman's guilt or innocence, it is earnestly to be hoped, will be, as rapidly as possible and as clearly as possible, de monstrated. There is all the more reasonable hope that it will be so, seeing that the investigation of the case has been now entrusted to the watchful care of the solicitor to the Treasury. THE round of time has brought us the periodical sacrifice in the shape of a great railway accident. 411 our precautions fail—it is scarcely to be hoped that they ever will succeed—in securing absolute immunity. Human care is fallible ; mechanical contrivances are liable to flaws. Get as perfect an organisation of men as you will, and some one will break down in some detail at a critical moment. Employ machinery of the most skilful construction, and some flaw will throw the whole out of gear, at an instant when tremendous interests are at stake upon the integrity of metal. There can be no question that anxious atten tion and scientific skill have contributed to diminish the liability of railway travellers to disaster. As a matter of fact, great accidents have diminished in frequency. One disaster of very serious extent, and sometimes two, were wont to form part of every year's tale of misfortune; it is now two years since a collision similar in effects to that of yesterday took place. When an event of this kind occurs there is some consolation in noticing signs of improvement; hut it is evident enough that more preventive mea sures are still open to adoption. In the accident near Newark, yesterday, figured the old performers —a goods train and an excursion train. The axle of a waggon in the former train broke, and the cars ran off the rails so violently as to be precipitated on to the other line, blocking up the way. Immediately afterwards an excursion train came up, ran into the mass of disarranged goods waggons, and then all that remained was to collect the dead and the wounded. It is difficult to attach responsi bility to a disaster of such a remarkable origin. The waggon with the faulty axle tree belonged, not to the Great Northern, but to another company ; it is impossible, however, for either one company MOSES and SON, CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD - STREET, CORNER of BART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. E MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of 114. GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING. Fronk AL ,_. Dress Oxford Camb. Coats. Coats. Coats. Coats. 255. 255. 17s. 18s. tOe. 10s. 21s. 225. 355. 35a, PA 28s. 425. 425. 30s. 325. - - 535. 50s. Ns. 365. 68s. 00a. 425. 425. Also at - Also at Also at Also at oth prices. other prices. other prices other prices ri MOSES and SON beg to remind t • that the cheapness of an article depends en quality, and they venture to affirm that every article is considerably cheaper than what can be obtained 1 ho ise in England. the public ttirely on its Bold by them at any other E. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONT. Summer i Tourist Suits. I Suits. 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List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ness is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON : LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. NOTICE. -THE METROPOLITAN PUBLIC CARRIAGE and REPOSITORY COMPANY (Limited). TENDERS are invited by the Directors for supplying every de scription of VEHICLE and HARNESS, suitable to the require ments of the Company. Sealed applications to be made to the Managing Director, C. C JAVAL, Esq. By order of the Board, W. IL SCUDAMORE WARD, Secretary, 17 and 18, Palmerston Buildings, Old Broad-street, London, E.C., 21st June, 1870. CIHRISTIE'S " PERISCOPIC" SPECTACLES, as recommended by Wollaston, giving more light, a wider field, and less strain upon the eyes.—GEORGE CHRISTIE, Manufacturer of the latest improvements in spectacles, reading lenses, &c., 25, Hanway-street, Oxford-street, W. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair " - IL to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. J NO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s each; also 5e., 7s. ed., and 15s. each, includ ng brush. Bed Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, t 3, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d Red Bull Wharf, 9:3, Upper Thames street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, at 7, MARRIED LIFE; Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr How•, Mr Kendal, Mr Rogers, Mrs Chip pendale, Mrs Frank Matthews, Mrs E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hill, Mrs Laws. After which, at 8.30. "HOME." Mr Sothern, Mr Chippendale, Mr Compton, Mr I uchttone, jun., Miss Ada Cavendish, Miss Fanny Gwynne, and Miss Caroline Hill. Concluding with FAMILY JARS. Mr Compton. R OYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Proprietor, Mr. J. S. SWEASEY. The Press have unanimously praised and acknowledged the entertainment provided at the above Hall for the Whitsun holidays to be the best in London. The Brothers Voltaire, the Champion Gymnasts, in their surprising performances, particularly their aerial leaps, extending the whole length of the Hall (nearly 100 feet), engaged to appear solely at this establishment ; Mr. H. Collard (Le Petit Sims Reeves), the miniature man, the smallest and sweetest tenor singer in the world, can be heard at this hall only ; Messrs. St. Albyn, P. Corri, and Miss Barrie have made an immense hit with their operatic selections ; Miss Georgina Smith son has returned to meet with fresh admirers ; Mr. Baldwin has supplemented the brilliant encomiums he has already received from the provincial press ; Miss Louie Sherring ton is received nightly with uproarious applause ; ➢lr. J. H. Milburn is an old favourite ; the Great Vance is not to be, heard elsewhere, excepting at his concerts : Mr. J. H. Ryley, and Madame Barnam, as comic duettists, have met with decided success; the acknowledged largest and best band in London. Bal cony, dd.; stalls, is.; private boxes, 10s. lid. THEATRE, ROYAL OLYMPIC Wyeh-street, F t rand S le Lessee and Manager, Mr W. H. LisTori, LAST FO It NIGHTS of ' Miss BATEMAN as MARY WARNER, assisted by Messrs. G. Belmore,W. H. Vernon, Blake ley, Elliott, David Fisher ; Mrs. Poynter and Mrs. W. H. List in. In reply to numerous applications at the Box Office, and to prevent disappointment to parties desirous of securing seats several weeks in advance, Mr. W. H. LisTort feels complied to announce with regret that, in consequence of previous arran ,e -ments, the hr Man!, engagement o th's distin2uishi d Artiste must POSITIVELY TERMINATE on SATURDAY, JUNE 25. Commencing with MUSIC RATH CHARMS. Concluding with THE 'VARSITY BOAT RACE. Box Office open from 10 till 5. LYCEUM THEATRE (under the management of Messrs Mansell). THIS EVENING, at 7.30, HIS OWN RIVAL Mr. F. .Tharles and Miss L. Morgan. At 8, BREAKING THE SPELL. After which, at 8.30, LITTLE le UST: Mr. T. Maclagan, M. Marius, Mr. Aynsley Cook, Mr. Odell, and Mr. Wilmot; Mille. Debreux, Mesdames Lennox G' ey, Lawson, Lee, and Emily Soldene. • ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. , Solo Lessee and .banagereps, Mrs. Fwanboreugh. THIS ENENINO, ut 7 o'clock, LOVING IIEARTS. Messrs Edward Teiry and Turner; 'Mesdames Baton a. d.Santley. Followed by KENILWORTH. Messrs David James, terry, Turner, and Fenton; Mesdames Sant ey, Anstiss, Goodall, Met calfe, and Moore. THE SUN, LONDON, WE EVENING JUNE 22. 1870. OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden.—Le Nozze di Figaro, 8.30 p.m. HAYBIARIKET—At Seven, Married Life. Home. Family Jars. A DELPIII—At Seven, The Robust Invalid. Free Labour PRINCE OF WALEs's—At 7.30. Quito by Accident. M.P. Dearest Mamma. LYCEUM—At 7.30, His Own Rival, Breaking the Spell. At 8.80, Little Faust. OLYMPIC -At Seven, Music hath Charms. At 8, Mary Warner. Ile 'Varsity Boat Race. GAIETY—At Seven, First Night The Princess of Trobizonde. QUEEN'S—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist: 'Twist Axe and Crown. VAUDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos. ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Paul Pry. La Belle Sauvage WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH Ilf,( K. Egyptian Hall, Pie cadilly, every hivening (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn tugs at 3. Admission is, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 ; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. Zo LOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily .except Sun days). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. lIAIIAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 3.0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, Is.; extra 6d. 174, P, ,tir'i 1i -44Voik. _7\ /11 tjjlig • a-‘'Vll4 EVENING EDITION. or another to guarantee that their rolling stock will under no circumstances whatever give way. Nor does it follow that the breaking of the axle should necessarily involve the transference of the whole train to the wrong line. Even the old moral against excursion trains is hardly to be enforced in this case, for the carriages which were-dragged into the mass of goods waggons might have been filled themselves with goods or with ordi nary passengers. The tact that the train was of an irregular character seems to have been in no way the' cause of the calamity. Nevertheless it is true that an ac cident to these excursion trains is in vari ably,fro m their crowded state, productive of the most fatal results; they are intruders upon the line ; they hamper and endanger the ordinary traffic; and undoubtedly the railway policy of the future will be wisely directed to getting rid of them altogether, and substituting lower fares. THE House of Commons had the opportunity of hearing during the early portion of Monday night's sitting two remarkable speeches. They were alike in earnestness and eloquence, but they were as much unlike in principle as the speakers were unlike in their antecedents. There is no abler representative of nonconformity in the House than Mr. HENRY RICHARD ; there is no more thorough representative of the great bulk of English churchmen than Mr. GATHORNE HARDY. The two have had widely different careers. The first was brought up as a Dissenting Minister, and followed that vocation until a very recent date, when in con sequence of his gift of speech and undeniable ability in other ways, he was chosen by the populous con stituency of Merthyr Tydfil, in preference to the HOME SECRETARY. The second is and has long been a country gentleman. Representing at first a little agricultural borough, he has for the last five years been the member for the most distinguished constituency in the world, and during that time has advanced with rapid steps to the foremost rank in Parliament, and is now in fact, though not as yet in name, the leader of the Conservative party in the Lower House. But on Monday night the position ordinarily taken by the two parties was re versed. Mr. RICHARD, who, as a Nonconformist, should have been unhesitatingly in favour of religious liberty, delivered a long argument against it. Mr. HARDY, who belongs to a party not con spicuous for its attachment to that prin ciple, made an appeal on behalf of it so powerful that, henceforth, he must rank among the very foremost orators of the day. Nor did Mr. RICHARD'S speech want eloquence, awl, granting his premisses, a considerable amount of logical force. But it was vitiated throughout by one fallacy, the assumption that in aiding schools where religion is taught, the State teaches religion. This is the error held by many Dissenters, and yet if there is any truth in it at all, the State must not give any aid to education whatsoever, because in . doing so it indirectly teaches religion. A. child cannot read a catechism or the Bible before it is taught to read, and therefore in giving money to enable the child to be taught reading, the State is really aiding the teaching of the Scriptures, or, it may be. the catechism of Pope Pius. It cannot be too, clearly understood that under the new system—the system of a time table conscience clause, and undenomina tional inspection, the State will not teach religion, or be responsible for it in any way. Religion may be taught, but the .Government grant will be given irrespectively of the religion, and all that the state does is to see that no child shall be deprived of education on account of religious differences. Beyond this it dares not go—it cannot go. It is satisfactory to find that Mr. RICHARD does not get all the support in this matter which he might have expected. With some hardihood he quoted the opinions of Mr. BAINES against denominational education, and, of course, drew down npon him the retort that Mr. BAINEs had recanted those opinions. Mr. SAMUEL MonLEY is another leading Nonconformist who has no sym pathy with the new alliance between Dissent and Secularism. He hit the right mark when he ex pressed his extreme dislike of any interference with the freedom to teach religion. The idea of forcibly driving forth religion from the fifteen thousand schools which religion had mainly established was repugnant to him. It was well to hear those words , coming from the Liberal benches. Of late it has seemed as if the advocacy of the first principles of civil and religious liberty rested with the Conserva tive party. It is, perhaps, not difficult to understand why this should be. We forbear to say that we may not increase the evil. But one thing is clear, that if private antipathies or class jealousies are allowed to obstruct the progress of the Education Bill this year the scandal will be deplorable, and the responsibility of those who cause it will be grave indeed. It is satisfactory to find that the Government have decided upon two points : they will not undertake the trouble of inventing a religion that shall please everybody and displease no one, and they will not not consent to further changes in their bill. The first task would be like that of weaving ropes of sand. If the League chooses to object, it can make out everything to be sectarian teaching. If the League holds its peace there is no difficulty in the matter. Theoretically the religious difficulty is insurmountable, for the New Testament is a denominational formula, to the Jew and the whole bible is a denominational formula to the infidel. Theoretically the schoolmaster cannot even refer to our LORD'S history without inculcating dogma, because, exclude creeds and catechisms as carefully as we may, we must come at last to the fundamental question is CHRIST GOD or only man ? Practically the religious difficulty does not exist. They say this who have the best reason for knowing what they say, the teachers and the managers of the schools who have been labouring for a generation, for scores of years before the Birmingham League, in the plentitude of its wealth, and in its eagerness for notoriety, began to agitate for secular education. Finding that the nation is all against them, the League has changed the demand to " unsectarian" education, knowing well that though they have changed the word in order to catch the Nonconformists, they mean the same thing, and that thing is what they will not get, the veto of the State upon all religious teaching in schools aided by the State. • In the House of Lords the Married Women's Property Bill, after being read a third time, was re ferred to a Select Committee. In the House of Commons Mr. Miall resumed the debate on the Educationll. He denounced the ac tion of the Government as moral coercion. 11Ir. Vernon Harcourt strenuously opposed it. At seven o'clock the debate was adjourned on the Motion of INlr. Dixon. Mr. Somerset Beaumont asked leave to bring in a bill to relieve Bishops from attendance in Parliament. Mr. Gladstone opposed the motion, which, on a division, was lost by a majo rity of 158 to 102. TOPICS OF THE DAY. of certain of the undergraduates it vtas thougth would weigh heavily upon the spirits of those in no way implicated in it themselves. Happily, however, the counteracting influence of Lord Salisbury's inauguration as Chancellor, cleared away any fear upon the matter, and the whole day passed off with what Mrs. Brown (as if it were a crab she were talk ing of would call " a claw, as the sayin' is," or with what Mr. l3raham, the vocalist, used to speak of as " entuzimuzzy." This • year, not the man in the, white bat but the man in the white coat, was the object of the undergraduates' abhorence. " Yah ! Turn him out ! Take it off ! Go out, sir ! Go away ! Will some one kindly lead that man out ? White coat, yah ! Will you go out, sir ? Now's your chanee, sir ! They're making way for you ! You must go out, you know ! " and so forth, indi cated the execration with which the arch offender was regarded. Every instrument almost in the or chestra was imitated noisily. Three groans were given to Blackwood— derision to Beales— the heartiest applause to Ruskin—hisses to the Prince of Wales, and the loudest . cheers to the Princes. , Then came the enrollment of the scarlet-gowned D. C.L.'s, among whom were especially noticeable the Duke of Argyll, Gen€ral Peel, Sir Edwin Landseer, Sir William Armstrong, Sir Francis Grant, and Mr. Matthew Arnold. Altogether the day passed off gloriously—Oxford sustaining its reputation to the full. "BLACKWOOD " AND THE " STANDARD." There must be something wrong in the inner con stitution of the Tory party when such savage antagonism is displayed between the leading Tory magazine and the leading Tory newspaper. The war between the Standard and Blackwood is 'scarcely kept within the limits of decency. It all arose out of the famous review of " Lothair " in Black wood. This criticism excited the vehement wrath of the journal. The magazine, in its note just pub lished, makes a bitter retort, sneering at the Standard's bad English. The Standard replies that the note is obviously a .were trade advertisement— resorted to with a view of impressing upon the public that Blackwood's Magazine, by reason of its brilliant review of Mr. Disraeli's book, has attained to the unwonted honour of a second edition—and is marked with all the coarseness, flippancy, and scur rility of the original article, There cannot be the slightest doubt that the note and the article are pre cisely in the same spirit, and that therefore the at tack upon Mr. Disraeli must have been deliberately planned. The Standard is careful to show that the party generally has no sympathy with such an assault in a political sense, :—" If it is possible to suppose that there are any good Conservatives who are wear ) of Mr. Disraeli as a leader we are certain there are none so base as to conceive the idea of getting rid of him by traducing his character and deriding hit talents. What Mr. Disraeli is, he was be• fore he led the Conservative party. His defects, his weaknesses, his peculiarities of genius and o temperament, were known before he wrote Lothair.' Nothing in that book can be said to have rendered him unworthy of the confidence of the party. Whatever be his literary merits, it is a work which does not lower but rather heighten Mr. Disraeli's political reputation. Nor is there any justification whatever, either literary or political, for the foul blow which has been dealt at the author by those who, only a short time ago, when Mr. Disraeli was at the height of power, were impressed with a profound admiration of his character." against society on the part of the press cannot be restrained by law." UNORDAINED MINISTERS. In formally admitting a layman to the office of "reader," the Bishop of Peterborough has set a rare example. It sometimes happens that laymen take part in the ceremonies of the Church. Occa sionally the lessons are read by a clergyman's unordained son, and sometimes any other leading member of the congregation may render that amount of assistance. , But by this formal act Dr. Magee gives a definite sanction to a practice which has never gained much acceptance. What was formerly done on the clergyman's own responsibility may now be done under the recognition of Cie head of the see. Of course, the spread of such a precedent will materially depend upon the views of the bishops and their clergy. Where the views as to the sacerdotal character of the clergy are high, it is not likely that lay assistance of this kind will be much sought after, but where more moderate opinions prevail the admis sion of the laity may become more general. OXFORD COMMEMORATION, Yesterday being the day in Commemoration week at Oxford, it wai looked forward to as problema tical, whether the demonstration in the She]. lonian Theatre this year would be a success or a failure. A shame-faced, and remorseful recollection of a very recent and most flagrant act of Vandalism on the part THE DISSENTERS AND THE BILL More Nonconformist hostility to the Education Bill has been forthcoming. The Baptists and the Wesleyans have each put forth a declaration, ex pressing more or less dissatisfaction with the mea sure. In one part of,England the sub-committee of the United Committees on Wesleyan Education condemned the plan of excluding voluntary schools from local rates, as well as several other provision of the bill. In another part, the com mittee of the Yorkshire Association of Baptist Churches refuse to believe that any portion of the Edacation Bill, even in its amended form, can be satisfactory, and they unanimously agree to pass a resolution, urging that in matters of educa tion. secular instruction alone comes within the province of the Government. THE TREATMENT OF THE FENIAN PRISONERS. MM.. Isaac Butt certainly deserves gratitude from the Fenian prisoners. He has addressed letters to the commissioners who are about .to inquire into the treatment of the convicts, requesting that he may be allowed to be present at their sittings, and that request having been refused, he has again addressed them, stating that assistance to the prisoners cannot be effective or complete, or cannot give them the assurance of its being thoroughly sincere, unless a trusted friend of theirs is allowed to put questions on their behalf during the inquiry. Mr. Butt in this last letter admits that the commissioners have already given promise of this inquiry being conducted in an uxious and a wise manner. He is surprised, how ever, to find that in their eagerness to elicit full statements they decline to admit evidence gathered from free and confidential intercourse with the prisoners, as it would be tendered from his mouth. Mr. Butt is moreover unable to understand the principle upon which the commissioners challenge the unfortunate prisoners to be accusers, and yet leaves them alone and unbefriended when they accept the position. He intends to withdraw now from the affair. His pleading has ended, but he assures the cpunnissioners that they will find it hard to satisfy the public mind of Ireland in the matter, unless every way is thrown open for the treatment of the convicts being revealed in its true light. IRISH FISHERIES. The River Shannon abounds in fish, principally salmon, but, owing to the want of due precaution, a large amount of money that might be obtained from the development of the fish, and the sale of them, is annually lost to the country.. In November last it was ascertained that the weirs of Roosky, James town, and Knockvicar on the Shannon River were most defective, and proceedings were instituted with a view to providing fish passes at those places. From a Parliamentary paper just issued, it appears that the Irish Fishery Commis sioners have resolved to undertake these improve ments at an early period at a cost of nine hundred and odd pounds, a sum which will have to be borne by the public. There is no doubt whatever that the fisheries of the sister island have been only to a small degree made use of as yet, and it is therefore to be hoped that the arrangements necessary for the culture of fis'i in Ireland's chief river will be COm- . menced with alacrity and promptitude. The success of the Kinsale fisheries this year is a proof of all that can be gained, when willing and energetic minds undertake the work. BABY FARMING. It is really time that the conventional something was done with the system of aiding immoral trades by means of advertisements in the public journals. It has been shewn that the hideous Camberwell baby farming establishment was maintained solely through the publicity of the press. Advertisements of innocent appearance, but of whose real character very slight investigation suffices to judge, were inserted in various forms in several papers. But for this help baby farming would perish from lack of custom. Surely such a disgrace to the press ought not to con tinue. The Times hints at a law against these advertisements : " If the honour of . prOprietors can not be trusted to refuse aid to notorious villainy, it will become a grave question whether such offences LOUIS BLANC ON CHARLES DICKENS. In an article contributed to the irreconcilable Rappel, M. Louis Blanc contrasts the manner, in which England and France look upon their great writers. Placing Mr. Dickens below Shakspere as a humourist, with less sensibility than the author of "Don Quixote," less depth than Richter, and less bonhommie than Sterne, M. Blanc considers that his writings were on the whole productive of great good, and that the genial influence of his novels was effective, though the moral effects were weakened by the comic colouring given to some of the characters. There may be some difference of opinion as to M. Blanc's statement that France pays 'less honour to her national celebrities than England does to hers. No doubt Charles Dickens has received the sorrowing honour of the whole nation; no doubt in his lifetime Englishmen were proud of his genius and his sympathetic nature; but many instances might be given where the honour was only given when the writer was lying in his grave. The comparison between Dickens and Jean Paul is no comparison at all: the two men were essentially different in all their characteristics, and their writings have no point of resemblance. Again, the writings of Sterne may have more bonhomie, but assuredly no English critic would place the two names in the same page as humourists. 1111. DENIS FOGAIITY AND HIS WIFE. Mr. Denis Fogarty, of Greenwich, formerly of Ireland, has been ordered to pay 3s. a week towards the support of a wife whom he had not seen for twenty-three years. Nearly a generation ago Mrs. Denis Fogarty, dissatisfied no doubt with .the fortune which had made her the better half of Mr. Fogarty, took it into her head that she would cheat fate of its decree, and one fine morning she turned her back on the man whom she did not love. Before going, however, she accused him of high treason, and of having served in Smith O'Brien's army. Poor Mr. Fogarty was im prisoned, but one can imagine his joy when, on regaining his liberty, he found that he was to be burdened no more with his treacherous wife. Wisely he determined to leave the country which had proved so unfortunate for Lim, and many a year had well nigh obliterated his cruel wrongs, when lo ! his evil genius makes her appearance and claims him for her Own. The poor Irishman refused to have anything to do with her. Besides, he had another Mrs. Fogarty, and there were likewise six pledges. Brought before the magistrate, he declared that he would go to prison rather than pay for his truant wife. Mr. Fogarty thinks he had quite enough of Mrs. Fogarty, and most people will think so too. THE INJTJRY TO THE CROPS. It is not to be supposed, because the rain came down in torrents all over England on Thursday night and Friday morning last, that all protest for complaint against the long continued dry weather has been removed. We are told that in Eng land haymaking this season will yield at most only one-third of the usual crop. Young clover has been also much injured, the prospects of any fair grazing have been seriously diminished, and wheat upon light soils has suffered somewhat. The want of rain has totally destroyed all growth in the two Castilies in Spain. These pro vinces are entirely deprived of irrigating canals, and the grave results which have followed ought to be a warning for the future to bvery landowner at home or abroad. The drought of the present year has extended in Europe from France eastwardly as far as the confines of Asia. In America it has also prevailed, the most serious effect of it, in that country, being the destruction, by fire, of large tracts of forest along the Pacific coast. LADY GODIVA. The legend of "Lady Godiva " was a theme for poets before Mr. Tennyson sung her triumphs, and although the truth of the story has been called in question by an ago which pays more attention to utility than to the philosophy of a younger day, Coventry will not let its heroine sink into utter oblivion. Monday being the week of the great fair the city of ribbons was unusually lively, and visitors poured into the place to witness the pageant. The procession paraded the streets, and the small boys of the city no doubt had an opportunity of learning the full meaning of Lady Godiva's self-abnegation. She was dressed in skin tights reaching to the waist, and a short petticoat. Among the other characters represented were the Earl of Mercia (Lady Godiva's husband), Edward the Black Prince, Mary Queen of Scots, King Henry VIII., St. George in armour, King Richard IL, King Edward IV., and Sir John Falstaff. The promoters of the show might have added to our knowledge of history by including some other celebrities, such for instance as Guy. Fawkes and Jack Cade, and if Mr. Whalley and General O'Neill, the commander-in-chief of the Fenian army, had been honoured with representa tives, the anachronism would have been complete. ORLEANIST LITERATURE. An Orleanist book has just been issued at Paris. It is a volume of 400 pages, entitled " Vues sur le Gouvernement de France," and was written by the late Duke de Broglie. The title and the name of the author were quite enough for the censorship of that day. The Duke de Broglie belongs to the Orleanist family, and a work on the Government of France by a leading Orleanist !—the thing could not be thought of. The sheets were confiscated in 1861, actually before the censorship knew what they contained. The Judge d'lnstruction restored the book to the Duke, with an intimation that lie would be wise if he refrained from publishing it. He did so, and now that it is given to the world by his son, it is too much out of date to make any mark. The Liberalism which frightened the Imperial Government (11861 is antiquated now. The subversive doctrines of nine years ago are potter ing, backward, mild, to-day. M. PREVOST PARADOL. M. Prevost Paradol has a good deal to bear in consequence of his appointment as French Minister at Washington. The old Imperialists say they have been slighted in the selection of a writer who has hitherto ranked as one of the Emperor's most effective critics. The Liberals say that M. Paradol has sold himself. It is found equally difficult to under stand why the post should have been offered, and why it should have been accepted. M. Prevost Paradol is an Orleanist. He is one of the warmest adherents of Parliamentary Government. Whilst his favourite system of rule gave place to personal Government, he was most persevering in his attacks upon despotism ; when something like Parliamentary Government was established, he was most earnest in his criticism of its defects. No Opposition writer had greater influence than this able, moderate, and practical man. It is true that he has lately lived on better terms with the Imperial system, but is a few weeks' friendship, ask the disgusted courtiers, to make amends for years of hostility? On the other hand M. Paradol's friends in like manner profess to be amazed at his acceptance of the office. He gets altogether about £4,000 a year—a neat sum—but £4,000 a year, with per petual silence and obscurity, is thought a poor ex change for the high and rapidly improved posi tion of this fine writer: It may ,be as well to explain the meaning of M. Prevost Paradol's peculiar name. His father was M. Prevost, an actor at the Francais, and his mother, Mdlle. Paradol, an actress at the same theatre. The present Minister at Washington united the two names, and became M. Prevost Paradol. courttics ziez zlriglar HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, June 21 The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, went out in the grounds this morning. By command of the Queen, a State Ball was given last evening at Buckingham Palace, to which a party of about 1,700 was invited. The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the Dulwich Picture Gallery yesterday, and afterwards went to the Dulwich College, where the Prince presided at the distri bution of prizes to the successful scholars. FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO-DAY. The Duke of Devonshire's third assembly at Devonshire House, Piccadilly. Frances Countess of Waldegrave's entertainment to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at Strawberry Hill. SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS TO-DAY. The Geological Society, at 8 p.m., when the following sub jects will be brought under consideration, by the mem bers whose names are attached to them.—" Lower Por tion of the Green-slates and Porphyries of the Lake Dis trict," Dr. H. A. Nicholson : " Observatiovs on some Vegetable Fossils," Mr. R. Brough Smyth : " Plesiosaurian Remains, Kimmeridge Bay," Mr. J. W. Hulke ; " Geology of the Lofoten Islands," Rev. T. G. Bonney; " Dorypterus Hofmanni, Germar, from the Marl-slate of Midderidge, Durham," Mr. Albany Han cock and Mr. R. Howse. The Society of Literature at 8.30 p.m., when Mr. W. B. Cooper will read a paper on the " Greek Tablet found in the Assasseef at Thebes." CHELTENHAM GRAND STAND CASE. On Tuesday the case of Francis v. Cockerell was argued before the judges of the Common Pleas and Exchequer. It was an appeal from the Court of Queen's Bench on a special case stated by Mr. J. 0. Griffiths. It appeared that the plaintiff, with several others, was injured by the falling of the grand stand at Cheltenham Steeplechases in 1866, and he recovered damages at Gloucester Assizes ; but this was made subject to the decision in this case, which also decided the question of compensation to the other persons injured. The 'defendant managed the business part of the race meeting, and he received orders from the Stewards to get the grand stand built. Ddendant employed Messrs. Easby, who had built the grand stand in previous years. It was found that they were competent persons to do the work ; but on this occasion the stand had been negligently, improperly, and insufficiently built. The Court of Queen's Bench having decided against the stewards, Mr. Matthews, Q.C., now argued on behalf of the appellant that it must be taken that there was no negligence on the part of the defendant, as the defect in the stand was latent, and not visible to them or the public before it fell down. Mr. Mellish, Q.C., on the other hand, urged that as the plaintiff paid five shillings for admission to the stand there was an implied contract that it was reasonably safe and fit for the purpose, and that therefore they were liable for damage done to the occupants. At the conclusion of the arguments, which lasted for several hours, The Court decided that the defendants had, by accept ing the 55., entered into an implied contract that the stand was erected with due care and skill ; but as it was expressly found that there was negli gence, on the part of the builders who were employed by the defendants, the latter were responsible for the damage done to those who were injured. The judges were unanimously of opinion that the stewards were liable and the judgment of the court below was affirmed. LAW AND POLICE. HEAVY SENTENCES AT DUBLIN.—The judges presiding in the Dublin Commission Court (Morris and Lawson) awarded several very heavy sentences, showing a determina tion to cope with the increase of serious robberies and crimes with violence that have occurred of late. A roan who robbed two ladies, and presented a revolver at a policeman who chased him was sentenced to penal servitude for five years. A woman who had been eight times convicted of stealing received seven years' penal servitude. A man who had been four times in gaol was sentenced to the same term of imprisonment for stealing a pocket-handkerchief, Another man, a burglar, received seven years. LIABILITY OF A COMPANY UNDER BILLS OF EXCHANGE. —This question has been raised during the hearing of the case of the Devonport Steam Flour Mills Company in the Chambers of Vice-Chancellor Stuart. Two directors of the company endorsed a bill of exchange for a quantity of flour of the value of £362. The bill was dishonoured, and the directors in question had to pay the money, the repayment of which they now claimed, the company being under a winding-up order. The chief clerk held that the direc tors could not recover. The articles of association pro vided that no bill of exchange should be accepted, except at a special meeting of the directors. There was no evi dence of any such meeting, and consequently the bill was invalid. The directors must claim upon the bill, and not in respect of goods sold and delivered ; and the former being bad, they had no remedy. EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES BY A MILL MANAGER.—Thomas Redfearn, a man respectably connected and employed at the works of Messrs. M. Oldroyd and Sons, Dews bury, as manager of the cloth-drawing department, was charged at the police-court in that town with stealing a quantity of valuable cloth, the property of the firm. For some months past pieces of cloth have been missed, but though some of the workmen were suspected, no one thought the accused was the thief. However, on Friday he was seen to secrete a piece and to go away, but he was fol lowed, brought back, and his house searched, when in a garret a large quantity of cloth was discovered. When charged in the usual way, he said it was no use denying what he had done ; he had taken cloth from time to time for months past. The justice committed him for trial, and refused to grant bail. BOTIONRY BONDS.—The Judical Committee of the Privy Council heard an appeal from the High Court of Admiralty in a cause of bottomry. The owner of the Panama had not appeared, but the validity of the bond was contested by a mortgagee. In the month of May, 1868, the appellants, Messrs. Barron and Harrison, of Liverpool chartered the ship fOr a voyage to Cuba and back. The vessel, having set sail, put into Queenstown in distress, and her master having previously thrown overboard about thirty-five tons of coal, part of her cargo, sold about forty tons more, a nd remitted the proceeds to his owner. On arriving at "Cuba the master became in need of considerable sums of money for ship's purposes, but neither he nor his owner had any agent or credit there. The charterers' agents there. after deducting the value of the ceal, advanced all that they were bound to do under the charter party, which was considerably less than the vessel required, and for the balance they took a bottomry bond on behalf of the appellants. The owner and the appellants lived in Liverpool, and the charterer's agents, before taking the bond, telegraphed to the appellants, who l however, never communicated with the owner, alla it did not appear that the master had given him any notice. The Admiralty Court pronounced against the bond because the bondholder had given the owner ne previous notice of the execution of the bond. Their lordships were of opinion that the bond was invalid. Without expressing any opinion as to the obligation of a master to give notice to a mortgagee before giving a bond, they considered that in this case the bond was,nevertheless, invalid. It had been pressed in this case that the owner was insolvent, but it did not appear that he had been judicially declared so. Their Lordships thought that until this were so he would be entitled to notice, and when he had been found insolvent the commu nication should be to the assignees.—The appeal WS dismissed with costs. Little rain has fallen in France, and the same agricultural discouragement prevails. The price of corn and fodder is always advancing. Lieutenant-Colonel Gascoigne, commanding the Leeds Volunteer Artillery, on Satin-cloy afternoon had the great misfortune to shoot and kill a youth named Cottam, who was attending on him as marker, while he was practising at his private range at Parlington An inquest has been held, and the evidence clearly proved that the deceased ought not to have been in front of the target at the time when the fatal shot was fired. A verdict to the effect that he met his death by accident was returned. 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