The Sun. — London, England, 1856-08-22 00:00:00

rIHE COMMISSIONERS of tho METROPO LIS TURNPIKE ROADS North of the Thames will hold a SPECIAL MKETING at their Office, No. 22, Whitehall -place, in thv parish of Stint Martin-in-the-fields, in the city of Westminster, FRIDAY, the 26th day of September next, at the hour of one in the -Afternoon, for the purpose of consultins whether ill, or any, and which of- the several Toil-Gates and Side r ari now placed on and by the sides of the Ninth. Fifteenth, and :toenth Districts of the said Metropolis Turnpike Roads north of the 'I a aeries, shall be removed and placed elsewhere, or discontinued, and whether any Toll-Gates and ,ide-Bars shall be erected on or by the s'• les of any of the several Roads in the said District, or of either of them, and in what situations the same shall be placed. By order of the Commissioners, GEORGE LABALMONDIE RE, Chief Clerk and Secretary. Metropolis Roads' Office, Whitehall-place, Aug. 1, 1856. TuF,ATRE ROYAL, HAYMA.RKET. under the Management of Mr. Buck3tOne. THIS EVENING, A COMICAL COUNTESS. After which, The Spanish Dancers. Followed by GRIMSIIAW, BAGSHAW, AND BRADSILIW. To conclude with THE snuipsm SERJEANT. ROYAL THEATRE AD2LPaI. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS r. Ws; I . IRELAND AS IT IS. Follows l by DOMES NC ECONOMY. After which THE IRISH TUTOR. To conclude with OUR GAL. ZOYAL riu - NotArs THEATRE, OXFOrID-STREET. Undor the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEAN. TIIIS EVENING, MUSIC II CHARMS. After which, TEE WINTER'S TALE. STRUCD THEATRE. ManaTer, Mr, T. Payne. THIS EV2INUTG, TUE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. Followed by TII 4.1 HOUSE IN lIIGII STREET." ressrs. StGart, Cooke, WWI Potter, awl Kinloch; Mrs. Woollidge, and Miss Isabel Adara 3. After which, THE FLOWER GIRL OF GHENT. To conclude with THE STATUE LOTER. Commence at halt-past 7. ROYAL OLYMPIC TtlakTUTI. I.4sace and Manager, Mr. Alfreet Wigan. Tan; EVENr.4I THE (17.7,7:N-EYED MONSTER, ' A fter MEDEA. To conclude with .SHOCKI2;G EVENTS. AiTLEY6 I:OYAL ANIPIIITaZATRE. Lusee Marla :ter, Air. Wm. Cooke. EVENIIIG , - KING RICH lUD TIIT THIRD, compressed into 3 acts. Eques t-i in affects —Death of White Surrey —" ;tattle of Bosworth Fide Fltroduction of Mr. W.Cooke's stud of trained horses —llippodramatic tnblcan never yet attemptet " • After which, The. attractive AC rA of HORSEMANSHIP in the ARENA. To cone 1 with a popular aril Ri3ible Farce. Poi-of - ilea °len fr)m 7. 7 ,!cyrn till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. E:lneAtrian Director, Mr. A'. Cooke, Jun. .kitd WATT?. AT LONDON BRA D G . - g. DAT—Morn. 0 min. aft. 6 —Evening 20 6 noßwiw-7,10rn.45 rain. aft. 6 —Lvoning 10 raiz, aft. Tdl. 7 . .W'BA.THEa—SuN OFFICE, AUGUST 22. TAERIIOTTETEN, II TUN SHADE. (13 -- 1 14Thest since noon yastenlay. --iovresf this morning and (luring the rir:l4. 63 -this day at noon. 'OA P. °Mr.:TB - 2)'75. 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Reformation of young criminals is becoming 1 the practical topic of educationists, and they have a just claim to all the support which the Press, t to puNic, and the Government can afford there. Eien the l'oltantaries will not, and do not, deny teat all the aid Government can render to Refer raatory Schools, by giving the requisite legsl powers, and by contributing as much as is safe from the National Exchequer, is quite within the province of the State. The account which ap peared in The Sum yesterday, of the Conference o'7 the National Reformatory Union, will, we trust, be read by all intelligent and public-spirited persons. The Chairman's (Lord STANLEY'S) speech will give to those who are yet unfamiliar with the subject a fair idea of its state and pro gress ; and, as it is likely to be a practical one in most localities, and the object will make some pecuniary claims upon the benevolent around, all ought to give it seine attention. We feel, indeed, an interest so much the deeper in Reformatory Schools, because the Government at present sees the danger of centralisation, and getting them tinder its own control. It acknowledges that their success must so entirely depend upon the exclu sion of jobbery, and the eliciting of individual ap titude, both moral and intellectual, in the teachers or managers, that it is fain to throw the support partially, and the management entirely, upon those who originate the sohools. So far as they Lave yet succeeded, to a great extent even in France, and altogether in this country, they are so many attestations of the superiority of individual contrivance and energy to that of the State. For years some philanthropic individuals have been labouring in the cause in this country ; but 310 W the cessation of transportation, and the ne cessity of retaining our criminal population at lome, has pressed on us the questions both of a 'substitute for transportation and the diminution Hof the number of our criminals. The most obvious .course is to turn criminals, if possible, into honest and industrious men, and it is equally obvious that the young aro by far the most hopeful sub jects for reformation. Changes of habit after 2niddle life, and even after the period of mature manhood—say from five-and-twenty and upwards .---are comparatively rare ; but we all know what to steady man many a wild lad may eventually !become,. What general observation or theory - would lead us to expect, experience, so far as we ihave records of it, fully corroborates. We wet e hardly pr e p a red, however, for the fact of the very large proportion of criminals who are or have been juvenile offenders. Out of 98,654 criminal: in 1853, not less than eleven and a-half per cent., or 11,453, were under the age of seven teen, w hile the littl e reformatory effect of convic :don and imprisonment upon them is evident enough from the fact that of eleven thousand con victed annually four thousand are recommitted. It is a still more startling fact that the number committed between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one is the largest of all, being not less than twenty-five per cent., or one-fourth of the total convictions. Now the population between fifteen and twenty-one years of age being but 1-10th part o thewhole population of the country ; the startling T •:iq 2 THE SUN, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1856. annuities was to a great extent a tax on capital, for five-sixths of the amount should be re-invested in order to prevent ultimate loss, and the balance, after providing for the restoration of the capital ised value, was virtually the only sum fairly liable to the impost Thus, all parties concurred in the propriety of a revision, with scarcely an exception. Mr. DISRAELI had in his budget proposed a dif ferent assessment on different classes. This, although by no means going sufficiently far, or meeting the real justice of the case, was hailed with delight by fiscal reformers as being " the admission of the sharp end of the wedge," an official repognition of the great distinctions that existed in taxable value, which must speedily be productive of important results. The Derbyites were therefore thus made safe ; while the leaders of both Houses—the Earl of ABERDEEN and Lord JOHN RUSSELL—had sought opportunities to pub lish their opinions as to the propriety of a change. But Mr. GLADSTONE had not been consulted. I Single handed he opposed the loading men on all sides of the House, and, strange to say, obtained a victory. When the question first came on for discussion, after the ejection of the Derbyite Government, the veteran Josßill HUME pro posed a renewal for a single year, in order to avoid embarrassing the new Ministry, who had just succeeded to office. This was agreed to, but on the understanding that an equitable adjustment was to be made the next session. It is notorious how this implied pledge was violated. Mr. GLADSTONE declared that a change was impossible, but as he cajoled the House and the country into the belief that the impost might be entirely re moved within seven years, and that a gradual reduction should take place some years previously, his budget was accepted, and loud praises were lavished on the financier who promised a result so auspicious. We pointed out the folly of the anticipation, explaining that no Chancellor of the Exchequer would surrender a source of revenue so profitable, convenient, and easily collected. But the nation was intoxicated at the time. Large profits were to be realised by the conversion of the Three per Cents. There was, in fact, a GvA&• STONE mania, and anything which he put for ward; however extravagant, was received with unquestioning credulity. A single year, howe'ver, verified our gloomy vaticinations. In place of realising immense savings there was a loss of some 800,0001. on the GLADSTONE abortion ; and, still worse, the Exchequer was denuded of its balances by the payment of more than eight millions sterling to the dissentients. This compelled the Exchequer to borrow largely from the Bank, and prevented the latter from affording adequate accommodation to its customers. The Money Market was thus deranged, and serious consequences followed. Mr. GLADSTONE, however, was not abashed. After expatiating on the advantages of direct im posts, and the propriety of meeting the whole of the extra expenditure occasioned by the War out of current revenue, he persuaded the House to con sent to double the Income Tax just for a single half-year. The eyes of the deluded representa tives were uot, however, yet opened. His propo sitions were again sanctioned, and it is needless to say that the warnings we uttered were again verified, and that the doubled impost was con tinued until the April, twelve months after the ratification of the Treaty of Peace. Fortunately, - Mr. GLLDSTONE did not meet Par- I liament with another budget, but his successor in office followed suit by adding 2d. in the £1 ; thus raising the amount from 7d. to 16d., and en hancing the injustice under which so many of the industrious middle classes were labouring. This War-Tax will be continued until April, 1858, if nothing be done in the interval, and it is ridiculous to expect that the Financial Minister of the day will assent to its reduction— to the one-fourth of the amount for that year, a surrender of a revenue of Twelve Millions. , That an attempt will be made to continue it when the question can no longer be shelved or evaded, is certain. It will, therefore, be just as well to be prepared to submit to inevitable necessity, and to endeavour to improve and render equitable the charge that cannot possibly be got rid of. As we have repeatedly stated, a Property Tax, if fairly levied, would be one of the best for the community. It is one that would cheerfully be paid, if it did not carry with it a bitter sense of wrong and injustice. Why, then, should the great point which, but for the un founded promises of Mr. GLADSTONE, would have been achieved three years since, not be carried into practical execution I Th e nation wants its modification, not its repeal ; a fair and equitable adjustment, not its abolition. Let Sir G. C. LEWIS act judiciously and promptly in this important matter, and he will receive the blessings of thousands and tons of thousands of t h o se who now utter curses, both loud i c and deep, at the barefaced robbery to which they are subjected. He will not, however, do so unless urged b y the p ress ure from wihout ; and, therefore, we w ould onc e snore "emphatically i m press on fiscal reformers t o necessity of not losing a single day in organising a stre nuous opposition to the impost in its present obnoxious form. SotrraurnoN, Thurfiday.—His Ro➢al Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief, embarked from the dooks to-day on board her Majesty's yacht Fairy for Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty. The King of the Belgians, with the royal family, re turned to haeken from Antwerp on Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. Prince Frederick of the Netherlands arrited at Berlin OR the 18th, ontis way to the fetes - of the coronation at Moscow. The King of Prussia granted an audience on the 13th to Count de Launay, the Sardinian Minister, who pre- sented his new tredentials raising him to the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The Earl and Countess of Jersey are on a visit at Cadland, the seat of Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drum mond. The Marchioness of Dv* the youthful Marquis of Bute, and Lady D'Oytey, have arrived at Mounstuart house, Island of Bute. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Marna Stanley have left St. James's-square for Knowsley, Lancashire. The Marquis and Marchi=ess of Stafford arrived at Cronstadt early in tiro 'month, in his lordship's yacht, and have since repailtd to St. Petersburg. Marshal Dukt de Saldanha, commander-in-chief of the Portugme army and ex-president of the council of ministers, has arrived in Paris. He is travelling incog., under the name of General Oliviera. The arrivals in the Thames on Wednesday comprised 43 vessels from foreign ports and 26 colliers.] The Car?smite Gazette denies the truth of a rumour which has been circulated to the effect that a mirriage was contemplated between the hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningea and the sister of the Prince Regent of Baden. A meeting convened by a number of respectable tradesmen was arranged to be held last evening (aye the Kent Herald) for the purpose of adopting measures to secure to Canterbury the advantages of the annual cricket week. A letter of the 15th from Dresden says, " The cele brated geolegist, Sir Charles Lyell, has been staying here for some time,-for the purpose of investigating the coal and trap formations i n th e ne i g hb our h oo d t o which he leas already made some scientific excursions." The Cologne Gazette states that Baron William Charles von Rotschild has been appointed honorary Consul- General of Austria at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, in the place of Baron Anielm von Rothschild, who has re moved to Yienna, where he intends residing for the future. !ATMENT OF CHURCH RATES.— According to a pro vision in the new act to amend the Local Management Act of last year the payment of Church rates is declared not to be a necessary qualification to enable a ratepayer to Yoe at parigh elections. THE QUEEN OF OUDE AND SUITF, SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The Indus came into dock this morning at an early hour, and curiosity to see the Royal Orien tals tempted many to bravo the drenching rain. As soon as the vessel came alongside many of the followers or attendants and several of the native gentlemen came on shore, seemingly pleased to be again on terra firma. The attendants, numbering between 60 and 70, were all dressed in the gay and picturesque costumes of their country, composed of every variety of material and colour. Their appear ance was not very prepossessing, although many of them were fine handsome men. The native gentlemen, however, most of whom belong to families of high caste, were dressed in the most splendid costumes. Some of them are very handsome and of a noble bearing. They were extremely polite, and frequently met the curiosity of the spectators by handing for their inspection various articles which attracted attention. One gentleman in particular, of a commanding presence, gave full liberty in the examination of a splendid sabre which he carried in his hand. It was in a gilded sheath, the bottom of which was exquisitely worked in diamonds and precious stones, whilst the hilt of the weapon was entirely covered with emeralds, rubies, diamonds, and other precious stones, of great size and value. The whole party appeared to be much pleased with everything they saw ; but did not express the slightest surprise or wonder. There are six eunuchs in attendance on the Queen and Princesses. Some of them are tall and of a commanding presence. They each of them carry sticks with carved or elegantly marked handles, and their fingers are glittering with rings. The chief of the eunuch is a fine portly gentleman, and most gorgeously attired. One of the native gentlemen somewhat prides himself on being an artist, and on the voyage home took the likeness of Oapt. Brooks, of the Indus, and the chief officers. These portraits were taken in oil colours ; they possess some merit, but are not striking likenesses. Several of the dresses of the Queen and Prin cesses were found to be slightly injured by the damp, and on being taken from the trunks in which they were deposited they were exposed to the view of a few persons. They are of the most magnificent description, entirely covered with pearls and precious stones. It has been before stated that the Queen of Oude and suite occupied the whole of the fore part of the ship, which was barricaded off from the remainder of the vessel. The Queen and the Princesses were studiously kept from view dur ing the voyage, so that no one has been enabled to catch a glimpse of their forms or features. A somewhat amusing incident oc carred at Alexandria, where the Royal party embarked in the Indus. The weather was rough and the ship rolled slightly as the Princesses went on board, and being encumbered in their movements by the drapery which enveloped their persons, they lost their footing and fell on the deck of the vessel. More than one officer of the ship (of course unacquainted with the rules of etiquette of Oriental society) sprang forward to render assist ance, but they were jealously kept back by the eunuchs, and the ladies were left to scramble up again as they best could. The officers of the Indus were compelled to exer cise an extra amount of vigilance, as, owing pro bably to the change of climate, there were fre quently from 30 to 4.0 fires burning along the deck. They were all charcoal fires, placed on a metal dish or bowl. At three o'clock this afternoon two close car riages, each drawn by four horses, drove into the dock, aud alongside the vessel. The excitement now became excessive, as it was known that the Queen and Princesses, with the young Prince and the brother to the King of Oude, would take their departure in them for the residences which have been provided for their reception. After some delay and a great deal of ceremony in arranging a mass of drapery over the aperture from whence the Royal party would emerge for the first time on to English ground, the eunuchs appeared leading the Princesses. They were closely covered from head to feet, and wore quickly hurried into the carriages amidst the somewhat suppressed laughter of the spectators. They are short in stature. A sedan chair was then brought out, closely screened, in which was the Queen of Oude. A mass of drapery was spread over it and the door of the carriage, and the Royal suitor passed from the one to the other unobserved by a single spectator. The blinds were speedily adjusted, and the carriage moved on. The appearance of the heir apparent and General Sicunda Hushinah (the King of Oude's brother) was the signal for a burst of pleasing acclamation. They were both magnificently attired, their dresses sparkling with diamonds and golds. They are both extremely handsome. The young Prince was much admired, and a cheer saluted him as he entered the carriage. The seats opposite the Prince and general were taken by the mayor and Major Bird, and the carriages drove off to Shirley, where five houses are taken for their reception. The remainder of the party will occupy the Royal York Hotel. . . Before leaving the ship one of the gentlemen in attendance on the Queen - threw around the neck of Captain Brooks, commander of the Indus, a mag nificent shawl. Another ono presented him with an onTelopo in which were two notes of 250 rupees each, and a third handed over a bag of rupees. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. SEASON 1850. Four prime donne h Ivo appeared during the season for the first time, and all with great success—viz., two English ladies, one German, and one Italian. The pretty Marietta Piccolomini, the true artistic Albertini Baucarde, the noble, the graceful, double voiced Johanna Wagner, and the youthful and talented Jenny Bast The pretty Piccolomini took the town by storm by her effective acting as Viuletta, in Verdi's " La Traviata," which she performed with increased success up to the last night •f the season, was applauded to the echo by the habit= of the theatre, and particularly the old gentlemen in the stalls, and was pelted with bouquets that she took away in armfulls each night after the opera. The noble, the handsome Johanna Wagner thought she might have encountered some opposition, but the very instant her stately, graceful figure appeared, anil her splendid voice rung through the house, ebt, by her magic art, effected a triumph ; her opposers became admirers, and like a second Cseear, she might truly say, " Veni, vide, vice." The youthful, the beautiful, the talented Jenny Baur shared the honours of the evening with the great Wagner each time "I Capuletti ed I Montecchi " and " Tancredi were performed, and, when she acquires a little more ex perience, will be a formidable rival to her celebrated companions. The true, artistic, heart-stirring, tear , exciting Albertini Baucarde, nes Augusta AitcheFon, is, in our humble opinion, and in that of several professors, the greatest artiste and the best singer of this interesting quartette ; and many musical amateurs who heard her admirable performance, and that of her talented husband, Baucarde, in - Verdi's " Il Trovatore," have been much disappointed in not hearing them in other operas, in which they performed with unbounded applause and triumphant success in Italy, the land of song, where true talent is admired, respected, and appreciated, We (Manchester Examiner) understand that Piccolimini is engaged for operatic performances in this city, to be given on the sth, nth, and 11th of Septem ber. PotI.IIOAL. —Lrrznpoor,, Aug. 21. —a. Tb . Rimbo screw steamer has arrived with a dfiees 'Earn Lisbon to the 14th inst. Our eorrespondent states that no ftirther bread riots had taken place after the 11th, and that the provinces and capital were likely to Contintle tranquil. KNIGHTS or ST. t'ATßP:t.—}lis Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has directed that the original ordinance of the Order of St. Patrick, which requires that the robes of the knights be of Irish manufacturo, shall hencefor ward be strictly adhered to, and thtt 411 knights created from this date shall be robed in Irish poplin. Letters from Holland of the 13th inst. mention that as the openirg of the ensuing session approaches the ques tion of the capitalisation of the Sound. Dues proposed by Denmark is again lining discussed in commercial circles. In the consideration of this question the feel ing is much the same as exists in England, and is rather against capitalisation. GUN ACCIDENT.—An accident of a very serious nature occurred en Wednesday morning to Mr. Marshall, a farmer, residing at Strettcn, Derbyshire. He bad gone that morning into the fields for the purpose of killing rabbits, and was in the act of firing when his gun sud denly burst, and completely shattered the left hand. Mr. Macarsie, surgeon, of Clay Cross, who was imme diately sent for, found the injuries inflicted were such as required immediate amputation. The sufferer assented to the operation, which he bora with the greatest forti tude ; and though he is at the advanced ago of seventy three, his symptoms are favourable. —l/ anchester Gear. dian. A CHILD DROWNED IN A `Vs!IHING•TUB,—On Tues day a singular occurrence, resulting in the death of a child of fours years, named Elizabeth Ann Kelly, took place at a house on Lancashire-hill, Stockport. The mother of the deceased was washing in a shallow tub made from a butter firkin, and having occasion to go into the yard she left the decolsed alone in the kitchen. On her return, a short time after, she found the deceased lying over the side of the tub with her face in the water, which was not more than Lair inches deep, and on being removed she was discovered to be dead. It appeared that the child, while playing, must have got to the side of the tub, and, overbalancing herself, fell with her face, into the tub, and was thus drowned,—Mochester Guar- LATEST NEWS. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. An Imperial decree of the 13th, in the Bulletin des Lois, opens a supplementary credit of 1,358,000 f. to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, of which 125,000 f. are for diplomatic presents, and 1,233,000 f. for missions and extraordinary expenses. Another de cree opens an extraordinary credit of 25,945 f. to the Minister of State for the cost of the funeral of M. Fortoul ; and a third assigns a supplementary cre dit of 213,000 f. to the Minister of the Interior for extra expenses connected with the confinement and removal of prisoners. The commission appointed by decree of the 7th June last, to manage the fund for the sufferers by the inundations, has just addressed a report to the Minister of Agriculture, setting forth the bases on which the amount of the subscriptions should be divided. His Majesty, after having read this docu ment, which will be shortly published, gave orders to the Minister that a first division shall be imme diately made among the persons thrown into dis tress by the catastrophe, and which will amount on an average to 10 per cent. on their losses. A Paris letter in the Independance of Brussels says :—" Much surprise has been expressed at the length of time which elapsed between the first an nouncement of the title of Duke having been con jarred on Marshal Pelissier and the designation of that title. The title of Malakhoff had been decided on from the first, as that of Sebastopol might have been alike displeasing to our old companions in arms and to our former adversaries, but it was not wished to ratify the title selected, by its insertion in the Moniteur, without ascertaining that it would not offend the susceptibilities of the Emperor Alexander 11. This is said to have been the sub ject of one of the first conversations between Count de Morny and the Emperor of Russia, and no ob jection having been raised by that monarch, the telegraph immediately transmitted the reply, and the announcement was made in the official journal." The Univers thus questions the authenticity of a document published by the Cologne Gazette, and reproduced by the Paris and London journals, purporting to be an analysis of the note addressed by the King of Naples to the Western Cabinets : " The journals publish an analysis of the note which is'said to have been despatched by the King of Naples to the Western powers. France and England not hav ing addressed to the Neapolitan Government an iden tical note, it is scarcely probable that the reply of the Neapolitan Cabinet would be the same for both Govern ments. Moreover, the analytical form of this document causes us to suspect its correctness ; we will, therefore, wait before we publish it f>r proofs which may show that the Cologne Gazette merits confidence." Bouts, Aug. 21.—Tho following were the last quotations : Cash. ft. a. End of Month. ii par Cents 95 —f. —e. 3 per Cents 73 85 70 85 New Loan 7O 80 Bank Shares 4,150 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,625 Austrian Belgian Five 5........ 99t— Spanish Threes Piedmontme(s) 9l -- Home Debt RAILWATS—roR Cini. ----._ _ __ fr. c. fr. a• Orleans ......... ...... 1,423 Western 97:3 75 rorthern Lyons: 1,425 New Ditto Refliterranoan ...... 1,825 Grand Central Lyons Geneva SO7 50 Toste Cette ruult follows, that more than one-fourth of the crime of the kingdom is committed by one tenth of its inhabitants ! Nothing can more conclusively show where our first efforts should be directed. In no department of social life is the now almost proverbial line of WOUDSWORTII'S more fully verified, that— "The child is father to the man." Nothing also is better substantiated than the fact of the inutility of the chief discipline now applied to these juvenile delinquents, namely, short im prisonments. Not less than thirty years ago, the Governor of Glasgow Bridewell made public the following facts :—That of prisoners sentenced for the first time to 14 days' imprisonment, seventy five per cent. returned to gaol for new offences ; of those sentenced to 30 days, sixty per cent. ; to 40 days, fifty per cent. ; to 60 days, forty per cent. ; to 3 months, twenty-five per cent. ; to 6 months, ten per cent. ; to 9 months, seven and St-half per cent. ; to 12 months, four per cent.; to 18 months, one per cent. ; to 24 months, none !—yet, during the ten years over which the calculation extended, the number sentenced to 24 months was ninety-three. It is added, that the criminals who came back two or three times, went on returning at intervals for years. Another re markable proof of the uselessness of short impri sonments is, that out of two hundred and nine prisoners recommitted to Reading Gaol in 1852, eighty-nine were under seventeen years of age when first committed, and those 89 had been in prison altogether 403 times, or nearly five times a-piece. These facts, to which others of a similar kind might be largely added, confirm Baron ALDERSON'S infererg) that short imprisonments are neither humane 'nor wise. But while the ♦ast proportion of offences com. mitted by the youthful part of the population, and the inutility of the ordinary brief imprison. ments, is fully established, the efficiency of longer periods of Reformatory discipline is, so far as experiments have been tried, satisfactorily proved also. At Mottray, under the management of the now well-known M. DE METZ, one repre sents that 85, another that 89 per cent. have been reclaimed ; and the Report rests upon the conduct of upwards of 900 youths who had passed through the institution ; and, of those men who had relapsed, one-quarter had been again re claimed. In the' Glasgow House of Refuge, out of 400 lads, 85 per cent. had been reclaimed. At Redhill, of 720 boys discharged, 70 per cent, have been reclaimed, 228 being inmates at the present time. Only contrast this with the recommittal, at Reading, of 89 lads neatly five times each, and the return to Glasgow Gaol of 75 per cent. of those committed for 14 days, and the advantage of longer and early discipline seems irresistibly apparent. It is easy, indeed, for full satisfaction, to wish for answers to some questions, which our criminal statistics do not yet furnish ; but they would probably only corroborate the evi dence we have ; and making every allowance, and giving the largest margin to the well-know illusiveness of statistics, there can be no doubt that to deal effectually with the youthful criminal is the most hopeful method yet proposed, and that the Reformatory School is an admirable in strument for that purpose. Could we seal up the fountain, indeed, that would be the course to be taken, and at once ; but that is hopeless. All accounts go to prove that the greater part of youthful crime is due to the habits of the parents, and it is impossible to reach them ; they are irreclaimable as a class, and if they were not you cannot bring them under compulsory discipline. Mr. ADSHE AD, of Man chester, ascertained that of one hundred criminal children at Manchester sixty were born of dis honest parents, thirty of profligate, though not criminal, parents, and only ten of parents honest and industrious. The experience of Mr. CLAY, the chaplain of Preston gaol, is similar ; he found that in seventy-five per cent, of the cases investi gated by him the fault lay unmistakeably at the door of the parents ; in the case of fifty-seven per cent. there had been habitual drunkenness, often accompanied with brutality, on the part of the father; iu the remaining eighteen per cent. habitual neglect. In three cases out of four inves tigated by him the lad had hardly a chance of be coming anything but what he was, It is impos sible to put the whole case of Reformatory Schools for juvenile delinquents more strongly than in this sentence. Three-fourths of the unfortunate lads, besides the ordinary claims of youth, are objects for pure commiseration ; we ourselves, in their position, must have been what they are. No man can resist this appeal. • There is, however, no mode of altering this first education for crime ; at least none has been devised at present. Nothing but the impossible Maine Liquor Law could remove that most fertile cause of youthful crime, drunken fathers ; and no plan could deal with neglectful parents. We, unfortunately, cannot begin with the lad till the law can lay hold of him as a violater of it, and we are then warranted in applying any process which shall prove most effectual. The Reforma tory School system also, by the aid of Govern ment, furnishes almost the only means of reach ing the delinquent parent. He can now be compelled to contribute to the support of his child at the school, and is thus fined for years for his own criminal neglect of his offspring. This penalty must be rigidly enforced, less, in• deed, for the direct saving to the State, than for the purpose of deterring parent's from making thieves of their children. The mortification, and among his own class, the disgrace of having to pay to a Reformatory School, seems to us the most likely means of making a deterring example of the bad parent. It will come to be understood that it will not do to let children run wild or to train them to crime. Unwbrthy parents, to save their pockets, will take some thought for their offspring. The favourite beer or gin itself will be in danger when several shillings weekly must go to his child's support. Oa the whole, nothing better deserves the aid of the community than these efforts ; they must, to be successful, be chiefly voluntary and individual, but they ought to be, and we trust will be, universal. There was perhaps no vexed ques i tion on which so large a majority would, a few years since, have been obtained as that of the necessity of an equitable modification of the Income Tax. Men of all parties had recognised the absurdity of treating all sources of revenue, whether temporary or permanent, precarious or certain, as of equal value, and subjecting them to an equal charge. It was just as ridiculous to say that one of the long annuities which would expire in some six or seven years was in every respect equal to a per petual charge, as that personal earnings, depend ing on health, fashion, and a variety of circum stances over which the recipient has no control, are equivalent to a similar amount of dividend s , which the proprietor is sure of receiving during his life, and of bequeathing to his children and their issue throughout all future generations. The moneyocracy can appreciate the justice of the argument respecting the annuity, although per fectly insensible to the wrongs of the industrious middle classes. They saw that the charge Ql2 bug SPAIN. MADRID, Aug. 20.—The Gazette publishes a royal decree, conferring the Golden Fleece on Prince Adalbert of Bavaria. M. Rances has been named minister to the Brazils. Ucueral tranquil. lity prevails throughout the country. A letter from Frankfort, of the 16th, says " The Russian General of Engineers Todtleben, who has rendered himself illustrious by the de fence of Sebastopol, has lately left Aix-les-thins, whero_he stopped a few days, and intends to visit the four fortresses of the Germanic Confederation. He is now at Radstadt, the most minute details of which he is examining, and where he is the object of the most marked attention on the part of the commandant and other officers of the garrison. After having completed his strategical journey in Gnmany, the Russian general is to proceed to France, for the purpose of examining the system and means of defence of the principal fortresses in that empire." RUSSIA. It was stated a short time since in various jour nals that the Russian Government had given orders to enrol iworkmen in Germany at a thaler (3fr. 75c.) per day, for the rebuilding of Sebastopol. The Bourse Gazette now states that many applica tions for employment have been made to the Rus sian ambassador at Berlin, but that they have all been rejected, the ambassador not having as yet received any instructions on the subject. A letter from Constantinople, in the Gazette du Midi, says :--" The attempt made at Sebastopol to get up the fragments of the vessels sunk at the mouth of the harbour appears likely to prove suc cessful. Another and better diving apparatus is about to be put in operation." A letter from Alexandria, in the Constitutionnd, says :—" It has been already mentioned that a German merchant had pretended that he had a right to establish a steam-tug on the Nile without the authorisation of the Egyptian Government, but that he bad been prevented from continuing his operations. Baron de Prentz, the Prussian consul-general, has now taken the matter up, and ospoused the cause of his countryman. It is ex pected that this curious question will be brought before the Ottoman Government," A letter from Constantinople states that the Turkish Government has decided that the fortifica tions of Silistria, whioh have at different periods hen improved, shall now be completed on a regu lar system. The Augsburg Gazette announces from Belgrade that a sum of five millions of piastres (about 1,250,000 fr.) has just been sent to Constantinople by the Servian Government, being the amount of a loan not bearing interest which the latter had accorded to the Turkish Government for the pur pose of completing the electric telegraph between Constantiuopleand Belgrade by Salonica. THE CORONATION OF THE EMPEI?OR OF RUSSIA. (Bronx the Correspondent of the Daily News.) ST. PETERSBURG, AvG. 15. The date at which L am at pretient writing, which is the 3d of August, Russian time, brings the preliminat'Y nroeedings of all the special em bassies pretty well to a close, at leagt in a tar as the modern capital of Russia is concerned. Early next week stieeial ambassadors and all other spe cialities connected in any way with tilt ;arid affair will take their departure from the city of Peter the (1-ret and locate, theinselves for a felt busy weeks in the more ancient capital in *fah !ijo ninth of the early history was enacted. If Rurik, or Ivan the Terrible; or Boris Gudunoff could rise out of their graves, they would probably be some what surprised to see the arrival of the special trains which are to convey the foreign notabilities to th 6 ftelendid pageant in which they are to play so conspicuous a pait. Those Scla,vonio worthies, who looked for no invasions Save trope of the Tartars. Whom their successors now hold in such complete stibjedior4 'would gaze with no small astonishment at the dragon of steam as it came up puffing, snorting, and roaring to the station, and diagging alon, itFi Wake,Sdnie where about 500 persons of high and low degree, attracted from different quarters of the world to "assist" at the solemn inauguration of the present lilauleror in the government of his *ad dominions. They will storm the holy city as eagerly as ever didithe Tartars, but they will be valiantly met by the innkeepers, .who, if they cannot eject them ritithniarily, are determined to make them pay dear for their prolonged sojourn. But not in Moscow alone is the working of this fine instinct of nation ality perceptible in the conduct of the Russian Itoniface. Petersburg is little behindhand—a fact of which, if report speak truly, the special ambas sadors have had the most conclusive indications. Already Lord Granville's parliamentary grant shows painful symptoms of attenuation ; but his lordship must take comfort in the conviction that, whenever a Russian special ambassador comes to London, the patriotism of British innkeepers will give him a noble revenge. In short, there is nothing more remarkable in the history of the world than the uniformity of action that marks the conduct of hotel keepers and cabmen on those portions of its surface upon which the progress of civilisation has given them a locus standi. Everywhere they look upon the traveller as an invading enemy, and "charge" him with a vigour that is generally sure to make him boat an early retreat. The Count de Morey has, I believe, saved himself the pangs of petty extortion by buying everything on a grand scale, even to the steam-boat that takes him up and down the river ' and by renting the great Woronzo ff Palace, which may be seen everyday surrounded by splendid equipageo, and every night blazing with lights, to the greai admiration of the Russian police, who walk demurely up and down the water side of the Neva. His Excellency was early in pre senting his credentials, and Prince Paul Esterhazy, " Diamond" Esterhazy, as he is called, wished to follow closely on his heels, but unfortunately he bad left those important documents behind him at Vienna, and he was inexorably refused a presenta tion until they had arrived. Our own special embassy had its turn yesterday under circumstances calculated to give the British people and their re presentative entire satisfaction. They went down to Peterhoff, in the Princess Alice, and were re ceived at the debarcadere by some of the high officers of the court. Imperial carriages were in attendance to convey them in the first instance to the English palace, where they found an elegant dejeuner pre pared for them, and every convenience for making their court toilettes. They were then conveyed to the Imperial Palace where, in the first instance, Lord Granville was presented to the Emperor at a private audience of some duration, after which his Lordship presented in succession all the members of his embassy. The Emperor was, I understand, all cordiality and condescension, frequently addres sing the persons present in the English and French languages. His Imperial Majesty's deportment is spoken of in terms of high admiration by every one who had the honour of a presentation. Subse quently Lady Granville was presented to the Em press, and in her turn presented the ladies of her suite, the Marchioness of Stafford, Lady Emily Peel, and Lady Margaret Leveson Gower. Char a-bancs were in waiting, into which the whole party got at the termination of the ceremonial, and a drive round the beautiful grounds of Peter hoff filled up the time until dinner, which, like the breakfast, was prepared at the English Palace. At this banquet several of the high officers of the court were present, amongst whom the son of Count Nesselrode was active in discharging the duties of hospitality to the distinguished guests. At 11 o'clock the whole party were safely conveyed to town in the Princess Alice, being the first time that the voyage has been performed at that late hour by a vessel of her tonnage. So ended a very pleasant day for the British Embassy, and at the same time terminated the St. Petersburg portion of their mission, leaving them nothing to do but settle M. Dimonte's little bill, pack up their port manteaus, and proceed early next week by special train to i Moscow. To-day (Friday) was a grand field-day with our Gallic allies. Being the fete day of the Emperor Napoleon, a solemn Te Deum was celebrated at the Roman Catholic church of St. Catherine, at which all the French in St. Pe tersburg were invited to attend. The church, which is situated about midway down the Nevskoi Prospekt, was of course crowded, and a great num ber of people formed as contracted a semicircle as the Russian dragoons would permit in the street outside. Count de Morny's carriages, with their fine English horses, made a splendid show, and eli cited frequent ejaculations from the " Mujiks," which I regret to add were not particularly intelli gible to your special correspondent. Lord Granville accompanied his French colleague, but not in state, asall the carriages "'De Parade" have already been sent off to Moscow. The scene was altogether both imposing and brilliant. The French congre gation was unusually sedate and attentive ; the French uniforms and decorations had all the fresh ness of the empire, and the spot in which the church is situated is the finest in St. Petersburg, being the centre of the finest street in the world. At the conclusion of the service I strolled down the whole length of the "Nevskoi" to the terminus of the Moscow Railway, and was perfectly astounded at its extent, the noble proportions and elaborate decorations of the houses, and the abun dance and richness of the goods displayed in the various magasins. There are fully three miles of palaces and palatial shops, while the flag ways and the road present a never-ending variety of busi ness, bustle, and excitement. As you stroll along a pale Circassian of the Caucasus passes you in the peculiar costume of his country. You pause to ad vance, and think of Schamyl and his brave moun taineers, but he takes out a cambric handkerchief to wipe his face, and lights a paper cigar, and the romance is in a moment destroyed. You turn sud denly, and are immediately jostled by two magni ficent Persians in their high conical caps and long robes of some costly Eastern material, and involun tarily quote Tennyson—" Oiled and curled like the Assyrian Bull "—as you gaze on their Ninevite physiognomies and imposing beards twisted into innumerable ebony corkscrews. Next comes a group of Russian officers, fine young fellows, nearly all over six feet, with delicate—almost English— features, and wearing their long and somewhat un graceful grey coats a ith commendable resignation. I must say, in passing, that I have frequently had to thank those gentlemen for the ready cour tesy and politeness with which they invariably answered those inquiries which a stranger is obliged to snake in getting through a large city for the first time. They all speak French, and many of them English, and are ready to assist you in any little perplexity that may arise in your peregrina tions. The poor Mujiks are, I believe, equally willing to oblige, but to ask them a question only exposes you to a torrent of fervent Sclavonic, ac companied by the wildest gesticulations, and some times an extempore hornpipe, while the result is not of any very considerable assistance to your own organ of locality. I have watched these men with much interest and curiosity since my arrival in Rus sia, and have invariably observed them to be tall and strong, in good physical condition, and having honest and open, though not always very intelli gent, countenances. The universal beard gives them a great air of manliness, and the manner in which they perform their work, which is often severe, indicates the possession of great muscular strength. The " Isboostchiks," the Russian equivalent for cabmen, are the finest charioteers in the world. To see them urging their high-mettled Cossack horses along the Nevskoi, you would fancy the Olmypis were being enacted over again, so rapid is their pace, so great the dexterity with which they dart in and out and over all obstacles. It is true that sometimes they leave an unaccustomed traveller behind them on the wooden pavement, but they generally find it out, and come back for him, giv ing him at the same time a caution to hold harder when he rides in a drotschki. There were lots of them strolling in the Nevskoi to -day, and they seemed very jolly and contented. THE SELF-SWIMMER. M. Danduran, a French civil engineer, now in London, has invented an ingenious little apparatus under this designation, which he exhibited on the Serpentine on Wednesday, by means of which per sons wholly unable to swim, including oven women and children, may be protected from drowning under all ordinary circumstances ; and in the re collection of all the calamitous accidents which have occurred this very summer, and are constantly happening from bathing, we are but performing a service to humanity in bringing an invention under public notice in the least calculated to prevent or lesson such lamentable casualties. It simply con- 1 sists of two round instruments, made of tin, zinc, or copper, enclosed at both ends, each about 15 inches iu length, of the diameter of an inch and a half at one extremity and four or five inches at the othef, aild constructed in a crescent shape so as to accommodate themselves to the armpits, where they are intended to be used. They are covered over with any kind of light linen fabric, and fastened together with a few yards of strong riband in such a manner that a person can put on the apparatus in a Moment, as if it were a waistcoat, and with or without his or her ordinary clothing. Its buoyant power is so great, that any one wearing it in water cannot by any possibility sink, though wholly unused to sWimming as an art ; and another essential cha racteristic of it is that it invariably, under all cir cumstances, maintains the head and shoulders abot'e vratet, Even to an expert person it would be of immense advantage in an emergency, in enabling him to rest at pleasure when he bad a long distance before him to swim or a tempestuous sea to contend with, and it might be the means of his salvation in case of an attack of cramp; while to one wholly ignorant of the art of swimming it would L 6 if the last imnortance, for it wo:ild keep him above water l indefinite length of tir& - ,s, or until relief came to his aid, I - lad Mr. gitaveri; worn it when bathing at Scarborough the other day WO should not have heard of the casualty which deprived him of life, nor, with it, would the two sans of Mr. Cunningham, of King's College, or the near relative of Dr. Vorbea Winslow have met with so deplorable an end. If all persons, indeed, made it a point never to bathe without the uso of M. Danduran's apparatus, the public mind would cease every now and then to be wcuuded by such sad accidents as these, and friends would be spared the grief which prostrates them in such cases. The instrument is also invaluable as an aid in learning to swim, enabling, as it does, the novice to lay himself at once along the water without the slight est danger of sinking, which is the first requisite to the acquisition of the art. M. Danduran will exhibit his apparatus on the Serpentine about 3 o'clock every afternoon on which the weather will permit for a few days. A board of Engineer officers concluded an inquiry yesterday . afternoon at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, into the circumstances connected with the accident which took place on Chatham Lines on Tues;lay during the siege operations. The accident is now understood to have arisen in consequence of the wires of the voltaic battery, used in firing the gunpowder, having acciden tally come in contact iief ore the men had left the loth!: ment. The proceedings of the hoard will be forwarded to tho Duke of Cambridge. Naval and Military Intelligence. Major de Moleyns, of the Royal Engineers, died at his father's house in Dublin on the 17th inst. This gal lant young officer was only 23 years of age, and his pre mature demise was the result of excitement and fatigue during a protracted service in the trenches before Se bastopol. The following military movements are taking place in Scotland :—The 34th Regiment has been selected to gar rison Edinburgh Castle ; a detachment, consisting of three officers and 220 men, arrived there on Wednesday . from Preston, and another detachment is to leave Glas gow for Edinburgh on Friday ; the 34th will also oc cupy Greenlaw Barracks, nine miles south of Edinburgh. The depot of the 93d Highlanders is en route from Dun dee to Dover, leaving Dundee without troops. On Tuesday the band of the 42d Highlanders left Stirling Castle for Gravesend. The depot of the 71st High landers is expected to arrive in Stirling Castle in a few days. The 21st Fusiliers are ordered from Birr (Ire land) to Glasgow, as also the depot of the 2d battalion of the Ist Royals from Fermoy to that city. The screw steamship Brunswick, 80, Captain R. H. Yelverton, went from Hamoaze into Plymouth sound on Tuesday. The Cambridge, 78, having been masted, was takea into the new dock at Devonport on Tuesday to have her copper examined and repaired. Her crew got tops over mastheads the same day. The sloop Camilla, 16, was placed to her sailing moorings at Devonport on Tuesday. The iron screw steam-transport Imperial, No. 188, Captain Gibson, from Balaklava, with stores for Ports mouth, which left Constantinople July 23, Malta July 31, and Gibraltar Aug. 9, put into Plymouth Sound on Wednesday, short of coal. Yesterday (Thursday) 30 officers and 864 men of the 4th Regiment of Foot embarked at Liverpool, on board the steam-transport Pacific, for Dublin. The Pacific will return to Liverpool on Saturday with the depots of the 49th and 89th Regiments. On the sth of September 2 officers, 150 men, 13 car riages, and 81 horses of the Royal Artillery will sail from Liverpool for Dublin. The following troops, selected from the depots of the 64th, 74th Highlanders, 78th Highlanders, 83d, and 86th Regiments, left Chatham barracks at an early hour yesterday morning and proceeded by railway to Gravesend, where they embarked on board the Earl of Balcarres for Bombay, for the purpose of joining the head. quarters of their respective regiments in that presidency, viz. :-64th Regiment, 35 me❑ ; 74th Highlanders, 45 men ; 78th Highlanders, 65 men ; 83d Regiment, 6$ men ; 86th (Royal County Down) - Regiment, 62 men— giving a total of 275 men of all ranks, and the following Jfficers :--Lieutenant F. Du Bois Lukis, 64th Regi ment ; Lieutenant F. D. Wyatt and Ensign F. Kean, 74th Highlanders ; Captain D. Hastings, Lieutenant A. W. P. Weekes, and Ensign J. Sinclair, 78th High landers ; Lieutenant J. S. Keddle, Lieut. H. Gandy, Lieutenant G. L. Huysche, Ensign W. H. Ivimy, and Ensign B. Charnley, 83d Regiment ; Ensign S. W. Sewell, Ensign C. Keane, and Ensign Fowler, 16th Regiment. In addition to the above, 25 women and children embarked with the detachments. _ The Russell, 60, screw steam-ship, bas been taken into the basin and divnasted, and is ordered to be placed in the steam squadron of reserve, under Capt. Halsted, of the Edinburgh. All the engineer staff belonging to the Retribution, 28, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, Capt. T. Fisher, have been re-appointed to her to serve in her next commission. Mr. Ward, the Master, recently appointed by the Admiralty to the Retribution, bas been declared by a medical board incapable of active service in his present state of health. Mr. Ward's appointment has therefore been cancelled by the Admiralty. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty : Lieut. T. H. Greer, to the Inflexible ; Lieut.J. Nott, to the Retribution ; Lieut. J. E. Hunter, to the Retri bution ; Wm. F. Hains, Master, to the Retribution ; Wm. Jefferey, Master, to the Blenhim ; S. Sibley, Mas ter, to the Tortoise ; L. M. Mallett, Midshipman, to the Wasp ; J. T. Cammilleri, Midshipman, to the Wasp ; A. A. S. Watts, Midshipman, to the Wasp ; G. A. W. Birch, Naval Cadet, to the Cs:mar ; C. F. M. Gordon, Naval Cadet, to the Royal Albert ; J. C. Burrell, Naval Cadet, to the Brunswick ; J. P. Bayly, Naval Cadet, to the Brunswick ; T. B. Hamilton,' Naval Cadet, to the Cressy ; R. F. E. Morison, Paymaster, to the Hecate ; P. H. Kean, Assistant• Surgeon (confirmed), to the Colossus ; W. J. Lewis, Assistant-Surgeon, to the Dauntless ; and W. H. Carter, Assistant-Surgeon to the Wasp. FIRE AT LIVERPOOL. A. block of buildings in Shaw's alley, Mersey-street, Liverpool, was on Wednesday morning burnt to the ground, and six persons burnt to death in their beds,. The Liverpool Daily Post of yesterday thus describes the terrible disaster : " The lower portion of the premises whisk were the scene of this morning's conflagration, was occupied by Robt. Dodds as a bakehouse, and has been so for more than three years. It was in this part of the edifice that the fire originated, and it was discovered by an old man named John Gallacher, who worked with Mr. Dodds, and who slept in the bakehouse. About 1 o'clock Gal lecher was awoke by a strong heat, and on springing up he discovered that the tables and the stairs, as well as the door of the bakehouse were in a blaze. He imme diately rushed out, shouting 'Fire I' as loud as he was able, the fames following him in a dense volume. "° On the landing cf the stair above the bakehouse a poor lad, about 12 years old, named Patrick Roach, one of the street shoeblacks, had been for some time paet a tolerated lodger, and was also awoke by the heat and crackling of the flames ; he, as fast as possible, huddled on his clothes, and shouted up stairs to alarm the sleep ing inmates of the upper floors. In doing this the firs gained so rapidly upon him as to envelope the stairs and cut off the possibility of his retreat. In this perilous predicament the only alternative which presented itself to the poor little fellow was to leap from the window, a height of about 14 feet, which he luckily accomplished without sustaining any injury. "As soon as it was possible to gain access to the pre mises the firemen rushed in to rescue the inmates who it was known had not come out, and whemit was hoped they might be able to save. On gaining entrance, how ever, the appalling fact was revealed that the unhappy sufferers were beyond the reach of aid. The principal portion of the upper premises, to the back, was in the occupation of Mr. Fagan, who kept a small book and chart shop in the neighbourhood of the Custom-house. On entering the apartments occupied by him, he and his wife and three children were all found dead, 'several of them being very severely scorched. Mr. Fagan was about 45 years of age, and the children were aged ' respectively about 8,5, and 2 years. "The uppermost floor, or attic, was occupied as the ! sleeping-room of a man named Wade, about 74 years of age, who kept a children's school in the floor below. He also was found lying dead, and much scorched. The bodies were removed to the deadhoase." _ _ An inquest was held upon the bodies of the deceased before Mr. Statham, the deputy coroner, yesterday atter noon, when the following evidence was adduced : Timothy Moran, joiner, Sharland-street, said, the de ceased, Daniel Wade, was his father-in-law. He was TI years ef age. Had seen him lying dead in the dead house that morning. He lived in th 3 house which was burnt down. Witness had seen the house in ruins that morning. Thomas Carpenter, boarding-house-keeper, living in Charlotte-place, knew the deceased John Fagan and his wife very well, and the house where they lived in Shaw's alley, where they had lived about two years. They lived. in the top floor. Deceased had a glass of punch with witness at his house at a quarter past 11 o'clock on Wed nesday night. He was perfectly sober when he left wit. ness's house. His wife was a very sober woman. Fagan was a chart and bookseller, and had a small shop and stall opposite the Customhouse. Patrick Roach, aged about 11 years, stated that ort Wednesday night he was sleeping on the landing of the stairs when the fire took place. About half-past o'clock in the morning heard an old man who slept in the cellar shoat " Fire," and witness then shouted " Fire" upstairs, but could get no answer. Witness saw the fire coming under the door of the oilskin place, and was obliged to make his escape out of the window. He then went for a policeman to Park-lane. Brought az officer, who went off for additional assistance. While on the stairs witness beard Mrs. Fagan scream out, but did not see her. When witness got into the street he saw the old man Wade, who slept in the top room, come to the window, and heard him call out ," Is there no help !" He said nothing more, but appeared to fall back from the window. John Gallacher, an old man, formerly a Beeman, stated that he had recently worked in Robert Dodd's bake house, 14, Shaw's-alley. Slept in the bakehouse on Wednesday night. Neither of the ovens was heated after 6 o'clock that night. They had been heated in the morning to bake dinners. The ovens were heated with sawdust. There was not much sawdust on the premises on Wednesday night. Went to bed about 11 o'clock, having first turned the gas off at the meter. Witness was awakened this morning by the crackling of the fire on the stairs. He immediately got up and ran into the street in his shirt. He afterwards tried to get his clothes, but could not, and went into a neighbour's hones, where he remained until daylight. A man named M'Carthy occupied the first floor. He made oilskin coats for sailors. Did not think any one was in that roof" on Wednesday night. The top floor was occupied by Mr. Fagan and his family, who occupied the front roore, and the schoolmaster (Wade) the back room. Witness did riot know how the Ere commenced. When he first save the fire on the stairs it bad not communi cated with the eilskin room. Robert Dodds, who occupied the bakehouse, said he baked three times, the last time being about five in the evening. The oven was heated w ith sawdust, Nvhich was put in the bottom, lighted, and stirred up with a Poker. Witness rented the entire premises, and sub let tot the poor people who were burned. The stock in trade eves ire/eared fcr 1001. in the Liverpool and London office. Bartholomew M'Carthy, who occupied the middle room as an oilskin m anufacturer, w a n als o examined. He stated that be w as not on the pre last night. There was no oil in the p l ace , and he had had no fire there for some time. Wm. Ryan salor-boy, belonging to the ship Isaac: Webb, deposed that he saw the old man Gallacher stand ing at the bakehouse door, calling "Fire." Witness ran fur a policeman. The fire-brigade afterwards came, and after the fire had been subdued witness mounted a ladde and went into the top room, where he saw the bodies of Fagan, his wife, and three children. The body of the woman was under the window, resting on the shoulders, with her feet towards the window. John Fagan, the father, bad his legs burnt off. He and the children were huddled together in a corner. The following verdict was returned :--‘' That the de ceased persons met their deaths by being burnt, but how ' the fire originated there is us , evictions to