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SERVICES. —During the recent heavy gales some of the hosts of the Royal Na ional Litenoat Institution have been instrumental in rescuing the crews of the following wrecked vessels :—Schooner Theophi lus, of Aberdeen, 5 men ; barque Tamworth, of Norway, 17; schooner Northern Lights, of Preston, 4 • pilot boat, of St. Ives, 7 ; schooner Aron, of Wo r kinton:4 ; schooner Gipsy, o f Drogheda, 4; sm ac k S aucy Jack,'of Inverness, 1 ; barque iv! arietta, of Lisbon, fishing boat,l ; fishing boat, of Filey, 2 • ' Tenby 3 ; and barque Providence, of Dantzio, 7. Total lives saved, 55. The liieboats also assistea in bringing* safety into port, with their crews, consisting of 29 men, the Italian brig Camogline, the schooner Sir Cohn Campbell, of Whitby, the schooner Guilts, of Palermo, and the ketch Snip, of Am sterdam. The lifeboats also went otf in reply to signals of distress on fourteen occasions, but their services were not ultimately required. The amount of reward p tid for all these services was £216. The Committee of the Institution earnestly AP PEAL to the public for ASSISTANt,E to enable shorn to meet the con tinued heavy demands on the Society's 125 lileb Jat estab lishments. Contributions are receiv, d by all the Lon'ton and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, .1, hn-street, Adelphi, London. IfOYAL.ENGLIS ti OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, for the 11th time, Balfe's new Opera, BLANCHE DE NEVERS : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Anna Hiles, Ntiss Emma Heywood; Messrs.W. H. Weiss, H. Corri, A. Cook, A. et. Albyn, C. Lyall, J. Rouse, and W. Harrison. To conclude with the Second Act of THE DESERT FLOWER. Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon. Doors open at half-past Six— ommence at Seven TR EATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE. A, Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform the Farce of MY a KART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS: characters by Mr. j. Neville, Mr. G. Weston, Mr. Warde, Mr. J. Marris ; Mrs. C. Melville, and Miss Harficur. After which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED. Messrs. helps, Ryder, Rayner, M-agrreson, Ward, Spencer ; Miss Eburne, Miss E. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E. Falconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss ititter, Miss Cicely Not?, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift. Followed by BEAUTY OR THE BEAST. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Addison, G. F. Neville, Barret, bpeucer, and G. Weston; Mrs Edmund Falconer and Miss K. Leclerq. TaEATRE ROY AL HAY NIA RKET.— Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, SILKEN FETTELtS : Messrs. Chas. Mathews, Chippenlale, IV. Farren, Howe, Sze. Mesdames C. Mathews and M. Harris. Followed by T LIE GOLDEN FLEECE ITesqrs. Charles Mathew,, Compton,Weathersby,&c.; Mesdames C. Mithews, L Keeley. Griffith, .te. Followed be COW. AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. C. Mathews. And LITTLE DAISY. Commence at 7. PRINCESS'S THE ATRE.-FIERRMANN.- The public are respectfully int .rmed that there will be NO PEII4`OIISIANCE THIS EVENING, in consequence of Herr Herrmann s being commanded to perform at Frogmore before their Royal ►tighnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DE XIONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Every Evening until further notice. HI -; EVENING, the Comedietta, by W. Gilbert, entitled UNCLE BABY: MeNs•s. Widdicornbe, J.G. Shore, Charles; Miss P. Leclercq, and Carlotta Leclercq. After which, at ELght o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian Chronicle ~" by Mr. John Brouvam. Principal cr)arac ter by Mr. Fechter, suppoyted by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Bruu, - rh , ,m, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Andrews, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, Mrs. Lee, and Miss Elsworthy. Doors open at half-past 6—commence at 7. LEAH. -EVERY NIGHT. MISS BATENIAN.-LEAH.-THIS EVENING, , the 57th appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss 3 ?-rF.MAN, in the character of LEAH. In consequence of 111;.11nbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso nation Of the prikcipal character in the new Five Act Drama that'Aß has been attended, Mr Webster begs to announce it noti ce. übe performed EVERY EVENING until further THEATRE-RO DIAL, ADELPHI.- TC THIS RI, .. l 'eonrietor and Manager. M. B. Webster. Stirling. E KlNG, at 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs. psul t , B B , ll t p h p e or:e , dl7)},ra s. ma of LEAH: Bth Ire:sK of' Miss Bate O B n i , ni S n t gt ua c3 r n i,.g tei T h e e B r , 0S Our Stirling, R. Phillips, Bil- H. Arthur Miss Simms, and 20 conclude w an7l - Mr. btepheeeto ll o" IRISH TIGER: Miss K. Kelly R OYAL si, n T I T'S EVE NI NG, Manager, D Sw THEATRE. Roney, anborough. ; P ar selle, Belford,min TaS CRIME. Mess rs . G eo . M an ders. r, miss K. Saville, and Mies Followed by (10th time) 'R e turn of Ulysses. Messrs, )4445 PENELOPE • or, The ti wanboroug,rh aad SiMpg o n. a nd Fenton ; desdames Mr After which, UT PLAC E, Commence at?. A. Wood. 110YAL SADLEWS-NVELL,------------ 'Mies Marriott. a;anai4ercss, T HE A-TUE, T lIIS EVENING, the successful ne w p us • Marston, ESQ., entitled PUNE Gt,LD : sia , r by Westl an d 11. Marston, D. 11. Jones, W. D. Gresham. s . 1 1; E. p„ eips, Ata.ndlebert, „Nirs. B. White , and Miss Marriot t ' e rfitt ; m iss To conclude With THE BRIGAND : Mr. D. R. Jones, 3landiebet t. nes, Lisa Box-office open from 11 to 4. Wills and Bequests. st - The will of Sir Samuel John Bonham, Bart., K.C.B . formerly Governor of Prince of Wales Isiand, Singapore, Malacca, and Hong-Kong, and her Majesty's plenipoten• tiary in China —was proved in London by the executors and trustees, Henry Scott Turner, Esq.; Commander C. lir• Bonham, R N. ; James Guthrie, Esq. ; and Captain C. P. Teesdale, "formerly my aide-de-camp in China." Sir Samuel died on the &h of October last, at the Great - 'Western Royal Hotel Paddingtcn, at the age of 00, having executed his will in April, and a codicil in July, both in the present year. His personal property in this country was sworn under £120.000. After tusk ing some spmific and pecuniary legacies, he directs - that his plate, jewellery, Chinese and other orna• meats, screens, and all articles of virtue shall be retained 1 his only son, b u t o th er movea b le effects may be sold. Sr fo th irr sanincl. has left to his t rus t ees t h e whole of his property un.,,,,x : ben, fit of his son; b u t i n th e event of his son dyin ” ; rieci, before attaining the ego of 25, or intestate, then h l "roPerty is l e ft t o certa i n parties named, also to some Pita' The ' n Loudon an d ot h er charitable institutions. will , 131 Charl es R aw li ngs, Esq , o: Great Maribo • roug-street, a Lond u on 11 „, 12 , n il eheyne-walk Chelsea, was proved in the relict, tag, ;t i a ,,, ) ' 6 ". The executors appointed are Percy Phillip s , 3 - 4 s ' w ith , Thomas EUiot Price and James and contains q' B The The wi;l be ,rs date March, 1863, ,1,„„, as well , t 8 _ _ ll 2 y legacies to relatives and personal 11.,01:0's'"it' life interest i i',4 titatitable bequests. His widow eciariPs are left to two 0 1 00es tes idue, and u p on h er d ecease Tl.e ulti'xisre residua h e hssabnle the w i .low of a nephew. thul,•s ftawlint,xs, Esq. T he f , ol. lll , ef .t th e a to his nephew. 1 ving ara the ctiaritable 00 • Dramatic h,t ! irsts w Clockmakers' 0 "nPatty x, (-; ,1122 - e, ..C10;. Jewellers' Annuity s : , ei l . . , eV, 10(); Gold- I , -,, -a ler t smiths oehev•; Chelsea , • Aseociatien, £2OO ; Che!sea Rectors' o,,rden R 'lief I £I2C/0; Infant School, Sr. Luke's, Ch e l sea, £200; Chelsea, 1 Brornpou, ;:nil Bel:;rave Dlspensary , X 500; eh e i s .: l _ Be :. tional D a y a nd Sunday Schools, £2OU ; cit y , 4 a .: N eon - , .0 Truss S u ci e y, .•500 ; society of Musicians, £ 1 00; iteroirni Is ,- 3ocistion, . 1 -..:101.); Biind institution, Euston-road ; £2 OO ; and Westminster Hospital, £5OO. All legacies to be tees:A e gaeY duty, - -lieustratecLionaTon News, Dee. 5. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, san be had Every Evening of G. IL GLENIE, NEws AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. fins DAY.—Morning, 712. 44m.—Afternoon, Bb.. 15m. ;70-moßnow.-Morning, Bh. 50m.—Afternoon, 9h. 23m. The Weather--Sun Office, Dec. 4, 1863. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock .................... 41 Barometer-30.30; a rise of an inch since yesterday. „ Wind—S.-W. ; moderate breeze, and fine. s e, 103 t u or's 444 14 4.0') LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 4, 1863. M. FOULD'S report upon the French Finances comes rather as an anti-climax after the EMPEROR'S reference to those Finances in his MAJESTY'S inau gural address to the Senators and Deputies upon the opening of the French Leglislature, It will be remembered that in that inaugural address, NAPo- LEON 111. spoke thus distinctly and positively as to the financial situation of the empire. "The session now taking place," said his MAJESTY, " a little later than ordinary, the report of the Minister of Finance has not yet been published." The EMPEROR was speaking, recollect, on the sth of November. "It will be so (that is, published) immediately." M. FOULD'S Report upon the Financial Situation, now but just given to the world, being dated, how ever, it will be perceived, on Monday the Ist of December—very nearly a whole month afterwards. Reverting, nevertheless, to the notable words uttered by the Emperor of the FRENCH in anticipation of his Minister's report upon the inaugural day of the Legislative session, we find his MAJESTY speaking thus hopefully, or at any rate, encouragingly, "You will there see," he remarked, meaning in the report when published, " that if our hopes are nut completely realised, the revenues of the coun try have still continued to advance and improve, and that, without extraordinary resources we have met the expenses occasioned by the war in Meiico and Cochin China." The passage is so important, however, to our thinking, as contrasted with M. FouLD's actual statement, now that it has been publishes, not immediately, but some five weeks afterwards, that we are tempted to give here the EMPEROR'S ipsissima verba :—" V ons y verrez que, si nos esperances ne se soot pas completcment realiLees, les revenns ont suivi tine marche ascen dente, et que, sans ressources extraordinaires, nous avons fait face aux depenses occasionneas par la guerre au Mexique et en Cochinchine." After which very comforting assurance from the lips of the Sovereign himself, comes now, rather, as we have said, as an anticlimax, under the un compromising and pitiless hand of the EM PEROR'S Minister of Finance, the demand of another extraordinary loan—a loan of no less than three hundred million francs, that is, about twelve millions of pounds sterling—really and truly in order to meet the deficit caused by those very wars in Mexico and in Cochin China. To meet the deficit so caused, it is true, and to have some three mil lions sterling to the good, over and above it, after wards. For it is to be remarked that, whereas the deficit notified by M. FOULD amounts to seven millions sterling, the loan he asks for is for twelve millions. In bringing forward that bald proposi tion, however, M. FOULD does so with no evidence on his own part, as Finance Minister, of either de jection or disappointment. Ho is sanguine that the Mexican debt will at some vague future time be liquidated. He is especially hopeful that a rational economy may, before much longer, be adventured upon by France, in common with the rest of the Great Powers of Europe, with or without the aid of a Congress—a rational economy by means of a general diminution of a war expenditure in a time nominally of peace. Realise those delight ful anticipations of M. FOULD, and no doubt all will become very pleasantly rose-coloured ! Let tha Mexican debt be liquidated, let the ruinous rivalry among the European Powers in the way of warlike armaments by sea and by land, during this interval of general tranquillity, cease, and the happiest future is, no doubt of it, clearly before the French Finance Minister, be that Minister M. ACHILLE FOULD, or some as yet undreamt . of successor. For, the truth is undeniably propitious in this way, both in regard to the Financial condition of France and of England —namely, that but for our extravagant riv a l r y i n warlike armaments by sea and by land the resource s of the two countries are steadily and wonderfully on the increase, Insomuch is this the attnal position of things on both sides of the British Channel, that, let but there be a mutual reduction of extravagant armaments, and the annual deficit would in each instance become transformed into an annual and year after year an increasing sur plus. This, moreover, in despite of very untoward circumstances circumstances as untoward, for example, and as extraneous, so to speak, in their origin and consequences as that most deplorable and protracted civil war in America, the results of which are au seriously adverse to the mercantile and shipping interests of both France and England. Of one thing, however, 11. FOULD may rest per fectly well assured, while asking for this new and extraordinary loan of twelve millions, namely, that he will obtain it without any difficulty whatever. Experience has shown, more than once, how impli citly the EMPEROR may rely upon the confidence reposed by the French people alike in the strength and solvency of his Government. He has had but to ask, and his demands have been invariably granted, upon the instant, by the nation, and granted, too, with hands running over with substantial tributes to h im, far beyond his own immediate requirements. It• ______ ___ l , 14 by this time pretty generally known that tue strict neutrality which Earl RUSSELL proposes to obse rve r ortant imp e lepecti ng th e A mer i can W ar, a d m i ts o f ztions on one a id e at a ll events. I t is true that a of eur principal man u f ac t ures ha s been paralysed, that thousands of English work men and their familie s s ave paid a bitter price for the mad ambition of the Northern State's out of re gard to our immaculate 4" i h d e but these fact s do n ot vreveut pendent neutrality, balance from I'd being heavily wei g hed o n one side, °- We may ad mit foreign spie s to p r y abo ut our. private working establishments f rom the one, although we c annot receive accredited re p resentatives of th e other ; we may b ea r with patience the dictation of ... ~ foreign Minister, and aeccitt his continual hints and sug gestions as to the course most proper for us to tak e , but we may not recognize the existence of th at adversary he has apparently so flinch cause to fear. Our Ministers may stretch a point of law to the utmost possible extent, nay they may even overstep the limits of constitutional law as well. as of indi vidual courtesy with regard to an Englishman of character and standing, but they may conveniently overlook a direct infringement of the very same law in another quarter. The law, which by any reading of it, renders it illegal to export unarmed. vessels because th e y mar b e use d f or t h e pur p os es f ammunition todirectooe vier, must ce r t a i n ly app l y w i t h d ou bl e force to the of exportation ttle belligerents, yet theand THE SUN, LOA DON, FEIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1861 gham might sho w still more striki ng a r e oe very y d s o f curiousßirkenheads t and . T B h i a r m t n instance of partiality is continually exhibited in another part of our dominions is a fact generally admitted, but, thanks to the waters of the Irish Channel, it is not thrust so conspicuously upon our notice, and the supporters of Lord PALMERSTON may conveniently ignore it. If it be an infringe ment of neutrality to furnish one of the combatants with ships, what is it to supply the other with men ? Can fancy picture the indignant excitement of Mr. ADAMS, the horror of Earl RUSSELL, the rage of the whole American nation, if a regular system of en listment was found to be going on at one of our seaports on behalf of the Confederates ? Yet that a wholesale invasion of the Foreign Enlistment Act is actually carried on by the agents and officers of the Federal Government in Ireland, there is very little reason to doubt. If the supply of men from thence were stopped, the grand armies of the North would soon dwindle away considerably. It is im possible, of course, to prevent men from emigrating with a view to subsequent enlistment, but at least some effort should be made to check that enlist ment being openly carried on in our ports by a Go- vernment which so loudly proclaims its impartiality, and, in pursuance of the duties of neutrality, thinks fit to confiscate unfinished and unarmed vessels. Two curious documents have been forwarded to a contemporary, authenticated by the name and address of the sender, which contain the declarations of two Irishmen before one of the Justices of the Peace for the borough of Cork. These men state that an American war steam frigate came into the harbour of Queenstown on the 2d of November, and that in consequence of its being generally circu lated through the town that she was enlisting men, they went on board, each in company with one or two other men. The pay was to be twelve dollars a month, and the men were well received,.being provided with meals. One of them was refused an account of his height, but his two companions were engaged. The other passed inspection, but changed his mind for some reason which he does not give, and came back in the pilot boat. Both men agree in affirming that there were from 150 to 200 men taken on board, the most part being Irish. The American consul for Queenstown and his agent were on board, and remained some time in conver sation with the officers, so that the wholesale system of enlistment thus carried on can scarcely be dis owned by American officials. The open manner in which it was done, and the object of the ship in coming there being known throughout the town, afford pretty good evidence that Earl RUSSELL'S remonstrances do not inspire so much respect in the minds of his Federal friends as their threats do him. Or is it that the bias of the Foreign Secretary is so well known by the Northern Govern ment and its agents. that it is considered to be useless trouble to keep up appearances, seeing that their offences are sure to be weighed in a very different balance from any act of the Confederates. Guns and commodities of various kinds have doubt less left this country for both sides, but if the rela tive proportions were accurately known, the result would not be very flattering to Northern indepen dence or to English non-intervention. It is the worst kind of inactive intervention which brings all the resources of a vast trading community to supply the needs of the one, while any effort of the other to obtain what it wants is met by a universal outcry. Englishmen are not sufficiently quixotic to go cn in any line of business at a heavy loss, and Earl RUSSELL and Mr. ADAMS have taken care that the owners of the Alexandra and of the Birkenhead rams shall suffer enough from litigation, delay, and annoyance, that smaller capi talists may well hesitate before undertaking trade engagements with the South. If it was the Cabinet of Washington that happened to want half a dozen Monitors, armed, equipped, and manned, how pleasantly and easily matters might be ar ranged. How conveniently the English authorities might look another way while the vessel bteamed out of the harbour—how slight would be the obstacles put in the way by the Custom-house. It must be a great satisfaction to Mr. SEWARD and his fellows to know that when the ranks of the army of the Potomac,which we hear so much about, are thinned, they can always be supplied in the English dominions; when their naval force has suf fered f: om encounters with the Power that has no navy, all that is necessary can be obtained from the strictly impartial English. We have certainly a good right to admire and appreciate the courage and determination with ss hich the Southern States maintain the struggle against heavy odds, when We ourselves have contributed so consistently and kindly to the assistance of their enemies, and to the increase of their difficulties. Mr. ADDERLEY'S last letter on Punishment and Reformation contains some reflections that may be of essential service to those whom it may con cern, or, indeed, to the public generally ; for, apart from the mere official set who require more or less advice and assistance in the discharge of their one rous and complicated duties, the whole country has a direct interest in the subject, since the safety of many is closely connected with the right treatment of this important matter. Mr. ADDERLEY'S chief point of discussion in this letter is the " present mode of discharging criminals from punishment." On this he comments at some length, and his stric tures are for the most part most just ones. It is a notorious fact, that the plans adopted of late years, and which were generally considered to be so wise and humane, have almost utterly failed, and that the result has been that the ends of jus tice have been defeated, and the return of the criminals to active life has been marked by a decided &sire to resume the evil of their ways. Hence the greatest consternation has been experi enced in many quarters, and universal indigna tion expressed at the latitude allowed to prisoners, and the false pi inciples which have guided their treatment, and pervaded the establishments wherein penal servitude is carried out. Enormous sums are expended every year in the mangethent of these prisons; and if the end is to be that safety is not preserved, and a due terror inspired by the idea of imprisonment, it would appear that the money is wasted, the time thrown away, end the system a decided failure. It is not quite the thing for the general public to abandon the consideration of this subject, until their attention is aroused by the grievous annoyances to which they are exposed, and the great discomforts that many have to endure. This not at all the right way of treating the question. It should be calmly and cautiously regarded, and all its bearings taken into account. Then, when objections have been studied, fallacies exposed, proposals consid ere d, an d theori es ana l yse d , some real and lasting benefit may perch ance accrue, and t h e w h ole framework ho ch anged herent to e e je r i ; a while so imperceptibly are the appli ances introdu ce d that no sneering and captious ad the old routine can possibly declare that we are acting under e fga,:.o., .Nin nd n iistituting what may be called a "panic ADDERLEY'S suggestions are in every way eminently worthy of regard ; and even if their intrinsic ' merits were not so great, there would be this advantage in them, that they call attention to the subject, and may stimulate others to go and do likewise, so that at last something beneficial may be imparted to tilt affair. It is particularly in a case like the one before us that it is so difficult to discern the right road to take, and to discriminate between conflicting opi nions, so as to take the best and wisest course to arrive at a safe and satisfactory conclusion. It may well be said of this convict question, in its treat ment by divers experimentalists, Tot homines, tot sententice. It is incumbent upon all who are in any way responsible for the public safety, and the due observance of those regulations which are insepa rably associated with the decorum of society, to in vestigate all the particulars of the system now in vogue. Mr. ADDERLEY complains of the ticket-of leave system. Its first fault is, that freedom is mixed up with punishment, and another error is, that the conditions imposed are valueless, so that a regular discharge would be infinitely preferable. It has been found by practice that this once vaunted plan has been a total failure, and that it afflrds ample opportunity for the worst charac ters to resume their evil ways, while the more timorous are worried into wrongdoing by the per tinacious espionage practised upon them, and the prejudice entertained against them in many quar ters. Mr. ADDERLEY - thinks that the establishment at Lusk, where the Irish convict system is pursued, is open to objection, as it is not sufficiently distin guished from a prison. It would answer better if it were more of an "adult reformatory," and not at all as a third stage of penal servitude. Mr. ADDER LEY is against the proposal of sending convicts to Western Australia. He prefers discharged ones going out as free labourers. This to be conducted assisted by f un d s f rom th e by private agency', Treasury, for he says the market of the world will be before them, and this plan will not complicate the Government. It is, however, to be questioned if this idea can be carried out altogether. In the first place, sufficient sums will not he'raised to meet all ihe requirements, atid, the plan - of the society - receiving subsidies from Government may cause confusion and lead to failure eventually. Still with all its difficulties the notion is in all respects incomparably preferable to the measures now taken, and if no better are to be devised there is no valid reason why it should not be tried. Nothing is done without time and trouble in a case of this sort, and it does not appear that our authorities are willing to recognise this important fact. Tbey seem too ready to fancy that, if they spend large sums and employ a considerable staff, the sys tem must work as it has done alr ea d y . B ut criminals d o not , any mor e than th e rest o f us, re main unchanged amid this changing scene, and it behoves those who take the charge of them to study the revolutions that take place in social existence, and the altered features of a case that experience brings under notice. It does not matter whether or not the ticket-of-leave system answered when it was first introduced. It is better to assume that it did do so, to avoid discussion on an irrelevant topic. It suffices to say that it does not do so now, and had better be given up, and some other mode devised. It is very bad to go on so long without coming to a settlement on this question; it is apt to make the criminal population imagine that there is no really effective check to be put upon their proceedings, and that an unequal warfare will be waged which will end in their ultimate success. It is important that the majesty of the law should be vindicated at once, and with such decision and energy that there may remain no doubt that its institutions are powerful to restrain vice in all its ramifications, and to enferce the severest penalties against those who persist irr the tommission of crime. At the same time it should be distinctly understood that due assistance will be offered to those who wish to re turn up the steep ascent that separates them from the pleasant paths of honesty and we 1-doing. Until these advantages are offered in a convict establish ment it cannot be said that its mission is fully and faithfully carried out ; nor can its upholders arro gate any right to themselves of adhering to the plans which common sense and practical experience have alike pronounced against and declared as incompetent and insecure. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, DEC. 3. It is said that the Bank of France has not yet been affected by the action of the Bank of England, and the amount of bullion held by the former was to-day 212 millions francs, or about seven millions more than at the date of the last return. The Gale.---Lifeboat Services. TENET, Thursday Night.—At daylight this morning, the weather being moderate, several cod boats went off to their fishing lines as usual. S u dd en l y, a b out 9 a.m, i t came on to blow a very severe ga l e o f w i n d f rom t h e N. N. W. Th e larger, fishing boat s manage d t o reac h th e harbour before the height of the gale,,but two of tha smaller boats were obliged to let go their grapnel, and gradually drove to leeward. It soon became evident that unless prompt measures were taken the boats and their crews would be lost, and the Tenby lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution, was, therefore, immediately launched to their assistance. The lifeboat made sail and succeeded in getting the crew, of three men, of one of the boats on board. In the meantime the smack Emma, with ten hands on board, seeing the lifeboat had gone to the rescue of the crew of the boat furthest to leeward, gallantly started off and succeeded in rescuing the crew of the other fishing boat. The lifeboat was reported to have behaved most satisfactorily. The cost of this lifeboat was presented to the Institution last sum mer by F. 31agenis, Esq., of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. HOLYHEAD, Thursday Night.—.We have had a most disastrous day here. Several vessels are ashore in the bay, and it is feared that all will be perfect wrecks. What is worse, we have had great loss of life. The lifeboat of the National Life Boat Institution was out this morning trying to afford succour, but the wind and sea completely mastered her, and compelled her to return to the shore.-5 p.m. The lifeboat has gone out again to see what can be done for the disabled seamen, but it is feared that the continued violence of the storm will prevent succour being afforded to more than one schooner, whicb has a signal of distress flying. SWANSEA, Thursday Night. —It is blowing a very heavy gale, and the new lifeboat recen tly s t a tioned at Swansea by the National Lifebo a t I nst i tut i on h a s been launched in reply to signals of distress, to the assistance of the barque Duke of Northumberland, laden with copper ore, which is 'on shore at the entrance of our harbour. The tide is still falling, and at present the crew of the vessel are compara-' tively safe, but when the tide rises again it will be night, and with the violent gale now blowing they will be in great danger. The lifeboat iatherefore in attenthitice on the vi.s sel, iu order.to bring off the crew if required. It is supposed that the barque is bilged.. EASTBOURNE, Thursday Night.—Yesterday morning, during very wild weather, two small fishing boats went off to fish. Whilst thus engaged a heavy gale sprung up from W.N.W,, during the prevalence of which one of the boats hoisted a signal of distress, upon which the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat. Institution stationed here was at once launched, with a view of rendering assistance, but before reaching the scene, however, both boats had been driven ran ashore in safety. many miles to leeward, and ultimately • TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND t.--We once heard a great millionaire repeat with much naivete a piece of advice which he had received from the first Lord Ash burton. " Always (said that great merchant) keep a ba lance of £lOO,OOO at your bankers." If there are any City capitalists of a bygone generation who follow this advice, what halcyon times do they not live in I The Bank of England pursues an uninterrupted career of prosperity. It regulates the monetary concerns of the Continent. and playa the role of monarch of the kingdom of finance, to the honour of its directors and the signal profit of the concern. The shareholders, with Bank stock at £235-237, have at least no reason to be dissatisfied. The great London bankers buy landed estates, pdrtion their daughters liber ally, pay their income tax cheerfully, and bequeath a bulky and highly satisfactory piece of parchment to the care of Doctors Commons. The joint-stock banks divide fa bulous profits and bonuses, and furnish a " sensation" section to the ordinary City quotations. A London and Westminster share, upon which £2O has been paid, may, it seems, be bought for the ridiculously small figure of £79. A Union Bank share, on which £l2 has been paid, may be had for £39. A sbare in the London Joint-stock Bank, on which £lO has been paid, may be bought for £37. The London and County Bank has called up £2O on a share which cannot 'be bought for £55. The City Bank has called up £5O per share, but the share may be sold for £llO. The Provincial of Ireland £25 shares are at £92. It i s needless to exhaust the catalogue, but it is clear that me tropolitan bankers and bank nutnagers are at present in high feather. The more adventurous capitalists, with money at command, turn:up their noses at 5 per cent., so great is the seeming sebum-fa-bee of more profitable invest ments. Yes I these are bright days for gold.—London Rer few. SPAIN. REPLY OF SPAIN TO THE CONGRESS PROPOSITION. MADRID, Dzc. 3 (Evening). The reply of the Queen to the Emperor's later of invitation to the Congress will not be discussed in the debate on the Address, which commenced to-day in the Congress. Advices have been received here from the Antilles. They contain no news of importance. MADRID, DEC. 4. The steamer Prince Alphonso arrived yesterday at Cadiz, having left Havana a fortnight ago. It is rumoured that she brings, news of fresh disasters at San Domingo. JAPAN. PARIS, DEC. 3. The Paris papers of this evening publish intelli gence from Japan, stating that Prince Satsuma asserts he inflicted severe losses upon the English in the late engagement. CHINA. TRIESTE, DEC, 3. Advices received here from Pekin, to the 3d of October, state that the General-in-Chief of the im perial troops received from the Emperor an order to strangle himself, and obeyed. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 3.—The market under the favour able impression of the financial report opened at an improvement, but it was not long maintained in consequence of the arrival of the English funds with a decline. Threes, for the Account, after having been done at 67fr. 10c., are now again at 66f. 95c,, the price of yesterday. Mobilier show an advance, being now at 1,030 fr. Railway market quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows: 41 per Cents .. 94 b 0 Do. end month.... 3 por Cents Do. end month 67 Credit Mobil-ler 1020 00. end month 1028 75 Bank Shares 3360 Credit Fonder 1190 Roman — Italian Loan 7l 50 Do. end month 7l 79 ,New ditto 7l Do. end month — Russian Austrian .. 77 Spanish Threes — Rome Debt • — Deferred BAIL' Orleans Northern .... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto Geneva Southern . . Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Loirbsrd North of Spain Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona rAYB. Cash. Amount. 955 965 955 .. 962 50 913 75 .. 920 - 871 25 .. - - 498 75 .. - - 680 - .. 681 25 506 25 .. 505 - 475 - .. 475 - 395 - .. 392 50 385 - .. 391 25 510 - .. 513 75 513 75 .. 515 . - 603 75 .. 610 - 297 50 .. 302 50 THE PEACE SOCIETY ON JAPAN. The following memorial has been presented to her Majesty the Queen, by the Home Secretary, on behalf of the Peace Society : To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, The Humble Memorial of the Committee of the Peace Society. May it please your Majesty,—The Committee of the Peace Society ask permission most respectfully to empress to your Majesty the feelings of deep sorrow and shame with which they have read the accounts that have recently reached this country of the proceedings of the British squadron on the coast of Japan, It would appear that in September, 1862, a party of English subjects, while riding on the road from Yokohama to Yeddo, were assailed by the armed retainers of a Japanese daimio, when one of them was barbarously killed on the spot, and two others were seriously wounded. For this cruel outrage the British Government demanded repa ration from the Japanese authorities. In accordance with the requisitions made by your Majesty's Foreign Secretary, the Government of the Tycoon made a formal apology, and paid into the hands of the British Charge d'Affaires at Yeddo the sum of £lOO,OOO as an indemnity for the offence. ... But, beyond the demands thus made on the central Government of Japan, it was thought right to require fur -1 ther amends from the Prince of Satsuma, whose servants, it was alleged, had been the perpetrators of the acts com plained of; and, in case of refusal, the Charge d'Affaires was instructed by the Home Government to call upon the senior naval officer on the station " to adopt such measures of reprisal or blockade, or both, as he might judge best calculated to obtain the end proposed." The particular forms of coercion suggested by the Foreign Secretary were the blockade of the port of Kagosima, and the seizure and detention, till redress was obtained, of certain steam-ships, the property of the Prince. It was lett to the judgment of the naval officers to decide whether it would be possible or advisable to shell the residence of the Prince. In August last. Lieutenant-Colonel Neale, your Ma jesty's Charge d'Affaires in Japan, proceeded with the British squadron, udder the command of Vice-Admiral Kuper, to the port of Kagosima, the capital of the Prince of Satsmua. On the 13th of that month he sent a despatch to the Prince, making certain demands for redress, as pre scribed by your Majesty's Foreign Secretary. On the fol lowing day a reply was received from the Ministers of the Prince, stating the difficulties in the way of conceding some of the demands made; one of which was, as Lieutenant- Colonel Neale explains it, that the Prince of Satsuma should deliver up his own father to condign punishment, and recommending further conference on the subject with the Government of the Tycoon. But after he received this communication, and without attempting any further nego tiation, the Chargé d'Affaires instructed Vice-Admiral Kuper at once to have recourse to measures of coercion. In the execution of these orders Vice-Admiral Kuper not only seized the Prince's steamers, and shelled his palace, as the Foreign Secretary had indicated, but destroyed the whole town of Kagosima. Nothing can be more explicit than his own language on this point. In summing up the injury inflicted upon the possessions and property of the Prince of Satsuma, he speaks not only of the disabling of many guns, the explosion of magazines, and the serious damage of the principal batteries, but of " the destruction by fire of three steamers, five large junks, the whole town of Kagosima, and the palace of the Prince." He further describes the conflagration he had created as " continuing with unabated ardour up to the time of the departure of the squadron, 48 hours subsequent to the first attack." And finally, in writ ing to the Charge d'Affaires on the 17th, he states that " the fire, which is still raging, affords reasonable ground for believing that the entire town of Kagosima is now a mass of ruins." Your Majesty's memorialists are informed that the town of Kagosima, like all Japanese ton ns, owing to the frequency of earthquakes in that country, is built of wood, and that it has, or had, a population of 150,000 or 180,000 inhabitants. Among those there must have been a large number of aged persons, of infants and young children, of the sick, the helpless, and the dying. No warning whatever was given, by which they sight have profited, to attempt to escape from the fearful fate which awaited them. And when this vast and peaceful popula tion found their homes suddenly wrapped in the flames of a universal and inextinguishable conflagration no imagina tion can adequately depict the horrors of the scene that must have ensued. The committee respectfully submit to your Majesty that this tremendous act of vengeance, inflicted by British arms, cannot be justified on any ground, they will not say co justice and humanity, but of international law, or even of the laws of war. However heinous may have been the criminality of those concerned in the act for which redress was sought, the people of Kagosima, situated at a consider able distance from the scene of the outrage, were in no re spect implicatsd in the guilt. Your Majesty's memorialists are profoundly convinced that acts like these, unhappily of too frequent occurrence in thosa remote regions, are inflicting a deep and lasting injury on the character of this country. Far from helping they create an insurmountable barrier in the way of our progress as the professed apostles of civilisation and Chris tianity in the East. They afford matter of just reproach against us to other nations, and take from us the power of remonstrance or rebuke with them, whatever acts of injus tice or oppression they may commit. They dishonoroutt; Christian profession before the face of the w orld , and may we to Um) we not justly apprehend that they may "Peevour our righteous displeasure of Him by whose signal fist c..untry has been raised to such unextunPled prosperity? powe r and The Committee of the Peace Society,u_ ‘tihaeersetfore, most jy m m to with humbly, but roost earnestly, entreaty , r ' ° grea t outrage, perpe hold your royal saucticu from this trated, in your Majesty's name, on the unolfencling people of Kagosima. m r i a lists, as in duty bound, wilt Ana your Msje,sty '8 jne LSEPH. (EASE, President. ever pray, Sco, SAMUEL GURNEY, Treasurer. UICIIARD ) Secretary, LITERATURE. Sir Guy de Guy. A Stirring Romaunt. By Rattlebrain. Illustrated by Phiz. One vol., pp. 167. Routledge and Co. Any one who may remember Mr. Alphabet Baillie's new Tale of a Tub, will understand at once our meaning, when we say that Sir Guy de Guy is akin to it, The adventures related in that won derfully absurd narrative, also in rhyme, also grotesquely illustrated, were those of a certain couple who had gone out to enjoy themselves in a sort of pic-nic together in (of all places in the wide world for a picnic !)—the desert—the level, trackless, sandy ma ilderuess! Who that ever saw that preposterous book has lost a recollection of is ? Who has net an almost painfully ludicrous remem brance of the unlucky pair who were the heroes of those memorable adventures? The long thin friend and the short stout friend—we forget their names now, or even, for that matter, it they had any ! The empty barrel they took out into the desert with them—to employ at pleasure as—a store place for their provisions, a table to dine from, a chair or stool to sit on, a wooden sort of tent or screen from the sun if propped edgeways, or—don't we recall to mind what else be sides ? A shelter from—more than the noonday sun ! A trap—far more than merely to catch a sunbeam! How the long and the short of it was this—that the lean and the fat friend were startled from their en joyment of the good things brought by them into the desert in the empty barrel, were startled from their enjoyment of those good things by the apparitio❑ of a raging, ravaging, wild Tiger ! How they dodged the tiger to and fro and all round and round the barrier of that empty barrel ! How, in the tussle with the tiger, they got into all sorts of rela tive position with him and the barrel—now the long one, now the short one, now the lean one, now the fat one, getting into the most fearful jeopardy, and then in the very nick of time getting out of it again —who could possibly say or sing but Mr. Baillie, who imagined it, or the illustrator whose comical pencil so marvellously realised his imaginings P Until— somehow or another—between the two friends (we don't mean the poet and the artist, but the two heroes, the stout one and the thin one) they managed to get their enemy, the tiger, caged under the empty barrel which they then sac down upon for safety's sake. Despair being even then, however, before them in the desert—seeing that they could not possibly contrive to leave off sitting on the barrel in order to run away, without, by so doing, of course, enabling the caged tiger to scramble out and run after them. Everyone who ever saw the work remembers, to be sure, how they did contrive to get off at last, and with safety. Namely, through the happy circum stance of the tiger, while wriggling about inside and lashing his tail about in wrath at being kept thus in ignoble durance, getting the tip of that tail of his (by an unlut.ly chance for him) through the bunghole. Whereupon the fat friend and the lean friend, holding on to the tip of that same protruding tail like grim death, haul it out by superhuman efforts, hand over hand, as if it were a coil of rope—haul it out gradually down to the very root—then tying it securely into a very tight knot—and so off—the long and the short of them, grinning, and quite at their leisure out of the wilderness. Well, precisely such another book as that was, is this Romaunt of Sir Guy de Guy—the very height of absurdity—the most ludicrous extra vagance, well imaginable—full of the most impos sible adventures—dashed off currente calamo, in rhyme by Rattlebrain—embellished with fifty won derfully ridiculous illustrations by our old friend Phiz. Seriously to criticise such a book as this would be worse than breaking a but terfly on a wheel, it would be more like roasting it cruelly before an exceedingly slow fire! All that the reader or ;the critic has to do with such a production, is to turn over the leaves, and laugh at it, and then throw it aside. The getting up of the work appears to us to be far better than the contents of it can be said in any way to merit. As a now book, it reflects the highest credit upon —the publishers I Laughing at it, we must confess, has been for us rather wearisome—the thing is just simply too absurd. It is the very exaggeration of ex travagance in the way—we cannot say of humour, for that is always delightful, and we can never have too much of it ! But we will say of broad farce and outrageous comicality. Guy Straggles, afterwards Sir Guy De Guy is the hero. The Lady Arabella, daughter of Sir Hildebrand, is the heroine. Their adventures all over the world are the incidents re lated. How outre those adventures are, we don't care,to particularize. They are beyond us altogether. As a piece of fun, we suppose it is capital. And to those who can read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest anything so very rich as this same piece of fun before us, we may venture to commend it. Certainly to none more seriously inclined than the unaffected lovers of—what we ourselves (we confess it) most unaffectedly detest and abominate—bur lesques, parodies, travesties, extravaganzas, tom fooleries in fact of all sorts and descriptions. The Cause of Lord Stamford's Retirement from the Turf. " Harkaway," in a letter to the Morning Herald, writes : " With respect to Lord Stamford's retirement from the turf, no one can be in the least surprised at the resolution arrived at immediately he witnessed the performance of Limosina for the Cambridgeshire. My only surprise is that his lordship had not retired from the turf in disgust long ere this. His career has been one marked with honourable intentions and the pure love of sport, but no owner of horses has had to contend with so many or such a continued series of expensive blunders or mortifying mishaps during the three years the turf has been honoured by his presence. It will be remembered that at Goodwood, the year before last, his lordship ran a mare called Provision against Contadina and Mr. Hall's mare. Ho then laid £3,000 to £2,000 on the two opposed to his own animal. The result was his own mare won, and he lost the £3,000. Walloon won the Cham pagne at Doncaster and he never backed it for sixpence, although it lost when he backed it at Newmarket for £2,000. When Diophantus cantered in for the Two Thousand Guineas at Newarket he scarcely won anything on the race, as ho backed Imaus to win £30,000, because, in a trial the last named, by some cause or other, was made to beat Diophantus with a stone in hand. At Ascot his lordship laid 5 to 1 on Diophantus, and Lusk positively beat him. Shortly after that Diophantus met with an accident, and was never able to race again. Ensign was also heavily backed for the Derby, but he cut up very badly. This year Brick was broken down from the effects of a severe but satisfactory trial, and will never be able to race again. His lordship also backed Automaton to win a large stake for the Derby, but on receiving a telegram to the effect that the horse was dead lame ho scratched him at once. The next day he found the horse was quite sound. Since then he has died. For the St. Leger his lord ship backed Avenger to win a large stake, although a veterinary surgeon had examined him before he was backed, and had pronounced his opinion that the horse was sure to break down. Whether that opinion ever reached Lord Stamford's ears I am not in a position to state: The last act, however, was the Limosina busi ness and the Cambridgeshire. It is soon told. ' His lordship backed her to win an immense stake. The mare was as well as any animal could be on the morning of the race, but from her appearance when at the post, and the fact that the poor thing could not get half a mile, it was the opinion of good judges that she had been poisoned, and her wretched appearance to -day leads to the inference that it is still in her system. Again, if Lord Stamford ever wanted to back his horses for any of the handicaps he found that othetristiously had obtained his stable information m ak e i r n s had forestalled him to such au extent thata coolly offered him 6 to 4 against his representative result was a fiord of a dozen or fiiteen runn h u h r r o e o p k corrsses on two or three he very properly scratched to throw out dirty insinua. stallers have thought proper occasions, for the doing of whhiicsh these unprincipled fore er° pulled. Every one the effect that hie horses W t who tions, which neither amount to a charge nor a statement, to reall knows Lord Stamford knows himincapable no ot such proceedingvn o ; o, ; maybu t t have generalbelieved tttibi ese s w i l h l have m moans of r„ chievous reis ports. If Lord Stamford had only turned a deaf ear to the Sir Lncius O'Tri,g.gers who have hovered about him—porras without brains, and who never could eher ecs a aanlnt g ob o te od ‘mv ha h an o ta r s gi eten hisima n a — y iwntnh the poor e a s win a shilling for themselves—he would h a v e h a d a more satisfactory o s dn f aec sportsman—andetolsrey c c a a n r etllit if he i s widows and orphans at Newmarket will miss his bounty.' We learn with much pleasure that Sir John Lawrence hus recognised the services of Sir Charles Hatha way, who, as Inspector- General of Prisons in the Punjaub, hay laboured with HO much success in ameliorating the state of the gaols in that province, by appolntiTlg that gentleman tole his private secretary. i f ffurr tiank. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 3. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Constance Villiers, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell , and Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry Jones, arrived at the Castle yesterday. In addition to the above, the dinner party consisted of their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia and Princess Helena, Lieut.-Gen. Hon. C. Grey, Dr. Holzmanne and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting on the Queen and the Crown Prince and Princess. Tne Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highaess the Crown Princess of Prussia, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. The Right Hon. E. Cardwell had an audience of the Queen. Lord de Tabley has succeeded Lord Crenuorne as lord in waiting. The Prince and Princess of Wales. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Crown Prince of Prussia, attended by Colonel Keppel and other gentlemen, were out shooting on Wednesday. In spite of the stormy weather which prevailed during a portion of the day their royal highnesses enjoyed N ery exce llent sport. pheasant Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, o°' companied by the lady in waiting, walked and drov° in the grounds of Frogmore House on Wednes day. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wal es and the Crown Prince of Prussia went out pbea sant shooting again yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales walked and drove in Frogmore grounds yesterday' Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cain' bridge and the Princess Mary are still residing at Bright° ll ,, Their royal highnesses paid a visit to the Duke 013' Duchess of Richmond at Goodwood-park on Tuesday. The Earl and Countess of Derby have e nter' tamed the Earl and Countess of the Earl an d Countess of Dalkeith, Lord and Lady Skelmersdale, Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham, Colonel the Hon. James an d Mrs. Macdonald, and a select party at Knowsley Hall, LW cashire, during the week. His Royal Highness the Pik ° of Cambridge was prevented by illness from joining ti 36 party. The Earl and Countess of Lincoln left town s ex ' terday afternoon for Dover, on their way to Nice, to pa ge the winter. The Earl of Uxbridge has left town on a visit t° Lord de L'lsle and Dudley at Penshurst, Kent. The Viscount Dillon has left Brown's Hotel? Dover-street. The Dowager Lady Blantyre has arrived a t Brown's Hotel. Lady Charlotte Copley has left Grosvenor•str et4 for Sprotbourge Hall, near Doncaster. DEATH OF VISCOUNT MIDLTEON..---.The IVO Hon. Charles, sixth Viscount Midleton, and 1 35117°. Brodrick of Midleton in the peerage of Ireland, and IW °- ~ Brodrick of Pepper Harrow in the peerage of Great Britaiot died at his seat at Pepper Harrow on Wednesday evelli.d.s last, at ten o'clock. His lordship was born in 1791. married, May 25, 1825, the Hon. Emma, third daught er Thomas, late Lord Le Despencer. The Child in the Chimney. (From the .Examiner.) Few people who remember what good ground there Wad for the Act of Parliament, paesed 20 years ago, prohibiting the employment by the master cbimney-sweeps of V I I children to climb up the chimneys and " small boys for flues," can desire otherwise than to support the efforts ot society that has been doing all it can to make the act effec., tive. Instead of few people we should have said n obody, . 1 _" we had not met recently with three manifest exceptions 11 the Mayor of Newcastle and the Aldermen Sillick an Dodds. At Newcastle the law for the protectiol! of children againet this improper and now ca.; necessary use of their young lives is said to b e ver ' ' much set at defiance. An officer of the , L onti° l and Birmingham Association for the Protection ° Climbing Boys, has, therefore been to N - tewcset let and on Thursday in last week four master swell were summoned to the Mayor's police court for deli.eve° °. the law. The terms of the Act are clear, and the lowes: penalty for offence against it is declared to be £C , , the leig he I , £lO. Now let us see how this ,law was administered ~ four cases by the Mayor of Newcastle and th e Alelerract' Sillick and Dodds. eiog In the first case, James Frame was charged w ith ha her employed a very little boy to sweep the chimney of a bu t " in New Bridge-street. Evidence having been givenh e ir The Bench retired to consider their decision , and on s aid return into court the Mayor, addressing the defendan' and that the magistrates had some doubt as to his guil oc et, they were inclined to give him the benefit of that c:: al though they were very much of opinion that he 1 11 ' ... 1" t hat ployed the boy as alleged. He must be very carefinf be he was not brought back again on such a charge, for be was he would not be dealt with so leniently. 1 18 V7O - 6d. The three worthies at once give us , the measure, of 't oo l /elf wits. They were "very much of opinion?' that tbe A t o was proved, but they had some doubt, an d were incl. a v 7_ et e give him the benefit of it; so they compoun ded bet f_ito opinion and inclination by substituting f or the neillor legal fine of £5 a fine of sixpence. Wh at right haa:otot to fine the man sixpence if they really " ha r d some t' t o f as to his guilt, and were inclined to give him the benc o l, that doubt ?" If they really had d oubt, the y were b° 4 o f whether inclined or not, to give the accused th.e betteu t o it. But the course of the o ther three cases will suggest ...00.. what they were in this m atter most inclined to, was i'' tration of the law. bil The next charge was not ag ainst James Frftevo! ia o f aga inst a Robert Frame, for using his neph ew, a el° jut e ten, instead of a machine. The boy was seen to the the house with a sweep's climbing cap on his het 'M ile r defendant was seen to cone out and look we at the ebi'°: top, pot, the boy's hand-brush was seen ebrust out at t t h le e tap• himth e boy, house, cviaa se h oeudt heard cf lr clean, amn the , t h b we o a y s in evidence to his employer that ho had reaell o c3 vp t into The officer who saw this, testified farther that tl and 08y° the roe t e-• e Alderman fireplace ecgei produced i oi s i I . . way C ou .dot p I Gut th e does no t l ' s° Dodds said—"l think from his appearwao e illveswore that he as if he swept chimneys." The child et Yet -, alder/ nap did not go up the chimney, and the ran Pr, and case, on the strength of such evidence, dismi iced the op _, the In the third case, against another n taster sw affelic c : , bu t: name of John Frame,two witnesses prop the lad who swept the chimney had not reeetdclrued. mons to appear. That case, therefore, s ' as a J e The fourth case was distinctly prey ad char charged with Yet Alexander Lumley, a sweep, was then g ehhonoe a mitting a boy named George 6toker to g° u '' theprisoner h 0 Jane M'Dowell said that on the 23d til t. ee Sikh • B ridge to sweet' a little boy came to her house in Ilig- • the boy e e uP the chimney. The boy went up. She say e machine wha t -ed the his _ his at ; chimney, and she also saw that they had iao ever. lax O W ness. Francis Peacock confirmed the evidet '.c .e of - •-e ever seen th The prisoner affected ignorance of havire , 3 was not ila ' t o 14‘Dowell at all, and afterwards said le , e 1. not be abl° if town that day. He admitted that he w j i v a d set up. i li v obtain witnesses to prove the alibi he and they fined t case the magistrates considered proved, defendant 2s. 6d. 0. trust the report?' Did n et . the la ido. In this case may we fru Sillick an d Dodds c o° a n d a o l f u_ a b t . , Town a t e d o s t ; Mayor of Newcastle and Aldermen cti .. a 176 i gun und for tc ° s Bider the sweep's asseveratro Proportioned to the forme r the case °. ' '' as the proportioned fi b t t o a f s ' ce? If they "consideredprfe,e( el, lie ill pen inclination to give him the bde , t e e la could be meant but contempt a , "-- , ele. defence, what i tgh i'" • e They could only encourage master sweeps to ,a 1 slim reporter says they did, aggravated as it was by a i i f in Newcastle by the imposition, l' ll - fta 6 Act of Parliament and help to re-establish the el I c 11 : 0 ,0 boy sPte ca without one mitigating circumstance, of a half-0 own 0 under an act which declares, "That from and afte r tb;cogll o f J u ly, 1842, any person who shall compel or knot ° f or a llow any child or young person under the age o f iwe 'pet one years to ascend or descend a chimney, or ant ; thee , for the purpose of sweepi ng , c l ean i n g, or ' coring,' t' ~j ell or for extinguishing a fire therein, shall be: liable to a I , " of not more than £lO, nor less than L 5.” 1 ,,,, tal ia f There was an old custom of sweeping chinLegsee 6 . 01 1 - through them a goose with a string tied to i.ZB leg• _,,. sew: that custom be revived, we commend the ltayso.r.:ool, tol castle and Alderman Sillick and Dodds to tt. 0 t ... E a l o g Ti t ere r. lotte te all persons troubled with foul chimneys. protect even geese, but if the wisdom of th: ' N ull e d 00 , 1 bench be transmitted from mayor to tna.r)r goads alderman to alderman, we see no reason wbY . , 6° : housekeeper should not take a sixpenny!) 11 It three thrown when, at the worst, she might have them bird. a ..--• CO' li Y act her chimneys for a fine of half-a-crown _, The Court -Journal. Establ'e s " c c h coattt ics A oily See the Court Journal of Satutday , original Courtly, Fashionable, Thee...tar Pits,l s:C. ; no t a sea , and Sporting intelligence, Club °_ Te d _ St c3 ,,., Y , A ll amount of exclusive news of public iivnehate.i,re..,sta,vaanicl:3,lllftc:as %Ps found in any daily or weekly PaPe r r e : e. :,," - t ' ran d ; 5 id 0 . 7 6d.—W. Thomas, 26, l3rydg!.swee't _ta,'.____. M. 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