The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TSB PUBLIC JOURNALS The Times speaks in the very highest terms of Mr. Childers's programme for the future administration of our naval affairs. It remarks that the head of the new Admi ralty has contrived in a very few words to give the country as comprehensive a pledge for the due administration of his department as could well be conceived. In allusion to the promises given by the new Lord of the Admiralty, it says he will not cut off one single source of our maritime power, but he will bring down the estimates to more satisfactory figures. On each of these points — that of maintaining the fleet and that of cheapening its charges—he speaks with clearness and sincerity, leaving nothing to be desired. " I will endeavour to increase to the utmost the efficiency of the navy—to put or continue the navy of England in the state in which the country expects the navy to be, the navy being her espe cial pride and her first protection in the event of foreign difficulties." Mr. Childers, we are told, expressly states himself that he will have no false economy, but insists on our navy being "strong." He adds, however, that a strong navy is not incompatible with "such economy and reduction of the public burdens as will be satisfactory to the taxpayers of England." And, adds the Times, this is precisely what the country wants ; it is precisely what the country has been told, time after time, is perfectly practicable ; but it is what, for all that, we have never seen accomplished yet. Most heartily do we wish that Mr. Childers may be the firsi to solve the problem. On the subject of future improvements in the working of our departments, the Star observes that the First Lord of the Admiralty is to be really chief and responsible, as he never has been before. The office of Secretary to the Treasury has been virtually divided, so as to render it feasible for all demands of the different departments to be canvassed by the Treasury with searching severity. The War Department is to have a Treasury attache, whose duty it is to be to understand and criticise and place on their true footing all the army charges on the public money. And in the House of Lords certain departments not otherwise repre sented are to be spoken for by young peers,whose al ready tried abilities establish their fitness for usefulness, and in whom the personnel of the Court itself will be made to co-operate with the Government for the general good of the public administration. We were persuaded from the first that these alterations were not the results of mere personal emulation for office, or even of individual zeal on the part of subordinate members of the Government. And we now find from Mr. Stansfeld that " the changes in the workings of our Treasury were conceived some two or three years back by the Prime Minister himself." Further information on this subject is promised ; for, observes the Star, the House meets on the 29th to issue the remainder of the writs, and it would not surprise us if the country were then to be put in possession of facts which cannot but confirm the hopes which the late re arrangement of offices has created. The Telegraph makes the following observations :—There -was but one member of the Cabinet who did not and could net share in the spirit which animated every other Minister on Monday last. - Mr. Lowe has won his present place by force of intellect, in default of sympathy, and and under an amnesty for the bitter things which he has done and said against the aims of the Liberal party. Alone of all the gentlemen following Mr. Gladstone, upon his patent of office is written, " Quamdiu bene se gesserit I" lie has to shew us whether the Mettus Fulletius of the political battle can be an honest soldier when the victory is won, and when nothing is to be gained by egotistical rhetoric and terror of the people. In undertaking the finance of a country which he declared must be irrevocably ruined by 111 r. Glad stone's Reform Bill, he has shewn that kind of cheerful self-recovery which Varro exhibited when he had gone all wrong at the battle of Canna?. The Romans thanked their unlucky leader for " not despairing of the Republic ; " and Mr. LDwe serves the purpose of pleasantly chewing that we are not to be " ruined ;" at any me, just at present. So much public service his aiN ointment has rendered. Upon the further instalment which it may furnish by the resolute support of economy in every de partment, and by the transfer of his strong will from the abuse to the relief of the people, depends the condonation which may be finally extended to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. There is a golden bridge built for his retreat from the old and hard opinions to the courage and hope of those shared by his colleagues. If he has crossed in earnest he shall have no reminders of what he said and did against the leader whom he now serves ; but the joy felt in Heaven, and other places, over repentant sinners, depends upon the reality of their conversion. The Standard is nothing if not critical, and so comes back to the subject of the speech at Greenwich on Monday last. It remarks that Mr. Gladstone is a master in the art of saying as little as possible in as many words as possible, and his election speech on Monday is not the least successful of his achievements in that direction. States men practised in official life, especially when they happen to be Premiers, are not wont to regard the hustings as a fitting tribune for an exposition of Ministerial policy. The mistake of 11Ir. Gladstone's speech is, that it takes the form of an elaborate declaration of his programme for the future, while in reality it simply evades the necessity which it creates. "Itis a tale told by " a Premier afraid to compromise himself, " full of sound and fury, signifying nothin:_c." It gives the outline of a scheme of legislation sufficiently ample in its scope, but the mischief of it is, that Mr. Gladstone neither pledges himself to deal with any one of the questions which he mentions, nor indicates the spirit in which he is disposed to look at them. He holds before the country the bait of sound and copious legislation, while in the same breath he pleads that everything must give way until the demolition of the Irish Establishment is accomplished ; and there are plenty of people who will regard such an announcement as an intimation that there is little hope of any useful legislation for many a long year to come. Commenting on Mr. Cardwell's speech at Oxford, and his expected policy as War Minister, the Daily News remarks that the speech followed in its most important part the key-note struck by Mr. Gladstone at Greenwich. Economy in the Administration of the public departments is the idea which the Prime Minister declares to have governed him in forming his Administration. The ex planation applies only to some of the chief offices of State, and other ideas might reasonably have been allowed their share of influence. But in the post to which Mr. Cardwell has been called Mr. Gladstone's ruling motive or passion finds free scope, and the selection is singularly judicious. It is further observed that it is satisfactory to find the Minister of War echoing the Prime Minister's anticipation that the estimates of the coming year will give pledge of a substantial reduction of expenditure, and a sound policy is prefigured in Mr. Cardwell's suggestion that this re trenchment will be obtained by throwing upon the colonies, to whom we have almost given complete independence, the obligation of self-defence as the correlative of self government. Economy is a matter of detail ; but it is also a matter of policy. The details must be governed by a principle, if they are to converge to any great result. A Government, it is added, in which Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Lowe arc the devising intelligences, con tains within itself, three-fold, that impulse to economical reform which ordinarily has to be transmitted from with out. The Post calls attention to the Association for the Pro. tection of Shareholders in Public Companies, which will probably prove useful, and is certainly significant. It may not improbably tend to revive the formation of really sound industrial undertakings at home. At present the energies of even successful and respectable promoters remain paralysed, and would-be investors in com panies commanding their confidence have no heart to embark in home-made concerns, and are either hoarding their wealth or placing it in Government or foreign stocks, or securities of that description. Con fidence is the one thing needed to dispel the financial glamour, and this the new society is calculated, if properly constituted and worked, to produce. The significance of the association consists in its pointing to the fact that crowds of shareholders have been befooled and duped, and in intimating that they mean to look after their own interests in a more systematic manner than they have hitherto done. After some lengthened relnarks on the com mercial panic o f three y ears a g o, and itreonsequences' the Post further remar k s that there are man y exc e ll ent commercial and industrial undertakings which would cer tainly " pay '' if entered upon, mid it observes th a t it is really ve ry hard that such undertakings should b e obliged to co ntend against, perhaps, an unjust and adverse public feeling ; a. d it would be greatly to the advantage of the public to encourage the formation of an association like that q uestion, and to assist it in obtaining trust worthy information. It will he a great object with the new society, we are informed, to obta in certain judicious. alterations of the law relating to limit ed liability com panies, and the proposed changes, it is asserted, are viewed in a favourable light by the Master of the lions. In pursuance of its quarrel with the Liberal press orfali subjects, the Herald remarks that Mr. Bright's organ assures the Greeks that if they will fight the quarrel out thoy will have its "good wishes," and describes the scan dalous breaches of neutrality committed by the Greek Government, and its aid in a hopeless struggle, involving much bloodshed and the greatest misery, as "patriotic endeavours." But reasoning of this kind finds no adhesion outside Greek circles and the ranks of the Peace Society, and the great business of the advocates of Greek dis honesty and folly is to represent the energetic action of the Porte as the consequence of foreign influence, and the Greeks as the victims of huge schemes for disturbing the peace of Europe. Thus we• are told that Austria induced the Porte to take its present decided line of action, not, of course, front any conviction on the part of Austria that such a course was necessary or desirable in the interests of the Ottoman Empire or of Europe, but to serve certain objects of her own. Moreover, it is added that France, having previously concerted the plan with Austria, and with a view to the injury of Prussia—the common object of these two rowers—warmly supported l'arou Von Beust's recommendations and that this crisis is one not of Turkey's own seeking, but forced upon her by European diplomacy. Not the slightest ground for such reasoning, we arc assured, can be found in the course pursued by France or Austria. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. It appears from the return issued by authority of tne Registrar-General, that in the week that ended on Saturday, 19th December, 4,660 births and 3,350 deaths were registered in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 27 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 26 per 1,000 in London, 34 in Edinburgh, and 22 in Dublin ; 23 in Bristol, 24 in Birmingham, 27 in Liverpool, 33 in Manchester, 29 in Salford, 24 in Sheffield, 33 in Bradford, 33 in Leeds, 24 in Hull, 29 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 32 in Glasgow. Active measures have at last been taken to secure a more general adoption of vaccination in Sheffield; they are, however, too recent to have yet considerably affected the mortality from small-pox in that town. In London the births of 1,003 boys and 1,113 girls, in all 2,206 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1858-67, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,086. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,558. It was the fifty-first week of the year; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with, a correction for increase of population, 1,547. The deaths in the present return exceed by 11 the estimated amount, and are more by 72 than the number recorded in the pre ceding week. THE CASE OF MADAME RACHEL The case of Leverson v. the Queen (in Error) came on at the judges' chambers on Tuesday morning. In pur suance of a writ of Habeas Corpus issued on Monday by Mr. W. Roberts, the attorney for the prisoner, and the now plaintiff in the proceedings under the Writ of Error, she attended in custody before Mr. Henry Thornton, the commissioner appointed to take special bail in Error, at the judges' chambers, yesterday morning, for the purpose of completing the necessary recognisances, in order to enable her to be released from Millbank Peni tentiary, where she has been confined since her , trial. The imprisonment she has already undergone has I evidently affected her health, but she appeared to be in excellent spirits, and frequently expressed her gratitude for the successful exertions which have been made by her solicitor on her behalf. Mr. Roberts was present and com pleted the necessary formalities in. connection with the bail. The recognisancees have been duly filed at the Crown Office of the Court of Queen's Bench, and the immediate release of tho prisoner was granted. The proceedings under the Writ of Error will be somewhat amusing, although of a legal and technical character, involving the constitution of the ancient Sheriffs' Court of London, under which the judges sit at the Central Criminal Court. , It is stated that a memorial and petition have been presented by Mr. Roberts to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, craving further inquiry into Madame Rachel's case, together with a transcript of the shorthand writer's notes of the summing up by Mr. Com missioner Kerr, verified by statutory declaration ; also copies of letters and other documents put in at the trial. The memorial, which complains loudly of the conduct of the learned judge at the trial, is under consideration. LAW AND POLICE. DECISION AGAINST LORD LONSDALE.—Vice-ChAncellor Malin has made a decree, ordering the Earl of Lonsdale to remove a jetty which he had erected, in his character of riparian proprietor, in the bed of the Solway Firth. The earl defended the action on the old ground that the Firth was no longer of any importance to trade and navi aation. A WINDING-UP CASE.—The case of the International Life Assurance Society came before Vice-Chancellor Malins on Tuesday, having previously occupied the court portions of four days. It was a petition for compulsory winding up, presented by a Mr. White, a shareholder, and also by a, :Mr. Rye. The ground upon which a winding up was demanded was that the business of the society had been transferred to the Hercules Insurance Company, and the petitioners contended that such transference was contrary to the deed under which the International was constituted. The Vice-Chancellor remarked that the case was one of the most embarrassing he had ever met with. The circumstances were most peculiar, for not only was the condition of the company studiously concealed from the shareholders, but £B,OOO was given to Mr. John Sheri dan for brirging about the transfer, and £15,000 (£5,000 actually paid) to Mr. John Richardson, one of the officers of this decayed society. Ultimately it was decided that the petition must stand over to test the validity of the transfer. CHARGE OF LIBEL AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY. — In the Common Pleas a somewhat important case has been brought by a Mr. Biggs against the Great Eastern Railway for libel. It turned on the right, or, perhaps, the propriety, of railway companies placarding along the lines the names of persons over whom they have t; 'll:nphed in the law courts. The decision in some petty case of a disputed fare had gone against Mr. Biggs, a City merchant, and a thoroughly respectable man, and forthwith Mr. Biggs saw himself in print at all the stations. He resented it, arid. hence the action. Tho company was finally let off by the with drawal of a juror. _ TILE IMPORTANT WILL CASE.--Ou Tuesday the trial of John Spong, maltster, for forging a document purporting to be the last will of Henry Trimmer, deceased, was con cluded in the Central Criminal Court, the second day of the renewed proceedings. The prisoner was found guilty, but recommended to mercy on account of his family, and judgment was postponed till next session. One hundred and sixty-eight rats were killed one day last week at the farm-yard of Donnie, Inverness shire, on taking down a single stack of corn of last year's crop. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF LORD BELIIAVEN.—This noble lord is reported to be fast sinking, and no expecta tion of his recovery is entertained. His relatives have been telegraphed for. The London correspondent of the Dublin Express states that the reports of the Irish Railway Commissioners aro to b) submitted to the Marquis of Salisbury, with a view to his advising the Government with regard to the propasal to purchase the lines. The promoters of the Australian Meat Agency intend giving a luncheon at the Central Depot, Norton Folgate, London, on Tuesday, in order to celebrate the introduction of Australian meat into the United Kingdom. The prospectus of the company states that the meat can be sold for at least 50 per cent. below the present price of butchers' meat in this country. The Gibraltar Chronicle reports that an earthquako shock was distinctly felt in various parts of the town at 10.50 a.m. on the Bth instant. It was severe at the upper and lower signal stations, and also at the Windmill-hill telegraph station, where the clerks were thrown off their chairs. At the north front it was likewise severely felt, but it appears not to have visited either Europe or the South Barracks. The shock was accompanied by " a rumbling noise, not unlike distant thunder or heavily-laden waggons passing along a paved street," but no material change was reported. THE WELLS MURDER.—Sweet is still in custody in Taunton Gaol. Indeed, it is not certain yet that he will derive any benefit from the confession made by Bisgrovo ; for the latter—who has been in the prison hos pital on account of epileptic fits—has given some tokens of being got quite compos mentis. He will have to be closely watched, and carefully examined by medical authorities. Inquiries will also have to be made into his antecedents. He wished to dictate a letter to one of his relatives on Saturday in very strange terms. No order respecting Sweet has yet been received from the Home Office, and, at any rate, Sweet's liberation is not likely to take place just yet. Monday, January 4, is the date at present named for the execution. On Monday afternoon, an influential meeting was held at the Cotton Salesroom, Liverpool, when Sir Charles Fox explained the project of making a railway tunnel under the Mersey, connecting Liverpool and Birkenhead and the Lancashire and Cheshire Railway termini. Sir Charles said that the engineering difficulties were comparatively slight as compared with those encountered in making the Thames Tunnel. The pre liminary expenses for the "heading," which could he after wards used for gas pipes, telegraph wires, &c., would not xceed £20,000, and the cost of the entire tunnel with two lines and rolling stock would rot exceed £4i;0,000. Sir Charles pointed out that now 20 millions of people crossed the Mersey annually.—Resolutions in favour of the scheme were unanimously agreed to. A LITTERATEUR'S WlLL.—Young writers who find it some hnes difficult to make both ends meet will read with some amazement a paragraph in the Illuotrated London New. , , which states in cold, formal language that the will of Mr. Matthew James Higgins ("Jacob Omuium") has been proved under £70,009. Now, we all know (say the young men alluded to) that "Jacob Omnium" wrote for the Times and the Cornhill, but how did he manage to make such an immense fortune unless he had a fairy godmother? Well, he had. But that desirable relative took the shape of plantations in the West Indies, from which "J. 0." derived the greater portion of his fortune ; he did not make it all by his pen, comrades, though he was an indefatigable worker. Let us who have not sugar planta tions do our best, and who knows but, some day or another, the Illustrated News shall add to the paragraph announc ing our lamented decease, ` his will was sworn under Q0(41 Constituency. 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DERBYSHIRE, NORTH DEVON, SOUTH DEVON, NORTE( DEVON, EAST DOItSETSIIIRE EVFSTIAM EXLTER ESSEX, SOUTH Ess EX, WEST ESSEX, NORTH-EAST EYE EINSBUDY FROME FLINT FALMOUTH PLINTSIIIRE GLAMORGANSIIIRE G ATES !IR A D G LOUCESTER GRAVESEND GREAT GItI3I SDY G 1U J WI d II Cu ILDFORD GRANTHAM GLOUCESTER, EAST .. CLOUCESTER, WEST HANTS, SOUTII TIERTFOP.DBIIIIM ... HACKNEY HALIFAX HASTINGS HELSTON HERTFORD HEREFORD UERXFORDSIIIRE ... EluLI. HYTITE HANTS. NORTH TIA nwt cn HUNTINGDON HARTLEPOOL HAvEnroitovr, ST HOILSUA3I HUNTII, - GDONSIIIILE lIUDDERsFIELD IPSWICII ISLE OF WIGHT KENT, WEST KENT, MID KENT, EAST ICINo's LYNN KIDDERMINSTER KNARESBOROUGII KENDAL LAMBETH LEEDS LEICESTER LEICESTER, NORTH .., , LEICESTER., SJUTII „ „ LANCASHIRE, S.W. .... LANCASHIRE, S.E LEOMINSTER LUDLOW LONDON CITY LONDON UNIVE.RSITY LY3IINOTON LAUNCESTON LINCOLN LINCOLNSHIRE, NORTH LINCOLN, MID LINCOLN, SOUTH LISKEARD LEw KB LICHFIELD LivznrooL LANCASHIRE, NORTH . LANcAsnxnz, N.E. MONTGOMERYSHIRE MALLON MA rtLow MiDinTitsr 111AccLEsFiztp MAIDSTONE MALMESBU RY MAN CIIESTEA MARYLEBONE ......... MERTHYR TYDVIL ..... MoNmornt MALTON MARLBoitoucir MKnlosiallsuritt: MIDDLESHOROUG .. • MONTGOMERY AIORPETII MONMOUTHSHIRE MIDDLESEX NORFOLK, SOUTH NEWARK NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE! NEWCASTLE-UNDR-LVg. NORTH A T.LERTON NORTHAMPTON . Nonwicii NOTTINGHAM .. NEWPORT. I. OF WIGHT NORFOLK, NORTH NOILFOLY, WEST .... NoRTIIAIIII7ON, Noßni NORTHAMPTON, SOUTH' .NOTTS, NOIITII .... NOTTS, SOUTH NORTHUMBERLAND, N. NORTIIMIBERLAND, S OXFORD UNIVERSITY. OXIORDSHIRE.". THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY Constituency. DLDIIAII Mr Hibbert Mr Platt Mr Cardwell * Mr V Harcourt Mr Meyrick It Mr Scourfield Mr Whalley ,* Mr Wells Mr Nicholson Sir it 1' Collier Mr Morrison Mr Childers Major Waterhouse Mr Stone * Sir J Elphinstone Sir T Lle,:keth * Mr Hermon I* Mr Arthur Guest Sir F Goldamid Mr Shaw Lefevre Sir Roundels Palmer , Lord John Hay Mr T 11 Potter * Mr Stewart Hardy Mr Fol jambe Lord Galway Mr Price Mr W Martin.. Mr Serjeant Kinglake Hon A Walsh Hon G J Noel Mr Finch Mr Corrance Hon J Henniker-Major Major W Parker Lord A Hervey Mr Hamilton * Dr Lush Colonel Barttelot Hon II Wyndham Mr R 11 Paget Mr Neville-Grenville Mr Gore Langton * Mr A A Hood * Major Allen * Mr Bright jirOP.l) PEMBROKE PEMBROKESHIRE - PETERBOROUGH PETERSFIELD PLYDIOUTH 1 I PONTEFRACT PORTSMOUTH PRESTON I I POOLE 1 it.LA.DING I RICHMOND 1 RIPON ROCHDALE EUTFORD, EAST ... RADNOR ttocuxnxis 1 RTJTLAND 3UFVOLIC, EAST ;UFFOLIC, WEST 3ALIBBU ICY 31ISSEX, WEST 30MEBSET, MID ........ lONERSZT, WZOT 1 I I 30MERSZT, E.k.ST... _ Mr Gurney * Mr Hoare ... Mr Winterbotham 1* birDickenson Mr Locke King Mr C Buxton * Mr Cawley * Mr Charley Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen • Mr H Brassey Sir J V Johnstone Mr J D Dent Mr Hadfield * Mr Mundella Mr Clement * Mr Figgins * Mr Stevenson Mr Layard Mr Locke I Captain Meller * Mr Pochin Mr J B Smith * Mr Tipping * Mrl Dodds MrCandlish Mr Gourley MrG C Glyn Right Hon S Cave Sir Percy Mural * Mr Sidebotham I * Mr W Peek 1 * Hon W Brodrick Mr Briscoe Mr Cubitt MrDodson * Mr. Scott f Mr A Bass Mr M'Clean * Mr Ingram I* Mr Child Mr Adderley Sir E M Buller Sir J Hay Mr Ormsby Gore Lord Newport Gen P Herbert * Col Corbett * Mr Magniac Mr Melly Colonel Roden Mr Dillwyn Sir R Peel ' Sir H Bulwer Mr Barclay Serjeant Cox Mr Price Mr Ayrton h Mr Samuda Mr Williams Hon. Captain Vivian , Mr E T Smith Mr A Russell Hon G Denman " Mr Amory Sir W P Gallwey " Mr Beaumont Earl of Bective Hon G H Lowther Mr S Vickers Mr J Calcraft Mr Rylands Mr A W Peel * Mr Greaves * Mr Brogden * Mr Phipps Captain Grosvenor * Mr W H Smith Mr H Edwards " Mr Hambro t Mr W H Gladstone Mr Bentinck Mr Woods * Mr Lancaster Mr Bonham Carter Mr Simonds Mr R Eykyn * Mr Barnett Mr Sherrift * Mr Laslett Hon G C Lyttelton * Mr Amphlett Mr Knight Mr Dowdeswell Hon. W H Carington Mr C Forster General Forester * Mr Brown Mr Antrobus Lord H Thynne Mr T Grove Mr Villiers Mr Weguelin Mr N wdegate Mr B Davenport .• • • * Mr H C Wise t Mr John Hardy Lord C Bruce * Sir G Jenkinson Mr Lowther * Mr Brown Westhead Sir F Crossley Lord F C Cavendish Viscount Milton Mr Beaumont Mr Milbank Colonel 0 Duncombe t Mr C Sykes * Mr Broadley * Mr B F Denison * Mr J Fielden SCOTLAND. ABERDEENSHIRE, I.Afrr Mr Fordyce A BERDEENSHI RE, WEST Mr M'Combie AYR BURG ns AYRSHIRE, NORTH * Mr Fund(' ARGYLESIIIRE Marquis of Lorne .. AYRSHIRE, SOUTH * Sir D Wedderburn ABERDEEN Colonel Sykes BonDER. DISTRICT t Mr Trevelyan BUTESHIRE BANFF Mr R Duff BEnwicxsninn CLACEMANNAN "..IAITHNESS Mr Trail' DUMFRIF.9SHIRE * Sir S Waterlow DUMBARTONSHIRE •• . * Mr Orr-Ewing DUNDEE Sir J Ogilvy * Mr Armistead. • t Mr Jardine . Mr M'Laren I* Mr Miller 1 I I 50IITHA 3 IPTON ..... 3TP.OLID lIIRREY, EAST 3ALFOItD 3ANDWICII 3cesmortouou I 1 I I DUFFIELD 1 I I inItICWSBURY 3011ITH SIIIZLDS 301JTHWARK 1 I I STAFFORD STOCKPORT iTOCKTON SIINDERLAND 1 suArnmßuity." • SHORZHAH 1 1 1 3TALEYBRIDGE .. 3URILEY, MID ~ .. URREY, WEST .. 1 I I SIIBEIEX, E►ST .... ITAFFORDSHIRE, EAST 1 1 1 STA.FFOItDSIIIRE, IVZSTI ITA.FIVADSIIIRE,NORTH STAMFORD Sußorsiintz, NORTH 111}LOPSIIIR.F., SOUTH .. ST. 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F,IFESIIIRM ALKIRR BURGHS GLASGOW AND ABLER- 1 I I DERN UNIVERSITIES r=I.A.SGOW GREENOCK RADDINGTON BURGHS. lIADDINGTONSIIIRE . • • INVERNESS tIV.E.II.NESS-SIII RE :NCARDINESIIIRE • • • K..IRKCUD BRIGHT KILMARNOCK BURGHS • • ! KIRKCALDY LANARKSHIRE, SOUTH LANARKSHIRE, NORTH LINLITHOOWSHIRE •• • • LEITH BURGHS ORKNEY PERTH PAISLEY PERTHSHIRE _ PEEBLES AND SELKIRK ROXBURGHSHIRE ROSS AND CROMARTY RENFREWSHIRE STIRLING BURGHS .• • • STIRLINGSIITRE SUTHERLANDSHIRE .. • • ST. ANDREWS BURGHS NIONTROSE WIGTOWN BuitallS ..• • WIGTOwNSIIIRE WICK BURGHS A.NTRIX COUNTY .• .. 1 I I LitmAGn COUNTY ARMAGH ATHLONE BANDON BELFAST Members. L.C. j;i f Mr Monereiff. Mr Dalglish ... . Mr W Graham .. * Mr Anderson * Mr Grieve Sir H Davie Lord Elcho * Mr Mackintosh * Mr Cameron Mr Nichol Mr W H Maxwell Mr E P Bouverie Mr. S. Aytoun * Major Hamilton Sir B Colebrooke Mr M'Lagan * Mr Macl ie Mr F Dundas Mr Kinnaird Mr Crum-E w i ng * Mr Parker Sir G Montgom er y Sir W Scott * Mr Matheson Mr Spiers * Mr Campbell Admiral Erskine Lord E. S Gower Mr Ellice Mr Baxter Mr Young * Lord Garlics * Mr Loch • IRELAND. Rear-Adml. Seymour Mr O'Neill Sir J M Stronge Mr Verner Mr John Vance * Sir J Ennis * Mr Shaw * Mr Johnston * Mr M'Clure Sir Colman O'Loghlen Colonel Vaudeleur * Mr Dalway Mr O'Beirne * Captain Fagan Mr Murphy Mr Maguire Mr Smith Barry * Mr Downing Mr Bagwell Sir II H Bruce Colonel Annesley Mr E Sanderson Mr Bruen t Mr Kavanagh Lord Hamilton Mr Conolly Lord H Trevor Lieut.-Colonel Fords Mr Keowne Major Knox Mr Pim Sir A Guinness Mr Lefroy * Mr Ball Colonel Taylor Mr Hamilton * Mr Callan * Mr Matthews Mr Whitworth * Viscount Crichton Captain Stacpoole Lieut.-Colonel Cole Captain Archdall Mr Gregory Viscount Burke Sir It Blennerhassett * Lord St. Lawrence Lord Castlerosse Mr H A Herbert Sir John Gray Mr G L Bryan Mr Agar Ellis Sir G Colthurst Mr Cogan Lord 0 Fitzgerald Sir P O'Brien * Mr Sherlock Mr Gore Dr Brady Mr Peel Dawson Sir F Heygate • Mr Dowse Major Gavin Mr. F W Russell .... Mr Monsell Mr Synan Mr O'Reilly Col. 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LONDONDERRY .. , LIMERICK CITY .., LIMERICK COUNTY LONGFORD COUNTY . LOUTH COUNTY. LISBURN MAYO COUNTY NIEATII COUNTY . NIONACHAX COUNTY AtALTAOW NEW ROSS itiEWRY - _ PORT.A.RLINOTON QUEEN'S COUNTY ROSCOMMON COUNTY SLIGO SLIGO COUNTY TRALRE TIPPERARY COUNTY rYnONE COUNTY ... WEXFORD WATERFORD COUNTY WATERFORD CITY, WESTMEATII WEXFORD COUNTY Pnciciow iNVAUI )embers. Mr Lindsay Mr Fortescue Mr N Rothschild Mr Smith * Mr Mellor * Mr Davies Hon G C Morgan Mr T Cave * Captain Williams Mr Whitmore Mr Samuelson 1 Mr Tite * Mr Dalrymple Mr Whitbread * Mr J Howard 1 * Lord Bury * Mr J Stapleton Sir H. Edwards * Captain Kennard * Sir It Gl ass Mr John Laird Mr John Bright 1 Mr Dijon 1 * Mr l' H Muntz 1 Mr W H Hornby Mr J Feilden Hon F L Gower Lieut-Colonel Gray * Mr j Hick Mr Malcolm " Mr T Collins Mr W E Forster 1 * Mr Ripley 1 Mr A W Kin,glake Mr Vanderbyl 1 Mr James White Professor Fawcett Mr H Berkeley " Mr S Morley Sir Harry Verney 1 * Mr R Shaw 1 Mr Philips Mr Hardcastle Mr Greene Mr F C H Russell 1 Colonel Gilpin , Mr TA. Mitchell Hon W 0 Stanley Mr Howel Gwyn .... , Right lion B Disraeli Mi 7 Du Pre * Mr Lambert Mr Benyon Colonel Loyd Lindsay * Mr John Walter Hon C Howard t Mr W N Hodgson Captain Lowther Hon P Wyndham * Colonel Torrens I* Mr Fowler Lord George Manners Lord Royston t Right Hon H Brand Mr Butler Johnstone * Captain Brinkman colonel Stuart B Potter * Sir 17:1f114 Lawson * Colonel Sttl;uley * Mr Sartoris • Mr John Jones Mr W B Hughes Captain Parry Mr G C Legh Hon W Egerton Mr Otway * Mr H B Samuelson Earl Grosvenor • Mr Raikes Lord H G Lennox Mr Goldney Hon A Bathurst Mr R Asaheton Mr Eaton * Mr Staveley Hill * Lord E Fitzmaurice Right Hon S Walpole Mr Beresford Hope t Sir Thomas Lloyd * Mr Richards * Mr C W Mike • Sir Henry Hoare Mr E Ha.viland-Burke * Mr J Fletcher ....... Mr Rebow Dr Brewer Sir D Gooch Hon F Cadogan 11 Sir John Trelawny ' Mr B Willyams Mr St Aubyn Mr P Vivian ▪ Mr E C Egerton * Mr W Legh Mr Tollemache Sir Philip Egerton * Mr Williams Sir Watkin Wynne * Mr Morgan Mr ill Chambers * Mr Lewis * Mr Backhouse Mr 111 T Bass * Mr Plimsoll Sir l' Bateson * Serjeant Simon Major Dickson * Mr Jesse', Q.C. Sir John Pakington Mr Henderson • Mr Davison Sir H Williamson 1* Mr Elliott Mr Pease * Mr Beaumont Colonel Sturt Mr H B Sheridan ' Sir T Gresley ' Mr R Smith Hon H Strutt ' Hon Captain Egerton Lord G Cavendish ' Mr. Arkwright Sit Massey Lopes Mr Kekewich Mr T D Acland Sir Stafford Northcote Sir L Palk • Lord Courtonay Hon Mr Portman Mr Floyer Mr Sturt Col Bourne Mr Coleridge ' Mr Bowring Mr W Baker ' Mr A Johnstone Lord Eustace Cecil Mr S Ibbetson Mrßound ' Colonel Brise Lord Barrington Mr 3VC Torrens Alderman Lusk Mr T. Hughes Sir John Hanmer Mr Fowler * Mr Eastwiek Lord R Grosvenor Colonel Talbot Mr II Vivian Right Hon Sir W Hutt Mr Price Mr Monk * Fair 0 Wingfield I Captain Tomline Mr Alderman Salomons t RI Hon W E Gladstone , Mr Onslow * Captain Cholmeley " Hon F Tollemache Sir M Beach Mr Holford Colonel Kingscote ' Mr Marling Right on W CArper I Lord H Scott Hon H Cowper Mr A Smith * Mr H Brand * Mr C Reed * Mr Holms Mr Stansfeld Colonel Akroyd * Mr T Brassey * Mr F North * Mr Young Mr R Dimsdale Mr Clive * Mr Wyllie Mr Biddulph Mr Bailey * Sir H. Croft Mr James Clay Mr Norwood Baron N de Rothschild Mr W B Beach Mr Sclater-Booth Major Jerris Mr 1' Baring * Mr Jackson " Colonel Edwardes Mr Hurst - I double 1" Major Aldridge return Lord It Montagu Mr E Fellowea Mr E A Leathern Mr H E Adair * Mr West. Q.C. Sir J Simeon * Mr Mills * Mr Talbot Lord lb dmesdale Mr Hart Dyke Mr L Pemberton * Hou G Millen Lord Stanley * Hon It Bourke * Mr Lea * Mr Illingworth * Mr Whitwell * Alderman J Lawrence ,* Mr W M'Artlaur I Mr Baines '* Alderman Carter * Mr Wheelhouse Mr Taylor Mr Harris Lord J Manners * Mr Frewen Lord Curzon • Mr Pell * Mr Cross Mr C Turner Hon A F Egerton 1* Mr S Henry Mr Arkwright Colonel Clive Mr Goschen Mr Crawford Mr Lawrence * Mr Bell t Rt Hon Robert Lowe Lord G u Lennox Mr Henry Lopes Mr C Seely * Mr H Palmer Sir M J Cholmeley • Mr R Winn * Mr Amcoats • Mr H Chaplin Mr Welby * Mr Tumor Sir Arthur Buller Lord Pelham Colonel Dyott Mr Graves * Lord Sandon * Mr Rathbone Colonel Wilson-Patten t Hon F Stanley * Mr Holt * Mr Starkie Mr C W Wynn * Mr Bentall Mr Wetherhed Mr Mitford * Mr C Brocklehurst * Mr Chadwick Mr Lee Mr Whatrnan * Mr Powell Mr Bazley Mr Jacob Bright * Mr Birley Mr H Lewis Mr T Chambers * Mr Richard * Mr Fothergill * Sir J Ramsden Hon C Fitzwilliam Lord E Bruce * Mr D Williams * Mr Bolckow Hon C II Tracy Sir G Grey Mr C Morgan Colonel Somerset Viscount Enfield • Lord G Hamilton Mr E Howes Mr C S Read Mr G Hodgkinson * Mr E Denison Mr ILeadlain Mr Cowen Mr Allen Mr Buckley Mr Hutton Lord Henley Mr C Gilpin Sir W Russell * Sir II Stracey * Sir R Clifton * Mr Wright Mr Martin S:r E Lacon • Hon F Walpole Sir W Bagge Hon T De Grey Mr Ward Hunt Mr S Stoeford * Major Cartwright Sir Rainold Knightley Right Hun J Denison * Mr F C Smith Mr Barrow Mr Hilayard Earl Percy Mr itidley Mr Beaumont Hon 11 Liddell lit Hon G Hardy Rt Hon J Mowbray Mr Henley Colonel North Mr Cartwright LI C. 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 :: 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 1 ;11 ..11l 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 i ll VENING, DECEMBER 23, 1.68. SPORT. GENCE. RACING FIXTI JAN RES FOR 18G9. ARY. Mallcheker 1, 2 FEB 11; Streatham 11, 12 Lincoln l6, 17 Harrow lB, 19 Mansfield 18 'ARY. Nottingham Spring 23, 24 Chelmsford.... 25, 26 Derby Spring 25, 26 MA Liverpool Spring 2,3, 4 Shrewsbury spring 5, 6 War wick 9, 10, 11 Kingsbury.. l2, 13 Northampton l6, 17 West Drayton .. 18, 19 West Somerset 18, 19 Margate '29 Durham 29, 30 Epsom 30, 31 ,IL. AP. Bromley 1, 2 Aldershot l, 2 Catterick Bridge... l, 2 Thirsk 6, 7 Streatham 8, 9 Newmarket Craven...l2, &c. Eastbourne l9 Lewes 20 21 Croydon... 22, 23 Newmarket Ist Spring 26, &o. AY. Chester 4, 5,6, 7 Wiuchester ll, 12 West Drayton l7, 18 Bath 18, 19 York 11, 12 Manchester IJ, 20; 21 St. Albans Croydon ' 20; 21 Salisbury l3, 14 Doncaster 13, 14 Ifaipouden 2l Epsom Summer .. &c. JI rNE. Croydon 2,3, 4 Newton 2,3, 4 Ascot .....8, 9, 10, 11 Liverpool Summer ...15, 16 Windsor 15, 16 Hampton l7, 18 Worcester l, 2 Newmarket July 6, &c. Kingsbury .. 9, 10 Pontefract 12, 13 Nottingham l3, 14 __„ AUG Brighton 3, 4 Brighton Club 5 Lewes Eg ham lO, 11 Wolverharrpton lO, 11 Windsor 12, 13 St. Albans Stockton lB, 19, 20 SEPT Warwick... Abingdon 9, 10 Doncaster l4, 15, 16, 17 Richmond '2l, 22 Lichfield OCT Bedford 5, 6 Edinburgh 6, 7, 8 Leicester 7, 8 Newmarket 2d 0ct...11, &c. Chelmsford l9, 20 N UV. Worcester 2,3, 4 Liverpool 9, 10, 11. 12 IRISH. MARC 11. Newcastle 22, 23, 24 Oldham 22 Bibury Club 23 1 Stockbridge 24, 25, '26 Chelmsford Sutton Park .....29, 30 LY. Reading 15,1.; Huntingdon 20,1! Southampton 221' Stamford „, 22, Goodwood 27, 28,21,, JS T. Oxford Canterbury ...... L York 24,11 Plymouth Windsor August l2, 13 Derby Summer —.31, Sep. 1 Weymouth 31, Sep. 1 MBEII. 1 1 1 1 ill JULY. 1 1 I Kingsbury AUGUST St. Allltni OCT( West Drayton WATERLOO ME: 11 1 1 ... £5OO ... 200 ... 100 ... 120 ... 160 ... 160 1,240 The Waterloo Purso and Waterloo Plato 360 ... £lOO £lOO COURSING FIXTURES. JANUARY. Western (A 3 r) 22, 93 Kingsbury... 23, 24 Moutnoutla... • 23, 24 Newmarket.: st 0ct....28, Au. B ER. Cheltonhatn l9, 20 West Drayton 2l, 22 Hereford 2l, 22 Monmouth 23, 24 Newmarket Wton cte. 'EM BER. Shrewsbury lb, tto Leamington hunt :.„23, dce Daldoyle First Spring 18, 19 MAY. 11, 12 Baldoyle Second Spring STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES. JAN VARY. Hopgrove 1 I Coverdaie 6 Manchester l, 2 Bt. Albans l9 FEBRUARY. Birmingham ~, 9 Harrow lB, 19 I Lincoln l6, 17 Derby .• 25 MARCH. Liverpool 3 Cambridgeshire M 18 Rugby (Grand Mil.) .8, 9 I West Drayton lB, 19 Kingsbury 12, 13 Cre‘vkerne l B, 19 APRIL. Aldershot 1, 2 I Croydon 13ronaley 1, 2 31 AY. St. Albans 1 )BER. 21, 22 ;E T ING— FEB. 17. Ilicar.) . the Earl of Sefton. ,600 in specie, by subscription winner to receive £5OO, and (Over Patron -Right Hon The Waterloo Cup, value .£ of 1:25 each ; 64 subs; the the second £2OO. 1. Mr C. F. Allison 33. Mr J. Ingleby 2. Mr J. F. Armistead 34. Mr R. Jardine 3. Mr J. Bake 35. Mr F. Johnston 4. Mr W. J. Barden 36. Mr J. Johnston . 5. Mr F. Bartholomew 37. Mr H. B. Jones 6. Lord Binning 38. Mr W. J. Legh 7. Mr J. Blackstock 39. Mr S. C. Lister 8. Mr J. S. Bland 40. Mr J. Lonsdale 9. Mr G. Blaushard 41. Lord Lurgan 10. Mr W. G. Borron 42. Ur S. Mallabey 11. Mr T. Brocklebank 43. Mr C. E. Marfieet 12. Mr J. Brundrit 44. Mr W. H. Massey 13. Mr R. B. Carruthers 45. Sir C. Molyneux 14. Mr C. J. Chesshyre 46. lion. C. C. Molyneux 15. Mr W.ll. Claik 47. Mr T. Neville 16. Mr E. Croft 48. Mr R. Paterson 17. Mr J. Cunningham 49. Mr T. L. Reed 18. Mr W. D. Deighton 50. Dr Richardson 19. Mr James Dunlop 51. Mr J. Savage 20. Mr J. Evans 52. Mr N. Saxton 21. Lord Garlies 53. Lord Sefton 22. Mr J. Gibson 51. Mr T. Smith 23. Mr W. M. Gilmour 55. Mr J. Spinks 24. Col. Goodlake 16. Lord Stair 25. Mr A. Graham 57. Mr E. W. Stocker 26. Mr T. Green 58. Mr 8. Swiuburno 27. Mr C. A. Halley 59. Mr G. A. Thompson 2S. Capt. Hathorn 60. Mr R. Todd 29. Mr J. Haywood 6i. Mr B. W. Triuder 30. Mr J. Hodson 62. Mr R. C. Vyner 31. Mr J. Hole 63. Mr R. H. Williams 32. Mr J. Hyslop C 4. Capt. Wyndham The Waterloo Purse, value £260, in specie, taken from the Cup Stake, for the 32 beaten dogs in the first round for the Cup; the winner to receive £lOO. The Waterloo Plate, value £lOO in specie, taken from ths Cup Stakes, for the 16 beaten dogs in the. Arst.ties for the Waterloo Cup. The Great Waterloo Cup, 64 subscriber; at £25 each— the money £l,6oo—to be divided as under;- 1. Winner to receive ... ... 1. Second ditto ... ... 2. Dogs to receive £5O each... 4. Ditto ditto 30 ditto... 8. Ditto ditto 20 ditto... 16. Ditto ditto 10 ditto... £1,600 The Waterloo Purse, for the 32 dogs beaten in the firs course for the Waterloo Cup, amounting to £260, to be divided as under 1. Winner to receive 1. Second ditto 2. Dogs to receive £l5 each... 4. Ditto ditto 10 ditto... 8. Ditto ditto 5 ditto... 16 £260 The Waterloo Plate for the 16 dogs beaten in the second ties for the Cup, amounting to £lOO, to be divided as under : -- 1. Winner o receive ~. £.lO 1. cond ditto „. 25 2. Dogs to receive £7 lOs each ... ... 15 4. Ditto ditto 5 ditto 20 Border Union (Longtown) 5, &c. Kenilworth (Warwickshire) 5, 6. L. Neptune Open (Lytham) .aneashire 6, &o. Coolo (Cork), Ireland 7, ar.e. Annan, Dumfriesshire B, 9. Wigtownshire Club 12, &c. Third South Lancashire 13, &c. Altcar Club, Lancashire 13, &c. Mere Down~ Wilts Baldock Club, Hurts 20, 21. Spelthorne Club (Ashdown Park) ...21, &c. Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire 25. Ridgway Club (Lytham), Lancashire 27, etc. Creagh Open, Ireland 27. FEBRUARY. Powderham Everleigh Club, Wilts 2, 3. Rufford Open, Lancashire Cardington, Beds . Wenvoe Castle 3, 4_ Ludham, Norfolk 11, 12. Brampton, Cumbe r l an d ll, IL. Waterloo (Altcar), Lanca s hi re l7, &c, MARCH. - - - - Ashdown Park, forts Fourth S. Lancashir e (Ch am pi on ) County Louth (Champion), Ireland 18, &c• 30, dm Scottish National Open, Lanark OCTOBER. Ancaster and Willoughby, Lincolnshire 5, 6. Orme,by 19 eze • Hunting - don Club.. 26, 27. NOVEMBER. Sundorno, Salop ... ?,3. Cothan and Eston.. 9; Sic. The Federal Council at Berlin has agreed to re. commend the establi,hment of a paid North German con sulate at Pesth. THE MANUFACTURE OF WATCH ES AND CLOCKS.-- A most interesting an 1 instructive little work, describing briefly but with great clearness, the rise and progress of watch and clock makin has just been published by Sir J. W. Benson, of 25, Old Bond-street, 99, Westbourne-grove, and tho City Steam Factory, 58 and GO, Ludgate-hill. The book, which is profusely illustrated, gives a full description of the various kinds of watches and clocks, with their prices, and no one should make a purchase without visiting tho above establishments or consulting this truly valuable work. By its aid persons residing in any part of the United Kingdom, India, or the Colonies, are enabled to select for themselves the watch best adapted for their use, and have it sent to them with perfect safety. Mr. Benson, who holds the appoint ment to the Prince of Wales, sends this pamphlet to any address on receipt of two postage stamps, and we cannot too strongly recommend it to the notice of the intending purchaser 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 :::ii :: t 1 : : :1 1 • 1 *I. 1 .• • 1 1 1 1 ••• ... 1 ~.. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 1 1 1 CIT. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. POLICE SUPERVISION OF UNCONVICTED CRIMINALS. The Times calls attention to the urgent necessity for securing a more effectual supervision of the criminal classes. The case to which it especially refers furnishes indisputable evidence of the demand for fuller powers of prevention being placed in the hands of our police. Three men, known by the con stable on duty to be returned transports, were seen loitering about Gray's-inn-road together. lie watched them try some area gates, and having procured assistance he followed them, and saw them try to get into another house by means of a skeleton key. They were secured, after a desperate struggle, in which one of the constables was seriously hurt. The Times comments upon the absurdity of the law which forces a constable to wait passively until some crime is attempted, giving the criminal time and oppor tunity of escape, and declares it would be as reason able to allow a mad dog to bite some one before destroying it. An extraordinary list of previous offences was proved against these three men. Against one of them, Summers, there were ten previous convictions for larceny, assault, and concealment in houses. Another, Bennett, had been eleven times in prison for larceny, assaulting the police, robbery of plate, and skeleton-key larceny. The third, Smith, has, since the fith of November, 1860, been sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour for a plate robbery, five years for a house robbery, and six months for larceny. The Times points out that after every release from custody these men take to crime again as their natural profession, and their convictions probably fail to represent anything like the mischief which they have done. How many crimes have they committed with impunity ? It has been calculated that every criminal concerned in a burglary escapes eight times out of nine, so that the twenty convictions against Summers and Bennett represent a pretty formidable aggregate. The oldest of the three is only thirty-one, the others being twenty-one and twenty-eight. The Times, there fore, encouragingly reminds us that they have the best part of their lives still before them, and asks if it is not madness to turn them loose upon society with- • out any supervision of their proceedings. The answer is obvious, and it is quite time that desperate criminals were deprived of the right to turn our social liberty to such bad account. MR. HARVEY ON VA '1 R ANC Y. Mr. Harvey has written another letter, in which he examines the various methods for checking the increase of pauperism and crime. He is strongly in favour of transferring the whole administration of vagrant relief from the guardians to the police, and he insists upon the importance of a uniform system being adopted throughout the country. The tendency of the present clay is to equalise and systematise the official treatment of the poor throughout the country ; and, consequently, the value of a uniform action with respect to vagrancy will be readily admitted. The system which has proved the most successful is founded on the following rules :-1. Refusal of all relief to young able-bodied men not absolutely destitute. The appli cation of this rule in one district reduced the number of casuals relieved in a year from 33,493 to 11,812, without any harshness to the deserving poor. 2. The exaction of a task of work suitable to the appli cant. 3. Police relieving office ; and 4. A demand for papers or certificates. The new " London Asso ciation for the Prevention of Pauperism and Crime " deals with these weighty subj ects in a spirit kindred to Mr. Harvey's, with the view of obtaining a- systematic co-operation of all existing charitable associations, so as to secure an effectual and organised supervision of the destitute and criminal classes. THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION AND PAUPERISM. Mr. Samuel Morley presided at a meeting of the Social Science Association, held on Monday evening, for the purpose of considering Pauperism, Charity, and the Poor Laws, and an address was given by Dr. Stallard on these subjects. Tie alluded to the appli cation of the word " pauper," which some philan thropists wished to drop altogether, on account of its objectionable meaning; but he thought it would be well to employ it exclusively in the sense of those who wil lingly received help. The poor might be divided into two classes—those who took assistance only when driven to great distress, and those who were con tented to receive aid continually. The learned gentleman then showed that a stimulus was given to work by want, and that officious charity created the lasting pauper. Statistical returns proved that a great increase had taken place in the metropolitan paupers during the last ten years. The amount of the poor-rate in Whitechapel had doubled since the year 1841. In this part of the metropolis, also, the rate of infant mortality is more than double that of any West-end district. Dr. Stallard then turned to the next part of his subject, Charity, and quoted a passage which told how a man might be born, live, and die a pauper, and at the expense of the parish be provided with burial-ground at last. The total sum subscribed for the London charities was 4,2 9 5,640, but this did not include all the public benevolence of the metropolis. Local charities gave enormous sums, and the house charity, which tic; s generally indiscriminate, was considerable. The course too often pursued was productive, said the learned gentleman, of the worst results : it formed a class of established paupers. Society suffered from this lavish and ill-considered charity, and it should be checked without delay. Dr. Stal lard suggested that dwellings for the poor might be constructed on better principles with advantage, and the Door of each district might be surveyed by a gentleman of the magisterial class, who would possess intelligence and authority at the same time. In conclusion the learned gentleman advised the equalisation of the poor rates, the en largement of the area of chargeability, and uniform assessments. Mr. Gill moved that the council of the association take steps to reform the administration of - the poor laws. The chairman feared that the rich were getting richer and the poor poorer, and it would be well to have those to administer relief who would be more hearty in the cause than a• parish officer. Mr. Middle, the medical offi cer o f White chapel, said that indiscriminate charity was one 4 -,f pauperism. Proper work was ;e not fo gr un ea d t frr theises of pauperism. and the poor law was capable of great improvements and alterations. After some more discussion the proceedings 'were adjourned for a fortnight. THE CASE OP PRISCILLA DIGOADIEE. Mr. Beggs, the secretary of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, has written to the editor of the Star in reference to the case of Priscilla Biggadike. This woman, it will be remembered. was sentenced to death at Lincoln for the murder of her husband. The case presents few 'extenuating features, and Mr. Beggs pleads for mercy for the condemned on general rather than on particular grounds. lle urges that the wretched and degraded condition in which the Biggadikes lived—husband, wife, three children, and two male lodgers occupying one room—forbids us to expect moral or rational conduct. " When men and women are degraded to the level of brutes, we must expect manners appro priate to the degradation." No punishments, however terrible, will deter such abject creatures from the commission of crime, since the future to them is always vague and remote. The jealousy of Bigga dike produced violent quarrels and ill-usage of his wife, who to get rid of him put poison in a cake. Mr. Beggs finds a still stronger argument for the abolition of capital punishment in the mistake recently made in the conviction of the man Sweet, at Taunton, for a murder he did not commit. BRIGHTON' IN A BAD WAY. There are serious complaints from Brighton that the season has been a sad failure. Everything has " gone to the bad," because the usual visitors have either never come or have not stayed. Lodging house keepers are in despair, and hotel-keepers have no prospect of doing better than asking relief in the Bankruptcy Court. The stocks laid in by shop keepers remain on their hands for want of customers. Worse than that even, _the young ladies who specu late in the matrimonial market at this fashionable watering-place don't "go off," for the same reason, it must be added, that shopkeepers have sustained so great a loss. The Brighton folk blame the general election, but as pretty well every other place in Britain had the same thing to complain of, this excuse for failure can hardly apply. It is far more probable that Brighton has brought misfortune upon itself by its extrava gant demands upon visitors ; for though those who resort to the Sussex watering-place are generally wealthy enough people, it does not follow that they are disposed to pay any price for the pleasure of sea side residence. There are many competitors now-a days, and other places, which offer quite as many attractions, and at a less cost, get the preference. It is also complained that Brighton labours under the disadvantage of defective drainage ; and, altogether, the place is in the way of getting a bad name. There may be time enough for mending matters even now, but the sooner the Brightonians s et about theirim provements the better. A WORD FOR THE SPARROW. . . The Daily Telegraph calls attention to the fact that the has "so clever, vulgar, cheerful, and plucky, sparrow The citizens of New York, as is well known, have suffered fearfully from the ravages of a frightful vermin, called the inch worm. Robins and blue birds had been tried in the way of keeping down the ravages of the worm on the foliage of the trees that adorn the Empire City ; b u t ne i t h er the blue bird nor the robin would 100 k at the dreaded insect. The services of our London sparrow were suggested, and the suggestion was adopted—a free passage and liberal terms being arranged in favour of the Cockney. ock t i o ley. fol n v e thing the wise slid the injunction,spaio " De thou fruitful, nnd multiply, and re plenish the land." Every facility, it must be OW4ed !. 'wp given them for carrying out the object ,szalect in a satisiac - cory manner. 115 inc - wrnrcr. cold is severe in New York, comfortable boxes were supplied to the new colonists, with abundance of stuff for nest building, and an ample supply of food. When the number of the sparrows was sufficiently increased, they set to work in earnest on their " mission." It is now stated that the horrible worm is rapidly dis appearing before them ; and the New York Times very quaintly remarks that it is " an astounding fact that the sparrows alone, of all public servants of this city, have fulfilled their contract." Whether the sparrows will themselves in turn become a nuisance remains to be seen. The New Yorkers, to be sure, have an easy remedy in their own hands if the new colony should become over populous. • INDIA. The Times Calcutta correspondent notes an important change of policy on the part of the Indian Government. It is now seriously entertaining projects which even a year ago were denounced as visionary when broached by those who were alive to the progress of Russia. "Such, for instance, is the occupation of Koorarn and Khost, the fine plateau hack from Kohat. If Shere Ali would give us that in exchange for our money, we could overawe the Stillman tribes, effectually co-operate with our ally in Cabul, influence the 'Endo° Koosh, and be altogether masters of the situation." The writer believes it to be a source of deep regret to Sir John Lawrence that Shere Ali was not able to meet his Excellency at Peshawur. The Government of India was prepared to supply him with both arms and money, and had he asked for English officers it is not doubted that they would have been given. The Ameer so far sheaved his anxiety to obtain our assistance that he had sent on his baggage in advance towards the frontier. THE LATE RICK ARD COBDEN ON THE CONFE DERATE PRIVATEERS. The Boston Advertiser publishes the following private letter from the late Richard Cobden, show ing the just appreciation of the position held by that distinguished man, though in direct opposition at the time to the opinions of the class with whom be associated : MIDHURST, Jan. 8, 1864. " Dear Sir,—l entirely agree with you as to the consequences to be apprehended from the opera tions of the privateers. But I do not see how 1 can interfere now with any advantage. I stated in the House last session, when it was difficult to get a hearing on that side, what I feared would be the consequences of our lax proceedings at Liver pool, &c. And I took every opportunity of im pressing privately on those in power my fear (which seems to be your own) that the demand for indem nity for captures would cost us a war or a great humiliation. I don't see how one or;the other is to be avoided. For bear in mind the mischief is done, and the language, the taunting and insulting lan guage of the Prime Minister in the House whe n the subject was brought forward by Mr. Fos ter, last spring (when I was absent) remain s on record, and I fear is not likely to be for gotten. Then bear in mind that Lord John Rug' sell has refused, in his correspondence with Mr' Adams, to recognize the claim. For me to inter fere now, and advise the Government to pay t b° money would neither be fair to the public nor my self. It must become the subject of regular diplo matic negotiation. The fact is--and the who le , fact—that our ruling class, and a large section c"' the upper middle class (led by the 7 lines and its satellites), have been so rampant in their hos tility to the great Republic, on whose strength and resources they are dangerously ignorant, that they have jumped instantly to the conclusion that—to use their unhappy phrase—' the Iter b. lican bubble has burst'—and they commence t 0 treat that country as they would Brazil. I 3°l , sorry to say that the altered tone of our diplomati c correspondence in the Blue-books shows that th e Foreign-office reflected this altered feeling. Me an ' time, among the masses of the people the feeling wa s unchangeably with the North. 'Lord Russell said at Blairgowrie the majority were for the Nor th : But the majority have no votes. If the wb ° ' B , people had been represented in the House 01 Commons, the Prime Minister would not have spoken as Lord Palmerston spoke, nor would Ai r ' Laird have been frantically cheered when he rose in the House and virtually said,' I did it. However, as I before remarked, the mischief is done, and now it remains to be seen with wha t grace the people will allow themselves to b ° committed to a war or humiliation by the ruling class which has the powers of Government in its hands. But I confess I think the money a moun t of the captures the smallest part of the futur e penalty we shall have to pay. It is the loss ° I productive value inflicted on the whole of the United States mercantile marine which is the 'O: t 0 pregnant, for it shows what half a dozen evil L steamers would do to our merchantmen. And with , whatever maritime Power we may be at war, may be assured that the Americans will pay 113 , 1 „ our own coin, and that it will be impossible for Wei' Government then to prevent privateers from being fitted out against us. This I have heard sta te by some of the best friends of England amon g i the Americans. With such a prospect I bar see how we can go to war with even Bra zil. i I have marvelled at the shortsightedness ut; so many of our shipowners and mercha n o who ought, the moment there was eV ° r the hint of privateers being fitted out in °ll , O ports, to have risen en masse against it, and to 11 % called on the Government to apply for fresh power d if they had not sufficient for the purpose. 1 0° , 3 0 of this too many of them have, I fear, chuc kle , over the destruction of a rival. For English 0 1 1 i e ; owners and merchants to be found encouraging sil o , a mode of warfare upon and through foreign ° merce, is on a par with the intelligence which the proprietors of the Crystal Palace would exhibit h they were to invite a game of stone -throwing wl their neighbours living in stone and slate houset I remain, truly yours, " R. CoBDEN. Vice President (Elect) Colfax is to be welcomed back to Washington by the Indiana State Association, 1/10: chiding all the citizens of Indiana in Washington, t°s thor with the Congressmen of that State. LADvEsmsizsiENT.l—Avoid Medicines: they always agg i le f l chronic complaints: but Dn Barry's delicious health-re sto 9 . 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