The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-29 00:00:00

THE; PUBLIC REALTII, The following is the weekly return of the Reg,istrur- General of Births and Deaths in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom : In the week that ended on Saturday,'January 25, 4,810 births and 3,274 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 23 per 1,000 in London, 31 in Edinburgh, and 37 in Dublin ; 27 in Bristol, 24 in Birmingham, 32 in Liverpool, 38 in Man chester, 28 in Salford, 26 in Sheffield, 31 in Bradford, 23 in Leeds, 23 in Hull, 27 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 31 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 30 per 1,000 during the week ending the 18th inst., when the mean temperature was 15'6 deg. Fab. lower than in the same week in Lon don, where the rate was 27. In London the births of 1,157 boys and 1,166 girls, in all 2,32:3 children, were registered in the week. In the corre sponding weeks of ten years, 1858-67, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,205. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,395. It was the fourth week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,716. The deaths in the present return are less by 321 than the estimated number. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 249, the corrected average number being 348. Twenty-one deaths occurred from small-pox, 42 from measles, 22 from scarlatina, 5 from diphtheria, 52 from whooping-cough, 31 from fever, and 13 from diar rhoea. Phthisis proved fatal to 157 persons ; 206 deaths were caused by bronchitis, 89 by pneumonia, and 66 by diseases of the heart. The deaths of five persons from burns or scalds, of seven infants from suffocation, of three persons from intemperance, and of two persons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets, were registered. The mortality was relatively low in all the five great divisions of London ; it was at the annual rate to 1,000 of 22 in West London, 23 in South London, 23 in North Lon don, 25 in East London, and 25 in Central London, in cluding the City and the surrounding districts as far as St. Giles's. By fever of the common forms the deaths were at the annual rate on 1,000 living of 4 in "West London, 2 in North London, 4 in Central London, 10 in East London, and sin South London. Twelve deaths by fever are re ferred to East London, and three of them occurred in the Fever Hospital, Islington West. THE SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CHURCIL The Times inserts a protest from three clergymen of the chief Episcopalian Church in Edinburgh against the medi tated consecration of a new Bishop of Natal in Scotland. In the extreme haste with which this proceeding has been hurried on it was impossible, within the time, to appeal to s wider circle for signatures. But it need not be said that it contains the most venerable name among the Scottish Episcopalians, and that it represents the most influential congregation of that community. Our contemporary adds'.that the Scottish bishops intend to decide this question on Thursday, and it is evident, from what has already occurred, that if the slightest en couragement is given to the promoters of the clandestine consecration, it will be celebrated, in defiance of the law of England, immediately afterwards on the other side of the Border. It is understood that not only the clergy whose names are appended to the protest, but also the Episcopalian laity in Edinburgh, are strongly opposed to this step. The document contains the names of E. B. Ramsay, LL.D., incumbent of St. John's, and Dean of Edinburgh; Daniel P. Sandford, St. John's, Edinburgh ; and Henry M. Oswald, M.A. Oxon, St. John's, Edinburgh. It sets forth that the Bishop of Capetown has applied to the Primus and bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church for permission to consecrate a prelate for the diocese of Natal ; that it has been decided by the English courts that the deposition of Dr. Colenso was null and void in law ; that therefore the intrusion of another bishop would be illegal that as the proposed consecration would be unlawful in England, it would not be seemly to allow any Scottish church to be used for the purpose of evading the restraints and prohibitions of the Church of England ; that it is not competent to allow any service not authorised by the Book of Common Prayer or the canons of the Scottish Church; therefore, for these and other weighty reasons, the signa taries do, for themselves and all who may adhere to them, dutifully and respectfully protest against granting the request of the Bishop of Capetown. The Herald is enabled to state upon the best authority that the Archbishop of Canterbury, who has fully con curred in the opinions expressed by so many bishops as to the urgent call for a new bishop for Natal, has counselled delay in the consecration of Mr. Macrorie, and that the application to the Scottish bishops has therefore been withdrawn. THE GHEE ORDEAL. The Madras Times published recently a communication on the proposed revival of the ghee ordeal in Travancore , a practice which until about thirty years ago had pre vailed from time immemorial. The custom among the Brahmins of Malayalam (intended to prevent the division of family property) of not allowing the younger members of families to marry, and yet of enforcing female chastity with a rigour unknown in any other society in India, made this ordeal of importance. It was resorted to where suspicion existed but the man protested his innocence, and inquiry left the case one of doubt, and the question of reception in holy society had to be settled. The ordeal could be conducted only in the State pagoda of Shuchindram, a village: about eight miles from Cape Comorin. The presence of some hereditary religious chiefs was necessary, the authority of the arbiters who had con ducted the investigation, and the written sanction of the Maharajah. These obtained, the Namboory under suspi cion, after certain preliminary ceremonies and fasts,attended in the pagoda, and had there to plunge his hand into a brazen vessel about Bin. deep, filled with boiling ghee, and to bring up from the bottom a small silver ball, not much larger than a solitaire glass ball, which had been cast in. It was often not until the third or fourth plunge that the accused picked up the ball. His hand was then wrapped up in tender plaintain leaves ; on the third day it was exa mined. A scalded hand was a proof of crime ;the absence of blister was accepted as a confirmation of innocence. About thirty years ago, at the urgent instance of the British Government, the then Maharajah abolished the practice. About two years ago, however, some members of the Namboory aristocracy, who had relatives placed in the inconveniences of the " doubtful state," agitated at the time of the Murajepam Carnival the question of the ghee ordeal ; and with the influence of the late first judge of the Suddur Court, one of their own class, a sort of unwritten permis sinn was procured for a sham, or " cold ghee" ordeal. Some Namboories recently underwent this, and of course came out with sound hands, and, returning to their homes, attempted to mingle in holy society. But a large and powerful - section of Namboories is opposed to this purifica tion by sham ordeal, as inadequate to warrant a reception n their society; and some of the leading members of this party have recently had interviews upon the subject with the Maharajah, the Dewan, and the British Resident. It is said that the Maharajah is willing to discountenance the sham ordeal, and to grant endorsements to the effect that the Travancore Government is unable to revive the old practice without the sanction of the Madras Govern ment. But it is represented that there is some reason to think that it will be held that there ought not to be any Government prohibition, as the ordeal would be entirely voluntary in the legal sense, though, of course, submitted to in consequence of the pressure of public opinion, The sale of one's teeth to a dentist is cited as simila r i n principle. The corresponnent who Eedds the stat a• mut argues that the ghee ordeal is a barbarous and inhuman practice, and that the prohibition ought to be continued. FALL OF A CHURCH DOME.—A Pesth letter announces that the dome of th e new c h urch i n the Leopold stadt quarter in that city fell in during the afternoon of the 22nd, with a crash. The public had been for some hours prepared for the catastrophe from aortae premonitory movements in the mason work, so that no lives were lost. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE TRADES UNSON S ._A special meeting of the sub-committee of the trades' dele• gates, to arrange the proceedings of the conference with Mr. Gladstone on the 18th of February, has been held at the Bell Inn, Old Bailey. The subject underwent a lorli c diseu , Bion, during which the deiegates reported :4 to the rules of their various societies, and several letters were act f ro m various parts of the country giving infor ma:,:on as to the Riles and practices of some of the large trades in respect to apprentices, daywork, piecework, overtime, &c., these rules and practices differing mate rially from each other. It was eventually decided that the following questions should form the subject of the con fer;.nce : —l, the limitation of apprentices ; 2, the minimum standard of wages ; 3, piecework and overtime ; 4, the alleged action of trades unions in driving trade to foreign countries ;5, the practical advantages of trades unions. It was also agreed that one member of the deputation .:,hould be selected to speak to each of the above questions. It was also resolved that the eight delegates to form the deputation to Mr. Gladstone should be appointed at the next meeting o f th e comm i ttee, an d t h at i n t h e meantime every t ra d e throughout the kingdom should requestedbe to inform the committee of its rules and customs with regard to the first thzee co l ' t una gbov, PiP11.f.1:444. - - . PROFESSOR FAWCETT AT BRIGHTON In addressing his constituents at Brighton, a day or two ago, Mr. Fawcett stated the chief danger which threatened popular institutions was the great and increasing cost of elec tions. The House of Commons will, he thinks, lose its prestige and its influence, if it becomes simply a rich man's assembly. With respect to education, Mr. Fawcett said : " I emphatically entreat you to watch carefully the educational legislation which will be attempted for the rural districts ; for if we are not on our guard, it will be enacted that children who are employed in agriculture shall be exceptionally treated ; that they shall be at school half the year and at work the other half : or, in other words, they shall be per mitted to forget in one six months what they have learnt in the previous six months. I have a very decided opinion that compulsory attendance must be inseparably asso ciated with compulsory educational rates. I should be perfectly willing to have a school-rate levied on me if I thought that the money would build and maintain schools to which neglected children would be sent, who, as they run to ruin in our streets, are often being prepared either for pauperi.ni or for crime. If we could feel sure that in this way a portion, at least, of the educational rate would be spent, then we should know that the increase in rates would only be temporary, for crime and pauperism would be diminished, and they cause a heavy burden both of local and general taxation. lam quite certain that the building and maintaining of schools will not educate the nation ; there must be some power to enforce the attend ance of children at these schools. If parents are too poor to send their children to school, the condition of these parents must, by emigration or by other means, be improved. If parents wilfully neglect their first duty to their offspring, the State ought to protect the child against the irreparable injury which is inflicted upon him if he is allowed to grow up in a state of ignorance." He thought the evils which had been generated in Ireland by four centuries of misgovernment were too deep seated to be immediately eradicated. The expedition to Abyssinia he described as leading to a war more miserable than any we have yet waged. A great part of his speech was occupied with a discussion of questions raised in his recent lecture upon the future of our agricultural classes. A vote of confidence in both members was passed. The following resolution was also passed :—" That, inasmuch as the abolition of compounding for the payment of rates has been in this borough attended with needless incon venience to the authorities and great hardships to many of the industrious ratepayers, and whereas it is now ad mitted that individual personal payment of rates is not an essential qualification for the possession of the franchise, it is, in the opinion of this meeting, most desirable that . _ the ratepaying clauses of the Reform Act should be repealed; and that the members of this borough be and are hereby requested to use their utmost endeavour to obtain such repeal." THE BISHOP OF OXFORD ON EDUCA7 lON On Tuesday afternoon a meeting of the clergy and laity of the diocese of Canterbury was held at the Royal Sussex Hotel, Tunbridge Wells, to consider the question of Church education in connection with the National Society. The Archbishop of Canterbury presided. The Bishop of OXFORD proposed the second resolutiolk which affirmed that the maintenance of the National Society' of three metropolitan training colleges, and the assistance it rendered to the various dioceses of England and Wales, tended to the improvement of Church schools by sup plying duly qualified teachers. No one could doubt, he believed, that the efficiency of a school depended alto gether upon the capability of the master ; for they might as well have a blunt razor to shave with as a bluil master to teach a school—and every one knew what a dreadful operation that would be ; except, 'ndeed, gentle. men like Mr. Beresford Hope, who was sitting by his side, who had thrown aside boy-razors altogether. (Laughter.) Here and there, he admitted, men seemed to be born schoolmasters—born with a rod in one hand and primer in another; but such men were exceptions to the general rule, and if they wanted a good schoolmaster that must get him by training him steadily to his work. He thought that training colleges were really the mode in which alone they could hope to have a good supply of masters, because they must teach the men thoroughly what they had to teach their pupils if they were to teach to good effect. A teacher who was only a lesson ahead of his class must of necessity be an exceedingly bag teacher. They could not make water mount higher than the spring from whence it came, and in like manner, unless they made the teacher replete with that which was to come from him, they would never get his information spread widely amongst the little mouths which were waiting to drink in his instruction. The moral and intellectual training imparted by the collegiate system he believed to be of the 114 :hest value tc schoolmasters. The fact of living together kindlcu amongst them a spirit which induced them to do honour to their profession, and raised the profession in their minds to one of dignity. It was such a feeling that animated the members of the English bar, who were conscious that they belonged to a mighty class, and who felt that anything that was below the dignity of the class was unworthy of the individual man. By raising the temper of the whole class of masters they incidentally raised every one of them to a far higher conception of what he ought to be, and made him better qualified to discharge the duties required of him. If any one wished to realise the full value of this, let him look about to some school or another with which he must be acquainted, where the master was a teacher because he could not suc ceed in anything else ; let them look at his shabby and careless dress, his violent temperament, thinking every one under his charge a nuisance, and only tolerating the little nuisances because he knew that if he did not do so he must starve. What sort of an estimate as a Christian should have could such a man have of the young children committed to his care? He had no faith whatever in making it a condition of a Government grant that a school should be taught by one of those people. He did not think that a good housewife would consider that she was bound to use a broom because it was manufactured in some par ticular place, but because it swept clean ; and he was sure that there was no more effective way of imparting► dullness to a school than by sending to it one at these incompetent certificated persons. What he con tended for, therefore, was, that they should create the best mode of making the best masters, and then they. should he flung out in order that they might shew that they were the best men, and so hold their own, not by their certificates, but by the daily renewed certificate at their success in school. (Hear, hear.) He had a suspir eion of men in all professions and all trades who founded their claims to be dealt with on the ground of their certificates. He would not buy a penknife of a man who preferred such a claim, because he should know that the knife would not mend a pen, but would be very likely indeed to cut his fingers. In like manner he would net take a man simply because he had a govern ment certificate, but because he was competent to teach his school. It would be impossible to introduce a compulsory system of education into this country. If they had not thought much about it, they would find the matter worth looking at a little in detail. It seemed at first sight a very charming thing that by a little gentle compulsion every parent should be made to educate his child. He should like to see anyone who was at all acquainted ►vith country parishes attempt to go through the process. They would find, for example, a boy, an utter lout, who hated learning. The parents were t o melt e the; boy learn. Were they to be pill in prison if they could not compel the lout to take to his lessons? Few, he sup' posed, would go as far as that ; but the farmers were not to be allowed to employ the lout, and if tlip parents did not teach the lout they would not be able to send him to work in the fields. But did it ever occur to these philosophers of Laputa, who so strenuously advo cated this system, and who worked out all their schemes ll a sort of trigonometrical process, that the lout mi g ht care just as little for work as he did for learning, and that, when he was told that he must not work, he would probably sa) he would do and play at marbles, which, no doubt, would suit his temperament a great deal beiter t The lout, therefore, would learn nothing, while he would lose that more active education which he would have gained by following the plough or doing other work in the field. The effect of the system of compulsory edtitlit• tion would, therefore, be this That the hoy became a terror to his family, a harm to his schoolmaster, a nuisance to the farmer s and a totally useless member of society ; and that seemed to be the grand paradisaical result of this ;le* system of compulsory education. (Laught:::.r and cheers.) Then, as to the system of corn; ',misery rating, he thought there would be a great objecr• tion to it throughout the country ; for directly they introduced the ratepayer they must give the ratepayer the real direction of the education which the rates he paid provided. Now, they knew, as a matter of experience, that on the question of religion England was a divided nation ; and the ratepayer would, in the first instance, ask what religion he was about to pay for —not that of the greater mass of the population, because that would be an injustice to the smaller number, but a religion from which everything to which anybody objected was cut oil, until it became a mere caput mortuunt, which looked something, but was really nothing. THE PRINCE IMPERIAL —The Prince Imperial, who has on several occasions gained first place for his com positions among his youthful fellow students of the 7th class a the College Bonaparte, will take part in the ap proaching banquet of St. Charlemagne. The Emperor has, it is stated, already sent a quantity of game wad ericral bmicets of champagne to ; th 4 , RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON BRIGHTON AND SOUTH COAST. The directors of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company have issued their report in anticipation of the meeting. They state that since coming into office their efforts have been constantly directed towards winding up all outstanding liabilities so as to arrive at a closed capital account, and the result is that the amount of these, which was formerly estimated at £2,323,177, is now £804,320. Of this, £275,000 consists of disputed liabilities for the balance of alleged subscriptions to the Surrey and Sussex and Chichester and Midhurst Railways, leaving the balance admitted to be £529,320. The assets of the company at present consist of £326,572 cash at the bank, nearly the whole of which will be absorbed in paying debenture and preference interest ; balance of old debenture power on the Ist of January, £43,000 ; balance of existing authorised stock, £235,000 ; and debenture power accruing in respect of the last issue and otherwise, which the directors are advised amounts to £392,000, but which they think it right to I defer exercising for the present. The position therefore, is that, irrespective of disputed liabilities, the existing powers of raising capital are just about sufficient to meet the admitted claims. The report goes on to state that the directors ate advised the subscriptions to the Surrey and Sussex and Chiches ter and Midhurst Companies are invalid, and they have had no alternative but to file a bill in Chan cery to assert the legal position of the company and claim back the moneys which they are advised have been improperly applied in payment of those sub scriptions. This was also necessary in order to re strain the action of creditors of those companies who sought to prosecute their claims against the Brighton Company. The directors, however, con sider that the question is oue which ought to be settled by compromise rather than contested upon strict legal rights, and they will be glad to deal with any proposal which may be made in a liberal spirit, and to avoid pressing too severely on the old directors. The total expenditure on capital account during the last half-year has been £199,226 17s. Id., which consists entirely of expenditure on new lines in progress or in winding up the accounts of those recently opened. The gross revenue of the half-year has been £709,651, showing an increase of £53,896 over the corresponding period of 1866. The expenditure, however, is much above what had been anticipated, the old system of accounts, which charged to capital much of what should have fallen on revenue, having completely misled the board. The directors express their belief that, if all proper expenses had been charged to revenue, the real rate at which the Brighton line has been worked for some time would have been not less than 75 per cent., and that during a great part of the time while dividends of 6 per cent. were being paid on the ordinary stock, the company was not really earning enough to pay its preference interest. The balance shown of revenue over expenditure is £309,525, including an amount of £6,805 brought forward from last half-year. This sum, after paying debenture interest, just suffices to pay interest on all preference stocks created prior to 1865, carrying forward a small balance of £l,OOB. At the ensuing meeting it will be proposed to reduce the number of the board from nine to eight, and if the report be adopted the present directors will remain in office, with the exception of Sir Charles Jackson, who retires. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1868, the height of the gale ; if so, there is no doubt they must have all foundered. On Saturdap afternoon the bark Britannia, Capt. Greig, bound from the West Coast of Africa for Liverpool, put in to Holyhead, having on board the master (Capt. Ferguson) and 21 men of the ship Ghazeepore, from Akyab, laden with rice, for Liver pcol. On Monday afternoon the Britannia, while 40 miles south of Cork, came up to the Ghazee pore, which had been totally dismasted two days previously and was in a sinking condition. The crew were put on board the Britannia with consi derable difficulty. They landed at Holyhead and proceeded on to Liverpool. They spoke very grate fully of Capt. Greig's kindness to them. The lifeboats in connection with the Royal Na tional Lifeboat Institution have been the means of saving life on the coast of North Wales and at Holy island, Ramsgate, Anstruther, and other stations. STATE SE7TLEMENT AND NATURALI ZATION. From the Anglo-American Times.) Governor BULLOCK in his Message to the Mas sachusetts Legislature touches on a subject which, in a more general way, is now exciting the atten _ _ tion of he Anglo-Saxon race. The Massachusetts laws of settlement are not remotely c'nnected with the laws of naturalization, and the customs of Mas- sachusetts exemplify the necessity for change, show- Lug that however good originally, and well qualified to meet the difficulties of the day, the best laws may, under another order of things, become op pressive, and even absurd. It appears that in Mas sachusetts the State is responsible for the support of all descendants of men and women who once gained or derived a settlement within its limits, their obligation remaining, though the family may have left the soil for centuries. Whoever once se cured a settlement in Massachusetts retains the right for his descendants, no matter how remote— no matter where born or bred—to a provision in case of destitution. Their sick, their insane, their defective, their paupers, may return to Massachu setts to be supported by the town of original set. tlement. The statutes of the State, as shown in elaborate treaties by the Attorney-General, forbid their removal—though they may be but great-grand children of the original settler, and acquired sub sequent settlements elsewhere—except with their own free consent. Practically to illustrate his sub ject, the Governor gives the following instances : " One hundred years ago a, resident of a small town in the county of Worcester whose political senti ments, according to tradition, were obnoxious to his fellow-citizens, emigrated to a neighbouring State, where he lived and died, and his descendants after him to the fourth generation, all having settlementa in that State, and nearly all owners of the soil. A few years since one of his great-grandsons returned to Massachusetts, became insane, and was sent to the hospital at a cost to the small town above named, whence his ancestor originated, of about twelve hundred dollars up to this time, and of two hundred dollars a year in addition, as long as he may live. He cannot legally be returned to his own birth-place and the home of his fathers for four generations. About 1743 a family left a small town in the county of Bristol, and gained settle ments successively in three other New England States, never returning to reside in Massachusetts. One hundred and eighteen years afterwards four idiot members of this family were returned to this State to be supported by the ancestral town at an expense of not less than six hundred dollars a year. A town in the county of Norfolk, by virtue of an ancestral settlement, is now compelled to support a lunatic who escaped a few months since from the almshouse of his native city, where his legal residence is undis p uted." The English law of citizenship is grounded on the same principle, with this material difference, that England selfishly endeavoured to hold her subjects to the duties involved in citizenship, while she in effect repudiated the reciprocal duties of protection. But Massachusetts has fixed on its inhabitants the burden of supporting the descendants of those who once acquired the right to her supp ort. The per manent and settled populati on has been gradually but surely decreasing, while the number of those entitled to aid may be counted by millions scattered over the globe. of course such a system is unfair and requires revision. The first instance of State pauperism mentione d in the history of Massachu setts Kin g occurred as ear l y as 1639, in the time of King PHILIP'S war, when the ruined and houseless inhabi tants of the ravaged districts were distributed by of the colony. N earl y three-quarters of a century the general court f or maintenance among the towns ago the code was revised, and based as before upon that of England , remaining substantiall y unchanged time. Governor BULLOCK says :---" The payment of all taxes assessed requisi t i on s to settlement are now resi dence for ten s uccessive years without receiving t p o ri t n b o e i p p r a e l s r e eci nt the payment town purposes for any five that time, or the residin g u p on on e's own real estate for three successive y ears—the p art y f p yoe u ra b r s l s i e t ad a tu i odr, during g i n t n h y t always being a citizen and of lawful age. These conditions might h ave been well suited t o th e n eeds labour, they can hardly of ten years in of an agricultu ral and commercial p o p ulation, secure i nitsewal permanence. But th e p rogress of manufactures among us has developed new an d un foreseen re lations towar d s our countrymen from dutiesoth r w ttoward States , ad ourhi brethren from othe r l an d s. B o th le immigration ha s i mpose d new c lasses, seeking hom es amon g us, have added largely to our producti ve ener g ies and m aterial wealth ; but for both, the conditions of ac q uir ing settlement are far too oner ous. Com p elled to follow the ebb m and i maintain a o i w n o a fthe n uninterrupted demand forresidencea single town ; o r, if p erchance they accomplish it, some wary officia l will omit to assess them for the fifth time, or abate a tax with ready lenity. Large numbers are thus, in ignorance of their rights, deprived of the residence they are on the point of acquiring; and after a sober and indus trious life, in the infirmity of age, are given over to a State almshouse." The latp Governor ANDREW earnestly advised a revision, and proposed specific additions, which were defeated in committee with one exception. GovernorßuLLoeK entirely agrees with his predecessor, and proposes rather an exten sion than an alteration of the present statutes, which may secure the objects without provoking liti gation. He would permit aliens to enjoy the privileges of the native born on having complied with the conditions of settlement. "No accidents of birth, or colour, or race, or sex," says this document, " should bar any from the rights of acquisition and enjoyment. In her justice and her charity Massa chusetts should recognize no frontiers but those of humanity itself." The l sett ement of single women after useful and guileless lives, is next adverted to. "We should not pe • runt them, in their advancing ago and infirmity, to be torn away from the friends and associations and homes of half a century, to linger out the remnant in a State almshouse." The Governor next calls attention to a more efficient protection of the rights of citizens, whose paternal settlement is obscure, but who have a well-known maternal settlement. The cities and towns take advantage of this to send such persons to the State almshouses. It • is earnestly recommended to en courage the towns to assist at home worthy and in dustrious families who have no settlement, with a partial or full reimbursement from the State, in the same manner and under the same supervision as that now adopted for the relief of the sick poor therein. The Governor recommends careful in quiry whether the pre-requisite of ten years' con tinuous residence may not safely be reduced at least to the maximum of the neighbouring States. Maine requires but five years' residence, New York but one, and the maximum of the others is seven. And further suggests whether assessors shall be permitted to prevent the acquisition of a settlement by omis sion to impose a tax, or abatement of any already laid. We cannot doubt that a great amount of hardship will be averted by these two changes alone. It is quite clear that this subject, connected as it is with naturalization, requires revision throughout all the States. We may here allude to the broader subject of naturalization now exciting so much in terest in the United States. There is no law of expatriation in the Union, as emigration hasnot been contemplated by the Legislature, and the judges have carefully avoided establishing Y nprecedent. THE LATE GALE. From Berwick disasters to shipping are reported. The full rigged ship Granite City, of Aberdeen, Wat son master, was being towed by the steam tug Pearl, from Leith to Shields, and having reached the south of the Ferne Islands, the tug was obliged, in conse rwtoiokcasbtartbhoeurs,hibpuatdnrioft.tidTinhges ci st u e e a la n c le e r of rea th eh e ed ga ß le e havegae increasedl yet l to a hurricane enr ece ived of o then Fr ship, iday and, as t afternoon,he much anxiety is felt for her sifety. The ship was in ballast. The schooner Ythan, Dorward, master, of and from Arbroath for Slnderland, in ballast, 1 1 encountered the gale when to the south of the Coquet Island, and made for Holy Island Harbour for shelter. At the entrance to the harbour two anchors were let go, but they failed to hold the vessel, which drove on to the Steel Point, on the north side of Holy Island harbour. A boat's crew ventured alongside, but owing to the fearful storm I no assistance could at that time be rendered, and the vessel continued to strike and bilge on the rocks, where she was left high and dry when the tide re ceded. The crew were afterwards landed. The vessel was got off on Saturday ; damage estimated at £l5O. The sloop Ann, of Newcastle, Elsdon, master, from Anstruther for Sunderland, with potatoes, drove from her anchors and went ashore near the Coastguard boathouse at Holy Island, the sea mak ing a clean breach over her. The crew were saved. The vessel is expected to become a wreck. The schooner Mischief, of Carnarvon, in ballast, in at tempting to enter Holy Island harbour on Friday afternoon, drove ashore on the Parton Steel, about a mile south-east of the Beacons. The lifeboat suc ceeded in rescuing the crew. The schooner Indus trious Helen, of Arbroath, Barrie master, bound for Goole with potatoes, drove ash ore near th e boat _ _ house at Holy Island the same afternoon, the crew being saved. Several of the fishing boats in Holy Island harbour were capsized and sunk during the storm, and some of them have been very much da maged. During the storm the fishing boat Thistle was returning from the fishing ground to Eyemouth harbour, and when about two or three miles from the shore the boat missed stays, and Archibald Nes bit, who was at the helm, was struck by the handle o f the rudder and knocked over into the sea. A boat-hook was thrown to his assistance, and he seized it, and attempts were made to put the boat about to reach him, but the boat thrice missed stays, and when at last the crew succeeded in reach ing the place they found that the unfortunate man had sunk. On Friday Glasgow and the West of Scotland were visited by a gale unparalleled in intensity and destructiveness since the hurricane of 1856. The streets in many parts of Glasgow were rendered un safe from the fall of slates and chimney ca several Revere a eiddtits, involving loss oflnifse and and injury to the person, occurred. Ou the south side of the river a chimney was blown down on a roof, through which it penetrated, killing a woman and ERriOUSIY thjiirleg a man. In Gallowgate, a well known offender, while stripping a roof at a height of four stories, was blown to the ground, and re ceived injuries from which he is not expected to recover , At rollokshaws, a brick building, two stories in height and about 90ft. long, was caught by the wind, which drove in the south wall together with the roof. A man and woman were killed, and five others were seriously hurt. In the north quarter a labourer received severe injuries from the fall of a brick wall 10ft. high. Three turrets were thrown down from the tower of Dr. Morison's church in Dundas-street, and the slate roof of a saw-mill, 145 yards in length, was bodily lifted away. In the western quarter the chimney stacks belonging to a bakery establishment were blown down, and pene trated the roof of the main building, but fortunately none of the workmen were hurt. There are no re ports of great disasters on the coast, but the da mage done has been considerable. Many of the river steamers met with injuries from being caught in the storm. At Strone thelpier and pierhouse were blown down ; as also at Helensburgb, Kil creggan, and other places along the coast of the Frith, great damage was done to the trees and lighter kinds of houses. At Portpatrick the schooner Release, from Liverpool was totally wrecked, awl all hands, five in number, were lost. The Northern Ensign states that on the Latheron coast the storm caused sad loss of life and pro perty. At Dunbeath, where a number of boats had run for shelter, three fishermen from Por tessie were drowned, one had his leg broken, several boats were wrecked, and there is reason to fear, from pieces of wreck coming ashore, that at least one entire crew of eight or ten men, supposed to belong to Portknockie, have perished a little to the southward of the river. It is reported that several boats were seen off the head of Bruau during In addition to the statutes of the Federal Go vernment relating to naturalization, each State has determined by law the qualifications of citizen ship and suffrage within its limits. The United States demands before admission a residence in the country of five years, and of one within the particular State where the application is made. The applicant must also give two years' notice of his intention to be come a citizen. No alien can be admitted while his country is at war with the United States. " Bacon's Handbook" gives the following estimate of the number and original nationality of naturalized citizens :—lreland, 1,611,000 ; German States, 1,198,000.; England, 430,000 ; British America, 250,000 ; France, 109,000 ; Scotland, 105,000 ; Switzerland, 54,000 ; Wales, 45,000 ; Norway, 43,000 ; Holland, 28,000; Turkey, 28,000 ; Italy, 10,000 ; Denmark, 10,000 ; Belgium, 9,000 ; Po land, 7,000 ; Mexico, 7,000 ; the Antilles, 7,000 ; China, 5,000 ; Portugal, 4,000 ; Prussia, 3,000 ; various countries, 204,000—total, 4,136,000. The computation of Chinese is now altogether under the mark ; and we have little doubt that the figure, representing Prussia, although prior to the late North German Confederation, is an error. The great bulk of naturalized citizens are British and Ger man. There is no reason as regards the United Kingdom why Congress should not pass au Act making naturalization tantamount to birth in the United States. As English law now stands, half the citizens of the Union are regarded as Bri tish subjects, including very probably the PRESI DENT himself. Such an Act would only add a comparatively small number more to those consi dered by English law as subjects of the Crown, one of those fictions which abound in British statutes, and which no one ever dreams of seeing carried into practical effect. The case is, however, differ ent with Germany. By the law of Prussia every man born within the limits of the kingdom is obliged to do military service between the ages of 26 and 30, and this obligation is lasting, and can not be escaped by absence, which indeed is regarded as a crime. The nation recognizes the citizen's right to expatriate himself after performing this obliga tion. The subject has already caused lengthened controversies between Washington and Berlin. American naturalized citizens who have returned to Prussia have been arrested and forced into the military service. Such an Act by Congress would either compel Prussia to modify her law or lead to a rupture. MEXICAN BRIGANDAGE. The Mexican correspondent of the Baltimore Commercial gives an account of the country, which, however surprising, is we believe strictly and literally true. The great institution of Mexico is brigandage. No Mexican will work if he can live without it. Respectable employment can scarcely be had. The professions are limited, the avenues of promotion outside the army are inacces sible to the moderately educated ; therefore men must either labour or enter the bandit profession. Forty thousand soldiers were discharged in August last, and turned loose upon society, and the great mass of them went to reinforce the brigand bawls. Society, as a whole, does not condemn these high waymen. A noted robber may in Mexico be ad mitted to good society and rise to civil distinction, and when the man abandons the road, his career on it, if distinguished, is rather a feather in his cap. The correspondent recognised a robber that he had formerly met on the road, in the streets of the city, and he rose to high rank in the army. The Government earnestly endeavours to root out this curse. A force of 20,000 men, and a swarm of civil employes wage incessant war upon it, and the weekly list of slaughtered ladrones as officially published is appalling. From one to fifteen are daily executed, yet brigandage is on the increase. The death penalty, the rattle of musketry, the hun dreds monthly swept into robber graves, do not even check the great national business of presta moing, robbing, and throat cutting. The road guards have authority to shoot without trial before a civil tribunal, and they carry it into effect with- out mercy. The criminal code is almost uniform in all the States, and so rigid, that stopping a dili gence, forcibly entering a building, or taking the slightest article, is punishable with death ; and the military can carry it into effect without even a form of trial. The robbers, however, meet the case with a nonchalance that argues an utter disregard for life. They kill a man without a particle of remorse, and when the law sends them to execution, there is no shaking or supplicating, or begging for mercy. The executions are pure business transactions, the ut- most good humour prevailing, in which the culpri is as gay as the rest. Smoking and drinking con tinue even to the moment of death ; and there is no repentance, as they recognize no sin in taking what the world owes them. It is not the bullet or the halter the bandit fears ; there is more dread to him in the chain-gang, and more than all in the whip ping-post. But though the robbers thus fearlessly meet their end, a travelling Mexican seldom risks his life for the property he carries. A couple of highwaymen have been known to rob a diligence full of armed men, and even women have made twice their number of male travellers " stand and deliver." As a general rule, therefore, the danger to the rob bers is not in acting against travellers, where they seldom meet with resistance, while in some districts to d they are sufficiently strongnationalteloss troops, and even to plunder towns without the ithout the of a man. But they constantly come into collision with the soldiers ; and in all cases they have proved their superiority. They are generally mounted, and work in troops of from five to eight hundred. There are at present in the field a band of 500, operating west of Queretaro, on whose banner is inscribed I' Long Live the Empress." Two months ago they entrapped two new regiments, killing every officer, enlisting the surviving privates, and thus com pletely annihilating both. These work with the double purpose of supporting themselves and with a political object. The gentlemen of the road are generally fine-looking, well-dressed fellows, with au air of dash, and a gentlemanlike manner. They crave for jewellery ; rings and diamond pins are eagerly gathered. In a twinkling their expert hands relieve a dozen persons of their purses, watches, or shawls. Then they light their cigars, offer them to the de spoiled, and bowing low are lost in the thick under growth. The following incident is given of the politeness of a Mexican robber :—" Once upon a time, on a journey from Mazatlan on the Pacific, to Guadaljara, with three ladies, four children, and an old man of 70 years, in the diligen, a well mounted, well-organised troop of men n over hauled us. To show fight under the circumstances would have been madness. We submitted gra ciously, losing money and watches —no more. It was at a time when the road swarmed with ban dits. A view of the situation indicated very clearly our condition. The next band w take our clothes and rifle our baggage. The next one, find ing nothing else, would take our lives. Indeed, when a man permits himself to robbe rob bed, it is is necessary to have somet hin g to be bed of. H person will suffer for h is poverty. Our case was submitted to the robber chief, and the old man and our Spanish spokesman was eloquent and compli mentary. He touched the right cord, for the chief wheeled his horse, ordered his men in front and rear of us, and motion ed the driver t push on. He remained with us all th at da y ; drove o and talked off no less than four robber bands, and saw us safely in the garrita at Guadaljara. Since the close of the late war I saw on the streets of the capitol this same robber chief, now an officer, high in rank, in the national army." It will be readily believed that the bandits do not always escape unscathed in these attacks. Their information is perfect as to the movements, the nationality, and the valuables of travellers, and they have rica learned to us es pecexpe t the p ro perty of Englishmen and rience has shown them that they run no slight risk in attacking parties among whom they are nume rous. Some time ago an American and an Englishman, well armed, took passage in the diligence for Vera Cruz, and when near Puebla were halted by a well-mounted baud of seven. As usual, prepara tory shots were fired to " bring the diligence to." In a minute Smith and Lyons were in position out- L side, and as the robbers advanced, opened fire upon them. Every shot told, and in a very short time and the rest were . , four of the assailants lay dead, fleeing to the chapparel. The diligence was then driven to Puebla, where the victors were acquitted and an escort furnished them. The robbers ga thered in force on the road for the purpose of avenging their comrades, and determined to slaugh ter every passenger. But the guard was too strong, and the plucky travellers arrived in safety at Vera Cruz. Since this encounter few feints are made. The robbers come up at a gallop, firing into the coach and at the mules indiscriminately. If pas sengers resist and are overpowered no quarter is shown them. Under the most favourable circum stances a refusal to surrender valuables will sub ject the traveller to the most brutal treatment. As a sample of what American or English travel lers are to expect who place any trust in Mexi cans, no matter how earnest their professions, the correspondent relates this incident :--" Some months ago a party of eight —one American and seven Mexicans—left the capital for Puebla in the morning diligence. All were armed with re volvers. As some of the party carried valuables, it was agreed, before starting, to resist any attack made upon them. On the first alarm each man was to alight, take position as he saw fit, and fight without orders. Yorke, the American, carried two of Colt's revolvers. Thirty miles east of the capi tal a band of fifteen robbers:issued from the woods, and immediately opened a heavy fire with pistols and carbines upon the diligence. Young Yorke jumped from the coach, as agreed upon, calling upon his comrades to follow ; and taking his place between two of the dead mules, killed by a robber's shot, returned the fire. He stood there with the fire of the whole pack directed against him. Eight shots he fired, and then fell dead. After falling, the fiends rushed upon him, and literally hewed his body to pieces with their sabres. His eight shots killed three of the rob bers, and wounded four more. His cowardly fellow-passengers delivered up their arms, were bound, robbed, stripped of their clothing, and al most beaten to death. The coach was upset, and the mules, yet living, driven off. Several of these bandits have since been apprehended and shot." It is no wonder that in such a country Maximilian failed, for there are no producers, and where almost the only successful trade is thieving, it would be folly to look for truth, honesty, or prosperity. Brigand bands, who cared for nothing but the suc cessful prosecution of their plundering enterprises, term themselves Liberals, against Maximilian ; or Imperialists, against Juarez. The Government, carrying out the stringent law for the suppression of highway robbery, lays itself open to the charge of murdering its political opponents. Since the fall of the empire, the disbandment of a large por tion of the army, and the close of the employment it furnished, has greatly increased brigandage in Mexico, and now it is almost impossible to travel anywhere without being robbed, unless accompanied by a strong escort. The only remedy for this state of things is the utter poverty and starvation that must supervene on a total cessation of productive labour. A man whose toil only brings the robber to his abode will have no heart for work, and when there is nothing left to steal the profession will not be worth following. Had Mexico not been a wonderfully rich country this stage would long since have been reached. We . fear that the only peace for Mexico is in depopulation ; and the only, regeneration will be, when its great Northern neighbour—sick of its crimes, and hopeless of its future—treads down be neath its heavy battalions all the political and com mercial corruption, the robbery and murder, the cruelty and treachery that since the advent of the Spaniards, have reigned supreme, and will continue to curse the land till Uncle Sam decrees that they shall exist no longer. TIIE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The question of the Alabama claims has again been prominently brought before the British public by the Press. Lord HOBART wrote to the Times strongly urging the Foreign-office to re-open the subject, and to concede Mr. SEWARD'S demand that the whole matter as contained in the correspondence between the Governments should be submitted to arbitration. Against this liistnricus protests. In a long and able letter, he supports Lord STANLEY, and shows from Mr. SEWARD'S own despatches in the early part of May, 1861, that the position for the assumption of which that Minister blames Great Britain in 1867, had, in truth, then been assumed by himself and the Cabinet of which he was a member. Mr. JOHN MORLEY on the same evening published iu the Pall-Mall Gazette a reply to Historicus, and which was followed next day by another from Lord HOBART, and most of the daily papers have discussed the subject in leading articles. No doubt the question thus ventilated will receive new light, and the public will be made acquainted with its legal bearings, as well as with its moral and political aspect. From the day on which the Alabanza escaped to sea to the present moment the matter h as p resented itself in a very simple guise to our mind. It matters little what may have been Mr. SEWARD'S contradictions, nor is the course of the then PRESIDENT and his Cabinet of material importance, further than pegs on which to hang diplomatic despatches. The essence of the Alabama question lies in the animus of which it was the most prominent exam ple, and the precede nt which it has so in juriously established. Those who wish well to England and to the United States desire to coun teract the feeling and to remove the precedent. The only way in which this can be done is, by a frank acknowledgment of error and reparation for the damage. It is in vain for clever writers to pull Mr. SEWARD'S despatches to pieces—to show that what he wrote at one date, contradicts what he wrote at another—for this does not touch the real point at issue, and is therefore more or less beside the mark. America, while engaged in a war that threatened the existence of the Union, is indignant that England, where she looked for sympathy, met her with hostility, prematurely recognizing the bel ligerent rights of rebels, and allowing armed vessels constructed in British ports to escape to sea to cruise as privateers against her commerce, that of a friendly nation. England freely tendered the rebels the 1 sympathy, the moral force and the material aid she I could bestow, without openly infringing her neu trality and joining in the war as a belligerent. her object was to split up a rival power, and to drive from the seas a commerce then greater than her own. It is thus the question is regarded iu America ; and we have only to suppose England placed iu I similar circumstances,and the United States acting the same part, to understand the deep indignation Ameri cans feel. Imagine the late insurrection in Ireland momentarily successful, and we may easily realise the anger of Englishmen if the PRESIDENT hastened to recognize the belligerents—to proclaim the neu trality of the United States—and to permit cruisers built and armed, by her, bearing the commis sion of a sham President of a sham Irish Re public, to proceed to sea against the commerce Of England. The more desperate the struggle the greater would be British annoyance. W e may further imagine the commanders of these vessels elevated into heroes for burning defenceless Eng lish merchant ships, and feted at American ports ; statesmen predicting the establishment of an Irish nationality hypocritically imploring England to cease a brutal as well as useless effusion of blood, and to leave the stricken and oppressed island free ; actions distorted, victories turned to defeats, atro cious measures taken by the rebels represented as deeds of heroism, while retaliation was denounced as black crimes of barbarism, and these spread abroad as true accounts of the conflict. When England —with her National Debt doubled, with her trade swept from the seas, with Ireland ruined, a n d mourning carried into every home of Great Britain —had in this desolation maintained the Union, sh e would very naturally turn with indignation to de mand some satisfaction from the nation at whose hands she had suffered so much. Would it be any answer to compare what Lord RUSSELL wrote at one time and at another ? or what Lord STANLEY said or did on different occasions? The indisput able facts would remain, and England would be jus tified in declaring that the United States had esta blished a precedent which could be used fatally against herself, when the inevitable day of her trial arrived. Americans are willing to admit that it was the smaller but more influential portion of Great Britain that favoured their enemies, the hearty sympathy of the mass of the English people being with them. They allow that the hostile portion was grossly ignorant of the United States, and of the objects contended for ; that the war itself let into the British mind a flood of light on American affairs, which enabled the public more justly, after the mischief was done, to appreciate their folly. They are willing to say, " You knew not what you did, and, though culpably wrong, we are ready to forgive you, provided you make this acknowledgment, and, as far as money reparation to those who suffered can repair the damage, to ac cept that reparation." Hitherto England has ob jected on a point of honour, asserting at the same time that the nation was blameless. Where nations differ, and the dispute is pressed to a settlement, they must arbitrate or fight. It is admitted throughout England that the friendship of the United States is of more importance than that of all Europe com bined. It is admitted that the precedent of the Alabama is the most fatal that could be established against England herself. To secure the one and wipe out the other rests with the British Govern ment, and it is a folly second only to that which has brought the nation into the present trouble, to ne glect the opportunity. Iu private conversation all intelligent Englishmen admit that they have made a series of frightful mistakes—that they were alike wrong in their support of the Southern rebellion and in permitting such vessels as the Alabama to proceed to sea, whatever may be their municipal laws. Where individuals frankly acknowledge this, why should the nation, composed of these indivi duals, refuse to do so? Every dictate of policy and expediency prompts to this course, and it is simply another great blunder added to the many, if any stupid punctilio be permitted to interfere. America wants Peace. She has to repair the de vastating effects of a fearful contest, which requires time and repose. England admits that a war be.. tween the kindred nations would be one of the greatest calamities that could befal mankind. Then why not repair, in a spirit of generosity and candour, her own grievous errors, and thus disarm her ene mies, and strengthen the great body of her well wishers throughout the United States. America has reduced her army and navy to the lowest limit, and even this fact adds to the reasons why the present is the time for this settlement. Had the demand been made with an overwhelming force threatening Canada, there would have been grounds for Eng land's punctilio. It is not an armed man who presses for satisfaction at the sword's point, but a people who know, from facts too patent to be argued away, that they have been injured—who ask to have the injuries of which they complain, submitted to arbitration.—Auglo-Anzerican Times. THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL GOSSIP. Madlle. Schneider . has returned to the Varietee. The Waits is shortly to b 3 produced at the Standard. Verdi's poet, Prave, is not dead, as was reported, but convalescing. Tant mieux. More Trovatores and Tra viatas. Our readers will be glad to learn that Madame Arabella Goddard is recovering from her indisposition. L'Eil Greve has reached one hundred nights at the Folies Dramatiques. The Paris papers give the news of Sivori's return to Paris after his long ramblings through foreign parts. A new comedy by M. Dumas fils is in preparation for the Gymnase. It will be in four acts. A new drama, entitled The Peep-show Man, by Mr. J. T. Williams, will shortly be produced at the Surrey. Madlle. d'Hautloup, an actress who has attracted some attention by her performances at the Luxembourg, has been engaged for the Varietes. Astley's Theatre has been taken by a French circus company, which will shortly open. The pantomime will be retained as a portion of the entertainment. A new theatre will shortly be opened in Paris. It will bo `,,called Le Theatre Villebichot, after the notorious author of the music to Rien n'est save pour un sapeur. The younger Goquelin, whose engagement at the Odeon terminates in about four months, will then go to the Comedic, whereat he and his brother will appear iu Amphytrion. Le Behrnais of M. Rations is to be produced at the Theatre do la Mounaie, Brussels. Madame Sallard, of the Lyrique, will play La )3elle Gabrielle. A new jeune premier, sl. E. Abel, has made a succossfu debut at the Vaudeville as Armand Duval in La Dame aux Cornelius. Les Tribulations d'un Tcimin, a three-act piece of absur dity, by M. A. Decourcolles, is the latest novelty at the Bouffes. It is followed by Une Jolie Bete, a very clover little vaudeville, in which Madame Dupont is excellent. La I?eine Margot, of MM. Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquot, will follow Arralt-na-Pogue at the Gaite. Du maine will play Coconas, Laferriere La Mole, Latoueho Caboche, Madame Duverger Margot. Yorkshire is looking up in musical matters. It has been determined to revive the Bradford Festivals, and a move ment is on foot to do the same for those formerly held in the capital of the county. Roger, the celebrated tenor, has received from the Em peror of Austria the medal des Arts et des Sciences for his artistic excellence, and in particular for his rendering of, Haydn's Seasons. M. Lafargue, the secretary of the Porte St. Martin Theatre, has obtained a silver medal for bravery, in stop ping a runaway horse, which had placed the lives of several people in imminent peril. An attempt has been made to deny that the perfor mances of Hernani were interrupted in consequence of Government interference. Diminishing receipts and the illness of Madlle. Favart were, it is now said, sufficient to account for its withdrawal. Credet Judzeus Apella. A one-act vaudeville of M. Lange, Un Tempete dans un Arrosoir, has been successfully produced at the Dejazet. Its plot turns upon an old hinge. It represents the attempt of a deserted wife to bring back her faithless husband by exciting his jealousy. Masqued dancers, singers, &c., are all the rage in Paris. A. masked singer has made her debut at the Dejazet. Re port says she is a lady of high rank. Her excessive ner vousness on her first appearance bears out such a suppo sition. She has a fine mezzo soprano voice, which those who have once heard it are little likely to forget. It might easily, therefore, lead to her identification. M. Jules Beer, nephew to the late renowned composer of the Huguenots (whose real names wore Jacob Meyer Beer) is about to produce an opera called Le Roi des Non tagne (libretto by the veteran St. Georges, the Fitzball of France) at the Theatre Lyrique in Paris.—Musical World. We hear that arrangements have been made with Mr. Charles Halle to undertake the chief direction of the musi cal performances at the forthcoming National Exhibition of Art Works to be held in Leeds. 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