The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1848.

1961 M., 14s. 051. to 16s. ladlaa Cern, pa 1961 M, 16e. to
to Ilk 68. Fleur, per soak el 2801 b., English, Ise 41e.
to 435. ; 111001149. 375. to 411.
Burros. Nev. 23.-The mseket has hem for all
mat sad Fleet desist the wet ma. The 'Mesh me
mist of 2,249 qrs. Whoa Bares 21 Beam. foreign ; 661
seas of Fleur, 3,313 qr 5.2.306 Oats, $4O Peas, and
2 an. of 8e..., mamba and hem Inland. There was a
short attendees of femme ard anthems at to-day's market,
sad nod. 44011 r. Prime of Wheat may be quota Is. to 2e.
per qr. lower for English sell hears. TM damp simples
sre most unsaleable. Baler, la. to Is. 6.1. lower fa malt:-
MI sad low Oat.. dell, sad Melt Irtah,
6d. per qr. lolVer!imtlfidis OM 21s. to 23e. per 3201 b., is
better demand. Beam 4all, sad Ia per qr. lower. Floor
supporta
Dimes. Nov. 23.-Wo bad rather a small supply of
What, of whisk, perhaps, emwelded part me eid •, So old
sad the best sew were la Mentlydememd, ared 1001614 folly
lest week's prisms; Mahe, speallties were awl Is. per Ir.
lower, ad the damp, eat of andition an.. alma meas.
able; a geed &amass wee mho of all of a Yr mai. • the
best new realised saa. sad the best oat,Oh 'Bee-
ley woo fa middling ear* We beet wes fa Yea sagest, sad
soM at nearly let weskit I bat in of a forrarfory qua-
lity was meek kali.i.aper qr. lower. In
Oats, Beans, sad esa,bet Map , sad trade ask, sad
no alteration is pries. The worst :-Wheali, Waits,
695. to l3a; best red, as. le 61s. ; aiddliag, 48A Is 64e.
intake. 37.. to 475. Bailey, 28s. to 36e. Oath no. le
275. Beam old, We to es. ; saw, 40s. te 44.. rs_r_s_a_alls-
to 425. per qr. Fleur, Me, 44a. to M. per sack ; memo
40s. to 435.
FAILIIIIBII, Nov. 23,-The Wheat trade ruled doll ; with
a fair supply, a decline of Is. pm qr. ISSS submitted to. Bsr-
ley dull, md Is. per qr. lower. Wheat, 81. to 164 10e. per
load. Barley, 291. to 36.. per qr. Oats, ISt. to Ths.
Pm, 38s. to 425. Betas, 345. to as.
Loom, Nov. 22.-In ormsequenos of the fair happening
tomorrow, there wow few Ware at the oorn-market to-
day. Very little bushier wee transacted. which was at
a reduatioa of Is. to 2a per qr. on Wheat, and Is. on
Rowley, with a tendency dowaward on Oats and Bs au.
Wheat, 40s. to 495. Barley, 265. to 31s. Osti; les. to 20s.
Boum, 365. to 40.. per qr.
MAIDSTONZ, Nov. 23.-There was very little Wheat
offering to-day, the greater part of which was very inferior
good samples realised the rates of last market day, and
there wm .good ale for them. Lent aura se last day.
Kanatmorms, Nov. 23.-Oar trade for Wheat and
I Esdeph.se-day was very hawy prises for hoth articles wen
pg le par lower. Beans sad Peas sell slowly at late prices.
Humana, Nov 22.-At this day's market prices pled so
hams: Fine old and sew Wham 2c per qr. 'Maw
fahrier, 3s. to 4s. per qr. lower. Malting Barley, of We
ibeest qualities, Is. Iowa; mead militia% 2s. cheaper. Is
Beam, Peas, and Oats little variation.
Navrauat, Nov. 23.-W• have apia a large supply of
Wheat, a considerable portion of which was old ; Was pew
MAW slowly, although a reduction of Is. to 2s.
wee sabmitted to.
leyß is good supply ; the best =-
Wes band buyers at pm qr. define ; but for eseeadary
mollies there was no Maud. Oats, Beans, and Peas the
tnen draw. Avenges to the 18th Nov.: 1,263 qrs.
Who et 475. Bd. per qr.; 811 Barley, 345.; 96 Oats
18e. 10d. ; 16 Beans, 435.
PLUSOVTR, Nov. 23.-Thera was a good attendance of
allele at this morning's market, and sales that was made
wen at last market day's pekes. TM weather is very wee,
Rouser, Nov. 23.-We had a good attendance May,
but trade ma very dull for all torts of grain, so dull that
prim can seemly be quoted.
ROY/TON, Nov. 22.-Cora trade extremely heavy. Wheat
la., sad Barley la 6d. per qr. cheaper. Wheat, 265. to 34a.
per load. Barley, 275. to 365. per qr. Oats, 17s. to 245.
firecarox-ox.Tens, Nov. 21.-We had a small Mow of
Wheat at this asotaing's market ; the trade nevertheless woe
dull, and the *West samples barely supported last week's
priors, whilst ill.coaditimed parcels were is. to 25. per qr.
lower. For Barley, Oats, Buns and Pm, the demand is
slow, and prism are is favour of the buyer. The pekes are:
British: Wheat, per qr., of 631 b. to the bushel, Durham
and Yorkshire red, 48s.white. ile. to 681- ;
south country, 'red, 635. to 660.; white, 665. to 68.. ; old
red, 645. to 66. Oats, feed, per qr., 81s. to 'l2s.;
potato, 26a. to 28s. 840111, old, 405. to 445. Flour per
amok of 2801 M., tine, 39a. to 405. ; superfine, 43e. to Ms.
per qr. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801 be., Scotch, 31s. to 331.
ppera qr. Foreign : Wheat, per qr. of 631 b.. to the bushel,
Retook, Wismar, and Stralsund, 66.. to 68s. Hamburg
and Beattie, 65e. to as. ; Hohtein and Danish, fib. to 56.,
Barley, grinding, 26e. W 268. Oat., Dutchand Friesland,
22a. to 24e. Mammas, 11111; is bond, per cwt., 26e. to
34a. ; white, 30.. to 361.
UIL4IIIIIOI, Nov. 23.-The supply of Wheat to-day h
large, sad beings in worm madition than last week, the sale
Is doll, at a redaction of h. per qr. The average price is
Us. per qr. Barley is in Mew supply, and the quality hut
indifferent ; the priors range trem ns. to 365. per qr. The
trade In Oats is very limited. Of Brans sod Peas but few
meek offering, and without alteration in value.
Wattnuaran, Nov. 70.-Fess watwearriage sames.
Country supply good of ell sorts, and a brisk demand, wan
improvement of 64. per bushel for hest white Wheats ; red
she made more mosey they last week. Oats in good supply.
sad free sale. Beat samples of Cumberland Whist, 275. ;
lafraior white, 26e. ' • Isis of Man, Ws.; &ma, 245.; in.
twits red, 22.. 6d. Owed matey Barley, 1.2.. 6d. per bush.
of 12 stone ; ordinary mattes, 12s. Irish Beans, 12s. per
bushsl. Oats, good samples, ea 64. to 9e. per bushel. Flour,
2s. 84. per mom, sad a good sale ; meads, 2s. 6d. Oatmeal
ma* 25. for best sows per ohm; inferior, 1.. 104.
WORIIMOSON Nov. 22.-To day we had bat a thin
&Madam of Wiwi sad ethers. The quantity of grain was
laiMd. Last week's prima were barely maintned. Wheat,
21s. to 265. • Braley, 12A to 12s. barely bats, Bs. 68. W 9s. per
three imperial bushel.
WATWORD. Nov. 22.-Our market is still very wantily
supplied with all dsseriptims of grain, notwithstanding which
prba matiame to ham for every article is the trade,
ZZladian Cara sad new. TIMIS articles are held
, for Ism week's rates.
IDIX4IIIIOII, Nov. 22.-Them was a moderate supply of
Wisest from the fumes at market this esontiag. dull
ecemate from Meader, awed the trade to open languidly,
sad • Machos of 2a per qr. had to be submitted to before
may progress was made MO gala Foreign Wheat ma in
very limited Amend, sad, although offered at a redneties of
Is. pw qr., a limited Mama way was dom. Bwhey dull,
sad le. per qr lower. Fine wimples of Oats brought last
week's rates, bat ether sorb were a very slow Me, at a de.
aline of 6d. to Is. pa qr. New Beans Is. pa qr. cheaper,
bat old 84404 and white P 404 mintalaed former rates.
Wheat, top, 66a. ; avenge, 51s. 6d. Barley. top, 361. ; ave-
rage, 295. 3d. Oats, top, 24a.; average, 201. 114. llama,
4L.; avenge, 32,..11d.
Ormamow Nov. U.-There an no foreign imports at
le land ail week, sad 1,770 greeters
Bugg eardwisa. Abuse LIP) qm. Wheat sod 3,600 brie
lbw Ibrei Osmada. terease with about 7,3110 qrs. Oste, 930
reds Oatmeal. eel Of auks Flow from Waged, have air
NNW the reported minis ia ths CI de. The weather bee
earls risme weraively wet and sal an deli.
seat kat a Mad. The eastimead 11111.411 MlOlllOOlll/ is
lie meeker of the mark bee MIS& the trade Mee to rule
meoollaply dell, the egg teemmedese of maserisaes rose
the date stem lest *emir beim the Vies a ca`a es
Tememelea II ye, at We. pee ra., kw et
lib Oar at die is of ire week at late rate; Barley sad
ram whirs refridsti swfaMed. At our market this
=mil there was the mem hasperition to purchase whist
h. prevailed la the Min of ; but, is We amuse of
seat, we mama eller gnarl Tess et either Wheat or Rear,
sod there wan Meer Thee inn hem
ktrY-
media le bay Oats rani:eV:tag week ; we are me
areistra ia their vale, or la Oatmeal. Istseter ri=
el Noah Seeley wen Is. pee boll lower, sod other
Ikea selple have bass begirt is retiree easier WM% Beane
Pess la baited dimeml, at former %rieita.Tbs
lwahLere the pros :-Wheat, per 2401 b.,
di, OD 04.11114. to 275. ; red, Ile. Id. W
214.; NIL 10 Wet. ; Ilesteb white, old, 27A Ith le WA. ;
kiala, red am% white, sew, 22i. to 26. ; Deel dd. 00a,
hi We. GIL; Temeraelaa, Ws. to 285.; Dad* Tk. to We.;
lid=mak Ob. to Ws. ; Canaria, ha Illa.
111atee, Mia. i 6. is lea 6L Betsy, p r 9 812., Be,.
whit need Malah. mew Wm 6d. to Sea. 6L; keg, ram.
20s. Mlld. ; tarp. free Thearamismi he., eld.-,1
to 23e. ; Danish, 211. to 225. OnM, per NUM., Irish,
Wexford, de., old, 17e. to 17s. 64.; new, 17a. to 175. Od. ;
Limerick, dc., old, 17.. 6d. to lk. 3d. ; new, 17L 6d.
to IS.. 3d. ; antes, prepara old, 18s. 64. ; foreign,
Eassiaa, old, 17e. to 175.6 d. Dinish, old, 16e. 64. to 17a
Hisao, foreiga, per 4 imperial Maids, old, 17a 04, to
17e. dd. ; Irish, per 2801b.,41,16e. 6d. W 17a; new, 16e. 6d. to
17e.; Egyptian, per 2801 be., old, 17s. to 16e. Femme 180165.,
whim, old, 19s. to 195. 6d. ; grey, 18s. to 16. 64 ; Cana-
dian, old, 18s. 6d. to 19s. Flour, per 2801b5., *English,
mwerflue, old, 425. to 435.; Irish ditto, 40s. to 415.; Am,
old, 395. to 40e. ; extra choke qualities, 435. to 44e. • Ame-
rican, per barrel, sweet, old, 235. 64. to 30e.; Canadian,
sweet, 20s. to 30s. ; sour, 28s. 6d. Oatmeal, per MM.,
Irish, common cut, 295. to 30s. Indian Corn, per 2801 be.,
20e. 64. to 21s. 6d.

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Smith mart tint lie Mimi kr Sas Hopi outlasts tarlak, whilst
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CATTLE, dre. SMITHFIELD, Two o'Clock.
Although the supply of Besets is but small, the trade is
dull. The weather, however, indicating a favourable change,
enables us to maintain Mooday's quotations. We have very
tew Sheep on offer, but quite adequate to the demand ;
Monday's prices correctly immibe the few transactions that
occur. Trade is very heavy for Calves, at a reduction of
abut 2s. per Bibs. From Holland and Gummy we have
321 Beasts, 870 Sheep. and M Calves ; from Scotland, 40
as Bets ; Ireland, 60; and about 130 mill* Cows from the
Home Counties
e'er none of 81ts. 0. 01. s. 4. Par Mom of Mt s. 0. d. a. d.
WA ea . liadords 4 0 4 4 Beat De0.1111.-Ml.. Bh. 0 0 0 0
DM 111000480 m 3 8 4 • Best Leat-100018 . 4 0 4 4
woad quilllo 1••••1• 80 3 4 De. de. 13bari
.0800. . . 3 0 4 2 i 8.0•0 finumecoo quay 3 4 3 8
PIBO
Fut Dos. 6 11481:0403 48 4 101 Laanho ... .. ... 00 0 0
BWAS rseeket, WI ; dhow and Lembo. 3.110; Olgvw, 23? ;
PIP 9 MO.
CROYDON, N..v. 23.—There was Esther more business
done at this market yesterday than for several weeks post,
but with very little improvement in prices. The supply
being large from the lower pieta of Surrey and Sussex, mo-
seyed by the Brighton Railway, trade was exceedingly
heavy. Sheep, good Sostbdown, 4e. to 4s. 6d. per stone of
Bibs. ; the inferior of all descriptions, sold slowly from 3s.
to 31.13 d. Veal, prime mall, 39. 103. to 4s. 3d. ; large

mans, 94. le Itg. M. Piss of about 10 Mae wutput, 49.6 i
to lia. per stem LiVe, as. ed. to 4.. ; smog stores, 260 to
Ni. pit bead ; Pip fri the Bow, to to molt.
lintwavairw, Nor. 23.—The moldy ef /hasp this ear-
lei trre 6111ess them last week, boo Mrs woe reep_thill.
At tee Miss el the moket owe-half remalusd vegeta. Priem
did est, however, vary um* frea thaw of Ism week. Top
prier, 614.; garnet, 414. to 6d.: mead sad beerier
%slides, 314. to 44. The cattle were of • reparier
whirl mama a brisk areeml, NM lest week's
ra.,..“ I°4 raMr To, prise, 6s. 64. ;
IPA • saidtUlas sad , 6s. to 7c 64. • pod gleesome
wr elfcgted.
BALLYBAY NonstintFAlL Nev. 21.— TM Wasik Oettls
=Am was well supplied, all mets selling Mbar
Mee at 6111011 t fain, ea somber Maegiao4=
TM Horse Mr wee oho well supplied, sad mires were
better they bereeribre. Them was ka imams, supply a
Pip, more than Mr gamy mars past ; all sold we 9
nearly all dumped Muds. Timm wee a big
3
mewl for gush as were far k;Illes. 81.. p were rather
mares, sad the sake dull.
Fer nottniag's sorbets ass tut pep.

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The embed demi ma% Ida liereallte, to the Keitarrueian.
=ad" o&leag..lease► liesw-load, ion, will be artdoar ds the
of the
es selle Ow MIA Inertit Amanda, tad ate Weed Wolimi.
. in in orb ill Gado etating et the 24th Nov.
The mei Dr Tim o=rart. Madan. OM; eel ClOneltor
will be wade up ea Ihe ef the Mb Nov.
The awns ter New death aim Tea Dennea's Lead, sad New
!rand will be node en ea the maim of the 10th Nov.
The mode kr the Wild Own d Atlas tad Nadirs will be sada
ap ea the eeedisg of the 10th Nev.
Ilse Wag Lilo Mel* Inaleding bernals, Nem; Howe,
New Orleans, sad bidet, end exeledina three for
Rants. Jnesdaltberegna, Now Druids. MI, and PIM will
be made Up ea the morning of the bad Dec.
The sea se Medelre, the Break. and terse Area will be
web eV ea the ermine tithe 41k Dee.
The weettead =alb en Gibraltar, Mak Orme* the Dabs lolanda
Pim. Ades. Wen, laffie. liaag-Item end Chine, vie esetbsop•
ton, wilt be node en oa the manias al the fah Dee.

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LONDON. FRIDAY, NOV. 24.

—-- - -
As more than three months have now elapsed since
the Minute of the Poor Law Board, concerning
Vagrancy, was issued, the public are becoming
anxious to learn whether that document has had any
beneficial effect. The evils resulting from the spread
of vagrancy are of so formidable a nature, that met•
sures intended for its repression can only be allowed
a very Finked time of probation. If after being
three or four months in operation the last experiment
of the Poor Law Board be found to be ineffective, it
will be high time to devise some other remedy, more
stringent in its character, and tried upon a more uni-
form and extensive scale, than can result from any
new measure, the adoption of which is left entirely at
the discretion of the Boards of Guardians.
The Minute of the 4th of August was immediately
followed by a circular letter to the Boards of Guardians,
dated 7th of August, in which the recommendation,
oontained in the Minute, of a system of certificates or
passes, was repealed, and accompanied by a form of
certificate suitable for such a purpose, together with
other suggestions as to the moot convenient mods of
issuing,countersigning or stamping, and checking these
certificates. Against the plan itself we have not
a word to say. It: is, to be sure, more than a
revival of the old system of vagrant passes: which
under one form or another we' in force daring the
whole of the last and the first twenty years of the
mutat century. But suggestions for its renewal
have come simultaneously from various quarters; and
there seems little reason to apprehend its being at-
tended with the same abuses under the New l'oor
Law, which necessarily interfered with its usefulness,
when every separate parish formed a '
stage in the va-
grant's progress his journey being in effect a series
of successive
banishments or expulsions from
the confines of one parish into those of
another : the parish constable attending to
ass that the bearer of the pass did actually
*ohm vertere. Such, at least, was the theory of the
old system of vagrant puree. What variations it un-
derwent in practice, fr.ire the wait nese et parish
authorities or the laziness of constables, we do not

undertake to chronicle.
The abuses of vagrant passes under the New Poor-
law will clearly arise from different causes than those
which led to their disuse under the old law. It is
not from parish to parish, hut from union workhouse
to union workhouse, and that by a route chosen by
the wayfarer on setting out (and by which he will be
compelled to abide, or forfeit all claim to relief), that
the several stages of the vagrant itinerary will be
measured. The alertness of the clerks of unions,
and the precision and miformity enforced in the ad-
ministration of the New Poor-Law, are in favour of
the seams of the new certificates if he plan had only
a fair trial. But how it can have each, ro long as
both its adoption and the mode of carrying it into
effect are left quite optional with the guardians, it
surpluses oar ingenuity to discover. The mere re-
assemeadations of the board no doubt carry a great
dial of force and far be it from us, on ordinary
sessaless, to complain of an increased disposition on
the pert of the authorities at Somerset-house to allow
fa play to the local experience and even to the local
prejudiced of individual boards. But this plan
SI vagrant panes is precisely the last thing
which we could deem it Judicious to leave to the
theorem of coming into partial and gradual operation.
To what extent it has been atLipted, and how far it
hes succeeded, are subjects on which no authentic in-
formation has
i yet been published. But we can easily
emotive cases n which two unions, distant some 20
oe 60 miles from each other, may. have adopted the
system, and two other enjoin', intervening in the
vagrants' route, rejected it. And should such differ-
ences in opinion between the boards of various
anions, as to the adoption of these pains, be of fre-
Itnattiisocurrence, which we think not unlikely, it is
needless to suggestto our renders what dis-
order, discomfort, and injustice will be the mesh ; to
my nothing of the impolicy of damaging the prow
psete of a new manure, by bringing it into eginstion
in mph an imperfect manner.
Far instance, if the granting of certificates, the
requiring of their production before giving relief, and
the countersigning of them by the clerk or relieving
officer, be enforced by some unions and omitted by
others in the same or neighbouring districts, what a
door will be opened to evtvy species of abuse!
Persons, truly deserving of relief, but coming from a
mien where certificates are not granted, will be re-
fund relief at another workhouse, became they have
no certificate. On the other hand, wayfarers of
a suspicious character, and whose vagrant
habits these certificates are intended to check,
having taken out certificates at me work-
house will not be called upon to produce them
at another (non-certifying) anion. Hence there will
be tweaks in the chain of transmission which the
Fames are intended to certify, and vagrants of bad
character will have every pretext they could desire
for setting at nought the new restrictions which it is
sought to impose on them. The officers of the unions
most disposed to enforce the use of passes, will be
baffled and disgusted by the obstacles which the omis-
sion of the sand precautions by other unions will
throw in their way. And as the system will certainly,
make some addition to the already onerous duties of
those officers, we can conceive notking more impolitic
than exposing them to be disheartened at the outset by
the refusal of neighbouring
.1111i01111 effectively to co-
operate with them. Even in diotricto where certi-
ficates may be extensively used, there is no security
that either in their form, or the mode of rise-ing
them, such discrepancies will not arise as to render
them practically of no effect. How the officers are
to test the authenticity or correctness of the passes
ender these circumstances we cannot conceive, unless
the electric telegraphs be perpetually at work to
keep the officers au courant of all the novelties in
certificates, and the modes of checking them, which
MOM than 600 unions, bound to ne uniformity, may
see fit from flay to day to introduce. They are
perfectly at liberty at present to deviate in form and
practice to any extent they please. There will
be, under the best regulated system, too considerable
tadlities for forgery and perematiori7in the use of
these certificates. And if a rigid uniformity be not
enforced in the whole procedure, there seems abso-
lutely no limit to the sleights and stratagems which
the ingenuity of hardened vagrants may invent to
turn the system of passes, as they have done that of
casual relief, entirely to their own account.
And this, if our forebodings be realised, will be
failure precisely in the point where it was most
desirable not to fail. The great obstacle at present to
the effective repression of vagrancy, is the dread
on the part of the public lest, in sanctioning and en-
forcing the strong measures indispensable for the re-

premien of vefferoney at the height it has of late
amassed, they be eaceemey to refusing relief to.
or billeting t on, a chum of sufferers wTheho
palm the Weep* chime on their oompassion.
ram* me iset aware to what extent the
trt" and boisterous intension of the professional
vagrant has already soared from the workhouses all
the most worthy and assent of the applioants for
casual relief. They have a very imperfeetknowledge of
the fleet that nine-tenths of the individnels who now
crowd the casual wards are of the very vrorst and mean-
est class of swiadlsrs, robbers, and prostitutes, strudy,
combining this preemies' of thidand vagrant,
Varipossresing themselves, ander false pretences, ofthe
shelter and refreshment originally intended foe the
honest wayfaring poor, wham circumstances have left
destitute, far from their home ; and whose object it is
either to raters to their native place, or to migrate to
other quarters of the country where they may have a
better chance of employment. The demar-
cation between two is as wide as possible;
and it has been so ably est forth in the Minute of the
4th d August, that se cannot do better than quote
the PueraPh
0 Time Is shivicassly," says Mr. Buller, "a wide distinc-
tion hetween lbws was ate temporarily sad unavoidably in
Metros, end the baited asap or "great who simulates
datitutlen; sad seeder went results of the present un-
discriminating mews of treatise all die see semmon:y de-
nominated eases& ' h, *Moms of the inset fitting objects
of public charity are subjoined to the diersemierts that were
intended to repel the worthies. Among ail the tuatrtunate
there are none whose destitution is mete unquestionable,
and whom hard lot presents stronger aims es sympathy,
than the widow and orphan, at a AMMO from biome, dee
vivid of their nature). supporter, and the honest artisan or
labourer who is seeking the employment of which accidental
circumstances have suddenly deprived him. Yet under the
present system ruch persons as these either share the dis-
comforts, the filth, the turbulence, and the demoralizing fel-
lowship of the thief, the mendicant, and the prostitute, who
crowd the vagrant wards of the workhouses, or they are COM-
pelted to brave the inclemency of the weather and the pains
of humor, by reason of their unoonquerable aversion to such
oonipanionship."
It is gratifying to find the head of the Poor-law
Board expressing himself in terms evincing so ge-
nuine a sympathy with the sufferings of those who are
committed to his charge. Our only regret is, that his
very dread of frightening the guardians and their
officers by the imposition of what might at first sight
appear a formidable addition to their duties, led him
into the opposite error of leaving to the chances of
individual discretion the working of a system which
nothing but a perfect uniformity could render effective.
The more opposed the two dames whose characters and
habits Mr. push has so ably contrasted, the more
desirable is it to apply some test which shall enable
relieving °Moses to distinguish accurately between
the two. Without something analogous to certificates
or passell we do not perceive how that is possible.
But to give the experiment a fair chance of success,
the whole plan must be organised and prescribed in
its minutest details by the central authority. Uni-
formity is the first essential. Until a really effective
test has been established between how st wayfarers
and professional vairranta, it will be impossible to
enforce against the latter any of those penal restric-
tions which the insolence of their demeanour and their
rapidly increasing numbers so loudly call for.

THE case of his Reverence the Real of GUILFORD,
to which our correspondents are so repeatedly draw-
ing our attention, is a very bad one; perhaps the mast
flagrant instance that survives of the system of plu-
ralism as it was formerly encouraged and practised by
our prelates ; but the ease is also a hopeless cone. The
noble divine has no conscience; so appeals to it
are out of the question. He has so long withstood
the influence which public reprobation has upon most
of the human race the. he is notlikely in his old age to
be driven into penitence by exposure. What booty is
to an Indian army, the church has been to the Earl

of GUILFORD.
Yet this man was nephew to a bishop—to a prelate,
too, in honour of whose manifold virtues the genius
of sculpture has raised one of her noblest images; and
it was because of episcopal nepotism that benefice
after benefice, and ecclesiastical sinecure after sine-
cure, was showered upon him.
Whether, as one of our correspondent• has sug-
gested, he can even now be overtaken by the Court of
Chancery for abuses that he is alleged to have
sanctioned in the Hospital of St. Cross, near Winches-
ter, of which he is Master, may be doubtful ; but if
the citizens of Winchester had a grain of public spirit
in their composition they would yet give his Rever-
ence, the Berl, a brush in equity for it. They need
not fear for pecuniary assistance from other quarters
in so exciting a chase after a fox ecclesiutieal.
By his uncle, Dr. Norm, Bishop of Winchester,
the priest who now inherits the dignity and estates
of the earldom of Guilford, was, in 1797,' presented
to the rectory of Alredord, in the county of Hants, a
parish which contains nearly 3,000 people ; by the same
prelate he was presented to the rectory of St. Mary's,
Southampton, the population of which now exceeds
15,000 ; by this same member of the episcopal bench,
be was roads Master of the Hospital of St. Cross,
where, in return for an enormous income and nothing
to do, he has to maintain thirteen poor brethren, and
dispense bread and beer to the wayfaring traveller ;
and by the same hierarch of the church of England
he was made a prebendary of Winchester Cathedral.
These gifts form a very pretty practical sermon by
the departed bishop on the text which denounces
those who do not provide for their own family as
worse than heathen. It is by them chiefly that Dr.
NOILTD, Bishop of Winchester, is remembered in his
diocese.
Let us not, however, do his Reverence the Earl of
GUILFORD injustice. As there is little that can be
said in his praise, let not that little be forgotten. In
his long career he has done one graceful act —let its
me:rcry, therefore, be preserved. When he became
Earl of GUILFORD he actually resigned the stall he
held in Winchester Cathedral. It was, however, the
least valuable piece of preferment he had to resign.
He could serve the souls of 20,000 parishioners; but
capitular duties were too much for him when he
became a peer.
What may be the worth of the rectory of Aires-
ford, of the rectory of St. Mary's, Southampton, and of
the mastership of St. Cross, his Reverence has refused
to let a curious world know. Bat that they are the
most valuable benefices the Bishops of Winchester
have to barrow on their kinsmen it has found out for
itself. The Earl of GoiLroart, years ago, flatly, and
uncivilly, declined to tell the House of Commons what
the church had done for him; and the indefatigable
conductors of the " Clergy List" have not attained
success, however ardent in the pursuit of knowledge,
' %here parliament had failed. Bo in their useful
publication the annual value of Alresford and St.
Mary. Southampton, is filled up with a significant
The Church Guide has, however, been more
successful ; for in '1 the annual value of Alresford is
set down at 2,5301. That sum is, however, less than
its real wails; for it only represents the value on
which Queen AN/41e8 Bounty is calculated, and that
is 25 per cent. below the actual proceeds of benefloce.
So, say for Alresked a cool 3,0001. a year. St. Mary's,
Southampton, has dslisd the investigation of even the
Guide, and his Remises has only himself to blame
if popular opinion in assigning another 3,0001. a year
to it has exaggerated its annual profits. Here then
we have--
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An immodest ecclesiastical biome most people think
for a bishop's nephew, even though he be also a
belted earl. - Popes could hardly do more for the r
natural eons!
Again we my let as be cautious not to do the Rev.
the Earl of Cittnrogn injustice. He does not, wo
know personally dispense the " privileges " of the
Church' to the .20,000 people at Alresford and
St. Mary's, Southampton, whose souls his uncle
the bishop gave him the cure of. That is an
impossibility—a miracle he never attempted to per-
form. Neiiher does he dine daily with his 13 poor
brethren at St. Cross. Nor does he, like a monk of
the middle ages, stand at the gate and dispense with
his own hands statutory bread and beer to sore-
footed trampers. But he does
worth a small regi-
ment of curates, with the y Mr. PAR-
SONS, at their head. These priestly ensigns
are, we hear, indifferently well paid. And the
noble rector thus vicar:onsly performing his duties,
satisfies his conscience ; and thanks GOD that he is not
like tt use publicans and sinners who differ from him
in this opinion.
We may be deemed red republicans for the very
thought i but we do think that if the 12,0001. which
this divine of the old school thus takes from the
church, were made to support twenty ministers of
twenty moderately-sized parishes in Hampshire, reli-