The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-20 00:00:00

M1N813.-(211119 DATJ

Two o'Ctoom.
There is an increased amount of business in the
mining market today, and the tone is rather firm.
West Caradon, East Loved, North Tres-
kerby, East Grenville, and Wheal Grenville
shares are in especial request. Some of the present
quotations are as follows :—Easit Lovell, 151 to
to 16
West Caradon, 10 to 11; North Treakerby, 3
East GrenviW, 3/ to 4 ; Wheal Grenville, to ;
Feat Caradon, 94 to 10 ; Clifford Amalgamated,
194tt0 20 ; and North Cluvertoo, 34a. to 365.
St. John del Be! shares continue in request,
and have been dealt in at 44. Cobre Copper are
officially marked 224, and Frontino and Bolivia 3,

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WZATIUM ILZPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

FOIDU. 00101•11 1116 I a.ll.

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fisonoe .. 20.47 46 A. w. I N. 0- i 8
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Southonl=t Ugh Cbsesol and Day Slaw.
Losteru=liostward sad North dos.

IioI77IIAMSSON.—(Tate DAY).--The Royal Mail
Steam op ieket Company's ship Trwit, of the West I iwtta
litmeolonisl Nevin, arrived Is Soneummais Deek at 11
5.1 n. this day. Butter's Morro&
The fishermen of Boston, who were out on
" strike^ Met week, reamed woe* on ILoaday manias,
their demand for as adman of 3d. per bushel having been
scolded to. They missed the Cambrisa Mesmer to tow
all their bests dew is s Arias. their colour* eg ia the d
breeze es • token of their triesspb. The steamer reman
down with them all day, and brought them up with the
"noise tide. As they approached they wore 'Muted by the
fang of csaboa.- Stamford Mereurv.
Graf AOCIDIMT. —A. very melancholy accident
occurred at Ilaasteekheath. near Godaltsdag, Surrey, ea
Wedessday diorama A ehoaramg party, who led bola
eajovios the hospitality of Mr. Murray &mums', wire um
the heath lookiag for pheassata• sad swag them was Julius
Omar, the eslarated Serrey __cricketer. A mss named
Foster, a wrest of Yr. NaroWn. woe " bestase the
heath. Julius Crew hid, like the rest of the pirry, his
gas loaded. sad while Faster was emesina the kid in frost
of him, from some aceideatel encomium's it exploded, sod
the nine olive of shot lodged in Poster's spin. bleditial
aid wee procured as quickly is possible. but there is nut the
slightest hope of tin •OROISI'STIIOO.I/1".
RiYABILABLI ESCOVEZT aWasCO.—A poor
wocataa, 60 year of 111% HOMOOOIII VAI •emding
at 48.
mores
Shea Beetsk Ye hese
of
to her
bed Mr more 2O years, sad der* tho whole el tidal
toe put.. for her
time hasbola depsedsat awe
oblemen's's. la 11348 the acetesem el hoe efaisr
tins was 'Norwood by the loss al speash. De.
rived of the me el her 100 IM .friellease.
/bill of whom was Mr. Paredes Groem-sw the
bet sad •Me figUrall printed ma • tarp ceini-u rad
br the ass of thus she held esensuelestios with her
whom. On Smoky, the 10th lest.. es she Mew, she was
thimble of bar ostethow, whoa she was perfectly startled to
bear Imessi speak the word— he lint word sae had bee.
able tie otter far 17 pen! let the mahsrame of her joy she
woald bare Yr. Groom wit for, sad en his reachnig her
bedside the first Ainslie did was to moms him to express
bee deep
_tbaakfehposs to the bused Id amedimas fort their
pest 41Asear to her dean ha were mod potracted
afilietios.--Stomford liferarry.

PAItISH LAW AND STATUTE LAW.
The Bermondsey guardians are bold people.
Pitfiug their collective wiikiom against the provi-
sions of an act of parliament, they decide upon
following the dictates of the one, and openly ignor-
ing the other. If there be one plain duty to which
the moults of recent legislation point, it is that of
providing shelter for the casual pour. The Metro-
politan Houselees Poor Bill, after being permissive
in its operation for the twelve months it was on trial,
passed into law last session, and the various metro-
politan guardians are as much bound to give a
night's lodging to all destitute applicants as they
are to keep up a workhouse for their own poor.
The size and capabilities of their wards do not form
part of the question. In the eye of the law, the
ai g'est and the smallest casual ward are equal, for
as the parish authorities are bound to find lodgings
elsewhere for such applicants as they cannot house,
the only difference is one of expediency. If it be
thought better to pay for beds at a lodging-house
than to provide adequate aooommodation at
the workhouse itself, neither the Poor-law Board
nor the public will be disposed to interfere. The
one point of paramount importance is that no desti-
tute person is to be left out in the streets at night.
The clauses added by Mr. Villiers to the Houseless
Poor Bill on its last coming before the house were
expressly designed to put this matter beyond doubt,
and if there be many such examples of perverse ob-
structiveness as that now furnished by the Ber-
mondsey guardians, it may be found necessary to
devise some means of either increasing the respou-
lability or lessening the power of local authorities.
With the Act of Parliament staring them in the
face these guardians Lave allowed 116 paupers to be
refused admission to the Bermondsey workhouse in
a single ',reek. At first sight the duty of the Poor-
law Board under these circumstances seems clear.
The law is openly violated, and the offenders should
be forthwith punished. But it so happens that this
can only be done vicariously. The master of the work-
house, or the officers of the workhouse, refuting to
provide legal accommodation may be dismissed, but
the real offenders, the guardians who peremptorily
forbid their servants to obey the law, cannot be
touched. Hence it is that the only possible scape-
goat may be a man who has honestly striven to
bring the parish to a sense of duty, and who has,
regardless of his own popularity and comfort, been
at issue with the guardians on this very point. It
Is not surprising, therefore, that the central au-
thority should be chary of offering up an innoomt
victim, or shrink from depriving a man of bread
whose misfortune it is to be hampered with the
legal instructions of one set of masters, and the
authoritative but illegal mandades of another.
The demoralising effect of this state of things
upon the parochial mind was very evident at Ber-
mondsey last Wednesday. A meetingthe
guardians wee held, practically to conside ofr the
propriety of obeying the act of parliament,
and from chairman to clerk—but one guardian
spoke in favour of the law being kept-.displayed
an amount of perversity, and a wilful blindners to
the inexorable logic of facts, imposeible, we should
hope, anywhere but in a parish board room. The
arguments used were all based on the supposition
that the public opinion of Bermondsey was of more
authority than that of the Imperial Legislature. The
chairman declared that the 116 rejected applicant'
for beds could not exist, because he had lived in the
parish all his life, and never saw people waiting at
the workhouse 'door. Another guardian sug-
gested that the paupers came early in the even-
ing, and again later, in order that they might be
counted twite—presumably for the pleasure of foist-
big inaccurate statistics on the public ; while the
clerk's point was, that "casuals were no
worse off now in this parish than they
were under the old law." To all these remarks
Mr. Parnell, on behalf of the Poor-law Board,
made in substance but one reply. The guardians
wore bound to provide accommodation for all
houseless applicants, and if they did not do so the
board had power to punish the officers of the work-
house. The meeting was adjourned without any
decision as to the future bung arrived at, and it
remains to be seen whet course the parish will
adopt. Meanwhile it may be asked whether the
fact of a handful of local tradesmen being able to
play with the law even for a degas day with impu-
nity does not argue some radical defeat in the laws
themselves.

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