The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1866.

REFORM DIMING&

MB. BRIGHT AT MANCHESTER.

MANCHESTER, TVIZDAY Emma.

This afternoon a conference of reformers from
various distelots in Lancuhire was held in the drawing-
-1110111 at the Free Trade Hall, to tionsibir the best mama to
be adopted ter assisting to c.rry the government reform
bill. The meeting was inflaeotially &tumid Yr. WA
~aareesired with mach enthusiasm

Mr. OZOIGI IVlceos presided, and said there were two
old oonst tetanal ways of proceeding, the one being by
public meet:nipi and the other by petitions. He suggested
ant before the 12th of April every borough and town in
Lancashire should have its meeting and petition.
Mr. TnomiAnow. of Bohol), moved a resolution urging
am reformers that steps should at ones be taken foe hold-
fog meetings, sad to petition in all the principal towns in
Lsneeshire.

Yr. °nowt HADFIZLD, ALP., seconded the motion, and
Reid the bloodier victories won at Manchester wese of
rerid-wide importance. The great guns (subscriptions)
Ilver used to fire for victory in the free-trade contest had •
mighty indorses, and he suggested that the eases should
sr starve for want of fads. (Cheats.) It was a pity men
wire not sometimes made of good Sheffield steel, and he
Regretted that Mr. Bright was of a oonstitation that pre-
eluded the possibility of his taking a more active pert is
the present movement. As it warn, they ought to save him
es Ranh av poseible„ because he was wanted for a more
bytoriant service, where it would he best rendered.
Mr. WHITWORTH, LP., urged reformers to nay rotted
tie governmest and their old friend, Mr. Bright, whenever
before possessed the influent* he did now. (Cheers.)
A number of gentlemen from various towns supported
the motion, and it was candid unanimously.
At the riselosio• of the burner, _

lit. BRIO" who rose amidst load and repealed sheer-
keg, addruesd the snesting as follows :—Your chairman bee
said very truly that I em here accidentally, for I did not
know till by pure accident last evening that soy meeting
ani to be held here to-day. I walked in with Yr. Wil-
lem wit► a riser of toeing whether there wee any disposal( a
Se move a little fester on the reform quotas in the
osnety, end from what I have seat I don't feel in the
slightest degree disappointed. The question of reform at
Shil moment is is a ver► different politica from icy that
es have seen it in during the last twenty years, when we
lave heen dimming it and hoping in some degree to arum
L We bare had reform bills proposed before this, but we
lave not had one proposed sines the great reform of 1832.
tinder the name cirrunatenme of distinetnees in the measure
Itself, and of earnestness on the part of the government by
whisk It bee been proposed. With regard to the distheet*
DWI of the bill I think there has been a universal admis-
sion throughout the country. notwithstanding the dis-
appointment of many, end I confer the disappointment of
myself, that the franchise, both in the counties sod the
boroughs, was not proposed to be Lined at a lower figure.
&RI, what it is prowesd to fix it at is something that
we clearly understand, and the advantages of which
ate one, in our different localities, pretty clearly
aware. In speaking on the bill la the Route of Commune
I said that it did not propose to give something with one
land and lake it away with the other ; that it clears ►way
great obstructions to the free working of the Reform Act,
and dose not anew them obstructions to appear with regard
So the new franchise, sod that both in counties and
bertaghe it makes a very lapsible advance towards what
we wry call a fair representation of the people. Lad the
government woe come forward and declare that this is the
of their administration ; that if it passes into law

they will, of course, be glad for many reasons ; sad that ti
ft should fail the government will fall. I have a great
denim always to see a government in that position when it
bee • great mascara in baud, became it can exercise much
mon influence both upon public opinion and upon parlia-
ment—and parliament hi much more disposed to regard
with • fixed and earnest attention any bill which may have
masequenom of great moment upon the adotinistratioe, and
coca epos the duration of parliament itself. (Hear, hear.)
At this moment I think we am really espied in
a soollict for something more than this bill, bemuse as the
epuntion has been di/cowed in the House of Commons it is
clearly this which is pot to the people, whether there
shall be a parliamentary reform or there shall not, and
whether is future • government of this country shall be
• government upon the principle of popular representa-
tion. (Hear, year.) You have read, I dare my, some of
yea with curiosity, some of you with amassment, and
some of you with disgust, speeches that have been made
from the beeches co the liberal side of the house against
ibi bill ; if you examine these speeches, one of them, and
the most important of them in particular, you will fled
that almost every argument which has been directed
spinet this preposition of the government is an arpo.
mint that would have been as good against the reform
of 1832, or would have been as good against any
other proposition, at any former period of our history,
for extending the representation of the people. In point
of fast the speech to which I refer is a 'pitch that
should have been made really in • country where
popular representation formed no part of the con-
stitution—(cheers)—because it went upon the prin-
aiple that the great majority of the peol•1e are
wholly unfit, by their character, and their ignorance,
and their vitae, to partake in any degree whatever of
that power which is conferred by a system of representative
pvernment. Don't understand me, in refining to this
particular, or to the opponents of this bill, in this language
to apply it in any degree to the member of a city not far
from here—the oily of Chester—who has proposed an
&medlar:it on the second wading of the bill. Lord
Grosvenor ha. made no speech against the bill ; he ban
made a proposition which, if it be carried, in all probability
will be fatal to the bill for this session, and unless
we have a dissolution of parliament immediately, it
will also be fatal to the government. Bat he has not
ventured upon any language which is contemptuous of
the people, and we are to • large degree in Ignorance
of the precise grounds upon which he is acting. He is •
member of es* of the most powerful aristocratic families
of this country ; he is heir to a property perhaps as great
as the property that is in the hands of any one family in
this country ; but he is not a member of a family which
has bean hostile in past times to popular freedom. (Hear,
Near.) I recollect very well the pleasure with which our
Ithairmao, some 22 or 23 years ago, produced la New-hall-
buildings one evening a cheque signed by Lord Grosvenor's
grandfather for 5031. for the funds of the Anti-Coro-
law League. (Cheers.) Therefore I am nob willing
to enter, and should not join in, any denunciation
or expressions of strong feeling against Lord Grosvenor
ea this matter till I had heard what he had to say upon
it. 1 eau understand that a man standing on his social
elevation and possessed of vast property, and perhaps not
much acquainted with the character of the people from
whom he is so far separated, may feel for • time some-
thing like apprehension, I will not say terror, of the ad-
vancing power of the people in a country like this, but
I can assure him, if be needs any assurance, that there is
ao man whose name is enrolled in your sssociatioe, or
who will struggle daring the next three months on behalf of
this bill, who would unjustly touch one acre of hie
territories—fcheers)—or would diminish is any de-
gree by acts of violence or acts of terrorism
that social elevation to which he is born. I am
not very confident that Lord Grosvenor feels perfectly
satisfied with the position be has taken up. I thought I
gathered from the few words which be spoke last Friday
sight, I think in the hou-e, that be was not very strong
aphid the, or very confident in the wisdom
of the Dinka which he has given ; and although
I have no authority whatever to my more
than the impression upon my own mind from
what I observed on that evening (for I am la no commu-
nication direct or indirect with him or with any of his
Meade), still I will not, nett) I see it actually enacted,
quit. believe that he will lend himself to men I think very
much inferior to him in moral mom, who are eaxions to
destroy this bill, to overturn the government, and it may
be to throw Ale great country into the obeys of an agita-
tion cut of which, at any rate, peewees in the position of
Lord Grosvenor can have nothing to gain. (Cheers.)
?Maki back to the speech or speeches to which I lave
inferred, you know the sort of language which was need
speaking of the people. This bill does not purpose to
brieg on to the electoral roll, even by what I should sell
'the highly-coloured estimate of the Chemosllor of the Hs-
abequer, more than 200,000 working men throughout Hag-
Lei and Wake. I believe that number far exceeds the
amber which will ha placed spot the register during
the int few years, because he eatimated that all thane who
will tome in from living in 101. homes, when the tate-
paying clauses are done away with, will be working eseo.cfige
all know that, whatever the exclusion by those clauses, if
them exoluded lire la 104. homes, it woad be • vary high

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estimate to impose that oat-balf of them would be
working ones.„-And further, he calculates that these
who will be included between the 71. sod 101. limit
will all be working ram, although we all know that in this
town, and, in fast, it is the me in every town is the kiss.
doors, there are many perms living in houses between 71,
and 101., who cannot upon any ordinary rule of calculation
be reckoned in the list of working men. (Hear, hear.) I
believe, therefore, that etatement of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, made doubtless in all honesty by himself, is
not correct, and that the number of working men admitted
will fall short of that which he estimates ; but I have no
&WA that in process of time that number will
from year to year increase ; that there will be an
anxiety on the part of well-paid and Mat:meted
working men to ;dime themselves upon the list
of electors ; that there will be a tendency to
build better houses, and for that elms of the working men
to wish to live in better houses ; and that gradually, by a
self-acting process, there will be, it may be, a slow but yet a
sensible extension of the suffrage. But now, if the speeches
which Infer to could be made with any degree of fairness
of the hundred thousand, or the two hundred thousand
who are to be admitted by this bill, what is the opinion
which these speakers must hold of the great majority of the
people who will still be excluded by this bill? Why, that
they axe men who are really in that state of brutish igniwanes
and degradation that it is not possible to commit to them
not the making of laws, but even the giving a vote for any
ma of good character or of excretion and social position in
his district that he may go to parliament for the purpose
of enacting laws, that, fs point of fad' this vast popu-
lation, these millions, the great majority still of the whole
nation, are destined to be henceforth but hewers of wood
sad drawers of water for these men in high position, of
high titles and great wealth, who seem to think that the
world was made for them, and that the constitution of
England is for them alone, sod not for the great
people of this kingdom. (Laud &m a) i te-
prd this bill in the present position of this
question and of publie opinion ea es just and so
moderate that all men who refuse to accept it mast be
placed in the hat of those who are opposed to representa-
tive institutoos, and who, if they had lived when meth is-
standouts did not exist in this country, would in all proba-
bility have offered to them the same 'moistens' that they
are now offering to this measure. But we know perfectly
well that it there be anything of freedom la this country
It comes from our representative institutions, sad if there
be any solidity in that freedom, or any security for its
future, it must come —it can come only from that
portion sad that department of our form of govern-
ment which is elected periodically by the people
of the country. Thou if there be this greet
issue at stake, if our children, grandchildren, and so on in
the generations to come, are to live under this goverment,
if they are to be affected in all their interests by its legit-
Mean, how mach does it become us mow to make a pest
end irresistible effort to carry this measure. (Chews.)
When the Reform Bill of 1832 passed it was • distinct and
undeniable revolutios, a revolution of the happiest kind,
carried without bloodshed, carried by the almost nasal-
mow expreesiou of the opinion of the nation, bat
not lass a revolutios, for it established this principle beyond
all possibility of recall—that the House of Oonimees
should, sometime if not then, and that it should then more
than heretofore, to the true and faithful representative of
the intelligence, industry, and virtue of the population of
the Halted Kingdom. (Cheers.) From that time till now
this question ha been discussed; it has made progress ;and
we ems now to another point of time when la all human
probability another step will have to be made. Bak these
gentlemen who oppose this bill tell us in the House of
Commons, and some of their newspapers tell us outside
the house, that really nobody wants this bill—(laughter)
—and that a few men who have objects of their own to
serve are constantly talking about it, bat that the great
body of the people have really no Interest is it whatever.
They said exactly the same of the bill of 1831. I stated
ix the Hones of Ommone the other night that in the years
from 1821 to 1831 there were scarcely any petitions pre-
sented to parliament in favour of parliamentary
reform. [A Voice : They durst not.] And yet is
the year 1831 the whole thing was se implosion.
The House of Commons Aar terror-whisks:, men of peat
families were almost hiding themselves from popular io.
dignatioe, and alters movement such es may again be meow
sary, but I hope will not, that bill passed into a law. What
do these gentleness want now? Are they content to be
taught by great and peaceable meeting', sad by the pre-
sentation of great petitions, or do they want something
more? Do they believe that the people of England never
feel anytbiog until they break windows—(laughter)—sad
overturn gentlemen's carriages, and attack their houses,
end get into excesses which are the first steps of ter-
rorism and insurrection! Or are they willing to imagism
that we can want this bill, and yet are ready to proceed
by • steady and regular course of peaceful political
movement, and by these steps which the constitution
of • free country points out to a free people? Judging
from what is seen in the papers within the last few days,
throughout the country meetings are being held ; come-
tueecies are giving reminders to their members ; those who
are weak in the knees—(laughter)—are being strengtheeed ;
doubts axe being removed—Haughterj—and gradually by
the time we come to the second reading of the bill is all
probability the liberal party in the hoes', which 1101310
must have thought of late rather dislocated, will be drawn
together in a close and powerful phalanx, which I trust will
bear down all the opposition that can be tendered against
this bill. But let us have these meetings everywhere.
(Cheers.) You devote one night to a great meeting, but that
work of one night is to set something a-going which
may be felt for generations by your countrymen;
and the sacrifice of this one night's labour,or themerifiee that
may be entailed, whetter of money or of labour, in procuring
gnat and influential petitions from all your districts, is a
sacrifice that may only have to be made for Gem, sad the
result be sufficient to attain your object. But supposing
that this bill should Dot pass readily through the House of
Commons—suppose that Lord Russell, who, to his
honour be it said, is not popular with the opponents of re-
form now—(cheers)—any mom than he was popular with the
party in 1832—suppose that Lord Russell should find thathis
administration was thwarted, and that by a combination of
Lords and Commons there should be &disposition to maltreat
this bill or to destroy it—suppose thee that he should exert
the power which no doubt will be entrusted to him of
bring lug about an appeal to the existing constituencies
of the country, that may take place before the longest day,
end many other thiop in connection with it may take place.
Why should there not be in all the towns of Lancashire a
large meeting of working men—lneu to some of whom this
bill will bold out the right head of fellowship, isvitiog
them to take their share se the political government of the
country, and why should not these various meetings of the
workiog men throughout the southern division of this
county select a small number of men to form a joist com-
mittee for South Lancashire, that when we get a little
nearer to that period of the year when fine weather Is the
rule lather than the exception, they might call together, in
some proper place in this division, a vast meeting of the
working classes that 'holed tell to them slanderers of their
order—(cheers)--that they are not the men they are de-
scribed to be in the House of Commons, sad that, living in
a free country, with a representative oonstitntioo, they
determine to partake in some sort of that representation,
and to be themselves free. I believe that as this question
goes on for enemata° during the next three mouths there
will arise a greater expression of opioios than some mat
who are opposed to this bill look for. I will advise
them to take the wise end the generous mune,
and **believe that amongst the great maned the people of
England there is great intelligence and there are great vir-
tues ; and to believe further that if three, or four, or five
hundred thousand more of the people of Elegised and Wales
are included upon the roll of electors, it will give gri at
a. rength to the government; it will give great and perms.
neat security to the crown, and at the same time will do
more than any other measure which parliament can saes to
elevate sad to strengthen all that is good in the character
of the &oldish people. (Loud cheers.)
The meeting then terminated.

A meeting is to be held at Norwich tc-day, to
support Wows. A Woos excitement prevails.

• quarterly meeting at the
Lek ,stsr Town Council. on Tuesday Mr. Wm. Mario.
worth moved the adoption of s petition to the Oamesene
Home of Parliament in favour of the new Reform Bill,
which was the signal for 'early all the omnierratfre mem.
tees to leave the council chamber. The petitios, whieh
wee nod by the tows clerk, Mr. B. Sines, showed that the
petitioners obserwd with satisfaction the inkodeotioe of
the bill for the amendment of the representation of the
people in parliament, whieh was wise and sabitsty, and an
sot of fuel** to • large body of working ems who bad
no voice in the represestatioe of the mestry, wide* it ergs
believed would be usattended with soy danger to militia;
institutions, and which would °steed the framable to a large
numbs, who by their good sondset had proved that they

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were deserving of it. Mr. Chambers seconded. and
Mews. E. S. Ellis, R. Harris, T. Vicars Geo. Baines,
and W. Kimono supported it. Without moviog env re-
solution to the contra, Mesas. C. R. Crossley, Wm. Row-
lett, jan. Jos. Cornwell, and Jos. Underwood opposed
the motion, ea they considered. with several others, that
the council chamber should not be a political areas, but
that such petition should be signed and adopted only by
public meeting. Mane. Underwood and Rowlett. how-
ewer, expressed their coeouramos with the bill, and their
strong disapproval of the mayor ageing the petition oa
behalf of the meeting. The motioe, on being put to the '
meeting by the mayor, was carried, 5 voting against it.
This Gove.nristgrer Redronm Bur, —Fneerorr.—
The reformers of Prestos have adopted the following peti-
tion to the House of Commons :—" That a bill having been
brought into your honourable house for extending the right
of voting for members of your honourable house, your
petitioners desire to express their hearty approval of the
objects of such bill. That your petitiooers would respect-
fully urge upon your honourable house that justice and
wisdom alike demand that the representation of the
people is parliament should be plaoad upon a broader end
firmer basis than at present. That the natty increased
intelligence, eduoatios, end independence of character
manifested by the working classes of this country, fully
qualify them for the exercise of the elective franchise, and
It
that is a great injustice to continue to exclude than
from their fair share in parliamentary representation.
Your petitioners, confidently believing that the said bill
sow before your honourable hone will. eminently tend to
the fulfilment of the above objects, and will give increased
strength and vigour to the constitution, humbly pray that
the same may pass into law.'
MIL SCHOLZYIELD AND seas REE'OEM QUESTION.
—The following letter was read at the Birmingham meet-
ing on Monday :—" London Reform Club, 13. W., March 24,
1866. My dear am very glad you are going to hold
a town's meeting in reference to the government Reform
Bill, more especially since the notice of amendment given
by lord Grosvenor. The bill undoubtedly falls abort of
the hes I had entertained—and which were, I think,
generally entertained by reformers—as to the extent to
which the franchise would be reduced. I own, too, that I
am disappointed that the government did not make their
measure more complete, by combining with a liberal re-
&Lotion of the franchise the no lees important change of a
redistributlon of seats. But those who, like myself, have
confidence in the Rant ministry, are boned, I think, to
avoid laying too much stress co these cossideratious. Foe
reasons which they Inn deemed oonolusive, ministers have
introduced a franchise bill alone, with a promise of a
redistribution of seats bill, to be brought in this
for adoption in the next—end no hearty liberal scalitill
think, refuse them his support. The Franchise Bill, as
it steeds, whatever may be its defeats, evinces an honest
desire en the part of the government to effect a substan-
tial reform, aid I, for one, am prepared to give them my
warm cooperation. It is for the country now to declare
indetermination, sad I aincierely hope that determination
will be frankly expressed in favour of the bill. I have no
fear as to what will be the deoWon of the reformers of Bir.
iniegliam.-1 am, my dear sir, yours very truly, WILLIAM
ficimielan.— Norge Dixon. Flaq., Binnisgliam."
Ma. BRIGHT AND THE SHMIPPTIOLD RITORIERRIL
Several years ago a deputation was appointed to invite Mr.
Bright to attend a reform meeting in Sheffield. He was
not then able to do so, but in view of the present state of
affairs a member of the depatation his ventured to remind
Mr. Bright of the former isvitstioe, and to sagged that a
visit to Sheffield now would be very useful Mr. Bright's
reply is se follows :—"4, Hanyermtreet, Leedom, Marsh
20, 1866. —Dear Str,—l am sorry to say that I see no
thanes of my being able to come to Sheffield to a public
meeting, and I could not speak at s meeting in the open
air. I dare not attempt the work which was hard enough to
bear 20 years ago, and I am compelled to have some regard
for my own health. It woad have a great edict
upon the tone of parliament if some demosetration
of opinion and feeling were made by the working
mere. The opponents of reform say the workisg men are
engaged only with questions of wages and in amens with
their employers, mid do not care about political rights. It
is well this statement should be contradicted, if it sea be
done ; sod • great meeting of the unenfranchised meet a
your town would be of great service. The government bill
m a good bill, though it can scarcely be called a great bill.
I think all reformers ooght to 'oppose it ; sad, I believe, if
passed, it will give a more liberal -tone to parliament, and
be of much nee is improving our legislation. I am sorry
that I cannot come to help you ; but I must give up the
Faster recess to some rest for myself, and to my family,
frum whom lam too much separated during the parlia-
mentary session. I shall be glad to bear that you are
, doing something in your town. A public meeting and a
great petition would do good.—l am, very truly yours,
Joss BRIGHT.*

WIGAN ELECTION .—At the close of the poll yes-
terday the °archers wsre—Eckersloy, 411 ; Lancaster, 319.

eabitt nal:ltlitarg.

_PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 2T.

The Agamemnon, sailing transport., arrived at
Spithsed on Monday afternoon from Bombay, last from
Plymouth, haviag on beard a wing of the 56th regiment.
The tioiss disembarked this diorama sad marched into
quarters at Portsmouth.
The Ida Zeigler, sailing transport, arrived at Spithead on
Monday 'hareems, from New Zealand, with a part of the
70th regiment on board, and sailed again for Dover, where
the troops will be quartered.
The Dilawar sailing transport, arrived at Spithead this
morning, having on board a part of the 44th regiment
The Trafalgar, sailing transport, arrived at Spithead this
afternoon from Calcutta, with 155 military invalids and
time-expired men. The former will be transferred to the
military hospital at Netley, and the latter sent to their
several depots.
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine Feeley paid a visit this
morning to the iron screw corvette Favourite, under orders
to proceed to the Mediterranean.
The Bellerophon, 14, ins screw ship, was commissioned
on Monday by Csistairi E. Tatham, and will have a comple-
ment of 525 officers and mss.

ADMIRALTY, Manna 23, 1866. Commander
Frederick Cannon has been this day promoted M the reek
of retired capital), under the provisioos of the Orders in
Conned of 1860 and 1864. —Gazette. .

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__ADMIRALTY; MARCH 27.—Arrotlirmitirr.—Lieu•
mud Richard W. Hope to the Harmonic.

*parting intelligence.

BETTING AT lIANCITESTER—TenDAy.
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.,
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CITY AND SUBURBAN.
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TWO THOUSAND.
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CHESTER CUP.

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ASSIZE INTELLIGONCE.

HOME CIROIJIT.—KutoiroN, leLtßou 27.
(Before the Lord Chief Bares.)
TRH POACHING APPILLT A? OILAILWOOD.
The four prtsooers George Flint, Prated. Skilton,
George Thornton, andStepheaordast, who had been ac-
quitted the previous day upon the charge of murdering
the gamekeeper at Chialwood, and against whom &ere
was soother charge of night poachleg, were again placed
at the bar. The prisoners Flint and Banton pleaded
guilty to that charge.
Serpent flobiseca who was instructed to prosecute,
with Mr. Marley Dawson, said that he thought the sods
of fustian would be answered by those two tenons pleading
guilty, and he did not propose to offer any erideaccegatnat
the other two, Thornton and Jordan.

—The Lord Chief Baron then sectenerd Mist end Skilton
to be imprisoned end kept to hard labour for three months.
Stephen Howland, 23, Motored Rowland, his brother 18,
Witham Highgate, 18; and Walter Venn, V., four powerful
young labourers, were charged with misdemeanour in
having, in company with another man named Alfred
Highgate, gone upon certain lend, armed with guns, for the
purpose of taking game.
Serjeant Robinson and Mr. Massey Dawson prosecuted ;
none of the piker:mire were defended by counsel.
The offence wee clearly established against all the priso-
ners. It smeared that on the night of the 16th of January, a
maa =mid Cooke, who is employed as night watcher upon
a farm belonging to a Mr. Oberman, at Newdegate, near
Dorking, saw all the primness, and Alfred Highgate, who
has absconded, going in the direction of a preserve for
pheasants called the Six-acre Wood, sod having suspicion
of their intentions he went to the head keeper sod gave
him information. The two thee, is company with another
man named Hook, and a brother of the head keeper, went
out to watch, and about 12 o'clock at night they heard the
reports of two guns, and, upon going to the spot where the
gain appeared to have been discharged, they saw all the
premiers, who attempted to run away. The keepers pur-
sued them, and Cooke managed to get in front of
the primmer., one of whom called cat to him that if he
did not stead back he would shoot him. Cook
still wait towards them, upon which soother of the
=rexelaimed, " Shoot the " and Stephen Row-
hea's went up to him, and struck at him with the
butt and of a gas, but he warded off the Mow with a stick.
Venn, another of the prisoners, thee attacked him, and
streak him such a violent blow on the head with the butt
end of the inn, that the stock was broken. The other
keepers bad by this time come up, sad the prisms's, with
the eteePtiee of Alfred Highest*, who eoninved to snake
his 41101114341, were secured without eommittiog any further
violent*. When the prisoners were searched after the
salr.apLifour pheasants. recently killed, were found in
Rowkad'a pocket, bed Venn banded a partridge
to the keepers, which had elm recently been shot.
The jury found all the prisoners Guilty, bat sentence
wee defined.
. _ .

Misery Matthaei, 27, and Thaw Goddard, 23, were
charged with a burglary in the dwelling-hoses of the Rev.
William Brewnngg South, at Brixton, and steeling writhe
articles of plate and other property.
Mr, Poland prosecuted.
This prosecution was instituted b► the Oorpora'ion of
Loodon, the premises that were robbed being the Landon
Freemen's Orphan School, at &Woo, of w►ich the Rev.
Mr. Smith is the head master. It appeared that on the
sight of. the 4th ci March the premises were sewed
as =nal, and as the following morning it was disoovered
that the plans had bean estared, and a good deal of pro-
perty stolen. Among the 'dial," that were mired was a
pair of boots that betooged to Mr. Smith, and the ci the
thieves appeared to have put them on and left an old pair
of boots la the play-ground in their place. The Worthen
wore taken into custody on the day drat the burglary had
been committed, sad a considerable portion of the stolen
property was traced to their poseassioo, and one of the pri-
soners was wearing the boots belongiag to Mr. Smith that
had been doles._ _ _

The Jeri fond both prison's, Guilty.
Chief Juitiee Rile darned of a number of Demo jury
owe (funfair the day, but the whole of then wen of the
most uninteresting character.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—TAtrwrox, Mtsca 27.

Nisi Prins Overt.--(Bdors Mr. Justine Bylas.)
WAY V. H 12,717.

This was so iaterpleader action, and was tried by a
special jury. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C.. and Mr. March
appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Kerslake, Q.C., Mr.
Lopes, and Mr. Poole were couesel for the defendant.
The action was brought by the plaintiff, who resides at
Bonner. Oorawall, to recover the sum of 3,3861. 17s. 6d.
under the following eircumstamera A soa of the plaintiff,
who bore the same name as himself, it appeared had ender-
gom imprisioemsat for twelve swaths for obtain-I
mg money under false pretences, and who had been
twirls bankrupt, with liabilities oa one ocessim of
1,0001. and on the other of 400&, the assets in each case being
The defendant wee the assignee in the last bank-
ruptcy, which took pleas in 1864, wine the bankrupt's err-
Hecate was =speeded for two years without proteetion for
six months. Le the simmer of 1866, Paul Rehm, jun.,
with an authority to draw upon his tether's bankers at
Bedrolls, proceeded to Bristol where he est up a costly
establishment, with a carriage sad pair of horses and livery
sovast. He went to a modc seller in the city named
Brunt, from whore be purchased aa harmonium for a
chapel which be reprimand he was noting io his garden
in CorawelL He weed to him a few days nierwards, sod
induced him to purchase some South Wheal Leisure
mining shares, which he represented to be a very profitable
speculation. Paul Rainy, jute. ?somehow, some of these
shares, through a Mr. Bigwood, at an inereased price ; the
shares get quoted higher and higher, sad a large number
are *old to Bristol todeentes and ethers. Rabey is then
accompanied to Cornwall by several of the person, and
they purchase another mine for 1181., and then is started
upon the share market the Bolingey Hill Otraisob, sod so
agreement is drawn up, to which Rainy signed himself
Paul lishey ; but et the solgestioe of nee of the parties be
Imploded the word "junior." Two of the portion to the
agreement deposed that that was the whole of the
signature, but the deousseat was produced is court,
and there was the addition " Far 1 eel liabey, see.
and this, it was represeoted, bad been interineated. A
number of these Bolingey Hill Consols were then disposed
of et Bristol, but eventually their worthlessness as well as
that of the Sooth Wheal Laisme became apparent, and
the shares became valueless. Rainy, jun., bad opened
as account with several baskets to Bristol, and amnept
others he had en account at the Beet= Joint Stook
Bank ; and the defendant, as assignee in Rebel's last bank-
ruptcy, gays notice to the bookers to hold the money.
Theo it was represented that the money helmeted to Paul
Rabey, see., who brought the present action to re-
cover the moo. The learned counsel for the defendant
deseribed the Bolingey Hill property as coesieting
of "apiece of Led with a hole in it, and a windlass and
bucket." It was worse than valueless, for it was an sham-
doped mien, from which no ore had ever been raised.

His Lordibip, before proceeding to nun up to the jury,
inquired if the plaietiff bad any other son than the witness
Paid Habey, jau., who had bees examined.
Mr. March —I understand, my lord, that be bee another
eon, but that he ban been abroad thirty or forty years, and
daring that time he has not been heard of.
Hie Lordship—Probably, then, he Is further off than
abroad by now. (A laugh.)
The learned judge then summed up with much minute-
ness, and the jury returned a verdict for the defewlant.
Mr. Kerslake applied that the east-book in which the
alleged intsrlioestion had taken plane might be Impounded.
The Jodge—l would tether not make such as order.

JUMP AND Will T. BRISTOL AND MILT= RAILWAY
COMPANY.

This wan a special jury came, and the action was brought
to recover damages for injuries sustained by Mrs. Jessup,
in an accident which occurred last simmer at the Westoa-
soper-Mare station on the oompeey's line, and in respect
of which two of the defendants? lamella, a stoker and
driver, were undergoing imprisonment for negligence.
Mr. Coleridge. Q 0.. sad Mr. Bailer were counsel for the
plasmiff, and Mr. Kerslake. Q. 0., Yr. Ooie, and Mr. Court*.
say were for the defeadeate.
'Amara were laid at 5,0001., but when the on.. wee
about to be called on it was aosouneed that it had
been arranged, the amount of compensation agreed on
being 2,2821. 10a.

Ti. HALMS OF LONDOL-It appears from the
return 'sued by authority of the Registrar-Get:mai that in
the week that ended oe Saturday, March 24, the births
registered in London aad twelve other large towns of the
United Kingdom were 4,657 ; the deaths registered, 3,80&
The annual rats of mortality was 32 per 1,000 persons
living. In London the births of 1,160 boys and 1,069 girls,
in all 2,219 children, were registered ie the week. In the
corresponding weeks of ten years, 1856-65, the avenge
Dumber, corrected for Moreau of population, was 2,132.
The deaths registered in London during the week were
1,649. It was the twelfth week of the year ; and the
avorep number of deaths for that week is, with a correction
for increase of population, 1,49& The mortality exhibits a
decrease on that of the two previous weeks ; bet it is still
exceediotly high, teethe deaths are in lames of the number
computed for the third woad Birch by 181. Twentytwo
deaths were registered as having occurred in the Pancras
Workhouse between the 12th and 18th Met. inclusive.

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faeturers of SootLod have bees held is Glasgow, to (*s-
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have already does, the pike of their marinfentirred
It was urged that the great advance in the value of materials
used in the maniac:tare of earthenware-4%8h as borax and
coal—was such as to make it absolutely neoessary to mice
the price of earthenware. After some discussion, it was
resolved that the rise should be at the rate of 10 per
cat. ; sod circulars is accordaboe with this resolution us,
me believe, to be soot out to the trads.—Sontsman.
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THR " LAYING-OUT" OASX IR ST. 134210R41.8
WORKHOUSE.

Yesterday afternoon the concluding proceedings
in ooseeatios with the incised owns the Add Adams.
alias Grease, found to be " Lid•eat" for disci la 134. Rama
Workhouse, was held, as beton, at the Paeykant sodOastle,
Osadea•towa.

Tee ioquiry held by Mr. Faisal, C. 8., the Poore
law Board's commissieerr, and published in ear paper
last Thursday, elicited the chief fasts in the eme.
and the first day's proceediop of the coroner's court brought
out very clearly the Dumper in which the child was toned.
Margaret Edmonds, a pauper tomato of lE. Panama
Workhouse, and nurse is the children's nursery, was called
and sworn. She stated In snswer to the coroner's questions,
that the child died en Thursday. the 15th, that tt had been
poorly, and that it was Dot seen by the doctor from the
previous Monday, when he ordered it wine. When Mr.
Hillocks saw the child it was lyiug sorest the foot of
• bed, and "Mena, Wore Mr. Hawks arse, thought
it was deed. The child bad bets very bad before Mr. Hil-
locks came, and it was very ill all the day and the dsy pre-
vious, cod witness thought a short time before Mr. Hil-
locks came in that it was dead, and she put a baodage
round its head, but observing that the child mowed she
loosened the bandage. She did not take it off on making
the discovery, because she felt convinced the child " would
hot last long." She did sot feed the child, but another
woman who had a child of her own had to befog it up.
In cross-examination she said it was not her duty to fetch
the doctor, but the superintendent had to do this. The
superintendent (Mrs. Sensom) know the Mild was IS, and
it was her business to fetch the doctor. In reply to some
sharp questioning as to who gave the wine, she said she
gave it out to the woman who had the oars of the children,
but that she herself pee the child the wine on the day tt
died. On being pressed as to the time she so gave the wine
on the Thursday, she said she gave it at tour o'clock—the
time she had previously stated as that when the child was
bandaged up.
The Coroner said the woman certainly did place the
bandage upon the child with the idea that it was mad.
Mrs. Roberts, a pauper inmate, was sworn, and she made
a statement clearly showing that she called Mr. Hillocks'
attention to the child, as he bad stated, and that he
urged Edmonds totetch the doctor ; but she did not hear
the answer.

Mary Smith, the woman who had the ewe of the deceased,
stated that usually three or four children died in a week in
the nursery, and she coefirmed the statement about the
doctor not seeing the child since the Monday before it died.
She described the child as being very ill indeed, and she
thought the doctor ought to have seen it. If it had been
her child she should have expected the doctor to see it.
Dr. Ringer, of Ilaversity College Hospital, who
made the post-mortem, was then recalled, sad be rid
that there could be no doubt the death of the child was
accelerated by the bege being placed round it se
described ; but it could not be said its death was owned by
that.
The Coroner said the question was whether it this child
had had proper nursing and atteudanee it would have
lived. The law of the country required that every person
should have *very chases of beim and if this ignorant ty-
tog up a child's jaws as if it were deld had contributed to It.
death, thee that was unlawfuL As Dr. Ringer was con-
nected with the University College Hospital, he would aide
him if a child in that hospital would go for mayoral days
without being seen by the doctor.
Dr. Ringer replied--Oertainly not.
The Coroner added—And in no hospital in the kindles
would a child be so left. _

Mr. Ernest Hart, &gentleman who was watching the case 11
in the public interest, asked how many persona a medical '
man would have to attend to in an hospital.
Dr. Binger replied—Not a tithe of the number Mr. Butt,
the medical officer, had to attend to in this workhouse.
Mr. Butt, the medical odicer, was thou collect, and he said
he looked to the superintendeat to tell him on his visits to
this part of the house if he was required in the morainal,
sad having seen the child on Moedsy he did not go to again,
as he was told all were going on well is the nursery. He
then gave the following aa the numbers he bed to attend to
in the house —namely, 240 etch is the infirmary or hospital
proper, 430 aged and infirm women, 212 aged and infirm
men, 42 insane men, and 90 inseam women, making a total
of 1,014. In addition to these were 32 lying-in women,
making a total of 1,046 directly under his hands ; and there
were altogether 2,000 persons in the house to whose medical
necessities he had to attend. With all this he only had one
assistant medical officer and a dispenser.
The Coroner said this was an enormous load of work
for the medical officers, rod he thought the Poor-law
Board did not sanction each a state of things.
Mr. Hart informed the corona that the Poor-law Board
bad no power in the matter. The guardians had the whole
management in their hands, and tee Poor-law Board could

,
Dot interfere.
Several of the joguttedn expressed se opinion that it was
time the law was .

Mrs. Stamm, the superintendent, was then cslled, end
she gave the same evidence as she gave before the cow.
missiorier' and coefessed that she ought to have tuned the
doctor to the child. She excused the bandagiog-up of the
ehrld on the ironed that it was at the time it was so
treated " all hut gorie."
The room was charted for the jury to consider their VW.
dint, and when it was again opened a verdict of &meth from
inanition was given in. with the followieg special addi-
tions :—" The jury dealte to express the opiates that pest
blame is to be attributed to the workhouse attendants for
tying up the jaws of the dace:seed and treating her as dead
before she had wholly expired ; they are further of °pima
that there is not a =Molest number of medical atteadente
and nurses to perform the duties of so large as establish-
meat as St. Noma Workhouse ; and they also beg to
mimes their approval of the coons taken by Mr. Hillock
is briegiog the matter before the public."

When the verdict was read siveral of the guardians
present wanted to argue the matter over with the jury, and
are of them told the jury that Mr. Parma the commis-
sioner, stated that this was the best workhouse in the
metropolis, and that it had a larger number of pad nurses
than any other.
The Ooroner replied that the public would infer from this
that the other workhouses were wretched indeed. (A
laugh. and Hear, hear.)
Another guardian reminded the jury, that if there were
more paid officers the rates would be higher.
The Foreman of the jury answetei—You make the rates
and we pey tbem, and it is your duty to see that those rates
are sufficient forth, proper maintenance of the poor.
The other jurymen seh this opinion, and the proceed-
ings then terminated.

CLOSE OP THE DEVON AND CORNISH
MINER? imam
—B.

The miners of the Liskeard district, after baring
suspended work for several weeks, have at length fully
reastd the uselessness of prolonging • mutest, the futility
of which, apparent to most persons acquainted with mining
affairs from the commencement, has been daily becoming
more and more so to the misers themselves. Though the
grievances under which they alleged themselves to be ant-
feriog have not been redressed I. the way they desired,
the events of the last month or rx weeks have had the
effect of bringing their condition prominently before the
public. a result not without important's, as affording rea-
son to hope that the force of public opinion may bring
about the removal of those grievances, which are
real, substantial, and undeniable. In the preliminary steps
taken to establish the society efforts were made to place
it before the mine agent. sod mansgm is a very innocent
and harmless thing ; but the premature di-olosore of its
rules, and the precipitate and indiscreet action taken at
the Marks Valley and Fast Carideo Mimes, revealed its de-
signs and tendency, and left little doubt as to its ultimate
fate. The determined stand made by the mine agents
greatly tarried and discouraged the men, and since the
i first meeting held by the former at Plymouth there seems
to hays been • gradual defection of members, till at
last those remaining longest considered the expe-
diency, for their owu protectioo, of accepting the ex-
ceedingly distasteful terms imposed upon them. A day
or two ago • meeting was accordingly called on Camden
Down, and though we believe no formal resolutions were
adopted, it was tacitly determined to resume work. This
understanding was acted upon on Thursday, and as at the '
monthly setting at Mark* Valley /Gee, which took plans
on Friday, all the bargains, including those the rejection
of which first led to the strike, were taken without objec-
tion, the whole of the miens in the Liskeard district are
now in full work. From some remarks made by a speaker
at one of the miners' meetings, there appeared to have
been a misunderstanding as to the conditions upon
which the men at certain mines in the Callington and
Tavistcck diets eta had taken their pitches or bargains ;
but at Liskeard the men seem fully to understand what
they have does. Generally they have been required to
state publicly that they have not subscribed to rules
Nos. 9, 10, and 11 of the Miners' Associatios, or any rules
similar thereto; the latter words, of course, extending
to the revised rules recently sub tinted for the above,
and published some days go in these columns. Though
the suppression of the society has not been insisted on
by the managers, it is looked upon as practically de-
funct by the men; but a hope is still cherished
by some that it may be revived under more f
able &nun:stances, and, by the exorable of a greater
amount of caution and discretion, with different results.
It is at present difficult to surmise in what light the
society which the managers and gents desire to establish
will be viewed by the miners. The existirig mine clubs
have not hitherto been managed in such a manner as to
command confidence, and until the plans of the committee
of mine gents are matured, sad the nature or its manage-
ment and the extent of the advantages it will roofer are
known, it would be impossible to calculate upon the &meant
of support it is likely to receive from the class it is intended
to benefit—Western Morning Rena

CRYSTAL PALACE., OWN SEULLIWO DAT.
TUESDAY, YAP= ff.—Admissions on pa/Blest, I 5;
ditto by ovum tielkata. 1,224 ; total Askew., 2,150.
Biros AND Bravo = mem= ET Dv BAviv's
DIELIOIOIIi ItEVALORA AZASIOA loco Wbl± mans Without
dicta, or batsevaatarst=llessitoa). omit% estammi.
ttabeey. ashataUse. abr.
reti.a=Z E. tail Amish eimsytlala.lanint saves ftiaelity
ha ant In War anadtta, sad Is Qs bat Ow YAWL
60,000 mats atunally. —Da Sanicaail Co., No.
W. Z.
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Saba., 40a ; abs at 41, Oraoosiarabotrott ; Mood& ;
aad .WlletalleA; seal asamma-4, aavvel