The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-20 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVER POOL, MON DAY.

There is nothing particular calling for attention in
our local news this morning.
Parliament will assemble for the despatch of
business on Thursday, the 30th instant, if we are
to place reliance upon a letter from 11r. Hayter,
just issued to the members of the Liberal parts.
He says—" As the first business upon the assmi-

Wing of parliament will be the election of a
Speaker, I take the liberty of informing you that
Mr. J. Evelyn Denison will be proposed as a

candidate, and I trust that the whole of the Liberal
party will attend ani concur in his election. May
I venture to press upon you the importance of
being present on the 30th of this month, on which
day the election will take place."
It is reported that the leading reformers of the
United Kingdom aro very anxiously considering,
in their private circles, the precise shape which a
new reform movement should take, and the specific

characteristics of any Reform Bill that might be

submitted to the House of Commons.

Another

symptomatic meeting has taken place at Tavistock.
A nublic dinner has been given to Mr. Byng and
Sir J. S. Trelawny, the newly returned members,
by their liberal supporters. It is refreshing to
read the speeches of the hon. gentlemen. Mr.
Byng gave evidence of his thorough adherence to
the principles of his distinguished chief,

Lord John Russell; while Sir John
delivered no uncertain or hesitating
testimony in favour of the principles of " peace,
retrenchment, and reform. He, likewise, de-

nounced the system of secret diplomacy abroad
and condemned the tendency to centralisation
which has become so apparent at home. The
Religious Liberation party will be glad to learn
that, in the absence of Sir W. Clay, he has con-
sented to undertake the management of the
Church-rate question in the House of Commons
General Thompson, the new M P. for Bradford,
nronounces the Canton bombardment to be a
massacre, and, in a letter which he has addressed
to a metropolitan cotemporary, would give us to
understand that he, for one, will not observe silence
on this subject when Parliament meets.
We learn, by telegraph, that the steamer Cambria
sailed from Marseilles on Saturday, with mails and
pasEaArgers fur Malta and Australia, to meet the
royal mail screw steamer European at Suez. There
is nothing yet of the Oneida.
It is only a few days since we directed attention
to the report of Dr. Letheby respecting the state of
the poor in London. The report laid bare the
many evils under which the poor labour in
the metropolis, and showed to what inferior
house accommodation that class had to
succumb. We have now to direct the attention of
our readers to the Dean of Guild Court of Glasgow,
which met the other day to dispose of some appli
cations for liberty to erect new buildings." Among
, others there was one which d'ese6ea More than a
passing notice in the Columns of a newspaper.
" Mr. Peter M'Fadyen, cabinet maker, Argyle
street," prays to be permitted to build a range of
dwelling houses in Lyon street, Cowcaddens
This range is to be five storeys in height, and
is to be divided into single compartments
of about ten feet square. One narrow
common stair will conduct the occupants
to six of these rooms on each storey, or in other
words, to 30 lodgings from the floor to the top of
the building. 'Each ropm, of course will be oeau-
pied, according to Arrangement, by a family which
may be either large or small—in the majority of
cases, we may be surealarge. If we take five as
the average number of each family, there will thus
be one hundred and fifty persons entering by
one door, and living up one stair in 30 rooms of
ten feet square! A more shameful proposal has
never bee►► made in open day than this of Mr
Peter M'Fayden. We know already by experience
what such ranges of tenements are. They are dens
of disease, of thieves, of drunkenness, and of every
form of profligacy. Yet it is gravely proposed to
the Dean of Guild Court to erect a range of new
buildings on this principle, and the Court, for
want of powers, is compelled, against its own
better judgment, to sanction the proposal. We
would repeat the language of a local paper, the
Daily Mail, which waxes exceeding savage on this
application. The Mail says—" We trust that a
loud protest will arise in the city against this gross
abuse of the liberty of enterprise. Can the
Town Council do nothing to stop so gross a
nuisance ? Parliament itself should be appealed
to, rather than allow Mr. Peter M'Fadyen to put
the moral sense, the health, and safety of the
community at defiance. We hope that there may
be yet time to teach Mr. APFadyen a lesson in
architecture, and to raise his notions of a human
dwelling something above the level of a pig stye.
At any rate, the case must be admitted to prove
most unanswerably the necessity of an Act to
authorise more stringent measures with respect to
the erection of new tenements and the formation
of streets in this as well, perhaps, as in other large
towns,
In the foreign news to-day, there is not- much
calling for particular attention. Prince Canino,
formerly Neapolitan Ambassador at Paris, has
arrived at Naples, where he is to advise the King,
but no distinct hope is connected with his journey.
The Danish ministerial crisis continues, and a
suspicion exists that it has been intentionally
brought on by Von Scheele, who covets the Premier-
ship, in order-to be able to pursue his ambitious
career unchecked. •
News from Constantinople is to the 10th; The
mast important item refers to the existence of a
compromise between the demand for an adminis-
trati7e union of the Danubian Principalities on the
one aide, and the Turkish and Austrian interest on
the other. This compromise takes the shape of a
proposition to unite the, two provinces only
financially, by forming a kind of Customs Union
between them. This proposition bears strongly
the stamp of an Austrian origin.
The Prussian Landtag met on Thursday, and
immediately took up the discussion of the impor-
tant proposition,. moved yearly, to establish com-
plete liberty of the press, by putting an end to all
police interference with it.
Private intelligence from the Crimea of the 31
states that important works had been commenced
in the port of Caffa (Theodosia) ; it appears to be
the intention of the Russian Government to trans-
form this town, which enjoys great natural
advantages, into a maritime and commercial port
of the first class.
The Grand Duke Constantine will leave Nice on
Sunday, the 10th, and will arrive in Toulon on the
following day. The preparations at the latter port
for the reception of the Grand Admiral of Russia
are complete.
Letters from Florence say that 'the new Papal
Nuncio had been making every effort lately to
induce the Grand Duke to sign a Concordat like
the Austrian, but as yet without effect. The
Nuncio, it seems, reckoned much for assistance on
the new Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Lenzoni,
who was till lately Tuscan Minister at Vienna ; but
in this he was disappointed, probably because M.
Lenzoni had seen enough of the working of the
Austrian Concordat to convince him that such a
treaty would be an enormous evil for any govern-
ment to introduce.
A gamekeeper was murdered near Chester on
Thursday last. Full particulars will be found in
another column.
There was nothing of the royal snail steam-ship
Europa (which was to sail from Boston on the Bth
instant), when we went to press.

THE present position and future prospects of
the Money Market are exciting much attention
just now. All classes engaged in trade and
commerce feel that the laws regulating our
monetary operations are not only defective, but
lead us periodically into a commercial crisis. It
is not one porti)n of the community.- which
suffers by the Bank Charter Act. The working
classes suffer more injurious results from that act
than those above them. The scarcity and dear-
ness of capital originate a great many of our
social wrongs ; they fill our workhouses, and lend
a powerful aid in crowding our prisms. They

assist in the increase of mendicancy, and not
unfrequently crime, that empties the manufactory
and the workshop, and crowds the gin palace.
For these reasons it will be the imperative duty

of the new Parliament to take into consideration

the monetary system of the country, and adopt
such a scheme as will guard against periodic

disasters in the commercial world, and at the
same time discountenance all wild and reckless

projects of speculation. In treating this question,
the writer of the money article in the Times tells
_ _

us that " the perplexities of the:Money Market
seem greater than ever," but he ventures to hope

,hat affairs will return, ere long, to their ordinary

channel.

The reason for that hope is far from

being obvious. Any change (Or the better must,
according to our cotemporary, have its origin in
the coming harvest. As yet there is very little

reason to hope from that source, inasmuch as the
crops during the last two or three years have
been far from being bad, and this year the spring

season has been backward, and agriculturists

prevented from putting down their crops. We

ear, therefore, that we must look for a remedy

to our monetary evil in another quarter. What
is our present monetary position ? J ust now the
most wealthy merchant in the United Kingdom
must pay the Bank of England seven pounds out
of every hundred, for discount accommodation,
and the second class dealers must pay the dis-
counting bankers and dealers nine to ten per cent.,
whilst many an honest and well-to-do man is
obliged to pay as much as fifteen per cent. to
meet his liabilities and maintain his credit, which
is the main element of his suczass in trade.
Now, it appears most singular that such
a state of things should exist at a time
when, week after week, we are receiving
extensive parcels of gold from Australia.
It is poured into the Bank of England, but not to
remain there. The Continental drain continues,
until at last the coffers of the old lady are now
reduced to something better than nine millions.
This perpetual export of trold has reached a point
beyond which it must not be allowed to pass. A
high rate of interest cannot, it appears, produce
a cessation. The power of the Bank to right
itself is inoperative, and we seem as far off the
desired improvement as ever. Nor can any of
the bright luminaries who so eloquently descant
upon the currency, show how and when the evils
complained of, and the commercial crisis which
is threatened, be averted and removed.
It will not do to place reliance upon abundant
crops; for although they no doubt exercise some
influence, the controlling power lies in the law
which compels the Bank to purchase all gold
offered at a certain standard price, irrespective of
supply and demand. Notwithstanding this com-
pulsion, it is no less true that a few millions
sterling of gold thrown into the Bank of England
will at any time make the discount low, and
money cheap. No argument can be adduced to
account for the.influence the imports and exports
of the yellow metal exercises upon the trade and
commerce of the country. It is true that the
bullion dealers, for their own ends, have
constructed an "artificial" reason for it, and in
addition to all its other virtues, have endowed
their special commodity by law with the quality
of making capital very clear or very cheap,
according as it is deposited in large or small
qnantities in the Bank. The fundamental prin-
ciple of our monetary law is that in proportion as
gold is taken to the Bank, money becomes more
abundant; and the Bank Directors, influenced by
this increasing plenty of money—or, in other
words, the reserve of paper notes—thereby
make the capital of the United Kingdom cheap.
Precisely as the deposit of gold in the Bank mul-
tiplies money, its withdrawal destroys it, and on
the same principle as capital becomes cheap in
the one case, it is rendered dear in the other.
The dealers in gold and the dabblers in foreign
exchanges act as so many garrotte robbers, who,
in order to reap a rich harvest, seize upon and
almost twist off the neck of British commerce
and industry. The reliance of the writer
in the Times upon the crops, and his
talk about silk, cotton, and corn, and
the course of the seasons, are very fallacious.
We cannot admit that they will cure the
evils of our monetary system. We. require that
the supply of money and the business of banking
be thrown open to the general capital of the
kingdom. We must leave the bullion dealers to
find a' market for their gold, as the merchant
does for his tea, sugar, coffee, &c., &c.
As the law now stands, the country is placed
in a miserable and degrading condition. That
law has created and fostered monopolies Which
only have originated in sheer ignorance. The
great panacea for the evil is to break the yoke
plaCed upon us by the money archs of ,the
United Kingdom. There is no difficulty in ob-
taining capital at all times, at a pretty equal rate
of interest, on Land or Railway Debentures, and
securities of a like class, and had we a system of
banking established on a free and independant
basis, irrespective of the enticement of foreign
speculations, the mercantile community would
not now be subjected to a monetary pres-
sure, and have before them the daily dread of a
fearfully extensive monetary crisis. At such a
time it is very questionable to be encouraging
foreign investments. There is a gigantic Russian
Railway project on the tapis. If British com-
merce cannot find capital enough to carry on the
trade of the country, it would be sheer madness to
export large quantities of our coin to Russia, and
to open up the resources of the Czar's dominions.
Charity begins at home, and we do hope that
the legislature will lose. no time after its assem-
bling in placing our banking system upon a more
rational:basis, so that commerce will receive every
encouragement, and the evils of commercial
disaster be thoroughly and effectually provided
for.

IN the remarks which we felt it our duty to
make some weeks ago, on the conduct of certain
of the police in the case of a publican named
NI`DoNALD, we had tio desire to be understood

as making a direct and swee.ping.charge against
the force as a body. What we condemned was
the conduct of the individual policeman on that

particular occasion, and if from that we drew
inferences reflecting on the system, the fault is

not ours; it only proves how necessary it is that
those having the control and direction of so
important a bccly as the police, should to the

utmost discourage gain to such of its members as
induce a tendency to overstep the limits of their
instructions, and commit acts, whether from an

excess of:zeal, or any other less justifiable cause,
which outrage public opinion and entail odium

on the force generally. We believe our police

are, as a whole, if not exactly popular, at least
not generally disliked, and we should regret to

see it become more obnoxious than it is, but this

can only be prevented by the authorities dis-
countenancing, openly and unreservedly, conduct

such as we commented on. It would hardly be
tolerated in the most despotic country, that a

common policeman should, on his own respon-
sibility, enter a private room in which a number
of respectable persons were quietly enjoying

,hemselves, and there and then insist on insinu-

tiny; his nose into every glass on the table, in
order that he might taste and smell the liquor
which they contained. Such an act, we contend,
is wholly unjustifiable. arid utterly disgraceful.

We are glad to think that the remarks we made

at the time have not been without their effect, as
we have not been called upon to notice any such

nquisitorial act on the part of the police since,

and we hope it will be long before we have to
record or comment on such another. We hdve
all along opposed police espionage, whether as
regards public-houses or aught else, save any
except the detection of felons. If any proo
were necessary of the demoralising an
prejudicial effects of the spy system

in

connection with a body like the Liverpoo

police, we are furnished with an abundance, in
a communication in another column, from a gen.
tlernan who was many years himself a member
of the force. From his statement, it appears that

some years ago a wholesale onslaught was made
on the publicans by the police, who received_ half
the penalties. The inspectors being the informers,
hundreds of informations were laid, and convic-
tions obtained, doubtless, as hinted by our corres-
pondent, frequently by the foulekt perjury. The
amounts thus extorted from the unfortunate inn-
keepers and beersellers must have been enormous,
as many of them to their cost yet remember, while
outrages appear--to -have been committed with
impunity, by these unprincipled scoundrels, until
their career was cut short in a way somewhat)
remarkable. The result of such proceedings
ended, as might have been anticipated, in the
complete ruin and demoralisation of the inf
ers ; and we sincerely hope the same, or anything
like it, will not be revived in our day. It is, no
doubt, desirable that every species of disorder
should be suppressed in houses of public enter-
tainment, and that the systematic violators of the
law should—if only in common fairness to those
who conform to it—be made to suffer the penalty
of their misconduct, but this can be accomplished
without espionage; Society suffers more than it
can possibly gain by employing a number of
policemen; dressed as navigators, pig-jobbers, or
carters, to peep through the holes, or over the
back walls, with a view of catching some unfor-
tunate Wight of a publican selling, or even giving
half a glass of brandy to his neighbour who has
got the gripes, and who has begged the favour
without producing a medical certificate. It was
never contemplated that the law should be
stretched to its limits in such utterly frivolous
cases, nor is it desirable to employ the police to
hunt for such. It has become rather fashionable
of late years to look upon publicans and public-
houses as the authors and roots of all social evils,
a feeliug in which we certainly do not partici-
pate. Amongst publicans, as amongst police-
men and parsons, there, doubtless, are some
black sheep ; but, take innkeepers as a body,
and they will compare favourably with any
trading Class in the community, whether as
regards wealth, conduct, :or intelligence. The
public house may be converted to improper pur-.
pp ses, and so may the church itself. As society
is constituted, however, it is a necessary evil, if
evil it be, and must exist until a suitable substi-
tute has been found. No doubt it would be well
if we had no drinking—so would it be if _we -had
no poverty. On this point there is much wel
meant twaddle and cant. At the same time, no
doubt, crime-is often the result of drink ; but it
is not always so. Of this we have a very recent
and most melancholy proof. The unnatural and
ruinous competition in trade leads too often to
poverty and degradation, that again to drunken-
ness, and, all combined, to crime. For these
results surely the, publican is• not responsible.
Considering the number of licensed houses in
Liverpool, it is matter of astonishment how very
few transgress the law, and how trivial are the
offences charged, much less proved, against- that
few. Therefore, we think that the statements
frequently urged against the publican, are the
result of well-meaning but ignorant enthusiasts.
le is a mistake to suppose that the sale of liquors
is the money-making trade many suppose it to
be. It will be found on investigation, that for
one publican who realizes a competency, half a
dozen fail ; but if the majority were successful,
that would only tell in favour of their prudence.
Such is the competition now amongst publicans,
that those only can succeed who have the corn_
mand of capital, and who thorotighly understand
their business. In other trades similar advantages
will produce similar 'results.. There is no other
class in the community so heavily taxed as the
licensed victualler ; he contributes largely to the
revenues of the state, while his lOCal 'burthens
are necessarily heavy, and he is also liable to
many other:imposts ; and we cannot see why, in
the ordinary exercise of his calling, the respect-
able proprietor of an orderly and well-conducted
public house'should be subjected to the constant
surveillance of disguised policemen. This sneak-
ing spy system is most obnoxious, un-English,

and unprincipled, -and the sooner we bear that
the Head Constable has ordered its discontinuance
the better will it be for all parties, and for none
more than the police itself.

•
REWARD OF COLONEL TULLOCH.—The unani-
mous expression of opinion of the. House of Com-
mons respecting the 'valuable services of Colonel
Tulloch, in conjunction with. Sir John M`Neill, in
preparing the report upon the condition of the
army in the Crimea, has not been without result.
The Gazette of Friday night announces under that
date that her Majesty has given orders' for the
appointmefit of Colonel Alexander Tulloch, ordi-
nary member of the•civil >division of the second
class, a Knight Commander of the Bath. This
recognition on the part of her Majesty of the ser-
vices of Sir Alexander Tulloch, K C. 8., will be
appreciated more highly on the part of the gallant
colonel, and by the public at large, when it is
remembered that the honour was conferred by her
Majesty so shortly after the interesting event of
her accouchement, before she had been restored
to a state of perfect convalescence.

ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, about one o'clock, cnc
of the \Voodside ferry constables, while in the act of
catching the hawser thrown from thei steamer, slipped off
the quay, but fortunately had only one of his legs a little
saturated, having in his descent caught the side of the

gangway..
By the lamented death of James Hartley, Eiq., several
valuable offices connected with the shipping interests have
become vacant, also insurance agencies dad other important
agencies. He was twice elected sheriff of London, but
had to resign in consequence of the pressure of other duties.
CHARGE AGAINST A PUMA CAN.—On Saturday a publi,
can named William Oaks, was brought before Mr. Mans-
field, charged with having endangered the life of a female
named Ellen Tobin. However, as there was no person to
sustain the complaint, he was discharged, Subsequently, a
magistrate and a clerk front the police court attended at the
Royal Infi mart' to take the weman's depositions, as it was
said she was in a dying state, in consequence of mortifica-
tion halting set in her, arm. which was broken, that
being the original injury. It appears that she stated tho
man had no intention whatever of hurting or injuring her
when the unfortunate transaction took place, and so the
affair stands for the present.
THE HON'. NEAL DOW, THE AUTHOR OF THE MAINE
LIQUOR LAW.—We understand that the Hon. Neat Dow
in paying a visit to this country, to aid the friends of the
United Kingdom Alliance in their efforts to prLcure the
-rit-ohibl'icn-ortheliqaur traffic. He-will-shortly-visit- this
locality, accompanied by a deputation from. the Council of
the allianco, and will address the public on the great
question with which be is identified. A 3 a public speaker,
Mr. Dow has on the American platforifi few equals.
Always lively, rapid, rich in illustration, leading the minds
of his hearers to, a good time coming ; he kindles up a
great spirit of enthusiasm, and inspires a confidence of a
speedy victory in the greatest Social colaffict of the age.
We understand that spirited arrangements will be made to
secure a reception and welcome worthy of this illustrious
refOrmer and disintereSted philanthropist. Mr.-Daw, -we
may add, is expected to arrive in Liverpool by the Europa
steamer on Tuesday next ; and we may also add, that the
total abstinence friends in Birkenhead are making such
arrangements as will give the honourable gentleman a
hearty welcome.

MUSIC HALL ASSOOIATfON,—We are very much gratified
indeed to learn that, from the proceedings at a special
meeting of the above, held in Birkenhead a few days ago;
strong exertions will be made by the committee of manage-
ment to procure the requisite means for the erection of the
projected_building, _Tele piece of land already purchased is
eligibly situated in Price street, corner of Adelphi
comprising eighteen yards frontage in Price street, and
thirty six yards in depth. Referring to this important
subject, we would urge the appeal n )w being made for the
procuring of money, on two grounds; first, the necessity
of a large hall for public meetings and such like ; and
second, that it is not to be let out for any one set or kind
of meeting, but it is to be of a purely catholic and general
caste. The only reservati.ne will be the respectability of
the parties applying for its use, independent altogether of
the views which they may hold on many of the leading
questions of the day. The activity of the secretary, Mr.
J. R. ratdds, C7escent; is niuterial!y aiding on
the project.
THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—At a special meeting of
the above corporation, connected with. the Birkenhead
district, held on Friday last, a deputation, composed of
several of the influential members, was appointed to, have
an intererview with,Mr. Bailiff, and to ascertain from that
gentleman the grounds, whether legal or otherwise, Qn
which a licensed victualler was refused by Mr. B. to he
put in nomination as one of the overseers of the poor at
the recent meeting for the election of such. Apart alto-
gether from-the rereumstancrrthat the- licortsedevietuall r
nominated was a highly respectable parson, and well
qualified to fill the office, and that soma licensed victuallers
are even, guardians of the poor, we think that Mr.
Bailiff and his supporters will find at-the ensuing election
of commissioners, that however much small talk may be
levelled against the Licensed Vennallers by the hired
advocates of the Maine Liquor Law Movement," yet,
the body in question possesses an influence without which
even Mr. Bailiff himself is not quite so independent. But
as this will be the question of questions in the coming
municipal struggle, we wait the result with confidence.
Stores or THE TIMES.—The beautiful weather which
we are now enjoying, may very aptly be said to have
terminated the " dull winter of oit discontent," and
caused quite a stir among steam-boat and omnibus
proprietors, hotel keepers, and others interested in ca ering
for the public convenience, In the direction of Eastham,
the new lessee of the principal hotel there, Mr. Hillier,
may be said to have taken the initiative, having already
done a good deal to render that locality a favourite resort
for parties on pleasure bent. At Rick Ferry, the admirers of
yachting and boat racing amusements, have summoned up
enough of courage to have fixed on holding a regatta,
open to the Mersey, at an early date ; and at this spirited
place, building movements coupled with the opening of
Mr. Ratter's excellent bowling green, all - tend to show
what is looming in the distance. At Birkenhead, the
Woodside Ferry steamers are being under the touch of the
painter's brush, and otherwise put into their usual summer
trim, while, if report speaks truly, there will be healthy
opposition maintained during the summer season among
omnibus proprietors.: The excellent manager of the
railway between this and Chester,. has issued his " bill of
fare for the season,"' from which we glean that great
facilities for residing at [natty of the sweet rural and retired
spots near to stations on the line, will be given. Passing
over the movements at Seacombe, Egremont, New Brighton,
&e., we may wind up our notice by stating that in every
quarter, our trading population are quite on the tapir of
reaping a much richer harvest from the visits of the
merchant winces and others of Liverpool, than any real
good that may result to the nation from the coming visit
of the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, who, till
recently, was our sworn enemy, but who, now; o tempera
o snores, mast- be nursed and pampered up at the expense
of the people of this country.
FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF A BOY :FROM DRINK.-7A report
of the death of a boy, named 11,,,Lert Parry, 14 years of
-age, lhoesen of a sailor, living at 76, Great Crosshall street,
was made to Mr. Blaleb, the coroner's beadle, on Saturday,
and that efficient officer, proceeding to investigate the case,
in order to have it ready for an inquest, elicited the follow.
ing strange facts, and his report is as follows :—lt appears
that on Thursday the deceased, along with William Jones,
aged 11, son of Robert Jones, of 19, Ormond street, Thomas
Jones, axed 11, and William Jones, aged 7, sons of Robert
Jones, 46, Leeds street, and Griffith Jones, aged 9, ion of
G. Jones, of Highfield street, were playing at some Vac
near the Tithebarne street railway station. They found, in a
heap of rubbish, a champagne bottle. One of the lads
said, " Oh, here is a bottle for the jack sharps," when
it was proposed to open it -and- examine _the_ con-
tents. The deceased knocked the neck off the
bottle and said, "if it be poison I will have a 'atee of it."
It turned out, as the surviving, boys elate, to be whisky,
and it was then proposed to adjourn teethe old chutchy.r 1
to drink it.. The whole of the boys went accordinely, and
when they got there they began to-drink it, the deceaaed
taking the first pull, and then handing the bottle to the
next eldest, and so it went round. until they finished the
contents. They all got quite drunk in the churchyard,
and the deceased became so ill that he was taken to the
Northern Hospital, where every attention was paid to
aim. Ile remained there up to six on Friday evening,
when his "parents insisted oft taking him home and they
*did so. He was then attended by a person who
writes the following letters. " after his name, MAX,.
5.L.L.0.,' and it is presumed those mystic ini-
tials have some reference to surgery, but Mr.
Blake says he searched the medical directory but could
not- find the - name of the person, either as a surgeon or
physiciad in it. The boy died at one o'clock on Saturday
morning, ad, the utmost sensation has prevailed in the
locality since. The other boys Offered dreadfully, and
are slowly recoveridg. They confessed to Mr. Blake that
they have been repeatedly drank, as the parents of one of
them keeps a sailors boarding-house, and they stated they
were in the habit of drinking with.the sailors and getting
drunk' along with them. An inquest willebe held on the
body of the deceased this day, and no doubt some other
matters will be revealed connected with this OUrioll3 and
melancholy case.

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.]

It Is expected that her Majesty may he
enabled: to leave town for Osborne about the
latter end of the first week in May..
The Duchess of Gloucester is worse.