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London, England, 1863-06-10 00:00:00

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ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—Immense
Success of the Great Spanish Gymnasts, the
RISARELIS.

OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
AA) admirers of Leotard are mindfully invited to witness
BALAGER%-, PERFORMANCES on the TRAPEZE.—
FIRST WEEK

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. This
magnificent Building, the Best Ventilated and Coolest
Place of Resort in London, 14 OPEN DAILY from Twelve
to Five FREE OF CHARGE. The Choicest Wines and
Refreshments.

ARGYLL It 00 M S.-JULLIEN'S
PROMENADE CONCERTS.
NOTlCE.—During the Week the Selections will be—" Il
Trovatore "—" La Huguenots "—" La Forza del Destino,"
&c., at Eleven o'clock.
Jullien's Grand Descriptive Galop,
THE DERBY,
To be dedicated to the Ow, er of the Winning Horse.
LEVY, the great wonder on the Cornet-a-Piston, plays
from half-past Nine to Twelve.
Admission, is.

29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE.
THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM,
containing 1,200 Models, Natural Preparations, vonstro-
allies, &c., illustrating every part of the Human Frame ;
also the Moving Anatomical Dying Zouave, Julia Pastrana,
AT. Admission, One Shilling tor Gentlemen only), from 10
till 10. Lecture at Four. Illustrated Catalogue free for two
stamps. Address the Secretary, as above.

MR. T. CARRICK begs to announce to his
Artist Friends and the Public, that his Photographic
H.stab'ishment, 32, Regent-street, Piccadilly-circus, is now
in full operation.
Cartes de Visite, 10 for 10s. 6d; 21 for £l. Miniatures on
Ivory, Marble, and the Photographic base in his former
Styles.

HOME and FOREIGN INQUIRY OFFICE.—
Confidential inquiries and legal investigations pri-
vately instituted with the utmost fidelity and despatch. in
England and all parts on the Continent, by Mr. POLLAKY,
14, George-street, Mansion-house, E.C.

ANEVER FAILING REMEDY.-
Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre-
, ',axed without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
.uffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind,
spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &a. For habitual
costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
of the blood, they fire truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to he stomach, they create appetite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square
green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the
stamp•

TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti-
mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They
especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced
to 3s. 2d. ; Souohong, reduced to 3s. Rd. ; mixed Assam, re-
duced to 3s. Sd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d.
to 3s. 11d. per lb.
MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, E.C.

LUXURIANT WHISKERS, Moustaches, and
Eyebrows produced in a few weeks by the use of
ELLIOTT'S TONIC LOTION, the stimulative properties
of which are unfailing in their operation. Thomas Elliott
invites a trial from the most sceptical, that they may be con-
vinced of its infallible power. Price Is. 6d.. is. 6d., 10s. ed.,
and 21s. Forwarded on receipt of postage stamps.—Thomas
Elliott, hairgrower (first floor), 51, Fenchurch- street. T. E.'s
wigs, £1 10s.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION •
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRoNEss—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
l'utsinENT -Tice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DRP UTY- CHAIRMAN —ThOMEII3 Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
he beginning* of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended Z 32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
,nusnindbeorthoefr
lis,iiments on the Coasts of England. Scotland, and Ireland.
sociheety
413.1iveea6snols,aysiendeebyitsthfoermLaifteth-bno, Life-boats
lof , the,
2 800 •
or which services
£16,480 in cash have been
Gold
iMedals, 718 Silver Medals, and
in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £crooLife-boat
on Life-boats,
Transporting-can cages, and hoat louses.
The Committee desire to express-
the generous support which theyhavetheir grateful sense of
British public during the past few received from the
has enab'ed them to establish their years, a support which
of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of
entjmagnificent fleet
Deeply sensib'e, however, of the great responsibilityuitedlCil that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the managementnt of their
boats, whi h can only be effected by a large -and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con-
tributions : -
£ s. d
Her Majesty the Queen ..
~ .. annual 50 0 o
Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. .. .. annual 5o o
.. .. annual i 1 o
Clerk. Colonel, R.A. .• ,
.. .. annual 10 0 o
Coutts and Co., Messr6•• Bankers
, .. 4th don.lo 0 0
Currie'Wm.' E6cl"" .. . . .. don. 10 10 o
Erle,Lord Chief Justice
i l Sir.. 2d on. 26 0 o
Vice-Adm ra
Panshawe, of a Lifeboat .and Trdan-
Fenwick, G. J., Esq , cost
250 0 0
sporting Carriage • •
• • • • don.
3 0 0
Harvey, Rev. G. Ur. and Mrs. •
.. 7th don. 10 0 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart • • ' 1 .. don. 15 15 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. .• • • • 30 0
•• • •
(I reenwich •. •
annual 2 0 0
Smith, Mrs. George, -
• •
Stirling, CoL Sir Anthony, K.C.B. • •
Thom s, s, Lady, Weston-super-Mare , collectedby her
16 16 .0
• ••••
Ladyship • • • • . • • •
• .
annual 5 0 ' 0
Willoughby d'Erosby, Lord .. • •
will be thankfully
Donations and Annual SubscriptionsMessrs. Willis,
Institution,
re-
'eived by the Bankers of the
Messrs.' Coutts and
Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street;and _ _ St.
• Farauhar, Co.,C 16,
C0.,459. Strand ; Messrs. Berries, tof
Customs
James's-street, London; by a;1 the Collectors
and Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14,
John-otzect, lidelplu, London, W.C.

TIMES.—In the House of Lords last night the
measure entitled the " Security from Violence Bill"
was read a second time. The technical heading is
not so familiar to the public eye as the offence the
Act deals with undoubtedly is to the recollection of
all classes in this metropo is, It does not require
continual repetition of a new variety of crime to fix
all its circumstances in the public memory which
retains a vivid impression of the process of " Garot-
ting." It was invented and introduced by the har-
dened ruffianism of London curing the dark nights
of last autumn and winter. More daylight, the in-
creased vigilance of the police, some exceptional
severity in the application of the existing law, and
a strongly manifested determination on the part of
the public to protect themselves, all combined to
repress this modern peril of the streets. But the
number of casesdid not decrease till they had created
something like a reign of terror. Whole sections of
a peaceable city community were on the verge of
arming themselves against sudden attack,—an ex-
pedient which had dangers of its own, and was
quite out of keeping with modern civilisation. The
first alarm abated. but the feeling excited, and the
cause of it, had too many unpleasant features not
to produce a decided opinion that if legislation
afforded any possible means of preventing sueh
outrages, the experiment ought to be made. The
present bill, sent up to the House of Lords in
lune, gives effect to what war the general public
conclusion in Decsmber, that a crime so singularly
atrocious deserved some special, signal, and deter-
ring penalty. The bill, therefore, awards to those
who perpetrate this kind of outrage the punish-
ment of flogging, in addition to a term of impri-
sonment, or in lieu of it, at the discretion of the
Court. Of a practised " GaroVer'' the most san-
guine philanthropist must despair, and even a
"very promising subject" of discipline may not be
the less tractable when he has something to fear.
The proposal runs counter to a favourite theory as
to the treatment of criminals, which might still
have been popular if the class subjected to it had
not turned on society with such extreme ferocity.
The combination of cunning and brute force which
distinguishes this modern form of highway robbery
has made public forbearance impossible. The doc-
trinaires of the system which has had such a long
trial must admit some cases of failure ; and it is
against these hardened characters or natures we are
driven to adopt some measures of protection. The
truth is we are now beginning to perceive practi-
cally an evil from which the system of transporta-
tion gave us half a century of exemption. The
" Garotter" is the type of criminal who a genera.
tion ago would have been heard of as the " bush'.
ranger" of Australia, with a price set upon his head,
like a wolf, or as the doubly-condemned convict of
Norfolk Island, who had forfeited the privileges '
offered to ordinary offenders. The increase of crimes
" accompanied with violence" is exactly the danger
we have to expect from the return of men of this
class to mix with the community on which they
prey The type is exceptional, we trust, even among
the criminal population ; but we must reconcile our.
selves to the necessity of dealing with the peril by
means adequate to the protection of the public.
There are two measures that would relieve society
from the worst description of criminals—transpor-
tation and imprisonment for life really enforced.
But the enlightenment or philanthropy of tt e age,
we are told, forbids both. To find or establish
another penal colony is said to be impossible.
A sentence of lifelong seclusion is practically
changed into confinement for a term of years.
The passibility of shortening the period of punish-
ment is held out as the reward of "good
conduct in prison." The prospective remission, no
doubt, makes the administration of the internal
government easier; but the bribe that buys the
" good prisoner" often lets loose on the public a very
bad man, This is the root of the evil. Crimes of
violence like garotting are the natural result of
the system, and measures of " security" from them
are only indications that the mischief is making
itself perceptibly felt. The bill was read a second
time by the Lords without opposition, and with as
little criticism as could be anticipated. Lord Car-
narvon stated the case of the public and clearly,
while Lord Gran worth made some objections of de-
tail, which may be removed, and a few on broeder
grounds of principle. To these the reply must be the
necessity that overrides them. The possibility of a
recurrence of such a panic as that of last autumn is
not to be endured without an effort of prevention.
We fear that the great'' take" of ruffians who were
sentenced in a batch by Baron Bramwell has not
exhausted the number of the kind of criminals we
have to dread. London is vast, like the ocean, and
the worst of its dangerous classes are not to be se-
cured in one sweep of the legal net. The capture is
a partial riddance, and may have some effect for a
time, but the public requires something that pro-
mises more permanent security. The legislation
which deals with crime as it varies in degree or form
may not be scientific or logical, but the instinct of
self-defence is apt to disregard such considerations
A great deal of our crimin sl law has been enacted,
precisely as this bill will be passed, on proof of the
existence of an evil, and a fair calculation that the
statute would prevent it. If this is empiricism, it is
more successful in law than medicine, for we have
had repeated experience that in special cases special
enactments have been effective, The instances are
familiar, and were very reasonably referred to in
the discussion as a justification of another experi-
ment in our customary " bit by bit" system of pro
ceeding. Lord Cranworth's assertion that we are
" recurring to the evils of the last century" is more
correct in reference to the crime of " Garotting°
than to the punishment proposed for the outrage.
It brings back Old London, unlighted and without
a police. The penalty only applies as a deterring
expedient a punishment we have retained as a means
of enforcing discipline. The punishment for a slight
offence, or for what under ordinary circumstances
would be no offence at all, is now awarded to an
atrocious crime. This is no great increase of
severity, but merely an extension of what protects
an officer inside a prison to the defence of the public
against any attempt "to choke, suffocate, or
strangle" individuals in order to plunder them with
impunity. The defect of our old criminal code was
that it gave undue protection to property with too
little regard to life. But there is no danger of en-
listing sympathy on the side of the criminal by
awarding four dozen lashes to a " Garotter."
PusT.—The debate in the House of Lords on
Poland, on Monday night, furnished us with an
additional evidence, were any still wanting, of the
steadily increasing interest which the Polish ques-
tion inspires among all classes of the community.
While the public generally watch the fortunes of the
insurrection with a sympathy and favour that aug-
ment in proportion as a struggle is prolonged,
which has evoked so signal a dispay of national
heroism, statesmen and politicans looking on from a
less sentimental point of view are becoming daily
more impressed with the conviction that European
interests are likely to be involved in the re-
sults of a conflict which has been sustained in
so unexpected a manner; and that, even were we
not committed by the treaties we have signed to
take some decisive action in the matter, there are
other interests at stake which should compel us to
do so. However much Lord Grey may deprecate
what, without the responsibilities of office, it is
easy for him to term "unmeaning diplomacy," the
circumstances of the case are such that it would be
impossible for the Government of this country to
stand idly by while other European Powers, feeling
feltlohwe
the gravity of the crisis, were endeavouring to solve
creatures.. happiness
rwe el
cannot,l-bei
at question which affects the peace of Europe no less
than
manywen millionsder that
of
the Government has shown its readiness upon all
occasions cordially s ngthoefn,
to co-operate in so laudable a
cause, nor can we blame them
if their efforts fail.
There is a certain exhaustive process in diplomacy
which every Government is bound to pursue before
resorting to extreme
tification of thosemeasures, not merely as a jus
measures,
should the necessity
for them ever unfortunate
ly arise, but because, how-
ever apparently hopeless the prospect of
a compro-
mise may be, it is impossible
to foresee what new
combinations may not be suggested by proposals
impracticable in themselves. Some such sentiments
seemed to pervade Lord Russell's speech when he
described the point at which negotiations had at