The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-25 00:00:00

THE RATE IN AID BILL.

The following is the bill brought into the House
of Commons by Mr. Villiers, Sir G. Grey, and Mr.
Gilpin, to enable boards of guardians of certain
unions to obtain temporary aid to meet the extra-
ordinary demands for relief therein :
" Whereas by reason of the closing of mills and
factories in certain parts of the country great num-
bers of the labouring and manufacturing classes
have been thrown out of employment, and, having
become chargeable to the unions and parishes
wherein they reside, the ratepayers within the same
are likely to be subjected to very heavy and extra-
ordinary burdens, and it is expedieit that means
should be afforded whereby temporary relief may
be rendered to such ratepayers : Be it enacted by
the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and
temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same.
"1. That if after the passing of this act the
guardians of any union situated wholly or partly
in the counties of Lancaster or Chester shall find
that the expenditure of any parish comprised in
such union on account of the relief of the out-door
poor for any current week shall exceed by two-
thirds the amount of the average cost of such relief
for the same week in the three preceding years, the
guardians shall charge upon the common fund so
much of the cost of such relief as shall be over and
above such excess until the Ist day of March next.
"2. The guardians may from time to time make
any orders for contributions from the several
parishes comprised in such union to the common
fund, in addition to their ordinary orders, and shall
have the same powers for enforcing such orders as
in the case of the usual and ordinary contributions.
"3. If the guardians of any such union shall
find at Michaelmas or Christmas next that the
amount of the common charges for the quarter end-
ing at either of those times shall exceed by two-
thirds the average amount of such charges for the
same quarter in the three preceding years, the said
guardians may apply to the Poor-law Board for a
contribution in aid, and thereupon the Poor-law
Board may, if they shall think proper, upon being
satisfied that the excess of expenditure is as afore-
said, make a representation to her Mejesty in
council, and it shall be lawful for her Majesty, if
she shall think proper, by order in council, to give
authority for the application of the powers here-
after provided.
" 4. Upon the issuing of such order in council the
Poor-law Board shall make an order upon the seve-
ral unions and parishes under a separate board of
guordians or select vestry in the county wherein
such union shall be situated to contribute a sum of
money to meet the excess, in proportion to the
amount of the expenditure of the several unions and
parishes for the year ending on the 25th day of
March last, and the several sums so apportioned
shall be paid by the guardians and select vestry
of the said union and parishes respectively out of
the common fund of the said unions, and from the
funds of the guardians and vestry of the said
parishes respectively, to the treasurer of the union
on whose behalf the said order in council shall have
been issued.
"5. The Poor-law Board shall exclude from con-
tribution any union or such parish aforesaid where
the excess of the expenditure for the same quarter
shall be half at least of that of the average
guar -
terly expenditure for the said three preceding
years.
"6. Where the union applying for aid shall ex-
tend into two or more counties, the •
contribution in
aid shall come from that county
In Which the
greater part of the union shall be situated ; and
where the union required to contribute shall be
situated in two or more counties it shall only con-
tribute in that county i
of it shall be situated. n which the greater part

7. No order of the Poor-law Board shall be
issued under the authority of this act after the-first
day of March next, nor be liable to be removed
into the Court of Queen's Bench on
otherwise,
certiorari or

Every order in council issued under this act
shall be laid before Parliament.
" 9. The several words herein contained shall be
construed in like manner, as in the act of the 4th
and sth William IV., chap. 76, and in the subse_
quent acts extending and explaining the same, and
all the provisions contained therein now in force
shall be applicable to this act."

CRYSTAL PILACE.—A concert of Welsh national
music was given recently at St. James's-hall with so much
success that a repetition of it in the large Concert-room of
the Crystal Niece is announced to take place to-morrow.
One great feature in this performance is that thenpaniments are played by a band of twenty harp, which
the principal players in this country perform, directed by
Mr. John Thomas. Miss Edith Wynne (Eoa Cymru) and
Miss LBscelles will sing the solos. The choir has been se-
leCted from the Vocal Association and the Royal Academy
of Music, and will be conducted by Mr, Benedict.

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The sixth ordinate general meetin 0f3W.11,a 71:'''
holders of the above coinpatiy. was heldit4e PA- -
dington Station of the Great Western Railway, on
Wednesday last, to receive the report of the direc-
tors, to elect four directors in the room of the four
retiring in rotation, and two auditors, in pursuance
of the articles of association of the company.
The chair was occupied by Abraham Bishop,
Esq., of Guernsey, the chairman of the company,
supported by Robert Brooks, Esq., M.P.i‘ ; David
Ogilvy, Esq. ; R. P. Smith, Esq.,
M.D. ; Captain
Prowse, R.N.;
Colonel. Aubin ; G. C. Welsford,
Esq. ;F. Carrel, Et-q.; Captain Orange ;W. Talbot,
Esq. ; Geo, Andrews, Esq.; and many other share-
holders of the company.
The SECRETARY, havitig read the notice con-
vening the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN rose and said, before calliog an
the secretary to read the directors' report, and the
report of the auditors, he wiebed to say a few
words on the present and future prospects of the
company, and would begin by reading an account
of the several annual receipts of the company from
the commencement to the present time. These
figures showed an annual increase of the receipts of
the company of about two thousand pounds year
by year since its formation. Ha said that it had
been the first wish of the directors on finding so
large a balance of receipts over expenditure in the
working of last year, to have declared a dividend,
but that on consulting the legal advisers of the
company, who had on their part taken counsel's
opinion on the subject, it was deemed advisable not
to do so, at least for this year. The company being
formed under the Limited Liability Act the direc-
tors had not the power to act as open companies
could, but if it were the wish of the shareholders
that it should be done, they (the directors) would
see what arrangements could he made for remodel-
ling the company, and thus in another year have it
in their power to pay a dividend.
The CHAIRMAN then called upon the secretary to
read the report of the directors, and the report of
the auditors, and the annual statement of accounts.
The report of the directors was in a measure an
echo of the chairman's opening remarks, and stated
that all the expectations put before the shareholders
at the last annual meeting had been most fully and.
satisfactorily realised ; that the accounts, which had
been duly audited, showed that the balance of re-
ceipts over expenditure for the past year amounted
to £2,356 18s., and which amount constituted a
balance in favour of the company in respect of the
business of the year, and recommended that its
disposal should be as follows, viz., £856 18s. to be
written off the value of the plant of the company
for depreciation, and £1,500 to be paid in further
liquidation of the outstanding debts.
The adoption of the reports having been duly
moved and seconded, the chairman invited a discus-
sion into the state of the company, and after some
brief remarks from several shareholders, the reso-
lution was unanimously adopted.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " That the retiring
directors, Robert Brooks, Esq., M.P.;
Richard P.
Smith, Esq., M.D. ; George Culverwell Welsford,
Esq., J.P. for Weymouth, and Thomas Prianly,
Esq., of Guernsey, be re-elected."
This resolution was seconded by Colonel AIIBIN,
of Jersey, and adopted by acclamation.
The CHAIRMAN then said the next thing would
be the election of auditors. Mr. Talbot was eligible
for re-election, but Mr. Wimble having accepted.
the office of superintendent and agent at Jersey,
was not now eligible. He, therefore, proposed the
election of Mr. Talbot, of Weymouth, and Mr.
Elias Neel, jun., of Jersey, as the auditors of the
company for the ensuing year.
Seconded by Dr. SMITH, and carried unani-
mously.
Some conversation then ensued as to whether the
company could be so altered during the next year
as to enable the directors to declare a dividend out
of the profits of the year, without refereoce to the
losses upon former years ; and Mr. Gliddon, of
Guernsey, inquired if any such arrangement were
made, whether the old and new shareholders would
be amalgamated or placed on the same footing.
He (Mr. Gliddon) did not wish such a thing him-
self, and did not see how it was to be done.
Mr. BROOKS, M.P., remarked that it was a legal,
question altogether, but he had no doubt the diffi-
culty could be got over if left in the, hands of the
directors, who no doubt would get it done. It was
the wish of the directors to pay a dividend, and also
the anxiety of the directors that the remaining
shares should be disposed of, the proceeds of
which would be devoted towards further reductions
of the mortgage debt, and thereby save the share-
holders from a certain amount of interest. They
themselves had taken a large number between them,
and that at a time when the company was at a very
low ebb, in order to preserve it from falling to
pieces, and it would be well if all the remaining
shares could be got rid of.
Col. ADBIN expressed himself satisfied with the
Chairman and Directors, and all their acts, and said
that he should propose that the matter be left in
the hands of the directors.
A general conversation on this subject then took
piace, and the chairman observed that as Mr.
Andrews, the legal adviser of the company from its
commencement, was present, he would, no doubt,
give an opinion to the meeting on the subject.
Mr. ANDREWS, on rising, said it appeared to him
that the question was whether arrangements could
not be effected in the present improved position of
the company, so as to remodel it, and enable the
directors with safety to themselves to pay a divi-
dend. He had no doubt if the question was left in
their hands such arrangements would be made, but
any proposition would have to be submitted to the
shareholders for their approval.

A cordial and unanimous vote of thanks to the
chairman, moved by Dr. SMITII, seconded by Mr.
GLIDDON, of Guernsey, concluded the business of
the meeting.

TRAGIC CASE OF A COMIC WRITER.

The poet is born,
conspired
not made. lam made, not
of theatres
hasthe world
of editors and managers
to make me a comic
writer, when nature in
I was made to writ tended me for a serious one.
e poems in blank verse and in
cantos ; editors have made me write crambo rhymes
to fill up half pages. Nature designed that I
should lucubrate for .
the hi gh-heeled seck • ,
managers
have resolved that I shall scribble for the low-
heeled buskin. Do what I Trill
I cannot escape
from the thrall of these tyrants, who have leagued
themselves together to pervert my genius to base
uses. If I propose to a publisher to write him
a three volume novel, he smiles at me in-
credulously and says Not Not in your line ; can't
you give me a bundle of those light, comic
trifles which you know so well how to hit off 2" Hit
off, indeed ! I hate hitting off. I never hit off. I
ponder, der I excogitate, I burn the midnight oil, I
study; and this dull, unperceptive fellow asks me
to " hit off" something. I should like to hit him
off. I assure the reader, on my honour as a gentic-
man, and, let me add, a scholar, that my blank verse
is of a very high order indeed. Friends have said
~ equal to Tennyson," and I am not disposed to ac-
cuse them of flattery. But what happens to my
blank verse ? Invariably and consistently " de-
clined with thanks." Professing and practising
various branches of the literary art, as is the cus-
tom, now-a-days,l contribute to the leading columns
of the newspapers ; my forte :is politics. All who
have the pleasure of my acquaintance in the private
circle know that I could come out strong in party
strife ; but where is the editor who will allow me
to write a political leader ? Echo answers, e
where P
When I go down to the office in the afternoon
fully
expecting to be put on to Church-rates or Schles-
wig-Holstein, what do I find ? Why that Church-
rates and Schleswig-Holstein have
to two of the greatest idiots in the been served out
I—l, forsooth, who could shake universe; anfd
bishops in their square-toedshoes the whole beech
uo
Denmark with half a quire and crumpieamp
obliged to be Content
thewith
hof note-p P
smallest crumbser that
fall from the editorial table.
eah
er, you had
. ra
better write about rusks it light
and readable ; or
L that police case—
and perambulator question
ou may take up the nursemaid
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emut."--mcken 878 "411 the Par .Rouwi."

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ORYSTAL PALACE.-TO-MORROW
v day). lIA.LF-A.-cROWN, On Saturdays during the
Exhibition the Palace is open from NINE in the morning,
affording the opportunity for quiet inspection of the Fine
Arts Courts

'WELSH NATIONAL MUSIC at the Crystal
palace TO-MORROW (Saturday).

EVERY wEEg'
_a_ ONE PENNY.

ANTERBURY FIALL.
CThe renowned Performers, DEBONNAIRE and
AISGONARD (from Paris), at Ten o'clock.
Grand Selections from
" DON SEBASTIEN" and " IL TROVATORE,"
Conducted by Mr. Jonghmans.
Tivoli, and Mr.
Ra ynor.
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell. , Signor
linswortn in his celebrated Stump Sech, " Or any other
man " the' original), in conjunction with Eugene and Duley,
formin, the greatest Comic Trio in London. Also the
following Comic Talent. Mr J. G. Forde, Marshall,
Mr. Hollingsworth, and Miss Georf.r,ina Smithson.
Gallery of Modern Paintings.

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T"6 oXF ORD,
0-FORD STREET.
,c THE DAUGHTER OF THE ISLES,"
a Cantata composed by 11. LEFILIE, Esq., and written by A.
MAT
tress Esq., it? honour of the Marriage of her Royal
Iliohness the PrlDeeSS Alice. . EVERY EVENING,
in 'addition to the usual entertainments, which include
pe atic selections by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn,
71)lesrsrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert, with Full Band and
Chorus ; the Comic performances of Miss Caroline Parkes
and Mr. W. Randall. the Ethiorian oddities of Rumsey,
Newcomb, Little Bob, Eugene, and Unsworth (the original "or
any other man"l, and the astounding feats on the Flying
Trapeze of DEBONNAIKE.
Hall, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Mr. D. Boucicault, sole Lessee.
This Evening, THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER.
Messrs. Atkins, F. Robinson; Sara Stevens. After which,
THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. Boucicault, Mdme. Celeste,
Lc. To conclude with
Co HE KISS IN THE DARK.
THE KISS IN THE DARK.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone.
This Evening, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. After
which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN : Messrs. Buckstone,
Sothern ; Mrs. C. Young, Miss Oliver, Ste. With A CON-
TRABA_NDISTA : Peres Nena, c.
And FAMILY JARS.
Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and %Tanager, Mr. Benjamin Webster.
This Evening, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Benjamin
Webster, J. L. Toole, &c. ; Miss Woo-Igor, &c. And THE
SHILLING DAY.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee and Manger, Mr. A. Harris.
This Evening,. TOO MUCH (W A GOOD THING. After
which, at 8, LO IS THE ELEVENTH: Mr. and Mrs. C.
Kean, &c. With THRICE MARRIED.
Coxnmetice at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Fole Lessee and Manager, Mr. E'mund Falconer.
This Evening, PEEP O'DAY : Messrs. Lacy, Falconer.
Addison ; Mrs. Bowers, &c. Followed by KIL LA iNEY.
Conclude with 'IIIE COLLEEN BAWL SETTLED AT
LAST. Charles Selby and Lydia T
ompson.
Commence at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W Batty.
This Evening, MAZEPPA : Mr. C. Mortimer. Brilliant
Scenes in tilt. Circle by the unrivalled Troupe of British and
Foreign Equestrians. Coneluoing with a favourite Farce.
Commence at 7.

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that the evil lay in the preservation of game, and 1
the facilities afforded by railways of conveying
them to town_ What we need, though we do not
ask it, is that, if legislation there is to be, it should
be to regulate preserving, and to require also of
those who practise it, conditions which should pre-
vent its becoming an agricultural nuisance, and an
allurement to crime.

Kindred with this ♦iew, and with some re-
marks we made upon it on Wednesday, was the
observation of Mr. WALTER respecting one kind of
game. He observed of the 2d clause that it was
still " more objectionable, because it rendered all
tradesmen who sold game liable to have their books
searched by the police. Such a provision would be
intolerable in its operation, and it might be as well
applied to fishmongers and poulterers as to persons
who sold game. It appeared to him that the first
thing the House had to do was to decide what was
game. He thought it should be treated as private
property, and he believed the country generally
would acquiesce in that view, as far, at all events,
as the most important portion of English game—
pheasants—was concerned. It was difficult to
understand how pheasants could be considered
jerce naturce. Gamekeepers knew them by their
names—(a laugh)—they came when called, and
there was in all respects a broad distinction be-
tween them and rabbits and snipea, which lived
upon what might be termed the natural plunder of
the land."

So true is Mr. WALTEP.SI remark that the phea-
sant is strictly a gallinaceous bird, and though
generally shy enough it frequently associates with
our barn-door fowl, and breeds with our common
hens. Its habits also are far more local than those '
of other game. It will not readily leave its roost-
ing Owe for any great distance, perhaps never
if the cover be good, water near, arid it is
well supplied with food. There is doubtless a broad
distinction between the pheasant and even the
partridge ; while as to snipes, woodcocks, and
birds of passage, it is infamous to call them even
,4 qualified property." Rabbits and hares are sim-
ple vermin in an agricultural district, and have not
the slightest claim to specially protective laws. We
do not know but that if country squires could be-
come reasonable, a fair compromise might be effected
by repealing all the game laws, and declaring
pheasantP, when fairly localised and protected, to be
property. Neither the farmer nor the villager
would generally interfere with partridges, they
certainly would not under a good landlord. The
four-legged game have no right to protection.
Pheasants would, in general, be easily recognised
as property, and then pheasant stealers would not
be more numerous than fowl stealers. At the eame
time, as Sir G. GREY well observed, although the
judges punish theft, yet if it has been committed
on property unduly exposed the judges condemned
the practice. This judicial condemnation is the
condemnation of nearly every game preserver in the
kingdom. He " leads men into temptation," and
then bitterly hates and punishes those whom he
has tempted.

Good is almost always the result of the adoption
of that very simple and rational means of extrica-
tion from the difficulties of an alternative, known
familiarly as—splitting the difference. Precisely an
intermediate course of this character has but just
now been opened up to view in connection with
what was until only the other day the difficulty in
carrying out of the scheme of the Thames Embank-
ment. That that scheme is absolutely to be car-
ried out in its integrity is, as we have not only had
the satisfaction of knowing, but the additional
satisfactio❑ of announcing to be the fact—defini-
tively decided. From Blackfriars-bridge to West-
minster-bridge, the north embankment is to be
carried forward uninterruptedly. There is to be
tolerated no divergence whatever. The north bank
of the Thames, between the two points indicated, is
to be faithfully followed throughout. Wherever
the river winds between Blackfriars-bridge and
Westminster-bridge, there the north embankment
will wind as well. Neither Whitehall-gardens or

the Temple-gardens, or any other gardens,
neither the Duke of BUCCLEITCH or Mr.
HORSMAN, or provoking though it be to
stumble into the slang of the day, we must
needs add here—any other man, can be allowed to
interrupt the straightforward course resolved upon
in this matter alike by the legislature and by the

administration. Side streets branching away
northwards from the main thoroughfare of this
Northern Embankment, there will be of course in
abundance. Several of these new streets—leading
from the river-bank into the Strand, into Fleet-

street, or into Parliament-street, accordingly as may
appear to be most advisable. Several ()theta of
course being prolongations a little further south-
wards of side streets already in existence. But—it
is now (we cannot but think) ingeniously suggested
that at the very point in regard to which there was
all this stormy discussion of late, both in the House
and out of the House, there should be—we were going
to say a slight divergence from the line taken by
the broad roadway of the Embankment. We ought
rather to say, however, that that line instead of
being allowed merely to sweep round that northern
curve of the river, near the eastern corner
of 'Whitehall Gardens, should also be carried very
nearly straight onward into Parliament-street. So
that the result would be that the principal roadway
would, from that part of the route, be forked—
like the upper part of the letter Y. The
Embankment would be there still in its in-
tegrity. But—as the line of it approaches its
termination at Westminster the traffic would be
relieved, greatly to the public advantage, we be-
lieve, as well as to the undoubt©d convenience of
residents in the locality, by a sort of auxiliary 1
roadway, carrying at the very least a clear
moiety of it right onward into Parliament-
street. Not at an angle, observe—not by
turning off abruptly to the right, as in the
old streets leading into the Strand—Surrey-street,
Norfolk-street, Essex-street, and so forth. But in
the easiest, easiest, the most conveniently graduated man-
ner Possible—by just allowing the line taken by
embankment up to that point to be carried for-
ward, with
perhapsuntil the faintest deflection towards
the right,
the branch roadway we are writing
of debouches into
p
ritament-street. The new road-
way thus suggested
Would .. trend" naturally to-
wards Parliament-street. It would in a manner
insinuate itself into Parliament-street. It would
ease all the heavier class of
vehicles
than se
ets
uless thatcurve
might be
bound westwards to destinationa on the Middlesex
side of the river from the inconvenience of following
e
that awkward and to them worse
of the Thames already alluded to. Everything
going
to the Houses, or towards the Abbey, toPalacelard,
in fact—everything going to the Park, the Victoria
Station, and to other localities in the like direction,
I would find the branch-road now sugg,ested the
greatest possible advantage.
At any rate the notion of this improve-
ment upon an improvement is quite main"
festly worth taking seriously into con-
sideration. Its advAntege to the public, to the
traffic, to the locality, to the embankment itself,
must, apon the first mention o:
it, be sufficiently
manifest. We say, among other things, its advan-
_
tage to the Embankment itself. Because, pi:: a
little further on, the traffic along that Embank-