The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-09 00:00:00

TIM SUN LONDON, FRID ,A.Y EVENING, AT :9, 1862:

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'.I.ELEGRAX TO QUEENSTOWN, TRE7.AND.,--11 RJR.
To Chief Magistrate and Harbourmaster.—By Extradi-
tion Act—Stop ship City of Baltimore, and Captain, for
Death-cause to the brothers Leech on May 7's Liverpool
departure—without Coroner's copy log. inquest—if true, by
steam-tug report.—Signed by Chief ' Functional' Justices
of the above (1842-3) Act. PETER BRANT BASQLIRT.
May 9, 1862. CHARLES ACKERLET, J. P.
t By 25 Hen. 111. the Purser discargo-rer' or steward
is deputy-juror for Neighbours to the fact,' under Shipping
Act Onus, to avoid sequestration..

nOZ.TRTON ON- THE -WATER RAILWAY,
Branch of Midland & Great Western.—Title doubts.
WESTMINSTER COIINTY CoURT. Lieut. CHARLES
ACHERLEY, R.N., v. COLE, Solicitor, 36, Essex-street.
(Before Judge F. Bayley).—On the rehearing-clause and
Stec. 81, touching the 15s. costs against plaintiff on the 23d
April last, as a 6d. Stamp Act tem°. 3).
This tortuous suit for payment of loss of time, and con-
spiracy-fraud (by defendants' own letters to sign railroad
conveyance deed), on Plaintiff's mercantile position in trade
right of patenteeship (1840), with duplex use of his name
in a petition to the Master of the Rolls Court on 27th
February, having the word De Lacy disbared—to obtain a
rLilway judgment, six days' before the expiration of 21st
March—vide Gloucester journals of Ist, Bth, and 15th—as
of unlawful annex foist of Justinian Institute Code, lib. in,
at 3, § 8 (for their Guisot and Brougham Soc. Act
Amendment of the Law for the Benchers De Societate
in Aurea.-bulla pax religiose,' lib. 1, tit. I, § 4), with Mercer
Company's' culpability.
The Judge held that the Plaintiff's time lost Ras not
tenable, tho' in his name Act, there being no contract.
Plaintiff (with respect), maintained that as re-hearing
was admitted, so followed (5, 81,—reduction of costs with
Rolls Registrar Disraeli subpcena fees, under judgment by
default, on Defendant's non-appearance.
This legal argument being granted, which appeared to
place the Defendants in a cleft-stick, the Court were some-
what surprised by the hasty uprising of an Attorney who
represented Mr. Cole, as of—Talbot v. Radnor and the
?cin-Atkyns Chamberlayne trustees, by 1-2, Will. 'v.,*
leo 64, under which the Capt. (Ackerley) is heir 'in Chelten-
ham-let pivot remainder' for at. Western Branch deed eta
life-title (as given in The Sun of 28th April).
The Plaintiff reminded his Worship that as this case,
although small, embraced contempt of the Rolls Court'
and infringement of the Stamp Act—[the revenue on which
must be increased to LBO,OOO a-year)—whereon he officially
as the Meter-act-magistrate qualified at Worcester 1837,
demanded the silencing of the intrusive Attorney of Cole,
unless he could produce his Sixpenny stamped memo.
randuna of agency, since Advocates' College word disbarr
applied to him, by State loss on this ,) Anglo -Indian habeas
.corpus jnris question, under 14 Geo. 111., o. 83.
This the Judge admitted, on Defendant's contempt of
Covrt, as of Stow ' St. Edward's, 14 J. I.
His ortour ordered the reduction of fees, and subpcena
money of Plaintiff's witnesses to be returned, with permis-
sion of case-removal to Stow-tower County Court.
* Note.—This Act of 1832 is the only one in which two
brothers are named (to sue and bo sued in all courts eccle-
siastical, military, and marine, under one name—Joseph
Chamberlayne oNLY)—one in the Royal Artillery, and the
other [plaintiff, Charles, his 'enry by law struck out]
in Roy al Navy, pledged as the JJ Montague Nulla 0' of 1825
over the Catholic' Emancipation Act of 1829—for Sect
burden to the 15th clause " a lay body corporate" (or as the
French say,
faisant partie de leur police corporation seen-
liars') on Primeval-tenet of Christianity—so Civil-service
opposition of the War-office and Admiralty, &c., by refus-
ing to strike out of the Army and Navy lists the double and
treble Christian names of fashionable and heraldic import.
Now on final judgment, whence the parish rate wardens,
successors in office (prior to 1603), will, with back to the
East enrobe this Siderial days-man as Sunday reader
seen by 58 canon of moral discipline—of late perverted by
a gown warden-take for self-hold assumption, on ministers
money (now ceased) of the white Surplice right.
¶By clauses 1 and 3 of the Bourton Act Co.s (on its
hamlet unregistered Clerk of ?sada Inclotmre' award), they
wish to forestall the four-miles circumference of the Stow
Market tolls, byindiciel extra-namefribble of its King's
Post Magistrate, by committee of foreigners in violation of
the " Adam and Eve consorted" of 1822, for Criminal basis
on 16 Car. Ir.'s Tent fire-hearth, yr-tax 2s for Common law
6 & 6 Native Crt., of the one Arbiter, by sec. 29 of its rider, 8
Vic., c. 18—he being the Prince Consort' with the Indian
lady a for title to American soil Rohl.-law Gyre-on,' as cause
for 1842's (Mo.n in God) election of Peter B (nephew of Jos,
Bruit, of 1776 stamp-act) as now colonial tamp Income-
tax Chief, unpaid 2n years-11 yrs supported by plaintiff on
Stamp oath—for all ti.se native coloured races—religion-tied
to the imbedded Spirit4-level Nob-equerry Staff arsbook
of nature.
trne base'.(qui fit Charmer la Race-noire si grande

2 Sons la loi Civique ¢), pass avec Fiert‘
OA l'on voit que jamais I'EmuLAND' ne marchande
8 Quand it faut par la mer leer donner Liberte . .
• N.) CHARLES ' ACKERLEY,
1-2 Will. iv., No. 64. Chamberlayne' sworn.
• PITSR BAsQUET, Income Tax Chief, 1842, unpaid. 4
• China uu'., wall circuit horizon of-. London, May 8,
1862, its Mont4zuma.—(lhe Sun of 19 and 28th.)

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TtiEA'fRE-R0 YA , HAYMARKET.
Lessee Mr. J. B. Bnckstone,
THIS EVENING, JOHN JONES.
After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (118th time )
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
atone ; Lord. Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
Folloired by the Spanish Ballet entitied THE STAR OF
ANDALUSIA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo. and the
Corps de Ballet
TocoAciude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST.
• Commence a 7

OYA I, LYCEUM THEATRE.
A-a) Sole i.essee and Manager —3lr. Edmund Falconer.
151st Nighi of the ,:ontinuons run of "Peep o'Day."
THIS EvENINer.W.:EP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish.
Messrs. Walter Lacy; Addison, Charles St lby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund l"alconei : D. P. Bowers, Bites Clara
Weston, and Miss M. Hudson.
After which, a new musical, piciZeal, poetical, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. iliss Anna Whitty and
Mies Lyclht Thomson.
To conclude with the new farce entitled COULDN'T
'HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and
Alma Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
Box-office oven daily from 11 till s.

LOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
I,,,see, Mr A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE TREASURE : Messrs.
5, G. Shore, B. Potter, R. Cathcart, Miss Elsworthy, Mrs.
Weston, and Miss Maria Harris.
—Alter which, at balt-past 8, THE ANGEL OF MID-
Nu; Ei Messrs. Shore, B. Potter, Ryder, Cathcart, Wid-
diem:lane,
and Jordan,
ss MHenderseadows, Raonymond ; Miss Elsworthy, Miss
F.elding, Mi.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Garden,
Shore, &c., and Miss C. Leciercq.

NEW THI ATRE-R0 ir AL, ADELPHI.—
Sole Pronrietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING the new domestic drama, entitled DOT :
Alci4sro. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington. Stephenson ; Miss
L. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, -Miss H. Kelly,
and Mrs. H. Marston.
After which, THE PHANTOM. Ruthven, Mr. Dion
Boncieault ; Messrs. Emery, Toole, Billington, P. Bedford,
Miss Simms, Miss K. Kelly, &c.
Commence at 7.

Foreign Office ; of course, to the great joy of '
FRANCIS lOSEPII, Baron SCHMERLING, and the
Rump Reichsrath, and to the sorrow of Hungary,
Venice, and Italy. If, however, the speech of the
hon. member for Bucks, when he made his formal
onslaught on Mr. GLADSTONE, indicates his own real
policy, which the country can but suspect, it will not
regret his remaining in opposition yet awhile. That
speech asserted as its leading object that Mr. GLAD-
STONE ought to have asked for more money—there-
fore not to have repealed taxes during the last three
years, but to have laid others on. He demanded
larger balances, and denied that the expenditure
was abnormal. The inference was clear, that to
get the three millions balance Mr. DISRAELI de-
sired, we must pay threepence more of income tax.
Veil it how he might, Mr. DISRAELI's speech, then,
meant " raise the income tax," or, it had no mean-
ing at all. If he endeavoured to writhe himself
out of this last night, it was in deference to that
power which he blamed Mr. GLADSTONE for in-
voking—the power of pressure from without.
The sorest point of all with the Tories ap-
pears to be Mr. GLADSTONE'S taking the people
into his councils at Manchester. He had said
much the same thing at Stephens', but that the
people should be asked to assist in reducing
public expenditure, this was the unpardonable
crime. Mr. GLADSTONE, however, was in no mood
for begging pardon, either of Sir STAFFORD NORTH-
COTE, or of the whole Tory oppostion. He had
done what he felt to be his duty, and he stood
to it. He maintains that in a free and intelli-
gent country like this, the Government must, to
a large extent, follow the demands of free intel-
ligence. It may think the neonlo wish to spend
too fast, faster than is for its real interest ; but,
as the money comes from those who desire to
spend it, the Government can but gratify
the people in doing what it will with
its own. It is equally the duty of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer nevertheless, as
an honest steward for the nation, to tell it,
while he obeys its wishes, that it is time for it to
restrain them. This the sum of isMr. GLADSTONE'S
defence, or rather of his exposition of his duty as
he views it. We doubt not the country will prac-
tically and speedily show their sense of its
correctness.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer had easy work
indeed with Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE—it Was
pretty much the "breaking of a fly upon a wheel"
—but there was yet a more potent warrior in
reserve. Mr. GLADSTONE looked around like one
of the old heroes before Troy searching the ranks
of the commoner men, for the antagonist worthy
of him, but Mr. DISRAELI was not tobe seen. By a
convenient "accident" the opposition leader was out
of the way when he was wanted to back Sir STAF-
FORD NORTHCOTE, and left the Chancellor of the
Exchequer to expend his oratory in reply to the
humbler antagonist. By another convenient "acci-
dent," Mr. DISRAELI re-appeared, and turned up,
just at the convenient moment, to make his on-
slaught on Mr. GLADSTONE and the whole Govern-
ment when the chief Government orator had done
his part. But Mr. DISRAELI had, this time,
reckoned without his host. He had intended to
retire with the lau'rels of the evening, but he left
with only the stalks of them. The veteran
Premier coolly rose, and in one of the happiest re-
plies he, perhaps, ever delivered, quietly, but
ruthlessly, plucked away every leaf, till all were
gone.

" Accidentally," perhaps, at least as accidentally
as he was absent before Mr. GLADSTONE spoke, Mr.
DISRAELI was silent during the BOWYER Italian
debate. But having '' accidentally" turned it
over a good deal since then, and devised what he
could best say about it, Ro as not to lose Catholic
votes while he should keep Orange ones, he drags
the whole subject into a financial debate. Ingenuity
like his could easily accomplish that. Our expen•
diture, he said, in brief, was caused by our policy ;
and our policy was one which did not harmonise
always with that of others. And here he slipped in
a word to please the Catholics—a sad thing it would
be if the POPE had to run away from Rome because
the French marched away from it. LOUIS NAPO-
LEON could not afford to hazard such a mischance
as that. A loud " hear, hear" from Sir G. BOWYER,
assured Mr. DISRAELI that he had bagged a hatful
of Catholic votes. Yet we went on, he said, irritating
France by objecting to the occupation, and then
demanding millions for " bloated "defences, that we
might be secure against the consequences. The
whole Italian policy of the Government was, indeed,
censured in the way most acceptable to Priest-
ridden Irish constituencies, and most in opposition
to the sentiments of all freedom-loving English-

wen.

" Very glad," said Lord PALMERSTON, "are
we to see the giant, lately so silent, shaking
off his lethargy"—still he intimated that he
was hardly awake enoagh to know what
he was about—for he fired off on the Italian
question in a financial debate, much as a sol-
dier, whose musket would not go off at a
review, fired it off when straggling home at some
country house. Then, as to his main object in the
speech, he presumed it was delivered as a prepara-
tion for a grand attempt to storm the Treasury
benches. " Sir, I assume," said Lord PALMERSTON,
from this, that the quietude which has hitherto
prevailed during this session is likely soon to be
disturbed, and that we may expect what is corn-
money called a political crisis. The right hon. gen
tleman has very dexterously prepared the way for
that event. He began by throwing out an oily
bait to the Catholic gentlemen below the gang-
way on his side of the house, and then
he encouraged expectations in the country gen-
tlemen sitting behind him ; then he coquetted with
the economists and reformers sitting below the
gangway on this side of the house. But he certainly
did not hold out much encouragement to us who sit
here on the Treasury bench. Nevertheless, I com-
mend the discretion and the tactics with which he
impartially distributed his praise on the different
quarters of the House." Well might the House
laugh and cheer, for a more terse exposure of the
drift of a long harangue was hardly ever uttered.

Equally happy was his censure of the hon. gen-
tleman's attack on the Estimates, on the re-con-
struction of the Navy, on the increase of our mili-
tary strength. and on the encouragement of inven-
tions and improvements in arms—right or wrong,
all this has been the work and policy of his own
colleagues, and, as we all remember, within a very
few years. But the most ludicrous thing of all,
perhaps, was the exhibition of the negative
policy of Mr. DISRAELI. What would he himself
do ? What power would he exert ? He attacked
the Government for exercising moral power, that is
the Power of persuasion—" He objects to moral
power, but what other power would be wish his
country to exercise? The right hon. gentleman
objecfs to military power—to naval, and to moral
power. It is difficult to say what kind of
power would meet with the approval of the right
hon. gentleman, or what power this Government
ought to exert for the purpose of maintaining our
proper position among the nations of the world."
easily answered that
qAulre.stiDonis,BLEtLlthcaotald have
be justly feared he might be
i" casting pearls before twine." Lord PALMERSON
had omitted one po vver —t h e power of
Toryism on the

Treasury benches ; for, whether it be a naval or
military power may depend upon accident, but
Toryism certainly is not a moral power.
Very unfortunate, indeed, is this over-eager
attempt of the hon. member for Bucks. Badly
managed as well as ill-timed. The trick of evading
a reply from Mr GLADSTONE was more than counter-
balanced by the reply of the Premier. Mr. GLAD-
STONE would not have managed it half so well as the
humorous lord. The speech of the great Tory was
a capital subject for banter, and Lord PALMERSTON
met it by the most clever combination of banter
and argument. Mr. DISRAELI discovers in Mr.
COBBEN'S pamphlet, and the growing dissatisfac-
tion with our expenditure, and of the Irish mem-
bers with the Liberal Italian policy of the Govern-
ment, an opportunity, as he thinks, for a hostile
resolution before this session is over. But he has
not caught the Premier at least napping. He
knows his ground. He justly scoffs at the elaborate
attempts to prove that sympathy with a free and
united Italy is the cause of our high army and
navy estimates—he decclares himself proud of his
Italian polioy, and very distinctly insinuates thatif
the hon. member for Bucks means fight, the country
must settle between them ; these were his conclud-
ing words—" My belief is that the ()Pinions and
sentiments we entertain and have expressed on the
different affairs now going on in Europe are in
unison with the feelings of the country, and that
attachment for freedom and constitutional govern-
ment which is so peculiarly characteristic of the
whole people of this united kingdom. That being
the case, I am somewhat surprised that the right
hon. gentleman, who is evidently prepared to be a
member of some new administration, should have,
in the course of his speech, given expressions to
opinions so much at variance with the feeling of
the country, merely because he thought that they
were at variance with the opinion of the Govern-
ment to which he is opposed."

The twentieth annual meeting of the Field Lane
Ragged School on Wednesday in St. Martin's
Hall was almost, as a matter of course, presided
over by the good Earl of SHAFTESBURY.
Growing grey in the service of his humbler
fellow-citizens though the new K.G. elect is of
late years—himself as yet but in his prime, it
must be like the autumnal fruition already of his
earnest and life-long labours to note as he could
note the other evening, in his capacity as chairman,
the signs of the benefits already accruing to the
very poor in this great metropolis, from the opera-
tion and development of one of the chief among
those humane institutions to the promotion of
whose interests his energies have so long and so
very earnestly been devoted. From the reliable
statistics of the past twelvemonth submitted to the
consideration of the assembly last evening gathered
together in St. Martin's Hall, it appeared beyond a
doubt that the attendance during the year at the
Field Lane Ragged Schools for boys and girls, and
for infants,has been of the most satisfactory character
imaginable. Upon an average throughout the whole
year that attendance in the infant school alone has
been daily-205! During the twelvemonth as
many as 201 new baby-scholars have been admitted
there within the walls of the institution. The
average during the interval of time has meanwhile
in the boys and girls school, been 330 daily-4,370
of these children having been duly passed through
the establishment. And it must especially be borne
in mind that it is not alone the education of these
little ones that the institution cares for. They are
not merely sedulously instructed during the period
of their daily attendance, month after month, and
from year's end to year's end. Situations are,
wherever it may be found suitable, discovered for
each—the boys even being, not unfrequently,
drafted into her MAJESTY'S navy as opportunities
have arisen. For example, during the year last
past, as many as "seventy-nine" of these urchins
have passed into the QUEEN'S service afloat, upon
crossing the threshold of the Ragged School of
Field-lane. While within the same period 115
other boys, having duly passed through their educa-
tional course, according to the system in vogue at
the institution, have been enabled at once to enter
upon the honest, thriftful pathway of regular em-
ployment. " Eighty-seven" girls, also, obtaining
in like-manner the absolutely priceless boon
of opportune situations. As if to .indicate,
in as vivid a manner as possible, the untiring
assiduity with which the interests of these poor
waifs and strays of the metropolis are watched
over, physically and intellectually, there is another
branch of the institution not yet particularised
eminently well deserving examination. It is, of
course, quite obviously the Night-School for Boys in
connection with the Ragged Institution in Field-
lane, that we are here more particularly alluding
to, the Night School for Boys, the Secretary
informs us, having as many as 180 as the average of
its daily (meaning nightly) attendance.
Before closing our remarks upon the progress of
this most humane establishment, we would especially
direct the attention of our readers to the circum-
stance that it is not simply beneficial to the children
who are there harboured, by its housing their poor
bodies for the time being, and by instructing their
previously blank intellects—it is in a worldly way
even wonderfully advantageous to them for the
rest of their natural lives, by its enabling them
to acquire, during the period of their attendance,
knowledge of some handicraft capable of furnishing
them afterwards with remunerative employment.
Proof positive of this is discoverable in the signifi-
cant items jottod down for the past year by the
Secretary's pen —items to the effect, for instance,
t hat within the last twelvemonth in the industrial
classes of one division of the school as many as 915
boys have learnt their craft as tailors, and 810 boys
their's as shoemakers. A similar tale to which might
be told in regard to the industrial classes of the
other division—namely, in pleasant illustration of
the fact, the very large number of girls who have
simultaneously been acquiring there various skill
with their needles—now, let us say, as shoe-binders,
now as sempstresses.

Is further evidence desireable by way
of indicating the beneficent influences set
at play among these little Bedouins of
civilisation ? Is such not abundantly visible in
admirable offshoots of the Field Lane Ragged
School, like the " Mother's class," like the " penny
bank," or like the " clothing association," all of
which little offshoots we here, with unaffected de-
light, give promise to grow and flourish surprisingly.
Take the penny bank by way of illustration—a
bank in which, at this time, there are as much as
L 231 paid in, bit by bit, by some 500 depositors !
There are little luxuries, too, in the way of allure-
ments to knowledge and good behaviour, distributed
periodically, and with the most judicious discrimi-
nation, among the poor children of this Ragged
School in Field Lane—hitherto neglected little
creatures, who certainly never had an oppor-
tunity of knowing what a luxury of any kind (even
the humblest) was before. Unless, perchance, it
might have been after the fashion of the poor
little Marchioness in the 4401 d Curiosity Shop,"
who (it will. be remembered) astonished
Mr. RICHARD SWIVELLER, so very much
water ! Or unless, again,
at their first meeting by describing to him the
deliciousness of orange peal squeezed and soaked in
their experience of Qom-

fort night have been brought home to them pre-
viousl7 by some supreme misfortune, as in the in-
stance of Maggy, in " Little Dorrit," who having
been,once upon a time, in consequence of an acci-
dent, tenderly nursed and nurtured in one of !the
London Hospitals : whenever afterwards she en-
joyed a treat, would smack her lips and cry out
with a relish, "0 ! ain't it Hospitally !
To these Maggies and Marchionesses sent
forth by the Field Lane Ragged School,
what must not have been their enjoy-
ment of the 231 successful competitors among
the girls out at place ! Who carried of during this
last year each a prize varying from half-a-crown to
three half-crowns—for what ?is it asked. For the
very substantial merit of retaining each her place
for a whole twelvemonth !

We have not fi u ishe d, ho w ever, by any means with
our record of all the good done, the practical, phy-
sical, substantial good done, by means of this bene-
ficent, charitable institution in Field-lane. Besides
the blessings squandered about, as we have shown,
among hundreds, nay among from 4,000 to 5,000
boys and girls and little infant ohildren, there is
the material comfort it has distributed all the while,
moreover, among the very lowliest members of our
adult pauper population. Within this same year
last past, as many as upwards of seven thousand and
a half (exactly 7,537) poor creatures have passed
through the male refuge connected with the insti-
tution. And the good done to these poor souls, it
should be observed especially, is of no merely fleet-
ing or temporary kind either. Out of those. 7,537
persons thus relieved in the direst extremity of want
—233 being placed
.in situations, 181 having tem-
porary employment given to them, 25 being en-
abled to enlist in the Army, and WS in the Royal
Navy. Again, there is the female refuge in Field-
Lane with its 2,300 recipients of charity during the
year, besides very nearly 300 (to be precise, 278)
servants out of place who, within the same interval,
had received shelter in the servant's home. Alto-
gether there have been 13,000 of the utterly home-
less and very destitute population of London who,
within the year, have received the aid of this benig-
nant charity. Nearly two thousand of their num-
ber having been permanently transferred from the
squalor of the back slums of the metropolis, to situa-
tions in which, by the honest labour of
their hands, they can earn for themselves and
their families a thrifty but comfortable
subsistence. Here is precisely one of those hard-
working charitable institutions scattered here and
there about London and Westminster—" Supported
by Voluntary Contributions"—that the foreign
visitors now crowding into our metropolis ought
not to pass by altogether unnoticed. The more
ardent philanthropists among them, at any rate,
would do well to pay a casual visit to Field Lane—
not restricting their attention exclusively during
their stay amongst us to the splendid side of our
London life. Let them feast their eyes, if they
will, with the fruit cf our wealth and industry.
Yet to obtain a juster knowledge of the working
of our whole complex social system, it cannot but
be well also to cast a look askance, however fleet-
ing, at the perpetual war with poverty that is
going on underneath.

A testimonial of £5,000 to an editor, and as an
editor, is something not of every day occurrence.
Were it so indeed, our profession might be exposed
to rather severe competition. Such, however, was
the noble but well earned tribute offered by the
Nonconformists of the kingdom to the Editor of the
Nonconformist, on that now well known weekly
journal attaining the age of twenty-one. For a
long time the journal was hardly heard of beyond the
limits of one class of Dissenters ; but after Mr.
MIALL became member for Rochdale, and he and
his journal, became the subjects of vehement
attack by the clerico-political men of the day,
it rapidly attracted public attention. The
2vonconfornzist has certainly done great ser-
vice to the cause of Religious Liberty. It was
originated to fight that battle, or more precisely,
the battle of Religious Equality; and with untiring
zeal and perseverance, and with confessedly distin-
guished ability it has fought that battle ever since.
If we ever wanted to turn to a source whence we
could derive the fullest and latest information on
such topics, with the beet arguments upon them,
we have always found the Nonconformist a perfect
repository of facts and reasonings.
Mr. MIALL has been, what Englishmen like so
deservedly, a thoroughly consistent man. His views
have been as liberal on politics as on ecclesiastical
matters. He has always dealt with the two as
inseparably connected. He has, however, nothing
of the firebrand about him. He is a careful,
we may say, a profound thinker. He would not
care to convince except by arguments which ought
to convince. He has been often in advance of his
constituency, as we may call it, but it has always
been the advance of a clearly ascertained position.
Mr. BRIGHT, who spoke at the meeting, told the
assembly that In 1860, Mr. MIALL was ap-
pointed one of the Commissioners on National Edu-
cation. Ne better selection could the Duke of
NEWCASTLE have made when he asked for a man
of intellect and judgment, one who had the confi-
dence of the voluntary party, to appoint
upon that Commission. He (Mr. BRIGHT) had
heard from the lips of the Duke of NEW-
CASTLE what he thought of Mr, MIALL after the
work of the Commons was over. He had heard
him speak of his courtesy, his moderation, his libe-
rality, his sound judgment, and his laboriousness,
in language at least as eulogistic as anything which
has been uttered on that platform." This is high
praise, but we have no doubt it was well deserved.

The friends of Mr. MIALL's principles have done
themselves, as well-as him, honour, by this well-
timed testimonial. He has succeeded, in connec-
tion with the Liberation Society, in calling public
attention to the Religious Equality movement.
For many years ecclesiastics and politicians
treated both the journal and the society with
silent contempt. They do so no longer.
They are put on the defensive. They get up
counter-societies and edit counter-journals. No
better proof of the power of the religious equality
movement can be furnished than the fact that it is
at this moment the boast of the Tory Opposition
that its House of Commons victories have all been
gained at its expense. The Wednesday bills on
different matters affecting religious liberty, includ-
ing the Church Rate one, have all been more or
less promoted by Mr. MIALL and the society with
which Le works. To the exertions of these
gentlemen Sir JOHN TRELAWNY, in truth,
owes his Parliamentary position. And all
the Wednesday musterings of the Tories
last year, were so many proofs of the strength of
the new power, which it required their utmost
exertions to defeat. Even the House of Lords
Committee on Church Rates owed its origin to an-
tagonism to the Liberation Society. A man who
has in so short a time accomplished so much, well
deserves the honour he has received ; and the aelvo-
cates of Religious Equality have done wisely to
show to all the kingdom, by that kind of proof
which all Englishmen respect, that they are not
ungrateful. We hope dissenters will be strong
enough, in some constitutency, to return him again
to Fsrliament, We Wan, ,
such an accomplished

representative of Voluntaryism there, as much as
the Duke of NEWCASTLE did in the Educational
Commission.

Another step—a very small one, but still a step
—has been taken in a right onward direction by the
promoters of the Concentration of the Law Courts
upon a convenient site. It is well known that not
only has that convenient site been selected in the
neighbourhood of the Courts as they at present
stand—this chosen site being midway between
Carey-street, Bell-yard, and the Strand—but that
a Government Bill embodying the scheme was this
session introduced by the law officers of the Crown,
and was only defeated inopportunely in one of its
earlier stages from a misapprehension as to certain
purely financial considerations. Well, with a view
to dissipate these obstructive, and for the present
session at least, disastrous misapprehensions a
deputation of gentlemen connected with the Law
Amendment Society deemed it advisable to wait
upon the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. The deputation, it should be
observed at once, there and then took oocasion to
wait upon Mr. GLADSTONE, not simply with an
argument upon the matter, but with a distinct
proposition to get over the financial difficulty.
They submitted it to Mr. GLADSTONE as a shrewd
and keen witted and practised financier, whether or
not the whole difficulty referred to might not be
readily enough scattered to the winds by some such
device as the following, i.e., if the Government
would but propose to Parliament that, "as a
means whereby to protect the public purse, there
should be a small tax of 3s. 4d. charged on each
writ issued from the common law courts, and on the
inceptiel of any suit in the Admiralty, rronate, ur
Divorce Courts, which would raise an amount equi-
valent to the annual interest upon any sum in excess
of the estimate which it was probable would be
spent upon the undertaking." While listening
attentively to this proposition, and to the
argument with which it was enforced by the
gentlemen constituting the deputation that sub-
mitted it to his notice, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer abstained as a matter of course from pledg-
ing himself distinctly to its support. Yet, at the
same time, Mr. GLADSTONE added that if the Society
would but furnish him with their calculations he
would—if the law officers of the Crown should
again bring the matter forward, as they will
beyond a doubt next session—he, Mr. GLADSTONE,
would " clear up to the House of Commons the
financial objections to the scheme." More that. that
in the way of a promise the deputation of Wednes-
day could hardly have hoped for.