The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, PEI3RGARY 13, 1865.

on these principles would afford the means of
applying the funds at the disposal of the Canadian
Government for militia purposes to the best account,
and with the least amount of inconvenience to the
widely scattered population of the country.
24. Whether, however, this. or any other possible
arrangement be made for the organisation of the
militia of Canada, it can scarcely be expected that
the force that could be mustered at an outbreak of
hostilities would be equal to withstand the enemy
in the open field. Works of defence are therefore
essential to enable our comparatively small forces to
hold the points against which the main attacks
would be directed. It is at the commencement of
a war that the greatest danger is to be apprehended,
and it is submitted that it is only by availing our-
selves of the advantages afforded by fortifications
that we can provide against our troops being over-
powered at the first onset, or time can be obtained for
rendering the militia available for the defence of the
country. The question appears to be—whether the
British force now in Canada shall be withdrawn, in
order to avoid the risk of its defeat, or whether
the necessary measures shall be taken to enable that
force to be of use for the defence of the province.
25. The sum required for the construction of the
proposed works and armaments at Montreal and
Quebec would only be about one year's expense of
the regular force we now maintain in Canada. It
is a delusion to suppose that that force can be of
any use for the defence of the country without for-
tifications to compensate for the comparative small-
ness of its numbers. Even when aided by the whole
of the local militia that could at present be made
available, it would, in the event of war, be obliged
to retreat before the superior numbers by which it
would be attacked ; and it would be fortunate if it
succeeded in embarking at Quebec, and putting to
sea without serious defeat. On the other hand, if
the works now recommended be constructed, the
vital points of the country could be defended, and
the regular army would become a nucleus and
support, round which the people of Canada
would rally to resist aggression, and to preserve
that connection with the mother country, which
their loyalty, their interests, and their love of true
freedom alike make them desirous to maintain.—l
have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's
obedient humble servant,
WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS.
The Right Hon. Earl de Grey and Ripon,
Secretary of State for War, Src.

Court of Aldermen.
-4.--
THE COR.NNELL EURGLAREES.

A special Court of Aldermen was convened yesterday,
for the purpose of receiving a petition from the inhabitants
of the ward of Cornhill, relative to the recent burglaries in
that ward, and praying that the court would immediately
adopt such measures as the serious exigencies of the case
required. .

Mr. Alderman Sidney presided as locum tenens for the
Lord Mayor.
The petition having been presented by Mr. Alderman
Carte;
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY submitted a letter which he had
received from the Lord Mayor for the purpose of laying it
before the court. The letter was signed J. Walker, and
was addressed to the Lord Mayor, and was as follows :
"As charges of carelessness and neglect affecting myself
and my assistants have been made by the Commissioners
of Police before a committee of the Court of Aldermen on
Friday last, when I had not the privilege of being present,
and Colonel Fraser on the same occasion thought proper to
contradict my statement as to the advice I had received
from
a police inspector, I consider it only a concession of
right and justice that I should be allowed an opportunity of
meeting the charges, and of proving the truth of my asser-
tions before the Court of Aldermen, at which the represen-
tatives of the press shall be present. I propose to attend by
my counsel, and submit myself and assistants for examina-
tion, and I request that Colonel Fraser and the inspector of
police alluded to, and whose name I am prepared to furnish,
may be in attendance. The issue I shall then confidently
leave to the justice of the court and the opinion of the public.
I am anxious, however, that the inquiry should not be
imited to a question chiefly personal to myself. lam pre-
pared to maintain that the present constitution of the Clty
police is insufficient, and that the force is unequal to the
responsible duties imposed upon it ; and I undertake to
offer evidence to support the charge which I deliberately
make of its general inefficiency. In addressing you, as chief
magistrate of London, I hope I shall have your support in
facilitating the investigation I solicit, and that both your
lordship and your respected brethren of the Court of Alder-
men will perceive that in assembling at my request you will
best show that which I know to be maintained—an earnest
solicitude for the protection of property and for the main-
tenance of a police worthy of the great city over whose
corporate councils you so ably preside."
After Mr. Walker's letter was read, Mr. Digby Seymour,
Q.C., said ho attended as counsel for Mr. Walker, and he
wished to make an application to the court to be allowed
to produce evidence.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND thought such a proceeding
would be entirely out of order.

Mr. Alderman SIDNEY said the Court of Aldermen had
not the slightest reason to blame the conduct of Mr. Walker,
and his character had not been impugned in any way that
he was aware of. Mr. Walker was only before them by a
communication from the Lord Mayor which had been read.
After some discussion, which resulted in its being decided
that Mr. Digby Seymour could not be heard, that gentle-
man left the court.

The TOWN CLERK then read the communication from
Colonel Fraser, the Chief Commissioner of Police, which
was very lengthy, and in which he said it was quite clear
Mr. Walker's shop had not been broken into, but that the
thieves had availed themselves of a door in Sun-court--
always open—leading into the house in which Mr. Walker's
shop was situate, and gone upstairs, and possessed them-
selves of a key to one of the rooms, which was always kept
outsii' locked themselves in the room to which the key
belong , and so had been enabled to remain in the house
with, ~. being disturbed. With regard to the noise which
it was alleged must have been made in opening the safe,
he said no noise had been heard by the neighbours imme-
diately behind the shop in which the safe was kept, and
he referred to the opinion of an engineer, which was to
the effect that the safe might have been opened with very
little noise. With regard to what had been said about
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said by Mr. Walker's foreman himself, which was that
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considered the class of men that was wanted, and the fact
that since the police had been established the value of la-
bour of all kinds had very much increased. Appended to
this communication was a report from Inspector Hamilton,
of the Detective division, which was signed by that officer
and Superintendent Foster, and also a report from police-
constable Hallett, 647. Sergeant Hamilton's was to the
effect that he had inspected the back shop in Mr. Walker's
premises where the iron safe was placed, and from which
the watches and jewellery were abstracted, and had in-
quired of the foreman the exact position in which ho found
the safe on Monday morning, and the foreman made a
statement which he had repeated several times, viz., that
on entering the front shop ho looked round, as he always
did, to see that all was right, and, all being right, he went
towards the back shop, and on opening the door a hole in
the floor attracted his attention, and feeling that a robbery
had been committed, he directly looked up towards the
safe, exclaiming, " They have not broken the safe," but
on going close to it, he found it had been broken open.
The report of police-constable Hallett was to the effect
that he was on the Cornhill beat from May, 1862, until
September, 1863, and knew Mr. Walker's premises, as his
attention was drawn to them when he was placed on the
beat,
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shutters in Sun-court. A few months after he had been on
the beat ho found the door in Sun-court, leading to the
upper part of the housa in which Mr. Walker's shop was
situate, open, and he was placed in charge of the promises
all night. A few weeks after that he found that a partition
had been erected in the back shop, which almost entirely
obstructed the view of the safe. Only a small portion of
the top of it could be seen. In September, 1863, ho was
removed from the beat at his own request. About eight
months since he was patrolling Cornhill, and Mr. Walker's
foreman asked him if ho was on the boat, and ho said
"No." The foreman pointed out to him that the safe was
repainted, and that a reflection of it could be seen in a mirror
placed obliquely for that purpose. He told the foreman that
the alterations made some time back were bad, and referred
to the partition, and told him that the glass was often SO
dull that it could hardly be seen through. The foreman
concurred with him with respect to the alterations, and said
he would see if the glass could be altered. Shortly after
that one of Mr. Walker's workmen was talking to him about
some robbery that had taken place in the neighbourhood,
and he told him then that hje master's premises were very
dangerous, and that a man oould easily conceal himself be-
hind the partition which had been erected, and he concurred
with him. The report concluded with some Numb in

respect to the recent robbery at Mr. Walker's premises.
The communication having been read,
Mr. Alderman CARTER said he regretted to find that some
questions to the Commissioner had not been replied to in
that report.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY said the report just read had re-
ference only to proceedings in the committee on Friday
last. The questions which Mr. Alderman Carter referred
to were only put on the previous day, and there had been
no time to embody the answers in that return.

Mr. Alderman CARTER regretted they Were not answered;
however, he moved that the memorial be referred to a com-
mittee to have a full investigation. Many flagrant robberies
had been committed within the City, some of which were
of minor importance to the one at present occupying their
attention, but they had become so numerous that the inha-
bitants were in a continual state of alarm. It was a shame
to them that the City should be in such a state, and it be-
hoved them all to do all in their power to prevent any
,future occurrences of the sort.
Mr. Alderman COPELAYD seconded the motion.

It was eventually decided, upon the suggestion of Mr.
Alderman Besley, to refer the memorial, together with the
letter from Mr. Walker, and the communication from the
Commissioner, to the General Purposes Committee, to con-
sider and report on the same.
The Court then adjourned.

of there being so large a number over, and stated that the
stock in the different warehouseswas then being accurately
taken, and that in a few days he would be prepared to tell
me exactly what they had. He said he could not account
for the state of confusion they had got into, and that until
the stock was taken they could not tell what.they had. On
the following day my principal and I again saw Mr. John
Barry, who told us that the stocktaking would not be com-
pleted for a fortnight, upon which we asked to see the 140
bales and jute said to Rave been saved from the City of
Sydney's cargo. He objected, alleging that he did not wish
to interfere with the stocktaking. On our pressing him he
said he would go and see what could be done, and he went
upstairs, leaving us in his office. He was a long time ab-
sent, and we became impatient. At length he returned, and
said he was willing to go with us to the warehouse. We all
three, with a porter, went to a particular warehouse. No
one was there taking stock, and the doors had to be un-
locked and the windows oponed to admit light. On reach-
ing the top floor I walked to the spot where Sedgwick had
previously pointed out the 140 bales of jute by the City of
Sydney. My principal and I got upon the pile of jute, and,
having calculated the quantity, found 280 bales instead of
140 bales. We expressed our great astonishment, and asked
Mr. John Barry how he accounted for the difference. He
said he could not account for it. We then asked if that
was all the jute which he had by the City of Sydney, and
he replied that it was, so far as he knew. We asked to be
allowed to go to another warehouse which we indicated, and
he gave permission. All four of us went there, and in the
top loft we found a quantity of jnte. My principal went
along one side of it and I the other, examining the jute.
Mr. John Barry went straight to the end of the loft, and
presently called out, " Here is the City of Sydney," and
on our going there we found 35 bales more of the cargo of
that vessel. We asked Mr. Barry what explanation he had
to give. He gave none. The value of the 175 bales of jute
which I found is about 50s. a bale, or, in all, £437 10s. I
produce the warrants as to the titles for 986 bales, the other
10 bales having been previously sold. _ _ _

At the request of the counsel for the prosecution, Mr.
Alderman Stone adjourned the examination until Friday,
declining, at the same time, to admit the prisoner to bail.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

_.__~.

TIMES.—The publication of the National Income
and Expenditure for the year ending oil the 31st of
December last enables us to predict with some cer-
tainty what will be our position at the close of the
financial year. The accounts are made up for nine
months out of the and half of the remain-
ing three has passed away without producing any
interruption of our continued prosperity. No cloud
is in the heavens, and, though the horizon is not
free from threatening symptoms, we may without
imprudence hope that.a hearty desire for peace may
continue to preserve us from war. If no untoward
event shall happen in the meanwhile, Mr. Gladstone
will be able to meet the House of Commons in April
with as good tidings as those he brought last year.
The Parliamentary account of the public income is
not drawn up in a very convenient form, inas-
much as it gives us only the gross income for the
year 1864. No separation is made between the
three months before Mr. Gladstone's financial
statement and the nine months which succeed it. In
order to ascertain the effect of the alterations in our
financial system made in April last, we must have
recourse to previous Returns, and it is not until after
many tedious operations of addition and subtrac-
tion that we discover the truths which the pub-
lished accounts hide rather than reveal. It may be
remembered that after reducing the sugar duties,
taking a penny off the income tax, and making an
alteration in the fire insurance duty, Mr. Glad-
stone's estimate of the income of the current year
was £67,128,000, and his final estimate of the ex-
penditure was £67,073,000. The surplus of £55,000
was smaller than that which he originally designed,
and indeed his first balance was much too narrow,
considering the extent of our expenditure and the
chances to which we are always subject. But fortune
has favoured the boldness of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, and it now seems not improbable
that the anticipated surplus of £55,000 will be
converted into an actual surplus of at least two
millions. The loss of revenue in the year 1864-5,
arising from the reductions made last April, was
estimated at £2,332,000, and as compared with the
revenue of 1863-4 a small additional diminution
was anticipated in consequence of reductions made
in theprevious Budget which did not fullytake-diect
last year. But the gross revenue in the three quar-
ters which ended on the 31st of December scarcely
shows any falling off in the receipts. The revenue
in the quarter ended on the 30th June, 1864, was
£18,274,200, against £18,490,204 in the correspond-
ing quarter of 1863 ; the revenue in the quarter
ended on the 30th Sept. was £14,792,490, against
£14,411,504 ; and the revenue in the quarter ended
Dec. 31 was £18,069,595, against £18,318,166.
The total revenue in the three quarters from the Ist
April to the end of 1864 was £51,136,285, and the
total revenue in the same nine months of 1863 was
no more than £51,219,874. The whole loss of revenue
in the nine months was, therefore, only £83,589,
while the estimated relief to the taxpayers was nearly
two millions. The first loss through the reduction of
the sugar duties was calculated at £1,719,000; but
through the increase of consumption it was hoped
that the actual loss in the year would be no more
than £1,330,000. How much has actually been lost
on these duties we are as yet unable to say, but the
total receipt from the customs during the three
quarters of the year only fell from £17,699,000 to
£17,002,000, which would give a diminution of
£930,000 for the whole of the twelvemonth. The
property tax shows a reduction nearly corresponding
with the estimate, but all the other sources of the
revenue have proved more productive than they were
last year. The Excise brought into the Exchequer
in the nine months of 1864 the sum of £14,216,000,
against £13,080,000 ; the stamp returns rose from
£6,878,000 to £7,029,000 ; the assessed taxes show
an increase of £43,000; and the Post-office revenue
is £3,095,000, against £2,845,000. If the receipts
of the current quarter prove equally satisfactory—
and we may prudently anticipate so much, seeing
that we are recovering from the commercial depres-
sion of October and November—the total income of
the financial year will be about £70,000,000, and
may probably slightly exceed that sum. The expendi-
ture of the year was estimated at £67,073,000, and
though the New Zealand war has probably increased
the military expenditure, we may hope that the total
has been little exceeded. These figures will show a
realised surplus of three millions, and financial re-
formers are at liberty to add to this any saving
which may be effected in the coming 12 months by
a reduction of expenditure. A possible surplus of
three millions will naturally attract a cloud of
claimants. The tenant farmers are on the alert, the
county members support their prayers for the reduc-
tion of the Malt Duty, and Mr. Sheridan has placed
his annual motion in the Parliamentary notices, call-
ing on the House of Commons to pledge itself once
more to the abolition of the Fire Insurance Duty.
It must, however, be remembered that a part of the
surplus is already given away. The penky taken
off the Income Tax last April involves a diminution
of next year's income to the extent of £43,000, and
the reduction actually made in the duty on fire in-
surance on stock will create.. a further loss of
£63,000. It may be assumed, therefore, that half
a million of the apparent surplus is gone, and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer will only have the
balance to distribute. Last year Mr. Gladstone
looked forward to a further reduction of the Income
Tax by a penny, and though it would be unsafe to
his being now of the same opinion, he may still
think such an operation desirable. For some rea-
sons not very easily perceived, he spoke of a five-
penny Income Tax as eminently satisfactory. We
venture to think that the propriety of this further
reduction ought not to be too hastily assumed. A
direct tax must always be maintained, if only to
preserve the equity of our financial system, and
though it would be easy to point to. the unequal
pressure of the Income Tax, its abolition would, be
productiVe of still greater injustice. A tax of
six-
pence in the pound is for many reasons convenient,
and a survey of the comparative taxation of the
country will perhaps lead to the conclusion that it
should be kept at that rate. There are other ele-
ments in our system of direct taxation which afford
ample scope for revision. Among the Assessed
Taxes, for instance, there are many items which
it would be difficult to defend except on the
plea of the direst financial necessity. A tax
on hair powder and the magnificent per-
sonages who wear it' may find some advocates ;
but why the very useful and laborious class which
ministers to our wants in the production of vege-
tables and flowers should be placed in the same cate-
gory would tax even Mr. Gladstone's ingenuity. to
explain. Then, again, comes the case of Fire In-
surances. Mr. Gladstone has always consistently
opposed the abolition of the Fire Insurance Duty,
and in making the small remission of last year he
strangely chose those cases where the pressure of the
tax was least felt. The House of Commons has
twice, and perhaps oftener, voted for the abolition
of this duty, and whether the inherent impolicy of
the tax or the effect which it has in increasing the
cost of insurance be considered the vote is amply
justified. If the reduction of one-half the duty
granted last April in the case of insurances on stocks
in trade be extended to all fire insurances, the loss
to the Revenue would be £750,000, and it is not
probable that a greater reduction will be made,
while any proposal of a smaller concession would be
disrespeetful to the House of Commons. There
would, however, remain a large surplus to be the
prize of contending claimants.
POST.—If the court-martial which has just termi-
nated at Portsmouth on Captain Campbell and the
officers and the crew of her Majesty's late ship
Bombay has failed to account for the fire so mys-
terious in its origin, and so uncontrollable in its
violence, by which she was destroyed, it has been
the means of adding to the records of British naval
heroism one of its brightest pages. While, there-
fore, we have to deplore the loss of a fine ship and
of eighty-nine lives, we have to congratulate our-
selves on the evidence with which this melancholy
episode has furnished us, that the spirit which ani-
mates the English sailor of the present day has not
deteriorated, but that, should occasion arise, we shall
find the traditional bulwark of the empire manned
as it was of old, and that whether " the wooden
walls of Old England" be changed into iron ones or
not, the character of the defenders remains the same.
It is difficult, in reading the proceedings of the
Portsmouth court-martial, to realise to its full ex-
tent a catastrophe so sudden and so appalling as
that which overtook the officers and crew of the
Bombay on the afternoon of the 14th of last Decem-
ber. Suddenly, and without a moment's notice,
while the men were at lower-deck quarters, the
glare of fire was observed by two men stationed next
the door of the handing room of the after magazine,
coming apparently from the very bottom of the
ship, and revealing itself, without the smallest
warning of smoke or the smell of it, in a burst of
flame. They instantly rushed to report it, one first
going straight to the fire-bell and giving the alarm ;
and here we have the first evidence of the perfect
order which reigned on board the ship, and the ad-
mirable discipline of the men. We have it on the
evidence of the commander that within less than five
minutes from the moment the fire was reported all
the hose were playing upon it, and the water rush-
ing in upon the orlop deck through the sea cocks,
which were promptly opened. The only effect of ab-
solutely flooding the ship fore and aft was to add to
the fire a smoke so dense and urgent that those
working at the fire hose dropped down insensible,
and had to be dragged out of the smoke by men
who imperilled their lives by saving their comrades.
The fire in a few moments forced all those engaged
in extinguishing it to the upper deck, where all the
men were still working as obediently to orders as if
they did not expect every second to be blown into
the air, It would §Celit that Captain Campbell and ,

Mr . Watts, the master, were standing as nearly a
possible immediately above the after magazine will
it was reported to be on fire. That the nnPulse d°,
Mr. Watts, instead of being to
and hi
should be to remain exactly where he was,
at his watch, with the view of noting the inolnelirt
he was blown up, is only an illustration of the s°
of coolness which seems to have characterised eve.rl
single officer, from the captain to the smallest nil
jump overboar
shipman, who went overboard at last with nothiq
on, said his watch in his mouth, in which conditie'
he swam about for an hour before he wasp icked.,f°;l):
While the men were vainly endeavouring to e'"'„;i;
guish the fire, Captain Campbell most Judiejo""
and promptly ordered out the boats ; this was
there
trying moment for the crew, for it showed
the hopelessness of the case; yet so far front ted.
being any rush to the boats as they were lowei:';
not a man entered them except the crews belongn.r
to them and the sick who were handed into
theaa's
and yet they were only just got out in time, as rnt
proved by the fact of the launch being actually hue,
while hanging in the slings, and the men wh° w of
in herebeing so blinded by the smoke that some is.
them jumped out of her on the wrong side' by
the
take, down the main hatchway, and perished cut
flames. By this time the ship was absolutely the
into two parts by the fire, which blazed up the
mainmast, feeding upon the sails, and
°„ der
wire rigging ; the greater part of the crew "ve
driven forward, and Captain Campbell now. er
been
se..
those who were within reach of his voice
to strip and jump overboard. Many had bee° alit
tually driven into the water already from the. Wes
of the ship, and *were now holding on to I,°Ptle
spars, and hammocks, whieh those on the foreele.
were throwing over to them. At last the heLation
came insupportable here too. Everything that ull'e to
skill and ingenuity could devise had been d°lll
save the ship : the masts were tottering over'l rs' t-
hundred pound shells on the lower deck were b„lizioe
ing beneath their feet, the explosion of the Iniag"t,io
became every moment more imminent, and ueknot
Campbell, Commander Wilson, and the sninli,„
the
of officers and men who, clinging to the ship wpives
last, were now gathered in her bows, let then out
down into the water by ropes, and either struck
for boats, or, unable to swim, clung
.on to lead
Meantime, many of the marines, and Nvil°t of
been driven out of the ship by the first burs the
flame on deck, were drowned, either because nab
ropes to which they were clinging were blunt throtho
above, or because, in the crowd of men at 011,1epr UY
in the water, some must have been pulled or fact
the others. We are thus able to account for to
that all the officers but one were saved ; they elt,,lia.Sod
the ship to the very last, and most of them enact
swimmers. While some were forced in the driven
described over the bows, a smaller number, u'rhich
aft, at last got down into the launch, in tOl
Messrs. Watts and Carr in the most gal-„L1111 pica,
hung on to the ship, picking off the clingline
and managed by the sheer force of disetVeh not,
overcome that dread of the explosion wwdeu
unnaturally haunted the men who already
the boat. Sub-Lieutenant Mandeville,",- cref
sooner picked out of the water than, steep
of volunteers, he pushed back to the blaze'' t tiineB'
in the jolly-boat no less than three different oother„
each time discharging part of his cargo invc'easion
boats and going back for more ; on 050,1;0„fa fore'
narrowly escaping being crushed by the fra—und..aer
mast, and taking off men who were cling'_„l3',is
bows, where shells were bursting, shotted fro °,
going off, melted lead was pouring upon tlie—irto 1,,e"
the gammoning of the bowsprit, causing °tore tl
go their hold and thus lose their lives.;, w-bot on;
chain cables, as the anchors fell, ran w.,nlte 13r1
of the hawse holes and hissing into the °-
where, as he describes in his evidenceje;to the
hundred-pound gun fall through all uee's,eive
bottom of the ship. It is difficult to e°ll'
tivh
situation more appalling than that of the tel3Bsis
sur-
unable to swim, were clinging under the ,or lel
rounded by such sights and sounds as thies;ito
act more heroic than that of Mr. Maxine•• thre"
his boat's crew of volunteers, who
times to their rescue. While we regard wit oido
timent of natural pride these deeds of dal ors,
(lid
self-devotion on the part of our own sal we (I',"
should be wanting in common gratitude
not express those feelings which have been.A,
not only in the naval service, but the Brito.'-Vtipon
pulled I:a sett;
generally, by the noble conduct of our allitsvill
this occasion. We trust that some steps cortlo
taken to mark our acknowledgment of the acts of
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sympathy shown, not only in words, but in sore
generosity and unselfishness, which we of
Admiral Chargman and the officers and erewhose on
Astree have not been thrown away uP°II ti, ,ets
whom they were bestowed. It is upon sucu
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these that the alliances of great nations should
based. They will offer a firmer foundation tothe
lasting friendship than all the otoColS while re'
re'
most skilful diplomacy could frame, and fin'wg'hat-
f
use to be undermined by any Foreign-office
soever.