The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-31 00:00:00

St, Pancras Workhouse.

Yesterday afternoon a very fully attended meet-
ing of the directors and guardians of the poor of St.
Pancras took place at the Vestry-hall, Camden
Town, for the purpose of considering a motion of
which notice had been given in reference to the mas-
ter of the workhouse.

Mr. Churchwarden Lawford occupied the chair,
and a letter was read from Mr. Mofrison, the mas-
ter, asking for a committee of inquiry into his con-
duct before the resolution of which notice had been
given was carried.
It was moved and seconded that the master be
permitted to be present during the discussion, which
was carried.

Mr. WATSON said it was with very painful feelings
he felt it his duty to bring forward the motion of which
he had given notice. He then went into a series of
charges against the master, in reference to his con-
duct with regard to the recent pauper will case ; as
to his supporting the two paupers, Grant and James,,
in their misconduct against the orders of the board,
and endeavouring to make it appear that the board,
before the Poor-law inquiry, had issued orders for
their incarceration ; that he had caused the robbery to
be compromised in which they were alleged to be con-
cerned ; that he was a party with the editor of a local
newspaper in publishing untruthful and scurrilous
attacks against the members of the board, and
finally, that whilst he had made an investigation into,
and was fully conversant with, all the facts relating
to a series of criminal assaults made by an inmate,
he did not think it worth his while to report the
case to the board ; that he allowed the culprit to es-
cape, but who was afterwards captured and prose-
cuted by the board, and sentenced to four years'
penal servitude. With reference to these, and other
matters connected with the management of the
workhouse, Mr. Watson moved " That Mr.
Morrison, the master, had forfeited the confidence of
the directors of the poor, and shown himself unfit
to be continued in the office. The directors, there-
fore, recommended the Vestry to call on Mr. Morri-
son to send in his resignation within seven days, and
failing in doing so that due notice be given to deter-
mine his appointment."
Mr. WINTER seconded the motion. -

Mr. STOCKTON moved as an amendment to refer
the matter to a committee to investigate all the
charges, but not to report till after the report from
the Poor-law Board had been received.

. This being seconded, on condition of withdrawing
the latter part of the amendment, Mr. Watson
assented to it, and it was carried.

UNIVERSALITY OF THE DELUGE.—And this reve-
lation brings us at once to the disputed points as
to the extent and nature of the Deluge. As to the first,
one thing is clear. Even if the words of Scripture
were not so decided, the consent of all the tradi-
tions of all the races of mankind would proclaim,
beyond the passibility of reasonable doubt, that
the universality of the Deluge was co-extensive with the
universality of human life, that wherever man had spread
over the face of all the earth, over that spot the waters of
the great Flood flowed. But it is clearly another question
when we are called on to consider whether wo are
not only allowed, but obliged to believe, that the
universality of the Deluge includes, not only the universal
destruction of human life, but the universal submergence of
the earth. Of course if Holy Scripture plainly tells us it is
so, as a matter of faith, there is nothing further to be said ;
it then becomes a question with which probability and human
reasoning have nothing to do, and of which we can but say
that all things are possible with God. Yet the words of
Holy Scripture seem scarcely such as of necessity imply a
general submergence. The words are decisive as to
" man whom I have created," and the animals which
were joined in fellowship with him. But such pas-
sages as " all the high hills that were under the whole
heaven" are paralleled in many places of Holy Writ by
equally strong expressions, in cases where a certain dis-
trict is all that can possibly be ineant.—Readings on the Old
Testament.—The Englishman's Magazine for June.

MURDERED WHILE BATHING.--M. Lombard, of
Montgeron, has been murdered while bathing in the
Yeres at Villeneuve St. GeOrges, Seine et Oise, Franco.
It appears that he tried to prevent the plundering of his
clothes by two individuals'on the bank, who knocked him
back into the river with stones, and afterwards dragged
him out and strangled him. The younger of the assailants
came forward, and, declaring that his companion alone was
guilty, gave information which led to the immediate arrest
of the other man.