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. Morrison, the mas-
ter, asking for a committee of inquiry into his con-
duct before the resolution of which notice had been
given was carried. •

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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 pissibility 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 we 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 bo meant. —Readings on the Old
Testament.—The Englishman's Magazine for June.

MURDERED WHILE BATIIING. •M. Lombard, of
Montgerou, has been murdered while bathing in the
Yeres at Villeneuve St. Georges, Seine et Oise, Franco.
It appears that ho 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.

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HER MAJESTY.

- BALMORAL, May 27.
The Queen drove out with Princess Louise in the
morning.

In the afternoon the Queen and Princess Helena,
attended by the Hon. Mrs. A. Gordon, went up
Glen Gelder, and returned by Alt-na-Guithassach.

MAY 28.

Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Helena and
Princess Louise attended divine service in the morn-
ing at the parish church of Crathie.
The Queen, with Princess Helena and Princess
Louise, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole,
went to church in the afternoon.
The Rev. Dr. Caird officiated on both occasions.

The Duke of Argyll and the Rev. Dr. Caird had
the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal
family in the evening.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

The Prince of Wales rode on horseback yesterday,
attended by Lieut. -Colonel Keppel.
The Prince of Wales, accompanied by his Royal
Highness the Duke of Brabant, afterwards drove
to Hampton Court.
The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive at-
tended by the Countess of Morton.

Prince d'Aremberg and Count F. de Lagrange
have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Paris.
The Duke and Duchess de la Tremoille and
Viscount Duchatel have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel.

His Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian
Minister was honoured by the company of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Brabant at dinner yesterday evening,
at the Belgian Legation, in Arlington-street, Piccadilly.
There were present to meet his royal highness the Duke
of Sutherland, the Earl Grey, the Earl of St. Germans,
Viscount Sydney, the Bishop of Oxford, Col. the Hon. Sir
Charles Phipps, Sir Roderick Murchison, Mr. Pianizzi, Mr.
Thompson, Baron E. de Wykerslooth, M. T. Braewer, the
Right Hon. Robert Lowe, Sir Edwin Landseer, Mr. Van de
Weyer, &c.

The Earl of Derby left town yesterday on a visit
to Sir Itobt. Gerard, Bart., at Epsom, where he will remain
during the race week, a select company having been invited
to meet the noble earl.

The ORDER OF THE GARTER.—Sir Charles G.
Young, Garter, accompanied by Mr. Courthope,
Somerset Herald, left London yesterday for Darmstadt,
where, on Tuesday next, their Royal Highnesses Prince
Alfred, K.G., and Prince Louis of Hesse, K.G., will invest
his Royal Highness the Grand Duke with the habit and
ensigns of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.