The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-24 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDO.N, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 186 a.

had said that the corner where GIBSON'S bed
was stank like the Black Hole at Calcutta. If he
had Enid this no doubt it would have been no more
than true, judging from the details which we have
heard from authentic witnesses. Mr. FARNALL
asked M'GEE why he had not complained earlier
of the state of GIBSON, and report that the nurses
" smoothed" down the bed when they heard the

master coming. To this query M'GEE replied in
the following impressive words—" Dr. CRAIG an-
swered you yesterday, Sir ; he told you that when
a complaint was being made to him he said he would
not have one patient speak about another." This
is a very faulty mode of proceeding, because it is
next to impossible for any one who occasionally
visits wards, infirmaries, &c., to know what is going
on from their own observation, and if they
only listen to prejudiced parties they will
inevitably be misled and commit great errors.
As'Mr. FARNALL observed, it was a great pity that
the sad state of GIBBON had not been attended to
before. He added that he hoped other inmates
would write to some authorities, as M'GEE had
done, when they saw such shocking cases, but that
they should write earlier.

The evidence of a pauper was put in, in order to
prove that the demand had been properly attended
to, but it completely broke down, for M‘GEE
showed that his wife was a nurse, and brought him
supper every night, and also that he had been talk-
ing to the nurses after the inquest, and altogether
appeared in the secrets of the affair. Mr. FARNALL
said that the " evidence with respect to the neglect
of GIBSON was very clear, and that nothing could
be clearer, so that it was not needful to prolong the
inquiry." It is satisfactory to find that the matter has
been so thoroughly sifted, and that the deeds of
darkness have been brought to light in such a
searching manner. Mr. FARNALL has shown great
zeal and assiduity in conducting the inquiry, and no
doubt his determination will do great good in show-
ing to other faultily conducted establishments that
they will be subjected to searching investigations,
if discovered. Mr. FARNALL very properly censured
the practice of keeping fever cases in workhouses.
He said that it was very wrong to do so, for that the
" Workhouses of London have become the homes
for the sick poor." It is evident that great suffer-
ing ensues when fevers are spread among such in-
stitutions, and no possible excuse can be made for
the prevalence of the custom. It is fearful to dwell
upon the details of GIBSON'S case. Mr. BENNETT
said that he considered his case one which was in more
need of nursing than of active medicinal treatment ;
and it is appalling to think of the nursing which he
had. He was found in so fearful a condition from
neglect of all kinds that a true delineation of his
state might have furnished a description of the
wretched condit ion of the lost and degraded crea-
tures who are in the lowest state to which poverty can
sink them. Surely this should not be in establish-
ments which are under the control of the law. It
is time that some remedial measures be speedily em-
ployed. What certainty have we that DALY and
GIBsoN are not types of a class whose name is legion,
but whom we do not hear of for want of opportunity.
Death tears terminated their sufferings, but it is in-
cumbent upon those who are in authority to take
heed that their wretched lives have not been all in
vain, and that these martyrs to the tender mercies
of Union treatment may serve as types of the past,
and not be adduced as samples of present treat-

ment. Whether or not their deaths were accele—
rated by neglect, need not be arguedupon ; it is dis- •
graceful that they should have been in such a state
at all during sickness and sufferings that called for
special care and extra attention. A stronger case
than that of GIBSON could not be furnished, and the
public, ever ready to bestow sums on charities, may
well be shocked to peruse such details, which con-
firm the worse reports that are set afloat concerning
the management of workhouses.

Vacancies. Promotions, and Appointments
in the Civil Service.

(From the Civil Service Gazette)
COLONIAL-OFFICE.—The Governorship of Lagos has be•
come vacant by the death.of Mr. H. S. Freeman.

AUDIT-OFFICE.—Mr. Charles L. Ryan, private secretary
to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has been appointed
Secretary of the Audit Board, in the room of Mr. Charles
Zachary Macaulay, retired.
THE POST-OFFICE.—The Postmastership of Derby is
vacant. Salary £B5O, with an office provided by the
Crown, and an allowance of £lOO for office expenses,
in addition to emoluments from poundage on stamps now
estimated at about £7O a year. Mr. G. Hastings has been
appointed a temporary clerk, London. Mr. W. A. Bird
has been appointed to be a clerk at Rugby. Mr. W.
Scannell has been appointed to be a clerk at Cork. Mr.
G. Martin has been appointed to be a sorting clerk at
Manchester. Mr. H. E. Spenceley has been appointed to
be a sorting clerk at Glasgow.

CUSTOMS.—Mr. P. R. Finnis has been appointed an
out-door officer, London. Mr. J. Brody has been appointed
an out-door officer, Liverpool. Mr. C. P. Drought has
been appointed an out-door officer, Liverpool. Mr. R.
11f: Lovell has been appointed an out-door officer, Liver-
pool. Mr. Robert Grainger has been appointed an out-
door officer, Galway. Mr. Edward H. Dyason has been
appointed from the 6th to the sth class of clerks, tea
and East India Department, London. Mr. H. P. Tres-
trail has been promoted from the 3d to the 2d class of
examining officers, Leith. Mr. James Thomson has been
promoted from the 4th to the 3d class of examining offi-
cers, Leith. Mr. Robert Blyth has been promoted from
the sth to the 4th class of examining officers, Leith.
Mr. Walter Malcolm has been promoted from the 6th to
the sth class of examining officers, Leith. Mr. J. Sewell
has been promoted from the 6th to the sth class of exa-
mining officers, Liverpool. Mr. Duncan Livingstone has
been promoted from the 7th to 6th class of examining
officers, Liverpool. Mr. James V. Smith has been pro-
moted from the 3d to the 2d class of out-door officers,
Montrose. Messrs. Thomas Evans, James Heaton, and
Peter Kearney have been promoted from the 2d to the Ist
class of out-door officers, Liverpool.
THE EAST INDIES.—Mr. F. R. Boyce, assistant of the
chief engineer, and assistant secretary to the Government
of Bengal, Public Works Department, has been appointed
to officiate as controller, eecond class, of Public Works
Accounts, Bengal, in addition to his own duties. Lieut.-
Col. W. Maxwell, R.A., superintending engineer, first class,
Bengal, has been appointed chief engineer and secretary
to the chief commissioner, Central Provinces, with the rank
of chief engineer, second class. Lieut.-Col. J. E. T. Nicolls,
R.E., superintending engineer, first class, N.W.P., and offi-
ciating chief engineer and secretary to the chief commis-
sioner, Oude, has been appointed to officiate as chief engi-
neer of the first class and secretary to the Government of
Bengal. Lieut.-Col. C. W. Hutchinson, R.E., superintend-
ing engineer, first class, Punjaub, has been' appointed to
officiate as chief engineer, second class, and secretary to
the Chief Commissioner of Oude. Lieut.-Col. C. J. Hodg-
son, R.E., consulting engineer for railways in Oude and
Rohilcund (which appointment is abolished) has been ap-
pointed a superintending engineer of the first class, vice
Lieut.-Col. W. Maxwell. Mr. A. G. Macpherson, barrister-
at-law, has been appointed to officiate as a judge of the
High Court of Judicature, Bengal. Mr. E. D. Lockwood
has been appointed joint magistrate and deputy collector of
Patna. Mr. H. C. Sutherland has been appointed joint
magistrate and deputy collector of Burdwan. Mr. H. L.
Harrison has been appointed a joint magistrate and deputy
collector of the second grade, but to continue to officiate as
inspector of schools, south-west division. Mr. R. D. Hime
has been appointed a joint magistrate and deputy collector
of the second grade. Mr. L. B. B. King has been appointed
a joint magistrate and deputy collector of the second grade.
Mr. A. Hope has been appointed to officiate as civil and
sessions judge of Sarun. Mr. E. C. Craster has been ap-
pointed to officiate as civil and sessions judge of Rajshahye.
Mr. A. J. R. Bainbridge has been appointed to officiate as
magistrate and collector of Moorshedabad. Mr. C. J.
Magrath has been appointed an assistant to the magistrate
and collector of Burdwan. Mr. L. W. Hutchinson has
been appointed principal Budder ameeu of Furreedpore.

THE ALHAMBRA APPEAL CASE.-4t will be re-
collected that Mr. F. Strange, the lessee of the
Royal Alhambra, Leicester-square, was convicted some two
months ago, by the magistrate at Bow-street, of an infringe-
ment of the act of Parliament confining certain representa-
tions to theatrical stages exclusively, and sentenced to a
fine. From that decision Mr. Strange gave notice of appeal
to the Middlesex Sessions, and the hearing was appointed
for Saturday. Owing, however, to the pressure of other
business, the case was merely mentioned, and was filially
agreed to be postponed until the Bth of May next.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

DEATH OF THE CZABEWITCH,
NICE, ArRIL 24.

The Czarewitch died last night.

ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 24.
Telegrams received here from Nice state that the
strength of the Czarewitch is entirely exhausted.
The interview of the Czarewitch with the Princess
Dagmar was of the most affecting character.

FRANCE,

PARIS, APRIL 24.

Yesterday Mr. Bigelow had a public audience of
the Emperor to present his credentials as Minister
of the United States to the Court of the Tuileries.

His Excellency was afterwards received by the

Empress.

CIRCULAR OF THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR
TO THE PREFECTS.

The following circular has been addressed by the
Minister of the Interior to the Prefects :
" Paris, April 13.
" Monsieur le Prefect,—l have already had the
honour of sending you instructions on the subject of
the political reports which you will forward me from
time to time. You will understand that, instead of
including in a general circular, the particular details
of the service, it is my intention to acquaint you
successively with my views upon the principal ques-
tions directly connected with the Ministry of the
Interior.
" I wish on the present occasion to call your at-
tention to the rule to be followed in your inter-
course with the inhabitants, and also to the impor-
tance I attach to the fact that you and your officers
should make frequent and practical circuits in your
departments.
" I am aware, M. le Prefet, and congratulate you
upon it, that to the affairs of your department you
give every fitting attention, and to social intercourse
all the time it has the.right to demand; thus finding
the means of strengthening your action and extend-
ing your influence. But, not only should you con-
ciliate the sympathy of those subject to your admi-

nistration with whom you are brought into daily
intercourse, but you should also constantly bear in
mind that other interests lay claim to your solici-
tude, and would profit by your presence.
"It was enjoined in a circular of one of my pre-
decessors that, within the space of two years, all the
communes in your department were to be visited,
either by you, or by the sub-prefects. This is an
excellent regulation, but it has not been in every
respect observed with sufficient strictness ; moreover
one of the visits thus prescribed is merged into the
recruiting inspection, which is necessarily hurried,
besides entailing duties of various kinds. Irrespec-
tive of this it is required that the inhabitants of the
rural districts should not see you in their midst only
at such periods as you are called there by the exi-
gencies of your special functions. It is important
that they should see you take the same journeys for
the purpose of examining their affairs and wants in
their respective districts. Not only is it important
that you should be accessible to all, but also that
you should go to those who cannot come to you.
Great interests always assert themselves, but small

ones are of ten timid. The Empire, however, ought
to extend its distributive justice equally over all, and
justice is always more efficacious in proportion as it
is brought nearer.

" Your presence becomes more especially indis-
pensable when local livision or contradictory infor-
mation renders it a matter of uncertainty what may
be the best means of bringing a matter to a settle-
ment. The sight of the scene itself will guide you
better than a long correspondence ; your personal
intervention will cause a light to- be thrown upon
the clash of interests, and will be particularly effec-
tive in fostering an equitable conciliation between
antagonistic claims.

" Maintain, therefore, with those under your
administration such constant communications as will
not fail to cement their confidence once it has been
acquired ; and, when you have to appeal to their
assistance you will find sure connections and de-
voted friends.

" Make frequent circuits and request the out-
prefects to do the like, for the visiting of the com-
munes which are distant from the chief towns,—
listen to all complaints ; treat no application with
neglect. No questions are trivial to the interested
parties, and a simple dispute upon land-marks,
which to the administration may be a mere queetion
of detail, is often what forms the uppermost
thoughts in the mind of the citizen concerned, and
what inspires him with most dissatisfaction towards
a negligent administration, and most gratitude
towards active and vigilant authorities.

" Therefore, Monsieur le Prefet, without leaving
in abeyance the great affairs to which the Emperor
has just given a new and vigorous impetus, you
will at the same time attend to the smaller ques-
tions, and see that they are always settled promptly
and conscientiously. By this continuous applica-
tion, which will not allow of any interests being
imperilled, you will develope your influence by the
means most worthy of the Administration, and you
will be rewarded for your devotion to the country
by its earnest sympathies.
" I am well aware, M. 1® Prefet, that I can count
upon your intelligent and devoted co-operation, and
that my instructions will be carried out by yourself
and your officers. The Emperor regards the fulfil-

ment of the same as a point of considerable interes

I shall watch the execution of his orders, and feel
convinced I shall speedily be enabled to give him a
proof of the fact that the French Administration is
redoubling its zeal in his service, and that it is more
than ever worthy of his confidence.
" Receive, Monsieur le Prefet, &c.,
" The Minister of the Interior,
14.A.VALETTE."

ment.

any State, would be acceptable to and sustained by
the Executive Government of the nation. I dis-
tinctly stated that this was not the only plan which
might possibly be accepted ; and I also distinctly
protested that the Executive claimed no right to say
when or whether members should be entitled to
seats in Congress from such States. This plan was
in advance submitted to the Cabinet, and approved
by every member of it. One of them suggested
that I should then, and in that connection, apply
the emancipation proclamation to the excepted parts
of Virginia and Louisiana, that I should drop the
suggestion about apprenticeship for freed people,
and that I should omit the protest against my own
power in regard to the admission of members to
Congress ; but even he approved every part and
parcel of the plan which has since been employed or
touched b y the action of Louisiana.
" The new Constitution of Louisiana declaring
emancipation of the whole State practically applies
the proclamation to the whole part previously ex-
cepted ; it does not adopt apprenticeship for freed
people, and is silent, as it could not well be other-
wise about the admission of members to Congress.
So that as it applied to Louisiana every member of
the Cabinet fully approved the plan. The message
went to Congress, and I received many commenda-
tions of the plan written and verbal, and not a
single objection to it from any professed emanci-
pationist came to my knowledge until after the news
had reached Washington that the people of Louis-
iana had begun to move in accordance with it.
"From about July, 1862, I had corresponded with
different persons supposed to be interested in the
reconstruction of the State Government for Louis-
iana. When the message of 1863, with the plan
before mentioned, reached New Orleans, General
Banks wrote me that he was confident the people,
with his military co-operation, would reconstruct
substyltially on that plan. I wrote to him and
some of them to try it. They tried it, and the re-
sult is known. Such has been my only agency iu
getting up the Louisiana Government. As to sus-
taining it, my promise is out, as before stated; but
as bad promises are better broken than kept, I shall
treat this as a bad promise, and break it whenever
I shall be convinced that keeping it is adverse to
the public interest ; but I have not yet been so con-
vinced. I have been shown a letter on this subject,
supposed to be an able one, in which the writer
expresses regret that my mind has not seemed
to be definitely fixed on the question whether the
seceded States, so called, are in the Union or out
of it. It would, perhaps, add astonishment to his
regret, were he to learn that since I have found pro-
fessed Union men endeavouring to answer that
question, I have purposely forborne any public ex-
pression upon it. As it appears to me that question
has not been, nor yet is, a practically material one,
and that any discussion of it, while it thus remains
practically immaterial, could have no effect other
than the mischievous one of dividing our friends. As
yet, whatever it may become, that question is bad as
a basis of controversy, and good for nothing at all.
It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective
franchise is not given to the coloured men. I
would myself prefer that it were now conferred on
the very intelligent, and on those who serve our
cause as soldiers. Still the question is not whether
the Louisiana Government, as it stands, is quite all
that is desirable. The question is, will it be wiser
to take it as it is, and help to improve it, or to re-
ject it ? Can Louisiana be brought into the proper
practical relation with the Union sooner by sus
taming or discarding her new State Govern.
ment ?

" We all agree that the seceded States, so called,
are out of their proper practical relation with the
Union, and the sole object of the Government,
civil and military, in regard to these States, is to
again get them into that proper practical relation.
I believe it is not only possible, but in fact easier, to
do this without deciding, or even considering,
whether these States have ever been out of the
Union than with it. Finding themselves safely at
home, it would be utterly immaterial whether
they had been abroad. Let us all join in
doing the acts necessary to restore the proper prac-
tical relations between these States and the Union,
and each for ever innocently indulge his own opi-
nion whether in doing the acts he brought the
States from without into the Union, or only gave
them proper assistance, they never having been out
of it.

" The amount of constituency, so to speak, on
which the Louisiana government rests, would be
more satisfactory to all if it contained 50,000 or
30,000, or even 20,000, instead of 12,000 voters.
" Some 12,000 voters in the heretofore slave
State of Louisiana have sworn allegiance to the
Union (assumed to be the rightful political power
of the State), held elections, organised a State Go-
vernment, adopted a free State Constitution,
giving the benefit of the public schools equally
to white and black, and empowering the
Legislature to confer the elective franchise upon the
coloured man.
" This Legislature has already voted to ratify the
constitutional amendment recently by Congress
abolishing slavery throughout the nation. These
12,000 persons are thus fully committed to the

Union and to perpetuate freedom in the State--

committed to the very things, and nearly all the
things the nation wants, and they ask the nation's
recognition and its assistance to makegood this com-
mittal. Now, if we reject and spurn them, we do
our utmost to disorganise and disperse them. We
in faet say to the white man, ' You are worthless,
worse ; we will neither help you nor be helped by
you.'

"To the blacks, we say,-this cup of liberty which
these your old masters hold to your lips we will dash
from you, and leave you to the chances of gathering
the spilled and scattered, contented in some vague
and undefined when, where, or how. If this course,

discouraging and paralysing both white and black

has any tendency to bring Louisiana into proper
practical relations with the Union, I have so far

been unable to perceive it.

" If, on the contrary, we recognise and sustain
the new Government of Louisiana, the adverse of
all this is true. We encourage the hearts and nerve
the arms of 12,000 to adhere to their work, and
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argue for it, and proselytise for it and fight for it, and
feed it, and grow it, and ripen it to a complete suc-
cess. The coloured man, too, in seeing all united
for him is inspired with vigilance, and energy, and
daring to the same end. Grant that he desires the

elective franchise, will he not obtain it sooner by
saving the already advanced steps toward it than by
falling backwards over them ?
" Consider that the new Government of Louisiana
is only to what it should be as the egg is to the
fowl. We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching
the egg than by smashing it. (Laughter.)
" Again, if we reject Louisiana, we also reject
our vote in favour of the proposed amendment to
the National Constitution.

. " To meet this proposition it has been argued
hat no more than three-fourths of the States which

have not attempted secession are necessary to
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validly ratify the amendment. I do not commit
myself against this no further than to say that such

a ratification would be questionable, and sure to be

persistently questioned, while its ratification by
three-fourths of all States would be unquestioned

and unquestionable.
"I repeat the question—Can Louisiana be
brought into proper practical relations with the
Union sooner by sustaining, or by discarding, her
new State Government ?

" What has been said of Louisiana will apply to
other States, and yet so great peculiarities pertain

to each State, and such important and sudden
changes occur in the same State, and withal so new

and unprecedented is the whole case, that no exclu-
sive and inflexible plan can safely be prescribed as

to details and collaterals. Such an exclusive and

Inflexible plan would surely become an entangle-

" Important principles may and must be in-
flexible. In the present situation, as the phrase

goes, it may be my duty to make some new an-

nouncement to the'people of the South. lam con-
sidering, and shall not fail to act when satisfied that

action will be proper."

ROSSINI'S NEW MASS, the same which was sung
at Count Pillet-Will's this time last year, was lately per-
formed in the game house.