The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1865.

NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTIIOR OF " GRANDMOTHER'S
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Published by J. Clements, Little Pulteney-street, price 7d.,
in cloth 13d., a New Work on the Teeth, entitled
PURE DENTISTRY, and WHAT IT DOES
FOR US.

By A. ES KELL, Surgeon-Dentist, Grosvenor-street, W.

"The present may be looked upon in some measure as a
popular supplement to the author's former work, 'A Treatise
on Dental Surgery and should ly.t perused by those who are
troubled with their teeth."—Morning Advertiser, Aug. 31,
1805.

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sellers.

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to 84s.
.._,._

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DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre-
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Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind,
,pasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &o. For habitual
;ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
it the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Soott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square
green package. with " William Lambert," engraved on the
stamp.

JOHN HARVEY and SON, Ludgate-hill,
send PATTERNSot all 0008.'17
Ladies waited upon at home by competent Assistants.
Their STOCK is now well assorted in all branches.
SILKS, MANTLES, DRESSES, LINENS.

TOIIN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOlll PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Price ls. 6d.—Bull Wharf, Rotherhithe, Lon-
don.

NNOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and
most useful invention of the day, AGUA AM AR ELL A.
Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., Bull Wharf, Ito-
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gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no
matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the
properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
system, and when the hair is once restored one application
per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per
bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 61. Testimonials from artistes
of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re-
spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John
Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal
Highness the Princess of Wales.

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFIUTED AND EXIIIBITED IN THE GREAT
EXHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of
Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective
nvention in the curative treatment of HERNI A.
The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects,
Is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
;floc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
,nd closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
during sleep. A descriptive circular may oe had, and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the dr-
aumference of the body, two Indies below the hips, being
sent to the manufacturer,

'co OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
E in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
,4T,rniinus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Vise-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G
President--His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCIL K.G.
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
8,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are 'capable of
containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, }Alward Mae
tervian, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Contts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; H.r.ries and Co. ; Ransom
and Cos.. • Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay .;z4 Co. ; W Mauls, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; I. Barned and
Co,, Liverppel s and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.
OTAIITPRD MITA Betzetary,

J. ani D. NICOLL, Tailors to the
H. Queen, Royal Family, and Courts of Europe.—
For GENTLEMEN the FASHIONS for the SEASONS,
for the promenade or demi-dress—Superfine frock coats,
with rich silk breast facings, or morning coats of superfine
Melton cloths, the charge for the former being 31 to 41
guineas; for the latter 21 tor 31 guineas. For neglid
purposes, morning coats with' pocket flaps at the waist,
also the neglige jackets ; those are of Melton, fancy coat-
ings, Angola and Cheviots, the prices from 255. to 4
guineas. The Angolan and Cheviots are also made in
suits, at prices from 2 to 4 guineas; evening dress, black
cloth of the finest quality. For Overcoats—Melton,
Beaver, and Witney cloths, from 2 to 8 guineas. For
young gentlemen from eight years of ago—The morning
coat and neglige jacket ; also suits of Angola and Cheviot,
the prices according to size, commencing at 31s. 6d. the
suit. For boys from four years of age—The Knicker-
bocker and Highland costume of black velvet, or fine
cloth for dress, and of Angolas and Cheviots for morning,
the price of the first size Knickerbocker, 1 guinea the suit.
For Overcoats—Melton, Beaver, and Witney cloths, from
Ito 2 guineas each. Foreigners and visitors to London,
Manchester, and Liverpool will find at Messrs. Nicholl's
garments ready for immediate use, or made at a few hours'
notice.—H. J. and D. Nicoll, 114, 116, 118, 120, Regent-
street; 22, Cornhill, London; 10, Mosley-street, Man-
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JDEFRIES and SONS beg to call the special
ey • attention of Merchants and the Trade to their
NEW PATENT ASTRA BURNER,
With Circular Wick,
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ASTRA LAMPS can be obtained from the
METROPOLITAN LIGHT COMPANY, 417, Strand,
and from all Ironmongers and Lamp War( houses in Town
and Country ; and the Patentee, 16 and 17, Commercial-
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ASTRA, PETROLEUM, and KEROSINE
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ASTRA (Patent)
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BREAKFAST 'and TEA SERVICES
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DEFRIES and SONS,
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DEFRIES and SONS'
TEMPORARY SHOW ROOMS.
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Five Minutes' walk from the Late Establishment,
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WINTER OVER-COATS of the BEST
MATERIALS and LATEST STILE, at fair
prices, at
HAMILTON AND KIMPTON'S,
TAILORS AND OVER-COAT MAKERS,
105, Strand (opposite Exeter Hall).

TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY.
Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON DIOSELY and
SONS, Demists,
30, Demers-street, Oxtord-street, and 948, Strand,
Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station.

Their painless artificial teeth are unequalled for economy,
durability, comfort, and all purposes of articulation and mas-
tication. Operations of every kind being unnecessary, the
most nervous patient can be supplied without fear of pain or
inconvenience.
Consultation free. Teeth from ss, Sets from 5 to 25 gs.,
warranted.
For the efficacy, utility, and success of their system, vide
" Lancet."
Daily attendance at 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and
448, Strand, London ; 15, Whitefriargato, Hull ; 10, Norfolk-
street, Sheffield ; 4, East-parade, Leeds ; and 14, St. Nicholas-
street, Scarbro'.
Observe—Established 1830. No connection with any of the
same name.

CIIOCOLATE.-MENIER'S FRENCH.

CHOCOLAT-MENIER, for Breakfast.

OHOCOLAT-ATENIER is pure, wholesome, and
- delicious.

MENIER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE.
Warehouse, 23, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.

Sold everywhere.

DR. CULVERIVELL'S GRAND TURKISH
BATHS,
3, Great Marlborough-street, 3 doors from Poland-street,
Ladies every Monday.
Gentlemen all other days, 2s. each ; 15. One Guinea.
Also opposite the Pest-office, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand.

LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN
EFFECTUAL ItEMEDY, without confining the bowels
or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ao_
mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving
coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con-
sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty
pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which
provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption
its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or
even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief
in a few minutes after taking it. Preparea on,y and sold by
W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-William-street, Charing-
cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 130., and
three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular. and ask
for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address are
engraved on the stamp.

DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.
The medical profe4lon for Thirty years have approved
of this pure solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for Gout
and stomach disorders of every kird ; and as a mild aperient
it is esrecially adapted for ladies ant children. Prrpared
solely by
DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, &C.,
172, New Bond-street, London ;

And sold throughtut the world by all respectable chemists.
CAUTION.—See that " Dlnnetord and Co." is on each bottle

and red label over the cork.

NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER MEDICINE.
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yields three times as much assimilating and strengthening
nourishment as the best meat. and restores perfect digestion,
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functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or
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Mat epsial, cough, asthma„ consumption, habitual constipa-
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head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, erruptions,
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tation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms,
nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits,
bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains in the pit of
the stomach and between the shoulders. It is the most diges-
tible of all foods, and suitable for invalids and infants in all
Oomplaiats.
We quote a few out of 62,000 Cures : —Cure No. 58,216, of
the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint,
wasting away, debility, nervousness, irritability, with a ner-
vous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleepless-
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Decies, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Waterford :—1
have derived much benefit from your excellent food.—
Stuart de Decies, Dromana, Cappoquin, county Waterford.
Cure No. 54,816, from the Rev. James T. Campbell, Syder-
stone Rectory, near Fakenham, Norfolk—ln ell cases of in-
digestion, and particularly when the liver is more than
usually affected, I consider it the best of all remedies. It re-
gulates the bile, and makes it flow in cases which would not
admit of mercury in any shape, in short, a healthy flow of
the bile is one of its earliest and best symptoms. You can
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gentlemen, James T. Campbell. Cure No. 52,422.—Bridge
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the
haveip, debility, shortness of breath, and
cough, been removed by your Revalenta Arabica. My
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ing perfect, and my recovery is a mar,•el to all my acquaint-
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21b., '2s ; 51b., 22s ; 335. The 101 b., 21b., and 241 b.
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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Tim Es. —The question of Reform seems to have at
last revived. There have been so many attempts at
resuscitation which turned out utter failures that one
cannot be quite sure even now, and, perhaps, a
twelvemonth hence may smile at even this cautious
announcement. It is the duty of a Parliament, and
therefore of those who reform Parliament, to govern
the country as much as possible in accordance with
its natural genius and spontaneous growth. Any-
body who combines knowledge of the world with
some reading of our history will be able to make
a shrewd guess as to the fate of a revolutionary
measure designed to alter the natural relations of
our classes, should it ever become law. England
wrenched by too sudden and too violent an effort
from its natural bent would soon burst the iron
band and snap the twisted cord, and be as it was
before. We all stand as we are to those about
us in spite of ourselves. We cannot help our de-
ference, or our habits of command ; we could not
shake off our associations if we pleased ; and even
if revolution went so far as to strip us of our wealth,
uproot us from our positions, and separate families
and friends, it would soon find that it had to
banish and exterminate if it would finish its work.
France never had either such a Constitution, or
such sharply defined distinctions of classes as we
have ; but a whole century of revolutions, robberies,
massacres, expulsions, changes of Government and
dynasty wars, and empire have not so much
changed as mutilated that country, depriving it
of its nobility and old race of Kings, without
making the people more free, more self-governing,
or at all better politicians. It is unnecessary either
to praise or to criticise the existing order of
things or the existing state of society. Few people
are entirely satisfied with either their own position
or the prospect around them. Another ideal has
been imprinted on their minds by their reading,
by their fancies, or their own natural aspira-
tions. It is enough that the existing state of
things does exist, and cannot be altered in a
day. It ought to be represented faithfully in the
main by the Government which pretends to conduct
its common affairs and to be its public expression.
Such a Government ought, of course, to consist of
selected elements, and to have an upward tendency ;
but it ought, in the main, to be a reflex, a concen-
trated ray, and a true exponent of the whole
people, as they actually are, with all their varieties
of class, power, and character. When a Govern-
ment ceases to be such a representation of the
people there is a palpable divergence of character,
opinions, and action. Such a divergence we cannot
say that there is just now, but we have to look for-
wards, and we see that it may present itself at a
time less favourable for readjustment and reform
than the present.
POST.—The Message which the President of the
United States has addressed to Congress is evidently
intended to be a State paper of no ordinary kind.
The Republic has just escaped from dangers which
threatened its continued existence, and its Chief
Magistrate in the manifesto just issued places on
record such an enunciation of the political prin-
ciples upon which it is based as may for all future
time prevent any one raising a sacrilegious hand
against the edifice. Whatever doubts may have
hitherto existed as to the precise constitution of
the great American Republic are now finally set
at rest, and henceforth those who are desirous of
ascertaining the rights, powers, duties, and obli-
gations, either of the several States which con-
stitute the league, or of the various individuals
of whom the population of each of those States is
composed, must interpret the American constitution
by the aid of the key which is furnished by Mr.
Johnson's Message. As a piece of statecraft the
publication of this manifesto must be admitted to
be unexceptionable. Whether it is for the interests
of the American nation or of mankind that the
Union should be indissoluble, and that none of those
States which have joined, or shall hereafter join,
the confederation should possess the right of with-
drawing from it, may be a point on which opinions
possibly differ ; but no one can blame those who
regard the perpetuation of the republic as an un-
mixed good for taking every precaution to secure so
desirable an end. Mr. Johnson and his advisers,
therefore, need no justification for putting their own
gloss on the American constitution, and for esta-
blishing for the future a test which in times of doubt
and difficulty may be successfully appealed to.

H LONDON :REVIEW" ON JAMAICA.—That
this country has been profoundly affected by the
executions in Jamaica, no one who takes even the
most cursory glance at the newspaper reports can
doubt ; and there is just as little doubt that if there
ever was an occasion which justified public meetings,
addresses to the Government, and appeals to the
country, such an occasion is to be found in this
Jamaica business. We have been very loth indeed
to form a hasty judgment of men who, finding
themselves confronted with what at all events ap-
peared to be a great danger, may possibly in their
eagerness to stamp it out, have committed excesses
which they themselves, upon reflection, would be as
willing to deplore as we are. On the contrary, we
have urged their claim to a patient and considerate
hearing, and we do not think that any one in Eng-
land, judging their conduct dispassionately, and
capable of forming a candid and intelligent opinion
of it, would deny that the atrocities committed by
the negroes at Morant Bay, if they could be coupled
with evidence leading to the belief that a general
rising of the blacks was contemplated, were quite
sufficient to extenuate, if not wholly to justify, a
resort to measures of repression which, upon a calm
retrospect of the pos4ion of affairs,• might still be
held to have been too severe. But so far as the evi-
dence which has reached us enables us to form an
opinion, we cannot resist the conclusion that it is not
a mere excess of just severity which is to be charged
to Governor Eyre and those who acted under his
authority. The example of atrocity set by the blacks
has been " bettered" by the race which claims a
superior humanity, civilization, intelligence, and self
command ; and it is for the latter to show that
they stood in the presence of a danger so great and
so imminent that nothing short of the bloody fero-
city with which they confronted it could have saved
them and the white population whom they pro-
tected from being overwhelmed by the alleged re-
bellion. As yet we have no evidence of such a
state of things. We only know that for a savage
onslaught of the blacks, retribution vastly in excess
of the provocation given was taken by the whites.
Hundreds of the former were made to expiate the
murder of units of the latter. And in executing
this horrible retribution there was exhibited such a
coolness in bloodshed, such a devilish rioting of
delight in the tatting and hanging of the " niggers,"
that if the surviving blacks should retain any traces
of civilisation, it will be in spite of the example of
savagery which has been set them by the whites.

The Loss of the Barque Mary Nicholson.

British Consulate, Batavia, Sept. 30, 1865.
Sir,—l have the honour to wait upon you with the
minutes of a naval court held at this Consulate on
the 2d inst., in order to examine into the circum-
stances attending the loss of the English barque
Mary Nicholson, of Sydney, James Meredith,
master, in Bali Straits. It appears therefrom that
the said vessel was too hastily abandoned, and that
the master has subjected himself to severe censure.
—I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient
servant,
JAMES WLACHLAN, H.B.M. Consul.
We, the undersigned, give it as our opinion that
the evidence of the captain and chief mate entirely
conflicts with that of the second mate and crew in
almost every particular, more especially as to the
depth of water in the ship when she was abandoned.
We also consider that after lying a short distance
from the vessel for eight or ten hours after her
abandonment, and then seeing her still afloat, in
the interest of the owners of ship and cargo, or the
underwriters, it was the captain's duty to have re-
turned to the ship in order to see if means were
possible to take her into a port. As a leading wind
soon sprung up, we consider this was quite possible.
There is no evidence to show that the vessel had
become waterlogged beyond the captain's simple
statement, formed eight or ten hours after leaving
the ship, and at the distance of a mile ; and, from
the nature of the cargo, we do not think it probable
that the ship could have been in :that con-
dition ; but, in any case, the captain should
have made sure of it, as a return was so easy.
It is our opinion that the captain abandoned
the vessel too hastily, and that before doing so
it would have been his duty to exhort the crew
to try and bring her to a port of safety. At the
same time he ought to have consulted both officers,
and certainly the crew, as to the urgent necessity of
abandoning the Mary Nicholson before taking such
a decisive step ; and we consider him guilty of very
great neglect in having acted in the manner he did,
and subject to severe censure.
J. WLACHLAN, H.B.M. Consul, President.
P. W. AUCHLNEOSS, Manager of the Borneo
Company (Limited).
• P. LANDBERZ.
JQUI SIMPSON, Mader ship Three Bells.

Vew City Traffic Regulation Bill.

On Saturday the new bill which is being pro-
moted by the Corporation of London for the better
regulation of the traffic of the city was printed and
put in circulation by the authorities at Guildhall. It
has been prepared by the City Remembrancer and
Solicitor, with the assistance of Colonel Fraser, the
City Commissioner of Police, and Mr. Oke, the
chief clerk to the Lord Mayor. The preamble re-
cites that it is expedient that better provision than
now exists should be made for the regulation of the
traffic of the city of London so as to prevent ob-
structions, and so that it maybe conducted with less
delay and in a safer manner than at present. It also
recites that for these purposes it has becomenecessary
to amend the City Police Act, passed upwards of 25
years ago. The bill first of all repeals the City
Traffic Regulation Act of 1863, which has proved a
failure, so far as there has been any very perceptible
relief to the traffic or any greater safety to life and
limb. That act, however, and the by-laws made
under it by the Court of Aldermen are to remain in
force until the new bill comes into operation, if it
should pass into a law. It then empowers the Lord
Mayor and aldermen to makeb, timey-laws
thteoy time,may
with respect to the city such
think necessary or expedient—first, for regulating
the routes to be followed and the particular streets
or parts of streets to be used by all or any of the
omnibuses, metropolitan stage carriages, vans, and
other carriages licensed for the conveyance of pas-
sengers ; second, for regulating the height and width
to which carts, waggons, drays, and other vehicles
for the conveyance of goods, wares, and merchan-
dise, traversing the streets between nine in the
morning and six in the evening, may be laden, and
for regulating the breadth between the outsides
of the wheels; third, for determining the periods
of the day between which vehicles conveying goods,
wares, and merchandise may stop in any street
to be laden or unladen, and the time during
which they may remain for such purposes ; fourth,
for regulating the manner in which barrows,
trucks, handcarts, and the like, may be driven,
pushed, or wheeled through any street or part of a
street, and the particular streets or parts of streets,
and the particular time or part of the day, in which
they may be allowed to pass or to stand or remain,
or be prohibited from standing or passing. Also for
regulating the mode in which cabs or hackney car-
riages shall be distinguished when hired and when
not hired ; for determining the time of day during
which coals and beer may be delivered ; for regu-
lating the rate at which vans may be driven through
specified streets, and generally for preventing ob-
structions in the streets. The byelaws may be
varied, altered, and repealed as the Court of Alder-
men may consider expedient ; and every person
offending against them is to be liable to a penalty
of not more than £5 for every such offence. The
bylaws, however, are not to be enforced until con-
firmed by a principal Secretary of State, who is
empowered to suggest alterations in them. No by-
law is to be submitted for such approval until one
month after the intention to apply for such approval
shall have been duly advertised. The bye-laws when
so made and approved are also to be properly ad-
vertised and posted at the Mansion-house, the Guild-
hall, the Royal Exchange, and other public places.
By the bill there are to be no loads driven through
the streets with more than four horses between 9 in
the morning and 6 in the evening, no locomotive,
between 6 in the morning and 10 at night, no tim-
ber or other articles exceeding a certain size between
9in the morning and 6in the evening. Each of
these offences is punishable by a fine of not more
than £5. Again, every person will render himself
liable to a like fine who shall drive or conduct
any covered or tilted cart, van, or waggon through
the streets unless the horse or horses are led or
driven from a box, or, if driven from the inside,
unless the vehicle be so constructed as to enable the
driver to see into the street laterally as well as in
front of him. Above all, every person under
the age of 14 is to be expressly prohi-
bited from having the temporary charge of
a waggon, cart, or carriage, and the animal draw-
ing the same in a street, the penalty in this case
being leviable on the person intrusting the charge
to another of less than that age. Again, persons
under 20 years of age are not to be allowed to drive
vehicles drawn by more than one horse ; and per-
sons under 16 are prohibited from driving at all ;
the penalties in these cases falling upon the owners
who may offend against the law. Various kinds of
defined obstructions on footways are also prohibited,
under penalties, as is also the placing a flower-pot
or box, or other matter or thing, in any upper win-
dow without sufficiently guarding it from being
blown or thrown down. The City Commissioner
of Police is likewise, with the consent of the Court
of ' Aldermen, empowered to license street shoe-
blacks and commissionaires or messengers to exercise
their calling in the city, and to appoint places at
which they may stand.
There is a most important and entirely novel pro-
vision in the bill,—namely, that empowering the
City Commissioners of Sewers, with the consent of
the Court of Common Council, to construct bridges
and subways for the accommodation of the foot
passengers at crossings or intersections of streets,
wherever they may think such accommodation is
required, and to purchase houses or land for the
purpose of forming the necessary approaches ; and
to defray the costs of such bridges, subways, and
purchases out of the consolidated rate. Of late
there have been several fatal accidents, as there have
often been before, at crossings in various parts of the
city, and the danger at such places to life and limb
appears to be greater than ever. At the last sessions
of the Central Criminal Court the grand jury made
it the subject of a special presentment to the judges,
and dwelt upon the reckless manner in which vans,
waggons, and cabs were often driven, to the common
danger of foot passengers. The hum of approbation
which the reading of the document elicited from the
people in court showed how generally the evil is
understood and felt. Again, on last Lord Mayor's-
day, when the present chief magistrate of the city was
presented to the Barons of the Court of Exchequer,
the Lord Chief Baron made this a prominent
topic in his address to the civic authorities from the
bench, and mentioned the remarkable fact, on au-
thority, in the course of a single year, taking
oney
tharat with another, the accidents which result
in death and injury and loss of power and utility
in the streets of London alone exceed those on all
the railways in England put together. With
bridges and subways at dangerous crossings, and
with the manifold regulations prescribed under
penalties by the bill under consideration for driving
in the public streets, especially that prohibiting
driving by young persons, the city authorities may
in time rid themselves of the reproach implied in
the statement of Chief Baron Pollock, and the lives
of the citizens be guarded from the danger to which
they are now exposed from the cause in question.
It may be added, as showing how much the cor-
poration is now alive to these matters, that Mr.
Alderman Stone, the chairman of the Police Com-
mittee, has now a motion before the Court of Com-
mon Council to increase the city police by 50 addi-
tional men, at an annual cost of £3,300, in order
the better to cope with the present exigencies of the
traffic.