The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAYntEVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1858,

MR. GLADSTONE AT MANCHESTER,

Mr. Gladstone's first appearance in public since his
arrival at Manchester was on the Exchange, yesterday
morning, where he was escorted by Mr. Robert Barnes,
mayor of the city, and accompanied by the Bishop of
Oxford. There was a large assemblage in front of the
Exchange, and the interior of the building was crowded
by subscribers, who with difficulty formed a lane, through
which the distinguished visitors could pass. Mr. Glad-
stone leaned upon the Mayor's right arm, and the Bishop
upon his left. In this order they proceeded from the
west to the extreme east end of the building. The time
was half-past one, the hour of " high change," when
merchants and manufacturers are supposed to be most
deeply immersed in business ; but the fact was that many
hundreds, for fully half an hour before, had done nothing
better than collect as near the front door as possible to
secure the best place for obtining a view of the eminent
statesman. Several loud, if not very hearty, cheers, were
given during Mr. Gladstone's presence in the Exchange,
which the right hon. gentleman acknowledged by slight
bows from time to time, as he passed along. The visit did
not last more than a few minutes. It was a curious cir-
cumstance that the Chancellor of the Exchequer's arrival
should have been so peculiarly timed as it was—his visit to
the merchants and manufacturers of Manchester, yester-
day, being on the first day of his new stamp law coming
into effect. Copies of the new stamps had been freely
handed about before his arrival, by such as had been
able to procure supplies ; and, without any disrespect
meant to the eminent financier, the law was characterised
by many persons as a nuisance. The old receipt stamp
was comparatively inoperative, not because of its high
rates (though that was something), but because the scale
was graduated according to the amount paid, and par-
ties could hardly be expected to have with them a stamp
of the right amount. Hundreds of manufacturers were
on the Exchange, yesterday, who scarcely ever gave a
receipt stamp in their lives, even when receiving sums
of a thousand or ten thousand pounds. The facility for
applying the new stamps seems likely to cause them to
be much more generally if not universally, given and
accepted ; and many houses here expect that they will
pay 701., 801., or 1001. a year in the penny receipt
stamps where they paid nothing before. The large
" country" or home trade houses, will doubtless incur a
charge which will be quite new to them, and a serious
addition to their income taxes. That the Chancellor of
the Exchequer should have been received with a general
feeling of good-will on such a day says much for his
popularity, therefore, and not a little for those who wel-
comed hint on this occasion. Previous to his reception
at the Exchange, Mr. Gladstone, accompanied by the
Bishop of Oxford and other gentlemen, had paid a pri-
vate visit to the extensive works of Messrs. Joseph
Whitworth and Co., machine makers, where he arrived
about half-past eleven, and remained nearly an hour and
a half, inspecting the various mechanical appliances in
operation. It was expected that Mr. Gladstone would
visit several other of the principal industrial establish-
ments of the town during the day.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, 00T. 11.

The Regius Professor of Divinity intends to com-
mence a course of public lectures on Thursday, the 17th
of November, at 1 o'clock, at Christ Church.
These lectures are open to all members of the Uuiver-
sity who have passed the B.A. examination ; and those
who wish to attend are requested to call on the Profes-
sor on Wednesday, the 16th of November, with a
recommendation from the head of their college or from
their tutor.

The Regius Professor of Divinity proposed to resume
his private lectures on the Book of Common Prayer for
the present term, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur-
days, and to read portions of Dr. Routh's Scriptorum
Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula on the intervening days.
Any members of the University who have passed the
examination for the degree of BA., and may be desirous
of attending, are requested to call on the Professor on
Monday, the 24th inst., between 1 and 2 o'clock.
The Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History pro-
poses to begin his lectures on Monday, October 24,
with two classes—one commencing the course of history,
the other entering the fifth century.
The lectures are open to members of the University
who have passed the B.A. examination (in the School of
Literati Humaniores at least) ; and all who wish to
attend are requested to call on the Professor between
12 and 2 o'clock on Saturday, October 22.

THE BRITISH PENITENT FEMALE REFUGE.

The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the friends and
supporters of this institution was held yesterday evening
at the board-room of the asylum, near the Canal Bridge,
Hackney. The chair was taken on the occasion by Mr.
Joseph Maitland
From the annual report which was read by the secre-
tary, the Rev. J. Glanville, it appeared that the institu-
tion was every year instrumental in reclaiming many
females from a vicious course of life, and making them,
as far at least as could be judged by outward appearances,
good members of society; while some gave evidence of
a thorough reformation and change of heart. During the
last year the receipts had been 1,4801. 18s. 7d., and ex-
penditure had been 1,3561. 16s. 10d. ; the balance in
hand being at present 4591. 3s. 11d. The total number
of females admitted since the formation of the society
was 1,175. At the period of the last annual meeting
there had-been 54 inmates in the house, and 53 had since
been received, making a total of 107 on the foundation
during the year. The majority of these persons
had been received under very distressing circumstances ;
34 of them had lost both parents ; 44 had only one
parent living, and 8 were under 20 years of age. It
further appeared that 52 of them had quitted the asylum ;
had
'
27 had reconciled and restored to their families ;
been
1-)laced in situations ; 5 had left at their own
3
request •had been dismissed for bad conduct, and 1
had died
in the institution,E leaving 54 still remaining
with the a,pnpvdreoryb
within its precincts
approbation
female
of otnhe leavingcon
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tablishmentspresented with a Bible withdtwo suits of apparel.
which the hpeaatshsyes, meetingn d
The report was unanimously adopted; resolutions were
passed expressing the high sensea
en-
tertained of the useful character of thei asylum, and their
conviction of its sLrong claims on the s
sup-
port of the public ; a vote of thanks o the
chairman, and the proceedings closed with the singingt
of the doxology.

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Business
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CITY COMMISSION OF S'EIVEI?S.

Yesterday a Court was held; Mr. Deputy Peacock in

the chair. -
The CAE to the Commission stated that he had re-
ceived the following letter from the Governor of the
Tower, in reply to the letter which he had been instructed
to write to that nobleman, with reference to the re-
moval of the barrier at Postern-row, for the purpose of
carrying out the projected improvements in the City :

" Combermere Abbey, Oct. 7, 1853.
" Sir,---I have to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 3rd inst., communicating the wishes of the
Commissioners of Sewers respecting the removal o ithe
barrier of the Postern-row, and I beg you will have the
goodness to inform the court that I shall be most happy
to meet their wishes, if, upon inspecting the premises,
in November, I find that it does not interfere with the
arrangements about to be made in the vicinity of the
Tower.

" I have the honour to be Sir.
" Your meet obedient and humble servant,
"J. Daw, Esq. "COMBEIMERE."
M. H. L. TAYLOR said he thought some further no-
tice ought to be taken of this communication, as he anti-
cipated that there could be no difficulty in the way of
thoroughfare through Postern-row, a step in which the
citizens of London were most deeply interested.
The letter was ordered to be referred to the General
Purposes Committee.

' means for consuming smoke, abundant testimony is to
be gathered from the provincial towns before-named.
"There are various causes for the production of
opaque smoke from furnaces ; irregular and careless
firing, over-stoking, want of draught, &c., may each
cause it, as well as the urging of the furnaces, and forc-
ing the boilers beyond their legitimate powers (one
which I apprehend would, upon inquiry be found to
have been a most fertile cause within your jurisdic-
tion). The cures, therefore, will be more or less diffi-
cult and expensive, and must be sought in the applica-
tion of one or other of those remedies of which there are
now many, and which must be applied according to the
exigencies of particular cases, but with the cause of
smoke, so with the modes of cure I need not now de-
-1 tain you, for, as the practicability of its prevention is
now an established fact, the business of the Commission
as regards smoke may be almost said to be with the tops
of the chimney-shafts alone, from which it is perfectly
manifest that with proper appliances and sufficient care
opaque smoke need issue but for a very few minutes
daily, the chimneys of those manufactories where the
combustion of fuel is made under peculiar circumstances
being alone exceptional.
" I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen,
" Your most obedient servant,
" WILLIAM HAYWOOD, Surveyor.
Mr. 11. L. TAYLOR said that to receive an able and
faithful repoit was one part of the duty of the Court,
hut he conceived that a duty of equal importance was,
that they should come to some resolution with regard to
it. It was notorious that Messrs. Calvert, the brewers,
had been summoned respecting a nuisance which had
frequently been committed on their premises. They had
been allowed a certain time for the removal of the nui-
sance ; months had elapsed since the specified time had
expired ; yet the nuisance from their chimney was as
bad as ever. (Hear, hear.) He considered that the
Court ought immediately to take some steps against
Messrs. Calvert, or they would not be discharging their
duty ; at all events, that firm ought to be summoned,
in order that the Court might be able to judge whether
they were doing all that they possibly could for the pur-
pose of preventing a continuance of the nuisance. (Hear,
hear.) Doing less than this was an idle consumption
of time. (Hear, hear.) A most important fact was
communicated to the Court in the report which had
just been read, namely, that another brewery of an ex-
tensive character, and to the partners in which too much
credit could not be given, had, by mechanical con-
trivance succeeded in abating the nuisance so loudly
complained of in the case of Messrs. Calvert. (Hear,
hear.)

Mr. AVaterlow said that Messrs. Calvert had been
summoned, and as the Court had then allowed them
time to remedy the evil complained of, he was desirous
of knowing whether the period of grace had really
expired ?

The Clerk replied that it had.
The CHAIRMAN said that the smoke from the chimney
of Messrs. Browning caused as great an annoyance to
the inhabitants of the City as that of Messrs. Calvert.

Deputy KEBBEL assured the Court that Messrs. Cal-
vert were most desirous of totally getting rid of the al-
leged nuisance, and that for this purpose they had con-
sulted, and been in frequent communication with, Sir
R. Stephenson and Mr. Brunel. (Hear, hear.) He
believed that Messrs. Easton and Amos were at work
at the brewery, doing everything that ingenuity could
suggest with a view to the consumption of the smoke.
(Hear, hear.) It ought to be borne in mind t hat there
were difficulties with respect to projected improvements
to be encountered in the premises of Messrs. Calvert,
which were not to be met with at Messrs. Truman and
Hanbury's—the first-named firm not being able to abate
the nuisance without pulling down a very large portion
of their premises, whilst, with the latter, the task of im-
provement had been one of easy accomplishment.
(Hear, hear.)

It was ordered that the above-named parties be sum.
moiled before the court.

THE GREAT CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS' COMPANY.
The Clerk read the following report from Professor
Letheby

" London Hospital, Aug. 9, 1853.
"Gentlemen' —I have the honour to report that I
have made 120 experiments during the last quarter on
the illuminating qualities of the gas supplied to the city
of London by the Central Gas Consumers' Company,
and the following are the results : First, when the gas
has been burnt from an argand of 15 holes, according to
the Act of Parliament directions, it has furnished a light
which, on the average, has been equal to 13.9 sperm
candles, or 15.9 wax, each consuming 120 grains of com-
bustible matter per hour. Second, when the gas has
been burnt from a batswing jet, at the rate of 4 cubic
feet per hour, its light has been equal to that of 9.6
sperm candles, or 10.3 wax, and when consumed from
the same jet at the rate of 5 cubic feet per hour, its ave-
rage luminosity has been equal to that of 11.8 sperm, or
13.5 wax. These results show that the gas has been of
good illuminating power, in fact, they prove that it has
been rather more than 31 per cent, better than that re-
quired by the Act of Parliament. The chemical quality
of the gas has been of average description. —I have the
the honour to be, &c., (Signed) H. LETLIEBY, M.D."

NEGLIGENCE IN STREEr CLEANSING.
One of the 'contractors for cleansing the streets was
convicted, in several penalties, amounting in all to the
sum of 291., for having neglected to fulfil the provisions
in removing mud, dust, &c.