The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-21 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

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TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.
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76, j 6 Great N. China, and
10 Auglo-Meditrn (L) 127 130 Japan Exteusimt.. 8 81
1281 5 Indo-European (Li.. 12 14
100 Atlantic •— 10 Marseilles, Algiers,
100 Do Bpc — and Malta (L) .... 61 61
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41. 1 10 Mediterrn Ex (L) .. 41 5i
10 British Ind Rxten IL). 71 n 21 Pnmaand S. PcfclL 4 3Ms
7 13-16, 11-16, 1 dis
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marine, (L)
71, 1 14, 131
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4 7-16 Do Scrip
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and Malta (L 1

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91 591, 1
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87, 65 435
Great Eastern .
331! 5. 1 Grand Trunk of ()amnia
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Great Nor
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134
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Great Westerii 731 735 155, 5
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Lancashire ez Yorkshire 13451351 995
1351, 1 Do`ss do, 1877-8 95 97
Lon, Brian. and S Coast 421 431 Do 5p a prof. issued 80 1 Zuni
43 x d 51
Lon. Chat, and Dover .. 14 145 Madras guar spa
145 1032
Lon and North-Western 12911292 N. Railway of . Canada.
1295, 5 6p a Ist Prat Bonds
Lon and South-Westeru 94 95 Dude and Rohilkitud g
942 5 ID a
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465, 75, 2, 7 &hide. Punjaub, and
Metropolitan
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North British
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1175, 7 26i
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Atlantic and St Lawrnce 77 79 Eastern of France lB 20
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104 Lemberg Ozernowitzgua
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Grand Trmik Canada
Do Equip Mort Bild 1 10
charge 6n a
Do 2nd do Bonds
875

103 104

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25 Alliance IL)
10 Anglo-Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian (L) 221 232 20 Loudon and County 50 51
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53 28, 7/
20 Ch of India, Austrlia 131 141 20 Lon and \Vestmnstor 62 63
25 Char Nero of India 23 25 621, 1, :
10 City
30 Colonial
492, 50 20 New South Wales .. 33 35
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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1871.

PASTORAL FROM ARCHBISHOP
MANNING.

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At the Roman Catholic Churches in London a pastoral
letter from Archbishop Manning was read, on the
due observance of Lent. The Archbishop warned those
whom he addressed against dwelling on the sins of those in
other countries on whom calamities had fallen, but to
look at home. The chief sin in England was the
" pride of life." No nation possessed such self-gratu-
lation, and she was deluded by insular security,
tradition of success and exceptional prosperity into the
belief that these things would last for ever. He next
referred to the great increase of luxury in domestic
society, in which splendour in furniture, exquisite
wines, costly banquets, sensuous music, and end-
less pleasure were to be found. Elaborate self-lindul-
gence had invaded the higher ranks of men. There had
also crept in habitual excess in wine, by which (even
without drunkenness) the mind and body became
inflamed and diseased. This often arose from mistaken
kindness or imprudent advice. The excess which was
covered by refinement was intolerable, and altogether
without excuse. The Archbishop also spoke of the ex-
travagant fashions that prevailed in female dress. Men
had improved since the last century in this respect, but
the attire of women had become more costly, ostentatious,
and singular, even to strangeness, and thus money was
wasted which would clothe the naked, feed the poor, or
educate children. The pastoral concluded with an appeal
for the Catholic orphanages at North Hyde, Norwood,
and at Hampstead.

RATING OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY.

An important meeting was held on Monday afternoon
at the Westminster Palace Hotel, for the purpose of pro-
moting combined action, and making a general represen-
tation to the Government on the question of the rating of
Government property. _ _ .

Mr. Scourfield, M.P., presided, and said as he repre-
sented a locality in which was situated one -of Her
Majesty's dockyards (Pembroke), he felt it to be his duty
to take part in what was felt to be a common grievance.

Mr. Hughes, vestry clerk of Plumstead, said that the
Local Board of his district had taken the initiative in the
matter, and it was their desire that a permanent standing
committee should be appointed, to hold meet-
ings in London as occasion might require
until a settlement of the question was obtained.
The government had promised to introduce a general
measure with regard to taxation ; but they were afraid it
would include the rating of charitable and other institu-
tions about which there was a great deal of feeling. He
considered they should not rate charitable institutions, but
confine the question to the rating of Government property.
There were 50 or 60 towns interested, and it was
thought that joint action would have the best result.
There were representatives present from several metro-
politan districts, from Birmingham, Canterbury Devon-
port, Dover, Manchester, &c., so that altogether they
had a fair representation of the different towns inte-
rested. The subject had been before Parliament for
fifteen years, and it was time it was settled. He pointed
out that not only did the Government property not pay
rates, but it increased the poorer population.
Dr. Brewer, M.P., Mr. Talbot, M.P., and others
having pointed out the great injustice which existed in the
non-raitng of Government property,
Mr. Hughes said the promoters desired that the rating
of Government property should be separated from other
public property, such as charities, &c., and secondly they
desired to know what principle of valuation should be
adopted to ascertain the rateability of Government pro-

THE PRESERVATION OF INFANT LIFE.
Lord Derby presided at the anniversary dinner in aid of
the Funds of the Hospital for Sick Children on Saturday
evening, at Willis's Rooms, and enforced the claims of th'
hospital at considerable length. Having sketched the argu-
ments in favour of hospitals generally, he alluded to the
special need of such institutions in populous cities. What-
ever we may do in a sanitary way, he said, we can never
make a crowded community healthy as the open country is
healthy. No great city could keep up its numbers but for the
influx from outside. Build a wall round London, and let no
one come in to reside in it from outside, and allow none
to go out, the population would dwindle down till the evil
of overcrowding had remedied itself. It followed that,
though we had hospitals everywhere, we had them most
in large towns. And we had them for another reason,
connected with social rather than sanitary considerations
—that, do what you will, the tie of neighbourhood will
never be felt in the same way in a city of three millions of
people that it is in a country village, where everybody
knows everybody. You cannot rely to the same extent
on the spontaneous individual charity—the help given
direct, from the giver to the receiver; therefore, though
there is more distress than elsewhere, it is mostly out of
sight of the rich. Now I carry the argument a step further,
and I contend that children are exactly those for whom medi-
cal help is most wanted in London ; because it is among
children that the high death-rate exists which makes
the difference in mortality between town and country.
Adults live and thrive very little the worse for the smoke;
but that smoke and all that goes with it kills off the
babies and those under five years. There is no more
delicate test of pure air than whether a child will thrive
in it. Now, in London the air is not pure; you may test
it in the Parks. With all the attention that can be
given and unlimited outlay, only a few of the hardiest
kinds of trees will grow, the others dwindle and
die. Now, it is reasonable to suppose that the
atmosphere which kills an oak is not exactly
suited to a child. Add to this overcrowding, frequent
want of work in the poorest class, want of proper care
and nursing in illness—not from neglect, but ignorance
and want of means—and the case seems to me made out
for an institution such as the Hospital for Sick Children.
Some people are alarmed lest, •if by improved sanitary
resources our death-rate should lessen in a great degree,
as it might and ought, we should be overdone with a
population which could not find employment. I don't
share in that fear. We age an emigrating country, and
as our labouring class becomes more instructed, more
wide-awake, more aware of the state of things in the out-
side world, the attractions of a new country will be
stronger, and emigration will increase. In Ire-
land it is even now enough to' balance, and rather
more than balance, the natural increase, and
population there is stationary, if not diminishing.
I think it will be the same in England, and, certainly
looking to the advantages which a colony offers to
an energetic man of the poorer class, my wonder is not
that so many go, but that so many stay at home. Now as
to this institution. Its progress has been very gradual
and not very rapid, but it has been steady. In 1870 the
subscriptions were over £3,000, donationd nearly £3,400,
donations to the building fund about £3,400 again ; total
receipts, not including balance from the year before,
about £10,900. In the same year £5,000 was spent iu
buying the freehold of the hospital, and if I gather
rightly from the report, the ordinary outlay seems to
have been about £6,000. But we are in the unfortunate
position of having to build, and though that is a kind
of outlay which one regrets, for it is generally easier
to get into bricks and mortar than out, I believe
there was no help for it. The funds available' for
that purpose are stated at £lB,OOO, and I believe I may
say, to the credit of the hospital, that, though often poor,
it has never yet been in debt. I am not sure how many
patients the present building will take in ; the new one is
intended for 200. I find that in 1868 there had been over
7,000 in-patients, and nearly 150,000 out-patients atttended
to since the foundation, and that the annual number was
then about 700 of the former and 12,000 of the latter.
There is, in addition to the new hospital, one for convales-
cents at Highgate, holding from 50 to 60 patients, and
always full. These are all the facts, and they
speak for themselves. Besides this, I will simply give
you one thought to carry away. We talk about the
waste of life in war—do we ever think of the waste
of life in peace? I doubt if the most sanguinary
battle ever fought has swept off as many human beings as
die in England in one year from preventable causes. We
cannot change that state of things in a day, but we can
mitigate it. This institution is one of the blessed agencies
at work for that purpose. It is inadequate, of course.
What are 200 beds to all the mass of disease and suffering
in London? But it is a beginning, and that is better than
nothing. Support it, and you will not find that your
sympathy or money has been thrown away. Support it,
and you will have done good to those whom you relieve,
good to the community, and best of all for your-
selves. The recent loss sustained by Mr. Walter, AL P.,
was feelingly alluded to in conjunction with a recognition
of the valuable services he had rendered the hospital.
The subscriptions announced during the evening amounted
o £2,700.

perty.
Mr. Shaen thought Government property should be
rated just as private property was, mid moved, "'That
in the opinion of this meeting Government property
ought to be rated for local purposes, exactly the same
as if it was in private hands."
Colonel Learmouth seconded the proposition, which
was carried.

On the conclasiou of the meeting at the Westminstel;
Palace Hotel, a deputation numbding between seventy
and eighty gentlemen proceeded to Whitehall, for the
purpose of laying before the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen,
President of the Board of Trade, the resolutions
adopted by the meeting.
Mr. T. H. Scourfield, M.P., in introducing the depu-
tation, alluded to the unanimity of the meeting.
The Mayor of Portsmouth, in expressing the feeling of
the deputation, pointed out the unfairness of Govern-
ment property being exempted from rating, when the
Government services contributed so largely, from accident,
&c., to the heaviness of the rates. From the great expe-
rience of the right hon. gentleman, they hoped for some
equitable %rrangement being made, so that this anomaly
should be removed.
Mr. Shaen observed that there was substantially no
difference of opinion between the Government and the
deputation, and impressed upon Mr. Goschen the size of
the deputation, which was a proof of the wide and deep
interest taken in the question. It was of vast importance
to the ratepayers where Government held large masses of
property. The burden of proof lay upon Government to
chew why its property should be treated differently to that
of private parties. If Government wished for arbitration in
the matter of valuations, that. would ,be adopted by the
deputation, both parties to name arbitrators, and the
arbitrators to appoint an umpire, instead of the Govern-
ment naming the umpire.

Dr. Brewer,
M.I ~ said that Colchester was very
anxious that this matter should be fully considered by
the Government, which held a great deal of property in
that borough. If that property were let to private enter-
prise it would. yield a considerable sum to the rates, while
now it yielded nothing.
Mr. Goschen said the question as to the mode of valua-

tion had not been touched, except to suggest the yearly
value, which the arbitrators would have to determine. To
do that would be extremely difficult. He might say that
the Government was prepared to accept the principle that
would make Government property rateable like any other
property. (Hear, hear, and applause). Government were
now considering the principle of valuation ; but, it was
their wish that it should be on equitable • terms, such as
would apply to any other property.
Mr. Stone, M.P., said they would not go beyond the
principle that Government should be treated on the same
footing as other owners.
Mr. Goschen said that the Government had a plan; but
they wished to know what plan of valuation other people
had to suggest. (Laughter and applause.)
Mr. Hughes, vestry clerk of Plumstead, suggested a re-
valuation; but
Mr. Goschen said it was not to the interest of the public
to ask for a re-valuation.
A Voice : You had better take it for granted that the
bill will pass, Mr. Goschen. (Applause.)
Mr. Goschen said it would not be a separate bill, but
was part of their general plan.
The deputation, after thanking the right hon. gentleman
for the courtesy with which he had received them, with-
drew.

At Paris the theatres Palais Royal and Gait 4, will bring
out pieces relating to the siege of Paris. The drama
which is to be played at the Gaite has already been con-
tracted for in London.

THE NEW KNIGHT.— Sir William Harrison
Walker, senior professional member of the Marine and
Harbour Department of the Board of Trade, on whom
Her Majesty has just conferred the honour of knighthood,
is the son of the late Mr. Benjamin Walker, of Sitting-
bourne, Kent, by Sarah, daughter of Mr. William.
Harrison, of Sandwich, in the same county. He was
born in the year 1800, and has been twice married—first to
Frances, daughter of Mr. Richard Bathurst, which lady
died in 1839; and secondly to Miss Isabella Thomasine
Rider, daughter of the Rev. Ralph Carr Rider, and
niece of Mr. Thomas Rider, of Boughton-park, some time
M.P. for Kent. Sir William Walker commenced his
career as a midshipman in the Hon. East India Company's
service, and was an officer in that service until the expira-
tion of the Charter in 1834 ; be afterwards commanded
various ships on their passage between England and India,
and has always borne the character of an able and
effi-
cient officer.
THE REV. 11In. VOYSEY.—The Rev. Charles Voy-
sey, vicar of Healaugh, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, upon
whom the sentence of deprivation has just been pro-
nounced by the Judicial Committee of her Majesty's
Privy Council, on account of heretical opinions advanced
in his work, "The Sling and the Stone," was born about
the year 1828, and was educated at St. Edmund Hall,
Oxford, where he took his Bachelor's degree in 1851. He
was admitted into Holy Orders in 1852, having been
ordained‘deacon in that year by the Archbishop of 'York,
and admitted to the priesthood in the following year.
From 1852 to 1859 he held the curacy of Hessle, in York-
shire, after which he held for a short time the stipendiary
curacy of Craigton, Jamaica. In 1861 he was appointed
curate of Great Yarmouth, but in the same year was
transferred to that of St. Mark's, Whitechapel. In 1863,
having held for a few months the curacy of St. Mark's,
Victoria Docks, he was nominated curate of Healaugh,
and was appointed vicar of 'that parish in the year'
following.
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