The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-30 00:00:00

LORD cguitcaiLL AND THE OXFORD POLICE.

It will be remembered that the charge of perjury
brought against the Oxford police byLord Randolph
Churchill arose out of an uproarious hotel festivity,
held by his lordship and his friends. A waiter at the
hotel was subpcenaed and gave evidence which mate-
rially damaged Lord Churchill's case. For this he
has received notice to quit his situation. As the
facts stand this looks very like au un-
warrantable act of flunkeyism. The waiter
gave his testimony -very unwillingly, and said as
little as possible. He could not have said less
without suppressing or perverting the truth. The
only inference, therefore, is that Oxford waiters are
not equal to their business, unless they are prepared
to • commit perjury for the benefit of noble lords
engaged in discreditable freaks.

" THE " PARISH.
The St. Pancras Guardians have distinguished
themselves in another branch of workhouse art.
Two of the sons of guardians have been appointed.
to the posts of master's clerk and assistant re-
lieVing officer. These are not very dignified
appointments, nor does the letter of the law prohibit
such; but the Poor-law Board are of opinion that
the-guardians have been guilty of an indiscretion.
.Such proceedings, they say, are calculated, and
justly so, to lessen the confidence of the
ratepayers in the impartiality and disin-
terestedness of those to whom they have
entrusted the expenditure of the parochial funds.
The fact seems to be that the guardians' year of
office is expiring, and they are striving to disappear
in a blaze of glory. The two doctors who were
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dennc in the workhouse have brought actions for
libel against Dr. Edmunds. At the last meeting of
the board another row took place. Dr. Ellis was
giving some bvidence, during which one of the guar-
dians—the famous Mr. Watkins—interrupted with
a request that a certain nurse might be removed, as
the " would follow in Dr. Ellis's footsteps, as she had
done before "—a delicate remark which called forth
a storm of groans and hisses. Finally, the guardians
are threatened with a judgment summons, for re-
fusing to pay a bill of costs.

TILE REPRESSION OF 3IENDICITY.

Sir C. Trevelyan has made some suzgeStioni as to
the cause of distress and iliremedies, to the Society
for Organising Charitable Relief and Suppressing
Mendicity. The distress we have to deal with, he
says, is not general throughout England, but local to
Louden. Its real cause is what has been
significantly called "the enormous facts of London
charity." The vast system of London charity is .out
of proportion even with its wealth. Lazy mendi-
cants ilDck to London, where they know that " relief
is going." Here they are fed, clothed, and lodged, and if
sick, provided with a hospital. It is this state of
things that makes our great metropolitan criminal
class rpssible. It acts as an insurance upon crime.
All tLe relief of destitution, says Sir Charles, ought
to be done by the regulated action of the Poor-
law, and not by the infinitely varied and
uncertain intervention of private societies.
The money almost wasted by these socie-
ties might with greater advantage be employed
upon emigration, education, and other means of im-
proving the intellectual and moral state of the Lon-
don population, and of raising them, to the utmost
possible extent, above the necessity of depending
upon charitable relief of any kind: