The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1870

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET RACES.—THIS DAY
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
OPTIONAL SELLING PLATE.
Firebrand
Pythonesse
Sister to Cherie
Seven ran.
SUSSEX STAKES.

Australia

W. 0,

SUBSCRIPTION PLATE.

Gladness
Capsule
Our Tom •
Ten ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS,

Curieuse
Pericles
Amber...
Four ran.
HANDICAP PLATE.

Herod -
Annie f
Meleurge
Fourteen ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.

Echo
Orangeman
Blonde
Six ran.
PLATE OF 50 SOVS.

Prince Henry 1
Gourbi
Flyaway Jack....
Seven ran.
ALL-AGED STAKES.
•

Rosicrucian
Normanby
Typhoeus
Four ran.
GLASGOW STAKES.

Field Marshal
Sunflower c

THE MONEY MARKET.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The Stock markets are flat all round. Consols are one-
eighth lower, at 92-k to 92g.
Foreign Bonds are mostly it lower.
The Manchester markets this week have opened with
firmness.

The war between France and Germany appears as yet
to have had little influence on the American trade, the
importations of foreign manufactured goods being still on
a scale much larger than that of the same period of the
past two years. Since the commencement of 1870 the
total value of foreign " dry goods landed at New York
has been £17,700,000, against £16,400,000 to the same
date of 1869, and £13,900,000 to the same date of 1868.
Owing to the weather recently experienced, there have
been for the last two days very heavy books at Lloyd's.
The steamers Sapphire and Fawn, as well as the Cambria,
were largely insured in London. Telegrams from America
bring the names of many vessels lost in the late hurricane
at Cuba. A China clipper, the Shakspere, bound from
London for Shanghai, has gone ashore on the coast of
France, near the mouth of the Seine, and it is feared she
will become a wreck.

At the statutory meeting of the creditors of Messrs.
Gilbert, Kerr, and Co., whose failure in the Australian
trade for £63,369 was announced on the sth ult., the
resolution come to at the previous meeting was unaui-
monsly ratified, and Mr. C. F. Kemp was appointed
trustee.

The Manchester Courier states :—"At a meeting of the
creditors of Mr. T. Jolly, spinner, Hynburn Mill, Oaken-
shaw, Accrington, it appeared that the liabilities amount
to £10,040, and the assets to £3,551, or about 6s. Bd. in
the pound. The meeting was adjourned for a week. At
a meeting of the creditors of Mr. R. Edmundson, yarn
agent, the estate showed assets expected to realise about
2s. 10d. in the pound. It was resolved to liquidate by
arrangement, and Mr. Robert Whitworth was appointed
trustee."

A prospectus has been. issued by the Wyoming Sweet-
water Mining Company (Limited), with a capital of
£60,000, in shares of £5, to work some gold quartz lodes in
the territory of Wyoming, United States.

LORD HOUGHTON ON REFORMATORIES;

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMs.)

In opening a bazaar organised on behalf of the West
Riding Female Industrial Home at Wakefield yesterday,
Lord Houghton delivered an eloquent speech, in the
course of which he said : If there is any point in connec-
tion with my public life on which I can look back with
satisfaction, it is that moment when I introduced into the
House of Commons, in the year 1846, the first bill, the
object of which was to establish the reformatories of
this country. (Hear, hear.) That movement has made
most rapid progress, and may at the present time be
said to have almost attained its full perfection, that is to
say, it has supplied a very great want, and remedied a
very capital abuse. (Hear, hear). I ant not about to
inflict upon you at this moment any speech upon that
principle. You all at least understand it as well as I did
then, or as I have ever done since. You, a part of the
great thinking public of this country, have reconsidered
that most solemn moral fact that we have duties to per-
form towards those who fall into crime equally as we
have to those who maintain themselves in the path
of virtue ; that to assert that a man or woman
who has committed an offence against the
law is for the moment irredeemably lost
to the society to which we belong, is a principle not
fundamentally unsound in so far as it illustrates what in
England we regard as the palladium of our public life,
namely, the respect for the law, but at the same time it
carries that respect with an exaggerated form, and thereby
may even damage that principle which it advocates.
(Hear, hear.) It has very justly been said that there is
a difference between the refuges for men and the refuges
for women. After the establishment of the reformatory
movement in this country it was a very easy process
to apply that principle locally with regard to the
details discharged from your great houses of correction.
In that work wo found a most energetic co-agitator in
Mr. Shepherd, the former governor of the prison.
And we must not forget, even in the presence of his active
successor, how much is owed to him on that account. I
will not detain you on that collateral circumstance. The
point to which I would wish to direct your attention is
this : that whilst the labour of the men under good
management and under good superintendence is able to
be not only self-supporting, but to produce an abso-
lute gain to the institution, it is, from the
.very nature of the thing, impossible that the
labour of women, however well maintained, should
obtain the same satisfactory results. It is therefore on
that occount that you are called upon to-day at the same
time to gratify an innocent pleasure and a sense of duty.
Perhaps it may be said, and I daresay it will have occurred
to many of you, that the unhappy circumstance of the
world in which we are at this moment placed is not advan-
tageous to any large charitable effort, but it is found, and
it is a curious principle in our nature, that some-
times when there is a movement in which there is
the greatest call for our benevolence in one direction,
we also f eel an impetus to exercise it in another. The
magnificent charity which the people of England have ex-
hibited towards the victims of this terrible war stands,
and will remain a fact, in the moral history of mankind,
important not only as illustrating the good feeling and
noble temper of the people of this country, but also as
substantiating most important progress in the moral his-
tory of the world. Even war itself, brutalising and
damaging as it is to the great principles of humanity, never-
theless evokes that very principle which it seems to
tread under foot. And now I ask you to do all you can
for this charity. These are they who have fallen sick and
wounded in the great battle of life (hear, hear) ; these are
they who have ,fallen under the artillery of mis-
guided passiion, or talents led away for want of instruc-
tion ; these are they, who, some of them—not all—are in a
more real sense as good as any of us can pretend to be,
and yet, nevertheless, have sunk under some ambuscade
of evil, from which you at least may be enabled to rescue
them. This point of view presses itself strongly upon
all of you. Men dismissed from prison and turned
into the multitude of life may, under certain circumstances
and in the large populations amongst which we live under
certain advantageous circumstances, be lost, as in the
great multitudes of our manufacturing towns, and may
fall again into the common rank of citizenship, but with
regard to women the very circumstance of .the relations of
their sex renders it more difficult to return, and makes
the temptation to go on in evil' stronger. You will com-
prehend this every one of you, and if the issue of this
pleasurable charity is to impress upon you the conviction
that you have done something to rescue one of your fellow
sisters from a life of evil and misery, you will, I think,
mark this day as a happy one in your existence, and may
look back to it for ever with gratification. (Applause.)