The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 18704

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THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE.
.-tole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, at 7, I'M NOT MYSELF AT ALL. At 7.45,
BEAUTY AND THE BE AST I Messrs. Fred. Vokes,' Brittain
Wright, Harry Boleno, &c.; Misses Vokes, Harriet Coveney,
Kate Santley,

not to give a policeman the same " tipple " that they
sell to their customers. Even were it otherwise,
what hope is there of our putting down adulteration
in beer when we have so signally failed to put
it down in bread, milk, sugar, tea, and the rest ?
The idea of stationing a policeman in every
drink shop to say when a man has had
enough, and must go home to bed, is exquisitely
ludicrous. The cost of it does not seem to have been
thought of; but we fancy Mr. LowE would have
something to say before he increased the estimates by
L 52 a year for supplying each of the hundreds of
thousands of drink-shops in the kingdom with a censor
tnorum. Publicity is another remedy upon which
the Pall Mall relies. No one need be ashamed
of being seen drinking: the only cause for shame is
being seen drunk. Unfortunately it is just when
men get drunk that they are driven out from the
seclusion of the so-called public-house . into the
real publicity of the streets. Nevertheless, the
fear of making a spectacle of themselves
does not deter men from getting drunk. Spartans
forced the Helot to become drunk in order that
he might be a warning to the young; Britons,
though they " never will be slaves," become drunk
voluntarily, and, unfortunately, so often that their
example has ceased to deter. Finally, the Pall Mall
is afraid of transferring drunkenness to the homes and
of extending it to women. Clearly the writer of this
wonderful article has never seen a gin palace, or he
would have discovered that women do drink already,
and may be seen by hundreds every night, crowding
the gin palace, fighting and swearing, while their
babes are wailing for hunger in the miserable hovels
called homes. " Revolutions are not made with rose
water." Drunkenness is not to be put down by Pall
Mall patents.

THERE are two Ministers not very popular just
now. We do not allude to Mr. CHILDERS and Mr.
CARDWELL, who are, of course, unpopular with " the
services," but to two who are out of favour with the
whole community; to wit, Mr. LowE and Mr. BRUCE.
Mr. LOWE'S offence is well known to all the
world. He has ingeniously contrived to
make us pay our income tax in advance,
at the most untimely period of the whole year, when
those of us who are unfortunate enough or weak
enough to have Christmas bills are groaning at the
payments which have to be made, and (as it always
seems so) much more rapidly than the receipts come in.
But Mr. LOWE'S unpopularity will be short-
lived. If all that is reported be true, he will
recover his position in the public esteem by a
Budget which will be both speedy and marvellous.
This is quite credible; for the man who contrived to
meet a deficit of four millions without imposing
fresh taxes must be capable of greater feats of
finance when there is no deficit, but a surplus. For
Mu. BRUCE there is no such prospect of recovery.
His unpopularity is only beginning, and is likely to
increase very considerably a fortnight hence, until it
reaches a climax with the London season.

Last year Mr. LOWE reduced the duty charged to
cab proprietors by £l7 a cab, and all the world
hoped, as he promised, that the result would be
better cabs. This year Mr. BRUCE having a splendid
opportunity for insisting upon the fulfilment of his
colleague's prophecy, has not only neglected
that opportunity, but has handed all persons who use
cabs in London into the merciful hands
of the cab-driver. Mr. BRUCE has not only
made the owners a present of a year for every
cab they own, but has given them power to refuse any
fare under a shilling, to charge for an infant of a
month old, to charge for any article of luggage which
goes outside, to claim a reward for returning any
property left in the cab, and last, but by no means
least, to ask what fare they please, sub-
ject only to the tariff being painted on a flag
or plate. On the other side of the account
there is absolutely nothing. The cabs may be just
as bad as ever they were; they are not bound to
carry lights, or to be driven by civil or sober drivers.
The result will be, first of all that the fare will be
painted so small that no one will be able to see it
until he has hailed and stopped the cab ; a fertile
source of haggling, quarrel, and abuse, which no lady,
and very few gentlemen will care to endure. Then there
will be no more means of checking the distance than
there is at present. There will be no guarantee
that the cushions are not swarming with vermin, or,
worse still, impregnated with fever contagion. There
will be no safeguard against accidents in the shape of
lamps at night. In fact, there is not one single
particular in which the cab-user will be
better off than he is at present. Visitors
from the country are as much interested
in this matter as Londoners ; for the first being gene-
rally ignorant of the routes and the distances, are
more likely to be imposed upon. It is for the first, no
less than for the second, to protest against this whole-
sale endowment of cab-proprietors on the part of
Mr. BRUCE, at the time when we are all smart
lag under _ the burden of a premature income tax,

The screw steamer Wyvern, from Huelva, hat
arrived in Shields Harbour with the crew—twelve in num-
ber—of an abandoned Swedish barque, name unknown at
present. The barque left the Tyne on Christmas Eve, in
tow of the Wyvern, and when at sea she lost her rudder
and the crew left her and were placed on board the steamer
and brought into the Tyne.

It seems that the business to which members of the
"long firm" devote themselves is still a remunerative one,
and that there are persons ready to give them credit. Two
men were brought up at the Manchester Police-court yes-
terday and remanded on a charge of fraud. In the case of
one man a detective said that at least a hundred complaints
against him had been made during the last six months.

Mr. O'Donnell, who was specially appointed by
the Government to inquire into the case of the murder at
Thumaloor, county Cavan, where a party of Orangemen at-
tacked a priest and other persons who were returning from
a tenant-right demonstration, and killed one man, has con-
cluded his investigation. The proceedings were private,
but it is understood that eight men have been returned for
trial on a charge of wilful murder.
The Dundalk Harbour Board have expended
£20,000 in making an embankment from the quay to the
mouth of the harbour. When it was completed Lord
Roden claimed and took possession of it, and now the
commissioners find to their mortification that they have
only been improving Lord Roden's prospects. At their
meeting on Wednesday they were obliged to apply to his
lordship for a site for a new graving dock on the embank-
ment.

The question of embezzlement has been raised
before the Burslem magistrates. A commercial traveller,
who refused to give in his account, was dismissed from a
charge of theft on the ground that his acts did not amount to
that crtme. The grand jury at sessions, however, presented
a true bill. The prisoner then decamped, but was discovered
on board a ship in the Mersey bound for Melbourne, for
which place he had taken passage. He was arrested, and
now awaits his trial.

Mr. W. Rathbone, M.P., presided last night at the
annual soiree of the Liverpool Shipwrights' Association,
and in the course of his speech expressed his regret that the
hopes that had been formed with regard to the revival of the
shipping trade in 1869 bad not been realised. He also
spoke of the changes in shipbuilding, and said he was glad
that the shipwrights of Liverpool had appreciated them,
and that they were prepared for any further alterations that
might be rendered necessary by the constant progress of
commerce.

From the Army List and Estimates it appears
that of the troops which were in Ireland on the Ist
of April, 1869, 2,315 men had been withdrawn by
the Ist of January, 1870 namely, the 39th and
second battalions of the 4th and 9th Regiments. But we
find that thcre are now 6,618 soldiers in Ireland who have
boon sent there since April, 1869, namely, the Ist Dra-
goon Guards, Bth Hussars, 20th (one battalion), 22d (one
battalion), 30th, 40th, 43d, 47th, 68th, and 80th Regiments.
The military force in the sister island at present, therefore,
is by 4,803 men more numerous than it was nine months ago.

The Pall Mall Gazette publishes a special telegram
from New York regarding the Red River country. Advices
from Georgetown, Minnesota, state that Captain and Mrs.
Cameron and Dr. Tupper, who have arrived there, describe tl e
condition of affairs at Fort Garry as most serious. Loui-
who signed the Declaration of Independence as the
Secretary to the Council of Insurgents, has taken the title of
Commander-in-Chief. The insurgents have taken posses-
sion of the treasury of the Hudson's Bay Company. On the
frontier of Minnesota and at• Fort Qarry there are aoPreken
giouri of au WWI massacre.

ROMAN CATHOLIC LOTTERIES.

Applications have been made to Mr. Gladstone to put
down public lotteries by Boman Catholics for religious
purposes. The following is the reply :
Whitehall, Jan. 14, 1870.

Sir,—With reference to the letter you addsessed to the
Prime Minister on the 30th ultimo, I am directed by Mr.
Secretary Bruce to acquaint you that if you will send
him any positive information as to lotteries which
are got up, and which are to be drawn for, in England,
he will be enabled to caution the promoters thereof,
and, if necessary, direct that steps should be taken to pre-
vent them.

As to the Irish lotteries, I am to add that you must
apply to the Irish Government.--I am, Sir, your obedient
servant, (Signed) A. F. 0. LIDDELL.

A BOY BURNT TO DEATH AT A FIRE
IN LONDON.

On Saturday morning, in Aldersgate-street, City, just
as business was commencing, a fire broke out on the
premises of an oil and colourman named Vickers. A boy
was burnt to death by it. It appears that in the cellars
there were storages of oil, Brunswick-black, and other
inflammable liquids. Two men who were injured and the
unfortunate boy were engaged in measuring out some
Brunswick-black, pouring it from one can into another, the
boy holding a lighted candle at the time. When they had
nearly finished this part of their duty the Brunswick-
black became suddenly ignited, and in less than a
moment the whole of the cellar was in a flame.
Whether the boy dropped the candle or not, or how
the liquid was actually fired, has not yet transpired.
The moment the ignition took place the men made for
the steps leading to the shop, and rushing (one enveloped
in a sack, which he snatched up) into the street.
created. the utmost consternation in the locality. The
boy, unfortunately, in his fright ran farther into the cellar,
where he was afterwards found dead and dreadfully burnt.
The alarm occasioned by the men rushing into the streets
had the effect of bringing the engines upon the scene in an
unusually short space of time, and the house, in conse-
quence, was saved from destruction. The flames reached
the shop, doing considerable damage, and spreading as far
as the first floor, where some articles of furniture were
destroyed.

FATAL GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION IN
WALES.

Some very sad news comes from Wales, in intelligence
of a fatal gunpowder explosion at Brynmawr. Of the
results of the accident there are most contradictory
reports. One statement is that six lives are kuown to
be lost. The destruction to property is enor-
mous. Shops were shattered, and roofs were set
on fire. It appears that there Lis a powder
magazine in connection with a grocer's shop in the town.
On Friday evening (says one account) " a little after five
o'clock, a young man, an assistant of Mr. Watkins,
grocer and draper, had occasion to go to the powder-
house. He carelessly took with him a naked candle
and in a few moments a report was heard that
frightened the whole neighbourhood. The shock was so
terrific that many thought an earthquake had taken place.
and people ran out of their houses, thinking such was
the case, The powder-house was entirely destroyed, and
two persons, (such is the account,) killed, the young man,
and a little girl, who was struck by a stone. A
chapel, which stood next door to Mr. Watkins's
shop, is in ruins, and another in a bad state. Every
window is blown out, and the gallery has fallen in.
Not a house in Worcester-street has a whole
window in it. Nearly all the streets have suffered. The
report was heard at Abergavenny. The column of fire
which ascended was remarkably brilliant. One who saw
it describes it as a beautiful meteor. There are about 20
persons injured. Nearly every shop in Beaufort-street,
which is 203 yards away from the scene of the explosion,
has suffered, more especially the large shops of Messrs.
Ashton and Horlick. No doubt the accident occuzred
through carelessness. We hope the case will be tho-
roughly investigated with a view to prevent such a
large storage of powder in close proximity to dwelling-
houses. It is thought that nearly a ton of powder was in
stock."

It is stated that the following compromise in the
Saurin case has been arranged : the plaintiff to receive
back the £3OO which she brought with her when she joined
the Sisterhood of Mercy, but no more ; and each party to
bear their own costs—something like £B,OOO, it is said.
The return of the Court to Windsor, according to
the Court Journal, will be on the 22nd of next month.
Their Royal Hignnesses the Prince and Princess Christian
will return to Frogmore House on ghe 25th instant, to
receive their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Duke of Cambridge, and other distinguished visitors.
A LARGE DINNER.—A local paper gives the par-
ticulars of a wager recently decided at Avebury. Some
body offered to bet that no man could eat, at one sitting
a rabbit weighing Gib., a small loaf of bread, and 21b. of
cheese. Two men, one of whom was named Bull, accepted
the challenge, and in the presence of an enthusiastic
crowd each competitor won the wager, devouring the pro-
visions in the space of fifteen minutes. Hale, the other
mare encouraged by the applause, finished up with a beef-
steak, and drank three half-pints of gin and half a pint
of brandy.
A STORY OF THE POET LAUREATE.—The Lon-
don correspondent of the Western Mailmentions," as whim-
sically illustrative of the Laureate's keen eye to the minutest
charm of nature," an incident which took place during his
recent journey upon the Continent. One of his two com-
panions upon this journey having called his attention to a
dragon-fly basking upon a rose—down upon his hands and
knees goes the Laureate, hanging his bearded visage over
the two, that is over the insect and the blossom, in rapt
contemplation. After a lengthened pause like that of
Cortes—" Silent upon a peak in Darien "—the poet rises
from his hands and knees, exclaiming with a sigh of wonder
and exultation, " I saw the colour of the flower through
the wing of the fly!"
A CURIOUS CHANGE.—It is curious to notice the
entire reversal in the position of north and south country
labourers since the commencement of the last century.
Defoe, in his "Giving Alms no Charity," makes the fol-
lowing remark :—" 'Tis plain to any observing eye that
there is an equal plenty of provisions in several of our
south and western counties as in Yorkshire,'and rather a
greater; and I believe I could make it out that a poor
labouring man may live as cheap in Kent or Sussex
as in the bishopric of Durham; and yet in Kent
a poor man shall earn 75., 10s., N. a week, and in the
north 45., or perhaps less ; the difference is plain in this,
that in Kent there is a greater want of people in propor-
tion to the work there than in the north." Defoe, in an-
ticipation of Canon Girdlestone, suggests the advantage
of emigration from one district to another, being convinced
that in England generally " there is more labour than
hands to perform it, and consequently a want of people,
not of employment."—Pan Mall Gazette.
DAMAGES FOR BRIBERY AT A MUNICIPAL ELEC-
TIox.—An action to recover damages for bribery at a
municipal election has been heard at the Tamworth County
Court on Friday. The plaintiff was William Bettridge, re-
cently in the employ of Messrs. Hamel and Son, tape
manufacturers, of Tamworth, and a member of that
firm, Etienne Bruno Hamel, was the defendant.
Mr. John Peel was formerly member for the borough,
but lost his seat at the last election. As a burgess, the
plaintiff voted for "Sir Robert Peel's men," and on the
following day he found a printed bill, signed by the
defendant, placed upon Li; bench, stating that
he could not allow his employes to work with
one hand for the firm and with the other for Sir Robert.
When plaintiff went for his wages at the end of the
week, defendant told him that, in consequence of his
having voted for Sir Robert Peel, he felt obliged
to give him a fortnight's notice. Plaintiff, who
had been thirty years with the firm, asked for
a statement of the grounds upon which he was dis-
charged, and subsequently he received a letter, with the
simple intimation that he was freed from the defendant's
service. The defendant's solicitor denied that Mr. Hamel
stated to the plaintiff that his vote was the ground of his
discharge, and he argued that to justify a verdict it must
be shown that the vote of the plaintiff was the only motive
acting in the mind of the defendant. The judge gave a
verdict for the plaintiff for 40s. and costs.
A " SANITARIUM" IN AMERICA.—The Americans
are very active in spreading their doctrine that intem-
perance should bo treated as a disease. They have esta-
blished several iv stitutions. A Pennsylvanian paper states
that a sanitarium, founded in Medina, in that State, about
two years ago, bad received no fewer than 110 inmates thus
classified :—Clerks, 27 ; physicians, 8 ; manufacturers, G ;
no business, 12 ; clergyman, 1; students, 2 ; civil engineer,
1 ; sea captains, 2 ; merchants, 20 ; lawyers, 8; farmers, 5 ;
judge, 1 ; teacher, 1 ; actor 1; agents, 3 ; mechanics, 12.
There were, of periodical and habitual inebriates, es, ch 45,
and 7 who occasionally drank to excess. Addicted to the
use of morphia alone, 5 ; laudanum, 2 ; alcohol and morphia,
3 ; alcohol and hashish, 1 ; alcohol, opium, and hashish, 1.
The average duration of institution-life was about 31 months.
Number cured and in business, 45 ; improved, and most of
time at business, 28; irreclaimable, 16 ; doubtful, 15; died
and insane, 6. The cured aro reported as 45 out of 110,
but this statement is obviously imperfect, as the short time
elapsed cannot have afforded any means for concluding
either that the use of strong drink could be resumed with-
out the concurrence of intemperance, or that the practice of
abstinence bad become a permanent habit of the former
patient. On the other side the number who had died or been
declared irreclaimable (22) was 20 ver cent. of the admis-
sions.—The Alliance News.