The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-14 00:00:00

TREATMENT OF PAUPERS.

The Daily News thinks that one of our national failings
!thews itself very conspicuously in the treatment which
we deal out to those peculiarly unhappy and defenceless
classes of the community—criminals and paupers. We
seem altogether to ignore the fact that they are human
beings, with the very same passions and feelings as our
own. We do not, perhaps, treat them badly. But we
treat them worse than badly, contemptuously and
ignominiously. 1t - appears that the Westminster
guardians are in the habit of conveying their fever patients
to the hospital in a hand-ambulance, dragged by paupers.
It is not on the score of its inhumanity that we feel
bound to protest against such a practice, and to agree with
Mr. Goschen that its publicity ought to be equivalent
to its prohibition. Paupers might be, and often are,
far worse treated and far more ill-used. But it is strange
that it should never have occurred to the West-
minster Guardians that to habitually employ human
beings as beasts of burden is to degrade them to the level
of horse or mule, which have no understanding. Surely
we have yet a good deal to learn. To harness a man to an
ambulance or to clothe him in sacking, will one day be
seen to be quite as wanton a form of cruelty as to brand
or to flog him. No physical pain may be involved in such
things, but they lower a man's self-respect, if he have any;
and if he have none, they confirm him in his degradation

It is state 44 in professional circles that Vice-
Admiral Sir Hastings Reginald Yelverton, K.C.8., is'
likely to have a command very shortly, probably in the
•
Mediterranean.
A godless fellow, being in church when a collec-
tion was made for the heathen, put his hand in the box
and took out all the money he could lay hold of. When
asked why he did that, he replied that he was the greatest
heathen in that part of the country.
PASTORAL FROAI CARDINAL CULLEN.--A pasto-
ral from Cardinal Cullen has been published. He says :
" Last year one of the greatest impediments to Ireland's
happiness--the State church—was removed for ever. At
present the great statesmen who conferred that boon have
manifested their resolve to remove other grievances. It
is only by peaceable agitation and temperate discussion
that we can hope to co-operate with them. I hesitate not
to say there never was a period when the axiom that he
who commits a crime gives strength to the enemy was
more unquestionably applicable. He cautions people
against Fenianism and Freemasonry.

THE PROGRESS OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN AMRRICA.
—Certainly
the Women's Rights movement is progressing
in America. A firm of ladies are acting as stockbrokers
in New York, Utah has given women the suffrage, and
now Wyoming has not merely done as much as Utah, but
has made a lady, a Mrs. Esther Morris, a justice of the
peace. A correspondent of the New York. World of Feb.
26th thus describes the lady judge :----" Mrs. Morris is
above the average stature, and 180 pounds. She has
strongly marked and masculine features, her whole ap-
pearance indicating strength of both purpose and muscle.
She is fifty-seven years of age, and acknowledges it ; and
is, and perhaps always has been, one of the strong
minded:. She never delivered any lecture (away front
home), but she writes for the Revolution. On the occa-
sion of her first court day she wore a calico gown, worsted
breakfast shawl. green ribbons on her hair, and a
green necktie. The Worlds correspondent makes no secret
of his disapproval of the appointment, hut it must be con•
fessed that, according to his acccount, Mrs. Morris showed
that she was possessed of the first requisite for her new office
—a sense of justice. Her predecessor having refused to our
render to her the docket and other papers appertaining to
the office, she issued a warrant for his arrest. When
brought before her, his attorney stated that he was
not ready, and asked for an adjournment to the
next day. His demand was granted. On the next
day "the court-room was again crowded with spectators,
the shops in the immediate vicinity being closed, and
business suspended. Her Honour, calm and dignified, took
her seat at the table." The defendant's counsel moved a dis-
charge of the prisoner for informality in the warrant. The
motion was sustained , and the prisoner discharged. Blithe
was immediately arrested and brought hack again. His coun-
sel then moved his discharge, on the ground that the court
had no jurisdiction, and that the judge clai:nin,, to be the
successor of Stillman was an interested party, ke. " For
the credit of the Woman's Rights party, and to th,
honour of Mrs. Morris be it mid, she here saw that shp
had been misled, and she had the good sense to sue that,
she was in the wrong." The ca3e was dismissed.—Pall
Mall Gazette.
THE DUKE OF BEDFORD'S WALL—An appeal from
Vice-Chancellor James has been heard hy Lord Justice
Gifford. An injunction had been granted restraining, the
London and North-Western Railway Company from re-
moving a wall secures the privacy of Ampthitl-
square and other adjoining property. 'Phe wail bultmged
to the company, but it scenic that an agi;eernent had been
made with the Duke to keep it up. The Lord Justice
:p-i,ged the ;appeal.