The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THVR'S DA Y EVRN I NU, JULY 3. 1856.

gating the rules and orders to the Poor Law Board:and
limiting it to the clerks of the peace ; the making it cons-
oulsory on each parish to keep a fire engine; to the
clauses of centralisation, by removing the appointment
if the auditors to the Poor Law Board, who shall audit,
,n addition to the Poor Law accounts, those relating to
lighting and watching. The hoc, baronet referred to
other objections he had to the details of the bill, and
concluded by moving that the bill be read a second time
that day six months.
Lord GALWAY seconded the motion, and suggested
to the Vice President of the Poor Law Board to with-
lraw the measure, because it was impossible for the house
Properly to consider it at this late period of the session.
It was stated that the urgency of the case demanded the
passing of this bill, but that he did not consider sufficient
ivben it was remembered the important changes con-
templated by it. He (Lord Galway) objected to the bill
principally because it proposed to get rid of the Gilbert
Unions, and to introduce centralisation by the appoint-
ment of auditors.
Mr. BOUVERIE said that many different
proposals were contained in the bill, some
of which were important, and others unimportant,
And he should address his observations to the former.
With regard to the auditors, they were at present ap-
pointed by the chairmen and vice-chairmen of Boards of
Guardians in the district in which the auditor acted,
instead of as formerly by the Boards of Guardians.
As the auditors were paid out of the public taxes
and had to audit the accounts of the board of guardiaus,
it was thought desirable and for the protection of the
ratepayers that they should be appointed by the Puor
Law Board in accordance with the recommendation of
a select committee in 1853. The principal objection to
the bill appeared to be against the dissolving of the
Gilbert Unions, but he thought it was high
.time they
were dissolved. There were only 14 Gilbert Unions
throughout the country, and as they were conducted
contrary to law, and the poor no doubt disregarded, it
would be to the benefit and advantage of the rate-
payers and the poor that a change should take place.
By the present system the extra-parochial places, num-
boding 30,000 inhabitants, did not come under the Poor
Law Act, and the consequence was the destitute poor
could not be relieved from the rates, and had to
depend on casual benevolence and charity. Cases
of persons being destitute and ill frequently came
before the poor law board for relief, but none could be
granted, as rates for that purpose could not be raised in
the district, nor could the destitute be relieved from the
funds of the adjoining union. The same applied to
pauper lunatics, and it was necessary that it should be
changed. There was an urgency for alteration as re-
garded the extra parochial districts, and he asked the '
house to legislate on it. As there were objections to
the other parts of the bill, if the house would assent to
its second reading, he would, on going into committee,
strike out everythieg in the bill relating to extra-paro-
chial districts. (Hear, hear.)
Sir J. TROLLOPE expressed his satisfaction at the
contemplated changes with regard to extra-parochial
districts, but objected to the other parts of the measure.
He called the attention of the President of the Poor
Law Board to the present system of medical relief,
which required amendment. At present the medical
relief, one half of which was paid by the State, amounted
to 250,0001. per annum. If doubled the poor
would be greatly benefitted, whilst the additional ex-
pense spread over the various unions throughout the
country would be trifling to each union.
After some remarks from Mr. CARDWELL to make the
extra parochial system perfect,
Mr. HENLEY objected to the second reading of the
bill. It was impossible to make one general. measure
applicable to the various extra-parochial districts
throughout the kingdom, and he suggested it would
be better not to legislate for the present on this subject,
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Mr. BARROW objected to the second reading, be.
cause he disliked this " pedling system" of legislation.
He fully concurred in the proposal to bring extra-paro-
chial places under the operation of the Poor Law Board.
Mr. WALTER asked the President of the Poor Law
Board to withdraw the bill altogether and bring in a
better and more comprehensive system next session,
which would meet the necessities of the case.
It being 10 minutes to 4 o'clock, the debate, in ac-
cordance with the standing orders, was adjourned.
The other business on the morning paper was then
disposed of, and the house suspended its sitting at four
o'clock.

The house resumed at six o'clock, and was
[LEFT SITTING.]

PRIVATE AND JOINT-ST OCK BANKS.

The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of circu-
lation of the private and joint-stock banks in England
and Wales for the four weeks ending the 7th of June,
1856, and gives the following as the average weekly cir•
culation of those banks during the past month, viz.:—
Private banks ... £3,815,5'5
Joint-stock banks... 3,066,417

Average weekly circulation £6,8'2,002
On comparing the above with the returns for the pre
ceding month, ending the 10th of May last, it shows—
A. decrease in the circulation of the private
banks of
A. decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock
banks of .

81,446

Decrease on the month
And, as compared with the return for the correspond-
ing period of the preceding year—viz., June 9, 1855, it
eho ws—

A decrease in the circulation of the private
banks of
A decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock
banks of

£15,140

Decrease on the year
On comparing the above with the amounts of the fixed
issues, the following appears to be the comparative state
of the circulation •
The private banks are below their fixed issues
The joint-stock banks are below their fixed
issues

£755,34%3

236,910

Total below their fixed issues

ARRIVALS AT MELBOURNE.—The later advises re•
ceived from Melbourne mention the arrival at that
port, on the 2,1 of April, of the Ball: rat, Captain
.Tones, and the Palmer Castle, Captain Daniels, both
from London,

Complaints are made of annoyance experienced by the
officers of the Customs' Department owing to delays
which take place in the payment of the salaries at the
end of the quarter. The authorities demand punctuality
from their subordinates, and they should abstain from
setting them a bad example.
A new line of screw steamers is about to be started to
run from London to Montreal direct. The first will sal
o.n the 23d of the present month. She is named the
Chester, and is of 567 tons burden, with about 100-horse
Rower. Her cargo will consist chiefly of fine goods, and
she will carry only a very few passengers.
Mr. Layard has left Constantinople forVriesteland
Vienna.

ACCIDENT ON A RAILWAY.—A man and horse were
killed at the Preston aed Longridge railway station
on Monday. Deceased, whose name was John Carter,
and who was very deaf, was going with his horse
and cart along an occupation road which crosses one
of the lines, and was on the off side of his horse
when a train from Longridge came up ; and, although
the driver of the engine sounded his whistle two or
three times, Carter held on his course, and the train
struck the hone and cart and knocked them into an
adjoining ditch. Carter was picked up dead, one side
of his head being driven in ; and the horse died soon
afterward A.-Manch,eeer Guardian.
FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE AT WOOLWlClL—Yesterday
morning a fire broke out at a quarter to five o'clock,
causing the total destruction of a large room for evening
entertainments, known as the Canterbury Music Hall,
situated at the rear of a tavern bearing that name, in
Cburch.street, Woolwich. All the inmates escaped,
with the exception of one unfortunate old lady, who was
sleeping in a room at the top of the house, and nearly
over the burning building. One of the police succeeded
in getting her out of bed, and carried her to a neighbour-
ing house, but she expired about a quarter of an hour
afterwards. Her name was Mrs. Jewsberry. She was
about 80 years of age.
A. letter from Jassy of June 17, in the Constitu-
tionnel, says :

" The article in the treaty of Paris which decides on
consulting the inhabitants of the Danubian Principalities
as to their future government has given rise to two
parties in Moldavia—one in favour of the union of the
Principalities, and the other opposed to it. The leaders
of the former party some time back held a meeting, at
which the following principles were agreed to :-1. The
union of Moldavia and Wallachia under a foreign
prince ; 2. The selection of a common capital for the
two provinces ; and 3. The publication of journals and
pamphlets, and sending delegates about the country to
enlighten public opinion. On the 9th another meeting,
of 200 persons of all classes, was held at the residence
of M. Michel Cantacuzenes, at which the above pro-
gramme was adopted and numerously signe3. Such are
the measures taken by the partisans of the union ; but,
though they seem likely to succeed, it will not be with-
out a struggle against an enterprising minority, composed
of all the local ambitions which this programme would
disappoint, supported by the influence of those
powers which opposed the union at the congress of
Paris. I will now state the principal arguments of this
latter party :-1. By the fusion of Moldavia and Wal-
lachia' and the selection of a capital distant from the cen-
tre sf Moldavia,' say they, the Moldavian nationality
will be absorbed by the Wallachian, trade annihilated
in the countries distant from the capital, and all the ad-
vantages of the change will fall to the share of Walla-
cilia.' It is scarcely necessary to refute such arguments
founded solely on individual interests, and all must at
once see the narrowness and absurdity of this petty
local policy. In that very point, in the fact that tee
shall be no longer either Moldavians or Walla-
chians, but Roumelians, lies our strength and the
germ of our future political, intellectual, and commer-
cial development. 2. `The union of the principalities
under a foreign prince,' say they again, 'will be the
signal for the annihilation of the dominant religion.'
-Without calling into question the good faith of this as-
sertion, I may obser-Y-e-___Aliat-Ahe._ must xecent example,
that of Greece, victoriously proves such a danger to be
absolutely 'chimerical. But notwithstanding the weak-
ness of the reasons assigned, it cannot be denied that
the party in favour of the- separate government of the
two priwipslitio§ isa strong one.",

THE MAGAZINES.

Blackwood.—Already in our leading columns
we have taken occasion to refer to the slashing
article in reference to "The Dispute with America,"
contained in the July number of Blackwood. No
less than three other political papers are comprised
in the same instalment of our old Edinburgh con-
temporary. One of these rather curiously retro-
spective, being a sort. of literary, historico-anti-
quarian narrative of " A Special Embassy in 1698."
Another of them, decidedly anticipative in its cha-
racter, having reference to the probable or possible
future of " Greece and Italy." The remaining
one being, so to speak, a species of laborious digest
of the " Crimean Report and Chelsea Inquiry."
This last mentioned, by the way, suitable exclu-
sively to such persons as may have a relish for
what the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for
Carlisle has curtly called "pottering over Blue-
books." Another sample of "The Scot Abroad"
introduces us to certain specimens of that genus un-
der the deliberative aspect of "The Man of Coun-
cil." Another (the second)portion of "Travelsin Cir-
cassia" keeps, if not " the fear of the Russians," still
before our eyes, the hopes and aspirations of the
heroic race yet cherishing a belief in Sammy], the
Warrior Prophet of the Caucasus ! There is a
fragment of verse at page 25, among the contents
of this July number of Black tvood—a fragment en-
titled " A Snow Storm," and signed "Musa," of
which, alas ! we can only say that, to our mind, it
is certainly "not worth Musa" if gruffy old Ebony
will but allow the pun to pass ! For assuredly we
look for better verse than this about " The Snow
Storm" in pages adorned by the rythmic beauties
of Moir, and Aytoun, and Lytton, and Barrett,
and " last, not least," B. Simmons ! Besides the
productions in prose and verse already mentioned,
there are two other contributions to the July num-
ber before us in the pleasant, and to us, we are
not ashamed to confess it, ever-acceptable
form of mere light reading. It is with plea-
sure that we announce that one of these
comprises in a few more chapters (making
the "third" division of a very brief serial) the
concluding portion of the strange revolutionary tale
entitled " Metamorphoses." It is with pleasure,
we say, that we intimate the conclusion of this
story, and for this simple reason, that the story is
altogether, to our thinking, strangely unsatisfactory.
We are glad to be well rid of it, and that too so
suddenly, and, we must acknowledge, so unex-
pectedly. Not a character in the tale but in some
way or other is repulsive Victor, Adrienne,
Count, Countess, Nicotte, Roussel, each and all
being simply abominable. Not so with Mrs. Oli-
phant's charming novel " The Athelings, or the
Three Gifts"—about the only horrid personage in-
troduced as yet, into which is that intolerable
Yankee Prig—Foggo Silas Endicott, who " does "
the travel-department for the Mississippi Gazette,
and "lives " sonnets, and then " writes 'em " un-
der the generic heading of "Experiences!" The hero
and the two heroines of the narrative—the reci-
pients evidently (as we intimated last month) of
" The Three Gifts"—Charlie (endowed with
strength), Agnes (with genius), and Marian (with
beauty), gain wonderfully on our affections as we
proceed. " The Book" has been accepted (on cer-
tain conditions) by the mysterious publisher, Mr.
Burlington. " The Friends of the Family"—
agreeable but acidulated Miss Willsie, and her
old bachelor brother, brown burly Mr. Foggo—
are duly introduced to the reader's notice, and, if
we are not very much mistaken, Mr. Foggo is des-
tined to be a bit of a favourite with us all ! What
though he is, what we fancy Mr. Thackeray, and
no other than Mr. Thackeray has called, in some
delicious little droll delightful verses, in a recent
number of _Household Words, (verses entitled
simply " Neighbour Nelly")—" A Square-toes and
a Buffer !"

Dublin University.—The two stories of " The
Darragh," and " The Fortunes of Glencore," are
continued. The former becomes more complicated ;
the evil genius of the tale isemployed in some deep
designs. The plot is more elaborate by the intro-
duction of two amusing, but not interesting cha-
racters, who are relations of the General, the mas-
ter of the Darragh. The latter narrative is as mys-
tical as ever. In the portion now before us we are
introduced to a Duke'of Massa and his confiden-
tial minister, who are involved in all kinds of State
intrigues and domestic discords, so natural to an
Italian domain. The heroes of the story do not
appear on the scene at all, but it is to be presumed
that the grandees referred to bear some relation to
their fortunes, which will be hereafter explained."
" Novels and Novelists" presents Daniel De Foe
to the notice of the reader. It is observed that
few lives have been more active than was his. He
was not however appreciated, but since his death,
which occurred a hundred and twenty years ago,
he has been defended by several able and clever
men. It is said of " Robinson Crusoe," that there
is no necessity to sound its praises. What school-
boy is not familiar with it, and how many in the
decline of life have over its pages grown young
again. Charles Lamb asserted that this romance
excited the greatest influence on the juvenile mind
of England, and also its rower was extended to the
other nations of Christendom. It is added that
" out of Christendom might have been included,
for it has been translated into Arabic, and read
aloud by the wandering tribes in the cool hours of
evening." It is interesting to peruse this glimpse
of the great man's life, which brings forcibly before
the mind circumstances and details necessarily out
of the teach of the general reader. "The Plants of
the Superstitions" is a curious paper, which con-
tains elaborate information regarding the subject
under consideration. Those who aro pleased with
floral emblems will here meet with a study after
their own hearts. It is mentioned that "in the
early ages men were more impressed with the pro-
ductions of the earth in her vegetable than her
mineral kingdom." They were more addicted to
be botanists, florists, and herbalists than geologists
and mineralogists. Besides the descriptions of
the herbs, plants, &c., there are verses interspersed
here and there analogous to the context of the ac-
counts, which impart a variety to the style. An
ariclo is written on the work lately completed of
"Memoirs of the Court of George the Third," &c.
After some notice of this admirable production, it
is said " that we may look back with peculiar pride
on this splendid passage in English history, as to an
epoch that filled all the theatres of political life
with the greatest intelligence that the world has
seen." It is also declared that to whichever side
we look for genius and originality, Ireland has
the largest share of the intellectual glory of that
ago. " Wellington was hers, Sheridan was hers,
Burke. was hers, Canning, and Grattan, and Moore,
with many another illustrious name." Some re-
marks are made on the subject of " Mr. Crampton
and the American Question;" in which blame is
attached to the Government of Lord Palmerston
for their conduct in the transaction. Au interest-
ing article is the last one met with on the subject
of " Lord Brougham's Contributions to the Edin-
burgh h'eview,"in which several interesting extracts
appear on important characters, that serve to illus-
trate and enforce the arguments referred to. It is
noticed that few of the many aspirants to renown
attain their object, and of these some are too
weary of ill luck to enjoy the Elysian plains once
so desiderated, but that no one is a more happy
contrast to the sad list mentioned than the subject
of these reflections. " For a type of the ambitious
man, combining all the qualities most essential to
success, we would fix upon Harry Brougham."

Colburn's it ezo Monthly.—Cyrus Redding con-
tributes, as usual, a political article to the opening
of this magazine. It is not difficult to conjecture
that the subject of it is in some way connected
with our transatlantic difficulties. It is entitled
" The American Presidential Morality," and takes
the common view of the case, that the American
Government have acted with indiscretion and ill-
humour. A story is commenced by the writer,
who signs himself " The Author of the Unlucky
Wish," seemingly having adopted this singular
and unpleasing title. It promises a full share of
the melodramatic interest usually found in his
tales. Number 111 of Sir Nathaniel's " Scissors and
Paste Work" is devoted to the second notice of
Merivale's " Romans under the Empire:' The
above curious appellation is not so inappropriate as
it appears, seeing that the author chiefly confines
himself to extracts and abridgments of the biogra-
phical sketches contained in the history. Those
who have not the opportunity of perusing
these volumes may obtain a good idea of their
style, as well as some agreeable reading from these
papers. " The History of the Newspaper Press,"
by Alexander Andrews, progresses satisfactorily,
though it will, of course, increase.in interest as it
advances. The following veracious piece of intel-
ligence is extracted from the " Mercurius Dem:.
critus," of November 12, 1653 :—" A perfect mer-
maid was, by the last great winde, driven ashore
nere Greenwich, with her combe in one hand and
her lookinge-glasse in the other. She seemed to
be of the countenance of a most faire and Ja.auti-
ful woman, with her armes crossed, weeping out
many pearly drops of salt tears,; and afterwards,
she gently turnir,ge herself againe, swamme away
Airs. Bushby con-
without being seen any more."
tributes a story, translated from the Danish, which
has appeared somewhere before, and, though curi-
ous enough, it is not sufficiently pleasing to merit
perusing a second time. Florentia continues her
" Narrative of Pilgrimages to the French Palaces,"
and interpolates some extracts from -the memoirs
of Gabrielle d'Estrees in her account of St. -Ger-•
main. " The Village Priest "is the title of a
story that leas not much to xecommeud it. Those