The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-18 00:00:00

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Jan. 18.
The Spanish Minister, Senor Montemar, pre-
sented his credentials to the King yesterday.
The Prince of the Asturias has arrived, and pro-
ceeded to Naples.

ItOUMANIA.

BUCHAREST, Jan. 17.

The Romanie positively asserts that a force of
20,000 men is being concentrated in the Bukovina,
and says :—Every day large bodies of troops are
being forwarded along the Arad-Vincz Railway to
Transylvannia."

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 18.

The Royal Mail steamship Siberia, from New
York, arrived here at 8.40 a.m. to-day with 95
passengers, of whom 25 she landed, and proceeded
for Liverpool at 9 a.m. All well.

THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS.
BORDEAUX, Jan. 17.

The Messageries Imperiales steamer, with the
Brazil and River Plate mails, arrived here at 6 p.m.
to-day. The mails will be forwarded at midnight.

FR A.NCE.
BOURSE, Jan. IG.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :

Bank Shares 3050
Ital'an Loan
End of month —
' Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes 31 50
Home Debt
Deferred 29
s. Cash
Orleans ... 926
Northern ... 3178
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 585
Western
Eastern
Sardinian

41 per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of month 7O 10
Credit Mobilier 286
End of month 273 75
Credit Foncier 1545
End of month —

RAILWA'

Austrian
Lombard 44li
North of Spain 6l
Saragossa
Roman 5O

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

WESTMINSTER.

DESPERATE ASSAULT UPON A MOTHER-IN-LAW.
—James Randall, a bricklayer, was charged with
assaulting and wounding Sarah Blackly, his
mother-in-law, by striking her on the head with an
earthenware pitcher.
On the case being called on, there was no pro-
secutrix.

Mr. Selfe —Has anybody seen the prosecutrix ?
Police-sergeant Gazee Lewis, B—l saw her this
morning. She was going to the hospital. She said
she shouldn't come against prisoner, as he was her
son-in-law.

Mr. Selfe—ls the injury serious ?
Police Sergeant—Yes, your worship, it is.

Mr. Selfe—Let me hear the particulars.

Sergeant Lewis—At half-past nine on Saturday
night I was called to 4, Franklin's-row, where I saw
Sarah Blackley sitting on a chair with her head cut
very severely across the forehead. She was bleed-
ing very much. I asked her how it was done, when
she told me in the prisoner's presence that he had
taken up the pitcher full of water, thrown the water
over her daughter, and hit her across the head with
the pitcher.

Mr. Selfe—Was it his wife he threw the water

over ?

Witness—No, her sister. Pro3ecutrix came to
the station in a cab, and was then taken to St.
George's Hospital._

Mr. Selfe—Aud he has been the cause of th's ?
Witness—Prisoner was. ill-using his wife, and her
mother interfered.

Prisoner—Me and my wife had a few words, and
the pitcher slipped out of my hand.

Mr. Selfe—l cannot allow a serious case like this
to be withdrawn. Prisoner is remanded.

MARLBOROUGH- STREET.

DISORDERLY GENTLEMEN AND THE POLICE.—Mr.
James Dickson, gentleman, of 32, York-street,
Portman-square, and Mr. George Marsden, describ-
ing himself as a clerk, of 22 St. George's-road, Pim-
lico, were charged before Mr. Mansfield with being
drunk and behaving in a disorderly manner in or
near Regent-street.
Robert French, 13 C R, said that about two
o'clock on Sunday morning he saw the prisoners,
who were drunk, walking with three other gentle-
men, all arm-in-arm, down Lower Regent-street,
and pushing persons about. After going a short
distance the two prisoners commenced fighting with
canes, and he then got between them and separated
them and endeavoured to get them away, but as he
could not do so, and there was a great disturbance,
he with assisiance took them to the station.

Mr. Mansfield asked whether any one complained
of the prisoners, and the constable answered in the
negative. _ . _

Dickson denied being drunk.

Marsden said he would plead guilty to a part of
the charge against him, but with extenuating cir-
cumstances. He knew nothing of the gentleman
who was at the tar with him, and Langly had
an altercation with him, and on putting out his
cane to defend himself fell down.

Police-constable John Morton, 62 C,• proved
seeing the prisoners, who were drunk, fighting with
canes.

Mr. Mansfield ordered them to enter into their
own recognizances in the sum of £2O each to be of
good behaviour.
Mr. William Ellis, or Charles Falkner —both
names being given—of No. 26, Norfolk-street,
Strand, was charged with being drunk and disor-
derly in Leicester-place.
Police-constable Johnston, 163 C, said that at an
early hour that morning he saw the prisoner kick-
ing at the door of a house in Leicester-place, and
as he refused to go away and struck him across the
hat he took him into custody.
In answer to Mr. Mansfield, the constable said
the prisoner was very drunk at the time.
The prisoner said he had been drinking with a
friend who was about joining his regiment, and
took too much.

Mr. Mansfield fined the prisoner forty shillings
or a month.

Mr. Allen Deveres, solicitor, of No. 4, Essex-
court, Temple, and Mr. Joseph Brown, same ad-
dress, were charged with being drunk and disorderly
in the Haymarket.
Edward Timberlake, 186 K, said that about two
o'clock that morning be saw the defendants, who
were both drunk, and arm in arm in the Haymarket,
amusing themselves by calling cabs off the stand,
and singing, at the top of their voices, 4, Up in a
balloon, boys." He requested them to go away,
when one of them said they must have all the cabs
there if they thought proper. As Deveres was very
disorderly he took him into custody, and Brown
then flourished his stick about his head, saying,
" Leave my friend alone," and one of the prisoner's
other friends offered him £5 to let Deveres go, and
Brown was then taken into custody.
Deveres said he had had a little to drink, and
that if the constable had shown a little forbearance
he would have gone away.
Brown dertied attempting to rescue Deveres.
Mr. Mansfield imposed a fine of 10s. each or 7
days.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—HaIf-a-Crown Day, Satur-
day, Jan. I.6.—Admissions by season tickets, 4,507; ditto
on payment, 1,176; total yisitors, 5,683.

THE PUBLIC ENTRY INTO DUBLIN OP
THE LORD-LIEUTENANT,

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Dublin correspondents give accounts of the entry 6.
Earl Spencer into Dublin as Lord-Lieutenant. The Ulster,
the steamer by which their Excellencies were conveyed
across the Channel, came alongside the Carlisle Pier at nine
o'clock onSa.turday,under the usual salute from her Maj esty's
ship the Royal George, which, together with the other
vessels in the harbour, had its gayest bunting displayed
for the occasion. On the platform, abreast of the steamer,
a guard of honour of the 3rd battalion Grenadier
Guards was formed in line ; and here also were
assembled a number of distinguished personages, who
were, after some time, brought on board, and presented to
his Excellency by the comptroller of the household and
the gentleman usher. At half-past eleven the Earl and
Countess Spencer, Lord and Lady Bruce, with their com-
pany, debarked, and proceeded to the train in waiting,
the battery on the east pier of the harbour booming a royal
salute, while the band of the guard of honour played the
National Anthem, and immediately afterwards "St.
Patrick's Day," and the Royal George and the
gunboats in the harbour manned their yards. The
Viceregal party arrived at the Westland-row ter-
minus, Dublin, at about twelve o'clock. The
station was decorated for the occasion, the path along
which the Lord-Lieutenant was to proceed being
carpeted, and a canopy being erected outside the door
through which he was to pass. His Excellency on
arriving was received by the Lord Mayor, several alder-
men and town councillors, the city znarshal, the mace
bearer, and other civic dignitaries, all wearing their robes
of office. In accordance with an ancient custom the
mace and the sword of the city were laid at his Excel-
lency's feet, and the keys delivered into his hands. The
Lord Mayor was then presented by the gentleman
usher, and bade the Lord-Lieutenant welcome in
the name of the inhabitants of the city of which he
was the chief magistrate, 'and expressed a hope
that during his Excellency's viceroyalty he might
be the medium of giving to the people of Ireland peace,
happiness, and prosperity. The Lord-Lieutenant,in reply,
returned his thanks, and gave back the mace, sword, and
keys of the city, "being assured that their keeping could
be entrusted to no worthier hands" than those of the
Lord Mayor. Their Excellencies then proceeded to the
street, and on making their appearance the military bands
truck up " St. Patrick's Day," and the crowds in
front of the station cheered with some warmth.
Westland - row, as well as the other parts of
the city through which the procession passed,
was considerably crowded, many of the shops
displayed colours, and most of the windows were crowded
with ladies who were by no means chary of their expres-
sions of welcome. Troops of cavalry, in all the splendour
of brazen helmets and nodding plumes, lined the streets,
and kept clear a large space through which the procession
had to pass. Considering that the streets which the pro-
cession proceeded through were but few in number, they
cannot be said to have been much crowded. This is a
fact not hard to be accounted for, as it is scarcely possible
to imagine a morning more unfit and inauspicious. The
rain fell without intermission, and the streets were in
a hopeless state of mud. Towards noon, however, the
hour at which the procession started, there came a brief
interval of sunshine. But this boon came too late to
induce those whom the gloomy morning had terrified into
stopping in doors to attend the procession, and the cere-
monial was, consequently, not witnessed by as large a
number as one might have expected. The depress.
ing influence of the weather may also be assumed
to have been to some extent the cause of the
lack of that warmth which generally characterises
Irishmen on such occasions ; for though their Ex-
cellencies were everywhere received respectfully, en-
thusiasm was almost altogether absent. After their
Excellencies had issued from the station a procession was
formed. The town-major, Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon,
on horseback, led the way, and was immediately followed
by an advance guard of the 14th Hussars. To them
succeeded the high sheriff of the city, Mr. Edward
Hudson Kinahan, with the :sub-sheriff, in their
carriage of state. The next portion of the procession
was formed by the members of the corporation.
Immediately after the Lord Mayor's carriage came the
Lord-Lieutenant on horseback. By his side rode Lord
Strathnairn, the general commanding the forces in
Ireland, and Major-General Cunynghame, the commander
of the Dublin division, both accompanied by their staffs.
In the carriage that immediately followed sat the Countess
Spencer, who gracefully and with praiseworthy assiduity
returned the salutes by which she was on all sides
greeted. In the same carriage were Lady Charles Bruce,
the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, and the aide-de-
camp, Mr. Frederick Campbell. The two following
carriages contained the remaining members of the vice-
regal household, and the procession closed with a guard
of cavalry of the 14th Hussars. At twenty minutes
to one o'clock the Upper Castle Yard was
reached by the procession, and his Excellency having
alighted at the principal entrance, was received by Sir
Bernard Burke and the officers of the household, and by
them conducted to the presence chamber. There the
following high officials and leading personages were along
with several others, presented Archbishop of
Dublin, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Leinster, the
Marquis of Kildare, the Earl of Charlemont, Vis-
count Monck, Lord and Lady Clermont, the Riga
Hon. Chichester Fortescue and the Countess Waldo-
grave, General Lord Strathnairn, G-.C.8., G.C.5.1.,
Lord and Lady Charles Bruce, the Lord Chief Justice of
the Common Pleas, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-
General, the Right Hon. Mr. Justice Lawson, the Right
Hon. Sir Colman O'Loghlen, the Hon. Thomas Preston,
Sir George L'Estrange, Sir Bernard Burke, Hon. Colonel
Curzon Smythe, C. 8., the Dean of Derry, Dean of the
Chapel Royal, the Dean of St. Patrick's, the Sub-Dean of
the Chapel Royal, Commissioner John O'Ferrall, Mr.
John Lentaigne, D.L., Dr. Nugent, Dr. Hatchell, Dv.
Stannus Hughes, Mr. Calvert Stronge ; Mr. James Nagle,
Clerk of the Crown ; and Mr. Ernest Villiers, aide-de-
camp.

Mr, Jefferson Davis is reported to be suffering
from heart disease, and a paper states that he is under tho
constant care of Dr. Smith, an eminent Paris practi-
tioner.

We learn with much regret that the Baron Van
de Weyer, formerly the Belgian Ambassador at the Court
of St. James's, is lying seriously ill at his residence, New
Lodge, Windsor Forest—so seriously as to occasion the
gravest apprehensions.—Telegraph.

The Railway News announces that the proposed
new Brighton railway which promised to be the cause celelire
of the coming session has come to grief at the trying ordeal
of the railway department. Thero was a quarrel at the
board, and so tho matter is at all evonts postponed.

The supporters of Mr. Handel Coasham at Dews-
bury have determined to pay his election expenses, amount-
ing to £1,058. We understand that Sergeant Simon's
expenses wore over £7,000, and that he polled only 3,398
votes to Mr. Cossham's 2,929. The money is said to have
been found by Mr. Miser, the clothier, a near relative of Mr.
Simon's. It is at the request of both parties that a petition
has not been presented against the return of the sitting
member, it being feared that a trial would lead to the dis-
franchisement of this new borough.

If an intelligent foreigner, such as M. Alfred
Assolant, or some other Anglophobist, were to take a walk
round the new Smithfield Market and stop at the south-
eastern corner thereof, he would snake a discovery which
would fill him with joy at the thought of having found a
new proof of the ignorance of the islanders. He would
see on the spot above-named the corner-stone of the great
building, with an inscription telling us that it was laid
during the " Mayorality of Sir Thomas Gabriel, Bart."
0 Matthew Arnold! is not this as bad as your pet abomi-
nation " Coles's Truss?"

A NEW SHELL.—Experiments will take place
at Shoeburyness, by order of the War Department, on
Thursday next, the 21st inst., to establish the properties
of the new shell invented by Mr. Fitzmaurice Palmer,
who claims to have discovered an explosive projectile
surpassing for field operations any hitherto employed.
The experiments will be conducted by a competent staff
of Artillery officers, and many military and naval gentle-
men, some of whom entertain a high estimate of the new
invention, are likely to be present, as well as several repre-
sentatives of foreign Governments, who will watch the
result with the greatest interest.

THE DANGER OF RAILWAY WHISTLES.—On Fri-
day Mr. Bedford held an inquest at Westminster Hospital
on the body of Moses Goddard, aged 40 years. The de-
ceased, it appeared, was a carman. On last Wednesday
morning he was driving a horse and cart along the
York-road, Lambeth, when in passing under the railway
arch of the South Eastern Railway the horse took fright
from.the noise of the whistle from an engine and darted off
at a furious pace. The deceased was thrown off the
vehicle and under the wheels of the cart, which passed
over his neck and killed him on the spot. The jury re•
turned a verdict of accidental death.

KEEPING CHRISTMAS IN KENTUCKY.—We learn
from a gentleman who has arrived here from Sharpsburg,
in this State, that on Christmas eve two young men,
Richard Taylor and Joshua Sharp, son of Dr. W. Sharp,
got into difficulty in a bar-room shortly before midnight,
and when they went out continued the quarrel, one on each
side of the street. The young men fired at each other, but
one missed, and the cap of the other's pistolsnapped. Both
fired a second time simultaneously, and both dropped dead,
one shot through the head and the other through the heart.
—Louisville Democrat.

SPIRIT OF TIM kUBLIO JOURNALS,

4. -----

Notwithstanding its recent proposal respecting compul-
sory emigration, the Times is apprehensive that there
may be difficulties in the way of a wholesale transporta-
tion of paupers. The class which we are most ready to
send out are not the class which the colonists are most
anxious to secure, they write for farm labourers, shep-
herds, clever mechanics, good domestic servants, and so
forth, and what they receive are sometimes as
little like these things as Falstaff's recruits were
like [real soldiers. The people whom they want are
not, however, to be had for the asking, and the Times finds
some consolation in the fact that a great many of our
destitute classes are only temporarily reduced to pauperism.
Among the men and women, and whole families, receiving
out-door relief in the metropolis, there must be a good
many thousand who have descended rather rapidly and
by pure force of circumstances to their unhappy posi-
tion. It is a fact well known to all conversant with
the poor that a person may fall out of working con-
dition to indolence and dependence very fast, yet
by no means irretrievably. The power and the
wish for work depend very much on the physical strentli
and the state of the animal spirits. Bad air, trouble, a
little excess in drink, or want of regular sleep, may -utterly
indispose a man for work in a short time. Of course, it
must be admitted that the chief cause of such temporary
and curable indisposition is drink. Food is always a
difficulty; drink never, so long as there remains six-
pence in a man's pocket. But from the hour that drink
is substituted for wholesome food, the body sinks, and
the spirit follows. Though far short of actual drunken-
ness, a man finds it impossible to apply and to exert
himself as he used to do. That will be found a fair
account of a very large proportion of the pauperism
which Mr. Goschen is very wisely resolved we
shall be weekly reminded of. Well, there are thousands
of such persons who might be arrested in their down-
ward career, put on shipboard, and landed, after a plea-
sant voyage, in full mental and physical condition for
work. They may not be in all respects what the people
out there want ; but, as our correspondent wrote from the
Melbourne racecourse, a London artisan very soon puts on
a new skin and something like a new physical frame alto-
gether when he is set to healthy work in a fine climate
and on good wages. Even in our Lancashire cotton
famine works it was observed how soon mill operatives
became adepts at the spade, the pick, and the wheel.
barrow, and might have passed for farm labourers.
The Post comments upon the success of Scotchmen in
part of the world, and attributes it in a great mea-
sure to the system of national education which obtains in
Scotland. Mr. Bruce at Paisley referred to this topic, and
pointed out the advantages of a superior education. It
will be observed that not only are the means of education
so widely spread in Scotland that no child need be reared
in ignorance, but that the character of the instruction is
even more thorough, comprehensive, and sound than might
be expected. The fact of boys actually passing directly
from the ordinary national school to the university is more
eloquent in praise of the constitution and practical excel-
lence of those schools than anything we could write.
The next striking feature of the system is, as described
by Mr. Bruce, that its success is due "to the rigid
economy practised and the extraordinary self-denial both
of the parents in making exertions to send their children
to the schools and colleges, and to instruct them in the
higher branches of literature, as well as the spirit of
endurance and sacrifice among the students themselves."
And here we have the key to the success of the system.
Scotch parents value education as it should be valued, and
prize it as people who have felt its power. The earnest.
ness of the parents, too, as is generally the case where it is
marked and genuine, is infectious, and hence it is that the
students are credited with the " spirits of endurance and
sacrifice" in pursuing their studies. Is it a matter of any
surprise, then, that with such a such a start the Scotch-
man, go where you will, is to be found usefully, honour.
ably and profitably employed?
The Standard declares that the order promulgated in
the Gazette of Friday is as binding upon the clergy as any
Act in the statute-book, and that therefore it is lamentable
to find the extreme Ritualists intend to set it at naught.
We see nothing very heroic or magnanimous in this deci-
sion. The courage which inspires it stops considerably
short of martyrdom. These gentlemen simply say that
they will hold out against the law until they find it per-
sonally inconvenient to do so any longer, and then they
will succumb. They will not comply with the law as it
stands, but the moment it is pressed against themselves
individually they will yield. They will not risk the
chances of a suit, but they will burn their candles up to the
latest possible moment. They are determined to give the
authorities as much trouble as possible, but they allow us
to gather that they are quite ready to cease from their
disobedience the moment they hear the crack of the whip.
It seems to us that conduct of this sort is unworthy and
paltry, not to say childish. We can understand the cere-
monialist clergy resolving rather to give up their livings
than comply with the judgment, and avowing their deter-
mination to take that step the moment the attempt is made
to enforce their submission. We can also understand them
coining to the conclusion that it is their duty, as law-
abiding Churchmen, to render to it a frank and honest
acquiescence, while at the same time they may intend to
take every means in their power to procure a reversal of
the decision. But we confess that the alternative course
of defying the law as long as it is safe to do so does not
appear to be a very high-minded policy. The people who
traditionally act upon this principle are known as " the
dangerous classes "--we mean nothing offensive by the
comparison—and the public are compelled to maintain a
police force to hold them in check. They habitually
violate the law until they find it is too strong for them.
Does not the ritualist policy square very closely with
theirs ?

The Telegraph asks if we shall abandon Gibraltar, and,
if the sacrifice be made, shall the act take the form of
a renunciation or of a keen bargain in the world's market?
After looking at both sides of the question, the Telegraph
thus sums up the advantages of retaining the fortress :
The value of Gibraltar has been proved by long experience,
and to surrender it would be to exchange an immediate
and actual benefit for one that is only possible and remote.
Further, if we once parted with the stronghold, we should
never be secure against its falling into the hands of a
powerful and unscrupulous rival. At the very least, the
temptation of so brilliant a prize awaiting the boldest
assailant would be an apple of discord amongst the
Continental Powers, and would tend to multiply
rather than diminish the occasions of international
strife. Nor must we forget the serious risk that an act of
surrender on our part would be utterly misunderstood.
Sufficient is already whispered and suspected abroad
respecting the inclination for peace at any price which is
assumed to have taken hold of us as a people. It is
generally believed that a claim against the English
Government has only to be pressed with constant im-
portunity to obtain a more or less reluctant assent ; and
that even the jealous instinct of self-preservation loses its
force when the point threatened is remote from the
heart of the empire. Would not a voluntary sur-
render of Gibraltar tempt to a series of fresh claims
equally plausible, and would not a refusal become
all the more difficult when each concession had
materially reduced our power of resistance ? We
entertain no doubt whatever that English sentiment will
be nearly unanimous on the subject. When, indeed, the
millenium has commenced, and when the "battle flag is
furled in the Parliament of man, the federation of the
world," then we may abandon the fortified posts which
assist to maintain our supremacy, and to protect our vast
commerce and possessions ; but, until that day arrives,
England must, for the world's sake as well as her own,
hold the vantage-ground which, with all her giant might,
she has rarely employed otherwise than in the interests of
humanity and the cause of freedom.
The Star is considerably alarmed at the growing mode-
ration of all parties respecting the Irish Church. The
only persons who deserve credit which is not generally
accorded to them are the Roman Catholic clergy.
There is a generally received belief among Irish
Tories, and among the more politic and unscru-
pulous of their English allies, that much of what
has been lost in open fight may be won back by stra-
tagem. The question of compromise in the matter of
endowment has, indeed, been put forward so speciously
and with so much urgency by many organs of
semi-Liberal and pseudo-Liberal opinion, that it is
no longer possible to disregard it. It cannot be
doubted that from many quarters the leaders of
the Liberal party are being pressed to entertain the
idea of a compromise which, while it may lower the
political status of the Irish Establishment, would leave to
the Protestant clergy of Ireland the substantial benefits
of endowment—little, if at all, diminished. The Roman
Catholic clergy of Ireland deserve more than they have
yet received for the energy with which they fought the
Liberal battle at the general election against tremen-
dous odds in social and territorial influence. They
have also taken the lead boldly and opportunely in
denouncing the specious mischief of compromise.
Mr. Gladstone, ten months ago, propounded a policy
which was received with approval by the Legislature and
endorsed by the deliberate judgment of the nation. All
that the Catholic prelates have done is to ask that the
policy so proposed shall be carried out in honourable
accordance with the terms of its original and
fundamental compact. They ask, in the words
of Mr. Gladstone himself, for the total disesta-
blishment and di,endowment of the Irish Church.
Any compromise must fall short of that ; must be a pal-
liation and a makeshift fertile in new evils. The Roman
latholic prelates speak in the name of the Irish people
lien they protest against such compromises ; and we
lifi,ve no anxiety as to the manner in which Mr. Glad-
stone would answer the expectations of the nation which
he has aroused from the depths of despondency to hope
and energy,

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Jan.!l6.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
and the Duke and Duchess of Abercorn, drove
out yesterday afternoon.

Her Majesty walked in the grounds this morn-
ing, attended by Lady Churchill.
Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went

out.

Jan. 17.

Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Leopold,
Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, attended
Divine service this morning.
The Earl of Kimberley arrived at Osborne yes-
terday, and had the honour of dining with the
Queen and the Royal Family.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.— 1113 Royal Highness
Prince Arthur, attended by his suite, honoured the par-
ferrnanc,-s at the above theatre by his presence on Satur-

day evening.

711 E LONDON, C 11,17 HAM-, AND DOVER
RAILWAY.

While the impression made by the recent reve-
lations of the extraordinary course of American
railway directors is fresh, it will be well for
the British public to bear in mind that a case
equally gross and far more injurious in its
results is to be found in England. The
position of the London, Chatham, and Dover
Company defies analysis. It is now the third
year since the stoppage of the company, and
not a gleam of real information, much less of prac-
tical satisfaction, has been or can be obtained either
by creditors, shareholders, or the public at large
In this way from 15 to 20 millions of capital is
treated without the slightest gain being obtained by
anyone, since even the legal profession, whatever in'
dividual sums may be squandered in such a business
from year to year, are scandalised and injured byits re-
sults, and contrary to a vulgar impression lawyers al-
ways thrive best in the midst of commercial confi-
dence. At the height of the difficulty the Board
obtained exceptional Parliamentary powers, intended
to enable it to surmount many embarrassments
that might otherwise prove unconquerable, but the
only use made of these powers has apparently been
to keep the concern dormant, through the creditors
being deprived of the right to move. No settle'
ment has been attempted of the unsecured claims,
the litigation with the finance companies is CO!"
tinued, and the priority of the various classes of
creditors is as undefined at this moment as when
the break up of the company occurred, the comnni-
nity meanwhile suffering all the inconvenience that
must necessarily be consequent upon such a condi;
tion of one of their most important channels of
metropolitan and coast communication. In the
American proceedings lately reported there is 11°
evidence of actual public pecuniary loss. The lines
are efficiently worked, money is laid out upoa Omni
when required, and the evil of' the whole ranv°-
rnents is almost limited to the fact that eer:
tam sets of gamblers are alternately enriched
or impoverished. In the Chatham case there is
no suspicion of dishonesty on the part of tb°
Directors or of corruption in the law courts, bat
the immediate ruin effected is nevertheless much
more complete. It seems purely a case of 0-
capacity, and if creditors and shareholders, 11
keeping up a mutual conflict, choose to Perlni
it to continue, instead of appealing to Parliament
immediately on its reassembling to put a stlt
to the misuse of the powers granted, they Intis,
no longer ask sympathy, but leave the matter to
the public, who will demand for the comn3°ii
interest that the entire question should be bandied e
without further tenderness. It is useless for til
parties to protest helplessness. By common ac-
tion they could not only get rid of the present 03'_f
nagement, but contrive to place the decision
every point for the entire settlement of the under-
taking into the hands of a commission constituted
t
of three or more men of unquestioned commerel,o3„
standing and experience, with unlimited power i"
decide and compromise everything according
their views of equity, from which there should bi:
no appeal. The prospect is that unless some silo
0
decision be arrived at the whole matter will in sei,e,
years be precisely where it now is, with the exctPl
tion of the tens of thousands of pounds that `OOO
have been annually disbursed in preventing any
from getting his own.

THE CLAIMS OF WOMEN.—Miss Emily Fattu--
lvf
on the sth instant, delivered her lecture on the clainis
women at the Philharmonic Rooms, Southampton, rto
very crowded audience. The discourse was listeue't
with marked attention. It called forth the the 111; t
enthusiastic applause, and at its close the lectu-eg
was wellnigh overwhelmed with compliments. C"r:of
to the interest excited on the occasion the committee to
the Hartley Institute have requested Miss Faithfo"
repeat the lecture at Southampton, and she bas ull co 11
sonted to do so on the 15th of F . ebruary Miss Fait oh
lectures at Reading on March 1, and Clifton, 31i1r-
and 3.
ucs frr
THE r -ATE FIRE AT CAMDEN TOWN.---1"-
CONCERT.—The late fire at Messrs. Brockbanks, the P'-v4 op
forte manufacturers, has fallen with double weigl-lt 140
their unfortunate employes, who have not only been thr°lit
out of work by the calamity, but have been deprived kf
of the whole of their valuable tools. With a view°, of
sisting a large number of deserving workmen a lied for
gentlemen have formed themselves into a comlliittlicli
the purpose of organising a concert, the proceeds of
will be devoted to replacing the men's tools. 'rhea 11 of
rities of St. Pancras have granted the gratuitous 1100
their vestry-hall, King's-road, and from the 15tif tba
that has up to the present attended the exertions °lot
committee a very brilliant concert is to be expectedod
Monday evening, the 25th inst. Miss Poole, blisS gr.
Haldane, Madlle. It. Cherer, Madame Harrison, an woe
Theodore Distin have already volunteered their assisblete
,i4t to
for the vocal portion ; the instrumentalists who
come forward include Mr. Balsir Chatterton (hallo (5
the Queen), Mr. Wells (flute), Miss Isabella Cele°l-
- of Benedict), and Mr. Harrison (pianoforte> f
the
committee are desirous that the concert shall be °ye °91i51
best that has yet been given in that part of the Iriett°oo
and the laudible object for which it has been orgaolor
will doubtless be more than sufficient to ensure an

flow THE
attendance.
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S FAvv,-liiC a -
—Dr. Tait, now Archbishop of Canterbury, Pregrich-etcli'
farewell sermon yesterday mot ning at Fulham
the parish in which his principal episcopal resideore'
Bishop of London, was situate. His text was 1 retc'
i6'll°P
7, " The end of all things is at hand." The ar°t, roil
will probably leave Fulham to-day to take UP
dence for the present at Lambeth Palace.
-b e
DEATH OF A GAROTTER IN NEIVGATE.--- Ca°
quest respecting the death of George Kemp, age"A
13 ei'.
resumed in the Chaplain's room, at I\Tawg3t,,e4l
Paine, on Saturday afternoon. The deceased w, ;c1 trto
;6 '-
tetanus, on Thursday week last, while awaiting el
for ?
robbery with violence. Drm Gibson having
oefsi 41
dence that he had made a post-.
ortem exinatio
body, and that death had arisen from
naturalam calls dicol
jury returned a verdict in accordance with the Die
testimony. ot 130

SUDDEN DEATH OF A SOLDIER,—AII inCitie°U."°°t"
just been held by Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for ingest 4113
as to the death of Gunner Murphy, of the A batter.ll,
serigade, Royal Artillery, who had been 16 Yeart,itaj
vico. The evidence proved that the deceased s' a,ht
gaged in scrubbing the room in which he reldnie
wife being at the time ill in bed—when he oola— es
e
he feared he should faint, and almost immediately I ill'
The deceased had been suffering from disease °
heart. Verdict—" Died from natural causes. Oaf',
FIRST MARCH OUT FOR THE SEASON.---°ll,O Olt
day afternoon the 3d London (or Working-31°1' 0d1:4.-t:
assembled at their rendezvous, Farringdon-street, cost
ceeded, 300 strong, along Holborn and TotteuhtlsodiPot
road, to Camden Town. The regiment was 1,,.% 0,90%,1
brass and drum and fife bands, under the e—.l oh '
Major Palmer, and presented its usual flue' c"°
soldier-like appearance.
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account of the expenses incurred on behalf cif r'
Jos, J,:pt
Lewis, M.P. for Marylebone, at the recent coo
$,
published in pursuance of the provisions of ti':total
Practices Prevention Act (163), shows that tl-1,1 '
penses amount to the large sum of £3,276 ls• 4". 5. •"t
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