The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-12 00:00:00

THE SUN,- LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENtNG, MAY 12, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS NEU'S.

A LAItIITN'e

Two things have alarmed the Rock, very much this
week. One is that the Bishop of London's Fund has
been used for other than " Low " Churches. St.
Chad's Haggerston, the trustees of which are pro-
nounced " Catholics," has been raised almost entirely
on the fund. The other symptom of degeneracy is that
" the pest of Ritualism" is shewing itself among the
orthodox Dissenters. On Monday evenings the
Psalms are chanted, and the prayers are intoned at
Surrey Chapel—the Bev. Newmaa Hall's. Both are
doubtless very dreadful, the former especially unfair,
the High Churchmen having themselves contributed
towards the fund; the latter; a particular encroach-
ment of modern times, the Psalms having been sung
by David himself.

the question" Which is the better, onelarge or several
small. establishments ?" The decision of the over-
ruling authorities has been given in favour of union,
both on A-ccount of economy and because the
machinery is so much more " workable " iii a large
institution than it is where the various Schools and
houses are scattered about very few know whither.
But there are disadvantages in large schools. The
Lancet points to one of these in a report upon the
Hanwell Schools. Here everything appears to have
been clone that could be done to make the children
comfortable. Yet the institution can scarcely be
described otherw:Se than as an expensive machinery
for patching up unhealthy material. Twenty-
two per cent. of the children admitted
require to be sent at once to hospital ; and there
are few indeed who could be fairly entered as per-
fectly clean and well. Every van-load of children
needs to be kept separate until all fear of the deve-
lopment of contagious diseases is at an end. If the
children are not infected before their admission to
the workhouses, they are liable to become so in their
journey to the school; and it is obvious that the
large size of the establishment and the number of
admissions make it all but impossible to exclude
disease. Especially does ophthalmia rage. Alto-
gether the health is very bad. Low stature marks
most of the inmates. Not long ago a naval officer
offered to take 150 of the boys, but upon careful
examination only three were found to fulfil the con-
ditions of ordinary physical health.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

nousr, tii LORDS-LAST

The Leith CirANcELLon took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
LODGERS' PROPERTY PROTECTION BILL.

The Marquis of TOWNSHEND moved the. second
reading of this bill, the object of which was to protect
the property of lodgers from being taken for any de-
fault in payment of rent or taxes by the landlord. The
noble marquis said it was a great hardship upon the
.lodger that his goods should ever be seized for non-pay-
ment by a superior landlord. One of the proposals of the
bill was that on the lodger procuring a certificate from a
magistrate that the goods represented were his property,
that they should thereupon be secure against the claims
of the superior landlord.
• Thd LORD CHANCELLOR said the bill dealt with a
power that hail been experienced by the landlord from re-
motest time. The subject was one that ought not to be
lightly treated, and he was sure the present bill was not at
all ealculated to effect the object in view.

The noble lord, finding the memure opposed by the
Lord Chancellor, at once withdrew it.
Lord ROSSE moved for a report of the proceedings
taken with respect to the death of Mr. Lisle on the North
British Railway.
The repot t was ordered, and their lordships shortly
afterwards adjourned.