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London, England, 1860-05-19 00:00:00

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THE WINNER OF THE DERBY.

SPORTING PROPHECIES.

" Beacon," of Bell's Life, says, " Having- thus
summed up the pretensions of every likely candi-
date, I pass by—somewhat reluctantly I admit—
the pretensions of Umpire, and give preference to
THE WIZARD ;
next to whom I shall expect to see THORMANBI
and HIGH TREASON; but should the race be des-
tined to full to an outsider, BUCCANEER or HoRRoR
may achieve the distinction.

" Touchstone," of the Era, sums up his remarks
by anticipating the horses to be placed in the fol-
lowing order:—
UMPIRE
HORROR
THORM AN 8Y...

" The Stable Mouse" of the Era says the race i>
confined to about five, and these are Wizard, Um
pire, Thormanby, Horror, and Nutbourne. If the
winner is not amongst these I shall despair of ever
picking out a winner again. I don't despair, how-
ever, of picking out the winner this time, and I
shall go for a single horse. There is never any
beating about the bush with your little Mouse; no
" cockboats" and weakness of that sort. Oh, dear,
no. I stand or fall upon one alone, for I am a
courageous Mouse; in fact, between you and me,
my friends call me Tom Sayers. And what do you
. .

think is the reason ? I think it is because I so
often make " a hit." Perhaps some of your readers
may exclaim at that, " Oh, horrible !" Well, let
them, and in my Derby squeak I'll cry in answer,

THE GUNBOATS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIIN.

Sir,—Messrs. Green, of Blackwall, in a letter
dated the 14th of May, have made charges against
the Admiralty Board of which I was the senior
naval member at the time the gunbDats were
built by their firm, and now fuund to be very de-
tective, as well as fastened with bolts of an insuffi-
cient length. I shall endeavour to obtain the fol-
lowing returns, in order to 'show that the charges,
and complaints in the letter of '..ll,tssrs. Green are
totally unfounded :

1. The contract entered into with Messrs. Green
for building these vessels.

2. For any document in office or correspondence
the subject of unseasoned timber, and of the ina-
bility of Messrs. Green to procure seasoned timber.

3. The report from Malta of the state of the Co-
quette, built by Messrs. Green, stating whether
~hat vessel had ever been hauled up at Haslar or

elsewhere.

4. The report from Portsmouth-yard on the state
of the Caroline, built by Messrs. Green.
5. The number of inspectors appointed by the
Board of Admiralty attached to the building-yard
of Messrs, Green during the building of the gun-
boats.

G. The means adopted for the preservation of the
vessels hauled up at Haslar, as directed in January,
1857.

With respect to the statement made by Messrs.
Green, that they were not allowed longer time to
huild the gunboats, I can only observe that they
were called on to tender and they named their own
time.

With respect to being threatened with legal pro-
ceedings, which compelled them to hire a large
number of strange shipwrights, legal proceedings
were threatened, because the A ltniralty discovered
that Messrs. Green were neglecting their contract
and employing their shipwrights on two vessels for
the Brazilian Government in preference to the
gunboats.

I will elnelude by asking Messrs. Green whether
Lloyd's require that the bolts in the bottoms of
ships should be properly clinched.—Yours most
obediently, M. F. F. BERKELEY.
32, Lowndes-square, May is.

wow Ormolu I,

SHE PAPER DUTIES REPEAL.

Yesterday morning, in accordance with a requi-
sition to the Mayor, a meeting of the citizens of
Manchester was held in the Town-hall to protest
against any attempt in the House of Lords to re-
ject the Bill for the Repeal of the Paper Duties.
The MAYOR (Mr. Mackie) said he was glad to
find such a large muster of the citizens to discuss
a question of so much importance. (Hear, hear.)
On the last occasion on which he presided ovcr a
meeting in that hall they met to congratulate one
amoth6r on Mr. Gladstone's excellent Budget, and
certainly it appeared both unwarrantable and un-
usual on the part of the House of Lords to interfere
with any Money Bill emanating from the House of
Commons, as representing the people. (Cheers )
He had called this meeting on the requisition of
upwards of 600 of the most influential of the people
of Manchester, and he hoped such an expression of
opinion would proceed from it as would have some
weight in inducing their lordships not to accede to
the proposal which was to be laid before them on
Monday. (Cheers.)
Mr. T. B. POTTER moved the first resolution :

" That in the opinion of this meeting the proposal of
Lords Monteagle and Derby to reject the bill for the repeal
of the excise upon paper, and thus to saddle the country
with taxation to the amount of £1,200,000 not required by
the Crown, and remitted by the Commons, will be, if suc-
cessful, an unwarrantable interference with the right of the
House of Commons to originate and determine the taxation
of the country, and ought to be strenuously resisted by the
great body of the people."
(Cheers.) He quoted the words of the late Duke
of Wellington in the House of Lords in May, 1846,
when the repeal of the Corn Laws was under
discussion, in order to show what was the opi-
nion given by an authority which wo'ild com-
mand their lordships' respect on an issue simi-
lar to the present. The duke told the peers that
the measure came to them as passed by a majo-
rity of the House of Commons and recommended
by the Crown ; that the House of Lords would
therefore stand alone if they rejected it ; and it was
a position in which he had frequently said they
ought not to stand, because they possessed, as it
was, great influence on public opinion, but without
the House of Commons and the Crown they could
do nothing, and " there was end to their func-
tions." (Hear, hear.) If this had been said at
Manchester it would have been called revolu-
tionary, but it might be said even more appro-
priately on the present question than on the one
decided in 1846, for in this case it was even more
purely an interference with taxation. (Cheers.)
Mr. H. RAwsoN seconded the resolution, and re-
marked that to any one who scrutinised the divi-
sion lists it would be apparent that the majority in
the House of Commons, had there been represen-
tation in proportion to property and population,
would not have been only 10, but probably up-
wards of 100. (Hear.) And if the bill were re-
jected in the House of Lords, the rejection would
probably be brought about by the use of proxies
on behalf of persons who were travelling about all
over Europe, some of whom, perhaps, had never
taken the smallest part in the discussions of that
branch of the Legislature.
Mr. Alderman HEYWOOD, in support of the re-
solution, contended that all competent authority
was against the propriety of the course about to be
taken by Lord Derby on this question, and that the
position of those who wished to drive the present
Government from office would only prove to have
been weakened if their motion succeeded. (Loud
cheers.)
Mr. R. COOPER said the working classes had dis-
played a degree of moderation and an observance of
peaceful policy for the last 20 years which were ap-
parently mistaken for boorish apathy, but their pa-
tience would certainly be soon exhausted by conti-
nual obstruction to reform of every kind. The
question was no longer whether the industrial classes
were intelligent enough for the franchise, but whe-
ther the aristocracy were intelligent enough to be
intrusted with political power. The ignorance now
to be dreaded was not that of the masses but that
of their rulers. (Cheers.)
Mr. HEELIS (ex-Mayor of Salford) said some of
the speakers objected to being taxed, as they said,
by the House of Lords. He objected, on the other
hand, to be taxed by the House of Commons. He
preferred to be taxed by the whole Parliament,
which included both houses and the Crown ; and he
opposed a resolution which improperly denied the
House of Lords its clear right to a voice in the de-
cision of such a question.
Mr. G. WILSON, who was received with loud
cheering, quoted the authority of Mr. May, in op-
position to the view of the last speaker, and had no
doubt it would be clearly shown in the ensuing de-
bates that the rejection of this bill by the Lords
would be quite at variance with constitutional prac-
tice. (Hear, hear.)
Dr. WATTS said it was evident that if this excise
duty were continued by the House of Lords in op-
position to the recommendation of two-thirds of the
Parliament—as it was defined by Mr. Heelis—it
amounted to a reimposition of taxes by the Upper
House which the advisers of the Crown declared
not to be wanting. He considered that the experi-
ence of the past 11 years as to the results of the re-
• mission of such duties as this was so decisive as to
justify him in using the strongest expression lie
could select, and denounce as " a lie" the assertion
that the amount of revenue to be parted with was
required by the financial necessities of the State.
He believed the true reason of the opposition to the
measure was the opposition of the House of Lords
to the system of direct taxation, so much favoured.
by Mr. Gladstone's budget, and of which the aris-
tocracy feared the consequences as unfavourable to
their own interests. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. AMBROSE (barrister), in the course of an
argument against the resolution, which was listened
to with great impatience, cited Mr. Hallam as an
authority in support of the alleged "interference"
by the House of Lords. He proposed an amend-
ment, which was not seconded.
Mr. BROOME, an operative, said he would appeal
from Mr. Hallam to a still higher constitutional
authority on all questions, and that was the people
of England, who were clearly against the inter-
ference of the House of Lords in matters of taxa-
tion. (Great cheering.)
The resolution was carried, with three dissentients.
The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. W.
Clarke, Mr. Horsfall, Mr. Butterfield, and Mr. C.

. ,
S. Grundy, and the proceedings terminated with
the adoption trPa petition• to' the House of Com-
mons and a memorial to Lord Palmerston.

THE ME.7IROPOLITAN UNDERGAT,),OUND

RAILWAY.

Yesterday Mr. 'Walley, the coroner, and a jury
resumed an inquiry, adjourned from the previous
Thursday, at the-Lord Nelson Tavern, Duke's. row,
Euston-road, on the body of Andrew Lawford Wall,
aged eight years, the son of a glazier, living at 51,
Burton-street, Burton crescent.
The investigation involved the conduct either of
the directors or of Mr. Jay, the contractor of the
works for constructing the Metropolitan Under-
ground Railway, passing under the Euston-road
to King's cross. It appears that loud complaints
have been made by the inhabitants of the road and
pavements being blocked up by the immense mounds
of clay and soil thrown out of the excavations for
the new sewer connected with the works of the
Metropolitan Railway. On Tuesday, the Bth inst.,
the deceased, with some other children, was on one
of these mounds, and whilst stooping to pick up a
piece of clay, a portion of the mound slipped, and
the child was pitched head foremost under the
wheels of an omnibus passing at the moment, which
went over his head, neck, and chest. Strange to
relate, the child jumped up and ran several yards,
and then fell dead in the arms of a man who rushed
forward to rescue him. No blame whatever was
attributable to the omnibus driver ; but the question
arose as to whether under the Act of Parliament for
constructing the railway the mounds were legally
placed where they existed—whether due care and
precaution had been taken on the part of the con-
tractor and engineer of the company regarding
them—and, therefore, whether criminality (tit ached
to *any party in fhe matter. In order to ascertain ,
these points the inquiry was adjourned,"to enable
the coroner to see the Acts of Parliament. N)d
his opinion before the jury.
Mr. Jay, the contractor, was present, with Mr.
Valiance, his solicitor.

The Coroner stated that'll° found that by the
IG2d section of the Metropolitan Railway Act, these
mounds had been placed there contrary to the Act
of Parliament, and that they had in many instances
existed over three months, which, by another
clause, empowered the parish surveyor to give no-
tice, if not removed, to put the road in repair, and
compel the company to pay' for it. He could,not
find that criminality attached to any one, however,
as the child had no business where it was when the
accident happened. The jury could, however, re-
cord their opinions.
The jury returned the following special verdict :
—gs Tbat Andrew Lawford Wall died from the
effect's of injuries of his head and chest, clu,efl
hq
their being crushed by a certain omnibus; and the
jurors farther say, that the said Andrew Lawford
Wall fell from a heap of clay and sub-snit, which
had. been left in the Euston-road by the contractor
of the Metropolitan Railway Company. The jury
further consider it to be their duty to state, that the
works where the accident happened have been exe-
cuted in a careless, unguarded manner, and in a
way calculated to endanger human life. The jury
further consider that the surveyor of the vestry has
neglected to see that the provisions of the law have carried into effect.'
Me proceedings then terminated.

IVEWS FROM SEBASTOPOL.

!Ile Polly S with arrived in Hull on Monday last
frOm Sebastopol, with 102 tons old rope, 13 tons old
iron anchors, 147 tons old iron, 117 to is old iron
guns, and 150 tons cattle bones. Fi orn Captain
Smith, who has been in Sebastopol two months, and
during that time has been frequently in the com-
pany of Col. Gowen, the American e( ntractor with
th 6 Russian Government for raising the sunken
ships in the harbour, we find that the accounts
which appeared in the papers a few weeks back re-
sp cting the scandalous state of the British grave-
y ds, and the indignities therein exhibited, are
co roborated ; the colonel having expressed his
de, p regret at seeing a great many of the grave-
stones which marked the last resting-place of our
brave officers and soldiers scandalously disfigured.
The cemeteries present a forlorn and dilapidated
appearance. Colonel Gowen, it seems, entertained
an idea that it might be sailors who had so '
wantonly disfigured the gravestones by cutting
them with sharp instruments and obliterating the
inscriptions ; but on being shown the improbability
of such an exhibition of feeling, he retracted that
opinion, and he subsequently expressed his opinion
that it was the Russians. At Cathcart's-hill, where
lie so manyfine heroic officers and men who bravely
fell, and over whose last remains humble monuments
were placed, there is nothing but disorder and dila-
pidations to be seen, headstones and other funeral
ornaments which had been placed over and around
the graves having been removed and scattered
about in all directions. In most of the cemeteries
the walls have been broken down by the cattle
which graze within what should be the enclosures.
As for the monument, an obelisk 10 or 11 feet by 4,
composed of soft stone, which is nearly the only
stone to le got there, erected to the memory of the
British army, though having been spared in the
general demolition, an attempt has, nevertheless,
been made to obliterate the inscriptions on three
sides. It is of course presumed that the Russians
are the perpetrators of this base indecency, and the
Emperor of Russia's attention having been called to
the fact, he has at length issued a declaration set-
ting forth that all persons caught in the act, or
proved to have disfigured the gravestones of the
British troops who are buried there, will be severely
punished. Capt. Smith states that if something is
not done to protect the cemeteries, there will not be
a mark left in two years' time to show where any
of our brave fellows are buried, though Sebastopol
will undoubtedly bear signs of the besieging forces
for generations. Col. Gowen deserves the thanks of
all Englishmen, for he has been untiring in his
efforts to protect the gravestones and the ceme-
teries, and he has repeatedly caused some of his
men, superintended by himself, to rebuild the dila-
pidated walls. Col. Gowen, who has now been en-
gaged for a considerable time in raising the sunken
sips, has succeeded in raising all the Russian fleet
with the exception of 18 of the larger ships. More-
over, he has also 700 very heavy guns yet to raise,
and is waiting for heavier cable before he com-
mences operations. Meanwhile his men are actively
engaged in completing a patent slip for his pur-
poses. He employs between 200 and 300 hands, con-
sisting of American engineers, Russians, and a few
English and Irish labourers, the raising of the ships
and the making of the patent slip being about the
only work going on. A few of the residents, who
received a portion of the 1,000,000 roubles paid to
the people of Sebastopol, who lost considerable pro-
perty during the campaign, have commenced to
build a few houses, but beyond that nothing has
been done in the way of restoration. The hospital,
once such a magnificent building, is now completely
gutted, and the dwellings are miserable wooden
huts or houses, the primary element of which is
wood, with a little of the soft stone before alluded
to. The Russians are exceedingly jealous of all per-
sons, particularly the English, who visit Sebasto.
pol ; and no sooner does a vessel arrive in port than
a customs officer boards her, examines every bundle,
and seizes every printed book, So unscrupulous are
these officials, that Col. Gowen—though one would
imagine that, working amongst them, some latitude
would be extended to him—has had three boxes,
containing wearing apparel, &c., for himself and
wife, seized, and, without any ceremony whatever,
the contents, with the exception of a few trinkets,
sold. He was able to buy the trinkets and what
few things remained, but he had to pay an extra-
ordinary high price for them. The captains of Eng.
lish vessels are fined on every trifling pretence ; one
was fined 50 roubles because a dead mule was lying
alongside the morning after his arrival in the port,
and which the officials alleged he had shot. Capt.
Smith himself barely escaped being mulcted in the
same penalty, in consequence of claiming an anchor
which he had placed in the ground to moor to, and
which had been removed by a Russian. Newspa-
pers, of course, are strictly prohibited, and the only
means of communicating with friends there is to
send first to some one at Odessa ; by him it mast be
forwarded to Col. Gowen, and by him transmitted
to the party for whom it is intended. We believe
that the search for bullets and guns is nearly at ttu
end, the iron and lead harvest being almost reaped.
—Eastern Counties Herald.