The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-30 00:00:00

sriurrOF TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

The Times discusses Napoleon's speech, and observes that
the time has not yet come in which the task of drawing
up the Imperial Speech may devolve on the Sovereign's
advisers. Had even the Emperor really meant to resign
his functions as his own Prime Minister, he deemed it due
to his dignity to make the announcement of the intended
change in his former capacity.. At the very moment of
putting an end to Imperialism he was more than
ever anxious to appear every inch an Emperor.
He made no direct allusion to the subject which
is uppermost in the mind of some members of the
Opposition the delay in the convocation of the
Legislature. But he dwelt on the excesses committed
by public journals and at public meetings as a justification
of the measures he had taken to protect society and gua-
rantee liberty. He shewed the advantages reaped by a
policy of forbearance in the reaction already setting in
against culpable exaggeration. 'By delaying liberty, he
seemed to say, he had disarmed revolution. That
being achieved, there was now no occasion for further
procrastination. It was at last his wish to establish
the regular and peaceful exercise of liberty; but
what a hard task that was ! What Franca wished
was freedom united with order. The Emperor him-
self would be responsible for order ; but to save liberty he
needed the help of the national representatives. It was not,
in our opinion, by any means necessary that the Emperor's
concessions should forestall his subject's demands. It is
quite enough that, whether spontaneously or on compul-
sion, he should be ready to make them. For one who
feels confident that "he can answer for order," andwho has
shewn that this is no idle boast, it may be allowed that he
surrenders with a wonderfully good grace. There are other
interests in France besides those of the reigning dynasty
which depend for their very existence on the preservation
of public order. When the Emperor said, "For order I
will answer," loud cheers, we are told, resounded from
all parts of the hall. In the fear of revolution haunting a
large class of the population is the citadel of the Emperor's
strength. He hardly knows yet to what extent he is
acquitted of that task of saving society which he from the
beginning imposed upon himself. That he seems to us to
say plainly, is his especial business ; but he is no less
willing to come to terms with those who think that mission
compatible with the exigencies of modern progress and
freedom.
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The Standard thinks that Giulia Grisi's death will be
mourned in the world privileged to concern itself with the
glories of the opera, none the less because the time has
gone by at which it would have been felt as an unexpected
blow at Covent-garden or Her Majesty's. Many years have
passed since the great prima donna was a real presence on
the stage, and her mantle, not altogether, perhaps,
but to a very great extent, has fallen on other
shoulders since then. The generation which enjoyed
her genius in its prime has almost passed away;
though hundreds of veteran opera lovers, who hear
of her death to-day may find their recollections of
her still as fresh as if she had been singing last year. We
may feel a touch of sadness, however, at many events
which inflict no positive loss, and the close of Grisi's life is
one of these. Hardly any reward comes so promptly,
when it means to come at all, as that which is given to a
great singer. The greatest poet, the greatest novelist, the
greatest painter, must work through years of toil before
they earn their renown ; but Grisi, by divine right of her
gifts, stepped forth to the footlights a young
girl of twenty, and was crowned Queen of Song
then and there, and the world did homage to
1 ear. And up to the last how grandly she played
the grandest operatic parts, filling for nearly thirty years
the foremost place on the lyric stage—that wonderful
result of civilisation, where the sweetest of all arts, inter-
preted by the most prized of all personal gifts, is wedded
to the pleasure which has been ranked amongst the
greatest since the days of ancient Greece. Her physical
powers declined towards the last, but to the end the
genius which inspired her acting was unimpaired. No
artist ever before was all to the world that she was, and
it is hardly possible to imagine that anyone else will ever
be quite the same again.

The Post says it would be difficult to overrate the
importance of the step taken by Lord Ducie, as Lord
Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, in inviting the trustees of
the Endowed Grammar Schools of the county to a con-
ference upon the Endowed Schools Act. Not before it
was wanted, that Act was passed. Many endowed schools
that once fulfilled the intentions of their founders have
long ceased to do so. The Commissioners can only have
one desire—namely, to supply the great want of middle-
class education which confessedly exists, and there can
be no surer guarantee for their doing this efficiently
than a previous thorough discussion amongst the local
trustees of the extent to which the funds at their disposal
may be better utilised for educational purposes than at
present. Nor should the trustees be blind to the advan-
tage of taking some part in the reorganisation of their
trusts, and of the plan on which their funds are to be ad-
ministered for the future. Mr. Dickinson put it to the
conference whether the trustees should leave it to the
Commissioners to :operate upon each separate school, or
whether they should endeavour to mould their schools so
as to keep them under their own government, and yet pro-
vide a sound education for the middle classes by going
to the commissioners with a scheme acceptable to all the
schools. There cannot be a moment's hesitation in decid-
ing in favour of the latter course. It does not follow that
when they have devised their scheme the commissioners
will accept it ; but there can be no question that they
will be more or less influenced by the recommendations of
men who have hitherto administered the endowments,
who thoroughly understand the wants of their country,
and from whom a thorough candour in stating them may
be expected.

The Telegraph comments upon the cattle shows which
summon agriculturalists in turn to Birmingham, Leeds,
York, and London, and hopes that the councils and meet-
ings of the agriculturalists, which discuss rural topics at
this time of year within sound of the lowing of their fat
kine, will bear in mind the expediency of reinvigorating
these shows. Like Sertorius in Spain, "we have come too
far "—we have got too much out of the bovine capacity
for fattening ; we ought to make these shows
now and henceforward assist us in discovering
how meat instead of tallow can be made,
and with what least expensive nutriments. Why
should not prizes be given for the pig which has cost least
to fatten, for cottagers' pigs, and for the poor man's soli-
tary steer and scanty flock of sheep, which tell up so much
in computing the resources of the country? For, in truth,
this meat question must be always a matter of vital con- 1
cern to the population; and if he who causes two blades of
grass to grow where one grew before, is a benefactor to his
country, assuredly the same acknowledgment is due to the
man who makes a bullock yield half as much again as its
ordinary weight. The foreign meat-fields are already
coming to the assistance of the population, as the
foreign corn-fields have done. There will be cheap
meat, as there has been cheap bread ; and this
point ought also to engage the attention of the
agricultural councils, for these knightly "sirloins "
and lordly " barons" which are now produced
are truly " magnificent, but they are not war "—they are
luxurious beef and mutton ; but they don't count practi-
cally in the struggle for life. It will be necessary that
farmers and graziers should manufacture meat cheaper
than ever, since good sound beef will assuredly be brought
in quantities from the Pampas; while beef and mutton
will soon come by ship-loads from the Australian scrubs.
The thing is an affair of practice and demand only; for it
is idle to suppose that so simple a question as the preserva-
tion of the flesh is beyond the resources of science. While
the farmers survey the mighty chines and well clad short-
ribs of their favourities, let them not forget, for their own
sake, or ours, that they must soon prepare to compete with
" the cattle on a thousand hills."

parties of

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tanned the county

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•---, -• ...A they were already pledged, were warned
that if they gave their vote for the opposing candidate
they would be marked men. Placards, reiterating these
threats, were also posted extensively. In one it was set
forth that the man who betrayed his country at the poll
would not be forgotten by the people ; while another
stated that the elector who voted for O'Donovan Rossa
gave his voice for the freedom of political prisoners, and
that all who voted against the popular voice would be re-
gard;id as the enemies of the people. These placards and
CAL: verbal warnings given could, of course, have no other
effect than to deter numbers of Mr. Heron's supporters
from coming to the poll. - Both candidates together polled
only a little more than a fifth of the cojatitlcAcy, • -

The Daily _Yews remarks that the Dublin Freeman has
an explanation of the election.of O'Donovon Rossa, which
has at least the advantage of being Irish. It is that the
voters for Tipperary had read or heard of the leading
articles published in the Mmes and other London journals,g
to the effect that Parliament would not and should not
grant their demands, and that Ireland should be put off
with miserable expedients; and that, not being given
to newspaper controversy, they adopted this
singular and striking means of replying to them.
Rut the impression we had gathered from the
reports from Clonmel was that Rossa's election
had far more to do with the refusal to release
the Fenian prisoners than with any schemes of land
policy whatever. The correspondents of the Cork and
Dublin journals sufficiently explain the election of Rossa,
without the supposition that all Tipperary sympathised
with the Fenians. His election was gained by intipaida-
tion, practised for four days before the election, to prevent
votcn from exercising the franchise, so that the result
rni;!:1:t be in the hands of the minority. During that time
according to the Cork Examiaer,
y, canv. assno-, en behalf of
11 acetor3 who declined to

r.E FINDING OF THE BODY OF JEAA
KINCK.

The Times publishes a letter, signed by G. Hermannn
Brath, describing the finding of the body of Jean Kinck.
The date of the communication is November 26, and the
writer says :—" Yesterday M. Gourras, private agent of
the Service of Public Security and Police, who the day
before returned again from Paris, where he received his
last instructions from M. Claude, according to the revela-
tion of Trauppmann, made arrangements with a
body of travellers to find out the grave on the
mountain called Herrenfluch, situated about five miles
from the village of llffholts. Trauppmann was sincere when
he gave his indications. About 100 feet from the ruins of
the old Castle of Herronfluch, and under a very high tree
the remains of Kinck, the father, were concealed. By
accident a man called Heguette, who was at one time a
sous-officier in the army of France, was going here and
there knocking down the branches of trees to see if
the wood would soon be dry. He saw a tin button lying
on the ground, and intended to pick it up; but he
found it resisted, and a piece of linen remained in
his hand. Looking nearer, part of a human foot pro-
truded from the sand and stones. There was no doubt a
body was buried there, and ho called to the rest of the
men and police that he had found the corpse. And it was
true. All night a guard kept the place clear, and to-day
the Juge d'lnstruction and medical men appointed by the
court came to the spot to identify the poor victim. And
it is curious to think how Trauppmann could bring Kinck
to such a spot ! It took two hours to climb to the rock.
Heguette, the man who made the discovery, and so re-
ceived a sum of .£soof. from the heirs of Kinck,—
Heguette, I say, was allowed to continue his work, and
with a small pick he carefully put aside the small and
large stones thrown on the body. Three months had
passed since the day of Kinck's death, and it was no
wonder that only his skull was found. Yet the remains
were very soon recognised by his friends and relations, as
his linen was preserved, and his name was on his shirt and
under garments. His pipe and tobacco box were also other
proofs. Doctors Bernard and Hauser made the autopsy ;
and although Trauppmann said that he killed Kinck by
prussic acid, yet it is certain that he stabbed him too in
the left side, and gave him a violent blow on the forehead.
The night coming on very quickly amid the woods, the
remains of the victim were laid in a coffin, and will to-
morrow be taken to Paris, when Trauppmann will be brought
before the Court of Assize to answer for his crime.—
vernay, Nov. 26, 5 p.m."

ST. PANCRAS INFIRMARY.

THE ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUESTS•

The four adjourned inquests on the bodies of Mary Brown,
James Plant, Mary Smith, and John Fox, who had died in
St. Pancras Workhouse Infirmary, were resumed on Monday
afternoon before Dr. Lankester and the jury who have
already in three other cases, namely, those of Julia Condor,
Jane Harrison, and Jane Hayes, returned their verdicts
that death was accelerated by the foul atmosphere of the
ward in which they died.
Dr. James Ellis, surgeon of St. Pancras Infirmary, said :
Deceased (Brown) was found dead in her bed in No. 16
ward of the infirmary, in which she was placed on the
morning of the 6th November. She had ulceration.
Patients in that ward suffered most from want of sufficient
air. I made a post-mortem examination and found the
brain very much congested, and the ventricles filled with
dark blood. The lungs were also congested. I think these
symptoms were brought on by the state of the ward. Had
no doubt that the atmosphere of the ward accelerated
death.
Jane Masher, day nurse of the ward sworn: I never had
orders to close the ventilators on the sth or 6th of Novem-
ber, but on the night of the Ist of November, Dr. Ellis
came in and said he would not have the ventilators open
on November nights. On the night of the sth there were
seven patients lying in the ward. Mr. Robertson, a
guardian, came into the ward and told me to open the
ventilators. I did so, and have opened and shut ventilators
by order of individual guardians without consulting Dr.
Ellis. I supposed that guardians had the power to dismiss
me unless I obey their orders. There had been no inter-
ference with the ventilators till that month.

Mr. Joseph Smith, a guardian and member of the visiting
committee, deposed to being present at a meeting of the
visiting committee, when it was resolved to take no action
on a report made by Dr. Ellis, because Dr. Edmunds was
not present. Mr. Robertson and Mr. Busby were present,
but he opposed it. He had understood until lately that
the number of patients in the infirmary was limited to 144.
The greatest number he understood that had ever been
there was 168. In reply to the Coroner, Dr. Ellis said
that there were at present 190 inmates.---Dr. Edmunds, a
guardian, on being examined on this point, entered into
a defence of the board, and said that the Poor-law Board
had certified that 212 patients should be admitted into the
infirmary. As to overcrowding there were many patients
who had no business in the infirmary. He had just left a
ward where a number of men were smoking and playing at
backgammon. He said he and his brother guardians had
been shamefully libelled by these proceedings.
The Coroner protested against this language- being used
in this court. Dr. Edmunds and the guardians had had
the greatest indulgence. Having briefly addressed the
jury, the evidence in the three other cases was then taken,
so that the verdicts in each case, which were of the same
character, might be at once given.
The two cases of Mary Smith and John Fox were ordi-
nary cases.

The jury returned the following special verdict :—'
Eni that the deaths of James Plant and Mary Brown were
accelerated by the unsanitary condition of the wards of
St. Pancras Workhouse, in which they died. The jury
further wish to express their undiminished conviction
that the deaths of the said deceased were traceable to the
neglect of the Poor-law Board and the board of guardians
to provide proper sanitary arrangements for the inmates
of the wards of St. Pancras Infirmary."

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