The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-24 00:00:00

LONDOW, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24, 180.

The opening of an official career is always a mat ter
of some interest, and the position of a Governor-
' General of India is one of sufficient importance to
make the arrival of a ne.v Viceroy in Calcutta an in-
cident of considerable note. The City of Palaces is
so far removed from the modern Babylon, in spite of
all the aid afforded by steam and electricity, that a
great deal must necessarily be left by the most
punctilious of Ministers to the discretion cf the vice-
regal authority. India is very far from that system
of self-government which renders the policy pursued
by any individual official a matter of compara-
tive unimportance. The Governor-General has
much in his power, and if we had always been
fortunate enough to secure " the right man
in the right place" at Calcutta, we should
have less reason to lament the errors both of
omission and of commission which have marked our
Anglo-Indian Administration. One Viceroy has a
passion for annexation. Not content with ruling a
country whose population five times outnumbers that
of a European kingdom, he spends his days of autho-
rity in enlarging the frontier and establishing the
supremacy of British arms. CHARLES THE FIFTH,
wearing a double crown, and owning the Spanish
Indies, must needs waste half the time and treasure
of a long reign upon miserable strife for an addi-
tional duchy. In the same way, while Ilindostan
proper remained devoid of all the comforts of modern
civilisation, our supreme Anglo-Indian authority
has more than once spent his five years of power in
bordtr wars, plots, intrigues, and counterplots.
The last Viceroy, indeed, could not be charged
with this fault. Possessing many admirable qualifi-
cations for a ruler, he had the real interests of India
too truly at heart to encourage so rash and disastrous
a policy. In the last public address which he de-
livered as Governor-General, Sir JOHN LAWRENCE
impressed upon the Englishmen at Calcutta the im-
portance of avoiding further internecine warfare. So
long as the perpetual contentions are kept up, so
long must the public wolks of India be neglected, and
the educat ion of the peop:e must suffer. We need all our
time, our means, and our energiesforsocial and practical
reforms, and unless we can secure a few years' unin-
terrupted quiet for the work we cannot hope to see
it progress at all satisfactorily.

Sir JOHN LAWRENCE, however, though eminent in
the Couneil,was not socially successful. He had passed
his life in the stern discharge of onerous and difficult
duties which had left him little leisure to study the
graces of society, or the amenities of a life of ease and
pleasure. Naturally simple in his tastes, he carried
his dislike of mere display and ostentation to a point
which proved unwelcome at Government House.
Sir JOHN LAWRENCE was independent of the criticism
or the displeasure of the idleis who find in the style of
a banquet, or the success of au entertainment, a test of
administrative capacity, and his reputation was too
firmly established, alike in India and in Europe, for
the murmurers to raise their voices. It was no sccret,
however, in Calcutta, that his popularity as Viceroy
was not so great as it might have been, bad he known
how to combine the amenities of the State reception
with the sagacity of the Council Chamber.

It is fortunate that, in this resi.ect at least, Lord
MAYO has begun his carver more auspiciou-ly. lle has
resumed the old style at Government House, whiA
the last three Governors, from one cause or another,
had altogether abandoned. Lord CANNING was
constitutionally reserved in manner, but, bad he
been otherwise, the years of his viceroyalty were
darkened by too terrible a shadow to permit
of free social intercourse. Lord ELGIN was accused
of carrying to excess his objections to unofficial dis-
cussion of the topics of the day, while Sir JOHN
LAWRENCE, as we have seen, was too deeply engrossed
with state affairs to pay much heed to the social re-

quirements of Anglo-Indians. Lord MAYO, how-
ever, having very recently filled a post whose chief
duty is to maintain the pomp and routine of a
little
court, knows better what is expected from Viceregal
hospitality. He bas entf red upon the least inviting
part of his duties with spirit and promptitude, and
so far at least has made a favourable
impression
on the Anglo-Indians. His political promises
have been discreetly worded, though we
are glad to find that he has spoken out
very plainly with regard to education, and has pledged
himself to extend it. He has promised, too, to devote
his attention to the improvement of telegraphic com-
munication with England—a pressing
need of Indian
trade and commerce. In speaking of the relations
between capital and labour, he has declared his belief
that in India national safety and advancement de-
pend mainly on agricultural prosperity. If Lord
MAYO can succeed in reconciling the conflicting in-
terests of the owner, the occupier, and the labourer,
and withal induce them to combine to develope the
resources of the soil, and thus consult the real
interests of the country, he will indeed be
fortunate. So far as the present year is
concerned, the Governor-General starts with the ad-
vantage of a surplus ; but, thanks to the famine and
the opium, it is not likely that next year's experience
will be equally agreeable. India, however, can very
well afford to raise a loan on reasonable terms'
thanks to her improved credit; and it is very certain
that whatever money is laid out on railroads and irri-
gation schemes will speedily repay itself with inte-
rest, by supplying the two great needs of the coun-
try—an equal and efficient water supply, and a I
thorough system of communication.

TEE case of MORRISON v. SHEPHERD, reported in
part
another column, should be studied all Pe
in thera°ns
who are accustomed to take an active
management of political contests. As our readers
are aware, the last contested election at Plymouth
had special features of interest which, fortunately,
were not prominent in other elections. Mr. STUART
LANE offered himself as a candidate in opposition to Mr.
AIORRISON, one of the sitting members. Very shortly
after Mr. LANE had corneforwarci, he made an affidavit
of poverty in order to escape the payment of calls on
shares in a company which he had got up, for which
he had received a large sum of money, which shortly
afterwards failed, and which its shareholders now
declara to have been rotten from the first. Mr.
LANE's affairs have since then been prominently
before the public. Ile has had to stand no fewer
than three prosecutioi s. The first was compromised
under circumstances which excited the strong sus-
picion of the LORD MAron, a warm political
partizan of the same opinions as Mr. LANE. On
the second Mr. LANE stands committed for trial
at the Old Bailey; the i hird is still being argued before
the LORD MAYOR, and will in all probability be also
sent to the Central Criminal Court. That Mr. LANE
should have offered himself as a candidate under
such circumstances is nothin,, less than astonishing.
Men who have become involved in transactions of a
questionable character, however innocently, do not
usually become more prominent than is possible. Mr.
LarTE, whose inn9cence has yet to be established,

seems to have been actuated by the conviction that
there is nothing like boldness, and that if he
could succeed in appending the letters M.P. to his
name he would rehabilitate his commercial reputa-
tion, silence detractors, and stave off prosecutions.
The project, audacious though it was, did not
succeed. Ruined shareholders naturally became
indignant when they found the man who had just
pleaded poverty to escape a legal and moral obliga-
tion, " cutting a dash " at Plymouth, and spending
thousands of pounds on a protracted election contest
—money which they considered theirs by right.
Mr. LANE met with an unfavourable reception
from independent politicians. His antecedents were
canvassed, his transactions detailed, and he was strongly
advised as a duty to his party to retire from a battle
that must be hopeless with him for a general.
Unfortunately, Mr. LANE, or his friends, or both,
lost temper, and in an evil moment he or they pub-
lished a placard accusing Mr. MORRISON of being
connected with and responsible for a company which
was in plain terms a swindle. It so happened that
Mr. MORRISON was not connected with the company
at all, and, therefore, had it even borne the closest
likeness to the Merchants' Company, there would
have been nothing to lay to his charge. As a
matter of fact, the company in question was not only
solvent, but is still highly prosperous. The accusation,
therefore, was doubly false. That it was so seems to
have been well understood by the author, for ib was
published not only anonymously, but without the
name of the printer, in direct defiance of the law.
Mr. MORRISON took the right course in this matter.
Having, with pardonable warmth, disclaimed charges
made against him, having retaliated upon his oppo-
nent in a manner that made him wince, and would
have been actionable if there had not been truth in
his statement, the member for Plymouth de-
termined to try the matter before a court of law.
Unable to discover, with certainty, the author of the
libel, he had to bring an action against the printer, a
person without means, but provided with counsel
by the real culprit. The printer had rendered
himself doubly liable to proceedings—liable for
the publication of a placard without appending
his name, liable for the publication of a gross
libel. Mr. MORRISON'S counsel, unnecessarily as
we think, dwelt upon the duty of clearing his
client's character. That everybody who was
acquainted with the matter knew well, had not sus-
tained any real damage. However satisfactory it
may be to have the strong testimony of the judge
and the confession of the defendant that the charges
were grossly and scandalously libellous, no such
testimony or confession was needed. The real
though indirect value of the action MonnisoN v.
SHEPHERD, is that it will be a wholesome warning
to those who indulge in anonymous election
" squibs." A great deal of license is permitted at
elections ; and it is, therefore, the more important
that checks should be imposed to prevent the abuse
of that license. If libels are to be the order of the
day, there must be some means of fixing responsibility
upon the libeller. The member for Plymouth
deserves public thanks for helping to preserve
a most necessary public safeguard.

THE PRESIDENT OF TILE BOARD OF
TRADE ON CAPITAL PUALSHMENT,

The Right non. John Bright, writing by date January 8,
1869, thus (according to some New York newsp •pers) ex-
presses to a correspondent in Chicago, his opinion on capital
punishment—" I do not think the punishment of death is
necessary to the security and well-beirg of society; and I
believe its total abolition would not tend to increase those
crimes, which it is now supposed by many to prevent.
The security and well-bring of society do not depend
on the severity of punishments. Barbarism in the law
promotes barbarism among those subject to the law ;
and acts of cruelty under the law become examples
of sinflar acts done contrary to the law. 'l'ho
real security for human life is to be found in a
reverence for it. If the law regarded it as inviolable, then
the people would begin also so to regard it. A deep rever-
ence for human life is worth more than a thousand executions
in the prevention of murder, and is, in fact, the great secu-
rity for human life. The law of capital punishment, whilst
pretending to support this reverence, does, in fact, tend
to destroy it. If the death-penalty is of any force
in any case to deter from crime, it is of much more force in
lessening our chief security against it, for it proclaims the
fact that kings, parliament, judges, and juries may deter-
mine when and how mon may be put to death by violence,
and familiarity with this idea cannot strengthen the rever-
enc„, for human life. To put men to death for crimes, civil
or political, is to give proof of weakness rather than
strength, and of barbarism rather than Christian civilisation.
If the United States could get rid of the gallows, it would
not stand long here. Ono by ono we "Atnericluise" our
institutions; and I hopi, in all that is good, we may not be
unwilling to follow you."

TILE TTIEJI TILER

Wednezday,
l'eb. 21,
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Her Majesty has conferred on Admiral Sir George
Rose Sartorius the rank of Vice-Admiral of the Malted
Kingdom. Sir Georgo Sartorius is one of the few survivors
of the battle of Trafalgar.

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The decision given by Baron Fitzgerald in the
uashel election petition causing a vacancy in the represen-
tion of the borough, it is understood that Mr. Bagwell, son
of the member for Clonmell, will offer himelt for election.

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President Johnson has vetoed the Copper Tariff
Bill, and returned it to the Senate with a statement of rea-
eons. Tho bill was a measure for the protection of copper
mines near Lake Superior.

The gentlemen who lodged the petition against the
return of Messrs. Price and Monk for the city of Gloucester,
and then withdrew it, are to pay the costs of the respondents
as well as their own. The respondents' costs are not, it is
said, to exceed A.-t,

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Mr. Richard Davison, nrmerly one of the Parlia-
mentary representatives for the borough of Belfast, has died
in that town at the age of seventy-two. Ile was first re-
turned in 1852 at tho head of the poll, along with Mr., now
Lord, Cairns. Ile retired in MO.

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At the Newport Police Court, on Monday, a but-
cher named James was charged with exposing uuwholsome
meat for sale. It appeared that the defendant had bought a
sheep for 7s. 6d, which was in an advanced state of the rot,
the meat being poor, wet, and flabby. Defendant was fined
£lO, or two months' imprisonment.

At Maidstone on Monday night a young lady named
Brown threw herself into the Medway and was drowned,
the cause of this act being a recent quarrel with her lover.
Several persons were passing at the time, but apparently
made little effort to save the poor girl, whose body was
eventually recovered by drags.

According to present arrangements the Hon. Re.
v rdy Jo'ire on w:11 arrive in Manchester to- day, to be
the guest of Mr. Fender, at Crumpsall, where a very numer.
ous party have been invited to meet his excellency at dinner.
The public reception, which is the occasion of Mr. Johnson's
visit to Manchester, will take place on Thursday.
The Echo understands that Miss Sauriu's father
was formerly steward and gardener to Mr. Smith, of Anus
Brook, an Irish landowner. The name was originally
Sauruhain, and he married into the family of the Matthews',
of Hanover, in the same neighbourhood. Father Matthews
is the maternal uncle of Miss Saurin. We believe that
Roman Catholic opinion in Ireland is much divided as to his
conduct, and that many aro angry with the Freemason's
Journal for giving no report of the trial.
A frightful tragedy is reported from Grenoble, in
France. On Saturday evening Baron Brayer, inhabiting,
with his wife and son, aged 14, a private residence in the Rue
Lafayette, was shot by his wife, the baroness, armed with
a revolver. The unfortunate woman, reported as
mad, instantly fired on her son, whom she shot through the
heart. Turning the revolver on herself, she blew out her
brains. When the servants, on hearing three successive
reports, rushed into the apartment, they found three corpses
rashmte.e
amend
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taionhtoave been considering a bill
to
of
ofthetavteortuaul. ellen:ieng Coof:. s t;ubb_l e
lic-houses on Sundays, as petitioned for, but be thought
that, unless a stop were put to the present state of
things, the Jervy race would die out. The Assembly
agreed to increase considerably the amount of I:cence duty,
and placed ecitain addit:onal restrictions on the salt, of
spirits by persons other than licensed publicans. A licence
duty was imposed on grocers selling by the bottle, and also
upon sellers of beer and eider.

AIR. SCRATTON'S TIOUNDS.—Mr. Scratton's bounds
will in future be known under the title of the " Essex
Union Hunt." Mr. Scratton is about to leave 'Essex for
Devonshire, but a successor has, after some difficulty, teen
found for him in Mr J. Offin.

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it causes the Hair 'to grow thick and strong. It removes all
dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles—
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Depot 266, High:Holborn

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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1E69,

CORRESRONDENCE FROM RABB.

IFROIi OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, TUESDAY, February 23.
The great debate, so important to Paris and to France
—if not to foreigners---has fairly commenced. The crowd
increased on Monday until the Chamber was uncomfort-
ably crowded, and all this notwithstanding the knowledge
that M. Thiers was not going to speak, and that M.
Gamier-Pages would be the leading performer. M.
Gamier-Pages is not an orator—at least not of the
Demosthenes type. tie came to the Corps Lilgislatif on
Monday with every advantage in his favour, for he had
received an ovation on the preceding evening in the
Chateau d'Eau Quartier at the close of the
conference, at M. Saint-Marc Cirardin's, and spoke
with all the advantage of public sympathy. His
discourses betray rather a man of business than of deep
feeling. But his one great quality is his perfect and pal-
pable sincerity, the honesty of his heart is reflected by
every word that comes out of his mouth, and this, the
first of oratorical qualities is the great secret of M. Gar-
nier Paeges's popularity. His speech on Monday, so far as
it is interesting to English readers, may be explained in a
fewwords. Its immediate subject was abill for the purpose of
approving of the convention between the City of Paris and
the Credit Foncier Company, for the repayment of some
sixteen millions sterling—all contracting in the process of
ITaussmannisation ,or beau tifying the City of Paris. The real
subject of the debate was the policy of this reconstruction
principle in general. M. Gamier Pages had no objection
to moderate improvements. But the sum of nearly
eighty millions sterling which has been sunk in the
streets and boulevards of Paris was not moderate.
Beyond doubt the city had been greatly beautified ;
but was all this expenditure necessary or expedient?
"The money thus inadvisably spent," said
M. Garnier-Pages, " might certainly have been more use-
fully employed. What is the result? The prefect, at
the end of twelve years, is obliged to come forward and
admit that his calculations were erroneous ; that
the sum of 180 millions of francs set down an
the cost of the second network of streets has been
increased to 410 millions, so that the error is one of 230
millions ! For the third series a sum of 310 millions is
announced. It will no doubt be douNed or tripled."
The City of Paris was provided for in no less
than six Budgets, and, under cover of one or the
other, immense sums had been spent without7authorisa-
tion. And yet the " falsehood," unworthy of a
great country, of talking of a surplus, had been spread
abroad. M. Gamier Pagbs concludel by urging
that the octroi should be transformed into a direct tax.
At present it pressed more hardly upon the poor than upon
the rich. M. Picard followed, declaring similarly that
the value of the works in Paris was not sufficient to
warrant the expenditure of two thousand million
francs. One of the councillors of State concluded
this day's debate. He urged that the expense had been
caused by the increase of the population. More houses
had been built in place of those pulled down, whilst pau-
perism and mortality had alike decreased. M. 'Thiers
comes on to-day, and the crowd at the Corps Legislatif is
much greater. The figures I have given shew the vital
importance of the question under discussion.
The medical journals of Brussels announce that the
typhus fever has all but vanished from the city. The
cases of fever become fewer, and as an epidemic the plague
has ceased. The smallpox, however, still prevails,
especially amongst children.
A farmer iu the Jura unearthed a pot containing archteo-
!ogical treasures of great value. The pot was filled with
.:oins, some of the reign of Philippe 11., others of that of
Charles Duke of Savoy, the others of much earlier date.
The inhabitants of Pont-Anthou, in the Eure depart-
inent, ought to elevate the raven into the position occu-
pied by the goose in the clays of the Roman Republic.
As the cackling of the geese saved the Capitol from being
taken, so the croaking of the raven has saved Pont-Anthou
from destruction. The house of a baker caught fire a
night or twa ago, but the screams of the raven on the
premises waked the owner just in time to prevent the
flames spreading to a building in which an enormous
quantity of brandy was stored. The poor bird was burnt
to death.

A little story from Switzerland serves to shew how very
general is the jealousy throughout Europe against undue
clerical interference. A young man of Greppen demanded
the hand of a young woman of Argau in marriage. The
family of the latter wrote to the cure of the parish to which
the aspirant belonged, and the ecclesiastic sent so bad an
account of the young man's morality that the alliance was
broken off. The lover brought an action against the priest
for calumny, and gained his cause. A small fine was
inflicted, and the cure was, in addition, compelled to
pay for the insertion of the judgment in one of the
local journals. Another item from Switzerland is of a
different kind. The Government of St. Gall has
awarded a gold watch as a prize to the man who
saved the greatest nut:Act of lives during the recent inun-
dations. The recipient had rescued no less than eighty
persons from drowning,.

TABLE.-171-18 DAY.

LCCICAL lIIrOETS.

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Ml-.(4.1.A.DT0NE AND THE GRECO-
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A despatch from the Minister of Greece in Londozi to
M. Delyanni, Minister for Foreign Affairs at Athens,
dated December 24th, 1868, is published in the French
papers, from which will be gathered Mr. Gladstone's
opinion of the unhappy differences between Turkey and
Greece. M. Brailas was " received in the kindest
manner " by the present Prime Minister, and after
detailing some of the cruelties committed by Turkey on
Cretan subjects, was answered by Mr. Gladstone as
follows :—" You cannot doubt my attachment to Greece,
for you have long known me, and are my personal friend;
but the existing situation has been produced by a past of
many centuries, and presents some problems very difficult
to solve ; I understand the embarrassment of your posi-
tion, and, in my eyes, the question is reduced to knowing
to what point the internal troubles of your Government
prevent it from strictly fulfilling its international
duties." M. Brailas contended that individulals
cannot be constrained to conform their action
with that of the Government. " What is happening
in Greece," he said, "is nothing new ; the same has been
seen in Italy, England, and America." "I do not,"
replied Mr. Gladstone, " dispute the examples you quote.
But in Great Britain the Government would never tolerate
the regular despatch of assistance to a province in insur-
rection against a neighbouring State. I have consulted
Lord Clarendon, and he tells me that if what is being
done at this moment in Greece was attempted in England
the authorities could legally prevent it; you know how
much the laws on this subject have been discussed here,
and I repeat that the question is one of very high import-
ance ; as for myself personally, I desire to be useful to you,
and I shall do what I can ; but I see no practical means
of aiding you ; however, Greece is under the protec-
tion of three Powers, and they have the right to inter-
vene, if you claim their assistance, to shield the Govern-
ment against interior difficulties." M. Brailas rejoined
that he recommended his country to England, for she
alone could save Greece. The conversation was then
brought to a conclusion in consequence of Mr. Gladstone
being obliged to attend a Cabinet Council.

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TUE ASSOCIATED CHAMBER OF

COMMEI?CE.

Yesterday morning the annual meeting of the delegates of
the Associated Chambers of Commerce commenced at the
Westminster Palace Hotel, Mr. Sampson S. Lloyd in the
chair. There was a very large attendance of members.
The subjects of discussionare upwards of forty, and are—
bankruptcy law reform, treaty of commerce with Spain
and Portugal, United States tariff, Canadian tariff, collec-
tion of the income and assessed taxes by the Inland Revenue,
income tax, assessment and collection of taxes, county
courts amendment, abolition of light dues on shipping,
county court admiralty jurisdiction, pilotage, coast lights,
new route to China, registration of partnerships, reduction
of postage on circrlars, carriage of small parcels by the
Post Oflice, reduction of local postage, post-office tele•
graph;, decimal weights and measures, to-operation,
establishment of tribunals of commerce, ocean
postage, uniform international systems of coins, weights
and measures, foreign bills of exchange, technical educa-
tion, the rights of belligerents so far as they effect private
property at sea,accommodation bills, extra charges on goods
removed inland under bond, the equalisation of stamp duties
on inland and foreign bills, registration of trade-marks,
Government control of railways, factory Acts, carriage
of silk goods, &c., &c.
The report, a most voluminous document, was read, and
the CHAIRMAN congratulated the meeting on their tenth
year of existence. They had thirty-seven chambers assn.
ciated together, and, unlike some other public bodies, they
had a balance in the hands of the treasurer. He paid a
high compliment to the satisfactory movement that had
attended their efforts in many ways; and, with respect to :
the coming session, looked for an improved bankruptcy

law, and the regulation and protection of trade-marks.
Mr. PHILLIPS, of Bristol, moved the following
resolution on bankruptcy law reform :—" That the
commercial community having endeavoured for the
last ten years past to obtain a satisfactory reform in the
bankruptcy law, and this association, as well as other
commercial bodies, having repeatedly expressed opinions
in favour of the bankruptcy law of Scotland without
success, which want of success is attributable to the
question being left in the hands of the Government for the

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time being : Resolved, that this association do authorise and
request some independent members of the Commons House
of Parliament, to bring in a bill for carrying into effect the
desires of the commercial community in this respect, viz.,
the adoption of the Scotch system, as established under
the Act of MG, as nearly as circumstances will permit,
and that in pursuance of this object, the bill brought into

the House of Lords by the late Lord Chancellor, Lord
Cairns, be referred to the members wbo may be selected
for the purpose. That some private member be requested
to bring in a bill as above described, and that a com•
mittee of this association be appointed, empowered, and
requested to render them all the assistance in their power,

the Dame anti on behalf of the association."

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The following gentlemen were nominated as the com-
mittee: Mr. S. S. Lloyd, Colonel Akroyd, M.P., Mr.
Norwood, Mr. S. Morley, Mr. Hunt, and Mr. Bruton.
Mr. MORLEY, -M.P., seconded the resolution, which was
carried unanimously after some discussion.

Mr. Hum., of Leeds, propcsed a resolution to the effect
that there ehould not be an abolition of imprisonment for
debt. He considered it would be advisable that the chamber
should express its opinions, so that the Attorney-General
might know what the-Asseciated Chambers desired.
Mr. Monnty, M.P., was strongly opposed to the
imprisonment of a debtor, and should hesitate before he
pledged himself in favour of that principle. He thought
that the abolition of imprisonment for debt would purify
the system of credit, and was, therefore, strongly in favour
of the abolition.

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zirLANATION
Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. The
letter r, rising ; f. falling ; B, steady—indicates direction of motion
of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in
shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours.
Z.—calm. Weather : b.—blue sky ; detached ; f. - fog
; I. lightning ; Tn.—misty
hazy ; (I—overcast, dull r.—
rain ; s.—snow ; t.—thunder. Rain-fall, snow or hail melted)
daring last 24 hours. Sea disturbance.
BEMAIIICS.

During the night a considerable decrease in pressure has occurred
in our islands, especially in the north and west, where the change
scarcely shewed itself before midnight. The fall exceeds four-tenths
of an inch at Greencastle. In France a rise is reported, and pressure
Is higher at all southern stations than it was yesterday morning.
The reading at Nairn is 0.831 n. lower than that at Brest, and pressure
is now falling fast in Scotland. Temperature has risen rapidly in
these islands, but fallen a little in S.W. France. At northern and
western stations winds have all backed to the south-westward, and it
Is blowing strong in Ireland and the Irish Sea. In the Channel it is
at present calm, and in the S.W. of France northerly winds continue
The sky, after clearing somewhat yesterday, has become overcast,
with rain in the west. The sea is rather high at Valencia. and Ar-
drossan, but calm in the Channel. Warnings to W. and N. coasts.

Mr. C. Norwood, M.P., for Hull, Mr. Birkin, of
Nottingham, Mr. Maxted, Mr. Barber, of Nottingham,
Mr. Lupton, of Leeds, Mr. King, of Plymouth, and other
gentlemen deprecated the abolition, and the resolution was
adopted by;thirty votes to eight, as follows :—" That this
association is of opinion that the abolition of imprisonment
for debt is uncalled for and inexpedient, inasmuch as it is
not productive of pressure upon the debtor." Several other
resolutions on the question of bankruptcy law reform,
embodying the principles involved in the resolution already
passed, were withdrawn. A resolution expressing the
desire of the Associated Chambers that the law of Ireland
should be assimilated to that of the United Kingdom,
and further, that on the insolvent trader should rest the
burden of proof that he had tried to act with honesty, and
kept his books reasonably clear, was carried.