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London, England, 1867-02-07 00:00:00

ward (not paupers) both for day and night, im-
proved system of ventilation, and waterclosets,''
while other wants are summed up in " &c." His
duties compelled him to attend to the house twice
a day, and he was called at all hours when necessary,
and he saw, prescribed for, and dispensed for all the
patients on the sick book morning and evening.
His salary was £l3O per annum, and his emolu-
ments about £l5 per annum, the guardians finding
only quinine and cod liver oil. The drugs cost him
about £3O a year, and an assistant £BO. Ile con-
sidered that all the drugs should be found by the
guardians, that a qualified assistant should be paid
by the guardians, that he should have £l5O per
annum, with extras, as the district surgeon. These

tually. They have a craving hankering after the land
which they have no capital and no enterprise to cultivate.
There is a sortof feeling on their part that they must have
their land, and that they must use their land, and so, ac-
cordingly, instead of going out as they might do and gain-
ing an honest livelihood,th9y eke out a miserable subsistence
on a small estate ; but calling it an " estate" is a joke ; I
should say that "patch" which not their father but the law
gives them over their father's head, and which they take
without gratitude to him from whom it came. The effect this
system has in demoralising the country is dreadful to reflect
upon. It is a thing almost too dreadful to say, but I be-
lieve that the diminution of the population of France is a
great deal owing to the fact that the parents don't like to
see their land cut up into nothing, and accordingly we have

HEAL'

families of three and four children only. Why only three
or four? It is a dark mystery. Certainly human nature
is human nature; but the maternal nature and the pa-
ternal nature are steeled in Frame to the desire of seeing
many rosy infantile faces round their hearths. That
is a known fact, and there are things which cannot be
spoken of except guardedly, and only in meetings of men,
and I believe a great deal of it is attributable to that infa-
mous system of the necessary division and subdivision of
land and property among all the offspring. Marriages be-
come a mete matter of bargain; the man has a third of his
father's property, and the woman he takes to wife has a third
or a quarter of a half of her father's property ; and so it is
simply a union of two misbroken halves put together. Sons'
sons go on making these sorts of marriages, and thus you see
how this villainous system poisons the very birth-springs of
human life and human mortality in every shape; and it is
what we are to come to--equal division of land and universal
suffrage. France got an equal division of land 70 years ago,
and universal suffrage 19 years ago; and then the third
thing came—Napoleon's heel on the neck of the people.
Napoleon there, and universal suffrage and a universal di-
vision of property not abolished, not altered, but main-
tained, because they were the right arm and the left arm
with which a tyrant and a despot maintained his power.
This, too, is what you are promised if " the million " are
allowed to seize the sceptre which you have had for 200
years. This is against the system of free England, against
the mutual dependence of classes, mutual favours from one
class without insolence, and gratitude without servility
from the other. Freedom to make your money ; freedom

•
illustrations of workhouse infirmary management
are taken haphazard from the official papers.

The Land Laws (1 England, France, and

America.

At the annual dinner of the Goudhurst Agricultural As-

sociation on Friday evening, the President, Mr. Beresford
Hope, M.P., in the course of proposing the toast of the
evening, " Success to the Goudhurst Agricultural Associa-
tion and the Hop Trade," after alluding to topics of a local
nature, said —I do not think there is anything more of
special local interest to which I need refer, but as Goud-
hurst is only a part of the great commonwealth of England,
we feel an interest in everything that affects the great
country in which we live. (Hear, hear.) On occasions
like this party politics are shut out, and rightly so too, but
at the same time there are considerations which are not

which 100 deaths were recorded.

matters of party politics but of national pride, national
glory and advancement, which none of us should shrink
from owning to each other. (Hear, hear.) It is not party

politics that make us drink "The Queen," that make us
drink "The Archbishop and Clergy," and " The Army and

Navy," but in drinking all these toasts we drink the honour

and glory of old England and those ancient institutions
which have made England what she is ; and we are all
pledged to each other as Englishmen to stand shoulder to
shoulder as one man if the enemy dare to attack us

to spend your money, freedom to buy, and freedom to sell
land, freedom to marry, freedom to make your will, free-
dom to travel, freedom to breathe, freedom to worshipyour
God as you like, freedom in all things, with order and due
subordination everywhere—(cheers)—that is the English
system which thisman is to rise from the dead and say shall
be abolished ; this is that system which the House of Com-
mons, which is " paralysed for good,"has ever kept up. I
call on you, I say, not as Conservatives, not as Libe-
rals, not as Whigs, not as Tories, but as Englishmen who
love old England, to stand together and see that that man,
the national enemy, does not lead his hordes on to tear
-us down and establish the grievous tyranny of a demo-
cratic equality in its place. (Applause.)

'Cheers.) When the enemy dares to attack us do we say,
:'Oh, I am a Tory, you are a Whig, you are a Conserve-

- - ,
ive or a Conservative 7 Liberal, and that man is a Conserve

ve Liberal?" No, no; we say we are Englishmen, and as

such we meettogether for Queen and Constitution, for our
good old Parliament, for the House of Lords, for our Judges,
and for our happy land-(cheers)-and I say we will do that
whether the national enemy approaches in the shape of a
Napoleon or of a blustering, foul-mouthed Quaker from
Rochdale. 1 say that-and lam not talking politics-the
national enemy has unveiled himself - (hear, hear)-and all
of us -I don't care whether we are men who vote for Holmes-
dale (Conservative M.P. for West Kent) or for Angerstein
(late Liberal candidate)-must as Englishmen stand up to-
gether for our old English system against any who come
foul-mouthedly to calumniate us. Do any of us, as English-
men,want to hear that the House of Commons is paralysed
for good, and that not merely one side -the side of Holmes-
dale or Lee -but that both sides, Conservatives and Libe-
rals, are actually unfit to legislate for the people ?-for that
is ts hat we are told. (Hoar.) Are we to be told that it is
a good thing for the United Kingdom, and good for free-
dom everywhere, that they-meaning all the classes, the
lowest labouring class, and everybody in the world who
has or has not the ability, means, or honesty to gain a
penny-that they should seize the sceptre which for the
last 200 years has been wielded by a class-that is, to seize
the sceptre from us? What is seizing the sceptre ? It means
a violent act, upsetting one rule and setting up another.
And do any of you-I care not what your colours are, blue
or purple- wish an uprising of what is called "the million"
to come and seize the sceptre from you ? Now, here is a
definition of what seizing the sceptre means -" Why, if a
man rose from the dead on the floor of the House of Com-
mons to point out the terrible consequences of the land
laws to the great bulk of the population labouring on the
land, to the great or small landowners, they would say he
was an impostor, and tell him to be gone to the realms
whence he came." That is saying, in other words, "Go to
the Devil." (Hear, hear.) Now, what are these land laws? I
v• ant you to understand this question thoroughly, and that I
am not going into party politics, unless going into party
politics means standing up for this old England as she
alwaya has been. The great thing that has made England
so great has been the perfect freedom of rich and poor to
dispose of their own as they like-(cheers)-the power of
buying and selling and making wills as they like. When
the gentry and nobility of France-unlike those of Eng•
land-stuck to privilege, and brought about the French
Revolution, that power of making wills, which is true free-
dom of man, and the right of disposing of his own, was
abolished, the law came in and decided it for him, that his
property was to be cut up among the dutiful and the un-
dutiful, that they were all to share alike, not because thers
was any good in them, but because the law saw no means
of setting up liberty other than by trampling down inde-
pendence and making a dead 1•3v21 of equality; and all
this because they could not brook there should be any dis-
tinction of good or bad in the land. Again, I ask, what
aro the laud laws of England ? We bear a great deal about
tyranny and oppression by the landed gentry, and all be-
cause they have been content to be groping up to the true
laws of economic science. The protected classes were
seine time before they saw that protection did more harm
than good ; but everybody was alike, for the farmer
stuck to protection and so did the manufacturer. The
science of free trade is like the science of gunnery, or
anything of that sort which has made great develop-
ment in our times ; but the man who stands up and
always accuses the agricultural classes of malignity and
hatred because they were slow in learning the laws
of free trade is as foul-mouthed a misrepresenter of
things as the man who would get up and say that the
Duke of Wellington was a traitor to England beause ho
saw the merits of " Brown Bess," and could not understand
what a rifled breech-loader could do. Just the same thing
may be said with regard to the old corn laws ; they were the
" Brown Bess" of their day, while the breech-loader repro
sents the modern system of free trade ; and there is no more
malignity in the farmer having his eyes opened to the ad-
vantages of free trade than there is in the cotton-spinner
having his eyes opened, or in the soldier having his eyes
gradually opened to the merits of the rifled breech- loader.
But why is the man to go to the Devil if he gets up and
tells us the disadvantages of the land laws ? What are these
land laws? They are the laws which established perfect
free trade in the land, and which allow a man who has
money to buy land, and allows him if hard up to sell his
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elastic system in the world, and one existing •in different
countries under different tenures. Then people talk of en-
tails; but what is entail ? A great deal of nonsense has been
talked about entails ; but the fact is, as ought to
know, there are in all England only about Peoonpeledozen
en-
tails. " Entail" means land that must go from o
succes-
sor to the other. Among the few entails in England,
there
are those of the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Wel-
lington, Lord Nelson (given for mag • • nificent public services),
Lord Shrewsbury, Lord Abergave Lord
nny, Pembroke,
and a few others ; but the rest we hear spoken of as entails
are not a bit of entail. It is simply a business 1
transaction,
by which a person may secure the possession of his
pro-
perty for two or throe generations by a deed, which eedthose who come after him, under most circumstances,may
break, if they like. What is commonly called an enail is
as much a business transaction as a time-bargain or anyother thing which cannot be settled on the nail this very
afternoon, but must take some little time to run out. Then,
again, we hear a great deal about the accumulation of land
in private hands; and no doubt this does take place here
and there, but it is generally in the case of those persons
who have made their money in trade -and quite right too,
for, having made their money honestly, why should they
not invest it in the purchase of land ? But those people who
talk of the great accumulation of land don't say anything
about the many old estates which are broken up. Perhaps
there is an old place some five or six miles from London or
Birmingham which is broken up, and then, perhaps, built
up again, and then pulled down and turned into villas, just
as population fluctuates. And this is just as it should be,
and is a moans of making money cheaply. But people say,
"Just alter the law a bit, and let a man's land be cut up if
he chooses without a will." But what would follow ? Why,
you set up a prejudice against a man leaving his land as he
likes. Perhaps a minor dies-the last heir of a grand old
property which ho cannot leave by will because ho is not
of age, and thus, in spite of himself, the property has to
be cut up to gratify a few people who wish -to level
the system of England to that of France. (Hear, hear.) I
assure you, gentlemen, if it were only to have led the House
of Commons to a successful resistance in the last session to
a bill for making that change in the law, I should have been
glad that I came into Parliament at the last general election,
for I am satisfied it would bo the beginning of the end.
And what is that end ? It is the French system. I don't
hold up America as an example, but in America, though
in many of the States they aro afraid to make an oldest son,
they are not absolutely obliged to cut up their property, as
they are in France. America being such an enormous
country, and so thinly populated, a man who wants land
can go and buy it; in fact, he can have it almost for the
asking; eo.that a system which would be very troublesome
here would not have the same effect in America, England
being an old country, with a teeming population and a
limited acreage. According to our system, they say that
every man cannot got his piece of land. That may be, and
it may be a hardship in some cases, but in many cases it is
a useful hardship, because it drives men to emigrate to Aus-
tralia, Canada, or New Zealand. It may drive a man to the
United States, and I don't blame hint for going there, but I
should rather wish that ho wont to soma place over which
the good old Union Jack still waves. There he becomes a
thriving citizen and the owner of hundreds of acres of
land. Whereas, if it were the law to divide the land, we
should have lazy fellows hanging on for the third of a
cabbage garden which might come to them by their father's
decease. That system of the division of the land has utterly
reduced the peasantry of France morally and intellec'

THE PRESIDENT AND 711 E . CONS7ITU-

TION.

A Washington journal, which is looked upon as
the organ of President Johnson, publishes an ar-
Vele declaring that if the Radical majority in Con-
gress continue their treasonable course the Executive
Government will arm its supporters. The Presi-
dent, it says, will not forget his oath to defend the
constitution, and the army and navy will respond
to his call. It further declares that President
Johnson will serve out his term of office. This
might be alarming, as it is the latest news from
Washington by the Hamburgh and American
steamship Saxonia. But it does not seem to frighten
Wall-street, as the tendency of gold is downwards,
and the tendency of Government securities is up-
wards. Yet it does shadow out a terrible possi-
bility—the chances of a civil war so horrible that
the very thought is sufficient to stop the pulsations
of an American's heart. The President is a deter-
mined man, and the Republican leaders are equally
determined. It is clear, however, from the last
prices by the cable that the nation is not alarmed,
and probably from the calm confidence they feel
that neither party dare proceed to extremities
till their decision is made known. No doubt
there is an uneasy feeling in Europe, but this
is not on the part of the Americans. Messrs.
Bowles, Drevet, and Co., a reliable authority for
Paris, in their circular just to hand, remark :
" Nevertheless, as regards merely speculative opera-
tions, the heaviest interest is still for the fall, many
pessimits predicting troubles on the other side of
the ocean, and repeating continually that America
is threatened with a terrible financial crisis."
Such a crisis would, indeed, follow quickly a gene-
' ral conviction in America that either of the con-

tending parties intended to push matters to ex-
tremity. This firm, however, record their opinion
" that they regard the question in a different light."
The Senate has passed the bill imposing additional
limits to the President's appointing power. Mr.
Sumner, in a speech in the Senate, alluded to Mr.
Johnson as an usurper and a monster of discor d.—
Anglo-American Times.

It is curious to contrast the rate of discount at
the principal monetary centres of Europe—Amster-
dam, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfort, Hamburg, London,
and Paris—during 1866. At Amsterdam the year
opened with a 6 per cent, discount rate. In the
second week of the year there was an advance to
61 per cent., but in the Bth week there was a fall to
6, and in the 11th to 51. lu the 18th week the
rate went to 6, and in the 19th to 61. In the 27th
week of the year it further advanced to 7, sinking,
however, to 6i in the 32d, 6 in the 33d, 51 in the
39th, 5 in the 431, and 41- in the 51st week. Berlin
commenced 1866 with a discount rate of .7 per cent.,
which sunk to 6 in the Bth week, advancing, how-
ever, to 7 in the 16th week, and to 9 in the 19th week.
In the 29th week there was a fall to 7, in the 30th
week to 6, in the 321 weak to 5, in the 44th week
to 41, and in the 51st week to 4. At Brussels
there were very few fluctuations. They may be
summed up
as follows : Commencement of
the year 5 per cent., 9th week, I; 20th week, 5 ;
22d week, 6 ; 33d week, 4 ; and 38th week, 3.
At Frankfort the rather more numerous fluctuations
were :_Commencement of the year, 6 per cent. ;
2d week, 7 ; 3d week, 5k ; 4th week, 5 ; 7th week,
41 ; 10th week, 4 ; 12th week, 41; 16th week, 5 ;
19th week, 6 ; 20th week, 7 ; 26th week, 6; 33d
week, 5 ; 34th week, 4 ; 41st week, 41 ; and 46th
31. At Hamburg there were no fewer than 31
changes in the rate of discount during the past year.
In the Ist quarter the fluctuations were from 41 to
7 per cent. ; in the 2cl quarter, from 51 to 81; in
the 3d quarter, from 3k to 61 ; and in the 4th quar-
ter from 31 to 41. At London the year opened
with a discount rate of 8 per cent., which fell to 7
in the Bth, and to 6 in the 11th week of the year.
In the 18th week the rate rose to 7 ; the 19th week
to 9 ; and in the 20th week to 10. This rate continued
33d week when it sunk to 8, declining further to 7

in the 34th week, and sin the 36th weak. It after-
wards fell to 41 in the 39th week, 4 in the 45th
week, and 31 in the 51st /week. At Paris discount
was kept within very moderate bounds in 1866, the
year commencing with 5 per cent., from which there
was a fall to 41 in the 7th week, 4 in the Bth week,
31 in the 12th week, 4 in the 19th week 3f in the
30th week, and 3 in the 35th week.

The Russian contribution to the Paris Exhibi-
tion will be far richer, more complete, and much
more interesting than that sent to the International
of 1862.
The Government grant in 1862 was
75,000 roubles, it is now 220,000. Part of this
amount is destined to defray the expenses of car-
nage, and the remainder will be spent in the pur-
chase of specimens necessary to complete the various
collections when they have not been offered by the
producers themselves. M. Spakoffsky will show
the ingenious use he makes of turpentine. Not
content with exhibiting his lamps, samovars, and
signal lights to be used at sea, he sends over a small
steamer, Ora machinery of which is set in motion in
an incredibly short space of time through the agency ,
of turpentine. Mr. Zaroubine sends a pump of
his own invention, for drawing water from the
deep wells of the Crimea. The Russian
catalogue will
valuable to those
who are curious to know the sources of Rus-
sian wealth. It will show that nothing is wanted
but improved means of internal communication
and a wise administration, to make Russia one of
the richest countries in Europe. Large coloured
maps will be exhibited, which show at a glance the
nature, soil, the mineral productions and the quantity
of wood in different districts ; in what provinces
flax and hemp are chiefly cultivated ; where sugar
is manufactured; and where sheep, horned cattle,
and horses are reared.
These nao.ps will also show the
corn districts and the means of communication be-
tween them and the seaport townzr.

THE SEAN, LONUON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7. 1867.

DON.

(Fivni the Regi.strarTGenerars Return.)

'HE PUBLIC JOURNALS•

General Register-office, Somerset-house, Feb. 4.
In the week that ended on Saturday, February 2,
he births registered in London and 12 other large
towns of the United Kingdom were 4,800 ; the

deaths registered, 3,557. The annual rate of mor-
tality was 30 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,237 boys and 1,153
girls, in all 2,390 children, were registered in the

week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years
1857-66 the average number, corrected for increase
of population, was 2,234.
The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,628. It was the fifth week of the year, and
the average number of deaths for that week is, with
a correction for increase of population, 1,600. The
deaths in the present return exceed the estimated

number by 28.
The deaths have fallen from 1,880 in the previous
week to 1,628, as the weather has grown milder,

and now we have fortunately passed the coldest
month of the year. The reduction in the number of

deaths as winter has relented is visible at every pe-

riod, except the last age of all (80 to 100 years), at

The diseases of the lungs grew frequent and fatal,
but have now declined. Thus, the deaths frost
bronchitis in the six weeks were at first 224 and 178,
then, as the effects of severe frost accumulated, 375,
308, and 390, falling down finally this week to 271.
No death from cholera has been registered for a
fortnight, but the deaths from diarrhcea have in-
creased. While the epidemic of scarlatina is de-

clining smallpox is increasing, and last week 55
persons died of the disease in London-22 in the
north (where the Smallpox Hospital is situate), 13
in the east, and 16 in the south districts.
The deaths returned last week in London and
.in
12 other large towns of the United Kingdom fur-
nishing returns showed a decrease of 586 upon those
of the previous week ; of this decrease 252 occurred
in London, 107 in Liverpool, 110 in Manchester,
and 63 in Glasgow. In Dublin alone was shown a
further considerable increase upon recent weeks ;
the 286 deaths exceeded by 122 the corrected
average weekly number, and included 102 fatal
cases of bronchitis.
Kensington-Town.—At the Feathers Inn, Not-
ting-hill, a farm labourer, aged 70 years, " starva-
tion and exposure to cold ;" post mortem ; inquest.
Chelsea North-East.—At Manchester-terrace,
Kensall New-town, on the 13th of January, a
laundress, aged 20 years, " exposure to atmosphere ;"
post mortem ; inquest. Marylebone—Rectory.—

At 27, Wigmore-street, on the 19th of January, a
domestic servant (female), aged 51 years, " bron-
chitis accelerated by cold and want of attendance ;"
post mortem ; inquest. St. Luke—Whitecross-
street.—At 10, Frederick-place, on the 26th of
January, a female, aged two years, " blood poison-
ing from sleeping and living in a room of insufficient
space and greatly overcrowded ;" inquest. Shore-
ditch—Haggerstone East.—At 7, Belgrave-terrace,
Queen's-road, on the 21st of January, a woman,
aged 51 years, " from want of food, warmth, and
other necessaries ;" post mortem ; inquest. White-
chapel—Church.—At the London Hospital, on the
31st of January, the son of a coachman, aged four
years, " hydrophobia from the bite of a dog;" in-
quest. Whitechapel—Aldgate—Found dead at
Shorter's-rents, on the Ist of February, a shoe-
black, aged 65 years, " effusion on brain accele-
rated by privation ;" post mortem ; inquest.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 28
per 1,000 in London, 30 in Edinburgh, and. 47 in
Dublin, 31 in Bristol, 26 in Birmingham, 30 in
Liverpool, 32 in Manchester, 31 in Salford, 29 in
Sheffield, 32 in Leeds, 30 in Hull, 32 in Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, and 35 iu Glasgow. The rate in Vienna
was 27 per 1,000 during the week ending the 26th
nit., when the mean temperature was 111 deg.
Fahrenheit lower than in the same week in London,
where the rate was 32.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.871 in.
The barometrical reading increased from 29.43 in.
on Wednesday to 30.32 in. by the end of the week.
The mean temperature of the air in the week was
46 deg., which is 7.9 deg. above the average of the
same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 55 deg.
on Sunday. The lowest night temperature was 35
deg. on Saturday. The entire range of temperature
in the week was, therefore, 20 deg. The mean of
the highest temperaturesof the water of the Thames
was 42.9 deg. ; that of the lowest was 40.2 deg.
The difference between the mean dew-point tempe-
rature and air temperature was 3.7 deg. The mean
degree of humidity of the air was 87, complete satu-
ration being represented by 100. Rain fell to the
amount of 0.54iti., of which 0-43 in. fell on Wed-
nesday. The general direction of the wind was
S.W. According to a return furnished by the en-
gineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the
average daily quantity of sewage pumped into the
river Thames at the Southern Outfall Works, Cross-
ness, was 48,688,589 gallons, or 221,214 cubic
metres, equivalent to about as many tons by weight.

The " Standard's" Picture of Thaddeus
Stevens.

the Opposition all the spiritual and physical intimi-
dation which is the favourite weapon of the Irish
priesthood. The triumph may, indeed, be short-
lived, but still it seems to redress the balance for the
time ; and the House of Commons has the honour
of numbering among its members a gentleman who
is very indignant at being called a Fenian, as well
as another who, so far from being likely to incur
such a charge, is only a very innocuous specimen of
the ordinary Whigling of the period. We have no
doubt, however, that while the modes by which
Captain White and Mr. De la Poer (this is modern
Irish for Power) secured their seats were equally
lovely, so in their ejection from them they will not be
long divided. In four cases—Pembrokeshire, Car-
narvon, Armagh, and North Salop—there has been
no contest. And in each of these constituencies has
a Conservative been returned. At Belfast the oppo-
sition to the return of Mr. Lanyon was merely
nominal; and in the county of Wexford the only
question for the electors to decide was which of the
two Conservatives was the better, inasmuch as even
under such favourable circumstances no Liberal was
found sufficiently sanguine to solicit their suffrages.
At Guildford Mr. Garth has won the seat previously
occupied by Sir W. Bovill by a fair majority over
his Radical opponent, Mr. Pocock. And at Brecon
and Falmouth, to which we have already alluded,
Mr. Rowel Gwynn and Mr. Jervoise Smith have
respectively worsted Lord Alfred Churchill and Mr.
R. N. Fowler. Mr. Bright, whose ostentatious igno-
rance of the geographical situation of some of the
smaller boroughs is not, perhaps, altogether affected,
has naturally been very angry with the men of Bre-
con for selecting an independent local candidate in
preference to a noble lord of whom they knew
nothing beyond his title. But his indignation at
the untoward result of this, the first skirmish in the
autumn's campaign, betrayed him into one of the
most ludicrous blunders which he has ever perpe-
trated before an admiring audience. In denouncing
the aristocratic influences which he always assumes
I as being essential to the success of the Constitu-
tional cause, he took up his parable against the
noble houses of Tredegar and Camden, accusing
them, first of all, of the unpardonable sin of having
come over with the Conqueror ; and, secondly, of
the scarcely less heinous offence of not having done
anything of political note since that time. The dis-
tinctively Norman names of Morgan and Pratt,
which happen to belong to the owners of those ob-
noxious coronets, might have undeceived him, bad
he paused for a moment's thought, as to the real
origin of two obviously middle-class families. And
his memory, if he ever remembered anything except
his own past achievements, might have served to re-
call the Sir Charles Morgan whose peerage is only
seven years old, as well as the eminent Liberal law-
yer who in the last century founded the house of
Camden. t has always been alleged against the
Bourbons that they learned nothing and forgot
nothing. But the Rochdale autocrat has adopted
even a more sublimely Royal motto, as he learns
nothing and remembers nothing, with the excep-
tion, of course, which we have just indicated.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

GAINSBOROUGH-TUESDAY.

At our market to-day there was a moderate show of
wheat, which met a fair sale, at is to 2s less money—old
white, 66s to 68s; red and mixed, 62s to 65s per 36 stone.
Malting barley rather lower in price. Oats and all other
articles sold at fotmer rates.