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BOXING-DAY SPORTS.

In consequence of the dense fog which hung over the
metropolis and the suburban districts yesterday many of
the events that had been arranged to take place at the
various running grounds had to be postponed. At the
famed "curriculum" of Hackney Wick a 440 yards and
one mile handicap were to have come off. The Prince of
Wales Grounds at Bow were to have been especially at-
tractive, for here J. Brighton, of pedestrian fame, offered
three very handsome cups for competition ; but these are
deferred sine die, and the only " resort" that in any way
adhered to the programme was the
WEST LONDON GROUNDS.

These were very largely attended, nearly 500 persons
being present. The sport that was provided by the pro-
prietor of the grounds, Mr. E. Jones, was tolerably good,
and we have no doubt but that had the fog cleared off
everything would have been carried out satisfactorily.
The first event was

A Handicap of 100 Yards.—No less than 50 entries were
obtained, and those who accepted their starts were. di-

vided into seven heats, which were decided as follows—

First Heat —Nagg's Novice, 10, won a capitally con-
tested race by a couple of yards, Dabbing, 10, being second

Second Heat—E. Randall, 11, came in a winner by about
half a foot, beating T. Benham, 10, for second place ; three
others also started.

Third Heat—A. Harding, 12, led throughout, and won
cleverly by nearly three-quarters of a yard; Blandford, 8,
second.

Fourth Heat—A good race between Roberts, 10, and
Smith, 12, ended in a win for the former by a foot only.
Fifth Heat—This was very easily won by Naggs, 10,
who waa six yards in front ; R. Smith, 10, second.
Sixth Heat—J. Baglin, 11, won a fine race by two yards;
Parker, 9, defeating Eneska, 9, for second place by a few
inches.

Seventh Heat—Five started, and Benoni, 9, won easily ;
S. Perry, 12, being second ; and S. Marks, 9, third.
The final heat of this handicap will be decided on Satur-
day (to-morrow), in consequence of the fog, which would
have precluded any one,. from seeing the competitors. in
the meantime, however, the
Two Miles Walking Handicap was decided. Thirteen
started, and after, of course, many changes Jobbins, who
had one minute start, took up the lead in the fifth lap ; J.
Miles, 10 seconds, second ; andJ. Oddy, 40 seconds, third.
No alteration took place until in the seventh circuit, when
Miles passed Jobbins, and never afterwards being head d,
won easily. Oddy also got in front of Jobbins, and came,
in second.

Mr. S. Rogers officiated as starter, and Mr. Jones was
the referee.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

The Times deems the appeal of the Government for the
assistance of private persons in maintaining the peace
and guarding property to have been sufficiently answered
in the metropolis. It is stated that in London and the
suburbs 30,000 special constables have been sworn in, and
that all the most important establishments, both public
and private, are watched by a vigilant force, in addition
to the police. These precautions, we trust, will be suffi-
cient to prevent any mischief, either on the part of Irish
desperadoes or of ordinary criminals who might desire to
take advantage of the withdrawal of the police from any
point to effect their purposes. It is satisfactory to ob-
serve that the special constables are really active in
their work, and even in this unpleasant weather are
at their posts nightly. Certainly, it is not with-
out reason they have been called on to act; the
danger, though,, t may be exaggerated by the vague
pprehensions of those who are threatened and know not
when they may be assailed, is real, and the impunity
which foggy days and dark nights seem to promise is an
inevitable temptation to the evildoer. During the present
winter season vigilance ought to be everywhere main-
tained. There is not, indeed, any ground for alarm, for
nothing indicates that the disaffected will attempt any act
which would endanger the public peace on a large scale ;
but, we repeat, there is reason to believe that property,
both public and private, may be mischievously damaged,
and it is the interest as well as the duty of all citizens to
be vigilant in the matter. It will become the duty of the
specials to look upon themselves as the guardians of the
public peace as long as the Fenian alarm lasts, and to per-
fect their organisation as far as possible by the election of
good officers and by ready attendance whenever they may be
required. But they need not anticipate that they will be
called upon for any unnecessary exertions. Although in
law their duties are extensive, they will practically be
asked only to look after their own or their employers' pro-
perty, and, in case of attempted riot, to guard the peace
of the town. We would advise the chief employers of
labour to be sworn in themselves, and to request their men
to follow their example. Every large establishment ought
to be, to a great extent, self-protective, since the number
of persons employed allows the work to be done without
excessive fatigue to anyone. With such an organisation
as may be effected with little trouble and little cost in
every town, there need be no further alarm concerning
these mischievous reprobates. At present any evil-dis-
posed person— and the number of such is always increased
in a time of commotion—has it in his power to du infinite
mischief whenever the policeman's back is turned. Bat
the very knowledge that the chief buildings of a town are
watched by those who have, the strongest interest to
defend them will be enough to deter the bad characters of
the place.
The Herald points out that in cities like London and
Manchester, in towns like Liverpool, Birmingham, and
Warring-ton. a solitary incendiary may do an amount of
mischief in five minutes which to • destroy the work of
five hundred honest men's lives. And when, as at the
House of Detention, some of the most explosive agents
known to modern science are employed to shatter down a
prison wall, on the bare chance of rescuing a couple of
persons lying there under remand, one can hardly take toe
extensive precautions against a repetition of similar out-
rages. Therefore does it seem especially desirable that
the special constables should be stationed as watchmen
outside any buildings whose magnitude and importance
make it probable that the Fenians will select them for the
fulfilment of their dark and dastardly designs. The
regular police are numerically insufficient to do this with-
out neglecting their ordinary duties. But an adequate
staff of specials, judiciously disposed under the superinten-
dence of the commissioners, would meet the guerilla opera-
tions of the would-be incendiaries with the practical
übiquity of men thoroughly detesting their treason, but
still more heartily hating the treacherous and inhuman
means by which the traitors have hitherto endeavoured to
compass their purposes. The endeavour to repress and
defeat them is one in which every loyal subject ought
gladly to engage.
In the details of the ghastly murder perpetrated at
Longden, there occurs an incident which, as the Telegraph
reminds us, suggests serious ground for reflection. The
man upon whom the burden of suspicion rests of being
the murderer of the unhappy child, Catherine Lewis, was
ticket-of-leaver. Seven years ago this fellow Mapp was
convicted of a brutal outrage, committed on an aged
woman, and he was sentenced to ten years' transportation.
How is it, we should like to learn, that the sentence was
commuted? Were there any circumstances which threw
doubt on its justice, or was the man's conduct in prison so
exceptionally good, that he deserved to be discharged be-
fore his time ! The whole system of commuting punish-
ment calls for inquiry. Either longer periods of imprison-
ment should be allotted, or else the authorities should ad-
here to the term fixed. As it is, a sentence of penal servi-
tude loses its terrors, because the convict knows that it
will not be rigidly carried out.

From the fact that the Shrewsbury murder was com-
mitted at the very time that the gallows was being erected
for the Alton murderer, the Star argues that capital
punishment has no terrors for the hardened criminal.
Calcraft at Manchester had no terrors for Fenianism.
Calcraft at Winchester had no terrors for those who do
murder. The proofs are conclusive. The facts are indis-
putable. Let us then try some other and wiser method of
dealing with high crimes. Nothing could be worse than
the existing system, short of according to criminals almost
entire immunity from punishment.
The Standard expresses its conviction that of all the
disreputable shams which are to be found, none is worse
or more painful than that which is called " Christmas
Waits." Instead of sweet, solemn, and yet joyous music,
sounds as of " a holy solemnity kept in the night," the
streets during Advent are infested, from the hours of one
to four in the morning, with " beery" musicians, just let
loose from the public-houses in which drinking is done to
the sound of the fiddle, flute, harp, and accordion. The
tunes played are usually popular airs, certainly with no
" relish of salvation" in them, and the singing, when any
;s attempted, is of the same character. The " Christmas
Carol" proper may be said to have entirely disappeared.
and although the attempt to restore it maybe praiseworthy,
the task seems hopeless, and the effort this year to one, at
least, party of choristers was unfortunate. Ih several dis.
tricts the singers at the churches therein situate turn out
,n Christmas morning to compete with the gin and beer
musicians above described, and assembling beneath the
windows of their respective patrons and admirers, sing
carols and hymns. A choir of this sort seems to have got
into difficulties in Greek-street, Soho ; and a row having
ensued, the choir-master was locked up for disorderly con-
duct. A girl, sister of one of the singers, was also taken
into custody for coming to the rescue with a cabbage-
stalk. The clergyman of the district complained of the
interference of the police with the carol singers, and the
magistrate at Marlborough-street, with some remarks of
the same kind, dismissed the charges against both the
prisoners.

To sum up the scheme of reorganisation of the French
army, it is seen that conscription is, in time of peace, a
sort of compulsory education for adult males, and in time
of war those who serve their country will share in the rank
and distinction it has at its disposition. The Post thinks
that if the pill is to be swallowed any elaborate gilding
would seem to be superfluous. If the French know that
it concerns the interests and the honour of their country
to make the required sacrifice—for, after all, it comes to
that—they will not need to be told that the way of duty
is pleasant, and that it leads to the garden of matrimony
in which they may pick the prettiest flowers. It ought
not to be difficult to resolve such a question. The absence
of sufficient security, if not experienced, should be sus-
ceptible of an appreciable explanation. It may be thought
that France possesses power in a policy of generosity and
moderation, and strength in her imposing unity. Still,
that would only be a moral security, and it is not as if
other countries relied on moral securities alone. The cir-
cumstance that more or less formidable armies are indis-
pensable to the exercise of moral influence should be con-
sidered with reference to the idea of non-intervention from
which it has arisen. To arrive at any measure of dis-
armament there must be a better understanding of inter•
national duties.

The difficulty and delay which have been experienced in
.urnishing an army to penetrate a country defended by
unarmed and uncivilised people is, according to the
Daily News, instructive just now, when we hear of the
impatience of our Anglo-Indians to embark in warlike
operations on a large scale. Almost every mail from Cal-
cutta brings us intelligence of the difficulty which the
Governor-General has in restraining the bellicose ardour
of a powerful party in the Indian service. Our Indian
officers are a noble set of fellows; they are, in fact, only of
too generous a temper. One half of them cannot live
without somebody to govern and bring them under
" rythmic drill," and the other half will soon die of vexa-
tion if we do not give them leave to go and fight some-
body. For the last two years a grand expedition into
Affghanistan has been their sleeping and their waking
dream. With Sir John Lawrence it is very clear that
such an enterprise is contrary to sound policy, but impe-
tuous spirits are not convinced by his reasoning. They
cannot bear to see the revenues extracted from the rice-
eaters of India frittered away upon tanks, and irrigation
canals, and anicuts, when Affghanistan is an unappro-
priated prize, and they burn to go where glory awaits
them. The way in which this petty war with Abyssinia
has been so far managed makes our contemporary hope
that Sir John will hold his ground.


72TY DAMAVET 20.4174757 A IZAILWAI
COMPANY.

At the Edinburgh Court of Sessions the case of Romans
v. the North British Railway Company was tried. The
case arose out of an accident which occurred to the night
express train from Edinburgh to London, early on the morn•
hag of the 29th April, 1866. The pursuer was a pr.ssenger by
that train, being on his way to give evidence before a com-
mittee of the House of Commons, and when the train was

bout five miles south from Berwick-on-Tweed it came into
collision with a mineral waggon which had run off a siding
at Scremerston Lime Works. The pursuer was injured
in the right foot by the collision ; and he brought an
action against the North British Railway to recover
damages for the injuries he had sustained. The issue
which was sent to the jury was as follows :—" Whether
the pursuer, while travelling as a passenger in a train of
the defenders,' on or
.about the 29th of April, 1866,
between Edinburgh and London, was injured in his person
in consequence of a collision at a part of the line about five
miles south froM Berwick-on-Tweed, through the fault of
the defenders, or others for whom they are responsible, to
the loss, injury, and damage of the pursuer." Damages
were•laid at £5,000. The defence was that the injuries
sustained by the pursuer were not so serious as represented,
and that the railway company could not be held responsible
for the accident, because the servants of the company had
used all necessary and proper precautions for the protec-
tion of the traffic, and the accident must have been the
result of malicious interference with the mineral truck on
the siding. Professor Syme said that in his opinion the
pursuer's foot was quite well ; and it was shewn that all
proper precaution had been taken by the company's
servants, but the jury found for the pursuer, damages
£1,250.

PREMEDITATION OF MURDER.

An attempt at murder, most extraordinary in every
aspect, was made at an old ruin called Red Abbey, near
Cork, on Monday night. The abbey and adjoining pro-
perty is in the care of an old man named Butler, who
lives at the ruin. A young woman named Hannah
Hurley, a domestic " help," and William Butler, his
grandson, 16 years of age, resided with the old man. The
girl was in the habit for some time past of giving a few
pence per week to the grandson to put in the bank. She
had handed him 9s. in all, and recently she discovered thatestimpoqvaini
he had kept 2s. of the ' amount. Her accusations and •
threats of disclosure seem ,o have determined him to get
rid of her by murder, and he went about his work in a
singularly determined and premeditated manner. He
had access to the key of the ruin, and up in a part where
time has formed a sort of soil he dug a grave about six
feet in length by one foot in depth and width. He then
waited for an opportunity to entrap the girl, and on her
continuing to accuse him he on Monday morning announced
to her that he had the money buried in the abbey, and if
she ascended with him she could get it. She assented to
this, and about five o'clock they entered the building,
Butler carrying a candle to shew the way. On arriving
at the place he led her over to the spot where the grave
was dug, and at his bidding she went into it to take up, 11S
he said, the box that was there containing her money.
Scarcely had her feet touched the bottom of the grave than
he dealt her a blow with a small hatchet he had had con-
cealed about him. It took effect on the right shoulder,
and he followed it up by two or three cuts at her head,
The candle went out on the instant, and the girl screamed
for mercy, at the same time succeeding in setting a hold of
the hatchet. He struggled violently to wrest it from her
but she succeeded in retaining hold of it, still imploring
him to spare her life, and he promised to do so if she
would never tell what had occurred. She made the
promise, and under these conditions they left the spot,
groping their way to the staircase. As she descended blood
came in streams from her wounds, and she was in momen-
tary dread that he would throw her head foremost down.
However, he attempted no further violence, and when
they got down she ran into a house covered with gore, and
was at once carried off to the South Infirmary, where her
wounds were dressed. Butler made off, and up to a late
hour on Tuesday night was not heard of. The girl is
wounded on the back of the neck and shoulders, and had
the hatchet not been an old blunt one she would now be a
corpse and buried in the grave prepared fof her. She is
rapidly improving.

LAW AND POLICE.

CHARGE OF EDIBEZZLEMENT.—A serious charge of
embezzlement was made before the Lord Mayor, at the
Mansion House, against a person named Von Waterford,
the London agent of the Netherlands and Rotterdain
Marine and Fire Assurance Company. The sum he was
charged with misappropriating was £140,. but the solicitor
for the prosecution stated that his defalcations amounted
to £9OO. The Lord Mayor remanded the accused, but
consented to take bail.

CHRISTMAS CAROL SINGING IN THE LONDON STREETS.-
At the Marlborough-street Police-court, Mr. Joseph
Moger, the schoolmaster at the Newport Market Refuge
School, was charged before Mr. Knox with behaving in a
disorderly manner, and causing a crowd of persons to
assemble in Greek-street. Sergeant Lees said that on the
morning of Christmas Day, at a quarter to one, he saw
the defendant surrounded by boys, singing. The boys
were pushing each other about, and used bad language.
There was a large number of persons collected. He asked
the defendant to desist, so as to clear the street. The de-
fendant made no answer, but continued and encouraged
the mob to hoot and yell. Corroborative evidence was
given. It appeared, however, that Mr. Moger had save-
ral of his boys at his own door singing a Christmas carol.
The constables, acting in excess of their duty, took the
schoolmaster into custody. Mr. Knox commented in
severe language upon the conduct of the police, and said
all the blame rested with them. They bad no right to
take any one into custody for singing a carol on Christmas
Eve. He therefore dismissed the charge of assault on
the police against the sister of
_one of the schoolboys in
question.
BOW IN A WORKHOUSE.-St. Pancras Workhouse was
the scene of a row on Christmas Day. It has until now been
the custom on Christmas Day to allow the male and female
inmates to mingle. This, however, was discontinued this
year. The result was that some thirty of the men stormed
the women's ward, knocked down the porter, and made a
great noise. Five of the ringleaders have been charged
with the offence at the Clerkenwell Police-court, and re-
ceived sentences of four months, one month, and fourteen
days.

JENIMTIS3I. —One of the reports of the recent Royal.
carriage accident contained the following passage :—" A
mailrphaeton, drawn by a couple of spirited horses, with a
postilion, which followed in the rear of the Queen's
equipage, and contained General Sir T. M. biddulph and
her Majesty's luncheon basket." In the cause of consistency
the paragraph should have been headed " Narrow escape
of her Majesty's luncheon"—sinking General Sir T. M.
Biddulph altogether.

SUPPLY OF WATER TO PARIS. The works for
bringing the waters of the Vannes to Paris are about to
be immediately commenced. The course they will have
to follow will be nearly the entire department of the
Yonne, and a portion of the Seine-et-Marne, in the neigh-
bourhood of Moret, to reach the great reservoirs of
Montrouge, whence they will be distributed through the
quarters of the capital on the left bank of the Seine. The
cost of this undertaking is estimated at 20,000,000 f.

FAMINE IN TUNIS. —A sad state of affairs con-
tinues in Tunis. A correspondent says :-"The desolation
in which this country is plunged has been increased by
the cold and rain. A number of Arabs, driven from the
country districts, have come to the city, where they are
dying of want and exposure. Every day as many as fifty
DI sixty bodies are taken from the Morestan for interment.
In every house are to be found families of the refugees to
whom the citizens have given shelter ; the readiness to
assist the necessitous is, however, daily decreasing, in con.
sequence of the great number of the unfortunates. The
rain, usually so valuable for the crops, has been quite use-
less this year, the population not having had the means
of purchasing seed. All their money has been sent to
Europe to buy food. The Government is taking no steps
to relieve this misery, but remains quite inactive orb
apathetic."

THE IRON TRADE. —The following is from Mr.
rhornburn's twenty-third annual report of the Scotch
iron trade :—" After a cycle of six prosperous years, we
have had one year without buoyancy in the iron trade.
When we reflect on the high price of corn, arising from a
deficient harvest over a great portion of the world, and
the disorganised stzLte of the cotton trade—the most im-
portant branch of enterprise in the United Kingdom -- the
cause of the present depression in iron is sufficiently ex-
plained. According to the ironmasters' returns, the
quantity of pig iron produced in 1807 is 1,031,000 tons,
sheaving an increase of 37,000 tons, when compared with
last year. The deliveries by railways, the shipments,
foreign and coastwise, combined with the local consump-
tion, are 1,068,000 tops, and shew a falling off, when com-
pared with the preceding year, of 68,000 tons. The stock
of pig iron in Scotland is 473,000 tons, thus exhibiting a
decrease of 37,000 tons as compared with 1866. During
the year the price has fluctuated from 51s. 6d., the lowest
point to which it fell in July, to 555. Gd., the highest at-
tained in October—giving an average for ,the year of
535. Gd. per ton. The malleable ironworks, the foun-
dries, and shipbuilding yards, have felt increasing langour.
Next year will surely manifest a healthier condition in the
cotton trade, and we may reasonably expect a lower range
of prices for grain. Should these anticipations be
realised, there is no doubt the iron trade will shew an
improvement."

ADAPTED for PERSONS of all CLASSES,

LONDON, .FRIDAY, DEC, 27, 1867.

An important deputation waited upon the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, for the purpose
of ascertaining the views of the,,Government as
regards indemnification in the relief Df the sufferers
by the recent Fenian outrage. The Rev. Mr. Ma-
guire, the incumbent of Clerkenwell, introduced the
doputation to the right hon. gentleman, in the
absence of Mr. TORRENS, M.P., and explained the
reasons which induced them to come forward just
now. They felt that it was on public grounds that
they brought forward this application. This is
true, since it is not a local cause that has occasioned
so heavy a calamity to fall upon these sufferers,
although, unfortunately, the evil has been localised.
&s Mr. MAGUIRE said impressively, "Clerkenwell
has become the vicarious sacrifice for all England ;
the blow that was intended for England had fallen
upon Clerkenwell, and the member of the body that
received the blow was Clerkenwell, therefore he
thought the maxim ought to be, that if one mem-
ber suffers all the members suffer with it, and hence
the deputation." The committee, which was hastily
formed for the purpose of affording relief to the
sufferers, who were so suddenly overtaken by this
heavy affliction, has done its work well and faith-
fully hitherto ; but there is a great deal more to do
yet, as any one at all acquainted with the details
of this sad affair must know, and it is quite as well
that some, most likely the public, will be surprised
to find that the loss is so considerable it appears
that from twelve to fifteen thousand pounds will
be required to cover the expenses of re-establishing
things iu their former state. Two hundred houses
have been affected, and these contained some GOO
families. In estimating the whole loss we must consi-
der the dismantled houses, shattered furniture, homes
in utter ruin, tools and working materials lost,
forty persons in hospitals maimed and disfigured,
some of them for life, and for many of whom an-
nuities will have to be provided. After some other
speaker had addressed the Chancellor, the right
hon. gentleman replied in a very proper spirit. He
said that he had listened with great attention to the
various observations addressed to him, and he gave
it as his decided opinion that Clerkenwell had dis-
played a deal of public spirit in this painful business.
The Government came forward to supply the most
pressing necessities of the moment, "acting under
the great excitement of the time, and the alarming
nature of the outrage." We quite agree with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer that as yet the ques-
tion as to the necessity for funds has never been
fairly put before the country. There is, as he em-
phatically said, " deep sympathy in the minds and
hearts of the people of this great nation,"
and if that sympathy be fully awakened
there is never cause to lament the shortcom-
ings of assistance or of necessary aid. So far as
the Government are concerned, it is gratifying to
meet with the assurance thus conveyed that the
sympathy of the Cabinet is as fresh as ever; but it
is only reasonable that the Government should like
to know what amount they would be likely to re-
quire to carry out the aim of the committee before
they come forward with assistance. The advice of
Mr. DISRAELI is good. He proposes that the com-
mittee should at once take steps to put before
the public all possible information of the
most detailed kind, setting forth, at the same time,
the effect of the calamity on the various classes of
the sufferers, and the several kinds of sufferers. In
order to put the case before the country most com-
pletely and fairly, the right hon. gentleman sug-
gested, in conclusion, that they should call a public
meeting in Clerkenwell. We think that the pro-
posals of the right hon. gentleman, are most excel-
lent ones, and we hope that those im-
mediately concerned will follow them out
as far as possible, for such a course
cannot fail to meet the desired end, and fulfil the
requirements of the case. In reply to a question
subsequently put, Mr. DISRAELI said that he did
not anticipate any deficiency could exist after the
appeal he recommended had been made ; but in the
event of such a drawback, then it would be
for the Government to address itself to the
case ; but so far as matters were now it was
not advisable for them to do so. On the
whole, then, it must be considered that the
deputation has met with a very fitting recvtion,
and we earnestly hope that they will in future carry
on their lasours with the same public spirit that has
hitherto characterised then. It is scarcely neces-
sary to add the belief that the public will not fail to
do their part, and that this Fenian outrage at
Clerkenwell may afford another opportunity for
the display of that generosity which other calami-
ties have so prsented, and in respect to which this
country stands alone.

Whenever it is found necessary on the part of
the Government of this country to appeal to the
loyalty and patriotism of the population generally,
there is never any doubt as to the response. Per-
sons of every rank press forward to offer their
services in the common cause, regardles; of per-
sonal sacrifice or annoyance. Peers an 1 men of
leisure surrender their ease and luxury with the
same readiness that tradesmen and mechanics com-