The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-15 00:00:00

Blliugsgate Market.

Yesterday, at a meeting of the city magistrates
held at the Guildhall, including the Lord Mayor,
a report was brought up from the General Purposes
Committee of the Court of Aldermen by Mr. Alder-
man Rose, with suggestions for facilitating the traffic
in connection with Billingsgate Market, which has
long been in an unsatisfactory state from over-
crowding, and had at length become intolerably
vexatious to all persons concerned in taking fish to
and from the market. When the Thames was the
only highway for conveying fish to Billingsgate the
approaches to the market by water were compara-
tively easy, as, indeed, they still are, but of late years
enormous quantities of fish have been brought to the
market from places all along the sea coast by railway,
and especially by the Great Northern Railway. These,
on their arrival at the railway termini, are conveyed
in vans to Billingsgate early in the morning by way
of Lower Thames-street, a narrow old-fashioned
thoroughfare, as most Londoners know, and on
every !market day great delay and confusion take
place in the approaches to the market, consequent
upon the tardy manner in which the fish is unloaded,
and upon much of it never being unloaded at all, the
fish salesmen there having fallen into the habit of
selling fish by sample, and so detaining the vans
containing it and the men and. horses for often as
much as four hours at a time. The confusion is vastly
increased by the simultaneous rush of carts and
trucks to the market to convey away the fish when
&dd. The existing state of things was recently
brought to a crisis by the city magistrates fining
some of the great railway carriers for obstructing

the approaches to the market. That, however, did
not remedy the evil, acd lately Messrs. Chaplin and
Horne, the railway carriers, Mr. Thorne, the traffic
manager of the Great Northern Railway Company,
and many of the principal inhabitants of the Ward
of Billingsgate, memorialised the Court of Alder-
men on the subject. Yesterday, accordingly, the
Court was occupied with the consideration of the
matter. The report of their committee, presented
by Mr. Alderman Rose, stated that they had been
attended by the memorialists, and also by Colo-
nel Fraser, the Commissioner of City Police,
with the latter of whom they had conferred as
to the practicability of carrying out certain sug-
gestions for facilitating the traffic, without inter-
fering with other branches of trade conducted in
the neighbourhood of Billingsgate. The result was
that yesterday, on the recommendation of the com-
mittee and of the City Commissioner of Police, the
Court of Aldermen adopted a regulation for the
future management of the market traffic, to the effect
that vans arriving at Billingsgate before half-past
7 in the morning will not be permitted to remain
in the street after 8 o'clock, but at that hour, whether
they will be unloaded or not, they will be removed
by the police ; and that vans with fish arriving after
8, and between that hour and 9, shall be allowed
half an hour for unloading, at the expiration of which
they will likewise be removed by the police, notice
in each case being first given to the consignee of the
fish. The Court also passed some subsidiary regu-
lations with the same view, and empowered the City
Commissioner of Police to carry them into practical
effect. It was stated incidentally by Alderman Rose
that much of the present confusion and delay in
approaches to the market was attributable to the
practice of keeping back the inferior kinds of fish
on their arrival at Billingsgate in order to enhance
the price of the better sorts, and especially was it
attributable to the practice adopted of late years
by fish salesmen in the market of selling their fish
by samples, and thus, instead of emptying the vans
of the fish consigned to them, converting them for
hours into depots for the sale of it.

PARLIAMENTARY REGISTERS.--Lord Amberley
has laid before the House of Commons a bill declaring that
no person shall be entitled to have his name inserted more
than once upon a register of persons entitled to vote for
members of Parliament ; and that if from any cause the
name of any voter shall appear more than once the revis-
ing barrister, upon proof of notice having been sent to such
voter by some person on the list requiring him to attend
and elect in respect of which qualification he will be upon
the register, shall, unless such voter attend before him and
make his election, strike off from the register every repeti-
tion of the name after the first entry of it. But if he at-
tends he may make his election.
DEATHS FROM SUNSTROKE.-0o Friday Dr. Lan-
kester held inquests upon two persons who died very sud-
denly without apparent reason. The first was held at llornsey
on the body of a police-constable of the N division, who,
after having been exposed to the sun the whole of the pre-
vious day, suddenly fell dead upon his boat. It was found
that death resulted from sunstroke. A constable's hat was
weighed and found to be 10 ounces in weight. The jury
expressed an opinion that this was too heavy. The second
inquest was held at the Twyford Arms, Twyford-street,
Islington, on the body of Josiah Butternaut, aged 25.
The deceased was engaged at the Imperial Gasworks
to convoy coals by means of a hand-waggon from the
store to the retort. In doing this he repeatedly passed
under a skylight through which the sun came very power-
fully. Suddenly he became very giddy, and reeled about
like a drunken man. As he was being led from the top of
the building where he was working he attempted to jump
over the rails, but he was restrained. Before a doctor could
be fetched he expired. Death in this case also was caused
by sunstroke. The juries returned verdicts accordingly.
—Express.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road.
—Her Grace the Dowager-Duchess of Sutherland
and the Right Hon. Earl Grosvenor, M.P., have just en-
rolled their names amongst the patronesses and vice-pre-
sidents of this charity, and sent liberal donations. Two
thousand pounds is all that is now duo for the purchase of
the new hospital, with treble the number of beds for the
sick poor.
THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.—At the
meeting of the members of this body yesterday the pre-
sident, Mr. John Fowler, announced that the late Mrs.
Locke, the widow of Mr. Joseph Locke, M.P., past presi-
dent, had bequeathed to the Institution of Civil Engineers
the full-length portrait, by Grant, of her late husband,
together with a liana Of £2,000, free of legacy duty.

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HER MAJESTY, &c•

OSBORNE, May 14.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Princess Louise, and her Majesty
walked in the grounds this morning with Prince
Leopold.
Princess Louise drove out this morning, attended
by the lion. Mrs. Gordon.
Princess Beatrice went out also.

his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen
visited her Majesty yesterday, and remained to

luncheon.
The Rev. George Prothero had the honour of
dining with the Queen and the Royal family yegter-
day.

Colonel Maude left Osborne to-day.
The Hon. Emily Cathcart has succeeded the Hon.
Flora Macdonald as Maid of Honour in Waiting.

The marriage of the King of Bavaria has just
been fixed for the 12th October, the anniversary of that of
his father, Maximilian 1., in 1842, and of his grandfather,
Louis 1., in 1810.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAY 14.

At a meeting of the Hebdomadal Council in the dele-
gates' room on Monday, May 13, it was agreed that the
proctors forthe year 1868-69 be admitted to office on Wed-
nesday, April 15, and that the Encaenia of the year 1868 do
take place on Wednesday, June 17.
In a Convocation to be holden on Tuesday, the 21st inst.'
at 2 o'clock, the forms of statute on the subject of the
Poetry Professorship and of Professors' Fees, which were
accepted by Congregation on Tuesday, the 7th inst., will
be submitted to the House.

In a Congregation to be held immediately after, the sta-
tute on the subject of "The Parks," which was promul-
gated in Congregation on Tuesday, May 7, will be sub-
mitted to the house in two votes.
The Professor of Music (Sir F. A. Gore Ouseley) will
give his terminal lecture in the Music School, on Wednes-
day, June 5, at 2 o'clock.
The Public Examination of Candidates for degrees in
music will be held on Thursday, June 6, in the Music
School. Candidates are to be there at 10 a.m.

CAMBRIDGE, MAY 14.
The Board of Classical Studies give notice that the sub-
jects appointed by them for the previous examination in the
Michaelmas Term, 1868, are—St. Matthew's Gospel, Iso-
crates ad Demonicum and Panegyricus, Virgil's "Georgics,'
books 111. and IV. ; and that the subjects appointed by
them for the general examination to be held in 1868 for
ordinary degrees are—Plato's " Protagoras Horace,
" Epistles," book I.

HONOURS IN LAW.
The viva voce examination of candidates for Honours in
Law will be held on Tuesday, October 22, and the follow-
ing days, at 10 a.m., in the Law Schools. Each candidate
will have to prepare a short written explanation in Eng-
lish of the particular maxim or principle he may select for
a viva voce discussion. For those discussions candidates
are recommended to select each his subject from the fol-
lowing maxims and principles :-
1. Equity.-1. Equity follows the law. 2. Where there
is equal equity the law must prevail. 3. Equity looks
upon that as done which ought to be done.—See Storys

" Equity Jurisprudence," secs. 56-64.
11. Conflict of Laws.-1. The law of a place where a
contract is made ought to prevail. 2. Foreign laws must
be proved as facts to the Court. 3. Crimes are local, and
by common law exclusively punishable where committed.
—See Story's " Conflict of Laws," 2d edition, secs. 211. and
620-638.
111. General Principles.-1. In jure non remota, and
proxima causa spectatur. 2. Actus non facit reum nisi
mans sit rea. 3. Volenti non fit injuria.—See Broom's

" Legal Maxims.'
IV. Contracts.-1. Ex nudo pacto non oritur actio. 2.
Ex dolo malo non oritur actio. 3. Caveat emptor. 4. Ro-
spondeat superior.— See Broom's "Legal Maxims."
V. Evidence.-1. Derivative or second-hand proofs are
not receivable as evidence. 2. The opinion of witnesses
aro not receivable as evidence. 3. Res inter alios acts,
alteri nocero non debut.—See Best on "Evidence," and
Broom's " Legal Maxims."
In addition to a viva voce discussion of one of the selected
maxims or principles each candidate will be examined viva
yore in a common special subject, which, on the present
occasion, will be "Foreign Enlistment Acts ;" See " Nants,
lnternatioual Law," by J. T. Abdy, chapter 7, a"

_ .
" Wheaton's Elements of International Law," second anno-
tated edition, by W. B. Lawrence, Part IV., chapter 3,
sections 15-17.

N.B. It is requested that notice be given by candidates
to the Begins Professor of Laws, at 35, Syduey-street, of
their intention to appear at the examination, and of the
question for discussion selected by each of them, on or
before Friday, the 11th of October. The order in which
they will be examined will be published on the door of the
Law Schools a few days before the examination.

TESTIMONIAL TO MR. G. W. QUALLETT.--The
members of the Westminster Club, Albemarle-street, Its"
sembled last night in considerable numbers in the drawing-
room of that institution for the purpose of testifying their
warm appreciation of the excellent qualities which charac-
terise that gentleman, and in acknowledgment of his valu-
able and prolonged services in a secretarial capacity. I**
Quallett was entertained at dinner during the evening by
the testimonial committee, after which the presentation,
consisting of a purse of gold and a handsome silver salver,
was made, Dr. Evan B. Jones conveying the sentiments
of the donors in a speech of the happiest kind, which was
responded to with much feeling by the recipient of the
testimonial. The salver, a largo and elegantly
chased piece of plate, was supplied by
Thomas, of Bond-street, and bears the following
inscription :—" Presented, with a purse of 120 sovereigns,
by the Members of the Westminster Club, to George watts
Quallett, Esq., as a mark of their esteem, and in (acknow-
ledgment of his valuable services as their Honore/
Secretary." •
THE STRIKE OF ENGINE-DRIVERS ON THE NORTII-
- 11A.mwAv.—Yesterday, at the Darlington Police'
court, the adjourned case against eight of the engine"
drivers who left their work on the 10th April last camB
on for hearing. Tho railway company, contrary to the,
practice pursued in the earlier stages of the strike, did 00"
appear to wish to press the prosecutions. The solicitor CO,
the prosecution, Mr. Richardson, of York, stated that
the men pleaded guilty the company did not wish further
to press the case, beyond asking what the contract
with
the men had stipulated, that their wages, if they left ric)"t
without proper notice, should be forfeited. This cope
was adopted, the men consenting to plead guilty. Tilt:.
wages of all but two of the men summoned averaged 9"
the least £5, in some cases over .£6 being due. It was
stated on the part of the company that they would not re'"
ceive the men back. The men who were summoned we°
the first to strike, and in response to the call of whom el:
men on the other parts of the line also turned out. .41'
the arrangements on the lino are now perfected, 010110
two or three passenger trains are still kept off.
A FENIAN RISING.--Yes, there is life. A 13.111°
--
away behind the house they are burning furze 11P°11„,
Knockrea. The huntsmen will not thank those It
destroy the cover. Yet these are not furze-burners, 11°,-
that I look again. The light is too steady and too reb"
It must be just above the ledge on which the police'
tion can be discerned, white above its own dark shed°";"
It is extinguished, and flashes out again. Once more I
to fix the spot where it appeared, once more it blazes out,
and stronger than before. Is that an electric flash, tutil'f;
ing out a path of light among the trees, and glancing °
the red-barked pine ? Signal answers signal, as I Wei;
They speak to each other across the gorge, those men ti,P4:O
the hill and some around my homestead. All is etil'.„d
death, but near me there are others awake, and watcll7s
like myself. The stealthy drawing of a bolt, the Irattled,
of a chain, the creak of a hinge upon the gate, and ea
denly the clank of hoofs on the hard roadway. MY 1'0" 0?
are away ! Have they broken loose, or are they riddeor.,
I shout, and in reply hear from the skirt of the wood, bieu
rible in the night's quite, that demoniac war-whoop of
of
James Fitzpatrick learned of the Indians—a successi°
he
yells ending in chuckling laughter. It is Fitzpatricic ;ow
has thrown off the mask at last ! Distant, even Itylrie
taut, is the clatter of the hoofs, now ringing more cieows
as they mount the hills, now dying away in the b°l 0
At last it is heard only at distant intervals, and then
mom—Dickens's " All the Year Round."
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THE BELGIAN VOLUNTEER VISIT.—A- „o
of the Court of Common Council will be held to-111°,`,"
°
at which Mr. Crescent Robinson will propose tho f°'fo,o
ing resolution :—" That on the occasion of the visit 0...10)10
Belgian riflemen to this country in July next, it is dell
offer
that this corporation should in some fitting ulann,erof the
to them a public entertainment, in a.cknowledgnieu'dea to
enthusiastic reception and great hospitality eltel'i their
our countrymen and fellow-citisens on the occasion of
ocial
visit to Brussels last year. That it be referred to a Sl3,
ward committee to consider the best mode of carryio
same into effect, and report thereon to this court?
R 1r Ir.'"
YACHTING INTELLIGENCE. The - 'woo,
schooner Sappho, 104 tons, the property of Mr. -",.3 expo,
which made the successful voyage round the Nortu_otbst
last summer, is being put into commission for et'
tried
northern cruise. As tho Rollo canoe, which accoritto n. with
the yacht to Norway, is going to the Paris ,nci.is
Mr. Macgregor's Rob Roy, a new boat (the Lady. tteioi
being built, with a centre board, and supplied WILD
ad
on a new principle.