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

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the whole question as to the backikiiimixiiii
of this metropolis.
Mr. Alderman LAWRENCE said t4s-wts;
local question which the Government h
taken under their entire management, and it was
certainly as badly managed as it could possibly be..i
He thought the remedy would be found by placing
the cabmen of this metropolis in as fair a position as
drivers of public conveyances in other large towns, .
by taking from them the burden of taxation which. 1/4
now pressed upon them.
Sir CUSACK RONEY argued strongly in favour of
the belief that the majority of the London cabmen
were honest; indeed, he contended that crimes were
very often traced by their honesty; and as to the
cabmen of Paris, it was well known that they were
just as ready to fleece strangers as any cabmen in
this country might be supposed to do. Ile believed
that the only place in which they could find a really
honest cabman was in the city in which he was born
—Dublin. (Loud laughter.)
After some further discussion, in the course of
which it appeared that the meeting was generally.
in favour of the proposition brought forward by Mr.
Cole,

PRICE.... 4d.
. STAMPED sd.

No. 23,295

Calecionia ; Walter W. Parininter, paymaster, to
the Narcissus ; J. G. Scott, second master, addi-
tional, to the Bristol ; llerbert Swire, master's as-
sistant, to the Psyche ; Albert Hodges, master's as-
sistant, to the Rodney ; Gabriel Beer, assistant
paymaster, to the Implacable ; and W. Scott, first-
class assistant-engineer, additional, to the Asia.

AFTER Coveut-garden Theatre—EVANS' to
SUP.
After Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Lyceum Theatre EVANS' to SUP,
After A Oelphi Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Olympic fheatre . EVANS' to SUP.
After 6trand Theatre EVAN,' to SUP.
Atter New Royalty Theatre --EVANS' to SUP.
After St. .Tamea's Theatra IeVANS' to SUP.
Alter Prince of \Vales' TheAtre* E VANS' to SUP.
London Singing and Supper Club, E ✓AN3', Covent-garden,
Vocal Entertainment at Eight.

The Tichborne Baronetcy.

THE JAPANESE TROUPE HAVE
ARRIVED.

(Front the Correspondent of the Morning Post.)
WINCHESTER, Tuesday.

Pending the legal decision as to the rightful heir
to the Tichborne estates, about which so much
rnlstery has unnecessarily been made, aryl which is
still continued, the public may rest assured that Sir
Roger Charles Tichborne has veritably returned to
the home of his fathers in this country.
Letters were received last week by several per-
sons from Sir Roger, announcing his immediate re-
turn to Alresford, and on Saturday last he arrived
in IVinchester, and subsequently left for Alres-
ford. Amongst the gentlemen to whom he
communicated this intention was Mr. Edward
Hopkins, solicitor, of that town. This is the family
lawyer referred to in the correspondence with the
Liverpool firm respecting the wreck of the Bella,
and who requested particulars to lay befoie Lady
Doughty Tichborne as to the fate of her son. Mr.
Hopkins was requested to call upon Sir Roger at
Alresford, and to dine with him on Sunday,
together with several other friends who were most
intimate with the "long-lost heir" before he left
England. Sir Roger was Positively identified both
by Mr. Hopkins and other gentlemen (some of the►n
residents of this city), who spent the day in his
company.

JAPANESE TROUPE.—GAENSEE.—First
Appearance of this novel artiste in Europe, the
unrivalled Top Spinner to the Tycoon, whose extraordi-
nary and unparalleled performances have been pronounced
by all Eastern travellers to be truly marvellous. Full
programme on Thursday next. Gaensee—Gaensee—
Gaensee—Monday, February 11, 1867.—Great St. Martin's
Hall.

The CHAIRMAN, in answer to a question, said that
the number of cab licenses was not limited. As far
as the operation of the present law was concerned,
he believed it had not been so successful as was ex-
pected ; but one thing was perfectly clear—viz.,
that although it was very easy to complain, the
means of finding a remedy was not so clear. (Hear.)
The only place in which free trade in public con-
veyances had been established was Manchester, and
here the principle had not been so successful as could
have been wished. In that town part of the system
was to adopt two classes of carriages, and he thought
it might be advisable to carry out the same system
in London, and thus provide a superior class of cab
for a higher.rate of fare. In justice to cabdrivers as'
a body, he was bound to say that he thought they
were often very hardly dealt with. The law had
been pressed very rigorously against them ; but with
regard to their honesty, be could assure the meeting
that the "lost property" office in Scotland-yard con-
tained hundreds of pounds worth of deposits ; and
not a day passed on which missing property was not
restored to its owners. As regards the remedy for
the evils complained of, an opportunity would soori
be offered, in connection with a bill about to 'be
brought into Parliament for the regulation of s'exeet
traffic, &c., to introduce the question of cab fares
and other points of details in which the benefit of
the public was concerned.
The proceedings then terminated.

After this, and the equally positive declaration
of his mother that he is really her " dear son" once
more restored, it is reasonable to assume that he is
the right man, whatever Mr. Gosford or others might
have said. There is not the least question that Mr.
Hopkins and the Winchester gentleman referred to
were particularly intimate with the whole family,
and therefore capable and, I may say, trustworthy
witnesses as to his identification.

The great difficulty in the case is with respect to
the escape of Sir Roger Tichborne from the Bella.
I regret that I am unable to furnish any further
account than that given on a former occasion, as
detailed by Bogle. There is undoubtedly some
substantial reason for the closeness observed with
regard to this interesting point. Not a word
can be got from any one. It appears probable that
it will eventually prove that Sir Roger did not ship
aboard that vessel at all.

The Distress in the East of London.

MANSION-HOUSE RELIEF FUND.

Up to yesterday the total amount of the subscrip-
tions to the Mansion-house Relief Fundwas£ll,26o,
leaving an available balance of £6,205. This was
lessened in the course of the day by additional grants
to the amount of £1,600. A meeting of the chief
committee was held at 2 o'clock. There were pre-
sent the Lord Mayor, Mr. Sheriff Lycett, the Rev.
William Rogers, Mr. John Holms, the Rev. F. U.
Blom&ld, Mr. R. B. Wade, Mr. Robert Wigra:in,
the Rev. T. J. Rowsell, Mr. J. P. Gassiot, Mr.
Frederick Thompson, Mr. Samul Morley, Mr. R. N.
Fowler, Mr. James Duke Hill, Mr. Philip Cazenove,
Mr. Alfred Rothschild, Mr. Gilliat, and Mr. Gibbs.
From reliable information furnished to the com-
mittee by local bodies it appears that in Poplar,
Limehouse, and Bromley there are 32,000 people
living on charity and parochial relief at this time,
the whole population being about 140,000. This
statement was made on authority of a deputation
from those localities, of which Mr. Spence, ship-
builder in Limehouse, accompanied by Mr.Scrutton,
another of the principal inhabitants, was spokesman.
The local committee, of which they are members, are
spending over£l,ooo a week, and could only relieve
at the rate of 6d, a head per week. At this time
1,900 are working in the stone-yard, and that gave
'a very imperfect idea of the number actually in
distress. In Poplar also 3,597 abled - bodied
persons were rceiving out-door relief, as compared
with 884 at this time last year. The parish was
relieving at the rate of ls. and a loaf per head per
week. Firms were in many places entirely extin-
guished. " To let," stared people in the face over
works which used to give employment to consider-
able numbers of people, and one of the deputation
said he could take the committee for three miles along

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But the resolving of this great difficulty, together
with many others of less moment, will (as I intimated
on a previous occasion) probably be discussed by
the legal profession. It is quite certain that, from
present appearances, possession of the estates will
not be acquired without a passage through our law
courts. The arrangements for the defence are
already partly made. In case of a suit in Chan-
cery being commenced, Sir Roundell Palmer and
Mr. Chapman-Barber have been retained to defend
the interests of the present ward and Lady Alfred
Tichborne ; whilst Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., has also
been retained in the same interests for any suit that
may be brought on the Western Circuit. The trial
of this most extraordinary case will be looked for-
ward to with the most intense interest by the whole
of the country. _ .

Next Friday is the Tichborne audit day at Aires-
ford, when Sir Roger Charles Tichborne, it is con-
dently expected, will be present, and put in a formal
claim to the estates. Rumour states that he has
returned the whole of the money forwarded to him
by his mother, having been very successful in Aus-
tralia as an agriculturist and speculator.

the river side where scarcely anything was being
done in shipbuilding or in any of the dependent
trades.

The Rev. Mr. ROWSELL, a member of the Mansion-
house Committee, said he had seen people sinking
in their rooms in visits hehad made to those districts,
and yet would not go out to seek relief from the
parish. Often they had only one garment left. On
these visits he never saw so many naked children,
and poor women pointed to the duplicates for articles
of clothing and furniture which they had been com-
pelled to pledge, and to the one garment in which
they stood. Ho attributed the reluctance among
many working men to receive parish relief to the con-
sideration that it would not only tend to break down
their self-respect, but to disqualify them from taking
advantage of benefits connected with their trade and
friendly societies.

Mr. SAMUEL MORLEY remarked that from the
Local Relief Committee and the parish together a man
with his wife and five children, living in Poplar and
Limehouse, would receive 10s. 6d. a week. It was
not, he said, a question with the Mansion-house
Committee to ease the poor-rates, but to save life.
He contended that the Poor Law ought to give
enough to save life, and that if it did not it was
infamous.
In the Tower-hill district about £650 had been
expended by a local committee in relieving 12,645
individuals from grants made chiefly by the Man-
sion-house Committee, and the relief now entirel y
in kind, and given at the houses of the poor people.
The distress was reported by Mr. John Young,
jun., the chairman of the local committee, to be
lessening.
A few days ago a very pressing application was
made to the committee for a grant by a deputa-
tion from St. George's-in-the-East, headed by the
Rev. Mr. M‘Gill, a clergyman there. They repre-
sented a population of 44,000 in that parish,
nearly all of whom, except a few shopkeepers, are
of the labouring classes, and about half of them
are out of work or in a state of destitution. The
distress is attributed to a general slackness of trade;
to the results of the late visitation of cholera; and the

recent severe weather. The people out of work are
mostly sugar refiners and labourers. The poor-rates
last year were 4s. 5d., and were now equal to ss. 4d.
in the pound. The total local rates this quarter were
2s. in the pound. The number of persons receiving
outdoor relief • for the week ending the 19th of
January was 8,576, as compared with 2,215 in the
corresponding week of last year ; and the total sum
paid to them in relief was £282 7s. 3d., or about
Bd. a head, as compared with £lO9 7s. 4d. in the
corresponding week of the previous year. The local
committee, of which Mr. M'Gill is chairman, had
set on foot seven soup kitchens during the present
distress for the relief of the famishing people, and
were supplying 768 quarts of soup daily, 768 loaves
of bread, and 900 relief tickets for grocery, bread,
and coals, at a daily cost of £5O.
The committee made the deputation a grant of
£3OO.

Yesterday the committee made the following
grants :—To Poplar, Limehouse, and Bromley,
£l,OOO ; to the Ratcliffe Soup Kitchen, £5O ; St.
Philip's, Stepney, £5O ; to the district of Tower-
bill, £300; Mile-end New-town, £100; and St
Thomas, Stepney, £loo—making n all £1,600.
The Rev. Mr. Rowsell stated incidentally
that
the Bishop of London's Committee, of which he is
a member, bad up to that time distributed between
£5,000 and £6,000 in relief through the parochial
organisation, and the relief was given at the people's
houses.
The committee at their rising adjourned to
Friday.

PREPARED FOR A STOR3I.—A few nights ago Mr.
Bodkins, who had been out taking his glass and pipe,
on going home late borrowed an umbrella, and when his
ife's tongue was loosened he sat up in bed and suddenly
spread out the parachute. "What are going to do with
that thing?" said she.
andW "hy,
so I mcamey deapr,repared I expected
In a
less
very
nutes Mrs. Bodkins Was fast asleep.—American
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severe storm to-night,
than five Mi
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