The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-19 00:00:00

The Indian Carrying Company.

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The report of the directors of this company states
that the instructions for closing the Bombay agency
were carried into effect in September last The
losses there had arisen not so much from individual
acts of mismanagement as from inadequate amount
of business to bear the heavy standing charges,
and to compensate for the high prices
which the company were compelled to pay during
the cotton mania, as well as from causes connected
with the condition and
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the increasing business. The
had been, on the whole,
satisfactory. While the loss
by the business in this Presidency in the year end-
ing the 30th of June, 1865, was nearly £2,500, the
loss during the first six months of the present ac-
count did not exceed £4OO, and in the second six
months was about £lOO only. But for the greatly
increased cost of cattle food, wages, and cart and
bullock hire (amounting to £4,800 over the rate for
the preceding year), caused by the famine and cho-
lera, and the impossibility of increasing the com-
pany's charges in proportion, there was no reason
to doubt that the Madras accounts would have
shown a fair profit. The gross receipts had increased
100 per cent. during the 12 months, and amounted
to nearly £50,000; on the whole working at Madras
from the commencement there had been a profit. Iu
the Calcutta agency the business had been much re-
stricted by the inability of the East India Railway
Company to accommodate the great amount of
traffic brought to it, and by the systematic prefe-
rence for some time given by its servants in the
allotment of the available waggons to another and
rival carrying establishment., to the great detri-
ment of this company and others. Since the Govern-
ment inquiry an end had been put to this practice,

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hoped, to undertake much profitable business as
through carriers, which they were before obliged
to decline from the difficulty and uncertainty of se-
curing a ready and punctual conveyance of their
goods by the railway. Upon the whole operations
of the company at Calcutta and Niadras a balance
of profit was shown of £24,522. From this £16,788
had been, from time to time, written off for losses
at Bombay, the greater portion during the two
latter years of the account. in consequence of the
losses at Bombay no further dividend for the year,
beyond the 3 per cent. already paid, could be de-
clared. The directors had no reason to doubt that
the business in Calcutta and Madras, which had
now been established for three years, would go on
improving, and they expected that measures of
economy could be carried out which would lead to
the profits hearing an increased ratio to the gross
receipts.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Friday Evening.

The result of the inquest at Dungarvan you have
received. There was a report that two more men
had died from the effects of injuries received at the
election. This report was conveyed in a telegram.
supplied to the newspapers on Wednesday last. It
has been contradicted by the Cork Examiner, which
says that one man pursued by the Lancers has died
within the last few days of fever—not of wounds.
There was a meeting in the city of Waterford
yesterday, attended by 200 of the most influential
citizens, to adopt measures for the relief of the great
distress that prevailed there at present. The Mayor
presided. Resolutions were moved by Mr. W. Mal-
comson, Rev. P. Kent, P.P., the Dean of Water-
ford, and Messrs. Laler, Barron, and Grubb. The
sum of £2OO was subscribed on the spot, including
£lO each from the two bishops, Dr. Daley and Dr.
O'Brien.

There was another meeting held in Waterford for
the purpose of taking measures to obtain the assist-
ance of Government in improving the harbour. It
was a special meeting of the Harbour Commissioners.
The following resolution was adopted :

That the chairman, Mr. Clibborno, Mr. Denny, Mr.
Kent, Mr. Slattery, Mr. Afalcomson, with our engineer Mr.
A. Stephens, be appointed a deputation to wait upon the
Board of Trade and Lord Derby, to press upon the Go-
vernment that the port of Waterford has imperial claims to
an outlay for its improvement ; that this board are willing
to subsidise their income so as to raise a sum not exceeding
L 17,000 in part payment of the necessary outlay in renewing
the bar at the entrance of this harbour ; that the city and
county members be solicited to join the deputation ; and
that the Harbour Commissioners of Ross be requested, by
deputation or otherwise, to support this application.
At Belfast on Wednesday three brothers named
M'Closkey, residing in Irvine-street, were arrested
by Head Constable Jacques on suspicion of being
connected with the Fenian conspiracy. The persona
arrested are shoemakers. The prisoners were brought
before Mr. O'Donnell, R.M., at the police-office,
and remanded. In the course of the day they were
taken to the county gaol.
_ _ _

Yesterday the seven persons arrested in that city

in connection with the discovery of a large quantity
of arms and ammunition were brought up before
Mr. Ornie and Mr. O'Donnell, resident magistrates.
After a lengthened investigation, Mr. Rea called
for the discharge of the prisoners, arguing that non-
production of the proclamation issued by the Lord-

Lieutenant vitiated the case in its inception. The
four prisoners were commited for trial on the charge
of having bullets in their possession, and remanded
upon other charges lodged against them.
Yesterday morning Denis Dowling Mulcahy was
brought up on a writ of habeas corpus, to hear the
judgment of the Court on the writ of error which
was argued before their Lordships last November.
The prisoner was convicted at the recent Special
Commission for the city of Dublin, under an indict-
ment framed under the Act 11th and 12th of Vic-
toria, called the Treason Felony Act. He was con-
veyed from Mountjoy Convict Prison in custody of
two warders and one of the civil guard of Portland
Convict Depot, in a police van, escorted by a detach-
ment of cavalry police with drawn sabres. I-Ie was
in the convict dress and handcuffed i_ he was placed
at the side bar, and the sister was allowed a seat
near him, but was not permitted to hold any com-
munication with him.

The case having been called, Chief Justice White-
side proceeded to deliver judgment. having referred
to the pleadings in the case, he proceeded to give a
history of the law of treason from the earliest times
to the Revolution, and thence down to the Phcenix
Conspiracy, in which he had himself prosecuted as
Attorney-General, in 1859. He gave an exhaustive
resume of the authorities upon the subject, and then,
coming to the case before him, he examined the
arguments of counsel for the convict on the points
reserved. He said :--

On the whole the Gotta were constrained by their duty
to give judgment for the Crown. They wore only to declare
what the law is. If that law is to be altered it must be done by
a higher tribunal. Ills lordship then proceeded to refer to the
challenges (which had been overruled) by the prisoner to
the array, and to the poll. The former was that the panel
for the trial was taken by the Sheriff from tho jurors' book
for the year 1865, and not from the jurors' book for 1866,
the then current year. lie held that both challenges wero

radically defective in point of form; but even were they
not so, upon the construction of the law applicable to the
matter he held that the panel returned at the beginning of
the sittings of the Commission, Nov. 26, 1865, was the
proper panel from which to select the jury fors trial taking
place at an adjournment of the Commission. With regard
to the challenge to a juror for being over the ago of 60
years, he had come to the conclusion that the jury acts
dealing with the question of disqualification contemplated
property and residence alone, and did not refer to age. A s
none of the errors had been sustained, the judgment against
the plaintiff in error must stand. It was satisfactory that
the prisoner would have the benefit of both forms of pro-
cedure, and of every privilege which the law allowed for
a complete answer to this indictment. If he found that
any of these points could be decided in favour of the pri-
soner, he would cheerfully decide accordingly it was
equally his duty in the present case to pronounce judg-
mont for the Crown.
Mr. Justice O'Brien expressed his concurrence in
the judgment as the Court on the two main ques-
tions ; but differed on the point raised about Mr.
Booth; one of the jurors, who was over 60 years
of age. lie held that a juror must be between 21
and 60 years of age.
Mr. Justice Fitzgerald and Mr. Justice George
agreed fully with the Lord Chief Justice.
On the application of Mr. Longfield, Q.C., the
prisoner was then remanded to the custody of the
governor of Mountjoy prison upon the execution of
the judgment standing against him. A large crowd
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way, the decision would have affected
all the Fe-
nian convictions at the Special
Commission
in Dub-
lin in 1866, for they were tried by juries taken from
the jurors' book made in 1865.

An international regatta is to be held on the
Seine, in which the Imperial Commissioners invite
Great Britain to take part. Her Majesty's commis-
sioners have accordingly appointed the following
committee to make the necessary arrangements :
Duke of Sutherland, K.G , Marquis of Drogheda,
Earl of Wilton, G.C.11 Earl of Granard, Earl
Vane, Lord Alfred Paget, Hon. C. Denman,
M.P., T. E. Chitty, Esq., J. Macgregor, Esq.,
Allan Morrison, Eiq., John White, Esq. ; Charles
Wylde, Esq., secretary. A stun of £BOO has been
set mile for prizes at the regatta, and contributions
have also been promised by his Royal Highness the
Prin-,ai of Wales, his Royal Highness the Duke
of Edinburgh (.£100), the Duke of Marlbo-
rough, Sir John Pakiugton, Bart. (£25), Hon.
George Denman (.£10), and others, which there is
reason to hope will be largely augmented. The ap-
propriation of the subscriptions from the United
Kingdom in prizes, &c., will be hereafter announced.
The regatta will probably be held in the second
week of July, and it will comprise races for boats
of all chmes, from sculling boats and canoes up to
eight oars. Boats duly entered for the races will be
conveyed from London to Paris and back again free
of expense, and proper arrangements made for their
care and custody at Paris under cover. This notice
has been officially issued to the rowing clubs
throughout the country.

LONDON, SA7 URDAY, JAN. 19, 1867.

The continuance of the severe weather, which has
prevailed more or less ever since the beginning of
the year, is producing the most distressing effects
among the poorer classes of the metropolis. Fol-
lowing on the continued depression of trade from

be r a nic of last spring, and the distress and weak-
ness left in the wake of the cholera, the frost has
created more than usual suffering in the houses of
the industrial classes. In ordinary winter weather,
when well-dressed and hearty persons are enjoying
a good dinner and a good fire, and are talking
" about fine seasonable weather," there are
always thousands of sick and struggling
persons who are terribly pinched ; but
this year it is not only the helpless and infirm, not
only the aged and widows, who are reduced to
abject poverty, but the families of industrious and
sturdy artisans and labourers, who in ordinary times
are able to fight their way manfully without help
from the outer world. All over London, but more
especially in the eastern districts, is the same story
told. From Poplar, Millwall, Limehouse, Bethnal
Green, and their neighbourhoods, come constant
and pathetic appeals for help. The sad story told by
the resident ministers of religion and the principal in-
habitants of the districts are fully confirmed by the
experience of special inquirers and casual visitors. We
are not surprised, under these circumstances, to find
that the Bishop of LONDON has summoned the
members of the Metropolitan Relief Association to
meet daily at their office in Regent-street, as at the
time of the cholera. His Lordship, after saying
that the committee on Tuesday last voted £875 to
necessitous parishes, adds " The accounts of the
distress witnessed by a member of the committee,
who had visited the east of London to make inquiries
on the spot, were appalling. Since the Metropolitan
Relief Association make it a strict rule to administer
relief solely with regard to the wants of the reci-
pints, without any distinction whatever on account
of difference of creed, it has a strong claim
upon the support of all classes of the public ;
and the Bishop's appeal will, no doubt, be promptly
and heartily responded to. The Committee ex-
press their willingness to co-operate with any
other well-organised association, and we observe
that a gentleman, residing in Poplar, has made a
very sensible suggestion to the effect that a general
committee of the leading manufacturers and ship-
owners of the district should be formed at once,
so that the sums forwarded for the relief of the
distress should be fairly divided throughout the
whole of the many suffering districts. Steps have
alreadybeen taken towards this desirable result, and
a preliminary meeting will, we believe, be held
in Poplar this morning. The plan of district
committees answered so well in the autumn that it
gives great encouragement to believe that the funds
at their disposal will be well and wisely spent, and
as the richer half of London is generally very ready
to help the poorer half, provided they know how to
set about it, money is not likely to be wanting for
immediate action.

There is one point in connection with the distress
and lack of employment at the east end of London
which has deservedly attracted much attention at
the present crisis, and which gives a most unfavour-
able illustration of the working of trades' unions. In
most of the daily papers of yesterday, side by side
with the heartrending accounts of the wants and
sufferings of thousands of families was a letter from
Mr. ,FORD, the managing director of the Thames
Ironworks Company. This company, as is well
known, is one of the largest firms of the kind, and
even in the present depressed state of trade are
employing two thousand hands. Mr. FORD states
that being on the eve of completing some large
contracts which would necessitate the discharge
of some hundreds of men, and as they were anxious
if possible to avoid aggravating the existing dis-
tress they had opened negociations for building
some steamers for a foreign company, which they
could only obtain at a greatly reduced price, which
necessitated a reduction in the cost of labour to
escape actual loss, though profit in any shape was
out of the question. The men employed by the
firm were asked to accept a reduction of their wages
of sixpence a day, which would diminish the ship-
wrights' wages from 7s. to 6s. 6d. daily, and
the other classes in proportion. The answer
to this offer Mr. FORD sends verbatim. It is
signed " The Shipwrights of the Port of London,"
and states that the men find it scarcely possible to
keep out of debt at the full rate of wages, and that
considering the high rate of food, house rents, taxes,
&c., as well as the losses caused by bad weather,
holidays, and other interruptions, they will be "doing
an injustice to themselves and their families, and
all with whom they have dealings," by accepting the
reduction. It will not take any one very long to cal-
culate what six times six shillings and sixpence will
amount to, and there is no reason to suppose that
the various losses they must take into such ample
calculation would diminish it very largely. Thirty-
nine shillings a week, at a time when the most
distressing poverty surrounds them would, one
might have supposed, been most thankfully
accepted by men who really wish to support
themselves by their own hands, and not throw
their wives and families upon the charity of the
public. It is right to add that the firm belief that
most of their men would willingly have taken the
offer but for the prohibition of their Trades'
Unions. So that the Trades' Unions, which were
designed for the benefit of labour and the assist-
ance of the working-man, are actually so perverted
from their original object that they compel a man
to sit at home idle, and see his wife and children
wanting food and fire, because in a time of
extreme depression of trade be cannot take a
temporary engagement of sixpence a day less
than the regular sum. Do the shipwrights of the
port of London think it mure honourable to take a
quartern loaf and a grudgingly given half crown
at the workhouse door than to receive thirty-nine
shillings in payment of honest work ? If so, their
standard is different from that of most of their
countrymen. On other grounds, too, there
is good reason for indignation against this
application of the aut C war aut nullus
theory. There are hundreds of labourers
who are dependent in a great degree upon the em-
ployment of the skilled workmen who have no voice
in the matter, not being members of the unions,
and who are thus deprived of the chance of employ-
ment at a time when employment means good warm
clothing, almost life itself. Such tyranny exercised
by the higher classes over the lower might well raise
an outcry about the abuses of English liberty. From
one working man to another the act passes unnoticed.
There is reason to fear that the unjust and unrea-
sonable conduct of these men may in some degree
alienate public sympathy. It is well, therefore, that
it shoulJ be distinctly understood that the worst
suffering is among those who have no chance of im-
proving their condition in the present state of
things.

The Conservatives seem determined to make the
most of their opportunities just now, and to lose no
time in putting their views before the country. Per-
haps, all things considered, this is a wise determina-
tion upon their part, for, with one thing and the
other, there have been a great many mis-statements,
and Mr. BRIGIIT and his friends have made so
many mis- statements that it is advisable to confute
them. On Thursday a grand banquet took place in
the Guildhall, Cambridge. Mr. BALLS presided,
and made an energetic speech in proposing
the toast of the evening, " The Members for the
Borough of Cambridge." Ddr, POWELL Waii their