The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1867.

paratively indifferent. The lack of sufficient
dwelling r oom for our labouring population is one
of the me )st crying evils of the day, and it is an
evil whicl ) is a very difficult one to deal with.
We can, Vowever, surely do something to modify
the water grievance, and the attention of Parliament
should be direizted to it before the session is over.
It shorad be, made incumbent on every landlord to
provide a receptacle for a supply of water propor-
tionate to the size of the house. In waiting for
larger ref orms and a supply of better quality this
would gre ally mitigate the grievances suffered from
in hot weather. Also the water companies
should be bound to furnish the usual quantity
on Sunday, since domestic necessities are not
liable to equal intermission. If they do not do this
they should at least give a second supply on
Saturday evening, else so far from the poor people
being able to carry out the traditional " cleaning"
of place and person, and clothes for the Sunday,
they are reduced to the necessity of being dirtier
than on any other day in the week ! We
may be spared any return of the old enemy
this year, but that is no reason why we should relax
our precautionary measures. The recent outbreak
of the Cattle Plague should teach us that there is
either some deficiency in our arrangements or some
unfavourable conditions in the atmosphere. But
whatever the aspect of affairs as regards cholera,
or any other special complaint, we know that
typhus and its kindred are always too busy among
our courts and alleys. Every case of preventible
death is a reproach to the humanity and the justice
of the whole community, and it is very much to be
desired that some earnest and persevering reformer
would take up the grievances of the thousands of
hardworking people who are struggling to pay a
heavy rent for rooms or tenements, which they oc-
cupy under conditions irreconcileable with health,
decency, or comfort.

that the nail had been extracted from an old hoard
in an outhouse where pigs had been kept. A cattle
disease had prevailed there, an 4 the Dail had been
tainted with poison from it.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'§ TELEGRAMS.)

THE BOMBAY MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, May 31

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Nyanza, with the heavy portion of the above mails,
passed the Needles at 7.45 a.m. to-thy.

SAXONY.

DRESDEN, May 31

Tler Royal liighne.,:s the Princess Mary Anne,
the wife of Prince George of Saxony, was safely
delivered of a daughter this morning at 2 a.m.

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, May 30.
'The steamers Virginia, from Liverpool, and the
St. Patrick, from Glasgow, arrived here to-day.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON; May 31

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Nyanza, with the above mails, arrived here to-day
with 149 passengers, £2,480 in specie, and a general
cargo, including 893 bales of silk, value £75,000
sterling. On the 24th she spoke the British barque
Nora, and the steamer Smyrna, and on the 27th
the schooner Roseland and the steamer Louis
David.

GIBRALTAR, May 26.
Exchange on London, 49i to 50 ; Paris, sf. 26c.
Madrid, par to is dis.
Her Majesty's ships Caledonia, Victoria, Are
thusa, Skylark, and Rcdpole are in the harbour.

The Thames Embankment.

COMMITTEE THIS DAY.

This morning the question as to the further
extension of the approaches of the Thames
embankment, on the northern side of the
river (to the East of Westminster Bridge), and also
the embankment which extends along that portion
of the river known asi Chelsea Beach, came before
the Referees on Private Bills for consideration, as
to the interests of a very large number of holders
of property (real, copy, and leasehold), in
the districts through which they would ultimately.
pass. The different parties appeared, and state-
ments were made to the effect that arrangements
had been entered into which would completely
satisfy the interests of all concerned. The ques-
tion having been generally discussed, it was
ultimately arranged that all opposition to the
bill should be withdrawn.

COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL.

A Court of Common Council was held yesterday
at Guildhall, at which the Lord Mayor presided.
CATTLE PLAGUE: IN TIIE METROPOLIS.

Mr. E. DRESSER ROGERS said that, having seen
various statements in the public press in reference
to a fresh outbreak of the cattle plague in the me-
tropolis, he should be glad if the chairman of the
Cattle Market Committee would inform him whe-
ther he was in a position to make any state-
ment to the court, for the information of the public,
upon the subject. He should also be glad to know
whether there had been any diminution in the
quantity of dead meat sent to the Metropolitan
Cattle Market. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. RUDKIN, the chairman of the committee
referred to, said he was sorry to be obliged to state
that there was no doubt that the cattle plague had
reappeared in almost every part of the metropolis,
with the exception of the City of London, in a most
virulent form ; and the committee had only that
morning met for the purpose of reappointing the
inspectors for the market. Certain Orders in
Council had been issued, some of which would come
into effect in a short time, which would throw a
good deal of trouble and responsibility upon the
committee, but they would most readily do every-
thing in their power to carry out the intentions of
the Government with reference to putting a stop to
this terrible disease ; and he might state that one
of the regulations that were to be enforced, and the
necessity for which he had forshadowed last year
when the subject was before under discussion, was to
put an entire stop to the passing foreign cattle
through the streets of the metropolis to the market,
and they would be conveyed there direct by railway.
He considered that this was a most important
regulation, S and he believed that it would be
attended with very good effect. (Hear, hear.)
With regard to the other question, as to whether
there had been any diminution in the supply of dead
meat to the Metropolitan Cattle Market he could
state that there had been no diminution in such
supply. (Hear, hear.)
PROPOSED NEW CHURCH AT THE CATTLE MARKET.
Mr. W. HEwErr moved that the application of
the Bishop of London in the name of the committee
of the Bishop of London's Fund, for the gift of a
piece of land adjoining the Cattle Market, for the
erection of a church, parsonage, and schools, ad-
journed from the 31st of May last, be referred to
the General Purposes Committee to consider, with
power to confer with the Markets Committee and
report thereon.
Alderman GIBBONS said that the question had
stood over for a considerable time ; he considered
there were very good reasons why nothing should be
done at present with reference to the application.
Ile therefore moved that the consideration of the
letter of the bishop be adjourned sine die.
Mr. RUDKIN said he thought it right to observe
that the court ougierto pause before they granted
the application, because he believed every morsel of
the ground belonging to the corporation at Copen-
hagen-fields would shortly be required for market
purposes. If the cattle disease should continue to
spread it would he absolutely necessary to erect ad-
ditional lairs, and all the land at their disposal in
the neighbourhood of the market would be required •
for the purpose.
THE JUDGE OF THE SHERIFFS' COURT.

Mr. W. C. FOWLER, the chairman of the Officers'
and Clerks' Committee, brought up a report from
that committee recommending that the salary of Mr.
Kerr, the judge of the Sheriffs' Court, should be in-
creasede from £9OO to £1,500 per annum. He at the
same time handed in a letter that had been received
from that gentleman by the committee in which he
objected to the committee defining the duties he
should perform,and stated that he should not consi-
der the proposed increase in his salary sufficient in
view of the extra duties that were likely to be cast
upon him, as judge of the Sheriffs' Court, by bills at
present before Parliament, in the event of their be-
coming law. The hon. member moved that the re-
port be agreed to.

A long discussion took place upon the question,
and Mr. MURRELL contended that there had been
really no increase of duty cast upon the judge by
the Equitable Jurisdiction Act. Ile had ascertained
that during a period of 15 months only 17 cases of
that description had conic before the court. He
moved, as an amendment, that the only increase
to the salary of the judge should be the amount of
the fees received for these 17 cases.

Mr. H. L. TAYLOR seconded the amendment, and
he argued that it would be monstrous to give an in-
crease of salary to the extent of £6OO a year when
only such a small amount of additional duty had
been performed.

After much further discussion the question was
put to a show of hands, on which the Lord MAYOR
declared the amendment to be lost.

Mr. Cox then moved a second amendment (on
the original motion to agree with the committee in
their report) to the effect that the report be re-
ferred back to the committee for reconsideration,
with a view to a final settlement of the question.
Mr. LUSHER briefly seconded the amendment,
and after a conversation in which Messrs. M'George,
Obbard, Fry, and Bontems took part, a show of
hands was taken upon this amendment, which was
also declared to be lost.

On the motion of Mr. Cox a division took place,
when the. numbers appeared—For the amendment,
37 ; against it, 47 ; majority against the amend-
ment, 10.
Mr. Deputy DE JERSEY then moved a further
amendment, which, as he contended, would carry
out the same views as the Legislature entertained
when passing the Equitable Jurisdiction Act. The
amendment was, " That the sum of £3OO per an-
num be paid to the judge of the Sheriffs' Court in
respect of the duties imposed upon him under the
provisionsof the Equitable Jurisdiction Act, tocom-
mence from the date of that statute coming in force';
that the arrears thus created of £450 be paid to
him, and that in future the increase of his salary be
£3OO per annum."
Mr. RIDLEY seconded the amendment, which was
supported by Mr. Bedford and Mr. Cox, and opposed
by Mr. Medwin, Alderman Waterlow, and Mr.
Deputy Fry.
This amendment was carried by a large majority,
and afterwards adopted as a substantive resolution,
and

On the motion of Mr. Deputy DE JERSEY it was
ordered that the original reference to the committee
should be diEcharged.
The court then adjourned.

CHURCHING THE JUDGES.--The Judges of the
Courts of Common Law will attend divine service at St
Paul's Cathedral on Sunday next. They will be received
in state by the Lord Mayor and corporation and the dean
and canons of the cathedral at a quarter-past 3 o'clock.

BEATING THE BO UNDS. —Yesterday being As-
cension-day, this ceremony was observed in the various
parishes of London. At the Temple there is always a
sturdy resistance to the parochial authorities. All the
day the gates are closed, and no one is allowed to pass in
who has not some special business calling him there. In
vain the authorities of St. Dunstan's on the one side,
and those of St. Bride's on the other knock at the gates
for admission. The Templars say they are extra-paro-
chial—they acknowledge no parish officials, and no
parochial control, and their sturdy porters standing within
the closed doors listen in silence to their entreaties for
admission.

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Tonal Tirtiblz

HER MAJESTY, &c.
BALMORAL, May 28.
The Queen drove out yesterday morning,
attended by the lion. Mrs. Gordon.

In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by
Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, and attended
by the Duchess Dowager of Athole, drove out.
Prince and Princess Christian went out in the
afternoon.

play 29.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
drove out yesterday morning.
In the afternoon the Queen, with Princess Louise
and Princess Beatrice, drove to Alt-na-Guithasach.
Prince Arthur accompanied her Majesty, riding.
Prince and Princess Christian also went out.
Sir Edwin Landseer arrived at the Castle this
morning.

The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday fore-
noon, attended by Major Teesdale.

In the afternoon his Royal Highness, tiecom-
panied by the Duke d'Autnale and the Princo of
Teck, and attended by Colonel Kingscote anti
Major Teesdale, visited the Horse Show at the
Agricultural Hall, Islington.

His Royal highness the Prince of Wales will/
it is expected, reside at Cliveden, near Maidenhead, the
beautiful seat of the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland,
during the Ascot week.

THE PRINCESS OF WALES.—A week of more than
usually satisfactory progress has advanced her Royal WO"
ness considerably on the road to that complete recovery
which it is believed no less confidently than it is hopod that
time will bring about. The joint has now lost nearly All
trace of pain, and is recovering its natural form. Its ar
pearance, indeed, is more nearly that of health than has Yet
been observed in the course of the illness. So delicate,
however, is the structure of the affected articulation that
very trifling shock or abrupt movement might interrupt
the healing process. The precautions, therefore, as regard!,
the preservation of the limb in a splint and swing are SP
continued, and will probably be required for some time t°
come.—The Lancet.

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS MARY ADE'
LAIDE OF TECK.— The following bulletin was shown to the
numerous visitors who attended to pay congratulatorY
visits at IS ensington Palace yesterday:—"Kensington
Palace, May SO. The condition of her Royal Highness the
Princess Mary Adelaide continues satisfactory. The in-
fant Princess is quite weII.—ARTHUR FARE; M.D."
Lord Brougham has arrived at his residence °
Berkeley-square from his villa at Cannes. The noble anti
learned lord is in excellent health.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at tbo
official residence of the First Lord of the U.'teasurb 111
D3wuiug-street.

THE LATE LORD LLAN OVER, AND lIIS

FUNERAL.

The following curious directions were left by the
late Lord Llanover for his funeral. The mane-
script is dated November 13, 1861, and is as
follows :--<, My funeral is to be as plain and in-
expensive as possible. My body is to be carried
by such of my tenants and labourers as may be
selected for the purpose, and who may desire t°
bear it. The pall-bearers to be agents and
tenants. No hatbands or scarfs to be used by
anybody. No hired carriages ; no hired people.
No parade of volunteers. Welsh hymns to 130
sung at intervals from the time the body is car-
ried out of the house until it is deposited in its last
resting-place. That there may not be any misap-
prehension as to the conduct of those who survive
me in regard .to my funeral, the above directions
may be fully known. Our good Queen gave to
her subjects an example which they will do Well
to follow. When her aunt the Duchess of Glou-
cester, and when her excellent mother the Duchess
of Kent died, the funerals of those illustrious
personages were conducted as privately as possi-
ble. Why should we her subjects contemplate
funeral splendour ? The pcmp of a funeral 15
an additional trial to those who love the de-
ceased ; it detracts from these thoughts that
should be directed to heaven, and not to the
vanities of the world."