The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Sept. 6.
The doom of the Exhibition Palace and Winter
Garden, which was so auspiciously inaugurated and
gave promise of a long and brilliant career, has now
been finally pronounced. After a miserable struggle
it is obliged to succumb beneath the weight of its
embarrassments, and the auctioneer's hammer will
give it the finishing stroke. Various circumstances,
some uncontrollable, others which might have been
avoided, have contributed to this result. The chief
causes may be briefly summed up. The company
started with insufficient capital, the monetary crisis
aggravated their difficulties, the management was
not always judicious, and could not afford to be as
liberal as an exacting public expected, and the citi-
zens, though always proud of it, and sometimes
pleased at the efforts of the company to entertain
them, evinced but little disposition to give it per-
manent support. Its fate is not very encouraging
to speculators in magnificent efforts for popular re-
creation in Dublin. The adjourned half-yearly
meeting of the shareholders was held yesterday in
the building ; the Hon. J. P. Vereker in the chair.
A report of the consulting committee of share-
holders and directors, which had been appointed at
the last meeting, was brought up and supported by
the chairman. It recommended that an offer which

had been received from a shareholder to'purchase the
building for £BO,OOO should be accepted, and in the
event of the offer not being carried out that it
should be sold to the best advantage. The chair-
man stated that the directors found it impossible to
carry on the establishment, owing to the want of
funds. He thought, however, that if means were
given to them the undertaking would be successful.
Mr. Chas. Allen characterised the consulting com-
mittee as perfectly useless, and complained that
the directors would propose nothing, second
nothing, and agree to nothing. He appealed to
the shareholders to save the building from becom-
ing a railway station or hotel, or being used for
any other purpose than the gratification of the
public. Ile charged the directors with incurring
extravagant expenditure and withholding informa-
tion, and advised the shareholders to get rid of them,
and not to sell their shares. He moved that the
meeting should adjourn for a month. Sir Robert
Shaw, a member of the committee, said he could
not honestly offer other advice than to dispose of
the concern, and accused Mr. Allen of having made
an offer to purchase the building for £BO,OOO, and
afterwards retreated from it. Mr. Switzer, a direc-
tor, denied the truth of Mr. Allen's statements, and,
after recriminations had been exchanged between
different speakers, it was ultimately resolved that
the meeting should adjourn for a month, the con-
sulting committee to continue its labours, but no
offer of purchase to be accepted until ratified by a
general meeting.
The work of prosecuting the party processionists
goes briskly on, and is adding not a little to the
troubles of the local magistracy. It is many years
since such a round of visits has been paid by the
Crown Solicitor to the petty sessions benches.
Having disposed of his business in Bangor on Wed-
nesday, Mr. Magee attended yesterday morning be-
fore the justices at Banbridge, to bring to justice 12
persons who were charged with a breach of the law
at Scarva on the 13th of July last. Mr. Rea, of
Belfast, solicitor, attended on behalf of the defend-
ants and applied for a postponement of the inquiry.
The reasons assigned for the application were
worthy of Mr. Rea's ingenuity and self-possession.
He gravely read an affidavit, setting forth that he
could not proceed in the absence of Mr. Bernard
Hughes, of Belfast, who was, he considered, a ma-
terial witness, but whom he had not been able to
serve with a subpoena. Mr. Magee offered no ob- ,
jection to the adjournment if the magistrates
were satisfied that there were sufficient grounds
for granting it. Mr. Rea then gave notice that
in the event of the cases being proceeded with he
would call for the production of certain docu-
ments now in Dublin Castle, and would apply to
the Attorney-General to have them forthcoming.
Lest the magistrates should have any doubt as to
the importance of these State papers, he frankly ex-
plained that they consisted of speeches of Sir R.
Peel and a statement of the law officers of the late
Government, expressing an opinion that green is
not a party colour. It might be supposed that such
a matter was wholly irrelevant, and could have no
possible bearing on a case where parties were charged
with displaying, not green, but orange. Such a sup-
position, however, would not do justice to Mr. Rea's
reasoning powers, for he argued that if green is not
a party colour it would be invidious to say that
orange is a party colour. He also afforded the bench
a glimpse of the material evidence which Mr. Hughes
was required to give by assuring them that he would
be prepared to prove that the Pope's bodyguard
wore an orange uniform with black facings.
Whether the magistrates were persuaded or enter-
tained by the reasons offered, they complied with
the application, and the case stands adjourned until'
the next court day.

The mastership of the Cour t of Exchequer, which
has been vacant for five months and keenly com-
peted for by rival claimants of Government patron-
age, has been conferred upon Mr. J. Corry Lowry,
Q.C., a gentleman of respectable abilities and gene-
rally esteemed. The salary attached to the office is
£1,200 a year. It was offered to Mr. Longfield,
Q.C., but declined.

The Rev. Mr. Campbell, who was recently as-
saulted in Granard while passing through the town,
attempted to preach in the streets of Moate on Sun-
day last, but was obliged to desist in consequence of
the hooting of an adverse crowd. Forty-one persons
who took part in the disturbance were summoned
by the police before the magistrates yesterday, and
the charge having been proved, Captain Upton, the
chairman, expressed strong disapproval of their con-
duct on the part of the Bench, but as no serious
breach of the peace had been committed the magis-
trates dismissed the charge, at the same time cau-
tioning the parties that if their conduct were repeated
they would not be so leniently dealt with.
The annual sale of yearlings bred by the Palmer-
ston Association took place yesterday at the Cur-
ragh. The association has been established under
the auspices of the Earl of Mayo and other gentlemen,
who take a practical interest in the improvement of
Irish horses, and the success which it has already
achieved is highly encouraging. The sale yesterday
attracted a very large and influential assemblage,
and high prices were obtained for the animals, some
of which displayed qualities of the highest promise.
The Patriotic Assurance Company, one of the
very few companies whose management is in Irish
hands, held its annual meeting yesterday, Mr. J.
Naughton, J.P., in the chair, and declared a divi-
dend of 10s. per share, being 5 per cent. on the paid
up capital.
Mr. Johnston's address to the electors of Belfast
is a hostile manifesto against the Government. He
plainly avows that he has been induced by " recent
circumstances" to offer himself to the electors, and
brings his counter-indictment in these terms :
" Recent circumstances induce me to take this course.
It might have been hoped that the present Govern-
ment would have seen the folly and wickedness of
deliberately promoting strife in Ireland, by main-
taining a system of persecution which no lover of
liberty would originate or endure. I regret that this
hope has been disappointed. Not only has the Go-
vernment refused to repeal an odious and tyrannical
act, which is utterly antagonistic to the spirit of the
British Constitution, but it has sought, with a spas-
modic vigour, strangely contrasted with the weak-
ness shown on other occasions, to crush those mani-
festations of religious and political opinion which
cannot be put down in any country in which, in
reality, liberty exists." He declares that Protes-
tantism, which he desires to uphold, is " a system
not of intolerance, but of freedom. Liberty of
thought and of political and religious action cannot
i
be proscribed by those who are truly mbued with
its spirit." Intending to maintain these principles,
he does not think it necessary to enter minutely on
other questions, but promises to give other public
questions his careful consideration, and he says he
feels confident that he " may reckon on the support
of all liberty-loving citizens."

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKE7 —This Day.

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The market opens dull. Not quotably lower.
Sales probably 8,000 or 10,000 baleF.,

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Sept. 5.

The Queen went out yesterday morning, accom-
panied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, and
in the afternoon her Majesty drove out, accom-
panied by Prince and Princess Christian.

Princess Louise rode out, attended by Lady
Churchill ; and Princess Beatrice also went out

riding.
His Excellency M. and Madame Van de Weyer
and Lord Stanley had the honour of dining with the
Queen and royal family.

TIIE LATE VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO THE BORDER.
—The following letter has been received by Provost Deans,
Jedburgh, from the Home Secretary, in reply to the public
address presented to her Majesty on the occasion of the
royal visit to the burgh on the 23d ult.—" Whitehall,
August 31, 1867. Sir,—l have the satisfaction to inform
you that the loyal and dutiful address of the provost,
magistrates, and town council of the royal burgh of Jed-
burgh, presented to the Queen on the occasion of her
Majesty's visit, was very graciously received by her
Majesty.—l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient ser-
vant, GATHORNE HARDY. The Provost of Jedburgh."

The Right Hon. Stephen Cave, M.P., and Mrs.
Cave have passed through London on their way to Vic*

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)
The will of Sir Morgan George Crofton, Bart., Of
Mohill House, Leitrim, Ireland, and of Leamington,
Warwickshire, formerly in the Royal Navy, Was
proved in Dublin on the Bth ult. The personalty in
Ireland was estimated as exceeding £14,000, and
that in England at £41,000, and was sworn as
under £60,000 in the United Kingdom, the probate
duty being £750. The acting executor is the Rev.
Arthur Hyde, of Dromkilla Glebe, Vicar of Mobil],
power being reserved to Denis Crofton, Esq., of
Mountjoy-square, Dublin, the son of the testator.
The will is dated in 1859, and two codicils in 1861 ;
and the testator died at Leamington, June 24,1867,
at the age of 79. He leaves to the widow of his eldest
son, the late Col. Hugh Denis Crofton, an annuitY
of £5OO ; and to her two younger children, Arthur
and Edward, certain property that was bequeathed
to their father. He bequeaths to his grandson/
Morgan Geo. Crofton, his late father's sword and
rifle, and his (testator's) naval medal and all his plate,
pictures, and furniture, and the residue of his pro-
perty. He bequeaths and appoints to his son, Denis
Crofton, sums amounting to upwards of £16,000,
and to each of his executors £2OO. The will of
Captain Edward William Harris, of her Majesty's
Indian Navy, who died July 12, 1867, was proved
in the London Court ou the 27th ult., and the per-
sonalty sworn under £40,000. On the death of his
wife, he leaves £B,OOO to be divided in equal shares
and proportions, amongst the following charitable
institutions—viz., the National Lifeboat Institution
(Adelphi), Sailors' Orphan Girls' House (Ramp'
stead), Institution for Shipwrecked Seamen, the
Metropolitan Free Hospital, Orthopedic (Oxford-
street), Ophthalmic (St. George's, Southwark, and
Gray's-inn-road), St. Mark's Hospital for Fistula,
Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, Hospital
for Stone, Smallpox and Fever Hospitals (Isling-
ton), Consumption Hospitals (Brompton and Vic"
toria-park), Cancer Hospital, Lock Hospital, Blind
Asylum (Surrey), Blind School (Euston-road),
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Idiot Asylum (Red-
hill), and Boys' Homo (Regent's-park-
road) ; and, after the death of his wife, he
bequeaths the residue of his personal estate, to
be divided equally between the Bishop of London's
Fund generally, the Shipwrecked Seamen's Fund,
and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The
will of Jane Bowen Harding, formerly of Rusthallt
in the parish of Speldhurst, Kent, and late of Ilfra-
combe, Devon, has been proved by her executors!
Rear-Admiral George Herbert, brother-in-law to
the deceased ; and Richard Bremridge, Esq., °f
South Petherton. After various legacies to her
nephew, nieces, and other relatives, she has ap-
pointed her sister, the wife of Rear-Admiral George
Herbert, her residuary legatee. She has bequeathed
the service of plate presented by the Patriotic Fund
in 1796 to her uncle, the late Capt. Richard Bowen,
killed in 1797, whilst in command of the Terpsichore
frigate, at the unsuccessful attack on Teneriffel
under Lord Nelson, to her sister, Mrs. Herbert, for
life ; and, at her decease, to her only nephew'
Captain George F. Herbert, of the 7th Royal Fusi-
liers. The deceased lady was in her 81st year.

PROPOSED ANNEXA TION OF THE CO

AND OMER UNIONS.

The Poor-law Board propose to annex the parish
of Clerkenwell to the West London Union, and the
parish of St. Luke to the East London Union. .1"
regards the East and West London Unions, we c3l/
hardly conceive of any proposition more prePos"
terous. The only reason we have ever heard al-
leged in favour of this movement is, that neither
of the City Unions possess within the confines °i
their several allotted districts any accommodation
for the relief of urgent and necessitous cases.
greater mistake was never committed. Without
being invidious, we may say that the West Lund°
Union has ever been desirous to meet all the require"
ments of the Poor-law Board, and to relieve distreA
whatever form that distress might assume, in the best
possible manner. When compulsorily removed front
their old house in West-street, Smithfield (having
built a new workhouse at Holloway), they took.
temporary premises, with the consent of the Poor'
law Board, just outside the Union, where no urgent
case has ever been refused admission, and where,
upon an average, 65 vagrants have nightly received
food and lodging. With th e full knowledge and sealed
consent and order of the Poor-law Board, the Wrest
London Union, at a cost of more than £12,000, have
very recently erected and provided the most ample
accommodation in Thavie's Inn, where, in addition
to a board-room and necessary local offices'
there is accommodation for some thirty urgent
cases, and wards for a large number of casuals'
The guardians of the Clerkenwell parish stall''
aghast at the proposed amalgamation. With 3
population numbering, nearly, if not three times
as much as the West London Union, and
with every appliance at command for the re-
lief of their poor, " it did seem" to Mr. gene°
c 4 rather hard that that board should be turned o'rer
to the West London Union." Now, as to the Bast
,
London Union, they have famous local offices,
would have had better if their hands had not been
stayed by the Poor-law Board. They have
casual wards to which the most urgent cases
might be removed, and they argue, with setrild
show of reason, that St. Luke's workhouse well
be nearly as far distant from some parts °
f
their union as their own workhouse at Iloreer;
ton. The City of London Union have no c3st°
wards in the City, excepting some small acconlin°‘,
clay
dation in Northumberland-alley, to which /°,l.'
urgent cases are sometimes removed, but this 5,
cieucy is now about to be remedied as far as
sible. The object of the Metropolitan Poor -A
the
1867, appears to us to be the better care Of
cse
lunatic, imbecile, and sick poor. For all thoit
purposes the three City Unions have made 111,',
ample provisions. For the lunatic poor an a5.c7,3
lum has been erected at Stone, out of the elaiia
cash, at a cost of some £O,OOO or £70,000,
order to fill that they took in several of the
wor"
county patients. At each of the three city 'oicf
houses there exists the most approved Ineanss;
taking care of lunatics, imbecile; and sick Persist
and if the City of London Union and the
n'
London Union would but increase their local aeco do
modation for the reception of urgent cases, we let
think the Poor-law Board might be induced t°
well alone.

RESCUED FROM DROWNING.—On Thursday Oral:
jog a lad named llawkings, in the service of Dir. Sulu
baker, George-street, Camberwell, whilst \ValidLig let
the side of the Surrey Canal, saw two children strugg,i;
in the water. He immediately jumped in and brough",o
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of them out, and just as the other was Finking for the
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time he, although much exhausted, again jumped in,
afterNs 3rbi
diving, brought up the child, who was shortly
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resuscitated, thus saved both children's lives if
ntrepidify.