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might even at times assume a tone of fierce decla-
mation, but its fire must be directed on some utterly
unimportant point. If a doctrine really unpalatable
to the Government were at any tirAe brought for-
ward, it must be so in such a way as to give the
triumph by easy inference to the party of order.
There must be an entire absence of any announce-
ments, either of foreign or domestic intelligence,
which could in any way embarrass the King's
servants, or diffuse a suspicion among the
people that any abuse existed in any depart-
ment of State. Thus, the Minister gained abso-
lute power not only over the journals on his
own side, but over those which nominally repre-
sented the Opposition; and all this was to be
done so adroitly that the impulse from behind
should never be seen. Now, this is a downright
stroke, of genius, and as far superior in effect to
the French system as Machiavelli was superior to
a corporal or a police-constable. We can well un-
derstand what the feelings of the wretched editors
and contributors must have been when they saw
their own guns turned upon their own friends day
by day by the ingenuity of the " Apostle." The
Government had all the credit, without any of the
inconveniences, of liberality. The Liberal party
bad the satisfaction of seeing their doctrines and
opinions caricatured by their own teachers, and
there was not an atom of violence. The journal
was like a child afflicted with a huge tapeworm,
which diverted all the nourishment apparently
swallowed to its own sustenance. It was a sparrow's
nest troubled with a cuckoo. It was a tree
smothered and killed with ivy. How different from
the French system, and how immeasureably supe-
rior to it.

leeted. The morning room ii also exceeding beau-
tiful, and when its wall are hung with the tapestry
with which all the chief apartments are to be
adorned the effect will be rich and tasteful in the
extreme. The drawing room as yet scarcely
answers the expectations which are naturally
formed of it after having seen the others. It seems
both too high and too ill-lighted for its size, while
the look-out upon the barges in the river or the
Lambeth factories on the other side is neither
cheerful nor picturesque. But a great difference
will, of course, appear when its now cheerles walls
are tapestried with crimson satin and the room
itself replete with furniture of the richest kind.
Every part of the house will be fitted up and fur-
nished in the most magnificent style, entirely at the
expense of the government, so that any hon. mem-
ber on being elected to fill the chair may at once
occupy his official residence without trouble or
delay. It is almost a pity that this noble mansion
cannot be seen by the public before it is finally
occupied, for notwithstanding its unpretentious
exterior the taste and richness of its decorations
would as much reward the visitor as 'any other of
of the magnificent portions of the New Palace
which all are so anxious to inspect.
While upon the subject of the new Houses we
may mention that the matchless crypt under old
St. Stephen's Chapel, the only part of the Old
Palace of Westminster which now exists, is far ad-
vanced towards complete restoration. No visitors
ever extend their researches in this direction, for
few are even aware of its existence, though one of
the most curious parts of the O ld Palace. It is now
lit with gas, and workmen are busily engaged re-
storing its richly carved bosses and groaned roof,
and replacing the polished columns of Purbeck
marble which have been defaced and sadly, misused
in centuries bygone. Even the most industrious of
our antiquaries give very little information con-
cerning this old chapel, which in olden time was
called indiscriminately the King's Chapel, St. Mary
Undercroft, and St. Mary-in-the-Faults. In this
little chapel, however, in 1238, Henry 111. married
his sister, Eleanor, widow of the. Earl of Pembroke,.
to Simon de Montfort, a foreigner, and his favourite,
whom he had made Earl of Leicester. When re-
proached by his brother Richard for allowing such
a match, the King replied coarsely that his sister,
the fair widow, had loved not -wisely, but too well,
and that it was necessary her marriage should be
hastened as much as possible. Here, also, if the
old picture is to be depended on, Caxton presented
his first book to Edward IV. The place was always
used as a chapel till the fanatics of the Common-
wealth destroyed its superbly- carved marble altars,
mutilated the old bosses representing the martyr-
dom of the Apostles, broke down the exquisite
tracery of its gothic windows, and left the place a
mere ruin half filled with rubbish. After the resto-
ration it remained a lumber-room for years, when
it was at last cleared out of the dirt which filled it
and transformed into a state dining-room for the
Speaker, and to give some festive aspect to a solemn
and beautifully-constructed place of worship its
stonework was in some parts painted and at other-
gilt. Nothing, however, would hide entirely the
sacred purpose of the structure, so an artificial ceil-
ing was next resorted tc, and fixed along half its
length, the other part being portioned off and trans-
formed into kitchens and lumber rooms. Its exqui-
site columns were torn out to make rooms for stoves
and chimneys, and the tombs of abbots and biShops
destroyed that plenty of scullery room and oven
space might be obtained. In this disgraceful state
it remained till the burning of the Houses of Par-
liament, when the long-neglected and misused crypt
was the only portion of the old Palace which sur-
vived the conflagration. It then at once became an
object to preserve, so the crypt was incorporated
in the design of the new Palace, and is now 'under-
neath that portion known as St. Stephen's-hall,
where the statues of Fox and Pitt and Burke adorn '
the very spot where the greatest triumphs of their
lives were attained.
The crypt will once more, we are glad to say, be
used as a place of worship for the officers and func-
tionaries of both houses ; and to this and every
minute detail of the original structure is being
carefully restored. The fretwork patterns which
pass down all the arches of its pointed roofs are
some of the most curious and most elaborate in effect
that can well be imagined. Its seven pointed win-
dows are already completely restored, and will
soon be filled, as they were before the Revolution,
with stained glass representing passagei in the life
of St. Stephen. Altogether the crypt, when re-
stored, promises to be one of the most beautiful,
as it is already one of the most ancient and in-
teresting, portions of the new Palace.—Times,

THE SHOEMAKERS AND THE
MACHINE GRIEVANCE.

I3ER 27, 1858

illy. MILNE'S, ON POPULAR
EDUCATION..

At the annual meeting of the Pontefract Me-
chanics'. Institution on Tuesday, the Rev. R. Stain-
forth, the vicar, in the chair, Mr. R. M. Milnes,
M.P., delivered an address. After remarking on
the necessary sameness which characterised ad-
dresses made at such institutions, he observed :
They had recently heard muchin speeches delivered
in connexion/with these institutions as to the books
which should he read by the members. Upon this
question he had always had this feeling—that the
books which really interested a man desirous of
obtaining information would be the best books for
him to read. Expressing, in passing, his opinion
of the value of the newspaper press, and the re-
markable progress which, within the last few years,
it had made in intelligence, in decency, in morality,
and in general information, he continued by ob-
serving that the books which a man should read,
as an addition to the newspaper, was also a matter
to be left very much to individual taste. He told
a story some time ago at a meeting in connexion
with a mechanics' institute, which many people
believed he had invented, though it was literally
true. The story related to the late Dr. Gaisford,
the head of Christ Church College, Oxford, who,
when very ill, asked that some light reading might
be handed to him. One of Sir W. Scott's novels
being handed to him, the doctor said that that was
"too heavy," and desired a Greek dictionary.
(Laughter.) Now, though the Greek dictionary
might be light reading in Dr. Gaisford's estima-
tion, it certainly could not be light reading either
to him (Mr. Milnes) or his audience ; but it was
clearly impossible for any of them to determine
what was really interesting reading to any one
besides himself. This, however, he believed would
be found to be the fact, that men who were engaged
in mechanical employments the greater part of the
day, were by no means so unwilling to give their
leisure to serious and earnest reading as were per-
sons who passed most of the day in idleness.
(Applause.) He believed that the habit of mecha-
nical work—precise, earnest, industrious, good,
mechanical work—would best lead men on to good
mental and intellectual work. A good workman
in the materials of life would, if he had the talent,
be a good workman in the materials of the mind;
and thus it was that they found that the most
remarkable men who had risen from the lower rank
of society had not risen from those who had ab-
stained from work, but from those who had been
the most industrious, the most active, and the most
intelligent in their own mechanical occupations.
(Applause.) There were two things which ope,ated
against young men advancing in intellectual pro-
gress—over-work and over-idleness • that was to
say, over-work and under-work. He thought it
no disadvantage whatever to a man's intellectual
progress to have something else to do; and- if they
looked at the upper classes of society they would
.find it was equally true in their case as it was in
their own—namely, that the man who had ,the most
active occupation was the man who in public life
the most distinguished himself, and became the
most useful to his country. (Applause.) They
had recently heard rather prominent objections to
the education of the wsrk'ng classes on
the pretext that it raised them above their
position —that it disinclined them to the usual
work and labour of the lot in which they were cast
—and that, if extended much further, the 'effect
would be to destroy muclilof the usefulness of the
great stratum of society. Now, he believed the
result of increased education would be an improve-
ment in household and mechanical labour of every
kind, that time would be saved, and that the ge-
neral advantage of the employer . and employed
would be advanced proportionably to the intelli-
gence and education of the workmen. lie adverted
to the expensive nature of slave labour, and to the
fact that slave cultivated land was the worst culti-
vated land in the world, and remarked that what
he deduced from this was, that if instead of slave
labour they employed free and intelligent work-
men, the more intelligent and educated they made
these workmen the better for both them and their
employers. (Applause.) Of course there would
be some foolish people (because there would be
foolish peoplesso long as the world lasted) who
would fancy they were above their position, whereas
the fact of their thinking so showed them to be
below their position. What they all had to do
was, to make the best of the position in which God
had placed them ; but to be discontented was only
to make themselves unhappy, and, as far as was in
their power, to make those around them unhappy
also. They must not take these exceptions--
which must always occur—as in any degree
affecting the general rule, but they must believe
that, in the long run, it was the interest of the em-
ployers as well as of the employed, that the latter
should be as intelligent, as well educated, and as
useful as possible. (Applause.) Mr. Milnes next
referred to the quality of education provided in
that town for all classes of its inhabitants, and said
he wished all the boroughs of England were as
well supplied with the means of education as was
Pontefract. There was not the slightest reason
whatever why every one of their children should
not receive the fullest education, which would
enable them to develop their faculties in the best
manner, without danger, or discomfort to the
state, and with every hope of advancment and pros-
perity to themselves. (Applause.) As a citizen
of a free country (and, unfortunately, when
they looked at other countries they must be
more and more jealous of that peculiarity of
this country) he was bound to say that he looked
upon this progress of educat ion as the greatest safety
of the nation, and he did not see how otherwise
they could look forward with confidence. The in-
creased population of Great Britain, the chances of
life, the failings of what were called the learned
professions, the increasing sense of independence
which had been developed, and which was growing
up amongst them—all these things would cause
anxiety in reference to the future of their country,
if they had not two safeguards to which, under
Providence, they could look with the greatest hope,
nomely, in the immaterial world their education,
and in the material world their colonies. If they
educated their children to be intelligent, active,
enterprising Englishmen, they always knew that
there were portions of the world to which they
could go and make their fortunes, and to establish
New Englands, which they and their posterity
might raise at some future period to be greater even
than the mother country—daughter-nations of their
own England. It was with this reflection that tho
young men and women of England might fairly
unite with each other without fear of burdening
their nation, because they knew there were coun-
tries to which they might proceed, where they
.would hear their mother speech and find kindred
and familiar institutions, and where the more chil-
dren they had the better—(laughter)—for it had
been said that " children were the true wealth of
a colony." For this reason it was that he urged them
to educate their children, and make them not only
diligent in the study.but in theactive business of the
world, not merely bookworms but able to apply their
knowledge and education to the actual. con-
cerns of life ; and they might then look forward
with hope and confidence to the future of England.
(Applause.) The power of the education which that
and similar institutions afforded was of advantage
not merely to the individual, but it enabled every
one of them to become, as it were, a wheel in the
great engine of society in the generation in which
they lived. Education' also made the difference.
between a man being only a mere unit, living
within himself and in the present moment, and one
who was enabled to live in all the past of the world,
and looking at it religiously, in all the future of
the world. In,,the higher order of animals they
discovered, to a limited extent, the power of asso-
ciating one idea with another, and the power of
memory, but speaking generally they found that
the animal lived in the present, having; no concep-
tion of the future. One of their poets had expressed
this in describing
" Tho lamb that crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand prepared to shed its blood."
The difference between man and the animal was
this—man could remember and foresee ; and edu-
cation enabled him to understand that he was not
a unit in creation, living in any particular moment,
but that he was part of a generation of men—part
of the great flow of generations of men—that there
was a vast stretch out into the history of his own
nation, and into that of other nations which he
could learg and understand, and that there was a
future for himself and his children for which he
could provide like a reasonable being. Thus educa-
tion enabled a man to spread the life of the actual
present over a past and over a future; lie under-
stood, by reading history, how generations of men
had gone before him—men like himself, with the
same passions, the same habits, the same follies, and
the same virtues—and he understood how these
generations had all gone on, preparing the world
fbr him; and he might also see how, by his own
activity, and prudence, and intelligence, he too,
could perform his part in preparing the world for
the future of his children and his children's child-
ren, and thus extend the benefits of his life to
generations yet to come, as he had inherited from
generations that were past. (Applause.) It was
thus that the individual man not only gained for
himself by education a great advantage and gratifi-
cation, but was developing to the utmost those won-
derful gifts which God had placed within him, and
was performing a part, and a not unimportant part,
in the great drama of the world's history of which
God Almighty was tho creator, and author, and the
finisher. In conclusion, the hon. gentleman urged
upon his itudience to continue their efforts on behalf
of that institution, in the assurance that the seed

they had sown would spring up after many days,
and produce abundant fruit for themselves and
their country. (Loud applause.)

THE EARL OF CARLISLE ON INDIVI-
DUAL EXERTION. •

A public meeting was held on Tuesday evening
in the Assembly-room, Driflield, in connexion with
the mechanics' institution of that town. The Right
Hon. the Earl of Carlisle, the patron of the insti-
tution, presided, and there was a numerous attend-
ance of the friends of popular education as imparted
by such institutions.
The Earl of CARLISLE, after expressing the plea-
sure he derived from taking part in the proceedings
of that evening, congratulated the members of the
institution upon the occasion which had brought
them together—that of the institution attaining its
majority. His lordship then alluded to the fact
that it was a quarter of a century since he had ad-
dressed a public meeting of the inhabitants of that
town—a period which had not been a retrograde
one either on the part of that county or of the
country, and the leading events of which he pro
seeded briefly to refer to. On the occasion to
which he referred everybody was occupied with the
great reform bill, which then took up so large a
share of public attention. Well, now, he found
every one is expecting another reform bill. He
could not flatter them at Driffield that they were
likely to be included as a borough in the next re-
form bill to return members to Parliament. He
thought they must wait for two or three more re-
form bills before they came to that, and in the
meantime he could only advise them to go on qualify-
ing themselves for the change some one or two cen-
turies hence. His lordship then said, now I contend
that the survey of what has been achieved in the
period I have referred to is, on the whole, very
satisfactory ' • and I shall be very glad, if we are to
have by and by another reform bill—about which
I say nothing—l shall be very glad if those who
have to review what has been done at the distance
of another quarter of a century hence will be able
to look back upon so promising, sound, and whole-
some a crop of measures. (Hear.) But I want now,
after having taken this brief and necessarily incom-
plete and imperfect retrospect of the leading mea-
sures which have occupied the public mind in that
period of time which has elapsed since I last
addressed you—l want to impress upon you to bear
in mind how little any of us can personally do upon
such a wide and imposing theatre. But there is a
sphere of action, however apparently limited in its
range and insignificant in its consequmces, in which
we all of us can bear a most important part, and
in which, so far from doing nothing, we can
every one of us do everything—l mean the sphere
of our own personal obligations and duties. (Ap-
plause.) Now, you kifow that it is from an addi-
tion of units that millions are composed, and it is
equally true that all the men and the women
whom I now address make up that which, on the
whole, I flatter myself, is a most respectable and
creditable aggregate—the British people. This con-
sideration is enough to stimulate the ambition of
every one, in whatever sphere of life or in whatever
walk or profession he may be engaged. But, per-
haps, we shall all think our own responsibilities
are enough without troubling ourselves with the
general responsibilities of the empire. Well, so be
it. If every one of us only will be, according to
his means and opportunities, honest, industrious,
sober, temperate, pure, lowly-minded, and loving-
hearted ; then, ladies andgentlemen, we need have
no fear of what the general comploxion of the
British character, or the prevailing tissue of the
British fortunes, maybe. (Applause.) In making
my enumeration of the desirable qualities for us to
exhibit, I mentioned the word "sober." Now, it is
not many of those who come to attend the meetings
of a mechanics' institution, or who by the patron-
age and contributions which they are exercising to
foster the well-being of such institutions—it is not
many of those we should expect to find who are
against the laws of sobriety. But I cannot conceal
my feeling that perhaps our besetting fault, as a
community, is an over-indulgence in drinking.
(Cheers.) I believe much good will be done by a
bet ter regulation of beerhouses—(renewed applause)
—either by gradually superseding themaltogetlier,
or, if that cannot be done,put them under stricter and
more wholesome control. (Hear.) But still, after
all, measures of police and Acts of Parliament are
clumsy methods of effecting a national reformation ;
and ifour own good people—if our own industrious
working men and women, would only themselves
be resolutely sober, it would then signify com-
paratively little even if beer-houses and public-
houses were worse managed than they are at pre-
sent. (Cheers.) I believe your attention will not
be ill bestowed if some better method of hiring
servants in husbandry can be devised than that of
the statute fairs. (Applause.) When I have seen
stout lads and lasses standing together in the mar-
ket-place ready to be looked at and often handled—
(laughter)—with all the differences—and they .are
world-wide differences—yet I must confess this is
a sight which sooner than anything else puts me in
mind of that most painful and horrible of all spec-
tacles which I have witnessed—a slave market in
the United States. (Cheers.) Therefore if only for
the dignity of the labouring classes of this enntry,
who ram sure deserve all our regard on the part of
farmers and employers of labour, for securing active
null good and trusty servants, I do wish there could
be some method of paying more attention to charac-
ter and previous conduct, and thus satisfy them-
selves of the trustworthiness of thosd whom they
propose to hire. However, ladies and gentlemen,
I feel that I owe you an apology, for I am sure
I did not mean to hold forth to you in the tone
and spirit of a sermon; for such matters I must
refer you to the teachings of the pulpit ; I must
refer you to the advice of good and sensible men
such as are to be found in every district of our
country. I must refer you to what lam happy to
think you have in connexion with this institution
—a tolerably well stocked library ; for you will
find• among the volumes there such as you have
now collected, which probably will be largely in-
creased in the future—you will find the precepts of
an impressive and a lofty morality—you will find
the warnings and the lessons of history and biogra-
phy, which have been well described as "philoso-
phy teaching by example," and you may find often
very wholesome instruction as well as entertain-
ment in works of well-directed fiction. lam happy
that these advantages are, to a great extent, open
to you by such an institute as that which we are
now met here to encourage and promote. I sin-
cerely trust that it may continue to receive both
the liberal support, and, what is still more valuable,
the interest and the sympathy of the people in this
neighbourhood. (Cheers.) I am most happy to have
been able to join you here to celebrate its coming
of age. The members of the institute, like other
young men in other places on coming of age, would
have no objection to having a considerable pro-
perty. (A laugh.) Still remember some acquisition
to their property will be secured to them by the
good wishes and support of the people in this
neighbourhood, and, if they do gain any future
support or any further funds, I trust they may have
the wisdom to employ it for the benefit of the
whole community.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—The Metropolitan
Boroughs Committee held another meeting yesterday, at
the London Coffee-house; W. Shaen, Esq., of Bedford-row,
in the chair. John Savage, Esq., of Thornhill-square,
was added to the committee, and several other influential
gentlemen were nominated for the 'outlying districts of the
metropolis. All discussion was adjourned -to the next
meeting.
VACANCIES; APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS
IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.—War Department.—There are
vacancies for three junior clerks in the War-office ; com-
mencing salary, £lOO per annum. Mr. D. Pigott has been
appointed to a temporary clerkship in the Assistant Ac-
countant-General's branch, Horse-guards. Law Depart-
ment.—The Recordership of Derby has become vacant by
the death of Mr. Commissioner Balguy. The Board of
Trade.—A clerkship in the Board of Trade has become
vacant by the resignation of Mr. R. F. Townsend. General
Post-office.—There is a vacancy for a third-class clerk in
the secretary's office, St. Martin's-le-Grand; commencing
salary, £l2O per annum. There is also a vacancy for a sup-
plementary clerk in the same bzanch ; commencing salary,
£BO per annum. There is a vacancy in the receiver and
accountant-general's office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, for a
junior clerk; commencing salary, £BO per annum. There
is likewise a vacancy in the mail-office, St. Martin's-le-
Grand, for a junior clerk; commencing salary, £BO per
annum. Mr. Urquhart J. Thompson, first clerk in the
secretary's office, Dublin, has been appointed chief clerk in
the same office, in the room of Mr. Charles J. Bond, de-
ceased. Mr. George Beale, second-class clerk, post-office,
Dublin, has been appointed to the first class, in the room of
Mr. Rowland B. Evans, appointed deputy controller. In-
land Revenue Department.—Excise Branch.—Mr. Thos.
Dean, collector of London East, has retired from the ser-
vice on a pension of £458 per annum. East Indies.—Sir
Henry Davison, Chief Justice of Bombay, has been ap•
pointed Chief Justice of Madras, in the room of Sir Henry
Rawlinson, whose term of office is about to expire; Mr. B
H. Ellis has been appointed, pro tem., secretary in charge
of the Financial and Revenue Departments, Bombay Pre-
sidency, in the room of Mr. Hart ; Mr. London (uncove-
nanted service) has been appointed Administrator-General,
in the room of Mr. Standen,:deeeased.—Civil Service
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 24.

.WORSHIP-STREET.—On Friday, John iacirY.'
a shoemaker; John Cooper, of the same trade ;
Rayner, comic singer; Charles Moran, a dancer;
Mary steel, a dancer ; Emily Hayward, sentimental
singer and dancer; Alfred Barkley, musician; and
Charles Phillips, money-taker, were brought before
Mr. Hammill, on a *arrant granted by the Com-
missioners of Police, under the 2d and 3d of Vic-
toria, for beingunlawfully engaged in an unlicensed
theatre, thereby incurring penalties under the act.
Superintendent Steed, of the H division, produced
the warrant, and stated that in virtue of it he, between
9 and 10 o'clock on the previous evening, proceeded
to premises situated in Church-street, Bethnal-
green, used as an unlicensed theatre, and had all
the defendants taken into custody as being engaged
in and connected with the performance. The audi-
ence, greatly alarmed, were allowed to leave. There
was a raised stage, scenery, and appurtenances
for the performance of theatrical pieces, besides
bill of entertainments at the door, " Commence at
six—New singers, new dancers, &c.," which, with
portions of the "effects," were removed to this
court. One of the sergeants was ready to give evi-
dence of the performance, and this being required,
Sergeant Cleary, HB, said—l had been ordered
to attend the theatre several times. Once I saw
the " Robber's Wife" played, but last night it was
a new piece.
Mr. Hammill—What was it called ?
Witness—" The Profligate Nephew, or the Dis-
inherited." (Laughter.)
Mr. Hammill—You were one of the audience, I
pre9me ?
itness—l was a dustman, with a black eye,
and I paid one penny admission. (Much laughter.)
Mr. Hammill—Then you did not go to the boxes.
Now, what did you see ?
Witness—The first thing was a song, ,c Paddy on
the Railway ;" then there was a sailor's hornpipe,
by a lady in tights; then there was the laughing gas
that did hot affect anybody ; then there was—
Mr. Hammill—Come to the legitimate—was there
any acting ? Who was the profligate nephew ?
Witness--This gentleman ; and this was the
Count ; and this was Ralph the Reckless—a most
determined villain. This lady was the Count's be-
loved wife Alice ; and this genteman was the old
one.
Mr. Hammill— The bill states this to be a ballet;
was there any dialogue ?
Witness—The " old un "—I mean the uncle—
enters and says that he has a dissipated nephew,
and that he is going to town—Doctors'-commons,
believe, or else the Apothecaries' Hall—to disin-
herit him. The nephew, who is the Count, comes
in, and begs that he will not go, for the sake of his
beloved Alice. The old gentleman is not to be done,
however, and does go. The Count strikes a bargain
with Ralph the Reckless to way lay and murder
him, that he may get possession of the will in his
bosom, and does so. The uncle dies at the ap-
pointed time, is carried off as stiff as possible, and
the piece terminated without any satisfactory result, •
as I stepped on to the stage and collared the Count,
while, upon a given signal, my superintendent and
inspector with 12 men forced an entrance and se-
cured the rest.

Mr. Hammill—The Dustman secured the Count?
Witness—Yes, sir ; I thought he was the worst
of the lot, but just as I got hold of him, 67 H, my
brother officer, collared me. He thought that I was
one of the " dramatis person e."
Mr. Hammill—Well, the piece certainly turned
out tragically.
Witness—lt was a melodrama, sir. There was
comedy in it, for this gentleman was one Peter Popp,
a beadle or policeman, who had a scene with this
other lady, his sweetheart, " Sally come up," in
the kitchen.
Mr. Hammill—Was there any scenery and.
dresses ?
Witness—There was, sir. The act drop was an
Italian sketch," The margin of fair Zurich's waters,"
I believe. Then were shrubs and other scenes.
The defendants were rouged and the old gentleman
was wrinkled. Black Ralph had big boots and
pistols—in fact, it was all quite regular as a
theatrical performance, with the exception of the
" Death of Nelson," which was in private clothes.
The place was full, and the door locked.
Inspector Constable—There is not any license,
even for singing. The owner was not found. The
place is the resort of thieves.
The defendants, who expressed their ignorance
of the law in woe-begone tones, promised never to
offend again, and
Mr. Hammill having remarked that he would
certainly put a stop to all such places that were
brought under his notice, as they were calculated
to effect irremediable mischief with the youth of
both sexes, allowed the defendants ultimately to
depart on entering into their recognisances to keep
the peace for the next three months ; at the same
time making favourable mention of Sergeant
Cleary, whose apt sketch and immobile countenance
during it rendered all attempts to preserve gravity
totally impossible.

COUATTRY MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL—DEc. 24

Operations in the corn trade are usually contracted' at
this holiday season. Prices, however, are firm. It is pro-
bable that the second or third market day in the coming
year will impart some animation to buoiness.

CAMBRIDGE—DEC. 24.
At to-day's market a moderate business was transacted
for wheat and flour of the best qualities ; inferior descrip-
tions were fully maintained. Flour dull, with the turn in
favour of the buyer. Oats and peas nominally unaltered.
Wheat, white 43s to 46s I Beans, Mazagan..—s to —s
red 38s to 40s Middle & small 40s to 46s
Barley 26s to 30s White peas ......40s to 44s
I
Oats 26s to 28s Grey.. —s to —s

CHELMSFORD—DEc. 24.
We have to report a liberal supply of grain at market,
and prices ruled about the same as last week, but there was
little doing in the trade. Barley rather improved. Oats
were taken in retail, at previous rates. Beans were scarce,
at about late rates.
Wheat, white 34s to 47s
red 30s to 44s
Barley 34s to 418
Chevalier 37s to 45s
Grinding 27s to 33s
Malt 70s to 73s

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Chevalier 72s to 73s
Oats 25s to 35s

Peas, Partridge —448 to 46s
White 41s to 43s
Boiling 42s to 48s
Dun 448 to 46s
Beans, Tick 3Bs to 40s
Harrow Ticks 38s to 42s
Mazagan 36s to 39s

STAMFORD—DEc. 24.
There was a tolerable supply of grain at market. Sales
were fair, and prices at about late rates.
Wheat 3Bs to 40s Oats.. 26s to 30s
I
White do
.43s to 45s Beans, new 40s to 43s
Barley ......... ..38s to 42s I Ditto, old .46s to 47s

YORK—DEC. 24. •
To-day the show of wheat was very good, and the
sales made were at is to 2s advance ex last week's prices.
A moderate show of barley, fine malting parcels is dearer,
in inferior sorts little doing. In oats no change. Beans
scarce and dear.
White wheat, new, 372 to 42s
Red do. 4os to 426
Old white 38s to 42s
Red do 36s to 39s I
Barley, malting 26s to 32s
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Barley, grinding 28s to 32s
Oats, old, .. —s to —a
New do 20s to -.3
Beans.. 44s to 483
Malt.. —s to --s

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