The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-21 00:00:00

THE MILITIA.

The Norfolk Artillery have received an order from the Earl
of Leicester, the Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk, directing the
assembling of that regiment at Great Yarmouth on the 7th
of September next, for 21 days' training and exercise. The
corps is nearly complete in point of numbers.
The Hampshire Militia Artillery, of which the Earl of
Malmesbury is honorary colonel, and Colonel Burnaby, late
Royal Artillery, lieutenant-colonel commandant, will as-
semble at Gosport on the 20th of September, for 21 days'
training and exercise.
The Rutland Militia will assemble at Oakham on Tues-
day, September the 21st, for 21 days' training and exercise.
The South Lincoln Militia will assemble at Grantham on
September 22, for a similar period.
The South Durham Militia will meet for 21 days' drill at
Barnard Castle on the 27th of September. The North
Durham Regiment will meet at Durham on the same day
for drill. The Northumberland Artillery Regiment of
Militia will meet at Tynetnou'h on the 10th of September
for the usual 21 days' drill. The Sherwoud Foreseers are
still at Newcastle and Tynemouth, and the men are daily
out on Whitley Sands at rifle practice, in which they make
great progress.

CROSSED CIIEQUES.—A banker says :—" Notwith-
standing all that you say about crossed cheques, I maintain
that when a cheque is properly crossed it cannot be oblite-
rated, except through the fault or negligence of the person
crossing it. If the crossing is made with strong transverse
lines, it cannot be erased without mutilating the cheque;
but I have seen many crossed cheques where the crossing
was not observable without special examination, and in such
cases it could, of course, be easily erased so as to avoid de-
tection."

TIIE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.—The
report of the Metropolitan Board of Works for the year
ended June 30, 1858, appeared yesterday in print. The
Board refer to their former proceedings in connection with
the main drainage of London, a summary of which has
already been given in our own periodical reports of the
meetings of the Board. They say it is obvious from the
wide range and recondite character of the inquiries con-
nected with the main drainage question, that a large share
of the time and attention of the Board and their officers
must have been devoted to the subject, and that the conduct
of the elaborate investigations incident to the successive
plans which the Board have been required to prepare must
have occasioned a very considerable expenditure. The
surveys, plans, and estimates connected with improve-
ments in the thoroughfares and communications of the
metropolis have also been attended with great labour
anti expense. From the unsettled state of the main
drainage question, and the uncertainty which has
hitherto prevailed as to the lines of sewers which might
eventually be approved by that department of the Govern-
ment charged by the statute with the ultimate determina-
tion of the plan, the Board have been obliged to defer the
execution of extensive sewerage works until the question
shall have been finally decided, and proper outlets provided.
Between the "6!b of March, 1857, and 25th of March, 1858,
11,208 feet of new sewers were laid down; and 30 side en-
trances, 100 ventilating shafts, and numerous flaps and
gulleys were constructed. The cost of cleansing 166 miles
of main sewers during the year was £6,844, the repairs
£2,687, and the total expenditure on sewage works £28,494.
Application was made to the Board by vestries and district
boards for their sanction to loans on the credit of the kcal
rates, amounting in the whole to £108,968, but this sanction
is suspended. As regards the new line of street 70 feet in
width, between Blackfriars-road and High-street, South-
wark (the gross cost of which was estimated at £519,124), it
is stated that on the 16th of April last the Board agreed with
the Bank of England for a loan of £400,000 for seven years,
at V, per cent, to be advanced by instalments of £50,000
each. This cash is to be applied to the Southwark improve..
tnent, and also to the " Covent Garden am roach," the gross
cost of which is estimated at £91,820. p •
remiums were
awarded to the following gentlemen for designs of first-class
streets :—Mr. H. 1). Davies, 100 guineas ; Mr. J. T.
Knowles, 50 guineas ; anti Messrs. A. and F. Warren, 10
guineas ; and for designs of second-class streets, to Mr. W.
H. Cuffingford, 50 guineas ; to Mr. Redall, 20 guineas;
and to Messrs. S. Hughes and G. Hopkins, 5 guineas.
There is to be an improved eommunication between the
East India Dock andost
of Bow roads. The Board will con-
tribute to the cost
South-
wark ; High-street widening Mint-street, South-
, W appino• • Mill-street Dockhead ;
Rotherhithe-street ; and the improvements in'the Minories,
Newgate-street, and Fleet-street. The new park in Fins-
bury. will include 250 acres, and the cost is estimated at
£216,820. The land is partly in Islington and partly in
Hornsey. It was intended tolay out a park of 106 acres in
Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, to be called the Southwark-
park, but the Bill was dropped, owing to local objections to
the site of the park. The Board have improved the number-
ing of the houses in the New-road, between the Edgware-
road and the Angel at Islington. The necessity of abolish-
ing the duplicate names of the streets adverted to in
the last report of the Postmaster-General, has occu-
pied the serious attention of the Board, but their powers
are too restricted at present to enable them to carry out
to the full the useful suggestions of that report. The re-
ceipts of the board in the year o•-,„'ed Lady-day last
amounted to £75,751,
ton 1•,• ad -
the ",,,Ayments to £90,260. The
a cash halanee of " outstanding det
e board were £133,001. They had.
Three
pert,
04 403, anti a sum of £4,048 in the New
to '
- tits. The total liabilities of the Board amounted
P 4
_-.02,448.

HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS AN INFALLIBLE
REMEDY FOR BAD LEGS.—Robert Dickie, of Broad-street,

Allos, informed Mr. Cumming, druggist, of the same town,
that about 18 years ago Le injured his ankle in a coal pit,
which afterwards formed into a running ulcer. To cure it
he tried innumerable medicines, but without effect. He
was in the Royal Infirmary about three years ago; there
they told him that amputation was the only chance of saving
his life. At last a friend very earnestly recommended him
to try llolloway's Ointment and Pills, and they have been
the sole means of healing the wound, and rendering his leg
perfectly sound. Printed directions for their use accompany
the medicines.

" 'Tis thirty years ago" will now take us very far hack,
not only in scientific discoveries and mechanical improve-
ments, which have wholly altered the face of even this
island, lint in the more intractable and uriimproyeable ele-
ment of customs and institutions. Nowhere else is the
change so utter as in Teelaud. Here V.° wonders of art and
science are surpassed by what we must call the social re-
generation of the country. Had any one predicted thirty
years ago such events as those which Lcrd Egliotcn grate-
fully claims for his Viceroyalty—the union of the f wo worlds
by the electric cable, or the estableehment of a packet line
between Galway and New York with steamers of 4,000 or
5,000 tons burden, he would speedily have
list of Irish projector. Nay,
hail his proper
ipflaacneyabOsdigynleialdhglionniensothefalroraigs to predict several thousand
miles of railway, he would have been set down as fit com-
pany Er the explorers of Wexford gold mines, or the eou-
vertors of Irish I),g-earth into spermaceti c oldies. But
Atlantic teleeraphs, Leviathan steamers, arid Irish railways
have been surpaa,eil by the change in the habits and condi-
tion of the people. Tie are iter part of this etieeee, to
Ilea ()yenned, not within thirty ye sra but within ten—nay,
even five. The contrast which a r,kes Lori Egtintcn is
that between hie last Vive-royalty and this. Wnerever he
goes he sees the face of the country and the aspect of the
people equally changed. He sees employment, wealth,
enterprise, order, peace, and comfort. He sees a commu-
nity steadily engaged in those works of industry which
placed England at the head of eivilis2d nations. He sees
modes of cultivation and agricultural machinery which a
few years ago would have been certain death to those
who had the temerity to employ them. He sees
labour receiving its reward, and no linger engaged
in an endless warfare with property. He sees
eew houses, new breeds of cattle, and all but a new
race of men. There is only one vestiee or Old Ireland still
to be deplored,—it is the fierce jealousy of the rival creeds
which divide the numbers against the wealth of Ireland.
The smothered fires of this ancient volcano still ever and
anon break out, and threaten to bring Ireland flack to its
former miseries. Lerl Eglinton does his best to coax and
cajole the good people of Derry into Christianity and good
sense on tuts tender point. He refers in the customary
terms to the famous Defence ; and grate fully recalls how,
in the last century, even the Roman Catholics,
Papists
donbyt
their Bishop, put a good face on it, and joined in the auntie!
celebration. But times are changed. The
like now to be reminded of the event which banished their
sovereign, proscribed their religion, and confiscated their
property. They feel other ties stronger than the local or the
municipal, and resent, rather than welcome, the festivities,
the processions, the services, and the sermons, that now
recall the liberation of Derry and the scattering of Papisti-
cal foes. If they are so unreasonable, so ill-natured, and
so silly ;—if they take amiss so simple and natural ea ex-
pression of feeling, then Lord Eglinton suggests, or just
hints, that it might be as well to give way. There is no
fear of the Siege of Derry being forgotten ; so what is the
use of always recalling it, when the anniversary gives every-
, body offence?
Thirty years ago the condition of Ireland was a disgrace,
net only to England, but to Europe itself. Nowhere was
there a people so ill-fed, so ill-clothed, so ill-housed. Foe
those misfortunes and infirmities which brine upon the poor-
books a twentieth of the people of prosperous England, and as
much as a twelfth, or even a tenth, of some thriving agricul-
tural districts, the Irish people had no legal resource except
that liberty to beg which an English statesman once alluded to
as a tolerable equivalent. For those who were ashamed to beg
and strong enough to dig there remained the lowest de-
scription of husbandry known in the world, small holdings,
without proper buildings, implements, or steck, yet so ne-
e( scary to the existence of the cultivator, that he allowed
himself to be rack-rented out of all proportion or power.
To defend his position when he could pay no rent, when
another bid more, or when the landlord attempted a better
system, he had no legal resource except combination to
murder—a practice which has not yet received the sanction
of any British statesman. Besides his rent to his landlord,
generally an absentee, he had to pay tithes to a clergy
whom he believed to be the aaents of ,a Satanic heresy, and
who had precisely the same opinion of him and his creed.
The more he paid the more was he denounced, and when
he discharged his legal obligations, it was only to feed the
flames of an odious persecution. Of course, he did combine
against landord and clergy; he devised methods suitable to
his condition and class, and found chiefs equally ready and
fit. So, thirty years ago there raged a social war, which
the greatest captain of the day pronounced to be not only
fetal to our credit, but dangerous to our weal, and pregnant
with the worst consequences, if not met with timely conces-
sions. A most able and unscrupulous man, who found his
own line of greatness in ripening and organising the social
disorders of Ids country, and who set at nano,lit every con-
sideration that came in the way, held the heart of Ireland
in his hand, and could do what he pleased with that excite-
able race. Thus at the same time there raged three fierce
wars in the island, the political, the religious, and the pre-
dial. The first brought its chief to beard the Legislature in
its own halls ; the second actually suspended fur years the

legal provision for the Established clergy; and the third
threatened every day to send every landlord to the grave,
where already lay, in most instances, his most active agents,
his most improving tenants, and several of his relations and
friends.

The result of this was a social misery, an uncertainty of
life, and a precariousness of condition, utterly incompatible
with happy and healthy existence. The landlord would not
reside where lie hated and was hated in return ; where he
dispensed wretchedness, and where his life was sought. If
he did reside, it was to truckle to a priesthood who could
and did band him over to the assassin. His wife could not
bear a country where she lived halt' the year with the lower
windows boarded with three-inch planks, where an obnoxi-
ous colour provoked angry missiles, where her husband had
given a site for a Popish Alass-house, and where every ser-
vant about the house was in secret league with the foe. So
their visits were few and far between, and they generally
resided where provisions were not so cheap, or life either, as
in this peaceful country. Every week, sometimes every
morning, the landlord had letters from persons playing a
double game between him and a band of assassins. He was

duly informed of the proceedings of clubs that met every
night for the enfircement of rude justice at the expense of
landlords and their agents. He had to cheek the letters one
against another, and to secure, if possible, by calling in fresh
aid, that they were not all in collusion against him. When
thus up to the arrangements of the shooting season he would
find his information verified by a murder or an attempt. It
was, of course, gratifying to find himself on the right scent,
an I that his life certainly was sought. True, the assassins
often failed, and the victims, or intended victims, 1..1 their
consolations. The assassins seldom failed to kill somebody,
though ()Rem the wrong man. When one man was shot for
another the one had the comfort of feeling that he was the
victim of the mi'take, and the other was at least equally
pleased to have the benefit of it. This was Irish society
thirty years ago. The natural consequence of absenteeism
and mutual hatred was something worse than barbarism-
Yet there were also riot and extravagance. There were
ideal income, overwhelming debt, consuming mortgage,
millstones of settlement, huge castles never lived in or paid
for, and every evil of public or private life, enough to have
brought on a hundred bloody revolutions, but for the im-
mensely-preponderating power of wealthy and Protestant
England.

Coull it have been imagined thirty yetirs ago, that in the
year 1858 two men of different parties, an Irish Viceroy akd.
ex-Premier, would be found drawing such a picture of
Irish peace and prosperity as that given in the speeches of
Lord Eglinton and Lord Palmerston ? Would a predle-

tion of the Atlantic Telegraph have been more disbelieved ?
How has this change come to pass? It is the result, we
freely admit, rather of events than of any human wisdom..
It is the work mainly of Heaven, and not of man. Among
the causes which have contributed we must reckon the very
extravagance of Irish demands, and that shrill scream tof
mingled threat and insult which cracked the voice and
finally bloke the heart of Irish agitation. O'Coo-dell dug
his own grave. He just lived to see his cotr.itry disen-
thralled, not only from some odious restr;:aions on her
liberty, but still more from himself. 'then came that
failure and final blow of the potato syqem, which destroyed
or drove into banishment the starv;:dg peasantry and ousted
the encumbered landlords. Tea followed the gold dis-
coveries, and that great prosperity which has raised the con-
dition of labour and giv,:n a man his due all over the world,
as in Ireland. Such is the part which
nowhere so much
events have hart in the matter. Legislation, too, has done
something, but it has, wisely perhaps, acted only a secondary
part. It has followeA in the train of events, mending, as it
were, the ravages of tornado, rebuilding after the confla-
gration, but finding-even that work better than its own. Wa
have to thank Providence for Ireland as it is, and it isno
small encouragement to those who despair of the improve-
ments they have set their hearts upon, that they little know
the vast openings and opportunities that any day may
bring.— Times.

Madlle. Eudoxie Laurent, a pretty actress of the
Ti.vore des Variete., appeared on Wednesday before the
Tribunal of Correctional Police to take her trial on the
charge of appropriating some objects, which had been seized.
it appeared that some time ago she purchased on credit a cask
of Beaune (Burgundy) wine of the best quality for 370 fr.,
and that she did not pay for it. The sellers, al M.
Audiffret, accordingly brought an action against her,
anti obtained authorisation to seize her furniture ; but when
they had effected the seizure they learned to their vexation.
that it was not hers, but an upholsterer's, she being merely
the occupant of a furnished apartment. They then seimai
various articles of dress belonging to her, but after this
was done she took away a morning gown , in, bilk
richly decorated, a silk dress, two good 'oonnets,
and three chemises decked with English embroidery, worth
.10fr. each. In her defence the fair actress said that she
had thought herself entitled to take the tuings, and that
they were of such little value that she had given tnem away
to some girls. She had so little intention, she declared, of
doing anything wrong that she had offered to restore the
things. She also had, she added, ofrered to pay for the
wine in instalments. "Yes!" cried the advocate for thet
plaintiff's, " you offered to replac' the articles of dress
taken by others purchased at. the "iimple! And as to pay-
ing for the wine, you offered s:,ofr. a-month—as if people
who drink Beaune could not pr.y more !" The tribunal dis-
missed the complaint.—GaVgnoni.
THE PRISONERS' Va:s.—When the hour of de-
parture arrives, you see, the pavement and carriage way of
Bow-street studded With a ch oice assemblage of the raggedry,
ruffianry, felonry, misery, drunkanry, and drabbery, whom
the infamous hundred of Drury, and the scarcely less infamous
tithing of Covent, have cast into a thoroughfare which, two
hours hence, will be re-echoing to listen to tine wheels of
carriages bearing noble lords and ladies to the delicious
Bosio in the " Traviata," or the encbantireg notes of Tamber-
lik in " Otello." London is fall of violer,t contrasts ; but this
is the grimmest in the whole strange catalogue. See,
the warder in the watehbox has de'.,cended from his perch,
and with a patent key opened. the,
portal of the van, reveal-
ingne a second janitor inside. Ant/. now the passengers destined
i s
ofi
for the lugubrious jousne y come tumbling
out
towards the
the court door, and drAvn the steps s
folded,
van. Some bandcur,pd, some with their.
in sullen or their hands flirt Js t in their pockets grimy palms for
de-
fiance ; some bidit
..i-
-h.; their faces iu till'.
smen,
starved
very shame. 1 h
?--e ,re are women
as wewdry finery. There
setnpstresses and,. brazen courtesans in
taon whose angel facets
are wicked gr beards,, and children
already.e
the devil lir,d set his
ragged los• eis rejoicing to go to gaol as to a place where they
a bed to lie on. There
shall at least have bread to eat and
are day ;sing pickpockets ;in s
tainy hats and pegtops. There
are s'..nne going to prison forth 9 first, and some for the fiftieth,
titre, One by one they are th rust rather than handed into
I:ne 'eon. The wretched crowd gives a faint, derisive cheer,
conductor esconces himself in
his watch hex, an
the, door bangs, the policeman( ,
and the prisoner 's van drives off.—The Wel-
come Guest.
Whilst the proprietors ot 7 . most of the magasins
of Paris, taking advantage of the little respite afforded
them by the dead season of the year, are daily diminishing;
their stock, the Magasins du Louvre, on the contrar7o
appear to be renewing and i Increasing their variety of
novelties. It is indeed impossr 31g to behold anything more
enticing than the choice they i !xiirbit of all that contributes
to embellish the toilette of a lady du bout ton. The
Lyons silks, the patterns c
,f which belong exclusively to
them—the lace, fancy figs! tes of all sorts, mantles, visite/
in the most exquisite taste, and of the latest fashion, render
this establishment inval•,;r ade to the English, especially
from its proximity to tb e Hotel du Louvre, the genertiV
rendezvous of the aito of fot Thin society.
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