The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-17 00:00:00

A.n Eloquent Lecture at Bermuda.

Judging from the enthusiastic language in which
it is spoken of by the Bermuda journals, a lecture of
remarkable ability, and of no ordinary eloquence,
has recently been delivered, there, in the
Mechanics' Hall, by the Hon. Miles Gerald
Leon, the Colonial Secretary. In the _Ber-
muda Mirror of the 20th ultim ), we find the
occasion thus referred to—the Mirror reporter
prefacing his record off the proceedings with this in-
quiry—" Reader, were you at the Mechanics' Hall
on Thursday evening last, to hear the lecture on
Government by the Hon. Miles Gerald Leon ? if
you were not we pity you. Pity you be-
cause you lost a mental treat, the like
of which you may never again have an op-
portunity of feasting on. We had believed
that the first part of the lecture delivered by the
hon. gentleman, some time since, was too bril-
liant to be eclipsed, but that delusion was dis-
pelled on Thursday night after listening 'to the
concluding portion of the subject. This part
was sweetly commingled with happy and beau-
tiful illustrations, coloured with the choicest
language of a highly cultivated intellect, brighten-
ing up the heretofore dull dry pages of history, and
making them dazzle in beauty with new-born con-
ceptions." The reporter of the Bermuda Mirror then
goes on to add, " Of the many faithful and touch-
ing illustrations on despotic government as compared
with that government which is influenced by gentle-
ness and affection, none was more striking or touch-
ing than the anecdotes of King Frederick of Prussia,
and of Napoleon the First—(.Le Petit Caporal.) In
the case of Frederick, our readers will remember,
on a certain occasion, when encamped in front of
the enemy, he had given strict orders that no light
of any description was to be used during the night.
An unfortunate young officer who had been hurried
off—when just leaving the altar with his bride—to
join his regiment then on its way to the battle-field,
had obtained a light, and having darkened, as he
thought, every crevice through which the light could
be seen, he sat down quietly to write to his young and
dearly-loved bride. Frederick, mistrusting his sen-
tinels, strolled out himself to see that his orders were
obeyed. He discovered the light in the young
officer's tent, raised the canvas door, moved
stealthily and unnoticed to a position behind the
chair of his victim, and looking over his shoulder
waited till he had finished. Then requested the
horror-stricken lover to add a postscript to his
letter to the effect that he was to be shot at sun-
rise in the morning for disobedience- of orders.

He was shot next morning, and the monster Frede-
rick added another postscript stating that he had
been shot, and at that moment was lying five feet
under the sand bathed in his own blood.

In the case of Napoleon we are told that when simi-
larly situated in front of the enemy, he issued a similar
order to that of Frederick. He, too, went round
the camp. On its: outskirts, at a most important
point, he stumbled on the form of a sleeping sentinel.
Napoleon knew that his men were tired by long
marches, and looking with pity on the prostrate form
,f his weary soldier, he nobly resolved to let him sleep
on ; and shouldering the corporal's musket he
paced up and down his beat till the relief came.
The awakened soldier was seized with terror when
he discovered the situation he was in. What a con-
trast is there between his punishment and that of
the Prussian—the corporal was dismissed with a
severe reprimand. The Prussian suffered death for
a far less offence."

The Bermuda Royal Gazette, of the 19th ult., is
equally enthusiastic in its encomiums—and from
it we obtain the following, as nearly as possible,
verbatim record of the peroration of Mr. Keon's ad-
dress, a peroration in the course of which it will be
seen the hon. gentleman pronounced an impassioned
panegyric upon the public and personal character of
the reigning Sovereign; He is here reported to
have said, at the conclusion of his speech—" I
think I have fulfilled my engagement—l have
indeed left out of sight a vast multitude
of considerations which crowd into my mind
even while - I say SO ; but I have no
choice —we have not time for them. Sonic ques-
tions can be discussed in a couple of hours ;
others in ten minutes, but others require a regular
course of studies—yes, months of sustained studies.
And the present subject happens to be one, for the
investigation of a single department of which (and a
very inferior department, too), there is a professor's
chair in every great university. I allude to the
politics of history, or rather to a branch of it—
[" Constitutional History" it is sometimes called.]
Under difficulties so immense, I venture to believe
that I have laid before you a fair outline of the
whole matter. First, I reviewed rapidly all the
forms of Government known to civilised annals,
and next, I not only enumerated the various
means of power, or resources of statesmanship,
—and (so far as I knew how) explained them, and
compared them together, and valuated them respec-
tively ; but I elucidated by examples four out of the
five—Corruption, terror, personal enthusiasm, and
transcendent genius. One was left—the spirit of
law, the principle of order, of equal justice for
every subject or citizen. Of a political structure
built by this architect we have an example over our
heads. We, in the British Empire, live under the
very roof of a majestic political system, in which
no arbitrary edicts can change the tenour
of public affairs, no capricious Ukase vex
or startle the minds of the people, no personal am-
bition squander their resourcesi but where an equal
law rules high and low alike, where tribunals,
partial to none, are open to all ; and where the
freest of nations has itself no niggard share in con-
trolling the mightiest of Empires. At its head we
have a Sovereign of whose personal and public
virtues we are equally proud ; and proud by force
of reasons far more solid, more just, and more noble
than any that ever kindled the enthusiasm of a
martial race for a warrior-chief.
It is now just thirty years since the fair young
daughter of the late illustrious Duchess of Kent
(one of the best, most gifted, wisest women that
ever prepared a future Alonarch for a Throne)—
after days which it is neither my duty nor my
desire to describe—rendered the English Court
the glory of her people and the admiration of
the world; turned it into a fountain of all pure,
noble, beneficent, and moralising influences ; and
sent our thoughts across many a century back to
the early days of our annals to find anything re-
sembling it in every virtue that can adorn the most
exalted station, or bless the lowliest. Nor must we
forget that she who, from the outset, has been the
model of Sovereigns,
has also, wherever it was pos-
sible, been the Peacemaker of nations. Only yes-
terday a woman's gentle hand stayed the frightful
collisions of a million of armed men ready for the
field.

Under her sway her people have seen, combined
with all the freedom that the wildest votaries of De-
mocracy itself could desire—l affirm it fearlessly
and stand to it deliberately—liberty, larger, more
real, or more perfect men have never known; her
people have seen, I:say, combined with all this free-
dom—the stability of a hereditery crown—the
fixed supremacy of law—the glory of historic in-
stitutions—the improvements which the useful,
and the lustre which the fine arts bestow—
a manulaeturiug development and a commer-

vial prosperity never witnessed on this earth before
—the refinement of a society with a l iterary Sove-
reign at its head, and leavened by t'. most lettered
of aristocracies—the vigour imps rted by the most
independent of middle classes—pe•icc at home and
respect abroad—the prudence of: trained statesmen
—the healthful play of public opin ion, and the vital
stir of a Parliamentary Go'-erument, in which sus-
tained dignity and unfailing murt( sy in debate have
not impaired the effectiveness or chilled the genius
of the noblest orators who have. addressed any deli-
berative assembly, since the pabi.y laurelled noon-
day of Roman and Athenian eloquence.
Lord Bolingbroke somewhere .1; alks of " a wild
rhapsody of events :"—the story of the times I have
now glanced at will sound more like an anthem ;
and although we have had many a. great statesman,
and many an illustrious Sovereign in England,
none will be remembered hereafter more proudly
or more fondly than Queen Victoria ; and, so long
as men of the British race remain upon earth, to
no name in our long brave annals will appertain
in larger measure that enduring, imperishable glory
which makes the past present—and the distant near
and the dead themselves immortal.

If, in this succinct argument (brief in proportion
to the immensity of the theme), I have satisfied
your expectations, I have done all that I hoped and
desired—if I have disappointed or, in any manner,
fallen shortof them, I have done, at least, all that I
could.

Deltberate ,and Diabolical Murdea in
Lambeth.

SURRENDER AND EXAMINAON OF
THE MURDERER.
Immediately after the disposal of the night
charges at Lambeth Police-court yesterday, a young
man of morose aspect, named Thomas Clarke, was
placed at the dock, having been brought from the
cells by Oakes, the gaoler, and Bartlett, the under-
gaoler, and charged before Mr. Elliott with the
wilful murder of Annie Smith, aged about three
months, at No. 55, Tyer-street, Lambeth.
Sergeant Harris watched the case ; the prisoner
was undefended. He is a short built man, described
as a labourer, aged 27, and has for some time been
living with Eliza Smith, the mother of the deceased,
at No. 55, Tyer-street. During the examination
he glanced uneasily round the court, which was
crowded to excess. Upon being placed in the dock,
in answer to question from the chief clerk, he said
in a loud and rough manner that his name was
Thomas Clarke.
Police-constable Hawes, 195 L, was the first wit-
ness. He said —Last night, at half-past seven,
I was in the Waterloo-road, between Oakley-
street and Tower-street, when the prisoner came
up to me and said, " Do you want a job ?" I said,
" I don't know ; that depends upon what it is."
He said, " I shall give myself up to you for murder-
ing a child." I asked him where, and he said "At
55, Tyer-street. I strangled it." I said, " Very
well; you will have to come with me to the statical,"
and he said he would. We went to the station in
Tower-street, and there prisoner made the same
statement to the acting inspector. I was then
directed to take the prisoner to Kennington-lane
station, and on the road I believe he said something
bearing on the case to Constable 126 L.
Mr. Elliott—Have you seen the body of the de-

ceased ?
Witness—l was directed to go to 55, Tycr-street,
where I saw the child—a female—lying dead in the
arms of its mother, who gave the name of Eliza

Smith.
Mr. Elliott —Did you observe any marks of vio-
lence on the body of the child ?
Witness—l saw where there had been the cord
produced tied round the neck of deceased. I be-
lieve the woman had removed the cord from the
neck.

Police-constable Mullins, 126 L, said—Last night
I was in the Waterloo-road, and saw thelast witness
and the prisoner go down Tower-street into the
police-station. The last witness said, " This
man has given himself up to me for killing a
child." The acting-inspector asked him how he did
it, and he said not with a cord but with his fingers,
and the child was in the back room downstairs, at
55, Tyer-street. We were then sent with the pri-
soner to Kennington-lane station, and coming along
the road the prisoner said to me, " I hope she has
not done anything to herself ; I am afraid she has,
for when I went back at half-past six I found the
door locked." I said to the prisoner, " Of whom
are you speaking ?" and he said, " Eliza Smith,
the child's mother. I left her asleep at half-past
five. She had been asleep about '2O minutes, when
I strangled the child with my fingers, and I hope
it is dead. I have been out of work 16 weeks, and
we have sold nearly everything off for fool. When
I got up this morning we had no breakfast, and all
we have had to-day is a piece of dry bread ; there
is none left." That was all he said to me.
The Prisoner—l said I had been out of work for
eight weeks.
Witness continued—l went to 55, Tyer-street,
and there in the back parlour I saw the female
named Eliza Smith with the dead body of a female
child lying naked in her arms. Constable 145 L
was in the room, and he gave me the piece of cord
produced. On looking at the child I saw that
there was a mark of a cord round its neck. Dr.
Richards came in shortly afterwards and said that
life had been extinct for about three hours. We
then went back to the station with the female, and
she saw the prisoner, who said nothing to us.
Police-constable Shannon, 145 L, gave corrobo-
rative evidence, and said that the landlord of the
house gave him the piece of cord, which had two
knots in it, and had been removed from the neck of
the deceased.
Eliza Smith, a decent-looking young woman, who
cried bitterly, was next examined. She said—l am
a single woman, and have been living with the pri-
soner as his wife for about seven months at 55,
Tyer-street, Lambeth. The deceased was my
daughter, and was ten weeks old. She was bap-
tised Annie Smith. The prisoner was not her father.
I laid down on Sunday afternoon about 5 o'clock.
The prisoner was thenin the same room nursing the
deceased. I had fallen asleep, and was awakened
after dusk by hearing the shutting of the room and
street doors. I then found the deceased lying be-
hind me on the bed. I took it up and tried to feed
it, but it would not take the breast. I then saw
the cord round its neck, and the child was
dead. I rushed up in alarm and found that
the cord was tied very tighly round the child's
neck. I laid the baby down, and went round to
the prisoner's father's, and asked if he had been
there. His stepmother told me that he had looked
in, but did not stop a minute. I next saw him at
the station.
By the Magistrate—We had passed the day very
happily together. The prisoner was very good to
me and the baby. We had not bad any words at
all. There was nothing at all the matter with the
prisoner in any way yesterday, only that he ap-
peared to be low-spirited all day. IVe were iu
great distress from difficulties. There was scarcely
anything in our rooms. I am positive we had not
quarrelled yesterday. The prisoner said nothing iu
particular about the deceased, only was kind.
Mr. Samuel Atkinson Richards said—l am a
physician, and reside at 153, Upper Kennington-
lane. Last evening, at half-past eight o'clock I
was called to the deceased by a man who told me
that the child was dead, an I hal been murdered. I
went to 55, Tyer-street, Lambeth, anl found that a
woman was nursing the deceased in her lap. Teat
woman was the witness Eliza Smith, who says she
is the mother of the deceased. I examined the child,
and foun I it dead. There were the marks of a li-
gature round the neck, and the cord had been re-
moved. It had been tied very tightly. Time mouth
was slightly open, the tongue discoloured, au,4

The Prisoner (in a loud tone)--It was the cord
my knife hung up by. It is what I had my knife
hanging on. Now, Eliza, you know it, do you
not ?

Mr. Elliott (to witness)—After what the prisoner
says do you know the cord ?

Witness--I know that he had a piece of string
like this to hang his knife upon.
Sergeant Harris said thr.t at present there was
no further evidence, and a post-mortem examina-
tion of the body would have to be made.

Mr. Elliott then inquired if the prisoner had any-
thing t o say.

The Prisoner (clearly)—Nothing at all, Sir.
The prisoner was remanded for a week, and at
once conveyed to ilorsemonger-lane Gaol in a cab.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The following officers of Royal Engineers have
been granted leave of absence from the Royal
Engineer establishment, Chatham, until the periods
named by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-

'bridge :--Lieut. E. C. Fanshawe, till Dec. 31 :
Lieut. J. E. Broadbent, Jan. 2 ; Lieut. W. G.
Nicholson, Lieut. M. IL Purcell, and Lieut. S. C.
Turner, Jan. 5 ; Lieut. 11. M. Chambers, Jan. 6 ;
Lieut. W. E. L. Morgan, Jan. 7; Lieut. J. J. Ger-
wood, Jan. 13 ; Lieut. E. P. Leach, and Lieut. S.
Buckle, Jan. 14 ; Lieut. J. T. Bogle, Lieut. C. C.
Seton, Lieut. G. J. Jackson, Lieut. C. M. Watson,
and Lieut. E. E. J. Moore, Jan. 15 ; and Lieut. S.
Anderson, Jan. 31.

The iron-clad frigate Hercules, 14, 5,226 tons,
1,200 horse-power, and the turret-ship Monarch, 6,
5,100 tons, 1,100 horse-power, now under construc-
tion at Chatham dockyard, are to be sent, the for-
mer to I)evonport, and the latter to Portsmouth,
soon after launching, to be completed in their fit-
tings. A small pressure steam engine is to be fitted
on the lower deck of each vessel, to be used in
working the fire-engines, revolving the turrets, and
for other purposes for which their services may be
adapted. The extra ironwork for both vessels, be-
yond that for which special charges have been taken,
is ordered to be carried out at Woolwich dockyard.
The Monarch is ordered to be coated externally and
internally with the Gisborno mercurial anti-fouling
composition, the contract for the execution of the
work having been taken by the Marine Improve-
ment Company.

AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS.

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Last week opened with a cold dull day, rather
frosty, with a slight fall of snow at night. On Mon-
day morning 9 degrees of frost were registered ; the
day was cold and winterly. Wind N.E. Thermo-
meter 38 degrees at noon, down to 32 in the even-
ing. Barometer 30.10 inches. On Tuesday morn-
ing the same severity was registered, being again 9
degrees, but it afterwards b.:came damp, in the
evening a thaw set in, and the snow fast melted
away. Our advices were as under on that date.
From Northumberland : " The weather has been
very cold and wintry, as well as stormy. Wind
varying from S.W. to N.B. To-day is damp, wind
W." From Lancashire it was stated : " The ea-
ther has assumed the character of severe winter.
strong fros's with heavy gales of wind alternated,
with copious rainfall. This morning the frost has
again disappeared." With these sudden changes in
the weather little outdoor work on the farm could
be done, and no thrashing -- by the machine.
It seems probable that these vicissitudes in
the state of the weather must be injurious to
the wheat plant : while that which was
first planted may fare worse than that
which was got into the ground later and has not
yet made its appearance. Accounts generally are
not so favourable as they were a short time since,
when the plant then up had so healthy an appearance.
On Wednesday there was a complete thaw, with a
much higher temperature. Wind, S.W. ; ther-
mometer, 46 deg.; barometer, 29.90 in. From the
west coast of Scotland it was stated : " After a
week's frost the weather has turned mild again."
Thrashing by machine is still stopped, this month
so far being unlike the preceding one, and with the
falls of snow much against wheat being brought
forward in good condition, as on that account
against making good sales, although prices still re-
main satisfactory for the best qualities. Some far-
mers have already made free with their stocks, and
by the end of the year they will have little left.
Thursday was a more cheerful day ; at times sunny.
Wind, N.W. ; thermometer, 50 deg. at noon ; bare-
' meter, 30.10 in. Our advices from 'Warwickshire :
" Weather has been changeable ; it is now mild,
dull, and foggy." The deliveries of wheat have
fallen off during this week, only amounting to
62,60 G quarters, at 68s. ld., against 71,546
quarters, at 68s. 51, the previous week. The
corresponding one of the past year was 76,127
qrs., at 61s. 7d. per qr. The deliveries of barley
have been liberal, although somewhat less. The
amount returned this week was 90,291 quarters at
40s. 2d., against 91,401 quarters, at 40s. 5d., the
previous week ; the corresponding one of the past
year was 74,305 qrs. at 465. 2d. It is not likely
that such large supplies can be brought forward for
many weeks longer, and the maltsters seem aware
of this fact from their buying more freely in spite
of the dull trade for malt. Friday was a fine
day, sunny at times ; Wind W., thermometer 50
degrees, barometer 3010 inches. The deficiency
in the supplies of home grain is made up by large
foreign imports, many large cargoes of wheat and
flour having come in from America during the
week, as the westerly winds favoured their arrival.
Saturday was dull and threatening, and in the after-
noon rain set in, with the evening wet, a south-
westerly wind, and the week closing with a threaten-
ing aspect as regards the weather.—,hark-lane
Express of yesterday.

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The Daily News says :—" The amount of damage pro-
duced by the explosion appears to have been considerably
understated, and can be properly estimated only by those
familiar with the neighbourhood. The houses damaged
may be roughly put down at 600. The number of indi.
viduals who have been admitted to the hospitals unfortu-
nately affords no real criterion of the real number who
were more or less injured by the explosion. The residenti,
medical men have under their care a large number td
sufferers, chiefly from fright, and it has been estimated
that were these added to the list of those in the hospitals,
the number of victims would be swollen to at least 230 or
300. The number of families who have suffered in a lesser
or greater degree from the effects of the explosion amount&
to several hundreds, and so great is the terror inspired
amongst them that in several cases they have moved what
they could save from the wreck of their furniture from
the scene of disaster. At least eighteen out of everyj
twenty families thus smitten are those of honest, hard-
working people, upon whom the blow has fallen with
crushing severity. To describe the effects of this outrage
on the minds and feelings of the Clerkenwell population
is simply impossible. The very men who were foremost
in cheering Finlan on Clerkenwell-green are now the
loudest in their denunciation of this, the latest fruit of
Fenian agitation."

Dr. Jenner, by special command of her Majesty,
visited the sufferers in St. Bartholomew's Hospital in
the course of yesterday, and was conducted to the several
wards in which they are lying by Mr. Foster White,
treasurer of the institution, and Mr. M`Lean, the
house surgeon. Having seen each patient in turn, and
made kind inquiries into the state of all of them,
And their possible need of anything beyond the com-
forts provided by manage,' 'institution.
Dr. Jenner left St. Bartholomew's and proceeded to the
Royal Free Hospital on the same charitable mission. Of
the thirty-two inmates of St. Bartholomew's who are suf-
fering from injuries inflicted by the explosion three are,,
reported to be in a bad way. Mary Moseley, one of
these dangerously injured persons, is a woman of 48
years. Her case has from the first been considered a cri-
tical one ; and though a slight improvement was yesterda4
observed, she remains in a very serious state. The o+-;ner
cases giving rise to great apprehension are thrift of
two sisters, Elizabeth and Harriet Th'anpson,
belonging to a family who occupied part of the house
No. 3A, opposite to the spot where the barrel was exploded.
Their mother is in the same institution, And their two
younger sisters, one of whom has since died, were taken
to the Royal Free Hospital. These two at St. Bartholo-
mew's are terribly injured. The elder, Elizabeth, com-
plained of intense pain in the head, and was delirious
during great part of yesterday. Her sister Harriet
suffers also from severe injuries to the head and a lacera-
tion of one of the arms. The mother is reported
to be advancing as favourably as can be expected
towards recovery. The four patients at the Royal Free
Hospital are also improving. The worst case is that of
the elderly man, Humphrey Evans ; and it has been aggra-
vated by an attack of bronchitis. He is, nevertheless,
reported to be " progressing, but very slowly." Hannah
Roberts and Hannah Maria Thompson are both doing
well. The boy Authur Abbott is likely to lose the sight
of both his eyes. When Dr. Jenner saw these suf-
ferers yesterday, he stated to Dr. Alexander
Marsden, the general superintendent, who conducted
him over the hospital, what he had announced
at St. Bartholomew's, namely, that her Majesty would
have come in person but that circumstances had occurred
to prevent her intended visit. The body of the poor
little girl, Martha Thompson, who died on Sunday after-
noon, presents a shocking spectacle. She had been almost
covered with wounds, and a part of her scalp, with the
left ear, had been blown away, leaving the skull exposed.
Inspector Potter distributed yesterday £5O, which ho
had rneived from Government for the relief of the
sufferers. The funds set apart by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer arc being given away in sums varying
from £2 to £5.

An application was made yesterday to Mr. Cooke,
the sitting magistrate at Clerkenwell, by a young
woman, a widow, with a sickly child in her arms.
Her story was as follows: " I am a tailoress, and my
husband having died, leaving me with this child to
support, I worked with my brother, who is a tailor,
and lived at No. 3A, Corporation-row, the house which
was blown completely down by the explosion. On
Friday last, on going to my dinner, at one o'clock,
my brother told me that I need not return, as there
would be no more work to be done that afternoon. I
went away, and a few hours afterwards the explosion took
place, blowing my brother's house down, and burying the
whole of his furniture beneath the ruins. My poor sister-
in-law was killed, and my mother is now in the hospital.
My brother being totally ruined, I am without work or
money to buy food for either my child or myself ; and my
object in applying to you is to ask if you could grant me
some temporary assistance." Mr. Cooke put several
questions, which were answered readily, and to all appear-
ance satisfactorily. He said : " This is a case which I
shall certainly relieve by giving something now, although
only a trifle, to assist you temporarily ; but you can apply
here again to-morrow, when probably more substantial
relief will be given." The applicant expressed deep grati-
tude on being thus relieved.

Last night a crowded meeting was held in the School.
room, Amwell-street, Clerkenwell, to express sympathy
with the sufferers from the late attempt to blow up the
House of Detention. Mr. Churchwarden Wilcox was
called to the chair.
The Rev. R. MAGUIRE moved the first resolution: "That
this meeting expresses its deep sympathy with the unfor-
tunate sufferers from the calamity which occurred in this
parish on the 13th inst., and cordially approves the appoint-
ment of a committee to receive subscriptions for their aid."
He said he had not time to waste in indignation. The
meeting was assembled not merely for the expression of
sympathy; its object was practical work. lie had organised
a system by which every family that had been injured
had been visited, and the extent of the damage had been
ascertained. In Corporation-lane a great number of
watchmakers had their tools destroyed or buried beneath
the ruins by the explosion. It was proposed to set these
men up in the world again. Washerwomen and mangle-
women also had their means of livelihood destroyed.
The number of children, some of whom belonged to his
Sunday school, who had been injured was very great
their sufferings would touch a heart of stone. A letter
which he had written to one of the morning papers had
produced £4OO. But there was a necessity for further
subscriptions. He had received a letter from Air. Corry,
stating that the Government in giving relief to the
sufferers did not wish to interfere with the efforts of
private benevolence. He had, however, given him carte
blanche in the meanwhile.

Mr. M'CuLLAGH TORRENS, M.P., seconded the resolu-
tion. He had visited the hospital, and there the physician
told him that the prostration of the sufferers from the
thought of the loss of their homes was very great. He
had authorised the doctor to assure each sufferer that he
need feel no more anxiety on that score, for Finsbury
would make that all right. The doctor said that such an
assurance would do to the sufferers more good than all
the drugs in the hospital. The Chancellor of the Exche-
quer had acted in a most admirable manner in coming for-
ward so promptly to the relief of the sufferers, and Parlia-
ment, there was no doubt, would confirm the course he had
taken. _ _ _