The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-25 00:00:00

THE OUTBREAK OF THE CATTLE PLAGUE.

The Cattle Plague Committee reported that seve-
ral outbreaks have occurred during the past week,
and although they regretted that the necessity had
arisen for prompt actiun, they felt that the only way
to get rid of the disease was to re-form the whole
of the local committees, and stamp it out as soon as
it was found to exist.

Mr. DALTON, in moving the adoption of the re-
port, said a sudden outbreak had come upon them,
not merely in Islington, but in several other parts of
London, and it was necessary to take prompt action.
The only way to do so would be to reappoint the
local committees, and do their best to stamp it out
as soon as it appeared.
Mr. EvaNs drew attention to a remark that was
made in the House of Commons on the previous
evening, that the local authorities were very lax in
their duties, and wished to know if any case had
come under the notice of the Board that had not
received immediate attention. The remarks he
alluded to were as follows:—" Sir J. Hanmer asked
whether it was true that cattle from German ports
were brought into Hull and other ports on the eastern
coast, which, instead of being slaughtered, being
only in a half•fat state, were surreptitiously put
among other stock and carried about the country, to
the great danger of again bringing about the cattle
plague. Lord It. Montagu said he had not heard
that this was the case from official sources, bat he
placed great reliance on what had reached him. He
believed that many of the local authorities were very
lax in carrying out the act of Parliament and the
restrictions of the Privy Council."
The CHAIRMAN said, so far from that being the
case, the board had been most prompt in its action.
He might mention that one case had come under
their notice about 1 o'clock, about five miles from
the board's office, and the committee were summoned,
the place declared infected, the cattle slaughtered,
and the vestry communicated with before 4 o'clock,
and he did not think any machinery could have done
it more quickly. He believed every case would be
dealt with promptly, there being no necessity for
more than two or three hours' delay before a legal
order was issued declaring the neighbourhood in
which the disease broke out to be an infected place,
and by that means, as far as possible, to encircle it
and stamp it out. He presumed he should be autho-
rised to state officially to the President of the Privy
Council the course the Board had taken on the matter.
This was agreed to, and the report was then una-
nimously adopted.
The other business, which was of a routine charac-
ter, was disposed of, and the Board adjourned.

A TRIPLE JEWISH WEDDING.—Three Jewesses,
sisters, the daughters of our respected townsman, Mr. B
L. Joseph, of Pendennis House, Beaufort-road, Edgbaston,
were married on Thursday. Miss Joseph, the eldest, to
Mr. Ephraim Joseph, of Gloucester; Miss Caroline Joseph
to Mr. Jonas Lang, of London ; and Miss Matilda Joseph
to Mr. I. Oppenheim, of Penzance. The ceremony took
place at the residence of Mr. Joseph, in the presence of a
large assembly of relatives and friends of the family. The
Rev. Mr. Chapman, assisted by the Rev. G. J. Emmanuel,
8.A., officiated. When the rite had been gone through in
accordance with the forms of the Jewish Church, the Rev.
Mr. Emmanuel addressed a few suitable words of admoui-
ticn to the three married couples. A sumptuous wedding
dinner was afterwards given at the Plough and Harrow
Hotel, where about 106 guests sat down, and the festivities
of the day were concluded by a grand ball iu the evening.
.Birtninyham Gazette.

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HER MAJESTY, &c•

THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY TO BALMORAL.

The royal train arrived at the General Station,
Perth, at 8.24 on Thursday morning, being one
minute before time. As usual, the royal party and
suite partook of breakfast in the apartments set
apart for that purpose by the General Station Joint
Committee. After a stoppage of an hour ,the train
proceeded ou its imrney northwards.
The train was timed . to arrive at Bridge 0f
Dun at 10.36, and the station was reached 131
the royal train exactly at time. The wind W"
pretty strong, and as the day was dry, cold,
and dusty, travellers had no great comfort.
Still there was a good number of spectators. The
train did not come up to the usual place on the
platform, so that the crowd had to change position
hurriedly after its arrival. The Queen did not look
out, and was not visible till the train Ivas leaving,
when she bowed to the spectators, but they replied
not save by waving of handkerchiefs. The halt
lasted for 10 minutes.

On the way from Aberdeen to Balmoral, Ferri
den was reached at 11.51, exactly the hour the
royal train was timed to arrive. The windows of the
royal saloon were up when the train stopped, and
were not put down during the stoppage, which lasted
about four minutes. Her Majesty, however, eat
quite close to the window, and once or twice
stood up and looked out, acknowledging graciously
the welcome given her by the assemblage. As the
train moved off on its way by the Deeside Railway
to Ballater, a hearty cheer was raised, which her
Majesty acknowledged by bowing once or twice.
Aboyne was reached after a pleasant run of fully
an hour. Here her Majesty left the train with the
Princess Louise and posted to Balmoral, as' ebc
used to do before the railway was extended W
Ballater. The royal suite went on to Ballater with
the carriage, and thence posted to Balmoral, which
was reached about three o'clock. The day was
cold, with a north-easterly wind and slight showers
of hail and rain during the latter part of the
journey.

THE ARISTOCRACY iN THE HOUSE OF

COMMONS.

It is almost impossible without personal inquill
to find out without a large debateable margin, who
is, and who is not, possessed of a landed estate. But
in the matter of the aristocratic interest inside the
House of Commons, Dod's "Parliamentary Guide''
furnishes the materials for a very adequate analyslo•
According then to Dud, in the Parliament of August
1865 there were returned 71 baronets, 11 elder sore of
baronets, 19 younger sons of baronets, and 8 grand"
sons of baronets ; a total for the baronetage alone
of 110. There were also 37 peers, or elder sons of
peers, 64 younger sons of peers, and 15 grandsons
of peers ; a total of 116 members of Parliament for
the peerage, and for the peerage and baronetage
together a total of 226. Besides these there are one
hundred commoners sitting in Parliament who are
connected with the peerage by marriage or descent:
The aristocratic class, or element, in the House 01
Commons has therefore a grand total of at least 321
members. And, unquestionably, this number would
be found, if an exhaustive search were made among
other sources of informafion, to be below the marls'
When it is remembered that in the fullest house 0°
record, namely, on the 28th April, 1866, those Wh°
voted in the majority had only 320 votes, the Duo'
ber 326 as the symbol of caste in the House of Com"
mons is significant. But even leaving out of vle4
the remaining 120 or 130 members who substantiallf
belong to the same class, there are one or two more eal."
culations which confirm the results obtained in tb
branch of the analysis. The existence of 326 moo;
bers representing one class in the House is only 0°
view of the case. These men are not mere sepaOtet
units, like insurance office directors ; they are 00
a mere -Venetian set of a few families, but, to re-
peat an expression already used, one vast cousin;
hood. It was lately said of Lord Granville, Oa
he represents the " cousins in Parliament." if "
does, he may be congratulated on his poliitePI
power, for " the cousins" mean simply three-fourths
f
of the House of Commons, and the connection of
those three-fourths not only with one another'
but with the House of Lords. There are in tile
House of Commons 79 members who represent
alliance between peer and peer, 53 who represeo;
an alliance between a peer and a baronet, and 2er
between baronet and baronet. Or taking anotia 6
view-117 members in the House represent o°_,
peerage by marriage or descent, 67 members rePro''r
sent two peerages, 18 represent three peerages. 1%1. e
is this confined to the aristocratic element. Seni,
time ago an ex-governor of the Bank of °g.,
land in the House of Commons told one of the Pr 1f
foundest political writers of the day that he hiineeo
was related to 30 other members of Parliament,. Aeo
sitting with him at that time. And this view SII„,
us an insight into the extraordinary political 0",
darity of the upper classes. The Parliarnent°J,
frame is kneaded together almost out of one Cll;
it has the strength of a giant and the compact° ig
of a dwarf. For in this respect one Parliament in
very much like another.—Mr. Bernard Crud'
" Essays on Reform."

Mr. Clarkson Stanfield will be buried at 1060 831'i
green on Monday. The re will be a requiem for hie 50i.0
at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Hampstead, at halfnnti4;
SPOILING OUR ROMANCE I—A writer in All "i
Year Round thus relates, to our intense chaff-rio
and obstinate unbelief, what he calls " The Real Biue,ht.
.York."—" Mr. Richard Turpin rode many miles froth ""h,
time he left the cradle till he reached the gibbet, but -0
never rode from London to York, nor, in fact, did any 11,
ever accomplish that extraordinary ride. The oltbka
however, founded on a real incident. In 1676, one N;11,,,
a robber haunting the road between Chatham and Lon
to rob. milers returning to town with their of, A-11
Kentish traders on their way to London, plundere-of
traveller at four o'clock in the morning n the elne,or
Gadehill, the spot immortalised by Shakepere, and for ;
associated with F alst.aff's delightful poltroonery. 13Ael9to
on a blood mare, a splendid bay, Nicks detervain°L to
prove an alibi, in case of danger. He rode off straiP-ra-
Gravesend ; there detained an hour for a boat, full
dently baited his horse ; then dashing across Eseesl,;fie
tilt to Chelmsford, rested half an hour, and gave hie
some balls. Then he mounted and flashed on to J31:00
,
borough, Booking, and Wetherfieldfast across the a°. hg
to Cambridge ; quick by by-roads and across countrY,
slipped past Godtnanchester and Huntingdon to
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Stratford, where he baited the good mare and took l'llole4
half-hour's sleep. Then once more along the nortil.fr:et
till the cathedral grew up over the horizon larger--l'ai.
and whiz--he darted through York gate. In a moloe9-00
had led the jaded mare into an inn stable, snapped UP °.°o
food, tossed off some generous life-giving wino, Andijoati
fresh dress - say green velvet and gold lace -etrolleu of,
gay and calm, to the Bowling-green, then full of cooir.oo
The lard mayor of the city happening to be there, .Pleer
sauntered up to him, and asked him the hour. '44- 101'S
to eight." Your most obedient.' When Nicks
apprehended and tried for the Gadshill robbery, the Dat
outor swore to the man, the place, and the 11°.`'r
Nicks brought the lord mayor of York to prove as
Ate
and the jury, disbelieving in Sir Boyle Roach's hi'oo4/
anywhere out of Ireland, acquitted the resolute 01'000 l
mous thief." [We greatly prefer Harrison an
immortal version of it in " Rookwood," and
whether it be or be not apocryphal.]
'TIE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH Comr.v...tr's 1119
r half
NEW Youx.—The Atlantic cable never did anything 100
so intezesting to the racing world as on I'V'edues(ll)oo
when it flashed the first, second, and third for th°,
to New York within an hour and six minutes e'l'or
Vt
numbers were up at Epsom. Hermit's nlooked;f°osseci
u
tory and the defeat of the favourites were freelY.(ll° ease)
in the Empire City about five o'clock (Greet:oool' vfora
or, according to Wall-street time, sums four hours
1411
the race was run.
The new waterworks at Norwich will cir,l'i,foreo
area of 500 acres, and the reservoir will cove ‘ll%h to
and contain 45,000 03
,000 cubic feet of water, ,0,21'000
supply 40 gallons per day to each of the city
inhabitants.
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Clove
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