The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SANITARY 22, 1866.

Day.

MARK-LANE.
The trade for wheat in the country markets, held on
Saturday, ruled steady. For all good and fine dry
samples there was a steady derand, at full prices, but
damp produce was a dull inquiry. Springcorn was in but
moderate request, at late rates. The flour trade was quiet,
on former terms.
On the continent the wheat trade is very quiet, yet no
material change has taken place in prices. Oats are in re-
quest for export, but other articles are a slow sale. The
trade for wheat and flour at New York is very dull, and
scarcely any business is doing for export to Great Britain.
Fresh up to our market to-day the receipts of English
wheat, both from Essex and Kent, were but moderate. The
small supply of good and fine dry produce on offer was
disposed of at the full prices of Monday last; but damp
qualities were very unsaleable, a large proportion being
left unsold at the close of the market.
Tho supply of foreign wheat on sale was moderately
good. In most descriptions a fair business was transacted,
and prices ruled firm.
Floating cargoes of grain were in fair average request at
full quotations.
The demand for malt was in a sluggish state at late
rates.

The supply of oats on sale was but moderate. The
trade, nevertheless, was by no means active, yet the prices
of Monday last were steadily supported.
CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new, per qr. 39s to 46s
Do., old 46s 51s
Do., white, old yes 5 s
Do., new
Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —B —EI
Do., neic
Talavera, new s2s 60s
Rye—
Barley—Grinding
Malting 3Bs 40s
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk
Brown
Kingstown and Ware
_ _

Chevalier 66s 678
Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolush., Feeding 218 2615
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black 2OB 26s
Cork, white 228 27s
Scotch, Feeding 2ls 26s
Beans—Tick
Pigeons ... 46s 50s
Peas—Grey, new
Maple
White
Boilers
Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b 438 468
Suffolk 32s 345
Stockton and Norfolk
American, per barrel 26s 31s

spot. Town tallow, 46s Gd per cwt. net cash. Rough fat,
2s 5d per 81bs.

Particulars. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866.
Stock this day.,,,, 52,218 66,221 53,229 47,406
Price of Y.C.
...... ..
144 s 9d to 41s 9d 41s 9d 47s 9d to
—s Od —s Od 42s
Delivery last week 2,407 2,568 2,4107 2,3103
Ditto from June 1 56,352 49,421 62,464 74,903
Arrival last week BO5 990 464 2,200
Ditto from June 1 70,291 77,895 70,669 89,826
Price of Town ....

LAW INTELLIGENCE.---This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENOIT.
(Sittings in Banco before the Lord Chief Justice, and
Justices Blackburn, Mellor, and Lush.)
WILLIAMS v. LOVELL.
This was an application by the plaintiff for a rule to dis.
charge an order made by Mr. Justice Blackburn last No.
vember.

Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., appeared in support of the rule,
and from the learned gentleman's statement the following
facts of the case, which is rather complicated, wero de-
veloped :---The plaintiff is a solicitor, and had been engaged
by a lady named Cass in some legal proceedings in 1860.
The defendant, a barrister, was also retained by the lady,
and she agreed to be responsible to him for his fees, in-
stead of the solicitor. The plaintiff then delivered some
papers in, the proceedings in question to the defendant.
Mrs. Cass being desirous of changing her solicitor, applied
to him for her papers, which were in the possession
of the defendant, who refused to part with them
until the whole of his fees had been paid. Mrs.
Cass then applied to the Master of the Rolls, who consi-
dered that the plaintiff had no right to give the papers
out of his custody merely as a security to the defendant for
his fees, and made an order directing him to return them
to Mrs. Cass. However the defendant still retained the
papers, and Mr. Cass then obtained an attachment against
the plaintiff for non-compliance with the order of the
court, and he was taken into custody. The decree of the
Master of the Rolls was reversed in an appeal to the Lords
Justices, and the plaintiff was released from custody after
three months' imprisonment. The plaintiff's case came
before Mr. Justice Blackburn in Chambers, and his lord-
ship, having required the attendance of all the parties con-
cerned, decided that the defendant should be discharged
from all liabilities to the plaintiff, who had commenced an
action against him. It was to set aside this order that the
present rule was applied for, which was unanimously
refused by their lordships.

women assembled were as bad as the male savages, and
one of them seized the constable by the hair of his hoad.
Curley made his escape, and came to the court this morn-
ing to look after his brother, who was concerned in another
row.

Police-sergeant Gamble, No. 49 K, said that when
Dixon was brought into the station-house he made use of
such horrible language that he told him ho should charge
him under the police act with using bad language in a
station-house.
Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to two months' impri-
sonment and hard labour.

Sir George Bowyer, M.P., on Religion and
Reformatories.

(From the Lircipool Mercury.)
The annual soiree of the Liverpool Catholic
Young Men's Societies was held on Thursday in
St. George's Hall. About 1,200 persons sat down
to tea, which was supplied by Mr. J. MiMourn, St.
Anne-street. Afterwards the chair was taken by
Sir George Bowyer, Bart., M.P., and there were
also on the platform the Earl of Denbigh, the Rev.
Canon Toole (Manchester), the Revs. Father Teeby,
M'Grath, Shepherd, Caldwell, Bonte, Van Hee,
W. Cothan, J. Gotham, Almond, Lenoir, Walsh
(Bootle), Guy, M. Doon, Broodie, D. Power
Nugent; the Rev. Dr. M'Cartan (Wolverhampton),
Lieutenant-Colonel Bidwill ; Messrs. E. Kelly, J.
Fairhurst, J. Yates, 11. Sharpless, J. Radley, J.
Whitty, J. N. Lomax, E. Latham (who wore the
Grand Cross of St. Gregory and the Order of
Malta), &e.
The CHAIRMAN said he had naturally turned over
in his mind what subject would be most likely to
be most acceptable to the assembly he saw before
him, and several things had suggested themselves to
him ; but within the last few days he had found
that so great a public interest had been excited by
the able speech of Lord Stanley with regard to the
mode of dealing with offenders that he had resolved
to make a few observations on that subject. (Ap-
plause.) That was a subject upon which it was
rather difficult to say anything which might be called
new ; nevertheless, he thought he could present
that subject in a point of view in which it had not
been heretofore presented, either by public speakers
or in the public press of the country—he meant he
wished to view that subject in that point of view
in which a Catholic would naturally view it.
(Hear, hear.) He had heard many long speeches on
the subject of the mode of dealing with offenders on
what was called, in the common slang of the day,
the reformatory movement. He had heard many
debates in Parliament on the subject; he had read
many speeches made at public meetings upon it ;
but in all these speeches and in all these debates he
had not been able to discover what was the real
power—what was the real influence—by which it
was proposed to reform these offenders. A bad man
could not be made into a good man by mere educa-
tion. Reading, writing, and arithmetic would not
make a dishonest man and a bad man and an of-
fender against the laws of his country into a useful
citizen. (Applause.) It was true, as it had been pro-
posed, and to a great extent carried into effect, to
give to those persons who fall under the operation
of the criminal law of the country an industrial
education—to teach them means by which they may
earn a livelihood, and by that means may be taken
away from criminal pursuits—that was no doubt a
most important and a most useful method of pro-
ceeding, but after all it applied only to one class—
to that class of persons who pursue a criminal course
of life as a means of livelihood, and who, if they
were able to gain their living in any other way,
would do so ; and this class he feared was a very
small class among the criminal population of the
country. (Hear, hear.) But they had to deal with a
class which is becoming a really great evil. He be-
lieved if they were to take the offenders and lunatics
together they would find that they cost the
country more than the standing army. (Applause
and hear, hear.) He was not sure whether taking
the offenders alone without including the lunatics
the expenditure for them would not equal the ex-
penditure for the standing army. This showed there
was something in the condition of the country
which required strong remedial measures, and what
those measures are to be was the great problem, and
a problem he had never heard solved by any who
had spoken on the subjpet. Lord Stanley had prac-
tically and wisely suggested what should be done
with another class of prisoners—he had suggested
that those who were incorrigible should have
means provided them to enable them to emigrate
to places where their old associations would
be separated from them, and where they
could comnience a useful life. That, no doubt,
was a very wise and practical suggestion ; and, in-
deed, everything that came from Lord Stanley was
always practical and useful. (Applause.) But still
lie (the chairman) asked, where was the great in-
fluence which was to reform those people ? They
talked about reforming criminals—they talked about
the great reform movement, but what was the great
power which was to regenerate those men and make
bad good ? He said there was only one power that
could do it, and that was the power of religion.
(Applause.) Religion, and religion only, could re-
form these people, and make them resolve to lead in
the future a good and useful life. And it was the
Catholics who had the key to open the gate to this
great mystery— it was the Catholics who had to take
the lead in this great movement, and that because
they had the true religion. (Loud applause.) If
religion was to do the work, it must be the true re-
ligion. (Hear, hear.) The Catholic religion was
the true religion, and it was the Catholics who must
do the work. The Catholics ought to set an exam-
ple, and it was through them an example must come
for all that was to be done in this great movement,
which was of so much importance to this country
and for the welfare of humanity. (Hear, hear, and
applause.) He had no doubt there were persons
present who did not belong to the Catholic Church.
It had always been his practice through life to avoid
saying or doing anything to give the slightest offence
to those who differed from him in opinion—(ap-
plause)—but he must be allowed to speak freely on
this subject. He remembered many years ago going
to a Protestant reformatory for boys. He had a
letter of introduction to the person who had the
management of the institution, but he was absent.
He (the chairman) was therefore shown over the es-
tablishment by an inferior official, and he did not
regret it, because by that means ,he was enabled to
get at the unbiassed truth, and obtained information
which the rules of etiquette would probably have
precluded the principal from giving him. The insti-
tution was certainly an admirable one ; there was
divine service every day in the chapel, and the
chaplain gave religious instruction to the inmates.
He (the chairman) said to the person who conducted
him over the institution, " What is the effect of this
religious instruction ? Do you find that it makes the
bad boys into good boys ?" His answer was, " No.
They come here wicked ; they go away wicked. We
keep them under discipline ; but the moment that
discipline is withdrawn they return to their vicious
habits, and go from here as wicked as they came.
They are wicked when they come here, and they
steal from each other when they have no one else to
steal from. In fact, we do not reform them." That
was a very simple admission. In the last session of
Parliament, as a member of the committee on the
poor laws, he asked several Protestant witnesses of
eminence questions with regard to the effect which
the religious ministrations of the chaplains had upon
the poor in the workhouses. The answer was, "No
effect at all. They can get no hold upon them."
The result of the evidence went to show that this
portion of the discipline in these workhouses was
perfectly ineffectual and of no use at all. (Hear,
hear.) Now let them turn to what the effect of reli-
gious ministrations and instructions would be and
must be in a Catholic establishment. Even Pro-
testants have admitted over and over again that the
services and ceremonies and rites of the Catholic
Church had a great effect upon the human mind—
an effect which no other service or ceremony had.
They said, in the way of reproach, that the Catholic
religion appealed to the senses. If it did so, had
not Almighty God given us our senses as the avenues
by which we were to receive that which was true
and that which was beautiful ? He had enabled us
to see the beauties of nature, the beauties of the
flowers and of the vegetation of this earth ; to see
the beauties of the stars of heaven and the beauties
of the works of man. Why had He ambled us

(THIS DAY.)
At the half-yearly meeting to-day of the Consoli-
dated Discount Company the report presented stated
that in again meeting the shareholders, the directors
regret that they are unable to exhibit a more favour-
able balance-sheet ; but they would remind them
that they have had to contend against the frequent
and sudden alterations of the Bank rate, and the
movements being nearly all of an adverse character,
have seriously interfered with discount transactions ;
whilst the uncertainty of the market, by restricting
operations, has materially diminished profits.

The Fenian Trials.

D ÜBLIN, Saturday Evening.

Francis Cleary, who pleaded guilty on Thursday,
was to-day admitted to bail on his own recogni-
sances in £5OO, and two securities in £2OO each.
The trial of Dennis Dowling Mulcahy was pro-
ceeded with, and to-day he was found guilty and
sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. On being
called on to say why sentence should not be passed
upon him Mulcahy made a violent speech, Which
the judge repeatedly interrupted.
Two persons, named O'Brien and Dunne, Were
arrested in Belfast last night for Fenianifinn. They
were brought before the magistrates this •day and
remanded.

An active search for arms was made by the police
East night, which resulted in the arrest of two men.