The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-05 00:00:00

" To the Chairman and Board of Directors.

" Gentlemen,--The censure passed on me at the last
meeting of the board of directors I feel will impair my
usefulness in the workhouse. When, in April last, the
late board were pleased to award me a vote of thanks for
the performance of my duties, in thanking them I took
the opportunity of remarking that it would have been
impossible to have carried out the reforms and improve-
ments in the house without their assistance and support.
Feeling that support wanting, and having considered the
matter fully, I feel it is my duty to resign my appoint-
ment. I therefore respectfully beg to give the board of
directors notice of my resignation, as well as the matron's,
in accordance with the terms of our engagement when our
services were accepted, and I shall feel obliged by your
laying the same before the vestry at their next meeting.—
I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
" GEORGE WM. WINLO, Master."
Mr. DOUGLAS moved that the resignation be re-
ceived, entered on the minutes, and forwarded to
the vestry, which having been seconded,
Mr. AUSTEN said he felt assured that this would
be the effect of the strong vote of censure proposed
by Mr. Turner, and carried by the board. It would
have been less unmanly to at once have moved the
master's dismissal than to have passed the motion
censuring, and thus stabbing him in the back by a
side wind. (Oh, oh.) There was no doubt that in
consequence the present master's authority was en-
tirely gone, and he (Mr. Austen) for one felt that
the master's resignation would be a loss to them.
The house had been visited by lords, members of
Parliament, and by bishops, who all bore testimony
to the excellent management and cleanly appear-
ance of the establishment, and they had by a hasty
vote, because the master had committed one error,
lost the services of the man who had,mainly carried
out these reforms.

The CHAIRMAN looked upon this matter as a very
painful one. Not only had the master testimonials
from gentlemen, but even the inmates of the house,
notwithstanding the discipline kept up, signed a
testimonial to his general kindness and humanity.
This step on the part of the master had not taken
him by surprise, for he felt no honourable or spirited
man could rest under the stigma cast upon Mr.
Winlo. It must be remembered that the master
had a most difficult duty to perform;and he had dis-
charged his duties in his (the chairman's) opinion
generally most efficiently.
Mr. TURNER was quite prepared to defend the
position he had taken in this matter. If the master
was so sensitive at the resolution admonishing
him, he would have been equally so with the
amendment, which, although it tried to bring the
woman Sullivan under censure, equally condemned
the master's conduct. As to the testimonials
referred to, they were being got up by Mrs. Coster,
the surgeon's wife, and Mrs. Clarke, and the in-
mates were told if they did not sign it they would
remove some little privileges.
Mr. DOUGLAS said it was also asserted that a
member of that board (Mr. Stubbs) was taking one
round. (Laughter, and "Oh, ob.")
Mr. STUBBS indignantly denied this, and on the
contrary said he voted against the master for his
tyranny. He exercised a vast amount of intimida-
tion over the inmates.

Mr. TURNER said as testimonials from inmates
had been spoken of, he held in his hands letters
bearing the signatures of inmates, expressing
astonishment that the master could have made such
a statement, that he found when he came there a
rule existing that no person was permitted to go
out on a Sunday who had not been there six months.
They denied such statement. But in order to show
the meanness and spite of the master, he (Mr.
Turner) found, from the punishment-book, an entry
on the day after he was admonished by the board :
—" Kate O'Sullivan, for refusing to comply with
the rules of the house, and using insolent and
abusive language to the master, reprimanded."
And the inmates stated in their letters that she
had aeen sent to the strong room. This showed a
spirit of meanness and vindictiveness on the part of
the master quite undignified and improper.
Mr. Churchwarden FURNISS strongly condemned
the resolution of the board, and said it was calcu-
lated to subvert all discipline, and was an encou-
ragement to Miss Barnes and the woman Sullivan
to indulge in their blackguard conduct.
Mr. FISHER justified his vote against the master,
and said it was in compliance with his oath.
Mr. COSTER, the surgeon, said he ordered the
removal of Sullivan from the infant school, as she
was violent and insulting.
In answer to questions, he said he had seen her
since with her children. He did not send her to
the strong room. She might be sent there without
his knowing it.
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QUARTERS FOR MARRIED SOLDIERS.—Few of
our visitors, says the Dover Express, will have wandered
over the Western Heights without noticing a splendid pile
of buildings skirting tho Citadel plain on its southern side
and overlooking the road leading from the Citadel to Arch-
cliff Fort. These are the new quarters, designed for mar-
ried soldiers and their families, just erected by the eminent
contractor Mr. W. Morton, and now undergoing the re-
maining interior fittings which will make them habitable.
To those taking an intrest in the social condition of the
soldier these premises aro well worth a visit, displaying as
they do very gratifying evidence of the greater care which
the War Department is manifesting upon the vital subect
of barrack accommodation. Erected in the situation they
are, no barracks in England could be healthier, speaking
with reference to external influences, while, looking to the
' interior, nothinr, seems wanting to promote the comfort and
convenience of their future occupants. In a few months
these quarters will he inhabited, and will afford accommo-
dation, it is stated, for no less than 120 families.
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THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 5.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
73—highest since noon yesterday.
57—lowest this morning and during the night.
69—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.02.
WIND, North-Westerly; light, with warm weather,
wad cloudy.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TYIB DAY.—Morning, 7h. 56m.—Afternoon, Bh. 42m.
To-Mounow-Morning, 9h. 25m.—Afternoon, 10h. 7m.

The game of PLON PLON for Italy is over, and
her chcnce is now, more than ever, in her own
hands. Happily she seems to know it. Each of
the four States might now adopt for the motto on
their shield Arma virumque cano, for the cry is to
arms, and VICTOR EMMANUEL, the man with whom
they have resolved to link their future ; and, they
will succeed. We begin now to feel pretty confi-
dent that they must. We know that the man of
the coup d'etat has not spoken ; that the author of
the Villafranca peace maintains an ominous silence ;
and that Austria is ready for any villany—for the
spy or the incendiary, for dagger or poison, for
bribery or violence. Still we trust that the dark
perfidy and brutality of Austria, and the myste-
rious cunning of the Liberator of Italy, will all be
equally at fault before the attitude assumed by the
four Italian States.

First, and chiefly, they are now arming rapidly
General FANTI'S proposal to have 50,000 or 60,000
men shortly in arms, is likely to be soon realized.
GARIBALDI is the great recruiting sergeant. To
the appeals of his soldier-like eloquence the youth
of Italy are responding. Whithersoever he goes,
" He sends an electric spark, (we are told), through
the heart of the Italian youth," in his progress
through the Romagna. " The priests and foreigners
(he tells them) have been, and are at the bottom
of all our evils. It is time to settle accounts with
them, and make short work of it. Let every one
who counts himself an Italian stand up and follow
me. I have seen both the French and Austrians
face to face more than once ; they are brave troops,
both of them, but no more than men, and men we
are too. Their ranks are numerous, but we have a
just cause, and GOD on our side. I offer myself as
your guide ; those who come after me will be at
no loss to find where the enemy is." Such
is the language of the man who is recruiting Italians
to guard the newly-gained liberties of Italy, and, if
need be, to fight for them. From every side we
learn that volunteers are flocking in. Even tram•
pled down Venetia, and the remaining parts of the
Roman States, are sending their contingents. Men,
we doubt not whom the villanies of Austrian ad-
ministration and the corruptions of the Papal Go-
vernment had converted into brigands, now find by
hundreds that they can give full play to their in-
dignation against oppression, by offering their skill
and courage in the service of virtuoits patriotism.
And this they are doing. " Our liberties depend on
ourselves" is now the universal feeling; and when
that is the case, a nation is in the position which can
alone maintain its liberties. FANTI and GARIBALDI,
-with 60,000 men determined that the future op-
pressors of Italian liberty shall reach it only over
their bodies, is a security which no Congress can
give—a fact, indeed, which will compel the favour-
able verdict of a Congress.

Now, too, the day of vengeance for the Jews has
arrived. Long have they endured all kinds of in
sults and oppression from Austrian, liodenese, and
Papal bigotry—even their children being baptised
by stealth, and then wrested from their father's
bosom—but their turn is come. We learn that the
Jewish moneylenders freely open their strong boxes
and take up the loan by which the patriot army
is to be equipped ; the ducats and florins which
Austria and her lieutenants could hardly c btain by
threats of imprisonment and torture come forth,
we are told, as if the project were to reconquer
Jerusalem or to rebuild the Temple! How deadly
must be the hatred of Austrian religious oppression,
how firm the confidence that Sardinian Catholicism is
a creed which honours the sacred rights of conscience,
when the children of Israel thus hazard their trea-
sures in support of such a thorough revolution. We
value this fact. No set of men on earth better un-

derstand the probabilities of a case like this. They 1
have agentstin every royal and imperial city—they
know better than any of us every Exchequer in
Europe—they can tell who are able and likely to
go to war, if any people can, and they—the" Jewish
money-lenders"—are zealously contributing to the
Central Italian Loan. If they thought unfavour-
ably of the prospects of the cause, however
much they sympathised with it, they would not
lend their money uselessly. Perhaps we could
hardly blame them.

The authorities, too, of the four united States
are labouring wisely and well to make a prac-
tical fact of the union with each other and
Sardinia before any congress can assemble.
Were it to meet even now, the Great Powers
would find passports between the countries abo-
lished, and the boundary custom-houses removed.
They would find the same coins, weights, and mea-
sures adopted, and they would find a whole people
in each State exerting themselves in every way to
fuse the four States into one with Sardinia. The
peasantry, the last to stir themselves in a revolu-
tion, and the secular clergy, who sympathise with
the'people,are becoming ardent unionists. The Italian
country priest is a jovial fellow, who cares more for
the people than for bishops, cardinals, and popes,and
the priests have therefore, in great numbers, signed
the popular documents, while the ecclesiastical
Dons have 'lased the doors of cathedrals to masses
for the patriot dead. The consequence is that cathe-
drals are deserted and parish churches crowded.
Such is the state of things for the two Emperors,
and the other Powers of Europe, to muse on. They
may like it or dislike it, but it will not be
easy for them to change it. Hardly will Europe
stand by and see FANTI and GARIBALDI'S noble
army crashed by superior force. The Emperor of
the FRENCH having lost his chance for his cousin,
can never let Austria impose her Dukes by force, if
she wish ever so strongly to do so. He has made him-
self a position with which he cannot trifle, and all
the moral influence of England will be used on the
right side. Indeed, Europe generally must follow
her. We do begin, therefore to hope the best for
Italy ; chiefly because Italy places her principal
hope in the swords of her own sons. Now is the
time when personal and pecuniary sacrifices may
insure her freedom, and she seems increasingly
ready for both. Now is the time for them to do
what English patriots did in the days of the
STUARTS, and they are prepared to do it.

Mr. BRIGHT has again spoken—and spoken
manfully—upon the Reform of Parliament. He
has spoken this time not through the medium of
an elaborate three-hours' oration from a platform,
but through some half-dozen sentences in about
the briefest possible fragment of a purely incidental
and almost unpremeditated correspondence. But
these few words are so very clear, and, so to speak,
they are so very distinctly articulated, that they
are really, as far as they go, all-sufficient, There
is no glozing over a difficulty. The plain and simple
truth is spoken right oat—and it is spoken plainly
and simply. Mr. BRIGHT expresses himself like a
man who has nothing to conceal, and who (having
nothing to conceal) has thought deeply andearnestly
upon the subject upon which he is expressing his
opinions. The communication here referred to is
one addressed to the author of a pamphlet, entitled
"A New Reform Bill," one Mr. JOHN DAVIDSON.
It is written from Rochdale, and dated " Septem-
ber the 21st, 1859." It goes at once directly to the
point without an instant's circumlocution.
Mr. BRIGHT tells his correspondent, the pam-
phleteer, at the very outset, " I do not
think such a bill as is described in your pamphlet
either practicable or just." And why ? It is soon
told. "The exclusions," observes Mr. BRIGHT,
" the exclusions contemplated would turn out
most capricious in working." He adds, thereupon,
quite clearly—whdt it really is upon that point that
he himself is particularly desirous of seeing accom-
plished. "I am," he writes "in favour of an exten-
sion of the franchise, consistent with our ancient
practice, based upon ocoupancy and unfettered by
considerations connected with education or tem-
perance." And he observes yet further and yet
more explicitly—" Fix the franchise at the point
which will include all rateparrs, or at a £6
rental—at some point on which the majority can
agree—but don't confuse the question with ques-
tions of morals." In this there is an obvious con-
sistency. And the bon. member for Birmingham
thus forcibly and manfully draws these his latest
comments upon Reform to a conclusion in the
earnest words here following :—" If," he writes,
" you try to exclude all men who are not perfectly
wise and prudent, and to include only the intelli•
gent—your whole system will break down. If you
will trust the people in the bulk, without attempt-
ing definitions and choice selections, you will get
a good constituency, and without dijfi-
cultg." Opinions like these frankly ex-
pressed in opposition to the more involved views
of Mr. JOHN DAVIDSON, the pamphleteer—opinions
such as those above quoted, opinions deeply thought
and clearly worded, while they are authenticated
by the signature of JoHN BRIGHT (and are worthy
of him), might almost have been signed plain JOHN
BULL, from their manly bearing and significance.
If we could but get Another JOHN to speak out as
plainly ! One whose surname is RUSSELL, and
whose prefix of courtesy " Lord." But that Other
JOHN, alas, happens to be such a master of state-
craft, of the tricks and chicaneries of your profes-
sional administrator ! And as he is less burly in
shape than either BULL or BRIGHT, he is
in his own ways and means more diminu-
tive. Insomuch that he is, to very many of
us, not so distinctly JoHN as JOHNNY. "The calm
JOHNNY," as the late Colonial Secretary says cf
him, through a popular satire, crystalising for the
nonce Lord DERBY'S famous snot into a now fami-
liar couplet—
" Next, cool and all unconscious of reproach,
Comes the Calm JOHNNY who upset the coach."
Instead of speaking out plainly and to the purpose
like JOHN BULL or JOHN BRIGHT, this Other
JOHN has his attention too variously di-
rected elsewhere—watching his opportunity to
to clutch at the reins—casting an eye askance at
the dangling skid—or (at the change of horses, and
just before the fresh start) fumbling suspiciously at
the lynch-pin ! 0 for one hour of the old " fire "in
the old days, when the noble lord's acts were worthy
of JOHN BULL, and his words were worthy of Josrx
BRIGHT, when

" ---- the steam was on,
And languid JOHNNY glowed to glorious JOHN: "

The Earl and Countess of Darnley have left
Claridge's Hotel for Cobham Hall, near Gravesend.
The Countess of Longford and Lady Louisa
Pikenham have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Nor-
wood, from \Aro:thing.
Viscount and Viscountess Lismore purpose spend-
ing the winter months at their seat in Ireland. The noble
lord and her ladyship have arrived at Shanbally-castle from
visiting the Earl and Countess of Bessborough.
Viscount and Viscountess Doneraile have arrived
at Claridge's Hotel from Shrubland-park, Suffolk.
Lord Bellew has taken his departure from the
Albemarle Hotel for his seat in Ireland.

Mr. and Mrs. E. Cottreill Seholefield have left
Farrance's Hotel, Belgravia, for Paris.
The Misses Bertie Mathews have left Farrance's
Hotel for Tonbridge Wells.

MEDICAL OFFICERS IN INDIA.

TO 'THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sue,—liindly, grant me space in your columns to
draw attention to a despatch of the Right Hon.
the Commander-in-Chief in India on the medical
service of the British army, and published in March
last, with the sanction and satisfaction of his
Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
It may be premature to draw attention to that
despatch, or to ask if its remembrance has passed
away with the day of its issue. The medical ser-
vice trust that they will not be so treated. The
reading of the despatch has excited confidence in
the breasts of officers who have distinguished them•
selves for zeal and ability during the memorable
struggle for supremacy in India in 1857, 1858, and
1859, that their services will not be ignored.
The contest is considered over, and long Gazettes
bear by every mail rank and honours to all officers,
except medical officers, who saw service during the
mutiny. Of the officers of the royal regiments
serving in India some five hundred have been either
decorated or promoted. Of the medical officers of
these regiments but four have been decorated, none
promoted. Of the junior regimental medical
officers one, (of the 32d Light Infantry) was pro-
moted, so that out of three hundred military sur-
geons but five have received any reward for valuable
services. It is difficult to reconcile this forgetful-
ness with the reading of the despatch of Lord
Clyde recommending these officers to the protection
of his Excellency the Governor-General, and who
have received the cordial acknowledgments of the
Government of India for the important services
they have rendered.
The withholding of rewards freely conferred on
all others from military surgeons is questionable or
rather unquestionable policy. The feelings engen-
dered by such open illiberality are certain to affect
the medical service, and consequently the public
purse, as such slights tend not a little to prevent
men of professional zeal and ability from entering
our army. Of nothing a highly organised mind io
more sensitive than to be made to feel that his pro-
fession, instead of being a passport to position, is
too often cast up as an excuse for the refusing of
equal honours.
How must Dr. Linton feel, who came so success-
fully out of a campaign which brought him nothing
but incessant labour, great anxiety, and forgetful-
ness ? He naturally should feel the slight cast on
him and on his services ! How must the regimental
surgeons feel when observing that even the head of
their department, notwithstanding oulogiums and
recommendations, and incessant mental labour

during the last two trying and wearisome years, is
passed over in marked silence on the point of deco-
rations ? Why is this ? Is a third-class decoration

of the Honourable Order of the Bath to be the pie
plus ultra of a military surgeon's honours ; and, that
distinction once gained, are no services, however
brilliant, masterly, and successful, to be further
rewarded ? Such cannot be the opinion of a Go-
vernment which prizes the conservation of life mm e
than its destruction. Such cannot be the opinion
of Earl Canning.
We trust that the despatch on the medical ser-
vice, published on the 31st March last, will not be
allowed to remain a dead letter, but that his
Excellency the Governor-General and the Right
Hon. the Commander-in-Chief will show that they

do not consider their published opinion a mere
empty compliment, and that the military surgeons
in India, and Dr. Linton, their Inspector-General,
really deserved the protection and cordial acknow-
ledgments of the Government, and, deserving such,
shall be suitably rewarded, either by decoration,
promotion (brevet or substantive), or by having
come time added to their service.
Such an act of grace would come well from the

Government of India, and would remove from the

minds of our army surgeons the uncomfortable
conviction that they form a marked exception in
the general bestowal of decorations and rewards.
I remain, sir,
Bengal. JENNER.

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THE SUN.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1859.