The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-26 00:00:00

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Th 3 Ecizorci.:T cf 13irming
At a meeting of the ToWn Council of Bbiinl
ham yesterday, the Mayor (I\ir. Edwin Yates) read
a formal letter from Mr. Hill, announcing his re-
signation of the Recordership. The following is
an extract :—" Since the year 1839, when our Court
of quarter Sessions came into existence, such has
been the manufacturing and commercial activity of
Birmingham that the number of its inhabitants was
doubled, and now more than half the population of
Warwickshire is gathered under your jurisdiction.
This enormous increase, unparalleled, I believe, in
any preceding periol of no greater length, has aug-
mented the duties of all classes, but more especially
of those whose social position calls upon them to
take a leading part in whatever regards the govern-
ment and welfare of the town, or its dignity as the
midland capital of the realm. You, sir, your pre-
decessor and your fellow labourers in the public
cause have not been wanting in the fulfilment of
your arduous duties. Many elaborate. works for
sanitary improvement, many a valuable institution
for the cure or alleviation of bodily and mental
ailments, for the instruction of the young, for the
conservation in after life and the further develop-
ment of acquisitions made in youth, and for other •
laudable purposes, have had their origin since that
epoch. Nor has the pressing need been overlooked •
for extending the facilities for Divine worship, so as
to make them commensurate with the enlarged num-
bers of the people. 'Whether or not this great ob-
ject has been as yet fully accomplished is a question
into which I feel I ought not to enter. Aided and
encouraged by the munificence of two distinguished
neighbours, by whom the happiness of all who are
less fortunately placed in the social scale than
themselves has ever been earnestly sought, you
have made provision for exercise in the open air
and for harmless recreation of the multitudes who
crowd your workshops in their long hours of
labour. The absence of such provision pressed hard
in former days on all ranks. and ages, especially on
the rising generation, and was a source of deep re-
gret to many besides myself. But I never hoped to
witness exertions so zealous and so successful as you
have made towards supplying the want to which I
refer. Were this a fitting opportunity I could dwell
with much pleasure to myself upon the response
which these efforts of the wealthier classes have
called forth from that far more numerous body for
whose benefit they were mainly intended. I have
observed from time to time with cordial satisfaction
the contributions made from their little stores by
artisans and their families to your hospitals and to
other similar charities, and this growing desire
among the least affluent to take their share (and,
perhaps, somewhat beyond their share), in the duties
of benevolence, is all the more surely pregnant with
good as it is not confined to any one in town, but
seems to be gradually pervading the whole nation.
My attention, you will readily believe, has been espe-
cially attracted to your endeavours for the preven-
tion of crime and for obtaining changes in the treat- -
ment of criminals, so as to bring it into accordance
with the enlightened spirit of our age. Birmingham
has established and continues to support ragged and
industrial schools and reformatories, together with
an excellent association for affording assistance to
prisoners on their discharge from gaol. And long
before the obligation for treating even the youngest
of our criminals on reformatory principles was gene-
rally recognised in practice, or even admitted in
theory, Birmingham set an example of Christian
brotherhood such as I cannot reflect upon without
pride and gratitude. How often have I been relieved
from the pain of visiting the child with a sentence ap-
propriate only to the man by the willingness—nay,
eagerness, of the injured party to receive back into his
service, and not seldom into his family, the juvenile
offender who had made a sad return tbr prior kind-
ness ; but who, nevertheless, the benevolent master
believed—and oftentimes with truth—might yet be
reclaimed by assiduous and affectionate supervision!
You have also erected, at no small pecuniary cost, a
prison, which, if it leave something to be desired,
has accomplished much in promoting the health of
the inmates and in securing them from further de-
terioration in morals by separating them from their
fellows, and by supplying them with instruction and
employment. Add to this, you have taken upon
yourselves the burden of maintaining a large body
of police, and have wisely evinced your readiness to
extend this force so often as it shall be proved that
such extension is necessary to the due protection of
the borough. It would be easy to multiply instances
manifesting a similar devotion to the interests of
Birmingham, but I should be at a loss to justify
myself for such a trespass on your time. I cannot,
however, forbear to express my gratification at the
assured prospect that you will shortly enjoy the ad-
vantage to be derived from the trial in your courts
of all causes arising in the borough, both civil and
criminal. The necessity for carrying parties and
witnesses to a distance from their homes often
amounts to a denial of justice. Even in civil ac-
tions this defect is barely tolerable, but in criminal
proceedings the evil is so great that I dare not trust
myself to characterise it as it deserves. In my own
experience I have known that the mere accident of
the scene of .an imputed crime being in a country
town, whereby the trial of the accused took place
on the same spot, has furnished opportunity for the
establishment of innocence under circumstances
wherein if the trial had been held affar off, so that
witnesses could not have been summoned during the
progress of the case and immediately on the disco-
very that their evidence had become material., con-
viction and death must have inevitably followed."

TIIE LONDON.—PLYMOUTII, Thursday.--The brig
Courier, 209 tons register, Captain Price, belonging
to Newport, South Wales, left Femoral; in Spain, with a
cargo of ore, Dec. 30. On Wednesday, Jan. 10, she was
crossing the Bay of Biscay, at 2 p.m., when in about lat.
40 44 N., and long 8 15 W., there was a gale from south-
west nearly, if anything it may have been a little more
southerly. The Courier was running under close-reefed
topsails, with her head north-east, When a large and very
long ship-riggedsteamer was observed ahead. It was blow-
ing very hard, with a sea running high. The brig had
approached so near before the steamer was observed that
the mato called out suddenly to the steersman to port the
helm, and the Courier had to bear up to keep clear, and
passed about a quarter of a mile astern of the stranger.
The steamer (supposed now to be the London) was then
under close-reefed maintopsail only, with her head about
west north-west. There was no indication of steam. Her
foretopgallant mast was hanging with the gear on the
starboard side, and the jibboom, with its gear, was hang-
ing to the bowsprit. Her main and mizen masts were all
right, but the topsail yards were in confusion, ono peaking
one way and one the other. There was no flag of distress
flying, but the ship appeared to behave very badly at sea,
and the crew of the Courier conjectured that she was in
distress. It was so hazy that her name could not be dis-
cerned, neither could any of the crew or passengers be
seen. Tho steamer continued in sight while daylight
lasted. The Courier kept on her course under the same
canvas until 4 p.m., when she was hove to in consequence
of the increase of the gale, which on Wednesday night be-
came a hurricane, the wind varying from S.S.W. to S.W.;
it kept shifting two or three points, but never got to the
northward of west. On Thursday and Thursday night
there was no change. On Friday, the 12th, at 8 a.m., the
brig was under her foretopsail and the clew of her main-
sail ; at 11 a.m., the wind having moderated, sail was
made: She arrived here on Thursday, the 25th, to dis-
charge her cargo.

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