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London, England, 1866-09-26 00:00:00

milk_ to the dangers 'incurred by those who persist in fol- an inquest held last Wednesday, before Mr.
iffi ORDER of the SHERIFF.—No. 33,
street, Cheapside, City.—Office Furniture, and lowing the bent of their own wishes without regard HUMPHREYS, on ABRAHAM BROWN, a silk weaver,
Fixtures, Large Iron Repository, Crane, &c.
ALEX. HUMPHREY will SELL by AUCTION in to the claims of individuals and the just rights of aged GO years. It seems from the evidence that the
the ground floor offices, on FRIDAY, September the 28th,
1866, at 10 for 11 o'clock to the minute, 21, Coleman-
nations. Had the Berlin Cabinet not resorted deceased, a respectable man, had been out of em-
etre et, Bank. to such a daring act as that of last spring, they ployment for several weeks past. His brother and

rIIIIEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE
1 Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. P. B. Chatterton

might now have as much money as they desired for the
heavy expensesithey have to meet; but even a Prussian
Assembly, inflated with triumph, cannot forget
that gross outrages have been committed by the
Government that now presents itself before the
Chambers and asks for unlimited supplies of money,
and appeals also for additional authority in various
directions.
The French EMPEROR is said to be already much
the better for the change to Biarritz, and Count
BtsmAßcr is reported to be on the eve of a visit
there. Furthermore, it is intimated that his
journey will do no good to Belgium, and
on this point great doubts prevail. We hope
and believe that her MAJESTY'S present ad-
visers will not follow in the line chalked out
for them by their predecessors, but will show some
energy and determination if their ally is in danger.
Lord DERBY and Lord STANLEY have both de-
clared that they did not advocate a policy which
interfered with continental nations, and this asser-
tion has met with general approval. This case of
aggression on Belgium is, however, very different,
and cannot be tolerated by any one of spirit. We
yet cling to the belief that the Emperor NAPOLEON
will not disappoint his admirers in this country by
acting so contrary to the course he has hitherto
followed, but let our Government be prepared for any
emergency that may arise. It will be no service to
any Power to let it act with oppression and harsh-
ness, and it will be a blessing for Europe in general
if the Government of England will stand firm on
any point that concerns her honour. This will be
of far more avail than anything which appertains
to commercial interest or immediate power. It
will show that those who rule the destinies of this
mighty empire put the chief thing foremost, and do
not intend to forget the substance in the shadow.

others advised him to go into the Bethnal-green
Workhouse, as he had no home ; but he was averse
to go, having been there once before, and ill treated.
At last, however, the poor man's courage gave
way, and he applied for admission three weeks
ago. He was kept all day at the workhouse
gates, but not admitted. Last Saturday week
he again applied, and was taken in. On the Mon-
day he was moved to one of the wards, being evi-
dently extremely ill. During the night he kept
getting in and out of bed, and " talking inces-
santly like a man deranged." Such symptoms,
however, do not disturb the equanimity of work-
house officials, excepting so far as they interfere
with their personal comfort or convenience. In
the morning, said the wardsman, deceased " got
out of bed and lay on the floor. Witness put him
back in the bed " (roughly and carelessly enough,
no doubt), " and half an hour afterwards
found him dead. Witness then called the doctor.
He did not call the nurse or the doctor to the de-
ceased during the night because he never complained
—he seemed like a man deranged." The idea of
delirium being a sign of illness did not apparently
enter the mind of this worthy, who has charge of
14 men in this sick ward. The post mortem exami-
nation showed that death was occasioned by failure
in the action of the heart, and both the doctor who
made it, and the medical officer of the workhouse,
said that life might have been prolonged by
timely treatment. The verdict was death from
natural causes, and the jury found " that there was
great neglect in the workhouse ward, where the de-
ceased was left dying the whole night without any
attendance whatever." It seems that the deceased
was to have been buried without an inquest, when
the Coroner accidentally heard of the case. In
waiting till some better and more humane system of
workhouse management is organised, it would at
least be some check upon cruelty and some stimulus
to 521 fish callousness if an inquest were held on every
death in our unions.
The case of ABRAHAM BROWN sufficiently ex.
plains that of MARGARET SMITH, a muslin worker
aged 76, who died from want of the common neces-
saries of life. She was urged to go into the White-
chapel Workhouse, but said she would rather die of
hunger. As might be expected with her trade, at
her age, the poor creature earned so little that she
was in a state of abject destitution. A keeper of a
common lodging-house kindly allowed her a few
nights shelter and gave her some food, but she
was at last removed to the dreaded " house" in a
state of insensibility from absolute want, and died
very shortly after. Verily, there is something
strangely wrong in our system of relieving the
poor when tw) inquests like these can be held in
one week. They are a scandal to the public dis-
charge of a national duty—the care of those honest
and friendless poor who can no longer work for
themselves. If England cannot do better than this
for honest poverty, she may look for a plentiful
increase of thieves and swindlers. At any
rate, her people had better cease to boast
either of their humanity or their justice, and
still less of their system of local government, when
an aged pauper can deliberately and with reason pre
fer to perish from absolute starvation than to subtni
to the treatment of want and suffering in the recog
nised institutions of the State.

Ti 11.4 EVENING w.ll beperformed Shakspere's Tragedy
of KING JOHN. Mr. l'hell.s, Mr. Barry Sullivan, Messrs.
T. Sw,nbourne, T. ead. Master Percy Roselle; Mesdames
Herman Vezin. 11. Taadenhoff, G. Hodson, F. Bent. ett, A.
Geller, &e.
To conclude with Shakspere's COMEDY OF ERRORS.
Brothers Droll'lo by the Brothers Webb.

Commence at Seven

111EATRE RO YAL, HA YMA LKE'r.
sole see and Mana4er, Mr. Buuks.one.
This Theatre will OPEN for the Season on MONDAY.
Ozt ). Mr. and Mc . Charles NI Mil, ws, 4 n their n turn trona
the Co.ritine .t, w li appear. with 1I r. Ituck.tone, Mr C 4t,ptoo,
Mr. Citippend ite, Mr. Howe. Mr. W. eat-reit, Air. i lara, Ur.
liog-ers. ir W. Gordo., Mr. Braid, Mr. Weathers',y, Mr.
Coe; Miss N'el.v Moore, Mr, CitippendAle, Mi.s C.
Miss Fanny Wright, .visa s. Laws, Miss Coleman,
mac. Mr. Sothern at Chr.stmas.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. -
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. iechter.
THIS EVENING, and during the week.—Mr. and Mrs
DION BOUCICMJLT in the new Drama, " THE LO.NG
bTitIKE."
-rtormances :—At 7 o'clock, NURSEY CHI( KWEEI).
3ie:si.s. 11. Widdicomb, Moreland, D. Evans, and Miss K.
Biariatord.
At a Quarter before 8, the new Drama, in Four Acts, THE
LONG STRIKE, written by Dion Boucicault. The New
Scenery by Mr. T. Greive and assistants. Mess. s. S Emery,
H. Wid licornb, 14*itzpatiick, Dalton, D. Evens, Anderson,
Isewbound. Stanley. Lomas, Moreland, Andrews, Reynolds,
and J. C. Cowper.
To conclude with UP IN THE WORLD.
Acting Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

Mr. BRIGHT has notquite exhausted his eloquence,
and his friends at Manchester have very properly
given him a grand banquet in recognition of his
exertions. It is only to be regretted that so power-
ful a speaker should so often allow his zeal to out-
run his discretion, and it is likewise remarkable that
Mr. BP,IGHT generally makes these grand demon-
strations as soon as a Conservative,Ministry gets into
Power. Certainly the member for Birmingham had
a good deal to say about Reform during the last
few months of 1865, but, for the most part, there
was silence on this subject from the tribune during the
interval which elapsed between his tour of agitation
when Lord DERBY was in office and the events of
last autumn. Radicals have long had a name for
gaining moderation in office. Mr. MILNER GIBSON,
par exemple, has not much benefited the country
by his accession to power. No sooner does an en-
thusiastic reformer take office than he turns the
mental telescope round forthwith. The wants and
grievances which formerly assumed such alarming
proportions when viewed through the medium
of a comfortable sinecure are apt to shrink
into very small dimensions. Who shall say
what marvellous transformation we might
not witness if Mr. JOHN BRIGHT were to be pre-
vailed upon to accept the seals of one of the depart-
ments of State? He might, perhaps, take the
Secretaryship of War, having already got a good
way from his peace doctrines. He has reached the
stage at which he considers being accused of holding
peace-at-any-price doctrines as an insult, and yet
not so many years back, we fancy, his speeches
would have told a different tale. The fact is,
that the military spirit is so strong in Mr.
I3atoirr that he must needs be fighting something,
and if he cannot fight something tangible he must
contradict or oppose some political dogma. " I
believe," he said Mst night, " that however much
any of us may abhor the thought that political ques-
tions in any country should ever again be settled
by force, yet there is something in the constitution
of uur nature that when these evils are allowed to
run on beyond a certain period unredressed
that the most peace-loving of men are
unable to keep the peace." It is possible,
such is the extent of human self-deception,
that Mr. BRIGHT may consider himself a peace-
loving man, but his hearers' imaginations could
hardly have been so active after the passage which
followed. " And bear this in mind— that however
much we may wish political questions to be settled
by moral means, yet it is no more immoral for a
people to use force in the last resort for the obtain-
ing and the securing of freedom than it is for a
government, by force, to suppress and deny that
freedom." Mr. BRIGHT apparently knew his
audience, for this passage excited the greatest
enthusiasm, the audience rising to applaud.
Would he have uttered it in the House of
Commons? It is true he qualified it after by hoping
that the time was far distant, but the effect pro-
duced was that the employment of physical force
might be necessary to carry a new Reform Bill.
What that bill is to be he takes care not to
particularise too closely, lie admits that the mem-
bers of his party are not unanimous as to details,
but he urges, sensibly enough, upon them the ad-
vocacy of general principles. " My view of the whole
question of these differences is this--that when one

sees a real movement—something grand in its pro-
portions, powerful for the gaining of results, the plan
of a sensible man who does not want to split hairs,
is to take with that movement, to help it, to make
the best of it, and to get all the good he can out of
i it." Why this is the very principle on which Mr.
BRIGHT himself
refuses to act. Had he looked only
for " a real moverneat, powerful for the gaining of
results," we should havehadaßeform Bill seven years
ago, because if the Liberals in the Lower House had
combined heartilyand disinterestedly with the Tories
to improve Lord DERBY'S Bill we might have a
really good measure. Mr. BRIGHT IS sadly behind
Mr. GLADSTONE, to whose services in the cause of
Reform he makes no reference. The right hon.
gentlemanßill
boldly said that, when a Reform

came before the House of Commons, he would

udge it on its merits, regardless of whence it came,

This is a point of liberality and toleration to

which Mr. BRIGHT will never attain.

THADDEUS STEVENS and :WENDELL PHILLIPS

Isis idea of political freedom is to have
:he pow©r of abusing his opponents without
;Heir having the power to reply. His notion of

popular representation is to have his own party re

presented and his opponents unrepresented. If he

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER •26, 1866.

• ter of Agriculture and Commerce, will be distri-
buted. A splendid plant, newly introduced into
cultivation in France, will be exhibited.
A literary paper, in its account of the inaugura-
tion of a statue at Argentan to the memory of the
great historian of France, De Mezeray, mentions a
curious instance of the eccentricity of his character.
Merzeray was born in the year 1610 at Thy, in
Lower Normandy, and commenced his great work,
" The History of France in 1643," when he was
only 32. The last volume was published in 1651.
He died on July 10, 1683, at the age of 73.
Mezeray was of a very chilly disposition. One
cold winter day a friend met him in the street, and
in answer to the question, he said he was hurrying
home to his fireside. "lam at L.," said Mezeray.
This answer seemed apocryphal, but it is thus ex-
plained. When winter began Mezeray prepared
12 pairs of shoes, which he marked Ni ith the letters
of the alphabet. Before getting out of bed he con-
sulted his thermometer. IVhen the cold commenced
he began with his A shoes. At the time in question
the cold had increased, and on that day, as the
thermometer had gone down 12 degrees, he put
on the L shoes, the twelfth letter. IVhen Cardinal
Mazarin found that Mezeray in his History described
Louis XI. as a bad son, a bad father, a bad friend,
and a bad husband, the pension he received from
the King was stopped. In Mezeray's desk was
found the following memorandum :—." This is the
last money I have received from the King. He has
ceased to pay me, and I have ceased to speak o
him, whether for good or evil."

Proceedings have long been pending in France
between the Duke of Hamilton and the Marquis of
Abercorn, both of whom claim the right to the title
of Duke de Chatelherault. The Council of State
has just decided in favour of the Duke of Hamil-
ton.

General Baron Rohalt de Fleury has just died at
the age of 84 at his seat of Forgot near Montoire.
An honest tradesman, who had been enjoying
himself at St. Cloud, was passing over the pont de
Grenelle, about 1 o'clock on Sunday morning, when
a ferocious-looking fellow, wearing a long, dark
bushy beard, dashed upon him, and holding a pistol
to his throat, said—" Your money, or your life."
Our tradesman, who was in too joyous a mood to be
frightened, declared that he had been making things
pleasant with some friends, and that he had spent
all the money he had in his pocket. The robber
said he would believe him, and not search his pockets,
for he liked to have confidence in his " customers,"
but he must swear by the remains of his. grand-
father that he would do exactly as he ordered. The
robber then told the grocer that he must go the next
morning, at 5 o'clock, and fish in the Seine until he
had caught five gudgeon. He must then put them
under a stone, which he would point out, accom-
panied by 500 f. and two sous. The grocer pro-
mised to do all this, but as he proceeded homewards
he met a patrol, to whom he related the occurrence.
They soon met with the supposed robber, who was
still on the bridge. On searching him it was dis-
covered that the supposed pistol was only a black
wooden pipe. Further investigation led to the dis-
covery that the formidable-looking mustachios and
beard were false, and that the wearer of them was
a lady ! In short it turns out that she is only 25,
and is well kncwn at La Chapelle as "La Belle
Ecaillere." She has long followed the occupation
of an oyster girl, but a disappointment in love has
turned her brain. With some difficulty she was
compelled to resume her proper dress, and she has
been taken to a mad-house.
Yesterday the trial commenced before the Court
of Assize of the Seine, of Berthome, formerly
cashier of the sub-treasury of the railways, and
Dupray de la Maherie, a printer, who are charged
with frauds and forgeries to the amount of more
three millions of francs. Count C. Chanel is in-
cluded in the accusation, but that gentler*an is ab-
sent without leave ; and indeed a report has been
spread that he is dead. The simple process
adopted by the prisoners was to forge bills of ex-
change and appropriate the money of the company
to the supposed purpose of discount ; but the money
obtained was used by the prisoners themselves.
Among the forged bills is one for no less than
400,000 francs. When examined by the President
at the commencement of the proceedings Berthome
seemed to confess the truth of the charge.

The Manchester Meeting—How Many
Were Present ?
The extreme difficulty of estimating the numbers
in a large crowd is remarkably exemplified by the
following statements of the London and Manchester
papers yesterday
STAR.—Upon the most moderato caculation there
could not have been less than 120,000 to 130,000
upon Campfield.
POST AND ADVERTISER.—There were probably,
including spectators, 100,000 persons present on the
ground.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE PAPAL STATES.

DAILY NEWS AND TlMES.—Perhaps at no period
of the meeting were there more than 80,000 to
100,000 in the square at once, but Liverpool-road,
Deansgate, Gartside-street, and other approaches,
were constantly filled with people for upwards of
two hours, going and returning, and it would be no
exaggeration to say that the total number present
at various times did not fall much short of
200,000.
TELEGRAPIL—In the spacious and well-paved
square, called Campfield, extending from St. Mat-
thew's Church as a centre over a space of ten acres,
there were not fewer than 40,000 persons present
—a number that would without doubt have been
doubled had the weather been dry.
MANCHESTER EXAMINER.—A. more imposing dis-
play could not well be imagined than was presented
on Campfield after the arrival of the last procession.
There could not have been fewer than from 80,000
to 100,000 persons present. The ground was lite-
rally covered with human beings.
_ _

ROME, Sept. 24.
Yesterday a grand banquet for 360 persons was
given by the officers of the Pontifical army to the
officers of the Roman Legion. The French gene-
rals were present during the banquet. M. de Sar-
tiges, the French Ambassador, the Duke de Monte-
bello, and Colonel d'Arey, drank toasts to the health
of the Pope and the Emperor.

To-day his Holiness gave his benediction to the
Roman Legion, which defiled before him.

ITALY.
FLORENCE, Sept. 25.
The Empress of Mexico has passed Bologna on
her way to Rome.

TRAPANIA, Sept. 25.
News received here from Palermo states that the
normal state of things in that city is completely
restored.

MANCHESTER CO CRIER. —The result, as far as de-
monstration is concerned, was incommensurate and
unsatisfactory. Various estimates have been formed
of the number congregated at the point of rendez-
vous, but at no time did the number exceed2o,ooo.
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.—.About 15,000, and
" it was not the impressivegathering that theleaders
of the League hoped to bring together."
The Manchester. .Guardian adds :—" The meeting
was very inferior to the Birmingham demonstration
in respect to numbers. From a window overlooking
the area, we were able carefully to estimate the
numbers. In front of No. 1 platform the crowd
was dense, tapering to a point towards the lamp-
post in the middle of the square. Round other
three platforms there were much smaller gather-
ings. If all these gatherings had been collected
into one, and the walking marginal crowd with
umbrellas had been united with them into a solid
mass, they would have occupied about one-fourth
of the entire area, including the streets. By mea-
surement we have ascertained that the ground
(including the streets), at the rate of seven men
to a square yard, will accommodate 61,404 indi-
viduals, and a quarter of that number is a little
above 15,000. Precisely the same result was ar-
rived at in another way. Where the crowd was
dense there were no umbrellas, and by counting
the number of umbrellas in a line surrounding each
compact mass we were able to estimate the area
enclosed, and in this way the number obtained was
12,000, and 3,000 is a fair estimate for stragglers.
The meetings on the Haymarket, at the east end
of St. Matthew's Church, where were two platforms
were too small to deserve consideration."

DREADFUL RXPLOSION. —NORWICH, Tuesday
Night.—This afternoon a boiler explosion, attended with
death to three men named Taylor, Breeze, and Clarke, oc-
curred at Messrs. Starks' dyoworks, Norwich. Five other
persons were injured.
DEATH OF THE INFANT DAUGHTER OF GENERAL
rom THUMB.—Yesterday Minnie Stratton, or as
the child used to call herself Minnie Tom Thumb, the in-
fant daughter of
the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. The child was left some days
General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, died at
since at the hotel in charge of her nurse while her parents
were on a professional visit to Yarmouth and Lowestoft.
About a week since it was taken ill and two medical men
were called in ; they failed, however, to allay her suffer-
ings, and yesterday it died from inflammation of the brain.
Mrs. Tom Thumb was sent for; she arrived in Norwich on
Thursday, and remained in attendance on the little suf-
ferer till death took place.