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London, England, 1866-03-30 00:00:00

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clergyman, and the small income which
he derived from the interest of a sum charged on the family
estate ceased with his life ; while the sums he received
from time to time for his " Recollections" were expanded
in providing for the increasing expenses of his y9ung
family. Under these distressing circumstances the friends
of Madame Gronow in Paris came to her aid, and ii!ey,'°`°
appeal to the liberality of her late husband's friena for
s in
London, and also to the readers of his Reminiscences,_
contributions to enable her to maintain and educate her
children.
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London and Westminster. Thirty_six King-streets
may show attachment to the Throne ; 20 George-
streets and nine George-yards to the House of
Brunswick. There are 34 Charles-streets, 32 John-
streets, 25 Church-streets, and 10 Church-rows ;
25 Queen-streets, 3 Queen-squares, 20 Princes-
streets, 18 Duke-streets, 17 James, 16 Cross, and
11 Chapel-streets. All these numbers are exclusive
of such variations on the theme as Upper, Lower,
Old, West, Little. Six streets, most of them nasty
ones, bear the name of Paradise. Crown is a
famous appellation for courts. New, besides being
tacked 'on to qualify other names, has 21 streets, 6
roads, and 8 courts, all to itself. The points of the
compass, common Christian names, Grove, Market,
York, and Wellington are what appear most fre-
quently besides those already mentioned.
The newer parts of the town, and those inhabited
by the richer classes, show greater confusion than
poorer districts. The streets there are for the most
part christened by perpetually ringing the changes
on a few names of counties, and the overworked
" Park," " Kensington," and " Westbourne." There
arc nine Glocester-terraces, 11 Glocester-streets, five
roads, and eight places. There is a Konsington-
gate, ditto Gore, ditto crescent, ditto garden-ter-
race, ditto gardens-square, ditto square (plain),
ditto palace-gardens, ditto palace-green, dittopark-
gardens, ditto park-terrace, and so on. There are
14 Park-places, 10 Park-streets, eight roads, and
six terraces, besides Uppers and
.Lowers. But
" Westbourne" is still of more frequent recurrence.
Among the streets built on the Westbourne Park
estate and in its neighbourhood this name is
prefixed to crescent, to green, to gardens—to
grove, Grove-terrace ; park, Park-place, Park-
crescent, Park-road, Park-terrace, Park-villas ; to
terrace, to Terrace-road, to Terrace-villas ; to road
East and North—to all possible combinations of
topographical technicalities. For the counties, 11
Cambridge and 11 Devonshire terraces lead the list.
"Wiltshire, "Worcester, Lincoln, and Kent are not
favourites. About 32 terraces, streets, &c., are
namesakes of her Majesty.
It would seem at first sight that there was but a
small supply of names ready to hand ; and yet we
see often one street changing its name two or three
times in the course of a very moderate length. To
make sweeping changes would cause much trouble,
and would inconvenience the holders of tille.444p4a_.
of--tondOn " but the evil of unmeaning
names might be corrected in the new quarters where
houses are being built every day. An immense in-
terest attaches to many of the old street names,
especially those in the city and on the shores of the
river, up to Westminster-bridge. The others usually
commemorate or express something. There are
'traces of Sir Hugh Myddelton and his great conduit
in the neighbourhood of the New River Head. The
regions of Cavendish, Ittissell, Fitzroy, and (the more
recent) Belgrave squares are well enough named
after the titles and seats of the landowners. Liquor-
pond-street is rightly so-called. There were Knights
Hospitallers at St. John's-gate ; there are still shady
groves in St. John's-wood. But what has a terrace
facing the west of Paddington station to do with
Eastbourne? What has Oxford to do with at least
six terraces of that name ? I daresay the late Mr.
Thackeray could have suggested a reason. The
feeling which prompts the tenant of a little bit of
roadside residence to call it Gothic-lodge or Mont-
morency-villa, and the dwellers in the Hammer-
smith, Holloway, and other long roads to disown
the regular numeration of houses, and group
themselves into short terraces with fine titles—this
same feeling makes people prefer that the street they
live in be called terrace or place and enjoy the smart
name prefixed to it. This is all very well at Brighton,
but in London it is very inconvenient.
'Would suggest the better example of Paris which
shows that there is no great difficulty in finding ap-
pellations. In the neighbourhood of the Place de
l'Europe the streets are christened after the chief
cities of the Continent, which afford a good remedy
against rep3tition ; anything is better than our 36
King-streets. The Parisians used to draw upon the
Saints' Calendar, and now they have adopted the
chief names of the great men,of their own and other
countries ; and we—we have one little out-of-the-
way terrace called ShakeTeare, a shabby and un-
known Nelson-square, a Newton-street in the vile
districts of Drury-lane, There are numerous other
such instances. Take away the poorer quarters of
the metropolis, and the leading names of history
will be found poorly represented.

TIIE CIVIL SEIIVICE.—The report of the Com-
missioners of Audit on the several accounts of the Depart-
ment of Works in the year 1861-65 shows that the savings
on several votes amount to £77,500 3s. 41; and that it will
bo necessary to grant the undermentioned amounts to make
good expenses on certain of the votes :-British embassy
houses at hoine and abroad, £3,209 13s. 4d. ;
Museum, Edinburgh, £1,612 15s. 9d. ; ProbatelCortuia.t
and
Registries, £39 Bs. Sd.; and Office of Works,s.aan , &C.,
£B9 17s. 101• making a total of £4,951 105. ,m
winds chilling, and the tem-
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6,,0 0 young children anti 1.11,7,ate persons of all ages may be
arrested, if, instead of flying blitmly to pills and incdiel,neisn,
which, though
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studyllre blood,
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nbay
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I have given itwith the eatest
completely recovered.
have corn,
advantage in such cases ; and ss far as 1 may judge from my
own experience, practice fully carries out what theory,
from a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate.-
In tins, 11b, 2a 9d; 21b, 4s 61 ; 51b, Ils; 121 b, 225; 2.11 b,
10s.-Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London ;
also Phillips, tea dnlers, 8, King William-street ; likewL.ke
at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 40, Bishopsgatc-
street Within ; 63, ;50, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand ;
54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 96,
Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close
Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St-
i John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and ale'
mists.—Beware of spurious imitations.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1866.

It would seem as if we were never to hear of the
Abyssinian captives, and if one day the intelligence
concerning them seems to be of a hopeful kind, on
the next it is certain to be contradicted, or at any
rate modified in its nature. Thus we learn from a
telegram received by the Foreign-office from her
MAJESTY'S agent and Consul-General in Egypt that
Dr. BEKE, on the 12th of February, writing from
Massowah, states that Mr. RASSAM had joined the
EMPEROR, and had been well received by him. In
replying to his demand, the EMPEROR had said
that Captain CAMERON should be released, and that
he might have gone long ago, only he would not
leave without the others. It was intended to dis-
cuss the matter at Debra Tabor. So far this seems
satisfactory, but we learn that this good news is not
correct, as a communication from Mr. REUTER
states that the telegram just referred to bears a
date antecedent to that of the letter published last
Monday, which was written by the same gentleman,
one being February 12th, and the other the 17th.
In the course of the second letter just received Dr.
BEKE had referred to a previous communication,
which, however, had not then been received, but in
which we now find that Dr. BEKE had stated that
Mr. RASSAM met the Emperor, and had been
very well received. This statement Dr. BEKE
here declares to be untrue, because, he says,
he was deceived by Mr. RASSAM'S messenger. He
writes as follows:--" I have been grossly deceived by
Mr. RASSAM'S messenger, whose report of that gen-
tleman, having met the Emperor THEODORE, and
been well received by him, is as untrue as the tele-
gram announcing Consul CAMERON'S return sent by
Mr. RASSAM from Suez in September last. Accord-
ing to the last news, then, we learn that Mr. RAS-
SAM was to await in Debra Tabor or Korata the
EMPEROR'S return from his campaign in Gadjar.
As for the missionary's letter, Mr. REUTER supposes
it to have come into the hands of the English Con-
sul in Egypt, who accordingly furnished its con- •
t
by telegram in ignorance of the later letter.
"a
very disappointing, for we are very much
in e
recou the sauce 'Position that we were before, and must
havr% 4_
"' hope, after all, instead of resting
upon information ot
a satisfactory kind. The more
we consider the aff
theat more must we arrive at
the conclusion that gr
mismanagement has cha-
racterised the matter fromtn
outset, and that our
Government has been greatly t
vblaryenefofrorthtehier
supineness and inaction. It is all
gooses
Ministers to persist in stating to of
Parliament that nothing can be done, h at it is
quite idle for any one to talk of going to var
about
the affair, because it would be quite impossible to'
carry on hostilities in that direction. The real point
at-issue; is how far we are justified in sending out
Consuls at all to places where it seems the
power of England cannot protect them, and
they must run the chance of insult and
imprisonment. It is evident that this very
unfortunate Consul CAMERON has to put up with
the dangers of his official position, but reaps no
advantages from it. Thus the EMPEROR wreaks
his vengeance on him, because he represents a
Government which slighted him, and did not reply
to
his letter in due form and with becoming de-
spatch ;
on the other hand, nothing can
induce Earl ituisua. to think it au insult to the

English Crown that its emissary should be treated
more than a felon would in this coubtry. It is high
time that a salutary change of conduct distinguished
our Foreign Office, for the present style of pro-
cedure is fast bringing the name of England into
contempt in those far-off lands and distant regions,
where, at one time, respect for her presence was
always efficacious to protect her subjects wherever
they wandered.

President JOHNSON received Baron BEAULIEU,
the special Envoy from the King of the BELGIANS,
who came to announce officially the death of
King LEOPOLD, and the accession of his successor.
After the Baron had delivered letters from his
sovereign, Mr. JOHNSON replied in a speech of
great decision, which displayed some of those dis-
tinguishing traits of character that have made the
PRESIDENT so justly admired. He said that Bel-
gium was known in history as a country that had
suffered by being chosen as a battle-ground for
foreign states. For that reason, continued the
PRESIDENT, "I never meet a representative of Bel-
gium without feeling a desire to congratulate him
upon the repose, the tranquillity, the prosperity, and
the dignity which his country at last attained under
the sway of her Sovereign, LEOPOLD ; and I trust
that the times in which we are uow living will show
that the Government and people of the United
States duly appreciated the friendship with which
we were favoured during that reign." Certainly
the late KING deserves all praise for his great skill
and moderation, and he achieved as great a success
in maintaining peace as other monarchs have done
in making war. The prosperity which his little
kingdom enjoyed was the best testimony to the
worth of his services, and for wisdom he certainly
bore the palm among the Kings of his time. The
PRESIDENT very truly declared that while the
United States could do little in a direct
manner to reciprocate benefits with the States
of Europe, in an indirect form all those
States might derive advantages from the
practice of a " wise, just, and liberal policy on that
side of the Atlantic." It is because the new PRESI-
DENT gives such sure proof of his desire to further
this policy that we may entertain a just hope that a
better and brighter future is dawning for America,
and that a peace, in some degree worthy of the name,
may supplant the strife and discord that have raged
in her distracted councils, and conflicted against all
vital interests and marred all welfare. The outline
given by the PRESIDENT of the object of American
policy is a bold one, and well deserving a recogni-
tion by an independent race. "We seek to illus-
trate," he says, " how our people can be true, and
yet, by their own strength, maintain their indepen-
dence. How they can extend their commerce, and
yet abstain from aggression. How, without en-
tangling alliances, a free people can co-operate with
other nations in advancing the great interests of
civilisation; and how nations may, from time to time,
become persuaded to bring within reach of appeal,
to just and peaceful arbitration, controversies that
otherwise must necessarily be referred to the trial of
force." It is the spirit in which an undertaking is
carried out that gives it significance and imparts to
it value, and thus we may recognise the similarity,
in some respects, of two different men in different
circumstances. The late King LEOPOLD
moulded the people he was elected to rule over, to
appreciate his benignant influence, and follow the
distates of his superior intelligence. President
JOHNSON'S task is a stupendous one, but the ruling
spirit of his course is moderation, and we are not
surprised that in casting his glance to the nation
across the Atlantic he should regard with particular
approval the little country of Belgium, which has
combined in so remarkable a manner freedom with
moderation ; and while it has kept aloof from the
revolutions that have distracted neighbouring king-
doms, it has at the same time contrived to preserve
its liberties intact and inviolate—a consummation
seldom attained by more noisy, but less steadfast,
adherents to the cause of freedom.

It is certainly quite time that the question of
street accidents received very serious attention.
Year by year the traffic through the principal
thoroughfares of this mighty metropolis is on the
increase, notwithstanding all the anticipations of
relief to be given by new streets and additional
railway lines. A slight rise in the number of catas-
trophes during the last few years might therefore
have been reasonably looked for, but the regular
list of deaths from what must certainly be ranked
as a preventible cause amounts in the course
of the year to an aggregate which is really
frightful. A good deal of attention was excited
some time since by the statement of one of our
magistrates that the number cf persons annually
killed in the streets of London exceeded the victims
of all the railway accidents in the kingdom. The
dangers of the railroad are certainly not under-
rated, but few persons seriously set themselves to
consider the amount of suffering and mourning
occasioned by the accidents in the streets. It must
be remembered that we hear of only a part, seeing
that a great number of disasters occur which are
not absolutely or immediately fatal, but which
entail a great deal of pain, loss, and inconvenience
on the victims. If we restrict ourselves, however,
to the facts which are brought directly before us,
and examine the Registrar-General's returns for any
one week, we shall find quite enough to startle the
most indifferent. Taking last week's return as a
sample, we find that eight deaths from carriage
accidents were registered in the week. They oc-
curred in all parts of London—Whitechapel, Ken-
nington, the City. They befel persons of all ages,
from a child of nine, thrown under the wheel of a
waggon, to a pensioner of eighty, run over by an
omnibus. Sometimes they were the fault of the
drivers, as in an instance where the driver of a
van was convicted of manslaughter. Some-
times they were probably the result of
the carelessness or rashness of the sufferers
themselves, as would probably be the case with
children. Omnibuses, carts, vans, waggons, all
alike figure in the deadly list, and members of all
ranks and professions show the risk and the danger.
The other day a well-known country gentleman,
highly respectable, came to London on business to
meet his death from a street vehicle. Still more
recently au old college servant at Westminster was
hurried to his grave in the same fashion. Only the
day before yesterday an inquest was held by Dr.
LANKESTER on a clergyman killed in the Pentonville-
road, by the furious driving of a cart. The house
of Commons has not been spared the reminder by
SYDNEY for one of its own members encoun-
tered a serious accident on its very threshold.
then, it is time that we should bestir our-
selves, and see if
some remedy cannot be found for
ao great and general an evil. In spite of the
Spanish hidalgo, we
the earth can none of us help walking on
liable to the occasionallypossibility of
therefore we are all alike
of disaster. The con-
subways and the erection of light
bridges at certain
con-
struction of ,
busy
corners and crossings,
would afford a manifest relief,
andconsiderably
lessen the risk to foot passengers. As for
the accidents occasioned by the rashness or reckless-
ness of the passengers themselves, those, however
lamentable, cannot be reached by legislation, but
the very frequent catastrophes resulting from furi-
ous or reckless driving Blight be diminished, mo

doubt, by increased stringency in dealing with the
offenders. In the new bill for regulating the City
traffic several clauses are introduced, prohibiting the
employment of any one under a certain age as
driver, and stipulating that the driver's seat should
be so placed in the van or waggon that he should
be able to see on both sides, as well as directly in
front of him. Before the session of 1866 is brought
to a close, we should like to see the whole question
receive the attentive consideration of the Houses of
Parliament, for when three or four hundred of the
population of London alone meet with a violent and
frightful death in the course of the year, it is surely
only right that the Legislature should take the
trouble to inquire whether it does not lay in its
power to lessen the suffering by diminishing the
risk.

A very interesting branch of our railway intelli-
gence is that which concerns the construction of
lines in those countries where the deficiency of the
means of communication has hitherto proved a for-
midable obstacle to national progress and commer-
cial enterprise. In no part of our extensive terri-
tories has this been more strongly marked than in
our Indian Empire, and it is, in fact, only marvellous
that so necessary and profitable a work should have
been left so long in abeyance. The natives, what-
ever their prejudices in other respects, have been eager
to avail themselfes of the facilities offered by the
railway. Now that at last we have a change at the
India-office, we must hope that the old obstructive
policy will be laid aside, and that a harmonious
understanding between the Home Government and
the Indian Administration will encourage the pro-
gress of public works and the capacities of the
country. The half-yearly general meeting of the
Scinde Railway Company, which was held on
Wednesday at the London Tavern, was on the
whole encouraging. The opening of the Punjab
line, 253 miles in length, in April last year, has
produced a favourable effect upon the receipts.
Previous to that time only 45 miles were open for
traffic, during which time the expenses of the line
were 72 per cent., but in the six months ending the
31st of December the working expenses were re-
duced to 58 per cent. of the receipts—a satisfactory
change. The conveyance of cotton has already
become an important item in the traffic, 60 or 70
trucks being carried over the line daily. The next
great point to be attained is the continuation of the
Punjab line from Mooltan to the Scinde Railway,
along the Indus Valley. The object of this exten-
sion is the formation of a continuous line from the
port of Kurrachee to Umritsui. This would be a
very important achievement, as Kurrachee is the
nearest port to Europe, and when direct com-
munication is established between it and the
Punjab and Delhi, the route to Calcutta
by means of the East India Railway will be direct.
The construction of the Indus Valley line will
shorten the time and distance between Scinde and
the Punjab, thus giving rise to a vast increase of
traffic; and the importance of the scheme commer-
cially has been strongly expressed at a large meeting
of merchants at Umritsur, and the merchants of
Kurrachee have presented a memorial to Govern-
ment expressing their anxiety for the construction
of the line. Kurrachee has risen in importance as a
harbour owing to the success of the improvements
carried out there, and the navigation of the Indus is
likely to be also much improved by the new steamers
constructed by Messrs. LAIRD, SAMUDA, and NAPIER. ;
The shareholders present at the meeting were so
fully impressed with the importance of completing
the communication between Scinde and the Pun-
jab that they requested the directors to memorialise
the Secretary of State on the subject. We hope
that the matter will be taken up in earnest, and
that no official delay and negligent indifference will
be allowed to interfere with so seasonable a scheme.
The vast extent of our Indian possessions renders a
complete and rapid system of communication indis-
pensable to the welfare and development of the
country, and the valuable time which has been
suffered to elapse without attempting these improve-
ments is no excuse for further unnecessary delay.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Thursday Evening.

The Paris papers are more occupied with the
Reform Bill, and other English affairs, than with
their own. Tho Constitutionnel analyses Air.
Bright's speech at Birmingham, but none of the
papers seem capable of appreciating the vagaries of
the hon. Quaker member. They do not think his
phraseology elegant.

There is nothing of interest about Germany to-
day. The papers published in the Rhenish Pro-
vinces say that a war with Austria would not be
popular there, because if attended with success it
would only consolidate the anti-constitutional re-
gime of which they complain. The Gazette de
Cologne says that Prussia has no idea of abandon-
ing her projects of annexation, and if the dis-
pute should terminate peaceably that result would
be the consequence of concessions made by Austria,
and not result from- any other cause.
Literature is a good profession at Paris. At all
events some authors are well paid. Victor Hugo
received 200,000 fr. (say £8,000) for his three works,
" Les Chausons des Rues et des Bois," the " Tra-
vailleurs de la Mer" (just published), and the drama
of " Torquemada." The copyright of "Les Tra-
vailleurs" has been purchased by Messrs. Millaud,
the proprietors of Le Soleil (the Paris Sun), who in-
tend to publish a portion of the work daily in that
paper. It is said they gave £2,000 for the privilege.
A Mon. Jean Dumerst has just died in Paris at
the house of his daughter, Route d'ltalie. He was
born at Moulins in 1760, and was consequently 106
years old. He was in full possession of all his facul-
ties.

The Paris pickpockets are still going ahead. A
gentleman who had received 10,000 fr. in notes from
the Bank was proceeding home along the Rue
Vivienne, when a man spat upon his paletot, as if
by accident. The gentleman turned round very
angrily and told the person to be more careful. The
latter appeared to be extremely sorry, made many
apologies, and, taking out his handkerchief, wiped
the paletot carefully and elaborately. During the
operation he contrived to pick the pocket of the
gentleman of his pocket-book containing the notes.
The robbery was instantaneous, and the loser did
not feel the slightest touch. The pick-pocket bowed
very gracefully after wiping the coat.
The distribution of prizes to the competitors who
breed cattle took place yesterday at the great cattle
market at Poissy. M. Behir, the Minister of Agri-
culture, presided, and made an elaborate and in-
teresting speech relative to the state of agriculture,
the cattle trade, and other matters con-
nected with those subjects. M. Behir, on
the part of the Government, admitted that
the agricultural body were suffering under great
depression, and said that every facility would be
afforded to the Commission of Inquiry about to
commence an investigation into the causes of the
depression, and the best mode to remedy it. " The
reality of the sufferings of the agriculturists was
proved, and the gravity of the position might be
calculated from the fact that the average produce of
corn having fallen in 1865 to about 13 hectolitres
per hectare, each hectare had only produced 221 f.
71c., a sum nearly a third less than the average
produce of preceding years, which was in most
cases insufficient to remunerate the growers for
their expenses." M. Behir denied that free trade was
the cause of the lowness of the price of wheat, and
proceeded to refer to the cattle disease. in England he
said it had made 150,000 victims. In France, however,
he thought all danger was over, and as far as his
department was concerned he should persevere in