The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-07 00:00:00

FIRE BRIGADE.

The CHAIRMAN said the members of the Board had no
doubt become acquainted through the public press with
the fire in Bfshopsgate-street, whieh had unhappily been
attended with the loss of life. Now, he thought, although
the fire escapes were not under the control of the Board,
that Captain Shaw, under the circumstances, would be
justified in reporting whether the persons having charge
of the fire-escapes had a perfect knowledge of the working
of them.

Mr. WESTERTON, in seconding the motion for Captain
Shaw to report, said that a fire broke out a few nights ago
in King-street,Kensington, the premises being immediately
contiguous to a police-station, a fire-engine station, and a
fire-escape-station ; and yet with all these appliances'close
at band for the purpose of saving life a child was burnt to
death, an aged man in endeavouring to escape had his arm
broken, and other persons very narrowly got out with their
lives. To ascertain some information upon the facts he
hoped that this fire would be also reported upon by Captain
Shaw, as well as the event to which the chairman had re-
ferred.

The CHAIRMAN concurred, and thought that in all cases
of loss of life by fire Captain Shaw should report, and he
might take that opportunity of stating that since the
Board had taken charge of the Fire Brigade he had taken
steps for the purpose of developing the resources of the
brigade, so as to increase the protection of the metropolis.
One part of the arrangements consisted of the purchase of
a large number of steam-engines for the purpose of more
effectually suppressing fire, and he had asked Captain
Shaw, after the great fire at the docks, to furnish him with
a statement as to the comparative power of steam and
manual engines. He had accordingly furnished him with
a very carefully-drawn table, showing the quantity of
water delivered, and the expense of coals and oil, of steam-
engines, and the number of manual engines, the number
of men, and the cost to produce the same results. At the
fire which took place at the East India Docks on April 27
the quantity of water delivered was 3,134,799 gallons, or
13,995 tons, and the cost of coals and oil was £l2 7s. 6d.,
whereas to produce the same results by manual engines
would require 204 engines, with 5,712 men, and the cost of
labour would be £1,428. Each manual engine worked at
the ordinary speedy of 20 strokes per minute by 28 men
for.six hours would deliver 15,840 gallons of water at a
cost of £7. The proportion of the expense of working the
steamers as compared with that of working manual engines
had been on this occasion as 1 to 115.- In other words, for
each £1 expended the steamers had accomplished as much
work as the manual engines would have done for £ll5,
and the total saving in working expenses had been £1,415
12s. 6d. at this one fire alone.

In answer to a remark by Mr. CommtsoN,
The CHAIRMAN said the power the Board had of suppress-
ing fires was now more than double what it was when the
brigade was in the hands of the fire companies.
The motion was then put and unanimously agreed to.
On a recommendation from the Main Drainage Commit-
tee, "That, in consideration of the good character and
length of service of late Sub-Engineer -George Legg, the
Board do grant to his widow, in addition to the sum of
£22 9s. 6d. paid in by him to the Superannuation Fund, a
further sum of like amount, being a total sum of £44 195.,"
a discussion ensued as to the objections which were felt to
a public procession on the occasion of the funeral of the
deceased fireman Legg, but eventually the motion was
agreed to.

On a proposition that 15 new men be appointed as third-
class firemen,

Mr. Rocuz objected to the piecemeal additions to the
staff of the brigade, and took occasion to remark on the
efficient services rendered by volunteer fire brigades in the
suburbs of the metropolis, and it was his opinion that the
board ought to encourage such voluntary exertions, and it
would be well for them to consider whether these bodies
ought not to be amalgamated with their own fire brigade.
The motion was then agreed to.
PROPOSED ESTABLISRMENT OF GASWORKS NEAR VICTORIA-

' SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
THE " SATURDAY REVIEW " ON MR. DISRAELI.
—lt seems doubtful how the Conservative party, as
at present organised, can ever be able to do either
with Mr. Disraeli or without him. Nec possunt tecunz
vivere, nec sine te. With the exception of Lord
Stanley, Lord Cranborne, and Sir Hugh Cairns, he
is the sole Conservative debater who has delivered
an intellectual speech upon Reform ; and the sight
of a Conservative Ministry under the honest
auspices of General Peel, and to the sound of Sir
Bulwer Lytton's /Eolian lyre, grappling heavily
with the creation of a Reform Bill of their own,
would avenge .Mr. Disraeli for his own exclusion
from a select Tory Cabinet. If he were wanted for
no other object, he would still be wanted to orga-
nise and chaperone his party. It is the ordinary lot
of chaperones to be disliked by the impetuous and
madcap bevy whose proceedings they are set to
moderate; and Mr. Disraeli is chiefly tolerated upon
the ground that the Conservatives cannot go into
public except under his eye. A Liberal-Conserva-
tive coalition might govern the nation without his
help for the brief period that coalitions usually last,
but if the country gentlemen are to occupy the
Treasury benches in force, Mr. Disraeli will be
wanted to sit by them. The difficulty is a place
suited at once to his capacities and to their fasti-
dious sense of his shortcomings. There is the House
of Peers. But Mr. Disraeli is possibly more
ambitious of being a country gentleman in a coun-
try where so many acres have never been violated
by the plough than of being an Earl, and following
Lord Russell to the natural cemetery of departed
leaders of the Commons. There is the Paris Em-
bassy, the hospitalities of which Lord Cowley must
be tired of dispensing. A younger man might not
dislike to be banished into such splendid exile ; but
Mr. Disraeli in Paris, like M. Guizot in London,
would be a restless and home-sick Ambassador. He
would be sufficiently near Downing-street to em-
barrass his friends, without being near enough to
help them, and before the year was out he
would perhaps return, and return on his own
terms. A few weeks would probably con-
vince the Conservative ex-Chancellor that the
excitement of transmitting Lord Malmesbury's de-
spatches, and of taking Lord Malmesbury's orders,
upon the state of the Continent was designed by
Providence for meaner mortals. That he may have
allowed his ambition to rest upon the Foreign Office
is not unlikely. The present Chancellor of the
Exchequer will leave few financial laurels behind
him to pluck ; nor is it agreeable to feel oneself
eternally confronted with the monuments of a rival's
genius. Mr. Disraeli's vindication of the peaceable
propensities of his party was meant, not so much
perhaps to prove that Conservatives have a horror
of war, as that they might be safely trusted by the
nation while the member for Buckinghamshire was
Foreign Secretary. It is difficult to argue about
the diplomatic prudence of a Cabinet like Lord
Derby's, which distinguishes itself chiefly by seldom
being in office ; but the shadow of the great Euro-
pean war of the beginning of the century still rests
upon the popular fame of the party which Lord
Derby leads. It would be invidious, as well as idle,
to discuss the question whether the great towns or
the great rural districts of England are most likely
to be affected by the consideration of the commer-
cial blessings of peace. What the English public
fears about a Derby Government is not so much
that it would plunge us into war, as that it might
wish to plunge us into war upon the wrong side. If
Mr. Disraeli insists upon challenging criticism on
the epistolary feats of Lord Malmesbury, it may,
however, be observed that on the eve of the Italian
campaign Lord Malmesbury's despatches were
models of the true Foreign Office pedagogic style ;
and unkind critics pretend to be aware, in spite of
the secrecy in which the event was shrouded,
how within twenty-four hours of their advent
to power after the Conspiracy Bill debate, the
Derby Government managed to indite a de-
spatch to Paris which was subsequently
suppressed under threat of an instantaneous
rupture. The credit which Mr. Disraeli some-
what openly arrogates to himself, for having been
through the Danish and American conflicts less war-
like than his friends, is doubtless deserved. He has
been praised for it by Mr. Bright once, and his
speech of last week showed that he was quite ready
to be praised for it again. To the conduct of Eng-
lish foreign affairs he would bring both capacity
and coolness ; and he has this advantage over Lord
Russell, that he is capable of comprehending that
Lord Russell does occasionally go wrong. Yet at
moments like the present, when the Continent is
shaken by the rumours of European war, no Tory
Foreign Minister, whatever his deserts, could long
preserve the complete confidence of the public.
Even Mr. Disraeli would not escape suspicion.
Nobody would feel sure what he was driving at.
Before six weeks were over he would be understood
to have a future map of Europe in his pocket, and
to have arranged, in ,concert with Napoleon 111.,
some splendid scheme for settling the Pope at Rome
and Sir Moses Montefiore at Jerusalem. The
one thing against his chance of success is that a
clumsy British public is hardly fitted to admire or
tolerate great strokes of genius at the Foreign-
office. Vivian Grey intriguing with Emperors,
and manipulating frontiers, and putting loose na-
tionalities into their places, would be scarcely
appreciated by an English ouse of Commons ;
though it is the sort of splendid business to which
Vivian Grey might look in his maturer years to
retire. He would at least have the proud oppor-
tunity of pitting himself against an Imperial states-
man whose talents are not altogether dissimilar to
his own. The boom of their rival despatches could
not fail to be the most interesting. For the first
time for some years the Foreign-office would be
able to thunder at the Tuileries and at Europe in
tones as majestic and mysterious as those of Napo-
leon 111. It would be Deep answering to Deep—
the Caucasian mystery pitted against the Corsican ;
and the only prayer that the the English public can
offer up is that the eventful affair may take place
in a time of profound peace.
THE COSMOPOLITAN ON MR. DISRAELI.—No
English Statesman in modern times has occupied a
more trying position than Mr. Disfaeli, He has
been called upon to lead, in the House of Commons,
that party which is pre-eminently jealous of heredi-
tary rights, and yet he has no hereditary claims
whatever to the post. He does not owe his position
in any degree to birth, but entirely to his command-
ing genius. Mr. Disraeli is, indeed, the most extra-
ordinary success of the age. It is quite on the cards
that a man born in the upper-middle class shall,
by fortune and Providence, become the Premier of
England, but it is vastly more surprising, that such
a man should become the chief of the Conservative
party. When Mr. Disraeli succeeded to office--for
the leader of her Majesty's Opposition has an oner-
ous and laborious office—he found the Conservative
party completely disorganised. By skill, by patience,
by self-abnegation, Mr, Disraeli has done more than
any other man to reconstruct and consolidate that
party. And his splendid services will be thoroughly
appreciated. Vulgar and venal scribes, who can see
no merit in any patriotism that does not yield the
patriot an immediate return in hard cash, abuse
Mr. Disraeli with all the venom and nastiness of
their petty and venial minds. They charge him
with being inconsistent, but if we compare his career
with that of Sir R. Peel or of Mr. Gladstone, we
shall be struck with the comparative fewness of
the changes that his political views have under-
gone. " Coningsby" was published many years
ago, but we know not of a passage in it that is in
antagonism to Mr. Disraeli's present course. These
press free lances also charge him with being an enemy
to the rights of thapeople, yet in 1859 he introduced
a liberal measure of reform, and it is not likely that
the Russell-Gladstone measure will be more liberal.
Then, we are told that he is self-seeking. What
proof have we of that ? When has he manifested
an undue eagerness to snatch at office ? How often
have some of his most impetuous followers grumbled
because he would not lead them to the attack ? If
Mr. Disraeli bad not loved his principles better than
office he might year after year have been basking in
the sunshine of Downing-street. He might, like his
illustrious rival, Mr. Gladstone, have been converted
at the right moment, and taken his seat on the first
bench on the right of the Speaker. It is almost
absurd to refer to these things. Mr. Disraeli cannot
be injured by the virulence of a faction. We sup-
pose that, sooner or later, the Conservatives will
have their innings, and we doubt not that Mr.
Disraeli, who has been so statesmanlike in Opposi-
tion, will crown his political fame by the wisdom of
his policy in office. We owe no allegiance to Mr.
Disraeli, or to any other party leader. We differ
from him on many important questions, but we are
utterly disgusted at the way so eminent a politician
and statesman is treated by Bohemians and Billings-
gates of the English Fourth Estate.
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES ON THE COPPER-
HEADS. —lt is strange to find that with all the
wonderful variety of nature, it seldom or never
changes in any of its intrinsic attributes. This
is true of the nature of man—it is equally true
of the beasts and reptiles of the earth. The
changes in the outward appearance may be start-
ling indeed. Yet, if we search into the hidden
motives which actuate the soul we ultimately
discover them to be almost unalterably the same.
These, or similar ideas, will often occur to any
thoughtful man. Just now they are suggested to
us by the wonderful changes, and the still evident
living identity, in body and soul, of the Copper-
heads of the Northern States. There is still the
same devious, crawling, and venomous nature, but
the circumstances are changed, and the perverted
talents of the creatures have invented marvellous
transformations in their outward appearance, to
suit the modified conditions of the day. They were

*:.

most vigorous in their denunciations of the "high-
handed " measures of Abraham Lincoln. They
are now most earnest in urging Andrew John;
son to over-ride Congress, the Constitution, and
the laws. This is but a seeming, and not a real,
inconsistency. Strong measures in times of war aro
likely to have a very bad effect—on the enemy :
the present case they would have an excellent effect
—on the Copperheads. Lincoln scourged the rebels
with whips---what more natural than that the Copper:
heads should wish Johnson to scourge the Radicals
with with scorpions ? But though the Copperhead
is thus so evident, we are not utterly paralysed with
fear—we even think we can afford to be amused at
the wonderful vagaries of venomous genius. riLbeYv.
have given Johnson the benefit of several "
methods with Congress." Their latest invention is.
" An improvement on Cromwell's method o.t
treating Parliamentary Ores." The process is
adicais
very simple. The first is, for Johnson to decline to
recognise the Radical majority of the present Con-
gress. Or, better still, he should arrest and irn:
prison them, as usurpers and illegal conspiraWrids
against the constitution and laws of the land 31
the liberties of the people. He should then con-
stitute a new and really serviceable Legislature, chue
of his supporters in the present Congress, and to.
members elect from the eleven States lately in r
bellion. The new patent Legislature, thus c0,,n.:
strutted in the best possible manner out of tu'
choicest material, would be warranted in evetrble
particular to be equal if not indeed superior to
French patent assembly of Mexican notables, whvice.
in a few days, raised the distracted Mexican d
public to the dignity and importance of a
glorious Empire. It would be slightly unconstituce
tional, but that is a matter of no great consequen 77
in view of the fact that the " Radical Cong.re,ssto
will ruin the country if they are allowed to iegisi.aas
a few months longer, while the new patent
and
would be certain to work harmoniously,
rery
might possibly inaugurate the millennium in 3
; its
short time. With all of these considerations ill an
favour, President JOHNSON has not yet give/11,ot
order for the article. Can it be that he fears t,l t
great t
some of the people in the Northern States Ini=?,,!..
object? If so, ought he not to overrule theirroo"r
jections for the good of the whole country. ? line
that purpose a little wholesome -military dis
all
in the North would be most efficacious. -13,Y„di.
means, then, let him deal with the do'"°"'
cal" Congress, at once. Let him cast 1
the mighty from their seats, and exalt the hum
and meek. Then will the hearts of craw"lnc.
Copperheads rejoice and be glad. Then shall Co of
servative Israel despoil the Radical Egyptians
theiralleir
and
their earrings and their nose jewels, tithe
ornaments of silver and gold. Then shall all iiey
treasures of the land be gathered together, and t
shall divide the spoil.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

NORWICH— SATURDAY. n Jai
We had a fair supply of wheat at our corn market
There was a fair attendance, with a rather better trb`ere
and the prices of last week' were not exceeded. , Lde.
was a very short supply of barley, and a nominal ,;,- is
In oats, beans, and peas but little doing. The weav"
exceedingly cold. A ditto
White wheat (weighing 641 b), 50s to 54s ; re' g
(weighing 651 b), 48s to 50s ; new red ditto (ve;th-iing
601 b to 631 b), 42s to 47s ; bast malting barley (sve'b%- 1b),
521 b to 531 b), 36s to 388 ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to- to
34s to 365; distilling ditto (weighing bOlb to 521 b), 36s
328 ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, b7s to 39s ; peas (1113Pleli
to 38s per qr. Flour, 31s per sack.

NOT T INGHAM—SATURDAY. the 'lc-
There was a tolerable supply of wheat to-daY, etion•
mand for which was healthy, at is to 2s per qr redurode
There was not much barley shown, and sales were
sale,
at the currencies of last week. Oats met a moderate.
„ict
and prices were steady. Beans were in fair request, 't
prices rather higher. n ,neR
Old white wheat, 53s to 56s ; old red, 46s to 4ile
white, 53s to 57s ; new red, 45s to 49s per 36 stone. 00,
old, 303 to 35s ; new, 24s to 30s per 24 stone. 33°11°'
50s to 53s ; new, 42s to per 47s 38s stone.

LE ICES TER—SATURDAY.
At to-day's corn market there was a moderate shll°„,3°Sf
wheat, consisting of white and red sorts, which waS
disposed of at former rates. The business in bar'e'e're
is
languid, the supply being about exhausted. Oats Iv
9Tions
fair demand, and recent prices were well supported.
scar ce, and the best sorts brought is more moneY:‘, . old,
New white wheat, 50s to 52s ; new red, 46s to a°
white, 55s to 56s ; old red, 49s to 52s p 270 er 36 stone. „ 30s
ley, for malting, 35s to 39s per qr.; grinding,
per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 33g; new, 27s to 32s,Psione•
stone. Beans, old, 50s to 52s ; new, 44s to 46s per 30
Fine flour, 40s to 42s ; seconds, 32s to 35s per 20 Btoti

YORK—SATURDAY. „.et to:
A somewhat limited supply of wheat at this hla orei
day, and in improved condition. The trade Was n0t,.0015
brisk, at the rates of this day week. The barley Oaveritig
become quite a nominal one, the few samples °P
being taken on late terms. There was a fair suPPcieS•
oats, which met a fair demand at fully recent curry ..„,
The show of beans was short, and prices were still 1'
your of the seller.
per
36
New white wheat, 48s to 52s ; new red, 46s to 49.diog,
stone. Barley, for malting, 37s to 40s per qr. ; gr,;'),tooe•
32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26s to 28s per " 665.
Beans, new, 42s to 44s per 38 cne. Malt, 64s to
Flour, 35s to 37s per sack of 2801bs.

Foreign Mail Packet List

MAILS DUE. day 21
ttustralia and New Zealand, via Southampton•—.° it
Ditto, via Marseilles piny 4.
Brazil and Cape Vert's. by British packet 3., 3,y ,,
Ditto. by French packet ' ....... Plapv 25.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.• • •
~1114;',. 20,
China. Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton...Ai-a' li
Ditto, via Marseilles .... . . Dial
Fmkland Islands ..................................
ga9 14,
Gibraltar, via soutliampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.--", ' 4
1 Ditto, via Marseilles
..
India (Bombay), via Southampton. MaY
109°A
Ditto, via Marseilles
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mal g 4
s.
al
Ditto, via Marseilles gal ,';
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseil' e 3.
Newfoundland •• • .. . Joe
Portugal
. ..... • •• •

Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. .............
United States and British North America, by • .„ 3,
Usti packet
....... •
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton

Ditto, via Cork
IMO' 4.
Ditto. by Canadian packet, via Londonderry • • 13
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Toneriffe .. • • 111'9
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and 14
Honduras) 3lsl
°.
Cuba and Mocioo ga93l'
Bahamas, via New York. 319 S
Bermuda, via Halifax ............

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FREE TRADE. IN THE 'UNITED STATES.--",---,,np-
dress from the Free-Trade Association of J,S DP'
to the American Free-Trade League, signal,. 'hie, the
Richard Moore, the chairman, and Kr. Jno. -o,°:"citY,e4
secretary, has been forwarded to New York, by
Paris, which 'sails this day (May 3d). The f ore'.
consists mainly of a resume of the financial p01ic9°,00311,;
Britain since 1842, especially as to its effects upon
and trade, forming a short and comprehensive , tion
of the fiscal history of the period. In special reA;-ectiV;
the United States it urges theinconsistency of Pr°,-essi,l4
duties with the Declaration of Independence, the l'lM3cl3'
of Free Trade, if a large revenue is to be required, gAtistri
importance as a means of reorganising trade and inn the
in the Southern and extending manufactures
Northern States. 'IIS
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better for strengthening a debilitated constitutienervon'
any other medicine in the world. Persons of a ,11 dige2;
habit of body, and all who are suffering from wea- d
Live organs, or whose health has becnme deralciott
bilious affections, disordered stomach, or liver eorres, fPO
should lose no time in giVing these admirable Pillsath ar
trial. Coughs, colds, asthma, or shortness of bAbis te°
also within the range of the sanative powers "'
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They are as mild as they are efficacious, and maY
with confidence to delicate females and young

Births. n the
BELL—On the 4th inst., at Fairfield, Durdhani D°Wia'ter'
wife of J. D. Bell, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a d'ulgr-slic'tt
HODGE—On the 4th inst., at Anglesey House, Aide
the wife of Major-General Hodge, C. 8., of a o°l''
LAWFORD—On the 3d inst., at Hampstead, 31113. R
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ford, of a daughter.
PRATT—On the 4th inst., at Newark-on-Trent, tbeNc
Becher Pratt, Esq., of a son.
Marriages. tio;
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AYLES—TURNER—On the 3d inst., at St. Dg s
over-square, Charles C. Ayles, Esq., of Ilasl3ll-cY Alio(
son of Charles Ayles, Esq., of London, to vstk,
Turner, youngest daughter of C. T. Turner, '-
Bradford, Yorkshire. 7
LAMBERT—MILLER—On the 3d inst at St. Gorgetreet,dif
over-square, H. T. Lambert, of if, Grosvenorsitep.
Georgina Emily, youngest daughter of the late
T. C. Miller, Bart., of Froyle, Hants.

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LANG—On the 4th inst., at his residence, Mel eel
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NE_WaCOMBE—On the 3d inst., at White Crofts, Orseb,
0 Samuel Newcombe, Esq., aged 80. io reertt'P
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park, Wm. L. Ogilby, Es q.,of Ll sh Castle, s'''
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