The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-22 00:00:00

factory to the commercial community. The legiti-
mate negotiations of trade should be protected,
and security afforded to the bona fide holders of
those commercial documents, which by the cus-
tom of trade and the necessities of commerce are
recognised as obligatory among merchants. There
is but one way of achieving this great desideratum,
and that is by assimilating the law to that relat-
ing to bills of exchange or bank notes. There may
occasionally be a hardship to a person who has
been defrauded of his goods. But he should exer-
cise the greatest caution before he parted with
what is tantamount to a constructive possession
of his property by signing a delivery order, war-
rant, bill of lading, Arc., and thus enabling a
specious swindler to defraud an honest and inno-
cent person. As a question of relative equities
all would be in favour of the party who advanced
his money either by way of purchase or advance.
But when we consider the interests of the com-
mercial world, cadit qucestio, there can be no
doubt as to the course which public policy impe-
ratively demands.

We cannot conceive that there can be the
slightest difficulty in procuring a speedy
legislative remedy. The voice of public
opinion has spoken so clearly and emphatically,
the true merits of the case are so conclusive that
we cannot anticipate a difference, even in the
Parliamentary arena. The rock to avoid is any
peddling dealing with the subject. The title con-
veyed by such a document must be clear and
unequivocal, so that they may be dealt with with-
out any of the delays or difficulties that may ruin
many requiring temporary assistance, but not
wishing to part with the entire property in
the commodities which they desire to render
available as security. There should be no dis-
tinction between persons who purchase, and who
seek bona fide advances on documents of title.

Elsewhere in our impression of this evening
will be found an epitomised report of a speech
recently delivered, to a portion of his constituents
at South Shields, by the Noble Lord the Member
for the Northern Division of the County of Dur-
ham. We are anxious to direct attention to this
speech, not merely because of the earnestness
with which some of the arguments appear to have
been directed towards the solution of one of the
most difficult problems of our time, but because
those arguments seem to us—so to express it—to
be luminous with the clear and vivid light of com-
mon sense ! The problem, it will be observed at
once, was no other than the one imminently inter-
) rogative nowadays, as to What shall be done with our
criminal population ? The argument employed by
the Noble Lord the Member for North Durham,
with a view to the ulterior solution of this pro-
blem (stripped of all its details) resolves itself
briefly to this—the employment of our convicts
(in a self-supporting system) upon public works,
and the simultaneous encouragement of our newly-
organised Juvenile Reformatories. Employing
a homely but forcible illustration in proof of the
reasonableness of the latter course of proceeding,
the Noble Lord remarked that " a celebrated man
had said, in speaking of a river which had long
run a muddy and polluted course, You must not
go into the middle of the river to cleanse it, but
you must go to the source whence it drew its disco-
loured
stream : " adding, "That was the principle
upon which they ought to go. They should go to
the fountain head, the source of crime, which he
conceived to be ignorance." Referring to the
obvious advantages resulting from the application
of convict labour to the furtherance of public
works—labour which, in the instance of Portland
and Milbank, has proved of late years wonderfully
remunerative, as well as otherwise beneficial, both
to the country at large and to the prisoners them-
selves—Lord ADOLPHITS adduced some of those
weighty statistics with which, thanks to Colonel
JERB'S very masterly " Annual Reports," the
public are happily in some measure familiarised.
They are statistics, however, the force of which
cannot too often be insisted upon, and the direct
and inevitable tendency of which cannot be too
frequently or too pointedly indicated. It is
by the alluring pathway thus indicated, we
conceive, that we may really and reasonably
hope to escape from the perilous dilemma of
reverting, in sheer disgust at the frightful conse-
quences of the odious and detestable ticket•of-
leave, to the old and hardly less abominable
system of wholesale transportation.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury
in Downing-street. Present—Viscount Palmerston, the
Lord Chancellor, Farl Granville, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr.
Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, Sir C. Wood,
the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of
Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke
of Argyll.
The Doke of Sutherland is staying on a visit to the
Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, at Lilleshall.
His Grace will come to Stafford House in a few days.
The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton and family are
residing at Pan, and will not return to town until early
in April.
The Duke of Roxburgh has left the Clarendon for
Broxmouth Park, near Dunbar.

The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town on Mon.
day from Windsor, and leaves today for Bowood, Wilts,
The Earl and Countess of Shelburne are staying at
Lansdowne House.

The Marquis of Bath is entertaining a select shoot.
ing party at Longle at.
The Earl and Countess of Jersey have arrived on a
visit to the Earl of Cardigan, at Deane Park, Northamp-
tonshire.

The Viscountess Jocelyn and youthful family are so-
journing at St. Leonard's-on-Sea.
The Count de Jarnac has arrived at Claridge's Hotel.
The Hon. C. C. and Lady Catherine Cavendish have
arrived at Claridge's Hotel, froze Latimeris, Bucks.
Sir Charles Wood arrived in town yesterday, from
Windsor Castle.

The Right Hon. E. Bouverie, M.P., son of the Earl
of Radnor, has arrived in town, from Longford Castle,
Wilts.

Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere is prevented by
an attack of influenza from attending the investiture of
the Bath, to be held at Windsor on Saturday next, as
senior knight. His lordship will arrive in London next
week, to be present at the Earl of Derby'. dinner on the
2d February.
REPRESENTATION OF COLCHESTER.—There is likely
to be a contest for the representation of Colchester,
which will become vacant by the resignation of Lord
John Manners, who will succeed his brother, the Mar-
quis of Granby, in the representation of Leicestershire.
In anticipation of a vacancy arising out of the death of
the Duke of Rutland, Mr. Gordon Rebow, of Wivenhoe,
issued an address to the electors, intimating his inten-
tion of soliciting their suffrages. Mr. Rebow is a
Liberal in politics, and he will be opposed by a Con-
servative candidate from the neighbourhood of Romford,
who also some time sinoe issued an address to the
electors. At the last election the numbers polled were
—Mr. W. H. Hawkins (Conservative), 686 ; Lord John
Manners (Conservative), 615 ; Mr. J. A. Hardcastle
(Liberal), 468 ; Mr. H, T. Prinsep (Conservative). 98.
THE WRECK OF THE TYNE.—SOUTHAMPTON, WED-
NESDAY.—The Commander-in-Chief of Portsmouth has
been applid to by Captain Vincent, the superintendent
of the Royal Mail Company, who is at the Isle of
Purbeck endeavouring to get off the Tyne steamer
stranded there, for the loan of a couple of powerful
steam tugs of light draught of water, to be employed
in dragging the Tyne from the rocks. The gale of
Monday from the south-west did not do any damage
to the stranded vessel. An attempt to get her off will
be made to-day or to-morrow, and it will soon be known
whether she will be a lost ship or not. The landmark
near which the steamer lies is called in the charts St.
/Wan's. It is popularly called, however, St. Albats's.
On the top of St. Aldhan'! Head, which is of immense
height, there are the remains of an ancient chapel which
was dedicated to St. Aldhan, and which was supported
offerings
when since by mariners who bestowed their off
when they landed at neighbouring harbours after they
had passed the headland in safety. The remains' of the
chapel are now used by the coast-guardsmen. On the
top of the headland also are walls built of loose stones
crosswise, where the coast-guardsmen be sheltered
From the wind no matter in what direction it blows
These places are absolutely necessary, or men would at
times be IA .wn off the cliff into the sea. St. Alohan'e
Head is about seven miles from Swanage and 12 from
Wareham,