The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-30 00:00:00

I PROPOSED .21,11-ENtMENT TO THE QUEEN'S
SPERM •

With regard to the question of reform in general
Mr. Edwin James has avowed his determination to
his friends in private, to move an amendment to the
Address on Tuesday next, should the Queen's Speech
be silent on the subject of representative reform.
But we do trust that Lord Palmerston will deprive
the member for Marylebone of the opportunity of
moving his contemplated amendment. We cannot
believe that his lordship will acquiesce in the views
of some of his colleagues, that her Majesty's Speech
should ignore the question of reform altogether.
That woud be a great, if not a fatal mistake on the
part of the Premier. If he should commit the error,
then public feeling will be with Mr. Edwin James in
moving an amendment to the Address ; and though
such an amendment might not be carried, the Mi-
nistry would receive an amount of moral damage
from the discussion and its attendant circumstances
as would most probably prove the prelude to its
ruin.

Should the necessity be imposed on Mr. Ed-
win James of moving an amendment to the
Address, we may be sure that ho will do it in
right earnest. It will with him be no sham affair.
If it should prove to be so, he would only damage
his own reputation by undertaking the task at all.
And let us warn the learned gentleman that he
must not, in the supposed contingency, content
himself with making what is called a slashing
speech,—laying the lash about him right and left
with that vigour with which, when it pleases him,
he can use that instrument of lageilation, but he
must press his amendment to a division. That is,
after all, the great point. We care but little com-
paratively for speeches, no matter how eloquent or
telling they may be. The vote's the thing for us.
—and for the country too. There is something
unmistakably practical in the list of majorities and
minorities. That is the real test of legislative
character; and to that on the very first night of
the session, should a division become necessary, the
people will look with a special interest.—Morning
Advertiier.

INMATES OF ST. PANCRAS Wahl"-

HOUSE.

ALLEGED ROMAN CATHOLIC INTERFERENCE.

Yesterday, at a meeting of the directors and
guardians of the poor of St. Pancras, held at the
Vestry Hall, Camden Town, Mr. Churchwarden
Stockton in the chair, a report was presented from
a committee appointed to investigate charges which
had been preferred by the Rev. J. K. Jennings, the
chaplain of the workhouse, against certain Roman
Catholic nurses and helpers, of preventing Protes-
tant inmates attending divine service, and in pre-
venting Protestant children singing Protestant
hymns in their ward.
The report stated that the committee had most
rigidly investigated the charges preferred by the
chaplain, and having heard his statements, and
read several entries he had made in his diary, they
examined the matron, the superintendent nurse,
and a number of nurses and helpers, the schoolmis-
tress, and had also heard Mr. Litton, the missionary
appointed by the London City Mission, on the
subject, and found that the Protestant inmates of
the workhouse had not been prevented attending
the ministrations of the Rev. J. K. Jennings, the
chaplain, but that on one occasion, when the Pro-
testant helper in the Female Insane Ward was ill,
Hannah Daley and Catherine M'Carthy, Roman
Catholic helpers, refused to accompany them to the
morning service :in the Vestry Hall. M'Carthy
had since left the house ; and Hannah
Daley, having disobeyed criers, and answered
questions in a most unsatisfactory manner,
should be dismissed from her office of helper.
The committee found that there was an afternoon
service every Sunday in the Female Insane Ward,
conducted by Mr. Litton. The committee had fur-
ther to report that the charge made against a
Roman Catholic helper, that she had prevented the
children in Ward 29 singing Protestant hymns as
heretofore, entirely failed. The committee regretted
that the chaplain did not exercise more care and
discretion before bringing such charges under the
notice of the board.

Mr. JAMES TAYLOR moved the adoption of the
various paragraphs of the report seriatim.
After a lengthened conversation, the paragraph
about removing the helper was carried by a majority
of three, but the paragraph censuring the conduct
of the chaplain was carried unanimously.
The Rev. Mr. JENNINGS was called in, and, on
the report being read over to him, he said he would
stand upon his statements, and was ready to make
affidavit of them ; on which he was reminded that
he had the opportunity of hearing all the statements
and cross-examining the witnesses, during a sitting
of three hours and a half. He replied that the
Catholic witnesses received absolution for telling
lies against Protestants. He wished to show them
that they had a sharp Protestant chaplain watch-
ing them. _ _

The CHAIRMAN—Very well ; hut do it mercifully
and truthfully.

The chaplain then retired, and the proceedings
terminated.

SPRING CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES, 1861.

Yesterday the judges appointed to proceed and hold the
ensuing assize of Oyer and Terminer, and general gaol
delivery in and for the several towns, cities, and counties,
throughout England and Wales, signed the precepts, and
finally appointed the days for opening the commission in
each county throughout the circuit, and the following are
the arrangements made and the days appointed throughout
the entire circuit, as taken from the several fiats signed by
the judges, viz. :
t MIDLAND CIRCUIT.

JUDGES.—The Right Hon. Sir ALEXANDER COCKBURN,
Lord Chief Justice of England, and the Hon. Mr.
Justice Crompton.

RUTLANDSHIRE.—February 27, at Oakham.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—February 28, at Northampton.
LEICRSTERSHIRE.—Monday, March 4. at Leicester.
BOROUGH OF LEICESTER.—The same day, at the Guild-
hall.

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—Thursday, ➢larch 7, at Notting-
ham. _ _

TOWN or NOTTINGIIIM.—Same day, at the Guildhall.
!!LINCOLNSHIRE.—Tuesday, March 12, at the Castle,
Lincoln.

CITY OF LINCOLN.—The same day, at the Guildhall.
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DERHYSIIRE.—Saturday, March .I'6, at Derby.
WARWICKSHIRE.—Thursday, March 21, at Warwick.

HOME CIRCUIT.

JUDGES.—The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas, Sir WILLIAM Ennt, and the Hon. Mr.
Justice WIGHTMA.N.
HERTFORDSHIRE.—Wednesday, Feb. 27, at Hertford.
ESSEX.—Tuesday, March .5, at Chelmsford.
KENT.—Monday, March 11, at Maidstone.
SUSSEX.—Monday, March 18, at Lewes.
SURREY.—Saturday, Marsh 23, at Kingston-on-Thames.
NORFOLK CIRCUIT.
JUDGES.—The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron of the
Exchequer, Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK, and the Hon. Mr.
Justice WILI.IAMS.
BUCKINGIUMSIHRE.—Monday, March 4, at Aylesbury.
BEDFORDSHIRE.—Friday, March 8, at Bedford.
HUNTINGDOWSHIRE.—Iuesday, March 12, at Hun-
tingdon.
CAMERIDGESHIRE.—Thursday, March 14, at the County
Court at Cambridge.
SUFFOLK.—Tuesday, March 19, at Bury St. Edmunds.
NORFOLK.—Saturday, March 23, at the Castle of the
City of Norwich.
CITY OF NORWICH.—The same day, at the Guildhal
•f the City.