The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-31 00:00:00

WORKING MEN IN PARLIAMENT.

SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL, DREADNOUGHT,
off Greenwich, for Sick and Diseased Seamen of All
Naticns, who are received without any recommendation.
The receipts from all sources during the past year were
£879 less than the expenditure.
SUBSCRIPTIONS thankfully received by Messrs.
Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankers, Birchin-lane ; and by
the Secretary, at the Society's office, 86, King William-
street, London, E.C.
Qualification for a Governor, 21s. annually ; Life
Governor, £lolos.

FiE ROYAL INFIRMARY for DISEASES
1 of CHILDREN and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge-

road.
Upwards of 100 poor sick children are relieved daily at
this Hospital.
The Committee most earnestly solicit Contributions, to
enable them to continue the benefits of medical aid to those
numerous poor suffering children, who are rendered so
helpless by sickness and poverty.
Bankers, Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lombard-
street; and by Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand.
CHARLES J. F. RENTON, Secretary.
Waterloo-bridge-road, S E.

If it be unadvisable that Parliament should con-
tain too many millionaires, it surely is requisite that
ita members should have some means, or be supported
entirely by their constituents. A contemporary
gives currency to a report that a self-constituted
working man's candidate appeals to Liberal members
of Parliament and strangers for subscriptions to
enable him to maintain the position he has
assumed. There could be nothing more inimical
to a man's independence than this, and
nothing would more lower the dignity of the
hitherto valued honour of representing the people.
From the recent tone of political controversy
and legislation, it would almost appear that the being
in whom centre all imperial interests is the " working
man." We have made an idol of him, petted, flat-
tered, humoured, and appeased him. The halo of
glory which at present surrounds him will be dis-
pelled should a specimen appear in Parliament beg-
ging his bread.

EDUCATION,

The opinions of our public men as regards educa-
tion are rapidly advancing. It took a long time to
teach them that the State had any responsibility in
the matter. But they have been " educated by
events." Only very recently Mr. Baines retracted his
expression as to " parental responsibility," as the
phrase was, and boldly declared that the State was
mterested in and should provide for the education of
her children. Mr. Miall, too, is " marching on."
Not very long ago he opposed very strenuously the
suggestion that some of the schools of Con-
gregationalists should receive grants from the
Government. At Bradford the other day, following
Mr. Forster, he said : " I confess that, after the
question had been settled that political power should
reside in the great majority of the people of this
country, my main objection to what is called State
education ceased. I have no objection to the people
organising themselves under the law for the promo-
tion of education. I have no objection, if they should
prefer it, that they should pay for the education of their
children through a rating system rather than by a
system of payment for education ; and under these cir-
cumstances I accept and I think I ain entitled to accept,
what my friend Mr. Forster has said on my behalf,
that if you return me to the House of Commons, so
far from having been disqualified on account of the
opinions I held upon the subject—opinions to which
I attach great importance—from legislating upon the
question now, I am rather better qualified, inasmuch
as I have studied the dangers on the one side, and
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BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM,
Mackenzie-park, Slough (formerly at Clapham-rise).
Instituted 1827.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
For the gratuitous board, clothing, and education of
destitute orphans from all parts of the British dominions,
and of all denominations, whose parents were once in
prosperous circumstances.
One hundred and seventy-five orphans now in the In-
stitution ; ample room for about 30 more.
Increased support indispensable, as this Charity is not
endowed, and is in the greatest need of further pecuniary
assistance.
Subscribers and the public are invited to inspect the
Institution, and judge as to the nature of the Charity and
its peculiar claims.
The last Report can be obtained on application to the
Secretary.

THOS. TILSON, Chairman.
CHAS. LEE, M.A. Hon. Secs.
AUBREY C. PRICE, M.A4
ALFRED MACKENZ E, Secretary.
Offices, 73, Cheapside, London, E.C.
Bankers—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin•
lane and Messrs. Heywood, Brothers. Manchester.

If legislators have a passion for writing testim-Or
vials they can freely indulge in it without getting
into hot water, like Mr. -Mill. There are Professor
Holloway, the chiropodists, the dentists, and ,the
inventors of patents ; all these are glad of great
men's recommendations. Better and safer than all
these is the plan of Sir John Pakington. He stays at
St. Leonards ; he goes t' the play ' • and the man who
never in his life could be induced to give an answer
or explanation froin which a meaning could be
extracted, in a fit of enthusiasm writes the follow-
ing I have seen Miss Lydia Howard, the Little
Fairy Actress, in some of her principal parts, and I
think it a very extraordinary and delightful per-
formance.—Royal Victorial Hotel, St. Leonards."

SIR RICHARD MAY NI:

If the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan
Police be about to resign his office, he is determined
that the last days of his administration shall not be
without glory. Having dealt with the London dogs,
he has now taken children's hoops from them, and
some thousands of these are now deposited at the
police stations. It is expected that the turn of
the perambulators will come next. The energetic
veteran has made a vigorous onslaught upon
the night-houses of the West-end of London,
and now, to relieve the monotony of busi-
ness and the cares of office, he spends his
evenings at places of public entertainment. If he
wish to see things as they are, and not as they are
put before him, he must not announce his visits
beforehand. He went to the Alhambra, in Leicester-
square, the other night, and the management having
received an intimation of his coming, were delighted
to see him, and received him most cordially. He might
with advantage finish up his evenings by a stroll
through certain well-frequented thoroughfares, and
then, perhaps, he would see more than his subordi-
nates care to tell him.

LORD WESTBURY AND THE SCOTCH LANDLORDS.

Of all the judicial members of the House of Peers,
no one has such a sense of his own position as Lord
Westbury. There is no one such a stickler for
etiquette, and no one readier to take offence in the
matter of precedence. This has been shewn
repeatedly in the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council. He feels the superiority—which cannot
be denied him—to many of his brethren.
Hitherto, however, he has managed by a
judicious silence to keep from any unplea-
santness. At last, however, he has boiled
over at a slight which was really uncalled for. The
Scotch courts have long been recognised as wanting
a thorough and " sweeping " reform. Amongst the
law reformers of to-day Lord Westbury stands very
high. In fact, a commission without him just now
would be an anomaly. But instead of putting
Lord Westbury at the head of the com-
mission, it was decided that Lord Colonsay
should preside over it. By a bad arrange-
ment, Lord Westbury did not receive the request
to cede precedence until the matter was
, arranged. He, as soon as he heard it, withdrew his
name. The result is, we have a thoroughly respect-
able commission, from which law reformers are
" conspicuous by their absence." The report which
they will issue, no doubt, may contain a great deal of
information, but as to suggested reforms it is likely
to be " weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable."

THE DOULTON TRIAL AT BRUSSELS.

The result of the Doulton trial at Brussels must be
eminently unsatisfactory to the defendant in the case.
The court finds him guilty of charges of which they
cannot take cognisance. The allegation was that one
foreigner had deceived another foreigner in a foreign
country. It could not, therefore, be dealt with in
Belgium. But there are one or two things
about the whole trial which has not the
best appearance. First, it looks very much
as if the press were bribed. L'lndlpendance Beige
and L'Etoile Beige were each, it was stated, employed
to write the affair up. That does not say a great
deal for the independence of the Independance. That
paper denies that the interest was bought, but it is
admitted that money passed. The writer declares
that it was given to him in his private capacity
Friar Tuck changed his dress, and confessed
to himself. The editor of the Independance
changes his " capacity." Mr. Doulton writes to the
papers explaining his part in the matter. But there
is still something wanting. He entered into a con-
tract on behalf of a company not yet formed, in
which the figure made to appear was £ZOB,OOO, while
the real cost was £lOO,OOO less. Certainly, Mr.
Doulton might have explained all this to his nego-
tiators. It does not look well, and no reason
given for its being done.
TUE END OF POWELL.

One of the saddest tales of modern times is now
caltosthcde.
inLquoesndtoonnhthase beenbody o f
shocked
Louisab
Thomas, and anxiously awaited news of Powell, the
surgeon, who had absconded, threatening in
thesl) posed
revelations tob e
a letter to a friend that he would poison
himself. A man has thrown himself from
the top of a cutting near Willesden, in
front of a passing train. The body is supposed to
be that of Powell. If the man meant to carry out
his threat and finish the awful affair by suicide, we,
can only hope that the body will be speedily identiy
fled, and that all but the medical profession may
forget the story for ever,

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