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CNE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE
ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the
ROYAL ALBERT ORPH AN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate
of Z 25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed.
CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary.
Office, 98, Cheapside, London, E.O

OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
xx. are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship.
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Quoen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing.

370 children.
£l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank,
214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, F.C.; and by
' WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary.
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NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861
Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G.,
whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of
the kingdom.
The object of the Charity is to give orphan gills a plain Eng-
lish education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house,
and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other-
wise provided for when they attain 15 years of age, to obtain
suitable situations for them..

The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is
entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions.

Office, 121, Pall-mall, S.W.

HENRY KINGSCOTE, Treasurer.
W. H. WARWICK, Secretary.

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITUTION.

President—Rev. CANON DALE.

COrrranurrioxs for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Bosan-
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, E.C.; Francis Nicholls,
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C.
E. W. THOMAS, Sec., 200, Euston-road,

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
are at follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland-street. with.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John's-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhuttt-hill.
Country Home—St. James's. street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside,
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. Tho committee ate deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") maybe had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. COOPER, Sec.
85, Queen-street, Cheapside.

"Mr. Dixon has treated his subject in a philanthropical spirit,
and in his usual graphic manner. There is, to our thinking,
more pernicious doctrine In one chapter of some of the sensa-
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work."—Examiner.

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of the human race. 'Spiritual Wives' will be studied with no
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21/111. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM.

BIRMINGHAM, Tuesday Night.

This evening Mr. John Bright and Mr. Dixon,
the members for the borough, addressed, in accord-
ance with their annual custom, a numerous meeting
of their canstituents in the Town Hall. Mr. John
Jaffray presided, and briefly opened the pro-
ceedings.
Mr. JOHN BRIGHT was received with several
rounds of most enthusiastiB cheering from his friends
and supporters, but as soon as this had subsided it
was apparent that their political opponents also mus-
tered in strong force, and it was nearly 20 minutes
before the hon. gentleman was allowed to proceed
with his address. The disturbers of the proceed-
ings were eventually ejected after several sharp
struggles, and the hon. gentleman proceeded to
say :—Gentlemen,—From what has been said by
our chairman, and from what t have heard since I
came to Birmingham, and from what I have seen in
your newspapers, I am aware that there is at this
moment a subject of great irritation which is
greatly disturbing the feelings of your town.
I did not come here for the purpose of discuss-
ing it, because to my mind it seems hardly needful
to discuss it, the grievance is so great, and the irri-
tation is so sensibly felt in every street in your town
in which the newly-enfranchised. or to be enfran-
chised, electors are living. I propose, at a subse-
quent period of the evening, to speak a few sen-
tences on that point, but if you will allow me I
shall now ask your attention to another subject,
which, though not so immediately pressing upon
you, yet has pressed very much upon my mind, and
has compelled me to discuss it to-night. From the
moment when I accepted the invitation to this meet-
ing, although I had previously intended to discuss
some general topics, I felt my mind driven or drawn
irresistibly to that which has recently been declared
by high authority to be the great question of the
hour. Now, don't let any man in Birmingham im-
agine that he has no interest in what is called the
Irish question. (Cheers.) I will undertake to dis-
cuss it in a manner that I hope will not offend
the feelings of any man in this audience. It is
a question which now excites great feeling,
and which will excite great heartburning pro-
bably before it is settled. It is a question
which will be the cause, in all probability, of the
fall of Ministries, and it may be of the dissolution of
Parliament. Whether we look At the present or at
the ftiture, to my mind it far transcends in import-
ance any other question that I could discuss to-
night. Perhaps many of you have read a speech
that was recently delivered by a member of the
Cabinet, the son of the Prime Minister, at a great
banquet that was given to him and to others in the
city of Bristol. In that speech there were three
things stated. If there be any man here who thinks
that his opinions are utterly at variance with mine,
I ask him the more to listen to what I am about to
say. Lord Stanley, in that speech, declared that
the Irish question was the question of the hour.
He spoke of the condition of Ireland in these words.
He spoke of the painful, the dangerous, and to us,
in appearance at least, the discreditable state of
things,which continues to exist in Ireland. He said,
" We have a strange and perplexing problem to
solve ;" he spoke of the state of Ireland as a miserable
state of things, and then, as if in despair, he turned
to his friends around him, and he said, " If we look
for a remedy, who is there that can give an in-
telligible answer? Ireland is the question of the
hour," And then he gave them this advice : having
nothing to offer as a remedy himself, be said,
"Don't let us call in quacks, don't let us fly to des-
perate remedies because the doctors cannot find out
an instant and perfect cure for a disease which is
of a long standing." Well, it is a disease much
more than 100 years old, and I think if the doctors
have not already found out anything about it, or
what will cure it, it may even be wiser to try a
quack. (Laughter and cheers.) In that speech
this Cabinet Minister spoke very vaguely on the
subject of compensation to tenants for improve-
' meats, and he charged a considerable number of
the tenants with wishing to become possessed of
the land without paying for it, which was not a
very complimentary suggestion on his part ; and he
said further, which was a curious thing, consider-
ing what happened during the last session of Par-
liament, they would yield nothing to noise and to
menace—(cheers)--they would do only that which
was satisfactory to their consciences--(laughter)---
and he wound up this portion of his speech with this
declaration—" We will not allow the British Em-
pire to be pulled to pieces in virtue of any fantas-
tic theories. Ireland and England are inseparable
now and for ever." Let me ask you for a moment to
look at two or three matters of detail, and to see
how completely this Cabinet Minister, son of the
Prime Minister, is justified in the statements he,
has made. For two years we have had in Ireland a
Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. Well, that
means this, that any man may be taken to prison
by the warrant of the Lord Lieutenant, and he
may be kept there as long as the Habeas Corpus
Act is suspended, as long as the Lord Lieutenant
may think proper. I don't say at all, I never have
said, that there may not arise emergencies in the
most free country where it may be necessary to sus-
pend the law for the sake of the preservation of the
public peace ; but this is a matter of frequent re-
currence in Ireland, and we have had during the
last two years, and even for a much longer period,
as you all know, a condition of chronic insurrection
in that part of the kingdom. We have had more
than that—not only attacks which were of the na-
ture of open war, but we have bad throughout the
country, and in parts of England, a conspiracy of
very secret and apparently of a reckless character,
and as the remit of that conspiracy we have seen
some violent outrages, such as this country
for a very long period has been a stranger
to. (Hear, hear.) We have had, as you all know,
also great alarm ; the chief magistrates of your
towns, the mayors, and the ordinary magistrates
have been in some places in a state of panic. You
have had troops moved from one part of the king-
dom to the other, and armed ships patrolling around
the coast of Ireland, almost as if the kingdom were
in a state of war. (Hear, hear.) More than this,
you have had special commissions in Ireland and
England trying men for the gravest offences ; your
police and your soldiers, and even the gallows, have
been brought into an
unusual and unhappy acti-
vity, and at this very meeting at Bristol the Home
Secretary himself admitted that he had become
little more of late than a Commissioner of Police,
so much was the disturbance brought continually
the northern residence of the
before him; and even
Queen at Balmoral and the southern residence of
the Queen in the Isle of Wight, both these places
have been, no doubt, by order of the Home-office,
specially guarded during the period of alarm. (Hear,
hear.) And more than all this, in Ireland and in
Canada—in Ireland to keep the peace, in Canada to
resist threatened invasion from Irishmen in the
United States, we are maintaining at least 50,000
armed men paid for out of the taxes of the United
Kingdom. (Cries of " Shame.") 'What I think I
might complain of is this, that the Cabinet Minister
of whom I have spoken had no remedy whatsoever
to offer to the people of this great Bristol banquet.
All that he says is this—that he will not allow the

empire to be pulled to pieces ; but I think if any
man is determined to take that course he should at
least be able to point out upon what principle the
empire can be kept united. Another member of
Parliament—not a general supporter of the Go-
vernment, but sitting on the Opposition side of
the House, making a speech the other day at Shef-
field—declared, in the most emphatic manner, that
while there was breath in his body and blood in his
veins lie would oppose any kind of separation of
the two countries. Bear in mind that this gentle-
man four or five years ago was the most determined
supporter of the slaveholders, that he went so far
as to offer himself as an envoy between the Empe-
ror of the French and the Parliament of England
with the object of bringing about the recognition as
a distinct State of the slaveholding Confederacy.
There was every kind of slander of the most offen-
sive description uttered by him against the people
of the Northern States, who determined that
their Republic should not be pulled in pieces,
and now he says as long as there is brtath in his
body and blood in his veins there shall be no sepa-
ration between Great Britain and Ireland. (Cheers
and laughter.) I need not tell you that I am not
here to-night to argue that question of separation,
for it is quite unnecessary ; but I venture to say
this—that the Cabinet Ministers who have no
remedy whatsoever to offer, but merely passages of
a speech of defiance like this, and the partisan sup-
porters of a Government who can speak such pas-
sages as those I have quoted, they are not true
friends of union, but, in my opinion, they are the
promoters of disaffection and separation. (Cheers.)
I must remind them, as I will remind you, although,
no doubt, my object may be misconstrued and misre-
presented,—l may remind you that the question of
which they have spoken is not a question outside
the range of discussion. There is a great prece-
dent in our history. After the unibn with Scot-
land, 160 years ago, a proposition was submitted
to Parliament for the repeal of the Union with
Scotland ; that proposition was rejected in a full
house by a majority of only two ; therefore, there is
a precedent set ir. a high quarter if any person think
it his duty to discuss the question of separation.
(Cheers.) Besides, the empire was powerful before
the Legislative Union with Ireland. 4t was power-
ful in colonisation, powerful in war, powerful in
commerce ; and you must bear in mind that the
Irish Parliament was a Parliament nearly, if not
quite, as national as ours, and as sacred to Ireland
as the Parliament of England is to England. The
mode of its extinction forms one of the foulest
stories in the annals of this country. Force and
fraud and corruption of an unparalleled character
were the means by which the extinction of the Irish
Parliament was brought about. Although I have
not a word to say in favour of the separation of the
two coantries—(cheers)—yet I will not hesitate to
say this, that the Irish people never consented to
the Legislative Union, and that their right to pro-
test against it and their right to seek for restoration
of their Parliament, if they think it would be ad-
vantageous to them, has not been, and cannot be,
destroyed. (Cheers.) However, the question be-
fore us is this—it is a fair question—Can we so deal
with Ireland as to make union peaceable and inevit-
able through its obvious advantages to both coun-
tries? They are in Ireland really the same people
as ourselves. We all speak the same language, we
read the same books—and the Irish write a great
number of books which we read in England—our
interests are the same, our family connexions are
wonderfully intertwined, and, as is proved by the
harmony which exists iu different parts of the con-
tinent of Europe, there is nothing in the difference
of religion between Catholics and Protestants, if
men will act in a just and Christian spirit, to pre-
vent the most perfect harmony between two coun-
tries. (Cheers.) Now, with regard to this ques-
tion of the legislative union, I shall make only one
more observation, which is this, that I shall never-,
consent myself to any measure which would dis-
turb legislative union till it is proved that in Eng-
land statesmanship is absolutely dead, and till it is
proved in Ireland that right and justice have failed
to influence mankind. (Cheers.) The Minister of
whom I have spoken said there were two great
subjects for Parliament and controversy with regard
to Ireland—viz., the Church and the land. But
these questions are much more than questions of
Parliament and controversy. These are questions
on which may depend the duration or decay of the
Empire. These two questions are the beginning
and the end of this terrible Irish difficulty.
(Cheers.) Scotland is a nation, and I think, on
the whole, that the Scotch are rather more national
than the Irish. They are very ready always to
assert the virtues and the greatness of Scotland in
every part of the world ; but Scotland is a member
of a great nation, with which she is content.
Well, Ireland is also a nation ; but I want to
know why we can't make Ireland also content to
be a portion of a greater nation, and to take her
share in that greater renown which attaches to a
greater Power. I believe as much as I believe that
I am here that all this can be done. There is
nothing that a Parliament in Dublin can do that the
Imperial Parliament cannot do if it tries to do it ;
there is nothing with regard to the true interests of
the people that an independent Irish representation
could do which a Parliament in London cannot do ;
there is nothing which Ireland can do for herself,
if she were a part of the American Union, which
our statesmen ill London, if right and just, cannot
also do for Ireland. (Cheers.) Suppose we had a
Parliament in Dublin that was elected by the free
and equal vote of the householders of the Irish
nation, does anybody believe that there would exist
in that country an institution such as there is now
under the name of the Protestant Established
Church? (Cheers.) Let nobody suppose that I am
hostile to a Protestant Church, or Protestantism.
I am as you know a Protestant of Protestants.
(Laughter and cheers.) If any man will say with
such a Parliament in Dublin the Irish people would
permit that political State Church to exist, he must
have this idea of Ireland and Irish people, he must
believe that Ireland is nothing better than a huge
lunatic asylum. (Loud cheers and laughter.)
Then, why should we, the people of England, being
the most powerful section of the three king-
doms, why should our Parliament in London assist
in supporting that Church against the known opi-
nion and the thousand repeated protests of the
great majority of the Irish people? (Cheers.)
The Cnurch has been maintained there for the sake
of building up in time past what was considered the
English interest. A supremacy party was esta-
blished with the idea of preserving the union with
England, and it has become in our time, more than
other institutions, that which imperils that union.
I believe that nobody who can have any kind of
claim for thinking on the question will say that we,
the people of England, the Parliament of Great
Britain, can pretend any longer to govern Ireland
on the principles, and in accordance with the pre-
judices and the fashions of that supremacy party.
(Cheers.) The case has gone far beyond argument
—it has gone altogether beyond the ,resistance of
the tone or the tinkering of the Whigs. (Cheers
and laughter.) It is a question which the people of
England themselves must no longer leave to ped-
dling statesmen, but one on which they must express
an opinion whenever there comes an election, when
we shall have the pleasure of inviting a larger num-
ber to express their opinions on public questions
than in past times. They must express an over-
whelming opinion in favour of common sense and
common justice in the government of Ireland.
I said the case has gone beyond argument. The
other day I saw, I think, the latest estimate that has
been made of the property of the Irish Church. It
was estimated as a principal sum of not less than
£13,000,000 sterling. Now, I cannot tell you how
much £13,000,000 sterling is. I can write it down
in figures, and, as you hear, I can speak it from my

lips; but I can give to no man here any accurate
I notion of what is meant by £13,000,000 sterling.
But what is the section of the Irish people into
whose hands that vast sum, with its interest every
year, is given for religious purposes and teaching?
Why, the whole Protestant population in Ireland,
and, I suppose, in Ireland no more than in England
—for every Protestant does not get much religious
teaching, and does not go much to church—(laugh-
ter)—but in Ireland the Protestant Church popu-
lation is just a little over, and I am not quite sure
whether it is at all over, the population of two
towns like Birmingham. What would you think
in Birmingham of this great city and the city of
Manchester, or their population, and nobody else,
having awarded to them this vast sum of £13,000,000
and the interest from it annually, under the pretence
of religious teaching ? And I believe it is not
found in Ireland that the Protestants are a bit
better religiously taught than either Presbyterians
or Catholics. In point of fact, it is a huge political
job, which ought never to have existed, and which,
having existed, ought long ago to have been abo-
lished, together with another which is somewhat
akin to it. For Parliament gives the interest of
more than a million of money, being £40,000 in
every year out of the taxes, to the Presbyterian
Church in Ireland as a bribe, that it may not say
anything about the £13,000,000 which is given to
the Protestant Church. Now I have no idea of
saying anything against the Protestauts of Ireland
--their present circumstances are notTioi their own
creating:--and still less shall —I
say anything against
the ministers of their Church, for I doubt not there
is to be found among them a fair proportion of
energetic Christian men, finding themselves in ad-
verse and unfortunate circumstances, but still pro-
bably labouring honestly in the places to which they
have been appointed—(cheers)—but of the institu-
tion, as a political institution, I will venture to say
that the time of its downfall has nearly come—
(cheers)—and that it is essential for the good
government of Ireland, for the tranquillity
of that country, for the maintenance of
the union with England in peace—it is essen-
tial that every trace of Protestant Church supre-
macy should be for ever abolished. (Loud cheers.)
I recollect when O'Connell was in the House of
Commons that on many occasions I sat by him. I
asked him on one occasion if he would write me an
autograph for a lady relative of mine, who wished
to preserve it. He went into the lobby, and, taking
a pen, he wrote these four lines. Speaking of Ire-
land, he says—l don't know that the lines were his
own composition-
4, Within that land was many a malcontent,
" Who cursed the tyranny to which he bent;
" That land full many a wringing despot saw
" Who worked his tyranny in form of law."

(Cheers.) Well, all this, which has now passed
away, all this came from England, was inflicted
upon them by the English Parliament and Govern-
ment, and by their own Parliament which was a
Protestant Parliament; and therefore is it to be
wondered at that there has grown up a bitter feeling
of hostility, and that happy union between the two
countries has been all along impossible to exist ?
But all this would be changed if the measures that
I would suggest—measures, in my opinion, mode-
rate and just—were passed,—all this would be
changed, and the memory of the penal laws would
pass from out the minds of coming generations, and
there would be left only this other question to which
Lord Stanley referred—the great economical ques-
tion of the land. (The hon. gentleman then resumed
his seat amid loud cheers.)

A musical dog in New Albany, Indiana, plays on
the piano and howls. There are also "dogs" at large in
England, unfortunately, who play on the piano and howl.
—The Orchestra.

THEFT OF £157 NEAR ACCRINGTON. At the
Accrington petty sessions, yesterday, Richard Cun-
litre, night watchman, was charged with stealing
"±TV7 10s from -his emplo3-era, Mtwrs. Nichols and
Brindle, cotton manufacturers, Baxenden. It appeared
that a clerk on Friday night locked up the safe,
leaving iu it the sum of £157 10s, and he put the
key in the pocket of his coat, which he left in another
room for the night. Early the following morning he
found that the whole of the money baa peen ab-
stracted. He suspected the prisoner, and had him
apprehended, but the money has not been traced to
his possession. Prisoner was discharged.
Tii CLERKENWELL OUTRAGE—We are given to
understand that the Crown is in possession of evidence
of a character to lead to the belief that the recent
attempt to destroy the House of Detention at Clerk-
enwell was instigated by "Colonel" Burke, one of
the prisoners now in Warwick Gaol awaiting his
trial for treason-felony. The probability, there-
fore, is that the Crown will include him
in any indictment which may be framed against
the Dcsmonds, Barrett, Ann Justice, and others
now in custody, for wilful murder, arising
out of the catastrophe. In connection with this sub-
ject it may also be added that Mullany, the last ap-
prover, has been admitted as a witness for the Crown
in consequence of a document having been traced to
him containing references to a certain very high per-
sonage, and which document it is not considered de-
sirable should be given in evidence at the trial, either
against Mullany himself or any of the other prisoners.
It has in consequence been destroyed.—Morning
Post.

THE BISHOPRIC OF NATAL.—The Rev. Mr. Macrorie
preached in St. James's Church, Accrington, on
eulidoty evening. Before commencing his sermon,
which was founded upon the words, "For the truth's
sake" (2 John, 2), he said he had to ask the indul-
gence of his congregation whilst he discussed from
his own paint of view the circumstances which
had a bearing upon his own conduct and
motives in reference to the bishopric of Natal.
Mr. Macrorie observed that deadly error had been
,taught by one holding one of the highest positions in
the Church of Christ in South Africa. The person
so teaching had been brought to trial before the only
tribunal which the society known as the Church
in South Africa, retoguised as having spiri-
tual jurisdiction over it, and that tribunal
had deposed him from his spiritual office. Mr.
Macrorie then referred to the resolution passed
by the clergy of the diocese of Natal re-
specting the appointment of a successor to Dr. Colenso,
and to the necessity there was that the consecration of
the person selected should be speedily performed.
At the last moment, however, he said it was
soddenly discovered that it was doubtful whether
the law of the land would permit such a
service to be held. The objectors surely might have
put forth their objections when there would have
~een time to meet them, and not at the latest hour.
The difficulties raised in plain winds amounted
to this :—That some lawyers—for other lawyers he
knew took a different view—thought it would be
illegal under the Act of Conformity for a clergy-
man of the Established Church to allow the ser-
vice of consecration to be performed in any building
under his control. He contended that the enactment
in question should only apply to the Church as estab-
lished by law—which the Church in the colonies was
not,—and that the rubric was infringed every day.
It was at once felt by those who desired the con-
secration to take place that all appearances of evil
should be avoided. Failing England, Scotland was
next fixed upon. The public press had informed his
congregation of the reasons why the service had not
been performed in Scotland. The_ Archbishop of
Canterbury had counselled delay, and therefore the
responsibility incurred rested With the Scotch bishops.
The rev. gentleman then.proceeded with his sermon,
in which he recounted what he termed the errors
promulgated by Dr. Colenso.
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The following is the weekly re_
General of births and deaths in Londongiad _
large towns of the United Kingdom :
In the week that ended on Saturday, February. 1, 4,712
births and 3,182 deaths were registered in London and in
thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The
annual ratOef mortality was 26 per 1,000 persons living.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 23 per 1,000
in London. 27 in Edinburgh, and 34 in Dublin ; 28 in
Bristol, 24 in ilirmingham, 31 in Liverpool, 29 in Man-
chester, 33 in Salford, 25 in Sheffield, 24 in Bradford, 24
in Leeds, 24 in Hull, 25 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 32
in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 35 per 1,000 during
the week ending the 25th ult., when the mean tempera-
ture was 2.1) deg. Fahrenheit lower than in the same week
in London, where the rate was 23.

In London the births of 1,207 boys and 1,157 girls, in au
2,364 children, were registered in the week. In the corre-
sponding weeks of ten years, 1858.67, the average number,
corrected for increase of population, is 2,288. The deaths
registered in London during the week were 1,394. It was
the fifth week of the year, and the average number of
deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of
population, 1,629. The deaths in the present return Aro
less by 235 than the estimated number. The deaths from
zymotie diseases were 286, the corrected average :lumber
346. Twenty - four deaths occurred from small -pox,
26 from measles, 31 from scarlatina, 11 from diph-
theria, 65 from wnoopin,g-cough, 47 from fever, and
15 from diarrhoea. One hundred and seventy deaths
from phthisis, 183 from bronchitis, 80 from pneumonia,
and 43 from diseases of the heart, were registered.
The deaths from fever were at the annual rate on 10,000
living of 7in West London, 4 in North London, 10 in
Ceneral London, 12 in East London, and 8 in ;oath
London. In calculating these results, the deaths in the
London Fever Hospital were referred to the districts from
which the patients were brought. The waters supplied
by the metropolitan companies during the month of
January, contained, according to the analysis, in 100,000
tens, forelp solid matters varying in amount from 29 in
the,,,k,ihalsea water to 45 in the Kent ; Loth Katrina
water, As • now supplied to Glasgow, containing only. 3
tons, the water supplied to Manchester in November
7 tons, the water supplied to Leicester in November
24 tons, and the water supplied to Preston in December,
15 tons. No previous contamination occurred in the
water; supplied to Glasgow, Manchester, Leicester, or
Preston, but the London waters had been contaminated
previous to filtration. The East London and the Southwark
and Vauxhall showed the least, and the Kent water the
greatest previous contamination. The hardness in the
metropolitan waters ranged from 15 in the Chelsea to 26
in the Kent. There were but slight traces of hardness in.
the waters supplied to Glasgow and Manchester ; the
hardness of the waters supplied to Leicester and Preston
was 13 and 7 respectively. The temperature of the waters
supplied to London ranged from 64 centigrade in the East
London, to 8.0 centigrade in the New River and West
Middlesex. The average mean temperature of the Thames
during the three days, January 20, 21, and 22, was 51
centigrade ; the average during the week ending January
18 was .3'3 centigrade. The average mean temperature of
the air during the three days was 21 degrees centigrade ;
during the week, 7.2 degrees centigrade.

MR. STANSFELD ON THE WORKING

CLASSES.

On Tuesday evening Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., delivered a
lecture at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, on " The political
future of the working classes." Mr. Beales presided.
Mr. STANSFELD maintained that the special subjects
requiring the concurrence of the working classes for legis-
lative settlement were : First, the licensing system, which
required :•estrictive legislation, which depended for its
efficiency on being properly proportioned to the require-
ments of the masses, and on being properly supported ;
secondly, the homes of the masses of the population, with
regard to which the hands of those dealing with the
subject required to be strengthened, the powers of munici-
palities required to be increased, and a stringent law
required to be passed to prevent dwellings being built for
no other view than selfish individual gain. The third ques-
tion was the administration of the door law. Professional
vagrancy would have to be dealt with with a firmer hand,
and the deserving poor with a gentler and a freer hand. The
great difficulty in the administration of the poor law had
hitherto been a want of discrimination, encouraging that
professional and hereditary pauperism which was the
curse of the country. So long as the poor laws were
enacted and administered by the higher classes, the pro-
blem was incapable of solution ; but the co-operation of
the working classes would enable Parliament to exercise
a truer and wiser discrimination in the future to adminis-
ter those laws with greater charity and yet with greater
firmness and success. With regard to the question of the
relations of capital and labour, with reference to possible
legislative enactment, it was simply impossible for Par.
liament to enter -en ita-vensideration without the aid of _
the working classes. Might they not hope that, with
that aid, there might be found in the first reformed Par.
liament a court of arbitration, conciliation, and appeal
which might bring the country to conclusions on this
great, serious, and important subject matter which would
meet the approval of enlightened opinion in all classes of
the community? Them were two questions remaining of
the greatest national importance—namely, national edti.
cation and the condition of Ireland. In regard to the
latter, our attitude towards Deland had been that of
a conquering race. It was true we had com-
pensated for some of the legislation of former years ;
but the fact remained that, in the minds of the Irish'
people, our propinquity, overwhelming wealth, numbers,
and power kept Ireland down in a state of hopeless
inferiority, against which there was natural reac-
tion. The first necessity for a cure was to recognise
and respect the individuality of Ireland. It was obvious
that the working classes could do good service in this
matter, for they desired nothing save that measure of jus-
tice which had been extended to Scotland. Ireland re-
acted against the past, but the working classes could go
with unsuspected lands, and offer an alliance, on grounds of
equal right and justice ; and he could not but believe that
Ireland would accept that offer. Political honesty and
expediency suggested the wisdom of a cJmprehensive
measure of reform for Ireland. If there was one thing
more than another which might turn the tide of popular
opinion in that oountry, it would be household suffrage, a
radical redistribution of seats, and the ballot. The existence
yf the Irish Church wasan insult and a degradation to that
country, and working men would give their influence to
such a measure of justice to Ireland, as the establishment
of the religious equality of all sects. As regarded the
land question, that was complicated ; but whatever, on
the initiative of the representatives of Ireland, was pro-
posed with the general acceptation of their country ought
to be accorded. But for the advent of the working classes
to political power he should have despaired of Ireland. He
looked, however, to the union of the masses in both countries
to create a living and healthy union ; and nothing would do
the working classes more credit in the page of history and
make their efforts more appreciated than being able re-
unite England in the bonds of good fellowship with the sister
isle. The hon. gentleman dealt last with the subject of
national education, the progress of which, during the last
six months, in public opinion proved the benefit of the
approaching enfranchisement of the working classes.
Even those who objected to popular progress began
to say it was time to teach their masters to read.
He placed little value on the opposition of the National
Society, because they did not understand the signs of the
times. The nation was not going to wait to suit their
convenience, for it was determined to complete its educa.
tional system. The working men of the towns had
entirely made up their—minds on the question, and had
determined that the advantages of education should
be carried without delay within reach of every cottage
door. Dealing then with the question of compulsory
attendance, the hon. gentleman said the compulsion would-
only have to be actually applied in the case of a small
" residuum " of the population. Then laying down the
dicta that there was not such a thing as non education ;
that all children were inevitably educated for evil or for
good ; that every child had the rightato good education,
and that it was the duty of the parent to enforce it, he
said that a measure of compulsion might have been strong
for a class Parliament, but that it was within the easy
reach of the political power now conferred on working
men. lie asked whether the audience, as a typical
assembly, desired a measure to enforce the rights o
their children. The tumultuous cheering with which
this query was responded to satisfied the hon.
gentleman, who said he should take that answer to
another assembly. In conclusion, the hon. gentleman
exhorted working men to take their place within the con •
stitution of the country, in that united, enlarged work-
shop of the nation, and to do their work. The materials
were before them ; the tools were at their hand. Let them
betake themselves to the work with the consciousness that
in this new era dawning upon us it was their duty, and it
would be their glory and opportunity if they pleased, to
impress upon •it a wise dire6tion, to give a new impetus to
our national life, to breathe into it something of their own
young spirits and fresh minds, to give new vitality, fresh
vigour, and to give an added safety to the State. (Loud
cheers.)

The Emperor of Austria has given orders to the
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prepWations for an expedition to Eastern Asia, This
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the State, Est' to be under the command of Admiral
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THIS EVENING, at Seven, THE FLYING SCUD. Messrs.
Atkins, Price, Garden, Arthur, Westland, Wilmott; Mesdames
Heurade, Goodall, Lennox, and C. Saunders.
After which, the Grand Comic Pantomime of VALENTINE
AND ORSON; or, Harlequin the Big Bear and the Little Fairy.
Mesdames Saunders, Goodall, White; Messrs. Garden, Odell,
Arthur; :Mlle. Montero, Miss Ellis, Lupino, Green, and the
Great Little Rowena.