The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-28 00:00:00

POOR RELIEF BILL.

On the amendments to this bill being considered,
Mr. NEATE wished to move the iusertion of a clause
enacting greater uniformity
.in the treatment of casual
poor. _ _

- Sir M. BEACH said it was the intention of the Poor-
law Board in a short time to issue a general order by
which the treatment of the casual poor iu the country was
to be assimilated to that in Loudon. It was also in-
tended to set forth that a distinction was to be made be-
tween professional tramps and those travelling in search
of work.

Mr. HENLEY said he doubted the efficiency of any
arrangement that did not go to the root of the evil. It ap-
peared to him that at present all that was thought of with
respect to the casual poor was to shov'em along with as
little trouble and expense as possible. Until
they treated the casual the same as the other
poor all efforts to work an improvement would be fruitless,
but when they got the 50,000 vagrants that circulated
through the country under control, some amelioration
of their condition might be attempted with success.
The amendment of Mr. Neate having been withdrawn,
the other amendments were considered and agreed to, and
the bill was afterwards read a third time, and passed.
SALE OF POISONS BILL.

On the motion of Lord R. MONTAGU, it was agreed
not to insist on one of the amendments made by that
house to which the other house objected.
DISTRICT CHURCH TITHES ACT AMENDMENT

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day.

GOODWOD RACES—rms DAr.

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CRAVEN STAKES L
Tile Craven Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ; three
year olds 7st 121 b, four Bst 131 b, five a►nd upwards Bst
21b ; the winner to be sold for 500 so re ; if entered for
100 sovs allowed 91b, if not for sale 7lb erztra ; mares and
geldings allowed 31b; Craven Course,
Charnwood
Vespasian
Mandrake 3
Satyr 4
GRATWICKE STAKES.
The Gratw:c7ce StAkis of 100 says each, h ft, for three
year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 515 untrieds allowed
31b, if both 61b ; the se3ond to receive 200 sovs oat of
the wakes, and the third to save his stake. One mile
au•i a halt. 23 bu'm.
Lady Blanche f 1
Herald 2
Phcebui

.ROUS S FAKES.
Tao Ruus Stakes of 2J sous each, h ft, fur three year
olds; colts Mat 101 b, tillids B,t ilb ; winn)rs of 200 sous
31b, 500 71b extra ; pjnalties accumulative up to lolb ;
maidens at startins allowed 711); last mile. 8 subs.
Paul Junes..

W.O.

SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.
A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for two year olds and up-.
wards ; two year olds Est Bib, three Bst, four Bst 81b,
five Bst 121 b, six and aged 9st; mares and geldings
allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 300 sovs if de-
manded, &c.; T.Y.O.
Ventuor
Sir Oliver
Fal-lal
LAVANT STAKES.
The Lavant Stakes of 50 sovs each, 30 ft for two year olds
colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 6lb ; the winner of the July or
Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket 51b, of any two year
old stakes value 300 sovs, including the winner's own
stake, 31b, of any two such 61b extra (extreme penalty) ;
the second to save his stake ; half a mile ; 33 subs.
Duke of Beaufort 1
Heather Bell ..
Badsworth

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Six ran.
STEWARDS' CUP.
The Stewards' Cup, value 300 sovs (handicap), by sub-
scription of 10 sovs each, with 100 added; winners of
any handicap value 230 soya after July 23 .(at ten a.m.)
71b, of any smaller handicap 41b extra. T.Y.O. 80 subs.
Vex 1
Mercury
Barnet,.

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Twenty-two ran.

The •bore an the only t4lOgritall reoeired tip
.to the time of
going to press.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1868.
AUGUST.
Deauville
Leek
Brighton
Brighton Club 6 Scarborough 24
I
Lewes Summer
Wolverhampton ll I Great Yarmouth . 25
Stockton
Plymouth
Windsor August l3 Ipswich 27
Egharn
Hastings
York August
Oxford
SEPTEMBER.
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Baden
I
Warwick September
Abingdon 8 Manchester
I
Leicester
Doncaster September 8 Walsall 23
I Brecon l4 Edinburgh
Richmond
Hampton Autumn l5 Royal Caledonian Hunt
Kelso li and Western M
OOTOBER.
_ __ _

Bedford 1 Sudbury and Ealing ... 15
Bromley Autumn
Newmarket 2d October 5 1 Harrow .. 27
Lanark .., • 8 Worcester Autumn. 27
Chelmsford Autumn ... 13 Lincoln Autumn 2,
Cheltenham l3 1

NOVEMBER.
Liverpool , 8 I Leamington l7
Shre wsbury 9

STEEPLECHASES.
UOTOBER.

Bromley 1 I Ealing

DECEMBER.
Bt. Albans
I Kingsbury $

M.4IIKET S-71115 DAY.

HAY AND STRAW.

The supplies were light, and prices were well supportel
Our quutations of Saturday may be repeated.

PO rATO ES.

The markets are dull, scantily supplied, and the trade is
quiet without change iu prices.

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.
Sugar.—On the spot the market opened quiet, with
only a limited inquiry, but holders asked former rates.
Floating cargoes are still in request. Relined sugars aro
unalter in value, with a moderate demand.

Coffee.—The market is stea ly fur good qualities of
colonial, but pale gray and inferior qualities are dull.

Tea —ln China tea only a limited business is passing,
and rates are unchanged.

Rice is still easier in price, 1,364 to Bengal sold at
lls 6d and 12s middling, mixed with_ broken, and 12s for
good middling.

Saltpetre—Demand is very moderate, but prices steady,
at 18s 6d to 19s 6d for best fine Bengal.
Sheep in steady request at 37s to 88s for St. Peters.
burg clean.

COTTON.
LIvERPOOL, July 28.—Sales probably 8,000 bales.
Market rather steadier.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

SPIV ,IT OP, THE P

'BLIC JOURNALS.

The 7 Nmes.- takes the thin attendance in the House
luring ilte, discussion of the Indian Budget as ib sign of
the pi'btie.rity of our Eastern Empire. A commercial or
political crisis would bring something which might be
called by c,)mpliment a crowd to listen to the Minister's
statement., Speaking of the item of £3,092,000
on account:tot " Public Works Extraordinary," our con-
temporary says the single question of India finance
arising at present is, How shall this expenditure on
public works be met ? It is acknowledged that the outlay
is incurred in respect of remunerative works which press for
completion. A Government which acts thepart of alandlord
in a country like India,where colossal works which cannotbe
undertaken by private energy are required, must be pre-
pared every year to lay out a considerable portion of the
rental it receives in the improvement of the land whence
it derives its revenue ; but it seems established that there
is at this juncture occasion for charging what may be
called the inheritance with a portion of the cost of the
exceptional undertakings required. Would it not be as
well to adopt Mr. Laing's pot and raise a loan?

A silting of the House of Commons devoted to finan
cial statements is seldom, according to the Daily News,
except when Mr. Gladstone speaks, very fertile in debates
of thrilling interest. This is the case even when the
English Budget, which touches everybody's pocket, is
Inder discussion, and of course only the most simple.
minded or sanguine of men could expect that the fiscal
interests of India would avail to keep together a very
attentive House at this period of heat and exhaustion.
The fact was, that the instant the questions on the
paper had been exhausted, the legislative energies
of members appeared to be exhausted also, and the
debate on the India revenue accounts, or the Indian
Budget, as it is usually but incorrectly called, took place
i!1 a house of some twenty or thirty Anglo-Indians, official
and ex-official. It must, however, be admitted that the
statement which Sir Stafford Northcote last night sub-
mitted to Parliament was not of a kind from which any
debate of a practical character could possibly arise. An
Indian Budget, indeed, is so much a matter of estimate
and conjecture, even as regards the past, that its elements
merely flit before the critical eye, and elude the grasp
of the most vigilant financial reformer. By
taking the averages of the accounts of a con-
siderable number of years we are enabled, it is
true, to arrive at the conclusion that the financial position
of India has steadily improved and become consolidated;
but so far as each particular financial year is dealt with in
the Secretary of State's Budget the case is different ; nor
was Sir Stafford Northcote in any degree an exception to
the usual ill-success of Indian Secretaries in his attempt
to convey to the House a clear notion of the intricacies
and uncertainties of Indian finance. Our contemporary
condemns the custom to include in the ordinary accounts
of revenue and expenditure extraordinary outlay upon
public works of a permanent and reproductive kind, which
should properly be reckoned as a charge upon capital.
With regard to public works, a rule has been laid down by
the Secretary of State, in a recent despatch to the Govern-
ment of India, which seems in every respect a sound and
wholesome one. "Extraordinary " charges are for the
future to be made only for public works, either of a repro-
ductive kind like irrigation canals, or " special fund
works," which are undertaken for an immediately
valuable object by some local municipality. This
rule, it may be hoped, will at once encourage
a fair expenditure on public works, and repress
effectually the disposition of Indian officials to shift
ordinary expenses on every occasion to the extraor-
dinary balance-sheet, and so to nibble away at the capital
of the country for charges that should fall on income. If
this rule were observed and extended, much of that hazy
uncertainty which always enshrouds Indian finance would
be dispelled, and future debates upon the Indian Budget
would be less wearisome, less wandering, and far wore
business-like than that unprofitable conflict of crotchets
and groping after light of which last night's discussion was
a somewhat dreary example.

The Stan:lard strongly condemn 3 the motion Mr.
Bouverie had threatened, on the discussion of the Budget,
to deprive the Indian Council of its financial control. If
the control of the expenditure of India is not to be vested
in the Council, it must be assumed by the House of Com-
mons ; and it would have been utterly ludicrous to pro-
pose such a transfer to the empty benches which conclu-
sively demonstrated the House's conviction of its own
incompetence to such a duty. Mr. Bouverie is not easily
shamed into reason or moderation; but surely, after what
he has now seen, he will not again pretend to believe that
the finances of India would be better administered if the
duty of checking and revising expenditure, now assigned
to fifteen men who know India thoroughly, were transferred
to some fifteen other gentlemen, self appointed to the
offic.,, who know little or nothing about it. It considers
Mr. Laing was justified in his remark that the Ministerial
statement presented the financial condition of India in a
less favourable light than was absolutely necessary. She
is paying out of revenue for all ordinaries and extra-
ordinaries, except the remunerative improvement of her
estate ; and this is as much as England herself has
ever done. This result is no doubt owing in pact
to the strict watchfulness exercised by such F. tatesmen
as Sir Stafford Northcote at home and Mr.
Massey in India ; and it affords Iv) reason -for
omitting or disregarding any of t'le financial precautions
recommended by the former. But it certainly shews that
there is no ground for uneasiness or apprehension ; that
the time of chronic deficits and yearly additions to the
debt is over, and that the Budget of India is likely, at no
distant period, to exhibit a constantly increasing surplus
of revenue over all expenditure, except that expenditure
on paying improvements which itself tends to increase and
not to burden the revenue, and which adds to the comfort
and well-being of the people far more than proportionately
to its effect on the income of the State.

The Post devotes a leader in the memory of Lord Cram-
worth. It remarks that the career of a lawyer more dis-
tinguished for uniform good fortune than for any brilliant
ability is not very interesting in itself or valuable to others
as an example. If Lord Cranworth is destined only to
have a place amongst second-class statesmen and second-
class judges, the many virtues which graced his character,
his kindness, his impartiality, his moderation, and, above
all, his love of justice, will cause his memory to be loved
and respected by all those who hold the opinion that
private worth adds dignity and lustre to the highest public
office. Lord Cranworth was never greedy of patronage,
and on the occasion of the establishment of the Divorce
Court, handel over the whole patronage, amounting to
more than thirty thousand a year, to the first judge
appointed—the late Sir Cresswell Cresswell. The
decisions of Lord Cranworth were always regarded with
respect.

The Daily News, eulogising the homely qualities of Lord
Cranworth, and recognising the fitness of Lord Romilly's
expression of the deceased baron's "candour, fairness,
and common sense," remarks that his death does not
remove a conspicuous figure from public life, or create a
gap which it will be difficult to fill. He slides from his
place, and as the ranks close he will scarcely be missed
from them. But of the men who have lately departed
from us there are few who have carried with them the
more complete and unqualified regard and respect of the
profession to which he belonged, and of his political asso-
ciates and opponents, and the more cordial affection of his
private friends. • -

The Standard pronounces the life just closed well worth
the living. Less prominent as a politician, less eloquent
as an orator than his contemporaries Brougham, Lyndhurst,
and Pollock ; less eminent as a lawyer than Lord St.
Leonards ; less attractive as an advocate than Lord
Chelmsford, the nobleman whose loss we have now to
regret will, nevertheless, hold no mean or suliordinate
place in the legal history of the present century. He
belonged to the class of counsel who are more in favour
with the bench, and more in repute with the bar, than
with the outside public ; to whom the most learned legal
discourses are frequently but as caviare to the general, and
on whom a good rattling speech at Nisi Prius makes more
impression than any amount of argument which only #
professional audience can appreciate.

A SHIP BLOWN UP AND SUNK.—On Saturday
the brig Julia, of Seaham, Captain Robinson, with coals,
while on her way from Llanelly to Dieppe, and when about
twenty miles off St. Ives blew up, and sank twenty
minutes after the explosion. Two of the crew, named
John Hancock and William Hook, were badly burnt about
the face and hands. The crew, six in number, took to the
boat, and were picked up by the brig Ibis, of Marwick,
Captain Palmer, and when about eight miles off Newquay
they took to their boat, and rowed for the latter place,
where they arrived about nine p.m.—Western Morning
.Nezoz.

DARING ESCAPE FROM PRISON. —An extraor-
dinary escape has just been made from the prison of Lille.
'The prisoners were exercising iu the yard, and the time
for their return to their cells having arrived the gaoler
went to open the door of the passage to let them in. The
distance was n .t more tI an Iwo metres, but the time suf-
ficed for two br, hers n.-.m d Delanm Y. confined for smug-
ang, to mount the roof of an ad joining outhous and thence
t') spring to the top of the inner wall. There the warder
saw them, but as he could not leave his post, he mere'y
gave an a,7arrn. The two rren, however, jumped to the
outer wall, two metres from the former —leaving a vacant
space all round the building—and descended into the
street, a depth of twenty feet, at about forty yards from
the sentinel. The governor, on being informed of the
incident, immediately gave chase with some of his men,.
but the fugitives got off, and have not since been heard of.
The whole affair was managed with a rapidity which
denotes a marvellous anilit •th 1f t
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