The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-24 00:00:00

Vice-Patron—

His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.
President—His Grace the Duke of Buccuucir, K.G.
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of freo admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
desticute sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co“
Reales and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co. Belmont-street and at
the Hospital, fro 10 till '6

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANS-
ATLA. flour.
8, Place Vendome, Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS,
CHINA, JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC,
AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar-
tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon,
Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca-
bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Joso, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and Japan.
WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.
Leave St. Nazaire on tho 16th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera 'Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico,
Haiti, Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
NEW YORK
Leave every 14 days, from Havro and Brost, for New
York.
From favßE.—June 18th, July 2d and 16th.
From BREST —June 20th, July 4th and 18th.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
From HAVRE GT BREST to NEW YORK.
First Class .................. 825 fr. t According to
,t . ................. 700 fr. r Cabin.
Second Class ............... 425 fr.
Third Class ................ 275 fr.
From Paris to Now York, via Havre or Brest, includ-
ing railway ticket, 850 fr. and 725 fr., according to cabin ;
second class, 440 fr. third class, 285 fr.
Rand-books, with full details of all the routes of this
Company, can be had of
STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and Co.,
Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C.

pOLICE NoTICE.

DOGS.
By virtue of the Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867, 30 and
31 Vict., cap. 134, sec. 18, and as to "The Metropolis" as
defined by the said Act (with the exception of tho City of
London), that is to say, as to all Parishes and Places for
the time being within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan
Board of Works,
I, the Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis, give
notice, that I do hereby require, that from and after the
22d day of June until the 31st day of August next, every
Dog while in the Streets and not led by some Person be
Muzzled in such a manner as will admit of the animal
breathing and drinking without obstruction.
And further notice is hereby given, that from and after
the said 22d day of June, and until the 31st day of August
next, any Dog found loose in the Streets without such
muzzle as above described will be taken possession of by
the Police, and detained until the Owner has claimed it,
has provided a proper muzzle, and paid all expenses con-
nected with such detention ; any Don which has remained
in the possession of the Police for three clear days with-
out the Owner claiming the same, and paying all expenses
incurred by its detention, may be caused by me to be sold
or destroyed.
Rnof
As witness my hand this May, 1868.
The Commissioner of Police of the
Metropolis.
1215itchlidAay
Metropolitan Police-office, 4, Whitehall-place.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
ire as 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. wish.
Fnr Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of goad
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee me 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.
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") may. be 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. C-0)PEB, Bea
. 85, Qua-street, Cheapside)

A USTMAN FINANCE.

The following is a translation of the .despatch
sent by the Austrian Government to Count Appony;
the Austrian Ambassador in London, in reference
to the Address presented to his Excellency by a
number of London bankers and merchants respecting
the financial measares now before the Reichsrath
taxing the Coupons of the Public Debt :
" VIENNA, June 9.

" Monsieur le Comte,--The Imperial and Royal
Government has approved the preliminary reply
which your Excellency has rfterde to the address

which some London bankers have presented to you,
with the good intention of warning us against the
effect which the financial measures now under dis-
cussion in the Reichsrath might exercise upon our
credit. As your Excellency is aware, similar mani-
festations have reached us from other quarters, and
you- will have derived from the despatches which I
have addressed to Prince Metternich arguments
against exaggerated apprehensions. Aware of the
importance that it is to us to conciliate the good-
will and the confidence of the City of London—
that great barometer of the monetary fluctuations
of the world—l deem it advisable to add a few
general remarks to the special observations made in
the despatches above alluded to, so as to enable you
to defend the measures detailed by a painful but
urgent necessity, and to define exactly the point of
view which the Imperial and Royal Government has
assumed towards the creditors .of the State.

" Called to office by the confidence placed in me
by the Emperor-King, under circumstances made
still more critical by the want of confidence in them-
selves displayed by rulers on the morrow of a san-
guinary catastrophe, I found at the very outset of
my Ministry Europe prepared for the spectacle of a
moral, political, and financial bankruptcy. The
Emperor-King alone gave us then the example of
courage and energy which the historians of our
epoch will appreciate better than our contem-
poraries. . . .
" The cure of the bleeding wound which his
Apostolic Majesty had undertaken depended in the
first instance upon a definitive arrangement with
populations which claim allegiance to the Crown of
St. Stephen. To render full and complete justice
to the chivalrous nation to which, M. le Comte, you
feel proud to belong was the first wish of his Apos-
tolic Majesty, the first order which he deigned to
give me when he called me to his Council.
" It has been readily admitted thatl lost no time
in obeying that august inspiration. The re-estab-
lishment of peace at home was the first fruit of our
labours, and. the friends of Austria deigned to con-
gratulate me at the time upon the promptitude with
which the negotiations were conducted which ended
in the coronation of the Emperor-King.
"The arrangement due to the parties interested
would have been impossible if an attempt had been
made to exclude the questions of finance. It was
urgent, even at the risk of not succeeding at once,
enter into those thorny quttat,ilaw, which would
have exacted deeper duties than circumstances al-
lowed. It was necessary to decide vital questions,
and solve them in such a manner as to exclude the
possibility of returning to them at the risk of com-
promising the whole.
" The arrangement into which we have entered
with Hungary is, moreover, the primary cause of
the abnormal position in which the Cisleithan
Ministry found itself on the very day of its forma-
tion. Essentially a constitutional Ministry, repre-
senting the majority of the Reichsrath, the Govern-
ment formed by Prince Auersperg had to reckon
with the accomplished fact of an indispensable ar-
rangement with Hungary, as also with the passions
and exigencies of a young Parliament, showing it-
self for that very reason jealous of its prerogatives.
It may be admitted without injustice to the en-
lightened patriotism of assemblies which discuss in
full liberty in the Parliamentary arena that the
Reichsrath, in entering upon the questions of
finance, did not perhaps always give proof of that
self -possessittn which experience gives under similar
circumstances to the House of Commons when
directed by great financial authorities like Mr.
Disraeli or Mr. Gladstone. It is no less true that
our deputies have shown the high importance which
they attach to the wise precepts which have fallen
from the eloquent lips of that member of the Eng-
lish Parliament. No one has more ably than him-
self denounced the pernicious system of loans. No
one has warned Europe and America more frankly
against the inevitable consequences of that terrible
custom of burdening future generations to elude the
necessity of crushing contemporaries by excessive
taxes! To pay the interest of one's debts by contract-
ing new debts, is not discounting the future while
ruining the present ? Is it not deteriorating capital
by destroying that confidence which is the source of
credit? If, then, the Reichsrath of Vienna has
resolved to halt at the brink of that fatal chasm—
if it has wound up its financial belief, exclaim-
ing We will endeavour to fulfil our engage-
ments by labour ; we wish to balance our budget
by developing the resources of the empire, but with-
out having recourse to new loans in time of peace,'
I flatter myself that it may count upon the approval
of the most enlightened financiers of our epoch.
Nevertheless, this patriotic resolve exacted sacri-
fices. Rome was not built in a day, and if the
free populations who inhabit the domains of the
Emperor-King wished to place themselves in a po-
sition to defend their neutrality, while still advanc-
ing resolutely in the path of progress and of civili-
sation, it was indispensable to consider the means
of lightening the load of a debt of 3 milliards, the
interest upon which absorbed 128 millions annually
—l2B millions of which Hungary was only able to
' guarantee a quota which did not cover one-third
of the amount.

" If we call to mind that the greater portion of
our debt has been contracted since 1848, if we
examine the rate of issue of the successive loans
which the crises which have succeeded each other
in Austria during the last 20 years have imposed
upon the Imperial and Royal Government, if,
finally, we study the quotations of the Bourse, it
cannot be denied that the great majority of our
creditors—those who have, purchased Austrian
stock since 1848—have invested their money to
very great advantage. Now, every one knows that
the rate of interest is necessarily always in inverse
proportion with the security of the capital, and
every man who intrusted his money to us was
aware before hand that to draw 7,8, or 9 per cent.
he exposed his capital to • chances which he might
have avoided by satisfying himself with 3 per cent.
in the English Consols.
" The Dutch, always renowned as financial ex-
perts, have, I am told, even taken the precaution
to discount beforehand these risks and chances by
discounting year by year from the capital invested
in Austria the interest exceeding 5 per cent., and,
thanks to this calculation, many of them find them-
selves already at the present moment completely
covered—that is to say, in possession of obligations
which scarcely cost them anything.
"If, then, the Reichsrath proposes to bring a
temporary tax on the Austrian Rentes it stops at a
,measure. far less radical than would be a more of

INs fixed conversion, as had been done in other
countries, because, though suffering from the law
of necessity, the home and foreign creditors pre-
serve the hope that a balance l budget will shortly
bring about also the balance between the real and
fictitious value of paper money—that, in a word,
with the deficit the agio will also d;sappear. Events
must decide the perio3, more or less near at hand,
when these hopes may be realised. So much, how-
ever, is certain, that the Imperial and Royal Go-
vernment, considering the impossibility of increas-
ing the charges which weigh upon the taxpayers,
would find itself in the presence of a coup d'etat, or
of a ratification of the measures proposed by the
majority of the Reichsrath, of a coup d'etut, I say,
for a dissolution would bring us back a Cham-
ber just as much decided as the present
one to refuse under existing circumstances an
increase of the public debt. Now there is no
longer any reason for coups d'etat in Austria, since
his Imperial, Royal-, and Apostolic Majesty has de-
and manifested 1. ; firm will to
widest developme 't to Lonstitutional inst
However painful' .te avowal of our ealbarr :s
may be, the frankness with which we state them, a6d
with which we make an appeal to theellaity of our •
creditors, will disarm distrust, and fru.stzete the in-
trigues of those who speculate upon sad calamitiea.,
'Tor thtlielders of AUstrian scrip will not be long in
discovering that patience is often the best council-
lor, that the confidence they will grant to an Assem-
bly freely elected cannot be misplaced, because that
Assembly definitively shields the permanent in-
terests of the State and of its creditors by subject-
ing the latter to a temporary loss, to consolidate
and increase the real value of the capital which
they have intrusted to an Empire the incalculable
resources of which will be the more freely developed
as the populations are called upon to govern
themselves.

" These, M. le Comte, are the ideas which I re-
quest you to develope in your interviews with the
statesmen of the most free and richest nation in the
world. Ido not doubt that they will appreciate
the necessities of a state of affairs which we did
not create, and I even hope that they will acqnire
thereby that confidence in the future of regenerate
Austria—that confidence which we loudly profess,
and which we shall know how to preserve by les-
sening as much as possible the sacrifices we are
compelled to claim.
" My present despatch had already been written
on the eve of the discussion in the Chamber of De-
puties on the question of finance. The energetic
efforts made by the Ministry to restrict the mea-
sure of the tax upon the Rente within the desired
limits, as also the important figure of the majority
giving it its support, will serve to convince people
abroad of the earnest endeavours of the Govern-
ment to attenuate the effect of certain urgent mea-
sures which it deplores, but which it has not the
power to prevent. The creditors of the State will,
I have no doubt, not be long in admitting that the
measure which at the present moment has given
rise to so many complaints is the indispensable
corollary of a work of reform and reconstruction of
which they will be the first to reap the benefits.
" I request you, M. le Comte, to read this de-
spatch to Lord Stanley, and to leave him a copy of
it-.—l am, &c."

WHAT IS A WELCHER? •

Yesterday at the Westminster Police-court John
Murphy was charged before Mr. Arnold, on a
summons under Lord Campbell's Act, with pub-
lishing a malicious libel on Mr. George Hinton,
Mr. W. D. Smyth, of Rochester-row, prosecuted;
Mr. E. D. Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, de-
fended.

It appeared from the opening statement of Mr.
Smyth that the prosecutor was a cigar merchant,
&c., and had two shops, Nus. 168 and 169, Sloane-
street, Chelsea, and .occasionally made bets on
horse-races. He did so on the late Derby, and, hav-
ing unfortunately laid against Blue Gown, lost a
considerable sum of money, which he was unable to
pay, and on Thursday week following the race he
was visited by the prisoner, who demanded £ll of him.
Prosecutor said he did not owe him anything, but
prisoner still demanded the money, created a dis-
turbance outside the shop, the windows being
broken. In a day or two afterwards the prisoner
appeared outside in the street, with a placard in
front and behind him, on which, in large letters,
was inscribed, " The Welcher, 168 and 169, Sloane-
street." He continued to walk about the streets
every day with these placards, and at times stopped
in front of the prosecutor's shop, calling the
people's attention to him, and saying, "That man
owes me £ll, and that is what I am here for, and
I will walk here twelve months till I get it."
Even after the service of the summons he continued
to walk in front of the prosecutor's shop until
Monday night last. The term " Welcher" had a
very well-understood signification, and was thus
desciibed by Mr. Hotten, of Piccadilly, in his
celebrated Slang Dictionary, " A person who makes
a bet without the remotest chance of being able
to pay, and losing it absconds and makes himself
scarce." He would ask, having proved the above
facts, to have the prisoner committed for trial, and
he would also b indicted for threatening to pub-
lish a libel with intent to extort money.
Mr. Lewis questioned the authenticity of Mr.
Hotten's work, and having been beaten on that
point, said under the new act he would justify the
libel, and prove that it was true. Mr. Hotteu's in-
terpretation of the term did not agree with his, and
he would show that the word was true, and only
fit to be applied to a person of the prosecutor's
class.

Mr. Arno La said a great judge had observed,
"The greater the truth the greater the libel."
The facts, as detailed in the opening, were proved
by Mr. Hinton.
In cross-examination he said he did not keep a
betting-house, and never betted with s'.rangers ;
lost £385 on the Derby and never paid a sovereign
of it ; remembered the Ebor Handicap, 1854, laid
against Grand Inquisitor and lost £1,200 ; paid
most of it, but a gentleman from Liverpool let him
in for £6OO, and he had to compromise with his
creditors and pay 10s. in the pound ; lost money
over Thormanby in 1860 and had not paid up to
this day ; in 1856 had kept a public-house in
Charles-street, Grosvenor-square, and was a book-
maker ; he supposed they called him a " Welcher"
because he had not paid these bets. When he made
these bets over the Derby he was not worth more
than £5, and thought Blue Gown had gone to the
bad and would be scratched ; could not hedge the
bets or he would ; laid 50 to 1 against Blue Gown
after his defeat by the Earl at Newmarket.
At this stage the court,which was fua of betting
men, rose, and the case was adjourned till Thum-
day, prisoner finding bail in £2O to appear that day
and to keep the peace and be of good behaviour in
the meantime.

The bill for the abolition of gambling houses was
adopted on Tuesday by the North German Parliament. A
resolution was also adopted calling upon the Chancellor
of the Confederation to introduce a bill for the removal of
all restrictions still existing upon the exorcise of civil and
political rights, in so far as they proceed from differences
of religious belief, and specially as regards the taking of
oaths by the Jews. The billpropoSed would recognize
the equal rights of Jews to become communal and Parlia-
mentary representatives, and to fill Government and com-
munal offices throughout the territory of the Confedera-
tion.
[ADTERTISENItYrd—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.—
Neves Des air.—After using these remedies for twelve
weeks only Mary Dixon, wife of Thomas Dixon, fish-
monger, Regent-parade, Harrogate, was entirely cured of
a bad leg of many years' standing, showing the wonderful
effect of these medicines when properly used. She had
been confined to bed for five years, and was twice an in-
mate of two different hospitals in Leeds, but without ob-
taining the slightest relief, and was finally informed that
she must lose her leg by amputation. Being induced to
try Holloway's ointment and pills, and using them per-
severingly, she averted that calamity, and is now perfectly
recovered. Auy person similarly afflicted may resort to
the ogro reu4ditti W g mint adainty of gum*

) ,_,l,
a S.
. _
A dispute seems to have ariseninVirmingham, 'where the
notorious Murphy is now lecturing, as to the history of his
father. A. Mr. Aston has giveza*totice to lecture on the sub-
ject, but Murphy appears to haveitaken umbrage at the pro-
posal, and during a lecture 4 Monday evening stated,
" calmly and most deliberately," that neither Mr.
Aston nor any one else could give an account of
his (Murphy's) father's death. This was followed up
on Tuesday morning by the following advertisement in the
Birmingham Gazette:—" Death of Murphy's Father !—I,
William Murphy, am prepared, on condition that the autho-
rities do grant me the use of tho Town Hall, and that. Dr.
Ullatborne, Father O'Sullivan, Father Sherlock, or any of
the Romish priests, meet me on the platform, to give the full
account of ray father's death, which shall ho corroborated by
my mother and brothers ; and I further challenge any of the
priests to disprove my statements. Admission to the meet-
ing, ls. each. TLe profits to be handed over to tho hospitals
of the town." It is not known whether the use of the hall
will be granted.

ACCIDENT BY LIGHTNING.

In the midst of a very violent storm of thunder and
lightning on Monday afternoon, at Sheffield, there
occurred about five o'clock an extremely vivid flash
of light Ling, followed by an instantaneous and
deafening peal of thunder. The electric fluid struck
the back part of the house of Mr. George Cartwright,
of Montgomery-road, near Steel-bank, and produced the ,
,rost singular effects. The house is three stories high, and
ightning seems to have descended the chimney. In
.n below wore seated seven women and children. It wan
filled with blaze and a sulphurous stench. Bricks fell dawn
the chimney, plaster flow about, the melted lead of the gas
pipe was splashed aound,* yet, marvellous to say, no
ihdividual was in the-alight* degree hurt. Theychamber
kas filled with dirt and-m.1161w, the pictures wore thrown
from the walls and their" frame§ scorched, but that- viler the-
extent of the damage. The gas was quickly extinguished,
and the inmates remained lost in astonishment and gratitude
at the sudden danger from which they had been saved.
Mrs. Norton, who lives on the opposite side of the street,4
was also struck by the electric fluid. She was sitting
a stool in front of the fire when she was suddenly throes
into the middle of the room and her arm was sligbily
scorched. She sprang to her feet, and on looking out of the
window saw one of Mr. Cartwright's daughters open
the front door. Immediately after a huge ball of fire, which
rapidly spread, came out followed by dense smoke. This;
girl was one of the seven in tho room, and she fortunately
had the presence of mind, after recovering from the severe
shock, to open the door, which was only a few yards distant.