The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1868.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
DONCASTER RACES.

On WEDNESDAY, 9th September, ST. LEGER DAY,
a CHEAP EXCURSION, for one or three days, will leave
London (King's-cross Station), at 6 morning, for DON-
CASTER, arriving about 10.55 a.m. Fare 12s. 6d. for the
double journey in covered carriages. Returning from
Doncaster the same day, or on Friday, 11th September, at
6.30 p.m. Excursion tickets will be available only by the
excursion train.

The train will arrive at and depart from the Shakes-
peare sidings (the entrance to which is close to the Rail-
w:ty Company's church), near to Doncast r Station.
Ordinary return tickets issued from London (King's-
cross) and other stations where they may usually be ob-
tained, on Monday, 7th September, and intervening days,
will be available for return on any day up to and including
Saturday, 12th September.
Special Express Trains, by which ordinary single and
return tickets will be available, will leave the station up
platform, Doncaster, fur London, at 5.15 p.m. on Friday,
11th September, and. at 10.55 a.m. on Saturday, 12th
Sept em ber.
The ordinary fares from London are—First class, 275.
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class return, 355.

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trains leaving King's-cross at 6.30 and 7.40 morning, 12.0
noon, or 1.15 afternoon, and on Sundays at 7.30 morning.
A special train for the conveyance of horses will leave
Doncaster-at 10 a.m. on Friday, 11th. and Saturday, 12th
September, for Retford, Newark, Grantham, Peterboro',
Huntingdon, Hitchini King's-cross, and other stations.
• SE YMO UR CLAIIKE,
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London, King's-cross Station, August, 1868.

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ABERGELE, Tuesday.

It would appear that the chemical composition of
the petroleum which caused the terrific fire imme-
diately after the collision between the mail train
and the goods trucks is to form an element in the
inquiry into the circumstances connected with the
accident. Evidence- on this point has been ten-
dered by counsel for the manufacturers of the oil.
There have been rumours afloat that the petroleum
with which the whole of the fore part of the mail
train was saturated when the trucks and the oil
barrels were smashed by the collision was of a pecu-
liarly explosive nature. The manufacturers assert
it to be simply non-explosive. They declare it to
be a fact that you may drop a flaming match or a
red hot, cinder into it with nikothen.aggt...tban,..tie.
extinguishing of the burning combustible. The
learned gentleman who to-day appeared for them
offered to submit the oil to analysis by any chemist
whom the Coroner may appoint. The Coroner ex-
pressed an opinion that evidence on the subject of
the petroleum will be desirable. It may be observed
.that even now the line at and near the place where
the accident occurred smells strongly of petroleum.
Mrs. Dicken, who alleges that she in vain entreated
ladies to come out of the burning carriage, stated
in the course of her evidence that in approaching
those carriages she passed the post-office net, she
being at the time on the six-foot side of the train.
The company have now the post-office tender at
the Abergele station, in order that the jury may in-
spect it this evening. The object of the company
is to give a practical contradiction to the woman's
story. Mr. Littler, their counsel, says it will be
found that the net would not be on the six-foot side
of the down train. It is right to observe that the
solicitor who produced Mrs. Dicken as a witness
denies that this would be a contradiction. Ile states
that, in saying she passed " the net," the woman
only meant the van to which the net was attached.
In reference to his use of the word " worthless," on
Friday last, as applied to Miss Haughton's evidence,
the Assessor explained this morning that he had
only intended to express au opinion that it was
worthless as regarded the point under consideration
at the moment Miss Haughton was tendered as a
witness. They had just before been examining
witnesses as to the cause of the accident, and it at
once appeared that the young lady knew nothing
about that. He had never intended to express an
opinion that Miss Haughton's testimony was worth-
less
in respect of the circumstances on which it had
a bearing. There have been contradictory state-
ments as to whether the doors of the carriages in
the fore part of the train were locked on both sides.
The company believe that none of the doors on the
platform side were locked. All the locks found
among the burnt fragments of the train will be
produced for the inspection of the jury. Thirteen
have been found. Of these nine are unlocked
and four locked. This would seem to bear out
the view taken by the company. The locks will be
shown to the jury in the state in which they were
found.

In the evidence given by Sara, the driver of the
goods train, it will be found stated that the shunt-
ing operations at Llanddulas were being conducted
on the down rails of the main line just about three
minutes before the down Irish mail was due there,
because the waggons began to descend the incline
at 12.35, and at about 12.38 the Irish mail was due
at the point where they commenced to run down.
It will be observed, also, that a rule of the com-
pany, with a copy of which the driver was furnished,
states that goods trains must be shunted at stations
or sidings ten minutes before a passenger train is
due, and kept there till five minutes after it has
passed. It appears, however, that in respect of
shunting the driver acts under the direction of the
breaksmen, and that there is a certain discretionary
power vested in the latter. For instance, though
Llanddulas is the regular shunting place for the
goods train driven by Sara when it is about to leave
the line clear for the Irish mail, it sometimes shunts
for this purpose at Rbyl, and sometimes at Aber-
gele. From the evidence of both the driver and
the fireman it would seem that, even if the place
was clear of waggons, there is not a sufficient length
of rail on the Llanddulas siding to shunt as a whole
such a train as that which caused the accident. On
the day of the accident the siding was partly
blocked with waggons, and a division of the train
was indispensable, in order that a portion of the
train might be placed on one set of rails in the
siding and the remainder of it on the other set. 'To
carry out the operations necessary to effect this
division, the rear van and some trucks were in the
first instance left on the main line ; then three loaded
waggons were brought out from the siding and
" kicked" back in the direction of the other trucks
and the van. The kick was too strong, or the
breaks were too weak if they had been applied. The
two sets of waggons ran down the incline, and met
the mail, with what frightful results needs not to
be repeated. The evidence of the servants of the
company has not been all given yet. It will be
further interrupted by the examination of gentle-
men who were in the mail train at the time of the
dreadful occurrence, and who have responded to the
request of the company that passengers who could
speak as to the state of the fore part of the train
immediately after the collision should do so. Col.
Rich, the Government Inspector, has received a
letter from a friend of a missing gentleman, who
fears that he may have been among the killed,
though up to this there has been no identification
of any property belonging to him, and his name
has not appeared in the list of the victims. The
gentleman is an American, named Bayard Clarke.
It was believed that he intended to travel in the
Irish mail train on Thursday, the 20th ult., and he
has not been heard of since the accident.

not possibly have shunted ten minutes before the
Irish mail was due. The time table of our trains
shows that Llanddulas is the proper place for my
train to shunt for the Irish mail. This is one and
the same place as Rayn and Lupton's siding. Not-
withstanding the instructions for my siding at
Llauddulas, I can do so at Abergele and Ryle, and
have done so. Oar doing so is at the discretion an
judgment of the breaksmln. It was from 20 to 25
minutes past 12 when we reached Llanddulas on
the day in question.
The Assessor—Can you give any reason you did
not at once shunt at the Landdulas siding on the
day in qu:stion ?

The Witness—Because I saw at once the siding
would not hold the entire of the train.

'.I he Assessor —But you intcodA to make room.
How could you do that?

The Witncss—There are two lines of siling, and
we could make room by putting some waggons on
one set of rails and some on the other. N.:ither of
the sidings was sufficiently long to have held my
train on that day. I hal to leave " empties" on
the siding that day. Thera were two lots of empties.
After having left all—there were two lots of them
—the remainder of the goods train could have been
shunted on to the other rails of the siding. My
train was a long train that day ; but not an un-
usually long one. 'We do on other occasions as
on that day have goods train of 47 waggons. There
were trucks on the sidings before we arrived that
day. We had left two or three tracks of the 47 at
Abergele. Under any circumstances there would
nsit- to thg_lviitk_ol, ,bnlief,.have.leea-qmfAciezt.
length of rails to have shunted the whole of my
train that day ; therefore, even if I had no empties,
I must have divided my train in order to shunt for
the Irish mail. I don't know whether the siding
at Landdulas is the property of the London and
North Western Company, but it is under the con-
trol of the stationmaster at Llanddulas. lie always
works the points and the signals. Even at stations
the train is under the control of the breaksmen. The
breaksmen receive their orders from the station-
master. On the day in question I did not hear the
stationmaster give orders to the breaksmen ; but as a
rule I don't hear them. Those officers are too far
away from me on such occasions. I would not have
gone into the sidings without orders, nor would I have
done so without some person holding the points.
My train is timed to reach Abergele station at 12.5.
Another goods train is due there at 11.55. On
the day in question that train was behind us. It
was behind time. It starts from Chester at 9.45,
which is after us, but ought to pass us. On this
occasion it did not. Rhyl is our place to shunt
for that other goods train if it was in time. At
Llanddulas the rails of the siding are, 1 think, on
the level, and both are on the same level. If we
have a long train, we generally divide ; if a short
one, we put it on one siding only. I cannot tell
how many waggons were on the siding when I
reached it that day. I know there were waggons
on each set of rails in the siding. I never on any
previous occasion saw any trucks parted from my
siding go down the incline. Both Richard Wil-
liams and Robert Jones, jun.,
,ran after the trucks.
Williams ran first. Neither of them caught the
trucks.

Mr. Edwards-Wood asked whether the company
intended to produce the driver of the other goods
train—the one which was late.
The Assessor observed that the driver of the train
referred to by Mr. Edwards-Wood had not been
on the scene of the accident.
Mr. Edwards-Wood was instructed that the
driver now under examination ought not to have
passed Ithyl till the other train had come up and
passed him.

The Assessor—You can examine the witness on
that subject.

By Mr. Edwards-Wood--The up Irish mail
from Holyhead is due at Conway at 12.38. It
sometimes passes as I am at Llanddulas. There
are" turnovers," or areas.--over lines, from the up
to the down line. I never have crossed the main
line myself to shunt for the mail train, not that I
am aware of, when the siding was not sufficient to
hold my train. To the best of my knowledge, I
never hue put waggons on the up line when there
was no room in the siding in order to allow the
down mail to pass. That is done at another hour
of the day, when no train is due on the up line.
There were trucks belonging to the limeworks
when I reached the siding on that day. I don't
know whether they were loaded. The wheel break
on a van is a much more powerful break than the
side break to each truck. The side break may
prevent a truck when still from going into mo-
tion. Ido not know of my own knowledge that
the wheel-break bad ever been applied in this
case. The wheel-break is sometimes locked
with a strap or chain. I don't know whether
there was a strap or chain to the break in
this case. I have seen break-vans without either a
strap or a chain. If the break-van was standing
still the break would remain down, even if not
strapped or chained. If not strapped or chained I
presume a collision would release it ; but I think
that even in such a case it must get a strong blow
to relieve it. The distance the men were from the
trucks and the speed at which the latter were going
prevented Williams and Jones from overtaking the
three trucks which descended. The trucks and van
were loaded. Should say that one break on the
side would not stop trucks struck by these three.
I don't think it was any one's duty to have been in
the break-van at the time of the accident, because
the breaksmen had to come out to assist in shunt-
ing. I cannot tell which of the two breaksmen at-
tended to the break and the tail van that day. I
saw both of them in different places about the wag-
gons. Ido not know the exact time at which I
left Abergele station that day.
By Mr. Littler—To the best of my belief there is
only one goods train a day each way timed to stop
at Llanddulas. I should say that one line of;rails
on one siding would hold 24 or 25 waggons.
The Assessor—Has there ever been any occasion
when both sets of rails in the, siding were unable to
hold your train ?
Witness—No, not that I remember.
The Assessor—Has it ever occurred that you
have been unable to shunt your train there ?
Witness—No, not that I remember.
By Mr. Littler.—My train is timed to leave Lind-
dulas at 12.45.

By the Assessor-1 have sometimes been able to
shunt the whole train ; sometimes I have had to
divide it. There never has been an occasion on
which the two lines of rails were insufficient to hold
my train. _ .

Thomas Davis, fireman of the goods train, was
then examined by the Assessor. He said—l re-
member reaching the Llanddulas station on Thurs-
day, the 20th, Alfred Sara being the driver of the
train. We shunt our train at Rhyl, Abergele, or
Llanddulas. On the day in question we intended to
shunt at Llanddulas. There was no room for the
train as a whole in the siding. There was
room on both sets of rails for the truck of
which the goods train wa3 made up. I think
the train itself was too long to be put in on one
set of rails, even if there had been no waggons
there already. I don't know whether there were
waggons there when we reached. We had empty
waggons to leave there. Richard Williams un-
hooked the end of the train. Subsequently I saw
three waggons going back towards the waggons and
van which had formed the tail of the train. Those
three waggons had been " kicked" back. I saw no
one putting on a break on them. I saw the breaks-
man running after them. I saw the tail end trucks
running as well as the three other trucks. I don't
remember any occasion on which we were unable to
shunt on one or both lines at Llanddulas. I do not
remember waggons having escaped and run down
the line on any occaaion: When we kick off wag-

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dons at that spot it is not usual to put the break
on them.

By Mr. Edwards-Wood—The station-master's
son was at Llanddulas on the day in question. He
was working the signals. There was a danger signal
up at the station when we were shunting, and a
distance danger signal was also up. I did not see
the distance signal worked that day. I-did not see
the semaphore signal at the station worked.
:By Mr. Littler—The stationmaster was on duty
and at work that day.
By the Assessor—The stationmaster's son. held
the points during the first shunting.

The continuation of the other evidence did not
carry the case very much further. After a caution
from the Assessor, the two breaksmen cf the goods
train and Samuel Eaton, the Stationmaster at
Llanddulas, said they had no wish to be examined.
They are, however, to he at liberty to tender them-
selves for examination to-morrow, if so advised by
their legal adviser.
Eaton's son, a boy of 13, in the company's c:n-
ployment for the list three months, stated that on
one occasion, before he entered the company's ser-
vice, he saw trucks running down the incline to
scar the place of the accident, from which they
were brought back by an engine.
Mr. Keanely, a paSsenger by the mail, stated that
all the fore part of the train was in flames within
five minutes after the collision.

Lord Hamilton, seeing the invitation to passengers
to give evidence, wrote to say he would do so at
any inconvenience, but could not be here till Mon-

It is believed the inluiry will close before then ;
he had not been communicated with by the
Coroner.

The inquiry. is adjourned till to-morrow mernieg.

MURPHY THI NO-POPERY LECTURER.

On Monday afternoon, as Mr. Murphy, the
well-known " No-Popery " lecturer alighted at the
Victoria Station, Manchester, from Bolton, he was
arrested on a magistrates' warrant by Captain
PalM, chief constable, it having been deposed on
oath that Mr. Murphy had come to Manchester
for the purpose of giving a series of lectures which
would undoubtedly occasion serious breaches of
the peace. Notices had been placarded at various
points near the place where the proposed lectures
were to be given, and persons were warned against
assembling in the neighbourhood of the lecture-
room. Mr. Murphy was informed that on his
undertaking not to lecture or to go into the neigh-
bourhood of the lecture-room he would not be
arrested, but he declined the offer, and said he
would yet lecture in Manchester in spite of all
opposition. After being taken to the detective
office, Mr. Murphy was locked up at the Albert-
street Police-station. Several of Mr. Murphy's
friends from Bolton proffered themselves as bail.
He appeared then disinclined to accept the offer,
and said he preferred to remain at the police-station
all night. He, however, changed his mind, and
was discharged on his own recognisances to appear
next morning at the City Police-court.

Accordingly yesterday morning Mr. Murphy ap-
peared before Mr. Robinson Fowler and full bench
of magistrates, in discharge of his recognisances,
to answer the warrant which had been issued,
charging him with having attempted to create a
breach of the peace. The warrant stated that
William Murphy had issued and posted, or caused
to be issued and posted, in the streets of Manches-
ter, notice of his intention to deliver, at the As-
sembly Rooms, Cooke-street, Hulme, certain
lectures upon the subjects specified in the notice
or placard ; that the delivery of similar lectures by
the said William Murphy in divers towns anl places
hal led to serious breaches of the peace ; •that the
informants had reason to believe and apprehend
that if the said William Murphy should deliver, or
attempt to deliver, any such lectures, a breach of
the peace would be caused.
Mr. Fowler, addressing ate defendant, asked hienh
whether he was prepared to pursue the coarse that
it was understood he had pursued elsewhere, namely,
to undertake not to deliver the lectures which had
been announced.

Murphy.—l never undertook not to deliver the
lectures.

Mr. Fowler.—l understood that you had. Will
you do so now ?

_
Murphy.—No ; I will deliver my lectures, and
suffer the consequences. I atn sure that in free
England I have as much right to speak as Mr.
Ernest Jones, or any other man.

Captain PalM, chief constable of Manchester,
said—l apprehended the defendant on Monday,
on a warrant issued by the magistrates, I met him
at the Victoria Station, by the train which arrived
from Bolton at half-past five o'clock. I asked him
to accompany me in a cab to the Town Hall, as I
wished to have a few words with him. While we
were in the cab he asked me whether he might
consider himself in custody. I told him that that
depended upon circumstances. When we arrived
at the police-office I got out of the cab, and asked
the defendant to get out ; but he said, " No, I will
not get out, I will go to Cooke-street." He asked
me if 1 had a warrant. I said that I bad, but that
I had not got it with me just at that moment. He
refused to get out of the cab. I went for assist-
ance, and eventually, by the persuasion of two
friends who were with him, he got out and went
with me into the office. One of the friends was a
Mr. Flannagan, a Protestant lecturer, and the
other a Mr. Marsden, of Great Harwood, Accring -
ton. Mr. Marsden had accompanied him from
Bolton, and Mr. Flannagan had met him at the
station. I told Murphy that if he would under-
take not to deliver the lectures he might be set at
liberty.

Mr: Fowler.—You told him the course that had
been taken by the magistrates ?
Captain Palin.-1 read to him the notice that
had been issued. He said that the magistrates had
no right to prohibit his lectures, and that he had
as much right to lecture as Mr. Ernest Jones, or
any one else. As he declined to undertake not to
lecture, I felt it necessary to detain him, and he
was taken to the Albert-street Station. At half-
past ten o'clock he was liberated on his own recog-
nisances to appear on Tuesday morning. While
in the cab he took out of his pocket a ten-chamber
revolver, and gave it to Flannagan.

Mr. Fowler.—Was it loaded or unloaded?

Captain Palin.—lt was loaded ; and he also
took some loose cartridges out of his pocket, and
handed them to Mr. Flannagan. When at the
detective office he gave up a " knuckle-duster "
(produced).

Several persons residing in Cooke-street and the
neighbourhood were called, and swore that if the
lectures had been delivered a breach of the peace
would in all probability have taken place.
Murphy addressed the Bench, and called wit-
nesses, of ter which the magistrates retired.
On their return into court,

Mr. Fowler said.—lt has been proved before us
that if these lectures are allowed to be delivered
riot and destruction of property are likely to fol-
low. Even your own witness (Mr. Flannagan)
proves this; and seeing what has taken place in
other towns, where you have given similar lectures,
we feel bound to protect life and property. We
therefore call upon you to enter into your own
recognisance of £2OO, and to find two sureties of
£lOO each, to keep the peace for three months.
The defendant was then removed in the custody
of the police.

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SPIRIT OF THE rinnic JOURNALS,

The Times remarks that the note of AIL Bright's address
to the electors of Birmingham is that feeling of rare satis.
faction which marks the close of a day of real hard work.
He comes before those who have trusted him with thecOn4
fidence of one who has faithfully laboured to discharge
their trust, and can claim as of right that it shall be
renewed. He speaks as one who feels that his warfare
is accomplished. The passion, the fury, the an.
tagonism of earlier years have died away. The

great objects upon which he set his mind

have been attained. The main thought of Mr.
Bright's address is of labours past and ends ob-
tained. The prime object of his agitation, the
reform of Parliament, has been secured. There have been
blemishes on the perfection of the work, but they will
prove transitory. The end of the next great labour of
his life, the redress of injustice in the government of Ire-
land, is at hand. The actual course of legislation with
reference to the Irish Establishment is as good as
settled. So Mr. Bright sees as an actual fact the
enfranchisement of all the householders of parliamentary
boroughs, and with the certain eye of prophecy he sees
the destructon of the Irish Establishment, and is satis-
fied.. He has a word to say about the "poor dear"
ballot, and it is but decent of him to see it. The ballot
was the great question of his youth. It was a venerable,
almost a sacred symbol. But the tenacity of Mr. Bright's
attachment to this ancient article of faith is only one of
the many evidences which prove his separation from the
spirit of the younger generation arising in the midst of us.
Mr. Bright, in fact, looks to the setting sun, and its light
is in his countenance. Other men have arisen with
new objects and new desires, who look towards the
east and another day. The deep diversity, we may
almost say the alienation, between Mr. Bright and
those we have styled the newer men becomes most
evident when we con ider the objects for which
they press most eagerly. Mr. Bright is silent on all of
them. They are very enthusiastic about national educa-
tion. They long for a time when primary education shall
be universally diffused. They have theories for the appro.
priation of endowments devoted to secondary education,
so as to make_them helps to raise the most promising
youth of the nation from grade to grade until the
selected best of them. are landed in the universities.
The universities • themselves they would make co-
ordinate in extension with the people. Mr. Bright has
nothing to say on all this. Then, again, the younger
men are busy about the relations between employer
and employed. They would protect the custody of
the funds of trades' unions with the sanction of the law.
They hanker after a development of co-operation, so as to
bring the mass of industrial enterprises within its influ-
ence. They are interested in the improvement of , the
dwellings of the labouring poor. It would appear to be
not too much to say that Dr. Evans, Mr. Bright's
Tory-Radical opponent at Birmingham, is more
stirred by sympathy with these views than M.
Bright himself. We wonder what he thinks of
the education and enfranchisement of women. No
man could be more conscious than the apostle who
boasted he had " fought a good fight" how much he had
left to be done; but lie was content to rest and be hopeful
of the future. It is so, it must be so, with all of us. Mr.
Bright has tasted this experience. His hours of labour
and passionate effort, his fits of storm and invective have
passed. He feels something of the serenity of evening.
He knows the sweetness of rest, and when he wrote to the
electors of Birmingham his sentences were irradiated with
the after-glow of repose.
The Daily News observes that Mr. Bright's address to
the electors of Birmingham is evidently not intended to be
in any sense a political programme. Although Mr.
Bright may be regarded as the leader of the popular
section of the Liberal party, he has always kept his per-
sonal claims strictly in the background, and has never
sought personal influence or a personal following. Be
has been content to be the pioneer of his party.
But this part of Mr. Bright's work appears to
be done. He stands now abreast of his party,
not because he has himself fallen back, but
because the party had almost come up to him. Unlike
Mr. Horsman, Mr. Bright does not cast prophetic glances
into the future. He writes his address to his own consti-
tuents only, and evidently does not intend to make any
bid for leadership. He writes as simply one of the rank-
and-file of the Liberal army. Everybody knows, of course,
that no fnture Liberal Administration will be complete
without him ; but there is nothing of the future_Minister
in his matter, though some may see it in his manner. But
Mr. Bright's quieter tone is not caused by expectation
of office ;it arises rather from his altered position. He
was once a voice crying in the wilderness, he is now A
counsellor at home.

The Herald takes up the criticisms of the Liberal press
on Mr. Ward Hunt's letter. The ground of its antagonists
is, "the expenditure may have been necessary, but
then the Government ought to have provided for it by
retrenchmentin other quarters. See what Mr. Gladstone
—whose assumption of office they all date from 1862—did.
He provided for new calls by reducing the outlay in other
directions." They allow that an increased expenditure for
certain purposes may become necessary, evenif a Conserve.•
tiieGovernment is in power ; but they. say it can
and Mr. Gladstone would meet it, by an equivalent reduction
in some other branch of expenditure. What does this
assertion amount to? It means—if it is worth anything—
that a Minister, say Mr. Gladstone, always recommends
to Parliament a large expenditure which is absolutely
unnecessary, which, if the money should be required for
any other purpose, he can cut off without injury to the
public service. Mr. Gladstone's financial administration,
wasteful and niggardly, wantonly extravagant and old.
maidishly saving, could hardly be better characterised
than it is thus unintentionally done by his supporters.
The virtues and the aivantages of extravagance could
hardly be put in a stronger light than they are in Mr.
Gladstone's financial career. He raised the expenditure
of the country in two budgets to a height far surpassing
any ever reached in time of peace. Thus he obtained a
capital to expend in the form of economy.

The Post returns to its attack on Mr. Disraeli for send-
ing Lord Mayo out to India. The Post has no wish to say
anything against Lord Mayo. He may—for all thingsare
possible—prove to be the very best man that could have
been selected to rule such an insignificant portion of the
empire as two hundred millions:of Indians. So might any
other man in or out of Parliament who has never yet
shown any proof of his capacity. But when so large a
possession as our Indian empire is at stake it is nob
enough to rely upon unsupported possibilities.; and, if a
Government has any duties to perform at all, it is one
of the most important it can fulfil, to be careful, in making
such an appointment, to select a man who has by his
training and performances raised a strong presumption
that he is the most fitting person for the post. No one
can pretend that Lord Mayo has done this or anything
like it. The first act of the new Parliament will be to
call the Ministry to a strict account in the matter, while
the first act of a new Ministry will be ) rescind an
appointment which should never have been made.

The Times by no means sees so much in the reforms at.
the University of Oxford as some of its contemporaries..
Oxford now says to a lad who knows a little Latin and
Greek, " Come to us, and you shall live for £4O a year ;"
but Oxford and Cambridge both said long ago to lads who
knew something more, Come to us, and you shall live
for nothing." A young man may obtain, even before com-
mencing his residence, au exhibition or scholarship suffi-
cient for his maintenance, and an open career is then
before him. In fact, viewed in this aspect, the two old
universities are the real democratic institutions of this
land. Through them and their endowments the poorest
lad in a village may rise to take rank after the
Princes of the Blood. The only drawback to the un=
bounded liberality of the system is that not every poor lad
has his proper chance to begin with, and this brings the
Times to a conclusion that university extension, to be
really effectual, should begin in village schools. If every
lad, however humble his extraction, had the same oppor,
tunities of early education as are enjoyed by those who
now win university honours, then the universities would
draw students of the best promise from every class of the
nation, and become truly national institutions. The Times'
ideal is a graduated and rising system of education, by
which all the young ability of the country from every class
of society may ascend from school to school, till at last it
meets in a final trial of strength at the universities.
The Daily News, admitting the puerile nature of the
complaints which are constantly being made by Fenian
prisoners, lays down, however, that we must not on
that account refuse to listen to all. A complaint
appears in the Irishman respecting "the dauntless
O'Donovan," who is a prisoner at Chatham, which, our
contemporary hopes, is without foundation. It is said
that a fortnight ago his eldest son wrote to him, and a few
days since received a reply from the Governor of Chathaan
Gatil stating that, in consequence of some " breach of
prison regulation" committed by his father, the son's
letter had been sequestrated, and would not be given to
him for whom it was intended, and that during
the next six months O'Donovan would not
be allowed to write a letter to his wife or
children, or to receive any letter from them. The Daily
Yews trusts that this statement, which has doubtless been
published to blacken the Government, is not true. If
O'Donovan has broken the prison regulations he must be
made to smart for it, but it is not wise to select his social
affections for attack, and to destroy, as far as may be, the
better part of his nature. There must be means of
maintaining prison discipline without forbidding the
exchange of letters between a prisoner and his children.

It is to he regretted (s.ys the Standard) that the jury..
men in the Rachel case should have allowed themselves to
depart from the common usage which restrains other
juries from revealing to the public all the secrets of their
consultations together. The respect of the public for ordi.
nary juries is not likely to be increased by such a corre-
spondence as that which has lately made its appearance.
The foreman is evidently very proud of the decision to which
he and the majority arrived, although it was a decision
entirely opposed to common sense. He has stated that
one of the jury, named Blinks, made up the majority of
eleven, and when Mr. Blinks writes to deny this assertion;
the foreman adopts the expedient of causing his letter tq
be published,with all its faults of construction and punctual
tion. Mr. Blinks may not be able to spell properly
but he has quite as much reason to congratulate himself
upon his view of the Rachel case as the foreman had. It
scarcely requires a man of high culture to arrive at a sem
Bible conclusion with ;eferen9q kluittilfg
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