The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-23 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

Two GENTLEMEN SENT TO PRISON.—Two men, de-
scribed as gentlemen, but who gave false names, and, it is
supposed, false addresses, have been brought up before
Sir R. W. Carden, at Guildhall, charged with being
drunk and assaulting the passengers in Moorgate-street.
The .evidence was conclusive. The prisoners were out-
rageously drunk, using bad language, assaulting men, and
molesting women. They seemed to treat the matter as a
light affair, and expressed their regret. Alderman Carden
committed them for seven days, with hard labour. They
begged hard for the -substitution of a fine, but without
'avail.

, STABBING.—John Edgar alinn,. a South American, has
been charged at Westminster Police-court with stabbing
John Newth, a wood-cutter. The complainant's daughter
had been in the service of the prisoner, in Pimlico, but
finding that he kept his house for immoral purposes, she was
taken away. Prisoner afterwards saw Newth and his wife
selling firewood in Pimlico. Prisoner threatened him
with legal proceedings for insulting him, after which he
pursued him with a bowie-knife, chased him round a lamp-
post, and, when Newth took refuge in a neighbouring
house, stabbed him in the neck and shoulders. The
prisoner was remanded for a week on the charge of stabbing
with intent to murder, and bail was refused.

Once more the old watchworn of Retrenchment appear'
in the Liberal addresses. The Daily News compares the I
policy of the opposite parties. A Chancellor of the ADDITIONAL REVISING BARRISTERS.—Mr. Justice
Exchequer to whom the national debt is " a mere flea. Hannen, as vacation judge, has been called upon to exer-
bite " has, of course, a soul above figures, and cannot be cise the power vested. in him by the new Registration
expected to have made his premiership a mere time of Act, passed on the 16th of July last (31 and 32 Victoria,
cheeseparing economy. There was our political constitu. chap. 58), and appoint an additional barrister for the metro-
tion to repair, and there were our Protestant institutions polls. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn had the power to ap-
to defend, and men engaged in such heroic labours ought point additional barristers, and for the county of Middle-
not to be called to account for a slight indifference to such sex no appointment was made beyond Mr. Williamson.
mere vulgarities as pounds': shillings, and pence. It is Mr. Goren, the revising barrister who was appointed for
another invention of Liberalism which, from a Con- Finsbury, found that he could not complete the Maryle-
servative point of view, may be described as a party of bone registration in time, and an application was made
shopkeepers. Unfortunately, however, for Conservative to Mr. Justice Hannen under the following provision in
administrators, the country has utterly disregarded Mr. the new statute : " The power of appointing additional
Disraeli's rhetoric, and has resolved• to examine his revising banisters, in pursuance of Section 29 of the prin.
accounts. The people are in an economical mood, and cipal Act, shall, in the case of any event in which the said
their choice of future servants may actually turn on mere power arises occurring after the sth of September; 1868, be
questions of expense. Although Mr. Hunt claims 1866 as exercised by any judge of her Majesty's superior courts
a Conservative year, the estimates were prepared by a at common law, at Westminster, sitting in chamberi, on
Liberal Government. Mr. Stansfeld points out that 1867 the like representations being made as would justify an
was the first year, " not only of Conservative Adminis- appointment under the said section." An application was
tration, but of Conservative estimates and Conserva- made to his lordship at chambers, and he appointed Mr.
tive expenditure;" and that in that year the navy Chisholm Anstey an additional revising barrister, and he
estimates alone made a sudden rise of half a million. on Tuesday took his seat to revise the lists of voters for
The policy adopted by those of the Liberal benches who the borough of Finsbury.
took the matter in hand and chose Mr. Childers for their THE WAGES QUESTION IN THE NORTHERN IRON
mouthpiece, was to reduce the foreign squadron and the TRADE.—The wages difficulty which has recently arisen
superior officers in the navy, and to cease building useless in the northern iron trade, by the men asking an advance
wooden and unarmoured vessels. Mr. Stansfeld has ex- .of their employers, has been settled by the refusal
pressed his opinion that " the best way of dealing with a of the masters to yield the demand, and the access-
great spending department is to limit its total, for then tance by the men of these terms. The men have held a
you drive it to consider the best way of spending that meeting at Gateshead, where the delegates from the
total." Men like Mr. Stansfeld, who have made various districts presented their report. The meeting was
special departments of economy their study, can do private, but the resolutions arrived at have been made
lunch to give effect to 'a general resolve for economy, pub!ic. The men state that, considering the improve-
but they need that resolve on the part of the country went in trade, they are entitled to an advance, but do
to. support them in their efforts. Their minute not insist on it, "believing that the increasing strength
study of detail becomes most useful when it comes in to of their association will ultimately gain a just recom-
give effect to a general determination that the totals of pence for their labour." 'They also were determined to
expenditure shall be diminished. It is to such diminution take steps .to secure legal protection for their funds.
that the Liberal party is distinctly committing itself before They also urge their employers to agree to an inde-
the country. But Liberal candidates need only be corn- ' pendent board of arbitration for the prevention of strikes
initted to the great principle of reducing the totals ; that ' and lock-outs. Though uttering a sort of moral protest
is all that the rank and file of the party can do—the details against the continuance of the .present rate of wages, it is
of the reduction and its practical enforcement in jinn: 1 satisfactory to find that the men do not press their claim,
vidual instances may be left to the departments them- 1 as the state of trade, though at present brisk, is not assured
Selves. It is.fortunate that all the experienced officials of ! even to Christmas, great efforts being now made to get
the Liberal party, the men to whom those practical details orders completed before the closing of the Baltic.
will have to be left, are so entirely committed to the policy ! RESIGNATION OF TUE MAYOR OF CHICHESTER.—
! A special meeting of the town council of Chichester was
of retrenchment.
stahied
pi:1,11%0 hadse
of requested
receiving
The Standard looks with some suspicion upon the nature , held on Monday evening, the mayor ( Kr. R. G.
Raper) presiding.
of the embassy. Mr. Burlingame and the plenipotentiaries
them to meet th a t Te
1,1- leen iinngayfoorr
arrived with scarcely more Cc/cit than a troupe of Japanese
i ugglers. What, in the name of the great arcbdragon, ih.aigs
cormeseigtnoaotinonhisianppaoeincotmrdeanntc.e
Imt•i would
t
oluldbbee
iiiim
tdheersrteacnot
are these ambassadors ? What do they represent, and what
is their business here ? Never was there so paradoxical lection of all present that when they did him the honour
au embassy in the annals of diplomacy. In the first 'of plating him in the office of mayor in November, they
niece the plenipotentiary in chief is not a Chinaman, allowed him to couple the acceptance of that office with a
but a full blood Yankee, who only the other day held a proviso, which was then placed on the minutes. That
position precisely the inverse of his present one, being an
minute was as follows :—" It was proposed, seconded, and
ambassador to China from the United States. Of tho
personnel of the embassy, the first secretary is an Irish- unanimously carried that Mr. R. G. Rapershould be elected
man, and the second a Frenchman. There is only one real mayor of the city for the ensuing year, and he afterwards
Chinaman in the whole concern, or rather, to use the •
made and subscribed to the declaration required by the Act of
polite language of one of our Liberal contemporaries, only
one " whose illustrious line is free from every taint of Parliament. He reserved to himself the right of resignation
barbarism." There is only one intelligible object in if political events should render it necessary for him to per-
any Chinese mission to England, and that is to explain form any duties which would be incompatible with his office
and to excuse the non-fulfilment of the obligations
as mayor." he time had now come when he was called upon
entered into by China towards England. Is this what T
Mr. Lurlingaine has come about ? If so, he may calculate to perform duties which he felt would be incompatible with
upon a fair and patient hearing, and upon all the honour the position he then held as chief magistrate, and he now
due to such an ambassador. We may have our own opinion as
to the judgment of the Chinese in the matter of plenipo- availed himself of the proviso, and therefore begged to
tentiaries, but that is rather their concern than ours. All resign the -lost of magistrate of the city. Mr. Alderman
we have to take care of is that we are not being imposed M'Clarogber proposed, and Mr. Paull seconded, that the
upon by a very common and familiar trick of Chinese hearty and sincere thanks of the council be given to Mr.
diplomacy—that we are dealing with real representatives
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of China. and not with any foreign mediators between us aper. 'I h , re,olutit 11 11 a 3 ca-ried with unanimity and
,Ind the Ohinese, 1 sppl: use, _ ._... _
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