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SHOCKING MURDER AT SUNDERLAND.
SHOCKING MURDER AT SUNDERLAND. One of the quiet little streets which abound at the west end of the Wearmouth borough has just been the scene of a disgraceful row amongst Irishmen, in which, unfortunately, one life was sacrificed. A number of Irish were in the habit of resorting to the Cottage Tavern, a small one-storied edifice at the foot of Hopper-street, and there talking over the troubled state of their country. While some 15 or 20 of them were thus engaged on Saturday night the general harmony was suddenly disturbed by the appearance of a tall, rough-looking pitman from the neighbour- hood of Monkwearmouth, who, without the slightest provocation, loudly asserted that his name was Mickey Gorman, and that he was open to fight any man on the north side of the river, or any one in the company who disputed his word. Among those assembled at this time was James Quinn, a teaser, em- ployed at Messrs. Hartley and Co.'s glass works, and he, taking upon himself the duty of peacemaker, suggested that as nobody present desired to dispute Gorman's powers he had batter sit down and make himself comfortable. Failing to accept this advice, however, a somewhat noisy altercation ensued, and for fear of more serious disturbances the landlord, John Shea, wisely refused to grant any further supplies of liquor, and eventually succeeded in sendis% the whole company to the door a little before midnight. Unfor- tunately, they were no sooner in the open street than others of the party got excited, and the wordy strife became so violent that a crowd speedily assembled. Gorman, whose fighting propensities were apparently unabated, immediately proceeded to forcibly impress his convictions on one of the boys by striking him on the mouth, and this would undoubtedly have re- sulted in a perfect riot between the adherents of the two combatants had not peace been once more re- stored by Quinn's well-timed allision to their being one faith and one country." A move was then made in the direction of Silksworth row, but not many yards had been traversed before Gor- man again became uproarious, and, backed by a companion, vowed he would fight any man in the com- pany for the championship of the north side of the water. This bombast not being heeded, he took offence at Quinn's oft-repeated words, Go home, Mickey," and replying that he would go, ran down the street in the direction ef the railway leading to the river side, followed by the companion above referred to. Returning almost immediately, the couple elbowed their way through the crowd in the direction of Quinn, whom Gorman struck on the back of the head with a brick, which knocked him insen- sible to the ground. The cowardly assailants no sooner perceived the mischief they had perpetrated than they escaped amid the disorder that prevailed, while the blood-stained missile-which Gorman had evidently pulled from the ashes on the railway side-was picked up as evidence against him. Quinn was at once conveyed to hia home in Water-street, where, without having uttered a single word,Jhe died in about ten minutes. The police pro- oeeded to Monkwearmouth in search of the prisoner, whom they found stripped in a house in Brook- street. On being charged with the murder, he denied all knowledge of the occurrence. He was conveyed to the station-house, and subsequently Quinn's wife— who was with her husband at the time of the ocour- rence—picked him out from a batch of prisoners amongst whom he had been placed, and charged him with being the murderer, while some five or six other witnesses bore the same testimony. Prisoner—a single man-is well known to the police in consequence of previous acts of violence, and when brought from the house in which he lodged one of his brothers remarked, "The hare runs a long time, but she's caught at last." Deceased is said to have been a respectable, honest, and humane man, and leaves a wife and five children to mourn his loss. He had adopted a poor orphan girl who was left destitute, and clothed and educated her with his own family.
iSINGULAR CASE OF ROBBERY.
SINGULAR CASE OF ROBBERY. Victoire de Langle, a Frenchwoman, and James Kay, described as a lodging-house keeper, of 39A, Howland-street, Fitzroy-square, and formerly a police- sergeant, were charged on remand, at the Marlborongh- street Police-court on Tuesday, with stealing two Q5 bank-notes and a half-sovereign, belonging to Mr. Charles Fyddon, surgeon, of Highworth, Wilts. Mr. Abrams appeared for the prisoners. The prosecutor met the female prisoner in Regent- street, on the night of the 8feh December, and accompanied her to 39A, Howland-street, where she resided with the male prisoner, who had deserted his wife and children. While there the prosecutor missed two < £ 5 notes and a half-sovereign from his pocket. He got a constable and gave the woman in charge. The police subsequently took the man into custody, and searched the house, but the notes were not found. On the case being resumed on Tuesday, Inspector Siiverton said: On Thursday morning, from a communication made to me, I went to the House of Detention and saw a man named Watkins under remand. Watkins made a statement to me, and in consequence I went with Butcher, 137 C, and 55 E, to the prisoner's house, 39A, Howland-street. Butcher went on to the roof, and there found a pocket-book containing a number of duplicates. I went into the kitchen and directed 55 E to tear down some of the paperhanginga, and he did so, and the two notes produced fell down. The notes were folded very small. They are country notea, and the numbers on them correspond with the number the prosecutor gave at the station when he charged the prisoners. The half-sovereign was found since in a place where it was said to have been put. The prosecutor identified the notes ( £ 5 notes of the Gloucestershire Bank). George Watkins, a young man, said I was charged with "loitering," and was under ramanrj in the House of Detention. The prisoner Kay was remanded on the same day, and while in the cell at the police-court, with Kay, he spoke to me about the notes, saying that ha put them behind the paper-hangings, and the half- sovereign under a step in the area, and that he placed the duplicates on the skylight. Police-constable 55 E having proved finding the half-sovereign under the area step, the prisoners, whose defence was reserved, were committed for trial. The landlord of the house, 39A, Howland-street (Mr. Kneller) said he wished to prefer a charge against both prisoners. He had let his house furnished to the pr'aoner Kay, and now found that the duplicates dis. covered by the police related to several articles of fur- nitare which belonged to him, and which had been pledged by each of the prisoners. Mr. Tyrwhitt observed that he would remand the prisoners on Mr. Kneller's charge. The witness Watkins was subsequently brought up and discharged. -•
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Three hundred rabbits' tongues formed the principal ingredients of a new dish served at Com- piegne last week. The number of visitors to the South Kensing- ton Museum during the week ending December 15, 1866, were as follows :-On Monday, Tuesday, and' Saturday (free), from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 7,000; on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (admission 6d.), from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m., 1,409—total, 8,409. Average of corresponding week in former years, 7,886. Total from the opening of the museum, 6,449,902. Mr. Justice Lush and Garotters.-In open- ing the business of the winter assize at Leeds, Mr. Justice Lush said there were six cases of robbery with violence on the highway. That was a crime which he was sorrv to say he had found recently on the increase in these northern counties. It was a crime which was calculated to excite terror and alarm among peaceable and well-disposed persons. Persons dis- posed to that kind of crime could not be too often or too emphatically dealt with, with a view to its repres- sion, and the infliction of corporal punishment in addition to the other severe punishment which alone until lately was assigned by the law to that offence. It was right that such people should know that the extra kind of punishment which the law authorised would be put in force against them, in order to put down a orime so detrimental to the peace and security of society. ^Fenian Arrests in Dublin.—On Tuesday, Michael Stanley, a clerk in Messrs. Walpole, Webb, and Bewley's shipbuilding yard, was arrested with a warrant signed by the Lord-Lieutenant, on the charge of being connected with the Fenian conspiracy. In searching for arms on Tuesday in George's-place, the police found six rifles and bayonets, a quantity of bullets and bullet moulds, cartridges, belts, and pouches. Three men, Patrick O'Bryne, Richard Stowell, and John P. Stowell, who resided en the promises, were taken into custody. Four arrests I were made on Sunday in Ahaecragh, county Galway.
THE AMATEUR 11 DASHING YOUNG…
THE AMATEUR 11 DASHING YOUNG HIGHWAYMAN." On Saturday Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, held an inquest at the London Hospital on view of the body of James Thomas Baze, aged 12, who was shot by a school-fellow. Charlotte Baze, 4, Spitz-terrace, Back Church-lane, Whitechapel, said that deceased was her son. On Friday evening, the 7th inat., he left home to go to the Mission Church, near St. Mark's Schools, to learn singing as a chorister. She next saw him, severely wounded, in the London Hospital. John Lawless, a boy, said that at seven o'clock on the evening of Friday week a woman dropped three half- pence in the gutter in Back Church-lane. A boy named Purcell got a penny of it and gave deceased a farthing orange. A boy named John Bridgen, who attended the same school, oame up with a large pistol and said, If you don't give me that orange, I will blow your eye out. Deceased said, No, I have got to give other boys some." Bridgen said, If you don't, I will blow your eye out," and in two or three minutes he fired at him. The deceased fell at once. The witness did not think Bridgen really intended to shoot de- ceased, for they used to play together, and were members of the same choir. William Pnrcell, another little boy, gave substantially the same account of the matter, but persistently denied that Bridgen used any threat before the pistol wasidischarged, John Brid- gen, aged 13, stated that he was the son of a gunsmith living at 29, Waggoner's buildings, near the Com- mercial-road. On the night previous to this occasion the deceased made him" stand and deliver" with a wooden pistol; witness, therefore, got an old pistol in his father's workshop, and thought he would frighten him. He bought a halfpenny worth of powder at a shop kept by Mr. Bradley, and loaded the pistol, but put in no shot. When he met the deceased he said "Stand and deliver" in the usual way; the pistol went off, but witness thought that it could not, for he believed that he had put it at half-cock. Witness did not see that he had an orange. The Rev. Mr. Soott said that the occurrence all arose through the boys playing at "Dick Tarpin, the Dashing Highwayman." in consequence of reading the vile romance of that name, which he was sorry to say was being devoured by boys all over London. The boy Bridgen, he had since learnt, was going to have a play at Christmas of Dick Turpin. Mr. D. Thorpe, house surgeon, said that deceased was brought in on the night of the 7th inst., with a gunshot wound in the eye. He died from his injuries on Wednesday last. The concussion from the discharge close to the eye had fractured the skull. The Coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict "That deceased died from the effects of a pistol-shot wound accidentally inflicted on him by John Brigden; and the jury deprecate the practice of tradesmen selling gunpowder to young boys without making any inquiry or exercising any caution."
THE HEALTH OF LONDON.
THE HEALTH OF LONDON. In the week that ended on Saturday, December 15th, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were, according to the Registrar-General's return, 4,379; the deaths registered, 3,028. The annual rate of mortality was 26 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,029 boys and 1,045 girls, in all, 2,074 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of 10 years, 1856-65, the average number, corrected foz increase of population, was 2,084. The deaths re- gistered in London during the week were 1,389. It was the 50th week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a cor- rection for increase of population, 1,469. The deaths in the present return are less by 80 than the estimated number. Two cases of cholera and 25 of diarrhoea were registered last week. A boiler-maker, aged 18 years, died on December 9th of bronchitis after cholera, at 17, Orchard-street, Woolwich. The son of a silk dyer, aged one year, died on December 10, of cholera (24 hours), at 17, Fleet-street, Bethnal-green. Although the epidemic has subsided, isolated cases still demand the vigilant attention of the authorities. This is one of the lessons of the year. For while cholera raged between the Tower, the Isle of Dogs, and Victoria-park-over the area traversed by the Blackwall Railway, and the Great Eastern Railway as far as Stratford and West Ham-among a population in uninterrupted com- munication, through lines of streets, the Regent's Canal, and the Thames, with the rest of London and the surrounding distri«ts, to whioh many of the infeoted persosa living in the East of London fled, the deci- mation was strictly circumscribed within well-defined bounds. The fierceness of the disease extended thus far and no farther, although the movements of the people were as free as air. The futility of quarantine iines is so well known that their establishment was never proposed in London. The supply of impure water was at once arrested; the water engineers grew careful, the sewage was now less inefficient than it ever had been before, for South London waa drained; the health officers became vigilant; premonitory diarrhoea was treated; every case as it occurred was published to the world; and the cholera exoreta were destroyed by oarbolio acid and other disinfectants. The disease was communicated by contact with the poison in a few cases, but its general diffu- sion was stopped. This is the secret of the success of London in controlling an epidemic that during the year has been so fatal in continental cities- The annual rate of mortality last week was 24 per 1,000 in London, 33 in Edinburgh, and 26 in Dublin; 20 in Bristol, 21 in Birmingham, 32 in Liverpool, 28 in Man- chester, 27 in Salford, 29 in Sheffield, 24 in Leeds, 19 in Hull, 41 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 31 in Glas. gow. The rate in Vienna was 28 per 1,000 during the week ending the 1st inst., when the temperature was 29 Fahrenheit lower than in the same week in London, where the rate was 25 per 1,000.
IA BANKRUPT BARONET.
I A BANKRUPT BARONET. Sir Robert Nicholson, Bart., described as of Church- place, Clapham, and various other residences, of no business or occupation, who has been frequently before the Bankruptcy Court, appeared there again on Tues- day. At the last sitting, held six months since, an adjournment was directed to enable the bankrupt to make a proposal to his creditors. The debts are now stated at X. 2,645; property held as security, .£500. Mr. Reed, for creditors, stated that since the last sittingnocommunioation of any kind had been received by his clients from the bankrupt; and he new asked that the sitting should be adjourned sine die. Mr. Aldridge, for the official assignee, said that the case had been before the court since April, 1865, and the bankrupt had been in custody six months. There had been repeated adjournments for amended ac- counts, several creditors being omitted in the origiul statement. The bankrupt passed his examination in T une last, but the sitting for discharge was adjourned to see whether he could make a proposal to his creditors, The case now came before the court on adjournment. Mr. Reed said that nothing had been done tor the creditors, and they had now the poor octisfaction of asking the court to punish the bankrupt for hIS rail,. conduot. He had contracted debts without rcasonaMg expectation of payment, and had the offence by passing from one part of Mother, and from London to the country, VIC ml8U]g small tradesmen wherever he went. The cretors Were not less than 57 in number, and embraced aU kinds of tradesmen. Some of the debts bad abeen incurred as early as 1861, and in 1865 he had obtained credit from 16 fresh persons. The list °.omPrisea 11 wine mer- chants, eight grocers, six ironmongers, s}x fish- mongers, four drapers, IO"r "very-stable keepers, three upholsterers, three carvers and gilders, two china dealers, two dairymen, four butchers, two boot- makers, two gaafitters, two confectioners, one auc- tioneer, one jeweller, one florist, carmen, horse-dealers, stationers, and v»ziona others, including three or four for rent, one being a creditor for no less than .£352 for a house inL igarewood. square. Leaving that place in April, 1864, he took a house in Royal- crescent, Notting- hill. He aited. uppQ Mr. Wakeling, upholsterer, of Wardour-street, in his earriage, which was not paid for, and gave hin1 a, large order, part of which was executed, but the remainder was stopped, it coming to Mr. Wakelicss knowledge that Sir Robert was keeping house with closed doors to keep out his creditors. The gooda of Mr. Wakeling, valued at about .£350, had been sold to Mr. Markwick, a pawnbroker, for £ 240, and the bankrupt had lived on the proceeds. lIe had no income or property of his own, and he had been living all the time, as he alleged, on gifts from his friends. Mr. Griffiths said the defendant had an allowance of X150 a year from his sister the Hon. Mrs. Cochrane. Mr. Reed contended that the bankrupt's conduct was no more justifiable than that of a pickpooket or swindler. It would be no punishment to the bank- rupt to refuse his order of discharge, as he did not ,W '(: ,) ,1 ¡, L.. want to go into trade, and the only proper course was to sentence him to imprisonment under the 159th section, for there never was a more gross case of fraud. The only excuse of the bankrupt was that some old debts of R200 and R320 were due to him, the latter being claimed as director's fees of some bubble com- pany, but there never was a shadow of a pretence or expectation of those debts being realised. Mr. Griffiths, for the bankrupt, said that he had already suffered very severely by being kept nearly two years before the Court, during part of which time he had been detained in custody, and that punishment ought to have satisfied the opposing creditor. Consi- dering that the bankrupt had been seven months in prison, through which his health had suffered severely, and that his debts were not of great amount—between X2,000 and R3,000-the learned counsel expressed a hope that the order of discharge would now be granted. The learned Commissioner said he regretted that the time given to the bankrupt for the purpose of making some arrangement had not been employed for that purpose. The case was now in a very narrow com- pass-whether Messrs. Wakeling's debt had been contracted in 1864, without probable means of pay- ment. The Court could come to no other conclusion, looking at the number of small domestic debts incurred before that time, than that the bankrupt was in a state of utter insolvency. But the bankrupt had already suffered so severely he had been six months in prison, though not at the suit of Mr. Wakeling, and it was clear that the creditor did not take any steps for bringing the bankrupt to book, notwithstanding his suspicions were aroused before the whole of the goods were delivered. As so much time had been allowed to pass by, the bankruptcy being in June, 1865, no further imprisonment would be inflicted, but regard being had to the fact, which was much to be regretted, that the bankrupt had incurred small debts, which most persona paid weekly or monthly, and had kept moving from place to place, it was clear he was not justified in incurring the debt complained of, notwith- standing any expectations he might have had from his sister or from his military position. Taking into con- sideration all the circumstances, the Court felt bound to suspend the order of discharge for twelve months from this time. Mr. Reed: That will be without protection. His Honour: No; I have already said that I think he has suffered sufficient imprisonment. He will have protection for three months, renewable from time to time, unless cause be shown to the contrary. Judgment accordingly.
THE LATE ELECTION FOB LONDON.…
THE LATE ELECTION FOB LONDON. DERRY. The case of Hempton v. Humphreys has occupied the Irish Court of Exchequer for some time. On Thursday the Chief Baron charged the jury, and spoke of the ability with which the case had been conducted on both sides. He brought before the jury the points for their consideration, and observed upon the evidence. Mr. Macdonogh, Q.C., said he had no objection to make to his lordship's charge, but asked him to withdraw from the jury the question raised by Mr. Palles in his reply, relative to the defendant's sending money with the intent or knowledge that it was to be applied in bribery, or to the repayment of money applied in bribery. The XI,000 sent by the defendant to Mr. Colquhoun in December, 1865, might have been applied in treating, for which the candidate only would be responsible. The Chief Baron declined to withdraw the question, but told the jury they might infer the defendant be- lieved the money was to be spent, not in bribery, but for treating, and other illegal purposes, for which he was net now answerable in the action. # Mr. Palles, Q C., observed that the point in ques- tion could not have been raised until after the evidence obtained on the defendant's cross-examination. a Considerable discussion took place on legal ques- tions between counsel on both sides and his lordship. At a quarter past seven o'clock the jury were sent for, and having again entered court, His Lordship asked had they agreed to a verdict,? Foreman: No, my lord, nor is there the slightest chance of it. His Lordship: Well, gentlemen, the counsel in the case have left the matter very much in my hands, and I think I ought, at thh late hour, not to detain you any longer. You have now been three days engaged hearing the case. If you tell me there is any possi- bility that by remaining here you might come to an agreement, I would be glad to assist you. Foreman Oh, there is not the slightest chance. niy lord. The jury were then discharged.
STEALING A CHRISTMAS PRESENT,
STEALING A CHRISTMAS PRESENT, George Vickers, alias Beglis, well known to the police, was brought before the magistrate bk the gouthwark Police-court, on Thursday, charge- by Mr: Carpenter, the superintendent ef the Brighton Railway Company's police, with stealing a basket of tu^eys at the London-bridge terminus. Riohard Wood, the excess luggage clerk at the Loc- don-bridge terminus of the Brighton and South Coafst Railway, said that he was on duty near the ucalea about seven o'clock on the previous evening, when his attention was called to the prisoner, who was examin- ing the luggage lying about ready to be placed on the luggage vans. His conduct excited his suspicion, which induced him to watch him, and a minute or so afterwards he saw the prisoner go up to the pile of luggage and pull off a basket of turkeys from the top and carry it to the labeller, whom he asked to label it for him to Croydon. Witness went up to him and asked him whether the basket cf turkeys belonged to bim. He said that it did. Witness told him that such could not be the case, as he saw the basket brought there by another man, whom he knew to be the owner. The prisoner said, "Oh, that's all right, he brought it here for me; they don't belong to him." Witness then told the prisoner that the basket could not be labelled until the other man ruturned, when the prisoner walked away. lIe, however, followed him and gave him into custody- lie then said that he had never touched the basket, but only looked at it. Mr. Carpenter, the superintendent of the company's police, said>e stopped the prisoner as he was hurriedly leaving the terminus, knowing him to be a thief, when last witziess came up and gave him into custody for stealing the basket of turkeys. The magistrate asked if he knew the prisoner. Mr. Carpenter replied that he did. He had been tried and convicted at the Surrey Sessions for a rob- bery at the same station about two years ago. A nam- ber of robberies had recently taken place since priso- ner 8 liberation, and if a remand was granted he believed he should be able to produce, evidence to implicate the prisoner. The latter, who denied the intention to steal th basket, was remanded.
ASSAULT ON A BABY.
ASSAULT ON A BABY. John Phillips, a tall, powerful fellow, who refused his address, was charged before the magistrate at Worship-street, on Friday, with cutting and wound- ing George Chapman, apparently about three months old. The baby was lying in the arms of the mother, its head bandaged, and the features very pallid. Complainant stated: At six o'clock last evening I was entering the Ten Bell's pablio-houke, in Spital- fields, when the prisoner, who was standing at the counter with .a saucer in his hand, flung it, I cannot say whether at me or at the baby in my arms, or a child at my side, but it struck the baby above the eye. Mr. Ellison: Did it cut the child ? Mother: Oh, sir, it bled dreadfully. I screaked that he had murdered the child, and then ran tc the doctor; but he would not attend to the womia; a second dooter also refused, and I then took th<s poor little thing to the hospital. I afterwards returned to the public-house. Prisoner was still there, and when I asked if he was not sorry for what he had done, he jeered at me and abused me shamefully. I then gave him into custody. Police-constable Quin, 194 H: I believe the prisoner was the worse for liquor, but I am certain that he well knew what he was doing. Prisoner was remanded, a certificate stating that the wound was serious. «
TLTURE.,
TLTURE., CENTRAL CHAMBER OF xUCULTURE. lowing from the Field g cultivator who visited the metro- griGultural week, and availed him- jrogramme prepared for his improve- ment, will, we believe, return with i increased energy to the practical aj life, and will bring back new ideas .f generally brightened up. It is impos. good must come from these re-unions, a may be said which is neither practical >10. In the way of novelty we have to iEst general meeting of the Central Chamber jare, which took place at the London Coffee- the 12th insfe., and was presided over by Mr. ell, the chairman for the ensuing year. AI. the attendance was limited, the proceedings fa very business-like character, and a consider- aumber of local chambers were represented. It oe interesting to know that the central and local imbers make up an aggregate of 3,C90 members, id that the Central Society will be in a position to obtain the opinion of all their members upon any sub- ject brought before them. "Considering that the movement is soarce a twelve- month old, the energetic promoters may be congratu- lated on the measure of success wbich has attended their effort;and this has been done without weaken- ing other societies framed for a somewhat different purpose. Thus we rejoice to learn that the Farmers' Club has increased considerably, and that the Royal Sooiety, instead of failing off by hundreds as was confidently expected, has only lost some ninety mem- bers. The chairman, in opening the proceedings, dwelt upon the want that existed for an organised machinery by means of which the interests of agricul- ture might be properly brought before Parliament- showing that at the present time it was very difficult to bring the legitimate influence ef the farming interest to bear, because it lacked influence with the Govern- ment. A distinct department in the Board of Tracie it was enÜled to claim; and in the opinion of the ohsirman it might go farther, and demand the appoint- ment of a Minister of Agriculture, and a separate department in the Government. Should such a desirable appointment be made, the business "f the Central Chamber would at once become of the most praotical t, a,ure-viz., to collect and carefully analyse the opinioiis of agriculturists on topics affecting the interests cf agriculture. Mr. Pell alluded to tie reoent openings of fairs and markets, which h9 characterised a3 a most unwise course, as an instance of the want of agricultural influence on the Govern- ment. We gather from the report that the Scottish Chamber waich we learn is meeting with consider- able support, bag I evolved to co operate with the Central Chamber. "Lord Bernera expressed his cordial approbation of the objects of the society, and hoped that the land- owners as well as occupiers would be induced to join it, having felt, through a practice of over 40 years, that for want of proper machinery the agricultural interest has often been placed in a disadvantageous position. He also hoped that members of Parliament might be induced to attend their meetings, feeling sure that ware they within reach of advice from practical taen their votes would frequently be more satisfactory. Several resolutions were passed, the most important being those touching the question of foreign cattle, trade, fairs, and markets, &c., for presentation to the Government, moved by Mr. C. S. Reade, M.P., and which in their amended form (that as to tha foot and mouth disease having been very properly struck out) we append. 1. That the importation of foreign stock should be confined to certain ports specially licensed by Govern- ment, which ports should be provided with suitable markets, slaughter-houses, quarantine grounds, and officers. That all foreign fat stock should be forthwith slaughtered at such markets, and that all foreign store stock should be subjected to 28 days' quarantine before they are permitted to remove inland. "2. That should the rinderpest or sheep-pox be again imported or break out afresh, slaughtering and com- pensating powers sim^r to those of the Cattle Diseases Act of February last should at once be put i/i force, and the district proclaimed. 3. That stringent regulations should be made with regard to the expeditious transit and watering of animals conveyed on railways, and that a thorough cleansing of all trucks, pens, and layers, and the proper space and ventilation of the holds of cattle- boalzs, should be enforced by Government inspection. 4. That the wilful exposure of any animal suffering from such contagious disease as rinderpest, pleuro- pneumonia, sheep from scab and glanders, upon aay highway, beat, or railway, or in any market or fair, should be an offence punishable with fine or im- prisonment. H 5th and 1Mt. That a more stringent inspection of all dead meat, especially that imported from countries known to be suffering from cattle plague should be enforced by Government. Whatever the decision of the Legislature may be in this weighty matter, no one can question that the above resolutions emanate from a thoroughly agrioul- tural body, or deny that they express in concise lan- guage the opinions of the great bulk of the landed in- tarest. Of course there will be conflicting interests at work, and, as in the case of markets and fairs, the Go. vernment will be pressed upon in various directions, by parties or corporate bodies who will suffer loss from any change, and who are anxious to return as soon as possible to the old arrangements. The farmers them- selves can do very well without the fairs and markets, especially when it is remembered that "the foot and mouth disease" almost disappeared with the closing of markets, and appeared again as scon as animals once more congregated together. It is also a point worthy of notice, though it is not nacaesarily connected, that, coincident with the relaxation of orders, dispersion of inspectors, and general laxity as to penalties, the cattle disease has reappeared. Tha presentation of these resolutions took place on Monday last. It has been objected by some that this movement will degenerate into a mere pretext for party politics, ana that tha organisation will be made use of to advance a party. Such a dread might have been ex. pressed twenty years ago, when farmers were more gullible than now. Free trade has opened their eyes, aad though their proclivfties may, as a rule, be rather Conservative than Liberal, the motto in the present: day will be measures, from whatever quarter, not me-u and as long as this motto is nailed to the mast, the ahip will be steered straight. The chairman alluded to a subject of vast impors- aace'towards which the energies of the Chamber might be directed—viz., the basis of the poor's rate. "We have always held that Mr. Charles Villiera'a measure, comprehensive as it is and beneficial as it must prove in the long run, is but the first step towards a general rating of the whole country; and any light thrown on this subject will do good. Then, again, the question of turnpikes is one that may well bd canvassed, and doubtless from time to time matters wiii arise requiring attention. We abominate political agitation, and should regret to see agricultural energy turned from its legitimate ambition-the increase of stock and crops—into a channel which would pro- bably prove utterly unprofitable; but we do not anticipate that there is any danger of this, and we cordially wish success to this new movement."
/ HINTS UPON GARDENING.J
HINTS UPON GARDENING. J KITCHEN GARDEN.-There ought not to be now a single square yard of unoccupied ground that has not been deeply dug since the last crop was taken off. DeElp stirring and successive frostilge of the soil are immensely beiaeScial, and there will never be muoh success in the culture of edibles where there ia any fear of hard work 18 winter. The outdoor work of this month must be regulated by the weather. When the ground ia not fit to be trodden on, get together all the clippings of hedges, prunings of trees, &o., for charring, and keep the produce under coyer to use as needful; it is a most valuable top-dressing for peas and ether early crops, both to stimulate growth aid prevent attacks of slugs. During frost, wheel out dung, ready to dig in at the first opportunity. Sow, during fine day weather, Dillistone's early and ) Sangster'a No. 1 pea3, mazagan, longpod, and Beck's gem beans, horn carrot, and hollow-crowned parsnips. j Wo have found of late years that parsnips sown at the end of January make very heavy crops, and are rarely hurt by frosts; end if they do happen to be cut off by frost, there is still time to sow again, and the loss of the seed is a very trifling matter oompared with the chance of a heavier orop. Peas and beans may be sown now in frames, to trans- plant when the season is sufficiently advanced. These will be useful to replace any outdoor sowuiga de- stroved by frost, and to mend and patch the rowa that have suffered damage. The best way to sow for transplanting ia on strips of turf, which can ae lifted out and laid in the rows when the transplanting ta^es place. Asparagus, seakale, and rhub^b will now be coming in plentifully from the forcing-beds. If these beda Ire allowed to get too dry, the produce will be neither good nor plentiful. But they may be moist on the surface, and yet dry at the roots of the plants; therefore ascertain by stirring the soil with a trowel ia the middle of the bed, and if dry give a good soaking with tepid water. Make up fresh beds for suooeseive supplies In ordering in roots for forcing, take care either to plant immediately on receiving them, or keep the roots moist with moss or mould, or they will be much injured by the action of the atmosphere. Compost should now be prepared in quantity, as there ia now a chance of getting it well frozen and several times turned before the winter is over. The benefit of attending to this at once will be immense in the culture of specimen plants, and, in fact, with whatever requireil a good compost, well pulverised, and free from vermin. It must be remembered that composts frequently turned at this time not only get frozen, which kills the vermin, but the robins and thrushes explore it every time it is thrown up afresh, and they, perhaps, clean in more effectually than frost. FLOWER GARDEN.—Every cultivator of flowers should secure now a good supply of turf from a loamy pasture, and of bog, peat, or silky yellow loam in which the common brake grows plentifully. These should be staoked up in high ridges like walls, so that the frost will penetrate the whole mass, and the grass will rot quickly. Manure, roughly spread among choice shrubs, will assist in protecting their roots from frost. In spring the manure can be levelled, and all rough stuff raked off. This is a good time to make banks and rockeries, as during frost the wheeling can be done without harm to the walks. Rhododendrons that have been many years planted require a little refreshing at the root, and this is the best time to do it. A mixture of very rotten cow. dung and leaf-mould is an excellent surfacing material, or two or three inches of rotten cow-dung only will do; nothing stronger must be used. This is a job that may be done during frost better than while the ground is wet. Roses requiring protection and hitherto neglected, must have attention at once, as we are now approaching the season of real winter. Planta- tions of roses should now be mulched with half-rotten dung, the looseness of which will protect the roots from frost, and the dreneh of rain and snow will carry much of its goodness into the ground. Roses to be planted should be got in without delay, while there is yet a chance of fair weather, as if neglected now it will be better to defer planting till the end of February. All newly-planted standards are to be securely staked. Tender plants in the open ground, such as fuchsias, erithrinas, boavardias, oxaus, alstromerias, japan lilies, Watsonias, and other rather delicate bulbs in the peat-bed, must have some protection, such as coal- ashes piled in the form of a cone over their roots, or heaps of moss put over, and kept from blowing away by means of hoops of willow rods. FRUIT GARDEN AND ORCHARD HousE.-Fruit trees of all kinds, both in fiuik garden, orchard, and orchard-house, should now be pruned and painted. For the latter purpose, a mixture of lime, soot, and clay, to the consistence of paint, will answer well; or use Giahurst according to the directions which ac. company it.-Gcwdeners' Chronicle,
SEASONABLE PASTIMES.
SEASONABLE PASTIMES. During the dreary monthsofNovemberandDecember Miss Glyn's fortnightly readings of Shakespeare have been received with immense favour at St. James's-hall, London. The following remarks appear in the Athenceum of December 22 :—In each successive read- ing Miss Glyn gives now proofs not only of the force of her genius, but of its ample range. The play of King John, read on the 14th instant, is remarkable for a group of prominent characters as happily contrasted as they are powerfully drawn. The mind that can re- present these various individualities with such dis- cernment and power as Miss Glyn evinced must have the true dramatic inspiration—a faculty not to be con- founded with that displayed by some actors, who can paint tolerably well such character a-and only such- as fall in with their own peculiarities. An actor of this kind is apt to subordinate his author to himself indeed, we have before now seen Shakspearean repre- sentations in which the true order of things was totally inverted, the poet being evidently regarded as a person existing simply to furnish means of display to the performer, who had no idea that his or her individuality should be lost sight of in embodying dramatic conceptions. In Mi-a Glyn's case it is quite otherwise. With the sympathy which denotes tne true artist, she forgets herseif in the characters which she assumes, and, thoroughly identifying herself with their feelings and modes of thought, gives to both their natural and special expression. The cruel and deceitful John, not without that strain of chivalry which Shakespeare has somewhat ideally assigned to him as a Plantagenet; Faulconbridge, with his shrewd brain, and the overflow of physical energy which not only makes him delight in strife and action, but gives a humorous zest even to his perception of the selfishness of mankind; Arthur, with his filial de. votion and his princely gentleness—that bud that should have expanded into knightly manhood; Hubert, with hia better nature under a forbidding surface-all these were presented by Miss Glyn with an impartial truth and vigour which made it im- possible to say in which character she was most at home. Those portions of the play which are, moat effective on thestage were, to an intellectual taste, still more effective in a reading throughout which one nobly endowed mind shed its illustrative light equally upon all the persons engaged. The scene in which figure tha Kings of England and France, Austria, Faulconbridge, the Pope's Legate, and Constance, was a model of varied and animated delivery. King John tempted Hubert to Arthur's death before an audience that sat hushed in interest while the wicked purpose of the monarch was gradually developed; and the pleadings of Arthur with Hubert to spare his sight were irresistible in their pathos. We thought, indeed, that in the earlier part of this last scene something of the terror of the situation, so far as it relates to Arthur, was lost in the gentle sweetness of his re- monstrance; but this defect, if it were one, dis- appeared before the close, the afieoting power of which could not have been surpassed. We have reserved the mention of Miss Glyn's Constance till now, because it was the central triumph of the night. Finding the mainspring of the character in maternal affection, Miss Glyn still keeps steadily in view the fact that Constance is herself a princess, and the mother of a rightful king. Accordingly, her passion in its utmost intensity is still regal. Her denunciation of Austria is that of a high-born woman, who, in a ohivalric age, holds up to the traitor the ideal of knighthood to which he has been false. Her grief is deep and overpowering, her pasaion fiery and scathing; but she ia never merely violent. By a majestic largeness of treatment, and by a spontaneous truth of emotion, whether in gdef or anger, Miss Glyn produced in Constance an effect rare indeed in these times. Her expressive face was in itself a vivid com- mentary on the text, while from her lips the pas- sionate imagery which Constance employs seemed as natural as an everyday utterance. A.t the end of the third act a refined and critical andiesae were roused into enthusiasm, nor were their demonstrations less fervent at the close of the reading..The next play on Miss Glyn's list is Othello, which will be given on the 18th of January.
I A WEALTHY THIEF.'
A WEALTHY THIEF. David Hampson, a stout and respectable-looking person, 43 years of age, was charged on Friday, at the Worship-street Police-court, with robbing his em- ployers, Messrs. Charles and John Gould, wholesale grocers, Nos. 4 and 5, Shoredifcoh. „ The prisoner had been suspected for some time of pll. fering from the counter-tills. Money was marked and placed in them, and 3s. of it was subsequently found in his possession. On searching his house, No. 1, Eglinton-road, Old Ford, Bow, 46 lbs. of tea, eight boxes of sardines, seven bottles of sauce, and other articles of the description and quality sold by Messrs. Gould, were found and claimed by the prosecutors who had placed great confidence in him. Sergeant Gee, who has the conduot of the cage, asked that the prisoner might be accommodated with a seat in the dock; while at the station-house he had been seized with a fit, from the effects of which he was now suffering. Prisoner, who appeared exceedingly low-spirited, was accordingly seated while euffieiant evidence was taken to justify a remand. It was subsequently stated that he had recently been left property amounting to = £ 3,000.
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The managers of the Opera-house at Paris have determined, in consequence of the increasing popula- tion of that city, drawn together. n anticipation of the Universal Exhibition, to give six performances a week, commencing on the 15th of January, 1867.