286 for ASTERN EXCHANGE BANK EA Act, 1862. CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS, HE NATIONAL FINANCIAL COM(Limited), invite SUBSCRIPTIONS SHARES in the ALBERT INSURANCE COMPANY Incorporated, with Limited Liability, under the Companies' (Limited), for Fire and Marine Insurances. Incorporated under the Companies' Act, 1862, whereby the liability of each member is strictly limited to the amount of his shares. Capital £1,000,000, divided into 20,000 shares of £50 each. First issue 10,000 shares. Deposit on application, £1 per share, and £4 on allotment. No call to exceed £5 per share, nor to be made until the expiration of three months from the incorporation of the Company, nor at intervals of less than three months. It is not contemplated, however, to call up more than £5 per share beyond the deposit and payment on allotment. DIRECTORS. Oswald H. Colven, Esq. (Messrs John Nickols and Co.). E. T. Gourley, Esq., Shipowner, London and Sunderland. P. W. Spence. Esq. (Messrs E. J. Spence, and Co.), Pinner's Charles Rudd Tatham, Esq. (Messrs Tatham and Co.), C. P. Varsami, Esq., Merchant, 1 Shorter's court, Throg- The agents, policy-holders, and shareholders of the Alberti Life Company necessarily form a connexion of the most influential character for a Fire and Marine Insurance Company. The annual increase in the wealth of the country and in that description of property known as "insurable property" has suggested the formation of several new fire insurance offices, but the Directors of this Company be lieve that in very few instances has a fire company started with the same chances of success as attend the introduction of this. The Company will have the advantage of the co-operation of a trained and perfectly organized system of agents; and the Directors submit, therefore, that there is a certainty of securing, almost at once, a large and profitable business. The Chancellor of the Exchequer having intimated his Intention to reduce the duty one-half on stock in trade, a large additional number of fire insura ces will, no doubt, be effected by persons who have hitherto been deterred from insuring for the full value of their stock by reason of the heavy duty. MARINE DEPARTMENT. Notwithstanding the recent establishment of several marine insurance companies and the extensive business they have acquired, there is ample room for the safe and profitable enployment of capital in this direction. The vast increase in the shipping interest of the United Kingdom, together with the growing feeling in favour of the security afforded by joint stock companies as compared with private underwriters, point to the opening which exists for this department of the Company's operations. The services of an able and experienced underwriter will be secured, and a large business can at once be obtained for the Company. In the event of no allotment being made the deposit will be returned in full. Should a less number of shares be allotted than are applied for, the deposit will be made available towards the payment on allotment, and the balance (if any) returned to the applicant. Forms of applications for shares may be obtained from the National Financial Company (Limited), 12 King's Arms yard, Moorgate street, E.C.; or the brokers or solicitors of the Company. In 100,000 Shares, of £20 each. First issue 50,000 Shares. George M. Bowen, Esq. (Thomas Manning and Co.), Liver. Thomas Chilton, Esq. (Ho'derness and Chilton), Liverpool. Robert Dirom, Esq. (Dirom, Davidson, and Co., Liverpool; Chas. Edward Dixon, Esq., Liverpool (Dixon Brothers, and William James Fernie, Esq. (Fernie Brothers and Co.), Patrick Hunter, Esq. (Browne, Hunter, and Co.), Liverpool. Andrew Malcolmson, Esq. (J. and D. Malcolmson and Co.), BANKERS. Liverpool-The National Bank of Liverpool. Ireland- The Branches of the National Bank. Messrs Lace, Banner, Gill and Laco, Liverpool. Liverpool-Messrs Thomas Tinley and Sons. SECRETARY.-A. E. Pelly, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES: 17 Brown's buildings, Exchange, Liverpool. PROSPECTUS. The Eastern Exchange Bank (Limited), is formed to supply a want which has been long felt, and its value will be immediately recognised. Although Liverpool enjoys an immense export and import trade, and is the port through which the valuable manufactures of Lancashire and Yorks' ire pass, it has not a single Bank connected with the Mediterranean, the East Indies, China, or Australia. The Exports of British and Irish Produce and Manufactures to the above countries for the year 1863 amounted to about Feriv Millions, ant by for the greater portion was shipped from Liverpool, whilst the produce received in return into Liverpool was of a value of upwards of Sixty Millions, making a total of One Hundred Millions sterling. indifferent countries, established for the purpose of affording Whilst London has upwards of fifty Banks, with branches every facility in Exchange transactions, there is no Bank of this description, with its headquarters in Liverpool, connected with the East. The profitable nature of Exchange business is well known, and the practice which has become so general of attaching Bills of Lading to Bills of Exchange renders this the safest description of Banking business. Some evidence of the safety and profitable character of mentioned Banks, whose chief sources of profits are in the business is afforded by the present values of the underconnection with Exchange operations. and China The Directors of the EASTERN EXCHANGE BANK will The business of the Bank will chiefly consist in negotiating mercantile bills of exchange, granting drafts, in negotiating and coll cting bills payable at places where the Bank has branches or agencies. It will issue circular notes and letters of credit; will undertake the purchase and sale of securities, the receipt of dividends, and effect remittances between the several places, including London, at which its Agencies and Branches will be established. The Bank is founded under "The Companies' Act, 1862," whereby the respective liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of his shares. There will be no fee for promotion; the remuneration of the Directors will be fixed by the Shareholders at each annual meeting; and the preliminary expenses will be confined to indispensable outlay. The Articles of Association lie at the Office of the Solici- Applications for Shares must be accompanied with a In case the amount so paid should exceed £3 per Share ARIS.-THE GRAND HOTEL Boulevard des Capucines, Place de Nouvelle Opera' opposite the Rue de la Paix, and near the theatres, has been OPENED since July, 1862. It contains 700 bedrooms, prices from 4fr. to 25fr.; 70 drawing-rooms, from 5fr. to 30fr.; a magnificent salon, capable of dining more forfeited. than 300 persons, and where there is a table d'hote at six o'clock. Dinners and breakfasts are served à la carte in the full. tion may be had. coffee rooms, as well as in the apartments. There is a read- Applications for Shares may be sent through the Solicitors Situated in the most central part of Paris, Rue di Rivoli and Place du Palais Royal. Six hundred bed-rooms at from 3f. to 20f., sixty sitting-rooms at from 4f. to 20f., a richly decorated dining saloon. Table d'hote at six o'clock. Public coffee and dining-rooms. Choice wines. Dinners served à la carte both in the dining-rooms and the private apartments. Reading aud conversation saloons; also saloons for musical, wedding, and other parties. All newspapers and serial publications received. Divans, coffee, smoking, and billiard rooms. Numerous bath-rooms. Carriages on the premises. First-class private equipages at command. Omnibuses running to all the railway stations. Postal letter box. Telegraph office day and night. Photographic studio. A staff of servants speaking all languages. Independently of these two hotels, the Compagnie Immobiliere has established an extensive private furnished house on the Boulevard des Capucines, opposite the rotunda of the Grand Hotel, where families can reside as in their own private residences, and where they may rely upon finding Having paid to the Bankers of the above- Dated this day of 1864. THE HE HUMBER IRON WORKS and CREDIT MOBILIER (Limited) Are prepared to receive Applications for the Capital of the Capital £1,000,000, in 20,000 Shares of £50 each, of which It is not contemplated to call up more than £12 10s. per E. W. Watkin, Esq, Director of the Great Western Railway D. J. Bacca, Esq. (Pana, Cremedi, and Co.), Great Winchester street. E. H. D'Avigdor, Esq., 5 Upper Harley street. Captain J. H. Marryat (Joseph Marryat, and Sons), Laurence W. L. Merry, Esq., Director of the Mercantile and Exchange J. Morrish, Esq., Director of the Metropolitan and Provincial W. H. Moss, Esq., Alderman, Hall. Christopher' Simpson, Esq., Director of the Hull Dock W. 11. Smith, Esq. (Smith, Barry, and Co.), Leadenhall Julius H. Thompson. Esq. (Julius H. Thompson, and Co., MANAGING DIRECTOR, HULL. George Hinton Bovill, Esq., Dake street, Westminster. Bank of London. Messrs Samuel Smith, Brothers, and Co., Hull. Messrs Robins and Barber, Threadneedle street. At the Offices of the Mercantile Credit Association (Limited), The company has been formed for purchasing and extend- The present iron ship-building power of the establishment The situation of this establishment gives it special advantages over others of a like character. The price of shipbuilding labour is lower at Hull than in any of the iron ship-building ports of the kingdom; it is in the great iron district of Yorkshire; coal is cheap; railways run into the works, and connect them with all parts of England. Freights are very moderate from Hull, and the large timber trade of Hull offers advantages for the purchase of the timber, which is used in large quantities, on highly advantageous conditions: Two thousand workmen are now employed at the works. The present orders in hand for ships, engines, and general engineering work amount to above 300,000l., all at very remunerative prices. Reports made by some of the most eminent engineers who have examined the works, and who are specially acquainted with this branch of manufacture, show that after making large allowances (30 per cent.) off the capabilities of the works, the trade will, with the judicious management and employment of the capital, return a dividend of 20 per cent. and upwards to the shareholders, and if the works continue to be ally employed a much larger amount. The terms of purchase are highly advantageous; the plant and machinery, buildings, freehold and leasehold premises, together with all the stock of materials, are to be taken at the valuation of two engineers, one named by the company and the other by the vendors, with an umpire in the usual way. The goodwill of the business, including the profit on works in hand, is to be paid for at one year's purchase of the net profits, but on an average of three years' working. In the event of no allotment being made, the deposits allotted than is applied for, the deposit will be made available towards the payment on allotment, and the balance (if any) returned to the applicant. will be returned in full. Should a less number of shares be Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be SHIREOAKS COLLIERY Ingram Chapman, Esq., Director of Adriatic Steam James Nugent Daniell, Esq., Chairman of Alliance Bank. James Goodson, Esq., Chairman of Great Eastern Railway. C. Tylden Wright, Esq., F.G.S., Managing Director at W. W. Deloitte, Esq., Messrs Deloitte, Greenwood, and Financial Corporation (Limited), 14 Leadenhall street, Tie Colliery, which is now in operation, is situated at Shireo ks, two miles from the town of Worksop, in Nottinghamshire, and has the advantage both of Water and Railway communication with all parts of England, being intersected by the Chesterfield and Stock with Canal, and by the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line of Railway, with a Station and Sidings at the Colliery; and the Coal is loade i direct from the pit's mouth, without the expense of carriage, into Railway Trucks, or Barges, as circumstances may require. The property purchased by the Company consists of 2,000 acres of Hard Steam Coal, which has been thoroughly proved, and levels driven in all directions; with all the buildings, workshops, and machinery, in connection with the two pits sunk in the centre of the acreage le sed, together with the Canal Basin, Railway Sidings, and the Plant thereupon. The Workings are free from Water, and all met with in sinking the Shafts has been stopped back with Iron Tubbing, so that no pumps are required, and no expense has been spared in adapting both the sur ace and underground arrangements for the full development of the Mine, by which the cost of working has been rendered very economical; the machinery and everything in connection with the Colliery are in excellent working order. The Coal is of fine hard quality, and is in great demand for Steam purposes. From the situation of the Property, and its facilities for communication, the Company is in a position to supply the daily increasing demand of this description of Coal. The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, affords direct communication with the Ports of Hull and Grimsby. The present machinery can work with ease 200,000 tons per annum; this amount, which is capable of increase, as soon as the additional Plant and Machinery (now in the course of erection,) has been completed, is sufficient to guarantee a very ample return for the Capital employed. The Directors refer to the accompanying Report of Mr T. MACDOUGALL SMITH, C.E., who has made a special survey of the Property, for full particulars as to its cond!tion and capabilities. Forms of application can be had at the Offices of the Financial Corporation, 14 Leadenhall street, E.C.; and from the Company's Brokers, Messrs Seymour and Co., 38 Throgmorton street. Plans of the property, the report referred to by Mr T. Macdougall Smith, and the Articles of Association, and the agreement for the Lease, are to be seen at the Company's Offices. If no allotment is made, the deposits will be returned in full. Annual Income WEST-END OFFICE.......... 8. Waterloo place, Pallmall. INSURANCE COMPANY, No. 1 Okt Broad street, London, E.C. Instituted 1820. IMPERIAL LIFE The distinguishing feature of this Company is perfect security. The amount insured from the commencement exceeds £70,250,000. The amount of policies issued £7,200,000. The amount of claims paid, including bonus, £2,080,000. The fund accumulated from premiums exceeds ten years of the premium income, and 34 per cent. on the insurances in force. DIRECTORS. EDWARD HENRY CHAPMAN, Esq., Chairman. G. J. Graystone Reid, Esq. AUDITORS. John Harvey Astell, Esq., Paul Butler, Esq. COMPANY (Limited). INSURANCE 94 Cannon street, London, E.C. 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RIG-VEDA SANHITA: a Collection of Ancient Hindu Hymns, constituting the Fifth to Eighth Ashtakas, or Books of the Rig-Veda, the oldest Authority for the Religious and Social Institutions of the Hindus. Translated from the Original Sanskrit by the late HORACE HAIMAN WILSON, M.A., F.R.S., &c. Edited by JAMES R. BALLANTYNE, LL.D., late Principal of the Govern ment Sanskrit College of Benares, Volumes IV., V., and VI. [In the Press. RASK'S GRAMMAR of the ANGLOSAXON LANGUAGE. BY BENJAMIN THORPE. A New Edition. 8vo. [In the Press. ESSAYS on LANGUAGE and LITERA- London: TRÜBNER & Co., 60 Paternoster row. London: Printed by CHARLES REYNELL, of High street, Futney, at his Printing-office, Number 16 Little Pulteney street, in the Parish of St James, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, and published by GEORGE LAPHAM, of Number 9 Wellington street, in the Straud, in the aforesaid County of Middlesex, at Number 9 Wellington street aforesaid.Saturday, April 30, 1864. No. 2,936.] THE POLITICAL EXAMINER. If I might give a short hint to an impartial writer it would be to tell him his fate. If he resolved to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiassed truth let him proclaim war with mankind-neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men they fall upon him with the iron hands of the law; if he tells them of virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks him with slander. But if he regards truth, let him expect martyrdom on both sides, and then he may go on fearless; and this is the course I take myself. DE FOR. RESULTS OF GARIBALDI'S VISIT. In disparagement of the opinion of the judges as to the necessity of capital punishment, Mr Bright refers to the Code half a century ago. But is this quite fair? As opposition of the Bench to the mitigation of the Criminal Sganarelle says, Il y a fagots et fagots, and not less do the judges of the present time differ from the judges of the Georgian era. The legal profession has, in common with the rest of society, made its advances in enlightenment and humanity. It has dropped the old pedantries and prejudices, and ceased to regard the law as the perfection of reason. Compare Lord Westbury with Lord Eldon, Sir A. Cockburn with Lord Ellenborough, and you have some measure of the progress made. Imagine Lord Eldon's Lord Ellenborough's opinion on secondary punishments judgment on the case of Dr Williams and Mr Wilson, and and prison discipline. The warning," Beware of the "judges," is no longer necessary. Their opinions are entitled to a respectful hearing, and should be accepted for what they may be worth. The days of oracles are gone by. of Italy be a dynastic prisoner en parole, that is his affair, Mr Ewart makes the important admission that for a time and the affair of his humiliated subjects; but while the abolition of capital punishment would encourage the there is a free printing press in England the slander shall worst crime; and we will make, on our part, the admission not go "unstripped and unwhipped," as our Cromwellian that if we were beginning the world, legislating for a new ancestors would have phrased it, that our Government state of society, we should best show respect for life by lends any sanction or encouragement to a policy of repres- not taking it except in sheer self-defence. But even sion beyond the Alps, or to the continuance in their adopting that principle, the question remains whether the present state of Venice and Rome. execution of a murderer is not as justifiable an act of selfOur diplomatic troubles over Poland and Denmark defence on the part of society as the killing of an enemyhave caused us sufficient mortification of late to make a rebel or a foreign invader. Mr Roebuck has, with his a far more serious reproach less easily borne; and if usual courage, taken this ground in justification of capital Before Garibaldi could get back to Caprera the political there be any feeling of gratitude to this country for punishment. construction to be put upon his visit to England had not the unaffected sympathy it has shown for the cause But to return to Mr Ewart's admission. The immediate unnaturally become the subject of animated discussion of Italian unity and independence, that gratitude effect of abolition would certainly be great encouragement among politicians of all classes of his countrymen. Warmed can be evinced in no way more appropriate by the to murder. One dread would be taken away without the leaders of Italian Liberalism than by their insisting on substitution of another, or rather, the secondary punishby the enthusiastic reception he had received amongst us, explanations in the Italian Parliament of insinuations ment raised to the place of the greater would have the party of progress has of late given more than ordinary so hurtful to our national honour. We do not believe comparatively no terror whatever. The gallows gone, the signs of activity; and its zeal has been stimulated rather that Garibaldi has taken with him any official promises of jail would not appear even in a distant perspective. In than damped by the unconstitutional acts of repression into intervention by English arms in the Peninsula to aid the time perpetual imprisonment might be understood and which the Government has suffered itself to be betrayed. completion of his glorious task; but neither can we for a wholesomely dreaded, but meanwhile would it be justifiable moment entertain the belief that Mr Elliot has been to expose society to the dangers of emboldened guilt? Garibaldi showed his sense of the injustice and indecency authorized, directly or indirectly, to intimate to the Cabinet should innocent lives be sacrificed in an interregnum of of these acts by peremptorily refusing, during his stay in of Turin that England acquiesces willingly in the reten- criminal justice? England, to meet the Minister of Victor Emmanuel accredited tion of Venetia by mere brute force. Austria never had to our Court. His conduct in this respect, as he wished it less claim on our consideration or respect; and as for to be understood, was inspired by no personal dislike of M. been pouring forth his archiepiscopal maledictions upon us Rome, it is but a few days since its Legate a latere has d'Azeglio, still less by any intention of showing disrespect for the welcome given to the hero of Marsala. It is to the King of Italy, for whom the bloodless conqueror of impossible, therefore, that there can be any foundation Naples has generally evinced a strong feeling of attach- for the statement ascribed to the Italian Government; and ment. It was meant avowedly as a protest against the we have no doubt that there are those to be found in the Italian Chamber who will enforce its early retractation. subservient and craven spirit of the French party at Turin, too long, unhappily, in the ascendant there. Against their yoke Victor Emmanuel himself is often as much disposed to rebel as Garibaldi. Neither of them is a profound politician, but each in his own way has an instinct of truth of death for murder, there is not a law of prohibition that Tried by the test Mr Ewart applies to the punishment and right which compels him to reject with loathing the would not be condemned as inefficacious or worse. There viceregal dependency of the Administration which looks to is imprisonment with hard labour for rape, for manslaughter, Paris for its orders, as to Paris it refers its origin. for robbery, for assaults, for frauds, and yet all these The recent elections in Southern Italy of candidates be-offences continue to be committed, and the proportion to longing to the national party have struck a wholesome fear the population can indeed be reckoned with statistical into the time-servers of Turin. In reply to pointed questions punishments? In what cannot be distinctly seen is the Where, then, is the deterring effect of the in the Chamber of Representatives on the 4th inst., as to the only answer. manner in which Garibaldi's reception in this country was Complete prevention of crime is beyond the power of regarded by the Italian Government, the Minister of the human law, and all that can be done is to keep it within Interior had the folly to reply that the real question of certain bounds. There are temptations which will prevail the day was rather-What was the Government to under- have their gratifications in despite of all consequences. against the fears, and reckless depraved natures which will stand regarding the intentions of the popular party and These swell the black account of crime, but there are large its chief? He hoped, he said, they were not about to numbers wavering between right and wrong who let "I take the initiative as to the future policy of the "dare not wait upon I would," and take warning from country out of official hands. So long as its direc- the examples they see of suffering guilt. tion was left to them, it would be guided by One of the sages of antiquity having the votive offerings the advice of the Western Powers; and he would in the temple of Neptune pointed out to him as evidence have had his hearers believe that it had been so when the of the god's benignity and potency, asked Where are to money and papers of Garibaldi were seized the other day be seen the offerings of those who have perished at at Genoa by the police, avowedly upon the insulting suspi-'sea'? cion of treasonable purposes. Is this impudent assertion In the region of justice the case is reversed, and we meant to convey the idea that the British Cabinet have have a clear view of the defiance not of the obedience to been playing double; and that while welcoming the laws. We distinctly see and number the wrecks, not the wounded soldier of Aspromonte with honours hitherto paid ships that arrive safe in port. only to royalty, Lord Palmerston has been diplomatically winking at the treacherous and unpatriotic part played by an anti-national Administration in Italy? Hereafter, when the French Minister of the Italian Interior ventures to talk of the Western Powers he had better distinguish between them, and say which he means. exactness. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. of foreigners by our sanguinary laws of past times, when Mr Bright refers to the impression made on the minds the punishment of death was almost the common measure of all offence, as if the reproach still attached. Indeed he declares that we still remain the most merciless of all Christian countries, because we retain capital punishment Mr Bright begs the whole question. It is for the protecfor murder. In the application of that word merciless tion of innocent life that the law makes example of the murderer. There is a country where assassination is a pious mission, where cutthroats pass to and fro not only with impunity but favour and reward, and does Mr Bright consider it a model of the merciful in comparison with our own, where deeds of blood are regarded with such horror and visited with the most terrible retribution? But Mr Bright even cites Russia as an example to us, and quotes the saying of the Empress Catherine: "We must punish crime without imitating it," a speech in which there is more epigram than reason. with the knout no imitation of the crime of injury to the For is flogging person; is forfeiture of property no imitation of robbery? Exile to Siberia is, perhaps, indeed, no imitation, for crime has no cruelty like it. models, and contends that their abrogation of capital punMr Bright also holds up some of the American States as ishment has not impaired the security of life in cities where enemies meeting in the streets shoot each other forthwith, and the survivors are taken to jail in a sort of triumph, and after a mockery of trial go forth "remarkable men," and with all the honours of homicide. Lynch law, too, is another feature of that happy state of society; and a subject of constant complaint by the respectable part of the American press is the insecurity of life. We say nothing of the murder of unoffending negroes in the streets of New York, because of no account do the free and enlightened citizens hold such lives. But the advocates of the abolition of capital punishment not only contend that the punishment has no deterring effect, because crimes are still committed, but go farther, and maintain that the punishment actually encourages to guilt. They contend that death is not the most dreaded punishment, and in proof of the sincerity of their opinion, Regarding Italy there is and can be no identity when some wretch is sentenced to be hung they exert whatever between the feelings of the English Govern- themselves to the utmost to obtain a commutation of the ment and that of France. The reception given to Gari- punishment. baldi here is not the only touchstone of the truth in It may be true that capital punishment is the least this matter. There is another which must not be forgotten. certain of punishments, but we are much mistaken if that M. Mazzini has been for years, and is now, an honoured consideration is not countervailed by the intensity of the guest amongst us; and during his stay in England he was, dread; and of this we are certain, that no one with murder as everybody knows, not only sought out and consulted in his thoughts goes into a statistical calculation of the almost daily by Garibaldi, but on one of the most interest-proportion of acquittals for that crime in comparison with ing occasions during his visit was saluted by the candid others. and generous soldier as "his political master." careful suppression of the incident in certain journals served all the same objections as regards deterring example apply And if capital punishment were abolished, would not but to impart to it greater significance. Now this man, with to the punishment substituted, imprisonment for life we whom Garibaldi chose above all others publicly to identify will suppose? himself in the face of all Europe, lies under sentence of transportation to Cayenne by the ex parte decree of a for death a punishment you have admitted to be worse What right have you, it would be asked, to substitute French tribunal, and lies under sentence of death by an than death, more cruel, and approaching to torture? And Italian tribunal for loving Italy too well. It is no secret unjustifiable as the thing is in point of humanity, it is in most effective arguments against capital punishment have It will be observed, in the debate of Monday, that the that Garibaldi has more than once remonstrated with the effect as inoperative for prevention as was the gallows, for been furnished by the conduct of the Home Office, and King against the infamy of allowing such a record to murder still continues to be committed. And here would if some better organization for appeal and review be not remain unannulled; it is no secret that Victor Emmanuel, come a repetition of all the present arguments and instances. devised, the abolitionists will certainly carry their point. if he were left to himself, would wipe the stigma from the And the fact is, that the scope of the reasoning is against Indeed, for our own part, we would rather see the law annals of his reign. It is not to be endured, then, that all laws of prohibition, because they can never operate changed than such scandals as the cases of McLachlan, England's name and fame should be trifled with thus by as more than checks, never succeed to the extent of Townley, and Wright, for the greatest of all evils is the any insolent pretender to official authority. If the King complete prevention. uncertainty of justice. The Whether the abolition of capital punishment conduces horrors of the civil war, in which prisoners have been shot to humanity, and tenderness for life, may be seen in the in cold blood in retaliation for imaginary outrages. Indeed we know of no war in history conducted with so much abolitions. ferocity as this war in the land of the two great humane A Royal Commission will be appointed to inquire into | If such are the comments with which Mr Hall's organ pressing the dustman's bell; but what was the annoyance the operation of the laws affecting life, and it will doubt- accompanies its relation of the acts of the Conference, they of that bell to the detestable noises that have succeeded it? less apply itself to the consideration of the different shades will, we fear, not serve the Danish cause. We admire and the bell was not ringing everywhere from sunrise to of guilt now confounded under the one black name of heartily the Danish resistance of German aggression, and the midnight. murder. Well observed Lord H. Lennox: courage of the men who perished nobly on the bastions of The street nuisance is defended in Parliament by two Dybbôl, though with no other material effect than to re- lineal descendants of Midas, Sir John Shelley and Lord habilitate the monarch and his minister in the good opinion Fermoy, and on Mr Bass's motion the latter brayed a bray of the people of the capital. But the policy of Danes who that the attempt was to suppress street music, and to would turn the force of their enmity and resentment upon interfere with the recreation of the people. the liberal ministry of England, the only administration that The people, in the common sense of the word, have no could have any real sympathy for them, is a very different interest in the matter. The brass bands and organs, the kind of party warfare, which no foreigner here can have Savoyard and German vagabonds, are not to be found in recourse to, without deeply damaging his cause. the alleys and courts, but in the squares and handsome Who could maintain that inquiry was not needed into the state of a law which awarded the same punishment to a man who for days and weeks subtilely administered doses of poison to a near relative, all the while exhibiting a false and treacherous affection, and to a man who destroyed the woman with whom he was cohabiting after a drunken brawl, and under the influence of strong provocation and outraged feeling? A sentence, he thought, should rest upon such solid grounds that, once passed, it should be irreversible, and should not be dispensed with either at the caprice of the Minister or in obedience to popular clamour. As far as we can see into the Conference, Prussians and streets. The German gangs are not paid in pence, but in By the last proposition we do not understand the speaker Danes are alike anxious to break up that assembly, destroy silver and gold. If your wife or daughter is on a sick bed, to mean that sentences shall not be reversible upon subse- hopes of peace, and continue the disturbance of the or your mother dying, you cannot buy her quiet at a less quent discovery of error, but that they shall not be disturbed north of Europe; the Prussians stirred by an infamous price than half-a-sovereign. The organs are more moderate capriciously, or through the exercise of influence, private greed, the Danes by natural resentment and the tough in their extortions, in proportion as their power of annoy. or public, upon the mind of a Minister. Above all, for every spirit of an unyielding patriotism. But if so, it is time ance is less, but you must pay both, and all day long. reversal or remission there should be cause shown, the for neutral Powers to interfere, and prevent, whatever its There is a gang of German boys that has carried extortion reasons given, whether of strict justice or of mercy. The cause, the continuance of a vain waste of human life. to great perfection by having instruments excruciatingly dispensing power, once regarded with such constitutional The four neutral Powers, England, France, and Russia, out of tune. Their activity is as great as their discord is jealousy, is now, in effect, wholly irresponsible, and the with Austria, which is a semi-neutral, may, indeed, not intolerable, and they make themselves heard, detested, and arbitrary behest of the Home Secretary isagree upon adopting what may be called the English dreaded in every part of the town. Yet there are people view of the Danish question. And this we must regret. who mistake even this performance for music, and who But at the same time, it must be considered, that no reward and encourage it, so that the trade is doubly prompt settlement of the question is possible, unless in profitable, chiefly by extortion, partly by ministering to a manner which can unite the action of the four Powers. vulgar, vicious taste. A musician, noticing that the band This cannot be done without large compromises. by which he was tormented always played its false notes Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas. Justice and mercy have, however, been of late so strangely dealt out that public opinion determines they shall no longer be inscrutable prerogatives. There may be great objections, for example, to consulting in the same places, called the leader into his house the the Estates of the Duchies, but if France make such pro- other day, gave him wine, complimented him on the good THE CONFERENCE AGAIN. posal seriously, if Russia approve of it, and Austria and playing of his band (whereat he looked uneasy), and added, The gouty London Conference that had taken to its bed, Prussia do not dissent, how is it possible for England to I have especially admired the skill and regularity with got up on Wednesday, attempted to hobble a step or two, stand alone in opposition to such an idea? It is, after which you introduce your discords. "Ah," said the street found that it could not, and went back between the all, most consonant to our own political ideas and institu- bandmaster with a knowing look, "zat is our business. blankets. The Germans assert that they made no ad- tions. And although it may have its dangers it is not "It is by zat we live." ditional demands whatever, but simply adhered to their surely, when all Europe demands a Parliamentary vote A Persian Ambassador on his first visit to the Opera original position, that of no armistice being possible with- and sanction, for England to stand up against it. was in raptures with the band when tuning the instru out the raising of the blockade. The Danes distinctly There is little doubt, indeed, that a population or state ments, but when they commenced the overture to Figaro, refuse to give up what they regard as the one small such as Holstein would be for severance from Denmark. he said, "This is poor stuff indeed, but what they comadvantage they have been thus far able to hold over an We do not believe in the same result for Slesvig, if the "menced with was celestial music." enemy who has again and again proved his word and Germans evacuate the Duchy, and if it be insured There are folks with this sort of taste, and who really promise false. There may, nevertheless, be more pride against undue pressure of any sort from either side. like discords when they pierce their dull ears with a sharp or misjudgment in the obstinacy on either side than care There is much feudality in Slesvig, as we observed last shriek. for important or tangible interests. Should German vessels week, and it has no objection to a Danish King if he be Some of the Germans, it must be admitted, play well, take advantage of the cessation of the blockade to put to not forced to employ Danish counsellors. So that if the but the greater number are mere horn-blowers, or else sea, their cargo would be only the greater abundance of Duchies were left, according to the French proposal, to they know that it matters not for profit whether they prey for the Danes; if they saw reason and pretext for re- decide their own fate, we do not think that this decision play well or ill, for that certain ears are as well pleased declaring it. Germany is not one solitary city or limited would be so destructive or unjust to the Danes as per- with bad as with good music, and that others are to be country, in which a blockade can in the least prevent the sistence of the Germans in this unchecked war of brigandage tortured into buying off their tormentors. acquisition of stores of all kinds. Indeed, the interior of if it gave them all that is Danish on the mainland. Germany is more accessible from Dutch ports than from the greater part of those properly German. A temporary suspension of the blockade would thus not essentially damage or alter the position of that belligerent which is most powerful at sea. It is curious to observe the parts of the town of which The true source of the difficulty has been the uncertain complete possession is taken by the nuisance-mongers. attitude of France, who is following a secret policy of her Aristocratic Dover street is devoted to them,-organs, brass own among the lesser German States, and for whom the bands, disgusting fellows with blacked faces grimacing and pear one day to be gathered out of the Prussian garden is bawling negro melodies, are to be found in that unhappy not yet ripe. France, too, is just now much out of pocket street at all hours of the day. We have a suspicion that Whatever, therefore, may be the justice of the Danish by the Emperor's own piece of Mexican brigandage, and there is something more than extortion in this disgraceful cause, the politicians of the country should beware lest has, moreover, newly cast upon her hands an expensive phenomenon, and that Fermoys and Shelleys abound in they work harm to themselves by placing insurmountable insurrection in Algeria that first broke out in Oran, with that locality, and do not care to disguise the long ears that obstructions in the way of an arrangement. The more the destruction of a detachment of French troops, and is have come down to them, and attest the ancient quarrel zealous partisans of the Danes, indeed, seem of late to have likely soon to spread over the whole Tell country. Not with Apollo. taken the English Government for their special antagonists; only does the Emperor hold back from all vigorous comand the Dagbladet asserts that more is to be obtained from munity of action in the interests of public justice, but, Prussia than hoped for through England. Is this wise, in pursuance of his hidden projects, it is very doubtful and is it fair? Could any sane man foresee such madness whether, after the area of conflict had once been extended, of German patriotism as that which has made even the he might not play a part that would raise general war in Treaty of 1952 stand for a bar to the continuance of Europe. The THE STREET NUISANCES. THE POPE OF SOUTH AFRICA. Dr Colenso has just issued a letter to the Laity of the Diocese of Natal, discreet as usual and courteous in all its references to antagonists, but amusing for the neatness with which it turns the tables upon R. Capetown, Metropolitan, and defends the Established Church of England against Dr Gray's unwarrantable assumption to be Pope Robert the First of South Africa. Holsteiner and Dane under the same government. law of the north of Europe seemed to give to an absolute King the right of nominating his successor. The Emperor Alexander had done it. Why not the King of We have to thank Mr Bass for bringing in a Bill to Denmark? If there were those difficulties and that un- protect the public against the noisy nuisances now infestfairness in the way of proceeding, which have become ing the streets. The existing law requires reasonable cause apparent, and that are alleged, surely it was for the German for the removal of vagabonds playing on grind organs, or Since the 16th of last April the Bishop of Natal has Powers and people to have urged them, and made it known brass instruments of torture. But magistrates differ as to ceased to be that Bishop, if there be force in the ordinances to the world then? England laboured then in the sole reasonable cause, and Justice Midas is of opinion that no of the Bishop of Capetown, the Bishop of Grahamstown, interest of securing the integrity of Denmark. She has one can have reason to complain of the sweet sounds from and Bishop Twells. They pronounced, in Dr Colenso's failed only because the copartners to that Treaty are back- a decayed hurdygurdy, or the alternations of grunts and absence, sentence of deprivation, unless he retracted within ing out of it. Is England to blame for this? Can we take squeaks of a brass band. Another magistrate thinks only a period of four months; and then, without being so civil all Europe by the collar, and force it into respect of sickness or mathematics reasonable cause. A third holds the as to wait till their allowance of four months' grace to the treaties? right opinion, that the streets should be kept to their right heretic should be expired, they issued, on the very day On every occasion since 1852, when interference appeared uses-traffic, and that there is reasonable cause for stopping after their sentence, a damnatory circular against him to useful England did what she could. Had Lord Russell's the conversion of them into orchestras, or we should rather be read in all churches throughout his diocese. It advice of 1862 been followed, affairs might have been now say, places of abominable discord. was read by the Dean of Maritzburg from the altar of in a far different condition. We cannot affirm that they What Mr Bass proposes is to extend protection to serious Dr Colenso's own cathedral church. But as Dr Colenso would, because there has been no reason but that of occupations which will not bear interruption; but, as Sir F. remains Bishop of Natal in spite of spite, he must needs reviolence in German counsels; but if anything could have Crossley observed, people have a right to something more, assure his people, to whom that circular of ungenerous South averted the disastrous war, acceptance by Denmark of Lord and ought to be allowed to live in the houses they pay for African condemnation has been read. This he has effectuRussell's unpalatable advice would have done it. Is Lord in peace and quiet. Because a householder happens not ally done, more effectually than it will be possible for Russell to blame for such advice having been scouted? to be a calculating machine, he is not to be tormented Dr Gray to show in his own defence that he has not been Again, if King Christian had been allowed to follow the with noises from daybreak to midnight. He has a right to casting himself, instead of the Bishop of Natal, out of the dictates of his own prudence, he would have suspended as much quiet as consists with the necessary traffic of the English Church. his sanction of the Constitution left by his predecessor. streets. There is a time for all things, and the choicest For Dr Gray, when he pronounced judgment, expressly Had he done so, the invasion of Holstein could hardly music intruded upon the ear at every hour of the day declared that he could not recognize any appeal, except to have taken place. Is England here again to blame? Had would be intolerable, much more so the drone of hackneyed the Archbishop of Canterbury, and that only by favour, the German invasion of Holstein and Slesvig taken place in tunes by decayed organs, or the grunts and squeaks of a "waiving in this particular case, which is itself novel, and despite of the King's refusal to sanction the Constitution, herd of filthy German swine. "of great importance to the whole Church, any real or supit is more than probable that the English Cabinet would Unhappily, nature has provided no defence against this "posed rights of this Church." The sentence so passed by have agreed upon some strong measure of intervention; crying evil. We can shut our eyes against disagreeable the Pope at Capetown and his two sympathetic Bishops, one though England certainly is not more bound by political sights, we can stop our noses against bad smells, but we of them his nominee, on their own sole responsibility, and tics than France or Sweden to interfere, and the especial cannot stop our ears against the assaults of discordant passed without help of legal assessors, is passed in assumpclaim on her is one of a just sentiment alone, depending on sounds. The sense of hearing is completely at mercy, and tion of a power not possessed by the Archbishop of Canthe sympathy of this country with constitutional freedom no mercy is shown it in this vast, ill-regulated town. In terbury himself, or by any other ecclesiastical authority, wherever else it thrives. Paris no street music is suffered on any pretext, and if except the Pope of Rome. The Archbishop of Canter The Danes should consider all these things, instead of people choose to have it it must be in their houses or court-bury, in his own particular Province, cannot deprive even representing in the official journals those of our Ministers yards. And our own Legislature has admitted the prin- a deacon of his office and ministry without having his who have toiled for them, as "lost to all sense of shame." ciple that some consideration is due to the ears in sup- case brought under legal scrutiny in the Court of Arches |