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THE LEICESTER CHRONICLE AND LEICESTERSHIRE MERCURY, UNITED, MAY 29. 1869. Carrtspflttfojetta. $onign fktos. SECOND EDITION.

working classes blessings for which they were all grateful, and which could not have been otherwise obtained and that the fund-i of trades' Unions in justice to be protected like other property. He deprecated the course adopted by Mr. Roebuck, and commended the working men to use all their influence to rid the House of Commons of the enemies of the working classes, and to people it with the best and most honourable men, who would not only think for themselves, but slso for the working bees who brought all the honey to the hive. (Applause.) Mr. Mekkick supported the resolution in some pertinent remarks, and it Was carried unanimously.

A petition based on the rbrecroin resolution wasthon read by the Chairman and adopted on the motiou of Mr. Bailey, seconded by Mr. Jas. Merrick. A resolution was also proposed to the effect that petition signed by the Chairman on behalf of meeting, should be forwarded to Taylor for presentation in the House of Commons, Mr.

Harris beiny; requested to support the prayer thereof. A vote of thanks to the Chairman terminated the proceedings. certainly, for articles possessing the power to preserve life where nothing else will The teetotallers deserve all due credit fr their ingenuity in inventing it but to speak seriously, what abominable trash is this to pass for the discourse of reasonable men The uses of alcoholic compounds are so various and important, that a large book might be written in describing them. On festive occasions their presence is indispensable. The Saviour of mankind condescended to work a miracle to increase the quantity at the marriage of Cana in Galilea.

It is true the Total Abstinence advocates would feign make us believe, if possible, that the wine mentioned in Scripture was not intoxicating but, if so, what is the meaning of the apostle's words, Be not drunk with mine, wherein is excess." It is a remarkable fact, that though drunkenness is everywhere condemned in the Bible, the moderate use of wine is nowhere prohibited. On the contrary, it is often mentioned in terms of high commendation. In the Book of Judges it is said that wine cheers both God and man. Sueh language is undoubtedly figurative, and not to be literally understood, for it occurs in an allegory, or fable; but notwithstanding this, it must have some meaning, and that meaning must imply a laudation of the article; for it is mentioned in connection with the olive, which has always been esteemed for its great value to the human race. In fact, passages abound in the Scriptures, in which the great virtue of wine, as a consoling and cheering beverage, is extolled at least by implication.

And well it may be. Nothing is equal to a cheerful and even mirthful conversation for restoring the tone of mind and body, when both have been overdone with mental or physical exertion. Narrow minds observing great and good men to relax occasionally into jocose and merry conversation over a glass or two of wine, denounce their conduct as incongruous; but large-hearted people rejoice at this wise method of prolonging useful lives, for mirth, after exhausting effort, is one of nature's own methods of healing what has been racked or bruised, and of preventing the spirit of man from being entirely crushed and rendered utterly prostrate. But little men cannot see this; their understanding is clouded by ignorance, prejudice, and bigotry. I am, Sir, yours obediently, Eli Kitchen.

EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHRONICLE AND MERCURY. Sir, I think I partly promised to write again, if it should come another stormy day. That day has come in right good earnest; for the snow comes down as if it would bury man and beast. If there is anything that will make a man feel peevish, it is to have his teams standing in the stable day after day, when he cannot take them out to work without almost getting them swamped in snowdrifts in April.

March was one of the worst months, and the most and severe weather in it, of any month in the winter. Last week there were a few mild days; so that the ice on the rivers and streams broke up, but the ice on the ponds and still water is not broken yet. It is only a few days since a man was so rash as to undertake to drive a loaded team on the ice, acrossJ.he Wisconsin river. They went down, and the current took them wholesale under the ice. Almost every spring there are more or fewer men and horses lost through such rashness.

The current in the river is so rapid, it cuts the ice underneath. It runs from three to four miles per hour. I was at Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, on the 20th of March (25 miles distant.) It is surrounded with lakes from three to five miles across. I thought to myself, if the people in Leicester could be lifted up and set down on that hill just where I stood, tome dark night; and in the morning, when daylight dawned on them, opened theireyes and looked down on those vast lakes of water closed up with ice, and loaded teams crossing and re-crossing in all directions, as far as the naked eye could see, it would cool down their emigrational fever very much. If the climate of England were subject to so much extreme cold weather as some parts of the United States, the poor people would perish by thousands every winter, in spite of all that the good and kind could do for them.

I often think what a pity it is that so many poor working men, in such a lovely garden of Eden as' that, should so foolishly throw away so much of their time and money, which would make them and their families comfortable. It truly is very strange that thinking and rational beings should be so destitute of all respect for their own interest as to work like horses aft the week, and then, on Saturday nights, spend their moneyas if they were worse than asses instead of taking it home andmakingtheirfamilies comfortable, and mutually enjoying the good of all their labour, as God intended they should. What a garden of happiness home might be! Poor labouring men might then sing, "No mortals more happy than if I am only sober and good, myjsummer will last all the year." There is no doubt but some of them would do better here but I have seen so much of the miseries of emigration that I always advocate a person staying contented where he may be comfortable. Some people ate so senseless as to write to their friends, Oh come, do come; we have such nice times here; we can pick money off he trees and bushes, and not work more than half the time," When I speak so much against emigration, I do not wish to be understood that the United States are filled up by a great deal but I do want it understood that an individual or a company may emigrate to any part of the wide world they may choose, but they will not find it all Heaven they will find a thousand things to contend with, a thousand sorrows and disappointments and inconveniences. It may-do very well for the young and strong and ambitious, and those who are willing to make a considerable sacrifice for the sake of trying to better their condition but under no consideration would I advise the aged to leave the place near which they have spent a lifetime.

Let their bones rest in the land of their fathers. Many days have passed away since Jacob left his father's house, to seek his fortune in a distant land but when he went, his good old father's blessing, and the blessing of Heaven, went with him. Weary and tired he lay down to rest, with a stone for his pillow, the ground for his bed, and the canopy of Heaven for his covering but angels were his attendants and spread their wings ever him, and refreshed with the rest of the night, and encouraged with the dreams and visions of angels, he renewed his journey with the morning light. After spending a lifetime in toil and labour, he comes to old age. In the land of Egypt, down in that distant country, he wishes not his bones to rest, but requests his son Joseph that young man, of all young men the best, whom the poor old man loved as his own soul (would to God there were more such young men than there are to carry back the bones of his father to their own land.

Let all old people keep their bones in their own land. I saw an account of an emigration or colonisation society that was forming in England. I think it would be a good thing for some. I have seen several such kind of societies but they never ended very well for the reason, I suppose, that they did not begin right. There were several eompanies of infidels came out from England some years ago, and settled a few miles from me.

They were scorned alike by the good and bad. If that society will select good, moral, industrious, and honest men for itself, and then bring God and the Bible with them, and they will carry out its principle and precepts in their life, they will prosper, and the blessing of Heaven will ret on them, and they will be respected by the great and good wherever they go. If they think they are coming to a wild country, and amongst a wild people, they will find they have been labouring under a very great mistake. There is 6ome very good country in Nebraska, and thousands of acres not worth a gift. It is about four hundred miles long, and two hundred in breadth, area, eighty-four thousand square miles while England is about four hundred miles long to abou' one hundred and fifty in breadth; or about iifty-one thousand square miles.

One thing is very certain there are millions of acres of land in this country that civilized man has never set his foot on, and millions of acres not worth his while to set it on, away back in those territories. A great deal of the western portion of Nebraska is very barren and sandy, though in the eastern part there is good land, enough to make good homes for thousands of families, now ljing wild. The United States Government under Mr. Johnson's administration did not do itself any great good by giving so much of its land to railroad companies and speculators. The government price for wild land is about live shillings (your but the railroad companies ask from 20 to 30 shillings per acre.

There are other territories as good for a man to make a living in as Nebraska. There are Colorado (Indian), New Mexico, Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Utah, and Arizona each one of them a great deal larger than England. I think it likely there are not as many inhabitants in the whole of them as there are in England. A colonisation of good people would probably do well out there; or I would not say that. I would, however, say that all who may choose to come and bring with them good moral prin-I ciples, if they would prosper, must not forget that they i can assuredly raise for themselves plenty to eat and to i spare but they must not think that they will get rich in I a year, and then go back to England.

If they do, they will most certainly be discontented and unhappy. They I must bid the land of their lathers a last farewell, without I the thought of returning. I was just looking over a deputation or a meeting in England to send a deputation to Nebraska. I thought to myself. llow easy it is to sit in England and talk about what they will do in Nebraska, and how they will purchase land and build houses, and make grently improved farms, and appropriate the rents to purchasing other lauds, and making great improvements." Poor souls They know not what they say.

1 never knew such a company to prosper yet lor when they get here, it is every man for himself." and first come first served." Some who have been considered good men there, when they have got on this side the big water will stoop tu the meanest acts. I Mind. I tell you, any who read this and who wish to come I to this country, come on your own individual responsi-I bility, or you may suffer let your wife and children be your organization and no more for, when you get here, you cannot trust If a man has got a little more money than he needs to just bring his family, he will need I every shilling of it when he gets here. There are I thousands of acres of good land in those back territories whereon civilized man has never stepped. The inhabi- tants have been the Indians and the wild beasts.

I think Nebraska is a rreat deal milder climate- than Wisconsin more like England. If a few hundred thousands of the poor, willing to work, were out there it might be a good thing for them but I say to all who are making a com-I fortable living, "just keep cool where you are, or it might be you would jump out of the frying-pan into the fire." This is a wide world, and there are a great many bad people in it, but 1 have written enough for one stormy day the I ground is covered with snow, and the snow banks are as high as the fences. It looks far more like January than April. As it is time to give the horses and cattle their supper, I must bid you good night. If it should come I another snow-storm I may write again.

I am, sir, yours truly, I Deteorra, April 1st, 1869. W. Buckley. sporting EPSOM RACES. THE DERBY DAY.

In spite of the threatening appearance of the weather on Wednesday morning, it cleared up, and a splendid summer afternoon cheered the spirits of the visitors to Epsom. Everybody went down, of course, conventionally, and a man who should have judged only from the state of the roads on Wednesday morning and from the crowds assembled at the railway stations might have taken the statement au serieux. A walk along the Strand would soon have undeceived him. But if everybody" was not at Epsom, it was quite clear from a very early hour indeed that a vast number of people meant to be there. At London-bridge, Kensington, and Victoria (the only route" according to the London, Brighton, and South Coast Company's advertisements), there were immense crowds.

At Waterloo (the South-Western Company advertised as the shortest there were hardly fewer intending travellers. The roads, however, were hardly less crowded than they were before people used the rail. From six o'clock one might have seen led saddle horses, relays of post and omnibus horses, vendors of refreshments, and groups of pedestrians, consisting of itinerant retailers of oranges, racing cards, ostlers, cardsharpers, and roughs, all hastening on their way as fast as their legs would carry them. By eleven o'clock the Brixton and Clapham roads were lined with vehicles vans, omnibuses, waggonettes, dog-carts, and pony traps followed in succession. Towards twelve the smarter equipages appeared.

At Stockwell, which is the junction of the South Lambeth and Clapham roads, there was a complete stoppage, occasioned by the mass of West-end passengers. At the Rookery," on Clapham-common, there was the usual gathering of people who couldn't go to the race to watch the going of those who could, and more especially on Wednesday to catch a glimpse of the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Epsom Town Plate of 100 sovs. Certain winners extra Half-a-mile. 7 4 Mr.

Woolcot's Conrad, 3 yrs 1 6 10 Mr. Reginald's Fugitive, 3 yrs 2 9 0 Duke of Newcastle's Prince Imperial, 3 yrs 3 Eleven ran. The Epsom Manor Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 100 added for two-year old calts 8st 101b, and fillies 8st 71b the winner to be sold. Half-a-mile. Lord Vivian's My Honey 1 Lord Calthorpe's Thunderclap 2 Mr.

Price's Sabrina 3 Thirteen ran. The Derby Stakes 50 sovs each, ft, for three year-old colts 8st 101b, and fillies 8st 51b the second to receive 300 sovs, and the third 150 sovs out of the stakes 247 subs. Last mile and-a-half to be run on the New Course. Mr. Sadler's br Pretender, by Adventurer, out of Ferina Osborne 1 Sir J.

Hawley's Pero Gomez Wells 2 Mr, Jones's The Drummer Chaloner 3 Twenty-two ran. The Burgh Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 100 added, for all ages the winner to be sold optional selling weights. Half-a-mile. Mr. Cooper's Cast-off, 3 yrs 1 Coul colt 2 Miss Edie 3 Twelve ran.

The Bentinck Plate of 100 sovs. Certain winners extra. Three-quarters of a mile. 6 5 Mr. Reginald's Fugitive, 3 yrs 1 8 1 Mr.

Watt's Mysotis, 4 yrs (in 51b extra) 2 7 7 Lord Vivian's Hatchment, 4 yrs 3 Thirteen ran. SHOCKING MURDER BY A SUSSEX FARMER- A shocking murder of a wife was committed on Sunday at Ashburnham, a small village in Sussex, a few miles from Hastings. Near the village is a quantity of land called Gardener's Farm," which is farmed by an old man named Stubberfield and his son Jeremiah. The son, who is married, and about forty years old, has a separate residence about sixty yards from that of his parent. On Saturday evening there were living in the same house with the son, his wife Matilda, their son, Mary Deeprose (a companion to Mrs.

Stubberfield), and several farm labourers and domestic servants. The boy, eight years old, who occupied the same room as his parents, states that early on Sunday morning, whilst it was scarcely light, he saw his father kneeling upon his mother, and squeezing her throat. Hearing his mother say Oh feebly, and as if in pain, he said to his father, You're hurting mother!" You hold your tongue," replied the father, I'm only tickling her!" The boy again made a similar remark, upon which his father said that if he didn't hold his tongue he would See to him." Stubberfield then dressed himself, and having kissed his wife and child, took his coat over his arm, and went downstairs. The boy then immediately aroused the other inmates of the house. In the meantime, Miss Deeprose, having heard a moaning noise in the Stubbertields' bed-room, and thinking something was the matter, had gone to the father's house for assistance.

On her return in about ten minutes she met Jeremiah Stubberfield at the door, as he was about to leave the house, and tried to prevent his escape, but did not succeed in doing so, although she struggled with him for some minutes. James Honeysett, a carter, who was one of the first persons aroused by the boy, got up directly, and went into the bed-room, where he found Mrs. Stubberfield lying in the bed dead. He also said he heard a pretty smart" struggle in the yard that he went there immediately, and found Miss Deeprose exhausted by her efforts to detain Stubberfield. Several other persons were soon in the bed-room of the murdered woman, and Dr.

Simmonds, who lives a mile and a half distant, was at once sent for. It was six o'clock when that gentleman reached the house, and there being no appearance of a struggle, he was first led to suppose that deceased had died suddenly from natural causes. An examination of the neck, however, revealed marks, and the doctor then came to the opinion that the woman had been murdered. The police were then communicated with, and were quickly on the spot. Search was instituted for the murderer, but without success.

It is said that Stubberfield had been in a depressed state of mind for some time. He had been married nine years, was much respected, and understood to have lived very happily with his wife. Rossall Schsol. The Council of the Royal Geo graphical Society invited thirty-seven of the principa schooL in Great Britain, containing in the aggregate 12,700 boys, to compete for two gold and two bronze medals, given by them as an encouragement to the study of geography in our public schools. The first examination has just takeu place.

Four boys only were admitted from any school, and each boy was restricted in the competition to either political or physical geography, not being allowed to go in for both. Rossall School takes a distinguished position, one candidate having gained the gold medal, and a second the bronze, in the physical class, whilst the two others appear as eminently distinguished, in the official award, as follows Physical geography gold medal, Wm. Grundy, Rossall school bronze medal, Geerge Wm. Gent, Rossall school second, in the list of four eminently distinguished in the examination, Martin Stewart, Ros sall school. Political geography eminently distinguished in the examination, Douglas Samuel Boutflower, Rossall school.

Fleetwood Chronicle. Royal Agricultural Society. The general meeting was held on Saturday for the reception of the report and election of officers for the ensuing year. The report, which was presented to the meeting, showed that the society now consists of 75 life governors, 73 annual governors, 1,417 life members, 3,61 annual members, and 17 honorary members, making a total of or a decrease of 15, as compared with last year. The Pasha of Egypt, M.

Dreuyn de Lhuys, and M. Edouard Lecouteux have been elected hon. members. The next country meeting for 1870 will be held at Oxford, that for the present year will be at Manchester, under the presidency of the Prince of Wales. The schedule of prizes amounts to 4,120.

The society have made arrangements for giving reports of farming in various parts of the country in the journal of the society. The result of the examination of students for this year has been most satisfactory. The Duke of Devonshire has been elected a vice-president in the room of the late Sir J. V. B.

Johnstone, Bart, M.P. and Sir Thomas- and Thomas Slatter, memberf, uie council, to fill the vacancies caused by the resignation of Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., and the election of the Duke of Richmond as vice-president.

The Duke of Devonshire was elected president, and the members of the council and other officers of the society were elected. CoPi'Ett Tipped Boots. One half the annual expenses for Children's Boots can be saved, by buying them with the new patent Copper Toe Caps, warranted not to wear out at the Toes all styles and sizes. Manufactured Messrs. Freeh and 43, Hieh-street, Leicester.

Interesting Experiment. Place on the upper bar of a grate with the heads projecting about one inch inwards, some ordinary lucifers in a few moments they ignite. Then, in the same position, place a few of the Safety Matches of Bryant and May (which ignite only on the box), and it will be found that they will remain for hours in fact, until the wood becomes literally charred without taking fire. We look on this as a singularly interesting confirmation of the safety of the new match. Care must be taken in both cases to avoid actual contact with name.

Maravii.la Cocoa. A Success Unprecedented. See the following extract from the of May 14, "Various importers and manufacturers have attempted to attain a reputation for theirprepared Cocoas, but we doubt whether any thorough success had been achieved until Messrs. Taylor Brothers discovered the extraordinary qualities of 'Maravilla' Cocoa. Adapting their perfect system of preparation to this finest of all species of the Theobroma, they have produced an article which supersedes every other Cocoa in the market.

Entire solubility, a delicate aroma, and a rare concentration of the purest elements of nutrition, distinuishthe Maravilla Cocoa above all others. For homoeopaths and invalids we could not recommend a more agreeable or valuable Taylor Brothers, London, sole proprietors. Sold in packets only, by all Grocers, and lib. Our columns are always open the insertion of letters in which public questions, or propositions of a public nature, are discussed temperately and fairly. We give "both Bides" in all such cases, and therefore we cannot be held responsible for any remarks made by our correspondents.

We require the real names of oar correspondents to be furnished to us in confidence. PROHIBITION OF SKITTLE PLA.YIN G. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHRONICLE AND MERCERY. Sir, A Caution" handbill, signed by Mr. F.

Goodyer, Chief Constable (one of which I has been circulated throughout the county, publishing the case of the conviction, by the Leicester Magistrates, of three youths to hard labour, for playing at pitch and toss on the high way, and referring to the Act under which the conviction was madt. It is not the justice or the injustice ef that conviction to which I wish to call your attention (although I believe there is a very general feeling abroad that the sentence was unusually severe), but to the fact that this handbill, emanating as it does from head quarters, has been applied by the County Police in some parts, at least, to the prohi-bibition of skittle-playing at hoiels ar.d inns whether by authority or not, I cannot say. If not by authority, then the police hare exceeded their duty and the fact ought to be made known through the public journals, at once, for the satisfaction of many well-intentioned, peaceable, and loyal persons who are extremely anxious not to offend against the laws, but who feel, and feel very acutely, that this is a most unjustifiable interference with their personal liberties. If In authority this prohibition has been made, and the Act referred to justifies it (which seems very doubtful) then its application should be made general, and not as it ig now is, giving a privilege to the town and some parts of the county not possessed by others. It would then be seen whether it was felt by the people to be an injustice or not, and if so, the attention of the Legislature would be called to its rectification but as it is, being both partial and prohibitory, it is felt to be a double injustice, by those to whom skittle-playing is an amusement.

In my opinion, a game at skittles is one of the most healthy and invigorating sports we hare, and as such is shared in by many of all classes. During Whitsuntide week, the prohibition has given rise to much exacerbation and ill-feeling among country labourers and tradesmen, as well as many from the town, who seek for a little pastime interspersed with a ramble over the forest. I know, Sir, there are many well-meaning persons who associate with a skittle-alley nothing but ideas of drunken ness and brawl, and on this account would deem the course already taken beneficial. But this is not so generally, and I believe that cases of brawl and disturbance are not (proportionately) nearly so frequent in the skittle-alley as in vaults and tap-rooms, where the only occupation is to swalluw intoxicating liquors, or raise a quarrel. And this is the only alternative left to many by the operation of this newly-enforced old law.

If a definite intimation can be given either one way or the other, through the local press, the present object of the writer will be accomplished. Yours truly, IsHlMO. A DEFENCE OF PUBLIC HOUSES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHRONICLE AND MERCURY. Letter Sir.

It is now more than half a century since the idea of general abstinence from intoxicating beverages was first developed in the United States of North America. From that time to the present it has been occasionally taken up by a variety of advocates, and promulgated in different parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain with at least a certain show ef partial success. That it has not so far made many converts among the more intelligent portions of the community is not to be wondered at; for it professedly aims at drying up entirely one of the most exuberant sources of heightened human enjoyment and mankind in general do not willingly resign their accustomed pleasures without clearly seeing a sufficient reason fo; so doing-. The Teetotallers, like every other sect of extravagant pretensions, find their auditors and adherents chieliy amongst the more ignorant, illiterate, and uninformed of the people. The well-educated, reflecting, and scientific, submit the arguments advanced to a rigid scrutiny and critical examination, and only yield to them when found to be ratiuiial, consistent with experience, and truthful.

When they perceive that those principles of human happiness are attacked, which have been cherished by the entire civilized world by the most savage and barbarous tribes well (as soon as known) the' may justly hesitate before they join in the cry against certain long-established cflStOMS; though that cry be oft-repeated, and in the noisiest manner, by the unthinking crowd, instigated by a perhaps, well-meaning, but profoundly ignorant men. Tin- emperance League" and The United Kingdom Alliance" may boast of their achievements, and parade their long list of victories obtained against the drinking system but it is utterly impossible that a large number anything like an approximation to a majority of the inhabitant; of this country should permanently become People are not to be persuaded to relinquish known present pleasures for advantages which at the best are i.ui dubious and uncertain. To expect that the use of Mirjuor, spirits, and wine, will ever become obsolete, dm of the greatest of all imaginable absurdities. Diluted alcohol was taken by great and good men in the earliest ages of which we have any authentic historical record and it will continue to be drunk, until human nature, or those forces which go to make up some of the most pleasurable feelings of mankind, shall be entirely subverted, or c' niged. Therefore, the mem- er-of societies and their lecturers are not likely to slop altogether the trade in stimulating drinks; iney will never effect the object upon which they profess 1 nave set tlieir hearts, ibey may, however, by persistence in the employment of exaggerated statements, false arguments, and a constant appeal to the more selfish feelings of humanity, succeed in winning over to their side, for a time, a few persons of wealth and in- "uerice, and thus affect injuriously people encaged in the trade, and out to considf-rahlp ir.ronvenienep manv nf foil customers This, in cd.

thev have alreadv done. Ihry are ao making vigorous efforts to reDeat the mis chief. It is, therefore, high tune their principles should te thorougly tested, and their conduct where blameable laid bare and exposed to just public censure. This will BOW tie atu-mpted. tbe statement that alcohol is poisonous, injurious, and I unnecessary, is deceptive in every particular, and such a is.aie:iieiit can be made on irom sheer ignorance, or from Iwhai is much -vorse the intention to deceive.

Whoever -reams of drinking pure alcohol Who sells it Where tan ne Certainty nowhere, but of the and experimental chemist. Alcohol retailed Itcthe public is greatly diluted with water, blended with Iotner matter, and generally stili further weakened by Wise who drink it. if found too strong to be healthy or reealiW. Bui the teetotal lecturer and writer when patiating upon the injurious character of gin. rum, "skev.

and brandy speaks of these articles as though ley consisted of iun alcohol. Nothing can be more de- PfKVe. Iii all nr.il iahil itv in at least ni net v-ni np rasps uf every hundred, there is not one of the speakers, or Sa ivho Lis the most remote idea of wkat the word ni or in what this chemical compound consists. 1 as to the elements composing it, with their luivaleuts. or atomic weie-hts.

thev would be compelled confess they knew nothing whatever about them, scien- ruitaiiy 8peatang. But a poor illiterate man or woman Ijoeuing to their description of that awful "poison," ejnoi, iii connection with stimulating drinks, naturally pne.uu.-s Ihat this deadlv article lurks to a destructive r'Uiount in sn-rituous licaorst and this is Dreciselv the -sion which the teetotal advocates wish to be proles in this way they display their ignorance, or pttay their wickedness for nothing can be more false the assertion, if applied to the liquids above-me-n- 1 1,1 iat they are and injurious in their pfcrts wh ii taken in moderation. Ine assertion is equally untrue, that they contain no i'i. or pinacg's 1 tm are to unman constitution what fuel is to an ordinary fire -y most materially and effectively towards tnaini eiiance of a proper amount of animal heat. Flan is a ct-mpound of various elements, and those which oiuy to the replenishing ol wasted bone, flesh, lood.

are insufficient to support him in a comfortable of existence. Without heat he would cease to A slow combustion must by some means or other be stUlltly up. or he immediately expires. Let such as contend that this cannot be done by diluents of consider with some little attention the following A poor labouring man is working on a cold win-- lay in an open field, with a keen, bleak wind blowing on him. At dinner time he gets under a hedge to eat Ks and cheese, or it may be a piece of meat, with a potatoes, lie trembles and shivers from the His hands anu leet are oeuumnea.

ne takes up a bottle tiiled with good ale or beer applies it as chatter and limbs tremble to his blue lips, mug as from a lit of ague takes a good draught, 'I down again, and in a few minutes" time repeats the ttBtJ what is the result His cheeks resume their healthful (flow his hands and feet are warm his ttlousuess is entirely gone he feels strengthened and i in ererv part, and is become, to use his own ') ressive language, quite a new man. line of conduct, similar results occurs. ear: or small farmer, after riding on a cart for i In wav to market, iroes at Pisjourev'S il. or public house, and takes his glass of or rum, or bandy. Tile heat so essential lost upon the road, is suddenly and tuny 69 that he can attend with ease to Ins remaining A lady travelling by rail leaves the carriage, on a station, and, entering a refreshment room, er pLik nf umk m.mn.

and feels the and yet. forsooth, these people are all to be- mere i5 no virtue 1:1 diluents oi aiconoi uiax ''Un. r.r- ....01 nnA coio aiei ou.u uo ejui.c the- end much more beneficial. Cut they lew otll 'i they cannot resist the evidence of their nf tha vvlin tries t(l Otit r.nlv to cmtallod hv his orer- lence and all-important self-sufficiency. It Ka to iiy bow many valuable lives would have the Crimean war, if the poor fellows with cold, in the wet trenches, could have '1" with hi at-making principle contained fill -I- -non uie names e.i ') are brandy.

And yet we are told 1'oison is a very novel name, FRANCE. The Elections. The general result of the French elections is now known, and on the whole appears to be as faTourable to the Government as was anticipated. The Minister of the Interior has addressed a circular to the prefects, in which he states that of the 292 circumscriptions, the elections in 280 are known. In the circumscriptions where the candidates were supported by the Government, or where the Government remained neutral, 196 members have been elected.

In 58 circumscriptions no candidate had aH absolute majority, and a second ballot will be necessary. The Opposition have elected 26 candidates. In 10 circumscriptions the results are unknown. This is the official version of the result so far as is known, and its accuracy may be disputed by the Opposition. Of the fifty-eight circumscriptions where a second ballot will be required, probably from half to two-thirds of the successful candidates will belong to the Opposition, and a portion of the 10 circumscriptions where the result is not known may also be added.

It is by no means unlikely, therefore, that the Opposition strength in the new Chamber will not be much under 80, perhaps more. The Reds have succeeded in carrying some of their most noted candidates, and the Moderates have carried their, best men in one oirenmscription or another. M. Thiers heads the poll in the 2nd circumscription in Paris, but having failed to obtain an absolute majority he will have to undergo a second ballot. M.

Jules Favre is in a similar position in the 7th circumscription. AUSTRIA, It would seem that the Concordat haB virtually been abolished in Austria. A secular priest, the editor of an Ultramontane paper, was recently sentenced to a term of imprisonment for attacks against the law. This sentence has been confirmed by the Supreme Court of Vienna, and the punishment will be carried out in an ordinary gaol, notwithstanding a clause in the Concordat which stipulates that a priest can only be imprisoned in a religious house. Cardinal Ranscher interceded on behalf of the offender, and claimed for him this privilege, but the Minister of Justice referred the Cardinal to the Constitution, and the decision of the Supreme Court, and declared that the provisions of the Concordat had been abrogated, and were null and void.

SPAIN. The Discussion on the Constitution. The discussion on the remaining clauses of the Spanish constitution was resumed in the Cortes on Wednesday. Senor Castelar attaoked the clauses relating to the colonies, and said that if the Government had acted towards Cuba as England did towards Canada, the liberties granted weuld have prevented an outbreak of that insurrection. Marshal Serrano replied that Gen.

Dulce had granted the liberties required, but that party passion had blinded the inhabitants to the intentions of the Government. The insurrection, as regarded its local strength, was almost suppressed, and 600 filli-bnsterers had lately been defeated nevertheless, disorder was likely to disappear more slowly. As 'soon as the normal state of things was re-established, the Government would, in conjunction with the Cuban deputies, suppress slavery by a well-considered measure, and proceed with inexorable severity against all parties engaged in the slave trade. M. Tassara (says the correspondent of he Man-cluster Guardian), the newly-appointed plenipotentiary from the Provisional Government of Spain, is daily expecting to be recalled.

The mistake is ascribed to him of having foreseen asd foreshown what is not unlikely to be the public talk ere many days are past. I am credibly informed that the French Emperor is of opinion that the solution of the Spanish difficulty that would suit his interest best would be the recognition of the Prince of the Asturias as successor to his mother, who might be induced to abdicate in his favour rather than see her children supplanted by the Montpensiers and tbeir offspring. As General Prim's consent is deemed indispensable to the peaceful accomrjlishment of this arrangement, he is said to have been allowed to name his own terms and, for reasons that need not be mentioned, there will be no difficulty of course on the part of Marshal Serrano. A six years' lease of power, it is thought, would satisfy the head of the army, if he can gulp hia reoent vehement protestations that the Bourbons in Spain are henceforth impossible. If he cannot or will net agree to be marie du palais of the boy king, then Spain must prepare for a civil war.

The Lisbon Journal of Commerce says that Prince Augustus, the youngest brother of the King of Portugal, and who was born in November, 1847, is to be the selected candidate for the 8panish throne, and that he is to marry the daughter of the Duke de Mont-pensier. In the on 'J uday the debate on the Constitution was resumed, and clause 97, relating to judicial organisation and the irremovability of the Judges, was adopted. ITALY. The Italian Senate has passed the law abolishing tb3 privilege hitherto enjoyed by the clergy in Italy of exemption from ths conscription. Ninety-seven members voted, and of these 67 were in favour of the measure aud 30 against it, the majority thus being 37.

The Nazione speaks of this decision as a fresh and decisive victory of the principle of the equality of the citizens before the law. AMERICA. Reported Alliance of England, France, and Spain against the United States. From the New York papers of the 13th instant, we learn that some excitement had been caused in New York and Washington by the publication in the former city on the previous day of a cable telegram, stating that an effort was being made to form an alliance between Englani, France, and Spain against the United States, on account of its foreign policy. The news was, however, pretty generally discredited.

Completion of the Pacific Railway. The Pacific Railway is completed. The last tie and the last rail were laid down on the 10th instant with great ceremony. The tie was made of California laurel, highly polished, and mounted with silver at the ends, andthe "last spike" was made of gold, weighing 20 and ornamented with appropriate designs and inscriptions. The rail was laid upon the laurel tie and the golden spike was driven home, and the great work was pronounced finished amid the plaudits of an assembled multitude.

The New York Tribune publishes a long article descriptive of the new railway stretches across the American continent in an unbroken line of 3377 miles, and connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Some idea of the immensity of the undertaking may be gathered from the following remarks with which the article closes, due allowance being made for the slight dash of highfalutin inseparable from certain branches of transatlantic journalism: Some sanguine writers believe that by ruuning steamers and locomotives at their utmost speed the entire time from Yokohama to London can be reduced to three weeks ten days to San Francisco, four from there to New York, aid seven from New York to London but for the present we may be abundantly satisfied with nearly twice that time. Upon these closing lines my pen lingers, and I listen for the voice of the future breaks-man. Day after day, on the continental journey, will he open his door, and shout to sleepy passengers, Chicago change cars for New Orleans and Lake Missouri River change cars for Saskatchewan, Kansas city, and Rocky Mountains change cars for Santa Fe, El Paso, Matamoras, city of Mexico, and all points on the Northern and Southern Pacific Great Salt Lake 20 minutes for dinner. Change cars for Fort Benton, British Columbia, Big Canyon of the Colorada, Panama, Lima, and Sierra Nevadas change cars for Owyhee, Columbia river, Puget Sound, Sitka, and San Francisco passengers for New Zealand, Honolulu, Melbourne, Yokohama, Hong Kong, and all other points in Asia, Africa, and Europe will keep their seats till landed on the wharf of the daily line of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.

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Mr. Garner was elected chairman. The Chairman, in introducing the business of the evening, said he regretted that he had been called upon to occupy that position, the duties of which he should have preferred to see discharged by some one more able than himself. At the preliminary meeting the previous evening, it was thought that it would be advantageous and would give the petition they proposed to adopt at that meeting more weight in the House of Commons, if they could secure 88 chairman some gentleman of position and influence in the town. With that view he and a fellow-workman had waited upon two such gentlemen.

One had a prior engagement, and the otber was suffering from a nervous headache. He feared there were many persons who would be similarly nffiicted when called upon to serve the working class, and the time had come when the working men must help themselves, asking nobody's assistance. They were capable of doing their own business, and ha counselled them to depend more and more on themselves. He then read a circular from the Conference of Amalgamated Trades' Unions in London, explaining the provisions of the Bill introduced by Mr. Mundella and Mr.

Hughes, and called upon. Mr. Abbot to propose the first resolution. Mr. Abbot said it was strange that there should be men so oblivious of what was passing around them as to attempt to bring forward any repressive measure with regard to Trades' Unions; yet members of the Royal Commission had recommended such a course.

If Trades' Unions were not allowed the fullest and freest exercise of their legitimate functions, the means of obtaining their livelihood would be most unjustifiably interfered with. Trades' Unions protected the wages, and consequently the lives, of working men. The resolution he had to propose was as follows That this meeting having read with deep regret that portion of the Royal Commissioners' Report in relation to Trades' Unions, as re ommended by Mr. Roebuck, Sir W. Earle, Lord Elcho, and others and believing that the embodiment of such recommendation in an Act of Parliament would render the right of working-men to combine for the protection of their wages absolutely impossible; this meeting hereby enters its most solemn protest against the same, as being subversive of that freedom of action which guarantees to every working-man the right to secure the best remuneration for his labour, on which the happiness of his family, and the prosperity of the nation ultimately depend.

He concluded by speaking in eulogistic terms of the manner in which Mr. Hughes, Mr. Mundella, Mr. Faw-cett, Mr. J.

S. Mill, Mr. Miall, and others, had stood up in the House of Commons in the interests of the working men and quoted a passage from a recent speech of Mr. Miall at Bradford, which was warmly received. Mr.

Miall said there were better times coining for the working classes and he (Mr. Miall) could only say that his heart and his mind and his services should be devoted with the utmost earnestness to the welfare physical, intellectual, and moral of his fellow-countrymen. (Applause.) Mr. Bailey seconded the resolution. He thought if working men were brought together at such meetings more often, it would be advantageous to all of them.

He thought some of the recommendations of the Trades' Uuions Commission were unconstitutional, uujustitiable, and positively unjust. The first question that stared every man in the face was, Are Trades' Unions right If they were right, then it was wrong to put them down. What in the common acceptation of the term was called prudence, when applied to working men appeared to be a crime. It was held to he prudent for persons possessing property to insure it against Sre. Now, labour was the property of the working man, and perhaps beyond all other kinds of property was exposed to attack and loss was it not, therefore, prudent tha: working men who depended for all the necessaries of life ou their daily labour should take the best means of protecting that labour (Hear, hear.) They had devised what they believed to be the best method of protecting their labour, and they had evidence that Trade i' Uuions had really improved the remuneration for labour.

(Hear, hear.) He defied even Mr. Roebuck to contradict that he was pleased that Mr. Roebuck was out of the House of Commons, and a better man in bis place. Mr. Roebuck had been in the House of Commons a great many years but he held Mr.

Mundella had done more during the little time he had been in the House to benefit the working classes, than Mr. Roebuck had done in a lite-time (hear, hear) and in benefitting the working classes he had benefitted society generally. It was not to the interest of society that a few men should be rich and that the majority should be poor the more money the working classes had to circulate the better it was for society. It was better that money should be circulated than that it should be in a corner unused. Hence a liberal reward of labour was one of the fundamental principles upon which depended the prosperity of society.

Working men believed that the action of supply and demand did not secure to them a liberal reward for their labour. It was certain that employers did not study how much they could pay for labour, but how little they could give, and consequently if employers alone were to fix the rate of wagrj they would be low to a certainty. (Hear, 3ut he thought it would be also wrong for woirkingmen absolutely to fix the rate of wages both parties would in all probability go wrong. A middle course, therefore, appeared desirable, which should be dictated by reason and justice. Indepen dently of any combination, working men were unablo to compete with the capital of the employer.

The manufacturer could do longer without the working man than the working man who depended for his daily bread on his daily labour could do without the employer. What they could not do individually, the working men felt they could do by combination, and by the institution of Trades' Unions, they had received a better remuneration for their labour than they could possibly have obtained without that organisation. (Hear, hear.) The theory "of supply and demand regulating wages was practically of no effect. It might be expected that an improved trade would bring with it an improved rate of wages, but that was not really the fact; it was therefore natural that men should cling to what they believed was a daily and hourly benefit, and he believed Trades' Unions were that benefit. (Hear, hear.) Nothing had yet been proved to the contrary.

They had not been judged by their principles, but by their defects (hear, hear) and if that mode of judging of their value were to be adopted towards any society in England, it would come under the same category as that under which Trades' Unions had been placed by some persons. Mr. Roebuck and som9 others of the Royal Commission adopted a similar process of reasoning, when speaking of the working-classes, as when speaking of Trades' Unions. They could not understand the working man taking his stand on an equality with the other classes of society he was a person to be legislated for a person that other people should think for, and that somebody else should govern. What other people said, it was his duty to obey and carry out.

But the woikinp-ciasses were improving tbeir position, and coming to the fore, and must expect to encounter opposition. They must, however, trust to themselves. Tliey had hitherto trusted to others to da that which they would not and could not be expected to do, and that which they ought to have done for themselves. working-men therefore take advantage of their improved position, and carefully guard their own interests. They had friends in the House of Commons, and if the Legislature attempted to make trade unions illegal which lit hardly believed possible let them be prepared to grapple with the question, and to bring their influence to bear on the members of Parliament who were the friends of the workintr-ciasses, and through those members on the Legislature If they believed Trades' Unions were a benefit to them, and helped them to get better remuneration for their labour, let them stick to Trades' Uuions.

(Hear, hear.) They were opposed to any recommendation, come from what quarter it might, that infringed on their rights as British subjects. Let exceptional legislation come to an end. All tbey wanted was to be placed on the same platform as the other classes of society they wanted no favour and no ex- lofrtulaiinii tYiPV wanted to be SUbl'ect to t' common law of the land, so that if they did wrong might be punished, and if they did right they mig' let alon-. (Hear, hear.i At At be The Chairman briefly supported the resolut-' spoke Unions to "--j large, in providing for memhers who were ir society at capacitated rlieving the from work by illness or accident, and tnns poor-rates. Mr.

Bowles proposed That, believing that the Bil' House of Commons in relation to 'now betore the troduced by T. Hughes, Crades' Unions, as M.P., is based upon justice and A.J. MunCella it becomes law, aftbrd protec to ail classes, and ill, if Unions, and five a more her to the funds ot trades I which operate between lab. Jthv development to the laws ti, now as? cr ar.d eaoital, this meeting ot use every constitutions' -amble hereby pledges itself to 1 gentlemen in carryin meat- to assist the honourable fssue. their measure to a sn i Mr.

Barrows 1 tained that Tra fded t' ae Hf ma.n-Jes Logons brought home to the the of was he The The Bill of the was a was only the of of the Mr. Mr. well was has in the the of of ft, HOUSE OF COMMONS. Friday. Mr.

Mactie moved a resolution in favour abolishing patents tor inventions. The motion supported by Sir R. Palmer and Lord Stanley, and opposed by Mr. Howard and Mr. Mundella.

The Attorney-General believed that the patent laws were on the whole beneficial to the countrv, tui could not. therefore, support motion. A''tei some further conversation, the motiou was withdrawn. Irish Church Bill was recommitted, and a clause inserted imposing a stamp duty on any order of the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland, operating as a conveyance or mortgage of properf secern! reading of the Metropolitan Poor Ac" (Sf7) was moved by Mr. Goschen, and at the conclusion his statement the debate was adjourned to Friday next.

The other orders were disposed of, and the House adjourned at 12.28. EPSOM RACES, Fr-pvy THE OAKS. Sir F. Johnstone'? Brigautine Sir J. Hawley's Moru.i (Cannon) 1 Sir W.

Bttlkeley's Martinique Won easily bv two lengths Shocking Case ov Cihld-MobSes at Xewpt Ann Tanner, a young girl, aged 1'', was ch-rge 1 fjr Newport magistrates, yesterday, with iufautici.la. The evidence showed that the prisoner bad been delivered of a chil and it was afterwards found iti a cupboard with the head almost from the body. Prisoner said she only used her nails, but Dr. Lewis of opinion that a sl.arp instrument must have inflicted the gash. Prisoner was committed for trial.

Power of Dissenting Congregations to Dismiss Minister. In the case of Cooper v. Gordon. Vice-chancellor Stuart delivered judgment on Friday, to the effect that Dissenting congregation are entitled" to dismiss their minister. In accordance with this decision an injunction granted against the defendant, the Rev.

Mr. Gordon, from officiating in the Independent Chapel at Reading' from the co-pastorate of which he was some time ao by a vote of the majority of the congregation The charge against Cordon was that his preachin-was unacceptable to his hearers. Opening Mcseuxs, JL-c, on Sundays. On Thursday evening last, a public meeting, convened by the Working Men's Lord's-day Rest Association, was" held in the Camden Mission Hall, Melton ground, Peckham. The Rev.

Jamc-s Fleming occupied the chair. The first resolution was moved by the v. A. Buzaeott, as follows: "That this meeting is of opinion thtit the opening of the British Museum and other national collections on Sunday would bo a national breakinr of fourth commandment, a iafiicted on the staff attendants who would bo required to work on Sundays, and would lead to the general opening of places amusement on Sunday, as iu France and other continental countries." Mr. Clarke seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously.

A second resolution, declaring that it wouia bo a sroat hoon to the working classes if the Government would carry out the recotnmenuatiou of a parliamentary committee to open British Museum and similar institutions on three week-day evenings in each week, from seven till tu o'clock, was also carried; ami a third resoluion, moved by Mr. Scott, a sower flush, and seconded by Coleman, adopting a petition to Parliament aga.nst Gregory's motiou for opeumg museums ou Sundays, was unammuu-ly adopted. The meeting was advertised by large and smull bills, the admission entirely free, aud the aadience were unanimous ia adopting the several resolutions. -o The cotton spinners of Cheshire and Derbyshire have decided on reducing the wages of the operatives live per cent, on the 19th of June. The non-union miners employed at the Denaby Main Colliery, have now struck work iu consequence of a reduction ia the rate of payment.

The late strike of hand-loom linen weavers at Barnoley brought about a movement for the formuiion of a union for the protection of the operatives. It has been agreed to refer the dispute between the cotton manufacturers at Oldham and their hands fo the arbitration of four men selected by the masters' association, with four selected by the representatives of the operatives." Reduction of Wages ap Cottox Operatives. At a meeting of the master cotton-spinners and manufacturers held in Manchester on Tuesday, it was unanimously resolved to reduce the wages of the operatives five per cent, all branches of the cotton manufacturing business after 19th of June, in the district comprising Hyde, Newton, Godley, Woudley, Compstall, Marple, New Mills, lioling-worth, Tintwistle, Hadlield, and Glossop. A deputation of the miners of West Yorkshire bad an interview on Monday, at Leeds, with Mr. Carter, M.P., on subject of the bill now before Parliament for consolidating and amending the Acts relating to mine3.

There were present delegates from some of the principal collieries in the district, and suggestions were made with the object, as the deputation contended, of improving measure. Mr. Carter promised to give the suggestions made every consideration. The of Lekds and Vrtutration. On Wednesday night a meeting of the operative joiners and carpenters of Leeds was heid, for the purpose of discus-sins: what they declared to be a flagrant violation" of the decision given by Mr.

Rupert tvettle in the arbitrat-o the dispute with their employers last year. T'rt decision was to the effect that men of fair average should be paid u'i-d. per hctir, and that this rate shou VI be in force for two years. The men say that out, of ur 700 joiners in the town there were only about sev ceiving and they therefore contended tM the had not been carried out. A resol jtion passed by the meeting, deputing the chairman co request Mr.

Jowett, the umpire appointed at thearhitra tion. to eidJ together the Board of Conciliation, and instate plTl tlt. presentatives of the joiners to demand a fulH' raeut of the agreement on the part of the employers, or dissolution of the Board of Arbitration. Strike of the Livehpool Masons. the 1st of November last, the Liverpool operative, masons gave notice to their employers that at the -xptratiuu of six months from that date it was inten led to alter the working rules so as to r.

dace the faour 0f labour from 5.3 hours to 50 per week, or iu other terms, fo adoj-t the mine hours system The wages ander the thou exiling rules were orfs. per week, and t'r question of readjustment under the new regulations iS eft open by the operatives. At the close of SweivAia the masters sfl8 a counter notice to the men to effect that at the termination six months they would introduce a system of paying by the hour, and would jVJ insist unon arbitration in casos trade disputes. he notice given by the men would have terminated on jle 1SC but it was withdrawn on the 29th April. Th notice eiveu by the masters was not withdrawn, and it grmmated on Friday 'tw.

On Saturday, the men to accco- and the result is atout tive men are t'urcuvn out of employm ent. The men say with regard to the system of payim Dy tne hoar instead by the day, that they would be I t0 (j6 compelled to use York at any hour of the da-jT anj7 although it might be necessary for them to present at a building a whole dav, thev A tlTr 0nl-v hare 0X1x2 rr tVV0 hours' WOrk' They urge tnat (fev ptestnt mlr-si, which regulate the day's work th" Protect tn-m from a SSU hardship, wln'e jsnne time fair play is secured to the master. To tha iTJltrailon quesua i.ie men uimti. ou it would be. itnuossdhte to rind an arbitrut who juld have a knowledge of the rade and be impartial jut it is stated chat they are willing to atrroe to the formation if a CGiirt of conciliation one half masters and the other half operatives.

About two hundred masons are at work in Liverpool, an 1 ettorts, it sta; 1, are bein made by the masters to increase the number: This strike will force 200 or 300 joiners and other out of employment. BANKRUPTS. (From Friday's Gz J. Wilson, Coventry, builder first dividend of Is. 4.

ou auv Thursday, at Mr. Kinnears. Birmingham. DECLARATION OF DIVIDEND. J.

Ashmore, Derby, butcher. E. G. Loydall, tae blacksmith. F.

Simpson, Nottingham, photographic artist BANKRUPTS, (From Tuesday's Gazette.) W. Dalby, Barrow-upon-Soar, jurneyman joiner. J. White, Nottingham, joiner. C.

Young, Birmingham, traveller. II. Dudley, out of business. Every watch purchased 2 and ov at F. Wale's, watchmaker, Humiierstone-gate, Leicester, will be warranted fcr six yiars.

after January 22nd, Iggo. that is. will be rt ia going order, Ireaka-'-s. of course, excepted. Advt..