Change In Criminal Law

The Pall Mali Gazette of the 13th in response to requests for its opinión as to the nature of the ehange; required in;the present English criminal law, makes several important suggestions. It advocates : First, an addltion to the criminal law ralsiug the age at,which f emale children may legally consent to sin ful con duet from 13 years, the present period, to 16 ; second, extensión of tiie law prohibiting soliciting to both sexes; third, denial of any additional power over women to the pólice that will !e aimed at the suppression of crime and not at the suppression of vioe - that is, complete legal liberty for voluntary immorality between adults contracting on equal terras, but rigorous repression of sexual criminality in all cases in which the parties are under age or the elements of full, free and intelligent consent are absent ; f ourth, greatly increased stringency in the laws against procuration. The Gazette in an editorial commenting on the results of its revelations, declares that its "trumpet blast has roused the world." "No word was raised yesterday in the churches against us," continúes the paper, "but all the forcea of wickedness in high places are arrayed against us. The Hon. W. H. Smith & Sons, possessing the monopoly of the news stands on the railway system inEngland, have suppressed the sales of the Pall Mali Gazette. The prince of Wales has stopped his paper. The Kight Hon. Mr. Bentinck is posing in Parliament in the name of 'outraged morality' and elamors for our extinction. The Gazette did not undertake this inquiry to unearth the vices of the great, bu t if we are driven to bay we will be compelled by the action of our assailants to speak out and spare not." Spurgeon preached.a powerful sermón on the patrieian iniquity of London exposed by the Gazettee, and assures that paper of his strong support in its war against vice. Franee is opposed to continuing the war in Anam. Mormons are making a crusade in Berlin. Gen. Lord Wolseley has arrived in London from Egypt. Queen Vichas given orders that no reporters be allowed to wltnesa the marriage of Prineess Beatricc. Thirty thousaml euses of cholera are repor t ed iu Spain from the outbreak of the disease to the close of the week ending July 11. Rcports from Spain place the nuniber of new cholera oases at between 1,200 and 1,500 daily, and the deaths at over one-half of this nuraber The Welsh university college, at Abergwill,. Caermarthtnshire, Wales, burned totheground theother niorning. The college was built at a cost of $400.000. A statement has been published to the effect that El Mahdi offered to surrender Gen. Gordon for a ransom of f5,000, but that the British govermnent refused the offer. The French Chamber of Deputies has revised the old law in force during the French revolution under the provisions of which the state maintains and educates every seventh child born in French families. A dispatch from Gen. Stephenson) the commander of the British forces now in the Soudan, states that Gen. Brackenbury hasreceived a letter from one of the friendly chiefs informIng hlm of the death of the Mahdi. The Montreal branch of the Irish Nafional League has issue;! a manifestó to the Irishmen of Canada, calling opon them for support and subscriptions towaxd a national parliamentary f umi for the payuient of Irish mcinbers in the Impenal parliament, and to defray their expenses in the coming elections. Six men while running Calf Kapids, four miles from Mnttawa, Out., were upset; four of them clung to the boat and the other two swam ashore. The four on the boat floated clown to the Demiehange Rapids, half a milc below, and were there waahed off the boat and drowned. Their names were George Hodd, William Christine. Phillip Martin and George Langlier. None of the bodies were recovered. The flrst public breach between the Parneltes and the new government occurred in the House of Commons, when Mr. Holmes the attorney general for Ireland, refused to inquire into the dismissal of Pólice Inspector Murphy and justified his dismissal on the ground that he was conneeted with the crimes of Inspector French anl Becretarj Cornwall. Mr. Parnell declares that he heard the government decisión with amazement. The anniversary of the battle of the Boyne was observcd throughout Ireland on the 12th Inst. In many places riots occurred between orangemen and cutholics and manv persons from both sides went home with budly broken heads. In Waterford a row occurred between Foldiers and civilians, and a man nained Peter Grant was bayoneted to death. The barracks wen assaulted in retalliation, and not until many persons were seriously injured was order restored. A mas? meetiug was held In London the other af ternoon to consider ways and means to protest voune girls from the horrible pitfalls of London. The mi eting resolved that the laws on the subject should forthwith be made more efficiënt. They denounced the state regulation of vlce and demanded a total repeal of the contagious disease act, and that the age of consent be" raised froin 13 to 18 years. The meeting also voted to send copies of record of its proeeedings to the house of commons. Premier Salisbury has presented a memorandum to Russia offering the alternativo of a modwj vivendi. or a cessation of ngotiation. The memorandum presented by Salisbury summarily disposes of rersia and the ameer's territory within his new boundaries, as being beyond the Bphere ol diplomatic action and inviolable liy elther power; defines the Kussian boundary, roughly speaking, as north of Zulflcar, iu the west. to a poiut south of Penjdeh, inthei'ast; the British boundary as the line marked on the English war oflicé maps during the adoaluistration oí the late Lord Beaconstield, and known as the "scientirte frontier," rugged mountain ranges running in a nortlieasterly direction towards Peshawur. This practically concedes to Russia a line well advanced beyonfj the new boundaries marked on the military maps of 1S73, and to England the only fronticr she has ever seriously claimed, leaving a largc territory between thetwo. It is Btatcd that (iermany fávors this solutionof the dispute as disposing once and for all of the prelensioiis of the amecr and contonding factions in Afghanistan, on the one hand, and the disturbing elements on the Persian side o the otiier. An American correspondent paid a visit a few duys since to Aranjuez, Spain, anti found abuni!:ïnt rcason to doubt tne statement whk'h lias be;n put forth by the authorlties that the cholera is deureaslng. Frightful scènes wcre EO t e uitm-ssi'd uu every hand, not only evilencc of the havoc of (liscase, but of the heartlessness and cowardicfl of the citizens. In severa! districts the corpses of the dead were lilerallv rotting in the streets, where the rilde boxes containlng ihem had been placed outsldeol the liouses. It wag impossiule to procure iielp to remove the bodies exeept in case.i where fee friends of the deeeased could ofEer a large reward for sueh service. One of the causes of dlgtress in the atllietcd town has been the (llïbt of nearly all the druggists, who Imltated the shop keepers by running away. Ftnallj tome brave sisu-rs ofmercy form Madrid weni down and reopened the drug shops, aftar the perfect of Madrid had valnlj oitered exhorbitant calarles to regular chemi:-t i, if they would audertake the humane vrork of affofding the Btrlckeu people access to the drugs, whlcb alone could alleviate their sufferlng. By heavy brlbes a few grave-dlggers rere proi ured in Madild to go down and uury the corpses whloi had remained unattended lor inany d ivs. It tnav now be stated, witli conlidemv. that tli elidiera exista toa greator or less extenl In 250 places In Southern Spain. '"