The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-23 00:00:00

BREAKFAST.-IPPS'S COCOA. ghe entretifS. TO 001LIESPOND 1117 . Advertistmteeta Wended for " The limpreea," London a►enms , mast be at the Moe, 10, lleaverie•etreet. by Two 717.c r k on the day of publication. HAYMAILEET. TRI.; EVENINO, THE BROKEN-HEARTED CLUB.—A WIFE WELL WON. Menem nothern, Bankston., Hone, Kendal. Anvers, Braid. Weatbershy, An.: and 111•1 Enbertses.—After winch AN UTTER PEIL-VEREHON 0.11 THE BLIOAND. rarricess.s EtIOITNO, THE OOLLESI HAWN. Mr. and MN. Dion Boumsolt.—After which THE [MEETS OF WIDOE. Mr. Tieing, Messrs. Murray, abate. Neville. reesester. Slam. ddle. &o. • Misses Elaworthy, E. Barnett. Rachel San g e r, and Mn.s A IFIKAND. THIS ETrlso. OLD SALT. Mr. Emery DA ter and MilA Nelly Moore. —af whic a h THE CALIPH OF BAGD Messrs. Thorne and Josses Mesdames Ada Mranborough, Johnstone, Harland, Holt, do.—And OUR DAIRMCS. HOLBORN. Ted ammo, TRH FLYING SCUD. News. Atkins, Price, Garden, Arthur, tVestlarel, and Wilmott ; Mesdames Henrode, Goodall, Lennox, end tioundern —Conclude with VAINNTINS AND OLSON. Mdlle. Montero, Little Howells, Be. BRITANNIA. Tyra Taiwan, DON QUIXOTE : OR. RANCHO PANEA AND HIS WIFE TERLI.A. Mrs. Lane, &Mimes Edwin R Booth : Pan- Sandinista Messrs. Deane Lonis, Newham, and Vlctorelll C. Stephan and Wu Bos e Nathan. —And WHO DID IT / RION WATER AT LONDON BRIM& TIT DAv —Morning. lb. ISm..--Attensoon. lb. 40 , A. 1.0-110Esow—Norning, 2h. Da_ —..Afternoon, 2.h. 20m. LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23. MEW the (curt. had been last for want of more generous stage of these mournfal proesediap it came oat that when wretched wanderers are apprehended by the police for pre ferring to beg rather than to starve, they are kept from twelve to:twenty-four hours without food. What shall we do, asks the Post, to free ourselves from the guilt and shame of these things before they bring a judgment upon us' Even the professional beggar, the Star says, one is afraid now not to relieve, knowing that only yesterday one who looked not much unlike him lay down in his rags on the spot where you are now solicited, and died of utter hunger. Whole districts of London are sinking into one vast, squalid, awful condition of helpless, hopeless destitution. The statesmen who, hearing of these things take no steps to better them, are the kind of statesmen who in all times have preceded national decay or social revolution. The Herald asks how it cornea that the chiefs of the Roman hierarchy in Ireland still remain passive while • section of the catholic clergy are deliberately lending aid and comfort to the cause of revolution ? If the Roman bishops in Ireland had thought fit, they maid have quelled this mutinous spirit almost in • day. If it had seemed good to the Vatican to have sent forth the mot crordre, even Cardinal Cullen would have felt compelled to silence his subordinates. The Daily News describes the principles of the new domestic policy of the Austrian government which have recently been indicated by Baron Boost and the ministers. Peace with foreign powers "at almost any price" as the first condition of national prosperity ; local self-govern ment in all the provinces, without permitting the °Legge- ration of a principle to shelter treasonable designs against the unity of the empire ; reform sad retrenchment in all the branches of the public service ; national education ; promotion by merit ; freedom of the press, of association, of public meeting, of commerce and industry, of public worship and instruction ; development of material interests in harmony with the moral interests of the people. True liberals must welcome with cordial satisfaction the entrance of Austria into the family of free nations. Reviewing the scheme recommended in the report to the Lambeth Conference for the institution of • voluntary spiritual tribunal, the Times says that by its proviiions five American and two Scotch bishops might pronounce an irreversiblo sentence on an English clergyman without the presence of a single English bishop; and another provision enables them to do so, if they should be in a majority of two-thirds. It is no mitigation, but rather an•ggravation, of the case that a plan directly calcu lated to produce these monstrous consequences is full of anomalies fatal to its operation. We learn from the Telegraph that Matilda Griggs was yesterday released from prison and restored to her friends. OSBORNE, JAN. 22. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Duchess of Roxburgh" and the lion. Mary Lemnos, Colonel Ponsonby being in attendance upon horseback ; and her Majesty drove In the grounds this morning, accompanied by Princess Beatrice. Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopoldalso went out. A deputation from the Cutlers' Company of Sheffield, I introduced by Mr. Roebuck, M.P.. and oonsisting of Mr. Mark Forth, the Muter Cutler ; Mr. Henry Harrison, and Mr. Alderman Jackson, had an interview with the Duks of Richmond and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave, at the office of the Board of Trade, Whitehall, yesterday, in reference to the continued practice of importing into this country cutlery and hardware bearing the name or marks of Britiah manufacturers. John Bullseesin the Queen's "Journal" evidences of her Majesty's preference for the non-Episcopalian com munity established in Scotland over " the church of her baptism," and calls Prince Albert her attendin " Presbyteri Scotch an hus band." When the Queen fi rst began g the service, the primate, according to our contemporary, " if not the bishops generally, were guilty of agreat dereliction of duty in not putting forth privately a dutiful remon strance, reminding her of her peculiar relation to the English church and the duties involved in it. There was not any state necessity for this open adoption of the presbyterian kirk and its worship. The alternative did not lie between that and offending the religious prejudices of the Scotch. The sovereign has always a large itaff of chaplains of various grades, and one or two of these could always have been in attendance on her during her absence from England." The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are expected to leave Albury Park in the course of the ensuing week for the south of France for a few weeks. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle and family intend to le►ve Clamber Park, Notts, early next month for town. The Earl of Shrewsbury and Ladies Adelaie and Gertrude Talbot have arrived at Althorp Hall, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Spencer. The Earl and Countess Granville have joined the company staying with the Earl and Countess Spencer at Althorp Hall. Lord Ruthven left town on Monday for Alex andria. His lordship intends making a tour In Egypt and the Holy Land. Mr. William Henry Gregory, M.P. for the county of Galway, is shortly to marry Bliss Ellison, daughter of the late Mr. Cuthbert Ellison, of Hebburn, county Durham. The list of new works published during last year counts up 3,516 vole., at the publishing price amounting to 1,089/. 9s. 11d. ; during the same period the number of reprint' of books formerly issued was 1,422 vols. at the price of 4291., making the total of 4,938 vols. at the wet of 1,518/. 9s. 11d. This result varies little from that of the past few years, an average of 5.000 vole. seeming to be neer the present standard of publication. Mr. O'Reilly, M.P., has published the first of a series of letters in the Freeman's Journal, in reply to Mr. De Vent's views as to the allocation of the revenues of the Irish Established Church between the Roman catholic clergy and the clergy of the different protestant denomina tions in Ireland. Mr. O'Reilly objects to the proposed distribution of the Irish church property. "Those who think with me," he observes, " are of opinion that we bad better seek to have it applied to secular purposes el national utility, entirely diaendowing the Anglican aft. blishruent in Ireland, and thereby destroying its amend ancy, and leaving the catholic church in Ireland in its present position as regards revenues, dependent ter its support on the free offering' of catholice and snob property as it has acquired, and is yearly acquiring, by seek free offerings." The celebrated German preacher Ronge bee been cited before the examining magistrate of Frankfort, on a charge of libel against the Order of Jesuits. The accusation is founded on the publication by him of a fly sheet containing nothing more than extracts from a manual of " morals" issued by the Jesuit Father Oury and the use of which baa been ordered by the Bishops of Blayence, Ratiabon, and others in the ecclesiastical semi naries. The commemorative manses for the repose of the soul of Louis XVI. were celebrated on Tuesday in the Expiatory Chapel in the line d'Anjou. A crowd of devout worshippers filled the sacred edifice during the day. Althotigh she execution of the Queen did not take place far nine months after (the 16th October), the two eselanehely anuivasaries are always united, and services said for both sovereigns on the 21st January, A Amnia 118•1 was likewise performed in the chapel of the ea u doe, se has been regularly the case winos the scam elm et Napalms 111. Th. Emperor, Empress, and Prince limeriel were tweeest. Lest month the diligence carrying the mail bags IbMereen Lipseek rad Emma wee stopped by a bead at s omiefforo, about 10 Tents from the latter tows. sad l i m aired of the lame am of 75,000 sliver mules. Tie perinliew and drives were killed, and the home saber a mok opii led off by the ribbon, se true of whom be/ Wheels been disseveni. Oimems PASAM—Oins flanaaNa DAY.—Wzad Jae. 22.Aahairleas pitman, 1,610: ditto by mesa tiekets, 8 59; to ebbe* UN. Barope are proclaiming their lan for the con tinuance of peace, the preparation of arms and armed men was never so active as it is at present on almost every ride. The Berlin Gazette records with satisfaction that France, England, Austria, and Prussia, are agreed in the policy " of prevent ing a conflagration from bursting forth in the south of Europe," and insists on the fact that " friendly relations between Austria and Prussia alone would modify more than one design and one hope." The North German Gazette also considers that the chances of peace have become greater, and looks forward to the time when the States of Europe will direct their attention, not to the formation of im mense armies, but to internal administrative and economical reforms. In France, Italy, and Russia pacific declarations are also heard. But unfortu nately the acts of the governments do not harmo nise with the official and officious announce ments in favour of peace. In Italy the Minister of Marine has asked the Chamber of Deputies for a supplementary credit to meet the cost of the armament of nine iron-plated vessels and the alteration of the carbines of the Royal Marines. The Spanish Chambers have unanimously passed sa armament bill, and the government it is said have applied to the United States for the purchase of 50,000 needle guns. A telegraphic despatch from Vienna mentions that the Servian govern ment have made a similar application at Vienna for the purchase of 20,000 guns, and that it was re fused. The chambers of Stuttgard, of Munich, and at Brussels are discussing army bills. Notwithstand ing the pacific declarations of the Berlin journals, if the Turin Gazette is correctly informed, Prussia is making immense war preparations ; her troops are already concentrating on the Silesian and Saxon frontiers ' and with such a formidable accumulatio n of military material that one would imagine we were on the eve of a second Sadowa campaign. The Nord, which speaks for the pacific policy of Russia, and maintains that to that policy it is owing that the peace of Europe has not been broken before this time, copies an article from the Invalide Busse, by which we find that Russia has diminished her active army to 700,000, but that she has an immense reserve, from which the army could at once be increased by G 4 per cent. It is further stated that the army being no longer com posed of serfs, the men are animated by the highest spirit. The State and private factories are busily employed in the manufacture of needle guns of which the Invalide calculates that 800,000 will be ready in the course of the present year. The Carl rifle is the one adopted by the government, and the Russian organ evidently expects it will "do wonders." Rifled cannon and the preparation of the fortresses are not omitted from the peaceful anticipations of Russia. Even the Sovereign Pon tiff of Rome is studying the art of maintaining peace by increasing his army to 25,000 men. Such is the condition of Continental Europe as presented by its press in the first month of 1808. (NEUTER'S TILLCIL&MS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, lut. V, EvEms°. The Marquis Gualterio, who has been appointed Minister of the Royal Household, is expected here to-morrow to take possession of his new post. The Gazette d'ltalia confirms the previous intel ligence of the despatch of an Italian note to the Spanish government relative to certain passages in the Queen's speech upon the opening of the Cortes, and states that this step has had a satisfactory result. I4:I 1 4 IT I N:Z . . 24:N.W. ''k &W. ii- al ' . . I `VANITA. " 4 , 2 . if -t 186 i TA ES; ~ , .„,. • • . t jiti r It it . SflirCil 07.1f/L lalflo .. ON A f IDDLEXL.A Government sof giving a is eat upon bis body. It him . _ ... by , . ' .11 , 14, 1.4:8 ..* ___ LIGENCE. Y 1 • EDO It rter and orgeifizaells. to the Or ee gfrat il" 14 4 66 glom o brandy and there msa but one f. :,: Vattet 3' * .BAST MELTIP ARY PREPARATIONS. 1/0. Lowe delivered a brilliant speech ui I would more than neutralise f that the prison surgeon had not °waff l e d M I ., ' , et._..t° It is a curious phenomenon, if it is not a strange mid liaalms education at the annual dimes of the Li lerived from the Mate" °- " maaan amigea a dirt" la time " save ... " W " . '" contradiction, that while all the governments of p oo l phg cma thi a Society hid „ l o t. Re argued that _.,_ ____..i___ 1...... ....... 'cumin 1.. A 1,..... 1..4 (nr ..nt of more generous relief. At this , ..... L ywiL i za i ng , u ,.;., ........ desire for the con- middle classes required MONO culture and eleven° tributed to the LONDON has for a long time had the reputation of being one of the most orderly and best kept cities in the world. By night and by day its citizens have flattered themselves that they might walk its streets in peace and safety. But this confidence is fast departing, if it be not alto gether gone. In the matter of personal security London is sinking into the condition of Constan tinople or New Orleans. If a second GAY should arise to sing once more the perils of the streets, he would not want matter for a new Trivia. One of I our earliest English writers records the practice of prudent people in his time to take boat from Westminster to London in order to avoid the dangers of a journey through the village of Charing, and of the road along the Strand to Temple Bar. If head be not presently made against the brigands of London, the proprietors of the penny steamers may expect, for the same reason, to drive a roaring trade, and the fares will rise. Mon will be afraid to travel from suburb to City except in metropolitan railways ; and along routes on which the iron road has not been laid down omnibus parties will be formed for mutual security, as caravans are formed in the East for protection against the plunderers of the desert. " Flying high " waymen" may stop the Adelaide or the Breck nock in the Seven-dials, and renew the glories of TURPIN and Duvet. We have not reached this point yet ; but the perils of a century ago, when travellers were shot dead in Holborn, and noble men's carriages were stopped in Piccadilly, do nut seem by any means so distant and strange as they did a few weeks since. People who laughed over M. ABOUT'S " King of the " Mountains" are now inclined to doubt whether such matters are fit subjects for jesting. If we cannot keep the streets of London in order, we must moderate our strictures on the inefficiency of the governments which are unable to clear the highways of Greece and Southern Italy of brigands. The difficulty ought to be less, since Short's gardens, Endell-street, which appears to be the haunt of our most desperate banditti, is more accessible than a mountain-top in Calabria or Acarriania. Our perils are drawing nearer. From the circumference they are gathering in upon the centre. A cry from Camberwell or a howl from Holloway might occasionally disturb' the minds of City dwellers who read in the papers of a clerk being half-strangled at nightfall in the former suburb, or of a respectable citizen being forced to take to his heels in the latter, and escaping breathless, after an animated chase, into the bosom of his family. These dangers have a certain dmmatic appropriateness to nightly darkness, and the outer margin, the ravelled edge, of London civilization. We expect to hear of them, as of outrages in the far West of North America. But to bring them into the broad daylight and into the very centre of London is to be forgetful of the lies and of the proper keeping. Within the last few days, burglaries and aseaulta have been committed within a distance of two minutes' walk from Bow-street. Ladies have been ga rotted, and knocked down, and robbed of their purses and jewels ; gentlemen have bad their watches snatched from them in the day-time, as they were passing through Endelbstreet, a part e f the main thoroughfare which connects Bloomsbury and North London with the Strand, and the villains have escaped into Short's-gardens, as into a sort of sanctuary or Alsatia, in which pur suit was impossible. We may presently hear of some opulent citizen being abducted and held to ransom in this retreat, and of the lagging liberality or the slow diplomacy of his friends being stimu lated by the sight of a slice from the captive's ear, I, or by threats of more terrible vengeance. There is only one remedy for this state of things. We cannot afford to wait for com pulsory education ; and even when we have got it, it is to be feared that a population of three mil lions and more will always contain a percentage of scoundrels ready for any villany that they can perpetrate with a fair chance of safety. The pro clamation of martial law in Short's-gardens, or the transportation of its inhabitants to Ireland to form there the nucleus of a new and better society, are heroic remedies for which the public mind is not yet prepared. The only course that remains is to increase the numbers and improve the quality of the Metropolitan Police. At present they are too few for the work they have to da ; and they are not always intellectually, morally, or physically up to it. They have to keep the peace in a district comprised within a circumference of ninety miles, and containing seven hundred square miles of densely-crowded population. The addition which is proposed of a thousand men to the force will give ten policemen to every square mile. But as even policemen must sleep, as the same man cannot be nu duty for twenty-four hours every day of the week and all the year round, the force available at any given moment is just half this number. Not being birds, and, therefore, being unable to be in two places at once, it is not strange that policemen should not always be found when they are wanted. The local authorities, at the instigation of the Government, have within the past month very properly sworn in myriads of special constables to guard against an exceptional and passing danger. But the need of strengthening the ordinary police force against the ordinary dangers which beset a wealthy and dense population is as important and almost as urgent. The destruction by City improvements of a part of the old haunts of crime in London, by opening thoroughfares to their midst, has had, among many good effects, this inconvenient one of bringing their prey to the very doors of the plunderers whose retreats have not been de stroyed. The design which haa been at- quasi-military character Metropolitan Police - any benefit to be derh their numbers. Short's-gardens has every reason to favour such a policy. The better soldier, the worse policeman. Implicit obedience and the power of acting as one of a body, as a wheel in a machine, is the soldier's chief merit. The neces sity of acting alone, upon his own individual res ponsibility, and at his discretion, is one of the most ordinary obligations of the detective and the thief-taker. If the project attributed to the Home-office, we trust without sufficient ground, were really entertained, it would be hard to eradi cate from the public mind the suspicion of a design on the part of the Government to sacrifice the individual security of the Quasit's subjects in London to a sinister political purpose. ONE of the last votes of the House of Assembly in Jamaica, before its corrupt and mischievous ex i s t e nce was terminated, was to grant two hun dred guineas for the purchase of a Testimonial to Colonel ABERCROMBY NELSON, as a token of grati tude for hie conduct in suppressing the late " rebellion " in the eastern provinces of that island. Colonel NELSON is at this moment on duty in Ireland, and this reminder of his past feats will have pleasant significance in the eyes of the " Briton " of the Times, and of those who are whispering that worthy's " unspoken words." The Testimonial has taken the form of a silver ipergne and a candelabrum. It is thus described : At each of the angles of the tripod boos of the epergne Is stationed a figure in relief of • crocodile, and between these figures the arms of Brigadier-General Nelson, the arms of Jamaica, and en inscription of the extract from the votes of the House of Assembly, are engraved on three shields. From the base rise several sugar-canes in blossom, and between these stand two figures representing the aborigines of the island, each supporting a shield. These figures, with the representations of the crocodile at the base, are, it may be added, illustrative of the Jamaica arms. Above the sugar-canes rise six branches for lights, surmounted by a crocodile couched in the midst of palm leaves, and supporting a bowl for flowers or fruit. The design might have been more appropriate. The crocodile is in place, but it should be de vouring its prey, and shedding tears after the creature's habit. Instead of the aborigines of the island, protected by a shield, the two figures amid the blossoming sugar-canes should be a planter rampant and a negro couchant ; for the protect ing shield might be substituted a whip of pianoforte wire, brandished by the one figure hid aimed at the other. These suggestions come too late for the NELSON Testi monial ; but they are at the service of Mr. CARLYLE or Mr. Itusio, should either of those gentlemen be disposed to rr erect on the right hand of Cerricaro's statue a drinking fountain in honour of Mr. EYRE, Colonel IsieLsorr, and Lieutenant BRAND, to balance that which the filial piety and public spirit of Mr. CHARLES BVITON have placed on the loft of the statue in commemoration of Ctsaxsox, WILBERFORCE, and Sir FOWELL Bux- TON. The contrast would illustrate in a very in- structive manner the growth of modern enlighten ment and of an elevating hero-worship. OUR CONTEMPORARIEt3. (THIS DAY.) THE BRISTOL BANQUET. The Times condoles with the conservatives of Bristol that neither the chief of the ministry nor the 4 leader of the House of Commons graced their banquet ; but Sir John Pakington, who is equal to every emergency, was present ; Mr. Ilathorne Hardy happily blended the patty man and the patriot; and Lord Stanley, whose words perhaps inspire more confidence than those of any other member of the ministry, made the speech of the evening. He was in his happiest vein. He took his hearer; into his confidence, and when he is frank and confidential he is apt, as members of the House of Commons are well aware, to be extremely winning. His lordship, as the mouthpiece of the government, speaks with a definiteness which deserves hearty appreciation and support. His programme is not to be mistaken. The de mand of a separate legislature is summarily dismissed. The consideration of the church question is postponed. The proposal to transform tenants into proprietors 11 1 treated with the contempt it deserves. At the same time the principle of compensation for improvements is ad. , witted, and the terms under which it should be sanc tioned remain to be settled by parliament. Lord Stanley asks for a full and thorough discussion of the subject. Such a discussion is wanted for the information of parlia- ment and the country. COOETO OF CONCILIATION. The Daily Nero is glad to observe that since Mr. Mundella delivered his lecture on courts of conciliation a strong feeling has been manifested throughout the coun try in favour of the solution of the labour question in • way resembling that advocated and practised by him. Steps have been tam to intrxlum the Nottingham system into ShefliA, and an artisans' committee of the file trade is now engaged in discussing with • committee of manufacturers the steps requisite in order to form a board of arbitration. The Doily Nears proceeds to notice an act which was passed last erosion, called the Councils Conciliation Act, which provides for the establishment of councils composed of masters and workmen in equal numbers, and empowered to deal summarily with all trade disputes. The chairman is to be a person chosen by the majority of the council, but unconnected with trade. Any master of the age of twenty-one, who shall have duly resided and traded for six months in the locality where • council is constituted, and every workman who has resided there for the same period, and pr►c tised his trade or calling during seven years, is eligible for election, and is entitled to act as an elector. Every award made by it is to "be final and conclusive between the parties to such arbitration, without being sub ject to review or challenge by any court or authority what soever." As the award may be enforced by warrants of distress or by commitment to the House of Correction, it is evident that the settlement of trade disputes would be wholly in the hands of those immediately concerned. In an act paned in the 511 year of the reign of George IV. there are very similar provisions to those contained in this one. One of its clauses is to the effect that nothing con tained in it shall authorise the establishment of " • rate of wages or price of labour or workmanship at which the workman shall in future be paid, iattem with the mutual convent of both master and workman." The words in italics have not been repeated in the act of 18b7 ; neither have they been repealed by it. Oa the contrary, all the powers accorded by the earlier act are expressly continued in the later one. The act of 1867 may be faulty, but it has not yet had either the fair trial or the careful study which it ought to receive. It became law last July ; hitherto it has remained among the useless lumber of the statute book. LONDON BZOGIIL4. The Port thinks it a mockery to ask us not to give alms in the street in presence of such terrible facts as have just come to light in the Holloway Prison. Fifty-one persons were last week condemned for begging to punishments of 14 to 21 days' imprisonment, with hard labour, and on • maser. diet. The money found on these fifty-one persons, after diligent search, was one penny discovered in posses sion of • blind man. They were • motley oompany—ems of them • stockbroker, who had lost a hundred thousand pounds in a promising investment. A child in arms, but two years old, was sent to prison with its mother. They were all sterving—thirty-four of thin already exhanded by hunger. Young worms staggered from weakness and want so that they would hardly walk to their plasm el eon finsesent and tail. Mae of Omen had Sep more frees waktag, frost hard weather, and from Sinai& eating into neglected taken. They were all infer, et in the profanes foreovesing supplied by workhouses. A man, only 27 years of age, by name Michael Lyons, died the day after his committal to bard labour for begging, and • sad story came out at AMERICA. (DT AMAMI° TZLZORAPH.) NEW YORK, .7 ar. 22. The Inman steamer City of Boston arrived out on the 21st at 10 p.m. Closing Prices :—Gold, 139 g. Sterling exchange on London, 109 i. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 110} ; ditto, 1885,109}. 10-40 Bonds, 103 i. Illinois, 131} ; Erie, 75k. Cotton : Middling Upland, 171. Petroleum, standard white, 241. Flour, Extra State, 10.60. Corn, old mixed, 1.39. THE FOREIGN MAIL& INDIA, CHINA, AND AUST'RALTAN MAILS. — GALLIC, Jay. 18.—The Behar, from China, mired on the 15th inst., and the Geelong, from Australia, to-day. The Nubia leaves for Suez to-day. OUTWARD MAIL or 20-29 Ocr.—The Avoca mired at Melbourne on the 16th and Sydney on the 18th December. OurwAim /Liras or 4-10 DEc.—The Mongolia arrived at Galls 7th January. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.—MALTA, JAN. 22. —The Syria left at 8 a.m. to-day for Marseilles, where she may be expected on the evening of the 24th inst. BOMBAY HHAVY MAIL.--GIBILALTAIL, JAN. 20. The Nyanza leaves at 11 a.m. to-day. She may be ex pected et Southampton on the evening of the 24th, or morning of the 25th inst. LivaarooL, JAN. 23.—The steamer Minnesota, which mailed hence on JAR. 7 fax New York, put back to (4%11811041/R last night, having lost her propeller. She is expected to proceed to-morrow. WEATHER REPORT.-(THD3 DAY. TRCISDAT, JANCART 33, 3 L. "-....-/ ta. B. Nair* .. VII emmta.""w" c t raohw aleatka scusrpt !: m 49 l 73l"r igl s,j rl . i t vgw I.m.ilkollabessid.monamia__ 7 :111111.1„.11929r:L:Berniill Lasike wirer 113. 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Ton a Liver _ that the elevation of morels, and that their education should not be en imita tion of that of the higher dame'. He denounced the old fahioned mean still in vogue, of teaching dead lan guages, history, logic, and grammar, as the alpha and the omega of education ; arguing that the English language, English composition, French, and German, the study of physical science and pure mathematics, were the most desirable and useful studies for • clams who had to work for their living. Knowledge (he said) of every kind ex cept heraldry bad some value—(laughter)—but they were to select out of • greet number of candidates, and he eddied to put before them the merits of those which should have his vote and interest. In the first place, he recommended to their notice • 'abject utterly despised end overlooked in public schools and universities, and that was—what did they think l—the English language— (laughter and applause)—the language of Fox, the language of Byron—a language richer probably, and more varied in the treasures it contained, I than any other language, and which began to be framed and fashioned sooner than any other language in Europe, I except, he believed, the Italian, which far surpaseed I , in everything constituting the beauty of • language. Was it not time that we, who spoke this language and wrote in it--that we, whole enema in life con sisted in our being well able to express ourselves in this language—we who made bargains in this lan guage, and who made love in this language—was it not I time that we should not be limited to reading the penny, or threepenny, or even sixpenny newspaper of the day, but that we should, at least in our boyhood, be tolled upon to remember what sort of writers England I produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries! He could only speak from his own experience. During his Let two years at school hp was what was calledidle boy," and he had many qualms of conscience on the sub ject. He had Latin and Greek enough to enable him to go Oa passively with his class, and he did not care to go in any more, but he spt his time in reeding works of old English authors, and h em t say he owed all his success in life to those stolen hours of reading. The power of being able to read and speak his native lan guage with some precision and force had been more valuable to him than all the rest he had learned in the course of his life put together, and no man could imagine till he bad tried how great was the improvement he might effect in his mind by the study of our ancient authon, full of their obsolete words and idioms. He did not mean to say that • man should be • pedant, and use those words in his ordinary conversation ; but they would give him an insight to his mother tongue, and the power of using it in ordinary matters which would be bidden from him unless he made the experiment. To take an illustration. Soon and Byron, two of the greatest poets, also the greatest Foss writers of their day—had both club feet, which was the cause, in both instances, of their being confined for several years to their rooms, and they spent their time in devouring ell the English books they could get bold of. The consequence was they both turned out very bad Latin scholars and no Greek scholars at all, but pr ob ably two of the most classica l writers of the English language in this century. e would also venture to urge that every young man should be taught bow to write • decent letter. (Hear, hear.) It was quite extraordinary how people, even educated men, failed to express themselves in writing a common letter on the common affairs of life. French, written and spoken, was an accomplishment also which it would be most desirable to introduce, and was becoming more desirable every day. In fact the thing was so evident that it need not be in sisted upon ; but it might be lidded, that whatever beauty of expression there was in classic language might all bo found in the best French prose of the day. Then if a boy had • turn for languages, let him kern German. The Ger mans were a people not only already very great, but destined to become much greater. (Hear, hear.) They were • people with whom we had already many and close ten tions—(a l aug h)—and were destined to have wore and closer relations ; and the German language was • complete key to the whole of classical antiquity, for every ancient author was admirably translated into German with an appreciation which we in England had no conception. Homer was translated into German in the very same metre which Homer wrote, so that a man reading it in German might form a very fair idea of the poem. Then with regard to the manner of teachin Su g. He would not begin with the memory. p g a child wanted to walk , would they say, top ! think whet you are about before you walk ; tell roe how many bones there are in your leg, how many vertebra in your backbone." (Laughter.) He should say " Let him walk tint and find that out after- wards." That was all he said with regard to the study of languages. Let a boy read the books and become so quainted with the words ; and when he had a sufficient ac quaintance with them, then begin to talk about the gram mar. Another thing, do not let them put crabbed and stupid books into • boy's hands, but give him the most amusing book they could find, the most amusing French novel —something that would draw him on and make the study • pleasure and delight to him. Instead of giving him some insipid moralist--(laughter and applause)- -let them give him a story that would give • little insight into life. (Applause.) Then, he thought, they would have done what they could to enable a young man to make the best of what be knew. They would have given him also a much wider sphere in which he could find employment, because, of course, if he was fit for any avoca tion, the more languages he spoke the more fields were open to him. He now returned to the other part of the subject, to which he attached more weight, via, the ques tion bow the minds of yo uth ought to be = lined in our schools. For this purpoee be the study of mathematics—not analitical mathematics, but synthetical, which produced habits of careful and continued attention and great accuracy of ob servation, and were the proper introduction to that which be believed should be the real mainstay of the middle-class education, namely, the study of one or other of the phymi col sciences. He did not mean the study of physical science by rote, but he meant the intelligent study of physical edema as exercising all the highest faculties of the mind. Let them teach him to make for himself over and over again those dile Governs which had already been made ; calling into exercise all the faculties of the mind ; ach him to compare, teach him to think • teach him to te dis trust his own crude and first generalisations ; teach him to go beck and seek for errors where there had been any ; and above all things, teach him not to be in • hurry to form • hypothesis ; and if they did not make him a great 1 phyeical philosopher, they would give him that which i was invaluable for the purposesof life—is scientific habit of i mind which enabled a man,wher dealing with the practical affairs of life, to collect by careful observation and minute ' inquiry all the materials for his j udgment , and then to exercise caution and diffidence ie forming that judgment. It was very important that a man who meant to be sue. woeful in life should get the habit of looking at things as they were, and not to get the habit of looking at • thing as true becalm he wished it to be true , an d false , because he wished it to be false. That was a thing that lured them to their ruin. He thought that alucation could not diacharge • more faithful office than in engen. dering such a frame of mind as would exempt a man from these things. Then look at the advantage of such a premed- ; ing. It was not like learning languages ; where • man bad tot a good memory for language he was entirely oat of the running andcould do nothing. A man m i g ht have the - (7, most admirable judgment, keen observation, and the finest 9. faculties in the world ; but he had not memory for lan- , gunge, and could not distinguish himself at all ; whereas this was adequate to all minds. It was not every mind that could go far into it, but every mind could go some way, and would be materially benefited as far as it could ' go. It was not like mathematics, where you had got —•— , lame great proposition that any one could define, but I it was made up, of a number of little matters, I Professor Leone Levi attend ed a meeting of the which, however small, would gradually produce some bencowtddananetinciormpar that here a li n d an te s sic ed h ü ba ca m - Mananadhdressesteroenhamthe beindruofstriClamooemreepeYtietreourdawhYicanh an d delivered •- tio hino.eatoteeowlivsbeedthosew po pro jo b t le o r t. I, l: e. ere proonsea wes anootfherphyasicargu told the chamber that not only was Belgian iron bend science, when we &wended frometmeretephenomenato ge-, Belo. , now encountering on every bend. Mr. Henry Ashworth nerd rule was not like mathematics, • mere analyg. of our ;used 211 the construction of our warehouses, DUI oanwdnoitulteas.of It " Zs " , an in d v irtia tig t:r ent of irel th y i e n thz depe th nde be n y r o d f the sale of cot ton our own minds. It ems an undoubted truth that the laws appear . , regularly sent into Lancashire to be retonaegtouaLally seFuredinn.ghage.ndntsE.tolgi.Mandcobruteris, of nature which we now dissevered hi these painful pro oemes had as much • world of their own as the sub 'tenets of which these investigations were formed ; and is thus sent into the market as cloth of English mane t maid dist we were able to raise ourselves to the contemplation of facture. Principal Greenwood, who was presen , bleached. It is stamped with the bleacher'. stamp, ant these laws, which were hidden from the vulgar mind, Owens College was being put upon such a basis as would to steed face to face with those wonderful dispensetions of Providence, and to find them out for ourselves and make ourselves familiar with them was one of the He pointed on , , t however that the department of chemistry industrial oint of lee nobled end man exalted subjects to which a man —the most important of all in an p could be dieciplined. It served to rains a MAW —was over-worked, enable them to carry on the work of technical educate*. above bimaslf—to raise him above the cares of daily' (p i ma ex t ens i on , life, which so amount of technical dexterity in any art or patinae could possibly do. (Cheers.) No iitte mould be N ewwill on' ysar it is thought, assigned tot his writhe which physical meiseme ems making. two years dna, snd anot h er It was • noble sad glorious seedy ; and whoa week it be teinly sea it finished —indeed, at • pinch it might be use Bl ac kfriars. 6 l: i idge tha wa tt s he b e g ul&bnalitottrYle twenty rut Moss ? There woo owthl us ia ll° " "Me w as • thoroughfare for foot paassngers as early as next Jere ao sztenseilhasey ss the Whin* ; Vibiltbe warms* imesdeation weld est gams , July. what ndsbt be in sews he them in te «ma I A letter from Rome of the 17th says . • etweler ressmossisa that =s l aims* Menday afternoon Captain Young's beagles met in the should be mods a branch se middlewhin silstatisa, sat ma, li m b o , t o boos one of the deer from the Find , psiatad eat what were the absinsiss la the way of its gr m e o & re tly th: nowved park. The animal bad been turned out the 10 wince were the endowsesnts ba bad already re *west weltstratsd• li• his to sop this baldly pulled down, after having injured himself eSsis il akeey w hN oresk, sod thewhibsi"...o.lo 10111111. ipi=lllolr.maoefor pezt . beilmo, soma bat was was a . soo bew n fo and und a by g t mit he e b r oa ,,, gl d e u s r , at a i n on d . aff it ord e ed Es t i sues elf libp altered, sad ambled that be would do his a s oma. sod mast the o pootokoo we. is a t the death bob* Wog about that sendit I The palms, who bad 12 bosses saddled for race of big Tresairow a oorifereass sibs 11010 3 t of educes- motor sijoeforrof riding footing it a f t er the he e g lil ), at w • islibirbold itait the mped Idesswbsil (tits swyor, was dalighted with the day's Wort thus restricte d wiwithinß. Irbilhy, the li &drhite Mr. Lowe will ha aseirs et his hauvillsofizand.d.,,....dhis,"owunesturle.C"sPtits Yr. mei PRNZANDL TSIVIIXDAT Nicholas B. Downing, Esq., reports that yester day (Wednesday) the Prussian brig Die Sonne was lost on the Pence Sande, nice sides from Ws plow. The lifeboat Diehard Lewis, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institu tion, was got down there in two hours after receiving the intelligence, but unfortunately was too late to be of use, as the ship had gone to pieces, and the crew of nine men were drowned. Nice, TECHNICAL EDUCATION. CONFERENCE.---(THIS DAY.) This afternoon a conference called by the Society of Arts was held at the Rooms, Adelphi, on the sub ject of Technical Education. Mr. W. B.,twES presided ; and there were present the Earl Russell, Mr. C. Burton, M.P., Alderman Salomon, M.P., Mr. E. Baines. M.P., Sir Walter Stirling, Bart., the Rev. A. J. D'Orsey, Mr. Baxley, M.P., Mr. Goshen, P&P., Mr. T. D. Ached, M.P., Professor Greenwood, Sir Charles Trevelyan, sir 1 J. D. Elphinetone, Bart, H.P., _Professor A. J. &m Tea Mr. Merrifield, F.R.S., Mr. Godwin, F.R.S., Rev. lb. Irons, the Earl Granville, the Right Hon. W. Bruce, M. 1., Mr. A. Brady, Re. The Cuxisistan stated generally the nature of the buq. ileac The council proposed the following programme for discussion :-1. The neoseeity for improved national educa. tion for the working classes generally ; (a) improved pri mary education, and the measures necessary for securin; the same ; (b) additional facilities in primary schools for affording the elder children the means of learning the elements of scientific knowledge. 2. The necessity for the establishment of schools for technicA and industrial education in relation to science and art, in which pupils, after leaving the primary schools, may obtain instruction suited to the special industries with which they may be connected as workmen, foremen. ~r managers. 3. The best means for securing the object. 4. How far technical education can be promoted by the aid \of existing educational endowments. Dr. PLAYFAIR opened the discussion, and was followed by Earl ii.I . ,4IELL. (The conference was proceeding when our report left.) THE CONSO LI DATES DAY. )E. DATED NAIV (LIMITED). The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was held at noon, at the London Tavern, Mr. duns rex tut in the chair. The report, which appeared in the Express of Tuesday last, having been taken as read, The CHAIRMAN moved its adoption. After e‘• pressing regret at the absence of the chairman (Mr. W. Smith) from indisposition, and after speaking of the great loss the c ompany h ad sustained in the death of Mr. James Aspinsll Turner, he remarked that the pro. • green of the bank during the last aix months was nai— lfactory. With such • state of the money market great care was of course required to arrive at the results now re i ported. He believed that the bad time s were l auin g away, and as trade improved they must participate in ' the benefit. Even under present circumstances he thought the position of the bank was such as to compare favour. ably with that of other institutions of the same kind. (Hear, hear.) During the last six months there had. be was happy to illy, been no bad dew' and he hoped the bank would soon recover the position which it occupied before the crisisof Iri66. 10,000/. more had beenaddel to the reserve on account of the liability in respect of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, and considering the • favourable accounts which had recently been receiv‘d, they might look forward to • great improvement. • Even as the matter stood any possible improv es en , well covered by the reserve funds ; and the share. 11 holders might rely upon it that after the r experience which hail been gained no such loss would be incurred in future. (Cheers.) The report was adopted without discussion, and a didh dead at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum having been de. dared, and the directors having been re•eleeted. On the motion for the re-election of the auditor., Mr. WOLFIN remarked that it was not stated that the auditors had examined the securities, and said he i hog , : that some sharehulders should be employed for that purpose. The CHAIRMAN said the board were not willing to take any course different from that which was pursued in other banking establishments. (Hear, hear.) Mr. N 10101.1.8 considered the statement laid before the directors an honest and satisfactory one. (Hear, hear.) Not a shadow of a doubt should be cast on the correctness of the accounts. (Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN observed that the securities had been carefully elNlline ll by the directors, who, if they were to he trusted at all, should he thought be trusted impli. eafy. (Hear, hear.) The auditors having been unanimously re-elected, The prozeedings terminated with a vote of thanks to 1 the directors, moved by Mr. Scorer, and seconded by Mr. 1 , E. Head, and a similar compliment to the manager, Mr. 0,411. - - DISTRESS AMONG TRE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. Our (Mane/wafer Examiner) Melton corm. 'pendent writes 1—" The present is a time of great trial for the labourers in the agricultural divisions of Yorkshire. The fine autumn enabled the farmen to get very forward with work on the land, and gave them the whip-hand at the ' statute hiring,' where Bided and successful onslaught was made against higli wages. This same reason has caused work to be very scarce, and it is pitiable to see in every town and village numbers of willing workers about without any hope of emPloyment. Even the usual of road clearing from snow and parish pay for it has failed this year. With no work, coals advancing, Hour :Is. per stone, and potatoes (as retailed to the poor customer is small quantities) from fis. to is. per bushel, the miserable condition of the labourer with wife and family may . he better imagined than described. There is a general an. pression that wages, with the present prices of foal. are too low, but want of work is worse. Upon the Welds there is another feature which is now productive of much sutler Mg. A custom prevails of 'me ring' the labourer in the farmer's bane, and paying him additional wages' of perhaps To. per week, upon which he has to clothe himself and family, pay house rent, and keep possibly a wife and four or five children—in many ewes not more than 048 shilling per head per week, The state of poverty and utter want with which thew poor people are surrounded only now and again comes before the world when a coroner's inq uest on 801110 cane of stavation affords the material. One of these oc curred last week in the family of a labourer employecased at Ilarphain, East Yorkshire, and the Dritlield corre•powled of a local paper has given these details :—The deceved, Isabella Dixon, was the child of John Dixon, labourer, who, while he got bis meals at his master's bonen litres miles off), bad to keep a wife and five young children or 75. a week. ' One morning last week the mother and her five children rose from bed, and the only larealcfsat their cupboard afforded was half of a cold, sad dumpling, a th m s eir turnip from the field. These the y warmed up for morning's meal. They had then to fast until night, whet by some means they got • listle fl ou r. With this • cake was made, 80018 kind neighbour giving a little dripping to it. After the day's fast the meal was voraciously de. . The consequence, were indigestion, diarrlues, sod enured convulsions in the c hild,for which a does of salts and s emis was a dministered. and the child died. The oormer and jury found the house in a wretched state, and the mother and children without food, and had to subscribe to ' , glee their immediate wants.' The correspondent referred to says this is far from being an isolated case on the Drilfield side of the Wed., and says hundreds of families of five te seven members l have to subdst bee. to 7s. • week." man tc a by latelY' fr. P t '' co-re•P°° 1 0 Mel l ihabi% frksw lamp' left Thty cing for some b. 4 wee: .I;ied to the respon urob, Brixton, SP •puns place, Wt 8.17. The restof tL Hrs. Helen Polle— e petitioner. Her e r after her marrla : e jived with ins s ppeared to be living hortly after the bir bout a fortnight. .ed Jane. The finement at that hut op with Jane r. po w r . : l(p o :.itio :ge w r refusedreal ihm h r fh n ' h ' i c 37 l ..bneet e l le iy o u r tl r 7 b . 10 t °el:albs:to. generally t ir f t:r i e. ° y, e g oe ' l .t ti rbP eo inr uw i r e wa b ed , d o er n i nt una i °_ , : i l , nce tel usually said that not drink. In servant. After ml time. The respell , 'ion for two or thy had gone. When but he occupied tho to me. I often rem( her downstairs an asked for wine she , supported her in t ter came to Inc. the time ho left in however, come to had bad a dispute duct of his. lie know that be ray solicitor should have:lV. It was paid me t, time, I found tin lafterwards rem to India. From I have never reel have, however, I I have maintain By the Jan! through nay ette I had no means engagement. I saw no writt( Dr. Spin It was a fc intended o the respon The Jud better that ease in poi to say tha execution The hea (Before N This yrs and Judi qttrtacon Mr. T. • farmer, ant, Rob not repre The se Fisher, and she known tl She gave Her end an expel, teodance In add born, WI Loose, a Woven* The I LAW INI crEc cOURT OF PROI (Before the NOKI On pr . Spinks, Q.C., and at fM b i borer at Hideo , Topoodeunt in 1835, s be opirated from her or pia mac in his (etiti owl by his poverty fn l lately, and be now u l te ry with some persi Veer" D ili ' HANCOCK V. Dir. Pritchard for the e co.respondent. The respondent, the d et Y o , sous married to him e cohabited with he r i ce so drunken that hi 1 °„ 11 , r friends. lie then r ht months, understa hed her home again sod, e left bins and wri , sir ut oity wife," inforwifu lays. *Dicing again dread s I t her. A " short time Pis per of an apvlicat to for a protectior bursome furniture agi for c was li v ing at du luea. n , had that order vorce. There was u irin; ceded that be wee f or ivied WOMAD, and 6 the understood how tl " 1 4 D ecr ee nisi without CRANK (" ) zt, 1 , , may Dr. Spinks, Q.C. , w si ith . S ea rle for the eel en. This was the petit' t. a. Herbert, the m he aid voroe on the ground • ---- money.