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ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining THIS EVENING, at a quarter to 8, anew Drama. in four acts, entitled I%i ARIE ANTOINE rre. Louis xvi., Mr. William Rignold ; Count Fersen. Mr. J. G. Shore; The Dauphin (five years old), Miss Lydia Howard; Marie Antoinette, Mdlle. Bea trice; Messrs. Dominick Murray. D. Leeson. New Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds, Mr. Dayes, and Mr. Matt. Mogan. New Dresses, new Properties. Preceded by THE SECRET. To concluie with a new Comedietta, entitled A CUP OF TEA. Mdlle. Beatrice. _ _ loors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. OPAL STRAND THEATRE. Ju Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs rke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Butßuhn and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD 01 0 TF. E CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorn°, James, and Robson Mesdames M Long more, F. Hughes. L. Maitland, &c. To conclude Rith HUE AND DYE. 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Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. , . THIS EVENING, at 7. to commenpe - with THE SECRET. At a quarter to 8, MARIE AN TOINETTE: Mr W. Rignold, Mr. G. Shore, Mr. Dominick Murruy: Mdlle. Beatrice. Conclud ing with CUP OF TI- A : Nitll'e. Beatrice THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EvENING, at 7, A DAY'S FISHING. Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. Stephenson. Mrs. L. Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. At 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Ben. Webster, A. Stirling, G. Belmore, R. Phillips, Ashley, Stuart; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Lennox Grey, &e. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough. tfTS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDE )W HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ; Miss Baton. TI IE FIELD OF THE C I.OTH OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; ‘E esdames Maria Longmore, B. Goodall, Lydia 'Maitland. Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tii; EVENING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.10, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9.40, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs. 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Begin at S. ls. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d. ; Children under twelve, 6d. .0 - 1 . 1 7 ' I LOA DM, TUESDAY, MARCh 16, 1869. - - - As V' ice-President of the Committee of Council on .Education, Mr. W. E. FORSTER is certainly, for once, the right man in the right place. If any new demon stration of the fact that he is so had been required it could not have been afforded more conclusively than through his elaborate and exhaustive speech last even ing on moving the second reading of his Endowed Schools Bill. Of that bill his speech was the trium phant vindication. It demonstrated as clearly as the working cut of the simplest sum in arithmetic the urgent need there is, and has long been, for a measure precisely of this very kind. It illustrated the wile-spread evidences of that necessity by a series of the most painfully amusing incidents—re lated with poignant effect by him anecdotally. A single instance, here, will suffice. Such an instance, let us say, as that drawn by the right hon. member for Bradford from th:?. Report of the Charity Commissioners. The Report in question had only been issued a day or two, but already the keen eyes of Mr. FORSTER had spotted the fact that, there, in that authentic record, is, for example, " SMITH'S charity, of £16,000 a year, a part of which is given to poor relations who appear to be dis covered year after year, though SMITH died two hundred years ago." No wonder the House laughed with a sort of derision. But, apart from the lighter and airier portions of Mr. FORSTER'S speech last even ing, there were others of a weightier charac ter, that, while they evidently impressed the House itself with the imperative necessity for that legisla tive interference which the Vice-President of the Council of Education was insisting upon in th e name of her MAJESTY'S Government, cannot possibly fail of impressing the country at large, as we conceive, with the nature of the bill now before Parliament, and with sanguine expectations of the practical good likely to result—not instantly, of course, but gradually, and before long, as we ourselves are firmly convinced, very appreciably—from its operation. According to Mr. FORSTER'S lucid explanation last evening, the number of schools which will fall within the scape of the Bill's operation or influence will be, in round numbers, three thousand. Of these 3,000 —there are 782 that are Grammar schools ; the rest, to the number of 2,175, being foundations, mostly elementary foundations. While the gross income pro posed to be applie I will be £592,60), or only £7,400 less than a round sum of £600,000--:h: nett income directly applicable to educational pur poses will be £310,000, an amount which be justly declared would " if well bestowed," have done much for the cause of education. Yes, truly—if well bestowerl. That proviso, however, is all-essential. Hitherto, as Mr. FORSTER showed only too plainly the endowments have beeu more or less shamefully TIIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1169. as last night in Mr. FORSTER'S speech in the House of Commons, the judicious application of an educational endowment is described to be the providing of School Buildings and the insuring of a small income to the . master just to start with— leaving him, the master, to look for the bulk of the remuneration from the success achieved by the school under his management. Than which —nothing surely can be more reasonable in every way or more judicious. The lower middle classes, and the upper working classes are those the Vice-President of the Council is most de- sirous of benefiting by the new organization and the now rearrangement of this educational endowment. The Government have an eye also through the bill to the promotion of girls' education and to the multiplication of day schools. Until the reorganization of theschools shall have been effected, it is proposed that the in- spection of them shall be postponed. Al.most imme diately before the completion of his very able and comprehensive address, Mr. FORSTER an- nounced, to the general satisfaction of the House, his readiness to refer the Bill to a Select Committee. The intimation was most welcome, and gave the swing of success to his closing remarks—the second reading, after a brief discussion, being almost as a matter of course carried. x io t n re p m e e tit l i e o n n g t t r h ia the Ti e r l E ec e t q o Sir a l s n d r e n c o d n s e r e it u einmtpcostliness t that reducing them within m ore reasonable limits. any practical expedient should be adopted for HENRY BULIVER has—perhaps not unnaturally, has been considering the large sum in which he mulcted in defending his seat—complained that too much facility has been given for the promo tion of these petitions. However that may be, cheapness of procedure is certainly not one of the inducements by which politicians are enticed into this kind of hostilities. There is room for abun dance of economy before we make this sort of litiga tion a common luxury. In fact there is little doubt that at present many election petitions which ought to be . heard are not heard through fear of the lawyer's bill. In other words, justice fails • because it is dear. Under these circumstances a remark made by Baron MARTIN during the trial of the Salford petition is well worth consideration. His lordship said that the reports of the trial given in tha local papers were so full and accurate that it seemed useless labour for him to take notes. There is no doubt that he was right. There is no doubt that the "judge's notes" are simply a useless relic of antiquity which might well be dispensed with in this rapid age, when the money value of time is tenfold what it used to be. Everybody who has attended a court of justice knows how slow is the process of an examination ; how large is the amount of time occupied by it compared with the amount of space which it fills in the newspapers. This tedious ness is caused mainly by the necessity under which the judge is now supposed t o b e t o wr i te down every question and answer. Thus an election petition or a monster case like the Saurin trial is protracted to double the necessary length, to the great pecuniary loss of the litigants. Nor is this the only disadvantage of the present system. Evidence taken in this disjointed way is very unsatisfactory. An honest witness will often be entirely discomposed when he has to tell his story in fits and starts. A. dishonest witness will use the pauses for patching up a plausible tale, which would not have hung together but for the interval thus given him. The judge also loses the opportunity of keeping his eye on the witness, and thus is deprived of one important means of forming his judgment as to his credibility. The amount of physical labour involved is by no means small, and the energies which should be concentrated upon judicial duties are in no little:degree dissipated in mechanical labour. For all these disadvantages there is not the smallest necessity. Professional reporters can always take clown evidence as rapidly as it is given, and it would require very little management for the judge and the jury to be supplied with a verbatim report of the proceedings within half-an-hour from the time that it was given. A reporter, sworn to accuracy, should be as much a necessary official of the court as a juror sworn to a true verdict. This little reform would not perhaps suit Parliamentary counsel fond of handsome " refreshers," but all other parties would benefit by it. Election ' petitions would then be conducted at half the time and cost, and we should no longer hear of 150 cases postponed for a whole month because the moat tedious trial of modern times stopped the way. THE reply of the Duke of ARGYLL to the deputa tion on the growth of cotton in India suggests reflec tions which are at once melancholy and hopeful. It is not creditable that our efforts for the improvement of India should be guided by the measure of our own needs ; but it is better that England's necessity should be India's opportunity, than that the much needed reforms should be lost. There is no denying that the great empire of two hundred millions of subjects which is underour chargehas been comparatively neg lected. Its condition has immeasurably improved under British rule, but the sum total of improvement is by no means equal to the means at our command. Indian affairs excite little attention in the English Parliament and less in the country at large. Indian reforms are slow in operation and meagre in extent. But there is now much reason to believe that theprogress of improvement will be mate rially accelerated. The advantage, it might almost be said the necessity, of rendering India a great cotton growing country will give the work of improvement an impetus which it would otherwise have been long in attaining. The experiment of growing cotton in India has now been tried for several seasons with increasing success. The latest report from the Cen tral Provinces is in every way satisfactory ; the preceding years, the exports have been larger than in wasted by carelessness or wilful misdirection henceforth the endeavour will be to ensure their being wasted no longer. With the Good Schools, those well and wisely conducted, the Government propose in no way whatever to interfere. The Bad Schools alone are aimed at by the Bill now passing through the Legislature. And the aim is so true and so deliberate, besides which it is directed against those Bad Schools with such hearty goodwill, that we feel as absolutely assured as we can feel upon a matter of this kind, that there will be no escape whatever for the delin quent establishments. As the Vice-President of the Council insisted very judiciously, the strongest argument of all for ' reform of some kind being adventured upon in regard to the distribution and application of the ei'icational endowments is the proved certainty, that where an endowment does no good it does positive harm. his enforcement of this truth went so far, in point of fact, that he maintained that if those schools—the Bad Schools—could not bo reformed, they must be set aside altogether. Away with them, say we, in that contingency. The mere remembrance of them ought to be scattered and dissipated. Maintaining the Good Schools and Reforming such of the Bad Schools as admit of reform, and getting rid of the others as entirely useless, as simply cumbering the ground, the endowments, such as they are, or rather such as they are proposed to be, will then, but only then, be properly utilized : and by their proper utilization Mr. FORSTER anticipates that, while the number of boys educated will be largely in creased, the private proprietary schools will b wholesomely stimulated. The proper use of an endowment, Mr. FORSTER describes very much as Mr. EDMUND YATES has recently defined to be in the opening pages of his new serial story now appearing week by week in Mr. CHARLES DICKENS'S All the I ear Round. There in those earlier chapters of " Wrecked in Port production more scientifically managed, and the means of transit have greatly improved. The want of rain may do considerable injury to this year's crop, but this is an accidental interruption. The proof that India may be made a great cotton-producing country may be accepted as complete. But in order to bring about this result, many of the great works which are needed for India generally must be undertaken for this special object. Most of these improvements were urged upon the Government by the deputation from Lan cashire which waited upon the Duke of ARGYLL ; and the Indian Secretary, for the most part, gave a reassuring reply. A commercial element in the Indian Council would be likely to give more attention to necessary reforms than the Board as at present constituted. The means of transit both by land and water are improving, but much more needs to be done. Most important of all, the great work of irrigation stands almost where it did. In this branch of improvement, the most essential to the development of India's resources, comparatively nothing has been effected. Alike necessary for the proper cultivation of grain and cotton and the preservation of human life, the work of irrigation prevents an almost boundless field for the energies of the Govern ment. The supply of water is not yet sufficient to prevent a periodical recurrence of famine, still less to ensure the general cultivation of the cotton plant. It is now four or five years since it was decided by competent authorities that irrigation alone was required to pro duce Indian cotton of the best quality. But the country yet remains almost wholly dependent upon chance, not only for the success of its crops, but for the prevention of the most dire calamity which can attack the human race. The necessary work, if done at all, must in this instance be done by the agency of the Government. The Duke of ARGYLL, though he returned a hopeful answer—and that is much from a department which has hitherto been famous chiefly for its obstructive genius —regretted that private capital had done so little, and that everything had been left to the authorities. The regret is natural, but unavailing. Private - enterprise is not likely to be attracted to India. The colonist who leaves England takes his labour and capital to unoccupied territory, which our Asiatic Em pire is not. The climate is unfavourable, the country populous, and, moreover, the empire exists already for the people who inhabit it. So far, the Anglo-Saxon has not exhibited the slightest disposi tion to attempt a settlement. Private native enterprise might be greatly encouraged by a better land tenure. Under the present system the land is let and sublet until it reaches the ryot after five or six removes. The peasant works only for the benefit of those above him. After the land passes through their hands there is nothing left to the ryot, and there is, consequently, no improvement either of the soil, or of the method of agriculture. If the waste lands which now cover many thousands of square miles were let directly to the peasant, the benefit to cultivation of all kinds would be great and immediate. But, like all other Indian reforms, this has been talked of and proposed, and yet remains to be done. The work of improvement, however, even after this, must be essentially a paternal undertaking, corresponding to the nature of the Government. There can be no doubt that it would repay in the end. •ifinyTt I_47,fir e%:4f-v HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 15. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked and drove this morning. LATEST INTELL [GEN CE (REU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, March 15. In to-day's sitting of the Corks a motion was introduced in favour of the establishment of civil marriage. The Minister of Justice opposed the motion, and said that although the Government did not con demn the act of civil marriage, yet its establish= merit by law ought to be accompanied by a series of other measures. The motion was then with drawn. The Cortes then resumed the debate an the pro positiun brought forward by the majority relative to the appointment of four Special Committees for the more expeditious despatch of public business, which was postponed on Satureay, and which will be continued to-morrow. before the commis Olozaga received Commissi on d eputed to re- SioTnhoenrtehliegiocuosnqstuietsutti Constitution. s uo en w or to-day the bishops who to - morrow will b e p resen t at the meeting of the re present the ecclesiastical interests. PORTUGAL. LISBON, March 15. The Portuguese Government has taken formal possession of the South-Eastern of Portugal Railway. ITALY. FLORENCE, March le. The report of the Treasury up to the 28th February has been published. According to this report the national revenue:amounted to 1,733,808.63 lire, and the expenditure to 1,605,326,101 lire, and the cash and notes in the Treasury to 127,854,762 lire. Count Vitzthuin has arrived here, FRANCE. BREST, March 16. The Transatlantic Company's steamer Ville de Paris, fr o m N ew Y or k , arr i v • d here a t 6 a.m. with 89 passeng ers an d $56 ,00 0 in specie. BOURSE, March 13.—Th ree o'clock.—The market closed as follows :--- 41 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7O 85 Credit Mobilier End of month 283 75 Credit Foncier - 1495 End of month — Bank Shares 2860 Its.l 4 an Fives 55 80 End of month — Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes .33 Home Debt 29 Deferred — Cash Orleans ........................... 95 2f Northern .... . 1162 f Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6lBf Western Eastern ............ Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain . Saragossa ......... Roman XLuLWAy THE MARYLEBONE REFORM LEAGUE AND ELECTORAL ASSOCIATION. A reunion . of the members and friends of the above association took place yesterday evening at the Crown Tavern, Cleveland-street, Fitzroy square, wlicn a numerous assembly met. Mr. W. B. Ilenwood was in the chair, and Mr. W. Morgan in the vice-chair. The chairman in his address touched on the advanced pro gress of the country politically on the various reform measures now being introduced in the house, and on Mr. E. B - ,..ales' resignation of the League, and the dissolution of the League in consequence, concluding by urging the working men to agitate until not a vestige of class logislation was left on the statute-book of England. Songs and recitations followed, and the evening's entertainment, which seemed to give satisfaction to every one, concluded with the usual votes of thanks. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY, March 15. Politics are not particularly lively to-day. The Corps fAgislatif has been employed upon the vote of money (only £720,000) for the Luxembourg and the Tro cadero, but there is very little in this debate to interest readers beyond the limits of Paris. The Belgian affair presents no new feature. The Dutch difficulty seems to be chiefly a creation of the Public; and as to the Belgian dispute, nothing positive is known beyond the fact that England has intervened and proffered her ser vices, with good effect. This is an important step on the part of the English Cabinet, and I can affirm that it is regarded as such In diplomatic circles here. The prominent part which England took in the late Conference, and her prompt intervention on this occasion is accepted —I might say throughout Europe—as an indication that the laissez faire policy is no longer to be continued so rigo rously, and that England will watch events on the Continent more closely than heretofore. The Prussian papers have been amongst the first to point out this change of attitude. This is the most positive, and, to English readers, the most interesting feature of the Belgian question as it stands at present. What effect the intervention of England will produce, and how the peaceful solution which is deemed so certain is to be brought about, are, so far, open ques tions. The balance of evidence as to the probability of referring the dispute to arbitration or to a mixed commis sion inclines now in favour of the latter course. The Emperor and the Empress, who is quite better, have paid a visit to their sister "out of business," late of the Pavilion Bohan, now of the Hotel Basilewski, in the Champs Elysees. It is stated that the Empress will pass the summer season at Enghien. The twenty-seventh volume of the correspondence of the First Napoleon has just appeared, and is one of the most interesting of the series. It comprises the year 1814, that is, the period of the last convulsions of the Empire. Some of these letters bear witness to the anarchy that was fast spreading throughout France when the fortunes of the Emperor became more and more on the wane ; one contains Napoleon's announcement with mock resigna tion of his intention to take up his abode in the Isle of Elba ; another is his address to the inhabitants on quitting the little empire at the commencement of the Hundred Days. He says to General Lapi : "I am leaving the Isle of Elba. 1 have been extremely satisfied with the conduct of its inhabitants. I leave to them the care of this country, to which I attach great importance (!)." The weather has been very cold here of late, and we have at length been favoured by a very tolerable fall of snow, which, however, speedily disappeared. The sudden change will not do harm to most kinds of agricultural produce ; the authorities indeed affirm that it will do good in retarding the too precocious vegetation. The fruit trees may suffer a little injury, but this will be by no means irretrievable if fine weather speedily supervenes. The Prefect of the Seine has become the defendant in an odd suit. The exotic flowers with which the public places of Paris are ornamented in the summer are placed in greenhouses belonging to the city in the winter, but are, nevertheless, often lent for decoration purposes 'lt the Tuileries' balls, as well as at the Embassies, Ministries, and churches. The florists of Paris complain of unfair competition, on the ground that the Prefect by lending these flowers is doing much injury to their trade. Surely the florists cannot have a very good case. The Emperor and his Ministers have a right to economise if they can, and if the flowers sustain no harm, they might as well serve for ball decorations as lie idle in the greenhouses. An inexplicable paragraph arpoars in the Independant of Pau. It states that great indignation has been caused in that neighbourhood by an attempt to do bodily harm to the troops there by introducing dangerous substances, such as crushed glass, &c., into their bread. One soldier has died from swallowing half a needle, which per forated the intestines. The cause of this horrible pro- ceeding remains to be explained. The Journal Officiel is a decided " improvement for the worse" upon the Moniteur. It is badly printed, badly edited, irregular and erroneous. It seldom appears at the proper time, and its conductors evidently think that a delay of twelve hours is a matter of no great moment. It is full of mistakes. Only this morning it came out with an erratum of no less than three columns, this trifling cor. rection being intended to give an intelligible account of a debate in the Corps Legislatif, which had been previously represented as a conglomeration of sheer nonsense. But its special sources of information give it an occasional value. One very interesting communication from Florence has just appeared. It seems that the Minister of King Victor Emmanuel's household has just made, at Hercu- lo.ncum, a discovery of very great importance in an a.rchological sense, in the excavations which he himself directs, near Orvieto, on his own estate. He has found numerous Etruscan vases of all forms, and many of those known as Greco-Roman. They are in raised work of the same kind as the famous one of ✓ CIImx, belonging to the Campana Museum, for which the Russian purchaser paid the large sum of £2,000. Tl.e3e articles are remarkable for the elegance of their form and the purity of the drawing. The subjects, which are in bag _ relief, are mostly devoted to the labours of Hercules. II is clear that a mine of historical wealth lies buried under the deep ashes of Herculaneum. A LADY PREPARiiva FOR Tl3li MILLENIUM. During the past week the contents of the residence of the late Mrs. Thwaytes, in Hyde-park-gardens, London, potable for her eccentric belief in being herself the ordained earthly spouse of the Third Person in the Trinity, for whose descent to earth to claim his bride and to live with her through a millenium of love she perpetually watched, has been sold by public auction. The dispute as to the validity of her will, which occupied the Court of Probate and Divorce for ten whole days, startled everyone by the glimpses it gave of the private life of the strange inhabitant of this dwelling, a woman possessed with the idea of communion in body as well as in spirit with the Deity. She had left her whole property to a stockbroker and doctor, the latter the only visitor admitted to her house, and then only on the bed of death, and the claim of these two worthies was success fully resisted by Mrs. Tebbitt, the sister of the deceased. It was proved that she regarded her husband as the devil incarnate, and had refused to honour his memory with mourning. Beyond this and her extravagant illusion, which influenced every act, she deported herself as a highly refined and cultivated lady. She was uniformly dressed in the richest attire, as became her imaginary destiny, and without any melancholy tinge of sadness in her reveries, any misgivings of the realities of her belief, enjoyed the good things of life. Her means enabled her to give effect to her illusions in substantial form. The apartments she prepared for the Divine visitant were furnished most sumptuously, and, so far, to adopt the language of Byron respecting Rousseau, she " knew bow to make madness beautiful." Ite announce ment that the furniture of Mrs. Thwaytes's mansion was to be sold excited more general interest at the West•end than any private sale for years. Hundreds upon hundreds of the aristocracy took advantage of the visiting days to inspect the contents of the chief rooms. It was impossible to discover in these rooms any trace of the peculiar idio syncrasy of Mrs. Thwaytes, except, perhaps, in the symbol of the dove hovering here and there. Conspicuous amongst the jewellery was a regal tiara, composed of curiously-intertwined lilies, roses, rosebuds, and con volvuli, a tiara destined by Mrs. Thwaytes to deck the head of the heavenly guest. She appeared to have selected all the rest of the jewellery to deck herself worthily as a bride. As appropriately corresponding to the regal tiara, were two bracelets of exquisite workman. ship, composed of 52 graduated stones. A large and, as reputed, a matchless emerald, surrounded by brilliants of the purest water, and capable of detachment, was to form the centre of one or other of these necklaces. Her hair was uniformly decked with an elegant spray, com posed of flowers and leaves of brilliants. These, with three magnificent brooches en suite, and four small pendant sprays, with a very beautiful Maltese cross and a buckle in scrolls of perfect brilliants, formed a garniture de corsage that could not fail to have excited admiration, if not envy, in every fair beholder, as, arrayed in spotless white, she waited, thus adorned, the celestial coming. The sum netted by the sale was upwards of £lO,OOO. Mr. Bars, M.P., is recovering from his severe mess. . Le Figaro says that a "scandal at Pan" Its hen ereate•l by a well-known lord having left his wife, u route for America, with a young lady of Now York for h:s ~t;~d ~. On Sa;:day Pulice• constable Pears() was on duty is Charles-street, Drury-lane, when four well know❑ thieves whom be had requested to move on set upon kim, knocked him down, and kicked his beacl. They dso seized his truucbeon and beat him so severely with it that he is dangerously injured. The culkrits have for tha present escaped. Mr. Locke King's Bill to remove doub's as to de qualification of persons holding Civil Service pensions, OY receiving superannuation allowances, to sit in Parliament, has just been printed. It enacts that pensions granted under 4 and 5 William IV. c. 24, or 22 Vict. c. 26, or under any other Act or Acts whatever, shall not disqualify tho holder4Uom altting in Parliament. THE COLONIAL SOCIETY. THE QUEEN AND THE IRISH QUESVION. , 41. The Lord Mayor of Dublin is on a visit to London, and his mission is to call upon the Queen, to do justice to Ireland. At the last Drawing Room he was there with a petition for the release of all the Fenian prisoners, and on Thursday afternoon he, and the officers of the corporation of which he is the head, waited on the Queen, at Windsor Castle, to ask her to do what was in her power to disestablish the Irish Church. The deputation was entertained at a sumptuous luncheon in the White Dining-room, the Duke of Argyll, Mr. Bruce, the Home Secretary, Lord Lucan, the Hon. Mr. Ponsonby, and other high officials joining the company. The Lord Mayor and Corporation then entered the Green Drawing-room, and afterwards were ushered into the pre sence of her Majesty the Queen, who with her Royal Highness Princess Louise, surrounded by the officers of state, received the deputation. The Right Hon. H. A. Bruce having introduced the Lord Mayor and deputation to the Queen, Sir William Carroll said : " May it please your Majesty, I have the high honour of presenting to your Majesty the humble ad dress of your loyal corporation of Dublin, praying your Majesty to extend perfect religious equality to all your subjects in Ireland." The Lord Mayor then handed the address, which was beautifully engrossed, to her Majesty. The memorial was to the following effect :—" We, the ancient and loyal corporation of the city of Dublin, humbly approach your Majesty to lay before you a renewal of our devoted loyalty to your person, throne, and dynasty, and to pray your Majesty graciously to consider the present circumstances and condition of Ireland, with a view to the giving effect to such measures as will secure the peace and prosperity of that portion of your empire, by establishing perfect religious equality for your Irish subjects. Your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects hereby beg to inform you that the efforts made to establish and maintain the supremacy of the English Church, and to crush out the religious faith of the Irish people, were the chief cause of the disturbances that deluged the country in blood during the sixteenth and seventeenth cen turies, and of the poverty and discontent which over spread the fairest portions of this island during the eighteenth, and still in part continues to deface them during this the nineteenth century ; that the members of that Church constitute only about 12 per cent. of the whole population of Ireland ; that the continuanceof the religious and political ascendancy of that minority of the population by the maintenance of that establishment and endowment is an intolerable grievance ; is still, and so long as it may be continued, will be a fruitful source of internal feud, hostility, and strife, and of danger to the Throne and Con stitution, which this corporation is anxious loyally to support and maintain. Your memorialists, therefore, pray your Majesty graciously to take such steps within the constitution as may foster the extension of perfect religious equality to all your subjects in Ireland, by the disestablishment and disendowment by Act of Parliament of the Church now established by law in this kingdom." The Lord Mayor then had the honour of kissing hands. Her Majesty's reply was as follows :—" I receive with pleasure your loyal address. The condition of Ireland has ever been to me a subject of deep and anxious interest. It is my earnest desire to promote, by just and wise legis lation, that spirit of contentment and peace on which the welfare of the people of Ireland mainly depends." GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS' RIGHT TO SIT IN P.ARLIEMENT. The Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the qualification of members of Parliament having undertaken Government contracts to a seat in the House, commenced its sittings yester day, Mr. Thomas Chambers in the chair. This com mittee was appointed in the first instance to inquire "as to the alleged parliamentary disqualification of Sir Sydney Hedley Waterlow, under the statute of 22nd Geo 111., chap. 45." The petitioner's case is that at the last election for the county of Dumfries Sir S. H. Waterlow was declared duly elected by a majority of forty-four votes over Major Walker (Conservative) ; and that at the time of the election it was notorious that the firm of Waterloo and Sons held a con tract with her Majesty's Stationery Office. The facts as to the contract with the Stationery Office are these : It consisted of a tender, subjoined to a schedule of rates for payment, for executing vellum and account-book binding, ruling, &c., signed by the firm. That offer was accepted by Mr. W. R. Greg, the Comptroller. In the London Gazette of the 2nd December, 1868, there appeared a dissolution of the film, notifying that Sir Sydney bad retired on the 15th of October, 1868, and that all the responsibilities would be continued by the remaining partners. The Comptroller answered that he could see no objection to the firm being carried on as originally constituted. The petitioners contend that the very earliest period on which it can be said that Sir Sydney ceased to bold the contract was on the 3rd of December, and supposing it to be true that he had retired on the 15th of October, no notice was given in the London Gazette till the 27th of November, and it was only when the other c ntracting party allowed Sir Sydn, y to retire, viz., on the third of December, that his contract with Government can be said to have ceased. Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., and Mr. J. Clerk, Q.C., appeared for the petitioner, and Mr. M`Leod Fullerton for the sitting member. Mr. Fullerton, at the sitting of the committee, applied for an adjournment, in consequence of the unavoidable absence of his leader, Mr.Rodwell, Q.C. The Chairman : The committee think that it would be better for you, Mr. Fullerton, to state succinctly the facts of the case on behalf of Sir S. Waterlow. Mr. Fullerton then proceeded to contend that the acts of the sitting member were bona fide both before and after the election, and that the verbal arrangement respecting the dissolution of partnership on the 16th of October was binding though the deed of settlement was not executed till subsequently, and that the dissolution of partnership was binding as from the 29th of September, that being the time agreed upon for arranging the business matters of the firm. The committee unanimously agreed that Sir Sydney Waterloo had no right to sit in Parliament, and that therefore his return was null and void. The announcement of the Queen's intended visit to Claremont is incorrect. No arrangements have yet been made for the purpoEe. Mr. Cooper, the traveller, who penetrated from Shanghai to Yunan, but was driven back by the Manda rins, has arrived in Calcutta with the object of approaching Yunan from the side of India. Prince Arthur is expected to arrive at Ely Lodge. county Fermanagh, next Thursday, and extensive prepara tions aro being made to give him a fitting reception. His Royal Highness, it is stated, will remain the guest of the Marchioness of Ely for a few months. ADULTERATION OF SEEDS.—NOW that the great houses in the trade are willing to be male virtuous by Act of Parliament, and are anxious to stop effectually the scandalous dealing in killed seed, and thus, among other benefits, to uphold the high character of our English -grown turnip seed:; that are famed both in Europe and America, tl ere can 1 e :lo doubt as to the successful passing of the bill. And great credit is due to those who have been all along the real originators and promoters of the bill. Ths penalty of " fifty pounds" will be a sharp remedy ; but if a man's conscience will not prevent him selling to the public as all turnip seed nobody knows what propor tion of killed German rubsen, or prevent his colouring up any amount of bad clover seed, why, his pocket must be made to do duty for his hardened and inoperative moral sense. The merchants will be able to clear out their stocks of sham seed, or seed highly attenuated with what looks like seed, but is ingeniously doctored not to grow, and as worthless as wooden nutmegict:agaber of , , .4ariczaturcZotinic% The Colonial Society, patronised by the Prime Ministei and several members of his Cabinet, by members of the late Cabinet, and several lords and persons of high rank, seems now to be fairly started on its way. Viscount Bury delivered what is called the inaugural address on Monday last. He explained the objects of the new association. •It was intended to diffuse accurate information at home upon colonial subjects, an end which the noble president thought it was all the more desirable to attain, seeing that there was growing up in our midst a school of politicians who thought and taught that our colonial possessions were encumbrances and sources of weakness rather than material strength to us. These doctrines, he said, had ever been enunciated from the professional chair of one of our oldest universities, by Mr. Goldwin Smith, whose consummate ability no one could deny, but who was dan gerous in proportion as he was brilliant. It was with this school of sophists, seeking the dismemberment of the empire, that the society would have to cope. The society would also be socially important to colonists coming here from outer Britain, and would be a centre to which they would all gravitate. At present there are about 200 Fellows, the funds are healthy, and the prospects of this institution, even before it was fully constituted, were most encouraging. His lordship then went on to sketch in detail our colonial possessions, beginning with Sierra Leone, and travelling onwards until, to use his own expression, he had run an imaginary girdle round the globe. A vote of thanks to the president, on the propo sition of Mr. Chichester Fortescue, .M.P., seconded by the Marquis of Normanby, was unanimously passed. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Standard says that the question with which the measure concerns itself is in no sense a party ques ti °, l ; As Mr. Beresford Hope pointed out, no one takes UP '- ground of positive resistance to change in the man n g, ment of the endowed sch oo l s . N o one asser t s 03 01 : present state of things is one which can be defended; maintained. It is a d m itt e d on a ll h an d s t h a t the ab thle : revealed by the royal commission report constitute scandal which must be vigorously and promptly d eal e with, and the only poi n t s i n i ssue b e t ween th e author ox the bill and its critics on Monday night are those affec t l the mode in which it i s p ro p ose d t o reme d y ev il s the e%' ) ' tence of which is recognised and deplored in all quar terg ‘ 'We are all working for the same end. The questO raised by Mr. Forster's bill is whether we a pprove hie methods of remedy and can work with him in aPP I Y ie ! them. The recepti on accor d e d t o t h e bill on the OPP" . sition benches must have satisfied the right hon gen tle : man that he has nothing to fear from a " dead earth' kind of resistance, On the other hand, he can lo rd r il e be surprised at findin g th a t th e prov i s i ons o f a measlia-h so wide in its scope, and dealing so trenchantly interests of the highest importance, are jealously sc tli- o f nised and closely sift e d. Ab ove a ll, it w ill b e the du t Y, p - a the select committee to d ec id e w h e th er th e powers paste in the Government thro ug h th e i r comm i ss i oner s are cr sr " ,, not excessive. Do they or do they not enable the Ed uc e tion Minister to upset and cance l every school trust in t h kingdom? Would it not be in the power of a 13ie n filling that post to obliterate the Church character Church foundations, or of a Fawcett or a Dixon to 1 133 '; them the vehicles of purely secular teaching? I t il f s pr s not be forgotten that th e bill fi n d s it s warmes t suPPn r i - it amongst the Secularists and the Di ssen t ers , and shou ld appear on careful inquiry that they have such sp ecs reasons for approving it as we have hinted at , .bc t trust the select committ ee w ill no t h es it a t e to take 19" its sting. The Telegraph considers that a load was lifted off th e minds of many honourable and right honourable gentle men by the time th a t M r . F ors t er h a d exp l a ined what he meant to accomplish thr oug h hi s E n d owe d Schools 131 All sorts of horrors had b een con j ure d u p by the first b rie tr;statement of its provisions, and a hasty—a ver y has glance at the measure itself. Hi s bill i s temporary. 33 ' 1 . in making it so he has d one w i se ly. A y ear or two lie° c ; a great measure of natio na l e d uca ti on mus t be fram ed, and it will not do to block the path of reform with se; tional machinery. Bett er f or us t o wa it until seb °° ,. shall be plac e d un d er some au th or i ty, i mper i a l or loe:11, Finally, comes the task of examining the pupils -3 t3 , - , which Mr. Forster commits t o a b o d y o f twe l v e ge n t; men, six elected by th e G overnment, and the re main by the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and L° nd° : That body is to carry ou t the plan of mid examinations. In word s o f remar k a bl e force, Mr. For ster - said that he wished to e xecu t e th e i nten ti o ns °f founders. But that can be done only by attending t ° spirit of their bequests, and not to the letter. hl° i 9 have changed since th e T u d or ti mes ; th e ne w Eng l3l/ , l :ye unlike the old ; and, as M r . F ors t er o b serv ed on A °s. ' the/ night, if the found ers h a d b een p resen t i n the House , 0 would have been the first to applaud a bill which se eks s p rescue magnificent educational endowments from th e gre be of sloth and bigotry, in order that the money oill ie a devoted to the teaching of what our fathers justly the " humanities." The Post thinks th a t th e strongest argument in favour supplied by the of the Aboliti on o f University Tests lFl' '.ssu fact that the dis a biliti es w hi c h i t is intend ed to rernove!r° incompatible witn the spirit of th e age in which w e , 11 ,- o cl ri e • It is simply an anachronism, when not only ordinarY t conformists, but even Jews, are eligible for th e ii i ig t hes e offices under the Crown, and for seats in the Legi s.l3-u :'; . that . the University of Oxford should insist on 3 93 . 0 :1, 1' et signing the Thirty-nine Articles if he desires to take a rct degree than th a t o f B ac h e l or o f Arts • t h a t both ° e tc ;° and Cambrid ge s h ou ld exc l u d e f rom the Sen ate otherwise entitled t o s it there, because they are in iab . le a pledge them se l ves t o be members of the Est3bilslle deny Church; and that th e co ll eges of both should fellowships even to th e mos t distinguished of their T e ing ISt on bers. If a college d evo t e d it se lf exclibisively.to t h e tr of clergymen, it might th en w ith great pro priety ivsis for the observance of ru l es i n respect t o qualificationvat office no less stringent than those now in operation. „J if a college invites all comers, irrespective of their ad opt and their ultimate vocations, ' then it bound to 3ci t l, those principles of justice and impartiality re , sP ri e na c nt the distribution of its rewards, and to the aPPcir t ' ° ;,, e ter of legislative authority, which, on a pinch renter scale, are acted upon by the State in which that ce' fca e oe x m erlimstolatnasie.g:nDlßw i ( . . tioeielivh.yteiriNyeneolfsrem newspapers,arkisi thatas come s i r John upon IL e 37 ' t burro roe.. :o e i s f il 5 : tob e a Roman Limerick, i know avowed w h i himself This gentleraan, ch A t concludinga a s pee_ eia Catholic sStehe p al.n ri a e l s ia t, n recen t. whom y ma h: servebcengapiipx,ears which, according to Sir John Hal, b e ° ,,, P eat, n t with a Feniant be following Ireland for the ought to be able to govern Ireland, sympathiser is, with the Fenian inove.,:etw tlbbruietsmh wordssief themselves, ,` meansl t d i ai. o :: a i n tli t ro_ e Fi_ssi , :ll ,,: rinl i f i i in my heart, and so is every priest in l rei for The meeting, it is said, broke up with cheers th e a Republic, President Grant, Stephens, - and Pigott• le t terrible conjunct ure Si r J o h n H ay wished to knew what t -t to her Majesty' s Mi n i s t ers i n d en d e d do? Mr. Chiebes Fortescue's reply w as b r i e f an d t o the point. : Icotilitehg; IVe doubt not that th e R ev . Mr. Shanahan, ivbt t es he ig Chief Secretary e x pl a i ns , did . not. sa y precisely Nv.e' .7'o alleged to have said, is better pleased with Sir John I le ' question than with Mr. Fortescue's i answer. . Nest t 0 delight of making a violent speech to an excited in . , • uir.y the glory of being the subject of a parliarnentrzY 14 a would probably b e mos t gra tif y i ng t o a vain and hothea“` man. As to th e mee ti ng .which see ms to have been the chief offend er , it canno t be arrested or pro secuted , or even H dispersed, for'it has dispersed itself. The • ald says that forty-nine of the Fenian cenvtil are to be unconditi ona lly re l eas ed. It is with regretaibt:. we must decline to look upon this act of grace as on rel , re . gether of justice or policy. It certainly does not l .r , sent the principle by which the Government, i n the ever vise of its pre roga ti ve , p ro f esse d to be guided. Tb e : fo ra ment put forward was that a distinction would be ar beeo between the young and inexperienced, who ringleaders misled by worse conspirators, and th e whatring do who had entrapped them to their ruin. But vero we find? Either that the judges of the r ealm an recklessly indiscriminate or a inhumanly severe assumption which would he monstrous —or that the 1 1 ) , I 01 tended principle of all this clemency has been lost si g i e V !- entirely. For among the individuals pardoned the first instance, were actually condemned to 6ito though their sentences were subsequently commutc'tpt penal servitude for life. And what happens ? Why is a sentence of death signifies just such a penalty' often inflicted for an ordinary theft ; that Pe a , servitude for life is a penalty at which a prisoner I;ef, mock, in the confidence that he would have far snore stringently treated had he assaulted a 13- •, l l e eci man. Let us repeat, we do not begrudge the snisguil,'icis and ignorant herd of the Fenian convicts the liberty wqhis we hope they will not again abuse, lc and we, trust - a; example of leniency may have its moral effect in Irelan r but as for some of those who have.)chosen for Kli c i it does appear preposterous that their punishmen t 6-° be made ' a jest of, and that the law should confess it thr . c l : itb u : to be insincere when it d ar es to deal with treason- von might almost be s a id, i n s pit e of Mr. Chi h qte l. • 31 4915 1( Y tea_ ai ( The 22772,6 s observes that the Endowed Schools Bil l baying passed its second reading and been remitted to a select committee, it may be assumed that its principle is conceded. We believe the bill deserves approval, but w e 'confess that the ends sought by the bill are more open to discussion than the adaptation of the means propose d under it to the ends. It is, for example, very easy t ° overrate the efficien c y o f any met h o d for d i scover i n g : 15 ' educating the best minds of each successive generation t:r the winnowing of competitive examinations. The tellectual powers of boys ripen at such different age s ' and in so many cases a full development of fa n '' ties merely percepti ve g i ves suc h appearances of promise never capable of being realised, that und er the best system boys who prove eventually to be the leaders of their generation will be neglected, and boys w ile as men will never rise above the work of routine will be pushed forward. But this objection applies as much to the existing application of educational endowments as t e that contemplated by th e bill, an d, s i mp l y stated, it amounts to no more than this—that though the bill, wit ° , put into operation, might vastly improve the character et our national education, it would still leave it imperfect i 3 its application to some minds. A more substantial cri' ticism on the scope of the bill will be found in the danger of uniformity of national education in developing 5 monotony of national character. No impartial Per se . ll who has examined th e f ac t s w ill d eny t h at t hi s danger is a real one, for it has been realised in those countrie s where national education has been best promoted. In New England, where we find a race most nearly akin t° ourselves, and a system of graduated popular education long established, a certain common level of character C be distinctly recognised, and traces of a similar result ar e not hard to discern in France and Prussia. 'Tice greater diversity of English life would, inde e d, go f ar to check th e tendency to a similar ph enomenon among ourse lves, sl t it is certain that private and auxiliary schools will long flourish to control the predominance of one type of education. 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