The Sun. — London, England, 1869-10-02 00:00:00

FOREIGN NOTES., ' 1 CANADIAN INDEPENDENCE. A correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing from Montreal, calls attention to a speech made by Mr. Hun tington at an agricultural exhibition in Missoquoi. Mr. Huntingdon was formerly Solicitor-General, and has at tained some distinction as an orator. Last winter he made a speech in the Canadian Parliament which excited a good deal of comment, as it distinctly advocated the inde pendence of Canada. Mr. Galt and Mr. Huntington have been the first to allude to the subject in Parliament, but, ,according to the correspondent of the Tribune, the idea is gaining ground throughout the Dominion. Mr. Hun tingdon in his recent address declared that England her- self wished to get rid of annexation, which had become mutually embarrassing to herself and the coloni..r, and he called upon Canada "to free her Majesty's gown from the hold which, against her will, she still keeps of it." The precise form of government to be dcsirod Wa3 not stated, though the orator did not conceal his dislike to a viceregal system. With regard to the common-id rela tiens of Canada with the United States, he advised the formation of a Zollverciu, such as e:r.ists in Germany. Ti.i3 suggestion is, however, unrop.lar with the Protectionists. NEWS OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, A correspcndent of the Bulletin of San .Frencisoo has written from San Buenaventura, a town on the Californian ccast, to ley that a dceninent rcla - i.ing to Sir John Franklin had been found on the beech at that place. A request that it might be sent to the British Consul at the nearest port was written in six different languages. The document declared that the ships Erebus and Terror had been deserted by the party and that they had found a relic of Sir John Ross. It is also stated that the party wintered at Beechy Island in 1846 and 1847, and that Sir John Franklin died on the 11th of June, 1847. If this account be really correct, the document must.have travelled 6,000 miles to be thrown up on the Californian beach, and through that mysterious North-West Passage where Sir John Franklin and his party risked and lost their lives in the attempt to discover. THE FIGHT IN CATALONIA, The Madrid papers contain particulars cf the combat a!: Barcelona. The cause of the disturbance was the determi nation of the Volunteers of Liberty at Barcelona to protest against the disarmament of the volunteers cf Tarragona. The protest was published in the Republican rarers, and created great excitement among the r•oi.tiation. The GoVernment ordered the dissolution of the battalions which were commanded by the chiefs who made the pro test. This order being resisted, the authorities Lad no resource but to call in the aid of " the military. After the insurrection had been put down, the trcors occupied their positions until the dissolved volunteer force s had delivered up their arms. General Pierrad was breuidit to Tarragona as a prisoner, and the behaviour of the people contrasted strangely with their former conduct. Net one acclamation was heard, and the greatest order prevailed. The Gazette bar issued a decree on public order, which is calculated to irritate the Republicans. PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. The Vienna journals are.making many comments on the expected visit of the Crown Prince and the bettor ruder standing that has come to pass between the - courts of Berlin and Vienna. The Presse declares that the relations between the two countries will be put en a more fliEnd!y footing if both sides renounce all ideas of influencing th Southern States of Germany. It will also be necessary for France and Austria to preserve their present ami.able relations. The Jforgen Post is more doubtful of the teat ter, and says that Austria must not sacrifice her strenz, , th in order to support dead prinCiples. It is idle to look for the revival of the Holy Alliance at the present time. THE DIET OF BOHEMIA Count Beust, Count Taffe, MM. Herbst, Plener, and others, left Vienna for Prague on Wednesdarto be present at the opening of the Bohemian Diet. It is rumoured that the German members of the Diet intend, with the con currence of the Ministry, to make an attempt at conciliation in order to prevent the eighty-four Czech deputies from again frustrating the labours of the Diet by refusing to take part in the deliberations. The several Pro vincial Diets of the empire will conclude their labours before the 23rd inst., the meeting of the Vienna Parlia ment being fixed for the 9th of November. A WONDERFUL JOURNEY, The peasants in the Central Provinces of Russia for a long while regarded the railways with superstitious horror, and christened the Moscow express, "the devil's stage coach." A story is current in St. Petersburg apropos of this early period. "Under the former regime the up and dowritrains on the Moscow line used to meet at Belegoe, the ,half -way station ; and thus it happened on ope occasion the: an old peasant, en route for Moscow, who had got out to refresh himself with some tea, took his place in the wrong train, and was soon on his way back to St. Petersburg. Recognising a friend among the passengers, ho began to expatiate enthusiastically upon the wonders of railway travelling, But the most extraordinary thing of all,' con cluded he, is that you are going to St. Petersburg, and I to Moscow, and yet here we are both in the same carriage What a wonderful invention it is.!" A MONSTER GUN. The Russians are determined not to be left behind in the competition of destructive artillery. A colossal gnu has just been cast at Perm, which, according to the St. Petersattry News, throws a ball weighing eighty Russian pools, or 2,880 pounds. It is being tested by a commission of engineers, and should the result prove satisfactory the Government intend ordering five similar pieces. The gun itself weighs about fifty-two tons, so that the difficulties attending its transit will be something serious. The new gun is two-thirds larger than the monster cannon of the sixteenth century, which has hitherto been displayed as one of the wonders of the Kremlin. MB. STUART MILT. A. correspondent of the Star, who is honou:ed large type, Suggests that Mr. Stuart Mill should be brought forward for the seat rendered vacant by Mr. Moncreiff. He believes that Mr. Mill's return to the House of Commons would be a material gain, and no man could more fitly represent and advance the Liberal views of a Scotch university con stituency. The Star considers that the sug gestion is a most timely one. Our contem porary thinks he is just the man for the seat. There are difficulties incidental to his candidature for any popular constituency, for ho refuses to spend money- lavishly, nor will he canvass personally. This, the Star thinks, would be a great recommendation to the electors of Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities. One University constituency made Mr. Mill its Lord Rector, and another is now asked to accept him a, its parliamentary representative. It is- generally anticipated that Mr. Gordon will accept the invitation to become the Conservative can didate,: and a strong committee has been organised to promote his return. The Liberal candidate already in. the field is Mr. Smith, of. Jordanhill, who is well known in Glasgow. . THE REPRESENTATION OF WATERFORD. Rumours have for some time been in circulation that Mr. Aloysius Blake, who represents the city of - Waterford, will shortly retire. Tho Waterford Chronicle definitely announces . that he has been offered the position 4f permanent Commissioner of. Fisheries, but that ho has not vet signified his assent to its acceptance. It is thought, however, that he will do so ere long, in which event there will he a sharp 'contest. The names of several prospective candidates have already been mentioned. Among them. aro Sir Henry Barron (who was defeated by Mr. Delahunty at the• general election), Mr. C'. R. Barry (the Irish Solicitor-General), and Mr. Stuart Mill. CONSERVATISM IN LANCAS • • In celebration of openingthe stic'e of a Conservative ,Club, a demonstration ha place at Darren, a village in the •i - orth - Easteild n i - vision of Lanca.sliire. The principal speech was made by l\fr. Holt, who, it will be r emem b ered, durino the he i Church a most 'successful maiden speech debate 'on the second reading of the' Irish lurch Bill, and was afterwards put up by the leaders of his party to move its rejection on the third readjw. Mr. .Holt naturally rejoiced at the splendid Conservati ve victories achieved throughout Lancashire at the last election, but he contended that it was not a mere flash in the pan. He . attributed the return of so many Conservatives to their good organisation, and to the continued dissemination of their principles by means of lectures, meetings, and pamphlets. He believed that Protestantism and the trade of the country were closely connected, and said he was prepared to spew, from Cobden and others, that Roman Catholicism puts a damper on trade. Mr. Hornby, one of the members for Black burn, announced .hir.l.self as quite willing to go with the Radical party to a certain extent in Free Trade, for he was no Protectionist ; but lia thought that the ruined trade of .Macclesfield and of Coventry shelved that there was a necessity for thorough invegization. He condemned the so-ca,11 ,, d. economy of the present Administration in terie of strong indi:rnation, for they turned out of work the artisans of Woolwich to starve, while pensions were being InereftB:2d, and Third Lorcs cf the Treasury created. Referring to the land question, he strongly censured certain mem bers of the Government for creating in the minds of the peasantry hopes which they could not satisfy. lot. PARKER DT PERTHSIIIRE. Mr. Parker, who so signally defeated Sir Stirling Maxwell in the latter's stronghold of Perthshire last November, has been making several speeches to his constituents lately. In a few remarks which h© uttered at Blairgowrie, he alluded to the economical ATiliongh they had befiii met by - Steers nom Met opponents, the savings . , when put together, amounted to two millions, a result which ho considered satisfactory. In referring to the land question, he remarked that he did not think it prudent to discuss it before they knew the intentions of the Government. Of one thing, he believed, they might rest assured—there would be no revolutionary interference with the rights of property. As they had done justice in Ireland be tween Protestant and Catholic, so they must do jus tice between the owner and the tenant of the soil—but neither more nor less than j ustice. The duties of property must be discharged, but its rights must be maintained. The attitude taken by several prominent members of the Government ; as well as by many independent Liberals, clearly shews that the measure to be intro duced next session will not be such an extreme one as shadowed forth at the meetin?;s later held in Ire land. Reform, moderation, and justice to both lanl lord and tenant are likely to be the watchwords of the present Administratio: "WILT T E A SUING. Our readers will remember that in consequence of the corrupt practices which prevailed in Lancaster at tho general election of 186; Messrs. Fenwiek and Schneider, the Liberal representatives, were unseated, and afterwards struck off the roll of county magistrates. Not only were the members punished, but tho city itself was disfran chised by Mr. Disraeli's Reform Act. Now that a ✓ Liberal Government is in power, a large batch of magistrates has been made for Lan cashire, the honour being conferred in most instances on well-known Liberals, among whom are the two ex-members for Lancaster. Probably both have repented of their electioneering sins, and have now been received back into the Liberal fold. Truly there is more joy over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety-and-nine just persons who need no repen tance. WORKING MEN AND PROTECTION. Mr. Odder has declared energetic war against the Times. That journal having pronounced that the work ing classes, as represented by their trades unions, are Protectionists to a man, the late candidate for Chelsea meets the statement with a point-blank denial. It is "as far away from the fact as it is possible to get." It is true that in some few trades, the members of which believe that they are injured by the French treaty, a cry for Protection has been got up ; but this proves nothing against the great body of working men. In fact, some working men who a-e injured by foreign competition never sought Protection as a remedy. Witness the carpenters who suffer from the importa tion of foreign work. When have these called for Protection ? "Ono more fact for which I can vouch, having been personally concerned in it. When a few years • ago, through the fiscal arrangements of Sir Robert Peel, the shoemakers of the West-end of London were threatened by a severe Continental competition, instead of flying to the Legislature of the country and asking for Protection, they met their masters and agreed with them to lower their wages on all fancy goods, that their employers might have a better chance of holding their ground against this new competition; and at the same time, lest they should not be able to sustain such a competition successfully then:selves, these very men, who had thus agreed to -reduce their wa,ges, set apart a portion of their subscriptions to aid them in emigration." What Mr. Odger declares himself in favour of is reciprc eity,and by reciprccity he means that those who draw up commercial treaties should do so in the interests . of all concerned, and should possess sufficient knowledge of the matters they are dealing with to secure those interests in fair proportions fur all, dividing at the same time in hke manner such disadvantages and inconveniences as may. follow ;these e - periniental national bargainings. The Tines, however, is not convinced by Mr. Odger's stroll.. representations. It points out that but the other day a council of the Congress of - the Working Men of all nations was held, and one .of the main objects proposed was the abolition of Free Trade. English workmen were present. The Times seems to apprehend that ere long there will be a separation between the Liberal and Radical middle class and the hand labourers of the country. TENANT-RIGHT. The second of the series of meetings in support of tenant-right as the settlement of the land question has been held at Tipperary. The Market Hall was crowded, and a multitude besieged the place Outside. Mr. Butt, Q.C., stated that a committee had been formed under his presidency to establish a great National Tenant League on the plan of the Catholic Association, the object of which would be . to obtain fixity of tenure for the Irish farmers. They should hold public meetings and obtain information as to the actual condition of the occupiers of the soil. As for himself, he had made up his mind that so long as the landlord held arbitrary power of eviction over the tenant there could be no peace or prosperity in the land. Under the present system there were some 5,000 proprietors, and 21, millions of people who were virtually in the condition of slaves. Dean O'Brinn, of Limerick, spoke to the same eirect. It is evident that the Roman Catholic clergy have entered heart and soul into the tenant-right battle. The Rev. Dr. O'Neil was chairman at this meeting. THE LORD-LIEUTENANT IX C *P.K The men of Munster seem to havo worthily acquitted themselves at the banquet given at Cork in honour of the Lord-Lieutenant. Nothing, we are told, could surpass the splendour and success of this entertainment. Earl Spencer made a somewhat lengthy speech, but it was largely devoted to local matters, and his allusions to national topics were in very general terms. Cork has prospered, and is prospering. The advantages of its magnificent har bour may be seen in the long rows of quays, the large shipbuilding yards, and the extensive commerce which it possesses. The Royal Docks, which were inaugurated on Wednesday, have been constructed for the accommodation of the royal navy, and hence the cost has been supported by a grant of public money. No wonder then that the citizens of Cork and the Lord-Lieutenant have been on the best of terms. Why Fenianism should be most rampant in the Irish town which is the most prosperous it is not easy to tell. THE A LADAMA CLAIMS. There is much reason to think that the negoti a ti ons touching the Alabama claims will he resumed much sooner than was expected. Several statements to the effect that Mr. Motley was dissatisfied with his instructions having found their way into print, an authorised version of the status quo has been is sue d. The American Government wishes it to be und-r -stood that Mr. Motley is not restricted as to the time when his difficult business should. be recom menced. It was thought better to wait until the excitement in England caused by the Senate's rejec tion of the Clarendon-Johnson Treaty had sul , sided before re-opening the subject, but it was never intended that Mr. Motley should neglect a favourable opportunity for doing s so. lle has received special instructions, according to this account, for the negotiation of a consular treaty, to which the American Government attaches much importance, and also with regard to the naturalisation protocol. The Senate ratified this protocol, but Par liament failed to pass the law giving it effect. It would be interesting to know whether the Americans like their new ambassador. Mr. Reverdy Johnson talked too much. But the Americans are a talkative race, and the silence of Mr. Motley is perfectly awe inspiring. TUE REVENUE RETURNS. Most of the criticisms on the revenue returns for the year and quarter ending September 30 are in a hopeful tone. The Times says that though the national income has not recovered its old buoyancy, we may now see our way to a better state of things, notwithstanding the depression that exists in various branches of industry. In the accounts for the quarter there is a falling off in Customs, but an increase on stamps and on property tax. The whole statement is as favourable as could be expected ; but it is clear that the country has no money to spare. The Standard thinks the figures are of a gra tifying character. The Telegraph grants that the in crease of three millions shewn by the revenue of the whole year is largely owing to the arrears of pro perty tax,_ included in the financial year which ended on the 31st of March ; but there is, nevertheless, substantial ground for congratulation on the whole returns. CUSTOM-HOUSE PECULATION. A serious charge against the Hull Custom-house officials has been brought 12; a Mr. William Carr. On the 10th of September a 'end sent him a case of Swedish branvin, which was consigned to a highly respectable house in Hill After the -lapse cf some days the present arrived at his house ; but instead of `tsix bottles there were obly five, and instead of pure branvin, the contents were branvin and water. In strength the bottles contained not more than two-thirds spirit, and IVere scarcely filled above the shoulder. 1n reply to his inquiries, it was stated that "on opening it one bottle was broken, which was taken out, and that only one of the other bottles was opened for j the Customs' examination? But the nianapr of a wine business has reported that not a drop of spirit has been spilt, and that every bottle has been opened and diluted with water. Mr. Carr says that out of eighteen bottles sent to him on three separate occasions, twelve have been stolen, and w . hat remained were spoilt. Surely this is a caEe which demands investigation. corp tat AND CHOLERA. From some statistics recently brought for7.-ard at a meeting of the Acad6inie des Sciences, strong p roo f was given that men engaged in working with copper are not so liible to be attacked with cholera as the general community. Investigations have shewn that in 1865 and 1866—the years in which the epidemic raged so fiercely in Paris—sixteen men died who were employed in the manipulittion of copper. The number of adult workmen in this branadatstimated at 26.009,01211RallOgYilithaa rEE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1869. in the peat specified were In the proportion of to every 10,000. In other manufactures the mortality was from 10 to 40 times greater. Further testimony in favour of the preservative action of copper was supplied by a society known as the Bon Accord, which is entirely composed of workers in bronze. During the whole of the five visitations of cholera, this society, the members of which were scattered in quarters where the epidemic raged with the greatest virulence, had not only not had a single death, but had been called upon to pay only for 106 days of sickness, divided among ten members of the society. Facts supporting the theory were also supplied from other sources. The conclusion drawn from this state ment was that if further inquiries established the truth of the theory, exceedingly valuable results from a hygienic point of view would follow. granting Tree oraers. Tney ioalLced Optia 0115 cY"rn.3z..9 , 77 absentees to go to school for a while. But the voluntary subscriptions proved so insufficient, that the free order system, had, in part, to be abandoned. "No wonder, after so patent and terrible a failure of the voluntary, system, if the society went estop further, and organised—as the only hope —a National Educational League, the main objects of which are—To compel local authorities to find schooling for every child in England and Wales ; to pay, for such school ing out of local rates ; to provide that the schools so paid for shall be unsectarian and free, without payment ; and lastly, to compel by law the attendance of children not otherwise educated." In Manchester the results of the voluntary system had been found very similar. Canon Kingsley then referred to the prize essay on " Education," by Mr. Greenwood, and, after complimenting the author, expressed himself disposed to contest that view of the essay which advocated the continuance of school pence. " I question, from twenty five years' experience, whether it is really better to make the labouring class to pay school-pence for the education of their children; whether the wisest method is not to make them pay, school-rates, as they do poor-rates, and to open the schools free. My experience is, that as long as they pay, both the ignorant, the stupid, and the unwill ing (and it is with them we have to deal) will persist in considering schooling as an article which they may buy or not, as they see fie, like beer or fine clothes, or any luxury ; that they will persist in thinking, or pretending to think, that they ;are doing the school managers a favour, and putting money into their pockets; that they will per sist in thinking, or pretending to think, that they pay for the whole of their children's education, and ignore tho fact that three-fourths of tho expense is borne by others, and that the only method to make them understand that educating their children is an indefeasible duty, which, as citizens they owe to the State itself, is forthem to be taxed by the State itself, and for the State to say—There is your money's worth in the school. We ask no more of you ; but your children shall go to school, or you shall go to gaol. But as one who for many years advocated the opposite opinion, I have come here to learn, and not to teach, upon this important point. All I ask—not those who have studied National Education, but the general public—to keep in mind is this broad, ugly, dangerous, disgraceful fact: That there are now—according to the computation of those who ought to know—about one million two hun dred and eighty thousand children in this kingdom who ought to be attending some elementary school or other, but who aro not ; one million two hundred and eighty thousand children growing up in ignorance, in a country which calls itself civilised but which will be called by a very different epithet some 200 years hence, unless she mend her ways right speedily." Canon Kingsley then called the attention of the Congress to the education of women, to the intellectual wants of the two and a half millions of the weaker sex who were compelled to gain their own sub sistence. "If the vast and steadily-increasinc , number of women who must earn their own bread in these days are to be aught but a sorrowed misery to themselves, and of confusion to society.in ways which I foresee but shall not particularise here, then wo must have offered to them an education which will at least enable them to get their own bread. And is not the necessity for some higher, and for that reason more practical education of women just as needful in the ease of those will will hereafter become wives and mothers, who will have the training , of children, the management of a household ; who may be, and should be, helpmeets for their husbands, and not mere costly playthings? I can conceive few objects, if any, more important to a well-ordered State than the education of its women, for that will, in the long run, educate the men. But as yet so little has this, to me self-evident, truth been acted on that, while boys of the middle class everywhere in these islands have rich advantages in grammar schools, public .schools, universities, scholarships, fellowships, girls have, to speak roughly, none. . Even where the generosity of our ancestors has endowed foundations for girls as well as boys, the boys have been allowed, again and again, to appropriate the whole, or nearly the whole, of the endowments, till we have cases like the otherwise noble institution of Christ's Hospital, which founded originally- for girls as well as boys, now educates (I quote from the report of the Schoolsi Inquiry Com mission) 1,192 boys and 18 girls. A people like our own, so rapidly increasing in mere material wealth, and; let me say it, brute prosperity, can only be preserved from ostentatious frivolity and more tinselled barbarism by instilling a true and lofty civilisation to its sisters, wives, and mothers of every class. One word more, and I have done. Whatever wo do, for primary or secondary schools or for our advanced ancient universities themselves, let us see that our primary education, and still more our advanced education, includes some better teaching of nature and of fact. Let us see that the childrea or these realms aro taught, if not the principles of physical science,at least some of those habits of careful observation and sound induction which alone make physical science— indeed, which alone make health and wealth upon this planet—possible. Let us remember the words spoken by Mr. Joseph Payne last year at Birmingham—words which so exactly express my opinion on a subject on which I felt with intense earnestness that I shall do myself the honour of repeating them at length. Some = mea sures ought to be taken to open the eyes of the people to the world which lives around them ; to the beings with which they come in contact in daily life. In order to accomplish this, they must begin with the clods of the earth on which they stand. The results which are now paid for must include the opening of the children's eyes to the wonderful phenomena by which they are continually surrounded, and which continually ask to be examined and s,ppreciated' No one is more deeply con vinced than I me id the need of sound religious teaching. But no one is more deeply convinced than I am that even the best religious teaching, especially in these days, will bear but stunted and shrivelled fruit, unless accompanied by physical teaching; and thus supported (as all human thought should be), humanised in the minds of teachers and of children alike on a substructure of truth, reason. and common sense." _ _ _ There was an overflowing attendance to hear the Rev. Canon, who delivered his address with much vigour. It was applauded to the echo. Sir Stafford Northcote, in expressing the thanks of the audience, praised the address as magnincent. nu raged c, cc, not to overlook the great results which the voluntary system had effected. If it was true that the State must now take national education in hand, it was also true that the voluntary movement had been the means of awakening tho nation to its duty. For himself, he thought that if the work could ho done as efficiently, the voluntary was to be preferred to the State system. To this department a paper was contributed by the Rev. H. G. do Bunsen, being one of several preferred on the special question, How can the State best help in promot ing the education of neglected children ? The subject was dealt with in as exhaustive manner, the different systems in vogue on the Continent and in America, and the various Acts passed in this country bearing upon edu cation being passed in review. The improvements deemed necessary to be made for the benefit of our neglected children, were also discussed. The practical result of twenty years' experience was stated by the author to be, e specially as regard e d th e w or king classes, that there must' be adopted some kind of compulsory education, that the State must insist on every child being in acme way instructed. To do that it must enforce in the first place, directly or indirectly, or both, the attendance of children at school; first as full-time scholars, then as half time scholars. But it must not stop at that point. It must eventually insist upon a certain amount of profi ciency being attained by each child as the result of such education. As the State paid school managers according to the results attained by the examination of each indi vidual child, so should the close of the school career of each child be mashed by a certificate of a minimum amount of proficiency, without which it should not be allowed to start upon its independent career of labour in life. Miss Carpenter read a paper on the same subject advocating the adoption of a local education rate, In support of this view she instanced the beneficial working of the same plan in Ame rica. But, in order to reach the lowest portion of the population, good general schools should be supple mented . by special schools, supported by voluntary effort. It was necessary, however, that any legis lation for the establishment of a local education rate must provide for its administration by an unsectarian body. Miss Carpenter approved of the programme of the Birmingham Education League. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Springfield Republican replies to the assertion of the Nation that Senator Sumner had written to John Bright recommending Mr. Johnson to him in the highest terms, denying first, on what it declares to be good authority, " that Mr. Sumner ever ex pressed the opinion that Reverdy Johnson would settle the Alabama question ; and, second, that he added a postscript after dining with General Grant on the 19th of last January, ' with even a stronger commendation' of Johnson's treaty." These asser tions being contrary toMr. Sumner's well-known se n timents, the Republican considers that they cannot be allowed to stand on the sole dictum of a journal that loses no opportunity of carping at the Senator. Mr. Sumner himself is represented as calling the state ment " wicked,and in its substance essentially false ; on the first letter absolutely so, on the second, in spirit false." Throughout, the Republican main tains this report to be the mere tattle of London, and warns the Nation against receiving as the words of a statesman " what may happen to be quoted at a London dinner table, or even com municated in an irritated moment to a respectable gentleman about sailing for New York." While awaiting the Treasury Return, which, if not reported in the present issue, will, at any rate, reach London to-day, we may say it was confidently expected to show a diminution in the National Debt of $10,000,000, making the total decrease under Grant's Administration close on $60,000,000. On the 14th ult. the amount of available coin in the United States Treasury was $102,832,343 40c., in cluding $21,355,040 in gold certificates outstanding. The coin, with the exception of about $4,000,000, is at the United States Sub-Treasury, New York. The total receipts from Customs from Sept. Ist to 17th were $9,750,131 74c. ; the Internal Revenue re ceipts for the same period were $8,131,231 41c. ; total from both sources, over sl7,ooo,ooo,being about the same amount collected for the corresponding por tion of the month, of August. The comparatively small amount of gold sent from the country is noticed as a financial feature of the year. In the first eight months of 1868 there was exported, from the port of New York alone, $65,022,527 in gold ; in the same period this year only $25,215,640, while a third more gold and silver has been imported. This shows that specie is accumulating in America, a process which, if continued, will eventually enable the nation to return to specie payments, and is an additional proof that the cry against the dis parity between exports and imports and the accumu lation of American indebtedness in foreign bonds is not well founded. Asaproof of thesuperior efficiency of the revenue officers this year, the following figures are interesting :—The internal revenue re ceipts for July, 1868, were $16,189,642; for August, $13,900,385. The receipts for July, 1869, were $21,578,634, and for August, $15,015,396, showing a very large gain. The Western Union Telegraph Company of New York, established by Professor *ors° when tele graphy was inaugurated in America, advocates the plan about to be adopted in England of the Postal Department taking up the telegraphs as a branch of its duties. The Western Union Company has absorbed the leading lines of the United States till it stretches over 104,584 miles of wire, borne on 52,092 miles of poles, having 3,462 stations. Its capital stock equals eight millions sterling, and its bonded debt one million more. The receipts last year amounted to nearly a million and a half, the net revenue being over half a million. The proposal of the company is for Government to value the stock on a basis of ten per cent. per annum, equalling' par, which would make their 6} per cent. equal 65. Against this it is alleged that the company has in corporated numerous lines of little value at a very high price, tho transfer being made the means of enriching those who conducted the operation ; that the patents having expired, may be used by any body ; that the poles, wires, and insulators arc far gone and will require to be replaced. The ques tion is, however, one more of principle than of price. If it be right that the telegraph should be in the Gnvprrunpnt. thn by matter of very great moment, and the nation must be prepared to pay the outside value, together perhaps with a little over, whenever it assumes the property of its loyal citizens. This was , the case in England in making the transfer to the English Government, and the Republic will be able to make no better bargain with its own people. The Western Union Telegraph Company has, we now learn, purchased the lines of the Atlantic and Pacific States Tele graph Company for about 60 per cent. of their actual cost of construction. By this arrangement the old company increases its facilities for doing business at once, instead of awaiting the con struction of new lines over the same territory as contemplated. The purchased property was all new within the year, and is in excellent condition. A material reduction in rates to all points is an nounced for the Ist of October, the ucw tariff being calculated on an air line, and the division of the Union into 500 squares, the rates to all stations in each being equal. It is asserted that the proposal to remove the National Capital to the banks of the Mississippi has passed from the stage of banter to that of serious consideration. In the first place, in a military point of view, the weakness of Washington has been made painfully apparent, more especially dur- ' iog the great Civil War. The drawback of not now being central as at the date of its foundation is ob viated by the greater ease of travel, and that it is easy to get at is shown by the crowds of office-seekers who lately flocked there. A great objection is the in tolerable heat in July and August, but St. Louis is as hot. The chief consideration is the expense of the change, which would not be less than 100,000,000 dollars ; this, and the impossibility of getting all to agree on a new site will effectually, at least for a long time, keep the seat of Government at Washington. Mr. Peabody acknowledges, in a letter from Bal timore, dated August 31, the satisfaction he re ceived from the manner in which his statue near the Royal Exchange had been inaugurated. We have always pleasure in testifying to his thorough Anglo- American character, which he expresses very grace fully in the following words : " The international character which was gives to the ceremonies has been especially gratifying to me, as every thing has over been which could tend to connect more closely the two great nations of England and the United States, both of them very dear to me, and never more so than at tho present time." He is at present at Salem, in slightly improved health. Having done so much for others, he is now erecting a mausoleum for himself, with a sarcoph agus cut from granite. He was recently accorded a reception at Georgetown, 11.1assachusetts, from which State, General J. Watson \Vebb writes to correct this slander, that the actuating motive of the philanthropist in his gift to Baltimore after the rebellion was to encourage the rebels ; whereas General Webb states that the intention existed in 1853-4, when he (Webb) was in London in Fen ton's Hotel, where he took rooms for the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, who had been sent to England to argue some claims before a joint commission then in session. Being Baltimore men, Mr. Peabody fre quently saw them to discuss the persons they thought best qualified in Baltimore to become the trustees of his contemplated endowment to that city. We can only say that a defence of Mr. Peabody is net unlike the gilding of refined gold, still there are men like George. Francis Train who can so twist circum stances as to attribute evil motives to the purest actions. The sentence of two months' imprisonment passed on Mr. Daniel S. Curtis, the " nose-pulling Boa tonian," as he is caked, still continues to be dis cussed in New England, and appears to us a much better subject for discussion during the "silly sea son" than the "Byron Scandal." Every man, but the very unfortunate one who has lost it, has got a nose to-be pulled, and nearly every man has fingers and. thumbs to pull it, therefore the nose-pulling-ques tion comes home to us all. The judge seemed to con sider it necessary not only to defend the noses of the public, but to uphold the wajesty of the law against the haughty, arrogant nose-puller, who showed clearly if the law had a nose he would immediately have taken hold of it. He disdainfully denied that he had done Anything wrong, and sneered at the statutes he had broken. This aristocratic spirit, manifested by a member of an aristocratic family had to be humbled, so he is sent to acquire what a Massachusetts paper designates a practical know ledge of the Suffolk Gaol or the Cambridge House of Correction, which cannot fail to be of great ad vantage to the 5,000 prisoners annually incarcerated in Boston. Another gentleman named Boynton, in an influential position, has also been sentenced to imprisonment, and the study of gaol discipline is earnestly pressed upon the attention of both. Whe ther the futureßepresentative from Boston willcorn mence his speech on Prison Reform, with allusions to the time when he served out his sentence, re mains to be seen ; but our own opinion of the proud spirit actuating the nose-pulling Curtis is that it would dictate instead, a violent grasp of the judge's proboscis. A Radical journal considers the sen tence a Divine judgment on the Curtis family for trying to send back the Crafts to shivery 20 years ago, and thus it moralizes : "It is a strange instance of Time's revenge, that they who left Boston to escape slavery, with the Curtis family on their track, now return to find slavery dead, and a younger scion of that family, innocent perhaps of the d:s gram of his kindred, locked up in a Boston gaol, with 20,000,000 of State-street and Milk-street property powerless to get him out." We may observe that the point of the affair is the high standing and wealth of the family, Massachu setts having taken one of its periodical fits of snub bing the aristocracy into its bead ; but, having gratified this pique, we hope soon to hear that Mr. Curtis has been released. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur visited the Niagara Falls last Monday, and accompanied by Governor Sir John Young, proceeded to Buffalo, where they dined with ex-President Fillmore. The Canadian Parliament has been prorogued until the 11th of October. From Hong Kong the news is to Sept. 2, where extensive preparations were being made for the reception of the Duke of Edinburgh. Intelligence had not reached China of the arrival fof his Royal Highness at Yokohama. It is also said the Austrian Embassy has opened negotiations at Pekin for the conclusion of a treaty ; but that the Envoy is annoyed at the needless delay on the part of the Chinese authorities in arranging terms. The other telegrams of most interest relate to the passage through the Suez Canal now filled, of a steamer with M. de Lesseps on board, going direct from Port Said to Suez, without interruption in fifteen hours. In Spain disturbances had been sup pressed at Barcelona. The King of Portugal had declined the throne, but the Duke of Genoa was to be proposed to the Cortes, with the sanction of the Emperor Napoleon. Reinforcements were still leaving for Cuba. The Indians of Wyoming territory are renewing hostilities. At Santa FC also they had perpetrated several murders of women and children, and stolen much cattle. Col. Green had retuined from his expedition to the White Mountains. He had killed and captured twenty-two of the savages, destroy ing several camps and a large amount of property. After the subsidence of the gold excitement, Mr. Boutwell ordered the sale of $2,000,000 in gold and the purchase of $2,000,000 worth of Bonds weekly until Nov. 1, in addition to the fortnightly pur chase of $1,000,000 worth of Bonds under the Sink ing Fund Act. The Gold Board adjourned last Saturday until Monday, to give time for settlements, but continued its adjournment to facilitate them, and probably to help those hard hit in the pitched battle of Thursday and Friday, The editors of the South show the fiery national temperament by the reckless and unrestrained way in which they write of each other. In Memphis, Tennessee, the Evening Post, the only Republican paper, has suc pended. That journal another Memphis paper called the Avalanche describes as worthless for any good pulpose, though energetic in the other direction. That Governor Senter held an elevated opinion of it is evident from his withdrawal from it of State aid, which killed the poor Post; bat, according to the Avalanche, the sooner the remaining journals of Memphis die and leave it the sole occupant of the field the bettor. The Ledger, the Appeal, and the Sun have done little more arm follow its shadow till it sup ported universal suffrage, when they turned round and abused it with that vigour which the hope of rising on the downfall of others always inspires as the Avalanche says. For two or three days +I , . rodope wanld peg away; it would sting, it would bite, it would gouge; then the Ap p.:R.7 .17.111r1 fah - A up Ma rlinnincr. che ll no 41...1 phthisicky, deerepid thing could. But though the Post vigorously aided, finding they were not strong enough against their old mentor, they called on the Sun, when, instead of having three assailants as formerly, the Ava lanche was confronted with four. It shows signs, how ever, of descending from its resting place, so these jour nals, all but the poor dead Post, I ad better "stand from under," while the Avalanche thunders down. The appeal of General Rawlins has been an swered by his countrymen almost before ho was buried by an amount sufficient for all the wants of the family he left so badly off. General Rawlins could have relied with the utmost certainty on this result, for the nation never neglects to act its part of sovereign in such cases. Among the generous gifts was one from the Central Cuban Junta, which forwarded to the itawlins's fund $20,000 in bonds of the Republic of Cuba, and a subscription of one dollar each had been commenced in addition. The present of Louds is not a bad stroke of policy, and it was accom panied by a strong expression of grief at the untimely loss of such a noble, true, and sympathetic friend of the Cuban cause. We do the Cubans no more than justice when we state that they have shown a singular liberality in all their arrangements, freely giving to those who in any way have aided them in their struggle. An American paper tells the story related below, which has doubtless been derived from that most imagi native of human beings, the correspondent of a New York d a ily." in the first place, no British officer of the British army during the Crimea war was sentenced to death ; in the second, there is no such punishment as perpetual reduction to half-pay, half-pay being the provision for officers whose services may not at the moment be requires', or whose in juries, or maladies contracted while on duty, unfit them for active employment ; in the third place, there is no such pu nishment as rivetting an officer's sword to the scabbard, and no person connected with the British army, from he Majesty downwards, has the power of passing these ar bitrary sentences. No officer not employed with troops ever draws his sword to salute ; and an aid-do-camp to a governor never being so employed could not be flourishing his naked sword in anybody's face. But the amusing part of it is, that such a story could circulate in America in any other way than as a joke—affirming that an officer in high official position could attach to his personal staff a person found guilty of a crime which had caused such a punishment. "A British officer committed an offence in the Crimean war punishable by death, but being influential, bad that penalty commuted to perpetual reduction to half-pay, and to have his sword rivetted to the scabbard. He is now on duty in Halifax. His position requires him on public occa sions to be in close attendance upon the Governor, and this brings him conspicuously forward. At tho reception of the Prince, as the latter with his suite stepped upon the platform prepared for him, upon which were standing the Governor and other dignitaries, all the officers saluted with the sword, the single exception being this attendant upon the Governor, who, with his sword by his side, was yet compelled to salute with his hand." Wo may add, that if they go through all this parade and fuss about a subordinate officer who went out to join the Rifle Brigade with a great flourish of trumpets that the quarters he was to occupy were to be no better than those allotted to offi cers of his army rank, they aro either defeating the in tentions of her Majesty, or there must be some mistake in the previous announcements. Another ridiculous story, which we trust will prove equally untrue, is that the Fe nians are conspiring to abduct his Royal Highness. The funeral of the late Senator Fessenden took place at the First parish Unitarian Church of Portland, Maine, on Saturday, Sept. 11, Rev. Mr. Bailey, the pastor, officiating, assisted by Dr. Carruthers. The edifice was thronged, the crowd filling the vestibule, and reaching into the street. Among the distinguished persons present were ex-Senators Foster of Connecticut, and Morrill of Maine, Representative John. Lynch, ex-Governor Wash burne of Maine, President Harris, and Professor Packard, who acted as pall-bearers, with the faculty of Bowdoin College, his alma mater, Senator Hamlin, Speaker Blaine, Sidney Perham, Governor Chamberlain and , his council, Judges Fox, Kent, Walton , B arrows, and Goddard, with the Cumberland bar, the Machigonno and Eastern Star encampments of Odd Fellows, and the Mayor and City Council. The service lasted two hours, consisting of a voluntary performed by Mr. Kotzschmlr ; a chant by the church choir; reading the 13cripture by Rev. Mr. Bailey ; address by Dr. Carruthers, who paid the highest tribute to this much lamented public servant; prayer by Rev. Mr. Bailey ; chant by the choir; closed by a touching prayer by Dr. Carruthers. The funeral cortege was very long, including the persons and organizations above narm2d, 20 carriages, and a procession of citizens. The body was buried at the Western Cemetery, in the family lot, the city bells tolling while the procession moved. The city build ings were draped in mourning, all flags in the city were at half mast, and the public offices closed. A post mortem examination of the body of Senator Fessenden was made on 9th Sept., and it was found that just above where the smaller bowels enter the larger, the canal had contracted so as to be entirely closed, and the bowels for a foot or more above the obstruction were in a high state of inflam mation. A perforation was also found above the obstruc t tip, anti it was the opilii9A 9f the physiciguti that at the 1...2•••••. • • time when Mr. Fessenden first called tho doctor, 0%.J1 31st of August, h a vi ng ma d e thi s rup t ure , human could avail nothing towards saving his life ; and tb when he felt the severe pain a few hours before his d ee ' after returning to his bed, he probably increased this VI; ture, bringing on immediate dissol u tio n ; that it had bee , coming on for some time, Mr. Fessenden having W en d sufferer from chronic diarrhoea fo r a t l eas t a year P3st'-lie that the few days before the physicians w e re called i 0 constipation, which ho looked upon as a favourable ow rodi towards restoring a healthy action to the system, WO a most alarming symptom. The news of Lopez's defeat has been confirmetl and the Paraguayan war is now said to be at an end. ° r : the 16th August, at Curupaity, 5,000 P ara guayans ' le defeated by the Braziliana, who captured 20 guns; : on the following day another b o dy o f 1,600 Parag u3Y ;!,! were defeated, with the lost of 12 guns. President P: pez had " fled with his troops, who aro almost wi tb° :: arms ;" and six steamers, the last which the Paragnal r i', possessed, had been abandoned by them. Forty-f° ur 'rho tish subjects had, it is announced, be en se t a t liberty. nows by the West India mail, with dates to the 13is Sept., is that the Haytian President Salnave was s li ta an assautt on Aux Cayes. and the w oun ds are be lis ' e e d to be mortal. Nissage Saget is expected to Ssece Salnave. b 1 A feeling of uneasiness having been arouse`; 0s the uausual activity of the United States ICavr 4 l , t 3 in fitting out war-vessels, the G o v ernmen t has thoug - i i j necessary to explain its object, which is to check the ll i c decay and renovate the best ships in ordinary. 1- S reL' ' T i b,,e that to commission and send to sea a man-of-War ' 11 ,, 1 1 1 an effective way of making her wear out, instead : 3 1 out, but it is by no means an economical proceedia , " e vt we are inclined to put very little faith in the Goverili'l explanation. BUDGET OF PERSONAL.-A Boston paper —c ly Wendell Phillips to be less temperate in his living rig more temperate in his language.-Alexander 3-Eit el ! i jio described as the "railway king" of the North-We s ' f / lives at Milwaukie, and contr o ls 2,000 m il es of rail sqs c l i . ifi Robert Bonner lately sold 375,000 co pi es o f on e issue °` l ", Now York Ledger -the largest circulation in the sc °ri ;r James Gordon Bennett, of the New York lleraa " e ported to be confined to his room by illness. --G eil arri - Sheridan denies that ho is engaged to be nuvriew -- tif° Stonewall Jackson, described as a youthful and at ßlc o ,4 widow, is at Rockbridge Alum Springs, Vitginia' - f Ruth A. Damon, for the past two years pastor of th° co versalist Church at Cavendish, Vermont, has res i e`" Dr , marry a brother minister from Illinois.-The Stowe, husband cf Mrs. H. B. Stowe, being ill was introduced to an English gentleman, who 05P-,j55;0 himself very glad to see him, and added, " 181°1' Pr' much more pleased to see your wife." " Yes," s °l d ver Stowe, "so should I."-Tom Thumb and his party 5119 of tised their performances in San Francisco:by vie f(l eo posters in Chinese as well as English. lu ts vo i p they took $15,000 in gold.-Brigham young iv , e bid two hundred and forty pounds avoirdupois, renderfi'o,oo eligible for the "fat men's" clambake.-The , poetess is Miss Eliza Snow.-Major Powell has con 0d his exploration of the Black Canon of the Colerild°' is expected to be home in two weeks. • Senator Sumner, in his address to the gass, to setts Republican Convention on the 22d Se t , 311a ; c1e- 1). 4 the Alabama question "sadly, not bitterly." P 1 . 1 11 'e r ":1:e t suffered fearfully at England's hands, but , in ad° . -f t complicity with rebellion, he would not attempt to e s e- :vi price on the debt England owed to the United slat 1r t /i he would not make any formal demand for 0, ",° i f s oir money cr a word of apology, but would leave it "° land, after due consideration of the subject, to offer reparation she deemed to be proper, it remaining' t ° 41 10 0 rica to decide what reparation she required. IV; for Lion had been asked, why not claim against Villa' injuries done ? but the reply was, while France 913.- r 1) 01° !, land alike sinned in according belligerent rights t° ,, e otc; the damage was not done openly to American C°' to she lte tier , by an enemy's blockade runners built under the the French Government as-in the case of Engla nd. has evidently been some communication hetsfe„ tIO Motley and the State Department at Washington onor sulject. The New York Times has discussed's 1,4°1.'0/ porting to come from Mr. Motley, wherein he illt•-•is11° that good terms could now be got from Eag lan ' A were authorized to act. That paper says it is 0 0 1°4 '19 ti l l State secret that Mr. Motley has been instructe d to °l, Lord Clarendon that whenever it is thought best toftelifill negotiations for a settlement of the Alabama claisls I" i s tb93 ti o p be done at Washington. Another account Motley is not restricted in reopening the negot istinE; the Government has clearly signified this. fl W3s,lnlset intended that a favourable opportunity should b° `" be eo settling the question. The American Minister 1'3,5140 engaged in negotiating a Consular treaty with the Government. A telegram, purporting to be dated IV . M hing s t t''l B Sept. 28, has been published in th e P ar is papers' be e° that in consequence of the explan a ti ons which h e rl — ci aer ti : exchanged between the Spanish and AmericsAmericanit a) ments,tlml ,... tte!-12?!ley 2 m1that it had .., nef o r o "e g o's ir 'i ) - 3 tuated solely by humanitarian motives. This tli aite 3 characterized simply as "bosh." The feeling in t ile ;:t l ' B States strengthens in favour of Cuba ; and althe t ; ° o , lo, Cubans lost a warm friend in the Cabinet in Gen• lb : L ; ( 0 e. who quarrelled with Secretary Boutwell on th e c o recognizing the belligerency of the insurgents, o' er ' 10 1 vention now assembled adopts that recognition s' rose in its platform. Gen. Sickles, in a private letter, esPto th° e° his belief that the propositions submitted by A i° ;; h Spanish Government though delayed will be ,oo cepted. The danger really is that, though Screts`l favourable, it may take so long to make some lu cul d 0 36 his Cabinet and the people generally understt° t it is their best way out of the difficulty ,9p°rl, opportunity may be tor ever lost. Admiral H o f f t 6 the execution of Americans at Santiago r d ,„ ° , 3 , a ° , affair to a massacre. Castillo was killed in ac t '' I,o l ' Angel Castillo avenged his death on the Spam' arty ca , under Colonel Portal, by whom he was slain, I n; 0 09 :: ting it to pieces. General Jordan, writing to ral Forrest to join him, tells him not to fear the 10 ,0 1 i which in tho interior was, when he wrote, oaf try " s than ,in Tennessee. He describes the COuu: A ri v noblest he ever saw, and worth fighting for, an i a'vef,, with 3,000 Americans as a neucleus, there No l a difficulty in driving out the Spaniards. Glen s 9 writing on the 29th August, speaks of the stragb:og tb of fearful sort of warfare." The Cubans did everYthlroeo., could to induce the Spaniards to conform to th e h , - T Elt b civilized war, but in vain. In their blind rage t ",;tb of no life nor property, a n d w ill b e driven o ut . „ l oti t3 1 4 curses of mankind on their heads. It was this 'weal' conducting their operations which Gen. Sic kle °err tbe tel t to the notice of the Spanish Government, Wi th a lO *le r ' so far, as to obtain orders that prisoners sliou l , hO O B ,lO and exchanged. The; Government at Madriu, ;00 ' can have little effect on such blood -thirsty save‘g- o f volunteers operating in the interior of Cuba. 0 0, e j The Philadelphia Revenue detective, whom we wrote last week as being seriously ai while in the performance of his duty, is sai d ned, C:f and has died. When his end was hourly exP— °Po°i lii f missioner Delano granted him a leave of aged 0- 0 6 raised his pay from $4 to $lO. Those Belo o . i of murder, Stockton, Keenan, in whose 'W i g .0 t o it crime was perpetrated, and Agen, were htu,`".,• l l P,, t e $5,000, Hamilton being committed without ul-0.001,10t Apple, whose distillery Brooks closed, has bee n e no ,or t „: o o 4 to gaol without bail, as implicated. Witnesses' ,ter 0 6 1 s tere o rd, ll ,j, Hamilton went from Keenan's to Apple's to the shooting, when the latter gave 1 0131 ; 11 : 10 O cf ri Hamilton drove the hack in which the assas e— ,iOOl e y Mr. Falb's predictions of the destruct"' they 40 earthquake, of the coast of South America ahlicco:o3 sent time have been so far verified that severe sv,eo' been felt at Copiapo, at Iqueque, at Arica, 3t ere s'; IV at Arequipa on Aug. 18. The inhabitants Wsrotti,t, alarmed, and business was suspended. Frota news is of severe shocks at St. Thomas on the were, the damage being serious, though no liv es aa' ° t 1 Mount Etna has also again burst into eroPti e lc i e o,o ° torrents of lava are flowing down the eastern ° oc o e l , o fi Valle del Bue. A most extraordinary distitrhoot evif i tide occurred last Wednesday at Plymouth' the h i ': came in at 8 a.m.; at 1.30 p.m. the water i p in iotzt °4 suddenly retreated, not returning for DO fr other unusual phenomena took place. 3111 0 ',00 LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAI II . --- „,for P st ." ALLIIN's WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSISa ` . l co l° ,cl u j quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its Yoli th , fil oos ° ! beauty, and with the first application a beautiful Z., JPA r r A lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stop s t ' - f ot falling off. It prevents baldness. It prora ote s 10' 111 0 0 1 1/ It r V ° el l it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye . end P l o Price Six Shillings. 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Ult., at Pos W w alerorth, Esq., aged 72 . ° a. '0 , 1,.1,41).+- 0, London: Printed and Publis hed by WILLI-A.lS_, ill,ie' e f• of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at THE SUN Office IN i itic itl in the Precinct of the Savoy , in the County of oiti.trclAY, Qctobc' 2, 1802., • PEOFESSOrt HUXLEY ON SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION. After distributing the prizes to the students of t,ho Lower Islington Public Schools on Thursday evening, in connection, with the Science and Art Department, Professor Huxley delivered a short address on the subject of scientific education. It was ten or eleven years since'the late Marquis of Salisbury, then at the head of the Committee of Council—under, he was bound to say, a Tory Government—was reminded that something ought to be done to improve the education of the people. The Government thereupon organised a workable scheme, which was simply to give young men who chewed capacity a good chance of getting a fair start in life, and a good opportunity of making their way in the world. The whop scheme was based on the principle that people ought in the first instance to endeavour to help themselves, and the result was held to be perfectly satisfactory. The State had been in the habit of offering £lO to one out of every hundred, so that in a school of 300 scholars it was competent for three boys to carry off the three ten pounds. But the State no longer gave this money unconditionally. It would in future bo given on the understanding that the locality in which a school is placed showed its interest by raising £5 extra. If the people of Islington did not raise that small sum, then the Government would shut their pockets. MORE ABOUT THE HERALDS' COLLEG: The Heralds' College has suddenly risen from obscurity, but in a most unenviable manner. Com praints against the doings of its officials flow in unceasingly. The other day the sufferer was a Mr. Shortguts, who wanted to chan g e his name, but could not, owing to the college ; and now a mournful story about a coat-of-arms comes from another victim. Some time ago this gentleman was compelled to adopt the arms and surname of a relative in order to secure a legacy. A communication was made to the Heralds' College ; but that obnoxious institution raised two objections. The arms which this victim already bore were "ignoble," and before he could quarter his relatives coat they must be "registered ;" and as they were similar to those of another family they must be "improved." The victim and his father consented, and in due time received two boxes, one containing the arms " improved," and the other the improved arms quartered with those of the relative. Each of these boxes are accompanied by a bill, th a t for the combined "improving' and quartering being £172 10s. ! Surely this is rather a stiff sum to pay for such mummery. EitiaLTEIMEN IN AFRICA. Sir Sainuel Daher, who has taken the command of au F,gyptian expedition to subdue the slave-dealing tribes who dwell about the sources of the Nile, writes to say that everything was ready for the start by the middle of September. The fleet of steamers and boats had previously gone forward to Khartoum, the town at the junction of the two :Vile branches, and ere now this interesting expedition must be in full swing. Sir Samuel . discourages the id ea o f sending out an exploring party from Zanzibar to gain tidings of Livingstone. Although well meant, it would be a useless undertaking, as I shall arrive south of the Albert long before any expe dition from Zanzibar could reach Tanganyika. There I shall be certain to hear of him, as I shall be within a few miles of the latter lake. Should any white man be in the country, the chiefs or kings of the various tribes are sure to have the information, and I shall have both the force and supplies necessary for his assistance, with a direct communication established to Khartoum. Sir Roderick Murchison, commenting on this letter, adheres to his opinion that the great traveller has followed the waters of Lake Tanganyika westward, and that he will soon reappear on the west coast. Sir Roderick entertains strong hopes that Sir Samuel Baker's expedition will procure information. THE SOCI.,th SCIENCE CONGRESS. BRISTOL, FRIDAY. Laitnight was L .-en up to the interchange of courtesies. between the Mayor of the city and the visitors to the Congress. The reception at the Colston Hall was worthy of tho hospitality and wealth of Bristol. Though the weather was simply execrable—it has rained almost with out intermission since Wednesday morning—the gathering was a largo one, and none who attenuca is Mal Uatitu LA, regret having braved the elements to do so. Thus far there has been nothing untoward—save the weather— to mar the success or pleasure of the Congress. The departments have produced good papers, and the discus sions raised have been well sustained. EDUCATION. The event of the day, and in some respects the event of the present meeting of the association, was the address en Education, by the Rev. Canon Kingsley. This was delivered before the members and associates in the Victoria Rooms, at ten o'clock this morning. Canon Kingsley having stated that he appeared at the Congress not as a teacher, but as a learner, enumerated at some length what he took to be the general principles on which the education of the people should be conducted. Undoubtedly the first claim of a human being in the matter of education was upon his parents; bat if they refused to do their duty— and very many did--the State must supply the deficiency. " The State has no right to compel the mass of citizens to receive among them every year a fresh crop of savages, to be a nuisance and a danger to the body politic. It has no right to demand that the physical life of the child shall be preserved, and yet to allow its far more important and valuable life—its intellectual and moral life —to be destroyed. Moreover, it has no right to delegate its own duties in this matter to any voluntary associations, how ever venerable, earnest, and able. The State, and the State alone, is responsible to the existing citizens for the training of those who are to become citizens." Canon Kingsley doubted whether even in an ideal and per fect state the whole education of youth, or even the control over it, ought to be entrusted to the clergy. One function of teaching—the all-important one of instructing children in religion—was undoubt edly part of the province of the clergy ; but more than that was not their duty. Of course in matters which they were competent to teach they were on the same footing as other citizens, but on no higher footing. In times past the entire work of education was done by the clergy, simply because there was no one else to do it. But things were now altered. The clergy ought to confine themselves more and more to their own department of relgious teaching, and particularly ought this to be the case in a country where the people followed so many different creeds. With respect to the question of who should pay the cost of national education, the President thought it comparatively a matter of detail whether the money was raised by rates or taxes. The State ought to bear the expense, reimburs ing itself by taxes of some kind. " These taxes ought to touch the parents, who aro immediately responsible for the existence of the children ; and next, the employers of labour of every class; because they, for their own profit, have made the existence of these children possible. Every one acquainted with the very alphabet of political economy knows what I mean. Most will, of course, agree that a capitalist who not only collects round him, but, by giving employment, actually causes to multiply a large population, is bound morally, and ought to be • bound legally, to the State, to see that the population which ho has created does not grow up savage ; but this rule applies, I believe, to every farmer, tradesman, master, cr employer of labour of any kind ; and applies no less to the landlord, the retired tradesman, or any and every capitalist. Whether ho employs labour now or not, and whatever use he makes of his capital, that capital has been produced by labour ; and he is more or less responsible for the civilisation or the savagery of those, or the descendants of those, whose labour has enriched him or his ancestors. I hold that no citizen, possessed of any capital whatsoever, has aright to deny his universal duty. Private generosity must not, of course, be hindered. All I ask is, that the generous should not be over-tasked to save the pockets of the ungenerous ; that the noble-hearted should not, as now, be forced to pay for the mean; the en lightened for the unenlightened; the patriotic for the selfish. But that all, whatever their private fancies or characters may be, should be forced by law to acknow ledge their primary duty, and to fulfil it. The State, I hold, has a right to compel the ignorant to learn ; but it has also a. right to compel the stingy to pay towards that learning. When, therefore, the National Educa tion League was started at Birmingham, I for ono joined it, as the only method of obtaining what twenty years' experience as a parish clergyman had shown ono to be necessary—compulsory attendance. No one is more alive than I am to the services which different great denominations and religious bodies have rendered to edu cation ; of the services of the British and Yoreign School Society; of the National Society, and so forth. Ho who does not' feel that England plies a huge debt to these splen did results of the voluntary principle must be deeply igno rant of the History of England for the last eighty years. But, over and above what they have done, does not much, too much, remain, which they cannot do? for the simple reason that those who need education most care for it least ; and that those who aro unawakened to the value of religion aro certain to be still lets awakened to the value of learn ing? This defect seems to me to be inseparable from the voluntary system of education, however zealously and ably carried out. I can only speak of it as I know it from experience; and what I find in the country districts is i this--Even if s'vc have a school in which every child in the parish can receive a sound education, or at least the rudi- merits of one, beside the civilising influence of intercourse with the ladies of the parish; and if even, as is usually the case, the great majority avail themselves rationally and thanbfully enough; yet there is always a minority who cannot be made to attend regularly without threats, finc3, elcksion from charities, and so forth ; a process which policeman's eaa work andiffler ca transfers the clergyman from a minister of the Gospel into a judge and' po li ceman; an d I f or ono re f use t o d o c s the ch a e gr school i ;c the nget reckless policeman c e sectionm to w do h it oh for e id me" . Fe not rtuilntural the come t o sc h oo l at all, no volmatary system would be suffi ndlaisrtgrieettsewna ththereweerree were e e h w u h n o neveriet. saw In a . dreds and thousands. In Birmingham 21,000 out of 45,000 children never went to school. Nor was this wholly owing to the want of school accomodetion, for there was at all events room for 11,000 more than the actual attendance.. Tb.e__Birminsehans. Education—Society _didjionie • thuuLhy ) OIdTtIT2.BLE EIN-DOITMENTS. The special subject in the Jurisprudence Department to day was, " What limits ought to be placed by law to Charitable Endowments." The papers furnished by Mr. Lewis Fry described the restrictions imposed by the law of Englandconsidered the question whether it was desirable to retain gift of property to charitable use s, and or rmodi up fyt o h n ra e th . e Dealing with this latter point, it was argued that there ought to be a change in existing legisla tion on the subject, and it was advocated that there should be an entire abolition of restriction upon the power of demise or bequest to charitable purposes. It was, how ever, conce ded that. there w as something to be said in f avour of retaining the distinction between land and personal estate. If it was thought desirable to maintain that distinction, the line of demarcation between property which might, and prope r ty which might not, be bequeathed to a charit y should be broadly and distinctly drawn, so a s to bo appa rent to the layman as well as to the lawyer. To effect this it would be sufficient to forbid the demise or bequest to a charity of estates, of freeholds, or terms of years in land, or other real property, and to permit the be q uest of all kinds of personal estate, even though possessing s ome con nection with ' realty, and also of the proceeds of land directed to be so ld. fin° paper guarded against admitting , the right of a d on or to create a perpetual endowment an d t o it s detail as one which is to b e treated with unlimited r espect. The E ndowed Schools Act of last session which was passe d to give power to divert to educational purposes severa l classes of non-educational charities, which it was t o b e h o ped, would be followed u p b y others. was spoken of as a n im p ortant step, and one, rußmc PROSECUTOR. In the Reformatory and Repression of Crime Section, a paper on the most expedient mode of introducing into England it system of pu blic prosecution, was contributed by Mr. Hen r y Min e ,: , in which it was urged that the example of Scotland in the matter might be followed with advantage. The Scotch procedure in criminal cases was fully detailed, and a contrast drawn between it and the course pursued in England. Several instances of the evil effects resulting from the (thence of a Public Prosecutor in this country were fur nished in the paper, which concluded by suggesting that if such an officer of justice was appointed the City and metropolitan police of London should be amalgamated. LAMBIIJRN2.—It, looks to me as if wo shall have some horses running both at Bedford and Edinburgh. We have Pladda, Pat r i c ian, April Morn, Cruiskeen, Pleni potentiary, and Fast Day in Bedford, and all I can say of them is that they are well and doing good work. FYFIELD.—Sinco m y last the following horses, left under the carp of the bead lad, have done steady work:— Skipjack, Juanit a , Threa t en er, Spider, Action, Victress, Maid cf Masl.runmare, Marshal Noy, Punishment, Bob, Bribery colt, B en V o yage, Walt^r, liasper, Betty filly, Teterrima filly, Cantine filly, Frailty filly, Alexander, Newsman, Ansley, Atherstone filly, and Claudius. LADVFIITISFIIENT. 1 — Holloway's Pills.— Confusion, Gid diness, Flushes, Pain of the Head, with other indications of cerebral disorder, premonitory signs of coming illness, should have early attention, or palpitations and uneasy feelings about the heart will succeed, and be followed by more serious symptoms. Holloway's Pills display their most constant and happiest results in dispelling these dis agreeable feelings, cleansing the furred tongue, rousing the torpid bowels, and removing the languor and flatu lency which are always oppressive after taking food. No medicine is as well c alculated to restore the digestive functions, or so potent to soothe the nervous system. The dyspeptic by taking these purifying pills will substitute ease far path, and 0110 more regovir vigour in the wasting