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Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, Gd.; Children under twelve. 6d. _ r tal is* 41 INe • L 011; DOS, T UESD.IY, MARCH 16, 1869. -t er -- ' As Vice-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 illustratel the wide -spread evidences of that necessity by a series of the most painfully amusing iucidents—re lated with poignant effect by him anecdotally. A single instance, here, will suffice. Such an instance, let na say, as that drawn by the right hon. member for Bradford from the 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 evening, there were others of a weightier charac ter, that, while they evidently impressed the Rouse itself with the imperative necessity for that legisla tive interference which the Vice-President of the Council of Education was insisting upon in the 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. For.sTEH's lucid explanation last evening, the number of schools which will fall within the k cDpe of the Bill's operation or influence will be, in round numbers, three thousand. Of there 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 £592,600, or only £7,400 less than a mind sill of £G00,0;)0-- h. nett income directly applicable to educational pur poses will be £340,0.)0, an amount which he justly declared would " if well bestowed," have done much for the cause of education. Yes, truly—if well bestowed. That proviso, however, is all-essential. Hitherto, as Mr. FORSTER showed only too plainly the enlowments have been more or less shamefully THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY FENING, MARCH 16, lc 69. wasted by carelessness or wilful misdirection Ilenceforth 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- Tient establishments. As the Vice-President of the Council insisted very judiciously, the strongest argument of all for reform of some kind being adventured upon iu regard to the distribution and application of the educational 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 be 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 bc wholesomely stimulated. The proper use of an endowment, Mr. FORSTER describes very much as Mr. EDMTi t 'ip VgsdruhricsavAdevyt uu wt.' (Tem p r now appearing week by week in Mr. CHARLES DICKENS'S All the Fear Round. Thera in those earlier chapters of " Wrecked in Port," as last night in Mr. FORSTER'S speech in the House of Commons, the judicious application of au 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 production more scientifically man), and the means of transit have greatly improved. he want of rain may do considerable injury to this y's crop, but this is an accidental interruption. Theoof that India may be made a great cotton-produg country may be accepted as complete. But iorder to bring about this result, many of the greworks which are needed for India generally must undertaken for this special object. Most of these improvements ere urged upon the Government by the depution from Lan cashire which waited upon the Ike of ARGYLL ; and the Indian Secretary, for ;he most part, gave a reassuring reply. A commcial element in the Indian Council would be Elio to give more attention to necessary reforms tan the Board as at present constituted. The .eans of transit both by land and water are imprdng, but much more needs to be done. Most vortant of all, the great work of irrigation stands almost where it did. In this branch c improvement, the most essential to the develornent of India's resources, comparatively nothing Is been effected. Alike necessary for the proper culivation of grain and cotton and the preservat)n of human life, the work of irrigation preents an almost boundless field for the energies pf the Govern ment. The supply of water is not yet sufficient to prevent a periodical recurrence of famine, still less to ensure the general cutication of the cotton plant. It is now foul 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 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. let"" )141 HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 15. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked and drove this morning. LAIEST INTELL fGEN CE (REU'"ER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, March 15. In to-day's sitting of the Cortes a motion was introduced in favour of the establishment of civil marriage. b e marriage, aee ep The Minister of Justice opposed the motion, and said that although the Government did not con yet its establish ment n b t y he law act of other measures. The motion was th en with drawn. ouogfhteitvoil 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. The religious question is now before th e comm i s sion on the Constitution. Senor Oloz aga rece i ve d a t today the h a ey meetingthe of who to-morro w w i ll be present the Commission deputed to re present the ecclesiastical interests. PORTUGAL. LISBON, March 15. The Portuguese Government has taken formal possession of the South-Eastern of Portugal Railway. CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY, March 15. Politics are not particularly lively to-day. The Corps L6gislatif has been employed upon the vote of money (only £720,000) for the Luxembourg and the 'fro 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. £he balance of evidence as to the probability of refer ring 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 ISI4, 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 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. I 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 mow, 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 nt 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 appears in the Independent 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 L6gislatif, 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 laneum, a discovery of very great importance in an archxological 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 Cumze, belonging to the Campana Museum, for which the Russian purchaser paid the large sum of £2,000. Tlle-,e articles are remarkable for the elegance of their form and the purity of the drawing. The subjects, which are in baq. relief, are mostly devoted to the labours of Hercules. It is clear that a mine of historical wealth lies buried under the deep ashes of Herculaneum. A LADY PREPAI?LVG FOR THE MILLENIUM. During the past week the contents of the residence of the late Mrs. Thwaytes, in Hyde-park-gardens, London, notable 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 how to make madness beautiful." The 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. Bass, M.P., is recovering from his severe 'ness. Le Figaro says that a "scandal at Pan" has been created by a well-known lord having loft his wife, eu route for America, with a young lady of Now York for his guide. On Sunday Police-constable Pearse was on duty i n Charles-street, Drury-lane, when four well known thieves whom ho had requested to move on set upon kim, knocked him down, and k7cked his head. They also seized Ws truncheon and beat him so soverely with it that he is dangerously injured. The culprits have for the present escaped. Mr. Locke King's Bill to remove doub's as to the qualification of persons holding Civil Service pensions, as receiving sul.erannuation 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 th 4 holders kat sitting in Parliament? —nothing surely can be more reasonable in every way or more judicious. The lower middle classes, and the upper working claes?s are those the Vice-President of the Council is most de- sirous of benefiting by the new organization and the new 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. A'Anost imme diately before the completion of his very able and comprehensive ad Ires, Mr. FORSTER an nounced, to the general satisfaction of the House, his readiness to refer tbo 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. 1 THE extreme length and consequent costliness of the election petition trials render it important that , r a e n d y u c inp r g a c themti cal w expedient r e s h r o e u a l s d o n a b b e l e limits.ad o te d Sir f r lIENnY BIILWER has—perhaps not unnaturally, considering the large sum in which he has been 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 the 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 to be to write 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 down 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 most 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 denyingthat the great empire of two hundred millions of subjects which is underour charge has 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 the progress 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 ' i n a tt a i n i n g. 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 exports have been larger than in precedingTearrs, the ITALY. FLORENCE, March le. The report of the Treasury up t o the 28th February has been published. According to this report the national revenueamounted 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 Vitztbutn has arrived here. FRANCE• BREST, March 16. The Transatlantic Company's steamer Ville do Paris, fr o m N ew Y or k , arr i v - d b o re at 6 a.m. w i th 89 pass engers an d $ 56,000 in specie. BoURSE, March 13.—Three market closed as follows 41 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month_ 70 85 Credit Alobilier 282 50 End of month 283 75 Credit Foncier 1495 End of month.. Bank-Shares 9 860 Itt.Pan Fives 55 80 End of month — Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt 29 Deferred ...... ••• Cash Orleans ...... ... 952} ....................... N orthern Lyons and Medit erranean Southern..... 6lBk Western Eastern ....................... .... • • Sardinian RAILWAY u - r Austrian 67 11 Lombard .. 478 i North of Spain 64 Saragossa 81 4')lRoman THE MARYLELONE REFORM LEAGUE AND ELECTORAL ASSOCL4TION. A reunion of the members and friends of the above association took place yesterday evening at the Crown Tavern, Cleveland-street, Fitzroy square, when 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 llouse, aad on Mr. E. &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. TFM COLONIAL SOCIETY. THE QUEEN AND THE IRISH Q UESTION. ----- o 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 . • • „„ •., Bruce, the Home Se cre t ar y, L or d Lucan, the lion. 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 continuance of 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 PARLIEMENT. 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 firm, notifying that Sir Sydney had 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 t h at Sir Sydney ceased to hold 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 Sydney 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.llodwell, 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 bond 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 purpol e. - - - 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 are being made to give a fitting reception. Ills 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 seeds that are famed both in Europe and America, tl.ere ran 1 e no 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 nutmegs.--Shotinber of dariculture&umA ry The Colonial Society, patronised by the Prime Minister 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 TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times observes that the Endowed Schools Bill having passed its second reading and been remitted to 3 select committee, it may be assumed that its principle is conceded. We believe the bill deserves approval, but we confess that the ends sought by the bill are more open to discussion than the adaptation of the means proposed under it to the ends. It is, for example, very easY overrate the efficiency of any method for discovering and educating the best minds of each successive generation tg the winnowing of competitive examinations. The ill• tellectual powers of boys ripen at such different 1 1 0' and in so many cases a full development of fan ni ; ties merely perceptive gives such appearances of promise never capable of being realised, that under the best system boys who prove eventually to be the leaders of their generation will be neglected, and boys w it° as men will never rise above the work of routine will be pushed forward. But this objection applies as much t° the existing application of educational endowments as t° that contemplated by the bill, and, simply stated, it amounts to no more than this—that though the bill, sa e° , put into operation, might vastly improve the character 0' our national education, it would still leave it imperfect in its application to some minds. A more substantial c ti• ticism on the scope of the bill will be found in the dange r of uniformity of national education in developing 3 monotony of national character. No impartial perso n who has examined the facts will deny that this danger 19 a real one, for it has been realised in those countries where national education has been best promoted. ILt New England, where we find a race most nearly akin t : ourselves, and a system of graduated popular educa tion long established, a certain common level of character can be distinctly recognised, and traces of a similar result 0 not hard to discern in France and Prussia. The greater diversity of English life would, indeed, go far to check the tendency to a similar phenomenon among ourselves, sn it is certain that private and auxiliary schools will 1 0135 flourish to control thepredominance of one type of educati on ' The danger itself, however, though sensible enough t° noticed, is insufficient to affect the value of the refers proposed by the Endowed Schools Bill, and we hope measure will return from the committee to which it has „bI eureebled by its raanir ld lation. The Standard says that the question with which the measure concerns itself is in no sense a party ques ti °, l ; As Mr. Beresford H o p e p o i n t e d out, no one ta k es uP t he ground of positive resistance to change in the manag e ' ment of the endow e d sc h oo l s . N o one asser t s that th e present state of things is one which can be defended or maintained. It is admitted on all hands that the abuse' revealed by the royal commission report constitute ; scandal which must be vigorously and promptly d ell 1. with, and the only p o i n t s i n i ssue b etween t h e a uthor 0 the bill and its critics on Monday night are those affe ctivg the mode in which it i s p ro p ose d t o reme d y ev il s the e: 4is. tence of which is rec ogn i se d an d d ep l ore d i n a ll quarte rg. We are all worki ng f or th e same en d . The (Plestig raised by Mr. F ors t er ' s bill i s w h et h er we approve his methods of remedy and can wor k w i t h hi m i n aPPIYI them. The r e c e pti on accor d e d to t h e bi ll on the 011 iv sition benches m us t h ave sa ti s fi e d t h e r i g ht h o g gent le ' man that he has nothing to fear from a " dead earth' kind of resistance, On the other hand, h e can 1131.8 7 0 be surprised at findi ng th a t th e prov i s i ons o f a Ilae °ll t - i i so wide in its scop e , an d d ea li ng so trenchantly wit interests of the hi g h es t i m p or t ance, are j ea l ous ly scr ub' f nised and closely sifted. Ab ove a ll, it w ill b e the duty ° ,4 the select committ ee t o d ec id e w h et h er t h e powers v ested in the Government th roug h th e i r commissioners are cr not excessive. Do they or do they not enable the Educ 33.B Con Minister to upset and cancel every school trust la s kingdom? Would it not be in the power of a l 33iile f filling that post to obliterate the Church character Church foundations, or of a Fawcett or a Dixon to make them the vehicles of purely secular teaching? it ra f tis o not be forgotten that the bill finds its warmest suPP ° , r ,'" e it amongst the Secularists and the Dissenters, and should al on careful inquiry that they have such specs reasons for approving it as we have hinted at, out trust the select c o m m itt ee w ill not h es it a t e to take 0' its sting. The Telegraph considers that a load was lifted off t i b e minds of many h onoura bl e an d r i g h t h onoura ble g e n t il e' men by the tim e th a t M r. F orster h a d exp l a i n ed what he. meant to accomplish th roug h hi s E n d owe d Schools ,11. All sorts of horrors had been conjured up by the first brie statement of its provisions, and a hasty—a very b ast i , Y o - ; glance at the measure itself. His bill is temporary in making it so he has done wisely. A year or two hee d a great measure of national e d uca ti on must be fra me : and it will not do to bl oc k th e p a th o f re f o rm with sec', tional machinery. B e tt er f or us t o wa it u ntil sch ools shall be placed un d er some au th or i ty, i mper i a l or lo c i; Finally, comes the task of examining the pupils -3 t3 i s which Mr. Forster commits to a body of twelve ge ntle, men, six elected by the Government, and the remainder the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Ifi Llu , ° ; That body is to carry out the plan of ra iddle -ci3 , - r examinations. In words of remarkable force, Mr. Fe rs : h e said that he wished to execute the intentions of ' b e founders. But that can be done only by attending t ° . t , B O spirit of their bequests, and not to the letter. Thin is have changed since the Tudor times ; the new Engla' n o y unlike the old ; and, as Mr. Forster observed 0 11 -M° they night, if the found e r s h a d b een p resen t i n the House,t to would have been the first to applaud a bill which seeks _ rescue magnificent ed uca ti ona l en d owmen ts from the gr; of sloth and bigotry, in order that the money milled devoted to the tea c hi ng o f w h a t our f a th er s justly cal the " humanities." f a vour The Post think s th a t th e strongest argu ment in t he of the Abolition of University Tests Bill is supplie d a re fact that the disabilities which it is intended to rerae w `i ive , incompatible witn the spirit of the age in whic h we isTou. It is simply an anachronism, when not only ordir ia l i o i est conformists, but even Jews, are eligible for th e '',: ta ref offices under the Crown, and for seats in the Legi s ; all 's that the University of Oxford should insist on 3 11 vber signing the Thirty-nine Articles if he desires to tak e:l , 2 ,ord degree than that of Bachelor of Arts ; that both v to o and Cambridge should exclude from the Sen ate b l e to otherwise entitled to sit there, because they are 1111 1 3 ,2is bed pledge themselves to be members of the deny Church Church ; and that the colleges of both gl i t r e i raj a in e i ol v ; fellowships even to the most distinguished of hers. If a college devoted itself exclusively to the t r sist of clergymen, it might then with great proprietY i x ! _ f o r the observance of rules in respect era tiol l . • ree j office no less stringent than those now in op if a college invites all comers, irrespective of thei r : do pt and their ultimate vocations, then it is bound tc) s „ c t to those principles of justice and impartiality in re .o P n c itten t the distribution of its rewards, and to the apportl rester of legislative authority, which, on a much college scale, are acted upon by the State in which that to qualificatioui3tit - .. among ex T i s h ts e . IriDailyeh newspapers,Neu, srem ar h s a that o Sir John Flay, bti rr ro i f il 05 certain Reverend ,ises r . Mr. Shanahan, in whom he recog foeman worthy of his steel. This 1 n who OP ° : gent ema , to be a Roman Catholic et a Limerick in which according to Sir John fray , he ° ,, P c ot, avowed himself a sympathiser with the Fenian illa ve ; know what a Fenian is, but if it means „._, ctii concluding • ' with the followingwords "I do not - for : me upon the traceD - lova men Ireland, Ireland for the Irish, and that fr v isb , i ll3 .o ought to be able to govern themselves, I am a j ' e-i d " in my heart, and so is every prist in Reit° • The meeting, it is said, broke up Nvi th cheers f• t a e ßepublic, President Grant, Stephens, and Pigott. In bat her rr terrible Majesty's conjuncture Ministers Sir John in den d ed Hay to d wished o f Fortescue'sreply :ClN,}l'iocbtielis)thSe; was brief and to the po M in r ; We doubt not that the * Rev. Mr. Shanahan, who, as ''' . 0 Chief Secretary explains, did not say preciselY w hat -ri be v's alleged to have said, is better pleased with Sir John P- 3 .' glory of being the subject Next to the question than with Mr. Fortescue's answer. thedelight of making a violent speech to an excited raeeting' • tarY i n q u d i e ri a of a parliamentary would probably be most gratifying to a vain and bot-hea ev ') man. As to th e mee ti ng , w hi c h seems to have been th e e chief offende r , it canno t b e arre sted or prosecuted, or dispersed, for it bas dispersed itself. The Herald says that forty-nine of the Fenian convti_'''at: are to be unconditionally released. It is with regret a.b.o . we must decline to look upon this act of grace rs one Iv _ . gether of justice or policy. It certainly does note ePer:, sent the principle by which the Government, Itb cise of its prerogative, professed to be gu ided. T he state. , ivrt ment put forward was that a distinction would be drat between the young and inexperienced, who ba d b dp e r 4 mi s l ed by worse conspirators, and the ria lea _ t ;i o who had entrapped them to their ruin. But Iv l3 ', we find? Either that the judges of the realm w— ere recklessly indiscriminate or inhumanly severe assumption which would be monstrous —or that the Prei tended principle of all this clemency has been lost sigh v i ° o entirely. For among the individuals pardoned th i„tb, the first instance, were actually condemned to tea cl", to though their sentences were subse quent ly commu thitt penal servitude for life. And what happens ? W h Y' ig a sentence of death signifies just such a penalty al often inflicted for an ordinary theft ; that Pc% servitude for life is a penalty at w hich a prisoner aaa'ej'i mock, in the confidence that he would ba ve „, b li e e far more stringently treated had he assaulted a. r„ - idect man. Let us repeat, we c begrudge the irilsg - 1, - Joh and ignorant herd of the Fenian convicts the liberty we hope they will not again abuse, and we, trust t example of leniency may have its moral' effect in le s o, b t utas for some of those who have been chosen for favour does appear preposterous that their punisliment,.stelf madebe a jest of, and that the law should codes. to be insincere when it dares to deal with treason. F o rs might almost be said, in spite of Mr. Ch ichester Wardles thAt CaPtAin hArtAsight_to-c°1311213°- Cent. 14 pr, Acc Frenc in have 1 Turki 1865, prices of 18( ditto do. of 1865, 674 ; 77f 31i 664 ; Am beir 24 to 97 to tures, - Bonds Mis Goner, Nat ioi j; T , Telegi Anglo In J and 11 50i 51 Lon& prem. The terday The £48,0( The yearly 1 0 per COrpor Ales noune( bonds Loan, amours The Great Gowan at upw realisa The he declini fleeted Glasgc The Santial the St! at £7C been e premiu We Slater, a mein Co., at %Vareh The of the held of dared. 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