The Sun. — London, England, 1860-12-25 00:00:00

" Under the Emperor's grandfather Christianity was openly preached throughout the Empire ; there were in all the provinces a great number of mis sionaries of every order and country. Each had his district and church. They preached publicly in them, and the Chinese were freely permitted to embrace our religion. " After the death of this Prince, his son expelled all the missionaries out of the provinces, confiscated their churches, and only allowed the Europeans to remain in the capital as persons useful to the State by their skill in the mathematics and other arts and sciences. The reigning Emperor let things continue upon the same footing, nor have we yet been able to obtain the least alteration in our favour. Many of the missionaries who were expelled have secretly returned into the provinces, and others ne wly arrived have followed them in pretty large numbers. They keep themselves concealed there as well as they can ; they cultivate their missions and do all the good in their power, taking precautions not to be discovered, and never performing their functions but by night. " As we are publicly tolerated in the capital, our missionaries there exercise their ministry without reserve. We have there three churches, one be longing to the French Jesuits, the two others be longing to the Jesuits of Portugal, Italy, Germany, Sec. These churches are built after the European manner, beautiful, large, well ornamented and painted, and such as would do honour to the greatest cities of Europe. There is at Pekin a very large number of Christians, who attend our churches with all freedom. We go into the city to say mass and administer the sacraments at proper times to the women, who, according to the laws of the country, are not permitted to go from home, or to mix with men in the churches. The missionaries are indulged in this liberty at the capital because the Emperor knows very well that the only motive which brings us hither is religion, and that if they shut up our churches and deprived the missionaries of the liberty of performing their functions we should quit China, which is what he would not choose. Such of our Fathers as lurk in the provinces are not so thoroughly concealed but that the Mandarins might detect them if they would ; but they shut their eves, because they know upon what footing we are received at the capital. If by mischance we should be sent away, the missionaries in the pro vinces would be soon discovered and sent after us. Our figure is too different from that of the Chinese to remain long undiscovered. With regard to the progress which our religion makes here, I have already told you that we have three churches and 22 Jesuits—ten of the French nation in our French house, and twelve in the other houses, who are Portuguese, Italians, and Germans. Of these 22 Jesuits, seven are em ployed, like myself, in the Emperor's service. The others are priests, and consequently mis sionaries. They have under theircare not only the mission established in the city of Pekin, hut also a district of 40 or 50 leagues around, wherein they make from time to time apostolic excursions. Be sides these European Fathers, there are here five Chinese priests, who have received priests' orders, and go into houses and places where an European cannot go without danger or indecorum. There are besides these in the several provinces between 30 and 40 missionaries, reckoning Jesuits and others. Within this city and the district above-mentioned our French house baptises constantly every year between 500 and (300 grown persons, and about 1,200 or 1,300 infidel parents. Our Portuguese Fathers, who are more numerous than the French, baptise a greater number of idolaters ; accordingly they reckon in this single province and in Tartary, between 25,000 and 30,000 Christians ; whereas in our French mission we only reckon about 5,000." Thus far Father Attiret. The founders of the Itomish Church in China were three Italian Jesuits in the end of the 16th century. The most able and noted of these was Matthew Ricci, of Ancona, who in 1603, published at Pekin a book " Ou the Divine Law," which became popular throughout the ern pire. His book intermixes the doctrines of Chris tianity with the morals of Confucius. The tolera tion extended to the missionaries in Pekin was withdrawn in 1743, from which time the cause of Christianity gradually declined, till in the begin ning of the present century Protestant missions were commenced. TEE, NAV.V. Yesterday it was announced at the headquarters of the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, that an order has been received from the Horse Guards, by Col. Harness, C. 8., directing the 27th Company of Royal Engineers, under the command of Capt. A. W. Durnford, to embark at Portsmouth on Thursday next, on board the screw steamer Himalaya, for Gibraltar, to relieve the 2d Company of Royal Engineers, vrhicit returns to England after completing its period of foreign service. The Amethyst, 26, is ordered to be attached to the fleet of vessels in reserve at Chatham. CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN PEKIN. The following account of the Christian churches in Pekin is given in a letter from Frere Attiret, of the Society of Jesus, painter to the Emperor of China, to M. D'Assaut, dated Pekin, November 1, 1743. The French original is contained in the 27th volume of Lettres Edifiuntes et Curieuses, Paris, 1749 : 271 E 44 Rll . The proceedings and finding of a district court martial, which assembled at Chatham a few days since for the trial of an incorrigible character named Francis Brady, a private in the Ist battalion of the 19th Regiment, having been approved by the Major-General commanding the district, have been promulgated to the whole of the corps comprising the garrison at Chatham. The prisoner was ar raigned before the Court on a charge of striking Lance-Sergeant Tanner, of the same regiment, while in the execution of his duty, the sergeant having occasion to reprimand the prisoner for some breach of military discipline, which he resented by striking him a terrible blow in the face. The pri soner bears the character of being one of the very worst men in the regiment, his name being scarcely ever out of the defaulters' book, while his general conduct is of the most depraved description. Since Ire has been under confinement it has been ascer tained that he had deserted from another corps pre viously to joining the 19th Regiment for the express purpose of obtaining another bounty. During his trial he behaved with the greatest insolence to the president and officers of the Court, all of whom he assailed with the foulest language and oaths. The Court found him guilty, and sentenced him to two years' imprisonment in the military prison, Fort Clarence, Rochester. At the expiration of his term of imprisonment he will be again plac e d on hi s trial for his conduct before the court-martial. The industrial schools of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich having been last, week inspected by Capt. A -- Gleig, district inspector, assisted by Mr. Whar,; ir superintendent of the regimental department a t Woolwich, the articles of clothing, 650 i n number, made np in the schools during the current half-year, were distributed during the week children, in a ccor d ance w ith th e am ong the school War-office regulations. Lady Dacres, Mrs. C. Bing ham, Mrs. Hare, and Mrg, Field superintended the distribution. On Thursday last a concert was given to the non-commissioned officers and men of the gar rison by order of Major - Gen , R. J. Dacres, K.C.8., commandant, at which upwards of 1,000 persons, chiefly soldiers, were present : Many offi cers and their families attended, , in cluding the General Commanding ; Col. C. Bingham, Deputy- Adjt.-Gen., Royal Artillery; Col. Kennedy, com manding depot brigade ; Col. Wilford, Gover nor, Royal Military Academy ; Major Field, Deputy- Assist.-Quartermaster-Gen., R.A, ; the Revs. Hare, M.A., and G. C. Williams, garrison chaplains, &c. A noticeable feature in this evening's enter tainment was the fact of the whole of the vocalists being classes of non-commissioned officers and gun ners which were partly formed four months ago and which have been instructed by Corporal Smith, R.A. band. The concert, under the direction of Mr. Smyth, the bandmaster, was most successful, and will he followed at intervals by others. On Sa turday evening the school children's annual fete, dr " breaking up," for the Christmas holidays, took place in their schoolroom. This entertainment was subscribed for in the most liberal manner by the officers of the different corps in garrison, General bacres heading the list with £5. Nearly 900 chil dren belonging to the schools were regaled with tea and cake, at discretion. Upwards of 6 cwt. of plum cake and 1,000 oranges were consumed by the chil dren present. The rooms were gaily decorated with festoons and garlands of holly and evergreens, and centre of the walls bore the initial letters of her The Danish brigantine Freia, front Konigsberg to Dublin, grounded on the Dogger Bank Sand, off Wexford, on Thursday night. At daylight, on Friday;:a pilot boat, and afterwards a fishing cot, attempted to get her off, but in vain. The master and crew declined to leave in either boat. A snow storm prevailing, the wind increasing, and the sea getting up, the master afterwards made signals for the fishing boat to return immediately, but it was now too late, for the sea was rolling so high that the fishing boat durst not venture near the sand bank. As soon, however, as the vessel's signals of distress were observed, the Rosslaire lifeboat, be longing to the National Lifeboat Institution, was immediately launched, and having promptly been taken in tow of a f:team-tuz, she soon reached the scene of danger. The sea was now mailbag very high, but the noble craft, with her hardy crew— after some skilful management, and incurring some risk of life—succeeded in taking off the whole crew, consisting of six persons. They were afterwards safely - plat on board the steam-tug and brought to Wexford. The lifeboat was reported to have be haved admirably, and to have given her crew every satisfaction. DUNGENESS, DEC. 22. Last night the schooner Nathaniel, from Ham burg to Dublin, and the barque Kingston, of Hull, from London to Algoa Bay, got on shore during gale of wind and heavy sea, off Dungeness. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution pro• ceeded off to the assistance of both vessels, but neither of them would accept of its help, although the barque burned signals of distress. It was's. bitter cold night, and the inspecting chief officer of the Coast Guard reports that the lifeboat's crew's conduct on the occasion was most praiseworthy. It was expected that one or both vessels, which were now in charge of Deal boatmen, will become total wrecks. (From the Lifeboat Journal.) A beautiful illustration of one of the lifeboats of the National Lifeboat Institution proceeding off to a wreck, from an exquisite picture painted by Mr. Samuel Walters, a talented artist of Bootle, near Liverpool, accompanies the journal of the Society for the January quarter. He was induced to paint it from a generous motive, to help forward the philanthropic objects of the Institution, by bring ing before the public, by a peculiar process of pho tography, a correct and picturesque view of the valuable services of one of its boats. The vessel is supposed to have struck on the outer ridge of rocks called the Filey Bridge, on the Yorkshire coast. The raging sea, the wild and angry sky, and the rocky coast are depicted with a vigour and a truth fulness of delineation, which serves to impress the fearful realities of such a scene vividly upon the mind; while the sight of the lifeboat manned by her gallant crew, proceeding steadily in the face of the tempest, on her errand of mercy, conveys an idea of the ability of the lifeboat service, and its claims upon the benevolent sympathies of the pub lic, which it would be in vain to attempt to convey by any mere verbal description. There is a matter of-fact simplicity, a living eloquence, in the ma terials thus brought together, and arranged by the skill of the artist,into so pathetic, yet so unexagge rated a story, that renders the appeal which it makes irresistible. The list of the important services rendered by the lifeboats of the Institution during the year which is just closing has its own significance. It tells with unmistakable accuracy, and with a fidelity that is too thankfully felt in many a sailor's home, that two hundred of our fellow-creatures have been rescued during the uast twelve months from what ttY be considered an almost certain death ; f5 O should be borne in mind, that the nw:tjority of these lifeboat services were of such b, charae rector that could not possibly be performed by any other h uman agency. Let us give one such illustration out of many. A f ew wee k s ago it bl e w a heavy ga l e off Lym e Reg was given that a vessel indeeis. About eight the al arm o 'clock at night was in distre ss i n the offing, It was pitch dark; d the inten se d arkness, the strong ga l e and the heavy surf on shore wer e enough sa id the town, to appal any , the mayor of zain entering th e lifeboat. After some short delay, however, the boat was manned by a gallant, crew —h er coxswain Thoma s Bradley, being early at his post. T ar: barrels were lighted up on shore, and the boat pro ceeded on her mission of mercy. Se truly awf u l was the night, that nearly every one on shore believed she would never return again. After baffling the fury of the storm, and after an absence of about an hour and a half, also lifeboat did return, The telegraphic lines of Russia have advanced into Asia, and are progressing with great rapidity. Siberia will soon be traversed by them ; and it is said that the Russian Government propose to con nect Siberia with America by means of a subma rine line along the Aleutian Islands. This is by no means art impossible undertaking; and a despotic Government has means at its disposal to execute its designs withcut loss of time, which a Parliamentary Government cannot hope to imitate. It is not altogether impossible, therefore, that oar American as well as our China news may come to us through Russian channels.. And again we say we are rejoiced to thinkso, especially if that know ledge will act as a spur upon us to take advantage. of the most wonderful application of the greatest known power of nature to unite ourselves with our offshoots in the distant East, and retain in our own hands, and under our own eye, the means of com municating with them. Are we, with whom the knowledge of telegra phic communication originated, to be outstripped by imitators P It may be said Russia can com municate overland with the East almost to America. We can only do so by using the bottom of the sea, We are aware of the distinction, and we give it its due weight. But we must also call attention to a further distinction, to that, namely, which nature has placed between a deep sea and a shallow sea—between a sea where, once submerged, the cable is beyend our reach and must rest on its own merits, and a shallow sea whence the damaged cable can be fished up and restored to its primitive efficiency. An examination of the published Admi ralty charts will show that, with the exesption of a short stretch to the coast of Africa, a cable can be laid from Malta to Alexandria in depths not ex ceeding fifty fathoms—that it can be laid unclea,the same conditions as to depth, with a trifling excep tion, from Suez to Aden, and thence parallel to the south coast of Arabia to India, again with the ex ception of one deep, but short stretch from the east point of Arabia to India. Equally shallow water exists between India and Singapore and Java, and along the Dutch islands to Sydney, by the northern and eastern coasts of Australia. Here we have a magnificent field before us for establishing telegraphs under our - own control, both as regards their working and their mainten ance. It has been necessary for us .to enter into particulars and details, and in consequence of the general want of information which exists upon this important subject. The time has arrived, however, for taking this matter into our most serious consideration. Some money has been lost in these undertakings, though we venture to say hut little compared to their vast importance. Much money was also squandered upon railways. As regards one line of telegraph, especially, we hope that the loss is not irremediable. The lawsuit between the Red Sea and Indian Telegraph Company and the contractors is, we are happy to say, at length compromised, and the stumblingblock which has for so many months stood in the way of re-establishing our inter rupted telegraphic communication with India is thus removed. lip to the present time neither side dare touch the cable, the point in dispute being which was liable in law to repair it. Reports have been spread that the line could not be repaired, which, being uncontradicted, by those connected with the undertaking, have obtained general credence. Now, however, the reason for silence is removed, and we find that the engineers, both of the company and of the contractors, who have examined and reported upon the state of the line, agree that it can be repaired and restored to efficient working order at a moderate cost. This is also rendered highly probable by the fact that throughout nearly its whole length the Red Sea and India telegraph lies in shallow water. The copper and gutta percha have not been at all affected by their residence on the sea bottom. The outside iron wire, which has nothing to do with the electrical 'efficiency of the cable, is generally but little rusted, but in many places is almost entirely gone. This is accounted for by the che mical action of the sea water, and in some places of the sea bottom, upon the iron; in other places the metals and substances of which the sea bottom is composed have had very little deleterious effects upon the iron. The faults which have stopped the working of the cable, except those which are breakages by anchors, have their seat in the gutta percha, and are original imperfections in its texture, or crevices accidentally left in it in laying it on the copper wire. There are no signs of any mechanical violence to the cable from any motion in the sea or friction by the rocks. The cable shows positive proof that it has lain at perfect rest, unless it ba in exposed situationwvery near the shore. Of the six sections of the Red Sea and Indian line three are broken close to the stations in shallow water, principally by anchors ; one is at work • one section is faulty, probably in several places, but the water is shallow nearly everywhere. The section between Kosseir and Suakin is in deep water, but it is believed it can also be repaired. It must be remembered that, no attempt has ever been made to repair any of the sections but one, and that was abandoned in consequence of the dispute with the contractor. We feel no doubt that the Government—for it is in effect a Government line—will take immediate steps to re-establish telegraphic cemmunication with. India. We trust that they will cause the cable . that is intended to be laid between Rangoon ana Singapore to be laid between Malta and Alex andria. The distance is nearly the same, if cer tain deviations are allowed for ) BO as to lad it near the African coast, in shallow water. `Phis cable has not been prevented from going to Ran goon because of its bad state—the cable has suffered no injury whatever—but simply because it must be laid between Rangoon and Singapore before reach i:.3oetxa:z. next May, as the monsoon commences in that month, and there is no time to fit up the ships with water-tight compartments within which to lay the cable, ili so as to ensure that the heating, of which symptoms have exhibited themselves, shall not dangerous olvaei dm b er between p w o h i ne when . Rangoon ah T ne gh monsoon 00 nn s andoo cable,n ceases, Singaporeth e re f a o n r e d , we trust it will not be left idle during these 10 months, but be utilised between Malta and Alexandria, GUILDHALL—RoheTt Williamson, principal clerk to Mr. Tadant, bookseller and publisher, of Ave Mat ia-lane, was charged with stealing 1;2, the money of his master. Alderman Phillips remanded the prisoner for a week, and said he would accept bail for him if he could procure it. Alderman Phillips, in acknowledging the receipt of .4.:3 3s. from " P. It ," for the poor-box, expressed the havingatitication he felt at the means placed at his' command, through the benevolence of pri vate persons in their contributions to the poor-box, to relieve a portion or the distress and destitution usually prevalent at this period of the year, and which Was greatly aggravated at present by the inclemency of the past season. A great num ber of aged women and other applicants for the trifling assistance rendered on such occasions to deserving persons, thronged the court, and the greatest circumspection was neces sary to alleviate real suffering and detect imposi tion, to insure which every precaution,was taken, and none were relieved who could not in some way make themselves, as well as their wants, known to the Court, or some one connected with it. WESTMINSTER.—WiIIiam"EarI, a tall power ful man, was finally examined, charged with steal ing £6O worth of guld chains from the shop of Mr. Alexander Hugh Rees, goldsmith and jeweller, 19, Queen's-row, Pimlico. Mr. G. Dennis, clothier, carrying on business next door to the prosecutor, said, that a quarter past 9 on the evening of the 11th inst. he was engaged closing hisshop, when he saw the prisoner approach Mr. Rees' shop, strike a heavy blow with his fist at a large pane of plate-glass in the front, snatch at something, and run off. Witness and others who had seen the outrage committed fol lowed the prisoner, who was at last captured, but not until he had proceeded a long distance. Another witness proved seeing the accused snatch some of the valuables from the window, and the prosecutor said that gold Albert chains of the value of X6O had been stolen. Although the prisoner was strictly searched, none of the property was found upon him, but a ticket describing the price of one of the chains was found on, the spot where he was captured. The prisoner, who made no defence, was com mitted for burglary, the breaking and entering being established by his hand having been within the shop front at the time he snatched the chains from their fastenings. W ORS HIP- STREET.—John Reardon, a power ful Irish labourer, was charged with maliciously cutting and wounding. At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 18th instant Ambridge and lierbert, two constables of the H division, saw the prisoner drunk in Whitechapel, making a disturbance, and with a crowd round him. They dispersed the crowd, and the prisoner walked away, but went so reluctantly that the officers followed him to see that he did not renew his noise, and the prisoner had not gone far when he noticed Ambridge, and turned suddenly upon him, and struck him in the face with some instrument which glittered, and which, upon being afterwards picked up, turned out to be a strong clasp knife, inflicting a gash in his face from which the blood poured profusely, and which has ren dered the constable unfit for duty ever since. Some persons passing indignantly called upon the officers to lock the prisoner up, and, notwithstanding the blow he had given him, Ambridge seized him, but the prisoner was so outrageously violent that boil fell, and it was only after a severe contest with the constables that he was at last overpowered and !Bodged in the station. Mr. John Comley, the surgeon, who was called i n;:to the constable, said that, on being so, he found a wound in his temple an inch in length and a quarter of an inch in depth, and dividing the tem poral artery. The man of course bled very much; the wound was a very dangerous one, and just such a wound as the knife produced would be capable of inflicting. The prisoner denied the charge, protesting that had no knife in his hand that morning at all ; bit Mr. Knox comnifthel him for trial. tAMBETll.—George Thomas Lingham, a young follow who was said to be most respectably con nected, but who has been for some time the asso = ciate of pra c ti s ed thieves, as charge of fraud. '• to Mrs. The prisone r fi rs t ex hibit e d a go ld w atou Ovington, the p rosecu t r i x , w hil e th e latter wu.. having some r e f res h men t s a t th e R oc ki n gham Arms pubiichouse, and said that tho ug h it was worth £2 she should have it for £l. The prosecutrix offered him 10s. for it, which he took, giving her what she believed to be the same watch in a small leather bag, and disappeared. The prosecutrix soon discovered that instead of a watch she had a brass locket not worth a penny, The prisoner, in reply to the charge, admitted Dundee, Dec. 13 My dear Sir,—l am favoured with yours of the 11th inst., with reference to a statement made by me last month, thht Great Britain had a greater number of persons in her Royal avy this year than the entire mercantile marine of France, both coasting and foreign, contains. That statement was not ventured on mere hearsay, but is based on a careful consideration of official documents, and will be fthind quite correct, however surprising it may appear to those who have allowed themselves, without investigation, to be de luded by unauthenticated paragraphs in newspapers, setting forth the gigantic naval preparations of France. The facts of the case are these : On the Ist of July, 1860, the total number of men and boys registered according to the French maritime inscription was 156,383, classified as follows :- 1. Officiers, mariniers, et matelots 85,539 2. Novices et mousses 49,983 3. Ouvriers, &c 19,159 4. Mecaniciens, &c Under the first head are ranked all sea-going men of all ages, including not only those employed in the foreign and coasting trade, but fishermen and also the sailors in the Imperial Navy, with the exception of that portion of them, about one-third (or 10,000), which are landsmen taken from the military conscription. Und©r No. 2 are enumerated the boys and the landsmen omitted from No 1. No. 3 includes ship carpenters, sailmakers, and all sorts of labourers, whether employed in national dockyards or at private establishments, likewise boatmenwho descend rivers so far as the tide water. No. 4 is for mechanics and firemen. Now, in order to ascertain whether or not the assertion. made In my speech is correct, we have to find out how many of the above are bona fide seamen, serving either in the foreign or coasting trade ; for you will observe that I did not include fishermen, artisans, or sailors of the Imperial Navy. We can only arrive at an approximation to this number ; but the French commission of inquiry which re • ported in 1850, set it down as 51,000, and in a very able article entitled, "De la Marine Francaise," in the Revue Contemporaine, M. 13; Mondy estimates at 55,000 to 60,000. If we deduct from the gross . n umber of 156,000 30,000 em ployed in the Imperial Navy, the same number of fisher men, 19,000 workmen, and 2,000 mochas:ics, there remain 75,000 actual sailors. Or we may adopt anotas7 plan. In 1859 the French had 14,708 sailing vessels, with a tora2age of 960,936, and 324 steamers with a tonnage of 56,000=in round numbers a million tons of mercantile shipping. They reckon eight men and boys to every 100 tens, although in Great Britain the proportion is very much less. The dif ference may be to some extent accounted for by their having very few large vessels, and by the fact that small ships:have in proportion more hands, but I suspect those French writers who calculate upon a man or boy to every 12 tons take into account the fishermen on the Newfoundland coast. But even granting that they do not, and giving the alarmists the full benefit of the doubt, S per cent. on a tonnage of a million only gives 80,000 persons, or deducting boys, about the same number of able-bodied men as M. de Mondy calcu lates upon. Well, then, we have this year 84,000 persons, or 77,000 men and 7,000 boys in our ships of war—a greater number than that in the entire mercantile service of Fran ea ' computed according to any of the above methods. An easier method certainly is to copy the figures from the table of the maritime inscription, and in happy ignorance of the whole subject to jump to the conclusion that all who are registered are seamen. I was much amused the other day to observe a writer fall into this error, and go on gravely taking it for granted that he understood the statistics which he had dis covered. This is only one specimen of how the public are misled by blind guides, and induced to sanction that extra vagance in expenditure which necessitates excessive taxa tion, prevents the repeal of the paper duty, the fire insur • ance duty, and other obnoxious burdens, and renders im possible any reduction on the duties on the poor man's tea and sugar. Any of your friends who were staggered at my statement would do well to read the article in the Revue Contemporaine, from which I have already quoted, the writer of which mourns over the weakness of the French Navy in comparison with that of England ; says that the latter could block up the former in port, and destroy the mercantile marine of France at the same time, and con cludes by declaring that if it were possible to establish be tween France and England a convention by which the latter would engage to have only double the maritime forces of the former, his countrymen would sign it with all their heart. Nor must we forget that we have a reserve of 20,000, or perhaps more, in our coastguard service and our volun teer naval reserve, and that the merchant shipping of France is steadily increasing. It had in 1849 42,000 tons less than it had in 1857; and without a flourishing mer cantile marine, there never can be a powerful naval reserve, or even a reliable navy. The state of the case, then, is simply this. We have 77,000 able-bodied men in our Royal _'^vy, and 7,000 boys, 84,000 in all ; the French have - 'T'hey have 60,000 able-bodied men, or 80,000 hands $O,OOO. "- mercantile marine ;we have 240,000 or there in all, in their ._ - are increasing every day, theirs are on abouts. Our sail ors - s hoped we may still sleep soundly the decline. So it is to D. as far as dread of the nave. resources of France is con misstatements are afloat, corned. The most extraordinary , ssele in the French too, with regard to the number of vs_ ft - et that they bad Imperial Navy. I.lately read one to th e 0 es On Friday, at the distribution of the prizes of the Liver pool Collegiate Institution, The Bishop of CHESTER observed—Everything that was going on around us ought to make us feel that, for 'many years past, we have been making great and successful efforts in all great towns, but in no town more than in Liverpool, to raise the standard of education among the masses of the people. No one could rejoice at that more than himself; he thought it was working and would work for good. He did not mean to say that great intellectual attainments were always coupled with good moral principles in every indivi dual. Alas, some of the very greatest names in the'roll of literary fame were sad examples to the contrary. But he said this, that as a general rule intellectual cultivation was in itself favourable to moral improvement. But far more than that, and far more confidently he said it, education when based, as in our country happily it was based, upon religion, was the great instrument which the providence of and had put in our power for elevating the moral character of the population. (Hear.) But the more immediate ob ject he had in view was to remind his friends how impor tant it was that when the education of the lower classes was thus continually on the advance, the education of the higher and middle class should not be suffered to go down. His young friends, when they left the school and grew up to be men, would branch off into different ranks of life. No doubt some would go to the universities, and enter into the liberal professions ; and some in this town would engage in the pursuits of commerce ; and others would betake them • selves to the useful and respectable occupations by which they might hope to advance themselves, by God's blessing, in the world. They would not all have the same position, but all those young gentlemen would have duties to perform most important both to themselves, to their parents, and to society at large. Now, he did not here mean to say that no one but a man of education could perform those duties, but he said without hesitation, other things being equal, natural abilities being equal, a man of education would always perform the duties of his station better, more easily, more gracefully, than a man without educationwould do. On that ground he wished them te bear in mind the great value . of that institution to them e they had there the means of getting education for their sons suitable to their future pros pects in life; and they had this advantage. that they could keep their children at home, under the parental, roof, watched by the parental eye, and under the blessed influ ences of the parental heart. It would be a very sad conse quence indeed, if, when the ranks below them were con tinually rising in the scale of education, the rank to which they belonged was to go down, or even to remain stationary. They ought to rise as the test were rising. A sense of noble ambition and a sense of duty ought to stimulate them to use every effort in their power to keep pace with this on ward movement in education, for that was what was essen tial to their usefulness, their influence, their respectability, their dignity, and their future life. His lordship went on to say that he had received three addresses from the prin cipal to the pupils—one on drill, one on music, and another on the prayers of the school. The system of drill was part of the school system at all times, and a very good part it was It taught them not merely the duty of soldiers, but it en abled them to bear - themselves like gentlemen. (Applause.) But, after all, the drill itself was but a stiff, formal, mecha nical thing. He hoped that now, however, it was animated with a spirit of loyalty and patriotism. He hoped there never would be any need for the arms of volunteers except on the parade ground ; but if there should be need, the, young men of England had shown they had a noble and manly spirit, and were prepared to defend their country, their wives, their sisters, and mothers. If ever the need should arise, there was that noble spirit in the country, which would drive back again into the sea any rash in vaders that might venture on the soil. (Applause.) Dr. M‘NxiLn, in seconding the vote of thanks to the chairman, remarked that we had all been rejoicing in this volunteer movement. It had been a gratification to us all to find that men of every grade of .ociety had been willing te sacrilee their time, at considefable inconvenience, to as semble themselves together, and, under proper tuition, to qualify themselves to be, if need be, the defenders of their country. (Applause.) The movement had been sanctioned by men of peace, because it had been held as a peace pre serving movement. They had all felt that when it was known on the Continent of Europe that there were, in ad dition to the regular army, 100,000 or 200,000 mon in Eng land who had had such practice that at 200, 300, or 400 yards they could hit the bull's eye—and a fortiori a Frenchman—that being known, he felt that our respected allies on the other side of the Channel would think twice before they ventured to land once on the shores of England. (Applause.) This was all very well so long as the persons engaged in this movement were men whose occupations in life were already fixed, for there was little fear that employers or employed would allow the business of their respective stations to be interfered with by drill. But when this system was extended to our universities, and still more when it was extended to our schools, it did require. a caution.; because it was quite possible that the effect might here be more than was intended ; that in some cases it might be different from, and very much in the advance of, a peace-preserving movement ; that it might be a martial, spirit-inspiriting movement; that it might disturb some of those boys from the hitherto peaceful anti cipations of life. It was quite possible that after being ensigns, and lieutenants, and captains, for a little while, there might be felt a tameness, a disagreeable repugnance to going back again to plain mister, or common John, or Tom, or Harry, instead of being lieutenant or captain. And it was quite possible that, after wearing those pretty belts, with their ornaments, there might be a repugnance to go back to a common unornamented waistcoat, especially if, as was most likely, some young ladies in the meantime had expressed their great admiration of these belts. (Laughter and applause.) Now, the caution he would wish to give them was just this—that they should guard against the rising of this martial spirit in themselves, and look upon this drill as a sort of superior gymnasium, in which they were learning good exercise, but in which it was not at all intenred they should be taught to be soldiers. They should be learning how to walk, as was well said. He had been delighted to see, in consequence of the movement, that some of our commercial men, who for merly walked with their head before them, now walked with their heads behind them—(laughter)—chiefly occa sioned by the right rev. chairman, who has got what is called the scholarly bend or stoop, suddenly erecting his head. Now, if he was not mistaken, there were mothers in Liverpool who would remind them, if they get rather too military in their tone—" John, you must not be getting those soldier notions, for you are not to be a soldier." We could get soldiers enough when the time came, and ho was t z:ily afraid of the movement unsettling the minds of the b m. He did not say a word against the drill, but only against the abuse of it; and he was sure they would take this caution in good part from one of their old friends. The vote of th,anks to the bishop was carried by loud cheering. 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LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, Oat No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Offic*, No. 112,80112 r, in the Precinct of the Savoy, In the County of 1511dc1"" Tutwlay, pocolber.2s, 1850, Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the Emperor and Empress of the French. The most conspicuous and attractive portions of the decoration ci nsisted of six Christmas trees, bending with t} - eir weight of fruit and 1,500 toys attached to their branches. A large n amber of appropriate prizes were distributed by Lady Dacres for proficiency in study, and each ono shared in the toys of the trees, This entertainment was patronized by a great majority of the principal officers of the garrison and their families, and was witnessed by the parents of the children, who were invited to attend. TILE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT. The Prince of Wales, who is the owner of consi derable property at Bradninch, Devonshire, has presented 20 guineas to the sth Devon (Upper Culm Vale) Rifle Corps. The contest between 10 men of the A Company, West Middlesex Rifles, and 10 of the Admiralty Company, Civil Service Rifles, took place yester day, at the practice-ground of the latter corps at Wimbledon. The following are the number of points made by each corps at the ranges of 300, 500, and 600 yards, five shots each range :—West Middlesex—Lieut. G. Marriner, 18 points ; Mr. C. Hall, 17 ; Mr. G. Hering, 13 ; Mr. H. Legg, 9 ; Mr. W. Ferguson, 5 ; Mr. H. Jones, 15; Mr. W. Debenham, 11 ; Mr. F. Debenham, 7 ; Mr. J. S. Mussett, 7 ; Mr. H. Cartwright, 2 ; total, 104 points. Civil Service Rifles — Captain Willis, 9; Sergeant Pidcock, 10; Ensign Gripper, 13; Mr. Ward, 4 ; Mr. Pattison, 10 ; Mr. Spence, 10 ; Mr. Wright, 11; Mr. Noel Humphreys, 2; Mr. Noel Smith, 11; Mr. S. Lewis, 7 ; total, 94 points. The' West Middlesex Company therefore won by 10 points, and, it being a continuation of the competi tion originally proposed by Captain Wilbraham Taylor for a silver cup of the value of £lO, to be paid for by ths losers, the above company are now open for a challenge from any other company in Middlesex to compete at the same range. At the conclusion of the contest three cheers were given by the Civil Service Rifles for the winners, and the West Middlesex, in return, gave three hearty cheers for their gallant opponents. On Saturday afternoon Lady Octavia Shaw Stewart presented the Volunteers of the Greenock district with a silver bugle. The Greenock, Gourock, and Port-Glasgow company met in a field behind the Academy, about 3 o'clock. A - raised dais was erected at the upper part of the ground, and in front of it the Volunteers were drawn up, forming three sides of a square. Lady Octavia,. accompanied by Mrs. Grieve and Mr. M. Dunlop, took their stand on the dais, where her ladyship presented the bugle to Sir Michael, who, as colonel of the regiment, received it, and after thanking his wife in the name of the Volunteers, handed it to the bugle-major, Capt. Sicklemore, RN. Major Latham called for three cheers in honour of the donor, which were enthusiastically accorded. The Volunteers were afterwards entertained at dinner in Town-hall by Sir 31:;^'''7:<, and their officers. A corresponde: - : les that the first cadet corps which has been supplied with an effective weapon is that of the Blackheath Proprietary School, attached to the 3d (Lee) Volunteer Rifle Corps, It consists of 75 cadets, raised by Mr. E. J. Selwyn, Principal of the Blackheath Proprietary School, nearly three months ago, and armed with smooth bore Irish constabulary carbines of the 1855 pat tern, kindly supplied by the Government at a nominal peice. The corps has attained very consi derable proficiency in position and manual drill, under the command of Captain (Colonel) Hillyard. LIFEBOA7 SERVICES. WEXFORD, DEC, 22. TB laden with the shipwrecked crew of three men belonging to the smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis. The inhabitants of the town were perfectly amazed at the lifeboat's performances, and the no less daring behaviour of her skilful coxswain and crew. This case alone shows the inestimable value of the National Lifeboat Institution ; but how much more might be said of the services it has rendered throughout its long career of usefulness, to what may be called the private and hidden circles of our life. In addition to the 200 persons saved from a watery grave by the lifeboats of the Institution during the past year, they also went off 40 times in reply to signals of distress from vessels, which afterwards had either got out of danger, or had their crews rescued by other means. Lifeboats were also assem bled in stormy weather on several occasions, both during the day and night, in order to be ready for any emergency that might arise. For these valuable services the total amount paid was £792. On occasions of service and quarterly exercise during the year the lifeboats were manned by upwards of 5,000 persons. All the lifeboat services took place in stormy weather, and frequently in the dark hour of the night. Surely, then, such an institu tion, with 108 lifeboats under its charge, devoted to such worthy and comprehensive purposes, need not appeal for pecuniary support in vain. Much has been done, but much yet remains to be done. Munificent donations from the wealthy few have poured in, in some cases the establishment of a per fect station having been presented ; but it is from the contributions of the many, and the endowments of the humane, that such an establishment must derive its vitality and future power to keep up its immense life-saving fleet. We trust that the National Lifeboat Institution has only to be more generally known to be placed upon a more perma nent and extended footing. We must yet expect before the winter is over to hear the roar of many a raging storm, and to .read a few days after of many a fearful wreck. Surely it would be a cheer ful thought in the breast of many of us, as he listens to the one or peruses the other, to know that he has fulfilled one of the many duties, assuredly required of us, by having sent his mite to the office of the Institution, No. 14, John-street, Adelphi. GREAT CONTEMPLATED EXTENSION BY GOVERNMENT 01 TELEGRAPHIC COM. MUNICATION. (From the Observer.) We are indebted to a foreign Government for the most important news which has reached us from China. Per se we have no objection to place our selves under such an obligation. In times of peace such good offices tend to bind together the nations of the earth by the strong ties of gratitude, and we rejoice in their occurrence. We must, however, also look to what would have been the result had Russia, when at war with us, gained greatly earlier intelligence of some disaster to our arms in China or in the East. The consequences might have been overwhelming. The disaster would have been aggravated by her action in a tenfold degree, at a time when we should be prevented from taking the necessary measures to neutralise it by ignorance of our condition. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LIVERPOOL, Dec. 22. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn and a Special Jury.) HOLT (ADMINISTRATOR) V. THE LANCASHIRE. AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. Edward James and Mr. Mellish were for the plaintiff, Mr. Overend and Mr. R. Griffith Williams were for the defendants. The plaintiff was Mr. Thomas Holt, of York hill-terrace, Blackburn. The declaration was for damage sustained by the death of his son, who lost his life in consequence of alleged negligence on the part of the defendants. The action was founded upon Lord Campbell's Act. It appeared that a new station has lately been constructed by the defendants upon their line of railway at Daisy bank, near Blackburn. This station the defendants opened, for the convenience of the public, before it was quite finished, and the deceased lost his life on the 15th of April lest by falling into a sunken way abutting upon the platform of the station, which was not sufficiently fenced. Evidence was given on behalf of the plaintiff, from which it ap peared that the deceased acted as the manager of the plaintiff's cotton mill, and that the plaintiff sustained actual damage by reason of his death. Mr. Overend having addressed the jury for the defendants, His Lordship, in summing up, explained to the jury that it was incumbent upon the plaintiff to prove some actual damage, or the action would not lie, and that, l owever unfeeling it might appear, they must consider the value of the deceased to the plaintiff, in the same light that they would con sider the value of a horse—they were not at liberty to take into consideration the feelings of the plain tiff for the purpose of assessing the damages. The questions for them to decide were—whether or no any actual pecuniary damage had been sus tained, and if so, how much. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff— damages, £240. EARRISON O. THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. Edward James and Mr. Mellish were for the plaintiff; Mr. Overend and Mr. Quain were for the defendants. The declaration alleged that the plaintiff was the widow of one Henry Harrison, who lost his life in the service of the defendants, and that his death was occasioned by the negligence of the de fendants in employing an unskilful servant. It appeared from the evidence of the plaintiff that the deceased was a line foreman in the employ of the defendants, and he was stationed at the mouth of the Wapping Tunnel, at the Edgehill Station. The deceased lost his life in consequence of having been run over by an engine while under the charge of Peter Kilshaw, a servant of the de fendants, who, it was contended, was not compe tent to manage an engine. Kilshaw, it was alleged, had originally been a gardener, and although he had subsequently been employed as an engine cleaner, still he had not gone through the several . grades through which it was usual for the men to pass before being intrusted with an engine. The evidence, however, in support of the alleged un skilfulness of Kilshaw being unsatisfactory, Mr. Overend objected that there was no evi dence . . _ His Lordship wa - s of opinion that there was no evidence, but • Mr. James having cited an authority in opposi tion to his Lordship's ruling, His Lordship said he should reserve the ques tion and give Mr. James leave to move the court above if he chose to do so. Mr. Overend, however, stated that as he had a strong case in the background he would rather the case went to the jury. He called Bartholomew Marshall, a locomotive foreman in the employ of defendants at Edgehill, who stated that Kilshaw had been in the service of the company for nearly eight years, and that he had gone through all the several grades through which an engine-driver usually passed. Upon hearing this evidence Mr. James said that after the evidence of this witness he could not hope for a verdict, and would not, therefore, attempt to struggle further with the case. The plaintiff was therefore nonsuited. We understand thlt at the conclusion of the case, the special jury presented the poor widow with the sum of 12 guineas, being the amount which they received as their fees for trying the case. We believe, also, that although the company considered it their duty to defend the action for the purpose of disputing the principle of their liability, it is their intention to present the widow with a gratuity. IN rELLIGEIVC.E—Dec. 24. SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1860. his guilt, but said it was in joke, and that if he had not been taken into custody he would have returned the prosecutrix her money. He was committed for trial. GREENWICH.—Robert Mann, a private be longing to the Royal Artillery stationed at Wool wich, was brought up for final examination, charged with wilfully firing a stack of hay, and destroying property valued at £220, belonging to Mr, Wallis, farmer, of Eltham. 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CROSBY HALL, Bishopsgate-street.—This Laautiful relic of a poetic and picturesque age is open (free) to the public every day. THE FRENGII AND -4NG LISII N.l VIE& A correspondence between Mr. Paton, Montrose, and Mr. Baxter; M.P., has been published. Mr: Baxter's letter embraces the whole subject : nearly as many as we, and figures, glaringly incorrect, I wore actually given in support of the monstrous assertion. This is really too bad, for how stands the case, as any one may find out for himself by looking over the official lists. By the lists corrected up to April, 1859 (and every one knows that we, since then, have made much greater pro gress than our neighbours), the French had 180 sailing vessels, with 2,922 guns ; the British had 221 sailing ves sels, with 8,275 guns—the difference in the proportion between the ships and guns being accounted for by the fact that the French have only four sailing three.deckers and ten two-deckers left, whilst we have 43 sailing-line-of battle ships still in the service. At the same period the French had 265 steam vessels of war, with 5,500 guns ; the British had 530 steam vessels of war (including 161 gun boats), with 8,697 guns.--I am, &c., W. E. BAXTER. James M. Paton, Esq., Montrose. TILE' BISHOP OF CHESTER .ON THE VOLUNTEERS. • WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the Right Rev. Henry Pepys, D.D., Lo rd Bishop of Worcester, of Httrtlebury Castle, Stourport, Wors cestershire, and Grosvenor-place, London, was proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate on the 14th inst. This aged prelate, who attained .to the lengthened period of 78 yeatis, died at his palace at Worcester on the 13th Nov. last, hav ing made his will in 1852, to whish aro appended two codi cils, bearing date respectively 1854 and 1859. The:executors appointed are the Bishop's two sons, Philip Henry Pepys, Esq., Chancellor of the diocese of Worcester, and the Rev. Herbert George Pepys, M.A., Vicar of Grimley, Worces tershire. The former gentleman has alone taken the grant. The personal property was sworn under £50,000, which amount, from the bishop's own statement, appears to be made up of various kinds of seturities—namely, mortgages, Grand Junction Canal shares, railway shares, policies, and shares in insurance companies, &c. The property, together with all other assets, the vene:able prelate has left entirely to his relict and sons and daughters. In fact, it is simply's family will, and contains no other bequests whatever. The will of the Hon. Sir Henry Davison, Knight, late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Madras, who died at Octacamund, in the East Indio., on the 4th of Novem ber last, was administered to in the London Court of Pro bate, en the 15th instant, by James Clay, Esq., M.P., executor according to the tenor. Tho will i* entirely' ht Sir Henry's own handwriting, and in terms iio prechia peculiar that we at once give its entire contents :—" Bom bay, 30th of. June, 1858,--I herOty bequeath r,ll my pro perty to my friend, James Clay, Et.q., M.P. for Hun, in trust to pay my debts. and apply any surplus in such n tan ner as he may think best for the benefit of my daughter Emily, now at Mdme. Tellenloeh's hOhool at lieusingoa." Witnesses, Edward Yardley, barrister, of Bombay ; and Henry Gamble, olerk to , Sir Henry. -The will of Walter Coulson, Esq., Q.C., late parliatmen tary draughtsman and counsel to the Home-office, wb kb. bears date the Ist of September last, was proved in the London Court of Probate, on the 14th of the pretent month, by two of the executors—namely, Arthur John Wood, Esq., of the Inner Temple, t barrister, and William Coulson, Esq., of Chester-terrace, Regent's park, and of Kenegie, Cornwall, the brother of the testator. The per • sonal property was sworn under £12,000. His real estates, situate in the counties of Kent and Norfolk, he has devised to his brother and his two nephews: the latter were also nominated executors. His brother, the said William Coul son, Esq. (who is a member of the council Of the Royal College of Surgeons), takes a life interest therein, as well as in the residue of the personalty. His nephews, the Rev. Thomas B. Coulson, and Walter John Coul sou,Esq., surgeon, on the decease of the testator's brothers are to inherit the property, and in the interim they are to receive an annuity of £l5O each. There is a legacy of £5OO left to his housekeeper, together with an annuityi; also a legacy of £2OO to his executor, Mr. Wood, and a further bequest to him of his law library. Mr. Coulson only at tained to his sixty-fifth year, and died on the 21st of No vember last at his residence,North-bank, St John's-wood. , Illustrated London News. COUNTRY RE EIS NORTHAMPTON—DBc. 22. At this corn-market to-day wheat was in middling sup ply, with a fair demand, prices ranging from 64s to 68m for white, and 52s to 608 for rod. In barley a good bushiest malting 40s to 445, grinding 32s to 35s per qr. Oats is small supply, and prices as efore—quoted at 24s to 380 per 24 stone. Beans, old, 54e to 565; peas, 44s to 545. Rye, 37s to 42s ; malt, 68 s to 72 s ; fl our, 33s to 348 per sack COLCHESTER , —DEo. 22. A small supply of wheat was brought into the market to day, and best samples realised 2s over former currencie o ; with a ready trade. Fine barley in request for malting; middling parcels a ready sale. New beans difficult of sale. Old' beans, maple, and hog peas as before. Wheat, white to 68s te•tns ~ i stvtgan..36s to 42 , red 44s to 60s Niddle &. small 44s to 500 Barley 405 to 50s I White peas 4Ba to 62i Oats 22s to 28s Grey,. CHELMSFOII.I)—DEC. 19. A moderate show of wheat, in better condition, buyers still evincing more eagerness to purchase. Best wheats is brisk detaand, and prices may be quoted at 2s above late rates; inferior samples were at former• quotations. Fius malting barley in improved demand, and is dearer. In' forior sorts unaltered, with a fair trade. Wheat. white 43s to 6 45 4 Feats, Partridge ..43s to 4 4 a - - red 52s to 64s I Whits 436 to 46 4 Barley 33s to 43s Boiling 43s to 47 1 i Chevalier ....36s to 46s Dun 39s to 42i Grinding 31s to 38s 1 Beaus, Tick ...38s to 4 64 Malt 61s to 6 7 8 1 Ha rrow Ticks 39s to 491 Chevalier .. —64 s to 69a ,• AI ay.agan 32e to 41 Oats 26a to 31s 1 KIRKA.LDY—Dic. 22. We had a good supply of barley and oats to-day, buk small of wheat. Sales were ready, and prices were to 25 over late rates. • Wheat Barley Oats First—. 36S Od 325, Od 22s Od Second.. 56s Od • 40s Od 27s Od Third .. 62a tad 46s Od 29s Od nO/I„ikt a„ ls Ili a it, x t ,pand , /frit mi t l 0 or 1l p,eoposeri and 't hat IC,C -Pain p tho se " " co" i : cn 'lPireond by th e p r hut °Posed k eo , . 04 a a 44'4,14