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Ire e engagements ►arles. balloon, and the Prefect of by the Priv' lie citadel, but is, obtained a 'and has been proclamation ,t two armies aen each, and sde, consisting Ucial note says 'rovernment in rifled twelve supply of war and five mil" :ly. E the town of during th° rrussians is tg them knout inhabitants. Little as "possi ,dden only by I their homes, y the news of d the streets, in the houses, I easily divine to the 18th of Berman autho - CWO Generals, , trumpeter?, , 6,785 musl- attendants -- aded. —Seven 490 standard ,ns, five kral.' '8 and 32,94 5 ice-sergeants , )fficers, 6,7 55 -ross total.-- a note in the of the Coon- were to be it, and ten if 3ral Frossard ants are noW Swinemunde in the .mouth will be lit as a account of 'he lights on the 4th inst. the war. garrison of ;elves of the he besieging e themsel ve s ). quantity of y or eighty bitants have s, or crushed man troops, 'red. Lines kc. 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Office, 15, Buckingham-street, Strand, W.C. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET RACES.--TUESDAY. SELLING HANDICAP. • Satinstoe petty Fal-lal Six ran. MAIDEN PLATE. Gauntlet Draco Trident Fifteen ran. CLEARWELL STAKES. Hannah Marquis of Steyne Blenheim... Nine ran. ROYAL STAKES. Roderick Dhu Goldsborough Pibroch Three ran. CESAREWITC H. Cardinal York Not Out Far Away Thirty-five ran. TOWN PLATE. Gaston Queen of the Valley Fervacques Four rau. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Void. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Moorlands Belphegor Amara... ... .. ......... - Thirteen ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 5 SOVS. ~.... 3 ~... 1 *Chimborazo Tiny filly .............. .................................... ...... 2 Alice Lisle 3 Five ran. MIDNIGHT BETTING. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Uto 1 agst Not Out (taken and offered) 1000 to 70 agst Queen of Hearts (taken) 15 to 1 agst Frivolity (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Barford (taken) 50 to 1 agetAdonis (taken) An exhibition is to be held in the French Gallery with a view to assist the French peasantry. The great French master Gerome is at present in London, and has promised his aid, and doubtless many distinguished French artists will follow his example. Meanwhile, English artists, , and possessors of works of art are also solicited to help. BISHOP Goss ON THE ITALIAN QUESTION.-- Bishop Goss, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, at a confirmation service at Buxton, near Chorley, referred to the entry of the Italian troops into Rome. He said it mattered little to the Christian Church whether the Pope was head of a Roman State or not. The Italians were not winning that which they had lost, for Rome never be longed to Italy. Any one would have the same right to invade the cottage garden of any poor woniau as Italy had to take Rome. What the Italians had done was quite contrary to the law of nations. The question of the tem poral power of the Pope was quite diflerent from his jurisdiction over the Church of God. Though the Pope was deprived of Rome and shut up in the Leonine city, his spiritual power remained unbroken, and could not be affected by the legions of the King of Italy. TH E FIRST FEMALE STUDENT- AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY. —The following interesting anecdote occurs in a paper on " Female Art Education," contributed by Mr. Gordy Jeaffreson to the October number of Art:— " The one female student, who thus asserted the right of her sex to instruction at the Academy, was Miss Herford, and the circumstances under which she gained admission to a school, from which usage had excluded woman kind for more than ninety years, constitute one of the drollest episodes in the story of female art in England. With a view no less to the estab lishment of one of the social rights of her country women than to her own advancement in study, Miss Herford wrote to the authorities of the Academy, re questing: that they would supply her with one of their printed forms of application for permission to enter their college as a probationer-student. On .the face of this written iequest there was nothing remarkable. The writer's signature did not declare her sex; nor did her handwriting betray her gender. In the ordinary way of business the official who received the letter remitted the usual printed form, which in due course was returned to him properly filled in by the applicant, who again took care to sign only the initial letter of her Christian name. Nothing in the application rousing suspicion, the authorities formally accepted the a,ppli ‘ cant as a probationer-student ; whereupon Miss Her ford presented herself in Trafalgar-square, and to the amazement of porters, attendants, teachers, and con servative academicians, proclaimed herself a woman. Like lightninc , the news of this startling achievement ran the round of the studios. At St. John's Wood and Kensington consternation or laughter prevailed in every artistic set. By artifice a woman had carried the strong hold of art." SHOCKING OCCI MIENCE.—A. melancholy occur rence took place at Ipswich, by which a young woman was instantly shot. Eliza Spurgeon, about 20 years of age, was at the house of Walter Chambers (the two being engaged), in St. Helen's, Ipswich. The family had just done dinner, when Chambers, who is a member of the Ipswich Rifle Corps, took up his rifle to do something to it. The young woman Spurgeon asked him how he fired it, and he proceeded to shew her. Unfortunately, the rifle, which was loaded, went off. The bullet hit the young woman behind the left ear, carrying away part of her head. Chambers immediately ran for medical aid, but the aid of the surd eons was of no avail. • I DR. CUMMING ON 64 TIIE WAR." Dr, Cumming delivered a lecture in Gartsherrie Church on the subject of "Prophecy and the Continental War." In a few remarks regarding the book of Revelation, he referred to the blessing promised to those who should read and understand that book. The rev. Dr. wished his hearers distinctly to understand that he did not predict ; but merely unravelled the prophecies of Sacred Writ. He held that the Apocalyptic writings gave a history of the world from the date of their produc tion till the end of the present dispensation, and it is but reasonable that we should expect to find some part of them being fulfilled in our own time. The rev, gentleman, after pointing out various cotemporary fulfillments of pro phecy, went on to shew that the Beast, or, more correctly the " Wild Beast " of the Apocalypse, repre:ented the great Papal apostacy. Referring to the result of the ple biscite in Italy, he said that though seemingly the POPe had received a check there, he was receiving many new followers in this country. After showing the inter pretation of the plagues that came from the mouth of the Beast, he gave his elucidation of the prophecy of the pouring out of the seventh vial on the earth. He said that the prophecy pointed to a great battle or series of battles • and on the breaking out of the celebrated Crimean War, he Said he fixed in his own mind that this was the commencement of the great Armageddon. No one can well see the end of this present struggle —it is the latest, but not the last, of the great series. Another point in the prophecy is the occurrence of earthquakes ' • and the rev. gentleman remarked that the year 1868 has been called by learned men the year of earthquakes. Earthquakes or convulsions in the moral world, also included in the meaning cf the prophecy, are a characteristic also of the present time, when nearly every nation on the globe seems to be in a state of incipient revolution. Some twenty years ago, the Doctor said, he held that the end of the prophetic period would be in 1868, and he pointed out at that time many changes which might be expected to take place. These had been in part fulfilled ; but there were other judgments still to fall upon the Beast. One of these had come by the declaration of war ; the withdrawal of the French troops from Rome • and the handing over of the Pope to the care.of Victor 'Emanuel, an excommuni cated king. Dr. Cumming thereafter traced the events of the present campaign from the declaration of war on the very day that the Pope pronounced himself infallible through the series of battles that have taken place, each one a Prussian victory, ending in the overthrow of a great Roman Catholic nation by a Protestant Power, and the permanent crippling of the Papacy. The lecturer concluded by drawing attention to the words of the prophecy, that in "the latter days there should be changes in the sun and the moon and the stars ;" and, in support of this, pointing to the present time, he quoted the opinions of eminent scientific men regarding present changes in the structure of the heavenly bodies. CAPTAIN OSBORN AND THE CAPTAIN. In a letter to the Times Captain Sherard Osborn says it rests with the friends of Captains Colts and Burgoyne to ask the followin g questiolis :—First,—By whose order was it that the Captain was inclined in Portsmouth Harbour early last August, for the purpose of ascertain ing the position of her centre of gravity and consequent stability; and what was the date of that order? Secondl3r,—Whether these calculations ought to have occupied sixteen days for an expert to work out? An eminent shipbuilder whom Captain Coles was in the habit of occasionally consulting, Captain Osborn says, told him that the necessary formula should not have required more than eight hours' hard work. Thirdly,—To whom was the report on the results of the experiments of the 6th of August communicated ? Did the Board of Admiralty ever receive them ; if so, on what date? Captain Osborn has reason to believe that the experiments were ordered, very wisely, by the Board of Admiralty. With whom, then, he asks, lies the blame of the report and necessary diagrams of the defective stability of her Majesty's ship Captain not having been brought to _ the knowledge of the admirals in the fleet of which she formed a part, or to that of the gallant officer commanding her? On these points, Captain Osborn maintains, the whole question turns of whether the blame of her loss lies with those on board the Captain or with the Controller's Department of the Admi ralty, who now, like other prophets, are so wise after the event. Captain Burgoyne, however, Captain Osborn adds, though blessed with great nerve and calmness, was never foolhardy, and with such a high sense of responsibility towards those under his command and care, much as lie would have striven to satisfy Captain Coles of his ship's qualities having been fairly developed, he would have been the last man in the navy to treat with indifference any official and unbiassed intimation, had it been given him, of the sad lack of stability of the Captain after, she had passed a certain point of inclination under sail. LAW AND POLICE. ROBBERY AT ST. JAMES'S HALL.-Mr. Edward Theo bald, described as a clerk, was brought before Mr. Tyr whitt, at .the Marlborough Police-court, by Detective Beechey, of the C division, charged with stealing a meerschaum pipe and cigar tube of the value of .£6, the property of Mr. John Bennett, proprietor of the billlard room, St. James's Hall. Mr. Bennett said prisoner was one of his markers. He left on Saturday week for Leeds, and after he was gone a meerschaum pipe and cigar tube, his property, were missed. Detective Beechey said that on taking the prisoner into custody at Leeds, he said he had exchanged the articles at the shop of Mr. Davies, tailor, in Tichborne-street, but that he intended to return the pipe on the following Monday. In reply to the prisoner, the officer said the prisoner used the word " exchanged." Mr. John Davies, tailor, of Tichborne street said he received the pipe of the prisoner as security for a pair of trousers and a vest, the prisoner paying him a half sovereign and telling him not to part with the pipe. Beechey said he was informed the prisoner had been in custody at Leeds for embezzlement. Committed for AN UNPROFITABLE CUSTOMER.—Jacob kedland, aged 36 years, a bald headed, well dressed, studious looking man, was charged at the Thames Police-court, with wilfully breaking a pane of glass in the King's Arms public-house, in Brook-street, Ratcliff. Mr. Palmer, the landlord, said the prisoner came there and made a great disturbance, and when he attempted to eject him he smashed a large pane of Vate glass, valued at 31s. The prisoner ran away, and when pursued threw himself on the ground. This was repeated several times, and the prisoner ultimately escaped. A policeman captured him opposite Shadwell Church the same night. Mr. Paget asked the prisoner his profession. The prisoner : A sailor. Mr. Paget : But something more than a common sailor on hoard ship ? The prisoner : No, a common sailor. The tailor has rigged me out with a new rig, and has made me look like a parson. Mr. Paget : You must pay a fine of is., and 315., the value of the pane of glass, or go to prison for 14 days. DARING ROBBERY OE PAINTINGS.— At Bow-street, a militiaman, named Johnson, was charged with the fol lowing daring robbery. The prisoner's wife had been left in possession of a house belongin ,, to a gentleman, named Billing, of Euston-road, while he and his family matte a temporary sojourn at Brighton. During their absence the woman and her husband had lived in the house, and it was alleged that they had conjointly committed the robbery and fled. The door of the house was found open one night by the police, and on their entering they discovered that the various rooms had been ran sacked. The bedding was tied up in bundles in the hall ; the chairs had been piled up as if in readiness for removal ; the drawers had been broken open and were empty ; in fact, the whole place was in a state of confusion. Com munication was made to Mr. Billing, who returned and found that oil paintings, drawings, and other things had been taken away, to the value of nearly £3OO. The pri soner was remanded, in order to afford-the police an op portunity of searching for the woman. BRUTAL CONDUCT TO A DOG.—Charles Redway, aged nineteen, a butcher, was charged at the Clerkenwell Police-court with wanton cruelty to a dog. The defen dant followed the dog with a knife in his hand, and when he got within two or three feet of the animal he threw a knife at it, and struck it on the left side. The dog ran about 15 yards, when it dropped dead. The dog was of the Mount St. Bernard breed, and was worth £4O. The defendant said he was sorry that the dog was killed, but he had no intention of injuring it. Mr. Cooke said the defendant must take the consequences of his act, and ordered him to pay a fine of 20s. The French orientalist, Garcia de Tassy, of the Institute do France, who has so many friends in England and India, is now at Caen (('alvados), in Normandy, waiting the end of the besieging of Paris. GREAT SEIZURE OF WINES AND SPIRITS.—The Sunderland police made unexpected visits to a number of houses of ill-fame, where they had reason to believe a large trade was done in the sale of wines, spirits, &c., without being duly licensed by the excise. Armed by war rants obtained previously from the Mayor, and arranged into parties who were to act simultaneously, so that warning could not be carried from one place to another, they entered the places early in the evening, and were rewarded by the discovery of great quantities of excellent liquors. The houses were situate principally in Bishop' wearmouth, and in four of them were the most valuable seizures made. In one house wines and spirits, worth £6O or £7O, were pounced on, and the police station, as the different parties arrived with cases of champagne, stores of port and sherry, brandy, whisky, rum, gin, and bottled ale and bitter beer, presented a curious appearance In one house alone ten unopened cases of champagne were seized, and in another there were found four rooms fitted up with casks, jars, and all the appliances of a public bar in which a large trade was carried on. The seizures were made under the Wine and Becrhouses Act, 1869, which authorises the police to make such visits, seize the liquors and sell them, but makes no provision for inflicting pen alties on the dealers. MR. BAINES, M.P., ON TEMPERANCE. In a speech at the annual meeting of the Leeds Band of Hope, Mr. Baines, Vii. P., after narrating some facts which he learnt while on a visit in the neighbourhood of Tenby, chewing how disastrous had been the effect of drink On some families in that district, spoke of the Earl of Caw dor's estate in the same locality, where public houses ware prohibited, and he rode for nine miles without seeing a public house. If the people on that estate could do without intoxicating drinks, why could not the inhabitants of other districts do without them ? If the people at Saltaire, again, could do without public houses, why should malicious and avaricious people go and crowd public houses all round about them, and why should the magistrates have granted a spirit license on the very edge of the Saltaire property, where it might do the greatest amount of mischief ? This seemed to him to be directly wrong, and he thought that the magistrates had much to answer for in this case. He had heard with great grief that, in spite of remonstrances, the magistrates had granted a spirit license on the very borders of that town, which was so happy. From his own experience he was able to say that to abstain from drinking liquors was no privation, or loss whatever, and it was his confident belief that he had had more enjoyment for his palate, taste, and stomach than if he had taken them, while he was pretty nearly as active as any man of his years. Had he taken them, he was confident he would have had worse health. Why should people therefore go on taking them? They all knew that the drinking habits were the source of almost all the disease, almost all the poverty, almost all the insanity, almost all the suicides, almost all the crimes in the country. Everything that was black— he had almost said black and bloody—was caused by this sad abuse of drink --and there was more harm done in England by brandy than there was in China by opium. When introduced into islands where Christian missionaries were labouring, spiritous liquors had sometimes destroyed and sweptaway all the good that had been done. In Madagascar the effects had ben most lareentable, and so horrible had been . the guilt of some so-called Christians living in the neighbourhood of the Red Indians, that they had introduced by design, what was everywhere called fire-water, in order that the poor Indians might perish off the face of the earth and they might possess themselves of their lauds. Indeed, the whole history of drink was a history of horrors. Re ferring to the remarks made by a previous speaker, Mr. Baines expressed his confident belief that the great source of the 'want of education that there now is in the country was not the want of schools, not the want of persons who would gladly assist the poor to obtain schooling for their children ; but it was the degraded state of the parents, and that degradation was due almost entirely to drink. He believed that if they erected ever so perfect educa tional machinery, if it should not be accompanied by efforts on behalf of temperance, they. would be almost as badly off as they were at present. He had always said that the tendency of education, of mechanics' institutions, and other agencies of . that character, was in favour of temperance ; but if there should still continue the existing habits of intemperance, as there might, even in connection with knowledge—for some of the brightest geniuses he could name, some of the first poets, princes, philoso phers, statesmen, had perished from the effects of drink— if there should still be any connection between increased schooling and intemperance, then he believed we should do comparatively little to check that pauperism which seemed to be flowing in upon us in connection with the degradation of our fellowmen. MR. LEATHAM, M.P. ON SECONDARY EDUCATION. When presiding at the inaugural meeting of the Wake field Mechanics' Institution, Mr. Leatham, M.P., made some remarks on secondary education: He said that the measure passed last session of Parliament did not take away the functions of mechanics' institutions, but doubled the importance of them. The functions hence forth of mechonics' institutes would be to take up the child where the State left him, and to give him the true education, the real training of the mind, to which everything which he had learned at the elementary school could only be introductory and preliminary. He heard some people speak as though the Education Act was to give us national education. It could do nothing of the kind. If it was attended with a very large measure of success, all it could do was to make national education possible, to smooth the way for it, to remove some of the rudest and coarsest obstacles in the path—unless, indeed, the notion of national education was confined to the smattering of knowledge to be obtained at State schools. In some instances a boy would forget his little bit of "cram," and become a more stupid being than even the boy who had not passed through the mill at all. But if they could catch the boy while his intellect was still awake—while his mind was still supple from his recent training, they might hope to carry forward his education so as to become really useful to his mind. It was the secondary system of education everywhere supplementing the elementary system, developing and retaining its results, which had made Prussia what she was, and we might almost as well expect to reap a crop from our fields by simply ploughing them and without sowing and weeding them as expect a great harvest of national renown from an education which was to terminate before our population was in its teens. If, then, we were to have secondary education, and if the mechanics' institute was to be regarded as the true secondary school, it must receivo a development commensurate with its new aim, and there must be more than lectures upon such subjects as half hours with fashionable poets, hints about history, glimpses of truth, glimmerings of science, and gleanings of literature. The Mechanics' Institute must become a school in the highest sense, just as the Liver pool Institute or the Huddersfield Institute was a school. The whole lecture system must be made subordinate to the class system, just as people betook themselves to cakes and apples after dinner. The full meal must precede the dessert. Perhaps hey would allow him to say that they must remodel their whole lecture system, for they must never lose sight of the fundamental principle that mechanics' institutes were for mechanics. How many persons in actual receipt of weekly wages were to be found in their lecture rooms ? A few perhaps sitting near the door or standing in a corner, coming in late and going out early, as if they thought themselves instructors. There was no doubt of the fact that the Middle-class bad almost everywhere displaced the artisan class in the lecture rooms. The cause of this was very obvious. When mechanics' institutes were'first founded they were regarded by many persons as a dangerous innovation. There were a. great many sensible people in those days whose minds were shocked by the idea cf men in IT ceipt of weekly wages being taught anything but I their trade and their Catechism, and to order themselves lowly and reverently to their betters. In order to disarm opposition and concilitate these very sensible people, they wanted to strike out from their programme all the great subjects of human interest, and having divested themselves of everything about which people could quarrel, they had been wondering from that day to this why they had never become popular. But when this amicable arrangement was first made, perhaps it did not strike many of them in what a state of life God was about to please to call working men, or how much of the safety and honour and dignity of this great country He was about to place in the keeping of such men. If we had known this from the beginning, he could not but believe that there would haN; beeri less jealousy about teaching a working man what it was essential for him, as a citizen, to know, and affecting through him the government of the vast empire of which he had acquired so important a share. The career of living statesmen, the domestic and political history of the last thirty years, the story of all our great institutions, and of those of other countries, the study of the laws which affected property, and treated of the incidents of taxation, were all embraced in what was known as "the education problem"—a problem which had only been half solved as yet. All these, and many kindred subjects, ought to be discussed,. and must be discussed, not only in their news rooms, but in their class rooms and s lecture rooms as well, if they were to aspire to that posi tion as instructors of the enfranchised artisan to which they were entitled, and to which he thoroughly believed their strength and ambition were equal. A. MUNICIPAL SCANDAL.—A remarkable case of alleged perjury was investigated by the Shrewsbury magistrates. The accused was Mr. Thomas Edwards, auctioneer, and a member of the town council of that borough. The prosecution arose out of a county court case, in which Mr. Isaac Simon, a commercial traveller, sued Mr. Edwards for £lO 10s., expenses put to in seeing various members of Parliament, and in other services, with the view to induce the Lord Chancellor to create a new batch of magistrates for Shrewsbury, of which batch Mr. Edwards was to be one. Mr. Edwards resisted the claim, and in his evidence be fore the county court judge he swore that the proposed list of new magistrates was made out by Mr. Simon, who wished to obtain for his nephew the of fi ce of magistrates' clerk for the borough, which it seems to have been as sumed—though, as the result has shewn, on very insuf ficient tethengrounds—wouldholdveer7 Mr.sh ortHlyabwefeoyme Edwards. yacan tby A t i h r e death of h . Edwards also swore that he did not know his name was on the list, and that he was much sun, prised when he found that such was the case. Thi s was the perjury charged ; and in support of the prosecution it was held that it had a material in fluence on the issue of the county court case, since the judge held that the alleged combination be tween Messrs. Simon and Edwards was contrary to the policy of law, and he ga ve j u d gment f or defendant. Evidence was given to shew that Mr. Edwards did depose to the statements imputed to him ; but for the defence it was urged that ev en if h e did d o so t h ey were not material to the issue of the action before the county court, and that, theref ore , i n l aw , no per j ury h a d b een ozminutted. Vario us cases were c it e d i n support o f t hi s view, and the bench, after a short consultation, said the evidence, they considered, was not sufficient for a com mittal, and the case would be dismissed—a decision which was received with some applause in court.