The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-22 00:00:00

R OYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Proprietor, Mr. J. S. SWEASEY. The Press have unanimously praised and acknowledged the entertainment provided at the above Hall for the "Whitson holidays to be the best in London. The Brothers Voltaire, the Champion Gymnasts, in their surprising performances, particularly their aerial leaps, extending the whole length of the Hall (nearly 100 feet), engaged to appear solely at this establishment ; Mr. H. Collard (Le Petit Sims Reeves), the miniature man, the smallest and sweetest tenor singer in the world, can be heard at this hall only ; Messrs. St. Albyn, P. Corri, and Miss Barrie have made an immense hit with their operatic selections ; Miss Georgina Smith son has returned to meet with fresh admirers ; Mr. Baldwin has supplemented the brilliant encomiums he has already received from the provincial press ; Miss Louie Sherring ton is received nightly with uproarious applause ; Mr. J. H. Milburn is an old favourite ; the Great Vance is not to be, heard elsewhere, excepting at his concerts : Mr. J. H. Ryley, and Madame Barnam, as comic duettists, have met with decided success; the acknowledged largest and best band in London. Bal cony, 6(1.; stalls, ls.; private boxes, 10s. ad. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE, _ Wych-street, Strand. _ Lessee end Manager, Mr W. H. LISTON. LAST FOUR NIGHTS of Miss BATEMAN as MARY WARNER, assisted by Messrs. G. Belmore,W. H. Vernon. Blake ley, Elliott. David Fisher; Mrs. Poynter and Mrs. W.ll. List m. In reply to numerous applications at the Box Office, and to prevent disappointment to parties desirous of securing seats several weeks in advance, Mr. W. H. Ligrox feels compelled to announce with regret that, in consequence of previous arran2e ments. the hr !liant engagement o th's distinguish( d Artiste must POSITIVELY TERMINATE on SATURDAY, JUNE 25. Commencing with MUSIC BATH CHARMS. Concluding with THE 'VARSITY BOAT RACE. Box Office open from 10 till 5. LYCEUM THEATRE (under the management of Messrs. Mansell). THIS EVENING, at 7.30, HIS OWN RIVAL Mr. F. Jharles and Miss L. Morgan. At 8, BREAKING THE SPELL. After which, at 8.30, LITTLE FAUST: Mr. T. Maclagan, M. Marius, Mr. Aynsley Cook, Mr. Odell, and Mr. Wilmot; Mdlle. Debreux, Mesdames Lennox G cy, Lawson, Lee, and Emily Soldone. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Fwanborough. THIS ENENING, at 7 o'clock, LOVING HEARTS. Messrs Edward Tetry and Turner; Mesdames Bufton at,d,Santley. Followed by KENILWORTH. Messrs David James, Ring, Turner, and Fenton; Mesdames Sant'ey, A nstiss, Goodall, Met calfe, and Moore. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messrs H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorn. THIS EVENING, at 7 30 CUPBOARD LOVE, by F. Hay. After which, at 8, a new and original Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO itOSES. To conclude with the new and successful Burlesque. DON CARLOS; or, The Infante in Atms Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, H. Irving, G. Honey, W. H. Stephens, ar.d T. Thorne; Mesdames Nelly Power, Amy Faw silt, T. Lavis, and A. Newton. Doors open at Seven. Commence at 7.30. THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at Mr. BVAUMONT'S. " The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand, MOSES and SON, CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. N EW OXFORD - STREET, CORNER of HART-STRENT. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EIISTON-ROAD. B RADFORD, YORKSHIRE. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING. Frock Dress Oxford Camb. Coats. Coats. Coats. Coats. 255. 255. 17s. 18s. 80s. 30s. 21s. 225. 355. 255. 28s. 28s. 425. 425. 80s. 82s. 50s. 50s. Us. 86s. 638. 60s. 42.5. 425. Also at Also at Also at Also at other prices. other prices. other prices other prices VI MOSES and SON beg to remind the public .1:4 • that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its quality, and they venture to affirm that every article sold by them is considerably cheaper than what can be obtained at any other ho ise in England. 'GI MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of 124 . GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED : Summer 1 Tourist Summer Dress Suits. Suits. Trousers. Trousers. 245. 245. 10s. 6d. 15s. 28s. 28s. 12s. 6d. 16s. 6d. 365. 365. 14s. 18s. 40s. 425. 15s. 6d. 21s. 455. 48s. 17s. 6d. 245. 555. 525. 20s. 265. Also at Also at Also at Also at other prices. other prices. other prices. other prices ORDERS by post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless flt. MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST ef s BOYS' CLOTHING : Knickerbocker Suits. 9s. 6d. 13s. 6d, les. ed. Eton Brighton I Harrow I Suits. Suits. Suits. 15s. 1 18s. I 18s. 19s. I 235. I 235. 265. I 265. 325. 1 325. 365. I 365. Also at other prices. Also at Also at I Also at other prices. other prices. other prices. V 4 MOSES and SON supply every description of clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes : also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any article exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ness is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON : LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH, BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. NOTICE. -THE METROPOLITAN PUBLIC CARRIAGE and REPOSITORY COMPANY (Limited). TENDERS are invited by the Directors for supplying every de scription of VEHICLE and HARNESS, suitable to the require ments of the Company. Sealed applications to be made to the Managing Director, C. C .JAVAL, Esq By order of the Board, W. H. SCUDAMORE WARD, Secretary, 17 and 18, Palmerston Buildings, Old Broad-street, London, E.C., 21st June, 1870. CHRISTIE'S "PERISCOPIC" SPECTACLES, as recommended , by Wollaston, giving more light, a wider field, and less strain upon the eyes.—GEORGE CHRISTIE, Manufacturer of the latest improvements in spectacles, reading lenses, &c., 25, Hanway-street, Oxford-street, W. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNE LL and CO. have at length, with the aid of ono of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, Is each; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, includ nelliPull Wharf, Angel-passage, Pa, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.C. TOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY ey TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance Lost the breath. Price is. Gd Bed Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames reet, London. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, at 7, MARRIED LIFE; Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr How 4.. Mr Kendal, Mr Rogers, Mrs Chip pendale, Mrs Frank Matthews, Mrs E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hiil, Mrs Laws. After which, at 8.30. "HOME." Mr Sothern, Mr Chippendale, Mr Compton, Mr huckstone, jun., Miss Ada Cavendith, Miss Fanny Gwynne, and Miss Caroline Hill. Concluding with FAMILY JAR 3. Mr Compton. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING JUNE 22, 1870. OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-gardeu.—Le Nuzzo di Figaro, 8.30 p.m. LIAYMARICHT—At Seven, Married Life. Home. Family Jars. A DELPUT—At Seven, The Robust Invalid. Free Labour. ParNcio OF WALES'S—At 7.30. Quito by Accident. M.P. Dearest ➢iamma. LYCEUM—At 7.30, His Own Rival, Breaking the Spell. At 8.80, Little Faust. OLYMPIC -At Seven, Music hath Charms. At 8, Mary Warner. The 'Varsity Boat Race. GAIETY—At Seven, First Night. The Princess of Trebizonde. QUEEN'S—At Seven, &ty Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe and Crown. VAUDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlon.. ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Paul Pry. La Bello Sauvage WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH B , P( K. Egyptian Hall, Pie cadilly, every Evening (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn lugs at 3. Admission Is, 25, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZO LOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily except Sun days). Admission, ls. ; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 3.0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, is.; extra 6d. c e ("Ile 4 t ijg etaiL MORNING EDITION. or another to guarantee that their rolling stock will under no circumstances whatever give way. NOr does it follow that 'the breaking of the aide should necessarily involve the transference of the whole train to the wrong line. Even the old • moral against excursion • trains is hardly to be enforced in this case, for the carriages which were dragged into the mass of goods waggons might have been filled themselves with goods or with ordi nary passengers. The tact that the train was of an irregular character seems to have been in no way the cause of the calamity. Nevertheless it is true that an ac cident to these excursion trains is in vari ably,fro m their crowded-state, prothictive of the most fatal results; they are intruders upon the line ; they hamper and endanger the ordinary traffic; and undoubtedly the railway policy of the future will be wisely directed to getting rid of them altogether, and substituting lower fares. Tun House of Commons had the opportunity of I hearing during the early portion of Monday night's sitting two remarkable speeches. They were alike in earnestness and eloquence, but they were as much unlike in principle as the speakers were unlike in their antecedents. There is no abler representative of nonconformity in the House than Mr. HENRY RICHARD ; there is no more thorough representative of the great bulk of English churchmen than Mr. GATHORNE HARDY. The two have had widely different careers. The first was brought up as a Dissenting Minister, and followed that vocation until a very recent date, when in con sequence of his gift of speech and undeniable ability in other ways, he was chosen by the populous con stituency of Merthyr Tydfil, in preference to the HOME SECRETARY. The second is and has long been a country gentleman. Representing at first a little agricultural borough, he has for the last five years been the member for the most distinguished constituency in the world, and during that time has advanced with rapid steps to the foremost rank in Parliament, and is now in fact, though not as yet in name, the leader of the Conservative party in the Lower House. But on Monday night the position ordinarily taken by the two parties was re versed. Mr. RICHARD, who, as a Nonconformist,. should have been unhesitatingly in favour of religious liberty, delivered a long argument against it. Mr. HARDY, who belongs to a party not con spicuous for its attachment to that . prin ciple, made an. appeal on behalf of it so powerful that, henceforth, he must rank among the very foremost orators of the day. Nor did Mr. RICHARD'S speech want eloquence, and, granting his premisses, a considerable amount of logical force. But it was vitiated. throughout by one fallacy, the assumption that in aiding schools where religion is • taught, the State teaches religion. This is the error held by many Dissenters, and yet if there is any truth in it at all, the State must not give any aid to education whatsoever, because in doing so it ' indirectly teaches religion. A. child cannot read a catechism or the Bible before it is taught to read, and therefore in giving money to enable the child to be taught reading, the State is really aiding the teaching of the Scriptures, or, it may be. the-catechism of Pope Pius. It cannot be too clearly understood that under the new system—the system of a time table conscience clause, and undenomina tional inspection, the State will not teach religion, or be responsible for it in any way. Religion may be taught, but the Government grant will`be given irrespectively of the religion, and all that the state does is to see that no child shall be deprived of ' education on account of religious differences. Beyond this it dares not go—it cannot go. It is satisfactory to find that Mr. RICHARD does not get all the support in this matter which he might have expected. With some hardihood he quoted the opinions of Mr- BAINES against denominational education, and, of course, drew down upon him the retort that Mr. BAINEs had recanted those opinions. Mr. SAMUEL MORLEY is another leading Nonconformist who has no sym pathy with the new alliance between Dissent and Secularism. He hit the right mark when he ex pressed his extreme dislike of any interference with the freedom to teach religion. The idea of forcibly driving forth religion from the fifteen thousand schools which religion had mainly established was repugnant to him. It was well to hear those words coming from the Liberal benches. Of late it has seemed as if the advocacy of the first principles of civil and religious liberty rested with the Conserva tive party. It is, perhaps, not difficult to understand why this should be. We forbear to say that we may not increase the evil. But one thing is clear, that if private antipathies or class jealousies are allowed to obstruct the progress of the Education Bill this year the scandal will be deplorable, and the responsibility of those who cause it will be grave indeed. It is satisfactory to find that the Governmenthave decided upon two points: they will not undertake the trouble of inventing a religion that shall please everybody and displease no one, and they will not not consent to further changes in their bill. The first task would be like that of weaving ropes of sand. If the League chooses to object, it can make out everything to be sectarian teaching. If the League holds its peace there is no difficulty in the matter. Theoretically the religious difficulty is insurmountable, for the New Testament is a denominational formula, to the Sew and the whole bible is a denominational formula to the infidel. Theoretically the schoolmaster cannot even refer to our LORD'S history without inculcating dogma, because, exclude creeds and catechisms as carefully as we may, we must come at last to the fundamental question is CHRIST GOD or only man ? Practically the religious difficulty does not exist. They say this who have the best reason for knowing what they say, the teachers and the managers of the schools who have been labouring for a generation, for scores of years before the Birmingham League, in the plentitude of its wealth, and in its eagerness for notoriety, began to agitate for secular education. Finding that the nation is all against them, the League has changed the demand to " unsectarian " education, knowing well that though they have changed the word in order to catch the Nonconformists, they mean the same thing, and that thing is what they will not get, the veto of the State upon all pligiou* teaching in schools aided by the State. In the House of Lords the Married Women's Property Bill, after being read a third time, was re ferred to a Select Committee. In the House of Commons Mr. Miall resumed the debate on the Education Bill. He denounced the ac tion of the Government as moral coercion. Mr. Vernon Harcourt strenuously opposed it. At seven o'clock the debate was adjourned on the motion of Mr. Dixon. Mr. Somerset Beaumont asked leave to bring in a bill to relieve Bishops from attendance in Parliament. Mr. Gladstone opposed the motion, which, on a division, was lost by a majo rity of 158 to 102. TOPICS OF THE D.Y. of certain of the undergraduates it was thougth would weigh heavily upon the spirits of those in no way implicated in it themselves. Happily, however, the counteracting influence of Lord Salisbury's inauguration as Chancellor, cleared away any fear upon the matter, and the whole day passed off with what Mrs. Brown (as if it were a crab she were talk ing of) would call " a claw, as the sayin' is," or with what Mr. Braham, the vacAist, used to speak of as " entuzimuzzy." This year, not the man in the white hat but the man in the white coat, was the object of the undergraduates' abhorence. " Yah ! Turn him out ! Take it off! Go out, sir ! Go away ! Will some one kindly lead that man out ? White coat, yah! Will you go out, sir ? Now's your chanee, sir ! They're making way for you ! You must go out, you know ! " and so forth, indi cated the execration with which the arch offender was regarded. Every insti ument ahnost in the or-, chestra was imitated noisily. Three groans were given to Blackwood— derision to Beaks— the heartiest applause to Ruskin—hisses to . the Prince .of Wales, and the loudest cheers to the Princess. Then came the enrollment of the scarlet-gowned D.C.L.'s, among whom were especially noticeable the Duke of Argyll, General Peel, Sir Edwin Landseer, Sir William Armstrong, Sir Francis Grant, and Mr. Matthew Arnold. Altogether the day passed off gloriously—Oxford sustaining its reputation to the full. " BLACK WOOD " AND THE 44 STANDARD." There must be something wrong in the inner con stitution of the Tory party when such savage antagonism is displayed between the leading Tory magazine and the leading Tory newspaper. The war between the Standard and Blackwood is scarcely kept within the limits of decency. It all arose out of the famous review of " Lothair " in Black wood. This criticism excited the vehement wrath of the journal. The magazine, in its note just pub lished, makes a bitter retort, sneering at the Standard's bad English. The Standard replies that the note is obviously a Yaere trade advertisement — resorted to with a view of impressing upon the public that Blackwood's Mayazine, by reason of its brilliant review of Mr. Disraelfs book, has attained to the nwonted honour of a second edition—and is marked with all the coarseness, flippancy, and scur rility of the original article. There cannot be the slightest doubt that the note and the article are pre cisely in the same spirit, and that therefore the at tack upon Mr. Disraeli must have.been deliberately planned. The Standard is careful to shew that the party generally has no sympathy with such an assault in a political sense :—" If it is possible to suppose that there are any good ConservatiVes who are weary of Mr. Disraeli as a leader we are certain there are none so base as to conceive the id3a of getting rid' of him by traducing his character and deriding his talents. What Mr. Disraeli is, he was be fore lie led the Conservative party. His defects, his weaknesses, his peculiarities of genius and of temperament, were known before he wrote Lothair.' Nothing in that book can be said to have rendered him unworthy of the confidence of the party. Whatever be his literary merits, it is a work which does not lower but rather heighten Mr. Disraeli's political reputation. Nor is there any justification whatever, either literary or political, for the foul blow which has been dealt at the author by those who, only a short time ago, when Mr. Disraeli was at the height of power, were impressed with a profound admiration of his character." against society on the part of the press cannot be restrained by law." UNORD AINED MINISTERS. In formally admitting a layman to the office of "reader," the Bishop of Peterborough has set a rare example. It sometimes happens that laymen take part in the ceremonies of the Church. Occa sionally the lessons are read by a clergyman's unordained son, and sometimes any other leading member of the congregation may render that amount of assistance. But by this formal act Dr. Magee gives a definite sanction to a practice which has never gained much acceptance. What was formerly done on the clergyman's own responsibility may now be done under the recognition of the head of the see. Of course, the spread of such a precedent will materially depend upon the views of the bishops and their clergy. Where the views as to the sacerdotal character of the clergy are high, it is not likely that lay assistance of this kind will be much sought after, but where more moderate opinions prevail the admis sion of the laity may become more general. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1870. During several years past the terrible conviction has been growing upon us that the crime of infan ticide here in England, but more particularly here in London, has been increasing and multiplying. Nearly ten years have elapsed since the late mem ber for Finsbury, Mr. DUNCOMBE, as about the last act of his political career, moved for certain sta tistics, which were therefore, in due course of time, produced and laid upon the table of the House of Commons, showing the prevalence between 1850 and 1860 of this same heinous atrocity of infanti cide. In one sense, it is surely the cruelest and the most dastardly of all Murders— that is when one takes into account the utter helplessness and the touching dependency of the tender victims sacrificed. So far from this infernal crime in any way diminish in frequency, it would actually appear, from man ghastly witnesses to the contrary that have been but very recently brought to light, to have become systematized into a trade, known for some time under its significant title of Baby Farming. As if it were so many head of cattle that were being dealt with, infants have been trafficked in quite delibe rately and systematically. They have been cleared out of the way at the rate of £5 a head. Little EMILY, and FREDDY, and JOE, and WILLY have been left, for a five pound note a piece, to the tender care of Mrs. WATERS, or Mrs. OLIVER, or Mrs. HURLEY, or Mrs. WILLIS, or Mrs. BLACKBURN—for the miserable crea- tare has been known by those, and it may be other names indiscriminately. The disclosure brought to our knowledge through the agency of a sergeant of detectives within these last few days, beyond a doubt surpasses all that had been feared through our recent investigations. The public had heard with a shudder of abhorrence that here and there all about the waste places in the neighbourhood of Brixton, the dead bodies of infants had been picked up, iu old rags, in brown paper parcels, iu this place and in that place, and all of them in a more or less advanced stage of decomposition. At length, step by step, the den in which these atrocities had been perpetrated has been traced through the sagacious investigations of the detective bent on its discovery. A detestable advertisement inserted in one of the weekly newspapers, one of the foulest of the foul abominations, dubbed by a Saturday Reviewer the garbage of journalism, affords the clue by means of which we seem to have got at last to the heart of this horrible labyrinth. Then, when WATE as, otherwise OLIVER, otherwise Huar.Ev, otherwise Wthus, otherwise BLACKB URN, was at length discovered, it turned out that her house-room was littered with the dirty, neglected, emaciated forms of sickly and some of them seemingly dying infants. A narcotic drug labelled " Paregoric Elixir" was found in a bottle upon a table close by a sofa on which five of these poor little helpless mortals were huddled up together. Laudanum was frequently sent for by the baby farmer under the pretence of toothache, but presum ably for insidious administration. Lime had been procured, a lump of it had been placed for an hour in a jug of water, a dessert spoonful of which had been then put into each infant's feeding-bottle. One of the dead infants picked up the other day was wrapped in a piece of brown paper o❑ which was found written the name of Mrs. WATERS. And it is Mrs. WATERS, who is now in custody charged with cruelty in carrying out her trade of Baby Farming, and more than that under dire suspicion of the crime of infanticide. The question as to this woman's guilt or innocence, it is earnestly to be hoped, will be, as rapidly as possible and as clearly as possible, de monstrated. There is all the more reasonable hope that it will be so, seeing that the investigation of the case has been now entrusted to the watchful care of the solicitor to the Treasury. TEE round of time has brought us the periodical sacrifice in the shape of a great railway accident. 411 our precautions fail—it is scarcely to be hoped that they ever will succeed—in securing absolute immunity. Human care is fallible ; mechanical contrivances are liable to flaws. Get as perfect an organisation of men as you will, and some one will break down in some detail at a critical moment. Employ machinery of the most skilful construction, and some flaw will throw the whole out of gear, at an instant when tremendous interests are at stake upon the integrity of metal. There can be no question that anxious atten tion and scientific skill have contributed to diminish the liability of railway travellers to disaster. As a matter of fact, great accidents have diminished in frequency. One disaster of very serious extent, and, sometimes two, were wont to form part of every year's tale of misfortune; it is now two years since a collision similar in effects to that of yesterday took place. When an event of this kind occurs there is some consolation in noticing signs of improvement; but it is evident enough that more preventive mea sures are still open to adoption. In the accident near Newark, yesterday, figured the old performers —a goods train and an excursion train. The axle of a waggon in the former train broke, and the cars ran off the rails so violently, as to be precipitated on to the other line, blocking up the way. Immediately afterwards an excursion train came up, ran into the mass of disarranged goods waggons, and then all that remained was to collect the dead and the wounded. It is difficult to attach responsi bility to a disaster of such a remarkable origin. The waggon with the faulty axle tree belonged, not to the Great Northern, but to another company; it is impossible, however, for either one company OXFORD COMMEMORATION. Yesterday being the day in Commemoration week at Oxford, it was looked forward to as problema tical, whether the demonstration in the Shel lonian Theatre this year would be a success or a failure. A shame-faced, and remorseful recollection of a very recent and m( st flagrant act of Vandalism on the part THE DISSENTERS AND THE BILL More Nonconformist hostility to the Education Bill has been forthcoming. The Baptists and the Wesleyans have each put forth a declaration, ex pressing more or less dissatisfaction with the mea sure. In one part of England the sub-committee of the United Committees on Wesleyan Education condemned the plan of excluding voluntary schools from local rates, as well as several other provision of the bill. In another part, the com mittee of the Yorkshire Association of Baptist Churches refuse to believe that any portion of the Education Bill, even in its amended form, can be satisfactory, and they unanimously agree to pass a resolution, urging that in matters of educa tion. secular instruction alone comes within the province of the Government. THE TREATMENT OF THE FENIAN PRISONERS. Mr. Isaac Butt certainly deserves gratitude from the Fenian prisoners. Ho has addressed letters to the commissioners who are about to inquire into the treatment of the convicts, requesting that he may be allowed to be present at their sittings, and that request having been refused, he has again addressed them, stating that assistance to the prisoners cannot be effective or complete, or cannot give them the assurance of its being thoroughly sincere, unless a trusted friend of theirs is allowed to put questions on their behalf during the inquiry. Mr. Butt in this last letter admits that the commissioners have already given promise of this inquiry being conducted in au anxious and a wise manner. He is surprised, how ever, to find that in their eagerness to elicit full statements they decline to admit evidence gathered from free and confidential intercourse with the prisoners, as it would be tendered from his mouth. Mr. Butt is moreover unable to understand the principle upon which the commissioners challenge the unfortunate prisoners to be accusers, and yet leaves them alone and unbefriended when they accept the position. He intends to withdraw now from the affair. His pleading has ended, but he assures the commissioners that they will find it hard to satisfy the public mind of Ireland in the matter, unless every way is thrown open for the treatment of the convicts being revealed in its true light. IRISH FISHERIES. The River Shannon abounds in fish, principally salmon, but, owing to the want of due precaution, a large amount of money that might be obtained from the development of the fish, and the sale of them, is annually lost to the country. In November last it was ascertained that the weirs of Roosky, James town, and Knockvicar on the Shannon River were most defective, and proceedings were instituted with a view to providing fish passes at these places. From a Parliamentary paper just issued, it appears that the Irish Fishery Commis sioners have resolved to undertake these improve ments at an early period at a cost of nine hundred and odd pounds, a sum which will - have to be borne by the public. There is no doubt whatever that the fisheries of the sister island have been only to a small degree made use of as yet, and it is therefore to be hoped that the arrangements necessary for the culture of fish in Ireland's chief river will be com menced with alacrity and promptitude. The success of the Kinsale fisheries this year is a proof of all that can be gained, when willing and energetic minds undertake the work. BABY FARMING. It is really time that the conventional something was done with the system of aiding immoral trades by Means of advertisements in the public journals. It has been shown that the hideous Camberwell baby farming establishment was maintained solely through the publicity of the press. Advertisements of innocont appearance, but of whose real character very slight investigation suffices to judge, were inserted in various forms in several papers. But for this help baby farming would perish from lack 'of custom. Surely such a disgrace to the press ought not to con tinue. The Times hints at a law against these advertisements : "If the honour of proprietors can not be trusted to refuse aid to notorious villainy, it will become a grave question whether such offences LOUIS BLANC ON CHARLES DICKENS. In an article contributed to the irreconcilable Rappel, M. Louis Blanc contrasts the manner in which England and France look upon their great writers. Placing Mr. Dickens below Shakspere as a humourist, with less sensibility than the author of "Don Quixote," less depth than Richter, and les s bonhommie than Sterne, M. Blanc considers that his writings were on the whole productive of great good, and that the genial influence of his novels was effective, though the moral effects were weakened by the comic colouring given to some of the characters. There may be some difference of opinion as to M. Blanc's statement that France pays less honour to her national celebrities than England does to hers. No doubt Charles Dickens has received the sorrowing honour of the whole nation; no doubt in his lifetime Englishmen were proud of his genius and his sympathetic nature; but many instances might be given where the honour was only given when the writer was lying ,in his grave. The comparison between Dickens and Jean Paul is no comparison at all: the two men were essentially different in all their characteristics, and their writings have no point of resemblance. Again, the writings of Sterne may have more bonhomie, but assuredly no English critic would place the two names in the same page as humourists. MR, DENIS FOGARTY AND HIS WIFE. Mr. Denis Fogarty, of Greenwich, formerly of Ireland, by -been ordered to pay 3s. a week towards the suppor of a wife whom he had not seen for twenty-three years. Nearly a generation ago Mrs. Denis Fogarty, dissatisfied no doubt with the fortune which bad made her the better half of Mr. Fogarty, took it into her head that she would cheat fate of its decree, and one fine morning she turned her back on the man whom she did not love. Before going, however, she accused him of high treason, and of having served in Smith O'Brien's army. Poor Mr. Fogarty was im prisoned, but one can imagine his joy when, on regaining his liberty, he found that he was to be burdened no more with his treacherous wife. Wisely he determined to leave the country which had proved so unfortunate for Lim, and many a year had well nigh obliterated his cruel wrongs, when lo ! his evil genius makes her appearance and claims him for her own. The poor Irishman refused to have anything to do with her. Besides, he had another Mrs. Fogarty, and there were likewise six pledges. Brought before the magistrate, he declared that he would go' to prison rather than pay for his truant wife. Mr. Fogarty thinks he had quite enough of Mrs. Fogarty, and most people will think so too. THE INJURY TO THE CROPS. It is not to be supposed, because the rain came down in torrents all over England on Thursday night and Friday morning last, that all protest for complaint against the long continued dry weather has been removed. We are told that in Eng land haymaking this season will yield at most only one-third of the usual crop. Young clover has been also much injured, the prospects of any fair grazing have been seriously diminished, and wheat upon light soils has suffered somewhat. The want of rain has totally destroyed all growth in the two Castilles in Spain. These pro vinces are entirely deprived of irrigating canals, and the grave results which have followed ought to be a warning for the future to every landowner at home or abroad. The drought of the present year has extended in Europe from France eastwardly as far as the confines of Asia. In America it has also prevailed, the most serious effect of it, in that country, being the destruction, by fire, of large tracts of forest along the Pacific coast. LADY GODIVA. The legend of "Lady Godiva " was a theme for Poets before Mr. Tennyson sung her triumphs, and although the truth of the story has been called in question by an age which pays more attention to utility than to the philosophy of a younger day, Coventry will not let its heroine sink into utter oblivion. Monday being the week of the great fair the city of ribbons was unusually lively, and visitors poured into the place to witness the pageant. The procession paraded the streets, and the small boys of the city no doubt had an opportunity of learning the full meaning of Lady Godiva's self-abnegation. She was dressed in skin tights reaching to the waist, and a short petticoat. Among the other characters represented were the Earl of Mercia (Lady Godiva's husband), Edward the Black Prince, ' Mary Queen of Scots, King Henry VIII., St. George in armour, King Richard IL, King Edward IV., and Sir John Falstaff. The promoters of the show might have added to our knowledge of history by including some other celebrities, such for instance as Guy Fawkes and Jack Cade, and if Mr. Whalley and General O'Neill, the commander-in-chief of the Fenian army, had been honoured with representa tives, the anachronism would have been complete. ORLEANIST LITERATURE. An Orleanist book has just been issued at Paris. It is a volume of 400 pages, entitled " Vues sur le Gouvernement de France," and was written by the late Duke de Broglie. The title and the name of the author were quite enough for the censorship of that day. The Duke de Broglie belongs to the Orleanist family, and a work on the Government of France by a leading Orleanist!—the thing could not be thought of.. The sheets were confiscated in 1861, actually before the censorship knew what they contained. The Judge d'lnstruction restored the book to the Duke, with an intimation that he would be wise if he refrained from publishing it. He did so, and now that it is given to the world by his son, it is too much out of date to make any mark. The Liberalism which frightened the Imperial Government cf 1861 is antiquated now. The subversive doctrines of nine years ago are potter ing, backward, mild, to-day. M. PREVOST PARADOL. INI. Prevost Paradol has a good deal to bear in consequence of his appointment as French Minister at Washington. The old Imperialists say they have been slighted in the selection of a writer who has hitherto ranked as one of the Emperor's most effective critics. The Liberals say that M. Paradol has sold himself. It is found equally difficult to under stand why the post should have been offered, and why it should have been accepted. M. Prevost Paradol is an Orleanist. He is one of the warmest adherents of Parliamentary Government. Whilst his favourite system of rule gave place to personal Government, he was most persevering in his attacks upon despotism ; when something like Parliamentary Government was established, he was most earnest in his criticism of its defects. No Opposition writer had greater influence than this able, moderate, and practical man. It is true that he has lately lived on better terms with the Imperial system, but is a .few weeks' friendship, ask the disgusted courtiers, to make amends for years of hostility? On the other hand M. Paradol's friends in like manner p - rofess to be amazed at his acceptance of the office. He gets altogether about £4,000 a year—a neat sum—but £4,000 a year, with per petual silence and obscurity, is thought a poor ex change for the high and rapidly improved posi tion of this fine writer. It may be as well to explain the meaning of M. Prevost Paradol's peculiar name. His father was M. Prevost, an actor at the Francais, and his mother, Mdlle. Paradol, an actress at the same theatre. The present Minister at Washington united the two names, and became M. Prevost Paradol. , - yirt • .) ir HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, June 21. The Queen drovo out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise an Princess Beatrice, went out in the grounds this morning By command of the Queen, a State Ball was given last evening at Buckingham Palace, to which a party of about 1,700 was invited. The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the Dulwich Picture Gallery yesterday, and afterwards went to the Dulwich College, where the Prince presided at the distri bution of prizes to the successful scholars. FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO-DAY. The Duke of Devonshire's third assembly at Devonshire House, Piccadilly. Frances Countess of *Waldegrave's entertainment to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at Strawberry Hill. Mr. Benedict's annual grand morning concert, under the immediate patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Prince and Princess Christian, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prince of Teck, and the Princess Mary Adelaide of Teck. At the Gun Club, Wormholt Scrubbs, near Shepherd's bush, the International Pigeon Shooting at 30 yards. Commence at twelve precisely. SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS TO-DAY. The Geological Society, at 8 p.m., when the following sub jects will be brought under consideration, by the mem bers whose names are attached to them.—" Lower Por tion of the Green-slates and Porphyries of the Lake Dis trict," Dr. H. A. Nicholson : " Observatiovs on some Vegetable Fossils," Mr. R. Brough Smyth : " Plesiosaurian Remains, Bimmeridge Bay," Mr. J. W. Hulke; " Geology of the Lofoten Islands," Rev. T. G. Bonney; " Dorypterus Hofmanni, Germar, from the Marl-slate of Midderidge, Durham," Mr. Albany Han cock and Mr. R. Howse. The Society of Literature at 8.30 p.m., when Mr. W. B. Cooper wjll read a paper on the "Greek Tablet found in the Assasseef at Thebes." SPIRIT OF THE PRESS-THIS MORNING. MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY BILL. The Times is not surprised that the law lords exhibited their usual ingenious diversity of opinion in the matter of the Married Women's Property Bill last night. The measure has passed the Commons, where it has been pre ferred by a large majority to a rival measure less thorough in its principle and less complete in the remedy it affords. The change in the law would at once give a better posi tion to every woman, and not merely to the woman who is sufficiently provoked and sufficiently strong-minded to take an unusual and most hostile proceeding against her husband. It would not supersede marriage settlements, for the settlement is as much to protect the woman from herself as from her husband ; but it would in thousands of households give greater moral influence to the wife, and tend to the happiness and prosperity of both her husband and herself. Indeed, the right of women to the possession and disposal of property being admitted, we cannot believe, until it is shown by argument stronger than any used in the House of Lords last night, that the ceremony of marriage ought to " act on a woman like a conviction for felony," and reduce a person of independent fortune into a dependent on the bounty of ane t her. THE NEWARK ACCIDENT. A frightful collision on the Great Northern line (says the Telegraph), with a sacrifice of at least sixteen lives , comes to enforce, with disastrous emphasis, a repetition of the lessons and warnings which past horrors of the kind have rendered too familiar. As in the case of a similar calamity some time ago in the same district, the sufferers were excursionists, returning home in crowded carriages. The collision was of tremendous force, and the destruction of human life was instantaneous and extensive. The first reflection, indeed, that most people will make on reading the story, will be the very obvious one—how closely liable is every passenger train in tnglond to such an accident at all hours of the day or night ! While we have double lines of rails and a con stant stream of traffic flowing both ways, it is simply Im possible to plan any absolute prevention of such casualties as that of yesterday morning. The Daily News supposes it would be too much to ex pect that the excursion season should pass over without accident. It seems to be a law of Nature that the num - ber of deaths should bear some average to the extra num ber of persons who travel by railway during the excursion period. The first contribution to this fatal average has been made by the Great Northern line—a line that has been by no means distinguished for the number of its accidents. Happily in this instance, at least so far as we can judge at present, the accident appears to have been really accidental. Neither the guards, nor the engineers, nor other servants of th• company, are impli cated, as in other railway accidents, in the present fatal catastrophe. But an occurrence like this makes it some what awful to contemplate the loss of life which would result if it happened that two fast trains filled with pas sengers, should come into collision from opposite points. And the present calamity proves that such an accident is quite possible. THE EDUCATION QUESTION. The Standard says that yesterday's debate upon the Education Bill will count for very little if it is regarded from the debating stand point, but, perhaps, no sitting the House of Commons has given to the consideration of this most important question possesses more real interest. And that interest, we may say at once, lies in the speeches of two members, who represent the Radical discontent with the original form of the bill and with the alterations announced on Thursday evening by Mr. Gladstone. Sir C. B. Adderley, Mr. Cowper-Temple, and Lord Robert Montagu addressed the House with considerable ability, to much effect, and, as we must add, on the right side ; but their expressions of old, but not worn out, truths, have, under the circumstances, small importance compared with the deliverances of Mr. Miall and Mr. Vernon Harcourt. Mr. Miall is, oddly enough, a cham pion of secular as well as compulsory education. Mr. Harcourt oddly enough, we may add, is a champion of religious education, if only—and this is an important qualification—the religious instruction can be cut after his own pattern. They agree to differ, but they practically differ to agree. Mr. Miall's secularismis really equivalent to Mr. Harcourts unsectarianism. CATHOLICS IN THE NAVY. Commenting on the position of Catholics in the navy. the Dublin Freeman says that there are about one hun dred and twenty Protestant chaplains attached to the fleet, one being on board each large vessel. Taking the proportion of the Catholics in the fleet as low as 16 per cent., though it is estimate d at 20 per cent., the principle of religious equality would allow eighteen Catholic chaplains to the nairY,_. One Catholic chaplain should be attached to each squadron, who should be borne on the books of the flag ship. He should be a commissioned officer, like other chaplains in the army and navy. The naval hospitalo might also have the benefit of a resident Catholic chap lain, as at the military hospital at Netley. THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION BILL. The Yorkshire Post of to-day ("Wednesday) interprets Mr. Richards's amendment on the Education Bill as 5 frank if desperate attempt to force the House of Com mons to adopt the principles of the League, and accep ts it as a useful and not altogether unsuccessful ell deavour to elicit from the Government a plain statement of their final determination upon the various appeals for concessions addressed to them from both sides of the House. 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