The Sun. — London, England, 1870-04-12 00:00:00

CAUTION. MUSES and S 0 N 12A. beg to inform the Public that thoy have adopted and registered a TRADE MARK, consisting of the words " The Standard," with the initials "E. M. & S." underneath, and that henceforward every as tide of clothing manufactured by them will have a label or ticket attAched to it, with the said trade mark printed thereon. All persons are hereby cautioned against imitat ing the said Trade Mark. For trades and addresses see following advertisement. " THE APPAREL OF 3I Ii N P ” ROCLAIMS THE BEST ➢IATERIALS, BEST STYLES, BEST WORKMANzHIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S. Every description of Clothing ready-made or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes, at E. MOSES and SON'S. For the convenience of Ladies accompanying their Sons there is a separate department for Boys' Clothing, anti it is furnished with a splendid assort ment of Snits, Ov moats, and Clothing for all occa sions, including all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. 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 fit. Any article not worn or injured will be exchanged, or, if desired, the money will be returned.. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is unequalled for mag nitude, variety, and cheapness. A very large assortment of BLANKETS, from bs. 4d. the pair. Complete Outfits for all climates, with every re-. quisite for the v:,yage. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Pat terns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON, Ready made and Bespoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Wooltendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all classes. E. MOSI4:S and SON'S Est blishmeuts are closed every Friday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON LONDON: CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDOATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER OF TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON ROAD. Country Branch: BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. NOTICE AND CAUTION. MA - CNIVEN AND CAMERON. Proprietors of the renowned Waverley, Owl, and Pic.wick PENS, beg to intimate to the Trade that the NILE PEN is patented, and that the Name and Trade Mark "Phaeton" are registered Several parties who infringed our righ's have by the aw Courts of England and Scotland been found liable iu heavy damages. A Reward will be given for information of the manufacturing or of the vending of speri ms imitations. 717 JOURNALS have recom mended these Pens to their Readers; see Blackwood's Magazine for May, 187 , t. Standard says: "The Waverley Pen is a treasure " Sun says:—" i hey create both wonder and delight." Sold everywhere, Is per /.oz By Post, is. ld. 31 C IVEN 6c CAMERON, 23, BLAIR-STRUET, EDINBURGH. AGENTS—MILLINGTON & HUTTON, LONDON; and FREDERICK GREEN & Co., 21, WALL-STREET, NEW YORK. Shippers supplied by the Patentees. ELECTION OF CHURC ti WARD ENS.-TO THE PARISHIONER OF ENGLAND and WALES. The Easter Vestries will shortly be held You are invited to elect only such Churchwardens as will act upon the principle that all Parishioners (poor as well as rich) are equally entitled to the use of their Parish Church. This is the principle of our Ancient Paro chial Law. and is also in accordance with the Teaching of the Gospel. On behalf of The DON FREE AND OPEN CHURCH A- SOCIATION. ALFRED BUCKLEY. Chairman of Sub. Committee. S. R. TOWNSH END MAYER, F.R.S.L. Papers on the subject may be had gratuitously on application to the Resident Secretary, '45, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C. TOIIN G OSN ELI, and CO.'S C HERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a peasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d. — Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE, A GUk AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its p-iAtine hue, no matter nt what awe. — JS O. GO' NEL L and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the moat eminent Chemists, succeed3d 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., is. 61., and VA. each, includ ing, brush.. Rol Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.O. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. 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HAY MARKET—At Seven, A Co-Operative Movement. At 7.40, New Men and Old Acres. And No Song No Supper. OLYMPIC—At Seven, Little Emly. The Princess GAIETY—At Seven, Young Hopeful. Uncle Dick's Darling. The Pint Night. QUEEN s—At Seven, Quick March. At 8.15, 'Twixt Axe and Crown TRAND-At Seven, Widow's Weeds. Sir George and a Dragon. • A Fish Out of Water ST. JAMES'S— At Seven, She Stoops to Conquer. At 9.15, La Belle Sauvage. An Unhappy Pair Pr.xxcE or WALES'S—At Eight, School. Dearest Mamma. Quite bf Accident GLoax—At Seven, Philomel. The Ticket of Leave Man WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall. Picea• dilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at S; Saturday Motu at 3. - Admission, 'ls, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed nesdays and .t.taturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. MADMIE TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 1t a.m. till 5.30 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, ls. ; extra rooms, Gd. ZooLoGIC.u. G 5. DENS, Regent's-park, Open daily(oxcept Sundays: Admission. ls.• on Mondays, 6d. Children tinder twelve. Gd. A cP g ,A ; 1"- ;?._ :- rk) Cfqj 1_ ~--- W 'r,',Var. -. * ‘, c; , Sllll 4 . . , LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1870. THE new impulse given to education has at last reached girls of the middle and upper classes. No where was there such great need of that impulse. The ignorance of the working class was notorious, and an educational reform was sure to deal with that portion of the community in the first place. But girls were supposed to be educated ; were considered to be in no want of any change in their mental training. If costliness of schools and multifariousness of subjects were any test of educational thoroughness there could be no doubt that "young ladies" had already reached the perfection of school teaching. While a father could get his sons well educated— educated so as to be qualified for the duties and work of actual life—at a. moderate expense, his daughters cost him double or triple the amount for an education that was absolutely useless to them. It did not fit them for tuition or for - literature, in case they should have to earn their own livelihood in either of the professions left open to women. It did not fit them for married life, if they should become wives and mothers. There was indeed one object which their teachers had in view: that of catching husbands. To win an eligible " party " was the be all and end all of life. There was no thought of retaining his affection after he was won—no thought of qualify ing his wife to be a helpmeet. The choosing of the son's profession was the first step in his career, and unless he was able to prove himself qualified for it, it was considered that nothing had been really ac complished. But the marriage of the daughter was the first and the last step. In fact the sole thought was not to render her fit for marriage, but to ensure her marrying. It may be doubted if, even with this object in view, the education commonly given to girls hitherto is the best that can be devised. Atter all, men do not want to marry only a pianoforte player, or a servile copyist of conventional sketches, or a waltzer. Some young men are foolish, and make foolish marriages, but the young man of average common sense does not rate these " accomplishments " very high. Mothers are beginning to find this out, and these items of the usual feminine curriculum are therefore falling in the educational market. Besides this there is the undoubtel fact, never so much forced upon the unwilling conviction of match-making mothers as it is now, that marriage is not the invariable lot of girls ; that unless we adopt the usages of Mor monism and Mahomotanism, there must be a con siderable number of women who will not be married, for the simple reason that there are not enough men to provide them with husbands. In fact the chances are that in every family where there are four or More daughters, one at least will remain unmarried. The question becomes inevitable, are the " accomplish ments" the things most calculated to make these women happy ? Say even that they have no need to earn their bread, we still ask, is a life spent at the piano, the drawing board, and the crochet-needle quite the highest or the happiest kind of existence ? Would not happiness be more likely, Would there not be less fear of being besot by that terrible foe, ennui, if a woman found herself capable of following any one subject, whether in science or in literature, and devoting her life to the pursuit ? Perhaps it will be said that as marriage is the highest state of women, that is a goal towards which we should aim, and that we ought to educate girls with that goal in view, rather than for the excep tional and abnormal condition of single .life. This objection implies that there is something antagonistic between thoroughness of education and married life. That supposition we altogether reject. There is nothing unwomanly, any more than there is anything unmanly in know ledge. That the most learned women may also be the most womanly, Vittoria Colonna and Lady Jane Giey are proofs. The question is not between learning and ignorance, but between learning and smattering. Girls are taught already, in fact they are taught far too many things; but they are not taught sufficiently of any one thing. "My young people," said. a schoolmistress to Mr. Fitch, one of the Assistant Commissioners udder the Endowed Schools Commission, " take great interest iu science. We have a lecturer who comes weekly during the season, and gives us courses on astronomy, heraldry, botany, and archi tecture." Mr. Bright once said that all knowledge is useful except a knowledge of heraldry ; but even that was included in the curriculum of this schoolmistress. Of course, these subjects were in addition to the more ordinary matters, history, geography, arithmetic, drawing, singing, calisthenics, French, Italian, and the use of the globes. In fact girls are taught far more subjects than boys aro, and yet the first are beyond all question less really educated than the second. This subject has been admirably treated by Miss Smedley in the current number of the andenzporary Review. She urges that there cannot be anything es sentially feminine or particularly beneficial to the health in learning three or four languages imperfectly, instead of one thoroughly; she denies that bad arithmetic is more modest and becoming than good; or that the remarkable young ladies of whom we have lately read, who never showed any animation except about the dates of the kings of England, would have lost all their power of charming if their interest in history had been a little deepened and extended. The report of the Royal Commissoners already referred to gives abundant evidence that mothers a re a f ra i d of their daughters becoming bl ue - s t oc k ings, and vet the number of subjects which are taught, professedly, at a finishing school are so numerous that if the pupils had a mastery of a quarter of them, they would be prodigies of learning. There is an enormous waste of time, power, and money here. It is as if a man were to fritter his energies in becoming imperfectly acquainted with three or four professions and left off unable to practise one. It cannot be too clearly understood that what educational reformers want is not to widen the range of female education, but to deepen it. They know well enough that no woman can really master one half of the subjects. 7 4011 the i 1 ,1 1.9 7 0 4 0 024. 0 learn. They THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1870. would, therefore, select from the list according to the mental bias and the intellectual capacity ; see that the teacher is thoroughly competent to teach, and test the reality of the pupil's knowledge by examina tions. They have not the smallest fear that by thus acquiring thoroughness, girls will cease to be feminine. If marriage be the object which a well-educated girl sets before her, she is not all likely to frighten suitors by her pedantry, for there is no more reason why she should bore a partner in a dance or a companion at a picnic by displaying her knowledge, than that a University scholar should bore her by." talking shop." If she does marry, she will certainly be more likely to retain her husband's love by an intelligent acquaintance with literature and science and politics nail by incessant praises of baby and incessant complaints of cook. If she does not marry, she will have resources which will be a constant fountain of pleasure; and should she have to work for her own livelihood, she will no longer be that most grievnua of all shams—the modern English governess. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) A CATASTILOPHE has occurred which justifies only too well the alarm felt by all friends of liberty at the Emperor Napoleon's design to submit his new constitution to the direct vote of the French people. M. Buffet, the Finance Minister, and Count Daru, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, have resigned. Every one who has paid the slightest attention to the manner in which M. 011ivier's Con stitutional Ministry was formed will recognise the full gravity of this intelligence. Next to M. 011ivier these two statesmen were the ablest members of the new Ministry. Without even that one exception they were the most thorough representatives of the moderate reformers, and most completely possessed the confidence of the nation. It may be well to explain once more that the 011ivier Cabinet, of which such high hopes were not unreasonably entertained, was formed from the " Centre" of the French House of Commons. Neither the Ultra-Impe rialists who sit on the extreme right of tb e amphitheatre wherein the deputies meet, nor the Democrats who sit on the extreme Left, had any part in it. Now, the Centre is itself divided into two parties, the Right Centre, or Reformers with an Imperialist tinge, and the left Centre, or thorough Reformers, who are dis posed to be satisfied with nothing less than a com plete transformation of the Empire into a Constitu tional Monarchy. Of the Left Centre, Buffet and Count Daru were the only representatives in the Cabinet. They were therefore regarded by the French people as by far the most trustworthy of the new men; they possessed an influence which was not to be adequately measured by the strength of the party that supported them ; and their loss is a graver event than the retirement of any or all of the remain ing Ministers. In fact the 011ivier Cabinet has fallen to pieces. Recruits will be readily forthcoming, no doubt—such as the Imperialist Magne, who was kept out of the Ministry when first formed, by the refusal of 31. Buffet to sit with him ; but no additions of thiskind will restore to the constitutional Ministry the prestige which it has lost. This result is owing solely to the mad plebiscitum scheme. M. 011ivier and his other colleagues may find such appeals to the people consonant with their notions of parliamentary government; not so Count Darn and M. Buffet. These, in common with the deputiei who support then, hold a direct vote of the nation to be a violation of constitutional practice. As has been argued to exhaustion, representation is for the ex press purpose of enabling the populace to declare its wishes, and therefore a direct appeal is an intimation that the representatives are not worthy of the interests committed to their care. It appears that M. Buffet and Count Daru were willing to concede the plebiscitum principle, provided that all projects of the kind were submitted like a law, to the Chambers. The Em peror refused, and hence the consequence, In a week the labours of many months to establish the Liberal Empire have been, for the time at least, undone, It iA stated that the decision of Mr. Burke (Master of the Court of Common Pleas) with regard to the Tipperary petition sureties will be appealed against. - Cardinal Cullen arrived at Dublin yesterday evening, and was received at Kingstown by a large number of private friends. Mr. W 3 Id has published an excellent plan of the Volunteer Review to be held at Brighton on Monday next. UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—The Senatus Acacle micim have by a small majority confirmed the decision of the Profess3r of Chemistry against the claim of Miss Pechey with regard to the Rope Scholarship. The lady students will receive ordinary certificates of attendance. It is said the decision will b 3 appealed against. THE INSPECTION OF CONVENTS.—Active steps are being taken by the Catholic clergy and laity of the metro_palls to convene an aggregate meeting of their co-religionists, to be held the week after Easter in St. James's Hall, to protest against the inspection of conventual and monastic institutions. Preliminary meetings have already been held in various parts of the metropolis. The Duke of Norfolk will, it is said, be asked to preside, and it is expected that Cardinal Cullen will be in London the day of the meeting, and attend it. CRYSTAL PALACE.—GOOD FRIDAY.—Good Friday will this year present unusual attractions at the Crystal Palace. In addition to the Grand Sacred Concert, always given with so much success on Good Friday, this year, for th 3 first time upon this great popular holiday, and for Or first time this season, the entire series of Great Fountains will bo played. The Grand Concert takes place o❑ the Great Handel Orchestra IA half-past three. Special arrange ments have been made to run trains as often as required throughout the day. . . _ A large box, containing a quantity of lilies, pikes, and ammunition, has been seized on board the Fleetwood steamer on her arrival at Belfast. The man to whom it is addre&s2d claims it, but it has been detained pending an inqn:ry. Mr. Layard is said to be winning golden opinions at Madrid, and to be very popular with all classes. Nearly £9OO was netted at the University Athletic sports last week. A. man named O'Hara, a stamper in the Dublin General Post Office, was on Saturday sentenced to seven years' penal servitude for stealing letters. Mrs. Francis Goyder, of Clifton, the other day, took an overdose of " Batley's sedative" for sleeplessness. She died shortly afterwards. Lady East, wife of Sir James Buller East, Bart., died on Thursday last at Bourton House, Gloucestershire. She was married. in 1822. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has approved of the appointments of Sir Arthur Guinness, Bart., and Mr. Matthew D'Arcy, M. P., as Deputy-Lieutenats of the county and city of Dublin. A Bristol paper alludes to a rumour current at Gloucester, that Mr. W. P. Price, M.P., chairman of the Midland Railway Company, is to be created a, baronet. The Agnes M. Lovett, bound from St. John's to the Clyde, on Friday ran on a rock off the coast of Donegal. The captain's wife and child and two seamen were drowned by the capsizing of the boat. With regard to tne Cardiff fire the Western Mail says there is a fire escape in Cardiff, but it was not fetched to the fire. It was also stated that when the steam fire engine was, after a long delay, got to work, the pressure of steam was so small that water could not be thrown higher than the first floor window. - A great Polar Expedition is being prepared it Sweden for the years 1871 and 1872, under the direction of Professor NordenskjOld, the celebrated scientific leader of the Swedish Expedition of 1868. Parry's attempt to reach the Pole by pushing on to the north of Spitzbergen is to be repeated. At Armley, near Leeds, on Saturday morning, a blacksmith was found to be working an illicit still. The man was apprehended and taken before Mr. Bruce, the stipendiary magistrate, who fined him £3O, and in default of payment ordered him to be sent to prison for three months. The Bishop of Lincoln held a confirmation at Crowland Abbey a day or two ago. Two of the female can didates being unable to attend, from illness, the bishop, accompanied by his wife the rector, and curate, proceeded to the home of one of them and there privately acimials tergd the rit2 to thttiQA4B,.. BER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 11. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. The o:her members of the Royal Family also went out. The Prince of Wales ride out, and the Princess of Wales drove our, yesterday. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. MARSEILLES, April 11 (Evening.) Letters from Barcelona received here yesterday state that the outbreak had a purely socialistic cha racter, and the conscription was used as a convenient pretext. It is further stated that the troops fought with great bravery, capturing formidable barricades by artillery, and that the insurgents, although de serted by the majority of the inhabitants, made an obstinate resistance. BOURSE, April 11.—Three o'clock—The mark e closed as follows : Bank Shares• 2820 Ital'an Rives 55 35 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 4B 20 Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred — Cash Orleans Western Northern Strasburg • • Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..., • 6o7i Sardinian Austrian 7BB Lombard 4421 l'orth of Spain 65 Saragossa Roman 49 per Cont. t per Cents 73 57 End of month— 73 474 ';redit;4.toUilier 267 50 Transatlantic 202 50 'redit Funcier l 272 500 Paris Gas 1715 Suez Canal 275 RAIL WA' SPAIN. MADRID, April 11, Evening. The following particulars have been received re specting the suppression of the outbreak at Gracia : The attacking party consiste 1 of four columns of troops, but only one of them took part in the right. Two soldiers were killed and thirteen wounded. The loss of the insurgents was 19 dead and 10 wounded, and 42 prisoners were captured by the troops. The latter also took 79 rifles and 20,000 cartridges. Courts-martial hat e been improvised in the villages in the neighbourhood of Barcelona, which are occu pied by the military. Small columns of troops are still in pursuit a 'ugitives, who are scattered in various directions. BAYONNE, April 12. Some important Carlist chiefs have entered Spain, and it is expected that a Carlist movement will shortly commence in several provinces. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 11. The Egyptian plan relative to Consular jurisdic tion has been slightly modified by Nubar Pasha, and has subzequently been approved by the Porte. It is in substance identical with the plan adopted by the International Commission. Nubar Pasha will leave for Marstilles on Wednes day next. AMERICA. (By Cable). NEW YORK, April 11. The suit was commenced to-day in the United States Circuit Court on behalf of the English share holders against the directors of th , l Erie Railway. It is based on the charge that the directors have illegally obtained the control over the company's affairs, and have unwarrantably involved them in disastrous obligations. The comphinants apply for an injunction against the directors until the suit shall be decided. The defendants must file their answer by the 2nd of May next. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1131; the highest quotation during the day was 1141; the lowest, 1131 Sterling Exchange on London 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1885 1867 106, 10-40 Illinois . ~ 159 Erie Cotton—Mid. upla❑d .. 251 23c Petroleum—Standard White Flour—Extra State, $1 40e. to $5 Oc. Corn—Old mixe,i, $1 9c, The Sportiug Gazette states that the suppression of coursing in the tome Park, Hampton Court, has given so much dissatisfaction to the farmers and other occu piers of land resident in the Harrow and other districts hunted by th 9 Royal Buckhounds, that they have made up their minds to prevent all persons connected with the Royal Pack from riding over their land next season. The matter is, it is said, to be brought before the 'notice of Parliament. THE NORWICH BRIBERY PROSECTITIONS.—It appears that Mr. Justice Blackburn, who passed sentence upon Robert Hardiment, on his conviction forbribery at the last Norwich municipal election, has declined to make an order lacing him in the first class of misdemeanants. The prisoner has consequently, been relegated to the prison dress, and is treated as an ordinary misdemeanant, and his friends propose to obtain, if possible, a mitigation of his sentence. ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL.—WO last week re ferred which tendency s in France seekinghahas fur : e en ar t p h dl eiri nl o oe r enormousn Withino a t c c o u n m l yt u h l i e a n t pL i a s o n o tn week o f ene c k a b p tuh i capital a s l and elsewhere. We may cite the latest evidence of the eagerness with which investors seek to place their money in respectable securities. The Orleans and Chalous invitedßail way,each, and sub when cr insip he se there ef obligations w n e r e fo extension, fd tbe no less than £17,385,500 applied for—not from a few large capitalists, but from 45,456 different persons.—The Bullionist. t t w h i e nysff list oo rr w 2t a hl : 2 c l36 lo ou s 7 ei t s RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA.—The Indian Public Opinion, of March 8, states that Russian advance in Cmtral Asia has received a severe check. The revolt in Khokand has ended in the expulsion of the Russians, and Khudayar Khan again rules the country. Yakuli Khush Begi is strengthening his position, and arming his troops with breechloaders. Russia has been forced back twenty marches beyond the line of the Tianslim, the limit with which she professes to be satisfied. The Indian Public Opinion asserts that the Chinese Emperor relinquished his possessions in Turkestan by a formal act some time since, and that no recent concessions have been made to Russia. A SPANISH DOCTOR'S BILL.—An extraordinary doctor's bill has been sent to Mr. Thomas Charlton, of North Shields. Mr. Charlton is the owner of several large ships, and the master of one of them fell ill of a fever at Cartbagena. He had to be brought on shore to lodgings. For attendance upon him while in the ship and fifteen days ashore at lodgings the Spanish medical man charges the owner of the vessel £BOO, with £5O for his assistant; £l5O is charged for the fifteen days' lodgings, and the whole amount for attendance on the sick captain, a good deal less than a month, is £1,300. As the owner is held liable for all sick persons landed from his vessel, the little bill has been sent in to Mr. Charlton. He has brought the subject under the attention of the North Shields Shipowners' Society, and it is being referred to tho Foreign Office. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Bessie. DUNVILLE & Co., who h•Lve gained a world-wide, celebritv for their fine old Irish whisky, is to he called " The Royal Irish Distillery." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening TUESDAY 2 miu past 11 42 min past 11 WEDNESDAY 0 min past 12 12 min past 12 THURSDAY... ..... ........40 mill past 12 5 min past 1 FRIDAY. I , sot .e• ............ 80 mm past 6, 50 Mill past 1 LADY GERTRUDI DOUGLAS UPON MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Will you kindly oblige me by inserting the enclosed communication in the columr,s of your paper? Having read in the limes of March 30 the ac count of Mr. Newdegate's successful motion respect ing the examination of monastic institutions, I ti.ink that the experience of one who has leen herself for five years a met - 111.er of one of the clo'stered convents of our land may be of service in. removing a few pre judices and I copular delus'ons, or at least in fur nishing some correct informat'on on a stit , jeq Which, while it occupies so large a share of the public at tention, is by the majority very little understood. lam the eldest daughter of the late Lord Queens- berry. At the age of 21 I entered the Convent of the Good Shepherd at Hammersmith, and after a three years' noviciate—interrupted by a residence of five months in my own family, during the period which immediately succeeded the death of my brother, Lord Francis Douglas, on the Matterhorn— I was professed and became a sister of the " Black Veil" in 1867. I wa4 then sent successively to houses of the Order in Liverpool and Glasgow. At the expiration of two years (for reasons which I do not feel myself called upon to state, but which were personal, grave, and important, and which had nothing to do with the convents or nuns, to all of whom I am warmly attached) I wished to return to my home. No difficulty was math in allowing me to see and to converse with the Ecclesiastical Superior of the diocese. At my request he came to see me, and treated me with the most indulgent and fatherly kindness, and, af[er a short delay, he released me from my vows and allowed me to return to my family. To Protestant authority in such a case I would never have appealed, and had my Ecclesias tical Superiors refused to 'sanction my application for freedom, had they imposed the smalest re s raint on my conscience where the real tie existed, then would the Commission of Inquiry which Mr. Newdegate wishes to set on foot have been perfectly useless to procure my " liberation," as I should most decidedly have declined to take advantage of its interference in a matter which simply regarded my own conscience, and this not from contempt, but from a conviction, which nothing could shake, that no autho rity from God could rest with any but the priests of the Holy Catholic Church, to whom alone He gave the power to " bind and to release." This is, I know, the conscientious belief of every nu❑ I have ever known. This example should be enough to convince Mr. Newdegate and his party that' there does exist for every nun a certain Court of Appeal in the persons of her Ecclesiastical Superiors, and that, moreover, it is the only Court of Appeal that can be of any service to her. If any girl or woman dares to assert she is detained by compulsion in ber con- vent she speaks falsely. Every nun has the same liberty as' had. Let her use it if she will! It is not true that any ona is ever " liable to be subjected to a discipline for which she is not pre pared.' In every convent there is a Novice Mis tress, whose duty it is to exercise the novices in the " discipline" of the House. My experience enables me to assert that " the roughest and hardest side" of the picture was a'ways shown in the noviciate ; nor did I ever after I became a professed nun see the smallest alteration in rule or discipline ; nor did I ever see any one called upon to exercise any obligation for which she bad not been thoroughly prepared as a novice. It is not true, as far as my experience goes—and I think it may be allowed to be greater on this subject than that of any gentleman of the House of Commons —that " letters are intercepted," or that there is not perfect " liberty to communicate with friends." .1 always saw my friends a l one—my - relations not only alone, but whenever they chose to call. My molter on three several occas . ons spent a few drys in the outer part of the convent, during wLielt time I spent the whole days with her, and alone. My leLt,r. were never interceptc.d. I wrote to whom I pleased, and when I liked ; and the same liberty exi3ted for every sister in the House. Upon my leaving the convent the money which I had given at my profession was unhesitatingly offered back to me. I refused it; but neith r the Superioress nor my Ecclesiastical Superior would accept the paper I had written renouncing my claim to it. They re mained inexorable on this point; nor was it until I had returned home that, without asking their consent, and against the advice of every ecclesiastic I consulte], I carried out my purpose of leaving my dowry where it, hal been placed, and of securing it to the noblest and most exalted charity on earth— the work of the Good Shepherd. And now, Sir, allow me to remark, I am most in timately acquainted with between 80 and 100 nuns. I have been one of them in the work-rooms, classes, refo'matory schools, as well as in the more private life of the community. • I have seen them under all circums•an.ces ; but never for one moment have I heat d the shadow of a complaint against the justice and affection of the Superioresses. There reigned about one and all of them, without exception, a spirit of simple, childlike confidence and attachment for their Superior ; a warm devotion to their work and their Order. I never in the course of those five years heard an expression of d'scontent upon the lips of any of the sisters. I never heard one regret her liberty or desire to escape from the obliga tions that were the delight of her daily life. They all seemed happy, really and truly happy, as it has never been my lot to see any in the word. I am speaking now of the profes_ed. The novices are, of course, pezfectly flee, and come and go continu ally ; though, I must say, more of them are dis missed as unfit for the life than leave of their own accord. In conclusion, I have only to remark that, though I am no longer myself a member of the convent, I shall never look back to the days I spent there but with the warmest gratitude and affection. I shall never forget the unvarying love which was shown to me by the Superiores3es and the sisters, without a single exception, and that to the last, after they knew I meant to leave ; and I shall never think of the convent enclosure, which Mr. Newde- gate and others so unjustly desire to violate, but as a home which has been the scene of some of the brightest recollections of my life. A sense of honour and justice has induced me to come forward with these statements, and as I am now entirely removed from any " conventual influence," I trust that the English public will allow my testimony to weigh with it in future when the subject of convents is brought up as a topic for conversation, seeing that, as I have already observed, I may, perhaps, justly claim to know more about the interior of convents than eith?r Mr. Newdegate or any other gentleman can ever possibly hope to do. Trusting to your p Alence and your sense cf justice to make this public, I remain, sir, yours faithfully, GERTRUDE DOUGLAS. 11, Rue Prince Albert, Boulogne-sur-;filer, Palm Sunday, 1870. AN INTERCHANGE OF UIFTS.—Le Umlois says that Marshal Prim has recently made a present to the Emperor Napoleon of 20,000 cigars with gilt ends and ornamented with the Imperial N., also gilt, on each ciear, which is estimated to be worth lift. In return the Emperor has sent to the Spanish Marshal a pair of rases of Sevres manufacture' Maryland proposes to punish prize-fighters and 'their trainers by imprisonment of from one to five years, and spectators of a prize fight by a fine of from 100 dols. to 1,000 dols. On Sunday night a private telegram was received in London stati ng th a t th e S pan i s h ° Government have released the American steamer Lloyd Aspinwall, ?idz94 some time ago a t t u b a , aa d th e y have promised indsitanit.v. " °' - • - CHOLERA AT ZANZIBAR. Mr. Kirk, her Majesty's Consul at Zanzibar, has written to the Government at Bombay concerning the severe cholera epidemic which hangs over the island. He encloses the copy of a letter received from the head man in charge of the goods sent Dr. Livingstone's order to UAL It appears from this that the cholera is again returning inland. Ludda Damjee also states that a large caravan laden with ivory and coming from Nayamweze has completely perish e d f rom thi s di sease i n UAL and that he is now sending off men to carry down the ivory. Mr. Kirk has requested Ludda at the same time to send wsistance and push on Dr. Livingstone's goods to but if the disease still follows the upland route this will be extremely difficult. A SINGULAR STORY. The Paris correspondent of the .New York Times gar; an incident has occurred at the Tuileries which caused considerable excitement, and which the journals have not referred to. It is said that the Empress found an anony mous letter on her chimney-piece, apprising her that an attempt was about to be made to poison the Prince Imperial, and cautioning her to have a strict watch observed over the preparation of his food. This communication threw her Majesty into a state of the greatest agitation and alarm, and it was some time before she could be reasoned out of her appre hensions. The chief of the detective police examined all the members of the household, but no clue to the mystery was discovered. Rumours are prevalent that the Govern ment is in possession of evidence which shows that a con spiracy exists against the life of the Emperor and the Prince Imperial. Among the detenus in the prison of La Santa more or less implicated in the plot is Megy, the man who killed the police•agent sent to arrest him. RUSSIAN RAILWAYS. There is a report of much interest upon Russian railways in the first volume of the Diplomatic Reports for the present year, published yesterday mo rn i ng . Th e wr iter (Mr. Rumboid). after giving some statistics of the impor tations of engines from England, France, and Germany, observes :—" It is admitted that the materials furnished by the English factories are of excellent quality, but complaints are made of great unpunctuality in their delivery. It would be well worth the while of English manufacturers to devote more especial attention to the Russian market, which, for this very lucrative branch of business, must for a long time to come remain dependent on foreign industry. The Russian operatives, though as a body gifted with a natural intellifi•ence far superior to that of th e ma j or ity of their European brethren, are not yet sufficiently educated or trained to habits of industry to compete with them in work requiring great nicety of execution ; neither is there as yet in any of the Russian works anything approaching to the complete mechanical appliances or the perfect sys tem of subdivision of labour existing in France and Eng land, by which the mu ltipl e p ar t s o a carriage or engine are each entrusted to `specially skilled workmen, or are made in separate factories." THE WORKING MAN ABROAD. Lord Clarendon has obtained from her Majesty's re presentatives abroad valuable reports on the position of the artisan and industrial classes in foreign countries, the first series of which we have just received from the Foreign Office. One of the most interesting accounts is that from Mr. Ford respecting the state of the working man in America. Mr. Ford says:—" There are few countries in which • the working man is held in such repute as in the United States of America. The labouring classes may be said to embrace the entire American nation. Every man works for a living, follows a profession, or is engaged either in mercantile or indus trial pursuits. The prosecution of the humblest calling acts as no bar to promotion in the social scale. The lowly citizen of to-day may aspire to presidential honours to morrow. The steady influx of immigrants within the last twenty years has produ ce d a mar k e d effect on Americans in their choice of occupations, and has • created a decided disinclination on their part to share in the rough toil of purely muscular labour in which the newly arrived foreigner is ready to engage. The American system of common school education has elevated the moral standard of the native working man, and has disposed him to prefer those occupations in which the exercise of the brain is in greater demand than that of the elbow. His chief object of ambition is to attain the position of a master workman, or, in the parlance of the country, to become a ' boss,' or to obtain a situation of clerk in an office, or of assistant in a shop, and rather than engage in work which he may deem derogatory to his moral culture, he will follow the setting sun and settle on the public lands of the country which the National Government offers at almost nominal prices, to any man who will cultivate them.' Some interesting information, too, is given in the report on the French artisan. Mr. Malet says :—" A very small proportion of the workmen of Paris are native Parisians. They come from all quarters of the country, and for the most part return to it. The gre ater portion of them come up as young men from the provinces, full of life, imp ressiona bl e, o f an age when the socialistic doctrine most readily takes root. They become ready listeners to the men of talent who find it possible to gain an easy livelihood by preaching revolution and change in impassioned language. r.f he want of mechanics' institutes and working men's clubs, where the artisan could go and spend a quiet even ing in reading or talk, leaves thousands of idlers too glad to listen to anything so long at it passes the time. It is the natural soil for the socialist to cultivate. He has 'own ; and reaped at the elections." AGRICULTURE AND THE CORN TRADE. An uninterrupted period of dry settled weather, ex tending over about five weeks, appear likely to be suc ceeded by an entire change and a plentiful supply of rain. So far the progress of events has been satisfac tory taken as a whole. Winter wheats have obtained a firm hold of the ground, and spring sowing, facilitated by the absence of inclement weather, has been steadily' pushed forward. Potato planting, also, has made con siderable progress. Some complaints have reached us of the damage sustained by the young wheat plant through the want of moisture, necessitating, it is stated, in some instances, a partial re-ploughing. W e b e li eve , however, that these complaints are by no means general, and that the aspect of agriculture is mostly considered to be favourable. Some steady showers would undoubted', be of service to enable the grain recently sown to germi nate freely, and, judging from appearances, it is very evident that the desired rain will not long be withheld.. No movement of significance has taken place in the wheat trade. The receipts of wheat have been by no means extensive, but the quality generally has been good. There has been an absence of activity in the demand, and, although no fall has been noticed, forced sales would certainly have resulted in a lower range of values. At the present moment prospects cannot be regarded as otherwise than adverse to the holders of pro duce. As we have shown above, allowing that it is as yet much too early to hazard any opinion of the crop, there is certainly an absence of any circumstances likely to be viewed with apprehension, or endangering the ultimate yield.—The Magnet. Although the cold influence of March was still felt at the opening. of the week, this gave place und e r a change of wind to brilliant sunshine, and a much higher temperature. The nights, however, have been mostly cold, and vegetation, for the wan t o f warm rain, still looks very backward. It has, however, been all that could be desired for the completion of sowing the Lent corn, and a large breadth has now been got in, together with much potato planting, so that the seasonable showers already promise complete alteration in the face of the country, No practical man seems to apprehend any harm from the lateness complained of, either to the corn or fruit, but in France the dry weather has affected the price of oats. Still one day's heavy rain ' would set all maters staaight, and as we have not yet got half through April, who can doubt that this will come ? The change already experienced has taken off the upward bearing of the wheat trade, and most markets have reported more dulness, or some even a decline of is. But there is no thing to justify any sweep i ng re d uct i on o f the _low rate 4 now ruling. —Mark Lane Express. STRANGE SUICIDE AT P iDDINGTOn On Saturday night a well-dressed and apparently intel ligent man, who assumed the name of Lawrence, and is supposed to have been connected with Ramsgate, com mitted suicide at the Albion Tavern, Dudley-grove, Paddington. He had been in the habit of frequenting the inn for about a fortnight, and on this evening he went to the back premises, where, having fastened himself in, he deliberately blew out his brains. When the door was burst open parts of his head were found in all directions. In one of his pockets was found the following letter :---k " Hyde Park, April 7, 1870.—Dear Sally, I fired at my self twice last night at Deptford, but missed fire both times, so I must do it to-night i n th e p ar k. G o d bless you all. W. L. It's all through my wife being misled by Tom and others. I knew they meant to get me out. I hope they will always prosper. Mind the children. If, the pistol is found I wish Oliver Clarke to have it. Dear Sally, it is now four o'clock. I have just put the cap on the pistol. Good bye," The letter is addressed to a lady at Ramsgate. SUICIDE OF A POLICEMAN. The body of Joseph Kirkpatrick, police constable in the North Lonsdale division, has been found in the Myer stone Canal. He had been reported for drunkenness 9 few days ago, and when he left his lodgings in Ulyerstone he was heard to say "it was no use living any longer, ao he had lost his character." He was a single man, and bad been in the force only a few months. • SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE SHIP OCEAN SPRAIn A bottle has been found on Whitenesshead Sands, three miles west of Nairn, which contained a card with the following message :—" Ship Ocean Spray—Latitude 5 1 degrees north, longitude 30 degrees east. Shipped a sea and cleared the decks. Disabled and in a sinking cow dition. Feb. 14. 1870. Report." A JUDGE ON TRAMP.--The following story is told of Mr. Baron Martin. There is no railway between Monmouth and Ross, though one is being made ; inee . the custom of th e j u d ges in passing from Herefor d Monmouth is to post the twelve miles between the latter town and Ross. Last week . paron Martin who is 7 6 years of age, w a lk e d t h e distance declining all offer s . of* lift from th e many barristen who passed _ _ TIL ret Th e I limited. in the F Ra 1 an() an Me; Top 131114 i stock s bees rh an d 28 Cons account I lelv T] 11 3 41 231 3. Exch Prem . 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