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THE English people generally will not fail to take the deepest interest in the debate now proceed ing in the French House of Commons on the Treaty of Commerce with England. Our commercial policy in great measure depends on the issue of the parliamentary contest now opened. In England there is little reason to fear a reaction against free trade. There can be no great danger in an agitation which is mainly supported by a curious alliance of some minor Conservative M.P.'s with working men, which has been disowned by the Earl of DERBY, and has failed to secure the support of .a single statesman. But in France the opposition is much more serious. The new Constitu tional Cabinet is divided on this great subject; and a strong party in the Legislative Body, recruited from all the various political sections, is openly favourable to protection. All ordinary party distinctions are obliterated when this topic arises. Under the shadow of protection the Radical lion lies down with the Imperial lamb. So great is the confusion that it is doubtful which of the two commercial creeds commands the larger number of supporters. A. little while ago this uncertainty would have mattered little, for the Con stitution of 1852 gave the full control of commercial treaties to the EMPEROR ; and though the represen tatives of the people might talk, the power of action remained with the ruler. But, by the changes of 1869, commercial legislation was handed over to the Parliament ; and in view of the expiration of Mr. COBDEN'S Treaty, a direct proposal has been made to denounce it. The result must be awaited with anxious uncertainty. As to the action of the more enlightened deputies, there can be little doubt. The ruck of the old majority, however, have been accustomed to doing as they were bid, and now that they are thrown upon their own resources and com plied to think for themselves, their hesitation is alike painful and perplexing. _ The speech of the protectionist who opened this momentous discussion was of the dear familiar type. ESTANCELIN is a Liberal, of whom we have .read many sensible things ; but his discourse against free trade was a tissue of idle invective and misstatements. It is obvious that if the protectionists wish to establish their case they must prove two positions: firstly, that industry in their country has suffered of late years ; and secondly, that this decline is owing to free trade. AL ESTANCELIN was eager in telling his fellow-deputies that the manufactures of their countrymen had been injured—crushed—destroyed ; but we look in vain for any plain proof that France is in general worse off now than in 1879. Nor does ESTANCELIN'S speech contain any vestige of reasoning to shew that the decline of which he has persuaded himself is owing to the Anglo- French Treaty. This substantial part of the subject he entirely neglected, and in place of it he trifled with the French Legislature by devising a wild account of the origin of the Treaty. Lord PALMERSTON, he tells us, needed the support of the English merchahts. NAPOLEON wished Europe to consent to the transfer of Satoy and Nice from Italy to France. The bargain was struck. England agreed to countenance the territorial arrangement, and NAPOLEON, in return, delivered French industry to the tender mercies of Englishmen ! Surely soilithing bettor than this arrant nonsense is to b expected from the member of a great Parliament—a Parliament which is rapidly seizing supreme power in the State. The simple facts of the case are that the Treaty of Commerce was signed on January 24, 1860, and the ratifications exchanged on February 4th. Two days after this latter date Earl RUSSELL, referring to the rumours respecting the annexation of Savoy, told the British ambassador at Turin that the cession would be a blot on the escutcheon of King Vicron EMMANUEL'S House. The bargain between the two Continental States was the subject of several angry debates in the English Parliament. The English Ministers fre quently condemned it, and so late as the 24th of August, 1860, Lord PA LMITRSTON declared that the French Government had made promises which it never meant to perform, and that the proceeding "must produce a painful impression in the mind of every man in regard to all the parties who were concerned in the transaction." 31. ESTAN CELIN is convicted of an unjust and flagrant error. What 31. ESTANCELIN failed to do, M. lIAENT JENS, the deputy who spoke next, accomplished most effectually. lie produced facts which no wild denunciation can set aside. In 1857 the French exported to England goods worth, in round numbers, £11,060,000; in 1858 the French exports were valued at £13,271,000; in 1859, £16,870,000. By 1865 the total had risen to £31,625,000 ; in 1860, to £37,016,000; in 1867, to £33,7 , 10,000. These are the English figures, and though they differ slightly from those quoted by 31. lIAENTJENS, the difference is unimportant. Such a develop ment of national industry is almost without parallel ; indeed, it can be compared , only with the increase in British exports during the same period, and through the action of the same treaty. So much for the iniquitous bargain by which the French markets were sold to England. It is certain that the wealth of France, as of England, has vastly increased during the last ten years, and it is equally certain that the COBDEN Treaty has largely contributed to this result. It is true that various special industries in France are now in a depressed condition ; but their decline is to be attributed to various causes bad harvests, high prices for raw material, disease amongst the silk worms, and what not. And, lastly, some manu factures have fallen off because English pro ducers are able to undersell their French competitors, this fact only gives the protection ists their old and selfish argument that the interests of the few are to be preferred to the well being of the many. We trust that a more enlightened spirit will prevail in the French Parliament, and that the treaty concluded by the EMPEROIt will receive the wider and better sanction of the people's renre Tent at ives. A number of students of the Royal Military Acadeuiy at Woolwich, who were recently granted commissions in the corps of Royal Engineers, are ordered to join the School of Military Engineer ing at Chatham on the Bth of February. These gentlemen are Lieutenant D. Willimill, St. G. C. Gore, C. 11. Johnstone, R. H. Browne, R. 0. Lloyd, E. 11. Cameron, C. R. Fonder, 11. Mitchell, IL B. Rich, G, W. 1)u Boulay, A. 0. Scott, IL E. litideon, W. Sy' Creswell, -aucl H. V. ppie. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1870. POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE—This Day. MARL I,)Etoi4-_'rTl-STREET. GROSS HYPOCRISY.—A BEGGING- LETTER lIIPOS TOR. —John Thwaitb!s, describing himself as a ear. punter, was charged before Mi . Knox Wi( I. begging by means of begging-letters, of the 11.6 r. Mr. Hall, curate of St. Ann's, Soho. The prosecutor said that it was the custom of one of the clergymen connected with St. Ann's Church to attend there every morning to hear appeals from persons in distress. A few days ago the prisoner who said he was a carpenter. called upon him and -.;tid he bad walked from Windsor and was out of work. He gave the prisoner some temporary r,s sistaitce ; he again called upon him and told him that he had seen Mr. Martin, at Messrs. Jackson and Graham's, about work, and that he was to call again. Ile again gave the prisoner some assistance to tide him over till the following Tuesday, when he sail he was to go to Mr Martin. He afterwards re ved a letter from the prisoner saying that he could get work if he had tools, and he advanced him 10s. for that purpos Yesterday he received another letter from the prisoner asking for assistance to keep him till the end of the week, as he could not borrow any, he being engaged at Messrs. Jackson and Graham's, and it not being allowed by that firm for advances to be made to workmen. He then made inquiries, and found that the prisoner had never been to Messrs. Jackson and Graham's, and on the prisoner calling on him yesterday evening he took him to Mr. Martin, and also to another place where he said he worked, when he admitted that he was not employed at either, and he then gave him into custody. Timbs, 150 E, said that the prisoner admitted that he had not been to Jackson and Graham's to seek work and had not got any. lie said he had worked for Mr. Monk, of Hunter-street, but all that person knew of him was that he went to his school when a lad. At the station the prisoner said that being out of work and having no means caused him to do it. Mr. Knox said the prisoner had not acted hastily, but evidently from the letter before him with great deliberation, and a more disgusting piece of hypo crisy he had never read. The prisoner concluded his letter with " Yours, a Christian Brother, J. llopkins," and a nice specimen he was. The letter was as follows :--" My dear It?verend Sir,—l trust this will find you quite well, as it leaves me much better than I have been, for the work made me feel better. I think, please God, I shall have three months' work. My dear rev. Sir, i could not get away this evening in time for the even-song. I purchased some planes, but had not enough for a rule. If you will lend me enough to take me through the week I will thank you, and will call for it in the dinner hour.—Trusting you will oblige me, my dear rev. Sir, yours truly, a Christian Brother, "J. HOPKINS. Rev. Sir,—We are paid Bd. an hour overtime, and I make three hours every night." Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for three months with hard labour. SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE ON RECIPROCITY. Sir Stafford Northcote made a very important speech on Thursday, at Exeter, on the subject of reciprocity. He presided at the annual meeting of the Exeter Chamber of Commerce. Referring to the discussion now going on in the press and among the public on the question, Sir Stafford said :—"I have no doubt whatever that the expectations held out by those who were the great pro moters of the free trade movement were exaggerated and over-sanguine. It is not at all unnatural that being so, that at the present moment — when there is a good deal of distress in the country there may be some feeling of dis appointment on the part or those who believed they should never see distress again. One can hardly wonder that in some cases it should even have led to a kind of reaction ary feeling. But at the same time I think we ought clearly to make up our minds upon this subject ; and I should say do all we can at once resolutely to put a stop to any reactionary feeling of the kind. I am perfectly convinced that not only is such reaction im possible, but even if by any curious concurrence of circumstances it should take place it could only lead to very great distress and inconvenience. What is really the case when you open trade, and especially if it takes place at a time when the country is in some difficulty from restricted industry and employment, what happens is, that from that moment there is a very great expansion of em ployment, and there is a period of prosperity. Well, then you work up to that margin which you have given your selves, and then the old causes which created the difficulty before come into play again, and you feel the same difficulty you experienced before the expansion It would be quite a wrong thing if you thought you could mend matters by returning to the old limits. You would immediately cause a good deal more distress by restriction. In connection with this we hear a great deal about reciprocity. I presume there is not a single man in the country who, in a certain sense, does not desire, earnestly desire, reciprocity. We all desire that other nations should admit our productions on the same favourable terms on which we admit theirs. But I have always held, as I hold now, as strongly as ever I did, that our really prudent and wise course is to regulate our commercial affairs, without too much reference to the proceedings of our neighbours. I believe we must look at this matter of reciprocity in this way. Suppose you are considering the exchange of the products of England for the products of another country—the.exchange, let us say, of cloth for wine. Supposing a bale of cloth would, if there was no burthen on either of them, exchange for a hogshead of wine; supposing the Government of France chose to take one quarter, of your bale of cloth when you send it in and apply it to the purposes of the Government of France, you would be able to get only three-quarters of a hogshead of wine for the bale of cloth which you had scat from England. That, of course; is a restric tion on trade, and you get a less return for the article you have produced in this country than you would if no such restriction existed. Well, but you do not mend matters by saying, " We, on our side, will in return, take a quarter of the value of • •ihe hogshead of wine which France sends back," because if you do that you will still further limit the return which the English producer will get. In the first place, he will get less because the French Government took a part of the bale of cloth when it got there, and he would. also .get less when the French wine got here; - it would be mulcted by the English Government. No doubt reciprocity is desirable, but you do not mend matters by saying we will impose them on our side, if. restrictions are not taken off on the other side. The only way in which sometimes this doctrine of reciprocity has been found useful is thisl—that by putting a pressure on important classes in the other country, you are able to induce them to agitate in their own country for -the -reduction of the duties imposed by the Government of that country. No doubt when the question arose of a commercial treaty with France in 1860, it was the case that certain benefits were to be got for our trade with France by a bargain with France in that spirit; . but we complain—many 'people complained at that time and still complain—that the bargain made was not nearly so favourable as it ought' to have been and might have been. Ido not want to rip up old sores, but those with whom I usually act were not quite content, lam free to say with the treaty at the time, and we still think it is not a treaty so favourable as might have been ob tained and could have been obtained with more care and in- a different sp!rit. • Most unfortunately it was a treaty which was negotiated with the Emperor of the French rather than with the French people. It was a treaty which the Emperor was anxious to pass quickly, because it was not supported in France by public opinion. And we see now that the consequences of having made.a treaty which was not supported by public opinion have been that there is a movement in France-- whether it is a strong one or not remains to be seen— against the maintenance of the provisions of that treaty . I chink we proceeded in a way which was not the true one. We ought rather to have reduced our own duties where it was right to do so ; we ought not to have attempted this bargaining. It created a false impression here, and still more so abrcad—that there was something which they were giving up, when in point of fact they were oniy conferring an advantage upon themselves as well as upon us. I have thought it right to lay down these doctrines, because there is rather a tendency now to forget the old principles which we thought had been pretty well agreed upon by all persons. Even among those who were free-traders from the beginning there is a tendency to glide back from the ground they had occupied. But I am quite sure it would be most unfortunate for the country if any such tendency should be given way to. We ought to stand firmly upon the principles we have adopted. Ido trust that France will maintain the privileges which she has given to us. I believe we shall find out that the relations which have grown up between France and this country, between France and Germany, and thus indirectly between Germany and this country, will have established a trade between the two countries which it will be difficult to injure or destroy. I believe that the French will see that it is for their advantage that this system should be continued ; but I am sure we should be doing wrong if we gave any encouragement to the idea that England is at all likely to take a step backwards in this matter. At 'Worth there is a charity —so old that it is not known who was the founder—consisting of the rent of four acres of land, and yielding £8 16s. per annum, appro priated to providing agricultural tools for the poor. Sir William Stirling Maxwell has declined the rectorship of Aberdeen 'University on th© ground that a majority of students voted against him. A new election will be necessary, and Mr. Disraeli is spoken of as likely to be brought forward. THE COST OF BEAUTIFYING PARIS.—SO many contradictory reports as to the amount expended by M. Haussmann on the rebuilding of Paris have been circula ted, that it may not be out of place to give the exact figures according to an official return just published. The total expenditure during the last seventeen years amounts to 2,117,500,000 f. (X 84,700,000). Of this the city has paid almost one-half-1,022,500,000f (£40,900,000) out of its own resources, The balance, amounting to X 43,800,000, has been raised by various loans. AN ANTICIPATED VISIT- FROM AN APOSTLE OP THE BEAEMISTS.—The Indian_ newspapers announce that Baboo Kesheb Chunder Sen, the head of the religious body known as the Brahroists, is about to visit England next month or the month after. The weakness of a certain por tion of London society for dark faces will be excusably in dulged in the c. - .se of a very remarkable man, the leader and second founder of a very remarkable Sect. This sect, which originated with the well-known RamUlohun Roy, pro fesses a spiritnalised form of Hindooism near akin to pure theism ; and all accounts agree in stating that it possesses extraordinary attractions for the young generation of educated Hindoos, whom it has relieved not simply from the gross superstitions of their ancestors, but from the somewhat coarse materialism of their immediate predeces sors. The visit of the chief of this body to England is thus explained by the Indian press. He and his followers have had much to suffer lately from three classes very powerful in India—the missionaries, the lawyers, and the ultra-orthodox Hindoos. The mis sionaries have accused the Baboo of allowing himself to be worshipped by his disciples, but this charge is ener getically denied, and it is probably founded on some mis representation or misconception of the exaggerated language in which Hindoos of all sects address their spiritual advisers. The lawyers have dealt the Brahmists a still deadlier blow by discovering that all their marriages are illegally celebrated: They seem to have, in fact, reformed the ordinary marriage ritual of the Hindoos, which they declare to be idolatrous and obscene, but this innovation on usage is stated to be technically fatal to the marriages themselves, The Indian Government has, it appears, proposed to relieve sects thus situatedby allowing them to register their " marriages civilly ; but the Con servative Hindoos are not inclined to sacrifice such an advantage as the power of bastardising the whole Liberal party, and tiley have got up an agitation against the proposal. The Brahmists, on the other hand, are sending their leader to England to represent to the Secretary of State for India and to the British public what their case really is. It is satisfactory to learn that Baboo Kesheb Chunder Sen speaks very pure English, and that he is a most eloquent as well as a most intelligent and 4000341iShed— .all Mall Gin& ; THAMES. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—John Rose, a no torious thief, aged 19 years, and described as a wire-maker, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with being concerned in a daring highway robbery. The victim is Captain William Henry Moore, of the barque Comet. He had just left a shop with a parcel in his hand in Upper East Smithfield, when the prisoner accosted him and struck him and made snatch at his gold watch and chain, which he car ried away. Captain Moore pursued the villain, who rah down a narrow passage. Captain Moore entered the passage, when a confederate of the pri .soner's tripped him up, and the prisoner escaped. Information was given to the police, and a few hours afterwards George Foster, a constable of the 11 division detective department, took the prisoner into custody. He placed him in a room with nine other men, and Captain Moore at once selected him and now clearly identified him. Mr. Paget intimated that he should send the c , se before a jury, and remand , d the prisoner for the completion of the depositions. CRUEL ASSAULT UPON A NlOTHER.—ElizTheth Carter, a very dissipated woman, wai brought before Mr. Paget charged with being drunk, di3. orderly, using obscene languftg, and blTAting, Ellen Sullivan, her own mother, with a poker, fire shovel, And a candlestick, at No. 11, llean-street, Shad well. '1 he prisoner wag intoxicated and making a disturbance. She acted like a mad woman and used fearful language. Her mother, who is ad vanced in years, remonstrated with her, and she beat her simultaneously with a poker, shovel, and candlestick, and severely injured the old woman. Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to six weeks' hard labour in the Westminster House of Correc tion. WESTMINSTER. MURDEP.OUS ASSAULT WITH A HA3INIER.—John Baylis, a billiard table-maker in the employ of Messrs. Cox and Yeman, 209, Brompton-road, was chrrged on a warrant with unlawfully wounding James Skelton, a fellow-workman, by striking him on the head with a hammer. Mr. W. 11. Smyth defended. The assault was committed nearly a fortnight ago, and the iujured man is still unanle to at tend. It appears that they had both been drink ing in the workshop, and as the prosecutor passed the prisoner he slapped him hard on the back and went to his bench, whence for twenty minutes he abused him ; and, finally, as he was leaving the shop struck him with an umbrella. Upon that prisoner turned round and struck him on , he head with a hammer he was using at the time. Prosecutor was able to go out in four or five days, but he became worse, and for a time his life was despaired of. The surgeon at the Charing-cross Hospital now considered he was much better. When prisoner was apprehended he said he wanted the matter cleared up. Mr. Smyth said be could put bail in to any amount. Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner for a week, and accepted bail to the amount of £6O. THE GREAT EASTERN. A communication has been forwarded by Capt. Sherard Osborn on the part of the Telegraph Con struction and Maintenance Company, stating that Captain Young, of the ship Calcutta, just arrived in London, reports having spoke❑ an American whaler which, on the sth December last, had met the Great Easter❑ on the Equator, in the Atlantic, steering south, all well. 'lbis intelligence, it is added, agrees perfectly with the positiou the ship should have reached on that day. It will be noticed that the date referred to in the foregoing brings down the record of the movements of the Great Eastern to only ten days after she left St. Vincent. The greet ship was expected to reach the Cape of Good Hope on the 18th December, and as the mail steamer expected at Plymouth about Monday next was to leave the Cape on the 19t,b, it is by no means certain that she will bring news of the Great Eastern. It appears that the Great Eastern is insured for £140,000, and her cargo for £540,000, the latter being the sum actually paid for the cable to the Telegraph Construction Com pany by the British Indian Submarine Telegraph Company. We learn that the ship Calcutta referred to, arrived in the Downs as far back as the 4th inst. SOUTHWARK ELECTION. Last night Mr. G. Odger addressed the electors of Southwark at the railway arch, Crucifix-lane, Tocley-street. A deputation from the Labour Representation League attended, and on its behalf \lr. Shipton, secretary to the Society of Amalga mated Painters, addressed the meeting, stating that the League was at the back of the electors, and, although one working man would be returned now, they hoped at the next general election to get thirty or forty working men into Parliament. (Cheers.) Mr. ()tiger, in the course of his address, said that come what may he would go to the poll. lie repudiated the insinuation which had been made against him that he had received money from political parties. A vote of confidence was pa,ssed-ir, eaudidite, and the vroceedings ter minated. THE ROBBERY OF EARL RUSSELL. The police of Liverpool did a good thing when they arrested two men, and charged them with burglary at the house of the Ainerican Ambassador. Not that they had been robbing Mr. Motley—they had not. But they (as it turns out) had been robbing somebody, and that some body no less a person than Earl Russell. They stole a silver statuette from him and a medal. Originally the statuette stood upon a silver tripod and pillar, and these were found by the Liverpool police in a house in Craven-street, the latter bearing the following inscrip tion :—" To the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, this memorial is presented by the ladies of Bedford, who wish to express their admiration of his commanding talents, political consistency, and distinguished services in the cause of civil and religious liberty. Sep tember, 1830." The Liverpool magistrates sent the case to Richmond to be tried. At Richmond yesterday a special bench was held. Thomas Mortimore and Curtis Steel, mechanics, lately living at Richmond, were charged with burglariously breaking into Pembroke Lodge, the residence of Earl Russell, on the 7th instant. The silver statue was valued at over one hundredguineas. The whole of the property stolen from Pembroke Lodge is safe in the hands of the police. Mr. Clark applied for and obtained a remand of the prisoners until the petty sessions. MURDER IN LINCOLNSHIRE. An inquest has been held at Eastof t, near Crowle, in North Lincolnshire, on the body of a young man named Charles Brown. It appeared from the evidence that late on Saturday night Brown and some friends entered a room in a public-house in which were already a number of men, all more or less in drink. Among the latter party were a young man, named Patrick Welsh, who was asleep, and a man named Connolly. Connolly asked the new comers to rouse Walsh, and Brown, in play, pulled the sleeper's nose. This irritated Welsh, and to settle the disturbance which ensued the landlord ordered Brown and his party to leave the house; Directly afterwards Welsh and his companions followed them, and when the two parties met, Brown addressed Welsh with, " Wilt ta, into me now." Welsh replied, "I will, if you don't keep off." There then commenced a struggle, and it ended iu Brown staggering helplessly to an adjacent wall, and Welsh walking away with a knife in his hand and threatening Brown's friends with violence. Brown was carried home in a dying state, for he had received three wounds in the abdomen, and he expired before a magis trate could be got to take his deposition. When Welsh was apprehended he attempted to attack the police with a poker, but the weapon was wrested from him. He was taken to Brown's house and confronted with the dying man. When the wounds were shown him he burst into laughter. Two knives were found in Welsh's pockets, one an open one, and the other a two-bladed clasp one. —The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Welsh, who was committed for trial at the Lincoln assizes. DR LYON PLAYFAIR ON EDUCATION. In a lecture on "Primary Education," delivered before the Philosophical Institution at Edinburgh, Dr. Lyon Playfair much regretted the loss of the Scotch Education Bill last session. Had it passed into law, Scotland would have been assured that its own national system of educa tion would have been preserved and superintended by a Board of Education in Edinburgh, instead of being regulated by clerks in the Privy Council-office in London. Had the bill passed into an Act you would have confirmed for all Scotland, and have given an example to England, that it is the duty of localities to educate the people by rates levied in them. Then there was in the bill the seeds of a great reform, for it gave power to districts to form educational unions for the promotion of special branches of knowledge, and their utility would have prepared the public mind for one of the greatest improvements in the education of the people —the division of the country into educational unions • large enough for the efficient administration of all instructional measures. Now, with these positive advan tages, how was it that the measure was only coldly sup portedby some of the representatives of the people? Doubt ! less because it was transparently a bill of compromises, and not of general principles. Yet, how could it have been otherwise? The education of Scotland has been created by a variety of Churches, and their views required to be consulted. In my view the Scotch Education Bill, as it was introduced to the House of Lords, and even as it left the Commons, had in it so much of good, that its operation would have ensured excellent education for the people." Speaking of education generally Dr. Playfair com plained that the authorities of the parochial and higher schools were not alive to the changing character of in struction, not sufficiently on the alert to fit their teaching to the requirements of the age. Beside, training 'ministers and the like, they must give tradesmen and manu facturers the principles of science and art, of which they stand in so much need. Otherwise no help will be given in the House of Commons." The lecturer then con sidered the best means of setting up a compulsory sys tem of education. "If compulsory education be enforced, there are two methods of effecting it. The first is the direct method, by which police agency enforces the law on parents and guar dians who neglect the education of their children. The second is the indirect method, in which employers of labour are prohibited from employing children unless they are in possession of elementary education. As to the abstract principle involved in the two methods, there is nothing to choose between them. It is quite as respect- able and humane to drive childran into school by the policeman's truncheon, as it is to threaten them with star vation by refusing employment to the uneducated. The choice between them, to my mind, is one of simple expe diency, and my own preference as a matter of expediency is for the indirect principle. In constitutional Govern ments it has not been found possible to work a law of diiect compulsion until the great bulk of the people had become educated to it, and, under the • best conditions, this requires two generations to effect. I do not see any solution of our difficulties by an exten sion of the factory system on its present basis, though I by no means desire to abolish half-time schools. On the contrary, I desire that they should become the natural secondary schools for the working classes, to whom they might give knowledge in the sciences and arts bear ing on their trades. But if we could make elementary education, however moderate in quantity, an absolute condition for employment, we would obtain far more advantages than on the present half-time system. For the factory half-time system, instead of encouraging elementary education, positively discourages it as a duty of the parent, and throws it from him to the employer of labour. Parents naturally say—as our children must attend school from eight to thirteen while in factories, let us postpone all attempts to educate them till they begin to earn wages for them ! selves. Hence, the results at the best are poor. The first advantage of making ability to pass an examination in Standard 111. a condition of labour is that you enlist every parent on the side of education, from noble motives if he possess them, from ignoble motives if he do not. Poor parents require the fruit of their children's labour to aid in their support, so that if wages can only be obtained through education, that will be pressed on their children with all the power at their command. If reading, writing, and arithmetic be made essential tools for labour, parents will insist on them, as they would on a hammer, chisel, and gimlet, if their sons were to be carpenters." Dr. Playfair advocates the classification of children in largo schools ; and as far as Scotland is con cerned he thinks it unwise to restrict State aid to the " three R's," but he knows that a different opinion is held in England, OUR. MISSION TO OIIINA.—Most people would very reasonably have thought that anything less likely to excite commercial speculation than the new treaty with China it would be difficult to imagine; and yet, on the strength of the new transit regulations, a London firm is about to send out to Shanghae a consignment of eight hundred and forty thousand pocket-knives, and sixty thousand bottles of brandy, for transmission into the interior of the country. THE FRENCH AND THE MERCANTILE MARINE. — The following address to the French Ministers, and to the members of the Corps Legislatif, has been very nu merously signed by the merchants and shipowners of Havre :—"Messieurs les Ministres. Messieurs les Deputes. "The undersigned, merchants and shipowners of Haire, have not been able to see unmoved the decrees of January 10th, 1870, by which the economic ,position of certain national industries has been abruptly modified. Convinced that the stability of com mercial legislation is the necessary basis for the develop ment of trade ; considering that the effects of the mercan tile marine law of 1860, which has only been in force during six months, and which has been so loudly protested against, have not been sufficiently tried; considering also that the economic system inaugurated in 1866 has greatly de veloped trade; we pray for the maintenance of the law of May 19th, 1860, and the renewal of the treaties of commerce, subject to such modifica tions in matters of detail as experience may havo shown to be desirable. And the undersigned entreat you not to consent to any modification of the existing regints unlit a parliamentary inquiry shall have enlightened the deameratoutt and the Chambers as to the coal intonate of ttt "latitirAnr-'Z AV-WY 1 - 4 . 1§7961. SPIRIT OF THE PUB raT,C JOURNALS. The Times thinks the state of things existing in Chapel town, Sheffield, should not be permitted in any civilised country, or under any responsible government. The dismissed colliers will allow no successors in the work vacated. Supported in idleness from the funds of their Union, they have declined to quit the district, and have applied themselves to the duty of rendering the place uninhabitable, not only to the new-comers, but to the rest of the population. The colliers attack not only the ob noxious workpeople, but even their very wives and little ones. A mother cannot fetch a bottle of physic for her sick child except under an escort of police. The children themselves dare not go to school for fear of vio lence on the road ; nor can they so much as venture to church on Sundays. Even now we have not told the worst, for the dead themselves are not safe from insult, and the decencies of burial are outraged by howling mobs of rioters. More than once attacks on a large scale have been organised, and the reports from the place represent it as under a reign of terror, without relief or pro tection from law. No circumstances whatever could justify proceedings like these. We have endeavoured to explain, without leaning or prejudice, the origin of the quarrel, and we have given what we can imagine might be the arguments relied upon by the men. But in whatever light the conduct of the masters is viewed it appears perfectly allowable; nor, if it were otherwise, would the fact carry the least excuse for these outrageous breaches of law and order. If Messrs. Newton and Chambers desired to free themselves from the interference of a trade union in their affairs, their right to do so was indisputable, and their motives in so doing not much open to question. If, again, they desired to get cheaper labour than they were employing, that also was at their discretion, and the very fact that they have obtained it justifies their views. But, leaving all these considerations aside, it is a disgrace to the authorities that the peace of a district should be systematically broken; and its inhabitants subjected to daily outrage by such proceedings as we have described. The proprietors of the Thorncliffe Collieries may have had more or less reason fur their dealings with their men, but there can be neither reason nor excuse for putting a peaceable parish out of the pale of the law, and the mero exposure of the fact will suffice, we hope, for the removal of the reproach without delay. It is by no means improbable, says the Standard, that the meeting of the Church Institution on the subject of the election of bishops may prove the initial step of a movement which will exercise a very important influence upon the relations which now exist between the Church and the State. It is due to Mr. Gladstone and the sinister policy which he has pursued in regard to the appointment of Dr. Temple, that grave and sober men who have long been the stanchest upholders of the union are beginning to ask whether the Church is justified in making such sacrifices as those demanded by the present Premier in behalf of the State. The Dean of Norwich proposes to do away with the profane sham of the cove d'ilire, and to abolish the penalties which now attach to a bishop who refuses to take part in the consecration. In a word, he would make both the election and the con secration perfectly free. We agree with Sir John Pakington that the farce of the conge d'ilire should be got rid of, and that the power of election, now nominally vested in the dean and chapter, should either be made real or withdrawn altogether. If, however, it is a question of giving the Church a real voice in the election of her bishops, there is a mode of eliciting it which seems far preferable to any improvement which can be effected in the form of election by the chapter. Would it not be more feasible that the Crown should nominate two or more candidates for the vacant see, and that the names should be submitted to the vote of a kind of diocesan synod, in which the clergy of all grades, toge ther with the lay members of the Church, should be fairly represented? It appears to us that under some such scheme, the rights of the Crown and of the Church would be equally provided for, and that we should get a bona fide election into the bargain. Of course it would be liable to the drawback that under such an arrangement the appointment of another Dr. Temple would be im possible. The Pall Mall Gazette observes that the directors of the Brighton Railway, in their report just issued, take credit to themselves that they have always acted on the prin ciple of making a clean breast of everything, whether agreeable or disagreeable. On the present occasion it must be confessed the disagreeable predominates. In recommending the complete abandonment of the Surrey and Sussex line, the directors intimate that this will involve altogether an absolute loss of £500,000 on this un dertaking. In the present reduction of work ing expenditure the directors have more substan tial comfort to offer. This reduction would, in spite of the falling off in receipts, have had the effect of leaving a surplus for a dividend--a small one, it is true ; but still 225. 6d. per cent. would have been much to the Brighton shareholders. The New Cross collision dashed their hopes. For the passenger train, which was run into by a goods train, the company received only £l7, as it was provided for the Licensed Victuallers' ftlte at very low rates. In com pensation and other expenses connected with the accident, they will have to pay, it is estimated, £45,000. The report winds up with a bitter protest against the oppressive com pensations exacted from railway companies. It is impos sible to deny that juries are prejudiced against the com panies, but there are two exceptions we must take to the directors' remarks. They argue that the collision shewed no want of precaution on the part of the company, but oniy that " human agency is not infallible." It shewed more than this ; that the most cautious and experienced railway servants are in the habit of disregarding signals altogether, and we fear that too often they are not only allowed to ignore rules with impunity, but have superior warrant for doing so. Again, the directors complain that no other department of the carrying busi ness is subject to such unlimited liability for accidents. Phis is an error. Every branch of the carrying business is subject to exactly the same degree of liability, which may be enforced in the same way. The law as to railways, steamers, sailing vessels, stage coaches is in this respect the same, and we can hardly conceive how the Brighton Erectors should be ignorant of this. The Telegraph agrees with Mr. Forster in looking for ward to a time when, by some means or another, states men will be able to weld a bond together which will unite the English-speaking people in our colonies at present — unite them with the mother country in one great ~onfederation. "It may be a dream," said Mr. Forster, "but still I believe in its fulfilment." And at presence of such a union of one hundred million English-speaking peoples," ranged by nature, interest, Ind comfort upon the side of peace and progress, what sublime programme would then seem visionary? What dynastic intrigues and military tyrannies could con tinue to exist ? War would be impossible without the ieave and license of that globe -embracing Federation, and the dreams of the poet and the statesman would come nearer to realised truth than any but a few dare now to believe. Of course, a project so grand as that of a Federa tion:of "the English-speaking peoples" cannot be draughted sff in a day, like an Act of Parliament. What should be the oasis of such a union, what the c onsultative, and what the Executive machinery of its colossal power—how best to 3stablish its foundation and ensure its continuance—will be problems of extraordinary novelty. and moment. To fettle thorn would demand a spirit of faith and patriotism large as the enormous issues involved. It would need the freest interchange of ideas, designs, and discussions ; the frankest statements, and the fullest information, with the tclditional elements of time to mature the minds of men for a scheme so glorious. It would necessarily await the growth of new events to lead to its accomplishment. The plan would not be magnificent, if the difficulties were not many and great ; and, as in all exalted enterprises, victory must be carried by arduous and noble achieve manta. Not to-day, not to-morrow, but at no inconceiv 'Ably distant day will arrive the time to render the splendid fore-cast a reality, and with the time will arise tho mind which will know how to make use of the unextinguished sense of brotherhood between us all as a spell to charm obstacles away, and to create the superb alliance. The Daily 11 errs remarks that the Governmnnt has not done much during the recess to satisfy the curiosity of the public as to the legislation of the coming session. Only two of its members have spoken on political questions, and they both exhibited a caution which has probably been more satisfaotory to their colleagues than edifying to the world. Mr. Bright exhibited what some of his critics, and perhaps some of his colleagues, must have felt to be a now power of keeping Cabinet secrets, and Mr. Forster, who had no Cabinet secrets to tell, gave the only new and definite promise of legislation which the Ministry have yet given to the country. In such a Go vernment as the present courage is wisdom, and zeal is discretion, Great Liberal measures are waiting tobe passed ' into- :law, and to pass them without delay is the true policy of a strong Liberal Government. It may be easier to lot such measures ripen till they pass themselves, or, what is the same thing, till even Tories consent to pass them but a strong Government has no right to take counsel of its ease. It should do and dare great things. It should be equal to all its opportunities, and alive to all its duties. It is not necessary to urge these considerations upon Mr. Gladstone, The country and the Liberal party know 1113 generous eagerness and constitutional love of great under takings, We should be rather disposed to entreat him personally to spare himself and carefully husband that strength of which England still expects so much. The country has unbounded faith hi his devotedness, and will take his word as to what is practicable, but we do not thin lie will be the statesman to chide the publie•spirited iratt,A6i t Ot his folloiviii; ~ j ~ '~ ~ t i ,' ~, , I) 11 -: • . 7‘, t 111tk OSBORNE, Jan. 20. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Louise, drove in the grounds this morning. Her Majesty, we regret to learn from the Lancet, , as been suffering repeatedly during the past few „oaths from neuralgia, severe enough to seriously mterfere with rest. Her Majesty has just recovered from a recurrence of the neuralgia in the face. The attacks have been attributable to disturbance of the nervous system, due to exposure, worry, or excite ment. The Prince of Wales is expected to leave Marl borough House to-morrow to join the Princess at Lord Suffield's residence at Gunton, in Norfolk. LATEST INTELL MEN OE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Tan. 20. The Guion steamship Nevada arrived out yes terday. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of Brook lyn arrived here at 7 p.m. to-day. All well. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1201; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1211 ; the lowest, 1201. Sterling Exchange on London lOBl. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 llsf. ic " 1885 ll5l. 46 " 1867 ll4l. 10-40 44 Illinois 139. Erie . Cotton—Mid. upland Petroleum—Standard White 32e. Flour, extra state,s.loc. to $5.70e. Corn, old sl.2c. BOSTON, Jan.' 20. The Cunard steamer Marathon arrived out at 9 a.m. to-day. SIR SAMUEL BAKER'S EXPEDITION. CAIRO, Jai). 21. Sir Samuel Baker reports that he arrived at Berber, on the Nile on the Ist of January ; all well. He performed the journey .front Suez in 26 days. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Jan. 20. The Chamber of Deputies was dissolved this afternoon by Royal decree, and the new elections have been ordered to take place on March 15. INDIA. BoMBAY, Jan. 19. H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh will arrive nt Agra on the 20th inst. The Bank of Bombay has declared a dividend at the rate of five per cent. per annum. FRANCE. PARIS, Jan. 21. The strike at Crewzot continued during yester day afternoon, but no disturbance whatever oc curred. it is, however, asserted that troops will be de spatched there as a precautionary measure. BOURSE, Jan. 20.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 14 per Cent. ItaPan Fives 54 85 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 44 Spanish Threes 26 50 Home Debt.. Deferred . ,Yl3, 31373 r Cent End of month 73 12i Credit Mobilier •, 2lO Transatlantic 196 25 Credit Foncier —1760 Paris Gas 1665 Suez Canal 342 50 RAIL WA' Cash Orleans Western - Northern Strasburg • • 595 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 666 17 Sardinian Austrian 790 Lombard 5lO North of Spain - Saragossa Roman 47 WRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE. RAMSGATE, Jan. 20. A very sad affair happened last night, by which two poor fellows lost their lives at sea, almost within sight of their homes. At about halt-past six o'clock, the night being very dark at the time, a fishing smack, the Whiff, belonging to Mr. J. Penney, of this town, having sprung a leak, was making for this port. It was very l ow water, being the ebb of a spring tide. She unfortunately struck on the brake, a flinty ridge well known to mariners, which extends some miles in this neighbourhood. After grounding, a heavy breaker swept the deck, carrying away and drowning two of the hands. The skipper and re maining hand then launched her boat, but it was immediately swamped. Owing to the extreme lowness of the tide, the lifeboat Bradford and the tug were unable to leave the harbour till nearly nine o'clock. The wind prevented the lifeboat from pro ceeding alone. The Broadstairs lifeboat was telegraphed for, and, it is said, put to sea about eight. It was a long time before the wreck could be found, it having drifted some distance before settling down. When found, a portion of the mast was above water, with the two survivors clinging thereto. They were nearly killed by exposure and exhaustion. One of them bad been compelled to relax his hold, and had slipped down the mast, and was immersed nearly to his neck. The lifeboat, on its return, reached the harbour at midnight, and the poor fellows were taken to the Sailors' Home, where they remain in a very precarious condition. DUNDEE, Jan. 19. The schooner John Onward, of Goole, struck on the Gaa Bank in the river Tay, about six o'clock this morning, during thick weather and while a considerable sea was running on the banks (says Johne lighthouse-keeper Hunter Junk, Esq., of the T r i n ity House). The at daylight telegraphed the r news to Broughty Ferry. The Buddon Ness life boat, Eleanora, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, was taken out as soon as practicable, and took off three of the crew, two of them remaining on board the vessel. The Broughty Ferry lifeboat Mary minutes afterwards, an d Society, arrived hiach few wso b e l o ngs to the Lif e b oa t remained by the vessel, which was making a great deal of water. A steam tug subsequently, with the assistance of the lifeboat's crew, got the vessel off and brought her into harbour, but much damaged. The Buddon Nets boat was damaged in going alongside the vessel, but not seriously. She has, however, had to be brought to Dundee to be repaired. A telegram has been received from Alexandria re porting the departure of her Majesty's India❑ troop ship Serapis (from that I sort at 10 a.m., on the 18th inst. (all well) for Portsmouth. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by 3lessis. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be called •` The Royal Irish Distillery." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening. FRIDAY ...... 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