The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-20 00:00:00

THE WEEKLY PRESS. THE REVISED EDUCATION BILL, The Saturday Review remarks that, in spite of the dis guises in which Mr. Gladstone naturally endeavoured to wrap up the fact, the impression—at all events, the first impression —left on our minds by his announcement on Thursday is that a virtually new Education Bill has been submitted to Parliament. That being so, we shall not attempt to criticise the substantive proposals of the Government until there has been time to estimate their real extent and purpose. A large part of Mr. Gladstone's speech necessarily dealt with those features of the former measure which the Government has found it necessary to excise or modify, and the course taken in respect to these justifies the regret we have all [along expressed that the religious difficulty should have been thrust whole and entire upon the School Boards. It became evident, very shortly after the introduction of the bill, that this proceed ing must result in one of three things—a schism in the Libe ral party, the recognition of an unsound principle, or the construction of a more or less unsatisfactory compromise. Whether the threatened schism would really have been as formidable as its intending promoters chose to make out may be doubted, but the general abandonment of denominational principles by Dissenters of all kinds has certainly given the.secularist faction a degree of strength which by themselves they could not possibly have attained. Besides this, the agitation against leaving the local Boards free to teach religion, had, as Mr. Gladstone pointed out, immensely increased the chances of this freedom being turned to bad account. There can be no question that the prediction of coming discord in the School Boards "is one which is likely to fulfil itself." Every Dissenter who has committed himself to such a prophecy would have felt bound to do his part towards its accomplishment, and the flame of religious controvers y . can be kindled by such a little matter that a very small minority of the community might have had the power of setting the majority by the ears. The most important perhaps of the changes indicated by Mr. Gladstone is the severance of the proposed connexion between School Boards and voluntary schools. We must reserve our final judgment upon this change until there has been time and opportunity to examine the details of its working. At the first glance it commands our entire approval. If fair play is given to the system of voluntary effort by the side of the new rate-provided schools, it is probable that the number of the latter will not be very great, and the sphere of their action will be restricted for the most part to places where from various causes volun tary effort has altogether failed. There ought to be no delay, however, in laying the particulars of this part of the Government scheme before the public, and it should be invested with the same legislative sanction as the provisions relating to the schools to be here after established out of the rates. It will not do to have one half of the educational compromise resting on an Act of Parliament, while the other half remains liable to be modified or repealed at the pleasure of the Educa tion Department. THE LAND BILL IN THE LORDS. The first two days of debate in the Lords on the Land Bill have disappointed us, says the Spectator. That the bill must be accepted, we understood, for the peers are not the kind of persons who can profit by anarchy; and as it had to be accepted, it was nearly certain that it would be accepted without waste of power in sterile oppo sition or useless divisions. But we thought the tone of the discussion would have risen a little higher, that men so familiar with politics would have bothered themselves less with considerations of property, that the chiefs of parties, at any rate, would have tried to estimate publicly the social effect of the proposed legislation, to make the public comprehend it from the point of view of the states man who tries to remodel society or oppose its remodel ling. Instead of this, the discussion, though full of prac tical points, has been rather smaller in scope than it was in the Commons, and decidedly smaller than it has been in the press. Lord Salisbury elevated it for a moment when he pointed out that the effect of Mr. Bright's clauses, if they succeeded, would be to bring an army of small proprietors to the aid of the larger landowners, but the general tone of the debate was humdrum to wea riness. The peers talked as farmers talk of tenure, with great wealth of knowledge, but with no capacity, or rather no inclination, to look at the matter from the ruler's point of view. The country, which wants to know what the great landlords think the bill will secure or fail to secure, will find itself but little more enlightened than it was when the measure left the Commons. The public only see that the Lords do' not intend to resist the bill, and naturally their general conclusion will be, that if these natural opponents of a' Liberal Government, these heirs of immense possessions, these nobles to whom property in land is of such vital importance, can accede to the bill, it cannot at all events be dangerous, and as Mr. Gladstone says it will be beneficial, it had better pass. The total result of the discussion will, we venture to say, be a dimi nution of confidence in the reviewing capacity of the Lords, an increase of confidence in Mr. Gladstone's judgment upon very great measures, and a general resolve not to be quite so much frightened by the next revolu tionary bill. FRENCH PURCHASES OF WHEAT. The Economist calls attention to the fact that France, which is usually a wheat exporting country—a country from which we occasionally take a considerable portion of our total imports of wheat—becomes sometimes an im porter of that article and a competitor with ourselves in the food-markets of the world. And the present is one of the occasions when she is a buyer. The season which has not been favourable to most crops in England has been bad for almost all French produce. The long drought has excited no little apprehension about the coming harvest — a fact which tells more, of course, as last year's harvest was somewhat deficient. Consequently, it is understood, large purchases of wheat have lately been made on French account, and this is the principle cause of the sudden rise in price which has lately taken place. It is obvious that a fact of this sort must be of no small economic im portance. Anything which causes fluctuations in wheat is important, but such great fluctuations in the condi tion of France, as her changes from selling to purchasing wheat imply, must deserve investigation for themselves. It is clear that a result of French peasant proprietorship is the fluctuation in its harvest, which has so mischievous an economic effect. With a better system of agriculture there would either be less land laid out for wheat to yield the present average crop—consequently a less surface ex posed to the mercy of the seasons, and a steadier crop ; or the same land would always produce a much larger crop, and the fluctuations in proportion to the average supply would be less. The former alternative would be the more likely, as the economic circumstances of France are too like those of England to make a large cultivation of wheat for export profitable ; but whichever should be the actual practice, the peculiarly irregular action of France in the wheat market would cease. And the peasant proprietors would gain as much by the change as the consumers of their produce. Many of them would be spared for more profitable pursuits, and those that were left would make more profit in a pursuit less subject to fluctuation than it is now. THE TYRANNY OF NONCONFORMITY. The John Bull says the peers would do well to read carefully the Nonconformist papers. There is a great desire in these days to settle everything, and those who only take a superficial view of questions imagine that concessions secure at least a temporary - respite from trouble. Let those who are so easily misled arouse them selves before it is too late. Their lordships may read in the English Independent instructions given by the ruling powers, the Nonconformists of England, by whom, and not by Queen, Lords, and Commons it appears are we now governed. We commend to the notice of members of the Upper House, as additional reasons for rejecting the Universities Tests Bill, the following modest observa tions of the English Independent :—" At first we con tended only for the abolition of University Tests, and that was fiercely opposed, only with the result of in creasing our demands, and leading us to insist that the colleges and fellowships should be thrown open to men of all creeds. If the bill pass even in its present shape, much more if it be improved in the way we have indicated, we shall secure more than we have even con tended for prior to the present session, and we can afford to wait for some other concessions which are neces sary to secure complete religious equality, and which we have no doubt will follow at no very distant period." As to the coming census the organ of our dictators yet more peremptorily (the italics are not ours) denounces a religious census :—The Anglicans reckon that an immense number of people who never enter a place of worship of any kind would register themselves as Church of England men, and so they could muster a plausible majority,which should for a while bolster up the Establishment and gratify the vanity of the clergy, though that would be done at the expense of misleading the country as to the real religious condition of the population. The trick is so transparent that it cannot be played. In 1861 we had some difficulty in preventing such a hoax ; the task would be less difficult now, and it may just as well be understood that the Nonconformists will not permit it. Our antagonists know that when we say that they may as well give up the attempt.—Surely apathy has not become so ingrained in the English nature that we shall submit not only to be governed by the Irish and Scotch vote, but to allow a number of noisy Nonconformists to make us bow down to their tyrannical and impertinent decrees. Apropos of the experiments which are continually being made in gunnery, the Broad Arrow hears a rumour that the whole of the chilled shot are to be withdrawn from the service and replaced by projectiles chilled only at the point, and having bodies east in sand. _ _ On Friday a popular demonstration took place in the town of Ramsgate to celebrate the decision of the Lord Chief Justice against the local magistrates, in arecent case of the " Queen v. Stevens," tried before the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday last. The expressions of satis faction were universal, speeches made, resolutions passed, generally condemnatory of the local administration of jus tice, and more especially, of the system of the magistrates clerk's salary, arising in a great m e as ur e from the fines of the convicted. The meeting broke up amidst cheers for Mr. Purcell, the counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Welby Pugin,. through whose instrumentality the case has been brought into the London Courts. THE METROPOLITAN POLICE.—It is stated in well-informed quarters that a number of resignations have been sent in during the past week by members of the metropolitan police force, and that those resignations do not apply to one class of men only, but include station inspectors as well as ordinary tonstables. The cause Assigned with respect to the form& is that, while granting a trifling increase of pay to the general body of the force, Colonel Henderson has withheld it from the station inspectors, who, although they do not perform out-door duty, occupy the responsible position of dealing with the charges as they are presented by the constables, which o ften involve points requiring sound judgment to decide upon. The constables are dissatisfied at the abolition of their two days' leave of absence to a month of duty, and and do not consider the mere trifling addition of pence to their pay compensates for the loss. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNINO, JUNE 20. 1870. THE VOLUNTEERS. There is every prospect of an unusually successful meeting at Wimbledon Camp this year. The National Rifle Association have. received a larger number of entries for all the principal prizes than they did la'st year. There is an excess of about fifty entries for the Queen's Prize, and 140 for the St. George's Challenge Vase, while for the All Comers' Prizes the entrance feSs are in excess of those of last year by £377. The " extra prizes " given by tradesmen and others are more numerous. than in former years, and many handsome . articles have been already received. The applicatiohs for space in the exhibitim tent and bazaar were twice as numerous as the council could find room for, and now every stall and plot is allot ted. The regimental camp will be about as large as irk year. Two new corners, the 3rd London Rifles and the 6th Tower Hamlets Rifles, take the place of two cerps, the London Engineers and 19th Surrey Rifles, which have not applied for space. All the entries for the contests of the National Artillery Association must be made on er. before July 1. THE EDMUNDS SCANDAL. AN ILLEGAL ELECTION OF GUARDIANS. There is a very awkward state of things in St. Saviour's Union. The Poor-law Board has declared the election of the guardians for the parish of St. Saviour, to be illegal. An important decision respecting the prerogative of the Crown was given by Mr. Justice Willes, in Judges' Chambers on Saturday. This day had been appointed for judgment in the Edmunds' case .on the point whether the new law to abolish imprisonment for debt included debts due to the Crown. Mr. Justice Willes, before he gave judgment, mentioned that he had received a letter from Mr. Edmunds, but there was nothing in it further than what he had heard. Still it was improper to write to any one who had to decide on the case. His lordship gave his opinion on the new Act, and held that there was no express enactment or necessary implication to take away the prerogative of the Crown, and he must refuse to make any order on the application of the defendant. Mr. Edmunds remains in Whitecross street Prison. lis announcement has thrown the guardians into the greatest consternation. The question was raised by a Mr. Side, who claimed to sit on the Board of Guardians because Lis name was sent in at the election, but omitted by the clerk, though some votes were given for him. As the other candidates were not put to the vote, it was believed by Mr. Side and his friends that he was in reality the only candidate elected. Mr. Side communicated with the Poor Law Board, and received in reply a somewhat startling docu ment. The question as to his individual election mattered very little in the opinion of the Whitehall authorities as owing to a want of the proper publication of the notice of election the whole Board held their positions illegally, and the whole election was void. The Poor-law Board therefore announced its intention of issuing an order for a fresh election to take place. The complaint made by the Poor Law Board is declared by some to be altogether unfounded, as the 26th of March occurred this year on a Saturday, not on a Sunday as stated in the official letter. This would materially alter the state of the case. THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION BILL. A meeting of Nonconformists was held in Leeds on Friday respecting the Government amendments on the Education Bill. The Mayor of Leeds. presided, and said he thought the bill was now worse than it was before. A resolution was passed expressing an opinion that the amendments were inadequate, and that religious instruc tion should be provided by voluntary effort only, but that rather than postpone legislation, it would be better to accept Bible teaching without denominational tenets, subject to a time-table conscience clause. The motion was supported by several speakers and opposed by Mr. Frederick Baines brother of Mr. Baines, M.P., and others. The Rev. , E. Conder said that he would rather that the Government should lay down what was to be taught as religion than that they should exclude religion. The resolution was carried with only a few dissentients. It was also resolved that school boards ought to be estab lished in every district, and that it should be imperative on them to enforce attendance. _ _ _ ..„ A meeting of Protestant Nonconformists was held in Liverpool, on Friday, when a resolution was adopted re cognising the value of the amendments proposed by Mr. Forster to be introduced into the Elementary Education Bill, and also of the willingness manifested by Mr. Glad stone in his statement to the House of Commons on Thursday night to adopt further modification. ENGLISH BRAVERY. Englishmen certainly are as brave as lions. In no other country in the world but England would Hinson have been allowed in open day and in the presence of a number of people, to murder his victims at Wood-green a few months ago. What moral courage was dis played on that occasion in checking the natural feelingfi of indignation which must have been excited by the hor rible tragedy ! And since that day we seem, if possible, to have improved and to have become more fearless in the presence of crime. At Cremorne Gardens, on Thurs day, a marvellous instance of courage occurred under somewhat similar circumstances. Two cooks belonging to that establishment having quarrelled in consequence of a practical joke, one of them drew his knife from the sheath at his side and pursued the other round the ldtcheiv " amid the screams of the other servants, who were afraid to interfere." It ended in the fugitive being stabbed twice in the left side and conveyed to St. George's Hospital, with little hope of recovery. In the event of his death and the execution of his destroyer, the screams of " the other servants" will, we suppose, be louder than ever; but, with every respect for the good-feeling they displayed, we venture to suggest that the next time they see one of their body chasing a fellow creatire with a knife it might be as well to defer their screams until they have disarmed the intended assassin. By thus preventing the murder of one man and the execution of another, they will be doing better service to both than by any amount of senseless noise before the event. —Pall Mall Gazette. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. A very important correspondence has taken place between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, as to the action which it might be desirable for the Episcopate of the. English Church to take with regard to the CEcumenical Council. In a letter which the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol addressed to the Archbishop on the 16th inst., he says --" Many serious people think it would be desirable that the Bishops of the English Church should place on record some protest in reference to the present Council in Rome. I can quite understand the loyal feeling which might move many to judge such a course to be expedient. At the same time, I cannot but feel, first, that if the protest be against the assembling or composition of the Council, it ought to have been made long ago when the Council was summoned ; second, that if the protest be levelled against the doctrine which it is supposed the Council may promulgate, it would be a protest against a doctrine with which, by the I nature of the case, the Reformed Church of England can have but little to do. Being in this difficulty I venture to ask your Grace's counsel and advice." In his reply, the Archbishop of Canterbury says : " I cannot as at present advised, persuade myself that it is desirable for the Episcopate of the Church of England to come forward and issue a protest against Papal infallibility. The statement of our Church, as set forth in articles and formularies touching the claims of the Church of Rome, is so full and explicit that, as it seems to me, it requires neither explanation nor addition. The more dignified, wise, and sober polity for us to adopt, as I think, is to let Rome take her own course. The Church of England, as far as I know, has not at present been addressed b 3 the Pope, or his so-called (Ecumenical Council, or by any person whatsoever, and I cannot see any necessity for us to go out of our way to put forth a manifesto. I fully expect that if the supporters to the claim of infallibility are left alone they will do their own cause infinite mischief and great good to the cause of truth. lam quite sure that the English nation does not expect any declaration or action from us other than by a stedfast adherence to our old principles, both in our practice and in our teaching. Neither do I think that the great body of Cnristians ex pect us to move." PROSECUTION OF THE VICAR OF .FROME. The hearing of the case against the Rev. William Earley Bennett, vicar of Frome, for promulgating in his written works doctrines contrary to those of the Church of England, was resumed on Saturday, in the Court of Arches, before Sir IL Phillimore, Dean. The defendant was again called three times, but did not appear. Mr. A. J. Stephens, Q.C., continued his quotations from the writings of Mr. Bennett, and his arguments there upon. Having observed that this arrogant assumption of the propitiatory sacrifice had been pre-eminently de nounced by eminent divines during every period of the Reformation, the learned counsel referred to the charge against Mr. Bennett of the adoration of the Host, and quoted the words of the reverend gentleman, in which he admitted that he preached this adoration, and taught it to his people. Jermey Taylor, and other eminent divines, said.that this was contrary to the doctrine of the Church of England, for the reason that Christ being in heaven, he could not be in the elements, and the Church knows nothing of that spiri tual presence for which Mr. Bennett contended. By maintaining this practice, then, he was guilty of idolatry. The learned counsel then proceeded to sum up his evi dence, contrasting the propositions derived from the 39 Articles, the formularies of the Church of England, and the opinions of eminent divines with the deduction which had been drawn from the writings of Mr. Bennett. He submitted that he had made out his case against the rev. gentleman in reference to every charge and that the doctrines he held and taught were distinctly in opposition to the laws of the Church of England. Dr. Tristram then proceeded to address the court first of all in reference to the statement of his lordship at an early period of the case, that the question he should have to consider was whether the words of Mr. Bennett were capable of more than one meaning. He submitted that it was impossible to come to any other conclusion thanthat those words could only be construed as conveying doc trines totally at variance with the views of the articles and formularies of the Church of England. Having considered this point, it would be for his lordship to say whether such views as those entertained by Mr. Bennett could be permitted to be taught by any clergy man of that Church. As far as he could judge of Mr. Bennett's views he must be either maintaining the Roman Catholic doctrine that Christ had only one body after the Resurrection, and that that was present in the elements; or he must be maintaining the theory for which no authority could be found whatever, namely, that Christ had two bodies—one of which was natural and was in heaven, and the other a supernatural one, which entered into the elements by consecration. In conclusion he sub mitted that his lordship should read the words of Mr. Bennett as an ordinary individual would read them. — His lordship said it was a case of vast importance, not to Mr. Bennett alone, but to many others, and he would therefore take time to consider his judgment. THE BELGIAN TACTICS. The Indapendance Beige attributes the success of the clerical party to the faults of the Government, and the offenc e it has given by disappointing the legitimate hopes of the country. The Belgian journal refers to the alliance of the Catholics and the Radicals daring the elections, and draws from it the inference that the triumph of the Catholic party will not have the disastrous consequences which might have been feared at first. At any rate, if the clergy have won in the struggle, their doctrines are not the less condemned. The clerical party may be in power, but their dreams will not be realised. In the present state, of affairs in Belgium, it is believed that only a transition Minister can remain in office. THE MURDERS BY BRIGANDS IN GREECF.— Part XV. of the Correspondence has been forwarded to us from the Foreign Office. It contains dispatches and enclosures from Mr. Erskine to the Earl of Clarendon from 30th May to 4th June. The only paper of interest is the report of the trial of the brigands up to a certain point. The ninth witness examined was M. Theagenis, and his evidence strikingly illustrates the wild character of the brigands and their lawless life. Mr. Erskine, in writing to the Earl of Clarendon, 4th June, explanatory of the source whence the ransom was to , have been obtained, states that the Greek Government had never addressed any communication to him oti the subject, and adds :—" It is true that at my first interview with the King, on his return from Syra, his Majesty stated to me that he had given order that whatever funds might be requisite were to be furnished by the National Bank or the public chest, and of course if there had been the least difficulty in procuring the money I should not have hesitated in availing myself of his Majesty's most gracious offer. But I looked on the question of liability as one that would have to be officially discussed between the Governments of England and Greece, and I did not think that it would have been becoming in me to attempt to fix upon his Majesty personally the liability which could be more properly settled with his Minis ters. It was Mr. Merlin, the general manager of the lonian Bank, who, without a moment's hesitation, under took on my own responsibility and that of Lord Muncaster to furnish £20,000 in specie for the ransom of the four English captives." WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. The report of the Standard Commission on the inspec tion of weights and measures states that the duties of inspection are of the character of police duties, being exer cised for the detection and punishment of offences against the laws. In fact, 85 per cent. of all the inspectors of weights and measures are police officers, and it is stated that while on the one hand, in many large and populous districts where they were not remunerated for their duties of inspection, either by salary or from a portion of the fines, no conviction what ever occurred from year to year ; while, on the other hand, in districts where the informer gets half of the penalties there were a great number of convictions, a large proportion of which were for small deviations in a single weight or measure out of the whole set, and when there was obviously no intention to defraud. The reportrecom mends the appointment of a regular staff of paid inspec tors, the expense to be borne by the local rates, and that in all cases of conviction with a fraudulent intentf or arising frOm the culpable negligence. the magistrates are to publish the name, place of abode, business, offence, and sentence of each person so convicted in one or more of the local newspapers. The report further recommends that all bags or parcels of any articles of food shall have their weight legibly affixed to them, and that the inspec tor shall have the power to weigh any three he chooses, and if in the average the three are short, he is to seize and condemn them, and inform against the offender. All fines are to go to the local rates. MARVELLOUS ESCAPE. The other evening a large crowd assembled in the vicinity of Mr. John Rostron's Perseverance Doubling Mill, Bolton, to witness the primary operations of remov ing the cap and coping stones from the chimney stack attached to the concern, which is 30 yards high, and which, having become defective through being crooked, is about being demolished in order that a new one may be built. The stones, twenty-four in number, and each weighing about 4 cwt., were successfully dislodged by a " Steeple Jack," named Yates, of Bolton ' assisted by James Thornton, a labourer. When the two men had accomplished the work allotted them, they gave notice to those below of their desire . to descend. The windlass was accordingly manned, and Thornton got into the box depending by the rope from a pulley overhead. Being somewhat inexpe rienced as regards the working of the apparatus on such occasions, and the cord proper not having been made secure by the men at the windlass, he forgot to seize hold of what is termed the " slack-rope," which .would have enabled him to control his speed, and he was consequently preci pitated a distance of 16 yards down the flue. On reaching the point thus indicated the box struck against one of the pudlocks or projections in the - interior of the chimney, and he was thrown in a manner out of the box. His left leg became impaled on one of the hooks with which the sides of the box were furnished, and suspended in this manner, with his head hanging downwards ; he was sub sequently lowered to the ground, having been thus most providentially saved from a horrible death, as he would undoubtedly have been killed had he fallen the entire dis tance. When extricated from his perilous position, and •taken into the warehouse attached to the mill, his left leg presented a sickening spectacle, the calf being literally torn from the bone for a considerable length. THE EMIGRATION OF PAUPER CHILDREN. A meeting has been held at the rooms of the National Association for the promotion of Social Science for the purpose of considering the proposal of Miss Rye, that she should be allowed to take orphans and deserted pauper girls of the age of from seven to twelve, from the London workhouse schools and other workhouse schools through out the country to Canada, where they would be placed (under proper legal protection) till eighteen years of age in respectable families. The Earl of Shaftesbury presided. Miss Rye read a paper in which she stated that her proposal was to take out children of the class in question to Cauada, and place them, under due specific regulations, in the custody of old and established families in that country, who would train them up in a proper manner, and render them, before they had comple - ted their term of apprenticeship, at eighteen years of age, thoroughly competent in every respect to make their way in the world. She had already on her books 200 families in Canada who were ready and willing to receive such children ; and when the authorities atthe unions were willing to give them up in that way, she would distribute them among those fami lies. The stipulation on which she parted with them was that, whatever age the child who was bound might be, the people receiving her should educate, clothe, and feed her, and see that she attended a place of worship on Sunday, and Sunday school, if possible, till she was 15 years of age ; from 15 to 17 the family taking the girl covenanted to give her three dollars a month wages, with a rise to four dollars during the last year of her apprenticeship. Miss Rye said that of the children she took out in October last fifty were orphans given up to her care by the select vestry of Liverpool, and that body had been so well satisfied with the manner in which she had disposed of them that they had just voted her a second party of fifty children to take out in the same manner, together with the money for their expenses at the rate of £lO a head, which was much less than the rate at which they could be kept in this country. A resolution in support of Miss Rye's pro posal was adopted by the meeting. EDUCATION IN GREECE. An interesting sketch of the state of education in Greece has been sent to the British and Foreign School Society by Professor Constantinides, who was a student at the Borough-road College thirty years ago. The pro fessor says :—" Popular education appears to one who examines the matter rather superficially very satisfactory; for schools of both sexes are annually added, and new teachers succeed those who for one or other cause with draw, and the children frequenting the schools comparatively exceed those of many nations in Europe and America. But to those who have_ seriously and deeply examined the subject of elementary education it is far from being such. I may then exclaim with the Minister of Religion and Education, who, in his report to her Majesty at the end of 1868, honestly said, ' Popular education appears flourishing and ostentatious in number, but very deficient in the expected fruitfulness.' The causes of this are many, but the principal are the want of a normal school with a model one attached to it, proper inspection and direction by persons possessing the necessary qualifications, and the power and means to organize the schools on abetter footing and appoint the best of the teachers to the most important situations. Another obstacle is the pecuniary difficulties of the country ; but the greatest of all is the short dura tion of the Ministry. A Minister of Education is appointed (generally for the first time in his life). He knows conse quently almost nothing of the branch he is called upon to direct. But, notwithstanding all these obstacles, I do not at all despair in the cause of education, for the Greek people thirst for education ; the love of knowledge is inherent in them ; they know how to appreciate the benefit of a good education. Men therefore even of the lowest condition, day labourers, have contrived to give their sons and daughters a liberal education. And if ancient Greece could boast of a Cleanthes who laboured in the evening in drawing water 'from. a well in order to obtain the means of frequenting the school in the day time, modern Greece can shew hundreds—l, at least, can point out many poor youths, who, after submitting themselves to all privations, have, by perseverance and diligence, succeeded in obtaining an honourable position in life. We have in different parts of Greece physicians, lawyers, professors, &c., whose parents have been hus bandmen artizans, or even day labourers. Wherever there is a'Greek community, their first care is to erect a church and to establish schools for both sexes. Even at Manchester a boys' and girls' school has been esta blished (the teachers are a father and his daughter) for the Greeks." • The prizes at he Liverpool College are to be deli vered on the 23rd instant by the Earl of Derby, and so great has been the demand for tickets that the secretary has had to refuse upwards of 700 applications. The hall will seat nearly 2,200 persons. Adejeilner is to follow, in honour of the late senior wrangler, Mr. Tendlebury, at which the Earl of Derby is to preside. LAW AND POLICE. THE ROBBERY OF MAIL BAGS.—The three men who were charged with stealing letters from the Derby and Leicester mail bags have been committed for trial. One of them is a letter stamper in the General Post-office. A TURF STORY. —A messenger at the Registry of De signs Office, Whitehall, has been committed for trial for embezzling £33125. He pleaded guilty, and explained that having received the money too late to bank it, he put it in his pocket and went to the West Drayton races. He lost some of it by betting, and in trying to recover it lost the rest. He gave himself up. A CHEMIST AND VACCINATION--At the Rochdale Police-court, Mr. James H., Lothwell, chemist, Drake street, was summoned by Mr. Thomas Spencer, registrar, for refusing to vaccinate his child. Mr. T. B. Ashworth said that Mr. Rothwell was not unacquainted with, the law, but he had seen so many evils attending vaccination that he did not feel disposed to have his child vaccinated. Defendant was fined P£l and costs. IMPRISONMENT FOR SENDING BAD MEAT TO MARKET. —A butcher named Fisher, living in Somersetshire, was charged at the Guildhall with sending a quantity of un wholesome meat to the new meat market, London. The animal died of disease, and the meat was most unwhole some. The county police stated that the defendant had the reputation of buying low-class meat for the London market, and Mr. Alderman Gibbons, observing that it was a bad case, sentenced Fisher to two months' imrison ment, without the option of a fine. NOT EXACTLY MARRIED.—At the Greenwich Police court, Dennis Fogarty was summened to shew cause why an order should not be made upon him to contribute towards the maintenance of his wife. The defendant objected to support his wife because she had left him twenty-three years since, and he thought she was dead. Besides this he had a family of six children to support, the eldest being fourteen years. Mr. Maude asked how it was, if he and his wife had been separated twenty-three years, his eldest child was only fourteen years of age ? The defendant replied that he thought he was justified in living with another woman. Mr Maude : And whom you have married and committed bigamy ? The defendant : No, we are not exactly what you call married. Mr. Maude made an order upon him for pay ment of 3s. weekly. SCENE AT A FlRE.—Eleven inhabitants of the village of Wanborough, near Swindon, were brought before the Swindon magistrates, charged with stealing a quantity of wine and spirits. On Whit Monday a destructive fire broke out on a farm at Wanborough, and the prisoners, with others, went to assist in putting out the flames. While engaged in removing the goods, they came across two jars of gin and brandy, which they at once began drinking, and soon become intoxicated. They g rew so wild that some of them ran through the flames to the cellar to fetch wine and were with difficulty saved. The loss of property in the meanwhile was very great, the dwelling-house, barns, granary, together with a large quantity of live stock, including two horses and nine pigs, being destroyed. The magistrates decided upo n convictin g the defendants of the offence of drunkenness only, and they were fined ss. each and us. 6d. costs, the chairman (Mr. Archer) stigmatising their conduct as dis gusting, and regretting that •the law did not allow the magistrate to punish them more severely. ACTION FOR REFUSING TO EXECUTE A MORTGAGE.—The case of Foster v. Wilkinson came before Lord Chief Justice Bovill and a special jury in the Court of Common Pleas. It was by a builder, to recover from a director of an hotel company a balance of nearly £12,000, incurred in the erection of the Cavendish Hotel, at Eastbourne. After the works had progressed for some time, the plaintiff pressed for pryinent, and a loan was negotiated to prevent him taking possession. A sum of £15,000 was advanced on mortgage, part of which went to pay off another loan for which the defendant had rendered himself liable, and part to enable the plaintiff to carry on the works. At the end of a year, a loan of £20,000 was negotiated with a land Security Society, for the purpose of paying off the pre vious mortgage, and settling with plaintiff ; but when the mortgage for that amount had been prepared, the defendant refused to execute it, and the consoquence was that the original mortagees foreclosed, and plantiff was unable to obtain his money. He, therefore, sought to recover it from Mr. Wilkinson, who was a,party to the arrangement for the mortgage, by which he had aban doned his position as holding the building. His lordship pointed out, however, that the agreement did not bind the defendant to execute a further mortgage ; and on his suggestion the parties agreed to state a special case for the opinion of the full court upon all the documents, the deci sion of the court to be final. A FEMALE TICKET-OF-LEAVE CONVICT.—Mary Ann Bennett, aged 34 years, who has been a thief from infancy, was brought before Mr. Lushington at the Thames Police court on remand charged with violating the conditions of a ticket-of-leave. It appeared from the evidence of Police constable Mackay that the prisoner was convicted of a robbery from the person in 1865 and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. On that occasion a previous con viction for felony, and a sentence of seven years' transpor tation, was proved against her. Her sentence did not ex pire until the 6th October, 1870, and she received a com mutation of her sentence on the 26th of August, 1869, and she became an inmate of the Eagle House Reformatory, where she remained some time. After her discharge the lady superintendent of the refor matory sent her the Government gratuity to which she was entitled. The prisoner had been leading a most dis solute life ever since she left the reformatory, and was the constant associate of thieves and loose women. A few weeks since she was committed for trial, but by a lucky • chance acquitted, since which she had been in a continua state of drunkenness. The prisoner had neglected to re port herself every month as required by her ticket-of leave, or even to furnish the police with her address. She was committed for two months, and told by the magis trate that the Home Secretary would most likely revoke her licence. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—A very singular case has been brought before the Court of Queen's Bench. The plaintiff, Sir Charles Nightingale, Bart., brought an action against Major Mercer, an officer in the Indian army, to recover a sum of £750 for board, lodging, and necessaries supplied to the defendant's wife, Sir Charles's daughter. The defendant pleaded never mdebted. It appeared from the evidence that Major and Mrs. Mercer were married in 1857, and there was a difference of some twenty years be tween their ages. Miss Nightingale was then living at Tenby with her mother, who lived there accord ing to an amicable arrangement with her hus band, by which he allows her £BO a year. There was a difficulty about Mrs. Mercer's going to India with her husband, and there was an understanding that she should remain with her mother for some time. She visited Ireland with Major Mercer after her marriage, and then accompanied him to Cork, from whence he sailed for India, the mutiny having broken out,' . Major Mercer undertook to give his wife £l2O per annum, increasing it to £250. However, the lady greatly exceeded her allow ance, and an angry correspondence ensued w hi c h ended in the allowance being reduced to £5 per month. In 1860 the defendant returned to England, and a series of differences and difficulties occurrtd. From Mrs. Mercer's statement it appeared that her hus band, on returning from India, took her to live with him in an extremely dirty place in one of the streets of the Strand, and that her mother, indignant at such treatment, took her daughter to live with her in Burton-crescent, bringing this action only after Major Mercer had refused to maintain his wife. The- defence was that Major Mercer had made vain efforts to be reconciled to his wife, and that she had positively refused to live with him in India. Major Mercer was not present in court, but his wife was examined, and pointed to his absence as proof of misconduct. She accused a Mr. Winkworth, a great friend of her husband's, of having instigated him to his cruel treatment of her, and Mr. Winkworth, in his turn, represented Mrs. Mercer in anything but favourable colours. The Lord Chief Justice, in summing up, charac terised the defendant's conduct as " unmanly and disre putable." The jury gave a verdict for the full amount claimed. LADY OSWALD AND HER HOUSEMAID.—At the Edin burgh Small Debt Court, Euphemia Jardine, sued Lady Lady Mary Oswald, Manor House, Inveresk, for the sum of £l7 2s.—restricted to £l2—being wages and board wages for six months from the 4th inst. Mr. Wilson stated for the defence that the girl, a domestic servant, had not been engaged for six months, and that the defendant was willing to pay her wages and board wages for one month. On sth May the defendant wrote to the girl —" I will be glad to engage you as housemaid, provided you are willing to conform in your conduct, and do all I wish, such as never to go out at nights, and not wearing your dress coming on the ground, but up clear off the ground at all times. The wages I give is £l6, including everything." A subsequent letter, dated 23rd ult., addressed by defender to the pursuer, contained the following passage : " I shall be happy to engage you on the terms mentioned in my letter of the sth instant, and wish you so go to my house on 4th of June, in the after noon." The pursuer went to Manor House on Satur day, the 4th inst., but as she had not brought her trunk with her, defender said she might come on Monday, 6th inst., with her boxes. On the 6th instant the pur suer received a letter from the defender as follows : —" On further consideration I think it better you should 'not come to my service at all, and look out for another -situation.' The Sheriff said that the defender's letter of sth May mentioned so much a year, and it contained no reference to a monthly engagement. Monthly engagements were common now, but they were not not the only engagements in the land between master and servant, so that the girl was entitled to conclude that her wage was £l6 a year, and that she was engaged for the half-year. Lady Oswald must pay wages and board wages for the time she was engaged. The girl got early notice, and though she had done nothing since, she might soon _get a place, which must be taken into consideration. However, as she was entitled to £17 2 which, to save expense, was limited to £l2, he could give her no less ; there must, therefore, be a decree for £l2, without expenses, MR. RTJSKIN. - Mr. John Ruskin, in a recent lecture on War, deli vered at. the Royal Whitney College, Woolwich, ad dressed himself especially to the ladies present, and in formed them that they, as representatives of the female sex in the upper classes, were responsible for the existence of war in the world. The only reason for it, he said, "is simply that you women, however good and religious, however self-sacrificing for those whom you love, are too selfish and too thoughtless to take pains for any creature out of your immediate circles." In further pursuance of this fantastic sort of " Plain talk," Mr. Ruskin said that if war, instead of unroofing peasants' houses and ravaging peasants' fields, merely broke china upon the drawing-room tables of the rich, no war in civilized countries would last a week ; and, moreover, that the ladies of the " happy classes " might put a period to war at any moment, with less trouble than they take any day to go out to dinner, by simply wearing deep mourning for the fallen while any war proceeds. It seems amazing that ' any man with such a command of the English language as this man possesses can be capable of such egregious foolishness.—Boston Advertiser. GOLDWIN SMITH ON " LOTHAIR." Every newspaper but one which has commented ou Mr. Goldwin Smith's absurd letter to Mr. Disraeli regards it as a fresh proof of the justice of the portrait drawn in " Lothair." Mr. Disraeli never misses his mark, and in this case his playful satire has " wrung the withers " of a man who is always attacking others, but who cannot bear to be attacked himself. It may be doubted, however, whether it was worth Mr. Disraeli's while to discharge even a random arrow at an antagonist who is capable of writing a letter characteristic rather of an ungovernabl e and ill-tempered schoolboy than of a full-blown Professor. There is no abusive epithet which Mr. Smith has not applied in his time to Mr. Disraeli, but when the lash i 5 laid over his own shoulders, he sets to work w ritin4 abugive letters. We are to suppose that a man has pro ved his courage when he calls another a coward—through the safe medium of the Atlantic post. Professor Sniith ought to have learned by this time that when a man "plays at bowls he must expect rubbers."—New York Times. DRESS FASHIONS IN EUROPE, The American beauties who have graced the Jerome Park grounds with their presence will be enabled to recuperate from the aristocratic languor consequent on their exertion by reading our special fashions correspond ence from Paris. They will duly remember, however, that the discipline of one of the most ancient of the churches permits and pronounces the viatorilus licitum est, or, in other words, that it is lawful 'for travellers to do many things and enjoy divers carnal consolations •which are not permitted to stay-at-home people. Sir Walter Scott's venerable abbott availed himself, as the leaders of the novel are already aware, of this very con venient dispensation clause of the canon which relates to personal mortification, after he had journeyed about a mile from the monastery, by eating a slice of venison steak on a day of "black fast." It is lawful for travellers," says the Church, "to eat flesh for the nourishment of the body." "It is lawful for travellers," and everybody else, says the Herald, to read our special letter on dress fashions, so that they may be enabled to adorn the person with good taste, and thus promote the religion of popular refinement. Having thus pronounced the do remain, we may say that our Paris special writer supplies a very animated, sparkling, and encouraging fashion exhibit. Art, poetry and song, royalty, aristocracy, valour, grace and beauty are commingled wfth much elegance in the commu nication. We has e the perplexities of wonderful under skirts, of ribbons, of rustic and other hats, of promenade toilets, indoor robes, and new parasols. Laces, dress trimmings, flounces, jewels and costume ornaments, flash, as it were, before our eyes in a mingled blaze of colour, formed by the tints of the Nile, the Baltic, the Ophelia, the green and other shades whichl are just now patronized at the great continental centre and in Europe generally. The reported " engagement " of a beautiful and accom plished American girl to a French marquis is noted. Madame Canrobert, widow of the famous French Marshal, looked exceedingly pretty and very attrac tive when engaged in admiring the portrait of her deceased soldier-husband in the gallery of the Fine Arts Exhibition, Paris. The Empress Eugenie was beautiful—almost as, ever—as she drove on the city prome nade in a simple, elegant toilet, which is described ; but her Majesty was radiant, almost ethereal, in her Presence and charity as she stole softly from the Tuileries to sit by the bedside of a poor child which had been stricken by smallpox, and there minister to the ease and comfort of the infant suferer. Ladies' veils have been worn affixed to the chignon, with ornamental daggers, and novelties in style, in dress materials, in make up, in trimmings and even in the "put on " of the robes, prevailed on every side, from the more humble rooms to the most regal and aristocratic salons, all of which is duly and specially re ported in our pages.—New York Herald. RECEPTION OF THE INDIAN DELEGATIONS AT THE WHITE HO USE. The gentle savages under Spotted Tail, and the nn gentle ones under the sombre Red Cloud, were honoured with an interesting social reception at the White House this evening. Accompanied by Secretary Cox and Com missioner Parker, they were conveyed to the Executive Mansion in carriages, about half-past seven o'clock, where they were received in right royal style by the corps of gentlemanly ushers and bowed into the grand East Room. It was quite dusky at the time and the splendid chandeliers were not lit up with their hundreds of jets of flaming light. Spotted Tail and his suite were placed at the north side of the room, and close by them wereranged Red Cloud and his twenty followers. It seems that though Red Cloud is the biggest Indian of the two chieftiaus, yet Spotted Tail received more honours. He is awarded precedence in all the interviews and receptions, because he has manifested a more friendly disposition towards the pale faces. This is said to be the etiquette among savages, and by advice of General Parker it has been strictly observed here. Spotted Tail and Red Cloud seem to consider the thing as all right, or at least no murmurs have been heard from the Ogallalla, chieftain and no threats made to scalp Parker or Grant, or any other man, in consequence of the violation of the respect due from one great potentate to another. The only complaint Red Cloud has made so far is that he had to go see all the big white warriors and the Great Father instead of them coming to visit him. After the savages were arranged in due order for a short time some of the servants of the Executive Mansion entered and com menced lighting up the chandeliers. The proceedings were too much for Indian stoicism. Spite of their efforts to make believe they did'nt care a snap for the gas and the pretty chandeliers, one could see Red Cloud eyeing the operation with a mystified look, and Spotted Tail gazing with an interest which could not be mistaken. The inferior warriors almost spoke with wonder, and that is saying a good deal. When the illumination was com plete the Indians caught each other betraying unusual interest, and promptly retired within themselves. Then the distinguished pale faces came upon the scene, headed by President Grant and his e§teemed lady, who were followed by Secretary and Mrs. Fish, Secretary and Mrs. Belknap, Secretary and Mrs. Cox, Postmaster and Mrs. Cresswell, Secretary and Mrs. Boutwell, and Mrs. Attorney-General Hoare, that amiable old lady who has charge of our national litiga tion. Then came •a distinguished foreign procession, compose of the diplomats, including Berthemy, Thorn ton, Catacazy, Gerolt, Lederer, Baltazzi, and a host of others whose names 'I forget. They had their ladies along, all dressed in the most stylish manner, evidently with the object of captivating the savage hearts. Dele gations from the Indian Committees of the Senate and House were also among the pale faces. There were the accomplished and handsome Thayer, of Nebraska ; the charming Buckingham, of Connecticut, and the states manlike and lively Corbett, of Oregon. There were also Representatives Van Horn, of Missouri, and Taffe, of Nebraska. Senator Morrill, of Maine, wa4 also on hand, and Dawes, of Massachusetts. The savages viewed the distinguished arrivals with the stoical air which only savages affect. They beheld their great father and great mother unmoved. They looked upon the representatives of empires and kingdoms and principalities without so much as an "ugh." They saw the costly toilets, magnificent scalps and sylendid costumes, appa rently not a whit wonder-struck. But in their hearts they were, no doubt, thinking of their tomahawks and scalping knives, and what a fine chance it was to chew their prowess if they dare. What a sensation it would have made had they then and there uttered a sudden war whoop and proceeded to execution dire ! The very thought makes one's blood shiver. After the savages were given ample time to study the whole group of pale faces the interpreter came forth, and after saying something in the Indian dialect Spotted Tail ad vanced respectfully towards his Great Father, Grant, and was introduced both to the President and the lady of the White House. The other warriors of Spotted Tail went through the same ceremony a little more obse quiously. Then came the turn of Red Cloud and his fol lowers. The same scene was enacted, and next the. Indians shook hands with the Cabinet Ministers and their ladies, the diplomats, male and female, and all the others present. A little attempt at conversation followed. Thornton essayed English with Red Cloud, but made a dead failure ; the Ogallalla, warrior only looked at the re presentative of British Majesty. Catacazy made a venture with Spotted Tail in both French and Russian, with no better success. The ladies tried to soften the savage bosoms by chatteaing pretty words in a score of languages, but it was no go. This thing of talking without mutual understanding was found to work no better with savages than with the children of civilisation. The Great Father saw what was the matter, and contrived to change the scene before things should become dangerous. Leading Mrs. Grant to the front he caused a procession to be formed in the following order :—First, President and Mrs. Grant ; second, Spotted Tail ; third, Red Cloud; fourth, Spotted Tail's followers ; fifth, Red Cloud's followers ; sixth, Cabinet Ministers : seventh, diplomats ; eighth, Indian Committees ; ninth, everybody else. Thus arranged it moved from the East Room through the intervening apartments to the State dining-room, where a spectacle that ought to soothe the savage breast was beheld. The chandeliers were all lit up ; the table was covered with fragrant flowers, and strawberries smothered in ice cream abounded. This was a feast for the savages, who were awarded all the front positions, and given a chance to display their powers unchecked. The Cabinet officers and diplomatists, even the ladies, had to yield to the savages. I suppose Indians are well accustomed to strawberries, but evidently ice cream was a thing that they had never even dreamed of before in all their sleeping and waking visions of future celestial hunting-grounds. They approached it carefully, as a cat would crawl over a snow-bank. They handled it delicately, smelt it, tasted it, and then they liked it hugely. Ice cream they thought, evidently, would be a ' first-rate diet in heaven hereafter. The cold, sweet sub : stance likewise seemed to melt their tongues, for they commenced to speak, and spoke, some of them even i twenty words, which, if translated, would no doubt mean t that the Great Father was a good cook and his ice cream e some pumpkins. The diplomats, particularly the ladies, a enjoyed the occasion immensely ' • so did the Cabinet Ministers and their wives. At the conclusion of the "" feast the Indians shook hands with the whole company n again, and departed in good humour.—New York Herald of June 7. The Working Mens' Exhibition at Hull will be opened by the Mayor to-day (Monday). Seventy-five men, sent by the Erie Railway Com pany from New York to take the place of the strikers in the freight-house at Buffalo, arrived there, and on learn ing the condition of affairs refused to work and joined the strikers. The men will be sent back. RED CLOUD. " Red Cloud," who recently arrived at Washington, hag a speech all ready, which he is to deliver to the rresi' dent and which some reporter has sci•eWed out of the brave, most unfairly sending it onin advance by telegraPb, " Red Cloud" calls General Grant his " Greitt Father', four times, "My Father" twice, " Good Father once, and simply " Father " also four times. Of course he alludes to the Deity as "The Great Spirit," and tells General Grant that he has con 3?, to Washington "to smoke the pipe of peace, whereas it is well enough known that the General would much prefer to smoke a first-rate cigar. Isn't it about time that this old-fashioned nonsense of " Father" and " Great Spirit," and the like, imitated, and that badly, from Cooper's novels, should no longer be put into the mouths of the poor Indians ? Why must the Red Man be forced to acknowledge upon all occasions that he is a child still in a condition of pupilage ? Why make him affirm 5 fanciful paternity, when General Grant is no more father than he is oursl—New York Tribune. FIRE ON SHIPBOARD. - - Shortly after ten o'clock last night the William Storer, Captain James Bryant, a fully rigged ship 01 1,700 tons burden, owned by Messrs. C. H. Marshall and Co., of the Black Ball line, lying at pier 23 East and plying between this port and Liverpool, was die' covered to be on fire by the ship's boy, Edwar d Bickers, aged about thirteen. The boy first discovered the fire in the after art of the vessel and immediately gave the alarm. The Metropolitan Fire Department, and Insurance Patrol were speedily on the ground a nd rapidly organised for battle with the flaming element , which was now giving evidences of its power in the huge volumes of dense, black smoke, mingled with lurid flame , that were pouring from the hatches fore and aft ; but be fore long nearly a dozen lines of hose were pouring copious streams of water into the hull and preventing the further spread of the flames. The steamtug Thomas Fuller 'arrived at the scene about 12 o'clock, and shortly had four streams in operation,.h er powerful force pumps pouring a savage tide of water int° the hissinf , cauldron of the vessel's hull. The Storer ha d been gradually settling down from the first, and now urn s almost level with the pier. The fire is not yet e%' tinguished ; but the full extent of the damage can be given. • She was loaded with 160 to 200 hogsheads of tallow' stored in the upper portion of the between decks, wher e i was also a lot of rosin and molasses, and a pretty full cargo of grain in bulk and some cotton were stowed below. The cargo will no doubt be almost a total loss and the damage to the vessel great. It is believed that the only insurance upon the vessel and the contents was an insn; ante effected for the voyage only, so that it will not ava' the owners in this instance. She was to have left for Liverpool in a few days. When the storer commenced settling her masts toppl ed over towards the pier, and it was feared for some tim e that they would fall over, become entangled in the riggwe of the Isaac Webb, and thereby endanger that vessel d This is the same pier at which the Hibernia was burn ed some three years ago.—New York Herald. THE EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO. The Now York Herald of the 7th of June contains sorne particulars of the recent catastrophe in Mexico : Advices received here from the city j city A of 18 inst. announce that the Guaymas revolution has encleaf Lozada refusing to participate. Mexico une to , 1th873 1 $ The Guatemalians have invaded Mexican territory, 13ii the Governor of Chiapas, assisted by the national govel; meat, had taken measures to oppose the movement, whi e it was suspected had for its object the establishment of a new republic, comprising the States of Yucatan, Tehana: tepee, Oaxaca, and the Republic of Guatemala wa s believed the govermhent would succeed in suppressing We revolutionary movement. General Martinez is endeavouring to incite the peop le in Tamaulipas to revolutionary acts. He has alre ani destroyed the hacienda of General Escobeda. It is reported that General Vega left the bay of Blas on the Ist of May with three small vessels. rebels in Jalisco have not disturbed the mines., „. A violent earthquake has visited the State of °Oat Its effects were especially disastrous in Oaxaca, capital of the State. One hundred and three person' were killed and fifty-three wounded. A third of the citr i was rendered uninhabitable. The earthquake extend', to the mines, where eleven men were killed and ro il ", wounded. Buildings in all parts of the State were destroyed, and reports of additional deaths are coming . 1 ;, General Diaz has sent a commission to the Pa ni t ',: coast to make a report on the threatened eruption a Potchutla: The army has been increased to 25,000 men, requiirintso $9,000,000 annually for its support. This sum is equy" half the revenues of the republic. William H. Seward has made a donation to the 1 ) 3/v casterian Benevolent Society of Mexico city. The petition of Perry, the agent of the English 1: 0 1,, holders at the Mexican capital, was referred to special c ° mittee on the 19th of last month. The Mexican Commissioners report favourably on the Rio Grande and Guaymas Railroad. The subsidy to the Alexandre line of city steamer continue for two years longer. Romelo's estimate and appropriation bill has been passed. Madame Juarez, who has been dangerously ill, is inv proving. RED RlVER.—There are fresh rumours of in; pending trouble in the Red River country. It 1 ) , authoritatively stated a few days ago that the Ma es, Bill was to be a full settlement of all the old difficulu r ; and that the insurgents had expressed themselves P en fectly satisfied. There seems, however, to be a sU fi g ' hitch in the business, and Riel is reported to be preP ari f for resistance. There are also mysterious rumours o st, Fenian complication, and of new movements &oil' PauL —NO York Ti;nes. CAPTAIN EYRE.—Captain Eyre, by whose recorle inhumanity or stupidity, it matters not which, the hit .crew of the Oneida was sent to the bottom, thoug'-'"of it cruel that he was punished by six months' " leave o absence "—for that, after all, was about the amount of f°r we sentence. He has been appealing against it, therera! ever since, and finally induced the directors of the ce'rd pany to which his steamer belonged to say a go od alt, for him, in an address to the Lords of the Adnair%la through the Board of Trade. The Board of Trade re1?... - s o to Mr. Eyre that his sentence, " so far from beil l b r e• severe, is more lenient than the gravity of the offenct3 quired." Eyre will understand, therefore, by this tin that he did not perform an altogether praiseworthcp in " cutting " down a damned Yankee frigate.—New Herald. as ° LADvEhTISRMENT.j—Avoid Medicines—they always i'ggtOria chronic complaints but Du Barry's delicious health -res Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the Ile"iier mentof the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other rail old and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, 1 re lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functio o9 ,, of gularity, anc , energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. „reti tract a few out of the 68,000 cures:—"The Pope's health resis66. by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 65,413. " Rome, July 21 ;,,c4 —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially 84.1;e1y abandoning all other remedies; he has confined himself eu:;,,eo to Du Barry's Revalent,9, Arabica, Food, of which he cousi;oe a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surPrisinO r e icel' tidal effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise 4 1 1 9 care lent food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 2 `', over No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, complaint, wasting away, dehility, nervousness, With mss, 611, palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplesslDort; the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1, 77 t,',ei1t 0 of seven yeerPeroog Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of 1: 09 -A , "'foie dyspepsia. No 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agoqiericy dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation , 0 7, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly." endeal 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, diseased lungs , spitting of blood, liver deranger e partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the 0,0 unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to whic h : o ohed'. authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously „ 0 , 102. • 1 , - 0. 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Cba tlee On tne 16th inst., at the parish church, HornseYt. & ogle Alfred Walter, of Hounslow, to Marian, youngeB'aeorgie ter of the late Mr. Henry Pritchard, of Upp er street, Bryanston-square. DEATHS ot r lc° s On the 15th inst., at Clifton, Commander Jobu Lambe, R.N., aged 38. i , WA rcit On the 15th inst., at Lidnum-terrace, Lincoln, 0.8-' aged 60. _—• -.•‘ ni o ' London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN 11 ; of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at T HE SUN OffiCo,2 " :aty Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , in the Uu Middlesex.—Monday, June 20, 1870. A