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

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.-THIS MORNING . THE LAND BILL. The Times considers that the main scheme of the Irish Land Bill is generally recognised and approved. It is an a g ricultural bill. It secures tenants in the agricultural occupation of their holdings, not by virtue of the mere good will of landlords,—a guarantee always liable to interruption—but by the scale of penalties. The substitution of law for usage may, as Lord Derby said, produce greater strict ness of relations, but " short reckonings" make " long friends," and we are confident that the greater security the bill affords, obtained as it may be by limiti ng th e land lord's power, ill still be so beneficial to his interests that the general rise of rents Lord Derby predicted will follow and be cheerfully borne. We have the satis faction of seeing a great work about to be accomplished. The Lord Chancellor acknowledged on Friday night that he had never voted for any of Mr. Sharman Crawford's bills, and he took shame to himself at the retrospect. It may be confessed that we are none of us free to look back in this matter, but we may look forward with hope that our task, however tardily undertaken, will prove to be a day-spring of peace to Ireland. DEAN STANLEY ON DICKENS. The Telegraph declares that Dean Stanley caught the true drift of the public feeling, when, to an audience re prasenting all classes of Englishmen, and in what may be called the imperial Church of England, he poured forth a heartfelt and eloquent tribute to the memory of the great writer who has enriched his countrymen with imperishable types of what is beautiful and good, tender and loving, humorous and grotesque, monstrous and revolting, in humanity. At the risk of spoiling the artistic harmony of his stories, Dickens called upon the rich to help the poor, the strong to help the weak; and for spreading that most Chrittian lesson lesson by the fire of his genius he will be held in undying remem brance by the great stricken throng of humanity who were his lowly clients Speaking in presence of the newly closed grave,Dean Stanley said that it might seem to contain the remains, not only of the great novelist himself, but of the beautiful natures to whom his genius gave unpying form. Those natures live, and will be his best monument. That he himself well knew the fact, was attested by the profoundly inter esting extract which the Dean read from the deceased writer's will. His writings are one long protest against bigotry and sectarian narrowness, one long appeal to what is purest and most loving in human nature, one affirma tion of belief in a Christianity which is deeper than the wrangling tenets of the sects. "In that simple faith." said Dean Stanley, " Charles Dickens lived and died." TllE EDUCATION QUESTION. The Standard thinks the aspect of the great question of national education has been entirely changed by the event of Thursday night ; and the situation is critical. What course the friends of religious education ought now to pursue is one of the most difficult and most momentous problems that ever tasked the prudence of leaders or the temper of a party. We have already considered the nature of his amendments, and we shall not here repeat either the objections or the recommendations we then pointed out. What is of more immediate moment is the spirit in which these amendments have evidently been framed. It seems to us, judging of the matter from a pofnt outside of Parliamentary entanglements and of party necessities, that the course of the friends of religious education should be determined by a single main consideration. That our primary schools shall be as a rule religious, and secular or ' unsectarian" only were sectarian feuds make common action on religious grounds impossible, is the ona essential necessity, the one point of transcendent importance to which all other considerations should be subordinated. That England should remain Christian is an object of more consequence than any that can ordinarily engage the ambition or stir the passion of political parties ; and England will not long remain Christian after her primary education has been practically heathenised. A board of ratepayers, , or their representatives, says the Times, in discussing the education difficulty, will never agree upon anything beyond the Bible and the teacher, which are the first and last necessities of the case. This is manifest from the experience of the last four months, which Mr. Disraeli regards as so much lost time in this discussion. Lost they are not if they have saved us from the hasty adoption of a measure which, as it first stood, might have distracted every parish and town in the kingdom. It is true the four months have been employed not only in fighting against the bill, but also in securing that it should not work well, even if it should become law. The word went out that the bill should' not pass ; and, even if it should pass, it should never work. The demonstration has been as effectual as its authors could possibly desire, and the Christians of this country have entirely succeeded in shewing how little they are ever likely to love one another—at least on a local board. Mr. Gladstone has had no choice but to accept the super abundant proof, and permit a modification of the measure. The Scriptures are to be read and taught, unless, indeed, Mr. Disraeli and his friends should achieve a further suc cess, beyond their most sanguine expectations, by the ex clusion of the Bible from the Rate-founded, and therefore also from the rate-supported, schools. That is the conclu sion we shall be inevitably driven to, if the opposition to this bill be only persevered in. Mr. Gladstone said at first he should Ise able to do nothing without mutual con cession, for in the very nature of things the proposition was a compromise. If nobody will give way, there is an end of the bill—with the probability of one even less to the taste of highly fastidious religionists in a few years. We are disposed to think that now is the time, and that it would be very lamentable if all the jealousy , which has been lately shewn for religious education should be per mitted to evaporate without the passing of some sort of measure of a not entirely irreligious character. JEROME BONAPARTE. The Telegraph says that a Bonaparte is dead. He never did anything notable in the world beyond bringing a law suit, which he lost ; and his kindred in France success fully disputed his right to bear the name of Bonaparte at all. But he could undoubtedly trace his lineage to the great Corsican ; and, although the " divinity which doth hedge a king " may be on the wane, there is little decrease in the interest with which the name even of the most distant member of the Bonaparte family continues to be invested. The Jerome who died on Friday last at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, was the son of Jerome Bonaparte--the youngest brother of the Great Napoleon, and some time Sing of Westphalia—and of the beautiful Miss Patterson, the daughter of a wealthy merchant at Baltimore. He was, consequently, first cousin to the Emperor Napoleon 111., and half brother to Prince Napoleon and the Princess Mathilde. Will his imperial relatives at Paris put on mourning for the respectable elderly gentleman of sixty three, who has just deparated this life in his dignified Transatlantic retirement ? We are afraid that they will not. There can be no doubt that Jerome, Napoleon's brother, contracted a perfectly lawful marriage with the beautiful Baltimore heiress. Some fiery Southern gentle man would very probably have been moved to blow out the brains of le petit polieson, as Napoleon called him, had he dared to seduce an American lady ; but it pleased Napoleon I. in the full revelry of his selfish des potism, to declare the Bonaparte-Patterson marriage null and void. He wished his brother to marry an European Princess, and Jerome was only too happy to repudiate his bride. A son had been born to her, and from that son are descended grandsons who, on the establishment of the second Empire, strove to obtain from the French tribunals a declaration that the American marriage was valid ; but, after due deliberation, the complaisant tribunals decided against the claims of these young gentlemen—who, if they were not eager to assume their rank as French Princes, were at least anxious to vindicate the fair fame of a deeply injured lady. STATE EMIGRATION. Against emigration itself, observes the Post, we have nothing to say; on the contrary, we hold it to be the best method yet discovered of relieving an over-populated country from its surplus labour. But it is essential that emigration should be free and voluntary. When required by the necessities of the case, and when at once practi cable and calculated to be beneficial, it will, unless in extremely exceptional cases, such as that of the Irish famine, effect itself. It would be most unwise to give an artificial stimulus to the displacement of labour, and thus to interfere with its natural movement, and most un wise of all to think of establishing, as Mr. Torrens appears to desire, a permanent system having that object, at the very moment when there is every reason to believe that we shall want ourselves all the labour we can get. Moreover, it is by no weans clear, but very doubtful, whether an artificially-produced emigration is calculated to benefit the emigrant, for it is but too likely to result in his being placed in a new country where he is even less wanted than in the old. And finally, if extraneous assist ance is required by the working man to take him to the Colonies, it should be afforded 17 those who want him, if they do want him ; i.e., by the Colonies themselves. As sistance coming from that quarter would be a natural aid to emigration ; and if it is not worth while to give it there must be a strong presumption that the demand for labour is not so great as to make it worth its transport. Mr. Torrens, no doubt, brought forward his motion with the best intentions • but as he is wrong in his facts, and mis taken in his inferences, we trust the House of Commons, overladen as it is with pressing work, will be spared further discussion on the subject. PERPETUAL DIVISIONS. The Daily News says Mr. Beresford Hope vnd his friends appear to have adopted the policy expressed in the words " Divide and conquer." They divided ten times on Friday night upon the Clerical Dis abilities Bill, and by dint of factious perti nacity gained their point. In conformity with that rule of the House, according to which a motion for adjournment may not be proposed a gaiu„ without some intermediate proceedings, the motion that the Hou s e do now adjourn was succeeded by, and in its turn followed upon, the motion that the debate be now adjourned, ten times in succession. At last even the atrocious mind of Cato, or in other words, the iron spirit of Mr. Bouverie, was subdued ; and declaring, with a sigh, that nothing could resist an obstinate minority, he yielded. The Clerical. Disabilities Bill is, therefore, referred to a Select Committee, to w hi c h M r . Beresford Hope looks, if not to resolve his scruples as to the indelibility of . holy orders, yet to find a course of action compatible with the views of the sacerdotalist party in the Church of England. In the m ean ti me , an act o f simple justice is indefinitely delayed, and a great Liberal because a few ecc l es i as ti ca l majority is neutralised, Tories were ready to sit up for four hours, if neces sar y, to divide the House, while Liberal - politicians were de , termined, come what may, to be in bed. Mr. Robert Martineau, brother of the Rev. James Martineau and Miss Harriet Martineau, has died.at his residence at Edgbaston, near Birmingham, from heart disease. The Lord Mayor will entertain' the archbishops and bishops at a banquet on July 6th. The annual banquet to her Majesty's Ministers will take place on July 30th. THE WEEKLY PRESS. THE REVISED EDUCATION I3ILL. 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 controversy 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 SUN, LONDON, MONDAY E ESING, JUNE 20, 1870. THE EDMUNDS SCANDAL. 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. 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 cast in sand. On Friday a poptilar demonstration took place in the town of Ramsgate to celebrate the decision of the Lord Chief Justice against the local magistrates, in a recent 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 measure 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 constables. The cause assigned with respect to the former 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 d o no t p er f orm o u t-d oor duty, occupy the responsible position of dealing with the charges as they are presented by the constables, which often 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 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 last 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 fees 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 exhibition 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 last 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 or before July 1. 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 insped 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 lave 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. 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. This 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 his 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 inc4vidual election mattered very little in the opinion of the Whitehall authorities as owing to a want of the proper publication of the notico 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. 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 prpci 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 Canada, 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 completed 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 f 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 shei,v hundreds—l, at least, can point out many pour 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 bandman, 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 the Liverpool College are to bo 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. A tkicarter is to follow, in honour of the late senior wrangler, Mr. Pendlebury, 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. Bothwell 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 £1 and costs. IMPRISONMENT FOR SENDING BAD MEAT TO MARKET. —A butcher named Fisher, living in Somersetshire, was charged at the Guildhall with sendinc , 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 grew 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 convictine, the defendants of the offence of drunkenness only, and they were fined ss. each and 11s. 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 pryment, 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 nesotiated 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. 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 £l7, which, to save expense, was limited to £l2, he could give her no less ; there must, therefore, be a decree for £l2. without expenses. 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 indebted. 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 au angry correspondence ensued which ended in the allowance being reduced to £5 per month. In 1860 the defendant returned to England, and a series of differences and difficulties occurred. 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. The last announcement of the Suez Canal Com pany, is that in the month of May last forty vessels passed through the canal, and that the receipts were 486,982 f. (£19,639). In April the number of vessels was thirty five, and in March fifty-three. The total receipts from the opening to the end of May were 2,427,499 f. (07,100). • The parishioners of Middleton recently presented a request to the Premier to be allowed to elect a rector in the room of Dr. Durnford, several clergymen nominated having declined to accept the incumbency. Mr. Gladstone has just replied to the effect that he regrets that the nomi nation to the living has been so long delayed, and assuring the parishioners that he will do all in his power to acce lerate a conclusion. The Conservatives have announced that they fully intend bringing forward a candidate to oppose Mr. Tillett at Norwich. A son of General Sir Yorke Scarlett has visited the city in order to test the feeling of the Conser vative electors. His candidature, however, has not yet been decided upon. The names of Mr. Ferrand (formerly M.P. for Devonport), and Mr. Huddlestone, Q.C. (for merly member for Canterbury), are also mentioned. MR. RUSKIN. 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. 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 feelings 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 kitchen " 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 creature 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. 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. J Tt 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 were ranged Red Cloud and his twenty followers. It seems that though Red Cloud is the biggest Indian of the two chieftians, 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 esteemed 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 }Torn, of Missouri, and Taffe, of Nebraska. Senator Morrill, of Maine, was also on hand, and Dawes, of Massachu§etts. 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 sayinc , 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 cola, sweet sub stance likewise seemed to melt their tongues, for they commenced to speak, and spoke, some of them even twenty words, which, if translated, would no doubt mean that the Great Father was a good cook and his ice cream some pumpkins. The diplomats, particularly the ladies, 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 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. A FANATIC.—In the Courier d' Oran a frightful crime is recorded. On the 27th of May, at Mascara, in Algeria, about seven o'clock in the morning, a n Arab, who had been known as a wandering marabout, living upon alms, secreted from a b u t c h er ' s s h op an axe, and, hiding it under his burnous, posted himself upon a bridge. This particular bridge, especially on Friday, is crowded with people going to market—Arabs, Jews, and Europeans .being indiscriminately mixed. Into this crowd the fanatic rushed, striking from behind with his axe, and in less than ten minutes felling fourteen per sons to the ground. A terrible consternation took pos session of all present. The neighbouring shopkeepers closed their shops, the wounded were carried away, but no one seems to have attempted to seize the miscreant, At last two Spahis, after a desperate struggle, secured him, and he was conveyed so the Bureau Arabe Mili take, where, after some delay, the civil and military authorities arrived to inquire into the matter, It is note worthy that the victims were selected solely from the European population, the Arabs not only being spared but exhorted to help in the slaughter. G-OLDWIN SMITH ON " LOTHAIR." Every newspaper but one which has commented on 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 ungovernable 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 is laid over his own shoulders, he sets to work writin ; abusive letters.. We are to suppose that a man has proved his courage when he calls another a coward—through the safe medium of the Atlantic post. Professor Smith ought to have learned by this time that when a mall " plays at bowls he must expect rubbers."—New York. Times. RED CLOUD. "Red Cloud," who recently arrived at Washington, has a speech all ready, which he is to deliver to the Presi dent, and which some reporter has screwed out of the brave, most unfairly sending it onin advance by telegraph. " Red Cloud" calls General Grant his " Great 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 come 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 he forced to acknowledge upon all occasions that he is a child still in a condition of pupilage? Why make him affirm fanciful paternity, when General Grant is no more his father than he is ours ?—New York Tribune. FIRE ON SHIPBOARD. Shortly after ten o'clock last night the William F. Storer, Captain James Bryant, a fully rigged ship of 1,700 tons burden, owned by Messrs. C. H. Marshall and Co., of the Black Ball line, lying at pier 23 East river, and plying between this port and Liverpool, was dis covered to be on fire by the ship's boy, Edward Bickers, aged about thirteen. - The boy first discovered the fire in the afterpart of the vessel and immediately gave the alarm. The. Metropolitan Fire Department, and Insurance Patrol were speedily on the ground and 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, her powerful force pumps pouring a savage tide of water into the hissing cauldron of the vessel's hull. The Storer had been gradually settling down from the first, and now was almost level with the pier. The fire is not yet ex 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, where 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 insur ance effected for the voyage only, so that it will not avail the owners in this instance. She was to have left for Liverpool in a few days. When the storer commenced settling her masts toppled over towards the pier, and it was feared for some time that they would fall over, become entangled in the riggwg of the Isaac Webb, and thereby endanger that vessel; This is the same pier at which the Hibernia was burned some three years ago.—New York Herald. THE EARTHQUAKE, IN MEXICO. The Now York Herald of the 7th of June contains some particulars of the recent catastrophe in Mexico : HABANA, June 6, 1870. Advices received here from the city of Mexico to the Ist inst. announce that the Guaymas revolution has ended, Lozada refusing to participate. The Guatemalians have invaded Mexican territory, but the Governor of Chiapas, assisted by the national govern meat, had taken measures to oppose the movement, which it was suspected had for its object the establishment of a new republic, comprising the States of Yucatan, Teha,un tepee, Oaxaca, and the Republic of Guatemala. It was believed the government would succeed in suppressing the revolutionary movement. General Martinez is endeavouring to incite the people in Tamaulipas to revolutionary acts. He has already destroyed the hacienda of General Escobeda. It is reported that General Vega left the bay of Sall Blas on the Ist of May with three small vessels. The rebels in Jalisco have not disturbed the mines. A violent earthquake has visited the State of Oaxaca, Its effects were especially disastrous in Oaxaca, the capital of the State. One hundred and three persons were killed and fifty-three wounded. A third of the city was rendered uninhabitable. The earthquake extended to the mines, where eleven men were killed and inallY wounded. Buildings in all parts of the State were destroyed, and reports of additional deaths are coming in. General Diaz has sent a commission to the Pacific coast to make a report on the threatened eruption at Potchutl a. The army has been increased to 25,000 men, requiring $9,000,000 annually for its support. This sum is equal to half the revenues of the republic. William H. Seward has made a donation to the Lau" casterian Benevolent Society of Mexico city. The petition of Perry, the agent of the English bond holders at the Mexican capital, was referred to special coin' 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 steamers will continue for two years longer. Rom.elo's estimate and appropriation bill has been passed. Madame Juarez, who has been dangerously ill, is proving. RED RlVER.—There are fresh rumours of pending trouble in the Red River country. It Ivan authoritatively stated a few days ago that the Manitob Bill was to be a full settlement of all the old difficulti es ' and that the insurgents had expressed themselves. Per" fectly satisfied. There seems, however, to be a s udden hitch in the business, and Riel is reported to be prepar i g, for resistance. There are also mysterious rumours °„"" Fenian complication, and of new movements from 0 " Paul.—New York Times. CAPTAIN EYRE.—Captain Eyre, by whose rec kles i S o inhumanity or stupidity, it matters not which, the w h° . crew of the Oneida was sent to the bottom, thought it , it cruel that he was punished by six months' " leave Y., absence "—for that, after all, was about the amount of 11" sentence. He has been appealing against it, therefore, ever since, and finally induced the directors of the COol; pany to which his steamer belonged to say a good l ora for him, in an address to the Lords of the Admiraltld through the Board of Trade. The Board of Trade rePli e to Mr. Eyre that his sentence, " so far from being S O severe, is more lenient than the gravity of the offence re quired." Eyre will understand, therefore, by this time; that he did not perform an altogether praiseworthy 37 in " cutting " down a damned Yakee frigate. —Nevi I.° ' r Herald. to LADv ERTIMMENT.I—Avoid Medicines—they always agg r ' r t u g chronic complaints but Du Barry's delicious health-rest o _i s b , Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nou r ie . mentor the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other rom e ou ed and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, so re lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, funotil , ,, es galarity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. ted to tract a few out of the 68,000 cures:—" The Pope's health res 1866. by Dn Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, Jab, 21 since, —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially _, ire iy abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself °n u ' m ei to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabic& Food, of which he oonsheee a plateful at every meal. 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On tne 16th inst., at the parish church, Mousey, Charlpt Alfred Walter, of Hounslow , to Marian , youngest daugit ter of the late Mr. Henry Pritchard , of Upper Gorge street, Bryanstou-square. DEATHS On the 15th inst., at Clifton, Commander John wolcot Lambe, RN., aged 38. On the 15th inst., at Lidnum-terrace, Lincoln, Chas. Wiir di aged GO. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREN,, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 11 / 2 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the C o unty el Middlesex.—Monday, June 20, 1870