The Sun. — London, England, 1868-03-25 00:00:00

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The undermentioned Steamers will sail every 14 days, as fol lows : NAPOLEO N: 11, Paddle VILLE DE PARIS Screw PEREIRE. Screw ST. LAT:RENT Screw EUROPE Paddle RATES OF PASSAGE. Havre or Brest to New York, Ist class, £33 0 0 11 11 2d class, 17 0 0 3d class, 14 0 0 A g ents—STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and CO., 8 Austinfriars, E.C. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. _NUS DA'.—Morning, 2h. 54m.—Afternoon, 3h. 10m. 10-Monnow.-Morning, 3h. 26m.—Afternoon, 3h. 42m. mv )". egg 5" - 1 4t; • - 0111 t LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1868. Although there was no exciting question before the House yesterday, a good deal was referred to that was of importance in many ways to the public. Mr. SAMUELSON moved for a Select Com mittee to inquire into the provisions for giving in struction in theoretical and applied science to the working classes. We are glad that the motion was agreed to, because the subject is of great inte rest, and affects the progress and welfare of the classes referred to. For some time past the ques tion has been debated by those well qualified to judge of the case, and a reference to the superior autho rity and better judgment of a Parliamentary Com mittee cannot fail to set the importance of the affair more plainly before the public. The remarks -which were made upon the subject will be found well worthy of notice, and the speech of Mr. SA3ILTELSON itself was especially interesting. The hon. member evidently entered into the question con amore, and gave the house the benefit of his inquiries into it. It is not satisfactory to find that the working of the Schools under the Science and Art Department does not answer the expectations that were formed of them ; this is rendered of the more consequence on account of the influence it has upon our manufacturing prosperity. There has been indeed too much neglect in all relating to the education and training of the working classes of late years, and although some improvement has taken place, it is of the utmost consequence that more should be done, and that in an efficient style, if we would succeed in keeping this country up to the mark and our manufactures equal to the re quirements of their position. It is worthy of notice that in France, Germany, and the United States they have les ecoles des arts et du metiers esta blished, but in this country there is nothing of the kind. Lord R. MONTAGU did not dispute what Mr. SAMUELSON said ; on the contrary, he agreed in the main with his arguments. He said, however, that the close pressure of fo reigners upon our manufacturers might be attri buted to the improvement that had taken place in the manufactures of the Continent quite as much as to the more deteriorating effects produced among us. It will be a satisfaction at any rate to know that the subject is to be minutely investigated by a committee, and we may hope that some beneficial result will follow. Mr. MARSH called attention to the present sys tem of license duties, and be showed the House how hardly they pressed on the poorest classes, and their inefficiency in answering the ends desired. The hon. member, how ever, very wisely refrained from pressing his motion on their abolition to a division. The re marks which were made in connection with this subject fully justified the protest which he made, for Mr. GLADSTONE declared that our present system of licenses was most anomalous, but with the true official spirit he confessed that any altera tion was hedged in by difficulties ; and the Chan cellor of the Exchequer admitted that there was a good deal of truth in some of Mr. MARSH'S obser vations, but he tcok refuge in denouncing "piece meal legislation," and finally promised to give Mr. MARSH'S scheme his best attention. So far, then, it may be considered that the hon. member had done good service to the cause he ad vocates, and bas a benefit also conferred upon the House in setting the matter before them in a better light. Mr. MARSH'S proposition has some advantages to recommend it. He suggests that, instead of the retailer or manufacturer paying for preparing or selling the articles, it would be far better to have the articles sold by adding to the customs and excise duties on them. The CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had at all events the opportunity of looking at both sides of the ques tiou, and considering the pros and cons of the affair. The Bill for the London Coal and Mine Rates Continuance Bill was passed through com mittee, notwithstanding some opposition. A large majority, however, decided in favour of it, and the clause proposed by Mr. AYRTON to exempt factories in the Metropolitan Police area was nega tived. Mr. GLADSTONE'S Church Rate Abolition Bill was read a third time and passed. Among the many important questions with which a Conservative Government has been called upon to deal, the subject of National Education is cer tainly not the least interesting nor the least vital to the welfare of the country. More pressing and exciting topics, the change in the head of the Government, and the necessary interregnum in the session, have for a time delayed its consideration, and last night the Duke of MARL BOROUGH introduced the long-promised measure to the notice of the Upper House. The bill, after some discussion, was read a first time, and is now awaiting the criticism of the public. On the whole, we think the verdict will be favourable. There will necessarily be many who will find something to cavil at, something they wish to amend, some thing they deprecate, but we may fairly believe it to be absolutely impossible to devise any scheme which should give universal satisfaction. In any case it would not be easy to do so; but in a matter in which religious feeling complicates the social and political question, the difficulties are increased a hundredfold. The Government Bill has avoided any party aspect ; it does not favour one particular sect or denomination, but is on the whole liberal and enlightened. It deals with the per plexities of the case in a fair, equitable, and straightforward manner, and while, retaining as much as possible the best and most successful features of the old scheme, it introduces some changes and amendments which will greatly facilitate the progress of national education. The Duke of MARLBOROUGH began his speech by taking a survey of the rival plans, which have been suggested of late years, and quoted a good many statistics to enable the House to comprehend the true state of the case. It appears from the figures given by the nobh duke, that although there re mains much to be done, the actual deficiency has been much overrated. The Report of the Royal Commission in 1861 shows that whereas, in 1803, the estimated number of day scholars was 1 in 17 of the population, in 1858 the proportion was nearly lin 7. In Prussia, under the boasted compulsory system, the proportion is 1 in 6, so that the con dition of England, in an educational point of view, is scarcely so black as it was painted. There is no THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, IVI.A.RCEI 25, 1868. doubt that progress has been made in the last ten years, ao that we may believe that matters are even better than they appeared to the commission. General observation is sufficient to show the great improvement that has taken place of late in the primary education of the lower classes. It needs no blue books and no Royal commission to tell us that there are many more working men and women who can read and write than of old, or that the whole mental calibre of the population is raised. The interest taken in foreign politics, the immense circulation of cheap literature, are things unknown to our fore fathers, and while we should endeavour by every means to press onward the great question of national education, we need not confuse our selves by making matters worse than they really are. In another aspect, too, one which com mends itself to the attention of practical men, the existing system has worked well. The share which the public has voluntarily borne in the expenses of primary schools has been very large. The school pence amount to nearly £400,000 and the subscriptions to £350,000. Besides this much has been effected by personal exertion and volun teer effort. All these gains would be forfeited by the adoption of the compulsory rate, and there are other serious obstacles to such a measure. The rates already press heavily on the smaller house holders, and any addition to the burden would be most unwelcome. They are already, as the Duke of MARLBOROUGH observed, on the in crease. Rates are already imposed for some educational purposes, such as industrial schools, reformatory schools, and workhouse schools, and the Government may well shrink from increas ing the number. In the interest of the schools it is not desirable to do so. When the question is one of administering funds raised by unwelcome pres sure the natural tendency of the local bodies chosen by the ratepayers is to screw down the expenses to the minimum point. This is often a shortsighted policy, but it is followed in nine cases out of ten where ratepayers' representatives have the govern ment of institutions. We have seen the effects in the administration of our workhouses, and the Commissioners of 1861, in stating their objections to the rating system, give this argument a prominent place. They say " The experience of workhouse schools leads us to fear that the conse quence of 'putting the management of the schools into the hands of parochial bodies would be that trained teachers would in a great measure cease to be employed, and that the whole standard of ele mentary education would be lowered." Again, they say very sensibly that " Rates are a proper fund for expenses, of which it is desirable to exercise vigilant and minute economy;" but the support of a good school does not belong to such a category. Having, therefore, abandoned the idea of a compul sory rate in aid, the Government have decided on proceeding on the foundation they possess. The most important change which is made under the new scheme is the appointment of a Minister of Education, and Parliament is to be asked to give its assent to the appointment of a new Secretary of State. This proposal may startle some, but it is grounded on reason. National education is un doubtedly one of the most important topics of the day, and the range of interests which it affects is so wide, the business connected with it so engrossing, that it is simply impossible for the present organisation to deal with it in a manner at all adequate to its proportions. Continental countries have such a minister, and there is no reason why educational matters should be less important to Englishmen. Such minister, if he were an able and energetic man, might revise the whole question of education, might collect valuable information, might classify the unwieldy evidence obtained in various parts, and place the whole subject on a clearer and more comprehen sible basis. With respect to the revised code the Govern ment propose to omit the condition that all the schools which receive aid must be in connection with some religious denomination, and to ply for results on a secular principle, that is to say, where a school asks for inspection and complies with the sanitary conditions, &c. The object of this is not to encourage purely secular education, but to assist many Noncoufarmist schools now excluded from State aid on other grounds. The clauses relating to the management of the denominational schools is to remain exactly as at present, while the conscience clause is to be amended by providing that the religious teaching of the school should be left uncontrolled, but that every parent should be at liberty to withdraw his child if he wished while religious instruction was being given. Without abandoning the certificate system, it is also proposed to assist schools in poorer districts by marking a limit below which they may receive a portion of the grant without a certificated teacher. There are many other matters of detail to be further enlarged upon, but such are the main features of the bill, which, as we have said, will no doubt on the whole be favourably received. It seems that the Thames Embankment is likely to present some of its promised advantages shortly and that the Metropolitan Board have resolved to prepare for the traffic of the public over the whole of the part that is completed. This will be an im mense advantage to the community, especially the most busy part of it, and the convenience of using a connected line between the City and Westminster that will be free from many of the evils of the pre sent road of communication is almost incredible. In looking at the proposal before us it seems almost impossible to realize how people have managed to get on at all under the burden of the old system, and why they should so patiently have submitted to the long delays that have taken place in the matter. The benefits conferred upon those to whom time is money, and the justice of quick transit, are of paramount importance—one, indeed, most consi derable, and they will be overjoyed at the delight ful prospect now before them. There will be a ready mode of access to the Houses of Parliament and the Courts of Law for those in the Inns of Court, and about half the time we now take will be saved. It is to be hoped that the remaining part of the Embankment from the Temple to Blackfriars'-bridge will be shortly finished, which will be another advantage. The Metropolitan Board may rest assured that the public will appreciate the services they are thus rendering, and if all these good things come to pass shortly, they will be inclined to overlook a great deal of the irritating delay that has occurred previously in this matter. It is, indeed, time that the convenience of the public should be looked upon as the thing of primary importance, and we may congratulate alike those who have wisely resolved upon making the desired arrange ment and those who will benefit greatly by it. It is more easy to remember the evils that obtained in the old way than to realise all the advantages that will accrue from the new regime ; but in either case there is ample reason to be fully satisfied, and it affords hope and encouragement to all who are engaged in ordinary affairs to know that the time is at hand when serious losses and inconveniences will no longer await them from the stopping of traffic and the impossibility of getting on. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) !ARTS. TUESDAY, March 24, From day to day the Etendard assures us of the favour able reception which the new army law has met with in the country, and describes the enthusiasm with which the young men have enrolled themselves in the Mobile Guard. Unfortunately for the semi-official organ, it always manages to give us, every day, news of some fresh disturbance. It was in the Etendard that we had the first intelligence of the riot at Toulouse ; then that at Montauban ; then that at Bordeaux. Yesterday we were informed of the "anarchical placards" at Rennes, the capital of Brittany, and we were assured that the "only" object of those who wrote them was to excite sedition, an object which the Etendard treats lightly, con sidering its devotion to the Empire. To-day the same paper lets out that there have been disturbances at the Veterinary College at Lyons. These, however, do not seem to have had any connection with the enlistment. They were " acts of insubordination." The young men wished to have a holiday, apparently, and, being refused, took it. All but thirty of them have been expelled. M. Horn's pamphlet has attracted much more notice than the " Titres." The first is a terrible exposé of the financial extravagance of the " Dynastie Napolionienne." This has been followed by another pamphlet of similar import from M. Achille Mercier, called " Le Nouvel Em prunt et la Politique du Grand Livre." This " Grand Livre " is the register containing the list of public credi tors ; and it appears, according to M. Mercier's figures, that what is called " personal " government, i.e., the government by the two Napoleons without responsible Ministers, has created in twenty-five years three-fourths of the entire public debt. The Empire has spent during the first fifteen years of its existence 11 milliards (P.,440,000,000) more than was spent by Louis Philippe during the first fifteen years of his reign. The total amount sper.t by the Empire in fifteen years is nearly 1,200 millions sterling. Taking the excess of 440 millions, M. Mercier tells the Minister of Finance, with this amount " you might have built 3,600,000 houses for the working classes like those of Mulhouse, which the public admired so much at the Exhibition; and you might have for sixty years lodged an equal number of families, representing 18 millions of souls, or one-half, nearly, of the whole popula tion of France. With 11 milliards you might have pro vided for the present budget of all the relief committees (Bureaux de Bienfaisance) of the Empire during 645 years ; that is, for the same number of years that have elapsed since the death of Philippe Auguste. With 11 milliards you might have made the 1,700,000 inhabi tants of Paris profit by the compensation on the price of bread during near fifteen centuries. With 11 milliards you might have cleared and irrigated the whole of Algeria , reconciled the two races, raised the triumphal arches and the aqueducts of the Romans, and reconstructed the Eastern cities of the Moorish kings. And in presence of how much misery and continued suffering has not this enormous supplement of budget expenditure been obtained! In France, in this country, blessed by nature, as it is, with a fertile soil, with a mild climate, there exist 3,000,000 poor, of whom 300 die every year of cold and hunger, 07 4,500 every fifteen years." Two other pamphlets, attack. the financial policy of the Emperor, have also appeared, Altogether, the Empire is getting some hard blows just now. The Emperor is still, however, hankering after new weapons of war. While his agents are flitting restlessly about Europe endeavouring to bring about alliances, he cannot abandon the idea of making the French the most formidable army in the world. On Sunday he " assisted '' at some fresh experiments with his portable cannon which has now been named mitrailleuse, i.e., grape-shot It is said to have a range of about 2,000 ft., but it still wants precision. The Minister of Marine bas also turned in ventor, and has devised some fire-ships which have the means of attaching themselves to an enemy's vessel, and the price of which is £4BO. In connection with this sub ject, I may mention that the estimates for the manufac ture and conversion of Chassepot rifles already exceed three millions sterling, and it is believed that not less than fou r millions will be spent. Every new Chassepot costs about IGs. But, after all, this is not so much as other Govern. ments . have spent, or are spending. In Russia the amount is 51 millions; in Austria 31. It is calculated that it three or four years the needle-gun will have cost Europ• 40 millions sterling. And this is the reign of peace ! Easter Day is always a great holiday in Paris. This year it will see the opening of some new and some restored portions of the Louvre. Amongst the first is the grand staircase in the Pavillon Daru. Among the second are the splendid apartments occupied by Anne of Austria. In the Salle des Bijoux have been placed Luini's splendid frescoes bought in Italy last year. The work of destruction is going on rapidly at the Champs de Mars. The Parisians had hoped that the gar dens surrounding the Exhibition Rould have been pre served to them, and that a museum would have been erected out of the proceeds of the sale of the old building, amounting to about £40,000. But the Minister of War was inexorable, and so all the terraces and walks are being levelled, and the place will soon be as ugly as it war The official denial of the Emperor Napoleon's visit to Berlin and St. Petersburg, appearing immediately after the return of Prince Napoleon, has produced an unfavour able impression in Paris. It is inferred that the Prince's mission, whatever it was, has failed. The Inclependancs Beige mentions that the rumour of an Austrian alliance is once more revived. Two sad catastrophes have just happened at Paris. Ii the one case a captain of chasseurs, whose duty was t( be present with his company at the review before Or Emperor on Thursday, failed to make his appearance, fo• some reason not stated. He was, in consequence, severely reprimanded, and ordered under arrest for some clays. Smarting under this disgrace, he sat up all night regulat ing the accounts of his company, and in the morning lit called the men together, reviewed them, a n d say i ng , 4 now hid you adieu," pulled a revolver from his pocket, placed the muzzle at his breast, and fired. The ball, how ever, was turned aside by the Cross of the Legion of Honour ; but he immediately discharged another barrel, and fell, bathed in blood, from a dan gerous wound near the heart. He was at once taken to the hospital, where he lies in a critical state. In the other, M. de Turennes, a descendant of one of the old historical families of France, was returning from the Vincennes steeplechase in his mail phaeton ; turning round to speak to a friend, he let the reins slip from his hand, the horses bolted, and ran full tilt against a heavy waggon. The phaeton was upset, and all in it thrown out. M. de Turennes fell on his head, was picked up senseless, and had not recovered consciousness at a late hour on Monday night. A correspondent of the Temps writing from Algeria describes the terrible avidity with which the famine stricken people devour the food which he gives them. He mentions that young girls of 16 came for food to his office without a particle of clothing. To such desperate strait. , have they been reduced that they have sold the last remnant of dress which they possessed. Great preparations are being made at Florence to cele brate the marriage of the heir to the Crown. Prince Humbert's bride elect is said to be the girl of his own choice. Some time ago he made a matrimonial tour to the Courts of Europe, but returned with the conviction that there was none of all the royal girls to be compared with his cousin Margaret. The Italians are of the same opinion, and they are far better pleased at having an Italian for their future Queen than they would have been by having the Austrian princeas who was at one time spoken of. So there are to be magnificent fetes at Turin (where the marriage takes place), Florence, Milan, and Venice. Florence will offer the bride a sevigne in brilliants, with a lily in the centre surrounded by daisies—thus combining the emblem of the city with the flower of which she bears the name. The ladies of Venice will present beautiful Venetian lace in a coffer of the choicest mosaic. Seven hundred Milanese ladies subscribed for a gift which shall be a masterpiece of its kind, and shall display to the best advantage the skill and taste of the artists and artisans of the flourishing and munificent Lombard capital. Their committee has decided on an ivory writing-desk, with paintings on a golden ground and ornaments in silver and enamel. Among other fetes there is to be a tournament in the Piazza Santa Maria Novella at Florence, which will be a very brilliant spectacle. The Piedmontese and the Lombards seem to have felt little interest in the transportation of the body of Manin, the illustrious President of the short-lived Venetian Republic, from Paris to Venice. The funeral car was taken across Mont Cenis in the midst of a deep snow. At Susa it was deposited for a time in a chapelle ardente. At Turin, Milan, and other cities but little notice was taken. But directly the cortege reached Venetia all was changed. At Verona, Vicenza, and Padua the people turned out in crowds to pay their respects to the remains of their hero. At Mestre, where the railway enters the lagune, the corpse was deposited for the night, and during the night National Guards mounted guard. We learn by telegraph that the body was deposited in a sar cophagus within St. Mark's. We have yet to receive par ticulars of the funeral procession of gondolas down the the Grazed Canal. it must have been singularly impressive. Spain is still in a very unsettled state. The Madrid correspondent of the Independence Beige mentions a rumour to the effect that the Government, fearing a new insurrection, was about to proclaim a state of siege throughout the Peninsula. This intention, however, poems to have been abandoned, although it is probable that it will be acloPttd in Nayarrc gad Catalonia. LATEST INTELL LGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per the City of New York via Queenstown.) NEW YORK, March 14, Noon. The Senate re-assembled as a Court of Impeach ment for the trial of President Johnson yesterday, Chief Justice Chase presiding. Attorney-General Stanberry read a plea from Mr. Johnson, stating that after careful examination of the Articles of Impeach ment, he was satisfied that a period of 40 days was necessary to prepare an answer, and he respectfully asked to be allowed that time. The managers from the House of Representatives opposed the delay, refused to order the trial to be proceeded with at once by 26 to 25 votes, and by 40 votes to 10 ordered that the President should file his answer by the 233 inst., and that the trial should proceed as soon as the replication should be filed by the House. Attorney-General Stanberry has resigned his post, stating as his reason that his participation in the defence of Mr. Johnson would engross his entire time. The President has accepted the re signation, and appointed Secretary Grounding to act as Attorney-General pro tem. Congress has passed the bill prohibiting appeals from the National and Circuit Courts being consi dered by the Supreme Court. Mr. Davis's trial has been postponed from March 25th until April 14th, and his bail has been renewed. General Hancock has appointed the 17th and 18th April for the Louisiana elections. The returns from the New Hampshire elections are nearly complete, and show a reduction of 700 from a Republican majority of last year. The Breman Royal mail steamship City of New York, from New York on the 14th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 4 a.m. to-day (March 25th), and having landed mails and passengers proceeded at 5 o'clock for Liverpool. All well. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, March 25. The New Free Press of to-day says :—" We learn that the French Cabinet has announced its intention of inviting very shortly the signataries of the Vienna treaties of 1815 to take into considera tion whether and what steps in common ought to be taken relative to the late acts of Russia, whereby the Kingdom of Poland has ceased to exist." The new Army Bill divides the military strength of Austria into the line, the landwehr, and the landsturm (levee en masse). The regiments of the line are to be under the control of the Minister of War of the Empire, and the landwehr under the control of the Austrian and Hungarian Ministers of War. FRA. BOURSE, March 24—Thi closed as follows :- 4} per Cent. End of month — Ital'an Loan ...... 47 30 3 per Cent End of month_ 69 °O Mexican Loan ... 18 50 Credit Mobilier End of month... 260 Spanish Threes Credit Foncior ...1482 50 Home Debt 32 75 End of month... Deferred RAILWAYS. Account - NCE. ree o'clock. —The market Orleans „ . 902 Northern llB6f Lyons and Mediterranean Southern__ 550 Western Eastern • • Sardinian Austrian 5521 Lombard 375 North of Spain Saragossa Roman SU TEE UN IVERSITI BOAT RACE. THIS DAY. The weather this morning has been beautiful, the wind having veered round in the night towards the east. The Oxford and Cambridge crows both took pedestrian exercise in the morning early, and the Cambridge crew having been photographed by Mr. Paul, of Putney, they repaired to Styles' boatyard, where their boat is housed, and went out for a paddle, the severe work they have done not rendering it necessary for them to go over the cenrse this morning; at least, so we have it from a reliable source. There was nothing in the way of spectators to show that anything out of tho ordinary was taking place at Putney, so the crew had their row almost to themselves, and were subjected, consequently, to very little of that harsh criticism to which they are generally subject. The crew got into their boat at 1145, and, commencing at 30 strokes per minute, rowed in better form than they have yet exhibited. There is still, however, that perceptible hang at the beginning of the stroke, but time will, of course, mend that fault, which is not so glaring, as what they row is well rowed through the canter. They quickened the stroke as.„they approached the Dung Wharf, where the steerage was difficult, as they had only a young flood under thorn. Mr. Warner's voice was repeatedly raised respecting defects, and after a good paddle above Hammersmith-bridge they returned to the boat-yard at 12.30. We understand they will not go over the course this afternoon, but in all probability their opponents will. Putney was thronged with visitors yesterday afternoon, including many ladies, to view the rowing of the Univer sit•y crews, both of which were watched with the most lively interest. Oxford were first afloat, and proceeded at high water to Mortlake, where they turned round and started down, rowing at 36 strokes per minute, with the early ebb under them, and a strong northerly wind aft. The weather was fine, and the wind, although powerful, was not squally, as ou the previous day. This was their first time over the course, and, considering that they had only had a mere paddle on the previous day, there were not so many defects apparent as we have sometimes seen. There is manifest irregularity in the work, but great power in the boat. The crew are a flue set of men, and swing well together. They accomplished the distance in 20 minutes 20 or 21 seconds, but there was evident fatigue in one or two of the crew. The Cautabs waited until the tide was ebbing fast before they went u p steered by Mr. T. S. Egan, who at Mortlake resigned the yoke-lines to Mr. Warner, the regular coxswain. They commenced rowing down from Barker's Rails, but as they eased at the Ship, and did not go all the way to Putney bridge, their time was not taken. They tow longer than their opponents, and a trifle nearer the water in the re turn, but there is a perceptible "hang" when they reach forward to commence the stroke, and when rowing slowly the boat is rendered unsteady. They came down at 32 strokes per minute, and although the style upon the whole is lively and good, there are matters that may be mended. It may be worthy of consideration whether it would not be advantageous to the crew to give ono of its members,, who is now fully trained, rest for a day or two, by the sub-. stitution of another University man. The Thames Conservancy have power to impose fines on the captains of disorderly steamboats at the University Boat Race on the race-day, unless steps are taken to pre vent it. The chief creators of confusion will be the small screw tugs, which, being faster than the other boats, out strip them, and are sometimes almost if not quite alongside the contending crews. All this can be prevented by the fol lowing simpleplan. Let the Conservancy have bills printed, ordering steamboats to keep the opposite side of Putney bridge from the race until after the start, and to ba astern of the umpire's boat during the race, and if these bills are posted in conspicuous situations—as, for instance, the various boat-yards, the piers of Putney-bridge, &c.—and the order is enforced by fines, there will be no such dis graceful scenes as there were last year, which, if persisted in, must eventually drive boat-racing higher up the river, where it is free from those nuisances to rowing— the steamers. Another great evil is the way in which the barges obstruct the course. On the day of the race there are always more barges between Putney and Mortlake than usual, and then they do not travel at their ordinary slow rate of speed, but tack from shore to shore, hardly making any progress, loitering with a view of seeing the race, and when the University boats do come, these barge men will not inconvenience themselves in the least, either by making shorter tacks, or by mooring (both of which they can easily do), but rather than go a few feet out of their path they prefer to spoil the pleasure of thousands. THE EDMUND SCANDAL AGAIN.—The injunction at the instance of the Attol ney-General against Leonard Edmunds, the late Clerk of the Patents, charging him wish malversation of the public money, &e., is specially ap pointed to come up for hearing before Vice-Chancellor Giffard on Monday the 20th of April next. Notice of trial has also been given to Mr. Greenwood, Treasury Solicitor, by Mr. Edmund's solicitors, in an action for malicious libel, contained in certain official reports made by Mr. Green wood in reference to the above transaction. This cause will be laid by a special jury in the Court of Common Pleas during the sittings after next Trinity Term. In this action the defendant has not pleaded " justification.' , Much more is yet to be heard, it seems, respecting this cause celebre. THE TICHBO.RNE BARONETCY. The solicitors for Sir H. C. Tichborne and his guardians say the question of the succession is not yet ripe for a trial by juiy. "We are as anxious as the claimant or his soli citor can be that the question should be tried at the earliest possible moment. We abstain from noticing the parade of witnesses who are stated to have come forward on the claimant's behalf, it being in our judgment the height of impropriety to attempt to prejudge the case by such means. We will only state that notwithstanding the affidavits which have been made in support of the claimant's case, his identity with the late Roger Charles Tichborne will, at the proper time, not only be plainly disproved, but we shall prove who the clainiant really is." Mr. Guildford Onslow, M.P., writes of the scene at the funeral : " By the invitatien of the claimant to the title and estate, whom I firmly believe to be the real baronet, I made a point of attending, and a more quiet, attentive, and orderly assembly I never wit nessed. I observed Mr. Alfred Seymour immediately after the coffin was removed, attempt to occupy the place of chief mourner ; and, although Sir Roger Tichborne was so overwhelmed with grief, and in tears, and could with difficulty rise from his seat, he quietly and not offensively pushed Mr. Seymour aside, and placed himself in that position which his deceased mother would have wished he should occupy. Mr. Seymour and his friends then left in a body, to reappear in the village church. I avow this is the plain unvarnished fact of what (lid take place on Thursday last at Tichborne Park. As to anyone being 'summarily extruded' beyond that I have mentioned, I utterly deny." THE WIGAN OUTRAGE. The attack upon the house of a Wigan collier, which was lately reported in our columns, seems to have been even a more serious outrage than was at first sup posed. Two men are in custody charged with throwing a bottle of gunpowder, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and on Monday they were taken before the magis trates at the borough -.petty sessions and remanded, without any statement being made as to the nature of the evidence against them. The names of the men aro John Jolly and Alexander Shepherd, both colliers. The man who was so wantonly attacked on Saturday morning is named Joseph Johnson, and he resides with his wife and nine of his family of eleven children at a. house in Whelley, Johnson, apprehensive of an attack, fitted up shutters in side the windows of his house, and not content with this precaution, on Friday evening he did not retire to rest with out leaving his wife and son on guard. Thefirst attack was about midnight, when showers of stones were thrown at the windows. The son went upstairs to awaken his father, and when in the upper storey he slid back the shutter a little to endeavour to discover the assailants, upon which a gun, apparently loaded with shot, was fired at the place. This discharge and the showers of stones were successful in breaking twenty or thirty panes of glass. For the next hour or so there was quietness, but the inmates of the house were still on the alert, and about a quarter to two they heard a missile strike against the framework of the window, and then fall upon the stone in front of the door. Immediately afterwards a flame shot up to the height of several yards, and there was a loud report. With the object of frightening the miscreants, a gun and a pistol were now fired from within the house, and these reports, together with the noise of the explo sion, attracted a police•officer to the spot, and the family were left in peace for the remainder of the night. A subsequent examination shewed that the missile which struck the window was a gingerbeer bottle, which had been filled with gunpowder, and to which was attached a lighted fuse inserted through a wooden plug in the neck. The bottle was shivered into a thousand pieces. THE CASE OF SCALDING IN A CONVENT. At the Westminster Police-court, on Tuesday, Margaret Walsh, a teacher at the school held at the convent of the French S(eurs de Charite de St. Vincent de Paul, Ashley place, Pimlico, was finally examined, charged with assault ing Ellen Brown, a child of the tender age of 4 years, by scalding it in a copper. Mr. W. D. Smyth, solicitor, of Rochester-row, appeared to prosecute for the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, 20, Haymarket ; Mr. Bury Hutchinson defended ; and Mr. Millar, of Clifford's Inn, watched the case for the convent authorities. The facts of the case have been often detailed ; the pro secution not endeavouring to get a conviction on the more serious charge of feloniously wounding, with intent, Sze.., but merely prosecuting for the common assault. The evidence had been very conflicting, and Mr. Smyth, on the last occasion, could not give an idea of the injury the child had sustained ; therefore, the case was remanded for the attendance of the surgeon from St. George's Hospital, who was summoned, and his evidence copied in deposition for committal for trial. It must be borne in mind that the school is in no *ay connected with the convent, nor the convent with the school. It was formerly held in Westminster, but the premises coming down for the railway, the Rev. Father Kirke, the principal, leased or rented part of the convent to carry on the school temporarily. Since the occurrence the defendant has left the school. Dr. Fisher said : I am a surgeon at St. George's Hospi tal ; house surgeon. I have had under my case at the hospital a child of the name of Ellen Brown. The first time I saw her was on the 4th of March ; she was scalded from just below the knee to the ankle, not the feet. The scalds were of the same height to within half an inch. The child was in danger three or four days from fever con sequent on the burns. The child is out of danger now, and will be well probably in a fortnight. Mr. Arnold : There is always some danger of a relapse, and I cannot complete the case until the child is able to leave the hospital. I think under the circumstances there would be no objection to adjourn the case for a fortnight, and extend the bail. No objection was made, and the case was adjourned till that day fortnight. The fears as to a dissolution of Parliament this year * should the Government be defeated on Mr. Gladstone's resolutions, are gradually disappearing. When threats are held out as to an appeal to the country and to the constituencies, the Times asks what is meant by " the country," and by " the constituencies ?" Why, an appeal to the £lO householders in boroughs and the £5O tenants in counties—an appeal to the electors of Honiton and of Tavistock to send up once more their two members apiece to determine the policy of the empire. It is sufficient to state what is meant by an " appeal to the country " at the present time to demon strate its absurdity. The moral competence of condemned constituencies cannot be greater than the moral com petence of a moribund Parliament. It quotes Lord Stanley's argument on this very point when speaking against the separation of the franchise from the redis tribution of seats two years ago. Looking forward to the chance of a dissolution before the work of Reform had been perfected, he pointed out "in what an extraordinary position the House and the country would be placed." "If you appeal," he said, "to the old constituencies, you make your appeal to those whom the House has by its deliberate vote already condemned, and from whom it has transferred political power ;" and if an appeal were made to constituencies imperfectly reformed, it would be an appeal to "an electoral body, the creation of an accident, never intended to be the depository of political power." The bill for the abolition of corriptilsory : ehurch rates has gone up to the House of Lords with a majority of 103 in its favour. The 28 dissentients included three members of the Cabinet—Lord John Manners, Sir Stafford North cote, and Sir John Pakington ; and five members of the Government outside that select circle. These were the Solicitor-General, the Hon. Colonel Lindsay, Mr. Sclater-Booth, Admiral Seymour, and the Attorney- General for Ireland. The others consisted of old and staunch Conservatives like Sir Brook Bridges and Mr. Henley, and uncompromising Orangemen like Sir Charles Lanyon and Sir J. M. Stronge. In the majority were such Conservatives as Mr. Henry Barnett, the member for Woodstock, Sir H. Edwards, Mr. Milnes Gaskell, Mr. Kavanagh, Sir Graham Montgomery (the Scotch Lord of the Treasury), Mr. Neville-Grenville, Mr. F. S. Powell, Mr. Samuel Waterhouse, and Mr. W. Wynne. ACCIDENT IN THE HUNTING FIELD.—Mr. Loftus Arkwrigbt, the master of the Essex hounds, has met with an accident. The field met at Loughton, and after break fasting at the mansion of Mr. Howard, proceeded to hunt the forest. In crossing a ditch Mr. Arkwright's horse fell and threw him, and brought down its hind feet on his breast. Medical assistance was at once sent for, and a car riage having been obtained, the injured gentleman was conveyed to Epping, and afterwards to his home at Har low. It was found that no bones had been broken, and it is believed no serious injury has been sustained. CRUELTY TO A GIRL.—A man named Thomas Cook, a chimney-sweep, has been sent to prison for six months by the Birmingham magistrates, for cruelly beat ing his stepdaughter, a girl only six years of age. The prisoner, sitting at home, had filled his pipe with tobacco, and asked the child to give him a light. Whilst she was holding the burning paper towards him the flame touched her hand, and she, of course, let the paper fall. For that very grave offence the man took the child upstairs and beat her with a horsewhip. The child was produced in court, and the magistrates inspected the bruis es w hi c h the prisoner had made with the whip. Lumps and bruises were found on her bead, and her arms were covered with wheals and bruises, from which blood was issuing. The man's only excuse was that the child was impudent. To et Mita HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 24. The Queen went out this morning, accompanied by Princess Christian. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice rode in the Home Park. The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen, yesterday. The Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Ellis, visited M. Val Prinsep's studio a few days since. Madame Van de Weyer gave her second small dance last evening. It was honoured by the presence of their Royal Highnesses the Pi ince and Princess of Wales, the Prince and Princess Christian, and Princess Louise. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary Adelaide of Teck left town yesterday, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Lord Frederick Paulet, for Belvoir Castle, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland. Their royal highnesses will remain at Belvoir till Monday next. The Earl and Countess of Derby and the Hon. Fi ederick Stanley, M.P., and Lady Constance Stanley ar rived in town yesterday from Knowsley. The Earl of Carnarv - on has arrived in town from the south of France, and the countess is daily expected to arrive from tho Continent. Viscount Gilford and Lady Gilford have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. Count F. de Lagrange and Monsieur E. Fould have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Paris. THE -AUSTRALIAN SHIP GENERAL GRAIV T. WELLINGTON, Jan. 17. The particulars of one of those romantic sea ad ventures which illustrate how much stranger truth is than fiction have just been made public. The Auckland Islands, situate about four degrees due south of New Zealand, have of late years obtained much notoriety by reason of the shelter they have afforded to shipwrecked crews. They ought to be out of the course of vessels returning to England from Australia, but occasionally ships are driven into those stormy latitudes, and four or five of them are known to have been lost within as many years. Eighteen years ago the islands were made the depot for the whaling ships of an English company, ori ginated by the Messrs. Enderby, and a relative of those gentlemen was then created Governor. After a few years' trial the company was broken oP , and with .Governor Enderby's departure all at tempt at settlement was finally abandoned. Two or three hundred. Maories had found a home there for several years, but the region was so inhospitable that they also were eventually obliged to forsake it. In 1865 a shipwrecked crew was taken off by 3 homeward-bound vessel, and the islands were thoroughly searched in October and November of that year by the colonial steamers Victoria and Southland, both of which left goats, rabbits, poultry, and sowed the commoner vegetables in various places. Three men, wrecked in the schooner Graf ton, had, earlier in that year, succeeded in reaching New Zealand, after having existed on the islands nearly 18 months, the boat being so small and leaky that the fourth man had to be left be hind. Besides rescuing the veritable Crusoe traces of other wrecks were discovered, but from that day to this, although several homeward bound vessels have been missing, no further visits have been made to the islands either by men-of-war or others. The wreck of one of these missing vessels has just become known, and ten of her passengers and crew have been taken off, after eighteen months of much hardship. The General Grant, of Boston, a fine ship of 1,095 tons, car taro Loughlin, sailed from Melbourne, on the 4th of May, 1866, for London, with a crew and pas' sengers numbering 83 souls, and a cargo consisting chiefly of wool and six boxes of gold. On the 13th, the weather being thick, the Auckland Islands were sighted close ahead, and the ship was imme diately hauled on the port tack. The wind being light, and a strong current setting in shore, the ship struck heavily under some almost perpendicular cliffs, carrying away her jibboom and rudder. A boiling surf prevented any attempt at escape until next day, after the ship had been in the darkness drawn into a cave about 250 feet deep, but not sufficiently high to :limit her all standing. The foremast went tire, and then her maintopgallantmast, both bringing down huge pieces of rock, which stove in the fore castle. When the day broke the ship was stillstrik ing heavily forward with 25 fathoms under her stern. The pinnace was first launched, and three or four men sent in her to lay out lines and a kedge , and then the gig was lowered from the stern with the chief officer and four men. Up to this time the wind was light and the tide had been falling, bu t now both setting 'strongly into the cave, the vess el forged further up, and the maintopmast coining into contact with the lessening roof, caused the keel to start the ship's bottom, and she began t° fill. The women were hurried into the long boat/ one of whom (Mrs. Jewell) the stewardess fell fronl the whip into the sea, but was rescued by her hus band jumping after her and reaching the gig. T v( , ° other passengers followed Jewell's example, were also picked up. The sea had had now rise" considerably and swept the poop. The long bo at was seen to float with about 40 persons, but so °° getting into the breakers filled and sank. The g i g had made an ineffectual attempt to return to t he ship, and, now, with the pinnace, watched o utsid e the breakers, in the hope of rescuing such stro ng swimmers as in their agony might force themsel ves into smoother water. Three such were picked LIF' and then the ship was seen to go down, Captal e Loughlin, with one man by his side, stand' ing in the mizentop waving a last farewell. A ft 6 laying-to until all hope of rescuing any more li ves was land3' was gone, the two boats made for one of the is , h and next day effected a landing in " Sar a Bosom," which is, I believe, the original and sr' i ll popular name of the harbour marked on the char t : as Port Ross. Here these sixteen people appea r 1 867 have remained until the 22d of January, living principally on seals, limpets, mussels, 311 3 t occasionally catching a pig or a goat. On tl date the chief officer, three of the crew, and a Pa s, senger left the island in one of the boats for .0 , Zealand. Hope of a . successful voyage died out 03 those left behind, after waiting in vain from In° ll A to month for succour, and they rightly conclu de that the chief officer and his companions, to vh ° lie they had already owed so much, had perished i" ° attempt. One of the shore passengers died fr et l, dysentery, from which they all suffered seve re it t l and this appears to have impressed them many gloomy forebodings ; all were, however , f or o g tunately obliged to exert themselves daily in ge tt i ng wood for signal fires, keeping a look-out, h u " to6 . for food, and turning the sealskins into elnt illi3b : brig At length, on the 21st of November, the whaling ,0 Amherst was attracted by the signals, and t oole d nine men and one woman on board, a nd lan tot . them at the Bluff (Southland) on the 13th ins ter) Their names are :—Passengers.—Jas. Teer (See •or 0" Patrick Coughey, Nicholas Allan, David As- cs Crew.—Mary Ann Jewell (stewardess)/ e l°Be A r Jewell, Cornelius Drew, William Ferguson' d 0 . Haipman (Hayman), and A. M. Saguil l y gelly). An official inquiry has been hell:ro the magistrate at the Bluff ; but the I) tele tive above given is wholly drawn from th e c o. grams received by the Government and thei Puriug No mail has yet reached Wellington from tl e o t since the Amherst arrived there. It is thoughtPt- be re seine of the cargo of the General Grant may to jo covered, and sending a steamer to endeavour. c so is talked about. It is to be hoped that ta vernments of Australia and New Zealand will ith a _ v the islands to be visited at stated intervals, 'cs view to the speedier removal of any future,. 0,14 who may be unfortunate enough to get Os' there. \V&A,* ,• 10 13. TILE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—The Riga",r W. E. 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