The Sun. — London, England, 1868-02-13 00:00:00

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To those whose hair is naturally dry, requiring frequent dressing, its cheapness and great value will be proved. Its early use on Children's Hair will insure an abundant and bountiful supply from YOUTH TO OLD AGE. In large Bottles—price Three Shillings. :Sold by most Chemists and Perfumers. EUROPEAN DEPOT AND SALES OFFICE, 266, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, ENG, 111GII WATER AT LONDON' BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, sh. 29m.—Afternoon, sh. 50m To_Moßßow.-Morning, 6h. 11m.—Afternoon, 6h. 30m. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEB. 13, 1868. Parliament meets to-day for the purpose of setting to work, and in consequence of all the prior arrangements having taken place at an earlier period there remains none of that excitement of preparation that generally lends some interest to the earlier part of the year. The members of both Houses plunge, then, in medias res, and take up the thread of their discourses where they dropped them before Christmas. It by no means follows that this Session will see nothing, although there cannot be the excitement that took place last spring, and imparted so vivid an interest to the affairs of Parliament. At the same time, the House being in a collapsing state, it must not be too hardly judged if it fail to perform very striking acts, or refuse to legislate in the comprehensive style that has been advocated by the extremists. Ireland is to take the place left vacant by Reform, and before long little else will form the theme of the chief debates ; but notwithstanding the wrongs that the Irish members will assert weigh down the country, and the rights which some English representatives claim for it, WP eannot goo that thia is this legiti mate time to carp on the matter. No one denies the fact that a good deal must be done to set things in order, but this Parliament is already overburthened with minor subjects, and a good deal of tiresome details must come under its notice which remain from last year, owing to the overwhelming pressure of the debates on Reform. What folly, then, to attempt more than can be done, especially in a case where failure or incom pleteness still have so injurious an effect. It is a very different thing to do nothing in a great under taking, for the reason that the time is not an ap propriate one, to what it is to allow the discussion to come on and then hastily push it aside, present ing the appearance of neglect or indifference. Many and many a prejudice must be encountered, and many an obstacle will arise when once the House gets fairly into the swing of brisk debate. When it is found out, as it must be, that any active legislation is impossible, the irritation and indignation that will ensue cannot possibly im prove the state of affairs, or render the tone of feel ing in the country more genial or gracious. The true friends of Ireland in both countries should wait until some of the unavoidable bitterness has subsided which the present disturbed state of things engenders. Of course the House of Commons must listen to those who persist in putting their views before it ; but, looking at the question in the abstract, this year is not the fitting time to select for a work which must eventually occupy much time and thought. The education question is the chief subject of interest, so far as this country is concerned, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer assured the House in the autumn session that the paragraph in the QUEEN'S Speech that bore reference to this subject meant something in earnest. We hope and trust that no disturbing influences will prevent the Government carrying out their good intentions in this respect, for the time has come when it calls for a settlement ; and if there be one thing more than another upon which differing politicians agree, it is upon the importance of the Education question, and its claim to the paramount attention of the Legisla- The Scotch and Irish Reform Bills will have to be considered, and there is besides the Boundary Bill to be disposed of. Bribery at elec tions, and a host of other questions, great and small, await their turn to come before the House ; and surely, when all these topics are borne in mind, we may come to the conclusion that there is quite enough in all conscience to occupy the notice of hon. members during the lapse of an ordinary session. If we are to perform the un willing task of taking up ,the subjects that were held last year to be secondary to Reform, it may be useful work, if not very inspiriting. The old Parliament has done very well in the eyes of the nation by the zeal it displayed in the work of Reform last year, and that accomplishment covered f a i i m ff o u r lt e i n tu oe d . e of L e it t s n p o r t e t v h io e u m s sins o nthsof of andntheaislesc,t2ssion roll in- by unimproved, merely occupied in murmuring, complaint, and senseless clamour on one side, or the repetition of threadbare arguments on the other ; but let what has to be done be done effectually. It is not always the most stormy legislation that pro duces the most enduring results and effects the greatest benefits to the community, and notwith standing the somewhat depreciatory view that has been taken of its prospects, and the disparaging ture. THE SUN, LONDON, TFIURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1868. ..,.14 tone of overwise politicians, there is no reason why it shoral not address itself in confidence to its lab, WV., andtrust to carry them to a successful issue— Tlae Increasing interest which is felt in the cause of popular education has encouraged the Govern ment to lend their aid and countenance to a project of semi ) importance. The East of London, popu lous et tough in all conscience, and inhabited first by these classes who are more easily reached through the eye than through the reason, has long stood, in need of a Public Museum. The western parts; of the metropolis have their rendezvous at Saida Kensington, the northern and central dis tricts have the British Museum itself, but the workmen of Bethnal-green or of Spitalfields must spend half a day in getting to and fro. The expe rience of every day shows how necessary it is for the English working man to cultivate his mind a little more, to improve his taste, to extend his opportunities of observation if he is to com pete successfully in the struggle with his more vivacious ana quicker witted, if less solid, rivals of the Continent. Industrial Exhibitions have done a great deal in this way, but more remains to be accomplished. Museums have always been found most valuable means of instructing the populace. The curiosity of the sight-seer is mingled with the desire to obtain information, and the former feel ing attracts a good many whom the latter would seldom influence. We want more of such channels of improvement for our people, and at least it should not be said that this means of improvement has been totally neglected with regard to a very large section of our citizens. We have reason to hope that there will not long be room to complain of the omission, for a bill has already passed the House of Commons with the object of securing a site. A deputation yesterday waited upon the Duke of MARLBOROUGH on the subject, and was very favourably received. The deputa tion complained that the bill had been stopped in its progress through the Upper House through some objections raised by Lord REDES DALE. The Duke of MARLBOROUGH, however, was of opinion that the difficulties could be easily dis posed of, and declared that the Government was very favourable to the scheme. It seems that a site has been secured, on very favourable terms, at Bethnal-green, and the iron buildings from South Kensington, which have been recently taken down, are already upon it. The work is, therefore, in a forward state, and it was hoped that the passing of the bill last November would have enabled the Trustees to proceed actively with the work of re construction, so that it might afford employment through the winter. Lord REDESDALE'S objections, however, stood in the way. He held that sufficient notice had not been given to the public, and that the bill should have contained provisions binding the Government not to erect any other building on the land than a Museum. The first objection is now answered by the lapse of time, the second by the fact that the land will be in the hands of the De partment of science and art. The land originally belonged to a charitable gift, but being let to butchers only produced £4 a year for the benefit of the poor, whereas they will now receive the interest of £2,000. This part of the affair is in the hands of t the Charity Commissioners, and provision is made for the compensation of any interests omitted to be purchased. The scheme appears to be a most appro priate and reasonable one, and we cannot but hope that no technical objections will be allowed to stand in the way. Mr. THomAs CONALLY, a mason, spoke ably and forcibly as the representative of the working men, who he said were beyond the reach of primary education, but could learn much by ob servation and comparison. Mr. AYRTON, M. P. ' , who introduced the deputation, remarked on the advantages of the site at Bethnal-green. In a densely populated part of London, land, he said, ( might cost £20,000, while in a remote dis cltrvii t t h i a n a m r u a s d e u i ums ofw o a u l nl d i l b e e a n c d o m a p a h r a a l t f i v n e f l y B u e t s h e l n e a s l s . . green there were probably more working people than in any equal area in London. Under these circumstances we trust that before long the East 1 London Museum will become an established fact. Rumours reach us from Washington of a pro posed renewal of the demand for the Alabama claims, but it is necessary to accept all such reports with very great reserve. According to this account the subject has been debated in the Washington Cabinet, and Mr. JOHNSON is resolved to make a bold bid for popularity and the Presidency by pre senting an ultimatum to the British Govern ment. The alternative offered is to be the immediate settlement of the Alabama claims according to the demands of the American Government, or the suspension of diplomatic rela tions, between the countries. Mr. JouNsoN is said to reckon confidently on the support of the Ame rican people in this demand, and to'relieve that in the present internal condition of England the Bri tish Government will be obliged to yield. Such a report, however circumstantial and inge nious, carries its own contradiction on its face. Mr. JOHNSON is too shrewd a poli tician to believe that the British Government is likely to be intimidated into a compliance which would bring upon them the indignant repudiation of the people. He knows better whit the " inter nal condition" of England is than to suppose that it could influence the matter. The internal con dition of the United States is a question much mere to the point ; and the talk of another war, more gigantic than the last, might well fright not Wall-street alone, but all America, from its propriety. The American public generally have common sense enough to perceive the absur dity of prosecuting demands for compensation in the Alabama case when they have been kind enough to give shelter and encouragement to Feni anism for the last year or two, and when so many of their disorderly spirits have found a congenial safety-valve in its ranks. Without their American head-quarters, their American leaders, their American money through Irish channels, the Fe nians would very soon have collapsed into their original insignificance. The fact is that the Ala bama claims are very useful as a stock in trade to American orators, and whenever they wish to make an impression on the crowd they afford an excellent opportunity for a little bombast. Anything more serious would be however very different from the flourishes of the platform or the denunciations of the Press. Mr. JOHNSON, for his part, has never shown so much anxiety for re-election that he should so far forget prudence and patriotism in his endeavours to secure votes. If he had been the man to bid for popularity at any cost he would have acted very differently with regard to the Radicals. When Radicalism was the order of the day he resolutely opposed it, and his interference in suppression from raid Government. e i c i l t i e e d. ha c s o o r f d te ia n l the of Britishthe Fenian expressed his confidence in the support of the people, but that has been rather with a view to the underlying feelings and convictions of the nation than to the temporary ascendancy of any political party. The strength which be has lately gained has been from the results of his adversaries' Policy rather than from any change in his own eon duct. Feeling secure of their power, and confident in their majority, they have proceeded on so reck less a course that the people have become alarmed at the consequences, and have learned to fear and dislike Radicalism, more from what it itself has done than from any arguments or oppostion of its adversaries. Public opinion has come round to the policy of the PRESIDENT, the PRESIDENT has not moved towards it. He still maintains the same theories respecting the Constitution of the Union and the government of the Southern States that he did when the general voice, through the elections, pronounced against him. If, then, he has now re solved to sacrifice all his previous convictions to a bid for office, we must believe that the stubborn and unimpressible ANDREW JOHNSON has under gone a marvellous change. It is more easy to believe that the coming elections have had their share in the matter, rather promulgating the report from interested motives than in influ encing the diplomatic policy of the PRESIDENT. The Press Bill, with its various details, still continues to occupy the attention of all inquiring minds, and numerous speculations are afloat re specting its nature ant character. M. DOLLFUS writes to the Temps or the subject, and enters fully into the consideration of the question. He takes a very mournful view of the situation, and seems to think that prosperity is far distant from jour nalism, and that its prospects are by no means bright. Per ission is given to the papers to ap pear, he admits, but immediately rejoins, "You are prevented from living." An ephemeral existence is what the authorities condescend to devise for these unfortunates. " The spring and autumn of the Press will not be far distant from each other, and the summer, if any, will be but short." Next it is asserted that the journalists will have judges, but not justice. The Govern. meat will have too much to do with the matter, and the Correctional Court is not the fit one to decide on such cases, and the paper that is indicted is all but certain to be condemned, for the terms are in fact almost synonymous ones in reality. Perhaps we may be permitted to hope that this is too sombre a view to take of the affair, and that experience will show that these fears are ex aggerated. Perhaps more may follow from this legislation than appears at first gght, and at any rate good service has been rendered to the cause of Europe through the earnest efforts of the speakers in the debates. The penalties which are proposed to be inflicted in lieu of imprisonment are very heavy, and can scarcely be put in force un less reason and common sense are cast to the wind. Imprisonment, at all events, is done for, according to the last decisions of the Chamber. Take it for all in all, then, this Bill for the Press is not so bad, and it may Is well have a fair trial since it has gone so far, for it will not be impossible at a futare opportunity to revise it, and to strike out any portion which militates against the cause of freedom and progress, while other clauses of a better character could be appropriately introduced. LATEST INTELL GENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) BELGIUM. BRussms, Feb. 13. A strike and serious disturbances have taken place in the Mareinelle and Gilly Coal Mines, near Charleroi. Several arrests have taken place. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE FRANCE. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 13. The National Steamship Compa l n a y ud 's in s g teamship France, from New York , arri ved off this port at throe n'elock ni cn Lang• After passen gers she proceeded for Liverpool. All well. NEW YORK, Feb. 2. The New York p a pers contain co n t ra di c t or y accounts from Washington regarding the Alabama claims ; one stating that the President has resolved to bring the question to an immediate issue, while another avers that the report has no foundation, but that a correspondence on the subject of the claims will be at once opened through Mr. Thornton. The plan of settlement by arbitration is said to have been abandoned. News from Peru to the 12th January confirms the disastrous defeat of Prado by the revolutionists before Arequipa, and states that he retreated in escaping capture. p di r s a o d rd o er af u te p r o w n ard L s i Lima, narrowly left forch Intense excite ment prevailed at Lima and Callao. The whole country is now held by the revolutionists. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb. 12.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :- 4i. per Cent. End of month — 3 por Cent End of month 6B 65 Credit Dlobilier 195 —2 Bank Shares 3230 Its,Pan Loan End of month 43 40 Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes 38 Home Debt 34 Deferred — Ys. End of month... 190 Crodit Foncior _1406 25 End of m0nth...1383 75 RAILWA' Account Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 545 Western Eastern • • Z4S Sardinian Austrian 535 Lombard 363; North of Spain Saragossa Roman 46 HAYMARKET THEATRE.—On Wednesday, the 19th instant, Mr. George Turpin, box-bookkeeper of this theatre, will take his annual benefit. The performances will include the comedy of "David Garrick," with Mr. Sothern in the principal character, and the farce of "Box and Cox." These attractions, coupled with the general estimation in which so old a servant of the establishment and of the public is held, will no doubt ensure a full at tendance on the occasion. PRINCE OF WALES YACHT CLUB.— The annual ball of this club took place on Tuesday night at the Free masons' Hall. Dancing commenced at ten o'clock, and was continued with great spirit until five o'clock yesterday morning, broken only by the short interval of supper, which was presided over by the commodore, Mr. Cecil Long, who proposed the usual loyal toasts and " The Ladies." There were nearly 200 present, and everything passed off very agreeably. ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE CLERKENWELL OUT RAGE.—Last evening Dr. Lankester held an inquest at the Red Lion Tavern, Lower Rosoinan-street, Clerkenwell, on the body of Eliza Leeland, aged 60, who died from the effects of paralysis. Deceased was the wife of a journey man baker, living at 43, Skinner-street, in the neighbour hood of the late explosion, which took place on the 13th December last, and at the time of the event she was pur suing her usual domestic duties, and was thrown down by the force of the concussion. On the 21st January she returned a s vwhich o f "Death taken into the Cl er k enwe ll Infirmary, suffering from paralysis, produced by shock to the system and fright, The juryfromthe effct of e rd accele rated by the explo s i on w hi c h t oo k place at Clerkenwell on the 13th December, 1867." e e d a ie th d f o ro n m Su p n ai d .a a l y ys l i a s s , . t WITCHCRAFT IN BERKSHIRE.—Maria Giles, " the cunning woman" of Newbury, and William Tranter, man with whom she cohabited, have been committed to take their trial at the next Barks assizes at Reading, for ob taining from Isaac Rivers, an elderly farm labourer, living at Hampstead Norris, the sums of 2s. 6d., 9s. 6d., £1 35., and Os. 6t1., by falsely pretending that they could, by the power of cumin "stuff" bought at a chemist's, recover for Rivers a silver watch he had lost. PIGEON FLYING MATCH. —Yesterday morning 25 members of the Kennington Pigeon Club flew a match from'Brighton for a sweepstakes of ICs. each. The birds were tossed up at intervals of five minutes, and the win ning pigeon (of the Dragon tribe) accomplished the dis tance in one hour and six minutes, including trapping on it arrival and the production at the winning goal. LO23:inEnNDENCE FROM rAmo. FROM OUP, OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12. Life in Paris is made up just now —that is, the external life of those who live in society—of two things principally, the Chamber and the ball—the legislative talking and the administrative dancing—at the Ministerial receptions. The former may be more important, but the latter certainly attracts most attention, the untimely hours notwithstand ing. As to the Chambers, the Press Law is still the abeorbirg and all else excluding topic. Yesterday the Government was credited with a disposition to reduce the tax on the issues from 5 cents to 3, and that in the departments to 1 cent. They have, however, determined to continue the timbre on the political press at five cents each number, while the literary press may deal out scandal or rubbish to any ex tent without let or hindrance. Of one thing the journals complain with manifest justness—the inexplicable privi lege accorded to the Petit illoniteur. It is exonerated from the t!mbro as well as from postal tax. In a word, a poli tical sheet which to pay under the present law six centimes of tax and four centimes for the post, is sold in the remotest hamlets of France for five cents. It cir culates to the extent of 150,000 copies per day, and there fore robe the Treasury to the extent of 3,000,000 francs. The other papers in paying the tax help to support their cheapest rival. Is this rega/ite or l'arbitrairel Some of the members of the Corps L6gislatif are very anxious to retain the use of the dungeon for French editors who assail private persons. The Emperor is said to have discovered that sending editors to prison only in creases their popularity and power ; be prefers to fine them. M. Guillotet has proposed a liability to a fine of 500 to 5,000 francs as the safeguard of private life. In point of fact, the whole discussion is beside the principal question, for nine times out of ten the offence charged is political discussion, and when that is the offence the offender rarely escapes. The Government are still troubled with Satan. A short time ago I mentioned that no printer could be found who would have any dealings with Satan. Since then it reap peared in the streets and the courts. It was charged with treating of political and social economy without authorisa tion, and with continuing under a disguised form the pub lication of the Corsaire, which had been interdicted. Satan was ordered to be suppressed. The manager and printer will have to suffer each five months' imprisonment and 2,100 f. gne. The causes and objects of M. Bismarck's retirement are still the theme of gossip. According to the Gazette Nationale, the Count has not yet left Berlin. He will, it is said, visit the provinces of Eastern Prussia to study on the spot the circumstances of the famine which desolates the country. The fate of England will have some interest for your readers. The Etenclard predicts it. Commenting on a telegram relating to the riots at Cork, in which it i 3 stated that a suspected person had, it was sup posed, been carried away by the mob, the Eten dard says : " Thus the crowd, exulting over these horrible massacres, which recall those of Warsaw, carried away this corpse tenderly, as if it were that of a martyr ! This drama contains in the germ the future of England. She must instruct and emancipate the people—in a word, give them equality, which is the only true liberty, or fear their vengeance. But to enfranchise the people of London would be to whiten the black at New York : Pa: lament can do all except that." On reading this, I only asked myself whether your M.P.'s and your people are sighing for a Caesar. On looking again to the article, I find that it is the common vice of all constitutions except that of France. The people are enslaved by Ministers. "With restrained suffrage the supreme power is restrained, and the Chambers are sovereign : that is fatal." Happy Prance, did she but know her advantage ! The Papal Nuncio had an interview with the Emperor on Sunday after the mass. It is supposed that the business must have been urgent. The audience had only been asked for two hours before. Nothing has transpired. It is currently rumoured that General La Marmora is in Paris, and all sorts of errands are attributed to him, probably on very slight grounds. The last stronghold of feudalism in Germany is threat ened. Mecklenburg, compelled to enter the Confedera tion, to become a member of the Zollverein, is about to follow Austria and Prussia in the path of progress. The agriculturists and middle-classes are demanding their emancipation. They are signing petitions extensively, asking for a constitutional system in accordance with the spirit of the Confederation. A few years ago such a movement 1.%.0u1d have obtained prison lodgings for its authors, but things are changed even in Mecklenburg . now. The alarm created by the recent telegrams from the East, announcing that Bulgaria was threatened by armed bands, has subsided. It was only in c ennpeti,,, Russian designs that these filibusters could be dangerous, and Russia is for the moment credited with pacific inten u,,,.. ;,t Cheat c-Ira nd-Duke Constantine will be sent to Poland, and that the bellicose General Ignatieff will not be returned to Constantinople. . Recruiting throughout Russia has been completed within the last month. The total number of recr tits amounts to 92,104 men, of whom only 7,851 can both 1 cfc and write. Poland contributed 10,155 men, and of tin.: 8,235 were Roman Catholics. The retiring Governor of New South Wales seems to h a ve given good advice to the colonists before his depar ture. Democratic institutions, he told them, would not succeed unless they were founded upon and cemented with sterling qualities in the people, forethought and self sacrifice in the leaders. He pointed, by way of warning, to the republics of New Spain, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Sir Joln Young has governed the colony since March 1861. He is to be succeeded by Lord Belmore. The question of State assistance to public worship has been settled during the expiring Administration by a decision in favour of complete independence of State aid. The most important remaining is whether education is to be national or deno minational. On the whole the country is prosperous ; but sat the departure of the last mail it was suffering much from want of rain and from excessive heat. The Standard does not appear to believe its Washing ton correspondent's " official " announcement with regard to President Johnson's Alabama "ultimatum." We sus pect that few persons will believe it. The Standard is not happy in some of its correspondents. They have a war like scent, which, like Homer's poetic charger, smells the battle on the wind afar off. Fortunately these battles continue to " loom in the future," with the Protection once promised by a distinguished statesman. From the list of motions which already crowd the order book of the House of Commons, it is evident that the old Parliament has a great deal of work to do before it dies. The Conservative papers seem to think that no legislation during this session, upon any of the vital points of public policy, has any chance of being accepted as satisfactory or final ; and even if we were sure that it would be so ac cepted, in the present character of the House and the dis position of the members, it would be manifestly improper to make the experiment. On the other hand, the Tele graph, while admitting that public opinion is not yet quite ripe for the settlement of one or two great questions, points out that this is the last year of the life of a Parlia ment which, waiving all other comparisons, is certainlymore Conservative Lan the new Parliament can possibly be, and now, therefore, is the golden opportunity for early Conser vative concession. A skilful compromise might sail beflre the lit;lit winds of present opinion : no storm of anger has yet arisen to demand thorough and exhaustive measures. The Daily Arcics urges the importance of effecting a settle ment of many long-putstanding measures, and especially of amending the bankruptcy laws. The Star advises the Government to abandon the principle of the personal pay ment of rates as a condition of possessing the franchise. Amid the multitude of its counsellors the Ministry will doubtless find that there is wisdom. Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell, M.P., who was the Chairman at the Edinburgh banquet to the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, is also presiding over Mr. Beresford Hope's Lon don election committee. The hon. baronet writes to the morning papers with reference to a statement that the name of the Bishop of Lichfield was placed on the list of Mr. Hope's committee without his lordship's sanction, and that it had been withdrawn by Dr. Selwyn's direc tion. So far from this having been the case, the bishop's name was placed on the committee by his lordship's permission, conveyed in a cordial letter written to Mr. Beresford Hope. The Bishop of Ely has, unsolicited, expressed his willingness to join the committee. On the other hand, Profe,sor Selwyn, brother of the Bishop of Lichfield and of L rd Justice Selwyn, has had his name placed on the committee of Mr. Cleasby. The rejection of Mr. Thorold Rogers as Professor of Political Economy :at Oxford is the subject of a letter by Mr. Goldwin Smith in a Manchester paper. Mr. Smith says that the vast majority of the residential part of the University constituency voted for Mr. Rogers. Ilia defeat was effected by a " swamping incursion of Tory non-residents, brought up by the party whip through the political organisation which was set on foot for the rejection of Mr. Gladstone." So ignorant were some of these interlopers of even the name of their own candidate, Mr. Bonamy Price, that one Tory member of Parliament, after the election, actually called on Mr. Bartholomew Price, the mathematician (of course a totally different person), and congratulated him on the result. Mr. Rogers has issued a letter to the members of Convocation, thanking those who voted for him, and defending himself from the charge of having plunged the University into a useleEs contest. The Ea;lers' actzette of St. rotersburg annoilh6tl that in the great arms-factory of Toula great activity pre vails at this moment. The establishment has already prepared 15,000 needle -Emus, and hopes are entertained that 100,000 will be furnished before the end of the year. These muskets leave nothing to be desired : a soldier can fire seventeen shots a minute if the cartridges are placed on a table beside him, and nine when he has to take them 1 - .-om his cartouche-box. Professor Williamson, in a paper recently read before the University College, London, supported the view that scientific education should be given to the child at school. No mere training in the accurate use of the words was, in his opinion; equal to a training in experimental science, followed by a rational study of grammar and logic. Asto technical education, that could only be taught effectually in a workshop, where the operations of the manufacturer or workman were conducted with a view to profit. Tech nical education should be kept separate from general edu cation, and the basis of the latter should certainly be science, which should be extended and developed in its various branches. That would be the best preparation for the business of life. An Industrial Exhibition has just been held by the Society of Arts. In the award of the judges there are some remarks worth notice. The society left the exhibitors to choose their own designs. The result has not been ,uccessful, for with few exceptions the works wrought in accordance with the prescribed designs are in all respects superior t 3 those in which the workman has followed his own inspirations. This circumstance, the judges think, shews that want of training is the weak point of the English art workman. Mr. Digby Wyatt, one of the judges, was of opinion that the English workman required elevation from the mechanical to the creative function. The elevation now needed was of an elementary and general kind, in order to economise labour. It was men tioned that Mr. Leicester, the glass-blower, had success fully reproduced the Tazza from South Kensington. Mr. H. B. Sheridan, M.P., has just delivered his annual address to his constituents at Dudley. He com menced with a reference to the Reform Bill, maintaining that the Conservatives were heartily to be thanked for it. The Liberals could not have passed such a measure with out an agitation out of doors which would have been pain ful to contemplate. The ratepaying clauses must either be altered or abolished. Passing to other subjects, the hon. gen tleman was met by a cry of " Education," but he confessed he was not up to that mark. With regard to the Irish Church, the scheme enunciated by Mr. Bright had re ceived the approval of nearly every periodical in the country. Though he did not think a panacea could be found for all the ills of Ireland, should the Ministry come forward without any scheme their tenure of office would be short. Fenianism, in the hon. member's opinion, had been greatly exaggerated. A man that could believe that anyone, whether Irish or American, could convince Eng lishmen that any power could succeed in separating Ire land from England, was only fit for a lunatic asylum. Mr. Sheridan also said a word on the poor law system, which he characterised as abominable. The poor rates should be lollected and the poor maintained by the direct action of .he State. A vote of confidence was subsequently passed. The Bishop of Capetown has forwarded to the Bishop of London what may be regarded as a final letter on the Colenso-Macrorie difficulty. Dr. Gray says to his right rev, brother : " I leave you to judge whether your course has been consistent with equity hitherto, or whether it will be either fair or generous to repeat it when those who have been most anxious to meet you in that open discussion from which you shrunk shall have left these shores. Your avowal of being in open communion with Dr. Colenso I must leave to the judgment of the Church of England. You have at least now spoken out fully and boldly as to your spiritual relations with him." The Bishop of Cape town concludes by observing that very eminent lawyers have held that Dr. Colenso was spiritually:and canonically deposed, and that there is no lawyer of repute who holds that the consecration of an orthodox bishop would be a violation of any law. The Marquis of Waterford, who sat for a short time in Cie House of Commons as Earl of Tyrone, has been very seriously ill. Whilst hunting at Curraghmore he was thrown from his horse, and sustained sonic very serious contusions. On his return to London he was seized with a dangerous illness, and for some hours his lordship's life was despaired of. Judicious medical treatment has sue eded in bringing the marquis out of danger. Reference has more than once been made to the alleged oppression of some London branches of the Reform league. At the last meeting of that body Mr. Beales read a statement, drawn up by the landlord of a public - house in Leather - lane, which chewed that a detective had intimated that unless the meet ings accustomed to be held in his house were discontinued he would lose his license. Mr. Beales encl.ised this statement to Sir R. Mayne. The reply was to the effect that the Chief Commissioner declined to enter into any correspondence concerning a communication mada by the police to the landlord of the IN ag's Head. Mr. 1-I,n evasion, and said he would repeat his inquiry by what authority the police interfered with the meetings. It was then agreed to have a lecture at the house as soon as the correspondence closed. Dr. J. H. Stallard has read a paper at a meeting of the S, , 3ial Science Association upon the necessity for a full in ,.- iry into the administration of the poor law and its effects 01 the phi sical and moral condition of the poor, and on is terests of the lower orders of ratepayers. He - 71ged that the workhouse was demoralising, and the test a :alisation of vagabondism. The machinery of the poor .w conspicuously failed in so relieving the sick poor as promote industry. He thought out-relief should be -Sore freely exercised ; and in conclusion expressed a hope that the Government would take up the subject. In the discs . sion that ensued, Mr. Buxton, M.P., who pre sided; said that a considerable amount of reform was abso lutel3 imperative, for they had reached a point at which a strenuous movement was necessary. The first thing they wanted was that every destitute person should receive shelter and support, but at the same time they must take care that the self-reliance of the poor was not destroyed. - • - Amongst the M.P.'s who addressed their constituents on the eve of the opening of Parliament were Mr. P. A. Taylor and Mr. Harris at Leicester, Mr. Wykeham Martin and Mr. Serjeant Kinglake at Rochester, Colonel Gray at Bolton, Mr. Candlish at Sunderland, and Mr. Baines at Leeds. The address of the last-named hon. gentleman was delivered at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. The general depression in corn rnercial affairs was the topic on which he chiefly touched. There must, he thought, be some cause for the remarkable contrast between the state of the country two or three years ago and its state at the present time. In his opinion , it was in a very great degree owing to the excessive specu lations and over-trading which cpparently had been brought about by:an overweening confidence in the con tinuation of good trade. Mr. Baines, while thinking that a simple yet stringent measure of bankruptcy law reform should be passed, doubted the wisdom of placing the tele graph system of the country in the hands of the Govern ment. He urged caution in dealing with technical educa tion, for he feared that we were inclined to proceed too rapidly with the consideration of this important question. HOW OUR TAXES ARE RAISED.—A. return has just been published " of rates of all taxes and imposts raised in the United Kingdom, together with the gross amount yielded by each tax or impost, spewing the gross revenue in the year ending the 31st day of March, 1867." It chews that the customs duties raised on tobacco amounted to £6,50(,000 ; sugar, £5,800,000 ; tea, coffee, chicory, and cocoa, £:7 ) ,100,000 ; wine, £1,300,000 ; corn, &c., £800,000; dried fruit, £400,000; and other duties, amounting alto gether to £22,350,000. This is nearly a million over the returns of 1866. With regard to the excise, the duty raises on malt is stated at £6,900,000 ; spirits, £11,500,000 ; and brewers' licenses, £370,000 ; amounting with other imposts to £21,500,000. The stamp duty is given at £9,600,000 ; the income tax at £5,700,000. The total assessed taxes, including _income and land tax, £9,200,000. The total amount, including the castoms, excise, stamp, and other taxes, was £62,700,000. MADNESS AND MIIRDER.—An inquest has been held at Wickham Market, in Suffolk, respecting the death of a child aged 2 years and 2 months. The 'deceased was the son of a young woman named Clara Coleman, whohad been confined in the Melton Lunatic Asylum,- but was dis charged thence in autumn last, although not cured. Since that time she has resided at her mother's house, and has been watched with great care. On Sunday -evening, at about seven o'clock, she took the child With her into the yard at the back of the house ; and as some time passed without her returning, her parents went tr. seek her. They were astonished to, find that she had managed to escape from the yard, and had taken the child with her. About an hour later she returned to the house, but did not bring the child. She was in a most pitiable state. Her clothes were completely saturated with water, and in her hair stuck briars and brambles. There was an unusually wild look about hei face, and ii her excitement she repeated the words "The bridge, th• bridge !" but nothing more. A search was Made for the child. and at about ten o'clock the same night its body was fowl( floating in the river nearly two miles away from the house. It seemed clear that the poor mother had -in her insanity taken the child with her from the yard, through field after field, bedragging herself with dirt and wet, and catching bits of briar and bramble in her hair, until she reaches the riverside. Then she appears to have thrown the child into the water, and so drowned it. How she manage( to keep the child quiet throughout that stolen journey cannot be surmised. The jury returned a verdict oi wilful murder against the mother, and were careful to state at the same time that they were aware of her insanity. rri , -.41 - f•!, 1 7 , 1 7. 1 f , e , .‘ 7:7,.; , t ~c,.-vi, .= ,_.---_-_- ,_,'•,......' ,g, Is, 1 r • __ ! 4_(- - ---;----- ; , i l Ifni a r ,-."--. II ER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 12. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Duchess of Athole. Her Majesty went out this morning, accompanied by Princess Beatrice.. ller Royal Highness the Princess of Wales drove out yesterday. LITERA TITRE. Mss Kavanagh's New Novel. Dora. By Julia Kavanagh. Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett. A charming story most charmingly written, full of incidents and full of character. " Dora" is in many respects the happiest effusion of Julia Kavanagh's imagination—always excepting her exquisite tale of " Madeleine." Although the scene of her new novel occasionally at critical intervals carries the reader, now to Paris, now to London, it for the most part lies in Ireland and in provincial France—in the neighbourhood of Dublin and in the neighbourhood of Rouen. It is only when the heroine arrives first of all at Rouen that the interest of the plot can be said to commence in earnest. Not but what the opening of the narrative has a quiet charm of its own ; namely, when Dora is first revealed to us as the central figure of the little home group, in which her companions and associates are her mother, her brother, her aunt, and her cousin. Dora's mother—that dear little widowed French woman, whose relief, in moments of ennui, is to play a patience with the cards, chiefly the patience of Louis XVIII. Dora's aunt—altogether the most original creation in the book—that dull, sullen, short, square-built, uncomely Mrs. Luan, who, be ginning with being next door to an idiot, and deve loping afterwards into a pitiless conspirator, ends by becoming a madwoman afflicted with the deadly passion of homicidal mania. The con trast of these two sisters-in-law—Mrs. Courtenay with her " purring," and Mrs. Luan with her " buzzing "—is very cleverly delineated : Mrs. Luan, by the way, having a sort of a resemblance to that eccentric old lady " Mr. F.'s Aunt," known to all the readers of " Little Dorrit," as the charge of Flora Casby and the terror of Arthur Clenam. The resemblance here hinted at is but very subtle in its way, for Mrs. Luan is thoroug lily original—but, for such as it is, it will he recognised by the discerning, and among others not the least readily by Miss Kavanagh herself, where Dora's Aunt (like Mr. F's. Aunt) interrupts the most amicable conversa tions with the most unexpected, and sometimes, to all appearance, the most irrelevant observations. these observations of her's, moreover, being couched in terms the most aggressive, yet, at the same time, the most unprovoked. It is noticeable even in the habit she (Mrs. Luau) has of twitching her cap off and throwing it from her —once on to the top of Mr. Ryan's head —with the exclamation in regard to her own of " 0 my head's so hot !" Not that Mr. F.'s Aunt had any similar trick of her own—but that this whimsical habit of Dora's Aunt is just what we might have expected to have found related of the other old oddity. Dora's brother, already alluded too, poor Paul Courtenay, soon enough disappears from the scene, dying off as he does very prematurely. There is a pathetic remem brance of him nevertheless thoughout the whole of the remainder of the narrative—particularly in connection with his failure in competing for the estate of Deelah by compiling a catalogue of the ceramic collection of its owner, Mr. Courtenay, and in connection also with his having been jilted (on his failure in that competition) by the pretty, heart less, brainless coquette Florence, to whom he, poor fellow, was previously to have been mar ried. It is the successful rival of Paul Courte nay, who is the hero of this charming story, KUV 4V ',ova net L.,- Misadven tures. Until we have some time been located at Rouen in company with Dora herself, her aunt, Mrs. Lean, and her mother, Mrs. Courtenay, we have only once or twice heard of him, and even then merely incidentally. He, too, as a character, is thoroughly and completely original—and yet he, too, has in a few particulars a subtle resemblance to another character well known in modern fiction. We mean where, as Doctor Richard, he recalls to our recollection, time and again, Charlotte Bronte's Monsieur Paul Emanuel, the teacher of " Villette." Dora herself, bright, grey-eyed, brown-golden haired, good, gifted, loveable Dora Courtenay is the " best beautiful" of all the charming delineations in this delightful and at intervals enthralling narrative. 'The gradual growing or dawning (quite uncon sciously to herself at first) of her tender love for Doctor Richard, is portrayed with admirable grace by Miss Kavanagh. The revelation of his identity by Doctor Richard when Dora (with her aunt and mother) first makes acquaintance with the picturesque beauties of Les Roches, may be said to inaugurate the real passion and glamour of the plot. Surprise after sur prise comes thick and fast then upon poor love-lorn Dora. Doctor Richard is no longer Doctor Richard. The needy, thrifty, lonely stu dent proves to be a wealthy country gentleman—a landed proprietor—the owner of Deelah—having a long lease of Les Roches as his French residence. Instead of being heart-whole—as Dora had sup posed him to be—he turns out to be a widower with a little daughter. And not only to be a widower, but a widower who is be trothed to one he hopes soon to make his second wife. And she no other than Florence, who, after jilting Paul, has survived the husband she had married in his place, and is now about to dispose herself on Paul's successful competitor for Deelah —the owner now of Deelah, Doctor Richard now no longer, but Mr. Richard Templemore, of Deelah and of Les Roches. How the rest of the narrative is worked out we shall not here spoil the attraction of Miss Kavanagh's new story by relat ing. It is, we repeat, full of surprises. Hope and despair—joy the most intense and grief the most profound— alternate with one another through a series of extraordinary vicissitudes. Besides the principal persons, already either particu larised or merely hinted at among the latter being Dora's cousin, John Luan, who is in love with her, in his dull, stupid way, all through the book, without having his love (except in an irritatingly cousinly manner) reciprocated by her from first to last—besides the dramatis persona already specified, several other individuals are introduced to us at Rouen and at Lea Roches, whom, when we close the book, we hold still in pleasant remembrance. Among these Madame Bertrand, the old landlady, and Monsieur Menard, the keeper of the bric-a-brac shop, little Eva, Dora's pupil at first and afterwards her step-daughter, with others unnecessary here to enumerate. The only oversight that occurs to our recollection, on the general clearing up of the difficulties and entanglements of the plot—and it is one that seems to have slipped altogether from the remembrance of Miss Kavanagh --is, as to what ever became of Fanny and of the letter left in her charge filled with the returned bank-notes. Barring this—and it is in itself the merest trifle—the story, as a story, is com pleteoo f nly j c u o li m a pl K et a e v , a b n u a t g i b t ; is a c hnaarrarn; n ins--a ; a and tale it wworthy s t eeableusa to sth e authoress o f • always gr' and of Madeleine." h a l a i u' The Marquis of Waterford has been suffering from very serious illness. His lordship, on the 4th just' while out hunting with his hounds at Curraghmore, vra ° thrown from his horse, and bustained some severe coutu" sions, having cut his face and received a severe shaking' On his return to town, on Friday last, he was taken sert ously ill from inflammation of the bowels. For some houro he was in a very precarious state, but by judicious mediegl treatment he is in a fair way of recovery. It will afford his lordship's numerous friends pleasure to hear that Yes terday he was pronounced by kis medical attendants to be out of danger.