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HIGH IVA TEI? AT LONDOX BRIDGE. Tlirs Dir.—Morning, 12h. 50m.—Afternoon,:311. 7m 'l',iop.llo-w.-Morning, 3h. 23m.—Af terno on, 3h. 28m, , lij .1 (i LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 24, 1868. The North Gertnan Press are always on the look out for some fresh subject of criticism and animad version, and the late banquet of the King of IiA.NovER has just furnished them with an excellent opportunity which they will not willingly let drop_ We may depend upon it that we shall hear plenty/ more of this before long, and the sins and short comings of " perfidious Austria" will be duly set forth in all their iniquity. The " Hanoverian Legion" was bad enough in all conscience, but worse remained behind in the shape of the entertainment given at Ilielzig, where fifteen hundred subjects were willing to testify their devotion to their fallen monarch with a zeal and devotion his better and brighter days could not have surpassed. It is suggested that the KING provided the means for their long journey, but that most probably is only a malicious insinuation. At all events the fuss that is made about the affair shows that the Prussian authorities and the exponents of their opinions in the Press have very little of moment to think about, or else that their spite passes the limits of ordinary com prehension, and seeks expression in ways and means of the most unworthy sort. The tone which the Government have assumed in the matter in the Prussian Chambers is not at all a becoming one, and the Misister of Finance went so far as to say that if the ex-King did not speedily change his tactics he would find himself in a very awkward position, for they would se quester his property. This may be mere bounce on the part of these dignitaries, but they are quite capable of putting their threat into execution if the fancy takes them that way. It is not going too far to remind them that the sums that have been agreed upon for the ex-King's portion are no gift of the Court of Berlin ; but that, on the contrary, the spoilers of his State contrived to possess themselves of a large share of his belongings, as they did iu fact with most other people, hnd in most other places they favoured with their benignant sway and enlightened government. Prussia has made herself very busy in the matter of the Hanoverian Legion, and now seeks partially to clear herself from some imputations which have been made in consequence. The Swiss Government, it is averred, now declare that they did not receive any communication from the Berlin Cabinet on the subject of driving the members of the Legion from Switzerland. Their " sudden and instantaneous" departure was not the result of any steps taken by them. The Prussian com mentators argue from them that it was King GEORGE who was the prime mover in the affair, and, of course their virtuous indignation knows no bounds. It is extremely improbable that he should have done this; but one thing is very plain—namely, that wherever these unfortunate wanderers went some cause of offence was given to the irate Prus sians. The idea of their going to France was in itself quite astounding, and all concerned in the matter must have been perfectly well aware that great um brage would be given to King WILLIAM and his Ministers by such an act. There are some people who cannot be satisfied whatever is done, and the Prussian rulers are pre-eminently of this class and character. If they have any lingering respect left for their own reputation they will do wisely to refrain from putting any of their re vengeful schemes into execution, and content them selves with the remonstrances they have made. If they will, however, proceed to extremities they must take the consequences, for a day of reckoning will most assuredly come. It would be more politic as well as more generous on the part of the Prussians not to make this much ado but nothing, but to seek to conciliate their rule as far as possible. The secret of the annoyance so plainly evinced lies in their unpopularity in Hanover, not un natural, considering the course they have pursued since their forced entrance there. All this excite ment shows that they are conscious of their being disliked and distrusted in the annexed province. Perhaps this may prove a nine-days' wonder, and if so it will be all for the best; but when we look back at the manner in which Prussia has acted when she has picked a quarrel, it gives rise to grave suspicions. In any case King GEORGE has done nothing which calls for these cen sures, and it is going too far for the King of PRUSSIA and his advisers to expect that those whom they have sacrificed as impediments in their path shall virtually cease to exist. " Even in our ashes live their wonted fires ;" but Count BISMARCK seeks to constitute a new state of things, and those who are his enemies cannot hope for much peace so long as they show any sign of vitality. The contention which has long threatened the unity of the American Government has now assumed a new and startling phase. The PnEsl- DENT, Mn,. STANTON, General GRANT, and the Con- press h ave all been playing their parts with more vigour than courtesy, and have not spared each other in words or actions. Still matters had not, until the last few days, come to an open and re cognised breach. The PRESIDENT, indeed, sus pended his refractory subordinate and put another man in his place, and the Senate, refusing to ac knowledge his right to remove or appoint mem bers of his own Cabinet, forcibly re-instated the Secretary of War in his office ; but General GRANT'S tenure of office, nomi nally temporary, and his own sudden surren der of the troublesome post greatly facilitated the progress of the Radicals. Mr. JOHNSON appa rently agreed to the restoration of his old antagonist, although it was understood that he held no official communication with him. No one, however, be lieved that the calm was more than temporary, and the crisis which was looked for has arrived. We learn by the Telegraph that the PRESIDENT has issued an order, not suspending, but removing, Mr. STANTON from the post of Secretary for War. Mr. STANTON, however, confident in the support of Con gress, still holds the office, and has referred the order to the Senate. The Senate, as might be supposed, has declared the removal of the Secretary to be illegal. Congress has referred the matter to the Reconstruction Committee, who are, of course, diametrically opposed to the PRESIDENT, who dared to dispute the justice and legality of their schemes. Congress has evidently been roused to action by this movement of Mr. JOHNSON'S, and the old question of impeachment has been again brought up. The übiquitous Reconstruction Committee have to deal with that, too, and have reported the resolution for impeachment to the House of Repre sentatives. The House was to vote upon it to-day, so that the Radicals are determined to lose no time. Possibly they feel that their opportunities are diminishing, and that they are rrheirfo d rm ai e ly r l e o x s p in e g rim gr e o n ud t n ag i a n p inst ub th li e c l e . PRESIDENT was not, we might have thought, sufficiently en couraging to make them venture on a repetition of the attack ; but they are now desperate, and the ex citing influence of the coming struggle is beginning to make itself felt in American politics. Genci al THOMAS is the newly-appointed Secretary, but Mr. STANTON refuses to surrender the office to him. It is quite impossible that such a condition of things should be allowed to continue, whether with regard to the public interests or to the dignity of the Ame rican Government, and it is worth while to examine the foundations on which the matter rests . The Congress, and, indeed, the whole Radical party, I have seemingly accepted a DeW doctrine—one for THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1868. -which they can find no prototype in either the despotic or the constitutional Governments of other nations. According to this new reading of con stitutional doctrines the Legislative body is the supreme power in the realm, and is virtually the Executive as well. What we understand by the functions of the Executive belong in the United States to the Legislative body, beside which Pug- DENT, Cabinet, and even Judges are mere ciphers. It is the business of Congress not only to frame the laws, but to see them enforced, to keep guard over the defaulters, and call them to account, to appoint (virtually) the members of the Cabinet, the diplomatic agents of the coun try, the administration of the finances. The wildest theories of Republicanism never intrusted the discharge of such duties to a body of such un wieldy proportions. Councils, Tribunes, Consuls, were appointed, all administrations being framed on the sound and well-tried principle that the few who rule should be chosen by the many who do not rule. It is the inevitable tendency of all adminis trative power to become centralised ; and the result of attempting to rule the country by a body com posed of several hundred members would infallibly be the ultimate domination of a few. For the head of a Government to be denied the power of choosing his own colleagues is a new and preposterous theory, and one which even a few months back would have been ridiculed in the States. Supposing the new PRESIDENT to be chosen from among the Radicals, how soon should we hear it condemned, and how rapid would be the alteration in the treatment of the nominal head ! But as matters now stand, it is evident that a crisis of no slight importance has been reached. Both parties are prepared for a trial of strength, and there are not wanting symptoms which foretel a change in the political relations. We have by the almost simultaneous arrival of three mails very full intelligence re specting the transactions of eight or ten days back, and the details which we gather from it in dicate a settled purpose on the part of both PRE SIDENT and Congress. The impeachment question, as we have said, has been reopened, and the evi dence collected by the Judiciary Committee re ferred to the Reconstruction Committee. An amend ment of the Appropriation Bill has also been in troduced into the House of Representatives, whereby soldiers from the garrison may be sub stituted in place of the capitol police. This is a dangerous innovation on the part of a body whose avowed preference for military over civil authority augurs ill for the constitutional liberties of the people. The substitution of soldiers for police at the capital especially, now that General GRANT has proved himself to be their ally, is au ominous proposal, and one which seems to be as taken the advent of that forcible collision between the heads of the State, whose end no one can foresee. On the other hand, a movement on the part of the PRESIDENT has some significance. Mr. JOIINSON has created a new Military Department, named the Atlantic, compris ing the department of the East and of the Lakes, the headquarters being at Washington. General SHERMAN holds the command, and he is the friend and supporter of the PRESIDENT. His headquarters are at Washington, so that he can be in constant commu nication with his chief. Now that GRANT has failed him, Mr. JOIINSON has apparently sought and found the powerful aid which he needs elsewhere, and SHERMAN would probably be very willing to oppose his old rival in renown. In the correspon dence which the PRESIDENT has sent to the House of Representatives concerning the transactions at the War-office, he accuses GRANT of insubordina tion, and of accepting the portfolio of War in the i n n a t m e r v e n s i t i i o n f g STANTON, paE s with T. the G a i s : N t e T n t d i o e n n n o a f a c inr the y such intention, and declares his readiness to obey the PRESIDENT'S orders when legally commu nicated. But it is no case for bandying words. Acts speak for themselves, and there is too much reason to fear that the interests and the schemes now swaying the movements of American states men will result in an open and serious collision. The French Chambers will have had enough, and more than enough, of the Press Bill before it is done, we should think, but they do not always do the best they can in the matter. The result of their last dis cussions was that the proposition to allow of publish ing summaries of debates was rejected. The several attempts which have been made to alter the pre sent most objectionable rule in this respect have hitherto proved unsuccessful, which is much to be regretted in every sense of the question. We really cannot see the consistency of M. ROUHER keeping on his assertion of their being a " full and consti tutional" Government while things go on is this way. It will be idle to talk of the advantages that have occurred in consequence of this bill, if so important a change as this is not made in it. As to the proposal made that the jour nals should only publish the analytical report that is given by the Government, it may be better than not hing, but only that. The constant attempt to conceal something gives rise to all sorts of unplea sant notions, and in most cases far worse is ima gined than what really exists. It must be borne in mind also, that the French always say a great deal more than they mean, and therefore what would be serious and alarming among ourselves, is of little or no account among them. M. GIRARDIN has written an article in the Debats which is worthy of notice, and shows how the feeling is working in France about the duties of statesmen and the rights of the Press. " Ministerial responsibility" is the great topic of consideration just now, and its comment and criticism engages all circles. It is indeed time that a little more regard was paid to this part of the affair. Under the shadow of the Imperial rule a great deal has been done by the Ministers during the last fifteen years that one could have wished to see otherwise, and hence the Corps Legislatif and the people at large cannot but benefit by this theory being put into practice. Perhaps the case could not be better put than it is in this article just referred to, when I\l. GIRARDIN declares that true Ministerial responsibility consists in the Ministers acting in the Chambers and with them, and not seeking to govern except by their assistance and approval. Whenever the authority of the Chambers has been set at defiance, and the Government has taken its own course, it has always been the worse for the country, and the cause of progress has suffered. The " force of things" of late has called for strong expressions on the part of some ; and Mr. .ROUNER'S speeches in particular will not readily be forgotten. Having admitted that the Chamber has the right to " iuterpellate the members of the Government," he has gone a long way in the right direction, and, what is more significant, he has done the sort of thing which may be looked upon as final. There will be no drawing back from . such a proposition when once laid down, and the Ellellee of the EMPEROR on the point has given all the consent that was ne cessary in the matter. It remains for U 3 to see the consequences of all this new regime being intro duced into the old order of things. Ilornirnan's Pure TCC , 3 are Bd. per pound cheaper. Their 2,500 agents—confectioners in London, and chemists in the country—aro constantly receiving fresh supplies of these long approved teas. Sold only in packets. CORRESPONDEI , IO2 Y . LOLL BLitt& (enom our. OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY, Feb. Zs. The sittings in the French Chambers are getting more and more stormy. The impetuosity of the Opposition seems to grow with its numbers. M. Thiers spoke in resuming the debate on the Press Law—the law against the press, as it is called—and was called to order by Baron David for questioning the decision of the Sixth Tribunal. The judges were above criticism. The hon. deputy, how ever, contended for the right to criticise anybody. Granier de Cassagnac argued that the press had liberty enough ; that the press wds free to discuss what took place in the Chambers ; but he maintained that they were in the habit of publishing summaries that were frivolous and false. 011ivier followed in a most vigorous strain, and then the storm rose rapidly. He quoted an article from the Pays, written by Paul de Cas.segnac, ridiculing ' the deputes arocats (the lawyer deputies) in excessively strong language ; and then, turning to Granier de Gas sagnao, he asked if he, the director of a journal indulging in such invectives against the Opposition, was the man to upbraid other journalists and to prate about social order. Cassagnac replied that the article referred to the lawyers in their professional capacity. Thereupon Jules Favre ejaculated, "It is not true'" Though called to order for this, Favre repeated that "it was not correct," and the President restored order only by regretting that the dis• cussion should " degenerate to personalities." It was some time, however, before the debate escaped from per sonalities, and then M. Itouher tried to explain to the Chamber what the press were allowed to do with respect to the debates. I hope they were enlightened. The discussion was resumed next day, and the amendment to allow the press freedom to quote and summarise the debates in discussing them was rejected by 155 to 66 votes. In some of their comparisons with England the Opposi tion orators overdo it. M. Thicrs said in the last debate that since 1688, the period in which the Parliament of England has been supreme, there had been no error of policy. Some one asked, "What of Ireland?" and he might well. On the other hand, the apologists of the Government are not guiltless of misrepresentation. The Constitutionnel refers to the condemnation of the editors of the Irishman and the Weekly News to twelve and six months' imprisonment respectively, as " an example of severity which writers may expect from English justice who depart from the respect clue to the law." The Avenir 'National, however, replies, that the Constitutimmel omits some facts necessary to explain the proceeding. One is, that it is twenty years since there was a political press trial in Ireland ; another, that the trial took place before a jury ; and a third, that the whole trial is pub lished to the world. M. Vermorel, the editor of the Courrier Francais, has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment and 1,500 f. fine, and M. Lepage, the manager, to I,ooof. fine, for publishing false news and defamation of the police. We are in " the days of February." It is twenty years ;ince the Parisians began reforming, by ringing the Nfarse:llaise, crying " Vive la Relforme ! a his Guizot," vad by breaking the windows of the Foreign Minister— the reform ending in the abdication of Louis Philippe, on the 24th, and his flight to England. Then came the Republic, and then the Empire, with a firm and stable Government, but not with liberty even yet. The French papers reproduce at length the reports of I:nglish correspondents in Abyssinia. The Liberty oh s3rves that the English have began like the tortoise and will finish like the hare. A usually well-informed Florence correspondent believes in the existence of a secret compact between Italy and France, amounting almost to an offensive and defensive alliance. It refers to possible future events in which Prussia might find herself opposed by her late ally. From this, and from indications in the Emperor's policy, notably the hurried army preparations, Napoleon may still, it would seem, have before him the policy of preventing too close an alliance between South Germany and the Northern Confederation. The Zustawa, a Servian paper, states that there are 2,000 armed men on the banks of the Danube ready for an insurrection and waiting for a favourable moment to enter the Balkan with the cry " Liberty or death !" The secret committee which directs the movement have pur chased eight field pieces, and they are, it is said, receiving money from all parts of Servia. It is clear that the troubles of the Sultan will not end with the pacification of Crete. Suppose the object of the Abz.-ssinian expedition accom plished, writes a correspon lent of the Times, are we, after all the trouble and expense incurred, to vacate, without some attempt at compensation, the position thus attained in a fine, healthy, and fertile country —to give it up to Egyptian rapaety and oppression, or to French occupa tion, or perhaps to both? Against annexation there are many arguments. We have already more territor than we know how to rule well, but before we withdraw our army we have duties to per- These the writer enumerates. First, we ought to endeavour to tranquillise this unhappy coun try, so long a prey to foreign enemies and internecine wars ; next, to endeavour by legitimate means to obtain some compensation for the " British taxpayers ;" and thirdly, to avail ourselves of the finest opportunity ever recorded in history to put a stop to the slave trade, to extend discovery and exploration into the remotest regions of Central Africa. Assisted by legitimate commerce, this would be the means of extending civilisation and Chris tianity over that benighted portion of the globe, and tend far more effectually than our squadrons on the western coast to put a stop to the slave trade. To do this it is proposed to establish the rightful successor to Menelek on the throne on condition of his derr tying the expenses of the expedition, and maintaining at his own cost a subsi diary force of British troops on the same plan as was done in India in the case of the Nizam. With a regular Government the customs would yield a considerable revenue ; and, according to Sir Samuel Baker, if the slave trade were suppressed, Central Africa could easily be opened up. The Times calls this " the inevitable suggestion." orm. The Herald is happy to state that Lord Derby is pro gressing satisfactorily, and may be considered convalescent. To this gratifying announcement the Telegraph adds that the chances for the Premier's improved health are positively better than they were before the last attack, the new treatment having been very successful. The question is, whether the same progress will continue without the special impulse of medicaments, and on that point the doctors are decidedly hopeful. With respect to the Premiership, many remarkable stories arc afloat. It is asserted that after Lord Derby's violent attack of sickness on Monday last, he yielded to the solicitations of his countess and his medical advisers, and forwarded his resignation to her Majesty. Exercising the privilege enjoyed by the First Minister, he is said to have recommended the Duke of Richrnond as his successor. The Duke was accordingly telegraphed for, and went to Osborne. He was offered the Premiership by the Queen, but most respectfully declined the proffered honour. The Chancellor of the Exchequer concurred in the selection of the Duke, upon the ground that it is neces sary that the Premier should have a scat in the Upper House, in order to disarm the fears and prejudices of Tory grandees. Upon the Duke of Richmond declining the proffered honour, her Majesty is stated to have written to Lord Derby, entreating him to retain office for the pre sent. The noble earl has intimated his obedience to the Queen's request. The concluded contest at Cambridge University is con strued by the Times into a defeat of the Government, whose reforming policy Mr. Beresford Hope last year so persistently opposed. To the Telegraph the fight chews how very much the Evangelical party has declined in power amongst the clerical graduates, who compose the vast ma-I ,, rity of the academic constituency. A score of years ago the mere suspicion of Tractarian proclivities would have been sufficient to ruin any chances that a can. didate for Cambridge might possess. - - - - _ The cry for more education is spreading to Scotland. A large meeting has just been held at Glasgow, presided over by the Lord Provost, to discuss the best means of pro. moting the establishment of a system of national educa tion in Scotland. The first resolution, moved by Mr. William Graham, M.P., declared that any measure, tc be effectual, must, while taking advantage of existing schools, provide more schools and teachers. The second expressed the opinion that no bill be considered satisfae• tory which did not contain compulsory clauses. Mr. Robert Dalglish, M.P., moved the third resolution, to the effect that any system of national education must be unsectarian, and that non-attendance at religious teaching must involve no disqualification for any privilege of the school. The resolution by no means passed un challenged. The Rev. Mr. Gault proposed an amendment in favour of "scriptural education," which included, of course, the teaching of the Shorter Catechism, with a species of Conscience Clause. A very boisterous dis elusion took place, and on the motion and the amendment being put to the meeting the Lord Provost declared the show of hands to be pretty equally divided, but, if any thing, in favour of the motion. Other resolutions wert. ; ,assed declaratory of the soundness of the principl, ,1 local rates and management, and appointing a corn inittee to communicate to the Lord-Advocate the reso o.ti -as passed, and to watch the debates in Parliament. Lest the Chatham and Dover Railway shareholder, should not experience every species of railway misfortune the di:ectors have commenced proceedi4,s in Chancey) wnich, ac( or ding to " A Barrister," in the Times, " pro mise to be as tedious and costly as any the Court of Chan eery ever witnessed." Unless the shareholders at the ap proaching general meeting insist on a reference t, .arbitration, there seems to be every prospect of th, ,mproved position of the company being lost in law ex ,il:2(pio.natiQn4 sllo ~1 (=Willy be 449(1 fen LATEST INTELL WINCE. Tll CLERKEXWELL OUTRAGE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) -- 0 TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 22. The Imperial Ottoman Bank has published the usual monthly statement of the Government ac count, according to which the receipts and pay ments from the 13th July last to the 12th instant for the foreign loans and general debt of Turkey, leave a balance in hand of 135,000 fires in cash, and 136,000 lires in bills receivable. The Levant herald publishes a repDrt that the Minister of Finance has concluded a loan of £120,000 with two London financial firms. The terms are stated to be about 18 per cent. per an num, redeemable in four years, and guaranteed by the Adrianople to the revenue. It is now stated positively—with reference to the remarks of Dr. Lankester, the coroner for Middlesex, at the Clerkenwell inquiry, in which he is reported to have referred to the desire of the jury on the last sitting to have Mullany, the approver, before them, and said that great difficulties were placed in his way ; that he had written toMr. Hardy onthe subject, but their request was not complied with, and that he referred to the Statute 16 and 17 Vitt., c. 30, s. 9—that Dr. Lankester's letter was sent by messenger to the Home Office late on the afternoon of Thursday, February 20, and an answer was sent to him by a Home Office messenger, and delivered at 23, Great Marlborough-street, about six o'clock on the salve afternoon, in the following terms : (001'Y.) " Whitehall, 20th February, 1808. " Sir,- I am directed by Mr. Secretary Hardy to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, re vesting that an order knay be given for bringing up Patrick Muliany at an adjourned inquest to be held befUre you to morrow. _ " `• In reply, I am to acquaint you that, if you refer to the statute quoted in your letter, you will find that the secretary of State has no power to grant an order to bring up a prisoner to be examined as a witness, unless application has been made to him on affidavit.* " With reference to the latter portion of your letter, in which you say that the practice of not producing accused persons before coroners is only one of modern date, Mr. Hardy desires me to say that he will be glad if you will point out any authority to shew that, by common law or statute, the Secretary of State or any other authority ever has had power to order prisoners in custody on any charge to be brought before a coroner while holding an inquisition, except for the purpose of being examined as witnesses.—l am, &c., (Signed) "A.F. 0. LIDDELL." I' No affidavit has oeen sent to the Home Office. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb. 22.—Three o'clock. --The market closed as follows per Cent. End of month... Ital'an Loan 3 per Cent End of month 6B 65 Mexican Loan ... 16 50 Credit Mobilier - End of month... 190 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier ...1465 Rome Debt.. End of mbnth...1383 75 Deferred . RAILWAYS. Account Orleans ... 894 N orthern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..„. 545 Western Eastern . Sardinian Austrian Lombard 3831 North of Spain Saragossa Roman 47 SIIIPWRECKS.-LIFEBOAT SERVICES. GREAT YARMOUTH', Sunday. The ship Omega, of London, bound from Sunder land to Carthagena with coals (says Mr. M. H. Butcher), struck on the Cockle Sands this morning. She knocked her rudder away, came off, and drove foul of the Cockle Light Ship, doing that vessel damage, and having her own starboard broadside stove in. She then drove clear, and went over the north part of the Scroby Sand in a helpless and sinking state. The wind was blowing strong from the north at the time, and there was a high sea run ning. A signal of distress was made,and theYarmouth large lifeboat the Mark Lane, and the Caister large lifeboat the Birmingham No. 2, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, were thereupon promptly launched. When the Mark Lane reached the vessel, which was then about eight miles off the land, she was boarded, and found to have 11 feet of water in the hold. Only seven of the crew, including the captain and the North Sea pilot, were on board, and these men were rescued at great risk by the twolifeboats, the master having to be dragged through the water for some little distance, the ship then being completely on her broadside, and shortly afterwards sinking. The two men who were saved by the Birmingham lifeboat having been trans ferred to the Mark Lane boat, the latter, was towed back to her station by one of the three steamers which had come out from Yarmouth, and the crew were safely landed. The remainder of the crew, with the exception of the mate, who is sup posed to be drowned, were saved by getting on board the Cockle Light vessel, and have also been landed here. When the vessel sank she was 14 or 15 miles S.E. of Lowestoff. PORTHCAWL, SOUTII WALES, Feb. 29. The smack Ann, of Rothesay, passed this port in distress during a strong gale from W.N.W. yester day (states the Rev. C. D. Knight). The only man left on board was seen in the rigging. The "Good Deliv eran ce" lifeboat of th eNation al Lifeboat Institu tion was launched without loss of time and proceeded to the rescue through a very heavy sea. She suc ceeded lin getting on the weather quarter of the smack, and let go her anchor with the intention of dropping down near enough to take the men off. The vessel had drifted on the rocks to the east of his port. A heavy sea, however, broke into the ifeboat, and compelled her to slip anchor and make for the beach. She then pulled through the breakers and made a second attempt, but the vessel had by this time drifted into very shallow water, and the man left on her was bravely rescued by Thomas David from the shore. He was much exhausted, and did not come round for about two hours. It appeared that the smack, with the master (who was also the owner) and one hand on board, had drifted from the Mumbles, and the master being washed overboard in the Channel the vessel was quite un manageable by one man, went on the rocks, and has become a total wreck. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. WORRYING THE MEMBERS OF WEST-END CLUBS. —Elizabether Lancaster was charged, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, by Mr. Henry Burrell, barrister-at-law, residing at No. 36, Duke-street, St. James's, with begging in Pall-Mall. Mr. Burrell said that on the previous night about 11 o'clock the prisoner followed him more than three parts along Pall-Mall, importuning him all the while for alms, and seeing a constable he gave her into custody. He wished to state that the system of begging carried on in St. James's was something horrible, and it was almost impossible for a person to walk a yard without being molested by a beggar. Police Constable Bessay, 178 C, proved taking the prisoner into custody at the request of Mr. Burrell. Mr. Tyrwbitt said there were constantly com plaints of a similar kind to that of Mr. Burrell's, gentlemen going home from their clubs being cer tain to be mobbed by beggars. An example must he made of some of them, and he should commit the prisoner for 14 days. Catherine Murphy and Margaret Murphy, mo ther and daughter, were charged with begging in Jermyn-street. Police-constable William Cane, 35 C, said that on the previous night, about half-past eight, he saw the prisoners following gentlemen along Jermyn street and asking them for money, and after seeing them accost several gentlemen he took them into custody. The prisoner Catherine denied asking for money. Mr. Tyrwbitt committed the prisoners for seven days each, promising them a month each if they came before him again, and remarking that the neighbourhood was perfectly haunted by beggars. WESTMINSTER. ROBBERIES AT COFFEE HOUSES.—James Knight, a tall young man, was placed at the bar charged with stealing a watch and appendages from the coffee-house of Mr. William Clarke, 55, Cheyne walk, Chelsea. Prosecutor said that the prisoner came to lodge at his house three months ago and suddenly left, immediately after which prosecutor missed his watch, chain, and appendages from his bedroom. In the course of time he discovered that his watch had been sold shortly afterwards in the neighbour hood. Prisoner, in going to, his room, could have access to the place from whence the watch was stolen. W. Orris, proprietor of a refreshment house in Lombard-street, Chelsea, ,said about three months ago the prisoner came into his shop, and after having something inquired whether he wanted to buy a watch. Witness replied that he did not. Prisoner, however, again came with the watch, and witness, on his pressing the matter, took the watch to some works where many men were employed, and sold it for-the prisoner. Police constable James Manley, 71 S, said he had recovered the watch. Ile took prisoner into custody last night, and told him that it was for stealing a watch from a coffeehouse, where he lodged. Prisoner denied it. Witness asked him how he came possessed of the watch he sold to Mr. Orris, when he denied that he had ever sold him one. Prisoner was remanded. 711 E PEOPLE'S MAKKE7S Early in December last we had occasion to notice the opening of the People's Market, 272, Whitechapel-road, which had been established by Mr. John M'Call, of Houndsditch, for the sale, at prices below those usually charged by retail dealers, of butchers' meat, vegetables, bread, butter, provisions, groceries, and other articles. The market has now been opened for more than two months, and during that time an active business has been done by the salesmen in all the departments. The greatest amount of goodli were sold in the first week during which the market was open. The prices charged were then considerably below the rates at the retail shops in the neighbourhood, and the inducement to housekeepers to avail themselves of the market was proportionately great. In the course of the last few weeks, however, the shop keepers, who had felt the effect of this new form of com petition, in diminished business, have reduced their prices to about the same rates as are charged in the market. Some indeed charge rather less ; but it is doubtful whether the articles they supply are quite as good as those which may be obtained of Messrs. M`Call and Co. The effect of this alteration has been that some of the retail trade 'of the neighbourhood has returned to the old channels, and the business done in the market has slightly diminished in extent. The market is not, however, entirely dependent upon the patronage of the dwellers in the immediate vicinity. In order to extend its advantages to families residing at a distance, branches have been opened close to the termini of the Great Eastern, South-Eastern, and North London Railways. At the two first-mentioned depots a stock of some articles is kept, and both there and at the third branch any goods which are ordered in the morning are delivered the same afternoon. The proprietors of the People's Market have not confined their attention to the supply of raw provisions at moderate rates. They have also made an attempt to deal with the question of providing cheap cooked food for the poor. Twice a day they sell good soup—pea, curry, or Scotch broth—at 2d. a quart, and a pint of any one of these soups, with a large piece of bread, which is supplied for a' halfpenny, is found to furnish no bad meal for a labouring man or woman. So much is the soup approved of by the people in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, that about 300 gallons are sold daily, and sometimes as many as 200 persons are to be seen drinking it at one time. Ea sins are supplied by the proprietors of the market, but the soup drinkers have to bring their own spoons. We paid a visit to the market on Saturday night, at the time that the soup was being sold, and w itnessed the satisfaction with which it was swallowed by both men and women, by both old and young. The soup served on Saturday night was pea-soup, and having tasted it we can vouch for its being well flavoured, strong, and nourishing. It certainly hardly merited the lavish encomium which Lord Brougham one pronounced upon some penny soup in the House of Lords, greatly to the amusement of the peers, " Better soup your loidships never tasted ;" but it was such a liquid as no hard-working man or woman need despise, and which no unsophisticated palate would reject. For those who are more nice in their tastes, or are blessed with more abundant means, there is always on hand a good supply of cooked meats, hams, tongue, brawn, &c., and as these are sold at prices considerably under those charged in the ordinary ham and beef shops, they are always in brisk demand. 4RCHBISHOP MANNING ON ED&CATION. The Lenten pastoral of Dr. Manning was read in all the churches and chapels of the Roman Catholic diocese of Westminster yesterday. It consists exclusively of a treatise on popular education, and is diametrically opposed to the State undertaking the instruction of the people. The Archbishop says the duties and rights of parents are derived from the natural and the Divine law, but the Church is the guardian and executor of that law. " The State has no commission, either natural or revealed, to educate ; and no jurisdiction over the rights of parents or of the Church in the education of its children. Here we are at direct issue with Erastian and latitudinarian poli ticians. The wisest policy of the State, for its own sake, is to assist both parents and the Church in the work of education. The public revenues cannot be better applied than in preventing ignorance and crime; nor more unpro fitably spent than in punishing what it ought to have prevents It is true, indeed, that the State may pro tect itself. If parents, through criminal neglect of their offspring, suffer them to grow up in ignorance, and thereby to commit crime, society, in self-defence, may punish the parent and endeavour to reclaim the child. But even then it has no rights against the faith and conscience of the parents or their children." " A Minister of Public Instruotion," he goes on to say, "is intelligible : Minister of Public Education there cannot he. The office is not vacant. The Church has received' this com mission from its Divine Head. It will never resign its trust, 'and no earthly power can deprive it of its office To - establish a system of mere secular instruction, to avoid `the religious difficulty,' as it is called, is a poverty-stricken device. It has been tried in America, and proved by experience to be neither,efficient nor moral in its result. France and Prussia, which have led the way in State education, have shewn a higher sense of what education is. Both have been wiser and -more Christian than to attempt a system of mere secular instruction. Both have carefully preserved and employed to the fullest extent what is called the denominational system. Moreover, where is the justice of paralysing the free action of a majority who are already labouring to Christianise the people, in favour of a minority who reject or are careless about Christianity.? Every sign of the times warns us of our public danger. Pauperism and crime have steadily increased, and drunkenness, deny it wk.) will, the cause of both, is steadily spreading among our people. They who believe that these moral diseases can be cured by instruction— that is, by reading, writing, and arithmetic—know little of human passion and human wickedness. The miserable religious divisions of England are driving our legislation into a complete exclusion o! Christianity from its public acts. But this is to desecrate civil society, and to reduce it to the mere natural order ; en once reduced to the mere natural order, two consequences are inevitable—the moral action of public law expires, and the immoralities of the natural order straight way revive and multiply. But we may yet hope that a system of merely secular education is not likely to exist among us." After condemning the present Irish system, which some, he says, would wish to have adopted in Eng land, the Archbishop urges that instead of new expedients fatal to the integrity and efficiency of the vast, if inade quate, system of education we have already formed, the course of true policy and of just toleration would be, first to develope and extend the existing system, and, secondly, to increase the grants of public money for education:' purposes. " A million and a half , " he says, " spent in a . true Christian education of our people would in the end save millions now loss in punishing crime and in re' ie ving pauperism. There was, perhaps, never a mument when Christianity had a feebler hold over the people of this country,and that for two 'reasons— the action of reli gion over the massed has grown perpetually less, and the masses have multiplied year by year. At such a time as this to hasten and extend tile separation of religion from education is an imprudence bordering on infatuation. Better let even our sectarian divisions exist' than rob Christian children of Christian education, ho vsoever im perfect. To be in earnest for a fragment of divine truth is better than to be indifferent about the whole of Chris tianity. Excepting a handful of doctrinaire and a few pro fessed secularists, there is not-to be found any number of people in the coantry who would prefer a school without Christianity." q.M 4tri.,V3) Crain. HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 22. Tte Queen drove out this morning, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Duchess of Athole and Miss Macgregor. The Prince of Wales arrived at Osborne. The Queen went out with the Prince of Wales and Princess Louise. FEB. 23. Her Majesty and Princess Louise, attended Di vine Service this morning at Whippingham parish church. The La lies and Gentlemen in Waiting were in attendance. Her Royal . Highness the Princess of Wales drove out attended by the Couutesi of Morton. The Prince of \Vales returned to Marlborough House on Saturday afternoon from visiting the Queen at Osborne. • . His Royal Highness Prince Arthur has arrived at Frogmore Lodge on a visit to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian. Her Royal Highness Princess Mary and his Highness the Prince of Teck were on a visit during last week to their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess Ed ward of Saxe-Weimar at Molecomb, Sussex. The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thompson have arrived at 55, Grosvenor-place, for the season. NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE. After a rough trial off the Maplin Sands, and a couple of runs over the Admiralty standard measured in Stokes Bay, off Portsmouth, on Thursday, the screw corvette (unarmoured wooden) Blanche, six gus, 1,268 tons, 350-horse power, Captain J. E. Montgomerie, was put through her crucial trial of speed at her deepest load draught over the Stokes Bay course on Friday, under the superintendence of Captain W. C. Chamberlain, commanding her Majesty's ship Asia and the steam reserve at Ports mouth. The officers on Capt. Chamberlain's staff who conducted the trial were Chief Engi neers W. G. Wratten and J. 'Deal, of the Reserves, and Assistant-Inspector of Machi nery W. H. Steil. Mr. James Steil, inspecting officer of machinery to the Engineer in Chief of the Navy, and Mr. J. B. Crossland, assis tant constructor, were present from Whitehall. The rough trial of the ship on the Maplin Sands mile gave her a mean speed of 13.05 knots, but Mr. Ravenhill, of the firm of Ravenhill and Hodgson, the manufacturers of the engines, being convinced that the engines had more power in them than had been even then developed, and as increased power of the machinery simply meant increased speed to the ship, the latter was ordered to make her final trial over the standard mile in Stokes Bay, on her way down Channel. Mr. Ravenbill's anticipations have been fully confirmed by the results of Friday's trial, foreshadowed as the latter was by the two runs made over the mile on the previous day, which then gave the ship an increase of a quarter of a knot per hour over the rate attained on the Maplin Sands mile. On Fri day morning on weighing her anchor from Spit head to enter upon her trial, the Blanche drew 13ft. 4in. of water forward, and 16ft. Bin. aft. All the yards were aloft on the three masts of the ship to royals, and all sails were bent. Two hundred and seventy tons of coals were on board, all other stores were complete to six months, and the ship was in all respects ready to proceed to sea from the trial ground. In accordance with Admiralty regulations, the machinery of the ship was, during the time of the trial, in charge of Messrs. Ravenhill and Hodg son, who were both present, under the conditions imposed by the Admiralty circular. The ship's en gines are of the present accepted type for the navy, fitted with surface condensers and superheating ap paratus, of 350 horse power (nominal), and similar in their general arrangements to those supplied by the same makers to the Nymphe, Daphne, and other vessels of the same class. The cylinders have a diameter of 631 in., with a length of stroke of 33in. They drive a " Mangin" screw of 14ft. 7in. diameter, having a pitch, leading, of 15ft. 7in., and following of 17ft. ; a mean length of 12in., and an immersion of the upper edges of 7in. The weather was very favourable for the trial, the wind being from about N.W., and the water quite smooth over the mile. The Blanche entered upon her first mile by running to the westward over the first of the east going tides. The general results, as will be de monstrated by the subjoined figures, proved to be most satisfactory. Measured mile, full-boiler power, six runs.—Speed of ship each run, in knots, 13.383, 13.953, 13.235, 14.462, 13.187, and 14.118. Revolutions of the engines per mile, 394, 382, 402, 377, 403, and 379. Revolutions of the en gines per minute 87.88, 88.83, 88.68, 88.37, 88.57, and 89.17. Mean steam pressure in boilers, 331 b. ; in epgine room, 30Ib. Mean vacuum, 27 inches. Mean speed of the ship under full boiler power, 13.631 knots per hour. Half-boiler power, four runs. Speed of ship each run, in knots, 11.111, 12.996, 10.435, and 12.903. Mean speed of the ship under half-boiler powar, 11.788 knots per hour. The foregoing rates of speed place the Blanche considerable above the Danae, the only other vessel of precisely similar tonnage and nomi nal engine power that has passed the test of the measured mile under both full and half-boiler power ; and as both the Danae and the Blanche have been built from the same set of drawings, this excess in speed by the Blanche over the Danae is undoubtedly a great credit to Messrs. Ravenhill and Hodgson, whose engines ran throughout yester day's trials without a check or trouble of the slightest kind. The iron screw steamship Megrera, 4, having shipped stores at Plymouth, left on Saturday after noon for Ascension and Rio Janeiro. The hydraulic armour-plated gunboat Water witch, Commander Philip R. Sharpe, from Ports mouth, on an experimental cruise, arrived at Ply mouth on Friday afternoon. Her crew complain Of her deficiency as a seagoing boat. The chartered troopship Isabella, taken up by the Government for the conveyance of troops belonging to various corps to Bermuda, on board which the smallpox broke out immediately after the embarka tion of the troops, has been inspected by the officials from Chatham, and declared free from infection. The troops from Chatham garrison, including rein forcements for the Royal Artillery, Royal Engi' neers, Commissariat Staff Corps, Army Hospital Corps, and the 61st Regiment, are according l y ordered to re-embark at Gravesend. The troopships Accrington and Cleopatra have been taken up by the Government for the convey ance of troops of various corps to Ladia, and are ordered to be ind readiness to embark their detach" ments at Gravesend. The following officers, who have been gazetted to commissions in the corps of Royal Engineers, t lro ordered to do duty at headquarters, Chatham :"" Lieut. W. P. S. Dunlop, Lieut. F. J. Day, Lieetl F. J. Brown, Lieut. D. A. Johnston, Lieut. Gardiner, Lieut. J. F. Hewson, Lieut. J. Bar e ' Lieut. R. F. Moore, Lieut. W. A. Nugent-, Lieu t• Darby, Lieut. G. Henry, and Lieu t. C. ffu Bagot. 16th A draught of the depot of the 2 d battal ion, Regiment, consisting of two officers and 93 De ll a ' commissioned officers and men, for Barbadoes, a draught of three officers and 103 non - to m sioned officers and men of- the depot of the Regiment, for Jamaica, will leave the camp at L'u of C hester and proceed to the service co m p anies their regiments about tire 26th inst. PRESENTATION TO STAMEN.—The United State° Consul at Liverpool has beon instructed by his G ol'er n il ci ment to pay to John Williams, a pilot at Duffryn, James Al‘Cartuey, one of the crew of the Liverpool ste3`:: tug Reliance, the sum of $lOO each, as a reward for the", noble conduct on the•occasion of he wreck of they tae rican ship F. J. Southard , near Duffryn , on the h°, December last, when at great peril to 'themselves th.% managed to get the end of a line ashore and estahlif communication with the vessel, and t hus were I nsiD l 9 313 strumental in saving the lives of the crew.