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THE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-street, Si rand. T HE LATE EDITION of "TIDE SUN " at J. surnrs, 39, Bow-street, Covent-garden. ITIHE LATE EDITION of "THE-SUN" at C. 'W. 5 3 4 - 48, " Cuarica s‘LoNs f r ;a, Pszleitmt, Oull4a son. % g• ••••Ir ;1(. ? ? "110 o\ l o 4414 h LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1868. An interesting affair took place yesterday, when Mr. EYRE received an address from a body of in fluential gentlemen having property in the West Indian Islands, or connected with the commerce of that part. This address was drawn up in 1866, but Mr. EYRE declined at that time to receive it, because the prosecutions against him were not con cluded. Two hundred and forty gentlemen signed this address, and it is significant that they all held property and were interested in the West Indian colonies. In presenting the address the Chairman said that the late Chief Justice of Jamaica would have been present to preside on the occasion. This undertaking had been entered on in consequence of the desire felt to present Mr. ETRE with some memorial of the views of those interested in the island, and who were firmly persuaded of the . eminent services rendered by that gentleman. Dur ing the proceedings that had taken place " every step that vauity,malignity, embittered bydisappointment, could prompt, had been taken, but had all failed most fortunately." 'The terms of the address set forth the earnest desire which pervaded the minds of the undersigned planters to convey to his Excel lency their sense of the sincere sympathy under the " heavy trials " to which he had been exposed in consequence of the deplorable rebellion in Jamaica. Taking into account the several circumstances con nected with the affair, it is said that no doubt can be entertained that the real meaning of the rebel lion was to exterminate the white male residents, and that the crisis was extremely perilous not only for Jamaica, but also for all other islands. It is furthermore added, in the most impressive manner, that had Mr. EYRE not displayed the decision and firmness which he did he would have been un worthy of confidence, and would have manifestly failed to appreciate the exigencies of his position. This feeling is increased by the recollection that only a short time previously to the outbreak at Morant's Bay there had been disaffec tion displayed in other parts of the dependency placed under his care, and also that there was but a small force to give aid in a " war of races." The subscribers conclude this address by the emphatic declaration that they cannot for one moment doubt that a "long reign of anarchy and suffering has been averted by the measures so wisely adopted, and that the thanks of all well-disposed subjects of the British Crown are due to Mr. ETRE for the pre servation not only of one, but of so many of its valuable, possessions which would certainly have been placed in jeopardy by a successful insurrection in Jamaica." Mr. EYRE was warmly cheered upon appearing to answer the assembly, and his reply was charac teristic of himself and admirably adapted to the occa sion. An impediment existed when first the kind words of those who presented the address were made known which has now happily been removed, and certain persons thought fit to institute " criminal proceedings" against him on acccount of the trans actions which took place in Jamaica. Mr. EYRE has throughout acted in the most upright and straightforward manner, and it is worth while to dwell upon the explanation which he here gives of his proceedings since he came to England. He made his address publicly known from the first, and thus afforded an opportunity to those who desired to take proceedings against him of fulfilling their intentions. Mr. EYRE freely admits that some who have questioned his conduct have clone so from pure and public motives, but he cannot abstain from ex pressing the fear that others have assailed him in a different spirit, and hence every endeavour has been made to prejudice the public mind; and an advantage has been taken which " political in fluence, legal ingenuity, an unlimited command of money, and an unscrupulous and systematic misre presentation ever pen4aL , Zite could bring about or . ingeg." 1 1 .420 pagiin coup haYQ bgeijipUe effecti' *43 th an the simple statement which Mr. Eyre made th e persecutions to which he had been ex pose d since his arrival in England, and, indeed, even bef' are ti at Ueriod. Before he left Jamaica a Royal ColnmisE. iou inack a minute and searching investi gation in the coiony ; after that an effort was made to. impeac h him in Parliament. He was prosecuted in the pi vvinces, he was twice prosecuted in the metropor.s, 'before different criminal courts. After having bees t unceasingly " harassed and maligned" for more t han two years and a half the deci sions of tw o different judgments, and a grand jr.ry of his fellow-countrymen having thrice over ( leclared the accusations false, he is relieved from the obligation of declining to receive a public de monstration of sympathy and approval. After thanking in the most cordial manner those who presented the address, Mr. EYRE remarked, with great truth, that it was the more to be prized on account of its emanating from those who, from their personal knowledge, were the most fitted to appreciate the difficulties in which he had been placed, and the necessity which existed " for the most prompt and decisive action to avert from a British colony the frightful scenes which were once enacted in the closely adjoining island of St. Do mingo." In conclusion, Mr. EME observed that those " isolated individuals who wive disappointed" at the complete failure which brpael attended their prosecutions, and had therefore lkien actively em ployed in attempting to mislead and prejudice the public mind, only showed by such rancour how bitter was the nature of their ifeelings. " I can well leave such persons to their own unenviable reflections, and to the just appreciation of a British public," emphatically remarks Mr.. EYRE, and that is the best thing that can be done under the circum stances. It would require the effrontery of the Jamaica Committee to say that the address just presented to Mr. EYRE is not a significant one, and does not represent the opinions of those who are well qualified to judge of the question. Without exaggeration, it may be said of them that they " speak that they do know," and give their judgment on a subject in the details of which they are well versed and fully competent to decide. We have only to point to the subscription list of the EYRE Defence Fund to show the wide-spread popularity of the ex-Governor of Jamaica ; and now this address from the West Indian planters comes most appro priately after the stormy scenes in which Mr. EYRE has been moving. We cannot expect unanimity of opinion on the subject of the Jamaica outbreak, because too much prejudice prevails on the affair ; but it is most satisfactory to know that the cruel and bitter persecution to which Mr. EYRE has been exposed has utterly failed, and that he is at least free from the machinations of the malignant, and we feel well assured that the opinion of the general public will ratify all that has been said and done in his favour. A more unfair thing bas never taken place than this prosecution, as it is so osten tatiously called, against a man who has done bis best to serve his country, but the devices of faction are endless, and when a perverse spirit sets to work who shall say when or how it can end ? Although so much has been said about National Education, this session will not leave any fruits behind it. We have already seen the Government measure withdrawn by the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, and now Mr. BRUCZ has no choice under the existing state of things but to abandon his scheme of ele mentary education. It was felt, however, on the motion that the order of the day be discharged, that the question was only postponed, and that next year the whole subject must be opened up once more. Indeed, it is con fessed that national education will be one of the most prominent and pressing of the topics with which the Reformed Parliament will be called upon to deal. Whether the new constituencies will prove so very earnest and energetic in the cause of education as some persons believe may perhaps be matter of doubt ; but, whatever their feelings on the subject, another session can hardly be allowed to pass over without some great and united effort being made to stem the tide of ignorance. It is not a matter which can afford to wait for leisurely consideration. While M.P.'s are arguing, and dis difficulties, the untaught puting, and weighing children in city court and rural village are growing up to be men and women, and the mischief wrought by idleness and ignorance is steadily on the in crease. There had been a good many disputes respecting the actual condition of our juvenile population, with respect to their attendance at school, and last evening, when the subject came up in the House of Commons, statistics and expla nations, statements and counter-statements, were bandied about with readiness and dexterity. But, after all, none of these figures can give us the exact truth. There are so many collateral circumstances influencing the education of a child, there is so much difference in the home training as well as in the regularity of attendance in different children, that all we can do by the most careful examination of these rates per cent. and columns of flgutes is to arrive at a very general and indefinite notion. No one doubts, however, that there is a vast mass of juvenile ignorance to be dealt with in the coun try, and we may safely accept it as even greater than the statistics represent, because the mere fact of a child of from four or five being at a large school for two or three years among a hundred others affords little or no guarantee that ten years later he will be able to boast much of an education. The employment of children is a serious obstacle , in the way of all systematic legislation in this re spect. The compulsory education which some per sons recommend would in many instances put vir tually a heavy tax upon a poor man with a large family. As Mr. HUBBARD observed last night, we cannot go to an English labourer with ten children and say, " Your eldest boy shall go to school and you shall pay 2d. a week for his instruction." The man might reply—" My boy drives the farmer's team and gets 2s. a week, which pays my rent, and I can't send him to school." It would be quite impossible to carry out a system of compul sory education without such a degree of espionage and harassing the workman's family as would be absolutely intolerable. At the same time, it is undoubtedly a great hard ship that children should be compelled to remain in ignorance because their work is useful. It is hard enough on boys and girls to be called up= so soon to take their share of the burden, and if in addition to the early labour they are to lose all chance of mental cultivation the grievance is increased tenfold. The children themselves are of course indifferent to their loss, but that is no reason why their interests should not be cared for. In manufacturing towns, where the popu lation is dense, and where there is confesselly a vast amount of ignorance, there is work to be had in the factories for young and old. At a very early age children are able to obtain profitable employ ment, and even when the parents are in re ceipt of good wages themselves the tempta tion is too strong for them. We must remember that the friends of education in places like Manchester and Birmingham have much to contend against, since they have not only to call upon the parents to x.13},-,.e an effort to pay for their chilcisoaligohoolitig, or to zub4it to goigo WooJa., SPECIAL NOTICE. In consequence of frequent misrepresentations, E. MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ any travellers or agents, and that their only Establishments aro the above-mentioned. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1868. venienc e for the sake of it, but to undergo a positive loss. In the same way the large employers of labour, if they encourage education among the young, have to pay men's or women's wages to sup ply the place of boys and girls sent to school, instead of being brought to the factory. how to get over this impediment in the way of elementary national education is the great problem in dealing with a large proportion of our working classes. In the rural districts the de nands of agricultural labour fill the place of the factory, and again the schoolmaster finds the employer of chil dren's labour a dangerous rival. It is, there fore, very necessary that we should con sider whether something cannot be done to recon cile the liberty of the subject with the educational requirements of the child, and the suggestion which Mr. HUBBARD threw out is worth attention. "If the employment of a boy under a certain age by the farmer," said the hon. gentleman, " could be made contingent on his education he should be very glad." If this principle could be extended to all large employers of child ren, the difficulties in our way in dealing with poor or indifferent parents would be greatly re duced. If it were not permitted that boys or girls under ten or twelve should be employed either by farmers or by manufacturers unless they could read and :write parents would make an effort to get them taught. Elementary education, instead of being a drawback to their earning money, would then be an assistance, and the schooling now openly despised or disliked would be easily sought after. We can never hope or expect to force children to remain at school for the nine years allowed in the Prussian code ; but a great deal is done if we once secure them elemen tary education. There is not much fear that a boy who once knows how to read tolerably well will forget how to do so ; but there is great fear that if he does not learn how to read before he is twelve he will never learn it at all. At all events if we insist upon his receiving the rudiments of knowledge, we have opened the way for him to proceed in if he chooses himself, but so long as we keep him back from these, we do not even allow him the opportunity of judging for himself, because no uneducated person can appreciate the advantages of education. We agree with Mr. !HUBBARD that we do not want in our Educational Department a spirit of ill-judged economy, but we want something better even than grants—a hearty and liberal sympathy for those who are labouring in the cause of education, and an endeavour to foster rather than to discourage every effort which is conscientiously directed to the one great end—the diffusion of useful knowledge among the masses. LATEST INTELL MENU. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ARRIVAL OF PRINCE NAPOLEON. BUCHAREST, JUNE 24, Evening. Prince Napoleon was received upon the Rou manian frontier by M. Galesco, the President of the Council of Ministers. At Giurgevo His im perial Highness was welcomed by M. Millinet, the French Consul-General. Upon reaching Bucharest, the illustrious visitor was received at the entrance to the city by Prince Charles, accompanied by the Ministers and the members of the municipality. After passing under a triumphal arch, and through gaily decorated streets, the Prince alighted at the Hagues hotel. The city will be illuminated this evening. A fete will be given to-morrow at Prince Charles's residence at Contrarini in honour of the illustrious guest. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, June 24 (Evening). The New Free Press states that an agreement has been arrived at between the Finance Minister and the " Credit Austalt" for taking up 25 million florins of the floating debt, at the rate of rather less than 6 per cent. SER VIA. BELLGRADE, June 14, Evening. The elections to the Skuptsebina are now fin ished. They are in favour of Prince Milan's acces sion to the throne. BOURSE, June 2.4—T closed as follows :- 4-1 per Cont. End of month... Ital 4 an Loan 3 per Cent End of month 7O 72} Mexican Loan ... 22 50 Credit Mobilier 311 25 Do. Bonds End of month... 308 75 Spanish Threes 89 50 Credit Foncier ...1532 Home Debt — End of month... Deferred Lree o'clock.—The market RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... Western Eastern .• 550 Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman In its number of the 18th the 7enzps copied from a provincial journal, the Phare de la Loire, a letter bearing the signature of a person named Lavallee, setting forth that on the occasion of the procession of corpus Christi at Mans he had been maltreated by the Commissary of Police aad the gendarmery for not uncovering when the Sacrament was borne along, he being a Protestant. He did his best, he said, to get out of the line of the cortege, and had just succeeded in doing so when a gendarme in sisted on his uncovering; blit he persisted in keep ing his hat on, and got away. M. Lavallee further said that divers irritating acts of the same kind had occurred on that occasion, and that the Protestant clergyman of the town had been "menaced and insulted by the agents of the Sacristy." He therefore called upon the authori ties, administrative and judicial, to put a stop to such abuses. He adds :—" It is well it should be known whether it is lawful that a procession should be allowed to take possession of the public streets, interrupt the circulation, prevent travellers from reaching the railroad in proper time, and force people to uncover before cere monies which their conscience cannot admit." A communique, addressed to the Temps of this day, states that the whole affair is a pure invention ; that the Protestant clergyman of Mans has de clared that be never was spoken to on the subject, and never was insulted by any one ; on the con trary, he testifies to the excellent relations subsist ing between him and the authorities ; that the letter published by the Phare, and reproduced by the 7 emps, is not only erroneous as to the details it gives, but is absolutely apocryphal. Of the 46,000 inhabitants of Mans there are but 193 who are Protestants, and not one of them is named Lavallee. The Siecle published another letter signed "Lam bert," described as the Protestant clergyman of Mansle (Charente), giving an account of exactly similar occurrences said to have happened in that town at the procession of Corpus Christi. This letter has not as yet been disavowed. From the Ist of January, 1869, the use of the metrical and decimal systems in commercial trans actions will be obligatory throughout Spain. The estate known as Chateau-Laffitte, so widely celebrated for its claret, was put up to auction in Paris on Saturday. The upset price was 4,400,000 f. (£180,000), but as taorewas no bidding tliettic Was atinned, CORRESPONDENCE FROM FARM (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) PARIS, WZDNESDAT, June 24 The Emperor came to Paris to-day from Fontaineblein t held a Council of Ministers at the Tuileries, and set oub this afternoon for the camp at Chalons. It is believed that he will go to!Plombieres about July 12 or 15, and rep main there a month ; and that he will be at Chalons on August 15, his fête day. Some persons will, I suppose, attach importance to the fact that the Emperor prefers to celebrate this festival in the midst of his army instead of in his capital. To-day the statue of General Hoche (whom your readers will remember as the invader of Ireland) was uncovered at Versailles. Hoche was, as you know, a Republican, and on that account to-day's celebration has been viewed with little favour by the powers that be. For instance, it was intended to have had a banquet and a representation at the Versailles theatre of Ponsard's "Lion Amoureux," but both have been forbidden : the first for some reason that I do not know ; the second, I presume, because of the liberal senti ments put into the mouth of Hoche. This incident shews what little faith the Imperial Government has in its own stability. The Imperialists are especially nervous just now, in consequence of the urgent representations of the Prefects, who are for hurrying on the elections, because, as they say, they cannot tell what will happen when the " pestilential" journals, which are springing into existence on all hands, have infected the people. Another incident has just happened, which by no means gives satisfaction in high quarters. The Princess Sophie of Bavaria—(so the papers say, but I suspect they meak the Princess Charlotte), sister of the Empress of Austria, and the Ex-Queen of Naples—has been betrothed this week to the Duc d'Alencon, second son of the Due de Nemours, second son of Louis Philippe. The Duc de Nemours is related to your Royal Family, having married the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. On the pre mature death of his brother, the Due d'Orlans, the Duc de Nemours became a person of importance, and it was at one time intended to make him Regent in the event of his father dying before his nephew came of age. In the revolution of February 1848 the Duke commanded the troops in the Place du Carrousel, and accompanied his sister-in-law, the Duchess of OrMans, to the Chamber of Deputies when she went to appeal in behalf of her young son. He then joined his relatives at Claremont, in Eng land. He has four children, and his two sons, the Comte d'Eu and the Due d'Alencon, are 26 and 24 years old respec• Lively. The Princess Charlotte is 21. It is, no doubt, somewhat mortifying that just at this moment, when the Emperor is doing his utmost to establish an alliance between himself and Austria and South Germany, the sister-in-law of the Kaiser and near relative of the King of the chief South German state should be making a matrimonial alliance with the old Royal Family of France. This match, together with those which have just taken place at Rome and Madrid, appears as though the Bourbons were looking up again, and experience has shown that just as the Bourbons go up the Bonapartes go do en. The. Siecle to-day has a remarkable article entitled " Europe and Russia." The writer, M. Vilbort, points out that the great impediment to the peace of the world is the Russian Empire. Strictly speaking, Russia is not a nation, but an amalgam of incoherent men and things melted and hardened in a mould and cast with the effigy of the Czar. It is not a people, but a great human mass without personality or conscience, prostrating itself in adoration of the Czar ; and all those who will not bear the yoke are sent to Siberia or to the gallows. The writer then goes on to speak of the ambitious encroachments of Russia towards the Elbe in Europe, towards the Indus in Asia, and adds : " One must be blind not to see that a hundred millions of armed men in possession of the railways which lead to the heart of Europe, ready to kill and to die for the Czar, believing that thereby they gain Paradise, are dangerous to the peace and the liberty and the civilisation of Europe," Russia now pretends to advocate the doctrine of nationalities, and is putting itself at the head of the Pan-Slavist agitation, after having destroyed the noblest of the Slave nations--Poland. The Siecle has no belief in the movement, for there are geo graphical difficulties, to mention no other. Therefore, it bids Europe beware of the agitation, which is really only one of Russia's plots against the peace and the freedom of the continent. About a month ago the Temps told its subscribers that it was bound to raise its price in order to keep the paper in existence, all the capital having been swallowed up. The Temps now announces that its subscribers have willingly assented to the alteration, and that the journal is established on a firm foundation. The latest of Baron Hausmann's demolitions is the Hotel Laffitte, at one of the corners of the street of that name. This fine house was built in 1772 by the Comte de Laborde, farmer•general and banker of the Emperor of Austria. Fifty years later it was bought by the banker Laffitte, and he made it a rendezvous of the Opposition, and it was in this house that the Liberals met during the " three days" of July 1830, in order to decide upon their plans. Laffitte suffered pecuniary losses, and was obliged to sell his hotel ; but so great was the estimation in which he was held that the public bought the house and presented it to him. There he died in 1844. A tablet in the wall has the following inscription in letters of gold : " A Jacques Laffitte, Souscription Nationale." Close by this house was formerly a terrace running the length of the Rue Lafayette : here the father of Napoleon 111. lived, and here, according to one account, Napoleon 111. himself was born. The property passed into the hands of the famous Fouch6 ; it was subsequently sold to one of the Rothschilds for £14,000. M. Arls Dufour, the celebrated silk manufacturer, has got into a fierce dispute with the clergy. He was mainly instru mental in founding a popular library at Oullins, and it is this institution which has been the cause of the present disturbance. Fifteen of the inhabitants took exception to seven books in the library, on the ground that they had been placed in the Roman Index, and with the assistance of the Minister of the Interior they got the objectionable works removed. Thereupon M. Dufour declared that he could not consent to this, and that if his resistance led to the closing of the library, he should open one in his own house for the public use, and include in it all such works as he approved, excluding all those which " serve the congregations to pervert the moral, intellectual, and political sense of the people. Those the Government might deliver without interference." The matter is not yet settled. THE WEATHER TABLE-THIS DAY. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. Extreme 15134 Thursday, (13' 1 June '25, B. T . W. Ito F. D. 12 W R. to 8 a.m. 9 Naini Aberdeen Leith Shields S car b oroug h 30'00f. 58 55 W. Yarmouth 30'688. 63 60 W. . 3 S.W. c.o. 2 fielder ... • Cuxhaven Skudesn Ze3 Valentia 3318r. 58 52 N. 5 1 N.W. e.rb 4 Cape Clear 3o'oBr. 59 57 N.W. 2 2 W. c.o. 0.03 2 R che's Pt 3o 'l lr. 59 56 N . W . 3 3 S.W. c. 2 ll ° olyhead , 3o'o6r. 57 54 W.S.W. 4 2 W. c.o. Liverpool firdrossati Greencastle 29 99r. 53 51 N.W. 4 4 N.W. r.c. o'll -- Penzance Plymouth Weymouth Portsinouth 30'18r. !64 59 W. 4 4 W.s.W. c.o. 3 London 30'13r. 16'2 57 W. 'IV. 2 3 W. co.bc C'peGris Rez 30'18r. 163 58 S.W. 4 4 S.W. c. 2 Brest L'Orient Roch efort 3O 27r. 66 64 S. E. 3 5 S.W. o.b. 3 Biarritz Corunna — Brussels Paris Strasbourg — Lyons — Toulon hearts Con tent (6 a.m. local time) 30'065. 41 41 N.W. 1 1 N.W. r. 013 S EXPLANATION. Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. a sea level. Thelettere rising; f., falling ; s., steady—indicate direction of motion of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm Weathcr : b.—blue sky ; c.—clouds, detached ; f.—fog ; h.—hail I.—lightning ; m,—misty, hazy ; o.—overcast, dull; r,—rain; s. —snow; t.—thunder. Rah,fall, snow or hail (melted) during last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMARKS. This morning a slight increase in barometrical pressure is noticed at all stations, but since last evening a fresh diminution has commenced in the N. and E. Temperatures have not altered much, but a slight decrease has occurred in the N. and E. Winds continue moderate, and are generally from the westward. A little rain has fallen on our north and west coasts. The weather this morning is cloudy, but fine, The Independence Beige denies that the reception of the King of Prussia at Hanover was of the enthusiastic character described in the telegrams. On the contrary, the people absented themselves, and King William was received almost exclusively by the troops (of whom there were 10,C00), by an army of police, and by the Government officials. He has now left the somewhat dreary old Guelphic capital. The Paris correspondent of the Times, referring to the rumoured appointment of M. do Lagueronnibre to the post of Minister Plenipotentiary at Brussels, observes that the Moniteur makes no sign on the subject. This silence, M. de Lagueronniere's friends say, is owing to his hesitation about accepting the appointment, which they attribute, rightly or wrongly, to the Government preferring his absence to his presence, at least for some time. Whether the offer of the Belgian mission has been seriously made, or whether M. de Lagueron niece will accept it when it is made, is not certain. It is thought that he would perform these new functions, which are not laborious; in *a malpir as cigclii• ablc tool4o 4gea tOBO Qf aluator. THE REGISTRATION BILL. The Registration Bill is in the hands of a select com mittee compoted of nearly an equal number of Conserva tives and Liberals. The difficulty of accelerating the registration is aggravated by the postponement of the Registration Bill. The original scheme was proposed probably in April or Mar, and if the bill had been passed before the 10th of June a most material sbric.igment of time might have been effected. On or before June 10 in each year the clerk of the peace in every county issues his precepts, with forms of notices, to the 3verseers. These have already been issued, and cannot rell be recalled. All, therefore, which the select committee can do in accelerating the election is deal with the procedure at the secondary stage, when it passes out of the hands of the Overseers. Mr. Hardy proposes that the remission should :ominence on the 14th of September. It might surely, however, be begun a week sooner, and be concluded by the Ist of October. Then comes the printing the lists for the returning officers. That has been hitherto a tedious process, through certain difficulties with respect to the alphabetical arrangement of names, which the bill very properly proposes to mitigate. It seems pretty well agreed now that three weeks are enough for the printing. That brings us to October 21, when, as it is very confidently submitted, the lists might be ready for actual use by the returning officers. The new bill postpones the date to the lst of November. Thus far we have dealt with the process of registration only. But with respect to the election also, a considerable economy of time may be effected without in convenience. There seems no sufficient reason why the writs should not be issued some time before the register is completed, and there - might be a special statutory provi sion that the election shall take place according to the new register, and on the day when it comes into operation. By this expedient some days may be saved. Again, it is c'ear that the interval between the commencement of the election and the actual meeting of Parliament need only he the period required for concluding the elections and allow ing members to reach London. THE COBDEN CLUB. The annual dinner of the Cobden Club was held on Wednesday evening at the Ship Hotel, Greenwich. A special steamer was in waiting at half-past ,five o'clock at the House of Commons stairs, and shortly before six o'clock it started for Greenwich. In about half an hour the boat arrived at Greenwich, and the company sat down to dinner, which was served without delay. The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers occupied the chair, supported on his right by Mr. Cyrus Field and Mr. Goldwin Smith, and on his left by Mr. Howe, Viscount Amberley, M.P., and Ricciotti Garibaldi. In propoting the toast of " The Cobden unzn, tne CHAIRMAN . feelingly alluded to the memory of the great free-trader, and spoke of Mr. Cobden's influence on the many questions. which had since been brought prominently before the public. Alluding to the Irish Church, the chairman said there was one subject which he (Mr. Cobden) considered one of the chief questions in regard to Ireland, and it was curious to refer to his view on the subject of the Irish Church now, because one would suppose they were uttered at the present time. In 1835 he instituted an inquiry as to why capital was repelled from Ireland, and his opinion was that such must be the case owing to the errors of legislation. A dominant Church opposed to the national religion was the primary cause, nor could there be prosperity for Ireland until the temporal conditions of the two Churches were placed on the same footing. As to the objection that the fate of the English Establishment was involved in that of the Irish, there was no analogy, as in England a majority of the people supported the Church, whereas in Ireland it was opposed by six sevenths of the people. Could the income of the Protestant Church be raised in Ireland without the pockets of Roman Catholics ? What would the people of this country feel if they had to pay immense revenues for the support of Unitarianism established in England ? Would not children be taught to abhor the very name of Unitarian ? However enlightened the policy of the Government, would the people of this country he found to carry on their business while suffer ing under such a grievance to their conscience ? Such were the opinions of Mr. Cobden, who was independent of party. Mr. GoLDwIN SMITH, in responding for the club, said that although he intended leaving the country, he should be a good Englishman wherever he was—an Englishman who would be a faithful disciple of Cobden, and a sincere friend and a faithful member of the Cobden Club. The club was formed with no party purpose, and therefore he would not refer to that struggle which was passing through all their minds. But there was a great struggle. He could not, of course, doubt on which side of that great struggle Mr. Cobden would have been found. He would have been entirely on the side of those who desire justice for Ireland—(hear, hear)—and in support of those enlightened principles which were upheld by the Liberal party—principles which after all were truly Conservative as well as Liberal. (Cheers.) He (Mr. Smith), though from a distance, Would watch with interest the result of that struggle, which he hoped would be for the good of his country and the ascendancy of those principles which his friend Mr. Cobden maintained throughout his whole life, (Hear, hear.) He hoped they would be able to unite his love of justice and his broadness of view, which never allowed him to engage in a party struggle for party (Hear.) Going into the struggle, it was impossible to say whether immediate victory or immediate defeat would be the result. But this much was certain : if they went intc the struggle with the spirit of the great man who preceded them, they would ultimately win a victory, not merely fox their party, but for their country and humanity. (Loud cheers.) THE NEW FOREIGN OFFICE. Lord Stanley, the Foreign Secretary, received and entertained a distinguished company on Wednesday evening, for the first time, at the new Foreign Offices, it Downing -street. The opening of the building to the public marks an event of interest, as the second step towards uniting four of the great State departments. When the building now in process of erection is complete, the India, roreign, Colonial, and Home departments of Government will be housed under one roof. The chief secretaries and their permanent subordinates will be enabled, if they so please, to communicate with each other through the medium of a speaking tube, and thus possibly may be saved, the neces• city of a portion of that interminable despatch-writing that continually goes on between one department and the other departments, which has so greatly tended to fix upon all the epithet of the Circulocution Office. Last year, on the occasion of the visit of the Sultan of Turkey to this country, the new India Office was by an effort made tolerably complete, and on Wednesday evening the second portion of the building, which is dedicated to the Foreign Department, was thrown open. The Foreign Office is the north-western portion of the building, considered as a whole. It has special features of attraction peculiar to itself internally, which cause it to rank, in those respects, superior to the other por tions of the building. For- example, there is there a splendid apartment known as the Conference Room, the dimensions of which are—length, GG feet ; breadth, 33 feet ; heighth, 45 feet. The roof, or rather ceiling of this room is divided into compartments in the form of the head of a waggon, and is what architects term gusseted, for windows. These gussets are painted tux , qunise blue, and are powdered with stars of gold, the bor derings of the same colour. The ceiling of the room is of the same tint, but it is divided into geometrical divisions, in which-are introduced a number of cameo-like medallions on red fields, containing representations of the greater planets ; and similar medallions, on fields of gold, of the various constellations by their signs. The wallsof this room are painted of a delicate salmon colour, with white and gold borderings, and are decorated with ornaments of gold and deep Indian red. This room looks out upon the quad rangle, which will ultimately face Parliament-street. The ceiling of the staircase is in form vaulted, the centre being domed. In this dome there are female figures, draped in white, on a deep field of gold, with proper heraldic bearings, representing the various nations of the earth in a circle ; inside these figures are painted the signs of the zodiac, the whole culminating in a firmament studded with stars, with the sun in the centre or apex of the dome. In the four corners are larger figures, represent. ing the four quarters of the globe. Round the figures of the nations is a golden belt, on which is inscribed the words, " Let the people praise Thee, 0 God ; yea, let all the people praise Thee. 0 let the nations rejoice and be glad. For thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon the earth." Mr. Scott, the archi tect, and Messrs. Clayton and Bell, who did the decora tions under Mr. Scott's directions, sn certainly entitled to great credit for the way in which the work has been both designed and executed. A very large assembly was pre sent on Wednesday evening in response to Lord Stanley's invitations, and the praise of the building was almost universal. The reception was preceded by a dinner party. The banquet was served in the Cabinet Room ; covers were laid for twenty-eight. THE STRIKE OF BOOT AND SHOEMAKERS AT LIVERPOOL—The whole of the operative hoot and shoe makers of Liverpool are now on strike, and the leaders of the union, finding that the masters would not be coerced into agreeing to their demand for a fresh increase of wages, have ordered what are technically called the "women's men" also to leave the shops, so that the masters now have only matron oraplord. " cy ai b t HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, June 24. The Queen and their Royal Highnesses Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice went out yesterday afternoon. Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Bar rington, arrived at the Castle yesterday afternoon from Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise , Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, drove in th e grounds this morning. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by Baroness Gran* Major Von Hesse, and Baron Von Rabenau, arrived at the Castle this morning from Buckingham Palace. Prince and Princess Christian dined with tue Queen yesterday. The Judge Advocate-General had an audience of the Queen to-day. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday morn ing at a meeting of the Governors of the Wellington College, at the New Palace, Westminster. His Royal Highness afterwards rode out, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel. The Princess of Wales drove out, accompanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark. Prince Christian, attended by Lieut.-Colonel G. G. Gordon, went to the anniversary dinner of the Royal Caledonian Asylum yesterday evening, at the Freetnason'a Hall. NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE. No. 2 Battery of the 21st Brigade Royal Artil lery paraded at 10.30 a.m. yesterday morning at the Royal Artillery Barracks, under the command , ,o of Capt. Battiscombe, and were marched, precede d by the band of the regiment, to the Royal Arsenal , and embarked on board the Lady Eglinton steamer , belonging to the London and Dublin Compaq , alongside the T Pier, for conveyance to Portsmouth , to join the head-quarters of the Brigade. TWO Batteries (Lieut.-Colonel Penn's and Capt. Twiss's) having arrived a few days ago, and landed at Ports mouth on their return from the Abyssinian Expe dition. Lieut. Nolan, R.A., who went with a detachment of Royal Artillery from Woolwich to join the Abyssinian Expedition as instructors in the use of artillery in mountainous countries with the m odern system of carrying small mortars and howitzers on pack saddles on the backs of mules, and the method of loading and unloading them when required, an d which did good service at the battle before gag" dala on Good Friday, arrived at the Royal Artil lery barracks yesterday morning, and met with a most cordial welcome. A detachment of the Commissariat Staff Cori left Chatham yesterday and proceeded to Aldershobt to do duty with the troops at the camp. A notification has been received at Chatham garrison from the Horse Guards announcing that the reinforcements of cavalry and infantry will be despatched from England to India during the enetl" ing months of July and August, in order to arrive in India earlier in the season than last year. His Danish Majesty's screw steamsloop Heimdal, 14, Capt. Hedemann, from Iceland, June 6, a rrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday afternoon, bound probably for Denmark. His Danish Majesty's screw schooner Diana, 3 1 Commander Duntzfelt, from Copenhagen, for the West Indies, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday morning. The following notification was issued from th e Admiralty yesterday :—" Letters for her M a jesty's ship Bristol may be sent to Lisbon. She will arrive at that port at the end of June, and will remai ii ,, there 14 days, and then proceed direct to Gibraltar• 711 E SUSPENSORY BILL. Speaking of the debate on the Irish Church to come on to-night the Star says :—We do hope that those Peers who think with Lord Redesdale will not spend too much time upon the sin and sacrilege phase of the controversy, but that they will calmly discuss the practical question of how Ireland is to be governed. Here is a nation of five or 0 millions of Roman Catholics whom we will not let go, and whom we therefore must govern somehow. Is that government to be one of justice, or one of brute force? The gallant Lord Mayor of London is prepared to govern by force ; but only upon the distinct understanding that he is I 3et called upon to go nearer Ireland than th e Mansion House. A few similarly-minded fanatics still dream of converting Catholics by bayonets , and forcing Protestantism down their throats 1 1 the threat of revolvers. That policy has been tried till the page of history is red with ou r crimes and follies, and it has most miserably and utterly failed. To suppose that a continuance of such a policy is possible in these times, with enlightenment and humanity at home, and th e , United States full of Irishmen at a few days sail, is more than madness. Lord Redesdale dare not go to his Sovereign and tell her that it is her duty to keep up the Protestant Church in Ireland though it might be necessary to extirpate the Catholic population. There are greate r ° sins, he knows, than manipulating tithes, and tb sin of guiltily shedding blood is the greatest. L et the peers, then, look at this question in the so be ', light of real life. We cannot go on coercing Ir e land ; and if we wish to conciliate her we must begin with the Irish Church. It stops us at 0' very threshold of all inquiry into Ireland's grle: l ances ; it stands out boldly and avowedly as de giant grievance of them all ; and it must be de 6 e with whatever wry faces may be made by peer er commoner. Tie remarkable petition in favour of the di °• establishment of the Irish Church which Lo' Lyttelton presented to the House of Lords on Tn eS ' day evening was largely signed by beneficed clergy" men. At the head of the petition are the signature° of the Deans of Canterbury and Bristol, and the Archdeacon of Coventry. It is also stated th°t associated with them are the Master of St. John College, Cambridge ; Professor Jowett, of Oxfor d ! Professors Maurice and Kingsley, of Cambridge, Professor Plumptre and Cheetham, of ICing 4 College, London ; and the Head Master of W r i p c i . chester, Harrow, Rugby, Haileybury, Clifton, an the City of London Schools ; a considerable nn al c i ber of London incumbents, many fellows a ll tutors of the two universities, and other clergym en. There exists at Geneva an association of Catholi: ladies for the exercise of works of charity, a nd philanthropic society composed of Protestant ladie g ' The title:of the former is simply and modest l Y " Charitable Society ;" that of the latter " ciation for the Suppression of the Evils of Pu blic Begging." The former has collected and di 9tr ; buted among the poor 7,343 francs, reserving fr o s this amount but 16 francs 50 centimes for exp ense . ° of administration. The Protestant philanthroP,l,o association collected and received 9,293 francs I v° centimes ; and here is the exhibit which they 1)°,,, spread before the public :—Salaries of emplcl e '! 2,706 f. 15c. ; rent, light and fuel, 894 f. sde 9 ;, postage, 248 f. sc. ; printing and sundries, 40c. ; distributed to the poor, 1,946 f. 25c. ; to t to 9,293 f. 700. Need we add a word of comtnel3'd these figures ? Two thousand seven hundred s ' to six francs filched from the poor, because the age 13 50 to whom the money is given for charitabl e ti lio ignore the blessed economy which the Catb ° io , Church prescribes to her children, whose holy 113 sion is to provide for the poor.—Catholic At the last meeting of the Academy of Scie lle ,, e, ,vo pleasing and touching incident took place. jo members of the illustrious assembly—Baron P l i P Ez ), (born in 1781, and elected academician in 18 : 1 0 and M. Mathieu (born in 1781, and elected in l' lo . —were presented with a medal each in cotrime ll . o o ration of the fifty years which had elapsed ° I they entered the Academy of Sciences. X( qui Stec A k E u nittiper high as again l o dividend Govern s pri ne i V h jell a : Rail way the Sout stock of Share s Th e d Per cent /4 1 3 P1y The Australi The d Pany of £lO pai, The g the Wee] 4 :212,0c The John Du Austi The s 43 Y bef( The t' 14 ek er as come a nd the Week en The .. return E Dared w I \lid land Eastern for the further tore sto, A s r oount c for the tO decia, rho "1 urlin Bth Jul/ illent of The f f ( , ) _r An !'uwaite' 1 9 the t h's, for Illiu in vestni, elontinot bons i n t-2 0 j 3O 73 1 to 486 5 , 5. l‘lortga g Place at .nally 1 per c( a PDsir(4ttievi a Per c e , 1 , 1 " 3 New 21 [ b 0.5 .01 nuiti e ,no tip(iu. for E " X(I 0 Re 1) 0 . D o . ' l , o k of ] "0. Ac km Idia fro O. Al Do. 5 1 20. 4 Ce Er 'Jo. 5 00 5} D o 51 Do. Bc " 0 . un I o. Z. Do, r i ( love] uf r eek 5 1)0 . 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