The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-01 00:00:00

MILITARY DRILL IN SCHOOLS.

Sir F. B. Head has addressed the following to Mr.
Edwin Chadwick on this subject:--

"My dear Sir,—My opinion on the ' Programme'
you have this morning sent to me, on constituting drill
and gymnastics as part of a national system of educa-
tion, is, very briefly, a 5 follows :
"No animal, whether on four legs or on two, how-
ever he may enjoy life, can be of any use in the work-
shop of man until he has been sufficiently divested of
that portion of his natural inheritance commonly called
a ' will of his own.'

“What's the use of a cow if she won't allow either
man or maid to milk her? What's the use of a horse

if he won't put his head into a collar, or suffer a saddle
to be placed on his back ?
"In like manner, of what use to the community is a
man, in any rank of life, if he refuses to practise the
heraldic motto of the Prince of Wales, kit Dien—l
serve'—in short, if the fellow won't obey ?
" Now as, in Mr. Rarey's hands, a couple of little
straps have proved sufficient not only to conquer Cruiser,
but to divest numberless other horses, mules, and don-
keys, of that portion of their self-will which had made
them useless instead of useful to man, so must a system of
military drill in our public and private schools incline
the rising generation of boys 'to do their duty in that
station of life unto which it shall please God to call
them.'

" In the army, drill does not make a gang of recruits any
braver than when they enlisted ; hut restraining rather
than exciting their courage, it teaches them gradually to
exchange their own will for that of their sergeant,
captain, colonel, or general, until complete discipline
welds these floating particles into a solid mass, which
twenty times the number of equally. brave but undiscip-
lined men are utterly unable to resist.
" But as Mr. Rarey's principle is equally applicable to
a cheesernonger's horse as to Lord Cardigan's charger,
so is military drill as advantageous to boys of all grades
and professions as to their brother soldiers.
"The dull-sounding hut magic little words of com-
mand, Eyes right !" Eves left ! "Eyes front!' Right
turn !" Left turn ! "R-ight about turn! " Left about
turn !" Quick. march ! " Halt !" Stand at ease!! '
Attention !' &c., instil into the minds of a lot of little
boys the elements, not of war, but of peace. Instead of
making them ferocious, to use Mr. Rarey's expression,
these words gentle' them, until, by learning to be sub-
servient, not to their own, but to the wills of others
they become fit in every possible department to serve
their country.

"On entering the Foreign Office, Home Office, the
church, the counting-house, the manufactory, or the
farm, in which they desire to labour, their habits of
obedience would prove so beneficial to their employers
as well as to themselves, that I feel confident if a system
of drill be once adopted in our public and private schools,
a tall undrilled, young man, like a raw unbroken horse,
would by the generality of dealers be considered as
unserviceable.' I am, sir, yours truly,
"F. B. HEAD.

"Edwin Chadwick, Esq., C.E."

Tun POPE DEPICTED.—To increase the effect of the
pamphlets, preaching and prayers, emanating from the
energetic Bishops of Orleans and Poictiers on behalf of
the Pope, a large number of photographs of the Pontiff
are being circulated throughout France. They repre-
sent him under three different aspects; seated in a chair
in front of the ornamented crucifix, familiar to those
who have the honour of kissing the holy toe, wearing the
white surplice, and all the paraphernalia with which he
is decorated on reception days. As to the expression of
his countenance, a distinguished member of the Church
writes of the portrait—" His widely-opened eyes seem
to bury themselves in the depths of eternity, but the
smile on his lips `and the expansion of his mild visage
express a sentiment of supernatural calm, which is very
striking."--The Photographic Nows.
TILE GREAT EASTERN STEAMSHIP AND PAROCHIAL
RATES.—During the time the Great Eastern steamer
was lying in the Thames, off, Deptford, the chains in
connection with her moorings were attached to fasten-
ings in a piece of land or wharf within the parish of St.
Nicholas, Deptford. This was held by the parish
authorities to be a beneficial occupation on the part of
the company to which the great ship belonged, and an
assessment to the poor and other rates was accordingly
made. The amount claimed (the rates being made
quarterly) was £9 6s. Bd., and the demand for payment
not having been complied with, a summons was applied
for before the police magistrate of the district, and on
Monday, Mr. Seeker, the presiding magistrate at the
Greenwich Police-court, made an order for payment of
the amount claimed.

TUE RECENT DISASTER OFF BARFLEUR.—The wreck
off Barfleur of the American ship Lima, by which
seventy-six emigrants, three officers, twelve sailors, out
of a crew of fourteen, and a pilot, perished, is described
by the local journals as one of the most disastrous known
on that part of the coast for many years. The vessel, built
in 1845, and belonging to New Orleans, was of 626 tons
burden. She left Havre on the morning of the 15th, in
spite of a violent north wind and a very rough sea; and
for two days was knocked about by incessant gales, accom-
panied by storms of hail and snow. In the morning of
the 17th she was off Barficur, and shortly before mid-
day was, by the violence of a current and of the winds,
driven on what are called the rocks of Guillebeed,
which are about a mile from the coast. By the shock
the bottom of the vessel must have been knocked in, and
all her framework loosened. In a very few minute's the
mainmast fell overboard, and was shortly followed by
the other two. The tide was then coming in with great
force, and, beating on the hull, soon knocked it to
pieces. It was then that the unfortunate persons on
board perished. People on shore saw the disaster, but
no boat could be put off owing to the want of water,
the tide not having risen high enough. Nevertheless, a
boat was dragged by horses to the sea, and six men, at
the risk of their lives, put off in it. They picked up
two sailors, who were clinging to portions of the
wreck, and these were the only persons they saw alive.
The two men were conveyed ashore, but one of them
died an hour after. A third man clung to' a broken
boat, and was carried by the current near enough to the
shore to be rescued. On the following night eleven
dead bodies were cast on land. They were, of course,
decently interred, all the population attending the
funeral. The local journals do not record the finding
of any other bodies, but they state that about 100 tons
of merchandise and numerous fragments of the wreck
• had been washed ashore, within a range about 21 miles.
—Galignani's Messenger,