The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-20 00:00:00

OTJTPORTS

Agincourt, from Melbourne off Portsmouth
Banshee, from Smyrna, and Celeste, from Constantinople,
both at Falmouth
Agnes. sailed from Belfast for Memel
Jeaner, Broom, for Galati, and Trio, Bryan, for Dordt, both
at Holyhead
Aurora Australis, from Hobart Town at Falmouth for Lon-

don
Girl I Love, from Barbadoes, and Liman, from Buenos Ayres,
both at Queenstown
DEAL, August 19.---Arrived and passed Buenos of
Sea-
field, field, from Woosung to London ; Ignastatius, Buenos Ayres to
London; Velocity, Bombay to London; s c,•London to
Demerara Francis Henty, to Portland Bay;
.SPringfield, to
London ; Potentate, Kurrachee to London ; Victoria, Quebec
to London ; Wild Duck, New Zealand to London ; Cock o' the
Walk, Valencia to London ; Constance, Barbadoes to London ;
Philadelphia, Bombay to London; Oder, Quebec to London ;
Barracouta, Mauritius to London ; Lady Stanley, west to Lon-
don; Earl of Balcarres, Bombay to London ; Nipiiquit, and
Golden Fleece, Algoa Bay to London ; Ilos, and Sea Serpent,
cluebee London : Edward Hymen, New Orleans ; Eliza, and
to London; London Br'
Emma, Buenos Ayres to London ; Margaretha, Iquique to
boul, and tanni Manila to London ; Blackburn, Calcutta
'T-irrurora Australis, Hobart Town to London • Stain-
London ; Klawith
Marra, Bombay to London; Nautilus, St iiitts to
Guayaquil to London.
ORATEnNu, August 19.---Arrived: Emulous, from Malaga

NEWS OF THE DAY.

It was recently announced by one of our foregn cor-
respondents that her Majesty the Queen was to meet
the Prince Regent of Prussia at Coburg next month.
A telegram received yesterday evening informs us that
the Emperor of Austria is likewise to be of the party.
It is satisfactory to observe that the present Govern-
ment has for once taken a right course, and carried its
pint, in a matter of continental policy. On the repre-
sentation of the English Cabinet, all further negotiations
for including Spain in the coterie of the Great Powers
are to cease.

There is no additional intelligence from Naples. Down
to the latest accounts the city continued tranquil, and if
the state of siege has been proclaimed, it has made no
impression. The preparations for its defence are being
continued, and a recent telegram states that there has
been a further disembarkation on the mainland, of Gari-
baldians, who have been joined by the inhabitants in
considerable force.

The Prince of Syracuse (Count d'Aquila) and the
Princess may be shortly expected in London.
The non-intervention principle still continues to be
acted upon by the Great Powers, and Austria and Sar-
dinia continue their preparations for any eventuality.
Bologna is pronounced as being fit to stand any siege.
It was at one time supposed that Achmet Pasha, who
was sent home to Constantinople by Fuad Pasha, on
account of his complicity in the massacres in Syria, was
to escape punishment, but we are glad to observe that
such is not the case. He has been publicly disgraced
and degraded by the Turkish Minister at War, in
presence of the army drawn up in order of battle. His
sabre was broken ;over his head, he was stripped of all
his decorations one after another, and his epaulettes
and the embroidery on his uniform, including
even the buttons, were torn off. After which,
the miserable culprit, under the designation of Achmet
Aga, along with his subordinates and accomplices in
his treason, were placed on board, a steamer and sent
back to the locality of their crimes to undergo their
respective sentences. Kurchid Pacha, the former
governor of Beyrout, who was designated by the Chris-
tians the " infernal pacha," would have escaped punish-
ment but for the energetic remonstrances of the repre-
sentatives of the Christian Powers at Constantinople.
He has also been sent back for trial.

The Viceroy of Egypt has said that he will answer
for the safety of the Europeans, not only in Cairo, where
some fears of an outbreak had been entertained, but
throughout the whole of his dominions'. The Viceroy
has also afforded all the help asked for by M. 14esseps in
the execution of his famous canal scheme.

The House of Commons met on Saturday, and was
engaged during the whole of the afternoon in passing a
number of miscellaneous votes in supply. A long discus-
sion took place on the vote of £20,000 for payments of sub-
sidies and guarantees to various submarine telegraphs.
It was observed by Mr. Gregson that the Red Sea
and India Telegraph Company had sufficient capital
yet uncalled to put the line in working order. The
vote was ultimately agreed to. The vote 0f12,000 for
the expenses of the British historical Portrait Gallery
was also agreed to by a majority of *7 to *. The vote
of £15,000 for increasing the accommodation for pic-
tures in the. National Gallery, was also carried, after a
lengthy discussion, by a majority of 31 to 23. A debate
likewise took place on the vote of £17,000 for the lien-
sington Museum, which was, however, carried,, as
well as a large number of miscellaneous votes.
The House will adjourn probably on Saturday next for
three or four days to allow the Lords to assent to the
formal stages of the remaining business, and to send the
commission for proroguing Parliament for the Queen's
signature, which will itself take three whole days. The
calculations, the,refo,re, now are that the prorogation can
take place on Wednesday, the 29th inst.
One of the brightest features in the history of Ireland
during the last thirty years is the success the mixed
education system, which owes its origin to the Earl of
Derby. Lugs every other good thing, it has had its
share, and rather sore than its share, of abuse. When
it was first established it was represented as certain to
lead to infidelity or latitudinariareism ; and yet, as Mr.
Cardwell told the House of Commons on Thursday
last, the result has been of an entirely opposite 4atgre,
and " there never has been a time in which the 4oman
Catholic or the Protestant religions burned so brightly
in the bosoms of the Irish people as they do at present."
The total increase in the number of schools hafi been
85, and the increase in daily attendance 3,112, the
whole number of children receiving education in Ireland,
under the system, being not less than 570,000—as
nearly as possible the number
which might have been
expected from the population of the country.
A Young lady in Somersetshire has been fortunate
enough to acquire a dowry of £l,OOO. Disappointed fu
obtaining a higher amount, and also in her " heart's
best affections," &c., she may not rejoice, but one thou-
sand pounds compose a considerable solatium for
wounded feelings, 'especially when the lover lost was

only a secondhand lover at best. There is nothing sur-
prising .in the whole case. Mr. Welch has acted, as
some men will act in love, with folly and fickleness; and
.is properly punished. Miss Cole, like 'all young ladies,
;thinks that her own grief is greater than that of Miss
Gray's could possibly have been had, she been the de-
serted sweetheart. Miss Gray has the man and Miss
Cole the money ; possibly both are delighted. Few
men, "as men go," are worth a thousand pounds : at
least Miss Cole may very fairly think so.
We are sorry to-day to have to add another to the
long catalogue of hideous murders. On Friday after-
noon a widow lady, . residing at Grove-road, Mile-end,
was found lying in one of the upper rooms of her house,
with her skull fractured. She was, of course, quite dead,
and as her drawers and boxes have evidently been ran-
sacked, there is little doubt that she has fallen a victim
to at attack made upon her by burglars.

Serious apprehensions continue to be felt respecting
.the, safety of the harvest, which is everywhere three or
fouf weeks later than usual, even by those who are
generally hopeful. We had a winter without precedent
fur its continued severity. This was succeeded by a
spring, cold, bleak, and unnaturally wet. During the
earlier months of the year the earth was sodden with
rain, or bound with frost. If one fine day invited the
labourers into the field, it was succeeded by a week in
which no husbandman could work. Then came summer—if
we can call the past season summer—fitful, uncertain, ever
rainy, ever cold. If the sun gleams for a moment, it is but
to gild a cloud which soon spreads and breaks in rain.
All our rivers are torrents, and our drains are streams.
Even garden work is impossible, and we must rest
anxious, but still hopeful, while the fruits cease to ripen,
and the rich corn is laid. The following figures relate
to the. reports from England and Scotland only :
Reports of crops, 1860—Under average, wheat, 93 ;
average, 46 ; over average, 1 ; total, 140. Barley,
under average, 23 ; average, 100 ; over average, 14 ;
total, 137. Oats, under average, 31 ; average, 93 ;
over average, 11 ; total, 135. Beans, under average,
13 ; average, 75 ; over average, 27 ; total, 115. Peas,
under average, 13 ; average, 62 ; over average, 14 ;
total, 89.

LORD DERBY AND THE KIRKDALE
RAGGED SCHOOL.

THE EARL of DERBY did honour to himself, and
conferred another favour on Liverpool, on Satur-
day last, when he filled the prominent and
significant part he had undertaken in the interest-
ing ceremony of laying the foundation stone of
the Kirkdale Ragged School and Church. The
able, eloquent, ' and practical oration he pro-
nounced on that occasion, raised the feelings and
warmed the hearts of all those who stood,
even amid a torrent of rain, listening to
the fascinating words of the noble Peer,
who had left his high place in the senate, and
come down from London at no small sacrifice of
personal convenience, to perform that pleasing
task. The full report of it, which we present to
our readers in another column, will amply repay
perusal, and its dissemination cannot. fail to
benefit the cause of Ragged Schools,—that is, the
cause of the poor and helpless juvenile popula-
It is, indeed, most gratifying to find a
statesman of Lord DERBY'S eminence and influ-
ence in the legislature, so fully alive to the im-
portance and value of such effectual means for
elevating the lowest class of society to a position
of repectability and usefulness. It is an omen
which promises well for our country, and per-
suades us again to lift up our heads, in the hope
that a glorious future yet awaits this
nation—that the black calendar of crime has
reached its culmination—that our leading public
men have discovered the weak point of our
criminal system and determined the means for
its cure. A few such logical demonstrations and
spirit-stirring appeals are all that is needed to
arouse society to a sense of what is required of it
in this matter, and to persuade the Government
to do justice to Ragged Schools in the apportion
nient of the sumptuous annual grant for education.
We must not omit our weed of praise to the Rev.
T. MAJOR LESTER, with whom originated the
project, which was so far consummated on Satur-
day last. That day's proceedings must have been an
ample reward to him for many months of unceasing
anxiety and toil in this good cause, as its recol-
lection will doubtless afford him abundant encou-
ragement to persevere in his arduous task.
Ragged and industrial schools are among the
greatest social-economic diseoveries of the age we
live in. Nine-tenths of our criminal population
are found to consist of those whose early educa-
tion and industrial training have been entirely
neglected, and who have grown up in such a wild
and wholly untutored condition, that they have
had scarcely any alternative left them but that
which lies between starvation on the one hand, and
the adoption of depraved and vicious courses of
life on the other. Helplessly outcast, uncared-
for, and ignorant, they sooner or later find them-
selves caught in the meshes of a transgressed law.
While thus taking cognisance only of the ripened
and matured offender, we may be said only to
prune the branches of the noxious tree, leaving
its vigorous roots untouched. Ragged and In-
dustrial Schools propose to strike at once at
the root. They do this by gently enlisting
the sympathies of unconvicted juvenile vagrants
by dealing with them before habits of vice have
been acquired or confirmed ; by conveying to
them an elementary education, and by training
them to a practical knowledge of some trade or
handicraft whereby, in after years, they may be
enabled to earn an honest livelihood. These chil-
dren are plainly but comfortably fed, and in the
evening are set free, to seek the shelter of any
home they may possess ; and thus, while left in
the enjoyment of that perfect freedom which is so
dear even to the young, a bond of attach-
ment is established between the pupils and the
school, which invariably proves powerful
enough to prevent any considerable amount of
desertion. In numberless instances, moreover, it
has been found that the children, on their return
to their wretched hovels called home, have, by
the simple narration of what they have heard,
seen, and learned at school during the day, exer-
cised a marked and beneficial influence upon those
with whom they have resided ; followed, ili nume-
rous instances, by the attendance of the senior
relations or friends at the Ragged Church, and
accompanied by decided evidence of reformation
among those who forinerly seemed lost, not merely
to ehurck-going, but to every duty of humaiity and
'citizenship. Wherever these institution; have
been wrought mat to any decided extent, tie effect
upon the prison calendar has been most marked
—juvenile crime having been thereby recuced in
some places to one-sixth of what it was a few years
previously._ The cost of these educational insti-
tutions is comparatively trifling. Their success
everywhere has been unequivocal and canplete.
To enable them thoroughly to accompli' their
mission, they have only to be multiplid until
they gtain a strength of numbers and ayanisa-
tion which shall bp eoupitensvrate with field
they occapy. Funds are \vented. In this impor-
tant respect the Government may have been
wanting in its duty—and we must not ease to
remind them of their shortcomings ; bit let not
this form an excuse, in the meantime, fr with-
holding voluntary aid to one of the most eumane
and useful institutions of the day.

tion.

THE COMMERCIAL BANK.—The Liverpool lommer-
cial Banking Company has now been registerd under
the Limited Liability Act. It has also douled the
amount of the original capital, which is now, terefore,
one million sterling.
COMPLIMENTARY Tc CONSTITUENTS. Amnrst a
number of. candidatei for the vacant coroners}? of the
southern division of the comity of Wexford lere is a
gentleman who dates his addresses (which per in the
Wexford Independent newspaper of the 15th ut.) from
near New Ross, which address finishes up tin :—" If
successful, I shall give satisfaction in the dutis of the
office to my supporters!" Now, the " duti( of the
office" of a coroner are to hold inquests on 'cid bodies
to asccertain the cause of sudden 4e4th; amthis he
promises to de for his supporters ! If this `)ledge"
on the part of the candidate fails to proeurelin the
"sweet voices" of the electors of Wexford--th " Irish
model county "—they must be stupid peopilindeed.
Only just imagine the gratification of being •owned,
or killed by a fall from a horse, or smashed l a rail-
way, or killed in a duel—aye, or even assassinid (but
they don't do that in Wexford), and then thin of the
satisfaction which Mr. Glascott will give them' in the
duties of his office to his supporters," for heoes not
promise any one else; is it not truly delightful Elect
this gentleman, by all means; he intends well nd tells
truth!!