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London, England, 1858-10-16

THE UTILITY OF FOOLS.

Cui bono—" What is the use of it ?"—is the
question most frequently put in this utilitarian
age• Everything now, indeed, has to he sub-
jected to the test of utility ; if it will not bear
this test, it is at once voted worthless. Even the
nose in a man's face has to answer for making
itself so prominent, and to account for its taking
up a position in the middle of the face, and not
modestly standing on one side—a question this,
which the Fool in King Lear answers admirably
well " Why, to keep his eyes on either side of
" his nose, that what a man cannot smell out he
" may spy out." A hint like this, though coming
from a Fool, might supply the scent, to any man
disposed to make a right use of his nose, whereby
to track out some important fact. There are
many things, indeed, of great use whose use does
not at first sight appear, of which, we think, the
following will be found to be one proof.
London, England, 1858-10-16

MASSACRE OF TWO CONSULS AT TETUAN,

It is stated that at Tetuan, in Morocco, the Vice-
Consuls of England and France have been mas-
sacred. The Paris papers confirms the intelligence,
but the Patrie states that one of them was the
Spanish, and not the English Vice• Consul. Both
are stated to have been Jews, It is stated that the
Toulon fleet is under orders for Morocco.

THE HEALTH OF LORD HARms continues to im
prove. At one time it was feared he would be com-
pelled to proceed to England immediately, but he
will, it is said, return to the Presidency in December
next.

THE WEST INnix AN!) PACIFIC MAILS have arrived
at Southampton. There is no intelligence of
interest from the Pacific. The most important
item of news from the West Indies is the holding of
a great public meeting in Demerara on the Coolie
question. The meeting adopted resolutions, calling
on her Majesty's Government to relieve the colony
from the obligation of returning the coolies to India
when their period of service has expired.

AUSTRALIA.
THE MAIL.

The overland mail brings intelligence from Mel-
bourne to August 16, arid Sydney, August 11. The
Melbourne Parliament stands further prorogued.
The Chinese Emigration Bill, which had passed the
Sydney House of Assembly, was expected to be
shelved in the Upper House. The Electoral Bill may
be said to have passed through committee of the
whole house. Manhood suffrage has been adopted
with a residentiary qualification of six months iu one
district. Voting by ballot has been confirmed as an
essen►ial part of the bill. The Sydney Empire
reports a great increase in the productiveness of the
gold fields.

THE "SIR HENRY LAWRENCE MEMORIAL" will, in
all probabil►ty, have to take some other form than
that which, our readers will remember, had been
assigned to it. In the spirit of Sir Henry's own life
it had been determined to commemorate his de,ith by
devoting the funds subscribed to help towards the
maintenance of the two asylums for the children of
soldiers which be had founded at Simla and at Mount
Aboo. It is now believed that the Government of
India will charge themselves with the support of
these institutions, in which case the Lawrence
memorial committee will have again to consult their
subscribers as to the disposition of the fund.

LEoMINsTEn.—i notice having appeared in the
Gazette to that effect, the election of a member
for Leominster, in the room of Mr. Wiloughby,
who is appointed a member of the Council of
India, is expected to take place in the week after
next. No opposition is expected, Mr. Wilde,
the Liberal candidate, having resigned his preten-
sions. It is expected, therefore, that the Hon.
Captain Hanbury, a brother of Lord Bateman, Lord
Lieutenant of Herefordshire and a large landed pro-
prietor, will be elected without opposition. Mr.
Hanbury is a supporter of the present Government.
Mr. Willoughby has issued an address to the electors
on retiring from the representation of the borough.
London, England, 1858-10-16

INDIAN POLICY.

LORD STANLEY, in laying down in his address to
the deputation from the Missionary Society the
doctrine " that the sphere of Government and
" the sphere of theological belief were absolutely
" and entirely separate," added, " perhaps there
" are many present who would not dissent from
" the doctrine." It does not appear, from the
reports which have been published, whether
those who were present assented to the truth of
this remark, or whether they protested against it.
We have reason, however, to believe that it was
allowed to pass uncontradicted those who

composed the deputation being conscious that
denial would be utterly inconsistent with the
opinions which they are known to hold upon this
question in the abstract. It is impossible, there-
fore, to abstain from asking those gentlemen to
whom Lord STANLEY referred as " not dissenting
" from the doctrine," what could induce them to
be present on such an occasion ? On what pos-
sible plea could men who held that " the sphere
" of Government and the sphere of theological
" belief were absolutely and entirely separate,"
present themselves before a Minister of State, in
order to bespeak his favour in India for the ope-
rations of the Missionary Societies, to which they
belonged ? Does not such a proceeding on their
part directly negative the theory that " Govern-
" went and theology are absolutely and entirely
"separate "? Do not these gentlemen perceive
that it is wholly inconsistent with this doctrine
for them to go and make representations to a
statesman, as a member of the Government, on
matters which are " absolutely and entirely
separate " from his functions as a Minister of
State ? Had Lord STANLEY, too, acted up to
the doctrine which he enunciated, he ought, we
think, to have declined to listen to the deputa-
tion, coming to him in his official character,
when, in that character, he had nothing whatever
to do with the subject-matter to be brought
before him.

The real truth, however, which doubtless Lord
STANLEY and those who assented to his doctrine
unconsciously acted upon, was, that it is as im-
possible for man to separate Government from
Theology as it is for him to separate the soul and
the body of a man while life is in him. Whether
with Jews, Christians, Mahommedans, Hindoos,
or Bhuddists, theology (or religion) is inextri-
cably interwoven with all their relations of life ;
and to think that it is possible for the governing
London, England, 1858-10-16

No. 283.—V0L. VI.

ivTit Vrtss.

LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1858.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S HANDY-
BOOK" OF PROPERTY LAW.
THE fashion, which has grown up among our
statesmen of late years, of turning peripatetic
philosophers during the recess, is not without its
advantages. The change from the keenness of
Parliamentary debate to the calmness of scientific,
or quasi-scientific disquisition, seems to afford to
the minds of our politicians much the same kind
of relief as the rotation of crops does to the
land, facilitating continued effort without ex-
haustion. The public, too, are gainers by this
variation of employment on the part of the
guiding minds of the age. In the presence of a
practised debater on the Opposition side of the
House—who watches every argument with a pre-
determination to pick a hole in it, if possible—it
is no easy matter for the most comprehensive of
thinkers, and the ablest of orators, to lay out a
question in all its length and breadth, and to
give to every point connected with it a fair as
well as full consideration ; nor can the speaker
be expected to make a clean breast of all he
thinks. But before an admiring audience, ga-
thered in holiday attire, with no one to contra-
dict him, and a strong predisposition on the part
of his hearers to feel gratified, the most diffident
must find his courage rising within him, and the
most wary can hardly fail to be betrayed into an
unusual frankness of thought and utterance.
For this reason—although we confess we do
not share the extravagant expectations enter-
tained in some quarters as to the benefits to be
reaped by the community from " Physical,"
" Social," or other ambulatory " Science Asso-
ciations"—we notice with real pleasure such
epanchements as the inaugural address delivered
by Lord JOHN RUSSELL at the Liverpool gather-
ing of the " National Association for the Promo-
tion of Social Science." From the part assigned
to the Noble Lord in the proceedings of the
Association his remarks were necessarily some-
what discursive, embracing in their scope a
tolerably wide range of topics. No less than five
subjects, each of them in itself a mine of thought,
were down in his programme,—"jurisprudence
and amendment of the law," " education,"
"punishment and reformation," "public health,"
and, last not least, " social economy," whatever
that may mean. Of these his Lordship selected the
first and third, in connection with each other,
for more prominent notice. The great question
of the codification of the law afforded him the
opportunity of paying a well-merited tribute
to the administrative ability of the great man who
reduced the chaos of French law to the lucid
flimplicity of the Code Napoleon. In his admira-
tion for that masterpiece of legislative skill the
Noble Lord has, we fear, lost sight of two rather
important facts, which render it inadmissible as a
precedent for this country. When NAPOLEON
ONAPARTE assembled all the great lawyers of
France at a council of codification presided over
by himself; a terrible revolution had swept away
London, England, 1858-10-16

s;orting.

NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER 3IEETING.
TUISDAY.
THE GREAT CESABEWITCH DAY.
THE ROYAL &I'm:Es, of 2,000 sors each, 120 ft., for three.
year-olds.
Lord Derby'e Streamer, by Longbow, Sst 71b (Flatm
Wadour.
THE CEskttEwrrett STAKES, a Free Handicap of 25 sots
each, 15ft, with 200 added; certain penalties ; the
second to receive 50 sous out of the stakes. Cesarewitch
Course (2 miles, 2 furlongs, 28 yards). 75 subs.
Mr. (1. Lambert's Rocket, by Chatham, 3 years, 6st Ilb
(Cnstance) I
Mr. B. Ten Broeck's Prioress, 5 yrs, 7st 91b (incl. 7lb est.)
(Fonlham) +
Mr. T. Hughe's The Brewer, 5 yrs. 7st ... (1). Hughes) +
Mr. E. Bead's Satinstone, 8 yrs, 6st 31b (incl. 31b extra)
(J. Snowden)
30. others ran. Betting at starting 100 to 6
against Rocket ; 9 to 5 against Prioress ; Oti to 1
against Setinstone. The withdrawal of The Roman
Candle, and the fact that Prioress should again mu
a dead heat for the race--but this time for second
place only—were the most remarkable incidents con-
nected with the Cesarewitch. The winner bad, from
some cause or other, been long unpopular the
market, although his party, despite the oppositione
which the horse encountered in the Ring, and ion
sinister reports which were circulated about him 0.11
all occasions, publicly expressed their confidence In
Rocket's chance. His success is the more glaufying
to his party from the fact that they sold Beacon, who
was et one time an immense favourite, for 501. only.
Rocket was ridden with admirable skill by little
Custance, one of the most promising light weights of
the day.

The principal winners are Mr. Howard (to whom
the horse formerly belonged), Mr. E. Green,
Hodgman, Mr. G. Lambert, Mr. C. Farrance, and
the trainer.

EXTRAORDINARY SPORT has been had on the estate
of Mr. J. D. Magens, Brightlingsea. No less than
372 head have fallen in three days, before the guns
of Captain Stringer and Mr. A. Fuller. The killed on
Monday consisted of 57 pheasants, 87 partridges, 11
bares, and 0 rabbits; on Tuesday, of 101 par-
tridges, 10 hares, 4 rabbits, and 1 landrail ; and
on Wednesday, of 86 partridges, 5 hares, and 4
rabbits.
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1001

Reform, Mr. Johnson expressed his conviction that it
would give numbers their proper influence, property
a proper influence, and station a proper influence,
while at the same time it would not seek to override
the indepe►►dent will of the Sovereign nor to swamp
the House of Lords, which had often proved the safe-
gußrcl of England.
Several other toasts were given in the course of the
evening.
London, England, 1858-10-16

Saba! and ftilitarg tttelligtatt.

A NEW CARTRIDGE has been invented by Mr.
George Redford, late acting assistant surgeon of the
58th Regiment, a very ingenious gentleman, who has
contrived a means of making bullets and cartridges
for the Enfield rifle ont of the same piece of metal
and at the same moment. The cartridge is a pro-
longation of the bullet into a very thin leaden sheath,
winch can be charged, bided, and secured. The
metal cartridge sheath breaks readily away from the
bullet. If not incompatible with the requirements of
good shooting. this kind of cartridge will have many
advantages. It can be produced cheaply, and with
extreme rapidity—by millions in a day with the
proper machinery. When charged and fastened up,
bullet and cartridge may be thrown into water and
yet sustain to injury. This offers great advantages,
especially for naval purposes and the transport of
masses of ammunition by sea.
THE LATE CAPTAIN PEEL.—A memorial of the late
Sir William Peel, better known as Captain Peel, is to
be presented to Greenwich Hospital. It is to be a
portrait cf the gallant officer by Mr. Lucas, to be
placed in the Painted-hall, in order to commemorate
the gallantry of one who shed fresh lustre even on
the great name he bore. It is further proposed that
a cabinet picture, copied from the original, shall be
presented to the Dov..ager Lady Peel, and a print,
which Messrs. Graves and Co. hope to have ready in
May next, will be presented to every seaman and
marine who served in the famous Naval Brigade
under Sir William Peel.
London, England, 1858-10-16

. ,
THE PRESS, OCTOBER 16,1858.
• -n." I power in a country to deal with its subjects with powerfully contributed to bring about that out•
'eference only to their secular concerns, is the break. But in admitting that the greased cart-
-. fancy that can enter into the mind. ridges were the direct inciting circumstance, we are
--ver, it be said that we are here putting well aware that we concede the point that a zeal
`-rpretation upon the doctrine in for their religion, and a dread lest they should
all that Lord STANLEY, and be surreptitiously deprived of the privileges
dim, meant to convey by which they believed that it conferred upon
government to put them, was the incentive to those deeds of
-t equality, and horror which seemed to indicate that the very
departs nature of their perpetrators had changed from
kind what it was before. We are also well aware
'll that the not unnatural commentary on these ad-
-;scions is :—" Behold the fatal consequence of
apparently tampering with the religious
+he natives ; persevere in the same
-,lu will have India in rebellion
*he other." This may not
-'oral, but it is never-
very superficial
-overnment
the
London, England, 1858-10-16

THE PRESS, OCTOBER 16, 1858.

knowledges, might have produced another change! What
then, had become of our " glorious Revolution," which
from its earliest step, throughout the reign of William, was
still vacillating amidst the unstable opinions and con-
tending interests of so many of its first movers?
It would have been well for the annotator to have
cited what the offer of Dundee was. Sir George
Mackenzie confirms the assertion in the foregoing
passage, as we remember, for that learned and
acute observer said, " If James had put all his
" affairs in the hands of Dundee, matters would
" have fared otherwise with him." Yet here,
again, we cannot altogether accept the reflections
of the author. Dundee might indeed have pre-
served for a time the dynasty of the Stuarts, but
Parliamentary Government was secured in Eng-
land. The Union with Scotland, and the conse-
quent growth of Great Britain as a ruling empire,
would have, however, been greatly retarded.
Individuals have, doubtless, vast influence at
special conjunctures, but they cannot retard the
overpowering force of general causes, acting in a
long sequence. If an Alfred the Great, or a
Napoleon, had lived in 1688, and had either of
them attempted the policy of James 11., they
would have failed. But the history of Ireland
would probably have been seriously influenced if
a Napoleon had been in the place of James at the
head of a French and Irish army at the Boyne or
at Limerick.
London, England, 1858-10-16

CRIMIN.tL REFORM.

After touching on the difficulties connected with
the law of real property, the noble lord came to the
question of criminal reform, expressing his satisfac-
tion with the results of the system introduced under
Colonel Jebb in England, and Captain Crofton in
Ireland, and quoting a number of facts and statistics
illustrative of the subject :--

From the returns presented to Parliament I am about
to quote the results of the trials which have taken place
on several subjects of criminal jurisdiction. Those are the
offences of-1, shooting at, stabbing, or wounding; 2,
robbery ; 3, burglary ; 4, housebreaking ; 5, larceny in a
dwelling-house; 6, forgery, and uttering forged instru-
ments. The returns show the numbers convicted,
sentenced to death, and executed for these offences in one
year in every ten from 1817 to 1857, or, in other words,
the changes which have taken place in torte years. I
give you the results :-1817, 911 convicted, 911 sentenced
to death, and 78 executed; 1827, 1,113 convicted, 1,113
sentenced to death, and 41 executed ; 1837, 1,061 convicted,
405 sentenced to death, and none executed ; 1847, 1,49 8
convicted, 18 sentenced to death, and none executed;
1857, 2,0.57 convicted, 21 sentenced to death, and none
ezeontA3d. The population of Great Britain has increased,
from 1811 to 1851, in round numbers from 12,000,000
to 21,000,000; and in England and Wales from 10,000,000
to 18,000,000. You will perceive that convictions have
increased in a greater proportion. Upon examining
these returns more in detail there is a further result—
namely, a great increase in the crimes accompanied with
personal violence. fbns the number convicted of shooting
at, stabbing, or wounding has increased between 1817
and 1857 from 26 to 208, and of robbery from 154 to
378 ; while larceny in a dwelling-house has only in-
creased from 143 to 246. Burglary has increased from
374 to 473 ; housebreaking from 152 to 568 ; forgery, &0.,
from 62 to 184. There is one conclusion to which I
think we must all come. If high treason and murder are
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MISS NIGHTINGALE ON HOSPITALS.

An interesting paper was read b 3 Dr. HOLIAND,
which had been contributed by the celebrated Miss
Florence Nightingale, entitled " Notes on the
Health of Hospitals." Alter some general prefatory
observations, the writer stated that many years' ex-
perience in hospitals in all countries and climates,
even admitting to the full extent the great value of
the hospital improvement in recent years, had led
her to the conclusion that much of the suffering and
mortality which now prevailed might be avoided.
The defects often consisted in the sites, but chiefly
in deficient ventilation and overcrowding. In every
case the Wag followed from ascertained sanitary ex-
perience. There were no two words about which
there had been more nonsense talked than contagion
and infection. Contagion had always resulted
from the want of sanitary arrangements. It
had been the groundwork of almost every false
reasoning, and the excuse for the superstition
of the quarantine law and the general neglect of
sanitary law. Perhaps no word had ever done more
harm, and it was a striking proof of what a
mighty thing a word was. What did it mean ? It
implied the communication of disease from person
to person by contact. Suffice it to say that, in the
ordinary sense of the word, there was no such thing
as contagion ; and the imponderable nonentities
which made up the list of contasions might be dis-
missed to the limbo of extinct superstitions. Just as
there was no such thing as contagion there was no
such thing as inevitable infection. Infection was
always the result of carelessness and ignorance in
hospitals. Infection, bad management, and bad
construction were in hospitals convertible terms.
Mies Nightingale insisted 311 the importance of
building large hospitals so as to avoid the evils of
overcrowding, which had caused so many deaths at
Scutari. Second to fresh air, she would place light
as next in order to promote the recovery of a patient,
London, England, 1858-10-16

lAttragolitan.

AN EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF Two CHILDREN
is reported. Two girls, aged eleven and nine years,
disappeared from the house of their father, Mr. John
Bacon, Lower Park place, Plumstead. Both children
were seen by their father sate in bed between eleven
and twelve o'clock GA Sunday night, but on their
father rising, shortly after seven, the next morning,
and proceeding into their room, they were mits;ng.
The first assumption was that they had been
decoyed away from home by some evil disposed per-
sons ; but this turned out to be i ueorrect. Accord-
ing to their own statement on being restored to their
parents, it appears that before leaving home they
packed up the whole of the clothes they could obtain
in a carpet-beg, and having obtained possession of a
small amount of money, they started off on an
adventure which cost their parents considerable
anxiety. Having succeeded iu leaving their home
unobserved, the next that was heard of them
was that they called at the shop of a tradesman who
supplies the family with bread, and obtained a guar-
tern loaf. From this point all trace of them was
lost, and information was at once given to the
police. On Wednesday morning Sergeant Foy,
bearing that two young girls had arrived on Monday,
and taken up their quarters at a coffee-shop in White-
chapel, proceeded to the house, and having obtained
an interview, questioned them as to who they were,
when, after some little hesitation, they acknow-
ledged they had left the home of their father at
Plumstead. They were at once taken charge of and
conveyed to their anxious parents. They stated that
they uoth left home of their own free will, unacoom-
panied by any third person, and they then proceeded
to Roff's pier at Woolwich, where they crossed the
river, took the train by the Eastern Counties Rail
way, and on arriving at the Fenchurch-street station
they left their carpet-bag, with directions that it
would be called for, at the same time paying a luggage
fee of -id. They intended to remain in London, had
they not been discovered, until they had spent the
whole of the money they had, which was not more
than a sovereign. No reason whatever can be
assigned by them for being possessed with so strange
an infatuation.

THE GUARDS' CRIMEAN MEMORIAL, is to be placed
at the end of Waterloo-place, on the north side of
Pall-mall, and will face St. Jatares's-park. The me.
morial, cast from Russian guns, is composed of four
large figures. standing on a granite pedestal. The
models are all ready for casting, and the work is ex-
pected to be placed in position by the sth proximo,
the anniversary of the battle of Inkermann.
THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM has been visited
during the week ending the 9th of October, 1858, by

9,024 persons.
THE BIRTHS of SlO boys and 711 girls, in all
1,521 children, were registered last week in London

The deaths only amounted to 993, being more than
100 below the average rate. Scarlatina is still the
prevailing disease, to which 145 persons fell victims
dating the week.
London, England, 1858-10-16

1)011110 1.

THE CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL
SCIENCE.
THE meeting of the National Association for the
Promotion of Social Science was opened on Monday
in St. George's-hall, Liverpool. Lori J. Russell, the
president for the year, and the following noblemen
and gentlemen were amongst those who took part
in the proceedings :—Lord Brougham, the Earl of
Carlisle, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Sir J. Pakington,
Lord Sandon, Lord Ebrington, the Right Hon. W
Cowper, Sir James Stephen, K.C.8., Mr. R. M.
Milnes, M.P., the Bishops of Cheater, Manchester,
and Pennsylvania, Sir A. Elton, M.P., Mr. S. Whit-
bread, M.P., Mr. T. Barnard, M.P., the Hon. and
Rev. W. H. Lyttelton, the Rev. Canon Girdlestone,
Mr. Sergeant Woolrycli, Mr. Horace Mann, Mr.
Jellinger Symons, Professor Pillans, Mr. H. J. Smith,
Rev. 1)r. Begg, Sir C. H. Hastings, Rev. J. G.
Lonsdale, Rev. D. Melville, Mr. Garnett, M.P., Mr.
Ayrton, M.P., Mr. Adderley, M.P., Archdeacon Allen,
Mr. J. A. Smith, jun., Mr. H. G. Bohn, Mr. J. P.
Gassiot, &c. Letters of apology for absence were read
from Lord Stanley, who was prevented from being
present by his attendance on the Queen at Balmoral,
from Lord Goderich, Mr. J. S. Mill, the Rev. C.
Kingsley, Miss Nightingale, and others. The Mayor
of Liverpool, Mr. J. Holmes, had made extensive pre-
parations for the reception and entertainment of the
distinguished visitors, but owing to the death of his
wife his Worship took no personal part in the pro•
ceedings. The proceedings commenced on Monday
afternoon by a private meeting of the Council in the
library of St. George's-hall. At half-past three there
was a special service in St. Nicholas Church, when
prayers were read by the rector, and an appropriate
sermon was preached by the Bishop of Chester.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
The first general meeting was held in the evening
in the noble hall, which is capable of accommodating
3,000 people, and which was crowded in every part.
Lord Jons RUSSELL proceeded to deliver the
inaugural address, which he opened by stating that
the departments into which the business was divided
were-1. Jurisprudence and Amendment of the
Law ; 2. Education; 3. Punishment and Reforma
Lion ;4. Public Health ; 5. Social Economy. Having
dwelt at considerable length on the first and third
topics, entering into details of proposed amendments
in the law of bankruptcy and insolvency, the noble
lord urged the importance of
A GENERAL CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATUTES,
and thus referred to the judicial labours of the First
Napoleon and his celebrated code :
The splended victories of Napoleon, the rush of armies,
the roar of cannons, the masterly decision, the instant
obedience have passed away. The pride of empire, the
king's waiting in the ante chamber, the sway of a mighty
will from Rome to Hamburg, from the Manzanares to the
Elbe, has vanished as the baseless fabric of a vision. But
the transactions between man and man, the trial of the
offender, the adjudication of prcperty throughout the
French empire, are still regulated, and probably will long
be regulated, by the statutes of the immortal legislator.
London, England, 1858-10-16

EDUCATION.

Lord John passed on to the question of education,
offering a glowing eulogium on its value, and having
expressed his confidence in the results of the Royal
Commission obtained on the motion of Sir John
Pakington, and nominated by the present Govern-
ment, proceeded :
For my own part, I confess, that, anxious as I am for
the progress of education, I am quite willing to renounce
any desire to establish in this country the system of France,
Austria, or Prussia. The freedom of choice in our modes
of popular instruction, the noble fountains of literature,
sacred and secular, which are open to the youth thirsting
for knowledge, the power to range over the writings of Bacon
and Shakespeare, and Milton and Addison, seem to me to
make our national education, imperfect and incomplete as
it is, still far superior to those continental models. I must
not omit to mention the great efforts which have been re-
cently made to improve the education of the middle classes.
The examinations instituted by the University of Oxford
do honour to that venerable body. Nor ought we to pro-
nounce hastily on the result of these examinations. It
seems to me apparent that at a time when not only degrees
and honours are attached to successful competition, but
the very entrance to the civil service, and the scientific
part of the military service in India is gaarded by exa-
miners, it is of the utmost importance to understand
rightly what the nature of the prescribed inquiry is to be.
I hope that while all honour is paid to attainments; while
quickness and self-possession on the day of trial have their
due reward, the qualities of diligence and fidelity and
steadiness in a clerk, of a. ready perception and a prompt
judgment in a soldier, will not escape the judging eye of
London, England, 1858-10-16

V cobincial.

THE DUKE or NEWCASTLE has consented to pre-
side at the annual general meeting of the Govern-
ment school of Art, at Nottingham, and to distribute
the national and local medals recently awarded to
the students of the school. The meeting will take
place on Wedn( slay next, the 20th. A large number
of the nobility and gentry resident in the neighbour-
hood have intimated their intention of being present
at the proceedings.
A VERY PRETTY QUARREL has broken out between
thelßecorder of Newcastle, Mr. W. Digby Seymour,
and the banisters who belong to the Northern
Circuit, wbo practise at quarter sessions. The
recorder had fixed his own time for holding the
London, England, 1858-10-16

THE PRESS, OCTOBER 16, 1858.

an hour and a half, when she was found lying in the
bath dead. They immediately sent for medical
assistance, and it was discovered that she had taken
poison, a bottle containing sulphuric acid being
found in the room. Mr. Woodman, a schoolmaster,
residing in Devonshire.square, Bishopsgate-street,
said that deceased, who had resided with him for the
last nineteen years, was his wife's sister, that she
was of a very strange and obstinate temper, and that
her brother also committed suicide. The jury re-
turned as their verdict that deceased destroyed her-
self while labouring under temporary insanity.

AT THE WORSHIP STREET POLICE-COURT On Tues-
day, Mary Ann Williams, a strong, determined-look-
ing woman, was charged before Mr. Hammill with
stealing a carpet- bag, containing property to the
amount of 1351., belonging to Mr. Peter Wincey.
The prosecutor had arrived per train from Exeter,
and went into a confectioner's hop, where he placed
his carpet-bag against the c&unter and sat down.
The prisoner immediately entered the shop, seized
the bag, and handed it to a man outside, who made
off with it. The woman, however, was seized. The
prisoner declared her innocence, but, finding the
magistrate resolved to commit her for trial, she
pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to six months'
imprisonment.
London, England, 1858-10-16

LAST JOURNALS of HORACE WALPOLE.

Edited by Dr. DOItAN,

Author of "The Queens e England of the House of Hanover."

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JOURNAL KEPT DURING
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1002

stating that he Iliad come prepared to avow that he
esteemed it to be a high privilege to be one of the
clergy of this diocese, under its present diocesan,
and if the majority of the meeting were not favour-
able to the toast as a whole he would not accept it.

THE QUEEN HAS DIRECTED LETTERS PATENT to be
passed under the Groat Seal, granting the dignity of
a Baronet of tha United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, unto Sir James Outram,
Lieutenant-General of her Majesty's Indian Forces,
and Member of the Council of the Governor-General
of India, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully
begotten.

_
New Cotants are nominated in Tuesday's Gazette.
H. A. Churchill, Esq., C. 8., now her Majesty's
Consul in Bosnia, to Jassy; E. St. John Neale, Esq.,
now Consul at Patre.s, to Bosnia ; H. S. Ongley,
Esq., now Consul in the Island of Candia, to Patras ;
L. J. Barber, Esq., now Consul in the State of Vir-
ginia, to the Island of Candia; G. Moore, Esq., now
Consul at Ancona, to the State of Virginia.

sessions, and the barristers complained of this as
most inconvenient. So when the recorder took his
seat on the bench this week, there was only one
barrister in attendance. The others bad held a
meeting, and had resolved to absent themselves. All
the prosecution briefs, therefore, fell into the hands
of the solitary pleader, who was robed, and also into
the hands of two solicitors, who consented to plead.
When the grand jury had fulfilled their duties, the
recorder made a speech, in which he designated the
conduct of the bar as most unprofessional and un
courteous, and a scandal and an outrage to public
justice and decency.
A DREADFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT occurred OR
Wednesday at the Primrose Colliery, Pontardawe,
near Swansea. The men went to work at six o'clock
in the morning, and about half-past eight it was
reported that the whole place was full of sulphur.
Two hundred men were engaged in the pit. When
the foul air had sufficiently cleared off for a descent,
the lifeless bodies of fourteen workmen were brought
up. Tho calamity appears to have arisen from the
opening of a door fixed to prevent the air from the
boiler sgain going into the works.
A MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE. has happened at
Puston, near Wingham, Kent. Two little children,
a girl and a boy, were buried alive in a sand-pit.
One of them was rescued, but the other was a corpse
when its body was taken out.
London, England, 1858-10-16

THE PHYSICAL. CONDITION OF THE POOR.

Lord SHAFTESBURY followed in an able address on
this subject. Having referred to the habits of intoxi-
cation amongst the people, engendered by foul air
and the disgusting and depressing influence of the
localities in which they live, by a defective supply of
deletereous water, the noble lord proceeded to
describe the utter corruption which exists in crowded
districts :

Go amongst those people ; hear with your own ears and
see with your own eyes what I now state—tile utter
corruption of language, and of thought, and of practice in
all those districts. I will not pass on—l will not dare to
speak of many things that cannot be mentioned in any
mixed assembly ; but you may picture to yourself what
London, England, 1858-01-30

Valittral.

A CABINET; Colmar. was held on Saturday last,
at the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury in Downing•street. The Ministers present
were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Sir
George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary
Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, Mr. Vernon Smitb,
Lord Stanley of Alderley, Mr. T. Baines, and the
Duke of Argyll. A Cabinet Council was also held
on Monday last, and again yesterday, when the same
Ministers were present.

AN INFLUENTIAL DEPUTATION waited upon Lord
Palmerston on Wednesday, to bring before his lord•
ship the position of the church-rate question. Sir
W. Clay, who introduced the deputation, said that
their object was to furnish his lordship " with evil•
deuce that, in nearly every part of the country, there
was an earnest and unabated desire for the abroga-
tion of the law under which church rates were im-
posed." Mr. A. Pellatt, Dr. Foster, and Mr. Cour-
tauld, of Braintree, having addressed his lordship,
the Premier thanked the deputation for coming
there, and promised to lay their remarks before his
colleagues. Upon this, Mr. A. Pellatt asked whether
the Government were prepared to bring forward any
measure this session. Lord Palmerston replied that
Government " felt the importance of the subject,"
and that they were anxious to propose to Parliament
" something " which should be agreeable to the con•
sideration, if not acceptation, of all parties. On
being pressed by Mr. T. Duncombe as to whether
Government would support the second reading of
Sir W. Clay's bill, Lord Palmerston replied that he
London, England, 1858-01-30

LIFE.

-- - -
No. 249.
LONDON, SIT
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London, England, 1858-01-30

NEW WORK BY EARL GREY.

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again be heard throughout the country, the
peace of homes will be invaded, and classes
will be severed from each other. As if there
was not enough of aatagonism and alienation
existing already. Englishmen will again be
divided into two great political camps, mid
when the interests of the empire point in the
direction of social reform and progressive
amelioration, the community will be harassed
with the passions awakened by purely factious
legislation. The cry of " India for the Middle
Classes," raised by the East India Company,
is to be drowned in a clamour for " England
for the Ten-pounders," and another coalition
will be made between the Whig oligarchy
and the organised platform of Radical mal-
coutents.
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HOLYHEAD NEW HARBOUR suffered much injury
in the recent gale. The destruction of the staging
was complete. The formidable mass of piles gave
way to the terrific fierceness of the gale, and about
70,000 feet of timber were carried away, and are now
strewn along the coast below Penrhos. Six wit of
seven turntables and thirty-three of the strong iron
waggons laden with stone, placed on the top for
steadying the timber, were plunged into the sea.
The logs sustained must amount to many thousands
of pounds, and a great number of men have been
necessarily thrown out of employment. The crash
caused by the fall of the staging was tremendous.
Many casualt'es occurred to vessels, but none of an
important nature.
A GUN ACCIDENT happened to Mr. John T. Cator
while shooting a few days since at Stoke Edith Park,
the seat of Lady Emily Foley. Mr. Cator had just
discharged one barrel, and whilst reloading, the
other exploded, and shattered three forefingers of
his right hand, the two first of which were skilfully
removed by Mr. Lingan, who was immediately in
attendance. The patient is progressing favourably.
This is another instance which will recommend the
breech-loading guns to sportsmen.
THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE DUKE OF DEVON-
SHIRE took place on Tuesday at Edensor, near
Chatsworth, in a private and unostentatious manner.
The duke has left by his will the treat bulk of his
vast property to his successor in the dukedom, the
Earl of Burlington. He has left 10,0001. each to
Earl Granville and the Earl of Carlisle, and an
annuity of 10,0001. each to the Countess of Carlisle
and the Dowager Countess Granville Sir J. Paxton
receives a legacy of 1,6001., and there are also a
great number of small annuities to servants and
dependants.
FIVE MEN, riggers, proceeding in a small boat to a
ship at anchor off New Brighton, were drowned in
the Mersey on Tuesday evening, owing to the
accidental capsize of their boat from the heavy
swell which was rolling up the river.
THE WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL at Liverpool is
delayed in its execution for want of funds. The
amount subscribed reaches 6,5001. The estimated
amount required for the erection of the column and
statue is not less than 9,000/. The collecting com-
mittee have issued an appeal to the people of Liver-
pool for further support.
A FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT occurred at Bolton,
on the North-Western line, on Thursday. A goods-
train from Liverpool, which ought to have stopped
below the Bolton station, from the elipperyness of the
rails ran into the station, through the booking-office,
and across the street. A platelayer named Boyle was I
killed on the spot.