The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-03 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, ft shit( onll
HOUSE OF LoltDS.—M‘,Nuev, Dac. 2. PORTS'NOUTH, Du. 2.
Is the Hot the Earl of The Orontes, iron screw troop ship, Captain
1./xiinv stated that he sliou.d on Thursday pro- Henry ',helm mina, tomorrow, fur malts, 70 'im-
pose a resolution with regard to the Abyssinian oomnassionea officers and privates of the Ist battalion of
expedition. the Bth Regiment, 50 non-commissioned officers and
Earl ItI...O•ELL march a set ita of resolutions de- privates of the Ist battalion of the 1 tth Regiment, one
oroteilea,rl N
th B) men elating that the education of the working classes the 31st Regiment, four gunners
ought be extended and improved ; that eve
ry aimed officers and Royaleaa m royal Engineersmis
for
child has a moral right to education : that the dn.- Gibraltar. She will also take supernumelar.es for the Medi-
fusion of knowledge ought not to be hindered by terranean squadron.
religious differences, nor should the employment of The Royal Oak, Si, iron screw frigate, Captain the Hon.
the young in labour be allowed to deprive theca of George D. Keane, steamed into harbour on Saturday
education ;that parliament and goveriunent should
afternoon to be paid off, having been nearly live years in
ennmeinann.
aid in the education of the middle classes by pro- .
riding; for the better administration of charitable
endowments ; that the Universities of Oxford and
Cambridge may be made inure maul to the nation
by the removal of restrictions, ail by the appoint-
ment of a commission to consider of the better dis-
tribution of their large revenues : and that the
appointment of a minister of eduction, with a seat
in the cabinet, would be conducive to the public
benefit. He would not, he said, propose any plan,
but world merely submit some of the leading prin-
ciples which in his opinion ought to characterise
future legislation on the subject. It was admitted
that one-sixth of the population night to be at
school, but the statistical returns %hosed that there
was a deficiency of more than a million. This
large deficiency be contended would justify the
state in enacting some wise and comprehensive
measure for extending the blessings of education.
The object was not impracticable, inasmuch as it
was done in Prussia, where more than one-sixth of
the population were receiving education; in France;
in Scotland, where by an old law parish schools
were established, and to a great extent in Ireland.
The means suggested had been local rates or grants
from parliament, carried to a much greater extent
than hitherto. His own impression was, that both
those means would have to be resorted to. The
root of the whole difficulty in the matter, however,
was the question of religious instruction. Of course
as soon as the state declared that there should
be national education, Roman catholic' as well as
protestants and persons belonging to other deno-
minations would have a right to instruction. The
difficulty might be surmounted by adopting the
conscience clause, or by establishing secular schools
and secular education. The first mode was prefer-
able to the second, because he should regret to see
an absence of religions teaching in the schools.
But at the same time if we had secular schools, he
did not think the amount of religion existing in
the country would be diminished. With regard
to the universities, he was strongly of opinion that
the whole nation ought to have the full benefit of
them. There ought to be unlimited admission,
and the rewards of learning ought not to be given
merely to those who were proficient in classics and
mathematics, but ought to be extended to a know-
ledge of the physical sciences. The future prospe-
rity of the country depended upon the adoption of
a large, wise, and unseciarian system of education,
which should reach the highest and go down to
the lowest.

ligto Erstelligence.

The following general order has been issued by
the Adjutant• General, Lord William Paulet :—" Medical
officers are for the future to be exempted from serving as
members o all boards, except medical boards. Should a
medical opinion be required by a military board, reference
must be made to the medical officer, who will furnish his
report in writing or give evidence in person, if thought
necessary. Medical officers having the relative rank of
field officer are to provide themselves with chargers and
horse furniture, and to appear mounted when required to
attend parades. On official occasions, when guests are
invited to a mess in the name of the officers of a regiment,
the senior combatant officer must always preside, and no
second place is to be recognised." The following has been
promulgated, " The standard for gunners of the Royal
Artillery is raised from Mt. 7in. to Bin, and upwards.
Growing lads from Mt. Gin. to Mt. 7in. and upwards, and
artificers may be enlisted from sft. Tin. and upwards."
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to ap-
prove of the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot being per-
mitted to bear on the colours the word " Guadaloope," in
conaideration of the distinguished part taken by the flank
companies in the re-capture of that island in 1810.
ADMIRALTY, Dm,. 2. APPOINTMENTS. —Sub-
Lieutenants Lionel Fanshawe, to the Euphrates; and
Arthur Blennerhasset, to the Jumna.

THE SEVERE GALES.

NORWICH, MONDAY NIGHT._

It lass been intensely cold all day, with snow. The
Great Eastern Railway has been washed away near Lowes-
toft by a flood.

SHIELDS, NO GAT NIGHT.

A Shields steamtug hu just capsized on the bar. All
heads are drowned. A tremendous sea buried her. There
is a frightful hurricane on the coast.
ST. IVES, CORNWALL, MONDAY NIGHT.

A fearful storm prevail here, and there has been a bad
shipwreck on the bar. The lifeboat of the National
Lifeboat constitution has been nobly attempting to rescue
the crew during the last four hours, and her crew has
been changed four times. Two men have at last been
rescued, but unhappily five other poor fellows have
perished•

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
A storm of unprecedented fury visited Liverpool and
the neighbourhood from Sunday afternoon up to an early
hour this morning. From about 4 o'clock yesterday
morning until midnight a tempest of rain, snow, and
sleet, accompanied with Ridden and heavy Kindle of wind
from the N.N.W., swept over the town, doing incalcu-
lable damage. On the river the sea was running so high
that several of the Liverpool and Cheshire boats had to
cease their trips, owing to the danger incurred in getting
alongside the different landing slim About noon, and
while the rain was coming down in torrents, a sudden
darkness spread over the town, and the services in many
of the churches had to be conducted by gaslight, the
gloom being so intense that the preacher had
some difficulty in seeing his congregation. From
1 o'clock until about 6 p.m., though the rain never
ceased, there was an ominous lull in the strength. At
half-past 3 the barometer stood at 29.00, and directly
afterwards tho storm increased in fury, and the rain and
snow and sleet fell in denser and more blinding showers.
The lamps in several of the wide and exposed streets
were broken, and the lights put out, rendering the aspect
of affairs more dismal. The shutters of several of the
shops in Bold-street were wrenched from their fastenings
and whirled about the streets. Slates and chimney-
, pots were flying about in all directisna ; jewry build-
ings were badly dealt with; hoardings around
several building. in course of erection were
smashed to pieces, while outside the borough the
conservatories were very much damaged. At midnight
the barometer had risen to 29.213, the wind, however, still sti
blowing strong from the N.N.W. Early this morning a
keen frost set in, and streets which shortly before had
been almost impassable for the wet and mud became
, quite hard and dry. Outside the town the ponds were
frozen over, and the roads very hard and slippery for horse
traffic. The Welsh coast and St. George's Channel were
also subjected to the fury of the gale, as the following re-
ports received from the Welsh coast will show :--The
ship Guardian Angel, bound from Liverpool to New York,
has been totally wrecked at Pensaur, near Abergale, and a
raft, with seven men lashed to it, has been washed
on to the beach. The Annie, from the Mersey to Hay's,
has been compelled to put into Holyhead,
I disabled by collision. The fine ship Lydia Williams, which
left Liverpool on Friday cast for San Francisco with •
Igeneral cargo and cattle, has gone ashore on the west aide
of Salt Island, on the outer road of Holyhead, and the last
I accounts from the scene of the disaster state that the vessel
I was full of water. The passengers and crew were saved
by the Holyhead lifeboat, and landed at Holyhead. The
cattle were washed off the deck, and carried on to the
beach, as were also two cases and a bale of cocoa-nut
matting. The French schooner Bayadere, bound from ,
Liverpool to the West Coast of Africa, which left the
Mersey on Friday last, has also been driven ashore on the
east end of Salt bland, and has become a total wreck. '
The crew were gaud by the Holyhead lifeboat. The
Bayadere was despatched by Messrs. Camus, Tux°, and
Co. A schooner is reported wrecked near Holyhead,
and there are no tidings of the crew • while another
schooner is ashore on the breakwater. The Liver-
' pool and Cheshire cargo steamer, Wallasey, sank in
the river on Saturday night, after being in contact with
the Seacombe slip. The schooner Ann, of Liverpool, is
ashore on the Point of Ayr. The Henrietta, from Cape
Haytien for Liverpool, has been ashore at Mutton Island,
county Clare. The Johannes, from Messina, at Yarmouth,
damaged by collision. A brig, ntlin ballast, is
, reported sunk in Robin Hood. The brigantine
George Walker, which left the Money for Santander
on the 27th ult., has been driven into Cawrses Bay,
and almost knocked to pieces. We regret to state
that four of the crew have been washed overboard and
drowned. The George Walker was owned in Newport,
I and was commanded by Captain Matthias, the agents in
Liverpool being Messrs. Gandy and Co. In connexion
with the wreck of the Guardian Angel, a telegram
from Holyhead to-day states that one of the men washed
I ashore on the raft was not expected to survive, as he had
• suffered much from cold and exposure. The accounts
from other parts of the English and Irish coast are equally
distressing, the heavy north-north-west gale having swept
the coast round by 1 armouth and Waterford. When our
parcel was despatched there was every appearance of hard
I weather.

The Duke of Man.t.soaoroti said he felt much '
difficulty in replying to the noble earl's speech,
owing to the absence of any definite and distinct
proposition with which he could deal. If the re-
solutions were a challenge to the government with
the view of ascertaining what they intended to do '
upon the question of education, he thought the
moment selected by the noble earl inopportune,
because parliament had been called together for a
totally different purpose, and there was not time in
the present abort session to consider the subject.
The number of schools which received grants could
not be relied upon as showing the progress educa-
tion was making, inasmuch as there were many
schools quite as efficient which received no grant
at all. Of course, there were spots which had
not been reached ; but he contended that, on the
whole, the spread of education was rapidly over-
taking the increase in the population. He could
not assent to the whole of the resolutions, and
therefore moved the previous question.
After some observations from Earl Russen' in
reply, the previous question was carried, and the
resolutions were consequently not put.

. .
The house adjourned at a quarter past seven
o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, Dzi:. 2.
IN the Rousa of COMMONS, Mr. Psorr took the
oaths and his seat for South Leicestershire.

Mr. DODSON gave notice that, alter the recess,
he will call the attention of the house to private
bill legislation.
Lord STANLEY, in reply to a question from Sir
H. W. BAREON, who asked whether he had con-
sented to have England represented at the proposed
conference on Italian affairs, said he adhered to
the answer he had formerly given to a similar
question. His lordship further stated, in reply to
Mr. Vance, that he understood that the Bubu liin%
war steamer, which was destroyed the other day in
the Mersey, and another steamer, were bought by,
and fitted up with warlike stores for, the Greek
government. That government, not being a bel-
ligerent, had a right to purchase and fit up ships
of war in England ; but if Greece were intending
to go to war with Turkey or any other power,
her Majesty's government would take cognisance
of this proceeding, and endeavour to prevent it.
His lordship, in reply to another question, from Mr.
Hardcastle, stated that the mission at Dresden
bad been withdrawn, and that he did not intend
to restore it, but it was intended that a secretary
of legation under the title of Charge; d'Affaires
should reside in that city to take charge of British
interests.

The Income Tax Bill and the Consolidated
Fund (2,000,0000 Bill respectively passed through
committee.

The ArronwaT-G& ransr. obtained leave to bring
in a bill to prevent the issue of writs for the elec-
tion of members of parliament in case vacancies
should arise in the boroughs of Great Yarmouth,
Totnes, Reigate, and Lancaster, disfranchised by
the Reform Act.

The house adjourned at 20 minutes to 6 o'clock.

DOVER, MONDAY.

literature.

In the N.E. gale of this morning, the Ann M`Lester, a
barque laden with coke for Carthagena, foundered tan miles
N.B. of the Goodwin. The captain and crew were picked
up by a Deal lugger, and are safe at the Dover Sailors'
Home, where all their wants are being attended to.
MARGATE. MONDAY.
A severe gale of wind was blowing all last night, and has
been blowing all day, from the north-west, and the sea is
very violent. About 3 o'clock this morning a smack lying
in the L..rbour was driven with much violence into an
oyster shop. which borders the harbour, completely smash-
ing it to pieees. A portion of the harbour wall was also
knocked down by the violence et the waves, and at high
tide the Marine-parade was rendered almost impassable by
the waves dashing over in tons. Damage was also dons to
soma small craft lying at the mouth of the harbour. Seve-
ral vessels lying in the roads exhibited signals of distress,
and the lifeboat put out to render them assistance. She
was unable to return, and was, therefore, compelled to put
into Broadstairs for shelter.

The Edina Edition of Poem. and Songs by Robert
Burns with Original Illustrations. Edinburgh :

W. P. Nimmo.

This handsome edition of Burns's poems is
strictly a national one—not only the publisher, but
every artist, we believe, being Scottish. It is essen-
tially a liere de luxe, sumptuously printed on thick,
toned paper, with illustrations interwoven with
the text, and head and tail pieces and other orna-
ments. The pictures scarcely require any special
notice. That of Tam o'Shanter at Alloway Kirk
is rather poor and deficient in humour ; but Mr.
Lawson's Cotter's Saturday Night is a good
drawing; and the same artist's picture of Mac-
pherson Chained to the Wall is characteristic and
striking. The volume is richly gilt, and we do not
know any other edition of Burns so well fitted
for the drawing-room table.

HUNSTANTON, ST. EDMUNDS, MONDAY.
' This coast has been visited by a very severe gale
from the north during park of yesterday, the whole of last
night, and today. During the night, or rather early this
morning, the inhabitants of this new place heard a
meat rumbling noise, and thought it was the life-
boat gun. Several of the crew hurried off to the
station, and at daylight it was discovered that the
whole gable of St. Edmund's church had been blown down,
leaving only about six feet of wall standing. The church,
which has been built about two years, consisted only of
the chancel, and is intended, ea soon as funds will allow,
to be completed. The present disaster will, of course,
require immediate attention.
WHITSTABLE, MONDAY', 6 P.N.

27ie Illustrated Book of Sacred Poems. Edited by
the Rev. ROBIiRT Banns. Cassell, Potter, and
Galpin.
This volume has, we believe, appeared in the
form of numbers. It is profusely illustrated, but
we cannot say much in praise of the pictures, which
are, as a rule, poor and commonplace. Nor has
the engraver done much to help the artist. We
can hardly imagine that the face and neck of the
lady of the remarkably uninteresting young couple
by the sea shore, at p. 145, are cut exactly as the
artist drew them. The village with the church,
the cottagers, the villagers and cattle, at p. 221,
look like one of those well-known children's vil-
lages which are sold to be cut out and erected on
an engraved ground plan. The head of Christ is,
of course, a very appropriate illustration to a
voliune of this kind, but it figures here so often
that it is suggestive of nothing but poverty of ideas
in the illustrator. The literary portion of the
work is fairly done. The poems contain some beau-
tiful specimens of sacred verse, occasionally drawn
from sources not very commonly known. Some
of the American poems—if we are right in our
conjecture as to their origin—are remarkable for
their religious fervour and poetic beauty.

Never within the memory of the " oldest inhabitant "
have such sad reminiscences of severe weather been wit-
nessed as is now to be seen along this shore, and in the
harbour close to the South Eastern Railway Company's
station. During the early part of the day a terrific hurri-
cane swept the coast, and fortunately, before it had
attained its height, measures were promptly taken to
remove the numerous craft lying along the coast
into the harbour. This step, of course, soon filled the
harbour, and as the hurricane increased yawls were drifted
from their moorings, and considerably damaged each other.
The Mary (250 tonal, owned by Mr. Higdon, and laden with
coals, sank just outside the harbour. Communications were
received at Canterbury of the sad disaster., and the mayor
o ftbat city, together with other influential inhabitants,
immediately repaired to the spot to render what assistance
lay in their power. Along the coast the sight at the time
we write is a most saddening one, the shore being strewn
with the &brie of seven vessels and at least thirty
dredgermen's boats.

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1867.

BAIL C'OURT.--Dre. 2.
A:tcrTum Nisi Pi hi...Sidi:44 at Weatulinster.—(Defore

Mr. Justice Blackburn ;nd Common Juries.)*
THORPE O. THE SOUTH RAEffERN RAILWAT COMPANY.

This was an action to recover compensation in damages
for personal injuries received through the negligence of the
defendants' servants.

Mr. D. Browne and Mr. Cowie were counsel for the
plaintiff ; Mr. Serjcant Ballantine and Mr. Harrison for
the defendant. . . _ . .

The plaintiff, who is a teacher of music in Bow-street,
Covent•garden, 31"-ls a passenger on the 4th April last by
the defendants' line from Charing-crom to Greenwich.
The train entered the station at Greenwich, and ran
against the wall with such violence as to inflict the injuries
complained of. The plaintiff's nose was severely cut sod
bruised, and it bled very much ; both shins were grazed ;
the left knee and left side of the chest had received violent
blows, and the whole system sustained such a shock as to
seriously affect the spinal cord. Plaintiff was still in a
very bad state, and could only walk with the assistance of
crutches. The company admitted their liability, and the
case resolved itself into one of damages.
The jury ultimately returned a verdict for the plaintiff
—damages 2,000/.