The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1858.

are a still greater desideratum, and there again
the same two essential are wanting. Some
of the now dangerous parts of the Le-
vant need but a moderate catty to ra
der them safe and convenient harboars, bat
the Government is too poor to irtidertake the neces-
sary works, andthe existing trade is barely thScient
to permit dues to be levied that would render such
works remanerative.

Can we do none of these things for Turkey P
We doubt if the difficulties are insurmountable

or even serious. A French company has ob-1
tained the concession of a road from Damascus
to Beyrout ; so that it is clear that such
undertakings can be committed to the hands of
foreigners. But, although the whole cost is not
estimated at more than 120,0001.—a sum within the
means of more than one English contractor—the
enterprise hangs fire for lack of funds. The
Turkish authorities show a stupid jealousy
of manufacturing establishments founded by
Lawgivers. But, in the Island of Rhodes, the
perseverance of the French officials has at length
overcome every obstacle thrown in the way, and a
silk mill, the first established there, has been
erected and brought into operation by • French
subject. Similar results have followed French per-

severance in the Lebanon, and the natives are be-
ginning to follow the example set before them end
to erect silk mills for themselves; with what result
the rapidly increasing importance and prosperity of
Herod clearly ahows. What is there to prevent
Englishmen from transplanting themselves and their
capital, either as individuals at as companies, to the
Turkish territory ; to the seaboard first, to the inte-
rior afterwards. It cannot be difficult to make the
Turkish Government understand how important Ms to
them to encourage such nuclei of prosperity, and exam-
ples of industrial working, by which their own people
mast be so largely benefited in every way. With
our cruisers constantly on the move, and with oar
Consols at every port, we could assuredly compel the
local authorities to administer even-handed justice to
our fellow-ooemtrymen; and, in spite of the intrigues

of the other Puma, and of the undertaking not to
right is own wrongs with4wi an appeal to their
joint bikini], England is surely strong enough to
ISOM lot voice heard when claiming only that to
diellehe is entitled in the nameof juaticeand hums-
my. °Roof the great arguments against the adoption
d the plan we propose has been the peril
Sot might arise in disputes as to wrongs srffered, or
oestructs, direct or implied, broken. The answer to
aosh objections comes readily to our hands. The
Opelops has bombarded Jeddah because the Oeverner
iroold not do summary justice on those who had
owiemored our co-religionists there, although he had
so power by the Turkish law to do so. We are not
Galled upon to decide whether the act was a wise or
am a just one, but it is a fait accompli, and,
whether approved or disapproved by the other
powers, we may be sure that thepsople and governors
arJeddah will henoeforward th'ik take before they
attempt to molest an Englishman.

Tee Times has lately given publicity to miseries of
very able and interesting mays on the expediency of
removing from the limits of the Metropolis our great
London Public Schools—C .riat's Hospital, the Charter
House, St. Paul's, and Merchant Taylors'. Bagerding
the matter simply rs a boys' question, and from the
mere sentimental point of view, there is no doubt
very much to be said for the views advocated by our
contemporary. But the question, like most others,
has two sides, and there are a large class of parents
whose interests are not to be lost sight of in the con-
sideration of the matter. Where a school—es is the
case with Christ's Hospital—,Desist. wholly of
boarders, or where the numbers of the board.
en very greatly predominate, as in the cue
of the Charter House, the argument for removal
is no doubt strong, though even in these cases it has
certainly not been shown that the suitor/ condition
of the great Metropolitan Schools is such as to call
urgently for the change. Bet in cases I;ke those of
St. Paul's sod Merchant Taylors', where the day
boys form the great bulk of the scholars, other con-
siderations of great importance arise. It has been
of late too much the fashion in certain quarters to
overlook the interests of that very meritorious and,
in spite of the centrifugal tendencies of the age, still
very numerous class who are compelled to make
London their habitual residence. Struggling pro-
fessional men, with small incomes and large families;
tradesmen who have not yet realised sufficient fortune
to afford a residence in the suburbs; have a direct in-
terest in the maintenance, with:o an easy reach
of they own residences, of Schools where they may
obtain for their sons the inestimable advantages of
a first-slaw education. The cue of parents of this
class has not been unrepresented in the columns of
our contemporary. The money part of the question
has been well put by more than one of the correspon-
dents whose letters have been very properly ad-
mitted into the Times. One of these gentlemen de-
scribes himself as the son of a professional man in
the City, who was enabled to give five boys oat of
family of nine • sound classical education at Mer-
chant Taylors' School ; an advantage which he would
have bees sompelled to forego, had no school of
the kind existed within an easy distance from
his home. To afford to keep two or three boys
se boarders at a public school, at the present Eton
and Harrow rate of 1301. or 2001, a year, is obviously
and hopelessly beyond the means of the London
medical man, the lawyer, or the tradesman, who has
to face the struggle of :ife on an income of from
6001. to 8001. a year. There is very much to be said
in favour of the view taken by the Times corre-
spondent to whom reference ►as been made, viz.,
"that the Public Schools in London were founded
" for the families of people living in London, and
* who cannot afford payments by hundreds a year
" for the education of their children." There is
another point : to many parents it is, not without
reason, a great object to have the opportunity of com-
bining the advantages of school and home training,
which the day-scholar enjoys and the boarder loses.
Why should the London parent be deprived of this
advantage by the removal into the country of such
schools as St. Paul's and Merchant Taylors'?
We are not, of course, arguing against such a re-
moval of site es may yet leave the institutions in
question accessible as day schools for the benefit
of the very numerous elms to which we now
allude—a clam entitled more than most others
to respect and sympathy, and which has already
sufficient difficulties to encounter, without having to
undergo the privation of any means it may now
sudsy of procuring for its children the iiestimable
benefits of a first-rate education for a very moderate
outlay. If mita* mon convenient and healthy than
those now occupied by Charter Mouse, St. Paul's,
and Merchant Taylors', can be found in the immediate
visinity of the metropolis—the increased expense
attending a short railway transit to and from the
school might probably be cheaply purchased by in-
creased salubrity of situation, and the advantage of
as ample playground. We say probably, because it
is by no ssae•s certain that the daily necessity of even
a short railway transit might not to some extent be a
drawback even In a sanitary pointer view. After all.
may it net be doubted whether the sanitary •rgumout
has sot been premed with some degree of draggers-

don against the Metropolitan Schools ? Take, for ;n-
-stance, one of the strongest ergot, Christ's ticepital-
There is much, no doubt, to offend those who take
the sentisaental view of the ease in each • site as
this. It is in the very oentre of the cl,n, and the
dirt, and the mobs. Newgate-market is in its
borders. Noisome trades of all kinds are curial on
in its vicinity. • Fuliginoos, amino= Louden
smoulders and reeks for miles all sound it. Very
shocking to sentiment—but what are the facts? Is

it a fact that Christ Church boys are exceptionally en.
healthy ? Are they more so, for instance, duet
Rugby or Harrow boys? Statistics don't show that
they are ; and as to appearances, very few of those
who are acquainted with the looks of bath sets of
boys would give it in favour of the Harnn:sp, for
instance, as against the Blaecoats.
The fact is there has been of late too great a
tendency to speak of London, and an habitual resi-
dence there, with a sort of compassionate de-
spondency. The great City has been represented as
a great office or workshop, in which none who an
help it will stay a moment after brainless hours. In
the name of some million and a half of compulsory
residents, we beg t 3 protest. against this ten-
dency. London--as hard facts and fige-es con-
clusively prove—is not now an unhealthy place
of residence. As compared with the other great
capitals of modern Europe, it stands highest in the
sanitary scale. As compared with what it was
in former times—in the times when Dean CoLm2 and
Sir TEIONAS Wane founded their magnificent en-
dowments—it is a very model of salubrity. What*
would a modern member of the Boerd of Health
have said to the purlieus of St. Paul's and Suffolk-
lane as they existed before the days of the great
plague and the great fire ? We have made nit im-
provements already; these is no doubt room for vast
improvements still. But the true way to accelerate
and ensure these improvements is, not to represent
the sanitary prospects of London as hopeless—so
hopeless that those who are compelled to reside
within her precincts can no longer be permitted to
enjoy the educational advantages which the munifi-
cence of former times provided for them. The fact is,
here we are, some million and a half of us, and here we
must remain. Don't let us sacrifice to a sentiment
one of the most solid advantages wb:ch a residence
in London possesses for that struggling class who,
though unable to educate the- children expensively,
are yet laudably anxious to educate them well. The
rapidly increasing influence of the aristocracy of
wealth is in nothing shown more offersively and
more ink.-lonely than in the rapidly increasing
=diner of education. The ages of the TUDOR/ and
the SMITS had many drawbacks, but they were
free from this. " The tools to him that can handle
" them " was a maeM practically recognised in the
educational institutions of those times. To put the
means of rising within the reach of the poor—by
putting the means of obtaioing a lest ned culture
within the reach of the poor—was a social duty far
more sedulously cared for in the England of the six.
teenth and seventeenth centuries than in the England
of the nineteenth. Playground associations—the
cricket field— the foot-ball ground—the rowing
match on the waters of untainted strearr--the noon_
day rambles under the shads of immemorial elms—
are each and 01 of them admirable things. Un.
luckily, as matters now stand, they are !ovaries
only porchassable at the cost of some 2001. a year—
they
are luxuries therefore for the rich. But bemuse
that poorest of all poor men—the middle-class Lon-
doner, who on slender means has a family to educate
and a position to maintain—because he is compelled
to renounce for b's boy the splendid advantages of
Eton and Harrow—is he therefore to be additionally
deprived of that career, which the munificence of
those who founded our Metropolitan Public Schools
has opened to struggling talent ? Such a priva-
tion is on every account to be deprecated; it
would deprive • metropolis, which as a place
of residence has not too many attractions, of one of
its most solid advantages, and it would increase what
has gone too far already, the monopoly by the
moneyed classes of the higher education of
the country. Any improvement in the site
of our Metropolitan Schools which would still
leave them easily accessible to metropolitan
day scholars, it would be unreasonable to oppose;
but any scheme for making additional Etons or
Harrows of them—rural receptacles for rich
boarders—ought strenuously to be resisted. If the
rich want more Public Schools in the provinces let
them, after the examples of former times, devote a
portion of their surplus opulence to the purpose of
founding them ; but do not let them seek t 3 deprive
the middle-class Londoner of that invaluable solace
to a straggling existence which has been provided
for him by the munificence of Corm, Burrox, and
WHITE.

THE ATLANTLC TELEGRAPH.

An interchange of courtesies between the City
dignitaries of New York and London was yesterday
commenced by the receipt of the following message,
which was promptly responded to by the Lord
Mayor of London, whose mayoralty Will be long re-
membered as the date of the oompletion of so mag-
nificent an enterprise:

" Aden* Telegraph Company,
" Mow, 22, Old BrmoHl -street, London,

August 23, 1858:

" Received through the Atlantic cable at Valentin,
and thence to London by the British and Irish M
netic Telegraph, the following , which
ar
reached London at 6 p.m. on Bandurys,sare 22nd of
AugeNt, 1858:

" • New York, August 21.
"I.To the Right Ron. Sir Robert Walter Carden,
Lord Mayor of London.

" ' I congratulate tour Lordship on the nnomod'al
Lying of the Atlantic oable, uniting the oonthienta
of Europe and America, the cities of Loudon and
New York, Gnat Britain and the United State&

•
a " 'lt is triumph of science and energy over time
and span, uniting more closely the bonds of pram
and commercial prosperity, introducing an en in the
weld's history pregnant with results beyond the
eimeeption of a finite mind. To Ciod be the prone !
(Signed), " 'DANIEL O. Tintarr, Mayor.'
"The Lord Mayor, immediately upon receiving
the message, sent the following reply :

" 'To the Ron. Daniel 0. Tiernan, Mayor of

N.w York.

"' The Lord Mayor of London most cordially reci-
procates the congratulations of the Mayor of New
York upon the success of so important an undertaking
as the completion of the Atlantic telegraph cable.
It is indeed one of the most glorious triumphs of the
we, and reflects the highest audit upon the energy,
skill, and perseverance of all parties entrusted with
so difficult a duty; and the Lord Mayor sincerely
trusts that, by the blessing of Alinight.y God, it may
be the MOM of eemsutiug those kindly fesi;rigs
which now exist between the two countriss.
" ' August 28, 1868'"

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AUGUST 90.
, 4tle Queen and the Prince Contort, with the
YOBS mod Prison of Praia, and the trateeend Prisms
Fretted& Willies, drove yesterday to Sans (load, and dfr
lampooting the Niece and beautiful grounds retuned to
Babalabag by burly.
Her Majesty sad their Royal Righters dined in pants
and afterwards received a dieting aished circle in the .sort.
The Prince sad Prison Proles ick of the Netherlands, and
Prinoss Marie, who bad arrived at Psalm the eventing
before, joined the Royal party.

AVGI7ST 21.

The Queen and the Prince Consort went yesterday to Ber-
lin, accompanied by the Prism and Princess of Prom*
Prince and Primes Frederick William, the Primulas Charles
of Pruada, and the Prince end Primer Frederick of the
Netherlands, and Primula Karla, the daughter of their
Royal High:mow

nor Ifidasty and their Royal /linkman." arrived at the
Padden station at shoat bald-peat 10 o'clock, and wen con-
veyed by model train to Botha.

nnisb-er of the royal amines were in attendance, and
the royal party drove immetthWely to the Noniam, and, miter
wain a considerable time In viewing the *mum of art
Aare collected, pro. Wed to the New Ilnaren.

The difiwentautherides of thaw establishments were in
attendance, and conducted bee Majesty through tho apart
watts, explaining the objects most wrathy of attention.

Her M4eity, with the royal petty, drove from the New
Mamma to the Royal Palace, where a large concourse of
people were meisabled, in spite of the weather, which had
changed to heavy rain, and received her Majesty with load
aeolamadona. Luncheon was served at 2 o'clock, and shortly
afterwards the Queen, with the royal Prisms and Princeescs,
dm, to the Palace of Charlottinbarg, end walked through
the splendid apartments of die royal residence.

Rif Maissiy, ths Prince Conant, and the Royal Family
of Petrels likewise dotted the lIISCIIOiO6III in which the late
Ring sad QOM of Prussia were keine(

The carriages were driven direct from Charlottenbarg to
the rellway station, and bar Majesty and party arrived at
Babelobar( at about half-paste °Weak.

Her Majesty, with the Prince Consort, the Prince and
Primes" of Prom* and Prism and Princess Frederick
William, dined in private last night
Wherever her litalesty has appsarad she hen been received
with the wormed daramatnalione of repot and good will
by the Penedos pimple.

Despatches were meshed yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Lord High
Coo mbeloner of the lonian Islands, and the Governors of
Hong Hong and Ceylon. Despatches were sent from the
Coksial-office yesterday to the Governors of the settlements
on the West Coast of Atria&