The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER

a brief but accurate view of the existing up-
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tem of secondary paniehmente—giving, we we
glad to see, due prominence to the very encouraging
results obtained by Captain Connor' from his admi-
rable process of Intermediate Discipline. From the
penal system of adults to the reformatory
discipline of youthful offenders, the transition is
nay, and the remits of recent legislation, seconded
by pablic beneficence in the formation of Reforms,
told", Refugee, Industrial and Ragged Schools, are
trued in rapid but correct outline. On the great
question of National Education Lord JOHN very
wisely professes a determination to await the results
of the recently appointed Committee of Inquiry.
Let us know precisely what the facts are before we
theorise—above all, before we legislate. From mea-
sures that concern the mental welfare of the people
Lord Joan pares to those that relate to their physi-
cal health. His remarks on Sanatory Science show an
adequate sense of the growing importance so justly
attached in these days to the study of the laws
which relate to health as affected by density of
population, conditions of atmosphere, and habits of
life. The considerations arising out of this branch
of his subject es to the constantly accelerating
inerease of the urban, es compared with the rural,
population, lead naturally to the question of Emigra-
tion, the last of the more important social agencies
which falls within the compass of his address.
To say of this addreae that it contains
anything which would be new to the spe-
cial student of any of the special topics to
which it refers, would not be true, and, if true,
would not be complimentary. The communication
of new knowledge is not the object of such a dis-
course; its aim rather ought to be to furnish such a
general conspectus of the present state of attainment
and the present tendency of effort, as to supply to
the special student those enlarged views and those
elevated aims which a limited devotion to particular
lines of study is not calculated to produce. In this
Lord Jolts RUSSELL has been eminently successful.
We do not know where to find a more accurate
exposition of the tendencies of Social Science and
the duties imposed on social reformers, than in the
concluding menteaDes of his address. "It is for us
"to endeavour to improve the laws by which the
" community is governed. It is for us to show how
" education may be extended and diffused. It is
" for us to examine and record what has been done
" for the reformation and punishment of offenders. It
" is for as to confirm and animate the efforts which
" are being made to sustain the public health, and
" thereby preserve for this country her eminence as
" the home of a vigorous and independent race. It
" is for us to investigate the conditions of the great
" problems of political economy which may often
" admit of corrections, but never of refutations. In
" Imo doing we shall but consult the welfare of the
" present and future generations ; in so doing
n we shall follow the path traced out for us by
" Almighty Benevolence and Almighty Wisdom."

821 PAUL'S CAZODZeth 888VICIS.

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The Deem and Chapter of St. Aare, and Ike
committee semidated with them, have varlets
works in the cathedral for the following :
I.f.drovide: for the largest possible at
the evening pervious within hearing distance of the
Pull i•
2. To regulate the temperature of the cathedral, and
make other errengemente for the comfort of the congress-
don ; and to eske can
3. That nothing eo dans cilaah with the architecture.
" For the Bret object," my the committee, " it is evident
that the great antral area of the dome can done offer suffi-
cient space. It has also been found by experiments in 1651
to be the part of the cathedral best adapted to the voice.
With a view to the comfort of the congregation, the
first thing is to secure a nameable amount of warmth. To
attain this, the crypt, which underlies the whole cathedral,
offers considerable hoility,—viz., by warming the m
thoroughly, and forming opening; in the pavement to allow
the heated air to circulate. For tide purpose • number of
Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney's patent stoma have been
already placed then, tad openings have been formed in the
worms; bra to be covered with ornamental brae,-
work ; such additimel Novae and gratings will be added as
the mean of the trial of those at present provided shall sug-
ern gest. It is fur the paves of this t, and this only.
that at present the nave is from the rest of the
tem& lry a mem al white white will he shortly
!emceed, when ihe tequila of shoves has been
asontliael. The admiral& hreeight of Sir C, Wren per-
mite the okbessys of them okras to be carried up to the top
of the cethednel, without le my way injuring the structure.
or introdming4l.l In The pavement of the central
dome, end the paste of le the arms of the CCM,
is to be covered a MEd of meeting, celled aceptulioce
and alexia the whole of the congragatica will be seated
on chairs. This ewe, during divine esmice, will be
carload with alma= certain of the American leather
cloth, which rasterial has been found at Sydenham to be
maccessful in =An* sound. The whole is to be so
arranged that curtsies, Maim sad sma the greater part of 1
the mating can be readily pat slide ca Monday and re-
placed for Sunday's use en Saturday afternoon; so that
they will in no way Interfuse with the architecture. An
aduhtional organ wlll be provided &mid the present organ
be found ill-placed he the oopyregedon Hader the dome.
The lighting will be mainly elleated by÷esnem of the
aroma of gas which was left round thew
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at the time of the funeral of the Doke W
The committee ecatinue to look forward with oon-67;70e
to the airport of the public in the important object of
ailivenhig the presume naked and unfinished appearance of
the interior of the cathedral by mild and permanent em-
bellishment, in accordance with the views of filer Christopher
Wren, eo far as they can be martalsed."
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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

INDIA AND CHINA.

The Paris papers publish the following despatches
from Trieste, received there from Alexandria, under
date of October 2 :

" The Begum of Lneknow bee offered to give up
Nana Sahib on the condition of her receiving a free
pardon.
" Calcutta advioss to the Bth September state that
it was hoped the insurrection would be completely
crushed by the time winter set in. General Roberts
had obtained another victory near Velhamma. Ge-
neral Grant had driven the rebels from Sultanpore
to Busanpore. Nana Sahib was closely hemmed in
in his jungle stronghold.
" Acoonnta from Hong Kong to the 24th August
confirm the destruction of Nantow ; and that Canton
was quiet, and that Kweiliang had been appointed
commissioner there."