The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-08 00:00:00

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Artmnux.yy, Jumn 7. APPOINIVENTS. -Cap-
tain E. W. Tumour, to the Victory (additional), for novice
in the Royal Alfred.
Commander R. G. Tufnell, to be inspecting commander
in the Coast Guard, vice Harington.
Lieutenants A. B. Mansell, to the Petrel; C. E. Foot,
C. S. Shuckburg, E. M. Myren, A. C. H. Toget, to the
Black Prince, for service in gunboats.

The following distinguished visitors have in-
the picture of the ' Rocky Mountains," at T.
rcLeteadn's gallery, Haymarket, during the last few days
His Excellency the American Minister, the Marchioness
of Donegal and party, the Earl and ()motes' of Dunmore,
Viscount Powerscourt, Miss Burdett Coutts and party,
Pin-Ta-Jin and the gentlemen of the Chinese mission, Sir
George and Lady Barrow, Sir Edmund Head, Bart., Ad-
miral Fanshawe, Viscount Liamore, Captain hammerer, C.
F. Hastink.ll , Esq., M.P. Itc.
IRISH BATIONAL iDUCATION.—At the sitting of
the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ire-
land, held on Wednesday at Belfast, the report of the
committee dealing with the subject of elementary educa-
tion was read. The report condemned the new rule
adopted by the Commissioners of National Education as a
serious infringement of the principles and practice under
which the National Schools have been hitherto conducted.
This rule repeals the following portion of the existing regula-
tions:—" Patrons, managers, and teachers are not required
to exclude any children from any religious instruction given
in the school, but all children are to have full power to ab-
sent themselves or to withdraw from it. If any parents or
guardians object to the religious instruction in a national
school, it devolves upon them to adopt measures to pre-
vent their children from being present thereat." The
committee bad strongly remonstrated with the govern-
ment against the threatened change in the principles
and practices of the board, and a deputation had waited
on the Chief Secretary for Ireland to lay the views of the
committee before him. The Chief Secretary stated
that the rule bad not yet received the sanction of the
government, but he did not give any guarantee that
the Lord Lieutenant would withhold his sanction until the
meeting of the Assembly. The report proceeded to state
at length the objections to the new rue. One on which
great stress was laid is, that it has a " tendency to
coerce an unwilling laity—whether parents or teachers—
to submit tb hierarchical control." The committee con-
chide their report by expressing a hope that the Assembly
would be unanimous in offering the most vigorous re-
sistance to the final adoption of a rule which imperils the
entire system of national education. The other reports on
education were read, and the public discussion on the sub-
ject postponed until the following day.
CLERGY ORPHAN ScHOOL.—MT. G. Hughes, who
has just been elected to the Stapledon scholarship at
Exeter College, Oxford, after a competitive examination
with twenty-two other candidates, was educated at the
Clergy Orphan Boys' School at Canterbury. He left it
last year with one of the school exhibitions to the univer-
sity_ founded by the late Rev. Dr. Warneford.
THE SAILORS' ADVANCE OY WAGES MOVEMENT.—
A public meeting of the seamen of the port of London was
held last evening in the schoolroom of Ebenezer Chapel,
High-street, Shadwell, the Blarquis Townsliend presiding,
relative to the advance of wages movement, and with the
view of forming s provident and protective society for
sailors. The noble chairman rather fully exposed the
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—Yea- dangers and hardships to which seamen were exposed, and
terday a meeting of this institution was held at its house, expressed a hope that in the next session of parliament an
John-street, Adelphi ;DI.. T. Chapman in the chair. The amendment to the Merchant Shipping Act would be intro-
Jahn-street, as ,so to provide proper accommodation for seamen,
minutes of the p-evious meeting having been read,
re- ,
awes for the purpose of making provisions respecting the
wards amounting to 68/. were granted to the crews of
manning rod leading of ships, which were neither secured
several of the lifeboats of the institution and thou, of
nor contemplated by existing law. Mr. King, a seaman,
shore boats fur teeing 56 lives clueing the past two months read the rules of the London Seamen's Benefit So-
ft om different wrecks on our coasts. Rewards amounting
rendered dur- mety, the formation of which he proposed to the meeting,
to 741. were also given for valuable services
ing the same period by the crews of other lifeboats of the as also the London Seamen s Protective Fund. The object
' of the former society is to give assistance to the seaman ix
institution. The silver medal of the institution and 2/.
case of shipwreck, or to his wife in the event of death, and
were voted to Mr. Francis Hayden, mason, and 4/. to his
that of the latter society to afford relief to the seaman
boat's crew, for putting off during a very heavy gale of ,
when insufficient remuneration is offered him.
in Mr Gal-
wird, and rescuing at considerable risk of life eight of the ' Pli ham reposed and Mr. King seconded, a resolution to
crew of the Swedish brig, Fahli Bure, of Sundswall, which
was wrecked off Sandovrn, Isle of Wight, on the night of 1 'the effect this
" That
society will q not support any of its
the 24th March last. Dr. Porter, of Godshill, Isle of . members a demand for higher wages than their present
Wight, was thanked by the institution for restoring, as- I rate except in the,?veat of war,
, when theywould be guided
toitne roe resolution was
.catroried with acchi-
coing to its rules, an apparently dead child from drown- , Dy fYcumst.trccls'
lug. Payments amounting to upwards of 5,0001. had been ' r„trikr, tep"°l, w!"3 a)Pp'ntFd- wait upon MT.
of friendly societies, to obtain his
made by the institution during the past two months I n'` Pratt, registrar-
vote of thanks to the noble chairman.
on various lifeboat establishments. During the past certificate.concluded A cLeeedin
month the institution had sent new lifeboats to Runswick,
KILLEDthoeNp CADEIigSiDRIB.—An inquest has been
Wexford, and St. Ives. Public demonstrations had been
Leicester on the occasion of the life- held before the coroner at Dolgelly upon the remains of
made at Sheffield and
boats being formally presented on the part of the inhabit- . the human body found on the 28th ult. upon Ceder Idris,
ants of those towns to the institution. It was etated that in Wales. The body. was accidentally discovered by a
the Freemasons, the Odd Fellows, and the towns of co
s- 1 farmer in search of minerals, and layin one of the loneliest
verhampton and Burtou-on-Trent were collecting the cost spots on the mountain, being at a considerable distance
of lifeboats for the institution. The City of Dublin was ' from the Lake of Llyn Ceder, on the top of a quantity of
also collecting the cost of a lifeboat. A legacy of 50/. had loose stones, close to the rocks under the highest peak of
been left to the institution by the late Mr. George Soott, : Ceder Idris. From the evidencegivenbeforethe jury therein
of Warburton Oxford. Reports were read from the very little doubt that the remains are those of a gentleman
Inspector and 'Assistant Inspector of Lifeboats on their named Smith, living at Newport, Monmouthshire, who was
recent visits to various lifeboat stations under the lost last September, and was presume. tohave met his desth
management of the institution. A communication was either in Merionethshire or the Carnarvonshire moun-
read from the Dutch Shipwreck Society, requesting that . tains. He was last seen at the
theirMin6od Inn between Cords
a lifeboat and transporting carriage might be constructed I and Dolgelly, where he called on afternoon of the 24th
for that society by Messrs. Forrestt and Son,the builders of of September, and inquired for the best way to go over Ca-
the institution. The Commissioners of her Majesty's ! der Idris to Dolgelly. It being late in the day the landlord
Customs had ordered 010 copies of the new edition of the tried to dissuade him from the attempt, but without
pamphlet of the institution on the management of open ' avail. It is supposed that by the time he reached the top of
boats in heavy surfs, for circulation amongst their officers ' the mountain he was overtaken by darkness or envelope[ is
at the various ports of the United Kingdom. The pro- I mist, the latter being a very frequent visitant of this peak.
ceedings then terminated. I Be might have found the little hut so well known to
, climbers of Caber Idrie, and in the darknesswalked forward
JUNE 7.—The otoppe of thin bank over the few yards that intervene between it and the gulf
THE STOPPAGE OF THE AGRA AND
ageRTAN'S
! below, and unconsciously stepping over the edge
RANIL—MARCHESTER,of the
has caused a more profound sensation here than any other
et been dashed from
suspension that has occurred during the panic. It is not f_r!cie-cet .
that it affects us so much directly, but there is an appre- I "'" crag to crag to the rocks
beneath, where, eight mouths after, all that was found of
him was a mass of torn and rotten clothing and a few
hension that *touch Liverpool, Calcutta, Bombay, Hong
bleached bones. The jury returned the verdict " Acei.
Kong, and Australia, its effects will ultimately be of a
leading firms in the cotton trade dentally killed by falling down a precipice on Coder Idris."
serious character to many

The troops at Aldershot were yesterday reviewed
by the Prince of Wales, who was accompanied by the
Princess. At the conclusion of the review, their royal
highnesses honoured Sir James Yorke and Lady Scarlett
by their presence at luncheon at Forest-lodge, Farnbo-
rough. They returned to town by special train shortly
after four o'clock. .

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Rosatz'sPoiNr,JUNE 7.—Thellambrirg American
Company's steamship Bavaria, Captain Taube, has ar-
rived, with 164 passengers for Southampton, Havre, and
Hamburg, and on freight 496,534 dollars for England,
416,900 dollars for France, and 60,400 dollars for Ham-
burg. The Bavaria left New York on the 26th ult. ; on
the 3rd inst. she passed the steamer Etna, bound west,
and the steamer Ericsson, bound to Bremen from New
York 24th ult. ; also English schooner First Fruit, bound
east; and on the sth, passed barque Seraphine, ship Cordelia,
and English brig third pendant, No. 7,625, bound east.—
The West India Company's steamship Plantagenet, with
the West Indian mails and 4,5001. in specie, arrived at
Roche's Point at six o'clock this evening. She left
Jamaica on the 15th ult. A band of armed Indians made
an attack on a party of wood cutters at Honduras on
the 27th of April. Several of the latter were shot, and
the remaindertaken prisoners. Troop. had been despatched
to Corosal.
QUEENSTOWN, JUNE 7.—The steamer Virginian,
from New York on the 20th ult., arrived here at 3.30
p.m. to-day, with 150,000 dols. in specie, and ninety-five
passengers. She landed nine passengers, and proceeded
Immediately for Liverpool. Her news has been anticipated.
ARMY RECRUITING.—Yesterday morning the
royal commissioners appointed to inquire into the subject
of recruiting in the army re-assembled at the War-office,
under the presidency of the Earl of Dalhousie. Several
witnesses were examined, and to-day hie Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge will give his evidence before the
commissioners. This will probably conclude the inquiry.
ARRIVALS TROM JAMAICA.—The West India and
Pacific Steamship, Company's steamer Cuban arrived in
the Mersey yesterday morning, with dates from Kingston
to May 17. The experiments of crushing bamboo by
machinery had been very successfully carried out, and by
this means much larger cargoes of fibre can be stowed. It
is intended to erect several bamboo crushing machine mills
in various parts of the island. Very little of the bamboo
fibre comes to this country, theitinited States taking nearly
all that is manufactured. The value of the bamboo at
present growing on the island is estimated at 150,0001.
Her Majesty's ship Doris had arrived in Kingston harbour
from Bermuda, and her Majesty's ship Cadmus had
reached Montego Bay and relieved the Cygnet. The Cuban
brought a large cargo and seventeen passengers.