The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-06 00:00:00

ignorantly worships, but in the wit and sarcasm
of which he is a master, from th.4Principal ''
the College at 64, Bleckfriars-road.
leis
LEY places his doctrine of education
and firm foundation when he
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cation of " the masses," not beton tire I
forth to be our masters, nor* eifigjeot
may compete with the artizans of France a
Belgium, but because they are men and women,
and it is not good that the people perish for
of knowledge. There are naturally traces f
bent given to his own mind by his more
pursuits in his application of this doctrine. -
is inevitable. But while he avoids the ingrati-
tude of disparaging the discipline which hes made
him what he is, he equally avoids the narrow-
ness of underrating the value of the studies which
have not been his own. The special value of phi-
lological science and classical learning has seldom
been more justly or forcibly expressed than
in his speech. Stoic moralist& might be
ransacked for a nobler delineation of the ideal
wise man, who is alone truly a king, than the
following :—" That man, I think, has had a liberal
" education who has been so trained in youth that
" his body is the ready servant of his will, and
" does with ease and pleasure all the work that
" as a machine it is capable of ; whose intellect is
" a clear, cold, logical engine, with all its parts of
" equal strength, and in smooth working order ;
" ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any
" kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as
" forge the anchors of the mind ; whose mind is
" stored with the great and fundamental truths of
" nature and laws of her operations ; one who, no
" stunted ascetic, is fall of fire, but whose pas-
" sions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous
" will—the servant of a tender conscience ; who
" has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature
" or of art, to bate all vileness, and to respect
" others as himself. Such a one and no
" other, I think, has had a liberal education."
It says much for the intellectual and moral value
of the studies which have formed the special train-
ing of Professor HUXLEY'S mind that he should
conceive that they furnish the directest road to
this result. But his conception of life will be re-
garded by many as formed too exclusively upon
the model of the physical sciences. The object of
education he defines to be the knowledge of the
laws of nature, which are the rules of the mighty
game of life. Man is engaged, in his view,
in a struggle—first for existence, and then for
mastery, with the forces of the physical world.
The rough lessons picked up by degrees, and
half unconsciously, by our predecessors, and en-
forced by pain and penalty, or sweetened by reward,
are to be anticipated by artificial education. Those
who hold that " man and his surroundings" do not
exhaust the universe, and that in the game of life
other elements eater than the phenomena and
laws of nature, will of course believe that arti-
ficial training will include other subjects than
Professor HUXLEY contemplates ; and that the
fullest and largest development of all man's facul-
ties, physical, intellectual, and moral, re-
quires a more varied apparatus and en ampler
range of ideas than this theory provides for.
But they will not be the less grateful for what
is positive in Mr. HUXLEY'S doctrine. The phy-
sical sciences, in teaching men to deal with things
at first hand, to confront facts, and to acknowledge
them, afford a moral as well as an intellectual
training. But the successful struggle with the
forces of the universe fur which they qualify, is
already, for the great majority of modern men,
practically won. Few in this age and country have
to engage in it for themselves ; and there is
room left for that direct cultivation of the tastes
and feelings, and the discursive faculties in art,
letters, and speculation, which Professor HUXLEY
leaves in the back ground. What these things can
do in forming the man of liberal education, we
must wait to learn until some one of Mr. Hu x-
Lei's force of intellect and general range of culture
brings to their advocacy a mastery of them like that
which ho possesses of the natural sciences. The
same intellectual food is not equally palatable and
nutritive to all; and the general culture of humanity
nrist be made up of the culture of special qualities
in individual men. What is positive, however, in
Mr. HUXLEY'S teaching is admirable ; and it needs
only to be supplemented by teaching as positive
from the point of view presented by other studies
and somewhat different conceptions of life.

ETEe Court.

OSBORNE, JAI. 4.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice
and attended by the Duchess et Roxburghe, walked in the
grounds yesterday attsraoon, and her Ma)sety drove oat
this morning, accompanted by Princess Lodes.
Prime sad Princess Wadi= sad Prithess Henries*, et
Sthlescrig-Holetein, attended by Lady Basin Melville and
Mr. G. D. Engisheseti and Prises Arthur, attended by
Major Elphinstone, let Osborne this afternoon for Frog.
Mare.
Prime Leopold and Prince= Beatrice walked oat this
morning.

Jur. 5.

The crown dress yesterday afternoon, attended by the I
Duchies of Roxburgh., and Prince Leopold and Princess
Beatrice walked in the grounds.
Her Majesty, Primers Louise, Priam Leopold, and
Prinoees Beatrice, attended Divine melee at Whipplagbam
this morntog.
The Bee. G. Prather° officiated.
The Ladies mid Gentlemen in Waiting were inattendsnes.

THE Ponca AND Pancenes or Winos.—On Sa-
turday their Royal Hien:ewes the Prince and Princess of
Wales closed they viait to the Earl end Countess of Lei-
cester at Holkham, and returned to Sandringham-house.
The railway arrangements in 000110Ii011 with the return
journey wire similar to those an blonder, when the Prince
and Princess 'retold at Holkham, the trains by which
their royal highnesses travelled over the West Norfolk
Junction and Lynn and Hunstanton lines being under the
supervision of Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Sproal, district su-
perintendents of the Greet Eastern Railway. A new
billiard-room and bowling-allay have been completed at
Sandringham-house. During the residence of the Prince
end Princess at the mansion, a resident clerk attends to
the receipt and despatch of telegrams, a special wire
having been provided for the purpose, se that there is di-
rect communication between Sandringham and the meth,-
polis and other parts of England and the continent. The
present vlait of the Prince and Princess to Sandringham Is
expected to terminate about the clone( the present month.
There appears to be good ground for believing that the
Prince of Wales will attend an approaching ceremonial in
connexion with Sunderland Docks ; on this occasion his
royal highness will be entertained by Earl Vane.
The Earl and Countess of Derby will be honoured
this week with the presence at Knowsley Hall of the
Prince and Princess Christian, Prince Arthur, the Prince
Schleswig-Holstein, Princess Henrietta, Earl and Lady
Vane, Vieountess Walden, the Earl and Countess et
Bradford, Lord Stanley, de. On Thursday next the
Mayor of Liverpool, Mr. Whitley, will entertain the royal
guests at a ball in the Town-hall. The arrangements
which are now being carried out, are of the most elaborate
character.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.,
who has been in town during the past week, left on Satur-
day to join Mrs. Gladstone and family at Hawarden
Castle, Flintahire.
The Duke of Cambridge left town on Saturday
for Rauh Castle, Leicestershire, on a visit to the Duke
of Rutland. A select party are invited to meet the royal
duke.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury will
entertain a large circle of friends during the present week
at Savernake Park, near Marlborough.
Viscount and Viscountess Sydney have returned
to Foot's Cray, near Propel, from a tour of visits.
Sir Berry Des Wen:, Bart., of Indiville, Queen's
county, OW on Saturday afternoon, at Drakelow, near
Burton-on-Trent. He was born Dec. 16, 1806, and mar-
ried July 16, 1639, Lady Sophia, youngest daughter of the
seventh Earl of Coventry, and widow of Sir Roger Greeley,
Bart. The respected baronet is succeeded by his half-
brother, Mr. Frederick Aube, son of Sir Charles Dell
V aux, second baronet, by Lady Cecilia Paulet, daughter
of the late Marquis of Winchester.
We have to announce the death of Vice-Admiral
Sir William Dickson, But, of Hardingham, county Nor-
folk. It took plays yesterday afternoon.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1868.

The all-important water question was complicated
by the fact that the boats of the ships were not
capable of placing daily in the shore tanks the
requisite quantity, but the health of the camp was
remarkably good. The weather was not exces-
sively hot, and the rations were of first-rate
quality. The correspondent whose letter we are
I 1 quoting says that if gentlemen who think of
comb* to the place for sport can find means to
carry their baggage, and can get permission to au-
company the army, they need be 'under no appre-
lhension as to lack of game :
Even a few miles from camp the guinea end apt.- fowl
abased, and bags of OD or 100 rook pigeon or Krouse have
been made in a day ; the deer, or rather the rttilope,
ere easily stalked, and shots w*.tb;n 100 yards can often
be obtained ; many of them, after being ogee fired at and
missed, will dart a few dozen yards and then curiously
tom round, staring the shooter la the fan, and give him
a second chance. Bastards which weigh 20114. are men
vary, but though more difficult to approach, are ohm
seen. Anyone coming should take only breech-loaders, as
the air produces a good deal of i.urt.
The other correspondent of the Daily News
speaks admiringly of the scenery of the Koomaylie
Pass. He mentions that the epidemic at &meld
amongst the cavalry horses had nearly disappeared.
The mortality amongst the mules and camels had
decreased from 25 and 30 to sor 6 per day. He
did not look to see the army in a position to move
I hese Benafd in any force until the month of Fe-
' hoary.
Describing the natives, the correspondent of the
11 Post, who is at &add, says the women are not only
plain but ugly. A plague of flies filled the air.
"From sunrise to sunset they reign supreme, and
every tree and every tent is covered with a living,
moving, buzzing mass of these little black torments.
You may kill them by hundreds on your head, arms,
legs, table, anywhere, but it is perfectly futile ;
Hydra-like, for every dozen you fancy you have
exterminated, fifty swarm up in their place."
Benafd was found, after Zulla, Koomaylie, &c.,
a species of Paradise. A delicious temperature,with
a slight breeze, the sun's glare relieved by a few
fleecy clouds, and above all, no dust :
The comp is pitched on undulating ground, bounded,
but not hemmed in, by low hills, some sharp pointed bare
cage, the rest bluff rocks, covered with firs, thorns, and
ameba. Everywhere the ground is strewn with stones of
considerable size, which are being gradually cleared away,
and the interior of the camp presents a tolerably level
surface. The horses and mules picketed about form •
picturesque sdjunet to the scene, and the natives swarm
around in hopes of making an advantageous barter.
The Herald correspondent, under date of Senafd,
Dee. 16, writes :
The messenger from Mr. Rusam arrived in the comp
yesterday. He states that the King of Shoa's men are
between Theodore and Magdsla, and that there is every
hope that they will take the latter place, and liberate the
primmer,. The reports about the King of Tigre are, to a
certain extent, founded on fact. He hu professed the
greatest friendship, but there are sinister reports that he
really means mischief, and for two or three days the
pickets have bean doubled. It is not thought that there
is any foundation for the report of his intention to at.
-k us.

The steamer Raleigh, - . port 3w
Orleans, was burnt yesterday off Charleston. Thin
teen lives were lost ; 24 persons are still missing
who were last seen clinging to the wreck.
ARRIVAL OF THE TEUTONIA.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 6.
The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Teuton* from New Orleans on the 18th December,
has arrived here with 24 passengers for Havre and
Hamburg, 18,608 dole. for England, 68,430 dole.
for England and France, and 2,541 bales of cotton
for Hamburg.
The Teutonia experienced heavy weather
throughout her passage. On the 31st ult., in
at. 48 deg. 2 Mill. N., lon. 37 W., she encountered
a hurricane from the southward, shifting to
W.N.W., and subsequently met with heavy south-
east gales and strong easterly winds up Channel.
Upon the 21st ult. she spoke the English steamer
Fire Queen, from New Orleans, bound to Liverpool;
on the 24th the Bremen barque Armin, from the
Gulf of Mexico, bound for Falmouth ; on the 30th
the English steamer City of Cork, bound West ;
on the 4th inst. the English ship Liberator, from
Sydney for London, 96 days out ; the Isle of the
South, from Shanghai for London, 34 days out ;
and the Invincible, bound East.

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