The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

MARY OF CAM.
!K TO STOCKTON.

ey allele:en; gin inhabitants of the
Ithrlvlngleseeigheillieekton received a passing
eras the Primates Merl of Cambridge sad the Prince
aCt 41111.4111 k way to Wynyard Park, the seat of the Earl
Vane. As the train enamel the statical the mayor sad eor
position formed a body guard to the prince and princes.
The prince alighted first. He was dressed in a blue frock
coat, silk facings, and velvet collar, and dark trousers.
Earl Vane than received the primer, who was attired in
a black silk rep dress with orange trimmings, a brown
sealskin paletot, and a small black bonnet. The earl
baying introduced the prince and princess to the mayor
(sr. R. Jackson), his worship said, " On behalf of myself
and the corporation, I beg to offer to you our heartiest
mogratulations on this your first visit to the county of
Durham, and more especially to the ancient borough
el Stookionen.Tess, and I beg to enure your royal
bighamme of the staunch loyalty and attachment of the
hthehibral• of Stockton to her Masty's throne and
sea, as as well as to every member ofd the royal family and
beanah of the same. Although living at a distance re.
mote from the sphere occupied by your royal highnesses,
I may beg to be permitted to say your amiable qualities
sad Christian virtues have endeared you to every true and
well-thinking Englishman, and our fervent prayer and
hope is that you may be long spared in health and happi-
ness to enjoy those blessings which Divine Providence
has so kindly provided for you." The shiner was followed
by immerses awning ; after which a procession, headed by
11 the pollee, the town sergeant, the mayor and corpora-
tion, omen's& the royal couple to their carriage, awaiting
them outside the station. Here they were met with great
cheering by crowd assembled, which was continued for
some distance on the road to Wynyard Part.

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THE EDUCATIOCONFECE Al
TE

To-morrow a conference assembles in the Town
Hall, Manchester, with the object of discussing the prin-
ciples and provisions of the Education Bill introduced
into the House of Commons last year by Mr. H. A. Bruce,
Mr. W. E. Forster, and Mr. Algernon Egerton. The list
of names attached to the circular of invitation comprises
the names of gentlemen representing all shades
of political and religious opinion, and we learn
from the MancAerfer Examiner of to.dsy that
the conference promises to be • success in point
of numbers. Invitations have been largely accepted
in all parts of the country, and, in all probability, 500 gen-
tlemen will be prevent. Mr. E. R. Le Mare is appointed
president of the preliminary committee, while Mr. Bruce
and Mr. Forster have undertaken to preside over the deli-
berations of the conference. Mr. Algernon Egerton, al one
of the introducers of the bill of last session, would have
taken a prominent part in the proceedings, but •
pdor engagement will unfortunately prevent his being
I present. We are assured, however, of his cordial adhesion
to the principles of the conference, and of his intention
to give his hearty support to Mr. Bruce's bill,
unless the government should obviate its neon-
eity by introducing an equally comprehensive scheme
of its own. Among the points to be discussed by
the conference are the following: Shell the bill be per-
missive or compulsory! If compulsory, would it be
desirable to snake it applicable at once to the whole
country, or applicable only by order in council, on the
report of school inspectors ? Are special provisions neon.
eery to meet the condition of rural parishes ? To what
extent is it desirable to modify the minutes of council so
ea to include purely secular schools? These questions
will occupy the first day's sitting. On the second
day the conference will be invited to express an
opinion upon the following subjects:—The operation of
the Industrial Schools Act ; the extension of the Factory
Act ; the &liableness of extending the principle of com-
-Ipnlaory school attendance beyond those measures, and, if
desirable, the means by which such compulsory attendance
should be enforced. Mr. Barley, while assenting the
general principles of the bill, has put on paper a series of
amendments which he intends to propose. They relate
chiefly to compulsory attendance at schools.

Mr. H. A. BRUCE, M.P., was present last night at the
distribution of prizes to the students connected with the
Bury Atbensium, and delivered an address on the subject
of education. Mr. Bruce entered fully into the whole
question. illustrating his remarks by reference to the sys-
tems in operation in Prumie and the United States. lie
advocatid the adoption of • national system of education
in this country, and was in favour of making it com-
pulsoryabonld the people be in favour of compulsion. There
never (he said) was an occasion when so much necessity
for exertion existed. "We learn now to our grief and
indignation—we learn from the reports of men who are
interested by no means in misrepresenting facts to our
disfavour—that the British artisan is inferior in many of
the points in which we had hitherto considered him
, superior to the continental one. Who are the people who,
'above all othen, are presaing upon us, and, in fact, in
some respects, have got ahead of us in the race of industry?
They are the very German people who for the last 200
years or very nearty so, have had a system of education
which compelled the attendee*e of children at school from
5t0140r 15 years of age. (Hear.) Here, in this country,
it is said that such an interference with the labour market
would be the rain of the country ; but I ask you to con-
sider for a moment bow it isthat our most formidable com-
petitors in the labour market are just those people who
withdraw their children front labour during the years
which should be devoted to instruction. You may be
sure that, however much we should for a while feel
the absence of the children from our factories and
works, yet, in having • more cultivated set of work-
men, and in having men with all their faculties bur-
nished up to the highest point, we should soon reap an
ample reward. At any rate, there is the fact ; and it is A
t one—one that we ought deeply to meditate, that
be men we have most to fear are just the men who are
not afraid to withdraw their children from employment
and educate them to the utmost. (Hear, hear.) Those
ire the Germans and the Swiss people. (Hear, hear.)
I bare that faith in the energy of my countrymen, I have
that faith in their love of truth, that I believe that whence
the truth is *nee told them, and when the way is on
shown them they will not be content with legging behind
any nation in the world. (Cheers.) What we want are the
means. You have the means in Germany in a degree
perfectly unparalleled and unknown in this country.
Not only have you a system of elementary schools for the
poorer classes infinitely superior on the whole to anything
we have in this country, but you have a system of middle
class schools conveying pupils on the most economical
terms through every branch of knowledge, till at last the
knowledge is completed at colleges, which are not limited,
as here, to two or three of our towns, but which may be
Bonin scattered over all towns of any conridemble popula-
-1 n Germany. How it it that towns far less important
than Bury, for instance, in Germany, have universities
1 celebrated all over the world ? (Hear, hear.) Why shoul
that be the case in Germany and not in England?
Why should we have two universities at Oxford and
Cambridge worthy of the name, and those only ? Why
should not we have twenty or thirty ? Why should not
every great population bring home to its own people,
upon the moat reasonable and economical terms, the
mesas of obtaining the very highest education in
all brushers of knowledgable? (Hear, hear.) Let me
•2152citi how is it possi we can compete with
who bees these enormous advantages over us ?
The time is pest when we believed that one Englishman
could beat these Frenchmen on the field of battle.
(Laughter.) The MOO We of belief has existed with
respect to the UMW that see fought en the fields of um.
I melee. It was asairlased that there was • nature' energy
in the Englishman which enabled him to overcome every
other adios be the world. But we are learning by
bitter innee that seseethinli more ;es
required—that
emiltentlea is required, sad also that the
mum ihnt enitivetion lust be amply supplied if this
me to held the foremost rank in the world. How is
!=re be ass ? Much, no doubt, should be due by lath-
! *bud awl Meal start, bat I am bound to say, although I
I give an opinion eshselmatly. that it is in my opinion for the
enurement ise tba essutry and for parliament to take the
initiative." (Hear, beer.)

It was stated in the Manchester Examiner of the
7th isd that on the arrival of Prince and Primers
Chrislim, Prime Arthur. and Princess Henrietta of
fieldsewirlitebiein at Halton station, yesterday weak,
" several persons pressed made themselves preeminent by
,aiming the Priam." The Hon. F. Stanley writes:
" Having had the honour of receiving their royal high-
' seams on the cosuden alluded to. I am in a position to
° give this report the meet direct denial ; and to Mitres that,
me far from any manifestation of ill.feeling having taken
isses, eh* royal highnesess were, on the contrary,
weimowed with aerdiality by all present."
The Peso York ISibune has a despatch from
Lseoursdnatioa of the
hlaseen.whishstaes states that,
awminetwithetanoorrerpoodsocedins the
Weise Lard !Menlo sad Becestery Seward, information
he. bees seesiesit *see that Mr. Theentea, the new
siaineer. sees oat empowered with full authority
to mops the question, and will present for the sea-
' *Wades of the United States a new pies of adjadowat.

LAW AMENDMENT SOCIETY.

Sir R. Pittutwoat, judge of the Admiralty
Court, presided at • meeting of this society, held last
evening in the Adelphi.
Mr. JOHN WESTLAKE read • paper on " Naturalisation
and Expatriation, or a change of Nationality." After re-
ferring to Proddent Johnson's allusion tothe topic in his last
message, and to its bearing upon the French Army Orsini-
Delon Bill, he said it was admitted on all sides that
the time had COMO when it was necessary to arrive at
some clear and mutual understanding upon it. He then
detailed those rights of protection and control which
gave to nationality its importance, showing the difference
between the laws and customs in various parts of the
world as to the rights of foreigners, and pointing out that
foreigners were generally held to be exempt from military
service, but not from the paymentof war teem These rights
and duties were no doubt • burden which nations sub-
mitted to in order to facilitate intercourse between them.
There was no reason to believe that the English par
ment would hesitate to propose such alterations unught he
necessary,buttheparticulearrangementtobe recommended
must be a question for much discussion even after the
principle of free expatriation had been admitted. There
was much difficulty in the propose! to merge nationality
in domicile. The following rules might be considered for
a change of nationality :—First,•• simple form of natural-
isetion, to which any state might add any oondition it
thought necessary ; secondly, a provision for securing that
none but permanent residents were naturalised. making
for that purpose a certain number of years' residence ne-
cessary, unless special reasons were assigned ; thirdly, the
renouncing of all claim by the original government, over
the person naturalised • and, fourthly some provision for
the return of expatriated persons to their original countm,
In the discussion which followed, Mr. MoZELY said the
question could not be settled until an international code
was agreed upon, but meanwhile some advance might be
made. At present the British legislature seemed to go
upon no intelligible principle whatever, except that of
making es many _persons as possible British subjects.
Mr. VERNON HARCOURT said that foreigners had no
rights whatever except those which the country in which
they were resident chose to give them • they went there of
their own will, and must be subject to the laws made
there. Any government might, in its discretion, subject
to enlistment anyhody within its borders, these so sub-
jected, if they disliked the law, having she option of leaving
the country. The doctrine of locality of crime, in the
strictest sense of the word, had na place whatever in general
or international law, and any country whatever had a per-
fect right to say it would try every man within its borders
for any crime whatsoever, whether committed there or
elsewhere. England and America were the only countries
where this doctrine was not held. At present if an Ame-
rican plotted agalnstthis country, for instance, he wouldbe
punishable for the offence in his own country, but would
be perfectly sale in this country against which he had been
conspiring. If an Englishman murdered a foreigner abroad
hemight be tried in England for doing so, but if • foreigi et
murdered an Englishman abroad NA came to England hs
could not be tried. Could anything be more absurd? If
we acknowledged the continental doctrine upon this sub-
ject we should have • sounder basis to proceed upon than
the American doctrine of citizenship.
Mr. CHISHOLM ANSTET said our present law was
fell of
absurdity, and illustrated his position by narrating whit
took place on the coast of China.
Mr. Gervie, Mr. Merriman, Mr. F. Hill, and Dr. Wa I.
dilove continued the discussion, which at length turn al
upon the deerableness of adjourning the debate.
Sir IL PHILLIMOHE said the subject was one of extreme
importance at the present time, and would have to be
prettied upon the attention of not only the English and
American governments, but upon the consideration of all
nations. The entire question would require deliber
and ample discusaion, for it was to be viewed front a gr_at
many position., and would require a great many
lights to be thrown upon it before it was satisfactorily
settled. The true interpretation of international law was,
that when &foreigner entered the dominion of any state be
was in all respects amenable to its law. The chief diffi-
culty arose from an inability to define when a man actu-
ally left his country. Of course, if an Englishman broke
the municipal law of a foreign country, by that Law he
must abide ; but the protection of his own government
should be thrown over him so far that he should not be
placed in • worse position than the citizens of the
country in which he might happen to be. He (the
chairman) should not like to countenance the doctrine
that the moment a citizen left England, the state ceased
to have any care over him, or he to have any claim upon
the protection of the state. All lawyers knew the difficulty
there was in settling when residence became domi-
cile, and that made him think domicile itself
would not be a discreet or sufficient test of expatriation,
although it might with advantage be used as an element
in the matter. Any rule that was proposed must be one
upon which there should be mutual agreement. He felt a
difficulty in touching upon this question as electing mili-
tary service, because he was concerned in it during the Ame-
rican war. Very early the absolute necessity of agreeing to
some clearly defined rule as to the protection of BIWA
subjects in America was forced uptick their attention. It
was soon agreed that it could not be demanded as • matter
of right by • British subject who had by his acts incor-
porated himself in America either by domicile, by the
purchase of land, by the establishment of manufactories.
or still more by the exercise of voting, that he
should be regarded as otherwise than au American
citizen. It was justly regarded that if a per-
son had settled in America at his own option
and for his own convenience, he hail no right to claim the
righu of British citizenship when his residence them
became inconvenient, especially as the chances were thus
he would return as soon as the cause of inconvenience was
removed. A line was accordingly drawn, and it was
agreed that the option should be given a wan of leaving
tho country if he wished to avoid military service. With
regard to the interesting question of the competency of a
country to punish a crime committed in another country
against itself, he was inclined to think that it was a mon-
strous thing that any technical rule of venue should pre.
vent justice being done in this country on a criminal for
an offence which was perpetrated here, but the execution
of which was concocted in another country. But he t
wo
not prepared to say that if a criminal, being a foreigner,
was accused of • crime against a third state, the name rule
should apply. He did not see why any crime committed
against a British subject abroad should not be tried here,
instead of action being limited to • crime against the state.
It was stretching the law of hospitality too far to afford •
foreigner a refuge in the country against hose wellies) he
had been conspiring.
The debate was adjourned.

There are to be sixteen new cardinals in Mora,
of whom the most distinguishe.l by name is Monsignors
Lucien Enonaparte, grandson of the First Napoleon's milt
uncrowned brother.
THE MANSION-HOW COLLIERY E x WSW NE
FeED.—Yesterday afternoon en adjourned meeting of the
Colliery Explosions Fund Committee was held at the Man-
sion-house, under the presidency of Sir Thomas Gabriel,
Mart. There were also present Mr. Bevan, Colonel Stuart
Wortley, Mr. Gassiot, it Frederick Lyoett, Sir Sydney
Waterlow, and Mr. F. Thompson. The minutes of the
previous meeting having been read by Mr. Gibbs, and con-
firmed, a sum of 1,5001. wee voted in aid of the sufferer,
by the Talks colliery explosion, and a sum of 11,697/. for
the wagerers by the explosion at the Oaks colliery. In re-
ference to the latter sum, it may be mentioned that a
deputation from the loalC committee, headed by Lord
Wharncliffe, Lord Milton, and other gentlemen, attended
at a previous meehng, and explained that the total sum re-
tidied would be 41,0001. mkt They also stated that the,
had received upwards of 29,0001., and the London com-
mittee now fulfilled their promise to provide the balance.
The committee likewise voted 5,000 f. towards the explosion
at Ferndale, near Aberdare, in Wales. After paying these
sums there remained a balance in hand of about 700.1 f.
the
,
which, in accordance with the arrangement on which
fund was originally raised, was ordered to be inverted with
the view of meeting future contingencies of a similar am
tura. The proceedings then terminated.
DEATH OF Me. ALDERMAN WHETsioNE, Or
LEicwint,—ltir. Alderman Whetstone, the oldest member
of the I.dom• corporation, died on Sunday morning.
Deemed was the lest of the members of the town council
who was elected at the inauguration of municipal reform
in this town, and who has continued in active service on
that body up to the time of his death. Mr. Whetstone
belonged to the whig section of the liberal party, but
re-
had
also the °adagios and esteem of the radicals. The
union of the liberal party, by which the borough condi.
tueominlained its position at the last general election,
was y due to his ingueuce and oonmliatory conduct
m chairman of the United Liberal ltegistrstion Associa-
tion. A quarter of a century ago Mr. Whetstone was
asked to become a candidate for the representation of the
borough, but his unostentatious course of life led him tea.-
dine such en honour. Re wm, perhaps, the largest eur.
player of labour in this neighbourhood, and was a gentle.
man of great commercial experience. Mr. Whetstone may
be said to have died in harness. lie addressed mee
t ti ng*
and canvassed at the late South Leicestershire elecon.
end attended to corporation and to his own business up to
Christmas. Hie death is felt as a loss to Leicester, and is
mach regretted by vest numbers of workpeoPle and of
political friends in the county.
RETIREMENT OF MR. TRAILL, THU POLICE
WAGISTRATE.—At the coacluaion of the business of the
Greenwich polies-mart yesterday, Mr. Maude, the pro-
tlargistrate, wbo spoke with feelings of considerable
oddments those present, said :—" I am WIT
_to
sty that this court will no longer have the benefit of M.
Train's services. Ilia present state of health Ma oda
hint feel it right to retire, after 35 Years' beryl" "a
believe he is about to send in hie resignation to the govern-
ment, if be has not already done so. The high respect
felt kg him througbout the whole of this disarict so
general, and Malmo so great, that I am, ure hi
will be mea
ly felt. A purer or batter magistrate there
never was, *ad I an sure tin public never had a more oces•
mistime and faithful servant." In addition to the midt
tiferiens duties pletaluing to the office of magistrate in •
mikepolitin polio' district, it will be recollected that Mr.
Trull, ea the meant of the Merchant ShlpPiag Aot. la
laradorafilet vain, try the Board of. Trade% the in-
into the chosuarisoese ettuint" 411
sad his at go tbe not lease impart....
among whidi was the inquiry into the loss of the ill-fated
Meaniship " The Loudon."

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