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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-29 00:00:00

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on the Quay, East side Brunswick Dock,
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101 CEDAR,
lately landed ex Dorothea, from Neuvitas.
1'54 Logs Cuba MAHOGANY,
18 Tons COCUSWOOD,
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308 Logs YELLOW PINE, 24,057 Feet,
50 „ OAK, 5,596 ~
„ ELM, 2,552 „
2,710 2nd Quality PINE DEALS,
2,600 2nd „ PIPE STAVES,
-8,400 Merchantable PUNCHEON STAVES,
12 Cords HEMLOCK LATHWOOD,
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30,358 SPRUCE and PINE DEALS and SCANTLINGS.
3,955 SPRUCE BOARDS,
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SATURDAY,

.TANUARY

29, 1859,

THE DAY'S NEWS

We have three days later news from the United
States, by the arrival of the screw-steamer City of
Washington. One remarkable piece of intelli-
gence is to the effect that some meetings had been
held in New York, by certain parties who sympa-
thise with the young men recently arrested in
Ireland, on the charge of being members of a
Ribbon Society, with a view of raising money to
defray the legal expenses of their trial. A New
York paper, in alluding to this meeting, says :
" But why should not the fund raised in this
country ten -ears ago, for the aid and comfort of
the insurrectionists of that time, be applied to the
present purpose ? It strikes us that it might be
so applied legitimately. That money amounted,
if we are not mistaken, to $30,000, and was lodged
in the hands of Judge Emmett, Horace Greeley,
and others. If properly invested, that sum
might have nearly doubled itself since—an
amount far greater than could possibly be raised
now in these hard times, with a severe winter
pressing upon that class from whom contribu-
tions would be most likely to come." If we
are to put any faith in Washington correspondence,
the Administration is fully assured and satisfied
that the past differences with European Powers
regarding Central America are in the way of
being settled honourably and usefully to the
United States, and if present negotiations are not
interrupted by fillibusters or revolutions, a few
months will place America in the position it
desires. To this end, it is deemed wise not to dis-
turb the Clayton-Bulwer treaty at present. The
administration cannot make public the nature of
these negotiations while pending, but it is fully
satisfied of its position The Committee of the
House of Representatives has agreed to report a
bill on the purchase of Cuba question. It pro-
poses to place in the hands of the President thirty
millions of dollars to negotiate for the purchase of
were the Island. Theresix for and three
against the report— there will be a minority report
also. In the Senate, Mr. Steward had dintroduced
a bill, amending existing acts for the Suppression
of the African Slave Trade. theprovides
capture es ofr
employment of steamers for the
the
slavers, authorises States to pass laws to
the traffic in foreign slaves, and appropriVersess
a
million of dollars to carry into execution the
provisions of the bill.
A London morning contemporary states," on the
best authority," that a deputation of the National
Bank, headed by Baron Eskeles, had an audience
of the Emperor of Austria in the early part of the
present week ; when his Imperial Majesty took the
opportunity of positively assuring them that " very
friendly despatches had arrived from Paris, and
that there would certainly be no disturbance of the
peace of Europe."
Our Paris intelligence mentions a plan, said to
be arranged between Lord Palmerston and his
good friends at the Tuileries, according to which
the Miniitry is to be attacked, as soon as Parlia-
ment opens, for their attachment to peace, which
the late Premier and his adherents will endeavour

to show is attachment to the despotism of Austria,
and hostility to the cause of Italian freedom. The
thing is not unlikely. At any rate it is understoodin
foreign diplomatic circles that the problem of ulti-
mate peace or war will be decided, not in Paris, nor
in Turin, nor in Vienna, but in London, As the case
stands, not one of the European Powers
i lend the
least countenance to whatever designs Sardinia
and France may have upon Austrp. n Italy. But
if Lord Derby were made to give. to way Lord
m
Palmerston, a war might be waged spring, not,
however, for the promotion of Italian freedom.
From the East, we hear of the Skuptschina hav-
ing decreed full liberty to the Press, of the likeli-
hood of an approaching change in the Turkish
Ministry, and of objections which the Porte enter-
tains to the election of Couza as Hospodar of Mol-
davia. Sir John Young has left Corfu, and the
lonian Parliament was opened on Tuesday, by a
speech from Mr. Gladstone.
The 'Alexandria correspondent of the Times
gives us some interesting outlines of the proceed-
ings of the three Imperial Commissioners ap-
pointed to inquire into the Jeddah massacre. The
operations of the commission have been conducted
with strict secrecy, and very little has transpired
to the general public beyond the fact that the first
portion of its labours—that relating to what may
be termed the criminal question—had been brought
to a close, and that the commissioners were
entering upon the discussion of the next point,
that of inquiring into the claims for indemnities
and establishing the amounts due to the sufferers
in the late disturbances. The meshes of the con-
spiracy which resulted in the massacre of last
year have been fully unravelled, and, when all the
details become known, it is said they will be found
to afford a new and striking illustration in sup-
port of the oft repeated adage, that the
most elaborate fictions can seldom attain the
dramatic strangeness of simple truth. From what
is really known, it would appear that the men who
suffered death last year to stay the stern demands
of outraged Christendom consisted of merely a
small number of the humbler instruments of others
more powerful, but no less cowardly and treach-
erous. Indeed, we are informed that the greater
number of those who composed the tribu-
nal by which they were condemned are found
themselves to have been among the chief insti-
gators of the massacre, their own hands imbued
wth the very blood in expiation of which they
consigned their wretched accomplices to a miserable
death.
Another most diabolical murder has been com-
mitted at Sheffield. On Thursday morning, a man
named Wilson, a brass turner, was set upon by
several ruffians and was was so severely stabbed
that he died the same evening. We regret to say
that the assassins are at large, no clue having as
yet been obtained of who or what they are.

- The Address in reply to the Queen's Speech will
be moved in the House of Lords by the Earl of
Winchelsea and Nottingham, and will be seconded
by Lord Delamere.

We alluded yesterday, to a shocking occurrence
in London—the quarrelling of two tradesmen
under the influence of drink, and the accidental
death of one from a blow dealt by the hand of
the other. At the Marylebone police-court,
on Thursday, Mr. Plews was examined on the
charge of having occasioned the death of
Mr. Burrows, the unfortunate man above alluded
to. The evidence tended to show that he acted
under some provocation, and that it was impossible
for him to see what would be the fatal result of
the blow, He was remanded.

The obnoxious paper duty again turned up in
the Court of Exchequer on Thursday. Mr. Barry,
a paper-maker of Brompton makes a species of
parchment from hides and skin, and as the Board
of Inland Revenue contended that this was paper,
and therefore subject to the higher duty, they
brought an action against him, which came on for
trial yesterday. The arguments on both sides
having been heard, the Court took time to consider
its decision.

The annual meeting of the South Lancashire
Book Hawking Association, was held yesterday.
From the proceedings, it would appear that the
expenditure for the year was 51. 13s. above the
income, and that the association are now in debt
about 471. Against this, however, -there are books
belonging to the association worth 1061., being
581. more than the Society's debts.

In the case of the Liverpool Borough Bank,
wherein Mr. Dixon, who had a verdict returned
against him for some 1401. at the summer assizes,
last year, sought to have the verdict set aside,
Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Justice
Crompton, and Mr. Justice Hill have refused, on
the ground that the verdict was right and proper.
On Thursday night, Cardinal Wiseman, after
concluding his lecture at the Philarmonic Hall,
proceeded along Hope-street in the carriage of Mr.
Chaloner, when it was attacked by a mob of ruf-
fians, who ran after it, threw stones, and otherwise
outraged decency. Some slight damage was done
-to the carriage. Only one fellow was captured,
and Mr. Mansfield, yesterday, fined him in £2, or
in default, two months' imprisonment. We under-
stand the cardinal proceeded to London last
evening, by the five o'clock express train.

THE CARDINAL ON POPULAR AND
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.

WE certainly ought to feel very much obliged to
Cardinal WISEMAN for .the excellent Lecture he
delivered at our Philharmonic Hall, the other
evening, on the subject of education,—and of Edu-
cation, too, in its most popular and therefore most
available form—Practical Education. We have
all of us, perhaps, been to apt to look with preju-
dice upon any thing touching such a question as
Education that might proceed from such a quarter ;
and not, it may be, without some reason, taking
into account what we find recorded in the pages of
history. But even Rome has had to yield, on this
question, to the " spirit of the age " She has been
unable, like all the rest, to resist the influences of
enlightened progress. It is no longer practicable,
if even it were politic, to foster ignorance—
scarcely, indeed, to tolerate it. Her Cardinals

must now come forth—in free and enlightened

England, at least

and not only countenance

Education among all classes of the people, but
even find fault with the dilatoriness and the defi-

ciency of its system, as an enlightening and rege-

nerating process of mental culture and training.

This were certainly not very characteristic of
Rome. And what a flat contradiction does it not

give to her vaunted principle of Semper eadem !

Yes,—always the same, where the surrounding cir-

cumstances are so too; but not, assuredly, where
it is otherwise. Always the same in Rome
itself, and wherever all that is Roman is in the

ascendant. But not so here. It would not be
possible ; —nor would it be prudent. The moral
and social atmosphere of the place has to be con-
sidered, as well as the religious. Imagine, for a
moment, such a lecture as this from a Cardinal in
the Vatican ! Why, he would be looked upon as a
madman ! Talk of educating the Italian peasantry,

—suggest the importance of some " practical Edu-

Ication,"

say to the twenty Or thirty thousand

lazaroni of Naples ! How the Holy Fathers would
stare ! Poor Cardinal WISEMAN'S fate at Rome

would soon be that of GALLIO at Florence, did he
dare to deliver such a Lecture there, as that with

which he has just surprised and gratified the
people of Liverpool.

We make these remarks in no unfriendly
spirit, let his Eminence the Cardinal, and his
friends, be assured. We are perfectly sincere in

bur humble praises of fle Lecture, and in the
expressions of our hearty thanks for the excellent
and seasonable practical suggestions it conveyed.
It was certainly one of its most noteworthy and
admirable features, that such was the case. The
Cardinal embodied his question—how best to
induce the poor to take advantage of the Education
which he admitted was now, to a great extent at
least, provided for them—rather in a suggestive
form than in that of a perfect proposition. He
put two interrogatories,—" Is the Education, in
the first place, which we are giving to the poor, of
a sufficiently practical character ? If not, is there
any means by which we can communicate this
character to it ? Can we give it a more practical
character than it now possesses ?" And this, as
he proceeded to explain, with the great practical
object in view, of presenting inducements to the
parents of our poor children to avail themselves of
the opportunities now so liberally provided on
every hand for their sound and useful Education.

For we must take the liberty of dissenting, in
some degree, from the Cardinal's insinuations, that
the Education provided for the children of the
poor is not sound and useful, so far as it goes. And
that it does not go farther is, upon his own
showing, the parents' own fault. " The total
number of children," he said, " being within a
fraction of five millions, nearly three millions are
of the uneducated class, and little more than two
millions thus receiving education. But out of the
two millions of the scholars at school, more than
a million and a half remained only two years at
all at school. I will leave you to judge," he con-
tinued, "of the results of such an Education ; or
rather, we may ask, is it an Education at all.
Then," he added, " out of the two millions in edu-
cation, only 600,000 are above nine years
of age ; so that we have the greater part only
children scarcely arrived at the full develop-
ment of mental powers. And of all that
receive education, the average 'is two
years and a half at school." Here, then, is
the great practical difficulty. And the only way
to overcome it, is to take away the inducement to
withdraw the children from school at so early an
age. That inducement is the money gain that can
be secured by putting them to work, even as
children. The labour of such children is estimated,
it appears, at five millions sterling a-year. "So
that," as the Cardinal observed, "we are calling

upon parents to sacrifice five millions that come,
into their pockets, to give their children an
education which they are hardly able properly to
value." Undoubtedly this is the first and greatest
obstacle that Education has to contend with among
the poor.
And how is this difficulty to be grappled with ?
Cardinal WISEMAN suggests its being met by a
reversal of such a law as that now in force,
obliging the youth employed in factories to be at
school so many hours every day. " While you
have a law," he says, " that every boy in employ -
ment in a factory shall frequent a school, and that
in a proportion which is hardly sufficient, can no
plan be devised whereby those boys who are at
school can likewise be brought to occupy so many
of their hours in industrimis pursuits—in the
prosecution of trade or business in one form or
another ? The school has been made supplemental
to the manufactory. Could not that be made, in
its turn, if not subordinate and subservient, at
least coadjutant with the schools ?" Such a sugges-
tion is certainly a very rational one. It is meeting
a practical difficulty with a practical proposition,
at any rate.

We shall probably return to the subject
hereafter. In the mean time let us hope that the
question as put by the learned and reverend
Cardinal will not be disregarded by our students
ire " Social Science." And let us repeat, also, in
conclusion, the expression of our heartfelt thanks
to the distinguished Lecturer, for the materials he
has put before us for a closer and better consider-
ation of the all-important question of the Practical
Education of the Poor.