The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1864.

LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1864.

GARIBA,LDI himself appears to have a little more
common sense than his ultra-enthusiastic admirers
in this country ; including amongst them, by the
way, the eged Prime Minister of England. For, it
will be observed that, with a proper respect for
his own dignity, and with some show of care, on
big part at least, for what aro conventionally called
the proprieties, the famous Condottiere declines to
receive the pecuniary testimonial recently getting
up for him here in London. This extraordinary and
incomprehensible tribute in the shape of money, it
will be remembered, was set on foot at a meeting
of the General's over-zealous friends at Stafford
House. That meeting was convened during GARI•
BALDI'S stay in London. It took place imme-
diately after he had removed from the Duke of
SUTHERLAND'S princely mansion to Mr. SEELEY'S
residence out at It is incon-
Kensington-Gore.
ceivable how those who took part in it should have
set a movement like this afloat for the raising of sub.
scriptions to create a fuud eventually to be handed
aver to the Great Italian Adventurer, without
having previously ascertained whether any such
testimonial would be acceptable by him. The
event would, however, appear to indicate quite
distinctly that such was really the case. That, in
fact, the Duke, Mr. SEELEY, and the rest of them
actually put their heads together to make a puree
for GARIBALDI', without having had the civility,
first of all, to learn from GARIBALDI hit:welt
whether the proffering of such a purse, when
filled, would be loosed upon by him in the light
of an insult, or of an act of homage. The upshot of
it all comes like a bit of an anti-climax. The
tsubsoriptions paid in will have to be handed back
.again to the several contributors. Lord PALMER-
STON will receive his xino sterling. The Poet
Thnreate, Mr. TENNYSON, wiil pocket again his
.E 1 one shilling. And so forth. Nct much, after
all, had boon collected together to swell the
funds of this curious testimonial. About as much,
perhaps, as had been scraped together with exceeds
ing difficulty, by the National Shakspero Corn-
mittee—to the esd of raising, at last, if possible, a
fitting monument to the Great National Poet and
Diaamatist, the Greatest Poet the world haa ever
seen, here, in this wealthy metropolis S It

would be difficult to say which of the two move-
ments has proved the more ridiculous failure, the
more flagrant fiasco! The abortive attempt to collect
anything approaching to the amount talked of—
the sum of L 30,000 for the SHAKSPERE monument!
Or the equally abortive attempt to get up in Eng.
land (why in Eng!and ?) a grand subscription list
for GARIBALDI, the Italian Adventurer. In each
instance the sums contributed have been collectively
very far short of the mark originally proposed.
GARIBALDI, being happily for him in the land of
the living, is enabled to say—Much obliged to you;
I thank you very much, but I'd really rather not;
and therefore pray take back your gifts ! You,
Mr. TENNYSON', your munificnt offering to me of
a guinea! You, Lord PALM ERSTON, the £lOO put
down by you as the Prime Minister of Eng-
land, to me, the Red Shirt of Melezzo and Ca-
latafima—nay, for that matter, the Red Shirt no
less of the Heights of Aspromonte !—lt is really
nothing less than a ludicrous anti-climax in either
instance—in the instance of GARIBALDI, the great
Adventurer, and in the instance of SHAKSPERE, the
great Poet and Dramatist. The latter, if he were
still alive, we may be equally well assured, would de-
cline the proffered tribute of the N. S. T, C. quite as
peremptorily as GARIBALDI has declined that offi-
ciously suggested a week or two back at Stafford
House. Pity he can't For—unless something
should happily arise to prevent it—we are threat.
ened with having erected to the memory of SHAKS-
PERE, here in London, if any monument at all, one
—judging at least from the smallness of the sum
yet collected together—wholly unworthy either of
London or of SHAKSPERE, either of the Wealthiest
City of the World or of the Greatest Poet.

The quarterly report which the Registrar-Gene-
ral has just issued is in some respects of unusual
interest. In it we learn the actual effects of these
bitter weeks which mowed down age and weakness
with so unsparing a hand. From it we may also
gather some indications of the returning prosperity
now happily perceptible in our northern districts.
It is worth noticing, since the number of marriages
is usually taken as a test of the condition of trade,
that the marriages in the year 1863 were the most
numerous ever recorded, although, having regard
to the increase of population, they did not attain
the highest rate. In the last quarter of the year
more especially their number was unusually large
more so than it has ever been since the registration
began. The most satisfactory part of this intelli-
gence is, that their increase was very largely due to
the seats of the cotton and woollen manufacture,
and also to the coal andiron districts, thus affording
the most convincing testimony that the clouds which
have so long hung over our manufacturing industry
are rapidly breaking, and that hope and courage
are rising in the hearts of the people. Coming to
the current year, of which, of course, we have only
one quarter's returns, the figures seem determined
to keep up the high rate of the marriage returns of
the last twelvemonth. The birth-rate, instead of
the average 3.605 per cent. per annum, is 3.740,
and the increase is everywhere perceptible, ex-
cepting in London and the south-west. But the
other item which exceeds the average at once ar-
rests the attention. We have all known that the
deaths during the early months of the present year
were unusually frequent, and we were prepared to
find an excess of the average in the quarterly re-
turns, seeing that the severest visits of
King Frost were all paid us after the
year had turned. The revelations of the
Registrar are, however, absolutely startling. There
has seldom, we know, been a more fatal winter;
indeel, the only winters that can compare to it
during a long space of time were the two winters
succeeding the failure of the potato crop, and the
winter of the Crimean war. Such remarkable ex-
ceptions to the ordinary routine would certainly be
auite out of place in a comparison with, any ordi-
nary season, but we may with truth, look upon the
early months of this year as something unusual.
Upon an average 1,572 persons died every day in
England and Wales, the total number of deaths for
the quarter being 143,030, that is to say, 14,69$ in
excess of the average ! Those who talk so much
about bracing air, good seasonable 'weather, and so
on, may learn for their future guidance that when
the thermometer falls to freezing point the morta-
lity rises all over the country, and that one bitter
night when the mercury fell 17 degrees below freez-
ing point cost 877 lives, In this excessive morta-
lity London suffered most severely, owing partially
from the sensitiveness of its inhabitants to cold,
partially to the large number of its inhabitants
always floating on the verge of starvation, and par-
tially to the absenoe of that kindly aid which is
more likely to reach the destitute in less populous
places, The latter fact is proved by the mortality
of Lancashire and Cheshire not increasing in the
same proportion as that of the metropolis, notwith-
standing the partial continuance of the distress.
The manner in which the public health has been
preserved through so long continued and severe a
trial affords ample evidence of how much may be
done towards checking excessive mortality by
an efficient and organised system of re-
lief. Could we by any. possibility apply to
the distressed districts of the east of London some
of the social machinery which has worked so hap-
pily in Lancashire during the last two years, we
should hear less of those melancholy cases of deaths
from cold and want which have, during the past
few months, become only too common. Another
thing that tends to increase the number of deaths is
the high price of fuel. Fire, as the Registrar-
General justly observes, is a necessary of life in this
climate, and he expresses his conviction that any-
thing which tends to cheapen coal, such as the abolie
tion of duties or the laying down of railways, will
preserve many lives in severe seasons. In support
of this view he tells us to compare the rise in the
rate of mortality in the south-eastern districts with
that in the north, where coal is cheap. In the
former it was 18 per cent. higher than in the twn
preceding quarters, in the latter it was only 4 per
cent. This startling difference must certainly have
some cause, since it is evident that the cold would
be, if anything, intenser in the northern counties.
Before good drainage were so universal, end while
many important sanitary measures were yet unto-
garded, the summer months were the most fatal.
Thanks to the energetic labours of late years we
have diminished those dangers, but the peril now
meets us from another quarter, and it would be
well, before the Frost King is among us again,
s iously to reflect upon the best means of meeting
ee
it. We have also to consider how far the public
health is to be regarded as in a satisfactory state,
when so large a portion of the populace is in
so low a condition as to succumb to the first no-
kindly influence.

At the present juncture it is inter: sling to notice
the article in the Danish newspaper the Dafiblatlet,
touching the Conference at London, and how far it
affects the prospects of Denmark. In this case, as in
many similar ones, there is always a great deal to
be heard on all sides, and everyone can give an
opinion very glibely, but those most intimately con-
cerned are apt to be passed over in the hurry of the
lookers'.oo, to declare their views and enunciate
their policy. It is wise, then, to turn aside for a
moment from the more exciting topic 3 of debate, and

the prominent points of discussion, to mark and
learn what is thought of these momentous themes
at a distance from the spot where they are being
entertained by the various Powers. The opinions
expressed in this article seem most straightforward ;
and painful as the picture before us is to contem-
plate, none can deny its truth or doubt its accuracy.
What vast meaning there is in the assertion that
the " vital question" of Denmark is taken from
their hands and transferred to the Conference now
sitting in London. Great stress is laid on the im-
portance of an armistice, and too truly have events
that have recently occurred proved the justice of the
remark that this essential requisite should have been
obtained before the commencement of the Confer-
ence. It does indeed appear amazing that ench an
idea was not carried out, and the very lukewarm
manner in which this vital question was taken up
seems to preclude the notion that our Government
was really in earnest in the cause, or that they en-
tertained any more hope of their soi disant expecta-
tions being fulfilled' It was virtually letting the
case go by default, thus to give up an important
point at the outset, and no one can wonder that the
unhappy sufferers by this negligence feel irritated
and indignant when they reflect upon the manner
in which they have been treated. Who can fail to
coincide with the strictures passed upon our dilatory
and delusive Cabinet for the course they have
adopted, speaking so fair, and acting so coldly to
the brave little nation in distress. They who sum
up after events will ratify the judgment here given
of their actuating spirit which was love of pace,
not reverence for justice. " The English Govern-
ment thought of nothing else but keeping power in
its own hands" is truly declared, and all consciena
tions observers must lament the circumstance. Had
the Conference met earlier the calamity of Dybbol
might have been avoided, but delay followed delay,
and one put off was succeeded by another until, as
it is here impressively narrated," the heart's-blood
of Denmark flowed in stream's upon the soil of
Schleswig," When all these sad euggestions are
dwelt upon it is almost impossible to avoid fearing
that the dark side of the picture here presented to
notice may prove the correct one after all, and
nothing really be gained for the interests of Den-
mark in the workings of this tardy Conference in
their protracted deliberations, and few and far be-
tween meetings. It is all very well for cold and
cautious critics to dilate upon the topic, and to de-
clare that, of course, these ideas are exaggerated,
and these opinions in the extreme. The fact is, the
language of those who feel differs widely from that
of those who only think, and they who are concerned
heart and soul in a cause which relates to their
existence can more readily express themselves with
energy and excitement than those who look at the
issues of life and death, the struggle for freedom or
oppression, with the cynical regard of prejudice or
the callous glance of indifference. !f any part of this
protest be true, it is a bitter reflection for us, for
the great country that has suffered the small and
weak ore to fall into the grasp of ruthless invaders
—for the mighty people who have been bamboozled
by Conferences, treaties, despatches, and missions,
while the brave little population of a gallant nation
have been confused by intimations, misled by pro-
mises, and finally left to cope single-handed with
enemies whose demands increase with their pro-
gress, and the relinquishment of spoils seems only
to whet their desire and enhance their greed for
more. This article in the Dagbladet
puts
the chief circumstances of the ca ae before us in a
i!.alates the leading fea-
striking manner, and recap
tura of a case which 8 assumed so painful an in-
terest to all who respect the rights of nationality
and the privileges of freemen.

Pulpit Oratory in the Church of England,

A CLERGYMAN'S OPINION OF IT,

The Rev. A. J. D. D'Orsey, the emieent elocutionist of
Cambridge, took occasion at thee Church Congress at Man •
chester to make the folloeang rather telling remarks in ie-
gard to the educatigeial shortcomings of his fellow clergy
in the establistreent. He said that in working out church
extension, they must have competent men; but that they
had 'not competent men in number and quality; that they
nad not an adequate supply, and that those they had were
not always up to the mark. His business was, therefore,
briefly to represent what he conceived to be the feelings of
the laity and also of the clergy upon this question. It was
that the education at present gives to canoidates preparing
fcr orders in the Church was not the best suited for the
mil they had to perform. (Hear, hear.) An ancient king
was asked what education was; and he said that educa-
tion was "learning to do that when young which a man
would have to do when old." It they applied this
test—and it was a very good one—they would find that
the education accorded was admirable as far as the pre-
liminary discipline went; but it was a failure in regard
to professional training. (Cheers.) Let them not—he ap-
pealed to his clerical brethren especially—for a moment
misunderstand him. He valued as much as any man lite-
rary and scientific attainments; but highly as he valued
these he valued still more highly that business work which
prepared men for the great duty of shepherds, under the
Great Shepherd of all, in the work of saving souls. (Cheers.)
Again, he said, he did not undervalue scholarship; seven
years passed at a public school and three years at a univer-
sity was a foundation of granite ; but when they found that
a pretty straw shed was erected, they were not proportion-
ing the means to the end, nor balancing the education of
the future clergyman aright. (Cheers.) What was a
clergyman's business? It was not to write Greek verses,
or to solve difficult problems in mathematics. All
this was valuable and important as a preliminary, and
he would have it not a whit less than at present. But he
would build upon that preparation a distinct professional
education. (Cheers.) Much had been said about the duty
of the laity to the clergy. They would, perhaps, permit
him, though a clergyman, to speak of the duty of the
clergy to the laity. Englishmen were always willing to pay
a good price for a good article ; but they did not like paying
a good price, or any price, for an article they did not want,
or for a bad article. It was of no use telling the laity,
" Your clergyman was the senior wrangler or the first
classic of his year." The educated layman would say, "I
grant that is a high honour; but my senior wrangler can-
not read the service fit to be heard—(cheers and laughter)—
and my senior classic"—he begged the indulgence of his
clerical brethren, but no one would hise excepting those
whom the shoe pinched—(laughter)—" my senior
classic may possibly contract with S. P. 0. of Blooms-
bury for a weekly supply of beautifully lithographrd
sermons, and read them as his own." (Laughter.) And
why did he do this ? Because at the university he was never
directly taught to write a word of English. (Cheers.)
Again, the deli-eery of a sermon, supposing it to have been
written by the clergyman himself, was often so sleepy,
monole,nous, dull, and inaudible, that it was quite enough
to empty the church. (Cheers and interruption.) He
thought he heard a few hisses, but it was well known
whence they came. (Oh, oh, and laughter.) Why was it
with the agricultural classes that dissent was so popular?
It was not that those classes were lovers of dissent, as dis-
sent. (Cheers,) But it was because they could not
hear the old rector, and could not follow the young curate.
(Applause.) It was not because they disliked to go to
church, but because they could not understand its ser-
vices. They, therefore, emptied the parish church and filled
the Salem or the Bethel next door to it. (Laughter.) The
laity had the right to demand an article that was really use-
ful. When they went to physicians they went to men if
skill and experience--to men of five years' training as phy-
sicians. They went to them not because they were Latin
or Greek scholars or mathematicians, but because they were
good physicians. (Cheers.) He wanted this argument
applied here. He did not want the three years' university
course to be diminished a day. (Hear, hear.) lie did not
want this, which was most valuable and important, at all
interfered with by any modification. But he asked fur a
supplementary year or two fur the thorough training of men
in reading the service, composition and delivery of germane,
and in everything in which they were not at present

CONDUCT OF THE PRUSSIANS IN JUTLVND.—The
following appears in the France :—" Ou the 27th
ult., g,OOO Prussians entered Viborg. Accounts from
Horsens state that the troops which have arrived there are
quite young soldiers, well dressed anti newly come from
Silesia, but their arrogance and effrontery know no bounds.
They enter the shops in parties of ten or a dozen, and lay
hold of anything that strikes their fancy without thinking
of paying. Sometimes they even add raillery to their
pillage, telling the poor shopkeepers that the King of
Denmark will pay for what is taken.' If by chance they
find a door shut against them they break it open, and in
some houses they have even assaulted the inhabitants, when
the latter have not immediately given them what they ask
for."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

FRANCE.
PARIS, MAY 7.

Advises received here from Tunis state that the
French, English, and Italian squadrons have arrived
there. They have detached a) pa to guard the coast.
Tunis is quiet. The tribes are becoming satisfied
with the concessions they have obtained, and are
beginning to give in their submission,
The New Glaris Journal recounts an affair which
hasabduction cau s e d
oaf
five certain
children
sensationldren i
nn
inco Switzerland—the
s e
queue of reli-
gious prejudices. Antoine Lauber, the father of a
family, living in a small town in the canton of
Lucerne, hid his house lately invaded by au armed
force and his five children taken away by order of
the authorities. The father's crime consisted in not
having his last child baptised by an ecclesiastic of
the place. The Swiss journal does not state what
religious creed is in question, but that point does not
signify, as the wrong consists in the intrusion of
authority. Lauber has appealed to the Council.
The Mgacher states that the Governor-General
of Algeria has just ordered the establishment of
five Arab-French schools at Ammi-Moussa, Zem-
morab, Frenda, Saida, and Nedroma, in the pro-
vince of Oran. The Arabs, who begin to appreciate
benefits of instruction, will thus have an oppor-
tunity of getting their children taught the elements
of the French language without leaving home, and
those who wish for a more complete education can
afterwards go to the Arab French college, which
will s; on be opened at Oran.
The Memorial de la Loire relates the follow-
ing :—" Two or three days ago a respectably-
dressed man of about 50 called on a well-known
medical man at St. Etienne and said, lam a
builder by trade, and in making my contracts am
sometimes obliged to drink rather too freely.
Finding myself lately indisposed in consequence of
those exceeoes, I was advised to apply to M. X--
of Caux, who had, I was told, a secret of sovereign
efficacy in such cases. I followed the recommen-
dation and took the remedy, which consisted of a
white powder done up in small packets, but instead
of being cured I find I am poisoned, and was told
that the remedy is arsenic. Yes, air,' continued the
speaker with great violence, am poisoned, and
already to-day I have had one violent attack
While speaking his countenance changed, his
bieathing became heavy, and throwing himself back
in a chair he exclaimed, I am going to have
another—l am dying—help ! help!' The doctor
went towards him and found that he was dead.
The body was conveyed to the Hotel Dieu, where a
post-mortem examination proved that the man died
from paralysis of the pectoral muscles, brought on
by violent emotion produced by a diseased imagina-
tion. No trace of poison existed. The white pow-
der was analysed and turned out to be, not arsenic,
but simply sugar of milk, a completely harmless
substance."

BOURSE, May 6.—The announcement of the Bank
of France having raised its rats of discount to 7per
cent, has had an unfavourable effect on the market,
and the business dons shows lower prices. Threes
for the Account are now at 661. 40c. Mobilier
have receded to 1,127 f. 50c. Railway Market quiet,
but with prices pretty
well maintained up to the
present time. The market closed as follows :

4t per Cents .. 93 50 Italian Loan 6B 30
Do. end month.... Do. end month 6B 50
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 45 Do. end month....
Credit Alobilier 1130 Russian
Do, end m0nth....1132 50 Austrian .. Bl
Bank Shares 335.5 Spanish Threes.... 51
Credit Fancier 1230 Elome Debt
Roman

14),ILWAYS,
Cash. Account.
Orleans * )41111:
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean 935 935
New ditto BBO • •
Southern 640 640
Western - ..
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lorpbard
North of Spain
Saragossa 555 -- 552 50
Ditto to Barcolona 245

universities do not possess the Faculty of Theology);
319, Historico-Philological Faculties; 1,318,
Physico •Mathematical Faculties ; 1,997 Juridical,
and 1,140, Medical Faculties; lastly, 36, Faculty of
Oriental Languages.

Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments

in the Civil Service,

(From the Cad Service Gazette.)

COLONIAL Orr•lcE.—Mr William Alexander Hamilton
has been appointed to a clerkship.
WAR OFFICE,—Mr Thomas Garnant Cawker has been
appointed a temporary clerk in the Accountant-General's
Department, Pall-mall.
HOUSE or COMMONS.—Mr Charles Forster has been ap-
pointed to a clerkship in the Committee-office.

PAYMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE.—Mr Wm. A. Andoe
has been appointed to a clerkship.
STATIONERY- OFFICE.—A vacancy in the fourth class has
occurred, in consequence of the death of Mr H. Barnes,
third class clerk.

The following promotions have taken place,in consequence
of the superannuation of Mr Joseph Blades, a first-class
clerk—Mr George Neech, from the second to the first-class
—3,lr W. H. Gardner, from the third to the second-class—
Mr Herbert Taylor, from the fourth to the third class.
BOARD OF THADE,—MT William T. James has been ap-
pointed a temporary clerk. Mr John Mayne Curtis has
been appointed a temporary clerk in the Seamen's Registry
Office.

COURT OF PROBATE•-Mr Amyatt Edmund's Ray has
been appointed a searcher. _ _

ADMIRALTY.—The following promotions have taken
place in the Hydrographic Depaz tment, Whitehall—Mr T.
Walker, Ist class draughtsman, has been promoted to be
chief draughtsman. Mr E. J. Powell, 2d class draughts-
man, has been promoted to be Ist class draughtsman, vice
T. Walker, promoted. Mr R. C. Carrington, 3d class
draughtsman, has been promoted to be 2d class draughts-
man, vice E. J. Powell.
PosT•oFFICE.—Mr Christopher E. Pribble has been ap-
pointed a temporary clerk, London. Mr Ludovic Walter
Campbell has been appointed a temporary clerk, London.
Mr Thomas Barrows has been appointed a temporary clerk,
London. Mr Frederick W. Cooper has been appointed a
clerk at Manchester.

CUSTOHS,—Mr Henry G. Batley has been appointed clerk
in the tea department, London, Mr. W. Cheetham has been
appointed a clerk in the Receiver-General's Office, London.
Mr William Harrald has been appointed a clerk in the
Warehousing Department, London. Mr A. Lorraine has
been appointed a clerk in the East and West India Docks,
London. Mr. D. Minter has boon promoted from 2d to
3d class of clerks, London Docks. Mr A. C. Bray has been
promoted from 3d to 2d class of clerks, London Docks. Mr
P. Bergin has been promoted from 4th to 3d class of clerks,
London Docks- Mr G. Saunders has been promoted from
sth to 4th class of clerks, London Docks.
INLAND REVENUE.—Stamps and Tax Branch—Messrs
Geoffrey Howard Young and Evelyn Freeth have been ap-
pointed junior clerks in the Legacy Office. Mr Henry
Forbes Clarke has been appointed a junior clerk in the
Accountant's Department. Mr Charles Loughton has been
appointed a porter in the warehouse keeper's department.
Messrs James Sugden and G. H. Bishop have been appointed
to be assistant surveyors of taxes.
EXCISE BRANCH.—Mr John Williams, officer, Wands-
worth, Ist division, Kingston collection, has been appointed
an examiner. Mr Edmund Charles Sturgeon, officer,
Wotton division, Gloucester collection, has been appointed
an examiner. Mr George Brooks, officer, Evesham ride,
Worcester collection, has been appointed to Bromley, Ist
division, Middlesex collection. Mr Charles Hall Tanner,
officer, Droitwich ride, Worcester collection, has been ap-
pointed to Evesham ride, Worcester collection. Mr George
Rodgement, officer. Alloa, sth division, Stirling collection,
has been appointed to Cheadle division, Stafford collection.
Mr George Johnston Murray, officer, Sahara ride, Cam-
bridge collection, has been appointed to Alloa, sth division,
Stifling collection. Mr James Slater, first-class assistant,
Alloa, 6th division, Stirling collection, has been appointed
officer of Sopham ride, Cambridge collection. Mr Charles
Horne, 3d clerk, London, North collection, has been ap-
pointed officer of Eastbourne ride, Brighton collection.
Mr Albert Western, officer, Dundalk, Ist division, Middle-
sex collection, Mr William Dean, Ist clerk, Londonderry
collection, has been appointed officer of Dundalk, Ist divi-
sion, Drogheda collection. Mr John Lloyd, first-class
assistant, Langholm division, Dumfries collection, has been
appointed officer of Hinckley, 2d ride, Leicester collection.
Mr John Hawkins, officer, Wellington ride, Shrewsbury
collection, has bean appointed to Wandsworth, Ist divisicn,
Kingston collection. Mr. Thomas Allen, officer, Carlisle,
2d ride, Carlisle collection, has been appointed to Welling..
ton ride, Shrewsbury collection.