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London, England, 1864-06-24 00:00:00

Trite SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1864.

trict, and unfortunately the previous proceedings
of our authorities are not calculated to inspire
confidence in the prudence of their actions or the
wisdom of their decisions.

The subject of education is not a very novel
one. It has become a truism to say that educa-
tion is beneficial to every man ; that properly
given it develops his faculties and fits him for
whatever station he may occupy, for whatever
work he may take in hand. The old days are quite
passed away in which the advocates of education
had hard work to convince those of the old school
that it was desirable for the lower classes to get
beyond reading the Bible and spelling their name;
in fact, at the present time the danger lies rather in
the opposite direction of overmuch teaching. Still
here is a gradually increasing sense of the impor-
ance of cultivating the mind, which makes the
subject fresh and always Ict!.l of interest ; and very
ately the public schools Commission has opened
the question with regard to our great seminaries
if instruction. A want is beginning to be felt in
our scholastic system, which the energy and enter-
' erprise of Englishmen will not don g delay to supply.
There is a wide gap between the national school
And Eton, Harrow, and their rival establishments,
yet this vacancy lies just where the wants of a
very large and important class of the British public
—those of the middle rank—need instruction. Mr.
GATHORNE HARDY referred to this subject in des
livering an address the other evening at a school
designed in some measure to supply this want. The
occasion was the annual examination and distribu-
tion of prizes at the Westminster and Pimlico
Commercial Schools, which was founded to provide
3 satisfactory education for the children of
tradesmen and small profess'oaal men in
Westminster and its neighbourhood. Mr. HARDY,
who occupied the chair, observed that the chief
hing which commended itself to their notice, was
dse question of middle class education, which was
the only education not assisted throughout, In ths
upper ranks there are the endowed colleges and great
public sehoo!s, the recipients of substantial bene-
factions from their ancestors. For the lower classes
there are the national schools, which give a good
sound education to the children of working men ;
but for the smaller tradesmen and people of that
class there is an absolute lack. It has been proved
ey the inquiries of the commission that many of the
small introductory schools are superficial in their
teaching, and there is good reason to fear that a
eiperficial education is all that is gained in many
°stances by the class of which we have spoken.
\lr. HARDY observed that it was especially impor-
tant at the present day that men of the middle
ranks should be well informed, else the growing
intelligence and increasing knowledge of the classes
oelow them would soon outstrip them. The boys
of the school which he was then addressing would
srobably in att,?r life have to preside over others, to
irder, guide, and rule them, and if their subordinates
a position were really their superiors in intellect,
.ow difficult and dangerous would be such a situa-
len. There is much need that something should
•as done for the saltation of this difficulty, and the
stablishment of good sound public schools for the
over middle classes wilt ezercise a most beneficial
~fieeece on the general intelligence of the country,
,nd supply a, long existing want.

The Countess (Dowager) of jersey has returned
0 her residence in.Berkeley-,square, from Middleton Park,
,ear Bicester. It will of rd toe large circle of her lady-
-hip's friends pleasure to learn that the countess is in ex-
;ellent health,

Tne Countess Cowper entertained the Earl and
Countess de Grey and a large party at dinner yesterday at
ler //Amnion in St. James's-square.

A grand amateur dramatic performance will talc(-
place at Her Majesty's Bijou Theatre, Haymarket, on
Monday, July 4, in aid of the funds of the Epileptic Hospi-
al. At the request of the committee, Mr Molloy's operetta
which was lately produced with signal success at St. James's
Hall, will be repeated.

THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE VOLUNTEERS.
—ln reply to a letter from Lord Bury, thalikkg
his royal highness for the honour conferred upon the Civil
Service Rifles by the late royal inspection, the Prince of
Wales writes:—" Marlborough-house, June 16, 1861.
My dear Lord Bury,--Many thanks for your very kind
letter, which I have just received ; and for your kind
allusions to the Princess and myself. I can assure you
that both the Princess and myself are deeply sensible of the
feelings displayed towards us. And we were both very
much gratified by the inspection of the Civil Service
Volunteers under your command yesterday. We shall
always be most anxious to suppe:t any great public institu..
Lion and undertaking ; and is most necessary to encourage
the volunteers, who ha'-',0 displayed so noble a feeling in
coming forward fr:r the defence of their sovereign and
country.—'Vitt my kindest regards to Lady Bury, I remain
yours very "dincerely,—Sig4ned, ALBERT EDWARD.—Lieut.-
Colon^:, the Viscount Bury, ALP."
Mr. DIsaAELI writes to the Guardian to defend
Himself from a charge of disingenuousness made by that
paper in a review of " The Revolutionary Epick," and
'eased on an alteration which Mr. Disraeli had made in the
new edition of that poem. He says that in omitting the
words " Nature's laws" (which in the original edition are
"aid to have approved the bold blow that Brutus struck)
he has made a " purely literary" alteration.
AN EARTIIQUAI E PENDULUM is rather a start-
ing instrument, but it is in use by Mr E. J. Lowe,
the astronomer of Highfield House, near Nottingham, who
by its means witnessed "a sensible movement of the earth
trom IV. a.W. to E.5.E.," on the evening of the Sunday
before last, succe'ded by "an almost cmstanl movement," •
though less "sensible." for the space of two hours during
the following midnight.

LORD CLYDE S SUCCESSOR.—" Minhattan" says
-xciternent has been caused here by a London letter
in the _Herald. It states that General M'Clellan is the heir
to Lord Ciyee, being first cousin to him, and nephew of
John M'Liver, th. father of his lordship. Of course the
flews is true, and lam glad of it. It will relieve General
M Clellan of much embarrassment. As a peer of England
he will be much respec ed, and he is capably of holding the
position with credit to himself, as no military duties are
tnn,zed to an English peerage. It will relieve the mind
ot Mr Lincoln. The new Lord Clyde has my best wishes.
It is a great pity that the late Lord Clyde did not know
his American relative, and feel how high he was honoured.
l'he same correspondent also mentions that .Punch, had con-
rained a caricamre portisit of the cortesp9ndent, ears
and all.

EDUCATION GRANT FOR SCOTLAND.-A minute
of the Committee of Council on Education, dated
the 11th inst., has been laid before Parliament. It directs
that the following letter of instructions to be issued to Her
Majesty's inspectors of schools in Scoiland : —" The Revised
Code, so far as payments to elementary schools are con-
cerned, is suspended in Scotland until June 1865. You
will continue strictly to inspect and exareine schools accord-
ing to the forms and instructions of the Revised Code.
Your duty is the same as it the examination of children in-
dividually, according to article 40 of the revised Code, hat
been the prescribed method of inspection under the
Code of 1860, Augmenta.ion, stipends, and gratituties
will continue to be paid on your report as under the Code
of 1860, and will not be assessed at so much per child."
THE OLD STORY.—Grouse are abundant on all
the moors of the surrounding forests. No better
weather could have been wished for the hatching. and
bringing
the young broods to maturity. Already the young
birds are fast getting strong, and the broods are large and
numerous. For may years past there have not been such
promising and cheering prospects for the sportsman.
Ptarmigan, black cock, and all other game are plentiful;
while hares and rabbits, more especially the latter, are
swarming In such numbers on the low grounds as to be a
perfect nuisance, not only to farmers but also the young
plantations, where their destructive ravages must, if con
tinu ed
a, r end in
tin utterly destroying the young firs and larches.
Stags
into splendid condition, and never perhaps
egetg
were the herds so large and numerous, and yet so promis-
ing of affording early and good sport to the huntsman in
the wide forests of Mar as they are this season.--ifbenicen
Journal.

CHILD SMOTHERING IN THE METROPOLIS.—..
Last evening Mr John Humphreys, coroner for Elst
Xliddlese:z, held two inquests, one at Bethnal-green, and
the other at Shoreditch, on the bodies of children suffocated
in bed. Ihe coroner observed that thousands of children
were destroyed annually by the carelessness of parents, and
hey were called " Saturday night cases," because the chief
portions of such deaths occurred on the Saturday night,
when the parents would eat hearty suppers and indulge
largely in intoxicating drinks, alter which the children were
placed between them and overlaid, whereby they became
suffocated. Verdict in each caie—Accidohtal/y elaoC3ted
thr9pg4 tip euilgwatu c 149 pareatE,

TIM CRUM OF ST, JOHN OF
JERUSALEM.

(This Day.)

In connection with a noble Hospital, under
the same title as the above, there has Eeen
formally opened to-day, in Great Ormonde-
street, the very beautiful Church of St. John
of Jerusalem. It is the sole foundation
of Sir George Bowyer, Bart., M.P. De
signed, as the Hospital is, for the relief of the
afflicted of all countries, classes, and creeds indis-
criminately, the opening of the sacred edifice
attached to it was eoiernr!ly inaugurated by H. E.
Cardinal 'Wiseman, assisted by a number of Roman
Catholic Dignitaries in the presence of a very
fashionable congregation, High Mass com-
menced at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. The
procession, which filed into the sanctuary
from th© sacristy to the sound of Mendels•
splays Wedding March from tile Midsummer
Night's Dream a procession ushered in by
acholytes bearing lighted waz topers, and swing-
ing the thurible of incense, included in its
array, besides a number of R3maa Catholic
priests several high dignitaries of their commu-
nion. Among the latter were the Right Rev. Dr.
Morris, Bishop of Troy (in partibus); the Right
Rev. Dr. Grant, " Bishop of Southwark ;"
the Right Rev. Monsignore Manning, the Very
Rev. Dr. Hearn, and—immediately preceded
by the Very Rev. Canon O'Neil and Mon-
ignore Searle—his Eminenea Cardinal Wiseman.
The muric was of no one " Mass" in par-
ticular, but consisted of a selection. It was

performed by an excellent choir with orchestral
accompaniments. The Kyrie wai from Haydn's
Imperial Mass—the Gloria from the same great com.
poser's Sixteenth. Ist the Gradual was given the
Cujus Animanz from Rassini's " Stabat Mater."
At the Offertory, from the same masterpiece, the
Iniktnzmatus. The " Credia" was Weber's. But
the " Sanctus," the " Benedictus," and the
" Agnus Dei," were all from Haydn, the last men-
rioned of these, like the Kylie, from the Imperial
Mass. Immediately after the Gospel, an impressive
sermon was delivered by Cardinal Wiseman from
the brief but suggestive text, " Heal the sick"—:3,n
injunction enforced by the after.words, " Freeiy
you have received, freely give !" This sermon,
which occupied some considerable time in the
delivery, was illustrative, for the most part, of
the fact that the whole notion of a hospital
originated with Christianity. The idea of
healing the sick, said the Cardinal, appeared never
once to have entered into the imagination of the
most refined and civilised races of antiquity.
Charity, in Effect, had no existence, as a
7vurd even, much less as a living principle,
until the foundation of Christianity. Among
the pagan Romans, it was true, there was a

place set apart in each canin for the accommodation
of the wounded soldiery. Ar..—in the establish-
ments of the wealthier patricians of the em-

pire, there were infirmaries for the con-
venience of such slaves of the household as wore

indisposed. But these things were done purely as
matters of convenience. Tie healing of Euffer,ing
humanity was not for a moment seem•
ingly dreamt of—until the coining of
the Good PhyEician) " B:eak the bread to

the hungry" was said of old to the pious Jew by
his prophet. But—the helping the leper, the para •
lytic, the fever-stricken, the consumptive—all this
came only with Christianity. -Wherever Jesus of
rareth went—there was the model of the Hospital.
Ile blind by the wayside clamoured to him for aid.
The leper, denied access to the abodes of men, and
regarded with loathing by all others, were per-
mitted to come freely to Him to be cleansed. One
powerful word from His lips was enough. At His
bidding the cripple rose, took up his bed and walked.
The mere touching of the gem of His garment
was a sovereign remedy—the mere flitting
by of His shadow ! All the agonies and infirmi-
ties of man disappeared at His uppro4ch. The
Hospital was given to us then in all its perfected
organization. And here—in this Hospital of bt.
John of Jerusalem, in the very midst of London, was
another of those noble 3tructures which bad been
raised in such splendour in all ages of Christianity
n d which are to be found scattered far and wicie
over the surface of Chrstendom. Edifices so ex-
quisitely designated, each of them, in France Hotel
Dieu—Palace of God !
This noble building of The Church of St.
John of Jerusalem is blth externally and inter-
nally, but especially within, worthy of Ell praise
as an architectural achievement. It is in the Italian
style and has a polished and carved Portland stone
front in Great Ormond-street, a frontage greatly
adding to the appearance of that thoroughfare.

Inside, the building is sumptuously finished
with marble pilasters with richly gilded
capitals and cornices—and having a carved and
ribbed roof crowned by a remarkably elegant cupola.
The structure appears to be occupied, to the extent
of nearly one half of it, by the sanctuary, which is
paved with polished marble. Besides two side altars.
upon either hand, the
High altar stands imme-
diately below the dcme, with a magnificent balda-
chin° or canopy composed of varied and costly marble

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—the baldachino sustained over this central altar
upon the summit of four noble pillars of mottled and
cream-coloured marble, each of them surmounted
with a richly gilded Corinthian capital. Behind
this, fronting the entrance door of the church,
is the choir of the
nuns who aro in at-
tendince upon the poor patients in the adjoining
hospital—the very Eame community (it may be

interesting to men;ton)
which did such good ser-
vice for our wounded soldiers in the Crimea and at
Scutari. The nuns' choir, which is fitted up with
carved stalls of mahogany as well an of woods of
various other descriptions, is surmonnted by a grille,
through the gilt :attics-work of which the sister-
eood are dimly distinguishable. Two tribunes, with
earvt..d stone corbels, and polished alabaster parapets
are for the accommodation, one of them, of the
lower ward of the Hospital, the other, of the choir
and organist. The hospital next door sccomodates
44 patients, most of them incurable, and is arranged
with every applianea which modern sanitary science
his invented. The convent extends behind the
church, and will accomodate 30 Sisters of Mercy
with spacious and well arranged, but perfectly
simple apartments.
Tae whole of these works have been done at the
expense of Sir George Bowyer, by Mr. Simpson,
contractor, of 241, Tottenham-court-road, from the
d6signs and under the superintendence of George
Guldie, Et,ci architect, of 34, Gloueestervlace,
Portman-square, London.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market continues dull. Biles probably
6,000 bales.

0,000 or

WEEKLY REPORT.
Rather a fluctulting miirket all the week, and
prices of Low Surats, to qz down since last Fr;day.
Sales 34,750 bales; spec, 3,190; export, 11,200;
ac; ual export, 11,861. Middii4 Orleans quoted at
291 ; noble, 29 ;
Uplands, 2C-; fair Egyptian,
281, 29; Surats, Bto 25. Weeks Iwports, 49,039;
k adulated stock, 311,531.

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THE ALABAMA.
SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 24.

The following is a correct list of the officers save a
by the steam yacht Deerhound, and conseauently
escaped being made prisoners :
Captain It. Semmes.
John M. Kell, First Lieutenant.
Arthur Sinclair, jun., Second Lieutenant.
B. K. Howell, First Lieutenant of Marines.
J, S. Bullock, Acting Master.
E. A. M, fatt, Midshipman.
E. M. Anderson, do.
M. O'Brien, Third Assistant-Engineer.
Gaorga T. Falham, Masters Mate.
Jamas Evans, do. do.
Max Meulnier, do. do. -
J. Schrader, do. do.
W. Breedlove Smith, Ciptaies C:erk.
T. C. Cuddy, Gunner.