The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-20 00:00:00

N°. 22,461.

NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " ST. OLA,
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ELOPEMENT EXTRAO,IIDINAILY.

and
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an Entirely New Entertainment, at the Polygraphie Hall,
King William-street, Caaring-cross, E VERY EVENING,
at eight (except Saturday); Saturday Mormings at three.—
Stalls, and box stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphfAheatre, is. A
Plan of the Stalls may be seen, and Seats seem red at the Hail
from eleven to five.
Next Morning Performance, Saturday, May 7, at three.

MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED. with Mr.
JOHN PARRY, TO-NIGHT, at Right, in THE
PYRAMID. To be followed by THE BAUD AND HIS
BIRTHDAY, by William Brougn, Esq., sustat ned by Mr. and
Mrs. German R,ed ; and, for the first time, TH E SEASIDE,
or MRS. ROSELEAF OUT OF TOWN, by MI-. John Parry.
—ROYAL GALLERY of ILLUsTRATIOI., If, Regent-
street. Unreserved seats, is., 25.; stalls, 35.; stall (spring)
chairs, ss.

THO X F 0
6, OXFORD STREET, W.

R D,

THIS EVENING, the MERRY WIVES OIP WINDSOR,
by Otto Nioolai ; and UN BALLO IN MA.SCHERA ; sup-
ported by the whole of the Talented Company.
Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

Comedy by UNSWORTH and EUGENE, Mr. T. Maclvan,
W. Randall, G. Hutchenson, G. W. Jester, Miss, Kelly Power
(the juvenile comedienne), dtc.. &c.

Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony,. la. ; private
boxes, 10s. 6d.
Open every Evening.

CANTERBURY HALL,
Westminster-road, London.
_ _ THIS EVENING,

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in production, the New Illusion, surpassing anything yet
attempted, entitled THE TERCENTENARY ; or,a NIGHT
WITH SHAKSPERE, written expressly by W. F. Vander-
yell, Esq., in which Mr. W. Randall. will re-appear.

Also, PRINCE BLOSSOM;
OR, THB FAIRIES OF THE MAGIC FOUNTAIN AND THE

FOREST OF SHADOWS !

" The figure of Fame, winged and trumpeted, passing and
repassing through the Magic Fountain, is so complete an
Illusion that it wellnigh ceases to be illusory."--Morning
Star, Feb. 19.

Prince Blossom, ➢iiss Townley.

In addition to the usual Entertainments of the establish-
ment, supported by the whole of the talented company, in-
cluding Arthur Lloyd, Miss Nelly Pow.T, Mr. T. Maclagan,
U. W. Jester, &o. to

A lesion—Area, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, le.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL
GALLERY; established 28 years at the Bazaar,
Ba ker-street.

NEW ADDITION. A full length portrait model of
DR. COUTY DE LA POMMERAIS, the Poisoner, taken
from the original phot graph, by Mona. Trinquart, of Paris,
from life, is now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy.
Admittance, Is. ; Napoleon Rooms and Chamber of Horrors,
6d. extrat.

SALES BY AUCTION.
Pinner.—Freehold Building Land.

MR. ANDREW HIND will SELL by
AUCTION, In JULY, 23 ACRES of LAND, beauti-
fully situate near the village, and about a mile from the
station. The plots will contain from half an acre to two
acres arid upwards. The estate is well wooded, and has a
stream of water flowing through it Residents on this pro-
perty wl 11 be entitled to the privileges of Harrow school, and
the occu rant of each house of the value of X5O per annum
will reef .ive a free first-class railway ticket to London for 13
years. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's.

FREEHOLDS.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has
for SALE a Pair of Semi-detached 7-roomed VILLAS,
pleasantly situate near a station, half an hour's ride from
Farringdon-street. Price £550 ; part may remain. Now let
at £22 each, but possession of one may be had. Will be sold
separately if desired. City Central E tate Offices, 1, Little
Carter-lane, St. Paul's.

500 BUSINES
JSUENSE.-LAIISTr., ANDW. HIND'S
Containing 500 Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, &c.,
Gratis.
Letters, enclose stamp.—Particulars entered free.
OFFICES—CORNER OF LITTLE CARTER-LANE, ST. PAUL'S.

BUSINESS PREMISES. - Mr. ANDREW
HIND has to LET a spacious SHOP, 9 rooms and out-
buildings, at Marylebone. Rent £l2O. Lease 40 years.
Premium £lOO. Also the following :—Kingsland, rent £5 ;
Hampstead-road, £l5O ; near Whitechapel, £55, dtc. Offices,
corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's.

BUSINESS PREMISES WANTED.—Must
be large, and suitable for manufacturing purposes. If
with water-power will he preferred. :Send particulars ano
terms to Mr. ANDREW HIND, corner of Little Carter-lane,
St. Paul's.

MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS,
TILADERS, AND EXECUTORS.
ACCOUNTS arranged and adjusted, and Balance Sheets
prepared.—Financial operations organised and Banking fa-
cilities arranged.—Cash Advances made on Trade Stock,
Dock Warrants, and other Securities, and Sales effected.—
The Agency of Provincial and Foreign Firms undertaken.
Address, Messrs. BANKES and Co., Accountants, 20,
Pevereux-court, Strand, London, W.C.

PRIZE MEDAL.-INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION, 1862.
FRANCIS TUCKER dz CO., Wax Chandlers, dm., dro.,
To the Queen and the Pf ince of Wales.
(Established 1720.)
The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862,
testifies to the excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers'
manufacture.
A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis
Tucker and Co., on the subject of
WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS,

PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of
Chancery, in a cause William White and others v.
Marian Lyons and another, the Creditors of MOSS LYONS,
late of Doughty-street, in the county of Middlesex, Floor
Cloth Manufacturer, who died in or about the month of
FebrJary, 1864, are by their solicitors, on or before the Ist
day of July, 1864, to come in and prove their debts at the
chambers of the Vice-Chancellor Wood, at No. 11, New-
89,aare, Lincoln's-inn, in the county of Middlesex ; or, in
d efault thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded from the
l.►enefit of the said Decree.

Thursday, the 7th day of July, 186 i, at 12 o'clock at *won,
at the said chambe s, is appointed for hearing and adjudi-
cating upon the claims.
Dated this 10th day of June, 1864.

HY. LEMAN, Chief Clerk.
ASHURST, MORRIS, and CO.,
6, Old Jewry, London, Plaintiff's Solicitors.

OLDR ID GE'S BALM of COLUMBIA
stands unrivalled as a toilet requi site. It has been
established 40 years, and is the best and only certain remedy
ever discovered for preserving, strengthening, beautifying,
or restoring the Hair, Whiskers, or Moustaches, and pre-
venting them turning gray or fa ling off.—Sold in bottles,
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For Children's and Ladies' Hair it is most efficacious and
unrivalled.

Middle-Class Education,

A deputation from the Council of the National Associa-
tion for the promotion of Social Science waited upon Lord
Palmerston at Cambridge • house on Saturday to represent the
expediency of issuing a Royal Commission to inquire into
the grammar schools and other endowed schools in the United
Kingdom not yet reported upon, and generally into the state
of education of the middle classes. The deputation consisted
of Lord Brougbam (president), Earl Fortescue, the Bishop
of London, Lord Lyttelton, Mr Samuel Gregson, M.P., Hon
Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., Mr James Heywood, F.R.S., Mr
Shaw-Lefevre, M.P., Mr Pollard-Urquhart, M.P., Sir J.
G. Shaw-Lefevre, K.C.8., Mr George W. Hastings(general
secretary), Rev IL Burgess, Rev F. Dellamere, Rev David
Melville, Rev H. J. Barton, the Archdeacon of Coventry,
Mr Edwin Chadwick, C. 8., Mr Edgar, Mr M'Clelland, and
Mr T. H. Bastard. Lord Brougham having introduced
tho deputation and explained its object and the great need
experienced for such an inquiry, the following memorial was
read by Mr G. W, Hastings :

" The Council of the National Association for the Promo-
tion of Social Science desire to represent to your lordship
the expediency of issuing a Royal Commisaion to inquire
into the grammar schools in the kingdom and other en-
dowed schools not reported on, and thus obtain much useful
information as to the state of the education of the middle
classes. The association has from year to year collected a
large amount of evidence bearing upon the condition of
middle-class education, and there has been a general con-
currence of opinion that it is at present in a most unsatis-
factory state. Several of the eminent men who have at our
annual meetings filled the office of President of the Depart-
ment of Education have expressed themselves strongly to
this effect. Sir John Pakington, in his address in 1857,
remarked that it was a great error to suppose that the only
educational difficulties were those relating to the working
classes. ' I know,' he said,—

" • That the middle classes find themselves in a position
of great difficulty on this subject. It is the respectable
tradesman, the small farmer, the clerk, and men of that de-
scription who know not where to get education for their
children, and who, practically speaking, pay very dearly
for a bad article.'

The Right Hon. William Cowper, in 1853, said,—
" The education given in the middle-class and commer-
cial schools is, generally speaking, as faulty, in comparison
with all other education, as it is bad in itself. It has great
pretension and show without substance or solidity. There
is no superintendence whatever. There is no test of the
capacity of the toaster and no test of the success of his
teaching. The parents are loft to judge, after their own
uninstructed notions, of the excellence of the school, and
generally pay most attention to what is really of the least
importance.'

Iu 1859 the Right Hon, C, B. Adderley pointed out that
the middle class have reason to be dissatisfied with their
present means of education, the private, comtnercial,and en-
dowed grammar schools of the country, and Sir John Shaw-
Lefevre in 1861, speaking of the civil service examinations
for appointments, which are filled up from the middle
classes, as a practical test of the education they received,
said—

" ' I may mention thq incredible failures in orthography,
the miserable writing, the ignorance both of the elementary
theory and practice of arithmetic. It is comparatively rare
to find a candidate who can add correctly a moderately long
column of figures, and many do not understand common
notation so as to write down is figures a number described
in words, When the examination extends to English corn-
position, or history, the performances of some of the candi-
dates are poor beyond belief, and we are under the necessity
of keeping the standard very low, in order to prevent the
inconvenience which would arise from an indiscriminate re-
jection.'

Naval and Military Intelligence,

The Galatea, 26 gun screw frigate, Capt. R. Maguire, ar-
rived at Spithead on Saturday from Corfu, Malta, and
Gibraltar, with troops and invalids on board. She sailed
from Corfu on the 2d inst., Malta on the 6th, and Gibraltar
on the 12th. She brought the following troops from Corfu :
—29th company of Royal Engineers—Second Capt. G. W.
Stockley, Lieut Jones, 5 sergeants, 13 corporals, 73 privates,
16 women, and 16 children ; Staff of the Royal Engineers—
Brevet-Major de Vere; Lieuts. Savi, Rowe, and English,
Assist.- Surg. Meares; Medical Staff—Surg.-Major Grant;
Ist class clerk of works Marshall ; 2d battalion, 4th Regi-
ment, 1 serg., 1 woman, and 2 children; Ist battation, 9th
Regiment, 1 serg., 2 women, 9 children; 2d battalion, 9th
Regiment, 2 men, 1 woman, and 1 child; Commissariat Staff
Corps, 3 men and 2 women; barrack department, 6 men, 5
women, and 29 children; prison staff, 4 men, 3 women, and
17 children ; two widows of soldiers and 5 children. From
Malta the Galatea brought as invalids from regiments in the
garrison, 5 sergeants, 3 corporals, 97 privates, 8 women, 22
children. The Galatea steamed into Portsmouth harbour
and landed the troops from Corfu at the dockyard on Satur-
day afternoon, the 29th company of Royal Engineers being
authorities to Aldershot by the
South-Western Railway at -I p.m, and the remainder to the
forwarded on by the militarydepots of their respective regiments. The invalided soldiers
will be landed from the ship to-day and forwarded to the
Royal Military Hospital at Netley. A few naval invalids
were transferred on Saturday to
hbreorumgha
jtehstoym,se
sinhipthve shipicto Victory
and the Royal Naval Hospital
at Hasler.
The hired sailing transport Star of India, Capt. Morris,
arrived at Spithead on Saturday with time-expired and in-
valided soldiers on board from India, having sailed from
Bombay on Feb. 26, and called in at St. Helena on May 6.
The officers accompanying the troops on board consist of
Lieut. Budgen, 82d Foot, Capt Robinson, 89th, Capt Lloyd
and Lieut. Sharpe, 98th. The troops comprise 22 sergeants,
330 men, of whom 150 are invalids and the remainder time-
expired men, 24 women, and 33 children. The whole will
be disembarked to-day under the supervision of Col. Shad-
well, Assist. Quartermaster-General, the invalids sent on
to Netley, and the remainder to their regimental depots.
The Walmer Castle, hired sailing transport, Capt. Orms-
ley, arrived at Spithead yesterday from Bombay with troops
and passengers as follows :—From Kurrachee—Brevet-
Major M'Bean, V.C., 93d Regiment; Capt. Malthus, 94th;
Lieut. Burgoyne, 93d ; Lieut. Parkinson, 82d; 266 men from
various corps serving in India, 21 women and 25 children.
From Bombay—Mrs Westrop, 2 children and servant; Mrs
B. J. Poner. From St. Helena—The Rev. Mr and Mrs
; 2 soldiers and 1 woman
birth and 11 deaths
the Warner Castle will taco place
voyage
servantshome. om
One
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The disembarkation
ooliff
occurredettlhhpeestSr4to. codhHpuisrle lonerngne na
boar and
dre
dvg2oi
to-day at the sane time and under the same supervision as
those on board the Star of India.
The Atalanta, hired sailing transport,also arrived at Spit-
head yesterday from India, with a part of the 74th R egi.
ment on board from Madras, whence she sailed on the Bth
of March, calling in at St. Helena on the 9th of May. From
the latter place she brought a mail, which was landed at
Portsmouth yesterday. The Atalanta entered Spithead by
the western channel, but before reaching the anchorage she
was met by Mr James Garratt's (Lloyd's agent) cruising
cutter, and received from her instructions to proceed to
Gravesend, where the 74th are ordered to disembark, and
she consequently passed through Spithead to the eastward
without anchoring. The remainder of the 74th are hourly
expected in the Hornet, which vessel will be tent on, like
the Atalanta, to Gravesend.

The Channel Fleet at Spithead is engaged filling up with
coal, provisions, and stores, in readiness to proceed to the
Baltic, should its presence be required in that quarter.
Every ship in the fleet is in the most perfect order.
The Pearl, 21, screw corvette, Capt. J. Borlase, C. 8., was
paid out of commission at Portsmouth yesterday, under the
superintendence of Captain F. Scott, C. 8., and Aide•de-
Camp to the Queen, commanding her Majesty's Victory.
James Hawton, coxswain of the Pearl's launch, and John
Stone, captain of the mast, received a silver medal and gra-
tuity for long service. ;

The paddlewheel steamsloop Bulldog, 6, Capt. Charles
Wake, left Plymouth Sound on Saturday afternoon for
Bermuda.

The screw steamship Lion, 68, at Devonport, went into
the Channel on Saturday to test her engines and machinery,
preparatcry to receiving Capt. Arthur Farquhar, and the
crew of the Hogue, the duties of which ship in the Coast-
guard are to be performed by the Lion.
The paddlewheel steamsloop Gladiator, 6, Capt, Francis
H. Short, having discharged her freight of Irish provisions
at Devonport, was towed on Saturday from the Victualling
Yard, to the Dockyard, to be stored and victu&led with all
despatch. It is probable that she will be ready for sea to •
day, and that she wiil be sent on troop service to the West
Coast of Africa.

British Policy in Japan,

12. That an humble address be presented to her Majesty
to lay before her Majesty the substance of the foregoing re-
solutions, and humbly to pray that her Majesty will be
graciously pleased to take the same into her serious con-
sideration, with the view of adopting such measures as
may be found best calculatcd to avert war between this
country ani Japan, and to provide an increase of trade and
friendly intercourse between the two nations to their mutual
advantage.

On Friday and Saturday the C, G, E, and II troops of
the 16th Lancers arrived at Colchester, where they will
occupy the recently-erected cavalry barracks. The head-
quarters of the regiment will be at Colchester, and
two troops have been sent to Ipswich and two to Birming-
ham. A party of dismounted men has also arrived at
Colchester, It is not expected that the regiment, which is
under the command of Colonel Dickson, will remain more
than a year in England, as it stands first on the list for
India,
and will doubtless proceed to the east in the course
of 1865. The detachment stationed at Ipswich is under
the command of Major Burnell.
In accordance with the finding of a district court-martial
held at Aldershott, Troop Sergeant-Major Morton, sth
battalion Military Train, has been convicted of having, in
his capacity of pay-sergeant, received discount on moneys
expended for vegetables, See,, supplied to the men of the
battalion, and been sentenced to be reduced to the ranks.
The charge was brought by
Mr. Durston, lately manager
to Messrs Chidell Brothers, army contractors, the offence
alleged being in contravention of par 29, p. 154, Queen's
Regulations. This paragraph is as follows :—" No indi-
vidual of whatever rank in the army is to receive any fee or
gratuity in the shape of discount, or under any other deno-
mination or pretence, on payment for articles furnished or
work done for the troops." At the court martial Sergeant-
Major Morton pleaded hia entire innocence of the offence
cherged against him, denied having received any discount
from the complainant or his late employers, and asked to be
allowed legal assistance. This application was refused.
The finding of the court martial was read to the prisoner at
attention the
tLi etntee n a
case nt- Gaennd e rta to the
t hca ompa mraanadr iaripgh,
abovel
the sergeant's mess of the battalion on Thursday morning,
and was then carried out. A Memorandum has since been
issued,owffihcieet
aquoted, i
o fn calling
regiments
which
mentions o h
his expectation that commanding
williil afford him their beet assistance in
enabling him to eradicate the system of discount given and
received on payment of articles furnished to the troops—" a
system which not only engenders discontent among pri-
vate soldiers, because it is prejudicial to their interests, but
induces and promotes fraud and dishonesty among pay-ser-
geants and others." The memorandum concludes by ex-
preesing the determination of the lieutenant-general com-
manding person under his command
who may to bring to trial any
be reported for receiving discount, either directly
or indirectly, and to visit upon the offender the utmost
penalty the court martial may award.
The headquarters of the Scots Greys, under the command
of Colonel H. D. Griffith, C. 8., arrived at the North Camp
Aldershot, on Thursday, from Birmingham,
via Reading.
The strength of the regiment in marching in was—officers,
officers' chargers, 65
—troopers, 365. The women and children of the regiment
are still at Birmingham, Coventry 38—rank and file, 510—
ttry, and Weedon, where
Exhibition will be opened
30--sergeants,
will probably remain until he regiment moves into
barracks.
the 20th inst., by
the Duke of Cambridge, Field Marshal Commanding-in-
Chief, who early extended his patronage to the undertaking.
The idea was originated by Lieut.-Col, Ponsonby, com-
CAluldhehrosuhaoat Campat
com-
manding the 2d battalion 12th Regiment, and was first car-
ried out by that battalion at Dublin under his superin-
tendence, and with signal success. The articles to be ex-
hibited will be divided into two classee---first, those in-
vented or made by officers, non-commissioned officers, and
noonln
men now quartered at .Aldershott, or 1,
-Y their wives and
children ; and, second, of articles collected by officers, non-
commissioned officers, and men now quartered
at
Alder-
ehott, or by their wives and children (bona
,fide their own
property), during the course of their service in various parts
of the world.
ld The exhibition will be Open until the 14th
of July (Sundays excepted), and the sum received for ad-
mission at the doors will go to defray
.., general expenses, and
any surplus will be divided among committees of regiments
and corps exhibiting.
The flying column, detaching from the Aldershot division,
under the command of Major General Russell, consisting
of the 6th Dragoon Guards, the Royal gorse Artillery, de-
tachments of the Royal Engineers, Military Train, and the
37th and 87th Regiments, after encamping at S indhurst for
several days,'in accordance with instructions, returned to
Aldershot on Wednesday, and took pa: t in the evoluttons
of a field-day on Thursday.

The Second Trial Trip of Mr Coxwell's New

Mr Nassau Senior, quoting, in his address to the Associa-
tion, last autumn, at Edinburgh, the above passage from
his predecessor's observations, and enforcing it by his own
opinion, proceeded to make the following suggestion ;
" The first step towards a remedy for this lamentable
state of things is to know accurately the amount and the
causes of the evil—and for this purpose I venture to propose
that this Association petition the Crown to issue a Commis-
sion to inquire into the present state of the education of the
middle classes in the British islands, and to consider and
report what measures, if any, are required for the extension
of sound education to these classes,'
" This recommendation of their President was duly con-
sidered by our Department of Education, and a resolution
was unanimously passed requesting the Council to use their
endeavours fur the issue of such a Commission as was pro-
posed by Mr Senior. In performance of the duty thus cast
on them the Council approach your Lordship to-day, and they
may be permitted to say that the recent loss incurred by
the Association in the death of Mr Senior makes them the
more solicitous that his advice, given on the last occasion of
his performance of any public duty, should not be disre-
garded. The Council would further observe that full and
searching inqniry has recently been made into the state
of education among two considerable classes of society ; the
one by the commission to inquire into the revenues and
management of certain colleges and schools, and the studies
pursued and the instruction given therein ; the other by the
commission to inquire into the state of popular education in
England ; that much valuable information was obtained in
each case, and that considerable improvements, by legisla-
tion or otherwise, have already resulted, or may be expected
to result, in the education of the children of the rich and
those of the class who live by manual labour. These facts
seem to constitute a claim for soma inquiry on behalf of
that large portion of her Majesty's subjects who cannot look
for the education of their children either to the great public
schools on the one hand, or the national schools on the other,
Earl Fortescue, in a work just published, has pofnted out
the injustice of leaving this class in their present educational
position, and has shown that an authoritative inquiry may
be conducted on their behalf without involving any more
interference with private instruction than has been the case
with the commission already issued. This appears from the
fact that there are in this country some hundreds of gram-
mar schools and other endowed schools, which have never
yet formed the subject of adequate inquiry, and
,which might
probably be made available for supplying is a great degree
the want of efficient education for the middle classes. It is
true that these foundations were inquired into by the Charity
Commissioners, but the investigations of that body were
mainlydirected to the amount and use of she endowments and
not to the education imparted in the schools, The Council
would strongly urge on your lordship the necessity for in-
quiry into the whole condition and management of these in-
stitutions,'and while distinctly disclaiming any recommen-
dation of interference with private schools they suggest that
the investigations of a commission, if properly conducted,
would probably lead to the communication of voluntary in-
formation, which would throw much light on the condition of
middle class education and the best means of improving it.
For these reasons the counsel venture to urge on your lordship
the favourable consideration of their request that a lteyal
Commission be issued for hwith for the purposes they have
above indicated.

Balloon,

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We have to record the death of a distinguished Indian
officer, Major-General W. Sago. The deceased served as an
ensign in Rewah in 1812, and as a lieutenant in the Nepaul
war in 1815, for which he received a medal. He was as a
major with the army of the Indus in Affghanistan, and at
the storming and capture of Ghuznee. A medal was
awarded him for his services on that occasion. He was the
brigadier who commanded the Saugor field force, and during
the great mutiny of 1857 he held the fort of Slugor with a
small and inadequate garrison during upwards of seven
months, under trying circumstances, and 114111 relieved by
the fore under Sir Hugh Rose.

"BROUGHAM, President.
"GEORGE W. HASTINGS, General
Secretary."

Lord Fortcscue, the Bishop of London, Lord Lyttelton,
Mr E. Chadwick, C 8., and Mr James Heywood supported
the memorial.

Lord PALmEusToN admitted the importance of the sub-
ject, and promised to give it his best stunition.

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Lord Grey has given notice of the following reso-
lutions for Friday, July 1:-
1. That the relations between this country and Japan
appear to this hones to be at present in a highly unsatisfac-
tory state.
2. That it is shown by the papers laid before Parliament
by command of her Majesty that the treaty concluded be-
tween her Majesty and the Tycoon of Japan on the 26th of
August, 1858, gives to British subjects in Japan rights and
privileges which the Government of that country was
avowedly reluctant to grant, and was on:y induced to con-
fer upon them through dread of British naval and military
power.
3. That the Government of Japan has also been induced
by this same fear to make with other European nations and
with the United States treaties generally similar to that

which it has concluded with her Majesty.
4. That under the above named treaty British subjects
are entitled to claim admission into certain portions of the
territory of Japan without being subject to the jurisdiction
of its Government, her Majesty having taken upon herself
the obligation of enforcing on their part good conduct and
obedience to the law.

5. That the reports of her Majesty's diplomatic servants
show that her Majesty has not been able to fulfil this obli-
gation; the provisions of the statutes authorising her
Majesty's consuls to try and punish British subjects for
offences committed in Japan, and the means available for
carrying these laws into effect, have proved altogether in-
sufficient to prevent gross outrages and insults from being
inflicted on the people of Japan by British subjects and
persons assuming that character.

5. That the animosity against foreigners excited in the
minds of the Japanese by these outrages and insults has in-
creased the repugnance long felt by the most powerful
classes among them to increased intercourse with European
nations, and has led to the perpetration of some murders
and several daring and desperate attacks upon foreigners,
diplomatic servants and other subjects of her Majesty
having been among the sufferers from these acts of violence.
7. That the Government of the Tycoon has professed the
strongest desire to prevent the commission of these crimes
and to punish their perpetrators, but has declared itself un-
able to do so; nor does there appear to be any reason to
doubt the truth of these declarations, since two Tycoons
and a Regent of Japan have themselves been murdered ; and
one of the principal Ministers narrowly escaped the same
fate, owing to the hostility they had incurred from being
supposed to favour an increased intercourse with foreigners.
8. That in order to enforce a demand made by her Ma-
jesty's Government of redress for the murder of a British
subject it was found necessary to undertake hostile operations
against one of the Daimios, in the course of which consider-
able loss was experienced by her Majesty's ships and a large
and flourishing Japanese town was burnt to the ground.
9. That this experience of what has already taken place
leaves lit hope for the future of its being possible to avert
fresh collisions between her Majesty's subjects and Ihe Japa-
nese if the existing arrangements for regulating the inter-
course between them are maintained unaltered; and if such
collisions should occur they must sooner or later lead to a
war which would necessarily cost many lives and much
money both to this country and to Japan, and would pro-
bably bring upon the latter the heavy calamities of generil
anarchy and confusion, from the destruction of its existing
Government, while there would be no means of creating any
other authority to replace it.

10. That, apart from all higher considerations, the true
interests of this country, and especially its permanent com-
mercial interests, require that such calamitous results should
not be risked by maintaining the existing treaty with Japan
unaltered, and that it is desirable that the provisions of this
treaty should be so modified as to place the future inter-
course of the two nations on a better footing for the future.
11. That it would therefore be advisable that her Ma-
jesty's servants should without delay enter into friendly
communication with the Government of Japan and with the
Governments of other nations having treaties with Japan
similar to our own, for the purpose of determining what
changes it would be expedient to make in the provisions of
these treaties.

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STAMPED ....sd.

Death of the Rev. Canon Cureton, D, D., F, R, S,

" A whole treasure-house of learning," said Dean
Stanley yesterday in Westminster Abbey, " hGe
descended into the untimely gravt," of William
Cureton, the most eminent Syriac scholar in Eng-
land, and almost in Europe. Dr. Cureton, a canon

of Westminster, and rector of St. Margaret's, chap-
lain in ordinary to the Queen, and the royal trustee
of the British Musoum, died on Friday morning at
his country seat, Westbury, near Shrewsbury. The
doctor had received a shock on the railway, some-
where near Streatham, about a year ego, and not
more than three days before his death had obtained
from the company an unusually large amount of
compensation, £3,170, for himself and his little
daughter, who had sustained som injuries. But his
last illness was attributable is a much greater degree
to recent annoyances and disappointments. He has
never been well since an unexpected occurrence at
the close of last year; he went to his seat in Shrop-
shire a brokensdown invalid some weeks ago ; and
there he sickened and died of rheumatic fever.
There can be no doubt that his death is a very con-
siderable loss to the world of letters, and, as the
Dean of Westminster truly remarked yesterday, he
has left no one to fill his place in the peculiar line
of scholarship which he had marked out for himself
from his early manhood.
William Cureton, D.D., F.R.S., a member of the
French Institute and of nearly every learned society
in Europe, was born about 1808. There is no secret
about his early struggles in life, which Dean
Stanley twice feelingly alluded to yesterday. One
circumstance should be indeed recorded to his
honour. He inherited from his father a
small in come which might have enabled
him to enter as a commoner at the univer3
sity, but this he resigned to his mother who
was not left very well provided for, and matricu-
lated in the humble position of servitor of
Christ Church. In Michaelmas term, 1830, he gra-
duated as a double third class, when the Bishop of
Salisbury, Dr. Manning, the Rev. William Palmer,
and the Rev. H. W. Wilberforce (the latter three
converts to Rome) were first class men. In 1834,
shortly after his ordination as priest, when he was
a chaplain of Christ Church, he became sub•librarian
of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, in succession to
the Rev. Ernest Hawkins, now secretary of the
S.P.G. and prebendary of St. Paul's. In 1837 he
removed to London, on his appointment as assist-
ant keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum, at
which post he remained, working diligently, till
1849, when he received a canonry at Westminster,
to which an act of Parliament—which all Church-
men condemn, and always have condemned—had
attached or bound the rectory of the great parish
of St. Margaret's. Two years previously he had
been appointed chaplain in ordinary to the Queen
—an honour dae to the remarkable character of his
literary labours, which secured the hearty patronage
of the late Prince Consort.

Dean Stanley spoke yesterday of the late canon
as a man of truthfulness, candour, perseverance,
and honesty, as hating subterfuges and shams, and
as always avoiding controversial intolerance. Cer-
tainly due honour was paid to the doctor yesterday,
for the Dean preached in the morning at St. Mar-
garet's, and in the afternoon in the Abbey, in his
honour. At three services was the " Dead
March in Sauk" played, and all the anthems and
psalms in the abbey and the church were of a
funereal character.

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The following telegram has beenittieivaat t •
Liverpool Underwriters' Room from Lloyd's agent
at Cherbourg:— •

"CHERBOURG, SUNDAY, 12.10 P.M.

" The. Alabama left this mornin, and is now
engaged with the Kearslge. A hritl: eßnnonade
is heard.

Dr. Cureton married about 18 years ago the
daughter of Mr. Blore, the eminent architect, by
whom he leaves a large family, an infant only a
few months old being the youngest. Two of his
sons are at Westminster School. It wi:s Mrs.
Cureton who executed the facsimile of the MSS.
on the authority of which the Syri,ic text of
the Epistles of Sr. Ignatius is based. For her and
her family much sympathy is expressed in West-
minster, and, whatever may be the differences which
estranged the doctor from his parishioners, there is
no difference on this point. It only remains to be
added formally that Dr. Cureton was honorary D,D.
of Halle, corresponding member of the Institute of
France, and of the Oriental Society of Germany,
member of the Asiatic Society of Paris, honorary
member of the Historico-Theological Society of
Leipsic, &c. In fact, he was universally honoured
abroad, and, by scholars, at home, and it is much to
be regretted that he was ever placed in a position
which he could not fill with comfort to himself or
satisfaction to his parishioners.

" 1.40 P,M.
" The lieurs7.ge has just sunlr ne Alabama. An
English yacht has saved the en

We are informed by a gentlern7:n connceerl with
the firm of Mesers. Saunders, and 0:1,5, who paw .
Ce.ptaiu Semmes at Cherbourg yesterdz.y, that the
Alabama was to go out to fight the Kearsage to-day,
and with this intention Captain Semmes confieed

DEATH OF PROFESSOR JAMES MILLER, OF
EDINBURGH.—This eminent surgeon and medical
author expired on Friday morning last, He was born in
1812, the son of a minister, and received his education
from his father till he was entered at the University of St.
Andrew's. He studied medicine at Edinburgh as pupil of
the great Liston, whose assistant he became, and whom he
virtually succeeded in his practice when Liston came up
to Fettle in London. He became M.D. and Licentiate of
the College of Surgeons, and in 1842 was elected Professor
of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh. He was also
Professor of Ant,tomy at the Royal Academy, Surgeon in
Ordinary to the Queen for Scotland, a Fellow of the Royal
Society, and he held a long list of important appointments
in connection with the hospitals and public institutions of
Edinburgh. His literary works are highly esteemed. The
principal are "A System of Surgery," and "Surgical Ex-
perience of Chloroform." He was, moreover, the author of
the article on surgery in the new edition of the "Encyclo-
paedia Britannica."
Two MEN DROWNED AT ABERDEEN.—Friday,
during the breakfast hour, three young men, ap-
prentice carpenters in Messrs. Hall's shipbuilding-yard,
Aberdeen, were taking a pleasure sail in a boat in the har-
bour. The boat missed stays, and there being some wind
at the time, it filled with water and settled down, all the three
on beard being thrown out. The dockmaster (Mr. Leys)
and others at once put off in boats, and succeeded in res-
cuing one of the young men, named M'lntosh, who was
taken home and is expected to recover. The other two,
however, named Milne and Robb, were drowned. The ages
of the young men varied from 17 to 21.
THE ALLEGED MURDER AT ANERLEY,AppRE.
HENSION OP THE SUSPECTED MEN.—Through the
activity and skill of Inspector Thomson and Sergeant
Thomas from the detective department of the metropolitan
police, Scotland-yard, the supposed murderers of Louisa
Dyer have been apprehended and conveyed to the lock-up.
The excitement in the district is very great, and as the hor-
rible nature of the outrage becomes more publicly dissemi-
nated the feelings of disgust and abhorrence of the perpe-
trators of such a dreadful crime increase in intensity. It is
anticipated that the two suspected men will be taken before
the local bench this morning.

to this gentleman his journhi nud other dooumen tea
connected with the cruises of the A:aharnq.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE TRIES)
Sir,—Herewith I send you a copy of wy log re-
specting the engagement between the Confede-
rate steamer, Alabama and the Federal steamer

A VERY OLD JOKE rechaujee (in the Saturday
Review).—" My dear fellow," said an old and intimate col-
lege friend to another, looking down from the balcony of
St. James's Hall over the crowd of bonnets below, " do just
take the trouble to count in the second block, far away in
that c3rner of the room, the sixth and seventh places of the
eighth row ; there are two of the most astonishing figures
I ever beheld in my life; you must look at them—one looks
so like a cook, and the other so like a housemaid." "I see
them," his friend answered very quietly—" the cook is my
aunt, and the housemaid is my cousin."
MR. MATTHEW MARSHALL.--Mr. Matthew Mar-
shall, whose name has been so long prominently and
honourably identified with the Bank of England, has just
resigned his responsible office as chief cashier. Mr. Mar-
shall's labours in the service of the Bank extend over no
less a period than 51 years, for 29 of which he has been
chief cashier. His retirement now, at 73 years of age, is
solaced by a well-deserved tribute on the part of those
in whose employment he has passed a long and laborious

Kearsage :
" Sunday, June 19, 9 a.m.—Got up steam and
proceeded out of Cherbourg harbour.
"10 30.—Observedtthe Alabama steaming out of
the harbour towards the Federal steamer Kearsage.
"11 10.—The Alabama commenced firing with
her starboard battery, the distance besween the
contending vessels being about one mile. The
Kearsage immediately replied with her starboard
guns ; a very sharp, spirited firing was then takea
up, shot sometimes being varied by shells. Ia
manceuvring both vessels made seven complete
circles at a distance of from a quarter to half a
mile.

At 12 a slight intermission Was observed in the
Alabama's firing, the Alabama making head sail,
and shaping her course for the land, distant about

life.
FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION.—On the 26th ult. a
train was conveying a number of soldiers and negroes
and four torpedoes from Newbern to Bachelor Crest, West
Carolina, the latter intended to complete the blockade of the
Neuse river in the direction of Kingston. The last of the
four was about reaching the station platform, when an
accidental blow from a log of wood striking upon the cap
exploded the torpedo. The concussion was so great that
the other three followed on the explosion of the first, and so
quick as to make but one mighty report like the crash of a
thousand pieces of artillery fired simultaneously. Heads,
bodies, and limbs were scattered for a quarter of a mile
around, and in many instances it was found impossible to
recognise the remains of the unfortunate victims. The
signal tower and a commissary building, 20ft by 80ft, built
of logs, were thrown into the air a distance of 800 ft, and
strewed the country for a great distance around with the
fragments, Forty soldiers and negroes were killed.

nine miles.

"At 12.30 observed the Alabama to be disabled
and in a sinking state. We immediately made to-
wards her, and on passing the Kearsage were re%
quested to assist in saving the Alabama's crew.

At 12,50, when within a distance of 200 yards,
the Alabama sunk. We then lowered our two
boats, and, with the assistance of the Alabama's
whale boat and dingy, succeeded in saving about 40
men, including Captain Semmes and 13 officers. At
1 p.m. we steered for Southampton."
I may state that, before leaving, the Kearsage
was apparently much disabled. The Alabama's
loss, so far as at present ascertained, in killed and
wounded, &c., was as follows—viz., one officer and
one man drowned, six men killed, and one officer
and 16 men wounded. Captain Semmes received a
slight wound in the right hand.

The Kearsage's boats were, after some delay,
lowered, and, with the assistance of a French pilot
boat, succeeded in picking up the remaining sur-

JOHN LANCASTER.
Steam Yacht Deerhound, off Cowes, June 19.

vivorE.

PARIS, JUNE 20.

The 211oniteur of this morning gives the follow-
ing account of the destruction of the Alabama. The
Alabama left the port of Cherbourg at 11.30 a.m.
The engagement with the Kearsage commenced at
noon, when a violent cannonade was heard. The
Alabama, being pursued by the Kearsage, made
all her speed to reach Cherbourg, but shortly after
one o'c ock she sunk.

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