The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-24 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAN JUNE 24, 1864.

It would puzzle any one veil versed in the
and experienced hi the tactics
mysteries of politics,
of mancenvring, to divine what will be the next
steps taken by the Prussians and Germane in order
to carry out the designs which they have formed so
skilfully and cherish so fervently in their minds and
memories. One of the last attempts, in a minor
scale, was the show of a meeting which was put
forward, soi•disant, in favour of the new regime, but
known to the initiated to have been arranged and
planned beforehand, and not to have sprung spon-
taneously from the wishes and aspirations of the
people it affected to represent. This assembly pur-
ported to have been convened for the sake of pro.
testing against the amalgamation of the northern
part of Schleswig with Denmark. The accounts
given in the German papers set forth in glowing
terms that she or seven thousand inhabitants met
there to testify to the wishes and profess the feel-
ings of the people. This record does not tally with
a private source of information, and it is well to
note the peculiarities which mark the difference be.
twee"' them. A letter from Haderslen states that
the demonstration was got up bnanse it was deemed
requisite to have one, and this place was in some
reepects the most suitable for carrying it out. The
adroitness and dexterity employed by the origina-
tors of the plan were worthy of a better cause, and
displayed the rescnrces that are at the command of
these mar tea vrers. placards which announced
the meeting were not suffered to contain allusions
to the real secret of the whole scheme, but they
v,gue:y wade mention of the division of Schleswig,
whin was threatened, and advised a protest being
made against the fulfi;ment of such an intention.
The best proof of the nature of these attempts ie
given in the fact that Austrian soldiers had to keep
guy rd aver the meeting. A general there went EC
far as tp say that the troops were to attack the
assembly in case of any disturbance taking place,
and.that such annoyance was not likely to
emanate
from any but Danes. There was malice prepense it
the notion of such a remark, and this certainly de.
monstrates very aptly what views are entertainec
by the presiding Powers, and what craft they die
play when working cut their designs and putting
their plans into caacution, The utterance of such
sentiment was a suggestion that
.implied much

We are so accustomed to maintain our forces it
every quarter of the globe, to assert our supre.
many, and to guard our rights in every habiteebt
Mr, that it lees perhaps become too much a mat.
ter of course to enter upon dangerous or d fano
adventures without suftic'ent consideration. The
risks of climate and the evil influences of undrained
and marshy lands are formidable foes to cope with,
and often prove more deadly to our brave men that
any foreign enemy. In some instances, too, Natur,
herself protests—the uninhabitable and pathless
swamp and impenetrable thicket b .ffie the bolder
invader and defeat the most persevering attack
Alt the obstacles which soil, climate, and genera
condition can put in the way of the soldier appea
to combine on the perilous shores of the Go
Coast. According to a detailed acceunt supp
to a erne mporery by one familiar with the die
trict, its evils have been underrated rather that
exaggerated. Food is deficient for sheep, and
cattle are luxuries; the means of communica
tion ere bad, for the roads are no more than
abeep-welke. Dense and almost impassebis
forests biock the p.th, bat more perilous an•
more deadly than any other adversary is the pea
tilential malaria of the swamps described by this
traveller as an irresistible, unseen foe. There ie
little room to wonder that Mr. WINWORTH READI,
should further add that the whole margin of tht
West Coast is the domain of fever, dysenters
and every kindred ill, Nor need it surprise us
that under such depressing and disadvantageous.
circumstances the forces we sent thither on the
recent foolhardy expedition against the Ashantee
King should be decimated by sickness and morta-
lity. The recklessness with which men were de•
spatched to such a coast without a plentiful pro-
vision of all necessaries was altogether unpardon-
able, but the melancholy event has turned public
attention to the matter, and the question now asked
is not only why the men should not have beet,
better cared for, but whether they should have
been out there at all. According to Mr. WIN-
'cYO READE, the Ashantees are very unwilling
to go 1.0 war with white men. Posaibly being a
sharpand intelligent tribe they have some idea ,
it of
the hopelessness of the conflict at close quarters,
and also, as Mr. READE suggests, they may be in-
flaencedby the fear of losing those small luxuries
to which they hrole become accustomed, such as
cotton, beads, rum,
and even ammunition. IL
lit for the most part quiet
cdoeuscrrteiboeuss,thaennid as being
off_ urinate, and affirms that he
'earned from aa officer engaged in the late expedi-
tion that our men went on one occasion througl,
an ambush of 200 Ashantees, without injury and
without knowing of the ambush, until they were
told of it by an Ashen tee whom the psntis had
captured. Tnis was the first expedition in Which
the loss of life from fever was so frightfully rapid,
end it returned without seeing an Ashantee, so that
the natives did not certainly put themselves is the
way of our troops. This unsetisfactory transaction
seems likely to open the whole question of the mitt-
:Dry occupation of such unhealthy quarters. At the
best of times, says Mr. WINWORTH READE, mili-
tary hospitals are always tolerably full. It lb
by no means certain how far military occupa
lion tends to foster trade, although it was for its
protection that it was originally designed. SucL
xpedients are not usually conducive to commercia,
prosperity, and the freer and more unaided the
action of trade, the more extensive and satisfactors
teL a action in most cases. It veins that more
might be done by a naval than a military force,
end with less risk to health and life. The whole
cieestion stands in need of careful and impartial
inquiry, since before we deport so many men to Sc
unhealthy a loonlity, and insist on their remaining
in occupation of it, it is surely well to ascertain
how far such a costly sacrifice is absolutely eesane
Hal. Nothiag sleart of actual necessity can justify
raathtmance a a force in no inaalubrioua a clis-

trict, and unfortunately the previous proceedings
J f cur 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 t that properly
given it develops his faculties and fits him for
whatever station he may occupy, for whatever
work be 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
hat it was desirable for the lower classes to get
beyond reading the Bible and spelling their name;
a fact, at the present time the danger lies rather in
the opposite direction of overmuch teaching. Still
there is a gradually increasing sense of the impor-
ance of cultivating the mind, which makes the
subject fresh end always fel of interest ; and very
,ately the public schools commission has opened
the question with regard to our great seminaries
of instruction. A want is beginning to be felt in
our scholastic system, which the energy and enter-
erprise of Englishmen will not long delay to supply.
there is a wide gap between the nstional 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 de,i
ivering an address the other evening at a school
if signed in some measure to supply this want. The
cession was the annual examination and distribu-
tion of prizes at the Westminster and Pimlico
Commercial Schoo!s, which was founded to provide
1 satisfactory education for the children of
,radesmen and small profess'o3al men in
Westminster and its neighbourhood. Mr. HARDY,
who occupied the chair, observed that the chief
hing which commended itself to their notice, was
ne question of middle class education, which was
?he only education not assisted throughout. In the
leper rankatbere are the endowed colleges and great
Jublic schoo s, the recipicuts of substantial bene-
ractions from their ancestors. For the lower classes
there are the national schools, which give a good
-ountl education to the children of working men ;
,ut for the smaller tradesmen and people of that
class there is an absolute lack. It has been proven
)y 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
uperficial education is all that is gained in mans
nstances by the class of which we have spoken.
Ar. HARDY observed that it was especially impor-
tant at the present day that men of the middic
-auks should be well informed, else the growing
intelligence and increasing knowledge of the classes
selow them would soon outstrip them. The boys
of the school which he was then addressing would
)ro'oably in after rife have to preside over others, to
lder, guide, and rule them, and if their subordinates
n position were realty their superiors in intellect,
,ow difficult and dangerous would be such a situa-
ion. There is much need that something should
38 done for the solution of this difficulty, and the
establishment of good sound public schools for the
tower middle classes will exercie.e a most beneficiai
ufleence on the general intelligence of the country,
,nd supply a long existing want.

The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey has returned
o her residence in Berkeley-square, from Middleton Park,
Jest. Bicester. It will aff ,rd tne large circle of her lady-
friends pleasure to learn that the countess is in ex-
,ellent health.

Tne Countess Cowper entertained the Earl and
countess do (irey and a large party at dinner yesterday at
Jur mansion in St. James's-square.

A grand amateur dramatic performance will take
place at Her Majesty's Bijon 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.
,vhich was lately produced with signal success at St. Jamot.,'s
will be repeated.
TUE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE VOLUNTEERS.
—ln reply to a letter from Lord Bury, thanking
nis royal highness for the honour conferred upon the Civil
iervice Rifles by the late royal inspection, the Prince of
Wales writes:—" Marlborough-house, June 10, 1561.
Ay dear Lord Bury,— Niany thanks for your very kind
titter, which I have just received; and for your kind
tllusions to the Princess and myself'. I can assure you
time bo h the Princess and myself are deeply sensible of the
eelings displayed towards us. And we were both verb
etich gratified by the inspection of the Civil Service
Volunteers under your command yesterday. We shall
.Tway, be most anxious to support any great public inatitue
mu and undertaking ; and it is most necessary to encourage
be volunteers, who have displayed so noble a feeling in
~rning lot ward for the defence of their sovereign and
until —With my kindest regards to Lady Bury, I remain
yours very sincerely, —Signed, ALBERT EDWARD.—Lieut.-
Colonel the Viscount Bury, M P."
Mr. 1)Bit/tut writes to the Guardian to defend
himself from a charge of disingenuousness made by that
paper in a review of " Tao Revolutionary Epick," and
based on an alteration which Mr. Disraeli had made in the
new edition of that poem. He says that in omitting the
cords " Nature's laws" (which in the original edition are
eud to have approved the bold blow that Brutus struck)
he has made a " purely literary" alteration.
AN EARTHQUAKE 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
from VT, N.W. to E.5.E.,” on the evening of the Sunday
before last, succeeded by "an almost cmstanl movement,"
though less "sensible," for the space of two hours during
the following midnight.

LORD CLYDE S SUCCESSOR.-46 Manhattan" says
excitement has been caused here by a London letter
in the Herald. It states that General M'Clellan is the heir
to Lord Clyde, being first cousin to him, and nephew of
John M'Liver, th-' father of his lordship. Of course the
trews is true, and lam glad of it. It will Tetley, General
31•Clellan of much embarrasrment. As a peer of England
he will be much respec ed, and he is capable of holding the
position with credit to himself, as no military duties are
annexed to an English peerage, It will relieve the mind
of 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 ho was honoured.
the same correspondent also mentions that Pitneh bad con-
tained a caricature portrait of the correspondent, 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 Scoiknd : —" The Revised
Code, so far as payments to elementary schools are con.
earned, is suspended in Scotland until June F,O, 1865. You
will continue strictly to inspect and examine 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, had
been the prescribed method of inspection under the
Code of 1860, Augmentwion, stipends, and gratitutics
will continue to be paid on your repot t 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 tad getting strong, and the broods are large and
numerous. For maNy years past there have not been such
promising and cheering prospects for the sportsman.
Pt irrnigan, black cock, and all other game are plentiful;
while hares and rabbits, more especially the latter, are
swarming in au h numbers on the low grounds as to be a
perfect nuisance, not only to farmers but also the young
plantations, where their desttuctive ravages must, if con
tinned, end in utterly destroying the young firs and larches.
Stags
into splendid c,ndition, an d never perhaps
were
ssgo large and numerous, and yet so promis-
ing of affording early and good sport to the huntsman in
.he wide forests of Mar as they are this season.—Akrdeen
Journal.
ate
the
hgeertdt getting

CHILD SMOTHERING IN THE METROPOLIS.
Last evening Mr John Humphreys, coroner for East
3liddlese3, held two inquests, one at Bethnal-green, and
the other at Shoreditch, on the bodies of children suffocated
in bed. The coroner observed that thousands of children
were destroyed annually by the carelessness of parents, and
they 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, after which the children were
placed between them and o7erk.id, whereby they became
sufloc..ted. Verdict in each ease—Acc;idantaly bufbcatgd
alMgll th 9 Car9le:§Aehq Gi tha pervate,

THE CHURCH OP ST, JOHN OF
JERUSALEM,

(This Day.)

In connection with a noble Hospital, under
the same title as the above, there has been
formally opened today, 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 solemnly inaugurated by H. E.
Cardinal Wiseman, assisted by a number of Roman
Catholic Dignitaries in the presence of a very
fashionable congregation. High Mass ccm-
menced at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. The
procession, vvnich fie() into the sanctuary
from the sacristy to the sound of Mendels•
sobn's Wedding Marsh from the Midsummer
Night's Dream a procession ushered in by
acholytes bearing lighted wax tapsrs, and swing-
ing the thurible of incense, included in its
array, besides a number of R mats Catho is
priests several high dignitaries of their commie
nion. Among the latter were the Right Res. Di.
Murrie, Bishop of Troy (in partibus); the Right
Rev. Dr. Grant, " Bishop of Southwark ;"
the Right Rev. Ylonsignore Manning, the Very
Rev. Dr. Hearn, and—immediately preceded
by the Very Rev. Canon O'Neil and Mon-
signore Searle—his Eminence Cardinal IViseman.
Tne music was of no one " Mass" in par-
ticular, brit consisted of a selection. It was
performed by an excellent choir with orchestral
rccompaniments. Toe Kyrie was from Haydn's
Imperial Mass—the Gloria from the same great corn.
poser's Sixteenth. At the Gradual was given the
jus Anirnam from Rossini's " Stabat Mater."
At the Offertory, from the same masterpiece, the
Injiammatus. The " Credo" was Weber's. But
the "Sanctus," the " Benedictue," and the
" Agnns Dei," wore all from Haydn, the last men-
tioned of these, like the lip ie, 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"—an
injunction enforced by the after-words, " Freely
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 civiiised races of antiquity.
Charity, in effect, bad no existence, as a
ward even, much less as a living principle,
until the foundation of Cnristianity. Among
he pagan Romans, it was true, there was a
diace set apart in each camp for the accommodation
of the wounded soldiery. Ac—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 were
indisposed. Bat these things were done purely as
matters of convenience. Tee healing of suffering
nunannity was not for a moment seem-
ingly dreamt or—until the coning of
the G:iod Physician l " Break the bread to
+he hungry" was said of old to the pious Jew by
nis prophet. But—the helping the leper, the para •
!pie, the fever stricken, the consumpiiee—all this
cline only with Christianity. Wherever Jesus or
N z o.et h went—there wile the modelof the Hospital.
Ihe blind by the wayside clamoured to bin fur aid.
Iha leper, denied access to the abodes of men, and
regarded with loathing by all others, were per
mated to come freely to Him to be cleansed. One
powerful word from His lips was enough. At Hie
bidding the cripple rose, took up his bed and walked.
The mere touching of the hem of His girment
was a sovereign remedy—tae mere flitting
by of His shadow! All the agonies and infirmi-
ties of man disappeared at His approach. The
Hospital was given to us then in all its perfected
organization. And here—in this Hospital of at.
John of Jerusalem, in the very midst of London, was
another of those noble structure: which had been
raised in such splecnour in all ages of Carittianity
and which are to be found scattered far and wine
over the surface of Christendom. Edifices eo ex-
episitely designated, each of them, in France Hotel
Dien—Palace of God! •
This noble building of The Church of St.
John of Jerusalem is both 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 frontrage greatly
adding to the appearance of that thoroughfare.
Inside, the building is sumptuously finished
.vith marble pilasters with richly gilded
c .pitals and cornices—and having a carved and
ribbed roof crowned by a remarkably elegant cupola.
The structure appears to be occupied, to the extent
paved with polished marble. Besides two side altars.
of nearly one half of it, by the sanctuary, which is
upon either hand, the High altar stands imme-
diately below the dome, with a magnificent balda-
ehinoor canopy composed of varied and costly marble
—the baldachins sustained over this central altar
upon the summit of four noble pillars of mottled and
cream-colonred marble, each of them surmounted
with a richly gilded Corinthian capital. Behind
(his, fronting the entrance door of the church,
is the choir of the nuns who are in at-
tendance upon the poor patients in the adjoining
hospital—the very same community (it may be
interesting to mention) which did such good ser-
vice for our wounded soldiers in the Crimea and at
Scutari. The nuns' choir, which is fiited up with
carved stalls of mahogany as well ati of woods of
various other descriptions, is surmounted by a grille,
hrough the gilt lattice-work of which the sister-
riood are dimly distinguishable. Two tribunes, with
carved stone corbels, and polished alabaster parapets
..re for the accommodation, one of them, of toe
tower ward of the Hospital, the other, of the choir
and organist. The hospitat next door sccomodatee
44 patiters, most of them incurable, and is at ranged
with every appliance which modern saatary science
has invented. The convent extends behind the
church, and will eccomodate 30 Sisters of Mercy
with spacious and well arranged, but perf.ctly
simple apartments.
Tne whole of these works have been done at tl c
expense of Sir George Bowyer, by Mr. Simpson,
contractor, of 241, Tottenham-court-road, ,
George
from the
d.signs and under the superintendence of
Guldie, Ezq , architect, of 31, Glioucestersplace,
Portman-square, London.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.
Market continues dull. Sales probably 5,000 or
6,000 bales.
WEEKLY REPORT.
Rather a fluctuating market all the week, and
prices of Low Surats, to down since last Friday.
Sales 34,750 bAles; spec,
3,190; export, 11,200;
ac.ual export, 11,861. Middling Orleans quoted at
29:1 ; Mob'e, 29; Uplands, 281; fair Egyptian,
281 29; Sprats, Bto 25. Weeks imports, 49,039;
esdniated stock, 311,531.