The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-12 00:00:00

,ON, PR! DAY EVENING, RINE 12, 1883.

to in an earliei part of the evening. They proposed to
make a small increase in the salaries in consequence of
the additional duties imposed upon them under the re-
vised code; and they further made provision for giving them
schoolmasters as their assistants, and not, as had been said
that evening, appointing schoolmasters assistant-inspectors.
The schoolmasters appointed to i.ssist the inspectors w,,uld
have no power to report on the school, or do anything what-
ever beyond examining the school. He trusted the house
would not put a forced construction upon this minute, for
the only object of it was to give the inspectors assistance
upon the cheapest terms in those places where it was re-
quired. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BLACK said he would feel it his duty to move a re-
duction of the vote upon that portion relating to pupil
teachers. Taking the certificated teachers, pupil teachers,
and probationary teachers together, they had an army of
28,288 teachers. He should like to see that army in Hyde
Park. It would be a pretty one for the Prince and Princess
to review. Per what purpose had they 15,000 pupil teachers?
The hon. member contended that no apprentices ought to be
taken into the training schools during the present year, as
there was not work for the pupil teachers already on the list;
and, in that view, he moved that the vote be reduced by a
sum of DO,COO.
Mr. LO WE said the money asked for by this vote was
for the payment of pupil teachers already apprenticed, but
the hon. member might rest satisfied that under the new
code, which would come into operation on the 30th inst., no
part of the grant would be directly applicable for the pay-
ment of pupil teachers.
Mr. F. S. POWELL expressed his belief that the pupil
teachers wale the backbone of the system of education.
Mr BLACK then withdrew his amendment.
Mr. ADDINGTON inquired whether measures could not
be taken to protect unmarried females placed in charge of
parish schools from the temptations to which they were sub-
jected.

Mr. LOWE said the Committee of Council could not very
well interfere in the matter ; it was one which must be dealt
with by the friends of the teachers themselves, more espe-
cially as under the new system they w uld be the servants
of the managers, and not of the Committee.
Mr. PULLER was of opinion that the training schools
were the mainstay of the whole system, and their mainten

cut, W 43 ti wal4Ca of ,%G., With rpresird to
pupil teachers leaving their schools to follow other occupa-
tions, the last reports showed that out of 328 only 10 had
given up and gone to other employment. With respect to
the inspectors of schools, he thought it would be a very un-
fortunate thing for the country if Parliament were to be de-
prived of the information furnished by their report.
Mr. ADDERLEY feared that the system of maintaining
the training schools, as set out by the right hon. gentleman's
proposal, would not be so successful as he anticipated. Al-
together, however, he approved of the system, and only
wished it had applied to Irelar.d and Scotland also.
M r. W. E. FOSTER was opposed to the vote until further
informed as to the operation of the new system.
Sir M. FARQUHAR supported the vote. It was of the
utmost importance they should know what the inspectors
wrote, and he condemned the garbled reports of the inspec-
tors that were published by the Government.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS complained of the annual growing
increase of the vote, and he asked for an explanation why
Scotland was allowed the liberal contribution of tour or fivo
years ago, and was placed in a superior position to the other
parts of the empire. He approved of educating the poor,
but he thought it should be done with economy.
Mr. LIDDELL supported the certificate system, believ-
ing that the success of the schools depended on the efficiency
of the master. if they could not get beyond 8s 3d per head
they would have to fall back upon inferior teachers, and the
efficiency of the schools would deteriorate proportionally.
Mr. A. BL ACK said he believed advantages were given
to Scotland because they had a superior system than that
which prevailed in England. He should wish to see it,
however, improved and extended, but the revised code was
not likely to effect that object.
Mr. E, COLE 6ROOK supported the voluntary system
which prevailed in Scotland.
After some further discussion, the amendment was nega-
tived without a division, and the vote was agreed to.
The next vote was £122,883 for the department of science
and art. _ _

Mr. A. SMITH pointed out the steady increase in this
item year after year, and moved to reduce the vote by
£lO,OOO.
Mr. C. BENTINCK wished to know if it was the inten-
tion of her Majesty's Government to carry on the build-
ings at Kensington under the superintendence of the gentle-
man who was, he underst md, the master of drawing in the
school.
Mr. LOWE said that Captain Fowke had neither the
honour nor dishonour of being the designer of what was
called " The Boilers ;" they were the design of Sir Wm.
Cubitt. Captain Fowke was the designer of the Vernon and
Sheepshanks galleries at the South Kensington Museum,
and they did him the greatest credit. He was also the de-
signer of many public buildings which were greatly admired.
Mr. C. BENTINCK said the right hon. gentleman had
not answered his question. He maintained that Captain
Fowke knew nothing of architecture. With regard to
the lighting of buildings, it was right that an engineer
should be appointed. (Hear.) But he could tell the
right hon. gentleman that the sheds which he valued so
highly were the scorn of everybody who knew anything of
the ABC of architecture. (Laughter,) They were on a
par with the huge melon-glasses which the Chancellor of
the Exchequer wanted them to buy. (Great laughter.) The
right hon. gentleman's department was moat unfortunate,
and he could not congratulate it on having for its architect
the designer of the melon-glasses. (Renewed laughter)
Mr. LOCKE thought his hon. friend was too hard upon
Capt. Fowke ; for, if they booked through the metropolis,
they would find all their architects were in no better posi-
tion than Capt. Fowke. (Laughter.) Capt. Fowke was the
designer of that great brick building, the International Ex-
hibition building. That building was not erected for orna-
ment (Laughter.) It was built for the purpose of present-
ing the most frightful exterior that could be conceived—
(laughter)—but that showed the ability of Captain Fowke.
(Renewed laughter,) He thought Capt. Fowke should be
allowed to run his course, and try his hand as well as any-
body else at the ornamentation of the Exhibition building,
but which he hoped would not cost so much as £148,000.
Sir M. RIDLEY said that some pictures in the South
Kensington galleries, which were in good preservation
when they were remoied from Marlborough House, were
decaying very rapidly.
The committee divided—
For the amendment
Against it
Majority —9B
The vote was then agreed to.
THE VOLUNTEERS' BILL.
At half-past 12 this order was called on, when
Mr. COX rose to present three petitions against that
portion of the bill giving commanding officers the power of
summary dismissal. One of them was from the 37th Mid-
dlesex, and another from the Ist Lancashire. The hon.
member having remarled that the bill was brought on be-
fore, on the A scot Cup night, said he felt that justice could
not be done to it at teat hour, and therefore he should
move the adjournment of the debate. (Hear, hear.)
The Marquis of lIARTINGTON said he was perfectly
aware that the hon. number and his friends meant to ob-
struct the progress of he bill in every possible way, but
the bill had been fully considered in committee. (No, no,
and hear.) Ho could not help the bill coming on upon the
Ascot night, but the lon. member had not explained why
the friends of the complaining volunteers had not been more
numerous in their attendance at Ascot than in the house.
The only amendmenton the paper, however, was exactly
the same as that of tie hon. baronet the member for Not-
tingham (Sir R. Clifton), which had been fully discussed
the other evening. '..'herefore there was no reason for not
going on with the bil.
Major ED WAR ES was in favour of proceeding then.
Sir J. SHELLEY spoke in favour of proceeding with the
bill, which he believed was anxiously desired by the volun-
teers at large.
Mr, COX withdrsw his amendment.
Some other amerdments having been agreed to,
Sir R. CLIFTCN said the hon. bart. spoke of the volun-
teers at large, buthe said nothing about those under arrest.
If the newspaper articles and correspondence he had seen
and had sent to him were any test—he would read some of
the letters. (The hon. gentleman then read a letter from
Mr. Thos. Harris, of Bletekfriars-road, and another from a
member of the Forfarsh re Volunteers at Dundee, com-
plaining that volunteers should be dismissed by their offi-
cers without notice er oplanation, and with no power of
appeal). The letters referred to numerous applications that
bad been male to the Lorl-Lieutenant and Commander-in-
Chief, but which had lacier been attended to nor noticed.
In one case a number of complaints had been made, and
the Lord-Lieutenant ordered a court of inquiry, where-
upon a memorandum war issued, stating that the ex-
planation cf the officers was satisfactory, but the men
could be dealt with another time. Then came
Mr. Flutchinsen's case asking for the withdrawal
of his name from tin corps. This bill gave the
colonel a despotic power to dismiss any man at his ca-
price, and if the Government wished to annihilate the
movement, he had nothing further to say. He felt con-
fident, from the hundreds if letters he had received, and
upwards of 60 leading artices that had been forwarded to
him, that this bill was dished by the men, and would have
the effect of destroying tlat fine force. He moved the
following amendment in chose 20, line 17, after "cause,"
leave out to and including " officer" in line 19, and insert
"such cause or causes respectively to be committed to
writing, and communicated to the accused by the adjutant
of such corps, and the existence and sufficiency of such
causes respectively to be judged of by a court to be
summoned by the commanang officer, and to consist of one
captain, two subaltern officeis, and two non-commissioned
officers or privates of the sans corps."
Mr. D. GRIFFITH had taken great interest in the
movement, and he had an )pportunity of knowing the
feelings of the corps on this All, and he could assure the
house there was a strong fading throughout the country
against the bill. It was saidthere was a similar clause in
the Act of 1804; but circumstances were different then and
now, and it was not be expected that the present generation
was acquainted with that atnient piece of legislation. He
was impartial in the matter, but it was to be recollected
that this was a house of c)lonels, and not a house of

privates; the latter being, indeed, very rare in that honse
(Hear, hear, and langhtet.) It was likely thete should be
black she-p in some of their corps, and in the case of Mr.
Merrick Lord Ranelagh appointed such a court of inquiry
as that proposed. It was a court that was generally
adopted, and afforded a moral support to the colonels. A
court of inquiry was summoned in Mr. Reid's case, and
they suspended him. There was a subsequent proceeding
against that gentleman by the colonel, but he did not mean
to enter into that. He should support the amendment.
Mr. COX said he was not anxious to bring on the dis-
cussion at so late an hour, knowing it would take a consi-
derable time, and therefore he must throw himself on the
indulgence of the house. The question resolved itself
into two points. The first was the unlimited powers pos-
sessed by the colonels fur dismissing any man from the
corps they thought fit, for any or no reason whatever. The
volunteers when they joined their respective corps had no
idea the colonels possessed, or would ever possess, the powers
now claimed, or they would never have connected them-
selves with the movement. Many of the volunteers were

afraid to sign the petitions against the bill. Some of them
had that very day told bim that they dare not sign the pe-
titions, for that if they did they should at once send in their
resignation, and they would be su-ely dismissed before the
14 days would be allowed to expire. There were several
cases of hardship to which he could r&er. One was an oc-
currence in one of the Surrey corps, the name of which he
could not recollect. A Mr. Flicker, an auctioneer of King-
ston, had a dispute about business with one of the officers,
He appealed to the commanding officer, and as he could not
get any satisfaction, he sent in his resignation. Before the
14 days had expired he received his dismissal. He had two
sons in the corps who, seeing how their father had been
treated, sent in their resignations also, and they, too, were

dismissed. (Nam., name.)
Lord ELCHO— Will the hon. gentleman name the com-
manding officer of the corps ?
Mr. COX had stated that he could not remember the
name of the commanding officer, or the number of the corps,
but he had said that it was one of the Surrey corps, and he

had given the names and professions of the volunteers. He
would find, in the evidence of Lord Ranelagh, prool of the
desire of commanding officers to obtain power over their
men. (Read, read.) He would read from Lord Ranelagh's
evidence given before the commissioners. The hon. gentle-
man then react me well-hut",..
Ranelagh said that schoolboys who commented improperly
upon their masters ought to be flogged. His lordship was
then asked what ought to be done with volunteers who
commented improperly upon their officers? Tp which he
replied, that that was a different thing, seeing that they
Could not flog volunteers, or put them in the black
hole. From that passage he (Mr. Cox) contended
that the noble lord evidently had in his mind a regret
that he could not flog a volunteer. (Oh, oh, and No,
no.) He desired to have a regular court of appeal, to
which volunteers could go without requiring the assent of
the commanding officer. He would mention the case of the
Lanarkshire Volunteer Artillery. A vacancy occurred in
that corps. They elected a captain. The commanding of 6 -
ces declined to send his name to the Lord Lieutenant. The
corps applied to the Lord Lieutenant, and he told them
that he could not receive their memorial except through the
commanding officer. They went to the War-office, where
they received the same answer. They then sent the memo-
rill to the commanding officer to have it forwarded, and he
refused to do so. He (tlr. Cox) said that such an appeal
was a farce. The result was that the whole body resigned,
50 men and officers of No. 7 battery—and there was no

longer such a battery in his Lanarkshire Artillery. If that
clause passed the volunteer force would be at an end. They
would not submit to ba degraded and ruined in their busi-
ness.

Lord ELOHO said that the hon. gentleman had alluded
to cases which it was very desirable should be clearly be-
fore the hou.e, in order that they might be understood
The portion of the evidence of Lord Ranelagh to which he
had referred happened to be precisely the very passages for
the publication of which, and the holding him up to public
odium as the supporter of flogging iu the volunteer force,
Lord Ranelagh had proceeded against certain parties.
(Hear.) Lord Ranelagh had proceeded against the gentle-
men who published those very extracts, with comments,
deducing from the passages that he advoca,ed flogging
amongst volunteers, and the magistrates held that the pub-
lication was a gross libel, (Hear.) And it was only by pay-
ments of all costa and the signing and publication of a most
ample apology, dictated by Lord Ranelagh, that those gen-
tlemen escaped the consequences of their libellous asser-
tions. (Hear, hear.) Yet the hon. gentleman actually read
the same paragraphs, and attempted Lc) fix upon them the
meaning which had been decided to be libellous upon the
noble lord. (Hear, and cheers.) There was an associa-
tion at present trying to promote disaffection amongst the
volunteers, and to set the men against the commanding
officers. He protested against officers being held up as
tyrants. If they acted despotically, they produced re-
signation in their corps, and thus the attempt to
tyrannise cured itself. He contended that it was desirable
that appeals should only be sent through commanding offi-
cers. The noble lord the Under-Secretary said the clause
was necessary to preserve discipline in the corps, and he
trusted the house would uphold their former decision.
Major EDWARDm3 /loped the noble lord would perse-
vere in passing this bill in its integrity, and he would have
the thanks of all the volunteers of the country. (Hear.)
Mr. HENNESSY was surprised to hear it stated that
the bill introduced by the Government embodied the whole
spirit of the English law on the subject. The hon. member
referred to various corps, in all of which there were rules
providing for a court of inquiry. He should support the
amendment.
The Marquis of HARTINGTON said that as early as
1860 a circular was sent from the War-office relating to
that power, and the volunteers had multiplied and prospered
under the rule. It was only since the introduction or this
bill that a demand for courts of inquiry had arisen. The
duty of the court of inquiry was simply to ascertain facts,
but not to pass sentence, and therefore the amendment, if
carried, would entirely alter the nature of the measure. In
the case of Mr. Reece, referred to by the hon. member for
Nottingham, it so happened that that gentleman was pla-
carded all over London ; and this is the very thing which
the amendment would bring about on a large scale. In
making a grant it was not the object of the Government to
have more members, but that the volunteers should show
themselves worthy of the approbation of the country.
(Divide, divide.)
Sir J. SHELLEY said that the volunteers had been in
formed by circular that they were to be subjected to disci-
pline by the commanding officer.
Mr. WYLD said that the noble lord was wrong in stating
that Mr. Reece had been dismissed by a court of inquiry ;
he was dismissed by the lieutenant-colonel commanding.
The house divided, The numbers were—
For the amendment
Against it
Majority against . —7l
The clause was allowed to stand, and the report agreed
to. The bill was ordered for third reading this day
Friday).
DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LAND
(IRELAN u) BILL.

This bill was recommitted for the purpose of amend•
ment.

ALDERNEY LABOUR.

On the adjourned debate on the ruport on supply,
Sir J. ELPHINSTONE objected to the vote on account
of Alderney Harbour, and moved that it be reduced by
£BO,OOO,
The house divided. The numbers were—
For the vote
Against
Majority for
The repart was then agreed to.
The Regimental Debts, &c., Bill was read a second
time.

The Officers of Royal Naval Reserve Bill was read a
third time and passed.

The other businrss was disposed of, and the house ad
journed at twenty-five minutes to three o'clock.

The fourteenth report of the Oriental Inland
Steam Company, to be presented at the ensuing
half-yearly meeting, has just been published. It
is stated that the result of the operations of the
company does not warrant the declaration of a
dividend for the six months ending March last.
Reference is made to the managing directors in
India, whore proceedings, it appears, have given
great dissatisfaction to the Board i❑ England. Col.
Grimes, the chairman, has a►rived at the scene of
operations and suspended his subordinate.
HAIR AND LlGHTNlNG.—Residents in Brighton
are not likely soon to forget the storm which flooded
Pool Valley in 1850. The lightning of that storm burnt a
hole, such as a red-hot rifle bullet might burn, through the
bushy whisker of a man who was out in the storm. I record
this fact on the testimony of the late Dr. 'Williamson, from
whom I had it, and to whom the man went immediately
with his scathed cheek. Father Feyjoo, relates in the Cartas
Eruditus, that lightning passed near a young man named
Juan Francisco Menandez Miranda. He was not in the
least hurt, yet his hair began falling off immediately after-
wards, and in a few days none remained upon his body.
One more example of the effects of lightning upon hair.
The particulars wero supplied by the sufferer himself to

M. Arago. Captain Eihouet was second in command of
the frigate Golymin, on the 21st Feb., 1812, when she was
sailing out of the harbour of L' Orient. The vessel was struck
by lightning, and the captain received several injuries on
the head. " The next day," he says, when I wished to
shave, I found that my razor, instead of cutting my beard,
pulled the hairs out by the roots, and since then I have had
no beard. The hair on my head, on my eyebrows, and on
my eyelashes, all the hair on my body, in fact, came gra-
dually away by the roots, and d d not grow again.—
Dickens's "All the Year Round."

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