The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-12 00:00:00

PRIZE MONEY.

Colonel DUNNE asked the Secretary of State for India
why the third instalment of the Delhi prize money had not
been paid according to the recommendation of the Prize
Committee, and when it would be paid.

Sir C. WOOD said the committee had been considering
the advisability of making a third distribution ; but as it
had come to their knowledge that there were a number of
prior claims still unsatisfied, the further distribution had
been postponed until those claims were satisfied.
EDUCATION.
Mr. F. S. POWELL asked the Vice-President of the
Committee of Council on Education, when the annual
report of the committee would be laid upon the table ; and,
when the new minute as to endowed schools would be
distributed among members.
Mr. BRUCE said he did not think he would be enabled
to lay the report on the table before the month of June.
He knew that would be late. With respect to the
discussion which might arise in the educational
estimates. With respect to the production of the
minute, it had been laid on the table that day week,
and he did not know why it had not been produced. The
delay must rest with the Queen's printer, and he would
take care that the attention of the authorities was drawn
to the matter.

PUBLIO BUSINESS.
• Mr. DISRAELI said it would be for the convenience of
the house if the right hon. baronet opposite would state the
order of business for Monday next. (Hear, heiir.)
Union
Chargeability G. GREY said the adjourned debate on the
Chargeability Bill would be taken the first thing on Mon-
day next.
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SUPPLY—THE POST-OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS.
On the motion for going into committee of supply,
Mr. CAVE rose to call the attention of the house to the
allowance to postmasters in respect of post-office saving
banks. Ho said, speaking generally, the postmasters
throughout the country were greatly dissatisfied in conse-
quence of a very great amount of labour being put upon
them, and that labour not being properly paid for. He
moved that in the opinion of the house it was neither just
nor expedient that labour and responsibility should be im-
posed upon public servants without adequate remune-
ration.

AYRTON thought that a committee ought to be at
once appointed to inquire into the working of the a.ctiulder
which they were established, with a view of discovering
how the matter stands with respect to carrying on this
new branch of business. If it was found that these banks
could not be carried on without a loss the sooner new ar-
rangement could be entered into the better. He thought
that course much more advisable, that it at once met the
case by an increase of expenditure.
Mr. SCOURFIELD thought the hon. gentleman who

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, May 12.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
FALMOUTH, May 11. Wind S.E.—Arrived—Bunson,
from Rangoon.
SWANSEA, May 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Riverhead,
from Caldera. Sailed—Countess of Bective, for Cuba ;
Jura, for Coquimbo.
LIMERICK, May 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Cecile,
from Bilboa.
PORTSMOUTH, May 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Graf
von Bubon, from Sulina.
CLYDE, May 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.—Runnymede,
from Pernambuco. Sailed—Michael Georplo, for Bom-
bay. •

CARDIFF, May 11.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Anna Magda-
lena, for St. Thomas.
HOLYHEAD, May 11.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Palestine,
scrow steamer, from New York.

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, May 11—Zephyr, from Gothenburg; Apollo
from Skeen.

DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed—Agnes, from Jamaica; Balcombe, from Gre-
nada ; James Russell, from China—all for London ; Colum-
bine, from London, for Naples.

THE TRIAL OF DR. PRITCHARD.—This trial will,
we believe, take place at Edinburgh in the end of June.—
Scotsman.

THE DISTRESS IN LYONS.—The Emperor, who,
on learning from the Prefect of the Rhone of the distress
among the silk weavers, had forwarded a sum of money
for their relief, has now announced a further donation of
20,000 f. The Empress has also sent 10,000 f. for the same
object. •
CRYSTAL PALACE, ONE SHILLING DAY, Thurs-
day, May 11.—Admissions on payment, 1,381; ditto by
season ticket, 719 ; total visitors, 2,100.
FRANCE AND PRUSSIA.—The Moniteur of Wed-
nesday publishes the following note :—" A telegram just
received informs us that M. Benedetti, his Majesty's Am-
bassador at Berlin, and the President of the Council, Minis-
ter for Foreign Affairs of Prussia, have exchanged ratifi-
cations of the treaties of commerce and navigation, of the
arrangement for the international railway traffic, and of
the literary convention concluded on the 2d August, 1862.
These acts, which will very shortly be officially published
both in France and Prussia, will take effect from the Ist
July next."

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—
A paragraph which appeared yesterday under this heading
in a morning paper states that the Prince of Wales had a
narrow escape while travelling on the Chester and Holy-
head line on Monday last. We are informed that there is
no justification for this startling announcement. The train
was delayed six minutes in consequence of a hot axle, but
reached Holyhead in perfect safety, and only four minutes
late.

THE BLACKBURN RELIEF COMMITTEE.—Atter an
existence of upwards of three years and a quarter,
the Blackburn Relief Committee finally closed their chari-
table labours this week. The distress was first felt in tho
cotton districts by the operatives of Blackburn at the close
of 1861. Early in 1862 a large number of the operative
classes of Blackburn and other towns in the cotton districts
were plunged into the deepest distress by the stopping of
the mills and manufactures in which they had been employed
" To such an extent was the distress experienced
in the
town of Blackburn that at one time 30,000 out of its 63,000
inhabitants had to be supplied by and worn dependent on
public charity for their subsistence," quoting the words of
the Relief Committee, which may
be accepted as most re-
liable testimony. The development of labour schemes and
of the sectarian industrial classes contributed to the main-
tenance of public order during the most critical period, and
the timely and liberal aid granted by the charitable of this
and other nations alleviated their suffelings and soothed
sterner feelings. Happily, the distress has gone into the
i
past, so far as Blackburn s concerned, without any dis-
ttiuoin.b,aollic• havingean),er
been promoted by the suffering popula-
tion, injury or damage to property having
been committed by them. Tho distress has not, however,
been without its mitigating circumstances upon the people.
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people of every grade are more sympathetic with each other
than it found them, and that out of 30,000 former recipients
of the charity of the Relief Committee there were last
month only 156 receiving their bounty, though there were
then 4,500 persons usually employed in mills and cotton
sheds out of work, while nearly 19,000 were working full
time. At a meeting of the Relief Committee last Monday
night, Alderman Sturdy presiding, a statement was read
which showed that last week 119 personshadbeen relieved
by the committee at a cost of .£9 Os., and that their total
expenditure for the month just ended was £304 lls. Gd.,
including£l23 16s. general relief, £169 12s. 6d. in clothing,
£35 Bs. 6d for the school fees of 1,080 children, and £ll 14s.
Gd. expenses of management. The amount of funds received
from strictly local sources during the whole period of dis-
tress has been £18,565 12s. The balance in the hands of
the committee is £382155. 3d. The committee unanimously
resolved, owing to the decrease of distress, to finally close
their relief operations at the end of the present week.
REVIVAL OF TRADE AT MONTE VIDEO. 1,
letter of our Monte Video correspondent will be perused
with satisfaction by our mercantile readers. News by the
present mail is, as he observes, ',calculated to raise the
drooping spirits of shippers of goods to the River Plate.
The political and social condition of the Banda Oriental
was rapidly improving under the firm but temperate ad-
ministration of General Flores, and it is to be hoped that
peace has now been established in the country on a secure
and lasting basis.—Brazil and River Plate Mails