The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-15 00:00:00

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without instructors, and there again is a great im-
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nonsense, and quite unsuited to the present en-
lightened times, and that the terms of them should
be altered. The attention of the Court was then
called to the form of the precept sent to the ward
beadles, which was read, and caused a good deal of
amusement. It recited that by the provisions of an
act of Parliament passed in the reign of William
111., they were upon Lord Mayor's Day to go dili-
gently from house to house in their several wards,
and take care that no squibs, or serpents, or
crackers, or other fireworks were made, and that
they should not permit any such to be discharged
in the streets. They were also enjoined to request
the inhabitants to decorate their houses and bal-
conies with flags and banners, and likewise to take
care that the scavengers kept the streets through
which the procession passed clean and in good
order. He said that at the present day all these
things were perfectly unnecessary, and in fact the
precepts were neither more nor less than nonsense,
calculated only to produce laughter and ridicule.
He should, therefore, move that before the pre-
cepts were issued they should be referred to a com-
mittee to alter the form in which they were
worded, and render them more in accordance
with the feelings of the present times.
The motion was agreed to.
STORING OF PETROLEUM.

if they had been less instructed. Now, I admit that
objection may be urged against some systems of edu-
cation which endeavour to teach the lower classes
things far beyond anything they can have occasion
to practise in the relations of life. Brt the arrange-
ments of the Privy Council have a tendency to lay
a stress upon matters which some persons consider
too elementary, but which other persons regard as
the foundation of all knowledge—viz., reading,
writing, and arithmetic. If a 3 oung man cannot
read, he is unable to instruct himself; if he cannot
write, he is unable to carry on the communications
which it may be his business to make; if clumsy at
arithmetic, he may be apt to be overreached by a
more skilful and unscrupulous person. But if we
recollected at what age children go to these country
schools, and at what age they are carried away by
their parents to go bird-keeping and on agricultural
pursuits, we should find that the number of years
they can devote to study are very few. The age at
which they are carried away is so early that it is next
to impossible they can learn too much, and it is ten
to one they don't learn enough. Let any one here
carry his mind back to his own studies, and recol-
lect what he had learned when he arrived at the
age of 12 or 14, and then suppose that his education
was stopped, and that he went to manual labour,
to rural occupations, and that he learned nothing
but what he picked up; I think he would arrive at
the conclusion, that if the labouring classes learnt
elementary things they would learn that which
would be useful to them through life, while if they
sought for higher attainments they would learn
neither one nor the other, and their time at school
would be entirely lost. (Hear, and cheers). The
object for which we have met to-day is of the
highest interest to the country. An proportion as
the lower classes are taught the rtNdiments of know-
ledge, so in proportion they will be better able to
perform those industrial occupations which belong
to their class in life. (Cheers.) The noble' lord
concluded by proposing the health of the clergy,
coupling with the toast the names of the Bishops of
Winchester, Oxford, and Salisbury.
The Bishops of Winchester, Oxford, and Salis-
bury replied.
Lord PALMERSTON next proposed " The three
Corporations of Winchester—the Civic, the Eccle-
siastical, and the Collegiate."
The toast was responded to by Mr. Wright (the
ayor of the City), the Dean, and the Master of
Winchester College.

The General Purposes Committee brought up a
report in reference to an application that had been
made by Mr. George Hawkins for a licence for
st, ring ben zole, the product of petroleum.
The report stated that the committee had con-
ferred with the law officers of the Corporation upon
the subject, and they had resolved upon granting a
licence for six months only.

Some private business was subsequently discussed
with closed doors, and the Court then adjourned.

IHE NAVY.

The Eclipse, 4, screw steam gunvessel, 700 tons,
200 horse power, recently commissioned at Sheer-
ness, was on Saturday taken out, on trial of her ma-
chinery, at the measured mile, off Maplin Sands,
previously to leaving for her destination. She is
fitted with Griffith's screw, 17ft. pitch, lift. dia-
meter. She attained a speed, with full boiler power,
of 9.674 knots, and made 77 revolutions of her en-
gines. At half-boiler power she made 7.639 knots,
with 64 revolutions. There was a slight hot bear-
ing, which was kept down by a supply of water,
and did not interfere with the ship's speed. She
was inspected on Monday by Vice• Admiral W. J.
Hope Johnstone and Staff, and the inspection proved
satisfactory. Yesterday she proceeded to Spithead
on her route to Australia, taking supernumeraries
to the Western ports. During the trial she was in
charge of Commander Offiey Crewe Read, of H.M.S.
Cumberland, her engines being in the care of Mr,
W. Nimble and Mr. Townsend.

Letters received at Plymouth from the Pacific
state that the screw steam corvette Charybdis, 21,
Capt. the Hon. George D. Keane, left Esquimalt
harbour under steam on the Bth of July for Hono-
lulu. When clear of the straits she proceeded under
canvas only, and in consequence of calms did not
average more than 60 miles in 24 hours. About
400 miles were made between the 20th and 27th,
when she got into the trades. The Charybdis ar-
rived at the island on the 31st. She would only
remain there a few days after the appearance of the
screw steam frigate Termagant, 25, Capt. Robert
Hall, 'which had left Panama prior to the sth. The
frigate is ordered home.

The noble VISCOUNT, in giving the last toast,
said—My lords and gentlemen, I need not say that
we are highly indebted to the ladies present for
having graced our board with a display of beauty
that makes every Hampshire man proud. (Cheers.)
If any man present has any doubt as to the
motive which ought to animate him in drinking the
health of the ladies, I would request him, if he has
the good fortune to sit by a lady to look at her, and
if he is between two to look at both, and Heel quite
sure that the first glance will convince him that he
cannot do better than pay homage to beauty by
drinking the health of the ladies. (Cheers.) But
there is a higher consideration I beg to press on
your attention. We are met here to-day to pro-
mote the education of the people of the land. We
have opened to-day a college for teachers, and I
may be permitted to say that the best as well as the
earliest instructors of the people are the mothers.
(Cheers.) They are the best instructors for many
reasons. They are the first instructors, and the
lessons which they teach of good conduct, of dis-
tinction between right and wrong, are the first
which are implanted in the mind of a child, and
therefore are likely to last the longest in their lives.
They have another advantage. The precepts of a
mother must be felt by the child to spring from affec-
tion. When he is instructed by a schoolmaster
who may have a rod at hand to punish the indolent
or the stupid, the instruction does not come with
the same grace, and the same sentiment of grati-
tude which accompany the instruction given by a
tender mother. Well, then, I say that the ladies
of the land are entitled to homage from a society
met for the encouragement of good education, and
I was very glad to hear an account given by the
Bishop of Salisbury of the system pursued in the esta
blishment in Salisbury for the education of female
instructors. I have no doubt that course will give
to schools female instructors who will tarn their
minds not simply to the ornamental but also to the
useful, and tend to bring up the girls submitted to
their care to earn their livelihood honestly and
well. I beg, therefore, on the ground of gratitude
to the ladies who have partaken of the hospitalities
this evening, and also from a high sense of the im-
portance of the ladies in educating the people of
the land, to propose with all honours " The health
of the ladies." (Loud cheers.)
The company shortly afterwards separated.

The crew of the screw steamship Exmouth, Capt.
Paynter, at Plymouth, will be paid off to-day.
A naval court-martial assembled on board the
Formidable, 84, flagship of Vice-Admiral W. S.
Hope Johnstone, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore,
on Monday. for the trial of Mr. Robert Coen,
master, serving on board the screw corvette Barosa,
21, 400-horse power, Capt. Dowell, on the follow-
ing charges :—First, of having on the night of the
29th of September last, been guilty of disobedience
of orders, in not returning on board the Barrosa
by 9 o'clock p.m.; second, of having, at or about
three o'clock on the morning of the 30th of Sep-

tember last, permitted a light to burn in his cabin
on board the said ship, then lying in dry dock in
her Majesty's dockyard at Sheerness, the eame
being contrary to the regulations of the said dock-
yard. The prisoner pleaded "Not Guilty," and at
the termination of the case for the prosecution
handed in a written defence, in which he gave an
emphatic denial to the charges. He also produced a
number of certificates from officers under whom he
had served. The Court, after deliberating for some
time, acquitted the prisoner on the first charge, but
considered the charge fully proved. In considera-
tion of the prisoner's previous good character the
Court sentenced him to be dismissed from H.M.S.
Barossa and to be severely reprimanded.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—John R. Ryan, master, ad-
ditional to the Indus, for the Liverpool; David
Batt, master, to the Leopard; Frederick M. Ray-
ner, surgeon, to the St. Vincent ; Jas. Bannerman,
engineer, to the Leopard ; and John Jolly, pro-
moted to the rank of engineer in the Adventure.
In the list of naval appointments which appeared
in The Sun of yesterday, instead of " Edward T.
Shawood," read " Edward T. Sharood."

Hospital, now in a forward state of construction. first prize was taken by Mr. Vallance, who made a
He afterwards left for London. gross score of 33 marks (three bull's eyes and seven
An order from the Admiralty has been received centres). The second prize fell to Mr. J. H. Doe,
at the head-quarters of the Chatham division of with a score of 32; while a tie for the third was made
Royal Marines Light Infantry, directing Capt. W. by Mr. Carter and Mr. Block with three. On
F. Thomas, First Lieut. F. F. Evans, and a de- shooting off it fell to Mr. S. W. Block.
tachment of non•commisaioned officers and privates, At Wimbledon on Saturday last a friendly con-
the whole of whom have volunteered for that ser- test took place among the Post-office departments.
vice, to be held in readiness to embark on board the Five volunteers being enrolled as honorary members
Galatea, 26, 800 horse power, for Bermuda, where of any corps were selected in each department. The
they will be employed as carpenters, bricklayers, 1 first prize was won by Lieut, Walliker, with 39
masons, &c., receiving additional pay of ls. 3d. per marks; the second by Private Hill, with 30 marks.
day. The wives and families of the men employed Sergeant Cardin made 37 and Private Elliman 35
on this service will be forwarded to Bermuda on a marks, but they were disqualified, having previously
won prizes.

future occasion.
A detachment of 120 non-commissioned officers
and men of the Royal Marines, under the command
of Capt. G. 0. Evans, with Lieuts. J. Lecky, W.
A. Rutherford, and E. W. Sampson, arrived at
Chatham yesterday from Portsmouth and Wool-
wich, for embarcation on board the Trafalgar, 89,
500 horse power, Capt. the Hon. T. Baillie, refitting
to join the Channel squadron. The detachment re-
lieved a similar number of Royal Marines from the
Trafalgar, under the command of the following offi-
cers—viz., Capt. A. D. H. Nepean ; Lieuts. R. C.
Harvey, H. A. A. Turner, and H. Fuller, who re-
:joined the headquarters of their respective divisions.

NEOLOGY IN 711 E CHURCH.

(From the Record.)

It is no longer a secret that the Bishop of Natal is the
prelate pointed at in our daily and weekly journals as a
candidate for the martyr's crown in the cause of heterodoxy.
The public is beginning to grow accustomed to startling
feats accomplished by some of the multitudinous bishops
sent forth to foreign parts, even beyond the limits of the
empire. But probably few were prepared for a deliberate
attempt on the part of a colonial bishop to prove "that the
story of the Pentateuch is fictitious from beginning to end."
Such, however, is the avowed object of Dr. Colenso, whose
appointment to the See of Natal appeared to us so danger-
ous to the interests of Christian missions, that we felt it
right to publish, at the time it happened, our earnest but
ineffectual protest. His views of Christianity appeared to
us not only cloudy and speculative, but radically unsound.
We were, moreover, prepared for an escapade, however
eccentric, on the part of a bishop designate who felt him-
self at liberty to publish a volume with a dedication to the
Rev. F. D. Maurice, eulogising the teaching of that gentle-
man, at the very time when it was censured by the late
Bishop of London and the authorities of King's College.
Our protest against Dr. Colenso's appointment could not
be acceptable either to himself or his friends. But time has
shown that the appointment was a great mistake, and one
which is likely to prove fatal to his own comfort, as well as
the cause it was intended to promote. Dr. Colenso is a fine
mathematician, and his elementary books are still famous
in our schools and universities ; but he has made it evident
that he is not himself taught of the Spirit of God, and
was, therefore, very unfit to superintend the mission
to the heathen. His book is already in print and freely
handed about for criticism. In his introductory chapter
he tells us, that he was startled by the inquiry of a Zulu,
who with reference to the story of the flood, " looked up
and asked, 'ls all that true ? Do you really believe that
all this happened thus, that all the beasts, birds, and creeping
things upon the earth large and small, from hot countries and
cold, came thus by pairs, and entered into the ark with Noah,
And did Noah gather food for them all, for the beasts and
birds of prey as well as the rest ?' " We need not stop to
remark on the comprehensive and scientific scepticism of
this " simple• minded but intelligent native," or on the con-
fusion between the "two of each sort" of Scripture, and
the "all the beasts and birds and creeping things" of the
objector; or on the gratuitous assumption that the fauna
of the antidiluvian ages was co-extensive in its distribution
with that of modern times. But we may add that Dr.
Colenso was even then in fact an unbeliever in the Bible.
" I felt," he says, " that I dared not, as a servant of the
God of truth, urge my brother man to believe that which I
did not myself believe, which I knew to be untrue as a
matter-of-fact historical narrative." This, however, was
the starting point of the inquiries which have issued in the
volume already printed and in circulation, and about to be
given to the public. The fact is sufficiently melancholy,
and were it not melancholy it would be ludicrous ; but it
must be stated on Bishop's Colenso's own showing as stated
above. He was sent to Africa to convert the Zulus to the

THE VOLUNTEERS.

The third annual regimental prize meeting of the
St. George's Rifles was commenced on Friday at
Wormwood Scrubs, under the superintendence of
Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. Lindsay, the lieutenant-
colonel commanding the corps. In consequence of
the large number of competitors for the different
prizes, the ranges of the Queen's (Westminster) and
the West Middlesex, in addition to those of the St.
George's corps, had to be used. The prizes to be
competed for were all arranged under cover on the
ground. Among other officers of the corps present
were Captain Pugh, adjutant of the corps, Lieute.
nant Hawkins, Ensigns Hodgkinson, Banting, and
Waller. All the rifles used were strietly regulation
in pattern and pull of trigger. The scoring was
according to Wimbledon regulations, hits and points
added, square bull's-eyes and centres. In conse-
quence of the mistiness of the weather on Friday the
competition for many of the prizes could not be
concluded, but the shooting nevertheless was ex-
tremely good. The Turner Challenge Plate and
silver medal were shot for at the ranges of 200, 500,
and 700 yards, and were won by Private Hemery
with the brilliant score of 44 marks. This prize
becomes the property of the person who wins it for
three successive years. The Tyro Prize (a patent
revolving pistol) presented by Colanel H. Daniell,
was shot for at the ranges of 200 and 500 yards by
members who had never competed for any prize,
and was won by Sergeant Andrews, who made 24
marks. A London Armoury Rifle (presented by
the Hon. Colonel Lindsay) was competed for by
members who had not practised at any target,
at the ranges of 100 and 200 yards. and
was won by Private Thirst, who made 18 marks.
A military field-glass, or the value of 7 guineas, pre-
' sented by Sergeant Millard, was competed for at
500 yards, seven rounds in any position, and was
won by Private Blaise, making 22 marks. A silver
cup, the gift of Mr. John Turner, and shot for at
200, 300, and 400 yards, was tied for by Ensigns
Banting and Private F. Crookes, and is at present
unawarded. The St. George's Challenge Cup and
gold medal were competed for at the ranges of 400,
500, 600, and 700 yards, five shots, for first and
second class shots of any year. Private Mackenzie
made the highest score, 51 marks, the next best
being Sergeant Millard and Privates Crookes and
Hemery. A telescope shot for in Hythe position,
at the range of 700 yards, was won by Private San-
ford, he making 21 marks. The Ladies' Challenge
Plate, of the value of 50 guineas, and silver medal
were won by Ensign Waller, with a score of 42
marks, at the ranges of 200, 300, and 500 yards,
Hythe position. A London Armoury rifle was won
by Private Smith at the ranges of 200, 300, and
500 yards, with 33 marks, and a liquid prize, pre-
sented by Mr. A Grieve, shot for at 550 yards in
any position, was won by Sergeant Millard, who
made 15 marks., All the prizes will shortly be pre-
sented to the successful competitors,
The competion for the extra prizes to be shot
for by the members of the London Rifle
Brigade commenced on Monday, the 6th inst.,
at the butts of the range at Plaistow, and was
continued daily without intermission during the
whole of the past week. The shooting ar-
rangements were ably carried out by Captains
and Adjutants Ewens and Smith, who acted
as umpires, assisted by Sergeants Grainge and Smith,
the musketry instructors of the corps. The prizes
shot for on Monday were a patron's prize of £8 Bs.,
a brigade prize of £6 65., and an entrance-money
prize of about £2 12s. The distance was 200 yards,
seven rounds each man, and for these prizes the fol-
lowing competitors made the highest scores—viz.,
Private Richards, 21 marks ; Private Stanford, 21
marks ; Private Brand, 21 marks. Privates Stan-
ford and Brand had therefore to fire off their ties to
settle the ownership of those prizes. On Tuesday
the prizes shot for consisted of Major Rose's prize
of £lO 10s. ; a brigade prize of £6 65., and an
entrance-money prize of about £2 25., seven shots
each man, at a range of 300 yards. These contests
took place during heavy showers of rain, while the
wind sometimes rose nearly to a gale. The winners
were Private Mackenzie, 15 marks ; Private
Wortham, 14 marks ; and Private Winsor, 13
marks. The prizes shot for on Wednesday were a
patron's-prize of £8 BE. ; a brigade prize of £6 65.,
and an entrance-money prize of about £2 10s. The
range was 500 yards, seven shots each competitor.
Sergeant Purchase with 22 marks, and Private
Holgate with 20 marks, take higher brigade prizes,
consequently Sergeant Combe will take the first
prize with 21 marks ; Sergeant Hattersley and
Corporal Walker firing off ties for the second and
third prizes, each having made 20 marks. The
shooting was resumed on Thursday, the competi-
tion including Colonel Warde's prize of £lO 10s.,
a brigade prize of £7 Is., and an entrance-money
prize of about £2 15s. Fine weather prevailed,
but the wind was strong. The conditions were
seven rounds at 600 yards. Captain Maclachlan
took the first prize with 21 marks, and Sergeant
Walker and Private Winsor tied with 18 marks,
consequently the two had to shoot off to determine
the ownership of the last two prizes. On Friday
some excellent shooting was made at the 600 and
700 yards range, five shots at each range. The
prizes were a silver cup, value £l2, and a Kerr
rifle, presented by Messrs. Silver and Co., of Corn-
hill, and an entrance-money prize. Sergeant Pur-
chase made 26 marks, but having won a higher
prize is debarred from taking another, therefore
Private Wanostrocht will take the cup with 20
marks, and Sergeant Albiston and Private Edgeley,
having each made 19 marks, had to shoot off the
ties for the second and third prizes. The most in-
teresting of these competitions took place on Satur-
day, when the crack shots of the regiment holding
company medals competed for the brigade gold
medal, the marksmen's badges (a rifle and three
stars), and a piece of plate (an epergne) value £2B,
the latter being the gift of Armourer- Sergeant
Kemp. The ranges were 650, 700, 800, and 900
yards, five shots at each distance. There were 31
competitors, the following being declared the win-
ners 9t the close of the day's firing, viz. :—Corporal
Giddy, I company, winner -
of the brigade gold
medal, the 2d battalion marksmen's badge, and the
epergue, 36 marks ; the Ist battalion badge being
taken by Sergeant Purchase, F company, with 25
marks. Among the officers present on Saturday
were Major Rose (the Lord
May, and Assistant-SurgeonMayor elect), Surgeon
Probert.
A match of an
unusual kind took place
members of the Victoria last at
Rifles on Saturday
among
Kilburn. The weapon selected to test the skill of
the competitors was the revolver pistol. A prize of
five guineas was presented by Mr. ,C. I. Mitchell,
ensign of No, 1 Company, and was contested for at
a 2ft. circular target, with 4in. buil's-eye and 12in.
centre, five shots being fired by each competitor in
succession, hits and points added. There were 18
or 19 who entered, the competition being open to
honorary as well as enrolled members of the corps.
Second and third prizes were improvised by an
entrance fee of 2s. 6d. from each competitor. The

faith of the Bible, and he was himself so ill-grounded in the
great truths of the Bible, that he has been himself con-
verted by the Zulus to an utter rejection of Moses and the
Pentateuch. " Our examination," he says, "has forced on
us the conviction, by reason of the utter impossibilities and
absurdities contained in it, that the whole story of the
Exodus is a fiction ; and that, consequently, no such groups
of laws were ever laid down in the wilderness as the story
describes. And if the last four books of the Pentateuch
must be pronounced to be fictitious, it will hardly be con-
tended that the Book of Genesis can be any other than in
the main fictitious also."

We have said enough to give our readers an impression of
the nature of the episcopal attack on the Pentateuch, which
is about to be more fully given to the public. It contains
nothing new, and nothing really formidable. Most of its
objections were contained in the writings of the Voltairian
school. It assumes " impossibilities" which faith in God
discards. It fancies the existence of " inconsistencies" of
narration, which are sometimes ideal, and sometimes to be
attributed to errors which have crept into the transcript of
ancient manuscripts, and especially in the numerals, during
a period of more than 3,000 years. It is, In a word, occu-
pied in enlarging what even Coleridge termed "the rat-
holes of the Temple," but it makes no impression whatever
on the sacred edifice. It was to Moses and the Prophets
that our Lord so often appealed, "If ye believe not Moses,
how can ye believe my sayings ?" After His resurrection,
in His discourse with the disciples on their way to Em-
maus, He opened their understanding, and, "beginning at
Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded unto them in
all the Scriptures the things concerning himself." With
Moses and the Prophets Christianity therefore stands or
falls ; and we believe that Bishop Colenso is himself of this
opinion, for he tells us that in our Church system it is
not reform, but reform amounting almost to revolution,
which is needed.