The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-18 00:00:00

TILE PARANA STEAMSHIP.

The island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on which
rumour assigns the loss of the Parana to have
occurred, is most probably Anticosti. The Parana
would reach that island about the Ist or 2d inst.
The nearest point of telegraphic communication with
the main land from Anticosti is Father Point, about
200 miles up the River St. Lawrence, and in
immediate telegraphic communication with Quebec.
The news, however, had not reached Quebec on
the 4th instant, which is also the latest date from
Halifax, Boston, and New York. It is strange
that such news did not roach Father Point, and
yet should have been known at Halifax, a much
more distant spot on the coast of Nova Scotia.
The City of Edinburgh steamer is hourly expected
from New York. She was to leave that port on the
4th inst., and if she gets a telegram from Cape
Race, she may bring news from Father Point up to
the 7th inst. The Niagara will be due next Mon-
day. She was to leave Boston on the Bth inst., and
she may bring news from Father Point up to the
11th inst. if she is met at Cape Race. Father Point
is the north-eastern terminus of the Canadian tele-
graph line. This line will shortly be extended to
Cape Rossire, at the mouth of the River St. Law-
rence, directly opposite the island of Anticosti.
This extension will being us a day nearer Canada,
as far as news is concerned. The Parana was com-
manded by Captain Sawyer, an experienced com-
mander in the Royal Mail Company's service.

training in early life. Towards the close he ob-
served :—ln a speech of this sort I cannot pretend.
to instruct the educators of the country, and there-
fore I have dealt in generalities. But there is still
one thing I wish to apply myself to. I have en-
deavoured to point out what should be the end you
should desire to attain. That end is to make the
human being of a capacity to enjoy the circum-
stances by which he is surrounded. That capacity,
I say, does not now exist. The poor labouring
man of this country is a mere brute animal as com-
pared to what he might be. I use hard phrases,
no doubt, but I use them for the purpose of con-
veying my meaning. What I want is to make
the working man capable of enjoying the great
blessings which nature affords, instead of seek-
ing oblivion, as he now does, in drink. Suppos-
ing that man to be endowed with the
capacity for learning, let him take one of
the inspired books which should be found on
every man's table, and let him look out of his win-
dow, and he would see things which an uneducated
man could not see. Do you think that the artist's
eye is the eye merely of a painter—the man who
can transfer to paper or canvas that which he has
seen. Believe me it is no such thing. There is in
the man's mind a capacity, a power of seeing beauty
where you can see nothing but vacancy. He looks
upon the fields and Fees their various colouring.
He looks from one object to another, and delights
in all the beauties which nature affords. But such
is not the eye of the uneducated man. He passes
through life with all these bright glories before
him, and his eye is dim to all the magnificence
which they afford. I want to give him the ca?acity
to enjoy all the wonders of human nature in the
glory of the human intellect, so that he should
know and feel the difference between the animal
that eats and sleeps, and eats again, and himself ;
that he may know he has before him a monument
and an example of what a grovelling disposition
should be. I want him to feel that he is himself a
part of that Godhead which has made the world ;
that he can understand its beauties and its glories,
and derive pleasures from every moment of his ex-
istence. (Cheers.) I dare say I have called you to-
gether to very little purpose, but if I have esta-
blished in your mind the importance of this proposi-
tion, that there should be no difference between the
enjoyments of the poor and the rich, as regards the
sources from which they flow, I have done all that I
desired to do. Doyour utmost to extend the benefits
of education to the classes in the position below you
—for believe me when I say that ail education must
come from above. He instructed the unin-
structed, and if you take the threefold character of
instruction, the mind, the character, and the body,
and above all things employ the mind, not as a mere
monitor, but in its capacity of understanding, con-
ceiving for itself, you will have done your part in
the sphere of life to benefit and instruct your coun-
trymen. (Cheers) I have obtained, what has been
very common with me, a great deal of obloquy, by
saying that I did not wish by education to hold out
to the working classes an expectation or desire that
they were to raise themselves from their condition.
Why the masses of mankind must be a dead level.
Perhaps there may be some curious case of a man
raising himself from his condition. George Stephen-
son might become a millionaire, yet millions can be
made happy. And that is the end and object I have
in the education of the people. I shall be delighted
to see any body of my countrymen raising them-
selves up and becoming, as they have become, the
great rulers of the Empire. But the masses of the
people must rest contented with the condition in
which they ere, and my great desire is to see them
happy in it. I say, contemplating England such
ss it would be, with an educated leading and an
educated working class, should we not then be a
happy people ? Whereas, as we are now a glorious
and a powerful England, we should then be a
glorious, a powerful, and a happy England. (Loud
cheers.)

THE DOUBLE MURDER .I.lr ESSEX.

CLAVERING, FRIDAY EVENING.

Today the police authorities, who have been en-
gaged in the investigation of this somewhat remark-
able ease, have been put in possession of some very
important and interesting information, which may,
to some extent, explain the motive for the perpe-
tration of the crime.

It appears beyond all question that before the
unhappy woman now in custody consented to marry
the murdered man, she had for a lengthened period
been keeping company with his brother. The
woman, however, seemed to be desirous of securing
for herself the best position in her sphere of life,
and discarded her first choice for his brother, the
deceased, who had at the time various opportunities
of earning a better living. Shortly before the mar-
riage took place, the deceased man was informed by
the prisoner that she was in the family way, and
he at once made the necessary arrangements for
making her his wife. Almost immediately after
their union, an estrangement on her part seemed to
arise, which continued up to the period of her con-
finement, which occurred only a few weeks after
the marriage ceremony had been performed. Soon
after she was able to resume her domestio duties,
the quarrels became more frequent, and on several
occasions she was heard to taunt her husband with
the statement that he was not the father of the
child, and that she loved his brother much better
than she did him. This seemed to irritate him very
much, and he retaliated by treating her most un-
kindly. Whenever an opportunity presented itself,
he absented himself from home until late hours of the
night, returning very frequently in a stupid and
besotted condition. As a rule, however, he did not
drink sufficiently to render himself thoroughly
intoxicated, but was generally quarrelsome and
provoking. About two years after they were
married the deceased seemed to have accepted the
truth of his wife's taunts, and to have alienated his
affections from the child. So far, indeed, did he
carry his animosity, that on one occasion he held
out the feet of the poor little creature to the fire
and burnt them to a most dreadful degree. With
this offence he was charged before the local magi-
strates, and was sentenced to nine months' impri-
sonment in Springfield Gaol, Chelmsford. From
this period the wife seemed to become reckless, and
after her husband's release from prison seemed to
lose all attachment to her home, She apparently
became resolved to follow her husband's steps
whithersovever he went, and it is a well-ascer-
tained fact that they constantly visited the various
district country fairs in company. It is also known
that on numerous occasions the child had been left
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more or less continued up to the night of the mur-
der. It has been ascertained that the man went
upstairs to bed before his wife, and no doubt she
waited until he was asleep before she commenced
her murderous attack upon him. Generally it is
believed that hatred of her husband and a still lin-
gering affection for another man induced her to de-
termine upon depriving him and his child of life.

This afternoon the wretched woman was removed
by Sergeant Flood to Springfield Gaol, Chelmsford,
to await her trial at the ensuing Lent Assizes.

THE COFFIN ROBBERIES AT FRESIIFORD.—Th
prisoners, Edward Smith, builder ; W. Marchant, sexton;
Henry Mastey, and Giles Broad, labourers, who are
charged with being concerned in the desecration of the dead
and robbery of coffins at Freshford Church, near Bath,
were brought up, under remand, yesterday, before the ma-
gistrates acting for the western division of the county of
Somerset. The court was again densely thronged, and the
magistrates were engaged in the investigation for upwards
of seven hours. Evidence was given of the burial of seve-
ral of the parties in leaden coffins, which have since dis-
appeared. The magistrates, after a private consultations
determined upon committing the whole of the prisoners to
tali() their trial at the next Somersetshire assizes ; but to
accept substantial bail, except in the case of Marchant, for
whom bail was refused.