The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-10 00:00:00

LORD NTANL

The inauguration of the Kirkdale Industrial Ragged
Schools and. Church took place to-day, the Right Hon.
Lord Stanley, M.P., presiding. The foundation stone was
laid on the 18th of August, ISCO, by the Earl of Derby, who
gave the site on which the schools have been erected. There
was a large attendance at the opening ceremony, amongst
whom, in addition to his lordship, were the Archdeacon of
Liverpool, and several of the clergy and gentry, tho Rev.
Hugh Stowell, of Manchester, &c. The schools will ac-
commodate 700 children.

Lord STANLEY said they were there for the purpose of
formally opening that building ; and, in the first place,
perhaps he ought to say why he had consented to preside,
and why that meeting was held. It was not a wise thing
to make speeches for speeches' sake, or to exhaust in mere
words the energies which ought to find a vent in action.
They were met there for a practical purpose—that of
bringing before the public the object of an institution which
was intended to help those who, from circumstances, were
unable to help themselves—those who had no educational
or social resource to fall back upon, but who were depen-
dent upon the assistance which such an institution as that
was peculiarly intended to afford. They knew, of coure,
what was meant when he spoke of the industrial school. It
was a school in which the pupils were drawn from the
lowest class of society, and who, so far from having any-
thing to hope or rely upon from the influence of home,
were too often in the midst of unhappiness, of pauperism,
of disorder, and of vice. Industrial schools went hand-in-
hand with reformatory institutions. He (Lord Stanley) be-
lieved that he was one of the first who took upon themselves
the establishment of reformatory institutions, before even
the question of subdividing them arose. At that time he
well remembered the objection with which they were met.
It was said to them, " You propose to reform children who
have fallen into crime, but you do nothing for those help-
less and neglected ones who have resisted temptation."
They could only answer that they considered the proposal
was good so far as it went, but they admitted that it did not
reach the root of the evil. If, however, they would ,ppen
their eyes, they must see that there was a large class of
our juvenile population who obtained a living by crime,
and who were separated from those who existed by honest
labour; and it was in the interest of this former class that
reformatory institutions were originally designated. He re-
garded the establishment of industrial ragged schools as one
of the best features of the age. We well know that in all
our great towns there was almost unlimited amount of
wealth, of luxury, and social refinement, and that along
with this there existed a class who were living in a state of
ignorance, and in a condition of squalid pauperism and moral
degradation, which not even the most powerful stimulant
to English society was enabled to reach. Now, when they
knew what many of their town missionaries had laid be-
fore them—that amongst this neglected part of the popu-
lation even the barest elementary knowledge of religion
and morality was unknown, simply because it had never
been presented before them—and when it was shown
to them that in many cases the deaths of the infantile po-
pulation amongst these classes took place at an average of
five years of age, it showed, beyond all dispute, the wretched
moral and social position to which they were reduced. He
admitted that much had already been done, but, however
much hitherto had been accomplished, there remained
much more to be effected, and it was yet too early to
boast of great results. (Hear, hear, and applause.)
Wherever dense masses of persons were crowded together,
this state of things would always, more or less, exist ; and
if this was so, it was useless to contend against the argu-
ment, that institutions like this were necessary in such a
state of society. (Hear, hear.) Well, then, such institu-
tions being admitted necessary, the next question was,
were they likely to be abused by parents who themselves
could afford to pay for the education of their children ? He
thought there was no fear of that, because if there was
one characteristic of Lthe people of this country it was the
spirit of independence. No man knew—no man would
perhaps ever know—how far many would go to the last
extremity before they would aceept public relief, and he
believed there was not one in fifty who, if these schools
had not been opened, would necessarily have been inclined
to send their children to another. Having described the
treatment the children would receive in these schools, both
as regarded education, clothing, and food, his lordship
commended them to the support of the wealthy and chari-
table. He advised them not to rely upon Government aid,
because that was limited ; but to depend upon private
support. Simple humanity ought surely to be enough, if
indeed duty did not present itself, to induce them to sus-
tain the institution. A love of order, of security, and cf
social peace ought to lead them to endeavour to remove from
their great towns a class which was at once a danger, a dis-
grace, and a degradation. Policy ought to teach them that
the accusation too often made by the poor, " the rich know
little of us, and care little for us," no longer existed. And
lastly, there was a motive powerful beyond all the rest—a
motive founded on the belief that wealth was only a tempo-

rary trust, and poverty only a temporary trial—that the
largest material resources involved the heaviest moral re •
sponsibilities, and that a service rendered to the humblest
and meanest of mankinu was a service rendered to our
common Creator. (The noble lord resumed his seat amidst
loud cheers )
At the close of the proceedings, his lordship and the rest
of the company proceeded to the new public play ground
and gymnasium, at Bootle, formed under the auspices of
Mr. Wells, and which were formally opened by his lordship.

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS.

COURT OF ARCHES—TutrusnA.Y.
(Before Dr. Lushington, Dean of Arches.)

Testament, and the truth and genuineness of
certain parts of the New Testament, and the
truth and reality of the miracles which are recorded
as facts in the Old and New Testament ; to deny or inter-
Fret by a meaning at variance with that of the Church, the
doctrines of original sin, of infant baptism, of justification
by faith, atonement and propitiation by the death of our
Saviour, and of the incarnation of our Saviour."

Dr. Phillimore has a vast quantity of authorities to
quote in support of his case, and it is not expected that he
will close his speech before the rising of the Court to-
morrow (this) afternoon.

Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and probably Dr. Swabey, will
follow on the same side.

The Rev. H. G. Bunsen, rector of Lilleshall, Shropshire
(a son of the late Baron Bunsen), was present during the
morning, conferring with Dr. Williams's' counsel. Mr.
Godwin, the writer of one of the " Essays and Reviews,"
was also present.

THE WORONZOFF .1) OW OR 0 UKO H'

The following is the complete text of the sen-
tence, of which we have already given a summary,
pronounced by the Civil Tribunal of the Seine in
the action for mutual defamation between the Wo-

ronzoff family and Prince Dolgoroukow. Our
readers will perceive that it is altogether condem-
natory of the proceedings of Prince Dolgoroukow :
" The Court, considering that by his letter, published
on 6th May last, in the journal the Courrzer du Dimanche,
Prince Peter Dolgoroukow has inflicted on the memory of
Marshal Prince Michael Woronzoff, and on the honour of
his name, a serious outrage respecting the anonymous note
forming the subject of the trial—a note in which it was said
that for the sum of 50,000 roubles the desire of Marshal
Woronzoff, as to the account of the origin of his family,

would be gratified in the genealogical book which the said
Prince Dolgoroukow was about to publish : that he has, in

fact, narrated the history of this note in such a way as to
make it be believed that the marshal had indulged, to use
his own expressions, in the most infamous calumny, and in
the most audacious forgery that had ever been committed,
saying that this old warrior had been wanting in honour,
and asking if there existed in Russia for marshals and
Knights of St. Andrew the privilege to commit with impu-
nity acts which, in the case of private individuals, would have
been regarded as constituting the crime of forgery, by writing
finally, 'Here is a case of forgery just committed, and the Mi-
nister of Police, a man of personal integrity, but imbued
with the fatal traditions of Asiatic despotism, refuses to
allow any inquiry on the ground that a Knight of St. An-
drew and a marshal would be implicated therein; consider-
ing that the outrage is public, that it has in no respect
been provoked by the Woronzoff family, who were strangers
to the newspaper article to which Dolgoroukow replied, and
that it is not on y defamatory, but calumnious : considering
that the responsibility thus attaching to Dolgcroukow would
be still more serious if it were true that he was himself the
writer of the note imputed to the marshal, a point which
the Court is called to examine on his own demand; but
that at present, and independently of this aggravating ele-
ment, the wrong is manifest, and that Prince Simon Wo-
ronzoff, doubly aggrieved both in the memory of the mar-

shal, his father, and in the honour of the name which he
has inherited from the same, is entitled to demand a rcpara •
tion : considering,as regards the participation of the Courrier
du Dimanche, that it has taken part in the wrong through
an act of imprudence of which it cannot decline the respon •
sibility ; that it first furnished cause of complaint by the
negligeiace with which it admitted into its columns the article
signed M ichen sky, which preceded the letter of Dolgoroukow;
that it then committed the more serious fault of admitting,
without reservation, the public defamation of Dolgoroukow
against Marshal Woronzoff, which is the less excusable as
the Woronzoffs were nowhere designed in the article signed
Michensky ; and that it is quite gratuitously, in their case,
that it has given publicity to the letter by which they
are aggrieved ; as regards the reconventional demand of
Dolgoroukow against Simon Woronzoff, to the effect that
the latter be condemned to pay damages for having afirmed
that Dolgoronkow was the writer of the anonymous letter
forming the subject of the trial—considering, that if Dolgo-
roukow be really the writer of the note, Simon Woronzoff
has only made use of his right of legitimate defence in
ascribing to him the same ; that he had a double interest
in doing so—first, to exhibit in its very serious character
the imputation made by Dolgoroukow that the marshal was
the author, and then to free completely the memory of the
marshal froM this imputation—considering that the ques-
tion then turns on the point whether Dolgoroukow be or be
not the writer of the note, and that the tribunal before
which this question has been brought, by the reconven-
tional demand of Dolgoroukow himself, and for the cons-

fete appreciation of the principal demand of Simon Woron-
zoff, is doubly called upon to examine it--considering on
this point that all the circumstances, all the presumptions
calculated to determine conviction establish that the note
proceeded from him alone who had an interest in writing
it—namely, from Dolgoroukow—considering, in effect, that
the note came to the marshal in a letter of Dolgoroukow,
sealed with his crest; that it is in a handwriting at once
studiously different, yet resembling in its peculiarities the
handwriting of Dolgoroukow ; that the letter and the
note p ssess such a mutual relation by their con-
tents that the hypothesis, which is devoid of all
foundation, that the hand of a third party had
adapted the note to the letter, would still leave unexplained
how the letter was so well adapted to the note ; that on the
courteous answer of the marshal, informing him that he
had found in his letter an anonymous note, of which he
sends him a copy, offering to hand over to him, at their first
interview, the original, in the idea that he would try to dis-
cover the author, Dolgoroukow allows this offer to fall to
the ground, though one which he should have accepted
with eagerness if he had been innocent ; that he has pro-
nounced his own condemnation in this respect in his letter
to the Courrier du Dinzanche in pretending that he claimed,
in his answer to the marshal, the production of the note—

such being in truth the course he ought to have pursued,
but that his answer furnishes a contradiction on thin point ;
that not only did he not call, in any way, for such a produc-
tion, but that he avoided the offer spontaneously made to
him by the marshal ; that the demand which he pretends to
have made so urgently to the Minister of Police, to obtain
an inquiry into the forgery imputed by him to the marshal,
was evidently not serious from the moment that when the
document which constituted the proof of the forgery and the
first element cf the inquiry, the note itself, was offered him,

he avoided the production, and likewise evaded every oppor-
tunity of a personal explanation with:the marshal; that this
charge of tbo marshal being the author or accomplice of a
f3rged note has been moreover abandoned by Dolgoroukow;
that he has then successively had recourse to the double
hypothesis of a third party—first of a venal hand, then of
a hostile hand, which had inserted the note in the letter—
but that this double hypothesis is quite gratuitous, that it
is not supported by any shade of probability, and that these
militate against i t in addition to its own inherent impossi-
bility, material and moral circumstances, all presumptions
so serious and so concordant that they tell against Dol-
goroukow : considering that it results from everything
preceding that the writer of the note can only be Dol-
goroukow, that Simon Woronzoff has been fully justified in
ascribing it to him, and that, consequently, the reconven-
tional demand for damages brought by Dolgoroukow against
Simon Woronzoff must be rejected : considering, as re-
gards the additional pleas of Prince Simon Woronzoff, that
the tribunal is not called upon to establish my means of
depositions to that effect respecting what is only a simple
means devoted to this purpose for the reasons of the sen-
tence. For these reasons sentences Prince Dolgorokow
and Laurent, in his character of gerant of the Courrier
du Dinzanche, conjointly and severally, to all the
costs ; but, as regards Laurent, only in the proportion
of one-sixth ;to the insertion of the present sentence,
with its reasons, in five newspapers, namely, three
in Paris, one in St. Petersburg, and one in London,
without including the insertion of the same in the first
number of the Courrier du Dinzinche which shall appear
after the passing of the present sentence ; authorises Prince
Simon Woronzoff to choose the journals in which the in-
sertion shall be made ; declares that there is no reason to
grant damages in money, as Prince Simon Woronzoff has
claimed no special sum ; declares that there is no occasion
to determine on the additional pleas of the said Prince
Simon Woronzoff; rejects the reconventional demand for
damages of Prince Peter Dolgoroukow; and finally, con-
demns Dolgoroukow for Laurent to pay costs in the pro-
portion of five-sixths for Dolgoroukow and one-sixth for
Laurent,

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to t;
cap. 32, for the week ending
of Jan., 1862:

ie Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
on Wednesday, the Bth day

ISSUE DET
Notes issued ...—..f.29,858,915

ARTMENT.
Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .• 3.034900
15,203,915
Gold Coin & Bullion
Silver Bullion ...-

V9,658,9:5

£29,858,915!
BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Proprietors' Capi- Government Seen-
tal £14,553,000 riJes (including
Public Deposits 0 n-
Rest
3,232,385
OtEtheerads:erigithietAs n. -
18,1' 6,Ril
eluding Exche-
quer, Savings' Notes
Banks, Commis- Gold and Silver
missioners of Na- Coin
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 4,542,974
Other Deposits 18,206,488
Seven Day and
other Bills

837,102

X 41,267,007
(Signed) M.l

£41,267,007
[AR SHALL, Chief Cashier.

Jan. 9, 1862.

The Launionnais states that soma fishermen,
when off the coast between Perros and the Sept-Ires (Cotes
du Nord), three days back, saw a bulky mass floating on
the surface, which they at first took for the hull of a vessel
turned keel upwards, but on approaching nearer they found
it to be a whale of the largest species. To the great alarm
of the fishermen, the whale followed in their wake for some
distance, but when they arrived off the point of Ploumanach,
it changed its course and made for the north west. It has
slue° been seen off the coast at Ileaux de Drehat.

2HE TUSCARORA AND NASIIVILLI2.

SOUTIIAKPTON, IUUBSDAY.

At the moment that news has reached us ot'peace-
able relations being maintained between England
and America by the Lam-Jailer of the captive com-

tnissioners, the war bctwceu the Federal. ::ad the
Confederate States is brought to our very doors, aud
the two navies stand arrayed against each other, at
least by deputy, in British waters. The entrance to
the Southampton docks is absolutely under bleckadP,
as far as one vessel is concerned—a blockade, too,
which promises to be far more effective in its results
than that which exists on the shores of the South-
ern States.;

The new screw sloop of war Tuscarora, whose ar-
rival was reported yesterday, is moored at the en-
trance of the Itchen creek, just at its confluence
with the Southampton water, about, a mile fiorn tie
dock mouth. She has her fires banked up, and lies
with two springs at her cable, ready to slip anchor
and start at a moment's notice. The Nashville, which
vessel the Tuscarora has come over to take specially
under her watchful care and protection, still remains
quietly berthed in dock, and no signs of getting up
steam have betrayed themselves, although it was
openly stated last night that she intended to ven-
ture out and put to sea this morning. However, tho
probability is that, as the Nashville would not be
able to cope with such a formidable competitor, both
vessels will remain here looking at each other till
the war is over. The Tuscarora is armed with nine
heavy guns, while the Nashville is stated to have
only two guns of somewhat inferior calibre, The
former is a bran new ship, just built at Philadel-
phia, and six months ago her keel was not even laid.
As soon as the Tuscarora arrived here yesterday
Captain Craven communicated with the captain of
the frigate Dauntless, which lies off Netley, ex-
pressing the regret he felt at hearing of the death
of his late Royal Highness Prince Albert, and
asking if there would be any objection to his firing
a salute of 21 minute guns at 12 o'clock to-day in.
respect to his memory. Captain Heath replied that
in consequence of her Majesty having requested
that no guns should be fired in the vicinity of
Osborne, the compliment,which he fully appreciated,
could not be accepted.
Yesterday evening Captain Britton,the American
Consul at this port, went off to pay his respects to
Captain Craven, on board the Tuscarora, and, it
may be presumed, made such arrangements as will
render it a matter of impossibility for the Nashville
to make her escape.
Besides the Nashville, the only other American
vessels at present in port are the St. Charles, Cap-
tain Conway, which put in a month since for re-
pairs, and the Katandin, Captain Wetherley, which
arrived here on the 25th of November, with a cargo
of timber from Canada, and is now lying in tho
river Itchen.

The Tuscarora has been sent over here by the
Federal Government to prevent, as far as possible,
depredations by Confederate privateers upon Ameri-
can vessels, and she is to be followed by one or two
other ships of the Federal Navy, to protect their
flag in the English Channel. In point of fact it has
occasioned much surprise among mercantile men
that the large amount of American shipping afloat

in these waters should hitherto have been left un-
protected during the war, and it can only be ac-
counted for by the fact of all the Federal vessels of
war being required fcr the blockade of the Southern
ports. The Government have, however, at length
decided to send two or three heavily-armed ships
to rendezvous in the Channel, for the protection of
Federal vessels afloat between this port and Gib-
raltar, a second of which is now daily expected here
to follow the Tuscarora. This intelligence will be
received with great satisfaction both at Lloyd's,
where large numbers of American ships are insured,
and by mercantile men generally in England, many
of whom have large and valuable cargoes afloat in
American bottoms which are liable to capture by
Southern privateers, as in the case of the Sumter,
which has just appeared at Cadiz. Apart from all
political considerations or tendency to either Union
or Secession opinions,as the case may be may, it can-
not be the wish of either the British Government or
commercial men generally to see their own pro-
party destroyed, or exposed to destruction, by the
Nashville, Sumter, or any other Southern ship. In
protecting American property they are doing the
same service, to a great extent, for English pro-
perty, and therefore the determiLation of the Fede-
ral Government to protect vessels sailing under
their flag by the presence of these heavily-armed
war ships cannot but give satisfaction in shipping
and commercial circles.
With regard to the Nashville, there is no doubt
that intelligence of the expected arrival of the Tus-
carora was received by Capt. Pegrim some days ago
and every effort has been made to get her ready for
sea as expeditiously as possible. The British Go-
vernment has observed the strictest neutrality in
regard to the rapairs, &c., effected in this ship.
Nothing has been done but -what was absolutely
nee( ssary to make her seaworthy, and such repairs
only have been executed as are always permitted, as
an act of humanity, to any vessel in distress. In
proof of this it may be mentioned that on the ship-
wright who was engaged to repair her attempting
to put in some heavy pieces of oak to strengthen
her decks, to enable her to carry guns, the Govern-
ment authorities absolutely refused their permission
for the timber to go on board, and it still lies on
the dock quay. She has not been allowed to ship
powder; a small quantity which was on board
when she arrived here, and which she was permit-
ted to remove on shore, has been reshipped. No
guns or munitions of war have been put on board,
and, in fact, nothing has been allowed to be exe-
cuted but ordinary repairs.
Some of the officers cf the Tuscarora landed both
yesterday evening and this morning, but Captain
Craven has not yet been ashore. The sloop requires
only coals, water, and provisions, which are being
supplied her.

THIS DAY'S SIARKETS.