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THE. SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY 170711'iNING, JULY 9, 185-3

were under 15, and 56 had begun between the
ages of 12 and 16. To the same purpose 100
city missionaries and ragged-school teachers, in
answer to the question, " How many persons do
you think, who have lived an honest life up to
20 years of age, afterwards fall away and take
vicious courses ?" unanimously answered, "Not
two in a hundred." Pretty satisfactory evidence
this. How small would be our criminal adult
population could we but succeed in convert-
ing our juvenile vagabonds and criminals
into industrious young men. Lord SHAFTES-
BURY proposes that parents when able shall do
something towards the support of these children
in the Reformatory Schools. Reasonably enough,
for he finds 20,641 children in London, under 15
years of ago, living at large, in idleness, and ne-
glected by parents who were more or less able to
provide for them. One city missionary knew 100
families in which the parents lived in luxury and
idleness, obtained by children subjected to brutal
ill-treatment, if by selling, begging, or stealing
they did not bring home the expected sum. A
person whom the Earl had employed to make in-
quiries found not fewer than. 200 practised ju-
venile mendicants and vagrants, whose parents
earned not less than 16s. per week. The number
of children of that class frequenting lodging-houses
is 3,098 ; of these 2,106 have parents, able in
whole or in part, to contribute to their maintenance
and education. Hence, though we think it would
be the best economy in the world for the public
to pay the whole charge, if necessary, it is clear
enough that we need not give a premium to pa-
rental neglect by too much gratuitous work. In-
deed it were worth the expense of making the guilty
parents pay at a loss to the public, to avoid tempt-
ing the better sort to neglect their children also.
It appears that the number of the unfortunate
children in question, either in London or in the
provincial towns, is by no means so large as to
discourage legislation of this kind at present ;
while, in all reason, it may be hoped that the very
process itself would soon begin to lessen their
numbers. But we repeat, it were folly to cavil
about a little money for such an object as this.
If not two per cent. of those who attain maturity
in habits of honesty are seduced by the many
temptations subsequent to that period into dis-
' honest courses, and if, probably, not two per
cent. of those who aro trained to mendicancy and
pilfering fail to retain and aggravate their early
vices as they grow in years, can we hesitate a mo-
ment as to what is the obvious path of duty and
of economy ?
A fear has been expressed whether adequate
industrial occupation could be found for so large
a number. We do not, especially in the present
state of the labour market, anticipate much diffi-
culty in that. Though it would be preferable to
teach various mechanical trades, yet it would be
better than mendicancy to have the school where
a factory could be built in connection with it, and
the children employed. by a manufacturer paying
for their labour as similar labour is paid for by
others. We have often thought (the peace gentle-
men must pardon us, for soldiers will certainly be
wanted for a long time to come) that frequent
and thorough military drilling would be an ad-
mirable occupation, in part, for the boys of all
kinds of Reformatory Schools ; some even might
possibly be so located so as to give the lads a
relish for the life of her MAJESTY'S Navy. The
class taken to these schools rarely want hardihood,
courage, mental ability, and the love of adventure.
A great part of military and naval exercises would
be entered into with zest by the boys ; and the
habits of order and prompt obedience which they
would acquire would be of admirable service as
corrective of their old vicious ones. So far as it
went, it would doubtless dispose them to enter
the Army ; and the mimic drill of youth would,
as in every other department, make them superior
in the service. All this we should think an ad-
vantage. No lad who had gained a character at
the Reformatory School would then want an
honourable employment in the service of the
State ; the involuntary crimes of boyhood would
be no stain upon the honour of the man or of the
soldier ; and even if they really were juvenile
" wild oats," it would surely be no bar to their
turning out first-rate men.

COURT CIRCULAR.

HEALTH OF THE PRINCE CONSORT.

The following bulletin of the health of Prince Albert
was issued yesterday :
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1853.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert has an attack of
measles. The eruption has come fully out, and the
disease is proceeding favourably. JAMES CLARK, M.D.
The Princess of Hohenlohe Langenbourg took leave
of the Queen yesterday morning, and, accompanied by
the Princess Adelaide, quitted Buckingham Palace at a
quarter past 10 o'clock, attended by Sir George Couper,
for the London-bridge Terminus, travelling by route of
the South-Eastern Railway to Dover.
Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and the Princesses
Helena and Louisa, attended by Lady Caroline Bar-
rington, left Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle at
half-past nine o'clock yesterday morning, travelling via
the Great Western Railway.
The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal mid
the Princess Alice, and ,attended by the Duchess of
Sutherland, took a drive in an open landau and four
yesterday afternoon. Colonel the Hon. C. Grey and
Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon were in attendance
on horseback.

Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Royal and
the Princess Alice, honoured the performance of the
German play with her presence last evening. The
Queen was attended by Viscountess Jocelyn, the lion.
Eleanor Stanley, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Lord
Camoys, Colonel Bouverie, and Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. A. Gordon. The Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness do Speth, and
Lord James Murray, also honoured the performance
with her presence.
Colonel Bouverio has relieved Lord Alfred Paget as
Equerry in Waiting to the Queen, and Viscountess
Jocelyn has succeeded the Countess of Mount Edg-
cumbe as Lady in Waiting.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duchess of Kent
yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's.

The Birmingham Assay office deputation, consisting
of Mr. Harrold, Mr. Rotton, and Mr. Westwood ; and
the Coventry deputation, consisting of Mr. Rotherham
and Mr. Troughton, had an interview with the Right
Hon. E. Cardwell, yesterday, at the office of the
Board of Trade. The deputation was accompanied by
the following members of Parliament, viz., the Right
Hon. Edward Ellice, Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Spooner, Mr.
Geach, Mr. Scholefield, Mr. Muntz, and Mr. Hadfield.
The Cathedral Commission had a meeting yesterday.
Present—The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of
Harrowby, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of
Oxford, Sir John Dodson, the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth,
the Rev. Canon Selwyn, and the Rev. Richard Jones
(secretary).
Mr. Dundas had an interview with Viscount Palmer-
ston yesterday. Colonel Freestun had also an interview
with the noble viscount, at the Home-office.
Dispatches for the Governor of Malta and also for the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, were
sent off yesterday from the Colonial-office. Dispatches
were also sent to the Governor of Canada.

POSTPONEMENT OF THE VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO
IRELAND,—We regret to state that in consequence of
Prince Albert being attacked by the measles, the Queen's
visit to Dublin is postponed for the present. The two
yachts and the Blenheim, which had sailed on Tuesday
from Portsmouth, having been ordered back, and the
preparations for the reception of her Majesty in Dublin
have been stopped.
THE KING OF HANOVER.—His Majesty the King of
Hanover has conferred on Mr. S. W. Fullom, the author
of "The Marvels of Science, and their Testimony to
Holy Writ," the Hanoverian medal of the arts and
sciences, as a mark of his approbation of that work.
DEATH OF THE MARCHIONESS OF ANGLESEY.—
We are sorry to announce the demise of this lady, who
expired yesterday morning, after a very brief illness,
from which dangerous results were not anticipated until
a short time before her death. Her ladyship was out
in her carriage on Saturday last, and only complained
of slight indisposition on Sunday. From her general
delicate state of health no serious apprehensions were
entertained even then. Dr. Ince, the family physician,
saw her, and, as she appeared to him to be somewhat
more affected by illness than usual, on Tuesday Dr.
Locock was called in. From the first he gave no hope.
She expired at half-past 9 o'clock yesterday morning, in
the presence of the Marquis and several of her children.
The Queen sent to inquire after the Marchioness yes-
terday morning at 10 o'oclock, and the Royal messenger
conveyed back the tidings of her death.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.—GENERAL POST-OFFICE,
June, 1853.—0 n arid from the Ist of July next the
postage upon letters addressed to the Principality of
Lippe Detmold, when sent in the mail to Prussia, rid
Belgium, will be reduced to Bd. for a single letter not
exceeding half an ounce in weight ; ls. 4d. for a letter
exceeding half an ounce, and not exceeding ono ounce,
and so on, according to the scale for charging inland
letters. This postage includes both the British and
foreign rates upon letters for Lippe Detmold, and it may
bo paid in advance, or letters may be forwarded unpaid,
at the option of the sender.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

FRAN CE.

The Moniteur publishes a decree, approving of the
treaty between the Minister of Priblie Works and MM.
Arnoux and Co., for a railroad from Bourg-la-Heine to
Orsay, and the prolongation of the concession of the lino
from Paris to Sceaux.

A report having been received from the Prefect of the
Loire-Inf6rieure, and from a special commission, stating
that the efforts made to drain the marshes of Donges
have hitherto failed from the want of sufficient pecuniary
means, the Emperor has ordered that a sum of 131,000
francs shall be taken from his privy purse, and placed at
the disposal of the Prefect of the department.
It is said that some arrests were made last night,
whether connected with those effected at the Opera
Comique is not clear. A son of Victor Hugo, and a
tradesman or manufacturer in the Faubourg St. Antoine,
are said to be of the number. It is stated that the par-
ties taken into custody on Tuesday night. and who had
arms found on them, had only arrived in Paris the same
day from England via Brussels. The Royalist parties
accuse each other of being at the bottom of the plot, or,
to speak more correctly, the Legitiinists accuse the Or-
leanists. This would, at all events, show that the
"fusion " has not made much progress. It is rumoured
that the 15 or 16 persons first arrested will, on identi-
fication, be sent off to Cayenne. Indeed, it is said they
are on the way to Brest to be embarked for that place.
The Queen Mother of Spain, her husband the Duke
of Rianzares, and their family, are expected in Paris on
the 15th. They proceed to Dieppe or Havre for sea-
bathing. Marshal Narvaes will visit the Queen Mother
on her arrival. Her Majesty is still as decidedly op-
posed as over to the "reform " of the Spanish Constitu-
tion in the Bravo Murillo fashion, and to which her
daughter seems as much inclined as ever ; and, unfor-
tunately, the influence of the former, which would now
be usefully exercised, has much diminished. It is feared
that Spain is not yet out of her troubles.
The ministerial journals of Paris still declare that there
is ground for hope that means will be found to prevent
war, but they no longer attempt to conceal from the
public that there are facts, which, unless they should
be modified materially, will render war inevitable. An
article in the Constitutionnel, which appears to have
been written with a full knowledge of the views
entertained by the Government, will be read
with considerable interest. The Assemblee Na-
tionale expresses more confidence as to the pre-
servation of peace, but we know not on what authority
it speaks, and the suddenness of its conversion from its
devotedness to Russian interests to an apparent support
of the policy of the French and British Cabinets, makes
it impossible to receive its assurances without suspicion.
The Univers alludes to a rumour which has been current
for some days of a proposition having been made to the
Porte, with the approbation of the Emperor of Russia,
for a convention in favour of the Christian subjects of
the Sultan, of every sect, with the powers of Europe
generally. The Univers does not appear to attach much
credit to this statement. If it had carefully examined
the question, it would have found that such a combination
would be impossible without a total departure from grin-
' ciple on the part of the French Cabinet. In the reply of
M. Drouin de Lhuys to Count Nessel-ode, he states
distinctly that no power has a right to impose con-
ditions upon a monarch which would deprive him of
his sovereignty over any portion of his subjects of what-
ever religion, and that France has never attempted'
anything of this kind in favour of the Catholic subjects
of the Sultan. The combination alluded to by the
Univers would sanction the principle laid down by the
Emperor Nicholas ; the only difference would be that
instead of making the Sultan the vassal of Russia alone,
it would make him the vassal 'of the Christian powers
generally. It is impossible, therefore, to suppose that
France and England have for a moment entertained the
idea of submitting such a proposition to the Sultan. The
Union, whilst expressing its regret at the language of the
manifesto of the Emperor of Russia, founds upon the re-
ligious enthusiasm that it displays a hope that peace will
be preserved. This journal thinks it impossible that a
man, who professes so much zeal for Christianity,
should plunee into a conflict opposed to the mild
and benevolent doctrines of the Christian religion.
If this be the only ground for the hope that the Union
entertains, we fear that it will be found a slender one.
There is a vast difference between the pure religious
conviction founded upon reason and the fanaticism to
which the name of religion is given. Some of the most
cruel, unjust, and sanguinary wars which have afflicted
Europe had their orig'n only in religious fanaticism,
which blinded men to their real duties, and induced
them to commit crimes under the persuasion that they
were fulfilling a sacred duty.
At the Bourse yesterday the market for Government
securities opened heavily, although a gradual improve-
ment took place as the day progressed, and prices were
generally firm at the termination of business. The
Three per Cents, eventually improved 5c., and the Four-
' and-a-Half per Cents. 20c., both for the end of the
month, whilst for money the Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
rose 10c.' and the Three per Cents. declined to a similar
extent. Bank of France shares fell sf. The closing
prices were—For cash : Three per Cents., 76.50 f. ;
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1021. For the account :
Three per Cents., 76.65 f. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
1021. Bank Stock, 2,645 f.

Northerns, 855f.' ; Paris and Orleans, 1,072 f. ; Paris
and Strasbourg, 885 f, ; Paris and Lyons, 890 f. ; Paris
and Rouen, 1,035 f.; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 725 f.;
Western, 725.