The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

MASTER OF THE HORSE'S OFFICE-APRIL 2.

Tile Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Charles
Edmund Phipps,'Esq., to be Page of Honour to her Ma-
jesty, vice Crofton. -
FOREIGN OFFICE —APRIL 5.

Tho Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Robert
Boglo as Consul in Jamaica, for the Republic of Gaute-
mala.

Commission by the Lord LLieutenant of Middlesex.
Algernon Frederick Greville, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant, Dec. 13, 1852.
. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Borkshire.
David Anderson Elane, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant,
March 15. . .

Royal Berks Militia—John Mahon Williams, Gent., to
be Ensign, March 16. _ _

Coramissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the Tower

Hamlets.

James Holbert Wilson, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant,
April 2.
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia.—Thos.
Ranelagh John George Thomson, Esq.;to be Captain, vice
Ogle, superseded ; Richard Hill Webster, Esq., to be Cap-
tain, vice Bickford, resigned ; George Kitson, Esq., to be
Captain ; Wm. Henry Taylor, Esq., to be Captain ; Clave-
ring Redman, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Cotton, re-
signed ; John William Gordon Woodford, Gent., to be
Lieutenant ; John Feetham, Gent., to be Lieutenant ;
Leonard Strong, Gent., to be Lieutenant, April 2.

Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Nottingham.
Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regi-
ment of Militia.—Francis Rawson, Gent, to be Lieutenant.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cornwall.
_ _

Royal Cornwall hangers—Ernest Frederick Peel, Gent.,
Stephen Nowell Usticke, Gent., and John Borlase, Gent.,
to be Second Lieutenants, March 26.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent.
West Kent Regiment of Militia.—Major Sir Thomas
Maryon Wilson, Bart., to be Colonel, vice Sir John K.
Shaw, Bart., resigned, April 1.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire.
Leicestershire Regiment of Militia.—Alfred Whitby,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, Feb. 21.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Essex
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Wcitern Regiment-of Militia.—The Right Hon. Charles
Henry Spenser George Canning, Baron Garvagh (late Cap-
tain in the 10th Hussars), to be Captain, March 31.
Eastern Regiment of Militia.—Matthew Henry Lister,
Gent., to be Lieutenant; Frederic William Kirby, Gent.,
to be Ensign, March 31.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire.

Shropshire Reginaent of Militia.—Captain Alfred Ed-
ward Hill, late Captain 68th Foot, to be Captain, N:ce
Marsh, resigned ; Captain Henry C. Cotton, late Captain
21st Fusiliers, to be Captain ; Godfrey Russell, Gent., to
be Lieutenant ; Roger G. C. Owen, Gent., so be Lieute-
nant ; John Bennett, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Charles
Phillips, Gent., to be Lieutenant, March 31.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey.

3d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia.—To be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Commandant. Thomas Chaloner Bisse
Challoner, Esq., formerly Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant
of the 4th Royal Surrey Light Infantry Regiment, Local
Militia, March 26.

Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.
Cambridgeshire Militia. Lieutenant and Adjutant
Michael Dickment to be Captain ; James Michael Hankin
Turvin, Esq., to be Lieutenant, March 30.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Somersetshire.
North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—John
Hippisley, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Blagrave, resigned,
March 31.

BANKRUPTS.

William Wright, draper, Malden, to surrender, April
14, and May 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bakruuptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Overbury,
Old Jewry,
William Crowley, wheelwright, Newport Pagnell, April
9 and May 20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, official assignee, 2, Basinghall-street ; Sargent
and Justice, 5, Essex-court, Temple ; Jagger, Bir-
mingham.
Charles Grant Wilson, woollen warehouseman, Foster-
lane, April 15, and May 28, aL twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Cheapside.
Edward Hunt, auctioneer, King William-street, City,
April 19, at half-past two, and May 10, at one. Groom,
official assignee, Abchurch-lane, King William-street ;
Miller and Horn, King William-street.

John .Llewellin, haberdasher, Bristol, April 20, at twelve,
and May 16, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Metteram and Knight,
Birmingham, and Prideaux, Bristol.

CHRISTS HOSPITAL.--(THIS DAY.)

ELECTION OF HEAD MASTER.

The election of a successor to the lamented Dr. Rice
took place this day. Upon the present occasion, the
old rule of confining the choice to the persons educated
on the f?undation of Christ's Hospital was set aside for
the first time. At a preliminary meeting of the Court
of Almoners, under the presidency of His Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, the names of three gentle-
men were selected, among them Mr. Harper, head-
master of the King's school, Sherborne, who afterwards
withdrew from the contest. The Court of Governors,
as the superior power, met this day for the purpose of
selecting from the two remaining candidates, namely,
the Rev. Andrew George Jacob, Doctor of Divinity,
and the Rev. Henry Newport, Master of Arts.
At the hour appointed, tie counting-house, and the
various thoroughfares or court-yards leac:ing thereto,
assumed a very animated appearance, the number of
governors attending the election being greater than can
be remembered for many years.
The preliminary proceedings having been gone
through, the election, which was by ballot, commenced.
The abilities and high character of each of the candi-
dates having been dwelt upon, each of the governors re-
ceived two printed slips of paper, each bearing the name
of either gentleman, and each governor having made his
selection, at three o'clock the numbers were announced
as follows :

Rev. Andrew G. Jacob, D.D.140
Rev. Henry Newport, M.A.
The salary attached to the office is, we believe, 8001.
per annum, with a residence.

MARffPT INTELLIGENCE.

(Prom the London New Price Current of this day.)

SUGAR.—To-day the market for West India sugar pre-
sented a dull appearance, and the rates accepted are rather
under those of Friday for both grocery and refining sorts.
At the public sales of 120 hhds Demerara crystalised
prices declined is per cwt.—good greyish selling at 38s to
395, low to middling 35s to 37s 6d, and brown from 33s to
34s 6d per cwt. Total purchases aro only 166 hhds, &c.
REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar was purchased with
caution for home consumption, and prices declined, brown
lumps selling at 45s 6d to 465, and low to fine grocery 46s
6d to 48s Gd per cwt. In crushed Sugar not much is
doing for export, still rates are sustained.
MAURITIUS.—To-day the quantity of Mauritius Sugar
offered was greater than previously, and amounted to 18,900
bags; of this, 15,000 found buyers at prices fully 6d per
cwt under those of Friday ; fine yellow went at 36s 6d to
37s 6d, low to good 34s 6d to 365, good to fine brown 32s
to 345, ord to mid 30s to 31s 6d, low 27s to 295, corn to
good grey 33s to 365, superior 36s 6d to 37s 6d, and fine
grainy yellow 39s to 40s per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—To-day there was not much desire to
operate in Bengal sugar. The quantity offered at auction
was, 5,780 bags, and only 2,000 sold at 6d reduction ;
Benares good to fine white went at 375. to 38s, low to mid
35s to 36s 6d, superior grainy yellow 39s 6d to 40$, fine
soft yellow 31s to 34s 6d. Madras is yet plentiful, and of
6,000 bags in public sale a very small part only sold at
rather low terms, low to mid grocery at 32s to 345, and
ord to fine soft yellow 29s to 32s per cwt.
MOLASSEs.—Few buyers are to be met with, but supply
being limited in price, scarcely any change has occurred.
West India is held for 16s to 18s for low to fine quality,
Bengal and Mauritius 14s to 15s, Cuba and Porto Rico 17s
to 18s per cwt.
COCOA.—PuTchascs in West India have been on a small
scale, and prices incline downwards, although the supply ins

MINISTERIAL SCHEME OE EDUCATION.

(From the- Times.)

It was pretty well known before yesterday that
Lord John Russell did not intend to dazzle the eyes
of the public with a magnificent scheme of education.
Such schemes are as easily framed as castles of cards,
but the sole result has hitherto been a general disap-
pointment, and a natural conviction in some quarters
that education was an altogether hopeless and incorri-
gible subject. Lord John Russell has very wisely, as
we think, profited by much recent experience, and dis-
armed opposition by adopting a merely permissive, sug-
gestive, and auxiliary course. That is the course which,
as he showed last night, has answered in the hands of
the Committee of Council, and which has enabled it to
do so much good with so little noise or offence. The
education of towns is the first and foremost part of the
new measure, and what Lord John Russell proposes in
this instance will rather fall short of than exceed ex-
pectation. We have heard it alleged to be a matter of
common law that every corporation might levy a rate
for any reasonable purpose. Instead of this, it is now
proposed that the municipal council of a town may, by
a majority of two-thirds, levy a rate for the assistance
of existing schools, on the sole condition that such
schools so assisted hall be under the Committee of Coun-
cil, enjoying, of course, the pecuniary and other advan-
tages of that connexion. We know not what objection
can be made to so fair and so moderate a proposition.
The active concurrence of a large majority of the local
government, and the superintendence of the State, con-
stitute as good security for the proper use of an educa-
tion rate as can well be imagined. It is a case
of necessity rather than choice.
_Private enter-
prise fails to reach the masses. Zeal is apt to
be proselytising, or, at least, eccentric. Any-
how, the people are not properly educated, and
many a generous mind has reflected with pain, after the
payment of a heavy police-rate, or borough-rate for the
maintenance of prisons, how much further this would
have gone in preventing the evils which are now to be
cured at so heavy a cost. Proceeding upon the model
of a municipal rate, similar provisions will be made for
the case of parishes, even the very poorest, levying rates
for the assistance of schools. Secular education, as it
has been called, is given up, and as propagandism is
equally beyond the province of the State, those children
whose parents object to the religion of the schools
assisted under the above provisions will be allowed to
receive the general without the doctrinal instruction.
On the bare mention of a rate it will occur to many
minds that a rate is hardly necessary when there already
exist so many splendid endowments for education. When
there is hardly a parish without a free school, and hardly
a, town without many such, sometimes on the most splendid
scale, the very existence of such means, and still more
their neglect and abuse, constitute in themselves insur-
mountable obstacles in the way of improved and extended
education. Everybody of common information can recal
from his local experience instances of noble endowments
squandered, embezzled, and almost forgotten ; while the
only remedy that now exists is even worse than the
disease, being no other than the fatal process of a
Chancery suit, in which the endowment is certain
to disappear. Considering the discouragement and
prejudice arising from such instances considering
the very natural repugnance that ratepayers will
ever have to pay their quotas of 51. or even ss. a
year for the education of their poorer neighbours,
when they already see wealthy foundations for the
purpose, it is impossible to authorise a school-rate with-
out a corresponding measure for the better manage-
ment of free schools. The first thing to be done is to
decide whether an abuse -really exists—that is, whether
there really is a case for interference. This decision
is assigned to the County Courts where the in-
come to be dealt with is less than 331. a year, and where
it is above to the Master of the Rolls. In order, how-
ever, to prevent thoss wasteful suits, so notorious and
frequent in the annals of our urisprudence, no such
suit is to be instituted without the permission of a
Committee of Council appointed for the purpose. When
it is decided that the existing administration of a free
school is abusive, corrupt, and inadequate—which we
believe to be the case in a vast majority of instances—
then comes in the need of immediate correction and
regular superintendence, matters no longer within the
scope of judicial bodies. This second part is to be as-
signed to the only body competent to the office, viz.,
the above-mentioned Committee of Council, which, if not
identical with that for education, would, of course, be
in perfect harmony with it. Most, if not all, the free
schools, and other public schools of the country, might
be vastly improved by some little elementary teaching
in those arts and sciences which contribute so largely
to the industry and prosperity of this nation. An im-
provement of that kind is to be attempted under the su-
perintendence of the Board of Trade.
A statement of the Ministerial intentions on the sub-
ject of education could not well leave out our two an-
cient Universities. Everybody will ask what is to be
done with the reports of the twin commissions ? Lord
John trusts, with what reason remains to be seen, to
the spirit of self-reform awakened in- the Universities,
and likely to be considerably quickened by his observa-
tions last night. He contented himself with reca-
pitulating the private recommendatioas of the Commis-
sions, and suggested that if the Universities wished to
carry out those recommendations themselves they should
have every facility Parliament could give them for the
purpose ; but that if they showed no such intention, or
fell short of the public expectation, Parliament would step
in and deal with them in a more summary manner. The
particular points specified by Lord John Riissell are just
those which have been strongly advocated in these
columns—the concession of some voice in the govern-
ment of the university to those who are actually engaged
in teaching ; admission to the privileges of the university
without the condition of belonging to any college ; the
removal of restrictions in the election of fellowships and
scholarships, the limitation of those stipends to a certain
period of years ; and, in general, the application of the
college revenues more directly and effectually to the pur-
poses of instruction. If Oxford and Cambridge wish to
originate schemes for the promotion of these objects, un-
doubtedly they can do so better than others can do it for
them. Undoubtedly they tan do it with less damage to
the traditional feelings , the religio loci, thevecollections,
the secret virtues, and power of the place. They kriow
best how to reform without a positive change of identity.
But their work is marked out for them. They know
what they have to do, and they must do it. Otherwise,
as has happened a thousand times before, strangers will
come in and cut the knot which local authority is too
weak, or too selfish, or too sentimental to untie. There
has not for many years appeared a report which the pub-
lic is more prepared to accept, to back up, and to
carry out, than those of the University Commissions ;
and we can answer for it that they will be carried out
before long, in one form or another. With Lord John
Russell we should much prefer to see it done by the uni-
*versifies themselves. They are now invited and challenged
to the task, and with the distinct understanding that, if
if they fail, Government will hold itself bound to assume
the initiative, and introduce bills placing the universities
at once and for good under a Parliamentary 'vim.