The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-01 00:00:00

Cours(

Lady Wildair, 5 yrs—The .Widow, aged—Alboni,
3 yrs—Sheraton, 4 yrs—Wa: tc ta, 3 yrs—Rough and
Ready, 5 yrs—Doctrine, 3 yrs- -3 !: other), 3 yrs—Tarella,
3 yrs—Watch Dog, 4 yrs—l fy drangea, 4 yrs—Fis•
Liana, 3 yrs—Lady Cecilia, 4 3 ra—Captain Pepper,
3 yrs.

Handicap of 15 sovs. oacl T.Y.C.
Vice-Consul, 3 yrs—Duc-an,-Da rras, 5 yrs—Bow-
string, 3 yrs—Christopher, 3 yrs-1 las. 5 yrs—Jollity,
3 yrs—Oregon, 3 yrs.
Sweepstakes for two-year-oleis and. a tpwards the winner
to be sold for 50 sovs. La at 't ,alf of Ab.ll.

Bella Porn, 3 yrs—c by Don J( phi t out of Gameless, 3
yrs—Outpost, 3 yrs—Peeress fill y, 2 yrs, Jollity, 3 yrs
—Whipper-snapper, 2 yrs—Vil Lica s, 3 yrs—Moodkee,
3 yrs,

Match —lOO h If, T.Y.C. Lora Exeter's Cosachia,
Bst 71b, egst Mr. Goddard's Vane: st., 7st 21b.
Match-200 h ft, Bit 71b each, ' C.Y.C. Mr. Moore's
Watchdog, 3 yrs, agst Colonel An son's Blaze.
Match-100, h ft, D.M. Lord ( laledon's Wanota' Bst
71b agst Mr. Moore's Watchdog, 8 t 31b.
Match-100, T.Y.C. Lord Che si erfield's Distaffina,
2 yrs, 6st 11b, receives 50 forfeit t h ;al Mr. Sandford's
Kimblesworth, 3 yrs, ist 131 b.
Mr. Moore has sold Wolfdog for 1,0 10 guineas, to go
abroad, and Woodcraft is also sold tog o abroad.

NEWMARKET NOVEMBER MEETING.
ENTRIES FOR lIIONDAI ".
Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 10 FI . T.Y.C.
Due•an-Durras, 5 yrs, Bst 71b—Bo' string, 3 yrs, Bsl
71b—Christopher, 3 yrs, Sst e-Consul, 3 yrs.
Bst 21b—Idas, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Oregcm, 3 yrs, 7st—Jol-
lity, 3 yrs, 7st.
Handicap Plate of 100 sovs. Clot aaont Course.
_ _

Lady Wilciair, 5 yrs, Bst 121b—Th(h Widow, aged, Bst
71b—Sheraton, 4 yrs, ist 71b—Pime1rt 9, 6 yrs, 6st 121 b
—Captain Pepper, 3 yrs, Est 71b—Dix trine, 3 yrs, 6st
41b—Lady Lurervell, 3 yrs, 6st 41b—Ptill ma, 3 yrs, 6st.
Sweepstakes. Last Half of Ab. M. la inner to be sold

for 50.

Bella Donna, 3 yrs—Villiers, 3 yrs— Jollity, 3 yrs—
Moodkee, 3 yrs— Whipper Snapper, 2 yrs—Game Lass
colt, 2 yrs—Peeress filly, 2 yrs.
The Junior Nursery Stakes. Cambrid ;eshire Course.
Sampson, Bst 121b—Distaffina, Sst if o—Duplicity, Bst
21b—St. Anne, ist 121b—Contessu, 7te . 111 b,
Swaffham House Stakes. Cesares itch Course.

Hydrangea, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Lady 'ecilia, ist 81b—
Watchdog, 3 yrs, 7st 61b—Doctrine, ; yrs, 7st—the res
pay forfeit. . _

Match, 100. T.Y.C.
Distaffina receives from Kimbl, -sworth.
_ HUNTING APPOINTME. NTS. _

Her Majesty's staghounds meet on I\7, ed., the Twyford
station; Fri., Woking station—ll.
Lord Parker's hds., Tues., Stowe-woe); 1; Fri., Ibstone
House.

Lord Lonsdale's harrs., Tues., Asto..it Clinton; Sa
Long Marston-12.

Air. Drake's lids., Tues., Charlton_ Town; Thurs.,
Grendon village; Sat., Fenny-Comptorw wharf-10f.
The Warwickshire lads., Tues., Mitford-bridge;
Thurs., Stoneleigh Abbey; Fri., Wroxia a Abbey; Sat.,
Church Tysoe —loi.
The York and Ainsty hds., Tues., Red: House; Thurs.,
Copgrove; Sat., Melbourne
Sir Tatton Sykes's hds., Mon., Birds. IP House; Wed.,
Aldby-park ; Fri., Scampston House-10:?.
The Sinnington lads., Tues., Helanslo.y; Fri., Dial-
stone Inn-10.
The Earl of Harewond's hds., Wed., Ear ewood bridge;
Fri., Ribston-moor-103-.
The Ilolderness lids., Tues., Everinghas -park; Thurs.,
Beeford; Sat., North Dalton-101.
The Bedale lids., Wed., Blow's Hall,, Hutton-moor;
Fri., Pepper Hall-101.
The Hurworth lads., Tues., Croft-briitgo; Sat., Leven •
bridge.
The Raby lids., Thurs., Wakerfield; eat., Middleton
Tyas-10i.
Lord Yarborough's lads., Wed., Riby Cross-roads;
Fri., Wotton House-11.
Lord H. Bentincles hds., Thurs., E:urton Hall-12;
Sat., Tile-house Beck-11.
The Cleveland hds., Fri., Gisborough
The Durham County hds.; Wednesday, Mainsforth;
Friday, Great Stainton-10i.
The Badsworth lads., Tuesday B rodsworth-hall ;
Thurs., Womersl,y-park ; Sat., Aketou-:hall-101.
Mr. Lumley's lads.; Tues., North Carlton ; Thurs.,
Wickersley- bar ; Fri.. Scooby-inn-10i.
The Rufford hds.; Thurs., Ossington ; ;Sat. Thoresby-
park-10i.
Mr. Brand's hds.; Fri., Warden-bills.
The Puckeridge lids.; Wed., Elsenhanr; Sat., Cum-
belo w.

The Cambridgeshire lids. Wed. Bteak-hall ; Fri.,
Morden-heath-10i.
The Oakley lids.; Thurs., Sherrington. 'Toll-bar; Sat.,
Bushmead—i to 11.
Earl Fitzwilliam's lids.; Wed., Buckworth village ;
Fri , Sawtry:gorsc—at 10.

The Suffolk hds.; Tues., Euston-hall Fri., Silverley
Tower.
The F. B. hds., Wed. Bochin-101.
Mr Hornden's hds. ; Thurs., Chapmares-well,

.
The Northmolton and Exmoor Forest; Club, Mond.,
Fairleigh's grove ; Tues., Yard Down ; Wed., Hole's-
water ; Thurs., Lanase-bridge ; Fri., ..Northmolton-
village.
The Carlisle hars. ; Wed. the Trough (Scotby) ;
Fri., Gatesgill—at 11.

The Brighton hare.; Wed., Thunder-barrow ; Fri.,
Dyke—quarter to 11.

trD ition

NEWMARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Match.—Cosachia beat Vanessa.
Match.—Blaze beat Watchdog.
Match.—Viranota received forfeit from Watchdog.
Sweepstakes. Last half of Ab.M.

Villiers
Gamelass filly
lianciicap. T.Y.C.

Bowstring
Idas ...

The S►vaffham Stakes.

Doctrine... *** ••• ••• ••• 1
Watchdog ••• ...
••• - ... 2
Hydranger ... ••• ..• •••
Lady Cecilia ... el, ••• ... 3
•••
••• 4

CHEAP STEAMBOAT TRAVELLING.-011 Saturday
morning the original London, Westminster, and Vaux-
hall Steamboat Company commenced running their
boats every ten minutes between Nine Elms and London
Bridge at the reduced fare of a penny.
INSTALLATION OF A MILITARY KNIGHT OF WIND•
sox.—The installation of Ensign Lamb, on being raised
from the lower to the upper foundation (the vacancy
having been created by the death of the late Quarter-
master Johnson), took place on Saturday, in St. George's
Chapel, Windsor. Ensign Lamb, having taken the
oaths in the chapter room, before the Rev. Frederick
Anson, the canon in residence, entered the choir by the
west gate, during the performance of the morning
service, supported by Captain Cochrane and Major
Clarke (the senior and junior military knights in
attendance), by whom he was introduced to his stall,
on the south side of the chapel, with the usual cere-
monies. The installation would have taken place a
fortnight ago, had it not been for the patent having
been lost after it had been transmitted from the Home
Office to her Majesty, for the Sovereign's signature, in
Scotland.

We understand that Mr. Alderman Thomas Wood
is likely to succeed to the office of clerk to the magis-
trates at Guildhall, vacant, or about to become so, by
the resignation of Mr. Teague.—Sunday paper.
PRIVILEGES OF ATTORNEYS.—At the Westminster
County Court, on Saturday, an action was brought to
recover the sum of 71. 10s. from an attorney named
Lewis. The defendant pleaded his privilege of being
sued in a higher court. After hearing eounsel on this
point, the judge decided that the 67th section of the Act
abolished the privileges of Attorneys.
A NEW FIVE-SHILLING PIECE.—A model of a
new five-shilling piece has been presented, it is said, to
the Mint. In size it is not larger than the new penny-
piece,-but instead of silver and brass, the centre is to be
composed of gold, and the outer belt of silver.
MICHAELMAS TERM.—To-morrow will be the first
day of Michaelmas Term, when the Judges of the Equity
and Common Law Courts at Westminster Hall will re-
sume their sittings about one o'clock, after the usual
meeting at the Lord Chancellor's dejeuner to the, judges,
the superior law officers of the Crown, the Queen's
Counsel, Sergeants, &c., whence they will proceed in
costume to Westminster.
THE BANK or ENGLAND.—OH Saturday notice was
given at the Bank of England that this day, being the
Ist of November, and the Feast of All Saints, would be
kept as a strict holiday in the Transfer Offices and Divi-
dent Offices.
EAST INDIA HOUSE.-011 Saturday the directors
of the East India Company gave notice that the books of
transfer of the company's stock would be closed OR the
2d of December next till the 13th of January, 1848, and
that the dividends would be paid on the 6th of January.
A Quarterly Court was also appointed to be held on the
22d of December.
ARRIVAL OF SPECIE.—The vessel Manuela, -which
has just arrived in the West India Docks from Callao,
has brought, in addition to a cargo of guano, 38 bars, 5
boxes, and 40 other packages of specie, consigned to
several different houses.
THE FIRST ENGLISH BANKING-lIOUSE.—The Ce-
lebrity of the first banking-house belongs, by common
consent, to Mr. Francis Child; the books of the firm
date buck to 1620; Messrs. Iloares' to 1680; and
Messrs. Snows' to 1693.—Civil and Mercantile Journal
James Stephen, Esq., one of the Under-Secretaries
of State for the Colonies, is about to retire from the
duties of that office, which he has discharged for so many
years with unsurpassed zeal and ability.—Observer.
BRUSSELS, OCT. 27.—The Committee for the
1.
Affairs of Flanders held its sitting yesterday, when
d'Elhoungne was chosen President, and M.
Keroyn, Secretary.

MAGAZINE DAY.
BLACKWOOD. ,
By an agreeable sympathy in name, the first article
for November (" The Navigation of the Antipodes") is
suggested by the narrative of the surveying voyage
of J. B. Julies, the naturalist of the expedition, in
Torres Straits, New Guinea, and other islands of the
Eastern Archipelago, irdler Majesty's ship Fly, under
the command of Captain Francis Blackwood. This
expedition, one of the most remarkable and interest-
ing of late years, has already elicited the disquisition
of one of the quarterly reviewers, and now receives a
favourable consideration in the pages of Maga. The
induction to the article is a rapid and succinct, bat
clever reminiscence, of the different efforts made by
English and foreign travellers, navigators and others,
as to the peculiarities and resources of the eastern
continent and archipelago, as well as into the inte-
riors of Africa and Australia. The thirst for dis-
coveries of more recent date is regarded by Black-
wood as having been first evinced by James
Bruce, a disappointed lawyer, some. time Consul at
Algiers, and ultimately the pilgrim to the source of
the Bahr-el-Azreli (a branch of the Nile) through the
unexplored regions of Abyssinia. Then comes the
daring, but unsuccessful, exploration of the source of
the Niger by Mungo Park—in 1805 the victim of his
own enterprise. Mungo Park is followed by Den-
ham, Clapperton and Oudnev, and in 1830, Richard
Lander, their more fortunate successor, " sailed down
the Niger from Baossa, and reached the Atlantic by
the river Nun, one of its branches"—having thus ac-
quired for himself the glory of having realised their
aspirations. Meanwhile the northern and eastern
countries of the Mediterranean had been penetrated,
and described by the German Burckhardt, by Hamil-
ton, Leigh, Belzoni, Salt, Lane, and Wilkinson. Sir
George Staunton, who in 17'92 had accompanied
the embassy of Lord Macartney to Pekin,
had in his writings divulged some of
the hitherto unimagined facts revealed by
an inspection of the southern outskirts of the Chinese
dominions. Macleod and Basil Hall subsequently
extended the knowledge of those -remote territories
by depicting the appearance of the clusters of mag-
nificent islands situated along the coast of Corea.
On the cessation of war consequent upon the down-
fal of the Emperor Napoleon, expeditions to the
North Pole were successively fitted out by the Ad-
miralty under Parry, Ross, Back, and Franklin.
Having glanced at these memorable and laudable
proceedings, the writer in Blackwood refers to the
charter granted by the Legislature on the 20th of
last May for establishing a steam communication
between this country and Sydney, along a distance of
12,730 miles, and in a period of 64 days. He then
enters into an examination of the voyage made by
the Government vessels the Fly and the Bramble.
Those vessels, it will be remembered, under
the command of Captain Blackwood, sailed
from Falmouth, April 11, 1842 ; touched at Tene-
rife, at the Cape, reached Van Diemen's Land in
August, and Australia shortly afterwards ; started on
the 19th December from Port Stephens to commence
their survey, first of the Capricorn Group, then of the
northern part of the great barrier reef up to the
Murray Islands ; in the following year raised a
beacon on Raines Islet, and surveyed Torres Straits,
returning to Europe after an absence of three years,
and anchoring at Spithead in the June of 1845. The
historian of this voyage is its naturalist, Mr. Julies,
and the reviewer of Mr. Jukes is the writer of the
first article in the November number of Backwood
for 1847. The paper is a beautiful elucidation or
commemorative illustration of the book. "American
Copyright" is a pleasant continuation of the corre-
spondence by the author of the letter in the number
for October, entitled " Maga in America." Those
who coincide with the views entertained upon this
subject by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd will read the com-
munication with interest. The second instalment of
" Evenings at Sea" is a story called "Henry Mey-
nell," end is narrated by a military„ofTicer, who had
afterwards become a settler in South America. "Was
Rubens a Colourist ?" is one of the boldest instances
of artistic scepticism we can call to recollection. It
has not, however, the preposterous and almost silly
rashness of the " Historic Fallacies" not long
since adventured upon in the Oxford and
Cambridge Review. " The American Library "is a
peep into the story-books of the United States, and
while commenting upon the effusions of Margaret
Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne, will startle the
reader with some extraordinary quotations from the
fictions of Edgar A. Poe. Mr. Poe to our thinking
seems to be perpetually tottering on the frontier line
dividing the regions of the sublime and the ridiculous.
His writings are almost both, and yet neither.
" Units, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands," is a capital
anecdote about a love-match and a "bit of blood ;"
Units being a black horse, Tens a bay mare, Hun-
dreds a bay horse, and Thousands a gray—the whole
the property of one Frederick Felworth. " Research
and Adventure in Australia," a comment on the re-
cent publication of the journal of Dr. Ludwig
Leichhardt, is intelligent and graphic as a piece of
criticism, It contains some beautiful stanzas by a
Mr. Lynd, of Sydney ; and there are immediately
afterwards a passionate ballad, called "Magus Muir,"
by W. E. A., and "A November Morning's Reverie,"
by Delta. The latter is a seasonable fragment of
blank verse ; the former is a powerful specimen of
versification on the tragical death of James Sharp,
Archbishop of St. Andrew's and Primate of Scotland.
" Valedictory Visits at ,Rome," and a consideration of
" Highland Destitution," terminate a valuable and
entertaining number of the Patriarch of the Ma
gazines.

FRA SLR. -
Fraser opens this month with an admirable article
on the " Sanitary Commission and the Health of the
Metropolis," in which we are happy to see a tardy
justice is rendered to the great merits of Mr. Chad-
wick. The writer thus sums np, in a few words, the
object of the sanitary movement
The object of the sanitary movement may be summed
up in a few words,—a sewer in every street of every
town and village ; a drain for every house ; a constant
and unlimited supply of good water to every family ;
pure air at any cost ; the application of the refuse of
towns to the purposes of agriculture ; and, lastly, to
secure these blessings, the removal of every impediment,
physical and moral, and the destruction or reconstruction
of every form of local administration which does slot
work well towards these righteous ends."
An admirable object, and one which will be attained
ere long in spite of the interested opposition of local
jobbers and Paving Commivioners and Sewers Boards,
which are aptly enough styled by Fraser " the ITep-
tarchy of foul waters." The other political article of
the month is entitled " Thoughts on Jewish Disabili-
ties," from the pen of the Rev. Professor Maurice, of
King's College, and advocates the removal of those
" Sam Slick" continues his glorious
Nova Scotia stories. The subject of the present
paper is a " Pippin," a genuine Yankee horse dealer.
"ißecent Poetry" isareview of the recently published
poems of Mr. Chevenix Trench, Sir Aubrey de Vere,
and the author of "
State Trials ;" and " The
Guerilla," is the commencement of what promises to
be a spirt-stirring tale of the war of independence in
Spain. We have here two chapters only in
which we are introduced to the then celebrated
Guerilla chiefs, the Manco, the Medico, and
the Empecinado. " Hints upon History" contains
some amusing anecdotes of Nelson and of Sir W. and
Lady Hamilton, and this is followed by an elaborate
review of" neck's Vittoria Accorombona." We have,
in addition, a short paper on the Education of Officers
in the Army—a gastronomic prolusion of the days of
Napoleon, before the " cheap and nasty" sys!em of
dining had found its way from London to Paris—a
well-told narrative of a visit to "the bed of St.
Kevin"—

"By that lake whose gloomy shore
Skylark never warbled o'er,"
in the county of Wicklow—a review of Mr. Burton's
recently published "Biographies of Lord Lovat and
Mr. Duncan Forbes, of Culloden," and several other
articles of merit. On the whole this is an excellent
number of Fraser.

EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATIONS.—yesterday (Sun-
day morning) about four o'clock, a fire, attended with a
considerable oestruction of property, broke out in the
extensive manufacturing premises belonging to Mr.
Robert Savage, furniture dealer, No. 146, Whitechapel-
road. When first discovered, the flames were raging in
the workshops immediately behind the dwelling, and
owing to the strong hold they had previously obtained,
coupled with the inflammable nature of the stock in
trade, their progress was unusually rapid. The police
at once raised an alarm, and having succeeded in arous-
ing the neighbours, they dispatched almessenger to the
engine stations. The fire, however, burned so fiercely,
that in the space of a few minutes the entire district
became brilliantly illuminated, and a general turn-out
of the engines took place. Notwithstanding the immense
quantity of water that was thrown into the flames the
firemen were unable to get them extinguished until
nearly half-past five o'clock. The damage done is very
considerable, and is thus officially returned to the in-
surance-offices :—" The whole of the back workshops
and their contents destroyed, and the roof burned
off. The upper floors gutted, and the stock in front
shop under the same considerably damaged by fire and
water. The cause of fire unknown. Insured in the
was discovered burn-
Atlas Fire-office for stock in trade.—The same morning,
.to M. Julien Marie,
at a quarter before six o'clock, a fire, nearly attended
burned out, and the valuable stock
and parlours were
dres
in those compartments consumed. The total loss is con-
igut hr
court verysdtmhi seaakspet premises
mus
sii tscu:asnt esbeenqi tou nelglll4iene, gs'l
'I ccadi I ly. The shop
si Jerable, but fortunately the house and its contents were

insured.
ADMIRALTY ESTABLISHMENTS ABROAD.—Their
Lordships are about to make more important alterations
in the Admiralty establishments abroad, The first step
decided upon is an increase of artificers to all the sta-
tions. Volunteers have been called for to proceed to
Bermuda, Jamaica, and the Cape of Good Hope. At
the latter establishment especially an increase of dock-
yard men will be immediately made.—United Service
Gazette.

MONvIDAY EVENING:-

NOVEMBE'It 1, isiy.

NATIONAL EDUCATION.
(Prom the Kent Herald.)
One of the important questions that will undoubt-
edls- come under the early notice of Parliament is that
of national education. The amendments introduced
from time to time into the Minutes of Council have
!removed many objections entertained by the consci-
entious friends of public intelligence who yet fear the
effects of a state education mainly directed by a State
Church. There is certainly a growing feeling that
popular knowledge is so inestimable a boon that we
should not be too captious as to the medium through
which it is offtred ; and under a Liberal Ministry we
ought not to expect that an undue preference will be
shown to any religieus sect in the arrangements
deemed necessary for carrying out the educational
measures. We trust that all is but preparatory to a
state of things in which instruction purely secular
shall be alone imparted at the national expence—
smything short of this involves more or less of op-
wression to some individuals.
The question meanwhile cannot be too fully clis-
',cussed in all its bearings, and in reference to the sub-
iect we have pleasure in laying before our readers the
:tbllowing extract from the Hull Advertiser, in which
• testimony is borne to the merits of a truly liberal and
enlightened clergyman of Kent, the Rev. J. Dufton,
Rector of Warehorne, a notice of whose pamphlet on
the subject of Nat:onal Education some time since
appeared with extracts, in our columns :
"In the Advertiser of last week a paragraph ap •
reared to the effect that, on the previous .Monday
evening, a•meeting of the friends of Voluntary Edu-
cation was held in the school-room of Fish-street
Chapel, for the purpose of considering a motion,
which was not then brought forward, in favour
of an application to the Government for a partici-
pation in the Government grant for the endowment
of :Schools. This meeting was attended by the
Rev. Thomas Stratten, the Rev. Ebenezer Morley,
the Rev. Newman Hall, Mr. Hill, Mr. Tapp, and
several other of the supporters of the Dock-
green and Holderness-road Schools, who had op-
posed the Government measure when before Parlia-
ment, but whose hostility, we are happy to say, has
dwindled down to some vague misgivings, destined to
disappear altogether in the course of a few months.
We give these gentlemen great credit for having the
moral courage, thus early, to enter upon a retracing
of their steps in a wrong direction ; and it will afford
us sincere pleasure if, when the question is next
brought forward, an unanimous resolution be adopted
for accepting all the support that can be obtained from
the Board of Privy Council. We know no question
which has gained so much by public discussion, and
even by the strong and earnest opposition made to it,
as that of national education in conjunction with
the State. As is well observed by the Rev. John
Dufton, Rector of Warehorne, in Kent, whose pam-
phlet, 'National Education ; What It Is, and What
It Should Be,' was circulated by order of the town
council of this borough among its members in June
last, ' Our prisons have the extent of palaces, because
our schools have been limited to sheds.' Tor is it
a question between Education and Non-education. In
the language of the eloquent and reverend author of
this, the best pamphlet yet published on the Educa-
tion question, ' vice opens schools as well as
virtue; crime has rewards for the zealous, and
punishments for the refractory, quite as effi-
cacious as those at the disposal of rectitude.
The thief is educated, the poacher is edu-
cated, the pickpocket most sedulously educated.
There is no school in the world where more heed is
given to the progress of the pupils than that in which
a Fagin acts as master, and an Artful Dodger as head
assistant.' ' Education i 3 a question of religion, a
question of morality, a question of health, a question
of finance, and a question of, police. To what ulti-
mate power do we refer all questions of public morals,
public health, finance, and police ? Every one knows
that the decision of such questions is the proper func-
tion of the State, and that the State has been con-
stituted to discharge such functions. What is the
State but society in its jural capacity—a capacity
assumed to secure social rights and to prevent social
wrongs. • There are important rights to be secured
in education, and there are grievous wrongs to be
prevented; and if the State interferes not for both
purposes, those to whom the conduct of the State is
entrusted are guilty of a gross dereliction of duty.'
The same able advocate of the National System con-
tends, with a force of truth of which we believe the
members of the Hull School Committee will adm

the invincibility, that it is in the nature of voluntary
school subscriptions to drop off, and to be so irregu-
larly and reluctantly paid, as to compel the having
recourse to artifices, not always of the most worthy
or laudatory character, for the purpose of 'keeping
up the steam.' We are far from insinuating that any
such practices have yet been resorted to in the case of
the Hull Schools; but, unless we are very incorrectly
informed, their present financial state is such as to
call for very urgent measures of relief. Of course,
an application for Government aid is not intended
either to prevent voluntary subscriptions, or to
limit the power of the Schools Committee in
regulating their management. This is admirably put
by Mr. Dufton in the pamphlet from which we are
quoting. Great as i 3 the extent of private benevo-
lence in England,' he observes, 4 it has not been found
possible to dispense with poor-laws; interested as we
all are in the preservation of our persons and our
property, we are obliged to seek the aid of a police
force; and, with all the excellence of our Saxun
system of juries, no one has yet declared himself an
advocate for a voluntary administration of justice in
England. Now, for the same reasons the State in-

tervention is necessary in the dispensing of national
charity, in establishing national security, and in
enforcing general rights, we hold that State inter-
ventlon is necessary in national education, not to
supersede but to aid individual and voluntary exer-
tion. The strongest advocate of poor-laws never
recommended the destruction of asylums, hospitals,
and infirmaries ; the firmest supporter of a police-
force would not advise us to dispense with bolts, bars,
watchdogs, and watchmen; the greatest admirer of
law will not withhold his praise from private arbi-
tration ; and, in the same way, the advocates of State
intervention would not recommend a single individual
to withhold his subscription or contribution from the
erection and maintenance of schools.' We trust that
these observations, from the pen of one of the
ablest of all who have written on the Education
question; will be well weighed by the members of the
School Committee. We quote them in a spirit the
most conciliatory, and with wishes the most sincere
for the advancement of the voluntary support hitherto
given to these schools. To err is human, but to seize
the earliest opportunity of acknowledging error has
something in it almost divine. We are ourselves vet,
far from wishing to cherish the memory of involun-
tary error, and the gentlemen whose names we men-
tioned at the beginning of this article are not of a
creed to claim for themselves the merit of infallibility."
—Hull Advertiser, Oct, 15.
We fully agree with our contemporary that the
Rev. Gentleman's essay is the best that has appeared
on the subject, and the friends of National Education
in Canterbury and other towns of Kent, will do well
to follow the example of the town council of Hull,
and circulate it widely in their respective localities.
[We trust the excellent example set by the town
council of Hull will be followed by the other town
councils of the kingdom. The treatise of Mr. Dufton
is one of the most valuable ever published on the
subject of national education.—En. Sun.]

ASTURIAN MINING COMPANY. —An
in this adjourned
annual meeting of registered shareholders
Offices,
under-
taking was held on Saturday, at the company's
.
chairman. of th
The report submitted on
rSszamprueeslidiPnrga.tt,
the occasion stated that at the previous meeting the 9,
boardA u so
tei ndfirricacr directors,
di-
rectors were in hopes of being enabled to name an early
day for the payment of a dividend, but in this expecta-
tion they had suffered disappointment, owing to delay
caused at the mines by the failure of a clay retort, the
death of one of the Spanish workmen, and the illness of
others, which induced the alcade of the village to put a
step to the whole mercurial operations. It had since,
however, been ascertained that the man died from natu-
ral causes, and the board were just in possession of the
fact that the injunction had been withdrawn. The effect
of this delay was, that instead of being able to deliver
to the Spanish Government three or four thousand
pounds' worth of mercury, as might reasonably have
been expected, not more than two thousand pounds'
worth was sent in. In the mean time the produce of
the mines has been accumulating, and the accounts re-
ceived from them went to show that the ore increased
and the mine deepened. The chairman having given it
as his opinion that the shares would in a short time be
worth 100 per cent., the meeting separated.
PRINCELY MUNIFICENCE.—The parish church of
Ewell, Surrey, being in an extremely dilapidated and
ruinous condition, besides being insufficient for the
accommodation of title increasing population, a parish
meeting was held some time since to take into considera-
tion the propriety of repairing the old, or erecting a new
one, when Sir G. L. Glyn, the rector, offered to pay
e supposed
the whole expense in the first instance (th -
cost about 6,0000 if the parish would agree • to raise
1,0001. out of the above sum in twenty • years, to which
they agreed. Sir G. L. Glyn also gaze
an acre of land
upon which to erect it, and a spacious and hanthome
edifice is now rapidly in progress from
Henry Clutton, Esq., 1
arcaitect, the the designs of
contractors for the
work being Mr. Myers, of Londo
of Ewell. The sum of 3001. i n,.and Mr. W. Killick,
Building Society. The present building
given by the Church
600 persons, being double the will hold about
about one-third of the who! number of the other, and
e_population.
RIILWAY ACCIDFNT.
four o'clock, en
accident
.1 esterday afternoon, about
occurred at the Bt. Leonard's
.iepot of the Dull:pith Rainl-
carriages ay, in consequence of two
accidentally co ''
ming in coatict, whereby a
person of the name ov
Thomas Valiance got his leg
broken. He was rem moved
house, Pleasance.— A,:th' 13 by the r, olive
ri!ish Mail of Friday.
THE LATE '
ACCIDENT ON THE LANCASTER AND
CARLISLE P
).AILWAY.—Th
eowner of the cattle lately
killed by the railway accident,Nr orpe has been
near L ilnth ,
paid the full value Of his stock . thereby destroyed, by the
.
Lancaster and Carlisle
Railway Company.—Carlisle
Journal,

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MYSTERI LTS-6Ar.
On Friday an inque '-was coil_ eneed at the
Cock, Hackney, before kr. IlAer,ihe coroner of
the district, on the bod - of Samuel Nelme, Esq.,
tei
aged 74, a gentleman of nidepetident property, whose
death took place on the pfevions Wednesday. The
suddenness of Mr. Nelme's death created a very. great
sensation. The facts whichtiianspired at the tittirg
of the jury were as follows :—About three weeks
ago the deceased and his grandson were in the
garden at the rear of the premises, when the deceased
heard the report of a pistol as if it had missed fire,
at the back of his head. He immediately turned
round, and his grandson exclaimed, "Grandfather,
some person has attempted to shoot you." On the
following morning a pistol was discovered lying upon
the ground in the garden. The police succeeded in
tracing the pistol to the grandson. The matter was
hushed up by the relatives, and no further proceed-
ings were taken by them. Deceased was greatly
terrified. The deceased was always considered a very
hearty man, and enjoyed very good health until Fri-
day, the 22d instant, when he complained of sickness.
On the following morning he remained in bed, and
in the afternoon his wife left the room, considering
that he was asleep. A surgeon arrived shortly
afterwards, and pronounced life to be quite extinct.
A juror said that when the deceased was shot at, he
heard the snapping of a pistol several times, as if
some person was firing it off without any percussion
caps. The circumstance had created great suspicion
in the minds of the jury, and they could not return
their verdict unless there was a post mortem examina-
tion of the body. The coroner considered the re-
marks of the jury very proper, and directed that the
contents of the stomach should be analysed. The in-
quest was then adjourned. On Saturday the inquest
was resumed at four o'clock. The first witness called
was Francis Doulnsari, surgeon, who stated that he
had made a post mortem examination of the body of
the deceased. Found a dark appearance round the
mouth. The lungs were slight], affected. There
were diseases of the heart sufficient to cause death.
Had not analysed the contents of the stomach ; there
was not time for that—lnspector Waller, of the 71
division of the Hackney police, deposed that deceased
called at the station on the 10th instant, and stated
that himself and grandson were at the back of the
house in the garden, and that he heard an explosion
similar to that of a percussion cap, when his grandson
said that a man had just run away, adding, "There
he goes." Deceased said he did not see the
man himself. His grandson said he climbed
up a tree and escaped over the wall. De-
! ceased said he was tolerably close to his grand-
son it the time. Witness then directed an in-
telligent officer to sift the matter to the bottom.
On the day following the deceased and the officer
came to the station, bringing a small pistol, a hand-
kerchief, and some gunpowder and shot. The con-
stable said that these articles were found in a copse
in the garden, and that the handkerchief was identi-
fied as belonging to the deceased's grandson. De-
ceased, in answer to a question put to him -said that
he felt convinced the boy had fired the pistol, but not
for anything serious, but for a lark. W. Spinks, the
constable referred to by the preceding witness, said
—The wall which decea'sed's grandson represented
the man alleged to have fired the pistol to have
escaped by was upwards of sixty feet high—too high
ofbfrshaont a y,
one
well as the pistolnetohavedroppe and the
flask,
from. a Foundsk!o
ar quantity
p
in a handkerchief. The pistol was loaded ; there
were seventeen shots in it. The handkerchief was
covered with blood. The boy's mother said the
handkerchief had been taken from her a month before,
and that the blood upon it had come from her nose.
She thought there was a conspiracy against her boy,
and that the things found in the garden had bean
placed there with a view of carrying out their pur-
poses. Deceased, after the boy's mother had stated
this, said he did not think the pistol had been fired by
his grandson. Some of the Jury here suggested the
absolute necessity, to further the ends of justice. that
the contents of the stomach should be analysed, and
that the jury should adjourn until such time as a
competent chemist should be able to lay the results
before them. The inquest was then adjourned till
Tuesday next.