The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-10 00:00:00

THE MINISTRY.

We are authorised to state that Mr. George Shaw
Lefevro has accepted the Under-Secretaryship not for
the Colonies but for the Home Department. Mr.
Knatchbull-Hugessen will succeed Mr. Monsell at the
Colonial Office.

At Bow-street, on Friday, a well-dressed man, de-
scribed as Dr. John Barnes, appeared before Mr. Flowers
to answer a summons which charged him with causing
indecent handbills to be circulated in the public streets.
Mr. Flowers fined the defendant £2 and costs.

A letter from St. Petersburg, dated a few days
since, describes vividly the universal tone of exultation in
political society at what is regarded as the complete suc-
cess of the Emperor's breaking through the treaty of 1856.
Any doubt, however expressed, of the issue of the Confer-
ence in a sense unfavourable thereto is laughed at con-
temptuously.—Manchester Guardian Correspondent.
The cold has brought wolves from Poland and
Russia, into Prussia as far as the Oder. Three were seen
near Glogau ; others elsewhere. It shews that in Poland
the snowfall must have altogether deprived them of food ;
for they know the German territory, swarming with hunts-
men, well enough not to risk their lives, which in Poland
and Russia are pretty safe.
ENGLISH HORSES FOR FRANCE AND PRUSSIA.—
On Friday several valuable teams of young horses arrived
by railway in London, having been purchased by army
horse contractors at Preston horse fair for exportation to
France and Germany. They left London for South-
ampton and other ports for immediate shipment to the
seat of war.

BIRMINGHAM "MORNING NEWS."— A. capital of
£30,000 is required to carry on the business of a Birming-
ham newspaper, entitled the Morning News. As the
shares have been fixed at the high value of £5OO each, we
imagine that private capitalists and parties interested are
about to engage in the enterprise, and that the public will
not be called upon to subscribe.—Railway News.
PILOGRESS IN BELFAST.—A sign of the increasing
prosperity of at least one portion of Ireland is thus noted
by the Belfast Daily Examiner:—" The prosperity of our
borough, soon, we trust, to be raised to the rank of a
city, is most remarkable. The approaching census will,
it is generally believed, find 160,000 inhabitants in Bel-
fast, against somewhat over 120,000 in 1861, or an increase
of one-third."

A TERRIBLE MOMENT.—The Glasgow Citizen re-
ports that while Thomas Johnston, who is employed in
Dundas-hill Distillery, was on Thursday in the act of
lighting a gas jet at the end of a mash-tun, he accidentally
stumbled, and his left hand became entangled between
two wheels in connection with the stirring machinery.
Johnston, finding he was being gradually drawn in,
though the machinery was moving at a slow rate, with
great presence of mind managed to get hold of a knife in
his right hand, with which he cut oft his left arm at the
elbow, and thus extricated himself, and in all probability
saved his life,

ELEMENTARY TEACHERS. In answer to an ap-
plication made at the Science and Art department to
recognise as a teacher under that department the master
of a national school in Liverpool who had accepted an,,in-
vitation to teach mathematics in the new Science School
recently opened at Kirkdale, intimation has been received
to the effect that elementary school teachers, who have
passed through training colleges, shall be permitted to
earn payments on results in the first stage of pure mathe-
matics under the department, without undergoing the
usual examination. This arrangement will be a great boon
to the pooTly-paid, eietueutary teachers.

THE IRISH LAND BILL.—Sir John Gray has deli-
vered an address to his constituents on the Land Bill,
in which he declares that the day the Queen's sign-
manual was attached to the bill eonverting its pro-
visions into absolute law, property to the amount of
over seventy millions of pounds stelik passed by
that stroke of the pen f.r4T Tie, side of the ledger to
the other, The, property which the flay'befOre the bill
was signed by the giieen was 'the property of the land-
lords of Ireland became the day following—nay, the very
instant the bill was 4igned—the property o.f the, tenantry
of Ireland; and the amount of the absolute Araperty
belonging to the.tenantry. , as the resnlit of the bill, exceeds
seventy millions. I believe (Sir %TAR said) I should be
antler the Agiwe if I said eighty millions ster-
ling. sir. John Gray explained this to mean
the contingent liability of landlords for compen-
sation for improvements and disturbance. Sir John
made a suggestion that a fund should be to
baying the
g
provide for the poor tenantry tb.7.,(1 means si)
land courts assisted by tllo most ablo panneel In 4dvilinigi.
tering the law, as to sustain its proyifilglia,