The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-04 00:00:00

SWEDEN.

STOCKHOLM; June 3.

There have been several modifications in the Ministry.
The Ministers of Justice, of Finance, and of Public
Works have resigned. Count Adlerkrewz has been ap-
pointed Minister of Justice, and Herr Bergstroem, Assis-
tant Judge to the High Court of Justice, has been ap-
pointed Minister of the Interior. Herr Wernersberg is
to be Minister of Public Worship. There is no difficult y
with the Reichstag.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 3.

The Levant Times has been sentenced to suspension for
a month. Its offence was having reprinted an article re-
flecting on the Porte, from the Independence Rellenique.

AMERICA.

WASHINGTON, June 3.

The amendment to the Tax Bill, which proposed a tax of
5 per cent. on the incomes from interest on Government
Bonds, has been rejected by the House of Representa-
tives. It was lost by 22 votes, after an animated
debate. _ _

The son of the insurgent leader Cespedes has been
executed at Cuba.

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The Hanover has arrived at New York, and the Leipzig
at Baltimore.

NEW YORK, June 3.
Gold closed at 1144 ; the highest quotation during the day
was 1144 ; the lowest 1141.
Sterling Exchange on London lO9l
Five-Twenty U.S. Bonds, 1882 ll2l
Ditto • 1885 llll
Ditto 1867
Ten-Forty ditto 1867 lOBl
Illinois Shares
Erie
Cotton, Middling Upland
Petroleum, Standard White 274c
Flour, extra State
Corn, old Mixed $1 09c.

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FRANCE.

PARIS, June 3.

M. Chevaudier de Valdrome, Minister of the Interior,
said in the Chamber of Deputies, in reply to M. Cochery,
that public meetings during the Conseils Generaux elec-
tions were illegal, and the Government must maintain the
law. M. Bethmont's motion permitting meetings during
the electoral period will be discussed to-morrow. M. de
Valdrome also said the Gardes Champetres would not be
allowed to distribute voting papers.
The Committee of the Corps Legislatif recommends the
the free admission of foreign newspapers into France, and
that they should only be intercepted when attacking the
empire.
The departure of the Toulon squadron for Portugal is
contradicted.
The Duke of Magenta, it is said, has resigned his office
as governor-general of Algeria, and only retains it pro tem.

MILITARY REDUCTIONS IN FRANCE.
FLORENCE, June 3.
The bill for reducing the army has passed the Chamber
of Deputies by 175 to 107 votes.

AMERICA.
WASHINGTON, June 3.

The Jews are endeavouring to induce the President to
intercede on, behalf of their persecuted countrymen in
Roumania. The House of Representatives has adopted
an amendment to the new internal tax bill, levying a tax
of 5 per cent. on the interest of the Government bonds.
Some members consider this a partial repudiation. The
amendment was carried by 90 to 65, but will be recon
sidered.

• (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
THE RERESENTATION OF THE ISLE OF

WIGHT.
The nomination for the Isle of Wight is fixed for Tues-
day next, at the Guildhall, Newport.

THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER ox EDUCATION.
Yesterday afternoon the Bishop of Winchester pre-
sided over an influential meeting held at the Belle-vue
Assembly Rooms, Bournemouth, in support of the Na-
tional Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor
in the Principles of the Church of England. The right
rev. chairman delivered a lengthy and eloquent address,
in which he expressed his entire approval of the society,
and commended it to public support as an agency that
should be kept in vigour as well as in vitality. Proceed-
ing to speak of the general question of education, the
Bishop said it was his conviction that the conscience
clause, properly managed and arranged, was the
best thing that could be adopted at the present time.
He admitted, amid loud cheers, his conviction that the
people of England would not endure what professed to be
a purely secular system of education. He thought secular
education was a contradiction in terms among a people
who had the Bible given to them by God. It was possible
to lead by secularities, to quicken the intellect,
as well as to form externally respectable habits.
We were so divided upon religious matters that there was
a risk through divisions of playing into the hands of secu-
larists. He for one, therefore, was especially anxious to
see perfect freedom to all denominations of Christians,
to introduce into schools which should yet have the assist-
ance of the nation distinct religious teaching. He thought
the plan proposed by Mr. Forster admirably adapted to
meet the difficuity, and he wished to strengthen the hands
of the Government in maintaining in the main their pre-
sent measure.

THE IMPROVED RAILWAY COMMUNICATION
BETWEEN LONDON AND THE ISLE OF

WIGHT.

At a meeting of the Bandon (Isle of Wight) local board,
last night, a letter was read from Mr. Scott, general
manager of the South Western Railway, on the subject
of the new fast trains on that railway, which com-
menced running on the Ist inst. The latter stated
what arrangements had been made ; and added that
the steamboat company had cordially co-operated with the
South Western Railway Company in the matter, but Mr.
Scott complained that the Isle of Wight Railway Com-
pany had declined running a morning train, except on
throe days a week, thus depriving Sandown and the neigh-
bouring towns of the advantage of the service for half
the week. Mr. Scott, in his letter, asked the Sandown
Board to assist the South Western Railway Company in
inducing the Isle of Wight Railway Company to run
their trains daily. A memorial on the subject to the
latter company was adopted.