The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-30 00:00:00

ADMINISTRATION OF SCOTCH AFFAIRS.

A report on the administration of Scotch business
is now in course of being published, and the corres-
pondent of the Scotsman believes that
it will recommend most clearly the appoint-
ment of a Parliamentary Secretary for Scotland.
The report will be found to be complimentary. to the
officers of the Scotch bar for the manner in which
they have transacted the public business in Scotland.
At the same time it will skew that the business
might be conducted much more economically and
with greater public advantage.

RELIGIOUS DISABILITIES.
The Queen's Speech at the opening of the present
session of Parliament contained a paragraph
promising a measure for the settlement
of the vexed question of the religious tests
of the Universities. The abolition of these
tests has long been agitated within and without
university walls, and the ultimate attainment of the
desired object has been rendered certais, by the ex-
pression of feeling manifested. No bill having been
yet introduced, a society has been formed at Cambridge
calling itself the Cambridge Religious Disabilities
Removal Association. Its managing committee
has issued an appeal on the subject of the Govern-
ment's delay. It describes the effects of the opera-
tion of the present law, and urges the necessity of
its repeal, complaining that as yet no day has been
fixed for the introduction of the bill. On thispoint, how-
ever, we find that the private correspondent of the
Scotsman believes that the bill is to be introduced at
once. It has been drafted, and is now in Sir J.
Coleridge's hands. Its leading provisions are said to
be those with the principles of which the public is
familiar; but it is understood to be probable that a
clause will be inserted enabling Nonconformists to be
eeeted members of the governing bodies of the
Universities.

The case of Mrs. Gordon, widow of Mr. Corson,
who was hanged during the Jamaica riots, will be raised
on Thursday by a question which Sir Charles Dilke will
put to the Premier.

Mr. Bowring, M.P., has presented to the Home
Secretary a memorial from the Corporation of Exeter
against the- removal of the assize courts from that
city.

It is said that the reorganisation of the English
Church will be advocated by Dean Stanley, as the repre-
sentative of all the Broad Church party, in the April
number of Macmillan's Magazine.

At the forthcoming election for the fellowship of
the Royal Society there will be fifty-three candidates for
the fifteen, vacancies and no. less than twenty-one are
members of the medical profession.
THE MURDER OF Miss TINNE IN AFRICA.—The
African traveller, Dr. Nachtigal, writing from Mursuk
to the Cologne Gazette, on the 29th January last, gives
some further particulars relative to the murder of Misr
Tinn6. He says that Sultan Omur, of Bornu, has sent a
intheri (courier) to Mursuk, in order to make inquiries re-
specting the murder. The deceased lady's effects and
servants have at length been despatched to Tripoli, though
the former have not yet arrived. Yehenouchen, the
Tuareg; chief, has written to Europe, disclaiming all re-
sponsibility for the murder, as he had not promised his
protection to Miss Tinnd, or urged her to undertake the
Journey to Rhat. He is 90 years old, says Dr. Nachti-
gal, and has a great reputation for uprightness in his own
country, but, on the other hand, it is a fact that his own
nephew, Hadji el Schich, who attacked the unfortunate
lady and her caravan, and murdered her after re,eleivrng
her presents and other marks of friendship, is still living
with Yehenouchen,. and that the latter had directed
the Marabout Hadji Ahmed Bu-Slalv, who witnessed the
murder without attemptinpi to prevent it, either by word
o deed, to prcoyide Miss Tula with an escort to übm,--
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