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AGRICULTURE AND THE CORN TRADI42.
Although the recent rains which have visited nearly
all parts of the country have assisted in improving the
aspect of agricultural affairs, prospects, as yet, are by
no means encouraging. The hay crop threatens to turn
out a failure, unless a plentiful supply of moisture is
almost immediately vouchsafed, and all spring-sown
corn is still very backward for the time of year. The
wheat plant appears to have escaped with the least in-
jury, and, with the exception of being very stunted in
growth, the prospect of affairs is less discouraging. The
complaints respecting the backwardness of the crops
through the continued drought is not confined to this
country. In France, although it is admitted that the
late rains have tended to mitigate the injury sustained
by the long-prevailing drought, the accounts are still
far from favourable. Wheat appears to have suffered
least, but it is stated that the rye in many places has
been almost entirely lost ; owing to the continued dry
weather at the period of its coming into ear, there will
be short straw and very small ears. The colza crop,
too, has failed. Maize, beet, and potatoes are still safe,
but their growth is very slow from lack of moisture.
With respect to the hay harvest even half a crop would
exceed the expectations now entertained from the parched
condition of the meadows. Lean cattle will, it is expected,
be cheap; but fat stock, on the other hand, will be exces-
sively dear. The vines are reported to have suffered
greatly from hailstorms, but at present appearances are
favourable. The fruit trees in the cider districts promise
heavy crops, but unless copious rains should fall within
the next week or two agricultural prospects will be very
discouraging. From the United States also, the reports
are unsatisfactory. The growth is unanimously repre-
sented as very backward, owing, not so much to the
severe weather experienced during the earlier part
of the year as to the subsequent unexceptional
dryness. Under even the most favourable circumstances
the harvest cannot fail to be very late ; but it
must also be borne in mind that the plants gene-
rally are vigorous and of good colour, and doubtless a suc-
cession of heavy showers would promote a luxuriant and
rapid growth, and entirely change the appearance of affairs.
There has been a continuance of steadiness in the grain
trade during the week. The prospects of a late harvest
and the diminishing supplies have strengthened the
value of wheat, and notwithstanding that the busi-
ness has not been brisk an advance of is per quarter has
been generally obtained. At present there is every indi-
cation of the value of wheat being well supported, and
unless the prevalent dry weather gives place to a more
moist atmosphere it is very evident that a further ad-
vance will take place. All kinds of flour have tended
upwards in value.—Magnet.
The appearance of the crops throughout the Fylde, and
in the rich agricultural districts lying to the north and
south-west of Preston, has been greatly improved by the
refreshing rains of the past few days. Wheat has suffered
much from grub and wireworm, and though in some places
an average crop is expected, in others that is not at all
likely, and the quality must be inferior. Pastures are
doing well in most parts, and there is at present plenty of
top grass. Potatoes are Strong and healthy everywhere,
and promise more than an average yield. There has been
a magnificent show of bloom for fruit, and a good in-
gathering of most kinds is expected. In fact, this part of
the country never presented a more hopeful appearance
for a good harvest than it does now, wheat in some places
excepted. —Times.
The drought has now become severe throughout the
country, the pastures and the green crops generally being
much in want of rain. The young wheats have made some
progress under the influence of hot forcing weather, but
rain is much wanted to stimulate vegetation. The growing
crop is now undoubtedly backward, notwithstanding the
progress recently made, and every delay will add to the
difficulties with which, in our variable climate, the plant
has to contend. We do not mean to convey the idea that
the crop is in danger of failure, or that the defects now
apparent could not be remedied by a fair spell of favour-
able weather. But the complaints of backwardness and
sickly appearance among the new wheats are not confined
to the United Kingdom, the position of affairs in many
parts of the Continent being apparently more serious.
The pastures are in many parts bare of grass, more especi-
ally in thinly-wooded districts, where sufficient protec-
tion from radiation is not possible on account of the
absence of trees, and great difficulty is experienced
in obtaining sustenance for the cattle. As a natural
consequence heavy inroads have been made upon the
stock of feeding stuffs on hand, and prices have tended
upwards for all descriptions. It will be invariably found,
however, that such a state of things materially adds to the
value of all cereal produce, and imparts a proportionately
' firm tone to the wheat market. All things considered
r there was, therefore, ample room for the improvement in
values which has taken place, and the question now arise,
whether the advance will be maintained, or whether
supplies from abroad are likely to be more than equal to
the requirements of consumption on this side. —Bell's
Weekly aegeoyer.

JUNE 7,1870 L

MR. FORSTER ON THE EDUCATION BILL.
The proceedings at Bradford on Saturday, touching
the Education Bill, were interesting and important. Mr.
Forster, Vice-President of the Committee of Council
was waited upon by a deputation from two public meetings
—both representing the views of the National Education
League. Several gentleman enforced the views of the
League in speeches. Mr. Forster replied to the various
strictures offered. After observing that he was in great
measure hampered by the reticence due to his superiors,
the right hon. gentleman went on to say :—The Rev. Mr.
Pilchard made a remark with regard to the delay which
he thought existed in the bill, and there, I think, there
was some misconception. He has stated that
he thought there would not be immediate action on the
part of the bill. But there will be immediate action,
and I am sure I look forward almost with fear and'
trembling to the extent of that action whioh will
be required from the department with which I have 0
do ; because the first thing is to ascertain exactly the
deficiency of education throughout the country, in order
that measures may be immediately taken for the pur-
pose of supplying that deficiency, and not only will it be
immediate action but immediate action of the mod qtrin-
fient and of the most onerous character. Then Mr.
Whitehead spoke with regard to the mode of electing the
boards. In that he was aware that a good deal of the
objection had been met by the amendment put on the
table of the House. In the debate on the second reading
the objection made to the persons elected and to the
mode of-election was -almost__ entirely with referehce
to the rural districts, and having been misled by
what occurred in my own neighbourhood, I discovered
that I had given a plurality of votes where I
never intended to do so. The amendment prevents that,
and it establishes the ballot. It therefore meets Mr.
Whitehead's objection so far as the rural districts are
concerned, where I think the objection was most felt.
But there I think Mr. Whitehead had not carefully read
the Bill, because his argument against the mode of
election was mainly on account of the additional
labour which it would give a town council which has
already got as much in hand as it can do. We do not
contemplate the town council itself being the school
boa-rd ; all its labour would be to elect the school board,
which, I suppose would be done at one sitting, and
the reason why we have taken the town council as the
electing body is that on the whole it seemed to us—but
that is not a matter of vital importance—that the toWn
council of -a borough, chosen as it is by household
suffrage, would make the best body for electing the school
board. We have not limited their power of
election ; town councils are not boards to elect
their own members—they may elect those that they
consider best fitted for the school board. It is,
as I say, a question that is eminently open to argu-
ment in committee, but hitherto I must confess that I
have not heard any argument which does not leave me
with the conviction that in taking hold of the town
council as the body fitted to elect the school board, we are
taking hold of the best body. Mr. Forster then proceeded
to deal with the question of compulsion :—This matter of
compulsion is the only matter upon which anybody
has a right to say that I have changed my opinion.
Anybody who has studied my previous speeches
with regard to education, either here or elsewhere, and
fairly judges them by the bill which I now have brought
forward, will find in that bill I have corried out every
principle that I have previously advocated, with this ex-
ception, that I have changed my viev?s with regard to
compulsion, and I confess I am now convinced that we
must rely for the future very much on the principle of
direct compulsion. But although I have changed in this
matter, although you are of the same opinion, I do no:,
believe that it is yet the opinion of the majority of the
country by any means, and I think it is doubtful whether
the proposal will meet with the acceptance of the House or
the general acceptance of the country when carried, but I
am convinced that this is eminently a matter in which
those who advocate compulsion must take care not to go
before the feeling of the country. If yon have a bill at
once which will establish compulsion all over England,
you will have such an opposition to that attempt as
would probably make it impossible to work it. I have
very little doubt, if the bill passes as it stands, Man-
chester would put the compulsory principle in forcy,
and I believe that, if Manchester would take it in
hand, it would work so well as to tempt other places to
follow the example, and also give the Government power,
by the support of public opinion, to apply it over the
whole country. But that, again, is a question on which
we should be very glad to see the feeling of the House when
we go into committee. lam not in the slightest degree
saying anything disrespectful of the advocates of
direct compulsion, when. I say that no Government
can at once pass such a m easure simply
because of their declaration in its favour.
The next question—that of free schools—was brought for-
ward by Alderman Cole who gave a very ingenious and
apposite illustration of the case of the rich man and the
poor man. I don't think that the rich parent or his
child would be able to despise the poor man or the poor
child be'canse the latter had his pence paid for him. You
must remember tbat in all these schools only one-
third of the entire cost is paid for even by
the rich parent; so that there would be a great
absurdity in the child of the rich man throwing it in
the teeth of the poor child that the State provided the whole
of his education, when, at the same time, he himself
would be receiving two-thirds of it from the same
source. Mr. King says that, after paying the rate, it
would be a very unreasonable thing for the working man
to be obliged to pay the pence for his own children. I
say that is not an unreasonable thing at all. I venture to
say that what he would pay in the way of rates would be
nothing to the value he receives. Take the case of a man
who occupies a house of £lO a year rent, and who has
three children ready for school. He pays a rate of
three-pence in the pound—the maximum rate contem-
plated under the bill—which would amount to
2s. 6d. a year. I say that man has no right to come
for Ward and say—" I perform my duty to my children
for half-a-crown a year." I say that above that, if he
is able he ought to pay twopence a week for his three
children. There may be cases when the parents are unable
to pay the pence, and then our bill provides that they
shall be assisted. On the religious question I really can-
not' do more than just explain the principles upon which
the bill was brought forward. The first of these principles
was that the State, meaning by the State the Imperial Go-
vernment, should not in any way interfere in religious
education. That is carried out in this bill as it was in those
bills that Mr. Bruce and I brought forward in 1867 and
1868, and if anything it is more carried out in this bill,
because here we have at once done what we only contem-
plated carrying out in the previous bills—we. have
abolished the religious inspection of Church schools,
and consequently no money of the State can be paid
for finding out whether any religious teaching be
given or not. But while we think it right to carry
out' this principle we would not prevent any . parents
who wished it to have religious teaching given to
their children by the same schoolmaster and in
the same school as the other teaching is given. These
are the two principles which have been carried out in the
bill ; and when the time comes I shall be prepared to vin-
dicate either before you, or before the House of Com-
mons, my belief that in carrying them out we have in
no ?way transgressed the principle of religious equality.
Remember this, that although you may say you dislike
religious teaching, there are very many parents who may
like it, and if we were to say by Act of Parliament that they
should not be allowed to do this, they would feel there was a
great injustice forced upon them. I merely say this in ex-
planation of my views in bringing forward this measure.
The objections stated to it here and in the country, cwith
regard to the difficulty of leaving this matter to school
boards, deserve the best attention, and the Government
are. prepared most closely to consider them in committee.
It IS, however, becoming more and more the conclusion
of all those who have studied the question, that it would
—as I ventured to state in bringing the bill forward—be
a monstrous thing if in a Christian country the
Bible, and not merely Bible reading, but Bible teaching,
was excluded from the day schools You
will not be surprised at my saying that, although it has
always. been a great pleasure to me to find myself agreeing
upon important questions with my constituents, and
although it has always been very painful to me to find
myself differing from them—and few things have given
me greater pain than to find that, upon this matter, I am
supposed to disagree with some of my warmest friends-
yet his is a question of infinitely too much importance to
the country for me to do anything except what I feel
to be right. I should regret if you continue to differ
froth me ; but I still believe that when you have weighed
all the arguments on both sides and have endeavoured
to put yourselves in my position, and in the position of
the Government, you will not strongly differ from me, if
at all. But if you were to do so, whatever be the conse-
quences, I should not be fit to be your representative an
hour longer if I allowed this to weigh with me on such a
matter for one moment. The question is one of the most
important. Its importance I endeavour to realise. It is
my duty to come to the best conclusion possible, and I can
only state that I shall be guided to the conclusion simply
by what I consider to be my conscientious duty.

Our Taunton correspondent states that the recent
paragraph describing a trapeze accident at Cook's Circus
Taunton is incorrect. No such accident has occurred.

THE MORDAUNT CASE.—The statement is re-
peated that Sir Charles Mordaunt intends to appeal from
the' decision of the Court of Divorce to the House of
Lords at the earliest opportunity, and thus to endeavour
to obtain a bearing of his suit against Lady Mordaunt.
THE FACTORY ACTS AND THE PRINTING TRADES.
—We understand that the Secretary of State (Mr. Bruce)
has resolved to collect statistics relating to the letter-
press printing and other trades embraced by the Factory
Acts Extension Act. The information will be collected
by the Factory Department, and will be published only
in the gross, returns from individual employers being re-
garded. as strictly confidential.—Printers' Register.
MISS, MORGAN, M.D.—Miss Frances Elizabeth
Morgan, M.D., who lately took her degree at Zurich,
and now holds an appointment as under-assistant in the
General Hospital of Vienna, is mentioned as having been
present on the 30th ult. at the distribution of prizes in
the great hall of the University. This is the first instance
of the admission of a woman to the annual meetings of
the Academy of Vienna. The Neue Freie Prase, in
reporting this incident, describes Miss Morgan as an
American lady. It appears that she is an Engli h-
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SUNDAY EVENIN4.,

The 011ivier Ministry have been in great perplexity,
but they have so far weathered the storm. M. 011ivier
has shewn himself equal to the emergency, and con-
trived to check themovements of his adversaries. Friday's
debate in the Corps L6gislatif is not a day to be for-
gotten readily. M. Duvernois moved an amendment
to the effect that the speech of every councillor
should be published with his own name. M. '
011ivier opposed it, and the result was a most mor-
tifying defeat, the minority, which included M. 011ivier,
only numbering eighteen, and the majority being 197.
Another struggle ensued on the question as to whether the
public be allowed to be present during the deliberations
of the Council, and here again the Government was
defeated, they being 83 against 117. M. 011ivier did
the best thing he could under the adverse circum-
stances in which he was placed. He informed the
Corps Legislatif at yesterday's sitting that no position
was more attacked or more difficult than that of the
Ministry. It found itself every day at issue with
various factions 111 the Chamber, who made inad-
missible demands. The Cabinet was still the Cabinet
of the 2nd of January, to all intents and
purposes. It -wag_slevoting all its powers to the task
which it had received from the SoveTergit, the Chamber,
and the nation—of establishing a peaceful Arrol durable
liberty without revolution or disturbance. He waked the
Chamber to decide upon their position. M. jerome
David having complained of the course taken by Ministers,
M. 011ivier said :—The Ministry respected the rights of
the Chamber, but their opponents should respect
the rights of honest men who devoted them-
selves to a ' difficult task. He concluded by
saying "Our position is a false one and we seize the
first opportunity to extricate ourselves from it. (` The
occasion is a bad one.') lam told the occasion is a bad
one. I reply that no opportunity is bad when the object
is to decide upon an equivocal position. (Tres bien.) I
appeal to this assembly—even to the Opposition,
to those who have favoured the Parliamentary system—
to say whether it is not the right—nay, the obliga
tion, of a Ministry, when it finds that a certain portion of
the majority has fallen away from it to call at once for a.
declaration of confidence in order that every one may de-
clare his opinion freely. We have not had enough of
power ; we are ready to abandon it ; but in order not to
incur the odium of deserting our duties, we can only
yield at the command of the Sovereign or of the Cham-
ber. If we do not inspire you with confidence, say so."
M. Bethmont propceed to withdraw his amendment re-
specting the right of holding public meetings, but the
Ministerial members insisted upon having a vote to esta-
blish the confidence of the Chamber in the Government.
The order of the day was unanimously agreed to. As
may be expected, these stirring scenes have given rise to
variouS rumours and conjectures. The Independance
Beige, writing before the result of the sitting of
yesterday was known, says that only three weeks
• have passed since the great Imperial victory,
- and already the Ministry which organised that
victory and expected to reap its results is more shaky
than ever. If parties were so organised that it was pos-
sible to find another Cabinet, the present Aministration
would not endure through the Session. The Senate is not
much more favourably disposed than the Corps Ltlgis-
latif, and' the Independance thinks it likely that the
Ministers will avoid some of their difficulties by drawing
up a new electoral law with a view to a general election.
Yesterday morning the excitement in political circles
_

was very great, and the fall of the Ministry was confi-
dently looked for. It was even said that three or four
Ministers had wished to give in their resignations,
and that M. 011ivier had some trouble in
turning them from their purpose. The Siecle is in
exultation, and asks even now how long the Cabinet is
likely to last. It is crumbling, it avers, under the burden
of its own mistakes. The time is past when M. 011ivier
was constantly offering to resign his post. He knows
well enough that the resignation would be welcome,
and he lives on from day to day waiting until the
Corps L4gislatif puts the finishing stroke to this
Ministry of the Greek Kalends, which has no root in the
country.

The Debats refrains from commenting on the victory
achieved by the union of Right and Left, but asks why,
since the Right has become sufficiently con-
verted to Liberalism to satisfy the Left, why the
Cabinet did not seize the opportunity and take
the initiative in this matter of the Conseils
G4neraux ? Why need it shew itself more
conservative than the Conservatives, more royalist than
the king? The Debate hopes the result will induce M.
011ivier to assume fresh ground, for he will not find
it difficult to distance MM. Duvernois and Pinard,
Baron J6rome David, or M. Granier de Cassagnac.
The Left have held two meetings—one on Friday even-
ing, at which M. Buffet spoke strongly in favour of sup-
porting the Cabinet, and one yesterday, in the Chamber
itself, convened by M. d'Andelarre. It was decided that the
lesson administered to the Cabinet was sufficiently strong,
and that the Left would vote with M. 011ivier in a
question of confidence. The result of this, you know. M.
Gr4vy has written to M. Picard declaring that the
Radical Left cannot unite with M. Picard's seventoen
unless they completely disavow the sentiments and
speeches attributed to them.

The Carnarvon Herald states that Mr. Bright's
health continues steadily to improve, and the right hon.
gentleman is able to take regular walking exercise, the
weather being mild and favourable.
THE CAVALRY SWORD PRlZE.—Orders have been
issued from the War Office that a prize of £3 for the best
swordsman in each troop of cavalry in which thirty men
compete will be substituted for the squadron prize of the
same amount formerly granted.

The Church of Ireland was yesterday to base pro-
ceeded to elect Synodsmen, who will for the next three
years constitute the several Diocesan Synods. To these
bodies will be relegated in great part the task of
organising the machinery of the Church in their respective
dioceses.

Liverpool has lost another of her merchant princes,
Mr. Robert Rankin, shipowner, who died at his residence,
Bromborough Hall, on Friday night, aged 69 years. He
was for many years a member of the Mersey Docks and
Harbour Board, and was on the commission of the peace
for the borough.

The Bishop of Manchester preached a sermon at
Halliwell on Sunday, in aid of the Sunday schools. His
lordship pronounced emphatically in favour of religious
education, and declared that the friends of the secular
system grossly exaggerated facts and difficulties. Chris-
tianity he declared to be the foundation stone of all true
education.

A certain lady in Bangor, a few days since, having
begun housekeeping in a new house, sent her Irish maid-
of-all-work upstairs, telling her to take out and clean the
windows. Biddy disappeared in the upper regions, and
all was quiet. In a little while, however, Madame, the
housekeeper, went up to see how the window cleaning
was progressing, and to her horror found that the blun-
dering girl had minutely followed her directions ; for the
putty being soft she had dug out every pane of glass, and
after washing them carefully, had piled them up on the
floor !

A TRAGEDY PREVENTED.— It is a gratifying
novelty to be able to announce the frustration, instead of
the success, of a murder design. Such an event has
taken place at Shepton Mallet, Somersetshire. It would
seem that a woman named Ann Chappell, who was at one
time in very good circumstances, and kept the Mitre Inn
m that town, had, in a great measure owing to her own
misconduct, suffered a reverse of fortune, and had been
obliged to obtain refuge in the union. This fact would
seem to prey upon her mind, for towards the end of last
week her mother, who resides at Evercreech, received a
letter from her, in which she stated that she was tired of
it, and had resolved to ask leave to go out, and should
then take her three children into a certain field, which
she named, and put an end to them and herself altogether.
The mother, knowing her daughter's temperament, took
alarm at this threat, and lost no time in forwarding the
letter to the master of the workhouse. That functionary
put himself in communication with the police, and it was
resolved to keep an eye upon her movements. On her
asking the leave for herself and the children, as she had
threatened she would do, it was granted, and Police-
sergeant Elms was sent for, and it was arranged that he
should follow her closely. She took her offspring in the
direction she had indicated, and at the moment that the
officer thought that she was about to effect her wicked
purpose, he rushed upon and arrested her. He found
that she had armed herself with a large and sharp pair of
scissors, and it is feared that she purposed murdering the
little innocents with that. She is now in custody, and
expresses her intention of murdering the children as soon
as released,

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Amy Fawsitt, T. Levis, and A. Newton (her 2nd Appearance at
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M. OLLiviEn, the French Premier, would deserve
the utmost sympathy in the midst of his many mis-
fortunes, if, unfortunately, he had not brought them
all upon himself. He escapes from one difficulty only
to be confronted with another. His official
existence is of that pleasing and exciting kind
which may be described as a continual fluctuation
between the frying-pan and the fire. He made a
great and damaging sacrifice of principle when he
agreed to retain office notwithstanding the reactionary
Pl6biscite—a sacrifice which his three ablest colleagues
declined to make. But even this concession has
not brought him into smooth water. He finds no
sympathy in the Legislative Chamber; lie is con-
tinually opposed there; and after several narrow
escapes he has sustained two crushing defeats. There
is now a bill under discussion in the Chamber
for extending the powers of those ancient
municipal institutions, the councils-general. Two
amendments in this measure—Liberal amendments
providing for greater publicity of the pro-
ceedings undertaken by the Counzils-General,
were opposed by M. OLLIVIER and the other
Ministers, but were carried by 197 to 18, and
by 117 to 83. Yet, on the first occasion
the Ministry could muster only half a score sup-
porters besides themselves, and after " putting on the
screw " they were beaten by fifty votes. M.OLLivizn,
however, did not resign. All he asked for was a
vote of confidence, which the Chamber gave, as it
is always ready to do. But surely a Ministry is not
to be set on its legs again by empty votes
of confidence, after repeated defeats on im-
portant measures. Mr. GLADSTONE would hardly have
rested satisfied with such consolation, if the Land
Bill had been thrown out. The present aspect of
French politics is, in fact, most discreditable. The
Ministry is, apparently, prepared to undergo any humi-
liation rather than resign. The Chamber acts
upon no fixed principle, but capriciously hurls
adverse votes at M. OLLIVIER, and after-
wards begs him to retain office. The conduct
of the Ministry is bad ; that of the deputies is worse.
The only honourable course now open to the Cabinet
is either to resign or dissolve the Chamber and have
a fresh election. Nor can there be any doubt as to
which is the preferable alternative. If the
Ministry resign, it is not at all likely that any more
Liberal personages will take their place. If the
Chamber be dissolved, it is possible that the shame-
less intimidation and corruption practised by the Ad-
ministration at the last election, may not be repeated,
and that a really representative Chamber may be
returned. A dissolution, with an unbiassed election,
would be by far the better resource. There is no
guarantee, however, of freedom from administrative
pressure, if the Chamber were dissolved. The aspect
of affairs in France just now is very discouraging to
the friends of liberty.

AN essay on "Richard Cobden," in this month's
St. Paul's, is calculated to raise reflections which the
author doubtless never expected to prompt. It
is a readable paper, embued with sincere admiration
of the great man whose life it sketches, and yet it
does- not diverge into extravagance or Utopian
theories. It is pleasant to have thus called to mind
the stout battle against the Corn Laws, and the
other good works done by the Manchester party,
whom BRIGHT and COBDEN led ; but how much a
thing of the past it all seems! The monument reared •
by COBDEN and his friends will endure for ever, but
nothing will ever be added to it by the same bands.
The Manchester school is utterly extinct. Mr. COBDEN
is dead, Mr. MILNER GIBSON is in enforced retirement,
the Star has ceased to twinkle, and Mr. BRIGHT now
rests like a man who is conscious of having finished
his own work, and who leaves fresh duties to fresh