The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-31 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

THE OHILD'S BEST GIFT.

THE TOY ALPHABET, beautifully printed on
tinted Cards in Case, complete; forming a most amusing
and in btructive present for Children. The elegant style in which
the illustrations to each letter are got up—each with a pleasing
and simple rhyme—and the strikingly apparent. usefulness and
novelty of the plan, which is so elegantly carried out, have pro
duced the most unqualified encomiums from some of the most
influential organs of public opinion, a few of which are appended.
Parents and others desirous of pleasing their children, and
at the same time helping them to take the first step to
learning, cannot do better than purchase a Set of these Alpha-
bets, which are produced in Six varieties, at One Shilling
per Set.
" "Pro TOY ALNIAREY ' supplies an easy and entertaining mode
of teaching little ones their letters, and serves as a plaything at
the same time hat it takes the place of a lesson book. All aunts
and uncles, as well as parents, should not fail to get a sight of the
Toy Alphabet, for it is sure to be the delight of every nursery into
which it may find its way."—The Christian World.
"The eye is riveted and the memory irresistibly impressed. The
scheme has met with great success, and any loving parent, having
a use for such a welcome teacher in the family, cannot complain
when the entire cost of the packet is only Ono Shilling."—The
Primitive Methodist Advocate.
"Tie colour-printing is admirable, and the variety and origi-
nality of the cards, which are produced in several distinct sets,
cannot fail to make them popular."—The Methodist Recorder.
London; Published by GRANT and Co., Turnmill-street ; and
Sold by all Booksellers, or sent post free for 13 stamps.

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HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT,
Golden-square, W.
President—the Right Hon. the Earl of STRAFFORD, F.R.S.
This Hospital has relieved upwards of 24,000 patients since its
foundation, and is in great NEED of FUNDS to meet the heavy
current expenses. EDMUND WYLD, Secretary.

SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL (late Dreadnought).—
Notice is hereby given, that this HOSPITAL is now RE-
MOVED to the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Green-
wich, where any seaman, needing medical or surgical care, will
be admitted on personal application, as heretofore, without in-
troduction or recommendation. The Society's offices are re-
moved from the City to the same building.
KEMBALL COOK, House-Governor and Secretary.

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THOMAS ROBINSON, Hon. Sec.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-
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GEORGE REID, Secretary.

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. Alfred-terrace, Upper Holloway, N.—This Institution
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MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS.

Elections.

With only two or three hundred advantage on a
register of between two and three thousand, a split
would have been very dangerous in the Liberal camp
at the Isle of Wight. Such a contretemps has
been narrowly escaped. Both Mr. Cavendish
Clifford, son of Sir Augustus Clifford, and
Mr. Moffat have expressed a wish to represent the
Liberal party at the coining contest. If both went
to the poll, Mr. Baillie Cochrane, who fears the ex-
pense of a fruitless struggle, might try his chance hope-
fully. But a test ballot has been arranged to decide
the question—Clifford or Moffat? At Norwich the
Liberals are still hunting for a candidate, in the hope
that their vacant seat will shortly be filled up. The
latest report seems to indicate a decision in favour of
Mr. Tillett.

The New Commander in Ireland.
General Sir William Mansfield, who is about to
succeed to the command of the forces in Ireland on
the expected resignation of Lord Strathnairn is
the fifth son of the late Mr. John Mansfield, of
Diggeswell-house, Hertfordshire. His paternal grand-
father was the late Sir James Mansfield at one time

`Lord Chief Justice of the Court 'of Common
Pleas. He has seen much service in India
from 1845-0, when he served with his regiment in
the campaigns on the Sutlej, up to that trying period
in 1857, when the destinies of the British Em-
pire in India seemed to be . trembling
in the balance. During the whole of that
struggle lie performed the most conspicuous and
valuable services, and was almost immediately after
selected to fill the post of Commander-in-Chief of,
the army of Bombay. A few • weeks ago he was
advanced to the dignity of G.C.8., and is now en-
trusted with a command the importance of which
cannot be over-estimated.
The Canadian Volunteers.

The bravery of the Canadian volunteers has been
now exemplified on two occasions, and their great
willingness to go to the front whenever their country
is threatened, cannot for a moment be questioned.
The courageous spirit with which one hundred
men repulsed three times their number of the
would-be invaders a few days since, was before
instanced in 1866, when Major-General Napier was
concentrating the volunteers for the defence of Fort
Erie. On that occasion a company of the Queen's
Own Rifles, entirely composed of boy students from
the University of Toronto, came forward and re-
quested to be allowed to leave Port Colborne
with the service force. Seeing that the
lads were most of them under fourteen years of
age, the major-general in command felt constrained
to order them to fall out of the ranks. The young
fellows, it is said, became quite disheartened, and
even sullen, and the dismay depicted on their faces
was such as Major - General Napier says
he shall never forget. The zeal and
anxiety of the Canadians to act honourably
and with valour in the Fort Erie affair, was perhaps
more fully instanced by the fact that QOOO of them,
armed and equipped, were waiting at Toronto for the
order to march, just fourteen hours after the
authorities had been informed that the Fenians had
crossed the frontier from Buffalo.
The Gambia Settlements.

The River Gambia settlement, which has been a
colony of the English Crown for upwards of half a
century, is about to be transferred .to the French,
in return for their possessions at Melicourie,
Forreecariah, and Searcies, unless a peti-
tion, which is being prepared for transmis-
sion to Earl Granvill, should be influential in
altering the order already issued on the subject.
An English colonist bitterly complains in the 'limes
of the summary and inconsiderate manner in which
the Home Government have slighted the feelings of
the colony, and allowed a French gunboat with the
Minister of the Interior of Senegal on board to
formally claim Bathurst as the capital of the
new French colony, without the will of the residents
ever being thought of or asked for. The writer says
that on the arrival of Sir Arthur Kennedy, the Eng-
lish Governor-in-Chief, an explanation was demanded
by the English merchants and a large number of
loyal natives, when he made light of their indigna-
tion, and informed them that their " sentiment "
could not be taken into account for a moment. He
admitted, however, that if the colonists could
clearly shew that the entire feeling of the place was
against the transfer, and that the people would con-
sent to maintain at their own cost a largely-increased
police-force, they might, perhaps, be left to them-
selves • the English Government, at the same time,
entirely repudiating any responsibility on their
account. The " English Colonist "adds that the feeling
against a French Government is so strong that the
residents would submit to almost any taxation in
order to remain under the British flag,
but he contends that in common fairness,
they ought to have a voice in the disposal of
this revenue. That reform is needed in the way the
money of the territory is distributed, is clearly shewn,
he points out, by the circumstance that out of a
revenue of about £15,000 nearly £ll,OOO is required
to pay the Executive.