The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-10 00:00:00

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON,

EFUGES FOR HOMELESS AND DESTI-
TUTE CHILDREN and CHICHESTER TRAINING
Still.—Upwards of 500 Boys and Girls are now being supported
in these Refuges and Ship,
Owing to the benevolent and praiseworthy exertions which
have for several months been made to aid the sick and Wounded
in the present War, the funds for the support of these Refuges
and Ship have decreased considerably.
An urgent appeal is therefore made for assistance to support
the inmates.
£l5 will keep a boy or a girl for one year, and £1 ss. for a
month.
Contributions thankfully received by the London and West
minster Bank, 214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury
E.C., and by

WILLIAM 'WILLIAMS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.

ALEXANDRA ORPHANAGE for INFANTS,
llornsey-rise, near Highgate. N.
Children eligible from any part of the Kingdom.
Under the immediate patronage of
Their Eoyal •Highnesses the PRINCE and PRINCESS of
WALES, and the
CROWN PRINCESS of PRUSSIA.
A 'MEETING of Governors was held on THURSDAY, November
17, 1870, at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, for the
ELWPION of TEN INFANTS, Two of whom to be retained
until sixteen years of age.
ROBERT JONES, Esq., Sheriff of London and Middlesex, in
the Chair.
At the close of the Ballot the following were declared to be
SUCCESSFUL:—
ELECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL SIXTEEN X EARS
OF AGE.
1. Scarlett, Alice Maud ... . 635 12. Bloom, Louisa ....
ELECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL NINE YEARS OF AGE.
3. Richards, Henry William 648 7. Stevens, Elizabeth 452
4. Leigh, Charles Edward.. 576 8. Mather, Selina Agnes 439
5. Eyles, Alfred Henry . ... 490 9. Bennett, Louisa Mary 431
6. Childs, Alice Rebecca 458 10. Curtis, Elizabeth Maud 42g
A Vote of thanks to the Chairman and to the Scrutineers
terminated the proceedings..
JOSEPH SOUL, Hon. Secretary.

73'4 Cheapside. .
U*,. GENT APPEAL.—The Committee very earnestly appeal
for Contributions in aid of the BUILDING FUND especially, as
well a.s for the general purposes of the Charity, which has no
funded property, but depends wholly upon voluntary support.
No salaries are paid but to the household. The Orphange is
open to visitors.

ORPHAN WORKING SCHOOL—The next
ELECTION for this Charity will take place in January,
when 25 Orphans will be admitted. Children for nomination
should be at once put upon the list.
As the Charity depends upon voluntary benevolence for four-
fifths of its annual income, Contributions are earnestly solicited.
JOSEPH SOUL, Secretary.
Offices, 73, Cheapside, E.C. •

'the cOrrespondent of the Ind4pendance Beige at *Yoko-
barna says that the two belligerents, France and Prassia,
are both represented there. There are two Prus-
sian •war ships, the frigate Herta and the cor-
vette Medusa, and three vessels under the
orders of Vice Admiral Dupr6. The rival vessels
are about equal in point. of artillery. The Prussians have
beides sixteen merchant ships which dare not leave port
in presence of the French vessels, while the French
merchantmen pass freely to ,and fro in sight of the
Prussian commanders, who shesi the same prudence as
their merchant captains. Under these circumstances,
the Prussian representative, Herr von Brandt, thought it
desirable to take the precaution of placing his marine
under the protection of Japanese neutrality. The Japan '
authorities are not acquainted with the Enropean laws
respecting neutral• ports. The envoy of King William
undertook to inform them of the custom, and was re-
quested himse:f to draw up the convention he requi:ed.
The principal clause forbade any war • ship to
leave the port within twenty-four hours after a ship
of the other Power. This was entirely to the advantage
of the Prussian; who did not want to fight. The French
Admiral, however, agreed to it, and the Japanese
Government gave its consents It was, therefore, hoped
that nothing would occur to create a disturbance in these
distant waters, when a Prussian steamer, the Rhein, having
left the port, and finding herself followed by the French
corvette Linois took alarm, and hastily returned to the
station to complain to the chief authority. He addressed

the French admiral QC the subject, and was answered that
the Convention said nothing at all about merchant
ships. The Echo du Japan, a paper published iu
French, says that the Minister went straight to Yedo
and threatened to bombard the town if a clause including
merchant ships were not immediately added to the procla-
mation of neutrality. The Japanese Foreign Minister
was intimidated, and instead of one clause he added three.
The Prussian Minister came off victorious, but the
French Minister declared he would only recognise the pub-
lished proclamation as valid. Great was the wrath
of Herr von Brandt, who suddenly discovered that neu-
trality was infringed-by the presence of a detachment of
marines on shore, as well as a hospital and a French store-
hotise. In vain it was represented to him that these es-
tablishments were not new, and that it was as easy for
him as for the French 'to supply himself with coals,
provisions, and other matters, while as for the hospital, it
might serve for Prussian wounded as well as French. The
Prussian would listen to nothing, and openly proclaimed
that if a German ship were touched by a French ship in
thoSe waters, he would with his ships burn the French
hospital and barracks, and would cannonade without
mercy the French vessels in port, Admiral Dupr6
undertook to reply to the bellioose Minister. He 'inti-
mated that the little French squadron would be
ready to start at break of day, and he invited the Prussiass
to follow them, when he would be glad to see if' the rho-
domontade of Herr von Brandtlwas as terrible in action as
in words. The tranquillity which Japan has hitherto en-
joyed has thus been disturbed by the Russian Minister,
who has set the two commanders of the ships at mutual
defiance. The conclusion of the affair is not given in the
letter.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Colonel Acland, M.P., speaking at a Volunteer meeting.
at Exeter, said army efficiency depended on our mecha-
nical inventions keeping pace With the age, also on the
moral condition of our soldiers. He defended Mr. Card-
well, a.nd said he had authority to state that it was
untrue that Mr. Cardwell refused to entertain artillery
improvements and had stopped discussion. As to recruiting,
it was now going on at the rate of 50,000 men a year.
Officers in high positions at Aldershott told him they
never saw better recruits than at present. He advocated
the country Volunteers being put on a similar footing to
the Yeomanry Cavalry, and having annual training. He
was convinced that neither interest of any kind, nor even
economy, would be allowed by the English people to stand
in the way of army efficiency.

By the death of Admiral Michael Quin on Monday last
a flag officer's service pension is placed at the disposal of
the First Lord of the Admiralty.
The hired steam troopship Parana, Captain Wilkinson,
froni London, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Thursday
morning, where she will be surveyed by a board of officers,
including Commander Brownlow, surveyor of shipping,
from the Department of the Director of Transports,
Whitehall. On the completion of the survey a draught of
the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment will embark for Hong-
kong and Singapore, with Captain R. Wadeson, V.C.,
in command ; Lieutenant Wilson, Ensigns Baynes, Pain,
and ,Beaumont ; Staff Assistant-Surgeon Dick, two staff-
sergeants, two sergeants, 96 rank and file, six women, and
11 children; and the Parana will sail for her destination
via the Suez Canal.
Mr. Cardwell has within the last few days had inter-
views with officers on the subject of the reserve forces,
and also the necessity for a more efficient system of re-
crui ;lug for the army. One of the suggestions made was
that the male rural population of the country of ages
raniing between 18 and 40 should be trained like the
militia at certain periods of the year, and should re-
ceive pay at the rate of Gd. for every drill attended, or
£1 for 40.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—Dr. •Debus, F.R.S.,
has tbeen appointed Examiner in Chemistry, vice Dr.
Matthiessen, F. R. S. , deceased.
Ai meeting of the Diocesan Board of Education
was i held at Wakefield on Thursday. The Bishop of '
Ripim stated 180 Church schools in the diocese were de-
Solent in accommodation, of which 95 were in Bradford,
Halifax, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, and Wakefield.
Sevimty to eighty thousand pounds would be necessary to
sup ly the deficiency, but he considered it hopeless to
atte pt to raise such a sum within the diocese. i
t the Manchester assizes, John Peacock was
bro ht up for trial on a charge of having feloniously
slah a man named John Plant, in a 1 odging house in.
Shepley-street, Manchester. After hearing the case
stated, the jury found the prisoner not guilty, on the
groind of insanity, and, he was ordered to be detained
during her Majesty's pleasure.

41IGRATION FROM IRELAND.-.-ACCOrdillg to the
returns obtained by the enumerators, the number of
emi ants who left the ports of Ireland during the .
qua er ended 30th September last amounted to 16,919 - 1
9,28 male, and 7,631 females—being 665 more than the
nu er %ho emigrated during the corresponding quarter
of 1A16:.
HINDOO MEDICAL STUDENT.—The examina-
tionhich has just taken place at the Royal College of
Surgeons for the fellowship of that institution presents a
featire of unusual interest to the medical profession and
the Public generally, it havine, afforded the• first instance
of a native Indian gentleman, Mr. Gopaul Chunder Roy,
havihg been admitted to that distinction.
1 SMALLPDX. IN LIVERPOOL.—Although the health
returns in Liverpool shew a slight diminution in the
fatality from fever, smallpox and scarlativa are upon the
increase. The medical officer of health (Dr. Trench)
stated with regard to smallpox that it was in a great
measure due to the want of vaccination. He considered
thata rigid sysem of vaccination would localise the dis-
ease at the north end, where it is most prevalent, and
ultimately stamp it out.
CHRISTMAS PRIZE LOTTERIES AND GOOSE CLUBS.
- The police authorities have notified that prize lotteries
held in public-houses in the Christmas week for turkeys,
geese, and other prizes, are illegal, and will be suppressed
under an Act of Parliament, specially provided. The
goose clubs, &c., which have contributed weekly sub-
scriptions for a distribution of Christmas fare, and where
there is no drawing of blanks and prizes, are not to be
interfered with.

OPEN COMPETITION.—After all, open competition
is not going to prove altogether a myth, although it is
true that quite nine-tenths of the civil appointments
under the Crown have been withdrawn from its opera-
tions. The Civil Service Commissioners have at length
been permitted to announce that they will hold, in
January next, preliminary test examinations, under the
regulations published in our number of the sth of Novem-
ber in Loudon, Edinburgh, and Dublin..—Civilian.
A. Dublin correspondent writes that Mr. Fortescue
has addressed a letter to Mr. Vere Foster for the purpose
of correcting an inaccuracy in the statement furnished by
Mr. Foster. of what Mr. Fortescue said in reply to the
recent deputation of national school teachers. Mr. For-
tescue says that on the principal subject—the increase of
the salaries of the teachers -he stated that he was notpre-
pared to state officially the intentions of the Government,
but that the question was receiving and would continue to
receive careful consideration, both from himself and the
Government.
THE GREAT COMMERCIAL FRAUD.—From in-
quiries made it has been ascertained that while on Tues-
day the investigation at Paddington, resulting in the
discovery of fraudulent scrip, issued to the amount of
about £25,000, the aggregate had on Thursday afternoon
increased to nearly £37,000 nominal value. What the
exact fraud is which this amount represents it is impos-
sible at present to say, as some of the scrip is pledged,
and what the portion is that may be claimed for is not at
present known. Mr. Adcock's whereabouts have not yet
been discovered. A rumour reached Worcester that he
had been seen at Oxford, but this has not been verified.