The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-13 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

The mail steamship Neva has arrived at Plymouth
from the West Indies with 46 passengers, 64 sacks of
mails, 453,710 dollars in specie, and 2,827 packages of
cargo. Her dates are Valparaiso September 2, Car.ao 11,
Panama 21, Jamaica 25, and St. Thomas 29. Tweilty
passengers and the mails were landed here.
The European war had had a bad effect on the Valparaiso
markets, but a sudden demand for nitrate from the
United States had improved matters for the time.
The President of Chili, as arbitrator, had decided
in favour of the Argentine Republic against the
British subjects, who claimed compensation for damages
received by the blockade of Monte Video. The Chilian
Congress was to hold an extraordinary session. There
had been alarming revolts among the Chinese in some
parts of Peru.

WRECK ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.—On signals
of distress being fired from the South Sand Head Light-
ship, on Tuesday morning, the Kingsdowne Lifeboat, of
the National Lifeboat Institution, was launched and pro-
ceeded to the Goodwin Sands, the wind blowing from the
W.N.W. at the time. The boat had to go off short-
handed, most of the boatmen at this station being away
fishing. On arriving at the Sands, the Norwegian
barque, Hony Sverni:, bound from the Mediter-
ranean to Leith, with a cargo of barley, was
found to be ashore on the South Calliper. A Deal
boat had taken. the crew off the vessel just as the lifeboat
reached the spot, but the master and mate had refused to
leave, hoping their ship would float as the tide made.
There was a very heavy sea breaking on the sands, and
the crew of the lifeboat, knowing the -danger the two men
ran, resolved not to leave them to their fate, but to re-
main in the vicinity to aid them if required. They
shewed good judgment in doing so, for, as the tide rose,
the barque broke her back, and soon became a total
wreck, and the captain and mate were only too glad to
avail themselves of the lifeboat ; and with great diffi-
culty they were rescued and brought safely to land.
DISTRESS AMONGST BOOKBINDERS.-1118 follow-
ing petition has been forwarded for presentation to her
Majesty, signed by more than 2,500 females, employed in
the art of bookbinding in London : " That your peti-
tioners are suffering great loss and privation by the stop-
page of the trade in Prayer Books and Church Services,
occasioned by the withdrawal of the Table of Lessons
Bill from the House of Commons, after it had passed the
House of Lords. Your petitioners are advised that it will
require an Act of Parliament to make alterations in the
Table of Lessons, or the Rubric of the Common Prayer Book.
Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your Majesty to
signify your Majesty's most gracious will and pleasure
that the Table of Lessons Bill, or whatever Bill may be
required for settling the Prayer Book question, be brought
into Parliament the early part of the next session thereof,
that this period of stagnation, productive of such great
loss and severe privation to your petitioners may be re-
duced to the shortest possible duration. Your petitioners
further humbly beseech your Majesty, that in the event
of Parliament being called together this year before its
usual assembling, that your Majesty would signify your
most gracious will and pleasure that the said Bill should
be brought in at that time."

SAD AFFAIR ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY.—An inquest was held on the body of
Israel Hoppet, aged 65, killed on the London and North-
Western Railway on Saturday. The deceased, who had
been in the service of the North-Western Company some
years, was a eupenumerary pointsman and signalman at
Euston station, and was injured whilst clearing the points
by an engine coming out of the station without
signal last December. About three o'clock on the
day in question he was employed as signal-
man at some underground works going on at the northern
end of the Euston station. The St. Albans train was going
out of the station at the rate of about six miles an hour,
when deceased, who could not get about very well, was
seen walking in front of it. Before he could get out of the
way the buffer of a carriage struck him, and he was thrown
on his head. Ho appeared to struggle whilst lying in the
" four-foot," and his head got under the wheel of the
second carriage. Before the driver of the engine could
pull up, tho whole of the train had passed over him. He
was picked up frightfully mutilated and conveyed to St.
Pancras dead-house. The train was shunting after the
passengers had got out, and the engine was in its rear.
Although the whistle was sounded deceased did not
appear to know the train was coming out. The jury re-
turned a verdict of " Accidental Death."

SIR JOHN PAKINGTON AND THE BISHOP OF
WORCESTER ON EDUCATION.—At the opening of two new
schools near Powick, Sir John Pakington and the'Bishop
of Worcester Were amongst the speakers and addressed
those present in reference to the new Education Act.
The Lord Bishop said he looked upon the Act
and its probable working with great satisfaction. He
believed that in 'the main it would give a great impulse
indeed to the elementary education of the poor throughout
this country. Undoubtedly, in many places, education had
been greatly neglected, but that deficiency would now be
supplied ; but the most satisfactory feature in regard to
the new act was this—that the people of this country
were determined that religion should be inseparably
connected with any national system of education.
—Sir John Pakmgton endorsed his lordship's
reznarks, and said there were two points on which he
could not refrain from touching. The first was to express
his great satisfaction at the success which had crowned
the efforts of the friends of education in that parish, in
which all his life long ho had taken n deep interest ;
and in the second place to state that he viewed the pro-
visions of the great Act of Parliament which had lately
been passed as a great, wise, and beneficent measure.
But still he must say that in his humble judgment it
had one great and terrible blot—that was the exclusion of
a clause requiring the religious training and education of
the people. He considered that to be a great and serious
defect in the Act.