The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-20 00:00:00

CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.

REPRESENTATION OF BRISTOL. -
Mr. Sholto Hare has consented to stand for Bristol ix
the Conservative interest.

FUNERAL OF MRS. LUBY.

The funeral of Mrs. Luby, the mother of the Fenian
convict, took place in Dublin yesterday, and was attended by
eight thousand persons, who marched in procession, wear-
ing green and orange rosettes.

THE DEATH OF LORD ARTHUR CLINTON.
As announced in a Central Press telegram on Saturday
Lord Arthur Clinton died on that day at Muddeford, near
Christchurch. Mr. Roberts, solicitor to Lord Arthur,
writes to say that on Friday he was summoned to
Muddeford. On arriving he found Lord Arthur suffering
seriously from an attack of scarlet fever. His lordship
gave Mr. Roberts the necessary instructions for preparing
by instructing counsel and otherwise for his
defence at the Central Criminal Court, saying that
he was anxious to court the fullest inquiry upon
the charge brought against him in connection with
Boulton and Park. At Lord Arthur's request Mr.
Roberts prepared a letter, in which his lordship entirely
denied the grave crime imputed to him, and stated that
the only thing of which he had been guilty was the folly
of impersonating women by way of amusement and love
of theatricals. After this letter had been prepared Lord
Arthur had become so weak that he was unable to sign it.
He was, however, perfectly sensible, and solemnly asserted
his innocence of the graver charge prior to his death, which
took place at five minutes past one on Saturday.
Mr. Roberts incloses in his letter a copy of the letter
which death prevented Lord Arthur from signing. The
communication was intended for publication in the news-
papers. In it Lord Arthur gives most unequivocal denial
to the graver offence alleged against him, and pledges to
surrender himself to the jurisdiction of the court at the
appointed time, a course which he would have pursued
before but for his illness, and asks the public to suspend
its judgment.

CONFERENCE ON THE EDUCATION
QUESTION.

The Bishop of Exeter presided on Saturday at a large
conference, at Plymouth, of teachers of elementary
schools throughout Devon and Cornwall. The Bishop, in
his introductory address, said that the result
of such deliberations would have much more effect
if they considered and pointed out what modifications of
the views they individually held could be intro-
duced without seriously demaging their work, but
which might tend to reach the objections and
scruples of others. Resolutions were unanimously passed,
declaring that in the long experience of those present no
difficulty has arisen, although having in their schools
children of parents of many forms of belief ; that Bible
teaching ought to occupy three hours weekly, and that
the teacher ought, as at present, to frame his own time-
table. A resolution generally approving the Government
bill and a conscience clause were carried unanimously.
To a resolution urging the denominational system an
amendment was moved, approving of Mr. Cowper Temple's
amendment, as adopted by the Government. But this was
lost, as there was appended to it a declaration that the deno-
minational system failed to meet the requirements of the
nation. The Bishop of Exeter, in concluding the pro-
ceedings, enlarged on the importance of the conference,
and on the weight which should attach to the opinions of
such a body of teachers. His lordship was certain that
the differences displayed were rather in forms of expres-
sion than in substance, and that what they were all
anxious for was the maintenance of real religious instruc-
tion. The bill would probably be materially varied before
it reached the House of Lords, and he therefore abstained
from giving his own opinion upon it in its present shape.