The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-10 00:00:00

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THURSDAY.

To-day we begin the third and final stage of the ses-
sion. According to present appearances, it will be long
and animated. The Government have made up their
minds to pass the Education Bill if possible. On the other
hand, about, two score of Radicals wish to postpone
the measure until next year, in order that they may
have an opportunity of educating the country during the
long vacation, up to the secular ideal. This Mr. Forster
will do his utmost to prevent, and I need hardly say that
he will be supported in his resistance by Mr. Gladstone.
The Premier indeed has never been much in favour with
men of the Fawcett and Vernon-Harcourt school They
have always dreaded his crypto-ecclesiasticism. But
that Mr. Forster who belongs to no religious
communion, who, I believe, has not even been
baptised, should manifest so decided a religious
tendency as is shewn in his bill, together with a
firmness in maintaing the religious element worthy of his
distinguished father-in-law, Dr. Arnold, has taken the
secularists by surprise. Dissenters are joining the secu-
larists in agitating against the bill, and are about to
hold a large meeting in St. James's Hall. Mean-
while, so far as meetings are concerned, supporters
of the measure out of doors are almost idle ; a
serious mistake on their parts, not to be compensated for
by the fact that they have, to the number of 350,000,
petitioned in favour of the present system, while only
30,000 have petitioned against it. It is expected that the
discussion upon Mr. Vernon Harcourt's amendments will
occupy four nights, and Mr. Glyn will whip vigorously for
the division that is expectedto follow. The two other prin-
cipal measures before Parliament the advanced Liberals
will urge Government to pass during the present session.
The Elections Bill has not yet been read a second
time, and just before the recess Mr. Gladstone refused to
name a day for the reading. The University Tests Bill
has passed the Commons, and its enactment now rests
with the Lords. It is believed that the Conservative
Peers will move that it be referred to a select committee,
and so throw it over to another year.
Mr. Lowe,who shares with Mr. Ayrton the pre-eminence
of unpopularity in the Lower House, has just excited
great bitterness among a class of the community where
we should have expected more than usual sweetness ; the
sugar refiners. It is customary when a duty is reduced
to allow the holders of the goods on which the duty is
levied a drawback upon the stocks which they have in
hand at the time that the reduction is made. Mr. Lowe
has refused this concession to the holders of large stocks of
sugar, although they bought these stocks in the belief that
a reduction was at hand, and with the assurance that they
would be treated with consideration by the Government. Mr.
Lowe's unexpected, but characteristic cantankerousness
involves them in a fine of four pounds a ton, which to a
firm like Messrs. Alexander Hogg means a loss of nearly
three thousand pounds. Of course other purchasers, who
had no stocks and who have bought since the reduction of
duty was announced, are able to undersell Messrs. Hogg,
and these must therefore sacrifice the duty or fail to sell
their stocks. It is expected that Mr. Lowe will have
pressure put upon him by his colleagues, and will concede
the point.
Legislation with regard to betting is fully expected
during the present session, and great has been the conster-
nation among the professional betters. In fact their craft is
considered so seriously in danger that Mr. Sidney
Smith, perhaps the most influential and the most honest
of the tribe, has (acting presumably upon information
received from the Government) retired from business.
Mr. Smith did an immense commission business, having
for his customers the highest nobles in the land. It is
said that on the eve of the Derby his receipts were equal
to those of a large City merchant. His retirement is con-
sidered as the beginning of the end. The truth is the
governing classes have been hit so hard during the last
few years that if they would not see their ancestral
estates pass away entirely out of their hands, they must
put an end to the system which is bringing some of the
noblest houses down to the ground. Hence it is under-
stood that while Government sees the impossibility of
putting down betting altogether, it will suppress the com-
mission agencies.

Mr. Childers and Mr. Baxter have already done good
service in exposing and stopping the system of bribes
given to officials in the Admiralty. It would be well,
however, if they were to inquire a little farther, and in a
direction which I think they have not taken hitherto.
For instance, let them ascertain how it is that one of the
most eminent engineering and shipbuilding firms in the
world has scarcely ever been able to obtain a Government
contract, although its works are situated in a part
of the kingdom where wages and materials are a great
deal lower than they are in the districts where
the Government orders have been executed. So well is
this understood in the trade, that there is one particular
firm peculiarly affected by the Admiralty, which some
time ago received the nick-name of " - shop," the
blank here standing for the name of an influential Ad-
miralty official, which it will be more discreet not to men-
tion. I am told by those who ought to know, that
when at length an order was given to the firm
first referred to, a proviso was inserted that
the firm was not to construct the portion of the vessel for
which it had attained its chief celebrity. In a word, the
firm was to build the ship, but was not to make the
engines. These engines were to be made by another house,
and they were of such an inferior description that they
were unable to work the ship, and the discredit of turn-
ing out an inefficient vessel was by the public, who
knew nothing of the circumstances, attached to the
builders. The coincidence was, perhaps, not wholly un-
designed.

It is high time that the attention of Parliament was
directed to the construction of our Indian railways. The
article in the Globe of Tuesday stated only the bare truth
when it said that the Indian Government purpose to spend
twenty years in constructing the line up the Indus
Valley, in order that the six millions which the
railway will cost may be spread over a lengthened
period. The absurdity of this arrangement will
be apparent when I mention that the line passes
through a desert, and will be almost entirely unproduc-
tive until it is connected with the Government system
of railways centring at Lahore. The pro-
posal to make the line to Peshawur on a
narrower guage than the rest of the Indian rail-
ways, for purposes of economy, is monstrous,
as it will be inflicting upon India, with our eyes open,
the evils which we have suffered in England through want
of sufficient information. And it must be remembered
that railways in India are military roads, and that should
the despatch of troops to the frontier be delayed at any
time by the necessity of changing carriages at Lahore, we
may sustain a most serious reverse that might threaten the
very existence of our Indian Empire. This is not the only in-
stance of mostunwise economy. The bridges upon one of the
lines in India having been swept away twice by the flood-
ing of one of the tributaries of the Indus, the Indian
Government have been advised by the engineers for the
line in this country to lower the bridges, so that they
' may offer no resistance to the flood, and
the water may sweep over them without doing

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any harm. The Indian Government have actually
proposed to increase the existing evil by putting a number
of piles in front of the -bridge, a,n arrangement so pre-
posterous from the engineering point of view that it is to
be explained only by the desire of the department to use up
a number of surplus piles left after the construction of the
Bombay and Baroda Railway. Meanwhile, the Govern-
ment is actually buying of the forest department sleepers
at 18s. a piece, of the same kind as those supplied
to a private contractor for less than Bs. The delays are as
vexatious as the petty economies. Whenever an engineer
sen Is in a plan and mentions the price of materials, the
plan is always sent back, with an intimation that the
price must be so much less. As he is not a contractor and
his only wish is to get the cheapest work consistent with
efficiency, it will be seen how foolish this policy is. Even
if money could be judiciously saved the gain would be
more than counterbalanced by the delay which takes place
in carrying out the works. For instance, an engineer has
had to send in fourteen different plans for one bridge ; and
the engineer and staff and plant of the line to Pushawur
have been in India for nearly a year and a half,
and not a yard of line has yet been made.
I believe that the engineer has just returned to
England in the hope of persuading the Coun-
cil to act with greater energy. One other
instance of absurd economy remains to be
mentioned. The Indian Government has given
orders that vessels of the Indian flotilla are not to start
until they have a full cargo, and thus an exporter having
goods to despatch may lose the market. No wonder that
the flotilla has proved a failure.
Still writing about railways I may mention that Sir
Morton Peto is in Hungary superintending the construc-
tion of lines for the Austrian Government. The ex-
member for Bristol, though he lost an enormous fortune,
can hardly be called a poor man, as the good round sum of
£lOO,OOO was settled upon his wife.
It is now, I believe, certain that the Prince of Wales
will buy the Tullymore estate in Ireland. It is not so
certain who will pay for it. The purchase has the charac-
ter of a State transaction, and it is not improbable that
the nation may be asked to assist in the matter. If so the
application will come at an unfavourable moment, for
not only are reductions involving much distress to many
individuals the order of the day, but the country is about
to be called upon to pay £7,600 for enlarging Marl-
borough House, in consequence of the increase of the
Prince's family.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte, who shot the unfortunate
Victor Noir, is now residing in that part of Paddington
known as Maida Vale. It will be well, therefore, for
London journalists to abstain from frequenting that neigh-
bourhood.

The fascinating Marchioness of Hastings, after about
twenty months' widowhood, has this morning been married
to Sir George Chetwynd. The young bridegroom, who
has large estates in Warwickshire, comes of age this year.
He is, I believe, a fine hand at pigeon-shooting ; but one
of the conditions of his marriage was that he should
not run horses on the turf.

There was an immense crowd at the Central Criminal
Court to-day, to hear the case against the epicenes. It

has been postponed for a month, on the ground that the
Crown has introduced, at the last moment, new and most
serious counts into the indictment. It is melancholy to
think that one of the accused persons is the son of a
distinguished statesman, and not long ago was himself a
member of the British legislature. Another of the accused
is the son of a well-known London divine, who has on
a previous occasion appeared in the court as the hero of a
not very creditable bankruptcy. This person was for-
merly at Oxford, and was one of the " Shooting stars,"
a company of amateur actors and pseudo-actresses. Their
conduct gave rise to so much scandal that the Vice-Chan-
cellor interposed and forcibly suppressed the company.
Both Lord -Arthur Clinton and Mr. Cumming, as well
as three other of the accused, were in the court when
application was first made for their apprehension.
They were being watched in behalf of the
prosecution, but Mr. Justice Blackburn's tardi-
ness in issuing the warrant enabled them all to escape.
One by one they called a hansom and drove away, and
have not since been heard of. To-day £5,000 was lodged
anonymously in court for the defence of Boulton and Park.
Yesterday was a grand day at the Horticultural

Gardens in South Kensington. I never remember a day
of greater brilliancy ; the sky was as clear as though it
were overhanging Paris instead of this the smokiest of
capitals. The display of flowers was very beautiful, the
display of costumes was fantastic rather than beautiful

The huge balloons worn by ladies in their rear, to-
gether with their so-called Grecian bend, makes
them the most ridiculous of objects. Contrasted
with these enormities were the brilliant and graceful robes
of some Orientals. There was one lad especially, followed
by a crowd of attendants, who excited much attention.

The new buildings in connection with the forthcoming
ten years' international exhibitions, are making consider-
able progress.
On Monday Madame Sainton-Dolby took leave of the
public. The event was not premature. At 50 a singer's
voice ceases to give much pleasure. Moreover, our con-
tralto had formed a bad habit of singing trashy songs on
commission, an example which so leading a songstress
ought not to have set, and which it is to be
hoped will not be followed. Concerning another
songstress, still young and charming, and a prima donna,
there are romantic stories afloat, and it is even rumoured
that the cause of the disappointment which she inflicted
upon the public lately by her non-appearance was the re
suit of her secret marriage.
English tourists in doubt where to go this summer
should get Mr. Walter Thornbury's charming two volumes
just published by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, " A Tour
Round England." It contains a large amount of topo
graphical, historical, and social gossip about the
towns of England. A new magazine is to appear
with the singular title of the Rectangular
Review. It is to be the organ of the Freemasons.
The libraries of the late Charles Waterton, the natu-
ralist, and of the ex-Bishop of St. Asaph are to be sold.
Puttick and Simpson will sell also a Bible in
sixty-three folio volumes, probably the most extensively
illustrated copy that was ever formed. It is
said to contain nearly 10,000 engravings of
every school and style, about 1,100 drawings
and photographs, and 660 specimen leaves of various
rare and curious editions of the Holy Scriptures.
It is stated that the Observer, which has for many years
had a very precarious existence as a Sunday paper, is
about to come out daily under the editorship of Mr. Dicey.
Perhaps I should add to those items one which unfortu-
nately has at least asmuchof a personal asof a literary cha-
racter. Professor Kapoustin is about to reply to Mr. Hep-

worth Dixon's strictures upon the professor's conduct with

regard to "Free Russia." The professor will, lam t )Id,
maintain the truth of his statement in the Golos, that he
strongly advised Mr. Dixon not to write his book, but
that, finding him bent upon it, he, out of pure
good-nature and friendly feeling looked at the proof
sheets, but without any idea of holding himself responsible
for the author's statements.

I am sorry to say that letters written in Italy which I
have seen give an alarming account of the state of that
country. Prince Humbert and his wife were going to
Switzerland and to Berlin, but the King forbade the heir
to the crown to leave the country, on account of the
bad impression which his departure would have at the
present grave crisis.

Her Mal esty has granted a Charter of Incorpora-
tion to Keble College, bearing date the 6th day of June,
in the 33rd year of the reign of her Majesty.
THE SPECIAL COMMISSION FOR MEATH.—The
Special Commission for Meath opened on Wednesday at
Trim, before Chief Justice Monahan and Judge
Fitzgerald. The Court-house was crowded, and
great interest was manifested in the proceedings.
Judge Monahan, in charging the grand jury,
said he regretted that the county was in such a
very unsatisfactory state. There had been seven
malicious burnings, three robberies of arms, and three
cases of shooting at persons. Every exertion
would be used to repress outrage, especially when
intended to intimidate persons engaged in the
administration of justice, and to punish the per-
petrators. The Grand Jury found bills against Edward
Geraty and John Brady for an attempt to murder
Mr. Radcliffe, J.P. They pleaded not guilty, and said
they were not ready for trial, which was postponed until
three o'clock. The Attorney-General then opened the
case for the Crown. Mr. Radcliffe and some other wit-
nesses were examined. It is rumoured that one of the
prisoners will inform. Both are below the ordinary
1 standard of intelligence. Geraty is 20 years of age, and
almost a simpleton. It is believed these will be the only
prisoners tried.

OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden.—Don Giovanni. 8.30
p.m.
HAYMARKET—At Seven, No Song No Supper. Barwise's Book.
And A Kiss in the Dark.
ADELPIII—At Seven, No. 1 Round the Corner. Free Labour
PRINCE OF WALES'S—At 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest
Mamma

LYCEUM—At 7.30, His Own Rival, Breaking the Spell. At 83 ,
Little Faust.
OLYMPIC At Seven, Music hath Charms. At 8, 3lary Warner.
The 'Varsity Boat Race.
GAIETY—At Seven, First Night. The Princess of Trebizonde.
QUEEN'S—At Seven, My Wife's Dentist. 'Twix Axe and Crown
STRAND—At Seven, Loving Hearts, Kenilw rth.
VAUDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. I 'on Carlos.
ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Frou Frou. La Belle Sauvage
WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SKETCH .( K. Egyptian Hall, Pic
cadilly, every ~v.ning (except t atr•rd- y), at 8; tiaturday horn
legs at 3 Admissi n Is, 2s, 38
MUM' MINsTRELs. St. James's Hail. Every Wit, at 8 Wed •
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MADAME TIISSAIM'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from U a.m. till
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THE news of this morning will carry grief to
every home in England where the genius of CHARLES
DICKENS is loved and honoured. The appalling sud-
denness of the death of this true man, of this noble,
gentle heart, renders it impossible for us to
do more than simply record the fact of
our great and quite irreparable loss. For all of
us who have ever laid his books to heart this morning
marks the close of a dearly-cherished friendship.
For ourselves, the fact is thus so literally, that we
can do no more at this moment than subjoin some
few words of tribute already offered to this loved
and honoured memory by our contemporaries :

One whom young and old, wherever the English
language is spoken, have been accustomed to regard as a
personal friend, says the Times, is suddenly taken
away from among us. Charles Dickens is no
more. The loss of such a man will be felt by
millions as nothing less than a personal bereavement.
Extraordinary and very original genius must be united
with good sense, consummate skill, a well-balanced mind,
and the proofs of a noble and affectionate disposition be-
fore the world will consent to enthrone a man as their
unassailable and enduring favourite. Mr. Dickens was a
man of an eminently kindly nature, and full of sympathy
for all around him. We feel that we have lost one of the
foremost Englishmen of the age.
Is there a breakfast-table in the land (asks the Tele-
graph) around which the brief, abrupt message, Charles
Dickens is dead !—abrupt as the event it records was
sudden will not cast the mournful shadow of a
personal loss ? Is there an English home—is there
an American household—for which this day will not
be a day of hushed and solemn stillness, as though
a dear friend lay dead within the walls ? Not
merely had the fame and the genius of the departed won
him love and honour among what we may term the read-
ing classes of the nation ; his rarely rivalled power to
touch the deep springs of human feeling had made him a
familiar friend in every English family. It is the man
who has won such a matchless place in all our homes and
all our breasts that now lies beaten in the battle of life—
out of the fight for ever. He is not the first to wear him-
self out, all 'too soon for himself, though not for fame, in
the deadly race of these too rapid times ; nor will he be
the last. The workman has fallen at his task ; the war-
rior has died in his harness. Every Englishman knows
how to honour such!a life, and such a death.
It is his praise, says the Standard, that with all his
wild humour he never allowed it to be employed against
virtue or religion. He died in harness.

Happier than too many others (says the Morning Post),
he had it given to him to reap during his lifetime the
fame which he had so well won; and, while still in his
prime, to know that his works had gone throughout the
world, that they had become almost a part of the daily
life of his countrymen, and that his very phrases had
turned into proverbs in their mouths. Nor will his fame
die. It rests, in its essential parts, upon works that ap-
peal to the sympathies and feelings of all mankind, and
that strike notes which will never cease to vibrate as long
as the world exists.

Our readers will learn with a shock of pain and a sense
of personal bereavement (says the Daily News) that
a writer who for four and thirty years has been the
delightful friend and companion of all readers of the
English language is no more. Charles Dickens is
dead. With the exception of Shakespeare and of
Scott, he was the best read author in the
English language. In his pages, the purity of
a child and the tenderness of a woman were blended
with a genius rare and absolutely unique. Mr. Dickens
was himself alone. He had no intellectual pedigree.
His writings mark an era in English literature. The
generous and loving character of the man made him friends
wherever he was known. Like his great rival, Thackeray,
he leaves an unfinished story behind him. The thread of
his life and of the tale are snapped together. " The Mys-
tery of Edwin Drood " is swallowed up in a mystery more
awful.

Rarely has any one passed away from this earthly scene
(says the Morning Advertiser) amidst more sincere and
general regret than will be everywhere felt when the
intelligence of the death of Charles Dickens is received.

There are probably very few disinterested obser-
vers who will regret the termination of the Bristol
Election Inquiry. Whatever opinions men may
entertain of the merits and advantages of the Ballot,
there can certainly be only one opinion as to the
conduct of professing Liberals, who bribe under its
shadow. Bristol, the stronghold of the secret voting
party, has for years filled a prominent and an honour-
able place in our electoral history. The late Mr.
BERKELEY was the stalwart and unflinching cham-
pion of the cause which he lived to see pass through
the successive stages from contempt and ridicule to
the very threshold of success. This generation has
always associated the names of Bristol and BERKE-
LEY with a degree of electoral purity and political
sincerity, because they were connected with an emi-
nently practical remedy for an oppressive practical
evil. No one expected the western town to prove a
political Utopia, nor did any one suppose that
corrupt and corrupting agents could not find
•cope for action in the borough. It was not too
much, however, to expect that those who so eagerly
thrust themselves forward in competition for Mr.
BERKELEY'S seat before it was actually vacant, were
prepared at least to act up to the principles he
had always professed. It appears incredible that
any one should stand for Bristol, who was not pre-
pared fully and heartily to support the. Ballot, and
it must on all sides be acknowledged as an intolerable
inconsistency that an advocate of the Ballot should
stoop to electoral corruption. Yet so it has proved.
The unseemly haste with which the Liberal candi-
dates came forward to solicit the suffrages of Bris-
tol during the late member's last illness did not en-
courage us to hope great things from them. But
the circumstances which have led t) the Bristol
election petition are not certainly what might have
been looked for in the stronghold of the Ballot.
The competition was so sharp, the rivals so re-
luctant to give way, that for fear the
Conservatives should get the seat, the expedient of
a preliminary test ballot between the rival candidates
was resorted to. Nothing could have been wiser or
more suitable. Here was an opportunity of sub-
mitting to a practical test the theory which had
always been so popular at Bristol, and a means, too,
of eliciting the real opinions of the electors 'without
endangering the seat for the party. So far so
good, but as so often has happened from
the days of ADAM downwards, theoretical
virtue turned out to he very different from prac-
tical self sacrifice. The test ballot it was clear
must go against some one, and the loser must not
stand for the borough. The illustrious ROBINSON
was not to be thus tamely deprived of his la ospective
Parliamentary laurels, St. Stephens must not be
thus defrauded. In the interest of the public his
friends bestirred themselves, but the mode iu winch
they exercised their talents has not unfortulia.ely
succeeded in gaining the approval of the Court of
Common Pleas. •

The noticeable point raised by this inquiry was
whether corrupt practices at the preliinivary a3,it Bal-