The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-28 00:00:00

CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY, -
WHITEHALL, Nov. 24, 1870.
TENDERS, addressed to the Superintendent of
Contracts, Admiralty, Whitehall, S.W., will be received
until Noon on FRIDAY, the Oth•December, 1870, for the Supply
of FRESH BEEF at the following places, for the
Supply
Months, from the Ist January next ensuing, viz.—
ENGLAND.
Berwick jersey
Cowes Liverpool
Dartmouth London Bridge to
Falmouth Woolwich, inclu-
Harwich sive
Hull, Hawke Roads, I Milford Haven, Pem-
and in the Humber broke, and
SCOTLAND.
Greenock I Grantors
IRELAND.
Carrickfergus Killybegs
Castletown (Here- I Kilrush
haven) Kingstown and Dub-
Foynes I lin
Galway
Forms of Tender,* CONTAINING ALL PARTICULARS and
FULL CONDITIONS of CONTRACT (which have been greatly
altered, and to which special attention is called), can be had on
application in writing, or otherwise, to the Superintendent of '
Contracts, Admiralty, Whitehall, S.W.; to the Superintending
Storekeepers of the Victualling Yards at Deptford, Gosport,
and Plymouth ; the Superintendents of her Majesty's Dockyards
at Chatham, Sheerness, and Pembroke ; the Naval and Victual-
ling Storekeeper at Hawbowline ; the Officer conducting the
Packet Service at Liverpool • the Secretary to the Postmaster-
General, Dublin ; to the Collectors of her Majesty's Customs at
Berwick, Cowes, Dartmouth, Falmouth, Harwich, Hull, Jersey,
Newhaven, Weymouth, (Ironton, Greenock, Galway, and Water-
ford ; and to the Postmasters at the other places.
In tilling up Forms of Tender parties must be careful to insert
the names of the places in full, as given ahoy,.
Parties tendering for Oxen or Beef at Portsmouth, Plymouth,
Portland, Sheerness, Dartmouth, Falmouth, and Queenstown
must name two responsible persons to become bound with them
for the due perfonnance of their contracts. Parties tendering
for other places will not' be required to name sureties. Con-
tractors will not be called upon to pay half stamps as hereto-
fore. See instruotions on Forms of Tender.
No Tenders for VegetaFbles are required on thisWSELL, occasion.
RANCIS W. RO
Superintendent of Contracts.

Newhaven
Plymouth (Oxen)
Portsmouth (Oxen).
Portland and in
Portland Roads
Sheerness,&e.(Oxen)

1 Queensferry

Ardrishalg

Queenstown & Kin

sale
Itathmullen
Vlraterforcl

* Forms of Tender are as follows
(1) For Oxen for Fresh Beef, at Portsmouth and Plymouth.
(2) For Oxen for Fresh Beef, at Sheerness.
(3) For Fresh Beef, at all other places.
Applications should state which Form is required. The Forms
ised in June last are obsolete. Noue should be used which
Lave not the words " Revised Form" printed in the left-hand

per corner.

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY,
Enrolled under 6 and 7 William IV., cap. 32, as the Con-
servative Benefit Building Society. Notice is hereby Given that
the Seventy-third Quarterly and the Eighteenth Annual General
Meeting of the Members will be held at the Offices, No. 33,
Norfolk-street, Strand, London, W.C., on Tuesday, the 6th day
of December, 1870, at Two of the clock precisely, Viscount
Ranelagh in the chair, to receive the Report of the Executive
Committee, and the Audited Statement of Accounts, for the
financial year ending 30th September, 1870, and for general pur-
poses. According to Rule 22, the following members of the
Board will retire by rotation, but are eligible fur re-election,
and will present themselves for re-election accordingly :-11on.
Robert Bourke, M.P., N ewnbani Winstanley, Esq., Sir Lawrence
Palk, Bart., M.P., and Colonel Augustus Meyrick.
By order of the Board,
CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary.
Prospectuses of the Share and Deposit Investing Departments
sent free of charge. Present rate of interest, five per cent. per
annum on shares, and four pet cent. on deposits, payable in
half-yearly warrants, with privilege of withdrawal to investors
at fixed periods.
ALEXANDRA ORPHANAGE for INFAN'fS,
Hornsey-rise, near Highgate, N.
Children eligible from any part of the Kingdom.
Under the immediate patronage of
Their Royal HighnesWses the
and the PRINCE and PRINCESS of
the
and
CROWN PRINCESS of PRUSSIA.
A MEETING of Governors was held on THURSDAY, November
17, 1870, at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, for the
ELECTION Of TEN INFANTS, Two of whom to be retained'
until sixteen years of age.
Sheriff of London and Middlesex, in
ROBERT JONES, Esq.,
the Chair.
At the close of the Ballot the following were declared to be
SUCCESSFUL
ELECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL SIXTEEN SEARS
OF AGE.
1. Scarlett, Alice Maud.... 635 12. Bloom, Louisa .
ELECTED 'lO CONTINUE UNTIL NINE YEARS OF AGE.
3. Richards, Henry William 648 7. Stevens, Elizabeth
4. Leigh, Charles Edward.. B. Mather, Selina Agnes 439
S. Eyles, Alfred Henry .... 400 9. Bennett, Louisa Mary
6, Childs, Alice Rebecca .. 458 10. Curtis, Elizabeth Maud 429
A vote of thanks to the Chairman and to the Scrutineers
terminated the proceedings.
JOSEPH SOUL, lion. Secretary.

73, Cheapside.
URGENT APPEAL—The Committee very earnestly appeal
for Contributions in aid of the BUILDING FUND especially, as
well as 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. Tho Orphange is
open to visitors.
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Onp HAN 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.

[flees, 73, Cheapside, E.C.

EUR OP EA N ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament.
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
-17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
Annual Income, E. 300,000.
Capital, subscribed by more than 1,600 Shareholders, nearly
4800,000.
DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—GeneraI Sir FRED ERIC SMITH, F.R.S.
The Rev. A. Alston, D.D. I It. M. Carter, Esq., M.P.
E. Hamilton Anson, .Esq. I Edmund Heeley, Esq.
A. R. Bristow, Esq. j Reginald Read, Esq., M.D.
This Society are now ISSUING COMPLETE LIFE POLICIES.
The peculiar features of these Policies are as follow :-
1. The Payments Cease after Ten or Twenty Years.
2. The Policy is not forfeited by the non-payment of renewal
premium during the ten or twenty years.
3. The Assurer is entitled for each yearly payment he has
made to a paid-up Policy for one-tenth or one-twentieth of the
sum Assured.

Chief Ofilee

HENRY B. PARMINTER, Manager,

MR. BRIGHT.—We are glad to learn that Mr.
Bright's health has materially improved since his return
to Rochdale. The right hon. .gentleman takes several
houre of horse exercise daily, and physically is restDred to
his usual strength. ,He is able also to give some attention
to private and public business, and to carry on the needful
correspondence with his department and his colleagues.—
Daily News

Loss or Fro; LI N, Es.—Ttie collier brig George
and Jane, of Shields, bound south, put into the Humber,
windbound, on Thursday night. Oa Friday morning, at
five o'clock, she was run into by the Edna, f Leith,
bound for Hull. The brig was at anchor, but her usual
lights were not burning at the time. She foundered im-
mediately she was struck. One hand of the watch was
saved, but the other five of the crew, asleep in their
berths, went down with the vessel.
PREPARATION.—Ii was states about a month ago
that not a single Moncrieff carriage for mounting guns
in our fortresseshadbeen.coustructed, though the inventor,
according to au evening contemporary, has been paid
£15,000, and is receiving a handsome salary. As to our exist-
ing mitrailleuses, adds the same journal, they are simply
non-existent. The guns which are to man our unfinished
forts are in the same condition- as our mitraill.
Another journal asserted the other day that there were no
torpedoes manufactured, or in the Government stores ; or
only such as might be required for experimental objects.
These statements, however, we believe to be unfounded.
There are certainly some initrailleuses in` tores and others
being manufactured. As for torpedoes e are glad to be
able to state that the Government arrangements as to the
supply of this defensive engine are so far advanced that
half the entire number required for the defence of our
coast could be laid down at a week's notice.—Broad
Arrow.

THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN.
The following is a full report of the Bishop of Man-
chester's speech at Manchester on Friday. There was a
large attendance of ladies in the Town Hall, where the
address was delivered. His Lordship said the objects con-
templated-by the Woman Suffrage Association were such
as ought to be furthered by every means in their power.
Individually he did not attach very much importance to
lectures, in the ordinary sense of the term, unless the
students attending them were well prepared beforehand
upon the subject treated of : but he did attach the
greatest possible importance to lectures when they took
the shape of catechetical instruction in classes. The
classes in connection with that Association appeared
to have been formed with great discrimination. it had
not escaped his observation, remen.bering that what was
generally charged against ladies—or to use the more plain
and homely word, women—was a deficiency in their men-
tal constitution, being, though admirably gifted with in-
tuition, bad thinkers, that the Association, as if conscious
of that deficiency, had furnished the largest number of
students to the logic class under Professor Jevons. The
advanced thinkers on the subject of female education were
mostly of transatlantic origin. In America, during his visit,
he found existing in society pretty much the same ideas as
were now fermenting and rising to the surface of opinion
in this country. They had, moreover, taken a practical
form. Every high school in America, except those in
Boston and Philadelphia—such schools forming the
highest grade in the American educational system—was a
mixed school, in which boys and girls, between the ages
of 15 and 18, received their education in mixed classes,
and equally through all subjects ; and he was struck
with the fact that in almost all cases the ladies bore
off the palm. In, he believed, Cincinnati, he found
in a certain school only three Greek and the same
number of Latin students, all girls, who were studying
the odes of Anarcreon and Horace. The result in
America did not absolutely satisfy him ; and, much as he
saw to admire in the many high public qualities that
ornamented and illustrated the American women, on the
whale he was inclined to say that if he were looking for
a wife he should not cross the Atlantic for that purpose.
His views upon the subject of the education of girls
carne for the most part from De Tocqueville. That
writer, whilst bestowing high praise upon the education
of women in America, adopted this maxim, namely,
that manners—using the word in the sense of that
proverb by William of Wykeham, " Manners maketh
man,"—not the mere surface-polish of society, but that
which went down to the very roots of the character—our
manners were made fer us by our mothers and sisters ;
therefore it was of unspeakable importance that the edu-
cation which the women of England received should be
one qualifying them for the fulfilment of the great func-
tions that the Creator meant them to fulfil in life.
His notions upon that point might be old-fashioned;
but he drew them from an old-fashioned source.
Paul desired that women should be " keepers,"
or, more strictly, workers "at home." Home
seemed to be woman's proper place. De Tocque -
vale pointed out that the American system was not with-
out danger. " Having," he said, " reached the point at
which we stand, it is not allowed us to make a choice.
We must have a democratic education to furnish a
guarantee to women from those perils with which the
institutions and the manners of a democracy surround
her." He had been called a radical bishop, but he said
honestly that his radicalism, whatever its colour might be,
had a strong Conservative element in it, as the meeting
would see by these remarks. Whilst he welcomed every-
thing that would make the education of women sounder,
more deeply cultured, ranging more over the whole of
her faculties than he was convinced the education
offered to them hitherto had done, he wished to keep dis-
tinct the proper functions of the woman and the man
in the constitution of modern society, and he could
not welcome any attempts by which women sought to
intrude upon functions that did not belong to them.
When he saw ladies thrusting themselves in all directions
into the domains of politics and medicine, he was re-
minded of the Athenian council iu one of the plays of
Aristophanes, where the ladies. presuming to take in hand
affairs of state, found that they made a mess of them, and
concluded that their duty was to attend to their own
busineis at home. What was wanted was a strengthening
of the female character on it true divine
foundations. For instance, he, the other day, was in cor-
respondence with a lady who wrote him a very admirable
letter on the opening of schools of medicine to women.
There were certain departments of medical practice which
might with great advantage be committed to women ; but
if any persons thought that a school of anatomy, attended
by mixed classes of male and female students of from 18
to 25 years of age, was an edifying spectacle in the midst
of our modern civilisation, their notions and his were
widely different. What we wanted was a thing which no
other agency but that of woman could give us—namely, a
re-settlement of the whole structure of modern society
upon sounder foundations. Modern society was not to
be built upon gold. We wanted to be taught that
though gold was a great element in the nation's wealth it
was not the only element, nor yet the chief element, and
that the nation's wealth lay in the strength of the national
character. If woman made manners, it was woman's
function to redeem our young men from a life of fast
dissipation in which they were frittering away money,.
time, energies, and public spirit ; and we not
want our women to imitate those young men
and encourage them. A frivolous woman was bad
enough, Heaven knew ; but if there was one thing to
his mind which was odious, it was a so-called " fast
woman." Fast women made fast men ; and it was
these who were bringing down society in England to the
ground. We wanted more public spirit in England, more
real devotion to great public interests ; and when one
knew how woman, far more than man, could devote her-
self with impulsive generosity to any great object, where,
one was led to ask, were her proper functions and offices ?
It was where God had meant her to set an example to
man ; and anything that would deepen the foundations of
woman's character, and make her the source of all true
culture and refinement, he, as a Christian bishop, could
most crrdially bid god-speed to. If that association con-
tributed in any way to the accomplishment of that end,
he wished it continued prosperity.
The -Manchester Examiner comments on the speech as
follows :—Our good Bishop has committed an indiscre-
tion ; we won't say whether for the first time, but we
hope it may be for the last. The higher education of women
is a subject in which he might be supposed to be pecu-
liarly" at home," but this is just where he has been caught
tripping. Not content to take the simple work before
him,_ Bishop Fraser has been poring over the views of
" the most advanced class of thinkers," and he is
troubled in his mind. He has seen the most
extreme views advocated and as he confesses to
entertaining some old-fashioned notions, he wishes to pro-
test in time. His visit to America five years ago seems
to have unsettled him. He cannot help admiring the
mental culture exhibited by American women, but- he is
of opinion that they are less domesticated than their Eng-
lish sisters, and he is prepared to sacrifice almost every-
thing on the altar of domesticity. We will not attempt
a serious refutation of the bishop's opinions. Any com-
parison between the women of the two English-speaking
races to be fair would have to take into account a multi-
plicity of causes at work in society which could not
even be enumerated within the limits of an ordinary
newspaper article. But on the broad question whether
our women should or should not receive a higher educa-
tion than has hitherto been open to them, there can
hardly be any divergence of opinion amongst intelligent
minds. Even the Bishop casts in his vote for their better
education, and, strictly speaking, that was the sole question
before the meeting. The decaying public spirit of certain
classes in the nation is undoubtedly a lamentable fact, but
it is a questionable axiom that " fast women make fast
men," unless the converse be previously admitted. At
any rate, if more care were bestowed upon the intellectual
as well as the moral training of women, the chatter and
frivolity which so perplex the bishop would be far more
likely to disappear. It would also tend to strengthen the
link of companionship between the sexes,. so that from
these and other advantages the bishop might extract some
consolation if, as we may reasonably venture to doubt,
he should have to make any sacrifice on the score of
domesticity.

The police can vote for the School Board.
The Queen will hold a Council at Windsor Castle
on Tuesday next.
Mrs. Herbert (formerly Miss Lizzie Boynton, the
well-known lecturer), is going to enter the office of her
husband as a law student. —A/bany Law Journal.
DEATH OF MR. GRAY, TILE REPORTER. The
death is announced of Mr. Andrew Gray, a well-known
London reporter. ecesed h been conected with the
press for a great number of years. Hen died from con-
sumption.
THE COUNTY COURTS.—We understand that the
vacant County Court Judgeship, Essex (vacated by the
death of Mr. Gordon), has been given to Mr. Charles Ed-
ward Coleridge, of the South ales Circuit.—Solicitors'
Journal.
• The Queen has been graciously pleased to give
orders for the appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles
Osborne Creag,h- Osborne, of the Ist Battalion 6th Regi-
ment, to be an ordinary member of the military division
of the third class, or Companions of the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath.
On Friday was solemnised at the parish church
of Crawley, Sussex, the marriage of Mr. Home Seton
Gordon, only son o Sir Home Gordon, Bart., and Miss
Montagu Scott, only child of Mr. Montagu David Scott,
of Hove, Sussex, and grand-daughter of the late Sir David
Scott, Bart., of Dmminald. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. John Compton, M.A.
NAVAL CHAPLAINS AND TNSTRUCTORS.—It ap-
pears that a want is being felt in the Royal Navy which
it is hardly possible to suppose that the body of clergy
cannot supply. This want is that of a few clergymen to
take the post of chaplain who are qualified and willing to
be also naval instructors. The remuneration for this two-
fold office begins at 18s. a day, exclusive of £5 per
annum which is paid -by each young . gentleman in the
ship who is under instruction, and it increases until the
retiring pension of £450 is attained. It is the difficulty of
finding accommodation on board ship for two officers that
renders it desirable that the same officer should be both
chaplain and naval instructor.

Nothing, says the Saturday Relied ', could be more .
natural or necessary than the stipulation that the solitary •
achievement of the war should not he rendered h brren or
useless when Russia was compelled to sue for peace. The • .
English sentimentalists who, in 1870 as in 1851, are doing
their utmost to encourage a presumptuous adversary,
condemn as an anomaly the prohibition imposed on any
State of defending its own coasts and harbours.' A
Russian Black Sea fleet has - never been designed for
defence. The Crimea would have long remained exempt
from the presence of foreign armies if Sebastopol had only •
been constructed for the security of Odessa. As a
general rule, it is more for the interest of a victor
to require concessions in money. or territory than
in promises, which, as experience Flews; may.
be shamelessly broken. At the present. moment Russia
takes credit for not reclaiming a strip of. land which was ••.. ,
transferred by the treaty. to Turkey for the purpose of ~
separating the Russian province of Bessarabia from the
mouths of the Danube.
.The reason of her moderation is
sufficiently clear, for the recovering of the lost territory
would require an invasion, while a promise may be broken
or revoked by mere words in a diplomatic Note. It would
have been desirable, if it had been possible, to obtain
equally good security against the re establishment of a
standing menace to Turkey ; but the only mode of pro- ..
viding against the creation of a fleet and arsenal was to • • . ,
obtain a pledge that they should not be creates, . • •
and for those of the allies who were most in earnest • ,
• , ,
to agree among themselves that a breach of the engage- ar
meat should be not only a dishonourable act, but a case of • t
, .
war. When negotiations for peace commence in France; ' t •
Count Bismarck will not fail to enforce his demand for . ~,,•'-)
the surrender of territory by referring to the Russian . .
precedent of contempt for the obligation of treaties. If . . it
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it were proposed that Metz should remain dismantled, it , .' ~•,•7;, P
would be objected- that Sebastopol also was to cease to be ;. ,'V /,'
a fortress, and that nevertheless a disagreeable restriction ~ \\;!!..: ...
was shaken off as soon as the immediate pressure of supe- ''‘ci' n 1 .I‘..',
rior force had been relaxed. When a public or private !. .., , •
debtor repudiates his liabilities, he compromises not only i
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his own character, but the credit of all who wish to borrow :‘,. .442;:: 1
on similar security. . , .7•:.,
The Spectator says " the truth seems to be that thought. V*Vi, I'4,
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ful Englishmen who have studied modern history are ,:;,'t ~ i
getting utterly puzzled by what seem to them the inces- .. , , .
sant breaches of European Treaties, and half inclined to '44;:* '''• :•;
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suspect that Treaties are of no use at all except to cause -,,. a ,y; oit
trouble is Great Britain. They see clearly that Treaties ,,Y.')•,' -Pii: ':
cannot ce perpetual, they see that certain treaties are very .,".. 1 ',ir
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easily set aside, and they are trying hard to find some new ~- . , , ,
law which shall be obeyed, and nevertheless shall not re. ••• ,111' ' • ,
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quire perpetual re-enforcine.. The Treaty of 1856 is not
dead, but alive. Five out ofa seven signitaries wish it to
continue, the Powers by whom it was drawn resent its
refraction, the Power for whose benefit it was made
appeals for aid against its infraction. If such an agree-
ment can be set aside, what is the value of any agree-
ment among the nations ? And yet, except in the rise of
some overshadowing Power strong enough to make its
will take the place of contracts, where is there any sub-
stitute for agreements to be found ? The nations cannot
go without them, for that would be going without
an international law, and they cannot substitute for
Tr aties a code, for that would require a tribunal to en-
force it, and no such tribunal can be framed. Unless war
is to be perpetual, Germany and France, after this war
must come to some understanding, and how are they to
come to one if that understanding may be nulifled with
out war at the discretion of either side ? The argument
always comes round to the same point,—that agreements
between nations are indespensible ; that some nations, if
strongly tempted and sure of impunity, will break them;
and that it is therefore essential to the welfare of Europe
that such violent breaches of faith should be punished.
As to the fact of a breach of faith, each power, in the i
absence of a tribunal, must judge for itself ; but it is % -
difficult in this instance for an impartial man to deny that
it has occurred. Russia agreed, and admits she agreed, to
neutralize the Black Sea. She now declares that the
agreement is null and void. If that is not a breach of
faith, whenever was one committed in the history of the
world?

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POLITICS AND THE MONEY MARKET.
The Economist observes that the money market is so
affected by two causes of suspense that almost nothing is
done which can be helped. The war between France and
Germany suspends the trade of the Continent even more
than ours, and sends money here for safe custody, since in
France no one can be sure of safety. But the Russian diffi-
culty suspends our trade as much as the war, for it is
thought that if thare be a new war we shall be ha.'
gerents in it, and it has no tendency to send money here.
The war between France and Germany brought us some
good through the midst of more evil : a possible quarrel
between ourselves and Russia does us as a commercial
nation no good in any way, and the mere idea of it does
us great harm. And we fear that these causes of
uncertainty which now absorb the money market will
more or less continue to act on it for a long time.
Russia is not likely at once to recede from the
position she rashly assumed. As yet, indeed, she
has committed no act which any other Power could
rightly or wisely treat as a cases belle ; she has not broken
any article of the Treaty of 1856 • she has only said that
she thinks she ought not now to be bound by certain parts
of it, and that perhaps she will or may break those parts.
But till she has broken them we may wait if we choose ;
and it would be right in ns to wait. Nothing
could be more absurd either for Russia or for England
than to go to war on a misconception. We are
quite ready to consider whether the Treaty of 1856
ought not to be modified, and Russia only asks that it
should oe modified. Some pacific solution must be pos-
sible when there is no irreconcileable gulf between the
antagonists. But we fear that the discovery of this solu-
tion will take time. Diplomacy is never quick ; and a
question like this, which does not of itself come to an
issue, may be the subject of a correspondence lingering
over months. Even the pleadings of a Chancery suit are
not more tiresome than such despatches, and it is not much
more easy to predict the end of one than of the other.

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LAW AND POLICE.
THE CHARGE AGAINST REFORMATORIES. Robert
Graham, a decently dressed lad, was charged on remand,
at the Westminster Police-court, with stealing a £5 note
from his master, Mr. Jones, a linen-draper, of Warwick-
street, Pimlico, and he had been remanded to enable an
uncle to take charge of him, but the most interesting
part of the case was that the mother had stated that her
husband, a warder in Milbank prison, found among his
convicts at that establishment a large proportion of men
who had been in reformatories when boys, going so far as
to say that 6 out of 7 was about the average ; the step-
father, Stokes, attended and denied having made such an
assertion, his wife must have mistaken the impression ho
meant to convey. In consequence of that assertion the
Rev. Sidney Turner, director of reformatories, has been
in communication with Mr. Arnold, the magistrate,
and assured him that so far from being places of
corruption they were decidedly of correction,
and although they could not pretend to eradicate ~the
seeds of vice from all placed in their charge, he had great
pleasure in stating that not more than 8 per cent. of the
reformatory boys turned out bad, nor more than 6 per
cent. of the girls. The statement of the mother was a "
simple invention, no doubt caused by the f ear of having
to pay a sum of money per week for the maintenance of
the boy. Mr. Arnold said a gentleman had attended
from the rev. gentleman, and would take the boy to be
trained to a seafaring life, and as he was acting kindly in
not punishing the lad, and the very clothes he wore were
purchased with the stolen money, he trusted the father
would, to satisfy his own conscience, refnnd the
money. The father demurred to this, and Mr. Arnold
said he could not compel him. He left it to his good
sense of propriety and conscience. The bay, who had
been apprehended at Liverpool by Sergeant Randall, of
the B division, was then given up to the reformatory
authorities.
RUNNING INTO THE LION'S MOUTH.—Michael Lynch.'
aged 40, and Patrick Connor, 54, Irish labourers, were
brought up on remand, before Mr. Paget, at the Thames
Police-court, charged with the unlawful possession of
27 lbs. of raw cocoa-nibs and 20 lbs. of iron nails, the
property of some person unknown. The prisoners
rushed into the lion's den. They were coming along
Leman-street and encountered!two police-constables, who
were standing at the door of the Leman-street police-station,
who saw indicationsof uneasiness on both, which convinced
them that they had been guilty of some dishonest act,
and asked them what the bags contained they were
carrying so assiduously. The prisoners replied only a
few little tit-bits of things, and tried to move on in,
double quick time, but they were soon overtaken and
stopped by the policemen, who, after a long and severe
struggle with them, succeeded in
In forcing them into the
station and opening the two bags. one they di
27 lbs. of cocoa nibs, in the other 20 lbs. of iron nails.
The prisoners said they picked them out of the dust bin
at the Hibernia Wharf, Southwark, where they were
employed. The police-constables searched the bin spoken
of by the 'prisoners. There were no cocoa nibs or iron
nails in it. The prisoners insisted they took the pro-
perty found upon them out of the dust bin as rubbish.
Mr. Paget said the cocoa nibs were perfectly clean,
and had not been among the dust, and if
they had been the prisoners had no right
to meddle with them or to remove nibs or nails. He had
no doubt the property was stolen from the wharf where
the prisoners were employed, and that they had com-
mitted a most impudent robbery. Property in transit
must be protected. He sentenced them each to two
months' imprisonment, with hard labour.

A Garibaldian recruiting office was discovered in
Prague, and closed, on Wednesday. It is a branch of a,
;central office in Vienna, which is supported by the Trench
embassy in that plaer„,