The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-13 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE EARL HOWE.

The Right Hon. Richard William Penn Curzon
Howe, Earl Howe, Viscount and Baron Curzon, of
Penn, county Bucks, and Baron Howe of Langar,
county Notts, in the peerage of the United Kingdom,
died last night shortly before half-past 12 o'clock, at
Curzon House, South Audley-street.

Her Majesty the Queen will hold a Council at
Windsor Castle on Wednesday, the 18th inst.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise, attended
by Lady Churchill, visited the seventeenth annual Exhibi-
tion of Pictures by French and Flemish artists, at the Gal-
lery, 120, Pall-mall, yesterday afternoon.
A meeting was held yesterday at Stafford House,
at which an encouraging account was given of the position
and prospects of the Gentlewomen's Self-Help Institute.
At the invitation of the Duchess of Sutherland, about
150 ladies and 20 or 30 gentlemen attended.
We have to announce the death of Lady Kirkland,
wife of Sir John Kirkland, which took place on Wednesday
last.

By the death of Viscountess Danebury the Anjou
branch of the Plantagenets has become extinct.
The Commissioners on Primary Education in Ire-
land have just presented their report, in which it is stated
that they recommend the maintenance of the National sys-
tem, with the important and very curious exception, that in
arishes where the population is all Roman Catholic, or
where it is all Protestant, the denominational system shall
be introduced.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, ac-
companied by Lord William Poulett and Sir Hope Grant,
and attended by Colonel the Hon. H. H. Clifford, aide-de-
camr, visited Aldershot yesterday, and made his usual an-
nual inspection of the troops at Aldershot Camp.
ROBBERY OF A SILVER WATCH.—Abraham Sispett, a sea-
man, was brought before Mr Lushington, at the Thames
Police Court, charged with stealing a silver watch, the pro-
perty of Mr John Loder. Mt. Lushington committed the
prisoner for trial.
A CAB PROPRIETOR FINED FOIL CRUELTY.—John West,
cab proprietor, of Belgrave Cottages, Eaton-square, was this
day brought before the Magistrate at Malborough-street for
cruelty to a horse, and fined 20s and costs.
It is expected that the bodies of Mr. Herbert and
Mr. Vyner will arrive at Southampton to-day. A special
meeting of the Town Council has been held to arrange for
the reception of the bodies. The corporation will be at the
docks with their maces craped, minute guns will be fired,
and muffled peals ru g.
At the Rolls Chambers yesterday, in the winding-
up matter of Barned's Bank, Mr. Lording, for the official
liquidator, applied to Mr. Church, the chief clerk
to sanction several compromises with shareholders
on the "B" list who had parted with their
shares. These parties were lable because the share-
holders on the "A " list were not able to pay the call
of £0 on each share The Master of the Rolls had allowed
a composition of .£l5 a share to be paid by the "B " list.
The chief clerk gave directions in reference to the applica-
tions made on the present occasion.

Last night Lord Shaftesbury presided over the
annual meeting of the Working Men's Lord's Day's Rest
Association at Exeter Hall.

THE SUSPECTED MURDER NEAR COLCHESTER.-
The inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of
the boy John Harding, whose body was discovered in a
sand-pit near Colchester on the 25th ult., was concluded
yesterday, when the jury returned a verdict of wilful
murder against some persons unknown.
Yesterday 440 emigrants left the Victoria Docks
for Canada, under the auspices of the British and Colonial
Emigration society.

An interesting report of the London Missionary
Society was presented at its annual meeting yesterday.
Suicipz.---Yesterday a woman jumped off the
parapet of Waterloo-bridge, but she missed the water and
fell on the embankment with great force. She was quite
dead when picked up,. The body was taken to the
Strand dead-house to await an inquest. It has not yet
been identified.

Thornton, the tailor who confessed to having mur-
dered a Bradford plasterer, has been sent to a lunatic
asylum.

THB PRINCE OF WALES AND THE FREEMASONS.--
It is expected that the Prince of Wales will attend a
grand provincial meeting of the Freemasons of Hunting-
donshire and Northaraptanshire, to be held on the 19th,
inst., under the presidency of the Duke of Manchester,
The Nawab Nizam of Bengal has signified her
intention of being present at the annual dinner of
the Newspaper Press Fund, which will take place to-
morrow evening at Willis's Rooms, under the presidency
of Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P.
The Newcastle and Gateshead Chamber of Com-
merce has addressed a men axial to the Board of Trade,
praying that coasting and other vessels may participate
lin the proposed rieduotion of light dues.
The election of coroner for the Newbury district
of Berkshire yesterday resulted in the return of Mr.
Cockburn Penninger, wha defeated Mr. Cowper, son-in-
law of the late coroner. Both candidates were solicitors.
Life Eppuls to enjoy no better security in Southern
Italy than in Greece, The other night a band of eighty
persbna robled and assassinated the municipal treasurer
kn the village of Silano, notwithstanding the resistance of
the carabineers and inhabitants.
ALLEGED LIBEL ON SPECIAL jvitoßs-.—There were filed
at the Common Law Court held at Castletown, Isle of
Man, no less than six declarations for libel against the
proprietors of Or Manx. Sun newspaper. The plaintiffs
are the six spacial jurors before whom the recent libel
suit against the bishop of the diocese was tried, and by
who he was condemned in £4OO damages. In the next
week's iEisue of the Sun the alleged libel was published in
the form of a letter addressed to the editor,
and signed " Honest Indignation." This writer styled the
jurors dormant beings who had astonished the island and
shocked justice, and an editorial article next day observed
that " the Eibsjups, although decent men enough, were
but little; 4 a4l, raised by. intelligence or education
al oye the aveTa.ge Vtlll of agricultural labourers," For
thi4 and other damages to reputation, the plaintiffs claim
£SOO

MR. MILL AND THE CONDITION OF WOMEN.—
Mr. John Stuart Mill has written a letter of thanks to
a French authoress, Male, Daubie, who sent him a work
of hers on the motAl condition of women in the nine-
teenth century. Mr. Mill apologises for the delay in his
reply saying. that 'Wile, Daubid's book was not one
to b 4 hurried over, and his time had been much occupied.
He coP2o.l4nts her on the labour and talent exhibited
in her work, which nevertheless is painful to read. He
wishes it could be read through and through by all men
and women of the so-called enlightened classes. It
would make thenA ashamed of their inaction
in presence of shed monstrous evils. Unhappily France
has not on, this point the discreditable. pre-eminence which
tha authoress supposes. Enaland is far from deserving
! her praises. The English who advocate the cause of
women often ing.tntein that their position is better in
France. I_InhaPPIAY 1304) aTct mistaken. In conclusion.,,
Mr. expresses hia conviction that the recenttill 4l,ctli,
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