The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-01 00:00:00

[CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.]

The Bishop of Peterborough on Sunday preached a
sermon in St. Martin's Church, Leicester, on behalf of
the schools connected with that church. The congregation
numbered over two thousand, and many persons were
unable to obtain admission. In the course of his sermon
the bishop referred to the prophecy of the fall of Babylon,
which was caused through the prevention of knowledge.
Alluding to education, he denied the accusation of un-
believers that knowledge was fatal to religion. There
were some who had desired in education to keep back from
the young God's gift of wisdom and knowledge ; but he
hoped the Church would never fail to be what she
:lad most assuredly been in the past, the most
efficient helper in diffusing that knowledge, and in leading
the way ie giving the people secular instruction. Above
all it was the duty of the Church to see that the wisdom.
and knowledge were not prevented. If we simply strove
to make children sharp, clever, and knowing,: ::most
assiu'edly there would fall upon this nation a very serious
judgment, for breaking oh the yoke of Godliness. lie
trusted that with the increasing intellect and spread of
:-..lowledge about to take place, there might also be an
increase of spiritual wisdom. Otherwise he feared for the
fate of the country.

NAVAL AND. MILITARY INTE.,LIGENCE.
Audaciow, 14, iron-clad, Captain D. Spain, which was
to have left Plymouth on Sunday for her station, Kings-
town, Ireland, with supernumeraries, has been ordered to
remain at Plymouth for a day or two.
It is expected that the Channel Fleet will proo;:c to
sea about the 15th proximo.
We have to announce the death of Captain John Tr-t-
-ter, of Dyrham Park, Huts, formerly in the 2nd L e
Guards, which took place on Saturday afternoon. Cap-
tain Trotter was well known in Evangelical society, for his
remarkable piety and benevolence. He was in leis• 62nd
year, and married in October, .1833, the Hon. Charlotte
Amelia, daughter of Thomas Henry, first Lord Ravens-
worth, and consequently sister of the present
peer and of the Marchioness of Nortnanby, Dowager
Vicountess Barrington, Hon. lady Williamson, the •
Countess of Hardwicke, Hon. Mts. E. E. Villiers, and
Lady Bloomfield.

The Raleigh, 22, a screw frigate, will shortly De com-
menced at Chatham Dockyard. This vessel, which will
be of 3,2lo'tons, with engines of 800-horse power, will be
constructed of iron sheathed with wood. She is to be
built in No. 7 slip, and that slip is now being cleared, so
that blocks may be laid down for the keel of this new
ship. The Raleigh is to be of the Inconstant class, and
in the Navy Estimates the ship was put down to be ad-
vanced equivalent to 646 tons, at an expenditure of
225,840, in the financial year ending ➢larch 31, 1871.
An experimental 16-pounder muzzle-loader field gun
on the Fraser principle is now in course of construc-
tion at Woolwich. It is designed for a competitive
trial with a bronze gun, with which it is to correspond
in weight, length, bore, rifling, weight of projectile,
and charge of powder. The weight is to be 12ewt., the
bore 3'6in., weight of projectile, 161 b., and the charge of
powder, 31b.

FRENCH CAPTURES IN ENGLISH
WATERS.

The Government has, after four days' deliberation,
sent an order to the Custom-house officials at Lowestoft,
to release the North German ship Ketch Henreich,
of Maldorff, captured by the French, and brought
into Lowestoft Roads on Wednesday, and detained
by the local authorities on the ground that she had no
right to come into neutral waters. The conditions of the
release are that the French shall proceed with the vessel
forthwith beyond neutral waters, unless prevented by
stress of weather from doing so.

NEWS FROM INDIA.—A NEW MAIL ROUTE.
The first homeward bound Indian Mail, by the new
route, i.e., vhi Brindisi, Bologna and the Brenner Pass,
Munich, Darmstadt, the Rhine and Belgium, arrived at
the General Post Office at 4.30 p.m. on Sunday, in charge
of Mr. Edmund Yates, who had been specially dis-
patched to Brindisi for the purpose. The in-
auguration of the new route was celebrated by
a grand banquet given at Brindisi on Tuesday last,
over which Signor Gadda, the Italian Minister of
Public Works presided, at which the syndic of the town,
the prefect; and sub-prefects of various neighbouring
localities, the British and Austrian Consuls, M. Dela-
haute, the manager of the Adriatic Company's steamers,
and Mr. Yates were present. The mail, which
started on Wednesday night, made no halt
anywhere, and was conveyed from Ostend to
London by special steamer and special train.
The news from Bombay extends to the Bth inst. Its more
important feasures have already reached us by telegraph_
There is no longer a fear of another famine in Orissa.
Indigo prospects in Bengal are no brighter. From the
North Western provinces letters report" no im-
provement," and brokers are of opinion that
the crop will very probably fall short of
100,000 maunds. It is rumonred at, Pathankote that a.
European " loaf e,r " and a number of native followers,
armed, infest the road down from Dalhousie. It is not
known yet whether they have attacked any Europeans,
but several natives, it is said, have been robbed and mal-
treated by them. The deaths aro announced of Colonel
Greenlaw, acting paymaster, Presidency Circle, Madras ;
of Major Hodgson, of the 22nd Bombay N.I. ; and of
Captain Ardagh, who held the appointment of deputy
commissary of ordnance at Madras.

AMY ROBSART ; a new Historical Romantic
Drama, written by Andrew Halliday ; founded on Sir
Walter Scott's celebrated novel " Kenilworth," with new and
characteristic scenery by William Beverly, at a Quarter to Eight
o'clock THIS EVENING, Nov. I—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-
LANE.

AMY ROBSART; new drama: Characters by
Miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Yokes,
Kemp, J. Mortin, and Rosina Yokes, at a Quarter to Eight
o'clock THIS EVENING, Nov. I—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-
LINE.