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

TIIE EDUCATION BILL.

It would seem that Mr. Gladstone appre-
hends that the course of the Education Bill will
not run smoothly to-night. At all events, the Adver-
tiser tells us that every supporter not in London has
been summoned in anticipation of an apprehended
union of forces by the Opposition and the
advanced Radicals sitting below the gangway. A
number of somewhat troublesome supporters of
the Gladstone Administration, after the education
debate was concluded on Thursday night, held a con-
ference in the tea-room of the House of Commons,
and were tolerably unanimous, although they then
came to no formal' resolution, that the Prime
Minister's amended proposals respecting religious
teaching were not such as they could accept. " Every-
thing now depends on the leader of the Opposition."
Not quite. The leader of the Opposition may be glad
of a raid upon the Government with the help of the
Radicals, but the Conservative party generally have
had enough of such enterprises. The difference
between the Conservatives and. the Secularists is
greater t;lan the difference between the Secularists
and the Government, and no unholy alliance is now
likely.
London, England, 1870-06-20

DEAN STANLEY ON DICKENS.

The Telegraph declares that Dean Stanley caught the
true drift of the public feeling, when, to an audience re-
prasenting all classes of Englishmen, and in what may be
called the imperial Church of England, he poured forth a
heartfelt and eloquent tribute to the memory of the great
writer who has enriched his countrymen with imperishable
types of what is beautiful and good, tender and
loving, humorous and grotesque, monstrous and
revolting, in humanity. At the risk of spoiling
the artistic harmony of his stories, Dickens called upon
the rich to help the poor, the strong to help the weak;
and for spreading that most Chrittian lesson lesson by the
fire of his genius he will be held in undying remem-
brance by the great stricken throng of humanity who were
his lowly clients Speaking in presence of the newly-
closed grave,Dean Stanley said that it might
seem to contain the remains, not only of the
great novelist himself, but of the beautiful natures to
whom his genius gave unpying form. Those natures
live, and will be his best monument. That he himself
well knew the fact, was attested by the profoundly inter-
esting extract which the Dean read from the deceased
writer's will. His writings are one long protest against
bigotry and sectarian narrowness, one long appeal to what
is purest and most loving in human nature, one affirma-
tion of belief in a Christianity which is deeper than the
wrangling tenets of the sects. "In that simple faith."
said Dean Stanley, " Charles Dickens lived and died."
London, England, 1870-06-20

London—W. WWEEDIX. 337. Strand.

Nearly Ready. Fifteenth Year of Publication. Price 6d., post, 7d
GYMNASTICS FOR FAMILIES AND
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paniment of music, fit alike for the drawing-room and the public
hall ; with "Dumb-Bell Instructor," and the " Pangymnastikon"
—a valuable work on Physical Education. With Three Hundred
Illustrations, price Is. 6d., cloth boards. Post free for stamps.
London—W. TWEEDIE. 337. Strand.

GEOLOGY MADE EASY. A Sheet shewing
the various strata upon which London is built, commonly
known as the London Basin. 'Sheaving also the localities where the
various strata come to the surface. The Diagram represents the
various Epochs, Systems, and Characters of Rocks, from the
Plutonic, through the whole Series, to the latest Alluvium, coloured
so as to represent real specimens, with the organic remains to be
found in each, and the localities in Great Britain where they
severally occupy the surface. Being the most concise and instructive
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London—W. TwEr.nrE. Sn. strrina
London, England, 1870-06-20

THE EDUCATION BILL.

It would seem that Mr. Gladstone appre-
hends that the course' of the Education Bill will
not run smoothly to-night. At all events, the Adver-
tiser tells us that every supporter not in London has
been summoned in anticipation of an apprehended
union of forces by the Opposition
,and the
advanced Radicals sitting below the gangway. A
number of somewhat troublesome supporters of
the Gladstone Administration, after the education
debate was concluded on Thursday night, held a con-
ference in the tea-room of the House of Commons,
and were tolerably unanimous, although they then
came to no formal resolution, that the Prime
Minister's amended proposals respecting religious
teaching were not such as they could accept. " Every-
thing now depends on the leader of the Opposition."
Not quite. The leader of the Opposition may be glad
of a raid upon the Government with the help of the
Radicals, but the Conservative party generally have
had enough of such enterprises. The difference
between the Conservatives and the Secularists is
greater Clan the difference between the Secularists
and the Government, and no unholy alliance is now
likely.
London, England, 1870-06-20

Now ready, in 2 vols., post Bvo., with Illustrations, 245.

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"Of the present work of Mrs. Balfour, after careful and intensely
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her previous works, we are perfectly free to say that we regard it as
her masterpiece."—Weekly Record.
Cheap Edition, paper boards, price Is. 6d. Post free Is. Bd. In
handsome cloth, lettered, Library Edition, crown Bvo., price as. 6d.
London, England, 1870-06-20

LEGISLATORS AT PLAY.

The House of Commons not very unfrequently
complains of the hard work imposed upon its mem-
bers by the exigencies of modern legislation, and to
relieve the tedious hours gentlemen of a facetious
turn now and then get up a game of hide and seek.
It is astonishing with what gusto hon. members enter
into the affair. The public can only hope that the
change from the dry discussions on political science
to the frolic of school-boy enjoyment is necessary for
the preservation of their overworked brains. Having
got rid of the question of unemployed labour the
House on Friday proceeded to take advantage of the
order to go into committee on the Clerical Disabilities
Bill to amuse itself. Mr. Cross objected to consider
the bill at ten minutes past one o'clock, and moved
the adjournment of the debate, but some of the
members were disinclined to this course, and the
motion was rejected. Submissiveness to majorities
is not a distinguishing characteristic of a
House elected under a minority clause Re-
form Bill, and division on division took place
till the number amounted to eleven. Even the appeal
ad misericordiam of Mr. Pell, who had sat for thirteen
consecutive hours, except when he was at dinner,
had no other effect than to cause a laugh. At a
quarter to four o'clock, however, the fun was ex-
hausted, and the boys of St. Stephen's relieved the
reporters and went home to bed, having enjoyed this
pleasantry for two hours and a half.
London, England, 1870-06-20

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

The report of the Standard Commission on the inspec-
tion of weights and measures states that the duties of
inspection are of the character of police duties, being exer-
cised for the detection and punishment of offences against
the laws. In fact, 85 per cent. of all the inspectors of
weights and measures are police officers, and it
is stated that while on the one hand, in many
large and populous districts where they were not
remunerated for their duties of inspection, either by
salary or from a portion of the fines, no conviction what-
ever occurred from year to year ; while, on the other
hand, in districts where the informer gets half of the
penalties there were a great number of convictions, a large
proportion of which were for small deviations in a single
weight or measure out of the whole set, and when there
was obviously no intention to defraud. The reportrecom-
mends the appointment of a regular staff of paid inspec-
tors, the expense to be borne by the local rates, and that
in all cases of conviction with a fraudulent intentf
or arising frOm the culpable negligence. the magistrates
are to publish the name, place of abode, business, offence,
and sentence of each person so convicted in one or more
of the local newspapers. The report further recommends
that all bags or parcels of any articles of food shall have
their weight legibly affixed to them, and that the inspec-
tor shall have the power to weigh any three he chooses,
and if in the average the three are short, he is to seize and
condemn them, and inform against the offender. All
fines are to go to the local rates.
London, England, 1870-06-20

LYCEUM THEATRE (under the management
of Messrs. Mansell).
THIS EVENING, at 7.30, HIS OWN RIVAL Mr. F.
Jharles and Miss L. Morgan.
At 8, BREAKING THE SPELL.
After which, at 8.30, LITTLE FAUST: Mr. T. Maclagan, M.
Marius, Mr. Aynsley Cook, Mr. Odell, and Mr. Wilmot; Mdlle.
Debreux, Mesdames Lennox G. cy, Lawson, Leo, and Emily
Soldene.
London, England, 1870-06-20

PAUPER CHILDREN.

Mr. Tufnell, the inspector of schools, in his report for
the year 1869 on the education of pauper children, which
has just been printed, speaks in high terms of the
depauperising influences of the large London schools. It
is a very rare circumstance, he remarks, for any child
brought up in these large pauper schools to fail to main-
tain an independent livelihood when launched into the
world. The education therein imparted not only seems
to stop hereditary pauperism, which was once the great
blot on poor-law administration, but to have a sort of
retroactive effect in inducing such a dislike to dependence on
the rates in those children trained in these establishments,
that they not only become depauperised themselves, but
seek and often succeed in depauperising their relations.
London, England, 1870-06-20

BANKING COMPANIES.

Pai
Agra Bank (L) A 11 11 10;Imperial Ottoman 4t spm
Alliance (Limited) .. 141 15k 20 Lon.Cnar. of Austrlia 231 241
,Anglo-Austrian .. 15 17 pm 20 London and County 50 51
Anglo-Egyptn (Lim) 241 25 15 London Joint-Stock 34-i 35/
British North-Amrcu 54 56 , 20 Ludu & Wstminstr 63 64
Ch.of India,Australia 17 18 ' 10 Metropolitan 9 91
Char. Merc. of India 30 31 20 Midland (Limited) 1 dis, par
City
" 111 121 20 New South Wales .. 39 40
Orntal Bank • -

Colonial
COnsolldated (Limtd) I 1 pm
Eng., Scot. & Aust. 0 17118}
Imperial (DI nited) l9 19i

2510rntal Bank Corprtii. 42 43
25 Union of Australia.. 45i 46i
15 Union of London .. 39 40i
London, England, 1870-06-20

EDUCATION IN GREECE.

An interesting sketch of the state of education in
Greece has been sent to the British and Foreign School
Society by Professor Constantinides, who was a student
at the Borough-road College thirty years ago. The pro-
fessor says :—" Popular education appears to one who
examines the matter rather superficially very satisfactory;
for schools of, both sexes are annually added, and new
teachers succeed those who for one or other cause with-
draw, and the children frequenting the schools
comparatively exceed those of many nations in
Europe and America. But to those who have seriously
and deeply examined the subject of elementary education
it is far from being such. I may then exclaim with the
Minister of Religion and Education, who, in his report to
her Majesty at the end of 1868, honestly said, ' Popular
education appears flourishing and ostentatious in number,
but very deficient in the expected fruitfulness.' The
causes of this are many, but the principal
are the want of a normal school with a model
one attached to it, proper inspection and direction
by persons possessing the necessary qualifications, and the
power and means to organize the schools on abetter footing
and appoint the best of the teachers to the most important
situations. Another obstacle is the pecuniary difficulties
of the country ; but the greatest of all is the short dura-
tion of the Ministry. A Minister of Education is appointed'
(generally for the first time in his life). He knows conse
quently almost nothing of the branch he is
called upon to direct, But, notwithstanding all these
obstacles, I do not at all despair in the cause of
education, for the Greek people thirst for education ; the
love of knowledge is inherent in them ; they know how to
appreciate the benefit of a good education. Men therefore
even of the lowest condition, day labourers, have contrived
to give their sons and daughters a liberal education. And
if ancient Greece could boast of a Cleanthes who laboured
in the evening in drawing water from a well in order to
obtain the means of frequenting the school in the day-
time, modern Greece can shei,v hundreds—l, at least,
can point out many pour youths, who, after submitting
themselves to all privations, have, by perseverance and
diligence, succeeded in obtaining an honourable position
in life. We have in different parts of Greece physicians,
lawyers, professors, &c., whose parents have been hus-
bandman, artizans, or even day labourers. Wherever
there is a Greek community, their first care is to erect a
church and to establish schools for both sexes. Even
at Manchester a, boys' and girls' school has been esta-
blished (the teachers are a father and his daughter) for the
Greeks."

The prizes at the Liverpool College are to bo deli-
vered on the 23rd instant by the Earl of Derby, and so
great has been the demand for tickets that the secretary
has had to refuse upwards of 700 applications. The hall
will seat nearly 2,200 persons. A tkicarter is to follow, in
honour of the late senior wrangler, Mr. Pendlebury, at
which the Earl of Derby is to preside.
London, England, 1870-06-20

LEGISLATORS AT PLAY.

The House of Commons not very unfrequently
complains of the hard work imposed upon its mem-
bers by the exigencies of modern legislation, and to
relieve the tedious hours gentlemen of a facetious
turn now and then get up a game of hide and seek.
It is astonishing with what gusto hon. members enter
into the affair. The public can only hope that the
change from the dry discussions on political science
to the frolic of school-boy enjoyment is necessary for
the preservation of their overworked brains. Having
got rid of the question of unemployed labour the
House on Friday proceeded to take advantage of the
order to go into committee on the Clerical Disabilities
Bill to amuse itself. Mr. Cross objected to consider
the bill at ten minutes past one o'clock, and moved
the adjournment of the debate, but some of the
members were disinclined to this course, and the
motion was rejected. Submissiveness to majorities
is not a distinguishing characteristic of a
House elected under a minority clause Re-
form Bill, and division on division took place
till the number amounted to eleven. Even the appeal
ad nzisericordiam of Mr. Pell, who had sat for thirteen
consecutive hours, except when he was at dinner,
had no other effect than to cause a laugh. At a
quarter to four o'clock, however, the fun was ex-
hausted, and the boys of St. Stephen's relieved the
reporters and went home to bed, having enjoyed this
pleasantry for two hours and a half.
London, England, 1870-06-20

ARRIVAL OF THE EXPRESS.

The Express, which left Lagos for Liverpool on Feb-
ruaryl2, and on which twenty guineas had been paid, has
arrived, all well, in the Mersey.

AN ABANDONED VESSEL.

The schooner Sappho, Marrish master, arrived at
Penzance on Friday from Montevideo. She fell in with
an abandoned barque, of 1,000 tons burthen, in latitude
43 deg. 30 min. North, longitude 24 deg. 40 min. West.
Her fore and mizen masts were standing; the shrouds
were on each mast. The east-side bulwarks and stan-
chions were gone amidships ; both anchors were on the
rail. The captain of the Sappho could not board her,
learn her name or cargo. She appeared to have been
boarded.

SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE OF A SOLICITOR.

Within the last few days considerable excitement has
been caused at Deddington, near Banbury, in consequence
of the disappearance of Mr. Henry Churchill, solicitor.
It appears that Mr. Churchill left Deddington on Wed-
nesday, the Bth inst., as it was supposed, for the purpose
of going to London; but he has not since been
heard of, although every inquiry has been made
as to his whereabouts. Mr. Churchill filled the
following offices : Clerk to the magistrates of the North
Wootten Division of Oxfordshire, one of the commoners
of the county, agent for the estates of W. C. Cartwright,
Esq., M.P. for Oxfordshire; clerk to several public
boards, treasurer to the Deddington Penny Bank, and
also to the Friendly Society; he was also joint clerk to
the magistrates of the Banbury and Bloxham Division,
and had a large and lucrative practice as a solicitor.
London, England, 1870-06-20

CHARLES DICKENS ON DOCTORS AND LAWYERS•

Shakespere has been claimed in turn by almost
every profession in the kingdom. The wide range
of his genius was co-extensive with humanity, and
his powers of depicting the thousand and one phases
of the mind was an essential attribute of a
power both creative and critical. Like Shakespere,
Charles Dickens was endowed in an extraordinary
degree with this gift of genius. The Law Journal re-
marks that he has left us a whole gallery of legal
portraits. In the first rank of masterpieces Serjeallt
Buzfuz stands out with a distinctness of outline 110 t
to be excelled—surely the learned serj eant will never
die. In "Bleak House," the Chancery suit of
" Jarndyce v. Jarndyce " enabled our great
novelist to give descriptions of the Court/
the lawyers engaged, the solicitor of the Dedloek
family, and`the law writer, whose double may be
met in the regions of Chancery-lane every day of the
year. The British Medical Journal says that his des-
cription of hectic (in "Oliver Twist") has found its
way into standard works in medicine and surgery i.
that he had anticipated the clinical researches °f
several well-known names, and that his descrir
tions of moral and mental insanity shell/
the hand of a master. Every one knows
the immortal Bob Sawyer, and though he
often laughed at the members of the profession,
which, like other mundane things, is not perfection..l
he laughed as one who loved what was good it'
One of Dickens's latest essays was in advocacy of the
East London Hospital for Children.

CHIGNONS IN CHANCERY.

Chancery is the region of wigs, and therefore we
must conclude that a discussion on the most ridicy-
kus of fashions is not altogether unsuitable to its
sober precincts. Chignons, after making the circuit of
the habitable globe, have at last found then
way into Vice-Chancellor Malins' Court. Manchester,
which boasts of the variety of its trades, owns
among them a ." chignon and frizette manufac-
turer," who sought to restrain the defendants, Messrs.
Crawley and Son, from infringing his patent. gr.
Rushton being, we may presume, unable to keep pace
with the demands of the fair damsels of Manchester
for artificial tresses, set to work to manufacture hair.
London, England, 1870-06-20

PAUPER CHILDREN

Mr. Tuffiell, the inspector of schools, in his report for
the year 1869 on the education of pauper children, which
has just been printed, speaks in high terms of the
depauperising influences of the large London schools. It
is a very rare circumstance, he remarks, for any child
brought up in these large pauper schools to fail to main-
tain an independent livelihood when launched into the
world. The education therein imparted not only seems
to stop hereditary pauperism, which was once the great
blot on poor-law administration, but to have a sort of
retroactive effect in inducing such a dislike to dependence on
the rates in those children trained in these establishments,
that they not only become depauperised themselves, but
seek and often succeed in depauperising their relations.
London, England, 1870-06-20

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OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS.

ITALIAN OPERA, Drury Lane.—ll Trovatore. 8.30 p.m.
HAYMARKET—At Seven, Married Life. Home. Family Jars.
ADELPHI—At Seven, The Robust Invalid. Free Labour.

PRINCE OF WALES'S—At 7.30. Quite by Accident M.P. Dearest
Mamma.

Lvcaux—At 7.30, His Own Rival, Breaking the Spell. At 8.10,

Little Faust.
OLYMPIC -At Seven, Music hath Charms. At 8, Mary Warner,
The 'Varsity Boat Race.
GAIETY—At Seven, First Night. The Princess of Trebizonde,
QuEEx's—At Seven, ty Wife's Dentist. 'Twist Axe and Crown.
STRAND—At Seven, Loving Hearts. rth.
VAUDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos.
ST. JAMES'S—At Seven, Paul Pry. La Belle Sauvage
WOODIN'S CARPET-BAG AND SITETCFI BD( K. Egyptian Hall, Pic
cadilly, every Evening (except Saturday), at 8; Saturday Morn
ings at 3. Admission is, 2s, 3s.

CI:MISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed.
=clays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.

Zo LOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily ;except Sun-
days). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under
twelve, 6d.

MADAME TIISSAIJD'S ExmatTlON, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till
3.0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, ls.; extra
6d.
London, England, 1870-06-20

MR. RUSKIN.

Mr. John Ruskin, in a recent lecture on War, deli-
vered at the Royal Whitney College, Woolwich, ad-
dressed himself especially to the ladies present, and in-
formed them that they, as representatives of the female
sex in the upper classes, were responsible for the existence
of war in the world. The only reason for it, he said, "is
simply that you women, however good and religious,
however self-sacrificing for those whom you love, are too
selfish and too thoughtless to take pains for any creature
out of your immediate circles." In further pursuance
of this fantastic sort of " plain talk," Mr. Ruskin said
that if war, instead of unroofing peasants' houses and
ravaging peasants' fields, merely broke china upon the
drawing-room tables of the rich, no war in civilized
countries would last a week ; and, moreover, that the
ladies of the " happy classes " might put a period to war
at any moment, with less trouble than they take any day
to go out to dinner, by simply wearing deep mourning for
the fallen while any war proceeds. It seems amazing that
any man with such a command of the English language
as this man possesses can be capable of such egregious
foolishness.—Boston Advertiser.
London, England, 1870-06-20

FRENCH PURCHASES OF WHEAT.

The Economist calls attention to the fact that France,
which is usually a wheat exporting country—a country
from which we occasionally take a considerable portion of
our total imports of wheat—becomes sometimes an im-
porter of that article and a competitor with ourselves in
the food-markets of the world. And the present is one of
the occasions when she is a buyer. The season which has
not been favourable to most crops in England has been
bad for almost all French produce. The long drought has
excited no little apprehension about the coming harvest—
a fact which tells more, of course, as last year's harvest
was somewhat deficient. Consequently, it is understood,
large purchases of wheat have lately been made on French
account, and this is the principle cause of the sudden rise
in price which has lately taken place. It is obvious
that a fact of this sort must be of no small economic im-
portance. Anything which causes fluctuations in wheat
is important, but such great fluctuations in the condi-
tion of France, as her changes from selling to purchasing
wheat imply, must deserve investigation for themselves.
It is clear that a result of French peasant proprietorship
is the fluctuation in its harvest, which has so mischievous
an economic effect. With a better system of agriculture
there would either be less land laid out for wheat to yield
the present average crop—consequently a less surface ex-
posed to the mercy of the seasons, and a steadier crop ; or
the same land would always produce a much larger crop,
and the fluctuations in proportion to the average supply
would be less. The former alternative would be the more
likely, as the economic circumstances of France are too
like those of England to make a large cultivation of wheat
for export profitable ; but whichever should be the actual
practice, the peculiarly irregular action of France in the
wheat market would cease. And the peasant proprietors
would gain as much by the change as the consumers of
their produce. Many of them would be spared for more
profitable pursuits, and those that were left would make
more profit in a pursuit less subject to fluctuation than it
is now.
London, England, 1870-06-20

MEXICAN BONDS 1851 - 1864. MR.
GUEDALLA invites all BONDHOLDERS to a CON-
FERENCE with him at the LONDON TAVERN, on TUESDAY,
the 21st inst., at 12 o'clock very precisely, for the purpose of ar-
ranging and settling the basis of a course of action necessary to
be adopted by them in reference to the somewhat improved
aspect of their postion and future prospects, as he considers that
only by prompt and energetic measures can they take advantage
of a chance which has just offered itself, and may not occur
again perhaps for years.
Gresham-street, 13th June, 1870.
London, England, 1870-06-20

THE HABITUAL :CRIMINALS ACT.

A circular has been issued by the Home Department
to magistrates in London and throughout the country, in
which Mr. Bruce states his opinion that the operation of
the Habitual Criminals Act, 1869, would be facilitated by
a more frequent resort on the part of magistrates to the
practice of remanding, for further inquiry, persons in
custody on charges of felony, and of the other
offences enumerated in the first schedule of that Act. He
therefore recommends that in any case where there is
reason to believe that a person so chaaged is living a life
of habitual crime, or that the ends of justice might be
promoted by a more accurate knowledge of his previous
history, a remand should take place for the purpose of
affording time to procure further information.
London, England, 1870-06-20

This is by no means an easy process if we are to
judge by the. elaborate -description given in the
Court. The material selected is Russian wool
or other wool of a coarse texture, and it has to be
soaked, boiled, dyed, dried, crisped, and curled, before
it is fit for exhibition on ladies heads, according to the
dictum of fashion. So successful was the improvement
on Dame Nature, that other chignon manufacturers
imitated Mr. Rushton's contrivance, and produced wool
transformed into hair ! The case was brought into
court for .an injunction to restrain any such sale:
The point raised was of some interest, for though
one of the counsel heartlessly observed that ladies'
chignons were trilling things, the validity of
the patent depended upon the principle
that a known material might be adapted
to a new purpose for which it had not
before been used. Vice-Chancellor Malins, however
refused to admit this, and declared that a man could
not take out a patent for the use of a well-known
material in the manufacture of every-day goods,
If this patent were sustained, no one could hereafter
use wool,without the consent of the plaintiff, for pur-
poses t(cwhich our grandfathers applied it. The bill
Was dismissed, with costs, and the rivalry goes on.

THE RELIGION OF THE SOLDIER.

A- British soldier, on entering the service, is
requested to name the religious sect to which he
belongs, and he is ever afterwards compelled to
attend once on - every Sunday a place of worship,
where the observances are in accordance with his
belief. A long and bitter complaint against this
system of " enforced" religious worship is made by
a correspondent to one of our military contempora-
ries. He regards it as nonsensical that men should
be proud of the religious liberties of this country as
long as Englishmen are allowed to be driven
like dumb cattle to a church; where tedious
services and prosy sermons are too often
the provision made for them. This writer
considers that the manner of worshipping
on Sunday should be voluntary with the soldier, and
that it should be left to him, if necessary, to adopt the
method of the Covenanters of old, who prayed on the
moors and hill tops. He, however, seems to forget
that many soldiers (and it may be that he is himself
of the number), are not pre-disposed to think of the
obligations due from them on Sunday. It has,
moreover, been too clearly proved that if young
soldiers were not made to spend some portion of their
Sundays in attention to grave and serious duties, the
whole day would be spent in unseemly places, where
temptations and tempters would have full sway over
them, and where no mention of the awards of a good
life would be heard.
London, England, 1870-06-20

THE LAND BILL IN THE LORDS.

The first two days of debate in the Lords on the Land
Bill have disappointed us, says the Spectator. That the
bill must be accepted, we understood, for the peers are
not the kind of persons who can profit by anarchy; and
as it had to be accepted, it was nearly certain that it
would be accepted without waste of power in sterile oppo-
sition or useless divisions. But we thought the tone of
the discussion would have risen a little higher, that men
so familiar with politics would have bothered themselves
less with considerations of property, that the chiefs of
parties, at any rate, would have tried to estimate publicly
the social effect of the proposed legislation, to make the
public comprehend it from the point of view of the states-
man who tries to remodel society or oppose its remodel-
ling. Instead of this, the discussion, though full of prac-
tical points, has been rather smaller in scope than it was
in the Commons, and decidedly smaller than it has been
in the press. Lord Salisbury elevated it for a moment
when he pointed out that the effect of Mr. Bright's
clauses, if they succeeded, would be to bring an army
of small proprietors to the aid of the larger landowners,
but the general tone of the debate was humdrum to wea-
riness. The peers talked as farmers talk of tenure, with
great wealth of knowledge, but with no capacity, or rather
no inclination, to look at the matter from the ruler's point
of view. The country, which wants to know what the
great landlords think the bill will secure or fail to secure,
will find itself but little more enlightened than it was
when the measure left the Commons. The public only
see that the Lords do' not intend to resist the bill, and
naturally their general conclusion will be, that if these
natural opponents of a' Liberal Government, these heirs
of immense possessions, these nobles to whom property in
land is of such vital importance, can accede to the bill, it
cannot at all events be dangerous, and as Mr. Gladstone
says it will be beneficial, it had better pass. The total
result of the discussion will, we venture to say, be a dimi-
nution of confidence in the reviewing capacity of the
Lords, an increase of confidence in Mr. Gladstone's
judgment upon very great measures, and a general resolve
not to be quite so much frightened by the next revolu-
tionary bill.
London, England, 1870-06-20

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London, England, 1870-06-20

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GREAT FIRE IN PANAMA.

A telegram from New York states that there has
been a great fire in Panama, which has destroyed
much of the city. Twelve lives were lost.

THE FRENCH EMPEROR'S HEALTH.

There has been great uneasiness in Paris on account of
the Emperor's health. His Majesty was said to be suf-
fering from gout. There was a panic on the Bourse when
it was known that he was indiposed. Some of the papers
deny that he is seriously

RESIGNATION OF THE BELGIAN
MINISTRY.

The Belgian ministry have resigned office ; according to
the Independance Beige their successors will belong to the
clerical party.

FETES IN TURKEY.

The Sultan of Turkey has directed that the sums which
were to be spent on the fetes in honour of his accession
should be devoted to the fund for the relief of the sufferers
by the fire. In consequence of this decision the fetes have
been given up.
London, England, 1870-06-20

EDUCATION IN GREECE.

An interesting sketch of the state of education in
Greece has been sent to the British and Foreign School
Society by Professor Constantinides, who was a student
at the Borough-road College thirty years ago. The pro-
fessor says :—" Popular education appears to one who
examines the matter rather superficially very satisfactory;
for schools of both sexes are annually added, and new
teachers succeed those who for one or other cause with-
draw, and the children frequenting the schools
comparatively exceed those of many nations in
Europe and America. But to those who have_ seriously
and deeply examined the subject of elementary education
it is far from being such. I may then exclaim with the
Minister of Religion and Education, who, in his report to
her Majesty at the end of 1868, honestly said, ' Popular
education appears flourishing and ostentatious in number,
but very deficient in the expected fruitfulness.' The
causes of this are many, but the principal
are the want of a normal school with a model
one attached to it, proper inspection and direction
by persons possessing the necessary qualifications, and the
power and means to organize the schools on abetter footing
and appoint the best of the teachers to the most important
situations. Another obstacle is the pecuniary difficulties
of the country ; but the greatest of all is the short dura-
tion of the Ministry. A Minister of Education is appointed
(generally for the first time in his life). He knows conse-
quently almost nothing of the branch he is
called upon to direct. But, notwithstanding all these
obstacles, I do not at all despair in the cause of
education, for the Greek people thirst for education ; the
love of knowledge is inherent in them ; they know how to
appreciate the benefit of a good education. Men therefore
even of the lowest condition, day labourers, have contrived
to give their sons and daughters a liberal education. And
if ancient Greece could boast of a Cleanthes who laboured
in the evening in drawing water 'from. a well in order to
obtain the means of frequenting the school in the day-
time, modern Greece can shew hundreds—l, at least,
can point out many poor youths, who, after submitting
themselves to all privations, have, by perseverance and
diligence, succeeded in obtaining an honourable position
in life. We have in different parts of Greece physicians,
lawyers, professors, &c., whose parents have been hus-
bandmen artizans, or even day labourers. Wherever
there is a'Greek community, their first care is to erect a
church and to establish schools for both sexes. Even
at Manchester a boys' and girls' school has been esta-
blished (the teachers are a father and his daughter) for the
Greeks." •

The prizes at he Liverpool College are to be deli-
vered on the 23rd instant by the Earl of Derby, and so
great has been the demand for tickets that the secretary
has had to refuse upwards of 700 applications. The hall
will seat nearly 2,200 persons. Adejeilner is to follow, in
honour of the late senior wrangler, Mr. Tendlebury, at
which the Earl of Derby is to preside.
London, England, 1870-06-20

PROVIDENT CLER
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Established 1840.
TRUSTEES. •
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. I Thomas Hankey, Esq.
It. W. Crawford, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
The report and balance-sheets of this association for the year
1869, exhibiting in full details the amounts assured, ages of the
members, with particulars of the invested fund, may be had or
application to the chief office, or to the agents.
The annual income from premiums is ............
From interest on investments
The invested fund, after payment of all claims,
exceeds 415,000
The whole of the profits divided among the members.
Cash bonuses have already been allotted to the assured
amounting to £lOO,OOO. WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary
15, Moorgate-street, June 1, 1870.

£64,000
19,000
London, England, 1870-06-20

THE LAND BILL IN THE LORDS.

The first two days of debate in the Lords on the Land
Bill have disappointed us, says the Spectator. That the
bill must be accepted, we understood, for the peers are
not the kind of persons who can profit by anarchy; and
as it had to be accepted, it was nearly certain that it
would be accepted without waste of power in sterile oppo-
sition or useless divisions. But we thought the tone of
the discussion would have risen a little higher, that men
so familiar with politics would have bothered themselves
less with considerations of property, that the chiefs of
parties, at any rate, would have tried to estimate publicly
the social effect of the proposed legislation, to make the
public comprehend it from the point of view of the states-
man who tries to remodel society or oppose its remodel-
ling. Instead of this, the discussion, though full of prac-
tical points, has been rather smaller in scope than it was
in the Commons, and decidedly smaller than it has been
in the press. Lord Salisbury elevated it for a moment
when he pointed out that the effect of Mr. Bright's
clauses, if they succeeded, would be to bring an army
of small proprietors to the aid of the larger landowners,
but the general tone of the debate was humdrum to wea-
riness. The peers talked as farmers talk of tenure, with
great wealth of knowledge, but with no capacity, or rather
no inclination, to look at the matter from the ruler's point
of view. The country, which wants to know what the
great landlords think the bill will secure or fail to secure,
will find itself but little more enlightened than it was
when the measure left the Commons. The public only
see that the Lords do not intend to resist the bill, and
naturally their general conclusion will be, that if these
natural opponents of a Liberal Government, these heirs
of immense possessions, these nobles to whom property in
land is of such vital importance, can accede to the bill, it
cannot at all events be dangerous, and as Mr. Gladstone
says it will be beneficial, it had better pass. The total
result of the discussion will, we venture to say, be a dimi-
nution of confidence in the reviewing capacity of the
Lords, an increase of confidence in Mr. Gladstone's
judgment upon very great measures, and a general resolve
not to be quite so much frightened by the next revolu-
tionary bill.
London, England, 1870-06-20

FRENCH PURCHASES OF WHEAT.

The Economist calls attention to the fact that France,
which is usually a wheat ,exporting country—a country
from which we occasionally take a considerable portion of
our total imports of wheat—becomes sometimes an im-
porter of that article and a competitor with ourselves in
the food-markets of the world. And the present is one of
the occasions when she is a buyer. The season which has
not been favourable to most crops in England has been
bad for almost all French produce. The long drought has
excited no little apprehension about the coming harvest—
a fact which tells more, of course, as last year's harvest
was somewhat deficient. Consequently, it is understood,
large purchases of wheat have lately been made on French
account, and this is the principle cause of the sudden rise
in price which has lately taken place. It is obvious
that a fact of this sort must be of no small economic im-
portance. Anything which causes fluctuations in wheat
is important, but such great fluctuations in the condi-
tion of France, as her changes from selling to purchasing
wheat imply, must deserve investigation for themselves.
It is clear that a result of French peasant proprietorship
is the fluctuation in its harvest, which has so mischievous
an economic effect. With a better system of agriculture
there would either be less land laid out for wheat to yield
the present average crop—consequently a less surface ex-
posed to the mercy of the seasons, and a steadier crop ; or
the same land would always produce a much larger crop,
and the fluctuations in proportion to the average supply
would be less. The former alternative would be the more
likely, as the economic circumstances of France are too
like those of England to make a large cultivation of wheat
for export profitable ; but whichever should be the actual
practice, the peculiarly irregular action of France in the
wheat market would cease. And the peasant proprietors
would gain as much by the change as the consumers of
their produce. Many of them would be spared for more
profitable pursuits, and those that were left would make
more profit in a pursuit less subject to fluctuation than it
is now.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY E ESING, JUNE 20, 1870.

THE EDMUNDS SCANDAL.

An important decision respecting the prerogative of the
Crown was given by Mr. Justice Willes, in Judges'
Chambers on Saturday. This day had been appointed
for judgment in the Edmunds' case on the point whether
the new law to abolish imprisonment for debt
included debts due to the Crown. Mr. Justice
Willes, before he gave judgment, mentioned that he
had received a letter from Mr. Edmunds, but there
was nothing in it further than what he had heard. Still
it was improper to write to any one who had to decide on
the case. His lordship gave his opinion on the new Act,
and held that there was no express enactment or necessary
implication to take away. the prerogative of the Crown,
and he must refuse to make any order on the application
of the defendant. Mr. Edmunds remains in Whitecross-
street Prison.
London, England, 1870-06-20

PROCESSIONS IN IRELAND.

The Act providing for the discontinuance of pro-
cessions in the sister island has been printed. The
influence of the enactments is to extend to Ireland
only, and they order that every assembly of persons
who shall come together for the purpose of provoking
animosity, or encouraging treason, or who shall
carry arms "or other offensive weapon," shall
be dealt with as if they were taking part in
a riot. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland will have
power to issue a prohibition of any procession of
which he has had warning, and every man who is
apprehended for attempting to make or join such
procession will be liable to severe punishment. The
bill directs the repeal of the old "Party Processions
Act," inasmuch as its own provisions apply to all
creeds and parties alike, and therefore precautions
with respect to any particular class of Irishmen ceases
to be any longer requisite.
London, England, 1870-06-20

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