The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-20 00:00:00

BRAZIL.

The Buenos Ayres Standard of the 14th ult. states that
the Argentine troops are expected in a few days from
Paraguay, and that preparations are making for their
reception. The greater part of the Brazilian forces at
Paraguay are about to embark for Brazil, and the
Paraguayan war may to all intents and purposes be con-
sidered as finished. "No importance is be attached to the
flying rumours concerning Lopez and his alliance with
Indians ; they amount to nothing. Lopez may possibly
carry on a desultory guerilla warfare, but this 'can have
no importance for the allies : his power is completely
and for ever crushed." The Anglo Brazilian Times of
December 23rd, mentions as the only news from Paraguay
that General Camara's troops had dispersed 1,000 Para-
guayans who made a raid on the cattle de-
posit of the Brazilian forces. The reported alliance of Lopez
with the Brazilian forces is confirmed by the statements
of two deserters who said that the Indians were closing
the defiles of their position. This journal contradicts the
report that the Brazilian troops will shortly be sent back
from Paraguay.

The Post observes that an attempt to supply the West
Riding of Yorkshire with middle-class schools in connec-
tion with the Church of England has been set on foot in a
conference of clergymen and laity held, under the presi-
dency of Lord Wharncliffe, at Leeds. Parents who can
afford to send their sons to a public school have reason to
believe that they will at least have every means of
making progress if they choose to avail themselves of
it. But the lower section of middle-class parents have
not this advantage in selecting the private school
to which they will send their sons. Something
more than knowledge is requisite to constitute a teacher.
Bat schools have often been opened without this qualifica- 1
tion, and parents of the class we are considering do not '
discover their inefficiency till they have wasted their own
money and their children's time. In the South of England
something has been done by, opening public schools
to correct this evil, and wherever they have
been opened their utility has beenyoerrefheisrsee,dby
the support they have received,.
with
all its energy, and with its greaterfrom the wealth,
has
as yet done nothing to relieve parents . nee.,,_
THE RED RIVER REBELLION.
sit -of of trusting to their own judgment in the selection
As always happens in the case of territories which
of a school. It is much the same in the North of England
as in the South. From the report of the Rev. Mr. aro difficult of access, the doings of the " Winni-
Fitch, who has inspected all the schools of theatWe_sot peggers," as the Americans call them, have been
Riding, Lord Wharncliffe quoted the statement_ ti.hi,..,o3thof much exaggerated. The directors of the Hudson's
majority of parents cannot be said to be good j d. Bay Company state that they have received no infor-
, oration respecting the p di,
education and that, of the best means for training the
minds and strengthening the faculties of their children, .
Sioux Indians..re orted advance of a band of
, sum of money had been taken from the company's
It was also rumoured that a large
they yro no judges at all. There is no reason to doubt that I
what'has been done successfully at Framlingham can be done
at Doncaster or Leeds ; and there is an earnest of , treasury. The fact is that the company . have no
success in the sums which were subscribed before the money at fled River.
the company's officers, According
dated
Fort to a
Gd line eys, from
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Leeds meeting terminated. If the education of the middle
classes is to be conducted successfully,the more it is with- 14th December,the only depredations by the
drawn from the hands of private speculators the better. French half-breeds consisted of their having
Cordially, therefore, do we wish success to the educe,-
tional movement which has just been inaugurated at taken . a quantity of provisions and a few
Leeds under the auspices of Lord Wharncliffe. In expand- Indian guns. It seems likewise pretty cor-
ing the area of education it will not only make it more "American Annexation League,"
efficient, but will give it a dignity which cannot but taiu that the
f which so much has been said, consists merely of it
exercise a
__ beneficial influe;icg upon agyilze QOM within its : gang of those New York reprobates who are always
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ranger . ready to go order° or do anything for mow or