The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-10 00:00:00

EDUCATION IN INDIA.

On the 2nd of July a public meeting was held at
the Town Hall, Calcutta, for the purpose of memo-
rialising the Secretary of State for India against the
educational policy of the Indian Government. Four
or five hundred native gentlemen attended the
meeting; the Mohammedans were not represented.
Several resolutions were passed, which were to the
effect that the meeting deprecated the withdrawal
or diminution of the assistance afforded by the State
to English schools and colleges. It was also
declared that vernacular education should be pro-
moted. An energetic appeal was made on behalf
of State support of education, more especially on
account of the neccesity of maintaining a staff of
European professors. It was finally resolved that a
memorial should be sent to the Secretary of State
for India. The general opinion prevailed that
the demonstration was a failure. The Pioneer of
Allahabad says that the Calcutta Baboos' meeting
has ended in a ridiculous fiasco. The resolutions did
not venture beyond platitudes which the Govern-
ment never disputed and which do not touch the
real point. "It was never proposed to withdraw the
whole grant from education, but only to apportion
that grant more fairly between English and Vern-
acular education. The resolutions do not hazard a
single allusion to the local land cess, which from
first to last has been the only real issue."

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, AUG. 9,

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accom-
panied by Princess Beatrice and Viscountess Clifden.
Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge was in attendance on
horseback.
Prince Leopold drove out, attended by Mr. Duck-
worth.

Her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning, ac-
companied by Princess Louise and Prince Arthur.
The Queen held a council to-day, at which were present
the Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone, Viscount Halifax, and the Right HOn. Robt.
Lowe.
During the council Sir William Heathcote, Bart., and
Sir George Mellish were. introduced, and sworn in as
Members of her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council,
and took their seats at the board accordingly.
The Earl de Grey and Ripon and the Right Hon. W.
E. Gladstone had audiences of her Majesty.
Mr. Helps was Clerk of the Council.
Baron Gevers, Netherlands Minister, and Don Pedro
Galvez, Peruvian Minister, arrived at Osborne to-day.
Previous to the Council the Netherlands Minister was
introduced into the Queen's presence by the Earl de Grey
and Ripon, in the absenee of Earl Granville, Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, and presented his letters of
recall.

The Prussian Minister was afterwards introduced by
the Earl de Grey and Ripon, and delivered his creden-
tials.

Majesty's
George Mellish was then introduced to her
presence by Earl de Grey and Ripon, in the
absence of the Right Hon. H. Bruce, Secretary of
State for the Home Department, and received the honour
of knighthood on his appointment as Lord Justice.
Mr. Daniel Adolphus Lange was also introduced to her
Majesty's presence by the Earl de Grey and Ripon, and
received the honour of knighthood.
Her Royal Highness Princess Louise was present during
the cetemony.
Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry in Waiting, was in at-
tendance.

Sir Thomas and the Hon. Lady Biddulph, and the Rev.
G. and Mrs. Prothero, had the honour of dining with the
Queen and the Royal Family yesterday.
Viscountess Jocelyn has left Osborne.

THE QUEEN'S PROCLAMATION.—A supplement to
the London Gazette has to-day been issued, containing her
Majesty's royal proclamation, prohibiting all subjects of
the Crown of this realm from taking part in the war, and
defining what constitutes Illegal Enlistment, Illegal Ship-
building, and Illegal Expeditions.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—The number of visitors yes-
terday, one shilling day, was, by season tickets, 1,701; on
Payment, 3,726; total, 5,427.

An exhibition -is about to be opened in Tromso,
the capital of Finmark. The exhibition will contain the
Products and appliances used in the several fisheries, those
eth
agriculture, and of mechanical and domestic industry,
toger with objects and products illustrative of the mode
of life and state of civilisation of the inhabitants of those
regions.

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The death is announced of General Sir William
h,wood, 1C.C.8., K.C.H., Colonel of the 14th (or Bucking-
lushire) Regiment of Foot. He was born in 1782, and
entered the years
as ensign in the 14th Foot in January,
1797, served six years in the West Indies, was in the expe-
dition to Hanoverin 1805, in the Peninsular campaign
1:1 1808-9, and commanded the 85th Regiment at the
battle of Bladensburg.
The corps of Royal Marines is to be augmented by
'-',°oo men, which will raise its strength to 19,000 or 1,000
above what it stood at previously to the reductions of the
last two years. The resolution of the Admiralty was
arrived at last week, and the recruiting has since been
actively prosecuted. As this gallant corps is equally
i.Yailable for service afloat or ashore, and has alwys
'ulguished itself in both capacities, the step sac most
Judicious one under present circumstances.
VOLUNTEERS.—We are authorised to
64; in answer to frequent inquiries, that the Northeriitan Government does not object to admit British
1117lieal men as volunteers in their army hospitals, pro-
jil`-'ed that they speak German fluently, that they have the
Z_elice to practice medicine and surgery in the United
egdom, that they have the permission of their
~2vernment to serve as medical volunteers in Germany,
the that they will place themselves unconditionally at
-e.tu-sPosal of the North German Government.—Times.
„,4-n authoritative statement has been made to the
eet that the North German Government does not
object to admit British medical men as volunteers in their
Pu3l3, hospitals, provided that they speak German
ently, that they have the license to practise medicine
kul surgery in the United Kingdom, that they have the
permission of their Government to serve as medical volun-
lie" in Germany, and that they will place themselves
dleenditionally at the disposal of the North German
"")vernment.
TILE ROUSE OP ORLEANS AND THE WAR.—
axon Rothschild, in Paris, has received the following
Turns for the society to give assistance to the wounded :
or Countess of Paris, 10,000 f. ; the Duchess
2 'llartres 10,000 f, ; the Princess of Joinville,
500ton9f. ; in' remembrance of the Duchess d'Aumale,
b uf. The last subscription was accompanied
the following note . from the Duke d'Aumale :
tOrleans House.—My dear Friend, Were the
fue„lless d'Aumale still alive she would have been one
B,,i_tue first to come to the assistance of our wounded
'tiers and of families suffering on account of war. In
eo,4,ernbrance of one who is no more, I pray youto forward
12,,,'`'00f. for the national subscription,—Ever yours, HENRI
A LUNATIC AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—At the weekly
ateteting of the Board olGuardians of the Windsor Union
4bention was called to the case of a lunatic named
Witao rahatu Levi, a man of gentlemanly appearance
Wi(tl, manners, who on Saturday afternoon drove up
manners,
quantity of luggage to the entrance to Windsor
beenas tle, and informed the police and porter that he had
Coauthorised by Mr. Gladstone and the House of
ramons to take possession of the Castle. He said that
l'ljesty would never come back to Windsor, that he
Why going to dismiss
all the servants and engage his own
(431:nas estles, and, as "_Dictator," do as he pleased with the
On being arrested and taken to the union, the
tietor at once pronounced him insane; and, as the pro-
wiitY in his possession gives no clue to his identity, he
Littlemorot . if n
Lun claimati cd e within the next few days, be sent to
e As 1 y um.

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