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

G REAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

WORCESTER' AUTUMN RACES.

On TIIITRSDAY, November 3rd. a SPECIAL FAST TRAIN,
let and 2fid class, will leave WORCE6TER. (Shrub Dill Station)
at 6.15 p.m., for OXFORD, READING, and LONDON, calling at
Evesham, lloneybourne, 'toreton, and Chipping Norton Junc-
tion, arriving at Paddington at about 10.40 p.m.

J. GRIEILSON, General Manager.

Paddington, October, 1810.

ETROPOLIT A N RAILWAY.

REOUCTION OF FARES.
VA The following REDUCED FARES arc NOW charged
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Between the CITY and PORTLAND ROAD,
Between the CITY and REGENT'S CIRCUS,
BetwecD Vie CITY and BARER STREET,' •
Between the CITY and EDGWARE ROAD,
Between the CITY and BI3IIOP'B ROAD, PADDINGTON.
Betwt e 1 the CITY and PRAED STREET,
Between the CITY and QUEEN'S ROAD, BAYSWATER
Between FARRINoDoN STREET and QUEEN'S ROAD, lt and
R3tween KING'S CROSS and QUEEN'S ROAD, RTYAL OAK.

SINGLE TICKETS. RETURN TICKETS.
Ist Class I 2nd Class I 3rd Class. Ist Class I 2nd Class I 3rd Clws
64. I 4d. I 3d. 9d. I Gd. I sd.
MYLES FENTON, General Manager.

32, Westbourne-terraca.

u yjRII-ITEENTII ANNUAL WINTER EMIT-
BITION of CABINET PICTURES by British and Foreign
Artists is now OPEN, at the FRENCH GALLERY, 120, Pall
Mall, from half-past ton till lbw o'clock. Admission, Is. Cata-
logue, od.

SOCIETY for ORGANISING CHAR,ITABLE
RELIEF and REPRESSING MENDICITY.
President—The Lord Bishop of LONDON.
Chairman—The Earl of LICHFIELD.
Treasurer —II. B. Freed, Esq.
Hon. Secs.—Alsager Hay Hill and George M. Hick,, Esqs.
Object of the Socicty.—The establishment of a Charity Office
in every Poor Law District in the metropolis, such office to be
the recognised centre of charitable organisation in each district.
DISTRICT COMMITTEES in union with the Society :
ST. MARYLEBONE.-office, 151, Marylebone-road, N.W.
ST. GEORGE'S, Hanover-square.-office, 28, Mount-street,
Grosvenor-square, W.
WESTMINSTER.—Office, 38, James's-street, S.W.
PADDINGTON.—Office, 3, Leinster-street, W.
MILE-END OLD-TOWN.,—Office, Vestry-hall, Bancroft-road,
Mile-end-road, E.
BATTERSEA.—Office, 3, Verona-street, York-road, S.W.
LAMBETIL—Office, 49, Upper Kennington-lane, S.B.
CLAPHAM.—Office, 11, Polygon, S.W.
CHELSEA.-office, 57, Flood-street, S.W.
KENSINGTON.—Office, 39, Holland-street, W.
HAMPSTEAD.—Office, Corner of Church-lane, High-street,
N W.
DEPTFORD.—Office, St. John's Mission-hall, King-street, Broad-
way, S.E.
ST. MARY, NEWINGTON.—Office, 188, Walworth-road, S.E.
ST. GILES'S-IN-THE-FIELDS.Office, 7, High-street, St. Giles'.
ST. PANCRAS.—Office, 17, \, oburn-buildings, W.C.
CONTRIBUTIONS toward° the extension of this organisation
throughout the metropolis may be paid at the office of the
Society, or to Messrs. Coutts and Co., 50, Strand, W.C.
The funds of the central office are for purposes of organisa-
tion only, not for relief.
C. B. P. BOSANQUET, Secretary.
C. J. RIBTON-TURNER, Organising Secretary.
Office, 15, Buckingham-street, Strand, W.C.

THREAfENED MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS
AT DAM,ISCUS.

In a letter to the Times Mr. E. H. Palmer (St. John's
College) and Mr. C. F. Tyrwhitt Drake give the following
particulars of some recent disturbances at Damascns

"The massacre of Christians at Damascus ten years ago
created an excitement over the whole of Europe,
but with Tientsin and Sedan to . engross public
attention such a trifle as a fresh outbreak in Syria
has been quite overlooked. The events to which
we allude occurred shortly after we had- left the country,
but we have received full details from both native Christian
and Mahomedan correspondents in Syria. On the 26th of
August it was rumoured in Damascus that a general
massacre of the Franks by the Muslim inhabitants
was contemplated, and - affairs actually assumed
so serious an aspect that most of , the Christians
precipitately fled from the town. Open menaces were
uttered, the fanatical part of the population became
clamorous and evidently bent on mischief, and, indeed,
the danger seemed imminent since the authorities took no
steps to suppress the popular agitation, when, thanks to
the energetic conduct of her Britannic Majesty's consul
—upon whom the management of the affair
devolved, as the other European representatives retired
from the scene of action—who seems to have himself
addressed the Turkish soldiery and insisted on proper
steps being taken by the Government, the riots were
quelled, and a most serious calamity averted. One of the
causes which appears most to have excited
the fanaticism of the mob . was the presence, in
the streets of Damascus, of crosses chalked
up on the most conspicuous places. On subsequent
inquiry by the Government this was discovered to be the
work of the Jews- the same people who during the
former massacre distinguished themselves by standing
at the doors of their houses and voluntarily offering
lemonade to refresh the Mahomedans, hot and
weary with the slaughter of Christians, and
who in many well-authenticated instances offered
aid and concealment to the terror-stricken Chris-
tians and then brought in the Turks to murder them.
Some 300 of these Jews are under the protection of various
European Consulates, and can thus with impunity laugh
at the authority of the Turks and wreak their hatred on
the co-religionists of their protectors."

The committee of the Poor Clergy Relief Corpo-
ration have determined to open a special fund for the im-
mediate relief of Continental chaplains deprived of their
income by the war. Contributions will be received at the
London and Westminster Bank, St. James's-square, or
by the secretary.
THE CAPTAIN RELIEF FUND. —Her Majesty has
contributed £lOO, Princess Louise and Prince Arthur £2O
each, and Prince Leopold £l5, to the Captain Relief Fund.
His Royal Highness the I 'rine° of Wales has contributed
50 guineas to the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the
loss of the Captain.
TIIE RUSSIAN ARMY.—The Czar of Russia hai
sanctioned the new regulations for accelerating the
mobilization of his army. They provide for the calling in
of 427,297 men, 170,000 of whom come from Poland and
the provinces of mixed nationality belonging to ancient
Poland.

ACCIDENT TO THE PRINCESS LOCISE.—Her
Royal Highness Princess Louise has met with a slight
accident, having sprained her knee. As perfect rest is
required for her royal highness at present, her Majesty's
return to the south may be delayed for a few days longer
than was anticipated.

MORMON IMMIGUATION.—III July, A ugust, and
September; 1870, there arrived at Castle Garden, New
York, upwards of -.800 immigrants who came to join the
Mormons. Ten were Bavarians, 167 Swedes, 3 Saxons,
5 natives of the United States, 50 Welsh, 273 English, 41
Scotch, 243 Danes, 26 Norwegians, 8 Irish.
A FAMOUS ORRYHOUND.—Lord Lurgau's cele-
brated greyhound, Master Magrath, whose career on the
turf it was supposed had finished after his hollow defeat
in England, has revived his past glories and gained new
laurels by winning the Brownlow Cup at the Lurgan
meeting on Friday. He defeated several of the principal
winners at the last Liverpool meeting.
Colonel C. L. D'A.quilar, C. 8., has assumed the com-
mand of the Royal Artillery in the southern district, vice
Colonel Wodehouso, - deceased. The new commandant
entered the army in 1838, and served in the Crimean and
Indian campaigns.

Admiral Sir Sydney C. Dacres, K.C.8., has returned
to Whitehall after a brief official visit to Portsmouth,
during which be was the guest of Sir James Hope, the
coimnander-in-chief. Sir Sydney, after Divine Service on
Sunday, went on board her Majesty's ship Hercules and
made strict inquiries as to the cause of the late serious
accident by which several men were injured.
The Cologne Gazette notices that the captive French
officers work actively in favour of the Orleanists. Certain
agents abuse the name and generosity of the Duchess of
Saxe-Coburg Cohary, née Princess of Orleans. The Prus-
sian Government has thought proper to inform the
Duchess of this state of things.
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TELE KING AND QUEEN ar SWEDNN. The King
and Queen of Sweden went to Copenhagen on Saturday
in order to be present at the baptism of the infant son
their daughter Louisa, the Princess Royal of Denmark.
They drove through the principal streets, which were
decorated with flags, to the Palace of Amalienborg.
King Charles XV. will stay until the 4th of November,
to be present at the reception of the Prince Royal of
Denmark by the Grand Lodge of Frennasons, whose
Master Christian IX. is to be.
A Bavarian soldier, in writing some details of the battle
of Arthenay, says that after the tight those houses in the
village which contained arms and ammunition were
burned. In examining one of these before setting fire to
it the soldier found a nott!.On. the kitchen table, written
in German, to the following effect :—"Augustus Richter,
of Leipsic, lived here, and has fled with his masters.
my German brothers, do not injure us." These simple
words produced so great an effect on those who read them
that they obtained permission to spare the hbuse where
their countryman had lived,

The following is a full report of the speech of the
President of the Committee of Council on Education at
llipon on Friday night. To reply to the toast of her
Majesty's Ministers, which was proposed by Archdeacon
(Just, he said that although he had on many occasions
previously returned thanks in that room on behalf
of the Ministry, he never on any occasion rose to re-
turn thanks for that toast with such a great sense of
responsibility as be felt at this moment. The events of
the past few months had, indeed, been of the.most grave
and startling character. These few months would have
written on the page of history their story in colours
more enduring than those of many years which had
preceded them. He need not tell them what had been the re-
sponsibilities which had rested on any one who had even the
mast limited part in the government of this great
country during that time. Some seemed to have thought
that task was comparatis e y an easy one, and that when
two great and gallant nations were contending for the
palm of victory on the field of battle, it was easy for those
who stood aloof from the contest to interpose by their
lightest word. They had, however, that evening been re-
minded of the proverbial consequences which attended
on those who interposed untimely in quarrels. He
could assure them that hex Majesty's Ministers had
carefully watched every movement of that exciting con•
test, that they might find an opportunity when they
could wisely interpose their voices; but they deter-
mined that, in the name of England, they would not
speak lightly—that they would not speak when they had
not a fair reason to hope that justice might make their
voice listened to. He did not say that they had waited
till they knew that they should he heard, but
he did say that they were bound to wait until the moment
came when they felt that they could speak as they should
be prepared to be spoken to, without a semblance of
dictation, or with undue interference with questions of
internal policy, when they felt that they could speak
in the voice of humanity, and that they had a right to hope
that a voice would be heard. He was sorry he could not
say what might be the result of the efforts which had been
made. They had heard that day of a tremendous event,
which in the history of the past would have been thought
one of incredible magnitude, but on which in these won-
drous days we look with complacency. The surrender of
150,000 soldiers of a nation as gallant as the French was
most wondrous, but it had been almost eclipsed by those
which had preceded it. We, who were not engaged in
this struggle, could not but feel regret at the misfortunes
of a gallant • people, but we might still hope that the
capitulation may in itself work for the good end of peace.
At the same time. we were ready to recognise the gallantry
of Germany, while we were able to feel deeply for the
misfortunes of France. It was not for them, in his
opinion, to pronounce on these great events the final
judgment of history. All we could do, and he believed
it, was earnestly to pray the Almighty Disposer of
Events that it might please Him to stop this terribly
destructive war. England shewed the deepest sympathy
by her charity for the sick and wounded of both the
belligerents, and we most earnestly desired to see this
contest brought to an early conclusion, which
might place the peace of Europe on a sound and perma-
nent basis. The noble earl then alluded to the events
of the last session of Parliament? speaking in favour
of the prospective working of the lush Land Bill and the
Education BilL The latter he warmly eulogised as re-
cognising the religious element, without which there could
be no real education, and which did not overturn what
had as far as it went worked satisfactorily, and to which
the element of compulsion had been ad.led. The noble
earl resumed his seat ami.l loud applause.

THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH ON
fIIE NEW SCHOOLS ACT.

The Bishop of Peterborough addressed a large and in-
fluential meeting of the nobility, gentry, and clergy of the
county of Northampton on Saturday last, on the above
subject. His lordship said the present was a most critical
moment in the history of education in this country.
The Church of England had devolving upon it a very
large and serious responsibility, for owing to her sisal
and energy in the cause of education in past years,
and of her readiness to avail herself of the Govern-
ment grant, which other religious communities .did nut
feel themselves free to avail themselves of, she was at this
moment educating some 75 per cent, of the children of
this country. With respect to the rate paid schools, he
would ask if the system of education was altogether satis-
factory to the Church, as regarded the religious element,
for if it was, their meeting there for the purpose of pro-
viding the means for continuing distinct religious teaching
was so much waste of time. The Church would have
nothing to do but to hand over her schools to the State,
to become rate-psid schools under the Act. The
position of the Church in relation to those schools
WAS that an attempt was about to be made to solve the
problem, which he believed to be impossible, of teaching
an indefinite Christianity. Such an endeavour, in his
opinion, could result only in a yearly increasing secularism
in the rate-paid schools. The more thoroughly honest
those Boards were as representative bodies the less would
necessarily be the amount of definite religious teaching in
the schools, for the entrance of each new sect would require
the surrender of the particular point which the new
member did not hold. Without any desire therefore to
say one unkind word, or to give vent to malignant
prophecies, he felt that School Boards, by their very con-
stitution, would drift more and more into secularism. On
that account religion was in great peril, he believed, from
those rate-paid schools, and the Church would not be
faithful to her great trust if she handed her schools over
to them. The State distinctly recognised the right of the
Church to maintain her schools, and to continue therein
the distinctive religious teaching. He would urge upon
Churchmen, however, that it was their duty as good
citizens and good Christians not to withdraw from taking
their place on any education board that might be formed.
They owed it to the state to work any act of Parliament as
loyally and honestly as they conscientiously could, and
thcy owed it to the Church not to leave children com-
mitted to their charge in those schools, without seeing that
they received as far as possible a religious education. With
reference to their own denominational schools he must say
he had never been amongst the number of those who had
opposed a conscience clause, for having had considerable
experience in the matter he never found tnat the time-
table conscience clause in the slightest degree interfered
with his giving the children of his school a distinctively
religious teaching, If there were any of his brethren
amongst the clergy who felt that they were unable to
receive a time-table conscience clause, he could but wish
—and he.hoped it would not be taken unkindly—that their
consciences were somewhat better instructed. That was
not a matter on which he should attempt to dictate,
but he would earnestly entreat all his rev. brethren,
who did not regard it as a matter of supreme conscien-
Vous duty, very seriously to consider the risk to their
parishes, and to the Church there would be in continuing
a hopeless rivalry with state-aided, rate-paid schools.
If a clergyman who objected to the conscience clause
kept up the school mainly at his own expense, there was
this evil to be dreaded, that his successor in the parish
might not be able or willing to keep up the school, and
that the Church children might have no other choice
but to go into the mate-paid schools. It was a very
serious thing for any clergyman to think of refusing
the Government grant and maintaining the school
at his own expense, for his experience in Ireland was
that when the clergy did this in opposition to
national schools, the result was that a great many of their
children got their education in Roman Catholic and
Dissenting schools, and the children of the Church became
in many districts the worst educated portion of the
community. The Right Rev. Prelate earnestly urged
the clergy not, in the first instance, to think of handing
over their schools to the School Board, but to make an
earnest effort to see if, by increased exerticns and
liberality on the part of their parishioners, the present
Church Schools could not be maintained in all their
efficiency.