The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-18 00:00:00

East Suffolk.

The indignation of the Conservatives generally
at the supineness of the party in East Suflblk has
produced some effect. At present Sir Shafto Adair,
Liberal, is the only candidate in the field, and
though the Conservatives have long had the supe-
riority in the county, it appeared likely that this time
the Liberals would get the seat through
sheer inability on the part of the oppo-
site side to find a candidate. This state of
things, however, is to be redressed. The
Standard has reason to believe that a champion is to
be brought forward to fight the Conservative battle.
Even then the Liberals will have an advantage in
so much time gained.
Mr. Barry and the Board of Works.

Mr. Ayrton is reported to have said, in his reply to
the motion of Mr. Cowper Temple in the House of
Commons, that in the case of the new buildings now
in progress at Burlington House, Messrs. Banks and
Barry, the architects, acquiesced in the Department
of Works retaining all the contract drawings in their
custody. Those gentlemen, in a letter,
state that the reverse was the case.
They allege that the contract drawings having
been signed and the contract executed by the con-
tractor at the Office of Works, the drawings were
retained there not with their acquiescence,
but, as correspondence will chew, against their strong
protest, that such retention was unusuual,
embarrassing to themselves, and detrimental
to the public service. Their grounds for the
latter assertion were that the buildings would
have to be, as they now are, executed from tracings,
instead of from the original drawings, which are
likely to be more accurate and exact than copies.
Surely Messrs. Banks and Barry do not mean to sa3
that skill in the tracery department of an architect's
office is so deficient that an exact copy of a drawing
cannot be made.

Foreign and Colonial Guaranteed Loans.
Among the parliamentary papers just issued is a
return of all loans to foreign countries and British
colonies, and of all loans raised by foreign
countries and British colonies, of which
the capital or interest has been guaranteed
by Acts of Parliament from 1820 to 1868 inclusive.
It appears that the loans to foreign countries are
composed of the Russian-Dutch Loan, the Greek
Loan, the Sardinian Loan, and the Turkish Loan.
Great Britain became responsible with France
Russia and Bavaria for the Greek Loan in 1832, an

up to last December the total payment on account of
it, made by the British Government, amounted
to £1,213,823. As, however, the Greek Treasury
remitted to England in part payment of the loan, a
sum amounting to £74,624, tha net amount of pay-
ments by the English Executive may therefore be
reckoned as £1,139,198. Under present arrange-
ments with Sardinia, by which the Government
of that country pays (in respect of a loan
contracted in 1855) half-yearly sums into the British
Exchequer, the Sum lent (L 2,000,000) will be paid
oft by 1903. No payment has been made by Great
Britain in respect of the Turkish Loan, raised during
the Crimean War, and it will be probably extinguished
by the Sultan's Government in 1900. The English
Ministry jointly with the Emperor of the French,
guaranteed in the matter, the payment of interest
upon the sum of five millions. With respect to the
colonies, it seems that - loans amounting to £5007000
-lave bethi, since 1858, guaranteed to New Zealand,
the first instalment of which will not become wholly
redeemable till 1888, although the liability has
already been diminished. The English Gdvernment
became answerable in 1808 for a loan of three mil-
lions to Canada, redeemable in 1903. Other small
loans; British responsibility for which still exists, have
been guaranteed to Dominica, Antigua, Montserrat,
Nevis, Tobago, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Grenada, British
Guiana, and Trinidad.
Army Reductions.

Amongst the official documents published is one
containing the correspondence relative ;to the
reduction of field officers in the Guards.
The Military Secretary announces to the Under-
Secretary of State the approval of her Majesty that
the appointment of Major-General attached to the
Foot Guards be retained, and that one of the Majors
in each of the regiments of the Brigade of Guards
be gradually reduced, retaining the Lieutenant-
Colonel, who would have the command of a battalion
in addition to that of the regiment. He announces
that in accordance with this arrangement the vacancy
in the Grenadier Guards caused by the prom otion of
Prince William Frederick of Saxe-Weimar
to the rank of a major - general would
not be filled up. In letters to the
Military Secretary, and the Duke of Cambridge,
Colonel Hardinge points out the inversion of promo-
tion resulting from this act of the Government, and
the anomalies that must arise from such a compro-
mise between the conflicting principles of a purely
regimental or a distinct - battalion organisation.
The Duke of Cambridge in forwarding this corres-
pondence to Mr. Cardwell, strongly recommends
it to his serious consideration, as, " under existing
circumstances, these officers, as well as their succes-
sors may feel their interests very much affected." Mr.
Cardwell ultimately declines to sanction the proposed.
arrangement that in the event of Colonel Harding
retiring fiom the command of the Coldstream
Guards, promotion may be allowed to go on in the
regiment. Having regard to the inquiry just about
to be commenced by the royal commission upon .the
subject of over-regulation prices, he suspends further
judgment in the matter.
The Queen's University in Ireland.

The report of -the President of Queen's Col-
lege, Belfast,' gives a most satisfactory account of the
progress of that institution. A larger amount of
interest must necessarily attach to the well being of
Queen's Collegei inasmuch as it affords the most
genuine promise of a better state of things for Ireland
in the fact that, although largely supportAd by the
Protestant denominations, it has. always num-
bered many RoMan Catholics amongst its
students. Dr. Henry observes in his report
that he is able to give the most satisfactory testi-
mony as to the working of the great principle of
uniting- the conflicting schools of Irish opinion
under the shelter of one institution. From
the foundation of this college, he adds, friendships
have been formed amongst young men of different
creeds, of which he receives constant evidence in
tracing the history of many former students, whether
of those adorning their professions at home or of
others filling public posts abroad with ability and
success.