The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-27 00:00:00

DEATH OF PROFESSOR SYME.

The death of Professor James Syme, surgeon to her
Majesty in Scotland, and late Professor of Clinical Sur-
gery in Edinburgh University, took place on Saturday at
his residence Millbank, near Edinburgh, after a few
weeks' prostration from a second attack of paralysis.

THE ROYAL ENGINEERS.—The numerical strength

of the officers of Royal Engineers is to be considerably
increased, in view mainly of the urgent prospective re-
quirements of the Public Works Department of India.
The precise mode of carrying out the augmentation must
depend upon the recommendations of Captain Vivian's
committee on the promotion in the scientific corps. In all
probability the additions to the Royal Engineers will be
made gradually, rank by rank, from the lowest commis-
sioned grade upwards.
THE ADMIRALTY RESIGNATIONS.—III any event
the reports circulated last week, as if on authority, an-
nouncing the resignation of Vice-Admiral Sir Robert
Spencer Robinson, as Controller, and Mr. Edward J.
Reed, as Chief Constructor, of the Navy, would have
been premature. They were, to say the least, based on a
very erroneous misconception of the facts, and now, we
believe, they may be regarded as completely:out of date,
all foundation for them having passed away.—Telegraph.

The child of Miss Cowan, one of the infants found
in the baby-farm at Brixton, has died. A post-mortem
examination will be made.

The thermometer in London, at eight o'clock in
the morning, was only 56 degrees. At two in the after-
noon it had risen to 66 degrees. The fall in temperature,
although general all over the British Isles, is most notice-
able along the south-east stations of England. The winds
have all veered to north and north-north-west. The
sky is still cloudy. The sea is nearly calm.
A prisoner has escaped from the Tiverton borough
gaol in a rather ingenious manner. He was incarcerated
for highway robbery, and was to have been tried at the
next Devon assizes. It seems that he tore up his bedding
into shreds, and tying a stone to the rope which he thus
made, he threw it over the prison wall, and getting on to
a house adjoining, made his escape.

The Rev. Edward Heale, minister of All Saints
Church Jersey, was drowned at that island on Thursday
afternoon. The deceased gentleman went to St. Aubin's
sands to bathe, and after he had been in the water a few
minutes he was seen to sink. Assistance was a once ren-
dered, but on his being brought to shore he was found to
be quite dead. He leaves a widow and a large family.
Sir Thomas W. White, Bart., of Wallingwells,
Worksop, whose horse ran off on Tednesday as he was
leaving the Worksop Court-house, and-threw him, is in a
precarious condition. It has been found necessary to
amputate one of his legs, in addition to which several
ribs were broken and his chest crushed. Sir Thomas is
reported to be doing well, but is ordered to see nobody.
Prussia always holds itself in readiness for any
war eventuality. Lately (says the Broad Arrow) every
week has seen bodies of troops being exercised on the
railway between. Berlin and Hamburg, in preparing trains
of carriages, entering and descending from the same, and
loading and unloading them witn material of war.
The construction of the • line which is to connect Kiel
with the railway network of Europe is being unremit-
tingly pursued.
The Sporting Gazette asserts that there is not the
slightest fonndation for the statement that Mr. T.
Hughes intends to withdraw his Turf Reform Bill. On
the contrary, the hon. member intends to struggle to get
it read a second time ; and he will be supported by most
of the independent racing men in the House. Mr.
Hughes contemplates the addition of a new clause to shut
up the metropolitan racecourses.—The breeding stud of
the late Lord Hawke will be brought to the hammer
during the York August meeting.
, A Berlin correspondent writes :—"I am sorry to
say that Professor Gneist has met with another rather
serious accident. Not three months have elapsed since
his bed caught fire in London, and in his endeavours to
extinguish it, he burnt his arms and legs so severely as to
be obliged to keep his room for several weeks. He has
hardly recovered from the injuries then sustained before
he has sprained his left leg, and in such a manner
as to render it necessary to encase the limb in plaster of
Paris."
THE EDUCATION QUESTION.—The Leeds Mercury,
which may be taken as representing that section of the
Dissenters which agrees with Mr. Edward Baines rather
than with Mr. Miall, and Mr. Henry Richard, says the
country has reason to congratulate itself upon the victory
of the Government on the Education Bill. It has effec-
tually cleared the way by indicating the fact that not a,
mere majority of the House of Commons, but a majority
of overwhehning strength is resolutely opposed to that
system of secular education which Mr. Richard's amend-
ment would have inaugurated. To continue to struggle
for such a system after the division of Friday, would
simply be to waste time in labours the uselessness of
which is manifest.