The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-04 00:00:00

coast as would enable her to impede the pas-
sage of the Straits to ships frequenting the
Mediterranean, for commercial or any other '
purposes." M. C9LLANTI, only six days after-
wards, had, on the 21st of October, answered—
The Government of the Queen (of Spain), my
sovereign, who have given so many and such
marked proofs of their conciliatory and upright
spirit in the different incidents which have sprung
from the question with Morocco, will not vary the
intentions they had formed from the beginning of
that question, not to occupy any point on the Straits
whose position could afford to Spain a superio-
rity dangerous to the navigation." Besides which
there was a distinct understanding that Spain
should not take possession of Tapgiers as a guaran-
tee for the payment of an indemnity. Spain holds
good to her engagement so far. She does not take
possession of Tangiers. Instead of that she occupies
Tetuan—as a guarantee for the payment of an in-
demnity by Morocco ! France, in the same manner,
has left Tuscany unoccupied—But the EMPEROR, in-
stead of that, absorbs into his Empire the district
of Nice and the little kingdom of Savoy ! It re-
mains to be seen how far this new phase of O'DoN-
NELL'S ambition, or rather, as we have more cor-
rectly termed it, travesty, of the conduct and policy
of NAPOLEON 111. will be tolerated by England
and the rest of the non-robbers among the great
Powers of Christendom.

What is the plain English of the new policy now
inaugurated by the French EMPEROR ? This—
" You take such and such portions of territory,
and I will take such another." It is an
" idea" certainly quite Napoleonic. The Great
EMPEROR did precisely the same upon a much
grander scale, but he did so while avowing
that he did so. He was a great conqueror
not a great hypocrite. He was an anointed CASAR
—not a crowned MACHIAVELLI. His successor
trusts not to the same bold course. He affects to
do magnanimous things, things more befitting some
Arcadian Quixote—and (in the act of affecting this)
pockets something substantial in the way of
" a consideration !" He helps to free Italy, or
at least a considerable portion of Italy ! He hands
over superbly in this manner to Sardinia—the whole
of the fair and beautiful plains of Lombardy. But
then—he himself takes possession of Savoy and
the Savoyards! And now there is a talk of some
such settlement being meditated in regard to
the Rhenish Difficulty. Feelers are thrown
out rumours are set afloat —we shall
have a pamphlet presently ! It is asked insidiously
if Prussia and France cannot solve the problem
comfortably between themselves. As how ? Can-
not France be allowed to take the disputed pro-
vinces as her new boundary line in that direction,
while Prussia compensates herself by absorbing
Saxony, let us say, or any other country that may
be quite convenient ? And in the meanwhile—as
the merest bagatelle—the CZAR may do just what
he likes in the East ! How long is this mockery of
European Peace to continue ? Quousque tandem
abutere?

An industrial school was last week opened in
Holborn, which has some distinctive features espe-
cially deserving of public attention. It is called
The West Central Day Industrial School, and is
intended for the benefit of those boys who inhabit
the courts and alleys of the W.C. postal district.
No one can have passed along the Strand, Holborn,
or any of the leading thoroughfares of this locality,
without having noticed numbers of these miserable
boys, who have no better means of employment
than turning summersaults in the road for the
amusement of the outside passengers of the omni-
buses. When we reflect on the sort of life to which
this training will most probably lead; when we
think of the dirt and ignorance and idleness in which
these boys are growing up, we cannot but feel that
some effort on their behalf is imperatively needed.
None of the existing institutions exactly meet
their case. They are too old for the ragged-schools,
and are besides eager to earn a few halfpence for
themselves. The Refuges, admirable as they are,
are intended chiefly for homeless and friendless
lads, whom they receive altogether. In the new
school in question they are not expected to leave
home. They will be received between the ages of
ten and fifteen, and will be given work and wages,
which will supply them with money for clothes,
and will receive two meals a day, a substantial
breakfast and dinner. They will be trained to
some industrial occupation, and will thus be pro-
vided with the means of earning their own living,
when they leave the school, in a way that they
could never have done had they been left to the
chance knowledge they might pick up in the streets.
They will be recommended by the superintendent
or secretary of the ragged school in the district,
and they will be expected to attend the night and
Sunday schools from which they are recommended,
and thus their education will be continued,
while their religious training is also cared
for. When we call to mind the state-
ment of Lord SHAFTESBURY—an authority in
such matters—that there are in London 30,000
of the destitute class continually upon the streets,
of whom a large proportion are boys, we cannot
but feel the urgent need of such an institution. To
help others to help themselves, to give them the
means of earning an honest livelihood, to submit
them to that wholesome discipline in early youth for
the want of which after training can seldom compen-
sate, is the best and truest charity. Who shall preach
industry and honesty to men whose boyhood has
been spent in rags and dirt, fighting and quarrel-
ling in the street? Who shall expect the honest
workman, the self-supporting labourer, from a class
whose best education has probably been gained in
trying to outwit their fellows of some ill-earned half-
pence. Shall we expect him rigorously to keep
the laws of man who has never heard the laws of
GOD ? As one of the sweetest poets of the people
has so nobly said on this subject—.

" Shall we be blameless when the guilt
Of rude and savage hands is known;
When crime is wrought and blood is spilt,
Shall the poor sinner stand alone ?

" Oh, narrow, blind, and witless preachers!
Shall we expect the ragged band
To be among God's perfect creatures,
While we refuse the helping hand 2

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Better build schoolrooms for the boy
Than cells and gibbets for the man.,,
The system on which this industrial school is to
be conducted has been tried at Aberdeen, Birming-
ham, and other places with great success. The
scheme is so thoroughly practical and so well
adapted to the wants of the metropolis that we can
hardly question a similar result here. All who
desire the enlightenment and improvement of those
lowest classes which are so dangerous to those
above them, so wretched and. degraded in them-
selves, will wish success to this effort, and will
probably take a more active part in forwarding the
good work by aiding it by their contributions and
co-operation.

The Prince of Wales, on his visit to North Ame-
rica, in addition to his suite of nine gentlemen of honour,
will be attended by one of the Queen's Secretaries of State,
in consideration of the part he is likely to be called on to
take in public affairs. We believe that her Majesty's
choice for this post of honour and trust has fallen upon the
Duke of Newcastle,—Court Journal, ,