The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-03 00:00:00

THE CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY.

A great meeting of members of the aocrety ror-Yro-
moting Christian Knowledge (whose fiery demonstration
on the Natal question on the Bth of December will be well
remembered) was held yesterday afternoon at St. James's
Hall, under the presidency of the Archbishop of Canter-
bury. The reason for the largeness of the meeting and
the interest taken by large numbers of the clergy who have
come from various parts of the country to attend it is
a determined effort on the part of the Ritualists to obtain
a footing in the standing committee.' Of this body,
seven retire by rotation, but six of them offer themselves
for re-election, viz.: Mr. John Boodle ; the Rev. J. W.
Buckley, vicar of St. Mary's, Paddington ; the Rev. R.
Burgess, rector of Upper Chelsea ; the Rev. Dr. Miller,
vicar of Greenwich ; the Rev. M. W. Mayow, vicar of
South Heigham ; and the Rev. J. D. Hales, vicar of St.
John's, Richmond. With regard to the seventh re-
tiring member, the Rev. Charlton Lane, vicar of
Hampstead, he did not offer himself for re-election,
and the standing committee recommended in his place
the Rev. E. Capel Cure, rector of St. George's, Blooms.
bury. As rival candidates on behalf the Ritualists the
following gentlemen were nominated by the Rev, R.
Temple West, incumbent, and the Rev. J. A. Foote,
curate, of St. Mary Magdalene, Paddington :—The Hon.
Henry Walpole; Mr. R. Brett, of St. Matthias, Stoke
Newington; Rev. Thomas Hugo, rector of West Hack-
ney ; Rev. A. Blomfield, vicar of St. Matthew's, City-
road ; and the Rev. G. Hodgson, Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge, vicar of Cookham Dean, Maiden-
head. The Ritualist party was decisively defeated, the
numbers standing at the close of the polling :—Rev. J.W.
Buckley, 465 votes; Rev. J. D. Hales, 454 ; Rev. E. C.
Cure, 452 ; Rev. R. Burgess, 450 ; Rev. Dr. Miller, 448 ;
Mr. Boodle, 346 ; Rev. M. Mayow, 336 ; Rev. A. Blomfield,
213 ; Rev. G. Hodson, 206 ; Hon. H. Walpole, 174 ; Mr.
R. Brett, 162 ; Rev. T. Hugo, 158.

THE ANGLO-AMERICAN YACHT RACE.

The following correspondence has taken place between
Mr. James Ashbury, owner of the English yacht Cambria,
and Mr. William Douglas, owner of the American yacht
Sanpho

"Union Club, New York, Jan. 19,1869.
" Dear Sir,—On the return of the Sappho, in
November last, I became her owner. From the
day of her defeat I have been anxious that she should
again enter into the lists in friendly contest with your
world-renowned yacht the Cambria. Having determined
to cross the Atlantic on or about the first ofJunenext, I trust
that a race may be arranged between our respective yachts.
That this will be equally gratifying to you as to me I feel
assured from the courteous allusiona4, you make to the
Sappho in your last of the 28th of December to Corn-
nodore Stebbins. The conditions can be settled
on my arrival at Cowes. Permit me to remark that an
open course, free from the influence of light land breezes,
current, &c., would place the yachts on a more equal foot-
ing, the Sappho being rigged for the ocean and winter
cruising.—I am sir, your obedient servant,

66 WILLIAM DOUGLAS,

" James Ashbury, Esq."
"6, Eastern Terrace, Brighton, Feb. 1, 1869.
"Dear Sir,—l am this day favoured with your letter
dated the 19th ult., announcing your having become the
owner of the Sappho, and of your intention to visit Eng-
land next summer. In the first instance, let me congratu-
late you on the possession of so promising a vessel, and
in the next, to assure you of my readiness to meet you
with the Cambria, as you courteously remark, in
`friendly contest.' The conditions, as you observe,
can be arranged on your arrival in this country. Referring
to the last paragraph of your letter, in order fully to meet
the peculiar rig and qualities of your vessel, I propose the
following courses as being likely to afford the means of
shewing her sailing and sea-going qualities ; and though
the Cambria is only 188 tons as against the Sappho's 381
tons, Thames measurement, and it will place my vessel at a
disadvantage, I am willing to meet your views therein.
The courses I suggest are-Ist, Round the Isle of Wight ;
2nd, From the Isle of Wight, round the Eddystone Light-
house, and back ; 3rd, From the Isle of Wight, round the
Cherbourg Breakwater, and back. These courses, in ad-
dition to the various club matches, will afford ample op-
portunity for displaying the qualities of our respective
vessels.—l am, dear sir, yours truly,
"JAMES ASH BURY."

A statement which appears in one of the morning
papers, says " that, on the reassembling of Parliament) Lord
Westbury will take a prominent position in the House of
Lords as the legal leader of the High Church party."
DUELLING IN ITALY.—The Select Committee of
the Italian Chamber has admitted the reading of a, bill pre-
sented by M. Macchi for the abrogation of the articles of
the penal code which punish duelling.
The Sheffield magistrates had before them again
on Monday the long-pending dispute between Mr. Powell
and his men. Both this and the Superior Court decided in
favour of Mr. Powell, who gave Eddy, the defendant, an
opportunity of returning to his work on easy terms. Eddy
refused to avail himself of that opportunity, and the bench
now ordered a warrant to bo made out for his commitment to
prison for a month.
Mr. S. R. Graves, M.P., attended the annual dis-
tribution of prizes to the Liverpool Rifle Brigade on Monday
evening, and expressed himself strongly in favour of in-
creased support being given to volunteers by Government.
He also thought that greater inducements should be
held out to officers by freeing them from the heavy
expense which generally at present they are subjected to,
relieving them from the civil obligations of citizens, and
allowing them after they had retired to retain the rank
they held in the force. There had been a universal and
he considered a right call for retrenchment in the national
expenditure, but he thought before a large reduction
took place in our military strength the Government should
first satisfy itself that we had a sound volunteer force to
rely upon. If it be true, Mr. Graves said, that the volun-
teers were no favourites at the War-office, the sooner they
sought for themselves some change in the organisation the
Letter.

ELECTION EXPENSES. The expenses of Mr.
vernal Osborne, one of the Liberal candidates for Not-
tingham at the last election, were issued on Tuesday, and
are as follows :—Stationery, advertising, and printing,
£219 16s. 11d. ; rent of committee-rooms, wages of clerks,
agents, polling staff, doorkeepers, messengers, &c.,
£291 Bs. ld. ; sheriff's charges, £133 lls. 2d. ; personal and
hotel expenses, £52 10s. ; total, £697 6s. ld. At the
same time the Speaker's expenses for North Notts were
announced thus :—Advertising, printing, registers, postage,
telegrams, and stationery, £lB2 18s. sd. ; messengers,
clerks, canvassers, and bill-posters, £lO3 Os. 3d. ; carriages,
cabs, and horse hire, £96 14s. ; committee-rooms and
expenses of same, £49 lls. 3d. ; agent's retainers and
charges, £472 12s. ld. ; under-sheriff's and officers' fees
£64 13s. Bd. ; total, £969 9s. Bd.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH. —The temperature of the
week just passed was very low indeed. The mean tem-
perature of the air in the week was 401 deg., which
's 2'S deg. above the average of the same week in fifty
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) The highest day
temperature was 54'0 deg. on Thursday, 28th January.
The lowest night temperature was 26'3 deg. on Sunday,
the 24th January. The entire range of temperature in the
week was, therefore, 271 deg. The low temperature was
attended with a corresponding increase of mortality. In
the seven days ending on the 30th ult. the death rate
in London and in thirteen other large towns of the
United Kingdom was 30 per 1,000 ; in the metropolis
itself it was 29. In the first fortnight of January,
when the mean temperature was six degrees above
the average, the deaths were 9 per cent, below those in the
second fortnight, a period which included seven days of
low temperature. Last week the deaths registered in
London were 1,737, or 18 over the estimated number, and
158 more than were recorded in the previous week. The
mortality from scarlet fever is declining, while that from
whooping cough is on the increase. No fewer than eight
persons were, during the week, killed in the streets of
London by horses or vehicles.
WHAT A FARMER SHOULD BE. " Two sorts of
people," said a quaint old customer in a village which
shall be nameless, " make farming answer in the present
day. There's the market man— a noisy, bustling, deal-
ing, haggling, chaffering fellow that bothers everybody
into bargaining with him and then blarneys and bam-
boozles buyers and sellers out of sixpence a head in a lot
of sheep, or half a sovereign in case it's a fat bullock.
Some farmers are half jobbers, and by keeping their
eye well up when buying-in and selling-out, manage
to graze and feed live stock at a profit. The
other sort that are looked to as moneyed men,'
though very likely but small occupiers, are always `tip
to the eyes in breeding ;' go when you will, you're sure
to find a cow just calved, or a sow with a brisk young
litter, or else the old-fashioned farmer is going to sit up
all night with a mare that's after foaling. If you ain't
a smart chap among the drovers and butchers, depend
upon it breeding's the thing." There is truth in our
ancient friend's idea ; but, going further, we say that
a first-class business agriculturist should not only be an
adept at market and in the tannery, but seeds also—to
be a proficient in a multitude of most diverse arts and
professions. He should be, as it were, a husbandman,
shepherd, herdsman, chemist, seedsman, merchant,
horse-dealer, farrier, machinist, woodman, &c., &c., all,
in one ; and will turn from sorting seed potatoes true
according to form, colouring, depth of character of eye,
&c., or from haltering and swinging a raw colt, to display
his judgment and medical skill in a case of bovine mid-
wifery, or to see to the proper packing of an engine piston
or the grafting of a fty9va* Appicha4ho cliative of
4ariculhire Jona&

;.THE .RATING OF THE POOR.

A very important meeting of the Council of the Cep"
Chamber of Agriculture was held on Tuesday at the Sans'
bury Hotel, Fleet-street, London. The conference W
attended by deputies from provincial chambers, andrner°'
hers of the Legislature interested in the subjects set down
for discussion were invited to be present. The chair was
occupied by Mr. C. S. READ, M.P.
.Amongst the preliminary business transacted was the
election of Mr. George Tomline, M.P. for Grimsby, as vice•
chairman of the Central Chamber for the ensuing year.
The CHAIRMAN, after reading some bye-laws for the
regulation of discussions, which were adopted by the Meet•
ing, called upon
Mr. HENRY GENGE Arantri” (Somersetshire Chamber)
to move the following resolution for a national Poor
rate :—" That the income tax affords an economic.°
means of raising from all income a contribution to the
poor rate, which may be placed to a separate account in
the national exchequer to the credit of the Poor-law Coln.
missioners. That this resolution is without prejudice t°
any better mode of removing that unjust incidence of the
poor rate which was affirmed by resolutions of the Council
on May 3, 1868, but suggests a means of redress wortbi
of careful examination, should her Majesty be gracicdsi°c
pleased to grant the Royal Commission
Inquiry for which Sir Massey Lopes has given
notice of motion." This resolution was laid before tu"
meeting in a lengthy speech, in the course of which copious
reference was made to the evidence taken before, and the
report made by, the Lords Committee appointed to c°ll.
eider the law relating to parochial assessments in the Year
IESO. That committee, it was pointed out, arrived at the,
conclusion that the relief of the poor was a national
object, towards which every description of Pr°.
perty ought justly to be called upon to e4ll.
tribute, and that the Act of Elizabeth come!plated such contribution according to the "ability °
every inhabitant. It was argued that an increased areicei
over which the impost of taxation should he spread 'you'd
enlist the interest of all in its economical expenditure, and
that owners of property would have a more immediate all
direct interest than at present in preventing an undue 111.
crease of the rate.
The resolution was seconded by Mr. THOMAS Dual°
(Herefordshire Chamber), who contended that the present.
system of levying the poor rate was not only too limited
in its area, but it was of such a character that in Wall
instances it could not be effectually enforced.
In the discussion which followed, the Rev. E. UWOI4
(Herefordshire Chamber) said he was not adverse to the
plan proposed in the resolution, but he would have the
tenant farmers avoid the error of imagining that the,'
would eventually gain anything by it.
Sir GEORGE JENKINSON (Gloucestershire Chamber) flit'
niched a number of statistics to show the enormous in.
crease which had taken place in expenditure in the Walt
of poor rate during the last three hundred years.
amounted at the present time to between ten and eleve"
millions. The change proposed to be made in the IDs
tn:
ner of levying the poor rate need not interfere with tii"
machinery now in existence.
Mr. BRANDON (Lincolnshire Chamber) took his 0"--
in supporting the resolution on the broad ground that ,
the poor belonged to the nation their support should b,ei
the nation's charge. In his opinion incomes of gso
upwards should be taxed for the poor rates. In no case'
he trusted, would local management be abolished.
Captain CRAIGIE (North Riding Chamber) suggested
that there should be a classification of the objects for
which money was now collected under name of poor rates:
Mr. BEACH, M.P. (Hampshire Chamber) had no don
that it was the original intention of the Legislature thatper•
sonal property should be taxed. No means of levying the
poor rate was so easy and just as levying it upon income.
Mr. ALBERT PELL, M.P., characterised the Present
poor-rate system as an utter failure. If, however, all
change were to be made, the sympathies of the middle All
working classes in the large towns must be enlisted.
Mr. BROWN (Staffordshire Chamber) supported t"
resolution, as did also Mr. DANIEL LONG (Gloucester'
shire Chamber), and Mr. CALDECOTT (Worcestershire
Chamber).
Mr. Hicxs (West Riding Chamber) stated that the
Chamber he represented would, he believed, fully aPPII2II
the resolution proposed by Mr. Andrews.
Mr. GURNEY (Cornwall Chamber) contended that til°
whole property of the nation ought to taxed for what we:
in reality the police rate of the country. There Was 11
difficulty in carrying out the proposed arrangement. L°°4
management must still be preserved intact.
Alter a long discussion, at the close of which tall:
CHAIRMAN expressed his approval of the resolution, an a
reply by Mr. ANDREWS, the resolution was put an
carried, with the following preface :—" That the uneg"„al
pressure of the poor rate, as at present imposed, i 54
grievance which renders necessary the early and 11710
serious consideration of Parliament; that, in tar
opinion of this chamber, the maintenance of the P°"B
is a national liability to which income from every scwrner-
should contribute ; that, in the disbursement of a 13%
rate levied in accordance with the principle here eau-.
elated, local administration should be recognised and Or
ranteed."

It was then proposed that a deputation should wait "'C°:
the Premier to lay before him the necessity of an higiurif
by a Royal Commission into the amount and incidences °
local taxation.
To this an amendment was proposed that the matte;
should be postponed for further consideration.
The resolution on being put was carried.
Mr. R. JASPER MORE then proposed a resolution to tile,
effect that a deputation should wait upon the President to
the Board of Trade to urge the desirableness of a sellax:iii
Government department for Agriculture, but the gerie—
feeling was against the proposition. t.
The matter was ultimately postponed till the next meet'
ing, in March, and the conference terminated, after sitting
for nearly five hours.

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SUFFOCATED IN A. TURKISII DATIL TWO Tlirj
domestics in the employ of Prince Mustapha FazYl, /v:
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suffocated a few days ago in the bath which had lust h
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erected in his Highness's konak, at Stamboul. The bath
had been heated for the first time, and the dece3so
went into it at about two o'clock in the morning. st
seems that they fell asleep ; one, a young man,
awoke. The servants succeeded in rescuing the etPeti
ici
but the poison of the fumes had taken too strong 11°4
of him, and he died in the course of a few hours.--6°-
Times.
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MIDDLE-CLASS EDUCATION. —A spirited ' ~,--°;ro
was set on foot some two or three years ago in Bedfordell-i0
to meet a want felt in most of the agricultural counties
England—viz„ a thoroughly good education for the e°o
of farmers and other middle-class people at a cost witi,,o
;;00
their reach. A large school, calculated to receive
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boys as boarders, has been built at Kempaton, near t°,l,-he
town of Bedford, and which is about to be opened•
necessary funds were raised by shares among the len;0-$1
proprietors and leading farmers. The Duke of Bed;,ot
supported the movement by taking shares to the anl°;be
of £lO,OOO. Lord Cowper, the lord-lieutenant of
county, also subscribed largely, and is president ofd "0
school board. An education of a superior order, m:
hoard, lodging, &c., without extras, is to be imparted
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the low sum of £3O per year, the object in view being' 1:01
so much a commercial project, as to bring down the 0'9'04
a suitable education for the middle classes to the lcsvero
remunerative point. The school will be open to boy 3 fr°
all parts of England.
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A CASE OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EvIDEN'-'
Thomas Geddely lived as a waiter with Mrs.
Williams, who kept a public-house at York. One 11:1°,-d,
ing her scrutoire was found broken open and robbed,
bti
Thomas Geddely disappearing at the same time, uo del.o
was entertained as to the robber. About a twelve
after, a man calling himself James Crow came to Yet I:
and worked a few days for a precarious subsistence I;f6
porter. Many accosted him as Thomas Geddely Jam'
declared he did not know them, that his name was
Crow, and that he never was at York before. 130' th
was held as merely a trick to save himself. His inistreo
tif
was sent for, and in the midst of many people inst3ll y ;
singled him out, called him by his name (Thomas Ged de l
i
and charged him with his unfaithfulness and ingratitnd:e of
robbing her. He was directly hurried before a ine".-0,0
peace; but on his examination absolutely affirmed that he
as 0
not Thomas Geddely, admitting, however, that be 1/ther
vagabond and petty rogue, and Mrs. Williams and o°o
person swearing positively to his person, he was conly3lilga.
to York Castle for trial at the next assizes. On 3rr: the
ment he pleaded not guilty, still denying that he Nv3 000
person he was taken for ; but Mrs. Williams en,„,,,,d°06
others made oath that he was the identical 1-Plid
Geddely who lived with her when she was robbed' °very
servant girl deposed that she had seen him, on the too
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morning of the robbery, in the room where the sera
was broken open with a poker in his hand' and
prisoner was found guilty of the robbery, toe
was soon after executed. Some time after the "fiej
Thomas Geddely, who on robbing his mistress haserica°
from York to Ireland, was taken up in Dublin for P'e tecl•
of the same stamp, and there condemned and e:‘c,itthe
Between his conviction and execution, and again - 000
fatal tree, he confessed himself to be the verY lc fog
Geddely who had committed the robbery at Ir°,.crute4'
which the unfortunate James Crow had been e:
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We must add, that a gentleman, an inhabitant eL ,0 trial
happening to be in Dublin at the time of Geddell
a-
ith
and execution ;e, and who knew him when he -v ex
Mrs. Williams, declared that the resemblance betty t°:
two men was so exceedingly great that it iv 38.110" 601,4
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