The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-11 00:00:00

PICTURE GALLERIES.

Bridgewater Gallery—Cleveland-square. Cards to view
may be obtained from Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street.
British Artists—Suffolk-street. April to July. ls.
British lustitution-52, Pall-mall. Pictures by British
Artists, in February, March, and April ; and by Ancient
Masters, June, July, and August. Is.
Buckingham Palace Pictures. —May be viewed by an order
from the Lord Chamberlain.
Cartoons of Raphael—South Kensington Museum Mon
day, Tuesday, Saturday, free • other days, 6d.
Crystal Palace—Sydenhani. Modern Pictures and Sculp-

ture. is.
Dulwich Gallery—Dulwich. Chiefly Flemish and Dutch
Pictures. Open free daily, ex,2ept Friday.
Flaxman Gallery—University of Loudon, Gower-street.
Foundling Hospital—Guildford-sheet. Open Mondays,

10 till 4.
Gallery of Ancient Masters-49, Pall. ls.
Greenwich Painted Hall—Greenwich. Mondays and Fri-
days Free : other days, 4d.
Guildhall—City. May be seen on application to the hall

keeper.
Hampton Court Palace.—The galleries are open free daily
except on Friday.
Monument—Fish -street Hill. Every day. 6d.
National Gallery—Trafalgar-square. Open free, Mondays
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.
National Portrait Gallery-29, Great George-street.
free, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Trinity House—Trinity-square, Tower-hill. Models of
lighthouses, &c. Daily, 10 till 4.
Tussaud's Waxwork-58, Baker-street. Open daily till
10 p.m. ls.

SUBURBAN PLACES OF RESORT.
Cremorne Gardens—Chelsea. ls.
Crystal Palace l'ark—Sydenham. Open daily, Is.; Satur-

Clays, 28.6 d.
Greenwich Park—Greenwi6M- Open free.
Hampton Court Gardens.—Open free daily.
Highbury Barn and Gardens —Highbury. Gd. and is by
refreshment tickets.
Kew Gardens—Kew. Open free, daly at ote o'clock.
Richmond Park—Richmond. Open free, daily.
Rosherville Gardens—Crravesand. Opau daiiy. 6d.
Royal Horticultural Gardens—Kensington. Admission by
members' order.
Windsor Great Park—Windsor. Open free. Windsor
Castle may be visited on Mondays, Tuesdays, aud Fri-
days, by tickets obtainable at the Lord Chatubcrliin's
Office, in the Castle.

BREAKFAST.—Errs's COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND COM-
FORTIND.—The very agreeable character of this prepara-
tion has rendered it a general favourite. The civil Service
Gazette remarks :—" The singular success which Mr. Epps
attained by his homoeopathic preparation of cocoa has
never been surpassed by any experimentalist. By a
thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the
operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a oareful ap-
plication of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr.
Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately
flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doc-
tors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk.
Sold only in tin-lined packets, labelled JAMES EPPS and
Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, Loudon.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
MORNING. EVENING
THURSDAY. 10 min past 7 40 min past 7
FRIDAY 18 min past 8 0 min oast 9

SUNDAY
0 min past 4 20 min past 4
SATURDAY 38 min past 9 13 min past 10
MONDAY 50 min past 11 0 min past 12
TUESDAY, l5 iniu past 11......35 min past 12

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6212,1 T OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

The Times congratulates the King of Italy on his re-
covery from his dangerous Mmes. To promote self govern-
ment and lay the basis of constitutional freedom under
the circumstances in which the Ting was placed—with the
Austria of Francis Joseph on one side, and the France of
Louis Napoleon on the other, with the Pope for a neigh-
bour, and the Pope's friends in the heart of his country
and his household—was an enterprise before which the
stoutest heart might well have quailed. Unable to
fight the Austrians, his subjects turned against the
priests ; they demolished ecclesiastical tribunals, sup-
pressed monks, taxed canons, and laid violent hands
on prelates of the highest rank. The King had to
withstand the strongest domestic attacks, and to bear the
direst domestic calamities; not without great violence to
his private convictions, not without misgivings about a
policy which Heaven seemed to visit upon him with un-
mitigated severity. With what heroism he went through
the orcleal no man will ever fully know. Were a King
responsible only for his public life, Victor Emmanuel
would be entitled to unqualified praise. Unfortunately,
there was in the Sovereign's private conduct much which
would not bear scrutiny ; and it cannot be denied
that his popularity waned as his star rose. Public
opinion, even in Southern countries, cannot be defied
altogether with impunity, and Victor Emmanuel's
virtues as a King were lost sight of in consideration of his
failings as a man. When the Sovereign " amuses himself,"
it is the people who must pay the costs ; and those who
would have cared little for the King's sins grumbled as
they perceived that it was for them to bear the penalty.
En the worst days of national distress Victor Emmanuel
had again and again to ask for an increase of the
Civil List ; his debts had again and again to be wiped
lff by a parliamentary vote, and it was from sheer
lavishness to unworthy minions that the King had
to draw so deeply on the public purse. It is time that the
King of Italy should think of raising his throne and that
of his heir from the discredit into which it has undoubtedly
been suffered to fall. There have been many circumstances
combining to discredit the cause of Royalty in Europe.
It would be too deplorable if that cause were to lose ground
even in Italy—in that country in which the King's cause
identified itself with that of the nation, in which people
and Sovereign had common aims, in which they ran the
same risks and achieved the same triumphs.

The Standard says that Mr. Gladstone, in that which
the chief organ of his party justly terms his " wailing and
lugubrious" speech at the Lord Mayor's table, claims for-
bearance and encouragement from his countiymen on the
score of his Irish embarrassments—forbearance for his
failures, encouragement for his policy. We grant
that both are largely due to any Minister who is
responsible for the fate of that unfortunate country
and that unaccountable people. We grant, too, that
co Minister ever had mere need of either than Mr.
iladstone. No Minister ever yet failed so signally, ter-
ibly, and speedily; or failed after such ostentatious pro-
fessions of competence and such lofty anticipations of
success. After nearly a year of rule, during which all the
thoughts of the Cabinet, all the time of Parliament, have
)een occupied with Ireland, he finds himself more openly
sad violently at issue with the popular party in that
country than any of his predecessors; finds disaffec-
tion more general and more audacious, sedition noisier
wad more rampant than ever ; finds that his con..
sessions have only provoked new demands, which it is
alike dangerous to refuse and disgraceful to allow; that
the Protestants have been alienated without conciliat-
;mg the Catholics, and property rendered insecure
laid depreciated in value without rendering the
?oor one whit less discontented, or more confident
in English justice. Great, indeed, is his need of for-
bearance ; greater still, perhaps, his need of encourage-
ment ; and we need not wonder that he should feel them
keenly.

The Daily News, in referring to the vacant head-
mastership of Rugby, observes that it was no light task to
succeed to such a master as Dr. Arnold; yet the difficulty of the
trustees was in selecting, not in finding his successor, and
they selected a master who, if he could not replace his
illustrious predecessor, followed in his footsters with the
modest and manly confidence of a true and loving
disciple. It will soon be seen whether the choice of
Dr. Temple was only a happy accident. His
mastership of Rugby might be described in a single word
borrowed from the Indian mythology, as a new Avatar of
krnold. In the one and in the other we note the same
force of personal character, the same practical enthusiasm
for the work of tuition, the same noble simplicity and
severity of life, the same loveable and loving energy of
example, the same large-hearted sympathy with boyish
ambition and aspirations, the same broad grasp of the
increasing purpose of the age in which we live. Will
the trustees of Rugby succeed in maintaining
this great tradition of their school ? Nothing can be
easier than to find a superior tutor, a sufficient scholar, an
exemplary clergyman of moderate or neutral principles,
and perhaps a business-like administrator into the bargain.
But we venture to think that in a successor to an Arnold
1r a Temple something more than all these qualifications
is required, if the reputation of Rugby is to be sustained.
We have heard it asked, Why should the head-master of
public school be a clergyman ? and we must con-
'ess it is difficult to find a satisfactory answer to
this very simple question. Neither at Etoa nor at Rugby
to the statutes offer any objection to the choice of a
fayraan. The Middle-class School Commi=sion have rec. m-
:nended lay head-masters for their schools. Other quali-
fications being equal or superior to those of any clerical
mndidate, Rugby would be setting an ex ample z o other
schools by the election of a layman, as is has done already
)y the choice of such clerical head-masters as an Arnold
and a Temple.

The Telegraph says that it was well thought of to giv
Sieorge Peabody the rifes of Christian burial in that an-
:dent fane which is so rich with dust of the royal and illus-
trious men and women of Britain. The ceremony will
!lave a solemn and beautiful effect far beyond the pre-
-Allots of the old minster. America will note with pride
Ind pleasure the deep respect which -has been thus paid
to her dead. It is well understood, however, that
the body of the good American is not destined
Finally to repose among us. Let not England send
i coffin like this over the seas as though it were
a common one, hallowed by nothing except the
solemn sentiments which make all the dead sacred! She
pronounced the words of Christian farewell and consecra-
tion over it in the presence of the tombs of kings and the
famous worthies of her history. Like one of these—
rendered regal by his munificence, and proved worthy of
all homage as a lover of his kind and a friend of both
nations—let her convey his ashes to the land which
claims them. The corpse of George Peabody, say
the people of England, ought not to go back
to America as though we had done with our
love and reverence when " ashes" have been given
to ashes," and " dust to dust."-• It ought to go
back as royal and renowned corpses are carried—on board
a gallant ship of war, with the national ensign lowered at
the peak, and the flag of the dead man's native land flying
at the main. It ought to go back aboard of one of the
Queen's ships, with the thunderous honours of artillery
and the observances customary in the case of the death of
the very greatest; and we do but report the feeling of the
English people when we say that they hope the Queen will
herself, and of her own gracious initiative, ordain that her
friend and the benefactor of the poor of her City of London
shall be thus borne back over the Atlantic.

The Post remarks that there is a story of a person who
was advised to " dress in black, and hold his tongue." If
Mr. Ayrton had only held his tongue, all might have been
well. Unfortunately, this was more than his self-com-
mand was equal to. Prudence advised silence, but his in-
clination to talk was ungovernable, and he not only con-
firmed the doubts which had been suggested of his
competency for the office of First Commissioner of Works,
but amplified them into details. By an exhaustive process
he showed plainly enough that he was utterly
incompetent for the post to which he had been pro-
moted. He said that he was neither an architect,
nor a surveyor, nor a sculptor, nor a painter, nor a gardener
of the ornamental, floricultural, or kitchen species ; and,
what is more, that he did not understand any of these
callings. Indeed, he pushed them all aside as having
nothing whatever to do with the office he 11, cl undertaken,
and rested his qualification boldly on the fact, that as
Secretary of the Treasury he has learnt the lesson of keep-
ing down expenses. As there is a time to be sad and a
time to be joyful, so is there a time when it is well to draw
the purse-s,rings tight, and a time to relax their grip. Mr.
Ayrton enters upon his duties as Firsr Commissioner with
a public avowal that he is utterly incompetent to dis-
tinguish between these times. He even seems to pride
himself upon not belonging to " a certain sort of people
in this country who have been educated at our public
schools and universities, and who," according to him,
" instead of looking at matters as they stand in the pre-
sent day, begin by looking back to see what was done two
or three thousand years ago in Greece or Rome." It may
have been agreeable to the electors of the Tower Hamlets
to find that their representative was as guiltless of a liberal
education as themselves; but it is another thing whethez
a subaltern in Mr. Gladstone's Ministry should sneer at the
"sort of people " from whom the ranks of o r greatest
statesmen are recruited. From the same source wo obtain
the most eminent mcnibers of the Church, the Bar, and
the Legislature.
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The IT thinks to^ t nothing could be morn rrracefu7
n the litCe speech delivered at Edinburgh
,n!r by Provost Paradol. His kindly
,-,:press the sympathies of French men of
.nevitl, and the cordialU:y with which he was
folt to ey.tond beyond tho occasion on which
" envy no other thing for my country," he
.'id. speaking of the enthusiasm which had been displayed
by the F.,,nesta at the dinner on the receipt of a telegraip
al-lout the Queen's progress through the City, " than the
political state in which you can show such feeling, and be
so united, and live in order and prosperity, and with the
honest pride of being freemen under the Queen." Liberty
anal loyalty are indeed more c'osely connected than by
the mere possession of a common initial ; and the
speaker went to the root of the groat evil under
which his country labours when he thus pointed out the
one element of English life which he coveted the most
that happy submi sion to the throne which we unite witl-
our sturdy independence. When he plunges tack one:
rn,rc into the party strife from which he describes him
calf as so gladly emerging for a moment to enjoy the
clrdial welcome of hi 3 friend I in Edinburgh, we may fee
care that in one of the loading minds of France, at least
the lessons of that happy e,-anproruise will not be throws
away.

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THE CHARGES OP FRAUD AGAINST SIR

CULLING .EARDLEY, BARONET.

At the Gmlatal, on 17edzesday, before Alderman Chal-
lice, Sir Culling Eardley Gideon Eel dley, Bart., was brought
up on remand, charged with committing a series of frauds
on various tradesmen. Mr. Beard prosecuted, and
Mr. Weatherhead defended. It will be recol-
lected that the prisoner was charged with com-
mitting the offences in question by issuing cheques on
various banks, on presenting which it was found there
were no effects. He had been remanded from time to
time in consequence, it was stated, of the unavoidable
absence of Mr. Lawrence, one of the prosecutors. On
Wednesday there was again no prosecutor present, and Mr.
Weatherhead opposing any further remand,the prisoner was
discharged.

YOUTHFUL HEROISM.

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The Royal Humane Society has just conferred its
medal on two boys, aged respectively 16 and 14, for
saving life under circumstances of more than ordinary
courage. The first of these was named Richard Batty,
residing at Sheffield, and the occasion which
elicited his gallantry was the following :—A few days
ago two children named Prince, aged 5 and 11
years respectively, were playing together near to the
Norfolk Bridge, Tinsley-road, Sheffield, when the elder
one accidentally fell into the stream, which is eight feet
deep, and the younger one, without hesitation, leaped in
after him. Their cries for assistance alarmed the neigh
bourhood. No rescue, however, was attempted until the boy
Batty came up, everybody appearing paralysed. Without
a moment's hesitation, the lad hastily stripped himself
and plunged into the water, which is very foul at the point
where the accident happened. Both children had by this
time disappeared. After considerable trouble young
Batty succeeded in reaching them, and brought them to
the surface. They were locked in each other's arms, and
quite insensible, and their preserver was too much ex-
hausted to carry them to the side of the embankment, and
he contrived to keep them above water until a ladder was
obtained, difficulty the three were pulled out
amid the ol— .f those assembled. The other case was
that of a boy 11 years of age, named Charles Brown, who
rescued a companion named Dewar from drowning. Seve-
ral boys were bathing together at Ferry Pier, Kincardine,
N. 8., when Dewar got out of his depth and sank. Brown,
seeing his danger, dived, and, notwithstanding he was
much impeded is his efforts by the frantic struggles of the
drowning bey, brought him safely ashore, both of them
being much exhausted.

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST SC ARL ATIS A

Mr. John Simon, of the Medical Department of the
Privy Council Office, states that Wherever scarlatina pre-
vails, everything practicable should be done to ensure
freshness of atmosphere and dryness of soil, and entire
absence of dirt throughout the district. When death occurs,
the body of the patient should be buried as upon as pos-
sible, as it continues to be a centre of infection. Every
person who sickens with the disease should at once be
removed from among the healthy; and, if his circumstances
do not permit of this being done in his own home, he
)ught to be treated in hospital. The room to be used as
a sick-room should he divested of every unnecessary thing
to which dust and fluff are likely to attach. The room
should be thoroughly well ventilated (as by windows and
lhimney) directly from and into tie open air. Persons in
attendance en the sick should be persons who already
!lave had the disease. Between the sick-room and the
rest of the house there should be no unnecessary
intercourse. In the room and on the person of the patient
every practicable disinfection should be effected without
lelay. Some strong disinfectant fluid should always be in
use in the room for the various occasions which arise.
Handkerchiefs and other like articles, as soon as used
by the patient, should be well scalded with boiling
water, or immersed in disinfectant fluid ; and bed-
ling, and other like articles which cannot be treated
thus extemporaneously, should be removed, suitably
sacked, to a place where they can be otherwise disinfected.
.t is te:ieved that the dispersion of contagious dust from
the patient's skin is impeded by keeping his entire
•;ody (including limbs and . head and face) constantly
anointed with oil or other grease; and some practitioners
also believe this treatment to be of advantage to the
satient himself. When the patient's convalescence is
lomplete, the final disinfection of his surface should be
affected by warm baths, with abundant soap, taken on
three or four successive days till no trace of roughness of
the skin remains. After thi; process, and with clean
dothes, he may be deemed again safe for association;
nit, previously to this, however slight may have been his
attack ho ought always to be regarded as dangerous to
sersons susceptible of scarlatina. This caution is of parti-
;War importance with regard to schools ; and the neglect
)f it when children return to school, after they have had
Might scarlatina, is often a principal source of epidemic in-
'ection in districts. Intercourse from houses in which
there is scarlatina with other houses should not be more
dean necessary ; especially children from infected houses
who often may themselves be breeding the disease)
should not be allowed to frequent schools and other assem-
)lages of young people.