The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-28 00:00:00

NATIONAL EDUCA TION UNION.

We are now enabled to give a fuller account of the orga-
nisation of the Union at Manchester, branches of which
will, it is believed, be established in the principal cities and
towns throughout the country. Already a similar associa
tion has taken root at Birminghani,practically in opposition
to tho Education League. Among the Vice-Presidents of the
Manchester Union are the Duke of Northumberland, the
Marquis of Salisbury, Earl Nelson, Earl of Ellesmere,
the Bishop of St. David's, the Bishop of Ripon, Earl of
Harrowby, the Bishop of Worcester, the Bishop of
Colombo, and Lord Sidmouth. Among those who have
expressed their approval of the movement in favour of
supplementing and improving the present religious deno-
minational system of national education aro Lord Robert
Montagu. 31. P., Mr. W. F. Cowper, 31. P., Lord E. Howard,
the Hon. E. Egerton, M.P., the Hon. Wilbraham
Egerton, M.P., the Hon. Algernon Egerton, 31. P.,
Colonel Akroyd, M.P., Hugh Birley, M.P., Edward
Baines, M.P., Henry Wyndham-West, M.P., R.R. Wing-
field Baker, M.P., H. Cecil Raikes, M.P., W. Finnic,
M,P., Colonel Gray, 31. P., J. Hick, M,P., F. Lowden
Corrancet M.P., J. S. Hardy, M.P., C. Buxton, M.P. (East
Surrey), the Dean of Durham, Dr. Kennedy, Regius Pro-
fessor, Cambridge; the Master of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, Archdeacon Allen, the Rev. Canon Birch, Chap-
lain in Ordinary to the Queen and the Prince of Wales ;
Rev. R. Payne Smith, D.D., Regius Professor of Oxford.;
the Rev. Canon Norris, the Rev. Dr. Sedgwick, Ce,P:on of
Norwich ; the Hon. and Rev. Canon Lyttletor., the Rev.
Canon Moseley, of Bristol ; the Rev. G. B. Lee, Warden of
Winchester College ; the Rev. Dr. Barry, Principal of
King's College, London; the Rev. Dr. Scott, Head Master
of 'Westminster School, and some thirty or forty other
gentlemen whose names are more or less known to the
public. The general secretary is the Rev. W. Stanyer,
M.A. The Church of England, the Roman Catholic, and
the other religious bodies, will, it appears, be represented at
the Congress, which is to be held on the 3rd and 4th of
November, in the town-hall at Manchester. There will
be four sessions of three hours each. The readers of
papers and speakers have all been selected. At the first
session the Earl of Harrowby will preside; at the second,
Mr. Hugh Birley, M.P.; at the third, the Hon. Algernon
F. Egerton, 3f.P. ; at the fourth, Mr. W. F. Cowper,
M.P. At the close of this fourth session, from
two o'clock to five, on Thursday, the 4sh of
November, the concluding address will be delivered,
which is expected to excite very great interest, inasmuch
as it will be the winding-up of the business of the Con-
gress. Each reader will be allowed twenty minutes ; each
speaker ten minutes. During the first session the
readers will be Lord Robert Montagu, 31. P., the
Rev. Dr. Barry, of King's College, London, Mr. W.
Romaine Callender, J.P., and the 11ev. W. J. Kennedy,
Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools. The speakers are Lord
Edward Howard, the Rev. F. Meyrick, late Her Majesty's
Inspector of Schools ; Mr. T. W. Allies, secretary of the
Roman Catholic Poor School Committee ; and the Rev, J.
Pitcairn, vicar of Eccles. During the second session the
readers will be the Rev. Canon Norris, late her Majesty's
Inspector of Schools ; the Rev. Canon Toole (Roman Catholic),
the Ven. Archdeacon Allen, late her Majesty's Inspector of
Schools; and the Rev. C. Sewell, late her Majesty's Inspector
of Schools. The speakers are Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., the
Right Rev. Bishop Ryan, the Right Rev, the Bishop of
Colombo, the Dean of Durham, and the Rev. Canon Mel-
ville. During the third session the readers will be Colonel
Akroyd, M.P., Mr. Alexander Redgrave, her Majesty's
Chief Inspector of Factories ; the Rev. Dr, Rigg, Principal
of the Wesleyan Training College ; and the Rev. W. K.
Morrison, of St. James's, Halifax. The speakers are
Mr. W. F. Cowper, the Rev. Dr. Bell, of Goole, and
the Rev. Canon Norris. During the closing session the
readers will be the Rev. J. Bardsley, St. Ann's, Manchester;
Mr. Jchn Flint, Registrar of the Duke of Newcastle's
Commission on Education ; the Rev. T. S. Dale, Secretary
of the Birmingham Association ; and Mr. R. G. Gainsford,
Sheffield.

Torn Thumb is disconsolate in California. He has
found a fellow four inches shorter than himself.

TUTORS AND STUDENTS.—An evil custom pre-
vailed at the end of last term, which, it may be hoped, will
soon go out of fashion. Men engaged private tutors, fully
occupied their time, and then, at the end of term, went off
without payment of their fees. Such conduct is both mean
and cruel. It is mean, since it is a violation of a tacit pledge.
It is cruel, because it spoils the holidays of those who most
deserve them. Better is an honest "plough" than a "pass"
which is tainted with stinginess to the teacher. Are the
claims of cards and betting so imperious ?—Oxford Under-
graduates' Journal.

An ice and cold-producing machine has been
invented by Franz Windhausen, Brunswick. The action
of the machine, we are told, is based on the principle of
producing cold and warmth by the expansion and compres-
sion of atmospheric air, which is accomplished by means of
mechanical power. The machines require no chemicals—
nothing being used in them but water and atmospheric
air. They may be wrought by steam, water, or wind, and
they produce from 100 lb. to I,ooolb. ice per hour,according
to size, at a cost of from 2d. to sd. per 100 lb.; this difference
resulting from the varying prices of fuel and the mode of
working chosen. One of their uses is to cool rooms,
cellars, theatres, hospitals, compartments of ships, &c.—
North German Correspondent.

THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT PENGE.—The death
of a lady at Penge by poison has created an immense sen-
sation at that favourite metropolitan village. At the
inquest on Wednesday the evidence disclosed much
domestic unhappiness, and it is alleged that the husband, a
Mr. Fowler, ill-used his wife and placed strychnine in her
way in order that she might poison herself. The deceased,
however, was a stout, resolute sort of a woman, whose will,
it was stated, was not at all likely to be influenced by mere
sentimentality. The inquest was adjourned.

REMARKABLE COINING STORY.—In the spring of
1746, an elderly woman gave information against her maid
for coining, and the trial came on at the Old Bailey. The
mistress deposed that having been left a widow several
years ago, with four children, and no possibility of
maintaining them, she had taken to coining; that she
used to buy old pewter-pots, out of each of which
she made as many shillings, &c., as she could pass for
three pounds, and that by this practice she had
bred up her children, bound them out apprentices,
and set herself up in a little shop, by which she
had got a comfortable livelihood ; that she had
now given over coining, and indicted her maid as
an accomplice] The maid in her defence said, "That
when her mistress hired her, she told her that she
did something up in a garret into which she must never
inquire ; that all she knew of the matter was, that her
mistress had often given her moulds to clean, which she
did, as it was her duty ; that, indeed, she had sometimes
seen pieces of pewter pots cut, and did suspect her mistress
of coining ; but that she never had had, or put off, one
single piece of bad money." The judge asked the mistress
if this was true ; she answered " Yes ;" and that she
believed her maid was as honest a creature as ever lived;
but that, knowing herself in her power, she never could
be in peace; that she knew by informing she could secure
herself; and not doubting but that the maid's real inno-
cence would appear, she concluded that the poor girl would
come to no harm. The judge flew into the greatest
rage, told her he wished he could stretch the law to hang
i!er, and feared he could not bring off the maid for having
concealed the crime ; but, however, the jury did bring her
in nct guilty.

At a Fpeeial meeting of the Council on Tuesday the

following. resolution was sclopted:—"The President and
Council of the English Church Union, having carefully
discussed the circtnstt.r.c, s connected with the nominn-

Lion of Dr. Temple to the see of Ex( ter, and having
also considered the various and confbeting repro-
-tentatious which have been made to them from branches
and members of the Union, are of opinion that it would be
premature ou their part to recommend any action by the
Union in its collective capacity at the present stage of
the case." The G uardiau publishes the following
from the Dean of Yolk:—'6 Sir—My tame having
,tppeared as a member of a committee for oppos-
..iirg the election of Dr. Temple to the see of Exeter,
wi:l you permit me to state that my name was so used with-
out my sanction, and that There declined to be a member
of the committee as proposed.—l am, your obedient ser-
vipia ArGs. PVMNPAL DORM York, Oct. 22.1863.'.