The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY .E.VENING, MARCH 27, 1669

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' such-like, £5OO. It was not alwtys so. 'When the
magnificent Earl of ESSEX was sent to Cambridge,
in ELIZABETH'S time, his guadians provided him
with a deal table covered with green baize, a. truckle-
bed, half-a-dozen chairs, and a vashhand-basin ; the
cost of all was £5. The scholar vas then }geld in high
honour, however poor. KNOX, IUCHAN.A.N, LUTHER,
TYNDAL, MILTON, KEPLER, SuNozA, were brought
up in this way. There was thei an apprenticeship of
instruction and a discipline of poverty. Both these
two great portions of education have disappeared in
England, says Mr. FROUDE, and "we have got
instead what is called enlarged minds," that is "an
enormous accumulation of prepositions of all sorts
and kinds thrust down the students' throats to be
poured out again into the extminers' laps." It is
not so in Scotland. There at least one half of
education, the discipline of pmerty, continues. The
student's resources may be but 1;20 a year, and the
bag of oatmeal which he brings with him as his
food for the term. It will not be the Rector's fault
if the other half of education is not also retained.

It was to this point that Mr. FROUDE directed the
greater portion of his address. At the same time it
would not be difficult to take exceptions to some of
his remarks. In fact, they seem occasionally some-
what contradictory. He quoted the saying of NOVALIS
that " Philosophy will bake no bread, but it gives
us souls," and yet he insisted at great length
on the importance of making those matters,
the knowledge of which will help us to get on in
after life the chief subjects of our study. He told
the lawyer to study French and Latin, because those
two languages were necessary for him to understand
the laws of Scotland ; the doctor was told to study
Latin, French, and German,because they were essen-
tial to an acquaintance with medical science ; both
lawyer and doctor were told to abjure Greek, for a
reason which Mr.FnoUDE might have expressed in the
homely and somewhat vulgar phrase, "It doesn'tpay."
Similarly the engineer was told to learn Spanish, Tur-
kish, Russian, because any number of Scotch C .E .s, who
'know those languages may get employment abroad.
To the clergy, also, Mr. FnounE had a message, and
it was phrased so as to be a sarcasm upon the
English clergy. It was that they should teach
their people to be honest and to abjure false weights,
rather than to " quarrel about the colour of eccle-
siastical petticoats ;" to open their eyes, and see what
is going on around them, rather than to
grope among books in order to find out what men
did in Constantinople or Alexandria 1,500 years
ago. Further, if Britain should prove too narrow
for all her children, there is that greater Britain
beyond seas where fresh centres of freedom and
civilisation shall grow up. All this is very sound
practical advice, though scarcely what one would
have expected from a man of such high cul-
ture as Mr. FIIOLME. The truth is, as we
gather from the concluding portion of his address,
he thinks that culture is only for the few. Men who
mean to take up literature or philosophy as the
calling of their lives must be quite sure of their pur-
pose ; must be able to live pecuniarily independent of
it ; must not look for money pay in proportion to their
merits. There are, of course, the men who get so
many guineas a sheet; but these Mr. FRoUDE considers
men of words only ; the men of ideas must be
content like MILTON to get £5 for " Paradise Lost."
We hope that the Rector of St. Andrew's University
has received more than this for his "History of
England from the Pall of WoLsEY to the Death of
ELIZABETH." We suspect that the editor of Fraser's
Magazine gets a good " many guineas a sheet."

LA LEST INTELLLGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, March 26.

According to Mr. Adam Moffatt's report the
week's receipts of cotton at United States ports
have been 32,000 bales, and since the Ist of Sep-
tember, and taken by American spinners direct,
2,000,000 bales. Shipments to England 20,000
bales, to France 5,000 bales, and to the continent
4,000 bales ; and since the Ist of Sept. 9G0,000
bales. Stock 420,000 bales. Market dearer. Alid-
dling uplalid, 11 id., c, st and freight per steamer.

SOUTHAUPTON, Alarch 2G.

e Hanaburgh and Ametican Company's
steamer Cimbria, from New York, arrived here to-
day, with 61 passengers and 86 sacks of mails for
London and Hamburgh, and $28,954 for Paris.
On the 22d she spoke the American ship John W.
Cushing, from Amsterdam for New York, 25 days
out ; 25th the American ship Alexander Marshall,
bound East; 25th the Bremen steamer Hansa,
hound West ; and on the 26th the British brig
Suez, bound East.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, March 26.

The funeral of Captain Roderick Dew of H.M.
ship Northumberland took place in the Protestant
Cemetery to-day. The members of the British
Legation attended, together With several British,
American, Portuguese, and Prussian officers.

AUSTRIA.

VIEYNA, March 27.

The Official Weiner Zeitung of this morning
publishes an Imperial decree, sanctioning the
Finance Law and the Estimates for 1809.

BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAIL.
LISBON, March 26.

The Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate Com-
pany's steamer Donati arrived here to-day. She
experienced strong head winds.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 28.

The coffee sales since the 22d have been 32,800
bags. Prices unchanged. Stock, 105,000 bags.
Cotton, no sales. sock, 1,100 bales ; 16 millreis
asked, 15 offered. Exchange on London, 184.
Sovereigns, 13,500. In Six per Cent. Stock large
transactions have taken place at 801 to 80k. Gold
bonds, 965 to 966.
Count de Eu will not command the Brazilian
forces in Paraguay, but General Polydoro is re-
ported as the successor of the Marquis de Caxias.
The Paraguayans at Assumption have petitioned
the Allies to establish a Provisional Government.

A second Argentine expedition has been sent to
he Interior of Paraguay.

Nothing positive was known of Lopez. He is
said to have 18 canons and 3,000 men in the moun-
tains.

Money was scarce. Exchange on London 18
Bank bills.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, March 25,
Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows :

per Cent.
End of month
--
3 per Cent
End of month 7O 50
Credit. Mobilier
End of month 2BO
Credit Fonder l4BO
End of month

Bank Shares 2870
ItaFan Fives 55 90
End of month —
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred —

RAILWA'

Cash
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern__ 6lB-
l
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 4731-
North of Spain 621
Saragossa
Roman

The Calendar contains a notice at the head of the
Epsom programme that the City and Suburban, Great
Metropolitan, New Two Year Old Stakes, Walton Stakes,
and Prince of Wales's, Stakes, will be run over the same
,course is last year.

LUBD CLAREIVDON AND THE LONDON
MISSIONARY SOCIETY

A deputation from the directing board of the London
Missionary Society has had a satisfactory interview with
the Earl of Clarendon. In spite of the repeated explanations
which have been given, they found that his lordship was still
under the impression that the London Missionary Society
had something to do with the Inland China Mission, and
was answerable for the attempted settlement in Yangehow,
which produced the riot there. His lordship is now, we
trust, convinced that the directorate of the London Mis-
sionary Society may very safely be trusted to give instruc-
tions to their agents in China, and that there is no fear
of the English Government being embroiled with the
Chinese authorities by anything they maydo. The attempt
of the leaders of the Inland China Mission to plant
a sort of colony in Yangchow— taking large premises for
large household of men, women, and children—was
highly imprudent, just the sort of thing to excite the
jealousy of the natives ; but when the full explanations of
all that subsequently happened are given, it will be found
that the missionaries did not make any appeal for the
forcible interference of our consuls, and that in taking
die high ground he did, Consul Medhurst was only yield-
ing to the peremptory insistr.nce of the Shanghai traders.
—English Inclerenclott.