The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-04 00:00:00

THEyW HITIV ORM SCHOL A RSIIIPA

A correspondence possessing some interest has been laid
before the Birmingham Town Council. It refers to the
case of Thomas Waldron, who was fortunate enough to
obtain the Whitworth Exhibition of £25, having
gained honourable distinction at the examinations
held by the Science and Art Department at the
Birmingham Midland Institute. The Department
awarded another sum of £25 to Waldron on con-
dition that he would pursue his studies in a college
they approved of. He naturally resolved to pursue them
at the Institute classes where he had gained so much dis-
tinction. When this decision was made known to the
Science and Art Department, however, they replied
through their assistant-secretary that the Birmingham
and Midland Institute was not such a place of instruc-
tion as was contemplated. The town clerk there-
upon inquired in what particulars it failed to reach
the required standard, and the secretary replied by enclos-
ing a programme of the Royal College of Science in
Dublin. This, as may be supposed, created no little
annoyance in Birmingham, and the town clerk
was directed to send another letter asking if
King's College, London, came within the meaning of the
Council minute, and whether the class fees would be
remitted to Mr. Waldron. Another official epistle brought
the gratifying intelligence that King's College would be
accepted as the place of instruction, but that
the fees could not be remitted, as the college
was not under the control of the Department,
as were the Dublin College and the Jermyn-street School
of Mines ; also the session was so far advanced that only
half of the local exhibition (212 10s.) could be allowed. Mr.
Waldron, upon this, resolved to go to the Royal
School of Mines, and the Department promised

him free admission, but would only allow him half the
scholarship, and that will not be awarded until he has
come up for the May Exhibition. The Town Council are
very indignant at the whole affair, and intend to have it
inquired into.

The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., will
entertain the mover and seconder of the Address in the
House of Commons, and those members who fill official
appointments, at dinner on the I.lth inst.

CABINET CO UNCIL.—A meeting of the members
of the Cabinet will take place on Saturday next, at the
FirstLord_of the Treasury's official residence, in Downing-
street.

It is stated positively that it was not decided
yesterday that her Majesty would open Parliament in per-
son. Iler Majesty baa been graciously pleased to say that
she will do so if her health permits.
Earl Granville, as leader of the Ministerial
party in the House of Lords, has issued invitations for a
dinner on the 15th inst., to a numerous party of the sup-
porters of the Government.

The Guardian says :—" While the recent Synod
in New Zealand requested Dr. Jenner to withdraw his claim
to the Bishopric of Dunedin, Bishop Selwyn requests the
Dunedin people to withdraw their opposition to Bishop
Jenner. The last-mentioned Bishop is now on Lis way to
New Zealand, where he will try conclusions with his recal-
citrant flock."

Mr. Dunbar Isidore Heath, late Vicar of Reading,
Isle of Wight, who was six and a half years ago deprived
of his living for false teaching, writes to the Church
Nuts ti at the judgment of the Privy Council which
was then given against him implicitly condemned
the most cherished doctrine or the Ritualists, the continuous
offering of Christ in the Eucharist. Ho refers to p. 239 of
Brodrick and Freemantle's Ecclesiastical-Judgments in sup-
port of his assertion.

A Ffe convict in the Penitentiary at Columbus,
Ohio, named James English, murdered M. H. Pennell, fore-
man of ono of the shops in the institution, on Wednesday,
because ho threatened to report him for neglecting his
work. English attacked Pennell in the shop with a hatchet,
while the room was full of workmen. He cut his head open,
and after ho had fano], made a second stroke at him, hack-
ing his neck horribly. English was placed in the dungeon.
Ho has before committed two murders.

A lady of distinction gave a fancy ball in Paris
not long since, and, in order to be distinguished, placed a
servant at the door to announce the costumes as they
entered. A couple of ladies appeared in full ballroom
dress. "What costume shall I announce ?" asked the
servant. "We are not in costume," they replied. " Two
ladies without costume," shouted the servant, to the horror
of everybody.—Court Journal.

A deputation, introduced by Mr. Beach, M.P.,
consisting of Dr. Hodgson, Mr. Payne, Dr. Aldom, Mr.
Barrow Rule, Mr. Waymouth, Dr. Schmitz, Mr. Honey,
Mr. Rossiter, Dr. Schaeble, Mr. Oppler, Rev. E. Hedges,
Mr. Wyles, Mr. Long, Mr. Horton, Mr. Robertson, and
several other gentlemen, had an interview on Wednesday
with the the Lord President of the Privy Council, on the
subject of scholastic registration. After the objects of the
association had been fully explained, his lordship expressed
the great pleasure the interview had afforded him, and pro-
mised to give the subject his most serious consideration.

A case of importance to the sporting fraternity
was heard by the Liverpcol stipendiary magistrates on
Tuesday. Samuel Johnson, the keeper of a public-house
in Clayton-street, the former occupier of which made a
large fortune by racing sweeps, was summoned for having
unlawfully used aroma in such house for receiving money on
the contingency of a certain lottery not authorised by Act
of Parliament. John Sidebottom, a shopkeeper in Rich-
mond-row, was summoned for a precisely similar of-
fence. 'The prosecutions were instituted under the 42d
George 111., chapter 119, section 2, by which the de-
fendants bad rendered themselves liable to a penalty
of £5OO, or to be committed for trial at the Quarter
Sessions. Only one case was gone into, it being proved
that a woman had purchased tickets tor racing sweeps at
the defendant Johnson's house, and that those tickets
were referred to in a list of prizes. The magistrate thought
that a prima facie case for trial had been made out, but ho
allowed the matter to stand over for a month, on the un-
derstanding that the " sweeps," or lotteries, or whatever they
were called, were entirely done away with.
C4N SUCH THINGS BE ?—Bronislaus Szwarc, one
of the most able and popular of the leaders of the Polish
national movement of 1861-2, disappeared mysteriously
a few months after the insurrection broke out. He has
just found means to cammunicate with his friends, who,
after making every effort to find out what had become of
him, had given him up for lost. His story, like that
of most of the Polish leaders, is a very sad one. He
was the son of a Polish refugee in France, and in 1860
obtained the appointment of engineer to the St. Petere•
burg and Warsaw Railm ay, the greater part of which
was constructed under his superintendence. His patriotic
feelings, however, soon aroused the suspicions of the
authorities, and he fled to Warsaw, where he took an
active part, under an assumed name, in the national
organisation which was then forming. On Christmas-eve
1862 he was arrested by the police, and after a desperate
resistance was overpowered and confined to the citadel.
After a long inquiry, in the course of which it is said
he suffered torture, he was sentenced to death. The
Empress Eugenie having interfered in his behalf as a
French subject, the sentence was commuted to trans-
portation, and be was ordered to be sent to Siberia.
Scarcely had he arrived at Moscow, however, when
a second order arrived ordering him to be forwarded
to some other destination, but what this was his friends
have until a few weeks ago striven in vain to discover. It
now appears that for the last five years he has been
chained to a wall in one of those fatal casemates, lying
below the level of the river Neva at C'ronstadt, where so
many political prisoners have died a miserable death.
Those who have seen him there, and who knew him at
Warsaw when he was a handsome, spirited young man,
say that it is now quite impossible to recognise him. He
is a cripple, prematurely old, utterly broken down by
disease and suffering, and without a spark of his oh/
k4crz left,

••••••••
GRAND BANQUET TO SIB WATIC.IN

WYNN, M.P.

A grand banquet has taken place at Wrexham, in honour
of the return, for the seventh time, of Sir W. Wynn as °lle
of the representatives for the county of .Denbigh. The Pre
parations were of the most brilliant description,
and the
attendance was exceedingly numerous. Tho chairman,
Major Ffoulkes, proposed the toast of the evening in a In°st
appropriate speech, and rendered full justice to the
merits of the honourable baronet- He reminded
his hearers that Sir Watkin Wynn had been
their member over since the year 1844, and that manl
Liberals had said it would be a great misfortune to Wales it
Sir Watkin ceased to be one of the representatives of Pen'
bighshire. In responding to the toast, Sir W. Wynn sae
enthusiastically received. He referred to the re-
cent election, and the energetic manner in I°l°
his friends had come to his rescue when he
was E 0 unexpectedly opposed at the last moment.
He alluded to the orderly manner in which everything 015
conducted at the last election in terms of great satisfaction.
When they contrasted the peaceable conduct of their mining
population with tho riotous disturbances that took place
in
North Shropshire they must feel that great credit was clue
to the constituency. Sir W. Wynn concluded by saYios
that ho would retire if at any futum period they found
any ono more worthy than himself to to th'ir,
representative in Parliamtnt. Mr. R
wl
aikes, M.P., propose,'
the "House of Lords," and believed that the toast
always be welcome to those Englishmen who respected tae
Constitution. The hon. member in the course of
speech criticised the acts of the new Government, and
blamed them for their inconsistency in making so
many small reductions by dismissing clerks, and
then creating a Third Lord of the Treasury for the ben,
of Mr. Stensfeld, and raising the income to two thousand 5,,
year. Captain Cooke proposed the "House of Commons,
and declared that the component parts of Mr. Gladstone l
large majority were not very creditable to the Liberal part/.
He was surd that such diverse elements could not long cling
together. Mr. Laird, M.P., in responding to the toast, re-
marked
_that the assembly which he represented 1"5
as yet untried, and he had no doubt whatever that it
ou
would do its duty as its predecessors had done, and it would
be sure to be kept in the right direction so long
was such a large Conservative minority as at present
existed. The hon. member referred to the difficulties of the
position in which the Government was placed, and agree
with Lord Stanley that it would be long before the Ch'—c-
h
d
question was satisfactorily settled. as there