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

THE CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

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
Sappho:—

" 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 of June next, 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 allusions you make to the
Sappho in your last of the 28th of December to Com-
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,

" WILLIAM DOUGLAS.

" James Ashburn 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
sheaving 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 AS.EIBIIRT."

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
un nonday the h.m6-ro:,,ling dispute between Mr. 7'nw.ll
and his men. Both this and the Supo,;o. L duCidOd 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 be 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 retai❑ 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
better.

ELECTION EXPENSES. The expenses of Mr.
isernal 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,
£219165. 11d. ; rent of committee-rooms, wages of clerks,
agents, polling staff, doorkeepers, messengers, &c.,
£291 Bs. ld. ; sheriff's charges, £133 11s. 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 11s. 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 40'7 deg., which
2'5 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 ortemperature 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 fanning 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 'up
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 farmery, 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 1ty91.01 01010,14‘nil Viethikr tv
eign:Attarg mniat.

A great meeting of member's of the soelety for Pro-
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, 335 ; Rev. A. Blomfield,
213 ; Rev. G. Hodson, 206 ; Hon. H. Walpole, 174 ; Mr.
R. Brett, 162; Rev. T. Hugo, 158.

It was then proposed that a deputation should wait uPOII
the Premier to lay before him the necessity of all inquirc
by a Royal Commission into the amelnt and incidences of
local taxation.

To this an amendment was proposethhat the matter
should be postponed for further consideration.
The resolution on being put was carried.
Mr. R. JASPER MORE then proposed a resolutio.- to the
effect that a deputation should wait upon the Presidea• of
the Board of Trade to urge the desirableness of a separat•
i
Government department for Agriculture,
but the general
feeling was against the proposition.
The matter was ultimately postponed till the next
meet'
ing, in March, and the conference terminated, after sitting
for nearly five hours.

A penny Conservative weekly newspaper, t° 12:
called the Britannia, is to be published every
'Wednesday °—
and after February 24.
SUFFOCATED IN A Tunxisu BATH.—Two Turks'
domestics in the employ of Prince 111ustapha Fazyl, were
suffocated a few clays ago in the bath which had just bee'
erected in his Highness's konak at Stamboul. The bath o
had been heated for the first time, and the deceasa
went into it at about two o'clock in the morning.
seems that they fell asleep ; one, a young man, never
awoke. The servants succeeded in rescuing the others
but the poison of the fumes had taken too strong 11°i
of him, and he died in the course of a few hours.—Levalit
Times.

MIDDLE-CLASS EDUCATION. —A spirited eftbi4
was set on foot some two or three years ago in Bedfordshire
to meet a want felt in most of the agricultural countieelll
England—viz„ a thoroughly good education for the 0,1
of farmers and other middle-class people at a cost within
their reach. A large school, calculated to receive :3Uv
boys as boarders, has been built at Kempston, near to the
town of Bedford, and which is about to be opened. The
necessary funds were raised by shares among the landed
proprietors and leading farmers. The Duke of Bedford
supported the movement by taking shares to the amount
of £lO,OOO. Lord Cowper, the lord-lieutenant of the
county, also subscribed largely, and is president of- th:
school board. An education of a superior order, With
board, lodging, &c., without extras, is to be imparted f°:
the low sum of £3O per year, the object in view being, not
so much a commercial project, as to bring down the costg'
a suitable education for the middle classes to the lowest
remunerative point. The school will be open to boys frc'D
all parts of England.
A CASE OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVMENCE*---
Thomas Geddely lived as a waiter with Mrs. Hannan
Williams, who kept a public-house at York. One morn'
ing her scrutoire was found broken open and robbed, and'
Thomas Geddely disappearing at the same time, no clonal'
was entertained as to the robber. About a twelvemonth
after, a man calling himself James Crow came to York,
and worked a few days for a precarious subsistence arc°
porter. Many accosted him as Thomas Geddely.
declared he did not know them, that his name was Jot
Crow, and that he never was at York before. But this
was held as merely a trick to save himself. His mistress
was sent for, and in the midst of many people instant"
singled him out, called him by his name (Thomas Geddely)'
and charged him with his unfaithfulness
and ingratitude 111
robbing her. He was directly hurried before a justice of
peace; but on his examination absolutely affirmed that he Wasnot Thomas Geddely, admitting, however, that he Wag avagabond and petty rogue, and Mrs. Williams and another
person swearing positively to his person, he was committed
to York Castle for trial at the next assizes. On arraign'
ment he pleaded not guilty, still denying that he was the
person he was taken for ; but Mrs. Williams and Orge
others made oath that he was the identical Thomas
Geddely who lived with her when she was robbed; and s
servant girl deposed that she had seen him, on the ye,"
morning of the robbery, in the room where the scrutoire
was broken open with a poker in his hand. 9
prisoner was found guilty of the robbery,
was soon after executed. Some time after the true
Thomas Geddely, who on robbing his mistress had
.fiect e
from York to Ireland, was taken up in Dublin fora crime
of the same stamp, and there condemned and execute •
Between his conviction and execution, and again at the
fatal tree, he confessed himself to be the very Thorns:
Geddely who had committed the robbery at York f°
which the unfortunate James Crow had been executed
:
We must add, that a gentleman, an inhabitant of 11`71lsti
happening to be in Dublin at the time of Geddely's tll
and execution, and who knew him when he lived with
._
Mrs. Williams, declared that the resemblance between the
two men WAN NO exceedingly great that it was nezt:l
imposaiblepOistinguish their leer gitundateteMXP'
Ariscatdifill

A very important meeting of the Council of the Cent°.
Chamber of Agriculture was held on Tuesday at the San!,
bury Hotel, Fleet-street, London. The conference 7.
attended by deputies from provincial chambers, anal°
hers of the Legislature interested in the subjects set de!,
for discussion were invited to be present. The chair "
occupied by Mr. C. S. READ, M.P.
the
Amongst the preliminary business transacted Was
election of Mr. George Towline, M.P. for Grimsby, as vieo,
chairman of the Central Chamber for the ensuing yeer'oe
The CHAIRMAN, after reading some bye-laws
t,
regulation of discussions, which were adopted by the race
ing, called upon
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Mr. HENRY GENGE ANDREW!! (Somersetsbire (Awn berI
to move the following resolution for a national V°,
rate :—" That the income tax affords an economi,
means of raising from all income a contribution to the
1
poor rate, which may be placed to a separate account i 0
the national exchequer to the credit of the Poor-law C°ts
o
missioners. That this resolution is without prejudice,,t,
any better mode of removing that unjust incidence of tul
poor rate which was affirmed by resolutions of the Council
on May 3, 18G8, but suggests a means of redress 1014u,..1
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of careful examination, should her Majesty be gracio494
pleased to grant the Royal Commission
Inquiry for which Sir Massey Lopes has
notice of motion." This resolution was laid before
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 ce
eider the law relating to parochial assessments in the 315'
1859. 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 P,.
perty ought justly to be called upon to ee"'
tribute, and that the Act of Elizabeth coltrli;
plated such contribution according to the "ability"n
every inhabitant. It was argued that an increased area
over which the impost of taxation should he spread vreti', d
enlist the interest of all in its economical expenditure, and
that owners of property would have a more immediate WI
direct interest than at present in preventing an undue ie.
crease of the rate.
The resolution was seconded by Mr. THOMAS DllOlllll
(Herefordshire Chamber), who contended that the presella
system of levying the poor rate was not only too lisaite
in its area, but it was of such a character that in nay
instances it could not be effectually enforced.
In the discussion which followed, the Rev. E. SmlTllses.
(Herefordshire Chamber) said he was not adverse to ,
plan proposed in the resolution, but he would have the
tenant farmers avoid the error of imagining that 04
would eventually gain anything by it.
Sir GEORGE JENKINSON (Gloucestershire Chamber) fill'
nished a number of statistics to show the enormous ill•
crease which had taken place in expenditure in the Ray
of poor rate during the last three hundred years'
amounted at the present time to between ten and del''.
millions. The change proposed to be made in the inst
ner of levying the poor rate need not interfere with the
machinery now in existence.
Mr. BRANDON (Lincolnshire Chamber) took his stand
in supporting the resolution on the broad ground that es
the poor belonged to the nation their support should he
the nation's charge. In his opinion incomes of 00 an
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 ft.
which money was now collected under name of poor rates'
Mr. BEACH, M.P. (Hampshire Chamber) had no don
that it was the originalintention of the Legislature thatOer'
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 and
working classes in the large towns must be enlisted.
Mr. BROWN (Staffordshire Chamber) supported the
resolution, as did also Mr.• DANIEL LONG (Gloucester'
shire Chamber), and Mr. CALDECOTT (Worcestershire
Chamber).
Mr. HICKS (West Riding Chan3ber) stated that the
Chamber he represented would, he believed, fully approve
the resolution proposed by Mr. Andrews.
Mr. GURNEY (Cornwall Chamber) contended that the
whole property of the nation ought to taxed for what was
in reality the police rate of the country. There was ri°
difficulty in carrying out the proposed arrangement. 1-101'.
management must still be preserved intact.
After a long discussion, at the close of which the
CHAIRMAN expressed his approval of the resolution, ands
reply by Mr. ANDREWS, the resolution was put and
carried, with the following preface :—" That the uneque/
pressure of the poor rate, as at present imposed, is et
grievance which renders necessary the early and 170°
serious consideration of Parliament ; that, in the
opinion of this chamber, the maintenance of the P°°', is a national liability to whi,h income from every source
should contribute ; that, in the disbursement of a Pc'el
rate levied in accordance with the principle here soon'
dated, local administration should berecognised and Oa.
ranteed."