The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1867.

OHN GOENELL and CO.'S CHERRY
kit TOOTH PASTIC is greatly superior to any tooth
powder: gives the teeth a pearl whiteness. protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
she breath. Price ts. 13(1.—Red Bull Wharf. a 3, Upper
rhamec-street. London.

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.
HARROW RACES, Thursday and Friday,
Nov. 7th and Bth, 1867. Special Trains will leave
Euston Station on both days of the Races as under:
—11.30 a.m. and 12.15 noon, returning from ll.irrow at
5.0 and MO p.m., calling at Chalk Farm and Willesden
Junction both going and returning.
Trains in connection will leavo Broad-street (City Ter-
minus) fur Willesden Junction at 11.10 and 11.46 a.m.,
calling at Shoreditch at 11.13 and 11.43 a.m., Dalston
Junction at 11.18 and 11.48 a.m.,. and Camden-road at
11.27 and 11.57 a.m.
Trains will also leave Kensington for Willes den June
tion.at 11.10 a.m. and 12.10 noon.
Passengers from Broad-street, Kensington, &c., will
have to change carriages at Willesden Junction both going
and returning,
FARES TO HARROW AND BACK.
Ist Class. 2d Class.
From Euston
„ Broad-street ' 3s. 6d. 2s. 7d.
„ Kensington • 3s. Od. 2s. 3d.
By Order.
W. CAWKWELL, Geberal Manager.
Euston Station, October, 1867.

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.
SHREWSBURY RACES,, November 11th,
12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th, 1867.
First and Second' Class RETURN TICKETS issued
from London (Euston, Kensington, Chelsea, Battersea, and
Clapham Junction) to Shrewsbury on the 9th NOVEM-
BER and following days, will Ile available to return by
any Train (Irish and Limited Mails excepted), from
Shrewsbury to London, up to and including SATURDAY,
the 16th November.

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day, the 10th November, be continued through to Shrews-
bury, the same as on Week Days.
RETURN TICKETS to SHREWSBURY from Broad-
street (City Terminus), Shoreditch, Dalsten, and Camden-
road, will also bo available from the 9th to the 16th
November, inclusive.
By order,
W. CAWKWELL, General Manager.
Easton Station, November, 1867.

TIVERPOOL, • NEW YORK, AND
PHILADELPHIA. STEAMSHIP COMPAN Y.—
INMAN LlNE.—Carrying the United States Mails.
The Company's full-powered Steamers will be despatched
as under

FROM LIVERPOOL TO NEW YORK.
CITY OF BALTIMORE Wednesday, Gth Nov.
ETN A.
CITY OF WASHINGTON Wednesday, 13th Nov.
CITY OF PARIS Wednesday, 20th Nov.
And every Wednesday and Saturday.
Cabin Passage by the Mail Steamers sailing every Wed-
nesday, 15, 17, and 21. Guineas, according to, the accom-
modation.
Forward Passage includes a full supply of cooked pro-
visions.
Passengers for Canada and the United States booked
through on very advantageous terms.
For further particulars apply to WILLIAM INMAN,
22, Water-street, Liverpool; or to ELVES and MACEY,
Gl, King William-street, London.

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT-
LANTIQUE, 8, Place Vendome, Paris.
NEW YORK VIA HAVRE AND BREST.
The undermentioned Steamers sail every 14 days as
follows :
From HAVRE-7th and 21st November, sth and 19th
December, 1867.
From BREST-9th and 23d November, 7th and 21st
December, 1867.
NAPOLEON 111. ... Pa idle 1,200 h-p.
VILLE DE PARIS... Screw ... 1,000 ~
PEREIRE do. „ 1,000 „
ST. LAURENT do. 1,000 „
EUROPE ... Paddle ..„ 900 ,7
RATES OF PASSAGE.
Havre or Brest to New York, Ist Class £33 0 0
11 2d Class l7 0 0
3d Class l4 0 0
London: STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and CO.,
8, Austinfriars, E.C.

WEST INDIES AND THE GULF OF
MEXICO.
THE COMPAG NIE GENE LE TRANSAT-
L E.
The next Steamer will sail on the 16th November, for
St. Thomas, Havana, and Vera Cruz, with branch lines
from St. Thomas to Guadeloupe, Martinique, Porto Rico,
Cape Hayti, Santiago, and Jamaica; also from Vera Cruz
to Tampico, Matamoras, and New Orleans. For freight
of goods and rates of passage, and other particulars, apply
to STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and CO.,
8, Austinfriars, E.C.
Letters addressed via St. Nazaire, and posted in London
will be sent by the above line.

JAPAN, HONG- KONG, SHANGHAE, AND
PACIFIC PORTS, VIA PANAMA.

THE COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLAN-
TIQUE. under POSTAL CONTRACT with the FRENCH
GOVERNMENT.
The next Steamer will sail on the Bth of November
from St. Nazaire for Martinique, Santa Martha, Colon,
Japan and China, Aspinwall, Isthmus of Panama, La
Guayra, Porto Cabello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara,
Surinam, Cayenne, &e., Callao, Valparaiso, San Jose, and
San Francisco. For rate of freight of goods and of passage,
and other information, apply to
STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and CO,
8, Austinfriars, E.C.

STEAM TO NEW YORK.—UNITED
STATES MAIL LINE.—The magnificent steamers
of the New York and Havre Steamship Company will
leave Havre and Falmouth with Passengers and Mails
once a fortnight as under:—
These ships aro unequalled for their passenger accom-
modation, and the excellence of their cuisine.
From Havre. From Falmouth,
Fulton Nov 27 Nov. 28
Arago Dec. 25 Doc. 26
Fulton Jan. 22 Jan. 23
Arago Feb. 19 Feb. 20
Through fares from London, £23 55., £l9 15s , and £l6
15s. First-class.
For further particulars apply to James A. Wotton, Havre ;
Lherbotte, Kane, and Co., Paris ; G. C. and R. W. Fox
and Co., Falmouth ; or,
11. STARR and CO., 145, Cheapside, London.

“ANCHOR” LINE OF TRANSATLANTIC STEAM-
PACKET-SHIPS FROM
GLASGOW and LONDONDERRY to NEW
YORK. .

•
Sailing regularly (unless prevented by unforeseen
circumstances),
FROM GLASGOW EVERY FRIDAY.
FROM LONDONDERRY EVERY SATURDAY.
Passengers booked at Through Rates to all parts of the
United States, Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.
Saloon Cabin, Eleven, Thirteen, and Fifteen Guineas
(according to accommodation and situation of Berths).
Intermediate, Seven Guineas. Steerage Fare as low as
by any other First-class Line. For further particulars,
apply to HANDYSIDE and HENDERSON,
23, Foyle-street, Londonderry ; or
51, Union-street, Glasgow.

STEAM TO NEW YORK DIRECT.—
AMERICAN FL AG.—The undermentioned first-
class paddlewheel AMERICAN . STEAMS RIPS (late
Collins' rum) will leave Southampton for NEW YORK
direct, carrying the United States mails, viz.:—
Steamer. To Sail.
BALTIC Wednesday, Nov. 6.
ATLANTIC Wednesday, N0v.20.
These magnificent steamers aro well known for their
regularity, and for their unsurpassed regulations for the
comfort, convenience, and safety of the travelling public.
Fares :--First-class, £2O and £lB ; second-classy £l4 and
£l2.

For freight or passage apply. to tho General Agents,
J. STUART DAY, aneCo., Docks, Southampton ; or to
CITARLES GUMM, 19, Change-alley, Cornhill, London.
Vost-end Officeat Wour,TurttirS,hild'Oo:,: 77, Ildgent-,
area, W.

REAT-WESTERN RAILWAY.

LIVERPOOL RACES, Nov. 5,6, 7, and Bth.

RETURN TICKETS to BIRKENHEAD awl LIVER-
POOL issued at Paddington, Victoria, Battersea, Chelsea,
West. Brompton, and Kensington, on MONDAY, Nov. 4,
and following days, will be available uutil Saturday, Nov.
9, inclusive.
Paddington, Oct. 28.

J. GRIERSON, General Manager.

TIIE EAST INDIA IRRIGATION AND
CANAL COMPANY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the
THIRTEENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
of the Shareholders of the East India Irrigation and C mai
Company will be hold at the Company's Offices, Nos. 8,
and 9, Queen-street-place, Southwark-bridge, in the City
of London, On SATURDAY, the nh day of November,
inst., at one o'clock precisely.
The Transfer-books of the Company will be closed from
the 20th to the 30th instant, both days inclusive.
By order of the Board,
JOHN WESTWOOD, Secretary.
8 and 9, Queen-street-place, London, E.C.,
Nov. 1,

INDIA OFFICE, Oct. 23, 1867.
THE Secretary of State for India in Council
hereby gives notice, that he has received from the
Right Hon. the Governor-General of India in Council the
following Notification regarding the strict enforcement
of Sections 33 and 31 of the Indian Consolidated Customs
Act.

J. COS3IO.ItELVILL. -

NOTIFICATION.
Notice is hereby given that, on and after the Ist day of
April, 1868, the terms of sections 33 and 31 of Act VI. of
1863 (the Indian Consolidated Customs Act) will bo strictly
enforced at all Custom Houses subordinate to the Govern-
ment of India, onto the Local Governments of the several
Presidencies. A true specifieation of all goods imported
in their respective vessels will be required from all Masters
and Commanders of vessels; and such terms as "mer-
chandise," "sundries," or the like general description of
goods, will not be accepted in any manifest or report of
vessels arriving at any port;in British India, or its depen-
dencies, as required to be submitted by Masters and Com-
manders of vessels by the 83d Section of the aforesaid Act.
Masters and Commanders of vessels who shall be unable
to enter in their'reports or manifests a true specification of
all goods import3d in their respective vessels, in conse-
quence of their neglect or failure to obtain a full and de-
tailed description of all such goods in their bills of lading,
before the shipment of such goods, will be liable to the
penalties' laid down in the altb. Section of the above-men-
tioned Act. - -

RETURNS

OFFICIAL'
px THE
SEVpA,I, SEWIIT.G-IA9,IIINE COMPANIES,
For the Year ektdinieTwie 10th, 1867, show
FORTY-THREE THOUSAND AND FIFTY
THREE Sold by
THE SINGER" MANUFACTURING
COMPA 1V Y.
Being 4,998 more than Sold by any other Manufacturer.

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4.ioatiottio,i,i4esimotiitiENs444:l=;*nt
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Chief Office in the United Kingdom:
147, CIIEAPSIDE, LONDON, E.C.
District Agencies:
11, NEWINGTON BUTTS, S.E.
39, KING'S:ROAD, CHELSEA, S.W.,
H. CocKs, Agent.
1, BISHOP'S-ROAD, PADDINGTON, W.,
GAMES and Co., Agents.
93, UPPER-STREET, ISLINGTON, N.,
J. Muzenn, Agent.

YARMOUTH BLOATERS, 25 for 4s. ; 50,
6s. ; 100, 10s.; 500, 40s. Fresh Fish in ice, three
kinds, for 10s. Delivered free to all parts of London and
countryupon receipt of remittance, by FRED. BARNEY
and CO.,C Fish Purveyors, Great Yarmouth.

WALKER'S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
are supersedin' all others Prize medals, London,
1862, Paris, 1867. Gold from £l5 155., silver from £0 68.-
68, Cornhill, and 230. Regent-street.

FURNISHED HOUSES, from £2 2s. to £2O
per Week.—D. S. HUMPIIKIRS has at all times a
manber of First-class REsIDe:\CES to be LET. furnished
or unfurnished. or sold. more i artieularly in the neighbour-
hoods of Sydenham. Uppvr Norwood. Forest-hill, and vici-
nity.—Particulars may be had at the Olflce, Printing House-
square.

HOUSES and APAR Vll EN rs WAN TED, and to be LET
or SOLD, LUSI NIESSES for DISPOSAL, ttc.
PROPERTY, FREEHOLD or LEASEHOLD.
D. T. HUNIPHRIES has conthrtat applications for
ati descriptions of PR /PE itTY which will pay good interest
for outlay. Houses out of rep sir not objected to. 'l'. D.
Humphries can st all times dad eumtorners tor all desc, ip-
lions of h.,„ ,
ransterrA. Apply, D. T. Humphries, Estate Agent, Print-
ing House-square.

"DOWELL'S BALSAM OF ANISEED,
1 for COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMA, BRONCHMS,
Sore Throat, Difficulty of Breathing, and all similar affec-
tions of the Respiratory Organs.
Sold by C),emtsta and Medicine Vendors throughout the
World. In Bottles only, price Is. lid., 2s. 3d., and Ils. each.
Established nearly half a Century.

TRANSPARENT CANDLES.—If you only
want something pretty to look at, without minding
a little smoke and smell, and a little bending and running
over if the room should happen to be rather unusually
warm, buy any of the very transparent low quality Para-
line Candles now sold freely everywhere at one shilling
per pound ; but if along with beauty of appearance you
require steady brilliancy of light, and freedom from risk of
these little occasional mishaps, tell your dealer to supply
you with
"PRICE'S GOLD MEDAL PALMITINE CANDLES,'
which, though charged at a higher price per pound, are
really cheaper when the difference of quality is taken into
account. They are believed to be the very best substitute
yet produced for real Wax and Spermaceti, now at such
an extravagant price, and are being introduced in place of
them in the West-end Clubs, and elsewhere whore ex-
cellence of quality is studied as well as economy

arrested by this mute appeal, and men in the busy
City of London read with renewed interest and
sympathetic horror the astounding revelations which
the Farnham Workhouse Inquiry has brought to

light.
Pauperism is very mute and long-suffering and
shrinking ; it has become inured to its misery. I
Like eels to their skinning, paupers, it is said,
have become accustomed to the skin- cutting night-
winds of March, or to the chill damps of the Parks
or railway arches in long November nights. Some
of our readers may have witnessed how patiently,
with hands deep thrust in their pockets or folded
under a thin and, scanty shawl, men and women
take up their places on benches in the Park as
night begins to fall, sitting bolt upright, awaiting
with silent and stolid aspect the app-rciach of dark-
ness and of sleep. Of the bitter waking in pain,
hunger, and hopelessness, of the thousands who,
in London alone, lie down every night in the year
with no better shelter than an arch or a doorway,
we know but little, nor of what becomes of them
when' driven from their resting places by the dawn
of light and the stir of life. In early dawn creep-
ing are, indeed, to be seen gliding along
like pale shadows throughgthe streets, and diving
out of the broad streets into narrow alleys and
passages as if they shunned light and publicity. They
never beg from a chance passer-by, or speak, or
look up, but, shrinking into themselves, shuffle on
in si lent misery. Must these things be ? is the
gestion which every, one has to answer. Must
there be such misery, such neglected outcasts, such
chronic paupers in a country so wealthy, so power
ful; and so highly civilized as ours? Is pauperism,
if not indeed a condition, almost a necessity of
our civilization ? Scarcely so, for it is not to be
found in a nation as highly civilized as France.
It does not exist in Germany, at least in such a
chronic. state as with us save, perhaps, in the
rural districts about the Black Forest, where the
population lives in a state almost on the verge of
starvation. It is unknown in Madrid, in Rome,
where deaths from starvation, exposure to cold,
or from official neglect, such as occur so often in
London, are' things unheard of. Of course, in a
commercial country like England, where the
struggle for life is so keen, where the risks in pur-
suit of wealth are so frequent, the pressure of sud-
den poverty is often such as to tax our energies to
the highest,• but 'still with all our resources, if
~they were properly ,organized and administered,
there is no'need fdr the existence of that chronic
'pauperism which on a sudden of distress sinks into
utter starvation, and paralyzes by its wide extent

our efforts to meet sudden emergencies.
Our mismanaged workhouse system and chronic
pauperism, like a standing army of misery in the
midst of luxury and wealth, though closely con-
nected, are distinct questions which must be dealt
with separately. A thorough reform in the whole
management of our poor is what we have a right
to expect immediately from the resources and
organization already at our disposal. Every
day's delay in the remedy of the crying abuses
which confessedly exist, is an outrage on our
sense of justice and on our humanity ; but for the
removal of the standing .pauperism of our large
cities, whether it results from crime, intellectual
or bodily weakness, or from misfortune, time and
thought and national determination are absolutely
necessary, so that no false step be taken, and that
the nation be not committed to a system which
shall create evils greater even and more disastrous
than those it aimed at removing. To cope with our
existing pauperism will require a vast and intelli-
gent organization. It will cost million 4 of money
and years of labour to eradicate the evil from our
soil ; but to a nation which has done so much for
the promotion of its material greatness, what is
there to shrink from in labour and expenditure,
however vast, which shall help on the moral well-
being of ihe nation by rescuing tens of thousands
from the crime and misery in which they are
now sunk ? Pauperism, as it now exists in our
midst, is not only a disgrace to our civiliiation,
but a crime in a country where the lessons 'of
Christianity have been taught. Westminster
Gazette.

DINNER TO MR. LOWE, M.P.

On Saturday evening the directors of the Philo-
sophical Institution, Edinburgh, entertained Mr,
Robert Lowe, M.P., to dinner, on occasion of his
visit to that city to open the lecture session. About
150 gentlemen satdown to dinner in Slaney's Hotel.
Mr. IV. Smith, Senior Vice-President, occupied the
chair, and in appropriate terms proposed the toast
of the evening.
Mr. LOWE, who was received with loud cheering,
said: My lords and gentlemen --I am so little used
to hear the language of panegyric (laughter) as ap-
plied to myself— -though I hear a great portion of it
daily flowing past me—that I can hardly do justice
to the most unexpected honour you have conferred
upon me. I came here as a stranger, with a fixed,
single, and definite purpose. That purpose was to
avail myself of the kind invitation which was given
to me, and in order to express in a public manner,
and before an audience which I believed capable of
thoroughly appreciating the merits of au intricate
and somewhat abstruse question, my views on the
steps which should be taken as to the education of
the country. In that respect my objects have been
fully attained. I have been allowed, through the
kindness of this institution to state, I am afraid at
great length, and with great minuteness, the views
that occur to me on this most important question
of the day. (Applause.) Having done this the
object I had proposed myself was accomplished;
but a man sometimes reaps more than he sows, and
this has been my case. (Laughter.) In the first
place I shall go home rewarded with a degree which
I am afraid it would have been a long time before
my own University would have thought of conferring
upon me (great laughter) —the degree which it has,
pleased the Senatus Academicus of the University of
Edinburgh to invest me with. In the second place
I have had the honour of being entertained at
this splendid festival, a tribute which I thoroughly
believe it would be very difficult to get any large
number of my countrymen to unite in anywhere
else. (A laugh.) And, therefore, gentlemen, as a
stranger, being known personally to very few of
you, and having such very slight el iims on your
kindness as I have, I beg from the bottom of my
heart to thank you most sincerely for the honour
you have done me, and to the chairman for the most
undeserved manner in which he has spoken of me.
Gentlemen, of party politics, of course, I know my
duty too well to say anything. I feel too deeply to
touch on it lightly, and I respect you too much to
go into it at any length. That subject I pass by,
and, in doing, so, I feel myself at a considerable
difficulty, because, as your chairman well remarked,
the question of education is not, at any rate, a part
of politics, and that when we exclude politics we
apparently exclude that ; but still I think you will
give me license to say a very few words on that
subject. (Applause.) On that point I have very
little to add to what I said last night. I conceive
the point we ought all to bear in mind is that the
recent changes, whether for good or evil—and on
that I offer no opinion (a laugh)—entirely alter the
whole aspect and bearing of the question of educa-
tion. It is no longer, I fear, a private affair, or a
matter of dilletanteeism, as a thing to be taken or
left, as may please this squire, or that parson or
that community. (Hear, hear.) It is a matter
which has become one of public and paramount in-
terest. It is not the neighbourhood only, as has
been assumed hitherto, that has an interest in the
education of the children of the neighbourhood. It
is the whole community at large that has a most
overpowering interest in the education and instruc-
tion of every one, even the meanest of its citizens.
That is the mighty, the enormous change ;in the
aspect of the question of eduCation which this rear

PRICE.. 4d.
STAMPED sd.

has wrought in t his country, and it is that Which I
want to impress, not only on you, on whose enlight-
ened minds I Itave no doubt the conviction is already
firtnlyplantecl, by L on other persons who, perhaps, may
not be vim as enlightened as yourz,elves. I think I
see symp oias in the coniuct of the Government of
this country that they are not aware what mighty,
what new, what vast, what important duties the
cha iges of this year have thrown upon them. (Hear,
hear.) They think that " to-inoirow shall be as
to-day, and much more abun.lant." (Great laughter
and app' nue.) They suppose they can alter the
whole ?oasis or our institutions, and yet can main-
tain those institutions in their integrity as they
existed before that basis was altered. (Hear, hear.)
I hope, gentlemen, this is not party politics when I
say that men of all political opinions—those who
rejoice at and those who deprecate recent changes--
ought alike to agree that these changes, whether for
good or evil, are most momentous and important ;
that they cast upon those who are able to think and
act for their fellow-citizens the most enormous re-
sponsibility; that they require from us nothing less
than that we should carefully review, piece by piece,
the whole of our organisation, social and political,
in this country, and adapt it as far as we can, by
measures of wisdom and moderation, to the enor-
mous changes which are certainly impending. Sup-
pose a man to have swallowed a fluid of the nature
of which he is ignorant, which will not operate for
a certain number of hours, which may be a most
salutary draught ,or may .be a most deadly poison,
how would he occupy these hours if he were a wise

tuan ? (Laughter and :cheers.) Would 'be not.
occupy them in preparing, not for the best, but for
the worst ? (Laughter and cheers.) Would he
not put his house in order ? (Load cheers.)
Would he not look the change that awaits him
firmly and manfully in the face, and make such
preparations as the case may require? But, gentle-
men, I say that to men of all parties, because we
all know we have made " a leap in the dark."
There is no doubt about it. (Loud laughter and
cheers.) That leap may land us in smooth grass ;
or it may deposit us in a stone quarry ; and in order
that it may be well with us, let us see the time that
is left usL--time most invaluable, most precious; time
that can never return to us again—in endeavouring,
if we can, to accommodate our institutions to these
great changes. And, gentlemen, I think I see
symptoms that this is undreamt of. I find that
last year a small measure, which had for its object
to open Fellowships in the Universities to Dissenters,
was thrown out of the House of Lords just as if they
supposed they could maintain, in the face of the
change that has taken place, the same attitude that
has hitherto been maintained. (racers.) I hear
language held of the same kind, which makes me
miserable when I hear it, I ecause it shows that we
not only have got a great change, but that the mani-
pulation of that great change has fallen itito the
hands of men who were altogether incapable of con-
ducting it, and utterly unable to comprehend the
magnitude of what they themselves have done.
(Hear.) Therefore, gentlemen, I say the duty of
every man who loves his country, whatever his
politics may be, is to turn the whole force of his
mind, the whole strength of his will, and the whole
power of his influence into this question of education,
and turn it on this one single point of seeing that
there shall be provided in the shortest possible space
of time the means of education in the elements of
useful knowledge for every one of her Majesty's
subjects iu these islands that choose to avail them-
selves of it. Ilow is that to be done ? I have given
my own views. lam not bigoted to them. There
may be better ways of doing it, but it must be done.
That that is the end to be arrived at, and that the
question is not so much a question of ends but of
means, is, I think, perfectly self-evident. (Hear,
hear.) If I can only succeed in impressing that on
yrm, and through you, on those you influence, I
shall be better pleased than I am with all the honours
you have showered upon me. You will see whether
my anticipations are right or not. At any rate let
us be free. Let those who have been in their time
the tried and true friends of education, as I believe
all those I address have been, let them not have to re-
proach themselves:that at this momentov hen the whole
aspect of the question is changed, when it has become
in fact, as it were, a department of the State instead
of the business of private munificence, let them not be
wanting in their duty to the State, or shrink from
putting their shoulders to the wheel. We cannot say
what an hour may bring forth. The next Session
of Parliament is our own, and every pressure that
can be brought should be brought to cause this Par-
liament to settle this question, at least to put it on
a more satisfactory basis before a new Parliament
comes into existence. Well, gentlemen, I have no
more to say, except once more to thank you for the
most unmerited and unexpected honour you have
conferred on me. (Applause.) As I told you, I
am not used to such things. If I was, I should
return you my thanks probably with more grace
and more effusion, but I assure you not with more
sincerity than Ido now. (Great cheering.)
Mr. MONCREIFF, M.P., in giving " The Cause of
Education," said—My right hon. friend has ob-
served that education has now become a political
question. I can only say that so far as I am con-
cerned it shall not be made, a party question.
(Cheers.) The Conservative Government have many
facilities for dealing with this subject. They com-
mand a majority in the Upper House which no
Whig Government has ever been able to command ;
and if the presentConservativeGovernment think it
would signalise their tenure of office to pass even a
more liberal measure of education for Scotland than
that which the late Government proposed, they may
rest assured that it will meet with no jealousy or
cavil, but will receive, I believe, from the represen-
tatives of Scotland the most hearty and earnest
support. (Cheers.)
After several other toasts had been proposed,
Mr. Lowy: gave "The Edinburgh Philosophical
Institution." In the course of bis remarks he said
—I do no not pretend to go into the details of your
society, or to commend its working in matters of
that kind ; it is a thing you all know perfectly well,
and I do not, and therefore it would be quite ridi-
culous in me attempting to teach you that which
you know better than myself. If you knew nothing
about it, I might draw on my imagination—
(laughter)—l might present you with a fictitious
history of your own society--(laughter)—just as
some people are wicked enough to say they have in
the course of this week been presented with a fic-
titious history of what has taken place in our
country in regard to Reform from the reign of
Queen Anne downwards. (Loud laughter.) But,
gentlemen, I presume that the brilliant audience to
whom the splendid and imaginary sketch was ad-
dressed, having mostly all had the advantage
of classical education, were entirely ignorant of
the history of their own country—(laughter and loud
cheers)—nay, more, that they were equally ignorant
of the history- of their own lives—(continucd laugh-
ter)—and so supposed they had been consistent ad-
vocates of measures which we all know they had
consistently opposed. (Roars of laughter.) 1 am
afraid you are not in that predicament. I dreadfully
fear you thoroughly understand the history of your
own institution—(laughter)--therefore that must be
my apology if I do not present you with a brilliant
and diversified sketch of its history, drawn for your
amusement from the depths of my inner conscious-
ness. (Laughter.) Gentlemen, restricted as lam
to the region of plain prose and plain fact, 1 shall
confine myself to three topics of commendation—
ample but true, plain but I think convincing—that
you ask nothing at all from the State, that you
tread ou no man's toes, and offend no man's preju-
dices, and that you give every man who belongs to
you lls money's worth for his money. Relying on
the strength.of the case, I beg to propose to you the
toast of the Philosophical Institution, and in so doing
respectfully to take my leave of you, once more
thanking you for the great honour you have done
me. (Loud applause).

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THE STATE jkLrl
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The Times contains a long an wastiskiletitt r
from the correspondent who has jusbioneitßmtl. lie
arrived there on the 27th, by train, Punctually to the
minute, just as if Rome were London and the railway
thither the Great Northern. He had heard terrible stories
of bloodshed and rapine on his way, but did not much
believe them. On his arrival he found that he did
well to doubt. Rome, tad, had its romances, and told
how 250 Papalini had defended themselves against 5,000
G'aribaldini, with a loss of 400 prisoners—an arithmetical

problem which would baffle Bishop Colenso. norm:,
itself was not comfortable, certainly. If you made an

engagement to dine with your banker, the chances were
that you would be turned back by an irate sentry. The
hotel-keepers kept their usually wide-open doors bolted
and barred, fur visitors were the rarest of rai-e birds. The
possession of any weapon larger than a penknife exposed
the possessor to twenty-five years at the galleys. Then
there was the further desogrement of an occasional bomb
which, exploding, shattered all the windows round, and
perchance killed a harmless passenger or two. The cor-
respondent spy aks highly of the courage and discipline.
of the Papal troops. The Garibaldini have none
of the second, and a great many of them very
little of the_ first. In fact,. so superior were the

Pope's defenders to his assailants, that the correspondent

considers Napoleon to have made a great mistake in send-
ing his troops to Rome. They should ha e stopped at

Civita Vecchia. As it is he has played into the hands of
the Reds, and exposed Italy to the danger of a revolution,
The same writer says that the desire to annex the Papas

States is much stronger than the desire to be aunt-med.
No doubt if the subjects of Pius IX. could give an uu.

biassed vote, a large number of them would be for trans-

ferrin; their allegiance to Victor Emmanuel. But they
are not sufficiently ardent in the matter to expose them-

selves to any risk.
The Rome correspondent of the Etendard has been to
Civita Vecchia, whence he writes in a state of ecstacy at -
the splendid manner in which the French expedition has

been managed. "Twelve days ago," he says, writing on
the 31st, "there was no thought of an expedition.

Suddenly telegrams issue simultaneously from the
Ministers _of War _ and Marine, and brigades and
divisions :traverse France from one extremity to

the other, and in less than thirty hours find themselves
embarked with all their mak& on boiChl a'et which
two days before had been- wholly unfelt: A coultns...
order arrives : Italy has promised to keep her engage-
ments; we believe her word; we, with whom honour is

supreme law Disembark the troops and disarm.'
This order is executed ; not a soldier, not a gun, not a
ration, not a bushel of coal, not a packet of cartridges
remains on board the transports ; everything is taken out.
Four days later Italy tells us in a peremptory manner
that it is impossible to keep her word. Other pressing
telegrams arrive at Toulon. ' Arm and be off,' they say.
And in less than forty-eight hours all is again ready. The
fleet of transports light their fires and go to sea. The
cape of Civita Vecchia is turned, and on the day afterthe

morrow the fleet casts anchor amidst universal astonish-

ment." This correspondent says that 12,000 had landed
up to that time, and that 8,000 more were to follow. The
first detachment completed their disenibarcation between

daylight and 2 p.m.
FRANCE AND ITALY.
The Liberte says that the interview between General
La Marrnora and the Emperor which took place on
Sunday had not the happy results which were hoped.
The General assured the Emperor that it was impossible
for the Italian troops to withdraw before those of the
Pope, and that the possession of Viterbo was essential
both in a military and a national point of view. It was
probably after hearing this that Napoleon ordered the
ultimatum to be sent to which the PreSSC refers.

The Temps attaches very little importance to General
La Marmora's mission. It says that he put forward no
orecise policy, but talked sentiment about the horrors cf
war and the necessity which his sovereign had been
Dbliged to obey. The same journal says that Garibaldi,
strong in secret engagements which have been with him,
threatens that in case the Italian troops evacuate the Pon-
tifical territory he will raise the standard of revolt and
%rouse a civil war in Florence itself.
The Temps thinks that the defeat of Garibaldi, and the
rumoured intention of the Italian Government to confine
him in the fortress of Palmeria, near Spezzia, will diminish
the difficulties between France and Italy.

It appears that the Italian Government kept strict
watch over the telegraph wires at the time that the French
were expected at Civita Vecchia. Having received intelli-
;ence that they had landed, the Government wouldnotallovr

the news to become known until it could announce at the same
moment that the Italian troops had crossed the frontier.
The double information was published in the official
Gazette, and it was telegraphed by Victor Emmanuel him-
self to the Syndic of Turin. The effect of this telegram
was magical. The formidable tumult which bad pre-
vailed throughout the day was immediately suppressed,
xnd the people went home flattered at the thought that
;hey had thus been remembered by the King.
Italy is now a prey to contending factions. A serious
Bourbon conspiracy has been discovered at Palermo. The
pwstor surprised a Bourbon committee on November 1
in the act of enrolling members, who took their oaths on
the gospels and the crucifix. Among those arrested were
the Cavaliere Pasciuta, an ex-Benedictine, who had come
from Rome, two priests, and seven other persons who had
been enrolled. The proclamation drawn up by the com-
mittee, and written by Pasciuta, was also seized.
The Picdmontese Gazette states that Garibaldi had a
narrow escape of being shut on the 30th October. He
went with a guide to a house about half a mile from Rome
in order to reconnoitre. While there shots were fired, and
the guide was hit. Garibaldi, however, escaped unwounded.
It seems that two Papal officers had learnt that Garibaldi
was at the house, and hoped to " pot "
In the present unsettled state of Italy it is not sur•
prising that the Government plan for the sale of the
ecclesiastical property has failed. Transactions to the
extent of only £60,000 have been effected.
THE PROPOSED CONGRESS.
• -

The Indepcndance Beige states that an importan-
circular is said to have been addressed by Baron von
Beust to the Cabinets of London, Paris, Berlin, and
St. Petersburg. The Baron is represented as saying
that there is a perfect identity of interests between
theSkustrian and French Governments on great European
questions. In the German question the Austrian Govern-
ment is totally opposed to foreign intervention, and
will abide by the Treaty of Prague. As regards Italy, the
September Convention was passed without any consulta-
tion with Austria, and though always convinced
that it must sooner or later lead to a difference
of opinion, she will not take any part in the pre-
sent controversy. Neither was Austria a party to the
note addressed by the Governments of France and
Russia to the Turkish Government. She does not cont
eider that note as a threat, but rather as a counsel ; and
she believes that France will not henceforth take any
important step in the Eastern question without the co-
operation of Austria. The visit of the Emperor Francis
Joseph to Paris, and the visit that he had intended to
make to London, are to be considered proofs of the sin-
cerity of his desire to maintain peace. The /ndependance
casts doubt upon the authenticity of this note.
The visit of Baron von Beust to this country is believed
to be caused by a desire on the part of the Austrian
Government to second Napoleon's efforts to bring about a
European Congress. The great difficulty in the way is
the refusal of the Pope to submit to the decisions of any
such tribunal. It is scarcely likely that either England
or Prussia would consent to take part in a gathering of
this kind, if it is to have no effect.
It has been suggested that Napoleon is rather anxious
to involve Prussia in the Roman question, because he
thinks that this would enable him to make war with her
under favourable circumstances. Had he gone to war for
the Rhine Provinces, he would have united the whole of
Germany against him ; but a war in behalf of the Pope
would have the sympathy of a large proportion of the
Germans North and South.
The Berlin correspondent of the Tines denies that
Prussia has given any definite promise of assistance to
ttaly. She is little disposed also to enter upon a con-
ference or undertake a guarantee of any kind. Prussia
and England appear to be working together in the matter.

The London correspondent of the Liberte asserts that
Baden will positvely be admitted into the North German
Confederation as soon as the indispensable preliminaries
have been settled between the King of Prussia and his
son-in-law the Grand Duke.

Letters from Athens state that the insurgents in Crete
have possession of the entire island, with the exception of
the fortresses, and levy tithes on all the produce. The
Turks did not wait for the expiration of the truce, but had
resumed offensive operations. At Athens the return of
the King with his bride was being anticipated with much
interest.

The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian
says that the Alabama negotiations have come to a stand.
still for the present, because Lord Stanley cannot ascertain
if Mr. Seward means merely to waive the question as to
our right of recognising the Confederate States as
belligerents, or has finally yielded that point. If he
means to hold it over in order to press it at some future
time, it is impossible that we can enter into negotiations
on the other point —our responsibility for the damages done
by the Alabama and her consorts. The same writer be.
lieves that the post of Minister at Washington was offered
to two or three Conservative noblemen and declined before
it vas offered to Mr. Thornton, who has been selected
because he is a safe and colourless man. It is not known
ii he has accepted the pest. His friends hope that ho
mill not.