The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-07 00:00:00

LATEST _NEWS.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.
The Salsette steamer, Capt. Brown, has arrived,
with the East India and China mails.

She left Alexandria Sept. 25, Malta Sept. 28,
and Gibraltar Oct. 2.

The Salsette brings 93 passengers, £1,760 in
specie, and general cargo.

The Indus, with outward India mails of the 20th
ult., reached Gibraltar at 7.30 a.m. on the 26th,
with loss of a boat and part of a paddle-wheel
washed away in a gale. She proceeded to Malta
at 2.39 p.m. same day.
The Malta, with Bombay mails of the 25th,
arrived at Gibraltar on the 29th, four days from
this.

The French brig Hippolyte was capsized by a
whirlwind between Algesiras and Gibraltar, and
sunk. Captain Labautier and one man drowned ;
rest saved. Several minor casualties occurred in
the same storm.

The following telegrams have received at Mr.
Reuter's office, Oct. 7, 10.58:
VIENNA, THURSDAY, OCT. 7.
The Vienna Gazette of this day publishes a new
law concerning the military conscription.
The term of military service remains at eight
years as previously.
The nobility will not be exempt.
King Otho is expected at Trieste on his return
to Greece.

BERNE, OCT. 7.

The Federal Council has decided to send Messieurs
Dubs and Rischaf to Geneva, as Commissioners for
the execution of the federal decree concerning the
political refugees.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

The Emperor of Russia has conferred on the aide-
de-camp who accompanied Prince Napoleon to
Warsaw the Cross of St. Vladimir, and on the other
officers of the suite that of St. Stanislas.
Lieut.-
Colonel Faidherbe, Governor of Senegal, has
obtained leave of absence to visit Paris. He is to
confer with the Emperor on the plans now for
some time under consideration for the improve-
ment of the colony under the Colonel's orders. The
son of Fuad Pasha will remain in Paris as one of
the secretaries of the Ottoman Embassy. It is said
that ;apartments ,have been engaged at the Hotel
de Louvre for Jung Bahadoor, the Nepaulese
Prince, who is expected here on his way to London.
Mehemed Bey will shortly arrive in Paris to re-
sume his mission as Turkish Ambassador. "Fuad
Pacha, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Turkey,'
says a Vienna letter, " will pass through this city
on his way from Paris to Constantinople, and will
stay some days, in order to come to an understand-
ing with Count de Buol relative to the affair of the
navigation of the Danube." Turkey and Austria
continue to act together in the closest alliance on
all foreign questions.
General Codrington and Colonel Blane have
arrived at the camp of Chalons by invitation of the

Emperor.
Baron Ward, the famed Yorkshire groom, who
played so prominent a part at the Court of Parma,
died last night at Vienna. The history of this ex-
traordinary man is full of remarkable events. He
left Yorkshire as a boy in the pay of Prince Lichten-
stein of Hungrry, and after a four years' successful
career on the turf at Vienna, as a jockey, he became
employed by the then reigning Duke of Lucca. He
was at Lucca promoted from the stable to be valet
to his Royal Highness. This service he performed
up to 1846. About that period he was made Master
of the Horse to the Ducal Court. Eventually he
became Minister of the Household and Minister of
Finance, -which office he held when the Duke abdi-
cated in 1848. At this period he became an active
agent of Austria during the revolution. As Austria
triumphed he returned to Parma as Prime Minis.
ter, and negotiated the abdication of Charles 11.,
and placed the youthful Charles 111. on the
throne ; who, it will be remembered, was assas-
sinated before his own palace in 1854. It should
be observed that as soon as Charles 111. came to the
throne the then Baron Ward was sent to Germany
by his patron as Minister Plenipotentiary to repre-
sent Parma at the Court of Vienna. This post he
held up to the time of his royal patron's tragical
end. 'When the present Duchess Regent assumed
State authority, Ward retired from public life, and
took to agricultural pursuits in the Austrian do-
minions. Without any educational foundation he
contrived to write and speak German, French, and
Italian, and conducted the affairs of State with con-
siderable cleverness, if not with remarkable straight-
forwardness. Baron Ward was married to a htnibin_
person of Vienna, and has left four children. Per
haps no man of modern times passed a more varied
and romantic life than Ward, the groom, statesman,
and friend of sovereigns. From the stable he rose
to the highest offices of a little kingdom, at a
period of great European political interest, and
died in retirement, pursuing the rustic operation of
a farmer, carrying with him to the grave many
curious arcana imperil.

BOURSE, Oct. 6.—The market has been heavy,
with a limited amount of business doing, but there
has been no mattrial change of prices. Threes
have been done at 74f. 15c., and are now at 74f. 5c.;
Mobilier varied from 1,015 f. to 1,002 f. 50c. ; Aus-
trian, 662 f. 50c. to 660 f. ; Orleans, 1,400 E to
1,395 f. ; Lyons, 885 f. to 882 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 742 f.
50c. to 740 f. ; and Southern, 610 f. to 605 f. The
following were the last quotations :

41 per Cents. 96 50
Do. end month 96 60
3 per Cents. 73 70
Do. end month 73 85
Bank Shares 3090
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account 985

Credit Fonder.. • 670
Belgian 4
Piedmonteso (5) 92
Roman 93
Austrian
Spanish Threes 46 50
Home Debt 42 75

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account
Orleans

Northern '
980 • . 985
New ditto,. 835 .. 835
Lyons and Mediterranean BBO 880 --
New ditto - . •
Geneva . 665 .. 652 50
Midi
Western 622 50 .. 620
Eastern
Grand Central
--
Sardinian 460 462 50
Austrian

Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 17ic. ; money,
25f. 15c. ; three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 24f. 971 c.

PRUSSIA.

The departure of the King and Queen for Meran
has been adjourned to the 12th October, in conse-
quence of the indisposition of his Majesty, who has
been confined to his room for the last few days.
The Prince of Prussia has returned to Berlin. Lord
and Lady Loftus and Lord and Lady Clarendon had
the honour of dining with Prince and Princess
Frederick-William on Saturday, at Babelsburg.
Count Nessclrode is staying at Berlin. Baron
Alexander von Humboldt, who has been suffering
from gout in the feet, has so far recovered that he
was able to drive to and spend the day at Sans-Souci.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE POOR-LA ir
BOARD ON ADULT EDUCATION.

SALISBURY, WEDNESDAY.
This afternoon the annual meeting of the Hants
and Wilts Adult Education Society, and the Con-
ference of Institutions in union with it, was held
by permission of the Mayor in the Council Cham-
ber ; the Right Hon. T. S. H. Estcourt, M.P.,
President of the Poor-law Board, in the chair.
There were present the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop
of Salisbury, the Dean (Dr. Hamilton), Arch.
Honey, Sir E. Hulse, Mr. Marsh, M.P., Mr. C. W.
Squarey, the Mayor, and a large number of influ-
ential gentlemen connected with the counties.
The CHAIRMAN, after a few introductory re-
marks, called the Hon. and Rev. Samuel Best, of
Abbott's Ann, Andover, one of the secretaries, who
read the report.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the reception and
adoption of the report, said the cause of education
generally, by which was meant, in common par-
lance, the teaching of children, from the first day
they entered an infant school till the day when
they went out to work, had not been so beneficial
during the last fifty years as they could have
wished, for at that period, when the intellect was
ripening into something like appreciating and un-
derstanding what it had been taught at school, it
was, in the great majority of cases, entirely
neglected. Every year large sums of money were
distributed by private and public enterprise for the
purpose of establishing schools all over the country,
and to such an extent has the question of education
been carried, that it has been made the subject of
party discussion and party competition—a thing
that could never be avoided, and would generally, on
the whole, lead to more good than evil in a free
country like England. For fifty years past
they had had the State and individuals com-
peting and doing all they could for the purpose
of establishing schools, and at this moment
nearly a million of money was annually paid out
of the public purse for that purpose, and yet they
could not blink the result, viz., that at the time
when ideas were beginning to take the place of
mere sounds, and the mind was beginning to carry
away something like substance, they found that
almost the whole body of scholars were with-
drawn from their ken, and discipline, and know-
ledge, and were taken off, necessarily he was going
to say, to work. They ought, therefore, on that
account, to feel much indebted to the gentlemen
who had founded this society, and did their ut-
most for its support, and thereby drew attention
to the present unhappy state of things, and
endeavour to provide a remedy. What that
remedy should be has been and will be
the subject of controversial discussion, from
which it is to be hoped the public will be
able to collect something like practical results.
(Hear, hear.) He was not so presumptuous as to
wish to put in his oar amongst them, but he would
take the liberty of stating what he thought they
could not do, and what they ought not to attempt
to do. He was persuaded that anything like an
attempt to catch hold of the youth of both sexes
after they had left school in an artificial manner—
that was, by holding inducements of pecuniary
profit or interest to them other than those their own
minds would induce them to take on the subject, of
education, would end in failure; (Hear, hear.) Such
a course was tempting to the clergyman, who has with
infinite labour established a school, and also to the
lay squire who was anxious to promote the welfare of
the people on his estate, as an inducement for them
to leave their natural employment and attend
to their mental culture ; but he was persuaded that
anything of the kind would only be of a temporary
and exceptional character. What, however, they
ought to do was to establish the means of giving
both sexes instruction after the usual period of
their attending school, without interfering with
their ordinary occupations, through the instrumen-
tality of their relatives, friends, and employers.
(Hear, hear.) As an instance of the difficulties that
at present existed in keeping the children of the
agricultural labourers at school, the right hon. gen-
tleman said that about a year ago he was desirous
of doing something to promote education in his
own parish, and as an example, wanting one boy on
his farm, he thought he wouldj take two, and
that the two should make one boy, as regarded
their work—one being at school and the other
at work alternately—a kind of Castor and Pollux,
one in heaven and the other on earth ; but what
was the result ? Why, he was sorry to say that
after about three or four months' trial he found
they preferred earth to entering the gates of para-
dise ; or, in other words, that they preferred dig-
ging in the soil of the earth to that of the fields of
knowledge—(hear, hear)—and they left his em-
ployment as soon as they found another master who
would employ them in the sole cultivation of the
soil. (Hear, hear.) The alternate system would not
answer, and they had no right to expect success
from it, because it was an attempt to interfere 'in
an artificial manner. The only enduring mode
by which they might hope to effect the con-
tinuance of the education of boys and girls
after the period when they usually left
school, would be by producing in their minds
a desire for it, either because it wouldirpromote
their interests or give them pleasure ; and to speak
plainly he saw no other mode of doing it than by
the establishment of evening schools—(hear, hear)
—where, for a slight emolument, working men of
some little education would be willing to attend
and instruct those requiring it. (Hear.) In his
district it was extensively done. The main thing,
hoWever, after all, was to interest the people who
were to be benefited by this movement. During the
Crimean war his parishioners took a great interest
in the events of that period; and, in order to cul-
tivate among the labourers a desire of improve-
ment that then manifested itself, he established

a reading-room for them, provided them with
paper, candles, and fire; and, in order to make
them feel greater interest in the matter, and a
degree of independence, he made each person who
attended contribute a penny a week towards the
expenses ; and the result was that every adult in
the parish enrolled his name as a member, and
attended the reading-room ; but, at the end of the
month, one of them informed him that they could
not go on, because many of them could not read on
account that the print was so bad. He advised
them to get a reader, and they did so, and upon the
whole it answered very well. A man when ad-
vanced in life became aware of his deficiencies by
their being in that manner brought home to him,
and he was desirous of improving himself, but he
did not like to go to school from not being
able to stand the gibes of youngsters. Now if
such a man had an opportunity of catching an
hour's instruction, morning or evening, to bring him
up to the standard of others, he would not then be
ashamed to go to -school and mix with them for
further improvement. Their object, however, must
first be to interest the people by such means as he
had pointed out, and afterwards give them the
opportunity of improving themselves and that
intellect with which God had blessed them.

The Bishop of SALISBURY seconded the resolu-
tion. In doing so he said he entirely concurred
in all that had been said by the chairman. He
fully approved of night schools for the labouring
population, and he had taken every opportunity
of informing his clergy that he thought so far as
their health and means would permit they could
not be more usefully employed in the winter months
than in superintending such schools, and, he rejoiced
to say, he believed there was no diocese in England
where there was more being done in that respect
than in the diocese of Salisbury. He was not
speaking by comparisons he had instituted, but
from information given to him by one of her
Majesty's inspectors of schools, and who had given
him most pleasing information relative to the
number and efficiency of those schools. To make
them attractive to the adult population they
must not view them simply as schools, but as a
place where they might obtain interesting infor-
mation. By that means they might induce them
to accept that training and information which
they probably would refuse if they put the school
too much forward. (Hear.) He was of opinion
that great good would result from drawing being
introduced into all our schools, not simply as a
means of giving a particular accomplishment, but
as an attractive means of making the people obser-
vant, and thereby acquire information they would
otherwise probably pass by. If they taught draw-
ing he thought it would be an additional induce-
ment for the people to attend them.
The resolution was unanimously agreed to.
On the motion of the Mayor of SALISBURY, se-
conded by Mr. MARSH, M.P., the officers of the
society were unanimously re-elected.
A discussion then ensued relative to competitive
or standard examination for the attainment of the
object in view, and whether education alone would
raise the moral status of the humbler classes, and
if net what other measures were necessary, in which
Archdeacon Honey and other gentlemen took part.
The Hon. S. BEST said he was of opinion
education alone would not raise the moral status
of the humbler classes. Their social position
Must be improved. They must be provided
with better cottages, and to enable them to
participate in that benefit there must be a corre-
sponding effort to put the payment of wages on
a sound basis, so that the labourer might be
able to pay his increased rent, and to put the
skilled labourer and man of integrity in his proper
position. He also advocated the establishment of
rustic games and cricket clubs for the labourer as a
diversion after the conclusion of his day's work, and
to keep his mind in a sound, healthy, and active
state. Reading-rooms also should be supplied for
them as an inducement for them to abandon the pub-
lic-house, but at the same time refreshment mud be