The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-20 00:00:00

• ....ion was the meeting held on- Tuesday week at
HUN, when the Earl of CARLISLE delivered a com-
panion speech to the oration uttered last year by
the Earl of SHAFTESBURY. When Lord SHAFTES-
BURY spoke in 1858, it was at the laying of the
foundation-stone of the New Ragged School at
Kingston-upon-Hull, just completed. When Lord
CARLISLE addressed himself, last week, to the
benevolent supporters of that humane enterprise, it
'was in the presence of the stubborn fact of a debt
upon this ragged school amounting to £4OO, yet
remaining to .be defrayed. As speedily as 'the
edifice has been completed after the former
harangue, so ,speedily we do hope and believe the
debt specified in the latter oration 'will be liqui-
dated. It Cannot, indeed, be a matter now of any
doubt whatever. The philanthropy of that wealthy
community cannot by possibility have been appealed
to vainly in regard to a liability in itself of such
comparative insignificance. It may be reasonably
calculated, therefore, that already the required
money is virtually forthcoming, so that we may
look to the development of the • undertaking down
at Hull as freed from the incubus of this incum-
brance. Altogether in that particular institution
there are 165 young people in course of training-
-sin the family class, 63 in the girls' school, 87 in
the boys' school. " I fear," says Lord CARLISLE,
" that.this cannot exhaust all the available candi-
dates in the large town of Hull ;" and, therefore,
the Noble Earl earnestly recommends the more
generous among the inhabitants of that
boroukh "to do their very best, and not
to be contented until they have made
their school commensurate with the lowest
depths of destitution with which they have to
grapple." It is a recommendation equally appli-
cable to all the ragged' schools throughout the I
United Kingdom. Those that are the most
flourishing are at the best but a mere comencement.
In no single instance does the most capacious and
the most crowded amongst them contrive to
exhaust all the available candidates in its imme-
diateneighbourhood. Rierywhere the promoters
of the interests of these ragged schools have yet to
make them respectively commensurate with the
particular amount of destitution with which they
have to deal. They have all of them advanced but
a comparatively short distance upon the road they
have undertaken to traverse—some have advanced
more, some less—there is a wide stretch of the
sterile high Way of life before them ere they can
hope to come more within sight of the goal towards
which they are all alike struggling. The bene-
ficent labour of amelioration, of improvement, of
instruction, has, even in the most conspicuous
instance, only just barely commenced. Happily,
hoWever, that commencement has been made now
far and wide all over this densely-populated coml•
try; in which, if anywhere, the extremes of the
social system meet and jostle each other—princely
wealth and the uttermost destitution. National
education, in truth, is now no longer an idle day-
dream—a mere philosophical hallucination. The
work of its extension is at this moment being
steadily advanced, not so much by the Government
as by the people themselves—thanks to the
development and multiplication of grammar schools,
'infant schools, ragged schools, industrial schools,
mechanics' institutes, and juvenile reformatories.

THE VACANT JUDGESHIP.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY.

The Daily Express says:—" We are enabled. to
announce that the Hon. Justice Crompton's resigna-
tion has been accepted by the Government, and that
in consequence thereof Mr. Francis Fitzgerald, Q. C.,
has been appointed a Baxon of the Exchequer, and
Mr. Edmond Hayes, Q.C., a Justice of the Queen's
Bench."

A work of interest is said to be in preparation
at the Royal Polytechnic, for which vocal talent
(including giss Roden) of a high order has been
engaged.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary, who hale returned to Cam-
bridge Cottage, Kew; from visiting the Earl and Countess
of Sandwich, at Hinchingbroke, Hunts, intend to remove
to St. James's Palace, for the season, at the end of the
week.

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and family arc
expected, to arrive at their villa at Campden-hill, Kensing-
ton, the week after next, from Inverary Castle, N.B. The
noble duke and dnchess intend to visit the Duke and
Duchess of Sutherland at Trentham, Staffordshire, en route
south.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have been
entertaining the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford and
a select party of friends at Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdon-
shire.

The Marquis of Salisbury comes to town daily
from Hatfield House, Herts, to attend to his official duties,
returning to his country seat in the evening. The noble
Lord President and the Marchioness of Salisbury come to
town for, the season on Wednesday next.
The Marquis of Exeter has left Windsor Castle
for Burghley House, near Stamford.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arc ex-
pected to arrive at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, on the Ist
proximo, from Broadlands, Hants, for tho meeting of Par-

iament.

The Earl and Countess of Durham are expected
in town on the 2d proximo, from visiting the Marquis and
Marchioness of Abercorn at Baron Court, county Tyrone.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady
Alice Villiers have left Windsor Castle, for the Grove, near
Watford.

The Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lady Ara.
bella Sackville West intend to come to town from Buclk•
hurst Park, Sussex, early in the ensuing week.

The Earl de Grey's intended grand ball at Wrest
Park, his seat in Bedfordshire, on Tuesday night, was put
off owing.to the illness of his brother, the Earl of Ripon.

We regret to learn that the Earl of Ripon is
suffering from severe indisposition at his villa at Putney-
heath In consequence of the illness of the noble earl,
Viscount and Viscountess Goderich have been summoned
to the family circle assembled at Putney. •
The marriage of Mr. Henry Pease, M.P. for
South Durham, to Miss Mary Lloyd, daughter of Mr.
Lloyd, of the Old Park Iron-works, Wednesbury, took
place at the Friends' Meeting-house, Birmingham, yester-
day morning.

, A conference on the pew system was on Tuesday
held in Manchester, but it does not appear to have had any
definite results. A proposal for bringing a bill into Parlia-
ment, securing existing rights, but designed "to check the
pew system," was made, but fell to the ground.
The annual ball in aid of the funds of the Hotel
and Tavern Keepers' Institution, which has for its object
to assist distressed • hotel and tavern-keepers, cooks, and
waiters, members of the institution, as well as their widows
ancrchildren, will take place on Monday evening next, the
24th inst., at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's.

It is understood that the project for constructing
extensive_ wet and dry docks at Northfleet, near Gravesend,
which has been for some months under consideration, will
be brought forward in about a fortnight. The area intended
to be brought into use will be very large, and great reliance
is sitid to be placed upon the facilities which the chalk for-
mation of the locality will afford for the solid and economi-
cal construction of such works. The ultimate capital to be
raised is expected to be about £2,000,000, and the title of
the undertaking will bo " the Northfleet Docks Company:"
The plan includes arrangements:for an absorption of the
business of some of the private wharves at London-bridge.

A: rise of about per cent. took place yesterday in
Brighton Railway stock, upon the official announcement
of a dividend of 31 per cent. for the last six months.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. 19.—The screw steamship
kangaroo sailed hence to-day for New York with the
United States' mails, a full cargo, and about 100 passengers.
The Royal Mail steamer Asia sails for the same destination
on Saturday.
SHIELDS, Jan. 18.—An immense fleet of vessels
have arrived in the north-east ports since Saturday night.
They are mostly colliers from London. Coal freights to
London have fallen' 3d. per ton.
INTERPRETERS FOR JAPAN.--The Government
have not been slow in taking measures to turn to advantage
the treaty,concluded by Lord Elgin with the hitherto seclu-
ded empire of Japan. A corps of officials is being assem-
bled, and will soon sail for that distant region. Among
the corps are several young men who go out expressly for
the purpose of learning the Japanese language, and study-
ing the manners and customs of the people, sous to act as
interpreters, and be otherwise useful to British subjects
settling in or trading with that country. Whether by
design or accident we know not, but it is certain ono of the
future interpreters has been brought froth the heart of the
Highlands, where the Gaelic language is spoken in its.
purity.-=-Gewow Herald.