The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-19 00:00:00

OXFORD UNIVERSITY.

The first parade of the corps will take place on
Tuesday, the 25th inst., at the Armoury, at 2.30,
when all members are request to attend in uniform.
A course of musketry was to commence to-day.

A Cingalese tailor lately petitioned Sir Henry
Ward for leave to marry again as he had not seen his wile
for 20 years. He was thus made happy :—" His Excel-
lency the Governor having taken into consideration the
petition of B. De Hoon, of Kandy, praying that he may be
permitted to marry again, has directed the petitioner to be
informed that the governor has nothing to do with setilin,i
mat►imonial quarrels, but that his excellency thinks that a
man who has not seen his wife for 20 years, may fairly
assuine that he will not see her again, and do his best to
supply her place."

The progress of South Australia is at least equally
satisfactory: As regards agricultural, pastoral, and
mineral operations, internal and external trade, and
increase of population, the official tables resent
results calculated to excite surprise. The revenue
for the year ending the 30th of June last reached
.E 164,320. The population increased between 1830
and 1858 from 63,700 to 118,340 souls. The value
of the imports in 1842 was £169,493, and in 1858
£1,769,351, the figures relating to the exports of
the produce of the colony for the same years being
respectively £29,079 and £1,355,041. In 1812 the
number of acres of land in cultivation was 19,790,
and 264,432 in 1858. Tile number of sheep in the
colony during the interval increased tenfold, viz.,
from 331,000 to 3,108,501. This colony possesses
an enduring source of wealth in its copper and other
mineral deposits, which arc as yet most inadequately
worked, and would be likely to command increased
notice in the event of any check arising to the
pursuit of gold mining in the other colonies.
Tasmania has just given a great proof of her ener-
getic and enterprising spirit in laying a submarine
telegraphic cable across Bass's Straits, by which
means she places herself at once in electric commu-
nication with all the other colonies of the Australian
group. 11er pastoral interests are thriving, and the
recent discovery of gold in quantities sufficient to
yield a profit upon the working may prove of great
importance.

New Zealand now also claims to rank as a gold-
producing colony. The extent of her resources in
this direction remains to be ascertained, but there is
no doubt whatever that she possesses, besides gold,
coalfields, together with extensive deposits of copper
ore and other minerals. The agricultural capacity of
this infant colony, the area of which is greater than
that of Great Britain and Ireland, is almost illimit-
able. In the quarter ending March last the total
imports into Nev Zealand amounted to A:360,820
(being at the rate Of nearly a million and a half
per annum), against A:221,690in the corresponding
quarter of last year. The exports of wool for the
first quarter of the prisent year reached £211,240,
nainst only .E 5-1,118 in that of 18M. The local
journals refer in gratulatory terms to the growing
disposition of British merchants to participate in
trade to this colony.

The high credit achieved by the various Colonial
Governments, through a faithful discharge of all
their public ligitions, is proved by the marked
appreciation of their securities in London. Colonial
banks may be classel amongst the most remunera-
tive undertakings in which capital has ever been
embarked. The activity of the telegraphic com-
munication between one colony and another shows
that all of them are imbued with the keenest spirit
of enterprise, and indisposed to let older communi-
ties obtain any advantage over them. The zeal
with which the exploratio) of the interior of the vast
continent of Australia is prosecuted likewise attests
their rising energies. The electioneering excite-
ment reported by the two last mails from New
South Wales and Victoria is rather a promising
feature than otherwise. as denoting the deep in-
terest felt by the colonists in the working of their
representative institutions, and their resolve to
place them upon a stable footing.
It is equally the duty and the interest of the Go-
vernment of this country, which has not yet entirely
released the colonists from leading-strings, to pro-
mot.z their progress by every legitimate means.
When the co-operation of the Imperial Government
is solicited, whether through the medium of her
Majesty's representatives in the colonies or through
that of the influential colonists residing in England,
the appeal should be met in the most liberal spirit.
This is the only way in which the rich young com-
munities at the Antipodes, whose value we are
only just beginning to recognise, can be knit firmly
to us.—Daily News.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING.
TIIE NATIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The Ultramontane Evening News gives the fol-
lowing extraordinary piece of intelligence under
the highly appropriate head of " Important Revo-
lutions" :—" It is rumoured this afternoon on
authority that we believe to be beyond question,
that the formal reply of Mr. Cardwell to the address
of the Bishops was received by their lordships this
morning. It announces or proposes the removal of
Mr. M‘Donel, Chief Commissioner of the Education
Board, to be replaced by Mr. John O'llagan ; the
removal of several of the Protestant and foreign
professors and high officials is sketched for their
lordships' acceptancd and approval, the successors
to the vacant offices to be Cathclics. The rumour
has created a profound sensation all over the city,
and of course intense excitement prevails in Marl-
borough-street.. It is needless for us to say, assum-
ing the facts to be as stated, that the Government
has quite mistaken the demands of the Catholics of
Ireland if it thinks such steps likely to appease the
just objection of Irish Catholics to a pernicious
system."

Sir Henry and Lady Flower. Every have left the
Brunswick, Jerntyn-street, for the Isle of Wight.
LOVE, LAW, AND PIIYSIC.—At the Westminster
County Court on Tuesday was tried M‘Donald v. Ark-
bourn, an action to recover £7 15s. Mr. Roberts appeared
for the plaintiff, who is a surgeon, and Mr. Charnock, of
King William-street, for the defendant, who is an attorney.
It was stated that the parties had been very old friends, and
this was a claim for medical attendance on defendant's wife.
It was supposed that the defence would be a belief that
plaintiff intended to attend without charging. Plaintiff was
willing to give reasonable advice gratis, but could not be
expected to give such attendance at all hours of the night,
and for ten hours at a stre,ch, without the ordinary
-fees.
laintiff proved the attendance upon Mrs. Ayckbourn, who
was in a very dangerous state. In his cross-examination
he taiid he had paid great attention to the case. lie had
"read up" on the subject. He had " read up" the autho-
rties so as not to omit anything. Another gentleman was
called in and refused to attend. Subsequently Messrs.
Jones and Todd attended, and were paid £7.. Defendant
had "done" several legal matters for plaintiff without
charge; and in the present year, at the beginning of it,
plaintiff (defendant's wife being enciente) offered to attend
Mrs. Ayckbourn gratuitously. Plaintiff often spent the
evening at defendant's, and preset tied fur defendant's wife.
On the 15th March she miscarried, and plaintiff had a great
deal of trouble. Did not tell defendant he was
c')arge as other men. Plaintiff had in his account
defendant oliargel ss. per visit. Many surgaeoinn%
and
charged 3s. W. Did not nicks it ss. out laintifflir
as to the
affection. Mr. Roberts ems-examined poh
was of opinion that
alleged negligence, and his Honour goingai to
he altered - • d
grit
and gave no notice when .
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el'laintilf.alsiadnoadmi imputationtdat
dUntc.ler all the circumstances defendant must have a vcr-
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