The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-17 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 24.
The operations of the allied army on the Parana
are being vigorously pushed forward.
Exchange on London, 251 to 26 ; on Paris, 368
to 370. Coffee good ; first, 7100 to 7300 rein
Receipts during the fortnight, 56,500 bags. Stock,
100,000 bags.

BUENOS AIRES.
Exchange on London, 511 to 52 ; on Paris
86 40.

MONTE VIDEO.
Exchange on London, 53:-1 ; on Paris, 88 80.
MARSEILLES, May 16.

The Messageries Imperiales steamer Nil arrived
here yesterday at 10 p.m., with the Mauritius and
Reunion mails.

LISBON, May 15.
The Messageries Imperiales Company's steam
ship Navarre arrived here to-day from the Brazils.

Foreign Mail Packet List
MAILS DUE.
Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton May 20
Ditto, via Marseilles June 14
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet ...... June 4.
Ditto. by French packet May 2 '.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena May 25.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton May 20.
Ditto, via Marseilles May 23.
Falkland Islands .................
Gibraltar, via Southampton
May 23.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.— May 2)
Ditto, via Marseilles
............. ....May 28
..... .
India (Bombay), via Southampton.
May 29
and Aden, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseifles ........ ......... May 23
may 20.
iEttgoy,pvtia Marseilles
.May 23.
via Southampton ..................... June 3
vMaauriltaDt,ius,
Ditto, via Marseille3. ......................... .June 7
Newfoundland
Portugal
d States and British orth Amerca, by ri-
Unite i B
Ditto, by private ship toic Lisbon .. ...........

tish packet ********* • • .May 23
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-

ton ............................... .

Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry .. may 8
rest Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. .. June 101
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras) 'Say 9.
Cuba and Mexico .
Bahamas, via New "York. May 31.
Bermuda, vla Halifax .. May 9.

A telegram from Lausanne announces the death
yesterday morning in that town of Mr. Ferdinand
Flocon, member of the Provisional Government in
1848.

WORKMEN'S HOMES.---It is only the first step
that costs, says the old adage. Here we have not only the
first step but a fait accompli, a. model, an exemplaire. In
what way can the system be applied in England ? It
seems to us in many ways. It might be tried in the first
place by manufacturers, who, like M. Godin-Lemaire,
employ a large number of men. Again, why should it
not be adopted by railway companies, who have termini
and stations in our over-crowded towns ? Surely,
with a very little outlay, they might be able to con-
struct cheap commodious dwellings for their employes on
the confines of their premises. M. Godin's model need not
be followed in every particular ; still tenements might be
constructed conveniently fitted up, which would prove an
attraction to the class of persons engaged on their works,
and pay a handsome dividend to the shareholders. And
again, why should not companies bo hirmed, adhering
strictly to /I. Godin's system, and building spacious pre-
mises, adapted to develope the moral and physical health of
the inmates of every age ?—Once a-Week.

The following will be read with interest as de-
scriptive of the chronograph :—The chronograph,
which has now come to be regarded as the groat authority
in all matters where it is essential to obtain the rate of
speed with perfect accuracy consists of an ordinary quick
train lever movement, on a scale sufficiently large to carry
the hands for an 8-inch dial, and with the addition of a
long seconds hand, which traverses the dial, instead of
being, as usual, just above the figure VI. The peculiarity
of the chronograph consists in this seconds hand and the
mechanism connected with it. The hand itself is
double, or formed of two distinct hands, one lying
over the other. The lower one, at its extreme end,
is furnished with a small cup or reservoir, with a
minute orifice at the bottom. The corresponding
extremity of the upper hand is bent over so
as to rest exactly over this puncture, and the reservoir,
having been filled with ink of a thickness between ordi-
nary writing fluid, and printers' ink, the chronograph is
ready for action. The operator, who holds tightly grasped
in his hand a stout string connected with the mechanism
peculiar to this instrument, keeps a steady look out for the
fall of the starter's flag. Simultaneously, therefore, with
the start of the race, the string he holds is pulled by him,
and at the same moment the upper hand dips down
through the reservoir in the lower, and leaves a little dot
or speck of ink upon the dial. This is repeated as the
horses pass the winning-post, so that a lasting, an indisput-
able record is afforded by the dots on the dial of the time
—exact to the tenth of a second—which is occupied in
running the race.

NATIONAL EDUCATION SOUlETY.—Yesterday the
third triennial festival of this society was celebrated
by an afternoon choral service in Westminster Abbey, at
which the Bishop of Lincoln preached on behalf of 'the
institution. The objects of this society may be briefly stated
as entirely directed towards the education of the poor, and
above all in their religious instruction in the tenets of the
Church of England as opposed to bare secular teaching.
This latter principle and the principle that the Church
ought not to leave the education of the poor to any Govern-
ment, it may be said, is the basis of the society's existence.
It has been established since the year 1811. As the insti-
tution has progressed so it has extended the sphere of its
usefulness and its operations. It now has six distinct
branches, or rather objects, which it is carrying out with
considerable success. The first of these is to unite with
them poor, schools in all parts of England and Wales, and
no less than 12,500 have been thus affiliated. The second
purpose is to build school-rooms and teachers' residences
in different parishes, and in carrying out this portion of
their duty the society has spent nearly £400,000. Building
London and provincial colleges for training teachers is the
principal object which the society has in view, and in this
direction their efforts have been most successful. Three
colleges in London are the society's own property. To
22 diocesan or provincial colleges also it has voted large
building grants, and altogether under this head the society
has invested nearly £60,000. In the maintenance of Lon-
don colleges for teachers the society has been put to an ex-
pense since its establishment of nearly £250,000. To 14
colleges in the country it makes yearly grants, and all the
money thus bestowed the society considers as being in-
vested in the best possible manner ; for, in the
absence of qualified teachers, school-rooms, books,
apparatus, and appliances are almost useless. To carefully
select books for the instruction of the young is another
branch to which the National Society has directed its at-
tention, and voted upwards of £3,000 in donation of such
volumes. In connection with this branch of operations is
an establishment for maintaining London and provincial
book establishments. County depositories have been estab-
lished, and no less than £13,000 has been expended in car-
rying out this object alone. The annual income of the
society, is between £14,000 and £15,000 a year, but this
sum, even with the aid which was occasionally given from
other sources, is scarcely adequate to keep the society on
such a footing as would enable it to comply with the many
demands made upon it. The triennial service of yesterday
in Westminster Abbey was the third which has been held.
Among others present were his Grate the Archbishop of
Dublin, the Bishop of Peterborough, the Bishop of Sodor
and Man, Lord Lyttleton, Sir T. Phillips, Mr. J. Talbot,
the Rev. B. Leighton, Archdeacon Bickersteth, &c. The
service was intoned by the Rev. Mr. Jones, and the
Canon Hawkins read the lessons. The choir was composed
of the daily morning singers, assisted by those who officiate
at the evening service, and also by a number of amateurs.
By these, after the sermon, the Hallelujah Chorus was
magnificently given. A collection in aid of the funds of the
society was made at the close of the service, and about
£l2O were taken at the doors.

REFRESHMENT ROOMS IN THE HOUSE OF COM-
MONS.—The select committee on the Mtchen in a
report issued on Thursday morning, again complain of the
deficiency of accommodation, and they recommend that an
enlargement of the rooms be executed according plan
by Mr. E. M. Barry in 1863, at an estimated cosotfosfttofffiati6esnOt.
During the present session, they say, the wantin
accommodation has been more manifest than"
year. The average number of members
evening before
month has boon 125 per day; oneandosereems,
while the
Easter as many as 239 dined in dining
dannyrinfogrmlasert
these
Nearly 100 members
tables accommodate only 96
many more have since expressed have signed a paper in appesr
of the proceedings of the
With the report is an account eociv persons.a.
tlh oe n
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ley
es ini
ts alteration,fa v ando ur.
inaodroepitempdoartraencituiensvt investigations.
The
ig better brandy and
the wine
that a drunken man who had come from
merchants that they supply sherries,
and complaining
clo'hmemcoitmteme'itatseeina tthoenecassiettin
had taken
pulley,some
" the property of the
away with
~ At another sitting a wine-bin was the subject of
a wine merchhinianat'sretspezenpnldacse
al resolution, and at a third sitting a resolution in favour of
a supply of Hungarian wines was adopted, and a rebuke
agreed to with regard to the dilatoriness of the waiters.
At one sitting the Sergeant-at-Arms, it was agreed, should
be requested " to send a requisition to the Office of Works"
for 40 dozen table napkins, 12 dozen glass-cloths, and 12
dozen coarse cloths. Of three of the sittings, we are told,
with becoming reticence, that " the committee deliberated."
The wine bill for the session of 1865 amounted, it seemd,
to 449 1.0. 81

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

EPSOM RACES-THIS DAY.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
TADIVORTH STAKES.

La Muta
Ibis
2
Adam anthea
3
Bavarde colt

Boleno..

Sandal..

Charon

GR AND STAND.

BETTING ON THE COURSE.

OAKS.
2to 1 asst Repulse (taken)

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. _This Day.

LONDON, May 17.—Wind this day at noon—South.
Easterly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

LIPP ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, May 16—Mercur, from Stolpemunde ; Adelina,
from Foochow; Elois, from Philadelphia; Victoria, from
Memel ; Anna, from Rostock ; Collier, steamer, from
Dieppe.

Arrived, May 17—Flecha, steamer, from Ghent ; Trident,
steamer, from Hamburg ; Baron Osy, steamer, from
Antwerp; Ranger, steamer, and Cologne, steamer, from
Rotterdam.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, May 16.—Montroso, from London, for St.
Vincent ; Freeda, from London, for St. 17bes ; Caldera,
from London, for Bombay; George, from Barbados; for
London. _ _

Arrived, May 17.—W. L. F. L., Commercial Code, from
West, for North; Utenage, screw steamer, from West for
London.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week,

Miles Opened.

Receipts.

Railways.

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Bristol and
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2:2762,82:75219266375286
271 1865
2;96511458:67104
49 653 663
h d Tyne
Soc.
We Central... 4162215°114
Brecon and ht o 0
20 2,5_5 2,33 u
Caledonian,BlYt
cCockamberrmiaonu.
Cock ermouth K & Penrltn . . 1 475 282
9
Cork and Bandon . . 2O
61 167 251
Cork, Blackrock, & P.assage 20e 459 180
• • •
2 4 203
Cornwall
34 326 537 511
65,4
' 654 1,742 1.813
Deeside , 17 17 367 356
Do Extension
141
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63* 1,427 1,4G4
Dublin and Drogheda
75 75 1,849 1.725
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid lO6 915 3,228 3.469
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, &c 5O 6 ) 3,952 2.986
Gt. Eastern,Nrlk.,&E.l.lnion
Glasgow & South-Western
Great Northern
422 901 38,028 37,0 4
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,-.70 1.794
Do Branches 42 4! 1,031 1,186
ot. Nortlin. & Westn. (Irel.) B2l 711 791 704
r, 9 863
'lt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.).. 3871 3871 10,162
Great Western 1292 1270 71,692 71,199
Hull & Hornsea
Highland - -
'3) 3,329
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,9 .0 1,93,8„
Lancashire & Yorkshire 4u3 403 44.680 35.5,.
Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 21:4 ', 87
Limerick and loynes 264 261 154 156
Llanelly 461 461 707 950
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London & South-Western
Loral. Brighton, &S. Coast 2931 2679 2 ,071 22,649
London, Chatham, & Dover; i 1351 1271 9,7:4 9,018
all Nletropolitan Extension t 124 111 i 2,472 Y,200
Do. Kent 'oast
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
Ilan..Stieffield.& Lincolnsh
Manch. S.J un.& A ltrincham 94 94 1,898 1,489
liaryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6774 6631 50,:183 45.895
Midland Gt. Westn. of hind 2601 2601 5,968 1.552
lionmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 4,1 3.049 2,89/
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 12071
North London ii

8971 28,703 25.023
11801 89,069 65,163
9 4,530 3.339
258 9,108 7,623
11e 117 71
191 1,2(5 1,041
138 5,./33 5,773
68 1,175 1,068
79i 4.143 4,k81
308 22.260 22.db5
61 6,2,7 5,539
1055 2,;77 2.637
10 129 361
31 3.9 320
77 1.736 1,718
10 856 726

--
North Staffordshire 258
Pembroke and Tenby ll#
Rltymney l9l
Scottish North-Eastern lO
Somerset and Dorset B6
South 'Devon -•••• VS
.._

South-Eas tern 315

rail Vale 6l
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd.
Waterlord and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
____ _ _

Vrhaven,Cleator,& Egrmnt.. 10

Funk. 1G N AN 1, COLOYN IAL.

Austrian B2B 823 29,33: 32,001
Bahia and San Francisca .; 76, 76, 333 770
Belgian Eastern Junction 264 .2 0 4 316 332
Bombay, Baroda, &k. en. India 306 306 8,0 )2 5,`., 4
Detroit and Milwaukic lB9 189 6,772 6...41
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern 01 France .......
Eastern Bengal ........ 110 110 3,345 2,' 03
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1177 1077 27,883 27,,47
Great Centrai of Belgium 285 2.5 6,5)8 5.711
Great Indian Peninsula 6961 592 36,523 23,591
Great Luxembourg 134 134 6,141 5,142
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 343 345 16,423 14.065
Madras
3ladrid, Saragossa &A.licant 778 713 17,181 14,664
Northern of Canaaa ...
Northern of France 724 724 60,574 57,745
Norwegian Trunk
ottoman
Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn 2006 197) 148,753 140,343
Paris and Orleans lB2l 1618 82,013 71,117
Recite and San Francisco. &c. 774 774 2,845 1,169
Sc.nde
IGS 105 2,220 1,6,5
.... 122275559138 128544156
16200:99:61: 695:642.09,781
Do. Punjab, ,tc
South Austrian, &c
Southern of France eB3 823 34,881 28,417
Victoria
Welland 23 le7 24
West & N-Wn. of France .. 1155 1016 51,793 49,431

A letter from Naples says :—" In the business
world here the proclamation of the forced currency
of the notes of the National Bank caused a kind
of panic, which has produced an extraordinary
rise in our exchanges. The rate for bills on Paris
has advanced to 109, and on London to 27.50.
Gold was as high as 12 per cent. premium, but has
again fallen to 5 per cent."
The father of Komissarow, who saved the life of
the Emperor Alexander, had been transported to
Siberia in 1855, and set to hard labour for some
political offence. A letter from St. Petersburg states
that the Czar has ordered him to be set at liberty.
ONE COUNTESS POTOCKA, a Polish lady of rank,
wealth, and beauty at Moscow, has been arrested for having
predicted some time ago that the life of the Emperor would
be attempted on the 16th of April. The lady had hardly
been committed to prison when she went mad.
THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.—At the
meeting of the members of this society on the 15th inst.,
Mr. John Fowler, president, in the chair, his Royal High-
ness Prince Alfred, K.G., was elected, by acclamation, an
honorary member. At the ordinary ballot, the last of
the present session, seven members and six associates
were balloted for and declared to be duly elected, includ-
ing in the former class Mr. James Melville Balfour, chief
of the Marine Engineering Department, Otago, N.Z. ; Mr.
William Clarke, chief assistant engineer on the London
and North Western Railway ; Mr. James Ccllet first-
class district engineer, East Indian Railway ; Mr. Henry
Wheeler Davis, acting engineer to the Great Eastern
Railway ; Mr. Jonathan Dickson Ikin, Westminster ; Mr.
Alfred Moore, resident engineer of the Belfast Water-
works ; and Mr. William Smith, chief engineer of the Cal-
cutta Waterworks ; and in the latter class, Mr. J. Henryet
Cotterill, Sloane-street; Mr. Charles Footes Goiwnsetre,r, West-
minster; minster ; Mr. James Sidney Hargrove, V
John G e Lwi vesa .
;Gordon the Localm,Knz t
and Mr. William Barrow Turner, Dalton-in-Furness.y, Mr. surveyorjoho to
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impossible torziimagine.d
away sac-
rifice himself, in order to spare to his Fatherland the mise-
ries of a wicked war. His was a heart full of devotion,
full of filial kindness, full of the most generous aspirations.
If others blame him let it not be expected that I, to whom
bi
he looked as a father, should give the right to any one of
saying that I reprobate him whose inspirations have been
the purest, and who has enthusiastically—althoughto the
deepest sorrow of my disconsolate wife, of myself, and
my family—given up his young and promising life in his
country's cause.—l am, sir, yours obediently, KARL BLIND.
—May 10."
A RAP OVER THE KNUCKLES FOR THE PRINCE OF

WA ES.--Commenting upon the Royal Academy
dinner, the Spectator remarks :—The Prince—considering
that he came very late—was in rather an unseemly burr/
to get away. The Archbishop of Canterbury, warned that he
" must be brief," was of course fluttered ; but Lord Derby
seemed to many of the guests to prolong purposely- his re-
marks on the National Portrait Gallery in silent protest
against the Prince's haste. Before the president had ex•
n
hausted the list of toasts of which he had spoken as essen-
tial, and, as it has been said, while Mr. Disraeli was
meditating something good in reply to an expected h
tePrince
toast,
theGra Princent, an d rose,
mb
awsssesfoly cut short.
necessarily by Sir Francis
ec ess
We l
fear
of Wales is getting im atient of the social duties which his
position imposes. But at least in assemblies like this, where
he is, though the first in rank, very ter from the first i
public interest, he should forbear tin great meu have
-said what the public Wi h d

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND.

A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held
on Tuesday at the railway station, Derby ; Mr. W.
IL Hutchinson presided.
Mr. G. N. Browne (secretary) having read the
advertisement convening the meeting,

The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution ap-
proving a bill for conferring additional powers on
the company for the acquisition of lands and the
increase and regulation of their capital, for giving
effect to arrangements with the Great Western
Railway Company in reference to lines and stations
at Malvern, and for other purposes.
Mr. LEWIS seconded the motion, which (after
some objections from Mr. M'Turk) was carried.
The next was a bill for enabling the company to
construct railways from Settle to Hawes, Appleby,
Carlisle, so as to provide for the extension of the
Midland system to Carlisle. The length would be
80 miles; the estimated capital was £1,600,000,
with the usual borrowing powers ; and the average
cost would be about £20,000 per mile.
The CiLkium.‘.N stated that there would be con-
siderable local traffic, but their main object was to
secure to the Midland Company their fair propor-
tion of the traffic between England and Scotland.
That traffic amounted to more than £1,000,000 a
year. He concluded by moving a resolution ap-
proving the bill.
Mr. LEWIS seconded the motion.

Dr. O'BRIEN contended that the construction of
the proposed railway would involve a very large
and unnecessary expenditure of money ; that the
London and North-Western had offered them ample
running powers over existing lines, and that the
traffic had never exceeded £700,000 a year. He
was decidedly opposed to a measure that could not
fail to cause antagonism between two great com-
panies.
Mr. BATEMAN, Mr. HADLEY, and other share-
holders, opposed the motion, which, on being put to
the meeting, was declared carried by a show of
hands ; but the standing order required that a poll
should be taken, the result of which was a majority
in favour of the bill.
After some discussion, five other bills were ap-
proved—viz., a bill for constituting the Great
Northern and Midland Railway Companies joint
owners of the railway, authorised by the Manches-
ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Extension to Liver-
pool) Act, 1865 ; a bill for empowering the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincdlnshire, the Great
Northern and the Midland Railway Companies to
make new lines of railway in connexion with the
Extension line to Liverpool ; a bil for changing the
name of the Thames and Severn Canal Navigation
Company to that of the Thames and Severn Canal
Comi-,lny, and to make the Thames and Severn
Railway ; a bill to authorise the East Gloucester-
shire Railway Company to make works and devia-
tions ; and a bill for making a railway from Beck-
ford to AVincheomb. The meeting was then ad-
journed to the 6th of June for the consideration of
other bills now before Parliament.