The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-30 00:00:00

THE EDUCATIONAL MINUTE.

The following circular on the subject of the re-
vised code of regulations recently issued by the
Committee of Council has been addressed by the
finance committee of the National Society to the
councils of all the training institutions in union
with the society :
" Rev. and dear Sir,—As the revised code of regulations
for the distribution of the Parliamentary grant for educa-
tion contains provisions seriously affecting the training in-
stitutions of the country, I have been directed by the
finance committee of the National Society to request that
you would submit the following questions to the council of
your college :
" 1. What changes in the studies of the college will be
rendered necessary in case the revised code is brought into
operation?

" 2. To what extent is the income of the college likely to
be diminished ?

" 3. From what sources, if any, does the council expect
the deficiency to be supplied

"The finance committee are desirous to obtain full in-
formation as to the probable effect of the new codo on tho
training institutions in union with the society preparatory
to the meeting of the general committee on the 6th of
November.—l have the honour to be, rev, and dear sir, your
faithful servant,

" JOHN SINCLAIR, Treasurer to the National Society.
" To the Prineipal of --."

THE PLYIIIOU2if ELECTION,.

PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY.
Al Plymouth over half a dozen different gentle-
men have been named within the last fortnight, and
their merits discussed by the papers of that borough,
as candidates in the Conservative interest for its re-
presentation at the coming election, to fill the
vacancy caused there by Lord Valletort's accession
to the House of Peers. At length, it appears, reliance
may be placed on the authenticity of the last name
mentioned—that of the Hon. Wm. Wells Adding-
ton, the second son of the present (second) Lord
Sidmouth, that gentleman having on Saturday
issued an address to the electors of thu borough.
Mr. Addington says :
Having received a cordial and influential invi-
tation to contest the seat now vacant in your
borough, I hasten to present myself, and to lay be-
fore you a statement of my political principles. I
belong to the Liberal-Conservative party; and
though not prepared to pledge myself to an unde-
viating support of party measures, I may distinctly
state that my opinions are in general accordance
with those which guided the late Government of
Lord Derby. Approving of the manly and patrio-
tic course adopted by the present Government in its
relation with foreign Powers, more especially as
regards the Italian question, I shall esteem it my
duty not to offer a factious opposition to their mea-
sures With the mere object of placing another party
in office. Adhering firmly to the established prin-
ciples of the constitution, I should wish to see
adopted such moderate and gradual changes as may
tend to the improvement and adaptation of our in-
stitutions to the requirements of the present day,
without subverting tire basis on which they have
•been_ so happily-reared. Holding these views, there
fore, I am entirely exposed to the introduction of
the system of voting by ballot for the election of
representatives in Parliament. I balicxe that
far greater security for the independence of
electors is to be found in the spread of education,
and the consequent increasing intelligence of the
mass of the community. The question of church
rates demands an. early settlement,. and if elected as
your member, I will exert my best efforts to obtain
such an arrangement as may, whilst securing the
integrity of the Established Church, recognise the
claims of these who conscientiously dissent from her
teaching. Having always given my support to the
introduction and egtablishment of the principles of
free trade with other nations, and feeling also that
the main resources for the defence of this country
must ever lie in its navy and mercantile marine, I
am of opinion that all burthens pressing unfairly
and unequally on our shipping interest, as compared
with that of other countries, should be removed, and
every encouragement given to our brave and hardy
seamen. As a resident in your county, and having
passed many years in the service of the Royal
❑avy, I am, by association and feeling, warmly in-
terested in your town and port ; and I shall always
regard its welfare as a paramount object with me."
Mr. Addington is an independent country gentle-
man in the prime of life—his early youth being
passed in the Royal navy—a native of Devonshire,
and resides in that county, at Up-Ottery Manor,
near Honiton, where he has been for several years
an active and much respected magistrate of that
division of the county, and a captain in a corps of
volunteers. He is expected to address the Conser-
vative electors of Plymouth on Tuesday (to-morrow)
evening.

THE THREATENED HOSTILITIES IN
THE COLONY OF NATAL.

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We extract the following tranquillising explana-
tion on this subject from the Natal Trade Report of
August 1, issued by Messrs. Harry Escombe, and
Co., of Durban ; and Herman, Salomons, and Co.,
Pietermaritzburg :—" The very exaggerated im-
portance, that many of our readers may be inclined
to attach to the news of a threatened disturbance
on the Zulu border, which will reach them by this
mail, will be our excuse for possessing them with
the real facts of the case, with the view to disarm
all groundless apprehension of its power of injuring
Natal. Unexplained, the simple report of an im-
pending Kaffir war is calculated so materially to
militate against a colony's interest, that we would
prefer to keep silence on the subject, but for a fear
that such silence might be construed into a breach
of good faith towards our friends; and, to give
thein the same ability we ourselves possess of judg-
ing how little cause there is to fear, we beg to fur-
nish the following particulars :
"Acting, it is said, on a hint from Panda, king
of the Zulus, our Government thought fit, about the
middle of last month, to order all available forces to
the river Tugela, and to send despatches to the Old
Colony for reinforcements, to counteract an invasion
threatened by Cetywayo, son of the king, and in com-
mand of the army. Our governor, accompanied by
the executive officials, for a time transferred his resi-
dence from Pietermaritzburg to Greytown, to be
nearer thopossible scene of strife. The volunteercorps
were all called out ; safety of the townships was
attended to by vigilance committees; and all pos-
sible precautionary measures were adopted through-
out the colony. Notwithstanding the scepticism of
d colonists,
of one angry Kaffir would cause o
disaffection
tending just st t o a
the t a time
advancement when v e
dis-
turbances, the news of which would retard our
e or
fy t
ph
ri
ong
_ e
foreplrsoegsreesesmed
years,
perity. But subsequent even s t have
proved that
fear was groundless, and at the present moment the
whole matter is regarded • 1
as a joke.
" The governor has returned to )1 b aritz urg. The
volunteers have returned, or are returning home,
and the panic tvill
probably re cult in the several
drifts of the river Tugela b • •
tang occupied for a short
time by small campanies of the 85th regiment.
-Whatever were Cetywayo s intentions, they are
evidently now abandoned, and our means of de-
fence and our watchfulness are the best guarantees
that this turbulent savage will not trouble us fur-
ther tit the risk of his power and possessions.
'• But little trade has been doing since our last,
At this (winter) season up country farmers have
discontinued their remittances of produce, and at-
tention is generally confined to the arrowroot that
finds its way to Durban, and to the prospective
sugar crops of the coast farms. We have been
eA 100 and 150 pas-
senger upon to welcome between ,
Natal ; Mr. (Aqui,
intending settlers at
M.L.C., and Mr. Behrens, Manager of the Natal
Land of the
Land and Colonisation Company, being mpany,
number."

si as to present
had
re eae letter
received
instructions
o f
to proceed a
e if
General Willisen, Nvho has been sent to Constan-
Von to the Sultan
from that capital to Athens to congratulate the
Qeen of Greece on n her
Ps
ar es es
er escape from the recent attempt on
her life.
tine eby the Icing
on o
h l

The Madrid journals of the 24th announce the
arrival in that city of Mr. 0 Lway, formerly Secretary of the
English Legation there. They state that he has come to
Spain for the benefit of his heqlth.
According to the Corresponuiancia of Madrid, the
meeting of the Cortes has been fixed for the 30th Ines