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THE SUN, LONDON! THURSDAY EVENING; JANUARY 24, 1861.

of ragged schools in Edinburghthousands of juvenile
beggars frequented the streets, hit under the ope-
ration of these institutions the streets had been
cleared of them. Five per cent. of the prisoners
were formerly juveniles under 14 years of age, but
in the fourth year after the establishment of these
schools the proportion was reduced to 4 per Cent.,
and in the fifth year they had only half a juvenile.
(Laughter.) Of the commitments in Edinburgh
during the ten years ending 1800,1.5 per cent. ►ere
juveniles froth Leith, 4 per cent.—att e±traordi-
nary fact, showing that in Leith, where no ragged
schools existed, the juvenile offenders were three
times as numerous as in Edinburgh,which had four
ragged schools. The proposition which he ;sug-
gested should be made to the Government was that
they should only contribute such money as was
needed for strictly educational purposes, and the
accounts should be submitted to Government in-
spection annually as a security that the grants
were not abused. He did not wish to call upon
the Government to pay a farthing for food
or clothing for the children, which would be
provided for by private benevolence. Another
proposition he would make was that the Govern-
ment should contribute towards these schools
one-third of the amount raised by private benevo-
lence ; and he thought a more reasonable suggestion
was never ha before the Government.
The Earl of SHREWSBURY seconded the resolu-
tion, which after a few remarks from Sir Baldwin
Leighton and Mr. Hanbury, M.P., was carried.
The Rev. Dr. MILLER moved the third resolu-
tion, as follows :

" That the experience of the last 18 years has
proved that this portion of the population is reached
in many districts to a considerable exten4, and can
be effectually raised by ragged and industrial
schools ; but the schools of this class, which ought
to be good, involve much greater expenditure than
ordinary schools, and cannot be permanently sup-
ported in the required efficiency, or extended to all
districts requiring them, by voluntary aid alone."
They were aware that inspection must follow Go-
vernment grants as a matter of necessity, and he
agreed with the opinions expressed by the Recorder
with reference to that subject. He did not wish to
see the Privy Council system destroyed, but ex-
panded, in order fully to meet the case of neglected
and destitute children.

Viscount INGESTRE secondei the resolution,
which, after some remarks from Dr. Bell and other
gentlemen, was carried unanimously.
Lord LYTTELTON proposed the next resoluton, as
follows :

" That it is therefore the duty of the State to
give liberal financial aid to such schools, availing,
itself, as in She case of reformatories, of that volun-
tary effort which is an essential condition of our
success."

Mr. SPOONER, M.P., seconded the resolution,
which was carried.

Mr. HANBURY moved the appointment of a com-
mittee to carry the foregoing resolutions into effect.

Subsequently the chair was taken by the Earl of
Shrewsbury, and
A vote of thanks, moved by Mr. M. D. HILL, was
passed to Sir John Pakington for presiding, when
the Conference adjourned until this evening.

TILE RANGOON TELEGRAPTI CABLE.

The following are the particulars of the trans-
shipment of the Rangoon and Singapore telegraph
cable from the iron screw steamship Queen Vic-
toria, stranded in Barn Pool, Plymouth, into the
Government hulks. The discharge into the brig
Pilot commenced on the 6th instant, and
finished on the 11th. It consists of 39
knots of the main cable, 91 tons, and 27
knots of the shore end, 189 tons on the berth
deck ; and 20 knots, 47 tons, on the upper deck ;
total, Pilot, 327 tons. The brig Rover commenced
on the 6th inst., finished on the 13th; 57 knots
main coil of the cable, 133 tons, and 23 knots shore
end, 161 tons, and 48 knots main cable after coil,
all on the berth deck ; total Rover, 406 tons. The
corvette Arachne commenced Jan. 11th, finished
18th. Berth deck, main cable, forward coil, 18
knots, 42 tons, ward-room aft 27 knots, 63 tons,
main coil 44 knots, 103 tons ; shore end, main coil
22 knots, 154 tons ; total on berth-deck 362 tons ;
main deck, portside aft 15 knots, main cable 35
tons, starboard 15 knots, 35 tons ' • total main deck
70 tons ; total in the three vessels, 283 knots main
cable and 72 knots shore end, 355 knots, 1,165 tons.
Although the cable was covered with water while
running, only two kinks occurred ; they were
caused by the disturbed position of the coil where
the keel had been forced up by a rock underneath.
The three vessels are now moored up Hamoaze,
near the Royal Albert-bridge, Saltash, lashed along
side of each other, for the greater convenience of
the electricians when testing the cable. Awnings
are spread over the coils on the main decks, to pro-
tect the cable from the weather, and windsails are
fitted down to the berth decks to keep it as cool as
possible.
The temperature of the cable is, of course, con-
siderably lower since it was recoiled, and it is very
satisfactory to state that if the cable continues in an
improved condition until it is thoroughly dr) no
further apprehension of heating need be experienced.
Every assistance has been rendered to the con-
tractors, Messrs. Glass, Elliott, and Co., by the Go-
vernment officials, Commander Brown, master-
attendant, and Commander Paul, his assistant ; the
value of ready help at such a time cannot be over-
estimated.
The cable is believed to have received no material
injury, and tests very well. It is intended to rejoin
the wire and thoroughly test the whole.
On Saturday or Sunday next, when the tides
range high, an attempt will be made to float the
Queen Victoria, by Captain Daniel Russell, from
Lloyd's, a gentleman who has had much experience
in operations of the kind. Harris, the diver, has
examined her, and reports that a smooth rock, 25
to 35 feet long, is right under her mainmast and
pushes up the keel ; the after part of the ship,
which was buoyant some time after grounding,
has now sunk down on the beach. The Queen Vic-
toria is divided into three compartments, and it is
proposed to:draw the water front the forward com-
partment with one of Gwynne's pumps, worked by
an engine of 10-horse power, and capable of lifting
1,000 gallons per minute. 'f he after compartment
is provided with another pump, worked by a six-
horse engine, which lifts 500 gallons per minute.
When these compartments are empty (the cable
being landed), it is hoped that she will float suffi-
ciently to be taken into the large graving dock in
the Plymouth Great Western Docks. If not, she
will be removed to a clean beach near, repaired by
divers, and then placed in dock. The Queen Vic-
toria is a five-year-old ship ; she was lengthened 62
or 63 feet at Sunderland, purposely to l'eceive tne
Rangoon cable, the cable of which occupied about
that length in her. There is, we are informed,
neither lower deck 'nor beams in the new part
although the depth between the main deck and the
ceiling is over 19 feet. • Some mercantile men con-
sider that the arrangements for the conveyance of
the cable, which weighs nearly 1,200 tons, were
not of the best kind. It should, if possible, have
been distributed more equally over the ship, instead
of being in two eoils only, one immediately before
the other immediately abaft the mainmast, and all
within a distance of some 60ft., in a ship 280 ft
long ; this alone was calculated to cripple her.
The cable was also stowed too low ; the platform on
which it was laid should have been higher. When
all stowed the upper part of the coil did not reach
the main deck by about 8 ft., and the main deck
is low, because a spat deck runs fore and aft
the ship. When laden the line of flotation
was two or three feet below the maindeck, and
consequently five or sik feet aboVe the upper part
of the toil, and she must therefore have rolled fear-
quay at sea. The wei3ht of the cargo no doubt
decreased her steering qualities, which are defective.
It is also probable that her rudder and other fittings
were not increased proportionately after she was
lengthened. The two main pumps are worked by
a crank which requires the labours of eight men ; a
lift of 28 feet is usually considered the maximum
on board ship ' • in this case the water has to be
raised over 31 feet. The pumps are fitted on an
iron frame, bedded with wood, apparently not in a
very secure manner. No doubt, many modifications
will be made before she again proceeds to sea. The
ship is insured in various companies to the extent
of about £42,000. The cable is insured at about
£80,009. There is some dispute about the liability
in regard to the cable, which was underwritten in
the first place for a voyage to Rangoon, and when
it was determined to send the Queen Victoria to the
Mediterranean this alteration, it is said, was not
properly endorsed on the policies. If this should
be the case it will form the subject of the second
legal proceedings since the unfortunate cable was
shipped. The first were brought by Messrs. Newell
and Co., for an alleged infringement of their patent
mode of stowing. They obtained an injunction
just after the ship left Greenwich. Her Majesty's
paddlewheel steam-sloop Spiteful, 6, Commander
William C. P. Wilson, was sent into the Channel
to bring her into the Sound. On Monday Captains
Ferrer and Bax, two of the Pilot Committee of the
Trinity House, inspected the stranded ship in Barn
Pool. Fortunately, there has been no weather
likely to injure her lunch since she has been ashore,

TILE GER-4JAN CONFEDERATION.

SeTeral events are occurring which ought not to
pass unnoticed or unregarded by the Great German
Confederation. The favourite argument among '
metaphysicians for the immortality of the soul is
that it is simple, uniform, and indivisible. If the
converse of this is true, a Confederation multiform,
complex, and divisible would seem to be peculiarly
liable to destruction, and ought to be peculiarly
watchful of all tendencies towards disintegration.
If Germany were blessed with statesmen, or did her
people possess, amid all their knowledge and refine-
, meat, a small portion of that instinct of self-preser-
vation in which even the lowest animals participate,
she would be viewing the events of the present hour
with very different feelings, and founding on them
very different aspirations from those in which she is
indulging. There was much justice in the remark
of the King of Prussia to his army, that the time
was coming when they might be called upon to
fight for their very existence—strange and start-
ling words, as coming from such a quarter, but still
stranger and more ominous that they should be fol-
lowed by a line of conduct which seems a practical
denial of the sincerity of the speak".
One event that claims from Germany the most
absorbing attention is the present condition of
the
empire of Austria. Here is a case where it is
clearly in vain to try to lielieire that to-morrow
shall be as to-day, or that a system which has worn
out the faith, the loyalty, the patience o 7 the sub-
jects and creditors of the empire, call' be much
longer continued. The blood that we s sheer in
1848, and the wars and slaughters that suet-eded
it, have not yet been expiated. The repression of
12 years has not stamped out the fires that were
then lit, but which still glow beneath the deceitful
ashes, and adversity has come in her sternest form
to point out the opportunity and to whet the
appetite for revenge. The army, to which every-
thing else has been sacrificed, hes been found a
failure, antiquated in its organization and its arms,
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collap3ed, and the great military Empire of Austria
cannot, for all the security it can offer, borrow, in
its last agony and utmost need, a single million
more. Confidence is gone—confidence in the honesty
of financiers and contractors—confidence in the pro-
mises of the Government—confidence in its ability
to stand any longer upon the mass that is disinte-
grating beneath its feet. If Austria disappears
from the German Confederation, what element-1
will be found to fill up the chasm ? A powerful
Slavonic State on the South-East, and an interrup•
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the results of a catastrophe which is too near her
not to shake her to the very centre of her loosely
connected dominions.

A second subject, still more imperatively de-
manding the attention of the German Confedera-
tion, is the immense development of the military
power of France, and the symptoms that every-
where meet us of the restless and aggressive dispo-
sition with which that power is wielded. It is idle
to dilate on this topic. There was a time, and
that not long ago, when Germany seemed fully
alive to her danger, and when, in the plenitude
of her enthusiasm, she threatened to rivet the
chains of unhappy Italy in order to check the ad-
vances of France. Austria is much weaker and
France is in many respects considerably stronger
than they were in the days of Magenta and Solferino,
but in proportion as the danger becomes greater
the care of Germany seems to become less. Spring
may bring Garibaldi and his followers into Hun•
gary and France to the Rhine, but the mind of
Germany is not fixed on these things. She has a
nearer and far more absorbing object of contempla-
tion than the protection of her western frontier
or the destruction of the most powerful State in
her federation. We have never remarked hitherto
that the German Federation has had any particular
strong sympathy with the German people. Pro-
vided the German Princes retained their sway, they
have been at liberty to deal with the population
parcelled out among them even as they listed.
There are few experiments in statecraft, from the
selling of their subjects to the English Government
to suffering them to be kidnapped by the old King
of Prussia, to which the German nation has not
submitted. But now a chord is struck that vibrates
to the heart of every professor, a sentiment is
excited, a sympathy is moved, and an idea is pro-
pounded to which Germany responds from one end
to the other. The German subjects of the King of
Denmark must not ly3 taught Danish; they must
be kept pure and undefiled from every taint of Scan-
dinavian impurity. Does not Teutonic blood flow
in their veins ? Do they not inhabit a portion of
the fatherland? They are allowed perhaps more
freedom, more influence over their own affairs, than
any of the German populations ; but their national
prejudices are wounded, their sympathies
are disregarded, and Germany, with Prussia
at her head Prussia, who can fight
in no other quarrel burns to measure
swords with the King of Denmark, for fear the
inhabitants of Holstein should learn to use "k"
instead of " ch," or acquire a nasal twang abhorrent
to Teutonic ears. This is the crusade which in the
present tremendous crisis of her affairs Germany
has chosen for herself, and in this grammatical and
Professorial war Prussia offers herself as the leader,
ready to do battle against all corners for the tongue
of Goethe, Schiller, and Kant.

Princes who have embarked on this scholastic We wish we could recall to the memory of the
en-
terprise that Prussia once had a King who, if he
failed somewhat in a thorough appreciation of
German literature, had, at any rate, the head of a
statesman and the soul of a hero. The Great Fre-
derick of Prussia set himself the task of making
a small kingdom into a large one, and he accom-
plished it. Certainly his spelling was very indiffe-
rent, and his compliments to Voltaire are not
conceived in a purely classical taste ; but, on the
other hand, he saw clearly, resolved decisively, and
acted energetically. He was a stranger to the
tremors and doubts which paralyse the minds of
descendants. He was little given to sympathies
and antipathies, and for such sentimentality as he
had he found a sufficient vent in the production of
execrable verses. If he had " ideas" he did not
go to war for them. He fought the Seven Years'
War, but it was for the province of Silesia, which
ho took and held in defiance of France, Austria,
and Russia. He had the most intense con•
sciousness of what it was that he wanted, and
rarely did he fail to get it. Could such a man
as this—nay, could a man with one-half the single-
ness of purpose, energy, resolution, and courage of
this man, be placed upon the throne of Prussia,
what reasonable object of human ambition would
not be within his grasp ? Victor Emmanuel has
to a great extent consolidated Italy, but he has
done so in spite of the natural bent of the people,
in spite of a bigoted Church, and in spite of an ally
whose best efforts have been used to retard his pro-
gress. A King of Prussia who really understood
his own mission would have none of these things to
contend with. Unity was the wish of educated
Italy, but it is the passion of educated and unedu-
cated Germany. Let 'Prussia lay down any prin-
ciple of action which is at once liberal and intel-
ligible, and the German nation desires nothing
better than to enlist under her standard. Let
Prussia but offer a refuge from the ills which
Germany has so often experienced, and the whole
nation is ready to follow her. She might obtain
without bloodshed and without offence an empire,
saviour of 40 millions of
1-,,i;,- solid, and enduring ; and while protecting
herself t;,:na the threatenings of immediate danger
might be haiie‘2. nd language. But, instead
men of the same race t: al any possible aggres-
of arming Germany to rep.
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waste the power that might redeem anti gain an
empire in an idle squabble about pronouns and
articles.--Times.

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COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

YEAMES AND OTHERS V. LINDSAY AND OTHERS-

SHIP'S CHARTER.

The plaintiffs in this case are shipbrokers in
London and at Taganrog, and the defendants are the
well known shipbrokers in London. It was stated
that it is the custom when cargoes of wheat are
expected from the Black Sea to charter vessels in
London and to send them to the Black Sea upon
the chance of obtaining a higher freight than was
payable upon the charter party effected in London.
The defendants, acting upon this practice, chartered
the William and Mary at 60s. a ton, and employed
the plaintiffs to obtain a freight for her at Tagan-
rog, saying in their letter, " We trope you will be
able to place her to advantage, but if unfortunately
there should be a loss your draft on us for the dif-
ference will meet due honour." It happened when
the vessel arrived in the Black Sea the rate of
freight was only 40s. a ton, and the plaintiffs them-
selves loaded her at that rate, and drew upon the
defendants for the difference between the 60s. and
40s. a ton. The defendants however declined to pay,
and the present action was brought. At the trial a
verdict was entered for the plaintiffs, and the ques-
tion now was whether a rule to enter a verdict for
the defendants should be made absolute, the ques-
tion being whether the fact of the plaintiffs loading
the vessel instead of chartering her to some third
person made any difference in the defendants' lia-
bility.
The Court was of opinion that it was immaterial
whether the plaintiffs themselves or some third
person chartered the vessel, for the plaintiffs were
- either event entitled to retain their verdict.
Ruit discharged.
JONES V. NEIN-
PonT.—ACTION BY A BARMAN FOR
FALSE
IMPRISONMENT.
The plaintiff in this cast:_has been for a short time
barman to the defendant, who keep the Star and
Garter, opposite Shoreditch and the pre-
sent action was brought to recover u'laniages for
false imprisonment and malicious pro3ecutia:n. The
defendant pleaded that his watch, chain, and rh7g,
had been stoler, that he had rensmiable ground for
suspecting the plaintiff, and that, therefore, he gave
him into c-astody. It appearedthat the defendant's
wife had placed the articles on the mantel-shelf in
his bedroom, on the a.iernoon in question, and that
the plaintiff soon afterwards went up to his own
room to wash preparatory to taking some dirty
clothes to the laundress. Having come down, he
left the house and was absent about an hour. When
the property was missed, a servant girl, named
Fowler, told the defendant that stte was with Mrs.
Newport in the bedroom, and remained after her
to put the place in order ; when she left she turned
the key in the lock, and lefi; it there; that soon
afterwards she saw the plaintiff come out of that
room, that he appeared confused, and that he went
into the kitchen with his hand in his trousers
pocket. Witness followed him, and said," George,
how red your face is," and he said that he had just
been washing, and went down stairs. When wit-
ness mentioned these circumstances, the plaintiff
said, " You have done for me now about my red
face ; and you have got me transported for seven or
14 years." The plaintiff was given in charge, and
having been remanded by the magistrate, was
afterwards discharged. In his evidence before
the jury the plaintiff stated that he knew no-
thing of the property; and he denied that he had
been in the defendant's bedroom. He also denied
that he said that Fowler would get him transported ;
he said she would get him. locked up. Another
circumstance of suspicion Alleged against the
plaintiff was that when he came down he left the
house in a hurried manner, and in his shirt sleeves,
although it was frosty at the time, and he had a
considerable distance to go. The construction of
the defendant's house was such that no person could
get from the front of the bar upstairs without pass-
ing through a door which somebody behind the bar
must open. The case came on for trial before Mr.
Justice Keating, at Guildhall, when the jury were
unable to agree, there being one dissentient, and
ultimately it was agreed to take the verdict of ti,:e
eleven. His lordship now said, when reporting the
circumstances to the Court, that the verdict of the
eleven turned out not as he had supposed it would
be, for the defendant, but that, much to his surprise,
it was for the plaintiff, damages 40s. Subsequently
a rule was obtained for a new trial, upon the
grounds that the verdict was against the'evidence,
and that it was a perverse verdict, and to-day cause
was shown against this rule being made absolute.
Mr. Gibbons showed cause, and submitted that

the verdict was not perverse, inasmuch as the whole
question had been left to the jury, and they had
decided it as best they could ; and further, that
where the damages were less than £2O it was con-
trary to the practice to order a new trial upon the
ground that the verdict was against the evidence.
Mr. Justice Keating said one of the jury, as he
collected from frequent questions put, insisted on
taking the issue to be whether the plaintiff had or
had not committed a felony ; for after he had told
the juryman several times that that was not the
issue, he put the question whether they could find
for the defendant without impueng felony to the
plaintiff. He (the learned judge) again told the
juryman that was not the question ; but only
the defendant had good grounds for sus-
pecting the plaintiff, and the juryman certainly did
not seem satisfied with that statement.
Mr. Gibbons—But that juryman might have been
the dissentient one, and if not he was then only one
among eleven.
_ _

Mr: Murphy, on the part of the defendant,
offered, if a stet processus were entered upon the
count for malicious prosecution, to let the verdict
stand upon the other count for the plaintiff, the
damages of course not being sufficient to carry costs.
The Lord Chief Justice said the Court though
that there should be a stet processus generally.
Mr. Gibbons said he had no instructions to con-
sent to a stet processus, and he contended that the
plaintiff was entitled to keep his verdict.
The Lord- Chief Justice said there was no doubt
that the rule would be made absolute. It appeared
that the jury thought that they could not find for
the defendant without casting a serious imputation
upon the plaintiff; and there was no doubt that, in
the opinion of the judge, the plea was proved.
Mr. Justice Keating—Proved to the letter.
The Lord Chief Justice said this was a most in-
tensely wrong verdict; and, indeed, in the course
of his long experience, he hardly recollected any-
thing to approximate to it.
Mr. Justice Williams thought that the plaintiff
should have been nonsuited on the plea of not guilty.
The Lord Chief Justice said if the stet processus
were not consented to the rule for a new trial would
be absolute; but the former course would he valu-
able in this way, that it would save the character
of the plaintiff.
After some further discussion, the rule was
ordered to remain open, to enable the plaintiffs
counsel to consider whether he would agree to a
stet processus.
lIARTIVELL V. VESEY AND WIFE.
The plaintiff was a man approaching 70 years of
age, and had served in the army for many years, but
had latterly been employed about the schools,
church, and almshouses at Woburn, and had re-
ceived 12s. 10d. par week. One afternoon, Mrs.
Vesey, who was a member of the committee of the
school, was going along a passage attached to the
building, when she saw the plaintiff laying hold of
a young woman named Brewer in such a manner as
induced her to report to the clergyman that he was
" kissing and embracing" her. The clergyman,
who said he had previously had occasion to find
fault with the plaintiff for levity of conduct, re-
ported what he had heard to the steward of the
Duke of Bedford, and the result was the dismissal
of the plaintiff from the position which he held.
The plaintiff afterwards brought this action, to re-
cover damages for slander, and, in his evidence, ex-
plained that, whilst he was walking along the
passage the girl Brewer pushed a broom against
his back and shoved him on three or four yards.
He turned round, saying, " I will be shot if I do not
take the broom from you," and he had his arms
round her, and was endeavouring to take the broom
away when Mrs. Vesey came in sight. He had
never kissed the girl, nor had anything at all im-
proper passed ; ar.d, indeed, her mother was within
a few yards of them. At the trial before the Lord
Chef Justice, the jury awarded the plaintiff £5O;
but th: question now was, whether a rule for a
new trial ~hould be made absolute.
Mr. O'Mai2ey, Q.C., and Mr. Couch appeared to
show cause against the rule, and Mr. D. Keane to
support it.
The Lord Chief Justice said there could be no
doubt that Mrs. Vesey acted from motives that
entitled her to credit and respect, and there was no
doubt also that she believed she saw what she said
she saw, though subsequent explanation put another
interpretation upon the circumstances presented to
her eyes. The case,however, was one for the jury,
and therefore the rule would be absolute for a new
trial, only upon payment of costs.
Rule absolute.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE,
(Before Sir C, Creswell.)
DART V. DART.
In this case the husband petitioned for a judicial
separation from his wife on the ground of her
cruelty, and the suit has been set down for hear-
ing. A motion was nOW made on behalf of the wife,
objecting to the petition, as being insufficient in the
averments of the acts alleged, which did not amount
to legal cruelty.
Sir C. Croswell, haying referred to the petition,

said the husband complained that respondent had '
frequently menaced him with violence without hav-
ing received sufficient provocation ; that on three
occasions she struck him and broke his spectacles ;
had also endeavoured to stab him with a knife, and
committed other acts of violence. He considered
all these acts formed good ground for the petition,
and he dismissed the motion.