The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1861.

ruthless tyrants. They could have no better return
for their labours than receiving the blessing of
those who were ready to perish, and no more glori-
ous incentive for their ambition than to "help the
fatherless and poor unto their rights, that the
man of the earth be no more exalted against them."

No one is more fitted for the presidency of an edu-
cational meeting than Lord BROUGHAM, and we
rare very happy to see that regained health enabled
him to take the chair at the late anniversary fes-
tival of the Warehousemen and Clerks' Schools.
This excellent institution is well worthy of support
and encouragement, and the public approval of no
less an authority than Lord BROUGHAM will pro-
bably commend it to the attention of many. In pro-
posing the usual loyal toasts Lord BROUGHAM made
a happy allusion to his having met the Prince of
WALES at the Middle Temple on the previous day.
It must have been peculiarly interesting to the
venerable lawyer to see the young heir to the
Crown becoming a member of the profession of
which he is himself so great an ornament. In
making the speech of the evening, his lordship paid
an eloquent tribute to the merits of this institution,
and remarked that it possessed one peculiarity espe-
cially its own—it had been projected and was chiefly
supported by those who might benefit by it. We
often heard, he said, of similar establishments being
set on foot by the wealthy to meet the necessities of
the poor, but this had been begun by the warehouse-
men and clerks themselves. In London there were,
he believed, some 20,000 of this numerous body, and
some among them had subscribed £3,000 for found-
ing the institution. Since then masters of the
trade and other classes have come forward to
help in the good work, and the satisfactory re-
sults may be seen in the existing schools, in a reserve
fund of £15,000, and a subscription of £9,000
towards the building fund. A further sum of
£4,000 0rL5,000 is required to complete the build-
ing and secure proper accommodation for the
children, and thus remove the only fault which
the noble chairman could find in his inspection of
the establishment—the necessity of crowding
the children together. A large part of the requ-
quisite amount was, thanks to Lord BROUGHAM'S
eloquent pleading and plain statement of the merits
of the system employed, collected on Friday even-
ing, when the subscription after the festival ex-
ceeded £1,500. No charity is so commendable as
that which helps others to help themselves, and
there is no better way of doing this than by pro-
viding children of this class with a sound, plain
education. We trust, from the accounts given of
the institution, that the managers avoid the mis-
take, so common at the present day, of
rapidly imparting a large amount of super-
ficial knowledge chiefly acquired 'by rote,
which is certain to escape the memory in the
lapse of years and press of occupation. It is far
more important to educate the mind, to cultivate as
far as possible the reflective and reasoning faculties,
than to depend for instruction on the mere me-
chanical power of repetition. A comparatively
small amount of substantial knowledge—the ordi-
nary branches of a sound English education, tho-
roughly acquired, are far more likely to be of last-
ing benefit to clerks and warehousemen's children,
than a hurried introduction to a much larger area
of knowledge which they are unlikely ever to ex-
plore. We hope, too, in the girl's department a due
regard will be had to matters of practical utility,
that they may be trained to be clever housewives
and good managers of small incomes ; and not
rival that establishment of learned girls in a vil-
lage school who amazed the lady visitors by their
superior proficiency in dates, latitudes and longi-
tudes, and many branches of recondite and abstract
knowledge, but who were unable to find one
among their number who could make a
shirt. From the practical nature of these schools
and the fact of their having been projected by men
of business, we should hope they would be in every
respect adapted to the wants of the class they train
and educate. The success which has hitherto
attended their efforts must encourage them for the
future, since the eighth anniversary of their estab-
lishment sees them filled with promising pupils,
supported by a large body of wellwishers, with
increasing funds, a proposed new building, while
their feast is presided over by one of the most
eminent men in the country.

FORTIFICATIONS OF NEW YORK.

This State will c3mmence work at once, and not
wait for Congress to act. Appropriation will be
made out of the city treasury. Volunteers will be
accepted, a home guard will be formed, and before
the Ist of November the following forts in this city
and harbour will be greatly strengthened. We have
at the Narrows :

G-uns. Men required.
Fort Sandy Hook 341 .. New Jersey Narrow 1000
Fort Tompkins 7O .. Staten Island ditto
200
Redoubt Tompkins 26 .. Ditto ditto
Fort Hamilton 76 .. Long Island ditto
880
Redoubt Hamilton 5O .. Ditto ditto
Fort Richmond l4O .. Staten Island ditto
Battery Hudson 50 .. Ditto ditto 1 1080
Battery Mortar lO .. Ditto ditto
Fort Lafayette 76 .. Long Island ditto 370
Fort Columbus lO5 .. Governor's Island
posite New York
op-
Castle William .. , . 78 .. 800
Ditto ditto
South Battery l4 .. Ditto ditto
Fort Gibson
Fort Wood 77 .. Bedloes Island
Fort Schuyler glB .. Entrance of Sound .. 1250
Fort at Willett's
Point

1641 7346
These fortifications have already cost 3,660,964
dollars, and they require about the same sum to
complete them thoroughly. The works will all go
on now, and the men will be at once placed in the
defences.

RECO VERY of the JOURNAL of ADOLPHE

SC.H-LAGINTWEIT:

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—l rejoice to have it in my power to make
known to geographers and other men of science,
that Lord William Hay, now employed as Civil
Commissioner in Cashmere, and who has been in-
defatigable in his endeavour to throw light upon
the fate of Adolphe Schlagintweit, has at length
succeeded in possessing himself of the journal of
that most adventurous explorer.
It will be in the recollection of many of your
readers that, quiting his brothers Hermann and
Robert, who traversed the Karakorum and Kuenlun
chains to Eltchi, near Yarkand, Adolphe, pursuing
his travels on a more western meridian, succeeded
in passing considerably further northward than his
brothers, when he was beheaded by a robber chief
in front of Kashgar, and on his road to Kokand.
Lord William Hay, in a letter dated the Bth of
September, thus writes to his brother, Lord Gif-
ford, who has authorised me to make the facts
known to the public :
" You will be glad to hear, and please communicate the
intelligence to friends and those who are interested, that I
have succeeded in recovering, and have now in my posses-
sion, Adolphe Schlagintweit's journal, containing 135 pages
of closely written notes, accompanied by what is confi-
dently asserted to be the poor fellow's skull. The last
entry in the journal is dated the 11th of August (1856), a
few days before he was beheaded."

The surviving brothers will thus be enabled to
enrich their work, now in the course of publication,
by descriptions of a region never visited in modern
times by any other scientific traveller.
Your obedient servant,

RODERICK I. MURCHISON.
Be]grave-square, Nov. 2.

Lord Clarence Paget, M.P., accompanied by
Capt. the Hon. J. H. Drummond, C. 8., left the Admiralty,
Whitehall, on Monday, for Weymouth, in order to embark
on board H.M.S. Warrior, the noble lord and the other
gallant officer being anxious to obtain a personal knowledge
of the seagoing properties of this noble frigate.
The Earl and Countess Manvers have arrived at
the Clarendon Hotel from Thoresby-park.
Viscount and Viscountess Sandon leave town
to-morrow for Brighton.
Lord and Lady Norreys will leave Croxteth
Park, where they have been staying cn a visit to the
Countess of Sefton, in a few days for Brighton.
Col. and Lady Caroline Towneley and Miss
Towneley arrived in town on Saturday from Croxteth Park.
Her ladyship and Miss Towneley leave town to-morrow for
Brighton.

ILLNESS OF SHERIDAN KNOWLES. —The Northern
WAfg states that this gentleman, who has abandoned the
stage for the pulpit, is suffering from severe illness in the
neighbourhood of Belfast.

The scientific meetings for the present week are
—This day—Entomological, 8. Architects, 8. Tuesday—
Photographic, 8. -Wednesday—Geological, 8 : Bone Caves
of Lunel Viel, Herault, Marcel de Serres ; Petroleum
Springs, N. America, Dr. Gesner ; Volcanic Phenomenon,
Manilla, Mr. Witch; Land Animals, Coal Measures, Nova
Scotia, Dr. Dawson. Thursday—Linnean, 8. W. African
Tropical Orchids, Dr. Lindley; Structure of the Anther,
Professor Oliver; Gentiancee, Dr. Greisbach. Chemical,
8: Action of certain Gases on Alkaline Peroxides, Mr.
Harcourt ; Results of Analyses of Coppers, Messrs. Abel
and Field ; Occurrence of Bismuth in Copper Minerals, Mr.
Field. Friday—Astronomical, 8.

THE OUTWARD `VEST INDIA MAILS.—SOUTH-
AMPTON, Nov. 2.—The Royal Mail Company's steamship
Atrato, Captain Woolly, sailed hence this evening, with the
fortnightly mails for the British and foreign 'West Indies,
Mexico, the Pacific, California, and Central America. She
took out 230 passengers, including the Archbishop of Trini-
dad, Secretary to Captain Panter, Ensign Chisolm, Captain
Mulliner, Assistant-Surgeon Michael, Hon. G. Solomon,
and the Hon. J. Salomon. The Atrato took on freight
specie in silver, £5,947; diamonds, £1,200; jewellery,
£435; French jewellery, £7,580; also a full cargo of Eng-
lish and French merchandise.

THE MAILS.—LARGE SPECIE EXPORTS.—On
Saturday the Cunard Royal Mail steamer Niagara was des-
patched from Liverpool for Boston, with the North Ameri-
can and United States mails, 420,400 in specie, and 70 pas-
sengers. The next mail despatches from the Mersey will be
by the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's
steamer City of Manchester, and the Quebec and Montreal
Royal Mail steamer Norwegian, the former sailing on Wed-
nesday with mails for the United States, and the latter on
Thursday with the Canadian and United States mails.

SNGW STORM.—The first snow of the season fell
on Saturday morning between seven and eight, and fell in
large quantity for about half an hour, the size of the flakes
being unusually great. The after part of the day was fine
but unusually cold. The wind ranged between W.S.W.
by W. and W.N.W. by W. Yesterday the weather was
beautifully dry and cold, with the wind at N. to N.E. Last
night the mercury fell 3 or 4 degrees below freezing ; but
this morning the wind veered round to S.W., with rain,
which still continues.

We (Army and Navy Gazette) understand that
Major-General Sir John Inglis; K.C.8., will probably suc-
ceed Sir George Buller in the colonians Islands. nunand of the troops in the

Among other announcements of the week is Mr.
Martin's, who, on behalf of the National Choral Society,
states intentions of giving concerts at Exeter-hall during
the winter to audiences exclusively composed of military
officers and soldiers, who must all appear in regimentals—
the explanation of the step stated being a desi o to promote
a taste for choral music in the army,
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A MAN WHO SAVED
THE QUEEN'S LIFE.—On Saturday night, Mr. Bedford, the
Westminster coroner, held an inquest at St. C eorge' a Work-
house, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, on view of the body
of John Turner, aged 54, an imbecile inmate of the above
workhouse, who, about three weeks since, accidentally fell
down some steps and sustained injuries which caused his
death on Tuesday last. The evidence elicited from the son
of the deceased was of a somewhat extraordinary character,
and excited considerable interest. James Turner, the witness
alluded to, deposed that his father was formerly a licensed
victualler, and landlord Of the Pox, at Highgate-hill. He
was the man who, in 1837, saved her Majesty's life under
the following circumstances :—On the 6th of July of that
year
Queen's carriage, containing her
Majesty t he
and
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lig
en,
took fright on the top
of Highgate-hill, and dashed down the steep. His father,
at the risk of his life, got the wheel horses by the head just
in time to enable her Majesty to jump out. On the follow-
ing day deceased attended Buckingham Palace, in answer
to a summons from Sir H. Wheatley, who gave him £lO,
and requested him to put up the royal arms to commemo-
rate the circumstance, which he did at a cost of £2O.
Witness said that he was also informed that her Majesty
would always be his friend. He had since made constant
applications to the Prince Consort, but he had no further
recognition of his services. This so preyed upon his mind
that at last he became an imbecile, and an inmate of that
workhouse. The Coroner was of opinion that her Majesty
could not be aware of this, and the jury returned a verdict
of " Accidental death."

THE NEW ORDER OF BANKRUPTS.---It appears
from the Gazette lists published in our journal of Saturday
and Tuesday last that 143 additional bankrupts were made
last week. Amongst them are classes of persons who have
not hitherto been brought under the cognisance of the
Court of Bankruptcy, but who will be accol ded that privi-
lege in future. Looking over the list we find that eight of
the new bankrupts do not declare themselves of any trade
or profession, three are " gentlemen," one secretary to an
insurance office, one solicitor to an insurance company,
three commission agents, one mercantile agent, one clerk in
the War-office, two schoolmasters, one land surveyor, or,e
inventor, one law clerk, three commercial travellers, tb ree
farmers, one journeyman printer, one house agent, one
solicitor, three surgeons, two journeymen earl:mate/IA, one
chemist, one journeyman joiner, and one ship broker. Of
the bona fide traders who appear to have been roofit unfor-
tunate there are seven licensed victuallers, three 'outchers
three
.olock manufaeturers, three cotton, manufacturers
four luteudiners, seven builders, and tour baker's.

'TESTfv. w
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VIENNA, Nov. 2, EVENING.

The official Wiener Zeitung, in its evening edition
publishes the following:--"Austria respects the
right of other states to settle their own interior
affairs, and no foreign power could .therefore think
of making proposals to Austria in reference to
Hungary.
The news published by some journals, that a
foreign power had entered into negotiations with
Austria for the cession of Venetia, is a pure in-
vention.

VIENNA, Nov. 3.

The official Wiener Zeitung of to-day says ;
" The Emperor has signified his displeasure to
the Prince Primate of Hungary at the contents and
publication of his reply to the circular addressed
by the Aulic Chancellery to the Obergespanns of
the coruitats."

ROME, Nov. 2.

Heavy rains have caused great destruction on
the railway to Civita Vecchia. The traffic has
been interrupted in consequence. The locomotive
of one train was thrown off the rails, but none of
the passengers were hurt.

BERLIN, Nov. 2.
The Duke of Magenta and General Dellarocca
will leave Berlin this evening.
Lord Clarendon will take his departure next
Wednesday.
The Neue Preussische Zeitung of to-day says :
" Baron Beust, the King of Saxony's Minister
for Foreign Affairs, will shortly arrive in Berlin,
in order to make proposals to the King of Prussia
in reference to the re-organisation of the Federal
constitution.

" These proposals are reported to be in substance
as follows

" A Directorate, composed of three persons, to
be placed at the head of the Federal Diet for the
transaction of current affairs.

" Questions of war or peace, and other important
matters, to be decided on by an assembly of the
Ministers of the different German Powers.

" These assemblies to meet alternately in a town
of Northern and Southern Germany.
" Prussia would have the Presidency of the
Northern Ministerial assembly, and Austria that of
the Southern.

" The establishment of a national representation
which would be connected with the ministerial
assemblies, and meet at the same time and place
with them."

BERLIN, Nov. 2.

The Preussische Zetung of to-day publishes news
from Moscow (without date), announcing that the
students in that city had created violent disturb-
ances, which had been quelled by military force.
A petition, requesting the release of the students
lately arrested, and that a constitution should be
granted to Russia, had been signed by 17,000
persons.

The University of Kazan had been closed because
the students had demolished the rector's house.

Student disturbances had also taken place at
Charkow.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Nov. 2.—The market has been firm, and
the settlement of the monthly account having gone
on without difficulty, prices have improved, Threes,
for the end of the month, being now at 68f 25c.
Railways also firm, and some lines higher.
The following were the last quotations :-
41 per per Cents ... 95 95 , Credit Fancier ll6O
Do. end month.... 96 Belgian 41.. 99
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 30 Roman
Bank Shares 2905 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 705 Spanish Threes,
Do. Account 706 25 , Home Debt

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1330 .. 1331 25
Northern
New ditto 903 75 .. 905
Lyons and Mediterranean 1023 75 .. 1025
Geneva 340
Southern 631 25 .. 632 50
•
Western 527 50 .. 530
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard