The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-29 00:00:00

THE , SUN LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, YaLli" 29, lB6l.

use our speech, and think of the difficulties of our
recruiting in the Crimean war, I cannot but regret
the causes, whatever they may be, which deprived
the British Isles of such material. The Catherine
wheel is busy throwing out sparks and fiery flashes
all round the world, but as it throws them off it
consumes, and at last there remains but a burnt up
and blackened cinder.

ships" founded by them, an extensive course of
study in English literature, as well as in science and
modern languages, in addition to the former re-
quirements which were more confined to classical
studies. This new curriculum is now in operation,
and has met with the marked approbation of the
masters of those schools to which the Royal
scholarships are attached. There are 30 Royal
Scholars" on their books, who receive in half-yearly
payments various sums, the highest in amount being
£5O per annum. These scholarships are tenable for
five years, but they become forfeited unless the
holders of them shall in each year of their collegiate
course obtain a certain number of honours, scientific
or classical a stimulus to continued exertion
being thus added to the successful competition which
won these valuable distinctions. The competitors
for them must have been at least three years pupils
in one or other of the Royal schools. The object of
the exhibitions is to enable the holders to pass
through the Dublin University.
The other endowed schools over which the Com-
missioners have not such direct control, have also
extended their course of study, so as to embrace
more of science, English literature, and modern lan-
guages. The diocesan schools are represented to be
in the same unsatisfactory state so frequently sub-
mitted to the notice of the Government by the Com-
missioners in their former annual reports. In con-
sequence of the inefficient state of the Limerick
district school, and the prolonged absence of the
master, the Commissioners were obliged to order a
visitation, which resulted in his resignation. The
right to appoint his successor is vested in the Lord
Lieutenant.
This report proves the necessity of a legislative
measure by which the endowments of those schools
could be turned to better account for the promotion
of middle-class education, of which there is a great
want in Ireland. The endowed schools are the most
expensive schools in the country, and it is quite
manifest that their benefits do not extend, except in
a very small degree, to the classes for which they
were designed, while the Queen's Colleges are suffer-
ing from want of good intermediate:schools to feed
them. It is time that some good to the country
should come from the Endowed Schools Commis-
sion—which produced the most bulky of blue books,
and nothing else yet. Here is work for our new
Chief Secretary.

JULY 8.
At the morning I received from General Scott a
flattering passe-partout for the army, but, in addi-
tion, I was armed with a British passport and an
ordinary pass from General Mansfield's office. No
unauthorised person is allowed to visit any of the
military posts, but there is little real efficacy in any
system of passes on a large scale. The visitors most
formidable to camps are diseases, and although
this army is not very sickly there are certain signs
in some of the corps that care will be required to
prevent the spread of epidemics and diarrhoea,
scurvy, and dysentery. There is, indeed, a Sanitary
Commission already at work, headed by a distin-

guished Unitarian minister, Dr. Bellows, whose
qualifications for hunting bad. smells are not obvious,
and provided with the services, as secretary, of the
indefatigable, earnest, zealous author of the works
on slavery which have attracted attention in Eng-
land, Mr. F. L. Olmsted. On it are medical men and

chemists of reputation, and it is to be hoped their re-
presentations will be better attended to than those
of Sir J. M'Neil and Dr. Sutherland, though their
mission is I fear not more popular among command-
ing officers. They complain of want of authority,
but suggestions have been made to them, which will
probably be embodied in a bill. One of Grant's
cooking waggons would probably be an acceptable
present as a pattern, for there is more mischief in
bad cooking than in bad smells, and the food of the
American soldier does not appear calculated to keep
men healthy in camp. Chollett's preparations are
about being introduced, and the vendors of pre-
served meats have a great career before them, nor
are the holders of light wines likely to want a
market. As a Confederate aide-de-camp said, In
war times we expect nothing better than grape
and canister." In this connexion, as our Ameri-

can brethren are pleased to say, I may, as an in
stance of the knowledge and temper displayed
by some journals in New York as to English
affairs, and, above all, English military history, re-
late that one of them recently in an elaborate
article dwelt upon the great misery and destitution
of the British army in the Crimea and the neglect
of the Government, at the very time that the Em-
peror Napoleon, with a provident foresight, had
sent out no less a person than the famous French
cook Soyer to dress the food of his battalions ! This,
however, was not quite so surprising as the state-
ment in another paper. I think, that the English
infantry at Inkermann were charged by cavalry,
and beat them back by the elegant and simple ex-
pedient of forming in line four deep !
In the evening I was invited by Mr. Blair, father
of the Postmaster-General, to accompany him on a
visit to Arlington Heights, across the Potomac,
which are the headquarters of the Brigadier-Gene-
ral M'Dowell, commanding the troops which cover
Washington on the South. Mr. Blair is well known
as one of the oldest and most prominent, able, and
active members of the Republican party, and he is
also one who was persuaded long ago that the pre-
sent conflict was inevitable, and that it would time
sooner or later in consequence of the hold which the
" treason" of Secession had taken on the minds of
the Southern people. He has lived to see his judg-
ment verified. How short American history seems
when we see Washington menaced with hostile
armies drawn from the States of the Union, and
speak to men who have seen in the flesh the man
who gave his name to this capital !
"I've stood upon Achilles' tomb
And heard Troy doubted—Time may doubt of Rome."
To the Americans of the North it is little short of
blasphemy to doubt of the Union, which is now dis-
solved by rebellion, and can only be cemented again
by blood. The motto of Belgium is "L'Union fait
la force ;" the motto of the Re-United States ought
to be "La Force fait rUnion." I would sooner
outrage all the orthodoxies in Boston than declare
my belief, in that city, that Great Britain will out-
live the great Republic, though it may not be better
to be blasphemous and live than to be honest and
be pelted to death. The real Northern Union man
probably believes in his soul as he takes
down his musket to fight against the citi-
zens of 11 Confederate States, that when the
famous New Zealander, with an eye for the pic-
turesque, takes his seat on the broken arch of Lon-
don-bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's, a United
States' passport will be in the pocket of the enter-
prising member of the Hakodadi Travellers', and
that a New England policeman will be in attend-
ance to show the visitors over the remains of the
British empire.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY,

There is a feeling of disappointment in some
quarters that an Irishman has not been appointed
Chief Secretary for Ireland ; though it is admitted
that it would. be impossible to select any Irishman
who would unite the suffrages of all parties. But
among the English members of Parliament, I am
sure there is not one whose appointment would be
so generally acceptable as the one that has been
made. Sir Robert Peel has given offence to the
Ultramontane party by his allusions to the Papacy,
and his sympathy with the Italians ; but the Roman
Catholics do not apprehend that his advocacy of
freedom and good government in Italy will render
him less zealous in upholding and enforcing in
Ireland the principles that he has so eloquently
advocated in Parliament, while his well-known fair-
ness and generosity will win for him the confidence
of the nation. The Daily Express, the leading
Conservative organ here, having referred to Mr.
Cardwell's removal to the Duchy of Lancaster
says :
" The selection of his successor is quite a surprise
to us, and we cannot say a disagreeable one. Who
could have thought that we should have another
Sir Robert Peel as Chief Secretary for Ireland ?
How different the two men, though father and son !
—but not more different than the times in which
each was bound to serve his official apprenticeship
in Dublin Castle. The present Sir Rob -rt has not
much of the wisdom of the serpent, but then he has
not fallen upon a generation of vipers. It is much
easier to rule 6,000,000 of people, well fed, than
8,000,000 half-starved, especially when the well-fed
people are destitute of political grievances, and the
half-started people had an overwhelming number
of them, real and imaginary—the imaginary being
the source of the greatest misery and the most
vehement agitation. The dash and almost reckless
honesty and candour of Sir Robert Peel made us
think sometimes that a little of the Anglo-
Irish blood had somehow got into his veins, or that
his father, while residing in Ireland, had imbibed
from the atmosphere something of the national
spirit which comes out in the genial and generous
temperament of his son. The present Right Hon.
Sir Robert Peel, Chief Secretary for Ireland, must
have unbounded respect for the memory of the illus-
trious statesman whose name he bears ; but we
trust his personal acquaintance with Ireland will
soon convince him that in one particular, at all
events,his father, with all his enlightened views and
practical wisdom, evinced more prejudice than
prudence--that is, when he ordered in his will that
none of his money should be invested in Irish pro-
perty,

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journal,
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appointment as one of the
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his very great talents to
;sthall very soon have
the business of the office,
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mof his energy
reason to rejoice at the substitution
will
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for the weakness and vacillat.
This, I have reason to believe,
the general opinion of the country.
The Commissioners of Education in Ireland who
have charge of the Royal schools and the diocesan
schools, have submitted to the Lord Lieutenant their
report for 1860.61, which has been published. It
is, as usual, brief and rather meagre. It is of a three-
fold character, referring to the course of instruction
in the schools, the condition of the school premises,
and the management of the estates and funds which
constitute the respective endowments. -With respect
to the Royal schools, the Commissioners, with the
assistance and advice of certain Fellows of Trinity
College, have prescribed as a qualification for the
competitive examination for the "Royal Scholar-

discover the murderers. She was again at Sydney THE CHARGE OF STABBING A LADY.
on the 13th of July, when Capt. Loring's commis-
sion as 2d class Commodore arrived by mail. In
Feb., 1860, the Iris was relieved by the screw steam
ship Pelorua, Commodore•F. B. P. Seymour, to re-
turn to England to be paid off, but owing to the re-
bellion breaking out in New Zealand she went there
to render assistance. On the 10th of Aptil she left
Auckland, in charge of Capt. C. G. H. Vernon, for
Chatham, to be paid off. She has had but very little
sickness during the four years and six months she
has been away.

On Saturday evening an inquest was held at the
King's Arms Tavern, Great Portland-street, by Mr.
Brent, the deputy coroner, on the body Gf Mrs. Jane
Janette Cathrey, a woman about 46 years of age,
who lost her life through being stabbed in the ab-
domen by Mr. Richard Austwick Westbrook, a

solicitor, residing in the house of the deceased, No.

3, New Cavendish-street.
_ The jury having been sworn, and viewed the

body,
Mr. Thomas Maclean Knowman Cathrey, who
seemed much affected, said,—l lived with my mother
at 3, New Cavendish-street. I am in the office of
an engineer. The deceased was my mother. She
had been separated for some years from my father,
Mr. Werner Cathrey, who was in the army, and was
a captain in the Hussars, but is now in Australia.
My mother let as much of the house as she could.
Mrs. Bryant and her family occupied the top room.
Mr. Westbrook used to board and lodge with us as
a friend. We had known him many years. I was
not present at the death of my mother, but I identify
her body. The sad occurrence took place about one
o'clock on Wednesday morning. We—my mother,

The Sharpshooter, 6, screw, Lieut.-Commander
C. Gibbons, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning
from the West Coast of Africa, and is ordered into
Portsmouth harbour to clear out stores and pay off.
She sailed from Sierra Leone on the 19th June,
from Goree on the 25th June, called in at Fayal, and
Hailed again thence on the 17th inst. Fine weather
was experienced up to leaving Fayal, when strong
north-west and westerly winds were fallen in with,.
which continued the remainder of the voyage. The
French Imperial steam yacht Prince Jerome, with
Prince Napoleon and the Princess Mathilde on
board, sailed from Fayal, it was supposed for Ame-
rica, two days previous to the Sharpshooter leaving
i for England.

The entry of smiths, platers, boiler-makers, and
other mechanics to be employed on the Achilles,
has commenced at Chatham dockyard, but up till
now only a small proportion of the number have
been taken on. There are still vacancies for good
mechanics. Mr. Baskcomb, one of the foremen at
Woolwich-dockyard, who has been employed in
superintending the construction and fitting of the
Warrior, will attend at Chatham dockyard on alter-
nate days, during the time the Achilles is in pro-
gress, to superintend the building of that iron
frigate.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. Clarke, to the
Neptune, and Mr. G. G. Brodie, sub-Lieut., to the
Revenge.