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venienc e for the sake of it, but to undergo a positive
loss. In the same way the large employers
of labour, if they encourage education among the
young, have to pay men's or women's wages to sup-
ply the place of boys and girls sent to school, instead
of being brought to the factory. how to get over
this impediment in the way of elementary national
education is the great problem in dealing with a
large proportion of our working classes. In the
rural districts the de nands of agricultural labour
fill the place of the factory, and again the
schoolmaster finds the employer of chil-
dren's labour a dangerous rival. It is, there-
fore, very necessary that we should con-
sider whether something cannot be done to recon-
cile the liberty of the subject with the educational
requirements of the child, and the suggestion which
Mr. HUBBARD threw out is worth attention. "If
the employment of a boy under a certain age by
the farmer," said the hon. gentleman, " could be
made contingent on his education he should
be very glad." If this principle could be
extended to all large employers of child-
ren, the difficulties in our way in dealing with
poor or indifferent parents would be greatly re-
duced. If it were not permitted that boys or girls
under ten or twelve should be employed either by
farmers or by manufacturers unless they could read
and :write parents would make an effort to get
them taught. Elementary education, instead of
being a drawback to their earning money,
would then be an assistance, and the
schooling now openly despised or disliked
would be easily sought after. We can never hope
or expect to force children to remain at school for
the nine years allowed in the Prussian code ; but a
great deal is done if we once secure them elemen-
tary education. There is not much fear that
a boy who once knows how to read
tolerably well will forget how to do so ;
but there is great fear that if he does not learn how
to read before he is twelve he will never learn it at
all. At all events if we insist upon his receiving
the rudiments of knowledge, we have opened the
way for him to proceed in if he chooses himself,
but so long as we keep him back from these, we
do not even allow him the opportunity of
judging for himself, because no uneducated
person can appreciate the advantages of education.
We agree with Mr. !HUBBARD that we do not want
in our Educational Department a spirit of ill-judged
economy, but we want something better even than
grants—a hearty and liberal sympathy for those
who are labouring in the cause of education, and an
endeavour to foster rather than to discourage every
effort which is conscientiously directed to the one
great end—the diffusion of useful knowledge among
the masses.

LATEST INTELL MENU.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ARRIVAL OF PRINCE NAPOLEON.
BUCHAREST, JUNE 24, Evening.

Prince Napoleon was received upon the Rou-
manian frontier by M. Galesco, the President of
the Council of Ministers. At Giurgevo His im-
perial Highness was welcomed by M. Millinet, the
French Consul-General.

Upon reaching Bucharest, the illustrious visitor
was received at the entrance to the city by Prince
Charles, accompanied by the Ministers and the
members of the municipality. After passing under
a triumphal arch, and through gaily decorated
streets, the Prince alighted at the Hagues hotel.
The city will be illuminated this evening. A
fete will be given to-morrow at Prince Charles's
residence at Contrarini in honour of the illustrious
guest.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, June 24 (Evening).

The New Free Press states that an agreement
has been arrived at between the Finance Minister
and the " Credit Austalt" for taking up 25 million
florins of the floating debt, at the rate of rather
less than 6 per cent.

SER VIA.

BELLGRADE, June 14, Evening.

The elections to the Skuptsebina are now fin-
ished. They are in favour of Prince Milan's acces-
sion to the throne.

BOURSE, June 2.4—T
closed as follows :-
4-1 per Cont.
End of month... Ital4an Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 7O 72} Mexican Loan ... 22 50
Credit Mobilier 311 25 Do. Bonds
End of month... 308 75 Spanish Threes 89 50
Credit Foncier ...1532 Home Debt —
End of month... Deferred

Lree o'clock.—The market

RAILWAYS.

Cash
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.....
Western
Eastern .• 550
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman

In its number of the 18th the 7enzps copied from
a provincial journal, the Phare de la Loire, a letter
bearing the signature of a person named Lavallee,
setting forth that on the occasion of the procession
of corpus Christi at Mans he had been maltreated
by the Commissary of Police aad the gendarmery
for not uncovering when the Sacrament was borne
along, he being a Protestant. He did his best, he
said, to get out of the line of the cortege, and had
just succeeded in doing so when a gendarme in-
sisted on his uncovering; blit he persisted in keep-
ing his hat on, and got away. M. Lavallee
further said that divers irritating acts of the same
kind had occurred on that occasion, and that the
Protestant clergyman of the town had been
"menaced and insulted by the agents of the
Sacristy." He therefore called upon the authori-
ties, administrative and judicial, to put a stop to
such abuses. He adds :—" It is well it should be
known whether it is lawful that a procession
should be allowed to take possession of the
public streets, interrupt the circulation, prevent
travellers from reaching the railroad in proper
time, and force people to uncover before cere-
monies which their conscience cannot admit." A
communique, addressed to the Temps of this day,
states that the whole affair is a pure invention ;
that the Protestant clergyman of Mans has de-
clared that be never was spoken to on the subject,
and never was insulted by any one ; on the con-
trary, he testifies to the excellent relations subsist-
ing between him and the authorities ; that the
letter published by the Phare, and reproduced by
the 7 emps, is not only erroneous as to the details it
gives, but is absolutely apocryphal. Of the 46,000
inhabitants of Mans there are but 193 who are
Protestants, and not one of them is named Lavallee.
The Siecle published another letter signed "Lam-
bert," described as the Protestant clergyman of
Mansle (Charente), giving an account of exactly
similar occurrences said to have happened in that
town at the procession of Corpus Christi. This
letter has not as yet been disavowed.
From the Ist of January, 1869, the use of the
metrical and decimal systems in commercial trans-
actions will be obligatory throughout Spain.
The estate known as Chateau-Laffitte, so widely
celebrated for its claret, was put up to auction in
Paris on Saturday. The upset price was
4,400,000 f. (£180,000), but as taorewas no bidding
tliettic Was atinned,