The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-31 00:00:00

MB. RUSSELL GURNEYS ADDRESS.

Mr, Russell Gurney, the Recorder of London, btu
issued an address soliciting re-election for the borough
of Southampton, for which he sat in the Conserva-
tive interest during the late Parliament. Ile says
that he has given a general but perfectly independent
support to the Government, and when ho had thought
their policy mistaken he had not hesitated to avow and to act
upon his own convictions without reference to party consi-
derations. Having referred to the measures whichhe had sup-
ported, and the Corrupt Practices Bill which be prepared,
he says that to the resolutions respecting the Irish Church
he offered an unvarying opposition, believing them to be w
mischievous as they were ill timed. That great abuses have
existed and that great changes are called for he fully admits ;
and believing that the true glory of a Church consists bi
the spirit which animates its members, and not in the
amount of its revenues or the politiCal support of its ministers,
he will bo prepared to support the changes which the con-
dition of Ireland and the state of the Protestant population
may require. Of the nature and extent of the necessary
changes we shall be able to form an opinion when wo have
had the opportunity of consid..ring the information col-
lected by the Royal Commission on this subject.. But the
di. establishment and disendowntent of the Irish Church, as
proposed during the last session, would, in his opinion, be
attended with much injustice, and contribute neither to the
interests of religion nor to the peace of Ireland. lie speaks
of reforms which have been effected, although others ur
gently called for have been unavoidably delayed, and,
alluding to his two bills for the amendment of the criminal
law, ho says that by them great scandals have been removed
from its administration, and one has been found to conduce
alike to the detection of guilt and the protection of the
innocent.

THE FESTIVAL OF THE THREE CHOIRS.

Some notes from Gloucester give fuller particulars• of
the forthcoming festival. The professional arrangements
have been all made and reported long ago, and the work
of fitting up the cathedral has been going on for some
time, and is now pretty nearly finished. These are very
much of the same character as at former festivals. The
performance of sacred Music will he held, as heretofore,
in the nave, which is being specially fitted up for the
purpose, the orchestra being erected at the east end.
An organ has been specially erected in the orchestra
for the festival by Messrs. Bryceson, of London,
which contains Barker's recently patented application of
electricity to the mechanical movements of the instrument.
The connection between tile keys and the sound of the
organ is by this means electrical through a small cable of
insulated wires. The orchestra will accommodate abut
350 persons, including the chorus of 250 carefully-selected
singers from the London Exeter Hall concerts, Birmingham,
Worcester, and Gloucester festival choral societies, the
famous Bradford choir, Norwich, Exeter, and,not forgetting
the original material of these festivals, the members of the
three united choirs of Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford
Cathedrals. The whole will be under the control of Dr.
Wesley, organist of Gloucester Cathedral, who by virtue
of that office wields the beiton at the Gloucester festival;
the organists of the other cathedrals, by virtue of the same
office, taking respectively—Mr. Townshend Smith (Here-
ford) the organ, and Mr. Done (Worcester) the piano-
forte. It has already been mentioned that the festival
opens with full cathedral service on Tuesday, Bth Sep-
tember, and it may be noted here that the Dean and
Chapter of Gloucester, being desirous that the custom of
daily service at the cathedral should not he broken, have
resolved to hold it daily through the festival week, at
eight a.m. and five p.m. On the opening day of the
festival, however, the morning service commences at half.
past ten.

It is understood that the baptism of the infant son
of the Prince and Princess Mary Adelaide of Teck is to take
place to-morrow.

Mr. Horsfall has purchased Lord Carrington's
Gwrenygoe estate for a sum of £G0,500. The estate, which
was sold at Newton on Tuesday, is situated in the county of
Montgomery.

Lord Mayo has announced, in a special circular
to magistrates, that henceforth practising barristers, soli-
tors, and attorneys will not be excluded from competition
for petty sessions clerkships in Ireland, if under fifty years
of age ; but they must give up the practice of their profes•
sion if appointed to that office.
THE LATE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH. —The
remains of the late Dr. Jenne were interred in the Cathe.
dral burial ground on Friday. The arrangements were
of the most unostentatious character, but though the
family wished the funeral to be completely private a large
number of the clergy of the diocese manifested the esteem
in which the deceased prelate was held by following his
remains to the grave. The coffin was borne from the
Palace, which is close to the cathedral, into the edifice,
the pall-bearers being the Rev. Sir J. Hobart Seymour,
Revs. S. Gedge, Dr. Mansell, Dr. Gifford, R. P. Lightfoot.
and Mr. H. P. Gates. The Dean of Peterborough and
the cathedral clergy officiated. The shops in the city
were closed during the funeral, which was attended by a
large number of spectators.
THE SHEFFIELD CUTLERS' FEAST.—The accept
antes for the Cutlers' Feast, which takes place on Thurs•
day next, are not yet complete. Replies have beer
received from Mr. Reed, C. 8., chief constructor the navy,
and General Lefroy, chairman of the Ordnance Select
Committee, both Of whom have announced their intentior
of being present. A letter has also been received froir
the new American Minister, the Hon. Reverdy Johnson.
informing the Master Cutler that, unless he is prevented
by diplomatic business in London, he will form one of the
company. Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Denman, Lord Edward
Howard, Sir Thomas White, and probably Sir Amok
Knight will be amongst the guests, as will also Mr. Roe
buck, M.P., Mr. Alderman Stone, Sheriff of London, and
the masters of :several London companies. The company
will number about 320.
A letter from S. G-. O. appears in the Times occupying
two columns. He thinks that the connection of Church
and State will shortly become the question of the day, and
the Church will be hardly able to give a satisfactory
reason why that connection should continue. He care-
fully and particularly points out all the weak places in
our ecclesiastical system, commencing with Ritual-
ism, and ending with abuses of patronage. He
complains that the doctrine of the Royal Supremacy is
ignored in reality from Lambeth to the book-shed of the
smallest curacy. He arrives at the conclusion that the
strength of the Church lies in isolated works of the clergy,
and that they have retained as individuals a power
to the Established Church which she would have lost had
she depended simply on her own platform. S. G. 0.
says that she must be again reformed, even if her very
existence is endangered. We await with interest his plan
of reform, the more so as it will be the skeleton of a system
which will not retain the blots of human imperfections,
and will be more in accordance with the wants of the age
than our old-fashioned Church of England.
A correspondent of the Daily News gives a very interest-
ing account of a first visit to Mr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle.
He notices that the building was crowded, and remarks
upon the clear, soft voice of the preacher, " which fill( d
the building without effort," the "high and mystical" tone
of the prayers, the singing without instrumental aid, the
reading of the lesson—there was only one, and that one was
very well read—and lastly the sermon. The sermon was
not altogether well organised, but the attention of all the
people was rivetted. The correspondent—though be does
not think Mr. Spurgeon preaches the brightest, most
vivifying, and truest gospel—" could have sat twice as
long listening to the preaching." The writer gives us
what he thinks are the reasons for Mr. Spurgeon's
success. In the first place, he has a very definite and
positive system of doctrine, in which he thoroughly believes ;
the great majority of people like to take their religion on
a strong assurance. In the second place, Mr. Spurgeon
is evidently a happy man, and happiness is contagious. In
the third place, and most important of all, Mr. Spurgeon
is a great master of the art of direct address. " His sermon
was delivered to the people, not merely before them. The use
of notes was out of the question, unless he had held them in
his hands. Every word was spoken as from man to man,
and every word was to the point. There was no resort to
expletive, no use of padding. Every sentence contributed
something to the effect which was constantly in the con-
templation of the preacher. No one, I think, could
doubt that Mr. Spurgeon was expressing, in virtue of his
ready command of language, thoughts which he had
thoroughly worked out in his stu ly."
Mr. Stuart Lane and Mr. John Westmoreland, the one
a present the other a late director of the Credit Foncier,
having offered to return to the shareholders any moneys
wrongfully received, Mr. Stuart Wortley —whose forted
name to a letter in the Times gave rise to these generous
offers—writes, offering to surrender any portion of his
receipts, of which not only any court of law or equity
might compel the payment, but which any properly con-
stituted tribunal of honour might hold to be due. But
evidently neither Mr. Westmoreland, Mr. Lane, nor
Mr. Wortley regard any money as clue to the share-
holders. Indeed Mr. Wortley says plainly that be always
took care to be safe with regard to his salary.
" On one occasion," lie declares, "I refused to accept and
returned a sum of money sent me, and calculated as com-
mission on profits accrued while I was still on the direc-
tion, but when I had been necessarily absent from tem-
porary illness." In conclusion, Mr. Wortley insinuates
that the whole charge is got up for political purposes.
Nothing could be more absurd.

The New York Z ribune has just declared another
dividend of $3OO per share. During the past eight
mouths its profits have been at the rate of 32 per cent.
per 411111=1.

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Despatches were received on Saturday at the Co-
lonial Office from the Governors of Hong Kong,
Ceylon, Malta, Gibraltar, and British Columbia.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of the
North American Provinces, Bermuda, British Co-
iumbia, and the Bahamas.

REFORM A 7 0111 SCHOOLS.

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Mr. Sydney Turner's report for the year 186/
states that there was no change in the number of
reformatory schools in Great Britain in the year ;
but two or three more institutions are needed, and
specially another in Lancashir,: for Roman Catholic
'Joys, and one in the south of Eugland for Prom-
[Ant girls. The present number of these schools is
14-44 for boys and 20 for girls ; 54 for Protestants,
8 for Roman Catholics, and 2 mixed. The number
of juvenile offenders under detention iu them at the
close of the year 1867 was 4,046 boys and 1,016
girls ; and there were also 586 boys and 56 girls
nit on licence. The numbr under deten-
tion shows an increase of 260 boys and 52
girls over the number at the end of the year 1866 ;
but the increase was mainly due to the greater
length of time for which the inmates are de-
tained ; the increased supply of children to be
committed and demanding reformatory treatment
has remained for the last three years at about the
same average of 60. The subject of the period
of detention requires very careful attention. Too
long a detention creates discontent and restlessness,
or indifference or apathy, and hinders rather than
helps reformation. In the course of the year
there were 48 deaths, about 1 per cent. of the
inmates ; 15 were discharged on account of disease,
and 16 as incorrigible, or convicted of new crime,
and sentenced to penal servitude. Of the remain-
ing 811 boys 18 enlisted in the army, 153 went to
sea, 81 emigrated, 559 found employment in Eng-
land, and of the remaining 222 girls eight emigrated,
128 were placed directly in service, and 86 were
placed out through their relatives. There were three
deaths in each of the school ships in the Mersey ;
every effort is made to interest these boys and give
the discipline as kindly and cheerful a tone as pos-
sible, but probably in the continuous confinement
to a school ship moored always in the same spot,
with the inevitable deficiency of varied exercise and
labour, it may be more difficult to rally and invi-
gorate partially diseased constitutions than in an
open farm or workshop. Mr. Turner is able to re-
port very favourably of the order and general disci-
pline maintained in the reformatories under his
inspection and of the average standard of behaviour
I and general conduct prevailing in them. Anything
like an outbreak or serious disorder has been almost
unknown. A wholesome moral tone pervades the
great majority of them, and both serious faults and
severe punishments are rare among them. He has
found also a marked improvement in the educa-
tional condition of many of the schools, though
some have, to his surprise, declined both in the
quality and the extent of the instructions given.
The religious teaching is generally sound and
earnest. The industrial training is almost uni-
formly good. The considerable sums realised i 3
the way of payments from neighbouring employers
in many of the country reformatories for the labour
of the boys, and the amounts earned by Jana'
dry work by the girls are a sufficient proof of this.
The total expenditure for 1867 on an average of
5,140 inmates amounted to £llO,lOB, or £2l
Bs. sd. a head. This included £2,291 for rent,
£4,418 cost of disposal, and £4,609 building e%'
penses. Deducting these, the expenditure averaged
£l9 4s. 5d per head, reduced by industrial profits
to £l7 Os. 11d. net cost per head. The receipts
amounted to £117,287 the treasury payment!,
£72,999 ; parents' payments, £3,112 ; subscrip-
tions, legacies, &c., £12,236 ; voluntary associa-
tions, &c., £625 ; contributions from rates, £15,281;
industrial profits, £11,171; sundries, £1,829. At
Red Hill the realised earnings amounted to £5 15s•
per head on the boys, at Hardwicke to £5 135., at
the Northampton Reformatory to £5, at the Bedford
to £4 135., at the Dorset to £4 75., at the Wands-
worth to £4, at the Monmouth, Warwickshire, and
Market Weighton to about £3 10s. ; at the Strati-
raer to about £5. For girls' schools the earnings
were £5 per head at Toxteth-park, 12s. at 'Ps'
wish, £4 13s. at the Liverpool Girls', £4 10s. at
Limpley Stoke, £4 2s. at the Yorkshire Catholic
(Sheffield), and £5 3s. at Hampstead. The crimin°l
statistics for the year 1867 show a very serious in'
crease in the number of commitments for England
and Wales, the total for offenders of all ages having
risen from 124,291 to 131,398, or nearly 6 per cat'
—a result probably of the depressed condition e',
trade and the distress from want or suspension 131'
employment which has weighed so heavily on the
metropolitan and other districts. It is satisfactorl
to find that the increase was much greater iu the s
class of adult offenders (those above 16 years e'",
age) than among the juveniles; the number of
commitments rising for the former from 114,935°
121,767, i.e., by nearly 6 per cent., and for the
latter from 9,356 to 9,631, i.e. by nearly 3 ref,
cent. The prison returns continue to give Pro
e'
of the permanent effect of reformatory discir
line on young offenders. The whole 1111111;
ber of prisoners recognised in gaol in 1867 10
having been formerly .in reformatory schee'
was 310 males and 34 females in Beg:
land, and 117 males and 20 females in Scotland'
and in the four years 1864-67, deducting the desl3,
2,708 males and 760 females were discharged from
0
reformatory schools. The prison returns give 00
these figures a relapse of 15 per cent. on the be):
and 7 per cent. of the girls. The ratio is not 511
cent. of all discharged from the reformatories, hsn'
after several years, many might elude recognitiea
The reconviction of those discharged in 1864-66 iveLt.
12.8 per cent. of Protestant boys and 6.3 per cell a
of girls ; 27.4 per cent. of Roman Catholic boys sei,
9.4 per cent. of girls. This comparison is 01143
useful as it may arouse managers to exercise ree'
watchful superintendence over the inmates after
Y• 1
they leave the school ; on this the result wale
depends. The returns of those discharged from 11;
formatories in Great Britain in 1864-66 (deducting
deaths) show 68 per cent. of the boys and 67'5 P.„,t,
cent. of the girls known to be doing well ; 4 per CO"of
of the boys and nearly 13 per cent. of the girleos,
doubtful or indifferent characters; nearly 16 per ee
of the boys and 10 per cent. of the girls convicteji
of crime ; above 12 per cent. of the boys and Heal
10 per cent. of the girls unknown. Allowing that 1,
fair proportion of the " unknown" are doing If 70
we shall find the long standing average of about
.'
per cent. fairly maintained. English Catholic boy
0
schools have advanced—Mount St. Bernard fr°,o
q to
45 to 58 per cent., and Brook-green from 6-
,55
per cent. Market Weighton remains at about
aro
per cent. As the principle of earlier dischargeie op
more careful superintendence afterwards
licence is more thoroughly acted on, it is belly
ve
the results will be still more favourable.

Ascl
The Corporation of Cork met on Saturday -A
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unanimously passed a resolution proposed bYic.vg
D. Sullivan, and seconded by Mr. Dwyer,
for the liberation of the Fenian prisoners. 't
pf
Dwyer, in the course of his address in suPPrell
the motion, said that the Fenians had been or' es,
to adopt the course they took by misrule and orPr

sion.
AWFULLY SUDDEN 1) EATir.—YCSterclaY rn°1:11
on
groat excitement was created at 013 NONVeI'OSi statitii°,
the London, Brighton, and South Coast Ra'll'aY 11,;111
sudden death, in the booking office, of Lin elderlY
named Brady. The deceased, who is a tradesman cfta
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on business in the Old Kent-road, Wa3 going for
for 130
in the country with his wife, and while waiting
ticket suddenly dropped on the floor of the Oleo an('
pired, death being instantaneous. £c©
A telegram from St. Petersburg states that
Gortchakotl has elaborated a plan for convoking 3 'Ol- (a'
1113zIn congress whose mission will be a general Ills boa
merit. It is added that the draft of this scheme bas
communicated to the Governments of the Great r°Vl6:,,re'
A petition signed by 400 ladies was recently
seated to the Russian Minister of Public Instr'l,6aiga
praying that the professors at the university raighr" for
special lectures for ladies, so as to satisfy their clo'
higher inaruqtion.