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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1868

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deck of a small and shallow built vessel, known as
the Florence Nightingale, which is about as ill-de-
signed a vessel for the accommodation of sick men
as can well be imagined. It was then made fast to
the stern of a GovernMent steamtug by means of a
stout hawser, and thus towed to the hospital jetty
in Southampton Water, a violent south-westerly
gale raging at the time, and keeping the sick lighter
and her freight of soldiers submerged during the
greater part of the voyage.

A naval Court-mattit:l assembled on board her
Majesty's ship Victory at Portsmouth on Saturday
for the trial of. J. Lilly, second cla-3s boatswain
serving on board her Majesty's ship Warrior, Capt.
H. Boys, on a charge of drunkenness. The pri-
soner pleaded guilty, threw himself on the mercy
of the Court, and handed in several excellent tes-
timonials as to general character, sobriety, and abi-
lity from officers under NI, hom he had previonsly
served. The Court found the charge proved ; but
in consequence of the prisoner's previous good cha-
racter only sentenced him to lo.ie two years' se-
niority, to be severely reprimanded, -and to be dis-
missed from the Warrior.

Lieut. Sprent' R.A., has during the past week
made an inspection of the batteries, forts, &c., at
Harwich, and also of the men of the Coast Brigade
Royal Artillery.

A board of officers, consisting of Cspt. Malthus,
94th Regiment, Instructor of Musketry, Bth depot
battalion, Capt. Quayle, 41st Regiment, Instructor
of Musketry, 4th depot battalion, and an officer
of the Royal Engineers, has assembled at Col-
chester for the purpose of reporting on a pro-
posed site for a rifle range for the use of the troops
at Colchester.

coarser kinds of cloth the demand is still sluggish.
Domestics (in which a larger portion of the cotton
consumed in this district is used) are still dull of
sale, and are merely rather more saleable at Tues-
day's rates. They have not advanced at all in pro-
portion to the rise in shirtings since that day. For-
tunately, the home trade shows a good deal of im-
provement so far as the print trade is concerned,
and sortie of our most extensive printers of cotton
goods are under engagements that will keep them
fully employed up to March. The prices of print-
ing cloths are rather higher, and mills of jaconets
are ld. to lid. per piece dearer. Yarns are id. to
id. per lb. dearer than this day week.
MIDDLESBOROUGH, 18th.—Though the iron trade
of the Cleveland district is still dull, there is, on the
whole, a slightly better feeling prevalent this week.
Rai!makers report a few more inquiries, and several
orders kave been given out in this department.
Platemakers find an increase in the inquiries for
shipbuilding iron required by local houses. There
is now a comparatively large tonnage on hand in
the Tees and in several of the north-eastern yards.
Bar iron is dull. The pig iron makers started their
weekly markets on Tuesday last in the Town Hall,
Middlesborough, when there was a good attendance
and some extensive sales took place. These iron
trade meetings are to be on the plan adopted by the
Staffordshire and Scotch makers; they will be held
regularly on Tuesday mornings. The tone of the
meeting was tolerably good—better indeed than had
been expected. No. 1 was quoted at 465. Gd., No.
3 at 435. Gd. nett cash, or is. per ton extra for four
months' bill.
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, 18th.—The tone of trade
is continuing to gradually improve in this district.
Orders and inquiries are comingjto hand in a toler-
ably satisfactory manner, and work continues to
find its way into the iron shipbuilding yards.
The chemical trade remains dull, with the excep-
tion of bleaching powder, which, on account of a
strike among the coopers at several of the works, is
more difficult to obtain for immediate shipment.
Prices at our market to-day are:— Best alkali,
2id ; second, 2d. ; caustic soda, strong, 4d. ; ditto,
weak, 3d. per cent. per cwt. ; crystals of soda,
£4 ss. ; bicarbonate of soda, £l2. ; and bleaching
powder, £lO per ton. In consequence of the low
rates paid for coke to Spain, the Spanish merchants
have had to raise the freight they pay for Esparto
grass to the Tyne to 255. per ton.

NEWPORT (MONMOUTHSHIRE), 18th.—The iron-
masters of this county are not better placed for
orders than they were at the date of last report, and,
while future expectations indicate confidence, the
actual business transacted is extremely limited. The
inquiry for pig iron keeps without change, and prices
are stationary. For tin plates no movement has
been evinced in the demand, and the expected Ame-
rican orders have not yet made their appearance.
NOTTINGHAM, 18th.—The higher prices reported
from Manchester for cotton and yarns have had no

influence upon our market, and it is impossible to
realise an advance on plain goods, the demand being
very limited. A better feeling is, however, expected
shortly. There have been a few buyers in the mar-
ket for fancy goods, silk edgings, and laces. The
home trade is very flat, but cotton yarns are a little
dearer. There is very little change to note this
week in the demand for hosiery.
SHEFFIELD, 18th.—Generally trade here is de-
cidedly dull, and at present the prospects of the

spring trade are far from cheering, but a feviweeks
hence manufacturers will be better able to gauge
the future. The languor which has pervaded the

heavy trades for some time is unrelieved. Even the
Bessemer furnaces are not fully employed, and still
less is doing in the other departments of the steel
trade. A few large houses in the file trade are busy,
but the activity is by no means general. The cut-
lers, with few exceptions, are very indifferently em-
ployed; in all branches both short hours and short

time have been adopted. There is no improvement
to notice in the saw edge tool or general tool trades,
all of which are languid. The Britannia metal,
silver plating, and similar branches, are still far
from busy.

WOLVERHAMPTON, 18th.—Since the commence..
ment of the quarter some orders have been given
out both for home and American account, and the
leading makers have rather more to do. The trade
cannot, however, be said to be improved in any
permanent sense. The expiration of the notice for
the termination of existing contracts in the iron-
works and mines of North Staffordshire may be
followed by some short period of resistance, which
would send a few orders here ; but this must be
very temporary, as the men are too poor, and with
no hope of assistance from other trades, to make
any protracted resistance. The best hope for the
trade is the extensive railways in Russia, Hungary,
and Prussia, which are designed, but there is no
present ground to anticipate a revival of the demand
for iron.

A deputation from the committee of Convocation
of the Queen's University, appointed to consider the
question of intermediate education in Ireland, had
an interview with the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
and the Earl of Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland,
on Friday afternoon, at the Viceregal Ledge, to
press upon his Excellency and the Government the
desirability of establishing intermediary schools
throughout the country. The deputation consisted
of Mr. E. Berwick, 8.A., President of Queen's
College, Galway ; Rev. Professor M'Co.,h, D.D.,
LL.D ; and Professor Nesbitt, M.A., Queen's Col-
lege, Belfast ; Mr. David Ross, LL.B., senator of
the university ; Mr. R. R. Kane, M.A., barrister ;
Mr. James Wilson, M.A., clerk of Convocation ;
and Mr. George Johnstone Stoney, M.A., F.R.S.,
secretary to the university. The Lord—Lieutenant
was accompanied by the Earl of Mayo, and attended
by the Hon. Luke Gerald Dillon, private secretary,
and Mr. Howard, aide-de-camp in waiting.
Mr. BERWICK, in introducing the deputation,
apologised for the absence of Sir Robert Kane,
President of Queen's College, Cork, who was de-
tained by important collegiate business, and of the
Rev. Dr. Henry, President of Queen's College, Bel-
fast, who was ill.
The Rev. Professor M'Cosa said the deputation
appeared on behalf of the convocation of the Queen's
University, which consisted of the members of the
senate, the presidents, professors, and graduates,
who had a very strong and unanimous feeling with
regard to intermediary education in Ireland, and
appealed to the Government to carry out their
views. They appealed, first of all, on the ground
of its intimate bearing on the prosperity and wel-
fare of Ireland. Some of them thought that one of
the principal wants of Ireland was the want of
an educated middle class to bind together the upper
and the lower classes of society, and they believed
that this could be provided, as in other countries,
by the establishment of upper classes in the existing
schools. They pleaded for it because it was inti-
mately connected with the welfare of all the colleges
—of Trinity College, Dublin, as well as of the
three Queen's colleges and the various denomina-
tional colleges. They had now in Ireland a consi-
derable number of colleges in proportion to the
population, and in comparison to other countries.
He thought it was a mistake originally to set
up so many colleges without providing them
with adequate feeders. The effect of the estab-
lishment of national schools had been rather
to diminish the number of upper schools
than to increase them. Prior to the establish-
ment of national schools there were many
schools where the teachers derived their living from
giving instruction in classics ; but the admirable
teaching of the schools under the national board
gradually put an end to schools of that class by
drawing away the pupils. The consequence was
that the young men who entered the colleges were
not educated in the way they ought to be. The
commissioners appointed to inquire into the en-
dowed schools reported that there were 91 towns in
Ireland in which there was not a single upper school.
When they looked on other countries, enlightened
and civilised, they found them better provided than
Ireland. In England there were many excellent
grammar schools, and in Scotland every burgh
bad a school in which French, and classics, and
mathematics were taught. He himself had been
prepared for the university in a Scottish parochial
school, by one of the ordinary teachers. When
sent out to Prussia by the Department of Educa-
tion, he found a large number of schools in which
the teachers gave instruction in the ancient and
modern languages, and in various departments of
science. In the heart of Germany he was pleased
to find children learning the English language. In
Holland, also, he found intermediary education
extending rapidly, and in America it was the same.
The consequence was, that they were educating a
large number of men to occupy important places in
life, to bind together the various classes of society,
and to enter the universities. In Ireland, not so much
from religious animosity—unhappy though it be—
as the want of encouragement, such schools were
not to be found. They had the means of meeting
this now. There was a practical scheme drawn
out by the Right Hon. Alexander Macdonnell,
and sanctioned in high quarters, to which they
prayed his excellency's attention. It had for its ob-
ject the allowing of classics to be taught in the or-
dinary national schools, in a course of, say, three
years. It was guarded in such a way that no pos-
sible abuse could result from it. It was so arranged
that the teacher would not be drawn away from his
duties in regard to primary education, and there
was an encouragement given him to exert himself to
the utmost. They asked the Lord Lieutenant to
have this scheme put in execution immediately, so
that it might be reported on by the education com-
missioners. That was the first measure proposed
by the committee of Convocation. It had been
sanctioned unanimously by the National Board, but
he was sorry to say that another measure was bound
up with it, different from it in every sense, opening
up wide differences of opinion, and operating as a
hindrance to the execution of the scheme.
The LORD LIEUTENANT —What is the specific
suggestion that you make ?
Dr. M'Coskr asked that this scheme—which he
might, perhaps, call Mr. Macdonell's—be put in
immediate execution as an experiment. He knew
what the effect of intermediate education had been
in Scotland, and from his knowledge of this coun-
try he was ready to testify that there:was here as
great a desire for higher class education as in any
part of the world.
The LORD LIEUTENANT—There is no doubt of it.
schools. There is a want of intermediary.
Dr. M'Cosu said this was the first practical mea-
sure which the deputation had to lay before the
Lord Lieutenant. The second was with regard to
Erasinus Smith's schools, which they believed could
carry out the important end intended by the founder
if differently conducted, and fill the class rooms of
the colleges.
Professor NESBITT observed that the establish-
ment of intermediary schools would have the effect
of putting an end to the great defects found in the
working of the national schools—irregularity of
attendance and early withdrawal of the pupils.
The Earl of MAYO said be was desired by the
Lord-Lieutenant to state that no subject could be
brought under the notice of Government so vitally
important to the wellbeing of the country as this.
The effect of the decay of intermediate schools in
Ireland has been most lamentable, and it was now
particularly felt since the system of competitive
examinations had been established. A national
want had been created for such schools by the
establishment of these examinations, for even the
poorest felt that there was no chance of obtaining
a situation in the public service or in the great
establishments of private individuals, unless a
high class of education had been obtained. Many
difficulties existed in considering the question of the
institution of intermediate schools, but with these
the Government were prepared to deal, were it not
that the scope of the commission recently issued
enabled the commissioners to investigate the merits
of Mr. Macdonell's, as well as other schemes, in the
fullest manner. They had, therefore, thought it
better to await the report of that commission before
proposing any measure to Parliament ; and he
should be only too glad if any efforts of theirs
contributed to the establishment of a system of in-
termediate education in Ireland calculated to meet
with the acceptance of the great mass of the peo-
ple.

The deputation thanked the Lord-Lieutenant
and Lord Mayo, and retired.

Lord and Lady Lindsay and Hon. Miss Lindsay
have during the past week been staying on a visit to Lord
Overston and ion. Mrs. Loyd-Lindsay, at his lordship's
seat in Northamptonshire.

THE SPIES AND THE NATIVES.
From the Daily News letter we take an extract shewing
how the spies are treated, and how the natives like the
English :—" A somewhat amusing instance of the sort of
rumours which come floating into camp at Senafe is re.
ated by General Merewether and Colonel Phayre. When
these officers were in the highlands, considerably beyond
the first plateau, and while enjoying their morning meal,
a Shoho rushed in breathless haste into their tent, and
communicated to them the startling intelligence that an
innumerable army of Abyssinians were within a mile or
two of their camp, and were approaching with the ex-
pressed determination of swallowing them up, camp and
all. Not so greatly startled as their informant hoped they
would be, they told the Shoho, through the medium of
Dr. Krapf, who was with them, that, under the circum-
stances, everything must give place to breakfast. For
curiosity's sake, a few men of the 3rd Light Cavalry
were sent out to see what foundation there was for the
story. The officer in charge reported seeing a motley group of
Agami, some armed with firelocks, others with bludgeons,
proceeding upon their lawful avocation —viz., to be re-
venged upon the Shohos, for some insult or raid of which
they (the Agami) had been the victims. The lying rascal
had been despatched by his tribe to carry the news in
question, in the hope that it might lead to the crowd of
Agami being swallowed up by a handful of the light
cavalry. Another man who brought a similar message to
Senaf6, and who was believed to be a spy of Theodore's,
was told to examine the camp, the men, the horses, and
the equipments, and to report to his master all he had
seen. He was also requested to inform all the chiefs that
while the English very much preferred peace, they
were intensely fond of fighting, and left it with
the Abyssinians to decide which they should have.
A copy of Sir Robert Napier's proclamation was
given him to carry to Theodorus, and then he went his
way. There seems no reason, thus far at least, to
anticipate anything but most cordial assistance and co-
operation from the natives of the country, after they are
once persuaded of the honesty of the professions that have
been made to them. Prince Kassa (or Prince Dejesmaj
Kassa) of Tigre, in whose territory the advance brigade
under Colonel Field is now encamped, has of his own
accord sent a confidential agent to accompany Sir R.
Napier, to see to it that supplies are not kept back from
the army, and to afford assistance gene,ally. This agent
is a man named Meertcha, an Abyssinian of Armenian
origin, who received his education in Bombay, at the
institution founded and presided over by that excellent
veteran in the mission field, the Rev. Dr. Wilson.
Having returned to Abyssinia many years ago,
he was marked by the Prince of Tigre, who, on learn-
ing of the advance of the English army, sent him
with assurances of his friendly feelings towards us,
and of his sympathy with the object of the expedition.
Strangely enough, Colonel Phayre had letters from Dr
Wilson to Meertcha, but did not forward them, as 'they
might have been intercepted and used against a man who
would assuredly befriend us if he could. Meertcha's assis-
tance and advice will be of the greatest value ; he is an
intelligent man, and has himself been a prisoner of Theo-
dore's. It is worthy of remark that the present chief of
Tigre is one of the old Saba Gadis family—a family which
has always been befriended by the English. Salt and
Coffin took their cause up thirty years ago, and it is a
strange coincidence that after many years of varying for-
tune and exile, a representative should again be in power
ready to give his benefactors help now that they need it."
TRAVELLING OVER THE PASSES.
The Herald's correspondent tells us that the natives are
rather a nuisance to meet going down the pass. He says :
" Our own mules go in strings, one tied behind the other,
and the drivers of one meets them in a narrow place, draw
them aside to allow officers to pass. The natives drive
their animals in a herd before them, occupy the whole
width of the track, and make no effort whatever to get
their cattle out of the way. It is in vain shouting and
being angry. The Shohos regard one with placid indif-
ference, and you must push your horse into a thorn thicket
or up a rock to get out of their way. If you happen to
overtake one of these native herds in rather a narrow
place, it is still more provoking, for there is nothing to do
for it but to follow patiently in their train for perhaps
half a mile, half smothered in dust they raise, until the
valley opens, and you are able to leave the path and
get past them among the stones and scrub. These
oxen are very small, but extremely hardy. There
is nothing for them in the way of forage all the Hay
up. All they have to eat are a few leaves from the bushes,
and such handfuls of grass as their masters may get for
them by climbing the sides of the hills, andyet they. arrive
watitShe ntahli n
skin
good
sm conditioncot h and and
their•t vth signs of distress,
bright. This
accession of stores at Senaf6 is a great assistance. It is an
.
addition to our stock there, and it a great relief to the
transport corps to be able to continue their regular work
of forwarding regiments, and stores for present consump-
tion of man and beast. The transport train is now doing
its work very much better ; but I shall have more remarks
to make upon them in my next. Brigadier-General
Collings has started to take command at Senafd, and I
expect to find that very material changes have, in conse-
quence, taken place there. At any rate there will be no
vexatious regulations or downright incivility, as before,
for your correspondent, and I shall return next week to
the front with a certainty that anything there is to see
I shall have every facility to be present at. Brigadier-
General Snider has arrived here, and will take the com-
mand 14 t IRaing-PlaCe.". • '