The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDO \T, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1868.

should be contemporaneous with his rival's am:s-
sion to the Premiership. Mr. Womts slyly sug-
gested that the disestablishment about which Mr.
GLAD:;TONE was most anxiou3 was not that of the
Church, but of the Ministry.

" With fame in just proportion envy grows,
The man that makes a character, makes foes."
So quoted Mr. WORMS, and the man, he said, was
Mr. DISREALI, who had risen by his own merit
alone to his proud position, and no sooner had he
gained it than men were found eager to drag him
down. Coming to social questions, Mr. Worms
very justly puts national education at the head of
all, and we are glad to find him advoc:►ting a plan
which we hope will find favour with the new Parlia-
ment. It is that no totally uneducated man should
be employed iu the Government dockyards, arsenals,
or other public establishments. Mr. \Vonus ob-
served that compulsion of that kind would not be
felt; when it was thoroughly in force it would exer-
cise a most beneficial influence. If large employers
of labour would follow the same plan the indirect
influence brought to bear upon ignorant and indif-
erent parents would be very strong, and more
powerful than any Act of Parliament could ever
be. Now that the franchise is s') widely extended
national education grows more important than ever,
and the new electors will do well to see that they
send to Parliament men who are really in earnest
on this important question.

" The race is not always to the swift nor the
battle to the strong," and universal history fur-
nishes us with many examples of the successful re-
sistance of a small but united people against:superior
numbers. It is very probable that we shall see
another instance of thekind in the Paraguayan war.
The South American Republics have already ac-
complished their independence at the point of
the sword, but their work is not yet done. Half a
century ago they threw off the Spanish yoke, but
they have within the last few years been exposed to
fresh dangers. Chili, after a prolonged struggle,
defeated the aggressions of Madrid, and taught
the haughty Spaniard that discretion was the bet-
ter part of valour, but Paraguay has had a trade,
and a more prolonged struggle. Brazil, if not a
more powerful enemy, is at least .nearer at hand.
She can pour her troops into her weaker neighbour's
territories, and can bring her whole strength to
bear upon the task in hand. So resolute has been
the resistance offered, so unflinching the spirit of
the people, that Brazil has found it a heavy burden
to maintain the war, and there is good reason to
believe her people are heartily tired of it. With the
Paraguayans the issue is of life or death, and
surrender means national annihilation. They are
fortunate in possessing a dictator of no ordinary
firmness and courage. He has from the first plainly
told the people that the struggle was a desperate
one, and that they had better die an honourable
death on the battle-field than live to be slaves in
Brazil. The people, one and all, have responded to
his appeal. Tire utmost unanimity has prevailed
throughout all ranks, all classes, although some-
thing more than lip service was demanded from
them, and the public burdens were heavy and ex-
hausting. Despite reverses and losses the same spirit
is unflinchingly maintained, and by the latest
accounts—uncertain and conflicting as they are—
the Allies seem no nearer the final subjugation of
the pliant little States than they were before the
attack upon Humaita. All that confidence and
assumption can do to advance a cause the Brazilians
have done. Our information usually comes through
their channels, and is often strangely at variance
with facts. They spare no pains to damage their
opponents, and if the war were fought on paper
Brazil would long since have had the best
of it. One of the latest rumours which have
been set afloat is the enlistment of 4,000 women by
LOPEZ to reinforce his army, a statement which had
its origin only i❑ the active imaginations of the
Brazilian reporters and the well-known patriotism
of the Paraguayan women. Isolated cases have
occurred of women joining the ranks, some of them
from motives of personal affection, but they have been
very rare and were entirely iudependent of any official
cognisance. LOPEZ has resorted to no such desperate
schemes ; he has men enough to harass the enemy
and to prevent them gaining any definite advan-
tage. Humaita still stands, and the boasted ad-
vance of the Allied Fleet up the river has been as
yet unproductive. Meanwhile, in Buenos Ayres
the long-growing disaffection is making itself plainly

heard, and it seems very probable that before long
Brazil will have to fight the battle alone. Under
these circumstances there is good hope that the
EmrEitor, and his advisers may yet abandoa the
useless struggle, and leave the Paraguayans to the
enjoyment of their hard-won independence.

Father Fischer, who was charged by the Em
peror Maximilian to publish all the documents re
lating to the Mexic in expedition, is at this moment
in Vienna. lie is steadily proceeding with the
work, and thinks it may be ready for publication in
four or five months.
The following letter has just been addressed
by M. Thiers to the Emperor's printer, M. Plon,
acknowlelg,ing the gift of a magnificent copy o f
the "Commentaires de Napol6on, presented to
him by this well-known editor :—" I shall place
this splendid work in my library, on the same
shelf as and next to the' Commentaires de Cesar,'
which you have also edited ; and I might repeat to
you what I replied to the late King of Prussia,
when he pointed out to me at the Berlin Museum
the statue of Napoleon, which he had had placed
opposite to that of Caesar. I remarked, Napoleon
will not have to complain of me, nor will Csar,
sire.'
The Earl of Derby presided on Saturday at a
meeting of her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibi-
tion of 1851. There were present—the Duke of Bucking-
ham and Chandos, Earl Granville, Lord John Manners,
M.P., Lord Overstone, Right Hon. R. Lowe, M.P., the
Right Hon. H.A. Bruce, M.P., the Right lion. G. W. Hunt,
M.P., Sir A. G. Spearman, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir R. Mur-
chison, Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. C. 11. Gregory
(President of the Institution of Civil Engineers), Mr.
Thring, and Mr. Edward Bowring, C. 8., secretary. A
meeting of the nuance Committee was previously held,
attended by Lord. Derby, Lord Granville, Lord Overstone,
Mr. Lowe, Mr. Bruce, Sir A. Spearman, Mr. Baring, Mr.
Thring, and Mr. Bowring.
The Royal Commission on Courts-martial met
on Saturday. Present—The Chairman, Colonel Wilson-
Patten, the Marquis of Hartington, Viscount Eversley,
Right Hon. Lieutenant-General Peel, Right Hon. J. E.
Mowbray, Right Hon. Russell Gurney, Q.C., Captain the
lion. J. C. Vivian, Mr. S. Whitbread, M.P. The secre-
tary, Mr. J. L. Wharton, also attended.
THE HARVEST.—SouIe acceptable rains have fallen
since Thursday in the east-mi and midland counties, but
they have still been only light and partial. The harvest
has very generally commenced iu the neighbourhood of
Chelmsford ; a few pieces of oats were cut last week, and
the wheat has now bon generally attacked. The same
may be said of other districts on the eastern side of the
ki nglom.
A HANDSOME PRESENT.--AS a proof of goodwill,
and a desire that the naval otfi ter iu command of her
Majesty's ships on the Australiau station should be bettor
enabled to maintain the dignity of his position, the L.g!s-
lature of New South Wades has awar.lod to Count ,lore
Rowley Lambert, C. 11., a stun of £5OO per aunum.—Arazy
and Nary Gazette.
TILE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. —At a meeting of
the representatives of the various public bodies and learned
and scientific societies in Edinburgh, held on Thursday,
the Lord Provost presiding, a committee was appointed to
take the requisite steps for inviting the British Association
to meet in that city iu 180. Sir George Harvey, Pro-
fessor Christison, Professor Balfour, Professor Spence,
Professor Duns, Sheriff Maitland Iloriot, and others took
part in the proCeedings.
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rmus, Stm.TDAt, July

The Emperor has finally departed fromPlombieres, and
the stagnation of the political world is so Complete that
the debate in the Corps L4gislatif is losing even the pre.
tence of interest. The official papers are at worli
vigorously denying everything, and the independent
prinks are equally active in supplying them with the
raw material to work upon. The system of denial
has given such encouragement to fabrication that
the palmy days of the trade have come at
last. The Spanish conspiracy, the South German
Confederation, the Customs union with the Nether.
lands, are rare delicacies which form an agreeable
relief to the pi&es de risistance, the Eastern question,
War with Prussia, and the coming difficulty respecting
Rome. The Emperor should adopt one of three courses. I
He should allow the papers to tell the truth, or should take
no notice of their inventions, or should abolish them
altogether. The nuisance Mtn,: culminate some
time. We may shortly look for the Spitzbergen
question, the Terra del Fuego difficulty, and the impend.
in; war with Manchovria. If ridicule does not work
reform, nothing will.
La Lanterne is a worthy exception to the general rule.
If it is false, let all credit be given to its impudence, for it
seldom publishes rumours, but dashes fearlessly into minute
statements of facts and the most daring comments on
current events. La Lanterne is not always refined; but it
never fails to be novel. This week it publishes a strange
story in characteristic style. The inhabitants of the Com-
mune of St. Julien, near Metz, have complained that
the showers of balls from the soldiers practising
with the Chassepot prevent them working in their vine.
yards. The military authorities have kindly replied that
they will allow the vine-growers two days per week
to till their ground ; but if they go out on any
other day it will be at their own risk. " Here,"
says La Lanterne,." you may buy land for a song, but it
i 3 subject to constant bombardments. Those who coun-
tenance these shameful violatiOns of private rights call
themselves the guardians of the people and their property,
but those who protest against inoffensive agriculturists
being shot down. they call communists." The Libert4 and
one or two other papers ridicule this acquisition of a new
right, the right of bombardment. But La Lanterne is the
only journal which lives, and yet is edited with the most
complete disregard to consequences. On the announcement
that a life of Charlemagne is to be written by Napoleon
111., it expresses its desire to see a life of Napoleon by
Charlemagne. On the publication of the twenty-fourth
volume of the First Napoleon's correspondence, a com-
parison, which must be highly agreeable at Plombieres, is
drawn between the Great and the Little. La Lanterne
will be extinguished some day, beyond doubt.
The extraordinary trial of which I sent you some de-
tails a few days ago has just terminated. The two accused
women were found guilty of murder and robbery, and
sentenced to penal servitude for life. Your readers will
remember that the charge was brought against a girl
named Fleutot, and her mother. The former murdered her
mistress by suffocating her whilst in a bath, stole
jewels, &c., of valve, and set the house on fire.
Her mother was implicated in these charges. The calm-
ness and self-possession of the younger woman, her inge-
nuity in defending herself, the extraordinary narrative of
her early life, and her -impassibility under sentence,
render this one of the most dramatic tr:als ever
known in France. The trial finally concluded by a tern.
pest of indignation in court, caused by Fleutot smiling on
the announcement of her sentence.
The interpellation on the conduct of the Italian army
during the campaign of 1866, which has been announced
in the Florence Chamber by General ..Menabrea, has been
very strangely received here. French sympathy in this
case is altogether on the side of Frussi3. The discussion
is indeed considered a washing of the dirty linen
of both countries, but the weaker country cer-
tainly gets the greater part of the ridicule,
and General La Marmora fares worst of all. The
truth seems to me to be that Prussia is altogether in the
wrong on this occasion. The Italian army did not, indeed,
effect any great achievement during the campaign. But
this is hardly the question. Italy stood by the terms of
the alliance, after an offer from Austria to give up
Venetia if she would remain neutral. The army
might have done badly, but the nation did all
that it could, and the reproaches of the Prussians are
most ungenerous. Besides, it is by no means certain what
would have been the result had the Austrian army of
Venetia been employed in Bohemia. That the French
should side with Prussia in a question of this kind proves
that the relations between the allies of 1859 are at their
worst.
The new Egyptian loan has been favourably received
here, albeit Egyptian securities are not as a rule so largely
dealt in as in England.

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TilE DIBLEDOAr MEETIXG.

THE CAMP, SATURDAY,

To-day closes the first week of the Wimbledon meeting
of 18G8. Thus far the shooting has been good, dis-
cipline has been perfectly preserved, the attendance of
visitors has been up to the average of former years, and
the camp presents, with few exceptions, a clean bill of
health. These are facts upon which the Council of the
association, the Volunteers, and the public may justly con-
gratulate themselves.

At a quarter to nine this morning the sixty competitors
—winners in the first stage—for the Queen's Prize assembled
in front of the council tent, and received the Government
Whitworth rifles with which the final competition will be
shot off, and at once busily occupied themselves with the
important business of sighting. This will be continued on
Monday, and the great event of the meeting brought to
an issue on the following day. The highest score of 51 for
the Ist stage, made by Drum-Major Hutchinson, Ist
Gloucester, published in these columns yesterday, was
one point less than that obtained by Captain Wright, 30th
Cheshire, the winner of the silver medal and badge last
year. The winners since 1862 have been Walton, 7th West
Sussex, 40 points ; Wisher, 2nd Essex, 49 points ; Howard,
Ist Suffolk, 47 points ; Edward Ross, London Scottish, 47
points; James, Queen's Westminster, 43 points ; Capt.
Wright, 30th Cheshire, 52 points ; and Drum-Major
Hutchinson, Ist Gloucestershire, 51 points.
Four very interesting events found a place in the pro-
gramme to-clay, viz., the shooting' for the Irish Inter-
national Trophy, the China Challenge Cup, the Albert
prizes, and the volley firing in connection with
the Belgian Cap. The Irish Challenge Trophy
is of the value of £5OO, to which is added a cup
of the value of £5, and the competition, an annual
one, is open to the best shot from each of the English,
Irish, and Scotch twenties in the Enfield International
Trophy, lately won by England at Edinburgh. The names
of this year's marksmen are Captain Armstrong, Ist Lan-
cashire, representing Ireland ; Sergeant Plenderleith, Ist.
Peebles, shooting for Scotland ; and Corporal Hepple-
stone, 20th Lancashire, for England. The China Chal-
lenge Cup is of the value of £525, and is presented by the
volunteers in China for competition at 'Wimbledon
by 'the home volunteers, £5O in specie being
added by the National Rifle Association. The
Belgian Challenge Cup, for volley firing, is presented
by the Chasseurs Eclaireurs, of Brussels, and the Belgian
visitors who were over here last year. The value of the
prize is £lOO, the association adding £75, and the cup is
held for the year by the officer commanding the winning
battalion. The range is 400 yards, and the number of
shots allowed five, both ranks kneeling. For the Albert
Prize, of the aggregate value of £670, the competition is
thrown operkto all nations, and shooting with any rifles in
any position is permitted. The competitions to-day also
included shooting for the " Any Rifle " Wimbledon
Cup, the " Any Rifle " Association Cup, the Enfield
Association Cup ; the first stage Windmill Prize, the Eley
Prizes, and the Military Breech-loaders. With one of
these latter weapons known as the " Carter-Edwards,'
Sergeant Bott, Royal Marines, fired, this morning, in
the three minutes allowed, 43 rounds, making 3 bull's eyes,
22 centres, 17 outers, and 2 misses. The total score of 108
was the highest yet recorded.
The greatest number of points in the lst stage Alex-
andra 600 yards range, now closed, was obtained by
Private Black, " Victorias," who took the £2O prize.
Sergeant Parker (2nd Surrey), Sergeant Wright (6th
Essex), Sergeant Davidson (Ist Roxburgh), and Private
Smith (6th North York), made 18 points. The first two
took £l5 prizes, tile last two £lO prizes. The lowest scores
made were 15 points.
For the China Cup the highest score was made by
Sornersetshire, 283 points. Staffordshire came next, with
231 points ; Devonshire, 277 ; Middlesex, 275 ; Lan-
cashire, 275; Durham, 270 ; Yorkshire, 255.