The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-08 00:00:00

all the ChambeA of Commerce are in favour of them.

Greece, shielded by the guarantee of the .protecting
Powers from invasion by the Sultan, continues to foment
the etan insurrection. We hear of habitual changes of
Ministry, but there is no change of policy. Nothing is
spared to aid the Cretans, but very little money is spent
on internal improvements. The reason is plain. Greek
patriots, under the influence of an enthusiasm that sees
only visions of future national greatness, believe that war
with the Ottoman Government, whether in Crete, Thes-
saly, or Epirus, has become the national destiny; and the
guarantee to which we are parties helps them to carry out
their ambitious projects. Meanwhile the state of society
in Greece itself is deplorable in the extreme.
The Angle-American Timcs takes a very favourable view
o. the finand report of Commissioner Wes, as shewing
that, notwithstanding appearances, the industry and com-
merce of the country are not only in a healthy, but in a
' prosperous condition. One thing only, says the Anglo-
American Times, can permanently injure the United
States, and that is the adoption of a repudiation policy,
which would for a century annihilate its credit in all

markets.
The John Hull understands that the Duke of Marl.
borough is prepared with an Educational Bill, which will
develope the existing system rather than introduce a new
one. It will not substitute local for imperial taxation, but
aid will probably be given to poorer parishes now debarred
from the grant, and uncertificated schoolmasters will,
under certain circumstances, be aided. Miss Burdett
• Coutts's plan for grouping parishes may not improbably
be tried.
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Mr. Walter Bagehot has issued another long address to
the electors of the University of London, for which con-
stituency he i= a candidate. The subjects with which he
deals are education and the Irish Church. As to the first,
'Arr. Bagehot says : " I do not think that at once we
should by law require every parent to send all his children

to school. On the contrary, whatever may be the abstract
value of such a measure, we are not ripe for it, and could

not enforce it.

But we could compelevery employer of

children's labbur to prove that tlios'e children attended
school. We could compel districts which now have no
school, to exert themselves and create a school. We could
make good means of instruction universal, and we could
be sure that all employed children used those means ; and in
so doing we should make an advance of startling magni-
tude." With respect to the Irish Church, he believes that only
one conclusion, and that the simplest, will be found pos-
sible. That is, the secularisation of the Church revenues,
and their devotion to some evidently national object like
education.
It is believed that Mr. Brett, the newly-appointed Soli-
citor-General, will not be re-elected fur Helston without
opposition. A close run is anticipated, and if the Liberal
candidate were a popular man, the rejection of the hon.
and learned gentleman would be no matter for surprise.
A most influential meeting has just been held at Dublin,
presided over by the tLord Mayor, for the purpose of
urging upon the Government the wisdom of purchasing,
without delay, the railways of Ireland. Lord Bandon
moved the first resolution, which expressed gratification at
the fact, that the policy of having the railways of Ireland
purchased by the State had been adopted at a meeting
represented by both Houses of Parliament, and urged by
them upon the Government. His lordship said that the
enormously high fares of the railways in South Ireland
kept the productions of that part of the kingdom at a
very high price ; and thus their wares had not a fair
chance of competition with those of other countries.
Is one of the first results of it would be the lowering of
the fares, he was convinced of the soundness of a policy of
State interference witn Irish railways. The second resolu-
tion—to the effect that the meeting rejoiced at the issue of
a commission to inquire into the subject—was moved by
the Marquis of Clanricarde. The noble lord urged that a
great need for railway reform existed in both England and
Ireland. The neglect had affected Ireland, however,
much more than England, because they (the Irish) had
not the great mineral wealth, the manufacturing power
and immense capital which enabled England to survive
unparalleled disasters. The present Ministry had met the
question fairly, and he hoped that the State would soon
have the matter in hand. Other resolutions containing
matter of detail were sJ o Puffed by the FAcctiingL

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OSBORNE, Feb. 7.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Prince and Princess Christian and
Princess Henriette of Schleswig-Holstein.
Her Majesty went out this morning, attended by
the Duchess of Athole.

GREAT HIGH TIDE AT HULL—This Day.

High tide, 30 feet, at Dock-gate, Quay under
water. • Houses, cellars, and streets, are flooded,
and many live stock drowned. Davis and Co., of
Market-place, have flannels (worth £7,000) in cel-
lars injured.

RIMMEL'S VALENTINES.

Flowers of lovelie6t hue and scents of most de-

licious perfume are again this year laid in
abundant offering on the shrine of good St.
Valentine by the bands of Eugene Himmel.
The artistic composition of the Valentine has ar-
rived at a degree of perfection undreamt of in the
days when Sam \Yeller, with the auspicious aid
of his venerable parent, composed his all-famous
Valentine. Among the graceful group of floral
offerings now before us, one of the loveliest
represents a rose-tree overladen with bloom,
with the motto, " Have faith ;" and one
of the most delicate, a bunch of pure white
jessamine, entitled "Friendship's offering." Nei-
ther must we omit to make mention of the ele-
gant " Gloves of St, Valentine," and the grand
discovery of the new heart barometer of " Cupid's
Magnet," in which, by a skill surpassing
that of any nautical compass yet invented,
the emotions of the human heart can be accurately
measured and exactly defined! From "violent
hatred" to "ardent love," through all the degrees of
" indifference," " compassion," " interest," " affec-
tion," every tender emotion has its proper limit
here assigned—a discovery almost worthy of Sir
Charles Wheatstone himself.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The unarmoured screw corvette Wolverene, 1,703
tons, 100 horse power, Captain Thomas Cochran,
arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon from the
West Indies. She will be dismantled and paid out
of commission, and awaits orders at Spithead from
the Admiralty as to what port she is to enter for
that purpose.
The War Department vessel Alfred, Mr. Pellatt,
master, yesterday sailed from Woolwich Arsenal,
laden with. guns, shells, ammunition, and sundry
other stores for the armament of Upnor Castle;
and the Marlborough, in the same service, also took
her departure, conveying a couple of batteries com-
plete to Dover, for the military encampment at
Shorncliffe. The Thames, Mr. nornby, master, in
the same service, arrived yesterday at the gun wharf,
Woolwich, and discharged the heavy 68-pounder
guns, weighing 95cwt. each, together with their
carriages, slides, &c., which have been lying for
some considerable time past at Shornmoad, below
Gravesend, and, on account of the soft state of the
surrounding soil as well as the sliding condition of
the embankment, were found unfit for the service
desired. The freightship Ironsides, with obsolete
war stores, from Auckland, New Zealand, has de-
livered over her cargo for the stores department in
Woolwich Arsenal, and the War Department vessel
Inkermau, from Dublin, yesterday completed the
discharge of her cargo of returned stores at Wool•
with. One of the old 32-pounder cast-iron ord-
nance guns, of which a vast number have encum-
bered the gun park for many years, and some of
which have been handed over to Major Palliser for
conversion to 61-pounders bored out an l strengh-
ened on his principle, has been in course of trial at
the Woolwich butt during the past two weeks. The
gun has fired 100 experimental charges per day, and
yesterday it went through the 1,500 th round, with-
out showing the smallest sign of weakness. It is
intended to apply the maximum test of 2,000 proof
rounds. As much depends on the success of the
new system of using up the useless stock of old
guns, the trials are witnessed with considerable in-
terest.

Yesterday an order was received at Chatham
garrison from the Horse Guards, directing detach-
ments of 26 non-commissioned officers and gunners
of the Royal Artillery, 28 non-commissioned officers
and sappers of the Royal Engineers, and 33 men of
all ranks of the 61st Regiment to be held in readi-
ness to embark at Gravesend, on board the char-
tered troopship Isabella, on the 12th inst., sfor con-
veyance to Bermuda.
Orders were received at Chatham yesterday di,
recting two officers and thirty non-commissioned
officers and privates of the 2d battalion of the 15th
Regiment to embark for Gibraltar, in charge of a
number of convicts. The officers, on arrival at
Gibraltar, will return to the depot of their regiment
at Chatham.

The new T pier about to be erected in Woolwich
Arsenal is ordered to be commenced without fur-
ther delay. It is intended to facilitate the ship-
ment of the heavy ordnance now introduced in our
service, and will be fitted with cranes capable of
hoisting 30 tons weight. The pier, with its T
platform, will extend 300 ft. towards the bed of the
Thames, from the wharf fronting the Royal gun
factories, and will be 25ft. broad, so as to contain
three lines of tramways. The T platform or head
of the pier will be 100 ft. in length, constructed so
as to admit of its being lengthened should an in-
creased demand for shipping space arise even-
tually. The principal portions of the pier are to
be of iron, the cost of which has been estimated
at upwards of £20,000. It will be built by con-
tract, under the supervision of the works depart-
ment of the Royal Engineers, and tenders will be
issued shortly.

MR. DOULTON, M.P.—What good can result
from an open verdict in the case of Mr. Frederick
Doulton, M.P. ? Obviously such a termination of a grea t
cause would be alike injurious to the public interest and
to the reputation of the member for Lambeth. Yet the
Metropolitan Board of Works yesterday arrived at what is
substantially an open or suspended verdict, tempered by a
protest from Mr. Doulton, denouncing the Board for its
cowardice and want of equity in not expressing an opinion.
With the spirit of Mr. Doulton's protest we entirely agree
—judgment, one way or the other, ought to be given. The
allegations against him are so serious that he has the fullest
right to demand distinct condemnation or positive acquittal.
Nd middle course will meet the just requirements of tho
case. To leave the accusation suspended in mid-air re-
flects equally on the accused and his judges ; leaving the
accused under a stigma, and the judges under a suspicion
that they desire to burke inquiry and frustrate the legiti-
mate demand of the public for full explanation and une-
quivocal conclusions. If there were a design to escape
from the shadow cast upon the Board of Works lately,
no better course could be devised than the sort of free
fight which seems to have raged yesterday in the Metro-
politan chamber. We deliberately abstain from discussing
the merits of the question ; but, on behalf of the ratepayers
—so profoundly touched in their pockets —we are bound to
demand a full and free deliverance. The Metropolitan
Board of Works must vindicate its character, for its cha-
racter is the thing really at stake. Should that body fail
to perform the necessary operation, the case must go to
the House of Commons—the grand inquest of the nation ;
and that body, with ample power to send for persons and
papers, will effectually overhaul the transactions which
have excited public mistrust. If honest men have been
injured justice requires that they should be righted; d
there be delinquents among the worthy members—if there
bo irregularities, corruptions, bribery—thou the-misdeeds
should be brought into the light of day, and the delinquents,
whoever they may be, pilloried and punished. Mr. Doul-
ton's case is not judged, and judgment must,be obtained.
—Telegraph.
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