The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-02 00:00:00

A BLOT IN TAB FBENCII TREATY.

Nottingham is dissatisfied with the French Treaty.
At least its Chamber of Commerce is. Switzerland
has obtained a concession much more advantageous
to it than Cobden in that particular obtained for
England. Certain goods of the muslin class are
admitted into France from Switzerland, subject to a
duty of 10 per cent. Nottingham goods pay 15 per
cent. So the Nottingham Chamber of Commerce has
sent a memorial to the Board of Trade asliing that
this may be altered.
WIIO WOULD NOT BE A PAUPER

Under the present poor-law arrangements we may
pride ourselves on providing our paupers with very
Inferior articles at the highest possible price. One of
the papers refers to a statement made by a St. Pan-
cras guardian, that the children of that parish cost
the ratepayers lls. 3d. each per week. On referring
to the annual report of the Poor-law Board to t( st
that assertion, our contemporary finds the workhouse
children of St. Pancras are in the Central London
Pauper School. Now, in 1865, the cost of maintaining
and educating a child at that establishment was
£2B 10s. 10d. for the twelve months ; in 1866 it was
returned at £29 18s. sd. ; but better management,
we presume, reduced the expense in 1867 to
£24 10s. ld. At the lowest of these sums nearly a
whole year's wages of a strong but unskilled man
would be consumed by the expenditure on one child.
A dock labourer, for example, gets 15s. a week at full
work; but if he obtain employment for nine months
in the year he is rather fortunate, and his total earn-
ings Would be then £2B 10s. A family of four children
at schoolgoing ages is not an unusually large one, but
at the St. Pancras rate it would entail an outlay of
£l2O a year.
LITEEATIME, SCIENCE, AND AIM
The Atheneum contains the following announce-
ments :—The University of Cambridge has instituted
examinations for women. Every candidate is to be
examined in religious knowledge, unless she declares
her objection in writing.—The Archeological Insti-
tute hold their congress at Bury St. Edmunds next
ycar.—Mr. Edmund Yates will have a novel called
" Wrecked in Port" in the new series of All the

Y e al. Bound.
The Orchestra contains two or three interesting
items:—Miss Louisa Pyne was married to Mr.
Frank Bodda on the 12th instant. —Mr. Balfe
is on his way to Paris, for the purpose of pro-
ducing there the " Bohemian Girl."—The Gaiety
will open in December with a new piece by Mr. Sala
and Mr. Halliday, and also a burlesque from the pen
of Mr. Gilbert.—Costa's " Eli," to be given at Stutt-
gard next week, will be the first English oratorio
heard on the Continent, except those of Handel.

THEATRE -ROYAL DRURY-L AXE.
dole Lessee and Manaßer, Mr. F. B. Chatterton,

THIS EVENING, at 7, A MODEL UNCLE. After ;which
at a quarter to 8, KING 0' SCOTS: Mr. Phelps; Messrs. Addi-
son, Barrett. J. Irving, H. Sinclair. E. Price, John Rouse, G
Cumming, W. M'lntyre, and W. C. Temple; Mesdames Heath,
Edith Stuart. Fanny Addison, and Mrs. F. Matthews. Grand
Ballet Divertissement.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
TIES EVENING, A. CO-'IPERATIVE MOVEMENT. Messrs.
Kendal, Compton, &c. After which, LEAH: Messrs. flowe, Ro-
gers, Kendal, Braid, Clark, F. Buckstone, White, Weathersby,
Ste.; Mesdames Bateman, Francis,Wright, Maccabe, Fitzwilliam,
Laws, Coleman, &c. And A PRETTY PIEuE OF BUSINESS :
Messrs. Backstone, Howe, &c. Commence at 7.