The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-22 00:00:00

71-1 E BISHOP1?IC OP NATAL.

The following letter has been addressed by the
Bishop of London to the Bishop of Capetown :
" Fulham Palace, Jan. 20.
"My dear Lord;-1 feel myself constrained by a
sense of duty, much against my inclination, to ad-
dress your lordship publicly on the subject of a
letter which you sent to the newspapers last week.
You announce, as I understand you, that it is your
intention forthwith to consecrate a new Bishop for
Natal. Had Parliament or Convocation been sit-
ting, I should have asked in my place for an answer
to the following :

" 1. Whether, considering the words of the 26th
of George 111., cap. 84, and other statutes, the law
officers of the Crown, having been consulted by the
Government, have declared such consecration to be
lawful ?

"2. If you are not acting on the authority of
the law officers of the Crown, has a legal opinion
been taken justifying the step you propose, by whom
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"But neither Parliament nor Convocation is in
Session, and, as it seems there is no time to lose, I
take the only means open to me for asking you,
before you proceed further in this matter, to give a
public answer to these questions. It was only last
week that I learnt accidentally, but from the most
undoubted authority, that you proposed to hold the
consecration on the 25th inst., and in Scotland. A
vigorous protest against this proceeding has been
made by persons who are among the most attached
members of the Scottish Episcopal Church. The
Scottish plan is, I now learn, abandoned, and it is
stated that on Saturday next you propose to conse-
crate in England.
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called upon by others, as well as moved by our
sense of public duty, to visit some of our clergy
for taking part in proceedings contrary to the law
of the Church and realm; when, had we been pro-
perly informed beforehand and the matter formally
investigated, we might have prevented them from
committing themselves.

" I am sure you will see, my dear Lord, that the
Church of England is entitled to a plain and imme-
diate answer to the questions I have asked.
" You remember, from your recent presence at
the Lambeth Conference,
" 1. That the assembled bishops, under the direc-
tion of the Archbishop of Canterbury, deliberately
abstained from affirming that Bishop Colenso's
deposition was valid, either spiritually or in any
other way.
" 2. That at the adjourned meeting of the Con-
ference the report of the Committee recommending
the consecration of a new bishop was, by the wish
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, as well as of the
Bishops of Lincoln, Ely, Chester, and myself, with
others, deliberately, not approved, but only re-
ceived.

" 3. That many of the English bishops, feeling
strongly, like myself, how dangerous is the teaching
of pitinop Colenso, still hold that his see is not

" 4. That some also of our body, whose authority
is very great in such matters, believe that (quite
independently of questions of English law) the de-
position is uncanonical.
" You will remember also,
" 5. That, whereas the words of 26 George 111.,
cap. Bf, declare that by the. laws of this realm no
person can be consecrated to the office of bishop
without the Royal authority—if any doubt exists
as to the applicability of these words to your case—
that consecration service which alone can be law-
fully used within the Church of England prescribes
that the Royal mandate shall be produced before the
consecration is proceeded with ; and, moreover, the
bishop elect is called upon to declare in the face of
the congregation that he is persuaded he is truly
called to his ministration in the office of a bishop,
not only according to the will of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but also according to the order of this
realm.'

" To many it seems inconceivable that any man
will be found to make this solemn declaration, in
the midst of all these doubts, before the legality of his
consecration has been publicly established by some
competent authority.
" Under these circumstances I venture to call
upon you, my dear Lord, not to go further without
the most perfect openness and the most complete
examination by the authoriries of Church and State
as to the legality and propriety of what you are
doing. You surely will allow that you ought not
otherwise to proceed to a step which :must be
fraught with the gravest consequences for the
Church, both at home and in the colonies, and for
which, certainly, there is no precedent since the
schism of the non-jurors.
" Let me remind you that what I ask implies no
long delay as to the authoritative settlement of
whether or no you are right in your view of your
duty. Parliament and Convocation both meet
early next month, and it surely would be unbecom-
ing, in the face of statutes and of ecclesiastical
precedent, to hurry on this step before either au-
thority has had an opportunity of expressing its
opinion,

" Believe me to be, my dear Lord,
g‘ Yours very faithfully,
" A. C. LONDON.

" The Lord Bishop of Capetown."

THE ABLSSMIAN EXPEDITION.

(FROM A MILITARY CORRESPONDENT OF THE TIMES.)
CAMP SENAFE, Dec. 17, 1867.
One of the principal events of the past fortnight
has been the arrival of Sir C. Staveley on the sth
instant, to assume command of the troops in Abys-
sinia, pending the arrival of his Excellency Sir B.
Napier, K.C.8., K.C.S.I.
The consequence of this has been that the com-
mittee, of which Colonel Merewether was president
e., the officers composing the pioneer farce_
has been dissolved, not, however, without an ex-
pression of thanks in General Orders by Sir R.
Napier to those officers for the zealous manner in
which they have performed the duties required of
them.

It is now stated that Colonel Alerewether is about
to leave this to take up his appointment as Com-
missioner in Scinde owing to there being no suitable
appointment for him with this force ; this, however,
is not currently believed.

Sir C. Staveley's arrival is a source of the greatest
satisfaction to all departments, as we sadly wanted
a head at Zoulla ; where everything seemed to be
going wrong, owing to want of system and the issue
of definite orders. With Sir C. Staveley, and on
his staff, have arrived Lieutenant-Colonel H. Wood,
Assistant Adjutant-General, and Captain Moore,
Persian Interpreter. Eventually Sir C. Staveley
will command the Ist Division, which, in all proba-
bability, will consist of the following troops :-
Ist Brigade, under Brigadier-General Collins,
33d Regiment-3d Regiment Light Cavalry; Major
Marett's Mountain Train Battery ;
33d, Duke of
Wellington's, Regiment ; 10th Native Infantry ;
27th or Ist Belooch Battalion.

2d Brigade, under Brigadier-General Wilby, 4th
King's Own-3d Regiment Scinde Horse, G 14
Royal Artillery, 4th King's Own Regiment, 3d
Regiment Native Infantry, 25th Regiment Native
Light Infantry.
The 33d Regiment, which arrived before my last
letter was despatched, had on the 13th inst. only
lauded two companies, owing to the scarcity of
water on shore, and these two companies were at
once pushed forward to Koomain. On the way
they lost the whole of their ammunition and
tents, owing to no rear guard having been furnished,
and up to the 13th no trace of them had been dis-
covered. The remainder of the regiment will re-
main on board ship till their warm clothing arrives
from Bombay, when they will be landed and at once
sent to this place.

Three companies of the Ist Belooch Battalion have
been marched to Rayray Guddee, taking the place
of the companies of the 10th Native Infantry lately
withdrawn. The headquarters of this regiment will
remain at Zoulla for the present. The Gl4 have
been landed and marched to Koomaylee, where they
will, as a matter of necessity, remain till the passes
are made practicable for artillery.
On the 9th the Star of India (hospital ship), with
the Madras Sappers, arrived at Zoulla, and on the
following day the Golden Fleece (hospital ship)
also anchored in Annesley Bay. Major Prender-
gast, V.C., is in command of the Madras Sappers.
Altogether, there are some twenty-four vessels
in the harbour exclusive of the ships of the Royal
Navy.

The Madras dooley_bearers, under Lieut. Smith,
intended for hospital and commissariat duties, ar-
rived on the 9th, but a portion of them were handed
over to the officer commanding Transport Train
Depot for employment as muleteers, owing to the
strike of the foreign muleteers.

The Bombay Government was cautioned as far
back as September last against employing foreigners
—Persians, Turks, Greeks, Levantines, Albanians,
Armenians, &c., and the like, and since then re-
peated letters have been sent urging them to
send muleteers from India. Colonel Merewether
troubleal so
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but up to the present time not a single man has
arrived.

It is almost needless to say that the Transport
Train is in a hopeless state of confusion. Animals
roving about day and night dying for want of water
(which only can be had at the naval tanks, where it
is dealt out without stint to all loose animals that
come there), and proper care and attention, add to
this the effects of the epidemic mentioned in my
last, and the deaths, I fancy, may be put down at
twenty a day, and in this state must the Train
remain till muleteers from India arrive. The
officers are mostly picked men of great Indian ex-
perience and well fitted for any emergency, but
their hands are tied.

Things have undoubtedly improved since the ar-
rival of Sir C. Staveicy, and mules are now handed
over to regiments and detachments, where the poor
things arc properly fed, groomed, and watered, by
which means the lives of many have undoubtedly
been saved.
Principal Veterinary-Surgeon Lamb, Transport
Train, arrived here yesterday, with the object of
examining and reporting upon the cause of the
epidemic. It is, I believe, his opinion that it is
entirely a disease of the blood, and attributable to
atmospheric causes. There appears to be no remedy
in the majority of instances. The deaths among
the cavalry horses amount to 200, and their daily
average to two, while in the Transport Train the
daily average is from 2 tc) 3 per cent. at Senafe,

With reference to the Transport Train, I may
may state that, as far as practicable, it is to be
organised on the same system as the Military Train
in England; and with this object in view, non-
commi,•sioned officers from British regiments have
been appointed to the first and second class in-
spectorships, while the third class is to be filled by
non-commissioned officers of the Native Army.
With such supervision, and with Indian drivers, the
Train ought to be as efficient a branch as any in the
service.

The Commissariat, always a hard-worked and
much-abused department, has been of late still fur-
ther harassed by the failure of the Transport Train ;
but the officers—Major Mignon (the most experi-
enced and able officer of the Bombay Commissariat
Department), Major Hawks, and Lieut. Shewell
have worked indefatigably, and so kept things from
coining to a dead lock.

It is reported that the Advance Brigade is to be
no of
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pushed on to Bahat, nine miles south of Senafe, and
territory, where it is supposed supplies will be forth-
: Tigre
this place Chief's
scarcely anything is procurable, and •
ruinous prices
are asked, because there is but one coin—the dollar.
You must buy a dollar's worth of wood or honey,
and the same price is asked for a goat or sheep.
Rupees they won't look at.
The move of the Advance Brigade will enable the_
speedy despatch of other troops to this place, but the
ground occupied by them will not be the same as we
are now on, but about two miles further on in a
large valley, where the water supply is more abun-
chat, and the ground capable of holding a larger
number of men. The advance brigade was turned
out for exercise last week by Colonel Field,
commanding, and after a few pretty ma-
noeuvres, which much astonished a large num-
ber of Abyssinians who were seated on the neigh-
bouring rocks like eagles watching our movements,
was marched to quarters. This exercise is to
be weekly, and will dol.* iless do the troops
much good, giving them au idea of what they may
have to do should we meet Theodore and his army
ready to do battle.
On the 13th inst. the Norma arrived at Zoulla
with a constabulary establishment—a want long felt
at that camp. Had a small police force been added
it would have been better, for the Shohoes are great
thieves.

Captain St. John, R.E., has also arrived, and is
very anxious to commence laying the telegraph wire
to Koomaylee, and thence to Senafe. Major Mig-
non has offered to lend rafters to commence the
work with, and telegraphic communication between
Zoulla and Koomaylee ought to be opened in the
course of a few days, and with this place a fortnight
hence.

Captain Le Messurier, with some well-borers and
a staff has arrived, and his first experiment, made
on the 11th, about a mile from the shore, was highly
satisfactory. The want of water is the greatest
drawback to the efficiency of the Commissariat and
Transport Train departments.
The spring tides at Zoulla, on the 11th and 12th,
are reported to have been unusually high, and had
it not been for the presence of the Sappers and
dooley-bearers (Madras) great quantities of com-
missariat stores would have been destroyed.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Jan. 21.—With a quieter business

in the Liverpool cotton-market to-day, and a slight
decline in the prices, the demand here for yarn and
cloth has undergone a considerable modification.
The market for shipping yarns has assumed a much
quieter tone than on Friday. Spinners having sold
rather considerable quantities last week at the ad-
vance then obtainable arc now pretty well under
contracts which will keep them engaged for some
short time to come, and they are consequently dis-
posed to hold for the same prices, and are not pres-
sing on the market for new business. The business
effected under these circumstances has been limited,
with prices nominally unchanged. There is a similar
lull iu the market for home trade yarns, and, after
the excitement of last week, business appears tame.
No doubt buyers, the more active of whom were
manufacturers, have satisfied their wants for a
time, and have appeared more disposed to look on
to-day than to follow up the operations of last week.
Spinners are requiring rather full prices for
most counts of these yarns, owing to the
extent to which they are already under engagement.
The cloth trade is also quieter, and the excitement
which gave such a lively aspect to the market last
week has subsided. Not only has a quieter tone in
the Liverpool cotton-market yesterday and to-day I
tended to this effect, but very unfavourable news
from China has had a deterring influence upon
buyers for that market. The recent shipments and
purchases for that market have been considerable,
but buyers to-day have been determined to suspend
their operations altogether. The quotations of
manufacturers and sellers generally advanced a good
deal, of course, under the influence of last week's
activity and excitement, and they are nominally un-
changed ; but they have been able to effect but
little business at any price. The demand for print-
ing cloths, jacconets, and mulls has undergone but
little change. Domestics have had but little share
in last week's improvement, and these and long-
cloths and T's remain without much alteration.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report:---64 There
has been an active demand during the past
week, and makers, esp3cially of India and China
shirtings and of printing cloths, have contracted
largely at a considerable advance on our last quo-
tations. The weaker tone of the Liverpool market,
combined with other causes, has served to check
the business, and to-day we close with a steady
market, but with a marked falling off in the ope-
rations."

CARDIFF, 20th.—There are more vessels in port
than at the date of last report, but this arises
partly from the unfavourable and stormy weather
which has prevailed, and not from any actual in-
crease in trade. The exports of coal during the
past week have been considerably below the ave-
rage, the clearances, as compared with previous
weeks, being small ; but with a return of tolerably
fair weather, and with ample tonnage in the port,
the shipments will soon
_increase. From the Mail-
packet station there is the usual demand, which
is expected shortly to extend, as the stocks are
known to be exceedingly low at several places.
France has taken by far the greatest quantity for
the past six or seven days, and there is no doubt of
her continuing a good customer. From some of
the Mediterranean markets inquiries have increased,
and freights are rather firmer than they were, and
there is a prospect of an advance taking place.
There is no improvement to note in the prices ob-
tained for coal. The house-coal trade is dull, and
freights are low.

ROCHDALE, 20th.—The flannel market to-day,
though visited by a few more buyers than last week,
was very quiet. Operations were confined to small
purchases, and in some instances sales were only
effected by a lowering of prices. The best flannels,
however, command late rates, and we can scarcely
say that there is an absolute lowering in any class
of goods. Yorkshire goods, though they continue
in slack demand, are steady in price. Wools, too,
are nominally the same as last week, but manufac-
turers purchase for immediate rather than prospec-
tive wants.
LEEDS, 21st.—There has been a small attendance
of both manufacturers and buyers in the woollen
cloth halls this morning, and the business done was
not to the same extent even as on this day se'nnight.
The weather was both foggy and wet, which had a
prejudicial effect on the market, and was probably
the chief cause of the comparatively small

sales of goods. The demand for tweeds was
moderate, but chiefly for the lower qualities of
those with cotton warps. Small selections of other
fabrics were made, but the markets in both the
white and the coloured halls were devoid of anything
like animation. Wools, both colonial and British,
maintain last week's pries ; but there is no great
demand, buyers in the woollen and in the worsted
trades being alike cautious in their purchases, and
devoid of speculation. The flax trade is rather im-
proving, and prices of both the raw material and of
threads and yarns arc rather firmer, if not higher,
l'than they were a short time ago.

NA VAL AND .11IT,I7'ARY INTELLIGENCE

An order has been received at Chatham directing
60 non-commissioned officers and gunners, with teu
soldiers' wives and ten children of the 16th Brigade
Royal Artillery, and 53 non-commissioned officers
and gunners, with one soldier's wife and child, of
the 25th Brigade, to be held in readiness for em-
barkation at Liverpool on board the West India and
Pacific Steam Navigation Company's screw steamer
Australasia, 2,498 tons, 350 horse-power, for Cal-
cutta. The troops are ordered to be in readiness to
leave Chatham about the 30th inst. Detachments
of one sergeant and 80 privates of the Ist battalion
of the Ist (the King's) Royal Regiment, one ser-
geant and 150 men of the 2d battalion of the Ist
Royals, one sergeant and 100 privates of the Ist
battalion of the 2d Queen's Royals, and 50 men of
the 82d (Prince of 'Wales's Volunteers) Regiment
have also been placed under orders to proceed from
the depots of their respective corps at Chatham for
embarkation for India, to join the service com-
panies of their regiments in the Bengal, Bombay,
and Madras Presidencies.

The following officers at Chatham have been
placed under orders for embarkation to join their
respective regiments in the East and West Indies :
—Capt. J. L. Preston, 45th (Sherwood Foresters)
Regiment; Lieut. A. Glen, 21 battalion of the 10th
Regiment; Ensign E. H. Singer, 2d battalion of
the 10th Regiment ; Lieut. G. Roe, 2d West India
Regiment ; and Ensign W. IL Gordon, Ist West
India Regiment. Staff-Surg. B. A. M‘Dermott,
late doing duty with the 2d Depot Battalion at
Chatham, has been placed under orders for embar-
kation to join the 95th Regiment in India.
The company of the 9th Regiment, commanded
by Capt. Harvey, which has for some time been
doing duty at Simon's Town, arrived by rail, on the
17th of December, at Cape Town. They were
escorted from the station to the barracks by the
band of the 99th Regiment.
A court-martial assembled yesterday morning at
Mount'Wise, Devonport, for the purpose of trying
1,122, Gunner J. Reid, belonging to No. 8 Battery,
Royal Artillery, recently stationed at Plymouth
Citadel, on two charges—First, for having uttered
mutinous language on the evening of the sth of
January inst. ; and, secondly, for being drunk. The
court consisted of 14 officers, chiefly belonging to
the 12th Regiment, the Lieut.-Col. of which, Henry
Meade Hamilton, presided. Brevet-Colonel T. H.
Laye (who came from London expressly) was the
Judge-Advocate ; and Capt. and Adjt. F. Duncan

prosecuted. The prisoner pleaded "guilty" to the

charge of drunkenness, and " not guilty" to the
other. Three civilians, Messrs. Butler, Dyer, and
Dickers, stated that on the evening in question

they were at Phillips' Salham Inn, in the Citadel-
road, Plymouth. The prisoner was there drunk
and excited. He said his Battery was on the point
of departure in the Himalaya for Ireland, and if
called on he would not fire at the mob, but iu the
air, and would reserve a bullet for the captain. Al-
though he had taken the oath of allegiance to his
Queen and country, it was only as au Englishman,
which he was not, but an Irishman. Bombadier
M'Gorary, who was on duty in the guard-room,
proved that Reid was intoxicated when he came
to barracks on the evening of the sth. In defence
the prisoner stat.2d that ever since he was 15, when
he entered the service, no one ever heard him utter
a disloyal expression. He had an affliction in his
head, and when he had drunk two pints of beer, as
he did on the sth, he lost his reason. At Phillips'
they were always talking about Penianism. To tell
the truth, he did not understand the meaning of the
term. As to his having said he was an Irishman, that
he could not account for; he was born and bred an
Englishman, and had never been out of the coun-
try. He had no antipathy against Captain Orr,
who never bad any dispute with him but on one
occasion, some years since. To sustain this state-
ment the prisoner called Serg.-Major George, who
had known him nine years ; Staff-Sergeant Dem--
ster, ten years ; and Trumpeter Tole, three years.
They never knew him to be other than a loyal sol-
dier, but two pints of beer were sufficient to make
him drunk. The finding of the Court will, as usual,

be first transmitted to the Horse Guards.

At Chelsea Hospital Capt. Robert Grier, aged
75 years, died on Sunday. He entered the army in
February, 1810, as Ensign in the 44th Regiment,
and shortly after went on service to the Peninsula.
At the battle of Fuentes d'Onor he was wounded in
the right shoulder ; at the siege of Badajoz he led
the advance of the feigned attack which ultimately
became the successful one, and commanded the
" forlorn hope" when the place was carried. He
was iu the campaign of 1815, and severely wounded
in the ankle at Quatre Bras. Capt. Grier had the
war medal with three clasps, and the Waterloo
medal. He was placed on half-pay in March, 1817,
as Lieutenant, and was appointed a Captain of in-
valids in September last. Capt. Grier had for many
years resided at Auchgrea, county of Longford.
Her Majesty's 4-gun steam sloop Shearwater,
Commander T. E. Smith, now in basin at Woolwich,
preparing to be dismantled and paid out of commis-
sion from service in the South Pacific, brought home
a couple of men picked up in the Straits of Ma-
gellan on the 11th of October last, and who had
subsisted during the preceding six weeks on mussels
and other precarious food which they were able to
gather from the rocks. The men when discovered
were scarcely recognisable as Europeans, having
,been so thoroughly metamorphosed by their mode
of existence and exposure to the severity of the
weather as to be taken for the native aborigines, if
any were in existence. Their names are David
Riddles, second captain of the foretop, and Samuel
J. Henley, able seaman, both belonging to her
Majesty's 17 gun sloop Chanticleer, cast away in
the ship's dingy in a gale of wind while in attend-
ance on a shooting party of the officera. Theysofthat
ship, and reported to the Admiralty as ded
were discovered by
m excursionistsira-
from the Shearwater, and were thus
a similar party
° f
rescued
could not be far culously from a miserable death by starvation and
cold, which they were certain
have been transferred to the
dis-
tant. Henley has lost the toes of one of his feet
by frost-bite. They
flagship Fisgard, and, from the kind and humane
treatment which they received on board the Shear-
water, they are rapidly recovering and gaining
strength.
The screw steamship Nelson, 72, Capt. Charles
B. Payne, which left Portsmouth on the 29th Oct.
for Melbourne, put into Table Bay for coal on the
19th December.

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(From the
In the week ti
births and 3,436
thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The
annual rate of mortality was 28 per 1,000 persons living.
The annual sate of mortality last week was 27 per 1,000
in London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 31 in Dublin, 27 in
Bristol, 24 in Birmingham, 36 in Liverpool, 32 in Man-
chester, 30 in Salford, 26 in Sheffield, 25 in Bradford, 24
in Leeds, 27 in Hull, 28 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 32
in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 31 per 1,000 during
the week ending the 11th inst., when the mean temperature
was 17 deg. Fah. lower than in the same week in London,
where the rate was 26.
The Marchese de Cinque, by desire of the Chancelier
G6n6ral of home, has supplied a return, sheaving that in
the first eleven days of this year, ending Saturdays
January 11, the births were 214, the deaths 304, out of a
p.pulation of 215,573.

I In London the births of 1,129 boys and 1,073 girls, in
all 2,202 children, were registered in the week. In the
corresponding weeks of ten years, 1838-67, the average
number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,192.
'ilic deaths registered in London during the week were
1,596. It was the third week of the year; and the average
number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for
increase of population. 1,745. The deaths in the present
return are less by 149 than the estimated number. Three
hundred and seventeen deaths were caused by zymotic
diseases, the corrected average number being 355. Thirty.
three deaths occurred from small-pox, 37 from measles,
36 from scarlatina, 9 from diphtheria, 73 from whooping.
cough, 50 from typhus, and 14 from diarrhoea. One death
from small-pox occurred in the west, 14 fatal cases were
registered in the north (where the Small-pox Hospital is
situated), 8 in the central, 4 in the east, and 6 in the south,
districts. Measles were least fatal in the east districts.
Ten deaths from scarlatina were recorded in the west,
13 in the north, 2 in the central, 4 in the east,' and 7
in the south districts. Ten deaths from whooping-cough
Were registered in the west, 15 in the north, 8 in the cen-
tral, 14 in the east, •and 26 in the south districts. Three
fatal cases of leril:eivere-alconlorldn--the west, 12 in the
north (where the London Fever Hospital is situated), 8 in
the central, 12 in the east, and 15 in the south districts.
Phthisis proved fatal to 186 persons ; 235 deaths occurred
from bronchitis, 92 from pneumonia, and 91 from diseases
of the heart. The deaths of 9 children and 2 adults from
burns or scalds, of 14 children and three adults who were
suffocated, and of 2 persons who were killed by horses or
vehicles in the streets, were registered.
In East London, comprising the districts of Shoreditch,
Bethnal-green, Whitechapel, St. George-in-the-East,
Stepney, Mile-end Old-town, and Poplar, the deaths in
the week were 321. This is less by 7 than the average
deaths of the corresponding weeks of the ten years
1858-67 ; the average being 328, which, if corrected in the
usual way for increase Of population, becomes 356. The
actual deaths were 321. The annual rate of mortality
was 27 per 1,000 in East London, 27 in West London,
27 in North London, 26 in South London, and 29 in
Central London. Allowing for any possible decrease of
population inEast London, it is evident that the mortality
there is not higher than it is in the rest of the metropolis.

MR. COLEI?,IDGE, _41.P., ON EDUCATION.

M.P., presided at the annual
Mr. Coleridge, Q.C.,
dinner of the Warehousemen and Clerks' Schools, at the
City of London Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street. In giving
the toast of the evening, the hon. and learned gentleman
said there was no better insurance in the world than a
good education, and no better insurance for a good edu.
cation than a well-conducted school like this. He believed
the school was admirably well conducted, liberally con-
ducted, religiously conducted, and that in its vigorous
youth it gave fair prospect of a long and enduring matu-
rity. But he regretted to find that like our own dear coun-
try—although with no Abyssinian expedition to explain it
the society's expenditure was in excess of its income.
(Laughter.) And all must agree that it behoved them, in
humble imitation of our country, to take steps to equalise in-
come and expenditure, and to try and make both ends meet
for the future—(cheers)-21,200 was required to bring the
income to a level with the expenditure, but no doubt a
mere statement of the claims of the institution would be
met by an immediate acknowledgment of them. The insti.
tution was established for the benefit of the necessitous
children of our friends and equals, of our fellow-labourers
in the great workshop of life, and they appealed to our
best and tenderest feelings ; they were bound to us by ties
the strongest, most lasting, and most holy, and we could not
do better than to give them a good education. Education
was not the only great question but the great necessity of
the times. He was not about to embark the company
into the mysteries of an education controversy, and had
not the ability to decide between the rival systems.
Having himself had the advantage of an education which
was now considered somewhat rusty and old-fashioned,
but for which he could not help humbly thanking God
every day of his life—(cheers)---like some other men
upon some other things, it might be that his sympathies
upon this matter were more conservative than his convic-
tions. (Laught&r.) But, truth to tell, he was very careless
what we did so long as we *lid something for education.
(Cheers.) Any education in the world was better than
none, and he had come to think that as it was the direct
interest, so it was the duty of this great country to sec that
our citizens were properly educated by example, by sug-
gestion, and then, if all other means failed, by sterner
measures. (Cheers.) In conclusion, he would say: We of
the middle classes have manifestly a magnificent political
future opening before us, and it is our solemn duty
to make ourselves and our children, as far as
we can, fit for the exercise of those great powers
which it has pleased God to put into our hands, to
be used, not for our own benefit merely, but for the
benefit of our country and of mankind; and as beings.
as Shakespeare says, "of large discourse, looking before
and after," we are bound to improve ourselves to the
exigencies of our situation, and to all ennobling, refining,
and elevating pursuits. Remember that there is a very
great difference indeed between greatness and strength.
You are strong now ; you will be still more strong in time
to come ; but if you would be great, you must acquire that
temperance of judgment, that tolerance and charity of
feeling, that large and liberal cultivation of mind which
a good education alone can bestow. (Cheers.) And
for my part, I have ceased to care whether the educa-
tion be old-fashioned or no, whether classical or maths.
matical, or physical, so that it be real or true. (Loud
cheers.)

MALVERN COLLEGE. —The Rev. G. P. Harris,
M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been appointed
to the professorship of English Literature and Modern
History at this college.

JUMPING FROM A TRAIL—Early on Tuesday
morning a fatal accident happened at the Shrub-hill rail-
way station at Worcester, through a passenger alighting
from a train when in motion. It appears that on the pre-
vious afternoon a special train left Gloucester for Birming-
ham, calling at Worcester and other intervening stations,
taking passengers to Birmingham for the pantomime, and
returning next morning. The train was a heavy one of
between twenty and thirty carriages, and on reaching
Worcester was stopping at Shrub-hill station, when a
carpenter named Steed, residing at Merry vale, in that city,
imprudently opened the door of the carriage in which he
was riding, and jumped out before the train had come to
a stand-still. The result was, that he was twisted round
and fell back upon the line, the wheels of the carriages
passing over his legs and inflicting fearful injuries on other
parts of his person. On the train coming to a stop lie was
apparentlyfniir
ilonrs in,
wah den y i n
death
ah state.
put In
an
extricated, in a fearfully mangled state, and a stretcher
having been procured, was carried at once to the Worcester
he r(3);:l insensible
livedsensi threean or and
end to his sufferings.
fact,lnfi

THE JAMAICA PROSECITTIONS.—It may be remem-
bered by our readers that after the rebellion in Jamaica in
1865 certahionhsdmltaken resolutions were passed in the then existing
oHffio
cues
re s ofw Assembly regarding t h
t the
the
suppressionconduct of o f
thee rrevolt.
Britishvolt.
The public will readily recollect that Brigadier-General
Abercromby Nelson was among these officers, and occupied
a conspicuous position both as regarded the progress and
the events of the rebellion. On the 23rd of November,
1865, the House of Assembly in Jamaica passed a vote,
from which the following is an extract :—" That this
House, being desirous of conferring a special mark of its
approbation on Brigadier-General Abercromby Nelson for
the distinguished services rendered by him during the
rebellion in the eastern parishes of the island—Resolved,
that a sum of 200 guineas be granted to her Majesty for
the purpose of procuring a suitable testimonial to be
presented to him with the grateful thanks of this
House." It is now completed, and consists of a silver
epergne and candelabrum. At each of the angles of the
tripod base of the epergne is stationed a figure in relief of
a crocodile, and between these figures the arms of Briga-
dier-General Nelson, the arms of Jamaica, and an inscrip-
tion of the extract from the votes of the House of
Assembly, given above, are engraved on three shields.
From the base rise several sugar-canes in blossom, and
between these stand two figures representing the aborigines
of the island, each supporting a shield. These figures,
with the representations of the crocodile at the base, are,
it may be added, illustrative of the Jamaica arms. Above
the sugar-canes rise six branches for lights, surmounted
by a crocodile couched in the midst of palm-leaves, and
supporting a bowl for flowers or fruit. The testimonial
will be immediately forwarded to General Nelson, who is
at Pro Ult .94clutY b Ireland.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
New Management.
Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster; Manager, Mr. H. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, HEN AND CHICKENS: Messrs. Ashley,
Stephenson, and G. Vincent; Mesdames L. Moore and Stirling.
After which, USED UP: Messrs. R. Soutar,Vincent, Vaughan,
and C. Mathews; Miss E. Farren.
To be followed by IF I HAD A THOUSAND A YEAR.
To condlude with BETTY MARTIN: Mr. Geo. Vincent and
Miss E. Farren,
Commence at Seven.