The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-11 00:00:00

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STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, March 10.—In shipping yarns we
have had a strong market to-day, spinners asking
the extreme rates of last Friday. These prices
have checked operations a good deal, but still the
market closes strong, and many spinners are antici-
pating yet higher rates. The home trade houses
report a steady market at about id. per lb. advance
upon Friday's quotations. A fair amount of trans-
actions have been effected, and the market closes
rather stronger than it opened. The cloth-market
is in a very irregular state, and although the very
high prices to which yarn and cotton have attained
render advanced quotations for most of the leading
fabrics necessary they are practically almost un-
saleable at the improvement. Manufacturers keep
advancing their quotations with the rise in the raw
material, but such quotations are nearly all nominal.
Buyers and sellers alike appear to be so uncertain
as to the future course of the market that they are
not over eager in pressing business. We have,
therefore, had but few transactions in cloth, and
offers of any sort are not very commonly obtainable.
Some of our, manufacturers and spinners call what
is passing in Liverpool " gambling," but they feel
themselves hopelessly at the mercy of it. Messrs.
John Slagg and Co. report of this day's cloth-
market :—" Oar market has been most irregular
during the past week, and quotations have fluctuated
in sympathy with the movements of the Liverpool
market. A degree of uncertainty has, therefore,
existed, which has prevented any extent of general
business. To'-day the same uncertainty continues,
and though our quotations are higher than those of
last week, sellers have found it impossible to do
business, or even to obtain approximate offers."
CARDIFF, March 9.—Very little, if any, improve-
ment has taken place in the staple trades of the port
since last report, and owing to the unfavourable
weather which has prevailed for several days there
have been but few arrivals. The supply of coal sent
down has been about sufficient to meet the demand,
and there are no stocks on hand. France is by far
the largest purchaser, and there is a fair demand
from the mailpacket stations, the continental, and
other foreign markets. Freights to two or three of
the Mediterranean ports have slightly advanced,
and quotations generally continue firm. There is
a slightly better feeling being gradually evinced in
the iron trade, and the exports during the past week
have increased, amounting to 7,045 tons, of which
2,916 were railway iron for the United States.
LEEDS, March 10.—There has been a
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tendance of buyers in the cloth-halls this rain
and a limited business has been done. The chief
purchases were confined to selectionsm luniosfualilgithletsb, blue-
grey and steel-grey tweeds ofmedium qualities,
fancy coatings in line and ed
white diagonals. Plain goods, low unions, and hair
lists are in slow request, and little of either class of
goods was sold. Prices ruled firm, with a slightly
upward teniency for some classes of goods. The
local wool brokers report a moderate trade, with
prices firm. The flax trade is rather imcroving
both as to sales and prices of the new material,'
threads, and yarns.

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The arrival of the Bombay mail furnishes intelligeniii
from that Presidency to February 14. The following items
of news are from the Timcs of India :
His Excellency Sir Seymour Fitzgerald returned to,
Bombay from his visit to Scinde on the 11th February.
It is currently rumoured in Bombay that some dissen.
sions among the heads of the Abyssinian expedition have
occurred.

A wing of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, numbering about
:15, officers and men, have been dispatched this week to
Annesley Bay from Bombay.
On the 27th January, Sir Salar Jung, the Nizam's
Vizier, whilst passing through the streets of Hydrabad
(Deccan), was shot by a, Mussulman, but was unhurt.
The bullet hit an attendant of the Vizier's and killed him.
The reason for the outrage cannot be learnt.
There has been some turbulence among the Naikras of
the Punch Aloha's, Kattiawar. A force has been scut to.
look after the outlaws.

A despatch from the English Consul at Zanzibar, dater
11th November, contains no positive news respecting Dr.
Livingstone, but states that a white man is said to have
been seen beyond the'spot where Dr. Livingstone is said.
to hare been murdered.

On the representation of Sir Richard Temple, the
Nizam has given his consent to the construction of a
branch line of railway to Hydrabad, a distance of 130
miles.

A circular has been issued by the Inspector-General of
the Medical Department, Calcutta, for the purpose of ob-
taining from European and native medical officers in the
service of the Government their opinion as to the best
treatment of cholera.

During 1867 the cost of the army in India was
£12,880,808, sheaving a net increase of £354273, arising
from the increased pay to private soldiers.

All the prisoners who escaped from Rutnagherry gaol
have been recaptured.

With a view to t'le better ascertaining of the actual
mortality among British troops in India, returns are to
be furnished by each corps just before leaving India,
shewing what its strength was on arriving here, the ser-
vice of each soldier, the deaths among those who formed
the regiment originally, and the casualties among the new
arevals, &c.

A banquet was given to Dr. Norman Macleod and Dr.
Watson, in Calcutta, on the 4th of February, at which the
Viceroy was present.

It is feared great distress will be felt this year in some
parts of the Madras Presidency from scarcity of food.
Cattle disease is very prevalent there, and water is
scarce.

Messrs. Dorrodaile, Schiller, and Co. have been re-
moved from the control of the Port Canning Company,
and it is stated that legal proceedings are to be instituted
against them.

The cash balance of the Dank of Bengal is over
£5,000,000.

On appeal to the judges in Bombay, the men convicted
at Poona of being concerned with Pestonjee in the great
frauds on the Bank of Bombay have been released,
their conviction being reversed, on the ground of the
illegal proceedings of the sessions judge.
A meeting of depositors in the Asiatic Bank was held in
Bombay on the Bth February, at which it was resolved to
take steps for bringing the wrongs of the small depositors
before the Vice-Chancellor in England.
A dreadful murder has been committed at Ootacarouno.
The victim was Mrs. McDougall, widow of the late
General McDougall, of the Bombay Army. The mur-
derer is supposed to be her horse-keeper, and that the
crime was committed while he was in a state of drunken-
ness.

The steam tug-boat Enterprise blew up at Calcutta on
the 31st January, killing five natives, mortally injuring
seven others, and injuring two Europeans and some
natives. The chief engineer, Mr. T. Newton, had a very
narrow escape.

The British ship lolar, 1,100 tons, Captain Wright,
foundered in a cyclone near Mauritirs, in December. The
officers and crew were all saved by the American ship
I'loonbeam and taken to Bombay.
The American vessel John Watt, with coals for Bombay,
arrived at C:.licut on the 10th February, on fire. Cho waS
beached and the cargo discharged.

According to the Western Morning News, the reward of
£5OO, which has been paid by the friends of Mr. Speke for
his recovery, is likely to cause a good deal of heartburning.
It was sent by Mr. Murdoch to Colonel Gilbert, chief
constable of Cornwall, for him to award according to his
discretion. He has divided it between Mr. Vincent,
deputy constable, and Mr. Baines, superintendent of the
Bodmin police ; while the coastguardman who gave the
information which led to Mr. Speke's arrest, and the
'adstow police who arrested him, receive nothing. This
very unfair arrangement is causing much discussion in the
West of England. What makes the matter wear a
more unfavourable aspect is that the two fortunate reci•
pients are Colonel Gilbert's own officials, and that they
had an opportunity of discovering Mr. Speke when he was
in Bodmin, but failed to do so.

In the "minute on the Conscience Clause" which Lord
Lyttelton has appended to the School Commissioners' re-
port, his lordship states that his objections to the clause
have been modified by the inquiry on which he has been
engaged. He says that a parent has as much right to
object to any particular branch of secular teaching as to
any particular kind of religious teaching. Of course the
objections may be carried to an absurdity, as, for instance,
if a parent were to object to his child being taught arith-
metic. But as a matter of fact no such objection
would be raised, and practically no difficulty would
be found in a child withdrawing itself from any par-
ticular lesson. But while Lord Lyttelton believes
that in actual working the " religious difficulty"
would be found to be unreal, he thinks that a mere general
instruction to a master to respect the religious scruples of
the children or their parents is not sufficient, and that it
ought to be expressly stated if the child is to be withdrawn
from the catechism lesson, or from school prayers, or even
from learning the Apostles' Creed. If there be objection
to any of these things, it ought to be respected, since the
responsibility rests with the parents. But what Lord
Lyttelton contends most earnestly against is any attempt
to fetter the teacher in his lesson; to make him forego what
arc called " peculiar doctrines." He cannot expound the
Bibb except in the sense of his Church ; to force him to
do otherwise must result in a miserable failure. The only
thing to be done is for those who object to his teaching to
absent themselves from it.

A vast amount of very interesting information might be
culled from the report of the Schools Commissioners. We
leari, for instance, that there are about 3,000 schools which
have an income arising from endowments. Of these,
about a quarter, 782, come within the immediate object of
the commission, and the total number of boys educated at
them (exclusive of the nine great public schools) is 36,784.
The aggregate net income is £195,184, and besides this
amount is a further sum of £l4,264—the annual value of
exhibitions. This income is distributed very unequally.
One school alone—Christ's Hospital—absorbs between one-
fourth and one-fifth of the first-mentioned total, or £42,000
a year. Nine other schools have incomes exceeding £2,000,
13 have incomes of at least £l,OOO, 55 of at least £5OO,
222 of at least £lOO, and the rest have under that amount.
The counties have most unequal shares. Lancashire has
nearly £9,000 a year, Lincolnshire over £7,000, Cornwall
has less than £4OO. Five hundred of the 782 schools were
founded more than two centuries ago, " while the revival
of literature, the reformation of religion, the up-growth of
science, the seething of political theories, were still new
forces." Thus 63 were founded in the reign of Henry VIII.,
51 during the six years' reign of Edward VI. ; then came
the reaction under Mary, during whose five years' reign
only 19 schools were founded ; then followed the forty-five
years' reign of Elizabeth, with 137 schools, or more than
one-sixth of the whole number. The thirty years of
Victoria's reign have seen only 23 schools, and during the
two preceding reigns, together seventeen years, only 7
schools were founded. The explanation is to be found in
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Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
attended by Lord Frederick Paulet and Lady Geraldine
Somerset, intends to leave town on the 24th instant for
Lelvoir Castle, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland during
the Croxton Park race meeting. In all probability the
Duke of Cambridge will also be among the guests of the
Duke of Rutland.

THE ELECTION FOR NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
—Dr. Lees, the opponent of the Chancellor of the Ex:

chequer, has addressed the following letter to the editor of .
the Leeds Evening Express :—" Dear Sir, a singular an-
nouncement appears in the Mercury of to-day. After
noticing my election for North Northamptonshire on
Saturday, by an overwhe:rning show of hands against
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it is added that
declined to demand a poll.' Why, who ever heard of
the successful candidate demanding a poll? It is the de•
feated one who does that. The decision by the show of
hands has not been reversed by the only possible method,
viz., a poll terminating against that decision ; and, there-
fore,rceomuanit.ynt—heleogun legal and
truly,c F. B. Lus._
constitutional representative
for the I
county.—Yours
March 9, 1568."

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1868.

The Earl of MAYO may be congratulated upon
having made a successful speech on the difficult
subject of Ireland, which yesterday engaged the
attention of the House of Commons for so long a
period. His task was rendered more awkward by
having to reply to a speech like that of Mr.
MAGUIRE, which was replete with fervid eloquence,
and naturally was calculated to turn the attention
of the house from the more practical truths
which had to be set before it. Notwithstanding
these drawbacks, however, we think we may
say with confidence that the noble lord
made out a good case for the Government
which he represented, and also did himself great
honour by the lucidity of his explanations and
the earnestness of his remarks. When we come
to look at the matter dispassionately, we must
feel that the condition of Ireland in general, and
of the improvements proposed, demand the assist-
ance of calm reason and sober judgment more
than the flight of eloquence and the illustrations
of fancy ; and however we may admire the orato-
rical displays that are made by those who feel
strongly, the motion under discussion is more
likely to benefit by the advice of those
who think deeply. Very likely some
captious individuals may be found who will pick
holes in the Government propositions, but it is im-
possible to please everybody, and it cannot be denied
that the Ministry has taken great pains to consider
the subject in all its bearings, and has, moreover,
made some important concessions to the demands of
various parties. It was generally felt that the time
had come when the Irish question could no longer
with propriety be postponed, and that this session
must not pass away without seeing something defi-
nite accomplished in the way of settling the wrongs
and alleviating the discontent that prevailed on the
subject of special grievances. The Ministerial
policy as regards Ireland has been duly set
forth, and we cannot say that there has been any
attempt made to shuffle it over, or to keep silence
until the question had been fully debated. When
the first impression produced by Mr. MAGUIRE'S
declamatory remarks had worn off, it must have
been apparent to the House that the hon. member's
figures were not to be depended on for illustration
of the actual circumstances of the case, In fact,
he quoted those returns which presented a gloomy
aspect and bore an unfavourable impression, while
in the most extraordinary manner be omitted
those encouraging parts of the question,
which went far to dissipate his foregone conclusions,

if they did not actually contradict them in toto.
Thus we find that when Lord MAYO quotes the
official returns he shows that the total value of the
stock in 1866 has increased to fifty million five hun-
dred thousand from twenty-one millions in 1841,
while Mr. MAGUIRE merely shows the decrease that
has taken place in cattle without mentioning the
increase in sheep, which should have been put in
connection with it. The House must have seen
this discrepancy for itself ; but it is scarcely
the manner to put the case before it. People
are always justified in putting their own
interpretations upon things, but when they
come to facts and figures they should state the
whole and not a part, or they should not begin them
at all. The total acreage which is now under culti-
vation has increased from thirteen millions to fif-
teen millions four hundred thousand. The deposits
in the banks have also largely increased, and many
other facts show that so far from a diminution in
the prosperity of Ireland the state of the country
has greatly improved of late years.

It is to be hoped that there will be no more of
this sort of exaggeration on one side and of obli-
vion on the other in the remaining part of the de-
bate which is to occupy the rest of the week
after to-day. At least Lord MAYO kept to the
facts of the case, and did not seek to create
an unfavourable impression or otherwise by ampli-
fication or discussion. On the whole, we may con-
clude that he gave a good answer to the speech of
Mr. MAGUIRE, containing, as it did, so many and
such serious charges against the Government and
all those who exercised authority in Ireland. As
for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act that
is unfortunate, but the Irish themselves have agreed
to it, and their representatives in Parliament have
not denounced it, but consented to it as an inevit-
able necessity. In nothing was Lord MATO'S speech
more effective than in that passage which showed
how completely the Government of Ireland is in-
trusted to Irishmen. The Lord-Lieutenant,
the Chief Secretary, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord
Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the Judges of the
Common Law Courts, are Irishmen, and some are
also Roman Catholics. The constabulary are all
taken from the country itself, and belong to different
creeds. It is worthy of notice, too, as the noble
lord said, that in Australia and Canada, where a
large number of Irishmen are found, Fenianism is
unknown, and that if the connection with the
United States could be cut off fur a short time
the conspiracy would certainly collapse. This
la worthy of attention, because some persons have
been in the habit of declaring that where-
ever Irishmen are collected together there discord
and disloyalty to the English rule must prevail as
a thing of course. The Fenian movement itself has
not received any support in Ireland from the in-
fluential classes, and that is a most encouraging
a well-informed person
sign, and one that
would not pass over. We hope that the
House will not be led away in this matter, but
calmly and carefully look into matters of detail.
Mr. GLADSTONE made some inquiries as to the views
which the Government took on the subject of the
motion and amendment which were put before the