The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-12 00:00:00

,1.1„....f..k.,
NEIVSII-1.11:1.t
K- - - ) ~ . -C- : . -,). ~ . . .-. .-•.--- - -, - - -,
- - - - -- - -- - - -, - - "7"-;- 1.- - - - - - —,°.----<-'
'.----
__. - •
..--___________-_-,___-_-,--,-..--------,z-------
.. . ,
:...... , 4 .
,
,NCIIESTER.— he
i
. ...
lan named Patriallullaa S
... ..., .
.. ,e.,,,
-!.20,54'. )let:i. :01-77.1). -11:4Atiz--- ..t.4:111111(111:;':,, Na&*..1.4.
1 ''', .•
OW-A
......,..
__...........-7 .
, .
• - oi, \ -4-
it,- -16
---\
-,-;1'*:''16141..'.--' --*i
:,•-- 7 r,,,_ 1 i
\`',,,417,,,..r_4.,....
„.1x: - F.----- < ;11k 4 '• , ,
1 - %47yitsdi , ,_ elat_l, ;6 WS
r- .:
. I ,y•
( 4 !I''' rr. 11 -• (0,5,.
' ,,,,, c -
,-.) .......-.
~...
.-..- •
N77'l
~,:,,,,,.• - ,
.i.
•___Y *.'"* ...
i-
,"•- ,•-,, -
.C. --
ii,„-; , - P1...k,' 4 ":'..71, , lea,. ._E7, ' ff:- .114%-' '''''
''Citl ' : ':44"..1%1F - RoIT• \ . 4 .N, ---
~.....400 • ' -' '-4.*- si.
\ \*-k•-* - j '''''
1
- - -•:-'--;',7 4.0 ' Dr -.- flks.k --- r. - , , -0- .... - _,..... -0

FENIAN ARREST IN MA
chester City Police-court a m
Ills been brought before Mr. Fowler on a charge of being
concerned in the attack on the prison van on the 18th of
October last, and in the murder of Sergeant Brett. In-
spector Kirkland said he received the prisoner from an
officer at the Bow-street station, London, and the charge-
against him was that of wilfully murdering Charles Brett:
On being charged at the static-, the prisoner replied;
" I know nothing about it.' Mr. Superintendent
Maybury : We shall have to apply in this case for a
remand for a week. We have some evidence now in court
which we can produce forthwith if the magistrates think
proper.— Mr. Fowler : Oh, I have no difficulty in grant-
ing you a remand at once on the sworn information
appearing on the face of the warrant. To the prisoner:
Have you anything to say why you should not be re-
manded ?—The prisoner : Only that I know nothing about
it. I hare witnesses to prove where I was that day, and
that I never left the office at all until five or six o'clock in
the evening.—Mr. Maybury : I may state, your worship,
that the prisoner has been already identified by three per-
sons, who will prove that they saw him at the attack on
the van. We have as yet had very few of the witnesses
to look at hint. For that reason, and for others, I now
apply for a remand.—Mr. Fowler : I remand the prisoner
into your custody for three days. The prisoner was then
rem,ved to the Abort-street station. He is a young
man, with fair complexion and light hair. He was well-
dressed, and the overcoat he wore had a conspicuous ap-
pearance from the collar and la,ppel..: being covered with
braid and fur.

PRICE..
STAMPED 54.

OF .r

The propriety of giving parliamentary representatives
to the universities (remarks the Times) has been frequently
contested ; but though the three great Conservative
universities have not, perhaps, made the best use of the
trust they hold for the interests of the highest education
and the highest intelligence, it is something that the prin.
ciple of representing that education and intelligence
should be acknowledged. It is at lust useful to know
what a community so powerful and so diffused through
the country as the graduates of the university think
and desire on political matters. Oxford, Cambridge,
and Dublin certainly shew that the tendency- of the
higher education in these_ islands, as it exists at
present among the higher and the wealthier middle
class, is to encourage a certain Conservatism on all
matters political. Their representatives may not be
conspicuously distinguished men, hut they are excel-
lent representatives. They are, for the most part,
complete embodiments of the spirit prevailing in
their respective universities. In adding a seventh to the
number of university,members by the Act of last year,
Parliament decided on an experiment of great interest.
The University of London is one of the most remarkable
institutions we possess. It has grown silently during the
lifetime of the present generation, and almost unnoticed
has taken a national—we might almost say an imperial—
position. As most people know, it once coincided with
and was identical with the college now called University
College. But it soon outgrew thelimits of a single build-
ing and a single school. King's College, which had been
rounded by members of the Church of England, in
avowed rivalry with the secular institution in Gower
street, became affiliated to the new university when
the latter assumed a more general and abstract
character. A few men of great eminence, zealous
in the cause of education and of religious freedom,
had watched from the first • over the fortunes of the
new institution. It was exposed, of course, to every
kind of obloquy and satire. It was godless, and it was also
ungentlemanly. It was a dreadful thing, almost enough
to .call down destruction on a city, that a place of educa-
tion should exist where Jews, Turks, infidels, and
heretics met together, without any recognition of that
The
akilieya lad ttoo,
sopfi irte cweohullndg rathera uni
vneor st
igtyn
orthodox teaching which should shew them the error of
that
athneciirit
lwvaasyss.aid
education in Bloomsbury was pronounced to be absurd ;
to college at all than be doomed to such a place. But
when the principle on which the university now rests was
anted its success was certain and its progress rapid.
That principle was that the university, as a cor-
poration, should keep clear of sectarian matters, ,and
that it should accept the affiliation of colleges of
every creed. In these colleges the students might have
that religious instruction with which the university re-
frained from interfering. It thus united the secular and
denominational systems, the university being secular and
the colleges for the most part denominational. There are
now some forty or more institutions which are in connec-
tion with the university as to degrees in arts and laws.
Roman Catholic colleges, Presbyterian colleges, colleges
for Methodists, Baptists, and other orders of Dissenters
send students to be .examined by the central authority in
London, and those who are successful attain a degree in
the University of London, and will have s share in choosing
their representative in Parliament.
Speaking of the death of Sir David Brewster, the
Standard says: Rich in honours, he descends to a tomb
which seems radiant with the splendour of a marvellous
intellect. The learned societies of the whole civilised
world have showered their dignities on the Scotch philoso-
pher. Kings and emperors have recognised his worth,
and the annals of science will make him famous for all
time. The lesson which such a life teaches to mankind at
large may not be lost. It shews how certainly in the
search for truth those who seek shall find. It was not b 3
dreaming and speculating that the venerable Principal of
the University of Edinburgh rose to his high position as
a successful student of nature. Patient and intelligent
industry was the secret of it all. It was here a little and
there a little—a stone laid upon a stone—which reared the
structure of his fame. Such men need no monuments at
the hands of the sculptor or the architect. They build
their own monuments, and leave imperishable records on
the page of human thought. Neither does any one of
these stand by himself. They are the advanced guard of
human progress, the pioneers of intellect, piercing many
a dark forest, bridging many a gulf, levelling one dia.
eulty after another, that those who follow may find the
way plainer, smoother, brighter, and better than it was
before.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN.
G reat excitement has been caused at Bromley, Kent, in
Connection with the sudden disappearance, about a fort-
night ago, of a single young woman named Jane Jackson,
recently engaged as a domestic servant, and who would in
the course of a few weeks have come into possession of
£l,OOO left her by a relative. All kinds of rumours were
afloat at her sudden disappearance ; but the excitement in-
creased on her body being found in a draw-well in the gar-
den of Sandfield Cottage, Mason's-hill, Bromley, in the
occupation of William Sparkes. There is no doubt that
the body of the young woman has been there from the
time she was missed. The Sparks family all the time
were drinking the water, until they detected something
-disagreeable in the taste of it, and on throwing down a
grappling hook the body was drawn up and was recog-
nised as that of the missing young woman. The well is
thirty feet deep and has ten feet of water in it. Judging
from the sand in deceased's hair, and from the fact of its
being impossible for the body to have turned round in the
well, it was evident she went down head foremost. At an
inquest held at the Compasses public house, Bromley,
before Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, it
appearel that a witness named Sarah Head saw the
deceased about midnight in company with two men,
named Partridge (the keeper of a public-house) and
Dedman, be th of whom appeared the worse for drink.
Deceased had lived at Parti idge's house for the last three
months, and Dedman was a painter living in the neigh-
bourhood. They appeared to have pushed her out of
Partridge's house about eleven o'clock at night, and to have
used her very cruelly. The'lvitness Head told them they
had no business to use the young woman in that way, or
treat her so harshly. About one o'clock cries of " Murder"
were heard by Mrs. Cook, landlady of the Tiger's Head ;
by Mary Hayes, a neighbour of Partridge's ; by Henry
Bennett, a labourer, and Charles Marshall, a labourer.
The latter said he lay in bed and listened for some time to
the cries of a woman and two or three other voices, and
he heard cries of " Murder " repeatedly. The coroner
expressed surprise that the witness did not get up and go
to see what was the matter. Mr. Carttar had instructed
Drs. Ilott and Rebee to make a post-mortem examination
for the purpose of ascertaining whether death had resulted
before or after the deceased got into the well, and they re-
ported that death had been caused by drowning. The jury
returned an open verdict of " Found drowned," and
severely censured Partridge and Dedman for their inhuman
conduct towards the deceased.
ALLEGED CRUEL TREATMENT OF A CHILD.
The Brighton stipendiary (Mr. Bigge) has heard the
preliminary evidence in a case which promises to develope
some extraordinary circumstances. As formally presented
it was a charge of assault preferred against a middle-aged
woman of respectable appearance, named Charlotte Wing-
field. The child she is alleged to have ill-treated is
her nephew, named Tugwood, who was allowed by his
mother to live with her for several months at Brighton.
Thomas Dunham, superintendent of the Bucks constabu-
lary, stationed at Slough, said he saw the boy Tugwood,
who he was told was six years old, at Boveney, near
Windsor, a few days ago. His mother was named Tug-
wood, and she was a widow. He went in company with a
doctor to see the child, The doctor said he thought the
child's life was in danger. There were more than fifty
wounds and scars upon the child. Some of them
were scars of old wounds which had healed up. The
child made a statement in the presence of a magis-
trate, which was taken down. He said that a poker
was heated red-hot, and he was burned with it
every night. The inside of the child's ears were
masses of sores, from which matter was discharged.
The bridge of the nose and one finger were broken. The
child was very emaciated, its bones nearly coming through
its skin. Prisoner was great aunt to the child. She lived
at Boveney last summer, and the child had remained with
her till last Wednesday. The boy described the poker
with which the injuries. were inflicted, and witness found
that toe one produced answered to that description. (This
was a short light poker, with the end much finer than an
ordinary one.) He went with Detective Whittle to No.
1, Sudely-place, Brighton, and found prisoner. Whittle
read the warrant to her, charging her with assaulting the
boy Tugwood, and she became very excited, and ran about
the room. She said she had not burned the child, hut
that he was burned by her son Alfred, and that
it was a conspiracy got up by the boy's uncle and others
to get rid of her. He believed she referred, by the
term uncle, to the man who kept her. She also said that
her son Alfred had put some vitriol in a syringe, and sent
't over the lower part of her body, burning her. Her son
Alfred was about 16 years old. The child had been living
with the prisoner about seven months.—Prisoner said she
was quite innocent of the charge. He was a very good
boy, and never wanted beating. Upon her " word of
honour" she was too fond of the child to beat it.—The
prisoner was remanded till Monday.—Alfred Wingfield
was next placed in the dock, and also charged with com-
mitting an assault on William Tugwood. On being taken
into custody he said, " I never assaulted the boy ; it was
my mother who did it ; I always treated lan very kindly."
He further said that he took the boy home and slept with
him one night in London, and gave him what he wanted.—
The male prisoner was also remanded.
WITCHCRAFT IN BERKSHIRE. —At the New-
bury Petty Sessions, s erks, Maria Giles, a mid-
wife, who has for many years borne the sobriquet of "The
Cunning Woman," and William Tranter, a labourer,
with whom she cohabited, were placed in the dock,
charged with obtaining divers sums of money from Isaac
Rivers by means of false pretences. Giles is an old
offender, having been convicted on three occasions of
crimes of this class, and in one instance she appealed to
the Cold of Queen's Bench, but the conviction was con-
firmed, and she accordingly underwent the imprisonment
to which the justices had sentenced her. The pro-
• secntor is a respectable-looking countryman, living
in the village of Hampstead Norris, a few miles
from Newbury. It appeared from his evidence
that in December last be lost his watch—how he did
not know—and hearing of "the canning woman"
at Newbury, he consulted her with reference to his loss.
He paid his first visit to her house on January 4 ; and
having told her of his loss, she said she could get the watch
back for him. She commenced by asking him to let her
have 125., but as he was going a journey he could only
'spare half a crown, which she took, and then said she
would chew him in a glass the man who possessed the
watch. Giles next produced a glass resembling those
usually attached to birdcages, and told Rivers to look into
it. He did so, and saw something in the form of a man's
whiskers, but no face. He met her again on Monday,
the 6th of January, when she told prosecutor he
must give her Os. Gd. to get some stuff from her
chemist's. lie gave her the money, in the belief that
she could get his watch back, but told her that if she
did not do so he would have her put in prison.
She had her hand on the table at the time, and said she
hoped she would never take it off again if she did not get
the watch back. Giles subsequently said that she must
go over to Rivers's house, and she and Tranter and pro-
secutor went over to Hampstead Norris the same after-
noon. Tea was prepared for Giles and Tranter, and when
they had finished the meal Giles said she must get about
her work. Giles went out of doors for about half an hour,
and on her return said she must have Os. 6d. more to get some
more staff. She also told him she had been to the house of
the man who had the watch ; that the man was very
hardened, but his wife was more hardened still. Prose-
cutor gave Giles Os. Gd. for a second time, and Giles and
Tranter left, but finding Rivers a profitable customer,
paid him another visit on the following day, and Giles
begged of him to let her have 255., as she would then get
the watch back. Prosecutor still believed she would do
what she promised, and therefore gave her the 255.
Tranter assured prosecutor that Giles would " work it
round all right ;" and Gilz.s, who represented Tranter to
be her husband, said he could help her
in her work.
After this, Giles said she must go about her work. She
promised that between twelve and one o'clock at night she
would bring the man to prosecutor with the watch in his
hand, and she instructed him (prosecutor) to remain in-
doors until she returned w ith the man ; but, said the prose-
cutor, " I might have been at home till now, as she never
came again, and I neither got my watch nor money." At
the close of the prosecutor's evidence, the priseuelli were
r gmtnclgd fel further gwein#49,

It is not easy,says the Star, to convey to the non-scientific
reader any definite notion of what Sir David Brewster did
for science. He will be best remembered, perhaps, in a
popular sense for the invention of two pretty and interest-
ing toys—the kaleidoscope and the stereoscope ; but these
inventions, of course, do not form the real basis of his
reputation as a philosophic inquirer and explorer. The
science of optics, as we have it, was in the main
shaped by the genius of Brewster, who completed what
Newton had begun, and linked scientific discovery
with practical utility. The application of lenses and
mirrors to lighthouses was an idea of Brewster's, which
has been fertile in more beneficent results than it is pos-
sible for anyone to measure Turning from the practical to
the theoretical side, Sir David Brewster's name is insepa-
rably connected with the development of the theory of
polarised light and the chemical analysis of sunlight.
These great scientific problems had been left unsolved at
a legacy by Newton to his successors, and Sir Davis
Brewster boldly accepted the inheritance.

The Bishop of Orford, speaking upon the difficult sub
ject of education in his usual light, witty, and entertaining
way, gave it as his opinion the other day at Tunbridge
Wells that it was impossible to' combine the voluntary
with the compulsory, and that " by adopting compulsiot
we should be taking the sun out of our system and substi
tuting for it the miserable fabricated light of Price's
candles." But the Post submits that the bishop
has no right to assume any such impossibility
before the thing has been tried. The voluntary
and the compulsory are already combined in
almost all the ways and paths of life. Every
school in the kingdom, from Eton to the ragged
schools, presents a case in point. Every schoolboy who
has a task to learn knows that if he does not learn
it willingly he will be. made to learn it. Every soldier,
every sailor, every public servant is a living instance of
the harmonious working of some kind of may-or-must
system. All discipline is based upon it. All law is based
upon it. And to those who desire to live in the exercise of
their duty there is nothing galling in this combination of
the voluntary with the compulsory. An educational measun
which should impose compulsory rating upon districts
which neglected, after due warning, to rate themselves,
would press only upon the hostile and unwilling. To the
willing it would be compulsory in no sense whatever,
unless we are to say that an honest man's honesty is com-
pulsory because theft is punishable by law, or that it is
compulsory upon a witness to speak the truth because if
he perjures himself he will suffer imprisonment or trans-
portation.

The opinion gains ground, says the Daily News, that
nothing less than a royal commission will redress the
grievances and reform the abuses (haw civil service. The
anomalies of that service are so numerous and so deeply
rooted that to attempt to cope with them by the wan-
dering inquiries of amateur commissioners is a certain way
of rousing ill-feeling and disappointment. The Proceed-
ings of the committee appointed by the Treasury, com-
posed of Mr. Ward Hunt, Mr. Sclater-Booth, and Mr.
Mowbray, are already criticised in official circles. The
alleged object being to inquire into Custom-house
grievances, it is asked, and with some justice, whether
these gentlemen bring special knowledge or technical
training to their task ; whether their labours are sys-
tematic and with a definite aim ; or whether the
" inquiry " will leave off as it began, and have no other
result than that of providing a glib but hollow answer to
troublesome questions in the House. It is obvious that
n
mere complimentary visits to our Government offices and
an exchange of civilities with a few heads of departmentsain
ted with
will not enable gentlemen profoundly u
the subject to make such suggestions for official reforin
it would be the duty of the House of Commons to
accept.as
The matter is too deep and complicated to be dealt
in this pleasant off-hand way. The Custom-house h
move-
mentlt is but a type of other movements in the same direc-
tion, and it is said that the pigeon-holes of the Treasury
are at this moment choked up with petitions for revision
from the various departments under its control. Any in-
quiry, to be useful, must be searching and extensive, and
the allegation against the Treasury Committee is, that it
has neither the_power nor the knowledge necessary for a
settlement of the difficult question it has undertaken.

The Sheffield saw and jobbing grinders attribute
the illegal coercion exercised by trades unions to the want
of legal power to enforce their regulations, and pledge
themselves to support no candidate for the representation
of the borough in Parliament who will not vote for a Wig
to legalise trades unions.