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

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 25f. 129 c. per £1 sterling,
On mparia; these rates with the English Mint price of
£3 iie. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that
gold is nearly two-tenths dearer in Paris than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills
at 60 days' sight is about lOel per cent. At this rate there
is no profit on the importation of gold trona the United
States,

PRESENTS TO SUIT EVERY PURPOSE, TASTE, AND
POCKET AT PARKINS AND GOTTO'S.—Photographic Albums
a choice of 3,000; despatch boxes, writing cases, dressing
cases, travelling bags, envelope cases, blotting books, ink
stands, desks, book slides, work boxes, tea caddies, hand
bags and reticules, card cases, purses, stationery cabinets,
scent bottles, albums for postage stamps, crests, &c.; cigar
cases, card baskets, pocket books, electro-gilt and elegantly
mounted articles. Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Ser.
vices, in every type. Parkins and Gotto, 25, Oxford'
street. Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly new
and fresh, consequent upon a rapid Bala—lAD/TA
THE QUEEN'S Roux.—Her Majesty the Queen has
graciously presented to the Willenhall Literary Insti-
tute a copy of her new work, Leaves from the Journal
of our Life in the _Highlands. In a letter accompany-
in,/ the volume, addressed to the hon. secretary (Mr.
J. 0. Tildesley), the Queen intimates that it is not
her intention to present copies of the work to insti-
tutes generally, but that in this case she was unwilling
to refuse the request, as the Willenhall Institute is
one of souse standing, and is designed mainly for the
benetit of working men. The people of Willenhall
are much gratified with this act of condescension On
the part of her Majesty, and have appropriately
acknowledged the gift.

NATIONAL PORTRAIT EXIIIBITIONIB6 1868.—There
has has been published to-day the preliminary
eminent persons living between the year 1800 and the
present time whose portraits have been promised for
the third and concluding exhibition to be opened at
South Kensington in April.. The Committee of Council
on Education express a hope that the possessors of por-
traits of the many distinguished characters whose
names do not appear in the list may be induced to send
particulars of their pictures to the secretary, South
Kensington Museum, as they are desirousoftitieo
period
as complete a representation
possible
of English history extending from 1800 to the present
year. Besides the modern portraits,
the Exhibition
who were
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will include a supplementary colleCtion of portraits of
eminent persons living before the year 1800
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unrepresented or inadequately represented n the two
preceding Exhibitions. For this a large number of
pictures have already been promised.
THE OUTRAGE EPIDEMIC.—Another startling out-
rage is reported from the West-end. Mr. M`Keown,
the bullion merchant of Fenchurch-street, who re-
-sides at Lancaster-villas, Notting-hill,_ was returning
at about half-past twelve a.m. from the Popular Con-
certs at St. James's-hall, on Monday, and having
reached the site of some unfinished houses in Lancas-
ter-road, was accosted (according to the prevailing
device) by a woman, whom he summarily repulsed.
No sooner had he done su than ho was seized behind
and before, evidently by two men, a third appearing
almost simultaneously to assist. He was lifted
bodily off his feet, and carried out of the, highway
among the mud and mortar of the unfinished build-
ings, and there he was robbed of a gold eye-glass,
and left almost smothered in dirt. But the remark-
able fact is to come. Although he was brutally
knocked about on the eyes and face (the marks of
which to-day are most significant of extreme violence),
he lost nothing but that eye-glass ; whereas he had
upon him nearly £lOO worth of property, including a
large diamond ring, a gold chain, worth at least ten
guineas, and a watch worth probably twice as much,
together with a silver card cage. A locket, probably
dropped in the scuffle, has been since' found in the
mud. The police are in hopes of gaining a clue to this
singular assault by means of the eye-glass. One of
the miscreants was a coloured man. They were all,
however, probably new at their business, for they
spent so long in assailing Mr. M'Keown that they lost
nearly all their booty.
THE MEMBERS FOR LEICESTER ON EDUCATION.
Messrs. Taylor and Harris addressed their constituents
at Leicester on Monday evening. Mr. Taylor, in the
course of his speech, avowed his opinion that national
education must be secular education, because no man
should be compelled to pay a rate for teaching his
child opinions that he did not hold himself. This was
not, however, to do away with religious instruction ;
it was simply delegating it to the parent and the priest.
Education was mere instruction and communication
of fact. Instruction might be immoral, but edu-
cation could neither be immoral nor irreligious.
Education was the drawing out and development
of the whole being ; it was not the cramming
of the brain, it was the creating of the charac-
ter of the individual. That being so, if he
were asked why secular education could not be irreli-
gious, his answer was, because to his mind it was the
vital truth that " The earth is the -Lord's and the
fulness thereof " (cheers). From this it followed that
the laws of the universe, the laws. of reason and
action of the human mind, were divine, and not dia-
bolical ; and for every drop that man could raise out
of the great ocean of truth, he was not further from,
but nearer to the great source and origin of all things
(cheers). And the converse of the proposition was
true, that as secular education was not irreligious edu-
cation, so so-called religious or theological education
was not necessarily moral or religious (hear, hear). The
religious spirit was the product of the brain and heart,
the result of the best intelligence and affection ; it
was the ripened fruit of the perfect man (cheers).
Referring again to the condition of Ireland, Mr. Taylor
expressed himself opposed to the idea of a separate
Irish nationality. He would utterly abolish the
Irish Church, and he would open no fresh endowments
as suggested the other day by Mr. Bright (hear, hear).
Mr. J. D. Bards said there was one thing patent to all;
the Reform Bill had done good, for it had made states-
men and politicians_of all parties anxious for the
education of the people (applause). Ho was of opinion
that they must have a ratal system, a secular educa-
tion, and the schools that continued in the national
system and went to Government for aid must have a
conscience clause, so that if tbet took the peoplfil
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QUEEN'S BENCH.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1868.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.)

LLOYD V. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a
student at the bar, for compensation for injuries
sustained in consequence of the negligence of the
servants of the company.

The plaintiff's case was that he was returning
from Greenwich on the evening in question, when
in consequence of the careless manner in which one
of the trucks of the company had been left on the
line, he received an injury from it that to an extent
disabled him from following his professional duties.
The company contended that the plaintiff
himself had caused the accident. He had been
dining with some friends at Greenwich, and on his
quitting the train he heedlessly pashed the truck,
and hence the injury.

The company, after the trial had proceeded some
time, agreed to a proposition of giving the plaintiff
£2O as compensation, they at the same time with-
drawing all imputation against the plaintiff.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

GRATESZSD, Wednesday Morning.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passed, Feb. 11.—Henry Rood, for Calcutta; Coral
Nymi,h, for Shanghao—both from London; Royal
Charlie, bark, for Boston ; Phillis Mulfrod, bark, for
Lisbon ; Finelle, for Batavia—all from Shields; Pierre
Jeanne, from London, for Brest.

THE LATE ATTEMTT TO MURDER BY A LENATIC.--JaMCS
Needell, solicitor's clerk, was brought up at Clerkenwell,
on remand, on the charge of discharging a IJaded re-
volver at Thomas Chatterton, with intent to murder him.
—Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, of Frederick-street, Gray's-inn-
road, defended the prisoner.—lt will he recollected that on
the morn'ng of the ah inst. Thomas Chatterton was
walking along Compton-street, Clerkenwell, when the
prisoner, who is a solicitor's clerk, and known in the pro-
fession as " Mad Needles," went behind him, drew
a revolver, and shot him in the neck. Chatter-
ton then ran away, but was followed by the
prisoner, who fired three snore shots at him,
none of which took effect. ITe was secured, and
thirty-seven bullets found upon him. Nt the last exami-
nation it w ,s clearly proved that for some considerabLs
length of time he had laboured under the delusion that
he was being followed by a number of men. This
morning a certificate was received from Mr. Smiles,
the surgeon to the House of Deteoi.son. which stated
in effect that since the prisoner's incarceration a watch had
been k.,,pt upon him, and he appeared to be labouring
under delnsions.—Mrs. Chatterton, the wife of the injured
man, said she had seen her husband, and that he was still
unable to attend.—Mr. Ricketts said the Pullet had not
yet been extracted, and he had no objection to a remand.—
The prisoner was then remanded.

ALLI:ariD -11fGAIIY BY A POPULAR SINGEn.—Mr. Levitt,
from the ofrico of Mr. Cooper, solicitor, applied to Mr.
Purcham, at the SoUthwark Police-court, for a warrant to
apprehend Mr. William Thomas, a popular singer known
to the public by the name of " Lingard," for big4n-iy.
llc n- a 3 in a position to prove that six years ago he mar-
ried Miss Minnie Foster, a popular actress at present
performing at an East-cad theatre, and that on the 26th
of Jun; 1836, he married Miss Alice Ann Dowsing,
before the Pegistrar at Bristol, in the name of William
INT (Maw. lie (applicant) afterwards produced certifi-
eat.:3 of both marriages, and would be able to produce the
witness as soon as Mr. Thomas, otherwise Lingard,
was apprehended. He was hiding away, and they wanted
a warrant to enter the house they suspected him to be con,
coaled in.—Mr. urchan 1: I sh,all not grant a. warrant under
aly such eircumAtances. You must give him into custody
when you can find him.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, Feb. 4.—The Indian steam troopship
Crocodile, 3, Captain G. Watson, from Queenstown,
arrived at Malta on the 3d inst., after a remarkably
fine passage of eight days, having on board Lieut.-
Col. T. Hamilton, 92d Highlanders, 64 other offi-
cers, ten ladies, five children, 931 non-commissioned
officers and men, 109 women, and 129 children of
different regiments, and 14 seamen, en route for
India. Two deaths occurred during the voyage,
one of an old soldier of the 92d, from heart disease,
and the other of a child, from measles. The chief
engineer, Mr. Sergeant, was discharged to the Royal.
Naval" Hospital at Bighi, fur debility occasioned by
overwork and anxiety. The Indian- was to leave at
3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th for Alexandria.
Accounts from Tunis to the 2d of February were
still very unsatisfactory, and the demand for bread-
stuffs continued unabated. The weather having
been fine at Malta upwards of 80 vessels windbound
had left that port on the 4th of February and the
two preceding days. The English schooner yacht
Bella Donna, Capt. J. Kelleway, which had put
back, took a fresh departure on the 3d inst. for Gib-
raltar. There was a private meeting of the Council
held after the general meeting on Friday last, when
it is said that certain propositions were made to the
Council which, it is expected, may lead to an
amicable settlement of the long-pending questions
in connection with the Great Harbour works. Of
course, any matters privately agreed to will be
publicly discussed in the island Legislature on a
future occasion. The new holophotal light, to be
placed on the Delimara Point, on the south-east
coast of Malta, which was ordered from England
three or four years ago, had at length arrived, hav-
ing been received by the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Ceylon, from Southampton. It
is reported to be a light of unusual power and bril-
liancy. It was yet hoped in Malta that the injurious
arrangement proposed to be carried out by the
Postmaster-General, setting aside the island inte-
rests for au infinitesimal gain in time for the Indian
mails, may yet be averted. It is stated that every
department of the State in England, except the
General Post-office, is averse from this ill-advised
measure, and our corresponthmt adds, it is not alto-
gether impossible that the service of the Peninsular
and Oriental Company, via Marseilles and Malta,
may yet be continued.

Orders have been received at Colchester Camp
for the depot of the 94th Regiment to proceed from
Colchester to Dover to-day, to await the arrival of
the bead-quarters of the regiment from India. A
draught of the 14th Regiment, consisting of three
officers, 102 men, three women and one child, is
under orders to leave the garrison for Gravesend on
the 14th inst., and embark on board the steamship
Cleopatra for conveyance to Jamaica to join the
service companies of the regiment ; and a draught
of the 2d Battalion, 16th Regiment, consisting of
two officers, 93 men, two women, and two children,
will also be conveyed by the same vessel to Barba-
does, where service companies of the regiment are
now stationed. Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Leslie, from
the Camp, will embark at Gravesend and proceed
to Bermuda, in medical charge of draughts.
It is satisfactory to find that the immense stock
of ordnance materials which have been accumulat-
ing for the past 20 or 30 years in Woolwich
Arsenal, and with which the open spaces fronting
the stores and factories are now encumbered, are
soon likely to be made use of. In addition to a
large number of 32-pounders, and other cast-iron
guns, bored out and strengthened with inner tubes
on Major Palliser's plan, about 2,000 tons weight
of the smaller calibres are now being transferred to
the Royal Gun Factories, to be worked up by the
Bessemer process into malleable blocks and coils for
the manufacture of the service guns now adopted
on the Fraser system of cheap construction. Col.
Campbell, superintendent of the establishment,
through whose suggestion the War Department
has sanctioned the introduction of the system, is so
well satisfied with the results hitherto obtained by
the initiatory trials during the past week; that the
number of puddling furnaces is to be increased from
three to five. A number of efficient puddlers have
been added to the establishment at a pay of 12s. per
day, and, besides the old guns, Colonel Campbell
intends using up the whole of the refuse, such as the
old carronades of the time of George 1., and the
useless spherical and broken shot and shell amassed
in various parts of the Arsensal. With five fur-
naces ten tons of malleable iron of very superior
quality will be produced daily, at the rate, including
all expenses, of about a per ton.
According to a special demand yesterday from
the Horse Guards, a large quantity of the Boxer
ball cartridges for small arms' service was conveyed
from Woolwich Arsenal, under military escort, to
the magazine in Hyde-park.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Staff-Commander John P. C.
Clements to the Royal George; Navigating-Lieut.
Edward H. Hills, additional, to the Excellent, for
the Royal Sovereign ; George Hunt, engineer, ad-
ditional, to the Cumberland, for the Bullfinch ; H.
D. Garwood, engineer, additional, to the Fisgard,
for the Rapid; Edward D. Dooley, engineer, addi-
tional, to the Asia, for the Enchantress.

Arrived, Feb. 11—Rifle, from Portrieux.
Arrived, Feb. 12-11ayle, from Aiquillon ; Amazon,
from Foo-chow-Foo ; Waterloo and Batavier, steamers,
from Rotterdam.

PLYMOUTH, Tuesday.—The bark Shantung, 312
tons, Captain IL Parker, was 14 miles south-west of the
Eddystone yesterday at 2 p.m., under all plain canvas ;
wind north-west. She has a cargo including GOO bales of
wool and 70 tons of ball ammunition and Government
stores for London. Tho Shantung left Table Bay Dee.
17, touched at St. Helena on the 31st. She spoke, Jan.
13, lat. 4 N., long. 21 W., the Maid of Malineen, bound to
Algoa Bay; and Feb. 7, lat. 47 N., long. 9 5 W., the ship
Essex, Captain Richards, belonging to Messrs. Money
Wigram, which left Plymouth ou tho 3d bast., with pas-
PAgera, fpr AitaQurne.