The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-17 00:00:00

AFTER Covent-garden Opera—.
SUP.
After Drury-lane Theatre EVA:
After Haymarket Theatre EVA
After Adelphi Theatre EVA:
After Olympic Theatre EVA.
After Strand Theatre
After New Royalty Theatre EVA.
After St. James's Theatre EVA'
After Prince of Wales' Theatre EVA_
London Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-gar*
Entertainment at Eight.

N°. 23,588.

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED sd.

MAISON DOREE,
THE NOW FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT
AND

ON and After the Opening of the Queen's Theatre,
Long-Acre, EVANS' to SUP.
After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
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LONDON SINGING AND SUPPER CLUB.
AT EVANS' COVENT GARDEN VOCAL ENT.ERTAINAIENT
At Eight o'Clock.

held to be a place for the use and service of her
Majesty.

LUNCHEON BAR, GLASSHOUSE-STREET

(One door from Regent-street),
CUISINE FRANCAISE, &c.
nigh-plass Wines at wholesale prices. Spirits and Beers,
°cc- Private room for Parties. HAMPERS PREPARED AND
BENT OPP TO ORDER. Terms, CASH.
On and after MONDAY, Dec. 9, SUPPERS from Nino
Pan. to One a.m.

Mr. Philbrick replied at length, an I contended
that the freehold having passed from the Crown to
the dean and chapter, it could not be considered a
Royal palace, or one intended for the use and ser-
vice of the Sovereign. It was a place of public wor-
ship, and therefore was included in the act of Par-
liament under discussion as a place not exempt from
the operations of the act.

Manager, CHARLES CASTLE.

KINAHAN'S LL. WHISKY. - DUBLIN
EXIITION, 1865.
M
IN celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin
Prize Medal.
It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome.
..B°l4l in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by
..e Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at
8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W.
hams L
Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork Branded " Kina-
L Whisky."

Mr. Arnold said, in adjourning the matter sine
die, that so important a question should rather form
the subject matter of proceedings in a superior than
in a police court.

THE LOSS OF 7HE AMSTERDAM
S7EAMER.

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MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION
(Incorporated by Act of Parliament. 1859),
14. RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON,
ti-DVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free-
old or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, repay-
Y, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted.
Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope.
EDWARD HARPER, Secretary.

An official inquiry into the circumstances attend-
ing the total loss of the steamship Amsterdam upon
Montauk Point, the eastern extreme of Long
Island, on the coast of America, has been held at
-Leith by two local magistrates, who have reported
as follows :—" The Amsterdam was an iron screw
steamer, built at Hepburn in 1866, and registered
at this port in the same year. Her gross tonnage
was 639 tons, and her registered tonnage 506, pro-
pelled by two engines of the combined power of
130 horses. She was owned by Mr. Donald
M'Gregor and others, of Leith, and was under the
command of Mr. John Gibson, who holds a certi-
ficate of competency dated 1859. Her crew con-
sisted of twenty-three hands, and she appears to
have been well found and equipped. The Amster-
dam left South Shields in August last, on a
voyage to Malaga, laden with coke. At that
port she took in a cargo of 500 tons of fruit
and 100 tons of lead, and sailed thence on the 23d
September, bound to New York. During the voy-
age across the Atlantic the vessel experienced some
adverse occurrences. On the 26th the coals in the
bunkers took fire. After strenuous exertions for a
period of five hours it was extinguished, not, how-
ever, without such loss of fuel as rendered it neces-
sary to put into Fayal for supplies. Shortly after
leaving Fayal she encountered a continuance of gales
and head winds. On the 7th October the engineer
having reported only four days' coal remaining, it
became, in the opinion of the master, requisite to
burn every available spar, bridge deck, lower
deck, saloon fittings, ladders, hatches, and, iu
fact, everything that could be converted into
fuel, to enable them to reach Halifax. Their con
dition was such that they burnt the tripod
or pole of their standard compass, having
then only one compass, and that a binnacle one, to
direct their course. This was a moat imprudent and
an inexcusable act. On the 14th they reached
Beaver Island, in Nova Scotia, when they took in
80 tons of coals, and on the 18th proceeded on their
voyage. At noon, on the 20th of October, they
made the Nantucket lightship, bearing N.W. by
N. at a distance of five miles. From this position
a course was shaped W. half S. for New York.
At 8 p.m. a dense fog settled down on the ship,
so much so that, standing aft, they could not
see beyond the stern of the ship. Full
speed was still continued, and without change, until
the ship grounded. In our opinion the master
was culpable in a very extreme degree in running at
full speed in the dense fog described by all the wit-
nesses. And, having only one compass to rely upon,
it became especially necessary to ascertain his posi-
tion by occasional casts of the lead. The soundings
laid down in the chart that he used would have, had
he adopted that precaution, given him timely and
distinct warning of his danger. We therefore
consider the Amsterdam was lost by the default
of her master, and, with the concurrence of our
nautic.:l assessors, decide on suspending his certi-
ficate for twelve calendar months. The evidence
and the master's certificate are forwarded herewith."

MADAME 1 ITSSAIJD'S EXHIBITION,
BAKER- STREET.
, A Life-size PORTRAIT MODEL of THEODORE, KING of
'II,,T3Y,SSINIA, is now added; also all the Kings and Queens of
"-algomd. American Celebrities, &c. A PORTRAIT MODEL
....of FREDERICK BAKER, is now added to the Chamber of
11.°rr°r8. Open from 11 till dusk, and from 7to 10. Admittance,
8.; children under 10, 6d, Extra rooms, 6d.

ARGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET,
Piccadilly
This
Sole Proprietor, Mx R. R. BittNELL.
b• magnificent Terpsichorean and Musical Establishment,
7ing been Re-decorated in the highest style of Italian art
/Messrs. Rubardt and other eminent artists, is NOW OPEN
_or the AUTUMN SEASON, Solo Euphonion. Signor Moses,.
Solo Corna, M. Graves. Conductor, Signor Curti.

Doors open at half-past 8.
Admission, is.; Reserved Seats, 2s.

T H E 0 XF ORD,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.
During the Week will be given a GRAND SELEC-
TION from Offenbach's Comic Operetta, ORPHEE AUX
*E.„NPERS, LA TROVATORE, and the New Cantata
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
,Principal Artistes: Misses Russell, Rivers, and Fitz-
ern'Y ; Messrs. Bury, Marler, R. Greene, and De Brenner.
-c,Li
ull Band and Chorus: Instrumentalists: Miss Bryant ;
Messrs. Paque, Melling, and Plutnpton.
COMEDY, &c., by the LEVITES, Miss.and Mr. FOS-
TER, FRED. FRENDH, Mr. H. RICKARDS, and
ALFRED PERRIER.
Ur. E. W. HACKNEY will make his appearance again
this evening.

Conductor—Mr. P. Jonghmans.
Private boxes, 10s. 6d. ; stalls, balcony, and grand pro-
Itenade, Is.—THIS EVENING.

eA.NTERBURMANAGEMENTHALL.—NEw MANAGEMENT
brietor of Weston's
wilie Hall, High Holborn Great Alterations and Improve
!ne ts have been made, and an entire new Company, compris-
aing most of the principal artistes of the day, will have the
onour of appearing. Mr. Fred. Evans (of the Royal Alhambra
a k..CrYstal Palace), Miss Randall, E. Towers, Vincent, Simpson,
r,-,ertradn,rducosirtsLEde ballet. Ballet, entitled BUMBLE. STUM-
Luusic by Alfred Lee.
with
new scenery and effects. Original
The Great Vance, Master Goodman, George Ellis, Nat
~frden, George Washington, Pat Sellers, Annie Adams, Brothers
• arde, Leroni, Miss Fitzhenry, Mr. Rowland Lascelles. A mag-
-4in',..1120ut new band, selected from the late orchestra of Her Ma-
tt s Theatre, numbering 23 performers, assisted by the drums
and bugles of the 2d Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, by kind
l'lnission of Lieut.-Colonel Commanding. Musical Director,
tl% Alfred Lee, composer of " Champagne Charlie." Mr. James
Area,B' assistant manager. Prices of Admission—Balcony and
6d. Stalls, ls. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past.

TVESTON'S GRAND M U SIC HALL,
Mr For., Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey.
the . ..ASEY begs to inform the public, in consequencef'ol
offering Patronage he has received, he has engaged the
80"ljTf talented Company:—The Great VANCE; GEORGE
kin %I, the Lion Comique•, JEAN BOND, the unrivalled Eq
utta ' Brothers DANIELS (whO are allowed by the Press to be
04roachable by any other artistes in their performances);_
Ootainir Singer and Dancer at the present time; Mrs. PHILLIPS,
taKdea,a,_ulg Serie-Comic; Miss ANNE TREHAINE, the English
tottr 'Luger, is re-engaged after a most successful provincial
Grpt
the eliestra, which will perform the popular Overtures of
Masters.
1,4 The whole under the direction of Mr. P. CORRI.
in thee doors will open at 7, commence at 7.30. No alteration
at mitePriFFlB of admission. Private boxes, 10s. 6d, to be secured
St
je,._hells9Royal Library, Old Bond-street ; and Sams' Library,
O'clocil" 8; also at the Box-office at the Hall from 10 until four

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THE FOUNDERING OF A VESSEL.

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Captain Rogers, of the Braganza, from Oporto,
which arrived in the Mersey on Tuesday night,
supplies the following report of the wreck of the
Euphrates off Holyhead :—" January 14, at 3.30
p.m., steering N.E. by E. / E. for the South
Stack, blowing strong from the W.S.W. with a
heavy sea, observed a barque bearing Past, running
up Channel under reefed foresail, and thinking
something was the matter with her by the way she
was steering about, I put my helm aport and ran
down to her within two miles, but seeing no signals
flying, I again kept my ship on her course, when
at 4.10 p.m., being nearly abreast of her, I saw
her ensign run up half-mast, union down. I
immediately kept away for her, when the ensign
was hauled down, and on getting alongside of
her within speaking distance I found she was
called the Euphrates. The captain then informed
me that she was waterlogged, and asked me to tow
him. I told him to give me his rope, but he re-
fused to do so until he asked me what I would
charge for the tow. I told him I could not make
any bargain with him, but would tow him into
Holyhead, then about 12 miles distant. The ships
began to separate. I put my helm astarboard to
round to, when he again hoisted his ensign, union
down, and at the same time put his helm aport,
bringing his ship's beam to the sea, when she imme-
diately began to settle down fore head. Before I
could get my boats out she was over, and the cap-
tain, his wife, and crew were on the outside of her
port quarter. I had then got my largest boat in the
water, and manned, and they pulled to the wreck,
but before they could get that far a sea swept them all
into the water. I then got another boat out and
kept my ship as close to the wreck as possible to
avoid danger, and night setting in I lost sight of the
wreck, and also my own boat. I then steamed as
close to the place of the accident as possible, when
I fell in with my own boat, who told me they were
drifting fast from the wreck, they not being able
to pull against the sea ; they said they had
been up to the ship but had not been able to save
any one. I then again steamed in the direction of
the wreck, when I passed two men clinging to some
spars, but owing to the sea that was running I could
not get hold of them. I kept as close to the spot
as I could to see if I could save any of them, but it
was so dark, and the sea breaking so that I could
not distinguish or hear anything of them. They
must have all gone down or I should have heard
some of them crying, as I found I was within 200
yards of the wreck, bottom up, for the sea was
breaking very heavily over her. I then picked my
own boat and crew up, and stopped until 6.30 p.m.,
when, seeing that I could not do anything more,
and beings it was impossible fully assured that
for themmusthatallto live have in
have gone
down, as
sea that was running, I thenput m
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on
jnhhner
course again. (Signed) G. Rogers,
Scotland, first mate ; John Kirkpatrick, second
mate."

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A SWISS EX E C UTION.—The man Heli Freymond,
who was recently condemned to death at Moudon, canton
de Vaud, in Switzerland, for poisoning his wife and at-
tempting a similar crime on a young man betrothed to his
sister-in-law, whom ho wished to marry, has just under-
gone the extreme penalty of the law. Neither the guillo-
tine nor the gibbet is used in Switzerland, the mode of
execution being that of decapitation with the sword. The
criminal is firmly bound, blindfolded, and his hands tied
behind him, seated on a chair, which is fixed on an ele-
vated platform. The a.sistant executioner then holds
back the head by the hair, while his principal, seizing a
two-handed sword, cuts through the neck with extra-
ordinary dexterity by a single blow. On the present occa-
sion about 12,000 persons were present. The condemned
man slept well during the preceding night. At ten o'clock
he drank two glasses of wine, and then set out for the place
of execution, preceded by the headsman, dressed in scarlet
and wearing a cocked hat. The criminal walked firmly, and
on reaching the foot of the scaffold embraced the chaplain
and the gendarmes. The preparations lasted about five
minutes ; the executioner than took up his sword, a hissing
noise was heard as it cleaved the air, and the head was
severed from the body. The Chaplain Benoit then de-
livered a short address while the body was being unbound
and covered with a black cloth.

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EDUCATION
The Conference reasembled in the llalk 37:11
terday, shortly after ten o'clock, w thei+
again a good attendance—Mr. VT. E. Forster presiding.
Earl De Grey and Ripon and many members of Parlia-
ment and others were again present.
The CuAnniAN said the conference yesterday came
to the conclusion that there should be schools provided by
compulsion, and to-day they were to discuss the
question whether there should be compulsory attend-
ance. Compulsion was yesterday said. by one speaker
to be un-English ; but for years past we had had that
compulsion indirectly in operation in this country by the
action of the Factory Act, and he (Mr. Forster), as an
employer underthe Factory Act, could speak to its excel-
lent working. It was a misfortune that when the Factory
Act was passed care was not taken to make the schools under
it good schools. (Hear, hear.) Had they been made good
schools we should at this moment have had a state of edu-
cation in the factory districts which would have been so
surprising that it would probably have led to the extension
of good schools long ago all over the kingdom. (Hear,
hear.) The factory inspectors could visit schools. It was
true they were not required to examine the children, L. t
to test the means of the school, and all they then did was
to give or refuse a certificate. The compulsory clauses of
the Factory Act were followed in the matter of the Col-
lieries Act, but he thought the Collieries Act might well
be amended. Under that Act the education of the child
ceased at the age of 12, and under certain conditions at 10.
This should not be. It was too early an age to totally
take a child from school, and it should be altered. By the
legislation of last year the benefits of the Factory Act were
extended to almost every place in which fifty persons were
employed ; also, by the Workshops Act of last year every
place where five persons were employed together was to be
dealt with. This Act came into operation on the Ist inst.,
but he thought that in its working it would be shewn to
require amendment. In fact, he could not see how it

could be worked as it should be unless there were inspec-
tors appointed under it, as under the Factory Act. Under
the Workshops Act, as under the Factory Act, the age was
to be 13 when they should cease going to school. But this
Act did not apply to the agricultural districts, and auy
condition of things which left the children of the agricul-
tural labourers in a worse condition than those of their
brother workmen in towns was bad and unsatisfactory.
Now, in the towns there was a large number of children
who were not either at work or school ; and surely, if they
were to force the attendance at school of those who were'
at work, they ought to compel those to go to school who
were not at work, and not treat them more leniently.
Under the Industrial Schools Act—schools of which there
were too few— any person may take a child or children
found begging, receiving alms, or leading the life of
vagrants without any visible means of subsistence, before-

the magistrates, and they have power to send such child
or children to an industrial school for a certain time ; but
in the Industrial Schools Act there was no provision to
compel the erection of industrial schools. However, he
(Mr. Forster) hoped that the Act they proposed would
meet all that. (Hear, hear.) Then there was an Act
called Denison's Act, which gives power to boards of
guardians to send the children of those who receive out-
door relief to schools of which they might approve, and
they had power to pay for the education of such children
out of the rates. That was a very excellent provision, and
should often be acted on. Yesterday the conference
fastened on the districts and places the necessity of pro-
viding schools ; but of what use would be those schools if
they had no scholars in them ? They must take care to
have good schools, or they would be of no use whatever.
Indeed, in Manchester he believed the fact of the small
attendances at school was mainly owing to the parents
having no belief in the goodness of the school; and they
must, whatever they did, have good schools.

The Rev. 11. SANDFORD, her Majesty's inspector of
schools, said that in the textile trades there were 70,000
children at schools under the half-time system ; while in
the Pottery district under their Act there were 3,000
children attending school on the half-time system ; and by
the Acts of last session 12,000 more children under 13
would at once he brought within their operation, so that
in the whole we should have at school compulsorily 87,000
children.

Mr. BENJAMIN ARMITAGE (Manchester) said, although he
did not appear there as the representative of the owners
and occupiers of factories, still he must say that the Factory
Act had been on the whole very beneficial to both the
operatives and their employers.

Professor JACK (Owen's College) argued that the educa,
tion which was given under the Colleries Act was next to
worthless, and mentioned a case where he had seen children
get a certificate as to their reading and writing after having
learnt it for six weeks. (Laughter.) The fault was in the
Act, which said the certifieate should be given by a coin.
petent schoolmaster, but failed to say what the qualifica'
tions of the competent master were to be. This case was
within his own experience.
Earl Di GREY said, as he understood the principal
clauses in the Factory Act with regard to education,
education and employment were given together. He was
not personally so much enamoured of compulsion as
seemed to be the majority of the meeth g, but he never-
theless thought that the same compulsion should be al)Pliea
to the agricultural districts as to the factory hands. He
would in fact apply the same stringent action to the agri•
cultural children as to the factory children ; but it would,
as had been said, be utterly impossible for the half-time
system to be enforced on them as in the factory districts.
The principle which, he thought, might perhaps be applied
to agricultural children was that of the Printworks Act, as
the one most adaptable to their case. It was enacted that
children should be at school a certain number of days in
the year, to be arranged upon between the parents and the
employers. He did not think with Mr. Clay on the sub-
ject of certificates as to knowledge, but preferred certifi-
cates that would shew how many days they had attended
school, rather than the amount of education they had
received.

Mr. MUNDELL& (Nottingham), as a large employer of
labour under the Factory Act, must confess that the half-
time system was doing little or nothing at all for the
children, and as a proof he might mention that in his
experience he had found only 41 per cent. of the factory
children who could write tolerably well.
Mr. SEWELL, inspector of schools, said he was in favour
of children in agricultural districts spending a certain num-
ber of days at school either in weeks or months, to the
number of 200 days.
The Right Hon. H. A. BRUCE, M.P., having referred to
some remarks that had been made by previous speakers,
and explained certain clauses in the Industrial Schools Bill,
&c., the conference adjourned for luncheon.
On reassembling,

The CHAIRMAN said the next point for consideration
was, " 3. Is it desirable to extend the principle of com-
pulsory school attendance beyond these measures ? 4.
Means by which such compulsory attendance should be
enforced. 5. Compulsory clauses proposed to be intro-
duced by Mr. Bazley considered."
Mr. Bazley, the Yen. Archdeacon Sandford, Professor
Christie (Owen's College), and the Rev. Canon Toole
(Manchester) were in favour of compulsory attendance.

The Right Hon. H. A. BRUCE then addressed a few
words to the meeting, and said : If compulsion was
resorted to, they would have to compel one-half of the
children in the country to go to school. They must not
raise opposition to their measure by asking for too much.
They must proceed progressively. Compulsion was their
last step, as it was the best, and some day it would be
agreed to as was now wished.
Mr. A. HERBERT moved, and Mr. SIMONS secondea,
another amendment, which was withdrawn on the sugges.
tion, by Mr. J. T. HIBBERT, M.P., that the following
form of resolution would meet the views of all parties:—
"That the Education Bill Committee be requested, in
conjunction with Mr. Barley, to prepare such clauses as
they may consider practicable to enforce the attendance at
school of neglected children, and to request him to give
notice, before any education bill brought into Parliament
comes to a second reading, that he will introduce such
clauses in committee."

This was passed unanimously.
Mr. BRUCE, in response to a vote of thanks, expressed a
hope that when the members of the conference returned to
their respective localities they would be induced by what
they had heard to form local committees in support of this
movement, and he could promise them, on the part of Mr.
Francis Taylor (hon. secretary) and the Manchester com-
mittee, every possible assistance.
The conference then terminated.

The Leoniinster butchers go weekly to Hereford
and sell prime meat 25 per cent. cheaper than the Here-
ford butchers.

ABYSSINIA. —We have received news to the eftect
that the health and spirits of the expeditionary force are
alike excellent. Hospital accommodation will be provided
at the rate of 7 per cent. for the British part of the force,
disposed as three divisional field hospitals, and separate
tents for regiments and field batteries, &c., proceeding on
the march. The largest central depot hospital will pro-
bably be at Senafe, which appears to possess a healthy
climate, and to be the most convenient position for con-
centrating the sick coming down from the front. In our
opinion an hospital of this kind will be preferable in every
way to employing iron steamers as stationary hospital
ships in the Bed Sea. The ration is said togto:baaltr
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