The Sun. — 1870-01-27 (London, England)

TILE JEWS IN RUSSIA.  The Russian Government has encountered many serious difficulties in its efforts to disseminate primary intruction among the people. True, the Zemstwa, or Provincial States have shown an unexpected willingness in the cause, and the nobility have come forward with large donations. The Jews, however, are a formidable obstacle. Those in the districts of the Vistula are profoundly ignorant. A Warsaw journal, the Israelite, states that in a Polish village the elders of the synagogue, wishing to found a Jewish school, convoked ameeting of the heads of families in their district. The richest man present listened to the exhortation to subscribe to the undertaking, and replied, "My grandfather was rich without knowing how to sign his name; my father scarcely knows how to write, but ho is oneof the most distinguished Jews of Warsaw; and I, who am not better educated than my relations, I am the richest among you. This is why I will not have my children spending their time in the trifles you propose." The Government is very anxious to civilise the Jews of the Western provinces, whose language is a compound of Hebrew, German, and Polish. Very few of the Jews who carry on business n Russia know the Russian language.  The latest news from Thorncliffe is that all is quiet. Subscriptions to a considerable amount have already been volunteered for the purpose of indemnifying the sufferers at the bands of the rioters, and it is expected that in a day or two at most a sufficient sum will be subscribed in Sheffield without any public meeting being held.  A meeting of the working classes is arranged to be held in London, to "uphold and strengthen the connection between the mother country and the colonies." Sir G. Grey will preside on the occasion, and speeches will be delivered by Mr. John Buskin, Mr. Froude, the historian, and other well-known gentlemen. It is said that the movement bas elicited a warm expression of sympathy on the part of Mr. Thomas Carlyle, Mr. John Stuart lid ill, and Mr. Alfred Tennyson.  A murder is reported from the neighbourhood of Newport, Monmouthshire. A few nights back a travelling tinker, named Rafferty, quarrelled with his wile at Blackwood, and in attempting to strike her, hit his child, an infant in arms, a fatal blow. On the death cf the child, Rafferty doubled up the body and buried it in a ditch. It was afterwards found by a ioliceman, and at the coroner's inquest on Saturday, a verdict of manslaughter was returned against the inhuman parent.  The Chatham division of the Royal Marines are ordered to wear the new pattern shako and foragecap.  Fifty million envelopes are sold annually, and stamped with the crest and address from upwards of 35,000 steel dies, at Parkins and Gotto's, who make no charge for stamping or cementing, and, having only one price, undertake to supply the nobility and gentry with every description of writing paper and envelopes of the best and most fashionable kind, at extraordinarhy low charges. Monograms, crest, or address dies cut at less than half price. Coloured stamping reduced from 2s. to ls. per 100. Arms, monograms, and crests emblazoned. 60 stampers, die sinkers, and engravers being kept upon the premises, all orders are executed with great despatch. Dance programmes, invitations, at home notes,