The Sun. — 1869-04-26 (London, England)

GALLANT RESCUE.  The Jornal do Commercio of Lisbon, of April 8, gives an account of an act of extraordinary gallantry performed by Lord Walter Kerr, commander of H.M.S. Hercules. It seems that, when sending down topgallant yards at sunset, on Sunday, April 4, a man fell overboard from the maintopgallant yard. The commander, Lord Walter Kerr, who was on the poop, carrying.on, the instant he saw the man fall into the racing tide of the Tagus, at once flung off his cap and jacket, and plunged after him, Had the noble and gallant officer taken time to think, he might have, without prejudice to his courage, well have hesitated before placing his life at the mercy of a current of such wellanown danger. The man was at some distance from the ship when Lord Walter jumped overboard, but after considerable exertion, he reached and supported the unfortunate man until both were rescued by a boat from the ship. We heartily concur with our Portuguese contemporary in the warm eulogium which it passes upon this singularly fortunate act of daring humanity. The chances for any man overboard in the Tagus are few enough, and, but for the gallantry of his commander, the man had no chance at all, having become insensible from a blow.  The Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed the conviction of Henry Jenkin, sentenced to death for murder at the last Bristol Assizes. Mr. Charles Dickens was seen by Dr. Watson on Friday, who declared that tho novelist must betake himself to entire rest, and must do so at once. Dr. Watson has forbidden his patient to road any more. The Rev. H. Wix, cf Swanniore, Isle of Wight, has been served with the Bishop's monition, forbidding him any longer to continuo the Ritualistic practices for which his church has become noted.  --A man named Bellis, master of a small vessel, was drinking at a public-house at Connor's Quay, near Chester, the other day, and ho quarrelled with and fought a man named Jones. Bullis's mate, named Hughes, thinking the captain in danger, interfered, but Bellis turned upon him, knocked him down, and kicked him on the ribs. The result was that both stripped and fought, and in the second round Hughes struck Bellis on the neck, bursting the jugular vein. On being picked up the lattor was quite dead. Hughes is in custody.  On Friday, a conference, called by the Ycrkshire Board of Education—the first of a numbor of similar gatherings it is proposed to hold in various parts of the county—took place at Sheffield, to ascertain the opinion of tho public of that district, as to the best course to adopt in order to get at the large numbers of children who are at present living with little or no oducati.m. The 3.1a.y or I resided, and the Rev. Canon Salo and other gentlemen took part in the discussion, the genemal opinion expressed being favourable to the introduction in some form of a compulsory system of educatior.  A correspondent at Douglas, Isle of Man, sends to a contemporary an account of a scandalous outrage prpetrated by a body of miners et Kirk Michael. It seems that a dispute has arisen between Mr. Tetley, who is a very largo shareholder in the Kirk Michael Lead and Copper Mining Company, and the dircctors of that concern ; and in conseqnence work in the mine has been almost completely suspended. The men aro under the impression (rightly or wiongly—wrougly, the writer of the letter says) that they have been deprived of employment by Mr. Tetley, and in r:venge they have on two ( cnslo is bombarded his residence with large stones, smashing the windows and placing the lives of the inmates in jeopardy. They have also sent to ilr. Tetley a letter threatening to kill him.