10 MARCH 1860, Page 9

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According to the Sunderland Times, a new maritime Treaty with France is in process of preparation, and Mr. Cobden is busy with the authorities, giving them the benefit of his experience in such matters.

The Bishop of London presided at a conference of clergymen on Mon- day evening to promote plans for keeping Sunday school children in the paths of rectitude after they had left their schools. A code of rules for the guidance of teachers was agreed upon.

The title of Lord Brougham and Vaux, hitherto limited to the present Peer, has been extended, by the courtesy of the Queen, to his surviving brother, Mr. William Brougham, and to his male heirs.

The Local Marine Board of Liverpool on Wednesday presented Captain Charles Robertson, of the ship Sir John Moore, with a gold chronometer watch and chain, awarded him by the President of the United States for rescuing the captain, passengers, and crew of the American ship, May Queen.

Mr. Thomas Hopley, F.S.S., has published a "Letter to the Gentle- men of the Periodical Press " on the subject of the bill which is to be read a second time in the House of Commons on the 21st instant—" A Bill to place the Employment of Women, Young Persons, and Children in Bleaching Works and Dyeing Works, under the Regulations of the Factories' Acts." According to the statistics and evidence here put for- ward, compiled principally from Blue-books, these operatives have been for twenty years past—principally in the spring and summer—working sixteen, eighteen, twenty, and more hours a day. Besides the lassitude and weariness consequent upon this protracted toil, and the heat of an atmosphere often up to 100 or 150 degrees, the nature of their occupa- tion gives them sore and stiff fingers, and swells and flays their feet until they are blood raw. Girls and boys from the ages of ten to sixteen, compose the majority of the workers.

On the 25th ultimo, Lieutenant-General J. D'Evereux died at 47, Hertford Street, at the ripe age of eighty-two. His name is probably entirely unknown to all except the students of the detail of Irish, and South American history of the latter part of the eighteenth and commencement of the nineteenth cen- turies. But his decease deserves a passing word of notice for several rea- sons. In character, birth, and adventures, he represented many things that are fast becoming traditions of the past, whether for the good of mankind or not we will not here discuss. Born in 1778, he represented one of the oldest and most indisputably Norman families in the islands. His branch, the eldest of the D'Evereux, had been settled for many centuries upon the family estates in Wexford, when the rebellion of 1798 broke out. That movement was, far more than is generally understood, guided and promoted by the old Irish aristocracy of all races ; and among those who took part in it was the subject of this notice, who, at the very early age of eighteen, had the command of a division in the rebel army. On the failure of the rising, John D'Evereux made his submission to the Government, and, through the influence of Lord Cornwallis, the then Lord-Lieutenant, who took great in- terest in him from his youth, received a free pardon and remission of all forfeitures, upon the sole condition of remaining abroad for some years. This condition was complied with, and the treatment he had received caused a strong attachment to the British rule in the breast of the young rebel. This attachment was strongly marked when the Emperor Napoleon offered Mr. D'Evereux a general's commission in the army he was preparing for the invasion of England in the early part of the century, and suggested that, in the event of satisfactory service, the old domain of Evreux in Nor- mandy, from which the family took its name, should be repurchased for him, and that he should be created a Count of the Empire. In the inter- view with the great Emperor when these propositions were made, which weif peremptorily declined by the young man, who was as great an enthu- siast for liberty as he was proud of his race, D'Evereux informed Napoleon, in reply to the question whether the D'Evereuxs were not ,descended from the Conqueror ? that, on the contrary, the Conqueror was descended from them ; a spirited remark which, as well as his conduct on that occasion generally, caused him to be sought out by Alexander von Humboldt, with whom he was afterwards closely intimate.

The principal later event of John D'Evereux's life was his raising and taking out to South America the Irish Legion, which assisted Bolivar in con- quering the independence of the South American republics. The later disas- ters of some of these communities have obscured the recollection of the enthu- siasm which greeted their birth, evinced alike in the rhetoric of Canning, and in the sympathy of the general liberal public. What the Englishman Guyon was to the unsuccessful Hungarian insurrection of 1848-9, John D'Evereux was in some sort to Venezuela and Nueva Granada in 1820 and the ensuing years. At the date of his decease, he was the senior Lieutenant- General of these republics, and in the nominal receipt of a considerable pen- aion from them.

The most ardent enthusiasm for the cause of political, social, and religious freedom, a readiness to draw his sword and strike a blow for it wherever there was a chance of doing so; a large share of that aristocratic sentiment which, as was befitting the representative of so genuine a Norman family, de- spised European despotism, not merely because it is false, and cruel, but be- cause it is a parvenu, an innovation upon the grand old chivalric freedom of the middle ages, all these things made up a rare and strong character in Gene- ral D'Evereux. Democracy will not do its work till it has found something like the old formula of its enemy, " noblesse oblige." Certainly not while it depends for its success in the world, even as do certain of our prophets, upon anything short of the readiness to sacrifice life and fortune in the cause, which distinguished the fine old gentleman of whom we have given this brief account.

The Prince o'f Wales has been appointed by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ox- fordshire to be Honorary Colonel of the Oxford University Rifle Volunteer Corps.

The Prince of Orange went over the Great Eastern on Monday. He after- wards went round the Southampton docks, and examined the whole of the works of the inner dock, the graving docks, and the spacious baggage ware- house.

Dr. Livingstone, writing from Kongone, mouth of Zambesi, December 1, 1859, says, the river Shire is about 200 miles long, and has a deep channel 112 miles from its mouth. The valley through which it flows is exceed- ingly fertile. He went to the foot of the lake Nyassa. Many natives are aged. The country is healthy. The people are suspicious but not blood- thirsty. The country is well adapted for cattle and sheep. Cotton is care- fully cultivated. Almost any amount could be raised. The natives are anxious to trade. With good missionaries, the most happy results might be anticipated.

Government has given 20,0001. for the range of buildings known as the Euston Hotel, at Fleetwood. The building is to be converted into a school of Musquetry for the North of England.

The " Leinster," the second vessel of the fine new mail fleet, which is building for the Dublin and Holyhead service, was successfully launched, on Tuesday afternoon, from Messrs. Samuda's yard, kfillwall.

The Royal Polytechnic Institution was put to the hammer on Wednesday but not sold. The highest bid was 31001.

Functionaries of State in Venice are forbidden to wear beards on their chins, or on their heads the hat a la Cavour, under pain of a proces verbal being drawn up against them and suffering the punishments prescribed for breach of the rule !

According to the Oxford Calendar for 1860, the numbers of students have considerably increased. The following are the comparisons between 1859 and 1860 respectively :—Matriculations, 399-419 ; Bachelors of Arts, 277-300; Regent Masters, 234-258 ; Members of Convocation, 3659- 3828 ; members on the books, 6194-6297. Christchurch has increased 6 per cent, Exeter 4 per cent, Queen's almost 7 per cent.

The strike of the colliers at St. Helen's continues. Some of the turn- outs have been asking provisions of the shopkeepers, and using very threat- ening language to those who refused to comply with their demands.

The cleansing of the Serpentine is to be completed, according to contract, on the 1st of May. The work has been intrusted to Messrs. John and Ed- ward Bird, of Hammersmith, and Messrs. James Watt and Co.

The number of deaths in the metropolis last week was 1442, a decrease of 68 on the mortality of the previous week, but an increase of 115 on the calculated average ; 178 persons died from afl'ections of the brain and nervous system.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Hungarian, belonging to the Montreal Ocean Steam-ship Company, went down, off Sable Island, Nova Scotia, on the 20th of last month, with 205 souls on board. Small portions of the wreck have been picked up. The vessel left Liverpool on the 8th of February, for. Portland. The cause of the calamity is unknown.

Among the wrecks during the late gale, was that of the Nimrod steamer. It is stated that the captain of the Nimrod offered the Captain of the City of Paris 100/. to tow him into Milford, which he refused. He wanted 10001. The Board of Trade is to investigate the case. The wreck of this vessel has caused much sorrow throughout the City of Cork, for, most of the crew re- sided there, and have left wives and families. A subscription for those left destitute is being vigorously prosecuted by the Cork Steam Company. Be- tween 700/. and 800/. have been already subscribed.