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The Earl of Dunraven (late Viscount Adare) has resigned his scat in -Parliament for Glamorganshire, by accepting the Chiltern Hundreds. His reason for resigning is the close official relation, as Lord-Lieutenant, -which has lately connected him with the Irish county of Limerick.

A meeting in the county of the Land's End—Cornwall—preserves in lingering existence the provincial feature of excitement on the Papal measures. In point of leading personages on the platform, the meeting was a very influential exponent of feeling ; but the tone taken by Sir 'Charles Lemon at starting was so discreet, and indicative of guarded caution in the party he represents, that the subsequent vivacity of his attack on Tractarianism did not produce the marked diversion that has -.occurred at other meetings, although warm demurrage was shown both ,from the platform and from the body of the meeting against the attack. Sir Charles thought it clear, "the English people had been subjected to insult, which required if not to be resented at least to be repelled. He did not go beyond that, nor share in the apprehensions of many that we are at this moment exposed to any great danger from the Papal aggression. If those more conversant with public business than he was should bring in a bill without trenching or encroaching in any way on the liberties of all classes of the people, to that he should certainly give his support . Suppose it happened that they could not deal with this matter either by law -or legislation, on that account would this egression of the Pope pass unre- buked ? Certainly not. These great national depaonstrations were a .rebuke."

At the Knutsford Quarter-Sessions an application was made by Mr. Case for 3001., the amount for incidental expenses incurred in sustaining an extra force of military, and police while executing certain warrants at „Birkenhead arising out of the late disturbances.

'..The Manchester journals report the commencement of a local educa- tional movement parallel with that of the National Public Schools Asso- ciation, but with a seeming tendency towards the goal of Government countenance. A "very large and influential meeting of laity, clergy, and Dissenting ministers,' met in the Mayor's parlour in the Town-hall on Monday, to canvass "suggestions and marginal notes for a bill" embody-

ing a scheme for promoting education in Manchester and Salford by means of local rates. The plan, as explained by its formal author, the _Reverend Mr. Richson, in a document printed for private circulation, seems to have been suggested by, and to be much based upon, the fact that there is a vast amount of unused or unoccupied school-room within -the boroughs of Manchester and Salford, which might be profitably em-

iployed—

"Estimating the total population at 370,000, and assuming that one-sixth of them, children between four and fourteen years of age, would probably avail themselves of free education, there would be 62,000 requiring educe- ttion. But this assumes that each child continues to attend school for ten :years, whereas the average period is less than three years. If, then, the average attendance could be raised even to five years the number for whom required accommodation is is only 31,000, or 25,000 for Manchester and 6000 for Salford. Now, there is a return, showing that, in the existing Church Schools here, accommodation is already provided for 30,050 children, allowing each child six square feet ; whereas the number of day scholars is -.only 9000 in the Church 'Schools, leaving redundant room for day scholars above what is now used, sufficient for 20,500 in the Church Schools. The mount of accommodation daily available in the schools of all other religious denominations in these boroughs, Mr. Richson computes at above 36,000, al- flowing six feet of space for each child ; the number of day scholars now at- tending in these schools, he states to be only 9000, leaving a surplus of accommodation for 27,000 more than now attend daily, in the Dissenting and other school-rooms. This shows accommodation already exiting in the school-rooms of Manchester and Salford for 47,500 children abovethe num- ber who now attend. The number of Snnday scholars in the Church Schools now is stated at 25,000, and the Sunday scholars in other religious schools at 36,000."

The leading points of the plan appear to be these,—the right of free • education to be secured to every inhabitant of the two boroughs ; the cost :to be levied by local rates, which are never to exceed fivepence in the pound per annum ; and the management [financial, one supposes] is to be _given to committees elected by the Municipal Councils out of their own members. A guarantee is given that the religious convictions of "all parties are to be respected and equally protected" by the arrangements that, in all exiging schools admitted into union, "no creed or formulary shall be taught to the children to which their parents or lawful guardians may in writing object" ; and in all new schools, "no distinctive creed whatever is to be taught within the ordinary school-hours, although the daily reading of the Scriptures is to be provided for" : "the management of the latter class of schools is to be in the hands of exclusively lay per-

sons." But the official features of the plan are the fundamental

"that the assistance of her Majesty's Inspectors is to be obtained in estimating the educational wants of any locality • and that no school is to be erected by the District Committees, and no land to be purchased for such purpose, without the sanction of the Committee of Privy Council on Education."

The proceedings of the meeting lasted three hours, and milked in a resolution favourable to the general principle of the scheme. The Bishop of Manchester was to be asked to join the General Committee; which includes the names of Mr. Heywood, M.P., Mr. Kershaw, M.P., the Dean of Manchester, the Reverend Hugh Stowell, and other clergymen, with several Dissenting ministers. A Sub-Committee, to consider the details of the measure, was formed of the following gentlemen—" W. Entwistle (banker), Richard Birley, T. P. Bunting (solicitor), D. Maude (magistrate), R. J. Jones, Robert Hampton, S. Heefis, Samuel Fletcher, I. A. Turner, G. R. Chappell, Robert Brandt, Reverend C. Richson, Reve- rend W. Birley."

Dr. Edward Frankland has been appointed to the chair of Chemistry in Owen's College at Manchester.

The agitation against the paper-tax has received an impulse from a re- solution passed by the Town-Council of Birmingham, after a discussion which was opposed by one or two Councillors. Alderman Baldwin moved the adoption of a petition to Parliament against the taxes on paper and advertisements, and the stamp-duty on newspapers; especially founding his case on the grievances in connexion with the paper-tax, which he himself as a manufacturer effectively pointed out. Mr. Baldwin stated that if the paper-tax were repealed, he alone could give employment to five hundred additional persons within twelve months. Mr. Charles Sturge seconded the motion, and spoke especially against the penny- stamp. Alderman Smith and Alderman Martineau opposed the motion, as more fitting for the consideration of the Chamber of Commerce. Al- derman Muntz declared against the principle of giving up altogether the discussion of such subjects : the town of Birmingham pays a larger pro- portionate share of the paper-duty than any community in the empire. The motion was carried almost unanimously; Alderman Martineau and Mr. Cox alone holding up their hands against it.

Jonathan Whitley, Cooper, a solicitor practising at Norwich, was tried at the Norwich Sessions, on Tuesday, on a charge of obtaining unlawfully, and by false pretences, the sum of Si. 6s. from a Mr. Richard Mills Burrell, hair-manufacturer, of that town. The false pretence alledged was, that the traverser had been filing certain pleadings in an action at the suit of the prosecutor, for the expenses of which he had received the sum in question, which pleadings had not in point of fact been filed. The case having been distinctly proved, the Jury found a verdict of " Guilty" ; and the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve calendar months.

The unsafety of lone houses has been strikingly shown by the circum- stances of a burglary at Downlands, the residence of the Misses Famscombe, near Uckfield, which is six miles North of Lewes, and as many miles South- west of Tunbridge Wells. The Misses Farnscombe have only one confidential man-servant to live on their premises, Thomas Wood : his bedroom is on the same floor with those of his mistresses; and for quickness of communication, in case of alarm, his door was always kept open at night. Wood was armed with a loaded gun and a sword. The lawn of the residence of Downlands abuts on the road from Meld to Ringle's Cross-gate, and at its rear is a deep wood. On the night of Thursday last week, a night exceedingly dark and tempestuous, seven men broke away the lattice-window of the dairy, and so gained access to a window through which they broke into the cellar ; and from the cellar they got through a locked and bolted door into the kitchen. From the kitchen issued two staircases, one of which led to the ladies' bed- room, and the other to Wood's bedroom; the robbers knew which to follow, and went by stealth to Wood's door-sill ; thence they rushed in upon him; he became aware of -their presence just the moment before they made their rush, leaped out of bed, and got hold of his gun ; but one of the men closed on him before he could bring the gun to a level, and felled him with a blow from the butt-end of a heavy pistol. The gang then wrested his gun away, and mounted guard over him while it was deliberated what should be their next step. All five were armed with pistols ; all wore masks; and they ap- ' peared to obey a leader, who ordered the others with threats of violence. Two of the men urged that Wood should be killed for having seized his gun; but this counsel was overruled. They called him by his fami- liar name, "Tom" ; and demanded the money and plate of his mis- tresses. Three of them then burst through the panels of the door of a • dressingroom adjoining the bedroom of Miss Susan Farnscombe, and threat- ened her with Wood's sword; she screamed ; Wood prevailed on the two men who guarded him to interfere and protect her ; they did so, and she as well as her sister thenceforward behaved with calm self-possession. The robbers remained in the house for two hours; passing rapidly from room to room, breaking open every repository, and taking possessionof everything in the shape of plate, money, or bank security. Of the ladies' property they carried away about 1001. in bank-notes, all the plate, two watehes, and all their trinkets • from Wood's room they took about 201., a watch, and a gun. • They departed at about five in the morning., while it was still dark. At one o'clock on that night, some persons returning home from a party had noted seven men on the road near Downlands ; at half-past five the brother-in-law of Wood met seven men near Ringle's Cross-gate. Wood's sword was found near the Cross-gate, his gun was found in the river near Maresfield tanyard, and one of the masks worn by the burglars was picked up on the road.

Six of the burglars have been arrested. The apprehension of three of

• them was accidental, and took place on the evening of the burglary, on another charge. The names of these three are John Hamilton, John Smith, and James Smith. They were at a village called Groombridge, where Ha- milton gave John Smith into custody on a charge of having taken a sove- reign from him. In the mean time, the Police of the Tunbridge Wells district having received intelligence of a burglary committed at a Mr. Ken- ward's at Hartfield, and thinking the whole party suspicious characters, proceeded to search them, and found upon them a five-pound note of the Lewes bank, a coat, umbrella, and mask. These were taken to Downlands, and the coat and umbrella were at once recognized by the butler and house- keeper of the Misses Farnscombe. Two more, named Flillyer and Morgan, were captured, after a desperate resistance, by the Guildford Police, in a beer-shop in that town, and several of the articles stolen from the house at Downlands found upon them. Another man, named Joseph Carter, was taken at Woking ; on whose preen was also found part of the stolen pro- perty, and a pistol loaded with slugs. Morgan has been identified by the butler as the man who knocked him down with the pistol, and Carter as the man who kept guard over him.

An extensive robbery was committed at Liverpool on Sunday, from the premises of Messrs. Clark and Morris, silversmiths. "The shop of Messrs. Clark and Morris is somewhat conspicuous, and has a double frontage, in Church Street and Tarleton Street. The firm also occupy a cellar, which is entered by a trap-door from the back part of the shop. This door was found open, and an iron plate fixed for security against the partition-wall of the next cellar had been partially bent down so as to admit the body of a man, the brick-work behind having been removed to a corresponding extent. The adjoining cellar, it appears, is used for storing coals by Mr. Jones, the litho- grapher, who occupies offices in Tarleton Street. These offices, which are part of a range, and are only tenanted, are immediately at the back of Messrs. Clark and Morris's establishment ; and the entrance to Mr. Jones's cellar is at the end of a ground-floor passage at the side of the stairs. The wall of the passage which adjoins Messrs. Clark and Morris's shop is pro- tected by iron bars ; but, strange to say, the entrance to the cellat had been completely overlooked. The lock of the door to Mr. Jones's cellar appears to have been picked, and also that of the door communicating with the street. The burglars then removed the bricks of the partition-wall alluded to, bent down the iron plate, and thus gained access to the shop." The partners do not reside at the place of business ; and the robbery was discovered by Mr. Clark on Monday morning. He found the shop in perfect confusion ; jewel- ivy and watches worth some 1800/. had been carried off The thieves ap- pear to have been disturbed; for they left behind a case of valuable diamond rings, and several other articles small in bulk, which were conspicuously placed. Four or five suspicious persons had been noticed in the vicinity on Sunday evening.

The premises of Mr. Beardsell, manufacturer at Holmfirth, have been fre- quently visited by a thief, who has taken away pieces of cloth : on the night of Tuesday last, a son of Mr Beardsell kept watch, and saw a young; man appear and appropriate a piece of dal. He leaped out of ambush, and seized the robber ; who, after a struggle, broke loose, leaving behind a frag- ment of his waistcoat, and took to his heels. The young watcher pursued for a short distance, and fired three barrels of a revolving pistol after the fugitive, but seemingly without effect. On the following Thursday, how- ever, Alexander Holhngworth was arrested by the Police ; and that same night he was taken into the hospital in a by state from ball and shot wounds, which threatened lock-jaw.

The son of Major John B. Orde, of Westwood Hall, near Wooller in Northumberland, and a schoolfellow, were passing through a fence with a loaded gun. Young Thomas Orde leaped the fence, and held out his hand for the gun. His schoolfellow tried to pass it butt foremost, but it was too heavy for his strength, and it was passed muzzle foremost; a branch caught the trigger, and the charge was instantly lodged in youna. Orde's side just below his breast. He cried, "I am shot !" staggered, and fell with his face into the water. His companion raised and held him till assistance came ; but before a surgeon arrived the youth was dead.

Crook, a nail-maker at Birmingham, returned home on Thursday evening to his young wife, whom he had married only a fortnight before, affection- ately saluted her, and asked her to get him a nice cup of tea. She was busy in this duty, stooping before the fire toasting some bread, when her husband took up a gun that had just before been placed against the wall by Lockley, their fellow-tenant in the house, who had been shoot- ing birds in the garden. As Crook lifted the gun the charge exploded, and his wife sank quietly forward as if fainting : Mrs. Lockley ran and clasped her in her arms, and found her dead—the shot had entered her brain. Poor Crook became frantic with grief; tearing his hair and uttering self-accusa- tions. A Coroner's inquest found that the fatality was purely accidentaL