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The most active exertions have been made to apprehend the burglars . Three young men , named Hiram Smith , James Jones , and Levi Harwood , two at least of whom were at Frimley on Friday evening , have been apprehended on suspicion . They were examined on Tuesday before Captain Mangles , M . P ., and the result of the examination , which was conducted with closed doors , is said to have created a strong impression of their guilt . They were remanded till Friday (" yesterday ) . An inquest was held on the body of Mr . Holiest , on Tuesday , but no additional facts were elicited . The inquest was adjourned for a week .
The frequency of robberies of late in this part of Surrey has caused great alarm among the residents in the neighbourhood . We understand that within a very few months burglaries have taken place at the aesidences of Major Birch , of Clare-park , near Farnham ; Mr . Lindsay , of Hampton-lodge ; Mr . Stoveld , of Runfold , near Farnham ; Lady Wyndham , of Sutton , near Guildford ; and Mr . Tiekill , of Frimleygrove ; all of which are within a circle of ten miles . The dreadful circumstances of the present case have aroused the attention of Government , and on Wednesday morning a placard , of which the following is a copy , was extensively circulated : —
" Burglary and Murder . — £ 150 Reward . —The dwelling-house of the Reverend George Edward Holiest , at Frimley-grove , Surrey , having been burglariously entered by several men on the night of the 27 th of September , 1850 , when one of them shot and wounded Mr . Holiest , of which wound he died on the 29 th , a reward of £ 100 will be paid by her Majesty ' s Government , and a further reward of £ 50 on behalf of the disconsolate widow , to any person who shall give such information and evidence as shall lead to the discovery and conviction of the burglars . And her Majesty ' s gracious pardon will be granted to any accomplice ( not being the person who actually fired the shot ) who shall give such information and evidence as shall lead to the same result . "
On the Friday night previous to the burglary and murder at Frimley the house of the Reverend O . E . " Vidal , of Arlington , in Sussex , was entered by three men in masks , who took two common watches from the servants' bedroom , and then went to Mr . Vidal's sleeping-room , and apked where his money was . He said it was down stairs , upon which they ordered him to jump out of bed and go down with them for it , not even allowing him time to dress . One of the robbers had a drawn sword , which he brandished in
Mr . Vidal ' s face , warning him that his throat would be cut if he made the slightest noise . Mr . "Vidal remonstrated with the ruffians , reminding them of the fate which must await them hereafter , even if they should escape punishment in this world . The remonstrance had no effect . They rifled his desk , taking £ 40 which it contained , and then , after locking Mr . "Vidal safely in his bedroom , went quietly down , stairs , and took tea in the most deliberate and comfortable style before leaving the house .
James Smith , aged forty-one years , a lame and decrepid man , toll-collector at the turnpike , Kingstreet , near the Hebden-bridge , "was murdered on Saturday morning , by some one who broke into the house and cut the poor man ' s throat . No money was taken away , nor has any clue been obtained as to what was the motive of the murderer . Two men have been apprehended on suspicion of their having had a hand in the affair .
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A SURVEY OF EUROPEAN INDUSTRY . The Morning Chronicle , which has already done so much for social reform , by its invaluable series of letters on " Labour and the Poor , " is about to enter upon anew field of enquiry , which , as it justly remarks , " will be found equally fraught with conclusions of the deepest interest to the entire population of these realms . " It proposes to publish , during the next twelvemonth , a complete view of the agricultural
industry of the principal kingdoms and states of the old and new worlds , including sketches and comparative estimates of the condition of all classes of their inhabitants who are connected , either as proprietors , farmers , or labourers . The new series is to commence with France , but special correspondents have also been employed in Belgium , Holland , Denmark , Germany , Italy , Spain , Portugal , Hungary , Russia , Syria , Egypt , and the United States .
" These researches , " says our contemporary , " have been set on foot with a view to practical results , and in the hope of suggesting plans of improvement to the statesman , as well as of supplying subjects of speculation for the moralist , and data for the political economist . It will , therefore , be our aim to ornit no material circumstance which can elucidate , on the one hand , the causes of social misery and degradation , or , on the other , those of national well-being and prosperity . "
The public is deeply indebted to the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle for what they have already done to furnish a full and complete view of the actual condition of the industrial classes of England . This new enterprise , which is of a much more gigantic nature , will give them a still higher claim to public gratitude .
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THE WRECK OF THE SUPERB . The inquest on the bodies of the persons drowned by the wreck of the Superb steamer , through the culpable carelessness of those in charge of the vessel , commenced on Wednesday week . The number of persons drowned appears to have been about twenty . Several witnesses were examined , but their evidence threw very little light on the cause of the catastrophe . The inquest was adjourned till Friday . A gentleman who was on board the boat which swamped , owing to the want of a " thole-pin , " and who saved himself by swimming , gives the following account of what ho
saw : — " When the steamer struck , and every one was allowed to shift for himself , no one assuming the command , I felt that to stay by the steamer was the safest course , and I advised a lady of my acquaintance to do so , and she and her daughters have been saved by so doing . In the meantime both boats were launched , and numbers got into them . I paid no attention , however , until tho steamer canted to one eidp , and went down so much by the stern that I thought she was slipping from the rock and would go down in deep water . A boat at this instant shoving off from the stern , I balanced in my own mind
for an instant what to do , and jumped into her . The tide carried us off , and the passengers exclaimed , 'We are safe ! ' We were lightly laden , and every one was calm and sitting down , and £ participated in the feeling of safety ; but , observing water in tho boat , I requested Korne gentlemen to bain with their hats ( 1 was seated too far aft , being the lust , on board ) . They said they could not , and did not mrike any attempt . The water incronsed fast , and a boy belonging to the vessel stood up and cried out frantically for a ' thole pin , ' but was so agitated he could not tell where to Reek for one . At last I understood that they wcro in tho stern-sheets , and gave him
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of good and bad together . There was no medium between shameful remissness and unreasoning absolutism . It was hoped that the reforms induced by the exposures alluded to would effectually rescue the academy from its position of obloquy and disrepute ; but no such , result has yet been realized , nor can it , if our information is correct , be reasonably anticipated as probable . For the statement we subjoin we possess unexceptionable authority , and the inference suggested can hardly be otherwise than fatal to the existing administration of the academy .
WOOLWICH ACADEMY AND CARSHALTON SCHOOL . We have elsewhere made some remarks on the revelations lately made regarding the discipline of Woolwich Academy and the preparatory establishment at Carshalton . The following article from the ' Times of Tuesday contains all the information on the subject which has yet been laid before the public : — " Comparatively few months liave passed since the discipline of Woolwich Academy was made the object of severe and general animadversion . All that should not exist in a reputable seminary was shown to exist there .
while all the opinions especially desirable in a training school for officers and gentlemen were proved to be utterly wanting . Of all the institutions in the country that , at Woolwich appeared the least calculated to communicate by its discipline and customs a gentlemanly and honourable tone to the character of its pupils . There was no liberal confidence reposed in the cadets by their superiors , no cordiality subsisting between officers and students , and no good feeling among the cadets themselves . Practices long banished from all good schools survived in full vigour at Woolwich . Bullying and tyranny were carried to excess , habits of drunkenness
¦ were notoriously common , and exploits of low rakishuoss were regarded as honourable achievements . Of such a state of things insubordination and desertion were the natural consequences ; some pupils rebelled from recklessness , while others ran away from ill-usage ; and the supervision of the governors , exhibited rather in sudden paroxysms of implacable severity than in that constant and equable vigilance which checks evil in its growth , tended only to complete and signalize the ruin which mal-adrninistration had originated . The aca emy was permitted to fall into a state of intolerable disorganization , and then a remedy was sought in the wholesale and indiscriminate proscription
* ' One of the expedients devised for improving the general tone of the seminary at Woolwich , was the institution of a preparatory establishment at Carshalton , from which a certain number of pupils , well trained in habits of morality , and fortified with a groundwork of sound principles , might be transferred for the completion of their education to the more professional discipline of the academy . The number of cadets , however , thus introduced could seldom average above ten or twelve in the vear—an infusion not only insufficient , as soon
appeared , to leaven the academical lump , but serving to create a disturbance unknown before . The Carshalton pupils , in fact , seem to have been received at Woolwich much as the eleves of Parkhurst or Pentonville are received by less fortunate convicts , and with a similar disparagement of the effects produced by preparatory discipline . If the general facts of the case are not made fully intelligible by what follows , the result must be attributed to the nature of charges which do not admit of more particular elucidation .
" In August last ten boys , aged from 13 4 to 14 $ , were duly transferred from Carshalton to Woolwich , and there , after the ordinary scrutiny , entered as cadets . A few weeks afterwards one of them was detected in habits destructive of moral discipline , whether in seminaries or families , and sentenced accordingly . In palliation of his delinquincy , he allowed the notoriety of the vice , and attributed his own temptations to the examples furnished by his experience at . Carshalton . Upon the report of these occurrences to the Master-General , a court of inquiry was ordered , composed of the governing authorities of the academy associated with a general officer of the Ordnance establishment in Pall-mall . This special
commission , thus constituted , was duly opened at Carshalton , and the investigation was pursued through several days with closed doors , each boy of the school being separately examined , and subjected , if we are rightly informed , to such an interrogatory as could only be paralleled by the questions framed in ancient times for the inmates of convents by the prurient ; imaginations of monkish visitors . The result was serious in the extreme . Two days after the close of the enquiry , lithographed circulars , being the first communications made upon the subjegt , were addressed to the
parents of no fewer than twenty-three boys , desiring the instant withdrawal of their children from Carshalton , on terms and on grounds which vvould blemish their characters for life . At the same time the ten cadets entered at Woolwich in August received similar notices , so that for misdeeds unproven , except by the secret deductions of the inquisitors , and if proven , not exceeding a puerile measure of viciousness , three-and-thirty sons of respectable families have been abruptly turned into the world under an indelible imputation of heinous and detestable criminality .
" These proceeding are exactly of a piece with the old administration of the academy . Mischief has been allowed to creep in , to spread , and to take root , until the governing authorities are suddenly seized with a fit of convulsive severity , and an enquiry which can satisfy no one is followed by a sweeping sentence which must greatly dissatisfy all . We believe that some of the parents thus aggrieved have peremptorily refused to become parties to the sentence by withdrawing their children , and have preferred the exposure of the reality itself to the far fouler imputation suggested by the inconsiderate decisions of the governors . In these resolutions they will be supported by popular sympathy ;
but the general conclusion of public opinion will be infallibly directed against the whole machinery of the institution . Unless it can be shown that the routine of a military education unavoidably predisposes the mind of a pupil to low and degrading vice , an assumption which , besides being incredible in itself , is amply refuted by other examples around us—it becomes a plain and necessary deduction that the administration of Woolwich Academy must be radically vicious throughout . Without entering into any particulars of evidence or argument , it would notoriously be quite sufficient to condemn any school in the kingdom—public or private—if it could be alleged of it that expulsions
occurred by the score every second or third year . No explanations could qualify this single fact , against which not all the prestige of Eton or Harrow would suffice to make head . The finest and most popular school in the country would , under such circumstances , be utterly ruined ; but Government academies appear , like Government dockyards , to survive a course of mismanagement which would bring any private institution to bankruptcy in credit and opinion . Commissions just now are somewhat in vogue ; nor have our n ; ost venerable seminaries been spared the common ordeal . We do not see what plea of exemption could be offered for Woolwich , and we
are sure that , apart from the astounding results of the recent experiment , no thinking person would acquiesce in the system by which administrators are made the scrutineers and judges of their own administration . The next visitors of Woolwich Academy must not be nominated in the Ordmince-ofliee , for it is altogether intolerable thttt officers whose own supervision may very possibly be in fault should be pcrmitttcd to merge all degrees and apportionments of delinquency in one sweeping and inexorable sentence , which , while ruthlessly chastising the demerits of others , altogether dispenses with any q uestion of their own . "
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. Ujl . . ' THE CATHOLICS AND THE QUEEN'S COLLEGES . The Dublin papers contain an important correspondence between Mr . Corballis ( a Roman Catholic gentleman of good standing at the bar , of considerable landed estate , who has been for several years s commissioner of national education ) and Dr . Murray , the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin , respecting the practical effect of the recent synodical address as regards the collegiate education of the children oi
Roman Catholics in Ireland . Mr . Corballis asks the reverend archbishop whether he and his fellow-Catholics are to understand the late synodical address as actually prohibiting them from sending their children to the Queen ' s Colleges ? They cannot understand why , after petitioning for admission into Trinity College , the new colleges , which are so much more liberal , should be unequivocally condemned , without any reason for the sudden change , or any provision , in the meantime , for the education of Catholics .
Archbishop Murray does not venture to give a direct answer to Mr . Corballis ' s very embarrassing question , but he confirms the statement , previously before the public , that a petition to the Pope , signed by thirteen of the bishops , has been forwarded to Rome , praying that no hostile course against the Queen ' s Colleges should be adopted . Meantime , pending the decision of the Sovereign Pontiff , everything remains in statu quo at the colleges—the Roman Catholic functionaries , professors , and deans of residences continue to hold their respective offices , and no step has been taken to interfere with the attendance of the multitudes of Roman Catholic children of the humbler classes receiving the benefits of a sound education at the national schools .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 5, 1850, page 653, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1855/page/5/
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