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Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 96, 10 December 1872, Page 3

As Bad as Bslfast. — The condition of the State of Missouri, of which Mr Qratz Brown, the Cincinnati nominee for the Vice-Presidency, is Governor, docs not appear to be such as to encourage peace-loving citizens to support the Liberal Eepublican movement. " That bands of midnight marauders (says the Missouri Democrat) exist in several counties in this State there can be no question. In each and all of the counties named men have been taken from their beds at night and mercilessly flogged by these Kuklux scoundrels, and scarce a week passes without some new victim to the wrath of these miscreants. The latest case of Kiikliixism that has come to our notice occurred in Carver county, in the southern part of the state. The facts are given in the following letter received yesterday by the United States' oflieial in this county : —'The Ivuklux have run Colonel and Tom Lawson out of Carver county. Tom Lawson came to Ironton last evening, and went before Zwait and swore that eight or ten Kukhix came to his house, all masked, whipped him, and ordered him and his father to leave the county, which he did. Tom Lawson says there arc a dozen cases of a similar character down there, but the parties are afraid to do anything for fear they will not bo protected.' " A letter published in the New York Times represents the stilt eof affairs, if possible, in a woise light. It says:— ' On the night, of the 11th of June 1 was called out of the >housc, knocked down, shot ut, andattemp'ed to be murdered by tiie deputy clerk of the county, while the sheriff and another man were wiiinn hail. I applied to a justice of tl.o peace to issue a warrant to arrest and hold for trial the above parties. Nothing has been done. On the night of the 23rd of June Thomas CaUaghan wus dragged by seven partly dibfuiseu v.u'i!, nmoiv; whom were the clerks and sheriffs of the county, to the woods, whipped, and ordered to leave the c untry or be s : iot. Our Courthouse and records have been twice burnt within sis months." The writer ascribes these outrages to the officials, appointed by Governor Brown, in pursuance of the compact with the Democratic party, which raised him to his present position.— Pall Mall Gazelle.

The Wesleta.vs and Uighek Education.—For a 1 nig tiirc past it h»s been matter of regret among tl e Wcsleyan Methodists that tl.c sons of many of their wealthy families gradually forsook the church of their fathers on going to tho hi/jher schools and to the Univei'sities. Of Into the attention of tho Wesleyans has been espec ally rVrcfil.ccl To this and other matters connected with the great educational institutions in the country. An estate has been purenased at Cambridge by Sir Francis Lycett, Mr M , Arthur, M.P., Mr J. T. .Cudgett, the Rev. W. Arthur and others on b(!li(ilf of Methodism, and the intention is to erect upon the estate a complete educational establishment, consisting of a High School and hostels. la the latter Wcsleyan young gentlemen pursuing their studies at tho University can, if they choose, find a quiet and comfortable home ; while the High school will be a oapital training institution for tho University itself. The youths who have successfully studied ut Wesley College, Taunton, or Kingswood, or Woodhousogrovo, might, it' intending to linish with a TJniversty education, bo transferred to the establishment; at Cambridge, and be groatly aided by its advantages. It is more than probable that the Cambridge project will be carried to completion. Considerable changes are also thought of in reference to Kingswood and Woodhouse-grove. In these schools hitherto only' the sons of "VVesleyan ministers have, been educated. But more than a year ago a Commission was appointed to consider if any and what improvements could bo wade in the sehoels. The report of this Commis ion and of the committtec which appointed it was presented to tho late Conference. The report ha 3 been printed and contains many suggestions of considerable importance. The following, among other changes, were recommended to the favourable consideration of the Conference: —l. That one of the schools be set apart for the younger, and the other for the older scholars. 2. That the age of admission to tho school be altered from nine to ten years, leaving an exceptional case to be specially considered. 3. That no boy be admitted to the school without passing an examination not than that prescrbed for the fourth standard in the Eevised Code. 4. That the age at which scholars shall pass iVuiu tho junior to the senior school, shall in,all ordinary cases be I' 6, or as near thereto as tho times of examination will admit. 5. That the Upper School shall be divided into two departments —a classical and a modern. 6, That the course and method of instruction in the junior shool should be under tho general direction of the head master of the upper school, and that the staft" of the junior school consist of a head master with the requisite number of assistant masters and pupil teachers. 7. That in order to secure unity of management, and for other reasons, the government of both schools be placed under one board of management., or general committee, to consist of a limited number of parsons. These proposal* in reference to Kingswood and Woodhouse-grovo schools are not finally determined upon, but it is likely that most of them will be ultimately adopted. The committee was reappointed in order further to consider them. The admission of the sons of laymen into these hitherto exclusive schools to share the advantages with the sons of tho ministers is a somewhat new proposal, and though the Wesleyan.3 are at present divided upon the question, the tendency in favour of opening.the schools to.the laymen is in-creasing-—Times.

The FrTTBE of Poland. —The Vienna Correspondent of the Nuremberg Journal states that the Russian Government has leeently been sounding the Austrian Cabinet " as to the opportunity of agreeing upon a common policy to bo followed towards the Polish provinces of the three Empires." The Russian Government is naturally anxious that limits should ho laid down, to the, concessions which might be made, particularly by Austria, to the demands of the national Polish party. According to. the same correspondent, the Gorman Government had not yet replied to these overtures ; but the Austrian Government at once indicated its reluctance to tie its hands in dealing with the Poles of Galieia. There can, however, be little question that the coming meeting of the Emperors has caused not a little alarm in Polish patriotic circles. The great demonstration designed in lavour of the preservation of peace is fitted to check the demonstrations that had been projected for the centenary of the lirst partition of Poland. Some of the Polish organs comment bitterly on the meeting regarded in this light. For the hopes of PeJan,d continue to. rest upon possible disturbances of the peace of Europe, and especially upon differences between the three great Empires whose rulers are about ostentatiously to pr.i:'!a:;n their reciprocal feelings of friendship.— Fail Mall Gazette.