The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The nnes, in referring to the Pope's Allocution, remarks :that the Pope looki upon human society as it exists as the work of the " Old Enemy." The Church is summoned to do battle; she must seek her efficiency in strict discipline; Catholic Christendom is to have only one mind and will, one infallible head. In order to enable herself to go forth `and bend the world to her views, the Church must orga ;nise herself on the principle of the narrowest despotism. !This is, perhaps, the first instance in which the 'representatives of any community have been !brought together, not for the .purpose of defining ,or establishing, but of renouncing their liberties—in rwhich the States-General are deliberating on what terms they may contrive to give themselves up most uncon ditionally,:bound hands and feet, into the power of their monarch. But it is not without an object that the members of the Council are thus bidden to surrender at discretion. Let the bishops fall down and worship the Pore, and he will deliver as slaves into their hands all the dioceses of the earth. me s•tecess of his manmuvres is, how ever, by no means certain. That cluster of French, German, and other prelates who are thus to be gagged may still be strong enough to break through a 1 the trammels of Vatican cunning. But even supposing such stratagems to succeed in Rome itself, how far will the ascendancy of tho Church over the world be advanced by such palpable jugglery? The Catholic communities, with out one exception, have taken their measures beforehand. Cavil society is everywhere on the defensive. The Council is either utterly ignored or warned to pro ceed at its own peril. Were bishops to come back as Apostles of Infallibility and hierarchical despotism, they would be received by the laity in that frame of mind in which the members of one conference greeted the envoy of another whom they suspected to come on a hostile errand. "If ho comes here to excom municate, he shall go back excommunicated." If tho Church is bent on putting civilisation out of her pale, she will find herself ostracised by civil society. The Pope has only to glance round him in the Council Hall, and he will see who is with him and who is against him. The mere ghosts of the departed Royalty of Naples, Tus cany, Parma, and Modena arc there to tell him that, though his kingdom may be of this world, it is a thing of the past. Had Isabella of Spain, to whom the Pontiff so lately sent the Golden Rose, "emblem of all feminine virtues," also graced the meeting with her presence, the Dance of Death of all the Potentates who claim to rule by Divine Itsght would have been more complete, and more ominous as to the absurdity of pretensions which the march of human reason has long since exposed and con demned. The .Standard thinks that the peculiar form of blindness which consists in a determination not to see what is dis tinctly before one's eyes, still rages with great severity among Radical speakers and writers. They cannot see the Conservative working man, because the moment he appears they shut their eyes, and as he turns up continu ally and in all directions, the lives of some of our contem poraries are becoming sadly burdensome. Everywhere they turn their gaze the " phantom " or " phenomenon," to use the expression they have invented or borrowed, con fronts them. If they look back to the bat elections they find him sending their warmest friends to the right about. We report a crowded ,meeting at the inauguration of a Conservative Working Men's Associa tion in the town of Leicester, now represented by that grotesquely violent Radical Mr. Peter Taylor, to which we refer our contemporaries who deny the existence of the Conservative working man, not only as proof that ho does exist and multiplies, but as accounting for the fact of his existence and multiplication. For their denial of his exist ence was not based merely upon the assertion that they ha( never seen him, but also on the ground that his existence would be a moral impossibility. The working man, they said, owes all that he has acquired in the past to us, and has no hope of anything in the future except from us, therefore he cannot be a Conservative. Therefore Conservative working men are phantoms or phenomena. And if the contrast between the policy of the two great parties during the last forty years should not suffice to determine every working man with anything like a head on his shoulders to join him7elf heart and soul to the Censer vat7ve cause, the acts of our Radical Government, and the prospect it holds out to us, must put a summary end to his indecision. Lord John Manners, in a frank-spirited, outspoken, and eloquent speech, put the present situation of the empire and the difference between the two great parties clearly before the working men of Leicester and of the country. The Telegraph declares that tenant-right has been the greatest emigration agent. The institution has also pro duced another effect for which it does not often get credit. Among the gravest curses of Ireland is the fact, that the holdings are often too small to bo worked at a profit, even if the farmer and his family toiled from sunrise to sun down. For commercial reasons it night not be judicious to have a wholesale introduction of the large farm system, with its hundreds of acres allotted to ono man, its steam mills, its steam ploughs, and all the other appliances that can be provided only by large capital. Bat for a generation the Irish proprietors have been striving to consolidate the small holdings into farms of a size that will afford a living to the cultivator; and they have been able to effect that object by purchas ing the tenant-right of the smallest farms. To turn the occupiers adrift in the world, without compensation, involved the infliction of miseries from which most Irish landlords would shrink ; but when dispos session is accompanied by the buying of the tenant-right, and when the dispossessed occupier is thus provided with the means of emigrating, the process is usually humane instead of harsh. Thus the Irish proprietor can get rid of the superfluous tenants, and consolidate the small farms. Such is the effect of tenant-right; and, whether the result be good or bad, the distance of the institution must be recogliscd by those who are engaged in framing the Government Bill. We do act now indicate the mode in which the object in view shall be accomplished. We distinctly recognise the grave difficulties that stand in the way ; but we believe that it will prove possible to overcome those difficulties without denying free play to the exercise of proprietary rights, or imposing any arbitrary and vexatious checks on the varieties of local usage. The proceedings of the Guardians of St. Pancras will no doubt, says the _Post, be properly considered by the Poor-law Board. Neither the interests of the poor nor the credit of the parish can, we think, be served by the continuance in office of men who have shown themselves incapable of self control, who have stirred up the bitterest animosities amonst the parishioners, and who have, we are sorry to say it, so conducted themselves that there is hardly a transgression of good manners for which their exampld may not be quoted. At the last election, out of 21,01 , 0 ratepayers, only 9,000 voted, and it is speaking within the mark to say that this minority did not represent the intelligence of the parish. Much blame, doubtless, attaches to the 12,000 who did not vote. But it is not because a majority of the inhabitants neglect their duty that the administration of the Poor-law is to be so discredited. The power given to Justices of the Peace to act as ex-officio Guardians redresses the balance, and gives justice and humanity a chance of holding their ground against what may be called the brute force of mere numbers. That is the reason why their presence in the St. Pancras Vestry-hall on Monday was so fiercely re sented. But apart from this or any other explanation, the scones that have been taking place in this ill governed parish ever since April last must exercise the worst in fluence on the lower class of the ratepayers, to say nothing of the public scandal. The Herald considers that whatever is gained to the few by the action of the Trades - Unions is taken from the many. Efficient work, hard work, payment by results, are discouraged ; merit is kept back and demerit favoured. Again, very few unions will consent to a reduction of - wages in face of bad trade er of competition • and thus the evils of depression are sometimes temporarily aggravated by an unsuccessful strike ; sometimes per petuated by a successful one; the trade stopped for a time if the workme n y i e ld , ru i ned finally if they succeed in exacting wages which it cannot afford to pay. In good times they too often waste the favourable season by an irrational demand for an exorbitant increase of wages. And, worst of all, when they know that a master has taken a contract at a certain rate, to be fulfilled in a given time, they will strike for extra wageA, not because they think h e can afford to pay them, but because they know he cannot afford to stop work. The coirequerice is that masters ere obliged to decline profitable contracts in which time is an element, or which leave no margin for rn increase cf wages. And we believe that this action of thc. , , unions has cost the working classes much more than they have gained in extra wages through their agency. 'ething can be more certain than that, on thebez revetnere whole, the ceuntry loses heavily by their crera.ions ; we is as little doubt that even their own tra lose l :esftrade more than they gain in the long settingrun, e o PTA cost of strikes against artificiai enhancement of wages. The fhtibi .N;?ir. , : observes that, if in talking over political matters qUiitly with 1;Ir. Disraeli, I Ord Derby should make up his mind to I.cep the spirit cl faction in abe: ance for a singly se:sion, the visit to linf,dienden will 171:0- among the memorably-beneficent - meetings of history. Mu'. Disraeli's Vi3Nri With re:.pect to the government of Ireland are well known. What he said a quarter of a century ago he adheres to in his historic conscie.nee now. With a foresight which few of his con tern oraries shared, he proclaimed then the necessity of effecting, by lrgislation, changes which, but for the arms cf England, the Irish would themselves e:fcct by revolu ti,,n. The necessity is not Ices urgent now than it was then ; the opportunity which was wanting before has at last come, of doing peacefully, and with full regard to every right and interest of property and order, what, in some period of foreign war, revolution might be invoked violently to accomplish. The growth, though in eccentric and unsatisfactory forms, of a purely Irish patriotism among Protestants as well as Roman Catholics, is a marked feature cf the time. The events of 'B2 and '9B may possibly repeat themselves three-quarters of a century later, if English statesmen are factious and unwise. Mr. Disrael; will not, wo hope, stultify himself for the chazcez t Act% T9r4-4794.21&44§4i USCAgUtiI&-J. LAW AND POLICE. SrlCGrtili CHARGE.-A curious charge has been brought in the Second Court of Queen's Bench against some whole sale druggists in Cloth Fair, by a publichouse keeper who lives just opposite. The plaintiff stated that the defendant's men were in the habit of transferring large quantities of chloride of lime from barrels to jars outside the defendants' premises, and in consequence many people in the neigh :lourhood were afflicted with inflammation of the eyes and pains in the throat. The plaintiff's children suffered severely, and he averredthat in consequence of the lime dust, he had lost his customers. Dr. Letheby had examined the children, and went to the defendants' premises. His report, in which he confirmed the account of the nuisance was read, but it appeared the defendants hrid stepped the public packing. The judge said that when a man used the public street as his warehouse he was bound to see that he did no mischief. A verdict for the plaintiff for £75 was agreed to. A BOOK IN TEN LANOUAGES.—In the second Court of Common Pleas a person named Brycr, sought to recover £55 from the defendant, a printer named Watts, as the proportionate fourth part of a sum of money paid to the defendant in 1865 for printing two thousand copies of a book called "The Mariners' Friend and Technical Dictionary" in ten languages, by Dr. Rechorst. The plaintiff hold that only 1,500 copies had been delivered by the defendant, but the de fendant contended that 800 had been delivered to the binder on the plaintiff's account. The jury found for the plaintiff, and an arrangement was made that the verdict for £55 should be reduced to nominal damages on certain conditions. ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE.—An action has been brought in the Court of Exchequer for wrongful dismissal. The plaintiff, a book-keeper, who was employed at a salary of £lBO a year, alleged that his health became affected from his work, and that he accordingly, wrote to his employers and told them he was going away for a fortnight. They wrote back to complain that certain balance-sheets had not been done before he left, and said they had been com pelled to put some one else in his place, which would enable him to prolong his trip. When he returned, they declined to receive him. Tho defence was that the plaintiff had absented himself without leave. Verdict for the defendant. TRIALS rose Dlurtnnn.—Thomas Shield, aged 23, a pit man, has been charged at the Durham Assizes with the murder of Ralph Reed, at Annfield Plain, last August. The prisoner and the deceased were with several other men at a public-house on a Saturday night, and left shortly after midnight. A dispute arose among them on the road, and the prisoner began fighting the deceased, finally striking him in the neck with a knife. Reed died shortly after. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, and Shield was sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude.— Another pitman, named 'Whitfield, was charged at the same assizes with the wilful murder of his daughter, aged 7, at Leadgate. The prisoner had been for some time in a desponding state of mind, and a verdict of Not Guilty was returned, on the ground of insanity. His statement before the magistrates was :—" I took the razor from the press-bed while my wife was preparing Billy's breakfast, and I cut my little darling's throat after my wife went out" He was ordered to be confined during her Majesty's pleasure. MURDER OF Two WIVES.—Two men have been charged at the Cambridge Assizes with attempting the murder of their wives. The first, whose name was Myriott, fired at his wife wilfully. The poor woman, who received 120 shots in the head and face, has totally lost her sight, but is likely to recover. Her husband was found Not Guilty on the ground of insanity. The other man, David Osborne, who had been drinking, pointed a gun at his wife, it was raid in joke, and killed her instantly. Ho was sentenced to two days' imprisonment, A PAIR OF WRITE GLOVES.—On the Western Circuit, Mr. Baron Pigott was presented with a pair of white gloves in the Exeter Guildhall, there not being a single prisoner for trial in the City of Exeter. FIRING GuNs ON THE HIGRIVAY.—At the Helston (Corn wall) petty sessions, three men were fined ed. each, for firing guns on the highway. They had been out shooting and fired off their last charges on the road. SALMON POACHING.—At Totnea, Nicholas Heath and William Pepperell were charged with salmon poaching in the river Avon. Heath was fined £4, and Pepperell was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour. A branch of the National Education League was formed on Tuesday for Nottingham, at apu meeting:held under the presidency of the Mayor. Mr. Dixon, M.P., and Mr. Mundella, M.P., were among the speakers. A curiosity of meanness has been exhibited in San Francisco. During the settlement of an estate in that city, on the 2 , lth of January, it was discovered that a brother of the deceased had charged the estate four dollars for loss of time while attending the funeral. M EmoniAL TO CHAUCER IN WF.STMINSTER ABBEY. —A beautiful stained glass window has just been placed in the Poet's Corner of. the Abbey, to the memory of Chaucer. At the bottom of the window the Canterbury Pilgrims are =presented setting out and arriving in Lendove, and above, the poet is represented receiving a commission to the Doge cf Venice from Edward 111. At the apex the poem " The Floure and the Leafe " is repre sented—on cne side by the Lady of the Flour°, and on the other by the Lady of the Leafo. In the tracery above, the portrait of Chaucer occupies a prominent place, between that of Edward and Philippa, his wife ; below them John of Gaunt, and above Wickliffe and Strode. In the borders the following arms arc placed : England, France, Hainault, Castille, and Leon, and at the baseSof the win dow is the pcet's name. THE NEGno i AMERICA.—NearIy all the Courts of Washington are just now occupied with cases arising from the equality recently conceded to the negroes. One is brought by a woman who had a limb fractured by being thrust out of a railway train, and another by sons of the negro orator, Frederick Douglass, for a similar outrage upon them. The National Theatre is sued for ejection of negroes who had purchased places. The Rev. Sella Martin, lately of London, sues the trustees of a district school for refusing admission to his daughter on account of her scarcely perceptible African blood. The suit instituted by the sons of Mr. Douglass brings to mind a story lately told of their father, who, having to pass the night in a train, wrapped himself up in his cloak and stretched him self on a seat made to hold two. Congratulating himself that his colour would keep the other part of his seat vacant, he had hardly entered on his nap when a white claimant for the, place entered. "I am a nigger," growled Douglass. " I don't care who you are," said the other, " I want that scat." Mr. Douglass gave way, grumbling at the hardship that the negro should have at last "lost his right to two seats." A LION IN COURT.—We have heard of the pro duction of odd evidence in court, thkt of the ostler's will mentioned by Mr. Dickens, which was chalked on a stable-door. Wo have seen a baby offered in a delicate case to show that it resembled its putative father. We remember a large door procluc6.l in a new England court is a book of original entry; but a subpcena issued to ',ring in a lion is a real novelty, This actually occurred in the Superior Court at Cincinnati the other day, in the case of replevin for a lioness and her cubs. It was argued that the progeny had been appraised at too high a figure, and the Court ordered a view. So ono of the cubs was brought in with his negro keeper, and demeaned himself with a mildness and meekness which should have been edifying to the lawyers. The judge looked at the lion, and, like the first Daniel, was not afraid, but decided that the young beast had undoubtedly been over-valued. — New York Tribune. CLERKENWELL EXPLOSION.—The Relief Com mittee have just fixed a marble memorial tablet in the parish church of Clerkonwell, commemorative of the event and its consequences, of which the following is a copy : In memory of the victims of the terrible outrage which occurred in this parish on Frieay, the 13th of Deceniber, 18G7, perpetrated by ceitaia misguided and wicked per sons, who, being members of the so-called Fenian Conspi racy, and seeking to release one of their confederates from the adjoining House of Detention, placed a barrel of gun powder against the northern wall of the prison, and, firing the same, suddenly rendered the immediate locality a mass of ruins. Three persons were killed at the moment of the explosion .—William Outten, aged 47 ; Sarah Hodgkin son, 30; Minnie Julia Abbott, 7. Three others died in the hospital, within a few days :—HumphreyEvans,67; Martha Evans, 65 ; Martha Thompson, 11. These six persons were buried in one grave, is the cemetery at Finchley. Nine ether deaths occurred from the effects of the explosion. More than forty persons were removed tl the hospitals, most of them disabled and injured for life. Six hundred families suffered 1.333 or privation by damage done to .., home ; furniture, &c. A relief fund was speedily raised, under the sus ice; of a local committee, which reached the munificent 3tllll of £10,075, which was ex pended in temporary assistance, and in making provisions for those permanently disabled. The damage to house pro:erty was met by a vote of £7,500 from the Imperial Exchequer, kindly promoted by the Right Hen. Benjamin' Disraeli, M.P., First Lord of the Treasury ; and the R ight Hon. G.Wartl Hunt, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer. As an expression of sympathy with the sufferers, to perpetuate the memory of the event, and in grateful record of the libe rality and kindness of those who visited and relieved the afflicted, this tablet is erected.—Robert Maguire, M.A., Vicar of Clerkenwell, Chairman of Relief Committee; Frederick W. Wilcocks, Richard Nunn, Churchwardens, Treasurers of Relief Fluid; Robert Paget, Vestry Clerk. iSeCiefalaa_ •wc, fliE SUN, LONDON, THITRSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1869 MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ror libel. Colonel Brockman, A the Protestant Evangelical Electoral Union—vhose publications we noticed a day or two back—has been 'bringing certain charges againt Father Ignatius —charges of impure life, of fraid, and general im moral character. Exasperated bir the continuance of these attacks, the friends of the 'ev. gentleman have urged upon him the advisabilityof vindicating him self. lie laid the matter before the Archbishop of Canterbury, who gave him the )ermission which he sought, to go to law before the gentiles. An action against the -colonel has therefwe been commenced. There are, we believe, several small charges against Mr. Lyne, founded upon some statements made by one or two of the " brothers" who left the monastery. One at least of these " brothers' confessed that what he had said was in most part 4ntruo, and generally exaggerated. Some time since he begged the father's pardon; but whether the matter will be again raised does not appear. tence of the Austrian Empire to be only possible under th( form of a federation of different self-governing peoples. The Austrian journals complain loudly of the sympathy which Russia has shewn to the Dalmatian insurgents. This sympathy is said, however, to be in reality confined to the Panslavist clubs, in which the Czechs are very numerous. They proposed to make collections, and to hold theatrical representations for the benefit of the insurgents, but could not obtain the necessary permission. Russia, says a correspondent, does not wish better than to maintain her cordial relations with Austria, only she insists that Montenegro shall not be threatened. THE GOVERN3IENT AND IRELAND. Politicians out of doors are perpetually speaking of splits in the Cabinet. The - veriest trifle is laid as a foundation for some singular story of anger between these and those members of the Ministry. Thus, this last week, because Earl de Grey was shooting with the Prince of Wales in Yorkshire, and the Duke of Argyll had been called from London by the serious illness of the Duchess his wife, the canard-flyer would have it that there had been a row at Downing-street. The Scotsman authoritatively contradicts these rumours, and adds: " The Government take a very confident and hopeful view of the development of their Irish policy, and are in no way dismayed by anything in the present condition of the country. Information has, however been obtained, that the Fenians had in contemplation some dare-devil trick in order to celebrate the return of O'Donovan Rossa to Parliament. How far there is any truth in the reports they have received, which are certainly de tailed and circumstantial enough, remains to be seen. The probability is that, after the vigorous measures which have jnst been taken, we shall never have an opportunity of learning. There is, however, consider able risk of an outbreak of Orange violence at Derry." The Echo understands " with much satisfaction" that the meeting of the Cabinet on Tuesday with reference to the land question was harmonious, and in this respect most disappointing to those who trusted that the concord of Ministers would be broken upon this subject. Lord Spencer, adds our contemporary, does not consider it necessary to leave Dublin for conference with his colleagues, and he has no intention of retiring. We may.state that Lord Spencer is not a member of the Cabinet, and that his views on the present condition of Ireland wore pro bably explained by Mr. Fortescue. DERRY PRECAUTIONS. The Londonderry magistrates have held a meeting to prepare for the anticipated row at the Apprentice Boys' anniversary, on Saturday. The other day placards were posted on the walls requesting the members of the Liberal Defence Association taassem ble on Saturday morning at eight o'clock; also requesting them to behave in an orderly manner, and leave it to the Apprentice Boys to give the first offence. The police pulled down the placards. Much appre hension exists as to what may happen at this cele bration. THE FENIAN CANDIDATE FOIL LONGFORD. Mr. John Martin's committee have written a letter to the Freeman explaining why they have selected that gentleman as the Fenian candidate for Longford. That Mr. Martin is not an avowed Fenian they con skier no objection. They have chosen him for his honesty and independence. They reject his opponent, "a boy 21 years of age" (Mr. Greville, jun.) because he is " the son of a rewarded supporter of that Govern ment that defiantly refused the united prayer of the Irish people asking an amnesty for the political prisoners.' They remind the electors that the Grevilles voted against Mr. G. 11. Moore's motion for the release of the Fenian prisoners, and believe that Longford will shew that it considers the man who has worn the felon's chain for Ireland is dearer to the Irish heart than he who wears the coronet of the peer as a reward for his Government services." TENANT-BIGHT. Bad weather does not prevent the march of the tenant-right agitation in Ireland. The return of O'Donovan Rossa, the apprehension of a Fenian out break, and other excitin„,c , matters, have not led the farmers to forget their land-tenure grievance. Six or seven thousand persons came through torrents of rain to the last meeting at the Curragh. The deluge neither impeded the march of the green-ribboned and green-bannered host, nor damped the energy of the speech-makers. Letters were read from Mr. Cogan and Lord Otho Fitzgerald, M.P's. for Kildare, expressing sympathy with the object of the meeting, though the former carefully abstained. from " prejudging the question." Then the P.P's. got to work with their usual vigour. The Rev. Mr. Nolan said the eight thousand landlords had a well-paid press to defame the five millions who were their serfs, and call them liars, cut-throats, and assassins. But there might come a time when these five millions would ask, were they bound to respect an empire that kept them under the mighty hoof of these eight thousand? They (the tyrant landlords and the corrupt press) must not forget that the well-being of the five millions involved the well-being of the Empire. The Rev. P. Tracy was still more energetic. In proposing a resolution, he said, "Let the word go . forth—no more rack rents, no notices to quit, no capricious evictions, no tyrant landlords, no tyrant tenants, and no tyrant priests, for ho must say there were such occurrences as unwarrantable altar denunciations." ATTEMPTS AT TREASON IN GLASGOW. The Irish nationalists appear to be trying to work up a cause in Glasgow. They are not apparently very successful, and yet they make more way than could be wished. On Monday night a lecture against the Union call3d forth 2.50 persons, and they loudly cheered the speaker. The proposition which they laid down was that only an Irish Parliament could legislate for Ireland. • EA ST DEVONSHIRE. Lord Courtenay will, it is reported, resign his seat for East Devonshire immediately on the reassembling of Parliament. He has represented the division only since the last general election. He sat for Exeter from August 1804 to December 1808. The contest for East Devon was severe, Lord Courtenay polling 4,100 ; Sir Lawrence Palk, 4,034 ; and Mr. Charles F. Wade, 3,457. Mr. Wade will again come for ward in the Liberal interest; but who the Conserva tive candidate will be has yet to be settled. Lord Courtenay was born in 1830. SOUTHWARK. The electors of Southwark will hear enough stumping before polling-day, if the numerous candi dates keep up the energy which they are now dis playing. The election cannot take place for some time, but the Liberal aspirants are, nevertheless, making three speeches a week. But these speeches have, at all events, tho merit of precision. The candidates say what they would like, and what they would not Erie, with unmistake able clearness. Sir Sydney Waterlow tried an address on Tuesday, and though confronted by a strong Odgerian element, contrived to put for ward a progranune, which was at least comprehen sive. He would support a good Irish land bill; a good educational bill ; vote by ballot ; equalisation of rates ; abolition of University tests ; and total aboli tion of the game laws. He was a Free-Trader, and did not attribute the present stagnation of business to Free Trade, but to the too great inflation of commerce, and to foreign wars. = lie should leave the question of opening the museums on Sundays to public opinion. He was opposed to the Permissive Bill. Unfortu nately, even this large display did not prevent the meeting from pronouncing in favour of Mr. Odger. POLITICS AT EDINBURGH. The members for the city of Edinburgh nave put in the usual appearance before their constituents. Speaking of the Scottish Education Bill, Mr. INPLaren said ho was not in favour of secular educa tion as preferable to the system which now existed in the parish schools. He wished that all new schools should be simply additional parish schools, to be managed by a local committee, fairly elected from all classes of ratepayers. He thought the Catechism should bo left out ; but the Bible ought to be read, and its grand moral precepts explained, a conscience clause being rigorously enforced. Mr. Miller, the other member, looks forward to complete separation between Church and State in Britain. TILE SECRETAUY OF TIIE TREASURY. Mr. R. R. Wheeler Lingen, the new Secretary of the Treasury, had an unusually brilliant career as an undergraduate at Oxford, and took a First Class in literis humaniorilus. 110 gained a fellowship at Ilaliiol College, and in 1840 was elected to the Eldon Scholarship. After servinFat Rugl.y a; composition master, he entered the Educational Department of the Privy Council Office, in which he rose gradually until, in 1849, he succeeded Sir J. P. Kay-Shuttle worth as Chief Secretary to the Committee of Privy Council for Education. In that capacity he is under stood. to have been ono of the chief advisers and promoters of the framing and publication of the famous "Educational Minute," which some years ago caused so much controversy in clerical circles and among schoolmasters in general. THE CANON OF WESTMINSTER V. THE BISHOP • OF LIN C 0 LN. The Bishop of Lincoln . I)rotests against Dr. Temple's consecration ; he is not satisfied with the requirements made of the bishops by law. A certain Canon of Westminster, however, protested in Convocation against the condemnation of "Essays and Reviews," declared that the law was enough, and could alone be appealed to to reject heresy in the Church. The same Canon presented a petition to the Lower Ifouse, and urged that its prayer might be heard, when it set forth that it was illegal for either house to judge of heresy without the Queen's licence, and unjust to convict writers of heresy without calling upon thorn to defend themselves. y The simple Canon Words worth, who did all this, has become Bishop of Lincoln, and now he judges of Dr. Temple much as Convocation did of "Essays and Reviews." He asks him to make an extra-legal confession of faith, and wants him to be rejected from the office of bishop tailless he does so. has his lordship's elevation changed his mind ? FATHER IGNATIUS AND HIS DEFAMERS. The Rev. J. L. Lyne, who has won so much notoriety by his ecclesiastical extravagance, his earnest sermons, and (chiefly) by his foundation of a Protestant monastery at Lalehim is likely , ero low , o f LAY HELP IN THE CHURCH. The lay co-operation movement is making progress in the Church. Another conference on the question has been held at Sion College. Mr. Hribbard, M.P., took the chair, and said he should do what he could to induce laymen to co-operate with the clergy. The other lay speakers said they were willing to work, but not against the parish clergyman. They felt they were looked upon with a jealous eye, regarded as irre gular, and often given the cold shoulder. It was finally resolved to form a London committee to draw out lay workers in the metropolis. CHURCH RATE DISPUTE. The metropolitan district of Poplar has been greatly exercised by a Church-rate dispute. For some years, the vestry has levied a rate under the authority of a local Act, some clauses of which are not affected by the Church-rate Abolition Act of 1868. Last June a Church-rate of 2d. in the pound was made for the parish of All Saints. This was considered by many persons in the district to be an "excessive, and therefore illegal demand, and an agitation was commenced to oppose it. It was argubd that though a rate might be allowable for purely ecclesiastical purposes, this particular im post was much too great, and it was designed to employ it for purposes which were not within the limits of a church rate. Three-farthings in the pound, instead of twopence, would serve all lawful purposes. The justices, being appealed to, gave a decision on Tuesday. They held that they were bound to issue the usual warrants for the payment of the rate, but they had recommended the parish authorities to test a case with one or other of the large railway companies, some of whom had still refused to pay. It would, of course, be understood that the decision in the case tried would decide the others, and that meanwhile no action should be taken for the recovery of the rates objected to. This result seems to have given general satisfaction. FREE TRADE IN CADS. The London cabmen have met together to consider what policy they shall adopt under the new regula tiOns. They determined to hold for the time to the present rate of faros, that children be reckoned as adults, and that luggage be invariably paid for. Further they w ere i n favour of a flag, which could be raised and lowered at pleasure, fixed on the top of the cab, givi ng . the amount charged driver per mile. Thi s flag was thought preferable by the preferable to any other kind of signal to the public. `THE WELSH FASTING GIRL. The case of the Welsh fasting girl is becoming interesting. The committee report that the four pro fessional nurses from Guy's Hospital, London, have watched the girl for four and a half days, and are morally certain that she has taken no food during the time. She sleeps well at nights. Two nurses are constantly with her, one being on each side of her bed both night and day. Mr. H. H. Davies, M.R.C.S., who visited the girl a day or two ago, found her pulse at 112 per minut, it having been 86 when the watch ing commenced. The girl's appearance is natural and healthy. KEEPING DOWN BEGGARS. The first anniversary of the Blackheath Mendicity Society has just come off. The Earl of Lichfield, Mr. Talbot, M.P., and a great array of local philan thropists attended. This organisation, as has been often explained, works on the principle of issuing tickets to householders, to be distributed instead of actual alms. The tickets are presented at the central office, and it, on examination, the applicant be found meet, meat is found for the applicant; but not other wise. The speeches at this anniversary, gathering went to show that the system had been a great suc cess. During the first six months 2,002 persons had been relieved. More than this, the Blackheath example had borne fruit in the shape of twenty six other societies now being established within London alone. The subscriptions amounted to £3OO, which would have been more than the society required, but that the committee had ex tended their sphere of usefulness by lending small sums to deserving unfortunates who were above the line of absolute mendicity. The officers were at first puzzled to know why they had so many applications in the month of October ; but at length they found that the increase was owing to the return of the tramps to winter quarters after their summer visits to watering places ! But why should not a tramp have a country-seat as well as another pereon P CHINESE IN THE 'UNITED STATES. Mr. Koopmanschap, the Californian importer of Chinese into the labour fields of North America, has hit upon a curious plan of accomplishing this great object of bringing the coolies to the southern cotton plantations.. Instead of landing them at San Fran cisco, he proposes to convey them from China to New Orleans by way of the Suez Canal—a route which would of being entirely by sea. Ile e the orth-German Lloyd to the N ers are admirably adapted for hascomade haveny whose the - overturestacnattt:ra the purpose, being built and fitted up for the con veyance of German emigrants from Bremen to Now York, Baltimore, and :New Orleans, and often carry over 900 to 1,00 0 in a single vessel. Unfortunately i o for Mr. Koopmanschap, the Lloyd Company find the profitable that they do emigrant b ; s not the man to be easily nb9-offit Germane cars d. foreni NEUTRALITY. w." contributes a noteworthy letter to the Times on the old controversy between England and America. The subject is worn; but ono of "J. C. W.'s" pol . nts will bear reproduction. He argues, as do En glishmen generally, that the Queen's P ro clamation of Neutrality was not premature. But, in addition, h e argues that such a proclamation con fers no belligerent rights at the hands of the neutral power. " The rights of the belligerent under and brj virtue of the proclamatzon of neutrality, are abso lutely none. The du ti es of the one and the rights of the other rest on wholly other grounds. The procla mation gives no rights to the belligerent which did not exist without it. Belligerent rights aro not conceded by a neutral proclamation ; they exist by virtue of the state of legal war ." M r . Al e xander Hamilton, commenting on Washington's proclama tion in 1793, puts the whole aim of such a notice as follows : A proclamaticn of neutrality when a,nation is at liberty to avoid or decline a war in which other nations are engaged, and means to do so, is a usual and proper mea sure. Its main object is to prevent the nation's being responsible for acts done by its citizens without the pri vity or connivance of the Government, in contravention of the principles of neutrality, an object of the greatest moment to a country whose true interest lies in the pre servation of peace. SMALL MOLDINGS IN IRELAND. The Registrar-General's recent return reveals an important fact at bearing on the Irish land question. It is shown that the number of small holdings is decreasing, and large holdings increasing. In 1868 there were 594,441 separate holdings, a decrease of 2,777 as compared with the former year. The number of farms above one acre and not exceeding five acres has decreased in Treland 75.2 per cent. since 1841. In Leinster the decrease was 56-1 per cent.; in Munster, 78.0; in Ulster, 75.1; and in Connaught, 82.8 per cent. The total number of farms above - one acre decreased tim mine period MO per cent. in Leinster ; 30 . 4 in Munster ; 10.5 in Ulster; and 23.7 in Connaugh t . The to tal number of holdings above one acre in Ireland in 1841 was 091,202. In 1851 it, fell to 070,338, and in 1868 to 544,030. shelving a total decrease of 140,570. Of the total number of holdings 28 . 9 per cent. are from 5 to 15 acres, 250 per cent. from 15 to 30, and 12.1 per cent. from 30 to 50 acres. Sixty-one per cent, of the acres in farms about 500 acres are bog and waste. FORF,IGN NOTES. PRUSSIAN FINANCES. The Berlin Chamber of Deputies has commenced the discussion of the measures by means of which Herr Camp hausen hopes to cover the deficit. The principal measure proposed is the partial suppression of the annuities. It was stated that Count Bismarck was opposed to the policy of the Finance Minister, and some of the journals com menced an animated discussion on the subject. The North German Gazette has given a fiat contradiction to the report, and declares that Count Bismarck is in favour of the scheme, which is pretty certain to be adopted. TILE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE. The French papers publish correspondence from Bohemia, stating that the centralising and Government party have been completely defeated by the natienal Czech party in the recent nruncipal elections at 'Prague. A German Federal party has been formed at Vienna, which is dis posed to recognise the rights of Bohemia and Gallicia,.and new efforts arc being made to obtain a mtrtual understanding between the Austrian Government and Bohemia. A work by Herr Fischof, who was a deputy of the Austrian Constituent Assembly in 1848, has made agreat stir in Vienna. It contains tin prograpmo oLtha ilaz4faxtY. Aboulbutc‘kadad IMPORTANT PAPAL BULL. A Papal Bull has been distributed to the fathers of the Council. It states that every divine who thinks it his duty to make a proposition may do so. Various conditions are attached to the permission, one being that tho proposition be made in writing and privately. The right of presenting a bill is not recognised in the bishops by the Court of Rome; every pro posal which they wish to make must be received by an officer appointed by the Pope. Some of the independent bishops have complained of this arrangement, and say that the burcivi should bo named by themselves. The Pope imposes secrecy upon every person concerned in the Conciliary labours, and names the officers of the Council. The bishops find fault with this arrangement also, declaring that the Assembly should have appointed the officers. Legates are appointed to preside over the general congregations, and any father who wishes to harangue the Assembly must obtain permission from these Legates. In conclusion, the Pope for bids the fathers from absenting themselves before the conclusion of the council. Many causes of dissatisfaction aro to be found in this Papal Bull, and the foreign epis copacy complain that only one of the five legates and five of the forty-eight officers of the council are foreigners. ALASSA. The special Indian Commissioner, Mr. Vincent Colyer, who was sent to Alaska to report on the condition of the country and its inhabitants, has returned to the United States. The territory, it will be remembered, was pur chased a short time since by the American Government, and the wisdom of the venture was afterwards much ques tioned. Mr. Colyer, however, gives a promising account, and considers that the islands of St. Paul and St. George are alone worth the prico paid for the whole territory, the annual revenue from them made by some San Francisco firms amounting to nearly half a million dollars. The explorer travelled along the coast of Alaska for several thousand miles, and found 70,000 Indians living in villages in a tolerably civilised state. They owned large droves of cattle, and raised crops of some extent. Up in the most northern regions, M. Colyer and his party bought supplies of fat cattle, which were plentiful. The Alaska fisheries are very extensive, and game of various kinds is abundant in the less-frequented parts. Beets, parsnips, carrots, and barley are grown without trouble. A NEW PACIFIC RAILROAD. A Southern Pacific railroad is now in course of con struction. It claims to be 900 miles shorter than the present line. It runs from San Diego, California, to Norfolk, Virginia. Six different companies aro at work upon it. The summits are said to be lower and the grades less steep than on the northern line, while obstruction by snow is almost an impossibility. The eastern part of the route is through the Southern counties of Virginia, from Norfolk, to Bristol, in Tennessee, a distance of 430 miles. HAYTI. The French steam-packet from St. Thomas has brought further details of the state of affairs in Hayti. When the revolutionary forces, who had besieged Cape Hayti for more than a year, carried the forts by assault and took possession of the town on the 13th of November, the inhabitants received them joyi ally, regarding the event as a deliverance. The price of the piastre, which had risen to a fabulous price, immediately fell from 2,5C0 to roo, a proof of the improved condition of public feeling. When the steamer left, Salnave was still at Pert-au-Prince, where he wished to risk another battle, but all his lieutenants had abandoned him, and his family and friends had thought it prudent to take refuge at the American Consulate at Cape Hayti. NAVAL AND MILITARY 11V7ELLIGENCh. Her Majesty's turret-ship Monarch, Capt. John E. Commerell, V.C., C. 8., and the United States' screw corvette Plymouth, Captain Macomb, bound for Portland, United States, with her Majesty's screw line-of-battle ship Donegal, Captain W. Howett, V.C., bound for China, were still detained at Spithead up to last evening by the heavy gales which have swept the Channel from S.W. to W.N.W. since Sunday last. Last evening the wind seemed inclined to veer in further to the northward, and if it should do so the gale might probably blow itself out there, and give the ships an opportunity of sailing and getting clear of the Channel. Ou Tuesday. an armour-pinto, ivnigliing 128 nwt.. and measuring 12ft. sin. in length by 3ft. Sin. in breadth, and 9in. in thickness, selected by Mr. Luke, the Admiralty surveyor, from a quantity manufac tured by Sir John Brown and Co., Atlas Works, Sheffield, for her Majesty's ship Magdala, was tested at Portsmouth under the supervision of Captain Boys, her Majesty's ship Excellent, in augurating the new system of testing plates by Admiralty order, which brings the 7-inch rifled gun with the Palliser ogival-headed projectile into use against the plate as well as the 68-pounder smooth-bore with its spherical shot. The plate was tested on board the Comet target ship in Porchester Lake, the distance between the gun and the plate being 30 feet, both with the smooth-bore and rifled gun. Twelve shots were fired from the 68-pounder with 131 b. powder charges, and struck within an area of 35 by 32 inches. The average diameter of the indents were nine inches, and their depth (all necessarily overlapping each other) varied between nine-tenths of an inch and one inch and six-tenths. This was somewhat less than one-half the usual penetration effected with the same description of gun, shot, and powder charge on 9-inch plating. After the first six shots had been fired, several minute cracks were perceptible within the indents, but the succeeding shots closed them up, so that they were scarcely visible when the whole 12 shots had been fired. The next test to which the Otte was subjected—and this was in accordance with the Ad miralty new regulations for the testing of armour pl a ting for her Majesty's ships—was four shots fired a t it, on the opposite end to where the twelve 68- pounder shot hal made their:diagram, from a 7- inch rifled gun, with Palliser ogival-headed shot and 161 b. pounder charges. The first shot pene trated the plate 6.12 inches, rebounded, and fell broken in front of the plate. No crack was opened in the indentation, but a slight surface crack, about 11 inches deep, radiated about two inches from the fringe of metal squeezed up round the shot hole. The second shot struck within one inch of the first, and penetrated the plate six inches and nine -tenths, producing less effects than the previous one. Shots three and four struck in close proximity to one and two, and made indentations of 7 and 71 inches in depth respectively. Minute cracks were brought out in the indentations, and a bolt on the extreme part of the other end of the plate was broken by the vibration caused by the blow of the shot. Se rcred of the email cracks developed by the 68- pounder shots were slightly increased by the same cause that broke the bolt. The plate was certainly, as admitted by those who witnessed the trial, one of very superior quality, but yet the comparatively small amount of damage done by the 7-inch rifled gun and its chilled projectile is somewhat remark able. A commencement has been made in Chatham Dockyard in building the Rupert, ironclad ram, 3 guns, 3,159 tons, 700-horse power. While fitted to act as a ram, this ship will carry a turret, and her armour will be heavier than any which has been used on any vessel. She will be supplied with the newly-invented double-balance rudder. She will be constructed ,in No. 2 dock ; but as that dock is at present occupied by the Sultan, 12, armour plated broadside ship, in order to hasten the work the keel of the Rupert is being laid down, as a tem porary measure, under No. 4 slip, and when the Sultan is completed the keel will be taken to pieces and removed to No. 2 dock, and the work of build ing the new ship will then be pushed forward. No. 2 dock will not long be occupied by the Sultan, for the Admiralty have issued strict orders that she is to be so far completed as to be fit for floating out at the end of February or the commencement of March next. An order is expected at Chatham Dockyard from the Admiralty for a return to be furnished of all the persons employed there above 55 years of age, with a view to their superannuation. This age is much less than that at which workmen aro usually superannuated from the dockyard, except in peculiar cases calling for an earlier retirement from service. The Greenwich Hospital pension of £65 a year, vacant by the death of Mr. T. Bunions, chief en gineer, on the Bth inst., has been awarded to Mr. Thomas Brown, inspector of machinery, from that date. Dr. Alexander Bryson, C. 8., late Director-Ge neral of the Medical Department of the Navy and Hon. Physician to the Queen, died at the Hermit age, Barnes, on Sunday last, aged 67. He took his degree of M.D. at Glasgow in 1837, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1860. He was a F.R.S. of London and a member of other societies. He was author of " A Treatise on the Climate and Diseases of the Africa❑ Station" and the " Epidemics of Sierra Leone." On Tuesday an immense quantity of seasoned timber of every description was disposed of by pub lic auction at Woolwich dockyard, the prices real ised in many cases being exceedingly good. A telegram has been received from Malta stating that her Majesty's Indian troopship Cro codile was to leave that port for Portsmouth at 6 p.m.. on Tuesday, having on board 37 officers, 13 ladies, 17 children, 11 Staff sergeants, 9 wives of ditto, 14 children of ditto, 786 men, 78 women, and 145 children. The Secretary of State for War has directed the erection of a provost prison establishment on the Western Heights, Dover. The works are to be commenced next month. The chief topic of discussion in all garrison towns at the present time has reference to the important changes likely to become known upon the appear ance of the Army Estimates for the coming year. The rumours which from time to time have gained circulation in Woolwich have been most conflict ing, but among the reductions contemplated the following may be regarded as likely, from their easy accomplishment, to be made :—ln the Royal Artillery it is probable that the complement of officers in each battery of field and garrison artillery o❑ home service will be reduced to four instead of five, as at present. It is also said that the Artillery will be reduced to the extent of two brigades ; that the brigades now on duty at Malta and Gibraltar will be withdrawn from those stations, and their places filled by the Chatham division of Royal Marines, which, it is reported, will be reformed for that special purpose. Should the Chatham division be broken up the Royal Marine Light Infantry will comprise only two divisions—those at Portsmouth and Plymouth. In the line regiments, it is said, that each battalion will be reduced by two com panies, and that the whole of the depot battalions will disappear from the Estimates for next year, except the one stationed at Chatham, in addition to the 3d West India Regiment, at present under the command of Lieut.-General Barlow. The re ductions will, we understand, in no way affect the general efficiency of the army, but, whether the above is exactly what will be decided upon or not, it is quite certain that great reductions wil be made next spring, in accordance with the prin ciples of economy and retrenchment which actuate the present Government. The 92d (Gordon) Highlanders will form part of the force to ba assembled at Meean Meer in Feb. in honour of the Duke of Edinburgh. Subjoined are the rifle shooting figures of merit of battalions stationed in the South-Western Dis trict, &c., for the year 1869 :-Ist battalion, 20th Regiment, 145.84 ; Ist battalion, 25th Regiment, 124.93 ; 46th Regiment, 123.95 ; 7th depot batta lion, 118 32 ; 2d battalion, 2d Regiment, 111.40 ; 2d battalion, 17th Regiment, 110.44 ; 51st Regi ment, 108.48 ; 3d depot battalion, 107.36 ; 101st Regiment, 102.44; 33d Regiment, 101•G4; 99th Regiment, 97.33 ; 57th Regiment, 94.25 ; sth depot battalion, 93.11 ; 2d battalion, 6th Regi ment, 8992. The best shot in the district was Colour-Sergt. Donnelly, Ist battalion, 20th Regi ment, who made 102 points. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—William S. Roche, surgeon to the Ganges ; and George R. Lawrenson, assist.-surg., to the Royal George ; Lieuts. Duncan E. K. Grant to the Crocodile and Coterell B. Powell to the Warrior ; Chief Engineers Francis C. Alton, Wm. Glasspole, and James Coope to the Pembroke, additional, for service in the reserve, the appoint ►nents to date from January 1, 1870 ; llenry Cooper, Frederick A. Bulley, Richard 11. Sleeman, and Robert Madge to the Asia, additional, for ser vice in the reserve, the appointments to date from January 1, 1870 ; Andrew M.Farlane and Frede rick W. Suttcn (v) to the Indus, additional, for service in the reserve, the appointments to date from January 1, 1870. Captain G. S. Nares was yesterday appointed to the Newport, for surveying duties. THE VOLUNTEEIM 0 TOWER HAMLETS RIFLE BRIGADE.--The annual presentation of prizes to successful riflemen took place in the Town Hall, Shoreditch, last night, be fore a large full-dress assembly of ladies and other friends of the brigade. The fine and spacious ne w hall was well decorated with foliage and flowers, and ornamented by a good display of national flags. Lieut.-Col. Thomson, the commandant, was accom panied by Col. Wilkinson, Col. Wahnsey, Major Pearce, Mr. Wich, the Belgian Consul, Mr. Hows, and the officers of the brigade. There was a good muster of the regiment posted around the hall. The baud played in the end gallery; the galleries run ❑ing along each side were crowded by the public of the Tower Hamlets. - Lieutenant-Col. Thomson, addressing his men and the audience before him, reviewed the principal events in the volunteer his tory Of the year. Remarking upon the noble in stance of discipline and obedience given at Dover, he said that never did he look more proudly on the regiment which he bad the honour to command than he did as they ascended the hills on that Easter Monday. The good conduct and discipline shown under the conflicting orders issued by supe rior officers were admirable. With regard to the camp at IVitnbleclon, he confessed he would like to see them two months under canvas rather than two weeks, if it could be managed. As to the brigade drills under General Lindsay in Regent's Park, they ought to have three instead of one, and he believed that number would be taken next year. They had gone through their inspection before that somewhat severe and critical officer, Colonel Daubeney, with like satisfaction. Alluding to their campaign on the foreign and friendly soil of Bel gium, Cu]. Thomson stated that his Majesty the King of the Belgians, during his recent visit to this country, had expressed his desire to see this regi ment, and had conveyed to him his extreme gra tification at what the volunteers had done for him. In concluding he wished them heartily a merry Christmas, and he trusted that in the next year they would bring forward fresh vigour and renewed determination to increase the efficiency of the brigade. The prizes were pre sented by Miss Gibbs and Miss Holt. Votes of thanks were given to the donors and friends and patrons of the brigade generally. After the prizes had been presented, the benches were cleared front the hall, and the volunteers took partners for the dances in the ball which followed. WEST LONDON RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.—On Tues day night a large number of prizes, gained by the several members of this corps during the past year, were handed to the winners, in Westminster Hall, by Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Truro, in the presence of a numerous assembly of the friends of the regi meut. Lord Truro, before making the presenta tions, remarked upon the superior amount of ac commodation g i ven i n the hall this year, and, re• ferriug to the increased number of benches, said he was glad to see that seats bad been provided for the volunteers, inasmuch as they were often re minded that they were not a standing army, but, on the contrary, were citizen soldiers. (A. laugh.) He expressed his satisfaction both with the attend ance and efficiency shown this year. He trusted, however, that after the hint thrown out by the Government officer, efforts would be made to mus ter in greater force at the annual inspection. The regiment now consists of 617 men. Out of these 424 were efficients, 258 extra acienta, and 52 - .• • marksmen. The i ncrease i n th e num ber of recruits was 58. Without wishing to praise themselves be did not think they had anything to regret i n these statistics. In relation t o th e f orce g enerally, he rebutted an imputati on th a t th e vo l un t ee rs had bees extravagant, pointing out th a t a l t hou g h the panic stricken public subscribed lavishly and generou sl y at first, anothe r sec ti on o f th e pu bli c ma d e the west monstrous demands for head-quarters, &C. At all events they had not been extravagant with Govern ment money. He admitted there was some force I n the remark that volunteers might earn more through increased efficiency, but in regiments composed 35 this and some others were, of working and profes sional men, he did not see how a stronger propor tion of efficients could be raised. Having expressed great regret that the volunteers would net be , armed with the br e e c h-l oa d er f or at least, three years, Lord Truro d welt humorously on the proposed " organisation" of the Yeoman* . Militia and Volunteers on annual field day s ' To organise three forces so utterly distinct in their i character, the period for w hi c h th ey were oat, "" the mode in which they were raised, would, he thought, be most difficult, and he was of °pint ° that the attempt would be a failure. The baud of the regiment played at intervals during the proceed: Tugs, and after the priz e s we re p resen t e d the tru e ' compliments were passed to the patrons and friend s of the corps. TWENTY-SIXTII MIDDLESEX RIFLE VOLUNTEERS'''. A numerous meeting of this regiment was held 0 : Tuesday evening, at the St. Katherine's D ock House, for the purpose of hearing from Lieutenant; Colonel Collet .a statement of the steps that ba d been taken towards filling the vacancy caused by the death of the late Colonel-Commandant I V ; Grey. Colonel Collet, after alluding to the gr eat loss the regiment had sustained, sail that a very responsible duty devolved upon.him and the officer s in the selection of a commandi n g officer, a nd that they had felt that the first req uisite was t hat be should be a man of military experience, ac customed to command, and at the same time ° gentleman possessed of sufficient means and leis ure to be able to devote the necessary time to the In terests of the corps. He stated that, although the appointment was in the hands of the Lord-Lien te : naut, he had no doubt that the wishes of the r e g l meat would receive attention. He then an nounced that he had been in communication with Captain Kennard, of the Bth Hussars, who was about to retire from the active service of the army c i That gallant gentleman would feel very proud and gratified to command so well known and efficien t regiment as the 26th. :Colonel Collet further stateuf that Captain Kennard had served in the Duke ° I Abercorn's staff when he was Lord-Lieutenan t Ireland during the last Conservative Administra tion. A vote of thanks to Col. Collet, and a similar compliment to the active and energetic adjutant of the corps, Capt. Elliot, closed the proceedings,wh ie t were characterised throughout by the grea ter unanimity. LIS7 FOR THE USE OF VISITORS TO THE METROPOLIS. MUSEUS. Antiquarian—Somerset House. M Admission by aPPli e3ticin to the secretary. A nt's' Botanic—Royal Botanic Society of London. Ilegy — ov iil park. Admission daily by orders from fellows. ' Gardens Kew. 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Open free. ~a Fry Castle may be visited on Mondays, Tuesdays., ? .. 13 "„ r pitO days, by tickets obtainable at the Lord Chanw`" Office, in the Castle. grS c lADvEßTlsEwtrzr..l—Avoid Medicines: they always - "ae tor rag chronic complaints: but Du Barry' s d e li c i ou s health-re „?4, Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the c a ot , mentor the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other r e ou i a ' and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerg e t l' o u: lll : 4 lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, fai le t NAre.",,J gularity, ane energy to the most disordered or enfeeblet`',.ote. tract a few out of the 68,000 cures :—" The Poe's health 18 , ! .6 by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 63,413.—"R0me, July 2 ' sire, • —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, espeel Atti ,e abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himselfoooo to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he e , c ;iy 1.)°,01 a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisiriew e% 0 . 0 Mal effect on his health, and his Holi ness canno t praise t os Ct . , er lent food too highly. From the "Gazette du Midi, July . 0 , No. 58,216, of the Marchioness do Brehan, of seven Y es o err ° ,l complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with !,'es,,, so Le palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleoplen;i: the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. iisr 3 1' 0 0 Stuart do Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of ins,„„y dyspepsia. No 40,832: " Fifty years' indescribable af i ;tolel s jo dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipatio.ut a rs pasms, sickness, and vomiting.— Maria Joly. 7 3 0 le o ci 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, °L eat, oat diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangl e 0 1 , 0 1.1 partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware or u, unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to Whic" 5 110;,t2s uthority, Baron Liebia's name is most audacious l Y o -11 In tins, at Is lid; I lb 2 s 9 d; 2 lbs 4s 6d. lbs Us; rigoC° l) oo 21 lbs 405.-Also Do BARRY'S REvALENTA f lineA r !, -50 P C o u,o A t ownma is acked in canisters: for cups at at 3s 6d, for p 4B c ups at tin 6s, for 288 cups at l2 30s, for .5 76 • I ' A re s ei —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s Wi s er 1 0 1: 0 J free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Ofne s , lo o; Biat NY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77 R egent s t re et, L o ' l- all Grocers and Chemists asw. THS le o BIR. ANDREWS—On the 15th inst., at Wimbledon, th e svi John Andrews, Esq., of a daughter. itili Prat—Ato,) 26, Philli more - gar d ens, t h e w if e of .- , - t Pyin, of a son. MARRIAGES. vis l3 : GORING - STEWART—On the 14th inst., at Ilig;Agr'-; Cheshire, Craven C. Goring, Esq , 33d Regt , ti - b e A l / 4 second daughter of Charles A. Stewart, Esq'' d, Hall, Iligh Leigh. t STEPHENSON—COYNE -On the 14th inst., at gam- elv-5 John Stephenson, barrister-at-law, to Margaret, daughter of the late Joseph Stirling Coyne. DEATBS. c 4 ASIIIIURNHAM— 011 the 12th iunt at Broorabatnt liS " O f f Lawrence Ashburnham, aged 40. 14 0' SHARP—On the 12th inst., George Jesse Slaarn 91, Great Tower-street, aged 64. u „g W hit' WHITFIELD—On the 14th inst., at Chelsea, Ti&- -. field, late of 210, Sloane-street, aged 70. __a...54 sc fS, Jt London : Printed and Published by WILLIA M of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN °Mee NC ) * 11 ';;;3 01V i gtr n the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Mil"' Thursday, DccerabalG, ista. 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