The Sun. — London, England, 1869-01-13 00:00:00

THE RITUAL JUDGMENT. It will be remembered that on vecemner A a meeting of High Church clergy was held, to consider the judgment given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case of Martin v. Mackonochie, and that a committee was appointed to draw up a report, to be presented to an adjourned meeting on January 12. The committee consisted of the following gentlemen :—Rev. W. J. E. Bennett, T. W. Perry, J. H. Molyneux, Dr. F. G. Lee, C. J. Le Geyt, E. L. Blenken- Bopp, T. T. Carter, H. J. Nihill, Dr. Littledale, the Hon. C. L. Wood, Mr. J. D. Chambers, and Mr. B. Brett. The adjourned meeting was held yesterday afternoon, at Freemasons' Tavern, and was - very largely attended. Great excitement prevailed, inasmuch as it had transpired that Dr. F. G. Lee, one of the committee, intended to move an amendment to the report. After prayers the chair was taken by Archdeacon DRNISON, who said they were that day assembled for the performance of an important duty. The rev. gentleman then referred at some length to the late judg ment, and said the question they had to consider was whether the decision in the case of Martin v. Mackonochie was to be obeyed or resisted. The matter had been most deeply considered, and the committee had come to the conclusion of submitting to the judge, under protest, until the law of the land as so laid down should either be altered or amended. The result of the delibera tion of the committee would be found embodied in the third resolution accompanying the report. (Hear, hear.) He thought the conclusion of the deliberations of the com mittee would be to unite them all in a strong bond of brotherhood, and in which they would duly consider what was to be done for the future. (Hear, hear.) The report was divided into two parts. One was the presentation of a memorial to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the clergy, and the two Houses of Convocation ; and the other was the string of resolutions stating what it was proposed to be done at the present meeting. The committee had made their report with no flinching or sparing hand. (Loud cheers.) There was not a single word in the report either with regard to submission or resistance to the law of the land—(hear, hear)—and he would take the liberty of telling the meeting what they could do with regard to the report, and also what they could not do. They could either firstly adopt, or secondly reject, or thirdly set aside,tir fourthly refer it back to the committee for further consideration ; but the meeting could not do that which was technically called amending it. The voice of the majority would decide what was to be done, and by that the meeting ought to be governed, because the voice of the majority could only bind those who agreed with it. (Hear, hear.) He would take that opportunity of stating that he was no advanced Ritualist, but he was one who liked order, decency, and magnificence in the worship of the Lord of Lords, where that magnificence was desir able, but he was in favour of that magnificence combined with simplicity. (Hear, hear.) But whilst that was his view of the matter, he did not find fault with those who did not take a similar view. What he did contend for was the liberation of the Church as by law established by the Reformation. (Hear, hear.) It was a most extraordinary thing that in a country where all was free the National Church was the only thing that was not so— (loud cheers)—and he counselled his brethren not to rest until they ridded the Church of God in that land from the Court of Final Appeal. (Loud cheers). Having announced that the mover and seconder of the resolutions would be limited to fifteen minutes, other speakers to ten minutes, the rev, gentle. man resumed his seat by calling upon Mr. Turner to read the Report of the Committee. This report is a very long document, occupying seven quarto printed pages, and is signed by Archdeacon Denison. It takes the form of a memorial which the committee recommend to be addressed by the clergy and laity of the Church of England to the archbishops and bishops of England and Wales, and to the two Houses of Convocation of Canterbury and York. Six resolutions are appended. The first portion of the memorial is brief, and deals with the constitution of the Court of Final Appeal. This court is condemned as "faulty in two essential parti culars." First, it has been appointed by Parliament to deal with questions of the doctrine and discipline of the Church without the sanction of the Representative Assem blies of the Spiritualty asked and obtained ; second, it contains no adequate representation of the Spiritualty (see 24th Henry VIII., c. 12), or of persons versed in theological, liturgical, and ecclesiastical questions. It was only through an oversight in legislation that the present court deals with questions of doctrine and discipline, and it is a serious defect that those of its members who dissent from the judgment of the majority do not publicly state the grounds and reasons of such dissent at the time of delivery of the judgment. The second portion of the memorial occupies the greater part of the report, six pages out of seven, and is a learned argument against the correctness of the law laid down by Lord Cairns. The memorial says " the judgment in the case of Martin v. Mackonochie, December 23, 1863, is in itself open to the gravest complaint, and supplies a fresh illustration of the soundness of the objec tions above alleged." In the first place, the for bidding of altar lights cannot be reconciled with the one uniform and continuous appeal of the Church of England to primitive and Catholic usage, which appeal pervades the Acts of Uniformity and royal proclamations during the reigns of Edward VI., Elizabeth, James 1., and Charles 11., as well as the' Prayer-book, the Articles, the Canons, the Homilies, and in the principle of which appeal has always been considered to lie the distinguishing feature and the glory of the Reformed Church of England. Several citations in support of this assertion are made from the 30th Canon, the Homily concerning the sacrament, the preamble of the Act of Uniformity, Edward VI., the declaration of Queen Elizabeth in 1569, which was ordered to be read in churches after the Northern rebellion, and the Preface to the Prayer-book, where it is said, " We have rejected all such alterations as secretly striking at some laudable practice . . of the whole Catholic Church of Christ." The Judicial Committee admitting " the very ancient and general use in the Church of these symbolical lights," the judgment places the memorialists in this position : that if they are for the future to adhere to the above declarations of the Church of England they must hold that the decision of the Court of Appeal is wrong. If they accept that decision they must disregard the declarations of the Church. This disregard of primi tive usage is the more to be deprecated because it is opposed to the encyclical address of the Lambeth Confe rence, wherein the bishops exhort the clergy to " hold fast the creeds and the pure worship and order which of God's grace ye have inherited from the Primitive Church." The memorialists proceed to shew that the judgment practically impels a new prohibitory and penal law, and that without the consent of the Legisla ture. First, by declaring for the first time since the Reformation that the altar lights are not ornaments, and are therefore illegal, and by arbitrarily extending the use of the word " ceremony." Second, by interpreting the words of the rubric "in the second year of the reign of King Edward V 1.," to mean solely the "first Prayer book," which was not published until the third year, and by rendering it illegal and criminal to use any " ornament " not specifically mentioned in that Prayer-book or in the present, although authorised by other statutes in force in that same second year. Third, by now condemning and inflicting punishment for the use of an accessory which is known to have been used at various intervals since the Reformation, and held by many competent authorities to be legal. Four.h, by enforcing, under penalties, rigid adherence to the rubrics, although some of the directions require discretion in their application, and forbidding any additions which general consent has long sanctioned. The memorial then goes on to deal at considerable length with the historical question of the value of the injunctions of Edward VI., 1547. It is then pointed out that, even on the ground taken by the judgment, there must have been a period of 103 years, from 1559 to 1662, during which certain manual acts were performed and considered lawful, although not authorised by the Prayer-book of the Elizabethan Act of Uniformity. The judgment referred to the Westerton v. Liddell decision ; but the Court of Appeal has already departed from the principle of that decision, since it has sanctioned the use of altar cloths of various colours, although not sanctioned in the rubric. The memorial goes on to complain that whereas in former judgments the principle of expediency rather than of strict law has been adopted, so as to include as many persons as possible within the pale of the Church, in the present judgment that principle has been reversed, and the effect is to restrict the liberties of a large class of Churchmen. How far the principle of liberty was intended to bo adopted is shown by various pas sages quoted from State papers and Burnet's " History of the Reformation." It is next sliewn that by laying down the rubric of 1662 as the sole exhaustive directory for public worship, the judgment has ley implication, (a), made 'several long-established usages iii:•&al, (b), revised and made compulsory several neglected usages, and (c),'left the elery totally without guidance in many cases. Thirteen of the first class of instances, n ine of the second, and five of the third are given. AnonE the secoud-class are daily _ _ prayer, the use of Eucharistic vestments, the tile of Episcopal vestments, and the pastoral staff, the posture of standing before the Lord's Table throughout the whole of the consecration prayer, the ex clusion from communion of persons who have not given notice to the curate, proueding against persons expelled from communion, immersion at baptism, and public catechising. On these accounts the memorial urges that " while a partial or one-sided enforcement of the principle 91.thtiuslitagivaLatiatayqufri rithex hand the exaction of a rigid uniformity must be produc tive of great vexation and mischief." The memorial concludes by requesting the persons to whom It is addressed to vindicate the primitive and Catholic character of the Church disparaged by the judgment, to claim for themselves the liberty now denied, and to relieve them from the contradictions, the difficulties, and the dangers in which they are placed by the late interpreta tion of the law. This memorial is followed by six resolutions. The first and second are formal. The third is to the effect "That this meeting does not recognise the existing Court of Appeal is competent to declare the law of the Church upon either doctrine or ceremonia l , . and that while the fundame n t a l principle of connection with, and reference to, the practice if the Church Primitive and Catholic is disregarded, the meeting nevertheless acknowledges the duty of submitting, ander protest, to the law of the land upon that law being put in force, so far as such law is expressed in the decree 'of the said judgment, and until such law shall be further declared or amended." The rourth resolution expresses the meeting's deep regret at the late decision, and sees in it " a call to use their respec. Live positions in the Church and in the world to spread in all possible ways the doctrine of the Real Presence." The fifth expresses joyat the knowledge "that all manner of denial or deprecation of the doctrine of the sacraments has issued only in the truer understanding and the wider and heartier acceptance of the doctrine itself. The concluding resolu tion complains of the hardship of condemning Mr. Macho nochie to costs in an action which he did not originate, and on matters which had not been previously tried, and which many eminent counsel bad declared to be legal. The CHAIRMAN then called upon Mr. Turner to move that the report be considered, remarking that it was merely a formal mode of getting to the business of the day. Mr. TURNER then moved the consideration of the report, which was seconded by Lord ELIOT, and carried unani mously. The Rev. W. H. MATOW then moved the adoption of the memorial, which was seconded by Mr. Bummed, who said he had looked with great interest to the produc don of the report, which, after hearing it read, he felt would be very comforting to all true Churchmen. They had waited for the report of those whom lie looked upon as the leaders of the great Catholic party of the Church of Eng. land—(hear, hear)—and that report he felt would be considered highly satisfactory. If they only remained loyal to their Church, he felt there was a grand future before them. The resolution, on being put to the meeting, was carrier unanimously. The Rev. W. H. MOLYNEUX moved the third resolution in a very eloquent speech. He counselled them to bow to the decision ; and he advised his brethren to submit to it, and not to wait until monitions had been served on each clergyman. (Hear, hear.) The Hon. C. L. Woon seconded the resolution. He said what the Church of England wanted was more free dom ; but he did not by that mean that there was to he a separation of the Church from the State. (Hear, hear.) The Rev. E. W. BENNETT, of Frome, expressed his regret at being obliged to differ from any of those who bad been among his dearest friends for many long years of his life. He did not think he ought to be called a disobe dient subject of the Queen because he chose to obey the law of his God and his Church in preference to that of a court. That decision was not the law of the land. The Court of Appeal had not to make the law, hut to inter pret the law. It was not possible for that court to make a new prohibitory law. Therefore he held that their judgment was not the law of the land. He should propose to insert as an amendment these words : " Therefore this meeting is unable to reconcile submission to the present decree with its paramount and primary duty of obedience to the Church, and can only wait in patience the providence of God." (Appl ause .) _ _ The Rev. Mr. LE GETT seconded the amendment. A long discussion followed. A show of hands was taken, and the chairman declared the amendment to be lost. A division was called for, but on seeing that the majority was against him Mr. Bennett yielded, and the amendment was negatived amid some hisses. Various amendments were afterwards passed, and on the subject being closed, the original resolution stood as follows :—" That this meeting does not recognise the existing Court of Final Appeal as a court qualified to declare the law of the Church of England upon either doctrine or ceremonial. That with respect to this parti cular judgment of the said court in Martin v. Mackono chie, the meeting finds, among other things, that that judgment disregards the Church of England's funda mental principle of connection with and reference to the practice of the Church primitive and Catholic; and at the same time this meeting, feeling the great difficulty of the present case, thinks there are many reasons why those who have used the ceremonials or practices now condemned by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council may be anxious to wait rather than to give imme diate effect to the decision so pronounced, and considers it is a matter best left to the individual judgment and circumstances of each priest who has been accustomed to use the ceremonials in question." Other resolutions were passed as follows : "That the clergy and laity present at this meeting deeply lament the late decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and see in it a call to use their respective positions in the Church and in the world to spread in all possible ways the doctrine of the Real Presence, and would use all lawful means in its power to teach the doctrines sought to be impugned in this prosecution." " That this meeting, having regard to the experience of the Church of England for the last twenty years, rejoices in the knowledge that all manner of denial or depreciation of the doctrine of the Sacraments has issued only in the truer understanding and the wider and heartier acceptance of the doctrine itself." " That, having regard to the circumstances of the case, and to precedents of the court, the condemnation of Mr. Mackonochie in all costs, both of the original suit and of the appeal, appears to this meeting to be a course of unusual and excep tional severity, inasmuch as the defendant did not originate the litigation ; inasmuch as the defendant was only testing the legality of ceremonial which had pre viously never been condemned—in one part of which, viz., the two lights, he was upheld by the opinions of many eminent counsel ; and inasmuch as the defendant had been sustained by the court below on the points uow ruled against him, and had yielded immediate sub mission as to the points on which he bad not been so sustained " CI?IMINALS. Mr. Fenwick, the chief constable of Chester, has made some statements on the sul jcct of crime and criminals. The profession of crime is systematically divided into various branches, and the several classes do not associate together. Thieves are not always driven to crime for want of work, as many of them have a trade at their fingers' ends. It is serious to learn that there are at large in England and Wales more than twenty-two thousand "known thieves," and these, with the receivers of stolen goods and "suspected persons," make a total of 1,121,406 persons of criminal tendencies. A very small percentage of these abandon their evil habits and associates. Every policeman throughout England and Wales knows about five persons of criminal tendencies, and the question is, if this army cannot be cured, is it to be endured. Mr. Fenwick declares that ",Fagin" still exists, and is sometimes found in the parents of the juvenile delinquents. Crime is not likely to be pre vented or reduced to a minimum while the present system of dealing with confirmed thieves exists. The number of criminals has increased so much that they outnumber the police in the proportion of five to one. Mr. Fenwick advocates the system of scale-punishments and super vision after the expiration of the sentence of imprison ment. The present state of things has existed long enough, and the robbers possess chances wlarh must be taken away. CRUEL Hoax.—For some days the relatives of friends who have sailed in passenger ships from England have been thrown into the most distressing anxiety in consequence of a notice which has app( a•ed in the public press "that some dreadful shipwreck had occurred in the Bay of Biscay, some fifty bodies having been washed ashore along the coast of Corunna." A telegram sent to the underwriters by Lloyd's agent at Corunna, states " that there is no truth in the report, and that the whole affair is suspected to be a hoax, no bodies having been seen." A SON ATTEMPTING TO POISON A FAMILY AT ► SnEFFIELD.--On Sunday a young man, named Edmund Barker, 2.5 years of age, file-cutter, attempted to poison his father, mother, brother, and two sisters by putting the contents of a threepenny packet of Battle's vermin destroyer into a saucepan containing broth for dinner. It was found out by the in' ense bitterness of the broth, with no worse consequence than that one of the daughters was sick; and when he was charged with it he laughed. He had often ill used all the members of the family except his father, and threatened to murder them. He continued living at home till Monday evening, when he again threatened to murder them, and to do it effectually this time, and his father then turned him out of the house. He wandered about for some hours, and early on Tuesday morning gave himself up to the police, and confessed his attempt to poison the family. The reason of his doing so was that he was idle, and that his father wanted him to work. He is very intelligent in con. versation, and addicted to the reading of books on history and parliamentary debates. His general conduct at home would lead to the belief that he is not right in his THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1.69. MISCEL GANEO US NEWS. Grattan. In doing so Mr. O'Hagan says that, while men may hold various views as to Grattan's policy, there can be no dissension as to his " pure and earnest life—his public virtue—his indomitable courage—his true and unchanging devotion to his country-the achievements by which he lighted up the fairest page in our dismal story—the genius which made him matchless amongst the orators of the modern . world." Captain White, M.P., has contributed £lOO towards the new Roman Catholic cathedral ai Thurles. In returning thanks for the gift, Dr. Leahy says : " We have the more reason to acknow• ledge our indebtedness that, whilst we are all, you and we, linked together in the bonds of charity, you do not kneel before the same altar with us." humanity. There was a time wnen prisoners Were butchered or else sold into slavery, and civilised communities considered it to be no evil. There was also a time when criminals were tortured, and this practice was looked upon as legal ; but a better state of things supervened, and slavery and tor ture have been abolished. What is called "senti mental" at first often exercises a beneficial influence upon human nature. The improved treatment of brute animals has been a distinguishing feature of modem society, and noble protests have been made against certain cruel practices which prevailed. The process of vivisection has been condemned by the most eminent surgical and medical men and phy siologists of the country, and a society for the pre vention of cruelty to animals is advantageous to a community, if only - I o represent the growing sentiment of tne age. FOREIGN NOTES: VNFAVOINIABLE OMENS. The general aspect of European politics IS not such as to reassure the public mind respecting the " hitch " which seems to have occurred at the first meeting of the Con ference. There is no doubt that Russia, whether anxious for a war or not, is making preparations for the worst. News from Odessa says that the Government has con cluded a contract for a large supply of provisions and forage for the Army of the South. General Kotzebue, the commander, is doing his utmost to get his troops ready for a winter campaign. The officers speak openly, it is said, of a war with Austria. The Vienna journals confirm this intelligence. Horses are being purchased and carriages onstructed in great numbers. • More than this, the un friendliness between Austria and Prussia—which the Standard believes to be the precursor of war—is a gloomy reality. At Berlin there is a palpable impression that Austria is not disposed to forget all she suffered in 1866. The Prussians are equally convinced that the French Government has not abandoned all idea of a conflict with Prussia, and that so far the two Emperors are on the best of terms. Hence the Prussian press has com menced a series of attacks upon Austrian policy, and especially upon Baron Beust, the object being to force the skilful Austrian Chancellor's hand. Unless some end of his kind were in view, the Prussian semi-official papers, which are by no means allowed to write as they please, would not talk about the rupture of diplomatic relations, as does the North German Gazette. On the whole, European politics wear an aspect of pronounced gloom, which is not improved by the fact that the arrangements for the Conference are such as to render its success entirely useless as a peace guarantee. . . The Constitutionnel says the Progressist party is gradually coming round to an alliance with the Repub• licans, and fears are entertained that the benefit of such a union will be all on the side of the latter. THE HOPE OF TIIE CONSERVATIVES. The upholders of the Irish Church will not—do or say what you will—believe it is " doomed? The Protestants of the North of Ireland have passe a resolution declaring such an idea to be party heresy. And Colond Wilmot, the Conservative candidate at the South Derbyshire nomination, seemed quite hopeful th a t th e I r i s h Ch urc h wou ld live as long as he should. He said he looked upon the question as very far from being settled, great as the Government majority might be. They had a remarkable instance fresh in their memories. of what might become of large Liberal majorities. They saw the position in which they were placed when they had a majority of seventy at their backs. They dwindled away—to use a simile which one of his kind Liberal opponents supplied him with—like the American man of snow. Did they mean to tell him that the Irish Church was not surrounded with as many difficulties as the Reform question ? He hoped to see that majority again dwindle away. THE SCOTCH CLERGY AND THE IRISH CHURCH. An analysis has been published of the Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities election, which is interest ing as spewing the attitude of the Scotch clergy on the question of disestn blishment. It appears that the great bulk of the ministers of the Established Church of Scotland-403 out of 420—voted for Mr. Gordon, the Conservative candidate, while only eleven voted for Mr. Moncreiff. The proportion is reversed when we come to the Free Churches. Of the Free Church, properly so called, 108 voted as Liberals, 8 as Conservatives. Of the United Presbyterians, 219 voted as Liberals, nine as Conservatives, and only one was neutral. The English and Irish Presbyterians, Independents, and other denominations gave Mr. Moncreiff 228, and Mr. Gordon wily 14 votes : Mr. Gordon had a majority of doctors, but Mr. Moncreiff had . 1t majority of lawy ers , s t u d en t s , merchants. and,Archt bxth. THE ELECTIONS. Mr. R. Dudley Baxter comes forwara to piny the part of a political Mr. Toots. He is a Conservative ; and has been trying to get comfort to himself from the returns as to the elceions. He finds, according to his own calculations, that there is a Liberal majority of 111. But he assures us, as a party man, " it's of no consequence." He discovers the Liberal majority to have increased by 37 votes since the last Parliament—but it's of no consequence. He acknowledges that both Scotland and Ireland have pronounced unmistake ably for the disestablishment of the Irish Church— but it's of no consequence. The Reform Bill of Mr. Disraeli was a satisfactory measure, notwithstanding that it has destroyed its author's Ministry and disor ganised his party. Mr. Baxter chews reason for his jubilation. The Reform Bill of 1831 positively for the time destroyed the Conservatives, and made them powerless until the new voters became what Mr. Baxter calls " conservatised." But by the new bill only nineteen seats have been handed over to the Liberals—" a mere nothing when compared with so great an enlargement of the suffrage." Besides, the Conservatives represent a larger number than the Liberals. Mr. Baxter has made calculations, and finds that on the population the Conservatives have a net gain in the United Kingdom of 430,000. More: in England there is a net gain of 2,ooo,ooovoters, besides, which the Irish Church as a question by itself decided the elections, and, seeing the number of Dissenters in Ireland and Scotland, the vote must of necessity go against the Conservatives' position. Mr. Baxter hopes, therefore, that the next elections will chew a reaction. The Times, in criticising the letter, declares Conservatism to be dying. What it wants is a man like Peel, courageous enough to free himself from mere party traditions, and strike out a path . of his own. Such a man the "leading journal " thi nks the Tories have not got. MR. MORLEY, M.P., ON THE LIBERATION SOCIETY. Mr. Morley's withdrawal from the Liberation Society since he became member for Bristol, has excited some comment among his co-religionists. In reply to a letter from a Bristol Nonconformist, Mr. Morley says that he holds, as distinctly as ever he did, the opinions that religion is hindered and the spiritual character of the Church injured by political interference. But his conviction deepens that the cessation of such interference is not to be brought about by an assault on the part of Nonconformists, but by indoctrinating the public mind with right views as to the separate functions of the Church and the State, and by encouraging Churchmen to seek more liberty. His chief objection to the Liberation Society consists in the declaration of its wish to apply to secular uses the national property of the Established Churches. He could not be committed to this hard-and-fast line, and therefore, while he has cordially co-operated with the society in efforts for abolishing church rates, opening the universities, and securing the right of burial in churchyards, he cannot continue a member of the association. This is a remarkable statement, coining from such a quarter. It seems to indicate that there is a party, even among the opponents of State Churches, who do not wish to secularise Church property ; in a word, that while Mr. Gladstone will have their assistance in disestablishing the Irish Church, he must not count upon their unconditional support-when he comes to disendowment. THE IRISH BISHOPS According to the _Record, the Irish bishops have been holding a meeting at Dublin, to consider what ought to be their course with respect to the disesta blishment of the Irish Church. The variety of the proposals made showed, according to our con temporary, how entirely the bishops were without a policy, and how soundly they had been slumbering until the enemy was thundering at the doors. It was found impossible, from a want of unanimity, to carry a proposal for confiding the defence of the Irish Church to the two arch bishops and a suffragan, who were to act as delegates in London. But at last it was resolved that there should be a memorial to the Crown, with the view of inducing the Government to assemble the two Houses of Convocation of both provinces, which are, in fact, under the patriarchal iurisdiction of the Archbishop of Armagh. A STRANGE STORY. There is an exceedingly strange story, which we can hardly credit, in the Live)7)ool Porcupine. And yet it is one which would not be told without some foundation. A correspondent writes :—" The new Liberal brooms are making a clean sweep of their new establishment, and in doing so have discovered a number of very foul spots which their Conservative predecessors have left behind them. Amongst the rest, it is positively affirmed that the new heads of depart ment have made the startling discovery that immense sums of public money have been illegally expended in a vain attempt to keep the late Government in power. It is further stated that the Bank of England has advanced money on loan for the same purpose, and that the sum total so obtained and expended will greatly astonish the nation. Mr. Lowe is said to have got a full scent of this terrible mare's-nest; and, as his budget is to be produced about the middle or latter end of February, the public may reasonably look forward for disclosures of a most sensational and scandalous nature. As a matter of course the illegal transactions to which I allude were unknown to the responsible Ministers in whose departments they occurred." - THE OFFICIAL REFORMS. The official reforms being carried out just now are exciting great interest in the several departments, There is a healthy feeling, too, which seems to exist—a wish to interest the public in and make them acquainted - with the nature of the proposed alterations—matters which, as a rule, readers are wont to shun. A very interesting letter appears in the Times on the subject. The correspondent suggests that the reforms, while they are being made, should go deep enough to remove the chief anomalies of the service. Not content with merely making changes within each department, he would redistribute the business of each. The instance he gives is that of rivers and fisheries. All sea fisheries, oyster fisheries, and mussel fisheries are under the Board of Trade, The same department is also considered to have charge of all tidal and navigable rivers and estua ries. But the Home Office appoint salmon fishery inspectors, and all matters connected with salmon fishery are under that department. The cleansing and purifying of rivers is presumed to be in the Home Office; but the Board of Trade have jurisdic tion to deal with the London water companies. When any reforms in the way of salmon preserving are suggested—should the said salm on come u p a navigable estuary—the would-be reformer is referred about from office to office, until he gives up in sheer despair. The Times correspondent suggests that this should be altered. He also contends that Parlia ment interferes too much in the business of each dep- rtment, which it much increases by the continual calls for needless returns. He promises further information in a second letter. A. correspondent of the Star writes protesting against the appointment of Admiral Robinson as Controller of the Navy. He declares that he has no knowledge of shipbuilding, and that the only good which he can accomplish will be in acting as buffer to weaken the shock which the Minister might perhaps receive by (7irect contact with Mr. Reed. In the same way direct communication bet,veen the Minister and the Accountant-General is prevented by a lord, who will act simply as a "go-between." It is only the perpetuation of the system which makes no one responsible, keeps each officer in the dark as to what every body else is doing, and creates a round-about, in-and-out process of working, which puzzles all who cannot deeply study it IRISH NOTES. The new Lord Chancellor of Ireland nas sent a ahaaue of _£loo_loyfarda tht—monument of Henry THE EPISCOPATE. A correspondent in India writes in the highest terms of the Bishop of Calcutta. He was to remaix five days at Lahore, and during that time would hole twelve services or meetings. He was to address thi workmen engaged on the railway, and to preach at a Hindustani service in the bazaar. He was also t< visit the European prisoners in the gaol Inspect tne scnoots, address the soldiers, pay a visit to the Presbyterian mission school, and hold a confirmation. His immense diocese in cludes Bengal, Burmah, Moulmein, the North-West Provinces, Oude, the Central Provinces, and the Punjab. He hopes to visit every part in two years. Previous bishops have generally taken four years. His heart and soul are in his work, and he looks upon his position as a most solemn responsibility, and not in the light of a worldly advantage. All the charges about Ritualism are simply false, and seem to have been concocted by " that stiff Baptist publication, the Friend of India," whose editor, by the way, is the Calcutta correspondent of that leading journal in which the charges appeared. The Bishop of Salisbury had arranged ror an ex tensive series of confirmations in his diocese, but being prevented by illness from carrying it out him self, he has arranged with the Bishop of Sodor and Man to do so ; and Dr. Powys, having virtually no episcopal duty, can easily accomplish this without neglecting his own diocese. THE GIBRALTAR QUESTION. A correspondent of the Times, in treating of this subject, as where restitution is to - end if all Acquisi tions by conquest are to be restored. By the cession of Corfu we have not gained the gratitude of the Greeks, while we have relinquished a position of consequence. The writer asks if India is to be restored to the Hindoos and Mahomedans. No reason holds good with respect to the cession of Gibraltar that does not apply with equal force to Hong Kong'; and then we must consider the claims of New Zealand. The Cape of Good Hope should be surrendered to the Dutch, and they might emulate our example by returning it to the Hottentots. As for the gratitude of Spain, it is asked, what recognition has she ever made of the services of England. A more rational view is taken by those who desire, at least, that we should have Ceuta in exchange for Gibraltar; but that place cannot be looked upon as an equivalent. Large sums must be expended upon Ceuta before she can come up to Gibraltar in the requirements of peace, while in time of war she must utterly fall short. It is finally urged that the possession of such places as Gibraltar has enabled our merchants to carrx on their trade advantageously, and therefore it is not correct to look upon these fortified stations as nothing but military posts. COUNTY FINANCIAL BOARDS The Government is likely to bring out a social policy, as it is called, at the re-opening of Parliament. The C'hamber of Agriculture Journal announces, " through the kindness of an influential friend," that a bill is being prepared for the establishment of County Financial Boards. THE YOUNG MEN OF THE PERIOD. Encouraged by the success which attended the articles in the Saturday Review on the Girls of the Period, the Daily Telegraph has started a correspond ence on young mexi. The letters are for the most part exceedingly trite and commonplace, though true enough. We are told, for instance, what we all knew before, that young men now like to spend their money entirely on themselves; shun marriage because it would deprive them of all their freedom, which being interpreted means license ; vote the society of modest women slow, and do their flirting at casinoes. All this is, unhappily, a stale story, though it would be a nice question to determine the amount of responsibility which attaches to each of the two sexes. The young man does not like the girl of the period because she is fast and loud ; the girl is fast and loud because a young man of the period prefers the society of venal to modest women. Amid the columns of commonplace which the Telegraph has published there is, however, one new idea. It is that the present degradation of young men is due in large measure to the lower tone of literary men. In the days of Charles Lamb the wittiest literary men in London met at one another's houses at family gatherings—with a leg of mutton, if a dinner were in question ; with punch, not wine, if it were merely an evening gathering. But now, if we may believe the outpourings of our literary men, they are all on the side of the luxurious and the rich ; they spurn the (to use Wordsworth's expression) " plain living and the high thinking " of other days. Not only do they discourse learnedly of the different kinds of wines that ought to accompany different courses, but they sneer persistently at anybody who gives a dinner that is not grand. In fact, they have and and talk. a flow Theyo f have selll, for bartered the glorious symonpo, formero s f etup. days, when there really was a has feast of d reasonvapid p f cas m , worshipped the go ld en i mage w hi c h thatfallen entrees, tyran t down, king, a andr ly Mammon, MISDIRECTED PHILANTHROPY Mr.just read a paper on "Mi s di rec t e d Philanthropy an Economical Question," at a Begst r opy has as meeting of the Social Science Association. Its object was to inquire whether. the phil an th ropy o f th e present day is not m a great m easure m i s di rec t e d. In support of this view of the question Mr. Beggs de clared that the sums spent m poor rates and charity were bad investments. He considered that the chief efforts of all should be directed to save those who are tottering on the brink of pauperism. To effect this he advised the revision of the poor laws, the equalisation of the poor rates, and the adoption of stringent rules respecting the able - bodied. Employment was the first necessity for the poor, but he was o p pose d t o Govern ment works and to organised schemes of emigration ; neither had he any hope that pri son or wor kh ouse labour would check crime and pauperism. Mr. Beggs thought that the best plan would be to reduce the national expenditure and encourage those public works which would afford employment to hun dreds now in want of it. Another mode of raising the people would be to improve their homes, and education would, of course, conduce materially to the desirable end. He observed, in conclusion, that the philanthropist had failed in dealing with the pauper, and that therefore we had better try the economist. SCARLET FEVER. Great interest must be felt in th e p rogress w hi c h is made by medical science in the prevention of scarlet fever. The tragic effects of this disease, which kills 20,000 individuals yearly, have been so heavily felt that all information on the subject will be eagerly welcomed. Dr. Budd, of Bristol, has con tributed a paper to the British Medical Journal, in which he is confident that the spread of scarlet fever may be largely prevented. lle advises that the greatest care should be taken in the management of the sick room, in order that the spread of infection may be checked as much as possible, and that some disinfecting fluids should be constantly used. Dr. Budd proposes that oil should be rubbed into the body of the patient until he is sufficiently reco vered to have warm baths. Whether the illness ends in death or recovery the dresses worn by the nurses should be washed or destroyed, and the bed and room thoroughly disinfected. By this means taint is finally extinguished. Dr. Budd declares that by the adop tion of these precautionary measures he has never known, the disease to spread beyond the sick room, and his experience extends over twenty years. It is high time that some more concerted measures should be taken to abate the ravages of this terrible scourge, and the two elements in the method here proposed are separation on the one hand and disinfection on the other. CRIMINAL SUPERVISION. A correspondent of the Times writes in favour of the supervision of criminals, and relates an incident that took place some years ago to confirm his belief. The superintendent of police in a northern borough resolved to put a stop to the fighting that took place at the annual fairs held in the vicinity. He accord ingly searched the doubtful lodging-houses, and sent those who could not give a satisfactory account of tnemseives to tine gaol fora nignt and a day, and the result was that no fighting or robberies took place at the fair. The advantages of the preventive system are shewn in another statement. Some years ago the railway between Edinburgh and Ber Wick was infested with card-sharpers. On one occasion the superintendent of the police for the county happened to be travelling in the same train with a party of this class, some of whom were returned convicts, and' at the first large junction they came to he went along the entire train and warned everyone that there were card-sharpers 'in the carriages, and where he knew them he pointed them out. This decided move put a stop to the nuisance, and the objectionable visitors disappeared altogether film the neighbourhood. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Professor Mason lately spoke at Edinburgh, at a meeting of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and observed that the only objection made t o suc h in institution was, that it encouraged sentimentalism. In speculating upon this theory, however, we should not forget the advance. that _have b.V.il X 446 _ the .wav of AMERICA. There is, unfortunately, too much reason to fear that the settlement of the Alabama claims will be much impeded by the uncompromising nature of the American demands. English statesmen desire to see the end of this difficulty, both because England will be most benefited by an inter national judgment on such a question, and because unfriendly relations between the two countries are pre judicial to the interests of both. But this sentiment is not reciprocated in the United States. The Americans do not like England, and rather desire that we should know it. Mr. Reverdy Johnson's efforts as a peace maker only draw upon him the hostility of the Republicans. There is no talk of war, but there is, says the correspon dent of the Times, a good deal of earnest determination to ask much more of England than she seems disposed to yield. The press, for the most part, opposes the terms of the settlement recently announced, and advocates Mr. Johnson's recall. Intelligence from other sources confirms these unfavourable omens. The correspondent of the Telegraph believes that Mr. Seward is really anxious, notwithstanding all that has been said to the contrary, to pass a settlement through the Senate ; but on the part of most American politicians there is an increas ing indifference or unwillingness to conclude the matter. Whatever protocol may be agreed upon must secure the ratification of two-thirds of the Senate. Mr. Reverdy Johnson has few friends in that body, and it is there fore likely that the credit of settling this dispute will be reserved by the Republicans for themselves, and that they will send out another ambassador. It is certain that many of the leaders wish to do this. The progress of the negotiations under Mr. Seward's management is still the subject of very conflicting state ments. One account affirms that Mr. Seward insists upon England admitting her liability, leaving only the amount to be settled ; another that he assents to an arbiter, but desires that the choice shall be ratified by the Senate. This does not exhaust the list of versions : the New York papers publish fresh " settlements" weekly. RUSSIA AND ENGLANDt The 21Ioniteur says that the incessant encroachments of Russia in Central Asia have led to " representations " on the part of the English Ambassador at; St. Petersburg. " The English Governinent views with some concern the attitude which Russia is taking in that part of Asia, and desires to elicit, as soon as possible, the inten- tions of the Czar in that quarter. The Moniteur —which is no longer an official journal —may have got hold of a story with some foundation of truth. It is possible that our Ambassador may have made inquiries respecting the prohibitive duty which has been levied on all Indian goods imported into Central Asia, and that this little fact has been elaborated in the true Parisian style. It is greatly to be desired that our Government should make " repre sentations " of this kind. SPAIN. Isabella 11. derives much encouragement from the pre sent state of affairs in Spain. According to the Paris correspondent of the Telegraph, she is evidently under the impression that the Spaniards cannot get on without her, and that the net result of the revolution will be a return to the status quo ante bellum. The ex-Queen recently visited the Cathedral of Notre Dame. The honours of the sacred edifice were done by a superior attendant, who was afterwards thanked by a chamberlain in the Queen's name, and presented with a sum of money. He decisively refused to accept the honorarium. A few days later he was summoned to the Pavillon de Rohan, and, on being received, was begged to choose one of three or four crosses of different orders that lay upon a table. Having taken up a cross of Isabella the Catholic, he was presented with a diploma, ante dated. If this story be true, and the writer vouches for it, the proceeding was certainly remarkable. The exiled sovereign would hardly offer a diploma unless she felt con fident of soon being in a position to confirm it ; otherwise both donor and recipient might find themselves in an awkward position. The newly-decorated attendant is not to be envied his embarrassment. All the blood that has been shed at Malaga and Cadiz has not sufficed to gain the end the Provisional Govern ment had in view. Their victory in the streets has been a substantial moral defeat. Frightened by the resistance offered by the outcry throughout the Peninsula, Prim and his colleagues have allowed the reorganisation of the militia to be effected by the commanders and other officers of the militia itself, and not, as at first intended, by the Govern ment authorities. The volunteers retain their 'arms, and may reform their organisation, as they deem it expedient. Government has given in. The victory of the Republicans at the Ca d iz municipal elections, just after the insurre • :- tion, has been a great blow to the Monarchists. They were defeated in the proportion of seven to two. THE INSURRECTION IN CRETE. M. Champoiseau, the French Consul in Crete, is inter posing in the most active manner to put a stop to the insurrection. "He intimidates the Greek leaders and their followers, and conciliates the Cretan insurgents, promising them the autonomy of the is'and." So aays the Liberte, seriously enough ; but if M. Champoiseau is really doing all this, the sooner he is silenced the better. It is not the business of consuls to interfere in this way. Be sides, the insurrection in Crete hangs wholly upon the question whether Turkey and Greece will or will not go to war. If they fight, the Cretan insurrection will be pro longed, in spite of all that the French Consul can dct AFFGHANISTAN. The great battle in Affghauistan has taken place at last. The armies of Shere Ali and Abdul Rahman have met, and the latter aspirant to supreme power in Affghanistan has been overthrown. The telegram which brings this information gives no particulars. The defeat of Abdul Rahman was announced some time ago, but though that report proved unfounded, a collision has long been inevi table. Moreover, the chances of war were always on the side of Shere Ali. who commanded the most powerful force. AMATEUR THEATRICALS.—An excellent entertain ment was given last evening at the hall of Mr. Poole, Covent-garden, which consisted of a miscellaneous selec tion of recitations and comic singing. The principal per formers were Messrs. Rickards and Williams, who opened the amusements by some excellent imitations of the Christy Minstrels ; but the crowning feature of the even ing was the recitations and serio-comic singing of Mr. 11. Walmsley and Miss A. Williams, who were frequently encored, and delighted the audience until a late hour. rADVERTISEMENT.I —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Relief and Remedy.—ln all human probability the almost unpre cedented heat of last summer will predispose many during the present winter to nervous and rheumatic attacks—at once reme diable by- Holloway's treatment. There are many cases of sciatica, tiedoloroux, and neuralgia, now wearing out the strength and patience of thousands, who might derive incredible ease by he use of Holloway's ointment and pills. No matter what has been the duration of the complaint, nor how severe or excru ciating have been the sufferings, they will be diminished by warm fomentations, brisk friction with the unguent, and suitable doses of these pills. This treatment has often succeded when every TarfetY Of NOCIAtiTe 11843 pre Toti perfectly melees, " CORNERS" IN ENGLAND 6- AMERICA. the value of the shares ; be met them by a sudden and unexpected move, by which the law limiting the increase of capital was evaded, and the sharehol ders were delighted on getting largely their holdings increased, coupled with the assurance that it was out of the accumulated earnings expended to improve their property. It so answered VANDERBILT'S i Wall-street speculations that he made four or five millions of dollars from the men who were trying to crush him, and he raised the stock from 124 to 150. It may be true, as alleged, that the accounts were falsified, as but two years agothe company asked the Legislature to increase the freight and passenger rates, as the road could not otherwise earn enough to pay dividends, and one or the other of those decla rations are supposed by some to be untrue. The course pursued by VANDERBILT may also, as alleged, be a simple watering of the stock ; yet that the public do not think so is clear from the great rise in the market value of the shares. It is also un deniable that Commodore VANDERBILT has turned every line he has controlled, however ill managed and depiessed when it came into his hands into, a prosperous concern, and these facts go far to ac count for the rise, although such " corners" are a disgrace to Wall-street, as is the shameful jobbing of which the London Stock Exchange has been made the stage ; yet on fairly contrasting the two we find that investors in London have been made victims to a far greater extent, by nefarious trans actions, and are much more likely to be so in the future than are the investors in New York. (From the Anglo-American Times.) At present a prosecution is progressing in London against a batch of leading commercial men accused of a swindle by which the public were robbed of four millions sterling. At the same time an effort is being made to reinstate in business a man just emerged from a convict's cell, to whose " mis management" a sum almost as great was lost in two or three years, causing 27 premature deaths, seven of which were suicides. These " prominent mer chants" have found an able advocate in the leading journal ; but it is one thing to " finance " in the city of London and another to " finance " in the city of New York. Whether the morality of Ameri can men of business would be proof, if the opportu nity offered, of cheating on the gigantic scale of English men of business, as shown by the facts brought out since 1865, we do not pretend to say ; hut they never have had the opportunity, nor is it likely that they will for many generations, for the simple reason that they deal with a population whose knowledge of business differs greatly from that of the gulls upon whom the British directors preyed. The Times has given prominence to the Wall -street speculations in Erie and New York Central, and urged this shameles3 manipulation of the stock of great railway lines in the in terests of cliques as a proof of the insecurity of all American investments. We do not deny a just inference ; and we freely allow that the impunity with which these transactions have been accomplished, and the sight of men rolling in wealth gained by such means, is an element of in security in American investment. But if there is one thing established more than another it is the conviction in the minds of those who have money that no investment is absolutely safe. Some erro neously suppose British Consols to be so ; that is, they believe this of a country overwhelmed with debt, and whose whole reliance, even for the sup port of its home population, is foreign trade; whose chief outlet for its energies is an Empire of 200,000,000 people, in the main hostile, and at the other end of the earth, both outside elements of in security, independent of an internal revolution by which political power is being transferred from a narrow and property-holding class to the masses, who hold no property at all. If the promise to pay of a country so placed is the most secure investment in the world, then it must be allowed that capitalists have good reason for their timidity. Admitting the instability of all investments, what we contend is that on a fair view of the whole field there is no country which offers such attractions to investors as the United States ; and when the leading journal in England creates distrust it most injures English capi talists. That it does systematically endeavour to lessen confidence in American finance is we are sorry to say bu t too evident. We have often alluded to it before, and those who know the subject can easily detect this in its columns, though covered by a fine gloss of impartiality. Take yesterday's paper , for instance, and the following cable news is an nounced : LuNDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 9. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Urban," Mountjoy Aguilera as Consul-General for Spain in London. (From our own Correspondent.) "Philadelphia, Jan. 6. " The Secretary of the Treasury has made his normal monthly statement of the public debt of the United States, which shows its total on the Ist inst. to have been $2,652,500,000. This is an increase during the last month of $6,800,000. "During the last month the Government expenditures were in excess of the receipts about $1,600,000." No one accuses Reuter of a partiality for Ame rica, nor of a leaning to the side of the party now in power ; but this addition to the telegram was made by him : " The cash in the Treasury amounted on January 1 to $ 11 1,750,000, viz., $98,750.000 in coin, and $13,000,000 currency, against $106,750,000 last month, being en in crease of $5,000,000." The object was to leave in the minds of the readers of the Times the impression that the loss to the United States in the month was 6 4 3 millions of dol lars, while there was no loss at all on the previous month if we take the coin accumulated in the Trea sury during the period at its value in greenbacks, which was not even alluded to by the correspon dent. In the leading columns of the same number there appears an article on the " corner" in New York Central, of which the following is one of its first sentences:— " But the recurrence at short intervals of such con tests forces unpleasant reflections on the minds of Euro pean investors in securities, which, with apparent impu nity, can be put to the hazard of the most experimental financing." While heartily condemning transactions which have done so much to damage Wall-street, adding another to the elements of insecurity of property in the United States, it would have been but fair in the Times to have explained the fact that the Erio and the New York Central are held by the two great rival cliques, the one headed by VANDERBILT, the other formerly led by DANIEL DREW, but now by JAY GOULD and FISK, jun., both the same parties, only working with VANDERBILT'S line instead of GOULD'S line, the New York Central stock being substituted for Erie stock. We are not aware that the sharehelders of Erie or New York Central who resolutely held have as yet lost. Indeed no one knows what either line is worth, except the few who manipulate the scrip ; but, if worthy of trust, the directors report both properties to be in a flourish ing condition. To read Mr. GouLD's account of the Erie the shareholders might shortly anticipate large dividends, and the rise of the New York Central was on the following announcement : "Whereas this company has hitherto expended of it s ear nings for the purpose of constructing and equippin g it s road, and in the purchase of real estate and other proper ties, with a view to the increase of its traffic, moneys equal in amount to eighty per cent. of the capital stock of the company ; and whereas the . several stockholders of the company are entitled to evidence of such expenditure, and to reimbursement of the same at a convenient future period." . _ It was therefore resolved to issue certificates declar ing each stockholder entitled to 80 per cent. on the proportion of the capital he held hereafter to be converted into stock on the company being autho rized, and that such certificates be immediately delivered at the Union Trust Company of New York. The Erie got the control of the Atlantic and Great Western, and the New York Central of the Great Western of Canada, and both show more inclination to gobble up the United States than to cry Peccavi! It is evident that these two great trunk lines are pushing for the lion's share of the Pacific traffic, and it remains to be seen whether the operations will eventuate in loss to the shareholders or not. As yet, however, it is the speculators who opposed the railway cliques that have suffered, and not the investors in these American properties. The proceedings, however, of such bodies are quite as common in England, if less audacious in their operations, as in America. Indeed, whether they are less audacious is a ques tion that might be disputed. Lying prospectuses were freely published, with good names appended, without reserve in their statements, and although these were mean swindles, involving awful loss and suffering to honest investors, there were others that flew at higher game operating on a grander scale. We would like to know the history of the Liver pool and Glasgow " corner" in iron which culmi nated last year. It would be amusing to read a truthful account of the speculators' operations in the Liverpool Cotton Market, of the transactions directed against the whole railway property of Eng- land after breaking down the weak banks, and making the strong ones tremble—indeed forcing them into obtaining the passage of an Act by Parlia ment for their protection. The false telegrams, the anonymous circulars from all quarters reaching the terrified shareholders, the unblushing lies which marked the whole course of these pro ceedings might be dwelt on with much advan tage by the Times to correct English commercial morality without troubling itself to go to New York for examples. The difference between the New York and the London directors is that the former made money for their shareholders by most unscrupulous proceedings, and the latter ruined them ; that the former brought in some State judges and the State Legislature to their aid, while with the latter precedent and law had been so well established in England iu their favour that they could plunder with impunity. What VANDERBILT did in the New York Central case was to defeat by a very artful dodge the machinations of some 4 : bear" operatoro, They combined to throw down JAN. 11. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Guil lermo Binny as Consul at Belize for the Republic of Guatemala. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JAN. 12. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Major-General Charles Grant, C. 8., to ba Colonel-Commandant ; Major-Gene ral Richard C. Moore, C. 8., to be Colonel-Commandant. 2d Dragoon Guards — Quartermaster-Sergeant Edward G. Tuckett to be Quartermaster. Bth Hussars—Staff-Surg. John S. Chartres to be surgeon. 11th Hussars—Cornet John D. H. Stewart to be Lieute- nant ; Edward W. Mills, Gent., to be Cornet. 21st Hussars—The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets, from the Royal Military College, to be Comets :—Fre derick William Benson, vice R. C. Andrew, promoted ; Rowland Hill Martin, vice T. Deane, promoted ; James Andrew Ramsay, vice J. W. M. Cotton, pr motel. Royal Artillery—Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel F. G. Nuthall to be Colonel ; Captain and Brevet-Colonel Robert Cadell to be Lieu.-Colonel ; Captain and Brevet- Major E. W. Dance to bo Lieut.-Colonel ; Second Cap tain Charles E. Watson to be Captain ; Lieut. Patrick Murray Rolland to be Second Captain ; Lieutenant Fre derick Swaino Le Grice to be Second Captain; Second Captain Algernon Aug. Stewart to be Adjutant. The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets, from the Royal Military Academy to be Lieutenants : Frederick Nicolson, Lannoy Richard Coussmaker, Henry Travers Lugard, John Hume Hart, Henry Lyall, John Leach, James Cecil Dalton, Franklyn Moody Longcroft, liam Musson Campbell, George Richard Ponsonby, Dudley St. Leger Hill, Lionel James Archer Chapman, Walter Sherer Bird, Sydney Gerard Frederick Selfe, Charles Russell, Reginald Butler Place, Thomas May hew, Francis Onslow Barrington Foote, Henry Brewer Wildig, Edmund George Henry Bingham, and Walter Charles Warner Arbuthnot. Corps of Royal Engineers—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Joseph William Carter Neynoe Murphy to be Assistant Surgeon. The following Gentlemen Cadets, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenants with tem porary rank, viz. :—Henry Hardinge S. Cunynghama, Horatio Arthur Yorke, George Baker, Charles Hadfield Gordon, Horatio Dove, Sidney Smith, Henry Pilking ton, Reginald Clare Hart, Frede . rick Wilmer Watkins, Henry Clarke, James Campbell Barker, Alfred Edgar Ocravius Cotton, Henry Oliphant Selby, Montague Langhorne, Frederick Thomas Nelson Spratt, John Wilbraham Lindsay d'Anyers Willis, James Cameron, William T. Wilson, Mortimer D. Whitmore, Charles A. Crompton. sth Foot—Gentleman Cadet Robert Auld to be En sign. 12th Foot—Gentleman Cadet John Charles Mathew Pigott to be Ensign, Gentleman Cadet Charles Richard Town ley, to be Ensign. 25th Foot—Ensign Hans Robert Rathborno to be Lieute nant; Gentleman Cadet James Ramsey Hobday to be Ensign. 27th Foot—John Patrick Somers Cocks, Gent., to be 40th Foot—Frederick William George Hebbert Nelson, to be Ensign. 43d Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Harcourt Sawyer to be Ensign. 44th Foot—William Odell, Gent., to bo Ensign. 46th Foot—Gentleman lOadat Henry John son, to be Ensign. 57th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Henry Thomas Hughes- Hallett, to be Ensign. 59th Foot—Captain Robert Fraser Humphrey, to be Cap tain ; Lieutenant Charles Albart Leslie Attila French to be Captain; Ensign Henry Anderson Wilson to be Lieutenant. 62d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Edward James Gaidner Lewis to be Ensign. 68th Foot—Captain and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel C. Spen cer Churchill to be Captain, Lieutenant Arthur Francis Marshall to be Captain. 82d Foot—Quartermaster Sergeant Alfred Blade to be Quartermaster. 95th Foot—Paymaster F. Scrivener to be Paymaster. 96th Foot—Ensign Cecil Lugar4l Smyth Branson to be Lieutenant; Ensign Henry Scougall to be Lieutenant; Ensign Edmund Berkeley to be Ensign. 97th Foot—John Cumberlege Cautley, Gent., to be En' sign; Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain/ Maxwell Kirwan Morris, to be Paymaster. 101st Foot —Gentleman Cadet George Williams Deane, to be Ensign. 102 d Regiment —Gentleman Cadet Richard James Pike to be Ensign. Rifle Brigade—Lient. Cornelius B. Broadbent to be Cap tain ; Ensign Cecil Harley St. Paul to be Lieutenant; William Bagwell, Gent., to be Ensign ; Ensign Joule° John Preston to be Instructor of Musketry. Depot Battalion—Captain John Nathaniel Gower to be Instructor of Musketry, Captain William F. Carleton to be Instructor of Musketry. 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Cure No. 68,413—" R ome, J u l y 12 , 1866--Tb`,, health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoo; ing all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to D" Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a pla t . e i ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisi ng l y benefin''s effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excelle food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. Cute No. 46,270 —Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frinli e Ji Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. I,77l—Lord Stuart : de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many yea rs ' dyspepsia" No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable agony fro m d ys pePo. z„. ' nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spo.o l °' sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Important Caution‹, Beware of the many unsavoury and more tha n s l oppy i m i ta tion , to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most aud it ' ciously attached. In tins, at is. 14d.; 11b. 2s. 9d. ; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs, lls. ; 12 1 1 * 225. ; 24 lbs., 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REYALENTAARABICA CDOC° - LATE POWDER is packed in ti n can i sters ; for 12 cups at 25., fo r 2 4 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at C s., f or 288 cups at 305., for 576 c uP! at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 30s. and 585 tine are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Offle Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY a n d C o., N o. 77, Regent-street, Lon don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. CLOWES— On the 11th inst., at 34, South-street, Grosve' nor-square, the Hon. Mrs. Clowes, of a son. • GODFREY—On the 10th inst., at The Lodge, Herue 1 31 0 Mrs. T. Godfrey, of a son. MEYNELL—On the 10th inst., at Meynell-Langley, Der* Mrs. Meynell, of a daughter. Marriages. MA XWELL—MooRE—On the 9th inst., at Lee, Bent, Alfred Maxwell, Esq., of Plumstead, to Alico Elizabeth, thin daughter of the late James Moore, Esq., of the RailWaY . Hotel, Blackheath. YORKE— OSWALD—On the 9th inst , at St. George's. Era' over-square Captain tho Hon. John Manners Yorke , R.N., to Edith, youngest daughter of the late Alexand er Oswald, Esq., of Auchencruvie. Deaths. AncissoN— On tho llth inst., at Kangra Lodge, Alexa l3- dria-road, Kilburn Priory, Charles C. Atkinson, 8 541 barrister-at-law, aged 76. DICKINSON—On the llth inst., at 39, Upper Brook-stre et " John Dickinson, Esq., F.R S., of Abbot's-hill, llert6l aged 87. EGG—On the 11th inst., at 1, Pidcadilly, Mr. Henry Ve 3l aged 59. POWER—On the, 10th inst., at Bath, Anne, widow of DP Gen. Sir Manley Power, K.C.8., aged 84. WYNDHAM—On the 10th inst., at Didton, WiltA A 10 9 0: der Wadham Wyndh am , late Captain in the Soots GNP' aged 69. London : Printed and Pabli e h e d b y WILLIAM ANDItSWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TM: Surt Office, No l ' o f Strand, in the Precinct o f t h e Savoy, in the 00t1 2 t1 - Aliddlosa,—Wodneliday, Jpiuumy 13„1869. ~ Y ' .