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

THE RITUAL JUDGMENT. It will be remembered that on iiecemner SO 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 Jannary 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 sopp, T. T. Carter, 11. J. Nihill, Dr. Littledale, the Hon. C. L. Wood, Mr. J. D. Chambers, and Mr. R. 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 DENISON, 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 bad 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, or 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 theworship 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 matte; 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 23,1868, 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 skew that the judgment practically imposes 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 iti 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 la 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-upthorised by the Prayer-book of the Elizabethan Act of Uniformity. The judgment referred to the Westertou v. Lidd e ll decision ; bathe Court of A ppcal has already departed from the principle of that decision, since it has sanctioned the use of altar cloths of various colours, althoughnot sanctioned in the rubric. The memorial goes on to complain that whereai 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 ho adopted is shewn by various pas sages quoted from State papers and Burnet's " History of the Reformation." It is next shewn that by laying down the rubric of 1662 as the solo exhaustive directory for public wolship, the judgment has by implication, (a), made several long-established usages illegal, (b), revised and made compulsory several neglected usages, and left the clergy totally without guidance in many cases. Thirteen of the first class of instances, nine of the second, and five of the third are given. Among the second-class are daily prayer, the use of Eucharistic vestments, the use 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, proceeding 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 of the judgment would be a grievous ifijustice,pn the other hand the exaction of a rigid uniformity moat 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 iangers 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 recognie the existing Court of Appeal as competent to declare the law of the Church upon either loctrine or ceremonial, and that while the fundamental principle of connection with, and reference to, the practice )f 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 expressep the meeting's deep regret at the late decision, and sees in it " a call to use their respec tive 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. Macko amble to costs in an action which he did not originate, and on matters which bad not been previously tried, and which many eminent counsel had declared to be legal. The CHAIRMAN then called upon Mr. Turner to move that the report be considered, remarking that it was merely '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. MAYOw then moved the adoption of the memorial, which was seconded by Mr. BURCHAM, who said he had looked with great interest to the produc don of the report, which, after hearing it read, ho felt would be very comforting to all true Churchmen. They had waited for the report of those whom he 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. MourNEux 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. WOOD 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 be 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 had been among his dearest friends for many long years of his life. He did not think he ought to be called a disobe dientsubject 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, but 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." (Applause.) The Rev. Mr. LE GEYT seconded the amendment. A long discussion followed. A show of hands was taken, and the chairman declares the amendment to be lest. 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 m ee ti ng fi n d s, among other things, that-that judgment disregards the Church of England's funda mental princip'e of connection with and reference to the practice of the Church primitive and Catholi3 ; 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 (.1 the Privy Council, and see in it a call to use th e i r respective positions in the Church and in the world to spread in all possible ways the doctrine of the Iteal 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 al] 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 o( 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 had not been so sustained " CRIMINALS. Mr. Fenwick, the chief constable of Chester, has made a irne statements on the kul,j,ct 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 svl , ;fl must be taken away. CRUEL Mex.—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 apps aced in the pitblic press " that some dread:ul 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 he a hoax, no bodies having been seen." A SON ATTEMPTING TO POISON A FAMILY AV SHEFFIELD.--On Sunday a young man, named Edmund Barker, 25 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 litterness of the broth, with no worse consequence than that one of the daughters was sick; and when he u•a; charged with it be laughed. He hail often ill-used all tl:c 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 addicte,l to the reading of books on history and rarliamentary debates. His general conduct at home would lead to the belief that he is not right inpis mind. VIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1.69. MISCELLANEOUS IVEIVS. Grattan: — ln doing so Mr. ()Eagan 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—h. - is 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 £10(1 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 modern 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 to represent the - growing sentiment of tne age. THE HOPE OF THE CONSER V ATIVES. 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 Colonel Wilmot, the Conservative candidate at the South Derbyshire nomination. seemed quite hopeful that the Irish Church would 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 EPISCOPATE. A correspondent in India writes in the highest terms of the Bishop of Calcutta. He was to remain five days at Lahore, and during that time would hold 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 tc visit the European prisoners in the gaol Inspect the Schools, 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 for 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 THE ELECTIONS. , neglecting his own diocese, Mr. R. Dudley Baxter comes forwara to plal the THE GIBRALTAR QUESTION. part of a political Mr. Toots. He is a Conservati ve , A correspondent of the Times, in treating of this and has been trying to get comfort to himself from subject, as7.s where restitution is to end if all .acquisi the returns as to the elections. He finds, according tions by conquest are to be restored. By the (session to his own calculations, that there is a Liberal of Corfu we have not gained the gratitude of the ' majority of 111. But he assures us, as a Greeks, while we have relinquished a position of party man, " it's of no consequence." He consequence. The writer asks if India is to discovers the Liberal majority to have increased be restored to the undoes and Mahomedans. by 37 votes since the last Parliament—but it's No reason holds good with respect to of no consequence. He acknowledges that both the cession of - Gibraltar that does not apply Scotland and Ireland have pronounced unmi s take- with equal force to Hong Kong - ; and then we must ably for the disestablishment of the Iri s h Church— consider the claims of New Zealand. The Cape of but it's of no consequence. The Reform Bill of Mr. Good Hope should be surrendered to the Dutch, a n d Disraeli was a satisfactory measure, notwithstanding they might emulate our example by returning it to that it has destroyed its author's Ministry and disor- the Hottentots. As for the gratitude of Spain, it i s ganised his party. M r . B ax t er s h ews reason f or hi s as k e d, w h a t recognition has she ever made of the AMERICA. jubilation. The Reform Bill of 1831 pos iti ve l y f or services of England. A more rational view There is, unfortunately, too much reason to fear that the the time destroyed the Conservatives, and made them is taken by those who desire, at least, that we should settl emen t o f th e Alabama claims will be much impeded powerless until the new vot ers b ecame w h a t Mr. have Ceuta in exchange for Gibraltar; but that place by the uncompromising nature of the American dem an d s . Baxter calls " eonseevatisecu B u t b y t h e new bill cannot be lo o k e d upon as an equivalent. Large English statesmen desire to see the end of this difficulty, only nineteen seats have b een h an d e d over t o th e sums mus t b e expended upon Ceuta before she can Liberals—" a mere nothing w h en compare d w ith so c ome u p t o Gib raltar in the requ i rements of peace, both because England will be most benefited by an inter national judgment on such a question, and because great an enlargement of the suffrage." Besides, the while in time of war she must utterly fall short. It Conservatives represe n t a l arger num b er th an th e i s fi na ll y urged that the possession of such places as unfriendly relations between the two countries ar e p re - Liberals. Mr. Baxt er h as ma d e ca l cu l at i ons, an d Gib ra lt ar h as enabled our merchants to carry on judicial to the interests of both. But this sentime n t i s finds that on the population the Conservatives have a their trade advantageously, and therefore it is n o t not reciprocated in the United States. The Ameri cans net gain in the U n it e d Ki ng d om o f 430,000. More: in correct to lo o k upon these f or tifi e d s t at i ons as nothing do not like England, and rather desire that we should England there is a net vain of 2,ooo,ooovoters, besides, but military posts. know it. Mr. Reverdy Johnson's efforts as a peace sa says t t e h r e m c i o n r a r t e i s o p n o tno which the Irish Church as a question by itself decided maker only draw upon him the hostility of the Republicans. COUNTY FINANCIAL BOARDS The Government is likely to bring out a social the elections, slid, seeing the number of Dissenters in policy, as it is called, at the re-opening of Parliament. Ireland and Scotland, the vote must of necessity go ' Chamber of Agriculture Journal announces, against the Conservatives' position. Mr. Baxter The dentT her There fi the hneo Times,tal talk o af good deal but there e re earnestis, hopes, therefore, that the next elections will skew a " th e rough the kindness of an influential friend," yield.as k muchll The more press, of for t Englandhe most t n p shea rpart, opposesseems rm to s reaction. The Times, in criticisins , the letter, declares that a bill is being prepared for the establishment of of the settlement recently announced, and advocates Conservatism to be dying. Wha7t it wants is a man County Financial Boards. Mr. Johnson's recall. Intelligence from other sources like Peel, courageous enough to free himself from , mere party traditions ; and strike out a path of his TH E YOUNG MEN OF THE PERIOD. confirms these unfavourable omens. The correspond en t the success which attended the own. Such a man the "leading journal'.' thinks the , Encouraged by Tories have not got. : articles in the Saturday Review on the Girls of the Period, the Daily Telegraph has started a correspond- - anxious, notwithstanding all that has been said to the of the Telegraph believes that Mr. Seward is really MR. MORLEY, M.P. ON THE LIBERATION SOCIETY. youngmen. The letters are for the most ence on the part of most American politicians there is an increas- Mr. Morley's withdrawal from the Liberationcontrary, to pass a settlement . through .. the Senate ; but on part exceedingly trite and commonplace, though ing indifference or unwillingness to conclude the matter. Society since he became member for Bristol, has t rue enough. excited some comment among his co-religionists. In We are told, for instance, what we all Whatever protocol may be agreed upon must secure the knew bef ore , th at young men now lik e to spend their ratification of two-thirds of the Senate. Mr. Reverdy reply to a letter from a Bristol Nonconformist, M r . .money entirely on themselves; shun marriage because Johnson has few friends in that body, and it is there- Morley says that he holds, as distinctly as ever he did, the opinions that religion is hindered and the 1 would dep r i ve th em o f all their freedom, whiCh fore likely that the credit of settling this dispute will be being interpreted means license ; rote the society reserved spiritual character of the Church injured by political of . modest women slow, and do their flirting at interference. But his conviction deepens that thewill send out another ambassador. It is certain that many c . asinoes. All this is, unhappily, a stale story, though by the Republicans for themselves, and that they cessation of such interference is not to be brought it would be a nice question to determine the amount about by an assault on the part of Nonconformists, .of responsibility attaches to each of the two The progress of the negotiations under 2 , Ir. Seward's but by indoctrinating the public mind with right _ which views as to the separate functions of the Church and sexes. Th e y oung man d oe s not like the girl of the management is still the subject of very conflicting state. the State, and by encouraging Churchmen to seek period beca use s h e is fast and loud ; the girl is fast ments. One account affirms that Mr. Seward insists uprn more liberty. His chief objection to the Liberation and loud be cause a young man o f th e per i od prefers England admitting her liability, leaving only the amount Society consists in the declaration of its wish t o the society o f vena l t o mo d es t wom en. Amid the to be settled; another that he assents to an arbiter, but columns of commonplace which the Telegraph has apply to secular uses the national property of the published there is, however, one new idea. It is that Established Churches. He could not be committed the present degrdation of young men is due in larse : dThi s esire d s o e t s h n a ( t ) t theexhaust cboi choice the shal llist o b f e ve r r a s t i i o fi n e s d : b t y he t N he ew Se y na o t r e k . to this hard-and-fast line, and therefore, while he- measure to the lower tone of literary men. In tte has cordially co-operated with the society in efforts days of Charles Lamb the wittiest literary men in for abolishing church rates, opening the universities, London met at one another 's houses at family papers publish fresh " settlements " weekly. and securing tine right of burial in churchyards, 1101 gatherings—with a leg of mutton,. if a dinner cannot continue a member of the association. This is a remarkable s t a t emen t, coin i ng f rom such a were in questiOn ; with punch, ' not wine, if it were quarter. It seems t o i n di ca t e th a t th ere i s a merely an evening gathering. But now, i f we may even a part y, believe the outponrings of our lit erary men, they sre mong the opponents of St a t e Churches who do all on the side of the , luxurious and th e r i c h ; th ey not w:s 1 1 to secularise Church p ro p er t y; in a word, spurn the (to use Wordsworth' s expressaon) " plain that while Mr. Gladstone will h ave th e i r ass i stance in living and the high thinki ng " o f o th er d et - s. Not disestablishing the Irish Ch urc h, h e mus t no t count only do they discourse learn e dly o f the different upon their unconditional su p por t w h en h e comes to clisendowment, kinds of wines that ought t o accompany different courses, but they sneer persistently at anybody who THE IRISH BISHOPS gives a dinner that is not grand. In fact, they have According to the Record, the Irish bishops have bartered the glorious symposia of former days, when been holding a meeting at Dublin, to consider what there really was a feast of reason and a flow of soul, ought to be their course with respect to the disesta- for entrees, early peas, and vapid talk. They have blishment of the Irish Church. The variety of the fallen down and worshipped the golden image which proposals made shewed, according to our con- that tyrant king, Mammon, has set up. 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 'louses of Convocation of -both provinces, which are, in fact, under the patriarchal iurisdiction of the Archbishop of Armagh. FOREIGN NOTES: lINFAVOURABLE OMENS. The general aspect of European politics 18 not such al 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 TIIE SCOTCH CLERGY AND THE IRISH CHURCH. An analysis has been published of the Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities election, which is interest ing as shewing the attitude of the Scotch clergy on the question of disestablishment. It appears that the great bulk of the ministers of the Established Church of Scotland-408 out of 429—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, 168 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 only 14 votes : Mr. Gordon had a majority of doctors, but Mr. Moncreiff had a majority of lawy ers , s t u d en t s , merchants. and-,archi b.xts. 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 renderits success entirely useless as a peace guarantee. The Constitutionnel says the Progressist party Is gradually coming round to an alliance with the Repub. 1 1 licans, and fears are entertained that the benefit of such a union will be all on the side of the latter. RUSSIA AND ENGLAND, The Moniteur 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 Government vit,ws 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 iu that quarter. The Monitet,r —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. MISDIRECTED PHILANTHROPY Mr. Beggs has just read a paper on "Misdirected Philanthropy as an Economical Question," at a • 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 in a great m easure m i s di rec t e d. In support of this view of . the questi on M r . B e ggs de clared. that the sums spent in poor rates and charity were bad investments. lle considered that the chief efforts of all should be directed to save th ose w h o are t o tt er i ng 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 w as oppose d t o Govern ment works and to organised schemes of emigration ; neither had he any hope th a t pr i son or work h ouse labour would check crime and pauperism. Mr. Beggs thought that the best pl an would be to reduce the national expenditure and encourage those public" works which would afford emp l oyment to hun dreds now n want of it. Another mode of raising the people would b e t o i m p ro ve their homes, and education would, o f course , con d u ce materially to the desirable end. lie observed, in conclusion, that the philanthropist had failed in dealing with the pauper, and that therefore we had better try the economist. A STRANGE STORY. There is an exceedingly strange story, which we can hardly credit, in the Liverpool 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 ant 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 ve r y i n t eres ti ng l e tt er appears in .the Times on the subject. The correspondent suggests that the reforms, while they are b e i ng ma d e , s h ou ld go deep enoug h t o 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 salmon come up 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 il: 4 ;erferes too much in the business of each dep • rtment, 7hich it much increases by the conti nua l calls for n ce dl es l! returns. Ho promises further information in a secoi:f l letter. A correvandent of i;he Star writes protesting against ilia appointment of Admiral Robinson as Controller of the Navy. Ho 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 direct contact with Mr. Reed. In the same way direct communication bet Teen 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 ellectue of £lOO towards tho monument of Henry SCARLET FEVER. Great interest must be felt in the progress which is made by medical science in the prevention of scarlet fever. The tragic effects of this disease, which kills 29,000 individuals yearly, have been so heavily felt that all information on the subject will be eagerly welcomed. Dr. Budd, of 13ristol, has con tributed a paper to the British Medical Journal, in which he is confident that the spread of scarlet fever may prevented. He ad v i ses that the greatestbe largelycar e 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 nn the other. CRIMINAL SUPERVISION. A correspondent of the Times writes in favour of the supervision of criminals, and relates 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 pla ce at the annu a l f a i rs held i n t h e vicinity. 'lle accord a satisfactory accoun t of tillhgoslYe s u e .h a o rch c e o d ul t d he no d t ou g b i t s f re ul lodging-houses, an d sent tnemseives to tne gaol ror a night and a day, and the result was that no fighting or robberies t oo k p l ace at the fair. Th e advantages of the preventive system are ahewn in another statement. Some years ago the railway between Edinburgh and Berwick 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 ca me to he went along the cut:re train and w.-.rned 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 from the neighbourhood. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. - Professor M:4son 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 to such an institution . wr.s, that it encouraged sentimentaEsm. In speculating .upon this theory, however, we should not forget the advancea that have been made in the way of 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. Hating 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 his 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 r 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 Cadiz municipal elections, just after the insurre2- 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. " Ife intimidates the Greek leaders and their followers, and conciliates the Cretan insurgents, promising them the autonomy of the'is and." Soo says the Liberte, seri ous l y enough ; b ut if M. Ch am p o i seau i s rea lly doing a ll t hi s, the sooner he is silenced t h e b etter. I t i s not the b us i ness of ' consuls to i n t er f ere i n thi s wa y. Be sides, th e i nsurrection in Crete h angs w h o lly u p on th e question wh e th er T ur k ey an d Greece will or will not go to war. If th ey fi g h t, t h e C re t an i n surrection will be pro longed, in spite of all that the French Consul can do, AFFGHANISTAN. The great battle in Affglianistan 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 villa 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. wlio commanded the most powerful force. MIA.TEUR TITEATRICALS.—An excellent entertain ment was given last evening at the ball 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 setio-com . .c singing of Mr. 11. Wahnsley and Miss A. Williams, who were frequently encored ; and delighted the audience until a late hour. IArrvEnTISEMENT.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 sektica, tied.oloreux. and neuralgia, now wearing out the strength and patience of thousands, who might derive incredible case by he use of Holloway's ointment and pills. No matter what has been the dnration of the complaint, nor how severe or excru ciating have been the sufferings, they wilt be diminished by warm fomentations, brisk friction with the unguent, and. suitable doses of these pills.' This treatment has ofteix sueceded when every variety of sedative has proved perfectly uveless. (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 En€►lish men of business, as shown by the facts brought out since 1865, we do not pretend to say ; but 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 pfeyed. The Times has given prominence to the Wall -street speculations in Erie azd New York Central, and urged this shameless 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 (From our own Correspondent.) "Philadelphia, Jan. 6. " The Secretary of the Treasury has made his trual 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 $6,800,0.0. "During the last mouth the Government expenditures were in excess of the receipts about 61,600,000." 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 aidition to the telegram was made by him : " The cash in the Treasury amounted on January 1 to $ 111 ,750,000, viz., $98,750,000 in coin, and $13,000,000 currency, against $106,750,000 last month, being an 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 64 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 daring 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 sliott 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 Erie 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 largo dividends, and the rise of the New York Central was on the following announcement :-- "Whereas this company has hitherto expended of its earnings for the purpose of constructing and equipping its 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 in 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 " bear" operators. They combined to throw down 40th Foot—F re d er i c k W illiam George Hebbert -Is°4 2 to be Ensign. 434 Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Harcourt S"j t be Ensign. • 41th Foot—William Odell, Gant., to be Ensign. 46th Feet—Gentleman 'Cadet H enry J o h n son, r" #„ Ensign. O r' 57th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Henry Thomas 1 10 0 Hallett, to be Ensign. or 59th Foot— C Captain Robert F raser H umphrey, to be oil tain ; Lieutenant Ch ar l es Alb er t L sslie Attila Filjibe to be Captain ; Ensign Henry Anderson Wilson t° Lieutenant. 624 Foot—Gentleman Cadet Edward James G alci Lewis to be Ensign. se 68th Foot—Capt a i n an d B revet Lieut.-Colonel C. m. ap eio cer Churchill to be Captain, Lieutenant Arthur F Oll Marshall to be Captain. 82d Foot—Quartermaster Sergeant Alfr9d Slade to Quartermaster. 95th Foot—Paymaster F. Scrivener to be Paymaster. b e 96th Foot—Ensign Cecil Lugaril Smyth Branson t° Lieutenant; Ensig n H e n ry Scougall to be Lieute°6 l3t . Ensign Edmund Berkeley to be Ensign. Ea , 97th Foot —John Cumberlego Cautley, Gent ., to beteith sign ; Pay mas t er, with the honorary rank of Cap " Maxwell Kirwan Morris, to be Paymaster. 101st Foot—Gentleman Cadet George Williams .w ea to be Ensign. Pike nk t ht 1 02 d Regime n t—G en tl eman Cadet Richard James l A be Ensign. Rifle Br•igada—Lient. Cornelius B. Broadbent to be 0 tain ; Ensign Cecil Harley St. Paul to be Li e uten‘o William Bagwell, G en t., t o b e E nsign ; Ensign le° John Preston to be Instructor of Musketry. Depot Battalion—Capt a i n J o h n N at h an i el Gower to re Instructor of Muiketry, Captain William F. Carleton be Instructor of Musketry. 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Important Ca t : l 46o Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy lu ll ; ot, to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is mos t dourly attached. 11 JO' In tins, at Is. 11d. ; 1 lb . 2 s. 9d . ; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d. ; 5 lbs, Ill.; r,ooo' C rd 225. ;24 lbs., 40s.—Als o Du B ARRY ' S RE YALE NTA ARABIC), for ,4 7 LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2 !''g 0 1 '4 cups at 3s. 63., for 48 cups at 0., for 288 cups at 305., for ,1 5 , tw o at Ms.—being about one penny per aup. The 30s, and 5 'OO, are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of post /p i Orden—BAßßY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-stree t, don; and all Grocer s an d Chemists. Births. CLOWES—On the 11th inst., at 34, South-street, GODFREY nor-squ On the 10th inst., at T are, the Hon. rs. Clowes,he of Lode Hero° a son. 1310 — M Mrs. T. Godfrey, o f a son. ' Lodge, MEYNLLL—On the 10th inst., at Meynell-Langley, n er Mrs. Meynell, o f a daughter. Marriages. MA XWELL—MOORE—On the 9th inst., at Lee, Kent, — lf he; Maxwell, E sq . , o f Pl umstead, to Alice Elizabet b, • f we daughter of the late James Moore, Esq., of the 113 ' Hotel, Blackheath. IP ir YORKE— OSWALD— On the 9th i ns t, a t S t . G eor ge o rk e e' over-square, Captain the Hon. John Manners.,"" „, R.N., to Edith, you nges t d aug ht er of the late Ain.'" Oswald, Esq., of Auchencruvie. Deaths. AO' le„ A ATKINSON— n the 11th inst., a t K angra Lodge, - A dria-road, Kilburn Priory, Charles C. Atkinson , barrister-at-law, aged 76. et? t o DlcHiNsox—On the 11th i ns t ., at 89, Upper Broolc - i 6 0 0. 7 ' John Dickinson, Esq., S., of Abbot's-hill, m aged 87. EGG—On the 11th inst., at 1, Pidcadilly, Mr. Hen r d aged 59. Ll . POWER—On the 10th inst., at Batb Anne widow' °C Gen. Sir Manley Power, K.C.8., aged 84. Ale St' e lr WYNDHAM i ns t., —On the 10th Didton, WiltF, der Wadham Wyndham, late Captain in the Scots aged 69. r.ondon : P r i n t e d and Pabliehed by WILLIA.Ig ~riftr)n t of No. 112, St ran d , P r i nter, at 171 , 11,i Scat " - ,t/ Strand, in the P rec i nct of the SP voy, in the ° °%l Middlesex.--Wednesday, Januaiy 13, 180. " CORNERS " IN ENGLAND 6- AMERICA. the value of the shares ; bet them by a sticn rl and unexpected move, b y which the law litniti°: the increase of capital was evaded, and the s h a rebol; ders were delight e d on gett i ng largely their hol dia increased, coupled with the assurance that it was e n o of the accumul a t e d earn i ngs expended to imPr e; their property. It so answered VANDERBI LT , AVall-street speculations that he made four or millions of dollars f rom th e men who were tryil to crush him, an d h e ra i se d the. stock from 1 24 ' 150. It may be true, as alleged, that the accouP tj were falsified, as b u t wo years ago . the company as ks the Legislat ure t o i ncrease the freightandpassen g i rates, as the road could not otherwise earn enot l g to pay divide n d s , an d one or the other of :hosedeCls' rations are suppo , ed by some to be untrue. rryci course pursued by V ANDERBILT may also, as alleg e be a simple w a t er i ng o f t h e stock ; yet that t he public do not think so is clear from the great r isi in the market value of the shares.. It is also nn' deniable th a t C ommo d ore V ANDERBILT has tur n every line he has controlled, however ill .mans` and depress e d w h en i t came i nto his hands into , o prosperous concern, and these facts go f a r to 3 ' • count for the r i se , a l t h oug h such " corners " ar e 0 disgrace to Wall-street, as is the shameful j o bblori of which the L on d on S toc k Exchange has bee made the stage ; y e t on f a i r l y contrasting the tae e we find that i nves t ors i n L ondon have been tasu victims to a far greater extent, by nefarious tray, actions, and are much more likely to be so is thi future than are the investors in New York. LUNDON GAZETTE_LAsr EvENING. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 9. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don ITrbß il° Mountjoy Ag u il era as C onsul -General for Spain „ London. JAN. 11. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don G lermo Binny as Consul at Belize for the Republic Guatemala. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JAN. 12. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Major -General Chan' Grant, C. 8., to be Colonel-Commandant ; Major-G° lf t , ral Richard C. Moore, C. 8., to be Colonel-Commatlel; 2d Dragoon Guard s — Quartermaster-Sergeant Edward Tuckett to be Quartermaster. Bth Hussars—Staff-Burg. John S. Chartres to be surge° 11th Hussars—Cornet John D. H. Stewart to be Lie° nant ; Edward W. Mills, Gent., to be Cornet. 21st Hussars—The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadet, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornets :--F t el e ; derick Willi am B enson, v i ce R. C. Andrew, promeieet Rowland Hill Martin, vice T. Deane, promoted ; Andrew Ramsay, vice J. W. M. Cotton, pr moted. Royal Artillery—Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel I G. Nuthall to be Colonel; Captain and Br eve t-Coloo e Robert Cadell t o b e Li eu. -Colonel ; Captain and Bre vet . Major E. W. Dance to bo Lieut.-Colonel; Second G a P; tain Charl es E . W atson to be Captain ; Lieut. Patr i c Murray Rollimd t o b o S econd Captain ; Lieutenant Ft" , derick Swaine Le Grice to be Second C s P i3is t : l Second Captain Algernon Aug. Stewart to be Adju i3ll o ,l The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets, from the R e l ic , Military Ac a d emy to b e Lieutenants : Frederi c Nicolson, L aunoy Ri chard Coussmaker, Henry Trave' Lugard, John Hume Hart, Henry Lyall, John Le e . James Cecil D a lt on, F ranklyn Moody Longcroft, , , Ham Musson Campbell, George Richard F 005 001191 Du Iley St. Leger Hill, Lionel James Archer Chapm an Walter Sherer Bi r d, S y d ney Gerard Frederick Be lle' Charles Russell, Reginald Butler Place, Thomas g tl.l ; hew, Francis Onslo w B arr i ng t on Foote, Henry Brett Wildig, Edmund G eorge H enry Bingham, and VOl' Charles Warner Arbuthnot. Corps of Royal Engineers—Staff* Assistant -Surg e ° t Joseph William Carter Neynoe Murphy to b 3 Assie t ! p li Surgeon. The f o ll ow i ng G entlemen Cadets, from Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenants with te °l ; porary rank, viz.: —Henry Hardinge S. ennyngivia Horatio Arthur Yo r k e , G eorge Baker, Charles Had a( ' Gordon, Horatio Dove, Sidney Smith, Henry Pilkias: • ton, Reginald Cl are H art, Frederick Wilmer WaticiPt Henry Clarke, James Campbell Barker, Alfred Vg": Oc avius Cotton, Henry Oliphant Selby, Mont 3 gl o Langhorne, F re d er i c k T homas Nelson Spratt, Wilbraham Lindsay d'Anyers Willis, Tames Came ron ' William T. Wilson, Mortimer D. Whitmore, Charles Crompton. • tr s th Foot—Gentl e m an C a d e t R o b ert Auld to be - ...,..___ sign. 12th Foot —Gentl eman C a d e t J o h n Charles Mathew Flo l/ to be Ensign, Gentleman Cadet Charles Richard Tov ley, to be Ensign. 25th Foot—Ensign Hans Robert Rathborne to be Lie u r ie naut; Gentleman Cadet James Ramsey Hobday to Ensign. 27th Foot—Joh n P a t r i c k Somers Cocks, Gent., m En7ign.