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PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
The Rev. F. Salter, M.A., to the Rectory of Hethe, near 131

teeter, Oxfordshire.
The Rev. A. Williams, M.A., to the Rectory of Prior's Portion,
Tiverton.
The Rev. H. Clifford Radelyffe, 8.A., to be Domestic Chaplain
to the Duke of Marlborough.
The Rev. W. Poulton, M.A., to the Chaplaincy of St. Martin-
in-the-Fields Chapel and Almshouses.
The Rev. J. H. Underwood, M.A., to be Rural Dean of Froome,
in the diocese of Hereford.
The Rev. J. F. Croery, 8.A., to be Minister of St. John the
Evangelist Episcopal Chapel, Forres, in the diocese of Moray
and Ross.
The Rev. Henry Peters, M.A., to an Honorary Canonry in
Durham Cathedral.
The Rev. R. IL. Heap, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Thornton,
near

ar Bradford.
The Rev. J. Pelham Pitcairn, M.A., to be Domestic Chaplain
-o the Duke of Roxburgh.
The Rev. J. W. Griffith, M.A., to the Vicarage of Treveglwys,
Montgomeryshire.
The Rev. G. W. Rooks Incledon, 8.A., to the Curacy of Mylor
and Mabe. Cornwall.
The Rev. If. M. Sandham, M.A., to the Incumbency of St
John's-wood Church, London.
VACANCIES.
The Rectory of Langley Burrell, near Chippenham; worth
4001. a year ; in the gift of the representatives of the late incum-
bent.
The Rectory of Weston-under-Penyard, near Boss; worth 7001.
• year; in the gift of the Bishop of Hereford.
The Vicarage of Kempsford, near Fairford; worth 6001. a year;
in the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.
The Rectory of Ashbrittle, near Wellington, Somerset; worth
41)01. a year; in the gift of Mr. J. Quick.
The Rectory of Stoke Pero, Somerset; worth 1001. a year; in
the gift of Mr. Quick.
The Vicarage of Reepham, near Lincoln ; worth 2001. a year ;
in the gift of the Mercers' Company.
The Rectory of Castleford, Yorkshire ; worth 6001. a year ; in
the gift of the Duchy of Lancaster.
The Rectory of Stonegrave; worth bOOl. a year ; in the gift of

the Crown. -
The Vicarage of Rendhoun, Suffolk; worth 1001. a year ; in
the gift of trustees.
The Rectory of Watterafielti, Suffolk; worth 4001. a year;
in private patronage.
The Rectory of Liston, Essex ; worth 2001. a year ; in the gift
of Mr. R. Lambert.
The Curacy of Abbott& Langley, Hertfordshire ; in the gift of
the 4ev. Gee,

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THE COMMISSARIAT SERVICE. -

TO THE EDITOR OT "THE PRESS."
Sir,—ln your last number you published a letter
of mine showing how, under circumstances similar to
those in which our army is placed in the Crimea, we
should have acted in India: the following authentic
anecdote will show how they act at Balaklava; and
think that you may venture to publish it without fear
of causing that rupture of our alliance with France,
which Sir James Graham predicts as a necessary
consequence of any inquiry into the mismanagement
of our War Department in England.
Well, sir, to proceed. It happens, as all the world
knows, that our two principal diffinilties have arisen
from the want of transport, animals, and forage ;
and it also happens that there is an English mercan-
tile firm located at a town on the opposite shores of
the Black Sea, just three days' sail from Balaklava,
the head of which, seeing the state of affairs there,
offered to purchase on the spot as many baggage-
animals and as much forage for the army as could be
required, and let the commissariat have them on the
instant at a far less cost than they were then paying.
The only answer vouchsafed was a snub for the im-
pertinent interference. When the firm took their
tender to the French camp, it was there most grate-
fully accepted, and they have ever since been engaged
in supplying the French army with the animals and
forage originally destined for our own.
It may bo very easy for Ministers to throw the
blame of what has occurred on Lord Raglan, but how
on earth is Lord Raglan, or any other commander-
in-chief, to get on, when compelled to rely for his
supplies on a commissariat establishment wholly in-
dependent of him, and who deliberately throw away
the opportunities offered them in a manner like this.
—I have the honour to remain, sir, your most obe-
dient servant,

AN INDIAN OFFICER.

Much Ist, 1855.
PS.—I see Ministers perpetually claiming credit
for the land transport corps, but to whom was the
Duke of Newcastle indebted for the idea? Why, to
the Earl of Ellenborough ; only that, had the advice
of his lordship been taken, it would have been com-
menced upon in time to be of use at Balaklava, nigh
a year ago.

OUTGOING PATRONAGE.
Sir,—Your last impression contained a letter justly
reflecting on the contrast between the Earl of Derby
and his opponents in this respect. It is notorious
that while the Aberdeen Ministry were in articulo
mortis every possible vacancy was made and instantly
filled up by people of a kin with their unscrupulous

patrons.
The late discussion upon the "Woods and Works"
brings to my remembrance some very striking in-
stances of similar conduct on the part of retiring
Liberals. By Lord Duncan's return, illustrative of
the misdoings of these departments consequent upon
the Act 15 and 10 Vic., cap. 42, it is incontestably
proved that at the very moment, in February, 1853,
when the Liberals were at Buckingham Palace re-
signing the seals of office, Messrs. Seymour, Hayter,
and Co. were driving into the departments in ques-
tion a flock of youthful proteges in room of the old
and tried servants who had been displaced to make
way for them.
This leads me to expr3sa my regret that Sir John
Shelley so narrowed his late motion as to give a pre-
tence to the Government for saying that it was a
perilous interference with the executive, for on that
ground alone could anything have been stated in
reply. Had Sir John brought forward a demand for
inquiry into the notorious and disgraceful transac-
tions as a whole, which have been resorted to as a
means of cheating the country out of that " better
management" which was emphatically promised,
and for the purpose of maintaining these departments
in the state in which they where when Sir Robert
Peel happily described them as "the common sewer
of the State," no House of Commons would have
had the courage to repulse it.—Your obedient ser-
vant, A VERDEREE.

CONSERVATIVE UNION.
Sir,—As you justly observed, the present aspect of
affairs calls upon Conservatives to pursue a united
course of action. Allow me one word on that subject.
The Peelite party is, we trust, lost. Its individual
members must betake themselves to other standards.
Now, why should not the best of them return to their
original home, and, sinking the names of Peel and
Derby, constitute the great Conservative interest ?
One public reason alone is opposed to so desirable a
consummation—l speak of the revival of the powers
of Convocation in the Church. It is well known,
especially among the clergy, that large numbers o
Conservative churchmen became followers of Mr.
Gladstone mainly in the hope that by that gentle-
man holding a prominent station in the Government
the Church's rights would be restored to her'• UP-