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THE FOLLOWING ORDER has been issued from the
Recruiting Department, Horse Guards, dated Oc-
tober 3:—

Until further orders recruits are ro be received for the
Cavalry and Infantry of the Line at the following standard
and age:—
Heavy Cavalry.—From 5 feet 5 to 5 feet 0 inches, be•
tureen the ages of 18 and 25.

Light Cavalry.—From 5 feet 5 to 5 feet 8 inches, be.
tween the ages of 18 and 9.5.
Cavalry in India. From 5 feet 5 to 5 feet 7 inches,
between the ages of 18 and :25.

Infantry.—Men and lads from 5 feet 1 inches, between
the ages of 17 and 25.
infantry in India.—Men from 5 feet 4 inches, and not
under 18 years of age.
The regulations regardi.ig the re-enlistment of men who
have formerly served remain in force.
By command of his Royal Highness the General
Commanding in• Chief
WZTAILBALL, Adj ataateGeneral.

987

TEN THOUSAND XORE MLLITIA aro to be called out
ld embodied.

The LEICESTERSHIRE MILITIA has obtained its full
quota of men, and now numbers upwards of 1,050.
The regiment was quartered at Aldershott in the
winter 1855.6, and remained there until the con-
clusion of the treaty of peace with Russia. Both
officers and men are anxious to be called into active
service, and are prepared for any duty at the present
crisis.

THE Roscommox MrirriL have volunteered for
India without a single exception. It is believed that
their services will be accepted.
I HE COLONELCY OF THE 59TH REGIMENT, vacant by
the death of Lieutenant-General Henderson, will be
conferred upon Major-General Jeremiah Taylor, who
has a medal and four clasps for his services in the
Peninsula

REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT LAMBERT BAYNES, C. 8.,
hoisted his flag (white at the mizen) as Commander-
in-Chief of the squadron on the Pacific station, on
board the Ganges, 84, sailing ship, Captain Fulford,
at Spithead, on Saturday, and saluted the Pert-
Admiral. She is still short of her complement of
crew.

CAPTAIN ROBERT FANSHAWE STOPFORD (1840), AND
CAPTAIN TALAVERA. VERNON ANSON (1841), have been
selected by the First Lord of the Admiralty for good.
service pensions.
THE GOVERNMENT have purchased, or are about to
purchase, the hign land called the Nothe, at the
entrance to our harbour (at the end of which stands
the coastguard station, with the flagstaff, a small
battery, consisting of a 32-pounder, Sc.), for the
express purpose of erecting extensive fortifications
along the whole range of the hill on a grand scale.

EARL FITZWILLIAN, K.G., died at Wentworth-house
near Rotherham, Yorkshire, between nine and ten
o'clock on Sunday morning last. The lamented earl,
by the accounts received on Saturday, was considered
to be going on favourably, and it was fully antici-
pated that he would ultimately recover, but a relapse
took place at an early hour on Sunday morning,
under which he rapidly sank. Viscount and Vis-
countess Milton, the Ladies Charlotte and Dorothy
Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Hon. George W. Fitzwilliam,
M.P., and the Hon. Charles W. W. Fitwilliam, Mr. •
and Lady Mary Thompson, Mr. and Lady Albreda
Vernon, and other relatives were at Wentivcrt'i and
present at his dissolution. The deceased Charles
William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Earl Fitzs illiam,
Norborough, county Northampton, Viscount Milton
and Lord Fitwilliani, Baron of Milton, county North-
ampton, in the peerage of Great Britain ; also Earl
Fitzwilliam, county Tyrone, Viscount Milton, county
Westmeath, and Baron Fitzwilliam of Lill'ord, county
Donegal, in the peerage of Ireland, was only issue
William, fourth earl, by his marriage with Lstl
Charlotte Ponsonby, second daughter of William
second Earl of Bessborough. He was horn 4
May, 1786, and married, Bth July, 1806, the Hon.
Mary Dundas, fourth daughter of Thomas, first
Lord Dundas. By his marriage with that amiable
and charitable lady, who died in November, 1830, he
leaves surviving issue three sons and six daughters.
The late earl was a Whig in politics, and Iss many
years, from 1807 to 1830, represented Yorkshire in
the House of Commons, and subsequently, in con-
junction with the late Earl Spencer (then Viscount
Althorp), for Northamptonshire, until his accession
to the earldom in 1833. In 1851 he was made a
Knight of the Order of the Garter. He was a Fellow
of the Royal Society (1811), a S.A., and a F.G.S.,
and a D.C.L. He was in 1853 appointed a Deputy
Lieutenant of Northamptonshire. The deceased
peer is succeeded in the hereditary honours and ex-
tensive patrimonial estates by his eldest son, William
Thomas Spencer Viscount Milton (now earl), born
12th October, 1812, and married, 10th September,
1838, to Lady Frances Harriet Douglas, eldest
daughter of the Earl and Countess of Moreton, 11
whom he has a youthful family. He was returned
to the House of Commons in 1837 for Melton, and at
the general election in 1841 he unsuccessfully con-
tested the West Riding of Yorkshire. In April,
1846, he was again elected representative in Parlia-
ment for Mallon, for which borough he sat to July,
1847, when he was elected for the county of Wick-
low, which county he has since represented in the
House of Commons. His lordship is the lieutenant-
colonel of the West York Yeomanry Cavalry.
A SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH has been successfully
laid between Cagliari and Bona, thus connecting
Europe with Africa. The distance was 145 miles,
of which 100 miles of cable were laid in a depth of
from 1,600 to 1,700 fathoms. The cable weighed
one and a half tons to the mile, and was constructed
with four conducting wires twisted spirally one over
the other. About one-half the quantity of cable re-
quired to extend the Mediterranean telegraph from
Sardinia to Malta, and from Malta to Corfu, is
manufactured; and as soon as the other half is
ready, these places will be brought into the range
of telegraphic connection with England and the
Continent. 1111

988

THE WEEK.

LAST Wednesday was a day that the rising generation will pro-
bably long remember. The last ceremony of a similar character, in
March, 1835, was of too purely a formal nature to make any very deep
impression. Doubtless the various congregations which then listened
to the exhortations of the English Church were all more or less
affected by the circumstances under which they assembled, and by the
language to which they simultaneously listened. Yet, after all, the
" horrible and heartrending" accounts which periodically arrived from
the Crimea were felt to be so closely allied with " the fortune of war,"
and illumined by so much that was glorious, that we question if any
very deep or very genuine national self-abasement was then taking
place. Not even the grave and touching eloquence of Bishop BLOM-
FIELD, who delivered a masterly homily on such " overweening
pride," and such " boasting of armaments," as had characterised us at
the outbreak of the war, was sufficient very permanently to humble
those whose minds could at once revert to Alma, Balaklava, and
Inkermann. On the present occasion, however, there was no such
counteracting influence. Our " overweening pride," noticed on this
occasion by Mr. LIDDELL, as on that by Dr. BLOMFIELD, has received a
deadly blow. The " boasting of armaments " has been met by a practical
rebuke unparalleled in our history ; and there can be no doubt that
the whole nation feels bitterly and sincerely the humiliation which
last Wednesday was appointed to commemorate. It was, no doubt,
inevitable that the various clergymen whose addresses have this week
been published should avoid political details, and no less natural that
they should attribute much of the calamity to causes more or less
connected with religion. Seine few, indeed, as Dr. CROLY and Arch-
deacon SIN:7LAIR, touched more at length on the secular aspects of the
question ; but the majority, whether right or wrong, set down the
rebellion of the native races to our own neglect in imbuing them with
the precepts of the Gospel, and to that greed which sacrifices all spiri-
tual considerations to the prospect of immediate gain. Here a wide
question is open for consideration, and we would not disguise its diffi-
culty. The problem to be solved is no less than this—How far
Christianity and conquest, the Sermon on the Mount and the multipli-
cation table, can become joint agents in the elevation of India to the
level of European progress ? Under our existing dispensation it is
downright folly to suppose that we can ignore material objects in any
great national work ; while, on the other hand, to postpone to them all
higher considerations is deliberately to throw away a privilege
accorded to us by Providence, and to surrender the best justification
we possess for our past conquests. To reconcile these conflicting
views must be the work of the future ; that of the present is the paci-
fication of the country.

The Imperial interview at Stuttgardt is said to have had one
result—the issue of a circular by Count WALEwsxi to the French Ant-
bassadors at the different Courts of Europe. Without either posi-
tively denying or affirming the existence of so formal a State docu-
ment, thus much is certain—a communication of some sort or other
has been made. And we have reason to believe that after announcing
the fact of a complete entente cordiale as established betwen France
and Russia, a resolution to maintain by all possible means
the peace of Europe, and that every endeavour should be made
to bring about a good understanding amongst fall the !Euro-
pean Powers, was resolved upon. Furthermore, it was hoped
that through the exertions of the French Emperor, and
loyal. explanations from all part ies, a cordial reconciliation would
bo effected between Russia and England. This we have every
reason to believe is the substance of the communication referred
to. It is beyond all doubt that other subjects were discussed at
Stuttgardt—such as the Danubian provinces the present state of
Italy, the diplomatic relations with Naples. and the difference between
Deamark and Holstein ; but we do not believe that any definite reso-
lutions were adopted, or even proposed, beyond those given above.
Indeed, on political questions of such importance, it is unreasonable
to suppose that the Emperor NAPOLEON would have come to any conclu-
sion without first consulting the British Government. The present state
of India, we have little doubt, was discussed. We are aware that when
first the intelligence of the rebellion reached St. Petersburg certain Rus-
sian diplomatists strongly urged the Emperor ALEXANDER to turn it
to his profit, and to despatch a powerful body of troops immediately to
his Asiatic frontier. The Emperor ALEXANDER, we have reason to be-
lieve, refused to take any decisive measures previous to the interview
that was about to be arranged at Stuttgardt. At that interview the
French Emperor, true to his alliance with England, not only objected
to such a line of policy by Russia, but stated in most energetic and
decisive language that, should the Russian Government make the
least demonstration in support of the rebels in India, France would
throw the whole of her weight in favour of England. With regard to
the interview at Weimar, we are not disposed to attach to it a result of
any political significance.

Another mail from India is hourly expected. That it will bring
good news is scarcely to be anticipated. The hazardous position of
Lucknow, and the very critical situation of General HEVELOCK, sur-
rounded by the Oude, Futteypore, and Gwalior rebels, and without
any immediate prospect of relief, are not to be regarded without well-
founded alarm. Lucknow may still hold out, but that hope is weak.
We cannot believe that it has been relieved by General OUTRAM. It is
prfauMptuous, perhaps, at this distance to pass any opinion