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At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 22nd
day of November, 1867, her Majesty having been pleased
to appoint the Right Honourable Adelbert Wellington
Brownlow, Earl Brownlow, to be her Majesty's Lieutenant
for the county of Lincoln, his lordship this day took and
subscribed the oath appointed to be taken thereupon in-
stead of the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and ab-
juration.
A meeting of the Trades' Unions Commissioners
sou held yesterday, November 22, at 1, Park-prospect,
Great Queen-street, Westminster. Present : Right Hon.
Sir William Erle (chairman), Earl of Lichfield, Lord Elcbo,
M.P., Sir Daniel Gooch, Bart, M.P., Messrs. Herman
Merivale, C. 8., James Booth, C. 8., J. A. Roebuck, Q.C.
M.P., Thomas Hughes, M.P., Frederick Harrison, and
William Mathews. Mr. J. H. Patteson, secretary to the
commission, was also present.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, NOT. 21.—The
Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Psiry
Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch f ram her
Majesty's ambassador at Constantinople, reportin that
the Turkish government have given notice that the expor-
tation of grain will be prohibited, from the :Nth instant,
in the whole of the province of Scutari, in Albania, in con-
sequence of the failure of the harvest and the scarcity of
provisions ; and that from the same date also the expor-
talon of horses, mules, and working bullocks will be pro-
, hibited in J.ILIIIII and Salonica, where the deficiency of
beasts of burden hes been continually increasing.—Gazette.
REPRESENTATION OF THETFORD. —ln consequence
of some informality attending the application of Mr.
A. H. Baring for the Chiltern Hundreds, it is not
now expected that the impending election for this borough
will take place before -Friday or Saturday next. On
Thursday evening, a meeting convened by the Thetford
branch of the Reform League was held at the Town-hall,
for the purpose of discussing the relative merits of the two
candidates—Lord Frederick Fitzroy and the Lord Advo-
cate. There was a large attendance of electors and non-
electors, and the general feeling of the meeting was in
favour of Lord Frederick Fitzroy in preference to the Lord
Advocate. The meeting p'edged itself, in fact, to support
Lord Frederick, and three cheers were given for his lord-
ship at the close of the proceedings.
KaTINO OF SCHOOLS AND CHARITIES.—A depu-
tation of clergymen and other gentlemen, introduced by
Mr. Hughes, M.P., waited upon the Duke of Marlborough
yesterday, to ask his influence In obtaining an exemption
from rating of schools used by the poorer classes. His
grace specially requested that reporteni should not accom-
pany the deputation, by whom the following abatement
was made as to the effect of the new interpretation lately
given to the act 43rd Elix., by which the schools for
the children of our labouring and poorer classes are in the
years 1866 and 1867, for the first time, subjected to local
taxation :—" If the law aa now interpreted be suffered to
remain in force the consequences will be most injurious
to the cause of education ; every poor school in the country
will be more or less crippled, and of course if the useful-
nese of our schools is decreased, the number of our crimi-
nals and paupers will be greatly augmented. Already
many schools in Lambeth are greatly affected by this im-
position, and some are nearly paralysed ; even our Sunday
schools, not held in buildings used for public worship, are
liable to bo rated, and as a consequexce, if relief be not
forthcoming, some of the schools of the poorer denomina-
tions will have to be closed. The assessment of some of '
our schools amounts to half as much as the whole of their
voluntary contributions, consequently their funds, being
insufficient, have to be supplemented by subscriptions
from the clergy, already overburdeted by claims on their
benevolence. Notwithstanding the late decisions in the oou rta
of law, whatever the letter of the law may be, exemption
of poor schools from rating is consistent with the spirit
and intention of the act of Elizabeth, and has become, b
long and undisturbed enjoyment a prescriptive right which
cannot now be fairly withdrawn. The abolition of this
prescriptive right is certainly contrary to modern legisla-
tion. The 3rd sad 4th William IV. cap. 30, exempts
places of worship from parochial taxation; the 6th and 4th
Victoria, cap. 36, exempts lands and buildings occupied
by liesnryand scientific societies from county, borough,
and parochial rates ; and the Towns Improvement Act,
1847, provides that no building exclusively used for the
purpose of gratuitous education of the poor shall be rated.
It appears, indeed, as if poor schools had been accidentally
omitted from the list of institutions exempted; and we,
the supporters of schools for the children of our poorer
fellow-subjects, appeal to your grace, as the Lord Presi-
dent of the Committee of Council on Education to lay
our case before the government, that we may obtain legis-
lative relief from this most cruel and oppressive burden."
The duke said, as the subject of education was just now a
very popular one, no doubt when the government time to
consider it they would not overlook the point to which his
attention had been directed.

,
Tee FARNHAM WORKHOUSE INQUIRY.—The
proceedings commenced yesterday morning with the exarui•
nation of Mr. Thomas Wightman, of Aldershot, who
stated that he wes elected a guardian of the Farnham'
Union in March last, and bad frequently attended the
meetings of the board. The guardians wished, be said, to
the best of their ability, or so far as they had the power,
to do all they could to promote the comfort of the sick and
infirm. He believed, as stated in the Lancet, that this
anion had been a Pandemonium. but he did not believe
that to have been the fault of the guardians. So far is
his experience went, be thought the late master had too
mach power, and that his position was a false one. Wit.
nem attributed the state of Pandemonium to the fact that
the guardians bad not, control over their officers in re-
gard to them appointment and removal, and he thought
that the guardians had not been properly instructed in
their power and duties. Mr. K Aylwin,butcher, of Farm.
bens, wasexamined as to the supply of meat to the union, and
stated that it had invariably been according to contract,
although occasionally breast of mutton had been put in to
make up a deficiency in the weight of beef. Thisbe(' only
occurred when the order for beef was unusually heavy.
After the examination of one or two other witnesses theist•
quiry was adjourned till Monday, the 2nd proximo.