Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-21 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

Dulness prevailed to-day in the Stock 'Exchange. The
fends have declined about 4- per cent, being unfavourably
effected by the terms of the circular addressed by the
French- Minister of. the Interior to the prefects. The
political crisis continues to weigh heavily-on most
branches of business; and a very impatient feeling is
In the Discount Market to-day choice bills
"' and 2 per cent. There were no
—Pgily News City Article,

growing up
were done between

gold operations at the flu
Saturday Evening.

The English Minds opened this morning al a recovery-
of 4, but it was not maintained, and the market has
awn_ clOsed with a very hadappearance. The- bullion at
the Bank is greater than at any time during thee• last six
years, and is the consequence-of prevailing alarm,. which;
is causing money to be withdrawn or withheld from all
-Times City Article, Saturday-

descriptions of enter

Evening.

Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., has pledged himself to go to•
the poll for Marylebone.

The papers announce the death of the Duke of Buck-
ingham. He was author. of the celebrated Chandos
clause, of the Reform Bill. •

Tne Times announces that the Rev. Mr. Stook, Vicar
of Leeds, has had the Deanery of Chichester offered to-
him, and has acceptad the offer.
reat excitement prevails at Suffolk and Northamptort
in consequence of the intention of immediately applying
machinery to the manufacture of boots.

The Daily Neivs gives a rumour of ministers having
first agreed to a scheme of Reform, and then upon sub-
sequently re-touching some of its features, dissension
broke out, and, as the report goes, Government have found
themselves forced to balance the evils of spoiling the plan
of Reform settled before Christmas, or causing a new
split in their sorely chipped and splintered parts before
Easter.

MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY, AND
ARTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP. •

Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams are re-engaged for sir
nights more at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. They
appear at the Lyceum Theatre on the 28th inst.
During the month of Jannary, 30 books were pub-
lished in Great Britain, including new editions, pamphlets,
and sermons. If we go on at this rate, we shall soon
have to enlarge the British Mus:eum.

The musical festival, which 1 will assemble in the
Exhibition Palace of the Champs Elysees-7,000 musi-
cians from all points of France -will take place on the
11th, 12th, and 13th March next. Eleven choruses wilt
be sung by the united societies
There is a s

iT afloat that Dejazet's femme de chalnbre'
has just died, bequeathing to her mistress a funded sum
of 200,000 f., which she confesses was from time to time
purloined with the ultimate object of securing to her im-
provident employer an income of 10,000 f. in her old age.
We (Critic) find that the verses quoted by Ml*
O'Callaghan as having passed between Lord Byron and
Lady Blessington, are printed Murray's edition of
Byron's poems published in one volume (1854) This
renders Lady Morgan's appropriation of them all the
more extraordinary.
The Glasgow Citizen says :—" Miss Goddard is one' of
those ' bright particular stars' of the theatrical world
whom men delight to witness and honour. Modest and
natural in her actios, she wins the approbation of the
student of Shakspeare for her obedience to one of his
most famous precepts."
Miss Margaret Eburne, the young actress who made so
successful a metropolitan debut at the Theatre Royal,
Sadler's Wells, in the character of Julia, in "The
Hunchback," and sustained the juvenile parts for two
_ (Era) hear, about to rejoin that
company upon the occasion of Mr. Phelps visiting Berlin
and Vienna at the latter part of next month. .

seasons there, is, we

It is stated that Alfred Tennyson, is busy with the last
of the four poems, which will be included in the volume
which may be looked for from his hand about March.
These will include the history of ➢ierlin's bewitchment
by the blandishments of Nemae, the type of wicked
womanhood ; ,of the loves of the faithful Eind, example
of perfect loving truth in woman ; of the fair maiden of
Astolet, who hopelessly loved Launcelot to the death ; and
of the repentance of Guinever, of Glastonbury.

Mr. E. T. Smith is still preparing for the opening of
Drury-lane as an Italian Opera-house. He has engaged
Mlle. Titiens, Mlle. Vaneri, Mlle. Elvira Brambilla (front
Milan), Mme. Giuseppina Lemaire (a prima donna con—
tralto, from the Carlo Felice, Genoa), Mme. Sarolta,
Ludovico Graziana, Signor Pietro Mongini (who is spoken
of as a first class tenor), Signor Badiali (from the Italian
Opera, Paris), Signor Fagotti (a baritone, from La Scala,
Milan), Signor Graziani, Signor Itafaelo Laterza (a basso,
from La Scala), &c. M. Benedict. is to be the conductor.
M. Wieniawski quits us for Paris (says the Literary-
. .

Gaz-ette), just at the moment when his presence among
us would have proved moat serviceable. He returns,.
however (as we are informed), in time to play at the
Monday Popular Concerts on the " Beethoven night,"'
which has been postponed for his convenience. Mean—
while, a greater than M. Wieniawski is shortly expected,
viz

..—Heir Joseph Joachim, who comes armed with a
new concerto. Both of these :consummate violinists, if
rumour speaks truly, are about to institute quartet-soirees,
an their account--Herr Joachim, with a special view to
the posthumous quartets of Beethoven. There is every
reason to believe that (war or no war) the approaching
musical season will be unusually stirring.
It is rumoured (says the a•itie) that in consequence of
a disagreement between Mr. Charles Dickens and Messrs.
Bradbury and Evans a great change will be made with
regard to Housthold IVOrds. This publication, as is
pretty generally known, was founded at the suggestion
of Mr. -Wills, its present editor, and was intended as a
sort of rival to Chambers s: Journal. Mr. Dickens became
a
a shareholder, and his name is-constantly announced as
have v e
either
its " conductor," although his contributions to its pages
have been few and u.mfrequent. Acting under an im...
pressiou that it is his name that offers the sole attraction
Pro—
ot
to the public, Mr. Dickens has determined, it is said, to
withdraw from lituwehold Words, and found another
periodicalceedodsofar upon
at
-annsioininiclae fr,pn.latiiii,e
newand matters
journalera
taken or in progress of being taken in Wellington-street.
0 on-street.
Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, on their part,have resolved
to continue Household TVords, and it. •
le whispered that
they have endeavoured to prevail u
to become its conductor. '\Vhether 131011 Mr. Thaekeray
in persuading the great Tit marsh
they have succeeded
marsh to accede to their
prayer we‘ are, unable to
will have, at their say:, but it is certain that they
disposal the whole of the Poach- staff;
and it *.,
-- is confidently
stated that they will
nvite, the t
re urn .to Household Words of Mr.

3r.e°l'g'9 Au

stus Sala, whom witty and suggestive
I.ettires of v life and manners formed the. chiefest
traction of that publication a few years ago.

PARISIAN IR EATRICALS:
While Mr. Charles Keam, in London, has been gaining
new applause by his adiritable performance. in M. Casi-
mir Dolavigne's play, "Louis X 1.," his French prede-
cessor, M. Ligier, has been representing the same king.
--not in the same piece, but in a new play by M. Victor.
Sojour, entitled " Las grands Vassatkx."- This work is
rather an historical picture than a drama, the great object
of M. Sejour being the liberation of his hero from the
contempt cast -dpon him by; the earlier poets.
He does not, indeed, , make him good,
but he makes him grand, and, that the monarch
may not be altogether alien from, popular sympathies, au
amiable partiality for an illegitimate clang-liter qualifies
his less pleasing attributes.. Unlike the drama of M.
Delavimne, which, with some approach to the old unities,
is cort‘ed to the last hours of the King's lire , M. Seinur's
woAk spreads over a long series of years, beginning with
jaw battle of Monthery, which was fought IR 1465, and
1 ending with the death of Louis, which took place iii
I 1483. The theatre favoured with this piece is the Odeon,
so often selected for the production of ,hair dramas by
Ipoets of literary pretension,

7..'X'ff,',AORDINARY CHARGE OF SEDUCTION.
GARDNER 9./. GODFREY. —ln the Court of Comm(4l
on .aturilay,_nn_actien—a„- brought—to- recover C 3 i
damages for seduction, and the plea was " Not guilty."
It was stated in opening- the case that the action was
kwght by a licensed victualler, in Whitechapel-road, and
-Se defendant was in practice in Mount-place, Mount-
attreet,Whitechapel-roaa, London, as a surgeon. The girl,
plaintiff's daughter, who -had been in January,
IdsB, was not then fifteen years of age. The defendant
laud attended the plaintiff's family for some years as a
medical man, and he did so during the illness of the
plaintiffs wife, who died in March, 1858. Whilst the
mother was on her death bed, the defendant was actually
mincing her child, who was then of course deprived of
Ile care of 'her mother. Another fact in the case
was that the defendant in the course of these proceedings
had made an affidavit denying distinctly the charge.
lifi..earoline Vincent Gardner said : I am the daughter
of the plaintiff, who resides at 98, Whitechapel. I was
IS last Apnl. Before Christmas, 1857, I was at school
st Itedhill, near Edgeware. I came home for the holidays
about the 17th or 18th of December, 1857. My father's
establishment consisted of my father, mother, housekeeper,
beer/maid, and a female servant. I had known Mr. Godfrey
before that time. When I returned home, I found he
'was attending m mother, who was confined to her room,
zaxl afterwards died on the 4th March. From my return
'arsine until the 15th January I was in the constant habit
of seeing the defendant at my father's house. About the
15th January the defendant asked my mother to allow
sae to visit Mrs_ Godfrey. lie asked for me to go
to Mrs. Godfrey to stop for a week or a fortnight.
filfee said she could not spare me she was so ill. Mr.
Godfrey said, " Let her come for a day." My mother said
the maid only spare me for two or three hours. Mr.
Godfrey said, " I will come and fetch you at three o'clock."
Me came at three o'clocl_c„and I went with him in his
cab to his houselii-Fiiisliiry-square. He resided in Fins-
awry-square, but has a shop at Whitechapel. He intro-
&teed me to his wife. Whilst I was there Mrs. Godfrey
bathe room, and I and Mr. Godfrey were alone. It was
a dining room down stairs. He came and kissed me.
He did so about three times. I stayed at his house till
temthat night. I went away with him in his cab. The
cob had two seats, and I sat with my back to the horse.
Mr. Godfrey was opposite. He asked me to sit
by the side of him. I said I would rather sit
where I< was. He then wanted me to sit on his lap. I
would rather not. He pulled me on his lap I tried
to gel away. He said, "Do not be frightened.". I told
Ink he would spoil my dress if he pulled me about.
I said, "Leave off doctor, I would rather sit on the
otber side." He said, "Never mind, I won't hurt you. I
love you too much. I would not do you any harm. I
idtemnted to get away from him, and after some strug:
011ie got away. Mr. Godfrey took me to his surgery
m Mount-place. It nearly oppoaite my father's house.
I waited some little time at his surgery, and he then
worker/ with me across torny father's house. As we were
going he cautioned me not to, tell any one he ever
kissed me, or he would not give me any presents, nor
would he take me -to any picnics he might go to
After this day I saw him from time to time, when he
called to see my mother. He afterwards sent me a ticket
for a ball at the London Tavern. I and my brother went,
and Mr. Godfrey gave me the use of his cab to take
me there and back. About a fortnight after my
visit to his house, he called to see my mother,
wbo was in the drawing-room on the first-floor,
AL I was in the sitting-room, which is the back-room
on the first-floor. I was practising my music. He came in
and said, " Never mind—it's only me ; go on." I had
been in the habit of singing and playing tohim when my
mother was there. I sang a song to him. When I had
Swished, he said, " I want to speak to you—come here."
I went from the piano to him. He sat down on the
couch and pulled me on his knee. (The witness then
mended the committal of the offence charged in the
declaration.) He said, "If you holloa, you will kill
your mamma." When he let me go, I opened the door
and went into mamma's room. Ye stopped a second or
lam, He had made me a present of a scent bottle a short
thee before. After a second or two he came into the
Trent drawing-room. My mother was ill in tkat room.
There was a landine.. between the two- rooms. He did
.asst fasten the door ; he left it a little way open. When
he gave me the scent bottle, he said he would give me a
better present another day. A few days after I was in
my mother's room when Mr. Godfrey came in. As h(
left the room he kissed me. This was in my mother
presenc

I then went into the sitting-room with
Ile wished me to Sing the same song
ixn again. I did not do so. I remember
havinc, a conversation with Lavinia Spratt, my father's

housekeeper. On that day the defendant had called to
see my mother. When he left I went with him out of
the room on to the stairs. He kissed me on the stairs.
It was after that that Lavinia Spratt spoke to me. She
sew him kiss me. I told her what had happened to me.
I made a request to her, and after that request the
defendant never had an opportunity of seeing me alone.
I. remember the night my mother died. Before
she, died, on the same night, the defendant came
over. I was in my mother's room when he came in. I
'was sitting on the sofa. He sat down on the sofa. We
-wen not sitting near to each ether. I was aware my
mother was dying. He said "Never mind, don't cry,
every one must die, and I will be a pa and ma to you."
That was the night of the 4th of March. In the month of
ikpril the defendant sent me some medicines. One was
Tery dark and thick ; the other was pink. It
made me feel very sick. It had no peculiar smell. I did
not take all the thick dark mixture. A few days after
he sent the medicines he saw me in the presence of
Lavini Spratt, the housekeeper. He said she must stand
over me and make me take my medicine. This was in
consequence of part of the dark stuff not having been
,ken.. He said I was to go to the surgery. He wished
me to go over a little after one, or exactly at one.
livinia Spratt asked if she should go to. • I said I did
not wish to go.

To the Judge : I was not aware when I was taking
kis medicine that there was anything the matter with

Witness continued: The defendant came in August

I was in my bed-room, not dressed. Ire did not go into
may room. I went out on to the landing. Lavinia
Spratt was there. He told her to unfasten my dress, as
he wished to listen to my chest. Defendant said to my
father if I was not looked after I should have a weak
shcst, and go off like my mothar. My mother had died
of consumption. After I had been examined by Mr.
Debnam I was sent to Lewisham, and lodged with. Mrs.
Lucas. Mr. King, the surgeon, attended me. I was
anafined on the 10th of October of a weak child, and the
child is still alive.

Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers : I went to Mrs.
Oibb's school, at Redhill. There were 40 girls there.
I never told them I was 16. I shall be 16 next April.
My father's house is the Black Bull. I was two years
at the school. I had been at another school before. I
Was at home only at Christmas and Midsummer. When
I was at home for the holidays, I used to go to bed about
eleven o'clock. There was a gin-shop attached to the
toblic house. I never served. I have been in and out.

I have never stood there at night time. I have only been
to the bar-door. I have not particularly noticed what
sort of women came there. I have seen women there.

I do not know that all of them were women who used to
walk the streets, nor that most of them were. I could

)t tell that they were such women

barmaid served them at the bar

Spratt and the

brother

who lived in the house. He is 17. Lavinia Spratt
slept with me. Lavinia Spratt is sometimes called
Mrs. Chalton. She is called Mrs. Spratt also. There
was a division in the room, and only we two slept
bgether. My father, mother, and brother, slept in the
other division. This was only during the alterations.
The house was being rebuilt. The division was made by
blankets and quilts. After my mother's death we went
into one of the new rooms, and my father• and brother

lept down s

;he bar

•s in the room they.

lent in before. I
'- death. I

-was goin

to schoOl again but for my mother
serer served, nor ever heard the conversation at .
never listened The bar-door was kept shut. I never
heard beastly words there. I never went into the bar
cept to fetch things. It was in, a street-cab that I
the 'defendant to Finsbury-square.
going, because he called
patients on the waY- There were two
at Finsbury-square, and • the defendant asked
Mrs. Godfrey was. 'they said in fun, " !tirs.
Jdfrey was gone out." He asked where she had gonQ,
arld then she came out from behind the door. Ile intro-
duced me, saying, "Miss Gardner—Mrs. Godfrey." He
told Mrs. Godfrey to take Me upstairs to take off my
things, and she did so. I Caine down and found the two
ladies there. I remained with them and Mrs. Godfrey
m'until dinner time. We dined about six. Previously
rs. Godfrey went for some lunch for Dr. Godfrey, and
whilst she and the two ladies were out of the room
- kissed me. When I went home at night
the cab did not. stop till we got to
I •stopped at .the surgery in "Mount-
-- hour, whilst he saw

Dr. Godf

with Dr. G-Cdfrc

Mount-place

were waiting.

I over to my father's, bnt he told me to
he took me on his knee in the dab, I did
iow at first that it was wrong. I had not

been told it was wrong for gentlemen to kiss me,
bare heard mother tell Dr. Godfrey when once he kissed
me, that it was time he left that off, for I was getting tco
OA. When what took place in the sitting-room at my
father's occurred, the alterations were not completed.
My mother was asleep in the drawing-room. I went
sway gently, and closed the door after me. My mother
'was very delicate, and was very easily awoke. I had

been in the sitting-room playing the piano ten minutes,
when Dr. Godfrey came. The door of that room was
shut-als0:----Dr-Gotirmy-camc- while I was -singing—and
playing. I was singing " Rank and Fame" when he
came in. My piano used to wake my mother if I played
loudly. When he sat down, and said, "come here," I
did not think of what had happened in the cab. I had
forgotten it. It was only a few days before that my
mother had said I was getting
...toy old to be kissed.

I sat on his knee "in front of him. It was hardly
so much as two minutes, because I struggled
and got away. I walked quickly into my
mother's room, and said, " There is the doctor, I
thought you would want to see him." Ile went in in
I did not speak to him. I took
two
twoor three minutes.
and a half bottles of the dark medicine, and threw
half a bottle away. It was in August that I went to Mr.
Debnam. Nobody bad told me before that I was in the
family way. I had not the least idea what was the matter
with me. I was confined at Eltham, and Mr. King
attended me. My father had never spoken to me about
the matter. Lavinia Spratt has always told me. Ido
not know where the child is now. I have never inquired.
It was taken away by Lavinia Spratt, the next day. I
have never asked her for my child.. have never asked
my father where my child is. They told me it was a boy.
I have heard it said so. I never saw the child. I never
suckled it at all. I felt no pain until the child was born. I
can hardly tell bow long the pain lasted. It was
quick. I was in bed. I felt the pain just as I got to bed.
I was going to bed at night. Miss Lucas put me to bed.
The doctor came in a quarter of an hour. I was sensible
when the child was born. I had had no sweethearts since
I left Eltham. I went back to the Black Bull. I stay
up stairs and practice the piano. There is no bar
parlour now. My father never made use of nasty words
in my presence. He never said, " Oh, never mind her,
she does not know what they mean." There is a room
at the Black Bull which gentlemen use. Since I returned
from Eltham the latest I have been up is twelve. Ido not
go down stairs at night. I have never attended to a single
customer. I have never had any young man that paid
attention to me. I never had anything to do with a
man except with Dr. Godfrey in my father's sitting-room.'
[The case was not concluded.]

GREAT NORTHERN RAILIOAY.- HALF-
YEARLY MEETING.

The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders
in this company was held on Saturday at the London
Tavern; Mr. Edmund Denison, M.P., in the chair.
The report which we published on Tuemlay having
been taken as read,

The Chairman, in moving its adoption, said Ire thought
it right to state that the report, as regarded the railway, was
read on Friday last, and would have been sent out the
following evening had it not been that additional subscrip-
tions were coming in for their new church at Doncaster,
which had been approved of by the Archbishop of York,
and which had already secured a very good congregation,
of which he himself sometimes formed one. The money
subscribed had been judiciously expended, and any other
subscriptions that might be received would be properly
applied. He was extremely happy to say that with regard
to traffic the past half-year, it had been extremely favour-
able. Arrangements of an amicable nature had been
entered into with the London and North Western and
Midland Railways, and he trusted that hereafter agitation
between the various companies might be avoided. He
was glad that the balance in hand was £147,000, which
would enable them to declare a dividend of 2s Gd upon•
the whole year. He had every reason to believe that
the line would go on increasing every year: Good
judges were of opinion that if railway companies gene--
rally would avoid great expenditure and competition, the
trade of the conntry would rapidly run up, and all railway
property in the country become remunerative. If they
could only continue at peace they would secure prosperity
for all the shareholders. It had been considered advisable
to introduce a bill into parliament for power to con—
struct a short branch, to effect a better communication
with the North London Railway near the goods'-station
in London, and for the purchase of a small plot of land
abutting on Maiden-lane. This same bill contained
clauses enlarging the company's powers for the redemp-
tion of the preference stock of the company, and
authorised a reduction 'in the number of directors.
Several bills promoted by other comphnies contained
provisions affecting the interests of this company. It
maybe necessary to oppose some of them, and to obtain
protective or facility clauses in others, and as it was
evident that it was the intention of the legislature to
insist on a free and general interchange of traffic between
railways, the directors would not fail to ask for such
powers as might be necessary to secure unfettered railway
communication with places to which the Great Northern
line formed a convenient means of access. He (the chair-
man) and his co-directors had always been ready to
promote peace with their competitors, and he felt
pleasure in being able to stato, that by friendly
conference between the directors of the London and
North Western, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, and the Great Northern Companies, and aided by
the advice of their general manager, the unfortunate com-
petition between Lancashire and London was brought to a
close in November last. The basis of an equitable traffic
arrangement was then settled, and a further agreement
was made with the London and North-Western Company
on the 23rd of December, extending the provisions of the
past arrangement, and securing to the Great Northern
and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire companies
free access to Liverpool. Application would be made to
parliament to give validity to these arrangements.
Mr. G. H. Packe, the deputy chairman, seconded the
motion.

Mr. Hughes said the conduct of the directors had been
such as it had been for many previous half-years. There
.was something in it to be commended : much to censure.
They were to be commended for bringing to a close the
reckless competition which had for some time prevailed,
but they were much to be censured for not applying the
money they had received towards closing the capital
account. He trusted that the shareholders would tell the
chairman and directors that they were determined that
the capital account should be forthwith closed. That
course had been adopted by the North Western, and he
did not see why it should not be taken on thQ Great
Northern.

Mr Billings said he held the chairman responsible for
the warfare which the company had carried on with the
London and North-Western, and he complained that the
hon. gentleman managed the affairs of the company very
much in the same spirit, and upon the same principle, as
the Emperor of the French governed France.' Peace or
war rested, it appeared, with the chairman. Ho objected
to the proceedings which had taken place in reference to
the Doncaster church, and declared that he had been
deceived in giving his assent to the agreement
,with
the Sheffield and Manchester. He never thought that
he was giving his assent to the purchase of canals,
and making certain reservations in favour of the Man-
chester company. He wanted to know whether the com-
pany had obtained the freehold of the station at Sheffield.
The Chairman said no ; but for £25,000 they had
redeemed the perpetual right of using a grand station
instead of spending £60,000 on the erection of a much
less convenient building.

Mr. Billings concurred with Mr. Hughes in thinking
that the capital account ought to be closed. The London
and North Western had passed a resolution to that effect.
Mr. Greslin also complained of the despotism practised
by the chairman, and censured the outlays on capital
account, and the enormous

mounts spent iii law char

Mr. Scott announced his intention' of moving the fol-
lowing resolution: " That the meeting. requests the
directors, in sending out their dividend accounts for the
half-year, to suggest to the B stockholders the propriety
and equity of surrendering for the benefit of the A stock
their dividends received under the recent decision of the
Vice-Chancellor." (Laughter.)

Mr. Josiah Wilson analysed 'the accounts, and censured
the reckless extravagance of the general expenditure of
the company.

After -a
long discussion, the resolution was unanimously
adopted.

Resolutions were unanimously adopted, declaring divi-
dends as follow :—For the balf-year ended 31st Decem-
ber, 1858, at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum upon
the Perpetual Preference Stock ; at the rate of £5 per
cent. per annum upon the Five per Cent. Preference
Stock, redeemable at a premium of 10 per cent. ; at the
rate of .E-1 10s. per cent. per annum upon the Four-and-
a-Half per Cent. Preference Stock ; at the rate of £5
per cent. per annum upon the Five per Cent. Preference
Stock, redeemable at a premium of 5 per cent.: at the
rate of £6 2s. 6d. per cent. per annum on the Original,
Undivided Stock, and upon the A and B Stocks
together, at the same rate. Arrears nu B Stock, as de-
cided by the Court of Chancery, £2 7s Gd per cent.
Balance to make up £6 per cent for the year 1858,
£2 12s 6d per cent. On A Stock, £1 12s. 6d. per cent.,
subject to a deduction of is. per cent. for costs on suit."
Mr. Charles Turner, of Liverpool, Mr. Charles Chap-
lain, Major Amswiek, Mr. John Morgan, Mr. Alderman
Nicoll, the retiring directors were re-elected.
A

A vote of thankstOtVe
eeedings.

chairman closed the pro-

Tire DANunrAN Qtyr.sTroN..- The Daily News says,
the cloud in the South of Europe is dark and threatening,
but the clouds in the East are big with tempests, and
unless Austria, which sends her caveat against discussion
of Italian
its,wrcng be persuaded to hold her peace on
Rouman rights, s not improbable that the solution of
the Italian question may be trans-ferred from Rome to
Milan, to Jassy, or Bucharest.

- MILITARY PROMOTIONS. -
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEBRUARY 18.

6th Regiment o Dragoon Guarcts Captain Arthur
Cooper, from 6th Foot, to be Capt., paying the difference
between Infantry and Cavalry, vice Stillman, who
exchanges, receiving the same.
2nd Dragoons : Cornet John Grieve, to be Adjt., vice
Lieut. Moodie,who resigns the Adjutantcy only.
4th Light Dragoons : Cornet Russell England to be
Lient , by purchase, vice Simpson, who retires.
9th Light Dragoons : Lieut. Robert Mills to be Capt.,
withoutTurchase, vice Brevet-Major Hamilton, deceased;
Cornet William Naper Carleton to be Lieut., without
purchase, vice Mills.

10th Light Dragoons : Cornet Thomas Shirley Ball to
be Lieut., by purchase, vice Wynniatt, who has retired ;
'Welfred Brougham, gent., to be Cornet, by purchase
vice Vandaleur, promoted.
Military Train : Cornet Charles Williams, from the
2nd Dragoons to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Cater,
promoted.

Grenadier Guards; Major and Brevet-Colonel Charles
Algernon Lewis to be Lieut.-Col., without purchase, vice
Brevet.-Col. Charles W. Ridley, C. 8., promoted to the
rank of Major-General ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col. and Brevet-
Col. John Arthur Lambert to be Major, without purchase,
vice Lewis; Lieut. and Capt. Sidney Burrard to be Capt.
and Lieut,Col., without purchase, vice Lambert.
Scots Fusileer Guards : Ensign and Lieut. Henry D.
Erskine to be Lieut. and Capt., without purchase, vice
Scott, deceased.

2nd Regiment of Foot : Cornet George Herbert Wood-
ard, from the Ist Dragoons, to be Ensign, vice Stokes,
promoted.

4th Foot : Assist.-Surg. Joseph Vavasour Lane, from
the Staff, to be Assist.-Surg.
6th Foot : Capt. James Stillman, from the 6th Dragoon
Guards, to be Capt., vice Cooper, who exchanges.
9th Foot Surg. James Carroll, M 8., from the Staff,
to be Stirg. vice Thornton, who exchanges.
11th Foot : Assist.-Surg. Wilton Everet, from the
Staff, to be Assist.-Surg.
17th Foot : Surg. James Edmund Clutterbuck, M.D.,
from the Staff, to be Surg.
TO BE ASSISTANT StIRGEONS.

Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Allan, M.D., from the
Staffl vice Bone, promoted on the Staff.

Assistant-Surge-on William Chalmers, from the Staff:
18th Foot : Surg. George William Peake, M.D., from
the Staff, to be Surgeon.

21st Foot; Ensign John Blakely to be Instructor in:
Musketry ; Surg.• Thomas Llewellyn Nash, M.D., from
Staff to be Surgeon.

24th Foot : -Surgeon James Lewis Ifolloway, from the
Staff, to be Surgeon.
. 25th Foot : Assistant-Surg. Edward Parks Gamble has
been permitted to resign his commission.
29th. Foot : Ensigrn William Boycott to, be Instructor
in Musketry.

36th FoOt : Lieut. Piederick Willoughby Harris to be
Captain by purchase, vice Rainsford, who retires ; Ensign
the Hon. Charles J. Fox. Powys, to be Lieut., by pur-
chase, Tice Harris.

40th Foot : Ensign/ Denis Jackson to be Lieut., by
purchase; vice Buckle promoted.
,t44th not : Ensign Augustus Richard Trimmer to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Ingham, promoted.
60th Fbot : Assistant-surg. Alexander Campbell
McTavish, from the Staffto be Assistant-Surgeon.
66th Foot : Captain Webster Thomas Gordon to be
Major, without purchase; vice Davenport, deceased ;
Lieut. Edward James Storey, to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Gordon; Ensign James Elowe-Mardon to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Storey,
67th Feet : George Charles Henry Holmes, gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, viee.Creyke, promoted.
68th Foot: Major Henry-Harpur Greer. to. be Lieut-
Col., by purchase, vice Blount, who retires,; Brevet-
Major Frederick Stuckley Savage to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Greer.

82nd Foot : Captain Patrick Hunter, from the 96th
Foot, to be• Captain, vice Rgrron, who exchanges.
87th Foet: Captain Robert Gibson, from half-pay un-
attached, for be Captain, vice Fane, promoted, without
purchase, to an unattached majority,

- 94th Foot: Captain James° Buc'hanan has been per-
mitted to retire from the. service by the sale of his
commission,

96th Foot : Captain William Barron, from the 82nd
Foot, to be Captain, vice Ffunter, who exchanges.
Royal Newfoundland Companies: Captain Thomas
Hanrahan, from half-pay unattached, to be- Capt., vice
Bravet-Major MacGregor, who exchanges.

Mansergh Alma, Esq., to be. Paymaster of
Detachments at the Gambia.

ITYXTTACIIED

Brevet-Major John Forster, from the- 6th Dragoon
Guards, to be Mayor, by purchase.

Capt. Francis Vane, f;om the 87th Foot, to be Major
without purchase.

Lieut. Baker Creed Russell, from the 6th Dragoon
Guards, to be Capt., by purchase.
Lieut. Robert Gibson,. from the 87th Foot, to be Capt.,
without purchase.

HOSPITAL STAFF

Inspector-General Daniel Scott, M.D., from half-pay,.
to be Inspector-General of Hospitals
Surgeon Robert Thornton, from the 9th Foot, to be
Surgeon, vice Carroll, who exchanges.