The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-23 00:00:00

MONDAY

EVENING,

AUGUST 23, 1852,

CHRISTMAS BOXES TO POSTMEN.

In consequence of representations which were
made to the Postmaster-General by a number of in-
fluential individual:-, setting forth the impolicy and
injustice of an abc)lition of Christmas•boxes to post-
men, the instruction of which we gave an outline, a
few days ago,
and by which they were forbidden to
accept those gratuities, has not been issued. The
following letter contains the official announcement of
the fact :

" Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 30th
" General Post-office, Aug. 12, 1852.
ultimo, I am directed by the Postmaster-General to ac-
quaint you that his Lordship hes been pleased to decide
that the letter. carriers of the London general post and
London district post,
shall, for the present, be exempted
from the operation of the recent regulation prohibiting
the servants of this department from soliciting Christ-
mas gratuities from the public.—l have the honour to
be, sir, your obedient humble servant,
"J. rwlasterman, Esq., M P.,'
" W. MANERLY.
The following petition has been prepared for pre-
sentation to Parliament :
" To the Honourable the Rouse of Commons in Par-
liament assembled. The humble petition of the Letter
Carriers of the London District Post,
" Humbly showeth,
" That your petitioners, in approaching your Honour-
ableea r
s
y to state, fora series of
ythe heeds of their depart-
ment,they House,
havebeg moat
memorialisedhu b l
the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Trea-
sury, and your Honourable House (in the year 1837),
for an increase of salary, as recommended by the Com-
missioners of Revenue Inquiry in their Eighteenth Re-
port, or to ho put upon the same scale of salary and
superannuation as the letter carriers in the inland de-
partment. _ .

" That in the year 1837, shortly
your Honourable House, eighty orte threthesey petitioned
senior
rletter
carriers had their salaries increased to twenty-five shil:
ylionugrs
ppe
teirt
eweek;ners wa
an
sd e
ei ne s
itdheer a
hyleys
ie le
rBe4a4s
etdh,ewnhuema bseirx
toyf
more were added to the twenty-five shilling class, re-
sulting from a petition to the Right Hon. the Earl of
Lonsdale, the then Postmaster-General; and in the
year 1847 two hundred of your petitioners were raised
to twenty-two shillings per week, and four hundred and
ninety-seven to twenty-one shillings per week. The
above scale, your petitioners regret to say, was discon-
tinued in the same year; so that your petitioners who
have entered the service since 1847 have no prospect
beyond twenty shillings per week. And petitioners
have from time to time waited upon the heads of their
department, in order to gat these small sums restored,
when hopes have been held out to them; but your peti-
tioners regret to say they have not yet been realised.
" That your petitioners beg moat humbly to inform
your Honourable House that, from the continued im-
provements made in the Post-office, and the increased
correspondence consequent thereon, and the rapidity of
communication caused by the railway system, mails ar-
rive in London from all parts of the country at all times
of the day, and with the delivery of whioh your peti-
tioners are charged, as well as a considerable portion of
the morning delivery, and have become so amalgamated
with the general post letter carriers, that they are iden-
tified as one and the same body, doing the same duty,
and bearing the same responsibility, and upon a recent
order, giving the same bond; they therefore beg to sub-
mit that their wants and requirements ares.ccaolte-heeevasal,laanryd
drs; the
erav
ris
generalweek
athaadt
stahpeeyrasheoeueladtiobee
apsuttheu
per
era'etme res
at 12n3s
again to 30s. per week.
postrtsie zdetpearatmfeewnty,ewarhso teo n
2t e 5 ra pl.
t:ohtan tene
co `ll‘
sTi
dhear ta
bt
lhee dest tpi ert pa eerefeo rmt
toe dt h be ye yourem mh
eel pde et
ttr
yiet
si
wop noi
ntehrs
balregardreefoorf
to their correspondence, as they are
House, that, although the resp iiand
onsiblty labour are
ydetelivesreyh ofeattle tttee r sy: tehreuy
eteheearreafohriee
abeg mostrni4ta mistakes
pi ne
c ttfiluel
averageadmitted
wagest o b e
for great,
ordinary their
maernet,manundcdhe leave belowembarrass-
ar r
youratshs.e
petitioners to a continued state of want a
ment.

" That prior to the establishment of the ten deliveries
daily, some of your petitioners' duties terminated with
the six o'clock delivery on three evenings in each week,
but in consequence or the heavy eight o'clock night de-
livery, those men were required to assist at the eight
o'clock night delivery, for which they were paid three
shillings per week; but, upon the establishment of the
before-named ten deliveries, this payment of three shil-
lings per week was discontinued.
" That the only extra duties for which payment is al-
lowed to your petitioners are a few casual ones occurring
in the course of the day in the immediate metropolis,
which arise from assistance given to walks that are over-
burthened; those of your petitioners not engaged in
those deliveries, who have time and are able to keep up
such continued exertion, are employed to assist, for
which they get one shilling; but from the quick recur-
rence of their own duty, a portion of your petitioners
are unable to avail themselves of those opportunities of
increasing their incomes.
" That in consequence of the improvements made in
the Post-office from time to time, the numbers of your
petitioners have been considerably increased; six men
are now employed upon each walk instead of four:
consequently the income derived from Christmas gra-
tuities is considerably reduced when divided among so
many; and your petitioners beg to state that in the
frequent returns they have been called upon to make of
their salaries, they have always had to return the
amount of extra duty and Christmas gratuities as a
portion of their official incomes._ _ _ _

" That in consequence of the late order issued by the
Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of her Ma-
jesty's Treasury, that in future all Christmas gratuities
would be discontinued at the public offices, and the pub-
licity given to this order through the medium of the
press, has led the public to believe that the Christmas
gratuities were discontinued altogether to public ser-
vants, such as your petitioners, so that the amount now
collected is but a trifle to most of your humble peti-

tioners.
" That some of your petitioners beg to state that their
losses since the introduction of the ten deliveries daily,
cannot be computed at less than from 4s. 6d. to 63. 6d.
per week to each letter carrier, for which they have re-
ceived no compensation; while the letter-carriers of the
inland department have received compensation for their
losses and a fair scale of salaries and superannuations,
such as your petitioners would thankfully receive.
" That your petitioners are unwilling to intrude upon
the time of your Honourable House with the full detail
of the time occupied in their duties, it being of a com-
plicated nature, commencing at seven o'clock in the
morning and continuing till from nine to half-past ten at
night, except to a portion of your petitioners who are
engaged in the immediate metropolis, whose duties con-
clude on two nights in each week at eight o'clock; this
time is occupied, with a few intervals in the morning, to
some of your petitioners; but the quick recurrence of
the hourly deliveries and collections throughout the
after-part of the day leaves such short intervals, up to
so late an hour at night, as not to be sufficient for rest
required by such harassing exertions.
“ That from the lateness at night when your peti-
tioners' duties terminate, they are unable to avail them-
selves of joining any societies for mutual instruction and
other purposes, now so prevalent among the working
classes; your petitioners are therefore shut out from in-
struction and recreation enjoyed by all other classes of
working men.
" That your petitioners humbly beg to represent to
your Honourable House that their superannuation al-
lowance, like their salaries, is very inadequate, which is
according to the following scale:—Above 15 and under
20 years, 6s. a week; above 20 and under 25 years, 7s, a
week; above 25 years, 9s. a week.humbly to state that
" That with superannuation allowance upon such a
low scale, it leaves your petitioners in a state of
actual
over
20 and underso scale:—.pact
1 4vo.
wantrhwahte)n.euhorfipteftoitriofeuerthheergdumtieeest.
r
the superannuation allowance to the other London let-
ter carriers is according to the following
15 and under 20 years, 201. per year;
25 years, 301. a year; over 25 and uuder
superannuation
s
ft hEeerr
a year; over 30 years, 501. a year.
would
ah eer
themthrough " Your petitioners beg to submit
that
fixed upon sucha
longlife
a scale
would not suffer privations in pvcedi
Service, knowing
k their old age.
that they
Honourable House to take tsh most earnestly pray your
sible duties into consideration
" Your humble petitioner
e subject of their respon-
ing to years
of servi
revenue
similar to the letter-car
, and raising them, accord-
ing as recommended in the
eighteenth report of
rters in the inland department.
inquiry, or upon a scalp
" And your humbl
your Honourable hoe petitioners most fervently krefg
use to take the low amount 2t L'i
pensions into your benevolent consideration, An d grant
them a scale of suthe general
post letter carrierspearasnnuation similard to Grace the
Duke of Richmond, wherhecromeemzet4...obyenne;i, Gan ay:
p.roved by the Right Honourable tbe ij°llstt datedmis
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury, 1g33, and printed
Treasury Chambers, the sth of Mareb,bl
... i House on the
in a report returned to your Hon:piug July, 1847.
motion of T. Duncombe, Esq., dat ever pray."
" Arid your petitioners will es'.
_
-
---The Weekly Telegraph says
MR. C. P. Roma.-- • enabled to state that
ra in being .
—" We feel great pleasure
entered into as will secure per-
such arrangements bavef3fr G p. Roney in the discharge of
manently the abilities o
. n. with the Chester and Holyhead
those duties in conngira,railways in England and Scotland
Railway, and need so much to the public advantage, and n,
that have tended Dot°
.1... the interests of the several lines.' co
-
This
tributed so larg-' effected at the d •
ent has been desire of the sixteen
arrangem w
B Eapanies interested in the through traffic from
different .
in to Ireland. The fact we now
communicate
Great rits
ure be received with
win, Hartre , _ .
h. great pleasure ; for there
no pof Ireland in which the value of Mr. Roney's pa-
is - - d untiring
triotic an u exertions to promote the prosperity of his
native land are not as fully appreciated as they are gratefullys
recognised."
ENGLISH REPORT CT THE HIGHLAND ScCIETT'S
Snow.—The establishment Times had a reporter from its at
the late meeting of the society here, who • writes rather
sneeringly as to our farmers' adherence to their old imple-
ments, but if his knowledge of agriculture is
no better than
it appears to be of arboriculture our country
take his depreciatory tone amiss, as
he describesmen need not
chesnuts and beeches of the South Inch the horse
as
In his report of the dinner, also, he adds the office of Lord
" tine elms."
Provost of Perth to the other dignities of
Breadalbane, commencing his lordship's the Marquis of
" The Marquis of Breadalbane (Lord Provostspeech thus :
and said !"—North British Mail. of Perth) rose
MR. MACAULAT.—Many of
our
readers will regret
to learn that there is not only a chance,
proba-
bility, that Mr. Macaulay 'gill not takebut a strong
burgh. It is confidently reported that his seat for Edin-
is such that his medical attendants the state of his health
re-
frain from making any public a have advised him to
the story unfortunately prove appearance whatever. Should
true, there will, in all likeli
for -
hood, be another severe contest Edinburgh, unless, in-
deed, some man of transcendent claims be brought forward to
unite the suffrages pf' the great bulk of the Liberal party.—
Aberdeen Herald.

THE PREROGATI*E. OFVO, E.
T Me,
O Moore
is EisTor or vet TINES,"
Sir,
commenced histhle4ret kestrel tri. the kieg-
dem,iel,4l/4tlkee(ekigust with
these words,—" That the public may hot." 6 misled on
the subject of the Prerogative-offiee, the emolumen,e of
my office of Principal Registrar, or the- manner in which
the duties of the office-have been fulfilled ;"—but he does
not give the public any idea of what the emoluments of
the office are. He knows that the sum stated in your
leading article is far below the real amount of his sine-
cure income, and he is silent upon the subject. He
merely adds, " the office I hold is n patent one, of great
antiquity, and I know not why I (any more than any
other patentees similarly circumstanced) should be held
up by you to public odium, and made the subject
of misrepresentation and exaggeration." These are
Mr. Moore's words and with your permis-
sion I will prove that yon have not 'been
guilty of misrepresentation or exaggeration—that
the emoluments of the office arc greater than yen have
named—that Mr. Moore is in the enjoyment of an im-
mense income, and does little or nothing in return, end
that the Prerogative Court is a disgrace to the country.
Mr. Moore was appointed registrar by his father, Arch
bishop Moore, on the 6th of December, 1799. lie is
then described sei of Christ Church, Oxford—he was
probably a minor at the time; he is nominated in con-
junctien with two other relatives of the same name, one
was a prebendary of Canterbury, and the other
M.P. for Woodstock. The fees received by the registrar
in 1848 amounted to 10,891/. 6s. 6d. Taking this sum
oefoi whom
ssnetmseetneta,gme frc..rmthooerse3synedarhsissinrriatthiyeesdatheavoefrteheeeivaepd-
p Ipesrosvethtahne
wills COMpo
fad
no
to o
from
c
thef public,the who
relativeshave is
s
e
neithers7
779
is there any 91 4s6lThmeriebr iespnroesteanntyation. In
exaggerationadd
iitniotnhisso;
his proportion of the above enormous sum, Mr. Moore
has been
Prebendary46,ooo
Rector of Hunton 50 years
RectoroftaotfaCeanndteelirb4uBryye4aBrys ears
35
80
400000

Making another total of . ..... 4133,400
HOW much duty he has done for these sums it would be
difficult to define. Bat to return to the Prerogative-
office. Mr.
withMr Mooretbose
happyisnot the only sinecurist. The office
aboun"
clerk of a seat," the Rev. G. B. Moore, and he received
in 1848 2,040/. for doing nothing—paying a deputy.
neither is
ishhee the
appointedwal
one of his name. $e
haaape n eepplbe: we
Mr. G. B. Moore has also the living of Tunstall, near
Sittingbourne, worth about 6001. per annum, from which
living he has received about 9,0001., having been ap-
pointed in 1837. There are four other " seats," as they
2 endless 3
are called in the office; one, worth 1,7251, 6s. 10d., is
held by the three deputy-registrars, and the duty is
done by deputy: another,
theldtask
k
o the
by two Messrs. Abbot, one of whom performs the duty,
anwdoirttwho3u,l2dsbl:.
an. d"
is
f abuses in the Preroggtive
t detailothert
bo doingnno
rra nothing;itieso
Court.
If any of your readers wish to satisfy themselves, let them
look at a Parliamentary paper already brought under
the notice of the public in reference to this court and to
the Episcopal Court of Wells by Sir Benjamin Rail.
It is entitled " Second Report; Fees in Courts of Law,"
and is No. 711 of the session of 1850, and the price is
35. 6d. It is a document well worth perusal. It will
there be seen how great is the sinecure patronage of
Mr.
Moore, who is termed "the great sinecurist; they
will see bow the public are robbed to make up these
vast incomes—hew the
because the great sinepeuubFliiset"
office 6d. per folio, for pay
"
work that is actually done for
lid.—how all the fe!
judge was petitionedes
t are at the maximum, and how the
will also see the
.. o allow of higher fees being taken,
s--" To all appointment
working officers; and they,
beginning with these words of
this
of his emoluments to
Christ auto whom these reetsenotfs shall"g
woldld notand
gthiveeSutapillanPY
an
neats skid' beP parliament,
sfl
proctors,e t
ba
this
et
c 06 faithfulir
come,"
eesae,
sublime
rdlasmdnti,
in
how,deola declares
notwithstanding
of
vicious in
their duty in person, this
These, and many other w4onetderies
court, and of other courts equally
they will see, and they will read the report of
Com-
mittee, of which Mr. Bouverie was chairman, and of
which the present and the late Attorney-General, Mr.
Walpole, Mr. Henley, Mr. Roundell Palmer, Sir W.
Page Wood, Mr. Stuart Wortley, Mr. Hume, Sir James
Graham, and others were members. In this report the
gross abuses of the Ecclesiastical Courts are severely
animadverted upon, and the whole is summed up in these
words:—" Your Committee, in conclusion, invite the
consideration of the House to the evidence taken before
them, which is a proof that the attention of Parliament
should be directed without delay to the application of
the necessary remedies." And, having read the evidence
and the report, your readers will then ask, " Why should
these abuses continue, and why does Rot Parliament in-
terfere to save the public from such extortions? "
Mr. Moore seems to beg the question, why should he
and his court be selected for public consideration in
preference to all others? He will find an answer set
forth in the report of the Committee in the following
words:— principle,hne ( )wuhgibeth

" Your Committee have dwelt at some length on the
Prerogative Court, partly because it is the Ecclesiastical
Court collecting the largest amount of fees, and partly
because the mode of their appropriation affords an in•
stance of a long known and still uncorrected abuse."
When the subject was last noticed in the House of
Commons by Sir Benjamin Hall, an intimation was
given by the present Government that a Bill should be
introduced next session; and it is to be hoped that any
Legislative proceedings will go to the root of the evil,
and that such abominations as the Ecclesiastical,Courts
now are may be swept away. I have the honour to be,
Sir, Your obedient servant,

AN EXECUTOR.

GREENWICH TIME SIGNALS.

The arrangements for transmitting true Greenwich
time automatically from the Royal Observatory by
electric telegraph are now completed and in practical
operation on the South-Eastern Railway.
At noon and at four P.M. a single beat or deflection
of the telegraph needle is visible at London, Ton-
bridge, Ashford, Folkestone, and Dover, which repre-
sents Greenwich mean time. The first time signal
from Greenwich was taken experimentally by Mr. C.
V. Walker in the clock-room at the London terminus
at four P.M., August 5, passing down to Dover. The
eleven A.M. signal, on August 9, was received at
London in the presence of Dr. O'Shaughnessy, of
Calcutta ; and the noon signal of the same day in the
presence of Mr. Herbert, the secretary of the South-
Eastern Railway Company. Since that time experi-
ments have been daily made, and the necessary ad-
justments completed; and the daily transmission of
time commenced at noon, August 19, and will be
continued from day to day. At two P.M. the signal
will pass in like manner automatically to stations on
the North Kent line ; and arrangements are in pro-
gress by which all stations on the South-Eastern lines
of railway shall have true time at least once a day-.
The methods of accomplishing this may be readily
_
understood. A. train of wheels has been constructed
by Mr. Shepherd, which is kept in motion by
Cer-
Carter's large clock at the London terminus.'or studs,
tain of these wheels carry one or more pins or
according to the number of signals r
hours at which they are required-
state of things, when these studs !
the wire leading from Greenwich
On the wire that will eventually
the Strand; and the wire
jeai
on a wire leading to theearth,
London ; that is to say, springs
and terminating these wni
on the approach of noon,
a inserted for this . .
a pin
_d a pin i
1 ter of springs; . I'llllo2e common
are of action,
Observatory rests
and the
Mead to Lothbury or
4 from Dover rests
and terminating at
tipped with platinum,
tesr on each other. led,
on things are now settled,
thrusts forward this clus-
n the wheel that revolves
a vvhich at other times passes clean
up the springs,
A about li minutes before the hour, lifts
h°llr,',ov, comes in contact with the Dover
with the Greenwich wire, at the same
it into contaa
once in
gin,
atnhLe, t
it in this position for about 9
• and It boldsg•tlie latter from the Lothbury or Strand
, . thus connecting Dover with Greenwich
mire;
receive the signal.
dy to res Mr. Shepherd's electro-magnetic
A,t Greenwich,
kis in action. It is connected in such a manner
eloc
with the wire leading from London, that precisely on
the 60th second of the last minute of the hour a con-
:on is established between a spring attached to this
wtimiree,clearin.
con-
nexion
wire and another attached to the ordinary sand-acid
battery used for telegraph purposes, and a signal of
instantaneous duration passes.
Mr. Carter's clock pursues its course, the pin passes
forward, the Dover wire returns to its place, and the
wire is again free for telegraphic purposes, until an-
other pin arrives and thrusts forward the springs,
which, in this case, will be 4 P.M.
In respect to the Lothbury
Wire, this connexion is
not yet established, but will be in a few days, when
the Electric Telegraph Company will have the means
of taking a time signal at any of the remaining 21
it visible both by dropping ball that hitasthbreoeunghe
hours, and having the
va-
rious lines of railway, r erected Strandtetdheinktihnegaom
aiorgd
the b! dis-
tributing

. --- ~,
THE GREAT CA .
—ln consequence of the conviction of Sill, the attorney, at
the Central RD-CHEATING CASE AT
CriniThal Court, on Tuesday last, Mr. W. F.
JOBIGHTON
Howe, the solicitor
the convic-
tion prosecuting a " writ of error" as regards .
last Lewes Assizes. The
tion of Staden and James at the
in support of the writ of
e , has taken the necessary Preliminary steps
petition to the Attorney-Genera!
aden and James 'were
,is very lengthy andg
si
toipfn the indictment, including
error sets forth that althoughS
ac-
quitted of conspiracy, yet they were sentenced to two years'
Errorur sy ,b
be
~i
successful,t at a n e anr ioyt
Sht d ii• a was
itihnopsreisfoonrmceonntspoinmacyll.th,erhooeuppeit
filed in the Court by Mlrf.
tEl%,e;riOtno.f,
the Court of Appeal.
day will be appropriated for the wri. of error to be argued in
John Brome.
CoNTRAthiND TOBACCO ON BOARD
only will Staden and James be liberated, but the decision
will be favourable to
YACHT, VICTORIA AND ALBERT.—lnfor-
mation on Saturday at the Custom House that
141
IluSn
f tobacco had becin seized board her Ma-
jestyon.
a quantity ° yacht, Victo •
ng belonging to the vessel during
jesty's s"alm.'lt is
and
Albert, by pug revenue
E I Z
wHA
,alj i
rs
e:er Ee . i s v
officers at Portsmouth. is supposed that conic person or
perso
Queen to Antwerp, shipped the tobacco, imagining,
no
doubt, that as the ship belonged to her Majesty, no search
would be made. In this, however, they were deceived, the
the late visit of the
contraband goods being duly seized and lodg4 in the
Queen's warehouse at Portsmouth. The tatiiaeco is
described as being of the first quality. A strict in-
vestigation into the circumstances has been, instituted,
but, as is
lUIQI4II. usual in such cases, the contrabandittai are un-

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25 to 1 agst Cineas

FRANCE.
The Constitutionnel says :—" Already M. Bineau,
Minister of Finance, and M. de Persigny, Minister of
the Interior, are absent on leave. M. Fould, who has
been named president of the council-general of the
liautes- Pyrenees, is about to leave for Tarbes. M.
Fortoul also is about to proceed to Digne, to preside
over the council-general of the Basses Alpes. Other
Ministers must also leave, if those appointed to preside
over councils-general are to perform that duty : M.
Abbatucci to Orleans, General de St. Arnaud to Bor-
deaux, M. Magne to Perigueux, and M. de Maupas
to Troyes. In that case there would only,remain at
Paris M. Drouyn de Lhuys and M. Ducos.
We read in the Canstitutionnel—" The Union
says—' Since the return of M. Achille Fould to power,
the Minister of State takes the pas of his colleagues
on every occasion.' There is nothing in that calcu-
lated to excite surprise; it is the result of the classi-
fication of the Ministerial departments as given in the
Almanach National and the budget."
The President of the Republic has conferred the
decoration of the order of the Legion of Honour on
Mme. Abicot de Regis, wife of the Mayor of the
commune of Oizin (Cher), for her courageous conduct
in December last, in preserving the archives o t e
commune, when three insurgents entered her house to
burn them, and on which occasion she was seriously
wounded by a stab from a poignard.
The Archbishop of Paris arrived on the 18th at
Strasburg, and was received at the railway station
by the Biishop of Strasburg. Ile proceeded on
journey the next day to visit Munich, Vienna, and
Berlin.

GERMAN Y.
The German Journal of Frankfort, under date of
Vienna, 13th, says :—" The general subject of con-
versation here is an episode in the journey of the Em-
peror in Hungary. His Majeaty having entered the
Palace of the Bishop of Gran, perceived the portrait
of the celebrated Cardinal Puzman. The Emperor
exclaimed :---‘ He also was a Jesuit, it is from the
Jesuits that I principally expect the Catholic edu-
cation of the youth of the country. That is why
I have re-established the order.' The Primate of
Gran was surprised at hearing these word 2, for he
had for some time wished to establish a College of
Jesuits at Tyman. He, therefore, requested the Em-
peror to permit him to bring two other Jesuits to
that place. The Emperor replied :---‘ Two is not
enough, the Jesuits must direct two or three schools,
and they should undertake missions.' "
" The mission of Prince Hohenlohe," says a letter
from Vienna of the 16th, in the German Journal of
Frankfort, " may be considered as terminated, and
our Government has declared its opinion agreeably. to
the views of the Pontifical Government. The foreign
troops will evacuate the Papal States on the Ist Ja-
nuary next, and the French garrison will quit Rome.
The Pontifical Government expressed a wish that the
French troops should leave sooner, but as it could not
refute the objection made by General Gemeau that
the organization of the Papal army was not suffi-
ciently advanced, the desire of the French Govern-
ment was acceded to. The re-organization goes on
slowly, and the enthusiasm to enter the army is not
very great. It is, however, hoped that it will be
completed by the Ist January, and that the occupa-
tion by the French will be then no longer necessary.

THE GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION

(IRELAND).
The following letter has; been very extensively circa-
ated among p-rsons in the United Kingdom, who are
supposed to be favourable to this great national
undertaking:--" Sir,—l am desired by the Com-
mittee of the Great Indushrial Exhibition of 1853,
to inform you that Mr. William Dargan being desirous
to give a more than usual prominence to the Triennial
Exhibition of Arts and Manufectures of the Royal
Dublin Society, has placed the sum of 20,0001. in
the hands of a special committee, for the purpose
of carrying out this important object. The plan
of Mr. John Benton, C.E., for the builtlieg has been
selected, and the exhibition will be opened on Thurs-
day, the sth of May next. I am also instructed to call
your attention to the practical advantages which are
likely to flow from such an Exhibition being held in Ire-
land. Cheap :ad facilo.transit in England afforded op-
portunities to her working classes to visit the Great
Exhibition of 1851, and profit by an examination of that
wondrous collection of human industry and human
*kill. These advantages not having been available to
Irishmen of similar classes to the same extent, it
forms part of the design of Mr. Dargan to obtain pe-
culiar facilities for his humble countrymen to witness,
in the Irian metropolis, the products of the skill and inge-
nuity of the United Kingdom and of other countries.
41.. letter soliciting articles for exhibition has been ad-
drssed to every exhibitor whose name appears in the
official descriptive catalogue of the Great Exhibition of
1851, and the co-operation of the mayor or other chief
runlet
rate of each corporate town in the United King-
dom has also been invited. Numerous and most grati-
fyize.
„ promises of support have be en received in reply,
and
'''. am now in tected to express the hope of the
committee that lett wilibe so good as to forward their
efforts to promote the success of Mr. Bergen's generous
proposal by giving git publicity, and also by enlisting
wthhehshlynyeoptiathhayveofir,fitnnucf:;,.tnuFtels
_,and ex. hibt•Lors with
neyfaareonnr. Permit me to
add, that clutribations
Mr. Dar
ho ei.eeived, as it is gahoki soughtde.. for
thatand
cannot
tho whole of the necessaryi funds for the Exhibelistiloolnlshall
be p-ecividel by himself only. I shall be happy to reply
to oily' inquiries, or to submit to the committee any sug-
-th which you may favour
gestions with
your very faithful aer
honour LO he, Ivant, C. P. RONEY;
Secretary.

INAUGURATION OF SIR R; REEL'S
STATUE AT LEEDS.
The public inauguration e o the
statue
last of t
at he
noon, late
Sir Robert Feel tool; plac on rid
in the pre.ence of an immense assemblage of people,
numbering, probably, not less than forty thousand.
The site chosen 'for the erection of this ono.
nutnent is at the junction of Park-row and Infir-
mary•street, and in imrer:diate proximity to the
Court Hours, the Coloured Cloth Hall, and the Com-
mercial Buildings. The figure is eight feet six inches
in height, and stands upon a pedestal of Scotch granite
eleven feet six inches high. The basement of the
Pedestal consists of blocks of gray Aberdeen
granite, and the shaft, or upper part, and mould-
ing of red Aberdeen granite, all finely dressed and
finished. In the centre and front cf the shalt is en-
graved simply the name "Peel." The granite used
in the formation of this pedestal measures 275 cubic
feet, and
tor__weighs rather more than 27it tons; the
and or. principal block alone contains 86- cubic feet,
A. weighs no less than 8 tons 13 cwt. 2 qrs. albs.
—.. the
that the top of this pedestal stands the statue, so
Lop i_
twenty
entire elevation from the ground to the
knows, v,_entay
_feet. The statue, as is pretty generally
ordinary to
her
sculptured by
excellneuereMajesty the Behnes, sculptor in
great Queen, and is a work of
usual attitude, •
hiaroll It represents Sir Robert in his
mons, With a
sowhen addressing the House of C
the frock of of paper in his right hand, oamnd-
rests upon his hip,coat thrown back by his lett, Iv' hich
reflects credit 11D,Elbrl blatirtifit.
tyhe likeness is a strikinginonbero, and
and was cast The figure is
Foundry, Pimlieo, eeldr* II- Robinson, of the Statuenze,
been cast all togetbar”nts the novelty of having
usually the case. The instead of in parts, as is
that the entire weight of tZ,ut, of it is two tons, so:
of
and statue to-
guineas. Prior
tot thetli statue and pedestal
gether is 29i tons. The cost
is I,sooceremonial, the
chairman, committee, and secretaries,b- with the invited
guests, the magistrates of the
council, assembled at the Court.h",,Zig:i, and town_
in procession to the railedir°l4 when"
they walked
ridii)e. Earl
The procession inoindae(la Voin-
leg the statue.
the mayor and the borough magistrates, th estdes
,of Harevvood, Lora-Lieatenant of the
George Goodman M.P., Elmilcd D'il.on, 1.11;7 4ir
liam Beckett, M. 11., the great Hook th m
o,,s4eer,t;
and anumber of the leading.
the Lozds garrison,
inhabitants. The proceeciiugs were commenced at -a
,given signal, when the statue was uncovered amid the
kenthusiutic cheerine of an iraM
e
.....--
lllgo multitude.

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1 M A. WINDOW --
A CHILD KIT:LED BY FALLING Fit -.
-t the Charin -
On Saturday lir. La/1,91101n hc!". an
C 10.93 Hospital, on the body ot .iaraa
c' ' Cope, aged h. The
inquest .. . g
deceased lived with her amts at
on Wednesday afternoon was lo‘,lting out of a second-floorh
6L Dudley-street, and
landlng window, when she fell over "
head on the stone pavement beneath. Verdict,
and pitched on
accidentaler
death."
ELSINORE, Auc. 19.—The Glenburn,
from latanz3S
for St. Peiersburgh, got around near the Nark` bead
yesterday afternoon.
A steamer has been sent to her
assistance, and she is expected to be got off with-
out damage.
ROYAL ARSENAL.—The labourers now being daily
entered are selected from the Master-General's " priv.
list," at the Ordnance-office, in London, and not as hereto
fore left in the hands of the official authorities
here.-
Kottish Noroury.

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