The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1864

would bi; difficult to say which of the two move-
ments la as proved the more ridiculous failure, the
more fla:rant fiasco! The abortive attempt to collect
anythin g approaching to the amount talked of—
the sum of £30,000 for the SHAKSPERE monument !
Or the equally abortive attempt to get up in Eng.
land (why in England ?) a grand subscription list
for GARIBALDI, the Italian Adventurer, In each
instance the sums contributed have been collectively
very far short of the mark originally proposed.
GARIBALDI, being happily for him in the land cf
the living, is enabled to say—Much obliged to you;
I thank you very much, but rd really rather not ;
and therefore pray take back your gifts ! Yon,
Mr. TENNYSON, your munific,nt offering to me of
a guinea! You, Lord PALMERSTON, the £lOO put
down by you as the Prime Minister of Eng-
land, to me, the Red Shirt of Melezzo and C.
latafiaaa—nay, for that matter, the Red Shirt no
less of the Heights of Aspromonte !—lt is really
nothing less than a ludicrous anti-climax in either
instance—in the instance of GARIBALDI, the 'great
Adventurer, and in the instance of SIIAKSPERE, the
great Poet and Dramatist. The latter, if he were
still alive, we may be equally well assured, would de-
cline the proffered tribute of the N. S. T, C. quite as
peremptorily as GARIBALDI has declined that offi-
ciously suggested a week or two back at Stafford
House. Pity he can't I For—unless something
should happily arise to prevent it—we are threat-
ened with having erected to the memory of SHAKS-
PERE, here in London, if any monument at all, one
—judging at least from the smallness of the sum
yet collected together—wholly unworthy either of
London or of SIIAKSPERE, either of the Wealthiest
City of the Werld or of the Greatest Poet.

The quarterly report which the Registrar-Gene-
ral has just issued is in some respects of unusual

nterest. In it we learn the actual effects of these

bitter weeks which mowed down age and weakness

with so unsparing a hand. From it we may also

gather some indications of the returning prosperity
now happily perceptible in our northern districts.

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It is worth noticing, since the number of marriages

is usually taken as a test of the condition of trade,
that the marriages in the year 1863 were the most
numerous ever recorded, although, having regard
to the increase of population, they did not attain
the highest rate. In the last quarter of the year

more especially their number was unusually large

more so than it has ever been since the registration

began. The most satisfactory part of this intelli-

genes is, that their increase was very largely due to

the seats of the cotton and woollen manufacture,
and also to the coal andiron districts, thus affording
the most convincing testimony that the clouds which
have so long hung over our manufacturing industry
are rapidly brEaking, and that hope and courage
are rising in the hearts of the people. Coming to
the current year, of which, of course, we have only

one quarter's returns, the figures seem determined
to keep up the high rate of the marriage returns of
the last twelvemonth. The birth-rate, instead of
the average 3.605 per cent. per annum, is 3.740,
and the increase is everywhere perceptible, ex-

cepting in London and the south-west. But the

other item which exceeds the average at once ar-
rests the attention. We have all known that the
deaths during the early months of the present year
were unusually frequent, and we were prepared to

find an excess of the average in the quarterly re

urns, seeing that the severest visits o
King Frost were all paid us after the
year had turned. The revelations of the
Registrar are, however, absolutely startling. There
has seldom, we know, been a more fatal winter ;
indeed, the only winters that can compare to it
during a long space of time were the two winters
succeeding the failure of the potato crop, and the
winter of the Crimean war. Such remarkable ex-
cepting to the ordinary routine would certainly be
pito out of place in a comparison with any ordi-
nary season, but we may with truth look upon the
early months of this year as something unusual.
Upon an average 1,572 persons died every day in
England and Waled, the total number of deaths for
the quarter being 143,030, that is to say, 14,698 in
excess of the average! Those who talk so much
about bracing air, good seasonable weather, and so
on, may learn for their future guidance that when
the thermometer falls to freezing point the morta-
lity rises all over the country, and that one bitter
night when the mercury fell 17 degrees below freers
tag point cost 877 lives, to this excessive morta-
lity London suffered most severely, owing partially
from the sensitiveness of its inhabitants to cold,
partially to the large number of its inhabitants
always floating on the verge of starvation, and par-
tially to the absenoe of that kindly aid which is
more likely to reach the destitute in less populous
places, The latter fact is proved by the mortality
of Lancashire and Cheshire not increasing in the
same proportion as that of the metropolis, notwith-
standing the partial continuance of the distress.
The manner in which the public health has been
preserved through so long continued and severe a
trial affords ample evidence of how much may be
done towards checking excessive mortality by
an efficient and organised system of re-
lief. Could we by any possibility apply to
the distressed districts of the east of London some
of the social machinery which has worked so hap-
pily in Lancashire during the last two years, we
should hear less of those melancholy cases of deaths
from cold and want which have, during the past
few months, become only too common. Another
thing that tends to increase the number of deaths is
the high price of fuel. Fire, as the Registrar-
General justly observes, is a necessary of life in this
climate, and he expresses his conviction that any-
thing which tends to cheapen coal, such as the abolis
tion of duties or the laying down of railways, will
preserve many lives in severe seasons. In support
of this view he tells us to compare the rise in the
rate of mortality in the south-eastern districts with
that in the north, where coal is cheap. In the
former it was 18 per cent. higher than in the two
preceding quarters, in the latter it was only 4 per
cent. This startling difference must certainly have
some cause, since it is evident that the cold would
be, if anything, intenser in the northern counties.
Before good drainage were so universal, end while
many
important sanitary measures were yet unre-
garded, the summer months were the most fatal.
Thanks to the energetic labours of late years we
have diminished those dangers, but the peril now
meets us from another quarter, and it would be
well, before the Frost King is among us agair,
seriously to reflect upon the best means of meeting
it. We have also to consider how far the public
health is to be regarded as in a satisfactory state,
when so large a portion of the populace is in
so low a condition as to succumb to the first un-
kindly influence.
ER-

At the
Present juncture it is interesting to notice
the article in the Danish newspaper the Dagh/ade,t,
touching the Conference at London, and how far it
affects the prospects of Denmark. In this case, as in
many similar ones, there is always a great deal to
be heard on all sides, and everyone can give an
opinion very glibely, but those most intimately con-
cerned are apt to be passed over in the hurry of the
lookers.on, to declare their views and enunciate
their policy. It is wise, then, to turn aside for a
moment from the more exciting topics of debate, and

the prominent points of discussion, to mark and
learn what is thought of these momentous themes
at a distance from the spot where they are being
entertained by the various Powers. The opinions
expressed in this article seem most straightforward ;
and painful as the picture before us is to contem-
plate, none can deny its truth or doubt its accuracy.
What vast meaning there is in the assertion that
the " vital question" of Denmark is taken from
their hands and transferred to the Conference now
sitting in London. Great stress is laid on the im-
portance of an armistice; and too truly have events
that have recently occurred proved the justice of the
remark that this essential requisite should have been
obtained before the commencement of the Confer-
, ence. It does indeed appear amazing that such an
idea was not carried out, and the very lukewarm
manner in which this vital question was taken up
seems to preclude the notion that our Government
was really in earnest in the cause, or that they en-
tertained any more hope of their soi disant expecta-
tions being fulfilled. It was virtually letting the
case go by default, thus to give up an important j
point at the outset, and no one can wonder that the
unhappy sufferers by this negligence feel irritated
and indignant when they reflect upon the manner
in which they have been treated. Who can fail to
coincide with the strictures passed upon our dilatory
and delusive Cabinet for the course they have
adopted, speaking so fair, and acting so coldly to
the brave little nation in distress. They who sum
up after events will ratify the judgment here given
of their actuating spirit which was love of place,
not reverence for justice. " The English Govern-
ment thought of nothing elee but keeping power in
its own hands" is truly declared, and all conscien-
tious observers must lament the circumstance. Had
the Conference met earlier the calamity of Dybbol
might have been avoided, but delay followed delay,
and one put off was succeeded by another until, as
it is here impressively narrated, " the heart's-blood
of Denmark flowed in streams upon the soil of
Schleswig." When all these sad suggestions are
dwelt upon it is almost impossible to avoid fearing
that the dark side of the picture here presented to
notice may prove the correct ono after all, and
nothing really be gained for the interests of Den-
mark in the workings of this tardy Conference in
their protracted deliberations, and few and far be-
tween meetings. It is all very well for cold and
'nations critics to dilate upon the topic, and to de-
clare that, of course, these ideas are exaggerated,
and these opinions in the extreme. The fact is, the
language of those who feel differs widely from that
of those who only think, and they who are concerned
heart and eoul in a cause which relates to their
existence can more readily express themselves with
energy and excitement than those who look at the
issues of life and death, the struggle for freedom or
oppression, with the cynical regard of prejudice or
the callous glance of indifference. If any part of this
protest be true, it is a bitter reflection for us, for
the great country that has suffered the small and
weak ore to fall into the grup of ruthless invaders
—for the mighty people who have been bamboozled
by Conferences, treaties, despatches, and missions,
while the brave little population of a gallant nation
have been confused by intimations, misled by pro-
mises, and finally left to cope single-handed with
enemies whose demands increase with their pro-
gress, and the relinquishment of spoils seems only
to whet their desire and enhance their greed for
more. This article in the Dagbladet really puts
the chief circumstances of the case before us in a
striking manner, and recapitulates the leading fea-
tures of a case which has assumed so painful an in-
terest to all who respect the rights of nationality
and the privileges of freemen.

Pulpit Oratory in the Church of England.

A CLERGYMAN'S OPINION OF IT.
The Rev. A. J. D. D'Orsey, the emiLent elocutionist o
Cambridge, took occasion at the Church Congress at Man

chester t; make the following rather telling remarks in re-
gard to the educational shortcomings of his fellow elegy
in the establishment. He said that in working out church
extension they must have competent men ; but that they
had not competent men in number and quality; that they
had not an adequate supply, and that those they had were
not always up to the mark. His business was, therefore,
briefly to represent what he concetvei to be the feelings of
the laity and also of the clergy upon this question. It was
that the education at present given to candidates preparing
fcr orders in the Church was no: the best suited for the
wc.rk they had to perform. (Hear, hear.) An ancient king
was asked what education was; and he said that educa-
tion was " learning to do that when young which a man
would have to do when old." It they applied this
test—and it was a very good one—they would find that
the education accorded was admirable as far as the pre-

liminary discipline went ; but it was a failure in regard
to professional training. (Cheers.) Let them not—he ap-
pealed to his clerical brethren especially—for a moment
misunderstand him. He valued as much as any man lite-
rary and scientific attainments; but highly as he valued
these he valued still more highly that business work which
prepared men for the great duty of shepherds, under the
Great Shepherd of all, in the work of saving souls. (Cheers.)
Again, he said, he did not undervalue scholarship ; seven
years passed at a public school and three years at a univer-
sity was a foundation of granite ; but when they found that
a pretty straw shed was erected, they were not proportion-
ing the means to the end, nor balancing the education of
the future clergyman aright. (Cheers.) What was a
clergyman's business? It was not to write Greek verses,
er to solve difficult problems in mathematics. All
this was valuable and important as a preliminary, and
he would have it not a whit less than at present. But he
would build upon that preparation a distinct professional
education, (Cheers.) Much had been said about the duty
of the laity to the clergy. They would, perhaps, permit
him, though a clergyman, to speak of the duty of the
clergy to the laity. Englishmen were always willing to pay
a good price for a good article ; but they did net like paying
a good price, or any price, for an article they did not want,
or for a bad article. It was of no use telling the laity,
" Your clergyman was the senior wrangler or the first
classic of his year." The educated layman would say, "I
grant that is a high honour; but my senior wrangler can-
not read the service fit to be heard—(cheers and laughter)—
and my senior classic"—he begged the indulgence of his
clerical brethren, but no one would hiss excepting those
whom the shoe pinched—(laughter)—" my senior
classic may possibly contract with S. P. 0. of Blooms-
bury for a weekly supply of beautifully lithographrd
sermons, and read them as his own." (Laughter.) And
why did he do this ? Because at the university he was never
directly taught to write a word of English. (Cheers.)
Again, the delivery of a sermon, supposing it to have been
written by the clergyman himself, was often so sleepy,
monotonous, dull, and inaudible, that it was quite enough
to empty the church. (Cheers and interruption.) He
thought he heard a few hisses, but it was well known
whence they came. (Oh, oh, and laughter.) Why was it
with the agricultural classes that dissent was so popular?
It was not that those classes were lovers of dissent, as dis-
sent. (Cheers.) But it was because they could not
hear the old rector, and could not follow the young curate.
(Applause.) It was not because they disliked to go to
church, but because they could not understand its ser-
vices, They, therefore, emptied the parish church and filled
the Salem or the Bethel next door to it. (Laughter.) The
laity had the right to demand an article that was really use-
ful. When they went to physicians they went to men of
skill and experience—to men of five years' training as phy-
sicians. They went to them not because they wero Latin
or Greek scholars or mathematicians, but because they were
good physicians. (Cheers.) He wanted this argument
applied here. He did not want the three years' university
course to bo diminished a day. (Hear, hear.) He did not
want this, which was most valuable and important, at all
interfered with by any modification. But he asked for a
supplementary year or two for the thorough training of men
in reading the service, composition and delivery of sermons,
and in everything in which they were not at present
trained.

CONDUCT OF THE PRUSSIANS IN JUTLAND.—The
following appears in the France :—" Oa the 27th
ult., 8,000 Prussians eniered Viborg. Accounts from
Horsens state that the troops which have arrived there are
quite young soldiers, well dressed and newly come from
Silesia, but their arrogance and effrontery know no bounds.
They enter the shops in parties of ten or a dozen, and lay
hold of anything that strikes their fancy without thinking
of paying. Sometimes they even add raillery to their
pillage, telling the poor shopkeepers that the King of
Denmark will pay for what is taken.' If by chance they
find a doer shut against them they break it open, and in
some Houses they have even assaulted the inhabitants, when
the latter have not immediately given them what they ask
for,"

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAY 7.

Adviccs received here from Tunis state that the
French, English, and Italian squadrons have arrived
there. They have detached ships to guard the coast,
Tunis is quiet. The tribes are becoming satisfied
with the concessions they have obtained, and are
beginning to give in their submission.

The New Glaris Journal recounts an affair which
has caused a certain sensation in Switzerland—the
abduction of five children in consequence of reli-
gious prejudices. Antoine Lauber, the father of a
family, living in a small town in the canton of
Lucerne, had his house lately invaded by an armed
force and his five children taken away by order of
the authorities. The father's crime consisted in not
having his last child baptised by an ecclesiastic of
the place. The Swiss journal does not state what
religious creed is in question, but that point does not
signify, as the wrong consists in the intrusion of
authority. Lauber has appealed to the Council.
The Mobacher states that the Governor-General
of Algeria has just ordered the establishment of
five Arab-French schools at Ammi-Monssa, Zem-
morah, Frenda, Saida, and Nedroma, in the pro-
vince of Oran. The Arabs, who begin to appreciate
benefits of instruction, will thus have an oppor-
tunity of getting their children taught the elements
of the French language without leaving home, and
those who wish for a more complete education can
afterwards go to the Arab French college, which
will s, on be opened at Oran.
The Memorial de la Loire relates the follow-
ing :—" Two or three days ago a respectably-
dressed man of about 50 called on a well-known
medical man at St. Etienne and said, lam a
builder by trade, aryl in making my contracts am
sometimes obliged to drink rather too freely.
Finding
myself lately indisposed in consequence of
those excesses, I was advised to apply to M. X—
of Caux, who had, I was told, a secret of sovereign
efficacy in such cases. I followed the recommen-
dation and took the remedy, which consisted of a
white powder done up in small packets, but instead
of being cured I find I am poisoned, and was told
that the remedy is arsenic. Yes, sir,' continued the
speaker with great violence, am poisoned, and
already to-day I have had one violent attack I'
While speaking his countenance changed, his
breathing became heavy, and throwing himself back
in a chair he exclaimed, ' I am going to have
another—l am dying—help ! help!' The doctor
went towards him and found that he was dead.
The body was conveyed to the 1161e1 Dieu, where a

post-mortem examination proved that the man died
Irani' paralysis of the pectoral muscles, brought on
by violent emotion produced by a diseased imagina-
tion. No trace of poison existed. The white pow-
der was analysed and turned out to be, not arsenic,
but simply sugar of milk, a completely harmless
substance."

BOURSE, May 6.—The announcement of the Bank
of France havin3 raised its rats of discount to 7per
cent, has had an unfavourable effect on the market,
and the business done shows lower prices. Threes
for the Account are now at 66f. 40c. Mobilier
have receded to 1,127 f. 50c, Railway Market quiet,
bat with prices pretty well maintained up to the
present time. The market closed as follows :

41 per Cents 93 50
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month., 66 45
Credit Mobilier 1130
Do. end month 1132 50
Bank Shares 3355
Credit Fonoier 1230
Roman
BAIL'

Italian Loan 6B 30
Do. end mouth 6B 50
New ditto —
Do. end month —
Rusaian
Austrian
Spanish Threes.., 5l
Rome Pebt —

Deferred -
r AM . _

.. --
Cash. Account.
Orlnane
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean 935 .. 935
New ditto BBO ..
Southern
Western - .. --
Eastern ....
Sardinian 365 -.. 362 50
Austrian ... ... 405 .. 410
Lorr tr4r4 551 25 .. 552 50
North of Spain
Saragogga 555 .. 552 50
Ditto to Barcelona

THE BOMBAY MAIL,

By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have files
of papers from Bombay to the 14th April, and from
Calcutta to the sth April.
We take the following summary from the limes
of India of the 14th April :
" His Excellency the Viceroy is expected to leave
Calcutta on the 15th inst. It is understood that he
has only been waiting for the production of the Bud-
get. It_is natural that he should have wished, be-
fore leaving the seat of Government, to be in full
possession of alt information directly bee ring on the
state and condition of the country, on the relation
of its revenue to its expenditure, and on the amount
of its resources as compared with that revenue and
that 'expenditure, His Excellency now pro-
ceeds direct to Delhi, where he is expected
to arrive oa the 18th instant. There will be no
camp formed; and after a brief stay at Delhi,
his Excellency will proceed direct to Simla. He
will shortly be joined there by the Commander-
in-Chief in India, who at latest dotes was in
Cashmere, and who was expected to leave it for
Simla, via Lahore, about the same time that the
Viceroy would !leave Calcutta.
"The subject of chief interest during the past
fortnight has been the Indian Budget, read by
Sir C. TreveAyan in the Legislative Council of the
Governor-General on the 7th inst. This exposition
of the financial state and prospects of the
country is on the whole favourable. The
actual revenue for the year 1863.64 was £44,753,000.
The actual expenditure was £44,722,000. There
ev as a deficit on the entire Budget estimate of revenue

in opium of £1,150,000. The deficit on entire
Budget estimate was £217,700. The estimated
revenue for 1864-65 is £46,160,000. The estimated
expenditure is £45,340,000. The promised surplus
for 1864.65 is £823,000.
4, The estimated cost of the Sittana expedition
and camp of exercise was £200,000. The duty on
tobacco is reduced from 20 per cent, to 10 per cent.
The import duty on cotton piece goods is raised
from 5 per cent. to 71 per cent., with adjustment of
value to market rate of to-day, These are the prin-
cipal features of the Budget that have reached us.
Economy is recommended in view of the Income-tax
expiring in Ju1y,1865. Theadvancement of the tariff
valuations on piece goods and yarns will certainly
not commend itself to the approbation of commercial

men.
" The Financial Commissioners sent out from
England to advise the accounts of the Public works
Department have submitted thEir report. The
Government of India has approved in general of the
reforms recommended. Colonel Chesney stands
appointed as Accountant-General, and Mr Kellner
as Deputy."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE BOMBAY MARKETS.
(From the Timm of India of 14th April.)
Money—The demand for money is decidedly increasing,
and should accounts from England for cotton continuo fa-
vourable, we shall undoubtedly
see large remittances going
up country.

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RussiA•

Official returns published at St. Petersburg state
that at the end of 1863 there were in nu six Uni-
versities of Russia 4,901 students, without reckon-
ing the free auditors. The students were thus
divided-672 at St. Petersburg, 1,802 at M,l:-cow,
647 at Kieff, 419 at Kasen, 703 at Charkoff, and
668 at Derpat. In dividing the budget of each uni-
versity by the number of students frequenting it we
find each pupil costs the State annually 208 roubles
at St. Petersburg, 133 r. at Moscow, 211 r. at Kieff,
261 r. at Kasai], 2075. at Charkoff, and 231 r. at
Derpat—(the rouble is 3fr. 75c.) These figures have
much augmented of late, and since the reorganisa-
tion of the universities the expenses have nearly
doubled. If we consider the number of inhabitants
of each circumscription, we find that the University
of Derpat is the most peopled. The students are
divided as follows among the different faculties
91 in the Faculty of Theology at Derpat (the other

universities do not possess the Faculty of Theology);
319, Historico-Philological Faculties; 1,318,
Physieo-Mathematical Faculties; 1,997 Juridical,
and 1,140, Medical Faculties; lastly, 36, Faculty of
Oriental Lan;.-Tuages.

Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments
in the Civil Service,

(From the Civil Service Ger.Tette.)
COLONIAL OFFICE.—Mr William Alexander Hamilton
has been appointed to a clerkship.
WAR OFFICE,—Mr Thomas Clamant Cawker has been
appointed a temporary clerk in the Accountant-General's
Department, Pall-mall.
HousE or COMMONS.—Mr Charles Forster has been ap-
pointed to a clerkship in the Committee-office.
PAYMASTER- GENERAL'S OFFICE.—Mr Wm. A. Andoe
has been appointed to a clerkship.
STATIONERY OFFICE.—A vacancy in the fourth class has
occurred, in consequence of the death of Mr H. Barnes,
third class clerk.

The following promotions have taken place,in consequence
of the superannuation of Mr Joseph Blades, a first-class
clerk—Mr George Neech, from the second to the first-class
—bir W. H. Gardner, from the third to the second-class— '
Mr Herbert Taylor, from the fourth to the third class.
BOARD OF TRADE.—Mr William T. James has been ap-
pointed a temporary clerk. Mr John Mayne Curtis has
been appointed a temporary clerk in the Seamen's Registry
Office.
COURT OF PROBATE.—Mr Amyatt Edmunds Ray has
been appointed a searcher.
ADMIRALTY.—The following promotions have taken
place in the Hydrographic Department, Whitehall—Mr T.
Walker, Ist class draughtsman, has been promoted to be
chief draughtsman. Mr E. J. Powell, 2d class draughts-
man, has been promoted to be lst class draughtsman, vice
T. Walker, promo' ed. Mr R. C. Carrington, 3d class
draughtsman, has been promoted to be 2d class draughts-
man, vice E. J. Powell.
POST-OFFICE.—Mr Christopher E. Pribble has been ap-
pointed a temporary clerk, London. Mr Ludovio Walter
Campbell has been appointed a temporary clerk, London.
Mr Thomas Barrows has been appointed a temporary clerk,
London. Mr Frederick W. Cooper has been appointed a
clerk at Manchester.
Cuszoms.—Mr Henry G. Batley has been appointed clerk
in the tea department, London, Mn W. Cheetham has been
appointed a clerk in the Receiver-General's Office, London.
Mr William Harrald has been appointed a clerk in the
Warehousing Department, London. Mr A. Lorraine has
been appointed a clerk in the East and West India Docks,
London. Mr. D. Minter has been promoted from 2d to
3d class of clerks, London Docks. Mr A. C. Bray has been
promoted from 3d to 2d class of clerks, London Docks. Mr
P. Bergin has been promoted from 4th to 3d class of clerks,
London Docks Mr G. Saunders has been promoted from
sth to 4th class of clerks, London Docks.
INLAND REVENUE.—Stamps and Tax Branch—Messrs
Geoffrey Howard Young and Evelyn Freeth have been ap-
pointed junior clerks in the Legacy Office. Mr Henry
Forbes Clarke has been appointed a junior clerk in the
Accountant's Department. Mr Charles Loughton has been
appointed a porter in the warehouse keeper's department.
Messrs James Sugden and G. H. Bishop have been appointed
to be assistant surveyors of taxes.
EXCISE BRANCH.—Mr John Williams, officer, Wands-
worth, Ist division, Kingston collection, has been appointed
an examiner. Mr E imund Charles Sturgeon, officer,
Wotton division, Gloucester collection, has been appointed
an examiner. Mr George Brooks, officer, Evesham ride,
Worcester collection, has been appointed to Bromley, Ist

division, Middlesex collection. Mr Charles Hall Tanner,
officer, Droitwich ride, Worcester collection, has been ap-
pointed to Evesham ride, Worcester collection. Mr George
Rodgement, officer. Alloa, sth division, Stirling collection)
has been appointed to Cheadle division, Stafford collection,
Mr George Johnston Murray, officer, Soham ride, Cam-
bridge collection, has been appointed to Alloa, .sth division,
Stirling collection. Mr James Slater, first-class assistant,
Alloa, 6th division, Stirling collection, has been appointed
officer of Sopham ride, Cambridge collection. Mr Charles
Horne, 3d clerk, London, North collection, has been ap-
pointed officer of Eastbourne ride, Brighton collection.
Mr Albert Western, officer, Dundalk, Ist division, Middle-
sex collection, Mr William Dean, Ist clerk, Londonderry
collection, has been appointed officer of Dundalk, Ist divi-
sion, Drogheda collection. Mr John Lloyd, first-class
assistant, Langholm division, Dumfries collection, has been
appointed officer of Hinckley, 2d ride, Leicester collection.
Mr John Hawkins, officer, Wellington ride, Shrewsbury
collection, has been appointed to Wandsworth, lst divisicn,
Kingston collection. Mr. Thomas Allen, officer, Carlisle,
2d ride, Carlisle collection, has been appointed to Welling-
ton ride, Shrewsbury.collection.