The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-26 00:00:00

THE SON, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1863.

LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening,

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, DEC. 23.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Lady Augusta
Frederica Elizabeth Stanley to be Extra Bedchamber
Woman to her Majesty.

TEE CIVIL SERVICE.

FOREIGN OPPlCE.—Appointments—Mr. R. Reade, Vice-
Consal at Bengazi, to be Consul for the provinces at Scu-
tari; Mr. G. Dennis, Vice-Consul at Syracuse, Vice-Con-
sul at Bengazi; Captain S. Mercer, R.N., British Vice-
Consul at Granville, France, vice R. S. Warburton, Esq,,
transferred to Honfleur. _ _

COLONIAL OFFICE.—The appointment of Mr. George
Geddes to be a member of the Legislative Council of the
island of Jamaica has been confirmed.

POST OFFlCE.—Appointments—Mr. H. O'Sullivan, a
provincial clerk, Cork ; Mr. R, Simpson, a provincial clerk,
Darlington; Mr. A. A. West, a provincial clerk, Nor-
wich.

THE ADMIRALTY.—Coast-guard—Commanders N. L•
Standiforth, J. Robinson, and H. C. Burleigh have been
appointed inspecting commanders of the coastguard, vice
Commanders Gore, Beresford, and Webb, whose time of
service has expired.

SEAMEN'S REGISTRY OFFICE.-Mr. E. Martin has been
appointed a tempora7.clerk, London.
QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.—Mr. F.
Leach has been appointed a temp( rary clerk, London.

BOARD OF TRAME.-Mr. J. Wickenden, Mr. F. Fletcher,
Mr. W. Kendle Morse, Mr. J. S. M'Donald, Mr. A.
Brookeby, and Mr. G. H. Bacon have been appointed
temporary clerks in London.
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POOR LAW BOARD.—Mr. C. Baker has been appointed
to a clerkship.

Poon LAW COMMISSION.—Mr. J. Brenan has been ap-
pointed an extra clerk, Dublin. _ .

EDUCATION OFFICE.-Mr, T. Emmerson has been ap-
pointed inspector's assistant.

CUSTOMS.—Appointments—Mr. T. Carder, an extra
clerk, London; Mr. J. Godfroy, a waterman, London;
Mr. J. M'lntyre, an out-door officer, Glasgow ; Mr. M.
M'Coy, an out-door officer, Newry ; Mr. J. L. Pattison, an
out-door officer, Dover. Promotions—Mr. W. S. Ellio.,
from the second to first class of examining officers,
Greenock ; Mr. J. Dawson, from the third to second class
of examining officers, Greenock; Mr. R. G. Lane, from
the fourth to third class of examining officers, Greenock ;
Mr. E. W. Ward, from the fifth to the fourth class
of examining officers, Greenock ; Mr. G. Williams,
clerk, sixth class, has been promoted to the fifth class, Lon-
don Docks, London; Messrs. R. B. Bowles, and It. Sheerin,
out-door officers, second class, to the first class, London ;
Messrs. J. Elliston and J. Willis, oat-door officers, third
class, to the second class, London; Messrs. E. Reilly and
S. Johnson, out-door officers, fourth class, to the third class,
London; Messrs. A. Gallington, G. Miller, J. W. Bards,
and W. J. Woolmington, out-door officers, fifth class, to
the fourth class, London; Mr. D. Hammond, from the
second to the first class of boatmen, Greenock.
INLAND REVENUE.—STAMPS AND TAX BRANCH.—Mr.
C. Moody has been appointed to be a junior clerk in the
warehouse department ; Mr. W. Vaughan has been pro-
moted from the third to the second class in the special
commissioners' department.
EXCISE BRANCH.—Appointments—Mr. D. W. Mac-
donald, officer, Abbeyleix ride, Carlow collection, to Mon-
astervan ride, Carlow collection ; Mr, W. Grace, officer,
Monastervan ride, Carlow collection, to Abbeyleix rice,
Carlow collection; Mr. E. Hay, dropped officer, Alness, Ist
division, Inverness collection, officer of Fort William divi-
sion, Fort William district; Mr. J. Barnes, second class
assistant, York collection, second class assistant, Manches-
ter collection; Mr. T. B. Stevens. second class assistant,
York collection, has been appointed second class assistant,
Leeds collection ; Mr. J. A. Morgan, second class assistant,
York collection, second class assistant, Plymouth collec-
tion; Mr. J. W. Smith, second class assistant, York col-
lection, second class assistant. Halifax collection; Mr. C.
Prince, second class assistant, York collection, second
class assistant. Lancaster collection; Mr. A. Wolfenden,
second class assistant, York collection, second class as-
sistant, Northampton collection; Mr. W. Merrett, second
class assistant, Waterford collection, first class assistant,
Port Ellen, fifth division, Argyle collection; Mr. J.
Bainbridge, second class assistant, London, North collec-
tion, first class assistant, Millbank, first division, London,
South collection; Mr. I'. J, Kitton, second class assistant,
Hants collection, first class assistant, Millbank, first divi-
sion, London,*South, collection; Mr. S. Ellerby, second class
assistant, London, South, collection, second class assistant,
Ware collection; Mt. C. H. Cressall, second class assist-
ant, London, South, collection, second class assistant,
Ware collection ; Mr. J. Harris, second class assistant,
London, South, collection, second class assistant, Bedford
collection; Mr. (E.Batty, second class assistant, London,
South collection, second class assistant, Sarum collection ;
Mr. T. W. Palmer, second class assistant, York col-
lection, second class assistant, Leeds collection ; Mr.
J. Hollinshead, secod class assistant, Lynn collec-
tion, second-class assistant, Birmingham collection; Mr.
W. T. Sinkins, second-class assistant, London, South, col-
lection, second-class assistant, Sussex coliection ; Mr. J
Saul, second-class assistant, Liverpool collection.
IBELAND.—Appointments—Messrs. F. Ireland, J, C.
Maxwell, Edward French, and W. D. Greene, cadets in
the constabulary. Promotions : Mr. H. R. Cox from
a first. class clerkship to be assistant-accountant and
chief book-keeper in the Board of Public Works ; Mr. G.
Perrie from a second to a first-class clerkship, Board of
Public Works, vice Cox, promoted; Mr. H. F. Berrie,
from a third to second class clerkship, Board of Public
ores, 5500 L Cl , rune. {Jut.- of
Constabulary V. C. Bromwell to be second suh-inmppntar,
vice D. 11.141'. Downing, deceased; Cadet T, H. O'Farrell
to be third sub-inspector of constabulary, vice Bromwell,
promoted : Cadet F. Singleton to be third sub-inspector,
vice J. Rock, deceased ; Cadet T. H. De Courcy to be third
sub-inspector, vice Arthur, retired on pension.—Civil
Service Gazette.
Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE LATE HEAVY GALES.

At no recent period have the disastrous effect of
storms been more severely experienced than during
the hurricane of the 2d and 3d inst. In order to
realise, comparatively, the destructive character of
the storm, we must turn our attention to the coasts
of the British Isles, where it blew with unexampled
fury for 48 hours, and where it consignee to the
deep many a goodly ship and her crew, causing
destruction of property and loss of life to a truly
appalling extent. It is not our purpose to harrow
up the feelings of the reader, nor is it our intention
to dwell on the sad scenes of desolation of bereaved
women and children rendered widows and orphans
by this truly calamitous visitation of the storm of
the 2d and 3d inst. We shall, therefore, only re-
mind the reader of the few simple statements of the
services of the lifeboats during. the recent gales, as
they reached the National Lifeboat Institution from
its zealous honorary secretaries on the coast, feeling
assured that those facts have appealed with irresis-
tible force to the sense of duty on the part of many
of our countrymen who have hitherto witnheld from
the lifeboat cause their support. It is supposed that
upwards of 250 vessels were wrecked during those
two disastrous days, and that the loss of life was
proportionately great. It is, however, very gratify-
ing to find that, owing to the gallant and persever-
ing exertions of the crews of the liteboats, 246
persons were happily snatched, under God, from the
numerous shipwrecks on various parts of our coast.
The lifeboat is but a little vessel to contend with
a cauldron of sea on a stormy night, like that
which was recently experienced at Holyhead and
Bade Haven, but her rowers are stalwart weather-
beaten men, whose sacred object is to preserve
human life, and who peril their own in that noble
enterprise. The thing is altogether charac-
teristic of our country—the build of the lifeboat,
her hardy crew, and her system of maintenance
by voluntary contributions. Well may foreigners
shipwrecked on our coast recapitulate, on their
return home, the great efforts made on the shores
of the United Kingdom to succour them in the
hour of their deep distress; and well may Eng-
lishmen in all parts of the world testify their high
appreciation and thankfulness for the existence
amongst them of an institution simply and grandly
designed for its " preservation of life from ship-
wreck," as the founders forty years ago described
it. The institution, we feel assured, does possess,
and cannot fail to possess, the sympathies of the
public, so long as it can publish records of deeds so
valiant as those that marked the services of its life-
:mats on the 2d and 3d inst. We may add, that
during the year which is now closing, 378 lives
have been streed by the boats of the National Life-
boat Institution. When we remember that every
life saved by lifeboats has been rescued under peri-
lous circumstances, it will at once be seen what
great benefit has been conferred by the Lifeboat
Institution, not only on the poor men themselves,
but also on their wives and children, who would
otherwise be widows and orphans. Again, 301
lives have been rescued in the same period by shore
boats, to the crews of which the society has granted
rewards, thus making a total of 679 persons saved
from shipwreck cluing the year, through the in-
strumentality of this great and invaluable institu-
tion. Since the beginning of the year (1863) the
institution has also expended £13,000 on its various
lifeboat stations on the coasts of England, Soot-
land, and;lreland. The number of lives saved eithor
by the lifeboats of the society or by special exer-
tions, for which it has granted rewards since its
formation, is 13,530. How inadequately can words
express the aggregate amount of misery which the
saving of so many thousands of lives must have
Prevented ? It can only have been fully appre-
ciated by the parties themselves and by their rela-
tives and friends, whose expressions of gratitude
for such important benefits are often of the most
feeling character. Since the establishment of the
institution it has granted 82 gold medals, 733 sil-
ver medals, and £17,730 in cash, for saving life
from shipwreck, in addition to £BO,OOO expended
by the society on its lifeboat establishments.

Christmas Day in the Prisons and

Workhouses;

The persons confined iaWhiteoross-street Prison
about 90 in number, were yesterday regaled with a
substantial Christmas (turner or roast-beer, plum.
pudding, &c., principally provided by the Lord
Mayor. No provision for dining the debtors in
Ilorsemonger-lane Gaol in a manner appropriate to
the season had been made. The number confined,
however, does not exceed 27. In all the metropo-
litan workhouses, and doubtless in those through-
out the country also, arrangements had been made
for treating the inmates with Christmas cheer. In
Bethnal-green Workhouse, the 1,150 inmates were
regaled on roast beef, plum-pudding, and potatoes.
Oranges and nuts were distributed among the chil-
dren, and a benevolent gentleman had forwarded a
quantity of toys for the amusement of the children
confined to the sick ward. A sovereign had been
voted by the guardians for the purchase of
evergreens for the decoration of the workhouse.
The 450 paupers in Kensington Workhouse sat
down to the following fare:--11b. of roast beef,
potatoes ad libitum, 1 lb. of plumpudding, and a
pint of porter. This may be taken as the scale of
Christmas allowance in the other metropolitan
workhouses. Oranges and apples were provided
for the children, and a moderate quantity of tobacco
and snuff distributed amongst the old people. The
Committee of the Field-lane Refuge for the Home-
less treated the poor in their establishment, at
West-street, with the usual liberality. At half-
past twelve o'clock upwards of 140 male and female
adults sat down to a substantial meal of roast beef
and plum •pudding in the large dormitory, which
was tastefully decorated for the occasion. Various
members of the committee were present, and per-
sonally assisted in dispensing the good things.
After dinner one of the inmates of the male refuge
returned thanks to the managers and supporters of
the institution.

THE BENCH OF BISHOPS.—The past seven years
have been attended with numerous changes on the
Episcopal Bench. Dr. Longley has succeeded Dr. J. B.
Sumner in the archbishopric of Canterbury, and Dr.
Thomson has succeeded Dr. Musgrave in the archbishopric
of York. The see of London is now occupied by Dr. Tait,
in the room of Dr. Blomfield ; that of Durham by Dr.
Baring, in the room of Dr. Maltby; that of Rochester by
Dr. Wigram, in the room of Dr. Murray ; that of Bangor
by Dr. Campbell, in the room of Dr. Bethell ; that of
Ripon by Dr. Bickersteth, in the room of Dr. Longley ;
that of Worcester by Dr. Philpott, in the room of Dr.
Pepys ; that of Norwich by Dr. Pelham, in the room of
Dr. Hinds ; that of Carlisle by Dr. Waldegrave, in the
room of Dr. Villiers ; and that of Gloucester and Bristol by
Dr. Ellicott, in the room of Dr. Baring. We have thus 11
changes in the seven years among 28 English and Welsh
bishoprics, so that the average career of a bishop does not
much exceed 16 or 16 years. This is a very fair allowance,
however, considering that divines do not become bishops
until they are well advanced in years.
SHAKSPERE DISMISSED.—The wealthy mayor of
a well known town in Blankehire became patron of
the theatre under Mr. M—rs management in 1850,
and gave a hundred guineas for a box for the season. This
liberality did not arise from any particular taste for dra-
matic literature, or any other kind of literature; but he paid
thus handsomely for the box because he was a liberal man,
liked going to the play, and his predecessor in dace paid
the same sum, and he would not be outdone. He attended
every night, was always pleased, and very friendly with the
manager, till one night Mr. made his appearance
in "Hamlet," a play the mayor had never seen; and when
in the mad scene, Hamlet appeared with hisdress in dis-
order, the mayor took offence at the exhibition, and
declared to his wife and family-, who were in the box
with him, his conviction that the actor was drunk, and he
would have no such doings if he could help it. s,),
accordingly, he went round to the stage, and waited at the
side till the end of the scene, when he thus addressed the
tragedian :—" Mr. M—y, till to night I looked upon you
as a respectable man, and now I sea you aro given to drink
for no sober man would go before a respectable audience'
with his shirt-frill hanging about like that, and his stock-
ings down I Why, you ought to be ashamed of yourself,"
The tragedian, astonished at the ignorance of his patron,
said oMy dear sir, you are quite mistaken, I assure you.
I ,
only adhere to the author's instructions in respect to the
disordered dress to show--" "Who wrote this play ?" de-
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mended the Mayor. " Good God 1" exclaimed M--y,
"Don't you know Shakepere wrote it. "I can't say that
I do," replied the Mayor, " but I will take care that he
writes 11) more tor this house as long as I have an7thing to
do with it, and so you may tell him."---Correspondent of
Era.

CARDINAL WISEMAN AT MOORFIEL DS.

(From the Daily Telegraph.)

A very large congregation assembled at the
Roman Catholic Church, Moorfields, yesterday
morning, as Cardinal Wiseman had been announced
to preach. _

His Eminence, in the course of his remarks,
said: "In the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen, ' Gloria in
excelsis Deo, Glory be to God in the Highest.'
The festival of to-day, my dear brethren, may be
considered a fountain of joy from which these glad
words have issued and diffused themselves over all
the services of the Church, from its foundation,
and they will continue to he the expression of her
joy to the end of time. Glory in excelsis Deo.'
When, in attending the services of the Church,
you miss those words immediately atter humble
confession has been made of sin, you may depend
upon it that it is some sorrowful, some penitential
office which is being performed at her altars.
Never otherwise does she fail to intone those words
so as to be understood by all the faithful. Gloria
in excelsis Deo'—it is the beginning of what is
called the Angelic Hymn, and may be considered
as being peculiarly characteristic of this festi-
val. ' Glory be to God in the highest.' What
is glory to God ? What does it signify ? We
shall, perhaps, best understand it in connection with
this day's festival, if we look back at the different
nays in which, during previous periods, this expres-
sion has been used. In two different ways, parti-
cularly, have these words been applied to God : the
first in which the inspired prophet begins one of his
most beautiful psalms or hymns. We may say that
the first, the most striking, and the most beautiful
application of these words, is to be found in this
—'The Heavens announce the glory of God,
and the firmament the works of His hands.'
Glory was given to God by the creation of that
which in mystical and poetical language seems to
speak. It has spoken fer ever, and speaks to this
day, of God's glory. The heavens announce His
glory. Their production, their creation, their beau-
tiful relation to earth, all seem to speak of the glory
of God. Not merely of His goodness, and power,
and wisdom, but these are so combined that it may
be said they glorify. We see whatever may be ima-
gined of grandeur, magnificence, sublimity. Divinity
must have been united in Him who could so create
these heavens and so preserve them. Therefore, the
glory of God is made known by these great acts of
creation, and it was the first way in which His
glory is manifested. That glory anteceded the
creation of those who could in any way appreciate
the magnificent works that had been performed.
God was alone when He created the heavens
and the earth ; the creation included the
creation of angels. Glory is not rendering
thanks to God, singing his praises, admiring
his grandeur. That may form the glory of
the great and good on earth. God was glorious
and magnificent, was infinite, in fact, before
the existence of those who have tongues that could
utter his praises, before there was intelligence that
could bow down before his attributes. Glory is
given to God by God alone. It is shot up within him-
self. It is like the light of the sun, as it were. While
he is undergoing an eclipse or during the night he
is unseen, but in the morning his rays burst forth,
for the light is within himself. Let us look at the
second day in which glory is given to God. A mo-
mentary darkness and doubt came over His chosen
people when, Moses having brought them forth from
out of bondage, they saw the army of Pharaoh, the
King, hastening after them. When they saw him
in pursuit they exclaimed, "Because there were
no graves in Egypt hest thou taken us away to die
in the wilderness ; wherefore hast thou dealt thus
with us to carry us forth out of Egypt ?' And
Moses said unto the people, 'The Egyptians whom
ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more
for ever.' And shortly after Israel had passed
through the open sea, they saw it close over their foe,
destroying them in a moment. The pursuing army
of Pharaoh was lost; then Muses took up the
words of the Canticle, Sing to the Lord, because
he has been glorified.' And Miriam took her tim-
bre', and struck forth sweet chords, Sing ye to the
Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously.' The first
glory was that of creation ; this is the glory of re-
demption. His people were rescued from the thral-
dom alio sia.,ey of the T.
of God was manifested in his might. On the occa-
sion which we are now celebrating the Heavens
announced and proclaimed through its stars the
glory of God. When God redeemed his people from
the army of Pharaoh, the people sang his praises
beeause he had overthrown the horse and his rider.
But when Christ was born the song which was
sung was peace to man and goodwill on earth. This
showed forth the most amiable, the most loveable of
all the attributes and characteristics of God. Let
us never forget these words—' Glory be to God on
high, and peace to man and goodwille' We give
God thanks for what ? For his having created us,
redeemed us, watched over us. We thank
God for his own great glory, we thank him for
having manifested that glory ; we thank him
with all our hearts that ho has made us
conscious of that glory, that he has made us
know it and feel it, and therefore on this day, in
particular, we thank Him with all our hearts and
souls—not for anything we have ourselves gained,
hut for His own great glory. We are grateful to
Him that He makes us know and comprehend His
excessive glory. I have been asked to recommend
to you a real and solid charity—the Night Refuge.
Poor people. who have no home, no shelter over
them, are admitted night by night to receive the
benefits of this charity. The stable was a night
refuge for our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus, the
infant who found no home in Bethlehem. Mary
and Joseph found a poor night refuge for him in a
stable ; and it is precisely what is here. It is a
stable that has been turned to the use of the poor.
It has been prepared by your pastors, and there the
poor are received night after night. Within the
last two years 30,000 poor people have been supplied
with supper and breakfast. Every week 500 per-
sons receive the benefits of this refuge, which i 8 all
we can give." Cardinal Wiseman concluded by
asking the congregation to encourage their
pastors
by contributing to the support of this charity.