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

THE SUN, 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.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.—Oscar Williams, a
shoemaker, living at 18, Fitzroy-market, was charged before
Mr. Knox, with violently assaulting Ellen Gould, an
elderly woman, residing in the same house.
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, prose-
cuted.
It appeared that the brother of the prisoner and the com-
plainant were having a few words, when the prisoner rushed
in and struck the complainant a violent blow on the nose,
breaking it. Sho was taken to the University College Hos-
pital, and attended to, but still seemed to suffer a great
deal.
In answer to Mr. Knox, the complainant said she had
given the prisoner no provocation whatever.
The prisoner said that the complainant was about to strike
his mother, when he interfered, and being himself attacked,
he struck a blow in self-defence.
There being reason to think that there was some truth in
the prisoner's statement, Mr. Knox fined the prisoner 20s.
or 7 de) s.
CRUELLY TORTURING A llortSE.—James Clark, a brick-
maker, of Amersham, Backs, said to be in an extensive
way of business, and John Baldwin, a carter, in his em-
ploy, were charged by Mr. Wm. Love, chief officer of the
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the
former with having caused a horse to be cruelly tortured,
and the latter with torturing the same.

I; appeared from the evidence of Inspector Garforth, of
the E division, that he took Baldwin, the:driver of the horse,
into custody on the 18th inst., while•driving the animal in
Mortimer-street. The wretched animal was in a most
deplorable state, and it is a matter of surprise that it could
have walked the distance, leaving the load it had to draw
out of the question. The defendant Baldwin was remanded
till to-day, and Mr. Love now proceeded against his master,
he (Baldwin) being discharged.
Mr. Cherry, the veterinary surgeon, having deposed that
he could scarcely call the poor animal a horse, it being
only the shadow of one—poor, weak, decrepit, with broken
knees of old standing, one of them recently cut to the ex-
tent of three inches, the animal having also a disease of the

shin,

Mr. Love said that was his case.

Mr. Knox said it was a shocking thing to work a horse
in such a state, and he would advise Mr. Clark to have it
destroyed.
After some conversation Mr. Clark consented to this
course ; and as the expenses incurred amounted to £2 25.,
Mr. Knox said he would merely impose a fine of one
shilling.
The Society's officer was then ordered to see the horse
put out of its misery.

THE CIVIL SERVICE.

FOREIGN OFElCE.—Appointments—Mr. R. Read e, Vice-
Consul 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,
D,irlington ; Mr. A. A. West, a provincial clerk, Nor-
wich.

THE ADMIRALTY.—Coast-guard—Commanders IV. L•
Standiforth, J. Robinson, and H. C. Barleigh 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 temporary clerk, London.
QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.—Mr. F.
Leach has been appointed a temp, rary clerk, London.
BOARD OF TRADE.—Mr. J. Wickenden, Mr. F. Fletcher,
Mr. W. Kendle Morse, Mr. J. S. M•Donald, Mr. A
Brooksby, and Mr. G. H. Bacon have been appointed
temporary clerks in .London.
POOR LAW BOARD.—Mr. C. Baker has been appointed
to a clerkship.
POOR LAW COMMISSION.—Mr. J. Brenan has been ap-
pointed an extra clerk, Dublin.
EDUCATION OFFICE.—Mr. J. Emmerson has been ap-
pointed inspector's assistant. _ _

CuirOMS.—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. Elliot,
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. Lase, 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. Bowley and R. 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 BRANClL—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. T. J, Kitton, second class assistant,
Hants collection, first class assistant, Millbank, first divi••
sion, London, South, collection; Mr. S. Mosby, 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. iE.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.
IRELAND.—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.
Persia 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
Works, vice Perris, promoted; Third Sub-Inspector of
Constabulary V. C. Bromwell to be second sub-inspector,
vice D. M'T. 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 NAVY.

By direction of the Admiralty the Warrior target, con-
structed under the superintendence of Mr. Bakconbe, of
Chatham dockyard, and subsequently removed from Shoe-
buryness to Sheerness, has been inspected by the dockyard
officials, and a report on its general condition. The in-
juries inflicted on the target with the 300 pounder Arm-
strong gun are such that it is believed the target is ren-
dered almost entirely useless for experimental purposes.
Notwithstanding the enormous strength and solidity with
which it was constructed, and the parts bolted and riveted
together, the plates of the target are so torn and rent, and
the timber backing so much shivered, that no repairs will
ever render it fit to be again experimental upon, and it is,
therefore, probable that an order will be received from the
Admiralty for an entirely new target.
The paddlewheel gun vessel Otter, 3, 120 horse power,
employed on harbour service between Chatham and Sheer-
ness, is to undergo a series of trials with Lumley's patent
steering apparatus, which the Lords of the Admiralty have
directed to be fitted in that vessel.
The non-commissioned officers and men attaehed to the
depot of the second battalion of the 12th Regiment, at
Chatham garrison, have been making preparations for some
time past to contribute various descriptions of articles to
the industrial exhibition connected with the 12th Regiment,
which will open at Dublin, where the 12th Regiment is
quartered, early in the ensuing year, the day fixed, accord-
ing to existing arrangements, being the 12th of Jan, The
proposition for the proposed novel exhibition—one of the
first of :the kind ever attempted—emanated from Col. A.
E. S. Ponsonby, in command of the 19th, and permission
having been readily accorded by the Commander-in-Chief
in-Ireland, the proposal has received the warmest support
from the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of
the regiment. The exhibition will consist exclusively of
articles produced by the members of the 12th Regiment.
Besides various articles of handicraft, some exceed-
ingly beautiful specimens of photography will be
exhibited. All the printing connected with the exhibition
will be undertaken by the troops, while the men of various
trades and occupations now in the regiment will show speci-
mens of their skill. Not the least interesting portion of the
exhibition will be the display of the limo-light system of
military telegraphy recently introduced into the army by
„r th. 19th_ Tr L. +b.+ +I,. inf...
roy, Lord Carlisle, will open the exhibition, on which occa-
sion a march, composed in the regiment, will be performed
by the band.
An order has been received at the camp at Colchester
directing the following detachment to proceed for rifle in-
struction to the Hythe School of Musketry on the Ist Janu-
ary:—Capt. and Adjutant Reid and six sergeants of the 4th
depot battalion, five sergeants of the 9ch depot battalion,
and Capt. and Adjutant Clarkson and six sergeants of the
10th depot battalion.
The contract for the erection of a double range of build-
ings at Chatham, to be used as quarters for the married
non-commissioned officers and men of the infantry regi-
ments stationed at that garrison, has been taken by Mr. K.
Spicer. the Government contractor, of Rochester, and the
works will be forthwith commenced. The site of the pro-
posed building adjoins the plantation, near the main en-
trance to the infantry barracks, the buildings when erected
being close below the fortifications surmounted by the
Cornwallis battery. The erection of the new buildings will
involve an outlay of from 512,000 to £15,000, and the quar-
ters aro to be completed, in readiness for occupation, within
nine months from the date of the works being commenced.

The Prussian Chamber of Nobles bas voted an
address relative to the Schleswig-Halstein question. 'fhe
document completely approves of the Government policy,
and, encroaching on the rights of the other Chamber,
prejudge in Rome measure the question of the
loan, which the latter, as is well known, re-
fuses to the Government. An amendment, tending to
satisfy the national feeling by calling for the withdrawal
of the Protocol of London, has not met with any sup
port in the Upper Chamber, which was above all anxious
to make a counter.demonstration to the address of the
Chamber of Deputies.—A. rather curious incident arose
on the occasion of the amendment which the minority
proposed. Count de Bismark, while admitting the right
of the authors of the amendment to present it, disputed their
ability to properly discuss matters of State policy. This
observation attracted the more notice that among the
persons to whom it was applied was M. Zeilkanipff, the
eminent professor of political sciences in the University of
Breslau.

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 consigned 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 wreck( d 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 lifeboats, 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 cauidron of sea on a stormy night, like that
which was recently experienced at Holyhead and
Bude 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-
boats on the 2d and 3d inst. We may edd, that
during the year which is now closing, 378 lives
have been saved 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 during 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 Ireland. 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 express'ons 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 in Whitecross-street Prison
about 90 in number, were yesterday regaled with a
substantial Christmas dinner of roast-beef, plum.
pudding, &c., principally provided by the Lord
Mayor. No provision for dining the debtors in
Horsemonger-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 paupeis in Kensington Workhouse sat
down to the following fare of roast beef,
potatoes ad libdunt, 1 lb. of plumpadding, 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(:”ert,o
in the n
Bothell
L
ell;otntey .aitof
Ripon by Dr. Bi
that of Worcester by Dr. Plulpott, 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, eo that the average career of a bishop does not
much exceed 15 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 Blaukshire became patron of
the theatre under Mr. M y's 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 office 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. M— y made his appearance
iu "Hamlet," a play (ha mayor had never seen; and Nt hen
in the mad scene, Hamlet appeared with his dress in disi
order, the mayor took offence at the exhibition, and
declared to his wife and family, who were in thendhohxe
with him, his conviction that the actor was drunk
it. , a s
o,
would have no such doings if he could help
accordingly, he went round to the stage, and wait®d at the
side till the end of the scene, when he th us add
upon youdressed the
tragedian :—" Mr. M--y, till to night
and now I see you are given to drink,
as a respectable man, I looke
for no sober man would go before a respectable audience
with his shirt-frill hanging about like that, and his stock-
ings down Why, you ought to be ashamed of yourself,"
The tragedian, astonished at the ignorance of his patron,
said, "My 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 wiote this play ?" de_
mended the Mayor. " Good God 1" exclaimed I\l—
caree n say:a that
that
hYao
fat,
" Don't you know Shakepere wrote it."
I do," replied the Maymort:y"tbeuut :11:7 takee,
writes no more tor this hous3 as long as I have amithin to
/do with it, and so you
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