The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-09 00:00:00

Lord Palmerston's Ancestry.

It has been the fortune of the Temples to find
themselves associated with one of the prettiest le-
gends of the middle ages, which has formed the
subject of one of the prettiest poems of our own
time. They have been given out as coming from
the stout old Earl Leofric, of the Confessor's time,
and his lady Godgifa or Godiva, who saved Coventry
from a harsh impost by riding through the market-
place clad only in her beautiful long hair. Leofric
(who died A.D. 1057) and his spouse are, cf course,
as really historical personages as the Confessor and
Edith. And though the Godiva legend does not occur
in the Saxon Chronicle, in William of Malmesbury,
or in Florence of Worcester, it is found in Brompton,
who flourished in 1193, less than a century and a half
after the date of its heroine. Nor have we a right
to doubt the truth of any story simply because there
is a noble and daring poetry about it. But as re-
gards the descent of the Temples from Leofric and
Godiva, that is a comparatively modern statement.
Dugdale knew nothing of it, though he gives a full
account of the earl's real successors and family in
his Baronage, and much information about him, his
wife, and their pious and generous doings, in his
Warwickshire. An earlier writer, and more impor-
' taut for this special question than even Dugdale—a
writer whose Leicestershire is said to have suggested
Dugdale's Warwickshire—knew no more of the fact
than he. We speak of William Burton, the elder
brother of the author of the Anatomy of Melancholy,
to whose curious mind his own bore a strong family
resemblance. Burton was a Leicestershire squire
himself, and in speaking of the lands of " Temple"
in Sparkenhoe hundred, near Bosworth, from which
the whole family of Temple derived its name, this is
what he tells us :—" This land was granted by one
of the old earls of Leicester to the Knights Tem-
plars. This land was afterwards granted by the
Templars to a family of the place called Temple,
being of great account in those parts." (Burton's
Leicestershire, p. 264.) Burton, then, knew
nothing of the Saxon origin of the family ;
and it is certain that in the famous Sir
William Temple's time, they looked upon
themselves as having " come in with the
Conquest." It is often loosely assumed that a
family must be either Norman or Saxon, though
Burgundians and Flemings, Angevins and Poite-
Tins, are found among the settlers in England in the
stormy and adventurous ages during which the
faundations of its modern life were laid. To which
of the various races struggling for place and power
the founder of the Temples belonged cannot now be
known. The earliest names in the pedigree, Robert,
William, and Henry, are those of Norman dukes
and sovereigns—an indication which has sometimes
been allowed to have suggestive value in such cases.
At all events, wo are safe in assuming that the man
to whom the Templars gave land would have the
qualities which the Order of the Temple held in
honour ; and that he acquired his estate as his de-
scendant acquired the premiership, by being supe-
rior to other rivals in the battle of life. Dismiss-
ing, then, the descent from Leofric as fabulous and
modern, and trusting to old writers and official
pedigree, we shall be content to derive the Temples
from Robertus Temple de Temple Hall, living in
the reign of Henry lll.—a date to which only some-
thing like a tenth part of the poerage can be satis-
factorily traced.—" Cornhill Magazine for Decem-
ber.

THE "PILGRIM'S PROGRESS," WITH ONE HUN-
DRED ILLUSTRATIONS. —Messrs. Cassell, PettCr,'9lld
just commenced a re-issue of their " Illustrated
Pilgrim'sGaiPin have just
When, about three years ago, they
announced for publication, in weekly numbers and
monthly parts, an "Illustrated Bunyan," they promised
an edition of the immortal Allegory, which, in point of
beauty of illustration and completeness of elucidatory
matter, would form a lasting monument to John Bunyan,
acceptable to every household, and they kept their word.
It was this edition of the " Pilgrim's Progress," forming
the first of Messrs. Cassell's uniform series of illustrated
standard works, that marked the commencement of a new
style of illustrated literature. The artists engaged were
H. G. Selous, the painter of the groatpicture of the " Cru-
cifixion," and P. Priolo, whose drawings were most suc-
cessful in catching the spirit of Bunyan. The " Pilgrim's
Progress" was completed in about 52 penny numbers,
nearly two years ago, and has from that time been published
in a complete volume. The publishers now say that the
large demand for the work in its periodical form assures
them that a re-issue will be acceptable to the public, and
we do not doubt that the announcement of a new edition
in :weekly penny numbers and monthly sixpenny parts
will be good nows to very many to whom it may not be
convenient to purchase a copy of the work in the complete
volume. No. 1 of the re-issue is published in a now and
very beautiful wrapper, and we can safely recommend our
readers to invest a penny in the purchase of a copy. ,
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S " LIFE OF C/ESAR.
We understand that a portion of the second volume of this
important work is in the hands of Messrs. Cassell, Patter,
and Galpin, the Emperor's publishers.
THE HUMBUG OF HUMBUGS I—ln reviewing Bar-
num's "Humbugs of the World," a writer in the Round
Table says that the last piece of humbug to be laid to that
gentleman's door will probably be the fact that-this volume,
which bears his name, has not been written by that gentle-
man at all.—The Reader.

Wallinger, who resigns.
59th Regiment of Foot-Lieut. James Hartley to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice John James Mathew, who re-
tires ; Ensign John Brooke Booth to lao Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Hartley ; Lieut. Henry Robert William
Miles, to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Enderby, pro-
moted.
20th Foot—Captain J. S. Chandos Harcourt, from the
51st Foot, to ba Captain, vice Chatfield, who ex-
changes.
25th Foot—Ensign Gerald Menteath Shirley, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Jerome O'Brien, who retires ;
Ensign Frederick Hutchinson Forjett, from the 3d West
India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Shirley.
47th Foot--Staff-Surgeon Alexander Robert Hudson,
M. 8., to be surgeon, vice Alexander Smith, M.D., ap-
pointed to the Royal Artillery.
51st Foot—Captain Charles Kyrle Chatfield, from the
20th Foot, to be Captain, vice Harcourt, who ex-
changes.
52d Foot—Lieutenant Henry Atkinson Adair, to be Adju-
tant, vice Lieutenant Prendergast, promoted.
60th Foot—Algernon St. Maur, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Crosbie, promoted.
85th Foot Staff-Surgeon Alexander Fisher Bartley to be
Surgeon, vice Surgeon-Major John William Johnson,
M.D., placed upon half-pay.
101st Foot—Lieutenant William Swynfen Jervis to be
Thomson,nant, ice v
be Captain, vice William Lumley Louis, who resigns ;
Jervis Ensign; GeorgeGentl
Gentleman
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Cadet SewellTmho toa be s
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from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice
George

Sewell.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign Frederick Arthur Fane to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Hillary Allaire, who
retires; John Adam Fergusson, Gent., to be Ensign, by

purchase, vice Fane.
3d West India Regiment—Henry William Tombs, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Forjett, transferred .to the
25th Foot; Sergeant Major-George Field, from late
sth West India Regiment, to be Ensign, without, pur-
chase, vice Tombs, transferred to the Ceylon Rifle Regi-

ment.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Ensign Henry William Tombs,
from the 3d West India Regiment, to bo Ensign, vice
Kane, promoted by purchase, in the 78th Foot.
STAFF.—Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Hussey Fano Keane,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Royal Engineers, to be
Deputy Adjutant-General, Royal Engineers at Head
Quarters, vice Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel
F. E. Chapman, C. 8., whose period of service on the
Staff is about to expire.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.—Deputy Assistant Commis-
sary-Geneial William Worthington Moore has been
cashiered by sentence of a General Court Martial.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.— Surgeon O'Connor D'Arcey,
M.D., from half-pay, late Military Train, to be Staff
Surgeon, vice Alexander Fisher Bartley, appointed to
the 85th Foot; Surgeon Dudley Hanley, M.D., from
the 11th Hussars, to be Staff Surgeon, vice Alex. tobert
Hudson, M. 8., appointed to the 47th Foot.
HALF-PAY.—Lieutenant Arthur B. Toker, from 65th Foot,
to be Captain, without purchase.
BREVET.

Colonel-Commander William Henry March, retired full-
pay, Royal Marine Light Infantry, to have the honorary
rank of Major-General, in accordance with her Majesty's
Order in Council of No. 13, 1858.
Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Grigor Suther, C. 8., Royal Marine
Light Infantry, to be Colonel.
MEMORANDUM.—Ensign George Edwards should have
ben described in the Gazette of Nov. 10, 1865, as being
promoted to a Lieutenancy on the Unattached List of the
Bengal Army, an not to a Half-pay Lieutenancy.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 1.
GENERAL ORDER—No. 874.

Dated, Horse Guards, S.W., Dec. 1.
His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-
Chief notifies to the Army that her lklajesty has approved
of the promotion of Assistant-Surgeon Benjamin Burland,
M. 8., Royal Artillery, to be a Staff-Surgeon, in considera-
tion of his highly meritorious services rendered during the
epidereic of yellow fever at Bermuda,
By command of his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal
Commanding-in-Chief,
(Signed) WILLIAM PAULET,
Adjutant-General.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 5.
Royal Marine Light Infantry—Major-General Anthony.
Blaxland Stransham to be Colonel of the Woolwich Divi-
sion, vice Philips, deceased.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE-•Last :Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 18

11 18j

Ditto 3 Months. 12 1i 12 2-
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 50 25 55
Brussels
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Hamburg
Paris

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Short 25 7* 25 15

Ditto 3 Months. 25 37i 25 42/
Marseilles
Frankfort on tho Maine
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Vienna
Trieste

Petersburgh
Berlin

10 8U 11 95
10 80 11 95

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6 271 6 28

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Milan

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25 55 25 60
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Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, ;la Southampton.. Deo. /9.
Ditto, vla Marseilles Dec. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verds. by British pac,,et Jan. 4.
Ditto, by French packet........... Dec. 24.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. lielena Dec. `.Z2
China, Penang. and Singapore, via SouLhamptou DOC. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 13.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton . .....Dec. 12.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton..... Dec. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton.. Dec. 12.
Ditto, via Marseilles ..
Dec. 21.
Pisroerw Mauritius,tlii3uogiiuttattnlJan 4.
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. Dec. 12
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by private ship to Lisbon... ....
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West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,

and Mexico Deo. 14.
Cuba and Mexico Dec. 29.

Bahamas, via New York. Deo. 14.
Bermuda, ditto ••• Dec. 20.

The Osborne, Royal paddle yacht, Commander J.
D'Arcy, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning
on her return to the port after conveying the Crown
Prince and Princess of erussia to the Continent, at
the conclusion of their visit to her Majesty.
The time-expired and invalided soldiers brought
home from New Zealand in the hired transport
Bombay were disembarked from the ship at Spit-
head on Wednesday, and forwarded to their several
time-expired men to
dHeosstpinitaatlioant ;`Tetley,s—theinavanliadstheto
titmhe Royal Victoria
their regimental depots. The Bombay sailed from
Spithead yesterday for London to discharge her
cargo of New Zealand gum.
The Admiralty having ordered a further trial to be
made of Capt. Cowper P. Coles's plan of applying
Roman cement to the bottom of iron ships, for their
preservation, at 9-ft. patch is being applied to the
bottom of the Tamar, screw iron troopship, Capt.
Frederick H. Stirling, now refitting in dock at
Portsmouth.
Mr. G. W. Beardslee, under whose direction the
recent torpedo experiments were carried on in Chat-
ham harbour, has been engaged for some two or
three days past at Chatham in making the prelimi-
nary arrangements for some further trials of the
invention on a much larger scale than on the occa.
sion of the last experiment.