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great animation, and in Maine, where the election
comes off in a week, there is but little excitement.
Public demonstrations will probably be to a great
extent abandoned this fall, although politics vie with
railroad accidents in making up the burden of private
conversation. A new speech fro n Montgomery
Blair, in which he handles Seward, Stanton, Chase,
and that ilk without gloves, and recommends a
general pardon of all the Southern people, has raised
some commotion, and provoked bitter comments
from the Radicals. It is another wedge added to
those already splitting the Republican party into
factions.

way. There is also a sharp demand for butter and
cheese from the same quarter.
A contract has just been signed between the
Postmaster-General and the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company, to carry mails monthly between San
Francisco and Hongkong, China, touching at the
Sandwich Islands. The company gets 500,000 per
annum for 10 years, and are to build for the service
four side-wheel steamers of at least 3,500 tons bur-
den. The first steamer is to sail on or before Jan.
1, 1867.
As was expected, Mumford, one of the check
forgers in New York, has been discharged from
custody, because no case can b emade out against
him. Young Ketchum is still confined, but as all
his forged checks have mysteriously disappeared he
must certainly be released in the end, for none can
be produced as evidence of his crime. We have very
curious law.

The Radicals are getting frightened at the Con-
servative drift of the Administration. The Chicago
Republican, recently started as the Radical organ in
the North-east, is not pleased with the Mississippi
Convention, and advises Congress to scrutinise its
doings very closely. The fact that the President
publicly expressed his approval of the deliberations
of the Convention does not abate the Radical ill-
humour in the slightest. The New York Indepen-
dent says Johnson has " disappointed the hopes of
the country." The Anti-Slavery Standard is out this
week in a general indictment against the President
for permitting the Southern Governors to do as they
please, in the course of which it says :
" Day by day the fruits of our victories are taken from
us and handed over to our enemies by a man in whom, as
Governor Perry, of South Carolina, says, the South has
complete confidence. If the South has, the North certainly
has not. is there no remedy for this ? None evidently,
unless the House of Representatives has the moral courage
to impeach Mr. Johnson before the Senate. The appoint-
ment of these men and their continuation in office in open
defiance of the law of the United States offers a sufficient
ground. Then let the house do the work that is before it,
and liberate us from Mr. Johnson." _ _

Some statistics of American manufactures, taken
from the census of 1860, have just been published.
The New England cotton manufacture is represented
by 359 establishments, with $15,147,819 capital, and
employing 29,584 male hands and 49,045 females ;
the New England woollen manufacture embraces
365 establishments, with $18,077,353 capital, and
employing 14,470 male hands and 10,350 females.
In 1860, when labour and raw materials were at
peace prices, $64,000,000 worth of cotton goods
were produced and $39,500,000 worth of woollens.
The Yankee clock manufacture in 1860 was of some
importance. There were 17 establishments, with a
capital of $505,000, and employing 936 hands.
$1,085,250 worth of clocks were manufactured,
which the Yankees peddled over the entire United
States, and probably over the greater part of the
rest of the world.

Such sentiments as these of course give the feel-
ing of a very small portion of the North, for at the
very time they were uttered a printed call for a pub-
lic meeting in New York to endorse the President's
policy was in circulation. But the President stopped
it, saying he highly appreciated the kindness prompt-
ing the act, but he had grave doubts whether such
a movement would do good. The public mind needs
to be tranquillised, not excited, and his policy is be-
ing carried out very successfully, and he certainly
acted very wisely in preventing a meeting which
would certainly provoke a similar assemblage of
Radicals to fiercely denounce him. Johnson is not
prepared for the split in the Republican party ; he
fears the Radical majority in the approaching Con-
gress.

There is a report from Hayti that the Revolu-
tionists are making such great headway that Presi-
dent Geffrard is making preparations to escape
from the country. A steamer from Kingston,
Jamaica, has been sent to Port au Prince, to remain
there until the President finds it necessary to flee,
or until all danger is past.

ALPINE TOURISTS.

(From the Times' Correspondetzt)

LUCERNE, Sept. 12.

I had made a vow in my heart, upon coming to
Switzerland, that my journey on the track of those
holiday-makers whom I have distinguished by the
more ambitious appellation of " Alpine tourists"
should be effected with the greatest ease and leisure ;
that I should take my cue from that respected
divine whose pilgrimages were limited to the
" shadow" of Mont Blanc and the Jungfrau ; and
that no consideration on earth should induce me to
toil up to the top of any hill, high or low. Well, I
have broken through my engagement at the very
outstart. I had posted my letters before 12 o'clock
at noon yesterday ; there was nothing more to do
at Lucerne. The heat was intense, so I took boat
to Weggis, and went up the Righi.
I have climbed up the dear " Cockney mountain"
thrice before in my life, and always obeyed the in-
junctions of guide-books by going up by Airth,
Kussnacht, or Goldau, and coming down by Weggis,
because on any of those three sides you are in the
shadow of the mountain in the afternoon, and the
view is concealed from you till you come to the Righi
Staffel, when it breaks upon you all at once in all its
unequalled vastness and beauty. But it was already
late yesterday ; no other boat served so well, so I
crossed over to Weggis. We were a large crew on
board ; all nations and ages, both sexes. Half a
squadron of mountain nags wore in waiting at the
landing ; but I threw my bag and wrappers to one
of the lads, and took the road on foot to the best of
my speed ; not, you may well believe, from any
vain desire to make a display of my old legs, but
simply with a view to outstrip all the following four-
footed caravans, so as to secure good quarters for
the night at the Righi Kuhn.

In lowa the Republicans have already divided
into factions on the negro suffrage question, and
separate tickets are nominated in many counties.
The Democratic Convention having declined to
nominate candidates, and the anti-suffrage Repub-
licans having made great overtures for the Demo-
cratic vote, it is pretty certain that in October the
Radicals will be overwhelmingly beaten.
Washington is filled with Southerners who have
come to petition for pardon, and the President is
still at a loss how to dispose of them. He had
abandoned the idea of having a bureau of executive
pardons, and the result of his indecision is that for
over a week scarcely any one has been pardoned.
Secretary Seward's circular granting passports to
such Southern people as wish to leave the country
is considered to be a movement towards the exile of
the Southern chiefs. Nothing has yet been done
that looks like trying Jefferson Davis or any of the
leaders of the rebellion, and though rumours daily
come to us that preparations are being made for
Mr. Davis's trial no one believes them. The rumours,
however, have caused some friends of Mr. Davis in
Richmond to start a subscription list to raise money
for his defence. A great pressure is being made to
procure the release of Alexander B. Stephens from
Fort Warren, but thus far has resulted in nothing.
The President intends to release R. M. T. Hunter
from Fort Pulaski on parole. Albert Pike, of
Arkansas, and Judge E. S. Fisher, lately nominated
for Governor of Mississippi, have applied for par-
don, and the report is that the President will grant
the application of the latter, thus settling the ques li
-
tion that -whoever is indicated by the Southern
people as their choice for civil office will at once
have every disqualification removed. Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston is proposed for the office of President
of the Richmond and Danville Ittilroad, a post for
which his military and euBinecring experience fits
him in many ways.

The road winds up through the fields and orchards
of the good Weggis villagers, fully as smooth as, and
hardly more steep than, the footpath that leads to
the Alte Schloss at Baden-Baden. Free competi-
tion and love of gain have done as much for the
Righi as the almighty will of the Third Napoleon
has achieved for Paris. At every step on the com-
fortable ascent you have sign-posts to guide your
steps, railings to save you or your steed from a fall
down a precipice, sheds and chalets for refuge or re-
freshment, benches for rest, fruit girls with baskets
holding out the temptation of big juiceless pears,
stringy plums, and sour grapes; beggars, too, at
every turning of the path, infirm old men,llild and
crippled, whom the community turn out at this sea-
son and keep at the tourists' expense—worthy re-
presentatives of a people who mainly live by the
road. Easy and smooth and open, the road winds
up from one to the other of those traversal layer's of
rock, which look like so many rows of grey bricks
on this side of the mountain as seen from the lake,
but which are, in reality., bold perpendicular cliffs,
the ribs of the giant mass. The view on the water,
on the bays of Lucerne, of Alpnach, of Kussnacht,
of Buochs, and presently of the lake of Zug, Changes
at every step from lovely to lovelier and loveliest.
There was not a breath of air to stir an aspen leaf ;
the greenish surface of those lakes looked heavy and
compact as lead, and the mountains emerged from
the lake one by one, bathing in their thin haze, smok-
ing and sweating, as it were, in that sulky, sultry
atmosphere. It was past 2 o'clock, and the sun smote
down upon us from the top of the heavens with a
strength against which the few clumps of fir trees
afforded but rare, scanty, and precarious relief. The
heat was something not to be forgotten in a whole
lifetime, and it required little less than a negro's skull
or mine to save the brain from melting in that unmi-
tigated glare. The guide-books allow 3i hours to
man or beast for the ascent of the Righi. The time
was when I discounted the distances assigned bysuch
authorities by at least one-third ; but, alas ! the
power to go uphill abates with all of us as we go down
in the vale of years, and by the time I came panting,
to the Malt-bad Hotel the cracking of the whips be-
neath announced that the noisy cavalcade in my rear
were gaining upon me. Up they came with me just
as I had swallowed my thimblefull of kirschwasser
on the threshold of that great establishment, and,
giving my monkey-boy, Clementz, a hint to hurry
forward and bespeak my night-quarters, I was fain
to let the riders pass on, and followed• with half-
spent breath, so that I only reached the Kulm at 5,
after three hours' march.

In various parts a the country indictments for
treason have been found against Confederate offi-
cers, and several have been arrested to answer the
charge. The curse of the Government is not yet
indicated, but as these indictments violate the agree-
ments on which all these officers gave their paroles
it is quite probable the proceedings will soon be
stopped. Meanwhile two officers have been arrested
in Nashville, a half-dozen in Baltimore, and.requisi-
tions are pending from the Governor of Pennsyl-
vania to the Governors of Virginia and West Vir-
ginia for the surrender of Gens. Ewell, Early, and
some others for the raids into Chambersburg. A
decision on all these questions must soon be ren-
dered by the Government law officers or there will
be trouble. The trial of Wirtz, the Andersonville
gaoler, continues at Washington, the evidence being
nothing but a disgusting detail of the sufferings of
the Andersonville prisoners. The counsel of Wirtz
having twice left the. court on account of the over-
bearing conduct of the military judges, have again
consented to defend the prisoner, their bold conduct
having taken some of the starch out of the judges.
Wirtz has made a strong appeal for pecuniary aid,
and a subscription is going around for him in New
York. Recently in Nashville two discharged Fede-
ral officers made a most unprovoked assault upon
the Confederate General Wheeler, and the affair
coming to the ears of General Thomas, command-
ing the department, he severely reprimanded the
officers for their cowardly behaviour, and told them
that had they been still in the service they would
have been court-martialed.

On August 30, the people of Richmond, Virginia,
held a large mass meeting, which was attended by
the principal citizens, at which they expressed great
indignation at the persistent attempts of a portion
of the Northern press to cast suspicion upon their
efforts to resume their former friendly relations with
the Union, and recommended the people throughout
Virginia to hold meetings and pass similar resolu-
tions. The Virginians have good reason to com-
plain, for it is part of the Radical scheme of dis-
franchising the South to persistently state that they
wish to continue the war and keep aloof from the
North. That the Southern people hate theNorthis
plain, but nevertheless, under present circumstances,
they wish to restore the Union. The first civil court
in Central Virginia has just been opened at War-
renton, but although civil law is making some
headway in Virginia, it makes none in North
Carolina, where the military officers refuse to give
up criminals for trial in civil courts, or to allow
Governor Holden more than nominal authority. In
South Carolina Governor Perry spends his time in
making speeches to tranquillise the people, but he
holds only an empty honour. No Roman province
was ever more thoroughly garrisoned or despotically
ruled by the military than South Carolina is. The
planters complain that the negroes will not work,
and with most remarkable zeal troops spring up on
every side to force the blacks to fulfil their contracts.
It is said the havoc of war has reduced the value of
Property in South Carolina from 400,000,000 to
less than $50,000,000.

do not believe so calm an afternoon, and one so
stifling, is to be had on the Righi top twice a-year
To say that the air was motionless is the same as to
say that the mountains were overcast and the view
none of the freest. I had all the time expected no
better, and was not disappointed ; nor did I, not-
withstanding, think, with the many who stood on
the green platform straining their eyes for some dis-
tant mountain top, that the Righi was a " sell," a
delusion, and a snare. I had already been thrice on
the spot, as I before said, and seen the panorama in
all its unclouded glory; but the Righi is the Righi
for all that, and the vapours which encompassed us
yesterday by no means robbed us of those peculiar
charms which set it apart from all other mountains,
as it rears itself into air like a great citadel, with a
whole string of lakes for a moat at its feet. For a
range of about 6,000 feet above those waters the
look-out was unimpeded ; and the mountains, al-
though bathing in those warm vapours, rose all
round, distinct and vivid, cutting their, dark shadows
one upon another in an interminable perspective.
On the side of Lucerne, Zug, and Zurich, the atmos-
phere was free ; the lower lands stretched broad and
level before us, the map of half Switzerland ; and the
eye revelled in that expanse of green streaked here
and there by the silvery watercourses, and dotted
with the glittering white abodes of men in single
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omen, horses and guides,
were coming up the steep in a perpetual stream.
The tourists threw themselves down from their hard
saddles, and trudged up to join us, all agog with
expectation, cursing the hard fate which had de-
layed them on the road, and robbed them of the
great treat of the expedition—the view of the set-
ting sun ; and the sun was setting, calm, and un-
concerned, heedless of all that garrulous impatience,
a sun blurred all over with russet vapours, a tena-

upon negroes The reports of outrages
continue to
come from all parts of the South,
quite vague and to some extent ar thoughe
d. they are
disbelieved. In
Louisiana the negroes are reported to
be dying in
great numbers from absolute inability top
food. In North Carolina the blacks havearnOCTe
that the Government intends to provide them alla
with farms, and to such an extent has this belief
spread that the Commissioners of the Freedmen's
Bureau at Raleigh has been compelled to issue a
circular contradicting the report, and telling the
negroes they must work if they wish t 9 live. Re-
cently 900 negroes assembled together near Mobile,
and, after lamenting their misfortunes, resolved,
having made a practical trial of the freedom the
war had brought them, to return one and all to
their masters.

The English cattle plague is making itself felt in
America in a way that gladdens the hearts of the
merchants. Orders for 6,000 barrels of beef have
been recently sent to America on English account,
and orders for still larger amounts are on their

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1865.

pered yet glorious blaze of prismatic colours, which
would have driven a Turner to frenzy.

In the meanwhile not a few of our fellow-tourists
stood with their backs upon the long-coveted sight,
the like of which, they observed, they could have in
England six days out of the seven ; they stood Nig-
gling and chaffering for the horn paper-cutters, nut-
crackers, and other mountain ware there exhibited
for sale, or descanted with great glee on the skill
with which:they had " done" their guides by waiting
to bargain for horses till they were on board the
boat, by which clever manoeuvre they had had their
nags two francs cheaper than if they had hired them
from them. By this 7 o'clock struck, the bell sum-
moned the weary and hungry to their evening meal
—a dinner to the English, a supper for the Germans
—the flag was furled, and the Righi put on his
nightcap.
There was, certainly, no better chance of a sun-
rise than we had had of a sunset, and it was only
with misgiving that we waited in our beds for the
Alpine horn that was to summon us to do obeisance
to the sullen orb of day. Still we all waited for
that horn with fitful slumbers, and I confess to
having been twice and three times aroused with a
sudden start, thinking that I was awakened by the
sonorous notes of that most lugubrious of wind in-
struments, when the disturbance was only caused
by the deep snore of my neighbours in the adjoining
apartment. At last it was light, a pale, grey,
troubled light, and the horn gave the signal. The
summons was intended for us, and for the sun like-
wise, but one of the parties alone was faithful to
the tryst. The sun had a hard fight of it with the
mists of the Sentis and Allmann of Appenzell ; and
although he actually broke through the clouds and
showed his face, yet his victory was only temporary
and incomplete, and before the latest sluggards had
come to muster the powers of darkness had it all
their own way.
Here the grumbling of the half-awake, discon-
tented crew began to rise high, and the Righi was
voted little better than an old cheat and humbug.
There were those, indeed, who sought consolation in

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, Sept. 11.—Her Majesty's screw gun-
vessel Surprise, 4, Commander G. Tryon, arrived
on the Ist inst. from Genoa, and the Tyrian, gun-
boat, Lieut.-Commander Selby, on the 6th, from
Genoa and Castellaraare. The report that the for-
mer vessel had received her orders for England was
unfounded, but she is in daily expectation of having
them. The Firefly, surveying-vessel, Commander
G. R. Wilkinson, was at Trapani (Sicily) on the
31st of August, about to proceed to Mazzara ; all
well. Her Majesty's screw corvette Racer, 11,
Commander L. Brine, left Malta on the morning
of the 9th inst. for Leghorn, with despatches for
the Commander-in-Chief, and a mail for the
squadron.
Her Majesty's screw frigate Achilles, Capt. Van-
sittart, forming one of the Channel fleet which
sailed from Portsmouth on the 12th inst., having
been separated from them on Wednesday in a fog
which prevailed the entire day, brought up in the
anchorage without Falmouth harbour, and remained
on Thursday.
The squadron of iron mortar-boats built during
the Russian war, and since laid up at the eastern
end of Chatham dockyard, where they have been
lying for some years high and dry, and under cover,
are gradually being brought into use for habour
duty, several of the number having already been
appropriated for various purposes. An order from
the Admiralty yesterday directs another of the
mortar boats to be converted into a dredging vessel
for deepening the river at the entrance to Chatham
harbour, and preventing the accumulation of shoals.

Mr. F. Martin, assistant master shipwright at
Sheerness dockyard, who has been for some time
past employed on the special service of the Admi-
ralty in superintending the construction of the fleet
of iron troopships building for the Government at
various private establishments, has received orders
to return to Sheerness Dockyard, where he will per-
form the duties connected with the master ship-
wright's department during the illness of Mr. W.
Moody..

the fact that they had predicted it would be as it
turned out; others who boldly asserted that it was
always so—the sky always a mass of cloud, the
earth always a mass of gloom, as we saw them to-
day; but the latter were evidently people not apt to
look upon the bright side of things. A more sanguine
philosopher, one more inclined to take the world as
it comes, I heard holding forth in the midst of a
group of young English, some who had been loudest
in their vituperation of all mountain delights.
The orator was a German, to judge by his accent,
but he spoke English with singular fluency, and was
listened to with a curiosity which soon ripened into
deference. " Sunshine," he said, "is not the only in-
teresting feature of mountain scenery, nor is vastness
of panorama the most pleasing of objects. Is there
not an unspeakable charm in those dark phantom
clouds so slowly, so ominously flitting on the moun-
tain range around ? Can anything be more beauti-
ful than that thin, slowly-waning haze that hangs
so lovingly over the lakes ? See, although hardly a
breath of wind blows, although all is apparently so
still and lifeless, the landscape around us is per-
petually changing. The white veil that is gradually
being lifted from the waters of Zug deepens
rapidly on the waters of Lowertz. The curtain of
clouds that wraps the sun as it rises in the east is
breaking asunder over the Oberland chain in the
west. See, now, even while lam speaking, and as
if I had cast a spell on the elements—see the
Gletscherhorn, the Eiger, the Monch, and presently
the Jungfrau, the Schreckhorn, the 'Wetterhorn, the
Finsteraarhorn—those peaks of darkness, of terror,
and storm—lift up their hoary heads above the
gloom ; those heads made higher before our eyes by
the eclipse of the minor hills, which are as a flight
of steps up to them ; those heads, the ruddy tints
on whose glaciers look all the more bewitching as
the sun which smiles upon them is invisible to us.
Mountain panoramas, indeed ! I tell you, you have
only to imagine all those cloudy masses that take
such fanciful ships on the horizon about us to be
actual mountains, and here you have before you as
grand a Itighi as any of the travellers most favoured
by the weather ever beheld; and I tell you the sea
of white fleecy mist under which the gleaming lakes
play at hide and seek is fully as fascinating to the
eye as the lakes themselves would be if all the glare
of the noontide sun showed every inch of the land-
scape that mirrors itself on their surface."

The floating battery Thunderbolt, 16, 200-horse
power, which ever since the close of the Russian
War has been lying in the Medway, attached to the
Chatham Steam Reserve squadron, has been re-
moved into the steam basin preparatory to being
taken into the dock for the purpose of being paid
over with a coating of the Hay composition, which
is also to be applied to the iron paddle-wheel
steamer Recruit, 6, 160-horse power.
A court-martial was held on board her Majesty's
ship Royal Adelaide, in Hamoaze, yesterday morn-
ing, on Lieut. Henry Samuel Hamilton, on the fol-
lowing charges :—First, for that he, the said Lieut.
H. S. Hamilton, being in actual service and full
pay in her Majesty's fleet, and borne on the books
of her Majesty's ship Indus for service in the sail-
ing reserve, did, on the 28th of August, disobey the
lawful command of Commander Edwin C. Symons,
his superior officer, by refusing to board her Ma-
jesty's ship Lord Clyde, at 10 o'clock in the even-
ing, he being officer of the guard, and having been
previously ordered to do so ; and, secondly, for
that he, the said Henry S. Hamilton, being in actual
service and full pay, and borne on the books of her
Majesty's ship Indus for service in the sailing re-
serve, on the 28th of August, at 10 o'clock in even-
ing, was drunk on board the said ship. The pri-
soner produced several certificates of character, and
pleaded " guilty," when the Court, after a short
adjournment, sentenced him to be dismissed from
her Majesty's service. The Court consisted of Capt.
Thomas H. Mason, Canopus ; Capt. G. Lee Geyt
Bowyear, Revenge ; Capt. S. S. L. Crofton,
Satellite ; Capt. E. K. Barnard, Constance ; and
Capt. F. S. Tremlett, Impregnable ; Mr. Silas
Weymouth officiating as judge advocate.
An order was received at Chatham garrison yes-
terday from the Horse Guards stating that no
troops will be sent to the Mediterranean until
January next, in consequence of the cholera raging
at the present time.
In consequence of the Chatham division of Royal
INlrines Light Infantry being between 300 and 400
below its proper strength, the recruiting for that
branch of the service is being now actively pro-
ceeded with at the various out-ports, but the arrival
of recruits at headquarters is only at the rate of
about 20 a week.

I do not know to what extent the listeners to this
sermon found balm in it to soothe their disappoint-
ment. All I know is that the clouds and mists to
which the orator had so forcibly referred gained
ground upon us till the surrounding world seemed
all of the same dull grey colour. Fear of rain and
weariness of the scene advised a speedy retreat. I
took my way doWn the steep, followed by my faith-
ful mountain lad. We scampered down from the
Kuhn to the landing-place at Weggis in something
short of an hour, and even ventured upon a race
with the eight o'clock steamer, by which I hoped to
reach Lucerne a full hour before any of my fellow-
travellers. We lost the race by about five minutes,
however, and I had to wait on the Weggis pier for
the half-past nine boat. I profited by the delay to
bathe in the waters of the Vierwaldstatter See—
those waters as cool as April rain, as soft as Genoa
velvet. By the time I was out of the waters the
flock of tourists had come down in small parties.
The steamer hove in sight ; we came across in half
an hour, and here I am.

Major C. Pasley, Royal Engineers, who has been
appointed Chief Superintendent and Director of
Admiralty works at Chatham Dockyard, will com-
mence his duties at that establishment on the Ist
of October.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. W. N. W. Hewett to the
Basilisk, commissioned ; Lieut. C. R. C. Hamilton
to the Basilisk ; Lieut. P. E. • Luard to the Welles-
ley ; Lieut. J. E. S. Clarke to the Hector ; Staff
Commander E. C. T. Youel, in command of the
Industry ; B. S. lackson, master, to the Greyhound;
W. G. Atkinson, master, to the Basilisk ; and G.lll.
Jackson, clerk, to the Royal Adelaide, as supernu-
merary.

Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments,

(Front the Civil Service Gazette.)

AUDIT OFFICE.-Mr. Frederick de Mussenden Loathes
has been promoted to the class of senior examiners, in the
room of Mr. Soady, promoted to be an inspector. Mr. John
Samuel Tate has been appointed a junior examiner, vice
Loathes, promoted. Mr. R. A. Hoblyn has been appointed
a junior examiner.

OFFICE or Wonla.—Mr. R. U. Evens has been appointed
to a clerkship.

THE ADMIRALTY.-Mr. (L W. Godfrey has been appointed
to a clerkship, Somerset House.

THE POST-OFFICE.--Mr. C. D. Style has been appointed
to be postmaster at Hastings. Mr. W. Anderson has been
appointed a temporary clerk in the Savings Banks, London.
Mr. Collinson has been promoted from the second to the
first class of clerks in the circulation department, London.
Mr. Vaughan has beenpromoted from the third to the second
class of clerks in the circulation department, London.
CUSTOMS.—Mr. John Shierson has been appointed an
outdoor office; Dublin. Mr. James Turner, collector,
Lynn, has been promoted to be collector, &c., Falmouth, in
the room of Mr. Hughes, who has been appointed inspec-
tor in the General Register and Record Office of Seamen, a
department of the Board of Trade. Mr. Joseph Barrett,
collector, Galway, has bees promoted to be collector, Lynn.
Mr. John Cronin, collector, Carnarvon, has been promoted
to be collector, Galway. Mr. Thomas Cumming, collector,
Maldon, has been promoted to be collector, Carnarvon.
Mr. William Smith has been promoted from the fifth to the
fourth class of outdoor officers, Shields.
INLAND REVENUE.—STAMP AND TAX BRANCH.-31r. E.
W. Kelly has been appointed a clerk in the Income Tax
office, Dublin. Mr. Ralph Compton has been appointed
surveyor at Newbury, vice A. B. Keen, deceased. Mr. F.
Borckhardt has .been appointed a surveyor of the fifth
class, unattached.

EXCISE BRACH._. Mr. John Russell, second clerk, Glas-
gow collection, has been appointed first clerk, Glasgow col-
lection. Mr. James Latta, third clerk, Glasgow collection,
has been appointed second clerk, Glasgow collection. Mr.
Thomas Hurst, second clerk, Reading collection, has been
appointed officer of Lydney ride, Cardiff collection. Mr. J.
Kenyon, officer,l Queensferry, 3d division, Linlithgow col-
lection, has been appointed officer of Glasgow, 13th division,
Glasgow collection. Mr. W. Hopkkins, officer, Queensferry,
Ist division, Linlithgow collection, has been appointedoffi-
cer of Queensferry, 3d division, Linlithgow collection. Mr.
Roderick Matheson, officer, Drumnadrochit, preventive
station, Inverness collection, has been appointed officer of
Queensferry, Ist division, Linlithgow collection. Mr. Wm.
Drown, officer, Oswestry, 2d ride,Welshpool collection, has
been appointed officer of Rugely ride, Stafford collection.
Mr. Win. Merrett, second clerk, Waterford collection, has
been appointed officer of Oswestry, 2d ride, Welshpool col-
lection. Mr. Thomas Wm. Davies, officer, Conway, Ist ride,
Carnarvon collection, has been appointed officer of Carnar-
von collection.

IRELAND.—Mr. 11. L. Jephson has been appointed to a
clerkship in the Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle.
Mr. T. A. Mooney has been appointed an extra clerk in
the Poor-law Commission Office, Dublin.

THE EAST INDIES.—Mr. S. Bellairs has been appointed
to act as professor of English literature in the Poona College.
Mr. W. H. Smith has been appointed head-master of the
High School, and principal of the Provincial College at
Ahmedabad. Rev. J. Paton has been appointed an assistant
chaplain of the Church of Scotland, in the Bombay Presi-
dency. Mr. E. P. Down has been appointed judge and ses-
sions judge of Khandeish, continuing to act as collector of
Tanna. Capt. A. Henley, military secretary, has been ap-
pointed private secretary to the Governor of Madras. Mr.
G. Banbury, sub-collector and joint magistrate of the Madras
district, has been appointed to act as collector and magistrate
of the South Arcot, during the absence of Mr. Reed on
leave. Mr. A. M'Callum Webster, head-assistant to the col-
lector and magistrate of South Canara, has been appointed
to act as sub-collector and joint magistrate of the Madras
district. Mr. C. A. Galton has been appointed assistant to
the collector and magistrate of the Tanjore district.