The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-11 00:00:00

No. 22,665.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11: 1865.

LADY BLAKE'S NEW NOVEL.
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Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments
in the Civil Service•

(From the Civil Service Gazette.)
Hoene-office.—Mr. Beadon has been appointed to be a sub-
inspector of factories. Mr. T. Oswald has been appointed
to be a sub-inspector of factories.
War-office.—Mr. A. F. Noyes has been appointed a clerk
in the Quartermaster-General's office. Mr. Chas. A. Mar-
shall has been appointed a commissariat clerk at Jamaica.
Post-office.—Two surveyors' clerkships, second class,
have become vacant. Salary, £2OO, increasing £lO a-year to,
£3OO, with an allowance of 15s. a-day when absent from
headquarters, in addition to the cost of locomotion. Mr.
MOntgomery, surveyor's clerk, has been appointed postmas-
ter of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
,Messrs. Edward John Abbott,
Henry W. Hasdale, Edward F. Thwaites, H. W. Linford,
Thomas Leech, George Gibson, Wm. Samuel Emden, Jas.
Douglas Winn, Wm. Walters, Ernest F. Rickard, Baldwin
W. Adams, and Wm. Basil O'Byrne, have been appointed
to be temporary clerks in the savings bank. Mr. Gunning
has been promoted from the third to the second class of
clerks, Money Order-office.
Customs.—Mr. Samuel Aylen has been appointed third
clerk, Portsmouth. Mr. William Evenden has been ap-
pointed an extra clerk, London. Mr. Philip Musgrave has
been appointed 24th clerk, Glasgow. Mr. David
Rutherford has been appointed 23d clerk, Glasgow.
Mr. John S. Cobb has been promoted from the sixth to the
fifth class of clerks, East and West India Docks, London.
Mr. Jeffery Ryan has been promoted from the fourth to the
third class of out-door officers, London. Mr. John Allen
has been promoted from the fifth to the fourth class of out-
door officers, London. Mr. John T. Ames has been pro-
moted from the fifth to the fourth class of.out-door officers,
London. Mr. John W. Brockman, out-door office; fourth
class, has been promoted to be a guagor, sixth class, London.
Mr. John Allen has been promoted fr6m the second to the
first-class of out-door officers, Glasgow. Mr. Thos. Bratton
has been promoted from the third to the second class of out-
door officers, Glasgow.
Inland Revenue.—Stamp and Tax Branch.—Mr. T. A.
Coils has been appointed a clerk, warehouse department.
Mr. J. Aikln has been appointed an assistant surveyor of
taxes. Mr. R. Comber has been appointed an assistant
surveyor of taxes. Mr. R. Jewell has been appointed an
assistant surveyor of taxes. Mr. J. Townsend has been ap-
pointed a binder in the warehouse department.
Excise Branch.—Mr. John Shea, collector, Aylesbury
collection, has been appointed collector of Canterbury col-
lection. Mr. Charles E. Evans, dropped office; Tattershall
division, Stamford collection, has been appointed officer of
Lincoln, 3d division, Lincoln collection. Mr. James
Doughty, dropped office; Sleaford division, Stamford col-
lection, has been appointed officer of Grantham, 3d division,
Stamford collection. Mr. Edward Smedley, dropped officer,
Lincoln, 2d ride, Lincoln collection, has been appointed
officer Of Sleaford ride, Stamford collection. Mr.'Cornelius
Hanigan, officer, Chipping Norton ride, Oxford collection,
has been appointed officer of Edinburgh, 2d division, Edin-
burgh collection. Mr. Jackson Dodds, first-class assistant,
Galway, 2d division, Galway collection, has been appointed
officer of Chipping Norton ride, Oxford collection.
The East Indies.—Mr. A. R. Scoble, of the Bombay bar,
has been appointed Master in Equity in the High Court,
Bombay, in succession to Mr. G. Taylor. The Hon. Mr.
Justice Forbes has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of the
Bombay University. Mr. W. H. Newham has been ap-
pointed to act as Senior Assistant Judge and Session Judge
of the Konkun of the detached station of Rutnagerry, dur-
ing the absence of Mr. A. T. Crawford. Mr. C. Izon has
been appointed to act as Assistant Judge and Session Judge
of the Konkun, vice Mr. W. H. Newnham. Mr. W. Sand-
with has been appointed to act as Assistant-Judge and Ses-
sion Judge of Poona. Professor J. P. Hughlings has been
appointed to act as Professor of Moral Philosophy in the El-
phinstone College. Professor G. 0 xenham has been appointed
to act as Professor of English Literature to the Elphinstone
College. Major J. B. Dunsterville has been appointed to be
District Registrar for the town and island of Bombay. Mr.
W. Johnson has been appointed to act as Assistant-Secre-
tary to Government in the Judicial Department, during the
absence of Mr. Pearson on sick leave

Locomotive Engines on Highways.

DEPUTATION TO THE HOME SECRETARY.

Yesterday, a deputation waited upon Sir G. Grey
at the Home Office, with a view to request him to
rescind the orders issued by him, respecting the
working of traction engines excepting during the
hours of 12 o'clock at night at 8 in the morning,
which was highly prejudicial to the agricultural
interests.

The deputation was introduced by Lord Kinnaird
and among the many gentlemen present were the
following members of Parliament :—Mr. Malcolm,
Col. Sykes, Mr. Grosvenor llodgkinson, Sir J. C.
D. Hay, Bart. ; Messrs. W. Lawson, Jas. Mackie,
R. Hodgson, the Hon. A. Kinnaird, Lord Harris,
Sir Geo. Dering, Bart., Mr. G. S. Beacroft, &c., &c.
There were also several justices of the peace, and
many landed proprietors and tenant farmers in at-
tendance.

Lord KINNAIRD, addressing Sir George Grey,
said that no doubt he was aware that a large and
influential meeting had been held respecting the
restriction which he (Sir G. Grey) had ordered
upon traction engines. His lordship had the hon-
our of presiding at that meeting, and a resolution
was passed deprecatory of the order restricting the
passage of engines on the highways, excepting
during the hours of night. Lord Kinnaird then said
-that he had no doubt that Sir George Grey felt
bound under the Act of Parliament of 1861, to press
the certain restrictions contained in that act ; but
he had found that by the use of traction engines in
the daytime no accident had ever occurred, and he
hoped that the act would be amended.
Sir G. GREY said that by the sth clause of the
Locomotive Act of -1861—not as a general clause--
if it was shown that there was wear and tear, and
breaking up of the roads by the use of locomotive
engines, and inconvenience and danger attendant
thereon, the magistrates of the county, on represen-
tation thereof, would cause him to put the act in
force, and, if only upon danger, he must fall on the
clause, and restrict the hours of the use of the
locomotive to night. There had been a strong
representation from Agbrigg, in the West Riding
of the county of York, to the effect of the
danger attending the daylight working, and the issue
of the order was prompted by what he had received
from some of the justices, and on which he felt it
was to the public interest to enforce the restriction
of the law. If, however, they found it possible to
take their engines on the roads without smoke or
noise, the order would at once be revoked. In his
own immediate neighbourhood a horse had been
frightened by one of those engines, and the life of
a magistrate had been thereby sacrificed. How-
ever, if any means could be adopted whereby in-
convenience and the frightening of horses could be
prevented, it would be a great advantage. Mr.
Wells, who was employed on the new buildings, had
said that he was employing engines without noise or
smoke, and he hoped that such was the fact. He
thought the question was one that should go before
Parliament.

Sir JOHN :HAY here presented a memorial signed
by eight magistrates and 98 landholders.

Sir G. GREY said he had received a memorial from
the Steam Ploughing Company, but he could do
nothing until they could show that the act required
modification, which would then rest with Parliament.
Lord KINNAIRD said that the modification had
come from the magistrates, way wardens and others,
and one chief constable, they had been told, bad
never himself seen a traction engine on the road.
Sir G. GREY—Yes, and others had said that they
hed seen four or five traction engines on the road,
and that the horses became frightened, and thereby
rendered the road dangerous.
Several other gentlemen spoke upon the subject,
showing that the agricultural and mining interests
were highly oppressed by the restrictions placed
Peengines
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on the thher
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onef thefie o
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another,
distance of five miles, and that the working at night
andwould dangerous, render
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conducsomet places
of the
engines
they had to cross
bridges and ditches, and the engines might be turned
bottom upwards.
Sir G. GREY said that in the day there might be
1,000 people out, but in the night there might not
be more than five, and he would ask if on a winter
night, when they closed their labours at 5 o'clock,
and wished to go to another field, would they not
remove A
tenant t e engine.
farmer
replied that they should not, but
said it would be hard if in the day they had finished