The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-22 00:00:00

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 20.

BREVET—Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the
undermentioned Officers of the East India Company's
Forces to take rank by Brevet in her Majesty's Army iu
the East Indies as follows.—The Commissions to bear date
June 20.

To be Generals in the Army—Lieutenant-General Hugh
Stacy Osborne, Bombay Infantry; Sir J. Lillyman Cald-
well, G.C.8., Madras Engineers • G. Carpenter, Bengal
Infantry; Sir David Leighton, K.C.B, Bombay Infantry;
James Welsh, Madras Infantry; Sir James Russell,
K.C.8., Madras Light Cavalry ; Martin White, Bengal
Infantry; Richard Podmore, Madras Infantry; Sir R.
Houston, K.C.8., Bengal Light Infantry ; :John Green-
street, Bengal Infantry; George Rees Kemp, Bombay In-
fantry; John Munro, Madras Infantry; John Alexander
Paul Macgregor, Bengal Infantry ; Sir Jeffrey Prender-
gast, Knt., Madras Infantry; Sir William Richards,
K.C.8,; Bengal Infantry; Alexander Duncan, Bengal In
fantry ; Robert James Latter, Bengal Infantry ; Jerry
Francis Dyson, Bombay I. fantry; Sir John Doveton,
K.C.8., Madras Light Cavalry ; Alexander Fair, C.B.Madras Infantry ; • Sir James Law Lnshingtorr, G. 0.13,
Madras Light Cavalry • William Charles Fraser, Madras
Infantry ; William Gilbert, Bombay Infantry.
To be Major-Generals—Colonels John Henry, Madras
Infantry ; Charles Ramsay Skardon' Bengal Infantry ;
Samtiel Swinhoe, Bengal Infantry; John Anderson, Ben-
gal Infantry ; Frederick Young, Bengal Infantry ; Thomas
Monteath Douglas, 0.8., Bengal Infantry ; William R. C.
Costley, Bengal Infantry; Charles Herbert, C. 8., Ma-
dras Infantry ; George Petre Wymer, C.B.,Bengal In-
fantry; Alexander Dick, Bengal Infantry; irilliam Pat-
tie, C. 8., Bengal Light Cavalry ; Thomas Fiddes, Bengal
Infantry ; James Perry, Madras Infantry; Hugh Ross,
Madras Infantry; James Ketchen, Madras Artillery;
Abraham Roberts, C. 8., Bengal Infantry; John Morgan,
1 C. 8., Madras Infantry ; Charles Arthur Grenado Wal-
lington, Bengal Infantry ' • Thomas Oliver, Bengal In-
fantry ; Michael Edward Bagnold, Bombay Infantry ;
Duncan Gordon Scott, Bengal Infantry ; Henry Hall, C.B.
Bengal Infantry ; Julius G. Griffith, Bombay Artillery ;
Henry Francis Caley, Bengal Infantry ; Hope Dick, Ben-
gal Infantry ; William Mactier, C. 8., Bengal Light
Cavalry; Joseph Nash, C. 8., Bengal Infantry; James
Alexander, C. 8., Bengal Artillery; John Theophilue Lane,
C• 13., Bengal Artillery ; George Hutton, Madras Infantry ;
Andrew Spens, Bengal Infantry ; Robert Stewart, Bengal
Infantry ; Edward Pettingtil, Bengal Infantry ; H. Han-
t?c'ek, Bombay Infantry; H. J. Wood, C. 8., Bengal Artil-
,"!ryi E. Huthwaite, C.B. Bengal Artillery; lsaac C.
kx}thn, Madras Infantry; G.'C.Whitlock, Madras Infantry;
Pinrge(,ltekaaGl George Lister, Bengal Infantry ; David Down-
Thomas blacill 'ntrY'
Goldie I;
Infantr'y;eTnghaolni,
Nugent Then-m.Ba
Parr, Patrick Thomson Madras Infantry;
night Cameron, Madras Infantry; Andrew
nfantry; William IlEmry Wake Bengal
sgM'SherrY, 0.8., Bengal Infant"ry; Win.
Bombay
Int.:lr, Bombay Infantry; Thomas Chase
gal nfantry ;Infantry, llungh,rlF,
Henry Prior, Madras Infantry;
Infantry; John Molf,e, Bengalr
Frederick Hervey Sandys, Ben-
nb:ld, C.B. Bengal infantry ;
Nicholas Johnson, Madras
Bird, Bengal Infantry; Dad Infantry ; Louis Saunders
Thomas Polwhele, Bengal Infantry;Birrel, Bengal Infantq ;
comb, Bengal Infantry- Fre. Brit, Isaac Henley Hands-
te;,,atingal Artil-
lery Richd. Jas. Flolwell Birch, 013..
Campbell, Bengal Artillev.i. ; Peter
Inner
p 'y
Bengal
Lightfnnl%i r(1;4:1;;
Lovell Benjamin Lovell, K.H., half-
goons ; St. John Augustus Clerke, Ka, maa.ttached; Sir-
J. Holmes Schoedde, K.C.8., un.attached, aide-de camp to
the Queen; Henry J. Wm. Bentinck, Coldstream Guards
aide-de-Camp to the Queen; Thomas Reed, C.B h lf '
the Q a -PaY'
to wen ;Henry Viscount
36th Foot, aide decamp
60th Foot • Alex. Kennedy Clark 31,1 ville, K.C.8., Ken-
, the Queen;
.
H. G.
aide-de-camp to Queen,
nedy, C. 8., unattached,
• Sir Colin 1 0
B lake, unattached, aide-do-camp to the Queen i Sr Clin
Campbell, K.C.8., unattached, aide-de-camp to the Qi een;
, half-pay 55th Foot, aide,
C-B
Peter Edmonstone Craigie, •
F,inneane Morris, CA.
de; camp to the Queen ; Edmund .
Henry_ s .
ulattached, aide de-camp to the Queen , H uolvile.
unattached I; Everard Wm, Bouverie, half-pay Rifle Bij

gade ; Hon. Thomas Ashburnham, C. 8., 29th Foot, aide-
de-camp to the Queen; Michael White, C. 8., 3d Light Dra-
goons, aide-de-camp to the Queen ; John Scott, C. 8., 9th
Light Dragoons, aide-de-camp to the Queen; J. Lysaght
Pennefather, C. 8., h.-pay 28th Foot, Brig.-Gan. in Turkey;
Thomas Perronet Thomson, unattached ; William Bush,
K.H., Inspecting Field Officer of a Recruiting District;
Frederick Thomas Buller, unattached ; Henry Despard,
C.B. 99th Foot ; Edward Wells, Bell, unattached ; John
Reed, half-pay 54th Foot; James Jones, K.H., unattached;
Edward Carlyon, half-pay 66th Foot ; Thomas Burke,
half-pay 4th Foot; Thomas Samuel Trafford, half-pay
24th Foot ;*Henry Bristow, half-pay 38th Foot ; George
Saunders Thwaites, half-pay ::7th Foot ; Joseph Jerrard,
half-pay 6th Garrison Battalion s • Arthur Morris, half-pay
14th Foot ; James Thomas, Earl of Cardigan, 11th Light
Dragoons; William Cowper Coles, unattached; Sir M.
Creagh, K.H., unattached; John Eden, C. 8., unattached,
Deputy Adjutant-General in Ireland ; Humphrey Robert
JamesHartl
Campbell,
e y, unattached;
ic.
Htta
Henryuna Williamchal Inspectingunattached;
Field
Officer of a Recruiting District ; Hon. Charles Grey, un-
attached ; William Lennox Lascelles Fitz Gerald, Lord
de Ros, unattached ; John Geddes, K.H., unattached ;
William Henry Cornwall, half-pay 83d Foot ; Philip
Spencer Stanhope, Grenadier Guards ; Charles M. Hay,
Coldstream Guards; Hen. Lord Rokeby, Scots Fusilier Gds.;
Thomas Scott Rcignolds, C. 8., 18th Foot; E. B. Reyuard-
son, Grenadier Gds.; J. Stopford, C B, 64th Foot; Henry
Havelock, C B, 53d Foot, Quartermaster-Gen. East Indies;
C. T. Van Straubenzee, 3d Foot; H C. Cobbe, 4th Foot;
A. M. Tullogh, unattached; Hon. J. St. Vincent Saumarez,
unattached ; Wm. G. Gold, unattached; Hon. R. Bruce,
Grenadier Gds.; A. C. Van Notten Pole, Inspecting Field
Officer of a Recruiting District ; E. W. F. Walker, Scots
Fusilier Gds.; Sir C. J. J. Hamilton, Barb, Scots Fusilier
Gds; T. A. Drought, 15th Foot; T. H. Franks, 10th Foot;
Charles Stuart, 13th Foot ; Hon. A'. Almoric Spencer,
44th Foot ; C. Ashmore, 36th Foot ; Aucmutz Montressor,
3d West India Regiment ; H. K. Bloomfield, 11th Foot ;
J. Lawrenson, ' 17th Lancers • S. J. Hodgson, unattached ;
C. Franklyn, 84th Foot ; G. C. Mundy, unattached ; F.
H. G. Seymour, unattached; H. W. Hartley, Bth Foot;
W. A. M'Cleverty, half-pay 48th Foot, Deputy Quarter-
master-General in New Zealand ; L. D. Williams, 2d Life
Guards ; Robert B. Wood C B, half-pay 97th Foot ; C. E.
Gold, 65th Eoot ; C. A. Lewis, Grenadier Guards ; W.
Campbell, 2d Dragoon Guards; W. Parlby, 10th Light
Dragoons ; G. Congreve, C. 8., 29th Foot ; J. T. Hill,
half-pay 21st Foot ; J. Longfield, Bth Foot ; C. W. M. Bal-
tiers, C. 8., unattached ; F. W. Hamilton, Grenadier Grds.;
William Denny, 71st Foot; Charles Hastings Doyle, un-
attached ; Frederick Horn, 20th Foot ; John Francis Glen-
cairn Campbell, 91st Foot; Henry Frederick Bonham,
unattached, Cavalry Depot at Canterbury; Lord Frederick
Paulit. Coldstream Guards; Manley Power, 85th Foot;
John Rowland Smith, C. 8., 16th Light Dragoons ; Wil-
liam James D'Uurban, half-pay 26th Foot, Deputy Quar-
termaster-General in North America; Henry John French,
unattached, Assistant Adutant-General in Ireland; Terrace
O'Brien, half-pay unattached, Assistant Quartermaster-
General in Ireland ; John Crofton, unattached ; John
Grattan, C.B.' 18th Foot; Hon. James Lindsay, Grena-
dier Guards ; Hon. George Augustus Frederick Liddell,
unattached; William Sullivan, unattached; Henry
Cartright, Grenadier Guards ; Giles Vandeleur Creagh,
Depot Battalion at Fermoy ; John Hankey Bainbrigge,
unattached, Fort Major, Guernsey ; Arthur Augustus
Thurlow, Cunynghame, h. if pay 51st Foot ; Henry Pen-
leasze, unattached; St. Vincent W— Ricketts, unattached;
William James King, half-pay Royal Staff Corps ; Hon.
Nathaniel Henry Charles Massy, unattached; John J
Hollis, 25th Foot ; James Henderson, K.H., unattached ;
William A. Le Mesurier, half-pay 25th Foot ; John Swin-
burn, unattached ; Kobert Kelly, unattached, Fort Major
at Dartmouth; George Stuart, half-pay 424 Foot ; T.
Kelly, half-pay Cheshire Fencibles, Fort Major, Tilbury
Fort ; R. E. Burrowes, K.H , unattached ; T. Gloster,
unattached ;T. G. Harriott, half-pay Royal Staff Corps ;
James K. Ross, K. Ross, K.H., unattached; Edward
Basil Brooke, 67th Foot Edward George Walpole
Keppel, unattached; John Fitzmaurice K.H. un-
attached ; John Campbell,' unattached ; 'John Craw-
ford Young, unattached ; Frederick Hope, unat-
tached ; Lewis Alexander During, unattached ; Joshua
Simmonds Smith, unattached; Henry Arthur O'Neill, un-
attached ; Hon. William Noel Hill, unattached ; Henry
Clinton, unattached ; Frederick Chidley Irwin, K.H.,
unattached ; Richard Parker, Ist Life Guards ; James
Brown, 43d Foot; Charles Trollope, 624 Foot; Andrew
T— Hemphill, 26th Foot ; Lord George Augustus Frede-
rick Paget, 4th Light Dragoons; Brook Taylor, unattached;
Charles Ash Windham, unattachel.
To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army—Majors John
Fraser, unattached, Fort-Major, Jersey ; Hamlet Coote
Wade, C. 8., half-pay, lst Dragoon Guards; John Douglas,
79th Foot; William James Myers, half-pay, Royal Staff
Corps ; James Paterson, 3d Foot ; , Henry Charles Barn-
ston Daubeney, C. 8., 55th Foot; Franklin Lushington,
C. 8., 37th Foot; Ferdinand White, C.B. depot Battalion
at Parkhurst ; Ferdinand Whittingham;C.B., 26th Foot;
Cyprian Bridge, 58th Foot; Edward Bond, unattached;
Harry Smyth, 68th Foot ; Edmund Richard Jeffreys,
88th Root; Thomas Sydenham Conway, C. 8., 224 Foot;
Alexander B. Montgouery, Ist Foot; Thomas Le Mar-
chant, sth Dragoon Guards ; David Rea Smith, 22d Foot;
Thomas Shadforth, 57th Foot; William L. Tudor, 86th
Foot ; Thomas Graham, Ist Foot; George Pinder,. 15th
Foat ; George Green, 84th Foot ; Robert A. Cuthbert,
15th Foot ; Maximilian J. Western, 64th Foot ; Charles
Herbert, 75th Foot ; Lord Alfred Paget, unattached ;
Edward R. King, 36th Foot; John Singleton, 11th Foot;
Matthew B. G. Reed, 84th Foot; Alfred F. W. Wyatt,
65th Foot; Richard Gardiner, 76th Foot; Hugh D. Crof-
ton, 20th Foot ; John R. B. Hale, unattached ; Edward
H. Greathead, Bth Foot; Arthur St. George H. Stepney,
54th Foot; Samuel Fisher, 29th Foot; Hon. Henry R.
Handcock, 97th Foot ; Charles Hind, unattached ; Augus-
tus F. Ansell, unattached; George F.F. Boughey, 59th Foot;
Thomas Hooke Pearson, unattached ; Lawrence Fyler,
12th Light Dragoons • William Mathias, 62d Foot ; George
Frederick Long, unattached ; William Petrie Waugh, un-
attached ; Archibald W. Reed, 9th Foot ; James Fergu-
son 79th Foot ; Sir W. Gordon. Bart., 66th Foot ; W. H.
L. D. Cuddy, 55th Foot ; Isaac Foster, 3d West India
Regiment ; A. Campbell, half-pay, Ceylon Regiment ;
J. Draper, 64th Foot ; J. J. Graham, unattached ; T.
Beckham, unattached ; Sir J. E. Alexander, K.C., 14th
Foot; P. Brown, half-pay, 62d Foot; E. L'Estrango, 70th
Foot; R. H. J. B. M'Cumming, unattached; H. F.
Ainslie, 834 Foot; J. R. Heyland, unattached ; W. H.
Robinson, unattached; R. W. Bamford, unattached ;
G. Mylins, unattached ; T. J. Deverell, 67th Foot ; M.
Orr, uattached ; W. R Caldwell, unattached ; H. F.
Hawker, half-pay, 12th Foot; J. A. Rob rtson, 82d Foot;
C. Kelson, unattached; E. Trevor, half-pay, Royal Artillery;
Alexander Henry Louis Wyatt, 11th Foot; George Her-
bert Frederick Campbell, half-pay Royal Staff Corps ;
Jasper Bync, Creagh, half-pay 29th Foot ; John M`Mahon
Kidd, 87th Foot ; Henry B— Harvey ; unattached ; Ed-
ward A— G— Muller, Ist Foot ; Charles F. Parkinson,
unattached ; Abraham Bolton, unattached ; Augustus F.
Blytb, half-pay 6th West India Regiment, Adjutant of a
Cavalry Depot ; Frederick T. Maitland, half-pay Royal
Staff Corps, Town Major of Portsmouth; James Graham,
89th Foot ; Richard L. Phipps, unattached ; Thomas Tul-
loch; 42d Foot; Walter Campbell, unattached; Anthony
Coningham Sterling, unattached ; Edward S. Farmer,
unattached ; John E. Orange, half-pay 34th Foot ; Gervas
S. Deverill, 90th Footh ; William J. Crompton, unat-
tached ; Thomas E. Lacy, unattached, Town Major, Gib-
raltar ; Philip Saryly, 99th Foot ; Oswald S. Blachford,
15th Light Dragoons; John Gray, unattached ; Thomas
Prior, half-pay sth Foot; John Impett, 25th Foot ; Jas.
K. fipon, half-pay 69th Foot; George W. Mayow, nnat•
tached ; Geo. Talbot, 434 Foot ; John F. du Vernet, 11.-p.
Royal African Corps; W. T. B. Mountseven, h.-p. 79th Foot;
Richard Going, Ist Foot; Wm. Calder, unattached; Hugh
Plunkett Bourchier, half-pay 19th Light Dragoons; Moan-
ford Stonghon Heyliger Lloyd, unattached; Chas. James,
half-pay, 12th Foot; James Stuart, half-pay 84th Foot;
Henry Anderson, Staff Captain, unattached; John Roche,
unattached ; James Clarke, Ist West India Regiment ;
Francis Mountjoy Maityn2d Life Guards; Wm. Henry
Gilman, 68th Foot; John Wegg, half-pay, 424 Foot;
Wm. Harloe Phibbs, unattached ; Robt. Clifford Lloyd,
76th Foot; Mitchell George Sparks, 10th Foot ; Andrew
Armstrong Barnes, 6th Foot; Geo. Fredk. Cooper Scott,
76th Foot ; Archd. Inglis Lockhart, 92d Foot ; William
Macpherson, unattached ; John Forbes, unattached ; Hy.
B. H. Rogers, unattached; G. Nacbeath, 68th Foot; W.
R. Haliday, 36th Foot; W. Johnston, unattached.
To be Majors in the Army—Captains F. L. Ingall; un-
attached, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General,
Montreal; William Wynne Lodder, 59th Foot; Ber-
tram Charles Mitford, unattached, Town Major, Malta ;
.Lo;p;el,B.v.
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dNBBe.
Bengal
;game;
N.I.
D. Hodson, 3d Madras European Regiment ; G. Carr, 16th
stokMadrases,
59th Bengal
B,• W.
PG. Cecil, 12th Bengal N. I.
J. S. G. Ryley, sth Bengal Light Cavalry ; C. G. G.
Munro, 16th Bombay N.I. ; W. B. Salmon, 19th Bombay
N.I. ; J. B. Ramsay, 3d Bombay European Regiment ;
P. Shortreed, 17th Bengal Native Infantry ; J. Butler,
55th Bengal Native Infantry; T. Eyre 3d Bombay Light
Cavalry ; H. Mackenzie, 24 Bengal European Fusiliers ;
A. Balderston, 16th Bengal Native Infantry; W. Edwards,
18th Bengal Native Infantry • G. Gordon, 50th 8.N.1; F.
Raleigh, let 8.N.1. ; C. Wollaston, Bth B.L.C. ; W.
Lydiard, 11th 8.N.1.; G. B. Reddio, 29th 8.N.1. ; W.
Lindsay, 10th 8.N.1. ' • G. W. Williams, 29th 8.N.1. ; G.
F. Whitelocke, 13th 8.N.1. ; A. Thomas, Bth 8.N.1. ;
A. Thomas, Bth 8.N.1.; J. K. Spence, 20th 8.N.1; J.
Gordon, 34 B.L.C. ; F. Westbrooke, 18th 8.N.1. ;
William Frederick Curtis, Ist Bombay Light Cavalry;
Joseph Graham, 50th Bengal N.I. ; Arthur C. Wight, Bth
Madras N.I. ; James T. Brett, 4th Madras Light Cavalry;
Robert Campbell, 434 Bengal Light Infantry; George
Nott, 19th Madras N.I. ; Christopher S. Baling, 68th Ben-
gal N.I. ; Charles Pooley, 33th Madras N.I. ; Robert Gar-
rett, 69th Bengal N.I. ; James W. Bayley, 20th Madras
N.I. ; John Watkins, 234 Bombay N.I. ; C. J. Lewis, 3d
Bengal European Regt. ; W. Beaumont, 234 Madras N. 1.;
J. Cooper, 7th Bombay Native Infantry; W. C. Ormsby,
3rd Bengal European Regiment : A. C. Scott, 70th Ben-
gal Fative Infantry; T. J. Nuthall, 46th Bengal Native
Infantry ; J. T. Smith, Madras Engineers ; J. H. B Cong-
don, 2nd Madras Native Infantry; S. F. Hannah, 40th
Bengal Native Infantry ' • T. G. E. G. Kenny, 2nd Madras
European Regiment ; H. A. Hornsby, 2nd Madras Euro-
pean Regiment; R. Hall, 49th Madras Native Infantry;
A. Macleod, sth Madras Light Cavalry ; R. Angelo, 34th
Bengal Native Infantry ; J. Back, Madras Artillery ;
John S. Ramsay, 2d Bombay Light Infantry; Edwin H.
Atkinson, 19th Madras Native Infantry; James Benwell,
46th Madras Native Infantry; Charles Lucas, Bombay
Artillery; Henry W. Trevelyan, Bombay Artillery; Fre-
derick William Birch, 41st Bengal Native Infantry ; Robert
McNair, 734 Bengal Native Infantry ; George Sidney Wil-
kinson, 39th Madras Native Infantry; Henry Bower, 52d
Madras Native Infantry ; Samuel Auchinlock Grant, 16th

ANOTHER SUCH VICTORY, AND
CHURCH RATES ABE LOST.

NIPE RI A L PA.RL /AM ENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.--(THIS EVENING.)

The house met at five o'clock.
BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE called attention to
a breach of privilege committed by some of the subor-
dinate officers of the Government in making a return to
the house to a motion of Earl Grey for papers connected
with the administration of the army. The grounds of
the noble marquis's complaint was that letters had been
included in the return stated subsequently to the day
when the motion was agreed to by the house—those let-
ters being neither more nor less than an answer by su-
bordinate Government officers to the able speech of the
noble earl with regard to abuses in the depaz tmentg re-
Wing to the army.
Atter a short discussion, in which the Duke of NEW-
CASTLE and the Earl of DERBY took part,
Earl FITZ WI LLTAM expressed a hope that the re-
turn would be withdrawn.
The Ruggestion was agreed to, and the subject then
dropped,

(LEFT SITTING.)

The House of Commons has decided, by a majority of
27, against the abolition of Church rates. Taking the
House of Commons, as it is, a body which imperfectly
represents the nation, it is a matter of wonder that so
many as 182 members could be found to record their
votes in favour of a measure which was intended to re-
medy a great national wrong. That it is a great wrong
has been admitted by some of the best Churchmen. It
does not follow that because the State chooses to recog-
nise the principle of an establishment, by selecting one
religious denoMination, and investing it with the pro-
perty and dignity of a State church, therefore those who
dissent from this church should pay for the buildings of
the establishment. It may allow the church to keep it
own property, but it cannot consistently call upon mem
hers of other denominations to assist the State Church
by their contributions. None but the merest bigots
assert this. Lord Derby, even so late ago as 1837, said—
" I am ready to acknowledge that church rates, as they
stand, do form to the Dissenters a serious and substan-
tial grieiance." Every one admits the evils of church
rates as they stand, but' yet they are kept up. They
are, it may be added, a reproach to our institutions ; fo
if the inhabitants refuse a rate, there is, according to
Dr. Lushington, no power in the Ecclesiastical Courts
to enforce the payment necessary to keep up the Church.
Lord John Russell, in the course of his speech, proved
too much. He said that having in this country a
monarchy, a hereditary aristocracy, and other institu-
tions with which the Church was bound up, if one of
these institutions fell, the other would be immediately
destroyed. Believing, then..., as be does, that church
rates are necessary to keep 5p the Church, the inference
that naturally follows from his statement is that our in-
stitutions depend upon the retention of church rates.
Now that church rates are doomed no one can doubt.
If, then, their abolition takes place during the life of
Lord John—arid it is to be hoped that he will live long
enough to see that event—he will stand amidst the ruins
of a monarchy, a hereditary aristocracy, a State Church,
and other institutions connected therewith. Lord John
may be assured that when in a House composed of a
very large proportion of members of the hereditary aris-
tocracy, who are all interested in the maintenance of an
aristocratical church and the ecclesiastical regime as it
stands at present--when in such a house 182 members
can be found voting for a measure for the abolition of
church rates, these rates are verging towards their dis-
solution. There is no life left in them.—Daily News.
LEGALISING I RUSSIAN DOCUMENTS.—According to
advices from St. Petersburg, received on Monday, the
Prussian Consul in London had been appointed to
legalise all official documents for Russia. It appears,
however, that it is the Danish Consul-General, and not
the Prussian Consul, by whom the service is to be under-
taken, arrangements to that effect having been made by
the Danish Minister at this Court.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1854.

MISS ARABELLA GODDARD'S CONCERT.

The concert of Miss Arabella Goddard, which took
place last evening at the Hanover-square Rooms, had
all the importance of a Philharmonic Concert. The
band was a first-rate one—that of the Orchestral Union
—and the programme, betraying a laudable bias towards
the classical school, was selected with judgment and
taste to conciliate all parties. The attendance was nu-
merous and fashionable, and a great number of connois-
seurs were present to hear one of the most gifted and
extraordinary pianists of the day.
The concert opened with Mozart's magnificent Jupiter
Symphony, a performance that gratified everybody, and
conferred no small credit on the excellent body of instru-
mentalists who executed it, and their conductor, Mr.
Alfred Mellon, to whose energy and talents the Orches-
tral Union is indebted in no small degree for the high
position which it now holds. Each movement was ren-
dered with a precision and power we have not always
heard equalled in bands of more numerical strength.
Mr. Miranda made his first appearance, and in the
charming song from L'Elisir d' Amore, " Una furtive
lagrima," displayed a nice feeling and pleasing ♦oice.
He met with a favourable reception.

. -
The Grand Concerto of Beethoven--that in G major
—was well selected by Miss Arabella Goddard to test to
the utmost her eminent qualities as a pianist, The
young pianist surpassed herself on this occasion, -and
created a feeling of mingled delight and astonishment in
her hearers, which resolved itself into an enthusiastic
recal at the end of the concerto, and a boisterous recep-
tion when Miss Arabella Goddard reappeared on the
platform. Loudest in their expressions of gratification
and most vehement in their applause were the pianists
and connoisseurs of the piano who were present. In the
other pieces she played she was equally successful.
The concert was emphatically one of the most inte-
resting of the season, and reflected_credit no less on Miss
Goddard's taste than on her talents.