The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-06 00:00:00

A DISORDERLY CLERGYMAN,

At the Southampton Petty Sessions yesterday, James
Barton, a clergyman of Platf )rd, was fined ss. and costs,
or three days' imprisonment in default, for drunken and
disorderly conduct in the struts yesterday. The fine was
paid.

Yesterday a large mill at Farnworth, near Bolton, was
burnt to the ground. The premises were conjointly oc-
cupied by Messrs. Parkinson, cotton spinner, Gregory,
elastic webbing manufacturer, Harrocks, nankeen manu-
facturer, Booth and Whitebear, shuttle makers, and
Pumbley, an engineer. The cotton spinning portion con-
tained 5,000 spindles, and the fire originated there through
the overheating of a shaft. The main building- was
totally destroyed, with most of its contents, and property
in the detached portions was seriously damaged. The
united damage is estimated at not less than £B,OOO. All
was partially insured,

THE MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMv,NTS. —The ap-
pointments consequent upon Lord Hartingtou's transfer
to the Irish Office have not yet been decided. It is
probable, however, that Mr. Monsell will become Post-
master-General, without a seat in the Cabinet ; that
Mr. Knatchbull-Hugesseu will sueceed him as tinder-
Secretary of State for the Colonies; and that Mr. Lefevro
will become Under-Secretary of State for the Home
Department. Mr. Arthur Peel is spoken of as Secretary
to the Board of Trade. But this distribution of offices is
still onen to revision.

A rumour has rewhed us that a gallant and Royal
personage is likely ere long to real a the commanding
post which he has long held. If so, we could wish that
he would first come down to his place in the House of
Lords and state such reasons for doing so, as would not
only arouse the country, but do a service to England,
for which the nation would for ever owe him a debt of
gratitude it would be as dilicult to measure as to repay.
Horning Advertiser.

The Musical Standard alp that an old harpsichord,
with two rows of keys and a number of pedals to produce
various effects, was recently sold by Mr. C. Kelly at one
of his music sales. The instrument was made nearly a
hundred years ago by Kirkman. It was purchased
by Mr. Carl Engel for the remarkably moderate sum of
fifty shilling's !

MINERVA MEDICA NUPTA.—Next to the ap-
proaching nuptials of the Princess Louise with the Marquis
of Lorne, the announcement that Miss Garrett is about
to assume the bonds of matrimony is the great theme
of conversation in social circles. Miss Garrett
as all the world knows, has fought her way
up to graduation in medicine through discourage-
merits and obstacles which would have daunted
many a strong man, and her example is being fol-
lowed by an adventurous band of seven ladies at Edin•
burgh, who have been wittily called the " Septem contra
Edinam." But the step she is about to take puts the
question of the medical education of her sex in a new
aspect. Granted that women are capable of practising the
profession as spinsters, can they continue to do so in the
married state? It is this problem which Miss Garrett has
now set herself to solve ; for although, in terms of the
Education Act, she forfeits by marriage her position on the
School Board, she does not necessarily preclude herself
from continuing to practice medicine. If she 'succeeds in
combining the two functions of mistress of a household
and medical practitioner, she will have performed a feat
unprecedented in professional history, and added another
notable incident to this annus —Lancet.
THE NEW LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF BENGAL.—
Mr. George Campbell, Commissioner of the Central Pro-
vinces of India, who has been recently appointed by the
Governor-General of India to the post of Lieutenant-Go-
vernor of Bengal, is the eldest son of the late Sir George
Campbell, of Edenwood, Fifeshire, who died in 1854, by
his wife, Margaret, daughter of Mr. A. Christie, of Ferry-
bank, in the same county, and consequently ne-
phew of John, first Lord Campbell, who died
while holding the seals as Lord Chancellor in
1861. His grandfather, who married a lady of
the noble Scotch house of Hallyburton, was the Rev.
George Campbell, minister of the parish of Cupar, in
Fifeshire, and a gentleman, to use the words of Sir Ber-
nard Burke, "no less distinguished by his piety. and elo-
quence in the pulpit than by his attainments in general
literature." Mr. Campbell, who was born in 1826, and
was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge,
and was in the commission of the peace for his native
county, has been for many years a well-known member
of the Indian Civil Service (Bengal Presidency), and, in
addition to the offices already mentioned, he has been a
Judge of the Supreme Court of Calcutta. Mr. Campbell
married in 1853 Miss Letitia Vibart, daughter of Mr.
Henry Vibart.