The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-09 00:00:00

THE SUPPLY OF SNIDERS.

Mr. Cardwell, in his letter published in the Times, holds
strictly to the affirmative reply given to the question of
Sir J. Pakington, asked in the House on the 2nd of
August, as to the "regular army " being then supplied
with breechloaders. But we have just seen a letter from
a line officer serving in the Punjaub, who, writing on the
18th of November, states positively that not a man of his
battalion had even seen, much less handled, a breech-
loader. The correction of his letter made by Mr. Card-
well in the Times, on Thursday, may possibly mean that
the Indian Government is responsible for the extraordi-
nary blunder which leaves Snider rifles lying here in
store, and the regiments on our weakest frontier armed
with the old muzzle-loader. If this be so, the responsi-
bility should be clearly put upon the right shoulders ; for
some one is certainly very much to blame for the fact that
the arms are forthcoming, and yet that men there were
still, half a year nearly after the famous discussion, uu-
provided with the new weapon, and apparently likely to
remain so.

The number of passengers conveyed over the
Metropolitan, the Metropolitan District, the Metropolitan
and St. John's-wood, and the Hammersmith and City
Railways during the Christmas holiday week (December
23rd and 29th inclusive) was 1,034,861, an increase on the
previous year of 140,685.
'THE IRISH CHURCH.—A fresh list of contrib'
tions to the Sustentation Fund of the Church appears ill
the Dublin Church papers. The list commences with
,si,t
donation of 220,000 from the Earl of Egmont, 26,U('
each from the Duke of Abercorn and Lord Clermont,
£5,000 from the Duke of Devonshire, £3,000 from Messrs;
Kinahan, of Dublin and London, Mr. Mulholland,
(Belfast) £2,000, with a number of sums of £l,OOO and
I £5OO.
BRICKYARD CHILDREN.-A letter has been acl;
dressed to the Home Secretary. by Mr. George Smith,
.°,„'
Coalville, asking whether the Government intends durdl
the next session to take into consideration the condition
of brickyard children. Mr. A. F. 0. Liddell, in reply'
writes that he is instructed by Mr. Bruce to state that the
subject will be considered in the next amendments of OW
Factory and Workshops' Acts, but that it is doubtfni
whether a bill for the purpose referred to can be into-
duced during the next session.
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SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS.—Orders were isn-
on Friday from the Education Department for the ele
tion of a school board in each of the following boroughs'
besides the district of the local board of Oxford :—Ashton'
under-Lyne, Barnsley, Bath, Batley, Bodmin, Brecon.
Carlisle, Chesterfield, Dartmouth, Devonport Exeteirj
Huddersfield, Ipswich, Kingston-upon-Hull, Newark
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Newport (Monmouthshire), F,"'
mouth, Pwllheli, Scarborough, South Shields, 'Pottle,
Wakefield, Walsall, Worcester.
A VOLUNTEER SENT TO PRISON.-At the Itati,
ston Petty Sessions, on Wednesday, Amos C. Ashes £l
was charged with refusing to pay his subscription of
to the 31st Lancashire (Oldham) Volunteer Corps for the
year 1870. The defendant, having failed to make hinoe,
efficient, was by the rules of the service required to Pato
subscription of the amount named, and as he declined
ra,
do this when applied to in the ordinary course, a elio,l
mons was taken out against him. After the charge
been stated, the defendant said he had "nowt to El"
He was committed to prison for one month.
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Reliable Remedies.—ln wounds, burns, sprains, glanatio
swellings, enlargtd veins, neuralgic pains, and rhenollbe
tortures, the application of this soothing ointment t 0 se
affected part not only gives the greatest ease, but likewtlie
cures the complaint. The pills genially promote, be
curative action of the ointment. Both remedies rdafiiia
used by the most inexperienced nurse. They shoal ,hey
a place on every toilet, and in every hurserY.
successfully supersede the use of all dangerous cosrde„ to
and render the skin soft and silky. It is unnecesedApt-
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ment and Pills whose merits have kept them ~,ro'
before the public, and secured for them universal al
bation.

BIRTHS. f,el,
On the sth inst.,. at Trehill, the wife of John IleurY.-
Esq., of a daughter.
On the 3d inst., at Haredene, Albury, the Hon. firs'

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Burne, of a son.
MARRIAGES. IA
On the sth inst., at Bridekirk, Cumberland, CaPt' titer o
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F. D. Donnelly, R.E., to Adeliza, second (lane'
the late Frecheville Lawson Ballantyne Dykes, -v-'54.'
of
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Dovenby Hall, Cumberland. the
On the sth inst., at Rugby, Thomas Caldecott,
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The Lodge, Rugby, to Elizabeth Mary, daughte , to
late A. Stewart, Esq., K.H., and widow of the

Hume, Esq.
DEATHS. ,i• 011
On the 4th inst., at Clapham-common, Lewis Arl.l6'
Esq., aged 80. 111iii'.1-
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On the 4th inst., at The Field, Leek, William
Esq., aged 85. f
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THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct "
Savoy, in the County of Middlesex.
Monday, January o,lBg.