The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-14 00:00:00

THE CONFERENCE.

We are authorised to state that the Conference has been
summoned to meet on Tuesday next, the 17th inst., at
one o'clock.

The Edinburgh Daily Review understands that the
Marquis of Lorne has purchasod the house No. 12, Moray
place, as his Edinburgh residence.

It is now pretty current, says the Scotsman, that
at the Council to be held by the Queen on Saturday the
Legislature will be called together for the despatch of
business on the 2nd of next month.

The name of Mr. Samuel Stitt, of the Grange,
Claughton, near Birkenhead, has been placed by the
Lord Chancellor, on the recommendation of the Lord-
Lieutenant, in the commission of the peace for the county
of Chester.

A numerous company of Italian artistes, comprising
Rannenberg, Sinico, and Janssen, and Signori
Foli, Ciampi, and Vizzani, are giving a series of concerts
in Dublin, and have every reason to be satisfied with the
cordiality of their reception.

On Wednesday morning Maccomo, who was
accompanying the tour through the north of Manders'
menagerie of wild animals, died at the Palatine Hotel,
Borough-road, Sunderland, from epilepsy. Deceased had
been ill for nearly a fortnight.

It is understood that Government intends to grant
£2OO annually towards the endowment of a chair of
Geology in the University of Edinburgh. Together with
the endowment bestowed by Sir Roderick Murchison, this
will make up an income of about £7OO a year.—British
Medical Journal.

It is believed that Sir Roderick Murchison will
shortly resign his office of Director,General of the Geolo-
gical Survey, which ho has held since he succeeded Sir
Henry de la Beche in 1855. Sir Roderick's successor will
be Professor Ramsay, known as one of the principal
advocates of the glacial theory.
The death is announced of the Rev. William
Edge, who was the oldest clergyman in the diocese of
Ely. Mr. Edge was ordained deacon in 1809, and priest
in 1810, and in the same year was presented to the family
living of Naughton. In 1822 he took, in addition, the
living of Nedging, both of which he held up to the time
of his death.
TIIF. COMMANDER-IN-CHlEF.—According to the
Scotsman in the supposed proximate event of the retire-
ment of the Duke of Cambridge from the post of Com-
mander-in-Chief, it is generally understood that the
command of the army will be given to Sir William Mans-
field, the office having suffered so much of mutation that
it will constitute a kind of responsible Under-Secretary-
ship of the War Department. Possibly the statement
which was current a short time ago, that Sir William
Mansfield was to be Secretary for War, may be traced to
some undefined knowledge of the likelihood just described
of his becoming Commander-in-Chief of the army.
A SECOND REA BOD Y.—M r. Cowasjee Jehanghier
Readymoney, C. S. I.' of Bombay, has just made the fol-
lowing timely gifts to London charities :—To the Lord
Mayor, for the City poor-boxes, £lO ; Middlesex Hospital,
£lO ; Royal Free Hospital, £lO ; London Hospital, £lO ;
Homccoputhic Hospital, £10; Royal Hospital for Incu-
rables, £lO 10s. ; Houseless Poor Asylum, £lO • Boys'
Refuge, Great Queen-street, £lO ; Girls' Refuge, Broad-
street, Bloomsbury, £lO ; Shipwrecked Mariners' Society,
£lO ; Printers' Pension Society, £lO ; and Strangers'
Home, Limehouse, £lO. The public benefactions of Mr.
Cowasjee Jehanghier Readymoney during the last twenty-
five years have exceeded £127,000, while his private gifts
have been proportionately large.