The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-27 00:00:00

CIVIL SERVICE PENSIONS.

The following is a list of all pensions granted during
~he year ended June 20, 1870, and charged upon the Civil
List :--Jan. 21, 1870, Mrs. Lucy Sherrard Finley, in con-
sideration of her services to literature. £5O; Jan. 21, Mr.
Wm. Allinghaxn, additional pension in recognition of his
literary merits as a poet (the previous pension of £6O
granted June 18, 1864), £4O ; Jan. 21, Mr. Augustus de
Morgan, in consideration of his distinguished merits as a
mathematician, £lOO ; Feb. 19, Mrs. Charlotte J. Thomp-
son, in consideration of the labours of her late husband,
Mr. Thurston Thompson, as official photograpner to the
Srience and Art Department, and of his personal services
to the late Prince Consort. £4O ; Feb, 19. Demetrius Count
Carnso, of the Island of Cephalonia, in recognition of his
long and faithful services to the British Protectorate in the
lonian Islands, £lOO ; Feb. 19, Mrs. Rachel Robertson
Brodie, in recognition of the historical researches and,writ-
ings of her late husband, Mr. eorge Brodie, Historic-
grapher Royal of Scotland £BO ;Feb. 21, Dame Georgina
Marianne Catherine Mayne, in consideration of the personal
services of her late husband, Sir Richard Mayne, to the
Crown, and of the faithful performance of his duty to the
public, £150: April 12, Mr. Robert William Buchanan,
in consideration of his literary merits as a poet, £lOO :
April 12, Dame Henrietta Grace Beadon Powell, in con-
sideration of the valuable servicec to science rendered by
her husband during the 33 years he held the Savillian
Professorship of Geometry and Astronomy at Oxford,
£l5O ; June 18, Miss Margaret Catherine Ffennel, Miss
Elizabeth Mark Ffennell, and Mrs. Charlotte Carlisle
(formerly Ffennell), wife of Captain Thomas Carslisle,
jointly, and to the survivors or survivor of them, £3O ;
June 18, Miss Margaret Catherine Ffennelll, £10; June
18, Miss Elizabeth Mark Ffeunell, £lO ; June 18, Mrs.
Charlotte Carlisle, in recognition of the labours of their
father in connection with the salmon fisheries of the
United Kingdom, £lO ; June 18, Mrs. Jane Dargan,
in recognition of tne services of her late husband, Mr.
William Dargan, in connection with the Dublfn Ex-
hibition of 1853 and other works of public importance
in Ireland, £100; June 18, Mrs. Charlotte Chrfstiana
Sturt, in consideration of the services rendered by her
late husband, Captain Charles Sturt, by his Geographical
researches in Australia, £BO ; June 18, William Henry
Emmanuel Bleek, Doctor of Philosophy, in recognition
of his literary services and in aid of his labours in the
department of philogy, especially in the study of the
South African languages, £l5O. Total, £1,200.
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A. French paper announces the death of Von
Graefe, the eminent German physician and oculist.
Dublin is to have another theatre. Mr. C. G.
Phipps designs this new Temple of Thespis, and it is to
be named the Gaiety.
Mr. Cogan, M.P., has been unable to attend his
parliamentary duties for the last few weeks, in conse-
quence of illness by which he is still confined to his bed.
The Lord Chancellor's rectory of Wellesbourne,
Warwickshire, has become vacant by the death of the
Rev. Lord C. Paulet. It is worth about £5OO a year.
Earl Granville will make a statement in the House
of Lords on Thursday evening with respect to the diplo-
matic negotiations which preceded the outbreak of the
war between France and Prussia.—Globe.

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A letter, addressed to the Rev. Dr. Newman upon
the subject of his future action with regar who the Church
of Rome, by the Rev. Edward Husband, lately re-
turned to the English Church froM the Roman Commu-
nion, will shortly be published.
A sculler's race for £25 a side took place yesterday
between Alfred Eaglton, of Blackwall, and Richard
Harding, of Poplar. The course was from Putney
nd
to
Mortlake. After a fine struggle, Eaglton drew ahead, a
ultimately won by six lengths. The betting at starting was
6 to 4 on him.
I'he head quarters of the Relief Fund for the
Sick and Wounded, of which his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales has accepted the presidentship, are fixed
for the present at St. Martin's Chambers, 8, St. Martin's-
place, Trafalgar-square, where all communications and
offers of help should be addressed.
A. Marseilles telegram states that the ship William
Cory left at six a.m. on Sunday to commence submerging
the Franco-Algerian Cable, the laying of the shore-end or
which was finished on Friday. Bad weather preventc,
her. departure earlier. At one p.m. on Monday she was
137 milesfrom Marseilles, and had submerged 151 miles of
the cable. .