The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-15 00:00:00

IRE SUJN, LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 187 C.

THE ENGLISH AMBULANCE TRAIN.

The General Steam Navigation Company's stenaner
John Bull sailed from the Arsenal, Woolwich, with
ambulance train, intended to operate in the neighbour-
hood of Paris. The destination of the vessel is Havre,
where the stores and attendants will land, and proceed by
rail as far as Rouen, thence by road to Versailles,
where it is hoped that permanent quarters
will be assigned them by the King of Prussia.
The personal staff consists of Dr. Thomas Guy,
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, who will be
director and principal medical officer; Mr. Reginald Shee,
secretary; Mr. J. S.Aroung, of the Army Control De-
partment, commissary; Surgeon J. H. Porter, 97th Regi-
ment ; Staff-Surgeon Tertius Ball ; Surgeon W. G. N.
Manley, V.C., Royal Artillery; Staff-Surgeom, J. Jame-
son ; Assistant-Surgeons McNalty, Power, Moore, Melia-
dew, Macrobin, Malcolm, and Barroll ; 27 ambulance
attendants, 1 diSpenser, and 3 grooms. There are already
at Havre 1 veterinary surgeon, 52 drivers, 3 cooks, and
a number of horses. The stores shipped on board the
John Bull comprise 8 ambulance waggons and
twelve store waggons. Each waggon will; be.drawn by
four horses, suitable sets of harness having been pur-
chased with them from the War Departments and each
ambulance will accommodate six wounded men. '.. he
store waggons are for the conveyance of camp equipage,
provisions, &c. The hospital will consist, unless a build-
ing be set apart, of twelve hospital marquees and twenty
bell tents, which will accommodate at least 200 patients.
These marquees, and the field equipment of bedding,
utensils, &c., will be transported in the store waggons
until their destinationlis reached. Proviaions sufficient
for 200 patients and:100 attendants for ten days accom-
pany the ambulance, and a regular: system of supply
weekly will be organised by the Society, with Havre as
a basis. Lord Bury Twill. meet the ambulance
train at Havre, where he has been for some
time purchasing horses -"and "engaging drivers, and
it will be moved forward', without delay towards
Versailles. About 150 Irishmen came down from
London on a steam-tug,' and „first ; requested, then
demanded, to be taken out to serve with the Irish
Ambulance Corps ; but were, of course, refused, the
captain of the John Bull himself, cutting their ropes, and
sending them adrift. About a score of the party landed
at the Town-pier, and tried to get through the Arsenal to
the ship, but were stopped by the police, whereupon they
got much enraged, and some of them incautiously avowed
that they were "no ambulance," but wanted to fight for
the French.

A GENTLE HlNT.—Emily Carisbrooke, who has
already "officiated" at the weddings of three of her
friends, and is still disengaged, says it is all very well for
the gentlemen to propose the bridesmaids, but that she
wishes they would go a step farther and propose to them.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.—The returns of the
number of animals suffering from the foot and mouth dis-
ease in Somerset give 6,308 cows. 15 oxen, 484 heifers, 318
calves, and 989 pigs. Of these, 58 cows and 77 pigs have
died. The Deputy Chief Constable, Mr. Bloxham, re-
ports that since the 24th of June the malady has broken
out on 339 farms, affecting 3,519 cattle, 254 sheep, and
297 pigs—in 13 petty sessional divisions. In the district
of Mr. Bisgood, the assistant-inspector, 140 farms are in-
fected. At Shaftesbury, on Tuesday, the Ven. Arch-
deacon Huxtable in the chair, it was reported that the
malady had appeared on 30 fresh farms within that divi-
sion, the principal cases being—Mr. Newman, Nyland,
20 cows ; Mr. Austin, Nyland, 13 cows ; and Mr. Bab-
bitts, Holy Trinity farm, one bull and 24 cows. In the
neighbourhood of Sherborne the disease appears to be
dying out. The heavy rains will, it is believed, have a
beneficial effect.

THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN AND THE VATICAN
COUNCIL.—At his visitation Dr. Wordsworth referred
to the Vatican Council which met at Rome on
the festival of the so-called Immaculate Con-
ception, the Bth of December, 1869, and de-
fined the personal infallibility of the Roman Pontiff,
with an anathema against all who contravened that
dogma, on the 18th of July, 1870. He traced the
probable effects, social and religious, of that promulga-
tion, and stated what, in his own, opinion, was the
duty of the Anglican Church with respect to it. It was
noticed as a remarkable coincidence that the day on
which the dogma of Papal infallibility was pro-
mulgated was followed on the morrow—the 19th of
July—by the breaking out of the terrible war which
had already had the effect of humbling the power of
France, the protectress of Rome, of withdrawing her
troops from Rome, and of opening the gates of Rome
to the arms of an Italian Sovereign of the
House of Savoy, which was formerly one of
the most devoted vassals of the Papacy, and
which massacred its own subjects, the Christians of
Piedmont, in obedience to the commands of Rome. And
now Victor Emmanual had been accepted as King in the
place of Pope Pius IX. The Bishop next referred to our
relations witlithe Eastern Church, a subject rendered the
more interesting to that diocese by the recent visit of a
distinguished Greek Archbishop to its two principal cities,
Lincoln and Nottingham. His Lordship then referred to
the education question and other matters affecting the
general interests of the Church.
THE BELGIAN BISHOPS AND THE POPE.—The
Catholic bishops of Belgium have met at Malines to
protest against the invasion of the Pontifical territory by
the Italian troops. Among those present were the Arch-
bishop of Calcutta and the Apostolic Vicar of Buffalo in
America. The chief resolution arrived at was that
Belgium would be happy to offer an asylum to the holy
father in awaiting'„the certain restoration of his temporal
power, for the Popes always return, This was the opinion
expressed by the Archbishop of Malines, one of the
advocates of personal infallibility. It was remarked that
nothing was said of the plebiscite in this meeting, or the
small minority which had proclaimed by its negative vote
its desire for the personal administration of the Pope.

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