The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-17 00:00:00

THE TREATY OF 1856.

At a meeting moderately attended, held in Liverpool
last night, a petition, praying that this country should
not be involved in war on account of any infractions in
the Treaty of 1856 was adopted, and will be presented to
the Premier.

It is said that no one can yeti be found. to accep

the living of Wilberfoss, Yorks. It has now been vacant
for twenty months.

The statement as to the probable appointment
of Mr. J. G. Morris to the office of High Sheriff of Lan-
cashire for the ensuing year is contradicted.

It is probable that Mr. Dease, of Turbotston,
county Westmeath, will be nominated to the Lieutenancy
of Cavan, vacant by the death of the Marquis of Headfort.
Mr. Merriman and his friends are obtaining addi-
tional signatures to their requisition for a City meeting on
the war, in the hope of inducing the Lord Mayor to re-
consider his refusal to call one.

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The death is announced of Lady Oldnall Russell,
widow of the late Sir William Oldnall Russell, Chief
Justice of Bengal. She was a daughter of the late Mr.
John Lloyd Williams, of Government Park, Cardigan-
shire.

The Rev. W. A. Russell, the Church Missionary
Society's agent at Ningpo, is, the Rock understands, on
his way to England for consecration as Bishop of North-
ern China.

President Woolsey, of Yale College, U.S. A., has
announced his intention of resigning his office. He
has been President of Yale for more than a quarter of a
century.
Sir John Brown, a Churchman, was on Thursday
elected chairman of the Sheffield School Board, and Mr.
Mark Firth, ex-master cutler, a New Connexion Metho-
dist, vice-chairman.
George Joynson, late manager of the Duke of
Bridgwater's trusts, at Anderton, near Norwich, has been
committed for trial on a charge of embezzlement. His
defalcations amount to upwards of £6OO.
News has been received at Plymouth that two
engineers and the boatswain of the Helicon despatch
vessel, Commander Crozier, were seized on Sunday after-
noon last as Prussian spies, and carried on board their
vessel for verification of their explanations.
M. Barral, well known for the part he took in balloon
experiments twenty years ago, has volunteered with his
son for the Paris balloon service. M. Barral was for
many years the editor of the Presse Scientifique,
periodical which was discontinued a few years ago.
There are at last symptoms of a commencement of
the works for the new law courts. According to the
Builder, on Tuesday last formal notices were received by
contractors, inviting tenders for the foundations of the
new courts, to be sent in to the office of the Board of
Works, on or before December 28th, at one o'clock p.m.
The Painters' Company have subscribed ten gui-
neas and the Broderers' Company twenty guineas towards
the fund being raised for the completion of the interior of
St. Paul's. This makes fifteen of the City Companies
who have recently subscribed towards this great national
work.

The Dowager Viscountess Arbuthnot, who for
some time back has been in delicate health; died at
Arbuthnot on Monday morning. The deceased lady
was the daughter of the late Hon. Walter Ogilvy of
Clova, and sister of the late Earl of Airlie. She was born
on the 4th of May, 1782, and was married to the late
Viscount Arbuthnot in 1805, by whom she had a nume-
rous issue.