The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-16 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDN ESDAY EVENING APRIL 16 1856.

HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE.

The Queen held a levee yesterday afternoon in St.
James's Palace. Her Majesty and 'his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort arrived .frorn Buckingham Palace
soon alter 2 o'cloclr, escorted by a detachment of the Life
Gu-rds, and was received at St. James's by the Great
Officers of State. •
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was pre-
sent, attended by his Equerry in Waiting, and was re-
ceived by the Vice-Chamberlain.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
also attended the levee.
The Dnke of Norfolk had an audienciref the Queen,
and delivered to 'her Majesty the ensigns" of the Most
Noble Order of the Garter, worn by his father the late
Duke.
Captain Morton Herbert had an audience, and re-
calved from the Queen hie Silver Stick of Office as Exon
of the Yeomen of the Guard. Captain Harbert was
presented by Viscount Sydney, Captain of the Corps.
Her Majesty's Guard of the Hon. Corps of Gentle-
men at-Arms was on duty in the State Saloons, under
the command of. the Lieutenant. Lieutenant Colonels
Neville and Cooke, the 'sub-officers, were one duty with
the corps.
The foreign Ministers were introduced, when the fol-
lowing presentations to her Majesty took place in the
diplomatic circle :
By his Excellency.lthe Turkish Ambassador—Sefer
Pasha (Gereral Koscielski), an service de Turquie.
By the Bavarian Minister—Baroa George de. Cotta,
Membre de l'Ordre Equestre du Royaume de Wirtem-
berg. -
By. the Netherlands Minister—Le Baron Bose Cham-
belian, Capttaine, et Aide-de-Camp de S. A. le Due de
Na'sau.
By the United States' Minister—Mr.iJohn M. Bixby,
Mr. Frederick M. Kelly, and Mr. S. K. St. George, a
geritleman of Baltimore.
The ;following presentations took 'place, the names
having been previously left at the Lord Chamberlain's-
office, and submitted for her Majesty's approval :
Captain H. D. Abbott, by Viscount Harding°.
Sir J. Dalberg Acton, by Earl Granville.
Rev. W. Adams,• by the Marquis of Salisbury.
Captain Hon. C. Addington, by General Arbuthnot.
Ensign J. S. Algar, on appointment to 60th Rifles, by Mr.
Bateson, M.P.
Mr. F. Ames, by Major-General Sir H. Bentinek.
Major Andrews, on promotion and return from the Crimea,
by Field-Marshal Viscount Ha,rdinge.
Mr. J. Coutts Antrobus, on his marriage, by Lord De
Tabley.
Lieutenant-Colonel Askwith, on appointment as Superin-
tendent of Royal•Glinpowder Factories, by Lord Panmure.
Lieutenant Bagshaw, by the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith.
Mr. E. M. Baillie, on his marriage, by the Earl of Elgin.
Captain M. Baltye, by Sir C. Forbes, of Newe.
Mr. Beaumont, on his marriage, by the Marquis of Clan-
ricarde.
Ensign J. 11. Bedford, by the Chairman of the Hon. East
India Company.
Rev J. M. Bellew, on return from India, by the Earl of
Limerick.
Cornet Bennet, on appointment to the Royal Horse Guards,
by Colonel the Hon. C. W. Forester.
Major Biddulph, on return from the Crimea, by Lord Pan-
mure.
Captain Blayney, by Earl Beauchamp.
Lieutenant A. C. Boyle, by Major-General Sir G. A. We-
thordl..
Ensign J. Bourne, on appointment to the Queen's Royal
Antrim Rifle Corps, by the Marquis of Donegall.
Mr. G. J. Bosanquet, by Earl Cowper.
Mr. W. Bovill, on being appointed one of her Majesty's
counsel, by the Lord Chancellor.
Major Broughton, on promotion and return from the Cri-
mea in command of the siege train, by Field:Marshal Lord
Hardinge.
Lieutenant-General Sir T. Brotherton, on promotion in the
Order of the Bath, by Field-Marshal Viscount Hardinge.
'Captain Brock, by Earl Beauchamp.
Lieutenant W. Tod Brown, by Mr. Duff, M.P.
Lieutenant C. H. Brownlow, by Lord Saye and Seale.
Mr. C. P. Brune, by Viscount Duncan.
Captain Buckley, on promotion, by the Duke of Rutland.
Rev. P. Butler, on return from the Crimea, by Field-Mar-
shal Viscount Harding°.
Rev. P. J. B..tt, by the Earl of Mulgrave.
Assistant-Surgeon J. S. Bush, by the Chairman of the East
India Company.
Earl of Caithness, on appointment as Lord-in-Waiting, by
the Lord Chamberlain.
Major Hon. S. Calthorpe, on promotion, by Lord Calthorpe.
Major H. Campbell, on promotion and return from the Cri-
mea, by Field-Marshal Lord Hardinge.
Bishop of Carlisle, on his appointment, by Viscount Pal-
merston.
Lieutenant H. Bonham-Carter, on appointment to the Cold-
stream Guards, by Field-Marshal the Earl of Strafford.
Rear-Adin:ral the Hon. G. J. Cavendish, on promotion, by
Sir C. Wood.
Ensign Chalmers, on appointment to Rifle Brigade, by the
Adjutant-General.
Mr. D. W. Chapman, by Lord Foley.
Ensign W. Chambers, by Major-Gen. Sir G. A. Wetherall4
Capt. Charnock, on return from the West Coast of Africa,
by the Right Hon. R. Lowe.
Ensign R. Chaffey, Chaffey, by Col. Viscount Hinton.
Mr. B. A. Christmas, by Col, Fitzmaurice.
Col. Christie, ou appointment as aide-de-camp to the Queen,
by General Viscount Gough.
Lieut.• Col. Christie, on promotion, by Lieut.-Gen. Robbins.
Capt: Chichister, on appointment to the Queen's Royal
Antrim Rifle Corps, by Marquis of Donegal.
Capt. Clark, by Col. Ellice.
Lieut. G. Clerk, on return from foreign service at the Cape
of Good Hope, by Sir G. R. Clerk.
Rev. J. H. Clayton, by the Bishop of Winchester.
Lieut. T. P. Coode, R. N:, by Sir C. Wood.
Major Col,lough, on return from Constantinople, by Lord
Panmure.

Major Conolly, on return from the Crimea, by Lieut.-Gen
Hon. Sir J. Scarlett.
Capt. Costobodie, by the Duke of Rutland.
Capt. Curtis, on return from the Crimea, by Major Gen
Sir G. Wetherall.
Mr. Dalton,by Col. Wood.
Lieut. E. S. Daniell, on return from India and appointmen
to the Dorset Militia, by Col. R. Bingham.
Deputy-Commisary-General Darli,g, on promotion and
return from the Crimea, by Lord Paumure.
Capt. Davis, by Col. R. Bingham.
Commander G. Day, R.N., on promotion and return from
the Sea of Azoff, by Sir C. Wood.
Captain Deedss, ou appointment as Brigade-Major at Al-
dershott, by Major-General Sir G A. Wetherall.
Mr. A. Dennistoun, by Majo, General Buckley.
Ensign M. Dettmar, by Colonel Viscount Hinton.
Hon. E. do Moleyns, by Mr. H. A. Herbert, M.P.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hon, D. do Moleyus, by Mr. H. A.
Herbert.
Major P. Dickson, on promotion and return from the
Crimea, by Field-Marshal Lord Hardinge,
Lieutenant Colonel M. C. Dixon, on return from the Crimea
b y
,I,AFit
ritj.ebol
yDdr
ovGMmei Field-Marshal
Major-General
orti raar ,ffrl isiigrrged e.i
Doherty,nge
with the siege train and on promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel,
t
on return from foreign ser-
vice,on, R.N., by Rear-Admiral Sir
R. Dundas.
Mr. tt. Doncaster, on appointment to the Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen-at-Arms, by Lord Foley. •
Vice-Admiral Douglas, on Rromotion by Sir C. Wood.
Major Powbiggin, on promotion, by Lord Panmure.
Mr, G. S. Duff, M P., on being appointed Lord-Lieutenant
of the county of Elgin, by Viscount Palmerston.
Major-General Dyce' by Major-General Sir G. A.Wetherall.
Rey. C. Eciersall, by Lord Southampton.
Captain dr. Elliot, R.N., on appointment as Naval A.D.C.
to her Majesty', by Sir U. Wood,
Mr. B. H. Ellis, by the Chairman of the East India Com-
pany.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ellison, on promotion and return from
the Crimea, by Viscount Hardinge.
Captain M. Emmett, on appointmen Deputy-Lieutenant
of the county of Bucks, by Lord Carrington.
Mr. William Enderby, on appointment to 17th Regiment,
by Visconnt Dungarvon.
Mr. L. D'Eyncourt, by his father, the Right Hon. C. T.
D',Eynconrt.
Cornet H. Fawcett, on appointment to 3d Light Dragoons,
by Lieutenant-General P. A. Lantour.
Mr. Ffariugton, by Admiral Sir C. Hamond. •
Mr. W. Fittock, by Lord Stanley of Alderley.
Captain Fitz Gerald, R.N., late Governor of Western Aus-
tralia, on return by Mr. Secretary Labouchere,
Lieutenant W. Fosbery, on return from the Crimea, by
L.M.Prior.
Colonel' F. H. Seymour.
Field-Marshal Lord
Mr P. Fortescuc, on return. from abroad, by his father,
Mr. Forteseue.
Wti
.F..rDeFLl:kloi
Freeman,
, bp yr obCzooltoino nel, Lieutenant-ColonelE
by
ye
Mr. B. Frere, Commissioner in Sciude, on return from In.
dia, by the Chairman.of the East India.
CEC aan pp
Hardinge.ittgaaniinn
si.rcCGaapP.:l;?raliilvftluernithd,:l7l;.ret, frgiomnietni:
oCnripmroema
R.N., on being nominated a C. 8., by Fir C.
Dr. (,allagLer, R.N., by Sir_J. Liddell,
'otbioynManajd°lr7tuernu.
.on , promotion and return from the
.bny°the Director-General of the Army Medi-
G from . Surgeonimtah,eby
Crimea,
Feld-Marshal
i lhoi
bord Hardinge.
• Rev. J. L. Gilberne, on. return from the Crimea, by the
calSiDtregpeaornunGeilubto.rne, B")tht
Chaplain• General.
• Assista,nt-Surgeon A. P. Glass, by the Chairman of the
appointmentgha as a C. 8., and as
n
Capt.
East India Company.
Captain J. Gallop,•
Goldsmith,
Colonelo n
Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard, by Admiral Sir E.
Lyons, Rb.Ny
N on appointment 6th Dragoons, by Gen.
Cornet N. Gould,
Sir G. P. Adams.
Earl of Granard, by Lord Byron.
Lieut. Gorton, by General Lord Downes.
Major Grant, on promotion and return from the Crimea, by
Field-Marshal Lord Hardinge.
Captain Greene, on promotion, by Field Marshal Viscount
Hardinge,
Captain C. Halkett, by the Duke of Montrose.
Capt. M. Herbert, &on of the Yeomen of the Guard, by
Viscount Sydney.
Sir A. Halkett, Bart., by the Earl of Elgin.
Lord Claud Hamilton, on being appointed Lieutenant-Co.
lonel of the Prince of Wales' Donegal Militia, by the Marquis
of Abercorn.
Gen. Sir G. WetheralL
Captain Hamilton, on return from the Crimea, by Lieut.-
Dr. M. Hamilton, R.N., on promotion and return from the
Crimea, by Major-Gen. Wylde.
Mr. H. Hamond, her Majesty's Consul at Cherbourg, by
the Right Hon. Lord Ernest Bruce, M.P.
Capt. R. M.llammotid, by Earl De La.Warr.
Lieut.-Colonel Hamley, on return from the Crintoa, by his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,.
lanais. ElusicgonmApany
A. Hansard,
by Sir A. Douglas.
Mr. J. B. Harrison, M.D., by the Clutiptan of the Zan'
bi
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Lieut. -Hartley by Colonel the Hon. N. H. C. Maisey,
LicuteeCol. Harness, by the Inspector-General of Fortificae
tions.
Lieut. C. J. Harferd, by General Sir H. Cumming.
Ensign.. Heaney, by the Marquis of Donegal.
Lieut. C. Henshaw, on promotion, by the Earl of Harrington.
Major Hibbert, on promotion, and return from the Crimea,
by. Lord die Tabley.
Capt. J- Hills, R N., by Rear-Adtniral Sir G. R. B. Pechell,
Dr. We C. Hood, by Sir Jas. Clark.
Commander A. W. A. Hood, R.N., on promotion and re-
turn from, the Black Sea, by P.ear:Admiral Sir J. Lushington,
Ensign Hook, on appointment to Rifle Brigade, by Major-
General the Hon. C. Grey.
Rev. W. G. Humphry, by Lord Overstone.
Col. G. Hutchison, by Lieut.-Gen. Robbins.
Lieut. J. le Iles, by Col. Wood,
Ensign W. H, Ivimy, by Col. Matthie.
Major J. Jackson, by Gen. H. Wyndham. -
Ensign G. Jeivis, by the Chairman of the East India Com-
pany.
Capt. R. P. Jones, on promotion, by Field-Marshal Lord
Hardinge.
Lieut. Hope:Johnstone, on return from foreign service, by
Field-Marshal Lord Hardiuge. • •
Lieut. Johnstone, en appointment to the Grenadier Guards,
by Col. Wood. -
Assistant-Surgeon J. Jones, by the Chairman of the East
India Company. •
Ensign C. Kenipson,•by Col. the Earl of Lovelace.
Capt. J. Kennedy, R.N., on promotion and return from the
Sea of Azoff, by Admiral Sir E. Lyons.
Capt. H. Kent, on promotion and return from the Crimea,
by the Earl of Dartmouth.
Lieut -Col. Ding, by the Duke of Rutland.
Captain W. A. King, on eeturn from the • Crimea and pro-
motion, by Earl De La Warr. .-
Captain Knight, on return fronVEileign evelnden at-the Cape
of Good Hope, by the Duke of Norfolk.
Lieut. J. S. Knox, on appointment to the Rifle Brigade
and return from the Crimea, by Lieut,-General Knellys. •
Mr. E. D. Kortright, by Col. Fitzmaurice.
Lieut. the Hon. H. Lascelles, it N., by the Earl of Hare-
wood.
Ensign W. D. Legge, by Col. the Earl of Lovelace.
Paymaster E. H. Legge, by Col. the Earl of Lovelace.
Ensign A. Lewis, on appointment to the 60th Regiment,
Lieut.-Col. W. Watkins, M.P.
Captain Sir G. Leith, Bart., on his marriage, by the Duke
of Montrose. ,
The Hon. and Very Rev, the Dean of Lismore, by Lord
Waterpark,
Lieut.-Col. Long, by Col. Wood.
Lord Lurgan, by Lord Saye and Sale.
Lieut.-Col. Mackenzie, on return from the Crimea, by
Major-General Sir R. Airey.
Lieut.-Col. Madocks, on appointment to the 7th Lanca-
shire Rifles, by the Earl of Ellesmere.
Captain R. Maguire, R.N., on return from Arctic service
and promotion, by Sir C. Wood.
Captain M'Mahou, by General Sir T. M'Mahon.
Commander H. C. Majendie, R.N., on promotion, and ap-
pointment to command her Majesty'p
,steamer Alacrity, by
Sir C. Wood.
Mr. H. Manning, by Dr. D. Macloughlin.
Ensign W. Manson, by the Chairman of the East India
Company.
Ensign Manera, on appointment to the 41st Regiment, by
Sir G. Wetherell.
Ensign F. Markham, on appointment to the Rifle Brigade,
by Lieut.-General Sir H. Smith.
Lieut, H. Marston, by Col. the Earl of Lovelace.
Captain W. F. Marriott, by the Chairman of the East
India Company. ,
Captain Marsh, R.N., on promotion, by Sir C. Wood.
Captain G. Massy, on return from the Crimea, and on his
marriage, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. Rowan.
Lieut.-Colonel Hon. C. Maude, by Viscount Hawarden.
Lieu-, R. J. Maxwell, on promotion, by the Earl of Clan-
carty.
Captain A. Mellersh, R.N., on promotion, and return from
service in China and Siam, by Sir C. Wood.
Major R, U. Miles, on big return from India, by the Right
Hon. President of the India Boatel.
Major Milmau, on promotion, and return with the siege
train from the Crimea, by Field Marshal Viscount Hardinge.
Ensign Molyneux, on appointment to the Queen's Royal
Antrim Rifle Corps, by the Marquis of Donegal.
Lieut.-Col. Montresor, on promotion, by Field-Marshal
Lord Hardinge.
Lieut. Morris, by the Duke of Rutland.
Lieut. the Hon. A. Moreton, by Major-General Buckley.
Lieut. Burn-Murdoch, by General Sir T Hawker.
Lieut.-Col. Munro, on return from the Crimea, by the Earl
of Ellenborough.
Mr. R. C. Naylor, by Lord de Ros.
Ensign Nevinson, by Col. Kemeys Tyute, M.P.
Lieut, E. D. Newbolt, by Col. the Marquis of Salisbury.
Ensign S. Newton, by Col. Wood.
The Duke of Norfolk, by Admiral Sir E. Lyons.
Ensign H. P. Owen, by Col. Viscount Hinton.
Mr. W. Overend, on appointment as one of her Majesty's
Counsel, by the Lord Chancellor.
Assistant-Surgeon J. Coote Ovens, on return from the
Crimea, by the Director-General Army Medical Department.
Lieut. J. Parke, by Lord Lyttleton,
Staff-Surgeon Parry, by the Director-General Army Medi-
cal Department.
Mr. Julian Paunceforte, by Viscount Torrington.
Cornet Mejenei, Ist Light Dragoons, by Lord Panmure,
Cornet Xl' Kenna, Ist Light Dragoons, by Lord Pan inure.
Lieut. Geo. Godfrey Pearce, Madras Artillery, on return
from Madras, by Viscount Gough.
Sir Lawrence Pool, on being sworn of her Majesty's Most
Hun. Privy Council, by the Lord President of the Council.
Lieut. L. Percival, by Major-General Bouverie.
Lieut. F. Peto, Royal Loudon Militia, by Liout.-General
Knodys,
Lieut. G. Philips, Royal Engineers, on returning from the
Crimea, by the Inspector-General of Fortifications.
Rev. Robert Powell Powell, Chaplain, R.N., on his return
from the Black Sea, by Sir C. Wood.
Major Priestly, on appointment to the Staff at Aldershott,
by Lieutinaut-General Knollys.
Mr. George Rarusden, of Holme Island, by Viscount Tor-
rington.
Major-General A. T. Reid, C. 8., on promotion and return
from service in India, by the Chairman of the East India
Company.
Ensign Alexander Renwick, Royal London Militia, by Col.
ilsou, Royal London Militia.
Lieutenant Ellis I hilip Fox Reeve, on appointment to the
Coldstream Guards, by the Earl of Strafford.
J. J. Richardson, M.P., by the Earl of Mulgrave.
Captain J. T Roberts, Royal Anglesey Light Infantry, by
Lieutenant-Colonel Peers Williams.
Commander J. S. Rundle, R.N,, on promotion, by Sir C.
Wood.
Mr. W. Rose, on his marriage, by the Earl of Morton.
Lord. Saltoun, by Lord Hardinge.
Major H. Saunderson, on promotion, by his father, Colonel
Saunderson.
Paymaster S. W. Sadler, R.N,, by Sir C. Wood.
Mr. C. R. J. Sawyer, on appointment to her Majesty's
Guard of Gentlemen-at-Arms, by Lor•I Foley.
Mr. F. Scully, M.P., on his marriage, by Viscount Lismo-e.
Major Shaw, on promotion and return from the Crimea, by
Field-Marshal Lord Harding°.
Captain Shaw, by Colonel La Touche.
Lieutenant G. K. Shaw, by Viscount Gort.
Captain W. J. Sharp, on promotion, by Colonel the Earl
of Lovelace.
Captain C. Showers, on return from India, by Lord Saye
and Sele.
Major Singleton, on return from the Crimea, by Field-
MarshanLord Hardinge.
Captain E. D. Smith, on his return from the Crimea, and
on promotion, by General Sir Do Lacy Evans.
Ensign J. O'G. Smith, on appointment, Queen's Royal
Antrim Rifle Corps, by the Marquis of Donegal.
Mr. 11. Smith, on his appointment as a Deptity-Lieutenant
of Staffordshire, by Mr. C. Forster, M.P.
The Duke of .4ornerset, by the Marquis of Lansdowne.
The Hon. J. St. CI iir, by the Marquis of Breadalbane.
Major C. J. Strange, on promotion and return from the
Crimea, by Field-Marshal Viscount Hardinge.
Lieut. J. B. Story, on appointment to the Rifle Brigrade,
by Major-General Sir G. A. Wetherell.
Lieut. A. C. Steele, ou return from the Crimea, by the
Deputy-Adjutant-General of Royal Marines.
Col. Sullivan, on his return from the Crimea, and on his
appointment to C. 8., by; Gen. Sir G: A. Wetherell.
Ensign J. D. Swiney, by the Chairman of the East India
Company.
Ensign G. Swinton, by the Chairman of the East. India
Compaq, y.
Capt. J. Thomson, R.N., by Sir C. Wood.
Lieut. R. H. Thursby, on appointment to the Coldstream
Guards, by the Earl of Strafford. '' —e, •
Ensign R. Trimen, by Gen. Sir G. Berkeley.
Commander H. Trollope, on return from Arctic service, by
Sir C. Wood.
Lord Truro, on succeeding to the title, by Earl Granville.
Lieut. R. Tryon, on promotion, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. G.
Smith.
Capt. Vale, by Earl Beauchamp.
Lieut. A. A. Vaughton, by tho Duke of Rutland.
Hon. W. Warren-Vernon, on his marriage and on change of
name, by Field-Marshal Viscount Hardinge.
Lieut.-Gen, Vivian, on his return from the Crimea, by Lord
Panmure.
Cornet Verge, by Lord Panmure.
Capt. J. H. Wade, on promotion and return from the
Crimea, by Lieut.-Geu. J. Calvert.
Capt. E. Walker, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. Smith.
Sir S. Waller, on return from abroad, by Viscount Palmer-
ston.
Lieut. Waller, on return from the Crimea, by Major-Gen.
Sir G. Wetherell,
Lieut.-Gen. Walton, on appointment to the command of the
sth Regiment of Foot, by Field-Marshal Viscount Hardinge.
Capt. Warden, R.N., on being nominated a C. 8., by Sir
C. Wood. -
Capt. J. Warry, by Colonel R. Bingham.
Lieut. George Waugh, by Colonel the Earl of Lovelace.
Col. Wetherell, on return from the Crimea and appoint-
ment as. A.D.C. to the Queen, by Major-General Sir G.
Wetherell.
Lord Wharncliffe, on succeeding to the title, by the Earl
of Herewood.
Dr. White, by the Chairman of the East India Company,
the marquis of Bristol.
Lieutenant C. White, by
Lieutenant A. Whitla, on appointment to the Queen's
Royal Antrim Rifle Corps, by the Marquis of Donegal,
Mr. Justice Willes, on being appoiuted a Justice of the
Common Pleas, by the Lord Chancellor.
The Rev. E. A. Williams, R.N., by Sir C. Wood.
Ensign L. V. Williams, ou appointment to the Rifle Bri-
gade, by Viscount Hardinge.
Mr. Williamson, on appointment as Deputy-Lieutenant for
the county of Durham, by the Earl of Mulgrave.
Lieutenant J. Williamson, on return from the Crimea, by
Major-General J. Freeth.
Mr. L. Wilson, Indian Navy, by the Chairman of the East
India Company.
Captain W. J. Wilson, on return from the Crimea, by Field-
Marshal Lord Har :Inge.
Lieutenant R. Winsloe, by Colonel Viscount Hinton.
Ensign G. Wood, by Lord Carington.
Assistant Surgeon T. Woodward, by the Right Hon.
the President o! the India Board.
Captain Wray, on appointment to the Queen's Royal An-
trim Rifle Corps, by the Marquis of Donegal.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Yorke, on his return from the
Crimea, and on being appointed a C.D., by General Sir A.
Clifton.
The Queen and, Prince Albert, attended•by the-ladies
an gentlemen in waigng? returned ,to aguingha
ram with xts *oat of Uri tiusrds &gel. the Leven

Spirit of the Public Journals.

(Prom the Times of this day.)

Spring returns once more, and with the firt
swallow come back to us Mr. Spooner and May-
nooth. Few peopli', we imagine, rejoice at this
vernal infliction, and among those who have least
reason to be glad are we, whose duty it is to treat
a subject envenomed by party and religious rancour
with a reference to practical conditions of action
wholly overlooked by graceless zealots and angry
disputants. Let Mr. Spooner, and those whom the
bigotry of 30 many.cliques, in so.many constituen-
cies, have forced into an unwilling and ,unwelcome
alliance with the Birmingham philosopher, say
what they will, bit the question of the continuance
or abandonment of a grant toMaynooth College is
not to be decided on abstract and controversial
considerations. Mr. Spooner has a short way with
Maynooth. • The College is founded to teach the
Roman Catholic religion, the Roman Catholic re-
ligion is bad, that which teaches a bad religion is
in itself bad, and that which is bad ought to be
abolished. What yoUng gentleman could desire
a more complete demonstration for a theme of 34)
lines, and who would not be satisfied with Bellar-

mine, Liguori, and all the other authorities whom
Mr. Spooner vouches, to blacken the belief and ir-
ritate the ieeiings of 6,000,000 of her Majesty's
subjects ?
We will nialre.Mr. Spooner this admission—that
in the abstract we are not ourselves greatly in love
with Maynooth, indeed we might be brought so far
as to concede that the gratuitous instruction of the
clergy of any sect does not seem to us among the
ordinary functions of a State which respects the
liberty of conscience, and declines, in its corporate
capacity, to take any side in theological opinion.
Whatever may be the duty of the State with regard
to its poorest subjects, to whom the means of instruc-

tion are inaccessible, unless gratuitous, we see no
such call for it to take a part in the education of the

clergy. The clerical profession should, we appre-
hend, be treated like any other profession, and, as
experience has shown that excellent lawyers, phy-

sicia.ns, and engineers can be provided num-
berinani at their own expense, so we believe that clergy-

men will also generally be found. But, in order that
men may be willing to bring up their children to
the Church, the Church must afford the prospect of
a decent and certain maintenance, and even some
prizes to fire the ambition of the aspiring stu-
dent. The zeal of Mr. Spooner and his associates
has withheld, and still continues to withhold, from
the Church which impersonates and teaches the
faith of the people of Ireland the power of holding
out those inducements which would lead prudent
parents possessed of the requisite funds to devote
them to the education of their children in her
Ministry. Who possessed of competence and intel-
ligence would desire for his child the life of a Ro-
man Catholic priest in Ireland ? Enthusiasm might
induce a young man to choose such a life, and as-
ceticism to endure it when chosen ; but what
parent to whom any other choice was open would
condemn a son to a life so poor, so precarious,
and so miserable ? To satisfy the Protestant feel-
ing of this country we insist upon maintaining a
Protestant establishment in Ireland, and because it
represents our belief we invest it with the Church
property of a nation whose belief it does not repre•
sent. The Church of England in Ireland has no
need of a Maynooth to educate her priests. Her
benefices, her dignities, and her bishoprics furnish
motive enough to induce careful and far-sighted
parents to undertake, at their own cost and charge,
the education of their sons to so lucrative and
honourable a profession. Were these revenues
bestowed on the Church of Rome, in which the
Irish people do believe, instead of the Church of
England, which they regard with abhorence, theßo-
man Catholics would not be required to fight year by
year for this small pittance, doled ouCto them by Par-
liament with §o grudging and niggardly a hand. Any
Roman Catholic gentleman would then be content to
bring up a younger son to the ser vice of the Church of
which he was a member, and the people of Ireland
would have the benefit not onlyof a devoted but ahigh-
ly educated priesthood, capable of taking and main-
taining a position among the gentry of the country.
This, however, we will not suffer to be, and
therefore we leave the Roman Catholic clergy to
be recruited from the ranks of the peasantry and
small farmers, to whom it is impossible, from their
limited resources, to provide their sons with the
requisite amount of instruction. The clergy of an
unendowed Church in a poor country must of
necessity be drawn from the Poorer classes. What
Mr. Spooner proposes is that, as we will not en-
dow, neither should we educate. What persons
who argue in this way would do with the millions
of Roman CAtholics in_ Ireland we really cannot
imagine. We have abandoned, nominally at least,
the doctrine and discipline of persecution, and fire
and sword can no longer be called in to aid argu-
ment and persuasion. We proscribe the faith of
our fellow-subjects, 'out we dare not proscribe our
fellow-subjects themselves. They must go on be-
lieving as their fathers have believed, and looking
to a priesthood of their own conviction as the one

only link that binds together earth and Heaven.
We will not maintain that priesthood which they
consider necessary to their well-being here and
hereafter, but we have not been hitherto so unjust
as to deprive the Roman Catholics of Ireland of the
consolations of their religion altogether, and there-
fore we gratuitously educate those whom we des-
tine to a life of poverty, privation, and a depend-
ence ou the bounty of the very poor and the veiy
niiserable.

The experiment of Maynooth has probably been
upon the whole, as successful as the nature of the
Roman Catholic religion and the melancholy lot
of the Irish priesthood will allow any such experi-
ment to be. It has not filled Ireland with pro-
found scholars, but to what end should we seek to
make profound scholars of men whom we doom to
such a life as that of a Romish priest iu a country,
parish ? It has not sent forth a clergy with the feel-
ings and associations of gentlemen, but a clergy
with the feelings and associations of gentlemen
would only feel more deeply the pinchings of po-
verty and more keenly the miseries of dependence.
Maynooth, however, has stood between the people
of Ireland and that total spiritual destitution with
which men who pretend to speak in the name of
Christianity would have afflicted her, and it has
provided her with a peasant priesthood able to
' sympathise with the feelings of her people, and to
give to a nation singularly susceptible of religious
influences those ordinances and that teaching
which, with whatever errors they may be alloyed,
maintain among them that spiritual life which has
so often comforted them in poverty, misery, and
despair. For these things any one who considers
what the Irish nation might have become if to all
its other misfortunes had been added the entire
want of religious sentiment will be grateful even to
the College of Maynooth, and will know how to
appreciate the majority in the-House of Commons
who last night, as far as such a majority could,
decided that in future even the pale light of May-
nooth should be extinguished, and that 6,000,000
of our country, now happily reconciled to us, and
becoming as peaceable, as loyal, and industrious as
the people of Kent or Devon, should in future not
only have to snpport their own Church establish-
ment beside that of the Protestant minority, but
be deprived of the small assistance which those of
the dominant Church have hitherto given to them
in their joint struggle against spiritual ignorance
and moral degradation.

(Front the Morning Herald of this day.)

Mr. Spooner's motion for the withdrawal of the
Maynooth grant was last night carried in spite of
the most active exertions of the Government. In
no less than three successive divisions was the prin.
ciptilof this motion affirmed.

A brief narrative of the events which marked
the debate will be instructive, and will probably
teach the people of England what they have to ex-
pect from the often-vaunted Protestantism of the
Premier, and how completely Lord Palmerston
notwithstanding his recent vote on Lord John
Russell's resolutions in reference to the religious
education of the youth of the empire—is prepared
to go any lengths with the Puseyites and voluntary
party, who so signalised themselves in the debate
we have referred to, provided he can procure from
them either an occasional support or that more
active co-operation which rumour positively asserts
is about to be afforded to bins iu the shape of a
second Peelite-Palmerston Coalition.
The first division taken 'last night was not upon
the direst question of the Maynooth grant, but
upon the amendment of Mr. Black, for the purpose
of including in the abolition of endowment other
religious denominations in Ireland. This was, of
mum, defeated ; the numbers being—for the
amendment 21, and against it 253 votes.
The second division—being the first whirl,
directly declared the sense of the house on thi
question of the grant—was taken upon the motion
that the house resolve itself into committee to con-
sider the Maynooth grant, with a view, to its with-
drawal. • On this question the opposition to the re
sokutiOn was lea by 'J.. rd Xaliaer#94s44oollY-1;
eprortit Via tl# qao:l•46..aoviiimbut w4ii4l could