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He believed that if the lower clams were enfranchised
they would, by yielding to corrupting influences, become
obstacles to real Radical reforms. The change has been
made now, whether for good or ill, and Air. Lowe is not
the man to cry over shed milk. He will simply acknow-
ledge the inevitable, and endeavour to make the best use of
the new materials with which he has to deal.
Some little surprise was excited among the uninitiated
that no writs were moved for on behalf of the Marquis of
Hartington and Mr. Bruce, who are still without seats.
Rumour says that a scat will be found for one of them at
Morpeth by the retirement of Sir George Grey with a peer-
age. This would be a very suitable arrangement. Sir G eorge
deserves his peerage, if long years of official life entit'e a
man to that reward. The only question is, if he, being by
noAlininisteearsns wahoweaarlethiyn mreaenei,patnodf baeipnegnsoine on,of,vothneldfooaurreetxo-
accept a dignity that implies a substantial income to sus-
tain it. It is still thought not improbable that the Marquis
of Hartington will be raised to the Upper House, and in that
case only one seat would have to be found. As for the Minis-
ters against whom election petitions were threatened, they
are, with one exception, no longer troubled. Viscount Mahon
seems to have been advised by his seniors not to fulfil his
threat of petitioning against Mr. Gladstone; the petition
against Mr. Goschen has been withdrawn ; and yesterday
it was decided to withdraw that against Mr. Moncrieff,
the Lord Advocate. This step, I believe, is due to the
influence of Mr. Gordon, the ex-Lord Advocate and
defeated candidate. He has always been adverse to the
action of his committee. There now remains only Mr.
Forster, and he, it seems, will have to stand a trial ; for a
recent effort to bring abaut a reconciliation between the
two political sections at Bradford, with a view to the
withdrawal of both petitions, has failed.
Sir Henry Bulwer has decided not to make his motion
with respect to the Ballot whereof he had given notice
Mr. Henry Berkeley, the antiquated and should-be-super-
annuated member for Bristol, claims the Ballot as his own
peculiar property, and to him the member for Tamworth
yields place. It was but in accordance with human nature,
I suppose, that Mr. Berkeley should, now that it is on
the eve of success, have insisted upon bringing forward
the subject with which he has been associated all his life,
but that success would be more assured if the matter were
entrusted to an advocate who has not passed into the
stage of old fogeyism.
Politics are just now of subsidiary interest to ecclesias-
tical affairs. The ritual judgment is discussed on every
side, and the more it is discussed the less it is liked. The
party which at first claimed it as a triumph now find that
they are affected by it in a way they never contemplated.
It appears* that Lord Cairns has, inter alia, ruled that
the proper place of the celebrant during Holy Com-
munion is in front of the Holy Table, with his back to
the people, and it is even affirmed that the judgment
renders compulsory the use of the eucharistic vestments ;
so that the prosecUtors, while endeavouring to curtail the
liberty of their opponents, have curtailed their own still
more. Yesterday there was a large gathering of High
Church clergy and laity at the Freemasons' Tavern, to
consider their position, About 20) were present, and
Archdeacon Denison presided. There were several
speakers, and it was mentioned as a matter of fact that
the judgment was not the finding of all, but of a bare
majority, Lord Westbury and Sir William Erle
being opposed to it, Sir J. Colvile being neutral,
and Lord Cairns, Lord Chelmsford, and the Arch-
bishop of York being favourable to it. This was
thought -to weaken in no small degree the force
of the judgment, especially as the Archbishop of York
had pronounced an opinion upon the question before he
heard the arguments. Eventually it was resolved to
adjourn the meeting for a fortnight, and to appoint a
committee who should report upon the matter. I believe
that Mr. Perry, of Brighton (one of the Royal Commission
on Ritual), Dr. Littledale, Dr. G. F. Lee, Mr. Carter, of
Clewer, the Hon. C. L. Wood !President of the E. C. U.),
and Mr. Turner are on the committee, and that they have
power to add to their number. •
Last Sunday, at a well-known church in London, a last
sermon was preached by the curate, a gentleman who is
known in the literary world. lie ceases henceforth to
take part in clerical duty, or to retain any clerical dis-
tinction of title or dress. He is on the staff of a
very well-known evening journal, and that same
journal has among its writers two other ex-
clergymen, one of them the son of a distin-
guished litterateur and the son-in -law of another still
more distinguished. There is also at one of our principal
hospitals and schools of medicine a physician who has
been in holy orders ; and there is another, the defendant
in a trial for heresy, who is now on the Stock Exchange.
They have all abandoned their original professions from
dissatisfaction with the stringent formalities of the Church.
I believe that the number of these is much larger than
is generally supposed. Of course the world does not hear
of these secessions. There is no party interested in pro-
claiming them.
Christmas all but suspended the play in the British
Chess Association tournaments. The numbers of games
remaining to be played is not large. The Challenge Cup
rests undecided, Mr. Blackburn and Mr. De Vere,
who now hold the cup, having scored the largest
number of games. In the Handicap Tourney,
only Herr Steinitz, Mr. Wisker, and Dr. Murphy,
the two former of the first, and the latter of the second
class, remain. In the Glowworm Tourney competition rests
I only between the Rev. G. A. Macdonnell, Messrs. Black-
burne, De Vere, and Wisker. The contest in this last
match promises to be very keen. Chess never, I
believe, flourished so vigorously as it does now
both in the metropolis and in the country.
The Westminster Chess Club has taken up its
quarters at the old Divan, and now numbers
between 200 and 300 members. In addition to the
St. George's in the West and the London in the City, a
new club is being formed under the direction of the well-
known author and player, Mr. Staunton, Its head-
quarters will be at the Westminster Palace Hotel. Chess
literature is on the increase. It now includes one
quarterly and two monthlies, four weekly and one
bi-weekly columns in London newspapers, and others in
the provinces.
There was an interesting Christmas dinner given on
Tuesday by the manager of the Australian Meat Agency.
Some forty persons sat down to feast on Australian meat
dressed in various forms. There were several Australian
notabilities, and in reply to the toast proposed by one of
them in honour of Mr. Tallerman, the manager of
the company, that gentleman described the pro-
gress which was being made in the introduction
of Australian meat. In )867 only £3,500 worth was im-
ported ; in the first nine months of 1868 the amount was
£lO,OOO. A description was given of the apparatus used
in preserving the meat, which, by the way, was somewhat
highly spiced ; and it was stated that sufficient encourage.
ment had been given for the experiment to be carried out
on a large scale.
The increase in metropolitan railways makes it very
important that a coal should be consumed which is not
sulphurous. Until lately, it was a real penance to go into
any of the stations on the line between King's-cross and
Baker-street. But recently an anthracitic coal from
South Wales has been used, with a manifest improvement
of the atmosphere. It has been found also that the
coal is economical. Not only is it less sulphurous,
but it possesses more heating power, and, weight for
willwei hgh
e that a a
t , will dos more
saving of onre w o:300a w
than other w coal.will
be
made on h
The result
Metropolitan Railway alone, and that more trains will be
able to run.
No appointment has yet been made to Sir Richard
Mayne's place, but Captain Labalmondiere is acting pro
tem.

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..(11L are induced to take more than is wholesome. Two or
three of PARR'S LIFE PILLS will clear off ACIDITIE -i, and
remove FEVERISH HEADACHE and other unpleasant symp-
toms, without pain or inconvenience. PARR'S LIFE PILLS
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9d., and in Family Packets, Ils. each. Directions with each
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INDIA OFFICE, DECEMBER 10, 1868.
By order of the SECRETARY of STATE for
INDIA in Council.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that it ig intended to
send to India annually a certain number of YOUNG
MEN, trained and educated for ultimate employment in
the higher branches of the Department for the conserva-
tion and management of the Forests under the Govern-
ment of India.
Eight young men will be selected in February next to
go to India at tho end of 1871.

- The salary will be at first .£3OO a year, and the salaries
of the appointments in the three Presidencies range be-
tween that sum and £1,900 a year. Promotions will de-
p•-ud up )n efficiency, and the occurrence of vacancies in
the higher grades.

Applicants must be British subjects above 17 and under
25 years of age.
As active habits and a strong constitution are most im-
portant, candidates will have to undergo a strict medical
examination.

They must send to the Revenue Department of the
India Office, on or before the Bth of January, 1869, a
statement of their names and parentage, with a certificate
of birth, and of being posssesod of a competent knowledge
of the following subjects, and they must be prepared o
undergo an examination in them :-
1, English writing from dictation and English corn-
pos:tion.
2. Arithmetic in all its branches.
8. Algebra, elementary principles, simple and quadratic
equations, rat'os and proportion; logarithms, arithmetical
and geometrical progression.
4. Geometry (Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 6th books of Euclid)
and plane trigonometry.
5. Free hand and plan drawing.
6. A good colloquial knowledge of either French or
German, with the facility to read and translate the works
of some classical writer in the language.
A preference will be given to those candidates who
obtain a certain proficiency in,-
1. Surveying and land measuring.
2. The elements of any of the following natural
sciences :
Mechanical and natural philosophy.
Chemistry.
Botany.
Geology.
If selected, they will ha further required to go through
a course of training and instruction in Forestry and cog-
nate sciences for two years and a half, in France or Ger-
many, previous to their departure for India, and the Sec-
retary of State will contribute £5O at the end of each half
year towards the expenses of their training, in the case of
such candidates as are favourably reported on by their in-
structors. In addition to this, if it should be found prac-
ticable, the young men will be required to place them-
selves under an approved forester in Scotland for a few
months before they go out to India.
More detailed information as to these appointments may
be had on application to the Under Secretary of State for
India, India Office, Westminster.
(Signed) HERMAN MERIVALE.

I mentioned in my last letter that Mr. Tennyson had
I transferred the copyright of Lis poems from Moxon and
Co., to Messrs. Strahan. These latter gentlemen advertise
the works at the same price as before, but it is rumoured
that they are about to bring out a cheaper edition. The
firm of " Moxon and Co." is to be reconstituted with the
new year. Mr. Bertrand Payne, who has hitherto con-
ducted it in the interest of the widow of the
late head, retires from business, and devotes himself to
literature, and Mr. Arthur Moxon takes his place.
A dinner was given to Mr. Payne t few evenings back by
way of celebrating the production of Dore's illustrated
edition of the " Idylls of the King." Another publishing
change is the dissolution of the old firm of Smith and
Elder, and the removal of the new firm from Cornhill to
Waterloo Place. There seems a tendency on the part of
the book trade to push westwards. Mr. Masters has long
had a West-end as well as a City place of business. Messrs.
Allen moved from Leadenhall-street to Waterloo-place
about ten years ago, and in that same place Messrs.
Rivington are established.

Of new books there is still a limited supply, considering
the season. The new novel " Wife and Child," is by bliss
Whitty, sister of the late Edward Whitty, who wrote
" Friends of Bohemia." Captain Semines's book on the
Alabama is just out. One of the most charming gift-
books of the season is Mr. \Varne's. " The Nobility
of Life," edited by L. Valentine, and illus-
trated hi coloured engravings and printed borders,
by J. D. Watson, P. Hundley, Le Jeune,
Francis Walker, H. G. Selous, E. J. Poynter, Dalziel,
Thompson, Green, and AVehnert. Messrs. Routledge
have just made ancther agreement with Lord Lytton
for the right of publishing his novels. Their first
agreement was a payment of £20,000 for ten years' copy-
right. A t the expiration of that time they paid £lO,OOO
for a furtiv:..r -five years, and now they have obtained
another ter al of six-and-a-half years.
The new agreement
is to be sir malised by the apTderance of all Lord Lytton's
novels in two-shilling-volurues, each volume containing a
complete r work.

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