The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-26 00:00:00

CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.

The following is a list of all pensions granted
between the 20th day of June, 1859, and the 20th
day of June, 1860, and charged upon the civil list
(pursuant to Act the Ist Victoria, chap. 2) :—Miss
Catherine Bailey, Miss Emily Bailey, and Mrs.
Mary Ward (in addition to the pension of £5O,
granted to them in 1855), in bonsideration of the
long and meritorious services of their late rather in
the War-office, and of their present distressed cir-
cumstances, £5O. Miss Caroline Lardner, Miss
Louisa Lardner, Miss Amelia Lardner, Miss Ade-
line Lardner, Miss Clarinda Lardner, and Miss Jane
Lardner, sisters of the late Dr. Dionysius Lardner
(in equal proportions), in consideration of their late
brother's labours in the cause of science, and of
their scanty means, £125. Miss Helen Gallwey
(daughter of Hoppner, the painter), in considera-
tion of the long services of her husband, as British
Consul, at Naples, £lOO. Dr. Robert Blakey, in
consideration of his exertions to aid and promote
the study of philosophy, and of his straitened cir-
cumstances, £lOO. Mr. Edward Atherstone (in
addition to the pension of £75, granted to him in
1858), in consideration of his great services in lite-
rature, and of his advanced age, £25. Miss Julia
Pardoe, in consideration of 30 years' toil, in the
field of literattus, by which she has contributed
both to cultivate the public taste and to support
a number of helpless relations, £lOO. Mrs.
Ellen Beecroft, in consideration of the services
of her late husband, Captain Beecroft, for the
.suppression of the slave trade, and the advance-
ment of British interests and of science dur-
ing 25 years on the coast of Africa, where
he ultimately fell a victim to the climate
£5O. Dr. Robert Bigsby, in consideration of his
great services and contributions to the literature of
his country, £lOO. The Rev. Henry Logan, in
consideration of his contributions to mathematical
and scientific literature, and his present state of
destitution, in consequence of the loss of his eye-
sight, £lOO. Mrs. Lucy Rigaud, in consideration
of the labours of her late husband, Bishop of Anti•
gua, and of her distressing position, left with a
family of seven children, quite unprovided for, £l5O.
Mrs. Catherine Liddon (daughter of the late Henry
Cort), in consideration of the great benefits which
have accrued to this country from her late father's
inventions in the manufacture of iron, and of the
large fortune which he expended in carrying them
into execution, £5O; Miss Carolina Cort, daughter
of the late Henry Cort (the same observations apply
to this as to the preceding pension to Catherine
Liddon), £5O. Mrs. Janet Taylor, in consideration
of her benevolent labours among the seafaring po-
pulation of London, and of the circumstances of
difficulty in which she is placed by the death of her
husband, £5O. Mrs. Sarah Jane Le Blanc, in eon-
sideratio of the great benefits conferred on naval
science by her late father, the late Sir Samuel Bens
tham, £lOO. Mrs. Charlotte Rowcroft (in addition
to the pension of £5O granted to her in 1858), in
consideration of the long services of her late hus-
band and father-in-law, as British Consul in the
United States and South America respectively,
£so.—Total, £1,200.

A Brussels papor records the laconic address to
the King of the president of the Ftee Association of Prin •
tern—in Brussels a intelligent,numerous,lvleisliasroeiusn;dthe tahsne.dnicneipo, important
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reckon upon me." The words ran through the crowd, a.nd
caused a fresh burst of enthusiasm,
It is stated that the Col t i. •
(~e Paris.aud the Duke
de Chartres, who were travelling
of the recent outbreak, only ~ILIIB. irk Syria at the rnommit
of
evoeudt their lives by travelling
through the ravautaLL