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officers, that the vigilance of the Admiralty must not
be relaxed. Although our ironclads are good as broad-
side ships, the tide of authoritative evidence is turn-
ing more and more decisively in favour of the turret
principle. Admiral WARDEN'S idea of ironclads is
that they should always be built of iron, be armoured
throughout, be armed as heavily as possible,
and possess bow and stern fire. But perhaps the
time has arrived when the increased power of
artillery, and the consequent increased thickness of
plating, will render this theory of armoured
vessels impracticable. In that case if the weight
of guns be such that the whole broadside
cannot be made available to carry them, and if the
space they occupy be such that they cannot be pro-
tected by armour of adequate weight, it seems to
follow, says Admiral WARDEN, that the turret-
ship is a necessity. The broadside ship can
carry neither the most formidable artillery nor the
most powerful protection. On the other hand, "guns
of every weight can be placed in turrets, armour of
almost any thickness can be carried round them, and
it will then be necessary only to protect the water-line
with a belt as heavy and thick as the ship can bear."
Admiral RYDER pronounces to the same effect. This
officer regrets much that a turret-ship was not sent to
cruise in company with the fleet; but, without passing
any definite opinion, he shews that turret-ships
have two great advantages—they can be made longer,
and therefore can carry more fuel, whilst in action
they can maintain a greater average speed, and
yet keep the guns upon the enemy. The only ques-
tion is whether cupola ships can be built which will
prove seaworthy in all weathers. Providing this can be
done, the turret vessel is undoubtedly the man-of-war of
the future. In the meantime, however, it is reassuring
to learn that whilst the British fleet is not all that it
might be, it can still bear comparison with the
navies of our great competitors.

IT was a recent Parisian bon mot that the delay
in the publication of M. OLLIVIER'S pamphlet arose
from the fact that the printers had not sufficient
J.'s to meet the demand caused by the pam-
phleteer's incessant use of the word " ire." The news-
papers which have given Mr. ROEBUCK'S " political
testament" in full must have found themselves
not a little embarrassed to provide sufficient
I.'s. The ex-member for Sheffield's egotism
is always conspicuous; but in a "political testament,"
in a last speech, in a piece justicative, in an apologia
pro sus vita, it was sure to be overwhelming.
Accordingly, we are not at all surprised to find that
in the last fifteen lines of his speech the first person
singular occurs two dozen times ; nor to learn that
though Mr. ROEBUCK has formally retired from
public life, has put the coping-stone upon the arch of
his career, he believes that there is a great work in
store for him, in the doing of which he promises
that his steps shall not falter. In truth
Mr. ROEBUCK is like a notable female singer, who
shall be nameless. She has made at least a dozen
farewell tours, and each time found parting such
" sweet sorrow," that she determined to have another
parting on the morrow. Mr. ROEBUCK'S position is,
indeed, not exactly similar, for in his case it is the
audience which has parted with him, not he with the
audience, and it is just possible that the party
responsible for the farewell may not care to
repeat it. However, it will not be the rejected
member's fault if he does not once more make
his voice heard in the concert-room of St. Stephen's.
There are three clauses in Mr. ROEBUCK'S testa-
ment—" Beware of Trades Unions ! " " Beware of
Ireland !" " Beware of America ! " That is the
outcome of a thirty-five years' career as a Liberal.
At a time when Tories as well as Liberals are admit-
ting the necessity of giving a legal status to trades
unions, Mr. ROEBUCK can only say " Beware ! " At
a time when Tories as well as Liberals are urging
that measures of conciliation shall be adopted
towards Ireland, Mr. ROEBUCK can only say
" Beware ! " At a time when Tories as well as Liberals
are using their utmost efforts to bring about a cordial
friendship between the two great families of the
Anglo-Saxon race, Mr. ROEBUCK can only say
" Beware !" This is the ripe fruit of matured wisdom.
This is the statesmanship of a political veteran. It
is very sad, very lamentable. It shews of how little
value years and experience are in themselves,
how they may be worse than useless if the
mind be warped and the judgment clouded.
It shews that age is not only not free from panics,
but is peculiarly liable to them. Of course what
Mr. ROEBUCK said by way of justifying his alarms,
was all good enough in its way. It was of the good
goody. But the time is gone by for lectures
to labour and capital upon the advantages
of co-operation, and the disadvantages of strife.
Both sides know these things better than Mr.
ROEBUCK can tell them. What they want to know
is how their interests are to co-operate, how they
are to avoid strife. In reply he can say nothing but
" Beware of trades unions." This is just as if, when
two armies were drawn up in battle array, he were
"Beware of the enemy." It
to say to one of them,
is just as effectual as if Tear'ern were to stand
barking at the burglars while they were binding
the inmates. So, again, as to Ireland, Mr.
ROEBUCK would have us do justice to that country,
but to keep it at arm's length, to " beware" of it.
He does not tell us what justice is ; but as he sneers
at Mr. GLADSTONE, we presume that he does not
think the disestablishment of an alien Church is just.
As for anything beyond bare justice, he does not
pretend to it. The attempt to make the Irish people
as loyal as the Scotch, to make Ireland as great
a source of strength to England as Scotland, is, he
deems, wholly chimerical. So with the United States,
Mr. ROEBUCK, the one-while Radical and all
but Chartist, has no sympathy except with the former
slaveholders of the Southern Confederacy. He has not
even the wit to see that prudence at least urges us to
prefer the friendship of a great Power actually in
existence to sentimental regret over a Power
that might in Mr. ROEBUCK'S opinion, have
existed if we had but recognised. it. That assumption
is a very large one indeed ; and at the best it deals
with a state of things which no longer endures.
Mr. ROEBUCK is so intent upon his hypothetical past
that his " testament " is utterly worthless for the
certain future.

LATEST INTELL MENGE

(REU"'ER'S TELEGRAMS.)

EX-PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
PHILADELPHIA, March. 25.
Ex-President Johnson is very ill at his house,
Greenville, Tennessee.
There is a report that he died this morning of
paralysis.

THE BELGIAN RAILWAYS.
BRUSSELS, March 25.

The Etoile Belge of this evening contains a
rumour to the effect that a Prussian company pro-
poses to enter into negotiations with the Belgian
Grand Central Railway Company to resume the
management and working of the line from Aix-la-
Chapelle to Antwerp. It is added that this pro-
ject has been officially communicated to the Belgian
Cabinet.

SWITZERLAND.
GENEVA, March 25.

Fears are entertained that there will be a re-
newal to-day of the disturbances which have re-
cently arisen here. The journeymen printers who
refuse to join the strike have been compelled to
leave the society, and are about to constitute a

new one.

4 p.m.

The expected demonstration has not been held.
The strike continues, but the excitement has
abated.

THE ROB' ROY ON THE SEA OF
TIBERIAS.

In the nart ative of his canoeing explorations, " Rob
Roy" writes 'to the Record :—" The Sea of Tiberias is a
little more tb an twelve miles long north and south, by
seven miles broad at the widest part, and its shape is very
like that of the continent of Africa. The best view of the
lake is from. the water about a mile from the south-east
corner and looking north. From thence the hills form
a complete amphitheatre. On the left the towers and
walls of Til ferias are reflected in the water. They are
the only sto) ie buildings all around the entire circuit of
this once pop) ilous lake, except one or two modern mills and
a bath. Bey and them is the smooth beach of the land of
iGennesareth„' a little crescent-shaped strip of plain teem-
ng with verdure down to the shore, which is of clean,
pretty gravel and shells and sand, with a row of oleander
bushes growing in the water. Next comes the white
strand, where once Bethsaida stood. When I sailed to
this beautiful spot the waters from a copious hot spring
were gushing over rocks into the lake. Part of them
were laid through a mill, and as the wheel of this turned
slowly in the dark, cool evening, a cloud of steam rose
from the hot foam and curved up to heaven in
graceful folds. Soon round my boat I saw ten
thousand fish, their heads and backs above water, and
as close together as they could lie. Outside of these was
a circle of cormorants and ducks waiting for prey. I
stopped a night in the travellers' house at Tibe-
rias. The walls are ten feet thick. The proprietor is a
Jew, for this is the capital of the Jews of Palestine. The
streets are most wretched and abominably filthy. The
Jews, who seem to prowl about rather than to reside in
the place, are dirty and unkempt, and many of them are
ragged to a degree. Now, one does not meet any ragged
Moslems. Their garments may be old and patched,
or worn out or discarded entirely, and they may then
become nude paupers, but the Jews are in draggling
rags, squalour, and listless-looking, abject wretched.
ness. Inside their houses things are different. The
houses look clean and comfortable. Still, the saying is a
true one, The king of the fleas holds his court in
Tiberias.' I could not sleep a wink, for the lev6e of his
magesty was in my room. The governor of the town
came to see the canoe (which always reclines alongside its
master, even in a house). The narrow street of Tiberias
was crammed with spectators as the Rob Roy was carried
through to be launched again. They stood also on the
house-tops as I paddled out into the lake."

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS AFTER

EASTER.

When the House of Commons reassembles on Thursday
evening next, the adjourned debate on the motion to
inquire into the corrupt practices at Norwich will be con-
tinued, and the Attorney-General will on the
same evening propose a similar motion to in-
quire into the election practices at Bridgwater.
The principal business on Friday will be the consideration
of the Navy Estimates. The second reading of the
Attorney-General's Bankruptcy Bill is fixed for Monday,
the sth of April, and his supplemental bill for the aboli-
tion of imprisonment for debt is also down for
second reading. On Tuesday, the sth, Mr. Graves intends
to call attention to the rates of inland postage,
and will move that it is desirable to reduce the rates
to one halfpenny for newspapers and printed matter
under two ounces. Mr. Sheridan will move a resolution
that it is expedient further to reduce the duty on fire
insurances ; and Mr. Seely will direct the attention
of the House to the report of the select com-
mittee on the American postal contracts, and
will move a resolution thereon. The adjourned
debate on the second reading of the Libel Bill
stands for the same day, Mr. Newdegate having moved
an adverse amendment to its further progress. The
financial statement of the Government will be made by
Mr. Lowe on Thursday, the Bth, on which day the Con-
tagious Diseases Bill (No. 2), the Valuation of Property
Bill, and the Assessed Rates Bill are fixed for
second reading. Sir Michael Hicks Beach will move
that the latter shall be referred to a select committee. On
the following day, on the motion to go into Committee of
Supply, Mr. Fawcett will move that all appointments to
the civil and diplomatic services ought to be obtained by
open competition. Mr. Evan Richards intends to call
the attention of the House to the question of friendly
societies, after which he will propose that the Government
should introduce a measure to remedy the present insuffi-
cient state of the law in relation to this question. Mr.
Maguire has given notice to bring forward his motion on
the land now held by the London Companies in Ireland,
and will move that an humble address be pre-
sented to her Majesty praying that she will be
graciously pleased to issue a royal commission
to inquire into the subject. The question as to the
continued appointment of the Lowthers to the post of
Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberland and Westmoreland will
doubtless give rise to a party discussion, and will be in-
troduced by representatives of both sides of the House
Mr. Howard and Mr. Hodgson. Mr. Locke King is to
bring in a bill to afford facilities for performing
divine service by ministers of the Church of England.
The Married Women's Property Bill and the Burial
Regulation Bill are entered for second reading on the
14th of April, and the Sunday Trading Bill is to be con-
sidered in committee. Mr. Lopes is to move that the
former be read a second time on that day six months ; and
Mr. Brady will do all in his power to resist the further
progress of the latter measure.
The Irish Church Bill having been fixed to come on for
consideration in committee on the 15thApril,Mr. Newdeg ate
has already given notice that he intends to move that it
be referred to the committee in six months' time. This,
of course, will be defeated if the member for North War-
wickshire goes to a division, and Mr. Aytoun will then
move his injunction relating to the Maynooth Grant. The
second reading of the bill to legalise marriage with a
deceased wife's sister is down for Wednesday, April 21,
but will not be allowed to pass the stage without
an effort to shelve it on the part of Mr. Assheton Cross.
On the 28th of April Mr. Newdegate intends to move
that the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill be not read a second
time ; and on the following Wednesday Mr. Cavendish
Bentinck has given notice that he does not think the Uni-
versities' Tests Bill ought to go into committee. On the
2nd of June Mr. Locke King's Real Estate Intestacy
Bill is to come on for second reading, on which occasion
Mr. Beresford-Hope will move an amendment that it be
read a second time upon that day six months.
Several motions are upon the paper for which no days
have yet been fixed. Mr. Whalley intends to bring in a
bill for the abolition of turnpike tolls in England and
Wales ; Sir Henry Bulwer is to move a resolution in
favour of the Ballot; Mr. Charles Forster has given notice
that he will call attention to the inconvenience of the
ratepaying clauses of the Reform Bill ; Mr. Taylor has
determined to bring in a bill" for a recurrence to the ancient
constitutional system of payment of members ;" Mr. Gilpin
will once more make an effort to do away with capital
punishment ; Mr. Gourley thinks the funds of trades
unions ought to be dealt with by the House, and will bring
in a bill for that purpose; Mr. Gregory's motion "that
all museums and galleries supported by the State should
be open to the public on Sundays after the hours of
Divine morning service," will probably meet with
strong opposition ; Mr. Benjamin Smith has given
notice to make another effort to introduce the
metric system of weights and measures into:this country.
Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen has not yet fixed a
day for the introduction of the Government bill to
alter the present mode of administration of county
finance. Sir Lytton Bulwer has given notice that, "on the
earliest occasion after the decision of the United States
Senate with respect to the treaty recently signed in
London becomes known, he will call the attention of the
House to the relations between Great Britain and the
United States," and to move for papers.

The army and navy estimates will give rise to some
important motions. Lord Elcho intends to move that the
Army Estimates fail to furnish a sound basis for the efficient
and economical organisation of the war power of the
nation ; and that the establishment of a sufficient and reli-
able army reserve is a matter of urgent need. Captain
Frederick Beaumont is to call attention to the expendi-
ture to be incurred in completing our fortifications, and Sir
Henry Hoare will move the omission of Vote 9 of the
Army Estimates. Mr. O'Reilly has given notice to
direct the attention of the House to the present system
of the government of the army and the administration
of military affairs.

We understand that Mr. Gladstone intenda to
visit Lady Herbert of Lea, at Wilton, during the present
vacation.—Echo.

BAKED APPLES.—It appears that Voltaire was
not the author of the famous saying that " the only ripe
fruit to be eaten in London was baked apples." The
honour belongs to the Marquis of Cariaciali, Ambassador
at London and Paris. On one occasion the King of
England asked him if the fine day did not remind him of
Naples, to which he replied, " Ah, sire, the moon of the
King, my master, is worth snore than the sun of your
Majesty."
BEWDLEY ELECTION. —The Hon. Major Anson,
the defeated Liberal candidate at the late election for
Bewdley, issued on Thursday an address to the Liberal
electors for that borough, in which he intimates his inten-
tion of claiming the seat on a scrutiny. We understand
that Major Anson has fortified himself with high legal
opinions before resolving on this course, and he has every
confidence in gaining the seat. It appears that the Con-
servatives admit they polled some bad votes, but maintain
that they will hold good on the polling-book, and cannot
now be invalidated.

THE QUARTERLIES.

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The North British presents a bill of fare of very tempt-
ing variety. Its space is largely devoted to questions of
the day ; but it avoids the sterile track of politics, and is
not without interesting research in the more recondite
walks of literature. " The Royal Engineers " is a short
paper giving a full account of the system of training and
discipline adopted in preparing for a commission in the
non-purchase corps. There can be no doubt that if the
officers of other branches of the service were required to
undergo such an ordeal, the British army, in respect of
officering, would be the most formidable in the world.
The candidate for admission to the Engineers or Artillery
corps is required to pass a preliminary examination of
considerable severity. Then he spends two years and a
half in training at Woolwich Academy. The course at
this establishment terminates by another examination, at
which thirty or forty compete, out of whom some half-a-
dozen only are selected for the Royal Engineers, the rest
being drafted into the Royal Artillery. The six successful
aspirants are next received into the Royal Engineer esta-
blishment at Chatham, where they expend tw•o years in
the most searching training—surveying, fortress and
bridge building, sapping and mining, &c., besides all the
ordinary duties of a soldier. E ven these four years and a
half of discipline do not finish the preliminary course of
training, for the young officer is now generally drafted
into one of the forty companies which are stationed sepa-
rately in different parts of the British Isles. His actual
duties on service are the most arduous which fall to the
lot of the soldier. He reconnoitres the enemy's position
exposed to the fire of riflemen, plans batteries and
trenches, and leads the assault upon a beleaguered for-
tress. The blowing open of the Cashmere gate at Delhi
may be cited as a specimen of the Engineer's duty. And
yet it will scarcely be believed that this corps is con-
sidered the least " honourable" in the service, and the
Engineer officer is not allowed to aspire to the command
of the army, or even of brigade. Lord Napier of
Magdala led the Abyssinian expedition because he was
chosen by the Indian Government. The system is mon-
strous. A very different subject follows this useful
exposé. " Turguenief s Novels" is an excellent article on
one of the most occult of topics—Russian fiction. The
Russians believe in fact, and ignore fiction as a rule ; or,
at least, they confine it to their diplomacy. But they
have one novelist worthy of being accounted amongst the
greatest. His name is Turguenief. As the reviewer re-
marks, Turguenief's writings have gained a wide celebrity
in France and Germany, but they are little known in
England, and I can safely recommend this entertaining
analysis to all who find pleasure in an excursion in the
less cultivated fields of literature. Turguenief's style,
judging from these extracts, approaches nearest to the
English school. It is furthest removed from the French
style ; and there is too much incident for the Germans. The
translations of Turguenief published in this country are
very unsatisfactory. The reviewer translates him well ;
why not undertake a whole work, or the series ? " Revo-
lutions in the Queen's English" is an able review of the
chief alterations which the English language has under-
gone during the three great periods of change—the reigns
of Elizabeth, Anne, and Victoria—for, oddly enough, the
reigns of the three British queens were the turning points
in the history of the English tongue. This, too, is a very
able paper, and is, I am glad to see, to be followed by a
a sequel. There is, of course, an article on Dean Milman,
and another on " The Increase of Lunacy," the writer
accepting the increase as a serious fact ; whilst the
Saturday Review, on the other hand, argues that it is more
apparent than real. " Going back," says the writer in
the North British, "to 1849, at the beginning of that year
we find 14,560 patients in the asylums of England and
Wales, and 33,213 at the beginning of 1868, being an in-
crease of about 19,000 in nineteen years, with nothing to
indicate that there may not be a like increase in the nine-
teen to follow." But, in the first place, the population
has increased ; and, more than this, the insane, especially
paupers, are far better taken care of than formerly, so
that many lunatics who were formerly at large, and never
included in the estimates, now swell the number which
seems to rise at so rapid a rate. The same thing has been
noted in France. There an immediate apparent increase
of lunacy followed the passing of a law for the better
treatment of lunatics ; but the proportion has not risen
since. This explanation seems on the whole satisfactory.
The Hudson's Bay Company is very severely handled in
the next paper ; in fact, though the writer's enthusiasm
for the Great North British Empire idea is palpable, he is
successful enough in demolishing the position of the com-
pany. That a territory of such immense extent should be
kept as a hunting ground for a company of merchants on
the authority of a charter which was never confirmed by
Act of Parliament, is simply discreditable. I must pass
over the remaining three topics of this fine number, though
each of them is good enough to deserve notice. " What is
Man's Chief End?" is the only philosophical paper in the
number ; it is devoted to an examination of Mr. Arnold's
theory of culture. Then comes a full and very opportune
article on " Public Works in India ;" and a paper on " The
Reconstruction of Germany " brings up the rear.

At the Norfolk Assizes, on Thursday, the grand
jury returned a true bill against William Sheward, who is
charged on his own confession with the wilful murder of
his wife at Norwich in 1851. It is understood that the
trial will take place on Monday next.

At a meeting of the Cheshire Chamber of Agricul-
ture on Wednesday it was decided that the G overnment should
be asked to appoint a special tribunal for settling claims for
exemption from the cattle plague rate. Great dissatisfac-
tion was expressed by the chamber regarding the way in
which the local authorities have discharged the duties as-
signed to them.
On Tuesday, April 6th, Mr. R. N. Fowler intends
to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether Mr. Lowe,
as reported in the Times and other newspapers, said that at
guard mounting in the Castle-yard, Dublin, on St. Patrick's
Day, the populace " indulged in revelry of a dangerous form,
and afterwards expressed their hatred of England by groan-
ing and hissing the National Anthem in the presence of the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland."
The London correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian attributes Sir Robert Peel's absence from the
division on the Irish Church to political disappointment.
"It is said that he was not only disappointed at not having
been offered a seat in Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet, but much
offended at the Premier's ai ologising for his omission on the
ground that his younger brother, Mr. Arthur Peel, had been
given a subordinate post in the Administration."
A distressing accident occurred on Wednesday at an
old building which was in the course of being pulled
down in connection with the reconstruction of Boar-land,
Leeds. A division wall in the back portion of the premises
fell unexpectedly, and buried in the ruins two men
named Atkinson and Vickerman. The latter bad purchased
the wood work, and at the time of the accident he was
watching Atkinson's progress in the demolition of a
doorway in the wall. Both the men wore speedily
rescued by the rest of the workmen, some of whom had
a narrow escape as the wall fell. Atkinson was compa-
ratively little worse, but Vickerman had evidently been
killed on the spot.

Mr. Goschen's bill to Amend the Metropolitan
Poor Act of 1867 has been published. It gives the Poor-law
Board discretionary power to dissolve asylum and
school districts and unions, and to adjust the parts of
any divided parish in such manner as shall seem to
them to be most expedient. They may also rescind the
provisions in the local act which relate to the assessing
and collecting of the poor rate. It enacts that where a
dispensary is provided the Guardians shall provid&a, place
for the attendance of the sick poor and the medical officer.
If the Guardians refuse to provide a dispensary, the
parish shall have no claim on the common fund for me-
dicines or medical officers.

The present year completes the•quarter of a cen-
tury during which the Earl of Zetland has held the office of
Grand Master of the Freemasons of England, and his 10-d-
-ship having intimated his intention to retire from the office
at the close of the year the Freemasons are gettfng up a tes-
timonial to him which promises to reach the sum of
£5,000. His lordship lately declared that he would not
apply the testimonial to any personal object or to
any of the existing masonic charities, and it now appears
that it is his intention to invest the money in the names of
trustees, and devote the interest to the relief of distinguished
brethren who may become distressed, and their widows or
other relations depending upon them. The fund is to be
called the Zetland Fund, and the disposal of it is to rest with
the Earl of Zetland for his life and after him with the Grand
Master for the time.

BLACKBURN ELECTION. —Mr. Morley has issued
an address as candidate with Mr. Potter for the represen-
tation of Blackburn. He says the issue is no longer that
which excited violent dissension last autumn, as the Irish
Church question must be looked upon as practically settled,
and there are many signs that the party most strenuously
opposed to the change of the Episcopal Church in Ireland
into a free Episcopal Church now perceives that this mea-
sure, formerly regarded by them with deep distrust, will
bring no ill to Protestantism, while it will assuredly do a
something to remove that discontent in Ireland which has
long been a source of weakness and danger to the empire.
The question for decision in the present election is whether
the borough will send two members to be lost in hopeless
minorities following Mr. Disraeli, who are led by him into
shallow compromises inefficacious for practical good, or to
support a strong and resolute Government in lightening
and readjusting imperial and local taxes, in giving the
country large and beneficent measures of education, and
in favour of the Ballot, which we need now to protect the
many against the few, and which we may by-and-by need
to Protect the few against the many.

THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE QUEEN'S
CHARITIES

The Queen's Charities, usually given on MaundaY
Thursday, were distributed at the Chapel Royal,
Whitehall, on Thursday morning. The Bishop of Oxford,
her Majesty's Lord High Almoner, officiated, and was
assisted by the Rev. Dr. R. W. Jelf, the contribu-
tions being made to fifty aged men and fifty aged
women, the number of each sex corresponding with
the age of the Queen. A procession was formed in
the Almonry Office, in Whitehall, consisting of the
Yeomen of the Guards, the Secretary and Yeomen of
the Almonry accompanied by six children, two from
each of the National Schools in the parishes of St.
Margaret and St. John, Westminster, and St. Mall'
le-Strand, who had been selected for participation in
this privilege in consequence of their good conduct, and
moved from the Almonry to the Chapel Royal, where they
were met by the Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Jelf, and a body of
the parochial clergy. On arriving at the altar steps, the
alms were deposited in front of the royal closet, and
special service for the occasion was read by the Rev. J. W
Vivian, D.D. A distribution of red and white purses took
place. Each red purse contained the usual gold sovereign
and a further sum of one pound and ten shillings, as s
commutation in lieu of provisions formerly issued from
the Lord Steward's department of the Queen's household.
Each white purse contained the Maundy coins, consisting
of 4d., 3d., 2d., and pence in silver, amounting to £uo•
The gentlemen of the Chapel Royal, of Westminster
Abbey, and of St. Paul's Cathedral assisted in the
ceremony, which was witnessed by a large number Of
persons.