The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-05 00:00:00

LONDON GAZE t.LE —Last Evening.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JAN. 1.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Bev. Wil-
liam Henry Brookfield, Honorary Chaplain in Ordinary to
her Majesty, to be one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to her
Majesty, in the room of the Very ROY. Edward Meyrick
Goulburn, D.D., Dean of Norwich.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Stop-
ford Augustus Brooke to be one of the Honorary Chap,
lain in Ordinary to her Majesty.
CROWN OFFICE, J. 3.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
County of Waterford—Edward De La Poer, of Gnrteen,
in the county of Waterford, Esq. in the room of Henry
De La Poor Beresford(commonly called Earl of Tyrone),
a Peer of the United Kingdom.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, J.s.N. 3.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade have received a notification to the
effect that in consequence of the appearance of cholera in
the Island of St. Thomas, the Board of Health at Bar-
badoes have passed a resolution recommending that a
quarantine of 21 days should be imposed on every vessel
arriving from St. Thomas, or any other infected port.

COURSE OF EXCII9.NUE.--Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 15 11 IGI
Ditto 3 Months. 11 18* 11 19
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 37f 25 45
Brussels — 25 37* 25 45
Hamburg — 13 8 13 81
Paris Short 25 15 25 22*
Ditto 3 Months. 25 374 25 42*
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 119
131200
Vienna
13 331 13 40
Trieste — 13 35 13 40
Petersburgn - 31 324
Berlin
Madrid — 471
474
•
Cadiz -48* 81
Leghorn
27 27
2200
Milan
Genoa — 27 10 27 20
Naples — 27 10 27 20
27 10 27 20
Palermo
27 10 27 20
Et f

Messina
Lisbon • •

rrto ...........

ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE.--An inquiry of a
somewhat extraordinary character is being now
conducted by a special committee of investigation of
the guardians of this parish relative to the manage-
ment of this workhouse. A short time since Mr. Streeten,
the poor-law auditor, called the attention of the guardians
to the fact that the quantity of sheets, &c., used in the
house was greatly in excess of what it should be as com-
pared with previous years, and marked his opinion of the
irregularities committed in this respect by threatening to
surcharge the master in the amount. The committee pri-
marily intended to inquire into this matter alone, but in
the examination of the Iliffetent officers so many other
irregularities came to light, that at the last meeting of the
board of directors the committee requested that they
should be empowered to examine into the whole subject
of the management of their workhouse. In explanation
of the motive which prompted this request, Mr. Henry
North, the chairman of the committee of investigation,
stated that so thoroughly disorganised was the state
of things in the workhouse, and so apprehensive were
some parties lest the truth should be known, that wit-
nesses had already told the committee that they
had been intimidated previously to giving evidence. It
had been shown clearly that there was scandalous robbery
of parish property going on in the house, and that there
was connivance. It was also shown that some directors—
he should not then meation names—were in the habit of
going in and out not only in the daytime, but at all hours
of the night, and that the gate porter was specially " or-
dered" not to enter the names on the book. What these
parties wanted at late hours by surreptitiously gaining en-
trance ho could not then explain, as the evidence was not
complete, but it was shown to have gone on for the
past eighteen months. So very anxious wore cer-
tain parties to have their curiosity gratified, that the com-
mittee had to sit with locked doors, and even then there
were eavesdroppers planted to hear what IN as said.
Their clerk was directed by them to keep the minutes
of evidence locked up, and only to produce them to the
committee. Having the interest of 2,000 inmates at
heart, and recollecting the heavy burdens imposed upon
the parishioners in the support of the workhouse, he
hoped the committee would have the extended powers
granted them without further explanations being
asked. The scandalous revelations already made to
the committee was their apology for seeking an enlarge-
ment of the reference. Messrs. Watkins and Jenkins, as
members of the committee of investigation, corroborated
the statements of their chairman. The board, after a sharp
discussion, gave the increased powers sought for by the
committee, but several guardians expressed their convic-
tion that it would bo better to have the matter openly in-
vestigated by the Poor-law Board than by a secret com-
mitee, who were not able to obtain evidence on oath.
ARABIAN COLLEGIANS.—Seventy-six native Alge-
rians haVe just been admitted into the French-Arabian
College at Algiers. Many of them belong to wealthy
families in the province of Constantia ; others, received
without payment, have been chosen from among the most
promising pupils of the elementary schools,

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