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INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE.

India Office, S.W.. 10th June, 1963.
iNioTicE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That an
Examination of Gradidates for Tan appointments as
Assistant Surgeons in Her H aiesty's Indian Medical Service will
be held at Chelsea Hospital oa HON DAY, the 10;b August, 1963.
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together with information regarding the pay and retiring allow-
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at the Military Department, India Office, Westminster, S.W.
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POLICE

NO TIC E.

DOGS.
By virtue of the Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867, 30 and
31 Vict., cap. 134, sec. 18, and as to "The Metropolis" as
defin3d by the said Act (with the exception of the City of
London), that is to say, as to all Parishes and Places for
the time being within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan
Board of Works,
I, the Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis, give
notice, that I do hereby require, that from and after the
22d day of Jane until the 31st day of August next, every
Dog while in the Streets and not led by some Person be
Muzzled in such a manner as will admit of the animal
breathing and drinking without obstruction.
And further notice is hereby given, that from and after
the said 22d day of June, and until the 31st day of August
next, any Dog found loose in the Streets without such
muzzle as above described will be taken possession of by
the Police, and detained until the Owner has claimed it,
has provided a proper muzzle, and paid all expenses con-
nected with such detention ' • any Dog -which has remained
in the possession of the Police for three clear days with-
out the Owner claiming the same, and paying all expenses
incurred by its detention, may be caused by me to bo sold
or destroyed.
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Tho Commissioner of Police of the
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ARCHBISHOP MANNING AND THL
CATHOLIC POOR SCIWOLS.

The following pastoral letter of Archbishop Man-
ning was read on Sunday last in all the Catholic
churches and chapels in the archdiocese :

REVEREND AND DEAR BRETHREN, AND DEAR CHIL.
DREN IN JESUS CHRIST,-

After the great festival of the ever-blessed Tri-
nity, in which the presence of our Divine Lord
seems to withdraw itself from us into the depths of
the eternal glory, the festival of Corpus Christi re-
calls us to His near and all . but visible presence.
He is indeed ascended to the Father, but He is with
us still in a mystery of incomprehensible intimacy,
sweetness, and power. The blessed Sacrament is
the presence of Jesus veiled, but. sensible. He
reigns at the right hand of His Father, but He is
here. And though our intelligence cannot compre-
hendilluminated the limits
byfaith,
canapprehend
this mystery, yet our hearts,
it ; that is, can
lay hold of it, as the poor woman who touched the
hem of His garment, and, holding fast by Him,
became pervaded by a consciousness of the spiritual
life more intuitive than all reasoning and more as-
suring than all sense. his
consciousness of the
soul is keener than the eye, and its intuitions are
more piercing than sight. The door of the Taber-
nacle does not hide the Blessed Sacrament from faith,
nor th&vcil of the Sacred Species conceal the divine
perfections of the Sacred Heart. In the Blessed Sa-
crament, by a spiritual apprehension, we see the Per-
son of Jesus, God and Man, His divine perfec-
tions, Ills human character, and the sanctuary and
source of all His grace and love—His Sacred Heart.
It was by this revelation of Himself that He inspired
a humble and simple daughter of His Immaculate
Mother to illuminate the Church of d-od with a
special knowledge of His divine and human perfec-
tions. The profound and beautiful devotion of the
Sacred Heart has in it depths which no saint can
ever sound ; and Yet it is easily and promptly learned
by children. There can be no more fitting subject
for our thoughts to-day than the intention of the
Confraternity of the Sacred Heart. We will, there-
fore, draw out simply and practically some of the
lessons and benefits which may be derived from it.
Our earnest desire is that this Confraternity be
erected in every church in the diocese ; and that
the faithful be enrolled in it at as early an age as
they are able intelligently to practise its light obli-
gations, and to understand its beauty and its sweet-
ness.

The Confraternity of the Sacred Heart was
founded first of all to offer to our Divine Lord a
perpetual and special worship of love and adoration.
The whole visible Church, indeed, in all the world,
by a perpetual change and succession of ever-recur-
ring acts of divine and public service at the altar,
worships God without ceasing. A multitude that
no man can number in every land is perpetually in
secret prayer before Him. These two great
offices of the Church, it is true, are always in
activity. But the Confraternity of the Sacred
Heart is something distinct from these. It is
the union of a multitude of souls, who, by a
special intention, consecrate themselves to make
reparation to our divine Redeemer for the sins and
ingratitude of men, and to glorify Him for the
dishonour He receives, not only from the world, but
from His own disciples. It implies, therefore, on
our part, a deliberate desire and choice to unite
ourselves with Him, and to identify our joys and
sorrows, our cares, intentions, and efforts with
His own.

A second intention, and an immediate conse-
quence from the first, is to promote in ourselves a
deeper consciousness of our personal relation to
Him, and of His personal relation to us. And this
depends upon the sense of His presence. The more
habitually we remember it, the more we shall be
conscious of the nearness with which we are bound
to Him as our kinsman, brother, and friend. This
TT;
Our acts, words,
thoughts, and intentions to
devotion teaches—us to refer our
to live as the
disciples who were always around
Him, and to
measure all our life by His unseen judgment, ap-
proving or reproving our outward actions and our
inward hearts. And this sense of His presence is
not so much an intellectual as a moral perception.
It implies an intelligent appreciation of His cha-
racter, of His divine perfections, and of the human
lineaments, so to speak, of His sacred mind and
heart, that is of the minute and personal features
by which friends learn to know, to love, and to
confide in one another. No language can be found
to exceed the intimacy with which our Divine
Lord and Shepherd knows each one of us by name
and by character, and we also ought to
learn by contemplation, meditation, and experience,
I the divine and human character of Jesus towards

us. It is a cold and mutilated friendship which is
all on one side. There must be r4ciprocal know-
ledge and mutual appreciation before there can be
an union of hearts and an identity of will. The
reason why we are so cold and distant towards
Him is because we know Him so little. Our friend-
ship like our knowledge is superficial ; and it is
superficial because we do not enter deeply enough
into the knowledge of the Sacred Heart. But be-
sides this sense of His presence, and the percep-
tion of His character, there is also a consciousness
of His personal love to us, which springs directly
from the knowledge of 1113 divine and
human tenderness. We know what it is to con-

self, we thenceforward know him to b 3 to us.
From this springs up a sense of intimacy and

mutual contract, and reciprocal interchange of gra-
titude for love, and obedience for guidance. Our

faith, hope, and charity, which terminate hi God,
',have no need to ascend up into Heaven to bring

down Christ from above," as the Apostle Bays, but
find their object and their rest in the Sacred Heart

ever near to us.

Now, a further intention of this devotion is to
obtain for those who practite it an interior light to
understand the spiritual life and the objects of
faith, on which it subsists.

You will perceive at once that in the light of the
Sacred Heart the mystery of the Incarnation, pro-
found and infiinite in its beauty and its depth, be-
comes, so far as we can receive it, luminous and
clear. It is no longer a mere exertion of divine
wisdom, or power, or grace, but a manifestation of
God, a deification and a beatification of man, an
union of the Creator and of the creature in the
Perscin of the Incarnate Word, which elevates man
to the knowledge and love of God, and thereby to
eternal life, and to the vision of eternal peace. The
Incarnation is the most explicit and emphatic revela-
tion of love, of condescension, of union with our
hearts through the assumption of a heart like our
own. The heart of man became the heart of God
in Him, that the heart of God might redeem and
glorify the heart of man in us.
And as the Sacred Heart interprets to us the
mystery of the Incarnation, so it does also em-
phatically unfold the mystery of the Holy Sacra-
ment. There can be conceived no union with God
in this world more intimate, purifying, illuminating,
or full of love than the contemplation of Jesus in
the Blessed Sacrament, except only the actual re-
ceiving of His Presence in Holy Communion : nor
any union more personal and permanent than Holy
Communion, except only the vision and presence of
Jesus in His glory. The mystery of divine power
whereby the substance of the bread and wine is
changed into the substance of the Body and Blood
of Jesus Christ is seen in the light of the Sacred
Heart to be the condition and the means by which
the Sacred Heart itself is imparted to us. In the
Holy Mass He offers it to God—in Holy Com-
munion He gives it to us. The love of
Jesus, human and divine, surrounds this mystery
of God's power, sanctity and justice, with
a light in which its moral beauty and fitness shine
luminously upon us. It is the love and sorrow of
the Sacred Heart which gives to the Passion of
Jesus on Calvary and in Gethsemane its profound
and persuasive beauty. It is this perception of His
character which gives to His active life a moral sig-
nificance and perfection, and brings forth the mean-
ing which underlies all the literal history of the
Gospel. They can be understood only by those who,
by love and prayer, have the key or interpretation
in their own hearts. .

There are also many other lights and lessons to
be drawn from the Sacred Ileart, but only one
more now can be added. It teaches us in what
our true perfection consists : not only in acts of
external obedience, but in the graces of internal
conformity with God. If we would be perfect we
must be like Him, and to b.. 3 like Him we must be
united to God in knowledge and love. This is the
Gospel of eternal life, which is little understood.
" If our Gospel be also hid, it is hi 1 to them that
are lost ; in whom the God of this • to_
hath
blinded the minis of unbelievers, that the light of
the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image
of God, should not shine unto them. . . . For
God who commanded the light to shine out of dark-
ness, bath shined in our hearts, to give the light of
the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of
Christ Jesus." What is the face of Jesus Christ but
the Sacred Heart, the perfections of which radiated
from the sacred countenance, not only in the glory
of Thabor, but in the wounds and clouds of His
passion. " This is the declaration which we have
heard from him, and declare unto you : that God
is light, and in him there is no darkness. If we
say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in
darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. But if we
walk in the light as he also is in the light, we have
fellowship one-with another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleans:3th us from all sin."

It is to deceive ourselves, if we are to imagine
that we are His disciples, while we are proud, im-
pure, or selfish. Humility, purity, charity, are the
vital perfections of the Sacred Heart. They who
are humble, pure, and charitable, are united with
Him. They who are not so aro not His, except in
word and in name. They may have a name to live,
but are dead. And this conformity to Him is both
His gift and our duty : it is a grace both infused
and acquired. It begins in our regeneration and
His indwelling in our hearts. It is advanced and
perfected by our fidelity and co-operation ; by acts
of faith, hope, charity, contrition, self-denial, self-
chastisement, by habits of recollection and mental
prayer, by Confession which renews our peace with
Him, and by Communion which unites and sustains
the union of the soul with His presence.
No surer help to this life of conformity to Him
can be found than the daily practices of this Confra-
ternity, that is the contemplation and adoration of
the Sacred Heart, and the exercise of those works
of piety and charity which are dear to it. Of these
the first and chief is the salvation of souls; and of
these, those who are dearest to Him; the souls of
His little ones.
It is tor this work that we ask your alms, as
usual, year by year, on this festival. The Poor-
School Committee, as we have already often told
you, is charged with the high and vital work of
training the teachers of our schools. The efficiency
and morality of our sch)ols depends upon the cha-
racter of the teachers. The welfare of our poor
children is more directly affectel by them than by
any except the pastors of the Church. If they be in-
competent or unworthy the children suffer : and in
them the families who will hereafter spring from
them. It was a proverbial saying among the Jews
that "the world is sustained by the breath of school
children," and that, " because the children were
neglected, Jerusalem perished." These are pro-
found truths, which ought to be appreciated a hun-
dredfold by those who know and love the Sacred
Heart of the Incarnate Son of God. These are
days in which we dare not relax in trianiug able
and Christian teachers. The religious education of
this country is threatened, and will certainly before
long beassailed. It is only► by its effieiency and
by its extension that it can be successfully de-
fended. We therefore earnestly appeal to you to
assist the Poor School Committee, which has de-
served so well at our hands in the last twenty
years, in rendering our Training Schools and its
other works adequate to the demands of our

education.
And the peace of God, which surpasseth all
understanding, keep your hearts and minds in
Christ Jesus.
Given at Westminster, and ordered to be read in
all churches and chapels of the diocese on the
Feast of the Sacred Heart, the third Sunday after
Pentecost, 1868, when the annual collection will
be made in aid of the funds of the Poor School
Committee.

►;i HENRY EDWARD,
Archbishop of Weatmiustor.

path before reartins alm3st as d-irk as ever, and
there is no guarantee th t the nation, may not again
pat its foot into it." When W 3 glance at what

Lord AUCILAND dii, in the face of the broad facts

which ought to have been than a 3 patent to him as

they are now to 113, we see how little can be left to

the discretion of the ordinary Vicerop, who, gene.:

rally being selected from politically successful
Peers, practically know nothing of judia or of
Asiatic politics. Lord AUCEL tND marched an army

into Cabul, not only penetrating through the
wildest mountains, inhabited by uncivilized and
fanatical tribes, but he crossed an empire containing
little less than nine millions of warlike inhabitants,

controlled by Itu=Er SING, a despotic Monarch,
of .ingalar military genius and political capacity.

The Indas, from the Ilimalayah to the sea, then
passed through no British territory, The advanced

frontier touched on the most southern branch of

that river, the Sutlej, and from Ferozepore and

Loodianah, at least to Delhi and Meerut, the

country was without a road. Thus with a base so

ill-formed, with the Punjaub solely trained from
open hostility by the intelligence of —One man, the

Governor-General hal the temerity to attack a

scarcely practicable distri3t, with the Seilths and the
great balsa army then in the zenith of their power

n his rear. A ruler who could so ill calculate his

own position mid scarcely be expected to estimate
justly the position and difficulties of his supposed

enemy. He who i$ regardless of a base for himself
would not attach importance to the want of a base
for the military operations of his antagonists. The

intention was to check-mate Russia, and for this
his advisers counselled the control of Affghanistan.
At that time Russia was infinitely further from the
British frontier than now, the tribes of the Caucasus
were unsubdued, and there was as much danger of
the British marching an army to Archangel as of
the Russians crossing the Sutlej. Since Lord
AUCKLAND'S time Russia has made great progress
in Asia, and recent events seem now to indicate the
occupation of Samarcand and the complete conquest
of Bukhara. But the progress of Russia in no de-
gree equals that of the British in India within late
years, for the tendency there has been to develope
resources more than to • extend dominion, and in
that development lies real power. It is true that
Russia has subdued the tribes of the Caucasus, that
she has conquered Bokhara, and fairly penetrated
from the unknown north into the circle of Asiatic
potentates, that she has fairly established herself
on the Oxus, and from Samarcand can exert
a potent influence among all the Tartar tribes;
but the British have conquered the Salsa
army and annexed the Punjaub, carrying their
Empire of India to its natural frontier, the
mountain barrier that walls it in. Railroads
now connect the cities to which scarcely roads
led in the days of Lord AUCKLAND. The Indus
from the spot where it ceases to be a mere stream
flows almost from its source to the sea through
British dominion, railroads run along its banks,
and fleets of steamers ply on its waters. Commu-
nication, too, is almost instantaneous with Eng-
land, and the Overland Route has developed into
a great highway. If we compare the Russian pro-
gress with that of the British —supposing they are
destined to meet in Asia as enemies —that of the
latter is the more strengthe,,ing and better qualified
to in intain a successful struggle. Although science
and the skill of the engineer have, and will mate-
rially ail Russia in her a lvanc, still the diffizal-
ties placed by nature in her way are so stupendous
as to be almost insurmountable. The recagnized
chief of the Tartar tribes, with the banner of Islam
raised for a crusade against the Feriughees in India,
would be a potent enemy, awl might repeat the
oft-experienced conquest of Hindostan by the
mountaineers of Central Asia. But :can a Russian
General ever succed in such a role? We believe it
to be impossible, for it is wholly opposed to the
principle upon which Russia acts. She cannot
maintain a policy in Europe directly at variance
with the policy in Asia. She cannot lead a Chris-
tian rising against 'Moslem supremacy in Turkey,
and a Moslem rising against Christian supremacy
in India. She cannot at the same time use the
Christian to suppress the recoguizel . head of the
Moslem faith in Constantinople, and use the Moslem
to re-establish the Mahomedan faith at Delhi. She
cannot paint the Crescent on one side and the
Cross on the other, nor is it possible for the CZAR
to attempt so to dissimulate, for as a power Russia
must stand as the great upholder of the Greek
Church, a sentiment deeply inwrodght in the hearts
of her people. This is the safeguard of the British
power in India, for there is no denying the fact, if
Russia could raise the groan banner, and head a
holy war against the Christian, that the British
power in India w mid 'be in extreme danger.
Taking things, however, as they are, and presum-
ing that Russia would at thebest hold but the same
position in her conquests as the English do in
theirs, that is control the country they occupy by
military supremacy if they have to fight it out, it
would be as a Christian power against a Christian
power, the Russian against the British, the natives
on each side being influenced and controlled by the
strength of character, the military genius, the cou-
rage, and the wealth of each antagonist. In such a
combat, we believe, that England has nothing to
fear. Her army abounds with men, as does the na-
tion, singularly well qualified to rule and direct
native tribes. The power of the purse is
her's beyond comparison, and her prestige in the
regions where the contest only can take place is,
and must for many years be, far higher. Unless
Russia, as a Christian power, can secure the cordial
co-operation of Persia and Affghanistan, which we
hold to be impossible, she could never undertake the
conquest of India with the most distant prospect
of success; and even with that co-operation, a great
defeat in the Punjaub would lead to the annihila-
tion of her army, and throw her back from the con-
quests already achieved. The British danger and
the Russian danger must ever be the same in a na-
tive uprising behind against their supremacy. But
we cannot doubt that the danger to the Russian in
this will always be greater than the danger to the
British, because along the path to her base are tribes
whom no policy can conciliate, whom no law binds,
who live by plunder, and whom it is next to impos-
sible to punish. Therefore they can rise against the
Russians with comparative impunity, while in India
the leders of such a revolt carry their lives in their
hands. No folly could be greater than that of re-
peating Lord AUCKLAND'S mistake in the attempt to
occupy Affghanistan. If Russia ever reaches Herat,
England's plan is to throw into Cabul a few selected
officers to be incorporated into the ASLEF:WS army
with arms and funds. These gentlemen may be
safely left to make the most of ►he position, speaking
the language, and assuming,- as they will, almost
the appearance of Affghans ; but to attempt
to hold the passes by a British force is simply to
turn against the British the hostility of the in-
habitants. It is impossible for the Affghan to be
taught who his enemy is otherwise than by his eyes,
and where his scimitar can reach a stranger that
stranger is the man. Lord AUCKLAND'S idea was
that the feeling of the people sustained SHAH
SHOOJA, and that section, aided by a British force,
could maintain the rightful A3IEER oa the throne.
The very act, however, of entering the country
turned every Affghan into an enemy, And sna

SIMOJA'S cause rated then solely ,
nets. It is clearly the true policy for tl\.. icThoY
avail himself of this-feeling. Let the Russian, if
be chooses to enter Affghanistan, draw on his head
the hostility of :the inhabitants, and use every
available means of making that hostility as for-
midable as possible._ If Russia can force the pas-
sage, and afterwards be successful in a war in India
.-gainst the British, the Muscovite will deserve the
sway of Asia, and the chances are that he will be
assured as well of the sway of Europe, for he will
have shown himself to be the greatest master of mili-
t iry tactics, the greatest sucmounter of obstacles
the world has ever known, and, in a military point
of view, he will have earned the right of control
wherever he can place his foot. But where the
British utterly failed in the face of far fewer difficul-
ties, the ItuSian is not likely, unleis by a miracle, to
succsel ; and until the days of miracles return, we
believe E'iglaaa haslittle to fear front Muzcovite ag-
gression. Bat why should the Indian " Club" take it
for granted that Russia's object is British India?
Asia is. wid 3 enough for both the Christian Powers,
and Rassia's mission has hitherto bcen a civilizing
one. We know no other means, except those she
brings to bear, strong enough to penetrate through
the ignorance, the pr,,judic.is, and the natural d:ffi-
culties hedging in that portiun of Asia t.) which
she is pushing her conquests, an I we can see no
reason why ills two Cnris:ian Po ,vers should not
work in unison an I friendship, rather than set Asi
in a blaze which must consume on; and may eon•
sume both.