The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1868.

INDIA OFFICE, 16th JANUARY, 1868.
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
INDIA IN COUNCIL.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that PACK-
AGES, stated to contain ARTICLES from the
Estates of DECEASED OFFICERS and SOLDIERS
of the late East India Company's Service, and of her
Majesty's Indian Military Forces, have from time to time
been received from the Governments of the respective Pre-
sidencies in India.

Packages containing articles reserved from the following
Estates remained unclaimed, viz :-
1. Anderson, James, Assistant Surgeon, Ist Madras
Fusiliers.
11. Babington, W. R., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical
Department.
20. Coust, H. A. 0., Captain, 2d Madras Native Veteran
Battalion.
33. Donne, J. T., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical
Establishment.
42. Dill as, IL, Lieutenant, 3d Madras E u ropean Regiment.
45. Elliott, R. J. IL, Lieutenant, 6th Madras Light
Cavalry.
48. Edmonston, W., Sergeant-Major, 28th Madras Na-
tive Infantry.
54. Forrest, F. C., Lieutenant, 41st Madras Native In-
fantry.
56. Fullarton, C., Captain, Ist Madras Native In-
fantry.
64. Geils, A. A., Captain, Ist Madras Fusiliers.
75. Halliday, J., Sergeant, Bengal Establishment.
79. Johnston, J. 31‘31., Captain, 4th Madras Native In-
fantry.
85. Kensington, H. 8., Ensign, 32d Madras Native In-
fantry.
86. Kerr, A. W. M., Captain, 39th Madras Native In-
fantry.
92. Lindsay, IL, Cornet, 6th Madras Light Cavalry.
93. Lloyd, Herbert, Captain, 21st Madras Native In-
fantry.
106. MacCarthy, H. P. T., Lieutenant, TOth Brigade Royal
Artillery..
115. Owen, H. R., Lieutenant, 2d Madras European Re-
giment.
118. Ogilvie, J. C., Captain, 39th Madras Native In-
fant.ty.
126. Plowden, F. E., Lieutenant, 10th Madras Native
Infantry.
126 A. Pearse, J. J., Major, sth Regiment Native Infantry.
182. Redmond, J. J., Lieutenant, 7th Madras Native
Infantry.
134 A, Ryan, P., Deputy Commissary Madras Sappers and
Miners.
152. Toms, J. R., Sergeant, Bombay Public Works De-

paitment.
154. Walker, A. Captain, Madras Establishment.
165. Walter T., Sergeant-Major, 7th Madras Native
Infantry.
170. Wright, W., Sergeant, Madras Sappers and Miners.
Applications for such Packages should be made by the
next of kin of the deceaSed, or by, the legal representa-
tives of such next of kin, to the Military Secretary, at this
office.

In the event of any of the packages in question re-
maining unclaimed for the further period of six months
from this date they will be opened, the contents disposed
of by sale, and the amount realised be credited to the
estate of the deceased.

T. T. PEARS,
Major-General, Military Secretary.

BANDA AND KIRWEE PRIZE MONEY.
SECOND DISTRIBUTION.

INDIA OFFICE, Sth January 1863.
Notice is hereby given, that the distribution of a second instal-
ment of the Banda and Kirwee Prize Money, at the rate of Rs.
130, or £l3 per share, to the Offices and Men of the under-
mentioned Corps of Her Majesty's late Indian forces, whose
shares have not been paid in India, will be made at the Military.
Department of this Office, daily (Saturdays excepted) between
the hours of Eleven and Two o'clock ;
Officers of the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief.
General Division and Brigade Staff.
2d Regiment Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent.
Engineer Department.
Officers and Men of the A. Troop, Horse Brigade, .Madras
Artillery.
44 A. Company, 4th Battalion, Madras
Artillery.
B. Company, 4th Battalion, Madras
Artillery.
44 3d Madras European Regiment.
Officers of the Ist Regiment, Madras Native Infantry.
" 19th 64
T. T. PEARS, Major-General,
Military Secretary.

CONTRACT FOR ITALIAN HEMP.
CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY,
SOMERSET HOUSE, JAN. 1, 1868.
rpHE COMMISSIONERS for executing the
IL Office of Lord High Admiral of the United King-
dcm of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby Give Notice
that on Tuesday, the 21st instant, at two o'clock, they
will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing
to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into store at
her Majesty's dockyards at Chatham and Devonport 300
tons cf ITALIAN HEMP.

A distribution of the hemp, and a form of the Tender
and conditions of contract, may be seen in the lobby of
the Storekeeper-General's Department, Admiralty, Somer-
set House. No Tender will be received after two o'clock
on the day of treaty, nor will any bo noticed unless the
party attends, or an agent for fun; duly authorised in
writing.

Evelir Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear, in the loft hand corner, the words
" Tender for Italian Hemp," and must also be delivered at
the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty,
Somerset House.
By order.
ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and
Public Securities.

DOG LICENCES.—The Commissioners of In-
land Revenue give notice that all DOG LICENCES
granted in the year 1867 expired on the 31st December
last, and that every person keeping a dog in the current
year is now required to take out a new Licence, the duty
payable for each dog kept being ss.
The penalty for keeping a dog without a licence is V.
Post-office orders payable at the chief money-order
office, Inland Revenue, receipt stamps or postage stamps,
may be remitted in payment of duty on dogs kept in Lon-
don and its vicinity, to the undermentioned collectors of
Inland Revenue :
Collector, London West, Somerset-House, W.O.
Collector, London Central, Winchester-buildings, Win-
chester-street, E.C.
Collector, London East,
uth Tower-hill E.g.
Collector, London So, Elephant-, buildings, Newing-
ton-butts, S.
Collector, London North, 183, Great Portland-street, W.
Licences may be obtained on personal application at the
Collector's offices before mentioned, and also at the follow-
ing places until the 15th February prox., between the
hours of 10 and 4 each day.
Gresham-house, Old Broad-street, E.C. Supervisor's
Office.
Stepney, 31, Stepney-green. Supervisor's Office.
Dalston and Hackney, 229, Hackney-road. S
Office.
Islington and Holloway, and Highgate, 6, Pullen's-row.
Supervisor's Office.
Paddington, 9, Porteous-road, Harrow-road. Super-
visor's Office.
Lambeth and Vauxhall, 67, Vauxhall-walk. Super-
visor's Office. Su'pervisor's

Hampstead and Camden-town, 40, Gloucester-street,
Camden-town. Supervisor's Office.

WM. CORBETT, Secretary.
Inland Revenue, Somerset House, Jan. 7, 1868.

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IS WESTMINSTER ABBEY A ROYAL

PALACE ?

At the Westminster police-court, yesterday,
Messrs. Poole and Tyler, the former a mason, and
the latter a builder in Westminster, were summoned
by Mr. J. Tolley, district surveyor, for an offence
under the Metropolitan Building Act.
Mr. Philbrick, barrister, represented the Board
of Works ; and Mr. Edward Vaughan Richards
nominally appeared for the defendants, but in
reality for the dean and chapter of Westminster.
Mr. Philbrick, in opening the case, stated that
the summonses were taken out by Mr. Tolley,
charging the defendants that they did do certain
work within the district of St. Margaret's and the
Close of St. Peter's, Westminster, without giving
due notice to the district surveyor, as required by
the 38th chapter, section 132, of the 18 and 19 Vic-
toria. The facts were rot in dispute, but the ques-
tion that would be raised was whether the abbey
was a royal palace or place intended for the use and
service of the Sovereign. If so, it would be ex-
empted under the Act of Parliament.

A pipe for heating part of the Abbey had been
placed too close to the roof of the Jerusalem
Chamber, and as the venerable pile was considered
to be endangered by it, as well as for the inte-
rests of justice, these proceedings were commenced
two or three months ago, and fully argued yester-
day.
Mr. Richards, in a most learned and elaborate
address, said the first thing to be considered was
whether Westminsier Abbey was a Royal palace or
place employed for her Majesty's use and service ;
he should endeavour as briefly as possible to show
that it was, and although the Royal charter of
Queen Elizabeth would be quoted as evidence
against his argument, still he held that it was a
Royal palace ; and, firstly, referred to the Gazette
of April 13, 1838, in which in the Royal proclama-
tion the coronation is appointed to be held in " our
Palace of Westminster." In the time of Edward the
Confessor the palace of Westminster and the Royal
chapel were closely adjacent, as illustrated in a
piece of the famous tapestry called the Bayeaux tapes-
try, a drawing of which was now produced, in which
a man is represented standing on the roof of the
chapel, holding on by the weathercock of the chapel
and the tower of the palace. Further, he referred
to a work lately published by the Rev. Dean Stan-
ley, entitled " Memorials of Westminster Abbey,"
in which that learned man said—" The monastery
and church of Westminster were, as we have seen,
enclosed within the precincts of the Palace of West-
minster as completely as the Abbey of Holyrood
and the convent of the Escurial were united with
those palaces of the Scottish and Spanish sovereigns.
The abbey was, in fact, a royal chapel on a gigan-
tic scale. The King had a private entrance to it
from the south transept, almost directly from the
Confessor's Hall. Even to this day, in official lan-
guage, the coronations are said to take place in our
Palace of Westminster, though the Sovereign never
sets foot strictly in the palace so called ; the whole
ceremony is confined to the abbey, which for the time
passes entirely into possession of the crown and its
officers." He then read an extract from the same
work, respecting the Bayeaux tapestry. Passing
over the events of the middle ages and the charter
of Queen Eizabeth, which he admitted dissolved
monasteries and made Westminster Abbey subject
to the control of au abbot and 12 prebends, he
came to our own times when the abbey had been
taken possession of by the Crown for the purposes
of coronations, funerals, and musical festivals ;
at the coronation of Queen Victoria divine ser-
vice ceased, prodigious galleries were built, and
the Abbey was under the - control of the Earl
Marshal ; at the coronation of William IV. it
was the same ; and at the coronation of George
IV. there was a grand banquet besides, .and a
champion rode in. Not only .vas the Abbey abso-
lutely taken out of the hands of the dean and
chapter, but he Would show that the Duke of Nor-
folk, Earl Marshal, had declined to allow the dean
and chapter,. their families and friends, seats to
witness the ceremony of coronation. He then read
extracts from the Heraldry books concerning the
Handel festivals ; the first held by King George
111. and Queen Charlotte in 1761, and the second
held in 1834 by King William IV. and Queen Ade-
laide, and .they went on to the coronations, reading
the warrants of the earls marshal to receive the
keys of the abbey from the dean and chapter. It
also appeared that every king, with the exception
of Edward V., had been crowned in the abbey ;
and Richard I. was crowned there the second
time ; indeed, the dean and chapter had so little
power in the matter that when it was advertised
that refreshments would be provided on the occa-
sion of the coronation of Queen Victoria, the
dean and chapter presented a humble pe-
tion to the earl marshal, praying that the
sacred edifice should not be made a banquetting
hall ; and he explained that it was only a cold col-
lation, for those who would be naturally fatigued
during the long ceremony; the Crown had even
taken away the organ, to set up a new one at the
coronation. Again, in May, 1838, the abbey having
been given up to the earl marshal, a memorial was
prepared and sent by the dean and chapter, pray-
ing that accommodation might be afforded for the
family and friends of the dean and chapter, as on
the two previous coronations the accommodation
had been declined ; and the answer from the earl
marshal, dignified, yet polite, explained that it was
not in his power to accede to the request of the
memorialists, and explained that whatever might
have been the usages of olden times, there had
been so many fresh creations since the acces-
sion of George the Third that there was not
sufficient accommodation for the peers and
their families, or even for the friends of the
earl marshal himself. In 1834, at the Handel
Festival, Sir George Smart, the King's organist,
was master of the ceremonies, and the public were
entirely excluded as long as the crown thought fit ;
in fact, the dean and chapter never had raised the
question, or refused to acknowledge the royal pre-
rogative, because they could not resist the regal
power. Respecting the Handel Festival of 1761,
there was no authentic record of what took place,
but no doubt the abbey was then entirely in the
possession of the Crown ; and it was his opinion
that if the Crown chose to hold a weekly sacred
concert there it could, although such an idea was
one that needed very little discussion. Again, with
regard to royal funerals, the Crown had the right
to repair the tombs in the royal chapels ; and from
the " Collectanea Typographica et Geographica,"
it appeared that after the Restoration, in 1661,
a royal order commanded the Dean and
Chapter forthwith to exhume the bodies of
the regicides and other persons buried in
Henry Vll.'s Chapel, and bury them in the church-
yard adjoining ; and among the long list of persons
so ordered to be exhumed were the names of Eliza-
beth Cromwell, Bradshaw, &c. Further, the royal
jewels were kept in the Jerusalem Chamber ; and
if he was not mistaken, there was a record in the
fourteenth century of a robbery at the abbey,
whereon the abbot and his monks were put to prison;
this, no doubt, put his successor on the alert, and
for'the future the jewels were kept in safe custody
at the Tower of London ; and up to the present
time, on the night before the coronation they were
kept in the Jerusalem Chamber, in the charge of a
beef-eater ; the Jerusalem Chamber communicat-
ing with the abbey by a door. Then, in support
of his argument, there was one of the strongest
proofs yet to come, and that was respecting the
Pix Chamber, where the standard coins and
measures of the realm were kept, and of that
chamber the dean and chapter never had the key,
but it was in the safe custody of an officer of her
Majesty's Treasury. Finally, he quoted the case
of " Say v. Hammond," iu which it was held that
a place where the arms of the militia were kept was