The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-12 00:00:00

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correspondent some time ago, that the appointment
will not, in all probability, be made till after the
elections.

TKE POOR-LAW BOARD.

The Liberal papers are all indignant at the appoint-
ment of Messrs. Courtenay and Fleming to the
position of sub-inspectors of workhouses. One of
them attacks very earnestly the " original " Fleming,
the permanent secretary of the Poor-law Board. It
hints that Mr. Fleming's influence has been used
" against those who give trouble by exposing
evil; " that he has caused the banishment
of one inspector because of the outspoken
consistency with which he had fought the battle of
the poor ; that he has exacted a tacit agreement " to
keep things quiet " and " on no account to come into
collision with the guardians," and that his conduct
requires investigation. Further, he stands at the
head of a system which it will be the duty of the new
Parliament' to uproot.

ANOTHER LONDON PAPER.
Another London paper appeared yesterday—the
Morning Summary. It is formed somewhat on the
model of the Pall Mall Gazette. The idea is excellent.
Such a paper has long been wanted. It is free from
those " harrowing details " in which larger papers
delight, while it gives a " well-digested " sum-
mary of he news of the day. The " tone" is
Conservative, and though it professes to be free
from the influence of party, there is a very decided
partisan air about it. It makes a very important
announcement to-day as to the arrangements at the
War Office. A happy compromise will very
probably, it says, put an end to the difficul-
ties created by the appointment of Sir Henry
Storks. Sir Edward Lugard, the present per-
manent Under Secretary of State, will either retire
on his pension or accept a divisional command.
The post thus vacated will be filled by Sir Henry
Storks. Sir William Power, at present the chief of
the Commissariat Department will receive the
appointment of Controller-in-Chief, with rank and
remuneration equivalent to the Financial Secretary
—Mr. Douglas Galton. Colonel Martindale, formerly
head of the Barrack Department, will assume the
duties of Controller at Aldershot.

"I FORBID THE BANNS."

The Morning Summary is responsible for the sub-
stance of the following tale. At Marylebone
Church, on the Sunday before last, the banns of
marriage were published between a youthful member
of the aristocracy and a young " somebody," whose
portrait hangs in respectable shops, next the Royal
Family and the clergy. The " somebody "in question
is rather notorious in London just now. She is
very pretty, and her portrait is much admired.
The original of the picture does not appear in such
respectable company as her portrait. The friends of
the contracting parties rallied round the victims, and
suspicious-looking broughams conveyed suspicious-
looking people from Saturday night revels to
the peaceful Sunday simplicity of Marylebone
Church. Unfortunately, there was a hitch. A
relative took upon himself the unpleasant task
of preventing the aristocratic minor from play-
ing out his fool's game, and the numerous friends
and rivals of the unhappy lady went home, sadly
disappointed at the contretemps, and endeavoured to
postpone their consolation until the following
evening, when she was found, as usual, enthroned
in a fool's paradise in Holborn—by kind permission
of the proprietors. Should the young nobleman have
made up his mind, the relative will find some diffi-
culty in preventing the arrival of that time when ho
must " for ever hold his peace."

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