The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-08 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE.-LAST EVENING.

WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JAN. 7.
Her Majesty has been. graciously pleased to approve of
the following promotions in the Army, viz.—Gen. Sir A.
Woodford, G.C.8., G.C.M.G. ; Gen. Sir Wm. Maynard
Gomm„G.C.B.; Gon. Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, G.C.8.;
and Gen. Sir John Fox Burgoyne, Bart., G.C.8., to be
Field-Ma► shals.

Ist Regiment of Dragoons -Lieut. John Taylor Winning-
ton, from the 12th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Towns-
bend, who exchanges.
3d Hussars—Robt. Ho!ford Daniell, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice E. J. Magrath, who retires.
19th Hussars—Lieutenant Charles 11. Fairlie to he Cap-
tain, vice Henry E. Ellice, who: retires upon half-pay ;
Cornet Charles R. St. Quinth to be Lieutenant, vice
Fah•lie ; Geni.l3tuan Owlet ILnry Hall, from the It iyal
Military College, to be Cornet, vice St. Quintia.
20th Ilussard—Ac:ing Veterinary Surgeon Frank Daws
Bray to b.: Veterinary Surgeon, vice Veterinary Surgeon
First Class Johnson, appoint ..d an inQincting
Veterinary Surgeon in
Royal Artillery--Lieutenant Samuel Cotter Kyle to be
Sccoi d ;11iptain, vie.) Wdliatu H. Noble, removed to the
Seconded List. The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets,
from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenants :
Douglas Stanley, Frederick Morgan, William Smith,
Sampson Freeth, George Ramsay,- Algernon Griffiths,
Edward Johnson, Robert Holbeche, Adam Woolley,
Walter Joyce, Henry Burnett, Frederick Turner, John
Cumming, Thomas Cumine, John YerbUry, Charles
Adamson, William Baldock, Peter. Hussey,- Henry
Yates, Henry Preston, John Rogers, Charles Scott, Geo.
Hadaway, and Andrew England.

Royal Engineers—Captain Montagu Stopford Whitmore
has been permitted to resign his commission; Lieuten-
ant (with temporary rank)lChas. Birkbeck, from half-
pay, to be Lieutenant (with temporary rank), vice C.
R. T. Davidson, promoted.

The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets, from the Royal
Military Academy, to be Lieutenants with temporary rank
—William Dunlop, Francis Day, Louis Brown, Duncan
Johnston, Richard Gardiner, John Howson, John Hare,
Ross Moore, Walter Nugent, William Darby, Geo. Henry,
and Charles Bagot.

. The under►nentioned officers have been seconded, their
employment in India being comparatively unconnected
With the duties of the corps:—Lieuts: Lewis C. Gordon,
Bamford Lovett, W. H. Pierson, W. Shepherd, David H.
Traill, Alex. J. Filgate, G. W. Oldham.
let Foot—Gentlemen Cadet Tit'Os. Lee Thorn prom the
Royal Military 0311ege, to be Ensign ; Gentlesiian Cadet
E. G. Drury, from the Royal Military College, to be

Ensign.
2d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Richard Kirby Ridgeway to
be Ensign.

Bth Foot —Gentleman Cadet George Sandham to be Ea-

sign.
10th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Charles Talbot Peyton to be
Ensign; Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Cap-
tain, William Causabon Freud.

12th Foot—Lieutenant Harry L. Townshend to be
Lieutenant.

13th Foot—Gentlemen Cadets James Lister Laird and
Frederick Walker Spencer-Stanhope to be Ensigns.
14th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Philip Gardner to be
Ensign.

16th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Harry Molyneux Carter, to
be Ensign ; Gentleman Cadet Henry Martin, to be
Ensign ; Lieutenant John Orange, to be Instructor of
Musketry.
18th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Charles Pope, to be En-
sign; Gentleman Cadet Arthur John Milner, to be
Ensign.
19th Foot - Gentleman Cadet Charles Butler to 'be Ensign.
21st Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Gordon to be Ensign.
25th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Edgar Daring to be Ensign.
29th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Sonhouse Clarke to.
be Ensign.

81st Foot—Ensign Frederick William Pace to be Lieu-
tenant.

46th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Barrington Browne
to be Ensign.
50th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Arthur Stainforth to be
Ensign.
59th Foot—Ensign William Nicholas Darnell to be Lieu-
tenant; Gorion Wainman, Gent., to be Ensign ; Gentle-
man Cadet Arthur Grey Tidy to be Ensign.
59th Foot—Gentleman Cadet John Frederick Irwin to be
Ensign.

60th Foot—Ensign Charles Badly Brittain Thorne to be

Ensign.

Gist Foot—Gentleman Cadet Cathcart William Money-
penny to be Ensign.

63d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Henry Metcalfe Nuthall to

b 3 Ensign.

64th Foot -Lieutenant Charles Hamilton Sams to be
Captain; Ensign Edward William Carleton to be Lieu-
tenant ; Allan William Cameron, Gont , to be 'Ensign;
Gentleman Cadet Robert Barrington Laker, to bo

Eunign.

65th Foot—John Grant, Gent., ~to be Ensign.
68th Foot-Ensign George Francis Marx.
G9th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Jatuo4 B. Lynch to In

sign ; Ensign Gordon Wainman to be Ensign.
77th Foot —Gautlenrin Calet Frederick Graham to ba
Ensign. . .

78th Foot—Ensign Allan W. Cameron to ba _Ensign.
83d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Gallery Laurence Eliot to
be Ensign. - _

filth Foot—Gentleman Cadet Charles-Hops to b 3 Ensign.
85th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Cecil Collette to be Ensign
88th-Foot—Gentletnan Cadet Herbert E. Penton to b e
Ensign.

91st Foot—Gentleman Cadet Arthur L. IL Itackay to be
Ensign ; Staff-Surgeon James Beatty to be Surgeon.
96th Foot—Ensign Edward Law Durand to be Lieutenant ;
Gentleman Cadet Alfred Polglase Tripe to be Ensign ;
Gentleman Cadet Charles Andrews Coles to be Ensign.
97th root—Ensign Thomas Cope Burnell to be Lieute-
nant; William Henry Murphy, Gent., to be Ensign.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon William Jasper Ben-
del], from the 91st Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon.
STAFF.—L i3Ut.-Cobnei and Brevet-Colonel William A.
Middleton, 0.13., Royal Artillery, to be Assistant-Ad-
jutant-General to the Royal Artillery at Head-quarters,
vice Colonel Henry Lynedoch Gardiner, Royal Artil-
lery, whose period of staff-service has expired.
BREVET.

Quartermaster Henry Hammond, ratirad upon half-
pay, late 108th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Cap-
tain.

The undermentioned Officers of the Royal Marine Light
Infantry, who have b3en granted Retired Full-pay, to
have a step of Honorary Rank, in accordance with the pro-
visions of her Majesty's Order in Council of 13th Novem-
ber, 1858:—Colonel-Commandant _Richard George Con-
nolly to be Major-General; Captain Arthur John Stuart
to be Major.

COURSE OF EXCHANG.6.--Last Evening.
11 19
12 1
12 1
25 40
25 40
13 10

Amsterdam Short. 11 18}
Ditto 3 Months.l2 01
_ 2

Rotterdam
Antwerp
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris .....

12 O
2E 35
25 35
13 9i
Short 25 12i

Ditto 3 MontliB.2s 30
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine —120 k
Vienna — 12 35
Trieste — 12 37k
Petersburgli - 31k
Berlin
Madrid
•
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
—'29 4t:'
Genoa
Naples
29 45
...
PaPalermo,, 29 45
- —'29 45
Messina
Lisbon — 511
51t,
Oporto ..

25 22f
25 371,
25_ A7:*

1201-
12 40
12_42k

NAVAL A ITOIN THE 1:1 TS.

6 27
48f
481

29 55
29 55
29 55
29 55
29 55
29 55
51-1
511

The following appointments were made at the
Admiralty yesterday afternoon :--
Capt. J. E. Montgomoril, R.N., to H.M.S. Blanche (com-
missioned); Lieut. A. U. Markham Lewis A. Beaumont,
to the Blanche; Lieut. D. Bedford, to the Implaca-
ble, for service in the Sea.lark ; Lieut. A. W. Hamilton, to
the Bellerophon ; Lieut. Wm. Mager, to the Pembroke ;
Lieuts. R. S. Ward and E. S. Dagdale, to the Minotaur.

THE HOUSE OF PEERS.—The House of Peers at
present ccnsists of one Prince, two Royal Dukes,
three archbishops, 26 dukes, 33 marquises, 160 earls, 33
viscounts, 27 bishops, and 164 barons—the total number
of Peers being 449. The Bishop of Bath mid Wells also
sits as Baron Auckland. The following clergymen have
also seats in the House of Lords as lay Peers:—The Rev.
A. E. Hobart, Earl of Buckinghainshire ; the Rev. Wil-
liam George Howard, Earl of Carlisle; the Voiy Rev.
William John Broderick, Viscount Middleton; the Rev.
William Nevi', Earl of Aborgavenny ; the Van. Frederick
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, D.C.L., Lord Say e and Sale;
the Rev. Alfred Nathaniel H. Curzon, Lord Scarsdale.
The heir• presumptive to the title of Lord Arundel' and
Wardour is his brother, the Rev. Everard Aloysivs GOllZaga,
a Jesuit priest. There aro 107 Peers of Scotland and Ire-
land, who are not peers of Parliament; there are 224 mom-
bere of the Privy Council ; and the archbishops, bishops,
colonial bishops, bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scot-
land, and retired bishops, number 99. There are 865
baronets 474 civil and military knights, 137 noblemen and
baronets, who are Knights of the various Orders, 130
Knights of the Order of the Star of India, 751. Knights
Companions of the Order of the Bath, three field marshals,
578 general officers 13
the army, 312 generals in her Ma-
jesty's Indian army, 329 admirals in the navy, 56 judges
in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 174 Queen's Counsel
and Sergeants-at-Law in Erglaud, and 93 in Ireland.
There aro 162 deaths recorded of those whose names ap-
peared in "Who's Who ?" and who died between the 80th
of November, 1860, and the Ist of December, 1867, with
the dates of their birth and deatho—Who's Who, 1868.

CLERKENWELL EXPLOSION RELIEF
FUND.

The following is the first report of the committee
" On Friday, the 13th of December, 1867, occurred in
derkenwell that terrific and fatal explosion which has
become appallingly historic in the annals of England.
" Seven persons dead in consequence of the explosion ;
41 persons badly wounded, involving loss of limbs and eye-
sight, maiming, and general disfigurement ; 56 persons, for
the most part representing families, unhoused, with loss of
furniture, tools, working materials, &c.; as many as 600
families in the vicinity suffering in health, person, and
property from the violence of the shock.
" The committee would at the outset of their report
thankfully acknowledge the prompt liberality of the
public. The public subscription to this date amounts to
£6,691 is. 9d. as received by the bankers. There arc
various sums in the hands of other bankers, amounting, as
advised, to £452 17s. ld.
" The plan proposed by the committee for the relief of
the sufferers was as follows :—The district affected by the
explosion was subdivided into nine section:; ; to each of
these a sub-committee was appointed, consisting of mem-
bers of the general committee and honorary visitors.
These sub-committees were appointed to visit personally
every house and every family. The principle on which
relief has been distributed has been as follows :—Returns
of losses are made to the committee ; these Jae investi-
gated by the sub-committees of the districts respectively ;
orders are given, to a certain amount, upon the neighbour-
ing tradesmen for the supply of the furniture, b?dding, &c.;
the accounts are sent in to the honorary secretary, and are
paid from the fund. In the case of the more immediate
sufferers who had resided in the now ruined houses, the
committee have acted in a liberal manner, completely
refitting them in their new apartments. As a general
rule, a very small portion of furniture has been recovered
from the ruins, and that in a very damaged and broken
condition.
" The committee have to report as follows respecting

the deceased :
" 1. William Clutton, aged 47, killed on the spot ; has
left a widow and a son who is imbecile and to be pro-
vided for. 2. Sarah Hodgkinson, aged 30, wife of a tailor,
who is badly wounded in hospital. 3. Martha Thompson,
aged 11 years (mother and three sisters in hospital) ; father
undergoing much mental affliction since. 4. Minnie
Abbott, aged 7 (mother and four brothers and sisters in
hospital). 5 and 6. Humphrey Evans, 61, and Ma:
tha
Evans, 65, husband and wife (daughter Hannah in
hospital, badly wounded) ; by the death of Humphrey
Evans an annuity, which has been the support of the
family, ceases ; provision to be made, especially for the
wounded daughter. 7. Harriet Balzani, aged 34, residing
at the time of the explosion in St. James's-walk ; was
obliged to remove to other lodgings, and, owing to the
shock and exposure to cold, bronchitis supervened ; died
in King's College Hospital ; medical certificate connects
the cause of death with the explosion. All these have
been decently and becomingly buried at the expense of the
committee. The first six are interred together in Finchley
Cemetery, in one grave, which may be called the ' Victims'
Grave,' and over which the committee purpose to erect a
suitable memorial. . .

" The returns made to the committee from the hospitals
are detailed in the following schedule : Caleb Beckett,
28, carpenter, disabled ; head, left arm, and hand bruised.
William Thickthener, 55, watch escapement maker, cut
in face ; concussion. John Harvey, 48, scalp wounds.
Thomas Wheeler, 10, cut in neck and head ; thumb and
index finger (left) amputated ; concusJiun. John Hockey,
14, fall from van through horses taking fright by explo-
sion ; cut and bruised. Mary Moseley, 48, severe cuts of
face, wound of temporal artery ; great prostration.
Charles Moseley, 11, left side of face bruised. Maria
Giles, 33, deep cut in forehead. Mary Ann Chittleburgh,

30, large wound on forehead, eyelids and face scorched.
Edith Chittleburg,h, 2, child of last-named ; con-
cussion. Elizabeth Thompson, 47, concussiou —bruised;
four children taken to hospital ; one (Martha)
died. Lizzie 'Thompson, 17, left eye destroyed ;
face much bruised ; severe cut on forehead. Har-
riet Thompson, 14, severe wound of head and face ;
arm lacerated ; sight of left eye gone. Martha Thomp.

son, 11, died in hospital, after much suffering. Emma
Thompson, 8, lacerated wounds of neck and hand ; very
prostrate. Elizabeth Holder, 56, cuts on face and fore-

head. Elizabeth Hodgkinson, 61, left eye destroyed ;
temporal artery cut ; face and forehead severely cut.
Henry Hodgkinson, 33, son of the last-named, tailor ;
right hand and arm disabled, and badly wounded. Sarah
Hodgkinson, 30, wife of last-named ; brought dead to
hospital. Maria Abbott, 34, right eye destroyed ; severe
cuts on head and face ; five children brought to hospital ;
one (Minnie) died. John Abbott, 13, numerous contu-
sions of face. Arthur Abbott, 5, incised wound of face
and neck. Frederick William Abbott, 11, la :crated cuts

on hand, neck, and face, portion of nose cit off ; con-
cussion. Minnie Abbott, 7, died a few ni mtes after
being taken to the hospital. Annie Abbott, 2, slight
concussion. Sarah Hartley, 41, deep and severe wcund
of left ear, which was nearly cut off ; badly
wounded in neck and head ; three children in hospital.
Thomas Hartley, 8, cut all over the face ; severe shock.
Alfred Hartley, 3, cut about head and face. Henry
Hartley, 15 months, cut on forehead. Mary Young, 36,
badly cut about face, forehead, and eyes ; nearly dead
when brought to hospital. Elizabeth Williams, 30, sister-
in-law of last-named, severe cuts on head, face, and eye-
lids ; arm lacerated. Anne Bennett, 67, deep wound in
right cheek ; much shaken. Mary Ann 46, deep
wound in face, forehead, and eyelids ; very prostrate.
Martha Evans, 65, dead. Humphrey Evans, 67, dead.
Hannah Evans (Roberts), daughter of the above, incised
wounds of neck, chest, and arms. William Thomas
Parry, 6, cuts in hand and face ; severe shock. Charles
Perry, 3, concussion. Martha Perry, 2, hand cut ; shock.
Anne Cross, 8, severe compound fracture of left leg ; con-
cussion. Anne Challis, 41, incised wounds of head, face,

neck, and arms..
" Besides the cases in hospital, the committee have
received returns of personal injury to as many as 11.1 per-
sons, who have suffered more or leas severely from the
shock. A careful perusal of these unhappy consequences
of the Fenian outrage will best illustrate the difficulty
which the committee has all along felt as to the adequate
compensation to be made to the innocent sufferers. Most
of the female sufferers have been accustomed to contribute
their own proportion to the `bread-winning'—industrious
and thrifty housewives of skilled mechanics. The com-
mittee only wish that all England could look up n that
ghastly sight of wounded men, women, and children, and
then fix the measure of what ought to be done for those
afflicted people. £5O each would be £2,000, and this
seems to be but a cold mockery of their pain and loss.
If the public bounty would double this, or increase it to
even a larger amount, the committee can only say, as
witnesses of this deep sorrow, that all that would thus be
clone for the victims would be well deserved and well
bestowed.

" Not the least painful element in this catalogue of
suffering is that which has come under the care of the lady
visitor, whose detailed report shews the following results.
Speaking only of the district affected by the shock of the
explosion, Mrs. Bailey writes :—"rhe number of mater_
nity cases placed under my care from December 16 to
December 28 have been twenty-six. Of these three have
been delivered of still-born children, three have had very
serious miscarriages, three have given birth to living
children, one has been very ill, and still is, with a wound
in the breast caused by the explosion ; the remaining six-
teen cases, at different stages, the issue of which is very
doubtful.' " _ _ _

The report appends some particulars of these ca,es,
which are extremely painful :
" The results the committee have arrived at, as to the
estimate of liability and loss, as gathered from the above
details, from the reports of the sub-committees, and from
the claims sent in by the inhabitants, stand thus :
For furniture, tools, and working materials 1:3,035 12 10
For loss of time (inadequate return)
For claims for immediate relief attended to 1,042 7 0
For estimated expenditure since returns

made
111 personal injury eases not in hospital

280 0 0

40 personal injury cases in hospital,
maimed, blinded, or otherwise disfigured
or incapacitated, including annuities to

those permanently injured
" This estimate does not include the claims made for the
buildings, or the interest in the buildings that have been
injured or destroyed. For the present the committee are
contented if they are enabled by the exercise of public
sympathy to compensate, as far as money can compensate,
for sorrow, suffering, bereavement, mainiiiig, disfigure-
ment, and losses that cannot be told up for their intensity
and severity.—By order of the committee,
" RoBERT MAGUIRE, M.A.,
Incumbent of Clerkenwell, Chairman.
" ROBERT PAGET,
Vestry Clerk, Hon. Sec.
" Office of the Committee, Vestry Hall,
Clerkenwell, Jan. 7, 1868."

A GOOD STORY. —The Duke of Argyll tells a
good story. He was travelling with the Duke of North-
umberland in a first-class carriage on the North-Eastern
Railway. At one of the stations a little commercial
traveller got in. The three chatted familiarly until the
train stopped at Alnwick Junction. Here the Duke of
Northumberland got out, and was met by a train of flun-
keys and servants. The commercial traveller said to his
remaining companion, " That must be some great swell."
" Yes," said the Duke of Argyll, " lie is the Duke of
Northumberland." " Bless me," exclaimed the bagman,
" and to think that he should have been so affable to two
little isilobe like us."—Northern Daily Express,