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N°.17,973.] LONDON, THURSDAY r El N S Ny MAY 2, 1650.

QOUTH AFRICAN EXHIBITION,
CHINESE GALLERY, HYDE-PARK CORNER.

To be OPENED TO-MORROW, a MUSETIM of SPORTING
TROPHIES, NATIVE ARMS and COSTUMES, &c., from the
unexplored regions of the far Interior of South Africa.

INI REMONT'S OVERLAND ROUTE to
OREGON, TEXAS, and CALIFORNIA, across the
ROCKY MOUNTAINS, made by the United States Government;
illustrated by a GRAND MOVING PAINTING from Washington
City, pourtraying the thrilling scenes that occurred to Colonel
Fremont and Party, and Sir William Drummond Stewart and Party,
whi,e crossing the Rocky Mountains ; IS NOW OPEN for Public:Ex-
hibition, at the EGYP HAN-HALL, PICCADILLY, and exhibiting
every Afternoon, at Half-past Two ; Evenings, Quarter to tight.
Admission, Is. ; Stalis, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, Gd.

OCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER
COLOURS.
The FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION IS NOW OPEN,
at their Gallery, 5, PALL-MALL EAST, from Nine till Dusk.
Admittance, One Shilling. Catalogue, Sixpence.
GEORGE FRII'P, Se•.

THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION.

LECTURES on MUSIC by Sir HENRY It. BISHOP resumed,
with an increased number of VOCALISTs for tke Illustrations on
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at Eight, and on Tuesday, Thu' s-
day, and Saturday, at Three o'clock.—Dr. Bachhoffner's Second
Lecture on the Philosophy of Scientific Recreation with Optical
Effects, daily at Two, and en Tuesday and Thursday Evenings at
a :quarter-past Nine.—Lecture My J. H. Pepper, Esq., en tie
Chemistry of Hydrogen, with special reference to its application for
conveying by Balloons Pyrotechnic and other Signals to Sir John
Franklin, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at Three, and on
Tuesday and Thursday Evenings, at Eight.—Dissolving Views,
illustrating the Arctic Regions and Ceylon ; also Views of London in
the Sixteenth Century, and as it now is.—Diver and Diving-
bell, &c., &e.
Admission, I s.—Schools, Half-price.
Analyses and Chemical Experiments conducted in the Laboratory,
under the direction of J. H. Pepper, Esq.

ARGYLE SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS, Great
Windmill street, St. J mes:s._

Musical Director and Conductor, M. LAURENT, jun.
This ACADEMY, for Tuition and Practice of DANCING, is
NOW OPEN for the Season. Teaching by Professors Calkins,
Maxey, and Franconi•
For Terms of Private Tuition apply at the oftice.—Terms of Sub-
scription, for morning and evening practice :—Slx months, 51. Is.;
one month, 11. Is.; one cycling, Is. Subscribers' tickets not
transferable.

The Academy will open fir evening practice at a Quarter to Eighi
o'clock, and terminate at Half-past Eleven precisely.

AFMI G R ON.-BENJAMIN EDGING-
TON, 2, Duke-street, Southwark, London-bridge, invites
Settlers to insnect his EMIGRATION TENTd, which are fitted up
with every requisite, at a moderate cost. May be seen any day at
his Manufactory, 2, Duke-street, Southwark, one being purposely
erected, with cot slung, table, and camp-stool complete. Ware-
house, 208, Piccadilly.

Just published, Vols. I. and H. /Om., price 28s. cloth,
A. HISTORY of the ROMANS under the EM-
PIRE. By the Rev. CHARLES MERIVALE, 8.D., late
Follow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

FRAAIPTON'S PILL of HEALTH.
Price Is. 114 d. per bex.
This excellent Family t ill is a medicine of long-tried efficacy for
cerrecting all disorders of the stomach and bowels, the common
symptoms of which are costiveness, flatulency, spasms, loss of appe-
tite, sick headache, giddiness, sense of fulness after meals, dizziness
of the eyes, dro.vsiness, and pains in the stomach and bowels, : indi-
gestion, producing a torpid state of the liver, and a consequent inac-
tivity of the bowels, causing a disorganisation of every function' of
the frame, will, in this mest excellent preparation, by a little perse-
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the afflicted of its salutary effects. The stomach will speedily regain
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rapidly take place; and instead of listlessness, heat, pain, and jaun-
diced appearance, strength, activity, and renewed health will be the
quick result of taking this medicine, according to the directions ac-
companying each box.
As a pleasant, safe, easy apperient, they unite the recommenda-
tion of a mild operation with ,he most successful effect, and require
no re=traint of diet or confinement during their use ; and for elderly
people they will be found to be the most comfortable medicine hi-
therto prepared.
Sold by T. Front, 229, Strand, London. Price Is. 1 d. and 2s. 9d.
per box; also Sy the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the
kingdom.
Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the
same and address of " Thomas Prout, 229 Strand, London," on the
Government Stem).

EYEBROWS MUSTACHIOS, and WHISKERS produced in a
few weeks, and Baldness removed and prevented, by the use of
G RIM ST 0 N E'S AROMATIC
REGENERATOIt.
If you are in want of that beautiful adornment of the human
figure, a natural supply of human hair, obtain through the post, or
of any wholesale or retail chemist or druggist, or perfumer, an 11+.
bottle of Grlmstone's Aromatic Regenerator. This is an essential
spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers (grown at his Her-
bary, Highgate), which has been long known to the nobility and
gentry, by whorl it is highly appreciated for its manifold virtues, too
numerous to be set forth in an advertisement, but may be read in his
pamphlet, in which the bottles are enclosed.
Each pamphlet has the signature of William Grimstene, Merchant,
Herbary, Highgate, and will be found at page 11, un,er the copy of
Mrs. Weekly's Letter to the Editor of the " Times" newspaper, 7th
of August, 1846.
This pamphlet is forwarded through the post, on receiving two
postage stamps.
The Aromatic Regenerator can be forwarded through the post on
receiving a post office order for 4s. 6d., 7s. Bd., or 125., which in-
cludes the postage with the case.

The I is..size contains four of the 4s.
A few of its many vittues. as thousands can prove, are published
in the pamphlet enclosed with each bottle.

Reader, reflect for a few minutes, and if you are 40 years of age
you will remember the thousands of blind you meet with In your
walks, others with various coloured eye-shades ; indeed, such was
the demand for eye-shades, that it was a business. What has re-
moved those sightless beings, and given place to a straightforward,
clear-sighted people (the climate is the same) ? tell you the cause
—the universal use ef Grimstone's Eye Snuff! and because it cured
Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, Cater et, Nervous Headach, and Deaf-
ness, the Lords of the Treasury directed it to be denominated a medi-
cine, and to be stamped. Although this advanced its character, 67
cases of curs being proved by the intormers, still it was an act of
oppression ; as in 1825 the Solicitor of Stamps, Godfrey Sykes, Esq.,
altered the label, and sanctioned its sale under order of the Lords of
the Treasury; the letter ef protection, signed by Herries, F sq., to
Mr. William Grimstone, bearing date 18th February, 1525. This was
on account ef its curative qualities, being sold at that time is canis-
ters, within the reach of every poor family. But under this order of
Government it is obliged to be stamped.
GRI MSTONE'S MEDICATED EYE SNUFF, sold in canisters,
incloied in a pamphlet of medical and other testimonials, under the
Government order, at is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. tiel. each. The
Pamphlets sold at Id. each. If through the post, Is. Bd., 3s. 6d., and
ss. Bd., including postage, &c. The following letter is one out f the
many thousand proofs.
Read the following Medical Testimony to the cure of five cases
of Gutta Serena, from G. 11. Boutell, Professor of Galvanism:—
" Southsea, near Portsmouth, !lents, sth Nov., 1848.
" Ma. W. GRIMSTONE.—Sir—I must in justice to you send the fol-
levring Testimonial with regard to the extraordinary efficacy of your
Eye Snuff in cases of Gutta Serena. I have used it in five cases with
the most astonishing benefit and cure. Sir, you may advertise this !
or make what use you please. The cures have wholly astonished
me and thousands of others.—T am, Sir, &c., _

G. H. BOUTELL, Professor of Galvanism."
All letters to Mr. William Grimstone, Herbary, Highgate, near
London, at which establishment he continues to manufacture his
far-lamed HERB TOBACCO, so much esteemed in all foreign parts.
The following letter, in testimony of its delightful qualities, is from
the author of the " Pleasures of Home :"
" Springfield Cottage, Honiton, Devon, 15th August, 184$.
" Sir,—l cannot deny myself the pleasure of stating how highly I
esteem your Herb Tobacco. I have now found in it a substitute for
the choice leaf, hitherto obtained by me from a friend in Constanti-
nople. lam sure that lovers of mild, fragrant Tobacco would find
yours a great and acceptable gift, at a very reasonable price.
" I am your obedient servant,
" STUART FARQUIIARSON, D.C.L.
" To Mr. William Grimstone, Herbary, Highgate."
This extensively-famed Tobacco is sold by all chemists and drug-
gists, and others, with W. Grimstone's signature attached, at 74d..
is. d. 25. 9d., and 45.6 d. each. Including the Government stamp.

Thomasensize
Denny, who
forho thewas sentenced to thoisdeiallthi rttutahtee
late
u
child, has received a free pardon. The chief evidence against
him at the trial was Elizabeth Tarrant, the mother of tei in
rant, and who was charged also with assisting in the murder,
but the bill against her was ignored by the grand jury. Jus-
tice Maule, who tried him, communicated with the Secretary
of State, and three weeks ago obtained a respite of the '
sen-
tence. Other circumstances have since come to light in his
favour, which have induced the Government to grant him a
free pardon. Yesterday morning, at twelve o'clock, Air.
Keene, the governor of the gaol in Horsemonger-lane, re-
ceived the pardon from Sir George Grey, and at once libe-
rated the recently-condemned convict. The unfortunate man
seemed overjoyed at the news, and expressed his thanks to
the parties who had interceded in his behalf. He also
thanked Mr. Keene, the governor, for his humane attention
to him while in the condemned cell, and since the respite.
OXFORD.—The ttev. William Judd Upton, M.A.,
late Fellow of New College, has been nominated to the
perpetual curacy pf Gremborough, Yorkshire; patron, Earl
I

THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
Yesterday the first public conference of degrees by
this University took place in the presence of the Chan-
cellor and Senate, and a largo number of private friends,
in the ball of King's College.
The use of the hall had been kindly granted for the
occasion in consequence of the Surveyors of Woods ar.d
Forests having expressed some doubts as to the safety of
the large room of the School of Design, which is the
proper apartment of the University.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Burlington, the Chtneel-
lor, occupied the chair; and aanong,t the distinguished
persons present were—Mr. J. G. S. Lef -vre, the Vice-
Chawellor; the Bishop of Durham, Lord Overstene,
Professor Faraday. Mr. G. Grote, Mr. H. Hallam, the
Right Eon. T. B. Macaulay, Lord Radstnek, 14,4 rd Ma-
hon, the French Ambassador, the Dean of St. Paul's,
the Hon. Colonel Cust, Major-General Sir W. Morison,
K.C.8.. Sir 11. de la Beche, Sir E. Colebrook°, M.P.,
Sir H. Ellis, Mr. Heywood, M.P., Mr. M. Milne 4, M.P.,
and a great number of professors and scientific genii( -
men.

The proceedings commenced with the reading of a
short report by the registrar, which stated that in the
course of the last academical year her Majesty had been
pleased to grant a supplemental charter, enlarging the
powers previously conferred on the University. Her
Majesty had also, by warrant under her sign manual,
been pleased to place in connexion with the University,
in addition to the colleges and institutions previously
authorised to issue certificates for degrees in arts and
laws, the West of England Dissenters' Proprietary
School at Taunton, and St. Patrick's College at Thurles.
During the past year 167 gentlemen had been admitted
to matriculation, of whom eleven had distinguished
themselves when under, examination for honours in ma-
thematics and natural philosophy, and one had obtained
an exhibition ; and four had distinguished themselves
in classics, one of whom had obtained an exhibition.
Twenty-five gentlemen had passed the first examina-
tion for the degree of Bachelor of Medicine, of whom
one had obtained an exhibition in anatomy and phy-
siology, another in chemistry, and a third in materia
medica and pharmaceuticil chemistry ; several others
had distinguished themselves and obtained gold medals ;
thirteen gentleman had passed the examination for
the degree of Bachelor of Medicine, of which one had
obtained a scholarship; two gentlemen had passed the
examination for the degree of Bachelor of Laws, of
whom one had distinguished himself in jurisprudence,
and obtained the University Law Scholarship; 53 gen-
tlemen had passes the examination for the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, two of whom had obtained the Uni-
versity Scholarships; seven gentlemen had passed their
examination for the degree of Master of Arts; eight
had obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and one
that of Doctor of Laws.

The following gentlemen were then presented by the
Principals of their respective colleges, and admitted to
the degrees indicated below:—

Charles James Foster, of University College, LL.D.
Thomas Snow Beck, Soorjoo Coomar Chuckarbutty,
John Owen Evans, H. Fre&rick Augustus Good-
ridge, and Robert Dawson Harling, of University Col-
lege, M.D.

.thnmas Hawksley and Frederick John Hensley, of
King's College, M D.
• Jabtz Spence Ramskill, of Guy's Hospital. M.D.
David Charles Davies, Robert Halley, Richard Holt
Hutton, Bunnell Lewis, and Richard Francis Wey-
mouth, of University and Manchester Colleges, M.A.
Samudßoberts, of Manchester College,

John Sibre-, of Sprint, hill College,
John Bridge, Thomasbßorlase Coulson, Charles Wil-
liam Crouch, John Cumin, Edward Bousfield Dawson,
Edward Clenneil Dunn. Benjamin Chandler Durant,
Ebent zer Rust Edger, John Henry Gould. John Russell
Goulty, John Philip Green, Frederic Hepburn John
Hill, Thomas Hillier, Richard Revel Ibotson, Richard
Charles Jessop, William Taylor Malleson, Philip Mea-
dows Martineau, Arthur Nash, William Henry Nash,
Edward John Routh, Gerard Bayley Smith, William
Smith, Alfred Thornely, Thomas Davis Wilcox, Alfred
Wills, and William Fuller Woodburn,' of University
College, B.A.
Charles Weston Devenish and Frederick William
Headland, of King's College, B.A.
James Clare, Joseph Johnson, Henry Michael Fausti-
nus Langton, Theobald Arthur Lambert Langton, and
Walter Sweetman, of Stonyhurst College, B.A.
John James Bishop and John Dendy, of Manchester
College-, B.A.
James Leonard, of Highbnry College, B.A.
Benjamin Hudson, John Brown Paton, Robert Ainslie
Redford, and Daniel Smith, of Spring-hill College, B.A.
13-njarain Rirrington, of Stepney College, B.A.
George Decimus Davis and Patrick O'Brien, of St.
Gregory's College, B.A.
Jonathan Bates, of Huddersfield College, B.A.
William Ktrkus and Samuel Sharp Walker, of Lan-
cashire College, 13. A.
Benjamin Ellis Coates Chambers, Henry Jefferson,
and Samuel Sharpe, of Wesley (Sheffield) College, B.A.
William Henry Fryer, of Queen's College, B.A.
George Morgan and George William Olver, of
Wesleyan College LAW., B.A.
Henry Mathews and Matthew Atmore Sherring, of
University College, LL.B.
William Henry Colborne, James Morris, Sherard
Freeman Statham, and Edmund Whitaker, of Univer-
sity College, M.B.
Thomas Rhodes Armitage and Samuel James Augus-
tus Salter, of King's College, M.B.
William Ayre. of London Hospital, M.B.
Edward Enfield Barron and Samuel Weston Devenish
of Guy's Hospital, M.B.
Robert Trout Hawley Bartley, of Bristol Medical
School, M.B.

Cornelius Black, of Edinburgh School of Medicine,
Vii. B.

Joseph Drew of the Royal Manchester School of
Medicine, M.B.
The following scholars, exhibitioneors, medalists,
and prizemen were then presented to the Chancellor:—
Bunnell Lewis, M.A., University, medal in classics.
Samuel Roberts, M.A., Manchester New College,
medal in mathematics.

Richard Holt Hutton, M.A., University, medal in
philosophy.
Edward John Routh, 8.A., University, scholarship in
mathematics.

Alfred Wills, RA., University, scholarship in classics.
Frederick William Headland, 8.A., King's, prize in
chymistry.
_ _

Frederick William Headland, 8.A., King's, prize in
animal physiology.

Henry Mattha-i-vs, LL.B., University, law scholarship.
Cornelius Black, M. 8., Edinburgh School of Medi-
cine, scholarship and medal in physiology and compara-
tive anatomy.
. _ _

James Morris, M. 8., University, medal in physiology
and comparative anatomy.
Joseph Drew, M. 8., Royal Manchester School of Me-
dicine, medal in surgery.
James Miirris, M. 8., University, medal in surgery.
Sherard Freeman Statham, M. 8,, University, medal
in medicine.

Cornelius Black, M. 8., Edinburgh School, medal in
medicine.

Charles Pardey, King's, exhibition and medal in ana-
tomy and physiology.
Henry Thompson, University, medal in anatomy and
physiology.

Charles Pardey, King's, medal in chymistry.
William Ociling, Guy's Hospital, medal in chymistry.
George May, King's, exhibition and medal in materia
medics.

William Odling, Guy's Hospital, medal in materia
medico.

Charles Pardey, King's, medal in botany.
Henry French, Weale3 as Institution, exhibition in
mathematics.

Edward J. S Dicey, King's, exhibition in classics.
Freclorick J. Money, St. Thomas's Hospital, prise in
chymistry.

hdwarii Fry. University, prize in zoology.
John Zat;hariah Laurence, University, prize in botany.
A committee of the graduates then advanced, and pre-
sented the following address to the Chancellor:—
" We gladly avail ourselves of this the first public
occasion of conferring degrees in the University of Lon-
don to express our gratitude for the foundation of the
university, and to thank the Senate for their great and
continued exertions in framing the curriculum and con-
ducting the examinations, by which an honourable repu-
tation has been obtained for its degrees, and for the
time and I,bour which they have so long and zealously
devoted to the affairs of the university.
"In particular, we are desirous of thanking the
Senate for the establishment of a public day for confer-
ring degrees, by which the members of the different col-
leges will be annually brought together, and which will
greatly contribute to the creation and extension of a
more corporate feeling than has hitherto existed among
the graduates.
"In conclusion, we hope we may be permitted to ex-
press the anxious interest which we take in the prosperity
of the university, and our ardent desire to contribute to
the utmost of our power
, to maintain its character and
promote its welfare. '
The CHANCELLOR, in responding to the address, said
he begged to assure them, in the name of the Senate,
that he had received with great satisfaction the address
which had just been presented on the part of the gra
duates. That university had been established to recog-
nize the great principle of rendering academical distinc-
tions accessible to all persons, of every class and every
religious denomination, and they should ill have dis-
charged the trust reposed in them if they had not taken
the best precautions in their power to insure this im-
portant result, that the degrees which they might confer
should hold an honourable place in public estimation.
—(Cheers.) Accordingly, they bad devoted much time
to the system of examination, and they had had the
satisfaction of adopting regulations which had met
with the approval of the managers of education in the
colleges connected with the university, and those pre-
sent had now also accorded their approbation of
the system..—(Loud cheers.) The number of degrees
that they had now conferred was considerable, and he
bad no hesitation in stating that it was desirable that
henceforward opportunities should be offered of confer-
ring them in public, as ho anticipated that that arrange-
ment would contribute much to the advantage of the
university.—(Cheers.) It was the intention and desire
of the founders that the university should take a high
place amongst the great educational institutions of this

country. That object must ever be kept strictly in view
by those who were connected with it, but, in order that
it might be fully attairleat not only must the Senate act
z.alously in the administration of its affairs, but the
future career of the graduates themselves must be such
ls to raise, by their character and reputation, the esti-
mate in vhieh the university should be held.
The proceedings, which hal been of a highly grati-
fying character, terminated with a vote of thanks to the
Ch;,ncellor and the Sonate.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
Captain Sir Edward Parry, Mr. John. Barrow, and
Mr. Wooley, from the Admiralty, paid a visit to-day to
Captain Austin and Captain Ommanney, at Greenhithe,
and numerous parties were formed to visit the vessels,
'although the weather was very cold. The Intrepid.
Lieutenant-Commander John Bertie Cater, left Wool.
wich to-day for Greenhtthe, at 240 P.M., and seamed
herself down the river. The Jasper, under the charge
of Acting-Master W. Bryant, was ordered to take on
board a large supply of coals to-day, and in addition
to her bunkers being filled, will take 20 tons on deck, es
she is ordered to proceed as a tug with the vessels, and if
necessary will go as far as Stromness. The Advice
steam-vessel is also under orders to take on board a sup-
ply of coals and other requisite articles to assist in tow-
ing the vessels to the northward, and they will all leave
the river on Saturday morning.
Captain Sir John Ross visited Woolwich yesterday
and to-day, and a quantity of provisions having been
put on board his small yacht, the Mary, she will leave
the river to-morrow, towed by the Widgeon steam-
vessel, Captsin Bullock, to the Firth of Forth.
The Crocodile, 8, recently receiving-ship at Cork,
having come round to Sheerness, is ordered to be taken
up the river to opposite the Tower, instead of the
Atholl, to serve in place of the Perseus.
CHATHAM, MAX I.—The following prisoners were
tried yesterday at this garrison by district courts-
martial, of which Major J. Whitcomb, of the Royal
Marines, was president, viz :—Michael Lawler, of the
12th Regiment, a private, was tried for desertion at
Windsor on the 18th of December, 1849. The prisoner
was brought into Chatham barracks on the 22d ult.,
under a military escort. He was also tried for making
away with his regimental necessaries. He was found
guilty. Private Marshall O'Neal, of the 15th Foot, sta-
tioned at Sheerness, was also tried for offering violence
to Corporal William Parker, of the same corps, when
sentry on the main guard at Sheerness, on the 17th ult.,
when in the execution of his duty. The prisoner swore
that he would run him through with his bayonet, using
other expressions of a threatening character. private
Thomas Slattery, of the same corps, was also tried for
theft, that of stealing a penknife from one of the officers
of Sheerness dockyard. These prisoners were all found
guilty, but the sentence of each must be confirmed at the
Horse Guards before they can be publicly known.
Captain Thomas R. Mould, Royal Engineers, and
who has been director of works in Chatham Dockyards
for some years, is ordered to proceed to Portsmouth to
take charge of the works at that yard, in place of Cap-
tain James, who has resigned. The order from the
Admiralty for Captain Mould's removal arrived yester-
day at this dockyard.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—A short discussion that took place on Tues-
day evening in the Lower House on the subject of the
Registrarship of the Canterbury Prerogative Court
almost carries us back to the days of Horace Walpole
and official nepotism. Will it be believed that at the
time we are exercising SO severe an economy that we
almost count the lumps of sugar a poor half-starved
clerk in a public office puts into his tea, a post—an ab-
solute sinecure—exists in one of the Ecclesiastical
Courts, which yields its fortunate tenant 12,0001. per
annum? What a sum ! 12,0001. per annum! One
should like to meditate upon so glowing a theme
throughout a long summer day by the side of a rippling
brook, which might give tune and time t fancy over-
heated with the dazzling pageant of possibilities. It
must be considered that this 12 0001. per annum, this
Arch-Delilah of sinecures, involves no agricultural, no
commercial, no railway risks. Lund rats, or water rats,
land thieves or water thieves, signify nothing. There may
be a dearth of cotton in Carolina, or a fit of extra fertility in
Tamboff ; Uncle Sam may exclude our piece goods, or the
Russian serf glut us with the cereals; Sir Robert Peel
may turn traitor, or Mr. Hudson lend to his balance-
sheets a glowing Titianesque touch; all this matters not.
The 12,000 k per annum which we have in view at the
present moment is an official 12,0001. per annum. It is
"in the nature of," or ' issues from," a salary and fees.
The happy tenant of the appointment need have no fear
of any ono but the income-tax collector. Even the visits
of this individual may not possibly be without the effect
of adding self-complacency to his repose. The percentage
offered on the altar of patriotism quiets all scruples, and
sheds a rosier hue over his afternoon slumbers and the
waking dreams of the quiet morning time, when he is
passing from the temporary annihilation of sleep to the
tingling consciousness of 12,0001. per annum. But like
all other dreams, this one too is destined to fade away.
On Tuesday evening Sir Benjamin Hall put a question
to the First Minister upon the subject, and the
brief conversation that arose elicited the following
facts. The official style of the post in question is
" Registrar of the Canterbury Prerogative Court."
The Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being has
the power of appointing one person to the office and of
nominating two others in succession. When Archbishop
Moore held the see, be appointed (perhaps not very un-
naturally) his two sons to the post. One of these gen-
tlemen now survives, who, in addition to the emoluments
of his office, holds other preferments, which increase his
income very nearly to the mark of 15,000/. per annum.
During the days of Dr. Manners Sutton the original no-
minee died, add he filled up the vacancy with the name
of his grandson, the present Lord Canterbury, then a
boy between ten and twelve years old. Dr. Manners
Sutton died in 1828, and Dr. Howley succeeded hint at
Lambeth. Here let us do honour to the memory of that
mild and revered prelate! ile was so struck with
the turpitude and iniquity of the whole arrangement,
that when in 1845 John Moore, then Registrar or
the Court, died, he absolutely refused to make any
appointment at all. When the fact was mentioned
on Tuesday night in the House it drew forth
cheers from all sides. A case of such disinterested-
ness is unfortunately so rare that it merits especial notice
and attention. Dr. Sumner, the successor of Dr. Man-
ners Sutton, has not followed his example with regard
to this monster sinecure. The " second reversion" to
the office of Registrar, which has fallen in since Dr.
Sumner has been called to Lambeth, has been given by
him to his son, a young man who is now studying at the
Temple. Upon such an exercise of patronage we will
not venture to comment. All that we have mentioned
has been culled from the speeehes of Sir Benjamin Hall
and the First Minister, and may be received as admitted
facts. But in the answer of Lord John we find the fol-
lowing very satisfactory assurance:—" The nature of
the office itself is now undergoing investigation before
a Select Committee of the House. It appears to me to
be one of those offices which, when Parliament is con-
sulted on the subject, must either be abolished altogether
or so altered that no more salary should be given than
is required for efficient and beneficial services." So
far there could, of course, be no doubt upon the matter,
but we might be pardoned for entertaining an appre-
hension that the unpleasant idea of compensation to
young Mr. Sumner might come to be so inextricably
and unpleasantly mixed up with oar satisfaction as very
materially to modify its character and abate its fervour.
It is, then, most satisfactory to find thet, for this once
at least, there is a special Act of Parliament—the 10th
and 11th of Victoria, cap. 98—which will entirely cut
up Mr. Summer's hopes of a compensatory sum in gross
for the loss of his glittering prospect. The office, it is
to be hoped, will be abolished, and the memory of so
gross an abuse consigned, without more ado, to oblivion.
Mr. Sumner, however, is not to be driven into the
howling wilderness alone as an expiatory victim
for the sins of his fellow sinecurists in ease and
posse. The whole array of sinecurists in the
Ecclesiastical Courts, actual and prospective,
must be passed in review, and all who cannot give a
good account of themselves be dealt with according to
the exigency of their particular cases. Sir Benjamin
Hall, we see, has given a notice of motion which will cut
down to reversioners. Despite of the Act mentioned
above, actual tenants, at least the majority of them,
would be in a position to demand so much compensation
that it might become a question whether it would not
be better to let the claims become extinct by the course
of nature. All this, however, is no valid reason for not
looking sharply into the matter. Whatever doubts may
exist us to the propriety of cutting down the official
salaries of those persons who actually perform services
of public advantage, there can arise no very nice ques-
tions of policy or propriety upon the abolition of a nest
of sinecures. At least, let there be no more salary given
than is required for necessary services actually and effi-
ciently performed.