The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-13 00:00:00

Vice-Patron—

His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, B.G.
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCIL B.G.
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. -
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co“
lorries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co.; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Bernere-street ;=.sn,d.at
the Hospital, from 10 till 5..

INDIA-OFFICE, 27TH JULY, 1868.
rrHE SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA in
1 COUNCIL having confirmed the following RULES
promulgated by the Governor-General of India in Council,
~,garding LEAVE of ABSENCE to COVENANTED
CIVIL SERVANTS, publishes the same in supercession
.)f all previous Rules and Orders on the subject.
These Rules will take effect from the Ist July, 1868, and
ire not intended to apply to Covenanted Civil Servants,
who are Members of the Councils of the Governor-General,
•)r of the Governors of Bombay and Madras, or who are
Judges of a High Court.
RULES REGARDING LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO
COVENANTED CIVIL SERVANTS.
DEFINITIONS.

I. In the following Rules—
• Actual Set vice" includes the period during which an
officer is on duty, also periods spent on privilege and sub-
sidiat y leave, and periods during which an officer, not on
leave, may be out of employ on subsistence allowance in
End,a.
"Extraordinary Leave" means any leave granted other-
wise than under these Rules.
" Long Extraordinary Leave" means extraordinary
leave extending beyond a period of three months.
" Long Furlough" means furlough extending beyond a
period of three months.
" Salary" includes acting allowances.
An Officer's "Station" means that station to which he
stands appointed, or such other place as the Government
to which ho is subordinate may determine.
CHAPTER I.
FURLOUGH.

11. The maximum period of furlough, which can be
granted to any officer during the whole period of his ser-
vice is limited to six years.
111. Subject to the above limit, one year's furlough shall
be placed to the credit of each officer for every four years
of actual service.

IV. No furlough shall be taken before the completion
of eight years' actual service, except under Rule VIII.
V. Furlough shall not be repeated until three years from
the date of the last return from long extraordinary leave,
or long furlough, except under Rule VIII. Leave taken
under Chapters 11. and 111., but no other leave, shall be
reckoned as part of the said three years.
VI. Tho maximum term of furlough to be taken at any
one time shall be two years.
VII. Except as hereinafter provided, an officer when on
furlough shall retain a lien on his substantive appoint-
ment, or on an appointment of similar character and not
less salary, and he shall be granted allowances at the rate
of 50 per cent. of his average salary for, the previous three
years, or for the period which has elapsed since his last
return from long furlough, or long extraordinary leave, if
that period be less than three years.
In calculating- such average, the time spent and the
allowances drawn under any leave, excepting privilege
leave under Chapter 11., shall be omitted.
Provided that no officer on furlough shall draw more
than £1,200 or less than £3OO per annum.
VIII. Under Medical Certificate—

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(a.) Furlough may bo taken on the above-mentioned
conditions, without reference to the amount at credit under
Rule 111.
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(b.) Furlough for a period not exceeding one year may
be taken, even if less than three years have elapsed since
the last return from long extraordinary leave or long fur-
lough. When on furlcugh under this clause an officer
will not retain a lien on his appointment, and will be en-
titled only to subsistence allowance, unless he has com-
pleted six months actual service since his last return from
long extraordinary leave or long furlough, and there re-
main some leave to his credit under Rule 111., in which
case the officer will retain a lien on his appointment, and
will draw allowances as calculated under Rule VII., until
that credit be exhausted, but in no case for a period ex-
ceeding one year.
(c.) Furlough taken without medical certificate, or under
clause (a) of this Rule, may bo extended beyond fwo
years for a period not exceeding one year. When on fur-
lough under this clause an officer will not retain a lien on
his appointment, and will be entitled only to subsistence
allowance.
IX. Furlough taken or extended under Rule VIII. is
subject to the provision of Rule 11.
X. Furlough taken in India will be reckoned from the
date of the officer quitting his station to the date of his
return thereto. Furlough taken out of India will be
reckoned from the date of embarkation to the date of
return. _ _ _ . _

In the event of the furlough being taken partly in India,
and partly out of India, the commencement and termina-
tion of the furlough will be determined by the above Rules,
according as the furlough begins or ends in or out of
India.

XL For the interval elapsing between departure from
his station and the commencement of furlough, and be-
tween the termination of furlough and the re-arrival at his
station, an officer shall be allowed subsidiary leave not
ordinarily exceeding in each case thirty days. During
those periods his allowances: will be calculated in the same
way as his furlough allowances, but without limitation as
to maximum and minimum. Provided that, if the officer
has, under these Rules, lost his lien on his appointment, he
shall draw subsistence allowance of his rank. Subsidiary
leave shall count as service and residence.

XII. Applications for furlough will in all cases be sub-
mitted to the Government to which the applicant is sub-
ordinate, and will be dealt with In such manner as the
Governor-General of India in Council may from time to
time prescribe.
XIII. Subject to the exigencies of the service, both as
regards the number of furloughs available at any one time,
and as regards individual applications, of is hick exigencies
the Government of India, Madras, or Bombay, as the case
may be, shall be exclusively the judge, furloughs will be
granted under these Rules.
XIV. All applications for furlough under medical certi-
ficate, in accordance with these Rules, will be granted
without restriction.

XV. lf, owing to the exigencies of the service, it may
be necessary to place any limit on the number of officers
who may be absent ou furlough at the sa:ne time, applica-
tions not supported by medical certificate will be granted
iu the following order:—
The applicant to whose credit the greatest amount of
furlough remains under Rule 111. shall have the preference.
If two or more applicants are on an equality in this
respect, the preference shall_ be given to the applicant,
whose actual service in India is longest, reckoning, in the
case of an officer who has not taken long extraordinary
leave or long furlough, from the date of arrival in India,
and in the case of an officer who has taken long extraor-
dinary leave or long furlough, from the date of his last
return from such leave or furlough.
If two or more applicants are equal in both respects,
the preference shall be given to the senior in the Grada-
tion List.

XVI. Tho term of residence qualifying for pension shall
bo 21 years, but no leave, except privilege leave and sub-
sidiary leave, shall count as residence.
XVII. The term of service qualifying for pension shall
be 25 years.

CHAPTER 11.
PRIVILEGE LEAVE.
XVIII. Subject to the exigencies of the State, an officer
who has completed eleven months' continuous duty may
take privilege leave for one month without deduction from
his salary, retaining a lien on his appointment, whether
substantive or officiating. Provided that, in the case of
his holding an officiating appointment, such lien and his
acting allowance will cease on the resumption of charge by
the officer to whom the substantive appointment belongs.
XIX. In the same manner, and under the same condi-
tions, two or three months' privilege leave may be taken
when an officer has completed continuous duty of twenty-
two or twenty-three months respectively.
XX. Privilege leave may, at the discretion of the local
Government, be taken in separate instalments. No second
instalment shall be taken until after the completion of six
months' continuous duty from the expiry of the first in-
stalment. In this case the eleven months qualifying for
fresh privilege leave will be reckoned from the expiry of
the first instalment, the period of the second instalment
being omitted front the calcuhtio-t.
Provided that the whole l rivilego leave taken at any
one time shall not exceed three months, and that no
accumulation of privilege leave beyond that period shall
be admitted.

- XXI. If an officer shall over-stay his privilege leave, ho
shall forfeit all salary during the time of his remaining so
absent; and, if he shall so continue abseat for more than
one week, his office shall become vacant.
XXII. Privilege leave shall be reckoned as residence
and service.

CHAPTER 111.
SPECIAL LEAVE.
XXIII. Special leave, on urgent private affairs, may be
granted at the discretion of the local Government for a
period not exceeding six months. In respect of retention
of a lieu on appointment, of allowances drawn during the
leave, and of subsidiary leave, the conditions of special
leave shall be the same as those prescribed for furlough.
Special leave shall not bo reckoned as residence.
XXIV. Rule XXI. shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to an
officer overstaying spacial leave.
XXV. Special leave may be repeated without allow-
ances after intervals of at least six years' actual service.
CHAPTER IV.
GENERAL.

XXVI. Furlough, privilege, leave, and special leave
shall not be taken as such in continuation of each other;
but, if an officer absent on one of these classes of leave be
allowed to change it for another, the whole period of his
absence shill be held to be under the class of leave for
which it was chi-inged.
XXVII. Subject to considerations of State, there will
b 3 no restriction as to the places where an officer may
reside when on leave.
XXVIII. Leave allowance shall be, payable monthly, if
payment is taken in India, and quarterly if payment is
taken in England.
:CHAPTER V.
TEMPORARY RULES.

XXIX. Whatever aggregate amount out of the three
years' furlough and three years' sick leave, under the
Rules until now in force, at present remains to be taken by
an officer under the said Rules, shall remain to be taken by
him under Rules now promulgated.
XXX. Any officer now in the service shall, when next
proceeding on furlough, elect whether he will draw allow-
ances at the higher minimum rate of £5OO per annum (not
exceeding his total salary at the time). If he shall so
elect, he will, in any future furlough, be limited, as to
allowance, to the lower maximum rate of £lOOO per
annum.
XXXI. Any officer now absent on leave, who hits no
appointment, may, on his return, and until ho again holds
an appointment carrying equal pay to that of the substan-
tive appointment which he last held, draw the subsistence
allowance of his rank, together with 75 per cent. of the
pay of any appointment in which he shall officiate. Pro-
vided that the total salary so drawn by him shall not ex-
ceed the pay of the appointment in which he is officiating.
This Rule shall apply to auy officer who may have already
returned from furlough.
XXXII. Any officer now absent on furlough, or under
medical certificate, may elect whether the remainder of his
leave shall bo taken under these Rules from the date of
their promulgation. If he shall so elect, Rule XXX. shall
not apply to him.
RULES REGARDING ACTING ALLOWANCES.

I. An officer holding a substantive appointment, and
officiating in an appointment of a higher grade or claSs;
shall draw actin alloyrauce calculated at 60 per cent. on

CONTRACTS FOR SUGAR, TOBACCO, AND PORT
WINE.

CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY,
Somerset House, Gth August, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
-I- OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDUH of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby Give Notice, that on Thursday, the 20th
instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be ready to
treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT
for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling
Stores at Deptford, the undermentioned Articles, viz
To be ten-
Quantities. dered

for at rates
SUGAR 500,000 Pounds per 100
TOBACCO lOO,OOO „ f Pounds
PORT WINE 2,000 Gallons per Gal.

When to be Delivered.

One half of each quantity in three weeks from date of
Contract, and the remainder thereof in three weeks after-
wards, or oarlier if preferred by the party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the
Articles.

Separate Tenders are to be made for each Article.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole,
or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a
greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an
unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders.
The Sugar, Tobacco, and Wine to be exempted from the
Customs' Duties, and parties tendering are to state where
they are lying.
Each Tender for Sugar must specify the mark and land-
ing number of each cask or package, the ship in which im-
ported, and the country or place of its growth or produce ;
and an average sample (not less than 21b for each import
mark) must be produced by the parties tendering, and not
an average of different marks or several imports ; and any
parcel that is found not to be of the same mark or average
quality as the samples tendered and accepted will be re-
jected by the officers.
Each Tender for Tobacco must specify the several trade
marks and numbers, and the countries or places of its growth
or produce, and a fresh-drawn dock sample of each cask
or package must be produced by the parties tendering ; and
any cask or package that is found not to be of the same
mark, number, or quality as the sample tendered and ac-
cepted, will be rejected by the officers.
Samples of the Wine (two pints) for each import mark
must be produced by the parties tendering.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, somerset House, where
the conditions of the Contracts may be seen.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at
Noon on the day of treaty ; and it will not be required
that the party tendering or an agent on his behalf should
attend at the office on the day of contract, as the result
of the offer received from each person will be communi-
cated to him and to his proposed sureties in writing,
when, but not before, the rejected samples are to be re-
moved.

_ •
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of
the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender for ," and must allo be delivered at the
Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.

By order,
ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Coutracts
and Public Securities.

CONTRACT FOR VEGETABLES AT PORTS-
MOUTH.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, July 31, 1868.
rrHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, do hereby give Notice, that on MONDAY, the
17th August next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will
be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing
to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Ma-
jesty's Victualling Stores at Gosport all such quantities of
VEGETABLES
as may be demanded for the use of her Majesty's Ships
and Vessels from Ist October, 1868, to the 30th Septem-
ber, 1871, both days included.

The Contractor is to reside on the spot or to have an
agent resident there.
Tenders are to be made at a rate per 100 lb., and not at
per cwt., and no attention will bo paid to offers not so
made. The Contractor, in claiming payment for vege-
table supplied, is to make out his invoices in pounds at per
100 lb.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the Tenders.

No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
tr of Victualling, Admiralty' Somerset }louse, and
also by applying to the Captain Superintendent of her
Majesty's Victualling Yard at Gosport. The conditions
of the Contract may also be seen at the above places.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the
party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend
at the Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
him and to his proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must ho addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words,
"Tender for Veeetables at Gosport," and must also bo
delivered at the Department of the Controller of Victual-
ling, Admiralty, Somerset House, signed by two respon-
sible persons, engaging to become bound with the person
tendering in the sum of £lOO for the due performance
of the Contract.

By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

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shire Spar. &e. Imported and manufactured by JAMES
TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 1-19, Strand,
W.C., London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS,
MINERALS, and FOSSILS to illustrate the now edition
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FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.--LONDON
FEISIAL& PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITUTION.

President—Rev. CANON DALE.
CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon-
quet, Salt, and Co, 73, Lombard-street, N.C.; Francis Nicholls,
Esq. (ci the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, N.O.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
giro as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland- street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Honstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-streot is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories aro recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
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There is a story in the published life of T. P.
Barnum, which will not be new to some of our
readers. A gentleman came into the great show-
man's museum one day, inquired for its proprietor,
and expressed a particular wish to see "the club
with which Captain Cook was murdered." He
was conducted to a glass case, from which the
weapon was carefully lifted and delivered into his
hand. " Ah, Mr. Barnum," said the stranger, on
returning the club to its owner, after gazing upon
it with apparent interest, "I was sure I should
find it here. I have been to five museums, and
every one of them had the club that Captain Cook
was murdered with, and I was sure yours would
not be without it." On the principle that it would
never do to be without anything that the public
demands, a Dublin journal has published an
analysis of the report of the Irish Church Com-
mission, which was " laid on the table " of the
House of Commons on the last day of the session.
It appears, however, that it was only in a peculiar
and Parliamentary sense that the report was thus
presented. There are forms to be observed in
these things, and often when we read in the Par-
liamentary reports that this or that bill was laid
on the table, the so-called bill was merely a piece
of blank paper folded in the accustomed manner,
and endorsed with a title and the names of its in-
troducers. This Irish Church report, it now ap-
pears, was a dummy ; the report itself is not com-
plete, nor will it be for a month, and the full and
interesting particulars supplied by our contempo-
rary must have been derived from some other
source. There is something appropriate in this
close attendance of fiction and unreality upon the
fortunes of the Irish Church. For all the purposes
of a national establishment of religion that Church
itself is only a gigantic dummy.—Daily News.

The Irish Central Protestant Defence Associa-
tion have passed a resolution repudiating the
calumny uttered by Mr. Gladstone in addressing
his constituents in South Lancashire, that " Ireland
is at present only in a degree removed from civil
war." They appeal to the remarkable absence of
crime at the late assizes, and to the fact that " not
a single individual, native or foreign, is now in im-
prisonment under the Habeas Corpus Suspension
Act," as proof that the country is iu a state of
quietude.

Last night Mr. J. Baxter Langley delivered an
address in the Lecture Hall, Woolwich, to the elec-
tors of the borough in support of the candidature
of the Right ILn. W. E. Gladstone, and in expla-
nation and vindication of his financial pollen and
his resolutions on the Irish Church. Mr M'Cubry
occup:ed the chair, the Lecture Hall (which holds
700 or 800) being filed to excess.
1)/r. J.'BAXTEII LANGLEY spoke in favour of the
objent of the meeting. He had more th in once
stated to the electors that he was prepared to retire
at any- time if the Liberals brought forward a can-
didate of greater political experience and ability
than himself. When he stated that he had no idea
that events would have brought about the very con-
dition of things in which he would be called upon
to redeem his promise. This, however, he did
on the very earliest occasion by publicly
declaring his intention to withdraw from
his candidature, and to bring all the support he
could to secure the triumphant return of the ac-
knowledged leader of the Liberal party. To have
the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone to sit for Green-
wich would be an honour to the constituency. In
Mr. Gladstone they would have an able statesman,
a studied politician, a man of great Parliamentary
experience, debating power, and indisputable finan-
cial ability. The electors of the borough of Green-
wich almost unanimously felt that the election of
Mr. Gladstone for Greenwich would be an immense
service to the Liberal party. His exclusion from
the new Parliament would be a national calamity ;
whilst his double or triple return would be a build-
ing up and consolidation of his power—a just and
deserving tribute to his eminent ability, high integ-
rity, and honest statesmanship; whilst it would
also tend to unite all sections of the Liberal party,
and furnish significant evidence to Mr. Gladstone's
detractors that the people of England are pre-
pared to follow him as leader. He then answered
the question, " Who is Gladstone? " by stating
that he was born in 1809, being the son of a mer-
chant, his family being identified with commercial
interests. He received a highly classical education
at Eton, and closed his college career in 1831 by
taking the highest honours attainable. He entered
Parliament the following year—the year in which
the Reform Bill was passed—and, like many ether
public men, imbibed a tinge of the revolutionary
and exciting times prevailing at the time of his en-
tering public life. In 1834 he took office under Sir
Robert Peel, and had an important part in the
adjustment of the fiscal system of the country. He
traced Mr. Gladstone's political career till his first
budget, which left a surplus of three millions, and
which he cited as proof of his great financial ability.
He passed in review Mr. Gladstone's other finan-
cial measures in the abolition of taxes on know-
ledge, articles of food, fire insurance, reduc-
tion of Income Tax, resulting in the
country being relieved to, the extent of ten mil-
lions. He then referred to Mr. Gladstone's policy
in connection with the Reform Bill of 1866, and
his latter measure co undo what should never have
been done, by the disendowmeut and disestablish-
ment of the Irish Church. He concluded his address
as follows : —" I have thus passed rapidly in review
the paramount circumstances connected with the
public life of a man of whom I have said elsewhere
that he was the ablest and most earnest statesman
of modern times. There are men who have lived
in my time who on particular questions have been
greater and braver, and who will be esteemed by
posterity as the great men of the age. Of such
were Joseph Hume, the unrewarded guardian of
the national finances in evil days ; of such was
Richard Cobden, whose name is almost hallowed
as the missionary of peace and th.. 3 apostle of
free trade ; of such, too, is • one who still lives
and works amongst us—Cobden's fellow la-
bourer, the unswerving tribune of the people—
John Bright. But as a practical statesman, com-
bining earnest conviction with remarkable finan-
cial ability, with oratory and power of leadership,
there is no man who stands so high as William
Ewart Gladstone. (Cheers.) No man now in the
House of Commons better deserves the gratitude
and affectionate confidence of the people. As a
pupil of Peel he is greater than his master. His
financial schemes have been uniformly successful ;
and though denounced by Mr. Disraeli as " a con-
spirator against the State," and by Lord Derby as
"a reckless State gambler," he stands to-day, be- ;
fore not only England but in the eyes of all Europe,
as the foremost financier of the present century.
Ide'found our Exchequer an instrument of oppres-
sion, by which the industry of the country was
taxed for the benefit of the rich and idle. Ile
entered political life when England's treasury
was on the verge of bankruptcy, owing
to the tactics of Lord Derby and his
party ; and, despite Conservative opposition,
he has emancipated trade, relieved industry
of its burdens, and made our financial
position the admiration and wonder of civilised na-
tions. And shall we allow a fanatical Opposition
to send the illustrious public servant into obscurity
when he has entered upon even a greater and more
important work than that which he has hitherto
achieved ? It is a great thing to free the means by
which we live, but it is a greater thing to give free-
dom to those influences which make life worth liv-
ing for. Man does not live by bread alone. If
freedom had been beneficial to commerce, I believe
that it will be a thousandfold of greater advantage
to religion ; and if by the recognition of religious
equality we draw nearer our sister Ireland, so long,
so cruelly estranged, we shall find, as in all Mr.
Gladstone's estimates, that the results are far more
beneficent than even he himself had taught us to
expect.
The following resolution was carried with enthu-
siasm That the thanks of the Liberal electors
of the district of Woolwich are hereby tendered to
Mr. J. Baxter Langley for his able and elaborate
vindication of the financial and ecclesiastical policy
of the Right lion. W. E. Gladstone, and this meet-
ing pledges itself to co-operate with the committee
established to secure Mr. Gladstone's return as re-
presentative of the borough of Greenwich."

The most extraordinary rainfall ever known in
Nottingham took place on Tueslay morning.
There were two distinct storms, both accompanied
by thunder and lightning. The first commenced
precisely at eight o'clock and terminated at half-
past eight, and during the half-hour the rain
gauges, which are kept in three different parts of
the town under the direction of the corporation
surveyor and architect, and which are similar to
those at the Greenwich Royal Observatory, showed
a fall of 0.386 inch, or at the rate of more than
three-quarters of an inch to the hour. The second
and more violent storm commenced at 9.15 a.m.,
and terminated at 9.35. During these twenty
minutes the rain gauges showed a fall of 0.680
inch, being at the rate of two inches of rainfall
per hour. The total rainfall iu fifty minutes was
1.066 inches. The weight of rain in the town or
borough of Nottingham was the enormous amount
of 201,000 tons, which is equivalent to upwards
of 45,000,000 gallons, or, in other words, equal to
the whole water supply to the inhabitants of the
borcugh for thirty-five days. The streets were
flooded, some of the sewers were burst, and in
some of the thoroughfares cab horses plied up
to their knees in water. For four months pre-
viously there had been scarcely a shower.
A Vermont paper says that during the recent hot
weather in that State there were 83 cases of sun-
stroke, 29 of which were fatal. This number is
considered remarkable for Vermont. Among those
who died were two little girls, who were found dead
in the field. In some of the northern towns the
thermometer ranged from 105 degrees to 108
degrees, and in one instance is reported at 109
degrees,

New Voting Old ~,reaa
Lists. Register. e.
""
Birmingham - - 43,447 ... 13,472 ... 30,005
Banbury 1,700 ... 789 ... 911.
Bridgnorth
Bewdlcy 1,089 ... 339 ... 750
Coventry
Dudley
Evesham
Gloucester 4,000 ... 1,800 ... 2,200
Hereford
Kidderminster.
Leicester
Newcastle under-Lyme
Stafford 3,137 ... 1,634 ... 1,503
Stoke-on-Trent 14,959 ... 3,446 ... 11,513
Wolverhampton
Worcester
Walsall
The constituency of Wigan has been increased from 860
at the last election to 4,616.

TIM GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA

According to the latest tumour Lord Mayo will not go it
India after all. Sir Stafford Northeote is again first favou-
rite for the appointment. It is said that Lord Mayo himself
never wished for the appointment, but that it was in a man-
ner forced on his acceptance. The Chief Secretary for Ire-
land may not be the fittest man to succeed Sir J. Lawrence,
but it will be satisfactory to find that he has recognised be-
comingly the universal exclamation of astonishment which
saluted his selection for the Government of India.—Express.
The Pall Mall Gazette thus delivers itself:—" if the in-
tentions of the Ministry may be inferred from the state-
ments of Conservative journals, Lord Mayo will be
made Governor-General of India in spite of all
the remonstrances that may be offered. The reasons
given for the appointment are these :—Lord Mayo 84-
pressed the Phcenix societies and " crushed" the Fenian
plot, he has long Parliamentary experience, genial
manners, and great industry. With regard to the
Fenians, it may bo as well to wait a few months be-
fore concluding that we have heard the last of them. The
objection to Lord Mayo is not that he is a Conservative,
but that for obvious reasons the Viceroy of India ought
to be a man of great readiness and tact, and of first-class
administrative ability, and it would be the wildest flattery
to attribute these qualifications to Lord Mayo. That he is
"as good" as some Liberal peers that ma, be named is
nothing to the purpose. What we have maintained is that
party considerations ought to occupy a secondary place in
the choice of this great official, and that supreme personal
fitness should be the ono thing sought for. A few
years ago, before Si John Lawrence was appointed,
the Anglo-Indians speculated upon the probability of Mr.
Disraeli himself being sent out as Viceroy. They did not
complain of this prospect, and could he now show so little
appreciation of their generosity as to make ruler over them
a nobleman whose talents have only been shown in sup-
pressing the Phoenix societies ?"

MR. GLADSTONE AND THE ELECTORS OF

THE SALFORD HUNDRED.

The Manchester Examiner has been requested by the
South-East Lancashire Liberal Registration Committee to
publish the following letter, addressed to the chairman,
Mr. R. N. Philips, M.P. :

" Hawarden, August 3, 1868.

"My dear Mr. Philips, I have decided, under the
advice of experienced friends, that it is my duty, with a
♦iew to the general interest, to become a candidate for
South-West Lancashire at the approaching election. The
facts presented to us by the state and views of the con-
stituency are such as to leave no doubt whatever on my
mind with respect to the propriety of this step, and
they have, as you probably know, made my friends in
the south-western division feel it to be an imperative duty
to bring forward a second candidate. You will join in
our satisfaction, and I hope we may take it as an omen
of complete triumph in the Salford Hundred. Yet I
am conscious that I am saying farewell to a body of
political friends in that hundred, as able and energetic,
as generous and indulgent as any man could desire
to see rallied round him, and I cannot part from them
without tendering to them, through you, the expression of
my lasting gratitude. Pray accept also for yourself that
large share of my thanks which is so richly your due.
Believe me, my dear Mr. Philips, most faithfully yours,
" W. E. GLADSTONE."

The Express says : " The intelligence from South Lan-
cashire is most favourable to Mr. Gladstone's chances
of success. The Liberal element in Lord Derby's county
is far stronger than was supposed ; though in
North Lancashire Colonel Wilson Patten's seat is
considered safe, and the real contest will be, it is said,
between Lord Hartington and Mr. Stanley. The few
Liberals who have deprecated Mr. Gladstone's selection
of his field of contest will be doubly gratified if he
succeeds ; and it is at least satisfactory to know that
the miserable personalities showered upon him have
had no effect upon his personal reception by the
electors. The further we see into the tone and character of
the elections the more clearly does it appear that Mr.
Gladstone has the confidence of the great body of the
people. The attempts so strenuously and unscrupulously
made to convert our pulpits into canvassing booths
have not hitherto fulfilled the end they were designed
to compass. The petitions lying for signature in parson-
ages, the appeals in church, the confusion of things
spiritual and things temporal, the profane prayers for
electioneering success, are, we are willing to believe,
exceptional. That such things are possible at all is
unfortunate for the people, and still more unfortunate for
the Church."