The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-22 00:00:00

JULY 20.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. William
Aloysius Cock as Consul at Saint Christopher for his
Majesty the King of the Netherlands. Tho Quoen has
also been pleased to approve of Doctor D. Montbrim as
Consul at Trinidad for the United States of Colombia.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JULY 21.
79th Foot—Major-General John Francis Glencairn Camp-
bell, C. 8., to be Colonel.
Ist Life Guards—Lieutenant John Henry Do La Poer,
Marquis of Waterford, to be Captain ; oJrtict Wildam
Henry Followes to be Lieutenant ; John G. H. W. Dun-
bar, lieut., to be C..,rnet.
2d Life Guards—Surgeon Frederick Goorgo Kerin to ba
Surgeon-Major. .
Ist Dragoon Guards, Major Herbert Dawson Salo to lie
Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain Ernst E ilmann to be
Major; Lieutenant John Mattilew Benthal to be Cap-
tain ; Cornet Wm. Nicholas Sadlier to be Lieutenant.
3d Dragoon Guards —Thomas Carew Daniel, Gent., to to
Cornet.

4th Dragoon Guards -Cornet Elwin Black Hawkins to
be Lieutenant; George Edward Dowdeswell, Gent., to
be Cornet.
3d Foot -Ensign Thomas Spencer to be Ensign.
12th Foot—Captain Henry Arthur Cole to be Captain ;
Lieut. Henry Phillips to be Capt.tin ; Ensign Faulconer
Morgan to bo Lieutenant; James Frank Rivett-Carnac,
Gent., to be Ensign.
17th Foot—Lieut. John Moxon to be Lieutenant.
18th Foot —Ensign Chas. Egerton Dixon, from 75th Foot,
to be Ensign.
20th Foot—Major Hugh Cobbe to be Lieutenant-Colonel ;
Captain and Brevet-Major Augustus William Ord to be
Major ; Lieuc. Harry Bowlby to be Captain ; Ensign
Edward Goldsmith to be Lieutenant.
23d Foot—Ensign Charles G. Bell to be Lieutenant ; Gen-
tleman Cadet Charles Vincent to be Ensign.
2Uth Foot—Ensign George Wilson to be Lieutenant ;
Gentleman Cadet George Winter to be Ensign.
32d Foot—Ensign Charles Turnbull to be Lieutenant;
Thomas Spencer to be Ensign.
39th Foot—Major Godfrey Cooper to be Major; Captain
Robert Baker to be Major ; Lieut. Oliver Bradford to
be Captain; Ensign Caledon Egerton to be Lieutenant;
Gentleman Cadet Frank Abbott to be Ensign.
47th Foot—Major William Fitz Roy, from 63d Foot, to be
Major.
51st Foot—Lieutenant William Hoare Hume has been
permitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his
Commission ; Ensign Charles Ruthven to be Lieutenant;
Gentleman Cadet Thomas Seppings to be Ensign.
60th Foot —Ciiptain John Crane, late 67th Foot, to be
Captain
63d Foot—Major Frederick Miller, from the 47th Foot, to
be Major.
73d Foot—Staff Surgeon John Robotham to be Stirgeon.
87th Foot —Lieutenant C. Wilberforce WildmaU to be
Lieutenant.
95th Foot—Ensign Robert Cotton be Lieutenant ; Gentle-
man Cadet Francis Maycoek to be Ensign.
108th Foot—Ensign Edward Lloyd to be Lieutenant ;
Gentlemen Cadets Charles Alfred Vaughton Foulger and
George Balstrode Edmund Radcliffe to be Ensigns.
109th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Lewis Maltby Boileau to
be Ensign.
2d West India Regiment -Lieutenant Charles Andrew
Irwin, from the 87th Foot, to be Lieutenant ; Lieut.
Edward O'Bryen Forsyth, from the 17th Foot, to be
Lieutenant.

Medical Department—Surgeon John Henry Hearn to be
Staff-Surgeon.
Military Store Department--Deputy Superintendent of
Stores S. G. Bake to be Superintendent of Stores ;
Assistant-Superintendent of Stores John Isaac Lilly,
to be Deputy Superintendent of Stores.
Half-Pay—Captain and Brevet Lieut.-Col. Richard Pus-
ton, from the 4ith Foot, to be Major, without purchase.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Nearly all the morning papers give us articles on the
subject of the Electric Telegraphs Bill.

The Times admits that much of the original opposition
to the bill was actuated by motives of party warfare.
There is no man whose mind is free from prejudice but
must acknowledge that the bill was obstructed in great
measure because it was promoted by the present Adminis-
tration, and because the patronage consequent on the
purchase of the telegraphs might fall into Tory hands.
The cost of buying up the telegraph companies has increased
from 20 to 50 per cent., and the taxpayer will have to
pay for the ingenuity of the Opposition. The principal
reasons against the assumption of the telegraphs by the
Executive Government have crumbled away when put to
the test of inquiry. It was thought that a Government
monopoly might be tyrannical. It was proved that the
monopoly of telegraph companies has outdone all that
could be feared from a Government working under the
censure of public opinion. Evidence was produced, to
which no answer was attempted, which spewed that
the provincial press had suffered from the caprice
and wilfulness of the present telegraphic management.
It is certain that if any Postmaster-General ventured on
such a course either he or the Ministry which supported
him would suffer for it. The committee could come to no
other conclusion than that the transfer of telegraphs to the
Pest Office, if unaccompanied with any legal monopoly
of telegraphic usage, would liberate the public from the
danger of arbitrary management rather than expose them
to auy such oppression. With regard to the financial part
of the question, Parliament will act wisely in accepting
the proposal of the Government. Delay in such a matter
would be very dangerous, and the scheme should be
accepted now, lest worse should follow.

The Standard does not doubt that the telegraph corn-
panies have made a very good bargain. They have, of
course, obtained payment for prospective advantages, but
Mr. Gosehen ought to know that when individuals or
companies are " expropriated" in this country or in any
other in which the despotism of an individual or of a mob
does not override law, they will always claim, and in nine
cases out of ten will get, very liberal compensation for the
property taken from them. It is sufficiently clear, how-
ever, from the original proposals of the Government, that
nothing extravagant has been given to the companies.
They ha% j had liberal terms offered them, which they
have accepted ; and if apparently a year's more profits
have been given them than an arbitrator imbued with
Mr. Goschen's notions might have allowed them, the
Government gets full value for its extra expenditure in
the information and other help which the contented com-
panies are now willing to afford it.

The Telegraph thinks that in one or two respects a more
advantageous bargain might have been made in the inte-
rests of the nation than that which has been so criticised.
At the same time, our contemporary opines that the public
will be no losers by the transaction, should it ultimately be
completed on the terms foreshadowed by the bill. Mr.
Goschen's objection to pay four millions sterling for the
goodwill of a business which only cost two was acute,
but, unintentionally, of course, misleading. The " cost"
of such undertakings as the telegraphs is most
imperfectly represented by the mere outlay on
plant ; we must add the long years of effort, anxiety, and
risk which were required to raise them from the rank of
hazardous speculation to that of secure sources of profit.
Like most City men, the critic would have hesitated to
invest his money at the outset in an enterprise that stood
every chance of turning out a ruinous loss ; but he would
not have had the same feeling when the partners were
dividing 10 per cent. annually, and laying up an enormous
reserve against a rainy day. Now, the nation is buying
up a property which has for years paid 10 per cent., which
is annually getting more valuable, and the basis of whose
gains is ascertained.

The Herald is very indignant with the style of oppo-
sition offered to the Cattle Market Bill. The Opposition
is not merely irregular, not merely virulent ; it is against
all parliamentary procedure. Here is a scheme of legisla-
tion, on a subject of deep interest to the community,
which, according to the sheaving of its most inveterate
opponents, the House of Commons has minutely dis•
cussed, deciding in favour of it, and yet division after
division is taken to hinder its progress upon simple ques-
tions of form. Mr. Disraeli gave a sufficient • answer to
those who insinuated that the large and constant majori-
ties supporting the bill resulted from passion. Those
majorities were furnished from both sides of the House.
But if there be passion, it must be, unequivocally, among
those who declare that they will go on dividing from night-
fall until dawn rather than allow even the preamble to pass.
Mr. Crawford and others affect to think that it is of little
consequence whether the measure passes this year or the
next. We beg to tell them that it is a matter of the
utmost importance to the inhabitants of London. It raises
the issue between cheap and dear, wholesome and diseased
meat for a population of nearly three millions. Nothing
could be worse for the agriculturist, for the importer, fur
the dealer, or for the consumer, than to have this topic
hanging, as Mr. Henley put it, between heaven and earth.
If the Opposition succeed, as it only can succeed, by
talking against time, a full season is lost, and the public
will have to pay for the benefit of Mr. Milner Clinson's
clients, the confederated butchers.

The Standard, on the same subject, declares it is high
time this child's play were brought to a conclusion. The
whole sense of the House of Commons is stultified by the
opposition of a minority. The proper functions of Parlia-
ment are at an end if such a procedure is to be allowed.
It might have been thought that the ravages of the cattle
plague would have disarmed the rancour of the bitterest
partisan. But the real merits of the question are utterly
ignored in order that the Government may be worried
into a surrender of the bill which they have in charge. It
is scandalous that any Administration should be compelled
to see the public time wasted, and the proceedings of the
House of Commons reduced to the level of a farce.

The Daily News says however triumphant the agricul-
tural party may he in the House of Commons, it is impos-
sible that the bill can be forced through the House of
Lords at this late period in the session. Not, indeed, that
the peers are in any way disposed to stand up for a sound
economical policy, or are specially solicitous to defend the
food supply of the masses from the tampering of the
squires. But it is understood, and the speech of the
Premier on Monday night distinctly pointed to this
result, that the standing orders of the Upper House will
place an insurmountable obstacle in the way of the imme-
diate enactment of that protective scheme for which
the agricultural interest clamours. The bill seriously
affects not only the general public, but still more nearly a
number of private interests, those of the metropolitan
butchers, the wholesale cattle salesmen, the wliarfingers,
and others, which will all claim as of right to be heard
and to give evidence against the bill before the House of
Lords can pass it. Of course, this being the case, and the
butchers being determined in their hostility to the bill, the
contest may be, and if necessary will be, prolonged for
months. Ultimately, therefore, the Government, having
the general election in view, will be compelled to drop the
measure.

Commenting on the reception of Lord Napier of Mag•

dala in the City, the Star confesses that it is more
inclined to sympathise with the spirit of the civic and
popular honours paid to the Abyssinian victor than with
those which the State bestows. To convert a brave
soldier and a, great engineer into an ennobled
law - maker with a small pension a poor noble-
man in a houseful of wealthy peers seems
an odd way of rewarding such services. It looks
a little like the gratitude of the French king whose life
was saved by a chevalier not over rich, and who paid the
chevalier a formal State visit, entailed on him thereby an
almost ruinous expense, and then on taking his leave told
his host he was happy to have thus requited his faithful
service. Still, as we seem to have no other idea of reward•
ing a great soldier than that of making him a peer, it is
right the honour should be conferred on so worthy a
recipient as the man who was the other day Sir Robert
Napier.

TIIE WEATHER IN THE HOLY CITY.—'We read
in a letter from Rome :—" The prayers for the cessation
of rain, ordered more than six weeks back, and since
daily repeated by the priests, have been stopped by direc-
tion of the cardinal-vicar. During the last three or
four days heat has returned, and with it an end of
that deplorable period of bad weather which had
become a real scourge to the country. The peasantry
are on all sides busy in reaping and thrashing
the corn, which has suffered much from the continued

rains."

THE

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HARVEST ON THE CONTINENT. The
harvest in the South of France is terminated. The fears
which had generally prevailed have been dissipated,
and the result is better than was expected. The crop,
which in certain localities of the Var was sup-
posed to be in great jeopardy, will be abundant.
At Angers reaping is going on everywhere, and
farmers seem to be well satisfied. The yield will be
large, although the quality leaves something to be
desired. Letters from Normandy give the greatest Lopes,
and on several points the product will be above an average.

Similar accounts are received from the Fast of France. In

Hungary the harvest is advancing rapidly ; great plenty
is united to excellent quality. The country has still in its
granaries wheat of last year's crop, and prices are conse-
quently falling. Throughout Germany also there is a great
abundance of grain. In Belgium wheat is almost ready
-cvarywht_re for cutting, and the crop is fine in every
- -
p:spcct.

THE SEIZURE OF ARMS IN COBS.

The Dublin correspondent of the Time gives the follow-
ing particulars of the outrage committed in Cork on
Monday :

" At half-past nine o'clock in the morning four men
dressed as artisans, and without any attempt at disguise,
entered the shop of Mr. Morton, gunsmith, 50, Old
George-street. They had crossed from the opposite side
of the street, and their movements attracted no particular
notice, as at that hour they were supposed to be work-
men on their way to or from breakfast. John O'Rorke,
the shopman in charge, who was in anoth2r apartment at
breakfast, went into the shop on hearing their footsteps,
to see what they wanted. They closed the door quietly,
and advancing to the counter, two of them presented
revolvers at him, and commanded him to observe
silence, assuring him that they did not mean to do him
any harm. He readily obeyed, being, in fact, stunned by
the suddenness and coolness of the proceeding. While the
two kept guard with revolvers pointed at him, the other
two produced a sack which they hadbrought with them, and
opening a glass case near the door with a facility which
seemed to indicate familiar acquaintance with the arrange-
ments of the establishment, they deliberately filled it
with the contents. These consisted of a number of single
and double barrelled guns and a rifle. Having taken as
ranch as the sack could hold, they removed it into the
street, leaving their companions still on duty as
sentinels, and after emptying it returned and refilled it
again. The whole party then left the shop, and
passing up the street rapidly turned a corner and disap-
peared. They left several other cases of arms untouched,
and it is supposed that they hastily withdrew, lest
the police, whose movements they no doubt had been
watching, should come up. It is thought extra-
ordinary that such a robbery could have been
committed in a street which is a continuation of Tuckey-
street, where the chief police-station lies, and almost
within view of another station in Caroline-street. It is
still more strange that, after the repeated warnings which
they have received, the Cork gunmakers still leave their
establishments in an unprotected state, and the authorities
have made no special provision for their security, or rather
for the security of the public. No trace of the robbers has
I beer discovered.

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