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principal stations on their lines—Manchester , Liverpool , Leeds , Rochdale , Wakefield , Bolton , Blackburn , Jrcc . —will be open continuously on weekdays from 8 o ' clock in the morning until / in the evening , " in order that tickets may be obtained at any time and for any train " during the day . This admirable arrangement will remove
one of the terrors of railway travelling—the " crush " nt the booking-offices ; but we venture to suggest to the directors that if they had gone a step further and opened an office in Marketstreet for the sale of tickets at any hour during the day , the public would have been still more deeply indebted to them . —Manchester Guardian .
Colonel Stuart Wortley has been appointed by the Commissioners of Patents to the Curatorship of the Patent Museum at South Kensington , vacant by the death of Sir Francis Pettit Smith . The Institute of France , on the nomination of
the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences ( Division of Political Economy and Statistics ) , has elected as corresponding members Mr . Wm . Newmarch , F . R . S ., and Mr . David Wells , late Special Commissioner of Revenue in the United States .
The first Act ofthe new Parliament was yesterday issued . It was passed on Saturday , to apply £ 1 , 422 , 727 14 s . 6 d . out of the Consolidated Fund for the service of . the years ending March 31 , 1873 and 1874 .
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to command that Colonel Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley , K . C . M . G ., C . B ., be promoted to the rank of Major-General in the Army , in recognition of his valuable services in command of the
force employed against the Ashantees . The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in and appointments to the Mosfc Honourable Order of the Bath . To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Second Class , or Knights
Commanders of the said Most Honourable Order , viz .: —Major-Gen . Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley , K . C . M . G ., C . B . ; Capt . John Edmund Commerrelle , R . N ., C . B ., V . C . ; Captain William Nathan Wrighte Hewett , R . N ., V . C . ; Col . Sir Archibald Alison , Bart ., C . B . ; Col . John
Chetham M'Leod , C . B ., 42 nd Regiment ; Deputy Surg .-Gcn . Anthony Dickson Home , C . B ., V . C . To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Third Class , or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order , viz : —Capt . Walter James Hunt Grubbe , R . N . ; Capt . the
Hon . Edmund Robert Freemantle , R . N . ; Col . John Carstairs M'Neill , V . C , C . M . G ., late 4 8 th Regiment ; Col . George Richards Greaves , late 7 th Regiment ; Col . Francis Worgan Festing , Royal Marine Artillery ; Capt . Percy Pitt Luxmore , R . N . ; Col . Henry Evelyn Wood , V . C ,
90 th Regiment ; Col . George Pomeroy Colley , 2 nd Regiment ; Lieut .-Col . the Hon . Savage Mostyn , 23 rd Regiment ; Lieut .-Col . James Maxwell , 1 st West India Regiment ; Lieut .-Col . George Daniel Webber , and West India Regiment ; Lieut .-Col . Arthur Frederick Warren ,
Rifle Brigade ; Lieut .-Col . Baker Creed Russell , 13 th Hussars ; Lieut .-Col . Duncan Macphtrson , 42 nd Regiment ; Lieut .-Col . Francis Cunningham Scott , 42 nd Regiment ; Lieut .-Col . Robert Home , Royal Engineers ; Lieut .-Col . Thomas Durand Baker . 18 th Regiment ; Major Redvers
Henry Buller , 60 th Regiment ; Major Arthur John Rait , Royal Artillery ; Major William Francis Butler , late 60 th Regiment ; Deputv-Controller Matthew Bell Irvine , C . M . G . ; Staff-Surg . Ahmuty Irwin , R . N . ; Surgeon-Major Thomas Macdougall Bleckley , M . D . ;
Staft-Surg . Henry Fegan , M . D ., R . N . ; Surg .-Major Robert William Jackson ; Surg .-Major Charles Benjamin Mosse , African Medical Service . The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned officer and
non-commissioned officer , whose claims to the same have been submitted for Her Majesty ' s approval , for acts of bravery performed by them during the recent Ashantee War , as recorded
against their names , viz .: — 24 th Regiment . —Lieutenant Lord Giffbrd , for his gallant conduct during the operations , and especially at the taking of Becquah . The officer commanding the Expeditionary Force
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reports that Lord Gifl ' ord was in charge of the . scouts after the army crossed the Prah , and that it is no exaggeration to say that since the Adansi Hills were passed he daily carried his life in his hand in the performance of his most dangerous duties . He hung upon therear
ofthe enemy , discovering their position , andferretting out their intentions . With no other white man with him , he captured numerous prisoners ; but Sir Garnet Wolseley brings him forward for this mark of Royal favour most especially for his conduct at the taking of Becquah , into which he
penetrated with his scouts before the troops carried it , when his gallantry and courage were most conspicuous . j . 2 nd Regiment . —Lance-Sergeant Samuel Mc Gaw ( date of act of bravery , January 31 , 1 S 74 ) , for having at the battle of Amoaful led his
section through the bush in the most excellent manner , continuing to do so throughout the whole day , although badly wounded early in the engagement . On Tuesday evening , March 31 , in accordance with the precedent which the Dean and Chapter
of St . Paul ' s established in Holy Week of fast year , and which then gave such unqualified pleasure , not only to all who appreciated true Church music , but to those who " felt that the due observance of Lent was , at length , provided for in the great Metropolitan Cathedral , a special
service was held in the dome area . The Passion Music ( St . Matthew ) b y John Sebastian Bach , formed the musical attraction in the service , and this , as in last year , was rendered with admirable effect and complete success by a large surpliced choir , numbering not less than 300 voices ,
and including the members of the Cathedral choir , the Chapels Royal , and a picked body of amateurs ; an orchestra of stringed and wind instruments , and a large . unsurpliced vocal contingent in the transepts . The Cathedral was densely thronged , and it is stated on good
authority that the number which assembled last year —10 , 000—was far exceeded on this occasion . Even the galleries were filled with people . The organ was played by Mr . George Cooper , and Dr . Stainer , the organist of St . Paul ' s , conducted the choir . The Bishop of London , the Dean of
St . Paul ' s , and Canons Gregory , Liddon , and Lightfoot were present , together with a large number of the clergy . The service commenced at 7 o ' clock with the Miserere , to the music of the "Tonus Regalis , " adapted by Dr . Stainer , the intoning priest being the Rev . W . C . F .
Webber , the sub-Dean of the Cathedral . Then followed some versicles and prayers , and afterwards the Matthew Passion Music was given from beginning to end . The congregation , at places marked in the service paper , stood while the most solemn and impressive parts of the music were being sung , and a short and striking
pause between that part of the musical narrative which ends with Our Lord ' s agony in Gethsemane and resumes at His return to His Disciples was set apart for private prayer and meditation . At the end of the service , which lasted nearly three hours , the benediction was pronounced by the Bishop of London , and the congregation dispersed .
Bicton , the seat of Lad y Rolle , was discovered to be on fire about noon on Monday . The furniture and costly paintings were removed to the lawn in front of the building . The conservatories and servants' dwellings are completely gutted , but at present the mansion has
escaped much damage . The servants have lost the whole of their wearing apparel , and it is feared many valuable works of art are destroyed . Lady Rolle superintended the removal of the furniture , & rc , as she sat in her brougham . Up to a late hour in the evening the flames were not
subdued . About fifty of Earl of Fitzwilliam ' s foxhounds have been shot , in consequence of canine madness having shown itself amongst them . Bro . Sir Frederick Perkins , M . P ., has been
elected a member of the Reform Club . Bro . George Arthur Brown , of Bush-lane , Spitalfields , Past Master of the Bedford Lodge , No . 157 , died suddenl y on Wednesday , in his 4 , 5 th year . He was much respected .
ITEMS OF FOREIGN NEWS . The differences of opinion as to the proper site for the memorial to the Duke of Brunswick at
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Geneva—the . erection of which was a condition of his bequest to the town—have proved too serioas to be settled without reference to some hi gher authority . Accordingly , M . Viollet-Ledtic , the famous architect , of Paris , has been invited to give the necessary opinion ; and this
distinguished savant has contrived in a manner to satisfy all parties , by rejecting all the sites previously contended for , and fixing on the Place des Alpe ' s as thc most suitable spot within the limits of the municipality . — Pall Mall Sazelle . The Wurtemberg journals state that an
audacious robbery has just been committed at the mausoleum of the Rothenberg , near Stuttgardt , which contains the ashes of King William and Queen Catherine , nee Grand-Duchess of Russia . The thieves blew open the doors of the vault with gunpowder , and carried
off all the valuable objects they could find , the whole , in gold and precious stones , being worth 5 QO , ooof . The thieves have been arrested . They are Hanoverians . The King and Queen of the Bel gians have consented to the marriage of their daughter ,
Princess Louise , with Prince Raphael-Ferdinand , of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha . Marshal MacMahon has reduced the term of imprisonment of the late Prince Ghika ' s seconds in the recent duel to three months , and that of Prince Sontzo ' s to six , but the punishment of
Prince Sontzo himself remains unaltered . A despatch from Rome states that Monsignori Manning , Champs , Antici , Mattel , De Merode , Vitelleschi , Nina , Simeoni , and Bartolucci have received intimation that they will be made Cardinals at the next Consistory of the Sandwich Islands .
Prince Kalakua has been elected King of the Sandwich Islands . The disappointed adherents of Queen Emma attacked and set fire to the House of Assembly , but some United States and British Marines landed and dispersed the mob . The King is threatened with assassination .
Herr Von Balan , the German Ambassador at Brussels , died suddenly a short time ago . The Roman Opinione says that , in spite of the law suppressing religious corporations , there exist in the province af Florence alone at the present time 123 free societies , comprising no
less than 2 , 051 persons of both sexes vowed to a religious life . The band led b y the notorious brigand chief Donato was destroyed by the Italian troops last week . The province of Catanzaro is thus completely freed from the scourge of brigandage .
A Portuguese Commission , appointed to manage the exhibition of Portugese wines in London , has left for Southampton . An expedition , which the Russian Government proposes to despatch to Siberia and China to discover a more advantageous route for the
importation of tea , is to start shortly on its journey , proceeding via Kiachta to Pekin , and is expected to reach the Chinese capital in May . Thence it will go on to Hong Kong , afterwards to Kashgar . It is to return through the southern province of Western Siberia . .
A vine , situated about three miles and a half from Santa Barbara , California , has a trunk 4 feet 4 inches in circumference . It begins to branch out at about six or eig ht feet from the ground , and is then supported on frame-work , which it covers as a roof . The whole vine thus
supported now covers over an acre of ground . Several of the limbs are as much as 10 inches in circumference at a distance of 25 or 30 feet from the trunk . The annual yield of grapes from this mammoth vine is from 10 , 000 to 12 , 000 pounds . The clusters average , when
ripe , from 2 to 2 \ pounds each . This vine , which is about 40 years old ; is on rather high ground , and it is stated that the soil about it has never been manured at all . The vine has a small stream of water running near it . —Garden .
It is an admitted fact in China and Japan that the older the tree the better the tea . The shrubs which supply the nobles of Japan with their favourite beverages are said to be in many instances 500 year old . —Land and Water .
A collection of the treasures of ancient Arab literature , scattered in different parts of Egypt , is now being made for the library of the Minister of Education at Cairo by order of the Khedive . The Emperor of Austria has sent to Mr . E . J ;
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Weekly Summary.
principal stations on their lines—Manchester , Liverpool , Leeds , Rochdale , Wakefield , Bolton , Blackburn , Jrcc . —will be open continuously on weekdays from 8 o ' clock in the morning until / in the evening , " in order that tickets may be obtained at any time and for any train " during the day . This admirable arrangement will remove
one of the terrors of railway travelling—the " crush " nt the booking-offices ; but we venture to suggest to the directors that if they had gone a step further and opened an office in Marketstreet for the sale of tickets at any hour during the day , the public would have been still more deeply indebted to them . —Manchester Guardian .
Colonel Stuart Wortley has been appointed by the Commissioners of Patents to the Curatorship of the Patent Museum at South Kensington , vacant by the death of Sir Francis Pettit Smith . The Institute of France , on the nomination of
the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences ( Division of Political Economy and Statistics ) , has elected as corresponding members Mr . Wm . Newmarch , F . R . S ., and Mr . David Wells , late Special Commissioner of Revenue in the United States .
The first Act ofthe new Parliament was yesterday issued . It was passed on Saturday , to apply £ 1 , 422 , 727 14 s . 6 d . out of the Consolidated Fund for the service of . the years ending March 31 , 1873 and 1874 .
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to command that Colonel Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley , K . C . M . G ., C . B ., be promoted to the rank of Major-General in the Army , in recognition of his valuable services in command of the
force employed against the Ashantees . The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in and appointments to the Mosfc Honourable Order of the Bath . To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Second Class , or Knights
Commanders of the said Most Honourable Order , viz .: —Major-Gen . Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley , K . C . M . G ., C . B . ; Capt . John Edmund Commerrelle , R . N ., C . B ., V . C . ; Captain William Nathan Wrighte Hewett , R . N ., V . C . ; Col . Sir Archibald Alison , Bart ., C . B . ; Col . John
Chetham M'Leod , C . B ., 42 nd Regiment ; Deputy Surg .-Gcn . Anthony Dickson Home , C . B ., V . C . To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Third Class , or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order , viz : —Capt . Walter James Hunt Grubbe , R . N . ; Capt . the
Hon . Edmund Robert Freemantle , R . N . ; Col . John Carstairs M'Neill , V . C , C . M . G ., late 4 8 th Regiment ; Col . George Richards Greaves , late 7 th Regiment ; Col . Francis Worgan Festing , Royal Marine Artillery ; Capt . Percy Pitt Luxmore , R . N . ; Col . Henry Evelyn Wood , V . C ,
90 th Regiment ; Col . George Pomeroy Colley , 2 nd Regiment ; Lieut .-Col . the Hon . Savage Mostyn , 23 rd Regiment ; Lieut .-Col . James Maxwell , 1 st West India Regiment ; Lieut .-Col . George Daniel Webber , and West India Regiment ; Lieut .-Col . Arthur Frederick Warren ,
Rifle Brigade ; Lieut .-Col . Baker Creed Russell , 13 th Hussars ; Lieut .-Col . Duncan Macphtrson , 42 nd Regiment ; Lieut .-Col . Francis Cunningham Scott , 42 nd Regiment ; Lieut .-Col . Robert Home , Royal Engineers ; Lieut .-Col . Thomas Durand Baker . 18 th Regiment ; Major Redvers
Henry Buller , 60 th Regiment ; Major Arthur John Rait , Royal Artillery ; Major William Francis Butler , late 60 th Regiment ; Deputv-Controller Matthew Bell Irvine , C . M . G . ; Staff-Surg . Ahmuty Irwin , R . N . ; Surgeon-Major Thomas Macdougall Bleckley , M . D . ;
Staft-Surg . Henry Fegan , M . D ., R . N . ; Surg .-Major Robert William Jackson ; Surg .-Major Charles Benjamin Mosse , African Medical Service . The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned officer and
non-commissioned officer , whose claims to the same have been submitted for Her Majesty ' s approval , for acts of bravery performed by them during the recent Ashantee War , as recorded
against their names , viz .: — 24 th Regiment . —Lieutenant Lord Giffbrd , for his gallant conduct during the operations , and especially at the taking of Becquah . The officer commanding the Expeditionary Force
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reports that Lord Gifl ' ord was in charge of the . scouts after the army crossed the Prah , and that it is no exaggeration to say that since the Adansi Hills were passed he daily carried his life in his hand in the performance of his most dangerous duties . He hung upon therear
ofthe enemy , discovering their position , andferretting out their intentions . With no other white man with him , he captured numerous prisoners ; but Sir Garnet Wolseley brings him forward for this mark of Royal favour most especially for his conduct at the taking of Becquah , into which he
penetrated with his scouts before the troops carried it , when his gallantry and courage were most conspicuous . j . 2 nd Regiment . —Lance-Sergeant Samuel Mc Gaw ( date of act of bravery , January 31 , 1 S 74 ) , for having at the battle of Amoaful led his
section through the bush in the most excellent manner , continuing to do so throughout the whole day , although badly wounded early in the engagement . On Tuesday evening , March 31 , in accordance with the precedent which the Dean and Chapter
of St . Paul ' s established in Holy Week of fast year , and which then gave such unqualified pleasure , not only to all who appreciated true Church music , but to those who " felt that the due observance of Lent was , at length , provided for in the great Metropolitan Cathedral , a special
service was held in the dome area . The Passion Music ( St . Matthew ) b y John Sebastian Bach , formed the musical attraction in the service , and this , as in last year , was rendered with admirable effect and complete success by a large surpliced choir , numbering not less than 300 voices ,
and including the members of the Cathedral choir , the Chapels Royal , and a picked body of amateurs ; an orchestra of stringed and wind instruments , and a large . unsurpliced vocal contingent in the transepts . The Cathedral was densely thronged , and it is stated on good
authority that the number which assembled last year —10 , 000—was far exceeded on this occasion . Even the galleries were filled with people . The organ was played by Mr . George Cooper , and Dr . Stainer , the organist of St . Paul ' s , conducted the choir . The Bishop of London , the Dean of
St . Paul ' s , and Canons Gregory , Liddon , and Lightfoot were present , together with a large number of the clergy . The service commenced at 7 o ' clock with the Miserere , to the music of the "Tonus Regalis , " adapted by Dr . Stainer , the intoning priest being the Rev . W . C . F .
Webber , the sub-Dean of the Cathedral . Then followed some versicles and prayers , and afterwards the Matthew Passion Music was given from beginning to end . The congregation , at places marked in the service paper , stood while the most solemn and impressive parts of the music were being sung , and a short and striking
pause between that part of the musical narrative which ends with Our Lord ' s agony in Gethsemane and resumes at His return to His Disciples was set apart for private prayer and meditation . At the end of the service , which lasted nearly three hours , the benediction was pronounced by the Bishop of London , and the congregation dispersed .
Bicton , the seat of Lad y Rolle , was discovered to be on fire about noon on Monday . The furniture and costly paintings were removed to the lawn in front of the building . The conservatories and servants' dwellings are completely gutted , but at present the mansion has
escaped much damage . The servants have lost the whole of their wearing apparel , and it is feared many valuable works of art are destroyed . Lady Rolle superintended the removal of the furniture , & rc , as she sat in her brougham . Up to a late hour in the evening the flames were not
subdued . About fifty of Earl of Fitzwilliam ' s foxhounds have been shot , in consequence of canine madness having shown itself amongst them . Bro . Sir Frederick Perkins , M . P ., has been
elected a member of the Reform Club . Bro . George Arthur Brown , of Bush-lane , Spitalfields , Past Master of the Bedford Lodge , No . 157 , died suddenl y on Wednesday , in his 4 , 5 th year . He was much respected .
ITEMS OF FOREIGN NEWS . The differences of opinion as to the proper site for the memorial to the Duke of Brunswick at
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Geneva—the . erection of which was a condition of his bequest to the town—have proved too serioas to be settled without reference to some hi gher authority . Accordingly , M . Viollet-Ledtic , the famous architect , of Paris , has been invited to give the necessary opinion ; and this
distinguished savant has contrived in a manner to satisfy all parties , by rejecting all the sites previously contended for , and fixing on the Place des Alpe ' s as thc most suitable spot within the limits of the municipality . — Pall Mall Sazelle . The Wurtemberg journals state that an
audacious robbery has just been committed at the mausoleum of the Rothenberg , near Stuttgardt , which contains the ashes of King William and Queen Catherine , nee Grand-Duchess of Russia . The thieves blew open the doors of the vault with gunpowder , and carried
off all the valuable objects they could find , the whole , in gold and precious stones , being worth 5 QO , ooof . The thieves have been arrested . They are Hanoverians . The King and Queen of the Bel gians have consented to the marriage of their daughter ,
Princess Louise , with Prince Raphael-Ferdinand , of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha . Marshal MacMahon has reduced the term of imprisonment of the late Prince Ghika ' s seconds in the recent duel to three months , and that of Prince Sontzo ' s to six , but the punishment of
Prince Sontzo himself remains unaltered . A despatch from Rome states that Monsignori Manning , Champs , Antici , Mattel , De Merode , Vitelleschi , Nina , Simeoni , and Bartolucci have received intimation that they will be made Cardinals at the next Consistory of the Sandwich Islands .
Prince Kalakua has been elected King of the Sandwich Islands . The disappointed adherents of Queen Emma attacked and set fire to the House of Assembly , but some United States and British Marines landed and dispersed the mob . The King is threatened with assassination .
Herr Von Balan , the German Ambassador at Brussels , died suddenly a short time ago . The Roman Opinione says that , in spite of the law suppressing religious corporations , there exist in the province af Florence alone at the present time 123 free societies , comprising no
less than 2 , 051 persons of both sexes vowed to a religious life . The band led b y the notorious brigand chief Donato was destroyed by the Italian troops last week . The province of Catanzaro is thus completely freed from the scourge of brigandage .
A Portuguese Commission , appointed to manage the exhibition of Portugese wines in London , has left for Southampton . An expedition , which the Russian Government proposes to despatch to Siberia and China to discover a more advantageous route for the
importation of tea , is to start shortly on its journey , proceeding via Kiachta to Pekin , and is expected to reach the Chinese capital in May . Thence it will go on to Hong Kong , afterwards to Kashgar . It is to return through the southern province of Western Siberia . .
A vine , situated about three miles and a half from Santa Barbara , California , has a trunk 4 feet 4 inches in circumference . It begins to branch out at about six or eig ht feet from the ground , and is then supported on frame-work , which it covers as a roof . The whole vine thus
supported now covers over an acre of ground . Several of the limbs are as much as 10 inches in circumference at a distance of 25 or 30 feet from the trunk . The annual yield of grapes from this mammoth vine is from 10 , 000 to 12 , 000 pounds . The clusters average , when
ripe , from 2 to 2 \ pounds each . This vine , which is about 40 years old ; is on rather high ground , and it is stated that the soil about it has never been manured at all . The vine has a small stream of water running near it . —Garden .
It is an admitted fact in China and Japan that the older the tree the better the tea . The shrubs which supply the nobles of Japan with their favourite beverages are said to be in many instances 500 year old . —Land and Water .
A collection of the treasures of ancient Arab literature , scattered in different parts of Egypt , is now being made for the library of the Minister of Education at Cairo by order of the Khedive . The Emperor of Austria has sent to Mr . E . J ;