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Hussars , which Lord Lucan gives up . Lieut .-General Hail succeeds to the 19 th Hussars , vacant by the death of General Pattlc ; Major-General Sabine becomes Colonel Commandant of the Artillery in the place of General Cobbe , deceased ; and Lieut .-General Sir II . R . Ferguson Davis succeeds to the 73 rd Foot , vacant by the death of Lieut .-General Jones .

The Duke of Devonshire , Lord Donoughmore , Lord Stanley , Mr . lAwe , Mr . Roebuck , Mr . Horsfall , Mr . G . C . Glynn , Mr . Dalglish , Mr . Leveson Gower , Mr . Ayrton , Sir Rowland Hill , Captain Galton , Mr . Maclean ( President of the Institution of Civil Engineers ) , and Mr . Edward Hamilton are the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the working of the

railway system of the United Kingdom . The winter meeting of the National Rifle Association was held at Willis ' s Rooms on Saturday , the Duke of Cambridge in the chair . The report was read , after which his Royal Highness addressed the meeting , congratulating them on the flourishing condition of the Association . Their funds were more prosperous ,

and their members more numerous than ever . The branch associations had also increased , and there was every prospect hat , largo as was tho sum spent in prizes at the hist Wimbledon meeting , the sum for the ensuing year would be larger still . The resolutions prpposed were unanimously agreed to , and his Royal Highness having been again elected president ,

the meeting adjourned . A most graceful tribute to the value of the services rendered to the country by Sir Rowland Hill was paid on Tuesday evening . A deputation of gentlemen representing the merchants and shipowners of Liverpool presented to Sir Rowland , at his own house , three pictures as a testimonial of the high estimation iu which they hold his improvements iu tno postal arrangements of the country . Sir Rowland had heen consulted on the form which he would

desire the testimonial to take , and selected pictures by StansReld , Creswick , and Cook . An interesting meeting was held at Lambeth Palace on AA ednesdny last—the Bishop of Winchester in the chair—to concert measures for the increase of church accommodation in the diocese , more especially in the three rural deaneries of Southwark , Lambeth , and Streatham . The Bishop , in his address , stated the amount of church

extension that had taken place since his accession to the see , and the need there was for still greater extension . He pointed out the rapid increase in the population , and the wants of wealthy residents among them , showing the need for help from the outer districts . The meeting ivas also addressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury , Air . Cubit ' , M . P ., the Hon . Mr . Broderick , and

others , and at the close a handsome subscription was raised , including £ 2 , 000 from the bishop himself . The Rev . W . L . Thornton , president of the A \ esleyan Methodist Conference , died in London on Sunday . The suit instituted by the Bishop of Norwich against the Rector of Claydon for officiating at Brother Ignatius ' s monastery— -an unlicensed and

unconsecrated place—was terminated in the Court of Arches on Monday . The reverend defendant has been condemned to pay the costs , and " admonished" not to repeat the offence . A singular case was decided on Tuesday in tho Court of Vice-Chancellor Sir J . Stuart . A Mr . Bailey had an account with the Messrs . AAllsons , bankers , in the midland counties . Mr .

Bailey ' s son was started in business , and it is alleged that he forged his father ' s name to bills to the extent of between £ 6 , 000 and £ 7 , 000 . On these being shown to the father ho expressed great alarm , and gave tho bankers an assignment over his estate on condition—so it was alleged—that his son should not be prosecuted . Mr . Bailey now sought to cancel this assignment on the ground that it was extorted from him by undue pressure , and the A ice-Chancellor taking

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that view of the case , ordered the deed to be cancelled . The Messrs . Barry and their workmen , who have been in custody for some weeks , and several times examined , on a charge of attempting to defraud various insurance offices , were againbrought before Mr . Alderman Stone , when several of the witnesses were recalled to complete their former testimony , and some new evidence was taken . At the close a further remand

was asked for , and then for the first time the magistrate entertained the application to admit them to bail , exacting , however , heavy sureties . The prisoners charged with the great City burglaries were again brought up before the Lord Mayor on Tuesday . The evidence as to their capture was repeated , and various articles of jewellery , which had been disposed of

in different quarters and recovered by the police , were nowproduced and recognised by their owners . The prisoners were again remanded , the Lord Mayor refusing an application for the discharge of two of the women . Two more gold watches , were recovered from the river on Saturday , which were recognised by Mr . AValker as part of the property stolen from

hisshop in Cornhill . The police have arrested another man charged with being concerned in the robberies . He now calls himself Johnson , but he has passed under various other names , and . among the thieves he has long been known as " Carroty Fred . " When told that he was charged with being concerned iu the late jewel robberies , he replied , " I know nothing about them ; I . have done nothing of tho kind for the last ten months . Thetrial of Gregorio Mogul for the manslaughter of Harrington , of

whose murder Pelizzioni had already been convicted , took place in the Central Criminal Court , before Mr . Justice Byles . The evidence given even hy the same witnesses differed in some degree from that which was given on the former trial , and a remarkable feature in the case was that the condemned manwas himself brought forward as a witness . His statement was thathe was knocked down by the English party directly heentered

the room , and he did not know who used the knife , but certainly ho did not . The jury found the prisoner guilty , and the judge sentenced him to penal servitude for five years . Pelizzioni has been reproved , and is to receive a free pardon . Atkinson , the Durham pitman , who beat his wife to death in a manner which excited so much horror at the time , was found

guilty of wilful murder at the Durham assises on Saturday last , and sentenced to death . The Irish papers report the shocking death of Mr . Edward Senior , the Irish Poor-law Commissioner , who was killed ou Tuesday afternoon in attempting to cross the Great Midland Railway , at a level crossing , about two and a half miles from Dublin . It is painful to add that

the catastrophe was owing to the indiscretion of the unfortunate gentleman himself , who was warned that a train was due , but he persisted in crossing , and even pushed the porter aside whoattempted to stop him . He was caught by the advancing train , and was shockingly mangled . Death , of course , was instantaneous . Mr . Senior was in his fifty-eighth year , and had . been connected with the administration of the Irish Poor-law since its first introduction inco the country .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

R . S . —AVill please forward us his name in confidence . J . AV . —According to recent decisions , all degrees must bo conferred by , or in the presence of , an installed Master . M . M . —We believe not . G . S . —AVe don't believe that there is any truth in the report . J . S . —Certainly not . AV . M . —Next week .