January 7.] 
THE FIELD. 
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MOOR’S CHAKOHS. I l.KXGTII OF PAYS. DAYDBKAKS 
Viral Quarter . 7th. Oh. 10m. after. On the 1st... till. 3m... 7h. 46m 
Full Moon ..15th. lh. 34m. after. „ Util.. Oil. 3m.. .8h. 2ra. 
Last Quarter .23rd. lh. 23m. after. „ 21st. .. 81i. 33in...8h. 7m. 
Now Moon ..30th. Gh. Gm. morn. „ 2Gtli. . . 8h. 19m. . .8h. 9m. 
S A T UR D A Y, JA N UA It Y 7, 18 5 4. 
NEWS OF TILE WEEK. 
Mulatis mutandis, the old epigram will do again, just 
now : — , , 
“ The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn, 
Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strahan ; 
Sir Richard, longing to be at ’em, 
Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham. 
France is even more eager than its ruler to dash at 
the Russians, and obliterate the memory of old disasters 
and insults, and England, all but her rulers, is indig- 
nant that no despatch records that Admiral Dundas’s 
shells are avenging at Odessa the massacre of Sinope. 
But the powers stand waiting, increasing their arma- 
ments it is true, but not using them. Meantime there 
are fresh tidings of defection. It is stated that Prussia 
and Austria have agreed that the sending the fleets of 
France and England into the Black Sea while negotia- 
tions were pending, authorises the first two powers to 
withdraw from the conference. This news is not con- 
firmed, but is what most people expected. As regards 
Austria, she can he nothing but a Russian tool, and a 
decorous affectation of independence is all that can be 
expected from her until the first cannon shot sends her 
to the feet of her patron. And Prussia had made so 
an increase of revenue of 702,808/., but on the com- . 
parative quarter there is a falling oft of 299,297/. 
But the decrease of ordinary revenue, to the amount of 
nearly 300,000/. is in part accounted for by the remission 
of taxes, and in part it must be admitted, by the 
diminished consumption of imports in consequence of 
the dearness of necessaries. The Post-office, which lins 
improved to the amount of 03,000/., is the only depait- 
ment showing increase on the corresponding quarter 
last year, but a decrease of 18,000/. on the year, lhe 
Post, by the way, has pointed out some strange authen- 
tical blundering on the part ot the national cashier, and 
should this be verified, Mr. Gladstone will not escape 
some good-natured compliments. 
Her Majesty is at Windsor, and has been sledging 
with the Prince Consort. Cabinet Councils have been 
held, at which Lord Palmerston has attended. There 
were rumours that the new Reform bill was to be thrown 
over, after all, but they have received a semi-official 
contradiction. Another rumour that recent discussions 
connected with Horse Guards’ patronage had produced 
the resignation of Lord Hardinge, and the installa- 
tion of Lord Raglan in his place, is at present prema- 
ture, but there is no doubt that a most undeniable state 
of dissatisfaction prevails in the department in question. 
Lord Hardinge, brave as steel before a foe, is supposed 
to be less impracticable when besieged by courtly 
influences. It is to he lamented that there should be 
even a shadow of justification for the belief that all 
appointments in the English army are not exclusively 
prompted by conviction that the promoted officer is the 
right man 'for the post. And while alluding to a 
disagreeable subject, we will dismiss, almost as briefly, 
another to which we allude with pain, while no consider- 
ation of feeling will induce us wilfully to exclude from 
our summary one of the topics of the day. A belief, 
long entertained, has now been boldly put forth in 
several quarters, that the consort of the sovereign is 
inclined to interfere undesirably in the foreign politics 
of the country, and such interference is supposed to be 
in accordance with the wishes of illustrious continental 
advisers. Former differences between Lord Palmerston 
tU bUC XGOU Ui ]"* 14 *-'»* • , 
unusual a narade of dignity and authoritative mterposi - 1 auviseis. ruunci ...... — 
tion that one was prepared for some demonstration of and his colleagues are stated to have been connected 
.1 li. : Sw„,lpn nnfl Denmark with this subject, his lordship deeming that the Prince 
double dealing. Meantime Sweden and Denmark 
have addressed to the Great Powers a formal assur- 
ance of their neutrality, in the event of a rupture 
between Russia and the allies of Turkey. Some 
ill-natured people say that this declaration has 
been produced by Russian influence and that its 
announcement that maritime prizes, if taken, shall 
not be sold in their ports, and that their own com- 
mercial relations shall be maintained, despite hostilities, 
is an extension of the recognised rights of neutrals, 
and a declaration to be regarded unfavourably by the 
great maritime powers. But these are minor matters, 
and chiefly serve to shew that a general war is expected. 
The state of things is now this. A note, prepared by 
Lord de Redcliffe, and substituted for the last \ ienna 
note, has been approved by Turkey, and despatched to 
the Czar. As matter of form, Austria and Prussia 
alone present this note (a piece of diplomatic twaddle 
likely to be appreciated in England and France), and 
it will no doubt be rejected by Nicholas ; but of this we 
shall not hear for some days. Meantime Austria and 
Prussia, if it be true that they withdraw, ns we have 
said, again complicate the matter; and the French and 
English fleets are in the Black Sen, with “very posi- 
tive” orders to act — as the ambassadors and admirals 
think proper. 
We were right, it appears, in anticipating that the 
Russians, as usual, had largely exaggerated their 
Georgian success, which was far less important than 
they had described it. Constantinople had been some- 
what excited, but the disturbance was confined to a 
class, who have been quieted. Russian families in 
France have received orders to return, and M. de 
Kisseleff, the ambassador there, was in daily expecta- 
tion of being instructed to demand his passports. 
And so comes in the new year, stern and louring. 
At home, the weather "has been the grand topic of 
the week, and has taken a graver part than usual in 
its affairs. On Tuesday night the heaviest snow storm 
on record for many a year not only made London a 
sort of howling and whitened wilderness, but choked 
up the railways and cut us off from communication, 
except by telegraph. This latter invention, it should 
he noted, has never asserted its importance so marvel- 
lously as now. Under the circumstances ot this week, 
our fathers could have known nothing of what was 
going on a few miles from their abodes. At this mo- 
ment, though letters cannot be delivered, and travellers 
cannot journey, the electric wires are throbbing all 
over the island, and we arc all en rapport fur material 
purposes. The intense frosts of the earlier part ot the 
week could be combated less successfully : in London 
tile river and the roadways are alike impracticable, one 
from sheets and new blocks of ice, the other from hills 
and ridges of snow of appalling altitude and solidity. 
Coals are at two guineas a ton and upwards, and even 
at that price no large supply can he obtained ; the gas 
companies say that unless the weather changes, they 
cannot supply us with light; and a thaw — welcome, 
however — is just bringing the streets, where no vehicles 
are to be procured, into the most hideous state, of 
which thick snow, trampled into knee-deep mud, pre- 
sents the chief feature. It is stated that one night ot 
the past week was the coldest ever registered in Lon- 
don. May we slide in a single word here — it is un- 
necessary to most of those to whom this journal is 
addressed — to remind others that at this period any 
charitable aid, extended to legitimate objects of charity, 
i3 increased in value twenty-fold by external circum- 
stances. The details of suffering which daily come 
before the magistrates — the safest almoners — have pain- 
fully increased during the past fortnight. 
The quarter’s revenue account has been made up, 
- compared with the same period last year shows 
with this subject, his lordship deeming that, the Prince 
Consort’s unrecognised position rendered his interfer- 
ence unconstitutional, and signifying his opinion in an 
unmistakeable manner. 'I lie allegations have now 
reached a form which it is impossible to ignore ; and 
if they cannot be met by contradiction, it is at least to 
be hoped that they will he prevented from applying to 
auglit but the past. 
Parliament, having been prorogued from the 29th 
November to Tuesday last, was on the latter day again 
prorogued until Tuesday the 31st, when it meets for 
business — graver business than has awaited its re- 
assembling within the memory of most of the present 
legislators. Let us hope that they will come up, not 
with the usual settled purpose of talking as much as 
possible between January and the Easter holidays, but 
of getting through some of the work which, postponed, 
usually makes July and the early part of August so 
Foreign news is scanty. The most brilliant of recep- 
tions was held at the Tuilleries, on Monday, when 
the new “ Court Mantle” (remarkably like certain old 
theatrical conventionalities we remember) came out in 
all its glory, the Empress wearing a train two yards 
long. The next richest dress was that of a Palais Royal 
money-changer’s wife. We must go as far as Persia for 
anything else worth telling. We learn that the Eng- 
lish charge d’aflairs there has exerted himself with so 
much energy, and threatened such dreadful things to 
Persia, from a tremendous army to be led from Calcutta 
to burn Teheran, that the Shah lias given up his Rus- 
sian notions, for the time, at least, which, it true, is 
satisfactory. , f .. 
The obituary of the week comprises the name ot tne 
great Irish lawyer and statesman Lord Pluuket, at a 
very advanced age. 
llis Royal Highness Prince Albert drove her Majesty 
out in a sledge on Wednesday afternoon, towards Staines. 
The Princess followed in a second sledge. 
The Hon. Mary Bulteel, Col. Bouverie, and Col. the 
Hon. Charles Grey were in attendance. 
♦ 
FASHIONABLE WORLD. 
The Earl and Countess of Dartmouth and family have 
arrived at St. Leonard’s-on-Sea. 
The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town, on Monday 
night, from his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. 
Sir Charles Wood has returned to town, from his scat, 
Hickleton Hull, near Doncaster. 
Mr. and Lady Jane Repton have left Woburn .Abbey 
to join the circle enjoying tho hospitality of the Duke 
and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle. 
Earl Spencer is appointed Lord High Steward of Her 
Majesty’s Household, in the room of the Duke of Norfolk. 
— Observer. 
We are sorry to announce the death of Mrs Erie 
Drax, who died yesterday week, at Cliarborough Park, 
the family seat in Dorsetshire, deeply lamented by her 
fond and affectionate family, as well as by every person 
who had the happiness of her acquaintance. 
The Duchess Dowager of Hamilton has arrived in 
Portman-snuare, from Easton-park, Suffolk. 
The Lora Chancellor will receive the Judges, Queen’s 
Counsel, &c., on Wednesday next, thp first day of Hilary 
Terra, at his lordship’s residence in Upper Brook-street, 
at 12 o’clock. 
Lord aud Lady Lyndhurst are entertaining a select 
circle, at their seat, Turville-park, near Maidenhead. 
Sir Gilbert and Lady Heathcote have been entertaining 
a large Christmas party, and a succession ot guests, at 
Normanton-park, Stamford. 
Ciiildhbn’s Entertainment at the Mansion-house. 
— On Thursday evening a juvenile party was given by the 
Lailv Mayoress, at the Mansion-house, to nearly four 
hundred of the younger branches of the families of several 
of the nobility (now in town) and of the judges, merchants, 
bankers, and the principal citizens. The amusements were 
varied, dancing forming the most attractive feature ol the 
evening’s entertainment. Monsieur Rosenberg (the con- 
juror) attended and amused tho company with his extra- 
ordinary performances. An efficient band, under the 
direction of Mr. Blagrove, was engaged for the occasion. 
Supper was served in the Egyptian-hall, which probably 
never looked more interesting than when filled by tho 
brilliant assembly of children, between the ages of seven 
and sixteen. The occasion on which this festivity was 
given was the celebration of the birth-day of the Lord 
Mayor. 
We understand that Dr. Brett, many years surgeon to 
the Body Guard on the Bengal Presidency, author of the 
« Gems of Tuscany,” and of several works on military sur- 
gery, is about to proceed to the seat of war, with introduc- 
tions from Lord Clarendon, Sir B. Brodic, Bart., and others. 
HOME NEWS. 
The Court.— The Queen and the other members of the 
Royal Family are still residing at Windsor Castle. During 
tho week wlien the weather would permit of out-door ex- 
ercise they have taken frequent drives and walks m the 
Home Park and its neighbourhood. 
On Monday morning his Boyal Highness Prince Albert 
with the Prince of Wales, Prince Allred, and the Duke ot 
Cambridge, skated on the ice in the Home-park. Her 
Majesty was also present. The Band of the 1st Lite 
Guards played on the ice. The Duke of Cambridge, the 
Marquis of Abercorn, and the Ladies Harriet and Beatrix 
Hamilton, left the castle, in the afternoon, for London. 
The Queen and Prince, attended by the Viscountess 
Jocelyn, Colonel Bouverie, and Lieut. -Col. F. Seymour, 
left Windsor on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, for Lon- 
don, by a special train of the Great Western Railway. 
The royal party drove from Paddington to the Exhibi- 
bition of the Photographic Society, in Suffolk-street. 
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness also visited the 
Duchess of Gloucester, and the Queen returned to W lndsor 
at 10 minutes before two o'clock. 
The prince proceeded from Gloucester House to Mr. 
Bailey’s studio, in Newman-strect, to inspect his cast for 
the statue of Lord Mansfield. His Royal Highness after- 
wards honoured Mr. Bell’s studio, at Kensington, with a 
visit, to see his cast for the statue of Sir Robert ” alpole 
both of which are about to be executed for the Houses ot 
Parliament. _ , , , 
The Prince called at Buckingham Palace, and returned 
to Windsor at a quarter-past four o’clock. 
Tho Earl of Listowel has been succeeded by Lord 
Byron as Lord in Waiting, and Major General Berkeley 
Drummond has relieved Mr. R. Ormsby Gore as Groom 
in Waiting. . 
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting 
in the forenoon of Wednesday. 
The Duke of Beaufort had an audience ot the Queen on 
Wednesday, to deliver up the insignia of the Order ot tho 
Garter worn by the late Duke. 
Sniliftsitj anti (tlmtal. 
Cammudqe.— Funeral or Dn. Mill.— The interment of (bo 
remains of tho Into Regius Professor of Hebrew, whose .death was 
announced in tho last" number of “Tiik Field,” p. 033, took 
place on the 31st ult, in Ely Cathedral. Tho body bad been re- 
moved from Brasted, in Kent, to the canonical residenco of tho 
deceased within the cathedral precints, and the funeral coiirrje 
started thence about half-past three o’clock. Among the pall- 
bearers were tho Rev. Professor Thompson (Trinity College, 
Cambridge), Rev. Canon E. Sparke, Yen. Archdeacon Harrison, 
Rev. Professor Blunt, and the Rev. Messrs. Clay and bimllj. 
The body was met by the Dean ot tlio entrance to tbc cathedral, 
and the senior canon in residence, the Rev. Canon fcclwyn, 
officiated, — the appropriate parts of tho service being most 
beautifully and impressively chanted by tlie choir. Among tno 
e lci«r attendant, anxious to ovinco their respect for the decease*! 
were the Rev. Geo. Williams, Fellow of King’s College, nud tho 
Rev. E. Hawkins, secretary to tho Society for the Promotion of 
Christian Knowledge. There were also a number of Fellows ol 
Colleges ami other members of tho University of Cambridge pre- 
sent. including a largo number of undergraduates, the presence 
0 f the latter forming tho best possible commentary on the well- 
known kindness evinced to, nnd the invariable interest evinced 
by, tbc deceased in the progress of tho younger members of the 
University. Tho body was deposited iu a vault immediately 
behind tbo beautiful teredos lately erected at tho back of too 
&l(ai*a 
Tub New Cuuncn IN Gordon-square.— O n Sunday morning 
tbo magnificent Gothic church which has been for some time past 
in course of erection in Gordon-squore, in close proximity l<» 
University College, nnd which is intended to bo tho cathedral ot 
the body of religionists of whom the late Rev. Edwnrd Imng 
was the’ founder, was solemnly opened, although tho congregation 
hitherto assembling in Newman-strect, forma Uy took possession 
of it a week previously. The members of this sect assume to 
themselves the litloof “ Tho Holy Catholic Apostolic Church, and 
they appear to admit that as far us later times nro concerned, tho 
“spiritual »,;* “ * 
properly known as tho “ unknown tongues, date from the btte 
when Edward Irving was ejected from tho church in lie gg 
square, tho ministry of which ho held in connexion w. h tbo 
established ehureli of Scotland. It was ho who at hat tmm 
founded the new church, but tho form ot worah.p whie is nojv 
pursued was not fully developed until some time More 
Amongst the office-bearers of the church m London may 1 « men 
lmncdl-Ad.ni.nl Gnmbior; Mr. II. Drummond M ^, tho Ho,,. 
Hanrv Parnell ; Mr. J. P. Knight, R.A. ; Mr. Cooke, the tmriisior , 
nnd Major Macdonald; while Lady Dawson, Lady 
Anderson, and other todicsof distinction are amongst its membora. 
So Tbijoiu this church offer » toulh of ^ 
!«— «• sks lirSr, 1 
i ng commenced at 10 o etoex precise q, <><■ , , 
nfefiLtyS'Vmffig a "mrplo rape, tho colour denoting 
hey arc supposed to draw their inspiration. Following thrao 
wore “ Evangelists,” habited m red-tho colour denoting tho 
b !? 0d V i^ ll0 r ^ruecd ‘v^r^Kof r I L o 
Church of England, from which thoro appears to be veT.v htUo 
doctrinal deviation. A sermon was preached by ono of the ohkrs, 
S^kM^d various moral duties, but did not seem to .venture 
„ non nn v broad or direct dogmotio teaching, lhe l.iorm in 
SSE* composed by Miss Mills, was given with great power 
on a verv splendid organ which has been erected in tbo south 
nisld and in the “To Ueum,” Master W ild (the son of Mr. M >h , 
tho en» raver) executed various portions of it with wonderful nre- 
c 1 " ml the spacious churah rang with his hrantifu! and clrar 
voice-' Tho organ was played very ctleotively by Mr I.von, the 
master of the choir. Attached to the ohurcl. is n wu»U W 
elegant clmpel, which .s to bo used on row ocu^on^ and which 
wo uro infoimcd by a tablet placed thereon * « _• uu . of 1 vl'l 1 / 
piety of two Indies, who contributed the wuml.cenUumofW 
