Muntz, the Rev. Mr. Field, Mr. Jelinger Symons, and the
Reverend Angell James. There was a discussion as to
the propriety of inflicting punishment on children before
attempts are made to reform them. Mr. M. D. Hill
protested against corporal punishment; but it was
generally agreed that some amount of suffering must
precede reformation. The following are resolutions
adopted:—"That before proceeding to the consideration
of the legislative amendments imperatively called for in
the national treatment of morally destitute and criminal
children, this Conference fully concurs in the resolution
of the select committee of the House of Commons, viz.,
'That it appears to this committee to be established by
the evidence, that a large proportion of the present
aggregate of crime might be prevented, and thousands
of miserable human beings, who have before them under
our present system nothing but a hopeless career of
wickedness and vice, might be converted into virtuous,
honest, and industrious citizens, if due care were taken
to rescue destitute, neglected, and criminal children,
from the dangers and temptations incident to their
position.' That, properly to effect the great object
contemplated in the preceding resolution, this Conference is of
opinion that the country requires legislation for the
establishment of reformatory schools for children
convicted of crime or habitual vagrancy, and that such
schools should be founded and supported in the manner
pointed out by the resolution of the committee of the
House of Commons,—viz., partly by local rates, partly by
contributions from the State. That in the opinion
of this Conference, every encouragement should be
given to reformatory schools, supported by voluntary
contributions, for the benefit of destitute and criminal
children; and that power should be given to government,
and to counties and boroughs, to contract
with the managers of such institutions for the education
and maintenance of criminal children therein. Such
institutions to be subject to government inspection. That
power should be created for sending children convicted
of crime, or habitual vagrancy, to refirmatory
establishments for sufficient time for their reformation or
industrial training, or until satisfactory sureties may be
found for their future good conduct. That powers
should be conferred in certain cases to apprentice boys
on their leaving reformatory schools, or to adopt other
measures at the public cost for enabling them to commence
a course of honest industry." A committee was appointed
to carry out the resolutions; and another committee to
superintend the publication of the report of the
Conference, and of such other documents as they might
think would promote his objects. Mr. M. D. Hill
announced that Lady Byron would pay the expense of a
lecturer to disseminate the views of the Conference, if
they thought fit to accept such aid. In the evening, a
public meeting in the Town-hall ratified the views
expressed at the official conference in the morning. The
great hall was crowded by a respectalde audience,
evidently much interested. The speakers were, Lord
Shaftesbury, Lord Harrowby, Mr. Adderley, Sir John
Pakington, the Reverend John Clay, Chaplain of Preston
Gaol, Mr. M. D. Hill, Lord Lyttleton, Mr. Wolryche
Whitmore, Mr. Arthur Kinnaird, Mr. Monckton Milnes,
and Lord Calthorpe.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal family left
Osborne, and arrived at Windsor Castle on the 22d inst.

Her Majesty has settled a pension of £100 a year on
the family of the late Mr. James Simpson, of Edinburgh,
in consideration of his public services.

The Queen has contributed £100 towards the fund for
building a church for the accommodation of the English
resident in Paris.

Her Majesty has also granted £200 towards the
Association for Promoting the Relief of Destitution in the
Metropolis, in consideration of the severity of the season,
and the excessive price of every necessary of life.

On the recommendation of Lord Aberdeen, the Queen
has conferred a pension of £50 per annum on Mrs.
Hogg, the widow of the Ettrick Shepherd.

The promotions on account of the Burmese War have
been gazetted. Major General Godwin, C.B., of the
Madras Army; and Commodore Lambert of the Royal
Navy, are appointed Knights Commanders of the Bath.
Lieut-Colonel Holditch, of the 80th Regiment; Captains
Tarleton and Shadwell, of the Royal Navy; Lieutenant-
Colonel Tudor, of the Bengal Fusiliers; Lieutenant-
Colonel Frazer, of the Bengal Engineers, and Captain
Lynch, of the Indian Navy, are appointed Companions
of the Order. The Brevet includes twenty-two officers
of the Queen's Army and that of the East India
Company. Amongst the latter is the name of Major
William Hill, of the 1st Madras Fusiliers, who,
by his gallant defence of Pegu, so nobly earned
his brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel.

Lieiitenant-General, Sir George Brown, Adjutant-
General of the Forces, has resigned, and Lieutenant-
General Cathcart has been mentioned as his successor.

The ceremony of consecration of the new Colonial
bishops, Dr. Colenso, Bishop of Natal, and Dr.
Armstrong, Bishop of Graham's Town, was performed on
the 30th ult. in the church of St. Mary, Lambeth, by
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London,
and the Bishop of Lincoln.

General Sir Alexander Mackenzie, of Fairburn, Ross-
shire, has bequeathed £500 to the Scottish Hospital.
This is by far the largest contribution made to the funds
of the Hospital for many years. General Mackenzie
has besides bequeathed equally large charities in
England, and £700 to the Infirmary and other charities
of the Highlands.

Mr. James Ewing, who represented Glasgow in the
first Reformed Parliament, died lately, leaving a
number of splendid bequests; one of them for Free
Church purposes amounted to £18,000, with £100 a year
to the Sustentation Fund.

The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have gone to
Lisbon, where the duke has had several interviews with
the Portuguese ministers, relative to taking possession of
the wide domains bestowed by that nation on his late
illustrious father, as well as assuming the titles attached
to them. He has left that capital with the duchess on a
tour through the provinces, the scene of the late duke's
achievements: after which he proposes to proceed to
Madrid for a similar purpose, and then return to England.

Count Paul Esterhazy, one of the members of the
Hungarian Government during the war of Independence,
has heen permitted by the Emperor of Austria to return
to Hungary.

The Professorships at King's College, London, recently
vacated by the Reverend Frederick Maurice, have been
filled up. The Reverend Dr. A. M'Caul is elected to
the chair of Ecclesiastical History; and Mr. George
Webbe Dasent, of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, Doctor of
Civil Law, is elected to the chair of English Literature
and Modern History. Dr. M'Caul still retains the chair
of Hebrew and the Old Testament; and a lecturer will
be appointed to relieve him, by instructing the junior
classes in Hebrew.

The Reverend Charles Luxmoore, Assistant-Master of
the Lower School, Eton, has been elected to the
vacant Fellowship of Eton College. There were five
candidates. There had not been an election to a
Fellowship at Eton for thirteen years.

The son of the Emperor of Hayti has recently arrived
in England from France, having travelled under the
name of M. Dalval. He is described as a most intelligent
person. His object in visiting this country is to
complete his education, for which purpose he will
shortly proceed to Dawlish, and place himself under a
clergyman of that place. It is expected that the
Emperor of Hayti himself, with some of the members
of the Court, will visit his son during the ensuing
spring.

Obituary of Notable Persons.

General Sir AUGUSTUS DE BUTTS, K.C.H., the senior Colonel-
Commandant of the Royal Engineers, died ou the 28th ult.,
aged eighty-three years.

General Sir THOMAS BRADFORD, G.C.B., G.C.H., died on the
28th ult., at his residence, Eaton-square, aged seventy-six.

The Rev. J. S. GROVER, Fellow of Eton, and until within
the last eighteen months Vice-Provost of the College, died on
the 29th ult.