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Observe the Red Seal. Pink Labe.. and Cork Branded "Dina n's LL Whisky N°. 24,197. UTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (incorporated by Act of Parliament, 18Z9), 14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. LONDON, And IS, QUEEN'S-Re +D, BRTORTON ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free hold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, repay able weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. THE SUN, LONDON, THUBSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1869. PRICE ..... 4(l STAMPED bd. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., "WOODIN'S RETURN 'l . O LONDON." Y W. S. WOODIN "AT ITOME" with his. great Original CARPET BAG and SKETCLI-BOOK. EMIGRATION CENTRES. —No. ha. BY THE WORLD. A NOVEL. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. FORGOTTEN " PATE AU DIABLE." THE a hove Paste is a most acrecable relish for Luncheon. Breakfast, ,try. It will b found most useful for deviling Legs of Turkey, Fowl, Biscuits, &c. Also their ORIGINAL AND SUPERIOR. ESSENCE ANTI - lOW AND PURE PICKLES (11~nfleld's Patent). To be obtained Wholesale ani Retail of JOHN BURGESS AND SON, 107. STRAND (Corner of Sa.rov Steps), London, W.C. PB. ITALL, of Printing Ilonse-square, E.C., . next the "Times," London.—Wholesale Agent and Consignee for NICHOLq and STONES' the Burton Brewery) celebrated PALE and other ALES: F . , eating° and Co.'s famous Borleanx Wines and Charenta Brandies: and Irish and Scotch Whiskies, from several of the best distilleries. Samples can also he seen at the Times' Shades. BomA FIDE BUSINESSES.— k numher of Hotels, Public Houses, &c., for disposal. Particulars of others wanted in town and country. ANGLO - AMERICAN TIMES, AN INTERNATION NEWSPAPER, Devoted to American IntellizencP, ENLARGED to 24 PAGE eports of Con mess, Personal, Financial, Mining, Railroad, ho. Members of Parliament, Commercial Men, and those havlnz an Interest In the United States, will fin 1 this newspaper of use. Published every SATURDAY MORNING, price 4d. 15. Catherine•street, Strand. GISTABLTSHMENT for GENTLEWOMEN 12.4 during TEMPORARY ILLNESS. The relatives of Clergymen, Naval, Military, and Pro fessional Men, Governesses, and Artists ma7r. for a small weekly payment, receive the comforts of a HOME, com bined with the best medical and surgical treatment, at the establishment. 90, Upper Harley-street. This establishment, which was opened in 1860, is patro nised by her Majesty. The Bishop of London is Visitor, and it is managed by the Marchioness of Ormonde, the Lady Laura Palmer, Mrs. Edward Romilly, the Lady Caroline Russell, Mrs. Cecil Russell, and °the' ladies. All information respecting it may be obtained on writ ten or personal application to the Lady Superintendent. Subscriptions received at the Institution, and by the Treasure; at Messrs. °mitts and Co.'s, 6i. Strand. W. C SPRING RICE Hon. Sec. 'IIHE DEAF & DUMB.—The Committee of the -I- JEWS DEAF and DUMB HOME are prepared to receive AP PL EC 1-..TIONS for the ADMISS lON of DEAF and DUMB CHILDREN, of all denominations, as Day Pupils, for instruction in audible speech and lip-reading. The system adopted rigidly excludes the use of the manual alphabet and all artificial signs. A public lesson is given every Wednesday, at 3 p.m., when the successful results of the system can be wit nessed. Applications for terms, the course of instruction, and all other particulars, to be made to W. VAN PRAAGH, Esq., Director of the Jews' Deaf and Dumb Home, 44, Burton-crescent, W.O. T HE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON and GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. OfEcos-1, Palo-street, Liverpool; 7, Cornhill ; and Charing-cross, London. The Invested Fonds now amount to £1,401,055, the Fire Revenue to £836,816, and that of the Lifo to .£259,039. The moderate rates of premium, with a guaranteed fixed Bonusf or the Life Pol , cies of this Company, and their value as SPECIAL SECURITIES to third parties, render ; them particularly advantageous. Whole-world leave is granted on reasonable terms, and claims aro paid thirty days after admission. JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretary. THE ROYAL INFIRMARY for DISEASES of CHILDREN and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge- road. Upwards of 100 poor sick children are relieved daily at this Hospital. The Committee most earnestly solicit Contributions, to enable th , . - n to continue the benefits of medical aid to those numerous p , or suffering children, who are rendered so helpless by sickness and poverty. Bankers, Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lombard street ; and by Messrs. °mitts and Co., Strand. CHARLES J. F. RENTON, Secretary. Waterloo-bridge-road, S E. NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common, Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1812. Enlarged 1861. Under thepatronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CIAMBRiDGn, K.G., whereby a home has been eforded for 280 Destitute Orphan Girls of all ages, classes. and denominations, from all parts of the kingdom. The obje:q of the Charity Is to give orphan girls a plain Eng lish education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house, and laundry, to fit thorn for domestic service; and, if not other wise provided for when they attain 15 years of ago, to obtain suitable situations for them. The Committee e‘rnsstly appeal for support. The Charity Is entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions. TlrsvnY KINGsCOTE, TresParer W H. WAFIVICK Secretary. OCfloe. 121. W GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islineton, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since i! was establisbe(l at King's-cross in 185. Patients are admitted free. Bankers -Mesqrs. Barnet, Lloyd 9, and Co., 60, Lomb/LT.I - Messzß. Ransom awl Bonverie, 1, Pall.resll. —Hon. Sea, Y. Smith. Esa. (lbw. REID, Sec. fRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM, Mackenzie-park, Slough (formerly at Clapham-rise). Instituted 1827. Patron—Her Moat Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. For the gratuitous board, clothing, and education of destitute orphans from all parts of the British dominions, and of all denominations, whose parents were once in prosperous circumstances. One hundred and seventy-five orphans now in the In stitution , ample room for about 30 more. Increased support indispensable, as this Charity is not endowed, and is in the greatest need of further pecuniary assistance. Subscribers and tho public are Invited to inspect the Institution, and judge as to the nature of the Charity and its peculiar claims. The last Report can be obtained on application to the Secretary. THOS. TILSON, Chairman. CHAS. LEE, M.A. AUBREY C. PRICE, M.A., Hon. Secs. ALFRED MACKENZIE, Secretary. Offices, 73, Cheapsido, London, E.O. Bankers—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin sue ; and Messrs. Havvzood Brothers, Manchester. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms of the past twenty-two months the National Life boat Institution contributed to the saving of 1,633 lives from various shipwrecks and 44 vessels from destruction, The Institution also upended £36,134 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting £4,250 for rewards. Tho Institution has now 210 Lifeboat Stations under its management. Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street Adelphi, London. HEALTH RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. DU BARRY'S deli cions health-restoring Invalids' and Infants' Food. THE REVALENTA ARABIOI saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, and restores perfect digestion strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled—removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric de rangements, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, tervoneness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, ThEITIMatiBTI9, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neu ralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, kaartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, AMMO, and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofnla, tightness of the cheat, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is the most digestible and nourishing of all foods, and suitable for invalids and infants in all complaints. INPOILTANT CAUTION.—BOWAre of the man y unsavoury lane more than slopy imitations to whicb, without autho rity, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. Henceforth none will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica In valids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of bless ings it has already received from invalids whose position had boon deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holi ness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Cure No. 48,413):—"R0me, Jnly 21st, 1866. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all ther remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du arry s Revalenta Arabica Food of which ho consumes a lateful at every meal. Tt has produced a surprisingly eneflcial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."l !Cure No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Tlrehan of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervous nev, irritability with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable ervous agitation. Cure N 0.71. of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Deicing, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Water ford :—" I have derived much benefit from your excellent food.—STUART DE DECIDS, Dromana, Cappoquin, County ~Paterford." Cure No. 49,832. —Of fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation a , -ultm , ly, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly of Lynn, Norfolk. Cum No. 47,1.21.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nor vols fancies. !lure No. 56,511.—Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' dim-Owe& Tho Food is sold in Canisters, at ls. lid. ; 11b., 2s. 9d., 21h., 4s. 6d.; 121 h., 225.; 241 b., 40s. The 121 b. and 211 b a -lister., carriage free on receipt of P. 0. Order. Also Du arry's Itevalonta Arabica Chocolate Powder is packed in tin oa aisters ; For 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 C fps at Ss., for 288 cups at 305., for 576 cups at 555. Being about Jaa penny per cup. The 30s. and 555. tins are sent f-ee et carriage in England on receint of Post Office Order. .3 A ill{ 1r Du BAHRY and Co., 77, Regent-street, London, also at Fortnum and Mason's; also at 4, Cheapside, 61, Gracechuich-st-set ; 63 and 150, Oxford-street ; and 121, tie rt_North-roai d .London"and all aroyersandiOliegaits) HOME for the HELPLESS.—ST. JAMES'S DIOCESAN HOME for FEMALE PENITENTS (Hammersmith), under the immediate direction of the Bishop of London. The work carried on by a Sisterhood, "in faithful accordance with the principles of the Re formed Church of England." FUNDS greatly needed COUNCIL. The Bishop of LONDON, Rev. J. W. Ayro Major-Gen. .Rt. HOD. Percy Rev. F. G. Bloomfield Herbert. M.P. lion. and Rev. F. Byng 1107. J. E. Kempe Rev. R G. Baker Rev. W. F. Erskine Knolly s Rev. S. Brooke Lev. S. W. Lloyd Rev. A. Martineau The Lord Clinton Rev W. Cadman Rev. W. D. Maclagan E. Charringt o n, Esq. . Itov. E. L. Cutts, Chaplain!, Rev. E. C ape l C ure J. D. Morton, Esq. Rev. J. E. C ox Rev. J. Moorhou.% Daniel Moore Rev. Cumin Nepali Octavius Coopo, Esq. Rev. E. Parry Arthur Currie, .leq.l John Pearson, Esq., Q.O. Rev. J. Conn e ll Rev. G. F. I.'rescott Rev. C. W. Purse Rev. F. Pigon 0. J. Freaks. Efi . . R. T. Pigott, Esq. J. S. Gilliat, Eeq. R. R. Pyre, Esq, Rev. Dr. F Horsey Hugh H. Seymour, Esq. H G Heald, Esq. R. Wade, Esq. R. Hook, Esq., Treas urer Loftus Wigram, Esc. Subscriptions will be received by any of the above ; by Messrs. Harries, Farquhar, and Co; and by the Hon. Secretrry, Rev. S. W. Lloyd, 14, Seymour-street, Port men-square, to whorls communication may be acitirefeeti ROYAL SCHOOL for DAUGHTERS of OFFICERS of the ARMY, Lans'lown, Bath. Instituted, A.D., 1861. Under the Patronage of her Maj. sty the QUEEN. President—H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G., &c. Chairman—Major -General Sir A. J. LAWRENCE, K. 0.8. This school has been founded upwards of four years, and it is intended for the education of the daughters of officers of the army, Indian and Marines. There are already 70 pupils in the school, but more could be admitted if the committee had further funds; they, therefore APPEAL to the public to aid them in carrying out to its full extent the benefits of the only institution specially provided for the daughters of officers of the Army. Each donation of £5 ss. entitles to one life vote at all elections. Each annual subscription of £5 5s entitles to one vote at all elections during the current year. The amount may be forwarded by an erdet on a bank, agent, or post-office (Charing-cross), payable to. GEO. W. FORSTER., Under Socretary 0111C0 22 ) Cookspur-strut; B RITISH HOME FOR INCURABLES, Clapham rise. Instituted 1861. PATRONESS. Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES. TREASURERS. George Moore, Esq.; Mr. Alderman Gibbons. This Institution, extending its operations to all parts of the kingdom. provides for those afflicted with incurable diseases a home for life, with every comfort and medical attendance. Patients are admittod, and annuities of £lO obtained by election. No person under 20 years of age, nor of the pauper class, is eligible. Full particulars and tho necessary forms may be pro cured from the Sooretary. Donations and annual sub scriptions are earnestly solicited. BANKERS. Messrs Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, E.C.; and Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W. _ _ EDWD. WEAVER Secretary. Wilco, 7; Obeliskle. Dli . KING'S DANDELION and QUININE LIVER PILLS (Without Mercury) The very best remedy for BILE, WIND, INDIGESTION, ACIDITY, HEADACHE, HEARTBURN, &c., And acknowledged by ninny eminent surgeons to be the safest and mildest pills for every constitution. In boxes at is. lid., 2s. Oct, and 4s. tld., at all chemists. DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.— The medical profeFsion for Thirty Years have ap proved of this pure solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for Acidity of the Stomach, Heartburn, Headache, Gout, and Indigestion; and as the best mild aperient for delicate constitutions, especially adapted for Ladies, Chil dren, and infants. DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, 172 New Bond-street, London ; and of all other chemists throughout the world. 4 NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR. OF ". JOHN HALIFAX." Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., :Is., UNKINI) AND OTHER S TORIES. Fly the luthor of "John Halifax, Gentlemi.n. IV 0 R 1), T II E Hurst and Bln,ekett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street, THE ATHEN2EUM for I)EcEmBER 25 T H - 1 - contains SPECIAL ARTICLES noon the LITERATURE of ENGLAND, FR %NCI:. GERMANY, IaNSIA, I TALY, BEL(; , ITM, SPAIN, HOLLAND, TURKEY, DENMARK, SWEDEN, PI )lITUGAL, HUNGARY, and AMERICA, form ing a , URVEY t,f EUROPEAN and AMERICAN LITERA TURE for the YEAR 1869. NOTICE. THE ATHENIEUAI will be PERMANENTLY ENLARG ED on and after the Ist of JANUARY, 1870. May be ordered of any Bookseller or Newsagent, price Three pence. Single Copies sent by post on receipt of four postage stamps. Published by J ohn Francis, 20, Wellington-street, Strand, W.C. A RGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, _ The extraordinary success which has attended the production nit the Shadow Dance. with the brilliant and varied effects of the electric light on the groups of dancers that nightly partici pate in it, combined with the admirable Operatic and Dance Music Selections presented in the often-changed programmes, have had the gratifying effect of making the t r sent one the most extensively patronized season since its first opening. The celebrated Orchestra, under the direction of its highly efficient chef, Signor Luigi Curti, performs the choicest and latest com positions of ail distinguished composers—the solos in which are assigned to the eminent euphonionist, Signor L. Moses ; Messrs. (irayes, L. Silberbcrg, and other able artistes. Manager, Mr Thomas Pitts. Professor Halliman M.O. Admission, is.; Reserved Seats, 2e. R. R. IslaNzrz, Proprietor QAMARITA N FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN k- , and CHILDREN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman square. The only free Hospital for diseases of women 2,746 patients were treated last month without letters of recommendation. Subscriptions and donations are much needed ,and will be received by Messrs. Hatchard, ; Si r Samuel Scott, Bart.; Messrs. Barclay, Coutts, Glyn, Hansom; and by the Secretary. Just published, price is 61., by post is. Bd., the Second Edition, with Addenda. containing additional Facts and Cases. in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks, REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: H. l3alliere, 219, Regent-street The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch. Public Opinion, an other Journals, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted with this edition. QHOOTING SEASON.--- kJ E. M. REILLY and CO. beg to acquaint their numerous Patrons and Sportsmen that they have for inspection a large ASSORTMENT of the LATEST IMPROVED CENTRAL FIRE and other BREECIILOADINO GUNS and RIFLES, at their usual moderate prices. EVERY RE 11S1TE for the FIELD. 502, New Oxford-street, Loudon. Branches: 315, Oxford-street; 2, Rue Scribe, Paris. Illustrated Price Lists on application. DENTAL SURGERY, 8, GROSVENOR-STREET. VI R. ESKELL, the Author of "Pure Dentistry, ik and What it Does for Us," Pa inl e s Tooth Extraction; or Anrestheria Locally Applied ;" Dental Surgery: a Practical Treatise:" Modern Demistry: its Principles and Practice." ttc., may ho CONSULTED DAILY, as hitherto, from Ten to Four o'clock, at his ONLY Residence, 8, GROSVENOR-STREET, GROSVE NOR-SQUARE (a few doors from Bond-street). lEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT of MEAT. —AMSTERDANI EXHIBITION, 180, FIRST PRIZE, being ADOVE the Gold Medal. Supplied to the Bri.ish, French, Prussian. Russ'an, Italian, !hitch, and other Governments. One pint of fine flavoured Beef-tea at 20. Most convenient and economic "stock." CAUTION.—OnIy sort warranted genuine by the Inventor, Baron Liebig, whose signature is on every genuine Jar. Ask for LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT, and not for LIEBIG'S EXTRACT of MEAT. yAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN EFFECT UAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately re lieving coughs, cold , , confirmed cases of asthma, and inci pient consumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, and admirably allays the ticking which provokes frequent coughing. In approach ing consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca tion, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 1311., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Bo particular, and ask for Lambert's Asth matic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. THE BEST REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION. NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi dently recommended as a simple but certain Remedy for Indigestion, which is the cause of nearly all the diseases to which we are subject, being a medicine so uniformly grateful and beneficial that it is with justice ?Ailed the " Natural Strengthener of the Human Stomach.' " Norton's Pills" act as a powerful tonic and gentle ape rient.; are mild in their operation, safe under any cir zumstances, and thousands of persons can now boar testi mony to the benefits to be, derived from their use, as they have been a never-failing Family Friend for upwards of 20 years. Slid in bottles at is. lid., 2E. 9d., and lls. each, in every town in the kingdom. CAUTION. Be sure to ask for " NORTON'S PILLS," and do not bo persuaded to purchase any of the various imitations which have sprung up in consequence of the SUCCORS of N orton's Camomile Pills." RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. INVITE'S I\lOC-M AIN LEVER TRU.S.3 (Perfecter: and Exhibited i❑ the Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred Medical men to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi site resisting power is supplied by the Moc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may bo worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can not fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d, and 81s. 6d. Postage, Is. A Double Trus., 81s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-office, Piccadi'ly. NEW PATENT VLASTIC STOCKINGS, NJ KNEE-CAPS, &0., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, etc. They are porous, light in texture, and Inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., is. 6d. 10s., and IGs. each. Postage, 6d. JOAN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.' E LONDON SURGICAL HOME for DISEASES and ACCIDENTS of WOMEN, for the Reception of Gentlewomen and Females of Respect ability upon a weekly payment. Under the management of Mr. Baker Brown. The private medical attendants of the patients aro in vited to visit them, and to meet in consultation before treatment. Full particulars can be obtained on application to the Lady-Superintendent, 18, Stanley-terrace, Notting-hill, W. ; or to Mr. Baker Brown, 136, Uarley- street, W. R OYAL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES, West-hill, Putnoy-heath. Established 31st July, 1854. This Institution exists for the comfort and relief of per sons (being above the pauper class) afflicted with incur able bodily disease. Relief Is afforded—lst. By supplying a home, with medical attendance, nursing, and all requisites for the in valid. 2d. By granting an annuity of £2O to !patients at thei own homes. A Lew wing to the Hospital has Just been completed at a cost of upwards of XlO,OOO, and FUNDS are urgently NEEDED to liquidate the expenses incurred. Time are 120 inmates and 287 pensioners, all entirely dependent upon voluntary subscriptions. Nearly 300 approved applicants are awaiting election For the maintenance of present operations, for the ez• tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe cially annual subs3riptions, are earnestly solicited. Life subscriptions, £5 ss. and upwards; annual subscriptions, half a guinea and upwards, with votes in proportion. Information will be supplied, with the g-eatest pleasure upon application to the Secretary, by whom contributions will be thankfully received. FREDERIC ANDREW Secretary No. 10 Poultry London. E.O September 1868. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and clothing for the 126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship. 150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Groat Queen-street. 94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing' 870 children. £ll3 will keep a boy or girl for one year. Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank 214, High Holborn, bad 41, Lothbnry, E. 0.; and by WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Sooretary. No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-ftelds.j TO-NIGHT, In the large Room EGYPTIAN HALL, Ma of Stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond street. R( YAL?MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Proprietor— Mr. J. S. Swe:i sey. MONSTER CH It I STMAS ENTERTAINMENT. He-engagement of LE PE IT BLONDIN AND HIS SISTER BLANCHE, Joly Nash, E. D Davis, West and Emma West, Funny Lithe Lewis, Mdfle. Carlotta Verte, Wiz, Redman, Itowlaml Lascelles, The wondrous Female AcrOhats, Master Thompson, and a host of others. Pr . ces of A dm!ssion as usual. Balcony, Ill.; Malls, is. Mr. P. CorH, Musical Director. Chairman—Mr W. Hamilton, from the Canterbury. vi A DAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Blke -street.—POß ritArr monELS of I' dEDERICIC HINSON and TRAUPPMANN are added tO the Chamber of Horrors. Admission, ls.; Chamber of Horrors 6d. extra. Open from 11 a.m. till 5 p.m., and from . p.m. till 10 p.m. SAUCE. —LEA and PERRINS, THE " WORCESTERS HIRE," pronounced by Connoisseurs "THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE." Improves the appetite, and aids digestion. UNRIVALLF.D FOR PIQUANCY AND FLAVOUR. ASK ror " LEA and PERRINS' " SAUCE. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, and sae the names of LEA &PERRINS on all bottles and labels] Agents—Crosse and Blackwell, London, and sold by all Dealers in Sauces throughout the World C 0 MPAGN IE GENE RALE TRANSAT IJ LANTIQUE. 4, Rue de la Pair, Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New York RATES OF PASSAGE. From HAVRE or BREST to NEW YORK. First Mass 7OO fr. Second Class 425 fr. Third Class From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brest, including railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class 285 fr. WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St. Thomas, Havana, Vora Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico Haiti. Santiago de Cuba. Guadeloupe, Martinique. JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama). Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon, Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo, Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &e., San Jose, La Union, San Francisco, China, and Japat.. Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this company, can be had of STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co., Agents. 8. Austinfriars, London, E.O. B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION. Road Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association are Equitable Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. SHORT SUMMARY OF THE POSITION OF THE PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate 11111, London, E.C. Branch Office-7, King-street, St. James's. The Annual Premium Income of the Company, at the close , f 1868, was £220,978 Os. 10d., and the Total Amount Assured £4.832,197.. The Business is 41v-Lled under two heads:- Ist —The General or Orlinary Business, being the same as that. transacted by other Compalies. 2nd —The Industrial or Working Class Assurances. The Premium Income of the General Business was £52,432, and the sum Assured £1,.502,960. The present value of thelia bility of this Branch by the Carlisle 3 per Cent. Tables, throwing off the entire load tug. Ilia Premium Income of the Industrial Branch was 10,546, the sum Assured £3,169,237, and the Estimated Reserve 50,000 0 0 £lB 322 15 8 The Liability of the Industrial Branch does Lot admit of being estimated in the same way as that of the General Branch, on account of the very largr proportion of Policies which coast qtly two, so that the bulk of the assurances are, in fact, risks for short terms only ; the estimated re serve for the liabilities of this Branch of the business is shown by the result of 14 years' experience to be abundantly suffi cient. The Assurance Fund on 21st Decetn ber, 1868, was .£211,101 12 4 The average duration of the whole of ►he Industrial Policies was considerably under three years. The average age of the Assured in the Industrial Branch was 19 years. A detailed List of Assets can be had on application.' 11. HABBLN, Secretary. NORTH LONDON o r UNIVERSITY COLLEGE llOSP l TAL.—Accidents aud Sickness. —CONTRIBUTIONS earnesly solicited to meet the annual expenses, which exceed the income by £4,000. The committee also plead for help for the sick children, the little victims of starvation, neglect, and disease, who enjoy in the new wards, devoted to them, the privileges of nourishing food and careful nursing. Donations thank fully received by Edward Enfield, Esq., Treasurer, 19, Chester-terrace, Regent's-park; and at the office of the charity. HENRY J. KELLY, R.N., Secretary. FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.—LONDON FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN STITUTION. President —Boy. Q./NON DAus. CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1888 are ear nestly solicited, which may he sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon quest, Salt, and Co., 28, Lott Marti street, 1C.0.; Francis Nicholls Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, 1 4 10111\I of BEQUEST.—NATIONAL HOS PITAL for the PARALYSED and EPILEPTIC, Queen-square, Bloomsbury give and bequeath to the Treasurer for the time being of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, established in London in 1859, the sum of --, f ree o f legacy duty, to be paid out of such part of my estate as may by law be bequeathed for charitable purposes, and to bo applied to the general use of the said Hospital. The Institution comprises an Hospital for In and Out Patients, a Samaritan Soc'ety to relieve the more desti tute out-patients and their famil►es, a convalescent home, and a pension fund for the incurable. E. 11. CHANDLER, Hon. Soc. R RITISII lIONIE for INCURABLES, Clap ham-rise. instituted in 1861. Patroness—H.R.H. - the Princess of WALES. This Institution provides a home for life, with good nursing and skilled medical attendance, for pores as over 20 years of age and above the pauper class, who are hope lessly afflicted with incurable disease. Pensions of £2O per annum are also granted The Home was opened in September 1863 ; 71 in patients and 106 annuitants have been elected. Elections in May and November. Forms of application may be ob tained from the Secretary. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are earnestly solicited. Bankers—Messrs, B arc l ay, L ava n, and Co., 54, Lombard - street, E.C. ; Messr s . D rum mond, Charing-cross, S.W. EDWD. WEA YEA Sec. Offices, 78, Cheapside, E.C. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, Ring's Cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious MATEsyr the QUEEN. Vice-Patron — His Royal Highness the Prince of Wenms, K.G. President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. K.G. This Hospital, founded iu the year 1828, the first to establish the principl e o f free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent ler support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged be tween 8,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Conttiln.tions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hansom, and 00., Abohurch-lane ; also by Messrs. Ooutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Harries and 0o.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Parue, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co.,:Bernars•street Cand at the Hospital from 10 till IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN GUARANTEED STATE LOANS. No LOTTERIES. Bona-fide chances to win for .£1 the large premiums of £30,000, £25,000, £20,000, Rc., &c. Public drawings on the First of every Month, under the superintendence of the Austrian Government, and official public functionaries. OFFICIAL LISTS SENT GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS. Apply for .£1 chances, issued upon forms sapplied by the Austrian Government and bearing the Impurial half a florin stamp, and for prospectuses to VOELCKER & CO., Bankers, VIENNA. THE MESMERIC INFIRMARY, 36, Wey mouth-street, W. (where many cases deemed incur able are cured). much needs support. Inspection is in vited from 10 till 12.30. The Council have placed the Institution under the control of THOS. CHANDLER, Esq., M.R.C.S., who has above 30 years' experience in Mesmerism and nervous diseases. Consultations—gra tuitous, till 10.30; private, till 12.30. CANCER HOSPITAL (Free) : founded 1851. —Brompton, S.W., and 167, Piccadilly.—Over 8,000 cases treated since foundation. Remedies and diet very expensive. Over 40 in hospital, and many cases unable to be admitted for want of FUNDS ; at present over 800 out-patients. Treasurer—Geo. T. Hertslot, Esq. , Lord Chamberlain's Office, St. James's Palace. Bankers—Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand. By order, H. J. JUPP. DOOR SICK and HELPLESS CHILDREN. —The ROYAL INFIRMARY for CHILDREN and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge-road. Instituted 1810. Increased PECUNIARY ASSISTANCE is most urgently needed, and solicited, for continuing relief to the poor little suffering inmates at this Hospital. Office, Waterloo-bridge-road, S.E. Bankers—Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lom bard-street; and Messrs. Coutts and Co., 69, Strand. CHARLES J. F. RE N TON, Secretary. EAST LONDON HOSPITAL for CHILDREN The Committee earnestly desire to raise funds which shall enable them to establish the Hospital in more suit able buildings. The premises now occupied are crowded and inconvenient, causing additional expense from that circumstance. It is impossible even to purchase on whole sale terms many articles of daily consumption from want of room for stowage, every inch of available space being occupied. There is a daily demand for more beds, and the staff of nurses would be able to attend upon more children, but no more can be admitted 'n the present building. £B,OOO at least is required to can y out this much-wished for and urgent scheme ContribUtions will be thankfully received by the Trea surer, E.S. Norris, Esq. Shadwell ; or by SI:TERRA:RD B. BURNABY, Hon: Sec., l " g Rectory Wapping El NURSING. —ST. G. —ST. JOHN'S HOUSE and IN SISTERHOOD for TRAINING NURSES for HOSPITALS, Families, and the Poor: established 1848. President—The Lord Bishop of LONDON. The nursing at King's College and the Charing-oross Hospitals, and the Galignani English Hospital at Paris, is at present superintended by thej Sisters of John's House. Ladies or others wishing to qualify themselves as members of the House or Sisterhood, or as pupils to be trained to nurse, are quested to communicate with the Lady Superior. Donations and Subscriptions to the General Fund, the Sisters' Fund, or the Nurses' Pension Fund, may be paid to Messrs. Coutts ; or to the Lady Superior, at St. John's House Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C. COMPENSATION IN C ASE OF INJURY, AND A FIXED SUM IN CASE OF DEATH Caused by ACCIDENT OF ANY KIND, may be secured by Policy of the RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY. An Annual Payment of .£3 to £6 ss. insures £l,OOO at Death, and an Allowance at the rate of £l3 per week for Injury. RAILWAY ACCII , ENTS ALONE may be provided against by Insurance Tickets for Single or Double Journies. For particulars apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, to the Local Agents, or at the Offices. 54, CO/tstuLL and 10, REGENT STREET, LONDON. WILLIAM J. WAN Secretary. pARTRIDGE AND COOPER. MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.C.) THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES. CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDER 3 OVER 20s. per roam. s. d. Fine Cream Laid Note • P • a cileaP paper 3 0 Superfl_te Cream Laid Note; much approved 4 0 Supet flueThiek Cream Laid Note: especially recom mon. le d 5 6 Extra Sucertne Double Thick Cream Laid Note 7 0 straw Paper, " Patent;" adapted for rapid writing 2 6 Large Commercial Note Papers 35., 45., 55., and 6 0 Foolscap Papers, blu e or cream........ 105. 61, 12s. C 1.,, and 14 6 Outsides Foolscap 6 6 Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 45.• ruled ditto, 4 6 Tinted Lined Note _live quires for is. 61, or 5 6 The New Vellum Wove "o . l . ublifouse" Note, five quires for 2s. GI. F uperfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, 4s 6d, 5s Bd, & 6s 6d Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4s 6 d per 1,000 Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c., 38 COLOUR STA 1.1 PING (Relief) reduced to ls. per 100. Polished steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the prices charged by the retail houses. An LLLU,TRATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery, Cabinets, Postale Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, &c sat free. Established 1811 riNHE HOSPITAL for WOMEN, Soho-square. 'V —Bankers : Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co.; Messrs. Ransom, Bonveric, and Co.—The Committee APPEAL very earnestly for CONTRIBUTIONS. The Hospital is now open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri days to out-patients who are treated without letters of recommendation. HENRY B. INGRAM, Secretary. THE ASSOCIATION for the WELFARE of the BLIND, 210, Oxford-street, and 127, Euston-road. Patroness—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. This Institution affords employment in various ways to 172 blind men and women. Pensions to various amounts are granted to the blind who cannot earn their own living, 500 blind men and women aro applying for help, which cannot be given for WANT of FUNDS. Contributions will be thankfully received by the Secre tary, Rev. 0. B. REID, M.A. HOSPITAL for DISEASES o f the THROAT, Golden-square, W. President—His Grace the Duke of GRAFTON. The Committee of Management earnestly APPEAL for FUNDS to help them to meet the heavy current expenses. Upwards of 18,000 poor persons have been relieved in the last six years. GEORGE WOOD, Secretary. AMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN and CHILDREN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman square. The only Free Hospital for Diseases of Women ; 2,E7.3 patients were treated last month without letters of recommendation. SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are much needed, end will be received by Messrs. llatchard, Piccadilly; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.; Messrs. Barclay, Coutts, Glyn, Ransom ; and by the Secretary. T F ar or o r a a s l f l o e l n lo r ws o : zn. HE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES 28, Church-row, Hemp- 150, New Kent-road. stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke 18, Camden-street, Camden- Newington. town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green -205, Great Portland. street. wich. For Young Girls in Danger. 27, Church-row, Hampstead. 9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood. St. Marys Lodge, Buckhurst-hill. Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover. Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee have under their charge three homes for servants of good character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless servants annually. The home at Great Portland -street is for young fallen girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to open another house for this pitiable class. The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 624 appli cants, w h o se histories are recorded in the applicant's book. The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I never read a report of any charitable institution which so entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my sympathy") may be bad on application. The Society is under the presidency of tho Earl of sh a ft ed bury. Its bankers aro Messrs. Barclay and 00. The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the benevolent. DANL. COOPER, 500... stl Cbleall-Strittit 0118aDRIda, PAINLESS and PRACTICAL DENTISTRY, by Mr. B. L. MOSELY, the Dentist by special appoint ment, 312, REGENT-STREET, exactly opposite the (loyal Polytechnic, and 23. MOORGATE-STREET, CITY. Estab lished 1820. This, the most perfected system of pain less dentistry, originated and invented by Mr. R. L. Mosely, is r commended by the Hospitals and adopted by the profession as one of the greatest improvements of the ago for the alleviation of pain and restoration of the natural functions, can solely be obtained in such perfected success (the result of forty years' practical experienc , ) at his only residences, as above. The su perlative excellence of this system is perfect, immunity from pain, no operations, stumps, and decayed teeth ren dered useful, lo o s e t ee th and tender gums protezted. Qualities : These teeth never change colour or decay—in fit unerring—easo and comfort unsurpassed—detection impossible—the facial anatomy faithfully studied and youthful appearance restored mastication and articulation g ,- aranteed. The " Times" of March 6 says: —"So good an imitation becomes the next best thing to the original." Teeth from 55.; scAs. 5 to 30 guineas. Consultation free.—Only addresses 312, Regent-stro t, exactly facing the Royal Polytechnic; and 23, Moorgato-streat, E C., opposite the Star Insurance Office. JWIT, SERVICE OF INDIA. Persons desirous of being admitted to the OPEN COMPETITION, commencing on sth April, 1870, should apply at once for the necessary forms; which must be returned, with evidence of age, health, and character, not later than February Ist—CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Cannon-row, Westminster. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION. (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and . - ANNITiTIES. Offices—ROYAL EXOEIANGE, London. Branch Office-29, Pall Mall, S.W. OOTAVIIIS WIGRANI, lAMBS STEWART 111DGE30.; Ei CHARLES JOHN MANNING, E DIRE° Esq Governor. ;aq Sub-Governor. Eaq Deputy-Governor. YTORS. William Tetlow Ribbort, Robert Barclay, Esq. John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Edward Jamos Daniell, Esq. William Davidson, Esq Lancelot William Dent, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Fred k. Joseph Edlmann, Esq. Charles Hermann• Goschen, Esq. Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq. Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Medical Referee, Sam Wilco W E ilmo t Holland, Esq. Egerton Hubbard, Esq. Nevile Lubbock, Esq. George Forbes Malcolmson, Esq. Lord Joscellne Wm. Percy. Cbarles Robinson, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq. iel Solly, Esq., F.R.S. NO ricE. - The annual fifteen days allowed for pay ment of FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Christmas will expire on the 9th of January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on advantngeons terms. FIRE DUTY. —This Tax having been abolished, the PREMIUM is NOW the only charge for Fire Insurances. Fl 'MING STOCK.—No Extra Charge is made for the use of Steam Thrashing Machines. _ _ The Reversionary Bonus on British LIFE POLICIES has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. Tho Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption under Royal Charter from the liabilities of part nership. The advantages of modern practice, with the secu rity of an Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary. SPLENDID SPECULATIONS GRE 11' SUCCESS. With a Single Stake of £8 you can realise £37,030!! with .£1 £20,000! 1 with 12 shillings £12,000 ! ! For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. ARROW ROOT.—Just received front the West Indies a large eorigigrain-o+ ARROW Rom. of oxen)- 1,-nt quality. which can bl confidently recommended to eter.. 3 - maim and of icr visitors of the poor, as an econom'cal and whole some article of diet for Invalids. Sold in 711)., I tit, and 2 lb. tin.. at SA. per lb., tins extra : al,o a lane Tiantity of the finest BERMUDA ARROW ROOT, w'aich can be ofTere I at duc'd Price of is. Ad. per lb.. in quantities of not less than 71b.. tins extra. TIIO -I AS KEATING, 79, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD. DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS. kJ ANE VER-FAILING REMEDY.—Prepared with out any mercurial ingredient, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indiges tion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of tho eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.—Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by most druggists, in boxes, is. lid., and throe times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are in a square green package, with " William Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross," engraved on the Govern ment stamp. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Open to all without letters of recommendation. FUNDS are urgently needed. JAMES S. BLYTIT, Sec. KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal street, Lincoln's-inn.—The Committee earnestly APPEAL for FUNDS to defray the heavy current:ex penses. Assistance is urgently needed. J. W. WALDRON, Secretary. B RITISH HOSPITAL for SKIN DISEASES, 56, Great Marlborough-street, W. Bankers, Messrs. Ransom. SUPPORT is earnestly solicited. ALEXANDER RIVINGTON, Hon. Sec. THE ROYAL HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the MUST, City-real—The wards for in-patients are constantly full, those for ont-patients crowded daily. FUNDS greatly needed. CHARLES L. KEMP, Secretary. lONDON FEVER HOSPITAL is the only in stitution in the Metropolis for the treatment and prevention of contagions fevers. CONTRIBUTIONS will be gratefully received by Messrs. Pmsdale and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Messrs. Drum mond, Charing-cross ; Messrs. Coutts, Strand ' • Messrs. Hoare, Fleet-street : and by the Secretary, at the Hospital, Liverpool-road, Islington, N. CIREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Cale kJl donian-road, N.—Several beds in the new buildings cannot be occupied for WANT of FUNDS. F. SMITH, Esq., Hon. Secretary. GEORGE REID, Secretary. (NE HUNDRED Sr SEVENTY DESTITUTE ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed. CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary: Oftlce, 54, Oheapsido, London, E.O; LONDON HOSPITAL, Whitechapel-road, E. The great East-end receptacle for Accidents and Urgent Cases. 4,932 In-patients last year, of whom 4,059 were free cases. CONTRIBUTIONS earnestly requested. WM. J. NIXON, House Governor and Secretary. THE METROPOLITAN CONVALESCENT INSTITUTION. President—His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON. Treasurers—The Right Hon. Russell Gurney, M.P., and Col. W. F. Grant. DONATIONS and SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly solicited, to enable the Board to meet the greatly increased expenditure of this old Charity. 240 adults are received at Walton ; 80 children at Mitcham and 'Tendon. Bankers—London Joint-Stock Bank, Pall-mall. CHARLES HOLMES, Secretary Office, 82, Sackville-street. Piccadilly. SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL (the Dreadnought), off Greenwich. for Sick and Diseased Seamen of All Nations, who are received without any recomendation. The Committee require upwards of £4,500 annually from voluntary bounty to meet the expenditure of this Hospital. SUBSCRIPTIONS will be most thankfully received by Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankers, Birchiu lane ; and at the Society's offices, 86, King William-street, E.C., by S. KEMBALL COOK, Secretary. Qualification for a Governor, 21s. annually ; Life Wreruer, 410 Mi. COUN'TRY ARGUND OMAIIA—CONTINUED. (From the Anglo• American Times) Omaha City stands on the right bank of the Mis souri opposite an lowa town called Council Bluffs. Thus the State capital is centrally situated and on undulating ground, fifty feet above the river, with low ridges behind. The town has grown with great rapidity, as the terminus of the Union Pacific Rail road,and its wide (paper) streets and avenues cross ing at right angles, squares and parks, have be:•n fill ing up with more than usual celerity even in the West. Limestone quarries for building are in the neighbour hood, and its stone and brick houses are occupied by little short of 20,000 people. Up to Cott ne:l Bluffs comes the regular network of American railroads, hut beyond goes one solitary line from Omaha up the valley of the Platte, away across the Rocky Moun. tains, passing by the Mormon settlement, through the Great Basin over the Sierra Nevada and down its sunny slopes into California, and that is the main reason of Omaha's prosperity. Nebraska, the State of which it is the capital, is the youngest in the American Union, having been admitted, March 1, 1867. It was part of French Louisiana, and was erectel into a Territory on the 30th May, 1851. Of its area remaining unsold on the 30th June, 1867, there were 42,523,637 acres, but the lands have been rapidly taken up since then, more especially towards the South, between the Platte and the Re publican, along the Valley of the Big Blue River, and between that and the Missouri,where the coun try is very fine. Nebraska dips more decidedly than lowa from the foot of the mountains to wa'ds the Mississippi, the larger portion being elevated and undulating prairie, without mountains or high hills, but with elevations which rise from the bottom lands of the river valleys, with other steppes rising from 40 to 100 feet, and so ascending as the plateaux slope backwards. Cutting through them are gorges which break up the country, though it ge nerallypresents a smooth, wavy appearance as would the long swell of an ocean suddenly petrified. Be fore the formation of the Union Pacific some valu able trees lined the Platte up the valley of which, that is through the middle of the State, the railway takes its course ; but these were mercilessly cut down for sleepers and firewood, all the beautiful black walnuts being thus sacrificed. There are, however, some groves of oak, hickory, and willow, with dense forests of cotton wood along the Mis souri, above the mouth of the Platte. Neverthe less the country is singularly bare, and presents an arid and barren appearance from the cars of the Pacific Railway as the traveller speeds along on a hot summer's day. As far as he can see the inter minable prairie stretches with its sage grass, and here and there a streak of the blue waters of the Platte. Instead of improving as the Rocky Moun tains are neared the country deteriorates till a region is passed to the west of the State and north of the North Fork of the Platte, called the Mauvais Terres, ninety miles long and thirty wide, which, viewed from a distance, takes the desolate form of a deserted abode of civilization. By some power ful agencies the lani has been cut down, leav ing parts standing which assume in their colum nar masses the appearance of towers, columns, and walls ; but are found to be pieces of soil and rock left erect, through which run laby rinthine defiles. Though the State to the west is dry and arid, and to the north there are great sandbills, yet the eastern portion is of so fertile a character that the population of 28,841, in 1860, increased so rapidly that in 1866 it was estimated at 50,000, and the next year it became eligible for admission into the Union as a State. The eastern Prairies are covered with a heavy sod, the matted growth of awes of vegetation, difficult to break up, 6.6 c-nity worked when nett biuken. All, the - State is dry, but to the west it is the dryness of a desert ; yet even this has its advantage, for there is no other State so well fitted for depasturing sheep. Its grass s are of a very nutritious character, and as the soil as well as climate is dry stock thrives, and constitutes i❑ a large measure the wealth of Nebraska. A belt of country underlaid by sand stone, runs north-east and south-west, 40 to 50 miles wide, extending through Kansas and Nebraska into lowa and Minnesota, and the bottom lands of all the streams in this region arc said to have a soil from 5 to 50 feet in depth, and to be of the greatest fertility. Limestone frequently appears forming in places valuable quarrin of cream - coloured soft stone, but tenacious, and in some counties scarcely a farm is without a quarry. It is believed that the limestone of the upper clal measures pass from sight beneath the water level of the Missouri river, and are then succeeded by sandstone of the cretaceous age. The limestone, however, is found on both sides of the Platte, up to the Elk Horn River, having the peculiarity of being planed so smoothly by glacial action that without further working, on the superincumbent drift being re moved, it makes excellent facings for caps and sills. Throughout the State the beds of rock are nearly horizontal, having a slight inclination to the west or north-west. A superficial deposit of yellow marl occupies much of the country, and makes the picturesque bluff formations, especially along the Missouri, on the lowa side, between Council Bluffs and Sioux City, and to this deposit is attributed the great fertility of the river counties of Nebraska. The steepness of the banks generally pre - vents vege tation, but it sprouts where the earth has an incli nation of 50 degrees. On the upland the soil is only a foot or so deep, but along the bottoms of streams 14 to 20 feet. This marl shows its recent deposit by numerous shells identical with late species, and there are bones of extinct animals, such as the mastadon and of a beaver of huge dimensions mingled with those of living species. The uplands are chemically similar to the loess of the Rhine, and though not suited for cereals, it is thought that these marl hills may yet become fine vineyards. In the valleys the crops average 30 to 35 bushels of wheat per acre, from 40 to 50 of oats, from 60 to 75 of Indian corn. The high prairies yield from one to two tons of hay per acre, and the valleys from two to three tons. There are abundant materials for brick-making, therefore, with the sandstone, the limestone, and the brick there is no lack of building materials, though the country is almost bare of timber. The name of the State is derived from the river, generally known as the Platte, but called by the Indians Are, water, and braska, wide or shallow, which conveys an idea to the emigrant's mind of the character of its valley. It spreads over the country in its course, forming low sandy islands, and without any attractive fea tures, although the soil for some distance from its mouth is so rich. - Omaha, the capital, is the name of an Indian tribe, and was, in 1853, a mere Indian village; now it occupies the central position between New York and San Francisco, near the 41st degree of north latitude, and about 492 miles from Chicago, It is therefore rapidly becoming a hand some city ; the streets and avenues are wide, and the houses, warehouses, and shops of imposing size and generally constructed of brick. Before the comple tion of the railway it was computed to contain a population of 10,000, which has since greatly in creased. When Omaha was celebrating its con junction with San Francisco by the Union Pacific Railroad a banner was raised with the strange device, " W hat God has joined let J) man put asunder," although the circumstances justified a writer in stating it should have been, " What man has joined let not God put asunder." Omaha is a city of great expectations. It proposes to build, in 1870, a $150,000 hotel, a $120,000 Masonic temple, a $50,000 opera house, a $lOO,OOO high school building, a $60,000 grammar school house, 1,000 private residences, and two railroads. The United States will also begin a 250,000 dollars stone court-house and post-office building. The valley of the Platte, and the position of Omaha near the kinetic% 91 that river with the kfigiottri, constitute its chief importance as a centre for immi gration, coupled with the great fact that from it up that valley runs the World's Highway across the American Continent to the Pacific. It is difficult to over -estimate this advantage, and we may safely say that if that road remains the highway a greater rise in the value of land and the density of popula r tion may be expected along it than skirting any other line in America, notwithstanding the inferior Tiality of most of the soil. Permanent frost is un known in Nebraska till the end of December, wlnn it is seldom sufficiently severe to freeze the running water of rivers, and the winter ends with March. The cold " snaps " seldom do more than to freeze ponds and small rills, the thermometer rarely sicking 10 deg. below freezing point, the mildness enabling plants and shrubs, such as the cotton, the catalpa, the sassafras, and the pecan, to flourish in latitudes where they do not exist cast of the Alleghenies; and it is noticed by Peyton, in hie work " Across the Prairies," in pro, f of this mild nesS of the climate, that the perpetual SICIOtv line is only reached at an elevation of 13, 50t) feet. Heavy dews fall on the prairies, and fogs 1 revail, which in crease with the cultivation. We have Fe that the good land of lowa, that is of half the hick we :.re describing. has been appropriated; that most of Ne brash, that is the other half, is of an inferior charac ter, though what is good, being of very great value, is therefore rapidly taken up. Hence w•e may conclude that Omaha will not long present advantages to the emigrant farmer, though to the laud speculator it may offer more induc!ments than any other centre, for from that city he looks along the Pacific Rail road to San Francisco, distant about 1,900 miles. We do not hesitate to state our own deliberate con viction that the finest country open is the block we are about to describe to the South, and that the most desirable land, on its purely agricultural merits, is along the branches of the Arkansas, run ning from Kansas into the Indian Territory. Still the whole of the country from Omaha across the Platte, and down the Big B!ue River to the Repub. lican, is of the same excellent character. When Nebraska was admitted into the Union in 18G7 over the President's veto, the following statement of the Territorial finances was made :—Cash in Treasury, $23,324; taxes due, $69,973; Congressional ap propriations, $45,000 ; delinquent taxes, $26,983 ; total assets, $165,281 ; total indebtedness $85,471. In 1860, the infancy of agriculture in Nebraska, the farms embraced 128,789 acres of improved land and 512,425 of unimproved, the yield being 1,482,080 bushels of maize, 147,867 wheat, 75,502 oats, 162,188 potatoes, 24,458 tons of hay, and 341,541 lbs. of butter. There were 5,000 horses, 7,000 cows, 30,000 oxen and other cattle, 2,500 sheep, and 25,000 pigs. The increase may be judged by this fact, that Nebraska City alone four years later employed 1,792 men, 1,410 mules, 13,808 oxen, and 1,587 waggons in the transport of produce. 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