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Du Barry's Food cures effectually—Acidity, asthma bilious ness, blood to the head, bowel complaints, bronchitis, ca tarrh, colds, congestion, constipation, consumption, ^ramps, cough, debility, despondency, diarrhoea, disten 410 U, dizziness, dropsy, drowsiness, dysentery, dyspepsia (Indigestion), erup tions. exhaustion, fevers, epileptic fits, flatulency, gout, ha bitual constipation, headache, heartburn, haemorrhoids. hys term, impurities, indigestion (dyspepsia,) irritability, irrita tion of kidneys and bladder. liver complaints, loss of memory, low spirits, nausea and sickness, nervousness, nervous fan cies, neuralgia, noises in the ear, pains between the shoul ders, palpitation, partial paralysis, phlegm, pulmonary com plaints, rheumatism, scrofula, sinking, sleeplessness, sore throat, spasms, tightness across the chest. At about one penny per meal, it effectually cures the above, also children's complaints, and saves fifty times its cost in medicine. It does not turn acid nor interfere with a liberal diet but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of many thousand cures : Cure No. 54,816, from the Rev. James T. Campbell, Syder stone Rectory, near Fakenham, Norfolk : "In all cases of in digestion, and particularly where the liver is affected, I consider it the best of all remedies.—James T. Campbell." Cure No. 71, of Dyspepsia, from the Right Honourable the Lord Stuart de Decies : " I have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabian Food. Stuart de Decies."—Cure No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolt', `Northam Ling, near Diss, Norfolk."—Cure No. 52,087: Field-Marshal Ova Duke of Pluskow, of a gastric inflamma tion of the stomach.—Cure No. 51,614: Baron de Polentz, Prefect of Langenau, of many years' horrible sufferings of the nerves and an obstinate constipation. Cure No. 47,121: Miss ElizabetA Jacobs of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a care of extreme nervousness indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.— Cure No. 48 , 314 : Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Li Verpool : a cure of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of nervous irritability. —Cure No. 18,216: Dr, Andrew Ure, of constipation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability.—Cure No. 34,210: Dr. Shorland, of dropsy and debility.—Cure No. 36,212: Cap tain Allan, of epileptic fits.—Cure 42,116; Major Edie, of enlargement of the liver, and total prostration of strength ..--Cure No. 36,418: Rev. 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MEDICAL ADVICE. DR. LA'MERT, Registered L.S.A., Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, M.D. of the University of Erlangen, &a, may be CONSULTED on all cases of Debility, Nervousness, and en the Secret In firmities of Youth and Maturity, trom Eleven till Two, and from Six till Eight, at his residence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON Dr. Lanlert has just published, price Sixpence, with nu merous Engravings and Cases, a New Edition of his Work, E L F-PR ESE RVATION, which will be sent free, in a sealed envelope, by Hann, 39 Cornhill, Loudon, or by the Author. for Eight stamps. CONTENTS. SECTION I.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs. SECTION ll.—Puberty--Manhood —The 'Morale of Genera lye Physiolny—Trne and False Morality. SECTION lll.—Marriage in its Moral, Social, and Physical Relations—lts Expectancies and Disappointments—Advan tages of Physical Contrasts in securing - Healthy Offspring. SECTION IV.—Spermatorrhma and Impotence—The causes of Sterility in both Sexes—Self-inflicted Miseries. SECTION V. —The Vices of Scbools—Effects of certain per nicious habits on the mental and general faculties. SECTION Vl.—Treatment of Nervous and Generative De bility—lnTotence and Sterility—Dail;erous Results of various Hazardous Specifics—The Author's Principles o f Treatment ; Medical, Dietetic, and General, derived from Twenty Years' successful practice' ,The above work is intr , ded for the perusal of those who have in early life been inflow,' to Sl4 - ':'Vc from the strict rules of morality. In its pages tacts of parkmount utility are brought together, wholly divested of tne delusions and incon sistencies so largely introduced into certain quasi medical publications given to the world gratis, under the tfuise of philanthropy, or as "acts of gratitude," by pretended clergy men and others, whose tamperings with the constitution are frequently followed by serious consequences. • .. 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L,.. 0, 15 , ',;..,.. , --- 0r...' 4 A a ) *\. --fi rt : *4 6 .-,_ , i , ..,,.... - 4 )" . :2 0 p , ..," ~" )ur petitioners submit to the considerationW,,yout . house that, if it b e thought adviaable 'te 6x 4 - 1 -r:- '• 1: t . end the existing system of pew - rents; r a-paynfe.4 ...'''..:* '\\ 6d. per quarter on each of 3,ooo , oo o,;4titigs - -- . '''' ...`S7 raise £300,000, and would still leavkiniiifih-14401 , ~‘,Y.:,1 number of sittings free to the pc:Or:MO*o A * - ali.a t i > any reason to suppose they actuallynteitili ". ,a , r,z,... "18. That your petitioners find \it :',:dite-iglit : 4V, , , I imagine that the abolition of ehurch N ratea lar . :tjaVa4:' ../ parishes where they are still levied wouWin idly S degree injure the poorer parishioners ; that it would give direct relief to many ratepayers ill able to pay the rate ; and that, assuming, as your petitioners do, as much readiuess on the part of the members of the Church of England as that displayed by members of other communions to provide the means of divine worship according to their ability, they do not perceive any respect in which the services of the Church would be less available for the poor than they now are. " 19. That for many years pasta general anxiety i has prevailed to effect a final settlement of this ' much controverted question. That your petitioners, sharing this anxiety, were willing in 1856 to acquiesce in arrangements then believed to be likely to pass into law, although such arrangements were not in perfect accordance with their own views. That, on the other hand, the supporters of the rating system have never agreed among themselves as to the principles which should govern any modifica tion of the existing law. That every proposal of modification has been regarded with disfavour by your hon. house, but that the bill of the hon. mem ber for Tavistock, for the simple and immediate abolition of church-rates, has received the approval of your hon. house in three successive Parliaments —a sufficiently convincing proof, as your petitioners submit, that it is a measure in harmony with the views and wishes of the public. " 20. That the persevering, earnest, a n d cost l y efforts which have been mad of late years for the abolition of church rates have been made with a view to put an end to a system which is sincerely believed—wheresoever and upon whomsoever it may operate—to be injurious to religion, and not with any intention of claiming exemption for such only as may object to compulsory exactions for ecclesiastical objects. 21. That, in the opinion of your petitioners, the association of the public authority of law with a permission to large classes of her Majesty's sub jects to obey it O r no t, - as t h ey may individually prefer, would be an impolitic and even dangerous novelty in the jurisprudence of the country, and would involve the injustice ofcompelling a large class cf citizens to make personal claims for exemption from a tax to which they ought not to be subject. " 22. That, in rural parishes especially, the pro posed exemption would fail to give the relief in tended, inasmuch as the undue but irresistible in fluences which now prevent opposition to the mak ing a rate in vestry would operate quite as power fully to deter individual objectors from claiming exemption ; and that, even if such exemption were largely claimed, it would necessarily increase the amount payable by those who absent themselves from all places of worship, and would probably in crease their indifference or antipathy to religion. " 23. That, for these and other reasons, your peti tioners believe that no law for the exemption of themselves only would be accepted by the opponents of church rates in the parishes as a final settlement or the question ; and that, therefore, the ill will oc casioned by the exaction wouldstill continue. " 24. That your petitioners cannot discover any reason which is not equally good for all other Christian communions why Protestant Episcopa lians should be enabled to use the machinery of public law for the purpose of defraying the cost of their religious worship; and that the extension of sucbipower to churches of every other denomina tion would be perilous as a precedent, and might in the end prove disastrous to the general as well as the religious interests of the country. " 25. That your petitioners, in seeking the aboli tion of church rates, are influenced by no feeling of hostility to Protestant Episcopalians, nor are they desirous of effecting any change in their doctrines, their formularies, or their discipline ; on the contrary they firmly believe that the extinction of this coin• pulsory ecclesiastical exaction, besides tending to promote the general good of the people and the interests of religion, would stimulate, rather than check, the prosperity of the Episcopalian body. " 26. That, while your petitioners do not conceal, but, on the contrary, have always avowed, their desire to bring about, in a constitutional manner, other changes in the laws affecting the relationship of the State to religious bodies, they declare their unaffected belief that the abolition of church rates would restore peace to the parishes in which they are now the occasion of lamentable dissensions, and would thus leave the discussion of other and larger measures to be carried on under circumstances far less likely to excite personal animosities and local strifes. " Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your honourable house to satisfy the just expectations of the country by once more passing the bill for the entire abolition of the church rates. And your petitioners will ever pray. " Signed on behalf of the petitioners, " IVILLIAM EDWARDS, Chairman." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1860. NATIONAL PROVINCI AL BANK OF ENGLAND, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London, 23d March, 1860. The Directors of the National Pros ductal Bank of England Hereby Give Notice, That in consequence of the death of Isaac Nicholson, Esc] , there will be .2. Vacancy in the Direc tion, to be filled up at the Annual General Meeting ot•the Society, to be held onlhe 10th day of :41 ay next, and,tkat every shareholder intending to become oi• to propose a candidate for the office of Director must, within. ten days from the date hereof; sigr,nify by some writing und(!r his or her hand, to be left at the Office of the Society in the City of London. either his intention to become a candidate it the name and place of abode of the candidate intended to , be proposed by him or her. —By Order of the Court of three tors, DAN. ROBERTSON,. Agent and Manager. N.B.—No Proprietor is eligible to 1 .e elected a Director who has not been a proprietor of at least twenty £10',.) shares or one hundred £2O shares for six ealenesi rniontlis, or to propose a candidate unless a proprietor for at least ten £lOO shares or fifty £2O shares. P U RSUANT to an Order of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause "J sanes Williams Thomas, plaintiff, against Francis Thomas. d efendant," the creditors of JAMES THOMAS. late of Albion -house, East India-road, Poplar, in the county of Middlesex, a ad of Fowkes-buildings, in the city of London, lighterman, d et eased, who died in or about the month of July, 1859, are, by their solicitors, on or before the 17th day of April, 1860, to x•me in and prove their debts at the chambers of the Vice-(l3hancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, No. 3, Stone Betildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or in default thereof the ,y will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the sa id Order. Monday, the 23d day of April, 1860, at twelve o'c'lock at noon, at the said chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims.— Dated this eighth day of 'March, 1860. CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk. WILDE, REES, HUMPHUY, and WILDE, College-hill, Plaintiff's Soli ci tors. CHRTSTY'S MINSTRELS, :P o ly gra phi c Hall, King William-street, Strand.—ra rewell Season in Lon don.—Every Eveninsr, at 8, and every ;.;aturday Morning at :3 o clock. 'Tickets and places may be secured at the Hall from 11 till 4, and at Mr. Austin's Wei it-end Box-office, St. James's Hall, Piccadilly.—Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. J. W. RAYNOR. THE NATIONAL ASSEM BLY ROOMS, NIGH .HOLBO This Establishment, pre-eminently distinguished for the elegance and matchless beauty of its .lecorations, "combined with the perfection of its managerne) tt is OPEN EVERY EVENING'. The celebrated band, imeter the direction on'tlr. - W. N. 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THE PAPER TRADE -•-,--.-- TO THE EDITOR OF THE Sir,—There is nothinr, easier, and nothing is more, common with as class a' men who•measum other People by their own standard, than to impute im proper motives, where it is found impossible to con tend by fair argument ; and if it be discovered that! the interests of the individual are in harmony with the cause he is advocating, this accidental coinci dence is held to be a sufficient refutation of the ar guments set forth. In stepping forth as the defender of the trade with which 17 am connected from the unjust and oppressive legislationwith which we are threatened by the unconciitional remission of the Oustoms'cluty of id. per lb. upon paper imported from foreign countries, I anticipated, a.nd was fully prepared for, this ungeneroug interpretation of my motives, as will be seen by reference to my first letter, where I say, " Oh, it will be said, this is part of the old rag ; free-trader in everythieg hut what affects his own interests." Thus prepared, I am not surprised to find my anticipations realised ; and if I had. no regard for your space, I might retort upon my adversaries, by inquiring whether the 'course of legiSlation which they so zealously recommend is dictated by pure patriotism, unalloyed by a trace of self-interest; or whether it does not partake in some degree of that very common. human frailty—a desire to benefit themselves. Who is this " public" on whose behalf the pap er duties ha ve b een repealed at a sacrifice of upwards of a million and a quarter of revenue, and on whose behalf an unconditional surrender of the import duty is demanded ? It is no small favour to the proprietors of the cheap newspapers, and the publishing interests generally, to be relieved from-a tax equivalent to 20 per cent.. on the, paper faey - use,' , inVolvrtig= the placing of this burden on the broader shoulders of the income-tax payer by 'an increase of a I.d. in the pound; and yet they demand the sacrifice of a whole trading interest to their inordinate cupidity. The struggle now going on is not whether the trade of the :English papermaker shall be sacrificed for the benefit of the whole community, but it is whether the paper trade shall be sacrificed for the benefit of the newspaper and publishing trade; and it is no answer to the charge of injustice which I have advanced. that in defending the paper trade from the assaults now made upon it, as I think most unfairly, I am thereby defending my own in terests . . Notwitintanding the sneerinr, taunts which are levelled again s t me , I stand, unabashed, the uncom promising advocate of free trade and. the defender of paper trade at the same time. I do not sue in forma pauperis for mercy at the hands of the Government ; 1. do not as k f or pro tection. I dema n d j us ti ce , I ask for free trade, in the sense in which it is applied to the. great trading interests of this country ; I ask only to be put upon the same footing as the cotton spinner, the flax spinner, the woollen manufacturer and the silk manufacturer. If I am to be called upon, like them, to meet the world's market in my manufactured article, I want, like them, to have access to a common source for the raw material of manufacture. The English cotton spinner and manufacturer meets his foreign com petitor on equal ground, because they both buy their material from the same markets, and he fears no competition; and so do the linen, the 'woollen, and the silk manufacturers, they have all access to the markets of the world for the purchase of their raw material, and they are, therefore, in a position to meet their foreign competitors, let the competition arise where it may. Is there injustice, or any cravi ng for favour, in asking that the p a p erma k er be placed in a similar position ? " Oh, no ," it i s responded, " there is no injustice in your request; it is quite fair and reasonable ; and we should be very glad if we could obtain for you the same position which all other trades enjoy ; but, you see, foreign Governments are so obstinate in their refual to allow rags to be exported, that we cannot place you in this desirable and just position ; but is this," say they, " any reason why we should not buy foreign paper, and allow it to enter this country free of duty, even though it be, as you say, that their paper can be made at a much cheaper rate than you can make it, arising from the great abundance and the arti ficially low price of the material from which it is made ?" I answer, " Unless you are entirely des titute of English sympathies---unless you desire to aid foreign Governments in the selfish policy they have laid, down, and to close the door for ever to a more just and equitable state of things—unless you wish to help them to take advantage of their own , ffrong—unless you. are prepared to place this country in a position. of dependence on foreign countries for the supply of paper, and to witness the destruction of an useful and important manu facturing interest, giving employment to a large amount of labour— un l ess, " I say, " you have well considered and are prepares f or al l t h e consequences, you ought not to admit foreign paper free from countries which maintain an export duty on rags."- If the position o f th e English cotton spinners, the woollen manufacturers, the linen and silk ma nufacturers be only one of bare justice and equity, then the position in which the English papermaker without the p r i v il ege, will be placed by th e admission of foreign paper enjoy e d b those other great interests, of b u yi ng their materihls from a common source, being t o t a ll y d i fferent, it therefore cannot be a position based on e i ther justice or equality. I illustrate my m ean i ng b y putt i ng a hypo- y thetical case, and I will take the cotton trade for the purpose. Supp , ,se that America, actuated by a desire to monopolise not only the growth, but also the ma nufacture of , cotton, were to lay a tax of 50 per cent. upon t:ne export of cotton ; would our Eng lish cotton spinners consider it fair to this great in terest if were proposed to admit American cloth and yatm freely to this country ? Would they be satisfied to be told' th at the thing would right it self in the course of a few years, and that in the mean time they must do the best they could ? Would they patiently endure to be reminded of the indomitable nature of English skill and enter prise ? Would any Government dare to make a proposal of this nature ? And if not, where is the difference between the position of the English papermaker as it will be if the proposed remission of the import duty is effected, and that which I have drawn of the cotton trade as it wou ld b e under similar circumstances . The only difference is, that the lime is a compara tively small and powerless interest, and the other is all-powerful —an imperium iii imperil. I am thankful, air, and the trade with which I am connected, and which is so seriously threatened, has reason to be grateful, that you; notwithstand ing that your interests appear to be in an opposite direction, have so generously afforded me the means of placing our case before the public; and if you will still afford me the opportunity, it shall not be my fault if thi s case i s no t better und ers t oo d . I am resolved th a t no o ne shall have the excuse o f ignorance for taking part in this act of injustice and oppression. _ _ I find that much doubt and misconception still exists as to the extent of this prohibitory system on the continent of Europe; and also as to the dif ferential cost at which paper can be made in these protected countries as Compared with Englisk manufacture. In Spain and Portugal and Belgium a prohibi tive law exists. In France the export of rags has been up to the present time prohibited, and the pro posed export tariff is 81. to 101. per ton. In Holland it is 121. 10s: per ton. In German, and the Zoll verein 91. p er t on . In Russia 61. per ton ; and these duties, it must be remembered, are from 50 to 100 per cent. upon the value of th e rags iu the re spective countries. Well, then, it is said that the foreigner labours under many disadvantages in inferior machinery, want of coal, &c. No greater mistake can be com mitted ; the fact of the foreign paper used abroad not being tie good as our ow n d oes not arise from their inability to make better, but because the taste and habits of the people make them content with a worse paper at a lower price. They have as good machinery (nearly all English make) ; they have labour at a much less cost, and the want of coal is more than counterbalanced by the abundance and cheapness of their water power ; and they are required, produce as good paper as can at a much smaller cost. eau, if they But one fact is worth a whole bundle of theories. A day or two ago I had put into my hand by a most respectable member of our trade a parcel of samples sent over from F rance and Germany, and the gentleman said, in Placing the samples in my hand, "I am prepared to take orders from you, or any one else, to any extent, itt the prices marked." I have since learnt that he has made large sales at these prices. It thus appe9.- that, notwithstanding the pscnt import duty is 2Ad. per lb., against our Excise duty of lAd , affording a protection to the home maker of id. per lb., this paper of foreign manufacture can now be brought into successful competition with our own ; and, such being the case ) I will leave it t o any reasonable man to con ceive the effect of a perfectly free import. It is -thought by some that this discrepancy in the price of material will right itself in time, by equalisihg -the price here with that on the Conti ' neat. 'I believe under no circumstances, short of a free export, could this be sensibly effected, on ac count of the immense area from which the Conti nental supplies are drawn ; but that, with an Ame rican demand constantly operating in our market, with a power to pay a much higher price than we can, this is rendered impossible. It now remains only to inquire on what grounds so many well-meaning men seem prepared to pre cipitate us into that unnatural contest, without power to help ourselves. I find no one prepared to deny the extreme hard ship of our case ; no one who would not, if th€y could, remove the obstacles to a free access to the foreign material; but, strange enough, those who thus profess to sympathise with us, who condemn the injustice of the proceeding—either from party tactics, or from its being, as th e y thi n k, an infrac tion of great principle—are intending to commit us to this unequal and ruinous contest. With as much justice might you throw two men into the river to swim for their lives, the one with every limb unfettered and the other with an arm and a leg tied up, and eall this a fair contest, as commit us to a race of competition with the foreign maker, hampered with an export duty on the material we require, under the pretence that this is free trade. What we ask from the public is that which the public seldom refuses—fair play; we ask to be placed on the same footing of free trade as the cotton, the woollen, the silk, and the linen manu facturers; and, placed in this position, we will fight our way as best we can ; and only until we can be placed in this position, and only -as a means of break ing down these selfish restrictions, we ask that a cpmpeAtating import duty of Id. per lb. be allowed id remain ; and we say, further, that to act other wise is to destroy a deserving trading interest, and to perpetuate the state of things on the Continent which is universally conderaned.—l am, sir, yours, THOMAS Cox's Hotel, Sermy n - s t ree t , March 23. WRIGLEY. HER MAJESTY'S .DRAWING-ROOM. Her Majesty he Queen held on Saturday her first Drawing-room this season in St. James's Palace. The following presentations to the Queen took place : Miss Allhusen, by Lady Knatchbull. Miss 'Annie Allhusen, by Lady Knatchbull. Lady Gertrude Amherst, by her mother, the Countess Amherst. Miss Adelaide Astley, by her aunt, Viscountess Torring ton. Miss Margaret Bagwell, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Bagwell. Miss Mary Beatson, by her mother, Mrs.. W. F. Beatson. Lady Diana Beauclerk, by She Duchess of St. Albans. Mrs. de Vere Beauclerk, by the Duchess of St. Albans. Miss Beauclerk, by Mrs. de Vero Beaucl erk. Mrs. Beaumont, of Whitley Beaumont, lry the Countess of Fife. Miss Belli, by Lady Beaumont. Mrs. Shadwell Boulderson, by Lady Grey. fi Miss Bertha Boulderson, by her mother, Mrs. Shadwell Boulderson. Miss Louisa Boulderson, by her mother, Mrs. Shadwell Boulderson. Mrs. Briggs, by Lady Mary Wood. Miss Brooke, by her mother, Mrs. Brooke. Miss Brown, by her mother, Mrs. Alexander Brown. Lady Elma Brace, by the ountess of Elgin. Mrs. Fordyce Buchan, on her marriage, by her mother, Lady Ross. Hon. Victoria Byng, by Viscountess Enfield. The Hen. Mrs. Henry Campbell, on her marriage, by the Hon. Mrs. George Campbell. - Mrs. Adolphus Carey, by Mrs. Cardwell. The Countess Cathcart, on accession to thp title, by Lady Georgians Cathcart. Miss Mary Cavendish, by the Hon. Lady Philips. Lady Colthurst, by Lady Rosa Greville. Mrs. Edward Cooper, on her marriage, by the Hon. Mrs. Spencer Ponsonby. Miss Catherine Cotes, by her mother, Lady Louisa Cotes. Lady Blanche Craven, by her mother, the Countess of Craven. Lacly Dunfermline, on coming to her title, by Viscountess Palmerston. Mrs, Herbert Edwardes, by Viscountess Palmerston, Mrs. Charles Ekins, by Lady Lugard. Miss Ekins, , by Mrs. Charles Ekins. Miss Fairman, by the Countess of Orkney. Miss Janet Farquharson, by Mrs. Farquharson, of Inver cauld. Lady Edith Ferguson, by the Duchess of Wellington. The Lady Augustus Fitz Clarence, by the Countess of Munster. The Hon. Mrs. Henry Forester, on her marriage, by Lady Harry Vane. Mrs. E. Ward Fox, by the Hon. Mrs. C. Grey. Mrs. Gabriel, by Lady Th eresa L ew i s . Mrs. Charles Gammon, by Mrs. Thomas Gabriel. Miss, Agnes Gladstone, by her mother, Mrs. William Gladstone. • Miss Lucy Grant, by Lady Frances Beiillie. The Viscountess Grey de Wilton, by her mother, the Countess of Craven. Mrs. William Granville Vernon Harcourt, on her mar riage, by Frances Countess of Waldegrave. Mrs. Hargreaves, by Mrs. Alexander Brown. Miss Louisa Hartopp, by her sister, Lady Scott. Lady Alice Hill, by the Marchioness of Downshire. Mrs. Hodson, by the Lady Mary Wood. Mrs. Cecilia Hook, by the Lady Alfred Pa get. Miss Hubbard, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Hubbard. Mrs. Clark Kennedy, upon her marriage, by the Coun tess of Home, in the absence of Viscountess Sydney. The Hon. Frances King, by her aunt, the Hon. Mrs. Lefroy. Miss King, by her cousin, the Hon. Mrs. Lefroy. Mrs. Laing, by Mrs. Gladstone. Mrs. William Leigh, of Woodchester, on her marriage, by Mrs. Washington Hibbert. Viscountess Lismore, by the Countess of Beasborough. Lady Lyveden, by Viscountess Palmerston. Mrs. Macleod, of Cadboll, by Lady Frederick Smith. The Right Hon. the Lady Mayoress, by Lady Palmer stoATMnih.rress..HTNohenow.mdiAa.igsrasMte. : o v l o s ni o l n iiha ( em M r m o N n aa t rr r p e ii a e i r ) ,e b b, y yby L hhe ad re y r John Russell. Lady Morshead, by Frances Countess of Waldegrave. ot, mother-in-law,Lad Dowager Lady Napier. y nst e an ll o P e ae p k e , I b b y ani L , ad b y y A t us he ol i . W ‘3 O ir d ss f s. o n r c d 00 . yn on. - Mrs. Frederick Pelham. l The Lady Powys, R a b d y s t o L e a kl y b yC the e rd l o tt e Dowagerehet ya Lady Radstock. Miss Reeve, by Mrs. Henry Reeve. Mrs. Charles Rigby, by the Marchioness of Chandos. Miss Russell, by Lady Love. Miss Laura. Russell, by Mrs. William Russell. Mrs. Henry Ayshford Sanford, on her marriage, by the Marchioness of Ely. the Lady Isabella Schuster, on her marr i age, b y her mother, Countess of Orkney. • Miss Horatio. Seymour, by her mother, Lady Emily Seymour. The Duchess of St. Albans, on her marriage, by the Countess of Fife. The Ron. Kate Stanley, by her mother, the Lady Stanley of Alderley. Miss Fanny Stephenson, by the Marchioness of Ely. Mrs. Duncan Stewart, by the Countess of Fife. M s Ethel Stewart, by her mother, Mrs. Duncan Stewart. is The Countess of Tankerville, by the Duchess of Man. , chester. Mrs. Tootal, by the Marchioness of Chandos. Mrs. Frederick Briscoe Tritton, by Lady Rosa Greville. lan The Hon. Mrs. Turner, by the Lady Catherine Wey- Miss Augusta Verschoyle, by her mother, Mrs. Vera choyle. Miss Alice Vivian, by Mrs. George Vivian. 111 s by r e VI! a ru Lady Elizabeth b y the C o l u v n a t t e hn. s e so f Munster. Mrs. Miss Willis, by her mother, Mrs. Willis. Miss Louisa Willis, by her mother, Mrs. Willis. Mrs. Wilmer Wilmer, by Lady Theresa Lewis. Miss Wilmer Wilmer, by her mother, Mrs. Wilmer Wilmer. Mrs. Woraley, by the Countess of Cathcart. MONEY VALUE OF ART.—The prices paid for specimens of pottery and porcelain afford striking instances of the power of art and opinion to confer value on mean materials. At Mr. Bernal's sale one of Palissy's small dishes, 12 inches di ame t er , w ith a 'lizard in the centre, was Geld for X 162. in the Ceramic. Court of the Crystal Palace, a most interesting and important collection, there is a Sevres plate for which £BOO, and a dish for which £l,OOO, have been offered. At one of the Government exhibitions at Gore House, two or three years ago, there were tw o small Sevres vases fo r w hi c h a d e al er to ld me he would give £3,ooo.—Goc , 's " Memorials of Workers." RAGS FROM INDIA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,-I am quite satisfied from the facts adduced in the !lanes that no raw fibre can be produced, at a remunerating price, fit for the manufacture of good paper, and that we must rely on rags alone for this purpose. I therefore suggest, through you, the most effectual mode that I know for advertising au opinion, that India and China are markets which ought to supply a large quantity. At least 200 million Indians are clothed almOst entirely, in cot ton and cottons are also the chi e f c l o thi ng o f f u ll double that number of Chinese, the rags of these , 600,000,000 of people never being used, that I am aware of, for manufacturing paper or any other use ful purpose, the paper of the Hindoos being made from cotton, and that of the Chinese from bamboo. ' That the rags could be had in abundance in both countries cannot, I think, be doubted, and the chief question for consideration is whether so low-priced an article as rags would bear the freight and charges of an Indian voyage. I imagine, however, that they would do so, when we find raw cotton imported, some of which is not more valuablethan'rags. That cotton is able to bear the cost of voyage rests chiefly on its being compressed by werful engines, which would be necessary a l so wit rags. In corroboration of the great extent of the con sumption of cotton fabrics in India and China it may be worth while to mention that our own ex• port of them in 1858 exceeded the value of £13,000,000.—1 am, sir, your obedient servant, March 22. I. C. THE NEW METROPOLITAN MEAT AND POULTRY MARKET. DEPUTATION TO THE HOME SECRETARY. A deputation attended on Saturday, by, appoint ment, at the Home-office, to explain to Sir G. C. Lewis and the Hon. C. Gore the plan proposed by the corporation for the erection of extensive whole sale markets to be connected by the Metropolitan Railway with the abattoirs at the Cattle Market and the great provincial railroads by which the metropolis is now chiefly supplied. The deputation consisted of Mr. Henry L. Taylor, chairman ; Mr. Ross and Mr. Gibbons, members of the Markets Improvement Committee; together with the City Remembrancer, the City Solicitor, and the City Architect. In consequence of the continued indis position of Sir G. C. Lewis, the deputation were received by Mr. Waddington, one of the Under- Secretaries of State, and by the Hon. C. Gore, Chief Commissioner of her Majesty's Woods and Forests. Mr. TAYLOR stated the objects contemplated by the corporation, and the architect explained various maps and models showing the position and charac ter of the proposed structure. The market is to be 600 feet in length by 240 feet in width, and from 20 to 30 feet in height. The site is north of Long lane, and will be surrounded on all sides by a road 60 feet wide. Mr. WADDINGTON observed that since the last interview the committee had had with the Home Secretary he understood that some important changes had been made in the design. He wished to have those alterations explained, in order that he might apprise Sir G. C. Lewis of their character and extent. Mr. TAYLOR said that the site, size, and shape of the market would be precisely the same as he had described them at the last meeting. The Home Sec retary, after that meeting, had signified to the cor poration the general approval by the Government of the principle involved in the plan, but lie required further information as to the mode contemplated ' for the appropriation of that part of the ancient site south of Long-lane which was not to be used for the market or surrounding roads ; that additional information the committee had endeavoured to supply by a letter addressed to the Chief Commis sioner of Woods and Forests, a copy of which had been likewise sent to the Home Secretary. As that letter had stated, the purchase of the land for the market and roads was estimated by the archi tect at so large a sum, and the cost of such an ex tensive building was necessarily so large, as to render the committee anxious, if possible, by con necting the market with the metropolitan railway system, to obtain a rental for the use of the base ment floor, and both expedite and cheapen the con veyance of meat from the country as well as from the abattoirs at the Metropolitan Cattle Market into the new establishment. Unless this could be accomplished, the committee had felt it necessary to pause before they could recommend the Com mon Council to embark in such a great experiment. Mr. GORE remarked that the proposed appropria tion of the site of Smithfield Market was not in conformity with the recommendation of the com missioners who conducted an inquiry upon the sub ject in 1856; they recommended that it should be retained as an open space. Mr. TAYLOR observed that that recommendation was principally founded upon the objection to have buildings erected so as to impede the free circulation of air. The present plan was not amenable to that objection. Almost the whole of the ancient site would be uncovered. The market itself would not be so lofty as the houses it would displace. The 60 feet road by which it was intended to surround the buildings would far more than compensate for the small portion of the ancient site on which a part of the market would stand. Unless the small por tion of ground not exceeding one-third of an acre could be obtained for a descending waggon road to the basement floor under the market, as shown in the model, the railway companies would not con nect their lines with the market, for beneficial as it would be to the public and the market that the connection should take place, the profit on carrying from 60,000 to 80,000 tons of meat a-year would not be sufficient to remunerate them for their great outlay. The return for their outlay must be sought for in the saving of cartage upon City goods which were now taken to and from Camden-town and Paddington in waggons and vans. The CITY SOLICITOR said he had already entered into an arrangement with the railway companies, by which one thousand of the industrious classes would be taken out of town nightly, and brought back daily, at a charge of one shilling each person. If her Majesty's Government will: allow the rail way companies to employ the unproductive half acre of the ancient site which they require to make it worth their while to bring their railroads into Smithfield, he had not the slightest doubt but that, within two years from that time, they would see a train started from that very spot, upon the terms stated, with a thousand of the warehousemen, por ters, mechanics, and humble classes, who are now compelled, by the force of circumstances, to inhabit the unwholesome dwellings in that densely-popu lated neighbourhood. Assuming the average of five to each family, the first result of this mighty measure of social improvement would be to re lieve the City of fifty thousand of its over-crowded population. %Ir. Waddington and Mr. Gore then said that they could not give any mower to the application Pk ICE 4 D . STAMPED, P. of the Corporation, but that the statements made by the deputation should be faithfully reported to the Home Secretary and the Lords of the Treasury, upoia whom the decision would rest. Tre deputation, having expressed their acknow ledgments, then retired. [Advertisement.] TUE Cif u_R TB ABOLITION BILL, The following petition of the Executive Corn mittee of the Liberation Society was presented to the% House of Commons by Mr. Bright, on Wed. nesclay last : " To the Hormurble the Commons ,of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled. "The humble Petition of th e Executive Committee of the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control, " Showeth,— "1. That in the opinion of your petitioners, the association of the Christian religion with compul sory exactions for the purpose of repairing its edifices, or defraying the expenses incident to divine worship therein, is contrary to the spirit of the Holy Gospel ; tends to beget misconceptions of its beneficent design; checks to a considerable extent the exercise of cheerful self-sacrifice to which it prompts, and renders necessary a resort to ma chinery the working of which inevitably awakens feelings at variance with the genial, kindly, and sacred influences which Christianity brings to bear upon the human heart. " 2. That your petitioners have good grounds for believing that church rates originated in the volun tary oblations of parishioners. That otherwise, as your petitioners conceive there must be, or have been, some process at common law to enforce the making or payment of the 3R,te., jaiat no trace of any such process or wriecan discovere'd as having at any time existed ; and that in the case of 'Veley v. Burder,' commonly called the Braintree Case, the judges, although of opinion that the repair of the parish church by the parishioners is an obligation at common law, generally admitted that there is no compulsory process at common law, to enforce such obligation. That, accordingly, the Superior Courts at Westminster have uniformly declined to enforce the making or payment of any church rate, except in cases arising under some local or other special act of Parliament. " 3. That, in seeking the abolition of church rates, your petitioners submit that they are aiming to re store the voluntary character (so far as the parish ioners were concerned) of the system whereby originally churches were kept in repair, and the expenses of divine worship therein were defrayed. " 4. That the custom which eventually took the present form of church rate, by which the majority of parishioners in vestry assembled could bind all the ratepayers of the parish to pay their quota towards the objects for which such rate was made, originated at a period when the whole population were of one faith, and could avail themselves of the accommodation thereby provided for their spiritual benefit; but that since the prevalence and legal tolerance of diverse views of both Christian doctrine and discipline, the exaction has become oppressive to the consciences and repugnant to the feelings of a large and increasing number of subjects of the realm, who at their own cost have erected thousands of places of worship, all the religious agencies con nected with which they maintain by means of voluntary contributions. " 5. That while church rates are leviable on the whole rateable population of the country, the ac commodation provided by the churches to the main tenance of which they are applied is utterly inade quate to satisfy the correlative rights of the parishioners. " 6. That very many churches have been built and are kept in repair by members of the church of England, without any recourse to a parochial rate; and that such persons, in common with Dissenters, feel the injustice of being compelled to pay an ec clesiastibal tax from which they derive no corre sponding advantage. " 7. That although such injustice might be re dressed by enabling district parishes to make their own rates, and relieving them from payment to wards the mother church, this extension of the tax to purposes hitherto provided for by voluntary means would not only be in violation of the pledge given to the Legislature at the passing of the act of 1830 and subsequent acts, in virtue of which many district churches have been erected, but would necessarily displace a large amount of healthy exertion and contributions now cheerfully devoted to the maintenance of such churches, and would impose a heavier burden on the community at large. "8. That your petitioners, judging from re peated declarations made at vestry meetings, and from the still more decisive evidence of votes, where polls have been taken, have good reason to believe that a considerable number of members of the Church establishment would deprecate an ex tension of the existing compulsory system, even although any grievances of their own might be thereby redressed. " 9. That a general opposition to church rates originated shortly after the extinction by act of Parliament of church cess in Ireland in the year 1832 ; and that, many years before the formation of the society of which your petitioners constitute the executive committee, such opposition was so de cided as to compel the Ministers of the Crown to admit the urgent necessity for an alteration of the law, and, in accordance with such admission, to make a proposal to Parliament, the object of which was that church rates should cease and determine.' " 10. That such opposition has never since abated, but has very greatly increased since the judicial decision of the House of Lords in the Braintree case. 11. That, so far from it being the fact that only 500 parishes have refused to make rates, it appears, from a return presented to your honour able house in 1856 (No. 319) that, out of the 1,672 places making returns, 1,130 had ceased to make rates. That such return, while altogether omit ting, as your petitioners know, many populous places where rates have also ceased to be levied, showed that the parishes where they had ceased contained a population of 6,126,151, against a popu lation of 7,084,249 in the ether parishes—the average population of the parishes still making rates being below 1,000, while that of the parishes refusing was more than 5,000. " 11. That a later return, with a supplement thereto, presented in 1859 (No. 4 and No. 4 I.), and embracing 10,165 parishes, respecting which infor mation is given, shows that for seven years no church rates had been levied in 1,605 parishes ; that in 2,673 parishes the rate was supplemented by voluntary rates of subscriptions, and to a small extent by endowments,and that the whole num b er of parishes in which the maintenance of the fabrics and of the services is dependent on the church rate exclusively is but 5,444. 13. That the general and progressive character of the opposition to this impost is further illus trated by the Parliamentary returns presented from 1827 to 1859 ; inasmuch as it is thereby shown that the sum annually derived from church rates has continuously declined—it having within that period fallen from £519,000 to £260,000. " 14. That, nevertheless, such returns fail to give an adequate idea of the extent of hostile feeling with which this ecclesiastical impost is regarded, inasmuch as, besides omitting many parishes in which rates are no longer levied, they take but little cognisance of the strong but unavailing oppo sition of minorities, and give little or no informa tion as to the numerous cases in which the collec tion of a church rate has been found impracticable, either on account of its invalidity, or of the antici pated number of recusants to the demand. " 15. That, notwithstanding the great diminu tion of the amount annually raised by means of church rates, churches have not, in consequence thereof, fallen into decay, nor has divine worship ceased to be performed therein ; on the contrary, as your petitioners are informed, more care has been bestowed, and more money expended, on the repair and decoration of the ancient churches than during any corresponding term in the entire period when church rates formed almost the only available fund for such purposes. 16. That, from the concurrent testimony of the returns laid before Parliament in 1856 and 1859, it appears that of the money raised by means of church rates a very small portion, if any, is req u i re d f or th e pur pose of repairing the ' churches, there being in fact raised, chiefly from voluntary subscriptions, which those returns show to be both permanent and increasing, an amount which, if applied solely for that purpose, would be nearly an adequate provision. " 17. That, in particular, it appears from th e re turns of 1859, that the average sum annually ex_ pended in the repair of the fabric during the seven years then preceding was £310,000, and that during the same period there was received, independ en tly of church rates, an average sum of £269,000, leaving a balance of only £40,000 a year to be otherwise provided for. That it appears by the census of re ligious worship that there are upwards of 5,000,000 pittingl belonging to the Church of England; and GRANITE DUSTY ROADS. In some former numbers of the Lancet we no ticed the fact, not generally known, that emana tions from animal and vegetable deposits in our streets, mixed with granite dust—impeding the drainage of our sewers and contaminating the waters of the Thames—are sources of disease, and highly prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants of this metropolis. The injury to the lungs and air-passages by inhaling granite dust, we also ob served, is an additional evil to which the public of London are exposed. We now find, by the evi dence adduced before a committee of the House of of Commons as to the causes of the noxious exhala tions from the Serpentine, that the macadamised roads all round the metropolis, as well as the granite in the streets of London, have contributed, for a series of years past, to the augmentation of these evils. The accumulation of mud in that ornamental piece of water have reached i n certain parts a depth of eight feet ; and when this sedi ment becomes exposed to the solar heat in sultry seasons, decomposition and noisome emanations fol low as matters of course. Another important fact, which appears to have been also overlooked, is, that a great obstacle to utilising for agricultural purposes the sewage of the metropolis and other large towns is the quan tity of mud washed into the common sewers from macadamised roads. This ev il can on l y b e eflectu tually provided against by the universal adoption of the improved system of roa d- ma ki ng, termed the Composite ,System," by which the broken granite is permanently embedded in a bituminous cement, so as to prevent this constant grinding into dust. The blocks are of a large size, and are brought into the streets ready made ; and, being impervious, they are free from noxious exhalations. The economy of this mode of paving is undeniable. Mr. Gibson, President of the Board of Trade, Mr. M'Kinnon, M.P., and other inhabitants of Hyde-park-place, have, we understand, in conjunc tion with Sir James Duke, the Rev. Mr. Beard, and other inhabitants of Portland-place, made various representations to the Vestry of Marylebone to substitute this system for the Macadam ; but it is as difficult to get some v vestrymen en to travel out of the antiquated rut of routine as it was in days of yore to induce them to admit that gas was superior to oil for street illumination, or to get stage-coach and post-horse proprietors to acknowledge the superio rity of steam power on railways over animal power on common roads. We are glad to find that L or d F ermo y is taking an active partin removing the evils of the Serpentine, and we should lik e t o see hi m ta k e t h e l e ad in the formation of an association for providing a remedy for these evils, by the adoption of this improved system of covering roads. All the metropolitan members might take a part in such a movement, as the health an d com f or t of their constituents must always be matters of importance to them; and nothing could contribute more to such results than the removal of mud, dust , and deafen ing noises from our streets. It may be very true, as it always has been, that there ar e certain vested interests in the ma intenance of abuses , and that contractors and scavengers,with du . st-carts, mud-carts,&c.,w ou ld l ose something systemo ft h of l e e n a o o r l m i oeuspssu whichprofits blie ni is not would ltdlih k e ne a ol d ty o r p te 0: t i qu i r e their aid ; but the n submit to nuisances, the subject of such general complaint ; nor can the ratepayers be expected to submit much longer to the far g reater outlay for the maintenance of such evils th an will henchforth be required for their removal. Facts are stubborn things, and truth must prevail sooner or later.-- Lancet. A REMARKABLE PROPERTY OF IRON.—In the year 1856, says a contemporary, Mr. March, an able che mist connected with the Royal Arsenal, discovered that it was an invariable rule with iron which has remained a con siderable time under water, when reduced to small grains or an impalpable powder, to become red hot, and ignite any substances with which it comes in contact. This he found by scraping some corroded metal from a gun, which ignited the paper containing it, and burnt a hole in his pocket. The knowledge of this fact is of immense importance, as it may account for many spontaneous fires and explosions. The tendency of moistened particles of iron to ignite was die. covered by the great French chemist, Lemary, as far back as the year 1670. We learn from the Hereford Journal that the Right lion. Lord Llanover will figure at the Monmouth assizes as defendant in an extraordinary trial for libel, pre. ferred against him by Mr. Stone, of Llangattock, a gentle man well known in the fashionable aid sporting circles in this part 9f the cinua try. ne damages reach a high figure. =` - J