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RINALIAN'S Lt. WHISKY. - DUBLIN , 1865. Tlll5 celebrat e d OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin prize Medal. It p,, g —ro, Mild, Mellow Delicious, and very Wholesome. old in Bottles 3s. 8d., , at the Retail Houses in London; by ' 45 a gents in the Principal tcwns in England; or wholesale at 8 , GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. voserve the Red Seal Pink Label and Cork Branded " /Una ham Whisky. MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION 14 , RlTS ( ncorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859), ELL - STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. LONDON, ADVANT,-, d QUEEN'S-ROAD, BRIGHTON h o l d 0 ' ES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free Forr Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, repay- Mal weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. orits free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. ROYAL MUSIC HAL L, HOLBORN. • Proprietor, Mr J. S. Sweasey. Continued Success of the Easter Entertainment. _ .Arthur Loyd in his inmersonations of Professor in the ,gst - Christy's Minstrell—E. D. Davis. the gre a test Ventrilo lof the da y — Professor Beanmont in his wonderful Illusions t g-4)—Lelia and Florence Ellis, the Juvenile Actresses—Mr. ---w urt " , the on final transformation dancer. in ten characters Iss Packer from the Theatre Royal, Gla,sgow—Miss ' ella, MissDuettists—andßeed, a host of other talented artistes. Dl N° tiee•-11Tr. P. Corri's (the Musical Director) Benefit will tale Wednesday. April 21. on which occasion Mr. F. Trot - will take the chair. Great Night of the Season. MACLAGAN IS COMING-MAY 10. MA- All D, E TUSSAUD'S Ne w 'ways Beautif u l. Al ways A t t ract i ve. R e d ecora t e d . R A X , ' I Bautiful Costumes.—Portrait Model of NADA ME n„,`-z_n ten L, and6d numerous Ad 'itians. Admission, ls.; Cb'ldren extra raoms, 6d. Open from 11 a.m. 61110 p.m. AR GYLL ROOMS.-OPEN EVERY Roo RVENING for 'lnstrumental Music and Dancing.—The and% a ha " been magniftcently re-decorated by Messrs. Rubardt o• The celebrated Band will perform during the week an attractive Pro Dan ce Music. mme of Operatic Selections and popular gra Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock. Admission, ls ; Balcony, 2s. WINDMILL STREET, PICCADILLY Musical Director and Conductor—Signor LUIGI CURTI " T AU DIABLE." ITE above Paste PATE is a most agreeable relish for Luncheon, B reakfast, &c. It will be found most useful for deviling Legs of Turkey, Fowl, Biscuits, &c. Also their ORIGINAL AND SUPERIOR ESSENCE ANCHOVY AND PURE PICKLES alanfield's Patent), To be obtained Wholenale and Retail:of JOHN BURGESS Arm SON,! 107, STRAND (Corner of Savov Steps), London, W.C. ASHLEY AND CO. FOR WINES. PER DOZEN. Very Fine Pale, Dry, or Golden Sherry 34s. Old Crushed Port (Dow's, Taylor's, and Cockburn's Shipping), Vintage Wines Sparkling Champagne, Imperial, Dry Mosseux, Sll - Qualite Superieure (Perrier's Shipping) 36s. to 545. Sample cases of the above, containing two bottles Port, two bottles Sherry, two Champagne, forwarded free for 21s. GARRICK-STREET, COVENr-GARDEN. 113 B. HALL, of Printing House-square, 8.C., • next the "Times," London.—Wholesale Agent and Consignee for MCHOLS and STONES' (the Burton Brewery) celebrated PALE and other ALES; Keatinge and Co.'s famous Bordeaux Wines and Charente Brandies; and Irish and Scotch Whiskies, from several of the best distilleries. Samples can also be seen at the Times' Shades. BONA FIDE BUSINESSES.—A. number of Hotels, Public Houses, &c., for disposal. Particulars of others wanted in town and country. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Dra w i ng - room , Libt ary , and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant as sortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obe lisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper Weights, &c., in Italian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derby shire Spar, &c. I mpor t e d an d manufactured by JAMBS TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS t o illustrate the new edition of Lyelrs Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facili tate the interesting" study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINERALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at 149, Strand. THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON and GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. Offices-1, Dale-street , Liverpool; 7, Cornhal; and Charing-cross, London. The Invested Funds now amount to £3,401,055, the Fire Revenue to £836,816, and that of the Life to £259,039. The moderate rates of premium, with a guaranteed fixed Bonus for the Life Policies 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 are paid thirty days after admission. JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretary. KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal street, Lincoln's-inn.—The Com►uittee earnestly APPEAL for FUNDS to defray the heavy current ex penses. Assistance is urgently needed. F. ALFRED BEDWELL, Vice-Chairman. JAMES BLYTH, Secretary. SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL, DREADNOUGHT, off Greenwich, for Sick and Diseased Seamen of All Na'icns, who aro received without any recommendation. The receipts from all sources during the past year were £879 less than the expenditure. SUBSCRIPTIONS thankfully received by Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankers, Birchin-lane : and by the Secretary, at the Society's office, 86, King William street, London, E.C. Qualification for a Governor, 21s. annually I:Life Governor, £lolos. N A'rIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common, Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861. under the patronage of H.R.U. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, E.G., whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of the kingdom. The objelt of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng lish education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house, and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other Wise provided for when they attain 15 years of age, to obtain suitable situations for them. The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions. HENRY KINGSOOTE, Treasurer, W H. Wiawicx Secretary. Office, 121, Pall-mall, W BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM, Mackenzie-park, Slough (formerly at Clapham-rise). Instituted 1827. Patron—Her Most 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 the 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 obtainsd on application to the Secretary. THOS. TILSON, Chairman. CHAS. LEE, M.A. 1 Hon. Soca. AUBREY C. PRICE, M.A., MAC Offices, 73, Cheapside, Lo ALFRED ndon, E.O KENZIE, Secretary. Bankers—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin lane ; and Moms. Haywood Brothers. Manchester. HEALTH RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. DU BARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids' and Infants' Food. THE ARABICA saves fifty times its costi n n 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, btemorrhoids liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousnesa, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neu ralgia, irritability, eleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps , spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, 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. IMPORTANT CAlTTiow.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than slopy imitations is to which, without autho rity, most audaciously attached. Henceforthdoubt the valuabl e properties of BaronLienboinge's will name RDu Barry's health -restoring Revalenta Arabica i nvalids' and Infants' Food, since to the . thousands of blessings it has already received now add that of his from invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may -bee* perfectly restored Holi ness the Pope, whose health h a s July 25th (Cure No. We quote from the Gazette du id by it after thirty years of unsuccessful m edical treatment. since, abandoning all Holy Father is excellent, especially 18,413);—"Rome, July 21st, 1866. 1 —The health of the to Du other remedies, he has confined hi mse lf en tirely Barry's R ovalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." Cure No. 5 8,216 of the Marchioness de Breban of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nese, irrit a bili ty with a nervous palpitation nervous nese, all over, bad intolerable nervous constant s l eep l essness, and t h e mos t nervous agitation. Cure No. 78, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de D oc i es, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Water ford ;_u I have derived mu c h benefit from your excellent food.—STUART nn Damns, Dromana, Cappoquin, County Waterford." Cure No. 49,832. —Of fifty years' indesc r ibable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, of Lynn, Norfolk. cough, constipation, Cure nervou sness No. 47,121. —Mi ss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme vous fancies. indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner- Cure No. 56 , 814 . —Mr. Sa mue l L axton, Leicester, of two years di ttrrh ma. The Food is sold in Canisters, at Is. lid. ; 11b., 2s. 9d., 1 h., 4s. 6d.; 121 b., 225. ; 241 b., 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. o anisters, carriage free on receipt of P. 0. Order. Also Du Birry s Revalenta Arabica Chocolate Powder is packed in tin canisters : Per 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at 65., for 288 cups at 305. , for 576 clips at 555. Being about cna pe nny per cup. The 305. and 555. tins are sent free IRY of carria DIT B ge in Engl an d on receipt of Post Offioe Order. also at bea ARRY and C o ., 7 7, R egent-street, London ; vortnum and Mason's ; also at 4, Cheapstde, 61 , Gr acechnicia-street • 6 3 and 150, Oxford-street • and 121, Ilelv D ica - rte L o ndon and all Grocers and ' Chemists • Ili,'" N T llll PRESIDEST. rimes.) )l's Magazine of id the Incoming son and Genera l r with the usual mtline of Grant'S may well stir' ety within so late not our business, desire to extra ct ich the article at ter says that after removed—a ail s ' d General good Lance " with the Lphed to Genera l mission to marc h ght through the L of 3bo miles to i was full of 10 ,05 * ;ers. Grant wa s nd thinking and the telegram i ll reread it se're" ced with a vigour his silent cogit iv over suffieient l f , ibmitted the cu rt Anion of his ofA' ke of it or v 4 310 lassed no opini on ard what everr am in his pocicOf s lips, and said , preparatory d t° .general must o ar we are all of ti ll On the nig ht addressing an of the Whit e now where She iere he will collie 4 Grant. 1116 4 show the love , the Union fo orifice anything' ntion that noaii' second term 05 L 864, a Wester n ted a story of A io had seven s °l3s he North. The y sent a depti t3 ; nan on her gr e ' s , .n," said the op, when I wa s 3 Coining, and stead of seven t° .'be writer thi ol;s Grant's rr ° : ; repudiation is/ A` stions are smal l ' i this. And 006 „ a very consid e. t—is that a yeti people does o°l repudiation is $ll bankers of loston, and to I” throughout the let's and meell°' of the Souther° iority of the lj j ' rn war debt, 313 nn the weight °i p to pay the er The questing of wisdom, 's foot-130W IV' w what Anie r f i ; the Union. ` n . is of that Va i° ,l' his matter, 9° ; &mild they 130. he battle-fie le. t is possible Of we doubt th °t ' advance to t bt : than last f```l ' tted, and dri ve " ) not think bel id : at no one call ‘ 4 'ELLIGEP- ;enabled at O i l ; O'Connell, 9 :1 'he presiden t 0 3., 3d Drag ° , ,red as Judg e d be promuliP t known. „ ji g lth ° le remainder igade at Al der/ tjor-Genera l so 2d battal w o Akington ; Meade; s , Arn Bo: det ers) es and mar t np, where t b o o eral in vario°,l executed, tO l arching Pas" r, iron pa dd , l l l ° ; oken up in " c e ck will at ° ° i( e double-acre , is, 2,107 t °d 1 : ‘ , xpected t° fo t commission ,0 0 1 bilious, no r ' te ora o re only a,g,, m ot, ;ion, but pert,ol nta, Arabica.,ro,, been cou , '"A igh, asthistla . „ , op t gastric cle'-ij V a? r ; aacy, nervou s atarrhs, col ,;;p l s ttism, gout, 'OO • Lity, sleeplo,eo ol l debility, w - n t , pregnancY„j j er, less of the s' . the shoulder s 4 ri by Du - 13 ,10 he s ', 3, abandOcrrt i l 31y to Du 1 ,0 1 ,:j guines P „oci; isingly beo:: annot prals.°4idl e i l aze tt e du . I 'o arts, timbe r . o 4 di s eased 1 ,,,0,1 artial )rd Lieuteo?; . 49,832. _ o e sia, nervo us 4 ms, sickne ° ol leware of the.aloo to which, 1 3 edio do us lv atta c . ; 5 lbs. I is. , 0 0 ( ii A Ar2P l cA ford 2 cups at V r "..'6 0,9 ,t to! 4s. tr e i 30s. i.ucl 0 0 „. 'elpt of F°' - egent-atreeL ro House, ifi elf te di ire, 1101° r ef 3r ll on-super" EIIBO 1- , ea, to, we I, Esc', °' (PP' , Sout h c,1 ; 4 %, lf' •0 oxou, to 11; 11; Rogers, - ,om 11') ~ ~el . _ 1,0•°, pe ilia, a° ok, ) o it TAO."' i ' Till, & ,;ANDS pi the Nootto ./r • r , 1111111111 h:: • ri„,, • . f; 4".. co • —'% t_ g 1-7,, 1 • t , .. • 7 4 1 Z, 3 • . • E 7 * q. fl: 4 * 41114 5. ' P • , t‘ •„, ftS k Ill* * P 7 1" -- RECEIVEi 16 tio r ""'" . -411401 b. ., 1 01 l DRorr. , • • i g ••• N°. 23,078. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. EH. ()ART. Just ready, in 3 vols., MADAME SILVA'S SECRET. By MRS. ELIOART, Author of "Meg," &c. :Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.' ~+ L---~ -~~ PRICK . . 4d. STAMPED sd. INCORPORA'TED LAW SOCIETY,' U.K. LECTURES and LAW CLASSES, 1868-69. LECTURES. Three Courses of Lectures on Common and Mercantile Law, Conveyancing, and the Law of Real Property and Equity, will be delivered in the Hall of the Society in the months of April, May, and June next. LAW CLASSES. In connexion with the lectures classes will be conducted under the guidance and superintendence of the lecturers, and will proceed concurrently with the lectures. The number of subscribers to each class will bo limited, and the ie:4-nction given will bo confined to an examination of the students upon the subject of a preceding lecture, or on portions of a give book b-aring on the same subject. A sufficient number of classes will follow each lecture, and be of such duration as shall provide for the efficient instrue tion and examination of the students. The teaching of the lectures will thus be amplified, and impressed on the memoy by t clases ; and the system of constant ex sminarlion will he s test, from time to into, the progress made by the students. LEC I URES on COMMON and MERCANTILE LAW, by CID RLES HENRY ANDERSON, Esq., Barrister at-Law. The Course will consist of Nine Lectures upon the fol lowing subjects : a. Simple Contracts. b. Contracts under Seal. c. Tho Contract of Sale. d. Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Checks ; with the distinction between negotiable instruments and other simple contracts. e. Freight and Contracts of Affreightment, with the pe culiarities of Charter-parties and Bills of Lading. f. The Loss of a British Vessel and its consequences 1. To the Owner of the Vessel. 2. To the Owner of the Cargo. 3. To the Underwriter. g. In connexion with the foregoing will be considered the Rule of the Road at Sea as contrasted with that on Shore: also the Law of Negligence and the Liability of a Master for the acts of his Servant. 1. his private classes the reader will use as text-books The Law of Cootraets. (Smith), An Action at Law (Smith), A Digest of Common Law (Anderson). LECTUPeES on CONVEYANCING and the LAW of REAL 1-ROPERTY, by T. LL. MURRAY BROWNE, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. This Course will consist of Nine Lectures: — Lecture I. Introductory.—Practical Hints on the perusal and examination of Abstracts. Lectures IL, M., IV. Settlements.-1. Settlements of Personal Estate; a. Investment of Trust Funds ; b. Usual Trustee Clauses, Appointment of New Trustees; c. Usual Powers and Covenants, &c.: d. Remarks on the Effect of Recent Statutes-2. Satlements of Real Estate ; a. Estates for Lifo and in Remainder, Waste ; b. Jointures, Portions, &c c. Usual Powers: Remarks on the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Act; d. The Succession Duty Act-3. Disentailing Deeds, the existing Law of Entail 4. Practical Suggestions in connexion with the subject of Settlements. Lectures V., VI. 11 , ills.-1. Usual Frame and Contents of a Will —2. Principles of Construction of Wills-3. Practical [lints on Drawing Wills. Lecture VII. Copyholds.-1. Introductory Remarks, Fines-2. Surrenders and Covenants to Surrender-3. Admissions-4. The Enfranchisement of Copholds. Lectures VIII., IX. Miscellaneous Deeds.-1. Credi tors' Trust Deeds-2. Separation Deeds— 3. Articles of Partnership, &c. In these lectures and classes the Introductions and Notes to Mr. Davidson's Precedents will be especially referred to. As elementary works, Mr. Joshua Williams's Books on Real and Personal Property are recommended. EQUITY LECTURES, by Sir GEORGE YOUNG, Bart., Barrister-at-Law. This course will consist of Nine Lectures : Lecture 1. Review of Equity, and suggested arrange ments for purposes of Study. Lecture 11. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account; generally, Apportionment and Contribution. Lecture 111. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account, continued : specially, between Principal and Agent.. Lecture IV. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account, continued: specially, between Partners. Lecture V. The Jurisdiction in matters of Administra tion: 1. The Administration of Assets. Lectures VI., VII. The Administrative Jurisdiction, continued : 2. The Administration of Trusts, as enlarged by recent statutory enactment. Lectures VIII., IX. Injunctions. Books recommended : —Story's Equity Jurisprudence, chapters 8,9, 10, 13, lt, 23 ; Iladdan's Administrative Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery. Smith's Manual of Equity and White and Tudor's Lead ing Cases in Equity will be the books principally referred to during the course. The subscription payable fo r be Lectures— For all the Foreach three courses. course. By clerks of members ........ Li 2 0 £1 1 0 By clerks of gentlemen not 3 3 0 1 1 1 6 members By all other persons not being 440 2 2 0 members The subscription payable fot the law classes For all the branches of For each instruction, branch. By every subscriber Members of the Society may attend the lectures without subscribing. To prevent interruption at the lectures, subscribers csnnot be admitted to the hall after the lecture has com menced. W.-Willi&rnson, Secretwy. taw Society's Iran, Oct., 108. N.B. Gentlemen may subscribe for and att4in i the lec tures and classes, eit!wr separately or eallet iyely ; hut as the instruction given in the ellsses will have special re ference to precedinc , lectures, it is recommended that those who desire to attend ' the classes should also attend the lectures. FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN. -LONDON F /MAL PR EVE N TIVII and R EFORMATORY IN STITITTION. President Rev. CANON DALE. CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Biota quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard street, N.C.; Francis Nicholls, Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, K.C. E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W. THE SUN, LONDON,_ FRIDAY E'ENING, APRIL 16, 1869. KEATIN G'S, COUGH LOZENGES.-- The best and safest remedy for COUGHS. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES' relieves the difficulty of breathing in ASTHMA. Eold retail by all Druggists. -5/FR. SKELL, SURGEON DENTIST, of 8, Grogve nor-street. W., the Author of "MO ERN DENTISTRY: its Principles and Practice." "PAINLESS TOOTH EXTRAC TION, or Anesthesia Locally Applied," &c., at home for CONSULT ATIO D LILY, at his ONLY Residence, 8, GROSVE NOR-STREET (a few doors from Bond-street). COMPAGNIE GEN E RALE TRANSAT- L ANT 'QUE. 4. Rue de la Paix. Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Leave ovary 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New York. RATES OF PASSAGE. From IlAvitE or BREST to NEW YORK. First ::lass ... 700 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, Vera 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, &c., San Jose, La Union, San Francisco, China, and Japaz.. Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this company, can be had of STRINGER, PEMBRRaKE, op(' Co. ea austininarb, ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD 07FIEES: Royal Insurance Buildings Lombard-street, London. Royal Insurance Buildings North John-street, Liverpoot CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING. In anticipation of the total abolition of F re Insurance Duty, as proposed by the ChancePor of the Exchequer, and which will, no doubt, receive the hearty approval of the House, the Directors beg to intimate that, on all new I• surances now effected, there will only be payable (provisionally) the propor tion of Duty for the time between the date of the Order and Midsummer Day next. JOHN H. MeLAREN, Manager. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. CLERICAL. MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANcE SOCIETY. 13, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, LONDON, S.W. CHAIRMAN. Right Hon. John Robert Mowbray, M.P. DEPUTY-CHAIRMEN. William Bowman, Esq., F.R.S. Sir Charles Locock, Bart, D.C.L., k'.R.S. Extracts from the Report of the Directors, presented at the Antual General Meeting held on the 27th November, 1868 : . 1. The sum of £412,345 was proposed for Assurance, of which £307,395 was completed• at Premiums pro ducing £10,067 per Annum. 2. The amount paid under Claims by death was £100,883, being the smallest since 1860, whilst the expenses of management and all other outgoings were even less than for many years past. 3. On the other hand, the Income was raised to £219,769, notwithstanding that its increase was retarded by abatements of premium which did not take effect in the previous year, and by the cessation of interest on the large sum paid as Bonus in 1867. 4. The Surplus income was very considerable. It amounted to £93,152, a sum exceeding by more than £B,OOO any previous Surplus during the forty-four years of the Society's existence, 5. The Accumulated Fund was thereby increased to £1,598,906. The following are among the distinctive features of the Society : CREDIT SYSTEM.—On any Policy for the whole of Life, where the age does not exceed 60, one-half of the Annual Premiums during the past five years may remain on credit. ENDOWMENT ASSURANCES may be effected, without Profits, by which the Sum Assured becomes pay able on the attainment of a specified age, or at death, whichever event shall first happen. INVALID LIVES may be assured at rates proportioned to the increased risk. PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS.—Claims paid thirty days after proof of death. Tables of Rites and Forms of Proposal can be obtained of any of the Society's Agents, or of GEORGE CUTOLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. I 13, St. James's-square, London, S.W. ABSOLUTE SECURITY POLICIES, UN % FORFEITABLE, UNCONDITIONAL, and UN CIIALLENGEABLM, issued by the PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE' COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-hill, London, Life Assurance st:ee invitedp ht as sure, :r on o goperation E 0 . Established 18 48 . The Directors of this Company, in deference to an ob jectiontbtai not ton,: ordinaryf i-eg t] modeurg oedf by persons e of ooi t n h i e o ncidi customary o c r oT uncertain, lditi ois,leave byresolved reason the l issue n A af en s jyt s: t i b r p it oo n : c s e o s ns u h n e d s e i t r a t t l e ie o m w lici present Unconditional, : . lb‘'etbiaebs'soalnud o u tel t y - p and Unchallengeable. . For the reason referred to, decline to assure on the ground that, in the event of in ability or unwillingness to continue payment of their pre miums, the Assurance will become forfeited. To this class of the public the system now introduced will espe cialls commend itself, being entirely free from all condi tions of forfeiture on account of non-payment of premium, or from any other cause whatever; while at the same time it absolutely guarantees at decease, when even a de fault is made in payment of the premium, a fixed sum in respect of every plemiutn paid, bearing the same propor tion to the total amount assured as the number of pre miums actually paid may bear to the whole number origi nally contracted to be paid. Besides this important advantage, every policy will ex time be withdrawn on The assured will thus always have the option of retain ing either an ascertained fixed sum payable at decease, pthreesdsliyscsot:ttienuwal!nacie o su f m the el a n ss a u t ra a n n c y e. or, in case of need, of withdrawing a certain amount, ac cording t the duration of the Policy, such amounts being set forth on every Policy, and rendering unnecessary any future reference to the Company on these points, as is the case with ordinary assurances. Creditors assuring the lives of debtors will appreciate this feature as ono greatly protective of their interests, and it will likewise commend itself to bankers, capitalists, and others who are in the habit of making advances collaterally the exact value, either immediate or re mere inspection, secured by Life Policies, as they can at any time learn, by versionary, of a Policy of this description. Every Policy issued on this plan will be without any conditions as to voyaging, foreign residence, or other usual limitations. By this freedom from restrictions of all kinds the objections before referred to will be entirely removed, and the Policies will become at once positively valuable as actual securities. In addition to the foregoing statement of advantages, the number of premiums is strictly defined. The longest term provided for is twenty-five years, and the shortest five years, as shown by the Tables. Thus, bankers, credi tors, and others holding policies of this class as security, may always know the utmost amount they may be called upon to advance so as to maintain the full benefit of the Assurances—a matter of great importance where policies are held as collateral security. It is only necessary to add that, as a consequence of the policies under these tables being unforfeitable and uncon ditional, they will also the unchallengeable on any ground whatever. They may refore be aptly termed Absolute Security Policies. The PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY pos sesses an income of £215,000 a year. Its position is un. que s tionable, a nd it obtains the largest amount of new busine s s of any office in the Kingdom. SPECIAL AGENTS WARTED. HENRY HARBEN, Secretary. MILNERS' STRONG , IrLDFAST AND FIRE RESISTING SAFES,dI Oats,. Doors, and Strong Booms, with the progressive and receilmprovements effected after half a century's experience, effedy guard against Fire and Burglars.—Liverpool, ManchestePheffield, Leeds, Hull, and 47A, Moorgate-street, City, tondo! PARTRIDGE AND C OPER. MANUFACTURIG STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF DITANCIY-LANE), LONDON (ILO.) THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WMESALE CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY hT ORDERS OVER 20s. per ream. s. d. 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An ILLU ITED CATALOGUE containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Coying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery, Cabinets, Postage scales, Dspatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, &c , post free. ;stablished 1541 INDIA OFFICE, 29th January, 1869 . By order of the Secrptary rf State for India in Council. Notice is hereby given, that paclaxes, stated to contain reserved articles from the estates d deceased Officers and soldiers of the late East India Company's Service, and of Her Majesty's Indian Military Forces, have from time to time been received from the Governments of the respec tive Presidencies in India. Packages containing articles reserved from the follow ing estates remain unclaimed, viz.:— T T • Id. YANA-864 - or Vir:l:l., - Virrgeon, Madras Medical Department. 13. Buchan, C., Sub-Conductor, Madras Establishment. 22. Cheyno, A., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical Department. 24. Cockburn, A. S., Lieutenant, 50th Madras Native Infantry. ' 25. Carlow, W. A., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical Department. 53. Florid, E., Lieutenant, 32d Madras Native In fantry. Major, 6th Madras Native ln -59. Grank . Li eu t e nant, sth Madras Light Cavalry. 60. Gunthorpe, W. M., fantry. 76. Jervis, S. W., Lieutenant, 36th Madras Native In- P., fantry. 78. James, E., Assistan t Surgeon, Madras Medical De partment. 94. Maingay, J. W., Lieutenant, 38th Madras Native Infantry. 98. M arr i o tt, B. W. F., Lieutenant, 13th Madras Na tive Infantry. 113. Neale, F., Cadet, Madras Establishment. L, 35th Madras Native 121. Penning, J. W. C., Infantry. 124. Pinchard, J., Lieutenant. Ma dras Horse Artillery. 1 13 2 3. 6n. Preston, Richard , A Bnich.a,rEdnßagiL3, Ist M a d ras N a tive Infantry.ieutenant, Madras Infantry. 140. Stewart, M., Lieutenant, Madras Artillery. 145. Stoddart, J. A., Captain, sth Madras Native In fantry. 1 1 5 5 0 6 e... W St a e r w d, art, A., G o . a , p E ta n i s n i t gn, 36th Madras Native Infantry. 155. Watson, G. IL, Lieutenant, 19 th Madras Native Infantry. 158. Wynter, W., Lieutenant" 52d Madras Native In fantry. 163. Weymouth, Captain, 42d Madras Native Infantry. Applications for such packages should be made by next of kin of the deceased, or b y the legal representat i v es of Y Secretary, at this O ffi ce. packages in question remain period of six months from su ingi ch nu n nth e ce x lai t evra o e f end k t i o n fo to rantyh th eo e ffur M th ili teh tr this date, they will be opened, the contents be disposed of by sale, and the amount realized be credited to the estate of the deceased. T. T. PEARS, Major-General, Military Secretary. THE INVIGORATIVE NERVINE ESSENCE.—The most powerful nutritive cordial ever introduced; restores to their normal condition all the secretions, on the integrity of which perfect health depends. It is a specific fer debility of all kinds, and from its containing, e among other ingredients, pepsine an d p hosphate of soda, will prove highly beneficial to the nervous and dyspeptic. Vide Dr. Hassall's re port. Prize Bs. per bottle, or four quantities in one for 225. BAUMGARTEN ez Co., 520, Oxford-street, W.C., London. Car riage free on receipt of remittance. ONE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE being maintained in the ROYA°LBAPTILBAENRT°OIIRPILHDREA.NN are being at the moderate rate of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed. CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary. Office, 54, Oheapside, London, E.O (''IAIIIARITAN FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN k.) and CHILDREN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman square. The only free Hospital for dismses of women. 2,74 patients were treated last month without 19tters of recommendation. Subscriptions and donations are much needed, and will be received by Messrs. Hatchard. Picca dilly; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.; Messrs. Barclay,_ Coutta. Glyn, Ransom ; and by the Secretary. TUE HOSPITAL for WOMEN, Soho-square. —Bankers : Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co.; Messrs. Bansom, Bou ver ie and Co. —The Committee APPEAL very earnestly fo'r CONTRIBUTIONS. The Hospitalis now open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri days to out-patients who are treated without letters of recommendation. HENRY 13. INGRAMI Secretary. THE ASSOCIATION for the WELFARE of tho BLIND, 210, Oxford-strae t, and 127, Euston-road. Patroness—Her Most Gracious 3lajesty the QUEEN. This Institution aff or d s employment in various ways to 172 blind men and women. Pensions to various amounts are granted to the blind who cannot earn th e i r own living. l 500 blind men and women ar o cannot be given f or WANT of Fa ppying for help, which I:INDS : Contributions will be thankfully received by the Secre tary, Bev. C. B. REID, M.A. GREAToaiNedooußianl:rollad,ElNgtont H OS PITAL, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was establisbecl at King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted free. Bankers—Messrs. B arne t ' Lloyde , a nd Co., 60, Lombard street, Messrs. Rans om an d B on vorio, 1, Pall.mall.—Hon. Sec., 1. Smith. Ea u . GEO. REID, SOC. THE ROYAL HOSPITAL the 01-;U:ST, City-road. for DISEASES of _lhe wards for in-patients are constantly full, those for oW-patients crowded daily. F UNDS greatly n ee d e d. CHARLES L. KEMP, Secretary. HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT, _. Golden-squale , W. President —His Grace the Puke of GRAFTON. The Committee of Management earnestly APPEAL expenses. for Upwards of 18,000 p oor perso ns FUNDS to help th em to mee t tha heavy current have been relieved in the last siz yearn. GEORGE WOOD, Secretary. APARTMENT -S.—One or -Two Fl o ors, with Extra Bed Rooms if required. Close t 3 Omnibus, Rail, and Boat. Terms moderate. 1:3, Chelsea Villas, Fulham-road, Brompton. T HE LOMBARD EXC RANGE AND NEWS-ROO-A. Lorabard-street , London. MANAGER—Mr J. 13. YOUNGIYUSBAND, late Treasurer and Secretary of the Liverpool Exchange. Subscription, £3 35. per annum, or 10s. monthly, payable in Advance. Tho Room is supplied with Newspapers, both home and foreign ; Reuter 's Telegrams, giving commercial, political, and general telegraphic information; Shipping Lists, Directories, Time Tables, and other Books of Re ference. There is also an excellent Refreshment-room attached, as well as a Reading and Writing comfortably fur nished. The attention .of country hankers, solicitors, manufac turers, and others is invited to this Institution, which will be found very convenient to gentlemen whose business engagements oblige them frequently to visit the metro polis. For further particulars apply to the Manager of the Room, or to Mr. G. W. Benwell, Secretary of the City Offices Company, Palmerston -buildings, London. N.B.—For Advertisement Spaces apply to Messrs. Letts, Son and Co. 8, Royal Exchange, 8.C.; o r at the Office in the Lom bard Exchange. BRITON MEDICAL AND GENERAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Chief Offices— 429, Strand, London. TRUSTEES. Licut.-General Sir J. E. IR. Partridge, Esq., F.R.S. Dupuis, K.C.B. Francis Webb, Esq. Sir James Duke, Bart. W. Tyler Smith, M.D. Sir W. Forgusson, Bart., 1 Millis Coventry, EA. F.B.S. CHAIRMAN or THE BOARD —FR4NCIS WEBB, Esq. Sxrtr . Climint W-v TyLEB, sivirni, Esq. .E11121k.; in 'rein the k aN i;txT., PORT, read at the Annual General Meeting held at the Society's House on Thursday, 18th March, FRANCIS WEBB, Esq., in the chair. The directors have received 8,212 prOposals* for assur ing the sum of X 972,866 18s. 9d. 2,472 policies were issued, assuring £703,451 4s. and producing in annual premiums the sum of £25,227 Bd. The following tabulated returns exhibit the new busi ness transactions during the three quinquennial periods : ... tsc .0 maw ..S: isi fj 7 1 l5 g 11 A s. 0„,6 0, Amount 6 .43 Amount Annual 4 . 2' .5 Z ,s;' Proposed. Z-- Assured. Preminm, 4 ) , 5 . lii -6 act, a ---.-- £ s. d. £ s. d. £s. d. 1858 4,802 1,023,140 0 0 3,318 154,140 0 0 21,347 16 5 1863 13,244 2,779,666 0 0 9,746 2,037,383 0 0 63,507 19 10 1868 17,466 1,861,303 5 9 13,699 3,752,967 4 8 122,257 17 6 ---- --- Total.. 35,512 8,664,109 5 9 26,763 6,444,490 4 8 207,113 13 9 ____------.--- The net premium income has increased to the sum of .£216,704 1 7 The interest on investments and other items of receipt yield Making a total income of £237.980 19 8 The claims were 335, amounting to the sum of £127,886 12 d. The balance of the y e ar's income was £68,026 9s. 4d. Tho assets of the association at the close of the year amounted to £667,493 Bs. sd. The directors draw special attention to the fact that the next bonus valuation will take place at the end of the year 1872, and that all polices effected on the profit scales prior to the 31st December, 1869, will be entitled to participate in the same. The directors also draw attention to the successful esta blishment, during the past year of the Britannia Fire Association, under the auspices of the Briton. The direc tors believe that the establishment of a Fire Company, to work in active co-operation with the Life, will tend much to the advantage and profit of both institutions. it is scarcely necessary to remark that the capital funds and constitution of each office are quite separate and distinct. By order of the Board, JOHN MESSENT, Actuary and Secretary. London, March 18, 1869. EAGLE . INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. Report of the Directors for the year ending the 30th Juno, 1868, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, August 14, 1868—Colonel CHARLES WETHERALL, K.C.T., Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The proprietors will no doubt remember that at the last annual general meeting a report was made to them for the quinquennial period then terminating, and that a bonus was declared in respect of it amounting to the sum of £208,774. The surplus fund account, as under, commences with the balance of June, 1867, after deduction of this b on us—that is to say, with the debit of £772,740 13s. 9d. SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, 30m JUYE, 1868. Pit. INCOME OF THE YEAR. Balance of account, 30th June, 1867 £981,514 13 9 1867, Less amount distributed as bonus 208,774 0 0 -----.- "Z7"7: 1 ;740 13 9 Premiums on new assur ances Ditto on old ditto 366,215 7 3 £3:'0,811 8 3 Interest from invest ments ll7 581 7 3 , £498,395 15 11 Profit and loss, balance of account Total income 544,466 9 2 £1,317,207 2 11 Cn. CIIARGE Or THE YEAR. . . Dividend to proprietors Cla;-ns on decease of lives £265,523 13 5 assured Additions to those under participating policies 22,816 4 7 Policies surrendered 28,642 11 3 Re-assurances, new Ditto, old 50,365 0 8 £370,618 5 3 Commission Medical fees 400,777 9 5 A.D. 1720. 110 YAL EXCHANGE ON ASSURANCE CPORATI. (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. Offices—ROYAL EXCHANGE, London. Branch Office-29, Pall Mall, S.W. OOTAVIIIS WIGRAM, Esq Governor. JAMES STEWART 'PIDGEON, Esq S üb-Govern or. CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq Deputy-Governor. Robert Barclay, Esq. - - William Tetlow Hibbert, John Garratt C a ttley, Esq. Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. DIRECTORS. Edward James Daniell, Esq. Egerton Hubbard, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. Nevile Lubbock, Esq. Lancelot William Dent, Esq. George Forbes Alalcolmson, Alexander Druce, Esq. Esq. Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq. Lord J osceline Wm. Percy. Charles Hermann Goschen, Cbarles Robinson, Esq. Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Riversdale Wm, Grenfell, Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, Samuel Solly, Esq., F.R.S. NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of FIRE PREMIUMS falling duo at Lady Day will expire on the 9th of April. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on advantageous terms. The Duty on Fire Assurances has been reduced to the uniform rate of ls. 6d. per cent. per annum. No charge is made by this Corporation for Fire Policy or Stamp, however small the Assurance may be. F. 4 MING STOOL—No Extra Charge is made for the use of Steam Thrashing Machine-a. 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 RALF. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. 11913=T P. KEELS, Secretary. THE ROYAL INFIRMARY for DI S EASES 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 them to continue the benefits of medical aid to those numerous poor suffering children, who are rendered so helpless by sickness and poverty'. Bankers, Messrs. P u ll er , Banbury, and Co., 77, Lombard street ; and by Mess rs . C o utts and Co., Strand. CHARLES J. F. RENTON, Secretary. Waterloo -bridge -road, S E. B RITISH HOME 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 persc ns over 20 years of age and above the pauper class, who aro 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 tained from the Secretaxs. of application may be ob- ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are earnestly solicited. Bankers—Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard street, E.C. ; Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W. EDWD. WEAVER, Sec. Offices, 73, Cheapside, E.C. THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES are as follows : For Fallen Women. 28, Church-row, camp - 150, New Kent-road. stead. 48 Church-street, Stoke 13, Camden-street,Camden- Newington. town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green -205, Groat Portland- street. wick. For Young Girls in Danger. 27, Church-row, Hampstead. 9, H e nstridge-villas, St. John s-wood. St. Mary's Lodge, l3uckhurst-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 frienaless servauts annually. The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen girls from 10 to 16. The committee me deeply anxious to open another house for this pitiable class. Tho Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young women and girls, It was compelled to refuse 624 appli cants, whose 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 had on application. The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Its banlaers are Messrs. Barclay and Co. The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the benevolent. DANL. 000 PE, Pea At wutearfitrot 011awaido4 £1,317,207 2 11 Examined and approv 41 THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors HENRY ROSE, 3 The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £544,466 9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,654 145. sd. ; the diffe rence, or the sum laid by- viz., £134.811 14s. 9d.—raises the fund again to £907,552 Bs. 6d. The interest received during the year is £117,584 7s. 3d., arising from the productive portion of the realised assets of £2,897,157, mentioned in the last year's report. The whole assets, productive and unproductive, Tnay there fore be considered as having improved at the rate of rather more than 4 per cent. ; or, if the profit shown of £46,070 13s. 3d,, derived from various extraneous sources, be in cluded, at upwards of £sl2s. per cent. The premiums on new assurances are £14,596 ls. 9d., and of this sum £3,270 15s. 4d. has been expended in re assurances. The claims on decease of lives assured are nearly iden tical in amount with those of 1866. They are less than those of last year by nearly £19,000. A considerable reduction, too, appears in the amount of premiums paid for re-assurance, many of h te risks re-assured having terminated by death and other causes. The expenses of management are less than those of last year by upwards of £1,400. But they still include charges incurred in the final closing of the two officeslast absorbed by the company. The whole expenditure, however, in cluding income tax, is at the rate of little more than 51 per cent. on the total income. The balance-sheet is as follows : DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured, and a dditions thereto unpaid 61,530 4 5 Sundry accounts Liability under sums assured, &o. (1867) 6,369,169 11 7 Proprietors' fund ........... 907,552 8 6 Surplus fund as before Total .C7,565,198 1 3 CR. ASSETS. Amount invested in fixed mortgages £1,460,772 2 7 Ditto ditto decre asin g ditto 183,979 17 10 Ditto ditto rever sions 347,136 5 5 Ditto ditto funded securities Ditto ditto temporary securities Current interest on the above invest ments _ Cash and bills Advanced on security of the company's 159,503 14 9 policies....Agents' bah Aces Sundry accounts Value of premiums (1867) ..... 4,506,167 18 0 Value of re-assurances . 86,860 13 9 36,243 7 6 22,604 2 9 Total _ _ _.£7,565,198 1 3 Examined and approved. THOMAS A LLEN ' Auditors. HENRY ROSE, f The present disposition of the Company's funds is shown by this account. On comparing it with that of 1867, it will be observed that further investments have been made on mortgage and in the Government funds, and that about £ll,OOO more has been advanced on security of the com pany's policies. Exclusive of the sum indicating the value of the future premiums, the assets amo unt to £3,059,030 3s. 3d. 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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 railed 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 bear 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. Sold in bottles at is. lid., 2s. 9d., and lls. each, in every town in the kingdom. CA UTION. Be sure to ask for " NORTON'S PILLS," and do not be persuaded to purchase any of the various imitations which have sprung up in consequence of the success of ' Norton's Camomile Pills." RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in 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 Moo-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can rot fail to fit, forwardel by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being seat to the manufacturer Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. A Single Truss, 168., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 81s. 6d., 425., and 52e. 6d. Postage, ls. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White Post-office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT PLASTIC .-- §TOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on lik e an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL is the on ly institution in the Metropolis for the treatment and prevention of contagious fevers. CONTRIBUTIONS will be ern,lanlly received by Messrs. Dimsdale and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Messrs. Drum mond, Charing-cross ; Messrs. Coutts, Strand ; Messrs. Hoare, Fleet -street ; and by the Secretary, at the lospital, Liverpool-road, Islington, N. ESTABLISHMENT for GENTLEWOMEN during TEMPORARY ILLNESS. The relatives of Clergymen, Naval, Military, and Pro fessioal Men, G overnesses, and Artists may, for a small Weekly payment, receive th e com f or t s o f a H O M E, com binaeli shmd with the best medical and surgical tr ea t men t , a t t h e est ent, 90, Upper Harley-street. Th is establishment, which w as opened in 1850, is patro nised by her Majesty. The Bishop of London Li Visitor, L it is managed by the Marchioness of Ormonde, the Lady Laura Palmer, Mrs. Edward Romilly, the Lady Caroline Russell, Mrs. Cecil Russell, and other 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 Treasurer, at Messrs. Coutts and Co.'s, 59, Strand. W. C SPRING RICE Hon Sec. lIOSPIT ROYAL FREE AZ, Gr a y' s -i nn - roa d , immediatemost Graciousvieinit .mArEsTy the Q UEEN . - of the G rea t N orthern Railway Terminus, King's Cross. Vice-Patron— His the —Her ron His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEU CII K.G. This Hospital, founded iu the ye ar 18 28, the first establish the principle of free admission t o the sieltpo tro without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, o i' wholly dependent for support on voluntary c on t r ib utions s and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in -patients, and, i n 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. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abehurch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; D r ummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Herries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Paykia, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Oo• 3 Bertlera-street ;:snd at the llospitstl from 10 till b. • T HE 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 Hendon. Bankers—London Joint-Stock Bank, Pall-mall. CHARLES HOLM S, Secretary. Office, 32, Sackville-street, Piccadilly. THE LONDON SURGICAL HO ME 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 are 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, Harley-street, W. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and clothing for the 126 boys on board the Chichester Trainitreetng Ship. 160 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen -s. 94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing 870 children. .£ll5 will keep a boy or girl for ona year. Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank 214, High Holborn , and 41, Lothbury, FLO.; and by WILLIAM WILLI MIS, Secretary. No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-flens. 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, _ Major-Gen. Rt. Hon. Percy Herbert. M.P. Re 7. J. E. Heave Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys Rev. S. W. Lloyd Rev. A. Martineau Rev. W. D. Maclagan Rev. Daniel Moore Rev. J. Moorbouse J. D. Morton, Esq. Rev. Canon Nepean Rev. E. Parry John Pearson, Esq., Q.O. Rev. G. F. Prescott Rev. F. Pigou R. T. Pigott, Esq. R. B. Pym, Esq. ilugh H. Seymour, Esq. R. Wade, Esq. Loftus Wigram, Esq. ved by any of the above ; by and Co; and by the lion. I, 14, Seymour-street, Port trications may bo addressed. Rev. J. W. Ayre Rev. F. G. Bloomfield Hon. and Rev. F. Byng Rev. R. G. Baker Rev. S. Brooke The Lord Clinton Rev W. Cadman E. Char rington, Esq. Rev. E. L. Cutts, Chaplain ' Rev. E. Capel Cure Rev. J. E. Cox Octavius Coope, Esq. Arthur Currie, Esq. Rev. J. Connell Rev. C. W. Furso C. J. Freake. Esq. J. S. Gillet, Esq. Rev. Dr. F Hessey H G Maid, Esq. R. Hook, Esq., Treasurer Subscriptions will be rece. Messrs. Harries, Farqubar, Secretary, Rev. S. W. Lloy( man-square, to whom comm ROYAL nosrfrAL for INCURABLES, West-hill , Putney-benth. 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- I st. 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 their own homes. A new wing to the Hospital I,tis lust been completed at a cost of upwards of £lO,OOO, and FUNDS are urgently NEEDED to liquidate the expenses incurred. There are 120 inmates and 237 pensioners, all entirely dependent upon voluntary subscriptions. Nearly 300 approved applicants are awaiting election. For the maintenance of present operations, for the ex tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and . espe cially annual subscriptions, are earnestly i o n s a d. subscriptions, £5 ss. and upwards ; annual subscriptions, half a guinea and upwards, with votes in proportion. Information will be supplied, with the greatest pleasure, upon application to the Secretary, by whom contributions will be thankfully received. FREDERIC ANDREW, secretary, 10. Poultry? Londe; &Q. 15eptember M, '751 16 2 Income tax Expenses of manage ment 15,489 8 5 Total chargo .„.. Balance of account, 30th June 1868 907,552 8 6 . - NEWS PAPE R e z e . - ..,, •, ... - ,'-ftg i n7- - - r - 4 - 4 1 - `'\ .`- • A: It 7 ti'*:;4 l ,- - -:.:I . ‘V.: Z. '4 4-_ - _460,:-. - f , } 7 -:• , ../ -_ _ 1,. : -:t " ' :." - - r .-:. : ', .. ''/ ' Y . - METROPOLITAN GOSSIP. Al - • l4 S It must be confessed that hitherto the political season has been terribly dull. Those of us who live by the telling, or live for the reading, of news, have been thus far sorely disappointed. We looked forward to this session as a sort of golden time, full of skirmishes, surprises, and battles ; but the whole thing is as dull and spiritless as a mock fight upon a stage. The end is known from the be ginning. It is in that respect like the Dano-German war of five years ago. The Danes are very brave, and stand by their flag and shout " No surrender !" in a way that excites more admiration for their pluck than approbation for their prudence. They are hopelessly outnumbered. Their Diippel must fall sooner or later ; it is only a question of a few weeks, more or less. And while there is none of the excitement of uncertainty, there is also no interest in the subject of the quarrel. The Schleswig-Holstein question of 1861 was not more wearisome than the Trish Church question of to-day. One is absolutely nanzeated by the very words, and when it comes to columns upm c,hunns of debate ; when Mr. Dis raeli proposes amendments as long as all the arms of Briareus put together, and Mr. Gladstone follows suit; when Sir G. Jenkinson proposes thirteen amend ments, Mr. Pim nine, and the whole amend ments together occupy eight printed folio pages ; when Mr. NewdegAte threatens to fight the whole battle over again from the beginning; when Mr. Aytoun prates about Maynooth ; and when the thermometer is up to seventy in the shade, really life becomes hardly bearable. Newly-elected M.P.s little know the nights of intolerable ennui they were preparing for themselves some six months Of course no one supposes that any of Mr. Disraeli's important amendments will be carried. The Liberal party could not possibly support them. There is abso lutely no material out of which to make a Cave. The bill will go to the Lords substantially in its present condi tion. Will they adopt the amendments? Possibly ; though, if they do, the Commons will, of course, dissent from them, and their] lordships will then give way. There are some persons sanguine enough to suppose that the amendments will take such a long time in the Lower House that the Upper will plead want of time to consider the bill this year, and that Lord Salis bury's proposal will be adopted, whereby the Lords may take up in the next session the bill which has passed the Commons in the preceding session. But it is difficult to see how the Opposition would gain by this. Delay may be of use when parties are at all nearly equal ; but in this matter the Conservatives are overwhelmingly outnum. bered, and the best thing they can do is to expedite the settlement of the question and look out for another less hopeless. The number of pictures sent into the Royal Academy last week was something appalling to everybody except the porters. It was so large that the academicians, who are always allowed a day or two longer to send in their works, were put off beyond the usual period. The theory is that the fate of all pictures is de cided according to their merits ; but theory and practice are not always identical. At the old building size was a very important element of fitness. Supposing the three hangers wanted to fill in a space between two other pictures, they could not but have regard to the number of inches which had to be occupied. Then came the turn of the porters to choose. They, of course, being wholly and passionately devoted to art, would bring forward the pictures that seemed in their highly-trained and critical judgment the most deserving. It was really touching to notice the devotion with which some of these men would cling to certain pictures ; how they would on every possible and impossible occasion bring them to the front again and again. They could not have shewn greater pertinacity even if they had been feed. But the porter mind, refined by constant associa tion with art, is of course above all sordid considerations. This year, however, these judges will scarcely haves.) much opportunity for displaying their enthusiasm, inasmuch as the pictures will not be hung closely together, so that the three hangers, being lessrestricted in the matter of inches, will trust less to the judgment of the porters and more to their own. Among the exhibitors to the Water Colour Society, which opens on the 26th, will be Mr. Richardson and Mr. Gastineau, who, though not far short of 80 years of age, sends, I believe, nearly a dozen pictures. Mr. Yeames sends a picture to the Academy in which one of the figures is a portrait of his wife. The Water Colour Institute has its private view on Saturday. Mr. Holman Hunt has, I be lieve, at last left Florence fur the Holy Land. He has been detained in the Italian capital a year while superin tending the erection of a memorial to his wife. He is likely to spend several years in Palestine. - VisitGrs to London may like to be informed that his " Christ in the Temple" and " Isabella and the Pot of Basil" will be on view during the season at Messrs. Gambart's, to whom both works belong. Mr. Hunt has recently somewhat touched up the former work by softening the red tint of our Lord's hair, and also by restoring the right-hand portion of the picture, which was injured by a fire that nearly des troye.l this great work. There has been a great gathering of amateurs at Christie's to-day. They were attracted by the announce ment that the Turners belonging to Mr. Ruskin were for sale. The room was densely crowded, and the competition very keen. Turner's " Slave Ship " went for 1,915 guineas ; " The Lake of Lu cerne " for 980 ; " The Lake of Brientz " for 312. The sale is continuing as I write. Of other pic tures also disposed of, Tayler's " The Keeper's Daughter" was knocked down for 290 guineas, Copley Fielding's " Scene between King's House and Inverary" for 440, and the same artist's " Off Portsmouth " for 460. Brett's " Val D'Aosta" went for 245 guineas. The Siamese Twins are the peg upon which a good many jokes are hung just now. There is one story to the effect that a certain gentleman, well known in club-land for the weakness of being supposed to know everybody, was asked if he had seen the Siamese Twins, and replied, "Oh yes, I met one of them in the Park yesterday." Still better is the remark said to have been made in all seriousness by a gentleman, who certainly was not born on the eastern shore of St. George's Channel—" It is fortunate that the twins know each other well ; it might have been very awkward if they had been strangers." Persons accustomed to pass through Trafalgar-square will have noticed from time to time a sturdy disreputable beggar, who is blind in both eyes. This man is a notorious scoundrel. He is no other than Hare, the associate of Burke in the Edinburgh murders, which originated the term " Burking, " forty-one years ago. Hare turned Queen's evidence, and so saved his own neck from the gallows. Subsequently he went to work under an assumed name, but his fellow-workmen, discovering who he was, threw him into a lime pit, and there his eyes were burnt out. He now appeals to the charity of the public, who have, of course, no idea who he is. At length Mr. Murray is able to announce definitely Mr. John Forster's long-expected life of Walter Savage Landor. It is to appear on May 3, almost simul taneously with the diary of his old friend, Henry Crabbo Robinson, which is being published by Macmillan. Sir John Taylor Coleridge is adding considerably to his Life of Keble, which will probably appear in two volumes. Miss Yonge, the novelist, is writing her Recollections of Keble. Messrs. Bell and Daldy have purchased the copyright of Charles Knight's " Pictorial History of England," and Messrs. Hogg that of the " Directorium Anglicanum." Another item of literary news is that Dr. William Smith (author of the Classical Dictionaries), having undertaken the editorship of the Quarterly Review, will not offer himself for re-election as classical examiner of the London University. The Pall Mall Gazette has thought proper to give a notice of the proceedings in reference to the British Lying-in Hospital, which conveys about as incorrect a notion of the actual facts as it was possible to give in the space devoted to the notice. Dr. Edmonds, one of the physicians of the hospital, is accused of very strong language to Dr. Beck, but it is not mentioned that Dr. Beck committed an assault on Dr. Edmonds so serious that the assailant was fined five pounds by a magistrate. Dr. Edmonds is represented as having threatened Mr. Hoare and others with contempt of court if they " continued their investigation." The fact is, that by the advice of counsel they were informed of the pending action, in order that they might not commit a contempt of court by repeating defamatory statements. A full investigation did take place, and it was continued until ' Mr. or e He himself proposed the following res olution : at board, having investigated the more important of the charges conveyed in the printed evidence, and having found them entirely unsubstantiated, think it unnecessardy to go further into the inq uir y , and acquit Dr. Ed to m this of any unprofessional conduct as py h b o s o p a t e a p l r " o f e sse After s to l h m e v s i n u g r p r proposed t thisis eh r s e o i s a e o i r l a d u n t have ion, n l o r t . thatand p h ra.s Edmonds called a gcaelnleerdalr meeting, at Et whichdm ond b s e t p o r o e p s o i g s e n d , if f N h i e sb d e id t n t e o t l\ r l e r e . i g H n. oa A re n 's am r e e s n o d l u m t e i o n n t prod s I u p l o d s e be h d y i s m c i a s s n e e d n again exonerated Dr. Ed m onds from all charges, but reques ted him t o resign, in order to promote the peace of the hospital. This amendment was carried, but it was thought by many of Dr. Edmonds's friends that as he was entirely acquitted of the charges, his accusers, and not Dr. Edmonds, ought to be called upon to take that step. I)UNVJLLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the -ortcl. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports tion. Quotations on application 'to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; et' 4, r o 4l4lQTtrblaiillics)strill4, I,OOIICIQu, w.Qpi Tertisement ago. MP