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and. d still re nor have red to miles large strict. white ament uct of ?,r re- ', life ' L, was of the crew infor- Le was r were laying 60011 ne in ;h the aging- es the ke up It is ght. erday, Lfeboat ,n was .m-tug to ren me by 'orma- - r, was nee of )aratua ccord reach- taken ght. terday )at In bed to King w, the feboat once of ice, but out tho red for. of new et little 'lour in ,vy bar hangod. were : ►d oats, 6 stone. 30s per 3 ; new and the ne past. his day T. Ili ad peas ado lato ivancod s por 36 or 30 st. Ill s, old, 95 wero firm at L man the in- Lug pas •eceived disaster mowing present passen- mm......... limond, 3WpOrt7 lghter. set, the s-park, U. eorge'f i t Earlston daugh; ,ourti of Lat., at gineer! , Captain a Royal trrison, Esq., ° f of Col- 5 , Bath, italiaw, No. 112 ' ,uuty of ght. LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROOn for Gentlemen. Remember. we wait for you at f. 'V atter the Covent-garden Pantomime and the Theatres. LL 'WHISKY. - DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 1865. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It ls Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd. , at the Retail Houses in London; by ` h e Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Rins.han's LL Whisky ." ~UT AN Pin A co ra rpor L it O ed by Ac P t of -IParliarnA.SnSt olBCsol)A. TION 14, I tUSSEI.L-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON . . ADVANCES HONEY on Personal Security, Bills of Sale, Freehold or beneficial Leasehold Property, without inquiry Ire, or any deduction what eve r, f or periods of one, two, or 9ree years, repayable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Lillis discounted.' The greatest secrecy observed. Advances also 1 ;?acle towards the Purch a se o f a H ouse , re p a y a bl e i n 5:10, or I 5 Years —Forms free on application, or receipt of a stamped ei,velope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. • THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION (Limited). • Capital subscribed, £5,000,000. Paid up, X 500,000. Rest, 75,000. Cu.A.umatit —JOHN CHAPMAN, Esq. MANAGERS. Henry J. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq. This Association makes ADVANCES upon approved Her- Cant'le and other Securities, and RECEIVES HONEY ON I), POSIT at interest for short or low% periods. DEPOSITORS for periods of not less than Three Years I l laY procure, on application at the Offices, Debentures of the @sedatio n , bearinv, interesi at 6 per cent. per annum, pay able quarterly by Coupon " to bearer" attached. W. C. WINTERBOTTOM, Secretary. 27 , Lombard -street, London, E.C. ' /IrETSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having . :.een recently opened and fitted with requisites for b the Caro and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr. •,`!ISRAGON, announces that he has transferred - his Estab lisornent from Birmingham to the above desirable residence, ' 41811 7 accessible, and distant from London about an hour and a - half by the London and North-Western line, and fifty t ninutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on a sandy snit, and commanding_ an extensive and pleasing Prospect, are garden, meadow, plantation, and recreation grounds. Fob. terms and forms of admission address the proprietor. YAM and CO.'s OVERCOATS and SUITS. Morning and Lounging Coats, Half Dress, Undress, d Full Dress Oits, Trousers, Vests, &e.., in all the fashion able styles and seasonable materials. ITYAM and CO 66 and 67. OX FORD-STREET, W. 1-1 YAM and CO.'S PRICES and GARMENTS. Overcoats and Capes,2ls. to A4s. ; Jackets, 21s to 428. ; to of Wales Coats, 303. to 635.; Trousers, ready made and measure, 148.6 d. to 255. ; Vests, Bs. 61. to 21s. ; Suits, 428. 84 9 . lIYA3I and CO., 66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET, W. ITYAM and CO.'S BOYS' SUITS and CAPES. 1, 4 . Overcoats and Capes, 15s 6d. te 428. ; Knickerbocker, rfarrow, and Osborne Suits, 15s. 6d. to 455. ; Jackets, 7 .. 6d. to 255. ; Trousers, Bs. 6(1. to 15s. 6d. ; Vests, 4s. 6d. to 8 ' Bd.' jackets and Vests alike, 15s. 6d. to 275. 6d. nYAIt and CO., 63 and 67, OX FORD-STREET, W. ITYAM and CO.'S SELECT DEPARTMENTS. ti Clothing- tor diate wear. No. 2. Ordered ePartrnent. No. 3. Boys and Youths. Distinct Depart raeut. No. 4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. RYAN and CO., 66 and 67, OXFORD- S rRE ET, W. nrsnch Establishments—Birmingham, Leeds, and Dewsbury YIVII.AT DO THE WILD WAVES SAY NOW? That the FIERY CROSS has arrived. Jingling some magnificent KAISOW CONGOUS of delicious Nir•Your, a n d w hi ch may now be had, at a mere commission on o price, of the EAST INDIA TEA CO vIPANY, - ` O . 5, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, Bishopsgate-street. pIiILLIPS AND COMPANY'S TEAS ARE BEST AND CHEAPEST. STRONG to FINE BLACK TEA, is. 6d., 25., 2s. 6d., 35., 3s. 4d. Most Delicious Black Tea is now only 3s. 6d. rer pound. Pure, Rich, Rare, Choice Coffee, Is. 4d., Is. 6d, ls. Bd. PHILLIPS and CO., TEA MERCHANTS, 8, King William-street, City, London, E.C. A price current free. Sugars at market prices. PHILLIPS and CO. send all goods Carriage Free within eight miles of No. 8, King William-street, 40a. worth Car _td. P c Free to any Railway Station or Market Town in Eng- hillips and Co. have no Agents, nor any connecrion With any house in Worcester or Swansea. ItIMMEL'S PERFUMED SHILLING VALENTINES all illustrating the Lanzuage of ipwers, and with mottoes , from the best poets, are the most artistic and elep,•ant productions of the kind. Sent by post rich Ipenet of 14 stamps. Also, an extremely varied stock of and novel patterns, designed and executed expressly for Ri i t rnrael, from 2s. 63. to £5 ss. Ordinary perfum d Valen pn;eB, 6d. RIMMEL, Perfumer to H.R.U. the t rin ceas of Wales, 96, Strand; 24, Cornhill ; and 128, Regent a,reet bENTAL lit OTICE.—Mr. ESKELL, Surgeon- Dentist, of 8, Grosvenor-street, tiond-street, having announced tor a considerable period that the is NOT con ed with any one of the name, and th the has NO r RE i;"I7ED, and does not intend doir.g so," begs respeettully to RE NO that as he considers the kencral public are now Buil tTently well aware of the facts he will cease to make thi, , or Y other professional statement in the public papers on and 'viler the 28th of February next. UR- SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REM EDY.—Pre ',".:,`!'ed without any mercurial ingredient., from the recipe of Dr. ' - 'gott, of Bromley, Kent. will be found invaluable to all who lifter from bilious and liver momplaints, Indigesticn, wind. 2. 48 ,Pa, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, Atc. For habitual '''''veness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and gratefhl to the stomach, they create appe ite, pro ..cote digetion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Z old by W. Lambert, f 4, King William-street, Charing-cross. L ondon, and by most druggists, in boxea,ls. lid., and three 8 'tea the quantity in one, 2s. gd. Be sure to ask tor Dr. ,„,. *3 tt's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square '' ee n Package. with " Lambert," engraved on the ttunp. I)EAFNES,S.—TheSOUND MAGNIFIER, and Invisible Voice Conductor. It fits into the ear, not telreeptible; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in e head i s en ti re l y remove d. It affords immediate relief Le deaf persons, and enables them to hear distinctly at 211nrch and public assemblies. Every other kind of hear 'nn instrument. Messrs. SOLOMON, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, 49, Great Ormond-street, Queen-square. - - Patron—Her Majesty the QUEEN. a ..T R. he Committee have much pleasure in announcing that A. BERESFORD HOPE, Esq , M.P., has consented to ,reside at the FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY PESTI -41-I, of this Charity, on February 12, at Willis's Rooms. FIRST LIST OF STEWARDS. Th e Most Noble the Marquis Vice-Admiral Sir Augustus ~fd Abercorn Clifford, Bart. 44 , 0 Right Honourable the The Rev. Sir C.. Maer ,egor ~,,!%arl of Shaftesbn , y K G. Bart. " 0 Right Honourable Earl Sir Archibald Alison, Bart. Amherst,,,, Admiral Sir William Bowles 40 e Right Honourable Vis- Col. Beanchamn Walker. C.B. ~,ecig-h tint Gort Colonel Home Purves C.B. 'ne Right Rev. the Bishop of Colonel F. R. Waldo Sibthorp The Lieut.-Colonel Frederick C. 'l3le R ight Rev. the Bishop of Heppe' It. David's Licut -Colonel Playf air e Right Honourable Lord Michael T. Bass, Esq., M.P. $i ht cillit:oniT, Allen A. Bathurst, Esq., M.P. Honourable Viscount Stephen Cave, Esq., M.P. W. W. Fitzwilliara Dick, Esq., jEonel the Hon. Percy E. M.P. leerbert, M.P. Albert Grant, Esq., M.P. 4j 3.. Hon. and Rev. Charles K. D. Hodgson, Esq., M.P. Theallies WiDoughby J. Dyce Nicol, Esq., M.. 'OO Honourable Arthur Kin- Arthur J. Otway, Esq. , p ar. P. R. N. C. H am ilt on, B ar t . sil. taird, M.P• Charles Waring, Esq., AL P. AcT.. n complete List of Stewards will shortly be published. to e ach names will be l 4 e ach steward is limited to on thank e fu ly guineareceived. The expense . u,liacriptions in aid of the funds are earnestly Henry and i, be thankfully received by the Treasurer, Henry Sykes uornton, Esq. ; or by any of the stewards. as SAIIIIIEL WHITFORD, Secretary. -......_ - nuary 16, 1866. INO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. )U BARRY's delicious health-restoring Invalids' and Infants' Food, THE REVALENTA ARABICA, Yi elds three times as much assimilating and strengthening I t lo urishraent as the best meat, and restores perfect diges- Il;on, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing ieep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disor uered or enfeebled—removing speedily and effectually in ttligestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, consumpti on , ha itual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, ` tas znorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervous- Ile ss, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head l,"ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, -378 ieria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, Palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, 13 ,P a 5,„. 111 8, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, t -- iutng fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, ains in the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. IPal t is the most digestible of all foods and suitable for in and infants in all complaints. of the quote a fair out of 62,000 Cures:—Cure No. 58,216 L2le Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver coin 'Ant an, away, debility, nervousness, irritability, : I P a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, con _ nt sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous 4igitation. Cure No. 7; of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of the county 'Waterford :-1 have derived much benefit from your eexcellent food.--Stuart de Decies, Dromana, !Cappoquin, q 11 r ,"3 7 Waterford. Cure No. 54,816, from the Rev. James Syderstone Rectory, near Fakenham, Nor th 40 all cases of indigestion, and particularly when flativer is more than usually affected, 1 consider it the bn. of all remedies. It regulates the bile, and makes it sba cases which would not a d m it o f mercur y i n an y earl .• In short, a healthy flo w o f th e bil e i s one o f th e pl c and best symptoms. You can make what use you of this communication.—l am, gentlemen, James ley ' a olPbell. Cure No. 52,422.—8 ridge House, Frim s.' Surrey :- Thirty-three years' diseased lungs, the of blood, liver derangement, deafness, singing in co, constipation, debility, shortness of breath, and lo ugh ' nave been removed by your Revalenta Ambles. My m u gs, liver, stomach, head, and ears are all right, my h?ar aegorfriect, and my recovery is a marvel to all my acquaint- Of - ,R7 -- James Roberts, Timber Merchant. Cure No. 49,832. 4, 38 - ' t S Years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervt?us ,4 asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sick vomiting -Maria Joly, of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure 12 1 • „ suss ElizabethJ aco bs, of extreme nervousn?s, Ce r ,r, B " o o, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. diat l 56,814. --Mr. Saml. Laxton,Leicester, of two years' 48 24 :.: ; 126. ~ 2161)T17 food is sold in canisters, 11b. 2s 9d ; 21b., e s • ; 121 b he • 241 b 40s. Super-refined quality, 11b., 51b., 225.” ; 101 b., 335. The 101 b., 121 b., and b y tacanisters, carriage free on receipt of Post-office Order, als o p r a Du Barry and Co., 77. Regent-street, London; vri so " I "iPs, Tea Dealers, 8, King William-street ; like gate_at 65, Gr acechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishops- Straus:ea Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, t lB Closec 9 13 ; r 054 t eUrs,Pr street, ; 103, Tottsnham-court 6, Upper lslington N.; Harvey, Notting-hill ; 65, High- street ; and Stubbs, Queen's fr e, St. John's-wood London ; and all respectable ' o cers and Oh • eraists.--Beware of spurious imitations. -A % ( "--- / N°. 22,983. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1866. T HE 'WELLINGTON RESTAURANT, ST. JAMES'S-STREET. Entrance, 160, Piccadilly. BREAKFASTS, LUNCHEONS, AND DINNERS from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Charges moderate. An Elegant DINING ROOll for Ladies and Families. lIJ. ani D. NICOLL , T a il ors to t h e • Queen, Royal Family, and Courts of Europe.— For GENTLEMEN the FASHIONS for th© SEASONS, for the promenade or demi-dress—Superfine frock coats, with rich silk breast facings, or morning coats of superfine Melton cloths, the charge for the former being 3i to 41- guineas; for the latter 21 to 3 guineas. For neglige e purposes, morning coats with pocket flaps at the waist, also the neglige jackets ; theseare of Melton, fancy coat ings, Angola and Cheviots, the prices from 255. to 4 guineas. The Angolas and Cheviots are also made in suits, at prices from 2 to 4 guineas; evening dress, black cloth of the finest .quality. For Overcoats—Melton, Beaver, and Witney cloths, from 2 to 8 guineas. For young gentlemen from eight years of age—The morning coat and neglige jacket ; also suits of Angola and Cheviot, the prices according to size, commencing at 31s. 6d. the suit. For boys from four years of age—The Knicker bocker and Highland costume 'of black velvet, or fine cloth for.dress, and of Angolan and Cheviots for morning, the price of the first size Knickerbocker, 1 guinea the suit. For Overcoats—Melto n , B eaver, and Witney cloths, from Ito 2 guineas each. Foreigners and visitors to London, Manchester, and Liverpool will find at Messrs. Nicholl's garments ready for immediate use, or made at a few hours' notice.—H. J. and D. Nicoll, 114, 116, 118, 120, Regent street; 22, Cornhill, London; 10, Mosley-street ; Man chester ; and 50, Bold-street, Liverpool. .on the Leeds ordinary stock at the rate of 4i per cent. per annum, leaving £571 ; on the Carlisle ordinary stock at the rate of 8- per cent. per an num, leaving £B5l ; on the Darlington ordinary stock at the rate of 94 per cent. per annum, leaving £2,686 ; and on the Thirsk and Malton ordinary stock at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum, leaving,: £99. The directors introduced a bill into Parlia ment for making a line from Knaresborough to Borough-bridge and short junctions with the exist ing lines Pilmoor and Malton ; also for power to form a line for the accommodation of the district between Gilling, Helmsley, and Pickering ; and a bill for a new line from Leeds to Wetherby. The amalgamation of the West Hartlepool and Cleve land undertakings with that of this company had I enabled the directors to propose several desirable improvements for connecting the lines at Ferry hill,• Hartlepool, and Upsall, in Cleveland. The Castleton and Grosmont line was opened for public traffic on the 2d of October last. The cApital ac count showed that £37,114,210 had been expended. - FENNY BELL, the New Novel, by the popular co Author of "Bella Donna," ac., IS NOW READY in Three Vols., post Bvo., at all Libraries and Booksellers. • TOD ARE.-337Tri REPRESENTATION: THEA ruE OF MYSTERY, EGYPTIAN HALL. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. MARVELS in MAGIC and VE NTRILOQUISM, as per formed by command before her Majesty toe Queen and the Royal Family at Windsor Castle, Tuesday Evening. Nov. 21, 186 S. The marvellous SPHINX, the BIRTH of FLOWER TREES, and STO DARE'S c^lebrated INDIAN BASKET FEAT, as only performed by him. Every evening at 8 ; Wednesday and z , aturday at 3. Stalls at Mitchell's, Old Bond-street, and Box-office, Egyptian Ball. Admission, is. and 2.. ; stalls, 3a. D R. YORQUET'S STANDARD FRENCH WORKS :- DE PORQUET'S Le TR ESOR de I'ECOLIER FRA.NCAIS,:for tunring English into French at Sight. 3s. 61. FRENCH INTERLOCUTOR (Complement du Trent). 3s. 6d. PARISIAN GRAMAI&R. Se. 6d. CONWRSATIONAL EXERCISES, adapted to the Parisian Grammar. 3s. 6d. FRENCH and ENGLISH DICTIONARY. 4s. 61. bound. SECRETAIRE PARISIAN. 3s. 6d HISTOIRL d'ANGLETERRE. 38. 6d. HISTORY of ENGLAND to Translate into French. 38. 6d. TRADUCTEUR HISTORIQUE (Second French Reading Book). 38. 6d. "Almost miraculous."—Vide the Times, Aprll 18,1865. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ; and way be had of the Author at his Scholastic Agency, 24, Oakley-square, N.W. Published by J. Clements, Little Palteney-street, price 7d., in cloth 13d., a New Work on the Teeth, entitled PURE DENTISTRY, and WHAT IT DOES FOR US. By A. ESKELL. Surgeon-Dentist, Grosvenor-street, W. T " OXF ORD 6, OXFORD-STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (Limited). THIS EVENING, and during the Week, EXTRA PERFORMANCES by all the available talent. Opera, Burlesque, Pantomime, Ballet, and Comedy Every Evening, performed by the entire company, including Misses Russell, Fitz Henry, Barrie ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, W. Williams, Spagnoli, &c. THE HUNGARIANS in their new entertainment, entitled " Kanasz es Csardas ;" Messrs. Duriah and Davies's illustrations of Negro Life ; the ENCHANTED HASH, eleven characters performed by Mr. E. Marshall, the entertainment written expressly for him by Mr. W. T. Vandervell ; the wondrous JEAN BOND ; and a host of other talent, for which see pro gramme and small biIIs.—EVERY EVENING. " the present may be looked upon in some measure as a popular supplement to the author's former work, 'A Treatise on Dental Surgery ;' and should be perused by those who are troubled with their teeth."—Morning Advertiser, Aug. 31, 14365. - Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. Sold by Simpkin and Marshall, and may be had of all book sellers. CANTERBURY HALL, RI-Flatt ! TI-Fl7/if. During the Week will be performed the above most extraordinary Entertainment, containing all the novel ties now in this country, and including the services of Les Montagnards, their first appearance ; Mr. E. Mar shall, Mrs. and Mr. W. Randall, the renowned Talliott, Les Freres d'Etoile, Signor Tescano, a la Donato; Les Tableaux d'Amour, illuminated by the Magnesium' ight ; Fairy Orchestra, designed and painted by Mr. T. Burgess and Mr. W. Gowrie ; and Grand Ballet of upwards of one hundred ballerines. The whole written and composed expressly for this establishment by William Vandervell, Esq. In addition to the vocal and instrumental entertain ment. EVERY EVENING. M U D i I E ,II ' E S NE S W E SF L ;A E SO V istoTi L cE. I LIBRARY . Y. All the BEST BOOKS of the SEASON and of the past twenty years are in circulation at MUDIE'S SELECT LIBRARY. FIRST .CLASS SUBSCRIPTION. ONE GUINEA PER ANNUM. Commencing at any date. Book Ciubs supplied on liberal terms. • Prospectuses on application. MUDIE'S SELECT LIBRARY, Limited, • NEW OXFORD-STREET. City Of f ice, 4, KING-STREET, CHEAPSIDE. , . ... _ ..... . ... _.. . els,- ~..-5,,.. ...a v z _.a .ji , t $,-. -,049„ - ...._.... • / . 4 4,...._ • :-..A: :-, ~, ,-,7 s ,- 4 up it ~ *7l , will * II " 6 X r r .'4 '1 ', 00 ' - 4 I L ,.6.til'' - ' 4 -'-..: 1 - ____ V 1 . :. 1 % - ~,:00, •IS ...t. "---", - ~,.-. = y.... '" * li t, '!''.' 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No appearance was entered in the cases of the Great Northern, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire (Maxey to Goole) ; Grangemouth Forth Docks and lines.; South Yorkshire (abandon ment, &c.), and the Wens= Valley Extension. The consideration or the Birkenhead and Liverpool Junction Railway and Road was adjourned. The standing orders were declared not to have been com plied with in the case of the Dublin, Rathmines, &c., and the Bristol Port Extension. Yesterday, in Mr. Smith's court, the following bills complied with the sanding orders :—London, Brighton, and South Coast (various powers), Ely Valley, Llanelly, and Dublin and Antrim Junction. There was no appearance entered for the North Sur rey. The Langharne was adjourned until the 20th inst., and she bills of theMetropolitim and the Liver pool Tramways until this day (Wednesday). Mr. Frere declared the standing orders complied with in the following eases :—Esk Valley, Forth and Clyde Junction and North British, North British (St. Mar garet's Diversion), North British and Leadhurn, Linton and Dolphinton, North British (Campo, &c., Branches), Mid-Kent and South-Eastern, Solway Junction (capital), Worcester, Bromyard, and Leo minster; Stourbridge (Valley of the . Stour Exten sion), East Norfolk, and the Mersey Pneumatic. The North British (Stirling, &c., Branches) was ad journed until Thursday; the North British (Wishaw, &c., Branches), St. Bride's Bay, the Birkenhead and Liverpool Junction, and the London, Chatham, and Dover, and South-Eastern (Bromley, Farn born, and West Wickham) were adjourned until this day (Wednesclay3. There was no appearance entered in the case of the Mistley, Thorpe, and Wal ton; and the Tamar, Kit-bill, and Callington was postponed until Monday next. DEFRIES and SONS beg to call the special et • attention of Merchants and the Trade to their NEW PATENT ASTRA BURNER, With Circular Wick, which for simplicity of construction, great brilliancy of light, perfect combustion, and its entire freedom tram heat, sur passes everything that has yet been introduced. A STRA LAMPS can be obtained from the METROPOLITAN LIGHT COMPANY, 411, Strand, and from all Irimmongers and Lamp Warehouses in Town and Country.; and the Patentee, 16 and 17, Commercial street, WhitechapeL ASTRA, PETROLEUM, and KEROSINE LAMPS on SHOW. (New Designs.) A STRA (Patent) LAMP, for MINERAL AS TR A LAM P.—Five Hundred NEW PATTERNS for the Season now on Show. TABLE GLASS, ENGRAVED AND CUT. JT DEFRIES and SONS, • • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET. TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS. • Newest Patterns, Correct Measure. DEFRIES and SONS, tl • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES, For 12 Persons, II 18s. 6d. BREAKFAST and TEA SERVICES in great variety, £1 is. T DEFRIES and SONS, t.l • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS, New de9iv,ns, for the Drawing-room, either for Gas or Candle. T DEFRIES and SONS, t_l • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS, In the Grecian and Venetian Designs, DEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17, CO3IIIIERCIAL-STREET. BRONZED AND ORMOLU CHANDELIERS, New designs, for the Dining-room. T DEFRIES and S ONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL LAMPS AND WALL LIGHTS (Registered) for India. tDEFRIES 'and SONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CLUB, MESS, AND FURNISHING ORDERS for the above Goods promptly executed. Works —LONDON and BIRMINGHAM. JDEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. JT DEFRI ES and SUNS • • Supply Merchants with Pattern Books Free. JDEFRIES and SONS' • TEMPORARY SHOW ROOMS. 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET, WHITECETAPEL, Five Minutes' walk from the Late Establishment, 147, HOUNDSDITCH. STARCH MANUFACTURERS TO H. R. H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES. GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, Used in the Royal Laundry, AND AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDAL, 1862. Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, &a. &o. BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. HEALTH WITHOUT MEDICINE. Being the only Sovereign and unfailing Remedy for Indi gestion, Constipation. Nervousness, Debility, Torpidity of the Liver. H eadache, Biliousness, Despondency, Low Spirits, Conchs, Asthma, and Incipient Consumption. Full particulars sent to any address on receipt of two stamps, by Mr. KEARSLEY, 23, Kentish-town-road, Lon don, N.W. " file most efficacious remedy for those diseases extant, a boon to the afflicted."—Medical Review. " This invaluable discovery has attainei a world-wide cele brity, being of inestimable value, and most admirably adapted to remove those maladies which tend to embitter Me, and shorten its duration."—Soalpel. " The unprecedented success of this remedy is without parallel ; this is demonstrated by the innumerable cares effected."—Medical Journal. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, eonsisting of a new and eAegant assort ment of VA SE S , Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks. Ink stands, peautlful inlaid Tables Paper weights, &0., in Italian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &a Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Majesty, 149, St and, W.C.. London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly fiollitate V.e 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 MINE RALOGY is elven by Mr.TENNANT,P.G.S., at 149. Strand. (1 HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— AA ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na tural in effe t. Price 3s. 6d. ss. W., and 10s. 6d. ; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps. ALEX. ROSS'S ENAMEL (as used by Mdme. VEST RIS).—AII imperfections of the skin are hidden by its use. and a transcendant beauty produced to the face. Price 10s 64 ; segt for stamps. 248, High Holborn, London. HAIR COLOUR WASH.—By Washing the Head with this beautiful perfumed Wash in st-ven or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains so by an occasional using. 10s 6d; sent for stamps.—By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer than 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected irom want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few of the most recent cases: F. P., aged 16, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father. M. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead. A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother 3. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead. C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead, • A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead. H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents, M. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead. E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. M. A. W. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. S. D., aged is, fallen, both parents dead. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for young girls, almost children, from the age of s to 15, who have been led astray from the path of virtue." Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary ; Mr. Daniel Cooper, i 5, Queen •street, Cheapside; ur by Keears Barclay and Co., Lombard-street ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALE 3, E.G President—Hl (3 Moe the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. K.G. - - - This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions and I ;4a2i.es It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendanee of the destitute sick has for a cowiderable period averaged between 1,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of coiltainiog several hundred more beds, had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas :erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Giyn and Co. ; H"rrles and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co.. Berners-street ; I. Banned and Co,. Liverpool; said at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. STANFOILD SIUTH. Secretary, Just published. 2d.. sent by the Author for three stamps, UGLINESS and BEAUTY. A closely-printed Pamphlet, descriptive of articles and means used for improvinz the appearance. Ey ALEX. ROSS, 249, High Holborn, London. NTOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of the day, AQUA AMA KELL A. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO. ' Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Vhames-street, Perfumers to her Majesty, • respect fully offer to the public this truly marvellous ffuti, which gradually restores tne human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles. 10s. 61 Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highn3ss the Princess of Wales. PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C. Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches. At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that they are homeless and starving. The Manager, &C., receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each night numbers of young women, children, and orphans are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, andhave to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda tion, £2,000 has been raised. but to accomplish the work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required. Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome, and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will be offered in your behalf. SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT, D.D., No. 22, Finsbury-circus, E.C. DONORS AND SUBSCRIBERS TO THE REFUGE. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G. His Royal Highness the Duke D'Aumale. His Excellency the Count D'Apponyi. His Excellency the Count Lavradio. The Earl of Abergavenny. Messrs. Dimsdale, Drewett, The Earl of Desart. Fowler and Barnard. The Earl of Denbigh. Messrs.lianbury andLloyds. The Earl Grey, K.G. Messrs. Prescott, Grote, Cave The Earl of Harewood. and Co. The Earl of Eglinton. London Assurance Corpora- The Earl of Kenmare. tion. The Earl of Durham. Royal Exchange Insurance The Countess of Albemarle. Company. The Lady Ellen Browne. Sun Fire Office. The Lady Camilla E. For- R. W. Barclay, Esq. tescue. J. Bethel], Esq. The Viscount Gage. Mrs. Barnewall. Field-Marshal Lord Gough, Miss Burton. K.P. Mrs. Curling. The Lord Dormer. J. Henry Challis, Esq. The Lord Petre. Dr. Carvalho. The Lord Leigh. R. Crawford, Esq., M.P. The Lord Chelmsford. H. Cazenne, Esq. The Lord Cranworth. Mrs. Chesterton. Baron de Rothschild, M.P. A. H. Campbell, Esq. The Hon. C. Langdale. Miss Douglas. The Hon. W. Browne. Messrs. Durant & Co. The Hon. H. G. Campbell. Messrs. Dawson & Sons. Sir Charles Price, Bart. Miss Dobson Sir Robert Gerard, Bart. Cursetjee Furdonjee, Esq. Sir Pyers Mostyn, Bart. Miss Frsnklin Hon. Rustomjee Jamsetjeo Dr. Cull. J eejeebhoy. C. Gould, Esq. The Governors of the Bank H. E. Gurney, Esq. of England. Messrs. Hills & Underwood. The Worshipful Company of Capt. Hogg. Armourers and Braziers. Miss Kaye. The Worshipful Company of J. Kynaston, Esq. Tallow Chandlers. J. Knight, Esq. The Worshipful Company of L. Lloyd, Esq. Drapers. J. Lewis Mieville, Esq. The Worshipful Company of Miss M'Mahon. Grocers. C. Manning, Esq. The Worshipful Company of Miss Martin Saddlers. Breton Martinez, Esq. The Worshipful Company of Messrs. Ponsford and Sou- Salters. thall. The Worshipful Company of F. X. Pereira, Esq. Merchant Tailors. Mrs. Palmer. The Directors of the Bank of H. W. Prescott, Esq. Australia. F. Philips, Esq. The Directors of the Bank of N. H. E. Prowett, Esq. Australasia. " M. R. De Quadros, Esq. The Directors of the Colo- G. A. Shee, Esq. nial Bank. H. Riddell, Esq. The Directors of the National T. Riddell Esq. Bank of Ireland. Messrs. Ralli Bros. The Directors of the Provin- Messrs. Do la Rue and Co. cial Bank of Ireland. Miss Rombold. The Directors of the Char- Mrs. Simpson. tered Mercantile Bank of Mrs. Scott. India, London, and China. Mrs. Southby. The Directors of the Impe- Messrs. Tucker and New. rial Ottoman Bank. F. Ward, Esq. The Directors of the London G. Basil Wcod, Esq. and County Bank. Miss Young. The Directors of the Union kJ. Young, Esq. Bank. Messrs. Zulueta and Co. Messrs. Coutts and Co. (tc. &e. &C. Admission—Area, 6d; stalls and balcony, ls. MADAME RACHEL'S GEMS of the TOILET comprise all that can enhance and preserve the charms of woman - youth. beauty, grace and elegance, golden tresses, ruby lips, pearly teeth, and soft, pearl-like com plexion. These costly Arabian preparations, which have gained for her a world-renowned name, can now be obtaine d 'of all respectable chemists in town and country, and at her residence, 47A, New Bond-street, where she can be consulted daily. Agents required. 1111ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street. NEW ADDITIONS.—In the Chamber of Horrors aro full-length Portrait Models, taken from Life, of CHAR LOTTE WINSOR and STEPHEN FORWOOD, alias ERNEST SOUTHEY. Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admittance, One Shilling; Children under 10, half-price ; Extra Rooms, Sixpence. A RGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly. Musical Director and Conductor, M. LUIGI CURTL Principal Cornet-a-Piston, M. M'Eleney. Euphonlon, the celebrated Signor Luigi Mosca. Programme this Evening and during the Week—Grand Selections, IL TROVATORE and IL LUCIA. Solo vio loncello, M. Sloman, jun. L'AFRICAIN VALSE and ECLIPSE GALOP. Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock. Admission, ls. Manager, M. GRENET. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient i n ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OlL.whichspeedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. 38. 6d, ss. 6d„ and !Os. 6d..; sent free for 54, 84, and 141 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. IVONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one thy by using. ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. rids preparation gradually disFolves the corn in a few hours, removing the very root. -Price 4s , sent by post for GO stamp& —248, High Holborn, London. 11111rAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, 111_ London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID ourli Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is app:icd. Sold at 3s. 6d., is. Cd., and 10s. 6d.; sent free for 54, 84, and 141 stamps. Itoss's Toilet Magazine, Is. 6d., or 20 stamps. CHOCOLATE.-AIENIER'S FRENCH. CHOCOLAT-HEFTIER, for Breakfast. CH.OOOLAT-DENIER is pure, wholesome, and deliciouf. MENIER'S FRENO I CHOCOLATE. Warehouse, 23, Henriett4treet, Covent-garden. Sold every ere. • TOHN GOSNELL agar CO.'S CHERRY TOO 1.11 PASTE: is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price Is. 6d.-Ited Bull Wharf, t 3, Upper Thames-street, London. TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY. Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON MOSELY and SONS, Dentists, 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand, Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station. Their painless artificial teeth are unequalled for economy, durability, comfort, and all purposes of articulation and mas tication. Operations of every kind leing unnecessary, the most nervous patient can be supplied without fear of pain or inconvenience. Consultation free. Teeth from ss, Sets from 5 to 25 gs., warranted. For the efficacy, utility, and success of their system, vide , Lancet." Daily attendant; at 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand, London; 13, Whitefriargate, ; 10, Norfolk street, Sheffield; 4, East-parade, Leeds; and 14, St. Nicholas s treet, Scarbro'. Observe—Established 1830. No connection with any of the same mine. Railway and other Companies. STAINES, IVOKINGFIAM, AND WOKING. The directors of this company have decided on recommending the payment of a dividend of 3s. per share, or 11 per cent. per annum, for the half-year ending the 31st of December last, against 2s. 6d. per share, or 14 per cent. per annum, for the corre sponding half of 1864. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The directors in their report state that they have again to congratulate the proprietors upon the con tinued improvement in the traffic receipts. As com pared with the corresponding period of 1864, the amount received for passengers, goods, minerals, and cattle have been as follows :—Passengers, &c., receipts, £1,496,696 ; goods, mineral, and cattle receipts, £1,678,981—t0ta1, £3,175,677. This addi tion to the receipts admits of a dividend at the rate of 71 as against 7 per cent. per annum in February last year. The Central Wales line from Knighton to Llandrindod, a distance of 19f miles, was opened for public traffic on the Ist of December last, and is being worked under an agreement for which Parlia mentary powers and the sanction of the shareholders have already been obtained. The directors regret to report that the bills introduced this session of Parliament affecting the company are as numerous as in any previous year. They have been considered by the board, and their progress in committee will be carefully watched. Against some of them it will be needful to petition ; but where practicable the directors will endeavour to protect the company's interests by friendly arrangement rather than by Parliamentary contest. The bills promoted by the company are not of an extensive character, and do not involve the construction of lines in new districts, but only of such short branches and enlargement of existing stations and works as the rapidly-increasing traffic and the requirements of the public imperatively demand. The bills contain the necessary Parliamentary powers for authoris ing additional capital to be raised for these new works. The bill for a line between Halifax and Huddersfield, to be constructed jointly with the Midland Company and parties locally interested, which failed on standing orders last year, has been re-introduced this Session. The directors have pro moted a bill for the transfer of the Whitehaven Junction and Cockermouth and Workington lines. The total liability is small, while the traffic thus se cured is important, and passes for a considerable distance on the main line. The advantage of a con nexion with the extensive coalfields of Leicestershire and Derbyshire has been frequently urged upon the notice of the board, and, finding that independent parties have in this session of Parliament deposited bills for this object, the directors will consider what steps it would be most advisable to adopt in support of such lines as offer the company access to the dis trict. The directors, in conjunction with several influential gentleme n i n Sheffield and the locality, considering it essential that a railway between Bux ton and Sheffield should be constructed, had the country surveyed and plans prepared, but the esti mated cost of the line as laiddown ultimately proved greater than they expected, and it was therefore deemed unadvisable to proceed with the measure in the present session. Assured, however, that a com munication is needed, alike for local requirements and for the furtherance of the general interests of the company, and that it can be obtained at a mode rate cost, the directors have pledged themselves to promote in the next session a revised scheme of ef fectingln announcing to the pro prietorsththeesereosbigjtsnecatio. resignation of Mr. Charles E. Stewart the directors desire to express their sense of his able and honourable services for the 19 years during which he held the office of secretary. Mr. Stephen Reayhas been appointed to sacceed Mr. Stewart. The directors request the votes of the proprietors for £350,000 to provide additional engines, waggons, and carriages, and £159,965 for additional sidings, additional accommodation, and other work, at above e 60 places and stations; £23,544 a t p l aces on the and £16,149 at severa l places line. From the statement of the h a lf- year ' s ac counts the net proceeds amount aneaste in connexion to £1,061,322, Lancaster and Caornlis withle line,th Chester and Holyhead the balance from last accounts to £10,611, making a disposable balance of £1,071,933, of which the dividend recommended, at the rate of 71 per cent. per annum, will absorb £1,060,871, leaving a balance of £11,062 for next account. The dispos able balance for the corresponding half of 1864 amounted to £999,861, and the dividend, at 7 per cent, per annum, absorbed £974,019, leaving a balance of £25,842. The capital account showed that £42,024,720 had beenreceived, and £40,482,731 expended, including £802,751 during the past half year, leaving a balance of £1,541,989. NORTH-EASTERN. The report of the directors states that the receipts of the company during the past half-year had ex ceeded those for the corresponding period of 1864 by £102,001. The gross receipts for the half-year ending the 31st of December last, on 1,2074 miles, amounted to £1,915,980, against £1,813,979, on 1,1601 miles, showing an increase of £102,001, and the working expenses, taxes, &c., amounted to £906,433, against £864,651, showing an increase of £41,782. The net receipts for the half-year amounted to £1,009,547, against £949,328, show ing an increase of £60,219. The directors recom mended the payment of a dividend at the rate of 61 per cent. per annum on the Berwick ordinary stock, leaving £3,730 ; on the York ordinary stock at the rate of 61 per cent. per annum, leaving £536 GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday iu Dublin—Mr. W. Ilaughton in the chair. Mr. Taylor, the secretary, read the report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun. The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, said that if at any time the directors had deserved any credit for the management of the company's affairs, they never deserved it more than during the eventful years through which they had lately passed, and in which the company's dividend was reduced only to a small extent. It was exceeo;ngly gratifying to the directors to meet the shareholders again with the largest surplus they had ever had on any pre vious occasion. (Hear.) It was a clear bona fide surplus of £26,000, of which they proposed to allo cate £7,000 to the reserve fund, which would then amount to £12,000. They proposed to add £3,000 to the insurance fund, making it £5,000, and the balance of £16,000 they expected would be amply sufficient to protect the company's dividend for the year 1866. The increase in the; - ' passenger traffic for the past half-year amounted to £22,000. It was the decided opinion of the directors that if they consulted the interests of the shareholders, and not the expectations and gratification of the public, they never would run an excursion train upon their line. (Hear, hear.) The worry, the expense, and the risk attendant on those trains far more than out weighed, in the opinion of the directors, any pro blematical profit they might derive from them. After some discussion the report was adopted, the dividend on the consolidated stock, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, 'was declared, and the retiring auditor, Mr. R. Atkinson, was re-elected. ROYSTON AND HI rCEIIN. The half-yearly meeting of this companywas held on Monday at the office, Gracechurch-street ; Mr. J. C. Cobbold, M.P., in the chair. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Sir R. CARDEN, a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, less income tax, and Id. per £6 ss. stock for expenses of management, was declared on the Royston, Hitchin, and Shepreth Consolidated Stock for the half-year ending Feb. 1, payable forthwith. SAN PAULO (BRAZILIAN). The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Monday at the London Tavern; Mr. R.A. Heath in the chair. Mr. Hillier, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report, an abstract of which has appeared, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the works were progressing favourably, and they expected that by Midsummer next the line would be opened throughout for traffic. Slips had occurred in some of the embankments, which were being made good, and, as the contractors would have to keep the whole of the works in good order for one year after the opening of the line, he trusted that, by that time, the works would be properly con solidated. With regard to another matter, the di rectors have thought it right that the shareholders should have a copy of the whole of the correspond ence that had taken place between the directors of the company and Capt. de Medeiros, the agent of the Brazilian Government. The directors, as they might suppose, were not very well pleased with the result of that correspondence, as they considered the Brazilian Government had broken faith with them, Capt. de Medeiros having had full authority to treat with the company. He protested on behalf of the company against the consequences of that ac tion of the Government which appeared to him not only to be highly prejudicial to the shareholders of the San Paulo Railway, but also very injurious to Brazilian credit in this country. HQ therefore consi dered the Imperial Government as responsible to the company for any extra charge at which they might be obliged to raise the money beyond the 7 per cent. guaranteed by the concession. He sug gested that the shareholders should among them selves contribute the requisite sum by taking their proportion of the bonds; the directors would also take their share of them, and they would thus gain considerable advantage by adopting that course, and be independent of external aid. To subscribe for bonds to the amount of one-fifth of their present holding would be sufficient to raise all the money the company would require. A SHAREHOLDER thought there must have been some misapprehension as to the translation from the Portuguese. Mr. SAMUEL begged to say that the version he had given of the proposition was the right one, and was in strict conformity with the private instructions of Captain de Medeiros. Mr. FLESCHER thought they had very little to ex pect from the Brazilian Government. It was the Government and not the people of Brazil that were to blame. The report and statement of accounts were then unanimously adopted. The retiring auditors, Mr. Alderman Dakin and Mr. Galsworthy, were re elected. Mr. GOEZ considered the suggestion of the direc tors for raising the requisite money a very good one. Mr. WILsoN proposed a resolution expressing the views of the shareholders as to the recent proCeed ings of the Brazilian Government ; but after some conversation it was withdrawn, and the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 20th of January amounted, for local passengers, to £4,229 ; for foreign passengers, to £1,460 ; for mails, &c., to £976 ; for local freight and live stock, to £11,746 ; for foreign freight and live stock, to £2,598 ; total, £21,009, against £21,201 for the corresponding week of last year, showing a decrease of £192. The total receipts from the Ist January to the above date amounted to £64,865, and for the same period last year to £63,757, showing an increase of £1,105. RAILWAY BILLS. The Examiners held courts on Monday. Mr. Smith declared the standing orders to have been complied with in the following cases :—Tot tenham and Hampstead Junction ; Bideford, Ap pledore, and Westward Ho ; Dagenham Dock (Railways) ; Ilfracombe ; Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield Extension ; Caledonian (Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, and Mid-Lothian Branches) ; Lan cashire Union (new lines) ; and the Waterford and Limerick (arrangements).. The standing orders were declared not to have been complied with in the case of the Shrewsbury and North Wales (Mei fod Valley Extension). The Mid-Wales and the Salisbury and Dorset Junction werepostponed until the 20th inst. There was no appearance entered in the case of the Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton. The London Labouring Classes. yesterday the Right lion. C. P. Villiers, M.P., the President of the Poor-law Board, received a deputation of members of London Guardian Boards, who had agreed to confer with him on tin destruction by railway companies and other bodies of house properly occupied by the London labouring classes. There were present with the President—Lord Enfield, M.P., Mr. H. B. Farnall, C. 8., Mr. Rawl;nson, C. 8., Mr. Lumley, and Mr. Fletcher ; and the assistant-secretaries, Mr. Owen and Mr. Sutton. Many of the chief metro politan parishes were represented by the deputation, among the members of wh;ch were Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. J. S. Storr, Mr. Bonthorn, and Mr. Hanson. Mr. Kilner, the clerk to the Strand Union, read the memorial, which stated that " the memorialists, having recently *_nvestig,aied the present state of the house and lodging accommodation for the labouring and poorer classes within their respective distiicts, feel it their duty to report that the dwellings or the poor classes in the city are for the most part unsuit able for their requirements, that great overcrowding prevails, and that owing to recent demolitions the rentals are very much higher than formerly." These homes of the people, the memorial went on to state, caused increased of disease, immorality, and pau perism, and checked all progress towards a higher civilise tion ; thus increasing the poor-rates, while decreasing the number of those who might be called ratepayers. The memorial called attention to the large number of bills for new metropolitan railways and other schemes to be laid before the Legislature, and expressed the opinion of the memorialists, that if any great proportion of these bills were sanc tioned without provision being -made on an adequate scale for the poor who will be dispossessed of their homes much further suffering would be inflicted on the poor, and a heavy penalty would fa" upon the ratepayers and the guardians. It was recommended that corporations, limited owners, and others, should have increased powers to sell lands for the erection of dwellings for labourers, that the Public Loan Com missioners should be authorised to lend money at a rate not exceeding 3i per cent. per annum for building such dwellings, and that in future railway acts and acts for local improvements,when housesinhabitedby the working classes were destroyed under compulsory powers; such companies should be compelled to pro vide within a convenient distance other dwellings in lieu of those destroyed. In reply to questions put by the presidentMr.Wilkinson and Mr. Kilner stated that meetings had been held of the London guardians, who moved in this matter in the general interests of the ratepayers, as it was felt that this destruction of the dwellings of the lower and labouring classes leads to many evils, as overcrowding, fever-breed ing, and such like, which increases pauperism. Mr. Kilner, in answer to such interrogatories, said it was within his own knowledge that the dwellings of the people in the Strand district were in a very bad condition, and the destruction of dwellings for the new law ccurts would make the overcrowding in the houses not to be pulled down very great indeed. The President asked if large numbers of the people were not now carried out to the suburbs by the rail ways at a very low rate, so giving them opportu nities of reaching their work in the morning and returning in the evening, to which it was replied that such was the case to some extent, but that it was imperative on large numbers of people to live near their work. That large buildings could be erected in town with advantage was shown in the fact that Mr. Waterlow's buildings and those erected by the Peabody Trustees had given a profit on the expen diture, besides giving the people healthy and com fortable homes ; but this was a speculation which would not be engaged in by capitalists. The Presi dent asked if the guardians contemplated taking this matter into their own hands, and offer to mort gage the rates as security for money advanced, and some gentlemen replied that they had no idea of mortgaging the rates. They thought that the land and building material would be sufficient security for all money advanced, and instanced the case of Liverpool, where it was said the corporation had borrowed money to improve the dwellings of the poor. Mr. Wilkinson said there were many places in a very bad condition, which by a comparatively small expenditure might be madeheaclz gr itab e l a e t ; go an od d taking the subject in its broadest aspect, ula As tion it if w g as u , ar p di eo a p n le s would accrue to the genera p i o t p . had this power and exercised l who worked in the docks and at Billingsgate came to live in the Strand district, where they had bad a matter for these connected accommodation and paid very eted d N e v a i r th ly t;hane Poor -l w aw as , as the people's he underra rates. The T uai he sery the pauper and they became alth chargeablebroke in dependent poor and to the out-door poor were, he said, very close l y connected, and the one class ran into the other. Mr. Lumley asked if the ow ners of the low class property would not them se l ves, i n se lf-i n terest, improve the dwellings so as to make them pay better ; and if the guardians proposed t o obtain compulsory powers to become collectively houseowners, to which it was replied that it was not contemplated to make the guardians the permanent owners of lodging-house or other property and Mr. Bonthorn, one of the guardians of St. James's, Westminster, gave a description of the shocking dwellings he and other guardians visited in discharge of their duties as honorary relieving officers, and expressed the opinion that if some of the inferior dwellings in his parish could be cleared away, far more commodious dwellings could be erected on the same spaces of ground. The present dwellings were in the hands of about three persons, the landlord, a middleman, and then a third sort of middleman, and the poor people paid a most exorbitant rent for bad• accommodation. Mr. Hanson urged that all railway companies should be compelled to erect dwellings in place of those they destroyed, and said Tsp APEH the Metropolitan Extensions ha Igat . of all the evils. M r . L um l ey , •what riZ4 they proposed to deal with the Z,i;'pora.ti:; - ' 4 A 174 h;/- made new streets, an d M r . Sto rimji.pd t Vre, corporations did not d es t roy the homrao' - ing man so much as the railways, f* theU woal not propose to come through a place like Whitehall, but they went round the " slums" and the poor districts. He answered, in reply to Mr. Farnall, that he knew the railway companies paid compensation to the owners and lessees of all house property ; and in answer to a further question by the same gentle man, as to whether he would make the companies, besides paying this compensation to owners, build other houses for the working-classes, he said that that was a matter best considered and set right by the Legislature. Mr. Storr then addressed the Pre sident, and said that though the number of the work ing people who would have to be turned out for the new Law Coui;a was set down as 3,082, yet they were a much greater number, and said every interest had been watched over--the parish interest, the landlord. interest, the Church interest, all except the interest of the dwellers in the houses, who obtained no com pensation, and who ought to be protected by the_ Poor Law Board. He held up a bill containing in flammatory language, in which his own name had been printed without his consent, and this, he said, had been done by an old Chartist agitator, who was , trying, and not altogether withoutsuccess, to inflame the minds of the people against what he called the • " cruel oppression" to which they were exposed in being turned out of their homes. He thought there should be a central power to deal with the metropo lis and watch over these railway's, which he owned did some good, but he said there was such a thing as doing too much good at once, and London, it was agreed on all hands, had of late been terribly knocked about. Mr. Rawlinson said there were many plots of land about the metropolis in which the guardians were distributing relief amounting to far more than the • rents received from the houses, and this was in a great measure owing to the wretched class of dwell ings. He believed that if the London guardians had appointed counsel to watch over their interest before the committee of the House of Commons they would have obtained compensation, as had other places in the country. He was of opinion that where guardians expended as much money as the landlords received, they should have thepower of buying such property, improving it, and selling it—a course which would benefit all parties, and especially the landlords, who, he said, were in some cases only one remove from the tenant in poverty. After a very long and interest in,g conversation, the President said the Government had had their atten,.:on drawn to the subject, which was one of great importance, and they proposed to meet some of the difficulties by lending money for the purpose of erecting dwelling places for the work ing classes. As to the clauses which the deputation asked should be inserted in reilway bills, and such like questions, they were questions which must re main ..or the Legislature to deal with as it thought proper. The deputation tl-1 -- )ked Villiers for his courtesy, and for the patience with wPch he had listened to them, and retired. The Loss of the Steamer London. The official inquiry, instituted by the Board of Trade, into the circumstances attending the foun dering of the steamer Lon.flen, waz resumed yester day at the Greenwich Police-cot—l, before Mr. Traill, the district stipendiary magistrate, and Cap tains Harris and Baker, the nautical assessors. Mr. Waun, surveyor at Lloyds,was recalled, and repeated the evidence he had pret:ously given re specting the seaworthiness of. the London. He added that so satisficl was he of the excellence of the ship's fittings and her capacity for any voyage that be asked Mr. Wigzain to let his on.a son go is her as tbird. engiucer. George Barber, gbipm, 2ight , surveyor of the Board of Trade, was re-examined by3lr. O'Dowd. He said he had compared the dhuensions of the London with those of several transatlantic vessels at Liverpool and the Clyde, and he had found the comparison favourable to the London. He had considered the tonnage under deck in connexion with the di►nen sions, and he did not think that the London was what was called a shall) ship. On looking at the dimensions of the masts and yards of the London, he did not consider they were out of propox Lion in relation to the size of the chip. He objected to box spurketing on the weather deck of a vessel like tho London, as it prevented the escape of deck water. In reply to Mr. Trail], The witness said if the skylight of the engine room had been properly secured by its fastenings and battened down, he was at a loss to account for the manner in which it had been unshipped. He did not think that any sea could have carried it away, and he was of opinion that the quantity of water capable of being shipped in the engine -room could not have swamped the ship. The witness, in reply to Mr. O'Dowd, said he had carefully considered the question of fixing a load :line in ocean-going steamers, and he was of opinion that the proposed experiment was fraught with much difficulty, when viewed in connexion with the interests of owners and passengers. Sir Samuel Hooper was examined byMr. O'Dowd, and deposed—He had been speaker of the Legisla tive Assembly in Sydney. He had gone on three voyages to Australia and back, and was a passen ger in the London in the year 1864. On leaving Plymouth he noticed her very deep in the water. On reaching the Bay of Biscay he observed tho London very sluggish in the water, and he con sidered her a very heavily rigged chip. Captain Martin always caified all he could of sail, and that was the reason witness went with him. The Lon don was slow as a sailing ship before the wind, and she did not steer well under sail, and even with the screw down. He considered that the combings of the London were too low, and hecomnpgllaisinhesdhiposf th e disadvantages of the generality of E in this respect when comparedwithforeign steamers. Mr. O'Dowd asked the witness if his evidence was not voluntary, and in the interest of the public. The witness replied that was so. • He wished to say that, as some aspersions had been cast on the professional reputation of Capt. Martin, he believed him to have been a first-rate seaman, and the same might be said of Mr. Harris, the chief officer. Mr. Cowley Miller, shipbuilder, of Liverpool, was examined, and expressed his condemnation of the system of introducing spurketing in ships, as was the case in the London. Ho attributed the foundering of the London to this circumstance, and he had no doubt that if the ship had been provided with a cutter way and a sufficient number of port holes she would now be on her voyage to Melbourne. He had never seen it used either at Liverpool. or on the Clyde in iron ships. In reference to the protec tion of the engine-room skylight of the London, he fastening not tening properlyha had come to the conclusion that the been left in an unsecured state. He was of opi n i on that hatchway skylightstthen adjourned until thi s d ay. generally Were protected. The A. meeting of the the purpose of alleviatin g e4m Comm the that was formed for the relatives of the unhappy their sad lo ss h e l d a meotingee distress occasioned to y re e w ste o r f da th y e in L t o h n e do L n on b g y Parlour at the Mansion-house, and the Lord Mayor The object of th e mee ti ng was t o w i n d up presided . t he matter, and arrange as to the best mode of distributing the money that had resulted from the subscription that was so kindly inaugurated by tbe comtnittee r aided by the influence of the Lord Mayor, who, it will be remembered, headed the list with a subscription of 20 guineas. Among the gentlemen present were a representative of Wrigram and Co. (owners of the London), Mr. B. Hume, Mr. Nunn, Mr. IL R. Foster (hon. secretary), who has been very active in furthering the object in view, and several other gentlemen. There has been collected altogether about £1,200, and it twould cases that the result of a careful inquiry into cases shows that there are about 49 persons, con , sisting of fathers and mothers, widows and children, who are considered proper objects tobereencerivecetvheed bounty of the public. I t a pp eared to be th e opinion of the gen tl em en present that the sum already re ceived is sufficient t o afford such relief as is n ecessary in all the cases , a nd arran g ements were mad e received for th e distribution of the money that has in such proportions as may be deemed advisable for each case. MR. MARK LEMON'S NEW NOVEL. Just ready, in 3 vols., RN NER LYLE. By MARK LEMON. Hurst and Blackett, A 3, Orem Marlborough-street.