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MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1850), 14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVE N T -GAR DEN, LENDS MONEY on Personal and other Security, in sums of £2O to £5OO, to be repaid by instalments extending over o ne, two, or three years. The large Capital of this Associa tion enables it to complete Its transactions without delay. No inquiry or office fees, and strict secrecy observed. Bills Discounted at short notice. Form sent free on receipt of a directed stamped envelope. The Association also lends Money for the purchase of a house by a tenant, or for the liquidation of mortgages, on terms most advantageous to the borrower. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. T HE CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBILIER OF ENGLAND (Limited?. Authorised Capital £3.000,(00 Capital Sübscribed Capital Paid-up .. . . 500,000 Reserve Fund.. 200,000 Dividend Reserve Fund 70,000 DIRECTORS. The Right Hon. JAMES STUART WORTLEY, Governor. JAMES LEVICK, Esq., Nlerchant, King's ,„Deputy- Arms-yard, Governors. JAMES NUGENT DANIELL, Esq., London, ?lames Childs, Esq., London. Alexander Dunbar, Esq., Old Broal-street, London. Charles Ellis, Esq., Lloyd's. Adolphe Hakim, Esq. (Messrs. Pinto, Hakim Brothers, and Co.) London. , heSon. T. C. Haliburton, M.P., Chairman of the Canada Agency Association, London. William Harrison, Esq. (Messrs. Young, Harrison, and Bevan), Director of the Thames and Mersey Insurance Company. Richard Stuart Lane, Esq. (Messrs. Lane, Hankey, and Co.), London, Charles E. Newbon, Esq.. London. henry Pownall. Esq., :LP Russell-squarz, London. Joseph Mackrill Smith, Esq. (Messrs. Mackrill Smith and Old Broad-street, London. ,Co.),.dward Warner, Esq , M. l'., London. John Westmorland, Esq. (Director of the Royal Insurance Company); London. Albert Grant, Esq., Managing Director. BANKERS. The Agra and Masterman's Bank (Limited). Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths. The National Bank, London, Dublin, and its Branches in Ireland. The Alliance Bank (Limited), London, Liverpool, and Man cheater. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Newbon, Evans, and Co., Nicholas-lane, E.C. BUSINESS TRANSACT F.D. This Company negotiates Loans for Colonial and Foreign Governments ; Co-onerates in the Financial arrangements of British and other Railways ; Makes Advances to Corporations. Town Councils, and other Public Bodies ; Negotiates Loans for Public Works Assists in the introduction of Industrial and Commercial undertakin,c_ s ; Makes advances upon approved Stocks, Shares, Bonds, a t . Makes temporary Loans upon eligible Freehold and Lease hold Securities. ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. London, 17 and 18, Cornhill, May 4, 1885. DEBENTURES ISSUED BY THE CREDIT FONCIER AND INIOBILIER OF ENGLAND (Limited), ISSUE OF £500,000 DE , IENTURES WITH INTEREST PAYABLE QUARTERLY. The Directors have decided to issue Debenture Bonds of the Company for the amounts and bearing interest as under, Viz.:— In sums of £lO, £2O, £5O, £lOO, £250, £5OO, and £ , ,00 1 , with Coupons attached. INTEREST. For three years 6 per cent. per annum; For five years For seven years Interest payable quarterly —viz., on the 30th March, 30th June, 30th September, and 30th December in each y ear, at the Company's Bankers. The first payment of interest will be Made on the 30th June next. The distinctive feature in the debentures issued by this Company is their perfect security ; the amount of the capital subscribed, paid-up, and uncalled, and the general invested assets of the Company, as well as the large reserve fund, aftl)rding the most ample security to the investor. These Debentures are issued payable to bearer, and can there'ore pass by simple delivery from hand to hand, without endorsement, and are free from any further stamp duty. They are also issued—to meet the requirements of Trustees and others—transterrable by Deed only, to be duly registered in the Company's Books in the names of the Investors or their Assigns. Forms of Application can be obtained of the Secretary, to Whom all communications must be addressed. By order of the Court, ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. London, 17 and 18, Cornhill, nay 4, 1865. DEPOSITS RECEIVED BY T HE CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBILIER OF ENGLAND (Limited). RATES FOR MONEY ON DEPOSIT. This Company receives MONEY ON DEPOSIT in sums 2f CO and upwards at the undermentioned rates from this day UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, viz.: At 11 days' notice At one month's notice 3} per cent. per annum. FOR FIXED PERIODS OP Not less than 3 months and up to r, months, 4 per ct. per an. 11 ,eyoud 6 months and up to 9 months 44 per c'. p er an. Leyond 9 months and up to I. months 5 per ct. per an. Beyond 12 months and up to 24 months Forms of application can be obtained of the Secretary, to Whom all commuuic +tons must be addressed. By order of the Court, ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. 1:' and 18, Cornhill, London, Jun- 15, 1865. lIARNED'S BANKING COMPANY (Limited.) Incorporated under " The Companies Act, 1862." Capital, £2,000,000, in 40,000 shares of £5O each (with power to increase), of which it is intended to call up more than £2O per share. Deposit on application £1 per share, £4 per share on allot ment, £5 per share on Ist September, and the remainder in instalments of not more than £5 each at intervals of not less than three months, of which ample notice will be given. DIRECTORS. CHARLES MOZLEY, Esq.. Chairman. J. A. Bencke, Esq. (Messrs. J. A. Bencke and Co.), Liver- pool. Geor g e Collie, Esq. (Messrs. G. Collie and Co.), Liverpool. 8 . Price Edwards, Esq., Director of the London and North-Western Railway Company. John Enthoven, Esq. (Messrs. IL J. Enthoven and Sons), Liverpool. Francis Martin, Esq. (Messrs. Martin, Robertson, and Co., Gracechurch-street, London), Director of the Thames and Mersey Insurance Company. Frederick B. Mozley, Esq., Liverpool. Lewin B. Mozley, Esq., Liverpool. Joseph Robinson, Esq., Deputy Chairman Ebbw Vale Company, Laurence Pountney-hill, London. (With power to add to their number.) BANKERS. Messrs. Prescott, Grote, Cave, and Co., London. Messrs. Barnod and Co., Liverpool. BROKERS. Messrs. Brunton and Son, 32, Cornhill, London. Messrs. Holbert, Wagg, and Co., Shorter's-court, Throg _morton-street. Messrs. Thomas Tinley and Sons, Liverpool. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Maynard, Son, and Co., and Coleman-street, London. Messrs. Bateson, Robinson, and Morris, Liverpool. AUDITORS—Messrs. Hammond Banner and Son, Liverpool. SECRETARY (pro tem.)—R. H. Ashton, Esq. Offices in Liverpool—The Bank, Lord-street. Temporary Offices in London—City Bank Chambers, No. 20, Threadneedle-street, E.C. This Company is formed for the purpose of purchasing the business of the old-established and well-known private Bank of Messrs. I. Barred and Co. in Liverpool, and organ ising it on the broader basis of a joint - stock co m p an y , under the Limited Liability Act. The Bank, which was founded in 1809, has done a large and continually-increasing business, and there is no doubt that in its new and extended form still more satisfactory results will be realised. The Directors have received most encouraging promises of support, both in Liverpool and London ; but, in making the allotment of shares, preference will be given to the Present customers of the Bank. The purchase money for the business has been fixed at .C 160,000, payable by instalments spread over two years, as stipulated in the agreement; and this sum, on comparing it with the profits shown by Messrs. I. Barred and Co. to have been realised, and their guarantee of the assets taken ever, cannot be considered other than a moderate p a y ment a for lucrative business placed at once in the hands of the shareholders. The Bank will take over the business of Messrs. I. Earned mil Co. as from the Ist of July, 1865, and Messrs. Barned and Co. will guarantee the payment of all debit balances (including bills and credits running) standing in their books on that day. The business will have the advantage of the active super vision of the present partners in the Bank, who have agreed to act as Directors for five years, and will retain a large interest in the Company. Messrs. I Barned and Co. are willing to sell at a valua tion the present Bank premises, and any . of their adjoining Property, if the directors wish to ' secure it, and, if required, to leave the purchase money on mortgage for ten years at lier cent. The remuneration of the ordinary Directors is to be fixed 1 1 3' the shareholders at their annual meetings, but power is taken in the articles of association to appoint one or more Of their number as Managing Directors, whose extra re- I nunemtion will be determined by the Board. Copies of the Company's memorandum and articles of a ssociation, and of the agreement for the transfer of Messrs. 4 7 Earned and Co.'s business, can be seen at the offices of the solicitors of the Company. Application for shares must be accompanied by a pay- Olent of the deposit of £1 per share. In the event of no allotment being made the deposit will be returned in full. Should a less number of shares be allotted than are applied for, the deposit will, so far as required, be applied towards t he payment due on allotment. b Applications for shares will be received at the bankers, rekers, solicitors', offices of the Company, and at the ~?llowing places : E ngland —Manchester: Messrs. Cuiliffes, Brooks, and CO. 71 Leeds : The Yorkshire Banking Company. ', Birmingham: The Birmingham Banking Com pany. ,e Bristol : Messrs. Baillie, Cave, Baillie, and Co. Eieotland—Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, and Dumfries : The National Bank of Scotland. I reland —Dublin, Londonderry, Cork, and Limerick ; The Provincial Bank of Ireland. 71 Belfast : The Belfast Banking Company. The Ulster Banking Company. *here prospectuses and forms may be obtained. p r , BARNED'S BANKING COMP ANY (Limited ) . ' 0 the Directors of Barned's Banking Company (Limited). Oentlemen,—Having paid £ to your bankers, I quest th a t y o u will allot me shares in Barned's Backin g Company (Limited), and I hereby agree to accept I : l s uch Shares, or any less number that may be allotted to n f e l, , fl and to pay the calls thereon, subject tc . . the provisions t' The Companies Act, 1862," and the articles of associa tion. Name in full Address Occupation, if any Usual signature Date No. 22,785. REMEMBER, YOU WILL SEE YOUR FRIENDS at " EVANS'. " After the Opera we @bail Sup there! CCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS for OHI'IIAN and NECESSITOUS CHILDREN, PATRON—H.R.H. the PRINCE of WALES. VICE-PATRON—H.R.H. the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE. PRESIDENT—B. C. L. BEVAN, Esq. At a General Half-yearly Court of this Institution, held This Day at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, GEORGE MOORE, Esq., Treasurer, in the chair, the result of the POLL was declared as follows : SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES. BOYS. Wesmoreland, Robert S 594 Wright, Frank Cox, Waif er F 428 Headland, T. P. Pollard, H. UNSUCCESSFU Bryce, Alexander 405 Tatner, W. R. Hodgson, 11. R. Wright, J. R. Exley, M. J. 220 TL CANDIDATES. iOYS. Cooper, R. S 192 Lafount, R. A I3G Beech, W. F. Martin, 11 lll Chaplin F Bl SUCCESSFUL Douglas, J. E. Bl Carinait, R. P. 52 Evans, D. J. 34 Walker, C. E. 23 Warwick, 11 l3 CANDIDATES. Bouts, A. M 492 Hannath, M. J. M. 447 Wootton, C. A 442 Worsfield, H, M 419 UNSUCCESSFU Gut Norris, M 240 Todhunter, E. 1.1 235 Elliott, S. J. l9B Packington, E. J lOB Moore, J. A lOB Oldknow, F 4lB Taylor, E. B 396 Heap, Margaret Buck, Ellen CANDIDATES. Duff, E. A. Williams, G. E 3O Wooster, C. Barnett, H. HENRY LEND ON, Secretary. Offices, 76, Cheapside, E.C., 28th June, 1865. THE LONDON, WINDgOIt, -and-GREEN WICH HOTELS COMPANY (Limited. Incorporated under the Joint-Stock Companies Act, 1862, with Limited Liability. Capital £500,000, in 20,000 Shares of £25 each. £1 payable on application, and .£1 on allotment. Future Calls will not exceed £5 per Share, nor be made at intervals of less than three months. A Minimum Dividend of 10 per cent. guaranteed for five years. DIRECTORS. Henry Labouchere, Esq., 16, Portland place. Sir Charles Rich, Bart., Directors of the London, Edward W. Edwards, E. Chatham, and Dover Rail way Company. The Hon. James F. Stuart Wortley, Curzon-street, Mayfair. Thomas P. Chappell, Esq., 50, New Bond-street. Wm. Goldsmith, Esq., Norbury Park, Surrey. R. W. Jennings, Esq., Chairman of the City Steamboat Company. Captain Bulkeley, Director of the Great Western Railway Company. John Wm. Chater, Esq., Director of tho For Windsor. London Tavern Company. Henry Darvoll, Esq., Windsor. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., Lombard-street. Messrs. Neville, Reid, and Co., Windsor. BROKERS. Messrs. Eykyn Brothers, Change-alley. Messrs. Robins, Barber, and Dailey, 29, Threadneedle street, E.C. SECRETARY. George Leslie, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 29, Nicholas-lane, E.C. PROSPECTUS. This Company has been formed for the purpose of ac quiring and uniting under one management the following Hotels, all of which are now in possession of first-class businesses, and in the receipt of very considerable and re munerative incomes. The Trafalgar Tavern, The Ship Tavern, at Greeenivich. The Yacht Tavern, The Castle Hotel, at Windsor. Tho White Hart Hotel, Radley's Hotel, at Bridge-street, Blackfriars, - and Tho St. James's Hall, and the extensive Public Rooms and Restaurant attached thereto. These large and valuable properties present features of a character which give them a special claim to the atten tion of the public, inasmuch as from the moment that they aro acquired by the Company they will yield a large and highly remunerative return. The death of Mr. Charles Hart, and the failing health of Mr. Thos. Quartermaine, the late proprietors of the Tra falgar and the Ship at Greenwich, are the sole reasons for these valuable properties being now disposed of. Both of these gentlemen, while in the occupation respectively of the Trafalgar and Ship Taverns, realised large fortunes in a few years. The Yacht Tavern has been acquired for the purpose of giving increased accommodation to the Tra falgar, which has been found to be much needed. It is proposed to rebuild the premises in Bridge-street, llackfriars, which are wholly inadequate to the great in crease of passenger traffic that the vicinity of the terminus of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway may be ex pected to produce. This additional accommodation will be even more urgently required when the above-mentioned station becomes, as it very shortly will, the terminus of the Great Northern, the Great Western, the Midland, the South-Western, and Metropolitan Railways. The business of the two Hotels at Windsor will be united, and for that purpose new premises will be constructed upon the site of the White Hart, which stands opposite the principal entrance to Windsor Castle. The new hotel will possess a first-class refreshment room adjoining the ter minus of the Great Western Railway. The Castle Hotel will be turned into shops, from which a large increase of income may be anticipated. The returns of the St. James's Hall and Restaurant, which are at present under different managements (but which will be now united) are about £40,000 per annum. The Trafalgar, at Greenwich, is held under a lease, of which about 31 years are unexpired, at the annual rent of £460. The Ship, at Greenwich, is held under a lease, of which about 68 years aro unexpired, at the annual rent of £5OO. The Yacht, at Greenwich, is held under a lease, of which 18 years are unexpired, at the annual rent of £lOO. The Castle and White Hart Hotels aro freehold. The St. James's Hall and Restaurant (and three houses in Regent-street, in connexion therewith) are held under leases direct from the Crown for unexpired terms varying from about fifty to sixty years, at aggregate ground-rents amounting to about £2,000 a year. Radley's Hotel, and the valuable space of ground adjoin ing, containing about 25,000 square feet, are held under an agreement for a lease of 99 years from Christmas, 1864, at the annual rent of £3,500, and it is believed that the ground, not now occupied by the existing hotel, would readily produce an income nearly sufficient to cover the whole of such rent. The prices at which the whole of the above properties, including the goodwill of the late proprietors, have been acquired, is the sum of £185,000. The stock, furniture, and wines taken over by the Com pany will be paid for by valuation in the usual way. In the undertakings of a similar nature hitherto presented to the public, the greater portion of the capital has been absorbed by the erection of new and expensive buildings, and by the purchase of the furniture, plant, &c., required for the opening of large establishments, and it has also been necessary to create fresh business ; but the present project possesses the advantage that all the properties purchased are now in active and highly profitable working, and the capital to be expended in building will be laid out only to provide such enlarged accommodation as shall be found ab solutely requisite for the demands of the public. It is estimated that the dividend upon the capital re quired to be called up, based upon the result of the last three years' working of the different establishments, will amount to a minimum of 15 per cent. per annum, and the vendor from whom Ltho Company purchases, in order to testify his confidence in the undertaking, has agreed to guarantee a minimum dividend of 10 per cent. during a period of five years. There will be no promotion money paid, and the preli minary expenses will be borne by the vendor. In consequence of inquiries which have already been made, the Directors have decided also to receive applica tions for allotments of one-fourth of the capital, viz., 5,000 shares, fully paid up. Such shares to bear dividend from the date of payment. Applications for shares in either of the accompanying forms may be made to the Secretary at the offices of the Company; or to to the Bankers, Brokers, and Solicitors. But no application will be entertained until the deposit of £1 per share on the number applied for has been duly paid to the Company's Bankers ; in the event of no allotment being made to the Applicant, the deposit will be promptly returned In full.; FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES WITH £5 PAD ON ALLOTMENT. (To be retained by the Bankers.) N 0...... To the Directors of the London, Windsor, and Greenwich Hotels Company (Limited). Gentlemen, — Having paid to the Bankers, Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., the sum of £ , being a deposit of £1 per Share on Shares in the above Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that number, and I agree to accept such Shares or any less number you may allot to me, and I agree to pay the sum of £4 per Share on allot ment, and I authorise you to insert my name on the Regis ter of Members for the number of Shares allotted to me Usual signature Name in full Residence Profession Date 1865 OR THIS FORM AID OF A P P APPLICATION FOR FULLY PSHARES. (To be retained by the Bankers.) No To the Directors of the London, Windsor, and Greenwich Hotels Company (Limited). Gentlemen,— Having paid to your Bankers, Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., the sum of £ , being a deposit of £1 per Share on Shares in the above Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that number of fully paid-up shares, and I agree to accept such shares or any less number you may allot to me, on the terms of the Pro spectus, and I agree to pay the balance of the amount of such share on allotment, and to sign the Articles of Asso ciation of the Company when required, and I authorise you to insert my name on the Register of Members for the number of Shares alloted to me. - Usual signature Name in full Residence Profession Date ttttttttttttt ttttttttt E IVSP_P:e.; r . r • • RAILWAY AND AND OTHER COMPANIES::: • `)\ t • , • 016 • 2/ t4 -) * I hp )/ ) f*ti"' &itZliW, c l u dt • _ ". , ? gook \ • eon:iv/my 3 (.. Air 4 ° ,OlO. . 7141.W.;1111k 4 PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. had succeeded in vindicating their right of seceding from the Union. When an insurrection, assuming it to have been so, assumes the magnitude of that which has been now suppressed in America, it is an outrage upon common sense for the established Government to act towards the vanquished on the assumption that its authority has at no time been called in question except by an isolated few. In the work of reconstruction the negro, as was anticipated, stops the way. Mr. Wendell Phillips and the leaders of the Abolitionist party could never be brought to understand that liberty, in its true sense, can no more be conferred by gift on an untutored savage than can civilisation. A large portion of the slaves have been emancipated, but unless they are also entrusted with an elective franchise, Mr. Phillips declares that the freedom given to them is not worth having. Whether the right of voting would mate rially ameliorate their condition may well be doubted, but one thing is tolerably evident—namely, that those who have received manumission do not con sider that they have benefited by their change of condition. Mr. Johnson has received a deputation from the freedmen of Richmond, imploring him either to suspend the existing military regime or to restore them to the bonds from which they have been freed. In the cities of the North the antipathy to negroes has sensibly increased since the termina tion of the war, and not a day—indeed we might say not an hour—passes that the unfortunate men are not submitted to outrages and indignities atthe hands of their white fellow-citizens which they would at all events have been spared as slaves in the South. If they venture to enter the dining-room or the bar of a public hotel they are forthwith kicked out, if they enter a public conveyance they are ignominiously expelled, as if, plague-stricken, they tainted the atmosphere ; nay, even in the same churches they are not permitted to bend the knee to Him whom Abolitionists are never tired of telling us is equally the white man's and the black man's God. Those who, ere this unfortunate civil war broke out, had made themselves familiar with negro life in the slave-holding States, considered that as large a share of happiness and contentment was enjoyed by the slaves as by similar classes of labourers in countries where servitude did not exist, but assuredly no one visiting New York at the present, or indeed we might say at any other time, would be inclined to consider the position occupied there by the negroes as one which any of God's creatures, no matter what their complexion, would be at all envious of sharing. It would be unfair to blame the Ameri can Government for the deplorable condition of things at present existing in the Southern States. A mighty war cannot be terminated, and the status quo ante restored, by an Order in Council. The evils engendered by a contest such as that which has raged on the American Continent for the past four years do not pass away with the rapidity of the cannon smoke which hovers for a time over the field of battle, and then, vanishing, displays in all their ghastliness the horrors which for a brief period it served to conceal. The population of Georgia may be in that starving condition in which they are represented to be, but the fault cannot (abstracting the question of the justice of the war) be fairly ascribed to the Government of the North. But Mr. Johnson and his advisers would probably lay them selves open to reproach if they inaugurate a policy which has a tendency to enhance instead of relieving existing evils. It has already been shown to de monstration that the great mass of slaves cannot on their emancipation be brought to labour for hire, and the invariable result of what we may term vio lent acts of manumission has been an amount of destitution of which only eye-witnesses can form an adequate idea. It is perfectly idle to say that it is a negro's fault if he will not work in order to save himself from starvation. A slave cast upon the world to work for himself is as helpless and as un reasoning as a child. Besides, in a large majority of cases, work is not provided for the freedman, or, if provided, the wages are in the hands of a man un acquainted with the value or the use of money, utterly insufficient to provide for his wants. Mr Johnson is not without experience ; he will there fore have no excuse if, with the knowledge which he now possesses, he should at one fell swoop con sign the entire coloured population of the South to what will be almost tantamount to a condition of hopeless destitution. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; dyes the teeth a pearl ,hiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the the breath. Price ls. 61-12, Three Kin;-court, Lombard street, London. H A L I R o R A i N a G it F o L s S U , S II C ) gURLING t h , L I U LD I bb c O u r r ll l s Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 5i stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, Is. 6d., or 20 stamps. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, Lo n don.— ALEX. ROSS'S perma nently - Ladies' Hair fr om 7s. 6d. ; Gentlemen's from 55. The Dye is sold at 3s. 6d, or sent free for 54 stamps. It i most easy of use. Charges for Dieing the hair HAIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX."ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes. without effect to the skin, e.uperfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms. Is. 6d.; sent the same day as ordered by post for 51 stamps. SPANISH FLY is the actina ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANT II AR IDES() IL, which speedily produces whit,kers and thickens hair. 3s. Gd.; sent free for 54 stamps.—ALEX, ROSS, 248 ,High Holborn, London. Essay an Hair, Id. - H INIPTZ REMOVER.--All diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness &a 2s. ed.; by post for 40 stumps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. ALEX. ROSS' FACE POWDER, ls. ; sent for 14 stamps ; Eye Colour, 3e. 6d.. or M s t amps . Skin tonic produces a transcendent complexio n , 4 s , or 6u stamps. Bloom of Roses, ondon. 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps.—ALlOL ROSS, MS, High Holborn, L RUPTURES CURED BY CHANDLER'S NEW LEVER TRUSS. It has the following advantages :—No steel spring requi►ed round i he body, is easily applied, does not chafe or exoot late the skin, admits of any kind of exercise being taken, and is imperceptible when worn. PRICES. Single- -10 s. 6d. and 215., postage i a. Double-21s. and 425., postage, 2s. Sent on receipt of post-office order, and size round hips. Sure to fit. PILES, PROLAPSUS ANI, and UTERI INDIAN CARRYING ( ;Dr ,h4i t i The report of the directors of this . t afes4..,),S that the result of any single half-yea - ra._ roil t ioe l '--'!' could not be taken as a fair average of O tte ygr, 414 inasmuch as the traffic during the six months ending the 31st December was usually less than that of the other half of the year. In the Bombay Presidency the effects of the mismanagement of their former manager were still experienced, and there had con sequently been a loss upon the working in that Pre sidency. This result must, however, be taken as exceptional, as the new arrangements made by the Board for the local management would, it was hoped, hereafter effectually protect the company's interests in Bombay. In Madras the results had been also affected by extraneous causes, a fire having occurred on the company's premises which might entail a loss of about £l,OOO, and the opening of the rail way to Bangalore had taken away the traffic on that road. The transfer of the company's stock and plant to other localities had been made, but this operation was necessarily attended with ex pense, and some time must elapse before the traffic on the new lines could be developed and made remunerative. In both Presidencies, however, the Board had reasonable ground for expecting that the current half-year's working would exhibit satisfactory -iresults. In Bengal and the North- West Provinces the company'sbusinesshad increased upwards of 150 per cent., the receipts for the half year having been £71,270 against £51,227 for the previous 12 months. The settlement of the questions connected with the transfer of the Government bul lock train to the company had been effected, and the company had purchased upon most advantageous terms stock and plant from the Government to the extent of £14,000. The directors recommended that an interim dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, as before, be paid upon the capital of the company ; and in order to provide for the require ments of the extended business and operations of the compalireetors recommend•that a call of 10s, . per share be made upon the present capital. The choking of some of the railways with goods, and the consequent delays in their transmission, had given rise to many complaints from the company's servants and the public, and had materially interfered of late with the progress and profit of their business. Those evils, however, were now it was hoped being remedied. The company had already opened no less than 59 agencies in Bengal, the North-West Provinces, and the Punjab, embracingupwards of 3,000 miles of rail and road, and extending from Calcutta to Peshawur, and from Agra to Indore. In Madras they had estab lished a system of communication between all the most important places in the Presidency, extending from. Bellary, in the north, to Trichinopoly, in the south. In Bombay they had opened new agencies, and had estab lished a through communication between that port and the north-west provinces. In addition to this, passen gers and parcels were booked between Bombay and Madras and Calcutta. In all those presidencies they were now engaged in carrying Government stores and troops, ordinary goods, parcels, and passengers. The directors, therefore, recommended that they might be authorised to issue a fresh amount of capi tal not exceeding 25,000 shares, representing £50,000. The directors' confidence in the success ' of the undertaking continued unabated. STATE OF TRADE. CARDIFF, June 27th.—The iron trade in this dis trict is pretty good. Rails and bars are in better demand, and although American advices are not so encouraging as might be expected, yet there is no doubt entertained that ultimately a large quantity of railway iron will be required for the States. Quotations are firm, with upon the whole an upward tendency. The make of puddling iron during the hot weather has been below the demand, and in con sequence prices have been getting more in favour of sellers. Pig commands an average sale. The im provement in the tinplate trade is fully maintained, and the works are as a rule better employed, makers, although their stocks are large, having unmistakable confidence in the future. In steam coal business is not so depressed as it was a few weeks ago, but the export demand is still comparatively limited. House qualities remain without any material change. •LEICESTER, 28th.—The hosiery trade in most branches continues tolerably active. Manufacturers are well engaged at the warehouses with orders for goods of a general character. At Loughborough, Hinckley, and the country districts business is healthy and the workpeople well employed. Yarns are extremely firm and high in price, spinners con fining their production to present requirements. The wool market is also very firm, and exceedingly high rates are quoted. NOTTINGHAM, 28th.—There is not much altera tion in the lace trade. Business for the home market has been, on the whole, quiet during the past few days. Foreign buyers have been operat ing to some extent, but the demand for export is not so active as it was expected would be the case at the present time. The silk trade is quiet. There is not much doing in silk mechlins, and quillings are not in the slightest request. In cotton goods generally business is inactive. The hosiery trade continues extremely buoyant. The production of goods is not at all equal to the demand. The work men in most branches have obtained an advance in the rate of wages. Yarns continue very high in price. The general prospect of the trade is very encourag ing. Mr. DAVIS.—The Ex-President, since his arrival on Northern soil, has been treated, not as a State prisoner, but as a felon. It is not now denied that he re mained manacled for several days, and was relieved of the irons only on the protestations of the physicians, who de clared that he was rapidly dying under the torture. It is not denied that he is excluded from the light of day, re fused the use of books or writing materials, and subjected to the incessant presence and surveillance of grards. It is difficult to frame any legitimate excuse for such treatment of a political prisoner. It is, in modern times at last, quite unprecedented. States and rulers have before had captives not less important and far more dangerous to their peace ; but the most cruel of European despots has never confined prisoners of rank in a dungeon so deadly as the casemate at Fortress Monroe. The cruelty, moreover, ap pears wantonly gratuitous. It is nowhere alleged that Mr. Davis rejected, or indeed that he was offered, an honourable parole. But even if he had declined to pledge his word against any attempt for his liberation, surely the resources of the "mightiest nation," and the ingenuity of the "smartest na tion on the top of the earth," could have devised a plan to keep a prisoner safe and yet treat him with the decency be fitting his station. England won little praise by her cus tody of Napoleon, and had in him both a captious and a erilous charge, but it was not not deemed necessary to road the fallen master of legions with chains or to feed him with common soldier's rations. The Bastiles and the Spielburgs of the old world are terrible places, but they do not necessarily preclude their inmates from air, light, moderate exercise, books, and civilised cooking. We are now told that Mr. Davis has been removed to a gunboat moored midway in the Potomac, under the broiling summer sun of Washington, and that his trial is delayed indefinitely, perhaps until July, perhaps until September. It requires no prophet to foretell the effects of enforced inactivity upon a mind morbidly active from five years' overtaxing—of rigid c onfinement upon a body naturally feebly and racked by neuralgic pains—of studied insults and petty mortifications on a temperament exceptionally nervous and susceptible to moral suffer ing. Grant that Mr. Davis will retain to the lasts his in indomitable will, his inherent dignity of character, his Christian firmness, and his manly self-respect, yet, if that much talked-of trial' be only delayed for a few weeks or months, he will spare the Washington Government the embarrassment of disposing of their prisoner. Let Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, and his advisers, not deceive themselves that they can escape the verdict of history, or even of their contemporaries. It will be that they, lacking the courage to take their victim's life in open day, cowardly murdered him in darkness.—The Index. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1865. KINAHAN'S LL BRANDY. WHISKY v. COGNAC Tide oeleprated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd,, at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Kinahan's LL Whisky." IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the SECOND ORDI NARY GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders in this Association will be held at the Loudly , Tavern. Bishopstza te street, in the City of London, on THURSDAY, the 13th day July next, at Tv elve o'clock at noon prvis ly, for the pur pose of recciving the Report of the Dirceto - s and Statement of Acc3unts, of declaring a Dividend, and for general pur poses. By order of the Board, W. C. WINTERBOTTOM, Secretary. 27, Lombard-street, London, June 26, 1865. 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"The Quacks and their Crimes ;' "The Sun" of April 12, " 'Detector's' Broadside on Qu,:cks and Quackery." - - GUIDE TO THE QUACKS OF LONDON. A Series of Papers relative to Quacks which appeared in the " Medical Circular," with the signature of "Detector," has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet. The reader of " Punch" should read this pamphlet also. He has of ten read, in the pages of "Punch," of e,rtain Quacks, frau dulent and no.some, who obtain money by false pretences, and more money by menaces and exto r ti on , f ro m green youngm n. For their names, which "Punch" would not advertise, he has referred his readers to the lower corner of the advertisin ; columns of low newspapers, amongst which too many of Mr." Punch's" contemporaries, especially in the country, may still be enumerated. 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One day last week the Admiralty produced a new target for trial. It was called the Hercules target, as being exactly equivalent to a section of the Hercules, a new ironclad, designed on new principles by our chief constructor, Mr. Reed. The broadside thus represented was actually 4ft. 21in. thick, and of this thickness 111 in. were iron. The target representing the Warrior, which long defied our best guns, was but lft. 10in. thick; nor did the Bellerophon target, which succeeded it, contain more than 2ft. Gin. of wood and iron together. By way of more complete comparison we may add that, while the total weight per foot of the Warrior target was 3471 b., and of the Bellerophon target 3891 b., that of the Hercules target is 5201 b. ; and yet Mr. Reed undertakes that his vessel shall be a good and buoyant sailer. It will surprise nobody to hear that when our largest service guns . were tried against this newly combined mass of wood and iron they failed to penetrate it. Behind the Hercules target, in fact, the whole assembled company might have stood in perfect safety throughout the firing, and the ship, therefore, claimed a victory over the guns. We must, however, explain that the guns employed on the occasion were only 300-pounders —specimens of ordnance which would, indeed, have been thought monstrous five years ago, but which have been surpassed, and, as it is supposed, super seded, by cannon just twice as big. Sir William Armstrong has built a 600-pounder, and proved it to be an effective gun ; so it was very naturally ob served that if guns of that calibre had been used against the Hercules target last week, instead of guns only half as heavy, the shot might once more have carried the day. That remark brings forward Captain Coles, who improves the occasion by argu ing that, as nothing but 600-pounders will now pierce the sides of first-rate ironclads, and 600- pounders can only be carried by turret ships on his principle, it follows that his principle should have immediate trial preparatory to immediate adoption, concessions which he thinks the Admiralty are not sincerely disposed to make. Side by side, however, with his letter appeared another from Sir William Armstrong himself, the manufacturer of the 600- pounder, depreciating the power ascribed to it, and doubting whether the result would have been mate rially affected by the employment of his tremendous gun. We think we can simplify this controversy considerably. The real question is whether, in es timating the effectiveness of a gun again - st a ship, we must necessarily consider power and size as con vertible terms. Captain Coles evidently thinks that we must ; Sir William Armstrong suggests that we should not. The object of the defence--that is, of the shipbuilders—is to make a vessel impregnable; that of the attack, or, in other words, of the artil lerists, is to pierce a ship's sides. If this can only be done by augmenting the weight and calibre of the gun in proportion to the thickness and strength of the target, then Captain Coles's argument may hold good, for there is certainly a growing belief, though not yet a universal conviction, that cannon above a certain magnitude must be carried on some species of turn-table, and not as broadside guns. But are we not jumping too readily to the first conclusion? It is a self-evident truth that a large gun is unnecessary if a smaller gun will do the work, and it is, to say the least, not yet decided that a lighter gun than the 600-pounder will not do all that the 600-pounder has done. Mr. Whitworth is known to rely upon other conditions than that of bulk alone, and Sir William Armstrong now leads us to conclude that the effect of a gun depends not upon the actual magnitude of the shot, but the pro portional magnitude of the charge. He thinks, for instance, that on the occasion referred to his 600- pounder, loaded with 701 b. of powder, might not have produced a greater effect than was produced by the 300-pounder with its charge of 601 b., and his calculation is that the power required for piercing the Hercules target at 1,000 yards range could not be generated by a less charge of powder than 1201 b. Here, however, we miss a link in the argument of our correspondent, for if it is the proportional rather than the actual magnitude of the charge which determines the effect, we are left to doubt whether a smaller charge with a smaller projectile might not do all that was required. Suppose, for example, we inquire what charge of powder would suffice to send a 701 b. projectile through the Her cules target, and then what sized gun would suffice for carrying that charge ? It is because of the un certainty attaching to this point that we are dis posed to question the conclusiveness of Captain Coles's rejoinder to one of the official " objections" with which he has been favoured. We think he, and the public, too, had a right to expect that his design for a man-of-war should have been brought to a fair, full, and honest trial long ago, but we must say the Admiralty are justified in refusing to take it as absolutely proved that guns of 22 tons weight will in future be indispensable to the armament of a fighting vessel. It is certainly not yet " clear" that such guns are necessary, and at the time these "objections" were framed it was quite true that " guns of half that weight had been found to pierce the thickest plates yet put into a ship." Last week's experiments demolished that assumption, no doubt, for the 300- pounders did not pierce the Hercules target ; but it is still not clear that the work might not be done by something short of a 600-pounder, and almost as doubtful, according to Sir W. Armstrong himself, whether the 600-pounder would do it. We have no wish to prejudice the discussion either one way or the other, but it certainly appears to us that if a 701 b. shot or shell could be driven from:a 70-poun der gun through the Hercules target, the effect would be sufficiently destructive to answer all the purposes of the attack. A projectile of that size may seem light and insignificant in comparison with the ponderous balls which American practice has made familiar to us, but if it really be sent through a ship's broadside, we should think the hole would be quite large enough to let life out and water in. The only question is as to the degree in which weight must necessarily be combined with velocity to produce the momentum required. Of course the weight must be considerable, but the Americans, we fancy, have increased this ingredient to excess, and we suspect that some of our own projectors have been carried away by their example. Nothing, how ever, can be plainer than whatever is superfluity in this matter is also inconvenience, and inconvenience of no slight importance. Let us have 600-pounders if we must have them, and can get them ; and let us have the vessels which will carry such ordnance best ; but, if the object of a ship's battery can be answered by smaller guns, it would be sheer folly to cumber ourselves with this race for bigness. POST.—The civil war being at an end, the Ame rican Government have now ample time to devote themselves to the pleasant duty of punishing the leaders of the insurrection, and the more profitable, butgather more difficult task, of reconstructing the republic on a new basis. Mr. Jefferson Davis still remains in prison, and, although a grand jury has indicted him for treason, the authorities do not yet seem to have made up their minds whether he shall be tried before a civil or a military tribunal. Generals Lee and Longstreet, though they laid down their swords on the express stipulation that they should be paroled as prisoners of war, are also to be placed in jeopardy of their lives on a charge of having conspired against the State , and in their case, as in that of the late Chief Magistrate of the Confederacy, a grand jury has been found to lend its aid towards carrying into effect the obvious de sires of the Government. To dispassionate observers on this side of the Atlantic, the policy pursued by Mr. Johnson towards the Confederate chiefs seems quite unaccountable. Mr. Davis is no pretender to a throne whom motives of political expediency might induce the present occupant to deprive of life ; nor are his generals crafty and able conspira tors attached either to a particular individual or his family, whom it would be dangerous to leave at large to renew, under more favourable circum stances, plots similar to those which have now been successfully frustrated. Whether the leaders of the secession movement were in truth guilty of treason to the Government of the United States we shall leave to be decided by American lawyers, although we may observe in passing that they only gave ex pression to sentiments which had been repeated again and again by every American who filled the Presidential chair from the time of George Wash ington down 1 o that. of Abraham Lincoln. 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John Go,mell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. RAILWAY BILLS. The following bills were passed yesterday by Lord Redesdale's Committee—viz., the Althorpe-on- Trent and Lincoln, the Cheshire Lines Transfer, and the Southern. In the Lords' Committees the Shrewsbury and Potteries Junction Bill was passed, without the hearing of counsel in reply ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire, the London and North-Western (addi tional powers, England), and the Edinburgh and Glasgo N (No. 2) Bills were also passed. The op position having been withdrawn from the Carnar von and Llanberis and the Nantlle Bills, they were referred to Lord Redesdale's Committee. The case of the South Wales and Great Western Direct was proceeded with. The Great Northern and West Yorkshire Amalgamation, and the Great Northern and Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction Amal gamation Bills were considered together. The pro moters' cases were heard and concluded, and those of the opponents were commenced. In the Commons (before the Commiteee of Ways and Means) the Belfast, the Dublin Trunk Con necting, the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford, the Isle of Wight, and the Stourbridge Bills were passed. RAILWAY BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. The fourteenth half-yearly meeting was held yes terday, at the King's-cross Station, Mr. H. Oakley in the chair. Mr. Mills, the Secretary, read the report, which stated that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had consented to become one of the patrons of the institution, and had contributed 50 guineas to its funds. At the anniversary dinner in May last the collections amounted to £1,423, exceeding those of the previous year by nearly £2OO. The collections on New Year's-day realised £495. The investment fund now amounted to £lO,OOO. The five applicants to be admitted to the benefits of the institution could. be provided for out of the current funds. The board of management had had under consideration for some time past the necessity of enlarging the scope of the institution, so as to include those railway, canal, and carrying agents' servants hitherto ineli gible for members, and it was proposed that each member of the servants' department should subscribe 2d. per week or Bs. per annum, the subscription being fixed at as low a rate as possible to bring it within the means of all classes. It was proposed also to engraft, both upon the officers and servants' de partment, a system of insurance through the medium of the Provident Clerks' Society, so arranged that by a small weekly or monthly payment a certain sum. would be assured to the family of a deceased mem ber ; and the board intend to add a bonus of 10 per cent. to the amount insured. In addition, assistance would be given to members' widows and orphans as far as the funds would admit. The CHAIRMAN congratulated the members that the Prince of Wales had kindly contributed 50 guineas to the funds. The state of the Casualty Fund was satisfactory, and it would be the means of doing a great amount of good without coming on the fund of the institution. The institution was most prosper ous, and there was nothing in the future to indicate any falling off of interest in and support of the society. Mr. DixoN seconded the adoption of the report, which was unanimously carried. On the motion of Mr. HOUGHTON the widows of four members and a child were admitted to the be nefits of the institution. The officers for the current year were re-elected, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. CRYSTAL PALACE.—HANDEL FESTIVAL, Second Day, Wednesday, Juno 28.—Total visitors, 14,915. A few days ago the eminent composer, M. Wagner, was brought before the tribunal of Augsburg, ac cused of having insulted the manager of the Augsburg railway station, who forbade the introduction of a packa ge , containing a travelling cloak and a cushion into the car riage. Tho insult consisted in the use of the epithet " im becile." The tribunal condemned the composer for this word, less harmonious than " the music of the future," to pay a fine of 25 florins. THE HOP PLANTATIONS—ROCHESTER, June 28. The continued dry weather is beginning to tell on the growth of the hops, which are now looking consider ably less promising than some week or two since. Not withstanding the late cold easterly winds, which severely checked the growth of the bine, the plants are beginning to push forward their midsummer shoots, and in some of the more sheltered of the grounds they are coming along very rapidly. Fly is spoken of as being on the increase, but in several of the grounds the plants are almost free from that pest, and here the bine is looking very promis ing. Some warm showers are, however, much required to clear the bine, and to enable tho young lateral shoots, which produce the hops, to take a strong start. Present appearances are in favour of a largo crop, but much will depend on the weather till about the middle of July—that being the most critical period. The report from the Sussex plantations describe the hops as coming forward exceed ingly promising, although the long-continued dry weather preventsca rapid growth of the bine. There is compara tively little vermin, and the prospects of a good crop are very encouraging. The favourable reports from all the districts have had the effect of causing the trade to be very quiet, with pricks, U anything, rather lower. -# 4. 22. y 2 2 . y 2 e 26. L e 21 e 30. i r 12• Lc 2 3 ' ie 2) • y 5 Le -g• . o seph mlico, illeill John Ware,