The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-25 00:00:00

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Post free for six stamp& deducted from a pur -='.A-',,, ..7 , i - - —.: ~,---- . , e t ha se—SillUEL, BROTHERS, merchant tailors, 50, —_ • " Al dgate-hill. ith°ll in gh t:e d "Cre ln g * r a e: of ,--- the free I to hove s to im only it in own VER.° - TS, lls., 135., las.— OVERCOATS for BOYS.—Read following 80 advertisements.— Ludgate-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. THE SUN, LONDON, ft E:sDAY EVENING, DECE3IBEII 25, 1866. nce ; tch No. 23,257. PK ICF 41 sT A M. CF. D....5d :her. i be el as o fix into the will aced -day, ) ex a few 1 for other 311 of 33 of prate , d, at onoy ng a work was best cad)" rhich very )ff at •ation slow, ?,9 1 '. ?g 3. OVERCOATS, 125., 145., 16s.—ovERcoxrs for BOYS.—Rt!ad first and last advertisements.- 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHFRS. VERCOATS, 175., 195., 21s.—OVERCOATS L v ull for BOYS.— Not© prices throughout the column.- 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVE 1 1COATS, Ils., 135., 15s.—OVERCOATS in great variety, a t the above prices, for BOYS.— "Adgato-hill, 50. —SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 17s, 195., 215.—OVERCOATS in ate-bileo. - SAMUEL, and newst BROTHERS.s le for BOYS.— 5 0 VE RCOATS, lls. ' 135., 15s.—OVERCOATS L Ud in very 50. use —SAMIIEfuI cloths, at , BROTHERS rices, for BOYS.— OVERCOATS, 175., 195., 21s.—OVERCOATS T for immediate use, at all p rices t o 355, for BOYS.— "" d udgate-hill 50.-SAMUEL BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33 8 . —OVERCOATS , at all prices, have silk velvet collars.—Ludgate-hill, (NIUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS h"I 50 n made to order byROTHERS new self-measure rules.—Ludgate -S AMUEL, R. (JVERCOATS, 215., 285., 338.—OVERCOATS 1 ", 50 are SAM orde rUEL,ed from ßß patterns OTHERSsent post free.—Ludgate .—. VERCOATS, 425., 555., 635. OVERCOATS 50 n . ot s amoad ri t , a B kernobackTHERS and others made.—Ludgate- OVERCOATS, 21s, 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS bin 00. f SAMUEL,eor clerical us, in all fabricsBROTHERS. and prices.—Ludgate _,..i— OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS is profession a l, i n a ll f a b r i cs an d prices.—Ludgate 'ill. 50 S AMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 28s. 335.-OV.E.RCOATS, for every purpose, in the suitable fabrics.—Ludgate 50.—SAMITE- BROTHERS. V Co,ll' IX 55 iij -9 E lt 1 ,„ Made froili4horouo4l -.lot' - ""i , 5 0.-43 - A35117EL, SRO ,RS ,Ulk. fitil.—Ludgat;- O ITI7V. - - SAMUEL, BROTERCOAT S, 215., 285., 335. OVERCOATS 50 tn the new brown and goIdHERS. mixed Meltons.—Ludgate . OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 633.—OVERCOATS 1.,11 - A sio n beaut MUEL, iful fur-face BROTHERS.d, Reld-mixed beavers.—Ludgate- OVERCOATS, 215., - 285. , 33s.—OVERCOATS Bill 50 SAM in every BROTHERS UEL, kind oflain and fancy coatings.—Ludgate . OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 638. —OVERCOATS 50. n t SA3fUEL, BROTHERS. he new rich bronze and gold mixtures.—Ludgate- OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 338. OVERCOATS l'ol .. all s vzif rj lll' , o , rgvi T s H en E s u on s and climate.—Ludgate- 0 "VERC( -- 425., 555., 33s.—OVERCOATS „ in rich gold an d olive mixed treble beavers.—Ludgate 'A.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. VERCOATS, 215., 285., 335. OVERCOATS 0 111 -. 50 of —S A the neNwUEL, reefer BROT shap e,HERS beautifully made. Ludgate- ( VERCOATS, 425., - 555., 63s.—OVERUOA hil in very beantiful West of England fabries.—Ludgate 50.—SAARTEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCO aPS Lill in elegant, douBROTITERS.bIe-breasted Chestorfields.—Ludgate- 50 SAMUEL, OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS • in rich brown, Oxford, black, and steel cloths.- 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. VERCOATS 215., 285., 335. - OVERCOATS in new style sinzle-breasted Chesterfields.—Lud "ate-hill, H.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. VERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVE1tCOATS in new style Albions and all other shapes.—Lud ate-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. • OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS tud this seaso aro exaellnt value for the 50.— n SAMUEL, e BROTHERS. money.— OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOA at these prices are made of very choice fabrics.• ` 4l( igate hill 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. nVEROOATS, 215., 28q., 335.- -0 VERCO ATg ire very necessary in this variable elimate.—Lud g_al44-hiII,SO.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. VERCOATS, 425., 555., 635. —0 VERCO ATS lii in black Beavers, thoroughly tested and shrunk.- 50.— SAMUEL BROTHERS. VERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS I in Melton c l o th s , thoroughly tested and shrunk.— O 4ll4 Wde-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. VERCOATS, 425., 558., 63s.—OVERCOATS in black Melton cloths, west of England make.- 11 1 gate-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. h OVERCOATS, 215., 28s, 33 8 .—OVERCOAT S ;„ in Pilot cloths, for h ar d. serv i cea bl e wear.—Ludgate ,, 50._SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555 - " 63s.—OVERCOATS I , in very beautiful west of England Petershams.— 114 R'ste-hill 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS,. 215., 288., 338.—OVERCOATS L udg to-hill. sent to any part of the kingdom. Patterns free. 50.— SAMUEL. BROTHERS. 425., 555., 638. —OTERO° A.Tg T " i '4 l high-class Witnev textures. Patterns free.— 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 28.4., 338.—OVERCOATS made with every regard to strength and comfort. 50. —SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS in very rich, heavy, seal-black black beavers.- 50.—SAMITEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS at these prices are in the most fashionable style.— "Zate-hill, 50.—S AMIIEL, BROTHERS. (pERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOA'i. 1 4 , in very rich, heavy. seal-back brown beavers.- 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., -335. OVRRCOATS are represented in the new illustrated book.—Lud hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., G3s. OVERCOATS Li in very rich, heavy. seal-back Oxford beavers.- 50.— SAMUEL. BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425.. 555., 635. OVERCOATS „, lined with silk. and w‘ry beautifully 50, SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 21s, 285., 335. OVERCOATS , in all the plain, strong, and most useful styles.— - `-.., ll gate-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 635. OVERCOATS • lined with Italian cloth, and thickly quilted.—Lud hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 21s. 285., 335. OVERCOATS reduced in price by a strict ready-money system.- 50. —SAMUEL, BROTHERS. VERCOATS 425., 555, 635. OVERCOATS L i „ at these prices are fit for any gentleman.—Ludgate -_.'LSO.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 335. OVERCOATS Rate with warm woollen linings, for winter wear.—Lud 50.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS • of all weights, to suit every kind of climate.—Lud ill,ll, 50. —SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS Rat made to measure by high-class scientific men.—Lud -11, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285.. 33s.—OVERCOATS for liveries are made of well-shrunk cloths.—Lud e- „ hill, 50.—S AM UEL, BROT HERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS t guaranteed to fit by the new self-measure rules.— SQ.—SAMUEL. BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS can be ordered from patterns, which are sent free.- 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS L . have become an immense business in this house.— 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS ),11, Eceenin 50. SAMUEL, five ununEL, ds BROTHERS value are carriage paid.—Lud -S. 9VErt COATS, 425., 355., 63s.—OVERCOATS R,,t ordereso. —d SAMUEL BROTHERS from tho country nro aIHERS ways prepaid.—Lud . O V ERCOATS, 215., 285., 83s.—OVERCOATS sent to France and any part of the Continent.—Lud n hill, 50. SAMUEL BROTHERS. O ' VERCOATS, 425., 55a., 63s.—OVERCOATS L„ sent to Now York and any other part of America.— 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. O V ERCOATS, 215., 285., 338.—OVERCOATS h te ;sent to a l l arts l parts ofBROrIIERS British North America.—Lud 50.—L, . OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 638.—OVERCOATS sent to Tasmania and every rt o Australia.—Lud <_,--hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTH pa ERS. f OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS kat in a vari e ty of un d resse d c l o th s , f o rh ar d wear.—Lud 50.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. O V ERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS tr , of ll, thelnverness cape class in Whitneycloths.—Lud 50.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 288., 33s.—OVERCOATS t of the I nverness cape c l ass i n M e l ton class.—Lud till, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. O V ERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS fat made plain or with lap seams, velvet collars.—Lud 1, 50.— SAMUEL . BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 638.—OVERCOATS N A , itylcle up with velvet edges and velvet collars.—Lud r\"--Ztlll, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. kiv.ErtcoATs: --- vEltcoATs, 215., 28e., 3313.-0 VERCOATI h t _in oveiT description of plain and fancy 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. k jITERCOATS, lls., 135., 158.—OVERCOATS 1,44 for boys. The new Reefer and Princelet coat.— hill, BROTHERS. Ci4ißlis, 175., 195., 21s.—OVERCOATS for boys in every fashionable and useful shae.— 4- " g at e - biII,SO.—SAMJEL, BROTHERS. p 11E-AL FUR-SEAL WAISTCOATS, 255., 355., 428.—Riehly lustre(' and lined scarlet.—Ludgate -OSAMUEL, BROTHERS. It*l-D the SYSTEM SAMUEL, BROTHERS, conduct their business upon in the Illustrated Price gi,i,described at head of column. The firm has been esta- PrQed 20 years on the principle of charging the lowest 1 1 1) 0 7 Possible for ready money, and marking the same ,11` each article in plain figures, from which no deviation °1 ' 63(1 .-50, Ludgate hill. 11UTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorpor9.ted by Act of Parliament, IMO), I, iiIISSEI.L-STREET. COVENT-GARDEN. LONDON. Prompt ADVANCES on all description of Security. Forms free on application by letter to EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES, and BUSINESSES. FURNESS and KNEE'S List on application. Particulars for insertion received until the 27th of the month at their AUCTION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES. 5, Agar-street. Strand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Cross Railway Station. MANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure and unc.loured. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of .JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. UXHIBITORS at the PARIS EXHIBITION, who ADVERTISE in " THE SUN," can have the SERVICES of A SPECIAL AGENT in PARIS, whose address can be obtained at " The Sun" Office. He has a perfect knowledge of French, is also acquainted with busi ness, and has good connections. On application to " The Sun" Agent in Paris, either personally or by letter, he will obtain every possible facility for Exhibitors, or persons who nisy fume other business in Paris, or who may go there for plenanre only., PRINTING. —TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.—The Print ing and Machining of Newspapers, &c., done on exceed ingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager "Sun" Printing Offices, 3, Church row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. (Otto, ;Ling ;ling ;6s to ), 36s new )ats, old, , 46 ; old, Bar - D 345 ,er 24 ;tone. wr 36 dine stone• ) 70s. a on ~- ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. ISSUE OF 25,000 A PREFERENCE SHARES OF £lO EACH BEARING 8 PER CENT. INTEREST, AND REDEEMABLE AT £l5 PER SHARE. THE CREDIT FONCIER OF ENGLAND (LIMITED) ARE PREPARED TO RECEIVE APPLICATIONS FOR THE ABOVE SHARES IN THE BELGIAN PUBLIC WORKS COM JL (Limited). Capital £350,000, in 35,000 Shares, £lO each. Divided into 25,000 A Preference Shares, £l.O each (being the Shares now offered for subscription), and 10,000 B De ferred Shares, of £lO each. DIRECTORS. Frederic Doulton, Esq., M.P., Metropolitan Board of Works. Albert Grant, Esq., M.P., London. Lieut.-Colonel Edward Neville, Clarges-street. John Irving Pascoe, Esq., Highbury New Park. Henry Pownall, Esq., Russell-square. Edward Warner, Esq., M.P., London. CONSULTING ENGINEER. J. W. Bazalgette, Esq., C.E., Engineer-in-Chief to the Metropolitan Board of Works. BANKERS. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard street, E.C. SOLICITORS. Messrs. West and Kiug, 3, Charlotte-row, Mansion House, E.C. BROKERS. --- Francis Cope, Esq., 1, Angel-court, Throgmorten street, E.C. Messrs. Price and Devot, 54, Threadneedle-street, E.C. OFFICES. St. Clement's House, Clement's-lane, London, E.C. SECRETARY. W. J. L. ileriot, Esq. PROSPECTUS. The object of this Company is to carry out the conces sions granted by the Municipal Council of Brussels, in con cert with the authorities of the province of Brabant and the Belgian Government, for the drainage and cointident improvements of the capital of Belgium. The magnitude and value of those concessions will be understood by the fact that they include subsidies to bo received by the Company in cash and Annuities, of the value together of 26,000,000 f., or .£1,040,000 sterling, which have been voted by all the authorities and sanc tioned by the Crown. The Original estimates for the principal part of these works were examined and verified by Mr. J. W. Baza,lgette, Engineer-in-Chief to the Metropolitan Board of Works of London, under the sanction of that body ; and these esti mates have been further tested by months of minute and careful revision on the part of contractors and their respec tive engineers. _ _ It is intended that the whole of the works shall be com pleted within four years. The importance of the undertaking is evidenced in the protracted official debates in the Brussels Municipal Coun cil, and also in the Belgian Chambers and Senate on the subject, and by the special report thereon from Lord Howard de "Walden, her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at Brussels, transmitted by the Earl of Clarendon. through Sir George Grey, to the Metropolitan Board of Works, in London, and recorded in their Minutes under date of May 18, 1866, an extract of which is annexed to the Prospectus. His Majesty the King of the Belgians has expressed his desire to inaugurate the works by laying the first stone in State ceremony, which is fixed to take place at Brussels on Wednesday, the 22nd of January next. It will be at once seen by this brief description of the concession that it is ono of no ordinary character. The capital of the company is fixed at £350,000, in 35,000 shares of £lO each, divided into 25,000 A Prefer ance Shares and 10,000 B Deferred Shares. The privileges attached to the respective share capita] are as follows : The A Preference Shares are to be redeemed out of the assets of the Company, by drawing by lot, and each share paid off at £l5 per share, being a bonus of £5 per sh are ; the drawings will take place on the following dates, viz. : On the 22nd January, 1870, 6,250 shares, or £82,500, I , 17 1871, 6,250 „ £62,500, 71 1872, 6,250 „ £62,500, 1873, 6,250 „ £62,500, Total shares 25,000 or £250,000 Until so drawn and paid off, each share to bear interest at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, on the Ist of January and Ist July in each year, for which interest warrants will be attached to the shares. Reckoning the redemption at the dates and at the bonus named, the investment will pay subscribers a rate of in terest as follows :—those shares which are drawn, and thus are To bo paid off on 22nd of January, 1870, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 24f per cent. per annum. Those to be paid off on 22d January, 1871, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 20f per cent. per annum. Those to be paid off on 22d January, 1872, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 18 per cent. per annum. . The Directors do not pledge themselves to make an allotment to every applicant, nor to allot the whole of the shares, it being their desire to place this small capital in the hands of bona fide investors. Those to be paid off on 22d January, 1873, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 16} per cent. per annum The 3 Deferred Shares represent the Concessionaires' interest in the Company. These shares will not be en titled either to payment of any interest or capital until the whole of the Preference Shares have received their capital back, with the interest and bonus before referred to ; there fore the Deferred Shares become practically and virtually a guarantee to the Preference Shares. Applications for shares may be made in the annexed form, which must be accompanied by the payment of £2 per share deposit, without which no application will be considered. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To be retained by the Bankers. NO.--- To the Directors of the Belgian Public Works Company (Limited). Gentlemen—Having paid to your Bankers. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, the sum of £ , being a deposit of £2 per Share on A Preference Shares in the above Company, .1 hereby request that you will allot mo that number, and I agree to accept such Shares, or any less number you may a ll o t t o me on th e t erms o f the Prospec tus, and I agree to pay the deposit on allotment, and to sign the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company, as duly registered, when required. And I au &rise you to insert my name on the register of members of the shares allotted to me. Usual Signature Name in full Residence Profession Date December, 1866 The above is only a short extract from the detailed Prospectus, which can be had, with copy of the letter of the British Minister in Brussels to Earl .f Clarendon, on application to the Secretary at the offices of the Company. HE BELGIAN PUBLIC WORKS COM- PANY (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the LISTS of APPLICATION for SHARES in the above Company will he CLOSED on FRIDAY NEXT, the 28th instant, for London, and SATURDAY, the 29th instant, for Country applications. By ordor of the Board, W. J. L. HERIOT. Secretary. St. Clement's House, Clements-lane, E.C. WHAT IS YOUR CREST AND WHAT IS V YOUR MOTTO 1 Send 3s. 6d. to CULLETON'S Heraldic Office for a Plain Sketch, or 6s. for a Coloured one. The Arms of man and wife blended together in proper heraldic form. The proper heraldic Colours for servants' liver:es, what buttons to be used, and how the carriage should be painted, fee 10s. Just complete, a very valuable book, with 3,500 Engravings, arms, crests, and mottoes of nearly every family in the kingdom, the result of thirty years' labour, price £lO 10s., printed in several colours. Family Pedi grees traced from authentic records, information as to the obtaining of a now grant of arms, how to change one's name, by T. Culleton, Engraver to her Majesty and Royal family ; also Diesinker to the Board of Trade, 25, Cm bourn-street (corner of St. Martin's-lane), W.C. mAN SION-110 US E FUND for the RELIEF of the SUFFERERS by the recent COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS. COMMITTEE. The Right Hon the LORD MAYOR. R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. Samuel Morley, Esq. Geo. Moore, Esq. Mr. Alderman Finnis. J. P. Gassiot, Esq. Christopher T. Gabriel, Esq. Frederick Thompson, E: R. A. Gray, Esq. Colonel Stuart Wortley. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Waterlow. Mr. Sheriff Lyeett. Mr. Alderman Bexley.. Mr. Alderman Dakin. James Hill, Esq. R. N. Fowler, Esq. ' W. J. Maxwell, Esq. Mr. Alderman Cotton. The attention of the public is earnestly drawn to the suffering consequent on the terrible calamity produced by the recent colliery explosions. SUBSCRIPTIONS are greatly, needed to relieve the numerous families made destitute thereby. The amount required to meet the memorable Hartley Colliery Accident in 1862 was £50,000 ; in that case 204 men and boys lost their lives ; in the present instance double that number are believed to have perished, there fore to make a suitable provision for the families depen dent upon them, about £lOO,OOO will bo needed. At the final distribution of the surplus of the Hartley Fund, £3,140 was allotted to the districts in which the present accidents occurred, and this sum is now available towards the fund now being raised. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales H.R.H. the Princess of Wales The Corporation of London Amount already advertised £7,432 13 7 Subscriptions will be received by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor; Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lom bard-street ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street; Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., 1, Lombard-street ; Messrs. Roberts, Lub bock, and ombard-street ; Messrs. Dimsdale, Fowler, and Co., 50, Co., dornhill ; the London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury; the London Joint-Stock Bank, 5, Princes street; Union Bank of London, and all Its Branches; Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., Lombard-street; and by the seyeral members of the Committee. -_ JOSEPH GIBBS, Secretary. Mansion House, Dec. 20, 1866. EAU -DE-VIE.—This Pure PALE BRANDY, 188. per gallon, is vi ry superior to recent importations of Cognac, recommended by the medical profession, and ex tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 38s. per dozen, or in a case 395., railway carriage pal I.—HEN KY BRETT and CO., Old Furnivars Distillery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent street, S.W. Established 1829. CONTRACT FOR BEECH WEDGES. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, 14th Dec., 1866. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, Do hereby give NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the Bth January next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying Her Majesty's Dockyard at Portsmouth with Hewed Wedges of Beech, under a Contract for twelve calendar months certain, and further until the expiration of three calendar months' warning. The average annual consumption, together with a Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contract; may be seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's Department, Admiralty, Somerset House. No Tender will be received after Two o'Clock on the day of Treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the Party attends, or an Agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Beech Wedges ;" and must also be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a Letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the Person tendering in the sum of £2OO for the duo perfor mance of the Contract. By Order, ANTONIO BRAY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. TO GUNMAKERS and Others, The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of receiving PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for BREECH-LOADING RIFLES, either repeating or not repeating, which may replace the present Service Rifles in future manufacture. The following are the conditions considered essential in military non-repeating Rifles - A. WEIGHT. Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet. R. LENGTH. To be 51 inches, with short stock, measured from the hollow of the butt-plate to muzzle. c. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP. Must not exceed 61b. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for service. D. CARTRIDGES. Must carry their own ignition. E. SIGHTS. The foresight must be such as to admit of a bayonet fixed according to the present system. Y. STOOK. Must be such as to carry a light metal cleaning-rod, and allow a sling to be used. .... G. RECOIL. Must not exceed that of the Enfield Rifle by more than 10 per cent. x. THE ARM AS A WHOLE. Must bo as little liable to injury by long-continued firing, rough usage, and exposure, as the naval rifles converted to breech-loaders on the Snider system. To be as capable, also, of being used without accident by imperfectly trained men, and of being manufactured in quantities and of uni form quality. I. THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp, and exposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for Snider's converted Enfield rifle—also as little liable to acci dental explosion as the same cartridge, and as capable of being manufactured in largo quantities, and of uniform quality. K. CALIBRE. Optional. L. THE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE. Optional. u. THE LOCK. Optional. N. RAPIDITY OF FIRE. Capable of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without aiming, the cartridges being arranged on a table. o. ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST. The arm must give a mean figure of merit of not more than 36in. at 1,000 yard; 30in. at 800 yard; 12in. at 500, and bin. at 300. The mean to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty shots each. P. TRAJECTORY. 4 , Not to require at 500 yards an elevation of more than 1 deg. 30 min. Q. FOULING. The shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cont. at 1,000 yards after firing 250 rounds. R. PENETRATION. The mean penetration of five shots not to be less than that of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle— viz., 12 half-inch elm planks, which have been soaked 48 hours in water. Distanco 30 yards. - s. LUBRICATION. Wax on bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant may be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought necessary by the competitor. __ - 111. No arms will be received without the usual proof marks. Specifications, and drawings of the methods proposed, stating the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a finished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu nition, should be sent to the "Director of Ordnance, War Office, Pall-mall," on or before th e 30th M arc h , 186 7 . The specifications and specimen arms will be considered by the Ordnance Select Committee and its associate mem bers, who will be selected by the Secretary of State for War, and who will, after firing the 20 p re li m i nary roun d s, select and recommend for further trial such of the systems as may appear to them sufficiently promising, rejecting all such as may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to warrant their being included in the competition, the con ditions of which are stated in this advertisement. Each accepted competitor will then be required to furnish for experiment, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity , to the specimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am munition per arm, within four months after date of de mand- Each competitor will be required to disclose to the committee the exact nature of the lubrication he may em ploy. A sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted competitors, to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of the supply of ammunition required. The Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the arm which, on combination of all qualities, is considered by the committee to be the best submitted. A second reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at taining a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu lars, is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism. A third reward of £4OO for the best cartridge.. The qua ities which will be principally taken into consideration in awarding this prize will be economy of manufacture, power of sustaining rough usage, freedom from deterioration in various climates, and general serviceability. The shooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but as they may depend upon the rifling of the arm with which the cartridge is associated, they will not bo so much con sidered as those above-mentioned. It is clearly to be understood that under no circumstances will a competitor be entitled to more than one prize; but such prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be given to the inventor of the aim finally adopted into the service. I V: MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. Magazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re ceived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech loading Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48 inches, including the stock. _ _ _ The limit of ;Tight for these arms is fixed at 911 b. ex clusive of the charges in the magazine. It is indispensable that the arms be made to take a bayonet. The Secretary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best Magazine or Repeating Arm produced that fulfils the al:Rove conditions ; and in the absence of experience does not at present define the standard of accuracy or other conditions to be fulfilled before such an arm can be adopted. Those Magazine orßepeating Arms, which are accepted for further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O each. This sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per arm. V. The Secretary of State will take care that no ingenious novelty produced in answer to this advertisement shall be adopted into the service without proper acknowledgment, and that the name of the individual with whom it origi nator shall be recorded in connection with it. if the riflo to which the first prize is awarded is adopted into the service, it will bear the inventor's name. J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director of Ordnance. War Office, Oct. 22 180. ON SA.TUHDAY, the 29th of December, will be published, at No. 112, Strand, " THE WEST MINSTER. GAZETTE," a new Catholic Weekly Paper, supported by a largo number of knoWn and approved writers. Its twcirnain objects are, first, the exposition of Catholic principles on all those groat questions—ecclesias tical, philosophical, and social—which are now agitating the intellect and heart of the country; and, second, a truthful statement of facts as to tha condition, political and religious, of Catholicism in the various countries of Europe. Foreign writers of note in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Spain are engaged as contributors to " The Westminster Gazette." The true interests of Ireland, its struggles for its unquestionable rights as a Catholic nation to a Catholic system of Education, shall be dis cussed always in a spirit _free from the prejudice or passion of mere political partisanship. An important feature of the New Paper will be the large space especially allotted to reviews of books, both English and foreign, non- Catholic as well as Catholic Orders received by all booksellers and news-agents, and at the office, 112, Strand, Loudon. Price 265. per annum. Single copies, sd. ; stamped, 6d. • SLOW HALL, Wi n slow, Bucks, having W E Len recently opened and fitted with requisites for the care and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr. BOISIiAGON, announces that he has transferred his Estab lishment from Birminvham to the above desirable residence, easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour and a-halt by the London and North-Western line, and fifty minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing prospect, are garden, me .dow, plantation, and recreation grounds. For terms and forms of admission address the proprietor. GEOLOG Y.—ELEMENTARY COLLEC- TioNs, to illustrate the New Edition of "Lyell's Elements of Geology" and facilitate the important study of Mineralogy and Geology, can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50 to 500 guineas ; also single Specimens of Minerals, Kooks , Fossils, and Iteoeut Shells,Gcologfral Afeps. Hammers. all the recent Publoations, ac.. cot J. TENNANT, Mineralogist to Her Maitsty, 149, Strand, Loudon. Private Instruction is given in Mineralogy and Geo7ogy by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., 149, Strand, W.C. DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. The medical profession for Thirty ye ire have approved of this pure solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for Acidity of th 3 Stomach, Headache, Heartburn, Gout, and Indigestion ; and as a mild aperient it is especially adapted for ladies and children. Prepared by DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, &c., 172, New Bond-street, London ; And sold throughcnt the world by all respectable chemists. CAUTION —See that " Dinneford and Co." is on each bottle and red label over the cork. RUPTURP:S.-BY ROYAL LhITTICRS PATENT. VITHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVEL TRUSS /PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT Extunt rfoNs of 1851 and !862, is allowed by upwards of fwo Hundred He ►coal Gentlemen to be the most s.ffective invention In tho curative treatment of fiERN [A. The use of a steel sprinm, so 'aqui hurtful in its effects. Is bete avoided—a sort bandage tieing* worn multi the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lev.-r. fitting' with so :nlic(i ease and close ness that it cannot be cbatected, and m'y be vtorn during sleep. A. descriptive circular may be had, And th! truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post. on the circum ference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr : WHITE, '228 : Piccadilly. A Sin2le Truss, Vv., 215., '>6s 61., and 31s. 6d Posts.ze, is A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 42s , anl 525. 6d. Posra.ze, Is. 8d An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. P , staze. Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable toJohu White, Post. office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT FL A STI C STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, 'prains, .tc. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpen:ive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 75. 6d., 105. and 16s. each. Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. H YAM & Co.'s ATTIRE. FIYAM & Co., 66 and 67, OXFORD-ST. H YAM & Co.'s WINTER OVERCOATS. H YAM & Co.'s SILK-FACED OVERCOATS, YAM & Co.'s REEFERS H YAM & Co.'s SUTTS. YAM & Co.'s MORNING COATS. H YAM & Co.'s PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE H YAM & Co.'s VESTS and TROUSERS. H YAM & Co.'s LADIES' HABITS. H YAM & Co.'s LIVERIES. H YAM & Co.'s HATS and HOSIERY. HYAM & Co.'s ATTIRE for GENTLEMEN, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Tweed Overcoats 21s. to 30s. .11 yam & Co.'s Winter Overcoats Hyam & Co.'s Winter Reefer 2ss. to 555. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Suits 42s. to 70s. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Jackets Hyam & Co.'s Winter Frock Coats Hyam & Co.'s Winter Vests 6s. to 14s. Hymn & Co.'s Winter Trousers l4s. to 255. H YAM & Co.'s BOYS' WINTER CLOTHING, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. Tho first establishment i n th e kingdom for Juvenile Clothing. Boys Sandringham Overcoats Boys' Princo Alfred Reefer Boys' Overcoats for Little Boys Boys' Knickerbocker Suits lss. to 355. Boys' Westminster and Osborne Suits lss. to 355. Boys' Eaton, Harrow, and Rugby Suits 255. to 425. Boys' Jackets for School and Home 9s. to 21s. HYAM & Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS. 1. Gentlemen's Clothing for immediate wear. 2. Bespoke or Order Department. 3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department. 4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. HYAM & Co.'s ESTABLISHMENTS. LONDON-66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET. BIRMINGHAM-21, 22, and 23, NEW-STREET. LEEDS-42, BRIGGATE ; and DEWSBURY—WESTGATE QPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL. which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair, 35 6d, 5s 54, and iOs 6d; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured In one day by usintr ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. This preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, removing the veryroot. Price 4s ; sent by post for 60 stamps. —248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. ETAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID Curls Ladles' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is &potted. Sold at 38 6d, 5s 6d, and 10s 6d ; sent free for 54, 84, and 144 stamps. —Had of all Chemists. CI REY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.-- kA ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE prodnoes a perfect colour Immediately it is used. It Is permanent, and perfectly na tural in effe.t. Price 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and 10s 6d; sent by post for 54, 84, and 141 stamps ; and all Chadds. HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes superfluous hair from the lace, neck. and arms, without effect to the skin. Price 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and 10s 8d ; sent for 54, 84, and 1 , 44 stamps.—Had of all Chemists. PIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEr3ETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sal lowness, &u. 2s 9d and 7s ed ; or post for 40 and too stamps. —ALEX. ROSS, 248, ugh Holborn, London, and all Che mists. H AIR washing the head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in seven or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains COLOUR WASH.—B y so by an occasional using. 10s0d ; sent for stamps.—ALka. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. Just published, 2d ; sent by the author for 1 stamps. UGLINESS and BEAUTY; being a Pamphlet descriptive of articles and means used for improving the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High fielborn, London. T HE RESCUE SOCIETY Lome to the 12 now In operation. L as t year no f ewer 'ban 455 poor, friendless, young females were re j ecte d f rom wishes to add another want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in fire years. The new home the Committee wish to f orm woa ld b e f or young girls, almost children, from the ag e of 8 to 1 5 , w h o have been led astray from the path of virt ue. 1.1. Daniel ontribiitcioonos Cooper, (.2i e ,ee receivedn .st gratefully by the Se3retarY. 11reet.cheapside; Barclay and Co., Lombard-street. or by Messrs 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 IV ALES, KG. President—llls Grace the Duke of BUCCLE UCH. K.G. This Hospital, founded in The year 1828, the first to estab lish the principle of free admission to the mak poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions and L.. _castes . It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute sick Iris for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE o f fl u , benccolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., Abchurch-lane; also by rdesars. Coutta and Co.; Drummond and Co.; Glyn and Co.; Ileriles and Co.; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, acid Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; W famine, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Cp., Berners-street : and at the Ilcapital. from 10 till 5. STANFORD SMITH, Seortmary, II E 0 X•F 0 it D 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., THE MUSICAL ESTABLISH mENT OF LONDON. CII it Isrnits ENTER rAINNENNTs. LES DRAGONS DEI Vit.', %RS (Opera Corniquel, M by A. Maillart ,first time in this country), THIS E V ENING, in wh:ch Miss RUSSELL wid make her Reappearance, as si,ted by Itis.es Barrie and Fitzlienry ; lle,srm. A. St. Albyn, Bull., Fox, Husk, Evan. and Bury, with ii:xtra Baud and Chorus ; produced and conducted by Air. F. Jonghinans COMEDY. by Messrs. 11..rty Sydney, Brierley, and Eger ton, W. J. Adams, the Brothers Pentland, W. It. Julian (the celebrated Mimic), F. Evans, and Miss Amy Rosalind, to zether with al Entirely New Divertissement, entitled 'l'll E OXFottD REVELS, arranged and produced under the immediate superintendence of Mr. W. 11. Payne, TIIIS EVENING (MONDAY). MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. NEW EDITIONS. —Life-size Portrait-Models of JOHN TIRIGEIP, Esq., M.P., and the late RICHARD COBDEN, Esq., M.P. Open during Christmas Week, viz., on Monday and Boxing Day from 10 a.tn 10 p.m., and the remainder of the week from 11 a.m. till /0 p.m. Admittance, ls. ; children, under ten, half-price; extra rooms, 6d. A RGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO, Windmill-street. Piccadilly. These elegant and popular Rooms, haying been entirelyre decorated, are now OPEN EVERY EVENING for Concert and Danoinq. Conductor, Signor .LUGI CURTL Manager. GRENET. Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. Reserved Seats, Two Shillings. EST ON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN.: Sole Proprietors, SWEASEY and HOLLAND. The most triumphant success ever attained in any Musical Establishment. Grand. Selection from Auber's Opera of " MASANIELLO," by 40 vocalists dressed in costume as at the opera. Terrific ovation of the Irish Minstrels, with songs, dances, and Irish anecdotes, under the direction of Pat Corri. A new and original overture composed and arranged expressly for the above minstrels by Mr. H. Baker. Comic supported by Arthur Lloyd, Jolly Nash, Georgina Smithson, Miss Fancourt, Paddy Fannin, Patrick Sellers, and Harry and Kattie King. Majilton as Messestophles ; and Pis Watkin, the Persian Juggler. Band of 30 first-class mers, and large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera Houses. Musical Director, Ur. P. Conn'. Prices of admission - Stalls and Balcony, Is.; Area., 6d. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. Can be secured at the Box Office, between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open every Evening at 7 o'clock, commencing at Half-past. FALKNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY, " Real Malt," 19s per anon, is sold in bottles and jars,bear ing his label and trade mark. Most liberal terms are offered to the trade for the sac of thi zennina old spLit, which is coming into universal consumption through 14:ngland. For price lista apply at Offices, 14, Strand. London, W.C. Established in Grafton-street, Dublin, A.D. 170. D UNVILLE'S `'.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, 1; EL FAST, Is regularly sapplied to the House of Lords. "V.R." IRISH WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S "V.R." OLD IRISH winsKY, BELFAST. Lonion Offi.T3 and Stores, 4, TIEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 1808. Quotations on application. JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the world." f.0.,d0n Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C., next the " Times." T.A.MES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, 0.1 Cork, be to announce that they are .ibie to supply the trade with their celebrated Whiskies, in casks or case., and to take orders in bond at d for exportation, at their cffices, 7, Printing-hou4e-square, London, E C . the only house in the square not occupied by the " Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies bring the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial markets, as may be observed by reference to the "Journal of Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that Their whiskies fetch Bd. per gallon and Is. per case over the next best, and is. 6d per gallon and ss. 6d. a case over the lowest quotation. Always on hand a large supply of ve y old mellow whisky in the finest condition, matured in sherry casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, su,plied on the most reasonable terms. R. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, I.lect-Atreet, has introduced an entirely new descrip ti n of ARTIFICIAL I'EE r 11, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly re-emb r the natural teeth as not to be distinguished fro a the originals by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will be foun I superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require t.:e eetraction of roots, or any pain ful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastica tion. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastication. 52. Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. UNDER TIIE PATRONAGE OF TFIE ELITE OF EUROPE AND AMERICA. NO MORE CRUSHING OF DRESSES. THE only PRIZE for any class of TRUNKS at the Duthin Exhibition, 1863, was AWARDED to Mr. MYER 3, of CAVES DISH HOUSE, Wigmore-street, Caven dish-square, London. for his newly-invented Patent Self- Expanding DRESS BASKET TRUNKS, which arc secured by Royal Letters Patent in England and France. All Americans visiting' London are respectfully recom mended to visit the above Establishment and inspect the various descriptions and large assortment of Travelling Portmanteaus, Trunks, &c , Ladies especially will finl in M. Myers's Royal Alexandra Selt-Expanding and Collapsing Dress Baskets the ne plus ultra of perfection for their requirements. This Basket com prises every convenience the traveller can suggest. It is constructed to carry a large or small criantity of Dresses, 'cc. ; and from its reculiar mechanical contrivance will ex pand or collapse by its own action, thereby adapting itself to any size ; and it can th,:refore be used for either a short journey or a long tour. AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN JU EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving , coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which p; ovokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared on and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, King-William-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 13/d., and three quantities in one, 2s. Oct. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address are engraved on the stamp. IVOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of the day, AQUA A MARBLL A. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, Perfumers to her Majesty, respect fully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid, which gradually restores the 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. 6i. 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 Highness the Princess of Wales. THE BEST REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION. NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi dently recommended as a simple but certain Remedy for Indigestion, which 14 the cause of nearly all the diseases to witch we are subject, beinga medicine so uniformly grate in', and beneficial, that it is with justice called the "Natural Strengthener of the Human Stomach." " Norton's Pills " act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient; are mild in their operation, safe under any circumstances, and thousands of persons can now bear testimony to the benefits to be derived from their use, as they have been a never-failing Family Friend for upwards of 20 years. Sold in bottles at Is. Ind., 28. 9d., and Ils. each, in every town in the kingdom. CAUTION. Be sure and ask for "NORTON'S PILLS." and do not be persuaded to purchase any of the various imitations which have sprunz up in consequence of the success of NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—FUNDS are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING SHIP. £2,000 required. WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Boys• Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. UOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing the COUNTRY HOME. £l,OOO required. WM. WILLI A ITS, Secretary. Boys' Refuge, 8. Great Queen-street, W.C. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys. One hundred and fifty are now In the Refuge. The annual expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at £4,090, belnz £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends have promised to pay for one boy each year. Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothburv, and 214, High Holborn; Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East; and by WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, F.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 aro homeless and starving. The Manager &c., :eceives 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, and have 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 lie 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 broad and coals to poor ramifies in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and accomplish what has boon begun ? Will you help to give shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really starving? Tho 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 gratofully received by the . 1.1ev...1.). GILBERT . D.D., N0..22, Finsbury-cirou, E.C. AwYFROPOLITAN RAILIVAY—Train-3 every L five minutes. IILIETROPOLITAN RAILWAY Moorgate , itit. street Station. 3F Tla t ) s P t O t L i ITAN RAlLWA:l7:—.Ahleragek. 31ETIZOPOLITAN RAlLWAY—Farringdon. street Station. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY—Kin g ' s - cross Station. I%JEETROP OLITAN RAILWAY—Gower-street 111. Staton. m E TROP 0 LITAN • RAIL WAY Portland. road Station. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY -- Regent circus Station (opposite the Poly tezhnie Institution. 288, itegent-street). The Id ROP , CAN RAILWAY COMPANY'S SPECIAL OMNIBUSES to and from Pert— land-road Station meet every Train. ME TR OPOLITAN RAILWAY—Baker-street Station. ATETROPOLITAN RAILWAY Edgware ITIL road Station. itIETROPOLITAN RAILWAY Bishop's 17,1 L. road Station. METRO P 0 LITAN RAILWAY—Trains every fire minutes. MYLES FENTON, General Manager. METROPOLITAN and GREAT WESTERN AI LWA YS. —0 if U rsTMAS HOLIDAYS.—Extra Trains *between the City, Kin:es-oross, tower-street, Purt land-road, Regent-eircas, Baker-street, Edgware-road and Paddington, Hammersmith, Kensingt)n, Shepherd's-bush, Notting-kill, and Westbourne-park. T HE MADRAS IRRIGATION AND CANAL COMPANY. NOTICE OP CALL. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in pursuance of a resolution passed at a Meeting of the Board of Directors held this day, the Shareholders of this Company are re quested to PAY to the Company's Bankers, Messrs. Ran some, Bouverie, and Co., No. 1, Pall-mall East, London, S.W., a CALL of £3 10s. per share (making £2O per share paid), on or before the 15th day January next, upon which sum of £3 10s. per share interest guaranteed by the Secre tary of State for India in Council at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum will be paid from the 21st day of January next. JOHN WESTWOOD, Secretary to the Company. 8 and 9, Queen-street-place, Southwark-bridge, Loudon, E.C., Dec. 6, 1866. JJOILN GOCNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOO VII PASTiC is greatly supcAor to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteoess, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a plettAnnt fragrance to the breath. Price Is. &t—Red Bull Wharf, I#3, Upper Thames-street, London. OSBORNE'S STILTON Is THE Cheese ! ALL the year round, and year after year, PARR'S LI FE PILLS are used by thousands, who thus insure g - ood heal h without pain, inconvenience, or scarcely expense This medicine may be resorted to at any time - good effects will result. THE OCEAN ST. LEGER of 1866.—What Lord Lyon was to his owner was the Taeping to her Ca.)tain, viz., winner of the race, having distance.' xIL com petitors, as the it:A.S 1' I DIA TEA CONE VAS Y have in (ariab y done in their ohoi e and sale of floe new season's teas, now selling at importer's prices. lirarrhouses-9, Great St. tielen's-c!mrchyard. AVALUABLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.- A. CHINESE CADDY . , containing 161bs. of really good Black Tea, sent carriage tree to any railway station or market town in England, Ireland, Scotland. or Wales, o s re ceipt of Ws., by PHILLIPS and CO, Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City, E.C. TEA IS CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6(1, 25.. 2s 6t. per lb. are the pries at which PHILLIPS' and CO , Tea 3lerchants, 8, King William•street, City, L don, E.C., are selling good and fine BLNCIi. T 1 A. it price current post free. 40s worth carriage tree to any railway station or market tosn in the United Kingdum.—Observe— PHILLIPS and Co. have no Aucuts or any connexion with any house in Worcester or Swansea. Sugars are supplied at market prices. SPLENDID SPECULATIONS, GREAT SUCCESS. With A ginfriA ofolro of _.01,00n oatz I MUIR: .4J,tA V Z With a single stake of £?, you can realise £27,5 0! ! With a single stake of £B, you can realise £37.000 ! ! With a single stake of £lO, you can realise £45,000! ! For prospectuses and particulars apply without delay to Mr. EUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. FAMILY GA THERINGS. It is rather a fashion (says a Saturday Reviewer) among the cheerful young cynics who have seen to the bottom of all things alike in this world and the next to scoff loftily or acrimoniously, acc3rding to temperament, at the practice of observing holidays and festivals. They esteem it a mark of the very highest superiority to keep protesting that Christ mas-day, for example, bores them ; that it is neither a Sunday nor a week day ; that people would be much better employed in attending to their affairs than in going to church and afterwards over eating and over-drinking themselves ; that family gatherings are a mistake, because relations gene rally agree best when they are apart, and so forth It may be noticed that, as a rule, the people who thus gird at their neighbours are themselves not much taxed with work, and therefore have no reason for enjoying one day more than another in their year of indolence. Again, on principle they object to the whole theory of the family, preferring to look at the individual as the unit of social life; and hence the name of a family gathering recalls all those ideas which jar most unpleasantly with their conception of duty to self as the first and highest of all possible duties. They scoff at the notion of people being mirth ful and gladsome at Christmas, only because they scoff at the notion of mirth and cheerfulness at any and all times. Considering that all life is a mere piece of acting and pretence, nothing better than a badly organised kind of puppet show in their far see ing eyes, it is perfectly natural that they should be more than usuallycontemptuouswhen the puppets give ' themselves airs of enjoyment, and try to make believe that life has some real advantages about it after all, which do something towards making it worth having. The agreeable cynic of modern times despises pleasure as bitterly as an old Puritan hated it. The Puritan detested the unseasonable joviali ties of Christmas bemuse he thought them wicked in beings with souls to save. The cynic in patent leather boots and lavender kid gloves who has suc ceeded him as the Mentor of mankind detests jovi ality, because he looks on it as an impudent attempt on the part of a shadow to pass himself off as a reality. In some respects the nnaimiable theory about the celebration of anniversaries is in accord with other and wider tendencies. Circumstances combine to lessen, not the old strength of the sentiment of the family, but at all events to lessen the number of occasions on which it may be realised and exhi bited in the old-fashioned gatherings of which one reads in the novels of a couple of generations back. What may be called the superstition that clung about the ties and duties of family, like everything else of a similar kind, fades away before the ad vance and penetration of a rationalistic spirit into all sorts of sacred nooks and corners. The sense of family obligation is, very likely, stronger than it ever was. But it is a prosaic kind of obligation ; and, above all, it is narrow. People who can only call themselves relations arc thought less and less of. A man cannot deny that his second cousin or his great-uncle is of kin to him, but then, unless kinship is of the very closest and most direct sort, he does not feel that it ought to count for any thing. Ile excludes from a practical sense of kin ship all who do not belong immediately to own special twig of the family branch. Of course any decent person will admit the claims of anybody in the direct ascending or the direct descending line. A man's father and mother, or his grandfather and grandmother, his children or his grandchildren, can not be excluded from the very slenderest and most select conception of the family. But do people look upon uncles and aunts and cousins and nephews as close kinsfolk in the way in which they used to do ? Blood is still thicker than water, it is true. Other things being equal, a nephew stands nearer than a stranger. Only a constantly diminishing weight attaches to the argument in the nephew's favour. Where, a generation ago, the nephew's start might have been represented by 100 drds, t would now probably thing like 10, or even five. A: thicker than water, the difference attenuation tends to become evcry day more trifling. For instance, persons who live in large and busy towns concern themselves much less with their less near relations than people do who live in the coun try. A man may live in the same town with his uncle without knowing anything of 'what the uncle is doing, and without seeing him more than three or four times a year, and then only by accident. In the country, as a rule, this is quite different. Men and women know all about the doilies of their cog nates, take a keen interest in them, and, in the ab sence of a quarrel, meet frequently. In thoroughly country districts anybody would be thmight " un canny" who evinced any respect for the systematic observance, and in a religious spirit, of the ancient rites of the family. Speaking with levity or flip pancy of a Christmas or a New Year gathering round the patriarchal heart would be nearly as bad as scepti c i sm a b ou t th e P en tateuch. Yet in big towns there is v er y littl e o f this reproach attached to a neglect o f f am il y meetings. A man may boldly profess hi mse lf b ored at the prospec t o f having to dine o r spen d a d ay wt h a p arce l of dull and stupid people, just because t h ey happen to come f rom a common great-grand father. lle may even positively decline to assist at the ceremony of the annual celebration of the family dulness, .or stillness, or quarrelsomeness. Nobody living in town would on this account stigmatise him as a cold and heartless person. But, further afield, indifference to the rite of the sacred pudding would pass for something about as bad as indifference to the services of the Church. Indeed, it would be treated as the thin end of the wedge. A man who refused to partake of the Christmas morsel in company with pompous uncles and unkindly critical aunts would appear, to the unsophisticated minds of country places, to have entered into fatally rationalistic courses. There are plenty of reasons why it should come to pass that family ties sit more lightly than they ever did. Increa sci-ardour for business, for instance, is one of the -he range of social ambition is much higher than it used to be. Men want more money, and consequently they are forced to devote both a great deal more time and a great deal more attention to money-making. The obvious result of this is a diminished capacity for thinking and caring about other people. There is scarcely room, in an ordi nary mind engrossed with the harassing anxieties of affairs, for anybody besides his wife and children. They alone more than fill up the spare corners of his attention. And this increase of the intensity of social ambition acts in a still more palpable way upon the family. England becomes too small for the number of her sons. llowinany families are there now of which some member does not find his way to India, to Australia, to Canada, to China, to New Zealand? It is no longer the black sheep only who leave home. More often they are now the most energetic and promising members of a house who cut asunder all retaining ties, and resolve to push their fortunes in remote colonies and dependencies. India, above all, makes dire gaps. The Christmas gathering is thus most painfully curtailed. It seems as if whole and entire families never met together nowadays as they used to do in the days of our grandfathers. From the point of view of mere feeling this is very saddening. Yet nobody denies that a man had better dine alone at Shanghai on Christmas Day, if he is making some way in the world, than dine at home with his grandmother and his parents and all his uncles and aunts and cousins, if he is making no way in the world. Loneliness, and a sense of the disruption of family ties, are obviously not the worst sources of gloominess that may befal a man. For all this, however, it requires some fortitude for friends at home to think tranquilly of the solitary man spending his first Christmas at Shanghai. One must be a bit of a Stoic to look at his empty place in church or at table, when we remember for how many years his place was not empty. Of course this is nonsense, our cynic tel!s us; Christmas Day is only a day coninte un ware, and he dines alone at Shanghai 364 other days as well every year. if you admit this, but humbly add that anniversaries bring these things more vividly before one, our ready friend sets you down as an incorrigible sentinlen- talist, inaccessible to considerations of pure reason, and incapable of looking at the bare facts. As if the bare facts were any the worse for being adorned with gracious and tender sentiment ; or, to borrow a simile from Mr. Carlyle, as if there were any harm, or anything other than good, in having a soft silken inner lining to the rough garment of one's existence. There is another aspect in which the family gather ing has altered. Every day'we seem to get more and more removed in practice from the old conception which made the domestic servant a quasi -member of the family. It is not that people ignore that they have a duty to their servants. They recognise this perfectly in theory, and in practice even they strive to realise it in a general way. But the socially scientific idea of duty to servants is widely different from the exploded patriarchal idea. It is a question whether, in spite of the attractive grace of the patriarchal idea, it was not, in fact, much worse for the servant than even the arid mercies of social science. The patriarch always had the power of life and death over his servants, as over the rest of his family. The modern householder may be cold, and stiff, and unsympathetic towards his servants, but at least he does not bastinade them, nor have them decapitated. Still it would make a great im provement if we could superadd to the modern the more ancient theory ; and, while recognising the liberty of the inferior, could recognise the duty of protection and of a measure of friendship for him or her. Considering the extent to which they are cut off from their natural family, it would not be more than just or humane to give them a more admitted place in their artificial or adopted family. It will be a long time before we get back to the feudal plan of dining at table with the family retainers, even with the distinction of dining above and below the salt. Meanwhile the best thing is to recognise their right not merely to improve themselves, which is the idea of social science, but to enjoy themselves with as much of true jollity as the temper of modern times will permit. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Bouthampton.....Den. 20. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 13. Brazil and Cape Vcrds, by British packet. ..... Jan. 4. Ditto, by French packet De.I. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and at. Helena Deo. 28. China, Penang. and Singapore. via Southampton—Dec 20. Ditto, via Marseilles. • Dec. 28 Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Dec. 14. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dea. 23. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Dec. 2o. Ditto, via Marseilles Dee. 23 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Deo. 23. Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 23. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marsell:e3... Jan. 19, Newt oundland . Jan. 2. Portugal • ••••Jan. 4 Ditto, by private ship to Li5b0n....... Untied States and British North America, by Bri tish packet • • . Dec. 27. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork .........., O Ditto, Dy Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Dee. 1. West Coast of Africa, 3ladeira, and Teneritre Jan. 3 West Indies and Paotflo (except B.thaman an d Honduras) • .............. Dealt! • Babanv...t. via New York. ........................... Jan I'. Cuba a td Alexia.) .......... Deo. 29 ................. Bermuda, via nalifax..... ..... Jan. 10. The report that three cargoes of small arms bad been shipped from the - B.tton Rouge Arsenal for a military rov fo es ree to to h b a e organised on the :Mexican fron tier p d N o e u w h t York from f t o l r i the shipping repairs. been incorrect oflusfroi , ll andt that t arose plaoe no [ADvEwrisrmExT.] —Holloway's Pills. —Timely Warn ing. —The increasing number of deaths should not. spread alarm,. yet it should beget caution. With the falling leaf the aged and delicate aro apt to succumb unless the first faulty action be corrected, and the first failing function be invigorated by some such purifying and regulating medi cine as Holloway's pills. The prudent, for the security of themselves and their households, should resort to this fine alterative medicine when the digestion grows weak or the circulation becomes irregu lar ; th e former state being e vinced by eructations, flatulency, and distension ; the la tter of impending giddiness, dimness, peril will ci instantly drowsiness. urge tih These e fore tokens provi dent to dispel it by the pills taken conformably to their accompanying "instructions." Ij S LIIIL"'IXTILELIBITioWNintSgriCSir. DUBLIN This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the - 41blin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole -omo. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; `T the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Kinahan's LL Whisky."