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just error xeme nists. and the per of ONDON must have a Gentleman's SUPPER d MUSIC ROOM " EV A N' S " after Alfred ellon'san Concerts. IiCINA.RAITS LI 4 WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. 2,1 g ode 3rated Old IRISH WHISK Y r i vals the finest 4SCH ,BRANDY, It 14 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. thaeold in Bottles, Ss. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by at A Zenta in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale 8, GREAT WINDMIL L-STREET, LONDON, W. " _ ObsZiniterve the R e d Seal, Pink Label, and Cork brand e d hates LL Whisky." 11UTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1830). __ e Z2O to ~...7 0 14, RUSSELL -STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, of —°l °S MONEY on Personal and other Security, in sums 4509 , to be repaid by instalments extending over et;l_, two, or three years. The large Capital of this Associa , enables it to complete its transactions without delay. br a ll icilliry or office fees, and strict secrecy observe-i. Bills dh._enunted at short notice. Form sent free on receipt of a 'Vfted stamped envelope. ho ~';,?Aisoci4tion also lends Honey for the purchase of a t r n ,. - " Ll' a tenant. or for the liquidation of mortgages, on e — *most advantageous to the borrower. ,_ EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. BAY OF HAVANA AND MATANZAS RAILROAD (in the Island o f C u b a ). 14 an of 0400,000 sterling, in Bonds of £lOO, bearing in terest at 7 per cent. per annum, p a y a bl e h a lf- year l y i n 'London. - In London—M essrs . J . H enry S c h ro d er and Co. "31 t favana--The Bank of Commerce, Francis Fraser, Esq., Manager. is Company was formed in 1857, obt a i ne d its c,onces ,llo4 the sa me year, an d i n 1 8 61 the main road was cora- Ved from tance o f 54 Begla, in the Bay of Hav ana , t o M a t anzas, a s miles. ~Siace then branch lines of considerable value have been -41 ,„ s t, Meted. 0 1 : 1 - ae cost of construction to this date is £1,056,000 ; of T an a l3 in £448,000 was raised upon shares subscribed in the kX250,000 was raised in London, in 1861, by a first mort ge loan, bearing 7 per cent. interest, and repayable by 17 , 1 . 3 operation of a sinkin of £25,000 per annum, corn 'lleing 1867, which will red eem the entire loan in 1876. road'£loo,ooo was similarly raised in 1863 for the construction 3'o branch roads, secured by a second mortgage on the 1,„, and guaranteed by the Bank of Commerce, repayable t he operation of a sinking ; fund of £4,000 per annum, e°lllraencing in 1873. L A consbeeniderable portion of the remainder of the capital the road.supplied from time tot ime out of the earnings of T he results of the undertaking have been very satisfac tY, and show the following returns :- 1862 Gross receipts £100,700 1863 fl 1864 akld lB 6s gross receipts from” January to Jun e £93 , 000 gaanst same period, 1864 82,000 b a The Bay of Havana and Matanzas Railroad Compan y u nytow effected the p urc h ase o f th e C ol i seo Railroad, run fling from Matan zas t o B em b a, a di stance of 35 miles, a 4 n • valuable road, and of immense importance to the Bay di r i lavana and Matanzas Company, inasmuch as it is in iect junction with that road at Matanzas, traversing a estrict rich in sugar produce ; and being connected at 13 ,„ 131 „ba 'With the Cardenas and Jucaro Railroad, becomes a p h'"oa of the central road of the island, which will very 13111 Y reach Villa Clara by the completion of the Car etas and Jucaro Railroad. IniT h e returns of the traffic of the Coliseo Railroad are as 1860 Gross receipts £49,100 1862 7l II A 1864 4 1 2 4 t he returns of 1865, from " Jan. to 20th May...£49,000 ' air lst 1 864, same time 45,000 It_To complete thi s p urc h ase, th e B ay of Havana and tanzas Company desire to raise a loan in London of 4 7, °0, 00 0, bearing interest at 7 per cent. per annum, pay ,e half -yearly in London. ~4 1; .'s security for this loan, the Bay of Havana and Mata,n -68, Itailroad Company will effect a first mortgage on the tl°Mseo Railroad, its rolling stock, appurtenances, and all ,1 3 erties ; and also a mortgage on the Bay of Havana and e ," (4l lzas Railroad and its branches, subject only to the sting mortgages of £350,000, of which the first mod e of £250,000 will be paid off en ti re l y i n 1876 , b y the ° A e ration of the sinking fund which commences in 1867. The property thus mortgaged is as follows : The Coliseo Railroad to be purchased out of the proceeds q this loan, producing a gross revenue in 1864 of £71,200. b The Bay of Havana and Matanzas Railroad and its 11811„,flehes, costing £1,056,000, producing a gross revenue in 410 °1 of £143,000 (subject only to the above-mentioned r tgages) It be . noticed that the revenue of the Bay of Havana for and Matanzas, as well as that of the Coliseo Railroad, has Z114.4"1e years been steadily increasing at the rate of 20 per , 6 : Per annum, and it is beyond a doubt that the amalga k ' 4 )n of the two roads, by a natural increase of traffic and k o d go savin g of expenditure in the ad m i n i s t ra ti on , w ill :f „ i lea be a far larger revenue, an d may fairly estimated - ,C re e ve co n m ue ing year at £250,000 gross, or fully £lOO,OOO r Zer the repayment of this loan a sinking fund is ar eitkged for, whereby £20,000 is to be paid off annually, t a rt' by the purchase of bonds or public drawing, its ope br:.°o. to commence in 1877, by which time the first mod -7410mi of £250,000 will be entirely redeemed. to The Bond s will be issued in sums of £lOO, and bear in tia_est coupons, p a y a bl e 10 t h June and 10th December, at tinting-house of Messrs. J. Henry Schroder ii`,.e first coup on w ill be payable 10th June next.and Co. lov;tie subscription pri ce i s 90 per cent., payable as fol- S RS ............. on application. 2 5 ... .............. on allotment. .............. on 10th November. £3O N. Less 0 14s. interest at 7 per cent. per annum upon previous instalments. 6s ............ on 10th December. banterest at 5 per cent. per annum will be allowed for pre sYraent of any of the inst a l men t s. ' 4Aplication for an allotment to be made to Messrs. J. HENRY SCHRODER and Co., 145, Leadenhall-street ; 121 * to the Brokers— _ li esfsrsaAUßENCE, SON, and PEARCE. No. 7, gel-court, Throgmorton 14k vy Leadenhall-stroet An , London, Sept. 7, ISO. street. , r V a E r rli, 2s. 6d. each.—ESKELL and SONS' yi.l, , ,, , Alproyements in the construction of AR I'IFICIAL !tt i" VI enable them to make and fit in from One to a Set. ~ r aett , ,`ew hours , without springs or wires, and without ex ,Perfe—r,,4B, upon the principle of self-adhesion, painless and tl'ingi,",, Guaranteed, or no fee accepted. Sets, ate stop incae.62 4t118.1.60d.. extractions, Is. ; and the same mode fixed llihout. Punctuality in all appointments, and 't ra 'Ant daily attendance from Nine to Eight o'clock. Their tto 4 ti se on the Teeth with printed terms, and all consulta -4,4_4 free, on applica ti on to ESKELL and SONS, 13, Tich 4e-street, Quadrant. Note the address. COOL and REFRESHING TOILETTE RE- I % th QUISITE.—oLDRIDGE'S BALM of COLUMBIA thell:tareatßcertain remedy for Restoring and Strengthening bettutifiea y t Whiskers and Moustaches are producel and Ladles will find it especially valuable, as the p o st delicate head-dress or bonnet can be worn without fear otaoiling. Sold in bottles, 38. 6d., 65., and lls —C and A RrDGE, 22, Wellington-street, Strand. • • * ..I.t_tr P TURES.—By ROYAL LETTE RS PATENT. P. VITIIITE'S MOC-MAI N LEVER TRUSS k, (PRRTEi:TED AND EXH IBITED IN 'TIIE GREAT Ztiv", e I UITIONS or 1851 AND 1882), is allowed by upwards of .t,V,lllldred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective 91e — „__"°/1 in the curative treatment of II EItN I A. ' L 'il h,„.•‘•e of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its e ff ects, utclb7ae voided—a soft bandage being worn round the 4 hite the requisite resisting power is supplied by the , 4 tict :kin Pad and Patent Lever, fitting. with so much. ease ntrirLoseness that It cannot be detected, and may be worn criiB c an A tot es descrive circular may be had, and the Ikkollviliehnot fail t, forwarded by post, on the dr 44'4_1'ft:toe of the body, two inches below the hips, being ' 4l the manufacturer, k I,_ Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. 4 -ogle Truss 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. ki t ~,lible Truss:3lB, 6d., 425., and 525. tkl. Postae, 1s Bd. t,,tnbilical Truss, 425. and Us. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. C ° ofnee Orders to be made payable to John White, Post e% Ploo adniy. NEW PATENT A A L AST IC STOCKINGS, I)°'et"'NEE-CAPS, Acc., for Varicose Veins and all cases of ,tot. eB , ll and a:velling and e Legs, Sprains, Ac. They are Ike a .,:. itglit in texture, inexpensive, and are drawn on tikutc....farcunary stocking. Price i r a. 6d ., 7 8. Bd., 109,, to Its. . 1 2 8 tage 6d. N',...,„:`•,..qN WHITE. Mannfaeturcr. 128. Piccadilly. ----..____ f‘BCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. L k/ a„A-ISIENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, iltatlfPining-roona, Candlesticks, ne and e.egant assort- A Nt. tni e v ASES, Figures, Groups, a Obelieks, Ink. pb4.`eantiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &a, in Italian, I... si a,Port: e l• P n, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire_ Spar, &e. 11 021 —„... find ma nufactured by JAMES TENNAM, Mine , ! , 1 ---. to her Vtaiesty, 149. Stand, W.C., London. ,lith'r„.effflant arranges elementary collections of ROOKS. i,,,I,iOALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition ,qt t„,' 6 Elements of Geology; they will greatly fsoilitate 1 4 ti,",eltetkting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, biqtf r ,...ee had at 2. 5. 10, 20, 50, to SDO guineas each. k trrit.lCAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE. S-. - . ta given by Mr.TENNANT.F.G.S., at 149. Strand. kitOßS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and 4031 E, Hampstead. Offices, 77. CoruhilL Ni. PATRON—The QUEEN. b..tib.,... TnuSTEES. -4..4 - -01011. Francis Maude, I The Rev. Canon rhamppcya I Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. 'l'll' 11 TREASURERS. I L. Bevan, Esq. I Robert Hanbury, Esq. \''4 4 I nSt th tit, vi„, ltution is designed to sup.)ly a great national P,lte,„`;•....an asylum for the orphan daughters of s ailors iu 6 ).'.,'' eloi h " , ary and Merchants Service and of Marines. in%:lee ";'ef3, maintains, and educates them for domestic ft fee -41 ' 4 Provides a home free of expense .for former I)lptat4While out of situations, thus shielding them from the ' l l ', l ft 6 ° ,,a6 they might otherwise be exposed to. ttsylls r a fluittee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU t 7 1 4 in .T Meet the inereasi•g applications through the fa l. ee - e t "ftaii 3 l . 4 _ ll lB and loss • f life at sea and t o enable them tall 81 iiti e . ", obtain premises more corn' mensarate with the Ita, °Ps a h af this great maritime country, which loses 2,000 R .° faa. - "aallK by casualties alone, without including th ose .31 1 1, , 1 3 fsr . 1 1 1 4 2 1 .1 • 6 by war t 4 tnit tl , Llttona thankfully recetv by the bankers, Messrs .4. • at . u7" - all and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Seere -e °aces, No. 77, Cornhilt It. SWEETING, Hon. Sec. l cIIAR L ES NASH. Sea. ril------Dt... '4,, he r ,.,-" ' ' S CUE SOCIETY wishes to add an o th er 15 5 —e to th s . t . 4)t Of li,r)eo/.. 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer rim friendless, young females were rejected from 14 t h e 'slat r" DS and room, makinr , a total of 3,037, who have I(..` e tob s i w ..aY in fire year' s. Here are brief details of a few 4 t : .`,, ~,o,eeent eases: - 4 nA. 14'`,.`4ilen, mother dead, di , serted by her father. 3...ty, az" e 4ge i d 1 3. horneles •, both parents dead. , e, h ., a ged ij, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother. A it: ax ed ,0, fallen, mother dead. II *, ak , e- 15 . f allen. mother dead. Iv,. S, ~,_, l la, fallen, both parents dead. C I h,, , rneless, de-erted by her parents. A 'A+ ag e e t,' 7 . fallen, both parents dead. 14 f k' aged ig' , f aVell, both parents dead. ":12t " aged 13 ' n, father dead. k ~ tt n . ed ~, fallen, both parents dead, ti l t. ye . a", (alien, both 'part nts dead. 11 1 , '• aged Fri 1 1, fallen, both parents dead. 0 4a ne w iio , fallen, Commitar dead. t tl „k ti ti , tile thechildree wish to form would be for Loan ..• a lmost atrib ''d aatra fro en, from the age of 8 to 15, who g ''. b,, li utto n , wi r, m the path (4 virtue. arel k ., el e nn „ .. oe recetred gratefully by the SeeretarY. i an 4 c v er •' 3 s. Queen tree et Claeapside; or by Messrs 0 • Lorabad-street. 0 . 22,849. MISS KING'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Lib rar i es , i n 3 vo l s., THE LADY OF WINBURNE By ALICE KING, Author of " Eveline," " This novel possesses a deep and abiding interest, and wil be certain of a large namber:cf readers."—Observer. Burst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready at all the Libraries in 3 vols., A NDREW RAMSAY OF ERROL. By the Author of' "John Arnold," &O. "'Andrew Ramsay' is a story quite interesting enough to insure perusal."—Athenaeum. "'Andrew Ramsay' is a truthful sketch of real life. The characters are excellently drawn." -- Observer. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. —THE BUCKLYN SHAIG; or, The Goblin of the Brook. the New Novel, by the Hon. Mrs. ALFRED siONTGOMERY, IS NOW READY at all Libraries, in 2 vols., post 8 vo. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE NEW NOVEL BY MR. W. G. WILLS, AUTHOR OF " THE WIFE'S EVIDENCE," &C. On Wednesday next, in 3 vole., at all Libraries, DAVID CHANTREY. Reprinted from " Temple Bar Magazine." John Maxwell an 1 Co., 122, Fleet-street Sold by Simpkin, Marrhall, and Co., prim 7cl'., in cloth 13d. a New Work on the Teeth, entitled PURE DENTISTRY, and WHAT IT DOES FOR US. By A. EFICELL, Grosvenor-street, W. •• From the great success of the previous work on Dental Surgery by the same author we anticipate the above will be read with avidity by all classes who are interested in discri minating between pure and meretricious dentistry." John C. Clements, Little Pulteney-street. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., LIFE : Its Nature, Varieties, and Phenomena. By LEO H. GRINDON. The Publisher begs to announce the issue of the Third Edition of the above popular work in sixpenny monthly parts. Parts I. to IX. now ready. The work can be had complete, in cloth, price 6s. 6d. " To those who delight in the exercise of their intellectual powers, these very thoughtful and beautifully-Written reflec tions will be a welcome boon, and the source long afterwards, we may rest assured of many fruitful medit a ti ons an d plea sant memories." —Sun. London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. Cloth, price 2s. 6d., AHANDBOOK for the MAN of BUSINESS, applicable to all Departments of Commercial Engage ments. London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. THE ST - I‘l LONDON, TLTESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1865 GREAT ST. JAMES'S-HALL.—WORLD of MAGIC, Second Sight, and "Begone, - Dull Care," every evening at 8. A Day Performance. Saturday, at 3. " The most varied entertainment in the metropolis."—Vide the Frees. Admission, Is. Extra cloth, price 55., SCEPTICISM AND SPIRITUALISM. The experiences of a Sceptic. By the Authoress " AURELIA." London : P. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. SELF-INSTRUCTION IN SPELLING , PROFESSOR and the Misses ANDERSON.— Farewell season. World of Magic. Second Sight, and the original Indian Basket Trick, in conjunction with Fre deric (the great) Maccabe, the unrivalled ventriloquist, mimic, and character actor. THE ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING is admirably adapted to aid adults whose early education has been neglected, in mastering the difficulties of English Orthography, without a teacher. Sent post free for 12 stamps. VREDERIC MACCABE, Ventriloquist, Mimic, sza.. in his original entertainment, "Begone, Dull Care," "Miss Mary May," "Early in the Morons:T." Balcony, 2s. ; reserved seats, 3s. ; stalls, ss. ; at Mr. Austin's office, St. James's• hall, 2 , 3, Piccadilly. A. NIMSIO, Acting Manager. Demy 4to , cloth, price 7s. 6d., THE PSYCHONOMY of th e HAND or, the Hand an Index of Mental Development. London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. T" 0 XFORD 6, OXFORD STREET, W. GLASS, CHINA, EARTHENWARE, and CHANDELIER SHOW ROOMS. Notice of Removal in oonsequence of the late Fire. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, performed by Misses Russell. Barrie, Waimealey, Tyrell ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, Husk, and Green, with full Band and Chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jongbmans. Ballet, Comedy, Burlesque, Aro., by the celebrated D'Au bans, Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Misses TESSY and SARA. GULi...NISS. T DEFRIES and SONS' Te m p orary SHOW !.! • ROOMS. 6 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET, WIIITEC [TAFEL, Five Minutes' walk from their Late Establishment, 147, HOUNDSDITCH. NOTICE.—The Oxford has been entirely Redecorated. Altered, Newly Lighted, and Ventilated, and now is one of the most agreeable places of resort in the kingdom.—OPEN EVERY EVENING at Eight o'clock. The Classical Ballet, entitled THE BRIDAL of BEAUTY, in which Miss TESSY GUNNISS will make her re appear ance THIS EVENING. Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, 18. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CRYSTAL and BRONZED CHANDELIERS, New Designs, for the Dining and Drawing-room, either tor Gas or Candle. j DEFRIES and SONS, 16 and 17, a COMM kRCIA.L -STRE ET. CANTERBURY HALL. KO KO RI KO. This wonderful entertainment, having proved the greatest hit ever made, will be repeated EVERY EVENING, in ad dition to the Operatic Sele3tions, supported by the whole talent of the establishment. Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall, Messrs. Duriah and Davies, the D'Aubans, and Arthur Lloyd. Director, Mr. F. Jongmaus. All visitors to London at this season should pay a visit to the above establishment. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.- Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker-street. NEW ADDITIONS.--In accordance with the season, the Exhibition has been entirely re-embellished. The whole of the ancient Court Dresses of the most costly description, faithfully copied from the most minute pictures, have been renewed. Modern Court Dresses of the most splendid de scription, selected from the first houses in Paris and London, and probably never equalled or surpassed, are now on view. Life-size Models of DOCTOR E. W. PRITCHARD and CONSTANCE KENT are now added. Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence. Naval and Military Intelligence. The hired sailing transport Mary Shephard, 950 tons register, Capt. Croot, belonging to Messrs. Lidgett and Sons, of Billiter-street, City, has ar rived at Spithead from India with time-expired and invalided troops, after a very quick passage. She sailed from Madras on the 3d of June, and called in at St. Helena on the 4th of August. Her troop and passenger list comprises Major A. B. Marzack, 60th Rifles, in command of the troops ; Capts. H. Semple and E. C. Aynslie, 3d battalion, 60th Rifles, Capt. J. Hues, R.A., Assist.-Surg. T. D. Milburne, in medical charge of troops ; Miss Marzack and servant ; Mrs - . Aynslie, three children and servant ; Mrs. Hallet, two children and servant ; Mr. G. Smith, A.M. and M.C.S. • 13 invalided soldiers, 70 time-expired soldiers, 8 soldiers' wives and 18 children, 2 insane so ldi ers, and 5 military convicts. One death occurred on the voyage and one birth. The invalided soldiers were transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital, at Netley, yesterday, and the time-expired men were sent on by rail to the depots. of their several regiments. The disembarkation from the ship was effected with highly commendable de spatch under the personal supervision of Captain Stewart, Acting Assist-Quartermaster-Gen. of the South-west District, and the ship was enabled in consgiquence to sail from Spithead again by 2 p.m. yesterday in furtherance of her voyage to London to deliver her cargo. Since leaving St. Helena the Mary Shephard spoke the following vessels :—Aug. 19, in lat. 14 N., long. 26 W., the ship John Mel huish, 89 days from Bombay, for London ; Aug. 23, in lat. 16 N., long. 30 W., the ship Stafford, 90 days from Sarawak, for London ; Aug. 28, in lat. 26 N., long. 36 W., the Dutch bark Riches, 93 days from Ningpo, Amsterdam. Yesterday being a fête-day of the Emperor Alex ander of Russia, the Russian screw frigate now anchored at the Motherbank, off Ryde, Isle of Wight, and the Peresuett, 51 guns, Capt Kopitoff, from Cronscadt to the Mediterranean, at noon hoisted the Imperial Russian standard at the main, " dressed" with flags from royal mast-heads to yard arms and jibboom-end, and fired a royal salute in honour of the day. The English Channel fleet at Spithead and her Majesty's ships in commission also hoisted the Russian flag at the main, with the Eng lish naval ensign at the fore and mizen, and fired royal salutes. The saluting battery of Portsmouth garrison also fired a salute, as did the tattery of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club-house at Ryde. In the afternoon a large party of the frigate's officers and men landed at Portsmouth on a few hours' leave ashore. The men were clean and well dressed, and appeared to conduct themselves, for sailors, in a very steady and quiet manner. All wore the well-known cap of the Russian service, common alike in all its general appearance to both soldier and seaman. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly.—GßAND CASINO and MUSICAL PRO MENADE is NOW OPEN for the Season. Musical Director, M. LUIGI CURTI. Manager, Mons. GRENET. The Band plays nightly Selections from the most eminent Composers. Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock; close five minutes to 12 o'clock. Admission to Promenade, One Shilling, QWEET OPOPONA X, PIESSE and LUBIN'S KJ new Perfume.—OPOPONAX is a native flower of Mexico of rare fragrance. This scent, and a thousand others for choice, 2s. 6d. and ss. each. Sol,' by all fashionable chemists and perfumers.— Laboratory of Flowers, 2, New Bond-street, London. MADAME RACHEL'S ROYAL ARABIAN TOILET REQUISITE gives a soft, delicate. and youthful appearance to the face, and renders the hair, teeth, and complexion beautiful beyond comparison. -47 A, New Bond-street. Madame It. forwards her preparations to the Continent and Brighton. The Euryalus screw frigate, wooden, 500-horse power, 35 guns, steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday to dismantle and pay out of commission, on her return to England from service in China and Japan. PETROLEUM LAMPS and WALL LIGHTS, MIRRORS (for India). T DEFRIES and SONS; 16 and 17, • COMMERCIAL-STREET. TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS. Newest Patterns, Correot Measure. T DEFRIES and SONS , PI • 18 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES, For 12 Persona, £1 18s. 6d. DEFRIES . and SONS tl • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-aTREET. HAIR -CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 54 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, la. 6d., or 20 stamps. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S charges fo r Dyeing the hair perma. nently— Ladies' Hair from 7s. 6d. ; Gentlemen's from 5s The Dye is sold at .35. 6d ,or sent free for 51 stamps. It II most easy of use. "FIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn, London. — ALEX.ItOSS'S DEPILATORY removes, without effect to the akin, superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms. X 6d.; sent the same day as ordered by post for 54 stamps. PA.NISH FLY is th e ac ti ng i ngre di en t i n S ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES 0 IL, which speedily produces whiskers and chickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent free fors4 stamps.— AL EX. ROSS, 248, High 2:Walborn, London. Essay on flair, id. PIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S 'VW; E TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness /to. 2s. 9d.; by past for 40 et imps.—ALF,X. ROSS, 248,1110 f olborn, London. ALEX. ROSS' FACE POWDER, la. ; sont for 14 stamps; Eye Colour, 3s. 6d.. or 51 stamps. Skin tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or su btamps. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps.—AL:6X. ROSS, 218, High Holborn, London. TABLE GLASS, ChIINA, and EARTHENWARE. CLUB, MESS, and FURNISHING ORDERS for the above GOODS promptly executed. JDEFRIES and SONS supply D es i gn s an d • Pattern Books Free. STARCH MANUFACTURERS TO R. R. H. TEE PRINCESS OF WALES. GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH . Used in the Royal Laundry, Works—LONDON and BIRMINGEAX. MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new descrip tion of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the originals by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction 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. AND AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDAL, 1802. Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, &o. ke. WOTILERSPOON and CO., Glasgow and London. 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 WALES, K.G President—His 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 sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of containing, several hundred more beds, had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Bias terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott. Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; W 'Maras, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur ney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; T. Barned and . Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. STANFORD SMITE,. Secretary. THE AUTUMN ALL ENGLAND PLOUGHING MATCHES. —These interesting competitions commenced last week, during which three matches have taken place. At the Berkley and Thornbury Society's match on Tuesday, Sept. 5, the only competitors were Ransome's ploughman, Barker, and Howard's veteran ploughman, Brown, when Brown was defeated. At the Great Sparkenhoe match on Thursday, Barker met Brown again, also Howard's second crack ploughman, Purser, and three other competitors, holding ploughs of well-known makers, and was again the victor ; while at the Kingscote match, which took place on the same day as the Sparkenhoe, the champion prize was awarded to Col. Kingscote's man, Baylis, holding a Ran some plough. Thus the three first matches of the season have been won by men holding Ransome's ploughs. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT OBAN.—A melan choly accident, whereby two young men have lost their lives, took place on Monday morning. The circum stances as far as we have been able to ascertain were as follows :—An Oban gentleman, who went across on Wed nesday to M'Kinnon's farm, hi the island of Kerrera, re turned in the evening in a small boat, accompanied by the ferryman and WKinnon's two sons, said to be very fine promising young men. On reaching Oban the men went to a hotel and had something to drink, after which they re turned to the boat and set off on their way home. They were heard making a good deal of noise as they crossed the bay, from which it is feared they may have been somewhat the worse of drink. This might be about half-past 11 at night. An hour or so thereafter two persons who were returning to Oban by the Gallanach-road, which looks across the Sound to Kerrere, heard loud shouting at a little distance. Supposing it to be some one shouting for the ferry-boat, they paid no attention ; but hearing the outcry continue they stopped to listen ; and by-and-by in the hazy moonlight they discerned, not far from the shore, what seemed to be two men clinging to a capsized boat. They instantly ran down to the nearest cottage, at the Brenda Rook, where a boat lies, and with the assistance of a lad there got the boat launched and rowed to the spot. By this time, unfortunately, one of the two men who had been clinging tothe capsized boat had disappeared; the other who turned out to be the ferryman, had drifted, with the boat, close to the shore, which ho was struggling to reach, but in so exhausted a state that had it not been for the assistance which was now promptly given him it is believed that he would never have got out of the water alive. At the moment when he was being lifted into the boat the younger M'Kinnon was seen rising to the surface a little further out, but before it was possible to render him assist ance he sank and rose no more. The ferryman was carried almost insensible to the cottage, where restoratives were instantly applied, and a doctor sent for. He still lies, how ever, in a precarious state, and has never recovered so far as to be able to give an intelligent account of how the catastrophe occurred. From what he said it would seem that at the time of the accident they had been changing oars—that the elder M‘Kinnon, while stepping from one seat to another, lost his balance, and fell into the water, and that the other two, making a dash over the gunwale to catch him, capsized the boat. The elder brother seems to have gone down where he fell ; the other two, with the ferryman, clung to the keel of the capsized boat for a con siderable time before their cries were heard—too late, alas! for one of them.—Glasgow Herald. L lllik -... %. 1 . k 4° :.$ 4., -4-- •.• ' - (..__, --" I , " 11/1 ' ; , -.) ~ <, . . 1 )1, • . ,-, „ - r• , a&p, , ;lly -), , r 1 (( 7 e....,.... .1 " • . ~-,--, • • , ; U. `, .null ' i, ' 5 ) Ih ' ikv-Ii? -, i - "iab. - hi te i 44 fr , s t 6 4- 41 - . ~ , - s '...11461.--- ", • - 4:, : ' 1 .1.. ' :g , •• , 1. , , • ,• .... .r . 5 e r, _,.... --, -- Am A 1 '4 4 4,.. „t - ,2 ~ .„*. . , - -li.. ''.. ',--- -- ? V' , . i i Ti r c w atit . , t 4 r,„,m.„..iii_ v s.,- 6 , • ..,„ " 4 „ , ii. , _;:,,..., ~ ~ 7 ....„,.. D ar v. t .i.A 4 4, „. 00 ,...,„,, ,u. ~.a . 7 t ii DEO T 4✓ /, 4- -•\ '• N'-.4.. - ' , • -... • N ....,- -4. -., a. • - --._ -- '''; '''OP - I.' , nal power from 1,250 to 1,350-horse. When the Minotaur takes on board all her armament, stores, and crew—completes, in fact, in every respect for sea service and then goes over the measured mile, it will be no hazardous prophecy to say that her speed will be found to be half a knot under that of the Warrior's. There is much to be considered in relation to these trials of our ships of war over the measured mile course. At first sight the system appears fallacious and altogether wrong in principle, the ship never attaining the same rate of speed at sea in her after career that she attained at the measured mile, and which is placed against her on the Admiralty re cords as her steaming rate. The fact is, however, that on the measured mile the ships are pushed to their utmost, and all under as nearly similar con ditions as possible, the results giving the Admiralty not the sea-going speed of each vessel, but the diffe rence in speed between each vessel, and the trials over the mile are therefore in reality only compa rative," yet they certainly afford, by deducting a certain percentage from the rate, means of ascer taining pretty correctly the steaming powers of a ship at sea. With the data obtained at the mea sured mile the . Admiralty possess a reliable time table of the capabilities under steam of the several classes of vessels which now form the somewhat he terogeneous fleet of her Majesty's navy. It would certainly be very easy for the Lords of the Admi ralty to increase the value of our present trials of the speed of ships at the mile by establishing a rule that each ship the day after her trial over the mile should run over- a certain distance, measurement being taken of the fuel burnt. From Spithead to Cherbourg and back would be a very good distance for the purpose. It is a very remarkable fact that, with one exception, no ship in her Majesty's navy ever gave a higher rate of indicated horse-power— and very seldom has the rate been equalled—during her period of commission on active service than that which she exhibited on her trial over the mile. The one exception alluded to is the Warrior. In the early part of her commission, under the command of Captain Cochrane, being on the skirts of the Bay of Biscay in company with the Black Prince, the two magnificent frigates made a fair race of it across the Bay for Gibraltar, and on that occasion the in dicator diagrams of the Warrior gave her engines an indicated horse-power of 500 in excess of what they gave on the measured mile trial! destruction. iL.C7,0 1 -7 7 ,_."-Ze.._' //Z. ciztiC; PRICE 4d, STAMPED sd. Treaty with the United States. Should it be denied. as seems most likely, they will doubtless endeavour to console themselves with the reflection that the Americans, having but little lumber of their own except in Maine, in which it is being rapidly ex hausted, must purchase the excellent lumber .of Canada, let it cost what it will, that a heavy duty paid upon it will have to come ultimately out of the pockets 'of the American consumer, and that, all things considered, the Federal Government, by re fusing to renew the treaty, will punish the American people far more severely than they will punish the Canadians. In addition to this they may, perhaps, remember that the United States are not the sole, although they maybe the best, customers for Cana dian lumber ; and that the present very consider able lumber trade of the province with Great Britain is susceptible of indefinite increase ; and may pro bably be stimulated by the new and more cordial relations which may grow up between the old coun try and the new if the scheme of Confederation be tween all the provinces be completed, and work half as well commercially as it is expected to do politically by those who have faith in it. The ruthless destruction of the forests in the United States, which has virtually compelled the Americans to come to Canada for their timber, ought to warn the Canadians of a danger that now menaces the lumber trade. The forests of Canada, stretching out, as they do, for hundreds and thou sands of miles byond the regions where agriculture is profitable, or even possible, are popularly believed to be inexhaustible. But, considering the accidents to which the forest is liable, this popular belief, where it leads to popular action, is pregnant with danger. In dry hot summers the lucifer match of a trapper or a lumberman dropped by accident, or thrown carelessly upon a bunch of withered grass, or a heap of last year's leaves, has often kindled a conflagration which has consumed hundreds of square miles of valuable timber. And not only accidental fires, but those kindled by settlers to burn down the forest patches which it is too laborious and too costly to clear by the axe, make tremendous havoc with the northern forests. If emigrants always settled upon land available for agricultural purposes, the damage done to the forest would be more than compensated by the agricultural gain. But such is not always the case in Canada, and the fires in the forest have been so numerous and so disastrous both from accident and from the rough and ready mode of clearing unprofitable land by the torch, to discover whether it were profitable or not that in November, 1859, the Crown Land Department of the Canadian Government became alarmed, and instituted an inquiry into the subject by circular addressed to the principal merchants engaged in the lumber trade, and to the leading lumbermen and settlers in the wilderness. The re sult was an almost unanimous expression of opinion that more valuable timber was annually destroyed by fire than found its way as lumber to the markets of the world, that not above one-half or one-third of the number of these fires could be attributed to accident ; and that all the rest were the direct result of the incendiary method adopted by settlers to clear their lots for the plough. It furthermore appeared that the Canadian Government was itself greatly to blame for disposing of large quantities of Crown lands for the purposes of farming, which were no toriously unfit for agriculture ; that the settlers, after they had burnt the timber, too often discovered that their land was worthless, except for the propa gation of the pine ; and, at the earliest opportunity, removed disgusted, after having done all the mischief in their power, to more fertile regions—perhaps out of Canada altogether into the United States. In addition to these sources of evil, the luinber men, trusting entirely to the supposed inexhausti bility of the forests, never take the slightest pains to grow new timber in the districts they have despoiled. The consequence is that it every year becomes necessary to explore new streams through the wilderness, on the banks of which timber may be found, and on the waters of which it may be floated down to market; that the lumber establish ments are thus pushed further and further from the Ottawa, the St. Maurice, and the St. Lawrence, and that the price of the commodity steadily advances. One ancient lumberman, who had been in the busi- ness 40 years, and with whom I had a long conver sation on the subject on board the steamer from Montreal to Quebec, expressed it as his decided opinion that, at the present rate of clearing by the legitimate mode, and at the present rate of accidental destruction by fire, the forests within 800 miles to the north of the St. Lawrence would be entirely ex- hausted within 20 years. Another lumberman thought 30 years the utmost possible length of time which the forests would " hold out " under the present system. Mr. Gilmour, whose opinion on the subject is entitled to more weight than that of any other man in Canada, has recently issued a cir cular, entitled, "Matters for Consideration relating to the Lumber Trade, and the Settlement of the Country, and the Jurisdiction of the General and Local Governments regarding the same, in the event of the proposed Confederation of the Pro- winces being established." in this document, while admitting the urgent necessity of opening up the country to bona fide settlersrand of disposing of the Crown lands in such a mode as to attract the agri- cultural population of the British isles to Canada, he condemns the practice, too prevalent, of clearing for the mere sake of clearing, and of allowing far- mere to be deceived into the purchase of timber lands which under no circumstances of expenditure of labour or capital, could be made anything but a source of disappointment to an agriculturist who expected to live on the proceeds of his farm. Mr. Gilmour states, as the result of his experience and observation, that a very large portion of the public lands of Canada which remain unsold in the pine section are of this inferior quality. What seems to be wanted is to get the lumberman into such regions, and to keep the farmer out of them—not alone for the sake of the farmer, but for the sake of the reve- --- - nue which the Government derives from the lumber trade, and with a view to the proper development of the real wealth of the country and the rescue of thousands of square miles of forests from ruthless The telegraphic wires have just transmitted from Quebec to this remote city the fact that the Cana dian Government, which summoned the Legislature in extra session to deliberate upon the grand scheme of Confederation, which has found favour with Downing-street, has just decided, after a few days' talk upon minor matters, and no small amount of ministerial and personal recrimination, to adjourn until the spring of 1866 the discussion of all the questions involved, except the purchase of the north western territory. Whatever may be the case else where, this embryo capital takes the matter very quietly, is not at all surprised, not at all offended, and, it may be said, does not appear to be at all concerned. If Confederation be pushed, well and good; if Confederation be adjourned sine die, well and good. Such is the prevalent temper of the public mind. Perhaps, if it should turn out that the Canadian Legislature are resolved to purchase the rights of the Hudson's Bay Company to the North-Western regions for a million sterling by a Canadian loan guaranteed by Great Britain, the interest to be paid by the Canadian people, the prevalent apathy may give place to a warmer feel ing. To touch an Englishman's pocket was once thought to be peculiarly dangerous. But if one may judge the Canadians by the same test it is still more perilous to touch theirs on any pretence what ever, and more especially with reference to the pro ject of Confederation. If England desires us to confederate " let England pay the cost." The statesmen of Canada do not argue in this manner ; but it requires no lengthened stay in the country for any one to convince himself that such is the feeling of the great mass of the Canadians, both French and English, who ever give themselves the trouble to think upon the subject. London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster -Tow, E.C. Now ready, boards, price ls. 6d., irfS ; a Collection of the Best Tales contri uted to "Temple Bar." " Once a Week," " Cham bers's Journal," Aic. By L NW'S HOUGH, MA. With Two Illustrations by W. Schwench Gilbert. London :F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. 52. Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. HOME for LITTLE BOYS, Tottenham, N., for the Reception, from all parts of the Kingdom, of Outcast and Destitute Boys, and those verging on crime, under 10 years of age. President—ROßEßT HANBURY, Esq., M.P, VICE - PRESIDENTS. Esq., M.P. Sir S. M. Peto, B ar t ., M.P. Gurney, Esq. Abel Smith, Esq., M.P . H Et e e n p r h y en E. Cave, Samuel Morley, Esq. COMMITTEE. Rev. H. M'Sorl e y. Mr Alex. Anderson. Mr. E. H. Burrows. Mr. W. J. Maxwell. Mr. A. D. Chapman. Mr. Alfred Short. Mr. E. F. Gedge. Mr. Robert Sinclair. Mr. George Moore. Mr. E. J. Tabrum. Mr. Francis Lycett. Mr. R. T. Turnbull. Treasurer—W. H. Willans, Esq., 78, Basinghall-street, E.C. Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, 26, Suffolk-street, Pall-Mall East, S.W Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard street, E.C. The mode of admission to the House is twofold, Ist. By election of the subscribers. Bays thus admitted are received free, boarded, clothed, educated, and taught till they are 11 years ot age. With the view t o secure the election of the most deserving cases, the Commits e have from the first discouraged canvas sing, and they do not print any addresses of the subscribers. The voting papers contain a description of each case, as care ful y investigated by the Committee, and with this informa tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to those most eligible for free admission. This Home was opened in April, 1884. It was designed to take In the little ones whose charact r and circumstances disqualify them, for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tender age precludes their admission to the Refuges. Such are those who, from neglect, are already on the road to ruin. Such are those who have been deserted by their natural protectors and left to beecome idle wanderers. Such are those whose parents may have at one time or other received parish relief, and who are now friendless orphans. Such are those whose parents are breakers of the law, or are in prison, and who train their children in the same path. Such are those whose evil associations have already had their painful effect, and must lead them to a life of crime and misery. There are now 50 little inmates from about four years of age to 10. There is room for nearly 10 , and the Committee would joyfully see the Home filled at once ; they only wait for the necessary subscriptions. The Committee feel constrained to plead for those Who cannot thus plead for themselves ; and, referring to the cir cumstances of some who have been already admitted, they ask—ls it right to make a widow and her family paupers for life because one of them (the naughty boy of the family) runs wild in the streets and is beyond her control ? Is it kind to tell her, because she has so large a family, that you will not h , lp her to , put one of them into a Home, but that they must ail go into the house ?" Is it doi ng th e b est we can for the little destitute orphan to send him to the workhouse. Is it doing to others as we would they should do unto us that when these little ones have unnatural parents who turn them into the streets, or force them by ill-treatment to "sun away," none of us shots d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe them ? Shall we leave them still on the doorstep, oasslag by on the other side, or else exc l a i m i ng " Am I my- brother's keeper ?" The necessity for an Institution for these little ones is evi dent from the police statistics, which show that in London alone, in one year, no fewer than 311 boys under 10 years of age, have been apprehended for various offences, 79 of whom were convicted and punished, while the bulk, 232 were dis charged by the magistrates with a rebuke, as being too young to punisfi, though not too young to learn th e beginnings of crime. On the other hand, there are numbers who, but for the timely help afforded by such an Institution, must otherwise become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-reli ance and self-help be permanent burdens to the State. The Home for Little Boys has, therefore, been established to rescue the little ones, to save them f'rom the prison on the one hand, and the workhouse on the other, and to endeavour to make them useful members of society. The daily routine of the Inte itution presents all the fea tures of a home, a school, and a workshop. The little ones are cared for as children ; they have their regular meals, their suitable clothing, their hours of play and amusement, and their singing class. They are treated as scholars ; every morning is devoted to sehoel work—reading, and writing, and cipheriniz, and Scriptural instruction, with occasional lessons in ohjeots and other subjects. But they are also trained to work. As they must all, and that at a very early period in life, earn their Vying by the sweat of their brow, they are here at once taught habits of industry. So the after noons, are occupied with various industrial occupations— making brown paper bags for bankers, and white paper bags for tradesmen, and door mats and servants' kneelers for any who will buy them ; picking the coil for the mats, mending the c other, &c. Some a.sist the master in the garden, digging, planting, watering, weeding, and so forth. By degrees they are being made useful in the house, scrubbing and sweeping, while the elder ones clean all the boots, knives, &e. In this way it is sought to lit them for an active working Ilfe. 2d. By payment of ss. a week, made quarterly in advance. All ohildren must be under 10 years of age at the time of admission. Those received on payment are admitted at any time as soon as approved by the Committee, Elections of children to be adelitted free will take place as frequently as the increase in the annual subscriptions will ealladmit, till the Home is toll; th ey will then be held period!. Fo y rma of application for the admission of children may be had at the Home, and of the Honorary Secretary, Her Majesty's Ship Minotaur. The Minotaur iron screw frigate, 6,621 tons, 1,350 nominal horse power, resumed and concluded her official trials under steam at light draught of water on Saturday. The ship's anchor was weighed from Spithead shortly before noon, her draught of water being the same as on the previous day-23ft. lin. forward and 24ft. tin. aft, and her safety-valve loaded at 251 b., the immersion of the upper blade of the screw being 6in. Rear-Admiral G. G. Wellesley, C. 8., superintended the trial, with Commander Brett, of H.M.S. Asia, in command of the ship. Mr. Matthews, Mr. Penn's joint partner in the firm of Penn and Son, represented the makers of the engines, and was responsible for the machinery. The furnaces were in charge of the usual steam fac tory party of stokers from Portsmouth dockyard, and the steam factory and reserve officers of the yard conducted the trials. Six runs were taken over the measured nautical mile course in Stokes Bay with full-boiler power, and four runs afterwards with half-boiler power. The following were the re sults : FULL-BOILER POWER. Run. Time. Spoed of Ship. m. s. Knots. 1 3 57 15.190 2 4 8 14.516 3 3 55 15.319 4 4 20 13.846 5 3 47 15.859 6 4 27 13.483 Mean speed of the ship ... ... .. 14.778 knots. Mean revolutions of the engines ... ... 57 i Maximum ditto 0.6 ••• 59 Minimum ditto 56. ea • .•• Pressure of steam in boilers ... "' tsi lb. Vacuum ... ... ... ... ... 23 in. 11.91,P-801/3CR POWER. Run. _ Time. Speed of Ship. lr 8. Knots. 4 20 13.846 5 28 10.976 4 21 13.793 5 27 11.099 Mean speed of the ship 12.406 knots. Maximum revolutions of engines... 49 Minimum ditto ••• OOP 47 Pressure of steam in boilers ... ... 20 lb. Vacuum ... 27 in. The engines worked throughout from the start to ease and smoothness, and without a hitch of any ki nd occurring. A compari sonhe finish with astonishi ng with the performances of other vessels over the measured mile will be here the truest test of the value of the rate of speed attained by the Minotaur. The Warrior, 6,109 tons, 1,250 horse power, has been set up as the standard vessel of her class for comparison of speed, and if we take her, in the first instance, we find that she was tried at the measured mile on Oct. 17, 1861, drawing 25ft. of water for ward and 26ft. Sin. aft, having then her guns, crew, and six months' stores on board —proceeding, in fact, to sea on a cruise on the day following the trial. Her mean speed of six runs with full boiler power was 14.356 knots. - The Black Prince, sister ship to the Warrior, was tried on May 22, 1863, with all her weights also on board, drawing 26ft. of water forward and 27ft. aft, and realised a mean speed of 13.502 knots with full boiler power. The Achilles, 6,121 tons, 1,250 horse power, was tried on March 15, 1865, drawing 25ft. 11in. of water forward and 26ft. ilin. aft, and realised 14.322 knots with full boiler power. t. 9in. fo rwar d an d at light draught. The Achilles 23ft. 7in. aft, but from some unexplain e d cause on l y `Warrior was was tried never at tried2f made 14.358 knots. The Black Prince at a light draught of 21ft. ilin. and 24ft. 3in. made 14.213 knots. The Minotaur has, therefore, beaten both the Black Prince and the Achilles at light draught, but as the Warrior was never tried under the same circumstances, she gives no opportunity for compa rison with the Minotaur's performance of Saturday. If we compare the deep-draught trial of the Warrior with the light-draught trial of the Minotaur, it will be found that the former, with a mean immersion of 2ft. 41in. in excess of that of the Minotaur, has only been beaten in speed by the latter by .422, or less than half a knot. The only inference that can possibly be drawn from these facts is, that although the Minotaur has reached the highest rate of speed of any ship of war at the measured mile, yet her gain at light draught is so slightly in excess of the Warrior's speed at deep draught that the latter ship is undoubtedly the faster of the two, and will still retain the position she has held uninterruptedly since her first period of com mission by Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., as the swiftest ship under steam in her Majesty's navy. True, it may be said that the Minotaur ex ceeds the Warrior slightly in tonnage and displace ment. This, however, is more than compensated by the increase in boiler space and length of ,piston stroke given to the Minotaur to increase the nomi- The British American Provinces• (From the Special Correspondent of the Times) OTTAWA, Aug. 2. Ottawa may or may not grow into a populous city, in virtue of the greatness thrust upon it by a late Canadian Administration and her Majesty Queen Victoria, who several years ago selected it as the political metropolis of the two Canadas. However the future may decide in this respect, it admits of less doubt, if its people had sufficient enterprise and capital to turn the rapids and falls of the Ottawa to proper account, that it might become the seat of a prosperous and varied manufacturing industry. No one, however unpractical his turn of mind may be, can stand upon the Suspension Bridge over the chasm formed by the big river, or, better still, upon the ledge of rock under the saw-mill, and survey the surging, seething masses of foam that dash down a wall of broken and irregular rocks, varying from 15 to 25 feet in height, to the lower level which,withlthe exception of two slight runs or rapids, the Ottawa occupies until its junction with the St. Lawrence at Lachine, without coming to the conclusion that there is water power enough within a space of 300 or 400 yards from the bridge on each side of the river to turn the wheels of 1,000 factories. On one side is a raging whirlpool, aptly named the " Chaudiere," in which above a third of the descending waters are lost in the bowels of the earth, to reappear no more, so far as human research has yet discovered. The remainder surges and boils over a wide expanse of rock, and forms not one, but apparently a hundred, waterfalls of various degrees of power and beauty. On the other side, farthest removed from the city, towards the suburb of New Edinburgh, the waters roll in a series of independent falls into a deep crevice between two precipitous limestone walls, and are lost in another fathomless pit, familiarly known as the " Devil's Hole"—lost without turmoil and commotion, as if the very centres of the earth were open to receive them, and could contain 10,000 Ottawas without overflowing. The saw - millers have taken advantage of this immense " water privilege," and done their utmost to force the utilitarian aspect of the river more prominently into the landscape than the lover of nature would approve. Fortunately, however, all the efforts of man are powerless to destroy either Niagara or the Ottawa, and the mills and factories remain as evi dence of his industry, without greatly affecting the sublimity of the scene into which his enterprise has thrust him. As yet the principal mills on the Ottawa derive their uses from the lumber trade—of which the city is, next to Quebec, the principal empo r i um _ _ in Canada. The lumber establishments on the river convey :to the markets of the United States and Europe a large amount of the finest timber for building purposes which America produces, and add, perhaps, more than any other industry —except that of the farm—to the wealth and resources of the colony. The Ottawa drains an area of 80,000 square miles, and from its source in the wilderness around Grand Lake on the borders of the Hudson's Bay territory runs a course, inclusive of the Lakes La Quinze and Timiscamingue, through both of which it flows, of nearly 1,000 miles. Beyond Ottawa City the settlements extend for little more than 200 miles, and these settlements are but poor villages and hamlets, the abodes of lumbermen and trappers, and the small traders who administer to their wants in the supply of dry goods, groceries, and the irre pressible drinks without a due (or undue) modicum of which the European in America, whether he be Celt or Anglo-Saxon, seems to find it impossible to live. Ottawa is in fact the last city towards the North Pole. All beyond are mere outposts of civi lisation, which may become cities in twenty or thirty years or less ; but they are meanwhile but a congeries of huts and shanties, with a grocery, a church, and:possibly a printing-office, whose proprietor looks forward to the day when the little weekly journal which he prints, edits, and publishes shall be transformed into a daily paper, and wield all the political influence and catch in his net all the advertisements of the district. There arrives annually at Ottawa the produce of the forests in the far interior along its banks and those of its tributaries the Gatineau, the Rideau, and other smaller streams, according to the published estimate of Mr. Allan Gilmour, of Pollock, Gilmour, and Co., of Port Glasgow, an amount of red and white pine, pine deals, and sawn lumber of the value of $3,144,166, or up'Wards of £627,000 sterling. Thirteen million cubic feet of white pine, 2,250,000 cubic feet of red pine, 60,000,000 of superficial feet of sawn lumber, and upwards of two millions and a quarter of pine deals, make up the items which represent this value. The total exports of lumber and other productions of the forest from the whole of Canada during the seven years from 1857 to 1863 inclusive amounted to $66,912,739, or an annual average of $9,558,962, thus showing, according to Mr. Gilmour's calcula tion, that nearly a third of the whole trade passes through the city of Ottawa. The importance of the lumber trade becomes further apparent from a state ment in the returns of the Board of Trade and Navi gation during the same years, which represents the value of the exports of all other agricultural produce, inclusive of potash and furs, both of which might strictly be claimed as productions of the forest, to have been but $53,474,211; an annual average of $7,639,173; or an annual difference in favour of the lumber trade of $1,919,789, or £400,000. The people of Ottawa and the settlers up the river, so largely interested in this traffic, look with some ap prehension to the non-renewal of the Reciprocity /, NEWSPAPER The Memorial of the Hole ig v •em ' r 7 : 4; 4 4 (SEUTER'S EXPRE SS. ) - , K z The following is the tent of the memortall toahe S Federal Diet, drawn up by the members of the Holstein Estates who meet on the IGth inst. in this city:— "illustrious Federal Diet—ln common with the whole country, the undersigned members of the Holstein Estates have hailed the victories of Austria and Prussia with thankful joy. The Danish tyranny was broken ; the Lon don protocol was set aside ; the Duchies surrendered them- - selves in security to the hope that after years of heavy oppression they would now at last be able to enjoy their long desired independence, in full union with Germany, under their legitimate prince. This hope has been bitterly deceived. "Nearly a year has passed since the Vienna peace, but the Duchies are still 'without their legitimate sovereign, and without a representation of the country summoned to co-operate in shaping their present and future. " While even under Danish rule the Estates regularly assembled, and were at any rate able to complain of the in juries inflicted upon the country and to protest against the wrongs by which it was threatened, the land has not yet been heard since it passed into German hands. Its boun daries have been altered, different Governments have been given it in rapid succession, violent attacks have been made upon its administration an.l the hitherto existing order of its institution; its financial means have been disposed of, but it has not been considered necessary to take the sense of its representatives. "To all this the undersigned members of the Holstein Estates have said nothing. They believed in full confi dence that this time of tribulation would only be a period of transition, and that the Duchies would 'shortly be again left to themselves under their legitimate prince. Illustri ous Federal Diet! the time has now come when we think we ought to keep silence no longer. The convention con cluded at Gastein by the Governments of Austria and Prussia upon the 14th August, makes it our inevitable duty to uplift our voices. By this convention is not only the de finitive settlement of our affair; for which the country anxiously awaits, postponed to an uncertain period, but the connection of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein is dissolved anew. The Duchies look upon this connec tion as the basis of their State life and their national deve lopment. "They have resented it as the bitterest injury that the right of their belonging together was assailed upon the part of Denmark. They have battled for that right with the sword and in speech. They have felt confidence when the German great Powers entered the lists in its support. In all their grief over many disappointed hopes they have at the same time gratefully acknowledged the fact of their reunion by a common administration since the commence ment of this year. But for that very reason they also feel it now as the most grievous attack upon their rights that this bond is again dissolved, and the more bitterly that this could have been done by German hands, and to an even greater extent than formerly under Danish rule. "Illustrious Federal Diet ! The separation of the Duchies again brought about the Gastein Convention has not only filled the hearts of the Schleswig-Holsteiners with deep impression, but also with heavy care. This measure is a proof that the Duchies are treated as if they were devoid of rights. It has, therefore, more vividly than ever aroused the apprehension that the two great German Powers, now actually in possession of the Duchies, might undertake a final settlement of their affairs without their co-operation. So far as possible under existing circum stances, the inhabitants of the Duchies have repeatedly and unequivocally declared that they are ready to make such concessions to Prussia as should be demanded in the in terests of Germany. " They would have proved that they are herein tho roughly in earnest had they been able to express them selves through representatives selected from their midst. But the Schleswig-Holsteiners nevertheless hold firm in all fidelity to their country's right, and, which is the same thing, to the right of their legitimate sovereign, which has also been recognised as clear and binding by the two great German Powers at the London conference. They are not of not opinion that, in political affairs, supposed advis ability, or even force, ought to take precedence of right. They would therefore be unable to admit that rights only appertaining to a conqueror should be deduced from a war waged for their liberation. They would, upon the con trary, regard every definitive settlement of the affairs of the country, attempted to be made without the assent of the representatives, as not existing by right, but imposed by compulsion. " The undersigned members have considered it their duty to give expression to what at present moves the hearts of the Schleswig-Holstein population by a majority bordering on unanimity. They entertain the firm con viction that this is done when they protest in the name of the country against the separation of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein as contrary to the right of the land ; when they decisively demand that the country by its representation be heard upon its affairs, and thereby declare that they will regard every arrangement concluded without the co-operation of the representatives as non-existent in right ; and when they once more solemnly and loudly proclaim that they only recognise Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein as their legally entitled sovereign. " Referring to what has been said, the undersigned most respectfully propose that the Federal Diet should use its efforts to cause our country's right to be recognised with out further delay. "Done at Kiel, Sept. 6, 1865." (Thirty-one signatures fallow.) THE GASTEIN CONVENTION. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) FRANKFORT-ON-THE -MAINE, Sept. 9. The following circular has been issued by the committee of thirty-six delegates- from the Minor German States, permanently in session in this city, to all the members of popular representations throughout the country : "By the Gastein Convention the Governments of Aus tria and Prussie haye violated in the most flagrant manner the clearest principles of right, and especially that of the Duchies to settle their own future, only limited by the in. terests of the German nation. The measures which it was to be foreseen would follow this convention threaten, in addition to shaking the sentiment of right of the German the people, to annihilate for years the material and moral pros perity of the Duchies freed from the Danish yoke by Ger man blood. The undersigned committee considers itself, sb members therefore, o in f German duty bound Diets, et tc ,s , request already thereaelnly of unanimously s deter mined by the special committee of the Schleswig-Holstein clubs, in order to discuss and resolve upon the best means of saving the condition of public right in those lands. The committee expects that the German delegate; who solemnly promised at the meeting of December 21, 1863, and by the protest handed in at the London Conference of April, 1864, to advocate the free right of self-disposal of the Duchies and to support their rights generally, will now redeem this promise by their appearance at the new assembly. The undersigned accordingly invites all present members of German Diets to a meeting at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, on Sunday, October 1, at ten in the forenoon. A confidential preliminary meeting is to be held on Saturday, September 30, in the evening. (Signed on behalf of the committee), " DR. SIEGMUND MULLER." MORISON'S PILLS OF THE BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, EUSTON-ROAD, LONDON.—AII persons should know that the above medicine can be sent by post on re ceipt of 30 postage stamps for two boxes, Nos. 1 and 2, 13id. size —[Advertisement.] THE IRON TRADE.—It will be remembered that after the last lock-out the puddlers in the Wolver hampton district refused to resume work until some arrange ment had been come to between the masters and the men by which disputes might be more easily adjusted than here tofore. A meeting was held between the two ; no plan was then fixed upon, but both united in regretting the frequency of the disputes, and in pledging themselves to adopt some plan whereby those evils might be mitigated. The Wol verhampton masters consulted the whole trade at the last preliminary meeting, and the men consulted their union. Yesterday masters and men again met, and the idea of adjusting disputes by arbitration seemed to have been dropped by both parties, and the amount of wages to be hereafter paid was the matter to which attention was di rected, for it seemed to both that the change necessitated by the variations in the price of iron, and, consequently, in the rate of wages, was the chief source of difficulty. The masters, however, could not see that any arrangement could be come to other than that which included the legitimate principle of the men sharing in the advance in price by a proportionate rise in wag e s, and ogawndie. B nsthey thisdisad meansvantag it wasesof a thought reduction that the acceptinglower interest of both would be more completely by identified, and the trade bo more likely to be kept within the district. The masters were, however, ready to allo the men to be paid henceforth upon a scale which is Is. a ton in advance of that which for 20 years has prevailed in South Staffordshire. The'men, on their part, pressed for the establishing of a fixed rate, and hinted at 10s. a ton, but seemed as though they would be willing to let the fixed rate be 9s. 6d. They, however, would not speak for the trade as a whole. The masters' proposition was handed to the men, who agreed to submit it to their union, and a reply will be given to the Wolverhampton masters in time for it to be submitted to tho whole body of the employers at the next preliminary meeting, which will take place on the last Thursday of this month. A proposition on the part of the masters to disassociate themselves from the trade out of the South Staffordshire district, upon the men consenting to give up their connexion with the union in other parts of the kingdom, was also to be submitted by 04 men to theirunion officers. _ A Man named Mason was engaged on Saturday in pulling down an old warehouse at Preston, when a wall fell upon him and crushed him to death. nem' leyS tree, oia rki 13' , one' ease otß ero gh• er ar- Pe r 24 no. i, ~, r.: I