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" NIUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION ( Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1850). 14, liU iSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LPN , t S MONEY on Personal and other Security, in sums floe, two 4500 , to be repaid by instalments extending over two. or three years. The large C tpital of this Associa -100 enables it to complete its transactions without delay. ' nc i 4 irY" or (Mee fees. and strict secrecy observel. is Discounted at short notice. Form sent free on receipt of a directed sta-nped envelopa. house ' by also lends Money for the purchase of a by a tenant, or for the liquidation ot mortgages, on terms Most advantageous to the borrower. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. The NATIONAL BANK is authorised to receive SUB SCRIPTIONS for the SHARES of the PERUVIAN RAILWAYS COMPANY, mg Pro spectus. on the terms of the foIIow pERIJVIAN RAILWAYS COMPANY ). With Peruvian Government Gu d arantee of Interest at the rate of .£7 per cent. per annum, as h ere inafter set forth, on a Total Capital of £3,340,000. Present Issue--£1,670,000, in 66,800 Shares of £25 each. Deposit £1 per Share on Application, and £2 per Share on Future Allotment. Calls of £2los. per Share will be made at intervals of not l ess th an three months between each Call. seven per cent. per annum will be paid during the con struction, and is guaranteed by the International Con tract Company (Limited). DIRECTRS. William Latham Bailey, Esq. O (Bailey Brothers and Co.), Liverpool. , Wm. Carter, Esq. (Joseph Robinson and Co.). Laurence rountney-bill. John Enni s, Esq., M.P., Director of the Bank of Ir e l a nd. ,r• S. Flet c h er, E sq. (Alexander Fletcher and Co.), 10, '''ang's Arms-yard. S. G. Getty, Esq., M.P. for Belfa s t, O ns l ow - square . „.W. R. Lindsay, Esq. (Messrs. H. H. Vivian and Co.),sL ,zuham. . Roe, Esq., Bowling Ironworks, Bradford. :Albert Ricardo, Esq., Angel-court, Throgmorton-stroet, Director of the National Bank. ~Rober t Simpson Esq. (Frederick Levick and Co.), uharl otte-row, and Cwm Celyn Ironworks. BANKERS. London—The National Bank. krpool—The National Bank of Liverpool. • a anchester—The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank. I reland—The Bank of Ireland, and its Branches. The Branches of the National Bank. — CONTRACTORS. The International Contract Company (Limited). ENGINEERS. George Parker Bidder, Esq., C.E. John Mortimer Ileppel, Es.q, C.E. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bircham, Dalrymple, Drake, and Co., Parliament street. Messrs. Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co., Victoria-street. BROKERS. London :—Messrs. P. Cazenove and Co., Threadneedle street. Messrs. Sey mour and Co., Throgmorton-street. L iverpool :—Messrs. Th omas Ti nley and Sons. Manchester :—Messrs. Warner and Page, Stamp Office buildi • Dublin : Edward Fox, Esq., Dame-street. SECRETARY. B. A. Smith, Esq. OFFICES. 85, Cannon-street West, E.C. the i ng Th is Company is formec7 — for the construction and wotrke of t wo lines of railway in Peru—oneto et c h oenrntee con nect t h sea port of Pi sco with the town of Yea ; the city of Arequipa with the Mejia. For th e construction of these railways rtof the Government o f Peru have granted special concessions, and a guarantee t o f hiconae, which would' appear exorbitant, if it avore n th o e that the statistics of the existing traffic have satisfied .reruvian. Government that the railways, when : V ill yield returns which will not only relieve the a G t o w ve o rn rir' - ,:emiel:rtynecif.:tithvireee t ? . h fe ar r g t e ha fo t r pu th ri t se guarantee, but far exceed the The Peruvian Government guarantees for the period of years r until the railways have produ v ce a d_ i)yer and above the cost and provision for repair, reno t _ ve anali iml, and maintenance for the space of two consecu i s, dividends at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum li — o nco of X 233,800 per annum, charged upon the pub rpvenues of the State, and further secured by hypotheca - - tie% of the guano shipped to European States. The u'. uetlsions for the railways contain the usual provi - s e i x on eee f n d or_ Feirabursing to the Government(out of any surplus l ug a 10 per cent. per annum dividend to the shareholders) sn o b +l, s ums, if aziy as may have been paid by them to cover „,, e f r ~...._ , ri, 6 earantee. 'pie fissionscon of these lines of railway from the Go ing'ferninent Peru is for period of 99 years from the open tithe railways. A sufficient sum will be set apart i o 47ti sinking fund for the redemption of the whole cap , at a premium of £lOO per cent., to be operative yearly ter the first 20 years of the working of the railways. T o shares co redeemed to be altogether cancelled, and the divi 4ends which would otherwise be payable on such shares_ to b e o u rue to and form Part of the sinking fund. After the firs = t Years the price at regulated shares shall be redeemed .o d e tTucolled shall be at such higher or other pp i tl l XlOO Per cent. premium as the state of the sinking n shall w t .„,. • . arran . fleet i ll i en it is borne in mind that the Peruvian Govern ion' ' u an, hearing q per cent. per annum interest, ine 0, pre ti4extinct borrowed on the same security, is rapidly in course. of 3 n, it will be quite evident that, irrespective A re,P e r 9sPect of a much higher rate of dividend being realised from the working of the railways, the nature of the c'untY should obtain a ready market for the shares of the oar n .,„_ . NiPlTellspects of revenue from the working of the re. Rogare, however, so great as to render the Government seconds ntee (in other respects so important) a feature of but ,isrY consideration miles, Republic of Pei has a seaboard of nearly 1,600 p elt s : . and an area of about 50,000 square miles. There is, core Ps ' " country in the world in which the elements of products prosperity are more complete. .The mineral abo o u „, i ts cif all kinds with which its interior provinces't an alk -,.", combined with its long stretch of coast, give i oo the unrivalled facility for the development of commerce o b s ,e, Most extensive scale. To this development e o aos of 00bm.„ele—and one alone —exists ; the want of . prop! try "Lillunication between the ports and the intenorrincoun 41,Spite of this obstacle the large existing trade of the takiaunc is proved by its Custom returns ; and that . der are DPI having for their object the remedy for this defect,. the Callao to be r emunerative, is shown by the working of a , _ allao and Lima Railway, which now pays dividends ' a rat e a . gioof Pproachmg £3O per cent. per annum on the 0n ,,, cost of construction. Iliii-L'ene ordinary charge for the conveyance of like ill Pere is equal to the charge for the carnage of a Tvantity in Great Britain 14 miles. goods per ppotlaofTrtartestioootuc‘roe:eotpaniansoettrruy:esewita:on of the railways to be undertaken by ()ell establish communication between im ocaostmerce in the interior and the proper t ratm u line from Mejia to Arequipa is laid out to serve the t o the which a t present takes the route from the latter city of c :: Port of Islay, a route which forms the main channel quionl nic ation from th e coast to the districts of Are Roli v i a. un e, and C uzco, and the northern portion of • 'En . p0r f.,...11e connection with the last mentioned State is i i',7 l -! , , as ochet establishment of a system of railways . suitable u•lts wants is now a subject of serious attention. The Fail wants no __ .‘,. . ~7 proposed would form one of the main outlets csita:"lluu sYstera to the coast of the Pacific, a cirFum t„_.n,c: which alone must secure it a considerable additional ‘ 4 ,5 of the most remunerative description. The railway from Pisco to Yea is proposed to be con structed under conditions analogous to those of the Callao al Litna line already referred to. i 'r rota the easy character of the line, and a large existing reven u e in the district to be traversed, it is evident that the net evenue must g of rea the y exceed the guaran t ee d amount. The lengthsproposed lines are as follows : Melia to Arequipa, ....... 90 miles. Pisco to Yea,...... ............... 46 miles. A contra Total l th .. .; .. 000.ar0...0..t...c; .......... 1 - 3 - 6 miles. entered into with the Internationali n of the lines has been Contract Company g4.Eim,iateod(?, ja.cmco.rudinepgpetoi, tElisgee,steirres of G. P. Bidder, Esq., In accordance with the terms • of each concession the Com pany will be converted into a Socia6 Anon with shares to bearer, or, if necessary, into two S . 6t The capital of the Societ4 Anon Anonym or s S An oci °ll tr u s Aeno nymesovill be X3,340,000—t0 be issued in shares andbonds. Liability Tile present Company has been formed as a Limited able °°mPany, the shares in which will be exchange- A for shares of a like denomination in the Soci6t6 -- '• ue nYine. _ ACopies of the Articles of Association, of the Contract, and ?,/ the Acts of Concession, with translations, are open, at roe l lv offices to become of the Company, for inspection by parties dem : s ubscribers, so that they may make . them of es acquainted with all the provisions and conditions stlch concessio The d • ns • feit ed ePesit paid on application for shares will be for and the allotment cancelled in cases where the fur . .- tb e r P a YMent on allotment is duly made in accordance with A terms of the allotment letter. f 4PPlications for shares must be made in. the annexod . l'2`.4'rna, addressed to the Directors ; but no application will 1 theg isid ered unless accompanied by the receipt of one o b e ankers of the Company for £1 per share on the cum event r °f sha res applied for. This sum will be returned in the p of the application not being acceded to. he 11°Irtit'.uf APplication for Shares and Prospectuses may The t • ~ National Bank, London ; u;le National Bank of Liverpool ; Atte B ank of I re l and, and its several branches, Ireland ; n e,B e r anches of th e National Bank, Ireland ; 11 t Offices of the Brokers of the Company ; and „_- 0, 1 the Offices of tho International Contract Company, ‘lO, Uanno-street, West, London, E.C. /011---- OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. PERtiv.„. 14. (To be l e ft w i t h the Bankers. To + ) wo.,+. RAI LWAYS COMPANY (LIMITED). L• "e Directors of the Peruvian Railways Company (Limited). 1,.. Gentlemen, t .ctvili g ,_Pahl to the Bank the sum of • Shares, I r equest ' uei ng £ l, per Share on 14 the zou. to allot me fo i reruvian Railways Company, Shares of £25 each - /In ty with the P t • d y you, and I h its rospec us issue (Limited), in con- Melts be come a member of the Company, Elhar such es of Association and Regulations, and to accept _ subect to its to es, or any less number that may be allotted to m© and ..._ 'aY the further sum due on allotment thereof, and I re iisl4Fsit that h, raY name may be placed on the Register of Mem - respect of the Shares allotted to me. ' l. am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in full Address in full Reference Date N°. 22,746. WMEMBER, YOU WILL SEE YOUR FRIENDS at " E VANS'. " Atter the Opera we sbull Sup thtre! APHOTOGRAPHIC CURIOSITY.- The Photographed fae-simile of the First Page of THE SUN new publishing, and may be had Oil Paper at Os. 3d. On Card Ditto, framed ls. 6d. By order of all Booksellers and Der Vera in Photographs, and at THE SUN OFFICE, 112, Strand. "'The Sun' ovening newspaper has just issued a photo graph, 9 inches by 7, of its first page as it appeared on the 2d of last January. The card forms quite a literary curiosity, svAl is one of the best specimens of minute typograpLy ever published."—London Review. ROYAL NAVAL, MILITARY, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY (Esta blished A.D. 1837. under Royal Patronage), 17, Waterloo place, London, S.W. ARTHUR R. HAMILTON, Secretary. Agents wanted in towns not yet represented. THE CITY OFFICES COMPANY (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the DIKEC TO RS of the CITY OPTIC OS COMPANY (Limited) have Ibis day made a CALL of £2 10s. per Share on the Shares of the Company, payable at the Agra and Alasterman's Bank (limited), Nicholas-lane, on or before THURSDAY, the 15th day of Jane next. By order of the Board. G. W. BENWELL, Secretary. Dated 11th May. 1865. N.B.—No Transfer of Shares upon wh!ch the Call has not been paid will be registered. THE CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBILIER . OF ENGLAND (Limited). Authorised Capital £l.OOO,C 00 Capital Subscribed . 2,000,000 Capital Paid-up • 500,000 Reserve Fund . 200,000 Dividend Reserve Fund 70,000 DIRECTORS. The Right Hon. JAMES STUART WORTLEY, Governor. JAMES LEVICK, Esq., Merchant, King's Arms-yard, Deputy- JAMES NUGENT DANIELL, Esq., Chair- Governors. man of the Alliance Bank (Limited), James Childs, Esq., London. Alexander Dunbar, Esq., Old Broai-street, London. Charles Ellis, Esq., Lloyd's. Adolphe Hakim, Esq. (Messrs. Pinto, Hakim Brothers, and Co.), London. he Lion. T. C. Haliburton, M.P., Chairman of the Canada Agency Association, London. William Harrison, , Esq. (Messrs. Young. Harrison, and Bevan), Director of the Thames and Mersey Insurance Company. Richard Stuart Lane, Esq. (Messrs. Lane, Hankey, and Co.), London. Charles E. Newbon, Esq.. London. Henry Pownall, Esq., J.P., Russell-squar3, London. Joseph Mackrill Smith, Esq. (Messrs. J. blackrill Smith and Co.), Old Broad-street, London. Edward Warner, Esq , M.P., London. John Westmorland, Esq. (Director of the Royal Insurance Company), London. Albert Grant, Esq., Managing Director. BANKERS. The Agra and Masterman's Bank (Limited). Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths. The National Bank, London, Dublin, and its Branches in Ireland. The Alliance Bank (Limited), London, Liverpool, and Man chester. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Newbon. Evans, and Co., Nicholas-lane, E.C. This Company negotiates Loans for Colonial and Foreign Governments ;. _ _ Co-operates in the Financial arrangements of British and other Railways; Makes Advances to Corporatinns, Town Councils, and other Public Bodies ; Negotiates Loans for Public Works ; Assists in the introduction of Industrial and Commercial undertakings ; . Makes acivinces upon approved Stocks, E hares, Bonds, &o. Makes temporary Loans upon eligible Freehold and Lease hold Securities. ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. London, 17 and 18, Cornhill, May 4, 1865. THE CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBILIER OF ENGLAND (Limited), ISSUE OF £500,000 DEBENTURES WITH INTEREST PAYABLE QUARTERLY. The Directors have decided to issue Debenture Bonds of the Company for the amounts and bearing interest as under, viz. : In sums of .£lO, £2O, £5O, £lOO, £250, £5OO, and £I,OO \, with coupons attached. INTEREST. For three years • 6 per cent. per annum. For five years For seven years .. 7 ,1 11 Interest payable quarterly—viz., on the 30th March, 30th June, 30th September, and 30th December in each year, at the Company's Bankers. The first payment of interest will be made en the 30th June next. The distinctive feature in the debentures issued by this Company is their perfect security ; the amount of the capital subscribed, paid-up, and uncalled, and the-general invested assets of the Company, as well as the large reserve fund, affording the most ample security to the investor. Forms of Application can be obtained of the Secretary, to whom all communications must be addressed. By order of the Court, A LFIXED LOWE, Secretary. London, 17 and 18, Cornhill, Kay 4, 1865. T HE CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBILIER OF ENGLAND (Limited). RATES FOR MONEY ON DEPOSIT. This Company receives MONEY ON DEPOSIT, in sums of .ZiO and upwards, on the io:lowing terms, until further notice, viz.: • At fourteen days' notice FOR FIXED PiIRIODS OF Not less than 2 months, 51 per cent. per annum. Beyond 2 and up to 4 months, 5i per cent - . per annum. . . Beyond 4 and up t0....6 months, 5t per cent per annum. Any period beyond ....6 months, 6 per cent. per annum. Forms can be obtained of the Secretary, to whom all com munications must be addressed. By order of the Court, ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. London, 17 and 18, Cornhill, May 4,1&5. TEA. —Just received, ex " Whinfell," excellent FAMILY TEA, offered to Families at Merchants' Prices, viz : —3s. per lb., recommended ; also, ex " Lochin var." Finest Ankol Souchong, 3s. 61, very superior. Tea: common, Is. 10d., 25., to 2s. 4d. Samples may be seen end had on application. Price List free. —" MOORE BROTHERS, Merchants, :15, London-bridge. City. DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. The medical prole +Mon for Thirty years have approved of this pure solution of Ma2nesla as the best remedy for Gout and stomach disorders of every kir d ; and as a mild aperient it is ear eclally adapted for ladies and children. Prepared solely by DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, arc., 172, New Bond-street, London ; - - • And sold tbrough , :ut the world by all respectable chemists. CAUTION —See ;hat " Dinneford and Co." is on each bottle and red libelover the cork. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of the day, A GUA AMAItE LL S. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., 12, Three Kinr-court, Lombard-street, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respect fully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid. which gradually rest;,res 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 perfeot colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 63. 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. TOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY 41/ TOO TH-PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; elves the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the the breath. Price 18. Cd.-12, Three King-court, Lombard street, London. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, a id Dining-room, consisting of a new and wegant assort ment it VA.SEB, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, ',eautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, dm, in Italian, Alabas er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, dm Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her liskiesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS. II IN E RAM, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly tacilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2,6, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT. at 149. Strand W.C. SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and 11011 E, Hampstead. Offices. 77, CornhilL , PATRON—The QUEEN. TRUSTEES. Copt the Hon. Francis Maude, The Rev. Canon I hamphfya R.N. I Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. TREASURERS. R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. I Robert Hanbury, Esq. This Institution is designed to supply a great national want, viz, an asylum for the orphan daughters of sailors in the Royal Navy and Merchants Service and of Marines. It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic service, and provides a home free of expense for former inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the temptations they might otherwise be exposed to. The Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU TIONS to meet the increasing applications through the recent storms and loss f life at sea, and to enable them even' ually to obtain premises more commensurate with the necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000 savors annually by casualties alone, without including those who may perish by war Subscriptions thankfully received by the bankerP, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill. R. SWEETING, Hon. Sec. CHARLES NASH. Sec. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to tho 12 now In operation. Last year no fewer han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from want of FUNDS and room, makings total of 3,087, who have been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few of the most recent cases: F. P., aged 16, Mien, mother dead, deserted by her father. M. A. F., aged 13, homeles., both parents dead. A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother. 3. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead. C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead, A 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents, M. FL, aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. C. IL, aged 17, fatten, both parents dead. A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead. E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. M. A. NV.. aged 17, fallen, both parent's dead. S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents de td. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to is, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel COOper,Bs, Queen. street, Cheapaide; or by Messrs Barclay and Cu.. Lombard-street. . NEIATS RkPE it - - . . • 0‘ • _ - ..''s - 7 Eq . _ s , ; „,. -. - , .. . , . . - . i # Naval and Military Intel ....), • , 4, -,-- _ „ ..,...,.. , - 1 0 5 , , c, ' i, .7- .41$, ca. ~.0,...---&-......,....5, 1 . ,?,!1) O ,(E.z. • ; lls ' .., '.. ...., \, ...,. . ~..... _____ ~....,,,, ~, 1 ~ ~_ 1 ( ~ ..7, ' , ...... i . 7 , 1 r.. 7 -'-' I C O . - --"--' / - ....„ . 0‘ , i ` k ' ....... % 111 7 : 74;11 11' c IA 1717C. 441 4;) . 11 .1 1 . 1 i ~', ~,,,,,,.. 1r: 17f.4,,. . - - ~ r 4 — 24 P ; vo' 1 / 4 = ''• -' -, a":P .- -'V.'4.O • ' fr" k; ..- t.- _,..,, Ai l 4.. .., Ar111116 *.• .4. 7 .44 1 1 , : ; t (0 • ;4111 .. 4.6 %4 ,9:,,,,....--0 ', % og. - ;eft 1:z , *at 0-• ‘,O-* 41:%, -,•,-- 'O O - 42 , • . ".f.•:", '...?'2 ' _...... • ..i ' . ..A. •/ / DIE i 3131. , etliiiiik kil ' t The Edgar, 71, screw line-of-battle . Hornby, carrying the flag of the Commander-in- Chief of the Channel fleet, Rear-Admiral Sydney C. Dacres, K.C.8., anchored at Spithead on Satur day morning with the Earl of Sefton and suite on board on their return to England from his special mission to Lisbon. Soon after the Edgar arrived his lordship and suite disembarked, and, landing at the dockyard, proceeded by rail to London. The Edgar experienced a favourable passage from Lisbon with short head winds until the 11th inst„ when she fell in with a south-westerly breeze, which accompanied her to Spithead. The Hector parted company west ward and went into Plymouth Sound. The Achilles and Prince Consort have gone into Portland Roads. The Geyser, 4, paddle, Commander Thrupp, ar rived at Spithead on Saturday from Cowes Roads on the departure of her Majesty from Osborne for Windsor. Her Majesty's ship Hector, 24, ironclad, com manded by Capt. G. W. Preedy, C. 8., attached to the Channel squadron, arrived, in advance, in Port land roads on Friday at noon, to fill up with neces sary stores. The Channel squadron were in the chops of the Channel when the Hector parted company. The screw corvette Tartar, 20, 350-horse power, Capt. J. M. Haynes, C. 8., recently returned from the China station, is now entirely dismantled and the whole of the War Department and other stores returned to the Ordnance Department, Chatham, preparatory to her crew being paid off, and the vessel being put out of commission on Wednesday next. Among the stores landed at Chatham are a number of large brass Japanese guns, captured by the Tartar at Simonosaki during the attack on the Japanese forts and batteries ; The largest . of these guns is about 14 feet in length, and weighs nearly five tons. It is of excellent workmanship, as, in deed, are the whole of those landed at Chatham, including a mortar of great size. Some of the largest of the guns were found to be loaded with shell, which were successfully drawn on Saturday. An application has been made to the authorities at the War Department for permission to have one or two of the largest guns mounted and placed in conspicu ous places at Chatham as trophies. The Favourite, 10 guns, ironcased screw corvette, on Mr. Reed's principle, which was undocked at Woolwich on Friday last, was masted on Saturday morning. She is to have her tops on, and her lower masts rigged at Woolwich, after which she will be despatched for completion to Sheerness. Her Majesty's steam storeship Dee, Commander George Raymond, with steam machinery from Glasgow, went into basin at Woolwich on Saturday to discharge. Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick W. E. Nicholson, C. 8., and Capt. the Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane at tended at the factory in Woolwich dockyard on Saturday for the special purpose of witnessing the progress of Mr. Richardson's experimental method of burning petroleum in the place of coal or other fuel for steam purposes. The experiment has been in progress for some ten days past, and is so far exceedingly satisfactory. The fire was kindled at nine o'clock, and steam was kept up dur ing the day. The boiler, which is the first of its kind, continued in full action till 4 o'clock, when the petroleum was drawn off. It contained 47cwt. of water, largely over-proportioned to the heating surface, and the oil appeared to be on pressure nearly the whole time. Ninety gallons of water were evaporated in four hours. It is stated that the boiler, made by the order of the Admiralty Board, will now be subjected to some alterations, as the right form is not yet obtained, and a large part of the hottest portion being exposed to the air when nearly redhot. The experiment was considered by the inventor as valuable only in proving incontes tably that petroleum can be employed as steam fue with perfect safety. The chimney cast off but very little smoke when the boiler was in full action, and that only of a light vapour colour. The Russian squadron which conveys the body of the Czarewitch will be escorted from Lisbon to Ply mouth by the 'United States frigate Niagara, the Royal Oak, and another British ship of war. Lieut. Herbert Hilton, of the receiving ship Ca nopus, 8, Capt. Charles 11. May, in Hamoaze, died suddenly on board the ship on Saturday morning. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Capt. Charles H. May to the Scout, commissioned ; Capt. Geo. L. G. Bow year to the Canopue, vice May ; Lieut. Arthur Sal wey to the Dauntless ; Lieut.-James N. Croke to the Frederick William ; Lieut Algernon S. Montagu to the Royal George ; the Rev. John B. Harboard, chaplain and naval instructor, to the Implacable ; the Rev. Frederick W. Smith to the Liverpool, vice Harboard ; William S. Richardson and Edgar Rad ford, assist.-clerks, additional, to the Fisgard. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1865. Now ready, in I vol., with Illustrations, 155., YACHTING ROUND THE WEST OF ENGLAND. By the Rev. A. G. L'ESTRANGE, 8.A., 01 Exeter College, Oxford, ls.T. Also Low ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., BRIGAND LIFE IN ITALY. By Count MAFFEI. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marltorough street. • Immediately, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE ROMANCE OF LONDON. Remarkable Houses, Extraordinary Persons and Events, &c. &c. By JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A., Author of "A Century of Anecdote," &e. Sc. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. ONLY A CLOD.—On May 10, at all Libraries, in 3 vols., "ONLY A CLOD,' the new Isloyal, by the Author of "Lady Audley's Secret, ' Ste. John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. The BOOK of the DAY and EVERY MAN'S BOOK. Just published, price is. 6d , by post, free, ls. Bd., REVELATION of QUACKS and QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. For notices of this starting work see the "Saturday Re view" of April 1, entitled "Quacks and Quackery ;" the "Weekly Dispatch" of April 9, "The Quacks and their Crimes;" "The Sun" of April 12, "'Detector's' Broadside on Quacks and Quackery." GUIDE TO THE QUACKS OF LONDON. A Series of Papers relative to Quacks, which appeared in the " Medical Circular," with the signature of "Detector," has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet. The reader of " Punch" should read this pamphlet also. He has often read, in the pages of "Punch," of certain Quacks, frau dulent and noisome, who obtain money by false pretences, and more money by menaces and extortion, from green young men. For their names, which "Punch" would not advertise, he has referred his readers to the lower corner of the advertising columns of low newspapers, amongst which too many of Mr." Punch's" contemporaries, especially in the country, may still be enumerated. But now he begs to pub lish the information that a nominal list of these miscreants, with copies of their puffs and other particulars concerning them, n,edful to be known, will be found in the pampbl. t above referred to, which is entitled "Revelations of Quacks an I Quackery," and is to be had at the "Medical Circular " Office, 20, King William-street, Strand, W.C. The vile practices, the monstrous impudence, the cruel rapacity, and the enormous gains of the obscene tribe of Quacks, the mischief they do, the ruin they work, even to the causation of suicide, are fully set forth in " Revelations of Quacks and Qackery." And mark especially that, as aforesaid, the names of the Quacks are published. The pamphlet in question thus constitutes a regular Quack Di rectory, by consulting which every young man may know where he may go if he wishes to get plundered and destroyed. Buy, therefore, reader, by all means buy " Revelations of Quacks and Quackery." Its contents will astonish and amuse you, white they invoke your indignation and disgust. Of course you do not want it on account of its warnings for your own sake, but you doubtless do for that of the many simple tons with whom you must be acquainted, it your acquaint ance is large. " Who are tne Quacks that 'Punch' means I" Consider what it is to he able to answer this question of the young and inexperienced, and, for charity's sake, if for no other, go and provide yourself with "Revelations of Quacks and Quackery," by Detector.—Punch, April 12. THE Duke of SIITHERLA_ND and PER CENTAGES to SERVANTS.—Write for your TEA direct to the EAST INDIA TEA COHL'AANY. China, Assam, and Japan Teas in every variety, from is. 10d. per lb. upwards. List of prices sent on application.—Ware houses, 9, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, City. THE BENEFACTOR OF THE SKIN.- ➢iOLI.ARD'S perfumed Toilet Sulphur Soap and Cream, highly patronised by the faculty, nobility, and gentry. 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PARIS. -GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE.- Establishbd in 1855.—Situated in the most Central part of Paris Rue de Rivoli and Place du Palate ttoyal — Six Hundren Bed-rooms' at from 3tr. to 20tr—Sixty sitting room s at from 41r. to 2 fr.—a richly-decorated Dining Saloon —Table d'HOte at six o'clock—Public Coffee and Dining Rooms Choice Wines—Dinners served It It carte both in the dining rooms and the private apartments —Reading and Conversation Saloons; also Saloons for Musical, Wedding, and other ptrties—all Newspapers and Serial Publications received—llivans, Coffee, Smoking and Billiard Rooms — numerous Bath-rooms —Carriages on the premises —first class Private Equipag - es at command -Omnibues runnng to all the railway et dions— stal Letter-box— s Telegr i ph Office day and night—Photograph Studio—a staff of servants speaking all languages. • 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—Hls 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 con •iderable period averaged between 8,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee ,the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mai lerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ' • llerries 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 ; I. Barned and Co . Liverpool; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. . STANFORD SMITH, Secretary. DOME for LITTLE BOYS, Tottenham, N., for the Reception, from all parts of the Kingdom, of utcast and Destitute Boys, ,and those verging on crline, under 10 years of age. President—ROßEßT HANBURY, Esq., 1. 4 ,1.. P, VICE-PRESIDENTS. I Sir S. M. Peto, Bart, M.P. li Abel Smith, Esq., 31. P. StcenprhyenE.Cave, Gurney,Es E ., B t. P. Samuel Morley, Esq. I COMMITTEE. Mr Alex. Anderson. ' Rev. H. M'Sorley. 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. I Mr. E. J. Tabrum. Mr. Francis Lycett. Dlr. It. T. Turnbull. Treasurer—W. H. Wiliam, Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. E.C. Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, 5.6, Suffolk-street, Pall-Mall East, S.W. Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard- E.C. The mode of admission to the House is twofold, Ist. By election of the subscribers. B lys thus admitted are received free, boarded, clothed, educated, and taught till they are 11 years o , age. With the view lo secure the election of the most deserving cases, the Commit' 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. 2d. By payment of ss. a week, made quarterly in advance. All children 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 admitted free will take place as frequently as the increase in the annual subscriptions will admit, till the Home is full ; they will then be held periodi cally Forms of application for the admission of ch il dren may b a had at the acme, and et the Honorary Oevretary, AGRAND UNIVE_ BIEL t) at ST. JAME Wednes..ay. May 17, Thursda. Saturday, May 2 1.:65, in Al . The Infant Asylum and Or phanage of the Sisters of charity.. Th 3 licuse.of Refuge for Fe male Prisoners. The French Schools of Sistcra of Charity. The Servants' Home, St. Ed ward's Convent, Blandford square. The Milan Church and Cha rities. The New Church, Kensington. Opens e eh day at 2.0 p.m. ; closes at 10.0 p.m. Admission —First and second days till 6.0 p.m., 25. 6d. ; after 6.0 p.m., Is.; other days, Is. ; children, halt-price. SAL BAZAAR will be i'S HALL, Tuesday, May 16, May 18, Friday, May 19, and D of l'he Little Sisters of the Poor. The llot.pital of St. John and Eliz &eat. The New Schools, Warwick street, Golden-square. The German Church snd Charities. The Orphanage, Vic.rage place, Kensington. The Saint Ninolas Industrial School, Walthamstow. The Soc.ety of St. Vincent-de- Paul. STALL I Hcr Exc•eilency the Countess Apponyi. The Marchioness of London derry. The Dowager Marchioness of Lothian. The Countess of Newburgh. The Dowager Countess 01 Buchan, The Viscountess Norreys. The Lady Edward Fitzalan Howard. The Lady William Hervey. And many ( OLDEUS: The Lady Georgiana Fuller ton. The Lady Arundel of War dour. The Baroness Maroehetti. the Hon. Mrs. More O'Fer rall. The lion. Mrs. Henry Petre. The Hon. Mrs. Charles Petre. Lady Blount. Lady Bedingfield. Lady Chichester. Lady Clifford. ether Ladies. NOW IS THE TIME TO. VISIT THE 11 CRYSTAL PALACE.—WetorDry. relighlful Spring appearance of Gardens and Park. Nature in fullest beauty. Refreshed by the recent rain the park and gardens truly delightful. The shrubs and plants in flower around the lakes have never been so charmingly fresh. Alone worth a special visit. TO-MORROW.—Performances by the Company's cele brated Orchestral Band at 12.30 and 4.30, and on the Great Organ.. Shakspe , e House, Fine Arts Courts, Picture Gallery, Chinese 'ollection, Skating Hall, Chimpanzee, Archery, Bowls, Cricket, Boats, &o. _ Admission by New Guinea Season Tickets, or One Shil ling, from Monday to Friday. Saturday, Great Flower Show, Seven Shillings and Sixpence ; or by Tickets had before the day, Five Shillings. EVERY ONE SHOULD HAVE THE CRYSTAL PALACE NEW SEASON TICKET. Unparalleled Attractions for One Guinea only. See Pro gramme. CRYSTAL PALACE.- FLOWER SHOW NEXT SATURDAY, NOTE.—The unusually fine season and other causes already give promise that, high as the Crystal Palace Flower Shows have hitherto stood in public estimation, the coming exhibi tion will be one of the very finest on record. Five Shilling Tickets should be taken at once. The price oa the day will be Seven Shillings and Sixpence. GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL CRYSTAL PALACE.—REHEARSAL, FRIDAY, June 23; MESSIAH, MONDAY, June 25; SELECTION, WEDNESDAY, June 28 ; ISRAEL IN EGYPT, FRIDAY, June 30. Stalls, Plans, and Programmes at the Crystal Palace, and at 2, Exeter Hall. Rehearsal Stalls and admissions should be taken without delay. NOTE.--A Photogra; h, carte de visite size, of the Orchestra of Four Thousand Performers will be sent free by post on receipt of two postage stamps at the Crystal Palace, or at No. 2, Exeter STODARE STODARE 1 I STODARE ! 1- The NEW and EXTRAORDINARY ILLU -lONS which Colonel Stodare performs EVERY NIGHT, at Eight, and Saturday Afternoons, at Three, continue to attract crowded and brillant audiences. Early application for the stalls is r e spectfully solicited. THEATRE OF MYSTERY, EGYPTIAN HALL. The great Indian basket feat termi nates each representation. "This is most decidedly the sensation for the season." Admission, Is.; area, 2s. ; stalls, 35., which may be ob tained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Box-office. A. NIMMO, Acting Manager. MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. JOHN PARRY, will appear in their new entertain ment; entitled A PECULIAR FAMILY, by William Brough. New scenery by T. and W. Grieve. To conclude with MRS. ROSELEAP AT THE SEASIDE, by Mr. John Parry. Every Evening, except Saturday, at 8. Wednesday and Saturday afrernoons, at 3. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, 14, Regent-street. Unreserved seats, ls., 28. ; stalls, 38. ; stall chaire, ss. May be secured in advance, without fee, at the Gallery. OPERA DI CAMERA, every Tuesday and Thursday at 3, and Saturday at 8. THOXF O R D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). ORPH AUX ENFERS, LA CIRcASSIENNE, and the BROTHER AND SISTER, by Sir Henry Bishop, will be performed during this week. Principal artistes : —Mons. Lavessiere, signor Spagnoli, AL Marini, Mr. Green, Misses Ellison and Barrie, and Mdile. D'Auria, with full Band and Chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans. MIRIAM (1143nfante Planiste, aged 8 years) will play "Blue Bells." par Oesten, and "La Friere d'une Viiirge, ' par Leduc, This Evening. - Comedy, by Mr. George Hodson (the celebrated Comedian and Mimic), Little Hob, Miss Kate Balfe, Les Freres TaMott, the Grotesque, D'Aubans, Madame Ramsden, and Les Freres Stonette. Conductor, Kr. F. Jonghmans. Every Evening at Halt-past Scven. Admiesioa—area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, is.; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CIANTERBURY HALL. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). HODGE PODGE, (According to Act of Parliament). CANTERBURY 11 ALL—EVERY EVENING at half-past Nine o'clock. Tn addition to the other attractions of this wonderful establishment. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.- Established 30 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street, London. Full-length Models of the late President LINCOLN, basely assassinated ; also President DAVIS. of the Confe derate States; the late lamented HICtIARD COBDEN, Esq., and JOHN BitIGIIT,Esq , may be seen at the Gallery. NEW ADDITION.—A full length Portrait Model of JOHN WILKES BOOTH, the reputed assassin of the late President Lincoln, taken from a likeness presented by him self to 5f r . Stratton, Wife of General Tom Thumb. Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill - street, Piccadilly. PROMENADE, CONCERT, and DANCE every Evening. This admired Band, under the direction of Signor LUIGI CURTI, will perform at 9 o'clock a GrAnd Overture, at II o'clock a Selection from a favourite Opera, and a series of novel Dance Music till 12 o'clock. Open at half- past 8. Admission,,ls. Manager—M, GRENET. public demand. Of social reforms it has none on the anvil, and it has promised nothing of interest in the way of administrative changes. Mr. Gladstone's possible' railway scheme is not a proposal in the party sense, for it is admitted that it cannot be carried without the consent of the interests con cerned, and to stir up a battle there must be a bone to be taken from some dog or other. There is in fact literally nothing before the country, not even a " lorcha case," and no cry except the Premier's name, which has partially lost its power. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE EDMUNDS, AND SOME OTHER SCANDAL.—Considering that we are, and are rather proud of being, a shopkceping nation, the way in which our chief shop is conducted, and our accounts of the national receipts and expen diture kept, ought to be a model, both as regards morality and accuracy, for business men. The Edmunds Inquiry has therefore a value far beyond the immediate matters with which it was concerned. Mr. Edmunds' own character, and his curious no tions about honesty and honour and all that kind of thing, have only a philosophical interest. The odd sort of way in which everybody found it to be his duty not to see the things which were before his eyes shows the existence of a new moral disease, quite as formidable as any Russian epidemic, which seems specially to attack the House of Lords. As is only fitting, the Speaker of the Upper House has been most severely afflicted by this visitation. The Lord President of the Council and the Chairman of Committees are the victims who have suffered in the second degree ; and while the members of her Majesty's Government have incurred considerable danger, it is characteristic of the general prevalence of this malady that the chiefs of her Majesty's Op position have not escaped the epidemic, which has invariably attacked the seat of moral vision. The Lord Chancellor, who was perfectly well acquainted with a notorious embezzlement of public funds, did not consider it to be his duty to do anything to pre vent the embezzler, Mr. Edmunds, from getting an honourable and substantial pecuniary testimonial from the national purse. The Lord President of the Council, though equally well informed on the subject, thought it right to absent himself from an inquiry in which he might have thrown the most essential light on the only point which couldbe of the slightest importance to a body especially entrusted with the duty of seeing that pensions are exclusively conferred on good and honest officers. This body, al Committee of Inquiry, though all in possession of unfavourable reports on the conduct of Mr. Edmunds, did not deem it to be part of their duty to ascertain whether there was any ground for those reports. One member of the committee, on being told that he and his colleagues ought at least to have waited for the information to come formally before them which they already possess informally, is seriously ag grieved at this delicate hint ; and, riding a very high horse indeed, lays it down boldly and broadly that to inquire into a certain set of circumstances means to see as little of them as you possibly can, and that to endeavour to find out a thing which you have every reason to believe is purposely withheld from you is quite beyond the meaning of inquiry at all. This is the sort of political morality which official life in England has, as it seems, a natural tendency to secrete. If Lord Westbury had not been Chancellor and official guardian of the Queen's conscience, he could never, as he did on the 7th of March, have indignantly denied that he had at any time, or in any way, " ever held out to Mr. Ed munds that if he would resign he would use his good offices to obtain a pension for him"—the fact being that he had written, " All I can say is that, if Mr. Edmunds thinks proper to resign, I will do all I can with propriety to obtain for him his pension." If, again, such a man as Lord Redesdale had not been for many years Chairman of Committees, he would assuredly not have discovered that important dis tinction between private and official morality which he and his colleagues have so remarkably exemplified. Nay, even if the House of Lords were only a body of gentlemen who conducted the ordinary concerns of life on the ordinary principles of English gentle men, they would have scarcely presented that spec tacle which now astonishes, if it does not edify, the world outside the Peerage. We infer from these concurrent instances a great principle of official morality, which seems to be to do as little as possi . ble in the way of duty, for fear of being thought im pertinently and intrusively zealous in the execution of a trust. It is the same great view of responsibility which has possessed itself of so many of our domes tic servants, who never sweep out the bedrooms, clean the kettles, or dust the curtains, because they are not every day pointedly and specifically charged to execute these tasks. THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON THE LATE DIVISION LIST AND TIIE GENERAL ELECTION.—The division list on Mr. Baines's Borough Franchise Bill has been scanned with great eagerness throughout the country. It will play an important part at the coming general election. Every M.P. who goes to his constituency for re-election will be expected to explain and defend his vote on Mr. Baines's bill. Every candidate not now in Parliament will have to state whether he would have voted with the ayes or noes. An analysis of the division list may assist the politician in weighing the party interests concerned, and in speculating upon the influence which the di vision is likely to exercise upon those who took part in it. The members of the Government voted, al most to a man, for the bill. Lord Palmerston was the great exception. He was absent from illness, and he did not think proper to " pair" for the mea sure. Every other member of the Cabinet in the Lower House voted for the second reading. Sir George Grey, Sir C. Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. C. P. Villiers, Mr. Milner Gibson, Lord Clarence Paget, the Marquis of Hartington, Mr. H. A. Bruce, the Lord Advo cate, Mr. W. Cowper, Viscount Enfield, Mr. T. G. Baring, Mr. Childers, Mr. Peel, the Solicitor-Gene ral, Mr. Headlam, and Mr. Brand, all went into the lobby with Mr. Baines. The Attorney-General shirked the division, and as he did not " pair" he may be set down as unfavourable to the measure. The same may be said of Sir Robert Peel, and the junior Treasury Whip, Mr. K. Hugessen. It may be thought that the votes thus given by members of the Government in favour of an extension of the suffrage will enable those who represent popular constituencies to pass through in triumph. They are, however, bound by Sir George Grey's explana tions and limitations, some of which are by no means acceptable to advanced Reformers. The Home Sec retary voted for the bill, but reserved to himself the right of altering the amount of the franchise, should the bill ever get so far as the committee. So far from going to the country pledged to bring forward some great measure of reform in the next Parlia ment, the Government, through its mouth-piece, Sir George Grey, would not promise .to deal with the question of Parliamentary Reform at all, and does not ask for the support of the country on this ground. If, indeed, there should be some persis tent and overwhelming expression of public opinion in favour of Parliamentary Reform the Home Secretary intimates that the Government would be ready to do the behests of the country. But as any such overpowering demonstration is very unlikely to be made, especially since the Government de clines to lead the way and to put itself at the head of the reform movement, it will be taken for granted by the democratic section of politicians that the question of reform and the extension of the suffrage is postponed sine die. This is not an attitude which a member of the Government representing a large popular constituency will find conducive to his ease and comfort. Mr. Layard may have some difficulty in satisfying the electors of Southwark that the Go vernment have behaved fairly to the working classes. Mr. Milner Gibson at Ashton-under-Lyne, and Mr. Villiers at Wolverhampton, will be told that a Liberal Government is abdicating its highest functions in holding the language of Sir George Grey. The Conservatives came out of the debate with clean hands. Lord Derby, after the last general election, repudiated his own Reform Bill, and de clared that he was no longer bound to propose either that or any other measure of Parliamentary reform; The Conservatives have consistently op posed the measures of Mr. Locke King and Mr. Baines. They have with some reason contended thdt reform ought not to be dealt with bit by bit, and that the £lO county franchise and a £6 borough franchise cannot hope to pass either of those mea sures until they are introduced by the Govern ment, and made severally a Cabinet question. The unanimity of the Conservatives in the house will be imitated at the hustings by their adherents. Not a single stray Conservative slighted the traditions of his party by voting for the £6 fran chise for the boroughs. Several old Whigs absented themselves from the division. The majority of 74 in favour of the " previous question" was further swelled by about 30 Liberals. Sixteen of the num ber are county members ; five represent Scotch, and three Irish constituencies. Their names are Mr. Adeane, Cambridgeshire ; Major Anson, Lichfield ; Mr. Bonham C artPr, Win chester ; Lord John Browne, Mayo ; Sir R. Bulkeley, Anglesea ; Sir M. Cholme ley, Lincolnshire (North) ; Colonel Coke, Norfolk (East); Mr. Duff, Banff ; Lord Dunkellin, Galway . (Borough)* Mr. Finlay, Argyllshire ; Mr. Fitzwil ham, Malt;m ; Mr. Foley, Staffordshire (South) , Mr. Foster ; Staffordshire (South); Mr, Greufell, PRICE 4d, STAMPED 5d., Preston; Earl Grosvenor, Chester • Lordly. Grosve nor, Flintshire • Mr. Gurdon, Norfolk (W es t) ; Mr. Hassard, Waterford ; Mr. Heathcote, Rutland shire ; Mr. Horseman, Stroud ; Mr. Lowe, Calne ; Mr. Mackie, Kirkcudbrightshire ; Mr. Marsh, Salis bury ; Sir J. Matheson, Ross and Crornarty Colonel Packe, Lincolnshire (South) ; Mr. O. Ricardo, Worcester ; Mr. Augustus Smith, Truro ; Mr. Vernon, Worcestershire (East) ; Mr. John Walter, Berkshire ; and Mr. W. B. Wrightson, Northallerton. To these may be added the tellers —Lord Lichee Haddingtonshire ; and Mr. Black, Edinburgh. Mr. Lowe's seat for Caine is secure so long as he retains the favour of the Marquis of Lansdowne. The question, however, arises whether the Conservative tendencies of the right hon. gen tleman's speech may not be too strong for the diges tion of a Whig peer. People who knew the last revered possessor of the title aver that Mr. Lowe would never have sat for Caine again if he had made so obstructive a speech in the lifetime of the late Marquis. The present peer may be more timid than his father, and the appearance of the names of members of the Whig families of Westminster, Clanricarde, Fitzwilliam, Sligo, Lichfield, and Coke, in the majority against Mr. Baines's bill, shows that the measure is regarded with more or less distrust by the Whig nobility. It is so extremely improbable that Mr. Lowe would venture to stand for a Liberal borough that it is conjectured he either obtained beforehand Lord Lansdowne's consent to his speech against the extension of the suffrage, or determined to throw himself into the arms of the Conservatives. More than half the weight of the speech was derived from Mr. Lowe's late position on the Ministerial benches. If it had been delivered on the other side of the House, the arguments and vaticination would have fallen comparatively still-born. Another speech so damaging to progress, and Mr. Lowe must be invited to consider whether he is not bound, in honesty and fairness to the Liberals, to cross the floor of the House. Mr. Walter may not share Mr. Lowe's alarm at the growth of the democratic in fluences ; but, having voted with the right hon. gen tleman against Mr. Baines's bill, he is likely to suffer from any dissatisfection which the Liberal party in Berkshire may feel at Mr. Lowe's speech. We hear that Mr. Walter refuses to convas his county, and, as the Conservatives have three candidates in the field—men of family and posi tion,--it is by no means unlikely that he will lose his seat at the next election. Mr. Black retires from Edinburgh, and Mr. Augustus Smith from Truro at the close of the present Parliament. Mr. Horsman's elaborate speech against Reform is not calculated to make him more acceptable to two Liberal electors of Stroud. Mr. Marsh being, like the member for Caine, a returned Australian, has a horror of transferring all political power into the hands of working men, and too hastily adopted Mr. Lowe's conclusion that a £6 borough franchise would have that effect. The danger which now threatens the Liberal party is that the working classes and the numerous voters who sympathise with the cause of the unenfranchised may be alien ated from their natural leaders by the tone which Sir G. Grey was instructed by the head of the Ad ministration to assume. If the advanced Liberals take a serious view of what they may consider the faithlessness of, the Government to the cause of Parliamentary Reform, they will not in a few cases run a Radical against a Whig, and thus let in a Tory. When they cannot find a candidate of their own, they may regard the co n t es t o f a Whi g o f Mr. Lowe's stamp with a Conservative with apathy and indifference. If the men of progress bring them selves to believe that it is not worth going across the street to keep Lord Derby out or maintain Lord Palmerston in many votes will be lost to the Mini stry, and the Conservatives may meet the new Par liament with a considerable majority. The ques tion which the Reformers will then have to determine will be whether the foreign policy of the Palmerston Cabinet and Mr. Gladstone's splendid financial legis lation are of themselves so desirable as to compensate and atone for the virtual abandonment of Parlia mentary Reform. " THE EXAMINER" ON INDIAN FINANCE.—Sir Charles Trevelyan has ended a long and useful financial career by a great financial blunder. After a series of many years of consecutive deficits his predecessor had made both ends meet, and even exhibited a small surplus of £78,347. Sir Charles has not only got rid of this surplus, but produced, after two years' labour, a deficit of £344,143, or in other words he has left the financial condition of India worse than he expenditure two-thirdsraisedtilonncia dob foyl financial h aaanel found it by the sum of £422,490. His estimate last year made for the present amounts to a miscalcula tion of no less than £1,167,431. But Sir Charles Trevelyan is by no means answerable for all this unless in so far as he may have lent himself to the continuation of a bad system of finance. The pre sent revenue, now above £46,000,000, has risen froni a fourth, a third, and one-half our own, to be now in round numbers within £24,000,000 of it. It is not, indeed, the revenue which has fallen off and produced the deficit, for. it even exhibits a small surplus ; the evil lies in the expenditure, which has opium.sarc e i al v oel revenue enormously increased. One cause for this was the ne resources ur he Government u wue r rhn r e otee derivedla readers monopoly o r sef reaching fromcaot hrhp this a gtybh w rai siaanrsn article Incphr that ooo -ff some £6,000,000, all paid by strangers, and there fdisooururce the happiest accident that ever befel a financier. Instead of leaving this branch of trade in the hands of the agriculturist and the trader, the Government is itself cultivator and trader, raising the price paid to the producer, in order to increase the supply, by upwards of 40 per cent. The opium produced, of course, increased greatly in quantity ; the price, of course, fell ; and in this article alone a loss of half a million was sustained. This comes of a Govern ment playing the cultivator and the trader. Where a tax was levied on the opium, the culture and trade being free, and by the tax, from a very narrow field of production, one-third of the whole of the opium revenue was yielded, no loss whatever was sustained by the State. Owing to the maintenance of this monopoly, the opium revenue, which ought to be as stable as any other branch of our resources, fluctu ates from year to year, the price of a chest of the drug being in one year £l5O, in another £lOO, and, as in the past unlucky year, as low as £B3. On account of this single nuisance alone, the revenue may vary, from year to year, from a million to a million and a half, and has often actually done so, and even more. The military expenditure shows an excess over the preceding year of more than £630,000, and would seem to have been inevitable, owing to a large increase in the cost of the articles forming the rations of the European troops. Yet even this will not account for such an excess when we remember that the European force has been reduced by 5,000 men, at the usual estimate of £BO a head, making a sum of £40,000. The most blameable part of Sir Charles's Budget is his proposed means of making good his deficit. Including the repeal of the income tax, which at the small rate of 3 per cent, had already yielded £1,200,000, and which is now well known to have proved a popular tax with the native majo rity, it is a deficit that will amount to above £2,400,000: The Budget imposes export duty on tea, coffee, sugar, jute, silk, hides, and rice. Now nearly all these articles have to compete with the same products of foreign countries. The tea culti vation in its infancy has had to contend with the skilfully-produced tea of China, and will now com pete also with that of Japan. Coffee, also a product new to India, has to contend with that of Java and Brazil—even with that of our own colony of Ceylon. The sugar of India, even now while it is free, has a difficulty in keeping its place in competition with that of half a dozen fertile tropical lands. Jute is new article peculiar to India, but it has proved a valuable substitute in many cases for hemp, flax, ced cotton. The hides of India have to maintain their place against those of Buenos Ayres. Indian maintains its silk, untaxed as it has been,hardly better silks of China and Japa n . place against the to and even for high-priced wool and extravagantly prißice has been already subject an export duty, and the Budget adds 50 pe r cent. taxes go straight m th e to it. It is unne cessary to add that these teeth of the financial princip'e of taxation recog nised in this country for t he l ast 20 years, and in carrying out which the author of the Indian Budget was himself an active and concurring agent. Th ese sm all imposts, however, are far from making up for the deficit, and Sir Charles Trevelyan proposes to raise a loan of £1,200,000 in England as a supple ment. Sir Charles Wood has disallowed the export duties, and we presume also the contemplated loan, and for once at least Sir Charles and his Council have as Indian administrators, compassed the doing of a good and popular act. JOHN WILKES AND THE CLERGY.—Dr. Rennell Dean of Winchester, was on terms of intimacy with Wilkes, who resided for some time in the Isle of Wight ; where, he told the Dean, he associated by prefer ence with the clergy, alleging as his reason :—"When the squires get drunk, which they do daily, they begin railing at religion, which I dislike. Now a Hampshire parson, whether drunk dr sober, never mentions religion at all."— FraWo Magaanc, SPIRIT OF TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS. bill Toriesthe oughtGwhTennEth'r Government ntmrlean t . i a 0. tnArhoTi nothing R I nn ' ' g ON PARTY PROSPECTS. —T h e and person as asking i o n g d w en i n th n o t u ry t a has c Po ry Ei n sie r fn t , any particular at the coming elections, for to clo a Tory is the natural For the first time since the reform going to the country without danger of intervention son, without a programme, and ring nothing, promising nothing, There is nothing lig except not to be discharged. stirring in foreign affairs, for the in America is over, and the questions. W e the moment forgotten all other have and although not even an Asiatic campaign on our hands, athough there is of course a little war going m on—England never being at peace for more than three months at atime—no party at home is earnestly favourable or opposed to the war inNew Zealand. Government do what it likes, one party as much as may the other, and nobody will be re quired even to profess rhe his faith as to the matter on the hustings. only great colonial question in hand, the confederation British North America, is only understood by a few,ofand those few on both sides of the house unanimously hid down by the Colonial Minister. support the policy Tister. There is not at this moment a subject which public opinion is outside these islands upon seriouslywhich divided, not a visible project of actionwill lose or attract a hundred votes. Nobody i s • going to do or to endure anything, and when there is n • othmg to be done or endured even Lord Malmesbury considered efficient. At home the absence may be purpose is even more conspicuous, so conspicuou s On that it is hard to believe it is not designed. question which most interests the most powerful the of all the minori ties, Parliamentary reform, Government not only produces no policy, but distinctly lt declares that it does not intend to produce one.accept the decision of the people on whichever will side il it may be, and carry it out obediently, but it working take no lead. It does not wish to admit men to the franchise, or to reject them, or to g suggest a compromise, and it is at the same timeby no means unwilling to do any one of the three. On ecclesi astical affairs it has nothing t o d a vise, and indeed no tendency to reveal, for if the Lord Chancellor is a foe to Church action,, high ideas of Church independence •if Lord as is oh ' Pal merston nominates Recorditeßps Mr. Gladstone Pusey. Indeed has been endorsed by Dr. Puse righteous ness and peace have kissed each other in the shape of Dr. Pusey and the Record, and for the hou r the Church parties have nothing to quarrel about. There is no ecclesiastical question beforethe country except that of Church - rates, and on that Govern ment. expresses no policy except a profound llin ness to do as it may be bidden. On finance,tlg i malt tax excepted, the nation is unanimous, and the e malt tax does not to any perceptible degree interest the boroughs in which the campaign must ulti • matelY. either be fought out. Nobody is very anxious about expenditure or economy , for parties shrink from an avowed cry for outlay 7 —though they will have to risk it one day in the Education Department—and the pressure of taxes has been so lightened that a cry for economy seems a work of supererogation. Upon that subject Government ' prontses nothing except to`spend as little as it can manage " consist ently with the efficiency of the public service," which efficiency it Will define in accordance d with the THE BRITISH MUSEUM. The accounts and estimates of the British Museum were issued on Friday. The expenditure for the financial year ended 31st March last was in all £97,533, and a ba. lance was carried to account for 1865-6 of £35,242 2s. 9d. The estimate for next year is £100,164. The sum granted for last year was £92,127. The increase is accounted for by a sum of £7,600, being set down to meet the ex penses of further excavations at Budum, the purchase of the Bokscharow collection of minerals, and purchases at the Pourtales and St. Angelo collections. The total num ber of persons admitted to visit the general collections, ex clusive of readers last year was 432,339. This is less than the number in any year since 1859. In 1862 double the number of last year visited the museum. In 1861 the num ber was 641,886, and in 1863 440,801. The number of visits to , the evading-room for the purpose of study or research is also less. Last year the visits were 105,899 ; in 1859 they were 122,424 ; in 1861 130,410 ; and in 1863 107,821. About 4,150 books seem to have been used in the reading room every day. Each reader has consulted on an average 11 volumes per day. Including music, atlases, and news papers, 38,842 volumes have been added to the library. Of these 28,426 were purchased. The additions to the department of manuscripts in the course of the year are 609 manuscripts, 51 original charters, and 71 bully and seals ; to the Egerton collection 17 manu scripts and 3 original charters. The acquisitions in the departments of Greek and Roman antiquities include, of course, the purchase of the statues from the Farnese Palace, at Rome. There is also a collection of antiquities from Camirius, in the Island of Rhodes, where extensive excavations have been carried on by Mr. Vice-Consul Biliotti and Mr. Salzmann. 2,560 coins and medals, of which 1,305 are Greek, have been produced dur ing the year. In the report of Professor Owen we meet with the usual complaints respecting the space allotted to the natural history collections, which restricts the labours of the staff in regard to a large proportion of the specimens to the business of conservation ; " whereas," says the professor, " the purpose of the collections is to bo instructively exhibited or arranged under conditions of light and access facilitating scientific inquiry and com parison. Not only the shells, the birds, and the minerals should bo shown in serial sequence, but every other class of natural history ; nor ought the bulk of the speci mons in certain of these be a bar to such display; for it is only in a national or British Museum that adequate space for such means of advancing natural science can be afforded or expected." Of the total number of additions, 12,873, to the department of 'natural history, 7,688 are registered in the department of zoology, 4,651 in the department of geology, and 634 in the department of mineralogy. Amongst the additions to the department of geology the most interesting in relation to questions as to the antiquity of man, and the cranial and dental characters of primitive races, are the partly petrified remains of the men who in habited the limestone caverns of the South of France at the Period when chamois, bouquetin, wild horse, reindeer, the great extinct ox, &c., existed, and especially the reindeer, abounded, in that part of Europe ; and at a period when the use of metals being unknown, the primitive implements were chipped flints, by means of which diverse weapons and instruments, including needles, were manufactured from the bones and antlers of the beasts captured and killed for food. On some of those bone instruments the reindeer and horse had been delineated in outline, with truth and spirit, and those are probably among the earliest examples of the graphic art. The value of this series of human remains, discovered at Bruniquel by the Vicomte de Lastic in 1863, depends upon the cale and accuracy with which every material fact as to "matrix " "position," "chemical condi tion," &c., of the crania was ascertained, on which a con clusion as to their contemporaneity with the remains of the extincts animals could be satisfactorily arrived at. To this end the cavern was visited by the reporter in January and February, 1864 ; the human remains were inspected, a n d others were then exposed in situ, and one almost eutir% cranium was removed and transferred to the British. Museum, with the large mass of breccia, detached at a depth of four feet from the stalagmitic floor of the cavern, and exhibiting, with other human remains and numerous implements, conditions of imbedding identical with• those bf the bones and teeth of the Cervus tarandus and Bos Priraiggn" NEW NOVEL BY AUTHOR OF "LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET," &C. On May 10, at all Libraries, in 3 vols., g(ANL Y A C L 0 D. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street.