The Sun. — London, England, 1865-03-07 00:00:00

REMEMBER ! WE WAIT SUP PE R rOU, after the Pantomime, at EVANS'. Fall . ___ 11(WAHAN'S LT, WHISKY v. COGNAC This BRANDY. C H ceIeBRANDY brated Old LRIS if WHISKY rivals the finest ,It i cola Pure, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. tit eA _ I . i n Bottles, 3s. Etd" , a t th e R e t a il Houses in London; by 4 ogents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale 01 ; , GREAT WINDAITLL-STRENT, LONDON, W. "lit: aaflve the R Whiskv ." ed Bet; Pink Label, and. Cork branded 4 t's LL • 1 1 ,PERSONS SEEKING LANDED 1 4 '0 , E o WNIA N COU.N TRY RE 3IDENC ES. ookstalls OLD ANif-LEASEEI.OLD,INVESTMENTS, AND , e,„ ER I'IES GENERALLY— nt . orhe rincipal B I,z o. : 3 1 ki gli?ut the n GßATis gdom t atthe Auction and ßailway Estate Offices, . l anceil-lane, London, Messrs. N. and Pff. Lumley's Of 1 , r ROPERTy MOISTER," containing availed selection thq 4 „,",ed and house properties now in the market, from e gitar' i t_ en i. all:8 mansion, with its manorial domain, to the (y";tli its few , acres. ora te ' SS OP PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em lfrord,,tie oPpoi tanity that the medium of this Register t ttati e ';','Laendino• the partictears of their properties to the 'nu* Chancery-lane London, as the Messrs. it il i eb . 8, le P can in most cases introdUce immediate customers ln^ r q, - property is of an eligible chars , ter, thereby avoid teilie‘unl ditiadvantakes, of .delay and its attenuant incon- T. rp 'es. Ola;'" Is No CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur '44 'f i r , is introduced throuot Messrs. Lumley's Agency, A . ,." 1 1 only the usual Moderate commission. I'ettop and Land Offices, fq. Chancery-lane, London. (Li 11-14tIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION 1441 I ) ,ed) are auth or i se d t o o ff er 30,009 Shares _of the Varna . Compapy; on the terms of the following Pro T R E VA R A . RAILWAY COMPANY (Rustchuk to Varna\ tltnted byStatutes- under the law of Turkey, With .• Limited Liahility. t • Concession 99 years. 46 oo n Share Capita', £9OO 080. fote Shares to bearer of £2) each, bearing a minimum Go ... es t of 5 percent: per annum guaradeed by the Turkish IS ' nt. ohares have been taken, 9,000 of which are under offer 211r key, according to the terms of the concession. Oaf ID, Price of issue of the Shares £l2. 414 'Posit on Application £l, ditto on Allotment £2. llot to exceed £2 105. per Share, at intervals of not less • th, than three months. ▪ Itt .,:s Price of issue Shareholders will receive Pi per cent. ' 4l 'urn, and interest will be allowed at the same rate on litspraents. Shareholders may pay up in full. ho t : Shares will be redeemed at par by a sinking fund gum torritoed by the Turkish Government by annual drawings, to 12,s on 'sce the year alter the opening of the line, viz. r— hrias'" Shares during the first 33 years ; 20,000 during the 005 - a 3 years ; 12,503 during the third 33 years ; total, eeioe e holder of each share drawn and paid off at £2') will re dividend warrant entitling him to participate in all . tote.larned bthen Railway in excess of the raranteed dditiTo e ° B , , during emaining term of the concess n. mate the advantages offered to.the Shareholders, o in 1 1 4, 01 1 to the minimum interest owns per cent., and the nerlved from the annual dra at par, it is neces iosi2to state that the Railway is estimated to yi ld from 10 ~ Pa tot' e fn cent. per annum on the entire capital expended, ot '"C ) ; of this amount £1,10P,0 0 has been provided by L'eqs of obligations at the rate of 7i ver cent. interest. and . ca,aahle by the sinking iund, likewise guaranteed by the N ra a Government ; the entire profits above the aggregate A tt , 11 tee will in consequence become divisible among the ,1140olders, repre entlng a capital of £900,000, and taking ~Peps " - eo unt the price at which the Shares are issued, each uvo p e,ent. of surplus profit earned on the total cost would 4 fico i „ g ‘ e Shareholder an addition of nearly 4 per cent. on the die, 3 7,Lt'ald by him. niot",",, • Pet.), Betts, and Crampton have contracted to con- Vatn 1 1 , ailway and Works, and provide rolling stock, for h ,'"e e o „,"'uleh will' leave a suite ent margin in the hinds of • .i7PatlY to pay interest during the construction, end to"boCzt-' c ontincrencies, thereby ensuring that under no cir t b ee shall the expenditure exceed £2,000,000. t 44 a llway was commenced last June, and great proszress i kth:". made in all branches of the works. Fifty miles or ,alr e h ?l'k are ready for laying the rails, and the contractors - ` n a ,de arrangements to open the entire line in the I 's ni t ' 18 66. For this purpose all the rails will be delivered 4ear. 1r E LT DIRECTORS. '1p,, 4 ,,A1t GLADSTONE, Esq , Chairman klia p i - ilaston Blake, Esq. ger lr e s Kelson, Esq. blokali U`Chlery Esq. PosnO, Esq. )4 E ob p ' uwels. " cercelin-Monjot CONSULTING ENGINEER. G. P. Bidder, Esq. ENGINEER. Wm. M'Candlish, Esq. CONTRACTORS. Mews. Peto, Betts, and Crampton. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Freshfields and Newman. BANKERS. Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and CO. SECRETARY. J. F. Walsh, Esq. BROKERS. Messrs. P. Cazenove and CO. OFFICES. th• b„ 15, Angel-court, E.C. ay will connect Rnstchuk, on the banks of the k i ', , tr a ' With Varna, the principal port in the Black Sea, and 't`tt ti; ; ' e tse for the entire distance of about 135 English b; roost pipulous districts in the province of Bulgaria. Svince remits yearly to the Turkish Governmef o t n. P t tlt 10 „ 1 ;e of about one msllion sterling, and provides of Ite 4 re With cattle, limber, grain. and . ther produo p r '„ a pi attached to the Prospectus will show . the route "" ° sed Ra lway. an t . the great saving ot time and pL ) itt en e, both by sea and land. It will form the sh )rtest and tOldnYenient route to and from the East. It will also t4;;lbei,Ve cheapest and d rec' means of communicl / i ntri f ,'' e eti the Moldo-Willichian Principalities and the IPllie vi of the Upper Danube and the Port of Varna. The 1 ,"214'`,, r ,„ft London to Constantinople will be accomplished he ri a -u a h • It days. ..Ri'a et 3 l. o i Varna is one of the best natural harbours in xtiP ar k 'ea, from whence there is a large exportation of, l qr ‘l,,h other merchandise at all s( as ns of the year. The ,_ tk the ‘ - ruvernment are now negotiating wit!' a company bey weo, nstruction of a breakwa`er and quays within the It these are completed the Harbour of Varna will 0:144 the finest in urope. 41 ) . t h ,f 3 ' a Wer has neen constructed, extending int') 16 feet I;vcrinvrAter, where vessels of large tonnage may loa t and ' NZ e „ c ° o l:lect io a with the Ra•lwa , T. ) it; ,",411 j`," B of the annual payments guaraniced by the V,,oc r„‘P r ernment the entire Sh..re and Debenture Capital 110 t,' - ',!emed with n the term of the concession. i tOtatj.„, r4 'ah Government have the option of purchas ng Frati o " 4 3 , on terms favourable to the Company, at the kk„,t)l4,, p°t 50 ars. C„ Lief' details reference is made to the original Fir tgsottb.",,"ention Cahier des Charges, Plan for Redemption, 4 . q lop „ Gt nelai ' ducummts, which, with translations, are Itioblili c .`'sPe.•,tion at the Company's Office. - ,Liotta for Shareq in the annexed Form, to be left 144fte. erpankers upon Payment of the deposit of .£1 per 011 'no al'otment is made the deposit will be returned 1 1 0;11f a less number of shares be allotted th is ap „,li,m, th e deposit will, so far as required, be applied to uttOspe„',Payment due on allotment. AlLlied"Tses and Forms of application f r Shares may be . tlk" , lati k the Secretary of the Imperial Mercantile Credit h h " 0 . 5 2 (Limited', 95, Rishopsgate-street ;of the Brokers, 1,15, pireadneedle-street ; or at the offices of the Com . Anel-court. London. 1 Brussels. 1 o 1 D- . ' 4 7f A oll A tor t ` of t in PI; "6 1 1 1 t lan d Illig- 3FB : 33° 4 0 ° 35S 3 3k 350 361 eR ). r I P e ' e• 80t0 od 3,5$ 36$ 34 0 380 350 00 31 0 A ~0 310,0 350 .0 0 339 .J f .011 )Is l/el ' fit: old if iei ceSt" oroc i o e i Leock, ,ecoe' 10 5,' 00 0 . : 3rigot or° f94' 3, (IA AO" ~~~. r ~ &a, o icitod, deo p t ifr ti9gl"' DO' lof 1' o No. 22,68. 11HE SOUTH AFRICAN LAND ANI) 11 FINANCE COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under "The Come antes Act of 1862," by which theliabilityot thesharehcilders is limited to the amount of - their shares. - Capital £5 '0,00); First Issue £230,00). In 10,0)0 shares of £25 each. Deposit on application £t per share, and L 4 on allotment, and the remainder in Calls not ex. eeding £1 per share, and at intervals of not less than four months. A minimum dividend of 7. per cent. for the first year, and 10 per cent. for the second and third.years, is guaranteed to the shareholders to the satisfaAion of the Di, ectors. DIRECTORS. -. Samuel Gibson Getty, Esq., M.P. James Black, E‘q , Director of the Standard Bank of British. South Africa (Limited , London. George Walter Constable, Esq, St. Michael's House, Corn= hill, E.C. _ William Dunn, Esq., Merchant, 150, Leadenhall-street. E.C., and Port Elizabeth, South Africa. *D. J. Du Plessies, Etq., Member of the Divisional Council, Colesberg. *Henry Green, Esq., Civil CL•mmissioner and Resident Ma gistrate of Colesberg. *Richard Allen Green, Esq, Member of the Divisional Council, Colesberg. *L. J. Von Maltitz, Esq., Member of the House of Assembly, Colesber:. Robert White, Esq , Director of the Standard Bank of British South Africa (Limited), London. Stewart S. Windham, Esq., 14, Connaught-place, W. * These gentlemen will constitute the Local Board. AGENTS IN CAPE TOWN. • Messrs. Deane, Johnson, and Co. • BANKERS. The City Bank, Threadneedle-street, E.C. The Standard Bank of British South Africa (Limited), 90, Cannon-street, E.C. BROKERS. Messrs. Eykyn Brothers, 22, Change-alley, B.C. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Kingsford and Dorman, 23, Essex-street, Strand, W. C. AUDITORS. Messrs. Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle, and Evans, 3, Coleman street-buildings, E.C. SECRETARY, PRO TIM. T. R. Eames, Esq. Temporary Offices—St. Michael's House, St. Michael's-alley, Cornhill, E.C. This Company is established to assist generally in develop ing the resources of South Africa. As a basis of their opera tions, the Directors have provisionally agreed to purchase certain valuable lands in the eastern province of the Cape Colony and in the Orange River Free State. A portion of these lands is under cultivation, but the greater part is re served for grazing purposes. This Company is therefore introduced to the public not as a medium for spe u ation, but as a solid basis of investment, with dividends accruing upon the formation of the Company. The colonies of South Africa are at present but slightly de veloped ; but such as have had capital expended en them ex hibit a career of solid prosperity, which is proved by— First- The large dividends paid by the local banks. Second—The increase in the amount, and the character of the exports. The export of wool has risen, in the Cape Colony alone, from eight millions of pounds in 1853, to thirty three millions of pounds in 1861 ; and Natal, after having established an increasing export trade in sugar, is about to add cotton, coffee, and other articles, to her profitable agri cultural productions. Third—The increasing value of land, in consequence of the extension of agriculture and the construction of roads, ports, piers, and other works of public utili y. Fourth—The completion of rai roads and telegraphs con necting the principal ports with the interior, to be supple mented by others in the Eastern and Western Provinces of the Cape of Good Hope and Natal, for wnich tenders have already been called for. A simple system of land registration exists in the South Atrican Colonies and the Free States, under which convey ances and mortgages are effected with expedition, and at a very moderate expense. OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY. The Company proposes to buy and lease farm lands; to improve these lands by irrigation ;lid farming operations as carried on in Australia and New Zealand; to stock and farm them, and to import both agricultural implements from Europe and pure blood of all descriptions of stock, for the improvement of the flocks, and for sale to the farmers in the colony. The Company will, further, be open to make advances against the produce of the country, consisting of wool, skins, ostrich feathers, and other staples. The Company also proposes to organise forthwith a regu'ar system of transport of merchandise from the ports to tie in land towns, from which source alone a coneide. able income is anticipated. 'the Company will take powers to negotiate loans required for public works in any of the South Atrtan colonies. The estates to be acquired by the Company have an excel lent supply of water; one estate alone, containing about 63,000 acres, has 5 miles of frontage along the Orange River. These will be improved, resold in smaller farms, and in the meantime stocked with sheep, horses, horned cattle, and other stock. The estates comprise not less than 216,000 acres. The price of these, with the buildings thereon, including all pre liminary expenses up to the allotment of shares, has been based upon a computation of from 2s, 6d. to 12s. 6d. per acre according to the locality ; £35,0;0 of the pm chase money will be paid in debentures, and the remainder (£90,000) in cash instalments extending over a pert d of 18 months. A minimum dividend of 7 p9r cent. for the first year, and 10 per cent. for the second and third years, is guaranteed by the vendor up 'n the paid-up capital. The Local Board is of opinion that a much larger dividend may be expected alter the second year. The co-operation of five gentlemen, of high standing in the Eastern Province Colony, by whom this und-rtakiug was sug gested, has been secured. They will form the Local Board. The shareholders will incur no liability beyond the amount of shares allotted to th m. Applications for shares must be male upon the annexed form. Each applicant will be required to pay the Bankers of the Company £1 per share upon tha number of shares applied for, and upon allotment to make a further payment of .£ I per share on the shares allotted to him. In the event of no allotment being made the deposits will be returned in full. Shou d a less number of shares be allotted than are applied for, the deposits will be made available towar.is the payment on a lotmen:, and the balance, if any, returned to the ap lieent. Prospectuses and Forms of Application for Shares may be had of the Brokers ; of the Secretary, at the Temporary Offices, St. Michael's House, Cornhill, 8.C.; and atthe Offices of the Internatimal Contract Company, 86, Cannon-street nest, B.C. The Articles of Assoziation and the Agreement with the Vendor may be inspected at the Solicitors', and at the Temporary Offices of the Comp ny. THE SOUTH AFRICAN LAND AND FINANCE COMPANY (Limited). FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. (To be retained by the Bankers.) No. To the Directors of the South African Land and Finance Company (Limited). Gentlemen, —Having paid to your Bankers the sum of , being a deposit of £1 per share on shares in the above Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that number, and 1 agree to accept such shares, or any less number you may allot me; and I agree to pay the deposit on allotment, and to sign the Articles of Association of the Company when required, and I authorise you to insert n y name on the Register of Members for the number of shares allutted to me. _ Usual signature ............. Name in full Residence Profession Date TEETH. —Mr. ALBERT, Dentist, 34, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. ARTIFICIAL TE of the best quality, fixed on the improved principles, wit Lout pain, from £4 4s. to £8 Bs. the Set . Decayed and painful Teeth rendered useful, and irregula rities corrected. (See Testimonials.) Established 33 years. Consultations free. MADAME RACHEL, whose talents has gained for her a world-renowned name for preserving and enhancing youth, beauty, grace, and loveliness, and whose Royal Arabian, Circassian, Baths, Spict a, and Perfumes ren der the hair, teeth, and complexion beautiful beyond com parison, giving the appearance of youth and beauty to per sons however far advanced in years, have caused her name to stand a marvel of the age, of which delicate and costly arts she stands the sole possessor.-47A, New Bond-street. CI T Y SII 0 W-R 00 M FOR GLASS AND CHINA, 147, HOUNDSDITCH. JDEFRIES and SONS' TABLE GLASS , • Cut and Engraved, of the choicest designs. JDEFRIES and SONS' DINNER, DESSERT, • and Tea Ware, of the newest patterns. --- JDEFRIES and SONS' LUSTRES, TAZZAS, • and Flower Vases for the present season. JDEFRLES and SONS' CHANDELIERS, • for the Dining-room, in Bronze, Ormolu, and 6ilver. --- JDEFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS' • in Crystal, for the Drawing-room, for Gas or Candles. JDEFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS, • in Crystal, in the Venetian and Grecian designs, for India. - JDEFRIES and SONS' SPECIAL DESIGNS • in Lamps for India. JDEFRIES and SONS' WALL LIGHT • Caandeliers, in Crystal, for India (Registered). JDEFRIES and SONS promptly execute CLUB • Mess, and General Furnishing Orders of - China, Glass, &c. T DEFRIES and SONS supply MERCHANTS ti • with Pattern Books and Special Designs. JDEFRIES and SONS have just added Five • New Snow-Rooms to their extensive Manufactory. They have now on show the largest assortment in the world of the above goods oi their own manufacture. MANUFACTORY AND SHOW-ROOMS, 147. Hounds('itch. I[l - AIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID only Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 51 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, ls. 6d., or 20 stamps. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perma nently— Ladies' Hair from 7s. 6d. ; Gentlemen's from ss. The Dye is sold at 3s. 6d ,or sent free for 54 stamps. It i s most easy of ire. 1_1 - AIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX.' ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes, without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms. 38. ed.; sent the same day as ordered by post for 5 t stamps. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in. ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which t-peedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent free fors4 sumps.— AL hX. ROSS, 248 , High Holbo rn , ondon. Essay 311 Hair, Id. PIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness &n 2s. 9d.; by post for 40 st anps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Liolbors, Lonaon. ALEX. ROSS' FACE POWDER, Is. ; sent for 14 stamps; Eye Colour, 3s. ed., or 54 stamps. Skin tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or 110 stamps. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS. 218, High Holborn, London. ~e.2 Ica -,„.. ftit 4 '...' -• f 4 I C As.: -;, -- Nr. , ./4r. - • ... ".,`--' Pde • ' ' ./ i , r 4 r r , r ~ 0.1.51 • 2w,, , - . ... - . 4 4. 4 , /4 j r*. S% e* 4 .l4 tt lf o v k 4.; 4m, ,.--' .- 4 I',e .2 1\ 4 * - 11 : 71: 41 111 ? ". .-..," , /03 NA 1 "Si t elo \ •,...hrili , „ 0.. i / ...., i--,... „.. ' .-_ ( A , t. ,, ,- ;v 7'6,,, i r q - ... -, 47 ..,.. , . \ ; 4,..: ~,,,irwierei k . :i / 4111 t t .1q n Ps•) 11 . 4 1 L. "Ink 0 4 • - •t` e . ... , 0 0 F 4 ' 71 C ' 1 -' il' A3:l o - altrel,llW i ll r 4; . \„\\ . - -"4 N.,:___ , _,--% -,„‘• .3 e DIE I. 7 1865. until, at last, invigorated by the storm of iron throw,ll into its cleft and gaping breaches, the fort seclude' ducere opes animumque ferro. Situated not more than 1,150 yards from the huge mortars and Parrott guns otßattery Gregg, Fort Sumter has swallowed iron as Sahara sucJs in water. It were vain for me to attempt to describe the vast fabrics of sand, in many places 40ft. in thickness, piled up over its casemates and arches of brickwork, and affording shelter in new-fashioned bombproof chambers, entered by man-holes from above, to the harassed and exposed garrison. PRICE 4 d. STAMPED sd. thrown across the street in the immediate neighbour hood of the residence which Mr. Bunch occupied when British consul here—a residence of which the sight awakens pleasant recollections in the minds of an Englishman who visited Charleston in happier days. But as you ascend from the Battery, passing along East Bay into Broad-street, the handwriting of Yankee shells upon many a perforated wall and many a shattered roof forces itself more and more upon the view. There are houses externally to all appearance uninjured, but throtigh the roof of which a shell has passed, bursting in the interior, tearing division walls, lath and plaster, floors and ceilings, into splinters, and leaving little more than the exte rior crust standing. Occasionally a shell has set fire to the woodwork of a house, and has lapped its two two or three neighbours in a flame, which seems to have burnt out of its own accord, 'without wrapping Charleston in one of those vast conflagrations by which the city has so often been desolated. Often the street pavement or the side walk betrays the deep round hole into which, after describing a para bola of four miles or more through the air, a 200- pounder shell has descended without bursting, giv ing to the spectator an impression of greater and more irresistible might than he gathers even from the pierced walls and mutilated roofs around him. The office of the British Consulate reveals the pas sage through its walls of a couple of shells ; that of the Spanish Consulate, hard by, has three similar orifices to boast without the Consul of that nation being uprooted from Charleston. I am told that in the height of summer, when the grass in the streets afforded shelter to :many wandering cows, and the wild fennel shot up 8 or 10 feet high, turning the city into the semblance of a jungle, the scene of desolation and ruin was far more painfully felt. Already the hen partridge has been found nestling with her brood among the crumbling ruins. Already the owl has heen heard to hoot by night from the spires of the demolished churches. But the devas tation produced by Federal shells is nothing when compared with the broad belt of ruin which marks the track of the great fire which swept across the city from river to river in December, 1861. I have seen other cities, such as Vicksburg, Fredericksburg, and Petersburg, which had suffered more from the artillery fire of their assailants than Charleston, but never have I been more impressed with the transi toriness of human handiwork than while standing in the midst of the wreck produced by the awful conflagration of 1861, and nothing to what three years of unrepaired damage and unresisted decay can bring one of the most flourishing of modern cities. Other sights there are in these silent streets pregnant with suggestions to a contemplative mind. Huge signs still hang suspended in the air, inviting the wayfarer to take his passage by the " New York Line of Packets," while upon another the rival attractions of the " Boston and Baltimore Steamships" are temptingly paraded. It is difficult to conceive the possibility of a resurrected Union, such as the New York Herald dreams of, after the lapse of four such years as have nearly flown since Fort Sumter became historical ; but on all sides I am warned in Charleston that American is not to be judged by the same rules as European human nature. Still, with the recollection of the senti ment which prevailed one short month ago in Rich mond fresh in my mind, I, for one, shall refuse to believe that the time is near at hand when Boston and Baltimore steamships will communicate as of yore with Charleston. Let this war end as it may, the resurrection of the Union, or the spontaneous aggregation of 33 or 34 equal, co-ordinate, consent ing, self-governing States in a common pact of go vernment is as impracticable as the restoration to Tyre and Sidon of their commerce, or to Babylon and Nineveh of the sceptre which has departed. Yesterday evening, immediately after sunset, I visited the irregularly-outlined mass of dark red gray ruin, which, crumbling bit by bit and inch by inch under such a storm as fort never yet sustained upon earth, remains as unsubducd as on the days when Dupont and Dahlgren recoiled before its guns, and Gillmore and a host of his brother engineers exhausted their illimitable resources against it in vain. " Cold, indeed, must be the nature of that man" who can at this moment approach Fort Sum ter without that swelling of the heart which is felt when one looks on such scenes as the Plain of Marathon, -or the Rock of Gibraltar for the first time. Famous passages of history, such as Sale's heroic defence of Jellalabad against the Affghans, or Havelock standing at bay in the Residency of Lucknow, pale their ineffectual fires when matched with the resistance at Fort Sumter. Neither to Havelock nor to Sale was retreat or submission a possibility ; whereas the garrison of Fort Sumter has never been cut off from communication with the mainland, and has always been fighting a civilised enemy and not a savage brood of human wolves. The artillery brought against Sale was insignificant, and Havelock there was employed no gun larger than the 42-pounder smooth-bore. The visitor to Fort Sumter this day sees lying unexploded in the centre of its old parade-ground 300-pounder Parrott and 15-inch spherical shells, a few dozen of which are equal in weight to the whole amount of metal which was rained upon Jellalabad or Lucknow. Such has been the mass of these gigantic globes and barrel-like pro jectiles of iron which have been thrown into Fort Sumter that the mind shrinks from the effort to com pute the tons upon tons of metal launched from mortars, smooth-bore or rifled guns, into a space not exceeding 3/ acres in area, and hithertolaunched in vain. Fort Sumter seems originally to have been a pet fort of the United States, and was commenced about the year 1845, and finished (so far as it was ever finished at all) about ten years later. Upon a low lying island of sand, always two feet below water, even at low tide, was constructed a platform or en tablature of masonry four acres in area, made of Massachusetts granite. Upon this platform were reared the brick walls of the fort. The stone plat form emerged ahove the water at high tide, and the brick outline of the fort did not cover the whole surface of the stone substratum, but left a berm running round between the brick masonry and the water's edge. The brick walls were in some places six, and in others eight feet thick, the interval be tween them being filled in with concrete. The fort was in shape a pentagon, with the angles " pan coupeed" (the English corruption of point coupe), and with a very weak and unfinished spot along its gorge front, which faces Morris Island. The walls were designed to resist 68-pounder smooth-bores, which were, 20 years ago, considered the heaviest guns likely to be brought against it either by water or upon land. In the sea attack of April 7, 1863, conducted by the Ironsides, Keokuk, and six or seven other Monitors, it was plainly established that the walls could not long resist the impact of the 15-inch mortar shells, but, as the attack was beaten off in less than two hours, the vulnerability of the fort was, perhaps, still unrevealed to the enemy. It was not until, in July, 1863, Morris Island was occupied at its lower end by the Fe derals, and not until they opened fire against Fort 300-pounder rifle d Parrott guns Sumter with 100-pounder , 200- p ounder, and per hapsthat the walls melted away in long p atches, and the fort be came a s h a p e less heap of ruins. It was about this time that Colonel Harris (chief engineer to General Beauregard, and who has since fallen a victim to yellow fever) remark ed to Ma j or Ste p hen Elli ot , There is a Brigadier-Generalship in these old walls yet, if you know how to do justice to them." How Major Elliot secured this brigadier-generalship, and how his gallant predecessors and successors, Yates, Rhett, Mitchell, Hugenian, and a host of others have imprinted Fort Sumter's name upon the page of history is known whenever the English tongue is spoken. Shattered, lacerated, rent, mutilated by day, the fort accommodated itself to a new attitude of defence by night. With gabions and bags of sand its defenders repaired the havoc and ruin of the day, It is impossible at this moment to visit Fort Sumter—perhaps the most interesting historical ruin in the world—or to inspect other forts in its neighbourhood, such as Castle Pinckney and Fort Moultrie, once built of naked masonry, but now girt with a thick cushion or periphery of sand, with out coming to the conclusion that the days of water castles, built of uncovered brick or stone, are at an end, and that even famous old land fortresses like Quebec or Ehrenbreitstein will, in spite of their lofty elevation, have to be coated with simi lar cushions before they can hope to withstand rifled artillery. The old maxim of Vaban " Ex- Pose to a cannon-ball no masonry which it is possible to cushion with earth," is now ten times more valuable than when he uttered it, and the scientific engineer even now might study the forti& cations of Lille and Valenciennes with advantage, and expand Vauban's system into dimensions com mensurate with the march of modern improvements competent artery. to T ette is l r u n po ot n, th a eplace for, neither am tifications; but I cannot forbear disquisition . upon for saying that it has always appeared to me lamentable that, inasmuch as England refuses to send to this country a Com missioner qualified to glean some of the lessons of the American War, there has been found in the British army no young military engineer with suffi cient enterprise to run the blockade and learn his business from such authorities as Beauregard, Whiting, and Ripley. It is doubtful whether even Sebastopol afforded such lessons to the military engi neer and scientific artillerist as Fort Sumter and the works of the two belligerents upon James, Sullivan's, and Morris Islands afford this day. But, as it is with our young military engineers, so it also seems ;to be with our young surgeons. lam assured on all sides, upon Federal as well as Confederate autho rity, that the surgery of war is entirely metamor phosed by the experience gained during these last four bloody years. It is not likely that another such opportunity for men of these two scientific professions will recur in a lifetime, and the Ameri cans who, with little love for England, filled the English no less than the French and Russian camps before Sebastopol with young surgeons seeking em ployment and professional experience as volunteers, taught us a lesson which, if we ever gave heed to anybody, might be learnt with advantage. A , e- , - Naval and Military Intelligence. A new invention for working ships' pumps by the capstan in case of fire, for which a patent has been registered brMr. Matthew Blank, engineer, was tried yesterday on board her Majesty's ship Irresis tible, in Southampton-water. Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., Rear-Admiral S. C. Dacres, Capt. Caldwell, C.B. (for the Superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard), and Mr. Brain, one of the master shipwrights at Portsmouth dockyard, ar rived in the steam yacht Fire Queen to witness the trial, and were received on their arrival by a salute of 19 guns from the Irresistible. Sixty revolutions were obtained with one man to each bar of the cap stan, and 73 with two men to each bar; while 100 men would, as we are informed, be required under ordinary circumstances to get 70 revolutions. The trial was successful, and the invention was pro nounced very valuable. Extra hands were put to the capstan to force a column of water to the upper deck. This pressure was hardly fair to the inventor, but, notwithstanding the immense force applied, nothing gave way. The distinguished visitors from Portsmouth lunched with Capt. Dickson at Netley after the trial, and left in the Fire Queen at 3 p.m., on their return, under another salute from the Irre sistible. The Scout, 21, screw steam corvette, 1,462 tons, 400-horse power, Master in change Augustus J. Burniston, now lying in Sheerness harbour, was swung for the adjustment of her compasses, prepara tory to commission, on Friday last. During the opera tion an accident occurred, which caused the death of the boatswain of the ship, Mr. Mathew Delaney, aged 48. It appears from the evidence given at • the inquest before Mr. Marsh, deputy coroner for the city of Rochester, on board the Cumberland guardahip of Steam Reserve at Sheerness, that the deceased was attending to his duties while the ves sel was being swung, when the lashing of a leading snatchblock was reported to be stranded. Staff-Com mander Charles J. Polkinghorne, the commanding officer at the time, immediately ordered to " cease heaving," when the deceased, from some reason which did not transpire, jumped between the lash ing-block and the ship's side. Almost immediately after the remaining portions of the lashing parted, the hawser and block flew against the ship's side, and struck the deceased below the knees, throwing him violently on the deck. On being picked up it was found that he was frightfully injured, and died in two hours without regaining consciousness. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased was acci dentally killed. • The Phaeton, 39, screw frigate, Capt. Geo. Le G. Bowyer, anchored at Spithead at 6 30 p.m. yesterday, on her return to England from service on the coasts of North America and the West Indies, and awaits orders as to which home port she will enter to dis mantle and pay out of commission. Between the sth of November, 1864, and the 9th of February, 1865, 18 sailing ships, possessing an aggregate registered tonnage of upwards of 21,000, embarked troops in the ports of Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras, for conveyance to England under con tract with the Hon. Council of India. The whole of this large transport fleet are expected to arrive at Spithead. The majority of the ships are bringing home invalids and time-expired men. The remainder of the ships have relieved troops on board. The Nile and Alumbagh embarked the 52d Regiment at Cal cutta, for Portsmouth, on the 16th and 19th of December, 1854, and the arrival of the regiment may therefore be almost daily expected. The 17th Lancers embarked on board the Agamemnon at Bombay on the 21st of January. Edl em -Pasha, consisting of the scr The Turkish squadron, command e e w d e b t y eam Adn fi li a r g a - 1 ship Kossova, 88, Capt. Osman Bey ; the screw a steam frigate Estrogal, GO, Capt. .4s . sa.m Bey, and the screw e Bey st , frigaten Plymouthd a v n d i Sounda r , 60,at elevene ap t. saluted the o'clock on Saturday morning, and Thomas Fremantle, K.C.8., which was acknow ledged " arr ul ived national standard and the flag of Port-Admiral Sir ship Royal Adelaide, 26, Capt. Frederick W. P. B. by the cita i d n el HinamthoeaS:e.undi,u:ndTb. W. flag. Seymour, C. 8., O t t om an Vice-Consul, paid an official visit to th e Admit.al in T t h h e e aecifternuadroeonn,laefntd Cherbourgwas salute don de partureateleven touch at large Lisbon for o'clock on Friday morning, and is b oun d to Con stantinople. " n I 6I O w l hi e. ch the consumes a The slops will quan tity. The transport Twerton, which left Bombay on the sth of November, with the right wing of the 28th Regiment, touched at St. Helena on the 9th of January, and is expected daily at Plymouth. 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THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to thn 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected , rom want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few of the most recent cases : F. P., aged 16, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father. M. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead. A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother. S. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead. C. R., aged 15, fallen, mother dead, A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parent s dead. H. S., aged 14, homeless , deEerte by her parents. M. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead. E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both pare nts dead. K A. W. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead. The new home the Committee wish to form woald be for oung girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen .street, Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Co.. Lombard-street. SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and • 11031 E, Hampstead. Offices. 77, CornhilL PATRON—The QUEEN. TRUSTEES. Capt. the Hon. Francis Maude, The Rev. Canon Champptve I R.N. 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. Tile Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU TIONS to meet the increasi g applications through the recent storms and loss r f life at sea, and to enable them eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000 sa,lors annually by casualties alone, without including those who may perish by war. Subscriptions thankfully received by the bankers, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill. R MEETING, Hon. See. CHARLES NASH, Sea. 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. This Hospital, foundel 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. 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The Programme of arrangements, with the price of Tickets, and the block plan of Stalls, is ready for issue, and may now be had, on written or personal application, at the Festival Tiokct Offices, Crystal Palace, and Exeter Hall. It may also be had at the principal Music Warehouses in London ond in the Provinces ; and besides numerous other places abroad, at the offices of the South-Eve ern, and Loncon, Chatham, and Dover Railway Companies, at Paris, Brussels, Cologne, Calais, Boulogne, Ostend, Ghent, Antwerp, dr.c. The two Ticket Offices as above will be open from 10 a.m. on Monday next, March 13, for the issue of vouchers securing seats according to the numbered plans which will then be open to inspeo ion. .Written applications. whether direct or through agents, containing remittances, and arriving at either of the Ticket Offices on or before the first post on the 13th, will be attended to alternately with personal applica tions. By order. 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Manager and Conductor, Mr. C. G ttE VILLE. ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, eitablished 29 year's at the Bazaar,;llaker-street. NEW ADDITIONS.—A Full-length PORTRAIT MODEL a MULLER, taken from hie, and corrected from the Cast 'taken by Doctor Donovan; also a luil-letezth MODEL of KOHL, taken at his trbtt —are now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy. Open, 11 till dusk, and 7 till 10 evening. Admittance, One ; extra roams, Sixpence. A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. GRAND CASINO. CONCERT. First time in England, GungPs new German Toy Waltz. Prince Imperial Quadrille, Huguenots, Robert le Diable, William Tell, and a variety of Dance Muck,. Conductor, M. LUIGI. CURTI. Admission, One Shilling. Manager, M. GRENET. and fell into the arms of het mother. At th e same time the prisoner was seen to siint up a clasp knife and he ran away down the street. Deceb sed was taken.into a chemist's shop, and a medical man was gent for. Sl - le was partly undressed, and a surgeon, Mr. Long, on exrAmining her found a severe wound, which from her back extended right into the lungs, splintering one of the r'.bs. Some temporary dressing was applied to the woui la, and the de ceased was then put into a cab, and removed to her mother's house, but on entering there she breathed thi es or four times and then died. The police sought for the pi isoner, and got a clue by means of some letters directed forhi m. They found him at Chertsey, and took him into custody, and in his pocket they discovered a clasp knife answering to the de scription to the one seen in his hands by the witness Lush at the time of the fatal assault. It was a spring knife, re quiring two hands to close the blade when open. When be fore the magistrate the prisoner made a statement to the following effect :—I dearly loved my wife, and for a long time past we lived together on the most affectionate terms. I had been out of work, and crossed over to Portsmouth. with her and called at Loe and Co.'s, desiring her to wait outside for me. When I came out she was gone, and I went to her mother's, and found her gone to Oakley's beerhouse. I hated this, and I heard she also was gone to the Red House, and I hated her goingabout from beerhouse to beer house, especially without me, and I had often told her so. When I asked her if she had been anywhere else, except Oakley's, she said she didn't know, and I was aggravated and struck her. She afterwards said she would make me pay for this, and I was so excited I knew not what hap pened afterwards, and I ran away because I knew I had struck her, and I have been very miserable ever since. The jury, after consulting a few minutes, found the pri soner guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to penal servitude for 15 years. THE CONFEDERATE S rATES. (From the Times' Special Correspondent.) CHARLESTON, Jan. 14. Rather more than 100 years ago there was con structed of English brick and stone in the loyal city of Charleston a church the lofty spire of which was for years the chief landmark of ships approaching the city from the sea. In the humid climate engen dered by the extensive salt marshes which surround this low lying city and permeate the sea islands on its flanks it has often been remarked that church bells acquire a rare richness and mellowness of tone, and the chimes of St. Michael's have long been pro verbial for their musical sweetness. In the Revolu tionary War these bells were sent as trophies to England when the city fell into Sir Henry Clinton's hands in 1780, and were subsequently purchased by London merchants, who restored them when Ame rican Independence was secured, as a pledge of good will, to the inhabitants of South Carolina, which had long been a pet colony of Great Britain. In 1761 the church of St. Michael's was for the first time thrown open for public worship. In 1861 from this same spire the bursting of the first shell over Fort Sumter was watched by eager eyes, and the inauguration of a war which has already proved more fertile of horrors, suffering, and bloodshed than any of this century, was witnessed by specta tors, as unconscious as the bricks under their feet of the magnitude of the stupendous revolution which was opening beneath their gaze. From this same spire, looking down as it has for the last 18 months upon silent streets and deserted homes, one solitary bell, the sole survivor of its seven tuneful helpmates, which had been removed months ago for safety's sake, still rings out its musical greeting, and at night before its echoes are hushed the Confederate watch man raises hour after hour the muezzin cry of " All's well," while all around him Federal shells from Morris Island have saved and shrieked and scattered destruction. Nor can any one who visits Charleston to-day be blind to the possibility that before the 13th of April, 1865, arrives—the fourth anniver sary of the commencement of this unnatural strife, a Federal watchman may from this same spire gaze down upon the sun-lit harbour and city beneath him, gloat over the stars and stripes as they float once more over the crumbling historical ruin, the congeries of shattered bricks, concrete, and sand which is still dignified by the name of Fort Sumter. It is hard for the visitor who comes to Charleston fresh from Richmond and Virginia to understand that the non-combatant population . of South Caro lina is homogeneous with the inhabitants of Rich mond, and nominally of the same flesh and blood as the indomitable rank and file of General Lee's army. In Richmond there was, one month ago, no more thought of submission or faintheartedness than in the breast of Walker and his heroic associates at Londonderry, in 1690, or in the intrepid ranks which garrisoned Saragossa in 1808. In Charles ton, the fountain head of Secession, the nest of re bellion, the cherished, holy city of the " Gamecock State"—in Charleston, which should draw its inspi ration from the grim walls of dilapidated but still defiant old Sumter, and set an example of iron hearted resolution to the associates whom it preci pitated into rebellion, there is croaking and dismay, infirmity of purpose and irresolution. Many are the original Secessionists—the " fire-eaters" of the New York Tribune—who once mocked at old Virginia because she was slow to tread the thorny path to which Carolina lured her on, but who now faint by the way and prattle of the " best terms that can be obtained from a magnanimous foe," while upon some lips the ominous word " reconstruction" is audibly breathed. I wish to be understood as not including in this category the gallant little band which still unshrinkingly holds Fort Sumter and mans the bat teries upon James and Sullivan's Islands. There is in the breasts of the gar r ison of Charleston the same Virginian spirit which animates the army of General Lee, and it were well for them if they had no contact with the timorous submissionists or the querulous faultfinders who abound in these streets. There is still to be found stuff among the men of Forts Sumter, Moultrie, and Johnson, which, if rightly handled, and promptly supported from Richmond, will gain for their commander celebrity in connexion with Charleston as just and as enduring as Saragossa conferral upon Palafox and Badajos upon Philip pon. But it must be confessed that, speaking gene rally, and especially in reference to Virginia, the Confederate banner is most proudly and stubbornly upheld by men who trod the path of Secession slowly and reluctantly, and that, according to the law of nature, the momentum of those bodies which were with difficulty set in motion is sustained and irresistible when once they get under way. To what shall I compare the city of Charleston this day, as it lies for the most part silent and de serted, and yet instinct with the impress of life, of which the sudden flight of its inhabitants has not yet been able to rob it ? It is not unlike the city of Lon don between the hours of 12 and 6 on a fine Sunday in Midsummer. It is more like one of those Chinese cities lately described in the columns of the Times, which have reverted to the possession of the Empe ror of China after having for years been in the waste ful and ruin-breeding hands of the Taeping rebels. It is like the Florence which Boccaccio paints locked in the death embrace of the plague. But most of all, its vacant verandahs and deserted sun balconies, its palmettoes and japonicas, its magnolias and helio tropes, its stately white houses and amp l e gardens, its exquisite sea front, and the blue waves that softly lave the foot which the fair city delicately extends to their embrace, recall the description of Genoa in 1800, when the Strada Balbi and the Strada Nuova, no less than the vilest tenements and hovels, were deserted every morning by their inha bitants, and ladies of the highest rank mingled with the humblest peasants, and repaired under the grip ing mandates of hunger to the hillsides within Mas sena's lines, gathering the commonest weeds of the Riviera, and bearing them home as the choicest of trea sures. Upon the houses which constitute or adjoin the • street called " the Battery" (which is the sea-front of Charleston), and which are nearest to the enemy's " swamp angels" and Parrot guns upon Morr is Island, it is astonishing to perceive how slight is the injury inflicted by 18 months of shelling. At the lower end of Meeting-street most of the houses are intact ; nor would the casual observer detect any evidence of war except the desolation of the streets and a hastily constrneted barricade or breastwork ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCUIT—WrsCIEESTER, March 6. (Before Mr. Baron Channell.) A young man of respectable appearance, named John Piper Piper, aged 24 years, and described as an engineer, and of good education, was indicted for the wilful murder of Emma Sophia Piper, his wife, at Portsea, on the 9th January last. Mr. Poulden, with Mr. 11. M. Cole, conducted the pro secution ; and Mr. Montague Bere appeared on behalf of the prisoner. g The nle2e bprisonery months;taaen: and da and de during hi deceased sf atht father r time w had as amerripwlehodyo whole f l t i h t t t he l little over en u tn be po e t n h n e m th e had lived happily together. Prisoner was a locomotive y South Western Railway Company,• • • living by the line near the Gosport station. Since his apprenticeship he had been employed on board a steam-packet, but for two or three weeks before the sad occurrence he had been out of em ployment. Deceased was the daughter of a man named Lillywhite, in the employ of the Government at the Ports mouth gun wharf, and lived in Surrey-street, Landport. On the occasion in questi • question , prisoner's wife was visiting her mother, and prisoner also. On the 9th of January, prisoner had occasion to go to Portsmouth, to apply for employment. He took his wife with him, and when in Broad-street, he went into it essrs. Loe's. shop on busi ness purposes, leaving deceased outside in the street to wait for him. She stopped there a considetable time, and he not returning, she walked on to her mother's, and stayed there until nearly three o'clock, when she and her mother went to look for the prisoner; they failed to find him, and returned home. Later in the afternoon they went to the house of a Mrs. Oakley, at Landport, whose husband was a pensioner and beer-house keeper. Mrs. Oakley was a friend on intimate terms for many years with the deceased's family, and also the prisoner. Deceased and prisoner had been married from Oakley's house, and since the wedding they had both often been there visiting, and had slept there to gether. Mrs. Lillywhite and deceased went to the Bedford Hotel tap, and there had a little gin, also having some more gin at another house, but still, when they arrived at Mrs. Oakley's, they were perfectly sober and correct in their behaviour. At Oakley's they had a small :glass of beer each, and half a pint of warmed elder-berry wine between five of them. It was subsequently proposed that Mrs. Oakley should accompany deceased and her mother to the Old Red House, on the road towards their home, and they went there and had more gin, . one quartern between them. On coming out Mrs. Oakley left them, each party going towards their respective homes. In the meantime prisoner had been to Oakley's and asked for his wife, and was told she was gone to the Old Red House with her mother and 'Mrs. Oakley. He went in that direction and met Mrs. Oakley, who said, " Jem, my dear, Mrs. Lillywhite and Emma are just gone down the street ; go and fetch them." He replied, a No, I'll go myself ;" she ran on, and he followed. When the parties met, prisoner asked his wife where she had been, and she said, "To Mrs. Oakley's." He said, " Where else ?" and she answered, " Nowhere." He then said, " Don't tell me a --- lie," and hit her a violent blow in tho face. Mrs. Oakley said, "Stop, Jem, and I'll tell you the truth." He answered, " I asked her for the truth," and then he again struck deceased violently, making the blood burst from her nose. Deceased tried to hit prisoner, but he again violently beat her, knocked her down, and, taking her by the hair, beat,, her bead against the kerb stones. The women cried out for the police, and some men came up. One named Milligan pulled the prisoner away, and went on ; and then another named Parmeter, see ing prisoner again beating the woman, interfered. Prisoner threatened to serve him the same, onwhich Parmeterluiocked him down. Prisoner was then quieter, and Mrs. Oakley pro posed they should all go to her house, and wash and clean their clothes, as both the deceased and the prisoner were mud dy, and the deceased was coveredwithblood. Deceased was helped up, when her clothes were found loose, and Mr. Oakley went into a house and got some pins to fasten them. Mrs. Oakley then left them, and just then two men, named Lush and Pernhill, came round the corner and saw the two women (deceased and her mother) walking along, prisoner following about four feet distance behind them. When these men got on a level with the women, the deceased turned her head round to the prisoner and said to him, " You shall have it for this," upon which the prisoner immediately rushed upon her and struck her violently in the back on the right;of the spine, which took shocking , effect. The poor won= exclaimed, " Oh, my,' -~-=-ter -- Pon ~.. ' -- " , 1. OF APPLICATION POR SHARES. 4 0‘ To be retained by the Bankers. ,e To., (.'q hl., 7rui Th'ue Directors of the Varna Railway Company. t i%"oeic eel 4—Having pat d to Tour Bankers, Mes a beings r.Robarte, 1)4i.1 D e ;, a nd Co., the sum of .£ a deposit tii ii lr, i ,RUare on shares in the above Com ttl, k b t a,:,:ereby request that you will allot me that number, it,talipe to accept such shares, or any less number you etty vat° ine on the terms of the prospectus, and I agree e c lePOsit due on allotment. Usual Signature Name in full ..... ..................- •• •• • • Residence Profession • ,',............... Date ttip, , h tt Is ia , v A.RNA RAILWAY COMPANY.— le te btfc ' Telt IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in consequence tqotitti-sentations having been made to the Directors that htll;44eadsontobunced for receiving Applications for Shares was .4,1 ~_' bk, e LAST DAY for Applications is extended to ''4 ( •,_Ttla the 7th March next, at Four o'clock, for London. \ ottot - 4ESDAY, the Bth March, at Twelve o'clock, for A 4 ti,ltio.' F eb, 28, 1865. By order, .4: \\N _ J. F. WALSH, Secretary. 1 . It Aly CONTRACTS.' T Commissariat Office, (11„ . ..j\T h Aldershot, Ist February, 1865. I° 7 ll 4 11118 "Will be received at this Office, until 12 o'clock ttt er 1, 8 4 .t1i March, 1865, from parties who may be willing 1 ) (0 Contracts for the supply of 1),N I , COALS, ' l . j '''t ,,,cllll ltitieci AA may required, for the use of her 11, Vol o rcesind — MIli - far b ;Departments at the following 'okN ' 1 ...-einril 1, 1865, to March 81,1868 : k W A . °II LITARY COLLEGE, SANDHURST. —WallSelid 11,,,1 , 4 0 41 ,134 x5, BonaLzy.—Small Coals, such as that N J 41.4 `Newport smells.” R' '. e T eeders are required for each of the above-named k t t::4 1 ,, tee d ou ° I. 'render and Conditions of Contract may be ob 'ttl t4-PPlication at this office, by letter or in person, be- IN tVours of ton and four o'clock, when every informs -01 Tend hl ibieet will be furnished. o ti lip , ,ers must be made on the printed forms , properly 0. 1 1p2D. ' 'go,ed, and delivered at this office (under closed 'l42p' o l ll .4 :rxed on the outside "Tender for Coals"), by the ''lllpi t `ed- and no Tender will be noticed that shall not sues with these conditions. t° A IIIIA 0 ,Siok i - s- 1 ( CONTRACTS for the Supply of NOtt b 4 ' , UOKE, KINDL ING WOO 0, an LES - LtR -- ,riteitt ; and COALS, COKE, TURF, and - Ireland. 14 1'4 01 1 War-office, Pall-Mall, London, S.W., 4,tei I 25th February, 1E65. 1 4,t11 ) ,," lir'? HEREBY GIVEN', that the Secretary of latle4e prepared to receive TENDERS 4 kti ' kit f o lio s ''lng Articles at the various Barrack Stations to,t l i, i t !In and Ireland, for a period of One Year, from •1 4 3 , ~ Viz, : _ 'l, (:',ll , C°I R, KINDLING WOOD, and CANDLES ~, -.Ls tain ; and lif t D l ' l. i '•Ppli4 n . 1 9 17111`, B a ri nd CANDLES in Ireland. .Vt t ,, l ptoilliil not be entertained unless made upon the pro ta':l,l'aeZttoo e i rol, which may be obtained, with every requisite s ~ p `4 , (44 t Pon application at this Office, or to the var _ 116, 11 e V. sun.eis, between the hours of Ten and Four o'clock tOct o elad e ,U l YB excepted. 1gt . 114,r Of ~,..' must be sent to this O ffi ce, addressed to the ~,, k C eEto'„ointracts, marked on the outside " Tender for tli n . - he ech i,"`es," as the case may be, on or before Monday, , aqe , re t -e !t, after which day no Tender will be received. 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