The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-25 00:00:00

1140,1\TDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ty„l9on for Gentlemen. Remember, we wait for you at after the Covent-garden Opera and the Theatres. ktNAIIAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION 1865. b u , .8 cel e b ra t e d OLD IRISH , WHISKY gained the Ito Prize M e d a l . is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole sold • by u 1 Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; h , 40 gentsA in the principal towns in England; or °legal° kGREA.T WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. s erve the R o d S ea l, Pi n k Label, and Cork branded a han' s LL Whisky." UAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1850), ' S SELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON. „41 A NCES MONEY on Personal Security, Bills of Sale, rep 1)-v-nold or be ne ficial Leasehold Property, without inquiry thre: r a ny deduction whatever, for periods of one, two, or disc.° ars, repayable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills trlfsci e u , Yent ed• The greatest secrecy observed. Advances also 15 7e.t o vvards the Purchase of a House, repayable in 5, 1 0 , or triyer pe Forms free on application, or receipt of a stamped EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. B A NK OF BRITISII NORTH AMERICA. ,Norpy Incorporated by Royal Charter. IS HEREBY GIVEN, that there is aVACANCY 01 j, s t D irection of this Bank, occasioned by the retirement ell s :, a Bloxham Elio, Esq , which will be filled up at the ic in g Yearly General Meeting. fee the terms of the Deed of Settlement it is required as Opirs " T hat (51 ' to every Proprietor intending to become a Candidate, OfheFropse some other Proprietor as a Candidate . for the the ,ef Direetor, must, within ten days from the time when Dil.itl l uvertisement shall have been inserted, signify by some da 3 , B O Z under his or her hand, to be left within the same ten be4sthe office of the Corporation, either his intention to Can di e a Candidate or the name and place of abode of the 11 date intended to be proposed by him or her." tfil anles ef Candidates cannot therefore be received after the proximo. By order of the Court, C. 31`NAB, Secretary. 121 I lishopagate- street Within, April 25, 1866. 4DIES MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN —. SWEET„ Oth e g - u BIN'S now PERFUME. This and a thousand litreA; Lon ce at the laboratory of flowers, 2, New Bond • , don Sold in all parts of the world. . 141 , -- , B AT H S, LprApavIsE......S 14 batii:. T r Uesda U y i e. V G R entl E em L en s oth ' 3. Taeßat „'ilthe - ",° 11 0 -street, W. 2s. Also the Post O ffi ce Turkish ourid,:„ l9 , St. Martin's-le-Grand, Is. 6d. Saturdays . and O - •' , Is. • both establishments, Is. Greatest purifier .. blood an d be tutifier of the akin. S P ANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in p ALEX. slitceOrss CANTHARIDESkens ir w . h s f e e n h t s t p r e e e e dl o ly r , Flga,; tra P B . — ALF.X. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. on Hair Id , LEX. ROSS'S 'BLOOM of ROSES, 3s. 6d., If stamps. REMOVER.—AII diseases of the t Gx e, r it are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S „ow ne .ABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sal <is, 8, die. 2s. 9d.; by post for 40 stamps ;— ALEX. ROSS, zgh Holborn, London. .8 . 14 X. ROSS'S FACE POWDER, is., or 14 ..,...„......._ Stamps. MR -CURLING FL U , 248, High Holborn, /At London.—AL EX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls at a e 6 :or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold, Rent free for 51 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, or 20 stamps. 1) ( 1ROUGE, is., or 18 stamps. - ITID HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— trar,,tLEx..ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour turE t i ,Ately it i Price 3s. Ed. ; se. It is sent by post ermanent, for 54 sta perfectly na t44I)IES HAIR DYED, from 1 guinea; Gentle from 10s. od. THE BEST REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION. t\l ORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi lir I _ _,dently recommended as a simple but certain Remedy to IN 4, ll ,gestion, which i 4 the cause of nearly all the diseases to! ,"Pn we are subject, being a medicine so uniformly grate- Et r 2o beneficial, that it is with justice called the •Natural act'au.gthener of th e H uman St omac h." •• Norton ' s Pills " ope r :," Powerful tonic and gentle aperient ; are mild in their Der a Zilon. safe under any circumstances, and thousands of r 0 ,.,y0s can now bear testimony to the benefits to be derived p ii .J.A their use, as they have been a never-tailing Family togi,t ct for in bottles ats of ls. 20 lids., 2s. 9d., and Ils. each, in every , the kingdom. CAUTION. BUre and ask for "NORTON'S PILLS," and do which li ti ;aaded top urchase any of the various imitations CA:,.. O Pr M ung ILE PILLS .in consequence of the success of NORTON'S n and CO.'s ATTIRE for GENTLEMEN, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, W. Cl entl are re Zinen about to purchase their clothing for the season Of Rillealteadnrcbdlrsin A Inintti a for Gentlemenrecommendations - - -• I. Novelty, Beauty, and Excellence of Fabric. Perfect Adjustment of Fit. 3 - Becoming and Fashionable Design. 4. Ornamental and general Finish. 4 - Y - z and CO.'s ATTIRE for GENTLEMEN, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, W. Traa and Co.'s Spring Overcoats wara and Co.'s Spring Suits l2s. to 70s. ITYWain and Co.'s Spring Silk-faced Capes 2ss. to 45 . s. rn and Co.'s Spring Jackets RYan and Co.'s Spring Dress Coats . 3os. to 6 - s. yan and Co.'s Spring Frock Coats W an '. and Co 'a Spring Vests 6s t o o 14 s. s. 14s. t 15 and Co.'s Spring Trousers 1 1 14 M and CO.'s SELECT DEPARTME NTS, 1 / 4 7 1 . Gentlemen's Clothing for immediate wear. ~ 2. Bespoke or Order Department. n 3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department 4. Hots, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. - 13 -YAM and CO., 66 and 67, Oxford-street, W. rOvincial Establishments at Birmingham, Leeds, and Dewsbury. ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN or atr'. 3 PECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels fittedtg the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad_ to be the best medicine for immediately relieving 1111 /4 "'„, 8 ,, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con l)Nrolion. It frequently cures persons whom tine faculty I. l 'cov,Vee incurable, admirably allays the tic kli ng whic h 4E4,, eS frequent coughing. In approaching consumption eve:ects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or W!t-flnYing down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief 1. -- A wminutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by oR -- ;•', 24 - 1 1ERT , Chemist. 8, King-W il liam-street, Charing ()ire"' ind by all druggists, in bottles, 134 d., and tor ! quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular. and ask tO4p a a n'bert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are on lie t stamlX NIISCRIPTIONS for the WIDOW and f ( na C RILDREN of the late Captain R. fl. GRONOW, rl 41 la c t ic , 3' of the Grenadier Guards, and Author of " "and Anecdotes," " Celebrities of London and 4 48 &e. Captain Gronow, who lately died in Paris, ala r , 4 ' e " a 'widow and four young children, by his second k ia ;ge utte r l y d es tit u t e , w ith ou t means t o defray h i s 4 C3r,' rad • expenses, or even to purchase bread. Captain his ~"7 was disinherited by his father, in favour of he ~urother a clergyman , and the small income which ‘-terived from tjie interest of a sum charged on the family qa.t fr o m © ceased with his life ; while the sums he received is ° tu ne to time for his " Recollections" were expended f ata l:',reviding for the increasing expenses of his young Ily of 1, 1 Under these distressing circumstances the friends au anle Gronow in Paris came to her aid, and friends.v t o Peal to the liberality of her late husband's in ec ni T i cm, and also to the readers of his Reminiscences, for ugdri n otions to enable her to maintain and educate her . eo üb,scr i ptions received by Messrs. Smrru, ELDER, and andg., Oernhill, an d 45, Pall-mall; and by Messrs. Cox Mt ttr ItPZIWOOD, Army Agents, Craig's-court, Parliament- . NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. tr BARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids' , and I n f ants ' Food, THE REVALENTA ARABIgA, I Th e de three times as mac h ass i m i lat i ng and strengthening tir,-Illishment as the. nest meat, and restores perfect diges d t f 4l eeP l strong nerws, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing , functironal regularity, and energy to the most di rod tll 2 , - enfeebled—removm . g speedily and effectually in -1;:-:Eion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, consumption, ha 11,al constipation, diarrhce,a, all gastric derangements, tterrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervous- biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, tior i ts, colds, influenza, noises in the head 6 -. 4. _ ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, pal neuralgia, irritability , sleeplessness, acidity, tr)a`Pitation, heartburn, headache , debility , dropsy, cramps, sh l l s ti ni s, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, Rain s ti g fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, t i in the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. Va,lZ i t s lie Most digestible of all foods and suitable for in and infants in all complaints. ' f e quote a few out of 62,000 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216 ° the quote plaint 6 Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver coin Ivith , w asting away, debility, nervousness, irritability, sts m a n ervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, con agr sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous thetation• Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. Of NI/ ° ,rcl Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of the county aLerford have derived much benefit from your eellent Cu de Decies, Dromana, Tappoqum, qlllfol,l,tl Waterford. Cure No. 54,816, from the Rev. James Syderstone Rectory, near Fakenham, Nor th, liver all cases of indigestion, and particularly . when be s t ls more than usually bile, consider it h . e k w of all remedies. It regulates the and makes liah,, lll c ases which would not admit of mercury in any Parfi e - :, In short, a healthy flow of the bile is one of the Teasb and hest, symptoms. You can make what use you 43 f this oommunication.—l am, gentlemen, James ley, a LnP l 4ell. Cure No. 52,422.—8 ridge House, Fnm tPitti ' lll.l 'eY :—Thirty-three years' diseased lungs, th e ~,r 3g of blood, liver derangement, deafness, singing in eh n "P.", constipation, debility, shortness of breath, and lu ngs ' bare been removed by your Revalenta Ambles.. My log B, liver, stomach, head, and ears are all right, my hear .,l,(!)erfect, and rny recovery is a marvel to all my No 49832. J ames Roberts, Timber Merchant. Cure No. 49,832. ue ' Years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervous tess' a4t hms,. cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sick '4,7stel vomiting. Maria Joly, of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure 1 1146 - 2 1 , 2 , I . Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, emir un, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. .111 41 . 0 _, 0- 56,814. —Mr. Sarni. Laxton, Leicester, of two years' 6,r 3 ca• The food is sold in canisters, 11b. 2s 9d ; 21b., ss'; 121 b., 21s. • 241 b., 40s. Super-refined quality, 11b., 2 411 ; 5 41b., 19„ . -" ; 51n., 225. ; 101 b., 335. The 101 b., 121 b., and by canisters, carriage free on receipt of Post-office Order, tils o can to Du Barry and Co, 77. Regent-street, London ; Tea Dealers, 3, King William-street ; like- Gra cechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishops traustreet road Within •, 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, ; 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham-court eloe4 -D u pper - street, Islin g t on N .; H arvey ; N o tti ng -hill ; u pper - street, 65, High-street; and Stubbs, Queen's (4,,l, St. C John's-wood, L on d on ; an d a n respec t a bl e "wra hemists.—Boware of spurious imitations. N°. 23,043 MP.. STRETTON'S RECOLLECTIONS. On Friday, April 27, in 1 vol., with Illustrations, 155., SP ORT AND SPORTSMEN.) A Book of Rccollections. By CHARLES STRETTON, Esq. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. SAUNDERS' NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., BOUND TO TIIE WHEEL. By JOIIN SAUNDERS. Author of "Abel Drake's Wife," &c. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " ST. OLAVE'S." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., HESTER'S SACRIFICE. By the Author of "St Olave's," "Janita's Cross," dm. " Hester's Sacrifice' will assuredly be read with pleasure. The book abounds in merit and beauty."— Morning Post. " One of the very best stories we have had from the author. It will be read to the very last page with unbroken inte rest."—Herald. Hurst and Blatkett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MISS BRADDON'S NEW NOVEL. At all Libraries, in 3 vols., THE LADY'S MILE. A .Novel. By the Author of "Lady Audley's Secret," (to. London : Ward, Lock, and Tyler, Paternoster-row. N 0 TIC E.-THE LADY'S MILE.- An abundant supply of this New Novel by the Author of "Lady Audley's Secret," &c ., will be ready on Wellies day, April 18. Subscribers to circulating libraries should -.rder "The Lady's Mile," by Miss Braddon. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE tor MAY contains :—Cayenne and French Guiana—The Street Wanderer—Dyevke and her Royal Protector—About Esprit de Corps, and Corporation Conscience—Wanderings through D aly in Search of its Ancient Remains—ldalia LiliAn's Inheritance—Egypt ; and a Voyage from Sea to Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. BE NTLE Y'S MISCELLANY for MAY contains : The Constable de Bourbon. By William Harrison Ainsworth. Book V. The Battle of Pavia—The One-Legged Lieutenant—Briars and Thorns. By Blanche Marryat—Rumptiousness—A Ride by Mar Saba to the Dead Sea—About an Almost Wish of Thomas hi ood's—" Je Sala Micux !" By Louisa Stuart Costello—Thrown Away—A, Fortnight's Ride East of Jordan. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. Part I. on May-day, with Illustrations, price 6d.. AUNT JUDY'S MAGAZINE. Edited b 7 MRS. ALFRED GATTY. London : Bell and Daldy, 186, Fleet-street. lIAMILTON'S DICTIONARY of 3,500 MUSICAL TERMS, 79th edition, Is. : —Clarke's Catechism of the Rudiments of Music, 98th edition, is. Each free for 13 stamps. "The number of copies sold proves that no commendation Is now needed beyond their own in trinsic merits."—Orchestra, March 24. ORGAN and CHURCH MUSIC PUBLISHED by ROBERT COCKS and Co.. consisting of Anthems, Services, Chants, Organ Works, Metrical Psalms and Hymns, Oratorios, Services, Masses, Works on the Theory of Music, &c. ; a catalogue of which may be had gratis and postage free. QACRED MUSIC for the PIANOFORTE, by >,7 Gm. F. WEST. "Sun of my Soul," "Jerusalem the Golden," and "Nearer to Thee." 3s. each ; free by post for 18 stamps each. T O QUADRILLE BANDS.—Free by post for 20 stamps, the famous UNITED SERVICE QUAD— RILLE, by FRED GoDFREY, for orchestra; also his Cold stream Guards' Waltzes, same price. _ . Apply to Robert Cocks and Co., New Burlington-street. sth edition, corrected and revised, post free 7 d. , THE TEETH : a Practical Treatise; with the best Means of Restoring them when Defective or Lost. By A. ESKELL, Surgeon-Dentist, of Grosvenor-street, W. "We cannot do better than recommend forgeneral perusal Mr. Eskell's treatise, which is as useful as it is unpretend ing."—Telegraph, June 20, 1860. Sold by Simpkin and Marshall. Stationers'-hall-court, London; and all Booksellers. DO you wish to SING, or have a beautiful and powerful VOICE ? If so, the " REGISTERED EUPHONIC NOTES " are truly wonderful in their action, and are unanimously pronounced the "Marvel of Science." They are invalual le to all, and are guaranteed as a protective agent in all weathers. No Singer or Speak. r should be without them. (See opinion of the press and testimonials.) The Euphonic Note, post free 14 stamps, in boxes 26 stamps, direct from the sole inven'or, bEAGRAVE ALGEN, 1, Dorcas-terrace, Hammersmith-road, London, W. PHEASANT REARING for 1866.— JAMES CHAYIBERLIN'S (opposite Corn Exchange, Nor wich) is the only depot in the world for proper FOUD for PHEASANT FEE DING. Between 200 and 300 testimonials of last year's success. Treatise on Hatching and Hearing, with other valuable hints, posted free on application. Land owners, pheasant rearers, and gamekeepers can raise any number of birds by using his food. The aristocracy of the kingdom constantly use it. Gentlemen requiring'game keepers, or gamekeepers requiring situations, are requested to apply to Mr. James Chamberlin, wine merchant and phea sant food dealer, opposite Corn Exchange, Norwich. BOARD and RESIDENCE.—CIiff House, near Warrior-square, St. Leonards-on-Sea, two minutes' walk from the Parade. Address, Mrs. Richardson, as above. JDEFRIES and SONS beg to call the special fa • attention of Merchants and the Trade to their NEW PATENT ASTRA BURNER, With Circular Wick, which for simplicity of construction, great brilliancy of light, perfect c ombultion, and its entire freedom from heat, sur passes everything that has yet been introduced. ASTRA LAMPS can be obtained from the METROPOLITAN LIGHT COMPANY, 417, Strand, and from all Ironmongers and Lamp Warehouses in Town a nd Country ; and the Patentee, 16 and 17, Commercial street, WhitechapeL ASTRA' PETROLEUM, and KEROSINE LAMPS on SHOW. (New Designs.) AsTRA (Patent) LAMP, for MINERAL AS TR A LAM P.—Five Hundred NEW PATTERNS for the Season now on Show. TABLE GLASS, ENGRAVED AND CUT. DEFRIES and SONS, ld and 17. COMMERCIAL -ST I:RET. TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS. Newest Patterns, Correct Measure. J.DEFRIES and SONS , • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES, For 12 Persons, 41 18s. M. BREAKFAST and TEA. SERVICES in great variety. £1 is. T DEFRIES and SONS, ei• 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL _ CHANDELIERS, New designs, for the Drawing-room, either for Gas or Candle. T DEFRIES and SONS, 1 • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS, In the Grecian and Venetian Designs. JDEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET. BRONZED AND ORMOLU CHANDELIERS, New designs, for the Dining-room. JREFRIES and S ONS, • 18 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL LAMPS AND WALL LIGHTS (Registered) for India. JDEFRIES and SONS. • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CLUB, MESS, AND FURNISHING ORDERS for the above Goods promptly executed. Works —LONDON and BIRMINGHAM. J.DEFRIES and SONS, 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. 1 - DEFRIES and SONS t 1 • Supply Merchants with Pattern Books Free. T DEFRIES and SONS' t- , • TEMPORARY SHOW ROOMS. 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET, WHITEC [LAPEL. Five Minutes' walk from the Late Establiehment, 147. HOUNDSDITCH. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer than 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected trom want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in five years. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for young 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 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, MCI President—Hie Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies . It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit tbe ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of containing several Hundred more beds, had the Commiat9 the requisite Hinds to maintain them. Contributions are received b , the Treasurer, Edward Kea Lerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by 'fours. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ;'lorries and Co. ; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; W , 111aras, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; I. Barned and C 9., Liverpool; and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. BTANFARD EXITS, bCaetary. A BEAUTIFUL DESCRIPTIVE CATA LOGUE, with Illustrative Sketches of CABINET FURNITURE and DECORATIVE UPHOLSTERY, sant free per post or given on application. The Stock, corres ponding to the List, is marked in plain figures. ATKINSON & co., CABINET MAKERS, UPHOLSTERE OU RS, LINEN AGEN DRAPERS, AND HOUSE TS, 198, 200, 202, 204, 206, 208, and 210, WESTMINSTER BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON. THE CURTAINS OF A HOUSE give the tone and character to its appearance. They should be changed with the changing seasons. ATKINSON and CO. are prepared with the earliest Spring Stock of Curtains — the new Pekinette Stripes for Drawing and Dining Booms, Pekin and Persi an Cl o th s, Muslin, Lace and Leno, with all the new Designs in this year's Chintzes, ATKINSON & CO., 198, 200, 202, 204, 206, 208, and 210, WESTMINSTER BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON. THE SPRING STOCK OF CARPETS, REPLENISHED with the Newest Designs from the best makers, comprises FELTS, KIDDER, BRUSSELS, VELVET FILE, AXMINSTEA and TURKEY. Every kind of material for covering ball or passage, Floor-Cloth, Cork Carpet, Linoleum, and Kamptulicon. ATKINSON & CO., 198, 200, 202, 204, 206, 208, and 210, WESTMINSTER BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON. PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C. Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches. At present' nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that they are homeless and starving. The Manager, &e., receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each night numbers of young women, children, and orphans are, for want accommodation, rofusod admittance, andhave to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will 1.6 required. Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it is propsed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor tamilies in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome, and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will be offered in your behalf. SUBSCRIPTIONS - are earnestly requested, and will bo gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT D.D., No. 22, Finsbury-circus E.C. 7/7...2 4.....% .. -si : '-'-\•:/-=•;..., A„,, ~, . r , • , - i • ' - . .cam. ii ... .. x 1 ..,.. _,, —•-•,.. _"di,‘,,7,, ...--' c. : 441 • *) I • . 1 A' 0 ;:•.. ~,,,' , . "-',i,,, ,. . . • , • -. .4, OS'Amalis AL, 4 , :-.;- ~01%. 1. , 4 " • c , .., .. , - j g • 1 ,P , • t. _. . k" . q .??' c r , , L., , ..„-,... .-:.,;. ~.4 . .. ... * - , :,;,„ 1 iit,, .5, 1 ?.. . ' .• , .1.40 , -= .05'-• ' t;;. , 1 -'nizorr t ," .-..' ~ , ... &.4 ,---__ . ..., . z DIE . 7 ,. ' lei ,.. \\\,,, ir.,,,,_. .. t. ,... : ,..„,,, ~ -,. L - -- i <^s•-•c-,c=:'z- ..0-,wp.-- -4 Z--- - 0.-z,c- ~:,e., for the miseries of the past. Some persons argued, not without show of reason, that the North would do all that was necessary for the South. After all the tremendous exertions they had made it would be wrong to say that they were not able, but even though able there were still the strongest reasons why the English people who sympathised with the negro should give their help and afford something from their resources that the prosperity of the negro might be more rapidly accomplished. Mr. T. HUGHES, M.P., sec on d e d th e r e so l u ti on , and said he considered it a great honour that the people of this country should have the opportunity of taking part in such a work as that in which the people of the United States were now engaged. He believed that in a year or two the sufferings of the negro would disappear ; unless, therefore, the pre sent moment was taken advantage of, no future op portunity would be afforded to the people of this country to deepen and widen the bonds which tied them and the American people together. The resolution was carried unanimously. On the motion of the Rev. Dr. SHAW, the follow ing resolution was also adopted : " That this meeting considers the closer union of the British Freedman's Aid Associations in this benevolent labour is of great importance, - and that the national form which such an union (comprising more than 30 associations) has ;taken is eminently adapted for its purpose, and would earnestly com mend the claims of the union to the favourable co operation of all friends of freedom." After a vote of thanks to the chairman the pro ceedings terminated. PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. side galvanized wires, covered with Manilla, are hour ever made in another branch of the Construc tion Company's Works. Here, too, a massive grappling rope of wire and hemp is being made. The Great Eastern had no grappling ropes on her last eventful voyage, and upon their absence, and the inefficiency of their substitutes, the failure and disappointment of last year's expedition mainly rests. This year she will have on board the giant rope we saw slowly approaching completion, which is made on an improved principle, and has been triumphantly tested to bear far more than the strain ever needed during the picking up process last year. Further, the testing apparatus has been so improved by the inventions and additions made by Mr. Willoughby Smith that a flaw will be detected with certainty either before, or the instant it has been paid out. Add to this, that the picking -up machinery has been vastly increased in efficiency, and it will be readily seen that the experience of last year has not been thrown a way. It is, of course, Loped that the ad ditional precautions taken will render flaws and faults all but impossible ; but it is a cheering assur ance to know that they are unimportant. Upon this simple fact ocean telegraphy must be content to rest. No human effort can positively ensure against casualties, and the obvious consideration is how to make casualties harmless. Capt. And erson main tained, after the expedition of last year, that pick ing up an Atlantic cable ought to be as easy as pay _ ing one out, and to have made speaks the v opinionofolinue s n expedition the fact of the next, , one the genius of the mechanists, and for their chances of success. The National Freedman's Aid Union of Great Britain and Ireland. A public meeting to inaugurate the Union was held yesterday afternoon at the Westminster Palace Hotel, Victoria-street. The Duke of Argyll presided; and among those present were Sir T. F. Buxton, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., T. Norton, Mr. J. Forster, Mr. B. H. Cadeney (Birmingham), Rev. A. Raleigh, D.D., Rev. Wm. Shaw, Mr. R. Ferguson (Carlisle), &c. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings of the meeting, said that, having presided over a meetingil connection with one of the associations of the Union last year, he would have been pleased if some one else had taken the chair on the present occasion, but he feared there was still a certain amount of shyness among our public men in taking part in aid of the freedmen of America, not from a want of personal sympathy for the liberated slave, but from a vague feeling that it was more or less an interference with American politics. Now, he had no sympathy with that feeling. The war was over, and although there were strong personal contests still existing in the United States, we in this country had no interest in those contests except as far as they might be con- cerned in the question of negro labour. Beyondsee ing the negro fully possessed of his civil rights, which alone could render the abolition of slavery of any value, we should take no partwhatever in Ame- rican politics properly so called. No one had a greater desire than he had to leave those matters exclu- sively to Americans themselves, and no one felt more confidence than he did that they would arrive at a wise and just settlement of all those questions which were at present in dispute. They were simply met in the cause of humanity to assist the negro in that state of transition through which he was passing, and before the new conditions of labour to which he would have to adapt himself were settled. It was quite clear that the Government of this country could not interfere to alleviate the sufferings of the negroes, but as individuals they could and ought to do so. The-noble duke then read passages from the Third Annual Report of the W estern Freedmen's Aid Commission, showing the manner in which the money that had been already contributed by the union had been distributed in America in affording relief to the destitute negro procuring work, fur nishing useful materials and necessary implements, establishing schools, providing medical help for the sick, and in promoting other works of beneficence. Up to the Ist of March last the money raised by the union was about £BO,OOO. With regard to the ques tion as to the ability of the negro to support himself by honest labour, his Grace thought the report they had received was satisfactory. Under all the cir- cumstances he considered there was a strong cal upon the people of this country to assist the Wash ington Commission to carry out their objects in a period of difficulty. America needed and would gratefully accept their aid as Great Britain accepted her aid for Ireland and Lancashire to the amount of £250,000 in their times of distress. The Rev. Dr. HowsoN moved and Sir T. F. BUXTON seconded the following resolution: — "That this meeting regards the progress of events during the past 12 months as affecting the American freedmen with profound interest, and considers the evident and intelligent fitness of an increasing num ber of the coloured people for the proper use of their newly-acquired freedom, their thirsting after edu cation, together with their readiness to undertake labour as so many new and powerful incentives to enlarged philanthropic effort on their behalf," which was unanimously agreed to. Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., then moved: — "That in view of the devoted labours of the Ame rican people through their various freedmen's aid associations, combined with the co-operation of the Government, to meet the physical and moral neces sities of the freedmen, this meeting regards the aid afforded hitherto by the British public, which is estimated at more than £BO,OOO, as a proper and grateful expression of our sympathy, and would earnestly recommend that it be largely augmented. The undeniable interest which the British people have in the freedmen's welfare, combined with other considerations of justice and gratitude, requires that such aid be supplied, until the great and. critical work of emancipation may be truly said to be com plete." The hon. gentleman said the mere fact that 4,000,000 of our fellow creatures were in the con dition in which the negroes of the United States were would be sufficient of itself to call for help ; but when, besides looking at their unhappy condi tion, they considered the terrific sacrifice by which the great change in their social position had been accomplished he conceived it to constitute altogether the greatest claim upon them that had ever existed on any nation of the globe. The freedmen were at present living as it were in an enemy's country, as it was quite certain the Southern planters who but yesterday were their masters would not feel any very Christian spirit towards them. What had taken place in Jamaica afforded an illustration of what might be expected to occur in the Southern States of America. Notwithstanding that the abolition of slavery in Jamaica was effected by an act of the Legislature, and a heavy compensation was paid to the owners of the slaves, it was quite clear that from the period of the abolition of slavery up to this hour the whites had never really, in an honest and just spirit, acknowledged the changed coed tlO of the negro, but that during the whole what it time their conduct towards the negro w d ft . s n . qitous always had been—of a most unjusth United States character. But the negroes of d t were not voluntarily emanciPatte,.s, sation• was paid to the plan ° existed in of the Southern the Jamaica on the part of negro to exist in an inStates. The ill -feeling, fthtehrieefore, creased planter ewandi e t ;war s negro might be States;E.uppo! and, if it did not, it of l freemen, an to the institutions of was degree ine e in s the op ai U n inpolontpe, owingi aon exten the country, newspapers, a p atform, schools—all Bthiveesesuiffnr2thgee' South, while in the North the people, who, have gone through this terrible war in con nection with the negro, and resolved to complete n peace the work which they had begun in war. Although he believed that the negro would have to undergo great difficulties, still it was his conviction that their former masters would gradually be recon ciled to that which was inevitable, and would find that justice and fair dealing were really the only means by which they could-gain any compensation THE SUN, LONDON WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1866. TO WEST-END DINERS. - " THE WELLINGTON," ST. JAMES'S-STREET, PICCADILLY. LADIES' SALOON DINING ItOOINI on the First Floor The SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS are now OPEN. Terms—Twelve Months £1 1 ts. Cd. Six Months I ls. Od. Apply, D. CAMERON, 49, St. James-street. W. S. WOODIN'S BAI)EN-BADEN and UP IN TILE AIR, an entirely New Entertain ment, EVERY EVENING, at Eight (except Saturday); Saturday Mornings at Three. POLYGRAPHIC lIALL, King William-street, Charing-cross. Luxurious sofa stalls, ss. ; balcony stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, ls.—A plan of stalls may be seen and seats secured at the Hall from Eleven to Five. MR. ARTHUR SKETCHLEY'S New Entertainment, MRS. BROWN AT HOME AND ABROAD, EVERY EVENING at Eight (except Saturday); Saturday Afternoon at Three. Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. Tickets at the Box—office; Mr. Mitchell's; and all music sellers. QTODARE'S 409TH REPRESENTATION. - THEATRE OF MYSTERY.—EGYPTIAN HAL L.— STODARE'S celebrated MARVELS of MAGIC and VEN TRILuQUISM, ss performed by him, by command, at Wind sor Castle, before her Majesty the Queen, Nov. 21, 1865 ; and twice before ri.R.H. the Prince of Wales, June 6, 1865, and March 10, 1866.—The New Sensation, the MARVEL of MECCA, the SPHINX, and Stodare's celebrated INDIAN BASKET FEAT, EVERY EVENING at 8. Wednesdays and Saturdays at 3. Stalls may be secured in advance at the Box-office, Egyptian Hall, open daily from 10 till 6; and at Mitchell's, Oki Bond street—Admission, Is., 2s. ; stalls, 3s. " Almost miraculous."—Vide the Times. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, ST. JAMES'S HALL. EVERT EVENING at Eight, WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, at Three and Eight,—The original and veri tably legimate CHRISTY MINSTRELS. First Season in London these five years. The only company in existence which possesses a legal claim to the title, from the fact of its being the only one which retains all the marked specialities and distinguished favourites who originally gained the re putation of the company first in the United States, and sub sequently in this country, in 1857. No other company as suming the title of Christy Minstrels possesses a single in dividual member of the least distinction who belonged to the original troupe. The Christys (after an absenc e of five years) return to London with their band strengthened and im proved in every respect, their entertainment being unani mously pronounced by the metropolitan press to be the most sparkling in London. Prices of Admission—New and luxurious fauteuils, sg. stalls, 3s. ; area. 2s. ; is. ; juveniles, under twelve, halt price to stalls and area only. Fauteuils and stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street ; or at Mr. Austin's, 28, Piccadilly. —Manager, Mr. Frederick Burgess. ityADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, _MIL BAKER-STREET, EASTER HOLIDAYS. NEW ADDITIONS.—SeveraI life-size Portrait Models of the most distinguished Personages of the day (including those of the late LORD PALMERSTON and GUS TAVUS V. BROOKE) have been added since the last Holidays ; and in the Chamber of Horrors are Effigies, taken from life, of SOUTHEY alias FORWOOD, and the notorious CHARLOTTE WINSOR. Open during the first three days in Easter week from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. Admittance, Is. ; children, under ten, half price ; Extra Rooms, 6d. NARVA.—To SHIPOWNERS and MASTERS. We are requested to inform the Shipping interest in Great Britain that the Russ'an Government has agreed to construct a LIFE-SAYING APPARATUS on the coast of Narva, that such will consist of two Li . eboats and Rocket Apparatus, ore on each side of the river, which are already order ed from abroad, and that they will be at Narva at the opening of this year's navigation. As regards the deepening of the entrance of the river we are informed that private measures have been taken to ac complish this object, a Dredging Machine having been con structed, which wijimmediately commence working. BRIGHT, DATIL, and CO. London, 24th April. is very quiet, and buyers seem to have become im pressed with the notion that as cotton goods are de clining so rapidly in price wool must take the same course. That, however, on mature consideration, will scarcely appear so probable. The existence of that sort of apprehension has kept the warehouses in a state of quietness all the week. The Yorkshire trade is as dull as ever, but stocks are low. A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Selections from ail the favourite Operas will be performed by the celebrated ARGYLL BAND every Evening. Chef d'Orchestra, Signor L. CURTI. M. LEVY, the Great Cornet Player, at Nine, Ten, and Eleven o'clock. Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock. Admission, Is. CHOCOLATE.-MENIER'S FRENCH. CHOCOLAT-MENIER, for Breakfast. CfIOCOLAT-MENIER is pure, wholesome, and delicious. WNIER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE. Warehouse, 23, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. Sold everywhere. PHILLIPS AND COMPANY'S TEAS ARE BEST AND CHEAPEST. STRONG to FINE BLACK TEA, is. 6d., 25., 2s. 6d., 38., 3s. 4d. Most Delicious Black Tea is now only 3s. 6d. per pound. Pure, Rich, Rare, Choice Coffee, is. 4d., is. Gd , Is. Bd. PHILLIPS and CO., TEA MERCSIANTS, 9, King William-street, City, London, E.C. A price current free. Sugars at market prices. PHILLIPS and CO. send all goods Carriage Free within eight miles of No. 8, King William-street, 40s. worth Car riage Free to any Railway Station or Market Town in Eng land. Phillips and Co. have no Agents, nor auy connection with any house in Worcester or Swansea. WHAT DO THE WILD WAVES SAY NOW ? —That the FIERY CROSS has arrived, bringing some magnificent KAISOW CONGOUS of delicious flavour, and which may now be had, at a mere commission on the import price, of the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, No. 5, Great St. Helen's CLurehyard, Bishopsgaie-street. LIGHT I LIGHT ! LIG HT I - - MATHEWS'S GAS LAMPS, Square or Globe, of every size and design. AlB inch Bent Top Square Lamp, painted and glazed, 258 ; a 16 inch powerful Reflect ing Lamp, with pendant iron and burner complete, £2 29.- 21 and 62, High-street, Bloomsbury. Publicans and other Lamps redecorated equal to new. STARCH MANUFACTURERS TO H. R. IL THE PRINCESS OF WALES. 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Terms strictly moderate. Consultations free. 291, REGENT-STREET (8 doors from the Polytechnic). THE ATLANTIC CABLE. There is the same difference between the appear ance of the Atlantic cable of this year and last as between a white man and'a black. But this differ ence is purely external, and in no way applies either to the conducting wire or the many coatings of gutta percha and compound with which it is covered. These are precisely the same as last year ; and in shape, make, and size, the cable of to-day is iden- tical with the one concerning which so many san guine hopes were raised twelve months ago. The outer protection is composed of wires covered with Manilla coating, as before, but as these are now made of galvanised iron, the necessity for a tarry covering is abolished, and the cable being at this time put on board the Great Eastern at the rate of more than a hundred miles a week looks like an ordinary ship's rope which has just left the store room, and has seen neither pitch nor tar. To trace the manufacture of the Atlantic cable in its early stages, it is necessary to visit the gutta- percha works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company in the City-road. Here you see the copper wire, as fine as packthread, as received from Birmingham. When every yard of this has been tested electrically, it is placed on bobbins, and running through the glutinous mixture known as Chatterton's compound, passes up a vertical spindle which is fed by six other bobbins on which are the same wire. These seven wires—six round the central one—make nearly a perfect circle, and are the medium of electrical communication. Every- thing else about the cable is either for insulation or for protecting the precious core, the diameter of which is about that of a small pea. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to add that the seven blended wires act as one, and that while messages could be conveyed through any of their number, even if the rest were injured, it is as a single wire that the cable must be considered for all practical purposes. The preparation and application of the gutta percha coating is extremely interesting. In the vast cellars of the City-road establishment massive blocks of gutta-percha are stacked away in the primitive state in which they left the natives selling them. Idols, dragons, insects, monsters, and animals, are all to be seen rudely fashioned in the plastic mate rial as it left the tree, and now hardened into what resembles wood. You walk through groves and avenues of gutta-percha, smell it on all sides, feel it in the dim light whichever way you stretch oui your hand, and hear without wonder of the immense quantity required for the execution of such a con- tract as the Atlantic cable. The different qualities of this useful material are easily marked, and the prevalence or absence of foreign matter easily seen when bits are broken off. Inside it looks like hard touchwood ; outside it resembles peat, or solid lumps of bark. From the basement, where this mass of material is housed, you pass to the next floor, in the rooms of which it is being carefully made avail able. First, the vast blocks are broken up by a disc armed with teeth ; then the mass is boiled in huge cauldrons, until in colour and appearance it resembles so many masses of liquified granite ; then, by ticker and the cold water test, foreign substances are eli minated, until, after more boiling, it is placed under hydraulic pressure, treated as a fluid, and comes out cleared and purified of all appreciable impurity. Then conies the process of mastication, which con- sists of a series of teeth on a double roller being em ployed in working upon the gutta-percha until is of the consistency of putty and the colour of cho colate. The same process is repeated with a single roller masticator, and thus by repeated purification and manipulation a perfectly plastic mass is ar- rived at, which is proved to possess more highly than any other the peculiar properties needed in submarine telegraphy. The electric wire is first passed through ;Chatterton's compound, which is both insulative and adhesive, and attaches the gutta percha to the copper, and finally into the gutta perch itself, and then into cold water. This is the first layer for the cable, and as soon as it is com pleted careful tests are again applied. The process of dipping in the compound in the gutta percha and in cold water, and of testing, is repeated several times, until the cable is the substance of a slight walking cane, and externally like so much gutta percha piping. It is then wound round drums in lengths of 2,200 yards, which drums are deposited bodily in tanks of water. Tests are constantly being put, but the electricians appointed to certify before the cable leaves these works, have it immersed in water at a uniform temperature of 75 deg. Fahren heit. This is the contract test, and as the hotter the surroundings of the cable the more trying to its insulating power, it will be readily seen that the trial is sufficiently severe. It is well known that the bottom of the ocean is, in an electric sense, favour able both to copper and gutta percha, the one be coming a better conductor and the other a better insulator the colder the water in which it is placed. Gutta percha, too, increases in insulating power by pressure, and it follows that the colder and deeper the water, the more electrically perfect the cable is hoped to become. Having been placed on bigger drums it is now transferred in lengths of from four to five hundred yards, to Morden Wharf, Green wich, where the remainder of its manufacture is carried on. Here it is again tested at 75 de grees, and its gutta percha piping appearance soon g ives place to one more consonant with the word cable. First it receives a coating of jute yarn, put on by means of bobbins and a hol low spindle. This done, it is plunged in cold water for from ten to sixteen hours, after which tests are again rigidly applied. There are 32 tanks employed in this particular immersion, each tank holding more than two miles of cable. We saw some of the vast coil after it had been under water several hours, and could discern no difference either to sight or touch in its condition and that of the cable just leaving the jute-giving machinery. From these tanks it is passed through troughs downstairs, and comes up to receive its final protection of ten homogeneous galvanised wires, each of which has a stout coating of Manilla. The cab le is now complete. It next passes into still more gigantic tanks, where it is again socked in cold water, and where tests are still constantly applied. From these tanks it is paid out through a trough into the hulk stationed a few yards from the wharf, and by this is carried to the Great Eastern at Sheerness. The Amethyst, an old Government frigate, was doing duty as hulk during our visit; and has been built up and altered for her present purpose until she looks far more like an ugly Noah's ark than a ship of war. One of the unwrit ten laws of river life seems to be that strangers may board and visit ships at anchor, without being given into custody for trespass. The deck is open, and the means of going below ample, so that under ordinary circumstances any idle person might have access to the cable without much difficulty while it is on the transport vessel. To guard against such intrusion, a substantial hut has been built upon, and covers a great portion of the Amethyst's deck, and the slop ing roof of this, and its outhouse shape, look strangely unshiplike when it is viewed from the land. Fast as the cable can be paid in and stowed away does it leave the works, and directly the Amethyst leaves her place will be supplied by the Iris, the vessel act ing alternately as transport tender between the cable works and the Great Eastern. Not less interesting than what we have already seen is another manufacture connected With the expedition. We have traced every stagewire o . f fl o w cable making from the little Birmingham rest ship. The out the stout coil as paid into the g PARIS. 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DISDERI, PHOTOGRAPHIST. --INVEN TOR of the CARTE de VISITE, Patent the 27th of November, 1851, 70, 71, 72, Brook-street, Hanover-square, and for Equestrian Portraits at Hereford Lodge, Gloucester road, Old Brompton-road, and 8, Boulevard des Italiens, Paris. _____ _ - - DISDER I has on SIMI , : 65,000 CARTES de VISITE of all the CELEBRITIES of the Day. and PANORAMIC VIEWS. Establishments in LONDON, PARIS, MADRID, and TOULON, for enlargements tip to life size. DISDERI, PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST to H. I. MAJESTY , the EMPEROR NAPOLEON and the IMPERIAL FAMILY; to H. I. MAJESTY the EMPEROR of ALL the RINSIAS ; also to H. I. MAJESTY the QUEEN of SPAIN and the ROYAL FAMILY; to H. MAJESTY the KING of ITALY; to H. MAJESTY the KING of HOLLAND; to H. MAJESTY th KING of PORTUGAL ; to the IMPERIAL ACADEMY of MUSIC; PHOTOGRAPHER of the PALACE of the UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION of 1855, &c. D ISDERI, PHOTO PAINTING.—:-In oil on canvas. D ISDERI, PHOTOGRAPHIE SILK.--=Hifi own new process. 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In a practice founded in 1830, and now ex ending over greater part of the kingdom, an experience unequalled has been obtained, enabling us to offer even the most sensi tive sufferer a system of dentistry perfect in its absolute freedom from pain, a specialite t ertaininz only to our prac tice, and for which her Majesty has granted her royal letters patent. This system embraces the non-interference with all stumps, however decayed, the supporting instead 0 extrac tion of loosa teeth moil they become firm and useful in mas tication, and the utter absence of all and every operation, so that the most nervous person can be supplied without fear of pain or inconvenience. These teeth are cheaper, more dur able, natural, and comfortable than any yet produced. Consultation free. Teeth from ss. Sets from 5 to 25 gs., warranted. _ _ _ For the efficacy, utility, and success of this system, vide "Lancet." - Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON MOSELY and SONS, 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand. Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station. Daily attendance at 13, Whltefriargate, Hull; 10, Norfolk street, Sheffield ; 4, East-parade. Leeds ; 14, St. Nicholas street, Scarbro' ; and 33, Coney-street, York. Established 1830. No connection with any one of the same name. STAIE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, April 24.—The heavy operations in cotton at Liverpool by spinners who have been tempted by low prices to purchase at once to cover orders they hold for yarn have naturally caused a slight reaction there, and to some extent a similar result has been produced here in yarn and cloth. The telegrams from Liverpool, however, say that out of 20,000 bales bought there to-day at id. ad vance per lb. 7,000 were taken by speculators; and the somewhat better feeling in this market is tinged by a fear that the improvement will not prove per manent. In shipping yarns there has been a good deal of business to-day at about ld. per lb. ad vance upon the lowest prices taken last week. Many of our spinners have been asking a conside rable advance on what they could have obtained last week, and this in many quarters has checked opera tions, buyers showing a good deal of timidity. Sellers, however, report the market as closing decidedly better than it has been. Business for the Continent has been discouraged by telegrams ex hibited on the Exchange by Germans from German correspondents. One of these was as follows : i‘ War is inevitable. Buy nothing on our account." Home-trade yarns are selling better to-day, and there has been a fair business at Id. per lb. advance on the rates of last Friday. In cloth there is less improvement. The reaction in cotton at Liverpool has caused manufacturers to raise their quotations a little, but there has been little or no business effected where they insist upon an advance upon the prices of last week. Buyers generally seem to fear a re turn to the low prices of last week, though there is a hope that it will not be accompanied with the same panic feeling, and are holding back where any advance is mentioned. CARDIFF, 23d.—Steam coal proprietors are busy in executing orders, with which their books are well filled, and although the present active state of trade has prevailed for several weeks there is every prospect of its continuing. The demand from the foreign markets is very large, and Welsh steam is being used more than ever for marine purposes. The improved inquiry on home account continues to increase, and additional railway accommodation to London and the North would give a still further stimulus to the trade , i n t he iron trade there is no material change to not e ; ho p e s , however, are enter tained that business with America will b ecome more active, as there are some large orders in the market from South America for rails. The inquiries on and there is a ' markets, but not s c t o ea lo d n y ial tra a d c e co w u i n t t h athree continentalsatisfactory to the extent expected. In the home trade buyers continue to hold back, b ut i n s everal instances indi cations have been evinc ed of an inclination to give out prices more ar e f . well Forpig the demand keeps u p, and maintained. There is a moderate demand for tin plates. LEEDS, 24th.—The markets in both the white and the coloured cloth-hails to-day have been much like those of the past few weeks, there being no great disposition to purchase goods in large quantities. The parcels made up to-day have been of various articles, and have included a few summer and autumn goods, as well as trouserings and coatings that are not particularly affected by any season of the year. Good all-wool blacks are in moderate request, at firm prices, but there is not quite so good a demand as there was lately for black unions. Plain and fancy tweeds of good make are saleable at late rates. Generally prices of wools, woollen yarns, and goods are the same as last week. ROCHDALE, 23d.—To -dg's market has not been largely attended, and the business done was con fined to very narrow limits, but on the whole the trade in fancy flannels, and printed sorts especially, is fairly satisfactory. The demand for plain goods SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER RACES.—TITESDAY. To have the Roodee flooded with sunshine instead of rain, and for the races to be run without a forest of um brellas as a feature, is a state of things so unprecedented that it warrants a passing notice. Chester is associated with dirt and discomfort in racing minds that one could hardly realise its aspect this glorious spring day, and the crowds that thronged the course seemed fully to appreciate the change. Ra cing, with eight events on the card, commenced, according to Ch es t er l aw, at 2 o ' c l oc k , w i t h a wa lk over b y s elim for th e G rosvenor Stakes, and then the form Danbury was sh ce ow ra nin w t i h th e Eaton clzone Plate, which w ol h d i y c i h o P oks. anta T le h o o n ro w w o a n s , after a game a fine finish between four in the:Chesterfield Stakes, Bing Hal, who had apparently won within the distance, being " shot" by Rococo passing the Stand, and defeated by a short head. Queen of Trumps, a warm favourite in the H an dicap Plate, could not quite get up to The Count, and was beaten by a neck. good, and the attend ance quite up to the e The average racing of was a first day. Thc Grosvenor Stakes of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 50 added. Winners extra. Grosvenor Co urse. Abo ut a mile and a quarter. Eight subs. Mr. Lincoln's Belim, 7 st 31 b (inc . 51b extra) (Ken y on) w.o. a mile. 18 subs. The Eaton Plate st 21 (handicap) of 80 sovs, for 3- y r-old s and upwards. Winners 101 b extra. Ralf 8 Marquis of Hastings's Pantaloon, 4 yrs, (Cannon) 1 Mr. Smith's Ozone, 8 yrs, Est 111 b (R. Challoner) 2 e) Lord Uxbridge's Goldylocks, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b..... Parry 8 Lord Wilton's Isis, 3 yrs, Est Mr. Barber's Contract, 4 yrs, Est 131 b (Ward) 5 Mr. Lincoln's Zisca, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b plaidment) 6 Mr. A. Williams's Branch, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (J. Edwards) 7 _ . Betting-7 to 4 agst Pantaloon, 4to 1 each agst Ozone and Isis, and 5 to lagst Goldylocks. After a short delay, caused by the breaking away of Ozone and Goldylocks, the flag fell to an oven start. The latter was first to show in front, followed by Isis, Panta loon, and Ozone to the bridge turn, where Ozone drew up, and when fairly in the straight held a slight lead; half way up the distance Cannon brought up the favourite, and heading Ozone opposite the stand won cleverly by a length. A neck between the second and third. _ . The Mostyn Stakes of 10 sovs each, b ft, with 80 added, for 2 Tr-olds; colts, Bst 101 h; fillies, Bst 61b; winners extra. T.Y.C. 14 subs. Lord Coventry's The Rescue, Bst 10113 J. Adams 1 Mr. Johnstone's Gentian, Bst 61b ( (Morris 2 Mr. H. Rich's Boauclerc, B st 101 b (Bittern 3 Mr. Barber's Captain, Bst 10th (J. Snowden 4 Betting-7 to 4on The Rescue, who waited upon Gen tian until entering the straight, when he came away and won in a canter by three lengths. Two lengths separated the second and third, and a head between third and fourth. The Chesterfield Stakes (handicap), of 5 sovs each, with 100 added, for 3-yr-olds. Winners extra. Seven furlongs. 28 subs. Mr. johnstone's Rococo, 6st 121 b (Cameron) 1 Marquis of Hastings's King Hal, Bst 21b (Cannon) 2 Mr. C. Peck, jun.'s, Aldcroft, 7st 61b (Carroll} ) 3 Mr. Jeffery's Sylph, Gst 121 b (Kenyon 1 The following also ran:—Loughrea, Locket Lucy, Al berta, Isis, and Blue Cap. Betting-3 to 1 agst Aldcroft, 7to 2 agst Rococo, 100 to 30 agst King Hall, 4 to 1 agst Sylph, and 20 to 1 agst Locket Lucy. The lok_with the exception of Loughrea, got away upon good terms, Locket Lucy cutting out the work at a good _ _ pace, followed by Alberta and Aldcroft, King Hal head ing the remainder. No change cccurred down the Dee side until rounding the bridge turn, where Rococo joined the leaders, and with Aldcroft and King Hall entered the straight nearly abreast. At the distance King Hal looked all over the winner, but compounding a few strides from home, Rococo, after a fine finish, won on the post by a short head, a length and a half between second and third. Handicap Plato of 40 soya, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Certain winners extra. T.Y.C. 10 subs. Mr. W. Phillips's The Count, 5 yrs, 7st...CR. Challoner) I Lord Bateman's Queen of Trumps, aged, 9st Blb(Challoner 2 Mr. R. C. Naylor's Strayaway c, 3 yrs, sst 91b (Kenyon) 3 Dawdle, Charming Woman, andNorthill also ran. Betting-6 to 4 agst Queen of Trumps, 2to 1 agst Daw- die, and 6 to 1 agst any other. As soon as the flag fell the Count made play, waited upon by Northill, who in a few strides took the lead, with Daw dle and the Queen of Trumps going on third and fourth, in which order they rounded the turn. When fairly in the straight Queen of Tramps drew up to the Count, and the pair, singling themselves out, ran a neck-and-neck race home from the distance, the Count, who was never quito headed, winning by a neck ; three lengths between second and third. The Wynnstay Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 100 added for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Winners extra. Nearly a mile. 24 subs. Marquis of Hastings's Pantaloon, 4 yrs, Bst 10Ib (inc. 101 b extra) Mr. A. Heathcote's Skirmish, 4 yrs, 7 st 111b...(llibberd) 2 Mr. W. Phillips's Persuasion, 5 yrs, Est 121 b (lloystead) 3 Juliet, Skylark, Rigoletto, King Arthur, Jetty Treffz c, Murillo, and Slieve Came also ran. Betting-5 to 2 agst Murillo, 4to 1 agst Pantaloon, sto 1 agst Skirmish, 100 to 15 each agst Skylark and Juliet, and 10 to 1 agst Persuasion. Persuasion, followed by Juliet and Skirmish, lay in front for the first three-quarters of a mile, Pantaloon lying in the centre of the nick, and Murillo bringing up the rear. Enter ing the straight Pantaloon drew up, headed Skirmish, and Persuasion at the distance, and won easily by half a length. A length between second and third, and the same between third and fourth. Selling Stakes of 3 soya, 'with 20 added, for 2-yr-olds and upwards ; two, ist 101 b ; three, 9st 121 b ; four, lOst 71b; five and upwards, 10st 131 b. Three quarters of a mile. 6 subs. Mr. Bennett's Sisyphus, 4 yrs (DO), 9st 3lb (S. Hibbera) 1 Mr. Dawson's Dusty Miller, 3 yrs (X6O), Bst 91b (Morris) 2 Mr. Frederick's Petra's dam colt, 3 yrs v. 30, Bst 71b (J. Forst/ Mr. Howarth's Gentille, 2 yrs (£80), Est 81b u . (B row n) ; Mr. Brown's Jolie, 2 yrs vso, 6st 81b O6 nu entille, The Petra's dam colt made play, attended by i i a body to Betting-5 to 4on Sisyphus and 7to 2 agst Dus t Sisyphus, and Dusty Miller, the lot ru .t n d liing: Dusty Mil the distance, where the favourite wavon ea sily _ y b half a ler, and after the semblance of a ra ec c o o nd an d third. The length; five lengths between Las. winner was bought in for 95 ,w ith 50 added ; 3-yr-olds, Palatine Stakes of 5 sovs9eastc; s i x and aged, 9st 21b. Once 7st ; four, Bst 71b ; five' 14 subs. round and a distance. n, 8 Yrs, Est 41b (car Miller. 6st 61b) (.£2OO 4 yrs, 7st 21b (£200) (E Mr. Fobert's Wiseina (Dunbar 1 phick 2 jsfurillo, 3 yrs, Est (X 20 0) ... (Cameron 3 Mr. Johlist_e___ of France, 3 yrs, Gst 71b (£ 2 oo)(Kenyon 4 Mr. Job s Even on Wiseman, 2 to 1 agst Murillo, and 3 Betting — t Wild Bee. to 1 ags • favourite made the running at a steady pace with The Mr. Maund's Wild Bee second, the rest well up, in which order they ran to the bridge turn, whore Wild Bee fell back into the NW Bee, fourth place; entering the straight Wild Bee again joined the favourite, but, failing to get up, was beaten after a fine race by a neck ; half a length between the second and third, same between the third and fourth. An objection against the winner for pressing Wild Bee on the rails stands over. n an ig a h rl t a ow fi i r a e n b a r , the ie o e ke et o r u ot t y o p n ers, i FETTER-LANE.—At about 8 o'clock last F IRE IN premises of Messrs. Morell at the corner ago of d Plough-court , 0 1 1 ou f.ll buildings g; rt Fetter-lane. It appears that some years were pulled down and new ones erected, especially fitted for Messrs. Morell and Dowland's business, and it was for tunate that this was so, for if the fire of last night had oc curred in old premises, it might have spread so rapidly as to have endangered a great amount of property. As it was, the fire was restricted to the strip of new building having a narrow frontage in Fetter - la ne, and stretching down the left side of Plough - court . The fire, which started in the upper story, was di s covered b y a p olice-constable shortly after the workmen left, and very soon firemen were on the spot. Several lan d steamers and manual power engines arrived, and were speedilyin operation. They got the fire under, but it is said that the damage done by water and by fire was very considerable. There were great crowds of people at the end of the different remained courts and in the lane during the time the.engines . T" 0 X F 0111), 6, OXFORD-STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (Limited', IF I WERE KING, Comic Opera, by ADOLPHE ADAM, having been enthusiastically received, will be performed, together with IL TROVATORE and MASANIELLO, by the whole of the talented Operatic Company EVERY EVENING in addition to the other novelties of the estab lishment, including the celebrated HUNGARIANS in their new entertainment, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr, RANDALL, and Messrs. PERSIVANI and D'RHONDE. Notice.—The last Two Weeks of the Hungarians' appear ance in England. Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, is ; private boxes, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d. Doors open at half-past 7. Commence at 8. I 1 J.