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' 14111 , ..',(17" . . ~,c` . , ~, , ..l• '"-DROLT. .;' ' 4 ',i t , ic•-• I , v .5- / -...,,, k•= .../ 1:,-"'"' 7 ~~~j~ L ~~ yL ~ ~'~ ~sy ~di ~l~~ THE SUN, 14)NDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1866. ite, Kip be ble, No. 23,214. PRICE.... 4d. STAMPED sd. On Friday, Nov. 9, In 2 vols.. Svo., sos. bound, ABOOK ABOUT LAWYERS. By J. C. JEAFFRESON, Barrister-at 1 aw. mist can bo seon when thus viewed ; it increased in density during the fall of rain, though usually mist rises from rain. Its density did not decrease when the wind was blowing, but increased again on its subsidence. Whatever may be its nature, ho adds, the fact is very remarkable, that since the cholera period of 1851 this phenomenon has not been observed till the present time. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Author of `•A Book about Doctors," &c. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 3r'3 nee rib, age. hos- Earl vise le of re ' five l `•ill lat it , icul - esti- .edict Is in- corps rrant lie, as a bates. e an ,ed in m the es:-- - Sales. 96,98 6 46,95 7 21,717 75,46 0 81,65 1 ,00,02 6 7/,7 57 70 ; 28 0 96,460 72,585 35,481 a nd '9 ye ar, gadier /about g ns its ) d With ialities• or bes t s found We de- per 36 indirtgi 485 to to -day , 's ra tes. ld Per r n dill', le, and a about i ce lots e t toP 3 per 36 inclingf 29 0 to ; to 503 DS were ;s per 86 to 88 4 etouo 3d to 7° ; barley' h a sale o . b e about 0. 41 4 ' ~22 " 6 17 21 ° 17 20 " wed . ' s erm • te 4 ironic tren of ghe tZ: Lech is :tive, the meoicine tv sic Lre -c ice theln pills. u 1 sYta, row"' . /. '''. . ' .- a pta e wife of den 0f a T. Pore' ch ur F lb Trini! l , in coloo - ). Clarke of , r i s i tTl )f J;Pa, tb° i. - , , S. aged u f La, w if e 0 ;rtb, DirB• Berkeley.on. 0 uo,. S. sq•, carli° l6 D3O 6000 CONTRACT FOR RUM. CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY, Somerset House, 31st October, 1866. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING - 4 - the OFFICE of HIGH ADMIRAL the ' UNITED KINGDOM of LORb GREAT BRITAIN and of IRE LAND, do hereby give Notice, that, on MONDAY, the 12 th November next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, When to be delivered. Fifty Thousand Gallons of RUM Within Three Weeks from date of Contract. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the R um. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Tend ers are opened. of contracting either for the whole or for such part thereof only as they may (hem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also a n unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders. The Rum t o be exempted from the Customs duties, and parties tendering are to state where it is Payment for the Rum will be made for the proof gallons to one -tenth of a gallon, the liquid contents being ascer tained to the half gallon. Samples of the Rum are to bo sent in pints for each import mark, and the average strength of each mark ex to be st a t e d , and not an average of different marks or strengthi of several imports, and any parcel of Rum that is found not to be of the same quality, mark, or average strength of the sample tendered and accepted will be rejected by the officers. The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted are requested to be taken away by them imme diately after the Contract has been decided. No Tender will be received unless made "on the Printed Form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con troller or Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House. Particular attention is called to the conditions of the Contract, which may be seen in the said Lobby. No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer re ceived from each person will be communicated to him in Writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words Tender for Rum," and must also be delivered at the De- Rartment of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty, nomerset House.. By order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. To GU N M -A- KE R S and Others. The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of BREECH-LOADING PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for zREECLI-LOADING RIFLES, either repeating or not repeating which may replace the present Service Rifles in future manufacture. 11. The following are the conditions considered essential in Military non-repeating Rifles A. WEIGHT. Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet. m LENGTH. To be 51 inches, with short stook, measured from the hollow of the butt-plate to muzzle. c. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP. Must not exceed 6lb. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for service. D. CARTRIDGES. Must carry their own ignition. B. SIGHTS. The foresight must be such as to admit of:a bayonet fixed according to the present system. STOK Must be such as t o carr y a light . metal cleaning-rod, and allow a sling to be used. G. RECOIL. • Must not exceed that of tho Enfield Rifle by more than 10 per cent. H. THE ARM AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injury bylong-continued firing, rough usage, and exposure, as the naval rifles converted to breech -loaders on the Snider system. To be as cap a ble, also, of being used without accident by imperfectly trained I f l l o eo, qand of lity being manufactured in quantities and of uni rra ua. I. THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE. Must b e as li tt l e l i able to injury b y roug h usage, d amp, an( Lexposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for dui ler's converted Enfield rifle—also as little liable to acci dental explosion as th o same cartridge, and as capable of 'log manufactured in large quantities, and of uniform quality. x. CALIBRE. Optional. Opt L. THE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE. ional. Optional. M. THE LOCK. N. RAPIDITY OF FIRE. (34 Pahle of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without 0 - . lll ing, the cartridges being arranged on a table. ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST. th. The arm must g i ve a m e an figure of merit of not more 36 in. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500, a ll -11 d bin. at 300. s h o amen - to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty tsac P. TRAJECTORY. deg 3 to require at 500 yards an elevation of more than 1 ot 0 in. The Q. FOULING. shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cent. ‘, 1,000 yards after firing 250 rounds. Th e R. PENETRATION. that presentt of five shots not to be loss than of the p service rua.o. , -loading Enfield Rifle -1,141 12 half-inch elm planks, which tia— been soaked 4ts hours i n water. Distance 30 yards. s. LUBRICATION. Wax on bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant ma y be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought necessary by the competitor. 111. ~, No arms will be received without the usual proof marks. 'P e eifications, and drawings of the methods proposed, : 4411 8* the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a ,1 1 , 811 ed specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu ijrn, should be sent to the "Director of Ordnance, War ''"e,_e, Pall-mall," on or before the 30th March, 1867. b- " specifications and specimen arms will be considered jrhe Ordnance Select Committee and its associate mem s2 Who will be selected by the Secretary of State for se i War, and who will, after firing the 20 preliminary rounds, e e , and recommend for further trial such of the systems 5ne , 11 , 4 3' appear to them sufficiently promising . , rejecting all as slay not be considered to offer sufficient merits to di l i rra_ nt their being included in the competition, the con -puss of which are stated in this advertisement. f ; fl ' a ell accepted competitor will then be required to furnish t o o - o,"P e rbuent, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity z u ,„tsPecimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am bi;-,,'"011 per arm, within four months after date of de -II"- Each competitor will be required to disclose to the e,rnruittee the exact nature of the lubrication he may em t;o°Y. A. sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted t h is Petitors, to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of ; 811 , PIA of ammunition required. twal ue Se y cretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the h t . 4 , w hich, on combination of all qualities, is considered 411 e committee to be the best submitted. t o r m second reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at -1 p: 11 , g a sa, is selectisfactoryrit degree of excellence in other particu ated for me in respect to its breech mechanism. iit A third reward of X4OO for the best cartridge. The qua awiB,,w. Filch will be principally taken into consideration in f awarding this prize will be economy of manufacture, power sustaining rough usage, freedom from deterioration in lions climates, and general serviceability. aa m ile shooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but tb I • e Y may depend upon the rifling of the arm with which sicci_eartridge is associated, they will_not be so much con -164.1.(1 as those above-mentioned. i s Clearly to b e un d ers t oo d that under no circumstances su ee : mpetitor be entitled to more than one prize gi y Prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be s ery ! l to the inventor of the arm finally adopted into the IV. MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. t .'agazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re elved and examined in a manner similar length Breech irding Rifles. They must not be less in gt than 48 cypes including the stoc. t i he li mit of weight for k these arms is fixed at 911 b. ex- Isive of the charges in the magazine. b a 't is indispensable that the arms be made to take a tonet. Ise he Secretary : of State offers a reward of 800 for the best a gazine or Repeating Arm produced that fulfils the above conditions • and in th e a bs ence o f experience does not at Pr esent define the standard of accuracy or other conditions to be fulfill e d b efore such an arm can be adopted. f or , h ° B o Magazine orßepeatingArms, which are accepted further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O each. T his sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per art,. le Secretary of State will take care that no ingenious advelty produced in answer to this advertisement shall be ho Pecl into the service without proper acknowledgment, rethat the name of the individual with whom it origi "Le shall be recorded in connection with it. I LI the rifle to which the first prize is awarded is adopted 4 w the service, it will bear the inventor's name. J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director • Wa n of Ordnance. ' , Meel Oct. 22, 1866. tin E NDER FOR CLOTHING. ,11. i The Ri g h t Honourable t h e L or d s an d o th ers Corn thsaioners of thi s H osp it a l d o H ere by Give Notice, that eY are ready to receive TENDERS and to treat with the s uch as may be willing to contract for CLOTHING pit,ll, for two 'N-VALID SOLDIERS, &c., belonging to the Hos ' years, WHOLE MOUNTING FOR 1867. I, HALF MOUNTING FOR 1868. fo r ir ,r B e Persons, ther e f ore , w h o m ay be disposed to treat le same are desired to apply at the Secretary's Office ' 4 3 7 between the hours of Eleven and Three o'clock 1 , 1 further particulars, where Patterns may be seen, and fiL ni s of Tenders obtained, the latter of which must be saicriruP, and d e li vere d sea l e d a t t h e B oar d- room o f th e zt ospital, by the party or parties tendering, or by an appointed on hi s or t h e i r b e h a lf , on TUE SDAY, the tir n ;`,7 of NOTEMBEIG next, at Twelve o'clock, at which tal c - Com missio consideration.ners will be prepared to receive and e th e same into GEORGE HTJTT, Secretary and Registrar. .gal Hospital, Chelsea, Oct. 6 1866. W I NSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having th e been recently opened and fitted with regnished for hc n ille and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr. lsh-24,400N, announces that he has transferred his Estab easirent from ' Birmingham to the above desirable residence, d 7 accessible, and distant from London about an hour a-halt by the L and North-Western lie and fift 4 mutes from Oxford. ondon Attached to the mansion, n si , tuated on Dr0 8a 1 1 447 801 1, and commanding an extensive and pleasing _gifoopPrietett.,:re garden me idow plantation, and recreation "de For terms' and forms' of admission address the 1111 E , RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another th an ,t , ?tnt.. to thA 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer w a: B . e ,. . l3 ,, t v oo lva r , y f i ri n e fi n v dl e ell ye s a , r y s o . ung females were rejected from bee n 0 ' PJNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, whohave xe u ",;nevi home the Committee wish to form would be for havo ae g e irls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who t ontri u 10?1 astray from the path of virtue. D bu tfons will be received gratefully by the SecretarY, Itazoiaaniel Coo ,„ Per,Lombard-aB5, Queen-street. Y 444 attest. Cheapside; vr by Wince NEW NOVEL BY CHARLES LEVER. On Thursday will be published, SIR BROOK FOSSBROOK E. By the Author cf "Harry Lorrequer," "Tony Butler," &c. In Three Volumes. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. T IMBS'S ANECDOTICAL WORKS. CLUB LIFE of LONDON. 2 vols. Portraits, 21s. ROMANCE of LONDON. 8 vols., post Bvo. 81s. 6d. A CENTITRY of ANECDOTE from 1750. 2 vols. Por- traits. 21s. ANECDOTE LIVES of PAINTERS. Portraits. 6s. ANECDOTE LIVES of the DISTINGUISHED STATESMEN. Lord CHATHAM and EDMUND BURKE. Portraits. 6s. ANECDOTE LIVES of WITS and HUMOITRISTS. 2 vols. Portraits, )28. Richard Bentley, Pat Usher in Ordinary to her Majesty. T HE MOMENTOUS QUESTION.- CRINOLINE. LADIES should at once see TnomsoN'S NEW STYLE, which, light, graceful, and elegant in outline, combines com fort and economy with the very latest fashion. Observe the name, " TRomsort," and the Trade Mark "A CnowN." Sold everywhere. Limp cloth, price le., SYSTEMATIC MEMORY ; or, How to Make a Bad Memory Good, and a Good Memory Better. By T. MACLAREN. London: F. Pitman, 20. Paternoster-row. THE HIGFI . PRICE OF MICA.T. Just published, 250 pages, hoards is. 6L, cloth 25., VEGETABLE • COOKERY, PASTRY, & c . ; containing Five Hundred healthy and tasty dishes without , he use of Meat. Full of Information of thegreatest value to every housewife and Cook. London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row. Second Edition, extra cloth. price Is. 6d., THE LITTLE THINGS OF NATURE. 1 By LEO H. GRINDON, Author of " Lite : Its Nature," &o. •" It has seldom been our lot to read a book more beauti fully written and more deeply interesting - than the one before us"—Christian News. " Ile presents scientific facts, whether physical or metaphy sical, in a form which makes them far more relishable than the most imaginative novels."—Norfolk News. Loudon : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row. Fcap. Bvo., extra cloth gilt, gilt edges. price 3s. 6d., LOVE : a Selection from the best Poets, by THOMAS Snourza, Editor of "A Book of English Po*itz7," Ac. London : F. Pitman. 20, Paternoster-row. NEW NOVEL. Just published, 1 vol., cloth, price 10s. 6d., LYNTON GRANGE. ANovel. By J. R. S. HARINGTON. London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row. Chean Reissue of LECTURES by the HUGH STOWELL Vol. 1, containing "Five shillings and Costs," and eleven other Lectures, price 10d, Vol. 2, centaining Twelve Lectures , price 10 d. Vols. 1 and 2, bound together in cloth, price 23. London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. BOYS and their CLOTHING-.—HYAM and Co., 66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET, W. The favourable reputation which HYAM and Co. have so long enjoyed as designers of Clothing for the Young of all ages will be fully sustained in the following NEW STYLES for the present season. The materials as well as the workmanship are of fine and durable quality, and the moderate profit at which the Garments are sold must operate as a further inducement to all classes of pur chasers. BOYHOOD OVERCOATS and CAPES. and Co., 66 and 67, Oxford-street, W., feel they are justified in making special allusion to these lead ing garments for boys and youths of the present season. If ever equalled, they certainly were never excelled in either quality of cloth, style, make, or finish. Price, lOs 6d., 15s. 6d., 18s. 6d., 215., and 25.. BOYHOOD, PRINCE ARTHUR REEFERS. HYAM and Co., 66 and 67, OXFORD-STEET, W. ~,,n,rarents who object to a general adoption of an v v lOLA, is F , designed to serve the double purpose of OVER or UNDER COAT, in Witneys, Pilots, Napped and Fur Beavers, &c. Prices, 15s. 6d. to 355. BOYI-10 OD, FIRST STAGE of—HYAM 1 --P and Co., 66 and 67, Oxford-street, W., invite parti cular attention to their neat and elegantly-trimmed Knickerbocker Suits for little Boys from five to seven years of ago. Prices, 15s. 6d. to 255. BOYHOOD, SECOND STAGE of —HYAM and Co., 66 and 67, Oxford-street, W., recommend their novel Suits in Westminster, Osborne, and Windsor Styles, for Boys of eight, nine, ten, and eleven years. Adaptation to age and growth is conspicuous in these well made and seasonable Suits. Prices, 21s. to 355. BOYHOOD, THIRD STAGE of—HYAM and Co., 66 and 67, Oxford-street, W., have introduced new and improved Styles in Eton, Harrow, and Rugby Suits for Boys and Youths, varying in age from twelve to sixteen. The Suits are carefully cut from materials of the best and newest description. Prices, 255. to 555. BOYHOOD JACKETS for Home and School. HYAM and CO., 66 and 67, Oxford-street, W., feel confident that their newly-introduced Jackets for School and best wear will continue to elicit approval from all. Prices, 10s. 6d. to 21s. BOYHOOD TROUSERS and VESTS.— HYAM and Co.'s Trousers and Vests, as designed for the present season, from fashionable and durable ma terials. Vests, 4s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. ; Trousers (true -fitting), prices, 9s. 6d. to 14s. 6d. HYAM and Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS, 66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET. The attention of gentlemen is invited to the following arrangements into which HYAM and Co.'s Establishment is laid out for public accommodation : No. 1. Clothing for Immediate Wear. No. 2. Select Order Department. No. 3. Juvenile and Youths' Department. No. 4. Hat, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. The most experienced cutters and workmen are em ployed, and the newest and best materials, with duo regard to economy, are guaranteed. RYAM and Co.'s ONLY ESTABLISHMENTS LONDON-66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET. BIRMINGHAM-21, 22, and 23, NEW-STREET. LEEDS-42, BRIGGATE, and DEWSBURY—WESTGATE. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHABIDEB OIL. which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair, as 6d, is 6d, and ;Os Gd; sent by post for 54.84, and 144 stb.mps.—A.LE,X. ROSS, 248, High tiolborn, London, and all Chemists. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one day by mince ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. This preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, removing the very root. Price Is ; sent by post for 60 stamps. —248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. Ft - AIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID ourlo Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at as 6d, 5s 6d, and 108 6d ; sent free for 54, 84, and 144 stamps —Had of all Chemists. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London. ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na tural in effect. Price 3s 13d, 5s ed. and les Od ; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps ; and all Chemiets. HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, London.—AL ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms, without effect to the skin. Price 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and 105 6d; sent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—Had of all Chemists. DIMPLE REMOVER.—AII di s eases of th e akin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROS'fis VEGETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sal lowness. aro. 2s 9d and 7a ed ; or post for 40 and 100 stamps. —ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Cue mists. HAIR COLOUR WASH.—By washing the head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in seven or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains so by an occasional minx. 105 ed ; sent for stamps.—ALLX. BOSS, 24R, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. Just published, 2d ; sent by the author for 3 stamps. UGLINESS and BEAUTY; being a Pamphlet descriptive of articles and means used for imp rov i ng the appearance. By AL EX. ROSS, 248, high ilolbcrn, London. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern nail. way Terminus, King's-cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the WHEN, Vice-patron—The Royal High nem the Prince of WALES, K.G President—Hie Grace the Duke of BUCCLEIICR, 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 t - gacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the lestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 1,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the3.SSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Has • crman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. • Harries d Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.;i Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; walleles, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur ney, and Co.; i(isbet and Co, Berners-street ; L Barned and Co., Laverpool3 and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. sTArliouD BAUM SeoretarY THE 0)(F 0 E 1), 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., THE MUSICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF LONDON. Successful Itcvival of Offenbach's " ORNIEE AUX ENFERS." end " TitOMBALCAZAR." Comedy by Duriah and Davies, and Harry Sydney (the political Momus). Gymnastic Performances by the Zamezou Family, I.es Freres Victoreill, Rc. treat success of " Les Amazones au Coampagne " Divertissement, tiy the Misses Tessy and :!'ara G tininess; assisted by their talented troupe of artisies. In preparation the Lyric Drama of the "RUINS OF AT ENS," by BEETHOVEN, the argument of wh!ch will be read by a distinguished member of the theatrical prof(Fsion. Musical Director and Conductor, Mr. F. Jonglimans. Admisslon—Area, tad. ; stalls and balcony, is ; private • boxes, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d. Open every evening at S. WEST ON'S GRAND MUSIC lIALL, HOLBORN. Under New Management. Proprietors—Messrs. Sweasey and Holland. Grand Selections from TRO :AFORE and ROB ROY, by 50 voca:ists and a band of 30, conducted by P. Cont Enthusiastic reception ( f GEORGE LE YBOURNE, the Lion eomique—GEORUINA Snrrru , ON, the Characteris tic Singer and Dancer—CHARLES SLOMAN, the Great Improvisitore—JAMES HEMMINGS in 1115 Wonderful i;lobe entertainment - Great suc-ess of the 13 STAR M 1 V STRELS—PELL, the Original Bones—J. E. ALLIBONE, the celebra•ed Basso of the Original Christy . Minitrels S. REDDEN, in his Great Banjo &010 and Orig inal Song and Dance, :and C. MADDEN, Prize Jl4 Dancer.—Songs, Du ts, Glees, and Choruses by a company of first-class talented artistes never before heard in Negro Minstrelsy. Box-01Ne open from 10 to 4. Hall open Avery evening at Seven during the extensive alterat ons and redecorations. A,yADANIE TUSSAIJD'S EXHIBITION, NEW EDITIONS. —A Life-size Portrait-Model of the PRINCESS MARY- OF CAMBRIDGE, a Marriage Group of the PRINCESS HEL P_NA and PRINCE CHRISTIAN. Admittance, ls. ; children, under ten, half-price ; extra rooms, 6d. Open from 11 a m. till dusk, and from 7 p.m. till 10. A RGYLL ROOMS:- GRAND CASINO, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirely re decorated. are now OPEN EVERY EVENING for Concert and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Luca CURTL Manager, M. GRENET. Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. Reserved Seats, Two Shillings. D UNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. "V.R." IRISH WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 1808. Quotations on application. FALKNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY, " Real Malt," 19s. per ffallon, is sold in bottles and jars, bear ing his label and trade mark. Most liberal terms are offered to the trade for the sale of this genuine old spirit, which is coming into universal consumption through England. For price lists apply at Offices, 14, Strand. London, W.C. Established in Grafton-street, Dublin, A.D. 1760. JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the world."—London Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C., next the " Times." TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork, beg to announce that they are able to supply the trade with their celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases; and to take orders in bond at d for exportation. at their offices, 7, Printing-house-square, London, E.C., the only house is the square not occupiedby the "Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies brim: the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial markets, as may ',.te observed by reference to the " Journal of Commerca of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their whiskies fetch 6d. per gallo i and Is. per cese ov - e the next best, and Is. 6d per gallon and ss. 6d. a case over the lowest quo•ation. 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RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBITIONS of 1851 and 1862, is allowed by upwards of Iwo Hundred Me Heal Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so °Rea hurtful in its effects. is he! e avoided—a soil bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moo-Main Pad and Patent Lev,r, fitting with so much ease and close ness that it cannot be detected, and may be v:orn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and tin truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circum ference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WRITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, Vs., 215., 20s 6d., and 318:64 Postage, Is. Double Truss, 31s. M., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. Bd. P.litage, Is. 1 d. 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SALE OF OLD STORES AT THE ROYAL ARMY CLOTHING DEPOT, PIMLICO. • NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Secretary of State for War is prepared4o receive FENDERS for the pur cha e of OLD STORES, now lying at the Royal Army Clothing Depot, Grosvenor-road, Pimlico, where forms of render may be obtained, and where the store+ for sale may be viewed, cn the three days previous to the day fixed for the delivery of the Tenders,between the hours of nine and eleven a m., and two and four p.m. Tenders mu , t be made on a printed form, which may be obtained as above stated. and are to be delivered at the War Office, Pali-mall, on or before Thursday, the Bth of November next, addressed to the Director of Contracts, and marked en the outside, "Tender for the Purchase of Old Stores, Pimlico." The Secretary of State reserves the right of rejecting any or all of the Tenders. T. HOWELL, Director of Contracts. War Office, S.W., 27th October, 1166. H OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for fitting up th e TRAINING . SHIP. £2,000 required. WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, Y.C. OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing the COUNTRY HOME. £l,OOO required. WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON. The Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys. One hundred and fifty are now in the Refuge. The annual expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at £i ,000, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends have promised to pay for one 1)7 each year. Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothbury, and 214, High Holborn; Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Pei-Mall East; and by WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Refuge, 8, iireat Queen-street, W.C. T)ROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C. 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During the three months ending on Sept. 30 there were registered throughout the United Kingdom 239,748 births and 151,054 deaths. The resident population of England, Scotland, and Ireland in the middle of 1866 is estimated at 29,935,404. The corrected death rate of the quarter is 2.085 per cent. The marriage rate of the spring quarter Was higher than it ever was before in that season since registration began. The birth rate of the summer quarter was near the average. The mortality was raised much above the average by the cholera is some districts, while the rest of the country was unusually healthy. In England during the quarter ending the 30th Septem ber 178,982 children were born. The number was about 2,000 less than in either of the two previous summer quarters. The annual rate was 3.344 per cent ; that of the corresponding quarters in ten years immediately pre ceding was 3.343 per cent. 116,926 deaths were registered. The annual rate of mortality was 2'182 per cent. This exceeded the average mortality of the last ton summer quar ters by .180, or one-twelfth part, and the excess on the popu lation is equivalent to 10,720 deaths. The deaths returned from cholera amounted to 10,365; those from diarrhoea, also due in groat part to the same cause, to 9,570. The mortality was at the rate of 25 per 1,000 in the great town districts, and 18 in the village and small town districts. July, August, and September are usually the healthiest months of the year in England. This year their average rate of mortality was 2 per cont. above the average. The mor tality was at the rate of 19 in Birmingham, 21. in Bristol, 22 in Hull, 24 in Sheffield, 26 in Salford, 31 in Manchester, 32 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 50 in Liverpool. In Edinburgh the rate of mortality was 23, in Glasgow 25, in Dublin 24. The excessively high rates of mortality are generally due to the invasion of cholera. The total number of emigrants iu the September quarter was 47,153. Taking round num bers, 36,000 (of whom half were natives ,of Ireland) out of the 47,000 went to the United States; nearly 7,000 to the Australasian, and nearly 4,000 to the North-American colonies. The mean temperature of the air in the quarter at Green wich was 58.9 deg., which is 1.1 deg. below the average of the season in 25 years. Each of the three months, but particularly August, was cold. The rainfall measure 7.9 in., half of which was in September, when the amount was an inch and a half in excess of the average. Mr. Glaisher writes that:the weather, which had been warm and fine at the close of the :previous quarter, chang ed to of July, and in every part of the fell almost daily. In September the atmo ce:ludntartytih.aeinbeginning spherieipressure was always low, and in Guernsey and the west of England eight or nine inches of rain fell; near the east coast three inches ; about London four inches. In the midland counties there were floods ; thousands of acres were under water, and much damage was done. In the three visitations of cholera in past years there was great atmospheric pleasure, high temperature, narrow diurnal range, owing chiefly to high night temperature, defect of rain, wind, and electricity ; and in the last of those (1854) a remarkable blue mist was observed, which prevailed night and day. In nearly all these particulars the meteorological character of the present epidemic season is different from that of previous periods when cholera prevailed; but the blue mist has been again visible ; it was first seen by Mr. Glaisher on 30th July, and by other observers in the preceding week. Since that time it has been generally present ; on some days no trace of it visible, and on other days seen for parts of a day only. It has extended from Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, and was of thesame tint of blue everywhere. This mist increased in intensity when 'rimed through a telescope ; usually 119 " LIBERIA" IN MODERN ITALY. Before the outbreak of the recent war the Florentine Government, which claims to be the emanation of popular opinion, enacted a law for the purpose of terrorising all persons suspected, for whatever reason, of not sympathis ing with the new Government. This law, called from its originator the " Legge Crispi," armed the Government with the most arbitrary powers, in virtue of which any person, however respectable and blameless, might be dragged from his or her home —kept without a reason given or any juridical inquiry in the strictest isolated con finement in prison, or relegated in a distant province far from their families and their business, and there to be sub jected to regulations and restrictions more stringent by very far than those applied in England to " ticket-of leave" felons. The prefect, thus empowered absolutely and without appeal or inquiry to imprison and condemn to forced do micile whomsoever he thinks fit is generally in Italy a native of some distant province, dependent for his local information upon the local commissary of police, or a ca marilla of strong, unscrupulous political fanatics who have gathered round him at his arrival, and whose denuncia tions are based upon the tales ortheir - own menials; the loud-voiced " patriotism" of the Radical cafes and low wineshops. Imagine for a moment what the state of affairs would be even in England, if, in moments of political excitement, the gin-shop and pot-house intimidated the authorities, and dictated to the police magistrate ! Far worse, however, is it in Italy, a country at all times famous for private vengeance and secret denunciations. Any observant Englishman who has lived in that country, and marked the defects of the national character, can judge—and will shudder to think—to what vile ends such a stringent law is likely to be abused, and can vividly picture to himself the reign of terror which it imposed in that country, which claims neverthess to be held as a very model of free and fearless constitutional development. Hardly was this law published, when self-constituted clubs of ultra-Radicals were formed, with the avowed pur pose of denouncing all those whose political opinions and predilections differed from their own. The most harmless and respectable citizens were dragged from their homes. their lawful private avocations, their families, and their business, and consigned to distantforced domiciles, or even conducted manacled to prison—conducted like malefactors through remote towns, where they and their respectable character being unknown, they were submitted to the scof fing, nay, even the actual violence, of the populace, armed with bludgeons and paving stones. Without being allowed to communiaate with their families, those arrested were detained in the strictest pri son seclusion, and then handcuffed like common criminals, marched off in broad daylight through the streets to the railway stations, surrounded by a howling pack of the worst rabble. With un peu de bonne volonte it is so easy al ways for the " constituted authorities" to got a mob any where, to cry down with the just, and hurrah for Barabbas. Two such cases in Modena excited the indignation even of the Radical newspaper Il Panaro. In Bologna forthwith numbers of most worthy people belonging to the Catholic Association were thrown into prison and their houses ransacked ; among them the Advo cate Fangarezzi, President of the Central Committee of that association, and several worthy priests. The well known Advocate Casoni, secretary of the association, whe attracted so much attention at the Catholic Congress of Malines, was fortunate enough to escape to Rome the day before his house and papers were ransacked. The domici liary visits and searches were mere matter of form to give a colour to these arbitrary proceedings; for the warrant of arrest was in all cases already in the hands of the police ; nor did any of these perquisitions afford matter to justify the pretext; but bundles of innocent privato letters and private papers were carried off for sham examination. In Reggio, a town of some 16,000 inhabitants, no less than 40 persons were arrested and carried off to forced domiciles : among them the Rev: Don Antonio Lanza, the R'v. Don Rinaldo Servini, Rector of Marunirolo ; the Rev. D. Guiseppe Bertoli, Rector of La Tau:Hata : the Rev. D. B:oraop; the Provost Germani, Doctor de Medici, Advo cate Eugenio Rossi, Advocate Campana. The bishop, who has died since, would, if it were not that he lay on his deathbed, have shared the lot of the Bishop of Guastalla, who on the 13th of May was sent off to Turin. In Modena, among the first whose house and papers were searched, and who was arrested, was Count Guiseppe Bartolomasi, a most inoffensive and estimable nobleman. For 24 days he was kept in strict cellular confinement, and then, in consequence of his delicate state of health, confined to his own house. Among numbers of inhabitants of all classes of the city of Modena who wore arrested and sent to Cuneo, or the Isle of Elba, were the Rev. Don Dome nico Galvani, parish priest of (.tombola ; the Rev. Don Marco Roncoccioli, archpriest of Pavullo ; Countess Stoffi, a much-respected lady; the Signori Violi, Albinelli, Grappi, Amadessi, Mislei, &c. Doctor Goldoni and Count Tondo rini were carried off to prison, and for a short time were under arrest. Simultaneously a vast number of indivi duals wore officially, or officiously, menaced and warned ; among them Countess Poppi, an aged lady of distinction ; Signor Zerbini, &c. _ The Italian Ministry of Finance deals still more freely with the purses than the Italian Ministry of "Justice" deals with the liberty of the subject. A comparison of the past and present financial credit of the various States of Italy speaks plainly in favour of the wise frugality of their old rulers, and trumpet-tongued proclaims on every money market of Europe the reckless, headlong course of the squanderers of the national wealth who for the last seven years have brought " Italia Unita" to the very brink of national bankruptcy. The interest of the debt of the Modenese States which, under the Ducal Government, amounted to scarcely 7d. per head, under the new Piedmontese regime amounts to nearly 12f. for each individual of population. The portion of this year's forced loan which falls to the share of the old Modenese States, with a population less in numbers, and far inferior in wealth than that of Yorkshire, and equal to about that of the county of Cork, amounts to no less than 11,166,238L —or nearly £450,000 sterling, more than the whole State debt of the Modenese Government up to 1859. Under the Ducal Government the taxes amounted to about 14f., or say lis. per individual of the population. Within seven years the new Government has increased them, so that they amount to 25f., or £1 sterling per head. And now comes this fresh forced and oppressive loan to increase the individual burthen still more. The railways sold, vast Church and State property sold, the private property of the Italian Sovereigns, the kinsmen of the House of Savoy, sold or sequestrated, their palaces pillaged, and all, all squandered. "11l got, ill gone!" A NEW FIRE ALARU3I.—We find in the Union Medicale a paper by Dr. Duffay, on a curious and useful invention, due to the ingenuity of a celebrated ex conjuror, M. Robert Houdin. The object in view is to give the alarm of fire at the very commencement of the threatened catastrophe, and the following description will show how this is accomplished. Suppose a copper lamina and a steel one to be soldered together by their surfaces, so as to form a single blade, copper en one side and steel on the other. Let it be fixed vertically by one of its extremities to a board, without, however, quite touching it, in order to avoid friction. The arrangement will be best understood by supposing a knife to be brought close to the board as if with the intention of cutting it through. Now, suppose a metal knob to be fixed on the board, on the steel side of the blade, and at a short distance from it. This knob is connected with one of the poles of a voltaic battery, the other pole of which communicates with the screw which secures the fixed extremity of the blade, and with one of those bells or alarums which we see used in the telegraph offices to prepare the clerks for the reception of a message. Now let the blade be warmed : as the dilution of copper by heat is greater than that of steel, it follows that the blade will be bent, the concave side being the steel one ; and if the heat applied be sufficient, a contact will be effected between the blade and the knob. No sooner does this take place than the bell begins to ring, and continues doing so until the contact is interrupted. A very small de gree of heat will be sufficient to produce the requisite cur vature of the blade ; even a burning cigar will do so at a distance of about three inches. This facility might in many cases prove rather a drawback were it not that the sensitiveness of the apparatus may be diminished at plea sure by increasing the distance of the knob from the blade. A STA.R. SLIOWER.—Last November a suspicion that it might occur prompted observers to keep w . e q r s e i o al h T: look out, and a very large number of meteors served. At the Royal Obser vator y , Greenwich, at least were seen between midnig ht and figiuta athtiew e, muso and arnnd ing of the 13th of the month ; we re noted wile uamt bridg other places, proportionately large bers / s T otw i t h s t a nding last during portions of that inte n al • year's display, it is generally .e ieved that a grand shower will take place this year, during the night of either the 12th or 13th of th is month of November. The day is a little uncertain, but if the shower occurs at all,it will be on one of these two dates, and it will be during the morning hours of the night—that is, after midnight—that there is the greatest probability of the phenomenon taking place.— (Mee a Week. TDIES.—It is one of the conditions of success for any man who makes it his business to address large audiences that whatever he says must be simple and easily understood. This, of course, is no difficulty where the subject is itself simple; but it is a very formidable obstacle where the orator has, so to speak, to create a simplicity which does not really exist. lie is driven, under such circumstances, either to omit the qualifications and limitations to which every proposition that he lays down is sub ject, or else to suppress the real state of affairs, and to impose upon his audience instead of it something wholly and essenti a ll y different. Such was theb dilemma in which Mr. Bright found himself when he undertook to address a mixed audience of Irish men on Parliamentary Reform. His case in Eng land is simple enough :—" The people are divided into those who have the franchise and those who have not ; the former are actuated by a narrow oligarchical spirit, and really do not represent the country at all, the latter are really and truly the nation, into whose hands political power ought without delay to be transferred." We shall not stop to inquire how far this notable formula repre sents the real state of things in England; it was at any rate accepted without challenge by the thou sands whom Mr. Bright has been addressing, and has doubtless passed into their minds as an incon trovertible political truth. It has every element of attraction : it flatters vanity, and it gratifies envy it tolds out vague hopes for the future, and it de preciates a present which can scarcely be regarded with satisfaction by those who occupy the lower rounds of the social ladder. The question was how this theory was to be adapted to the existing state of Ireland. Mr. Bright is bold, and has probably achieved, for the moment at least, a good deal of that success which generally waits upon the bold. He assumes as the basis of his argument that the great mass of the Irish people hold opinions and pur sue objects with which the great mass of the English people cordially sympathise. He assumes that the common enemies of England and Ireland are the present possessors of the elective franchise in both countries, and that the policy which the great massss of England and Ireland alike desire is a cordial union with each other and a general attack upon the privileged classes in both countries. Now, is this a true representation of the case ? The very inter ruptions with, which his speech was encountered showed plainly, what every one acquainted with Ireland must know, that it was not. When he spoke of union between the people of the two nations he was met by cries of " Never !" When he talked of acquiring land by purchase he was encountered by the suggestion " that it had better be got for nothing." And when he spoke of justice to Ireland', he was emphatically referred to the West, in oppo sition to the East, as the quarter from which it must come. The fact is, he was talking Radicalism to an audience that was thinking Fenianism. Every supposition on which he started is disproved by notorious facts. The great mass of the Irish people have, we are sorry to say, neither unity among themselves nor sympathy with the people of Great Britain. Those who are under the influence of the priesthood are under leaders professing a creed en tirely hostile to the doctrines of Mr. Bright and his associates, for it is a mere truism to say that the Church of Rome holds doctrines, which she never fails to enforce where she has the power, utterly opposed to all the maxims of modern Liberalism. Whatever side the [rish priesthood may choose to take for its own purposes, there is really no doubt whatever as to the motives which lie at the root of its conduct. Still less sympathy is there between the Fenians and the people of England and Scotland, towards whom they stand in a position of direct and avowed hostility. The two leading principles in the Irish peasant's mind, so far as he concerns himself with politics, are the antipathy of race and religious hatred. The race that he hates is the English ; the religion that he hates is Protestantism in all its forms and varieties. It requires, then, no ordi nary degree of confidence in the speaker's oratorical powers to start with the theory that these two races are actuated by the same feelings, pursue the same objects, and are capable of being united in cordial anfl hearty nn-nneration Aprl vp . 4- A.;. h. be one in sentiment and feeling with the numerical majority in Ireland, what have they to gain by uniting in a common effort for the establishment of a joint democratic rule ? The truth is, Irish politics mean I one thing in England and another thing in Ireland. In Ireland the political conflict lies between two hos tile factions Orange and Catholic, which are per petually defying each other to mortal conflict, and seizing every opportunity that is afforded them to come into violent collision with each other. The whole difficulty of the Government of Ireland, till it became complicated with the Fenian question, con sisted in holding some sort of balance and keeping up some kind of impartiality between these two rival ttleis r forces ; but in the House of Commons very .1 said by Irish members about these internal discords,. and the Irish question is represented as turning g iv en tirely on the treatment of Ireland by England. Bright has adopted this latter view, whichis cer tainly better fitted for the purposes of an agitation . the leading idea of which is to enlist Ireland in sup port of a democratic change for England an d Scotland. Setting aside the ordinary arguments against Go vernment bya numerical majority, the case of Ireland herself seems peculiarly unfavourable for such an ex periment. Nobody can doubt what the feelings of a numerical majority of Irishmen would be with regard to Protestantism, and very serious apprehensions might not unjustly be entertained as to the views which a number of Irishmen, counted by the head, might be supposed to entertain on the subject of Fenianism. Entirely to swamp the Protestant mino rity, and to place the whole power of the country in the hands of the Roman Catholic majority, would not be the way to soothe internal discord ; and the Pro testants, powerful inthe possession of property, of in telligence, and of superior organisation would uo t feel, we apprehend, disposed to submit to political anni hilation without a further appeal to that violence to which they have shown themselves, even without any special provocation, always so ready to resort. The proposals of Mr. Bright, as far as they involve political considerations, would seem to offer no prospect but that of further and worse discord, more agitation, and more violent internal animosity. But Mr. Bright has another plan for the regeneration of Ireland. He does not, it seems, as we have under stood him, propose to buy up by compulsion the estates of absentees,—he proposes that the State should offer to their owners considerably more than their worth, and then sell them in small allotments to persons willing to purchase them for a certain I annuity to be added to the rent and spread over some fifteen or twenty years. The Government is to become a laud jobber, to buy laud wholesale and sell it retail, and in that capacity to come into direct contact with its own subjects. And thus the people of Ireland are to be placed in possession of her land. We do not exactly see who is to be satisfied by this scheme. Not the proprietors of small portions of laud in Ireland, for the Government by forcing large quantities of it into the market will, of course, artificially depreciate its value ; not the taxpayers .es of the United Kingdom, who will find themselve s burdened with a bargain which is avowedly al. one, and the loss of which they will be o bli g ed LIT 1 bear. The only persons who we can stil e p l' be gratified by the arrangement will b e chasers from the Government, and theiritsaotisfa will, we should think, be by no means h wir allotments, If they are to be allowed to sell t 1 large estates b t alloy e tl°ll the process of aggregation by whicha. But these are formed will soon begin over ag t i o the Govern persons will stand in two relatiPons d urchasers• What went—those of tenants an annuity Is the is to happen if any default be s or is made either in the pay meat of the rent or ° OO fi x e n d lin Tule , Government to act leniencyi and forbearance it to exercise thatare so frequently called which private landlords upon to show ? n a gli new G l o n v e e a r n n s m has en been discovered of le le of Ireland by clothing it with hateful to the pe f ° a l) hard creditor and unrelenting the functionlsf the latter, a new instrument of cor landlord. ruptiou and in fluence has been devised, liable to the suspicion, and m ost likely to the reality of th e grossest .abuse. Pending the . payment of the an nu ity, i n whom is the prooerty to vest, the .Crown or the purchaser? Vest it in whom you will it must be during the period of the annuity in a transition and anomalous state—property deprived of the incidents, the responsibilities, and the advantages of property. It would substitute an uncertain for a certain tenure, and form an estate which prudent men would be unwilling to improve or to advance money upon. There would be nothing to prevent any amount of subdivision and subletting, and the purchaser not not being required to find ready money would naturally become a sort of middle-man between the cultivator and the Crown. If the property were put up for sale to the person who bid the highest annuity, we know well that a price would be offered far beyond that which a solvent purchaser could afford to give. If the annuity were a fixed sum, how is the State to determine which of several can didates i to have the preference ? When estates NEWSPAPE Pt sit aivo# _ vt le . .0g are now at least in the Mr. Bright would hand them ° 4l rwaf inu over to men of straw, their burdened rent . w h i with h awhoeaulvdyeYZ payment over andrAl peabrotyve; p ly oss d e e s p a ri t v h e e twheilml, to the power, even if they were to a improve. r HE SPECTATOR" ON MR. DISRAELI'SCHANCE. b n e e s s with it best of tails win ter. He H G e lad h s a to s n g e on h th gone to tow e it eyes, under au Italian sky, and in a scene 6 alive with associations, the final st rugg l es and throes amid which the last great spiritual power left on earth is to shed its earthly skin. Mr. Disraeli, on the other hand, has come up in execrable weather to the greyest and gloomiest of cities to try, amid No vember fogs, if he can induce a happy family to combine in whistling a tune which may charm the hawk outside. He has to dev;se a Reform Bill which men like Lord Cranborne and Mr. Bright, Mr. Hardy and Mr. Miall, Mr. Lowe and Mr. Odgers, oligarchs and republicans, Churchmen and Nonconformists, advocates of capital and fanatics of labour, can be equally induced to accept. Ilia bill must seem conservative to squires and progressive to Radical manufacturers, must conciliate the Cathe drals and Bethesdas, must be reassuring to men who dread the people, and to the people, who, knowing themselves dreaded,. are suspicious of every con cession. He may do it, for he has one emi nent qualification for the task —perfect imparti ality. If Mr. Disraeli has a belief in the world beyond his conviction that the source of prerogative is race, it is in Cmaarism, and if he spoke out he would probably define the Radical view of Reform as " parochial " and the Tory view as " bucolic." As it happens, impartiality, though it be only an impartiality of intellectual scorn, is so absolutely needed in the manager of Refor m , th a t Mr. Disraeli by virtue of that attribute alone may be able to produce a satisfactory bill. He i, d no ad ministrator by nature, as he showed in his I n di a bill, which was laughed out almost without discus sion ; but administrative ability is not required, only a clear perception oft thepainS at which the two parties come most nearly into contact, and that Mr. Disraeli is very likely indeed to perceive. Unfortunately for him, he has not only to frame his bill, but to convince his own party that it ought to be framed as he has framed it, and has, therefore, to tinker his work till it runs a strong chance of being spoiled. The Tories of the future, who will probably call themselves Constitutionalists, headed by Lord Stanley, are willing to agree to a compromise which shall admit the masses without depriving the landowners of all their power. The Tories of the present, headed really by Lord Cran borne, who, like Mr. Lowe, is chief of a Cave of Adullana without being a David, are unwilling to accept any compromise which includes more than a fraction of the unenfranchised, and which does not leave the landlords undisturbed. To put it concretely, Lord &timely would like house hold suffrage if new seats could be given to counties, and Lord Cranborne would tolerate a reduction in boroughs to eight pounds if the bill contained nothing else. Mr. Disraeli has to recon cile in fact the Conservatism which loves the Consti tution in spite of its abuses, with the Conservatism which loves the Constitution as it can be abused, and in the effort to reconcile the irreconcilables in his own camp will probably disappoint both them and the adversaries outside. For his natural im -1 pulse will be to fall back upon a trick, upon some stroke of administrative finesse such as would de light the East, but in Europe is quite certain to fail. He will think that if he can give the crypto- Tories in the House an excuse for supporting the open Tories he may gain a majority, and it is pos sible he may, for one hour, to see agitation recom mence more bitterly the next. He will think this the more readily because he has always recognised what the Spectator alone among Liberals has always argued, that members are more important than electors, that if a narrow constituency elects John Smith, and the same constitueucy widened elects John Smith all the same, the widening of the franchise has produced no result, except a multiplication of noughts after the decimal unit. He sees, therefore, that if he can admit another million of electors without ad mitting any new representatives power will remain where it was, and so it will. And running through all his speeches are traces of a plan to effect this which is tolerably mature in his mind, a plan which would concede household suffrage to attract Mr. Bright and dispose of small boroughs by turning them practically into little counties, to conciliate Lord Cranborne. Such a bill would in fact include a £lO suffrage for counties, household suffrage for great towns, and a landowner suffrage for little boroughs. He would thus grant the request of the artisans, abolish the anomaly of very little con stituencies, and leave the landlords as completely propositions were granted, that the parties were nearly equal, and that the device could be concealed. Unfortunately for him, the Liberals have among them men who cannot be hoodwinked or cajoled upon Reform, and a majority which, on a question like that, could be used with crushing effect. There are not ten members among the Liberal party who, once the Radicals were clearly aware of any trick contained in the new bill, would dare to refuse to en terth e right lobby. Earl Grosvenor might, because nothing short of revolution would so alter English society that Earl Grosvenor would be left out in the cold, and so might Mr. Lowe, as long as Lord Lans downe pleased, and so might a few more eldest sons. But the mass of the doubtful Liberals would have to choose between fidelity to their party and dismissal from public life, and the control of the whole subject would pass with the Government once more into Mr. Gladstone's hands. If Mr. Disraeli cannot avoid this danger—a distinct party vote hostile to his bill—he and his measure will be lost together, and if he tries any trick of any sort he will be unable to avoid it. His only chance is to trust his own intellect, without any reference either to his own Cave of Adullam or that which exists among his adversaries, and bring in a bill which the nation will be ready, if it is rejected by Parliament, to accept on a dissolution. The nation, as opposed to any party within it, really desires, it may now be said heartily desires, three things—that the arti sans of the towns be admitted to the franchise, that the middle class of the counties be admitted to the franchise, and that the private or corrupt seats be abolished in favour of some better way of repre senting the minority. Any bill which secured those three ends, in Parliament, as well as on the hust ings, would have a fair chance of being supported by at least 250 Liberals and and 150 Tories within the house, and by a far greater majority out of doors. From every side and every division u o p f the three kingdoms assurances keep co otP s ' ad that the Liberals have rejected Mr. Bri c , bi that provided will accept a Reform Bill at T t or srds,hat provided only it be a visibly bone s re sult, the is, provided it does not increase, as its __ iirhigs like Sir landlord power. When hereditary hie L i berals like Knatchbull Hugessen, and philosop c -, , ern ment may be , d i ea ls like Mr. Mr. Clay, agree with determineda Foster in making that offer ti lc : e y do not keep it, the u sure it will be kept, and for the future of the nation will. Better by Tory party, to quarrel! borne and those who think once, to let Lord s whith the new "Cave" at shall have of a really cieantNovecongenial darkness, than with him go forth spoil the la st eb ß a f i ll, a bill which Liberals can ac national Reform cept with of principle.. It will be lost if Air. pieasure, and Constitutionalists pass with out a derelicdtio d the incurable Tories, for to t s o a n t once to the Radicals, to his conciliate porters, a must trick at least one. The only votes t h e three he i be those of the boroughs which any Disraeli yniel be will gain w decent Reform Bill would totally sweep away, and will not be . sufficient to give him a majority that will instantly rise sufficient Plutocrats will be exchanged for the outside. Tile to resist the cry ltahneffidycoiievnnters, and though we Omit the latter are the better of the two, still the country will su ffer from an indigestion of landlord. The struggle for Reform would be reduced almost avowedly to one between town and country, a form of the contest which the squires, if they are wise, will carefully avoid. We have said no thi ng of the rumours about increased budgets, expenditure on. the Navy, expenditure on the Army, new projects for the pacification of Ireland, new modes of con ciliating the clergy. They are all unimportant, for a reformed Parliament will be able to deal with all, and an unreformed one will almost certainly make a muddle of all. If the report of the Recruiting Commission justifies hint, General Peel will have his money, and no naval vote has ever yet been deli berately rejected. Those things arc, comparatively speaking, trifles. The point is, with whom is sub stantial power to lodge, with the nation, or only a section of the nation? and it is by his success or failure in settling that question, in adjusting the dying formula to the living fact, that Mr. Disraeli must stand or fall. He will fall if he tries to trick the Liberals by creating forty or fifty new counties, under pretence of sweeping away rotten boroughs. We are not going through a revolution in order to have a Cattle Plague Act a year. THE STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION AT B R ISTOL.—Three of the bodies of those killed by the explosion of the Black Eagle steamtug in the Avon at Bristol have been found— uiz., those of the captain, William Woodman, the mate, James Living, and the engineer, George Ledger. Tho coroner opened the inquest on Friday at the Generul Draper publiehouse, the Hotwells, when the bodies were identified. In reply to a juryman it was stated by the captain of the Dolphin tugboat that there . was no Government inspector of tugs, but only of passenger steamers. Tho inquiry has g b l a r d s adjourned ed ill giv e t; ll evidenceT uesda y a s n t e o x t, t h e w h a e a n t e two of t practical s e n o - i the Ph.* gagle.