The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-31 00:00:00

, ik '‘d i "^ i LONDON STREET REFORM SO PRESIDENT. Sir WILLIAM FRASER, Bart., M.A., F. On the 13th of June, 1865; it was admitted unanimously in the -House of Commons that the condition of London, as regards Paving, Lighting, and Cleansing, was disgraceful. No improvement has taken place.. The Traffic of London becomes every day more un manageable. The Public Vehicles are inferior to those of Provincial and Continental Cities. This Society has been formed to stimulate public atten tion; to collect, condense, and make known facts ; to Point out defects in the law ; to enforce provisions at present neglected; and to watch Bills introduced ibto Par liament on these subjects. The London Street Reform Society is not pledged to Support any specific change in tho Government of the Metropolis. Those who may wish to join the Society are requested to write to J. S. Haly, Esq., Hon. Sec. L.S.R.S., 88, St. James's -street, S. W. N°. 23,262. 1"1:1Cle ld, how that committee acquitted itself in the per formance of its patriotic- duties the result of the election may bear witness. The thanks. of the Governor elect and of the State Central Committee have been publicly tendered to the League, on more than one occasion for our assistance in their canvass, and the deep satisfac tion which each one of us feels at the issue of the arduous contest is a sufficient reward for our volun tary labours. "The most powerful adjunct to the Committee of Seventy-six was, as it has always been, the intelli gent action of the Board of Publication. Previous to the election of October, that Board had distri buted eight hundred and sixty-seven thousand and fifty-eight documents, consistindof eighteen millions and sixty-four thousand eight hundred and seven teen pages of sound Union doctrine. All this great literary work has been quietly accomplished ; but of its value in the grand result no man can form an adequate estimate. " The report of the Library Committee is little more than a list of losses occasioned by fire and water to the perishable property which they have in charge. Great damage was done to the voluminous files of newspapers and magazines which had been accumulating since the organisation of the League, and-which were -stored -- in Me niter . r,art of the building. This loss cannot be supplied without great trouble and expense. Our members are ear nestly requested to co-operate with the committee in the proposed extension of the library, .so that it may not only became a useful department of our institution, but a collection of mark in the city. " The report of the Committee on Fine Arts and Trophies is also little more than an array of losses incident to the fire. As soon as our rooms are in proper repair most of the works which we pos sessed, and those which were loaned to us by our members, will again ornament the walls, in as good condition as the careful exertions of the committee have been able to accomplish. "The thanks of the League are due to Me. Jas. M'Henry, of London, for the excellent marble bust of the great English Liberal, Richard Cobden, with which Mr. M'Henry has adirned our house, in com memoration of the pleasant visit which he and hiS English friends paid to us during the present year. Oar thanks should also be rendered to the generous donors of the admirable portrait of that wise and steadfast statesman the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, whose visible form has at length followed his pxtrio tric spirit into a house where that spirit has long been domesticated and deeply reverenced. "The Committee on Membership report that dur ing this year they have recommended to the Board of Directors three hundred and thirty-nine candi dates for admission to membership of the League. The Board returns its thanks to the Committee for the care and fidelity with which their trust has been discharged, and renews to the Committee the ex pression of confidence contained'in our last annual report. " On the Ist of December, 1866, the roll of the League contained the names of nineteen hundred and seventy members. Of these two hundred and eighty-nine were elected during the current year. We deplore the loss of twenty-two of our members by death. There have been fifry-four who have resigned their membership, and six, after having been suspended from membership for non-payment of their annual dues, were finally dropped from the roll, in accordance with the hy-laws." A preamble and resolution were offered by Robert A. Corson, Esq. The preamble set forth that since the restriction in reference to liquor had been taken off several cases of drunkenness had occurred which had cast odium on the house, and that on one or moie occasions per sons had been taken from the restaurant in a state of drunkenness. The resolution was ably supported by J. P. Wetherill, Frederick Fraley, Esqs., and other prominent gentlemen. The resolution reads as follows :—" Resoived,—That the house committee be, and they are hereby in structed to adopt and enforce the provision formerly in force at the organisation of the League, whereby the sale and use of liquors were restricted, and some prohibited being sold on the premises." The resolution was laid on the table by a close vote. am, &c., Another resolution was offered by Charles Gib bous, Esq., proposing that the question be put to vote by all the members of the League as the Sunday question was submitted, which resolution wa3 finally withdrawn. 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V ''" i 4111 (' - --. '', .."- - , 1 filil , vz. 5k ---- . , ei /'\_,,i;:).-',/4- _,- ____,, ~ - ~, .0. .., Di" • ti i . lip , - litc'' . 'i# Aft, 19 0 °nom 0 •-.- _ _- with the conventional duty nutted, subsists in principle general law, it were decided the special taxes successively consent of the different Powers who have entered into agreements with 1.13, we' should arrive at the singular result that the . ships . of countries remaining outside the conventional duty would be better treated than the ships of Powers who have drawn to us by the tie of a contract. " In fact, it is comfortable both to the spirit and to the letter of the law of May 19, 1866, only to re quire from, foreign Governments reciprocity of national treatment, even when, in consequence of the application of this principle, foreign vessels should, like French ships, enjoy complete humanity in France, while French ships, like a ll na ti ve an d other vessels, should remain subjected t o naviga tion dues in a foreign part. " This principle once laid down, the exec u ti on o f the law u p on t h e mercan til e mar i ne cou ld not en counter any diffi cu lt y, would be to cons id er i n w h at f orm t h e app li cat i on ought to be made. aud the only thing remaining "It has happened, Sire, that a decree from your Majesty was necessary to settle the questions apper taining to your conventional system. In fact, as treaties of commerce and navigation can only be ap plied in the Empire by virtue of imperial decrees, nothing but an act equally emanating from the Sove reign can modify these same treaties, even although the modification is an advantage and not a burden to the contracting party. " It is in this sense that the annexed draught of a decree has been drawn up, which I have now the honour to submit to your Majesty : " Arr. 1 replaces in the commondutyall . the corn-_ trig which fiad consented - id - the ettabl ishment in our ports of a compensating tax for the duties levie d upon ous ships as upon their own in their ports. " Art. 2 suppresses the tonnage duty which French and English ships, as has been said above, pay in our ports by virtue of the treaty of Jau. 26, 1826, and which equally affects all flags assimilated to ours by acts of convention. " The Government of her Britannic Majesty hay ing undertaken to present to Parliament in its next session a law for the purpose of abolishing all loea 1 taxes impressed with any differential character, there was no longer any reason for maintaining a tonnage duty which affected our own flag quite as much as the English flag. It is, moreover, to be observed that the English Government does not dispute our right to reimpose tonnage duties in the improbable event of the bill in question not receiving the sanc tion of the Parliament. Finally, Art. 3 retains upon all vessels of the United States of America arriving in our ports the duty of sf. per ton established by the treaty of June 24, 1822. There is no question of reprisals, Sire ; it is purely and simply the maintenance of an existing' fact, which it depends upon the Government of the United States to cause to disappear, by granting to our ships the same treatment which their own ships enjoy in the ports of the American Union. Already negotiations' with this object in view are in progress at Washing ton, and there is every reason to hope will termi nate successfully. Such, Sire, is the object of the draught decree which your Majesty is solicited to sanction by your signature. It is conformable to the liberal character of the law concerning the mercantile marine, the object of which is to attract into our ports the greatest possible amount of busi ness. It is evident that merchandise will go by pre ference to those places where it has the least charges to bear, and the suppression of tonnage dues in all the ports of the empire is a powerful means of at traction. If this truth needed any demonstration, I should ask your Majesty to permit me to cite the example of Marseilles. In that great port tonnage dues were suppressed after the re-establishment of general peace by au ordinance of the 17th of Sep tember, 1817, and this equality of conditions be tween French and foreign vessels has caused no in jury to the French marine,whose proportional share in the maritime business of Marseilles has always been increasing. There is there for the future of our commercial navy a point of comparison, and an example which should give security -TO " ARMAND BEIIIC." The Alleged Steeplechase Cruelty. At the Croydon Petty Sessions on Saturday, Mr. Craw shaw appeared to answer a summons by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who charged him with having been guilty of cruelty to his horse, which broke its back as he rode it at the late steeplechase meet ing at Croydon. Much interest existed among sporting circles upon the subject, and the court was well attended. Amongst others present were the Duke of Hamilton and Sir F. Head, Bart., author of " The Horse and his Rider" (who was there to give evidence, if needed, for the defence). The magistrates on the bench were Mr. E. R. Adams (chairman), Mr. J. Sutherland, Mr. J. R. Edridge, Mr. E. Foss, 'Dr. Hood, and Mr. J. S. nI. Churchill. Mr. J. 5.1. Eastley, Captain Returnis, and Mr. S. Gurney, MP-) with drew before the commencement of the case. Mr. Merowether, instructed by Mr. William Jaquet , of Sergeants'-i nn , T emple, appeared for th e defence. The facts of the case are as follows:—On the first day of the Croyd on s t eeplechase me eting, Mr. Crawshaw rode Voightlander i n th e race for the Stewards' Plate, and upon arriving at th e wa t er jump, the first time round, the horse fell and broke his back. Mr. Colam iciecraary for the Society for the Preven ola, tion of Cruelty to Animals, said proceedings were taken under the 2d section of the 12th and 13th Vict., charging Mr. Crawshaw with cruelly beating, ill-treating, over riding, abusing. and torturing a horse named Voightlander, and causing it to be done, thus making himself liable to a penalty not exceeding £,5. Ho said that Mr. Crawshaw rode Voightlander at the Croydon Steeplechases, on the 27th November, and " persevered" with the horse to make it take a leap at a sensation water-jump, consisting of a. fence 5 feet high with water beyond it. The horse, leaped the fence, but failed to reach the other side ; and in consequence fell, broke its back, and dislo cated its hip joint. The prosecution was not got up with the view of putting down steeplechasing, but they could not overlook cruelty under whatever auspices they found it. George Brewer, a knacker's slaughterer, said ho attended the steeplechases with his cart, and stood at the "sensation water jump." The fence would be about 51 or 6ft. from the ground. Ho saw Voightlander go over the fence and fall into the water. He took it away in his cart. The horse could not see the polo which was laid on the top of the furze. Tho ground was slippery. When asked by the chairman whether any horses had gone over before, he said there might be one or two. They cleared the water about Oft. Voightlander did not struggle at all. Wo took him up on a gate. We found its milt ten times larger than it ought to be, and the lights and other things were injured. The sizo of the milt could not have been caused by the jump. It must have had that some time. Benjamin Charming said he was a bricklayer, and Was standing beside the water jump when Voightlander fell. The pole laid along the furze would be about 4ft. high, and the furzo itself about sft. or more. Simeon Lell, an officer of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said he measured the width of the water jump on the 6th Dec. with a string. He here pro duced the string, but did not know its length. Some ono in court said the length of the string was about 15ft. Gin., and on Mr. Merewother asking him if he would swear it was more than 12ft. sin., witness could not say. Witness ascertained the depth of water by placing a string with a stone attached to the end of a stick, and holding it out like a fishing rod, to be 3ft. Gin. or 3ft. Bin. Similar evidence was given by this intelligent officer. lie said lie " had no other measurement, no tape, no nothing." ato y i z.nfa s ha t ne t t r ,irit g tutt ii e lele‘ o lia n teh3t , i,; : rt v soi a el s sNafi e (ue, : st : vold d iiv.tie:if a bt n hithyo d o, i‘c,iv\:oliois A tlulnei l lre, • d t isa h bso u efideo l . - enl: C estlei l iii : dee e fe,r r ii r oi. at v sr e :fat , : e tu t to - al i ot t el i v,tG a veterinary m t. n. in it t suffer some kind of injury, though it might not be perma nent. Tho injury mi g ht be transient. He thought 31ft. or 4ft. a proper jump. Dl r. Both n, one of the lessees of Croydon steeplechase, understood the fence was trimmed before ti oightland:ir jumped; at any rate ho had given orders to Mr. Williams to do it. Mr. Goodwin, another lessee, said the polo was removed after Voightlander fell. The pole was 2ft. Gin. from the ground,., ,n unid,„ andan d wasthefnuortzesfatb. ova it would make it 4ft. Gin. or 4ft. Mr. Edward Smith, of Begs Life, said the fence was sft. Gin. or Mt. 9in. The polo would be about aft. 10in. or so, and the furze placed above it for the horses to take a better spring would make it the sft gin. The water jump at Liverpool was much higher and more difficult to jump than that at Croydon. If Voightlauder had been clover he would have got over like the rest of them. When asked if it was a severe jump for a horse, witness said, "No; neither for man nor horse." This was the last witness for the prosecution, and on Mr. Merewethor saying that they had no defence to make the magi: trate dismissed the case. Costs were allowed to the defendant. CONTRACT FOR BEECH WEDGES. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, 14th Dec., 1866. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, Do hereby give NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the Bth January next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying Her Majesty's Dockyard at Portsmouth with Hewed Wedges of Beech, under a Contract for twelve calendar months certain, and further until the expiration of three calendar months' warning. The average annual consumption, together with a Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contract., may be seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's Department, Admiralty, Somerset House. No Tender will be received after Two o'Clock on the day of Treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the Party attends, or an Agent for him duly authorised in writing. :Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Beech Wedges ;" and must also be delivered airthe Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a Letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the Person tendering in the sum of £2OO for the due perfor mance of the Contract. By Order, ANTONIO BRAY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. • CONTRACT FOR FRESH OX BEEF AND VEGE - - - -2'"'';'etncrTITPC"I T ISEPAREN'T, ADMIRALTY. Somerset House, 27th December, 1866. HE . COMMISSIONERS for. EXECUTING AL the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE- IakTD do hereby Give Notice, that on Tuesday, the 15th January _next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to con tract for supplying all such quantities of FRESH OX BEEF and VEGETABLES, for the use of her Majesty's ships and vessels at Foynes as may be demanded from the 15th January to the 30th June, 1867, both days included. Tho Contractor is to supply good fat well-fed Ox Beef, as no Heifer meat will be admitted. The Lords COmmissioners of the Admiralty reserve to themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tendero. : .‘ :‘ • Tenders must be made at rates per 100 lb., and no atten tion will be paid to any'offdrs not so made. ' The Contractor, in claimingpayment for the sup Plies, is to make out his invoices in pounds at per 1001 b. The Coneractor to reside on the spot, or to have an agent resident there. If non-resident, the name aua ad dress of.)ae agent must be inserted in the Tender. No Tender will be received unless made on the, printed fbrm provided for the puepoa, and-which may be obtained on application:ln the Lobby of the Department a the Con t oller of Victualling i ,Admiralty, Somerset House, or to the POStmaster it 'Phynes, where also the conditions of the contract may be seen. • No Tender will be received after Noon on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend it the Office -on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer receive} from each person will be communicated to him and his proposed sureties is writing. • Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and must also be deliveied at the department of the Comptroller of Victualling, , Admiralty, Somerset House? signed by two responsible persons, engaging to becomet.boynd wjth the person tendering in the sum of 4300 for the due performance of the Contract for Fresh Ox Beef, and £lOO forlho'Contract for Vegetables. • TlleXpejsttractottotay.,half the Amount of the stamps on the contracts and Bonds. • By order, • AikItONIO BRADY, • , Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. G N M A -K'E R $ and , Others. The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous. of receiViffg PROPOSALS froth aihniiakers-abd Others lor lIREEOff-LOADINg - RlPLES,.either erekeatink or not ropeatin,s,,which may tekthtcp tittpresent Service Rifles in future manifactui.6.- . The folloTingare thepandltiens egnsi4ered essential in military non-repeati ' • EIGHT. = ' Not to exceed 911.56 - zwitbout bayonet._ : To be 51 inches, with srOit — Roec, measured from the hollow of the butt-plate to Muzzle. • • c. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP. Must not exceed 61b. 4oz. for - sixti , rounds as packed for servic.e. . - - - D. CARTRIDGES. Must carry their own ignition. E. SIGHTS. The foresight must be such as to admit of a bayonet fixed according to the present system. r. STOCK. Must be such as to carry a light metal cleaning-rod, and allow a sling to be used. a. 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 capable, also, of being used without accident by imperfectly trained Dien, and of being manufactured in quantities and of uni form quality. . - i. THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp, and exposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for Snider's converted Enfield rifle—also as little liable to acci dental explosion as the same cartridge, and as capable of being manufactured in large quantities, and of uniform quality. s. CALIBRE. Optional. L. THE TWIST AND FORM OP GROOVE. Optional. M. THE LOCK. Optional. rer. RAPIDITY OF FIRE. Capable of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without aiming, the cartridges being arranged on a table. 0. ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST. The arm must give a mean figure of merit of not more than 36in. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500, and 6in. at 300. The mean to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty shots each. r. TRAJECTORY. Not to require at 500 yards an elevation of more than 1 deg. 30 mm. a. FOULING. The shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cent. at 1,000 yards after firing 250 rounds. R. PENETRATION. The mean penetration of five shots not to be less than that of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle— viz., 12 half-inch elm planks, which have been soaked 48 hours in water. Distance 30 yards. s. LUBRICATION. Wax on bullets iiindispensable, but any other lubricant may be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought necessary by the competitor. _ No arms will be received without the usual proof marks. Specifications, and drawings of the methods proposed, Stating the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a finished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu nition, should be sent to the "Director of Ordnance, War Office, Pall-mall," on or before the 30th March, 1867. The specifications and specimen arms will be considered by the Ordnance Select Committee and its associate mem bers, who will be selected by the Secretary of State for War, and who will, after firing the 20 preliminary rounds, select and recommend for further trial such of the systems as may appear to them sufficiently promising, rejecting all such as may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to Warrant their being included in the competition, the con ditions of which are stated in this advertisement. Each accepted competitor will then be required to furnish for experiment, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity to the specimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am munition per arm, within four months after date of de mand. Each competitor will be required to disclose to the committee the exact nature of the lubrication he may em ploy. A sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted competitors, to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of the supply of ammunition required. The Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the arm which, on combination of all qualities, is considered by the committee to be the best submitted. A second reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at taining a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu lars, is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism. A third reward of £4OO for the best cartridge. The qua ities which will be principally taken into consideration in awarding this prize will be economy of manufacture, power of sustaining rough usage, freedom from deterioration in various climates, and general serviceability. The shooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but as they may depend upon the rifling of the arm with which the cartridge is associated, they will not be so much con sidered as those above-mentioned. It is clearly to be understood that under no circumstances will a competitor be entitled to more than one prize ; but such prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be given to the inventor of the arm finally adopted into the service. 1v: MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. Magazine and Repeating Arms-for Infantry will be re ceived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech loading Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48 inches, including the stock. The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at 911 b. ex clusive of the charges in the magazine. It is indispensable that the arms be made to take a bayonet. The Secretary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best Magazine or Repeating Arm produced that fulfils the above conditions •, and in the absence of experience does not at present define the standard of accuracy or other conditions to be fulfilled before such an arm can be adopted. Those Magazine orßepeatingArms, which are accepted for further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O each. . . . This sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per arm. The Secretary of State will take care that no ingenious novelty produced in answer to this advertisement shall be adopted into the service without proper acknowledgment, and that the name of the individual with whom it origi nates shall be recorded in connection with it. 11 the rifle to which the first prize is awarded is adopted into the service, it will bear the inventor's name. J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director of Ordnance War Office, Oct. 22 1866.3 Abolition of French Tonnage Dues. The ifoniteur of Saturday published the follow ing Report from M. Behie, the Minister of Com merce, to the Emperor : "Paris, Dec. 27. - - . " Sire,—The law of the 19th of May, 1866, upon the mercantile marine suppresses in principle ton nage dues in all the ports of the Empire from. the Ist of January, 1867, and only retains exceptionally their collection in the cases of those vessels belong ing to nations which in their ports subject French ships to differential tonnage dues —that is charges from which their own vessels are exempte d. Under the influence of the legi s l a ti on now in f o rce, and previously to the law o f th e 19th of M ay , , tonnage dues in F renc h ports are d iff er ential—that foreign is to say, they are on l y l ev i ed upon 1866, the vessels, while French vessels are not liable to them. The navigation treaties which France has concluded with different maritime Powers have generally had the effect of according to the vessels belonging to those Powers the national treatment—that is, to immunity from tonnage dues. But certain of these Powers levied tonnage rates at home not only upon foreign vessels but also upon their own vessels, so that in reciprocally granting to us in their countries the national treatment, they gave us less than they received, our vessels having to continue paying ton their ports, while their ship s were nage dues in exempt therefrom in ours. ig For this reason the treaties iu question stipu lated, w ith regard to countries placed in thi s situa tion, the payment of a special tonnage duty, called c ompensation tax. we have even gone so far as to have the compensation-tax paid in France not only to English ships, but to French ships themselves and those of all assimilated nations coming from England. " Your Majesty's Government has asked itself whether this complicated system ought to subsist in presence of the precise terms of the law of the 19th of May, 1866, and of the liberality of the doctrines which have guided the drawing up of that law ; and it has taken into consideration whether, with regard to Powers allied to us by special maritime conventions, there was room to subordinate the immunity granted by the new mercantile marine system, not only to the abolition of all differential tonnage dues in the ports of those Powers, but to the abolition of the duties of the same kind which they levy upon their own navigation, so that freedom should be every where absolute and reciprocal. "Au attentive examination has led us to decide this question in the negative. " Upon the one hand, in fact, the stipulations of the law of May 19, 1866, arc conclusive in spirit as in letter, to show that freedom from tonnage duty in French ports ought to be complete, dating from the Ist of January next, save with regard to nations which impose differential taxes upon our navigation in their waters. It is to be remarked, indeed, that the interest of foreign nations is not the nature of the tonnage dues abolition, but certainly the interest of French maritime commerce, which has everything to gain by seeing the greatest possible competition of the ships of all nations drawn into our ports by intelli gent liberties. " From another point of view if in conformity Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., J[ R. MARK LEMON'S LEYTON HALL, and other Tales. "We commend Leyton Hall' most heartily to our readers. The story )s an extremely good one. extremely woll told, and the shorter tales are all of a very effective character. There is not one that is not cheery and pleasant."—lllustrated News. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in demy Bvo., 125., ITAIREE PHASES OF CHRISTIAN LOVE. JIL By the Right Hon. Lady HERBERT OF LEE. "This is an exquisite book, and men and women of all sects and shades of religious faith will thank Lady Herbert fur her labour of love."—Ath,nmum. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. 77 3 i5 ATENT VENTILATING CHIMNEY TOP.—Messr, MYER.; and TODART with con& dunce recommend their CHI MNICI rot , as au effectual CURE of SMOKE. It has - an advantage over all others, as it can be aweeped. It is alike useful and ornamental. Prices for fOreign and home orders on application at 112, Strand, W.C.,'where testimonials can be seen. THE OCEAN ST. LEGER of 1866.—What Lord Lyon was to his owner was the Taeping to her Ca,tain, viz., winner of the race, having distanced all com petitors, as the LAS r I N , DIA TEA. COMPANY have in fariab y done In their chol e and sa!e of tine new season's tea., now selling at imp:)rier's prie. s. War,holisPs-1), Circa! St. tielen'et-otntrehymrd. AVALUABLE CHRISTMAS • PRESENT.- A CHINESE CADDY.. containing 161bs. of really good Black Tea, seat carriage tree to.a.ny railway station or market town in England, Ireland; s:cotland. or Wales, on re ceipt of 405., by PHILLIPS and CO, Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City; E.C. - TEA IS CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d , 25.. Cs 6" . p lb. are the prices at which PHILLIPS and CO , Tea Mercliants, 8, King William-street, City, Lon don, E.C.. are selling good and fine BLACK TEA. A price current post iree. 408 worth carriage free to any railway t■tion or market town in the Uni , ed Kingdom.—Observe— PIIILLIPS and Co. have no Agents or any connexion with any house in Worcester or Swansea. Sugars are supplied at market prices. • XHIBITORS at the PARIS EXHIBITION, ALI who ADVERTISE in " THE SUN," can have the SERVICES of A SPECIAL AGENT in PARIS, whose address can be, obtained at " The Sun" Offic e . He has a perfect knoWledge of French, is also acquainted with busi npss, and has good connections. On application to "The Sun" Agent in Paris, either personally or by letter, ho will obtain every possible facility for Exhibitors, or persons who may have other business in Paris, or who may go there for pleasure only. po RINTINO. --TO PROPRIETORS OF -I- NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.—The Print ing and Machining of Newspapers, &c., done ou exceed ingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices;•if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manam ° er "Sun" Printing Offices, 3, Church row,. Savoy, Strand, W.C. B OYS' ATTIRE. p OYS'. & HYANI and CO. B°"' at 66 and 67, OXFORD-ST. BOYS' NEW STYLE OVERCOATS. BOYS' NEW STYLE REEFERS. BOYS' KNICKERBOCKER SUITS. BOYS' OSBORNE SUITS. B OYS' HARROW SUITS. B OYS' JACKETS for ALL PURPOSES. BOYS' TROUSERS and VESTS. BOYS' HOSIERY and SHIRTS. BOYS' HATS, CAPS, &c., &c. H YAM & Co.'s BOYS' WINTER CLOTHING, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. The first establishment in the kingdom for Juvenile Clothing. Boys' Sandringhnin Overcoats Boys' Prince Alfred Reefer Boys' Overcoats for Little Boys Boys' Knickerbocker Suits lss. to 355. Boys' Westminster and Osborne Suits lss. to 355. Boys' Eaton, Harrow, and Rugby Suits Boys' Jackets for School and Home 9s. to 21s. H YAM & Co.'s ATTIRE for GENTLEMEN, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Tweed Overcoats 21s. to 30s. ii yam & Co.'s Winter Overcoats Hyam & Co.'s Winter Reefer 2ss. to 555. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Suits 42s. to 70s. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Jackets 2ls. to 425. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Frock Coats Hyam & Co.'s Winter Vests 6s. to 14s. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Trousers l4s. to 255. HYAM & Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS. 1. Gentlemen's Clothing for immediate wear. 2. Bespoke or Order Department. 3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department. 4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. T_T YAM & Co.'s ESTABLISHMENTS. LONDON--66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET. BIRMINGHAM-21, 22, and 23, NEW-STREET. LEEDS-42, BRIGGATE ; and DEWSBURY—WESTGATE. Just published, 2d ; sent by the author for 3 stamps, uG-LINESS and BEAUTY ; b e i n g a P am phlet descriptive of articles and means used for improving the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES 01 L, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair, Es 6d, 5s 6d, and 10s 8d; sent by post for M, 84, and 144 stumps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High tiolborn. London, and all Chemists. WONDERFTJL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. This prepar4tion gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, removing the very root. Price 48; sent by post for 80 stamps. —248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. AIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold ,t Is 6d, 5s ad. and 10s ad ; sent free for 51, 84, and 144 stamps. —Had of all Chemists. p REY HAM.-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 effort. Price 3s ed, 5s 6d, and lOs 6d ; sent by post for 54, 81, and 141 stamps ; and all Chenthts. 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 les 6d ; sent for 51, 61, and 144 stamps.—Had of all Chemists. DIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one (lose of ALEX. ROSS'S VE ,ETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sal lowness, &U. 2s 9d and 7s Scl ; or pest for 40 and 100 stamps. —ALEX. ROSS, 245, High Holborn, London, and all Che mists. HAM COLOUR WASH.—By washing the head with this beautitully-perfumes Wash, in seven or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains so by an occisional nsin,. Weed; sent for stamps.—ALLX. ROSS, 24.4, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. 1111 E RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to acid another Loins to thr. 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected tom 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 world be for young girls, almost children, from the age ofd to 15. who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Nil.. Daniel Cooper, R 5, Queen •street, Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Co.. Lombard-street 1 - 3 OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, t: II in the izunediate 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 W A LE .9,R G. President—Him Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the principleol 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 :4acies It affords relief to a large number of in-pa:►ents, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendanoe of the lestitute sick - has for a oensiderable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee ear estly Bolton the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the ir tithes of this Hospital are capable of 000taining several li..ndred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., Abchurch lane ; also by liesars. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; (Lyn and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Presoott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; W ilhants, Deacon, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Banters-street and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. STANFORD SMITH, Bearetuy, THE SUN, LONDON, INIk ;ND Y EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1866. KIN AHANTS LL IV II ISKY. —ll ÜBLIN L'XII [BIT lON, 1865. This celebrated. OLD IRISH• WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole- Sold in BottleS, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at R, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. 'Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Kinaban's LL Whisky." UUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of VarliamNit, 1840), 4, RUSSELL-ST RE ET. COVE ST-GAR DEN. LONDON. Prompt ADVANCES on all description of Security. Forms tree on application by Ibtter to EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES, and BUSINESSES. FURNESS and KNEE'S List on application. Particulars for insertion received until the 27th of the month at their AUCTION AND HOTEL. AGENCY OFFICES, 5, Agar street, S:rand, ITC., and nearly opposite the - Charing Cross Railway Station. T 0 X F 0. . :D , 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., THE MUSICAL ESTABLISHAIENT OF LONDON. CHRISTMAS ENTER CA INMENTS, LES DRAGONS DE Vita. KS (Opera Comique), Musks by A. Maill art (first time in this country), THIS EVENING, in which Miss RUSSELL will make her Reappearance, as sisted by Mis.es Barrie and Fitz Henry ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, Hulls, Fox, Husk, Evans, and Bury, with P.:xtra Band and Chorus ; produced and conducted by Mr. F. Jonglimans COMEDY. ly Messrs. ll.,rry ,51y.4gpy t .j3rierIci. and Eger ton, Adainti',•tvi'e srotlii-rriT'etitililtr, W. It. Julian (the celebrated Mimic), P. Evans, and Nis, Amy Rosalind, to gether with a, Entirely New tivertissement, entitled THE OXFORD REVELS, arranged and produced under the immediate superintendence of Mr. W. 11. Payne, THIS EVENING. IUrADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. NEW EDITIONS. —Life-size Portrait-Models of JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., M.P., and the late RICHARD COBDEN, Esq., M.P. Open from 11 a.m. till dUQ:, anti from 7 tilllo p.m.. Admittance, le.; children, under ten, half-price; extra rooms, Gd. A RGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO, Piccadilly. These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirely re decorated, are now OPEN EVERY EVENIN (3- for Concert and Dancing. Conductor, Signor LUG[ CURTL Manager, GRENET. Admission to Promenad••, One Shilling< Reserved Seats, Two FALKNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY, " Real Malt," 19s. per gallon, 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 thii genaina old spirit, which is coming into universal consumption through England. For price lists rt , iply at Offi es, 14, Strand, London, W.C. Established in Grafton-street, Dublin, A.D. 1780. 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 Offi,T3 and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 1808. Quotations on application. JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the world."—London Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, next the "Times." TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, 40 Cork, bet to announce that they t.re able to supply the trade with their celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases, and to take orders in bon 1 and for exportation, at their offices. 7, Printing-house-square, London, Pl C.. the only house in the square not occupied by the "Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies bring the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial markets, as may be observed by reference to the "Journal of Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their whiskies fetch 61. per gallon and Is. per case over the next best, and is. 6d per gallon and ss. 6d. a case over the lowest quotation. Always on hand a large supply of ve y old mellow whisky in the finest condition, matured in sherry casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, str, , plied on the most reasonable terms. ivrANFIELD'S PATE NT PICKLES are per 171_ featly pure and uncoloured.. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107. Strand (corner of Savoy-steps): London EAU -DE-VIE.--This Pure PALE BRANDY, 18s. per gallon, is vt ry superior to recent importations of Cognac, recommended by the medical profession, and ex tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 38s. per dozen, or in a case 30s , railway carriage pal I.—HEN RY BRETT and CO., Old Furnival's Distillery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent street, S.W. Established 1829. GE ()LOG Y.—ELEMENTARY COLLEC noNs, to illustrate the New Edition of "Lyell's Elements of Geology" and facilitate the important study of Mineralogy and Geology, (•an be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50 to 500 guineas ; also single Specimens of Minerals, Rocks, Fossils, and Recent Shells, Gcologif•al Hans. Hammers, all the recent Publcations, ac.. or J. TENNANT, Mineralogist to Her Majesty, 149, Strand, London. Private Instruction is given in Mineralogy and Geology by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., 149, Strand, W.C. R. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new descrip tion of AR TIP! CIA', TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished fro n the originals by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay. and-will be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require Vie extraction of roots, or any pain ful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastica tion. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastication. WINSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having been recently opened and fitted with requisites for the care and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr. BOISIIAGON, announces that he has transferred his Estab lishment from Birmingham to the above desirable residence, easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour and a-half by the London and North-Western line, and fifty minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing prospect, are garden, me 'now, plantation, and recreation grounds. For terms and forms of admission address the proprietor. DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre )ared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent. will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver nomplaints, inligestion, wind. spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &o. For habitual votiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier A the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they oreate appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, Chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most drug gists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2a. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Soott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine .re a square green package, with " William Lambert." enzraved In the stamp. H OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for fitting np the TRAIN ING SHIP. SH IP. £2,000 required. WH. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Boys' Ref age, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.--CON TRIBUTIONS COUNTRYBU r jog 3t Ure 27 0 e 0 s r tl e y e s i gl e elted for establishing WAr. WILLI 4.118, 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 £s,oo‘ , . being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends have promised to pay for one boy each year. Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothburv, and 214, 1:11 , rh Holborn; Messr s . Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East ; and by WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.O. 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 aro admitted, the only condition being that they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c., 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, refused admittance, andh ave to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda tion, X 2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the work a slim of at least .Zl,OOO more will be required. Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families 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 ? Tho 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 be gratefully received by the Rev._D. GILBERT D.D., No 22 j insbury-circus, E.O. I~~A N S N- H US E FUND for the RELIEF T- 1 -of tho SUFFERERS by the recent COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS. COMMITTEr. The Right MA the LORD MAYOR.• . IL C. L. Bevan, Esq. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Samuel Morley, Esq. Waterlow. Geo. Moore, Esq. -;s Mr. Sheriff Lycett. Mr. Alderman Finnis. Mr. Alderman Besley. J. P. Gassiot, Esq. Mr. Alderman Dakiu. Christopher T. Gabriel, Esq. James Hill, Esq. Frederick Thompson, Esq. R. N. Fowler, Esq. R. A. Gray, Esq. W.J. Maxwell, Esq. Colonel Stuart Wortley. Mr. Alderman Cotton. The attention of the public is earnestly drawn to the suffering consequent on the terrible calamity produced by the recent colliery explosions. SUBSCRIPTIONS are greatly needed to relieve the numerous families made destitute thereby. The amount required to meet the memorable Hartley Colliery Accident in 1862 was £50,000 ; in that case 204 men and boys .lost their lives ; in the present instance double that number are kuoivn to have perished, there fore to make a suitable provision for the families depen dent upon them about £lOO,OOO will be needed. At the final distribution of the surplus of the Hartley Fund, £3,140 was allotted to the districts in which the present accidents occurred, and this sum is now available towards the fund now being raised. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales .. £lOO 11.R.H. the PrinceSs of Wales Tho Corporation of London Amount already advertised £12,505 5 9 Subscriptions will bo received by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house ; Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street ; Messrs, Coutts and Co., Strand; Messrs. talyn;: Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard street; Messrs. Smitb.,-Pay,ne, and Co., 1, Lombard-street Messrs. Robarts, and - Lombard=Strettl' Messrs, Dimsdale, Fowler, and Co., 50, Cornhill ; the Lon don and Westminster Bank, Lotlibury; the London Joint- Stock Bank,-5, Princes-street; the Union Bank of London •, London and County Bank; the National Provincial Bank of England and all their branches; Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., Lombard-street; and by the several members of .the Committee. JOSEPH GIBBS, Secretary. Mansion House, Doc. 29, 1866, - T. CROIX AND LAKE SUPERIOR RAIL ROADk..7 COMPANY.—Issue of Seven per Cent. First Mortgage Sinking Fund Land Grant'Bonds for £1,300,000, secured by a Land Grant of 1,501,000 acres, the railroad and all the property now owned, or to be owned, by the Company. Theßonds are £2OO each, due Ist January, 190 G. Principal and Interest payable at the City Bank, in Lon don. Coupons, due Ist January and Ist July, are attached to the Bonds. _ _ _ _ The price of issue of each Bond of £2OO sterling, bearing interest from the Ist January, 1867, is £125, and accrued ihte'rest payable as follows : £2 £8 £55 £6O The definitive bonds will be delivered in exchange for scrip as soon as : the whole is paid up. Subscribers paying in full derive the advantage of im mediate interest at above 11 per cent. per annum. BANKERS - The City Bank in London. William H. Swift, Esq., Hon. Samuel J. Tilden, and Hon. Andrew H. Green, are the trustees for the first mort gage bondholders, and all moneys received from tire first mortgage bonds sold are to be paid to them in trust, to be by them disbursed (upon such vouchers as they may deem sufficient and satisfactory) for-work done and materials furnished in and about the construction and equipment of the road, and for such other expenses of the company as the said trustees may deem proper to bo paid. All cash receipts from the sales of lands are to be used as a sinking fund in liquidation of the principal and inte rest of the bebt, until a sufficient amount is absolutely in the hands of the trustees to provide for the entire mortgage debt. A full statement, with all the particulars of this road, as made by the President and Directors of the Company, an estimate of the ultimate cost cf construction and equip ment of the road, us also an estimate of earnings, with a copy of the Acts of the Legislature of Wisconsin and of the Congress of the United States, relative to the St. Croix and Lake Superior Railroad Company, with a copy of the deed of trust of mortgage, of the form of the mortgage bonds, and of all the other documents relating to the pre sent issue of bonds, are to be had at the office of the agency of the company, 14, City Bank Chambers, London. Applications for these Bonds will be received up to sth January, 1867. In Loudon, at the City Bank, as Bankers of the Com pany.. - - In Amsterdam, Messrs. Wertheim and Gompertz. In Rotterdam, the Commanditaire Bankvereeniging. From whom prospectuses and forms of application can he obtained. London Office : 14, City Bank Chambers, Threadneedle street, E.C. EST ON'S GRAND , MUSIC HALL, ' HOLBORV. Sole Proprietors, SWEASEY and HOLLAND. Grand Selection from Auber's Opera of " MASA NIELLO," by 40 vocalists dressed in costume as at the opera. Terrific ovation of the Irish Minstrels, with songs, dances, and Irish anecdotes, under the direction of Pat Corti. A new and original overture composed and ar ranged expressly for the above minstrels by Mr. H. Baker. Comic—Arthur Lloyd's new song "Borachio, Pestaclio, Lablachio, Moustachio, and the Roly Poly Eye,"—Jolly Nash, Georgina Smithson, Miss Fancourt, Paddy Fannin, Patrick Sellers, And Harry and Hattie King ; and Pio Watkini, the Persian Juggler. Band of 30 first-class per formers, and largo Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera Houses. Musical Director, Mr. P. CORR'. Prices of admission -,Stalls and Balcony, ls.; Area, 6d. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. Can be secured at the Box Office, between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open every Evening at 7 o'clock. WHAT IS YOUR CREST AND WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO ? Send 3s. 6d. to CULEETCN'S Heraldic Office for a Plain Sketch, or 6s. for a Coloured one. The Arms of man and wife blended together in proper heraldic form. The proper heraldic Colours for servants' liveries, what buttons to be used, and how the carriage should be painted, fee 10s. Just complete, a very valuable book, with 3,500 Engravings, arms, crests, and mottoes of nearly every family in the kingdom, the result of thirty years' labour, price £lO 10s., printed in several colours. Family Pedi grees traced from authentic records, information as to the obtaining of a new grant of arms, how to change one's name, by T. Culleton, Engraver to her Majesty and Royal family ; also Diesinker to the Board of Trade, 25, Oran bourn-street (corner of St. Martin's-lane), W.C. THE ELAND. (From Wild Sports of the World) This noble antelope, the largest of his tribe, is met with in most parts of Africa, but more especially on the borders of the Great Kalahari desert. The full-grown male mea sures six feet high at the shoulder, and is about twelve feet in length. Its horns are about two feet long, with a ridge ascending in a spiral direction about half-way up, the spiral making two perfect turns when the male is full grown. Its tail is between two and three feet long, and it has a dewlap hanging to its knees. Its general colour is ashen grey, and in bulk it equals an adult Hereford ox ; indeed, a troop of eland bulls iu full condition is likened by an ex perienced African hunter to "a herd of stall-fed oxen." The eland cow has no dewlap, she is altogether more graceful and slenderly built than her mate, and her horns are slighter, and without ridge. Despite the rapid strides which civilisation has made among us, there is one of our institutions that a Bechuana, wild from the verge of the Great Kalahari, can afford to laugh to scorn—our roast beef. Eland flesh, so say tra vellersall, is more delicious than that of any other animal running on four legs ; and no traveller, whose experience has extended beyond the quadrupedal, ever ventured to dispute the eland's supremacy. The animal is fit for dress ing the moment it is killed ; its lean is sweet-scented, ten der, and mellow, and its fat delicious. Moreover, in such splendid condition is the eland generally found, that the Bechuana could, if they pleased, hold a "cattle show," compared with which our Baker-street Bazaar would seem a mere skin market. "At the end of a severe chase," writes Mr. Gordon Cumming, "I have repeatedly seen an eland drop down dead, owing to his plethoric habit." It roams the desert plains in troops of from ten to a hundred strong, and is, "like the gemsbok, independent of water." The eland has less speed than any other va riety of antelope, and falls an easy prey to the stealthy savage "stalker," with his assagai or poisoned arrows. On account of this lack of speed the eland suffers much more than any other antelope from the attacks of that terrible jfellow the " wilao honden" as he is called by the Boers, in other words, the gaunt, mangy, ever-hungering wild dog. This animal would seem to be a connecting link between the wolf and the hyena, combining the stealth and cun ning of the latter, with the blood-thirstiness, the untiring, loug-strided and leisurely gallop, and the disposition to act in concert evinced by the former. The females bring forth their whelps in holes and underground burrows. They have three different cries, each being used on spe cial occasions. "One of these cries is a sharp angry bark, usually uttered when they behold an object they cannot exactly make out ; another resembles a number of monkeys chattering together, or men conversing, while their teeth are clashing with cold. This cry is emitted at night when large numbers of them are together, and they are excited by any particular occurrence, such as hearing the voice of the domestic dog. The third cry, and that most commonly used among them, is a sort of rallying note to bring the various members of the pack together." They hunt in packs, fifty or sixty strong, the leading hounds when fatigued falling to the rear, when others, who have been "saving their wind," take their place, and the entire troop inspired anew, utter their appalling yell and lengthen their strides. Let the object of pursuit be what it may, eland, or gnoo, or gemsbok, ho will surely succumb to the dogged perseverance of the "wide honden," and being once brought to bay the business is soon .settled. Now you have the panting and bedraggled eland, helplessly contending against the death that awaits him in each of fifty pair of bloody jaws by which he is encircled, and within ten minutes not a trace of eland is in sight, not a scrap of flesh, nor a strip of skin, not a smear of blood upon the ground even—nothing but a reclining posse of blinking, weary, pot-bellied " wilde honden." Should the huntsman approach a horde of wild dogs, nothing of the fear displayed under such circumstances by other carni vorous animals is apparent. They will merely emerge from their holes or rise from the ground on which they aro reclin ing, yawn, shake themselves, and slowly moveolf, stopping at every few steps to look back. as though not quite sure that the intruder is an enemy, and inclined to corns to an ex- planation with him. But against the hunter's dogs they bear the deadliest a n i mos ity, seem i ng t o regard them as renegades and voluntary slaves, deserving , the hatred of every free cur in the country. Singly, however, the " wilds honden" would be no match against the domestic hound ; and with this fact the former seems well acquainted and to specially bear in mind. Should the bunter, or the Boer, whose defenceless sheep-flock has been ravaged by the murderous pack, loose his watch-dogs, and urge them to combat with the " wilds hondens," these latter will not budge an inch, lest in the flight ono of their weak members, falling in the rear, might be surrounded and come to grief. Steadily they keep their ground, and when the avenging farm dogs approach, open on either side to admit, and then as suddenly closing up again, tear them limb front limb, oat up every scrap of their carcases, and then trot off triumphant. The speed of the eland is only slow as compared with that of antelopes generally—seventeen miles an hour can scarcely bo called a jog-trot pace, and that is the rate, we aao assured by Captain Drayson, at which the eland rushes down the steepest bills pausing not should it encounter rocks and: boulders impossible terthe erevrest steeple chaser, but clearing them with ease, and without in the least diminishing its speed. "No idea can be formed," says Drayson, "of the activity of the eland from the ap pearance of the specimens exhibited in the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens. Give them a good run, and they would nearly leap over the palings that there surround them." Captain Drayson, who spent, a colic:Womble time. in Kaffirland, hunting everything worth hunting, furnishes the folloWing graphic instance of an eland chase. Being out with a . jolly company of Boers, he had the misfortune to be thrown from his horse; but with ne worse result than a few bruises, and the breakage of the stock of his gun. This, however, was bad enough, as it involved the necessity either of retracing many miles back to the camp to procure fresh piece, or of accompanying the hunting party for the cold satisfaction of seeing them bring down the game. Of the two evils, the former seemed the least, and so back to camp galloped the captain. Too much ground, however, had been lost to _admit of a chance of his overtaking his party, so, alone in the wilderness, he resolved to essay a little eland hunting on his own account. " After diligent search I suddenly noticed some animals. nearly a mile distant, that looked extremely liko elands, therefore I turned in their direction, which was nearly op posite to that which I had first pursued. As I approached them I made out a couple of bulls and four cow elands, with five or six .half-gro sn calves. They were away as soon as they noticed me, and crossed a little muddy hollow that seemed soft enough to hold them fast ; they got over, however, but sunk to their bellies in the attempt, and came out on the other side with black mud-stockings. 1 know that their instinct had shown them the best place for a crossing, and that if I tried at any other I might get pounded completely ; I therefore went down to the spot And tried my horse at it. lle would not stir a stop into the bog, but smelt at it in a suspicious manner ; spurs and whip had no effect on him, he would not face it. "I saw that the quiet plan was no good with my nervous brute, so turning round, I gave him a little canter and brought him down again to the muddy crossing with a rush. When he found what I purposed,. he tried to refuse; but I let drop both spurs into his flank with a vigorous dig, and at the same time applied the jambok behind with such good effect, that ho floundered into the bog, sinking to the girths. He struggled desperately, and could scarcely move. There were little round hard tufts of grass in places that afforded him a slight footing. I therefore dismounted, and by shouting and lifting with the bridle, managed to get him across the score of yards, the breadth of this horrid place. This struggle took a good deal out of him, and ho was none of the freshest when I remounted and followed the elands, which I saw steadily trotting along a mile in advance. "I at length closet with them, and turned a bull from the heard. 1 rode beniud, and obliged him to keep at a gallop, as this pace was more distressing to him than the trot. Seeibg another muddy place a short distance in front I pulled up, and as the bull was floundering through it I gave him the full contents of both barrels in the stern. He did not fall, although I could see that he was very badly wounded. I managed to get over this difficulty with greater ease than the first, as the mud was not so deep, and commenced loading as I rode. Upon taking out my bullets I discovered that they were for my broken-stocked gun, the bore of which was nearly two sizes larger than the one 1 now had with me, and this difference I had forgotten in my hurry of changing. I put the bullet in my mouth, and kept biting it to reduce its size, and 'at last managed just to put it into the barrel. With the aid of a flint on the ramrod I hammered the bullet about half-way down, but farther it seemed determined not to go. "The eland had trotted down to some water that flowed from a rocky ravine near, and formed a sort of court or semicircle, the back of which was high, and like a stone wall. He stood in the water, and as I approached could not retreat, as ho was in a sort of cul de sac, and did not like coming past me. I felt inclined to go in at the bull with my clasp-knife, but a threatening kind of pawing, and a shake of the head when I came near, ma de me think it more prudent to keep off. "I now remembered a Dutchman's plan for a sticks bullet' as they call it—viz., dropping a little water in the barrel, I soon found the good result, for the ball began to move, and at each blow from the ramrod went lower and lower, until the clear ring and springing of the ramrod showed it to be home, I then laid my impatient prisoner low with a shot behind the shoulder. Ho was a fine young bull, about fifteen hands in height." ANNUAL MEETING OF THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA. The annual meeting of the Union League was held in their building on Broad-street ; a large number of members were in attendance. The Board of Directors presented their fourth annual report, which, after referring to the late war and regarding the coming history of the country as fixed for a term of years, says : " But in the inscrutable wisdom of God our na tion was doomed to suffer from another, and, if pos sible, more detestable treachery than that which had inspired the recent rebellion. The man whom our votes had elevated to the second place in the gift of the nation, and whom the hand of the assas sin raised to the first, almost from the day that he assumed supreme power, set himself about proving that he was worthy of the manner of his succession. Not only did he betray every trust that we had re posed in him, but he became false to his own re cord, his own pledges and protestations, and in the very words which we had applauded in his first message to Congress." Referring to the recent Convention of Southern Unionists in that city the Board say_ "We are grateful to the loyal Southern men, whom we welcomed to their Convention, for the wise and temperate resolutions which expressed the sense of their meeting, and proved how little gall was in their nature, even after they had s uffered through years of persecution, and were we_ 11 aware that, on returning to their homes, they would be subjected, both in their persons and their families, to a worse renewal of their trials. The effects of their visit to our Institution have also been produc tive of good to their cause in the South. Taking copy by our association, and recognising the strength and capabilities of organisation, since their return they have instituted Union Leagues amongst them selves." Speaking of the fire at the League• house, they say that, notwithstanding th 3 loss and the incon venience occasioned by the fire, no work in which the League was then engaged was in any way pre vented or even postponed for a single day. The Board say :—" To guard against another fire they have made the building as nearly fire-proof as possible. The brick partition walls were run up above the roof and formed into battlements, thus dividing the roof into separated sections, and the whole was covered with metal. The changes could not be accomplished without a large outlay of money, and the Board of Directors has therefore increased the annual tax for the year 1867 by the sum of ten dollars. 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