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"r 2) ~+f '77..-2.vic2 <c--ur,. L--~-~. ~~`~ ~~z ~ =~ - _--t TONDON must have a SUPPER an d MUSIC A ROOM for Gentlemen. Remember, we wait for you at EVANS' after the Covent-garden Opera alid the Theatres. 7 ), . :J)1: - ; -1 Ns)) • • • 4r4. • \ - 444+4.• , ' • - . \ c 9. Wkit • - - ,o , ‘ " 1 14 ttl • - • - - I • • _4 • ' • •• 08 , -.4:--,r- 6- 4 -P , ✓ + ".• , 4';4 4 4 (P e .• • ib• ' DROIT • fk •-• n; ---, -. , r ,,,' Iv, I 1 1' \ let;. 1 . I - --,?,,,--1%- ;.,,,,i.,‘ INAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN • _ EXHIBITION, 1865. This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole -601110. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8. GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded "Kivahan's LL Whisky." VEUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION "Incorpor ited by Act of Parliament, 18i0), 1 IZITSSELL-STIMET, COVENT-G ATtDEN. LONDOY. ADVANCES MONEY on Personal Security, Bills of Sale, Freehold or beneficial Leasehold Property, without inquiry fee, or any deduction whatever, for periods of one, two, or three years, repayable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills discounted. The greatest secrecy observed. Advances also made towards the Purchase of a 'House, repayable iu 5. 10, or 15 years —Forms free on application, or receipt of a stamped eLvelopo. EDWARD HARP/1:R, Secretary. BOARD and RESIDENCE.—CIiff House, near Warrior-square, St. Leonards-on-Sea, two minutes' walk from. the Parade. Address. Mrs. Richardson, as above. CHOCOLATE.-11.IENIER'S FRENCH. CHOCOLAT-ME - NIER, for Breakfast. C [IOC OLAT-MENIER is pure, wholesome, and delicious. 31 ENTER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE. Warehouse, 21, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. Sold everywhere. PHEASANT REARING for 1866.— JAMES CHAMBERLIN'S (opposite Corn Exchange, Nor wich) is th e on l y depot in the world for proper FOOl3 for PH MASAN T F.E E DING. Between f, 0') and 300 testimonials of last year's success. Treatise on Hatching and Rearing, with other valuable hints, posted free on application. Land owners, pheasant rea.ers , and gamekeepers can raise any numb er o f b irds by using his food. The aristocracy of the kingdom constantly use it. GPntlemen requirin.x game keepers, or gamekeepers requiring situations, are requested to apply to Mr. James Chamberlin, wine merchant and phea sant fool dealer, opposite Corn Exchange, Norwich. PHILLIPS AND COMPANY'S TEAS ARE BEST AND CIIE'APE3T. STRONG to FINE BLACK TEA, ls. 6d., 25., 2s. 6d., 35., 35. 4d. Most Delicious Black Tea is now only 3s. 61. re , pound. Pure, Rich, Rare, Choice C.,ffee, is. 4d.. Is. 6d, ls. PHILLIPS and CO., TEA MERCHANTS, R, King William-street, City, London, E.C. A price current free. Sugars at market prices. PHILLIPS and ('O. send all goods Carriage Free within eight miles of No. 8, King William-street, 408. worth Car riage Free to any Railway Station or Market Town in Eng land. Phillips and Co. have no Agents, nor any conneeaon with any house in Worcester or Swansea. TEETH. —Mr. DAY (for many years principal assistant to Mr. Eskell, surgeon-dentist, of 8, Gros venor -street, W.) offers the benefit of his experience in every case of Dental defect or deficiency. Be has made arrange ments for the use of Mr. Eskell's Patents, by which means exquisitely enamelled ARTIFICIAL TI ET of the utmost durability are constructed (in a few hours when necessary), and are worn upon tender cuma or roots of teeth or by ner voni persons for any length of time, without pain, unplea santness, or discomfort guaranteed. The i ivention applied to teeth of ordinary or inferior construction. Osteoplastic Enamel, the exact colour of the natural teeth, used in all cases of stoppinee. Discoloured teeth restored, loose teeth fastened, extra , tions painlessly performed, and ail opera tions on the most approved principles. Terms strictly mole rate. Consultations free. 291, REGENT -STREET (3 doors from the Po.ytechnia SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, tnent a o n t v.l)2kisnv ~, ii r r ° olll , consisting of a new and e.aegant assort gures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, ink stands, eantlful inlaid Tables, Paperweights , Am, in Italian Alabast B Parian. Marble, ronze, Derbyshire Spar, Am Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENN A NT, Mine ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, W.C., Londen. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly f iciiitatr the interesting s t u d y of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY. and can be had at 2, 5. 10. 20, 50, to 500 guineas -ach. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE- R A.LoG y given by Mr.TENNANT.F.G.S.. at 149. Strand. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The g reatest and Most useful invention of the day, AGIJA AM A RELL A . Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and ed Bull Wharf, 93, U pper Thames -street, Perfume r s to CO.,'her Majesty, respect fully offer to the public this truly marvellous flu'''. which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue no Matter at what age. The Agna Amareila has none of the Properties of dyes ' • it, on the contrary, a beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles. 10s. 61. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal 'Highness the Princess of Wales. DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre- Pared without any mercurial Ingredient, from the recipe of Di >oat, of Bromley, Kent, will be found Invaluable to all whi. 4uffer from bilious ind liver Pomplaints, indiestcn, wind, 'P 49,116 . eiddiness, izziner,s of the eyes, &c. For tabitua) ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a pnrifle , of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera tion and grateful to she stomach, they create appe Ate, pro. !note digestion and strengthen the whole nervous system Sold by W. Lambert, B, King, William-street, Charing-cross London, and by most druggists, in boxes,la. 144., and three times the quantity in one, 2 s . Dd. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott';, 3 1 11008 and Liver rill s . Th e genuine arc a (rare stampc Dkokage. with .• Lambert. " Anzraved -7n the m. RIIPT(TRVS.-11Y Ri)YAL LETTERS PATENT. !WHITE'S MOC-MADT LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN TIIE GREAT Of 1851 and 1862 is allowed by upwards of LWO Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective :nvention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of 1 . 1. steel spring, so often hurtful In Its effe..ts. is tulle ,youled—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while . ;Ile requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main rad and Patent Lev r, fitting with so much ease and clo?e -inicaa that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during ee P* A descriptive circular may be had, and t/P truss, wh ich canr.ot fail to fit, forwarded by pog. on the circum ferenc the of the body two inches below the hips, being sent to e manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 28, Piccadilly. A Sinele Truss, lAs 21s 641., and 31s. 6d Postaze Is A Double Truss, 318..6d., .42s , an.l 525. 6d. Postare, Is. , Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6 , 1 P , stage, 13. 1 d. Pos t - cCfice Orders to be made payable toJohn White, Post oflice, Plecaddly. NEW PATENT RLASTIC S TOC•KIN GS, I KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling, of the Legs. 'prains, icc. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpen-ive, paid are drawn on like each and rdinary stocking. P r i ce 4 s. 6d., 7e. 6d., 10s. and leo. . ostap,:e, 6d. JOIN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. S UB SCRIPTIONS for the WIDOW an d CHILDREN of the late Captain R. 11. GRONOW, formerly of the Grenadier Guards, and Author of " Recol lections an d Anecdotes, " " Celebrities of London and Paris," &c. Captain Gronow, who lately died in Paris, has left a wid ow an d four young children, by his second marriage utterly destitute, without means to defray his funeral expenses, or even to purchase bread. Captain Gr onow was di s i n h er it e d b y his father, in favour of his brother, a clergyman. and the small income which he derived from the interest of a sum charged on the family estate ceased with his life ; while the sums be received from time to time for his " Recollections" were expended in providing for the increasing expenses of his young f amily. Under these distressing circumstances the friends of Madame Gronow in Paris came to her aid, and they now appeal to the liberality of her late husband's friends in London, and also to the readers of his Reminiscences, for co ntributions to enable her to maintain and educate her children. Subscriptions received by Messrs. SMITH, ELDER, and Co., 65, Cornhill, and 45, Pall-mall ; and by Messrs. Cox and GREENWOOD, Army Agents, Craig's-court, Parliament street 11NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. • VT BARRY's delicious health- res t or i ng I nva lid s ' -A and Infants' Food, THE REVALENTA ARABICA, Yields three times as much assimilating and strengthening nourishment as the best meat, and restores perfect diges *ion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and ener g y t o th e mos t disor dered or enfeebled —removing speedily and effectually in digestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, consumption, ha bitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervous ness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, cold s , influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity pal pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, , s pasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, Pains in the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is the most digestible of all foods and suitable for in valids and infants in all complaints. of th e W quote a few ou t o f 62 ,000 Cures:—Cure No. 58,216 e Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver coin- Plai h nt, wasting away, d e bilit y, nervousness, irritability, wit a n ervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, con stant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous a g it ation- Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Waterford :---1 have derived much benefit from your excellent food.—Stuart de Decies, Dromana, Cappoquin, Cou nty Waterford. Cure No. 54,816, from the Rev. James 7- uampbell, Syderstone Rectory, near Fakenham, Nor elk. In all cases of indigestion, and particularly when Nor the liver is more than usually affected, 1 consider it the ;rat of a ll remedies. It regulates the bile, and makes it flow in cases which wo u ld no t a d m i t of mercury in any ali a'e- In short, a healthy flow of the bile is one of the earliest and best symptoms. You can make what use you dress of this communication.—l am, gentlemen, James T. Campbell. Cure No. 52 ,422.—8 ridge Rouse, Prim °Y, Surrey : Thirty-three diseased s, spitting of bl oo d , liver derangeme y nt, ears' deafness, singing lung in the ears, constipation debility, shortness of breath, and lucough, have been removed by your Revalenta Arabica. My ngs, liver, sto mac h , head, and ears are all right, my hear g perfect, and my recovery is a marvel to all my acquaint ances. —James Roberts, Tinaberllerchant. Cure No. 49,832. Oi fiftyyears' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervous ness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, n ...,.e5e, and vomiting. -Mane Joly, of Lynn, Nospasms, sick rfolk. Cure -v40.47,121.-- MissElizabethJacobs, of extremenervousness, indi gestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 56,814.—Mr. Saml.Laxton.,Leieester, of two years' diarrhcea. The food is sold in canisters, 11b. 2s 9d ; 21b., 4 8. 6d. ; 121 b., 21s ; 241 b., 40s. Super-refined quality, 11b., 6 s. ; 21b., 12s ; 51 . b., 225. ; 101 b., 335. The 101 b., 121 b., and 2 41 b. b canisters , . carriage free on receipt of Post-office Order, Y Barry Du Barry and Co., 77. Regent-street, London ; also, Phillips, Tea Dealers , 8, King William-street ; like 'wise at 65, Gr acechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishops ggat te-street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 830, Strand Upper Baker -street ; 103, Tottenham-court road ; 96, *Upper-street, Islington N.; Harvey, Notting-hill ; Close Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen'e _rrace, St. john's-wood, London ; and all respectable oars and Chemists. —Beware of spurious imitations. W. 23,026. Now ready. at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., 31il. FA L L E2 N i t O r N L 'S yLI N , " ENV NOVEL, "A clever and interesting. story. It is well written, and so go it that our friends should read it for themselves." — Athenaeum. - • Hurst and Blaekett, 13, Great Marlborough-street Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., HESTER'S SACRIFICE. By the Author of "ST °LAVE'S," "JANITA'S CROSS," te. " This novel is one to be heartily commended. It is a story that will be read with great pleAsnre. The author has great power of sketching character. The plot is a good one. Not the least charm of the story is that is intere,t is sus tained throughour."—Star. Hurst and Blaekett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. WHYTE MELVILLE. CERISE: A Tale of the Last Century. By 1/ HYTE MELVILLE. Author of "The Gladiators," "Good for Nothing," "The Brookes of Bridlemere," &c. 3 vols., post Bvo. [Second Edition This Day. "Rarely in the course of the longest career of what may be called pr ,Sessional novel-reading is such a treat as the per usal of a work like 'Cerise' off , .red to the reader. It is a pleasure so true, so deep, so delightful, that no sameness of custom can decrease, no sense of mere business-like habit can deaden it Major Whyte Melville has written several good and some excellent novels ; a few will live, 'The Gla diators' among the number ; but he has never done anything to be compared with his present work, in either matter or style There are. several chapters in this book which might be selected and ser, apart as fulfilling the very ideal ( ~peg Section in novel writing The tone of this work is much higher than that of any of its 9uthor's previous novels ; he has sought his inspiration at purer sources ; and while his characters arc sketched with a bolder, finer, and firmer pencil, they are moulded from grander ideal." Morning Yost, March 2D, 1b64. Chapman and Hall, 196, Piceadily. QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. - 1 - CCXXXVIII., will be Published on TUESDAY, April 10. CONTENTS. I. Sir Joshua Reynolds. H. Children's Employment Commissicn. 111. Foss' Judges of England. IV. Coal and Smoke. V. Science of Lang-uage. VI. st, Patrick and the Irish Church. VII. Ecce Homo. VIII. Female Education. IX. The Government Reform Bill. John Murray, Albemarle-street. 5(.1a edition, corrected and revised, p ost free 7d., THE TEETH : a Practical Treatise; with the best Means of Restoring, them when Defective or Lost. By A. ESKELL, 7-urgeon-Dentist, of Ormvenor-street, W. " We cannot do better than recommend forgeneral perusal Mr. N.skell's treatise, which is as useful as it is unpretend ing."— Telegraph, June 20, 186 . Sold by Simplcin and Marshall. Stationers'-hall-court' London; and all Booksellers. Just published (Gratis), ir HE GREAT CRINOLINE QUESTION I solved by her Majesty the Empress < f the French. Ladies should at once obtiin gratis of their Draper or corset Maker, THOMSON'S new Illustration, showing the veritable "DE DE L' I MPERATRICE." STARCH MANUFACTURERS TO H. It. H. THE PRINCESS OP WALES. GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, Used in the Royal Laundry, AND AWARDED TIIE PRIZE MEDAL, 1P32. Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, &c. Azc. TOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY pJI TOO PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleaannt fragrance to the breath. Price /8. 61—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. WHAT DO THE WILD WAVES SAY NOW? —That the FIERY CROSS has arrived, bringing some magnificent KAISOW CONGOUS of delicious flavour, and which may nU , W be had, at a mere commission on the import price, of the EAST INDIA TEA CO YIPANY, No. 5, Great St. Helen's aurehyard, Bishopsgate-street. SWEET OPOPONAX.—PIESSE rand iiIN'S now PERFUME. This and a thousand othe , s for ehot'e at the laboratory of flowers. 2, New Bond street, London. Sold in all parts of the world. DEFRIES and SONS beg to call ,the special J • attention of Merchants and the Trade to their NEW LATENT ASTRA BURNER, With Circular Wick, which for simplicity ot construction, great brilliancy of light, perfect combustion, and its entire freedom arum heat, sur passes everything that has yet been introduced. A STRA LAMPS can be obtained from the m ETROPOLIT AN LIGHT COMPANY, 417, Strand, and from all Ironmongers and Lamp Warehouses in Town and Country; and the Patentee, 16 and 17, Commercial street, WhitechapeL A STRA, PETROLEUM, and KEROSINE LAMPS ou SHOW. (New Designs.) ASTRA (Patent) LAMP, for MINERAL AS TR A LAM P.—Five Hundred NEW PATTERNS for the Season now on Show. TABLE GLASS. ENGRAVED AND CUT. T DEFRIES and SONS, 0 • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS. Newest Patterns, Correct Measure. DEFRIES and SONS, J • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES, For 12 Persons, £1 18s. Od. BREAKFAST and TEA. SERVICES in great variety, £1 is. 1 DEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-oTREET. CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS, New designs, to; the Drawing-room, either for Gas or Candle. T DEFRIEF., and SO NS, CY • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS, In the Grecian and Venetian Designs, JREFRIES and SONS , • 16 and 17, CO NIMERCIAL-ST REET. BRONZED AND ORMOLU CHANDELIERS, New designs, tor the Dining-room. JDEFRIES and S ONS, .16 and 17, CO3IMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL LAMPS AND WALL LIGHTS (Registered) for India. JDEFRIES and SONS , T- 7 • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET. CLUB, MESS, AND FURNISHING ORDERS for the above Goods promptly executed. Works LONDON and BIRMINGHAM. T DEFRIES and SONS, cr• 143 and 17, COMNIERCIAL-STREET. T DEFRIES and SONS v. Supply Vlerchints with Pattern Books Free. J• DEFRIES and SONS' P.) • TEMPORARY SNOW ROOMS. 16 and 17, COMMERCLU-STREET, WHITECFIAPEL, Five Minutes' walk from the Late Establishment, 147, HOUNDSDITCH. WINSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having 3een recently opened and fitted with requisites for the care and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr. BOIS RAGON, 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, meadow, plantation, and recreation grounds. For terms and forms of admission address the proprietor. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer • han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected irom want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few of the most recent oases: — F. w., aged 16, fellen, mother dead, deserted by her father. M. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead. 4.. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother 3. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead. C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead, A, 8., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead. H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents; M. H.. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead. E. aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. M. A. W. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully, by the Secretary, Ifr. Daniel Cooper, g 5, Queen .street. Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Co., Lombard-street. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-cross. !Patron-11er Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G President—His trace the Duke of BUCCLEUCII. K.G. -- - This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor without the delay and di ffi culty of Governors' orders , is wholly de pendent for support o' voluntary contributions and i :.4aciee. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the iestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 5,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of containing several nundred more beds, had the Commiitrct the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mats ;erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Wiyn and Co. ; 11.r.ries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; W name, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; 1. Barred and Llverpool3 and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. OTANI:MD war. bemoan,. THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1866. rro - WEST-END DINERS. - "THE WELLINGTON," ST. JAMES'S-STREET, PICCADILLY. LADIES' SAL' N DINING ROOM on the First Floor The SUBSCRI lON ROOMS are now OPEN. Terms—Twelve Months..£l L's. 61. Six Months...—. I ls. Od. Apply, D. CAMERON, 49, St. James-stieet. /V T R. W. S. \VO.ODIN'S BADEN-BADEN AL and UP PT THE AIR, an entirely few Entert .in meta, EVERY EVENING, at Eight (except Saturday); aturtlay Mornings at Three. POLYGRAPHIC HALL, King William-street, Charmg-cross Luxurious sofa stalls, 38 • balcony stalls, 35.; area, 25.; amphitheatre, ls.—A plan of stalls may be seen and seats secured at the Hall from Eleven to Five. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, ST. JAMES'S HALL. EVERT EVENING at Eight IVEDNESDATS and SATURDAYS, at Three and Eight,—The °rig nal and veri tably legimate cintisTY MINSTRELS. First Season in London the , e five years The only company in existence which possesses a legal claim to the title, trom the fact of its being the only one which retains all the marked specialities and distinguished favourites who originally gained the re putation of the company first in the United States, and sub sequently in this country, in 1857. No other company as suming the title of Christy Minstrels possesses a single in dividual member of the least distinction who belonged to the original troupe. The Christys (after an absence of five years) return to London with their band strengthened and im proved in every respecr, their entertainment being unani mously pronounced b,' the metropolitan press to be the most sparkling in London. Prices of Admission—New and luxurious fauteuils, ss. ; stalls, 3s. ; area. 2s. ; gallery, is. ; juveniles, under twelve. half price to stalls and are% only. Fauteuils and stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street; or at Mr. Austin's, 23, Piccadilly. -Manager, Mr. Frederick Burgess. ATADAINIE TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION INIL BAKER-STREET, EASTER HOLIDAYS. NEW ADDITIONS.—SeveraI life-size Portrait Models of the most distin7uished Personages of the day (including those of the late LORD PALMERSTON and GUS TAVUS V. BROOKE) have been added since the last Holidays ; and in the Chamber of Horrors are Effigies, taken from life, of SOUTHEY alias FORWOOD, and the norious CHARLOTTE WINSOR. Open during the first three days in Easter week from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. Admittance, ls.; children, under ten, half price ; Extra Rooms, 6d. A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT THIS EVENING. Dancing at fen. Open until One o'clock. Admission, gentlemen, 55.; ladies, 2a. 6d. Door open at half-past Nine. Chef d'Or.hestra, Signor L. Curti. N.B.—Dining the evenino - the eminent M. Levy will per form some of his favourite solos on the cornet. Manager, M. GRENET. TO DEBTORS IN DIFFICULTIES.-Mr. S. T. COOPER, Public 'Accountant, arranges Compo ti time with Creditors, advises persons in troub7e how to arrange their affairs, or to pass through the Court of Bank ruptcy, and prepar,s all forms of accoanfs, public or private. Twenty years of experience. Consultations gratis.— Off ice , 10, Basinghall-street, opposite the Court of Bankruptcy. French, German, and Italian spoken. THE ATLANTIC and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. NEW YORK— PENNSYLVANIA—OHIO. OFFICES. 5, Westminster-chambers, Victoria-street, Westminster, S.W. 26, Throgmorton-street, City, E.C. CONSOLIDATED BONDS OF THE ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. QUARTERLY PAYMENT OF INTEREST.— COUPON No. 2. The COUPON No. 2, duo on 15th April, 1866, will be PAID, free of income tax, on MONDAY, the 16th, and after that day at the Company's Offices in London, and by the following named Bankers : England Barned's Banking Company (Limited), Liverpool. 77 The Consolidated Bank (Limited), Man chester and Norwich. 77 The National Provincial Bank of England and Branches. Ireland Scotland.. The Bank of Scotland and Branches. Wales The North and South Wales Bank and Branches. Amsterdam Messrs. Boissevain Brothers. The usual delay of two days for examination being waived, the Coupons will be paid on presentation. THOMAS HOLLIS, Secretary. London, 2nd April, 1866. TO CAPITALISTS.—A Capitalist is required by the Advertiser who fully understands the manage ment of shippin , r in all its details to assist in the PUR CHASE of a fleet of fine CLIPPER SHIPS on unusually advantageous terms, for which immediate and most profit able employment can be ob•ained. As this is bona fide, and an opportunity which seldom meta's, none need apply vtrio have not large capital at como:and.—Address, with real name, C. P. A., 8, Birch:a-lane, E.C. To have remains of this sort mentioned in the same book with t heo thatse other, o t f h A sa sn b i b hoe e n v mn i l di l ! might, isl of No I ah differenta N,e wonder n o doubt, e tr I a admits s th om e men at present living : Lh y aa l ac i vi e tnee glrfi found dto build it. I can, at least g , a fi b nd o u men l e i n e i n s Caithness who built 'sheiling bothies' exactly simi lar to Mr. Laing's moorland mound. The walls being of large flag stones set on edge,' are the same as are to be seen to this day in many modern build ings similarly situated, where the largest surface any stone can be got to present is of the utmost im portance in a turf building. The shells found on the floor are just such as the young women who at tended their cattle in these moorlands were sure to go on to the shore to gather, after they had finished their day's work, or were waiting for the return of their cows. To the present day young women and men, too, go to the shore , a distance of three or four miles to gather such mol luscs. The bones found were only such as were sure to be sent from home for the regular food of these girls while living in a sort of banishment in the hills during the summer. The bench or bed' along the walls is simply the place on which the milk was set in dishes, a portion of which dishes Mr. Laing found ' having a coarse blue glaze,' and which he mistook for a piece of pre-historic pottery!! The two large stones opposite the door in the fur ther end of the building is the fireplace, and these stones, with the assistance of one or two more, though not so permanently fixed, were used for sup porting a large pot, in which they boiled their milk for making cheese, and also saved them the trouble of carrying up to the hills a large iron hook and chain, on which pots in country houses are usually hung. The stones projecting on each side of the doorway are the foundation of a turf erection merely for shelter. It reached to the height of the walls, and was covered on the top ; and in a day's walk in the interior of the country, I will now point out a half a score of similar erections." Dr. HUNT, who visited Caithness last year, and travelled over part of the same ground as Mr. Laing, also threw much doubt on his alleged facts, and re gretted that he was not present to explain the in congruities which had been pointed out in his work. Dr. Hunt said that the statement made by Mr. Laing, that kists were to be found at regular dis tances of 15 feet from each other in the burial mound, was not borne out by his experience ; and on examining the kist of a chief, from which Mr. Laing bad taken one skeleton, he was surprised to find the pelvis and leg bones of another. The doubts thrown on the statements seemed to show that Mr. Laing had relied on the reports of others without having depended alone on his own researches. There was a brief discussion after the reading of the papers, in which Mr. Carter, Mr. Higgins, and Dr. Charnock took part. The meeting then ad journed. PARIS. THE GRAND HOTEL, Boulevard des Capueines, Place du Nouvel Opera, opposite the hue de la Pais, and near the Theatres. Has been o cued s nce. J .Iy, Isti!. It contains 70 bed rooms, prices from 4fr. to 25f r. ; 70 drawing-rooms, f.om 5f r. to 30fr. ; a magnificent salon, caeablc of dining more than 300 persona, and where there is a table d'hote at six o'e ock. Dint,ers an t b - eakfasts are served a la carte in the coffee rooms, as well as in the apartments. There is a cading oom with the best English and foreign papers and publica tions, a music-room and a drawing-room for the use of tra - yellers without any additional charge. There are also baths, billiard-rooms, smoking divans. post-ofil.!e ; sibs, carriages, and omnibuses going to the railway et itLu . The servants spe..k all languages. This superb Hotel, possessing all th a modern luxury aid comfort can combine, and situ ,ted in the most fashionable part of Paris, is rezommended to the atten tion of travellers. Independently of their Two Hotels, the Compaznie Immo billere has e4t .b I shed an extea Ave Priv Ate Furnished House on the lioulevard des Capuelues, opposite the Rotunda of the Grand Hotel, where Families can reside as in their own private residences, and where they may rely upon finding the utmost comfort. TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY.- The fear of pain and dread of ope , ation inherent to all deter very many to whom AItTIFICIAL TEETH are of vital importance from availing themselves of the services of a dentist. In a practice founded in 1830, and now ex ending over greater part of the kingdom, an experience unequalled has been obtained, enablin g us to offer ev en th e most sensi tive sufferer a system of dentistry perfect in its absolute. freedom from pain, a specialite t.ertaining only to our prac tice, and for which her Majesty has granted her royal letters patent. This system embt aces the non-interference with all stumps, however decayed, the support ng instead of extrac tion of loose teeth until they become firm and useful in mas tication, and the utter absence of all and every operation, so that the most nervous person can be supplied without fear of pain or inconvenience. These tenth arc cheaper, more dur able, natural, and comfortable than any yet produced. Consultation tree. Teeth from ss. Sets from 5 to 25 gs., warranted. For the efficacy, utility, and success of this system, vide " Lancet." Messrs. LEWIN and SI3IEON MOSELY and SONS, 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand, Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station. Daily attendance at 15, Whitefriargate, Hull; 10, Norfolk street, Sheffield; 4, East-parade, Leeds; 14, St. Nicholas street, Scarbro' ; and 33, Coney-street, 'York Established 1830. No connection with any one of the same name. Anthropological Society. - ~ - At an ordinary meeting of this society on Tues day evening—Dr. J. Hunt in the chair—several pa rem p ear w in the i n s sa e n r were readsten stone on i m the l e r m e c e e n n t t s l d o o v e r r k e h n d e y s u m and a n in Caithness, with reference more particularly to the recent work by Mr. Laing, on the pre-historic re mains in Caithness. Mr. Laing brought this sub ject before this society in a former session, and ex cited much interest by the statement of the discove ries he had made in excavating the kists and shell mounds in Caithness, which he has since more fully developed in his work, in which he endeavours to prove that the bones and implements found in the graves and shell mounds indicate the existence of a pre-historic race of degraded cannibals in Caithness. The inhabitants of the district have felt some indignation at this imputation on their ances tors, and many have been the objectors to his facts and deductions. Those adduced were numerous and very difficult to be overcome, and Mr. Laing, who was expected to have been present to meet them, was prevexted by illness from attending. The first paper was by Mr. John Cleghorn, of Wick, entitled 46 A new reading of shell-mounds and graves in Caithness," in which he entered into an elaborate examination of Mr. Laing's book, for the purpose of showing that its statements of facts are not correct and the deductions erroneous. Mr. Cleghorn commenced his attack by bringing geolo gical evidence to bear against the assumed great antiquity of the kists, for many of those kists are not far above the level of the sea, which has been re ceding regularly for many yea's, so that it wouldbe impossible for them to have been made on dry ground more than 300 or 400 years ago. The alleged stone implements found in the graves with the skeletons, Mr. Cleghorn contended, were nothing more than the rounded natural stones of the district. He denied that the skulls were of a more degraded character than most of those of indi viduals of the present day; and he was of opinion that the skeletons found were those of mariners who had been wrecked and their bodies buried near the shore. With regard to the Birkle hills, which Mr. Laing regards as affording evidence of great anti quity, Mr. Cleghorn observed that they are hillocks of blown sand that have been consolidated by their having been the rendezvous of the country folks on occasions of wrecks, from their being nearest the scenes of such disasters. They are on the same raised beach with the graves and the harbour mound,' therefore cannot be older than they. "The Cyclo pean building of unhewn stones from the beech" (so called by Mr. Laing) has been the place of shelter for the night-watchers, and the " ovens," or " fire places," are the hearths where the crowds lighted their fires to warm themselves during their dismal nights. The relics found of nails of iron, charcoal, stones split by heat, bones all charred, whorls, frag ments of iron, &c., were also just what such gather ings of men and women are expected to leave. He conceded, in conclusion, that the view Mr. Laing has taken of the shell-mounds and graves at Feiss are at variance with the teachings of the geologist, the archaeologist, and the anthropologist ; and that there is a want of proof in his premises and of logic in his deductions. A paper by Mr. Petrie, of Orkney, was no less severe in opposing Mr. Laing's facts and inferences. Mr. A. Joseph Anderson, in a paper " On human remains at Feiss," also differed from Mr. Laing's views, and came to the conclusion " that the burial mound contains two sets of interments, one pre sumably older than the other, but concerning either of which we have no reliable data for determining their age, though the one may with considerable pro bability be conjectured to be recent, and the other not of very great antiquity. That the 'shell mounds' so called, being refuge heaps of borgs or Picts' houses, cannot be referred to what has been called the ' early stage of the stone period ;' that they present no general analogy with kjokken moddings of Denmark, and in all probability bel ong t o th e transition period when the pre-historic and the earliest historic records of the North of Scot land merge into and throw light upon each other. That the Birkle hills' are still undetermined as to their character and contents, and that the ' moor land mound' is most likely the site of an early Cul dee settlement latterly used by the country people as a shelling." Mr. R. J. SHEARER also contributed a paper on the same subject, in which he criticised Mr. Laing's book with much severity ; and, in noticing that portion of it relating to the moorland mound, he observed :—" I am really astonished that Mr. Laing did not, 'before rushing into print, take the advice of some person in this country, who might have hindered him publishing an account of a sheilh3g' bothy, not yet out of use above 40 or 50 years, as a moorland mound of pre-historic date. Naval and Military Intelligence. Major-Gen. A. J. Taylor, Inspector-General of Royal Artillery, will commence his inspection of the Royal Artillery in the Chatham district this morning. Yesterday morning the Ist Regiment of Life Guards, commanded by Col. the Hon. D. de Ros, left the Cavalry Barracks, Spital, near Windsor, about 7 o'clock, en route for the Regent's Park Barracks. The Regiment of Royal Horse Guards quitted the Knightsbridge Barracks about half-past 7 in the morning and arrived at Windsor at one o'clock. The 2d Regiment of Life Guards shifted at the same time to the quarters vacated by the Royal Horse Guards. An order was yesterday received at Chatham gar rison from the Horse Guards, directing the H bat tery, 9th brigade, Field Artillery, together with the whole of their guns, horses, ammunition waggons, &c., to he held in readiness to proceed to Shorncliffe. The B battery, 4th brigade, Royal Artillery, now at Woolwich, will relieve the H battery at Chatham garrison. Capt. E. T. Webb, 27th (Enniskillens) Regiment, has been placed under orders to embark at Graves end, in the Sydney Dacres, for Bombay, to join the service companies of his regiment in that presidency. The detachment of the 2d battalion of the 20th Regiment, consisting of 71 non-commissioned officers and men, placed under orders to proceed to China to augment the service companies of that regiment, embarked at Gravesend yesterday on board the hired troopship Gresham, for Hongkong, under the superintendence of Brigade-Major W. W. Lynch and the officers of the Staff at Chatham gar rison. The name of Capt. A. N. Adams, ordered to embark with the detachment, was withdrawn from the list prior to the troops leaving Chatham gar rison, the officer going out to China with the draught being Ensign John Hugh Ford. Pre viously to the troops embarking the Gresham was inspected by Major-General Sir Robert Walpole, K.C. B. , and Deputy-Inspect or- General J. A. Fraser, M.D., principal medical officer at Chatham garrison. The Gresham left the Thames yesterday evening. On Tuesday evening the dismounted men of the 11th Hussars, which regiment is to be stationed at Colchester for a short period before embarking for India, arrived at Colchester and took possession of the Cavalry Barracks. The remainder of the regi ment will arrive on the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 27th inst. Colonel Barton, C. 8., has left Colches ter to enter upon his new command at Dublin. The Secretary for 'War recently established a branch of his department to codify and revise war rants and regulations issued from the War-office. He has appointed Mr. J. Norman Lockyer to the charge of this branch. Capt. M. R. Eden, 56th Regiment, has been ap pointed to the South-West Military District as Deputy-Assist. Quarter-master-General. The ap pointment has been transformed in the South- West District from a temporary to a permanent one. The 2Etna, one of the old class of iron floating batteries, built during the late war with Russia, and since laid up in the Chatham Steam Reserve, has been stripped of the whole of her ,internal fittings, bulkheads, &c., and her machinery taken out, in order that she may be fitted as a floating residence for the married officers of the metropolitan police doing duty at the dockyard, who have hithertobeen accommodated on board the Nymph, 42. The 2Etna has been completely fitted for the service for which she is intended, and in the course of a few days will be taken possession of by the members of the police force. The Nymph is to be fitted and used exclusively as a Roman Catholic float ing chapel for the officers and men of the fleet. The Bellerophon, 14, partially armoured screw frigate, Capt. E. Tatham, is filling up with water and stores alongside Portsmouth Dockyard. She is being prepared for the reception of the competitive gun carriages and slides, with their 12k -ton guns in order to make her experimental cruise. Sir Wil liam Armstrong's iron carriage and slide have been received at Portsmouth from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The carriage is not yet mounted in the battery of the Bellerophon, so that it cannot be seen to the best advantage, as all its parts are connected. It, however, appears to possess unity of strength, sim plicity, and efficiency in design and construction. The system of its compressors is similar to that adopted by Captain R. Scott with his competitive carriage, with the exceptions that Sir William's car riage slide has friction metal compresser plates where Capt. Scott's has tapered timberbalks, and Sir Wil liam's compressers are self-acting, whereas Capt. Scott's are not. The carriages and guns from the Minotaur have been landed from her on the sheer jetty of the dockyard, where Capt. Scott's carriage and slide are undergoing another alteration, the car riage now being shortened at its rear and the slide , fitted with a transverse working lever for throwing the toothed training wheel in and out of gear, with the rack way, which is now ordered to be taken up from the deck of the Minotaur and laid down on the PRICE 4d. STAMPED 5,1. deck of the Bellerophon. This will involve a good deal of expense and trouble, which appears to be almost unnecessary, as all the training systems fitted on board the Minotaur, and which included Capt. Scott's, underwent a thorough trial on board . the Minotaur—all that could be reasonably asked for, in fact, for " training " is the slightest of all diffi culties to be met with in the working of heavyguns on board ship. As, however, Capt. Scott's train ing system is to be given a further trial, it is to be presumed that the same privilege will be granted to Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Lynn, and the Excellent's plans, all of which were tried with Captain Scott's on board the Minotaur. The Mersey, unarmoured frigate, 3,733 tons, 1,000-horse power, fitting out for commission at Portsmouth, is taking on board her armament in the steam basin. On the maindeck she will again carry 10-inch shell guns, some minor alterations being made otherwise in her general armament, and the number of her' guns reduced from 40 'to 34. Capt. 11. Cald we ll , C . 8., now comman di ng h er Majesty's ship Asia and the Steam Reserve at Ports mouth, is about to leave England on foreign service, reported as the Commodore commanding the Cape of Good Hope station, on the promotion of Commodore James H. Cockburn, the present commander-in chief on that station, to Rear-Admiral's rant under the new regulations. Capts. G. W. Preedy, C. 8., of her Majesty's ship Hector, and George both h e s li p a o r en Ck of , of her Majesty's ship Trafalgar, are as the successor of Capt. Caldwell, Capt. Preedy is, however, very likely the officer who will succeed Capt. George Randolph in the command of the Steam Reserve at Sheerness, and under those cir cumstances the report as it affects Capt. Hancock may prove to be correct. Among other naval changes it is also said that Capt. Powell, C. 8., now commanding the cadet training ship Britannia, will be appointed to the command of the Northumber land, Capt. Randolph, from the Sheerness Steam Reserve, succeeding Capt. Powell in the command of the Britannia. Capt. Astley C. Key, C. 8., will receive his promotion to Rear-Admiral as a matter of course, under the new order of things introduced by the Admiralty scheme of retirement, and w ill therefore have to resign the governorship of the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth and the com mand of the gunnery-ship Excellent. It is believe I that Capt. Key only gives up command of the col lege and Excellent to join the Board of Admiralty, where his great experience in all matters connected with guns and their projectiles, ships and their armour, would render him an invaluable addition to the Board-room of their Lordships. In the new official Navy List, just published, some of the copies issued by the Admiralty to the dock yard officials do not contain the names of all of her Majesty's ships from M to V, exclusive of the two letters. In lieu of this there are inserted lists of officers' names to be found in another part of the book. The following appointments and promotion have been made at the Admiralty :—Robert Thomas Crispin, promoted to Paymaster-in-Chief ; Robert Roughton, chief engineer, to the Asia, for service in the Hannibal ; Daniel M. Browne, second master to the Heron ; Charles N. Dobson, second master, to the Boscawen, for service in the Ferret ; Charles H. Langdon, second master, to the Dee ; William R. Stevens, second master, to the Britomart ; William Handerson (a.), surgeon, to the Wasp ; Dr. John Brekey, surgeon, to the Cumberland, for Sheerness Barracks ; James Flanagan, to the Cumberland ; Gabriel M. Egles, assist.-surg., to Portsmouth di vision of Royal Marines ; Henry Hadlow, assist.- surg., additional, to the Wellesley, for service in Chatham dockyard ; Henry Ricard, assist.-surg., additional, to the Seringapatam, for Naval Hospital at the Cape of Good Hope ; Frederic Ward, masters' assist., to the Barracouta ; John W. Hall, clerk, to the Fisgard ; William Todner, engineer, to the Duncan; RichardS. Lee, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Duncan ; Albert J. B. Newman, second-class assist.-engineer, to the Duncan. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in S LC A thickensN TH A thlaDi hair, S 3 0 3. 1 6 L d ; 54 stumps.— AL MX. produ A ce L s E w X his ß ke O r S s ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. 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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, and have to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will 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 ? The smallest donation will be most welcome, and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will be offered in your behalf. 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The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Mr. Alderman Dakin in the chair. Mr. B. Baker, the secretary, having re a d th e minutes of the last meeting, which were confirmed, the report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report and statement of accounts to Jan. 31 last, together with a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum for the past half-year, said the directors had great pleasure in meeting the shareholders with such a satisfactory change in the affairs of the com pany. The difficulties and obstructions which had so long retarded them he now thought were nearly cleared away. lle thought the present successful state of things would result in more satisfactory meetings in future. They bad received on capital account £9,381 during the past half-year in pay ment of calls on the new shares, making the total receipts £5,155,731. The aggregate expenditure amounted to £5,151,893, leaving a balance of £3,838. The outlay on capital account during the half-year amounted to £32,526, being the propor tion chargeable to that account for rebuilding timber bridges in stone and iron ; cost of fish joint ing six miles of rails, including outlay of £14,000 on the new Car ferry-boat for the Detroit River, the new station works at Toronto, and extension of the line along the Toronto Esplanade ; and among other items £505 for the new rolling mill, in putting up a puddling furnace to utilise the waste iron of the establishment, and convert it to useful purposes. The items of expenditure would be very productive in future. It might appear that their capital was exhausted, all but the £3,838 balance in hand, but that was not the case. They had been receiving large remittances from Canada, the .accounts hav ing been coming in rapidly. The receipts to the 31st of last month amounted to £148,690. The traffic receipts for the present year were going on well ; for the week ending March 16 they amounted to £17,744, against £11,442 for the corresponding week last year, showing an increase of £6,302. The total increase in the traffic receipts for the seven weeks up to that date was £39,805, as compared with the corresponding weeks of last year. The question of more new capital was not pressing. They had power to issue £108,300 more of new shares, to borrow £661,300 more money, and to call up the remaining £2 10s. per share. They had paid off in October,lB64, £72,600 of the 6 per cent. bonds, for which they had the power to issue others in their place. They would probably leave to the directors the power of selecting the best mode of raising any additional capital that might be required for the purposes of the company. (Hear, hear.) The revenue of the past half year, as com pared with the corresponding period of the prectehdis an.d 0 _ preced ing year, showed an increase of £74,310, was obtained at an additional cost for working f American had lost £73,316 in the conversion of the only £9,502, leaving £64,808 to the good. They d v 66,080 in the funds during the past half 3 he therethought, o u crht money brought and the con version preceding of hasl2f4y27srB. of That American'seuamr: over from the last a balance of $114,558 re mained and on 31st January previous half yea N r, in American funds unconverted. o . t, that was very s atisfactory. Th e p ice of gold bad fallen to an aver sate of 1441. y had just been informed by telegram that the price of gold was now down to 126, and if that continued it would h ave a most material effect on the net balance avail able for the proprietors. The aggregate loss by ex changes of American currency from the commence ment was £443,987. They had borne all that out of revenue, and if the exchange during the past half year had been at par they would have been able to declare a dividend at the rate of 94 per cent. per annum. The question of exchange, therefore, had a great bearing on the prosperity of the company. NEWS PAPE R -. . - 34W1A c iSA 1 , 4 ).- ~,,, W:V:s `:-. ",-;;; 4 0 c-Citlroc -- 4r.:V . ; , ;; ; ,. ,7 Another matter wfis the renewal of e "p. • : - - s , way. This half year they had expend , renewals, and in the current half year ,4 , Si when that account would be obliteratz.d altogether. - In 1861 the proprietors had resolved to meet an, expenditure of £331,279 for putting the permanerAt way into first rate order, the expenditure of the whole sum would be completed this year, and their line would then be in perfect order and repair.. The highest compliment he could pay to Mr. Timid, their engineer, was that he would accomplish the whole work efficiently within the estimates. The average charge for renewal of way during the past five years had been at the rateof £30,000 each half yeat. ~- But they would still h ave to pay out of revenue a ~-/- ' certain such to keep up the line in the mine perfect state as it was at present, and therefore they - would be asked to set aside each half year £17,500 out of the revenue for that purpose. As the re sult of their operations during the past half yea; they would be able to pay the proprietors a divi dend at the rate of 5 per cent per annum, fr'le of income-tax, which would absorb £85,626, l:e.aving a balance of £ll,OOO for the next half year. it had been suggested that they should pay an addi, tional half per cent., but he thought, as the summer half year was the least productive, they had better not divide more on that occasion. The traffic had been most satisfactory, the receipts in the past half year had been the largest of any since the line was opened 12 years ago. The next best half year wr h s that which ended on the 31st of January, 18;57, when a dividend at the rate of 9 per cent- per annum was declared. The receipts in the past half year exceeded those of 1857 by £63,500. The proportion of foreign traffic was then 65 per cent., and of local traffic 35 per cent. The pro- • portion for the past half year had been 61 of foreign traffic, and 39 of local traffic. In the correspond ing half of 1857 the passenger traffic amounted to £154,125, and in the past half year to £205,131. The .17 , 1 , Pr _A , . proportion of passenger traffic to freight thelow — ek?would be ,he perePniag-e of work_ ing expenses. The staff in Canali,- assisto b y the directors ,there, had shown every desire and used every exertion to reduce the working ex penses. With regard to the cessation of the Re ciprocity Treaty, looking to all the circumstances, they had every reason to believe that it would not have a detrimental effect on their traffic. The fore',gn traffic would not be interfered with, as an A.ct of Congress provided for the transport of goods in bond for the purpose of exportation. The only portion of the local traffic that would be interfered with would be that between Canada and the United States, but it was probable that they would be allowed to continue on payment of a tax of 10 per cent. As a set-off against this they would probably have a large increase of foreign traffic over the railway, consequent on the cessation of the water traffic. The traffic in petroleum had increased , ti n , and if directors found it remunerative to make the branch line into that district-they could do so, but they had no intention to make the line at present. With re gard to the disputed claim of the Commercial Bank of Canada., there was every probability of its being adjusted, and an end put to unproductive litigation, by the Detroit and Milwaukie Company being pieced in a position to pay its own debts. There was every probability of coming to an amicable arrangement with the Grand Trunk Company to charge equal rates and fares to competitive places. The third rail question was progressing favourably, and there was almost a certainty that the work wouldbecompleted within the estimates. There was every prospect of the future prosperity of the company. They had no casualties to report, and they were very much in debted to the exertions of their general manager and to the board in Canada. The gross earnings of the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad for the year 1864 amounted to £347,617, and the working ex penses to £205,634, leaving a net sum of £141,983, out of which £83,741 was taken to pay interest on, the mortgage bonds, leaving, with a surplus from the preceding year, £63,000, of which £36,000 was appropriated to providing rolling stock, and £27,000 for stores. The proprietors had every reason to con gratulate themselves on their present satisfactory position. Mr. HEAD, a director, seconded the motion for the adoption of the report and the declaration of the dividend. Mr. FILDES, M.P., was glad that prosperity was at length dawning on the company. The step for an amicable arrangement with the Grand Trunk was one in the right direction, and for which the directors were entitled to the thanks of the proprie tors. He never had any doubt whatever as to the loyalty of the people of Uanacla, New Da uubwiole, and Nova Scotia, and recent proceedings entirely confirmed that view. After some observations from Mr. Villeboisnet, Mr. Moxott, and Col. Evelyn, the report was unani mously adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, was declared payable on the 20th inst. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. FALICONER, a resolution was unanimously passed approving the proposal of the Board to arrange terms with the Commercial Bank of Canada, with the view to avoid the necessity of the pending legal proceedings, authorising the Board to make such arrangements as to the Detroit and Milwaukee Com pany as they might deem expedient, and as would enable the latter company to give security to the Commercial Bank for the settlement of its claim. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. ILLINOIS CENTRAL, The report of the directors of this company for the year 1865 states that this railway lost at the opening of the war its Southern business, which had been growing up for many years. The close of the war found the season too far advanced to admit of planting, thus leaving what the war had spared of the capital and industry of the South to a great ex hdrt n e aa n idrl t iwnsaegyn unemployed. hteolargelypthapast et fi season. elnd asover Those tivsie. rl 02N circumstances p ni l ge a r c Be traffics they found that the population and area of cultivation had steadily increased during the war. The gross earn ings of the line for 1865 were $7,181,208, against $6,329,447 in 1864, being an increase of $851,761. The Mobile and Ohio Railway, an extension of their line from Ohio river to the Gulf of Mexico, was hardly yet re-opened ; other Southern lines tribu tary to the Illinois Central had not been placed in working order. When those and other old channels of trade were re-opened, and the business relations of the North and South restored, they c onfidently expected to increase their traffic. For sixty days us pas ed t all in th th e e rollin transportation g stock they ocfoulsdupsppllarees h f a o d r b t e h en e South, showing that the cotton, sugar, an d e t an i l v al re b po eil r ig t r""- e to o b n a st c ru co eted pl . ant s a i t u i e o e ns the w lau cr they had earned $7,181,208 on the railway, they had received $ ci:a f ne2ar r ntagl, o id2ntt in t.3eifon6ost c egsrt,h o ruass4evr ll eBf:hc e o4o6t e rr:u, t k4rin i toi o ies:nnln n soeug s aa l 4dl3te i T e c : ol a :ef7e n ay, d s74e de p art ment $ 1 ,933,915, together $9, , had expended perma nentpment $854,434, ci Theyu cent. had on paid the to gross the . o p f er e ending Oct. 31, 1865, amount etahreyha paid in interest on the funded debt $810,050, and two dividends of 5 per capital stock amounting to in addition tl to a stock distribution of $lO per share, and had reduced their funded debt by the , re ‘ demption and cancellation of bonds $900,000. I hey comm ence d th e new year w ith a b a l ance of net cash assets in hand of $1,703,525, being $550,000 in excess of the dividend of 5 per cent. declared for the Ist February last and since paid, having a stock of supplies on hand of $876,479. The amount of bonds cancelled on December 21 was $2,341,500. During the past year the equipment of the line was increased by $532,541, and construction account for renewals and improvements to the amount of $321,893. The working stock was now equal to a traffic of $8,000,000 per annum. During the past year the earnings had increased by $851,761, and the working expenditure by $1,049,055. The sales in the land department were made to 2,364 purchasers of 155,057 acres, at an average of $12.07 per acre, for $1,872,310. Their rule was now to require the payment of one-fourth down on all sales made, and to sell only to actual settlers. There were 998,069 acres of land remaining unsold at the close of the year. In December, 1858, the debt of the company was in round numbers $19,500,000 ; now it was re duced to $12,300,000. T"E oxF ORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Ball Company (I halted', IF I WERE KING, Comic Opera, by A DOLPItE ADAM. havin.! been enthusiastically received, will be performed by the whole of the talented Operatic Company IC ; E ItY EVEN oNG in addition to the other Novelties of tbe estab l'shrnent, including the ce'ebrated HUNGARIANS in their new entertainment, Mr. MARSHALL, the STONETTES, Messrs. Davies and Skerrett. and Miss EF.LEN TRACY, the Australian Ballad Vocalist, who will introduce for the first time in England her novel rendering of the Ballads of Ireland. Admission—Area, 6cl; stalls and balcony, Is ; private boxes, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d.