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3rs ob iptionS his ini was in ats de ieaper• :nglish at no t it quo a pea, Eng' per qr. nt W 35 ; dear. I an d 03 0 atti%a FIQ7 I ' , r 4 a 57. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. ISSUE OF 25,000 A PREFERENCE SHARES OF £lO EACH BEARINp 8 PER CENT. INTEREST, AND REDEEMABLE AT £l5 PER SHARE. THE CREDIT FONCIER OF ENGLAND (LIMITED) ARE PREPARED TO RECEIVE APPLICATIONS FOR THE ABOVE SHARES IN THE BELGIAN PUBLIC WORKS COM PANY (Limited). Ca.pital £350,000, in 35,000 Shares, £lO each. Divided into 25.000 A Preference Shares, £lO each (being the Shares now offered for subscription), and 10,000 B De ferred Shares, of £lO each. DIRECTORS. The itight Hon. Viscount Bury, Rutland-gate. Frede r i c D ou lt on, Esq., M.P., Metropolitan Board of Works. Albert Grant, Esq., M.P., London. Lieut.-Colonel Edward Neville, Clarges-street. John Irving Pascoe, Esq., Highbury New Park. Ifenry Pownall, Esq., Russell-square. Elwarcl Warner, Esq., M.P., London. CONSULTING ENGINEER. J. W. Bazalgette, Esq., C.E., Engineer-in-Chief to the ll etropolitan Board of Works. nANKERS. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard- Street, E.C. Soudrroits. 'Messrs. West and King, 3, Charlotte-row, Mansion E.C. BROKERS. Francis Cope, Esq., 1, Aug-el-court, Throginorton- E.C. Messrs. Price and Devot, 51, Threadneedlo-street, E.C. OFFICES. 6t. Clement'i House, Clement's-lane, London, E.C. SECRETARY. W. J. L. Reriot, Esq. PROSPECTUS. -the object of this Company is to carry out the conces °lune granted by the Municipal Council of Brussels, in con cert with the authorities of the province of Brabant and Ilia Belgian Government, for the drainage and coincident im provements of the capital of Belgium. The magnitude and value of the.se concessions will be n liderstood by the fact that they include subsidies to be receiv e d by the Company in cash and Annuities, of the l 'due together of 26,000,000 f., or £1,040,000 sterling, Which have been voted by all the authorities and sane 'lulled by the Crown. The original estimates for the principal part of these 'works were examined and verified by Mr. J. W. Bazalgette, T endon, to the Metropolitan Board of Works of ''endon, under the sanction of that body ; and these esti mates have been further tested by months of minute and c areful revision on the part of contractors and their respec tive engineers. It is intended that the whole of the works shall be com- Pleted within four years. The importance of the undertaking is evidenced in the Protracted official debates in the Brussels Municipal Coun cil, and also in the Belgian Chambers and Senate on the s ubject, and by the special report thereon from Lord 40 ward de Walden, her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary , Brussels, transmitted by the Earl of Clarendon, through Tendon, George Grey, to the Metropolitan Board of Works, in -I 'endon, and recorded in their Minutes under date of 1 ay 18, 1866, an extract . of which is annexed to the p rospectus. -Ms Majesty the. King of the Belgians has expressed his S e sire to inaugurate the works by laying the first stone in ute ceremony, which is fixed to take place at Brussels on Wednesday, the 22nd of January next. • It will be at once seen by this brief description of the c oncession that it is one of no ordinary character. The capital of the company is fixed at £350,000, in 05.,000 shares of £lO each, divided into 25,000 A Prefer auee Shares and 10,000 B Deferred Shares. The p r i v il eges attached to the respective share capital are as follows : The A Preference Shares are to be redeemed out of the assets of the Company, by drawing by lot, and each share paid off at £l5 per share, being a bonus of £5 per share ; ue drawings will take place on the following dates, On the 22nd January, 1870, 6,250 glares, or £62,500, , 1 „ • 1871, 6,250 „ £62,500, I, If 1872, 6,250 „ .£62,500, 77 11 1873, 6,250 „ .£62,500, Total shares 25,000 or £250,000 until so drawn and paid off, each share to bear interest !t the rat e o f 8 per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, on the Ist of January and Ist July in each year, for which interest warrants will be attached to the shares. Reckoning the redemption at the dates and at the bonus tamed, the investment will pay subscribers a rate of in terest as follows :—those shares which are drawn, and t hug are To be paid off on 22nd of January, 1870, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 241 per cent. per annum. Those to be paid off on 22d January, 1871, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 20i per cent. per annum. Those to be paid off on 22d January, 1872, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 18 per cent. per annum. The Directors do not pledge themselves to make an a llotment to every applicant, nor to allot the whole of the ehares, it being their desire to place this small capital in t he hands of bona fide investors. Those to be paid off on 22d January, 1873, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 161 per cent. per annum The B Deferred Shares represent the Concessionaires' !!Iterest in the Company. These shares will not ba en titled either to payment of any interest or capital until the ra 0 10 of the Preference Shares have received their capital hack, with the interest and bonus before referred to ; there fore the Deferred Shares become practically and virtually ' ft guarantee to the Preference Shares. App w , ii - e.:l - ti . o;1( * ); nTad3 in the annexed fo rmhich must he accompanied by the payment of £2 p~f' share depisit, without which no application will be considered.. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To be retained by the Bankers. XO. T 0 the Directors of the Belgian Public Works Company (Limited). Gentlem-n —Having paid to your Bankers. Messrs. S mith, Payne, and Smiths, the sum of £ , being a deposit per Share on A Preference Shares in tho fi •iclve Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that Illltnber, and I agree to accept such Shares, or any less ;lumber you may allot to me on the terms of the "Us, and I agree to pay the deposit on allotment, and to 8 % 11 the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the C ompany, as duly registered, when required. And I au thorise you to insert my name on the register of members of the shares allotted to me. 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Last year no fewer han 455 peer, friendless, young females were re j ected ' rom want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in fire years.. The new borne the Ciimmittee wish to form woald be for young girls, almost children, from the age of s to 15, w h o have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, lfr. Daniel Cooper, 35, Queen .s trees. Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Co.. Lombard-street. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-cross. Patron—Lier host Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. 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Coutts ano Co.; Eirummorid and Co. ; G,yn and Co.: Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co.; Presoott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; wilhanas, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Bernera-street: and at the Hospital. from 10 till 8. BriuurOW 61111103, de :041y, ' N:::S:A-P0:14,44 1 • , - - • . ~ . • . , • , ___,.....7.7--,19V/ • ~• _ - - 1 - ' , - . - (%431‘‘ .. ..11 , ..._ - .,. :\.....4 )4S':i): - C._ •'-' c''' . . , 31 % 6 i: Mk '=l7- 1 1 , _ - iie b; ( Ae, , .C. , ...,..„ . .., ~t - 7_, • ' Alli --' - .-•.',- . . H.: ..,,ti,it -' 2. ro\igil . --- - 7 ,i 41-. OAz " k " I Ared gf, :, 'AV 4 * , *, . . , ..po e - 7 ,I • . , 1 - 7 --, ~ . zu , . ..,- . - -• , ,Pk-, - ,r -ii 4 !;;:i 1 ...,,..„.„ r ,,,, , ) 'o ' .-....."" Wil r 47..? -4.1.:;,.. P. 4 '....e. '-- -,..;,;,.... • .., ~ ; '‘. .1 • ;.§ ' 'VA' - , . ' ......I,lllre • _ r• 4 .._, , , - :7.. M . : , 10 l ' • \y '' 4 re 11.......... eg_ i., ,.. „ ~t• ME ' N J F: li , '; - ' 'A . eg 7 7, , .1 ."-- ----- N`! .; i, , -.' p . ' ,!, ~:fr ., .4 ---- , . .. DrE ' „ .-.. ''. • 44# 1.. „,i , 5, , fp 4 .9t e ...5. rinorr l v, --.--- ._ . from Wales, and from every olla extricating themselves that they from w hd m country, and re ma i n w i t h then at Stave* .if workmen we r e b e t ter pa i d and better remunerated for their labou r i n Y or k shire ? It was contrary to reason and to t common i n at Staveley if it were not so. But it was a touel tyranny r e an a l i v n great fact that m en then working in Y or k s hi re were desirous of x of the Trades' Unions, and wished to come back to a district where freedom and liberty of labour existed. Some of the delegates had endeavoured to incite the farm labourers to form a great combina tion, with the avowed intention of improving their condition. If such a combination we re possible, the small farmers, who were the most industrial class of men in the country, would be compelled to convert all their arable land into grass land, and would, con sequently, only be able to empiny one man where three are now employed, anal the result would be that the price of labour would be still further re duced. He believed that all combinations were bad, and that it was desirable that fair and legitimate competition should exist in all trades, and then everything would take its own natural course, and find its own natural level. There had recently been a great combination of capitalists against labour is Staffordshire, and more recently in the North of England, and the result in both cases had been in jurious to the interests of both masters and men, and had caused immense suffering among the work ing people. All disputes between masters and men should be settled upon a fair and equitable basis— but if trade societies combined among themselves to crush an individual employer of labour, they could not object „to masters forming a combination on a similar scale. It was to him a source of great satis faction that everything that science, skill, or capital could command had been done to insure the safety Of the mines, and to protect the lives of the work men. The company employed as consulting viewers two of the most experienced engineers in the court, try. They possessed in Mr. Campbell one of the `most experienced practioal Men:in the kingdom, whose great sagacity, experience, and unwearied attention had been devoted to his business, and he (the chairman) believed that at the present mo ment there were no collieries in the kingdom that could be compared, in safety and efficiency, with those belonging to the Staveley Company. (Loud cheers.) No expense had been spared that con tributed in any way to the safety of the working man. The company had recently expended a very large sum in an irnproved system of ventilation, and they were extending the same principles to some of their other collieries. In conclusion,,Mr. Markham observed that it was by the merchants' weight the wages would be reduced 25 per cent., as the diffe rence in the weight was precisely one-fourth. It was hardly necessary for him to refer, to the ques tion of the weight of 28 cwt., which had been made use of by the delegates as a grievance against the Staveley Company, as it was well known to every working man at Staveley that he was paid for a given quantity, or a lot of 28 cwt. It was of course quite immaterial to the company whether they (the men) were paid by the merchants' weight or by the exceptional weight which had so long existed at Staveley. The weight of all the coal raised at the collieries was reduced in the office to the merchants weight, as it was a great fact, as previously stated when the union was first brought into the district, that during the past 12 months the Staveley Com pany paid the colliers for *23,793 tons more con than sold. It could make no difference to the work ing man whether he was paid by 20, 25, or 30 cwt. so long as it was a bargain, and prices were paid upon a fixed quantity. The understanding with the colliers was that the draught of the scale should cover all deficiencies, inclusive of the colliers' coals, that are given to them without charge, the dirt and refuse picked out in clearing the coal, and the fuel required to feed the enOnes in working the pit. All the company required was to have as many tons of coal to sell as they paid for, and whatever the wages might be, this principle would always be adopted. It hal been said there was a lock-out at Staveley, which was not a fact. They had exercised Weir right to give notice to a certain number of men,' while on the other hand, a considerable number of their workmen had given iu their notices, and left their employment in a proper manner. A lock-out had never taken place at these works, as he (the speaker) was totally opposed to them on principle, and he made up his mind to work the . collieries with those men who were desirous of following their employ ment. The Staveley Company would never consent to employ union men, as they did not wish to be in constant war with their workpeople. Ply IC STSMPED having flowed from the wounds he had received upon his head. When the prisoner was committed by the magis trate all she paid was, " I own to all exc.Tt killing the child. I cannot own to that, because I did not do it." Mr. C. Daley, the house-surgeon at the infirmary at Tunbridge Wells, who had in his evidence in chief expressed a strong opinion thit the marks of blood apparent upon the front of the dress of the prisoner were caused in the way suggested by the prosecution, by the blood spurting from the arteries in the neck of the deceased child at the time the fatal injury was received, was cross-examined at consi derable length by Mr. Ribton upon the point. The effect'of this did not appear, however, materially to shake the evidence given by this gentleman in chief, hut he eontradicted the witness Highams in some particulars, and expressed a strong opinion that some of the wounds received by the latter were not inflicted while he was lying in bed as he had repre sented, and that one of them at all events bad in all probability been inflicted while he and the prisoner were struggling in the middle of the room. Sergeant Parry made a temperate but forcible address to the jtiry in summing up the case for the prosecution, and after observing that the case was altogether one of the most extraordinary that had been brought before the consideration of a court of justice, he said that two things appeared to him to be perfectly clear, one of which was that a murder had been committed, and that the person who committed either tine 'priPbner or the man flighams. Against the prisoner, as it also appeared to him, there was an overwhelming mass of evi dence, and as against Highams there was nothing at all but the bare and utterly unsupported statement of the prisoner. In a case like the present it was of course impossible not to feel great sympathy for a woman in the position of the prisoner; but he and they and all concerned in the inquiry had a duty to perform which they were bound to carry out, and he felt therefore bound to remind them that the effect that would result from their acquitting the prisoner must necessarily be a belief that the crime was committed by the witness Hig hams. He argued that there was not a single cir. cumetance in the case that would justify them in coming to this conclusion, and that there was an entire abgence of anything like a motive on his part for the commission of such a dreadful crime. With regard to the prisoner, however, he was afraid that the evidence left no doubt that she was maddened by jealousy at what she conceived to be the differ rence of her paramour towards her, and that under the influence of this feeling she destroyed the life of the child, intending at the same time, very pro bably, to have taken his life also if she had been able to do so. At this stage of the case the trial was adjnurned The C)al Trade. CHESTERFIELD, Wednesday. A very large and influential meeting of the non unionists was held in the Barrow-Mll Schools on Tuesday evening last, when upwards of 800 persons were present. Mr. Markham occupied the chair. The Cllmomas, who, on rising, was received with loud cheers, said that he congratulated them most sincerely upon the great demonstration for the vin dication of their rights as Englishmen for the free dom and liberty of labour. (Cheers.) It was a source of the greatest possible satisfaction to him to find so large an increase in the numbers of the non union men, which amounted at that moment - to 1,052, who were exclusively employed in connexion with the mineral department of the company. The promoters of that great movement were entitled to the praise and gratitu.le of their fellow-workmen in coming forward, as he was convinced that the move ment would confer an inestimable benefit on the working men of England. As the education and intelligence of the people extended the non-union movement would be inare fully appreciated ; it was to the working inen of Staveley that the great move ment for the vindication of their rights as English men was especially due ; and to prevent the possi bility of any dispute as to originators of the move ment he had given instructions for a book to be pre pared, which would record the first and all subsequent meetings of the non-union men, and on the 31st of this month the names of every non-union man employedien the mineral department of the Staveley Company would be entered, awl the book deposited in the Bri tish Museum. It had been a disgrace to the manufac turers and artisans of this country that theyhad per mitted locomotives to be manufactured in the centre of France, that had been brought to this country at considerable cost, and were now running upon the Great East Railway. The Belgian manufacturers had supplied large quantities of rails for the East Glou cestershire Railway, which were delivered at the port of Gloucester at a less price than they could be ob tained from an English manufacturer. During the past winter a large quantity of castings were re quired by the Leeds Corporation, which were com peted for by a Belgian firm, and it was stated by the Leads papers that their tenderscwhemrewniythinhao few shillings of that of the Staveley pa obtained the order. These examples would serve'who obtained to show, he said, how keen was the competition with foreigners. Many of the rules and regulations of the trade societies were, in his opinion ' most unjust and detrimental to the int eres t s o f the working man. Their fundamental rules were to make every man equal ; the idle and industrious apprentices, as soon as they had completed their apprenticeships, were bound by the rules of many societies to receive the sameamount of wages as the skilful and experienced working-man, who, again, was restricted in his la bou ran h and prevented from using his talent to th e best advantage family. In ma c n o y ul t d ra fo d r e t s h ee e ie b t e i nese fi they did hn s o e t l f a l a l o n w d the employer of labour to have more than one ap prentice for every seven workers; the master se lected the apprentices, and it might so happen that not one working-man in twenty had the privilege of obtaining for his children employment in his own trade. Many families would, no doubt, wish to fol low the same employment as their fathers, but they were not allowed by their trade societies to do so. What he (the chairman) wanted to know was on what principle any society had a right to interf ere with the liberties of the w orkin g - man's children. (Cheers.) If every trade society carried out the same rigid rule, and if the common labourers were to do so also throughout the country, and they had as much right to protect their own labour as the skilled artisan, what would be come of the population of the country, and how would it be employed? It had been stated that there were 1,200,000 paupers in this country, and if the development of trade societies were to extend, the paupers must increase in a much larger proportion. If a master was willing to give employment to the sons of one of his wo r k men , it was hi s (speaker's). opinion that it was the bounden duty of the father to assist his children, and not to conspire for his own personal benefit to defraud them of their rights and liberties as Englishmen. (Loud applause.) The rate of labour uudoubtedly depended upon sup ply and demand; if there was a superabundance of labour, wages were low ; but if, on the contrary, as was the case in that district, there was a great de mand for labour, wages steadily increased ; and this great principle could not Le modified by the rules or regulations of any trade societies. The collie, ies and ironworks of that district, he said ; had been developed by the freedom and liberty of labour; and it was very important for the working men to clearly ascertain their relative position in that district as compared with Yorkshire, where the works were al most entirely under the dominio n o f th e t ra d es ' un i ons. The population in this immediate locality had in creased 60 per cent, within the last ten years, and the wages paid at Staveley were higher than in any other colliery district in the kingdom. If they were not so, why, he asked, did men come from Yorkshire, THE SUN, LONDON, RID A Y EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1866. STODARE'S THEATRE OF MYSTERY, Egyptian ILdll, Piccadilly. "WHO'S H E ?" STUD -ARE (Madame), widow of the late Colonel Stodare, will present the •,s: INX, MARVFL AIECCA, and BASK.' TRICK, assisted by Mr. Firbauk Burman (punil of Colonel Stociare), in col. Stodare's ROYAL ENTE BTAIN :KENT o , MAGIC, at the Tim ITRE OF lICSTERY, iczyptian Hall, eve , -3 , ev:-ning - at 8 ; eduesday and Saturday mo.liiruis at 3 Admission-Is. and 25.; stalls, Schocos an.i eivictren half-price. Seats secured at the ilox-offiee, from 11 till 6, and at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, 0:d Bond street. Mil. JA.NIES WEAVER, Manager. rr II E 0 X F 0 it D, 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., THE MUSICAL ES rAnusii 31F NT ,}` LONDON. Brilliant ltuvival of Offenbach's "SIX rY-SIX." Misses Ilusse4, Fitz Henry, and Barrie; Mersra. St. Albyn, Marler, , nd Bury. Comedy by linrry Sydney (the political Momus). Robert Fraser (Buffo Vocalist and Comedian —a great success). Hons. Peterson with his high'y trained troupe of Performing Dogs. EXTRA ATTRACTIONS during THIS WEEK. ~ rest success of LES A.IIA.ZONES AU CHAMPAGNE DIVERTISSEMENT. Musical Director and Conductor, Kr. F. Jonglimans TFIF, BOY AT HUG BY, a Musical Sket:h, founded on :qr. Charles Dickens's Christmas Story, written by Mr. Green, composed by tlr. K. Cool 0, person ted by Mr. ROBT. FBA -RR, by permission of Charles Dickens, Req., will shortly be produced. WESTON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Sole Proprietors, SWEASBY and HOLLAND. The most triumphant success ever attained in any Musical Establishment. Grand Selection from Auber's Opera of " MASANIELLO," 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 orri. A new and original overture composed and arranged expressly for the above minstrels by Mr. 11. Baker. Comic supported by Arthur Lloyd, Jolly Nash, Georgina Smithson, Miss Fancourt. Paddy Fannin, Patrick Sellers, and Harry and Kattie King. Majilton as Messestophles ; and Pis Watkin, the Persian Juggler. Band of 30 first-class mars, and large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera Houses. Musical Director, Mr. P. CORRI. Prices of admission - Stalls and Balcony, ls.; Area, Gd. ; 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, commencing at Half-past. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. NEW EDITIONS. —A Life-size Portrait-Model of the PRINCESA MARY OF CAMBRIDGE, a Marriage Group of the PRINCESS HELENS and PRINCE CHRISTIAN. Admiktance, le.; children, under ten, half-price; extra rooms. 6d. Open from 11 a tu. till dusk, and from 7 p.m. till 10. A RGYLL ROOMS. -GRAND CASINO, Windmill-street. PL:cadilly. These elegant and popular Rooms. having been entirely re decorated, are now OPEN EVERY EVENING for Concert sod Dancing. Conductor, Signor Luct CURTL Manager, GRENET. Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. 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Ken.itr,4t .n, tihe,therd's-bush, Notting-hi 1, and iVestbourve-psi k. FALKNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY, " Real Malt," 19s per aallon, is sold in bottles and jars, bear ing his label and trade mark. Most liberal terms are offered to the trade for the sate of thi4 frenn'ua oid s Ara, which is coming into universal consumption through England. For price lists Liply at Ofil `es, 14, Strand, London, W.C. Established in Gratton-street, Dublin, A.D. 1780. D UN -YULE'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 Ofh:ei and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 18(8. Quotations on application. JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.---" The purest spirit and safest drink in Ihe world." 1,0..d0n Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, L.C., next the '• Times." TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, ILII Cork, beg to announce that they ere able to supply the trade with their celebrated Whiskies. in casks or cases, and to take orders in bon.l at d for exportation, at their cffices, 7, Printing-hou , e-square, London, E C.. the only house in the square not occupied by ihq "Times." .T. D . an d C o .'s whiskies bring the highest prices in the Australian and othe Colonial markets, as may be observed by reverence to the "Journal of Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their whiskies fetch 6d. per gallon and Is. pt,:. case over the next 13 , St, and Is. 6d per gallon anti ss. 6d. a case over the lowest quotation. Always on hand a large supply 01 . ye y old mellow Nv. - !isky ha the finest condition, matured in sherry casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, int, plied on the most reasonable terms. THE OCEAN ST. LEGER of 1866.—What Lord Lyon was to his owner was the Taepinp.: to her Caul ain, viz.. whine , * of the race. hAving distancel ..11 com petitors, as the EAST I v DIA. TEA COMPANY have in variab y done in their etoi e and ssle of fine new season's teas, now sAlinfs, at imp3rter's prices. Warehouses-9, Great St. tlelen's-oZiurchy.:rd. A VALUABLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.- AL A CHINESE CADDY, containing 161bs. of really good Blae.: Tea, stilt carriage free to any railway sta'ion or markt.' town 'n En4land, Ireland, scotiancl. 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.--I.s. 6d , 25.. 25 6 per lb. arc the prices at which PHILLIPS and CO Tea Merchan s, 8, King William-street, City, L,n don, 8.C., :re selling gool and fine BLACK TEA. A price current post •ree. 404 I-Torth carnage tree to any railway station ur ma k:c town in the Uni'ed Kingdom.—Obs,rve— PHILLIPS and 00. have no Agents or any connexion with any house in Worcester or Swansea. Sugars are supplied at market prices. H OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING SHIP. £2,n00 required. WILLIANIS; Secretary. Boys' Ref age. 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON g TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing the COUNTRY ROUE. £l,OOO required. WM. WILLI allS, Secretary. Boys' Refuge, 8. Great Queen-street. W.C. H OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The Committee ate 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 £5,000, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends have promised to nay for one boy each year. Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothburv. and 214, ig,h Holborn; Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Fall-Mall East; and by WM. WILLIASIS, Secretary. Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Provilelice : row, Finsbury, E.C. Sixty Thou'sand 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, aro given gratuitously every week. The poor from all parts are 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, 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 boon raised, but to accomplish the work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will lie required. Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it is propssed, 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. SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be gratefully received by the RON% D. GILBT.ItT D.D IN°, _22 ” _ Finsbury-circus, QT. GEORGE'S CATHEI)RAI,, Southwark.— n ItiST3IAS- - DAY selema PON TIEtCAL MASS, ;,t Eleven a.m., with Full Instrumental Accompanime.,t. Musie—Gonnod'a Jlass, Lutz'a " Viderunt," " Atiesti Fiodet'," Ste. TIRITISII AND FOREIGN ART UNION.- A f , M EETING of ibe Shareholdeir, will be IrAd ar the (Mice No. 30, Juli-street, 11,Aford-row. nn 'l'llUl'S JAY, the 3,1 day of .January, 1567, fur the i,IfAW ING of the SPECIAL 1.0 CIEItY. "*".„ REWARD. —Whereas some evil-disposed _Lpfi , Person or Persons did enter the premises of Mr. Cooper, Florist and Gardener, Balfour Cottage, Ful ham-fields, on the night of Saturday, the 24th, or the morning of Sunday, the 25th of November (ultimo), and did cruelly and feloniously CUT ASUNDER a living PIG, and nearly Sever the Head of a second living Pig, and did Wound other Pigs. This is to give Notice, that whoever will give information to the undersigned, or at the Wal ham-green Police-station, leading to the punishment of the Offender or Offenders, shall, upon conviction, receive the above Reward. JOHN COLAM, Secretary. Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 12, Pall-mall, Dec. 18, 1866. Z IN AHAN'SEXHIII4I;I:NIiggY. .1) ÜBLIN This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the )üblin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole •ome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; y the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at R, GREAT WIND3IILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observn thn Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded " Kinaha.n's LL Whisky." 'UAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION ‘ l .[ (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, ISA, 4, RUSSELL-STREET, CCVENT-GARDEN, LONDON. Prompt ADVANCES of all description of ziecurlty. Farms free ora,applbution by letter to EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES, and RUSIN r;SSES. FURNESS and KNEE'S List on application. Particalars for insertion received until the 27th of the month at their AUCTION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES, 5, Agar-street, S.rand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Crr.ss Railway Station. MANFIELD'S PATE NT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of ail dealers and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107. Strand (corner of Savoy-steps). Loudon. TUCERNE-MEWS a New Block (private A mews for gentlemen only', the Mall, close to Ken,ing ton-pal.ce-gardens, Notting-hill. First-class STABLES, coach-house and rooms over, fitted up with every modern improvement, to be LET, on LEASE, direct from the free holder. For terms apply to Messrs. Swain and Son, the Lodge. ; or to Messrs. Debenham, Tewson, an .1 Farmer, 80, Cheapside. BOYS' & 11YAM. aryl CO. fIOYS' at 66 and 67, OXFORD-ST. B OYS' NEW STY LtIrVE rt c OATS. BOYS' NEW STYLE REEFERS. BOYS' KNICKERBOCKER SUITS. BOYS, OSBORNE SUITS. BOYS' HARROW SUITS. BOYS' JACKETS for ALL PURPOSES. BOYS' TROUSERS and, VESTS. BOYS' HOSIERY and SHIRTS. BOYS' HATS, CAPS, &e., &g. H YAM & Co.'s BOYS' IV INTER CLOTHING, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. The First Establishment in the Kingdom for Juvenile Clothing. Boys' Sandringham Overcoats lss. to 355. Boys' Prince Alfred Reefers Boys' Overcoats for Little Boys Boys' Knickerbocker Suits lss. to 355. Boys' Westminster and Osborne Suits lss. to 355. Boys' Eton, Harrow, and Rugby Suits Boys' Jackets for School and Home 9s. to 21s. HYAM and Co.'s ATTIRE for GENTLEMEN, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. Hyam and Co.'s Winter Tweed Overcoats 21s. to 30s. Hyam and Co.'s Winter Reefer Capes 3os. to 84s. Hyam and Co.'s Winter Overcoats Hyam and Co.'s Winter Suits 42s. to 70s. Hyam and Co.'s Winter Jackets Hyam and Co.'s Winter Frock Coats Hyam and Co.'s Winter Vests Hyam and Co.'s Winter Trousers l4s. to 255. niYAM and Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS. 1. Gentlemen's Clothing far immediate Wear. 2. Bespoke or Order Department. 3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department. 4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. jealous of her paramour, and that she suspected he was connected with another woman at Town Kil ling, and this frequently led to quarrels between them, and the prisoner frequently made use of threats of vio!ence towards Highanas ; and the sug gestion on the part of the prosecution was, that the dreadful crime was committed during a paroxysm of anger from jealousy. , A day or two before the murder was committed the prisoner was sent to Lon don by Highams to purchase some carrots, and dur ing her absence he seemed to have gone to Town Mailing and remained there all night, and when the prisoner returned she reproached him with hav ing stayed away all night with another woman, and they had repeated guards between this time and the following Saturday, when the murder was alleged to have been committed. The prisoner and Highams' went to bed at their usual time on the Saturday evening, the deceased child, who was four years old, sleeping at the foot of the bed, and the baby being in bed with the prisoner and Highams, and nothing particular seemed to have occcured until between 4 and 5 o'clock on the following morning, when Highams was awoke by finding the prisoner in the act of chopping at his head with a most for midable instrument called a billhook.. lie held up his hands to endeavour to protect himself, but the prisoner continued chopping at him until she ap peared to be exhausted, and then went downstairs. Highanis went down soon afterwards, and the pri soner then renewed her attack upon him, but some persons came to his assistance, and the prisoner, who had' thowti - thtr - tllltdolt - htrio - riti - §2sThe hon- poles, was taken into custody. At this time it lias not known that anything had been done to the child, but upon the police going upstairs to the bedroom they discovered the poor little boy Jeremiah with his head nearly severed from his body by a razor, which was left in the wound. The prisoner, on being charged with the murder, denied that it was she who had committed it, and she asserted that it was her paramour (Highams) who had killed the child, and she said that it was on account of his having done so that she had made the attack upon him with the billhook; and she persisted in this state ment when she was taken before the magistrate, and this was the defence that was set up for her on the present occasion. The learned sergeant, in the course of his address, said there :was not the slightest doubt that a most foul and horrible mur der had been committed, and that the only ques tion for the jury would be, whether the prisoner or the man Highams was the guilty party. After some formal evidence had been given, Wal ter Highams, the person referred to, was examined. He is an ordinary labouring-looking man about 45 years of age. He detailed the intimate connexion that existed between him and the prisoner, and said that they lived pretty comfortably togther down to the month of April ; but a day or two before the 14th of that month the prisoner was very angry with him for having stopped all night at Town Mailing, and she threatened that she would do him some vio lence, and they had a quarrel on 13th April. The deceased child, the baby, and witness and prisoner went to bed on Saturday night the 14th, and about 5 o'clock on the following morning he found the prisoner hadgot up and dressing herself. He asked her why she had got up so early, and she replied that she was's° troubled in her mind that she could not sleep, and said she would get up and make her self a cup of tea. She left the room and he went to sleep, and he was awoke by receiving some violent blows on the head, and on looking up he saw the prisoner holding a bill-hook with both hands and chopping at his head with the instrument. He put up his hands to save his head, and the prisoner con tinued striking at him, and wounded him oa b hands, and she chopped off two of the fingers from his right hand. While she was doing this she ex claimed, "I've killed one, and finish killing you, and I will kill all three." While the prisoner was striking him he let the baby fall into the bed, and after a short time she went down stairs, taking th 3 bill-hook with her. Witness was very faint and weak from loss of blood, and after prisoner had gone he got out of bel and slid down the staircase, to the lower room and found the prisoner there, and she seized him by the hair and knocked his head against the wall, and again said she would kill him, and that she intended to kill all the three. Prisoner at this time struck him on the shoulders with the bill hook, and then wentout of doors and threw it away, and some persons who had heard the alarm and cries of murder came to his assistance, and he was taken to the infirmaryat Tunbridge Wells, where he remained 14 weeks. At the time he left the bed room be was not aware that any injury had been inflicted upon the child Jeremiah. A razor was shown to him with which the child's throat had been cut, but he was not able to say whether it was his razor or not. lie had a razor which was in a case in a closet down stairs, but he had not used it for some time, and he was unable to say whether this was the same or not. In cross-examination this witness said he was a married man, and the prisoner had lived with him and his wife' for some time before she was married, but he lost sight of her for several years after she was mar ried, and when they next became acquainted it was agreed between them that she should leave her hus band and. be his wife, and that they should live together. At first the prisoner took a lodging for herself and the child Jeremiah at Greenwich, and he supported her, and used to go and see her once a fortnight. The prisoner's husband was aware she was living with him, but he did not know whether his own wife knew that the prisoner was living with him. He did not know what Ead become of his own wife, but lie had heard that she was living at Maid stone. He had searched for her, but had not been able to find her. The witness was then pressed as to whether he had not, when he was examined before the magistrate, omitted to say anything about the prisoner having said that she was in so much trouble during the night that she could not sleep, and he said he was so " nigh killed" at the time that he hardly knew what he said. He also said he was not sure that he told the magistrate anything about the pri soner saying that she had killed one and that she would kill all the three, but he declared that iu point of fact she did make use of this expression. 'Witness likewise said that when he was originally examined he said that the razor was his, and he accounted for having any doubt upon that point now by saying that the prisoner bought the razor, and he had only used it twice, because it did not cut ; and although he be lieved that the razor with which the child's throat had been cnt was the same, he could not swear positively to it. He then said he knew a woman named Eagle ton, and be believed she had had a child by him, or it might be two. (A laugh.) Re-examined—The prisoner was aware of his connexion with this woman, and was very angry with him about it. She came to their house upon one occasion, and the prisoner and she quarrelled and fought. Evidence was then adduced to show that at the time the prisoner was taken into custody she made the following extraordinary state►rent : " That devil has killed my child, and I will have my revenge on him too. God is above the devil, and I have conquered the devil. He intended to kill me —he had the chopper upstairs, and intended to kill me, only I found it, and I got the master of the devil. I thought there was something up. I went to London yesterday, and he wanted me to stop all night ; and I thought there was something up and came back the same night, and when I came back I found him with another woman, and I will have my revenge upon the devil for it." Evidence was then adduced to show that at the time the discovery was made the front of the clothes of the prisoner was completely saturated with blood, while with regard to the man Highams there did not appear to be a larger quantity of blood upon his shirt, for he had nothing but that garment on at the time, than would be reasonably accounted for as NOTICE OF BONUS MEETING. AND GENERAL CLERICAL, MEDICAL, LIFE ASSIIHANcE SOCIhTY, 13, St. James's-square, London, S.W. An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL ‘ , EE I'ING of the Proprie,;)rs and Persons assured in this sodety will be held at this Office, on Timits DAY, the third day ot January next, at One o'clock preci ely. for the purpose ot deJlarinfr, a BONUS out of the prufits.arising• front the general business durin,.; the dye years ending June 30th last. GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. December 14, 1506. T HE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE INSIJIt tINCE COMPANY. Offices —l, Dale-street, Liverpool ; 2%) and 21, Poultry ; 7, Cornhill, and Charing-cross, Lo,,d , :n. Invested Fu £3 177,616 Fire Premiumffreceived in 1865 739,33! Life Premiums rec Peed in 1865 zs ,103 The following are a few of the advantages attaching to the Lite Policies of this Company: Moderate rates cf prem um for all descriptions of insur ance. Fixed b , nuses g•naranteed by the numerous proprietary of an un'irnited company. Whole-world have granted on reasonable terms. Policies held as securities are not considered void by this Office, although the assured slmuld have the prescribed limits, provtced the ho.der inform the Office as soon as it comes to uis kno ledge, and pays the adequate extra pre mium. Claims are payable thirty days after aimission. JOHN ATKINS, Keident Secretary. OYS' ATTIRE. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT—MAIDSTONE, Dec. 20. (Before Mr. Baron Channell.) THE TUNBRIDC'TE WELLS MURDER. Ann Lawrence, aged 29, described as a married woman, was indicted for the wilful murder of Jere miah Lawrence, at Tunbridge, on the 14th of April last. The prisoner was also charged with feloniously wounding Walter Highams, with intent to murder Sergeant Parry was specially retained to prose cute, by the directions of the Tunbridge magis trates, with Mr. Willoughby. Mr. Ribton and Mr. Ormerod appeared for the defence. After the prisoner had pleaded not guilty a great many challenges were made by her counsel to the jury, for the purpose, as it was said, of obtaining a Maidstone jury, a n impression bei ng ver y p reva lent that inhabitants of Maidstone were generally averse to the infliction of the punishment of death. Whe ther there are any real grounds for this impression it would of course be impossible to say, but the re sult of the line adopted by the prisoner's counsel was that 10 of the jury were inhabitants of the town. Sergeant Parry, in his opening address, observed the case was one of a very painful and atrocious character, and one which at the same time involved somevery extraordinary circumstances. It appeared that the prisoner was a married woman, and that she formerly lived with her husband at Tunbridge Wells, and that a man named Walter Highams, who was a market gardener and fruiterer, living at Town Mailing, used to visit them, and became on intimate terms with the prisoner. Hightails was himself a married man, but it appeared that about two years before the month of April last he deseited his wife, and the prisoner left her husband, taking with her her child Jeremiah, the subject of the present charge. The prisoner and Highams cohabited together at several places, and at length took up their abode at No. 2, Ebury-cottages, Tunbridge Wells, where they remained until the 14th of April last. At this time a child had been born of which Highams was the father, and this child was about two months old. There seemed no doubt that the prisoner was FENIANISX IN NOTTINGHAM. Yesterday John Kearney, aged 26, an Irishman, living in Ferrars-street, St. Ann's Well-road, Not tingham (a private in the Robin Hood Rifles), was brought before the mayor and borough magistrates, • at the police-court, Nottingham, charged with be ing concerned in the Fenian conspiracy. Mr. Chief constable Freeman said on Wednesday afternoon he went to the prisoner's house in Ferrar's-street, and said to the prisoner, "From a statement I have heard I believe you are connected with the Fenians." Prisoner replied, " I know nothing about it—l am no Fenian." Witness then called Inspector Bening ton and Detective Atherton, and they then searched prisoner's house. The wife of the prisoner threw some papers into the fire, and witness snatched which proved to be a copy something out of the fire, of the Irish People newspap2r. They then took him into custody. 'Thomas Roult, aged 18, said he had, sonerfor abHouet had d o m be o e n n th t s o . the Wi- nkenasowwnasthae Irishman.prisoner pri soner's house several times since NoveuiScr at Kear ney's invitation. He generally went with a mln hepherl. Their conve rsa ti on was generally : named S bo:itFenianism. Prisoner used to give them Irish newspapers to read. On the 12th of D.3cen - 01.1r he was at prisoner's house, and they took a walk up Derby-road. Prisoner asked witness if he would be sworn into the Irish army or Fenian Brother hood. Witness replied that he would. Prisoner then administered the oath to him in d passage. They were alone ; part of the oath was that " he should take up arms at a minute's notice, and fight against the British Government, and obey the corn mands of the superior officers." Witness then kissed the Catholic Prayer-book, and said, "So help me God." Upon taking the oath prisoner asked witness "if he had clenched him now ?" and authorised him to swear in others as Fenians. He told him he could swear in Lockhart and Shepherd, two of his com panions, both of whom are Irish. Witness left the prisoner soon afterwards. He had since been to the prisoner's house, and they had conversed freely about the prospects of Fenianism. Prisoner said that fighting would shortly commence in Ireland, and added that he had had a letter from Ireland, stating that Colonel Kelly was in that country. Prisoner was in the Robin Hood Volunteers, and advised witness to join, as by that means he could be drilled and ready for action. Witness had not joined the Robin Hoods. Prisoner said to witness, " In case you do join, and we do garrison duty, we Can do greater harm than if we were sent to Ireland by blowing up the magazines." He also said, " H we were sent over to Ireland we could join the Fenian ranks, and then fight for the Irish republic." Prisoner told witness that the army was affected with Fenianisin. Shepherd was generally with them witnessduring t t h h a e t s e if conversations. could Prisoner swear in nine nie promised he would be made a sergeatit and have the command of them. Prisoner, upon being clutioned I;;;t.llebeneh, said he knew nothing about it, adding that it wal a conspiracy against hi:n. In reply to several ( - Inez tions put by the prisoner, the witness Itoult stated that when he was at the prisoner's howc other publications Ind been shown hint besiaes those of a Fenian character. Witness had, however, seen a book of the circles of Fenianism in Philaklphia and other Owes. The bench said that prisoner was in a serious position, and advised him to have legal assistance. The prisoner was then remanded. Mr. Hook, of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Mr. E. Bond, scholar of St. John's College, Oxford, have been appointed to Kastersbips at 'ladley College. lkir. Bond gained a first-class in Classics (Moderations) in Easter Term. 1864, and a first in Classics in the final schools in 1866. NEW AND REVISED EDITION OF " LADY LISLE." This day. thoroughly revised and in parts re-written, uni fl;rm with Library Edition of Miss Braddoa's Novels, price 68., LA D Y L I SL E. By the Author of "Lady Audley's Secret," &c. " Miss Braddon has written nothing* stronger or fuller of human interest. . . The story is intens ly readable to its last line." —The Globe, Dec. 8, 1861. Ward, Lock, and Tyler, Paternoster-row. w hich ;3. pe r "pies in the atti, up. lown' 1,,1cn• e%tr s Roil wasp )e ansi ....—..f, ......--