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Mac ramlby, J. nd Pills.— , neuralgia, this season imonials of reetylentod , fferers from fomented mmediatelY to the pores ny valuabl e _ if early 1 0 , to remedieb, cannot do t market tO, 3n this ( 13 9 and ?rico to 545; 1.01 )est runs ditto itto (Weigall7; beans, r, 33s to of h a s been 4. a t late ratecfo tts a 51'9 s to 40 'Y r ' grin sto ll° ' perr 'yo, 30 Theeason• d to P S Y„ st steatv e : eY tt t e%tre'S to 535; ; 30 , stone. 2 to Lding7, 3 65 0s; 27s mne. B e ` t o, Super So d some W.9°13, il late ow l c •of but in fel t l ti , Beans ra° es. v et to 5 25 ; vti. , ,' stone. prove. '3u to 30 5 per 24 5 State. Bi d ruing 75 ' d • barl e ?''ia; ; 4.d to 75 0 ° , tr ket. A-- Tr ° , ,, i g ‘ foreig4 i ;eo sale ; w , ttle OatineLo -to, the s i.ifo 0 0 11°0 erra ce, ion" Britis i Ve 6t ' 011' 4 ter of t e il # : ome n. , all to ° dialgh p ir sqsquire'se cot' , ritar°" o f ornierly n o ,1 1 '3pertis' Ns r a ltel a v, Lb, r tio "ss• 11° efe o A NL/ 'o• t ° C°. LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC k , ROO3l for Gentlemen. Remember, we wait for you at 1 " ANS' after the Covent-garden Opera and the Theatres. ICN NAHA'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 18i5. PrlZecelebrated Old IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin • (me Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. th ßold in Bottles, 3s. Sd., at the Retail Houses in London; by dents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale 8. GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. “ O bserve the Red Beal, Pink Label, and Cork branded -I tillahan's LL Whisky." MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act ot Parliament, 1850), 14, RUSSELL -STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON p 4I3 VANCES MONEY on Personal Security, Bills of Sale, r eehold or beneficial Leasehold Property, without inquiry t) 7 Or any deduction whatever, for periods of one, two, or ree years, repayable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills neounted. The greatest secrecy observed. Advances also irde towards the Purchase ot a House, repayable in 5, 10, or eily Y e e i a o r:e7Forms free on application, or receipt of a stamped EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. tpOYAL NAVAL, MILITARY, and u GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY (Este- Pilled A.D. 1837. under Royal Patronage), 17, Waterloo- I )( ace, London . , S.W. ARTHUR R HAMILTON. Secretary. Agents wantel in towns not yet represented. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. NEW YORK DIVISION FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS. PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION} OHIO DIVISION SECOND MORTGAGE BONDS. _lnterest payable Ist January, at the Consolidated Bank tLisaited ,The Coupons from the above Bonds will be paid on Mon -443% the Ist January, at the rate of 4s. to the dollar and kn zi p e s t be left two clear days at the Office of the Company, 5, stml , ster-chambers, Victori t-street, Westminster, S.W., Previously for examination. It sent by post, a cheque for the amount will be remitted. St Westminster -chambers, Victoria-street, West minster, December 16, 1885. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OF FICE. Royal Exchange, London, Nov. 22, 1865. ~,The Court of Directors of the Corporation of the Royal Ex "onge Assurarce DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that their TRANSFER BOOK, wiil be SHUT from Tuesday, toe 1 2th of December next ; to Thursday, the 4th of January llowing ; and that the ANNUAL GENERAL COURT a ppointed by their Charter will be holden at their Office on re Royal Ex hange, on WEDNESDAY, the 20th of Decem ber, at Twelve o'clock at noon ; and that a Dividend will be C onsidered of at the said Court. ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Eitablished by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall, S.W. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. JAMES STEWART HODGSON, Esq., Sub-Governor. CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. R obert Bainbridge, Esq. Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' fpbert Barclay, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. LJohn Garratt Cattley, Esq. Nevile Lubbock, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Geo. F. Malcolmson, Esq. William James Daniell, Esq. Henry Nelson. Esq. Davidson, Esq. Lord Josceline W. Percy. Thomas Dent, Esq, Charles Robinson, Esq, Alexander. Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. redk. Jos. Ed'mann. Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Charles H. Goschen, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. R iveradaleW. Greniell, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. t Obi. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. ti NOTIcE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of *lttE PREMIUMS falling due at Christmas will expire on 9th January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this - crPoration on advantageous terms. The Duty on Fire Assurances has been reduced to the uni- H3 rin rate of is. 6d. per cent. per annum. No charge is made by this Corporation for Fire Policy or "'trap, however small the Assurance may be. EARIIING-STOCK.—No extra charge is made for the use °f Steam Thrashing Machines. The Reversionary Bonus on British LIFE POLICIES has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums Payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Lif e . Any sum not exceeding £ 15,000 may be insured on one This Corporation affords to the Assured— Liberal participation in Profits—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption, under Royal Charter, from the liabilities of partnership. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. CHARLES LAFFITTE and COMPANY (Limited). Established under the Companies Act, 1862, by which the liability of the Shareholders is limited to the amount of the Shares for which they subscribe, and in accordance ,With the International Treaty entered into between Eng land and France in May, 1862, in relation to Public Coin- Dallies established in both countries. Capital, £3,000,000, divided into 150,000 Shares of £2O each. £1 to be paid on application, and £4 on Allotment, and slx months to elapse after date of Allotment before any call is made payable. :First issue, 75,000 Shares, of which 25,000 have been Privately subscribed. DIRECTORS. CHARLES LAFFITTE, Chairman. Jolla Ennis, Esq., Director of the Bank of Ireland. 211 '. P. P. Bayvet, Merchant, Censeur of the Bank of France. llarvey Lewis, Esq., M.P., Director of the National Bank. H. Bourlon, I)eputd au Corps Legislatif, Director of the Paris and Orleans Railway. B. Henshaw, Esq., Director of the National Bank. fir. L. C. Grimoult, Merchant, ex-President of the Tribu nal of Commerce of Paris. George Bate, Esq., Great George-street, Westminster. a ir. A. Gautray, 17, Rue du Cirque, Paris. Sir John Gray, M.P., Charleville House, Dublin. George P a yn e Kitson, Esq. (l a t e o f Sir John Guest and Co.). SOLICITORS. Messrs. Valiance and Valiance, Essex-street, Strand, and George-yard, Lombard-street. BANKERS. The National Bank, London, and its Branches. The Loudon Joint-Stock Bank, London. The London and County Banking Company, Loudon. j t he National Bank of Liverpool (Limited), Liverpool. 4 tessrs. Charles Laffitto and Co., Paris. BROKERS. I tessrs. J. and A. Scrimgeour, 18, Old Broad-street. ,/tessrs. De Zoete and Gorton, 4 . 1, Warnford-court. Edward Fox, Esq., 51, Dame-street, Dublin. L. Charles Gide, Agent do Change, 18, Rue Drouot, Paris SECRETARIES (PRO TEM.). In London.—Mr. William 11. Read. In Paris.—Mr. Paul Zucchi. AUDITORS. Messrs. Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle, and Evans. E. H. Galsworthy, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES. No. 18, Old Broad-street, London. No. 48bis, Ruo Basse du Rempart, Paris. PROSPECTUS. This Company is formed to extend the business of the 1 , 131 d-established Bank of Messrs. Charles Laffitte and Co., of Basse do Rampart, Paris, to this country and elsewhere, by converting it into a Joint-Stock undertaking, on the Principle of limited liability, and thereby to afford the com mercial community and general public facilities for trans acting th e i r Foreign Banking and Financial operations t hrough an establishment having its centre in London, and possessing the advantage of a name well known and a ccredited throughout Europe, together with a thoroughly ° rganised, most extensive, and influential connexion. The business of the Company will be similar in character that hitherto carried on by Messrs. C. Laffitte and Co., a nd other great foreign banking-houses, viz., a combination (3 f banking business, financial agency, and general mer cantile monetary affairs, with the advantage of increased r esources and a more extended field of operations. y An arrangement has been concluded with Messrs. Charles 'affitte and Co. for the purchase of their business, for the 81 04 of £150,000, which amount has been arrived at upon a moderate computation of its value, based upon a statement 7 th e ofits actually realised during a series of years. we-thir pr ds of the purchase-money will be taken in Shares, (i.l CharleslLaffi per Share will be credited as paid-up tte will continue his connection with the l u ndertaking in the capacity of Chairman of the Company, 411 (1 will give it all the advantage of his influence and ' 3 XPerience. e negotiations are pending for incorporating with this I .°, l llpany other banking, financial, and commercial estab lennaents, for the purpose of extending the sphere of its Z ) orations, and of affording to the establishments alluded the opportunity of consolidating their business, and of 'clueing the existing liability of their shareholders. case no allotment is made, the money deposited on a pplication for Shares will be returned in full. t Forms of Application for Shares and every information e lh be obtained of the Bankers, Brokers, and Solicitoor Offices of the Company, where copies of the Memo- :VIM and Articles of Association, and of the Agreement firth Messrs. Charles Laffitte and 0., may be seen. becember 9th, 1865. CHARLES LAFFITTE AND CO., LIMITED. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. IT ° (To bo retained by the Bankers.) I 'o the Directors of Charles Laffitte and Co. (Limited). Gentlemen,— Wavingbei paid to your Bankers the sum of .£ tt Og deposit of £1 per Sharo on Shares in the C L ve Company, I hereby request that you will allot me h i , a ‘, ll llmber, and I agree to accept such Itares, or any less I ) , T l.leer you may allot me ; I further agree to pay the de ei 91t Allotment, and the Calls as and when made, and to u° ed the Articles of Asiation of te Company when re and I authoris oc e you to insert name on the bl e ' st er of Members for the number of Shares allotted to Usual signature Name in full Residence Profession Date CRARLES LAFFITTE AND COMPANY (Limited). ICOTT ItIT T CE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the LIST of ( Lo . "', I CATIONS for SHARES in this Company will bo lgth?M) for the Country THIS DAY (Monday), the ust. By order. b ri g DO THE WILD WAVES SAY Il t a ll igin, ll „,, ( M? —That the FIERY CROSS has arriyed, t -. tour ° foaonificent KAISOW CONGOUS of delicious h e Ira , and which may now be had, at a mere commission on 40.5, real Price, of the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, 4 eAt St , Helen's CLurcliyarcl, Dishopsgste-street. N°. 22,933. QTODARE. -272 D REPRESENTATION.- THEA CUE OF MYSTERY, EGYPTIAN HALL. MARVELS in MAGIC and VENTRILOQUISM, as per fermed by command before her Majesty the Que n and the Royal Family at Windsor Castle, Tuesday Evening. Nov. 21, 18 , )5. Great sensation created by the mysterious illusion of the SPHINX, the BIRTH of FLOWER TREES, and STODARE'S c'lebrated INDIAN BASKET FEAT, as only performed by him. Also, an Extra Day Performance on BOXING-DAY, Tuesday, Dec. 26, at 3 o'clock. Every evenino• at 8; Wednesday and Qaturday at 3. Stalls at Mitchell's. Old Bond-street, and Box-office, Egyptian Ball. Admission, is., 2s. ; and stalls, 3s. "Almost miracnions."—Vide Times, April 18,1865. THE ALLEGHANIANS. GREAT ST. JAMES'S HALL. The ALLEGHANIAN VOCALISTS and BELL PER FORM HRS. organised for Nineteen Years, will give their CONCERTS in London every Evening at Eight o'clock; and a GRAND MORNING CONCERT every Wednesday and Saturday, at 3. Area, is. ; balcony, 2s. ; reserved seats, 3s. ; sofa stalls, ss. Tickets and places may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street, and at Mr. Austin's Ticket Office, 28, Piccadilly. The full programme now ready at all the Libraries and Music-sellers. J. M. BOUL tRD, Director. D. G. WALDRON, Age Lt. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Piccadilly.—The only original and veritable legitimate CHRISTY MINSTRELS Every Night at 8, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 3 and 8, retaining all the specialties and old favourites who originally created the reputation of the Com pany. Fauteuils, 55.; stalls, 38 • unreserved seats, 2s. ; gal lery, Is. Tickets at Austin's, 2:8, Piccadilly.—}Tanager, Mr. Frederick Burgess. THOXF O R D. 6, OXFORD bTRRET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). THE MARKET GIRLS byJ. Offenbach, and a New CANTATA, by Meyerbeer, will be performed by Misses Russell, Barrie, Waimealey, Tyrell, Ellen Reid, Madame Maria, and Miss Fitz Henry ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, Husk. Evans, W. Williams, and Senors Tivoli and Spagnoli, with full Band and Chorus, THIS EVENING, Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The HUNGARIANS—The Brothers and Sister KIRALFI will have the honour of introducing their National Dances in costume this evening. NOTICE.—The LIGHT DRAGOONS, by BiAILLART, will be shortly produced. Admissiom —Area, 6d.; Malls and balcony, is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL. . ENTIRE CHANGE OF ENrERTAINHENT. New Operatic Sele3tions, Ballets, Arc ; Burlesque Comedy, &o , by all the most accomplished artistes, including Arthur Lloyd, Mrs. and Mr. Randall, Mons. Alexandre, Messrs. Duriah and Davies, the Sisters Dashwood, &c., &c., EVERY E VENIN G. The New Yntertainment for CHRISTMAS, entitled RI FUM TI-FUM, will eclipse everything yet produced. MADAME TIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street. NEW ADDITION.—A full-length Portrait Model, taken from life, of CHARLOTTE WINSOR. . Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admittance, One Shilling; Children under 10, half-price ; Extra Rooms, Sixpence. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly.—GßAND CASINO and MUSICAL PRO MENADE is NOW OPEN for the Season. Musical Director, M. LUIGI CURT! Manager, Mons. GRENET. The Band plays nightly Selections from the most eminent Composers. Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock; close five minutes to 12 o'clock. Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. THE WELLINGTON, ST. JAMES'S-STREET. Set DINNERS served, at five minutes' notice, from Four to Nine p.m., at 2s. 6d., 3s 6d., 4s. 6d., and 7s. each. E LEGANT SALOON DINING ROOMS, for Ladies and Families, Prices on the "Carts" moderate. Private Rooms for Large or Small Partier. Reading, Smoking, and Billiard Rooms. BREAKFASTS and LUNCHEONS. D. CAMERON. Entrances-160, Piccadilly, and 49, St. James's-street. BEAUTIFUL FOR EV E R.—Madame RACHEL'S CIRCASSIAN BEAUTY WASH, ALABASTER POWDER, - and CIRCASSIAN GOLDEN HAIR WASH. These costly delicacies of the toilet impart a youthful, blooming, and brilliant appearance to persons however far advanced in years, and can only be obtained at her residence, 47A, New Bond-street. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d, ss. 6d., and ios. 6d..; sent free for 54, 84, and 141 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CIIIROPO. This preparation gradually dit.solvcs the corn in a few hours, removing the very rook Price 48 , sent by poet for 60 stumps —248, High Holborn, London. TTAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, I London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curl- Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is appded. Sold at 3s. 6d., ts. 6d., and 10s. 6d.; sent free for sf, Bf, and 141 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, Is. 6d., or 20 stamps. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S lIAIR DYE produces a perfect colour immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na tural in effe .t. Price 3s. rd , ss. 61, and 10s. 6d. ; sent by post for 54, 14, and 144 stamps. HAIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALLX.•ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes, without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms. 3s. 6d., 58. 6d.. and 10s. 61 ; sent the same day as ordered by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps. Lately published, ld., sent free by post for two stimps, AN ESSAY upon the HUMAN HAIR : Its Close Analogy to Vegetation, and its Reproduction by the Stimulant Spanish Fly or Cantharides.—By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. PDIPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness, dm 2s. 9d. and 7a. 6d. ; or by post for 40 and 100 stamps.— ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. HEALTH WITHOUT MEDICINE. Being the only Sovereign and unfailing Remedy for Indi gestion, Constivation, Nervousness, Debility, Torpidity of the Liver, 11 eadache, Biliousness, Despondency, Low Spirits, Coughs, Asthma, and Incipient Consumption. Full particulars sent to any address on receipt of two stamps, by Mr. KEARSLEY, 23, Kentish town-road, Lon don, N.W. " 'fhe most efficacious remedy for those diseases extant, a boon to the afilicted."—Medical Review. _ _ " This invaluable discovery has at taine 1 a world-wide cele brity, being of inestimable value, and most admirably adapted to remove those maladies which tend to embitter life, and shorten its duration."—Scalpel. " The unprecedented success of this remedy is without parallel ; this is demonstrated by the innumerable cares effected."—Medical JournaL RUPTURES CURED BY CHANDLER'S NEW LEVER TRUSS. It has the following advantages : —No steel spring re quired round the body, is easily applied, does not chafe or excoriate the skin, admits of any kind of exercise being taken, and is imperceptible when worn. Prices —Single, 10s. 6d. and 215., postage ls. ; Double, 21s. and 425., postage 2s. ; sent on receipt of post-office order and size round hips. sure to fit. PILES, PROLAPSES AM, and UTERI instantly re lieved and ultimately cured by some entirely new and very ingenious appliances. Prices from 10s. 6d., sent by post on receipt cf size round hips. ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEECAPS, SURGICAL BELTS, and appliances of every description, with all the latest improvements, and of the best quality, AT CONSIDERABLY REDUCED PRICES. ROUND SHOULDERS, STOOPING HABITS, and DEFORMITIES cured by CHANDLER'S IMPROVED CHEST-EXPANDING BRACES, for both sexes, of all ages. They strengthen the voice and lungs, relieve indiges tion, and are especially recommended to children for assist ing the growth, and for promoting health and symmetry of figure. Price 10a. 6d. All the above instruments are highly recommended by the leading members of the medical profession. Illustrated Catalogues forwarded. MR. H. P. CHANDLER, Surgical Mechanician, 66, Berners-street, Oxford- street, London. W. SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and 110.11 E, Hampstead. Offices, 77, CornhilL PATRON—The QUEEN. TRUSTEES. Capt. the Hon. Francis Maude, The Rev. Canon Champneys R.N I Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. TREASURERS. _ R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. Robert Hanbury, Esq. This Institution is designed to supply a great national want, viz., an asylum for the orphan daughters of sailors in the Royal Navy and Merchants service and of Marines_ It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic service, and provides a home free of expense for former Inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the temptations they might otherwise be exposed to. The Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU TIONS to meet the increasing applications through the recent storms and loss cf life at sea, and o enable them eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000 sailors annually by casualties alone, without including those who may perish by war. Subscriptions thankfully received by the bankers, Messrs Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre tary, at the Of No. 77, Cornhill. R. SWEETING, lion. Sao. CLIARLEO NMI', Sac. • „, • 0 0 ' 7/ 1" , • •••••:- 'N O /7 fig4VW . X , 7 1•• vid -• . • . 11141 : • I t • # )k)4 c45,1[2:y 4 10 1 6' , ' . z . ,;3/r _ET atitt .10 ca` , e AL" ( I* , ' / '04 ,46 ":1 4.1 . 4 p IP THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1865. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTIIOR OF " GRANDMOTHER'S MONEY." On Friday, Dec. 22, in 3 vols., MILL Y'S TIER O. By the Author of " Grandmother's Money." Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. MR. MOENS' NEW NARRATIVE. On Friday, Dec V, in 2 vols., post Svo.. with Portraits and other Illustrations, 21s. bound. FNGLISif TRAVELLERS and ITALIAN A BRIGANDS : A Narrative of Capture and Captivity. By W. C. J. MOENS. Hurst and Blactett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. —SECOND EDITION of HAREM, LIFE; or, the English Governess in Rapt, IS NON' READY at all Libraries and Booksellers, in 2 vols. post Bvo. Richard Bentlay, New Burlington•street. FLORENCE MARRYAT'S NEW NOVEL. On Monday next, In 3 vols., post Bvo., WOMAN AGAINST WOMAN, By FLORENCE MARRYAT. Author of "Love's Conflict," and "Too Good for Him." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. A POST-OFFICE ORDER (Song) may be obtained of Messrs. ROBERT COCKS and CO., New Burlington-street, London, for 16 stamps. - THE LATE KING LEOPOLD.—To — a — p - Frar In a few days, the BEST and most COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY of that lamented Sovereign, translated by special permission from the INDEPENDANCE BELGE, with a Portrait from a Drawing by his late Majesty's special artist. Price Is. 6d. 13, Burleigh-street, Strand, and all Booksellers. D OCTOR MARIGOLD'S PRESCRIPTIONS. TITLE OF THE CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND. Conducted by CHARLES DICKENS. PRESCRIPTIONS. TO BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY. NOT BE BE TAKEN• AT BED-TIME. TO BE TAKEN AT THE DINNER-TABLE, NOT TO BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED. TO BE TAKEN IN WATER. TO BE TAKEN WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, TO BE TAKEN AND TRIED. TO BE TAKEN FOR LIFE. DR. MARIGOLD, 26, Wellington-street, Strand, on and after the 7th instant. ' Published by J. Clements, Little Pulteney-street, price 7d., in cloth 13d., a New Work on the Teeth, entitled PURE DENTISTRY, and WHAT IT DOES FOR US. By A. ES KELL, Surgeon-Dentist, Grosvenor-street, W. "The present may be looked upon in some measure as a popular supplement to the author's former work, 'A Treatise on Dental Surgery and should ly.t perused by those who are troubled with their teeth."—Morning Advertiser, Aug. 31, 1805. Sold by Simpkin and Marshall, and may be had of all book sellers. HYAM and CO.'s OVERCOATS and SUITS. Morning and Lounging Coats, Half Dress, Undress, and Full Dress Suits, Trousers, Vests, ho., in all the fashion. able styles and seasonable materials. HYAM and CO., 66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET, W. 11 YAM and CO.'S PRICES.and GARMENTS. Overcoats and Capes, 21s. to E4s. ; Jackets, 21s. to 425. ; Prince of Wales Coats, 30e. to 635.; Trousers, ready made and to measure, 148.6 d. to 255. ; Vests, 6s. 61. to 218. ; Suits, 425. to 84s. .._,._ HYAM and CO.'S SELECT DEPARTMENTS. No. 1. Clothing for imm, diate wear. No. 2. Ordered Department. No. 3. Boys and Youths. Distinct Depart ment. No. 4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department, HYAIII and CO., 66 and 67, OX FORD- 8 rREET, W. Branch Establishments—Birmingham, Leeds, and Dewsbury COUNTRY lIOTELS and INNS WANTED.— Mr. ST RANSOM begs to call attention of roprietors wishing to dispose of this mass of Property to the facili ties offered by the extensive and free circulation of his MONTHLY LIST, and invites them to forward particulars for imsertion in the next publication, upon the express under etandin„; that no charge will be made unless a purchaser is found through his agency.—Country Hotel Agency Offices, 42, Hart-street, Bloomsbury-square, W.C. DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, , pasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &o. For habitual ;ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier it the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Soott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package. with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. JOHN HARVEY and SON, Ludgate-hill, send PATTERNSot all 0008.' 1 7 Ladies waited upon at home by competent Assistants. Their STOCK is now well assorted in all branches. SILKS, MANTLES, DRESSES, LINENS. TOIIN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOlll PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.—Bull Wharf, Rotherhithe, Lon don. NNOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of the day, AGUA AM AR ELL A. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., Bull Wharf, Ito therhithe, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respect fully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid, which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is 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. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFIUTED AND EXIIIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of HERNI A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, Is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the ;floc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease ,nd closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may oe had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the dr aumference of the body, two Indies below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, 'co OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, E in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail ,4T,rniinus, King's-cross. Patron — Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vise-Patron —His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G President --His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCIL 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 difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 8,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are 'capable of containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, }Alward Mae tervian, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Contts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; H.r.ries and Co. ; Ransom and Cos.. • Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay .;z4 Co. ; W Mauls, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur ney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; I. Barned and Co,, Liverppel s and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. OTAIITPRD MITA Betzetary, J. ani D. NICOLL, Tailors to the H. Queen, Royal Family, and Courts of Europe.— For GENTLEMEN the FASHIONS for the SEASONS, for the promenade or demi-dress—Superfine frock coats, with rich silk breast facings, or morning coats of superfine Melton cloths, the charge for the former being 31 to 41 guineas; for the latter 21 tor 31 guineas. For neglid purposes, morning coats with' pocket flaps at the waist, also the neglige jackets ; those are of Melton, fancy coat ings, Angola and Cheviots, the prices from 255. to 4 guineas. The Angolan and Cheviots are also made in suits, at prices from 2 to 4 guineas; evening dress, black cloth of the finest quality. For Overcoats—Melton, Beaver, and Witney cloths, from 2 to 8 guineas. For young gentlemen from eight years of ago—The morning coat and neglige jacket ; also suits of Angola and Cheviot, the prices according to size, commencing at 31s. 6d. the suit. For boys from four years of age—The Knicker bocker and Highland costume of black velvet, or fine cloth for dress, and of Angolas and Cheviots for morning, the price of the first size Knickerbocker, 1 guinea the suit. For Overcoats—Melton, Beaver, and Witney cloths, from Ito 2 guineas each. Foreigners and visitors to London, Manchester, and Liverpool will find at Messrs. Nicholl's garments ready for immediate use, or made at a few hours' notice.—H. J. and D. Nicoll, 114, 116, 118, 120, Regent street; 22, Cornhill, London; 10, Mosley-street, Man chester; and 50, Bold-street, Liverpool. JDEFRIES and SONS beg to call the special ey • attention of Merchants and the Trade to their NEW PATENT ASTRA BURNER, With Circular Wick, which for simplicity of construction, great brilliancy of light, perfect combustion, and its entire freedom from heat, sur passes everything that has yet been introduced. ASTRA LAMPS can be obtained from the METROPOLITAN LIGHT COMPANY, 417, Strand, and from all Ironmongers and Lamp War( houses in Town and Country ; and the Patentee, 16 and 17, Commercial street, WhitechapeL A STRA, PETROLEUM, and KEROSINE LAMPS on SHOW,(New Designs.) ASTRA (Patent) OIL. for MINERAL VTRA LAM P.—Five Hundred NEW PATTERNS for the Season now on Show. TABLE GLASS, ENGRAVED AND CUT. T DEFRIES and SONS, ti• 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS. Newest Patterns, Correct Measure. JDEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES, For 12 Persons, X 1 18s. 6d. BREAKFAST 'and TEA SERVICES in great variety, £lls. DEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS, In the Grecian and Venetian Designs. JDEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-ST REET. BRONZED AND ORMOLU CHANDELIERS, New designs, for the Dining-room. JDEFRIES and S ONS, . 18 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL LAMPS AND WALL LIGHTS (Registered) for India. JDEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CLUB, MESS, AND FURNISHING ORDERS for the above Goods promptly executed. Works —LONDON and BIRMINGHAM. JDEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. DEFRIES and SONS tJ • Supply Merchants with Pattern Books Free. DEFRIES and SONS' TEMPORARY SHOW ROOMS. 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET, WHITEC ITAPEL, Five Minutes' walk from the Late Establishment, 147, HOUNDSDITCII. WINTER OVER-COATS of the BEST MATERIALS and LATEST STILE, at fair prices, at HAMILTON AND KIMPTON'S, TAILORS AND OVER-COAT MAKERS, 105, Strand (opposite Exeter Hall). TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY. Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON DIOSELY and SONS, Demists, 30, Demers-street, Oxtord-street, and 948, Strand, Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station. Their painless artificial teeth are unequalled for economy, durability, comfort, and all purposes of articulation and mas tication. Operations of every kind being unnecessary, the most nervous patient can be supplied without fear of pain or inconvenience. Consultation free. Teeth from ss, Sets from 5 to 25 gs., warranted. For the efficacy, utility, and success of their system, vide " Lancet." Daily attendance at 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand, London ; 15, Whitefriargato, Hull ; 10, Norfolk street, Sheffield ; 4, East-parade, Leeds ; and 14, St. Nicholas street, Scarbro'. Observe—Established 1830. No connection with any of the same name. CIIOCOLATE.-MENIER'S FRENCH. CHOCOLAT-MENIER, for Breakfast. OHOCOLAT-ATENIER is pure, wholesome, and - delicious. MENIER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE. Warehouse, 23, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. Sold everywhere. D R. CULVERIVELL'S GRAND TURKISH BATHS, 3, Great Marlborough-street, 3 doors from Poland-street, Ladies every Monday. Gentlemen all other days, 2s. each ; 15. One Guinea. Also opposite the Pest-office, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN EFFECTUAL ItEMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ao_ mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Preparea on,y and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-William-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 130., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular. and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address are engraved on the stamp. DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. The medical profe4lon for Thirty years have approved of this pure solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for Gout and stomach disorders of every kird ; and as a mild aperient it is esrecially adapted for ladies ant children. Prrpared solely by DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, &C., 172, New Bond-street, London ; And sold throughtut the world by all respectable chemists. CAUTION.—See that " Dlnnetord and Co." is on each bottle and red label over the cork. NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. DU BARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids' and Infants' Food, THE REVALENTA ARABICA, yields three times as much assimilating and strengthening nourishment as the best meat. and restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled—removing speedily and effectually indigestion Mat epsial, cough, asthma„ consumption, habitual constipa tion, diarrheas, all gastric derangements, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, erruptions, hFsteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpi tation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, 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 diges tible of all foods, and suitable for invalids and infants in all Oomplaiats. We quote a few out of 62,000 Cures : —Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, irritability, with a ner vous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleepless ness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation. 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, county Waterford. Cure No. 54,816, from the Rev. James T. Campbell, Syder stone Rectory, near Fakenham, Norfolk—ln ell cases of in digestion, and particularly when the liver is more than usually affected, I consider it the best of all remedies. It re gulates the bile, and makes it flow in cases which would not admit of mercury in any shape, in short, a healthy flow of the bile is one of its earliest and best symptoms. You can make what use you please of this communication.— I am, gentlemen, James T. Campbell. Cure No. 52,422. —Bridge House, Frimley, Surrey.—Thirty-three years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, deafness, singing in the haveip, debility, shortness of breath, and cough, been removed by your Revalenta Arabica. My lungs, liver, stomach, bead, and ears are all right, my hear ing perfect, and my recovery is a mar,•el to all my acquaint ances.—James Roberts, Timber Merchant. Cure No. 49,8)2. n O e f sfifty asthma, years ' cough,inde r constipation,i ba h agony from flatulency, dy dyspepsia , p o s r i iab, spasms, n k er vta rssick ness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly, of Lynn, , e No .47,121.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, C E a u d r l e g e N s o t 0 5 n 6:8 g 14 a . h r r i n . g 6 s a , m l u o e w i Laxto n spirits, and .Leie n e s te e r t , nervous ut two o fancies. yea r years' diarrrcca. The Food is sold in canisters, 11b., 2s 9d; 21b., 4s 6d ; ,21b., 21s. ; 241 b., 40s. Super-refined quality, Ilb., 6s, ; 21b., '2s ; 51b., 22s ; 335. The 101 b., 21b., and 241 b. canisters, carriage free on receipt of Post-Office Order, by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; also Phillips, Tea Dealers, 8. :r l p i oe i t n ot te g ant l h 'ir l a i e i -r a co m ocue - rr s t t i: r ra e o e : t da ; c; li gli k oe e ,ra fi N u y p s t e poe. a l t_ 61, Grace 'hurch- street ; 4, Cheapside, 49, Bishopsgate-street Within ; 63, 150, and u 29B arv , e o y xf , N or o d tt - i s n t g re - e h t i : l ; 33 C 0 1 , 08 S e tr E a r n o d th ; e 5 r 4 s: Upper Baker-street; w str o p o e d t , , L ls o l n in do g a to ; n a , n N d . a : 65, Vigh-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's :l°43;e Beware 91 0P11T1999 imitations. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. .~..p _ __ Tim Es. —The question of Reform seems to have at last revived. There have been so many attempts at resuscitation which turned out utter failures that one cannot be quite sure even now, and, perhaps, a twelvemonth hence may smile at even this cautious announcement. It is the duty of a Parliament, and therefore of those who reform Parliament, to govern the country as much as possible in accordance with its natural genius and spontaneous growth. Any body who combines knowledge of the world with some reading of our history will be able to make a shrewd guess as to the fate of a revolutionary measure designed to alter the natural relations of our classes, should it ever become law. England wrenched by too sudden and too violent an effort from its natural bent would soon burst the iron band and snap the twisted cord, and be as it was before. We all stand as we are to those about us in spite of ourselves. We cannot help our de ference, or our habits of command ; we could not shake off our associations if we pleased ; and even if revolution went so far as to strip us of our wealth, uproot us from our positions, and separate families and friends, it would soon find that it had to banish and exterminate if it would finish its work. France never had either such a Constitution, or such sharply defined distinctions of classes as we have ; but a whole century of revolutions, robberies, massacres, expulsions, changes of Government and dynasty wars, and empire have not so much changed as mutilated that country, depriving it of its nobility and old race of Kings, without making the people more free, more self-governing, or at all better politicians. It is unnecessary either to praise or to criticise the existing order of things or the existing state of society. Few people are entirely satisfied with either their own position or the prospect around them. Another ideal has been imprinted on their minds by their reading, by their fancies, or their own natural aspira tions. It is enough that the existing state of things does exist, and cannot be altered in a day. It ought to be represented faithfully in the main by the Government which pretends to conduct its common affairs and to be its public expression. Such a Government ought, of course, to consist of selected elements, and to have an upward tendency ; but it ought, in the main, to be a reflex, a concen trated ray, and a true exponent of the whole people, as they actually are, with all their varieties of class, power, and character. When a Govern ment ceases to be such a representation of the people there is a palpable divergence of character, opinions, and action. Such a divergence we cannot say that there is just now, but we have to look for wards, and we see that it may present itself at a time less favourable for readjustment and reform than the present. POST.—The Message which the President of the United States has addressed to Congress is evidently intended to be a State paper of no ordinary kind. The Republic has just escaped from dangers which threatened its continued existence, and its Chief Magistrate in the manifesto just issued places on record such an enunciation of the political prin ciples upon which it is based as may for all future time prevent any one raising a sacrilegious hand against the edifice. Whatever doubts may have hitherto existed as to the precise constitution of the great American Republic are now finally set at rest, and henceforth those who are desirous of ascertaining the rights, powers, duties, and obli gations, either of the several States which con stitute the league, or of the various individuals of whom the population of each of those States is composed, must interpret the American constitution by the aid of the key which is furnished by Mr. Johnson's Message. As a piece of statecraft the publication of this manifesto must be admitted to be unexceptionable. Whether it is for the interests of the American nation or of mankind that the Union should be indissoluble, and that none of those States which have joined, or shall hereafter join, the confederation should possess the right of with drawing from it, may be a point on which opinions possibly differ ; but no one can blame those who regard the perpetuation of the republic as an un mixed good for taking every precaution to secure so desirable an end. Mr. Johnson and his advisers, therefore, need no justification for putting their own gloss on the American constitution, and for esta blishing for the future a test which in times of doubt and difficulty may be successfully appealed to. H LONDON :REVIEW" ON JAMAICA.—That this country has been profoundly affected by the executions in Jamaica, no one who takes even the most cursory glance at the newspaper reports can doubt ; and there is just as little doubt that if there ever was an occasion which justified public meetings, addresses to the Government, and appeals to the country, such an occasion is to be found in this Jamaica business. We have been very loth indeed to form a hasty judgment of men who, finding themselves confronted with what at all events ap peared to be a great danger, may possibly in their eagerness to stamp it out, have committed excesses which they themselves, upon reflection, would be as willing to deplore as we are. On the contrary, we have urged their claim to a patient and considerate hearing, and we do not think that any one in Eng land, judging their conduct dispassionately, and capable of forming a candid and intelligent opinion of it, would deny that the atrocities committed by the negroes at Morant Bay, if they could be coupled with evidence leading to the belief that a general rising of the blacks was contemplated, were quite sufficient to extenuate, if not wholly to justify, a resort to measures of repression which, upon a calm retrospect of the pos4ion of affairs,• might still be held to have been too severe. But so far as the evi dence which has reached us enables us to form an opinion, we cannot resist the conclusion that it is not a mere excess of just severity which is to be charged to Governor Eyre and those who acted under his authority. The example of atrocity set by the blacks has been " bettered" by the race which claims a superior humanity, civilization, intelligence, and self command ; and it is for the latter to show that they stood in the presence of a danger so great and so imminent that nothing short of the bloody fero city with which they confronted it could have saved them and the white population whom they pro tected from being overwhelmed by the alleged re bellion. As yet we have no evidence of such a state of things. We only know that for a savage onslaught of the blacks, retribution vastly in excess of the provocation given was taken by the whites. Hundreds of the former were made to expiate the murder of units of the latter. And in executing this horrible retribution there was exhibited such a coolness in bloodshed, such a devilish rioting of delight in the tatting and hanging of the " niggers," that if the surviving blacks should retain any traces of civilisation, it will be in spite of the example of savagery which has been set them by the whites. The Loss of the Barque Mary Nicholson. British Consulate, Batavia, Sept. 30, 1865. Sir,—l have the honour to wait upon you with the minutes of a naval court held at this Consulate on the 2d inst., in order to examine into the circum stances attending the loss of the English barque Mary Nicholson, of Sydney, James Meredith, master, in Bali Straits. It appears therefrom that the said vessel was too hastily abandoned, and that the master has subjected himself to severe censure. —I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, JAMES WLACHLAN, H.B.M. Consul. We, the undersigned, give it as our opinion that the evidence of the captain and chief mate entirely conflicts with that of the second mate and crew in almost every particular, more especially a s to the depth of water in the ship when she was abandoned. We also consider that after lying a short distance from the vessel for eight or ten hours after her abandonment, and then seeing her still afloat, in the interest of the owners of ship and cargo, or the underwriters, it was the captain's duty to have re turned to the ship in order to see if means were possible to take her into a port. As a leading wind soon sprung up, we consider this was quite possible. There is no evidence to show that the vessel had become waterlogged beyond the captain's simple statement, formed eight or ten hours after leaving the ship, and at the distance of a mile ; and, from the nature of the cargo, we do not think it probable that the ship could have been in :that con dition ; but, in any case, the captain should have made sure of it, as a return was so easy. It is our opinion that the captain abandoned the vessel too hastily, and that before doing so it would have been his duty to exhort the crew to try and bring her to a port of safety. At the same time he ought to have consulted both officers, and certainly the crew, as to the urgent necessity of abandoning the Mary Nicholson before taking such a decisive step ; and we consider him guilty of very great neglect in having acted in the manner he did, and subject to severe censure. J. WLACHLAN, H.B.M. Consul, President. P. W. AUCHLNEOSS, Manager of the Borneo Company (Limited). • P. LANDBERZ. JQUI SIMPSON, Mader ship Three Bells. Vew City Traffic Regulation Bill. On Saturday the new bill which is being pro moted by the Corporation of London for the better regulation of the traffic of the city was printed and put in circulation by the authorities at Guildhall. It has been prepared by the City Remembrancer and Solicitor, with the assistance of Colonel Fraser, the City Commissioner of Police, and Mr. Oke, the chief clerk to the Lord Mayor. The preamble re cites that it is expedient that better provision than now exists should be made for the regulation of the traffic of the city of London so as to prevent ob structions, and so that it maybe conducted with less delay and in a safer manner than at present. It also recites that for these purposes it has becomenecessary to amend the City Police Act, passed upwards of 25 years ago. The bill first of all repeals the City Traffic Regulation Act of 1863, which has proved a failure, so far as there has been any very perceptible relief to the traffic or any greater safety to life and limb. That act, however, and the by-laws made under it by the Court of Aldermen are to remain in force until the new bill comes into operation, if it should pass into a law. It then empowers the Lord Mayor and aldermen to make b , timey-laws th t e o y time, may with respect to the city such think necessary or expedient—first, for regulating the routes to be followed and the particular streets or parts of streets to be used by all or any of the omnibuses, metropolitan stage carriages, vans, and other carriages licensed for the conveyance of pas sengers ; second, for regulating the height and width to which carts, waggons, drays, and other vehicles for the conveyance of goods, wares, and merchan dise, traversing the streets between nine in the morning and six in the evening, may be laden, and for regulating the breadth between the outsides of the wheels; third, for determining the periods of the day between which vehicles conveying goods, wares, and merchandise may stop in any street to be laden or unladen, and the time during which they may remain for such purposes ; fourth, for regulating the manner in which barrows, trucks, handcarts, and the like, may be driven, pushed, or wheeled through any street or part of a street, and the particular streets or parts of streets, and the particular time or part of the day, in which they may be allowed to pass or to stand or remain, or be prohibited from standing or passing. Also for regulating the mode in which cabs or hackney car riages shall be distinguished when hired and when not hired ; for determining the time of day during which coals and beer may be delivered ; for regu lating the rate at which vans may be driven through specified streets, and generally for preventing ob structions in the streets. The byelaws may be varied, altered, and repealed as the Court of Alder men may consider expedient ; and every person offending against them is to be liable to a penalty of not more than £5 for every such offence. The bylaws, however, are not to be enforced until con firmed by a principal Secretary of State, who is empowered to suggest alterations in them. No by law is to be submitted for such approval until one month after the intention to apply for such approval shall have been duly advertised. The bye-laws when so made and approved are also to be properly ad vertised and posted at the Mansion-house, the Guild hall, the Royal Exchange, and other public places. By the bill there are to be no loads driven through the streets with more than four horses between 9 in the morning and 6 in the evening, no locomotive, between 6 in the morning and 10 at night, no tim ber or other articles exceeding a certain size between 9in the morning and 6in the evening. Each of these offences is punishable by a fine of not more than £5. Again, every person will render himself liable to a like fine who shall drive or conduct any covered or tilted cart, van, or waggon through the streets unless the horse or horses are led or driven from a box, or, if driven from the inside, unless the vehicle be so constructed as to enable the driver to see into the street laterally as well as in front of him. Above all, every person under the age of 14 is to be expressly prohi bited from having the temporary charge of a waggon, cart, or carriage, and the animal draw ing the same in a street, the penalty in this case being leviable on the person intrusting the charge to another of less than that age. Again, persons under 20 years of age are not to be allowed to drive vehicles drawn by more than one horse ; and per sons under 16 are prohibited from driving at all ; the penalties in these cases falling upon the owners who may offend against the law. Various kinds of defined obstructions on footways are also prohibited, under penalties, as is also the placing a flower-pot or box, or other matter or thing, in any upper win dow without sufficiently guarding it from being blown or thrown down. The City Commissioner of Police is likewise, with the consent of the Court of ' Aldermen, empowered to license street shoe blacks and commissionaires or messengers to exercise their calling in the city, and to appoint places at which they may stand. There is a most important and entirely novel pro vision in the bill,—namely, that empowering the City Commissioners of Sewers, with the consent of the Court of Common Council, to construct bridges and subways for the accommodation of the foot passengers at crossings or intersections of streets, wherever they may think such accommodation is required, and to purchase houses or land for the purpose of forming the necessary approaches ; and to defray the costs of such bridges, subways, and purchases out of the consolidated rate. Of late there have been several fatal accidents, as there have often been before, at crossings in various parts of the city, and the danger at such places to life and limb appears to be greater than ever. At the last sessions of the Central Criminal Court the grand jury made it the subject of a special presentment to the judges, and dwelt upon the reckless manner in which vans, waggons, and cabs were often driven, to the common danger of foot passengers. The hum of approbation which the reading of the document elicited from the people in court showed how generally the evil is understood and felt. Again, on last Lord Mayor's day, when the present chief magistrate of the city was presented to the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, the Lord Chief Baron made this a prominent topic in his address to the civic authorities from the bench, and mentioned the remarkable fact, on au thority, i n the course of a single year, taking oney th ar at with another, the accidents which result in death and injury and loss of power and utility in the streets of London alone exceed those on all the railways in England put together. With bridges and subways at dangerous crossings, and with the manifold regulations prescribed under penalties by the bill under consideration for driving in the public streets, especially that prohibiting driving by young persons, the city authorities may in time rid themselves of the reproach implied in the statement of Chief Baron Pollock, and the lives of the citizens be guarded from the danger to which they are now exposed from the cause in question. It may be added, as showing how much the cor poration is now alive to these matters, that Mr. Alderman Stone, the chairman of the Police Com mittee, has now a motion before the Court of Com mon Council to increase the city police by 50 addi tional men, at an annual cost of £3,300, in order the better to cope with the present exigencies of the traffic. lIYAM and CO., 66 and 87, OXFORD-STREET, W. HYAM and CO.'S BOYS' SUITS and CAPES. 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On Saturday the members of the Metropolitan Board of Works, headed by Sir John Thwaites, the chairman, paid a visit to the spot on the Plaistow Marshes where the river Lea passes through the Abbey Mills. The purpose of the visit was to per form an important publicact in connection with the great main drainage works of the metropolis, namely, the laying of the foundation-stone of the Abbey-mills pumping station—a building which is to rival the works at Crossness, and in which will be ~.e~~ the means of raising the sewage of the low level of London to the great high and middle level sewers. On arriving on the ground the party immediately descended into what appeared to be the bowels of the earth, some forty feet below the surface of the ground, and twelve below the bed of the river Lea. In descending some steaming stones and rubbish attracted attention, and on inquiry it turned out that the material—gravel and peat—excavated at this depth was really quite hot, as hot indeed as if boiling water had been poured upon it, and the large stones retained their heat for a considerable time after being brought to the surface. The company passed through some of the completed sewer, which in its length of five miles from the Tower, has to go under two branches of the Lea and under the river itself. The subterranean passage, which is about 12 feet high, was most brilliantly lighted, and led to the site of the station, and if the plans may be taken as any guide, it will be a building as handsome as it will be useful. Sir JOHN THWAITES opened the formal proceed ings of the day by requesting Mr. Robert Freeman the deputy chairman of the main drainage commit tee, to lay the stone, a task which, he said, was not offered in idle compliment. Mr. BAZALGETTE, the engineer, read a statement, which was engrossed for insertion in the stone, showing that the sewer, of which this was the mouth, would drain 25i square miles, and would have to raise about 5,000,000 cubic feet of sewage a day, and that the engine power, about 1,140 horse, was pro vided for the raising of 15,000 cubic feet per minute, so that all storm rains could be safely carried off. Mr. FREEMAN then, amid loud cheers, laid the stone, and in an address which he made to the as semblage thanked Sir John Thwaites for the honour conferred on the board in having this pleasing duty handed over to one of the general body of members. He went on to show the great good which the com pletion of the work would bestow upon the people of the metropolis, in giving them a purified air to live in, and so aiding them in attaining good health. Cheers were then given for Mr. Webster, the con tractor, for Sir John Thwaites, Mr. Bazalgette, and finally for the skilled labour which would carry out the work—an honour which the workmen so appre ciated that they heartily cheered the members of the board in return. The works, which are of the most solid character, are being carried out under Mr. Edmund Cooper, the resident engineer. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.--Dec. 16. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—LEEns, Dec. 16. (Before Mr. Justice Slice.) John Cuddy was charged with violently assault ing William Eley and stealing from his person a watch. The peculiarity of this case was that the prisoner was almost blind. The prosecutor stated that on. the 7th of last October, while on his way to Brad ford, he met the prisoner, and inquired of him the way. The prisoner said he would show him a shorter way, and actually led him across some fields. After going some distance the prosecutor stated that the prisoner knocked him down, put his knee on his breast, and snatched his watch from him. The same day the prisoner pledged the watch, and when he was apprehended the pawn ticket was found on him. He did not deny being with the pro secutor on the day in question, but stated that the prosecutor had sold the watch to him for 2s. 6d. - The prisoner called Mr. Davison, house surgeon to the Bradford Infirmary, who stated that in August last he had examined the prisoner's eyes, and found that he was suffering from catarrh in both of them, in consequence of which he was almost blind. The jury found the prisoner guilty. His Lordship sentenced him to 12 months' impri sonment with hard labour. John Craven was charged with forging and utter ing a certain acceptance on a bill of exchange for £B5 75., knowing it to have been forged, with intent to defraud. Mr. Wheelhouse prosecuted ; Mr. Campbell Foster defended the prisoner. The prosecutor, a Mr. William Sowden, was an innkeeper at Stanningley. The prisoner carried on business at Thornhill, with his father and brother, under the style of Abraham Craven and Sons, builders and contractors. At the latter end of September the prisoner brought to Mr. Sowd en the following bill to be discounted :-- " £Bs7s. " Leeds, Aug. 24, 1865. " Three months after date pay to our order the sum of £B5 75., value received. " ABRAHAM CRAVEN AND SONS. " Mr. Joseph Child, stonedealer, Calverley, Leeds." And across the bill was written "Accepted. Pay able at Smith, Payne, and Smith's, bankers, Lon don. Joseph Child. " _ _ _ _ Mr. Snowden asked the prisoner "if it was the acceptance of Joseph Child." The prisoner said "it was." It appeared that before this Mr. Snow den had discounted a bill accepted by Child for the prisoner. This bill had been returned. Mr. Snow den therefore requested the prisoner to make inqui ries, and told him that he would not discount it un less the prisoner promised to see Child before the bill became due. The prisoner promised he would. Upon which Mr. Sowden discounted the bill, giving the prisoner the full value of the bill less 30s. dis count. During the currency of the bill Mr. Sowden, on Oct. 19, wrote to Mr. Child about his acceptance. Mr. Child on the 21st replied that he knew nothing about the bill and that it was not his. Mr. Child was called, and stated that it was not his acceptance, and that he had given no authority to any one to sign his name. The prisoner when he was appre hended in answer to the charge stated "It is nothing more than I expected. If my brother-in law goes against me I shall be done." The defence set up, and which was supported by whatwas admitted on cross-examination,was shortly this :—Abraham Craven, the father of the prisoner, was the collector of rates to the parish, and Child, who was the brother-in-law to the prisoner, was his surety. Abraham was in difficulties, and some time before the 19th of October became bankrupt, and Child when he wrote the letter of the 21st knew that be was. Child appeared to have con sulted with the father about this bill, and had told him that " he feared the Bankruptcy Court would take all that there was to meet the bill." It was attempted to prove that the proceeds of the bill went in payment of the rates. If the rates had not been paid by the father the parish would have come upon Child for the amount. It was contended . that the money therefore was paid in direct relief of . Child's liability ; that the prisoner accepted the bill the name of Child, believing tha t he had Child's autho rity, a prior bill having been accepted by Child f or the purpose of enabling the father to me e t hi s lia bilities on the audit day. It was contended that the prisoner had no intention to defraud. The jury retired, and after an absence of half an hour returned a verdict of gu ilt y. His Lordship sentenced the prisoner tols months' imprisonment. Matthew Mounsey and Geo. Poole were charged with arson. Mounsey pleaded guilty. Mr. Whitaker prosecuted ; the prisoners were not defended. It appears that the prisoners, who are two little boys of seven and eight years ld, were seen on the 11th of last November going down a lane in the direction of a haystack belonging to the prosecutor. Each of them carried a wisp of straw, and one of them told a witness that they were going to set something on fire. Shortly afterwards the stack was found to be on fire, and the prisoners were seen running away. When they were apprehended the prisoner Poole said that " Mounsey set the stack on fire, while he (Poole) p ro t ec t e d th e ma t c h from the wind with his coat." The jury found the prisoner Poole guilty, but recommended him to mercy on account of his youth. His Lordship sentenced both prisoners to a week's imprisonment, remarking that as he was informed that their parents were highly respectable persons he trusted that it would be better for them to be restored to their parents than to be placed in a reformatory. Mr. Campbell Foster sat as Commissioner to-day to assist his lordship in trying prisoners. JIOME CIRCUIT.—MAID STONE , D ec . 16. Mr. Justice Mellor arrived in this town on Satur day afternoon, and immedi a t e l y procee d e d to open the commission for the Wi n t er A ss i ze . The calen dar is exceedingly heavy, there being no less than 36 prisoners for trial. The offences also with which they are charged are of a very heinous nature. There are cases of murder—one that of Stephen Forwood, alias Ernest Walter Southey, who is charged with the wilful murder of Mary Ann Jemima Forwood, and also with that of Emily Sarah Frances Forwood, on the 10th of August last ; the other is that of Sarah Eliza Drew, who is committed to take her tria l for the murder of her infant child at Gillingham on the Bth of last September. The remaining offences are not only numerous, but also of a very. heinous character. Altogether the present calendar is one of the heaviest known for some years past , and in all probability the business will extend over a considerable portion of the week. The Court will sit this morning (Monday) at 10 o'clock,