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LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROOl.l for Gentlemen. Remember, we wait for you at EVANS' after the Covent-garden Pantomime and the Theatres. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. - DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 18ft5. T his celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It i 3 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. the in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by Lue Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1866. N ° . 22,962. PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded liinahan's LL Whisky." --__ EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS DE B ENTITHE LOAN. The SUBSCRIPTION LIST of the Egyptian G overnment _Railways Debenture Loan will be CLOSED for London and the Country on MONDAY, the 22d inst., at Twelve o'clock, and for the Continent. on TUESDAY, the 23d inst., at Twelve o'clock, after which no application will be received. suppose to be $585,000,000, so that the debt may be con sidered as paid in that year by starting with $100,000,000 in 1867. Thus in . twelveyears the nation can be libe- rated. But the statistician says that the Secretary is fully $100,000,000 below the safe estimate of revenue for 1867. We will suppose that the true figures are thus averaged between. him and them, and that $150,000,000 can be ap plied on the debt in 1867, without any increase in tax ation ; we shall then have the following table of pay- 4IJTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION {lncorporated by Act of Parliament, 1850), 11, I tUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON. DVANCES MONEY on Personal Security, Bills of Sale, e reehold or beneficial Leasehold eroperty, without inquiry or any deduction whatever, for periods of one, two, or three years, repayable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills "counted. The greatest secrecy observed. Advances also Insade tords the Purchase of a louse, repayible in 5, 10, or Years- Forms free on application, or receipt of a stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTLIARIDES OIL, which speedily p r oduces whiisters and thickens hair. 3s. 6d, ss: 6:1., and 108. ftl..; Bent free for 54, 84, and 144 stumps.—AL EX. ROSS, 248, '''Fifb Holborn, London. • ONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured I.lf in one dty by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. ' 8 Preparation gradually dissolves the corn in a tew hours, removinge the very root. Price 4s , sent by post for 60 stamps. '-248 High Holborn, London. gAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLIN w G FLUID ols a dies' or Gentl emen ' s h a ir i mme diately it Is applied. Sold 3 8. 6d., 58. 6d., and 10s. 6d. ; sent free for 54, 84, and 144 GPs. Ross's Toilet Magazine, Is. 6d., or 20 stamps. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour ruMediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na oLiral in effeJt. Price 3s. ed. ss. 6J.. and 103. Ocl. ; sent by Post for 54, 14, and 144 stamps. iFIAIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX.'ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes Without effect to the skin. superfluous hair from the face Cr 4 and arms. 3s. 6d., Is. 6d.. and 10s. 63. ; sent the same as ordered by post for 54, 81, and 144 stamps. Lately published, Id., sent free bv post for two stamps, .N ESSAY upon the HUMAN HAIR : Its the Clos e Analogy to Vegetation, and its Reproduction by Stimulaut Spanish Fly or Cantharides.—By ALEX. "JSS, 248, lll.l Holborn. Lo ndon. prupLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin TA B , aje improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE ate. - ` l r- , SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness, A ,. _2B. ROS S, ad 81; Holborn, ost for 40 and 100 stamps.- 248, High London. Freehold Land in the City of London, containing an area of 40,690 square feet, and comprising the frontage in Bridge -street and Farringdon-street, from Ludgate-hill to within a few yards of New Earl-street, and from Ludgate -hill to Fleet-lane ; 11 - 18 0, the Freehold of Clemitt's Inn-yard and Stables, Old 4 13 aileY ; the Parrot Public-house and five Messuages ad joining, the whole containing an area of about 11,500 superficial feet ; OR SALE, by AUCTION, by Mr. VIGERS, at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishopsgate-street, on TUESDAY, the 27th February, at Twelve for One o'clock, Unless previously disposed of by priate contract. Bor- der of the directors of o the London, v Chatham, and Dover ilway CoMpany.—Particulars, with plans and condi dons of sale, may be had of Messrs. Freshfields and New man, 5, Bank Buildings, Lothbury ; at the Estate Ex change, Change-alley, Cornhill ; the London Tavern ; and of Mr. Vigers, 3, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. Fourth Salo of Surplus Lands of the London, Chathan and Dover Railway Company, viz. :- 21 1 0 00 feet of Freehold Land at the corner of Southwark street and the Blackfriars-road, with the buildings now standin g thereon ; 6 ,000 fe e t of Freehold Land at the corner of Charlotte street and Gravel-lane, with the use of the Arches ad ,. joinin g ; °OW feet of Freehold Land at the corner of Robert-street __mid Union-place, Blackfriars-road 0 ,00 feet of Freehold Land, with the Buildings thereon, in Bear-lane, Southwark, and a lease in perpetuity of th e six Arches with entrance from Union-place and G eorge -street ; Freehold Premises at the corner of Green-street and Friar ...street, in the occupation of Messrs. Rice ; o F r r t e h e_h ro o a ld d . Messuages and Shops in Crown-row, Wal - Plot of Freehold Building Land, with a frontage of 375 feet, faci ng th e El ep h ant an d C as tl e St a tion ; ' eft s% in perpetuity of fourteen arches between the Wal , 'worth -road and New Kent-road 4 - F r eehold Messuage and Shop . and a Plot of Freehold Laud in Cold Harbour-lane, Brixton ; 41-Freehold Residence known as The Abbey, Herne-hill, w ith Ornamental Grounds, Stables, and Coach-houses, hs ose to the Railway Station ; Acres of Freehold Building Landextending from Cold H arbour -lane, Brixton, to the Herne-hill Station. Plot of F ree h o ld B u ildi ng L an d, f orm i ng the c orner of the Barrington and Gresham-roads, Brixton, with use of Railway Arches adjoining; A Freehold House with Grounds in Gresham-road, Brixton; A Plot of Freehold Land adjoining, and a Lease in per- Petuit of Eiht Arches ; Leaseh y old Regsidence with Grounds, No. 7, Percy Villas, Barrington -road, Brixton. Freehold Residence with Grounds, known as Halnaker Lodge and the Freehold of Walton Lodge and Grounds, Cold Aarbour-lane Brixton A Lea se i n perpetuity of Fifteen Arches between the Can terbury -road and Brixton Station ; VOR SALE by AUCTION by Mr. VIGERS, at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishopsgate-street, on ,J 2 UESDAY, the 27th February, at Twelve for One o'clock In Lots. By order of the directors. —Particulars, with Nails and conditions of sale, may be had of Messrs. Fresh fields and Newman, 5, Bank-buildings, Lothbury •, at the Estate Exchange, Change-alley, Cornhill ; the London T a vern ; and of Mr. Vigers, 3, Frederick's-place, Old oWry. First portion of the surplus Property of the Crystal Palace A,,and South London Junction Railway Company, viz.:— -4.118 Freehold of Nazareth House and Grounds: Two Messuages, with Gardens, and about 3i acres of Land, in the Gordon-road, Peckam ; About an acre of Freehold Land, with a frontage of 750 feet, at Nunhead, close to the Railway Station; Ten acres of Freehold Land, and Five Leasehold Resi dences, at Forest-hill, close to the Honour Oak Station ; Pour Freehold Residences, in Wood-lane, Dulwich, near to the Lordship's-lane Station ; The Lease of a piece of Ornamental Garden Ground, with frontage on the Well-road and Sydenham-hill ; Three Leasehold Houses, with large Gardens, Stables, and Coach-h ouse s, known as the Dingle, Berkoly Lodge, and Bellmont House, Sydenham-hill (Crystal Palace elad_), let at rents amounting to £4BO per annum ; ...he Freehold of a large House and Grounds, with Stable and Coach-house, close to the Crystal Palace and the A Railway. Station ; Plot of Freehold Land, forming the corner of Sydenham- A •". hill and the Pene New-road ; Leasehold H ouse g and Grounds, at the corner of the New road, leading from the Crystal Palace to Dulwich, and near to the railway station ; A Valuable Plot of Freehold Building Land, between the Woodman Tavern and the Woodland-road, Upper Nor wood, close to the High Level Station; VOR SALE, by AUCTION, by Mr. VIGERS, at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishopgate-street, on TUESDAY, the 27th of February, 1866, at Twelve for One o'clo c k, in lots, by order of the directors.—Particulars, with plans and con ditions of sale, may be had of Messrs. Ereshfields and Newman, solicitors, 5. Bank-buildings, 44otlibury ; at the London Tavern ; the Estate Exchange, Change -alley, Comhill ; and of Mr. Vigers, 8, Frederick's- Plate, Old Jewry. NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. 11).0 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 diges tion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing Sl eep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disor dered or enfeebled—removing speedily and effectually in digestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, consumption, ha bitual constipation, diarrhcea, all gastric derangements, h emorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervous ness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrh; colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rh euma ti sm, gou t , i m p ur iti e s, e ruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, Palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, ; , s pasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness -of the chest, pains in the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is the most digestible of all foods and suitable for in valids and infants in all complaints. We quote a few out of 62,000 Cures:—Cure No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver com plaint, wasting away, debility, with nervousness, irritability, a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, con stant sleeplessness, 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, Syderstone Rectory, near Fakenham, Nor folk. In all cases of indigestion, and particularly when the liver is more than usually affected, 1 consider it the best of all remedies. It regulates 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 the earliest and best symptoms. You can make what use you please of this communication.—l am, gentlemen, James T. Campbell. Cure No. 52,422. —Bridge House, Prim le Y, Surrey : —Thirty-three years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, deafness, singing in the ears, constipation, debility, shortness of breath, and cough, have been removed by your Revalenta Arabica. My lungs, liver, stomach, head, and ears are all right, my hear ing perfect, and my recovery is a marvel to all my acquaint ances.— James Robertg, TimborMerchant. Cure No. 49 , 832 . Of fifty y ears ' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervous ness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sick ness, and vomiting. —Maria Joly, of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure N 0.47,121.— Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, i ndigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 56,814.—Mr. S aml. L ax t on , L e i ce ster, of two years' diarrhoea. The food is sold in canisters, 11b. 2s 9d ; 21b., 48..6d. ,• 121 b., 21 s . ; 241 b., 40 s. S uper-re fi ne d qua lit y, 11b., s• ; 21b., 128. ; 51b., 22 5 . ; 101 b., 33 5. Th e 101 b., 121 b., an d 41b, canisters, carriage free on receipt of Post-office Order, by Barry Du Barry andiCo., 77. Regent-street, London ; also Phillips, Tea Dealers, 8, King William-street ; like wise at 65, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Ch ea p s id e ; 49, Bishops gate-street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand; 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham-court road ; 96, Upper-street, Islington N.; Harvey, Notting-hill ; Close Brothers, 65, High-street; and Stubbs, Queen's terrace, St. John's -wood London ; and all respectable Grocers and Chemists.—Beware of spurious imitations. 3g. id in Price One Shilling, sewed in wrapper, A NIGHT IN A WORKHOUSE. reprinted from the "Pall-Mall Gazette." Office of the "Pall-Mall Gazette," 14, Salisbury-street, Strand, W.C. 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 118. By A. ESKELL, 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 be perused by those who are troubled with their teeth."—Morning Advertiser, Aug. 31, 1865. Sold by Simpkin and Marshall, and may be had of all book sellers. CHOCOLATE.-MENIER'S FRENCH. CIIOCOLAT-MENIER, for Breakfast. CHOC OLA.T-MENIER is pure, wholesome, and delicious. ga L rd A en T E . 3 lE W N a I r E e RS ou h :e 23 F 1 l e n E r i N e t t C a H s tree C t H c o v O e nCtp Sold everywhere. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH 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 Is. 81—Bu11 Wharf, Rotherhithe, Lon don. WHAT DO THE WILD WAVES SAY NOW? That the FIERY CROSS has arrived, bringing some magnificent KAISOW CONGOUS of delicious flavour. and which may now be had, at a mere commission on the import price, of the EAST INDIA TEA CO uPAN Y, No. 5, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, Bishopsgate-street. STARCH MANITFACTURERS TO H. R. H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES. G LENFIELD PATENT STARCH, Used in the Royal Laundry, AND AWARDED TUE PRIZE MEDAL, 1862. Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, &c• &C. DEFRIES and SONS beg to call the special eft • attention of Merchant 3 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 AS TR A LAM P.—Five Hundred NEW PATTERNS for the Season now on Show. J. TABLE GLASS, ENGRAVED AND CUT. DEFRIES and SONS, 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, .el 18s. 6d. BREAKFAST and TEA SERVICES in great variety, £1 is. O•EFRIES• and SONS, 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-aTREET. J. CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS, New designs, for the Drawing-room, either for Gas or Candle. JDEFRIES and SO NS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL CHAND ELIERS, In the Grecian and Venetian Desiems. JDEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17, CO MMERCIAL-STREET. BRONZED AND ORMOLU CHANDELIERS, New designs, for the Dining-room. J • DEFRIES and SONS, 18 and.l7, 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. DEFRIES and SONS, CY • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. T DEFIZIES and SONS t/ • Supply Merchants with Pattern Books Free. JDEFRIES and SONS' • TEMPORARY SHOW ROOMS. 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET, WHITEC FEAPEL, Five Minutes' walk from the Late Establishment, 147, HOUNDSDITCH. D R. CULVERWELL'S GRAND TURKISH BATHS, 3, Great Marlborough-street, 3 doors from Poland- street, Ladies every Monday. Gentlemen all ether days, 2s. each ; 15, One Guinea. Also opposite the Post-office, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. HEALTH WITHOUT MEDICINE. Being the only Sovereign and unfailing Remedy for Indi gestion, Constipation, Nervousness, Debility, Torpidity of the Liver, Headache, 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. " the most efficacious remedy for those diseases extant, a boon to the afflicted."—Medical Review. "This invaluable discovery has attaine 1 a world-wide cele brity, being of inestimable value, and most admirably adapted to remove those maladies which tend to embitter lire, and shorten its duration."—Scalpel. "The unprecedented success of this remedy is without parallel ; this is demonstrated by the innumerable cares effected."—Medical JournaL SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of a new and eiegant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks. Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &a, in Italian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, diva Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Dlajesty, 149, Strand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, &I IN E RAU, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly Licilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr.TENNANT,F.G.S., at 149. Strand. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.Gt President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, 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 bgacies. 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 1,000 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, Edward Mu Lerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; lIPTrIes and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; W Maras, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur ney, and Co.: Nisbet and Co Berners-street ;I. Barned and Co . Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. STANFORD sMITTI. Secretary. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes,to add another home to thn 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer ban 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few of the most recent cases : F. 14 '., aged 16, fallen, another dead, deserted by her father. M. A. F., aged 13, homeless , both parents dead. A.. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother 3. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead. C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead, A, 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead. 11. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents, M. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. C. H., aged 17, fatlen, both parents dead. A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead. E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both par, nts dead. 111. A. W., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel Cooper,Bs, Queen-ssreek Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Cc., Lombard-street. T HE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION (Limited). Capital subscribed, £5,000,000. Paid up, £500,000. CITAIRMA.N —JOHN CHAPMAN, ESQ. MANAGERS. Henry J. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq. This Assodation makes ADVANCES upon approved Mer cantile and other Securities, and RECEIVES MONEY ON DEPOSIT at interest for short or lon.. periods. DEPOSITORS for periods of not less than Three Years may procure, on application at the Offices, Debentures of the Association, bearing interest at 6 per cent. per annum, pay able quarterly by Coupon " to bearer" attached. W. C. WINTERBOTTO3I, Secretary. 27, Lombard-street, London, E.C. IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION (Limited). NOTICE IS HERE BY GI VEN, that the THIRD 0 RDI - NAR Y GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders in this Association will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate street, in the City of LOndon, on TUESDAY, the 23d day of January next, at One o'clock p.m. precisely, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts, of declaring a Dividend, and for general purposes. By order of the Board, W. C. WINTERBOTTOM, Secretary. 27. Lombard-street, London, Dec. 29, 1865. ATLAN TIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that, in conformity with the terms on which the FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS of the PENNSYLVANIA SECTION of this Railroad were issued, the following, viz.:— Eighty Bonds of $l,OOO each, ni;nbered respectively 9, 20, 25, 63, 65, 66, 75, 76, 175, 249, 264, 290, 301, 306, 315, 325, 332, 348, 365, 367, 392, 409, 422, 425, 463, 473, 488, 489, 515, 532, 680, 735, 796, 880, 881, 911, 912, 981, 991, 1021, 1087, 1104, 1126, 1150, 1158, 1161, 1187, 1198, 1199, 1242, 1251, 1264, 1265, 1266, 1297, 1351, 1374, 1375, 1386, 1422, 1430, 1461, 1493, 1504, 1518, 1552, 1570, 1592, 1593, 1596, 1597, 1658, 165§, 1660, 1742, 1750, 1773, 1868, 1931, 1964; Twenty-four Bonds of $5OO each, numbered respec ively- -2011, 2041, 2053, 2055, 2067, 2074, 2079, 2096, 2116, 2170, 2220, 2269, 2273, 2326, 2336, 2367, 2385, 2390, 2449, 2453, 2469, 2524, 2558, 2583 ; Eighty Bonds of $lOO each, numbered respectively— 2665, 2666, 2674, 2687, 2739, 2762, 2775, 2781, 2813, 2855, 2912, 2913, 2929, 2958, 2973, 2982, 2983, 2984, 2995, 2996, 3050, 3065, 3066, 2084, 3085, 3166, 3201, 3230, 3231, 3246, 3282, 3283, 3293, 3295, 3347, 3353, 3389, 3422, 3489, 3509, 3313, 3519, 3604, 3607, 3608, 3621, 3661, 3676, 3695, 3709, 3710, 3803, 3886, 3903, 3917, 3986, 4017, 4032, 4051, 4063, 4081, 4098, 4118, 4289, 4290, 4311, 4330, 4361, 4383, 4388, 4412, 4414, 4445, 4444, 4449, 4457, 4532, 4536, 4561, 4572, were this day drawn by the undersigned Public Notary. Notice is also Given, that such of the aforesaid Bonds as have been issued in London will be paid off at the rate of £225 for every $lOOO Bond, £ll2 10s. for every $5OO, and £22 10s. for every $lOO Bond, on presentation at the Com pany's Office, 5, Westminster-chambers, Victoria-street, Westminster, on or after 2d April next, in addition to the Coupon due on that day, after which all interest will cease. London, January 18, 1866. W. GRAIN, Notary Public. H 0 X F 0 R Lo, 6, OXFORD-STREET, W. Th e Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (Limited). TITIS EVENING, and during the Week, EXTRA PERFORMANCES by all the available talent. Opera, Burlesque, Pantomime, Ballet, and Comedy Every Evening, performed by the entire company, including Misses Russell, FitzHeniy, Barrie ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, W. Williams , Spagnoli, &c. THE _HUNGARIANS in their new entertainment, Messrs. Duriah and Davies's illustrations of Negro Life ; Herr Preskow, the wondrous posturer, from the Grand Theatre, St. Petersburg; the D'Aubans • Herr Berrani and his talented family ; the ENCHANTED HASH, eleven characters performed by Mr. E. Marshall (his first appearance here), the entertainment written expressly for him by Mr. W. T. Vandervell ; and a host of other talent, for which see programme and small biIIs.—EVERY EVENING. Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, Is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL. RI-FUM ! TI-FUM. During the Week will be performed the above most extraordinary Entertainment, containing all the novel ties now in this country, and including the services of Les Montagnards, their first appearance ; Mr. E. Mar shall, Mrs. and Mr. W. Randall, the renowned Talliott, Les Freres d'Etoile, Signor Tescano, a la Donato; Les Tableaux d'Amour, illuminated by the Magnesium Light ; Fairy Orchestra, designed and painted by Mr. T. Burgess and Mr. W. Gowrie ; and Grand Ballet of upwards of one hundred ballerines. The whole written and composed expressly for this establishment by William Vandervell, Esq. In addition to the vocal and instrumental entertain ment. EVERY EVENING. Admission—Area, 6d ; stalls and balcony, is. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street, NEW ADDITIONS.—In the Chamber of Horrors are full-length Portrait Models, taken from Life, of CHAR LOTTE WINSOR and STEPHEN FORWOOD, alias ERNEST SOUTHEY. 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. A RGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly. Musical Director and Conductor, M. LUIGI CURTL Principal Cornet-a-Piston, H. M'Eleney. Euphonion, the celebrated Signor Luigi Mosca. Programme this Evening and during the Week—Grand Selections, IL TROVATORE and IL LUCIA. Solo vio loncello, M. Sloman, jun. L'AFRICAIN VALSE and ECLIPSE GALOP. Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock. Admission, is. 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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 S to 25 ga., 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, Whitefriargateglull ; 10, Norfolk street, Sheffield; 4, East -parade, Leeds; and 11, St. Nicholas street, Searbro'. Observe—Established 1830. No connection with any of the same name. The Cattle Plague. DEPUTATION TO EARL RUSSELL. A deputation from a county meeting on the cattle plague, convened by the High Sheriff of Lan cashire at Preston, on the 11th of January, and consisting of the Marquis of Hartington, M.P., Mr. Charles Turner, M.P., Sir James Kay-Shuttle worth, Mr. Townley Parker, Mr. Thomas Weld Blundell, Mr. _Jonathan. Pep s i. Mr. Fazackerley . Westby, and Mr. John Hargreaves, had an Iriter view by appointment with Earl Russell at his offi cial residence in Downing-street yesterday. Sir JAMES KAY-SIIUTTLEIV9RTII said they were a deputation from a county meeting convened ' by the High-Sheriff of the County Palatine of Lancaster, upon a requisition from a special meeting of the Royal North Agricultural Society. They were convinced of the inadequacy of all the Orders in Council, and of their own efforts in pursuance of these orders, to arrest the progress of the cattle plague. They would, in the first place, submit to his lordship that the English people were not accustomed to the restraints of a despotic authority, and that such restraints were consequently imposed with greater difficulty and submitted to with greater resistance than in foreign countries. The tenant farmers were by their comparative seclusion unfitted for those prompt and decisive measures which had been adopted in some of those counties which breed and do not import their store stock, and where the tenants are more opulent and enterprising. As justices of the peace they had no control over the municipal boroughs, and in many of them the regulations as to the movement of live stock afforded no adequate pro tection to the farmer. Nor did they find such uni formity in the regulations of neighbouring counties, nor such completeness in the order itself, as to lead them to hope that their authority would be effectual in preventing that movement of live stock which the last Order in Council was intended to insure. They had, therefore, to submit to his lordship the import ance of giving greater stringency to the powers con fided to justices of the peace, and the necessity of uniform and immediate action. As the efforts of the various local authorities seemed inadequate to secure the requisite promptness and uniformity, they were to urge her Majesty's Government to take upon themselves the duty of at once issuing a general order peremptorily stopping all traffic in live stock of all kinds throughout Great Britain, under limi tations and conditions if they should so think fit, provided the same were not inconsistent with the paramount object of staying the further spread of the plague. While they would urge upon her Ma jesty's Government the adoption of this measure, they would not conceal from his lordship their ap prehension that the contagion of this malady is so subtle, so swift, so easily transmissible, that when, as now, twelve thousand foci for its - diffusion had been established, it was difficult to conceive that any measure of a preventive character could now do more than retard its progress, and, in fact, that the hope was too sanguine that even the entire stoppage of the movement of live stock, if that were possible, would extinguish the malady. They requested his lordship to bear in mind that, from probably one or few importations, this disease had in seven months spread so rapidly as to have destroyed probably 100,000 head of neat stock, worth one mil lion of money. Its present rate of destruction would amount to a loss of five millions in one year, and is from week to week rapidly augmenting. They were not sanguine enough to anticipate that the utmost efforts of the Government, seconded by the most loyal exertions of rural and municipal authorities, could now prevent the loss of at least 1-sth of the whole neat stock of Great Britain, or of cattle worth 14 millions of money. They were of opinion that a system of insurance might be devised which by the universal contribution of an average charge would en able neat stockholders to protect each other from the most severe rates of loss, and entire districts in this way to escape the pressure of a ruinous local burden. They conceived that such a system might be devised by the Government as would secure these results without any need of a State guarantee or of any form of contribution from property not agricultural, but that, as such a system would require the sanc tion of an Act of Parliament, they had no hope that it could be adopted without the active support of her Majesty's Ministers. They refrained from at tempting to suggestto his lordship the details of such a measure, which were a proper subject for the de liberations of the Cabinet, and for discussions in Parliament. Earl RUSSELL then said that with, respect to the first part of the representation made by the deputa tion—viz., as to the adoption of more stringent mea sures to prevent the movement of stock, he conceived that one main difficulty had been pointed out by Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth. He had stated that the English people were little accustomed to the exer cise of such authority as would be required to en force such restrictions. A large increase of the police force would, therefore, be required, and with that an Act of Parliament to enable that new force to stop cattle on the roads. His lordship said that his own observation of the numbers of cattle which he had himself constantly encounteredpassing over Hammersmith-bridge was a proof of the dif ficulty of stopping such movement on roads without new powers from Parliament, and an increase of the police. His lordship then gave instances of the im portation of the disease into certain counties by the purchase of diseaaed stock by cattle dealers or far mers, and of the subsequent disastrous consequences. The Government could not, however, with delibera tion determine to apply for an increase of their powers of restraint, or for authority to require per emptorily an increase of the police force. But the matter was one which was worthy of consideration. Then, as to the second part of the suggestion, the Government were well inclined, if such a measure were generally desired by agriculturists, to intro duce an act of Parliament enabling them to grant loans upon satisfactory security, and under proper regulations, to meet the losses from the cattle plague. They conceived that well-constituted so cieties for mutual assurance from losses from the cattle plague might be formed in counties, with a view to avail themselves of such a loan. But the Government had great difficulty in conceiving how such a system of insurance against these losses could be made to work efficiently in a wider area than counties. The deputation had assured him that they did not seek any grant of public money, nor guarantee from Government that the compensation for losses from the cattle plague for which such as sociations would become responsible should be paid, nor any charge on any kind of property except farm ing lands. That assurance was very satisfactory to him, and it induced him, therefore, to hope that the public loan for which the Government was disposed to ask the sanction of Parliament might be made to harmonise with some system of voluntary mutual assurance in counties. He had no doubt that ample security could be given for the repayment of such a loan, and that the charge could be made a subject of equitable adjustment between owners and their tenants on the principle suggested by the deputa tion. That arrangement might have the sanction of thelaw. His lordship further said that the state ments which had been made to him by Sir James on behalf of the deputation as to the great loss already incurred, and as to the probability of even greater calamities, did not seem to him to be open to serious question, and the deputation might feel assured that the several suggestions which they had submitted would have the most attentive con sideration from her Majesty's Government. Mr. W. Blundell, Mr. C. Turner, ➢I.P., and Mr. Townley Parker stated several objections to the existing regulations. Mr. JONATHAN PEEL then said he had recently had very extensive intercourse with tenant farmers, and they, without any exception, had emphatically expressed their conviction that the time was come for the issue of a general order by the Governnient securing uniformity and greater stringency of action. The Marquis of. HARTINGTON thought that the Privy Council already had power to issue such an order within the limits of the existing law, though an act of Parliament might be required to invest them with further powers. There were many tenant farmers present at the Lancashire county meeting, and he had no doubt whatever of the general con viction that the time was come for most stringent action under such a general order. . Earl RUSSELL said without an act of Parliament many of the suggestions of the deputation could not be carried into effect, but no doubt could be enter tained of their importance, and they would have the immediate attention of the Government. The National Debt of America. The National debt is now reported at twenty-seven hundred millions, in whole numbers. The Secretary of the Treasury says that there will be a probable deficiency of revenue for the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1866, of $112,000,000. We will suppose that when all the odds and ends of the war should be gathered in, the total debt will reach the round sum of three thousand millions—the figures by which it is commonly expressed. The question before us to day relates to the payment of this debt, which is distinguished by such handsome proportions. Some wonder when the debt will be paid. Others would like to know how long it will be before the last cent shall be cancelled. Some would like to know whether it will ever be paid or not. Others are fearful that the Democratic party of the South and North will attain to power and repudiate it. Some would like to know whether it could be paid within twenty years and have done with the burden forever. Certainly every patriot would rejoice to see the whole debt wiped out by honest payment within ten years; or at least a sinking fund laid up sufficient to cancel all the bonds so soon as they become due. Should these three thousand millions be paid within ten years, the achievement would not be second to the suppression of the rebellion in magnificence, and it would afford far more astonishment to all Europe than anything accomplished hitherto in our glorious his tory. We hope in a few pafagraphs to afford so much en couragement as to the ability of the people to pay, and as to the practicability of paying, all this debt within ten years that all brave-hearted, high-spirited, democratic Americans will rejoice and feel like ordering out and pay ing out the full amount of cash for that great purpose. After paying all the expenses of the Government, civil and military, including the interest on the debt, Secretary McCulloch estimates the amount of surplus revenue of the year ending June 30th, 1867, at $111,000,000. This is certainly encouraging. He further calculates that the tax should be increased on some and be abolished on other in terests and still yield a surplus of $200,000,000 with which to pay the interest and afford $35,000,000 annually to apply on the principal, provided the whole debt be funded at five per cent. interest. As the surplus is put by a notoriously safe estimate at $35,000,000, we will say that in 1867 $50,000,000 can be paid on the principal. All statisticians who have thus far examined the Secretary's estimates, agree that he is far below what will be the actual result. In New York the surplus for 1867 has been estimated at $236,000,000, in stead of $111,000,000 ; and the venerable statistician of Cincinnati, Mr. E. D. Mansfield, has placed the receipts for 1867 at what ho calls a low rate, and gives us $510,000,000 against Mr. McCulloch's $396,000,000, making the surplus of that year, aftei paying the interest, over $200,000,000. If therefore we start with $50,000,000 as tho first in stalment on the debt we shall not bo extravagant. At this rate, how long will it be before tho wholo will be can celled ? To answer this quostion wo must not forget that the business of the country is growing and will continue to grow each year to come, provided there shall be no mis take in our financial management producing a business collapse. The growth of our national wealth is at the rate of four per cent. per annum. Of course our business grows at something over that rate, and it will be safe to put the annual increase of our revenue at four per cent. Suppose the same amount of taxation be applied to this purpose from year to year, we must increase the payment by four per cent. for the growth of the revenue. Then each payment will reduce the interest to be paid the next year, which will give, say six per cent. on that payment to be added to the next payment as the amount of interest saved by reducing the debt. We do not think the Secre tary will succeed in funding the debt at five per cent. We suppose six to be as low a rate as can be obtained. Then there is another element to be taken into' account. The business of the South will by the year ending the 30th of June, 1868, be pretty fully restored. This will add to the revenue for that year at least twenty-five per cent. There will be a great increase for each year afterward and during a full decade, but we will make no account beyond the first addition of twenty-five per cent. in 1868. After that year we count only the six per cent. interest saved, and the four per cent. of annual increase. A table constructed in this way gives the following annual payment for the time required to expunge the whole debt except the amount of greenbacks which should be kept out as a national currency. The people desire and need this cur rency, and, if necessary, they would have the Constitution so amended as to permit the General Government to furnish them with a uniform currency, without making the Government a banker. Let the National bank notes be supplanted by greenbacks. We invite attention to the table : 1867 $50,000,000 1868 63,000,000 1869 69,300,000 1870 76,230,000 1871 83,853,000 1872 92,238,300 1873 101,462,130 1874 111,608,343 1875 122,769,177 1876 18046;095 577 148,550,704 1878 163,405,774 1879 179,746,351 1880 197,720,986 1881 1882 239,242,393 1883 263,166,632 Total .$2,314,832,965 Greenbacks 730,000,000 Aggregate These two thousand and three hundred millions will be all of the public debt except the amount of the greenbacks that will be needed by the year 1883 for currency. Tho Secretary thinks that about $300,000,000 of paper cur rency are needed in a healthy condition. But it is useless of even dreaming that the currency can be contracted to anything like that amount for some years to come. The amount of greenbacks now is over $500,000,000, and the • National Bank circulation is $228,000,000. These banks will have $300,000,000 out before many months, but under the hope that Congress will provide for contracting the bank currency and expanding the greenbacks at a slightly less rate than the bank contraction, we will suppose that the different periods covered by tho above and following tables, the amount of greenbacks will be as set down therein. Wo suppose that by 1883 tho bank circulation has ceased, so that considering the growth of business there will have been a considerable contraction of the currency. Thus it is that with this small payment of $50,000,000 in 1867 we shall have the whole debt wiped out in seven teen years ! But suppose that the taxes be not reduced in the aggre gate, and we take Secretary McCulloch at his word that there will be $111,000,000 surplus in 1867. We will call it but $100,000,000, and starting with that amount as the first payment, let us see how long it will take to settle the whole account : 1867 5100,000,000 1868 135,000,000 1869 148,500,000 1870 • . 163,350,000 1871 179,685,000 1872 197,653,500 1873 217,418,850 1874 • 239,160,735 1875 .. 1876 289,384,489 1877 .. 318,222,868 Total $2,251,452,270 Greenbacks Aggregate $9,836,452,270 The amount of greenback circulation needed in 1877 we ments : 1867 $150,000,000 1868 202,500,000 1869 222,750,000 1870 245,025,000 1871 1872 1873 226,128,275 1874.. 1875 394,645,213 T0ta1......... Greenbacks ... $2,465,767,341 540,000,000 Aggregato 53,005,767,341 Thus in nine years from the first of next July the people can rejoice in a complete emancipation from national debt !-2lfissouri Democrat. Metropolitan Board of Works. The ordinary weekly meeting of the members of this board was held yesterday in the Board Room, Spring-gardens—Sir John Thwaites in the chair. OPEN SPACES ROUND 'CITE METROPOLIS. Mr. DOULTON, M.P., called the attention of the board to the report of the committee of the House of Commons on open spaces, and moved that it be re ferred to the streets committee to obtain an interview with the Home Secretary for the purpose of ascer taining the views of her Majesty's Government in reference to that question, and in doing so he said that when the question was before that committee there were two classes of persons who put forward their views before it. One thought that the subject of open spaces around the. metropolis should be placed in the hands of a special commission, while the others thought that it ought to be con fided to the Board of Works as the natural guar dians of the rights of the metropolis. The latter class were sanguine enough to believe that the lords of the manors would give up their rights to the Board of Works without compensation, but he did not believe that they would give up any of their rights without receiving compensation for what they surrendered. The time had arrived when some step must be taken to obtain parliamentary powers to secure these open spaces, or in a few years they would be entirely closed, and become private pro perty. The board in obtaining such powers might purchase the whole of the open spaces, and after securing a sufficient quantity for the recreation of the public, sell the remainder for building purposes, by which the absolute cost of the land would be greatly reduced. Mr. CARPMAEL seconded the motion, and con curred in the views of Mr. Doulton. A disCussion followed, and ultimately the motion was unanimously agreed to. OFFICERS' SALARIES, The board meeting was made special for the pur pose of considering the report of the "special com mittee of the whole board," relative to the increase in the salaries of the officers of the board. The re port recommended, "That in consideration of the nature of the duties performed by Mr. James Estlin, in the clerks' department, he be placed in the second class of officers, at the minimum salary of that class, viz., £l5O, and that the resolution of the board of the 20 November, 1863 (No. 10) be varied accord ingly. That an assistant clerk be appointed in the third class of officers in the clerks'..department, at the commencing salary of £lOO per annum, being the minimum salary of that class ; that advertise ments be issued inviting applications for the office, and that it be referred to a committee of tlic buara to take all necessary steps for selecting a competent person for appointment by the board, that two youths be temporarily engaged in the clerks' department at the weekly wages of £1 ; that the annual increase in the salaries of the first class of ollicers be £2O per annum in lieu of £lO as at present; that the annual increase in the second class of officers be £l2 10s..per annum, in lieu of £7 10s. ; that the annual increase in the salaries of the third-class of officers be £lO per an num, in 'lieu of £7 10s., as at present ; that the annual increase in the salaries of the fourth class of officers be £B, instead of £4, as at present ; and that the resolution of the board of the 4th of January, 1861 (No. 2) be varied accordingly." On the motion of Mr. RICIIARDSON the first and second recommendations were agreed to, but on the motion that the third paragraph be adopted, Mr. SAVAGE moved an amendment to the effect that the increases in the salaries should be £l5 per annum on the first class, £lO on the second class, £8 on the third class, and X 7 on the fourth class ; but as it was not seconded, it fell to the ground. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR moved as an amendment that he report be referred back to the committee for further consideration, and to report to the board on the individual cases they consider deserving of the increase, and the amount they think those officers ought to have. A discussion took place, when the amendment was lost by a majority of 25 .to 12. The original motion was then put and carried by a majority of 24 to 12. A very noisy discussion followed as to whether 24 were two-thirds of 37, the chairman making the 37th member present. Some of the points of the arguments used were entirely lost in consequence of two, and sometimes three, of the members speaking at once. The CHAIRMAN said that if any doubt existed he would settle the matter by recording his own vote. He, however, had no doubt on the point —that the motion was carried, and if his friend Mr. Taylor held a different opinion he could refer to the solici tor of the board. The report was accordingly adopted. The consideration of the question of the utilisa tion of the southern sewage was adjourned until next Friday. Mr. BAZALGETTE, the engineer to the board, pre sented a voluminous report respecting the various railway schemes affecting the metropolis now go i ng before Parliament. it contained a vast amount of interesting detail, which will afford much inform a _ tion to the metropolitan public. The routine business was then disposed of, a n d the board adjourned. The great drain upon human life by the American war is shown in the result of the last census of the Stato of Now York. In 1860 the population of New York was 3,880,727 ; in 1865 it was 3,831,777. That great and pros perous State has lost 48,950 people during the war. AVVERTisEmENT.]. -Avoid medicines; they always complaints,aggra aArabbicua oodtrD, Barry's Delicious Health- Restoring Which yields three times the nourishment of the best meat, sa ves f i fty times its cost rt le n t in other remedies, and invariably rest ores perfect digestion, aggra vate ch rchronic nt ey strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, re freshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 60,000 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wading away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad diges tion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.—Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Deeies. Lord Lieutenant of Waterford. of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, consti pation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly."—Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased halo, spitting of blood, liver derange ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure No. 54,b16. The Rev. Jas, T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "of indigestion and torpi dity or the liver,, which had resistei all medical treatment." In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 45. 6d ; 5.b , 11s. ; 121 b., 2. s. ; 241 b. 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street; likewise at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand ; 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, High-strut ; and Stubbs, Queen'i-terrace, St. John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and che mists.—Beware of spurious imitations. 4; C 4 J?: During the last feW .lays some little UTINSiIIa, has been felt in the City with respect to this vessel, one of the Royal West India Mail steamers, in which Mr. Russell Gurney, the Retorder of Lon don, and Mr. Maule, two of - the JamalinCommis sioners, with other persons of note, sailed for Jamaica about a; fortnight ago. We have forborne to refer to this subject, although the circumstance which appears to have given rise to the anxiety has been known for the last three days, being loth to cause needless apprehension to any one, and we only notice it now to show on what a slender ground • the uneasiness rests, and, if possible, to allay the ex isting feeling. The Atrato, which is a paddle steamer, sailed from Southampton on Tuesday, Jan. 2, under the command of Capt. Jellicoe, au expe rienced navigator, and with about 126 passengers - on board, bound for Jamaica. On that night rho . encountered a great hurricane, and the weather continued to be so tempestuous that she - could not land her pilot until the next day, which she did at Dartmouth. The vessel then continued her voyage, and, if all has gone well, she may have by this time reached St. Thomas, a port in the group of Virgin Islands, • about a week's sail from Jamaica, and at which the West India mail steamers ordinarily touch. In • that case she may be the first to bring the tidings of her own safety on the return voyage to England, about a month from this time, unless, indeed, which is possible, she may be spoken on. the outward trip • i by a returning English or French mail steamerfrom lie West IndieS. Until lately printed notices, . framed and glazed, had been hung up in the com panions of the Royal West India Mail Company's vessels, prohibiting under a penalty of £lOO passen gers from carrying with them gunpowder, lucifer- . matches, or any other inflammable material, but ~ 'suclinbti ces had been discontinued, except in a few cases. On the 9th of January one of those printed notices, so framed and glazed, was picked up at Harlec, in North Wales, about five miles from Port Madoc, and delivered to the Receiver of Wrecks at the latter place. It has since been forwarded to London, and now lies at the Royal Mail Company's offices in Moorgate-street. The company have identified it beyond doubt as one of the notices at one time in use in their steamers, but there is no thing whatever, beyond a mere surmise, to connect it with the Atrato, nor to show that it ever belonged to her. From inquiries which they have instituted they find from Captain Vincent, their Superinten dent at Southampton, that though the notices in question have been discontinued in most of their ships, he is under the impression that there was one in the Atrato's fore companion, which was taken down towards the end of December last, a few days before she sailed on her present voyage, while the companion was being repainted, and not put up again. Four colliers, he adds, were alongside until the evening of the 29th of December; coaling the Atrato as she lay at Southampton, and the maho gany frame containing the notice, being old, may have been thrown on board one of the colliers, or stowed away in some corner and thrown overboard after the ship got to sea. If the latter. supposition, which appears reasonable; be true,- • there is an explanation at once of its having been washed on shore-in the track of' the vessel, and entirely con- • sistent with her safety. It is certain that she en countered bad weather, and the 'frame might have been lying about the deck and washed overboard by a sea. Besides, as Captain Vincent justly argues, if anything had happened to the ship, some of the boats' oars, masts, and the like, all of which are - legibly branded with her name, would probably have drifted in the same direction with the maho gany frame, and, like it, been picked up ; but one looks in vain through the shipping lists in'which the minutest circumstance as to casualties at sea is re ported at Lloyd's from day to day, for any notice of anything of that kind having been found, and it is from the one solitary fact of the frame having been picked up, with which there is nothing what ever really to connect the vessel, that doubts have arisen as to her safety. The supposition, however, that it may have belonged to the Atrato caused her premiums of inauranco to advmnao to 9(1 B n;,,nnc: Thursday at Lloyd's ; but, towards the close of yes terday, we believe, they had fallen to as low as 10 guineas. A telegram was received yesterday at Lloyd's that the ship Rhone, belonging to the Royal Mail Packet Company, which left South ampton a week later than the Atrato for Lisbon, was spoken on the 13th by the Saxon 50 miles south-west of Vigo, and that she had suffered much in a heavy gale, having lost all her boats on the port side, and appeared to . be going slowly. The Recorder of London is accompanied by his wife. There are besides among the passengers many per sons who have gone out expressly in connexion with the approaching inquiry into the circumstances attending the insurrection, including four special correspondents, at least, of the London press and two Government shorthand writers. The White House on New Year's Day. The customary reception of New Year callers by the President at the White 'House showed us the Great Re constructionist in a now light—that of dignified, hearty, genial, self-possessed, social democrat, which is conceded by those who visited the Republican palace to be tho highest of gentility. The thirty thousand dollars ap priated by Congress for beautifying and renovating the White House has not yet reached the hands of the Com missioner of Public Mlildings, so the " Pearl of the Re public" was forced to show himself in a rather dingy set ting ; but he shone brilliantly enough for all that. In ac cordance with the time - honored custom and arrange ments Mr. Johnson received in the Blue-room, this time bare of ornaments excepting a couple of vases with fresh flowers, the ladies of the White House, Mrs. Paterson and Mrs. Stover, Misses Craigoniles and Baxter, two pretty young lady visitors from Knoxville, Tenn., and the children of the family. Without the streets were sloppy f ro m the melting snow, so the cr ow d a b out the grand en trance and the carriage way to watch the arri va l o f th e foreign and domestic dignitaries, and to gaze admiringly and upon daughters, both(rin was a upon the gold and gau se o f f oreign diplomats, their wives, without w s h o it ger-gloved it might policemen. been the ot President took his station in the Blue-room just before 11 o'clock, when the foreign ministers, members of the Cabinet, Supreme Court, Judges and their ladies were an nounced. Sir Frederick Bruce, the tall, portly, white haired representative of her Britannic Majesty, was the pioneer of the first-named class ; while Mr. Stanton, with the spectacles and the smile, was the avant courrier of the Cabinet. They were quickly followed, however, by Marquis de Montholon, French Minister ; Baron Stoeckel, Russia; Baron de Wederstedt, of Norway and Sweden; Count Wydenbrick. of Austria ; Commander Bertanatti, from the Italian States; Mr. Raasloff, of Denmark; Del forse, of Belgium ; Van Limberg, from the Netherlands ; Senor Romero, from the Republic of Mexico; Senor Melino, from the Central American States; Senor Asta Beruga, from Chile, and plain John Hitz, from the Mountain Republic of Switzerland. These foreign ministers were generally in their prescribed court dress, very rich of course, but unique in the oyes of the bourgeoise. Senor Romero, of the suffering Mexican Re public, appeared- in a plain suit of black, and was the re cipient of an extraordinarily hearty shake of the hand from the President. Tho ladies accompanying these foreign parties were tastefully but not expensively dressed. Judge Chase, wearing the same benign, unimpassioned ex pression which appears on the one dollar greenbacks, came with Mrs. Sprague, his daughter, who is thinner and paler, and not the Kate Chase Ohio people admired. Half an hour was spent in the Blue Room by these dig nitaries in gold lace and decorations and these ladies of elaborate toilet and versatile tongue, animated converse in all the modern languages was carried on, introduction ceremonies were gone through still President Johnson and his daughters were unruffled. Mrs. Johnson and Colonel Robert, the President's son, being indisposed did not receive. The officers of the army and navy were no presented to the Chief Magistrate. Many of the foreign dignitaries yet lingered in the Blue Room, when the hero o f the greatest of wars, Lieutenant-General Grant, gra s P e d. the hand of the President, the fervor of the shake which followed convinced the lingerers that it was not ono of mere for mality... General Grant passed into the room, respectfully greeted the ladies, and at once became the centre of a little presentation circle, a position which he vacated as soon as it could genteelly be done. Following the General, nearly every officer of rank who chanced to be in Washington paid his respects to the President. They were all in full uni form, and presented. a very brilliant appearance. Their names were as follows :—Generals Rawlins, Town send, o Eaton, Nichols, re, Ord, Howard, H unter, Meigs, Doublesda y , Barn es, Seth Will i ams , Ingalls, Hugh Ewin , Bartlett, Gilmore, Morris, Mott, H ardie, Prince, Perr y , loft, field, Green, Alexander, Dent, Ketchum Fessecien ' Ekin ' Haskins, Kelton, Shims, Vincent, Ducker, Robinson, Dana, n APKeever, Ramsay, Dyer, and W. E. St rong .—N ew Y or k Herald. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vole., e/1 ILL Y' S HER O. By the Author of " Grandmother's Money," &c. 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