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0.-- ',felting, it, W. T• in Paris, he Paris —l. The le let of vill have hursdoil tment to tested to act:door ions are be cool' 4. Al l s nature ; 10th o f C s of A building fabri° eqaired' to the es, 14 . _,°. officla' !eutive Fixeeti ill be U 0 till to the to-dft/ slow, t 0 L +.8 1,61 ' IRO per Ci r ‘ 03 il2° st ...r D o fetal .RECEIto7 _..: ~.y t! .. 1 :tA-t ~-~~ NEW 8008 on GENTLEMEN'S ATTIRE. Fo R fix - w o PHOTOGRAPHIC FIGURES 06 being portraits of Kings and Princes) represent the Most fashionable and becoming attire for every age and all occasions. The book contains also new rules for self mk hileasure. Post free f or s i x s t amps, d e d uc t e d f rom a pur •—SAMUEL BROTHERS, merchant tailors, 50, cuase Ludgat e -1 • OVERCOATS, lls 13s. 15s.—OVERCOATS for BOYS.— Read " following 80 advertisements.— Lu dgate-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS , 12s. 145., 16s.—OVERCOATS for BOYS.— Read 'first and last advartisements.— 4 Vgate-hill, 50;--SAMUEL, BROTHFRS. OVERCOATS, 175., 195., 21s.—OVERCOATS for BOYS.— Note prices throughout the column.— 114 gate-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 11s., 135., 15s.—OVERCOATS in great variety, at the above prices, for BOYS. — OVERCOATS, 17s, 195., 21s.—OVERCOATS in superior textures and newest style for BOYS.— ' i dgate-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTIIERS. OVERCOATS, lls., 135., 15s.—OVERCOATS L migate hilly in ve 50 efur usl SAMUEL, aBROTHERS ric for BOYS.— - - - -- OVERCOATS, 175.,. 195., 218.—OVERCOATS I for 50. immediat SAMUEL, at all to BROTHERS.3 . Ss for BOYS.— OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS, ,„ at all pric es , h ave s ilk ve l ve t co ll ars . —L u d ga t e -hill, vu.---SAMITEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555. 63s.—OVERCOATS made to order by new self-measure rules.—Ludgate tun 50 . — SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 21s, 285., 333.—OVERCOATS l„"; , are ordered from patterns sent post free.—Ludgate -4 50 ._SAMITEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS 425., . 555. 63s.—OVERCOATS hi „ not —5 0 . — SAMUEL, BROTHERSroved taken back and others made.—Ludgate ,l,.. OVERCOATS, 21st, 285., 3311—OVERCOATS hip for clerical use , fabrics and prices.—Ludgate 01, W.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. VERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS hill, professional, in all fabrics and prices.—Ludgate vEßcoAvs, alum s , BROTHERS. 33s.—OVERCOATS, for every purpose, in the suitable fabrics.—Ludgate '4 50 . — SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425, 55s 63s.—OVERCOATS made from thoroughly shrunk cloths only.—Ludgate 'ill, W.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS 21s, 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS 1 , " „, in the new brown and SAMUEL, BROT goIdHERS. mixed Meltons.—Ludgate 1, 60 OVERCOATS, 425., 555.,. 63s.—OVERCOATS in beautiful beavers.—Ludgate- EL, BROTHERS. OVERCoATS, 215., 285., 33s .—OVEROOATS in every kind of plain and fancy coatings.—Ludgate- Lull, O.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. O V ERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS hill; 50 the new rich bronze and gold mixtures.—Ludgate ndi, 50 . — SAMUEL, BROTHERS. 0 VERC OAT S, 21s, 285., 335. OVERCOATS in all weights f or ever y season an d c li ma t e . — Ludgate bill, 50. —SAMTTEL, BROTHERS. V ERCOATS, 425., 555., 335.--OVERCOATS L . in rich gold and olive mixed treble beavers.—Ludgate f.L_!l_lso.—SAMTJEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 21s. 285., 33s. — OVERCOATS ,ill of the new reefer s h ape, beautifully made.— Ludgate- AMITEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS 555. 63s.—OVERCOA' 1 , in very beautiful West of England fabrics.—Ludgate '4l4 50 .—SAMITEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS , in elegant, double-breast e d Chesterfields.—Ludgate -411, 50 SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 428., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS dud in rich brown, Oxford, bl ac k, an d steel cloths.— gate-hill, 50.:---SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS in new style single-breasted Chesterfields.—Lud tf_te-h ill, tO.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 638. OVERCOAT S in new style Albions and all other shapes.—Lud gate-hill, 50 SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS v 215., 28s. Ms.—OVERCOATS Late-this sea so. son —SAMUEL,e BROTHERS. are excellnt value for the money.— VERCO2I.TS, 425., 555., 635.—OVERCOATS , at these pries are made'of very choice fabrics.— 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 283., 335.--OVERCOATS are very necessary in this variable climate.—Lud- R2?-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS , in black Beavers, thoroughly tested and shrunk.— hill, 50 _BAItuEL BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS in Melton cloths, thoroughly tested and shrunk.- 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS in black Melton cloths, west of England make.- 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 28s, 335. OVERCOATS h ill in Pilot cloths, for hard, serviceable wear.—Ludgate -SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS is very beautiful west of England Petersham - - 1 ...1g . gate-hill, 50. SAMUEL, BROTHERS. - OVERCOATS , 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS sDent to any part of the kingdom. Patterns free. T 50.-SAMUEL. BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 558. ' 63s.—OVERCOATS 50. in high-class SAMUEL, BROTHERS Witnev textures. Patterns free.— OVERCOATS, 21s. 285., 333.—OVERCOATS made with every regard to strength and comfort.— ' uggato-bill 50. —SAMUEL, BROTHERS. VERCOATS, 425., 555., 635.—OVERCOATS , in very rich, heavy, seal-black black beavers. — Ludgate -hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. NTERCOkTS 21s. 28s. 335. OVERCO ATS at these prices are in the most fashionable style.- 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS L in very rich, heavy, seal-back brown beavers.— 50. — SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 335. OVERCOATS are represented in the new illustrated book.—Lud gate-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVEIiCOAIS — , -- 425.; 555., 635. OVERCI ATS L. , in very 50. i r—Sch, AMUEL, heavy, seBROTHERS. al-hack Oxford beavers.— OVERCOATS - OVERCOATS . lined with 'silk, 2 a s n''d v a ny as 'beautifully quilted.—Lud- Rate-hill, 50, SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 335. OVERCOATS in all tho plain, strong, and most useful styles.- 50.—SAMIIEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 635. OVERCOATS lined with Italian cloth, and thickly quilted.—Lud 50.—SA3111EL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 335. OVERCOATS reduced 50. _SAMUEL BROTHERS in rice by a strict ready-money system.— , . G\ ----7 ER ---- 6ttcYS, 425., 555., 635. OVERCOATS at these prices are fit for any gentleman.—Ludgate -11 at BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 335. OVERCOATS with warm woollen linings, for winter wear.—Lud ill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS of all weights, b suit every kind of clitnate.—Lud ill, 50. -SAMUEL, BROTIIERS. - 7 - - OVERCOATS, Vs., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS made to measure by high-class scientific men.—Lud- Wite-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285.. 338.—OVERCOATS for liveries are made of well-shrunk cloths.—Lud 50.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS Late b guaranteed to fit by the new self-measure rules.— 59.—SAMIJEL, BROTHERS. VERCOATS, 215., 283., 33s.—OVERCOATS can be " dgate-hill orde 50 — red SAMUEL, BROTHERS .hich are sent free.— OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS I have become an immense business in this house.— '''udgate-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS exceeding five pounds value are carriage paid.—Lud gato-bill, 50. SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 355., G3s.—OVERCOATS ordered from the country are always prepaid.—Lud "te-hill, 50.— SAMUEL BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS n . sent to France and any part of the Continent.—Lud '&e-hlll, 50. SAMUEL BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS L,U, sent to New York and 50.— SAMUEL, anBRyOTHERS. other part of America.— OVERCOATS, 21s 28s 83s.—OVERCOATS sent to all parts of British North Amorica.—Lud 50.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. JVEItCOATS, 428. 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS split to Tasmania and every part of Australia.—Lud -1.11, 50.—SANMEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 335. 0 STERCOATS in a variety of undressed cloths, forhard 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., GU—OVERCOATS of the Inverness cape class in Whitneycloths.—Lud '-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 288., 335.-OVERCOATS of the Inverness cape class in Melton 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS made plain or with lap seams, velvet collars.—Lud 50.—SAMITEL. BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 558., 63s.—OVERCOATS made up with velvet edges and velvet collars.—Lud -hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 28.<., 335.--OVERCOATS „, in every description of plain and fancy cloth.—Lud ',4tn-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, lls. 13s. 15s.—OVERCOATS for boys. The new Reefer and Princelet coat.- 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 17s. 195., 21s.—OVERCOATS I for b o y s i n ever y fashionable and useful shape.— ildgate-hill 50 SAMUEL BROTHERS. EAL FUR-SEAL WAISTCOATS, 255., 355., hit 4 2s.—Richly l ustred and lined scarlet.—Ludgate -------9." O.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. At E A-D the SYSTEM SAMUEL, BROTHERS, • conduct their business upon in the Illustrated Price ?Ji lt described at head of column. The firm has been esta 'Piled 20 years on the principle of charging the lowest , possible for ready money, and marking the same iB l 3 n each article in plain figures, from which no deviation all "red.-50, Ludgate-hill. `-`~~ No. 23,240. K IN AHAN'S LL WHISKY. EXHIBITION, 1865. This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole- Sold in Bottles, 3s. 80., at the Retail Houses in London ; . - )y the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded "Kinaban's LL Whisky." DUBLIN NIUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Par Liam tut, IS50), 4, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. LONDON. Prompt ADVANCES on all description of security. Forms free on application by letter to EDWARD HARPER. Secretary. COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES, and BUSINESSES. FURNESS and KNEE'S List on application. Particulars for insertion received until the 27th of the month at their AUCTION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES, 5, Agar•street. Strand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Cross Railway Station. MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new descrip tion of ARTIFICIAL TEETH,fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so periee:ly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished fro .n the originals by the closest oOserver ; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found .superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any pain ful ()Fannon, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastica tion. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastication. 52. Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.-A COM PETITIVE EXAMINATION of CANDIDATES will be held by the Civil Servioe Commissioners on April 9, 1867. and fo:lowing, days. The competition will be open to all natural-born subjects of her majesty, who (on the Ist of March next) shall be over 17 and under 21 years of age, and of good health and character. CTWIG SERVICE OF INDIA.-EXAMINA TION of APRIL, 1857.—Copies of the Regulations may be had upon application to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, London, S.W. INDIA OFFICE, 30rir Nov., 1866. BY ORDER of the SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA in COUNCIL. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Director- General of Stores for India will be ready on or before Monday, the 10th December next, to receive Proposals in writing, sealed up, from such persons as may be willing to supply CANVAS, and that the Conditions of the said Contract may be bad on application at the India Store-office, Cannon-row, Westminster, where the Proposals are to be left any time before Two o'clock p.m. of the said 10th day of December, 1866, after which no Tender will be received. GERALD C. TALBOT, Director-General. INDIA OFFICE, 30th Nov., 1866. BY ORDER of the SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA in COUNCIL. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Director- General of Stores for India will be ready on or before MONDAY, the 10th December next, to receive proposals in writing, sealed up, from such persons as may be willing to supply LONG CLOTH AND CLOTH SHEETING, and that the Conditions of the said Contract may be had on application at the India Store Office, Cannon-row, Westminster, where the Proposals are to be left any time before Two o'clock p.m., of the said 10th day of Decem ber, 1866, after which hour no Tender will be received. GERALD C. TALBOT, Director General. To GUNMA ERS and Others. The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of receiving PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for BREECH-LOADING RIFLES, either repeating or not repeating, which may replace the present Service Rifles in future manufacture. The following are the conditions considered essential in military non-repeating Rifles : A. WEIGHT. Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet. 12.7111 E IRON CASKET.—See BELGRAVIA, 1. a London Magazine, conducted by M. E. Brad don. No. 2 now ready. B. LENGTH. To be 51 inches, with short stock, measured from the hollow of the butt-plate to muzzle. c. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP. Must not exceed 61b. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for service. D. CARTRIDGES. Must carry their own ignition. E. SIGHTS. Tito ELGRAVIA. Conducted by M. E. BRAD-. -1-1 DON, Author of "Lady Audloy's Secret," &c. The second number of Belgravia is now ready at all booksellers and bookstalls. HYAM and CO.'S ATTIRE for GENTLE MEN, 66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET, W. Gentlemen about to purchase their CLOTHING FOR THE SEASON are requested to bear in mind the follow ing points as peculiar to HYAM and CO.'s Attire, Novelty, and Excellence of Fabri; Perfect Adjustment in Fit, Becoming and Fashionable Design, Ornamental and general Finish. Many improvements in stitching, braid ing, and binding with cloth have been introduced, and the following Garments can be selected either ready made or made to order. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The foresight must be such as to admit of a bayonet fixed according to the present system. r. STOCK. Must be such as to carry a light metal cleaning•rod, and allow a sling to be used. G. RECOIL. Must not exceed that of the Entield Rifle by more than 10 per cent. H. THE ARM AS A WHOLE. Must be as littlo liable to injury by long-continued firing, rough usage, and exposure, as the naval rifles converted to breech-loaders on the Snider system. To be as capable, also, of being used without accident by imperfectly t ra i ne d men, and of being manufactured in quantities and of uni form quality. 1. THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp, and exposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for Snider's converted Enfield rifle —also as little liable to acci dental explosion as the same cartridge, and as capable of being manufactured in largo quantities, and of unifo rm K. CALIBRE. quality. Optional. L. THE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE. Optional. m. THE LOCK. Optional. x. RAPIDITY OF FIRE. Capable of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without aiming, the cartridges being arranged on a table. o. ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST. The arm must give a mean figure of merit of not more than 36in. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500, and Gin. at 300. The mean to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty shots each. r. TRAJECTORY. Not to require at 500 yards an elevation of more than 1 deg. 30 min. Q. FOULING. The shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cent. at 1,000 yards after firing 250 rounds. n. PENETRATION. The mean penetration of five shots not to be less than that of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle— viz., 12 half-inch elm planks, which havo been soaked 48 hours in water. Distance aliards. s. LITBRICATION. Wax on bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant may be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought necessary by the competitor. No arms will be received w ith ou t th e usual proo f mar k s. Specifications, and drawings of the methods proposed, stating the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a finished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu nition, should be sou', to the "Director of Ordnance, War Office, Pall-mall," on or before the 30th M arc h , 1867. The specifications and specimen arms will be considered by the Ordnance Select Committee and its associate mem bers, who will be selected by the Secretary of State for War, and who will, after firing the 20 preliminary rounds, select end recommend for further trial such of the systems as mry appear to them sufficiently promising, rejecting a ll such as may not ba considered to offer sufficient merits to warrant their being included in the competition, the con ditions of which aro stated in this advertisement. Each accepted competitor will then be required to furnish for experiment, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity to the specimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am munition per arm, within four months after date of de mand. Each competitor will be required to disclose to the committee the exact nature of the lubrication he may em ploy. A sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted competitors, to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of the supply of ammunition required. The Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the arm which, on combination of all qualities, is considered by the committee to be the best submitted. A second reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at taining a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu lars, is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism. A third reward of £4OO for the best cartridge. The qua lities which :gill be principally taken into consideration in awarding this prize will be economy of manufacture, power of sustaining r oug h usage, f ree d om f rom deterioration in various climates, and general serviceability. The shooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but as they may depend upon the rifling of the arm with which the cartridge is associated, they will not bo so much con sidered as those above -mentioned. It is clearly to be understood that under no circumstances will a competitor be entitled to mere than one prize 3 but such prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be given to the inventor of tho arm finally adopted into the service. 1V MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. Magazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re ceived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech loading Rifles. They nmst not be less in length than l 8 inches, including the stock. The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at filb. ex clusive of the charges in the magazine. It is indispensable that the arms be made to take a bayonet. The Secretary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best Magazine or Repeating Arm produced that fulfils the above conditions ; and in the absence of experience does not at present define the standard of accuracy or other conditions to be fulfilled before such an arm can be adopted. Those Magazine orßepeatingArms, which are accepted for further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O each. This sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per arm. The Secretary of State will take care that no ingenious novelty produced in answer to this advertisement shall be adopted into the service without proper acknowledgment, and that the name of the individual with whom it origi nates shall be recorded in connection with it. if the rifle to which the first prize is awarded is adopted into the service, it will bear the mveitor's name. J. S T. GEORGE, Major-General 7 Directorl of Ordnance. War Office, Oct. 22, 1866. DIMPLE REMOVER.—AII di seases o f t h e skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove r ed ness, sal lowness, &e. 2s 9d and 7 s 6 d ; or post for 4Q and 100 stamp s . —ALES. LRX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, Londo n , an d all Che mists. HAIR COLOUR WASH.—By washing the head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in seven or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains so by an occasional using. 10s ; scut Tor sta m p s. — ALEX. ROSS, 24?, High ljniborn, London, and all Chemists. Just published, 2d; sent by the author for 3 stamps. UGLINESS and BEAUTY; being a Pamphlet descriptive of articles and means used for improving the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 218, High Holborn, London. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer than 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. The new home the Committee wish to form world be for young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 18, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85. Queen-street. Cheapside; ur by Ilesare Barclay and Co., Lombard-street. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vice-Patron—His Royal Highnear, the Prince of WA LE S, KG. President—His Grace the Duke of BITCCLEUCIL 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 andL actes. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the Jestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 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 reoeived by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Giyn and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote., and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; 1 flliatas, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and CO, Berners-street : and at the Hcepi tel. from 10 till 5. STANFORD BALITIF, Readiuy, --- (......----- 'o"si r ts • , a ,• , ----- --- _ - 7, __-- ... ‘, /cd / of zf e, d e7....."0:/ 7.7/f,:z77.____.- sented in the Russian capital, not only in a _,..---, and national point of view, bat even when , , !• V - '''' t l` -- .fritt.4 ..,.. & .- 4 _, • ~...s' -, N.. , . 4.). -;. :, ;: p. . - ,;;;; , ."..., ..... by the most fastidious rules of hospitality aa , 0:10 ,tl,O - 1- tocratic elegance. , \ ••••• sz . . Nok , 1, • , „/ 4 $ . 1) , ..-.1 t ~, , c kt,.. / f ,-* ~ .........„........... fi.4".4 (4 1-H i t vi -I4 ' ° ,' ,'';-! -'.'; '-,-.? .. iis ._ _ .„,,, 119A.L%41, , 421,1 * . i;,( ' ' .., ..-- ' *.•-. „,.„„, -- v . ' ._ --,:. " Voal ~ 4, 'L., The Anthracite Coalfields of P--..L.,1 r 1 - 1 -, ,! ..., ~ ~ , , \ , r - 0ft,..... t. t --400111L-4 lit/ r • " --- ,' r o. ~.i• bi lilla• aii l - - .. 44 11 r. '" r r , r , k . r.: 4 ,.. ~ P M A 1 • i f 4 •Art lIIETS, d 4 ii.... -EZ cft.& , ...A01 , .. v iz , ...„„ 0 , T . • ....V % G , .--",-, -- -A. ,. Di i 1- 3,7 1- ..0r4..t. e , , f': .; .1 , _ \; v 1 i ..:.• i -1 - , \1 1 .4 . 4,:.,- - --,. ' _ , . ....„ N:( 4^, .1 4 , ,. -- ' N "'" ', + eta'► ennsy PRICE..... 4d. STAMPED sd. popularly supposed to furnish the Tories of the country. We do not thi n k, th en, t h a t M r. Bright is a wise counsellor when he bids the working classes resort to means which would excite such jealousies and animosities. He chose to sneer at the opinion we expressed yesterday that after the meetings of the summer and the procession of Monday the Lon don working men might be con t en t to k eep qu i et till the meeting of Parliament. But we still venture to believe that it is better advice, and more likely to lead to a liberal and satisfactory settlement of the Reform question, than any new enterprise for con - solidating and extending to political matters the tyranny of the Trades' Unions. As little can we agree with Mr. Bright in his eulogy of the scheme of a Franchise Bill without one for the Redistri bution of Seats. lie takes credit to himself for having furnished the late Government with this idea ; but there is, indeed, little reason for satisfaction, for it was primarily to this unfortunate error, and to the manner in which the Government persevered in it until it had alienated the more moderate of its supporters, that the disasters of the late session were due. It is difficult to imagine Mr. Bright's purpose in disinterring a plan which was so generally con demned, and telling us that it ought to form part of the Liberal programme. Whatever passes, we will venture to say that a franchise bill without a redis tribution of seats will not pass. Whatever views may prevail in the House of Commons, the idea of a Reform Bill spread over a series of years will never be seriously entertained. No future statesman will endanger office and reputation by a scheme the only result of which must be to keep undecided one of those questions which, as Mr. Bright says, have no respect for the repose of nations. We hope for an easier and speedier settlement. This year has been one of trouble and confusion owing chiefly to the unskilful conduct of affairs in Parliament by the late Ministry. Whoever may be in power, it is not likely that such errors will be repeated. We have no doubt that a bill can be proposed which will content mode rate men of all classes, and that the two houses will be willing to pass it. The anthracite coal-fields of Pennsylvania are comprised in 400 square miles of territory, and lie within the counties of Schuylkill, Carbon, Luzerne, and Wyoming, all adjoining each other among the easternmost foot hills of the Alleghany mountains, and in the valleys of the Lehigh, Schuylkill, and upper Susquehanna rivers. They lie in three masses, the lower or Schuylkill, the middle or Lehigh, and the upper or Wyoming, and amount to 640 square miles of land. All the glittering black coals that make furnace fires all over New England and New York, and get up steam for shops and mills, come from this little section of country, and can and could be found nowhere else. Canals and railroads penetrate and thread this region in all directions. Ten years ago there were 758 miles of canals, and 1,030 miles of railway open and in operation to and among the anthra cite coal-fields of Pennsylvania. Since then the coal production has nearly doubled, and railway ac commodation must have grown in nearly as great a degree. Railways are fast superseding canals. The Lehigh Navigation Company is substituting a railway for its canal through the Lehigh valley—destroyed in part by a freshet four years ago--and the great Pennsylvanian Canal has not paid a dividend since the Reading Railroad was opened. The gross product of anthracite coal is about 10 millions of tons a year, nearly two millions of which are consumed in the neighbourhood, the rest goes to Philadelphia, adjacent tide water ports, and New York. New York and New England are the chief ri.t -,, 1:1 1 70411 1 . '‘:- ri:l-1 : (4 4 • v. , • \ \ c ,".'",, lioll'ti.-;;. ikl-s.";i .r, 7 .1 : *,a I e - -::, -kNA. 6 . ; ' 1 7 judged Id arid- r A. ..r .vania. These fields are in C--a------rbon and Schuylkill coun ties. Coal is wood and other vegetable matter carbonised. Fire and squeezing are the main features of the process. Peat is vegetable fibres getting ready to be made into coal in nature's laboratory. The familiar making of charcoal from wood is ano ther form or step of the process as man performs it. Bituminous coal is a fuller development of car bonisation done by nature ; and man makes coke from bituminous coal, as he does charcoal from wood, by a slow, smouldering fire. The bitumen or volatile elements are expelled, and coke is man's anthracite coal. The latter, as nature, not man, furnished it, is the highest stage of the transforma tion—the perfection of wood carbonised. The diamond goes on many steps further, and is super refined, double-distilled, extra-polished, and over poweringly hardened carbon. Scientific people will tell you how the diamond is made ; but they never made it—anthracite coal is about as far as they ever got. Pennsylvania has almost the monopoly of anthra cite coal. There are bits of it in Wales and Virginia, and faint streaks along the edges of bitu minous coal beds elsewhere, where the old fires sur vived the flood a little longer than in the rest of the neighbourhood. Down in Rhode Island, too, there are minesof anthracite coal, into which a good deal of money has gone. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER - 5, 1866. Now ready, in dt.my Bvo., with plans, 18s., THE THIRD AND CONCLUDING VOLUME OF T HE HISTORY OF THE LATE AMERICAN WAR. By Lieut.-Colonel FLETCHER, Scots Fusilier Guards. Richard Bentley, New Burliugton-street. Crown Svo , cloth, price S - - - TRIKES AND LOCK-OUTS, or the Law of Combination ; with a Summary of the Law of Arbitra tions of Disputes between Masters and Workmen. By a BARRISTER. 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After showing their strength and organisation in the streets, the Reformers have been naturally desirous of rivalling the great provincial cities by the dignity and influence of a public meeting held in a more convenient place, and attended by a more select class. Mr. Bright was accordingly engaged, and made his first appearance this season before a Lon don audience. But there must be something politi cally deadening in metropolitan life. If the pro vinces have been really as enthusiastic as has been reported, they must be strangely different from us apathetic Londoners, who are mere " Needy Knife- Grinders" in political indifference. Neither demon strations out of doors, nor democratic eloquence within, seem to draw as they should. After a " whip" of a couple of months from 23,000 to 25,000 men marched in procession on Monday, while last even ing Mr. Bright made what was expected to be the chief Reform speech of the - campaign before an audience which far from filled St. James's Hall. Mr. Potter was in the chair, and there were the usual League celebrities who figured at the meeting in the summer. But though, even at this period of the year, when public amusements do not abound, few would be likely to pay for hearing these gentlemen's eloquence, we certainly did expect that Mr. Bright's name would have crowded the hall. But it was not so. For an hour the people came in gradually, but at last, when the chair was taken, about a fourth of the front and highest priced seats, which extended over a large part of the hall, were untenanted, and the people from behind took possession of them. The galleries were fairly filled near the platform, but at the end they were two-thirds empty. At no time was there the slightest crowding in any part ; indeed, the hall would have held with ease some two or three hundred more than it contained last night. Mr. Bright seems, unlike any one else we have met with, to consider the success of Monday's demonstration so complete as to justify him in claiming credit for the idea which the leaders of. some of the Trades' Unions endeavoured to carry out. He began by telling his audience how eight years ago he suggested that the trade and friendly societies should use their organisation for political purposes. For a long time this advice was neglected, but under the stimulus of the present agitation the leaders of the working classes have, he tells us, taken his counsel. The burden of his speech last night was that this organisation should be strengthened and made universal, so that all the power which the artisans are able to use in industrial matters, in questions of labour or wages, should be available for political action. We cannot imagine what Mr. Bright has found in his experience of the present movement, so far as regards the London people at least, which should encourage him in giving this advice. He met the argument of those who said that it was better the Trade and Friendly Societies should not become political organisations by declar ing that this was a question for the members them selves. Exactly so ; it is a question for the mem bers • any association, as we all know, may be made political, if the members who agreed in the original object of the association also agree in political views, or if the political agreement be a condition precedent to admission. But this is not the case with the Asso ciations of the working men, and it is to a disregard of this fact that the failure of the Reform leaders to carry the working population in their train on Monday is to be attributed.. The great body of the working classes no doubt sympathise with the Reform movement, the views of those who walked in the procession were shared by thousands who took no part in it. But it is now plain that a great number of Associations stood aloof, on the ground that they were forbidden by the terms of their incorporation from becoming political bodies, and that those Associations which did join in the Demonstration were unsupported by a large number of their members for a similar reason. 'We must confess that we hold the opinion Mr. Bright stigmatises, and believe it is not desirable that the Trade or Friendly or . Co-Operative Societies should be used as political machinery, either to ob tain a Reform Bill or any other political purpose. In the first place, such a perversion of object, such a mixture of character, would be an economical error in the case of Friendly Societies, and militate against their financial success as much as if the middle classes were to establish political banks, po litical trading companies, or political insurance offices. In the next place, it would excite still more the jealousy of the middle classes, already sensitive enough, by the prospect of a vast organisation for political control against which they themselves would have no power unless they resorted in turn to combinations unknown in our constitutional his tory. The chief cause of the postponement of Re form from year to year has bee n the tacit fear felt by the middle class of this very or g anisation of thel artisans. Their numbers, their docilit y , we might say their submission to their leaders, the ease with which they can be wielded, and the strength they possess to coerce both their employers and the re cusant members of their own body, are the causes of the passive hostility with which their claims have been met, and which they may rest assured is stronger among the higher trading class which em ploys artisan labour than among other country gentlemen or the members of professions who are Festivities at St. Petersburg. The fetes on the occasion of the marriage of the Czarewitch were continued on Monday by a ball o have been extremely animated and most successful l g e i d v g e n e d a t t t h h e a ve British b een E a mmbaags magnificent c w en li t ie r h eu w ni a o s n, ac a k n n d o w t in every respect. The invitations, issued to a some what restricted number, a'bout 300 of the elite of St. Petersburg, named nine o'clock as the time of the ball, and many of the guests paid their hosts the compliment of coming at the time appointed. Lady Buchanan and the Ambassador, in his gold embroidered uniform of office, received the guests at the door of the reception-room. The fete pre sented the appearance of a Court ball ; the guests were in full state uniforms, with their decorations, as at the late ball at the Winter Palace. The toilettes of the ladies were of great richness and brilliancy, and withal remarkable for the exquisite taste which they displayed. The apartments of the British Embassy, though not of remarkable extent, are handsome and well proportioned. They are in general decorated in white and gold, relieved here and there by fine Sevres vases filled with beautiful flowers. - The ball-room is pure white, decorated with rich mouldings and caryatides. By an admirable arrange ment the refreshment room was in the Ambassador's room at the end of the apartments opposite to the ball room. In an adjoining room was the private tea table for the royal vititors. This decentralisa tion of the fete, so to speak, added to the relative position of the rooms, which were admirably adapted for the circulation of the company, prevented crowding at any one point. At about ten o'clock the imperial family and the foreign princes made their appearance. The Prince of Wales, as a mark of courtesy to Sir A. Buchanan—who is a *Scotch man—wore the Highland dress, a red vest, and plaid and kilt of Stuart tartan. He also wore the grand cordon of the Danish Order of the Elephant. A gentleman of the prince's suite also appeared in a Highland costume, the vest of black velvet. The ball was opened by the Cz trewitch at about half-past ten with Lady Buchanan, the Grand Duchess Maria Feodorona dancing with the Prince of Wales, the Grand Duchess Alexandra Josephovna with the English Ambassador, and the Prince Royal of Denmark with the Grand Duchess Catherine Mi hailovna. About half an hour later the Emperor appeared, looking very welt, and quite an Emperor, iu his red uniform of Horse Guard officer, and his helmet surmounted by the golden spread eagle. After a turn or two round the saloon his Majesty approached M. Larrainzar, the Mexican Minister, and asked him if he had news from the Emperor Maximilian. He next spoke to M. de Moira, the Portuguese Minister, who bowed low and often in response, thanking the Emperor for the favours he had lately conferred on him. Tie had that morning received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the White Eagle, one of the first of the Russian orders. The Count of Redern, the Prussian Minister, who is about to leave St. Petersburg, likewise received that day the Order of St. Alexander Nevski. The Em peror then sat down at the whist-table with Prince Basil Dolgorouky, Baron de Lieven, and Count John Tolstoi, Postmaster-General. Besides the illustrious guests above named the ball w as honoured by the presence of the Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovitch, the Grand Duke Con stantine Nicolaievitch, the Grand Duke Nicolas Nicholaievitch, senior, the Grand Duke Michael Nicholaievitch, and the Grand Duchess Olga Feodo rovna, his Grand Ducal Highness Duke George of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, their Imperial Highnesses Prince Nicholas M aximiliauovitch, Duke of Leuch tenberg, and the Princess Eugenie Maximilianovna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, his Highness Prince Alexander of Hesse, his Imperial Highness Prince Peter of Oldenburg, their Highnesses'rince Herman of Saxe-Weimar, and Prince Albert of Saxe-Alten burg, Duke of Saxe. The dances proceeded without interruption for some time, the august visitors taking part in t hem with a spirit f u ll y equal to that displayed by them at the fete recently given by the Princess Helen Kotchoubey. It was remarked by some that the number of youthful countenances and showy shoulders seemed to be in excess of those displayed on former festival evenings. This was attributed to the number present from the " British Colony" in St. Petersburg. As for the dresses of the ladies, it would pass the limits of any reasonable space to attempt to describe thew. Suffice it to say that poplin was the preponderating material—velvet poplins, silk poplins, sat i n poplins, poplins of every colour of the rainbow. An exception must, however, be made in favour of the marvellously beautiful attire of the Grand Duchess Alexandra Josephovna. Let our readers picture to themselves a w hi t e dress with three flounces rolling in vaporous folds, and confined with garlands of algae and other sea weeds, which were also to to be seen in the head dress ; the whole surrounded and, so to speak, flooded with waves of light, with green flashes from the most perfect and magnificent parure of emeralds that the eye has seen—necklace, bracelets, ear rings, chaplet, and ornaments for the corsage, &c. The harmony of this whole display, which at the sanie time was perfectly in keeping with the style of ball dress, and in no sense suggested that of a fancy ball, enhanced a grace and beauty too well known to need mention. The august lady appeared almost a vision of a goddess of the sea surrounded with the beauties of her native element. The supper was served to the guests seated at table, and after wards dancing recommenced, and was spiritedly kept up till three o'clock in the morning. It is needless to add that the Ambassador and Lady Buchanan did the honours of the embassy with a graceful heartiness, and were unwearied, and, it might almost be said, übiquitous in their attention to the guests, from the commencement to the close of the fete. They were ably seconded by the per sonnel of the embassy, who evinced a zeal and readi ness which in no small degree contributed to the complete success of this brilliant fete. It was felt that the great power of Britain was worthily repre- consumers, only a small quantity goes west from the northern coal field by the Erie Railroad and its branches. Port Richmond, near Philadelphia, and Elizabeth-port, near New York, are the chief centres of the coal trade on the coast. It is calcu lated that the yield of the mines could be doubled, to produce 20 millions of tons a year. But the supply is calculated to last, even at this rate, several hundreds of years, when recourse could be had to mines of bituminous coal scattered profusely, not only through Pennsylvania, but in other States of the Union. The cost of mining and starting the coal varies from $l-01 to $2-GO per ton ;an average of $2-12 on leaving Maunch Creek, the central point of the Lehigh mines. This includes the pay of the miner, which varies from 35c. to 75c. a ton. The rest of the $lO to $2O paid per ton for the coals in New England is for carriage, and for the profits of intermediate dealers. The various names by which anthracite coals are known in the market, as Lehigh, Hazelton, Peach Mountain, Lackawanna, Beaver Meadow, &c., only indicate the mines, or groups of mines, from which they arc taken. There are shades of difference be tween many of them, sometimes of hardness, some times of purity, and often only in the care with which they are prepared, and the slate culled before being sent to market. Apart from the land con taining the coal, it costs $150,000 to open a coal mine, to bring it fairly into operation, to provide it with timber, and tracks, and cars ; to erect the building and put in the machinery for breaking up and separating the coal for the market. It is a peculiarity of the anthracite coal veins that they lie wrinkled and bowed between the red sandstones and conglomerates that are their inse parable companions. The bituminous coals lie in even, parallel strata ; but the convulsions of beat and force that manufactured the anthracite coal turned its beds into the bow shapes in which they are found, sometimes coining out to the surface for light and to announce themselves, and again hidden beneath their neighbours and protectors. But the presence of the latter is a sure sign of their hiding places. The anthracite veins are of all sizes, from two to three feet to near 50 and 60 feet, though the latter are in fact several coal seams separated by thin layers of slate and conglomeiate. The usual c ou m te rs r e hen coisvteorionpgeinatforotmhetmheidsdidlee o o f f a a hviel vent, through and t the all directions, leaving cola to excavate the coal in g a m lle n r s ie o s f , t o h r in e mineral cham b to ers, sup port in the walls. The Police Perjury OftV. JUDGES'O HAMBE RS -COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. TILE QUERN V. BARRY AND 11A.Y2S. sk This was an action on behalf of two persons, Barry and Haves, two police-constables (the latter of whom was tried and convicted of perjury at the last sessions of the Central Criminal Court, arising out of evidence given by hint and the prisoner Barry at the trial of two lads, named Dye and Pearce, who were tried and acquitted for an attempted bur glary, at the Central Criminal Court), for a wait of certio rari to remove an indictment found against them, and which charged them with conspiring together by commit ting perjury to procure the conviction of Dye and Pearce. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine appeared to support the applica tion, instructed by Messrs. Ellis and Ellis, solicitors to ties commissioners of police ; and Mr. Sleigh:(instructed by Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street) appeared for the prosecution. The application was founded upon an affidavit which set forth that the prisoners Barry and Hayes had each been tried for perjury upon substantially the same facts, and whereas one was acquitted the other was convicted of the charge, and furtherthat the Recorder,who presidedat each of such trials, had intimated his opinion that the indictment for conspiracy might very properly be removed into the Court of Queen's Bench and tried by a special jury. _ Mr. Sleigh said he was not instructed to oppose the appli cation. Of course the usual order requiring the defendants to give security for costs would be made, and ho should ask that sufficient time should be allowed for inquiring into the sufficiency of the proposed sureties. Mr. Sergeant Balkntine said the commissioners of police were instructing him, and he thought his learned friend (Mr. Sleigh) could scarcely press that application as against thorn. Mr. Sleigh, referring to the affidavit made on behalf of the defendants, remarked that in point of fact there was a discrepancy between the two verdicts, inasmuch as on the second trial further and material evidence was adduced for the prosecution. Mr. Justice Shee made an order that the indictment be removed to the Court of Queen's Bench, the defendants to find two sureties in £2OO each, and that 48 hours' notice be given to the prosecution for inquiry as to the substantiality of the sureties. The trial will come on in February next before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury. A LADY BURNED TO DEATH IN CLERKENWELL.— Last evening Mr. W. Payne, the coroner for the City, held an inquest at St. Bartholomew's Hospital relative to the death, by fire, of Mary Ann Andrews, aged 65 years. From the evidence it appears that the deceased was a maiden lady and was living (at No. 9, Easton-street, Clerkenwell, and at a quarter to 7 o'clock on Monday morning one of her lodgers, hearing a noise, entered her room, when he found the poor creature lying on the floor in the corner of the room nearly dead. There were two match boxes on the floor alight. Her clothes were entirely burnt off her back. De ceased was conveyed in a cab to the above hospital, where she died from the effects of the burns. Ycrclict, accidental death by fire. P . 't ly 813 last' 3 on ' 310. 5 ; ,s were CO n of bli r wet ni the tte de r 1 6.° 3 were boil )ur of per 36 30 s t " 5, 01 J, tra l r, ocif )0 3 )0'