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LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM for Gentlemen. Remember, we wait for you a' EVANS' after th e C ovent-garden Pantomime and the Theatres. LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 18M. Th is celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It IR Pure, Mid, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. th B e ° A o. in .s. Bottles , 3s. Bd., a t the Ret a il H o uses in London ; by it In the principal towns m England; or wholesale 8 . GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red &al, Pink Label, and Cork branded tnahan's LL Whisky." NOUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION 14 (I ncorporated by Act of Parliament, 1850), . 24-18 SE L L -STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON pittreeie 3VANCE beneficial Leasehold Property, without inquiry any deduction wh a t ever , f or per i o d s o f one, t wo , or dis c Yea.rs, repayable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Rills a - Pun ted. The areatest secrecy observed. Advances also ,!i_e towards the Purchase of a House, repayablelo, or eni T ,Tri —Forms free on application, or receipt of a stamped ope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.—OPEN COM ra,mpqrrioN of 1866.—The EXAMINATION will cona reuZ-,9n March 19. Applications from Candidat_e e s h M e natural born subjects ot her Majesty, and b who een o eep , of 17 and 21, will be received until February 1. A. ci v f l 7, l th e rewations may be obtained from the Secretary, ervice Commission, Dean's-yard, London. S.W. LAIV LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE. Fleet -street, London, E.C., Jan. 8, 1836. - NO Trey kp.„„ IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a GENERAL i''s"-ING of the. Proprietors of the Law Life , Assurance London will b, held at the Society's Office, } leet-street. ' oc ei retl:arino PonRIDAY, the 2d day of February next, at 12 P pursuant to the provisions of the th e AIYA BedD of Settlement, for the purpose of receiving . ..to Annual Report of the Accounts of the Society h4,:,.‘,1 t he 318 t d a y of • Decem b er last, and for general pur ,uses. By order of the Directors, WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. ~E IMPERIAL CREDIT MERCANTILE - - --- • ---- -- ASSOCIATION (Limited). Capital subscribed, £5,000,000. Paid up, £500,000. CiLuitmA.N —JOHN CHAPMAN, ESQ. lie MANAGERS. This 1 7 .1. Barker, Esq and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq. antiie As • • sociatton makes ADVANCES upoi! approved McE-_ . tqq,„,,,tbi other Securities, and RECEIVES MONEY ON Oinntaerest for short or long; periods. tria„''ruSlTOßS for periods of not less than Three Years application at the Offices, Debentures of the :bearing vetointesi at 6 per cent- per annum, pay- 21' r,:cl7:4°:tei7oll, ea, '" r terlY by Coupon bearer" attached. 27. Lombard-W C.London, WINTERBOTTOM, IE.a Secretary. street, e 4°C OLATE.—MENIER'S FRENCH. C II °COLAT-MENIER, for Breakfast. .._ C"COLAT-MENIER is pure, wholesome, and delicious. IVI EN IER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE. Tv arehouse, 23, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. Sold everywhere. P,Pr and CO.'s OVERCOATS and SUITS. an d pi,iii°rning and Lounging Coats, Half Dress, Undress, able e p s tees Suits, Trousers, Vests, &ct., in all the fashion aiveann''dsitrgbalnedra4t,e6loßD_STßEET, x i - 1 4-01 and CO.'S PRICES and GARMENTS. Joreoats and Capes,ils. to 645. ; Jackets, 218 to 425. ; o Wales Coats 30a to 635.; Trousers, ready made and to 818711 re, 1 48.6 d. t 0 ,255..; Vests 6s. 61. to 218. ; Snits, 425. and CO., 66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET, W. -L and CO.'S BOYS' SUITS and CAPES. ttavrrreoats and Capes, 15s 6d. to 4?s. 'toKnike, 78 Z. to 2 5 r , and Osborne Suits, 15s. 6d. 4ss. ; Jackets, ; ;Trousers, Bs. 6cl. to 15s. 6d. ; Vests, 4s. 6d. to _ a Vests alike, 15s. 6d. to 275. 6d. and Co., nd 65 and 67, OX FORD-STREET, W. t it r tl‘t and CO.'S SELECT DEPARTMENTS. merit • e• 1 • Clothing for imrm (Bate wear. No. 2. Ordered • 4 ent, I PL. No. 3. Boys and Youths. Distinct Depart- ItyAlt Rats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Depart Tent. `l'atieh and CO., 66 and 67, OXFORD- S TREET, V. .. atabli shments—Birmingham, Leeds, and Dewsbury 444 T DO THE WILD WAVES SAY flabrit, NOW? ging Boni Tilat the FTI , ;RY , _ , CROSS has arrived. th our, e magnificent IcAISOW ..,ONGOI.TS of _delicious e ittiporit which may now be had, at a mere commission _ °' Gre,„Prioe, of the EAST INDIA. TEA CO 11PAN Y, Helen's Churchyard, Bishopsgrate-street. STARCH MANUFACTURERS q L To n. THE PRINCESS OP WALES. INP IELD PATENT STARCH, Used in the Royal Laundry, AN D AlvArtnnn TIIE PRIZE MEDAL, 1862. wo T S old by all G rocers, Chandlers, Sze. &o. II ERSPOON and. CO., Glasgow and London. iTV., 41)LANA111,. LERACTIEL'S 'ROYAL ARABIAN — , 1 2 1, AL WASH. CIRCASSIAN BE_AU_T . Y . cior ~,ALASTER POWDER, ARABI ‘N Ntvined""t,N CIRCASSIAN HAI R 1V ASH can now be 'ttin a , at all c h emists in town and country. To guard tends, rabos i tion all ena me l s , wa , hes, and to let requisites o the 4 rn in her —ame have the Royal Arabian signet attache d New Bond-street, where she can be consu l t e d ,ents required in town and country. I) EI i T TA,L NOTICE.—Mr. ESKELL, Surger -444,,,:-'etist, of 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street . havinp; 4 ,.. - e. N ,"ce€l tor a considerable period that "he Is '4% . 4()T CM -416\r,,,,‘41th any one of the name, and tile. he has r 'eui' .. th " , and does not intend doing - so," be2a reapactiuLy to f'at as he considers the general public are now vtli ally 0 4 w 11 aware of the facts he will cease to make t= or tiler tilet Proressional statement in the pubtic papers nand of February next. ItEBY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. ALTII WITHOUT MEDICINE. Being Lesti„ th e ,t_only Sovereign and unfailing . Remedy fo . E . lnd o i: " l a Lt ' 'clisioation, Nervousness, Debility. Torpy I Con,hvee, Ilea dache,•Biliousness, Despondency, Low Spirits, Pll ll l4 44t hrna, and Incipient Consumption. tato Particulars sent to any addressnti on receipt of two 40 n, N . ;_bY Mt REARS LEY, 23, Kesh-town-road, Lou. the w. 14) ° ,1 to il°l,°ateltcacions remedy for those diseases extant, a v, 'Thi s j'e arni cted."-Medical Review. suri,,, being nvaluable discovery has at tame I a world-wide cel e e: . 41 , rern o of inestimable value, and most admirably.adaPtl lerii,f those maladies which tend to embitter 11 e, and T he ta duration " Scalpel. I'll'illei 11re ceden'te - cl success of this remedy is without tfr eet -‘ ; this i, -lledical =al de demonstrated by the innumerable cares h it ti SC OTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS E tr e(' opi l' iv..' lB ••-21. NEVER FAILING REMEDY.-Pre 'l7°frtt., of NEVER mercurial ingredient , from the recipe of Dr. ' - r I f - `" °1111 eY Kef, will be found invaluable to all who 1 111 1.°1 4 bill ' - to rns, ous and aver nomplaints inligesticn, wind, ot°ll“.B`:dastaess, dizziness of the eye's, and For purifier old e bl ood a family aperient medi . cine, ild in their opera as a purifier ka r; an d grqetbey are truly kild e, di gesti l4l t° the t he y stomach, 1 s DY Ir . , . 11 , and etreng - then t he wgmoreleatneervaPoPueeisteistperm.o tillcion,aal_nabert, 8, King William-street, C haring-cross. $0,15 the `;' b y most druggists, in boxes la. lid., and three ~_ tt's ai,,cluantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask ter Pr. ,_reett p..s.loes and Liver Pills. The eniine a square 'kn. - * a ge- with .. William Lambert.";- ........_____, engraved on the 1 11-1 h h E RES , CITE SOCIETY wishes to add another ;CI - ",,,,e tO the 12 now in operation. Last yesr no fewer be . ,", 1 Or 1. ° 2 r ,, , friendless oung females were rejected iro have i h q sea t "„,2 1 - 1 S and roomymaking a total of 3,087, who 41 "ue "aY in as y 13 Here are brief details of a few I, ,most recent cases • eal . s l :11 4: renalifii ft 3 l , l h en o e m , mother . ea,bo d t e h ad p , deserted by her father. arents dead. *''' 1 . fallen father dead, deserted by her mother 'O, h•' aged 15, fallen ' mother dead. tk i ii , aged 15, fallen, mother dead, I. S . ' a ged 16, fallen, both parents dead. ( 1. ti' aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents. '. II" a ged 17, fallen, both parents dead. •nk,. 4' , aged 17, fatten both parents dead. ~ lo aged 18 fallen' father dead. ;;11 "._aged 18, fallen' both parents dead. gi...4: N*,eci 17, fallen 'both parents dead. 1,. ',., age fallenal. both parents dead. y o . he . ';`,led li both parents dead. tta,.‘ t 'Z l ,7, hom " e the Committee wish to form would be for e v :be e ,' l s ecl a almost children, from the age of s to 15, who k r. atri but , astray from the pa_ th of virtue. kJ? ati,,, l l ',L,Mas will be received gratefully by the Secretary, -clav a;,,sooper, 85, Queen -street, Cheapside; or by Messrs ---' k 'o., Lombard-street. $0 1.. ti ...0 11 fliaziPetl:LLS OR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. , nARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids' i;) , :ii 4 L il h:r:e ey i 'le d TR? REVALENTA ARAB C A A, ai much ' assimilating and strengthening ln,,s'ng n ` , lt as the best meat. and restores perfect digestion, qettenaies sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, K ee blee te gularity and energy to the most disordered or tiZenehicrenioving speed‘iy and effectually indigest o a n_ tc,„," , dio ri ! cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constip er litrs,onitata. titpaa,tualleingeays,trie derangements, haemorrhoids, l a l e v re nervousness, biliousness, fevers. t e 4111:,1ctlZrZaeigrlia,a, catarrhs, colds, infl u e„,‘ noises I°-.onhs 1,,. eri a ...!ars, r heumatism, gout, impurities erraptl , irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, aittalmpla ;t!teo Jtourn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spa _ , 8 , i.iheatnor;l,i,;.;:haeireoltiness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking ht o . nia, tightness of the chest, pains in the pit es. t os h ,' of a i) . , and between the shoulders. ft is the mos dig 11,1141.14.'00d8. and suitable for invalids and infants in all the "quote wast - vetit o - iew out of 62,000 Cures :-Cure No. 58,210, of vo , . i ng• ..- tle aa de Brehm, of seven years' liver complaint, 1 14 4 Pal;TaY, debility, nervousness, irritability, with a_n es er a: 71 a. aq iTtion all over, bad digestion, constant sleep! _ _ 0 IY e r dy ß ule Most intolerable nervous agitation. Cure N_ . I day - " , C r e pt; from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de N,, - dem; _, Lieutenant. of the county of Waterford : -1 tit art d e 'ec• much benefit from your excellent food. - 4,, e Ne s:teles, Dromana, Cappoquin, county Waterford. food.- di fle . c„ from the Rev. James T. Catnobell, Sy e 11_ t a ;a i tion '" r Y, near Fakenham, Norfolk.-In all cases ot in- Rer'lY air and particularly when the liver is more than tiate _ eted, I consider it the beat of all remedies. It roi i itiiit or._ bile, and makes it flow in cases which would no t in:Lbile ir t ourY in any shape, In short, a healthy flow o ke o r, tte4ne of its earliest and best symptoms. You can If eo 'eine ! , Pie You please of this communication.- I am. R ilt - i se, Pril,,, - aines T. Campbell Cure No. 52 . ,4‘2. -Bridge tii ot leY, 8 ur rey.-Thirty-three years' diseased lungs. G ) ,: erlrf, lood, liver derangement, deafness singing an i . lahmßll,llll::,.°BtiPation, debility, shortness of 'breath, and "1 0 ,, , 41, liver eeen remove oui seaßvalenta Arabic . in t. Y . stiC&feet '', ,°rnaoh, headband ea re all right, my heat ut fii• -- -Ja; ne u my recovery is a mar, el to all my acquaint es _ bc, B ty y,ar_t3 jloberts, Timber Merchant. Cure No. 49, , 1 8 2. ii, B , as. hni: _indeseribsb:e agony from dyspepsia, nerv a ..u e. -. 4t,le.iqd p7,,',Zth, constipation, flatulency, sgolllr, (lure „ke'sitiol. Ikli®s ii - ;iI!:TiI.J J ° I3 ;; ,00ffLeZlir N n eine nervousness, (IV IsZO sno, eatherinov low ae s ° spirits, and nervous fancies. i l rrcea 814. --Mr Za' ~ 6(1. • Th e eani '4 • 'g rk ` lo -; 241 b., 40s. Super -refined quality. ; lb., Os, ; h a atr .., 22s • Olb 31s The 101 b 21b., and 241 b. ~„„ r, , coda ..-.4iiri..n Hart. free Oit . ' receipt of Post-Office Order. by ,i, k is, Tea X and Co., 77, Regent-street, London . also ,a lt r ace II a nd Co., Kin.' 'William-street ; likewise at p il i e l n ; 41,re, streetll- street': 4, Chelpside, 49, 131shopszate-street it Ne r taker d 298, Oxford -street ; 330, Stand; 54, 1 f /81410 03, To ttenham-court -road; 96, Upper *Ci(;,i I gh-st' t ". N.: Ramey Notting -hill ; Close Brothers, 11e,..‘i, Le„,i r cet ; and istubbs' Queen's-t ace, St. John's "rare ergn ar ;ioald t a ni llitraetatable Groce e r iT s and Chemists.- .anee in reasoo nission- it about roversy ould be i s verY sting to rernon- I to 5O • other request /s ra tes. meet° but th e Bole/ were ..-- Id oats, oderat e ,he wee rde rates 180 „,,„ 64 200 1 7 8 0 1 203 01 190 ,t a 423 — A 320 CO 3.Ss Od 293 (Id ce, with Le of , t , to eiLs c India! hanged. marke ts ially bif ipplY ° beat , , 5 ) : oats, 0- s Per 3° er P ltii Lus, ° n . it. ;rixtol)l ilor w in ' 0 of tde r" "“ of De' ,o, o r tuglit go pir te-e sq, , villa/ 109, 0. 11 ,00 111 rot )1: ° 4 1 % t "15 o t lsf 6 ;o• 11 !i I nv; - No. 22,953. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. ccxxxvir., wi Ibe Published Di EX I WEEK. CONTENTS. I. The Zambesi. 11. Simon de Montfort. 111. Tennyson's Enoch Arden. IV. M. Sainte-Betive. V. Grote's Plate. VI. Arabia. VII. Caricature and the Grotesque. VIII. Miss Berry's Journals. IX. The New Parliament. John Murray, Albemarle-street. PROPOSED LONDON RAILWAYS, &c. Just published, `STANFORD'S NEW MAP of the PROPOSED METROPOLITAN RAILWAYS and MISCELLANE OUS IMPROVE siENTs for Session 1866, showing also the Sanct one I Lines and Railways in Operation, as far as Croy don, Hounslow, and Barnet; with a List of the Plans num bered to correspond with this Map, and th , . Private Bill Office List ; the Names of the Engineers, and the Lengths of the Proposed Lines. The map is on the scale of two inches to a mile ; also, 35 inches by 30, and accurately compiled from the Dep3sited Plans. Price, in sheet, 2s. 6d. ; mounted in case, ss, London: Edward Stanford, 6, Charing-cross, S.W. Published by J. Clements, Little Pulteney-street, price 7d., in cloth 13d., a New Work on the Teeth, entitled pURE DENTISTRY, and WHAT IT DOES FOR US. By A. 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 b.!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. Demy Bvo., price Is., WHAT FOOD TO EAT. By W. W. IRELAND, M.D. (late of H.M. Bengal Army). London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row. Just published, extra cloth gilt. gilt edge., price 3s. 6d., D lAM OND DUS T. Collected by ErAza. Coos. , London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row. Second Edition, extra cloth, price Is. 6d., MHE LITTLE THINGS OF NATURE. By LEo H. GRINDON, Author of "Life : its Nature," &c. 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This Work contains Reedi is for above 400 dishes, pre pared without the use of animal food. It possesses an espe cial interest at the present time on account et the high price 01 meat, and the prevalence of disease amcmr, cattle. London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row. JDEFRIES and SONS beg to call the special • attention of Merchants and the Trade to their NEW PATENT ASTRA BURNER, With Circular Wick, which for simplicity of construction, great brilliancy of light, perfect combustion. and its entire freedom from heat, sur passes everything that has yet been introduced. ASTRA LAMPS can be obtained from th e METROPOLITAN LIGHT COMPANY,4I7, Strand, and from all Ironmongers and Lamp Warehouses in Town and Country ; and the Patentee, 16 and 17, Commercial street, WhitechapeL A STRA, PETROLEUM, and KEROSINE. LAMPS on SHOW. (New Designs.) A STRA (Patent) LAMP, for MINERAL At; TR A LAM P.—Five Hundred NEW PA TTERNS for the Season now on show. TABLE GLASS. ENGRAVED AND CUT. 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T DEFRIES a n d SO NS ti• Supply Merchants with Pattern Books Free. T DEFRIES and SONS' te • TEMPORARY SHOW ROOMS. 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET, WHITEC [TAFEL, Five Minutes' walk from the Late Establishment, 147, HOUNDSDITCH. TOHN GOE'NELL 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 ls. &L—Bull Wharf, Rotherhithe, Lon don. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAKENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, an 1 Dining-room, consisting of a new and eißgant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, rbeautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &a, in Italian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &o. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine. ratoziat to her ilaiesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS. INERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly fAcilitate 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- R Y is given by Mr.TENNAN 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, MG 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 L,49.Cied . 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 5,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Conimittee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of eo.taining several hundred more beds, had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, hdward Has • !erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; G;yu and Co. ; ITArrles and Co. ; Ransom and Cu.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; W Riams, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, G lir • my, and Co.: Nisbet and Co . Berners-street ; T. Barned and Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. STANFORD SMITH. Secretary. TAILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and HO .11E, Hampstead. Offices, 77, Cornhill. PATRON—The QUEEN. TRUSTEES. Capt. the Hon. Francis Maude, The Rev. Canon bhampneys R.N. l Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. TREASURERS. R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. i Robert Hanbury, Esq. This Institution is designed to supply a great national want, viz., an asylum for the orphai daughters of sailors in the Royal Navy and Merchants service and of Marines. It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic service. and provides a home free of exoense for former inmates while ont of situations, thus shielding them from the temptations they might otherwise be exposed to. - The Committee earnestly .APP MAL for CONTRIBU TIONS to meet the increasing applications through the recent storms and loss f life at sea, and to enable them eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000 sailors annually by casualties alone, without including tnose who may perish by war. Subscriptions than:luny received by the bankers, Messrs Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill. R. SWEETING, Hon. Sec. CHARLES NASH, Bso. , . • • • < - P' - - :, - ;'-v/;,-::4".:- •I'''''% ) 4: !!- ,5 . - 7; 1: 17 4, 4070, . 4. :7 :'' ..,..4100hmk0, \ '''' , , ,t ; :4o 6 r )‘* ,: .),, ,r t „ ,v „, t mr ...., ,,titift,, , - ...., x4 ~,,,, ~.... -4 ) k cOld'w c 40.," ~...0.141.7 , „ _ : ; ,...6 7 , - ... , . !.. various experiments does in no way -,.. ,1 4 ,, „ ,ZZ .. , 1 .1 ..i!, 4 ..-, • ^" - ... 1 / 2: ,,,, , e , _'' ~ ••.1%, •./.-.. /7,4,,Z_ ( ~ . .:c t, a El' - • , L- - .-- -4 - - ---- the merit - of him who authorised i ''.,,,,. 1ft(4%1: 1 4, 4 , r , :**, -, '"r ~- I *t n 4:" - AltO g- . 5 .- -1 h . -,-----, . . v..,. , . , .. means for extensive and expensive t • i - -.il- i ./ , ' .4"".42, ines inclined planes, and other mode • .:_ -c. ( ••!-,, jii• 1,,, ti• tc ,i , -• • . A r , g ) 111 •. 1 , 0 • ri M 49t 10 111111W. - . ...10. VaglaillteliA. '5 OH in . ' "V ' . ‘,..a, -,-------, , 5 r, . r..: heavy goods, and committed to writiii a. S ~, ,_ ..A, , 4 , , 2 ‘ .7 •• \ DIE .Cti, 4_41 ) 4 1 . re------7'\.,;',--, .... r Ic. , --1 , ....,. •' ' t - o ... ''' • . .., / *. / Ili, it -nit(' 1 ~,', ~,, lei tips !I 4 i)IZOIT. ° 49 gave to the public the result of their united labours. True it is that in 1825 it was thought even by Mr. Wood a visionary hope that a speed of 12, 16, 18, or 20 miles an hour could be accomplished. Equally true that in 1838 Mr. Wood acknowledged with some surprise that on the Liverpool railway an average rate of 15 miles was kept up with the greatest ease, and on an extraordinary occasion nearly double that rate, or 30 miles in one hour, had been attained. It is by such admissions that we perceive the slow degrees by which a knowledge of practical results is advanced. Our present object, however, is not to relate the history of railway progress, but to notice the first and early efforts of the calm and patient in vestigator who paved the way for the illustrious Stephensons, and prepared the public mind to listen to and sanction innovations in travelling such as are without parallel in the history of the world. In fact, if we except the invention of printing, it may be said that the discoveries of the application of steam power and its subsequent application to travelling may stand forth as two of the grandest achievements of practical science. Let us then beg the attention of our readers to the character of Mr. Wood's experi ments, and of the first published work in this country on locomotive travelling. " It would be too much," he modestly observed, "for me to assume that I have supplied all the information of which the sub ject is susceptible ; on the contrary, I wish it to be understood that what is herein contained must be considered only as an approximation." After giving a general account of various modes of internal travelling and of their successive transitions into existing modes, he described the first introduction of railroads (the name of " railway" had not then obtained)—the gradual improvement from wooden to cast and malleable iron rail. He confined his experiments on rails to such as were then actually in use, and described the form and construction of such carriages as were then employed, and which we may here observe were almost entirely waggons for conveying coal. The various rates of inclination of lines of railway were specially experimented on, and numerous tables were given of the results both . as regards self-acting and other inclined planes, and the work of the few and very imperfect locomotive engines then known. Experiments were made on the strength of cast and malleable iron with a view to ascertain the proper strength of rails, and many trials were made to ascertain the friction or resist ance of carriages when moving on rails. The long and active and useful life of Nicholas Wood affords materials upon which an extended memoir might be based, and without further entering upon details we may venture to express a conviction that the memory of this able mining engineer will hold an honoured place in the annals of this country, and especially so in the nortth of England, where he was so well known and so justly respected.—Hexhain Courant. 4 PRICE 4d., STAMPED 5d.: West Coast of Africa. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday. The royal mail steamship Athenian, Captain Griffith, arrived here this afternoon with advices from the IVest Coast of Africa, Teneriffe, and Madeira. Her dates are—Benin, Dec. G ; Fernando Po, 3 ; Catneroous, Nov. 30 ; Old Calabar, Dec. 2 ; Brass River, 6 ; New Calabar, 5 ; Bonny, 5 ; Lagos, 9 ; Accra, 10; Cape Coast Castle, 12; Cape Palmas, 15 ; Sierra Leone, 20; Bathurst, 24 ; Teneriffe, 30 ; Madeira, Jan. 2. She brings a large cargo, 4,888 sous., 2,950 oz. gold dust, 3,000 fr., and $6,804, and 21 passengers. The Athenian experienced very heavy weather in the Channel, and at four o'clock yesterday morning a tremendous sea struck the ship and washed one of the seamen, Richard Wenning ton, overboard. He was drowned. H.M.S. Spiteful was at Madeira and was to sail on the 4th Jan. for the Brazils. The mail steamer Macgregor Laird arrived at Madeira on the Ist inst. The screw steamer Albany, from Cape of Good Hope, arrived, and would sail on the 3d instant for Southampton. At Cameroons trade was dull, but the river healthy. The schooner Tionesta had sailed for Liverpool. The barque Moselle was off the bar bound in. At Old Calabar no business was being done, and great sickness in the river. At Fernando Po trade was brisk. The barque Phrenologist, from the south coast, for Liverpool, had been sent from Gaboon in charge of a French crew, the crew of the vessel having refused duty, owing, it was said, to her being leaky. At Bonny trade was quite stagnant. The ship Benledi would sail on the sth for Liverpool. BRASS AND NEW CALABAR.—HORRIBLE MAS NSAeCwßE.c—aOlanbarthemlad9eth o a f r N a o id nve o i a ber th th e e ß n ras at s ive m s e o n f through Calabar creeks, and returned on the 23d Nov. with 37 prisoners. On the 24th Nov. a great " play" was held in Calabar town, and all the pri soners were killed and eaten. After death the bodies were cut up and divided amongst the chiefs, according to the number taken by each man's canoe. Trade was in consequence stopped. LAGOS.—The roads of Abeokuta had again been closed, but this time by the natives. It was said that three mouths would elapse before they were open to trade. The oil mills lately erected by Mr. J. Gill were complete and in good m orking order. Although large quantities of machinery had been sent to the coast for crushing palm kernels, none had hitherto succeeded. At Accra a good business had been done during the month. TENERIFFE, Dec. 30.—The authorities of this port placed the Athenian in quarantine. The Spanish mail steamer Infanta Isabel, for Havana, put back 10 hours after leaving the Bay, having broken the key of the propeller. She was repaired, and sailed• again on Dec. 26. The Spanish squadron was expected from Cadiz, to reinforce Admiral Pareja in the Pacific. The squadron consists of the frigates .Alma,nza, Gerona, and Concepcion ; ironclads, Yetuan and Navas de Flosa ; transports, San Quintin and San Francis de Borgus, the latter with the first, second, and third battalions of marines on board. The French frigate Venus passed on Dec. 18 from Brest for Chili. The Spanish war steamer Isabella la Cattolica, passed Dec. 26 with despatches. The late Mr. Nicholas Wood. Mr. Nicholas:Wood, of Iletton-hall, in the county of Durham, died on the 19th ult., in the 71st year of his age. llis name, so familiar to every north countrymen, will be known mere or less wherever civilisation extends, as having been foremost in promoting some of the great improvements which so signally mark the 19th century, and wherever the early history of the two Stepliensons and of the locomotive is known there also is known the name of Nicholas Wood. His important duties as a col liery viewer did not prevent him from pursuing many interesting subjects of research, and of these he freely communicated the r esults to the public, first in the pages of local magazines, and afterwards in his well-known work on the locomotive engine. He was the early patron and employer, and after wards the valued friend, of George Stephenson, with whom and his distinguished son he was on terms of great intimacy as long as they lived. Mr. Wood took an active part in the establishment of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers in Sept., 1852, and continued in the honorary presidency of that society to the time of his death. He was con nected with many other learned institutions, being a Fellow of the Royal Society, as also of the Geologi cal Society of London, and a member of the Insti tution of Civil Engineers. He has, moreover, the merit of being the first English writer of note on the important subject of railway travelling. To have been one of the pioneers in this gigantic march of human progress is an honour of which the relatives and friends and fellow-coun trymen of Mr. Wood may well be proud, and espe cially when it is considered how long he lived not only to witness the extraordinary progress of one of the greatest improvements the world has ever known, but to take a most active part in the actual execu tion of such works. In 1824 it was a subject of discussion in Newcastle whether a canal or railway from that town to Carlisle would best suit the re quirements of trade, and the opinions even of well informed and scientific men were by no means de cided. A brief intimation that railways would be come an important means of conveying passengers had been given in 1811 by Sir Chas. Menteath, of Closeburn, but even up to 1824, when the Stockton and Darlington Railway was made, the value of this suggestion was far from having been practically realised. It was under those circumstances of divided opinion that Mr. Wood offered for public perusal the result of a great number of experiments he had tried on a working scale, his object being to illus trate the acknowledged importance of railroad con veyance, and to meet the intense anxiety existing in the public mind. This anxiety was not specially directed to railways—it had reference to the rela tive value of canals and railroads, and this indicates the position of the subject when M r . W ood came forward to offer information on the matter. In at tempting to supply the want there then was of prac tical information, Mr. Wood professed to give only the result of such facts as had come under his own knowledge, and of experiments made with the express view of obtaining the requisite i nformation. " The path," he truly observed in his preface, "was almost an unbeaten one, and little except general obser vations had been published." The greatest care was used by Mr. Wood in his numerous experiments, and many minute details were embodied in his work, which was entitled " A Practical Treatise on Railroads and Interior Communication in General," and was first published in April, 1825. It was fol lowed in 1831 an d 1838 by greatly enlarged and improved editions. In the preface to the third edi tion we find a full explanation of that which consti tutes the great merit of Mr. Wood's first efforts. Railways, he states, were when the first edition ap peared "quite in a state of infancy. They had been almost exclusively confined to private purposes, for the conveyance of coal, lead, iron, Sze." And he adds that, though their utility for such work was never questioned, "it yetremained to be proved how far they were applicable and useful as an indepen dent and distinct mechanical process for the pur poses of general traffic ?" To those of our own day whose recollection does not extend so far as 40 years ago it is scarcely possible to convey an accurate idea of the value of such researches as Mr. Wood was then engaged in, nor of the friendly aid which he rendered to the great engineer who was employed in a comparatively humble capacity under, or let us rather say with him, :at Killingworth. That George Stephenson took an active part in the THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1866. QTODARE.-THE HOLIDAYS.- THEACRE OF MYSTERY. EGYPTIAN HALL. MARVELS in MAGIC and VENTRILOQUISM; as per formed by command before her Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family at Windsor Castle, Tuesday Evening. Nov. 21, 1865. The marvellous SPHINX, the BIRTH of FLOWER TREES, and STOI)ARIt'S c , ,lebrated INDIAN BASKET FEAT, as only performed by him. Every evening at 8 ; Wednesday and Saturday at 3. Stalls at Mitchell's. Old Bond-street, and Box-ollice, Egyptian 'Tall. Admission, le. and 2P.; stalls, 3s. 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The accounts showed that £22,500 had been received from the South-Eastern Railway Company for the half-year's rental, to which was added £271 balance of preceding ac count, and £4 for transfer fees, making together £22,775. From this was deducted £9,972 for inte rest on bonds and preference stock, £392 for ex penses,. £209 for balance of income tax, and £BO interest on bankers' loans, leaving a balance of £12,122 available for dividend, which, at the rate of £1 7s. 6d. per cent. for the half-year, would ab sorb £11,846, and leave £276. The CHAIRMAN moved that a dividend at the rate of £1 7s. 6d. per cent. be declared payable on the 15th inst., which was seconded and carried. The two retiring directors, Mr. J. Pilcher and Captain S. Murray, were re-elected. The CHAIRMAN said he was sorry that Mr. Corney, owing to illness, had sent in his resigna tion, which they were bound to accept, and it was proposed to elect Mr. Briscoe, of the Admiralty,, to the vacant seat at the Board. Mr. BRISCOE was then unanimously elected direc tor of the company, in the place of Mr. Corney, resigned. The CHAIRMAN read a letter from the bankers, certifying the balance then to the credit of the company, which agreed with accounts. Mr. MACLAURIN supposed that the balance was applicable to the payment of the present dividend. In looking through the accounts of 1863 he found there was a credit for interest received from the bankers of £152 ; since that time, however, he per ceived that the company had to pay interest on account of borrowed money, and he would like to know how it was that the interest account was now reversed. Mr. Annex stated that it was owing to the in creased rate of interest since prevailing. They were obliged to borrow from the bankers at certain times, and as the rate at which they now borrowed was so much higher than the rate they formerly saved by borrowing the operation was reversed. 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Charles, :,(3, Suffolk-street, Pall-Mall East, S.W. Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard- sired, E.C, The mode of admission to the House is twofold, Ist. By election of the subscribers. Boys thus admitted are received free, boarded, clothed. educated, and taught till they are 11 years of age. With the view t o secure the election of the most deserving cases, the Committe have from the first discouraged canvas sing, and they do not print any addresses of the subscribers. The voting papers contain a description of each case, as care fully investigated by the Committee, anti with thin informa tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to those most eligible for free admission. This Home was opened in April, 1864. It was designed to take in the little ones whose character and circumstances disqualify them for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tender age precludes their admission to the Refuges. Such are these who, from neglect, are already on the road to ruin. Such are those who have been deserted by their natural protectors and left to beecome idle wanderers. Such are those whose parents may have at one time or other received parish relief, and who are now friendless orphans. Such are those whose parents are breakers of the law. or are in prison, and who train their children in the same path. Such are those whose evil associations have already had their painful effect, and must lead them to a life of crime and misery. There are now 50 little inmates from about four years of age to 10. There is room for nearly 100, and the Committee would joyfully see the Home filled at once ; they only wait for the necessary subscriptions. The Committee feel constrained to p'ead for those who cannot thus plead for themselves ; and, referring to the cir cumstances of some who have been already admitted, they ask—ls it right to make a widow and her family paupers for lite because ono of them (the naughty boy of the family) runs wild in the streets and is beyond her control ? Is it kind to tell her, because she has so large a family . . that you will not h-lp her to put one of them into a Home, but that they must ail go into "the house ?" Is it doing the best we can for the little destitute orphan to send him to the workhouse. Is it doing to others as we would they should do unto us that when these little ones have unnatural parents who turn them into the streets, or force them by ill-treatment to "run away," none of us shou d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe tht-m ? Shall we leave them still on the doorstep, passing by on the other side, or else exclaiming "Am I my brother's keeper ?" The necessity for an Institution for these little ones is evi dent from the police statistics, which show, that in London alone, in one year, no fewer than 311 boys under 10 years of age, have been apprehended for various offences, 70 of whom were convicted mid punished, while the bulk, 232 were dis charged by the magistrates with a rebuke, as being too young to punish, though not too young to learn the beginnings of crime. On the other hand, there are numbers who, but for the timely help afforded by such an Institution, must otherwise become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-reli ance and self-help be permanent burdens to the State. he Home for Little Boys has, therefore, been established to rescae the little ones, to save them from the prison on the one hand, and the workhouse on the other, and to endeavour to make them useful members of society. The daily routine of the Ins:itution presents all the fea tures of a home, a school, and a workshop. The little ones are cared for as children ; they have their regular meals, their suitable clothing, their hours of play and amusement, and their singing class. They are treated as scholars ; every morning, is devoted to school work—reading, and writing, and cipherin•r, and Scriptural instruction, with occasional lessons in oljects and other subjects. But they are also trained to work. As they must all, and that at a very early Period in lite, earn their living by the sweat of their brow, they are here at once taught habits of industry. So the after noons are occupied with various industrial occupations— making brown paper bags for bankers, and white paper bags for tradesmen, and door mats and servants' kneelers for any who will buy them ; picking the coil for the mats, mending the c othes, Arc. some assist the master in the garden, (Jigging, planting, watering, weeding, and so forth. By degrees they are being made useful in the home, scrubbing and s...ieeping, while the elder ones glean all the boots, knives, ttc. In this way it is sought to fit them for an active working life. 2d. By payment of ss. a week, made quarterly in advance. All children must be under 10 y‘ ars of age at the time of admission. Those received on payment are admitted at any time as soon as approved by the Committee, Elections of children to be admitted free will take place as frequently as the increase in the annual subscriptions will admit, till the Home is full ; they will then be held periodi ;ally Forms of application for the admission of children:may be had at - the Home, and ot the Tr,. , qorqry f3eoretary, Naval and Military Intelligence. The screw corvette Archer, 13, Capt. Marten, which, in consequence of sickness, was compelled to leave her station on the West Coast of Africa for Ascension, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday with the quarantine flag flying. At the island an assistant-surgeon and eight seamen died. The Archer left on the 9th of December, and during the passage the second-master, Mr. T. Turner, and three seamen died. There is no sickness on board now. The iron frigate Minotaur will have the defect in her condenser repaired by the workmen of the steam factory department of Portsmouth Dockyard by the end of the present week. As at present contem plated, therefore, the original arrangements for the first series of trials in the Channel with the new competitive 12i-ton gun-carriages will be carried out with this frigate ; at the same time it is most probable the trials will be continued in other ships —vessels of smaller tonnage than the Minotaur, such as the Bellerophon and Royal Alfred. These two latter would be much more suitable vessels for the purpose than the Minotaur, having been built or converted with the ports of their central batteries specially framed and fitted for 12i-ton guns, and, being of much less bulk of hull, would obtain a greater " roll" when under trial in the Channel. The Minotaur is too large a vessel to give a roll equal to that obtained by the Royal Sovereign when last under trial by Capt. A. C. Key, C. 8.-1.6 degrees each way, unless under exceptional attendant cir cumstances of wind and weather. The Wivern, 4, screw iron turret ship, Capt. H. T. Burgoyne, V.C., ordered to proceed round to Devonport from Portsmouth, to undergo a thorough refit, has been detained at the latter port to receive the iron carriages for her 12k-ton guns. The car riages arrived at Portsmouth onMonday in the Lord Panmure, screw ordnance transport, from Wool wich, and the four guns to mount on them have been transferred to the Wivern from the Scorpion, recently paid out of commission at Portsmouth by Commander Commerell, V.C. The Lord Panmure, on arrival at Portsmouth on Monday, made fast for the night in her usual berth alongside the gunwharf jetty, and yesterday morning when her hatches were opened to discharge her cargo the hold was found to be full of water, the vessel having evidently settled upon some stone or old pile stump at low tide during the night, which had opened a hole in the bottom plates. Pumps were sent aboard to clear the hold of water yesterday morning, so as to land the cargo and repair the damage. It is somewhat remarkable that both the carriages and guns which the Wivern will have in her turrets should have been sunk in the screw ord nance transport in which they left Woolwich before they could reach their destination, the Scorpion's guns having gone down in the Balaklava off the coast of Ireland, on her way to Liverpool from Woolwich. The Tamar, screw, iron troopship, Capt. Stirling, refitting in No. 8 dock at Portsmouth, is ordered to undock on the 19th inst. Her bottom plating below the water-line has been coated with the Admiralty preservative and anti-fouling compositions, with also patches of other preparations, including Roman ce ment, applied on the plan proposed to the Admi ralty by Capt. C. P. Coles, R.N. The Salamis, 2, paddle despatch-vessel, Com mander Suttie, fitting at Portsmouth for service in China and Japan, will be ready for sea about the middle of next month. Her crew are on leave until the 22d inst. The Royal Alfred, 18, iron-cased frigate, 800 horse-power, at Portsmouth, has her machinery ready for its water pressure trial, and will at an early date make the preliminary contractor's trial of her engines and boilers under steam outside the harbour, preparatory to her official trial of speed at light draught over the measured mile in Stokes Bay. Rear-Admiral William Turner, on the retired list, died at his residence in Portsmouth yesterday. The deceased officer entered the navy in 1816, and sub sequently served on board her Majesty's ship Sea mander, Vengeur, and Queen Charlotte as first class volunteer and midshipman, and in the Sybille as Acting Lieutenant. His promotion to a Lieute nant's rank was confirmed in May, 1823, and as such he served on board the Romney troopship and his for mer ship the Sybille, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore F. A. Collier, on the coast of Africa. O'Byrne's Naval Biography, 1849 edition, says:— " For the valour he (Lieut. Turner) displayed in command of the Black Joke tender, carrying one long 18-pounder on a pivot, with a crew of 43 men, in an action of two hours with a Spanish piratical vessel mounting 14 guns on Grover's carriages, with a crew of 87 men of all nations, he was promoted by the Lord High Admiral to the rank of Comman der on the 14th of July, 1828." His last appoint ment was to the Dryad, 42 (in May, 1830), Capt. John Hayes, with whom he served as Second Cap tain on the coast of Africa. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty:,.--Lieut. Thomas S. Jackson and Lieut. Charles A. Blake to the Excellent; and Archibald L. K. Murray, nominated to a naval cadetship. IMPERIAL MEXICAN. The directors of this company in a special report state their belief that the proposed transfer of the contract for the works of the railway from Messrs. Smith, Knight, and Co. to Mr. Crawley, the pre sent sub-contractor, would be o; advantage to the company, especially as securing an uninterrupted continuance of the works under the able superinten dence of Mr. W. Lloyd, the contractor's engineer and representative in Mexico, and by the staff now employed on them, subject to the inspection of the company's engineers. They were prepared to recom mend that proposition to the shareholders at the general meeting on the 16th inst., and also to take their opinion on another matter respecting the issue of debentures. By the company's financial plan the sum of £2,700,000 was to be provided by the issue of debentures. The board had reason to be lieve that means existed for the issue of those obli gations on the Continent, and negotiations had been entered into with that view ; but it appeared that by foreign law the share capital must be called up in full before the company would be in a position to issue obligations. If the company was at once placed in a position to issue its debentures,the works might progress with the same despatch as heretofore, and in order to meet these circumstances the directors proposed that they should be authorised at once to make a call of £7 per share, on the understanding that arrangements would be made to meet the conve nience of shareholders desiring to pay the call by instalments. The sum of £84,000 was received on the 9th of October last in respect of the subvention bonds for £1,600,000, of which £1,200,000 pertained to the company, and also further payments had been .made on account of the 15 per cent. Customs' duties, making the total amount of the Government con tributions to the share capital received in Mexico up to the date of last advices £128,500, in exchange for which the Government would receive an equiva lent number of shares in the company, untransfer able, in perpetuity. The total sum already paid by the Imperial Government amounted to £212,500. VICTORIA STATION AND PIMLICO. The directors of this company, in their report, congratulate the proprietors on the stability and_ prosperity of the undertaking. The purchase-money of the house No. 1, St. George's-road, Pimlico, had been paid, with interest accrued and other charges, by the London, Chatham, and Dover Company to this company's credit. The rent of the lino and station continued to be paid with regularity by the three companies. The revenue account showed a balance of £8,947, admitting of the same dividend as last half-year—viz., 31 per cent., or at the rate of 61 per cent. per annum for the year 1865. During the current year the receipts would provide a divi dend of 7/ per cent., and in 1867 the dividend would reach its maximum of 9 and a fraction per cent. The capital account showed that £495,383 had been received, and £481,426 expended, leaving a balance of £13,957. The revenue account for the half-year ending the 31st of December showed that the rents and transfer fees amounted to £14,064, the balance from the preceding account to £1,433, and a balance for general interest account to £240, making together £15,497. From this was deducted £3,103 for interest on debentures, £2,925 for divi dend on 4i per cent. preference shares, and £590 for expenses, making £6,618, leaving a balance of £9,119. TENDRING HUNDRED. Traffic was commenced on Monday on this com pany's extension to Weeley. Four trains run each way daily. MANCHESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN. The first section of this railway—viz., from Pen cader, Carmarthenshire to Lampeter, on the borders of Cardiganshire, was opened for traffic last week. Pencader is a station on the Carmarthen and Car digan Railway, which line at present is open for traffic from the former place to Llandyssil, about six miles beyond Pencader. The country is en tirely agricultural, but the line will form an impor tant link of communication between the North of England and South Wales. PUNJAUB It appears that the total number of persons con veyed on this line since the opening of the first section was about 1,094,000, and that they were carried without loss of life or injury to any passen ger. The rolling stock was being rapidly aug mented, and every exertion made to meet the re quirements of the increasing traffic. SCINDE. The acting agent, in a letter dated December 10, reported that the traffic was steadily improving. Tor the week ending November 2G it amounted to £2,300 ; for the week ending December 3, to £2,500; and expressed - great hopes that the traffic would continue to improve. Cotton and oilseeds were then being forwarded in large quantities to Kurrachee. The directors had received a telegram from Kurrachee in four days, requesting them to send out more engine -drivers immediately. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Jan. 9.—There is a slight discre pancy in the reports of houses in the yarn trade to day, some of them having experienced a quieter state of things than others ; but there is no doubt that some of the leading shipping firms have done a fair amount of business for China and Calcutta, with also some business for Bombay and for the Mediterranean. The Germans have been in the market as buyers of small qualities. Some of them have taken only a few bales of the various spin nings suitable for the Continental market. The amount of orders has not been large for any mar ket ; but, taken altogether, the aggregate business. of the day has not been inconsiderable. One ob stacle to business has been the bareness of stocks Could yarns have been found in quality available for immediate shipment the business done, it is thought, would have been considerably larger. In these yarns there is no giving way in value. In home trade yarns there has been a decidedly more quiet market ; in fact, this branch of the market has been tame. Prices are nominally the same as last week, but practically buyers find it in their favour with out being much disposed to operate. In cloth the business to-day has been on the most limited scale. Buyers are acting very cautiously, and seem quite indisposed to take goods in any considerable quan tity. This feeling is, no doubt, caused to a great ex tent by the present high rate of discount, and by the uncertainty which prevails as to the future course of the money-market. The India letters to hand yes terday read rather discouragingly, and have done little or nothing to help business here. We find that holders, as well as makers, of cloth are quite free from stocks as a rule, and, being still to some ex tent under contract, are not willing to accept a re ' duction of price, or none of any moment. No doubt the cloth-market as a whole is decidedly weaker, although the operations have been too few and limited in extent to enable us to test what the ac tual decline has been. Messrs. John Slagg, in their report of this day's cloth-market, say _ _ "The last advance in the Bank rate has tended considerably to check business, and the India ac counts now to hand are not of a nature to stimulate the demand ; but little has consequently been done to-day. As a rule stocks are small, and makers not yet without orders ; there is consequently no pressure to sell, and ourmarket, though closing with dulness, shows little change in prices." LEEDS, 9th.—There has been a quiet but steady market in the cloth halls this morning. The attend ance of buyers was rather more than last week, and they purchased spring goods, as well for exportation as for the home market, more freely. The market was firm as to prices, and both wool and woollen. yarns also command fully last week's rates. The anlaanvderfao"relaacte- NOTTINGHAM, 9th.---We had aboudten n an h d os t i h er e y fu y l a l r r n a s t t e h s er o o f last week were ma i n t a i ned. yteanrndsanacsesuomn assumed h a an st g e e ad to y - d t a o y n . e was not much change to quote, prices being quite as high as heretofore. Silks in less request, but firm in price ; spun silk the turn dearer. The demand for brown nets was moderate. The very high price ma tnhuef a d c e t m u r a e n r s d are fre m comp e beingl le d a c t o t v a e s k ; f r o e r e egoods ratespr prevents s e realised. RocIIDA LE, Bth.—To-day's attendance of buyers in what is known as " the first market" of the year was somewhat limited, and only a small amount of goods changed hands. The market in other respects was cheerful, and the prospects of the flannel trade for the ensuing season are good. The chief demand is for fancy fabrics. The plain flannel trade, the period of the year considered, is flat, being prejudi cially affected by the mildness of the season. The Yorkshire goods trade remains quiet. Wools are nominally the same as last week. Though manu facturers buy more for immediate than prospective wants, wool dealers are stiff in their demands. 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