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R emem b er . we wa tt f or you a t EVANS' after the Covent-garden Pantomime and the Theatres. INAlazai'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN Thip EXHIBITION, 1865. celebrated Old IRISH . WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It i+ Po,-e, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, slavery Wholesome. tiaold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by e Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale 8. GREAT WINDMILL-BTREV.T, LONDON, W. Observe the Red &ell. Pink 'Label, and Cork branded Einahan's LL Whisky." 11[UTUAL LOAN FUND 'ASSOCIATION (Inewporated by Act of Parliament', 1850), '4, R USSELL -STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON. F 4I) VANCES MONEY on Personal Sec ar ity, Bill s o f S a l e, r e ehold or beneficial Leasehold Property, without inq u i r y !, or any deduction whatever, for periods of one, two, Or three years, repayabl e wee kly, mon thl y, or quarterly. Ellis niscounted. The greatest secrecy observed. 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Pa re, Bich, Rare, Choice Coffee, is. 4c1., Is. 6d, ls. Bd. PHILLIPS and CO., TEA 3IERCRANTS, 8, King William-street, City, London, E.C. A price current free. Sugars at market prices. e r ,RILLI PS and C %ro O. send all ods Carriage Free within frZnt miles of NO. 8, King. William-street. 40s. worth Car- T a a Free to any Railway Station or Market Town in Eng ;lv: s e in Worcester or S wa nse a and Co. have no Azensea. nts, nor any connection any ho us 1-10SPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, 49, Great Ormond-street, Queen -square. . .. Patron—Her Majesty the QUEEN. a 1 t l. le Committee have much pleasure in announcing that A. kr,.• B ERESFORD HOPE, Esq., M.P.. has consented to ecide at the FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY PESTI AL of this Charity, on February 12, at Willis's Rooms. FIRST LIST OF STEWARDS. Th e Most N o b le the Marquis Vice-Admiral Sir Augustus The T ,betcorn Clifford, Bart. The;tint Ronourabie the The Rev. Sir C. Macgregor, 111.:Jrnaii ers :haftesbnry, K.G. Bart. • As" Rioht Honourable Earl Sir Archibald Alison, Bart. Admiral Sir William Bowles e Right Honourable Via- Col. Beauchamp Wallter,C.B. The Gort lonel Home Purves C.B. R ight Rev. the Bishop of Colonel F. R. Waldo Sibthorp %Chichest er Lieut.-Colonel Frederick C. - 7 Right Rev. the Bish o p o f H eppe l th e ' Ilavid' s Lient -Colonel Playfair th e ' 1 Honourable Lord Michael 1.. Bass, Esq., M.P. Lei zh Allen A. Bath, Esq., •,..2ht Honourable Viscount Stephen Cave, urst Esq., M.P. M.P. C 0 I°fi . I iltoeln,the M.P. Hon. Percy E. M.P W. W. Fitzwilliam Dick, Esq., Tillerbert, Albert Grant, Esq., M.P. • ° Ron M.P. "and • Rev. Charles K. D. Hodgson, Esq., M.P. Ja • . 7 , J ades Willoughby J. Dyce Nicol, Esq., M. P. "c 13 ononrable Arthur Kin- Arthur J. Otway, Esq., tit. P. itlaird, M.P. Ckarles Waring, Esq., H. I'. Vt N. C. Hamilton, Bart, Ad The coMplete List of Stewards will shortly be published. to littonal names will be thankfully received. The expense w t a a r ci d . ; is limited to one guinea. Witt ,P or lei ltroiSnpt:t io n s in aid of the funds are earnestly solicited, and ,I,be thankfully received by the Trees drer, Heury Sykes or by any of the Stewards. Ja nuary 16 , 1866 SAMUEL WHITFORD, Secretary. -.--.. 4 E TROPOLITAN POLICE NOTICE. 1. t CATTE PLAGUE. pr e ,. Yan Order in Council, dated 6th February, 1866, itoti l , ll E l orders in Council giving jurisdiction to any local bliss;9'l4' Within the Metropolis are revoked, and the Com olt oiler of Police of the Metropolis is appointed to carry th e R eer tain . regulations within the Metropolis to prevent oattf, Pre achog of a contagious or infectious disorder among 2. 7, 1 , Paripf l 'ue word "Metropolis" in this notice means any hoard or Place within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan tit,f Works, exclusive of the City of London and the (! oe ',,', l es thereof, and also exclusive of that part of the Vphi e ' L LY. of Rent which is included in such jurisdiction and a , Th " is situate to the north of the Thames. lei; 'he Word "Cattle" in this notice means any cow, • bullock, ox, or calf. char person having in his possession or under his atli e , b ;, € ; L any animal within the Metropolis, whether such a hall - e ` "" b een In the Metropolitan Cattle Market_ or not, Illop ea "VeY or remove, or cause to be conveyed or re out e ,Or attempt to convey or remove, any such animal th tUe M etropolis, except into the City of London or e s rues thereof. or se person shall bring or send, or cause to be brought Ic'llat — ' any anim a l t o any ma r k e t or fair, or to any place o r ki e f :ver in the M e t r op o lis, for the purpose of exhibition 6. I ‘ f ex cepting to the Metropolitan Cattle Market. or g e ,,,, ° Person s h a ll b r i ng or send, or cause to be brought !xcoi t 'i r a ny animal to the said Metropolitan Cattle Market 0 4 T in fie ed1: te r the purpose of being there exhibited and sold for s laughtering ; and no such animal so brought had e .all be allowed to leave the said market unless sold t eark e -I ' l ed in the manner in which cattle are ordinarily • f• or slaughter in the said market, viz., by clipping • Off the end of the tail. 4 011 , ° Person shall buy or sell, or cause to be bought or si tu VY.aniinal in the said market except for immediate the salj'g'; and every person buying any such animal in to b e ti market shall slaughter the same, or cause the same ,tlBtjaaulognhgteraend; within seven days of such purchase. 41 11 , ° Person shall remove or cause to be removed any highway, thoroughfare, or public place eio i n the Metropolis without a license from the Commis of Police. Dos s erY person within the Metropolis having in his o td ession or und er hi s custody any animal labouring the Q r,r erh te d k ofisorder the Pri i vy s fCounciorthwth to giv e no ti ce th ereo f t o l. 1 ,___EXCEPTIONS OP THE NON-ARRIVAL OP CATTLE. p re ,rihere any person occupies a farm or other contiguous 114 - ` llB °e, situated partly within and partly without the lis, he may, with a license from the Commissioner, th e , Elie cattle has been marked, and within seven days of ki s " at e of such license, move from one part of such pre /144 te another any animal not affected by the Cattle t le, Which has been in his own possession for 14 days (3 2 1 . ens e date of such license. th or Aniraals may be removed along any highway, too "Akre, or public place for a distance not exceeding vele a rs, from part to part of the same farm or to water, a . ( lot a license from the Commissioner. kis e :"lY Person may exhibit or sell on his own land or pre- Ilio n any animal belonging to him which has been . on u, L an d er premises for not less than 14 days previous 4 1a g .,.;": e xhibition or sale, and is not affected by the Cattle setl. A . t oimals intended for immediate slaughtering may be 0 14 °er from the said Metropolitan Cattle Market with le h t o cease from the Commissioner during the hours which m ay be driven in the streets of the Metropolis. eat) regulations are to come into operation on the 14th ha . IZerY p e rson offending against these regulations i s °I. every offence to a penalty of £2O. RD YNE, Met,. The Commissioner ßlCHA of Police of the Metropolis. ` ° P o litan Police- o ffi ce, F e b. 13 , 1866. btjllb° 11°11 E PIL OR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. . d , ~ MOB delicious health-restoring Yielcrilu. 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It regulates the bile, and _ nany affected, p l ar Co le n u sider it the fib r 10,14 ,reases which would not admit of mercury in the 7\a‘riiest ti_phort, a healthy flow of thedgbgel?nletlnelmsoudoes,usFluert!gins: i'! a ( 7 cf 'llu : s B e n a n t nnn p n t i o e m at t n :You can make whatJamesyou ley, 4:lPbell. No. 52,422. —Bridge I.Pittt'urre" _ Cure irty-thre years' disease s _ .n .n th e ea S of blood, liver derangement, deafness, breath, ii and i l o ugh, Ri, constipation debility shortness of ides, liver alerf , stomach, head, and ears are all right, my n h a s tn a t r - - k r ° s et, and my recovery is a marvel to all my acq - „s. y , . e . di, un r -1 ' f" -*--81.1 ea Rob , 4 le' 7 be Merchant. Cure . No n . e 44, o B n 3 e 2 - . ne s% , tkeare inde seribableagony from dysPePala, n 4, 4, a 'B ,l" 4l a, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sick- I 11-°•47-nic,`47c-oMiting —Maria Join' of Lynn, Norfolk. 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London ; and all . respectable -'44dOlieraiste.--Beware of spurious imitations. `...- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15 - , 1866. N°. 22,984. THE WELLINGTON RESTAURANT, T HE HON. GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S ST. JAMES'S -STREET. LIFE AND RECOLLECTIONS, completing :the Entrance, 160, Piccadilly. Work, are NOW READY at all the Libraries. BREAKFASTS, LUNCHEONS, AND DINNERS Hurst and Blacken, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Cha rges mo d era t e. street. An Elegant DINING ROOM for Ladies and Families. Third Edition, in 2 vols., 215., EM English A 11, LIFE Gov Or, A the EAST er N ilnessTinEoEypt. .T 0 H E O X F OR D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (Limited). THIS EVENING, and during the Week, EXTRA PERFORMANCES by all the available talent. Opera, Burlesque, Pantomime, Ballet, and Comedy Every Evening, performed by the entire company, including Misses Russell, Fitz Henry, Barrie ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, W. Williams, Spagnoli, &c. THE HUNGARIANS in their new entertainment, entitled " Kanasz es Csardas ;" Messrs. Duriah and Davies's illustrations of Negro Life; the ENCHANTED HASH, eleven characters performed by Mr. E. Marshall, the entertainment written expressly for him by Mr. W. T. Vandervell ; the wondrous JEAN BOND ; and a host of other talent, for which see pro-- gramme and small biIIs.—EVERY EVENING. By EMMELINE Low, — Formerly Governess to A.H. the Grand Pacha Ibrahim of Egypt• Richard Bent!ey, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. Published by J. Clements, Little Pulteney-street, price 7d., in cloth 13d., a New Work on the Teeth, entitled PURE DENTISTRY, and WHAT IT DOES FOR US. By A. ES KELL, Surgeon:Denti;t, Grosvenor-street, IV. "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. Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. Sold by Simpkin and Marshall, and may be had of all book sellers. CANTERBURY HALL. lJ RI-FUM ! During the Week will be performed the above most extraordinary Entertainment, containing all the novel ties now in this country, and includin g th e serv i ces o f Les Montagnards, their first appearance ; Mr. E. Mar shall, Mrs. and Mr. W. Randall, the renowned 'Militia, Les Freres d'Etoile, Signor Tescano, a la Donato; Les Tableaux d'Amour, illuminated by the Magnesium Light ; Fairy Orchestra, designed and painted by Mr. T. Burgess and Mr. W. Gowrie ; and Grand Ballet of upwards of one hundred ballerines. The whole written and composed expressly for this establishment by William VanderVell, Esq. In addition to the vocal and instrumental entertain ment. EVERY EVENING. Admission—Area, 6d; stalls and balcony, ls. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street. NEW ADDITIONS.—In the Chamber of Horrors are full-length Portrait Models, taken from Life, of CHAR LOTTE WINSOR and STEPHEN FORWOOD, alias ERNEST SOUTHEY. Open from 11 a.m. till dusk and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admittance, One Shilling; Children under 10, half-price ; Extra Rooms, Sixpence. A RGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET S Piccadilly. Musical Director and Conductor, M. LUIGI CURTI. Principal Cornet-a-Piston, M. M'Eleney. Euphonion, the celebrated Signor Luigi Mosca. Programme this Evening and during the Week—Grand Selections, IL TROVATORE and IL LUCIA. Solo vio loncello, M. Sloman, jun. L'AFRICAIN VALSE and ECLIPSE GALOP. Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock. Admission, Is. Manager, M. GRENET. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL. which speedily produces whiskers and chickens hair. 3s. 6d, ss. 6d„ and lOs. 6d..; sent free for 54, 84, and 144 stumps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. • WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.--Corns cured in one day by using ALEX. 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HAIR COLOUR WASH.—By Washing the Head with'this beautiful perfumed Wash in seven or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains so by an occasional using.. 10a 6d; sent for stamps.—By ALEX. ItOSS, 248, High Holborn, London. Just published, 2d., sent by the Author for three stamps, UGLINESS and BEAUTY. A closely-printed Pamphlet, descriptive of articles and means used for improving the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Ilolborn, London. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WTHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFEeTED AND EXIIIIIITED IN TRE GREAT ExIIIRITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards 01 Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to ue the most effective invention in the curative treatment of II ERNI A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the '3ody, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the 3loc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease Ind eoseness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn luring sleep. A descriptive circular may he had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir 3underenoc of the body, two inches below the hips, being .ent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 145., 215., 268. ed., and 31s. 641. Postage, is. A. Doublo Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. Cd. Postage, la. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post- Ace, Piscadilly. my testimony to this fact—first, because it is op posed to a stupid, unfeeling libel ; secondly, because my doing so may afford some slight encouragement to the persons who are unjustly depreciated ; and lastly, and most of all, because it is the truth. ,Cheers.) Now, ladies and gentlemen, it is time we should what we professionally call " ring down" on these remarks. If you, such members of the general public as are here, will only think the great theatrical curtain has really fallen and been taken up again for the night on that dull, dark vault which many cf us know so well; if you will only think of the theatre or other place of entertainment as empty ; if you will only think of the " float," or other gas fittings, as extinguished ; if you will only think of the people who have beguiled you of an evening's scare, whose little vanities and almost childish foibles are engendered in their competing face to face with you for your favour—surely it may be said their feelings are partly of your making, wWe their virtues are all their own. If you will only do this, and follow them out of that sham placeinto the real world, where it rains real rain, snows real snow, and blows real wind ; where people sustain themselves by real money, which is much harder to get, much harder to make, and very much harder to give away than the pieces of tobacco pipe in property bags—(laughter)—if you will only do this, and do it in a really kind, considerate spirit, this society, then certain of the result of the night's proceedings, can ask no more. I beg to propose to you to drink " Prosperity to the Dramatic, Eques trian, and Musical Sick Fund Association. (Cheers.) The toast was drunk with three times three. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, said —Gentlemen, as I addressed myself to the ladies last time, so I address you this time, and I give you the delightful assurance that it is positively my last appearance but one on the present occasion. A certain Mr. Pepys, who was Secretary to the Admi ralty in the days of Charles 11., who kept a diary well in shorthand, which he supposed no one could read, and which consequently remains to this day the most honest diary known to print—Mr. Pepys had two special and very strong likings, the ladies and the theatres. But Mr. Pepys, whenever he committed any slight act or remissness or any little peccadillo which was utterly and wholly untheatri cal, used to comfort his conscience by recording a vow that he would abstain from the theatres for a certain time. In the first part of Mr. Pepys' cha racter I have no doubt we fully agree with him ; in the second I have no doubt we do not. I learn this experience of Mr. Pepys from remembrance of a passage in"lais diary that. I was reading the other night, from which it appears that he was not only curious in plays, but curious in sermons ; and that one night when he happened to be walking past St. Dustan's Church, he turned, went in, and heard what he calls " a very edifying discourse," during the delivery of which discourse he notes in his diary "I stood by a pre tt y young maid, whom I did attempt:to take by the hand." (Laughter.) But he adds, " She would not, and I did perceive that she had pins in her pocket with which to prick me if I should touch her again —(laughter)—and was glad that Ispied her desig a." Afterwards,about the close of the same edifying discourse Mr. Pepys found himself near another pretty, fair young maid, who would seem upon the whole to have had no pins, and to have been more impressible. Now, the moral of this story which I wish to suggest to you is, that we have been this evening in St. James's much more timid than Mr. Pepys was in St. Dunstan's, and that we have conducted ourselves very much better. (Laughter.) As a slight recompense to us for our highly meritorious conduct, and as a little relief to our charged hearts, I beg to propose that we devote this bumper to invoking a blessing on the ladies. -<4cll--.... ) - • to hear a lady speak for her own sex. (Cheers. Who so cornnetent to do this as Mr. Stirling ? (Re newed cheering). Surely one who has so gracefully and captivatingly, with such an exquisite mixture of art, and fancy, and fidelity represented her own sex in innumerable charities, under an infinite variety of phases, cannot fail to represent them well in her own character, especially when it is, amidst her many triumphs, the most agreeable of all. (Cheers.) I beg to propose to you " The Ladies," and I will couple with that toast the name of Mrs. Stirling. (Cheers.) The toast was drunk enthusiastically. Mrs. STIRLING, who on rising to acknowledge the toast was most warmly received, spoke as follows : Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—You have thought fit to couple my name with the ladies. Now, for that act I retort by charging you with high trea son to St. Valentine and his day. You are the last man to deserve pardon for the offence, for you have shown, by your witty and eloquent allusions, that you had the day and its duties fully in your mind. It is treason, I say, to St. Valentine and his day to couple anything with the ladies but the gentlemen. And talking of St. Valentine—in these days of ar chaeology, ecclesiology, and all the other ologies—. isn't it a great reproach to our learned men that they have not been able to discover why St. Valentine should be selected as patron of the sweethearting and billet-douxing which goes on to-day through the post. I'll be bound the ladies would not have been so long in finding the reason. Indeed, I believe the first lady who ever tried to find it did find it, and as Peg Woffington might say, "Sure, that's myself." I'll tell it you. But mind, I give you all notice— the reporters in particular—that the discovery, like our ghosts and our sensation effects, is copyright and patent. No ; if it was patent, anybody might have found it out, only they havn't. Well, this is my discovery. I made it by the help of the old lives of the saints, called the " Golden Legend." It told me, first, that St. Valentine was a saint and martyr of the time of Claudius. Now, there seemed something to the point even in that. Most young ladies are disposed to make saints of their sweet hearts, and vice versci; and if valentines lead to the Temple of Hymen, as SQ many of them do, not a few wives are quite ready to make martyrs of their husbands, and vice versa. But that didn't satisfy me. Reading further, I found that St. Valentine's great miracle was opening a blind young girl's eyes, and then I felt I had it. Love is blind, they say. I say, au contraire young ladies are blind to the merits of the gentlemen till love opens their eyes for them, and Cupid works quite as great miracles in that way as ever St. Valentine did ; and that, I take it, is the reason why St. Valentine is Cupid's father confessor, and his day the love-letter day of the calendar. As this is the first public dinner at which the ladies have been invited to sit down with the gentleman, what day can be more appropriate for its celebration than St. Valentine's ? I hope every gentlemen present has come prepared not only with his subription, but with his Valentine, to slip into the hand of the fair lady at his side. If any of you have come unprepared with the necessary documents, instead of a billet doux slip a billet de banque into her hand, to be added to her subscription. I defy you to find a better way of paying your addresses ; for what better love letters than s. d., when they go on an errand of mercy like subscriptions to this charity? But to-day, as we have been reminded, is Ash Wednesday as well as St. Valentine's Day. We actors and actresses should be the last persons to be startled by the coincidence. Ilow many of our days, in the earlier stages of our career at least, are like this consecrated at once t o l ov e making in play and in public, and to fasting in sorry earnest at home! Our object to-day is not feasting, but charity. If there be feeding, let it not be ours only, but that of the hungry mouths your benevolence will help to fill. There used to be Lenten oratorios. Let our Lenten oratorio be the chorus of grateful prayers that your kindness will call forth—the songs of thankfulness from the sick and the suffer ing —the widow and the orphan—from those who, but for you, might be abandoned—those whom, but for your timely aid, might sink into the sad ranks of the forlorn and the despairing. And now, sir, in the name of the ladies, what am I to say to Benjamin Sheals, an able seaman, on board the London at the time she went down, was further examined as to the course of the ship from the Tuesday to the Thursday when the catastrophe oc curred, and said that while he was on deck, both on Tuesday and Wednesday, she was always up to the wind, and never before the wind. On Tuesday night or early on Wednesday morning she was brought round to the port tack, having been pre viously on the starboard tack. He repeated that on Thursday morning he saw the skylight on the star board side of the ship broken all to pieces. Mr. T. Wilson, a retired shipbroker, who was examined on Tuesday, gave additional evidence yes terday, and said that if the ship, as had been stated in evidence, was drawing 20ft. 3in. amidshi when Ify t - 817 • Le c ear she was much too heavily laden. It w as y an important fact, too, that she had no stormsails on beard. Such a ship ought to have carried stormsails independent of any other sails. In his opinion the main cause of the ship foundering was her being overladen. The ship could not rise to the sea, and consequently the sea came over her. Looking at the section of the ship pro duced, he thought her load-line was too high up by 18in r beam. Six was too long and too de e p f or h er b ea. Six times the width was quite enough for the length of a vessel. He was aware that a different system had prevailed within the last 10 years, so that the London was by no means an exception, but rather the rule, since that period. lle was opposed to this new system of building ships, and Was surprised the Messrs. Wigram should have so entirely adopted it. Wm. Daniels, the quartermaster of the London, was further examined as to the tack of theship, and said that, having been put on the port tack, she 1 about half-pastlo onThursday morning was put on the starboard tack again, andremained on that tack till she went down. That was the only time she was p t p h u a t t b ta ef e o k re w t a h s e to w ind. The hringt reason the boats le t e t w tt a in r g her on leeward. The e wind at the time was N.N.E. on the pert tack . Mr. R. Galloway, engineer surveyor to the Board of Trade, said it did not appear to him the engineers on board the London adopted the usual coursewhen water came into the engine-room ; they ought to have changed the suction valves of the centrifugal pump. Mr. Traill—But the fires were out. Mr. Galloway said he could not understand how the fires could be put out by one sea. Mr. Trtall—But there was a succession of seas. The witness then qualifiedhis statement by saying that the suction valves ought to have been changed if it were practicable to get at them. The water in the engine-room ought to have been run into the bilge, and the engineers ought to have been prepared for such an emergency. Mr. Galloway then expressed a general concurrence in the views taken by Mr. Barber, who was examined on a former day. The Rev. Rion G. Benson, of Hope Rowdier Rectory, Shropshire, said he had a brother, 23 years of age, who had gone on board the ill-fated vessel, and was lost. Witness accompanied him to Ply mouth to see him off. The ship was within the breakwater, and it struck him that she was very, very low in the water, especially for a ship that had been advertised for conveying passengers. Instead of having to walk up the ladder to get on board, they had to walk upon the ladder lying in a revers e direction, and almost at a level with the deck of the ship. She appeared to be very heavily laden, and after he had parted from his brother he wrote home to his fathe r stati n g to him the fact of the ship bein g so very low in the water. Mr. O'Dowd having ell' lained that he had not been able to bring forward Captain Price, of the Courier, said it was the wish of the friends of Capt. Martin that some testimony should be given as to the character he bore and t he qualifications he pos sessed as a commander of a ship. Lyrouth, North Devon, Capt. Robert Roe , of then came forward and said that he was now a coun t y mag istrate, but had formerly been engaged in the merchant se rvice, and from had served with Capt. Martin in some of Messrs. Wigram's s hips, Capt. Martin being his j un i or, either as fourth, third, or second officer; and while they were together he was always very attentive to his duty, Ad also an exceedingly good sailor and officer. lie was a skilful and careful man, and a very proper man to take charge of a ship. Mr. O'Dowd said that, in announcing to the Court that he had no further evidence to offer, he should say a very few words indeed. With respect to the ship's structure and seaworthiness, her en gines and efficient working, her rigging, masts, &c., her cargo, and her having satisfied every require ment of the Passengers' Acts, he believed he had produced the best possible evidence, and such as he thought would be considered quite satisfactory. But he was bound to say, with respect to the evi dence of the crew, it was by no means that which could have been expected and desired. That, how ever, was clearly no fault of his ; he had had a very limited sphere from which to select his witnesses, , SAUCE. —LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. This dellciou. condiment, ' , renounced by cmnoisseurs "THE ONLY GOOD S UCE," Is rws.pared solely by LE and PERRINg The public are respectfully caltioned against worthless imitations, and should see that Lea and terries' names are en wrapper, label, bottle, and stopper. A Ii for LICA and PERRINS' SLUM So'd wholesale and for export by the Propr etors, Wot rester; Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell; Messrs. Barclay and Sous. London, 0. &o.; and by Grocers and Oilmen uni versally. "VOTHING DIPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and 11 most useful invention of the day, AQUA AMARKLL :Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., Red Bull `ti mart, 93, Upper Yhames-street. Perfumers to her Majesty, respect fully offer to the public this truly marvellous flu;'. which gradually restores tae human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what. age. The Ague Amarella has none of tLe properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored ono application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 61 Testimonials from ardstes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Crosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Ffighness the Princes of Wales. PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C. Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches. At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that they are homeless and starving. The Manager, &c., receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each night numbers of young women, children, and orphans are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, and have to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the work a sum of at least £1,0.00 more will be required. Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-• pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome, and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will be offered in your behalf. SUBSCRIPTIONS aro earnestly requested, and will be gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT, D.D., No. 22, Finsbury-circus, E.C. DONORS AND SUBSCRIBERS TO THE REFUGE. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G. His Royal Highness the Duke D'Aumale. His Excellency the Count D'Apponyi. His Excellency the Count Lavradio. The Earl of Abergavenny. Messrs. Dimsdale, Drewett, The Earl of Desart. Fowler, and Barnard. The Earl of Denbigh. Messrs. anbury and Lloyds. The Earl Grey, K.G. Messrs. Prescott, Grote, Cave The Earl of Harewood. and Co. The Earl of Eglinton. London Assurance Corpora- The Earl of Kenmare. tion. The Earl of Durham. Royal Exchange Insurance The Countess of Albemarle. Company. The Lady Ellen Browne. Sun Fire Office. The Lady Camilla E. For- R. W. Barclay, Esq. tescue. J. Bethel], Esq. The Viscount Gage. Mrs. Barnewall. Field-Marshal Lord Gough, Miss Burton. K.P. Mrs. Curling. The Lord Dormer. J. Henry Challis, Esq. The Lord Petre. Dr. Carvalho. The Lord Leigh. R. Crawford, Esq., M.P. The Lord Chelmsford. H. Cazenne, Esq. The Lord Cranworth. Mrs. Chesterton. Baron de Rothschild, M.P. A. H. Campbell, Esq. The Hon. C. Langdale. Miss Douglas. The Hon. W. Browne. Messrs. Durant & Co. The Hon. H. G. Campbell. Messrs. Dawson & Sons. Sir Charles Price, Bart. Miss Dobson Sir Robert Gerard, Bart. Cursetjee Furdonjee, Esq. Sir Pyers Mostyn, Bart. Miss Franklin Hon. Rustomjee Jamsetjee Dr. Gull. J eejeebhoy. C. Gould, Esq. The Governors of the Bank H. E. Gurney, Esq. of England. Messrs. Hills & Underwood. The Worshipful Company of Capt. Hogg. Armourers and Braziers. Miss Kaye. The Worshipful Company of J. Kynaston, Esq. Tallow Chandlers. J. Knight, Esq. The Worshipful Company of L. Lloyd, Esq. Drapers. J. Lewis Mieville, Esq. The Worshipful Company of Miss M'Mahon. Grocers. C. 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Coutts and Co. &Q. (to. dm The Dramatic, Equestrian, and Musical Sick Fund. The annual festival of this charity was held yes terday evening at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, under the presidency of Charles Dickens, Esq. Between 300 and 400 ladies and gentlemen sat down to table. To give a list of the guests would be to enumerate all who are most celebrated in litera ture, the drama, music, and the fine arts generally. The (capacity of the large room was tested to the utnrost. Indeed, the only inconvenience of the evening was a little unpleasant crowding in the attempt to find seats for some fifty more guests than could be conveniently accommodated. The CHAIRMAN, who on rising was received with loud and long continued cheering, gave the usual loyal toasts, which were most heartily responded to. In proposing the toast of the evening, the CHAIR MAN said—Ladies, before I couple you with the gentlemen, which will be at least proper to the in scription over my head (St. Valentine's Day)—before I do so allow me, on behalf of my grateful sex here represented, to thank you for the great pleasure and interest with which your gracious presence at these festivals never fails to inspire us. (Cheers.) There is no English custom ythich is so manifestly a relic of savage life as thafoustom which usually excludes you from participation in shnilar gatherings. (Hear.) And although the crime: carries its own heavy punishment along with it, in respect that it divests a public dinner of its most beautiful ornament and of its most fascinating charm, still the offence is none the less to be severely reprehended on every possible occasion, as outraging equally nature and art. I believe that as little is known of the saint whose name is written here as can well be known of any saint or sinner. (Laughter.) We, your loyal ser vants, are deeply thankful to him for having some how gained possession of one day in the year—for having, as no doubt he has, arranged the almanac for 1866—expressly to delight us with the enchant ing fiction that we have some tender proprietorship in you which we should scarcely dare to claim on a less auspicious occasion. (Cheers.) Ladies, the utmost devotion sanctioned by the saint we beg to lay at your feet, and any little inno cent privileges—(laughter)—to which we may be en titled by the same authority we beg respectfully but firmly to claim at your hands. (Cheers.) Now, ladies and gentlemen, yeu need no ghost to inform you that I am going to propose " Prosperity to the Dramatic, Musical, and Equestrian Sick Fund As sociation—(hear, hear,)—audfurther, that I should be going to ask you actively to promote that pro sperity by liberally contributing to its funds, if that task were not reserved for a much more persuasive speaker. But I rest the strong claim of the society for its useful existence and its truly charitable functions on a very few words, though, as well as I can recollect, upon something like six grounds. 1 First, it relieves the sick; secondly, it buries the dead; thirdly, it enables the poor members of the profession to journey to accept new engagements whenever they find themselves stranded in some remote inhospitable place, or when, from other cir cumstances, they find themselves perfectly crippled as to locomotion for want of money ; fourthly, it often finds such engagements for them by acting as their honest, disinterested agent ; fifthly, it is its principle to act humanely upon the instant, and never, as is too often the case within my experience, to beat about the bush till the bush is withered and dead—(cheers)—lastly, the society is not in the least degree exclusive, but takes under its comprehensive care the whole range of the theatre and the concert room, from the manager in his room of state, or in his caravan, or at the drum-head—(laughter)— down to the theatrical housekeeper, who is usually to be found amongst the cobwebs in the flies—rks Uown — to - trio — h - all porter, 4 passes his life in a thorough draft—(laughter)— -and, to the best of my observation, in perpetually interrupted endeavours to cat something with a knife and fork out of a basin, by a dusty fire, in that extraordinary little gritty room upon which the sun never shines, and on the portals of which are inscribed the magic words, " stage door." Now, ladies and gentlemen, this society administers its benefits sometimes by way of loan ; sometimes by way of gift ; sometimes by way of assurance at very low premiums; some times to members, oftener to non-members : always expressly, remember, through the hands of a secretary or committee well acquainted with the wants of the applicants, and thoroughly versed, if not by hard ex perience at least by sympathy, in the calamities and un - certainties incidental to the general calling. One mnst know something of the general calling to know what those afflictions are. A lady who had been upon the stage from her earliest childhood till she was a blooming woman, and who came from a long line of provincial actors and actresses, once said to me when she was happily married ; when she was rich, beloved, courted ; when she was mistress of a fine house —once said to me at the head of her own table, surrounded by distinguished guests of every degree, " Oh, but I have never forgotten the hard time when I was on the stage, and when my baby brother died, and when my poor mother and I 'nought the little baby from Ireland to England, and acted three nights in England, as we had acted three nights in Ireland, with the pretty creature lying upon the only bed in our lodging before we got the money to pay for its funeral." Ladies and gentlemen, such things are, every day, to this hour ; but happily at this day and in this hour this association has arisen to be the timely friend of such great distress. (Cheers.) It is not often the fault of the sufferers that they fall into these straits. Struggling artists must necessarily change from place to pl ace, and thus it frequently happens that they bec ome, as it were, strangers in slight circumstances--a pass , and very the sickness of the husband, w if e , or child, e anelsassecr,eious town— (laughter)—an anathemising un l der of the gospel o f gentleness and forbear ance—anyieenxvgpro l iy p one of these causes may often in a few hours wreck them upon a rock in the barren ocean ; and then, happily, this society, with the swift alacrity of the lifeboat, dashes to the rescue and takes them off. (Cheers.) Looking just now over the last re port issued by the society, and confining my scrutiny to the head of illness alone, I find that in one year, I think, 672 days of sickness had been assuaged by its means. In nine years, which formed the term of its existence, as many as 5,500 and odd. Well, I thought when I saw 5,500 and odd days of sick ness, this is a very serious sum, but add the nights! Add the nights—those long dreary hours in the twenty-four when the shadow of death is darkest, when despondency is strongest, and when hope is weakest, before you gauge the good th a t i s d one b y this institution, and before you gauge th e goo d t h at reallherereall y will to-night. Add, mor e than all, that the improvidence, the recklessness of th e genera l b e done (che by ersevery shilling th at you bestow.) multitude of poor members of this profession, I should say is a cruel conventional fable. (Cheers.) And that there is no class of society the members of which so well help themselves or so well help each other. (Hear, hear.) Not in the whole grand chapters of Westminster Abbey and York Minster, not in the wholequadrangle of the Royal Exchange, not in the whole list of members of the Stock Ex change, not in the Inns of Court, not in the College of Physicians, not in the College of Surgeons can there possibly be found more remarkable instances of uncomplaining poverty, of cheerful, constant self-denial, of the generous remembrance of the claims of kindred and professional brotherhood, than will certainly be found in the dingiest and dirtiest concert-room, in the least lucid theatre—even in the raggedest tent circus that was ever stained by weather. (Cheers.) I have been twitted in print before now with rather flattering actors when I address them as one of their trustees at their General Fund dinner. Believe me, I flatter nobody, unless it be sometimes myself ; but, in such a company as the present, I always feel it my manful duty to bear SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. 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Loud and long continued cheering followed the conclusion of this lady's admirable speech, the effect of which it is hardly necessary to say was immensely enhanced by her charming elocution and arch grace. The concluding toast of the evening was the health of the Chairman, proposed in eloquent terms by Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, and briefly acknow ledged by Mr. Dickens. The speaking was judiciously abridged to give time for the enjoyment of a varied programme of dancing—an innovation which was fully appreciated by the fairer portion of the guest;,. There was a well-selected programme of music, performed by Miss Rose Hersee, Miss Julia Derby, Mr. Patey, Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. Paul Bedford, and other arL'stes. MADAME RACHEL'S GEMS of the TOILET comprise all that can enhance and preserve the charms of woman - youth, beauty, L: race and elegance, golden tresses, ruby lips, pearly teeth, and soft, pearl-like com plexion. 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T b .AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN a EFFECTUA L RY, without confinin the o or ffecting. the head, EME truly D efficacious and pleasant is aci wels mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persona whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Preparea on,y and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-William-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 130., and three quantities in one, 2s. ed. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. Mr. J. F. Toole performed con amore the duties of toastmaster. The Loss of the Steamer London, The official inquiry into the circumstances under which the London foundered in the Bay of Biscay on the 11th ult. was resumed and concluded, as far as taking evidence was concerned, yesterday, before Mr. Traill, the Police Magistrate, at Greenwich, and Captain Harris and Captain Baker, as nautical assessors. Mr. O'Dowd, as usual, conducted the proceedings on behalf of the Board of Board, by whose orders the inquiry was instituted. On the opening of the cont i; a gentleman who stated himself to be Mr. John Clare, jun., the inventor and patentee of her Majesty's on screw steam frigate the Warrior, addressed the magistrate and said he had been " allured" by some letters in the news papers to come forward and make a statement. Mr. Traill said he could not be allowed to make a statement, but if he had anything to suggest he might confer with the gentleman who represented the Board of Trade, and who might call him, if necessary, as a witness. Mr. O'Dowd, after briefly conferring w!th the gentleman, declined to examine him. Mr. Clare then attempted to address the Court, but Mr. Traill said that, although he was quite ready to hear him if he had any useful suggestions to offer, yet he could not be permitted to make a me-e statemem. 4f44 ' .( ' "9-7f ‘•i - f- - 1 ,1 l'' '' TV s l -P, i-- 41,. / ..,-;:: 4 •,,.. --...-'4l - 7 -4,'"fl a' --4.-^"fr• op --.:,.. FIX 4 ) .., 11. ,4, c , . • , -i. ,-- - xy ° ' t 4 -47 - • , S, hilittfli g f- 1 (ett APER and he had selected those w. be most trustworthy. He satisfy the Court, and had done evlitt power to satisfy the public while condo. very important and protracted inquiry. Mr. Traill said this was a case concerning which he should at present abstain from saying a single word. It would require some time to consider the evidence, and before that was done the Court, of course, would make no report. T. ig Mr. Benson (another brother of the unfortunate gentleman who was lost in the ship) hoped before the Court broke up he might be permitt e d to offer, I on behalf of the friends of those who had been the 1 sufferers in this great calamity (although both they and the shipowners had been, by Mr. Tra;ll's deci sion, prevented from appearing by counsel—a point on which they still retained a very strong feeling), their thanks for the kindness and courtesy they had experienced during the investigation. ~ f f~ Alleged Libel on Mr. Sothern. Just as the hour approached for the closing of tbe Marylebone Police-court yesterday, Mr. Montague. Williams, accompanied by Mr. Sothern and his so licitor, Mr. J. Turnley, 38, Cannon-street, city; entered and craved Mr. Mansfield's attention for a few moments. Mr. Williams said he had to make an application for a warrant against a person of the name of Robt. Cooper, who is the printer and publisher of a paper called the Spiritual Times, for a scandalous libel in serted in the impression of 27th January of this year, If his worship looked at the imprint of the paper he would see that it said " printed and published by the proprietor, Robert Cooper, at the Spiritual Lyceum, 14, Newman-street, Ox Ford-street, in the county of Middlesex, Saturday, Jan. 27,11866." This complaint of Mr. Sothern is that what has been published against his character and reputation in t1' 4, 3 paper iv one of the basest liwels that could possibly be. Itis not only traducing MP. Sothern in the opinion of private iudi%iduals at home to whom he was dear, but the party against whom he appves has attempted to traduce him in Glasgow even, and other places equally remote. He (Cooper) goes on to state from his " Lyceum," whatever sort of place that may be, that Mr. Sothern, whilst females have been in a comatose state, has taken advantage of then. He would not make any fr. her observation before read ing the article complained of, which was asfollows: " Mr. Sothern, the actor, celebrat. I as the origi nal personator of Lord Dundrear j, and who is now 'wing in London upon the hatyNome competence _ _ accumulated by his ' Ft' in the Dune Tary role, has published a leL:er riclicu"ng ' spilitual l / 2 1' as a gross imposition, and relates his own experience ;n this city (New York), where, under the pom -Te plume of Stuart, he sustained a leasing part in a ' miracle circle.' We remember Mr. Sothern when, as Mr. Stuart, he played the ' well-'ng gentleman' at Barnum's Museum, and was considered hardly worth his meagre salary of $l5 a-week. We also remem ber the same M. Swat t wher, as a small actor at some other place of amusement here, he professed to be a mesmeriser. He created grate a sensation by admitting the truth of an accusation b-ought against him by a ce T 'min new actress, th A he had grievously wronged her after pliOng her in a state of mesmeric influence." What could be a more base calumny against any person than this, whatever his position. He would now read another poi ,ion of the same article : " We were well acquainted with tim at the time of the spiritual circle,' au which he was the ' opera tor,' and t.) which young Mr. Wolf —son of INolf, of the Museum Orchestra—and now husband of Josephine Orton, lcd the heroine of Arra na Pogue at Niblo's ; but the ballet girl at the Museum was the witting mcdiuna: Andrews, the actor, was the mil aide medium in the same circle,' and used to p_int some very clever landscapes, which he con. sidered were produced under the immediate influence of the spirits. of Raphael, Guido, Michael, and so on. Mr. Wolf was an uncommonly skilful impostor, and readily produced a variety of chirog:aphy as the foe similes of the handwriting of depnited people. gifted of the entire com pany of simulatois." In applying for this warrant he wished to draw b's worship's particular attention to what he was about to read next : "Hc v•-as a good-looking, gay, vivacious, fasi - ) young man, whose pretty wife continually won the sympathy of those who were witnesses of her hus band's licentiousness. Mr. Sotherp, therefore, boasts entirely too much of his fame as a medium,' for in justice to spiritual;sm (in which we admit we have no faith), we must confess that-he never was a medium' of any importance . . . but there- are too many persons in New York cognisant of the facts to let his self-complacency go una;scredited." The learned counsel continued—There was also another periodical which had made an unwarrant able attack upon his client, but of which ho would say no more about, as it; was out of his worship's district. The accusations against his client were of a vet/ grave character, more especiary considering his reputation and his position in society. lo _ _ wished for an opportunity to be placed in the box to meet his calumniator. So seriously did this matter affect him that it almost unfitted him for his pro fessional business. It was also a talk at the club- houses as to whether he would move to vindicate his character. The learned counsel concluded by asking for the warrant. The warrant was granted. TIIE FASHION OF WEARING RINGS ON TIIE FINGERS is certainly more convenient than that adopted in the East Indies and other places far away, in which we read of their being worn in the nose, lips, cheeks, and chin. When Peter Alvarez had his first audience of the King of Calicut, he found that monarch adorned with jewels on every available part of his person. The barba rity of cannot bo suffi c i en tl y s ti gmatised by a lady a ring ho in wears one in her ear. Th e l a d y who affects ww e the s lip the lip-ring considers the pierced ear a sign of slavery, as it was known to be by the Hebrews long ago. Travellers in India have realised the nursery tradition of the lady with "rings on her fingers and bells on her toes ;" and wo know that the tinkling feet of the Jewish women incurred the reprobation of the prophet Ezekiel. All nations seem to agree in this love of personal ostentation. The entrails of the earth are torn to extract gems for a lady's finger. How many hands, says Pliny, are worn down that one little joint may be ornamented. "If the infernal regions really existed, certainly these burrows of avarice and luxury would have penetrated into them."—Once a Week. THE Loss OF TIIE EXCELSIOR.—On Tuesday evening the steamer Helen /11‘Gregor, Captain Knowles, arrived at Hull from Hamburg, after a very heavy passage. Captain Knowles reported that the telegrams which had been received at Hamburg of the loss of the Excelsior stated that the captain, his wife, one passenger, and 15 of the crow had been saved by the Guister lifeboat. They had been six days in the rigging without food, and the sea making a clear breach over them. They were in a, very exhausted condition when rescued, and they were placed under the doctor's hands. The owners --Messrs. Lofthouse, Glover, and Company —also received a telegram beenfrom aNavoerdd,etnh,ewrehmaichinsdlearteadlidthfiavteopnalysseln3goefrsthbeeincorelwosth.ad EADVERTISEMENTI—COUSUMptIOII, and all nervous, billow', stomach, and liver complaints, in every stage, are only ag gravatel and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perlemly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Itevalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, dizar hceo, all • gastric, derangements, hcemorrhoids, liver com plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness' fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the lead and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities. eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, pal pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramp:, spasm+, nausea and si,:kuesa even in pregnancy or at :e st: sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the cheat, pains in the pit of the stomach and between the sh i o cc a ter &^. We quote a tew.—Curc, No. 46,270. Mr. Jame B s . dises6ea t timber merchant, of Print !ey Surrey. of thirty lungs, spittinof blood, livcr derangement r of extreme deaf ness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, nervous nervousness, indigest on, gatherings, low spirits, end Lord-Lieu - famcies.—Cure, N,,. 1,77 . Lord Stuart do Dea si ; ._ N 0.49 532, anrartial d 813 e I - a, nervousness, tenant of Waterford, of many years' Y Fifty years' indescribable agony from dysp a e s P in s 1, an asthma, cough, const flatulency, spasms, it sickness , and vomiting—Maria Jolly.- Cure No. 8 ike London wis 43 ; 5 1p l' Ofgestion and to9l4lity o C f a Campbell, liver,e 11, all - medical treatment ; SIN Ils; 121 b, 225; 211 b, opsgate- In tins, ll which ni 1 9 ch d ham ; 'i 2 a l Nd b, orrei soilskt, l e do 40s.— Br Du Barry and Co., g 8,4 K l k o n . 77 1V R Il e i g h e m n t - - s s t t ;e e e e t t ; Cheapside ; 19, Bish a a l t so 6l l:l G i l r l a i e c s , h t a r e a c h d i sB a ot l ,r e ea r , a n , tc12498, Oxford-street ; 830, Strand ; street Within ; 83, 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham -court-road; 00, Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Nottintz - hill; Close Brothers, High-street; and Stubbs , Q ueen ' s -terrace, st. joi London; and all respectable grocers and elle- m ! s _ I '° E ° el 65, v d t . re of spurious imit at i ons. - -