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fidence of t, ion prevaili ll was going I ' ) in their Pr °. ation that 0 F.! provisio n distribut ; expec tatii isly with tt' i , ras consider e 'l l ially agen ts(' ry adminis ter oration, O s : actual cirOn't any instalo! :t, and it is t ‘ , )0d WileneCe' spread aro"!, qtly desire ')! possessies of their de ll ty be i n otbe l act is cornet' 5s great W it loubt, so ce i , the masses have alroB, negroes Taking th o bt correct. ;e they do 12° 1 of thou , ' 03:1: who now "' )cl no , rev ek •ecl whde ke]y to ee''; secution o t , the ref° spreed • o j, Lently g° ttachraent iave C 4ljie y lieved t° ter affect', ae N01t_1!;. _ ised. t Nev ei y . rig from •, vernmen, t, ,! indivi d ' Dug. T b°s° it ,ffectiO Male 611 114 ire a 00 .en the have ellS Lost adc'' )prellen si° _, [ surrect i l expedie llt te w hites t 10m 10m 1 ' just re as° adustrlollb; 3 for n report S o , The 13e e i he advicv„, a ne gro e u nder hope t(); the ao; bps, 1 0 eru pt 0 0 4 g like O r; hrovlbs;ll noy SitUft tl° i 1335 ';; aimon ce as Ye t, iie j, )orciPli n, bat rry P °°! per VOlUtiell !opin e° 8 hostile eavinso; hout 1 4 11 0 in in ses l.c e ) id not , not s er7 c°ll' at the lie w 3r va abliegl"o rits li b : 6 4 re cede'• Barief o t malty !St P' ' ' ' r 11U S ( We bet 113 ,7, 33s w ol o ' late 101 ,Eite• IV! t to gi ll ' P e ' r , 4 s to i 3°° Of 'a svP., ular I 101 0 lar iel l(l ° at S s°. ne t 53s no. 6.;• 50 1 7 8 to o, 31 - 0 0 `per 01 1 me, de d fa it V' ,k'l 4 523; for, rte. ;Oe9 2400 ~ 0 , , ig • ~, , ,1.'1,1, o I'ols ' .4 5 r ; 12 00 0 1 03° tilt l bat ac ay. y ip; )f s 9 ' 03 Len fro : 0 11; 11l • P° t, 94' i fr 4. TO-NlGHT.—Madame SAINTON-DOLBY'S •••••, 38 BALLA.D CONCELtT, St. James's Hall.— Admission, 2s Is ONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROGII for Gentlemen. Remember. we watt for you LVANS' after th e C oven t -gar d en Pantom i me an d t h e Theatres. kL.VAILAN'S LL WHISKY. - DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 1865. Sze Celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin • (12e Medal. It 13 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. thdeold in Bottles, 3s. 8d - , at the Retail Houses ou r London ; by AZents in the principal towns in England wholesale 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. „ observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded LL Whisky." - - IVIUTIJAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorpor tted by Act of Pariamont, . IS, RUSSELL -STREET, COVENT- I GA.RDEN, IB;O) LONDON three r pr"VA.NCES HONEY on Personal Security, Bills of Sale, feeeeohold or beneficial Leasehold Property, without inquiry any deduction whatever, for periods of one, two, or dis co .. 3r earg, repayable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills bi . , unted. Tile greatest secrecy observed. Advances also i i rue towards the Purchase of a House, repayable in 5, 10, or Yeara —Po f et,v oope. rrnsfree on application, or receipt of a stamped EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. ROYAL NAVAL, MILITARY and 1311 hen"RAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY (Esta p4e .D. , L ondon, S.W 1837. under Royal Patronage), 17, Waterloo . ARTHUR R. HAMILTON, Secretary. Agents wanted in towns not yet represented. tAST AND WEST IN'DIA DOCK COMPANY. T Cost c er kattrt of Directors of the East and West India Dock ree n Y HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that a HALF (.O ‘sttLY COURT or GENERAL MEETING of the said Billit Ist Lap will be held, _pursuant to the directions of the Act 2 d William IV., cap. 52, at the Dock House. No. 8, at wh e i r : B( lllare, on FRIDAY, the 12th day of January, 1866, St,,Z'on meeting- a Dividend will be declared on the Capital of ,of e , 18 Company for the half year ending the 31st day .‘"etaber6s. By order of the Court, GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary. E ast and W es t India Dock House, 8, Billiter square, Janu a ry 5, 1868. .IC.B.—The chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely. W INS LOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having the been recently opened and fitt e d with requisites for t ol F:tre and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr. lish 'ItAGON, announces that he has transferred his Estab ,a‘;nent from Birmingham to the above desirable residence, in°,;l7 accessible, and distant from London about an hour „„!., ii-halt by the London and North-Western hne, and flt ty Zinutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on p r : s a ndY soil, ard commanding an extensive and pleasing gr o Zet, hre garden, me Wow, plantation, and re,creation Prop r i etor .4B. For terms and forms of admission address the YAM and CO.'s OVERCOATS and SUITS. an d Funjg and Lounging Coate, Half Dress, Undress, lame QM Suits, Trousers, V . ests, dm., in all the fashion }iv ;e_s_and seasonable materials. and CO., 68 and 67, OX FORD-STREET, W. .H YET and CO.'S PRICES and GARMENTS. pri„ Ov ercoats and Capes, 'as. to s.4s. ; Jackets, 2is to 425. ; to " e e of Vales 'oats, 39d. to 635.; Trousers, ready made and to gli7Aure, 1 45.6 d. to 255. ; Vests, 6s. 61. to 21s. ; Suits, 425. lI YAU and CO., 66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET, W. IIYAM and CO.'S BOYS' SUITS and CAPES. Eton O vercoats And Capes, go 6d. to 425. ; Knickerbocker, m arrow, and Osborne Suits, 15s. Bd. to 455. ; Jackets, 4 m* 1 ' 6 , 25 8. ; Trousers, sealto 15s. M. ; Vests, 4s. 6d. to lijrZketa and Ves ke, 15s. 6d. to 275. 6d. and CO., 66 and 67, OX FORD-ST REET, W. tpAm and CO.'S SELECT DEPARTMENTS. D epart go. 1. (no-, hing for diate wear. No. 2. Ordered ten t Jilt. No. 3. Boys and Youths. Distinct Depart , tre2; 4. Hats Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Depa , tment. ura ti 4 1 and CO', 68 and 67, OXFORD-STREET, W. 04 st ablishments—Birmingham, Leeds, and Dewsbury 11 °}I N GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY DoWde T .9 O T II PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth ena ran ; gives the teedi a pearl whiteness, protects th e b,,` 4 from decay. and imparts a pleasant frazrance to don . 'eatb- Price Is. tid.—Bull Wharf, Rotherhithe, Lou- b NV RAT DO THE WILD WAVES SAY NOW? -That the FIERY CROSS has arried, 114 0 g some magnificent KAISOW CONGOUS of delicious the t..! , a td which may now be had, at a mere commission on 57Port G Price, of the EAST INDIA TEA CO APAN Y, rere at St. •Helen's CLurchyard, Bishopsgate-street. I) EIN TT,, AL NOTICE.--Mr.ESKELL, Surgeon annonn Wrist , Of 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street, having wetea , er a considerable period that "he is NOT con- Iliov.tiv)itli an y one of the name, and tda'.; he has NO r RE state th , and does not intend doing so," begs respectfully to ei„ ly at as he considers the general public are now sal iii,„.LW 11 aware of the facts he will cease to make thi. or atterTer Professional statement in the public papers on and t he 28th of February next. bINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. o f thi s Th e medical p ro l e •a i on for Th i rty year . have approve d di ty ,Plire solution o f M a , nesia as the b est remedy for A el as th e Stomach, H eart b urn, Gout, and Indigestion ; and 041;ch.`"ild PapPerient bity is ear ecially adapted for ladies and rcared D N EFO D and CO., Chemists, &a, 11 , , a 172, New B on d -street, London „:11;801c1 through-ut the world b y a l l respec t a bl e c h em i s t s, I ". —See 'hat " Dinnetord and Co." is on each bottle and red label over the cork. threesrhirio7tilosatontisexfil N?„ 111I NCT IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and linvention of the day, AGUA AMARELL A.. GOSNELL and CO., Bull Wharf, Ro y offer e London, Perfumers to her Majesty, , respe t ot_- Rre t t nai te public! this truly maryellous Hui eh oh o kfttte 9 restores tne human hair to its pristine hue n Prop e r at what age. The Ague Amarella has none ofthe rties of dyes • it, cn the contrary, is beneficialtotLe ' er 'i n e re o , and when 'the hair is once restored . one application i 1501tle nth wili keep it in perfect colour. Price one gu nea per e t .or in half bottles, ios, ei. Testimonials from arlistes (3. 8- 7 41 1:t h l ig t h y e , s t m o a r y der, and from individuals of undoubted re be seen on application. Messrs. John the alid Prances been appointed Perfumers to her Royal . of Wales. 1) R • SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS s Dar Dar 1 -LLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—.pre ed with cott f out any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. entre? of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who if„ta..._roin bilious and liver o'omplaints, wind, roatr ye l ,„ , giddiness, dizzineba of the eyes, & c. For habitual t 't th e " e " 8 , ea a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier tie, bib., they are truly excellent; mild in their opera olotel grAleful to he stomach, they create appe ite, pro- Sold „,,,gstion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Lou th ! " 1 • Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. th„,611,4154 by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three anott , „`"e 9eantity in one, 2a . 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Rreeti iiilioas and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square li timp." a kage. with " William Lambert." engraved on the BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. ITEALTH WITHOUT MEDICINE. Being ean ot , th e onlY Sovereign and unfailing Remedy for Indi the Constipation, Nervousness, Debility, Torpidity of eou44Zer, H eadache, Biliousness, Despondency, Low Spirits, staffAßthma, and Incipient Consumption. Particulars sent to any address on receipt of two lun 138 ' hY Mr • I" EARSLEY, 23, Kentish- town-road, Lon , ' beo‘Tfinte m o st efficacious remedy for those diseases extant, a 'TO e afllicteddi Review. britvls,a Invaluable discovery has atraine I a world-wide cele t? ': i ng of inestimable value, and most admir,,bly adapted anor t — e 'Ye those maladies which tend to embitter Ile, and „ 1 ,, , 11 its d uration."—So pe'. Darla:, Un precedented success of this remedy is without effect ; 'Ws is demonstrated by the innumerable cures Journal. 1 11-4 ' RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another 1 1 , 4 a/orne to thr‘ 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer att 2 ,3, 5 J00r, friendless, young females were rejected from „. 111 i DS and room, making a total of 3067 wh have 't ; aural in fieears. Here are brief d , tails of o a few j o r unst re cent cases y : ecl 16 htllen, mother dead, deserted by her father. aged 13, homeles4, both parents dead. a ged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother C. R ' , aged 15, fallen, mother dead. A a ged IS, fallen mother dead, 4 . 0., aged 16 ,fallen, , both parents dead. It. aged 14, ho me l ess , d eserted by her parents. " aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. A . aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. aged 18, fallen, father dead. S• k aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, 111 l A+ aged 17, fallen, both part nts dead. S, v., aged 17, fall en , b oth parents dead. aged 15, fall en, b oth parents dead. Pan t ,' new home the C ommittee wish to form would be for avJJOrls almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who ue eil led astray from the path of virtue. ntlP,ributi ons w ill b e received gratefully by the Secretary, 1101),tatiiel cooper, ("), Queen •atreet, Cheapaid e; or by Messrs and Co., Lombard-street. , 11 1T( 1 ) 1 . MO RE PILLS OR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. ILI s' 'ARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids' Yiel ds and Infants' Food, THE REVALENTA ARAB e l n C n ifi i tiqu,larree times as mnch assimilating and strength i Ntro,,,raerit as the best meat. and restires perfect digestion, 'llnetr„,„ne,rves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, elfeeb","a,l regularity and energy to the most disordered or filys, ,oafs'N r emoving' speed'iy and effectually indigestion. lilon it i l, cough, asthma. consumption, habitual e:onstia e4,ol_!trrlice, i. all gastric derangemen . ts, hmmorrpovis, liver sere throl'it"als, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, pvers, 4 a id '' iPhtberia, ca ' tarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the 11,7stelfl ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, .erruptions, tetur.,'la, neuralgia, irritability. sleeplessness, aciditali tis„,,':,, 04rtburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, ,;`,n.and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, ths'n'altis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains in th. pi of libisorilach and between the shoulders. It is the most diges cotriattriatil foods, and suitable for invalids and infants in all ly, 4 ~ th e 4 ( Mote a few out of 82,000 Cures : —Cure No. 58,218 . , of *astitchinness de Brehui, of seven ears' liver c9mplaint, ° ails A a way, debility, nervousness, irritability, wit i a l ner- Iles s v,,a4Pitation all over, bad di , estion, constant slep ess ,ii, `'n_,cl the Most intolerable nervous agitation. fAlre No. ue li: uy tiP ep ala, from the Right Ho.i. the Lord Stuart de „haiii e ''., , Lord Lieutenant of the county of Waterford :—1 Niis„uerived much benefit trim your excellent food. Clit."e".„da Decies, Dromana, Cappoquin, county Waterford. etjteta• 5 4,515, from the Rer. James T. Campbell, syder (lf4esti`teory, near lakenham, Norfolk.—ln a . ll cases of in ilallall ~ and particularly when the liver is niore than kiiii it .' affected, I consider it the best of all remedies. It ro ath„,a the bile, and makes it flow in c ise4 which would not th,T.,'„of mercury in any shape, In short, a healthy flow of It t k'4"e is one of its earliest and best symptoms. Ton can !'ent le arhat use you you please of this communication.— I . am, ali 411,;1,,Campbell. Cure :No. s : ?,4.2.—Bridge 'flittl e ,-; ' runleY, Surrey.—Thirty-three ye irs' diseased . lungs, the j i g 01 blood, liver derangement, deafness, singing in cilli(3,ph:riribeerc,onsstipation, debility, shortness of breath, and ;a4Q.. -:i've been removed by your Revalenta Arabica. My °mach, head, and ears are all right, my hear allees at, and my recovery is a mar el to all my acquaint : Of fi t i ',Nimes Roberts, Timber Merchant. Cure No. 49,812. ri , Bs Y Years' i ndescribable agony from dyspepsia, nery .us tießs' a,thrna, cough, constipation, flatulency, No.:l7ain.d vo miting.—Nlaria Joly, of Lynn, Norfolk Cure spasms, sisck latii,4-4'.l.—Atiss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, ;,,,,,,,,,,, zatherin g s, low spirits, and nervous fancies. dia r ,'N 0 56,814. —Mr. Samuel Laxton,Leicester of two years' se e, d c 'a• The Food is sold in canisters, ,21b, ?lb , 2 1b., 21 P, ; 241 b., 40s Super-refined quality, ;lb., 68.; asa i i sf 2 ' ; 5 1b., 22s ; 01b.,' 335. The 101 b., 21b., and 241 b. Itarr,,,-e,rs, carria9,e free on receipt of Post-Office Order, by hilfi ' - ' t= B arry and Co., 77, Regent -greet, London : also 5; ,N. Tea Dealers, 8. King William-street ; likewise at wi,,r,anc.e hurch- street ; 4, Cheapside, 49, Bishopsgate-street 11 D i4' , 4 81, 50, and 2,,,,5, Oxford -street ; 330, Strand; 54, 1,1 4,, t . 'al,cer-street ; .03 Tottenham-amt-road ; 96, Upper f,s ~,, Islington, N. Harvey, Notting-hill ; Close Brothers, il a'io l 7 , ll- n ii d t e reet ; and otubbs, Queen's-teri—ice, St. Jo . tin's elsra,,, ii ; and all respef,table C - Iro , se-s an, iTheml9t4.— "of BP arlou Isillt4tiolt'a. '' -''' - " N°. 22,951. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " JOHN HALIFAX." ' Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols.. 218.. A NOBLE LIFE. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," "Christian's Mistake," aro. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. CIRCULATION, 50,C00. EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS ADVERTISER. Send advert sements and blocks to publisher, 2, New castle-street, Strand. Price is. 6d., or 2s. 6d.. EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS. Ask your bookseller for " Everyboly's Business." London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS. Fee the reviews in "The Echo," and "London Gang naui," of the 6th inst., and all the leading periodicals. Ask your bookseller for " Everybody's Business," ls. 6d., or 2s. Bd. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. " An excellent edition."—The Spectator. TOWNSEND'S ARABIAN NIGHTS. In crown Bvo., price 55., cloth, gilt., 640 pages, THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAIN MENT, revised for Family or School Use. By the Rev. GEO. FYLER TOWNSEND. With 16 pages of Illus trations. "This edition has our decided preference. A careful ex cision removes all the incidents and expressions ermitted in others to pass with impunity as Eastern language, and which are on all sides aamitted to be uncongenial to the purity of an English house. or unfitted to endure the minute questioning of children. At the same time it omits no single narrative or adventure. Another recommendation is the wonderful improvement in the text."—The Press. London : Frederick Warne and Co.. Bedford-street, Covent garden. CIVIL SERVICE GUIDE. NEW EDITION. In crown Bvo., price 2s. 6d , cloth extra (postage 2d.), ACIVIL SERVICE GUIDE, with Directions for Candidates, Examination Papers, Standard of Qualification, Amount of: Salaries, &a, and all neceseary in formation for those seeking Government employ. By HENRY WHITE, B.A. The Sixth Edition. London : Frederick Warne and Co., Bedford-street, Covent garden. A COMPLETELY NEW NOVEL. In 2 volumes, post Svo.. price 125.. cloth , well printed, D OCTOR WELD; or, The Web of Life. By M. M. BELL. Author of "Deeds not Words," "The Secret of a Life," as London : Frederick Warne and Co., Bedford-street, Covent garden. A NEW PICTURE SPELLING BOOS. In demy Svo., price One Shillinz, cloth, gilt lettering, WARNE'S VICTORIA PICTURE SPELLING BOOK. With upwards of Three Hundred Illustrations This edition is carefully edited, with a large quantity of original matter, well printed on good paper, and solidly bound—it is very far in advance of anything yet in use. In its 160 pages it contains the necessary groundwork of a pri mary education, and as a national school book it is expected to have an immense sale. London : Frederick Warne and Co., Bedford-street, Covent garden. Published by J. Clements, Little Pulteney-street, price 7d., in cloth 13d., a New Work on the Teeth, entitled T)URE 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 e 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. STARCH MANUFACTURERS TO H. R. H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES. GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, Used in the Royal Laundry, AND AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDAL, 1862. Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, &o. ko. WOTUERSPOON and CO., Glasgow and London. COUNTRY HOTELS and INNS WANTED.— Mr. STRANSO3I begs to call attention of roprietors wishing to dispose of this class of Property to the facili ties offered by the extensive and free circulation of his MONTHLY LIST, and invites them to forward particulars for insertion in the next publication, upon the expre4s under tanding that no charge will be made unless a purchaser is found through his agency.—Country Hotel Agency Offices, 42, Hart-street, Bloomsbury-square, W.C. DEFRIES and SONS beg to call the special ty • attention of Merehanti and the Trade to their NEW PATENT AS rnA ItUitNER, With Circular Wick, whi Ai for simplicity of construction, great brilliancy of light, perfect combustion. and its entire freedom Iran heat, sur passes everything that has yet been introduced. A STRA LAMPS can be obtained from the ROPO LI I'AN LIGHT COMPANY. 417, Strand, and from all Ironmongers and Lamp Wan houses in Town and Country; and the Patentee, 16 and 17. Commercial street, WhitechapeL A STRA, PETROLEUM, and KEROSINE LAMPS on SHOW. (New Designs.) 4 . STRA (Patent) LAMP,. 4;. for MINERAL AS TRA LAMP.—Five Hundred NEW PATTERNS for the Season now on Show. TABLE GLASS, ENGRAVED AND CUT. T DEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS. Newest Patterns, Correct Measure. T DEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES, For 12 Persons, Xi 18s. 6d. BREAKFAST and TEA SERVICES in great variety, £1 ls. T. DEFRIES and SONS, J. 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-aTREET. CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS, New designs, for the Drawing-room, either for Gas or Candle. T DEFRIES and SONS, • 18 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS, In the Grecian and Venetian Desigrns, T DEFINES and SONS, • 16 and 17, CO 11.51ERCIAL-ST REET. BRONZED AND ORMOLU CHANDELIERS, New designs, for the Dining-room. T DEFRIES and S ONS, t 1 • 18 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL LAMPS AND WALL LIGHTS (Registered) for India. T DEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CLUB, MESS, AND FURNISHING ORDERS for the above Goods promptly executed. Works —LONDON and BIRMINGHAM. T DEFRIES and SONS, !I • 10 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. T DEFRIES and SUNS • Supply Merchants with Pattern Books Free. T DEFRIES and SONS' t.. 1 • TEMPORARY SHOW ROOMS. 16 and 17. COMMEKCIAL-STREET, WHITECELAPEL, Five Minutes' walk from the Late Establishment, 147. HOUNDSDITCH. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G President—Hie Orace 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 o a voluntary contributions and t !4acies It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the .iestitute sick has for a con •iderable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit tbe ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mae • !erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Elc.rries and Co. ; Hansom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; lliansa, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co . Bernars-street ; I. Banned and . Liverpool ; and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. STANFORD SMITH. Secretary. sAT74ORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and ► 110 IE, Hampstead. OfliceA, 77, Cornhill. PATRON—The QUEEN. TRUSTEES. Capt. the Hon. Francis I Maude, The Rev. Canon Champneys R.N. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. TREASURERS. R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. I Robert Banbury, Esq. This Institution is designed to supply a great national want, viz., an asylum for the orphan daughters of sailors in the Royal Navy and Merchants service and of Marines. It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic service, and provides a home free of expense for former inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the temptations they might otherwise be exposed to. The Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU TIONS to meet the increash , g- 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 those who may perish by war. Subscriptions thantiully received by the bankers, Messrs Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre tary, at the Offices. No. 77, Curnhill. R. SWEF,TING, Ron. See. CI - UM/ES NA.SI:I, See. b 79 A a:VI • . • ci • • "" 460 -do t ° = - An k - , _ I tnis s r." • L., g.:;1 1 4. 4 • 11 41k,ji; r ‘ ‘ • il*l-4 -" ", -11 4 4. •:, -/ ef 2 41111t ‘g` 4 :; 11 ‘ - j&C; jIl l ig IP 'DR 0 LT..° ‘V ‘`4`: - • ' ‘50: c ..., 6 DIE ie., 1ir,,10 PRICE 4d., STAMPED 5d.: also succeeds to the title by inheritance. His life has been an eventful one, and he has stood "i' the imminent deadly broach " during the Mexican war and that which has recently closed. / / SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The "SATURDAY REVI - EIV" ON SPECULATION IN 1865.—That the company speculation of the year has been on a scale which cannot be permanently maintained without bringing disaster in its train is unfortunately too certain ; but it is very diffi cult to obtain any exact statistics of the real extent of the operations carried on. The ex haustive list furnished to the Times by Messrs. Spackman and Sons is no doubt accurate enough, but it includes in the same category companies that get their capital and companies that never place a share, and exhibits totals which, if they all represented actual financial operations, would justify the utmost a l arm . Th e capital asked for by the new companies of the past year's growth is upwards of £75,000,000, with powers to raise £ 3 0,000,000 more when it may be found desirable. The average of the two previous years was even higher, the aggregate authorised capital of the three years being the enormous sum of £362,000,000. But the allowances to be made considerably dimi nish the real effect of these grandly conceived en terprises. In the first place, many banking, insu rance, and other companies have a nominal capital which is not meant to be called up, except in the event of unforeseen disaster. Then there are many other companies which call up very little of their capital, not because they do not want it, but because it is hopeless to make a call ; and in every case the calls are spread over a long period, the first deposit being little more than 10 or 12 per cent. And, lastly, there is the great shoal of windbag speculations, which never manage to place their shares, and entail no losses except upon the over-sanguine promoters, whom no one need pity. Unluckily, the worst companies do not always fail to win subscribers ; butit is not im probable that, if all the worthless schemes could be weeded out, the remainde r wou ld no t be t oo much 'or the financial strength of the country. As a matter of fact, however, the load is rapidly in creasing to apoint which threatens the gravestfinan cial dangers ; and prudent men are looking to all quarters in search of some means of checking the evil before it is too late. In a former article we ex pressed ourselves strongly against the notion, which has been rather inconsiderately taken up, that the evil can be best checked by repressive legislation. Though we see not the slightest reason to qualify our opinions in this respect, we should be sorry to be supposed to underrate the extent of the mischief which is now going on. Everything points to the possibility of hard times (financially speaking) within the next 12 months ; and whenever the pinch may come, the drain occasioned by the multitude of mushroom companies will tell heavily in the scale. Even if easy-going prosperity were certain to be the rule for ever, there are other results of the - game of company-making which are not less deplor able. The whole system, as it now exists, is perpetuallywasting away not only the resources,but, what is much worse, the very fibre and morale of commerce. Why, then, it may be asked, oppose the policy of those who would put an end to the practice altogether by repealing all the facilities which the law at present affords ? Simply because the system as it exists is not what it might be, and we believe will be, when a little experience has tempered the enthusiasm in favour of limited lia bility, to which so many fragile schemes owe their existence. In itself, the power of creating corporate companies is of enormous value. We need look no further for evidence of this fact than the rapid transformation which is going on of the best of the old private banks into limited companies. That a movement of this kind should give rise to an abund ance of counterfeit projects is not very surprising, and the one consideration which should be present to the minds of all who interest themselves in the future of commerce is, how the benefits of this new phase of industry may be secured without the ac companying nuisance of a shoal of bubble specula tions. One part of the evil we have already endeavoured to trace to its origin, and it was not hard to find it in the well-organised trade of " promotion," as carried on by individuals, and still more perniciously by financial com panies. Nor was the remedy for much of the ill consequences at present experienced at all more dif ficult to discover. Half at least of the facilities for the concoction of deceptive companies are due to artificial causes, which it is in the power of those who control this department of traffic to remove. But this is not the most serious aspect of the mat ter. Losses by shareholders who gamble in shares of new companies are injurious enough, but a more legitimate object of concern is the damage so often inflicted on straightforward traders who have been tempted, by an illusory show of activity and success, to deal with insolvent companies on the same terms as with ordinary firms. We do not pretend to have the same pity for a victimised shareholder as for a plundered tradesman. If the purchaser of scrip finds, as he almost always does, that premiums turn into discounts before he can realise and get out of his venture, he has no one but himself to blame. It is not even certain that the waste of national wealth is at all in proportion to the sufferings of indivi duals. If a few hundred men lose, by the depre ciation of their shares, some fifty or a hundred pounds a piece or more, for the sole benefit of a knot of ingenious projectors, the circumstance may be regretted from the point of view of poetical justice ; but the operation is, after all, only a transfer of capital, and it is by no means certain that a man who may use the sharpest practice in the game of speculation will not invest his winnings with as much advantage to the public as if the money had been left in the pockets of his dunes. The case is very different when a company breaks and leaves its creditors crippled or bankrupt in consequence. A rotten firm is no doubt as bad as a bubble company, and the half-forgotten revelations of the last panic proved that trading without capital or honesty was not con fined to limited companies. No corporate body has yet produced a parallel to the great leather frauds, and the worst company failures have been in con cerns which were sustained by the unlimited liability of every shareholder. The only protection against the recurrence of such disasters is, of course, pru dence in giving credit to doubtful firms, whether of the partnership or the company kind. It is true that this is a remedy which is more easily prescribed in general terms than followed in particular cases. Some amount of trusting faith is soon found to be essential by every one who engages in commerce in any shape, but the specially alarming feature of the present time is the utter reckless confidence with which credit seems to be given to the hollowest com panies. A reaction will assuredly come, when per haps an excessive suspicion will take the place of unreasoning trust ; but it would be better that the tide should turn gently now than that the flood should be suddenly checked hereafter by universal panic. " THE SPECTATOR" ON MR. GLADSTONE AS LEADER IN THE HOUSE O F C O MMONS. — Mr. Bright's speech at Rochdale concludes with a somewhat cur i ous passage, in which he expresseshis eager desire that Lord Russell were not in the Lords, and could still lead the House of Commons, and expresses it in a way which indicates very disti nctly indeed, not exactly what he thinks , but what he does not think, of the statesman to whom that office now falls. " I lament deeply," he says, " that Lord Russell is not at this moment a member of the House of Com mons • t? an d further on he adds, i n regard to re f orm, " much depends upon him, a n d I am not sure with regard to the measure that is • coming that every thing does not depend upon him." Clearly Mr. Bright places no confidence at all in Mr. Gladstone. And what of Mr. Gladstone himself—how does he look upon the task before him? He has told us by the motto to his Lancashire speeches that he partly realises the greatness of the change which his pros pects have undergone, that " he'll shape his old course in a country new." He has, like the Earl of Kent, in " King Lear," already experienced in gratitude where he should least have found it-- in the University of Oxford—but has he not new trials of the same kind still before him, and is not Mr. Bright already by antici pation turning him from his door ? We know no statesman whom we admire so much, and from whom we hope for so much, as Mr. Gladstone. But we fear that the same motto which he has chosen as a delicate reproach to Oxford may be but too appli cable to the case of other desertions of Mr. Glad stone' in this ungrateful world—that in the " new country" in which •he has now to travel, he will often " weary with the greatness of his way" and with the pangs incident to a nature in many respects too sensitive for the work before him. Undoubtedly in the task of leading the House of Commons Mr. Gladstone has a kind of duty before him to which every statesman would look forward with peculiar anxiety, and that in great measure for the very rea sons for which we all admire him. For Mr. Glad stone is in many respects the first leader of thnmo dern generation of politicians—the politicians who do not look at politics as a game of chess, but as a THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1866. jTODARE.-THE HOLIDAYS. THEA L'RE 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. Great attractions for the HOLIDAYS. Magic, Ventriloquism, Inexhaustible Showers of Presents, the marvellous SPHINX, the BIRTH of FLOWER TREES, and STO DARE'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-office, Egyptian Ball. Admission, ls. and 2e. ; stalls, 3s. "Almost miraculous."—Vide Times, April 18, 1865. pHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Piccadilly.—The only original and veritable legitimate CIIRISTY MINSTRELS Every Night at 8, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 3 and 8, retaining, all the specialties and old favourites who originally created the reputation of the Com pany. Fauteuils, 55.; stalls, 3s unreserved seats, 2s. ; gal lery, Is. 'rickets at Austin's, 28, ricoadilly.—Manager, Frederick Burgess. T"OXF O R D. 6, OXFORD /STREET. W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). THIS EVENING, and' during the Week, EXTRA PER FORMAN( ;ES by all the available talent. Opera, Bur lesque, Pantomime, Ballet, and Comedy Every Evening, performed by the entire company, includiug Misses Russell, Fitz Henry, Barrie; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, W. Williams, Spagnolt, Ate. The HUNGARIANS in their new entertain ment; Messra Duriah and Davies's illustrations of Negro Life ; Herr Preskow, the wondrous posturer from the Grand Theatre, St. Petersburg ; the D'Aubans, Herr Berrani and his talented family; the ENCHANTED HASH, eleven characters performed by . Mr. E. Marshall (his first appear ance here', the entertainment written expressly for him by Mr. W. T. Vandervell ; and a host of other talent, for which see programme and small biIIs.—EVERY EVENING. Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, is.; private boxes.los. 6d. CAN„TERBURY HALL. RI-FUM ! TI-FUM The Music composed and arranged by Willem Vandervell, will be produced This Evening. Mr. E. MARSHALL will make his appearance in RI-F UM T I-F UM! Mr. and Mrs. W. RANDALL will make their Re-appear ance in RI-FUM T I-F UM! LES FRERES D'ETOILE in RI-F UM T I-F UM! Lea MONTAGNARDS will make their first appearance in this Country in RI-F UM T I-F UM! The FLIGHT of MERCURY by the renowned TALLIoTT in RI-F UM TI-FUM! Signor TESCANO, the Cousin and Rival of the late DONATO, in RI-FUM T I-F UM! The MYSTERIES OF MABILE in RI-F UM T I-F UM! Les TABLEAUX D'AMOUR, illuminated by the Magnesium Light, in RI-F UM T I-F UM! The Beautiful BA L L BRINE S in RI-F UM T I-F UM! LE GALOP INFERNAL in RI-F UM T I-F UM! The Fairy Orchestra, designed and painted by Mr. W. Gowrie, in RI-FUM T I-F UM! Upwards of ONE HUNDRED PERSONS will appear in RI-F UM T I-F UM! IVIADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street. 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They remove redness, sallowness, &e. 2s. 9d. and 7s. 6d. ; or by post for 40 and 100 stamps.— ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. HOME for LITTLE BOYS, Tottenham, N., for the Reception, from all parts of the Kingdom, of Outcast and Destitute Boys, S and those verging on crime, underlo years of age. President—ROßEßT HANBURY, Esq., MP, VICE-PRESIDENTS. Stephen Cave, Esq., M:P. Sir S. M. Peto, Bart, Henry E. Gurney, Esq. Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. Samuel Morley, Esq. COMMITTEE. Mr Alex. Anderson. Rev. H. M'Sorley. Mr. E. H. Burrows. Mr. W. J. Maxwell. Mr. A. D. Chapman. Mr. Alfred Short. Mr. E F. Gedge. Mr. Robert Sinclair. Mr. George Moore. 1 Mr. E. J. Tabrum. Mr. Francis Lycett. I Mr. It. T. Turnbull. Treasurer—W. H. Winans, Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. E.C. Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, £6, Suffolk-street, Pall-Mall East, S.W. Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard ,... street, KC, 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 f 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 investig,ated by the Committee, ant, with thtB 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 to the little ones whose character and circumstances disqualify the for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tender age precludes their admission to the Refuges. Such are those who, from neglect, are already on the road to ruin. Such are those who have been deserted by theirnatural 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. Stich 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 plead for those who cannot thus plead for themselves ; and, referring to the cir cumstances of some who have been already admitted, they ask—is it right to make a widow and her family paupers for life 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 1p her to put one of them into a Home. but that they must ail go into "the house ?" Is it doing the bast 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 " rua away," none of us show' d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe thrm ? 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, 79 of whom were convicted aad 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 idees of self-reli ance and self-help, be permanent burdens to the State. Ihe Home for Little Boys has, therefore, been established to revue 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! iturion 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 ciphering, 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 life, 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 taper 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, Sze. Some assist the master in the garden, digging, planting, watering, weeding, and so forth. By degrees they are being made useful in the hou.e, scrubbing and aceeping, while the elder ones clean all the boots, knives, dm 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- Forms of application for the admission of children - may 1)9 had at the flue, and 91 tb,e. Itenorazy Necretary, H anl D. 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For boys from four years of age—The Knicker bocker and Highland costume of black velvet, or fine cloth for dress, and of Angolas and Cheviots for morning, the price of the first size Knickerbocker, 1 guinea the suit. For Overcoats—Melton, Beaver, and Witney cloths, from Ito 2 guineas each. Foreigners and visitors to London, Manchester, and Liverpool will find at Messrs. Nicholl's garments ready for immediate use, or made at a few hours' notice.-11. J. and D. Nicoll, 114, 116, 118, 120, Regent street; 22, Cornhill, London; 10, Mosley-street, Man chester ; and 50, Bold-street, Liverpoel. CHOCOLATE.-MENIER'S FRENCH. CHOCOLAT-MENIER, for Breakfast. CHOCOLAT-MENIER is pure, wholesome, and delicious. MENIER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE. .I.U. 'Warehouse, 23, Henriettalit,reet, Covent-garden. Sold every, SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. 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No connection with any of the same name. that the Government will not accept your personal apolo gies for your bad faith. lam further ordered to say to you that hereafter, when any garrison under your command is in a state of siege, no supplies of any kind will be permitted to be sent to such garrison from this side, General Sheri dan considering that it would be less of a violation of neu trality against the legitimate authority in Mexico to send powder to such garrison. lam further ordered to stop all intercourse with any garrison during the progress of a siege except that which humanity shall dictate. "I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, " G. WEITZEL, Major-General Commanding. "Major-General Tomas Mejia, Commanding Line of the Rio Grande." The foregoing communication was returned by General Mejia, with a verbal message, to which General Weitzel returned the following: " Headquarters, District of the Rio Grande, Brownsville, Texas, Dec. 4, 1865. " General,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the Ist inst., in reply to my com munication of the 24th of October last. The three men that cannot now be found in your prisons have long ago been re- leased. If the three men of the 23d United States coloured troops were captured in the lines of your enemies in arms against you, I have nothing more to say of course. But, for humanity's sake, I ask that, on their trial, your court may take into consideration their ignorance, their ignorance of your language, and the fact that officers and others from the other side induced these men to do what they did under promise of large sums of money. But three pieces of artil lery have crossed and re-crossed this river, and that only once, and then not on United States' transports. But one of my officers, who saw the whole performance, says the guns were dismounted, the carriages taken apart, and the different parts carried over in skiffs. These were brought over to be repaired, and returned as soon as they were re paired. As I understand you, however, you do not com plain of this nor of projectiles of American manufacture being thrown over Matamoros ; but you merely mention them as facts which justified great precautionary measures on your part. I have also received my communication of the 27th ult. returned to me. I must consider it unan swered, as I can receive no verbal reply to a communication written by direction of such high authority as it was. • " I am, Sir,, very respectfully, your obedient servant, " G. WEITZEL, Major-Gen. Commuting. " Major-Gen. Tomas Mejia, Commanding Line of Rio Grande." A special despatch to the New York News from Washing ton, of the 26th, says : " The Cabinet meeting to-day was very brief and com paratively unimportant. The quidnuncs who started the story that the French delegation was to be withdrawn from Washington, and based it upon the recent visit of the French Minister to New York, were considerably nonplussed by the return of the Marquis de Montholon to this city a few days ago. As I had telegraphed, his visit to New York re lated solely to private affairs of his own ; the most friendly relations exist between him and the Government here, and there is no prospect that they will be disturbed." Another Washington despatch says : " The constitutional term of President Juarez expired by limitation on 13th November last. Among the Repub lican statesmen of Mexico there seems to be some doubt as to whether he should continue in his office until another election could be held, agreeable to the constitution and the exigencies of the country, or as to whether he should relinquish the Presidency into the hands of Gen. Ortega, the Vice-President. All true Mexicans were, however, unanimous in the first opinion. Gen. Ortega deemed it his duty to be at the capital of the Republic at the expiration of the constitutional term, with a view to assume the charge of public affairs, should President Juarez deem it proper to relinquish them. As rumours growing out of these circumstances prejudicial to the Liberal cause have been circulated, the friends of Mexico in this city deny that President Juarez and General Ortega have quarrelled, and say that the latter will submit graciously to the deter mination of the former, and continue as hitherto to up hold in the field and Cabinet the independence and integ rity of the Republic." Now Orleans advices of the 22d contain the following : " The Times' Mexican correspondent says the Liberal General Diaz is carrying all before him, and the whole State of Oaxaca is in arms against the Imperialists. The Liberals are masters of the whole coast between Vera Cruz and Tuspan, also south of Vera Cruz. Foraging parties of Austrians have met with several defeats. Marshal Bazaine writes to Mejia that the northern frontier is under the double protection of the Emperor of Mexico and the Em peror of the French." The New York World gives the following extraordinary history of an association, Les Fils de la Liberti, which it alleges exists among the French Canadians and sym pathises with the American-Irish Fenians "About two years ago, at the time when Fenianism began to assume its present gigantic proportions in the United States, an association was formed of a somewhat similar nature in the different cities of Upper and Lower Canada, with the purpose of seeking for the two provinces annexa tion to the United States by peaceful agitation if possible ; but, if absolutely necessary, a resort to the sword was to be the last argument. The association grew with the growth of Fenianism tho United States, and many thousands of the French Canadians joined the movement. In Quebec, Montreal, and every town and parish where the French element predominated, the people became imbued with the principles avowed as the cardinal points of doctrine of the Sons of Liberty. In Lower Canada the organization was styled Les Fils de la Liberte, and many of the most promi nent men of both provinces joined the order, and it is said that at ono time the lion. D'ArcyM 'Gee, Premier of Canada, and Sir Etienne }lathe were connected with the movement. By degrees the order spread and ramified itself throughout the whole of Canada, and the idea crossing the boundary line found refuge and supporters in Northern Ne'w York and all along the American border wherever there were adventurous spirits to take it up. At the close of the organization it numbered 180,000 men, all solemnly pledged to shake off allegiance to the British Government at what ever risk the endeavour might call for. Very few Irishmen joined the Sons of Liberty, from the fact that Fenianism occupied all their attention,and that the organizations pro gressed together without clashing for two years. It was the intention of the Sons of Liberty to keep their projects secret until they were fully matured, but various disclo sures have been made by indiscreet persons, and it is stated that a number of the officers of the crack regiments sent over to Canada from England at the time of the Trent difficulty have joined Les Fils de la Liberty, and are pleged to act with the organization in military movements. It is stated that over a dozen of the officers of the 60th Rifles, an English regiment stationed in Canada, are active and earnest supporters of the revolutionary idea, and are on the books of the Sons of Liberty, having been promised high positions in the provisional army which is in process of organization. The leaders of the Sons of Liberty are in communication with the Federal Government, as they state, and the formation of branches of the Order in the State of New York and in the regions bordering on the Canadian frontier has been winked at—nay, encouraged, by the powers that be of Washington. The Sons of Liberty declare in public that the only means to be adopted in re leasing Canada from the British rule are—namely, peaceful and parliamentary agitation, combined with the awakening of the sympathies of the American people on behalf of their suffering republican neighbours across the line. But in secret the same drilling and organising for military pur poses which mark the preparations of the Fenians for a grapple are also nightly witnessed and participatedin along the Candian frontier, in the dark woods of the northern part of the State of New York, on the banks of the river St. Lawrence, and all throughout the Canadas. " MILITARY STRENGTH OF THE SONS OF LIBERTY. " In April last there were enrolled on the books of the Sons of Liberty 180.000 members, of which 93,000 were capable of bearing arms and taking part in a campaign. On the Ist day of last September the number had increased to 240,000, of which number 188,000 wore capable of bearing arms. The great increase and impetus given to the nume rical strength of the Sons was caused by the great and un paralleled success of the Fenian organisation in the United States. A well-known officer of the British army, who has seen service in the Crimea, holds himself in readiness to take command of the forces of the Sons of Liberty, when the movement has reached its zenith. To show that this is not a mere sensation story, a document has been pub lished, showing the spread of the society, its ramifications having reached Elmira in tho State of Now York. In the announcement of the lecture by Dr. Cadieux, Irishmen and Americans are invited to attend, and the band of the let Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, which is supposed to be the pet organisation of Secretary Stanton, is to perform without charge at the lecture. Dr. Cadieux is a prominent Canadian, who has been for some years a member of the Canadian Parliament. He is strongly in favour of Repub lican Government and annexation to the United States." The Irish quarrel in New York continues with unabated bitterness. The various addresses received from different quarters appear to be nearly all hostile to O'Mahony. Hon. Cornelius Cole has been chosen United States' Senator from California for a full term of six years from the 4th of March, 1867, when the term of the Hon. John A. McDougall will expire. Mr. Cole was a member of the last House, and an earnest and able Unionist of the Republican stamp. Mr. McDougall is a Democrat. We believe this is the first election of United States Senator whose term commences with the next Con gress. Colonel Goode, who commanded the 21st Illinois Infantry, but who was superseded by Colonel, now Lieu tenant General Grant, has become Sir Samuel H. Goode. By the death of his cousin, Sir Jasper Goode, who recently died at York, England, ho has fallen heir to estates, the rontal of which amounts annually to £3,000 sterling, and Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d, ss. 6d., and Ws. 6d..; sent free fbr 54, 84, and 141 stamps.--ALEX. ROES, 248, High Holborn. London. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, Friday. The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Java, from New York on the 27th of December, has arrived. Negro disturbances had occurred in various parts of the South. They were sufficient to excite a good deal of ap prehension, but none of them seemed to be of a very for midable character. The most important is thus alluded to in a Washington letter of the 26th in the New York News:— " The negro riot last evening at Alexandria was a terrible and bloody affair. The negroes were aggressors. Their bad conduct was patiently borne a long time, but when they began to break into houses and insult women they were fired on. Crowds of negroes then rushed to the attack, and in the fight five white men and seven negroes were killed and many severely wounded on both sides. Shooting was going on till a late hour last night in every direction, and the doors of many houses were perforated bythe balls." The Washington, Evening Star gives the following account : "It commenced by a party of negroes who were going about the city with a drum. Breaking in the door of a man named Mankin, he fired on the party, killing one and wounding another. Tho disturbance extended to other portions of the city, and lasted until late at night. Shoot ing was going on in overt' direction. Four white menare reported killed, and a number wounded, in addition to the six negroes reported killed." A despatch of the 2Gth from Wilmington, North Caro lina, says : " The negroes made no organised demonstration in this vicinity on Christmas. There were a few isolated cases of collision between the whites and the blacks early on Christ mas morning. The negroes creating the disturbance wore arrested by the police. A crowd of negroes rallied. The recruited companies and detachments of the regular garrison came to the assistance of the police. About 100 negroes ' were arrested, but are not yet disposed of. There was no other disturbance of consequence. Major Wickersham, Superintendent of the Freedmen's Bureau in this district, has ordered the chairman of the County Court to revoke the sentence in the case of M'Coy and Walker, the negroes ordered to be sold into servitude for larceny. In default, all the members of the Court are to be put under arrest." A despatch of the 26th, from Richmond, says:— "No demonstrations of mob violence occurred, except at Manchester, opposite Richmond, where a large number of freedmen surrounded the gaol, and forced the release of two coloured prisoners. Official reports from all other sections of the State represent the freedmen as quiet, and no apprehension exists on the part of the officers of the bureau of any disturbance among them." According to the Philadelphia Telegraph a serious riot between some hundreds of persons, blacks arrayed against whites, was avoided only by the timely intervention of the police. In Memphis disturbances had taken place, and it was resolved to call out a patrol of 1,000 men to guard the peace during the Christmas festivities. In Columbus, Georgia, martial law was proclaimed to last from Decem ber 24 to January 2. All saloons and bar-rooms were or dered to be closed. New Orleans advices of the 22d say : " The Vicksburg Journal has advices, which it deems re liable, of an alarming character from Yazoo. The people of the country are reported to be flying to the towns for protection, and the negroes are represented to be arming themselves, who claim that between now and Christmas the land must be given them, or they will take it by force. The coloured troops stationed in the country are espousing the cause of the negroes, and serious trouble is appre hended." The President has, through the Secretary of State, re lieved Judge Sharkey of the trust of Provisional Governor of Mississippi, and recognised his duly-elected successor in the person of Governor Humphreys. The letters ad dressed to them are similar to those written to the Provi sional Governors and Governors of the other Southern States, remitting to the constituted authorities chosen by the people the care and conduct of their proper affairs. Texas and Florida are the only two remaining States to be relieved. Tho following additional correspondence between the commanders at either side of the Rio Grande has been published : " GENERAL MEM TO GENERAL 'WEITZEL. " Imperial Mexican Army, Matamoros, Dec. 1, 1865. " General,—ln answer to your communication of Octo ber 24, I will state that I have taken the necessary infor mation in regard to the detention of the individuals whom you ask me to set at liberty. In none of the edifices which serve as prisons in the city of Matamoras can there be found the persons of James M'Elrath, Bartley Quinn, or James Smith. But under the jurisdiction of the Court Martial are detained Richard Crawford or Cranford, Carter Smith, and Joseph King, American soldiers, who deserted from your command on the 16th of September last, and were taken prisoners in the neighbourhood of Matamoras on the next clay, the 17th, in a skirmish which took place between a few of my soldiers and one of Cortina's bands. It is, therefore, impossible for me to sot them at liberty. It is true that a few men of colour, of American origin, were employed on the public works or fortifications ; but this labour was freely given, and they were paid one dollar each daily. You see that neither the laws nor the treaties have been violated. It is also certain that during the last operations in this city several negroes and former United States' soldiers were arrested, but they were afterwards liberated. Still, the presence of individuals of this class in the enemy's lines, the projectiles of American manufacture which were thrown over Matamoros, and the passing of Escobedo's artillery indiscriminately to and from Texas on United States' transports, justify, in the eyes of my Go vernment, such measures of security. Accept, General, the assurance of my highest consideration. " TOMAS MEJIA, General Commanding, &c. " To Major-General Weitzel, Commanding Western District of Texas." GENERAL WEITZEL'S REPLY TO GENERAL MEJIA. " Headquarters, District of the Rio Grande, Brownsville, Texas, Nov. 27, 1865. " General,—ln accordance with instructions from Major- General 11. Sheridan, commanding Military Division of the Gulf, transmitted through Major-General 11. G. Wright, commanding Department of Texas, I hereby notify you that if any such outrages on American citizens as I com plained of in my letter to you of the 24th of October last are permitted within your lines, no excuse for such conduct will be accepted ; that you will not be permitted to commit .!lets ag9.inst the ljnited Staten which are no accidents, and NEWSPAPER department of life almost as grave, of moral perplexity, as their religio . Lord Palmerston was a man of the raeli thought the world an oyster, the being how to open it ; Sir Robert P the world with a certain dramatic _ that was not earnestness; and Lord Russell is a Vhig nobleman, with convictions certainly, but with no conviction so strong as the necessity of breaking all opposition to his own Government. Mr. Gladstone is the first leader of the House of Commons, who will look at the obstacles of his Government from a quite different.point of view than that of mere diffi culties to be surmounted. Take the case of Mr. Bright himself, for instance, who is quite likely to be one of Mr. Gladstone's difficulties. Lord Palmer ston probably regarded Mr. Bright as a providential instrument intended to render ultra-Radical views obnoxious to the country, and took no more note of what he said than just to pick out the points on which a judicious word or two in due season would be calculated to aid this beneficent intention of Providence. But Mr. Gladstone will certainly not be able to take this calm, external view of powerful assailants. If Mr. Bright is unpleasant, he will fret, he will think of ways of convincing his reason, of arguments likely to persuade him that he is wrong; he will look at his speeches with a conten tious controversial zeal ; lie will measure the weight of his thought as thought, instead of merely mea suring its importance as a political phenomenon. Even if Lord Palmerston were annoyed by a vigorous Radical onslaught, he only thought of his opponent as Mr. Kinglake says that the Turks think of an Englishman o r an Englishman of a snowstorm, namely, as " a mysterious unac countable, uncomfortable work of God which may have been sent for some good purpose to be re vealed hereafter." But that is the point of view of a statesman who is mainly a man of the world— who looks not at the intrinsic value of a thought, but at its political operation—at its influence on the state of parties, at the move' which will best coun teract it as a matter of policy. But Mr. Gladstone is not mainly a man of the world. He is a man who broods over his plans and the ideas of his opponents with a strong desire to arrive at the truth. Diffi culties that were mere stumbling-blocks to be avoided to the old school of statesmen will be thorns in the flesh to be prayed against, and patiently used as political crosses, by Mr. Gladstone. Now this more modern and higher, if sometimes too sen sitive, way of looking at political life will un doubtedly be a real difficulty to Mr. Gladstone as leader of the House of Commons. The manage ment of the House must always be more or less a matter of real eavoir-faire. In the House of Commons it is scarcely true that the forces to be dealt with are convictions. At a stage further back no doubt it is so, and one great advantage that Mr. Gladstone will have over former leaders is this —that he may exercise if he will a real influence on the convictions of the country, and even raise the standard of its political ethics. But, par ties once fairly organised in the House of Com mons, the majority of members are more or less pledged, and scarcely at liberty, even if they were able, to alter their minds, though they may be induced by politic considerations to alter their votes. The notion of seriously altering the convic tions of members of Parliament, say on Reform, by argument, however powerful, is like the notion that you could mould a bust in the marble because you can mould it in the clay. To address argument to the member for Birmingham, for instance, on that subject, in the same sense in which you would ad dress argument to minds still confessedly in search of truth, is a waste of moral and intellectual force. It might tell powerfully upbn the country, but it would be sure not to answer the purpose for which Mr. Gladstone would be in danger of using it,—the clearing of a Parliamentary obstruction out of his path. As a set-off against the advantage of having a Minister at the head of the House of Commons to whom political conviction means something very real, something implying a long intellectual and moral process for every conviction,—we have un doubtedly the disadvantage that he will feel intel lectual and moral objections to his policy far too keenly, and desire too much to parry them, not for the reason for which a swordsman desires to parry a dangerous blow—because it is dangerous, but for the reason for which an argumentative man desires to answer even the feeblest objections,—from a sort of intellectual resentment of their vexatious imperti nence, and from a fascinating sense of being able to annihilate them completely. Then, again, Mr. Gladstone will ha v e an othe r g r eat difficulty as leader of the House of Commons. He will not only, we fear, look at his duties too much as per suasive duties, too little as managing duties, but his political position will be perplexing and sometimes unintelligible to his followers. Ile will care too much to understand them, often when there is very little to be understood ; they will care too little to understand him, even when there is much to be un derstood, and they will be the harder to manage in consequence. A leader loses much in power whose followers cannot pretend to follow him into half his positions. In Mr. Gladstone they will have such a leader. Much of the course which he shaped in the old country—on ecclesiastical questions, for instance —and which lie promises to shape also in the " coun try new," is utterly unintelligible to Liberals in a great Liberal leader. His mind is indeed made up of a complex system of intellectual cells communi cating with each other by passages intelligible to himself but not to the mass of mankind. Now the habit of following, a habit useful to a party, must be at least seriously weakened when, on a certain class of subjects, the Liberals have to admit to themselves that they must "make allowances" for their leader, and leave him to think and vote apart from them. None of the mere phalanx-men had any difficulty in following Lord Palmerston or Lord Russell. The Conservative Liberal creed of the one, the Whig creed of the other, was as well known, as visible an external reality, as easy to rally to, as the standard in an army. But Mr. Gladstone's creed to be understood at all must be studied in its motives. Why is he, for instance, almost one of the Manchester school on questions of military ex penditure, finance, , and peace,—nearly as Liberal as they are on the extension of the franchise,—and yet a Southerner in feeling on the American ques tion ? Why has he the keenest possible sympathy with the miserable captives of Naples, and little or none with the miserable captives of Louisiana or Mississippi? Why does he trust popular feeling and free inquiry so implicitly in secular matters and distrust it in religious,—devote all his power as a statesman to promote the spiritual principle of a free press, and yet to sustain the authoritative and dogmatic principle of a traditional Church ? These are questions which can of course be answered by any one who has studied the interior of Mr. Glad stone's faith. But few politicians do study interiors at all. The popular impression is that his politics are " not of a t h p a i t e c,e,,aanpdlayinounidaonn'etank,ntofwolwl o h w e r e m t r o . with any consistency, b u t must set up t hG h al i va nki des n tho g inm ior himself." And this, we take it, will be one—by no means wholly unfortunate—but rather disorganising effect of the leadership of this brilliant man. 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