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bONDON must have a Gentleman's SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM " EVAN'S " after Alfred ellon's Cottcerts. MAHAN'S LL WHISKY V. COGNAC I( _ BRANDY. Tuts cele ended Old IRISH. WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delioious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, as. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at 8. GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal. Pink Label, and Cork branded "Einahan's LL Whisky." MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1850). 14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVERT-GARDEN, LENDS MONEY on Personal and other Secarity, in sums of £2O to £5OO, to be repaid by instalments extending over one, two, or three years. The large C ipital of this Associa tion enables it to complete its transactions without delay. No inquiry or office• fees. and strict secrecy observed. Bills biscounted at short notice. Form sent tree on receipt of a directed stamped envelop.!. The ARSOei•aton also lends Money for the purchase of a house by a tenant, or for tlfe liquidation of mortgages, on terms most advantageous to the borrower. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. ItEOTER'S TELEGRAM COMPANY (Limited). Capital £250,000, in 10,000 shares of £25 each. First Issue 5,000 shares. Paid £lO per share. DIRECTORS. John Dent, Esq., 35, Grosvenor-square, of Messrs. Dent and Co., China. Sir John C. D. Hay, Bart., Director of the Land Securities Company Colonel Holland, Deputy-Chairman of the South African Bank. J. Bank S. Stopford, Esq., Director of the Agra and Masterman's . _ Julius Renter, Esq., Managing Director. ISSUE OF DEBENTURES. The Directors having been empowered at the Special General Meeting of the Proprietors held to-day to issue de bentures to the amount of £35,000, are prepared to receive applications for the same for the terms of two and four years at .he following rates of interest : Two years 5 per cent. per annum. Four years 6 The debentures will be of three denominations, namely, £2O, £5O, and £lOO, and will have interest coupons attached, pay able half-yearly, on the Isc of September and the Ist of March in each year. The contracts held by the Company with various parties in this country and abroad, and ranging over a period of five years from the Ist of January last, amount to considerably more than the sum the Directors are authorised to borrow, and afford ample security for the 'payment of the inte rest and the redemption of the debentures. In addition to this security there remains upwards of £50,000 of the BIIB SCRIBED CAPITAL of the Company uncalled up. All applications should be addressed to the Secretary. ac companied by a deposit of Ten per cent. on the amount of debentures applied for. In the event of no debentures being issued, the deposit Will be returned in full without any deduction. By order of the Board, • FREDERICK J. GRIFFITHS, Secretary. 1, Royal Exchange-b uildB6sings, London, August 11, 1. CONTRACTIFOR PROVISIONS. Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 18th August, 1865. TT -111 RIGHT HONOURABLE the LORDS and OTHERS. COMMISSIONERS of this BCH DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That they are ready to receive TENDERS from. and to treat with, such Persons as may be willing to Contract for Victualling the IN-PENSIONERS of the said Hospital, from the Ist Octo ber, 1865, to the 30th September following, both days inclu sive, with the following Articles of PROVISIONS, dux, viz.: —Beef and Mutton. Bread. Cheese, Butter, Potatoes. Salt, Oa , meal, Barley ur Rix, Pepper, Flour, Suet, Cocoa, Black Tea, Sugar, Milk, Onions or Leeks, Carrots, Celery, Thyme, Marjoram, Winter Eavory, and Pa , sley. daily, at per head per diem for the whole ration, according to the established allowances of the House, as specified in the Form of Tender, which may be obtained at the Office of the Secretary any day bet Reen the hours of Ten and t hree o'clock, which Tenders must be filled up and delivered sealed at the Board-room of the said Hospital by the Party or Parties tend ring, or by an Agent appointed on his or their behalf, on TUESDAY, the sth September, atiTwelve o'clock, at which time their Lordships will be prepared to take the name into consideration. It is to be observed that the Contractors will be required to find Security to the Crown for the due l.erformance of the Contract, and that no Tender will be received after the day and hour above mentioned. The Commissioners do not pledge themselves to accept the lowest Tender. GEORGE HUTT, Secretary and Registrar. THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—THE TONIC sTIMUE.ANT FOOD.—PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE.—No animal can become infected with this disease if a Four-Ounce Packet of THORLEY'S SPICY AROMATIC COMPOUND (costing one penny) be mixed 11 13 with the ordinary food at each time of feeding. The Inventor, JosEPH THORLEY, has good reason to re commend it as a preventive of infection and an anti dote to disease—keeping the • stomach and digestive organs in a natural healthy tone, and thus fortify ing the animal against the insidious inroads of . disease.—To be had only in penny packets. None genuine Without4ie Inventor's Signature engraved thereon. Sold 1 , 3 all Grocers, Druggists and Corn Dealers throughout the World. Cases containing 448 penny packets, 345. ; halves, 17 5.; garters,'B3. 6d. N.B. In case any difficulty arises in obtaining the Genuine Article, send a Post-office Order for 34 8., made payable to the Inventor, JOSEPH THORLEY, °Pie° Mills, Thornhill Bridge, King's Cross, London, and an iron-bound case containing 448 packets will be sent, carriage paid, by the next luggage train to any railway station in the United Kingdom. BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. IIEALTH WITHOUT MEDICINE. Being the only Sovereign and unfailing* Remedy for Indi ges ion, Constipation, Nervousness, Debility, Torpidity of the Liver, Headache, Biliousness, Dezpondenoy, Low Spirits, Coughs, Asthma, and Incipient Consumption. Full particulars sent to any address on receipt of two stamps, by Mr. KEARSLEY, 23, Kentish•town-road, Lon don, N .W. " fhe most efficacious remedy for those diseases extant, a boon to the afflicted."—Jledical Review. " This invaluable discovery has attaine I a world-wide cele brity, being of inestimable value, and most aumir.bly adapted to remove tho e maladies which tend to embitter lie, and Shorten its duration."—SoAlpel. "The unprecedented success of this remedy is without Parallel ; this is demonstrated by the innumerable cur es cifected."—Medical Journal. HAIR -CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID male Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold ;It 38. 6d.; sent free for 54 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, al k 6d., or 20 stamps. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perma nently— Ladles' Hair from 7s. 6d.; Gentlemen's from be. The Dye is sold at 3s. 6d ,or sent free for 54 stamps. It I s Most easy of use. rrAIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX."ROSS'S DErrL &TORY removes, Without effect to the akin. su perfluous hair from the face, heck, and tamps arms. 3s. ed.; sent the same day . as ordered by post for 54 s. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTIIARIDES OIL, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent free fors4 stampe.—ALEX. ROSS, 248 , High Holborn, London. Essay on Hair, Id. DIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness dm 2s. 9d.; by post for 40 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High itolborn, London. ALEX. ROSS' FACE POWDER, Is. ; sent for . 14 stamps ; Eye Colour, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps. Skin re produces a transcendent complexion, or V stamps. ic,` ° °n l of Roses, 3e. 6d., or 51 stamps.—ALEX. KOSS, 248, sigh tfolborn, London. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERrEeTED AND EXUIBITED IN . GREAT Ern —.ELTIONB 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by TilE upwards of inv ention Hundred Medical Gentlemen to De the most effective 4 1 u v ention in the curative treatment of HERNI A. " use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, 8 here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the the requisite resisting power is supplied by the 'tue-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn truss, sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the — , ss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufecturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 160., 215 ., 26 e . 6d., a nd 31 8 . 6d. Postage, le. A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT - - ELASTIC KNEE-CAPS, am, for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. &1., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 16s. eadh. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer. 228. Piondillr. SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and HOSIE, Hampstead. Offices, 77, Cornhill. PATRON—The QUEEN. . TRUSTEES. Can the Hon. Francis Maude, The Rev. Canon Champnue I Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. TREASURERS. „,,R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. I Robert Hanbury, Esq. b "-rils Institution is designed to supply a great national i s ant. viz., an asylum for the orphan daughters of sailors hi me 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 elates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the "" I Ptations they might otherwise be exposed to. Ti`,,be Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU ,. •- , l`lB to meet the increasing applications through the re storms and loss t f life at sea, and t o enable them necessities to obtain premises more commensurate with the Who re of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000 :: h t .° l i annually by casualties alone, without including those 8 " Inay perish by war harscrißtions thankfully received by the bankers, Messrs a even, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre tary y. 13 at the Offices, No. 77, Curnhill. R. SWEETTNG, Hon. Sec. CHARLEB NASH, Sec. 13OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, ,).„ in the i m m e di a te vicinity of the Great Northern Rail terminus, King's-cross. P atron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. A atron—H is Royal Highness the Prince of WA LE S, K.G 'resident—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. lie hta hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab the "le prple ot free admission to the sick poor, without pe nc ? e laY and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de- It ? fi t for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. %d e p., urds relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in destitute to this, the average number of attendance of the B,ocotulte sick has for a con,iderable per:od averaged between The 'Committee 4 ' ooo Weekly. brn ey offimittee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the eo , tai °lent , as the premises of this Hospital are capable of g several hundred more beds, had the Committee Pjequisite funds to maintain them. , e ;;; n unt a ributions are received by the rreasurer, Edward Mat- Drummond., Nicholas -lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.. aud ,,a n d c o. ; Glyn and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ranson t ar ; Prescott, Grote and Co.;Smith, Payne, and Co.. Co `Nisbet Mara's, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur- Co •a and Co. , Berners-street ; I. Barned and '"I' 00 1t and at the hospital. from 10 till 5. 4TANFORD 3MITU. Beorets37. No. 22,829. ('? //, PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. 1 1 a * ti ► ."‘','"' • -• W l4)44l'l li gi i i 6S. (1141-1- W .:4 :! ---1114: ‘fri : . ' - - . ' l 4 41 11 7,/' - , '.." 41...=A.. t , ', ', • ~...... , . .P.'1"" .6 ' ' -'''' 41111E -'' 1. 1 1 • 4' ' WrS" 6 • ..‘ •*l ••' k w r -k , 2 • '''ii fil.' . -01 0:.•,11 - &-. '‘...'\ •. DIE • Iti!il 1, e.moki t • 01 , .,_ , -0,0 T v i mz. rr r \ \ 4 --.1--- . '. kw— • ' ' "4.2p.Elitia r.'1.1: ..... ' 0 • L, V,, 14'421144 --'. 1 ....") ) ~......‘ : al•., : , ' . 1 N r itgg ill° H_ -- 1 --"/ N.... , , ... ~..._ _,.. ~,,,, ..., , ~ _ GREAT ST. JAMES'S HALL-WIZARD of the NORTH. Crowded Houses. Great success of Frederic (the Great) Mambo, the unrivalled ventriloquist and mimic (vide the London press). Second Sight by Miss Anderson, more extraordinary than ever. Every night at 8, Saturday afternoon at 3. Entrances, Regent-street and Pic cadilly. C REAP EDlTlON—Handsomely bound in cloth gilt, 65., ECCENTRIC PERSONAGES. By EVIL t lAM RUSSELL, LL.D. John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. THIS DAY (Saturday) at 3—TO-NIGHT at 8. Great St. James's Hall. Maccabe. the Ventriloquist. —The World of Magic by PlZOFxsso it AN DKR Seeond Sight by Miss Anderson, the real Indian Basket Feat by Miss Liz tie Anderson. Doors open at 2, to commence at 3. Stalls, as. ; reserved seats, 3s. ; balcony, 2s. ; area and gal leries, 1•.; schools and children half price to stalls and re served seats, which may be obtained at Mr. Austin's office, No. 29, Piccadilly. A. NIMMO, Acting Manager. H E OXFORD 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, performed by Misses Russell, Barrie, Walmesley, Tyrell ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn. Husk, Green, and Mons. ERVAIL the new French Tenore, with full Band and Chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Ballet, Comedy, Burlesque, Au., by the celebrated D'An bans, Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Misses TESSY and SARA. GUNNISS. NO VICE —The Oxford has been entirely Redecorated. Altered, Newly Lighted, and Ventilated, and now is one of the most agreeable places of resort in the kingdom.—OPEN EVERY EVENING at Eight o'clock. Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL. Selections from ORPHEE AUX ENFERS and THE BROTHER AND SISTER, supported by Miss RUSSELL, Miss Barrie, Miss Hays. &c. ; Messrs. ST. ALBYN, Green, &c., with Full Band and Chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jongmans. Comedy by Arthur Lloyd, Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Grotesque D'Aubans. THIS EVENING, will be performed, with new Optical effects, the Illusion, entitled KO KO RI KO, on a scale of magnificence never before attempted, and embracing the ser vices of the entire establishment. MADAME TIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION.- Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker-street. NEW ADDITIONB.—In accordance with the season, the Exhibition has been entirely re-embellished. The whole or the ancient Court Dresses of the most costly description, faithfully copied from the most minute pictures, have been renewed. Modern Court Dresses of the most splendid de scription, selected from the first houses in Paris and London, and probably never equalled or surpassed, are now on view. Life-size Models of DOCTOR E. W. PRITCHARD and CONSTANCE KENT are now added. Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence. GLASS, CHINA, EARTHENWARE, and CHANDELIER SHOW ROOMS. Notice of Removal in consequence of the late Fire. T DEFRIES and SONS' Temporary SHOW t.) • ROOMS. 16 and 17. COMIIERCIAL-STREET. WHITEC fIAPEL, Five Minutes' walk from their Late Establishment, 147. HOUli DSDITCH. CRYSTAL and BRONZED CHANDELIERS, New Designs, for the Dining and Drawing-room, either for Gas or Candle. JDEFRIES and SONS, 16 and 17, • COMMERCIAL-STREET. PETROLEUM LAMPS and WALL LIGHTS, MIRRORS (for India). JDEFRIES and SONS, 16 and 17, • COMMERCIAL-STREET. TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS. Newest Patterns, Correct Measure. JT DEFRIES and SONS, • • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES, For 12 Persona, £1 18s. 6d. DEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET. TABLE GLASS. CHINA, and EARTHENWARE, CLUB, MESS, and FURNISHING ORDERS for the above . . GOODS promptly executed. - --- - JDEFRIES and SONS supply Designs and • Pattern Books Free. Works--LONDON and BIRMINGHAM. AT THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, WHITE HALL, the 24th day of July, 1865, by the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. Present—Lord President, Sir George Grey, Bart., Mr. Milner Gibson. Whereas by an act passed in the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of her present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to prevent until the Ist day of September, 1850, and to the end of the then next session of Parliament, the spreading of contagious or infectious disorders among sheep, cattle, and other animals," and which has since been from time to time continued by divers subsequent acts, it is (amongst other things) enacted that it shall be lawful for the Lords and others of her Majesty's Privy Council, or any two or more of them from time to time to make such orders and regulations as to them may seem necessary, for the purpose of prohibiting or regulating the removal to or from such parts or places as they may de signate in such order or orders, of sheep, cattle, horses, swine, or other animals, or of meat, skins, hides, horns, hoofs, or other part of any animals, or of hay, straw, fodder, or other articles likely to propagate infection ; and also for the purpose of purifying any yard, stable, outhouse, or other place, or any waggons, carts, carriages, or other vehicles; and also for the purpose of directing how any animals dying in a diseased state, or any animals, parts of animals, or other things seized under the provisions of this act, are to be disposed of ; and also for the purpose of causing notices to be given of the appearance of any dis order among sheep, cattle, or other animals, and to make any other orders or regulations for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of the said act, and again to revoke, alter, or vary any such orders or regulations ' • and that all provisions for any of the purposes aforesaid in any such order or orders contained shall have the like force and effect as if the same bad been inserted in the said act ; and that all persons offending against the said act shall for each and every offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding £2O, or such smaller sum as the said Lords or others of her Majesty's Privy Council may in any such case by such order direct. _ _ _ _ _ _ And whereas a contagious or infectious disorder, of which the nature is at present uncertain, has lately appeared, and now prevails among cattle within the metropolis and in the neighbourhood thereof, and it is expedient to take measures for preventing such disorders from spreading, Now, therefore, the Lords of her Majesty's Privy Council do hereby, by virtue and in exercise of the powers given by the said recited act, and by the several acts continuing the same aforesaid, order as follows :- 1. If at the date of the publication of this order in the "London Gazette," there shall be any cow, heifer, bull, bullock, or ox labouring under any contagious or infectious disorder in the possession or custody of any cowkeeper, dairyman, or dairywoman, or of any milkman or milk woman, or vendor or purveyor of milk, or of any dealer in cattle whatsoever within the City of London or within the limits of the metropolitan police district, or if at any time hereafter, while this present order shall continue in force and unrevoked, any cow, heifer, bull, bullock, or ox, being in the possession or custody of any such person as afore said within the said City of London or within the metro politan police district shall be seized or attacked with, or be found labouring or suffering under, any such contagious or infectious disorder, notice of the existence of such dis order, or of the first appearance of such disorder in or among the cattle belonging to or in custody of any such person as aforesaid, shall immediately thereupon be given by the person in whose possession or custody such diseased animals or animal shall be, to the clerk of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council in waiting at the office of her Majesty's Privy Council at Whitehall, in the county of Middlesex ; and it shall be lawful for the said clerk of her Majesty's Privy Council, and for all such persons as shall by writing under his hand authorise in that behalf thereupon, and at all reasonable times thereafter, to in spect or examine all or any such diseased animals or ani mal, and to report to the Lords of her Majesty's Privy Council all such information and particulars as to the na ture or character of such disorder as may seem to him ex pedient for the purpose of enabling proper regulations to be made for preventing or checking the further propaga tion and increase of such disorder. 2. Every person offending against this order, and omit ting to give such notice or to permit such inspection and examination as aforesaid, shall for every such offence for feit any sum not exceeding twenty pounds, which the jus tices before whom he or she shall be convicted of such offence may think fit to impose. (Signed) EDMUND HARRISON. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and MOS t uset al invention of the daz, AGUA /MARE LL A. Messrs. JOHN GM/ELL and C .. 12, Three King-court, Lombard-street, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respect fully offer to the public this truty marvellous fluid. which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue--no matter at what age. The Agra Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficht: to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 61 Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. TORN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY ej TOO 11l PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant 1 ragrance to the the breath. Prize Is. 6(1.-12, Three King-court, Lombard street. London. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer han 455 poor, friendless, youn,g females were rejected trom want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in five years. Here arc brief details of a few of the most recent cases : V., aged 16, Mien, mother dead, (inserted by her father. M. A. F., aged ;3, homeles , , both parents dead. A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother. S. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead. C. 8., aged 15, tallen, mother dead, A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead. 11. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents. M. li., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. C. IL, aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. A. G., aged 18, fatten, father dead. E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both pan nts dead. M. A. W., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for young girls, almost children, from the age of a to 15, who have been led astray f r o m th e path virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen street Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Go.. Lombard-street. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., LIFE: Its, islature, Varieties, and Phenomena. By LEO H. GRINDON. 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"'The Sun' evening newspaper has just issued a photo graph, 9 inches by 7, of its first page as it appeared on the 2d of last January. The card forms quite a literary curiosity, and is one of the best specimens of minute typography ever published."—London Review. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, a id Dining-room, consisting of anew and eLegant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, Rantifttl inlaid Tables, Paper weights, dtc., in Italian, A.labaetir, Parlan, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her tlajesty, 149, Stand. W.C.. London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the ne edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2, 5. 10. 20. 50. to 50 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE. R kLOOl' is given by Mr.TENNANT.F.G.S.. at 149. Strand. TO be SOLD by AUCTION , p ursuant to a DECREE of the High Court of Chancery made in the Causes " Emerson v. Mason" and "Emerson v. Pearce," with the approbation of the Vice - Chance llor Sir W il liam Page Wood, the Judge to whose court the said causes are attached, by Messrs. DRIVER and CO., the persons ap pointed by the said Judge, at the Talbot Hotel, in Rich mond, Surrey, on Wednesday, the 30th day of August, at One precisely, in 31 Lots, THREE valuable FIELDS of BUILDING GROUND, at Richmond aforesaid, p ar t o f the estate of the late George Robinson, Esq., deceased, divided into plots varying from lr. 9p. to la. lr. 26p., many of which are suitable for the erection of villas. —Particulars and conditions, with plans, may be obtained at the Talbot Hotel, Richmond ; the Guildhall Coffee house, Gresham-street, London ; the Estate Exchange, Cornhill ; the Griffin Hotel, Kingston ; of Mr. W. H . Withal], solicitor, 7, Parliament-street, London ; of Mr. John Chapple, solicitor, 19, Great Carter-lane, Doctors Commons, London ; of Messrs. Francis and Thomas Smith, solicitors, No. 15, Fumival's-inn, London ; of Mr. C. J. Man p er, solicitor, 9, New-square, Lincoln's-inn, London ;of Mr. H. Dain, solicitor, No. 12, Parliament-street, London ; of Mr. H. H. Mason, at Robinson's Estate Office, Richmond, Surrey, and 18, Bedford-row, London; and of Messrs. Driver and Co., surveyors, land agents, and auctioneers, 4, Whitehall, London, S.W. Dated this 9th day of August, 1865. EDWD. WEATHERALL, Chief Clerk. 110 be SOLD by AUCTION, pursuant to a IL DECREE of the High Court of Chancery made in the Causes " Emerson v. Mason," and " Emerson v. Pearce," with the approbation of the Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood, the judge to whose Court the said causes are attached, by Messrs. DRIVER and CO., the person ap pointed by the said judge, at the Guildhall Coffee house, Gresham-street, in the City of London, on FRIDAY, the 13th day of October, 1865, at one o'clock precisely, in One Lot, a FREEHOLD ESTATE, consist ing of the bridge over the River Thames, from Strand-on the-Green, near Brentford, Middlesex,to Kew, Surrey, called "Kew Bridge," now producing from tolls and other profits a gross income of £3,000 a-year.—Particulars and condi tions, with a plan, may be obtained at the Talbot and Greyhound Inns, Richmond ; at the Estate Exchange, Change-alley, Cornhill ; at the Guildhall Coffee-house, Gresham-street, City ; of Mr. W. H. Withall, solicitor, No. 7, Parliament-street, London ; of Mr. John Chapple, soli citor, No. 19, Great Carter-lane, Doctors'-Commons, Lon don ; of Messrs. Francis and Thomas Smith, solicitors, No. 15, Furnival's-inn, London ; of Mr. C. S. Mander, solicitor, No. 9, New-square, Lincoln's-inn, London ; Mr. H. Davin, solicitor, No. 12, Parliament-street, London ; of Mr. H. H. Mason, of No. 18, Bedford-row, London ; at Robinson's Estate Office, Richmond, Surrey, where the daily returns of tolls for the last seven years may be inspected; of Mr. Henry Harris, the chock clerk at the Bridge; and of Messrs. Driver and Co., surveyors, land agents, and auctioneers, No. 4, Whitehall, London, S.W. Dated this 9th day of August, 1865. EDWD. WEATHERALL, Chief Clerk. HOME for LITTLE for the Reception, from Outcast and Destitute Boys, under 10 years of age. President—ROßEßT B VICE-PREI Stephen Cave, Esq., M.P. Henry E. Gurney, Esq. Samuel Morley, Esq. BOYS, Tottenham, N., t all parts of the Kingdom, of And those Tergin, , -; on crime, lANBURY, Esq., ALP, SIDENTS. I Sir S. 151. Peto, Bart , M.P. I Abel Smith, Esq., 31,P. COMM TTEF.. Mr Alex. Anderson. ltev. A. M'Sorley. Mr. E. 11. Burrows. Mr. W. J. Maxwell. Mr. A. D. Chapman. Mr. Alfred Short. Mr. E. F. G edge. Mr. Robert Sinclair. Mr. George Moore. Mr. E. J. Tabrum. Mr. Francis Lycett. I Mr. R. T. Turnbull. Treasurer—W. H. Winans Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. E.C. Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, 16, Suffolk-street, Pall-Mall East, S.W Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard street, E.C. The mode of admission to the House is twofold, rdthede, are l st. received By el e f e r t e i e o , n b n o a f , and t aught till they are 11 years o: age. saulnbtsicireldb,eerds.naalyd,sthus admitted With the view t o s-cure 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 ful y investigated by the Committee, and with this informa tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to those most eligible for free admission. This Home was opened in April, 1864. It was designed to take in the little ones whose charact r and circumstances disqualify then 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 their natural protectors and left to beecome idle wanderers. Such are those whose parents may have at one time or other received parish relief, and who are now friendless orphans. Such are those whose parents are breakers of the law, or are in prison, and who train their children in the same path. Such are those whose evil associations have already had their painful effect, and must lead them to a life of crime and misery. There are now 50 little inmates from about four years of age to 10. There is room for nearly 10', 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—ls it right to make a widow and her tamily paupers for life because one of them (the naughty boy of the family) runs wild in the streets and is beyond her eontrol ? Is it kind to tell her, because site has so large a family, that you will not h-lp her to put one of them into a Home.but that they must ail go into "the house ?" Is it doing the best we can for the little destitute orphan to send him to the workhouse. Is it doing to others as we would they should do unto us that when these little ones have unnatural parents who turn them into the streets, or force them by ill-treatment to " inn away," none of us sheu d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe them ? 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 to years of age, have been apprehended for various offences, 79 of whom were convicted and 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 thebeginnings of crime. On the other hand, there are numbers who, but for the timely help afforded by such an Institution, must otherwise become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-reli ance and self-help, be permanent burdens to the State the Home for Little Boys has, therefore, been established to rescue 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, th it suitable clothing. their hours of play and amusement, and their singing class. They are treated as scholars ; every morning is devoted to echo 1 work—reading, and writing, and cipherinz t and Scriptural instruction, with occasional lessons in o! jects and other subjects. But they are also trained to work. As they must all, and that at a very early period in lite, earn their living by the sweat of their brow, they are here at once taught habits of industry. So the after noons are occupied with various industrial occupations— making brown paper bags for bankers, and white r aper 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, Ric. Some assist the master in the garden, digging, planting, watering, weeding, and so forth. By degrees they are being made useful in the hou•ie, scrubbing and se eeping. while the elder ones dean all the boots, knives, &c. In this way it is sought to fit them for an active working Ilf e. 2d. By payment of ss. a week, made quarterly in advance. All children must be under 10 y are 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 cally Forms of application for the admission of children may be had at the Home, and of the Honorary Secretary, -• ,4 • • THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, 1865. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The fuller particulars of the voyage of the Great Eastern confirm the conclusion forced upon us by the telegraphic summary from Crook haven. Her attempt to lay the Atlantic Cable be tween Valentia and Newfoundland was indeed beset with perils, but all of them would have been, as far as man can judge, successfully overcome had the machinery provided for hauling in the cable upon the discovery of a fault been of sufficient strength. From first to last, however, this machinery proved defective. When the first failure of insulation was detected, at a distance of 50 miles from Valentia, and steps were taken to recover the cable which had been paid out, it became apparent that the hauling in apparatus was insufficient. The boiler of the steam-engine which supplied the hauling-in power could not keep up steam enough for the purpose, and the hauling-in itself was feeble and intermittent. On that occasion, however, and again when the se cond fault occurred, the cable was fortunately got back up to the points where the faults lay, but on the third loss of insulation the machinery broke down entirely, - and the cable was broken. It was in consequence of the absolute stoppage of the steam-engine, and the consequent necessity that the Great Eastern should almost hold on at the cable itself, tbat the chafing took place at the bow which occasioned the fracture. The subsequent efforts to recover the lost end were admirable as examples of perseverance and of skill in seamanship, but these also failed from imperfect machinery. The hauling in engine was not strong enough for its work, and the wire rope to which the grapnel was fastened was not strong enough for the pressure upon it. It broke again and again as it rose through the water, and the weight upon it increased, until at last the fact that the store of rope itself was expended sent the Great Eastern back to our shores. The story of the attempt of the Great Eastern to lap the second cable is the story of a failure, but of a failure which proves the possibility of success. When the first fault was detected, on the 24th of July, after 84 miles of the cable had been laid, and the in.. sufficiency of the hauling-in apparatus became evi -1 dent, a feeling of profound gloom was not unnatu rally experienced on board the ship. It was found that the cable could not on an average be drawn in at a greater rate than a mile an hour, and sometimes the operation had to be entirely suspended. The electricians on board were, moreover, wholly un n an approximation to the distance able to agree upon at which the fault lay from the ship. Under such circumstances an immediate return might have been excused ; but fortunately it was resolved to perse vere in the enterprise, for the after experience must prove invaluable when the next attempt is made to lay the cable. A bit of iron about the size of a straw and two inches long was soon found sticking on the cable, and the expedition proceeded in better heart than ever. A second fault, due to a like cause, and detected in the same way, was more discourag ing, for it presented the appearance of a. malicious injury rather than of an accident, but this, too, was cured, and precautions were taken to prevent any third flaw of the same kind from being paid out un observed. Men were stationed to watch the cable as it left the tank, and on the 2d of August they heard a suspicious rasping noise, and signalled to the men on deck. Unfortunutely the signalling was imperfect, and the fault was paid out before the machinery was stopped. The electrical tests showed a slight loss of insulation, but it was so slight that it was debated whether the paying out should be con tinued, and after some hesitation it was resolved to take the prudent course of hauling in the cable. The tedious operation which had twice been successfully performed was commenced once more. The end of the cable was carefully shifted from the stern to the bow, and the great ship swung around so as to ride, The so to speak, to the cable. e drawing in of the cable was begun, but the steam-engine completely broke down. For some time the picking up ceased altogether, and, to add to the misfortune, the ship began to drift athwart the line of the cable, and to forge against the portion hanging over the bow. Then the cable got entangled in a hawse-pipe, and it was necessary to free it by lowering a wire rope, which was fastened to it in a bight below the pipe. By this time the machinery was once more in motion, and it was possible to pick up. the cable again, but the delay had done its worst. The ship had drifted out of the line of the cable, the hauling-in was done askew, and it had scarcely begun before the cable parted just inboard of the bow and slipped in a moment overboard to the bottom of the Atlantic. The Great Eastern was then in 1,950 fathom soundings, and 1,180 miles of cable had been paid out. The efforts to grapple and bring up the cable which followed were efforts to accomplish what men might well deem an impossi bility, and yet they were almost successful. Two miles and a half of wire rope, with grapnels at the end, and with swivels at every fifty fathoms of its length to prevent its getting twisted, were lowered, and the Great Eastern drifted slowly over the line of the cable. After one or two false alarms the strain on the dynamometer' on the morning of the 3d, showed that th e cable had' been caught, and the process of h au li ng up recommenced. One half of the rope had b een recovered when a swivel broke. The rope had been made to bear a strain of ten tons, and the dyna mometer never showed a greater ten si▪ on than four tons, but as one of the swivels rose to the bow the bolt of it was fairly pulled through the collar, and th e h a l f which was not drawn up sank down to the cabl e . I t h ad been shown, however, that the cable could b e grappl e d, and it was determined to repeat the att empt to get at it and haul it up. But now a thick fog set in, and all that could be done was to ma r k the place with a buoy. The Sphinx had already been some time lost sight of, and, as she never reappeared, she is supposed to have quietly gone o n w i t h the sounding apparatus to Newfoundland. The Terrible and the Great Eastern parted company, and for two days the latter dri▪ fted to the east. When the Terrible came up to the buoy aga i n she found it guarded by a li▪ ttle schooner, the First Fruits, of Bridport, the captain of which h a d h ove to i n sp i te o f a f a i r wind, thinking that th e buoy must have something to do with the cabl e. But the patriotism of the skipper and all that skill and seamanship could do on board the Great Eastern proved in vain. The cable was grappled, ind ee d , unm i s t a k a bl y a : secon d and a third time, but on eac h occas i on a sw i ve l on the wire rope gav e way, as it had before, and grap nels and miles of rope were lost. The attempt to fish up the cable was not finally abandoned until the wire rope was w h olly exhausted, and even an ordinary if hawser had been fruitlessly passed i n t o th e service. Even perfect machinery were at ha n d, it would now, we fear, be too late to lay th e Atlan tic Telegraph this year, though sanguine spirits may remind us that after the equinoctial gales are past the month of October is often calm, and further delay must cause the t otal loss of the portion of the cable whic• h has been paid out. But it is evident that before a lost end can be recovered, the hauling in machinery of the Great Eastern must be reno vated, and wire ropes must be manufactu r ed s t ronger than those carried on the last voyage, if not of a strength hitherto unknown. The experience of the voyage shows, however, not only th a t a ca bl e can be laid, but that if broken it can be grappled for and caught, and therefore can be recovered. So far it is full of encouragement for the future. There is no casualty which cannot be guarded against, and no accident which cannot be repaired. The only dis couraging circumstance connected with the enter prise is the apparent inability of electricians to dis cover a serious fault in a cable before it is paid over the side of the ship. The delay for another year will not be thrown away if it enable th em t o d ev i se better tests of the excellence of the electric cable b or efo Telegraph established, and look for war d t o th e d ay . as certain, even distant, when E ng l an d an d America will throb with one puls e o f lif e. notre w it e is must submerged, beheve though whether they do so the possibility of an Atlantic POST.—Considered with reference to circum stances, the present policy of Austria is intelligible only in so far as it appears to be based on a misap prehension of theirmea ning. Th e Emperor, i t wou ld seem, does not despair of conciliating the Italians who are still subject to his sway. It is proposed to pad the Venetian yoke with some municipal freedom. There is nothing original in the expedient ; it has been tried before, and has failed. That, however, which was just possible 18 years ago is now wholly out of the question. Austria was at that period in a position to adopt measures which might have been accepted, and she was earnestly advised, in words which have been remarkably confirmed by events, that " in ordinary times slow reforms may answer well enough, but in grave circumstances, when the very life of the community !s in danger, such homoeo pathic doses are of no avail." The Venetians have long since ceased to respect the Austrian Govern ment, and they can hardly be said to fear it. Nor is it that they have been merely oppressed and held in bondage--they have been trampled upon and i wantonly insulted. One instance of Austrian m- policy will suffice as a specimen of the whole, and it will be freshly remembered in the presence of the cholera. In 1836, when this terrible disease was rag ing at Vienna, the Ve b netians entreated the Govern- (From the Illustrated London News) ment to take steps to protect them from its contagion, and were told that the expense of a sanitary cordon " would exceed that which the mortality would entail on the Imperial Treasury." It is not in the natural of things that such ;wrongs should be forgotten or forgiven ; and though the Emperor may be acting in good faith, lie cannot hope that his sincerity will be appreciated. The people who have seen their country rise up out of its grave will not compromise the aspirations which they legitimately entertain. Venice has heard the pro clamation of her emancipation, and she believes that, in the fullness of time, " Italy will be free from the Alps to the Adriatic." Her course, therefore, is clearly indicated, and for Austria there is really but one way of escape from 'an entanglenent which paralyses the whole empire. It is idle to attempt to govern the Venetians as the Hungarians may be governed. The conditions are not the same. Hun gary is loyal at heart ; Venetia is on principle irre concilable. The Government of Vienna has shown that it recognises its obligations, but also that it is not competent to fulfil them. This is a position which is rightly regarded as untenable, and the Em peror has resolved to fortify it. It may be assumed that his Majesty has reluctantly postponed the set tlement of his dispute with Prussia, for, after all, it will be found, we apprehend, that any arrangement which is made will be provisional only. Austria would renew the discussion when she can take part in it more conveniently • and although Herr von Bismarck is about to " utilise" Kiel without further ceremony, it is not impossible that he will be com pelled to a forbearance foreign to his nature, Not withstanding what has been said it is perfectly well understood by the German Powers that their pro ceedings are vigilantly watched. So that it may not be too late for Austria to repair more than one mis take. By whatever non-natural interpretation of international relations Prussia and Austria have come to the conclusion that they are entitled to revise the map of Germany between themselves, it is cer tain that their assumed authority does not extend beyond the frontiers of the Germanic Confederation. The Venetian question, at all events, concerns other Powers, and it was evident enough before Austria underlined the fact, that the satisfactory adjustment of the German difficulty depended on the settlement of the Italian claim. Indirectly, but coercively, Prussia makes Venetia the pivot of her operations. Hence it is -incumbent on Austria to look the inevi table alternative in the face. The case may be put categorically as it now stands. If Austria is able to maintain her position in Germany without war, then it is supererogatory for her to seek to do that which is impracticable in Venetia. On the other hand, if it is probable that eventually the ambition of Prussia will have to be controlled by force, Aus tria has to consider whether she could hold Venetia against the Italian army and Frankfort against the Prussian army at the same time. This is the cal culation on which Herr von Bismarck proceeds, and virtually it is accepted by the Government of Vienna. The Italian Prime Minister is reported to have said that he was persuaded he could convince the peror Francis Joseph that it would be for his in terest to surrender Venetia to Italy ; but at present, if the Prussian Premier has failed to prove the ne cessity of the measure, it may be doubted if General La Mamora could realise his sanguine expectation. The Austrian apology for submitting to the dicta tion of Prussia is substantially this—that her trea sury was empty, and that she could not count on the neutrality of Italy. It is obvious, therefore, that if her German rights are compromised, and if they are worth preserving, the means necessary to their vindication might be obtained, and further, that the abatement of the Italian obstacle would amount to a pacific settlement of the German quarrel. Prussia would not push the difference to war if Austria were ready to fight, and Italy can well afford to come to terms for the completion of her unity. No doubt Austria may think that it is better to keep Venetia and trust to the chapter of accidents in Germany. That is for her to decide •, but, in coming to a decision, it should be recollected that while her German position is morally impreg nable, Venetia can only be held, as it were, in suf ferance. War between Austria and Prussia on the German question could not be tolerated. The mat ters in dispute would in that event have to be sub mitted to another arbitration, and in the award Austria could not well lose, if she did not gain. Moreover, if the German question presses for a solution, as it undoubtedly does, Venetia would al most certainly be included in any ratification of frontiers that might result fromhostilities, or threat ened hostilities. In short, Austria would not. save her Italian dependency by abandoning her German position, and whether other Powers are or are not prepared to intervene for the purpose of maintain ing peace, it is competent to Austria to demand their intervention on that ground, and, in all pro bability, she would have done so before now if Venetia had not stood in the way. Cheltenham, the sole executor. The will is dated June 30, 1863, and the testator died on the Gth of May last. He leaves the whole of his property, real and personal, to his executor, in trust for the sole use and benefit of his relict. The Great Eastern. RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The following extract from an article in Newton's Loudon Jolirnal of Arts and Sciences may be found of interest at the present moment : Having had an opportunity of inspecting the Great Eastern just before she sailed, and also the ship Caroline, which carried the shore end of the cable, we may, per haps, be able to give an idea of the arrangements that have been adopted for packing the cable, and for facili tating the delicate operation of paying out. This has heretofore proved a very difficult, not to say dangerous, operation, by reason of the tendency which the cable possesses of running into " kinks " when uncoiling—that is, of taking a permanent twist, which dislocates the in ternal arrangement of the cable, forcing the copper wire, which forms the core, into contact with the metallic coat ing that is laid around the insulating material to give strength and durability to the cable. Whenever this ac cident occurs the paying out has to be stopped and the kink cut out ; the ends of the copper wire are then carefully spliced to restore the electrical condition of the cable, and proper precautions are taken to strengthen the junction. To form kinks, it will be understood, is there fore a serious matter, and too much care cannot be taken to avoid them. At an early' period of submarine telegraphy, Mr. R. S. Newell, of Gateshead, being prac tically acquainted with the risks attendant on the paying out of telegraph cables from the hold of a ship, hit upon a very simple way of facilitating their delivery, and in May, 1855, he patented his plan. It consists simply in building up a cylinder in the hold of the intended ship to receive the coil of cable, and fixing a cone in the centre of the cylin der. This cone forms a core for the cable, which is care fully coiled around it in horizontal layers, beginning from the outside next the cylinder, and coiling towards the cone. When the cable reaches the cone, the " bight " of the cable is taken back to the outside of the coil, and a fresh layer is commenced. The cylinder and cone form a secure packing for the coil of cable, which, if once displaced by the tossing of a rough sea, would have to be taken to port, unshipped, and recoiled, before the paying out could be commenced. Now, in the Caroline, the cable, which was made very strong, to resist the abrasion of the rocks was laid in the form of a long oblong coil, supported on the out side by strong uprights, and secured at the eye or middle of the coil by a strong timber framing, so contrived as to offer no points of obstruction to the delivery of the cable as it is drawn up out of the hold. In the Great Eastern, how ever, a somewhat different arrangement has been adopted. Instead of the strong uprights which supported the exterior of the coil in the Caroline, the great ship has been fitted with three enormous water tight iron tanks, into which the cable has been coiled after Mr. Newell's manner. The cable ap pears to have been coiled into the three tanks around a temporary core, which was then removed to give place to a telescopic arrangement of skeleton framework, de signed by Messrs. Canning and Clifford, the engineers engaged In the important work of paying out the cable. These telescopic frames fill the eyo of the coil, and pre vent any portion of the cable falling into the eye of the coil and getting entangled during the paying out. Wind lass barrels aro placed at the bottom of the framework, and leading down to them through guide pulleys are wire ropes attached to the several sliding or telescopic frames, apparently with the view of drawing down these frames one within the other, as the depth of the coil decreases, "thus forming," as it has been described, "a sinking core around which the ascending cable might run." This was precisely the arrangement which a jury determined, in the case of Newell v. Elliott, in February, 1864, was an in fringement of Mr. Newell's patent, but which, from being applied at sea beyond the jurisdiction of his patent, was ultimately declared to be no invasion of the inventor's rights, Without going so far as to say that this adapta tion of Mr. Newall's principle will not answer as well as the fixed cone, we may confidently affirm that it is in no respect better, On the contrary, it involves more trouble and expense in coiling and packing the cable, and being but at best a skeleton core, it renders it possible for a loose piece of timber falling within the eye to obstruct the as cending line of cable, and produce a " fault" of some kind that will necessitate the stoppage of the operation of pay ing-out to make good the injury. In a national undertak ing like the laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable, it was highly important that every precaution should have been taken to secure success, even though the managing director of the company had been reduced to the mortifying posi tion of acknowledging merit in the invention of a rival manufacturer. Had a reasonable proposition been made by the company for the use of Mr. Newell's apparatus, we have no doubt it would have been heartily received ; or if the determination had been adopted to brave the consequences of a lawsuit, and avowedly to invade the patent, the public would have had nothing to say to that course; but to jeopardise, to ever so- small an extent, a national undertaking, by omitting to use the best known form of apparatus for laying down the submarine telegraph cable, for fear of consequences independent of the enterprise in hand, is altogether indefensible. Besides the outer cylinder and cone which Mr. Newell employs to form an annular space for the reception of the coil, he uses suspended rings for guiding the cable upwards out of the hold to the brake apparatus, which delivers the cable over the stern of the ship into the sea. No guides of this kind were fixed in either vessel at the time of our visit, but since she sailed the Great Eastern has evidently been provided with a con trivance of that kind, for the Time correspondent, in his communication, dated July 24th, says :—" The circular guards, called crinolines, to be suspended over the cable tanks, and through the centre of which the c able will be paye out, have been fixed." If, therefore, tho laying of the cable should prove no mere evanescent success, Mr. Newell must share in the credit which will rightly belong to those whose united exertions shall have resulted in "a consummation devoutly to bo wished." Probate of the will of the Right Hon. George Augustus Frederick Henry Bridgman, Earl of Bradford, of Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, Weston Hall, Staffordshire, and 43, Belgrave-square, has been granted by her Majesty's Court to his eldest son, heretoforo Viscount Newport, P.C., M.P., now the Right Hon. Orlando George Charles Earl of Bradford, ono of the surviving exeeutors ; the other sur viving executor, Wm. Lacon Childe, Esq. (formerly M.P. for Wenlock), having renounced. The personalty was sworn under £140,000. Lord Bradford succeeded to the title in 1825, on the death of his father, the first earl ; was twice married, and died on the 22d March last, at the ago of 76. His lordship executed his will in 1849, and added thereto nine codicils, the last dated April, 1860. These documents extended to 348 folios. His lordship bequeaths to his relict, the Dowager Countess of Bradford, who was the daughter of 2Eneas Mackay, Esq., and widow of Sir E. Moncreiffe, Bart., beyond her provision on marriage, an immediate legacy of £l,OOO, and all the plate, books, linen, china, and other effects that belonged to her ladyship be fore his marriage ; he also leaves her ladyship his droitska, with one carriage and the selection of a pair of horses, and that her ladyship may enjoy, as her residence, the mansion of Castle Bromwich. The diamond necklace, having 44 brilliants, and the diamond ear-rings usually worn by the lady possessing the title of Countess of Brad ford, he leaves in trust, to be held by the person who shall be the first tenant entail of his Warwickshire and Lancashire estates. He devises to his eldest son the estate of Windermere, together with all other his real estates, and appoints his lordship the present earl residuary legatee of the personalty ; having made a provision for his younger children, which his lordship had increased at various periods by the codicils. By the will there is an annuity of £lOO to the late governess of his daughters; also legacies and annuities to his domestics. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week, Miles Opened. Receipts. Rail' :ways. ,„......._,______,,......--....______, 1865. 1864. 1865 1864 £ Z Belfast and N. Counties 9Ol 991 2,265 2.120 Belfast and Comity Down 49 49 990 882 Blyth and Tyne 213 28 2,600 2,446 Bristol and Exeter 1215 1215 8,267 8,144 Caledonian, Scottish Central 4OB 408 28.533 28,028 Cambrian Cockermouth K & Penrlth' .. 314 - 437 - Cockermouth and Workin Cork and Bandon 2O 20 375 370 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 65 e i 255 255 65 174 0 17 54 2, 7 07 1 Cornwall Deeside Dublin & Belfast Jtmction Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 -Au.- • 1 61,1 0: 1 1 : 5 0 93 . 1 0 0 3 Dublin and Meath 914 457 3 S Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd. 106 ,r 1 2 , i 5 21 00 Forth and Clyde Junction Furness, &c aL la z sg i o st w ern & ,N So ri u k tl . l 4 -W E e .u ste nt r o n n MI 865 g3 4312g...3 5 561 12 27 33 10 73.:05 7 1 7 97 1 Great Northern 1 49 4,01' 3.451 Great North of Scotland tit. Northn. & Westn. (Ire].) 7ll 381 10,301 0 247 'it.Southn. & Westn.arind4. • ___..- 12 36 79.431 79,412 Great Western .............. . Izpy 3874 13 221 205 Hull & Hornsea Highland 145 14156 145 246 111111 I:n t 4 4 403 46,770 45,222 Lancashire & Yorkshire ..... 241 241 170 780 Limerick and Ennis... . 284 261 151 115 Limerick a nd Foynes 461 161 778 07 Llanelly 204 201 336 400 Llynvi Valley , 12 2 8 :2 285 00 12 2 1 , 5 0 7 92 4 26,021 3094 3 24 1. .9 13 ,7 1 11,611 13.373 London n n and&Noßritacit-krwv e a f i tern ... 127 5 .;1 125 5 21 uoiLzitiiundddar&ig.Shotountl.ii,- W s e . sgr a l...... 4 2 9 7 0 2 5 2 45 67 45 4 all Metropolit a n Extension t 134 127 j 2,750 2,725 Do. Kent Coast Lon., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,Sheffield.&Lincolnsh .. 2464 216 19,946 18,448 Blanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham.. 91 91 1,793 1,665 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan .. Bl 8 1 2,641 2,169 Midland (incl. N.-Western).. 664 641 50,291 48.686 Midland G L Westn. of Irind... 2101 2501 4.744 4,451 Monmouthsh. RaiL & Canal.. 44 44 2,776 2,996 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 11941 11601 75,016 72,3 0 North London 9 9 3,588 4,426 North Staffordshire 258 268 9,820 9,863 Rhymney l 9/ 19 1 1,080 983 Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 7,450 7,225 Somerset and Dorset 66 66 1 ,130 962 South Devon •••••• 98 755 5.174 4,528 South-Eastern 3OB 306 80,7i3 29,397 Taff Vale ' 61 61 5,903 5,738 Ulster 1055 1055 2,535 2,462 Vale of Clwyd.. Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 546 439 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,37 t 1,256 W' haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 628 65,6 Whitehaven Junction l3 13 1'032 1. , 56 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 8 0 1,000 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B 823 33,217 31,467 Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction 265 261 483 417 Bombay, Baroda, & C'en. India 306 1854 6,134 3,476 Detroit and blilwaukie lB9 189 7,488 4,3 0 Dutch Rhenish lOBl It 81 6, 885 6 , 497 ____ _ ..._ ...,. The will of the Right Hon. Sir Charles Edward Grey, G.C.H., formerly of Southwick-crescent, Hyde Park, but late of Tunbridge Wells, was proved in the London Court, on the 9th inst., by Edward Grey, Esq., one of the sons, power being reserved to his other sons, Jervoise, Henry, and George, who were also appointed executors, to prove hereafter. Sir Charles died, on the Ist of June last, at the age of eighty, a widower, having married, in 1821, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir C. Jervoise, Bart. (she died in 1850). Sir Charles was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1811, and had been Chief Justice at Bengal, and a Com missioner for Canadian affairs, and also Governor of Bar badoes, Trinidad, Jamaica, &c. ; and was M.P. for Tyne mouth, 1838-41. The will bears date Nov., 1864. Sir Charles, having a power of appointment over £lO,OOO, under settlement and by assignment of the estate of the late Thomas E. Jervoise, he apportions the same amongst his sons and daughters, leaving to his sons Jervoise, John Grey, and Edward Grey, each £15,000; to Henry Row land Ellison Grey, £1,200; George Grey, £2,200 ; his daughter, Jane Lucy Grey, £5OO ; in addition to any other appointments made to them, and divides the remainder equally amongst them. Bequeaths his books to his four sons, and his furniture, ornaments, and household effects to his four daughters. To his eldest son, Jervoise, he leaves his landed estate at the Blue Mountain, Jamaica, consisting of about 300 acres. The residue of his property he leaves equally amongst all his eight children. The will of Pautia Ralli, Esq., of Connaught-place, West, Hyde Park, was proved in London, on the Ist inst., by Peter Pautia Ralli, Esq., the son and solo executor, who is also residuary legatee. The personalty was sworn under £400,000. The testator, who died on the 9th ult., executed his will on the Ist of the same mouth. He has made a liberal provision for his daughter, Mrs. Monk, and her children, and has left a legacy of £5,000 to his son-in law, 0. J. Monk. Thore are also somo legacies and remem brances to other of his relatives. To his servants in London and at his chateau at Marseilles he has left legacies, and to some annuities ; and to the poor of Bonneveine £lOO. Ho has made the following further charitable bequests :—To the college of the island of Scio, £l,OOO, the interest to be distributed annually in prizes ; £2OO to the church of St. Victor, Scio, and £lOO to be distributed amongst the hospitals of Scio (his native country); £l,OOO to the University of Athens, and £5OO to the Phileopedeutic Society there; and directs the sum of £5OO to be divided amongst such of the charitable institutions in London as his executor may think proper. All legacies to be paid free of duty. The will of John Remington Mills, Esq., of Brookbank, Broadway, Worcester, was proved in the London Court on the 25th ult., by Theophilue Bartlett Goddard, Esq., of Eastern ol France .. t 1176 1428 88,555 81,533 Eastern Bengal ......... . llO 110 2,135 1,59# East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 147 1435 24 138 21.739 Great Central of Belgium 295 255 8,847 5, 733 Great Indian Peninsula 590 5531 14,757 8,330 Great Luxembourg 142 134 5,867 4.812 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 3,5 11,892 1 0 . 0 32 Madras. Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 5(781) 4 6 18 0 176,,?5733 18.10846 Northern of Canada .... 57 2 : 02 533 1 Northern of France 728 723 61 , 7 82 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn 1967 1781 133,247 132,201 Paris and Orleans ... . .... . Recife and San Francisco. &0. 776 776 978 688 Scinde... ... . Do. Punjab, &c 253 32 741 355 South Austrian. &a ...... S ou thern of France 123 770 3 1,683 30 — ,809 Victoria Welland 25 25 885 42Z West & N-Wn. of France MAILS DUE. Xll\. S PAPS R _ The Naval Fetes at At the banquet given here on t .L. the Lords of the English Admiralty, hassitoups Laubat, Minister of Marine, in his speeproposing the toast "Her Majesty Queen Victoria and the British Navy," said the time of hostile rivalry be tween the two countries had passed away. There • now only remained emulation in doing everything that could advance the cause of civilization and liberty. " The freedom of the seas, pacific contests in labour, and the beneficent conquests of COM merce " were Meant by the union of the flags of England and France. The Duke of Somerset, replying to the toast, thanked the Minister for the sentiments he had ex pressed, and said they accepted the toast as a proof of the cordial friendship of the Emperor and the French nation for the English Queen and the Eng lish people. They also, on their part, entertained the same sentiments of esteem for the Emperor of the French. They trusted his Majesty might long continue to enjoy his present good health. This they desired, not only because it was for the wel fare of the two countries, but also because it tended to guarantee the happiness and the pacific progress spoke not of Europe. I n propos i ng t h e health of the Emperor he p in ar t t h y e , name e in of th t e he n G am ov e er o r ev en ery t oreno lightenedf any Englishman. The Frauds on the Birmingham Banking Company. Benjamin Taylor and Henry Kell, who stand charged with having conspi re d to defraud theyßirmingham‘Banking Company of a large sum of money, by moans of forged bills of exchange, were yesterday again placed at the bar of the Mansion-house, before the Lord Mayor, in the custody of Detective-sergeant Webb, to undergo a further examination upon that charge. l appeared to pr esocu t o ; Mr. Montagu Williams, is appeared for T a yl or, and Mr. Beard appeared Kelly.w Rebecca, RI-May said•she lived at 50, Wood-street, Cheap, side, and let out part of her house as offices. In the be ginning of 1864 she had a paper up that the office was to be let, and the prisoner called and said ho wanted to take an office merely for his samples. He ultimately took an office in her house at £2O per annum, and gave the name of " Campbell and Kelly," and signed the agreement " C. Kelly and Co." The prisoner gave up the office in July, 1864, and had only paid her one quarter's rent. She never saw any Mr. Campbell at the office. Robert Aldred, master of the Union, Wandsworth, said his wife was possessed of a house, 285, High-street, Camden Town, which was let to a person named Runsdale, who left the house in the early part of 1864. Early in December last Kelly called on him and said he had taken the house from Mr. Runsdale, and had called to see if he would be accepted as a tenant. He said he had done certain repairs to the house, and he had accepted him for the remaining portion of the time, which was until Midsummer this year. He gave the name of Henry Kelly. He still occupied the house at the present time, and owed two quarters' rent. Charles Burgess said ho lived in the service of Messrs. Brown and Sons, bootmakers, 81, High-street, Birmingham. He knew both prisoners, and had known Kelly about five years. He first katew him as Kelly, and knew that he took an office, 424, in Oxford-street, London, in the name of Campbell, Kelly, and Co. Witness was then employed at the shop over which the prisoner had his office. The house was rented by Benjamin Nichol, who was the prisoner's brother-in-law, and carried on the business of a leather seller and bootmaker, and the prisoner had his letters ad dressed there as Campbell, Kelly, and Co. At the same time he knew him to be carrying on business at 285, High street, Camden-town, in the name of Ross and Co. He had seen Kelly write on several occasions. The acceptances to the two bills produced, drawn by Taylor on Ross and Co., he believed were in 'Kelly's handwriting. Mr. Lewis was about to put some bills also drawn by Taylor, and accepted by Ross and Co., and which had been issued to other parties, into the hands of witness. Mr. Montagu Williams objected, inasmuch as they were irrelevant to the charge of defrauding the Birmingham Banking Company. The Lord Mayor ruled that they could not be evidence. Witness continued—He maniged the shop in Oxford street, which was carried on by Benjamin Nichol. The name over the door was witness's namo—Burgess and Co. Kelley had had conversation with witness and Nichol, and Kelly said it would be to witness's advantage to have his name up, as he would ono day be made a partner, and be was induced to allow him to use his name. Ho believed the premises belonged to Nichol and the prisoner Taylor. He used to see Taylor there at times. Witness never au thorised them to accept bills in his name, nor was he aware that they were doing so until he was told so by Mr. Lewis. He never accepted bills as C. Burgess and Co., and the two bills which were produced, purporting to be accepted by Burgess and Co., were not accepted by him. He was never asked to accept bills. He signed receipts to bills Burgess and Co., and paid the money over. The handwriting of C. Burgess and Co., across the two bills, he believed to be Nichol's. Nichol was carrying on a business at 2a, Dean street, Soho, as Nichol and Co. The acceptance, B. Nichol and Co. to a third bill produced, was also in the handwrit ing of Nichol. Benjamin Wheeler Poulton said he carried on business as commission agent, at 24, Coleman-street. Ho knew Kelly. In January last ho told him that he had been building, and had lodged the deeds with his lawyer, who advanced him money weekly to pay his men; but as he was lending his clients' money ho wanted more security, and asked witness to lend him his acceptance. He told the prisoner ho could not pay the bills if ho were called upon, and ho said he would hold him harmless. Ho accepted four bills, one was for £lOB 18s., and the other throe were blanks. Two of them had the drawer's name. Three bills, £45 17s. 6d., dated 25th March, 1865 ; £9l 6s. 3d., dated April 11 ; and £62 10s., dated Ist April, were all threo his acceptances, and were drawn by Taylor. , Mr. Lewis said the whole of the body of one of the bills was in the writing of Taylor, clearly showing his connec tion with Kelly. Witness continued—The bills had been presented and had been dishonoured. Ho had got the small bill back from Kelly. Ile knew a person who carried on business as J. Harvey and Co., at 10, Philpot-lano. On the 13th April, he went to Mr. Harvey's office with Kelly, and saw M r . Harvey hand Kelly three blank acceptances on a nin e .. penny, a sixpenny, and a threepenny stamp. Kelly paid hi tt , £3 15s. Ho first offered him £3 10s., but Harvey would not take less than £3 15s. The acceptance to the bill pro dueeff on a sixpenny stamp was in Mr. Harvey's hand-. writing. By Mr. Williams—He took Kelly to Harvey. By Mr. Lewis—Kelly never told him anything ab ou t Taylor or the Birmingham Bank. By the Lord Mayor—Kelly at the time he gave him the bill said ho was alone, and was engaged in a. large build ing transaction. George Morris, warehouseman to Messrs. Bevington and Co., leather manufacturers, Cannon -street West, said he knew Taylor, who had had transactions with the firm. The bill for £62 10s. produced was received by him by letter from the prisoner Taylor. In the course of the examination Mr. Lewis, in answer to the Lord Mayor, said the whole amount which the Bir mingham Company had lost was about £2,700. The account was opened with a small deposit in money, and very little money was paid in during the three weeks the account was open. The prisoners were again remanded. Foreign Mail Packet List. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton . Aug. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept 12. Brazil and Cape Verde. by B r iti s h packet Sept. 4. Ditto, by French packet ............. Aug. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena....Ang. 21. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. •Aug. 18. Ditto, via Marseille s Aug. 26, Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton ..... ......Ang. 18. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.— Aug. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles • • • •Ang.l26. India (Bombay), via Southa m pt on. Aug. 25. Ditto, via Marseilles ...Aug. 19. Mauritius, via Southampton Sept 10. Ditto, via Marseille 3 Newfoundland • Aug. SO.' Sept 4. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. .. United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet ... ...Aug. 24. Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp ton ..... Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Aug.. 25. TOTAL DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF A WATER PROOF FACTORY.—About two o'clock yesterday morning a police-constable of the K division noticed smoke p our i n g forth from the lower part of the wat erproo f fac tory belonging to Messrs. Spill, Whit e P ost-lane, Hackney wick. The officer sounded an alarm in the usual manner, and in a short time several engines arrived. Owing, how ever, to the highly inflammable nat ure o f th e goods in the different parts of the p rem i ses, the flames spread with such rapidity as to envelope the whole of the factory before sufficient time had elapsed for the engines to get to work. The flames rose so high as to illuminate tho country for miles distant, and fire was belching forth from the various windows, loop-holes, and roof, causing the greatest excite ment in the neighbourhood, increased to no small extent from so many of the workmen employed on the spot living in the locality. The fire continued its fearful ravages for a condiderable time, and could not bo extinguished until the major portion of the extensive works, together with the valuable stock-in-trade, working blocks, and other effects, were destroyed. The books, vouchers, and other ' documents wore saved in consequence of being in, a fi re _ proof safe. The origin of the fire is unknown.