The Sun. — London, England, 1866-07-02 00:00:00

---,-- Railway and other Companies. BOMBAY, BARODA, AND CENTRAL INDIA. The half-yearly me eting of this company was held on Friday at the London Tavern—Lieut.-Colonel French in the chair. Mr. Baynes, the secretary, having read the notice co nvening themeeting, thereport was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving t h e adoption of the report, said that the capital account showed an audited expenditure of £5,421,735, and that a fur ther expenditure of 1422,000 remained unaudited ; and as it might take the Government officials some aanae to verify that outlay, it would probably be sanctioned by the next meeting. He then adverted to the great energy anduntiring zeal of Mr. Mathew, the chief resident engineer of the company, who had been busily engaged for some time past in strength been the bridges on the line, which had been done , a ,;th the entire concurrence of the Government in a ver f secure and efficient manner. They had been obliged to e rect perfectly n ew stations at some places on the line, because it was found that the statiot or iginally erected at tho se p laces were utterly inadequate to accommoodate the increasing traffic. He had no doubt that stations at other places would have at least to be doubled. The goods station at Grant-road, near Bombay, was opened in November last, and was about four miles from the place of shipment. It was expected that the line would be completed from Grant-road to the latter point in about 15 months from the present time ; and it was intended to erect places for cleaning the cotton up the country, and for pressing it in a pro ver manner, so that cotton might be sent from Ahmedabad, 306 miles from Bombay, to the place o f shipment, and thence conveyed to England fit f o r the market. The plans of their intended new b;ta.tion and wharves at Colaba, Bombay, were un dei the consideration of the Government, and when app roved the works would be commenced as soon as possible. The directors proposed to issue 5 per cent. debentures to the amount of £500,000, the holders having the option of converting the deben tures into ordinary stock should they deem it desir able. The traffic on the line had shown a consi derable increase. For the past half-year the receipts for passengers, &c., amounted to £93,000, and for the corresponding half of 1864 to £47,000, show ing an increase of £46,000. It was the third-class passengers they must look to for an increase in sain t as e p as senger traffic, as they had no such pe to in- P o onah or other elevated places on their lin duce a first-class traffic. They h a d been authorised by the Government to charge fares of ld. a mile for third-class passengers. The break in the . Nerbudda bridge existed from July, 1864, to April, 1865, and I l ea during that period retarded the development of the traffic, particularly in goods. In the past half year, ending th e 31st December l ast, the g oods at Grant-road w as onl y open for two station months. Their manager deferred opening it until the goods carrying stock was ready, so that, when fairly commenced, there should be no block on any part of the line. They had now both gas and water laid on at the Grant-road station, to give the men light at night, and, in case of fire, a supply of water to extinguish it. The Government had at last allowed them maximum rates within which they could charge as circumstances required. Up to the e nd of June, 1865, their accounts had been audited and accepted by the Government. They had also perniitted the company to set aside £2,000 every half-year towards forming a fire insurance fund. The working charges amounted to 59 per cent., with which the Board was by no means pleased. It was true those charges included large renewals of timber sleepers, the cost of which was paid for out o 1 current revenue. The old sleepers were made of jungle timber, which had proved a failure, and they had to be replaced by creosoted Baltic timber or teak timber, at much greater cost. There was a pro posal referred to in the report for extending the line from Ahmedabad to Wudwan, in the Kattawar district. In the first instance it was suggested that, the company should make 2} miles of line from Ahmedabad, crossing over the Saburmuttee River by a bridge, at a cost of £70,000 ; the proposed new line would thence run on to Veerumgaum to Wudwan, a distance of 73 miles, passing through a rich, productive, and populous country. This ex tension would be constructed by non-guaranteed capital ; the chiefs of the district through which the line was intended to pass had agreed to subscribe half the capital and to grant the necessary land for the railway. The remainder, it was believed, would be raised in Bombay. A cotton factory was being erected, to be worked by steam power, at Wudwan, which would also tend to increase the traffic on the main line. The survey of the line to Neemuch had been completed, and they would probably receive a full report of it by the next mail. The extension line to Neemuch would be about 200 miles in length. He hoped that political changes had given them a Secretary of State for India who was capable of seeing the advantages of railways, and that they should have no more anti-progressive Secretaries of State for that important country. One matter that had retarded the extension of railways in India was the large amount advanced in the shape of 5 per cent. interest on capital guaranteed to shareholders; but as that payment had now been reduced to about £500,000, he hoped the requisite facilities for de velopment would be afforded. It was the opinion of their agent that in 1867 the net traffic on the line would cover the 5 per cent. guaranteed interest, even before the completion of feeder roads to the railway. lie believed if they could get the exten sions made to Wudwan and to Neemuch the net receipts on the main line would yield 10 per cent. on the capital expended. Those extension lines could be constructed at a moderate cost, and would be of great value to the districts through which they were intended to pass. The manager had recently informed them that 500 tons of Eng lish machinery had been sent down their line by an enterprising native mannfactureK for the spinning and weaving of cotton. This was an important matter, and would tend to increase the traffic of the railway. The traffic on the line was increasing sa tisfactorily; for the first 17 weeks ending April 21 last the gross receipts amounted to £160,459, or an average of £9,439 per week, and for the last seven of those weeks the receipts averaged £10,853 per week. The sacredness of the river Ganges would cease in about two years' time, and thenceforward the great Nerbudda river in their district would be the sacred river, and this would increase their re ceipts at times very considerably. Mr. HAETRID GE, deputy chairman, seconded the motion for the adoption of the report, which, after a short discussion, was adopted unanimously. . Mr. llartridge and Mr. W ilde, the retiring direc tors, and Mr. R. Fisher, the retiring auditor, were re-elected, and th e proceedings concluded with a vote of thank s th e s perhairmanciand directors. DEMERA.RA. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the fortnight ending M ay 26 showed that $59 577 had been received, and $4,729 for the corresponding , fortnight in. 1865, showing an increase of 8848. NORTHERN OF CANADA. The traffic recei pts on this company's line from Jan. 1 to June 9 amounted to £44,101, against £43,394 for the corresponding period last year, showing an increase of £797. being accompani ,ed by some of the directors and members of the Great Eastern Board. Traffic will be shortly cow anenced upon the line which runs from the Hea xham-station on the Lynn and Hun- Stanton to W ellz-next-the-Sea. METROPOLITAN. On Saturday the broad gauge section of this line, between Aldgate-street station and th e M oorgate terminus, was fully inspected by Mr. Myles Fenton ' the general manager, Mr. Burnett, th e res id ent engineer, and other officials, preparatory to its being opened for passenger traffic. This portion of the line is about a quarter of a mile in length, and by means of it the Great Western trains will be enabled to run from the main line and the Ham mersmith extension to the City at Moorgate station without impediment. Over this section and into the same station the Midland and Great Northern trains are also to run as soon as the arrangements are completed; while the rails on the north side of the line will be used for the Metropolitan trains proper and for the traffic of the inner circle. WEST NORFOLK JUNCTION. This line was officially inspected on Friday on the part of the Board of Trade, the inspecting officer EBBW VALE IRON. The second annual meeting of this company was held on Friday at the London Tavern, Mr. J. A. Turner in the chair. _ _ The report stated that the net profit of the year ended 31st March amounted to £194,155, which, with a previous balance of £15,369, made an avail able total of £212,524. From this sum, after pay ment of expenses and interest to vendors, the direc tors recommended a dividend of 15s. per share, free of income-tax, which with the interim dividend already paid of 10s. per share,was equal to about 8k per cent. per annum. They also proposed to add £26,000 to the reserve fund, making it £50,000, nd £1,806 to the rail guarantee fund, bringing t up to £5,000, and carrying over £19,170 to the next:account. The produce of the works had been 986,575 tons of coal, 165,812 tons of pig iron, and 100,066 tons of rails and finished iron. A call o f £3 per share had been made. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he thought that the amount of profit must be satisfactory, and yet, from some cause or other, the shares of the company were not appre ciated by the public. He believed that false rumours had been disseminated with regard to the property. There were two items on the credit side of the ac count standing as assets. The first was the large amount at which they placed the value of the pro perty-11,729,485. That was composed of two sums—one the purchase of the property, £ 1 , 579,733, which was considered a very low sum at the time, and £149,752 expended upon it since in the shape of new works. The other item was £549,376, cre dited to stocks on hand. No doubt many looked on that as excessive, but they must recollect that where there were 15,000 workpeople employed over their extensive works the stocks of coal , ore, pig and pre pared iron, &c., must necessarily be very large. He doubted whether they should ever be able to bring it much under £300,000 or £350,000. £150,000 of this stock consisted of rails all finished and ready for delivery ; but since then that amount had been diminished by over £70,000. Mr. G. PHILLIPS seconded the motion. Mr. J. HEDLEY, who had valued the property, cor roborated the whole of the chairman's statements. The report, accounts, and dividend were unani mously adopted ; the retiring directors, Mr. Platt, M.P., Mr. C. K. Anderson, and Mr. Turner were re-elected, and also Mr. A. Darby, as managing director, and the re-election of the auditors brought he proceedings to a close. merly alluded, are her defective accommodation as a cruiser in tropical climes and her want of stowage, both caused by the annual shallowness of the vessel. The Miantonomah is too formidable a vessel not to be imitated, but we should very pos sibly build our Miantonomah of iron, we should build with a greater depth of hull, and thus attain greater stowage in the hold, and better accommodation for the officers and crew in hot cli mates. At the same time that we might make these improvements, as we consider them, our ship could be fought offering as small a target to the enemy as the Miantonomah by giving her the means of sub merging her hull to any required depth on going into action by the admission of water to the wing passages, &c. As a proof of the want of stowage in the Miantonomah we may mention that no water is tarried in her hold. The only stowage she has for water is on the after part of the men's berth deck, where there are iron tanks with a collective capacity of 6,000 gallons. At sea the supply of water is de pendent on the condensers. There are numerous mechanical notions in various parts of the ship, on deck and below, that are well worthy of attention. The manner in which her turrets have been put to gether also deserves admiration. Ten 1 1-10th-inch plates are fixed up together in a circular wall in a manner quite equal to a rolled solid plate of mode rate quality, and very superior to any rolled plate that has been but imperfectly welded. In fact, the turrets of the Miantonomah have been welded throughout their ten separate layers by mechanical means alone, and without subjecting the iron to the renewed action of the furnace and rolling mill, to, as nearly as possible, a continuity of cohesion equal to that of the best solid or rolled armour in this country. It may not be out of place here, and especially as connected with the power of firing en richochet, as so forcibly illustrated by the guns of the Miantono* mah on Friday, to notice how far our French neigh bours have gone in the matter of guns for their iron clads. In the Corps Legislatif on June 20 M. Dupuy de Lome, Director of Material of the Imperial Navy, stated that three models had been selected for the armament of the navy of France, as follows : First class—Diameter, 24 centimetres ; weight, 14,000 kilogrammes. Throws steel elongated bolts of 144 kilogrammes, as also shells - and round shot. Second class—Diameter, 19 centimetres ; weight, 8,000 kilogrammes. Throws steel elon gated bolts of 75 kilogrammes, ditto shell of 52 kilogrammes, ditto round shot of 25 kilogrammes. Third class.—Diameter, _l6 centimetres ; weight, 5,000 kilogrammes. Throws steel elongated bolts of 45 kilogrammes, ditto shells of 31i kilogrammes, ditto round shot of 15 kilogrammes. M. Dupuy de Lome also said there was another class of gun, on the same principle, that was 27 centimetres in diameter, but would be too large for service on board ship, and would therefore be reserved for the arma ment of sea coast batteries. All the pieces averaged a range of about six kilometres. There is this re markable fact connected with these pieces selected for the armament of the French navy—all fire round as well as elongated shot, and all therefore are cap able of delivering a fire en ricochet. The American paddle steamer Augusta, Captain A. Murray, remains at Spithead until about the 6th inst. The first guns fired by an American Monitor in British waters have been in friendly salute. This quaintly constructed vessel excites the liveliest feelings of curiosity—but none of dread. If any of our great iron-clads are lying near, the contrast between the little monitor, mainly submerged in the water as she is, though 1,500 tons burden, will be very striking when compared with the great hull and huge proportions of the English ships of some 7,000 tons. The Warrior or the Black Prince lies in the water like a huge frigate, swift, beautiful, and graceful ; but not differing mainly in appearance, except in huge bulk, from ordinary frigates of the British navy. The spars tower aloft with the yards, rigging, and all the gear of a full-rigged ship ; and it requires a well-trained eye, or a vessel whose size is known, to be near, before a conception can be formed of the vast di- mensions of the iron-clad Warrior. On the con trary, the hull of the Miantonomah a few miles off is not seen at all, and instead of the towering masts and graceful rigging, a curious paraphernalia of turrets, and funnels, and hurricane deck, rise as it were out of the ocean. But huge as the English iron-clad is in dimensions, and small and submerged as is the Monitor, the exact reverse is the case as regards their armaments. The American vessel has only four guns, but these guns are in proportion to the Warrior's guns as the Warrior in bulk is to the Miantonomah. Thus in a small and handy space is concentrated the most destructive power, and there are qualities about the American Monitor which even landsmen, not professing to under stand the subject scientifically, cannot but appre ciate. The Miantonomah presents no target for her enemy, she has no towering spars to be shot away and foul the screw. Her guns bear from any posi tion in which the vessel may be placed, revolving in their turrets by internal machinery. She steers equally well stem or stern first, and goes " about " like a Chinese junk, so rapidly indeed that the pilot conveying her out of a British port, not being prepared for the speed with which she answered her helm, cut a brig down to the water's edge, sinking her in a few minutes. The reason is that her floor is flat, and therefore she draws little water, and is particularly qualified for acting in shallow seas and pushing close up to her enemy. These are all qualities which we can understand, but an idea was prevalent in England a short time ago which has proved to be as erroneous as a great many of our English ideas on American matters. It was thought that these Monitors, although well adapted for harbour and shore warfare, were not qualified for ocean voyages. Commodore Rogers took his Monitor from the North Atlantic round the Horn into the Pacific Ocean, and now we have the testi mony of another Monitor which has crossed the Atlantic to our own ports—that the vessel not only behaved well, but made much better weather of it than either of her paddle-wheel consorts. The Americans certainly are, what they profess them selves to be, a people of brains, of striking inven tive power, who can accomplish any mortal thing so long as the thing is within the power of mortals to accomplish. They have revolutionised the con- struction of our merchant ships. Clippers owe their origin wholly to American invention. Not content with building ships of astonishing speed, they marked out tracts and defined accurately -what course these ships should steer so as to secure the most favourable winds. Our shipowners owe a debt of gratitude to Captain Maury which they have not yet adequately acknowledged; and it would be highly improbable that such a people, with their intellect quickened to the utmost by the dangers which threatened the Union, and the gigantic war on hand, would not invent the most destructive vessel which human brains and human hands could frame. That effort and the experience of bitter war has resulted in such craft as the Miantonomah, and we venture to assert that the most careful at tention of the scientific men of England, now that the opportunity offers, will result in showing the vast superiority of such men-of-war, and revolu tionise the construction of the English fleet. The Miantonomah was constructed and planned by Mr. F. Delano, Naval Constructor at the Brook lyn Naval Yard. She is the counterpart of the Monadnock, which has lately doubled the Horn, and made excellent weather the whole way. The armour of the Miantonomah's hull consists of 5i inches of rolled wrought iron, her deck being pro tected by 31 inches of plate iron. As her floor is flat, the proportions between deck are large and spacious, and the visitor is astonished, after seeing so little above water, to find himself in such roomy and well-aired apartments. Her turrets are 23 feet in diameter outside, and 211 inside, consisting of 10 inches of wrought iron. Her engines were finished at the Novelty Ironworks at New York. Her fire-rooms are particularly well ventilated, and altogether she is a ship well worth the earnest and serious attention of our Admiralty. We need scarcely add how heartily we re-echo the hope of our contemporary the Times —that our visitors may receive a cordial and hospitable welcome, and that the excellent opportunity may not be allowed to The Miantonomah. This formidable war vessel, which, as the first American turret-ship that has visited the shores of Europe, created such an extraordinary degree of interest during her recent visit to the anchorages at Queenstown and Spithead, sailed from the latter roadstead early on Saturday morning for Cherbourg, where she will remain a short time open, as she has been to us, to the admiration and criticism of our good friends and allies across Channel. From Cher bourg existing understood arrangements send the Miantonomah to the Medway or the Thames, and thence to the Baltic. She is expected to call again at Spithead on her return down Channel from the Baltic. During the stay of the ship at both Queens- town and Spithead she was, during each day, open ;o the admission of all visitors. Thousands o people availed themselves of the opportunity, and all must have left her impressed with the kindness with which they were received by the officers and the untiring pains taken to explain all the numerous details of the plan and fittings of the ship's hull, turrets, armour, and guns. We have learnt much from the visit of the Miantonomah, and her officers will not go from our shores without having added to their previous knowledge of the manner in which guns may be fought in revolving iron towers on board a ship. In their visit to the Miantonomah at Spithead on Friday last the Lords of the Admiralty were ac companied by the Hon. G. V. Fox, the Assistant- Secretary of the United States' Navy ; Captain Cowper Phipps -Coles, R.N., Captain Bythesea, R.N., V.C., Naval Attache to the British Embassy at Washington ; Lord John Hay, M.P. ; the Earl of Wilton, Commodore of the Royal Yacht squadron ; Mr. Westley Richards, Scc., in addition to a number of naval officers and others. The Duke of Somerset, with the Controller and other members of the Board of Admiralty, having been conducted over the ship by Captain Beaumont, and minutely inspected her on deck and below, took up a position on the raised hurricane deck, in com pany with the Hon. Mr. Fox, to witness the firing of two shots from the enormous 15-inch smoothbore guns which form her turret armament. The officers and crew of the ship took up their respective posi- tions at general quarters, all hatches were securely battened down, the supply of air below w as pro vided for by setting the ventilating fans in motion, and the ship in every respect preparel for action at sea. These preparations having been made, a visit to the deck below demonstrated clearly enough that, although in certain portions of the 'tween deck the atmosphere felt slightly oppressive after just leaving the open of the upper deck, the air was really cool, as proved by the thermometer ranges, and the ship might be fought through a long summer day's action under the same conditions without distress to any on board from heat below beyond what would necessarily be found in any ordinary steamship of war. The first gun fired was charged with a 351 b. powder cartridge and a sabot live shell, at extreme elevation. The effect was very grand as the vast globe of metal propelled from the mouth of the gun with a deep hoarse roar went hurtling on its course until it fell at an estimated distance of about 3,500 yards from the ship. The second gun was charged with 351 b. of pow der, a solid iron shot of 4601 b., and fired point blank. If the last shot was grand, as exhibiting the flight of a 15in. shell, this was more interesting, as exhi biting—what we have as yet made no provision for in rifling our heavy naval artillery—the perfection of ricochet firing. The immense ball spun along its course over the surface of the water as truly as the cricketer's ball passes over the smooth green sward towards the wicket. The noise of the explosion, the concussion felt, and the smoke which entered the turrets on the firing of the guns were neither more nor less than would be nearly expected in firing 351 b. powder charges. The working of the guns on board the Mianto nomah on Friday was somewhat slow, but this was accounted for by the fact that it was the first time the same crews had worked the guns in actual prac tice. The shutters, or port stoppers, were evidently very much in the way of the men in loading the guns, and it certainly appears that, with the quick available means of turning away from the enemy the port's face of the turret when loading, they mia.lat be altogether done away with. The revolving of the turret by steam power, and the twisting power given to the ship's hull by the reversed action of her twin screws, would always keep the gunports hid from an enemy when the guns are not run out. The port shutters, therefore, appear to be superfluous. To pursue still further our friendly attempt at fault finding with a ship that has so deservedly won the ad miration of a ll w h o have seen her since her arrival on these shores we must refer to the rotation of her turret by steam. There are two faults here. The first is that if any part of the steam gear is damaged the rotation of the turret is stopped and the guns are rendered 'useless for want of a second avail able motive power, with which the turrets of the Miantonomah are not fitted. is that the lateral' oscillation hsottef The second fault great when being turned by steam, and turret is very seri ously interfere with rapid and must the guns on a small moving mg . and discharge of e meOaurns Sovereign has four available different Object. Royal f oy re a - 1 re volving her turrets, all, however, by manual labour alone, and in revolving they are by means of their greater circle of conical wheels perfectly steady. Other faults that we can manage to find with the Miantonomah, in addition to the weakness of the ship as a wooden structure, to which we have for- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1866. pass, unimproved, of showing how natural and hearty the amity between the two nations ought to be.—Anglo-American limes. although four-fifths of the Senate have been trying to get a vote for over a week. Such gentlemen as Mr. Anstey and Mr. Davis are of great use in pre venting hasty legislation, and Americans might feel some additional satisfaction in the fact that their members earn the stipend the nation allows them. Anton Probst, who murdered the Dearing family of eight persons, near Philadelphia, some two months since, was hanged on the Bth of June, at the gaol, Philadelphia. Very few spectators were admitted, though there was a general desire to witness the execution. President Johnson and family have engaged rooms, for a portion of the season, at the Continental Hotel, Long Branch. MARRIED.—In Trinity Church, West Troy, on ho 28th ultimo, by the Right Reverend Horatio Potter, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of New York, assisted by the Rev. J. S. Saunders, rector of the parish, Albert Henry Sweny, Esq., Captain in her Majesty's Second Grenadiers, to Anna, eldest daughter of James Roy, Esq., of West Troy. DIED.—In the United States Naval Hospital, on Wednesday evening, May 30, Charles H. Foy, late Quar termaster United Statei Navy. Mr. Andrew H. Green, Comptroller of the Central Park, has issued, in pamphlet form, his eommuni- cation to the Commissioners of the Central Park, relative to the improvement of the Sixth and Seventh Avenues, from the Central Park to the Harlem River ; tho laying out of the island above One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street ; the drive from Fifty-ninth-street to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth-street, and other subjects. It is a well- penned document. Mr. Kennedy, a Scotch vocalist, is on his way to New York, to make a tour of America and give concerts. He took his farewell at the Hanover-square Rooms, last month. General M'Clellan has given it as his opinion that, in a war between Prussia and Austria, Prussia must go to the wall, and, adds a London writer, "Ho knows what fighting is, and who look like fighters." Robert D. Holmes, of New York, has been again elected to the honourable office of Grand Master of the Freemasons of the State of New York. He has well earned the position, and does credit to the office. Miss Sallie H. Polk, daughter of the Right Rev. Leonadis Polk (General C. S. A.), was married, on the Ist instant, to Captain F. D. Blake, of Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. G. R. Sweeting, of Berlin, Wisconsin, died on the 30th ultimo from the effects of a slight puncture in the finger with a needle, received while sewing up a body after a post mortem examination. James B. Hosmer, of Hartford, Connecticut, has made a donation of fifty thousand dollars to the Theolo gical Institute of that city. Judge Story's son, William W. Story, now in Rome, is one of the most promising of the American sculp tors. An English nobleman lately offered him three thousand pounds for one of his works. One of the Levantin Brothers—a young man from Boston—while performing on the trapeze in Brook lyn, fell from a height of thirty-five feet, and was seriously, if not fatally, injured. Mr. Henry R. Stiles has retired from the edi torial management of the "Historical Magazine." His successor is Mr. Henry B. Dawson. A popular life of Abraham Lincoln in Italian has been published at Florence, and is being sold for the bene fit of the freedmen. The firm of Leonard Scott and Co., well-known in connection with the American reprints of foreign re views, has been dissolved ; and the three partners, Messrs. Leonard Scott, Edward Walker, and. Robert Craighead, have formed a joint-stock corporation under the name of the Leonard Scott Publishing Company. A HANDSOME RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—A new rail road carriage has just been placed on a line running out el Boston, which is said to be the most costly vehicle ever manufactured in America. The Transcript (from which we get very many spicy items, by the way) thus describes it:—" This sumptuous vehicle cost $15,000, and was built by the Salem Car Company. It has six compartments, and can take forty-eight parsons. Parties of six to eight indi viduals can secure one of these sections of the car, and thus be as much secluded from general observation as though at their own homes, and, at the same time, be carried on their way to New York, in the easiest and most pleasant method of railway travelling. No expense seems to have been spared in furnishing the inside of the car, the sides and ends of which are covered with luxuriant blue broadcloth, and trimmed with lace and silk hangings. The cost of the broadcloth alone was $2,700. The doors are chiefly of plate glass. It is claimed for this carriage that it possesses an advantage over all others in having a turret root, which gives excellent ventilation. It is also admirably lighted. Its weight is twelve tens; length, fifty feet, and width, eight feet." The latest style of bonnet has turned up at Rich mond, Indiana. It is described as consisting of two straws, tied together with a blue ribbon on the top of the head, and red tassels suspended at each of the four ends of the straws. Price nineteen dollars." Our lady contributor says the reason why tall men best succeed in matrimony is because all sensible women favour Hymen.---Boston Post. THE AMERICAIsT FREE-TRADE LEAGUE.—The fol lowing resolutions acknowledging the receipt of the Free-trade address recently sent from this country to the United States have been received by the Secretary of the Free-trade Association : —" 145, William-street, New Ye: k, June 7, 1866. On motion of the chairman, seconded by Mr. Alfred Pell, jun., Resolved, that the officers and mem bers of the American Free-trade League have read with much pleasure the address of the London Free-trade Asso ciation. Resolved, that the League feels greatly encou raged by the proofs of sympathy and the deductions of ex perience embodied in the address.—C. A. BRASTED, Chairman, pro tern." The Americans have established an American Derby in connection with the annual races at Patterson, New Jersey. The first race was won by Merril—time, 2 min. 55 sec. Sixteen hundred dollars of "conscience money" were recently sent to the United States Treasury by some one. though he held on a very bad course all the way, he won by 20 yards. The others finished in the order named. AQUATICS. -~- THE WINGFIELD SOULLS. The race for the Wingfield or Silver Sculls is appointed to be started at a little before five this afternoon, from Putney-bridge. A steamer will accompany it as usual, and will leave London-bridge at 20 minutes to four, but will only call in at Hungerford and Cadogan (Chelsea). The race, as usual, creates considerable interest, and will, it is expected, prove a severe one between Messrs. Michell and Woodgate. There is a third candidate for aquatic honours in the race, Mr. J. Chambers, but he does not appear to hold any place in the betting, which is pretty fairly divided kietween the other two, Mr. Michell, however, having the call. They are both fine scullers, and the re sult is very doubtful after what we have seen of their per formances during the last few days. PIGEON SHOOTING. DEATH .111011 LIGHTNING AT THE GUN CLUB, WORMHOLT SCRUBB. The anticipated meeting of the Gun Club at Shepherd's-bush, on Saturday last was brought to a termination on account of the awfully sudden death by lightning of Young Offer. It is usual to have bye-shooting previous to the regular match, and such was the practice on Saturday. Offer is engaged by the club to supply the birds, and in carrying out his duties, as usual, he was assisted by his three sons, while several others were standing round the tables or near the baskets, where the pigeons were being selected from. All was nearly in readiness, when a little after two o'clock a ter rible flash of lightning, accompanied with but slight rain, burst over the ground, hurling Offer and his sons, and a man named Frederick Darsey (who assists in trapping) to the ground ; Thomas Offer was killed instantly ; the father soon recovered ; Darsey was uninjured, but one of the other sons, Alfred, was so long insensible, that it was feared he, too, was past all earthly aid, but we are glad to say that after more than an hour became sensible, and it is hoped that he will ultimately recover. Several other persons were likewise prostrated, including J. H. Upton, who keeps the score, but no other vital injury was inflicted, with the exception that the electric fluid also killed the well-known black re triever, Jack, whose sagacity in fetching back the pigeons shot, made him a great favourite with the visitors. Offer was not much hurt, but his grief at the loss of his son may be well imagined. Thomas Offer's hat was cut into ribbons, and his clothing twisted into fantastic shapes, the left leg and ankle were ripped up and his left boot was torn off com pletely. The body presented a ghastly appearance, being completely black. More than 30 noblemen and gentlemen had en tered to contend in the second summer handicap, but, of course, any further progress was out of the question. The body awaits the inquest, which will be held by Mr. Bird, the coroner this (Monday) morning, at the Inn opposite the ground. " Certainties"—Advice Gratis. The facetious correspondent of the Racing Times writes on the above subject as follows : Of the multitude of miscellaneous philanthropists your betting advertiser, or inventor of certainties, is one of the most amusing. Only fancy the junior members of my family reading with delight an ad vertisement headed " Something Extraordinary," and continuing, "Northumberland Plate and Liver pool Cup is quite at the mercy of the cleverest divi sion on the turf—sent on the receipt of 18 stamps." The common mercantile leaven spoils it, but the economy of the thing (only eighteenpence) is quite charming. The announcement goes on—" Any person sending cash to back this double event, we guarantee £lOO for £l, £5O for 10s., £25 for 55., £l2 for 2s. 6d." Not by any means bad invest ments for small capitalists in these days, when cash is generally considered tight in the City, but the advertiser continues, by wishing " it to be under stood that he does not put money on in the com mon every-day system, as other commission men do (whereby you would ruin the Bank of England), but on an entirely new and honourable system ori ginated by him. No other person knows the secret; it is on the same principle as practised by the lead ing racing men of the day." All this including, I suppose, the grand secret was to be got for — the aforesaid small sum of eighteenpence, but the ad rer tisement continues in an argumentative strain thus —" How could the ever rich men on the turf arise out of nothing but by following this safe and ever winning system ? Send at once, and remember that a fortune is now to be made." Another announce- ment is that somebody else does business on a far more liberal scale, for as the above shop can only afford to give £lOO for a sovereign, the establish ment now referred to would guarantee in a double event for Liverpool and Goodwood £BOO for £l, and so on in proportion down to half-a• crown, and send the Northumberland Plate winner gratis ! All the confiding who sent their cash to the first place will best be able to inform us whether the " certainty" came off as guaranteed, the pound having been in vested on Vespasian for Liverpool, and Lady Durham for Newcastle. I find from a similar advertisement on Saturday last that the Cumberland Plate and Newmarket Handicap is also at the mercy of the cleverest divi sion on the turf, and so I conclude that all future , events will be. Make your fortunes you lively members of the greenhorn family, and don't scruple to send a few stamps to find out the glorious suc cess, and ascertain the doings of the " clever divi sion" referred to. Whatever horse you are advised to back rest assured he has no more chance of win ning than your own selection, assuming you are given to calculations on public running, or other wise. Numbers of the prophets appear on paper to have sent Rococo at 40 to 1, but I have not been fortunate enough to see the portrait of anybody who has been so favoured. A countryman adver tises that his " honourable subscribers shall win a fortune this fteason," for which he requires the modest fee of 55., and, as an inducement to invest boldly, says that the winner of the Leger is now at 50 to 1; a good thing, if true, but probably this gentleman means the Leger of 1867. 4; The Goodwood Stakes and Cup winners free," such is the heading of another advertisement, and the in- ventor will send them to gentlemen who promise to pay liberally from winnings, and after stating there is only to be one horse for each race at good odds, asks for six stamps for correspondence. This appears to be a very moderate establishment, and if you give sixpence for the winners of two good races at long prices, you may be able to send the five shillings wanted for the Leger winner at 50 to 1 without much difficulty. Supposing you can manage to pull off the double event of Cumberland Plate and Newmarket Handicap by getting the £lOO for a sovereign, or even a quarter of it for 55., I recom mend you to invest it with a general merchant at Guernsey, who advertises in some of the sporting papers that £106,800 may be had for £l9. It is not very clear how this is to be accomplished, but you should apply for prospectuses and particulars without delay to the general merchant in question, who contradicts any statement which could be in sinuated that he is not engaged in bona fide specu lation. In this instance you will deal with a person of evident business habits, for he gives a name, and states himself to be " agent for first-class refiners, distillers, millers, and growers in France, Holland, Spain, &c., and will take orders for crushed and loaf sugar, coiza oil, flour, wine, spirits, gin, Schie dam, Dutch cheese," &c. Perhaps the gin and Schiedam are not spirits, or it would seem needless to mention them separate!) , in addition to that word. Thus any aspiring young friend who shall take my advice and lay out his five shillings will secure £25 from the double event; and then, keeping £6 in his pocket, remit £l9 to Guernsey, when he will bring off £106,800. The odd money he can amuse himself with by attending races during the remain der of his existence, and the hundred thousand he will doubtless find a suitable mode of laying out in some future limited liability concerns which are sure to show on paper very attractive things in per centage. In backing horses at long shots always get out as soon as possible, if the animal comes with or with out a rush. During the fatal progress of the rin derpest milking was checked to some extent both in the bovine and racing worlds, but it has begun again iu severalquarters, where horses have been strongly and continuously backed by the public merely for the benefit of the vultures. The most recent instance was Honesty (a capital name for a horse), and the doings of an owner. He was expected to AMERICA. The Royal Mail steamship Africa, from Halifax and Boston, arrived at Queenstown at 9.30 a.m. to-day with 175 passengers and $18,640 in specie. She landed all the mails, consisting of 120 sacks 16 passengers, and proceeded at 9.45 a.m. All well. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Philadelphia Inquirer calls attention to the " Mileage abuse" in Congress. Though the law intends that a member should receive his travel ling expenses, the practice has arisen of paying members for the trip they might take,—but do not. The members who remain in Washington from the adjournment till the next session receive an allowance for mileage not earned. Not only are these expenses not incurred, but the rates charged are inordinate, being farbeyond the actual cost of travelling. Thus a member from Oregon, who comes to Washington at an expense of from $5OO to $6OO, receives the sum of $12,000, leaving him upwards of $lO,OOO profit, even supposing that he makes the return journey. Henry Winter Davis, whose trips to Baltimore and back could not have cost more than from $6 to $B, received $67, and the other members in proportion. The English system, wherever the English Treasury deigned to pay any thing, is to make a man send in his bill, with rail way charge, cab hire, &c., detailed. Naturally the members of Congress dislike the unequal division of the plunder. Mr. Davis gets only $67, while Mr. Macdougall, of California, receives nearly $ll,OOO. It is clear, however, that a reform which equalised the sum to be paid to each would not be equitable so long as the distances to be travelled re main so unequal. General Sweeny's proclamation to the people of Canada is not a bad document in its way. "To take up the sword 1" exclaims the Irish sympathiser —" to strike down the oppressor's rod—to deliver Ireland from the tyrant, the despoiler, and the robber, we have registered our oaths on the altar of our country, in the full view of heaven, and sent up our vows to the throne of Him who inspired them." And forthwith bands of drunken robbers and plunderers are despatched into Canada to de stroy property, and to murder the unoffending in habitants. We sympathise with all the wrongs of Ireland, which our American friends will learn, on inquiry in this country, are not exactly what the Irish in America represent them ; but we are at a loss to see how rapine and bloodshed in Canada will have a beneficial effect in redressing these wrongs. That the Canadians do not see it is proved by their action ; and we dare say they consider it very hard lines that the Fenians in England should fight for the redemption of Ireland, and they— bear the blows. "We are here !" exclaims Sweeny —" As the Irish army of liberation, the friends of liberty against despotism—of democracy against aristocracy—of the ballot against the privileges of class—of progress and development against right and wrong." " Granting all this," reply the Cana dians, "you are in the wrong place—go to Ireland, or, better still, go to England and carry out this honourable warfare in a manner worthy of the high object you aim at, and the sublime sentiments that actuate you, but—don't murder us." When—" your work for Ireland is accomplished, we are glad that you will allow us to determine our natural political standing and character, and if we require your aid to free us from the government of a foreign throne, we will ask that aid." There is something supremely ridiculous in this address from the Major-General Commanding the Armies of Ireland to the people of Canada, were it not for its disastrous consequences—the action, of which this address is a part, would rank among the most amusing blunders ever committed—even by Irishmen. General Grant seems to be an assiduous smoker The Boston Commercial—who observed him nar rowly while waiting the departure of his train al the Washington Depot—says he had smoked three cigars, and had begun a fourth, in the brief period that he remained. No credit is therefore to be given to the recent story that he is learning to leave off smoking, and that he has so far succeeded as to get along with ten or fifteen a day. The General in repose has a countenance which conveys no idea of greatness to the beholder. His blue eye has a be nevolent expression when he is conversing with his soldiers. He stoops much as he walks, but in other respects seems hale and vigorous. There was neither airiness, pretence, nor affectation about him. As he passed he was often saluted by veterans, with whom he talked pleasantly, or listened attentively to incidents of the early South-Western battles, of the campaign of Vicksburg, or of the bloody pro gress through the wilderness. The approaching renewal of the attempt to lay the Atlantic Telegraph cable has produced some movement in the shares of that undertaking. The old £l,OOO shares, of which there are 600, after having been for a long time neglected, are inquired for at from £250 to £3OO. The 8 per cent. prefer ence shares of £5, which also represent £600,000, have been dealt in to some extent at £3 15s. The company, however, which is now most immediately concerned in the success of the enterprise is the Anglo-American Telegraph, which has taken over the contract to lay the cable. Practically the claims of the shareholders in the old company are deferred to those in the Anglo-American Company, who will have for their capital (likewise of £600,000) the first charge upon the profits up to 25 p er cen t. per annum, and one-half of all beyond, and w h ose £lO paid-up shares at present stand at a small discount. The importance of the undertaking has received a new and strong illustration from the service that would have been rendered if the line had been in operation during the recent panic, and the European war will now create an additional interest in its completion. Electric communication with New York will estab lish also an unbroken intercourse with California and Vancouver's Ireland, a line to those points being already in existence. A cable is also about to be laid in the short distance between Florida and Cuba, which will place New York in direct communication with the West Indies. RECONSTRUCTION iS the great question at present occupying all minds on the other side of the Atlan tic. The able Report of the Committee of Congress has been accepted, and the amended Bill has passed both Houses by the two-third majority. This Bill was a corapromise, although a triumph to the Republican party. Every person born in the Union or naturalised is now equal in the eye of the law , though equal political privileges have not been ex tended to the coloured population. The States that refuse to enrol the negro among the electors will have their representatives diminished in proportion to the votes disallowed. No man who ever held office and swore allegiance to the United States, and afterwards aided and supported the Rebellion in any way, can hereafter hold office, vote for Pre sident, or be a Senator. This, the third, clause, will have a sweeping effect. The Bill is one of vast importance, and great as is the interest it excites, we are surprised that it has given rise to so little stormy discussion. Some years ago the Irish boasted a member in the House of Commons who was supposed to be the greatest talker that had ever stood on the floor of that or any other house. The day when Mr. Chisholm Anstey left—it was hoped for ever—was one on which all the members drew a long sigh of relief, yet Mr. Anstey was an able lawyer, a clever man, with a memory stored with the experiences of a life of unforgotten incidences. It appears, however, that a longer speaker has arisen on the floor of Congress. If he does not (lie on the floor of the house, some of the members will have to expire on their scats, and perhaps a few strangers in the gal lery. The Philadelphia Inquirer speaks of this gen tleman as Davis the garrulist, and records it as a wonderful fact that he only talked that day on the Constitutional Amendment for four mortal hours. At one time, when Mr. Garrett Davis had the floor, there were but three Senators in the house, and nine persons in the gallery. Of course no vote was had. This journal adds, in seeming sorrow, that it is certain no final vote can be taken the next day, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TILE MANCHESTER MARKET. There has been very little doing in the market on future events since my last communication. The Special is not in such good odour for the Goodwood Stakes, and the same remark may be applied to Othello. Nu is backed for money at anything over 10 to 1, and Slender has a good many friends. Grand Cross has been backed freely at the odds quoted below for next year's Derby. GOODWOOD STAKES. Bto 1 agst The Special (off.) 10 to 1 agst Nu (take 11 to 1) 100 to 8 agst Midia colt (taken) 100 to 8 agst Black Prince (taken) 100 to 8 agst Othello (taken) 100 to 7 agst Camball (taken) 100 to 7 agst Slender (taken) DERBY, 1867. 1000 to 25 agst Grand Cross (taken) Mr. B. Land's colt by Promised Land out of Hope has been named Lightland. Brown Bread was struck out of the Northumberland Plate on Tuesday last, at 2.10 p.m. Honesty was struck out of the Northumberland Plate at 11.15 on the morning of the race. The subscription to the Derby, Oaks, and St. Leger of 1868 will close on Tuesday, July 10, on or before which day the horses are to be named. The monthly pocket edition of Weatherby's Racing Calendar, containing the races past to the end of June, will appear on Wednesday next. Kinglake, 3 yrs, has been added to the list of geldings. Stilton, 3 yrs, by Idle Boy out of Chow, the winner of the Woodhay Stakes at Hungerford on Tuesday, was bought in for 140 gs. HEALTH Or MR. JACKSON. — WO are requested to con tradict the statement which has appeared in several of our contemporaries to the effect that Mr. Jackson, of Fairfield, has had a relapse. We have much pleasure in being able to announce that Mr. Jackson's health has latterly greatly improved, and he is now in a fair way of becoming speedily convalescent.— Tha Sportsman. The chestnut filly by Weatherbit out of Maid of Team Valley was named Louisa after winning the Trial Stakes at Newcastle Meeting on Tuesday. We understand that Waugh took charge of Mr. Merry's horses at Russley Park on Monday last, and that Mat Dawson is to train in future for the Duke of Newcastle. GOODWOOD.—The Stewards' Cup, the Chesterfield Cup and the Nursery and March Stakes close on July 10. WESTING HALL STIJD.--ThiS stud of upwards of eighty thoroughbred blood stock, owned by the late Gon. Anger stein, will bo disposed of by Messrs. Tattersall, at Weeting Hall, Brandon, Norfolk, on Saturday next, July 7. Messrs. Tattersall will on Monday, July 9, at Albert Gate, dispose of 12 yearlings, principally by Tho Prime Minister, Dundee, and Touchwood, the property of Mr. G. Mather ; and also, on the same day, four owned by Mr. C. Snowing, two by Caractacus, and ono each by Wild Day rell and The Prime Minister. STOCKBRIDGE RACES, 1867.—The stewards will shortly advertise for models of cups to bo shown to them at New market during the October meetings. DONCASTER SEPTEMBER IIEETING.—The GreatYockshire and the Cleveland Handicaps close on the Tuesday after Newmarket, and the weights will be published on the Monday after York August Meeting. Bonanoar, chestnut colt, by Hobble Noble out of The Belle, has changed hands and name, and will in future be called Freemason. THE LONDON SWIMMING CLUB.—The four following members of the above club contended on Saturday after noon in a Mile Race for the cup, presented by Mr. J. Latey hon. sec. :—W. Adams, C. Powell, G. Caudwell, and F. Smith. The conditions aro that the holder shall retain in four suctessive races before it becomes his absolute pro perty. They swam from the Dung Wharf to Putney Aqueduct. Soon alter starting Adams took the lead, and go for the Northumberland Plate on Wednesday— had won the North Derby, a mile and three quarters, on the preceding day, carrying Bst 131 b, beating Terror and Claros, and 10 to 1 was taken about him for the following day, when, without any known cause, at 11.15, he was scratched. The sporting public must comprise some of the greatest noodles in existence, or they would have something to say about such an affair as this ; indeed it is patent to the most superficial observer that every schemer and deviser of any kind of lottery or silly invention for practising on the unwary looks out for channels where sporting men meet and congregate, and no amount of lesson or advice ap pears to have the least effect in putting the green horn on his guard. There is an annual affair occu pying Saturday and Monday in the finest month of the year in the handsomest and most attractive place of amusement in the world. I allude, of course, to the Dramatic College Fete. The last day in the week, as a rule, is a good one to select, because the majority of young men likely to be tempted are in funds, and the Monday following is the next best time, because what they have not got rid of at the end of the week is reserved for the beginning of the next. We all wish well to the institution, and hope that the fete may be continued year after year with increasing success, commensurate with the great outlay always expended upon it. A new feature has, however, presented itself on this occasion. The bevy of young ladies, under all sorts of names, many resembling those of celebrated bookmakers and jockeys, are advertising to the extent of about twenty six in number. " Misses Ashmall and Nightingall will execute commissions on the forthcoming races, on receipt of cash at the Royal Dramatic College fetes at the Crystal Palace, July 7th and 9th." There Misses Custance and H. Grimshaw will give the " straight tip," and so they go on in fifteen advertise ments of young ladies competing with their more experienced and less favoured rivals in the ingenious performance of extracting all the coin they can from the verdant sportsman, who will pay his foot ing pretty handsomely when he ventures into the charmed circle on Saturday and Monday next ; but he will have one great gratification in parting with his half-sovereign in exchange for an arch glance from an actress and a penny flower to knoNv that the money will be expended in soothing the last days of those who may amuse him on the mimic scene ; and were it not for the fact that an ill wind blows nobody good, I should like to see a handsome subscription list without all the nonsensical expe dients which are compelled to be resorted to ; but John Bull always preferred costly indirect taxation to the more economical and direct thing, became he affects to suppose that commodities are at their natural value, and in purchasing his box of cigars has not the least idea that he is paying half a soy. duty to the Government ; so when expending his crown or his pound at Sydenham he gets into society for a day that, as a rule, he cannot aspire to mix with generally, and is surprised to find how young and beautiful Miss Somebody looks, and how old Mr. Otherbody looks—in fact thegalaxy of youth and age, of talent of every kind, of both sexes,which the drama in its various phases nourishes, can seldom, if ever, be met together unless on this occasion. Every theatre and place of amusement within the metropolis will contribute to swell the number of performers, and each will go zealously to work, and carry out his and her legitimate design by affording all the fun that possibly can be devised, but whether the fifteen advertisements will yield any and what kind of " certainties" it is impossible for me to pre dict. Some of the junior branches of my family probably lose their hearts as well as their coin, but this I am quite sure no advice gratis of mine can possibly prevent. The dramatic college fete' adds another to the many existing modes of invest ment, and those who will take the trouble of attend ing it once will always, while spared, and residing anywhere near town, look forward to its recurrence with pleasure, and laugh at the boundless extent of ingenuity with which the principles of English sports are furthered and carried out. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH- SATURDAY. There was a more liberal supply of wheat at this market to-day, but the millers not being free buyers, prices ruled dull, and in some instances may bo quoted about is per qr. lower than last Saturday. In barley, oats, beans, and peas little doing. The weather has been brilliant end forcing during the past week, and the crops of both wheat and barley are fully into ear and look very promising. The hay crop has been got in in fine order. White wheat (weighing 641 b), 60s to 62s ; old red aitto weighing 651 b), 56s to 58s ; new red ditto weighing 601 b to 631 b), 568 to 57s ; best malting barley weighing 521 b to 531 b), 36s to 38s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 to 521 b), 34s to 36s ; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 30s to 32s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 57s to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr. Flour, 39s per sack. LEICESTER-SATURDAY. The show of wheat at our market was moderate. Buyers purchased cautiously, and sellers found it hard to realise any advance. Of barley very little came to hand, and the prices of last week were fully realised. The supply of oats was exceedingly scanty, and prices were the turn in sellers' favour. Beans met a steady sale, and prices quite as high as last week. New white wheat, 60s to 66s ; new red, 54s to 61s ; old, white, 55s to 60s ; old red, 50s to 56s per 36 stone. Bar ley, for malting, 35s to 40s per qr.; grinding, 31s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats,'old, —s to —s ; new, 278 to 35s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 52s to 55s ; new, 45s to 50s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 43s ; seconds, 38s to 39s per 20 stone. YORK-SATURDAY. Our corn market was sparingly supplied with wheat to day, and samples were taken off slowly, rates being rather in sellers' favour. There was nothing doing in malting barley ; grinding was in short supply, and maintained pre vious terms. Of oats there were only a few samples at market, and these commanded full rates. Beans were sparingly represented, and held at a small advance. New white wheat, 56s to 60s ; new red, 54s to 58s per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 32s to 34s per qr. ; grinding, 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 28s to 30s per 24 stone. Beans, new, 48s to 50s per 38 stone. Malt, 66s to 68s. Flour, 40s to 43s per sack of 2801bs. NOT T INGHAM—SATURDAY. The show of wheat was fair, but the demand was dull, at fully late rates. Grinding barley was in small supply, and the demand was fair at extreme prices. The supply of oats was small, and the tone of the trade was firm at rather over late prices. Beans were scarce, and sold at top prices. Old white wheat, 60s to 69s ; old red, 56s to 61s ; ne vv white, 58s to 68s ; new red, 52s to 60s per 36 stone. Oats, old, 328 to 36s ; new, 26s to 33s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 52s to 51s ; new, 46s to per 50s 38s stone. Fine flour, 389 to 42s per sack. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills can be confidently recommended as a domestic remedy for the ailments of all classes and conditions of people. Young and old, men and women, parents and children, may take this medicine with the certainty of deriving benefit from its use when dis order or dis ease i s ma k ing th em miserable. Holloway's Pills are unrivalled for their purifying, aperient, and strengthening properties. They remove indigestion, palp is complaints and headaches, an d are spec i a ll y serviceable • ?1 complaints peculiar to females. Each box of Pills it wrapped up in printed instructions for the guidance of invalids, who will readily understand from carefully studying them, the best way of regaining health. Hollo way's Pills work a thorough change in the constitution of the weak and nervous. Births. BERKELEY —On the 25th ult., at New Milford, Pembroke , shire, the wife of Henry Berkeley, Esq., Commander R.N., of a daughter. BINGHAM—On the 30th ult., at 50, Portland-place, Lad,' Cecilia Bingham, of a son. ELGER—On the 30th ult., at 31, Rutland-gate, the wife of G. Gwyn Elger, Esq., of a daughter. • RICHARDSON—On the 30th ult., at 38, Avenue-road, 0 gent's-park, the wife of W. Richardson, Esq., of a son. Marriages. ARMSTRONG—AUSTEN—On the 28th ult., at Shalford Church, W. Bruce Armstrong, Esq., Captain 7th Dragoo n Guards, to Charlotte, daughter of R. Godwin-Auster l f Esq., of Chilworth Manor, Guildford. LOVIBOND—OwEN—On the 30th ult., Henry, eldest son 01 , Henry Lovibond, Esq., of Th e H erm i tage, Fulham, t, Jane, eldest daughter of David Owen, Esq., of 25, Albion road, St. John's-wood. Deaths. AGMS —On the 28th ult., at 25, Harewood-square, Regent:ll: park, John C. A gu i s, A ss i st.-Surg. R oya l H orse Guam' aged 37. DOUGLAS—On the 28th ult. at at the Manor House, lialln" ford, Agne s M ar i on, youngest. daughter of the late Co) Douglas, E sq., of Ma i ns, an d s i s t er t o A rc h . Camp Esq., of Blythswood, aged 51. HowEs —On the 29th ult., Groome Howes, E s q., of 4 !' Hamilton-terrace St. John's-wood, and 22, St. Pau ly churchyard, aged ' 69. LIBERTY—On the 28th ult., at 5, Berwick-street, pinilioot Mr. Daniel Liberty, aged 77. PRICE—On the 29th ult., near Bath, Lieut.-Colonel T. °. Price, late Bengal Army, H.E.1.C.5., aged 60. 0 REEVES—On the 28th ult., Pe rc y Si ms R eeves , youn ze of John Sims Reeves, aged nino years and six mouths. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDR B YO of No. 112, Strand, PI inter. at Triz SUN Office , 1 "; ‘ ,. ot Strand, in the Precinct of: the S avoy, ' i n th e Count y hilddleseL—Monday, July 2, 1866.