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~-___ -ls ~~~~ ,' NEWSPAPE.ii • • _ 1 t\:441 0, • ••• $.A•v..:x.w44 , „,":;, • - " that the object in view might be fully a 0-; '. t , it - 74 1 necessary that greater attention should be I *d "to those parts of education which were connected with natural science, and to the training in art, which was likewise associated with it. Those who took part in the promotion of that institution had, he knew, those objects at heart. He did not claim for those views the merit of originality.. He did not put them forward as his own ; for they had long been advo cated by great men connected with the -industry and the education of England ; but they were views which had been brought into . a focus, and applied more especially by that illustrious personage whose name was connected with the memorial which had brought them together that day. They trod in his footsteps when they . thus gave expression and advancement to the ideas which it was so much his province usefully to inculcate. )s. t.., 1 4 O NDON must have a SUPPER arid MUSIC 80 031 for Ge n tl emen. Remember, we wait for you at VA.NS' after the Covent-garden Opera and the Theatres. i 6, 0401-• s • . 4t , 4 - - , t - Az ) / !ti 6 f.r. , -- • 4,/ , f • *.111161 11 1 \ 4i; ' • ;4 - ‘4 Oll l - 1. 6%, ••, --- nRAT , C6 l ' - DIE I 07 . ' Tei e gimgk i , WOOF—JI ~~~ THE CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBILIER Issue OF ENGLAND (Limit e d). of 100,000 New Shares of £2O each, of which aer .Intre will be called up by Instalments ; no further C all ueing Contemplated. The issue will be made as follows :-50,000 Shares will be allotted to the present Shareholders, and 50,000 Shares will be allotted to the general public. When the above is sue i s comp l e t e d , Th e Subscribed Capital will consist of 200,000 The Shares of £2O each Paid-up Catal . 1,000,000 The General Reser ve Fund 500,000 The Dividend Rer "- - - No. 22,893. THE SUN, LONDON, TH URS DAY EVENING, NOVE MBE R 2, 1865. PRICE 4d. STAMPED 5d ~' T HE CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBILTER OT ENGLAND (Limited). Notice is hereby given that the LISTS of APPLICA TION, for the New Shares in this Company, will be CLOSED THIS DAY, THURSDAY, the 2d November, at Four o'clock, for London; and TO-MORROW, FRI DAY, the 3d November, at Twelve o'clock, for Country applications, before the expiration of which time all appli cations must be made. No 77 ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., A G N E S. By MRS. OLIPHANT. Authbr of " The Life of Edward Irving," Ace. " It is truly marvellous."—Timt*. ~p lIAROAH'S SERPENTS." Post free 13 stamps. STEREOSCOPIC COMPANY. 54, Clieapside, and 110, Regent-street. " 'Agnes' will certainly take a high place among Mrs. Oli phant's writings. It is a beautiful story, full of deep human interest, and is moreover pervaded throughout with a keen humour. The characters stand out almost like bodi y pre sences. To those who read works of fiction for something more than the amusement of an hour this novel will be a per fect treasure."—Star. By order, ALFRED LOWE Secretary. 17 and 18, Cornhill, London, Nov. 2, 1865. EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. T HE CREDIT FONCIER and MOBILIER of ENGLAND (Limited). At a meeting of the Shareholders of this Company, held this day (Tuesday), the 24th October, 1865, at Eleven o'clock, a.m., The Right Hon. JAMES STUART WORTLEY, Governor,_ in the Chair, NEW WORK BY MISS AGNES STRICKLAND. Just ready. in'3 vols., post Bvo., H OW WILL IT END? A Novel. By AGNES STRICKLAND, Author of "The Lives of the Queens of England." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. BOARD and RESIDENCE.—CIiff House, near Warrior-square, St. Leonards-on-Sea, two minutes' wa►k from the Parade. Address, Mrs. Richardson, as above. COITNTRY ItIAREETS. K INABILN'S LLBRAWH ISKY v. COGNAC This (tele asted Old IRIS LI WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by t at he Agents in the p r i nc i pal towns In England; or wholesale GAINS B ORO UGH—TUESDAY. Our corn exchange to-day was very thinly supplied with English wheat. Millers and factors wore eager purchasers at 2s per qr. more money for all mixed samples, and from about 2s to 3s advance for fine white sorts. Barley is dearer. Other descriptions rather better to sell. NEW NOVEL. This Day, in one vol., at all Libraries, LADY CUMBERFORD'S PROTEGE. John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. MARKET lI,.k.RBOROUGH.-TUESDAY. 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STRRNT, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded LL Whisky." NEW NOVEL BY MRS. BIRD. This Day. in 3 vols., at all Libraries, THE FATE OF THORSGHYLL. By Author of " The Hawkshawes," " Spell Bound," &o. Old white wheat, 44s to 51s ; new red. 39s to 47s per 30 stone. Barley, fine, 36s ; other kinds, 27s to 34s per qr. Oats, new, 23s to 25s ; old, 27s to 31s per qr. Beans, old, 40s to 425; new, 34s to 36s per qr. swerve Fund lOO,OOO DIRECTORS. ThA . ' , trait Ron. JAMES STUART WORTLEY, Governor. ,4. l Ei E VICK, Esq., Merchant, King's 1 Deputy .). —' nla-Yard, Governors. ,a.NIES NUGENT DANIELL, ES(I, d,,,,alnes Childs Eso London. " Illiarn Dent, se's; ~ Esq., Chairman of the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company. Chart rider Dunbar, Esq.. Old Broal-street, London. : a .arles Ellis, ESQ. Lloyd's. fl_golphe Hakim, E ' er). Cornhill, London. vVilliam Harrison, sq. i (Messrs. Young, Harrison, and Bevan), D eputy-Chairman of the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Comany'. iepvlehard &nail Lane, Es q. Old Broad-street, London. arles E. Newbon, Esq.. London. inearY Pownall Esq. usselqa, London. "Ph Mackrill Smith. E s q (Messrs. tdackrill Smith and li p. ), Old Broad -street, London. ward Virarner, Esq. M.P., London. Alpes White, Esq. BLI'. London. rt Grant, Esq:, M.P., Managing Director. The ' BANKERS. ,u AZr ional Ba n k, and Masterman's Bank (Liited). 4 e Nat London, Dublin, m and its Branches in Ireland. Messrs. findth, Payne, and Smiths. The National S cot Banl and.k' of Scotland, Edinburgh, and ita Bra nches in SOLICITORS. M essrs. Newbon, Evans, and Co., Nicholas-lane, B.C. BROKERS. Mesqrs, Laurence. Son, and Pearce, 7, Angel-court,Throg morton-street, E.C. , London. Messrs' U ors t all and Penny, 1 Liverpo oL Todd and Ashton. Messrs. Shore and Kirk, Manchester. SECRETARY. Alfred Lowe, Esq. OFFICER-17 and 18, Cornhill, E.C. PROSPECTUS. The marked success - which has attended the operations of tho Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England (Limited) is almost unexampled in the history of any commercial un dertaking. - - that, as will JO pen b77414).ie hl s f- h y a e ve arlrr e e n po s rt o Tu t s iBf t a(*° iseue r ri, a dividend and bc?aus up to the 30th September, at tho rate of 40 per cent. per annum has been declared, being the same dividend and bonus as was paid for the previous half year. Besides these unprecedented results, the Company is in the possession, up to 30th September, of a general reserve fund of £200,000, of a dividend reserve fund of £lOO,OOO, and has profits in hand up to the same period, after paying the above-mentioned dividend and bonus of £50,805 4s. 9d., the paid-up capital being £500,000, making in all £850,805 I& 9d., or above £8 10s. per Share. The following is the business transacted by this Cora- Pally : This Company negotiates loans for colonial and foreign Governm ents ; Co- operates in the financial arrangements of British and other railways ; Makes advances to Corporations, Town Councils, and other public bodies ; Negotiates loans for public works; Assists in the introduction of industrial and commercial Und ertakings ; MMakes advances upon approved stocks, shares, bonds, &a. akes temporary loans upon eligible freehold and leas.e t°,d securities, and generally transacts such other financial business as is suitable to the capitalist, whether as principal or agent. 1, The greatly increased and still increasing amount of fl " il soless offered to this Company, both by eminent private comp an i Lotting the ren c ia N in a i n n d g corporations, has decided the Court Directors to make their second issue of Shares, by al capital of the Company, consisting of 100 00 0 new Sha res , on w hi c h £5 per Share only is intended to be called up. These 10 0,000 New Shares the Directors propose to i ssue a s follows, viz -PilLy thousand Shares will be issued to the Shareholders .o this. Company wh o stand registered on the books of the e ftpany, to b e a ll o tt e d t o t h em at a premium of £2 10s. ,Der Share, in the proportion of one new Share f or ever y "'iro Shares now held; and LiFifty thousand Shares will be issued to the general public ncluding such Shareholders as may wish to apply for hares in addition to those they are entitled to as Share holders, to be allotted at a premium of £3 10s. per Share. The premiums to be received upon this issue will amount t o . 0 00,000, which will be added to th e £200,000 a l ready st andingat the credit of the general reserve f un d, an d w ill t V i ne increase that fund to £500,000. The divid en d reserve ' a nd being £lOO,OOO, the paid-up capital will then be £1,000,000. The New Shares will be paid up as follows,: — Oa those issued at .£2 10s. per Share premium to the Share hoders :- 41 0 0 per Share on application, being on capital ac count. 1 10 0 per Share on allotment, £1 being on capital account, 10s. on premium account. 2 10 0 per Share on Ist January, 1866, £1 10s. being on capital accou n t, £1 on premium account. 2 10 0 per Share on Ist March, 1863, £1 10s. being on capital account, £1 on premium account. £7 in 0 being £5 capital, £2 10s. premium. the general public, the following will be the mode of pay £lent 0 0 per Share on application ; being on capital ac count. 2 1 0 0 per Share on allotment; £1 being on capital account, £1 10s. o n premium account. 1 10 oper Share on Ist January, 1866 ; £1 108. being on capital acco un t, £1 on premium account. 2 1 0 0 per Share on Ist March, 1866 ; XL 10s. being on capital account, £1 on premium account. .£8 , 10 0 being £5 capital, 1.3 10s. premium. These 100,000 New Shares will particip a t e i n th e nex t ao9or distribution of pr o fit s, pro rata with the existing Shares, ding to .the amount of capital paid up thereon ; the t vltluable opti on w i ll be, however, reserved to the holders i t o,_ these Shares o f pay i ng upon any of them the whole of the last instalment, viz., Ist March, 1866, on paying the eh back interest from the date of such payment to 'ue 30th September last, at the rate of 20 per cent, per a nnum on the £5 on capital account ; th e Shares so paid halt- to be then en titl e d to the same amount o f p ro fit s nex t 3 ear as is declared on the existing Shares. Interest at the rate of 20 per cent. per annum will be charged on all instalments not punctually paid ; and any i nstalment not duly paid will render the previous pay nlents liable to forfeiture. The Directors are aware that, in thus admitting the Pub lic to subscribe for Shares, at a price so much below their real value, they are departing from the practice generally adopted in an issue of New Shares, of offering the whole of them to the Shareholders; but the Directors are so im pressed with the importance of increasing the area of influence of :this Company—influence second only in im- Portance to capital to a Company like the Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England—and have had such proofs, in the result of the issue of Shares a year ago, of the sound policy of admitting the public to a participation in such issue, they feel confident of obtaining the approval of the 111 areholders i n th e course they have adopted. The following calculation will guide investors in estimat -I,,ng the intrinsic value of the Shares, a ft er th e di v id en d and nus now declared are paid, and when the issue is com- Plete c t 4. The Capital paid up will amount to £1,000.000 0 0 The The General Reserve Fund 500,000 0 0 , Dividend Reserve Fund lOO,OOO 0 0 1-11 hand, profits not divided 50,805 4 9 £1,650,805 4 9 Equal to above a ss. per Share on the whole 200,000 Shares. So th at the public, on subscribing £Blos. . per Share (being are being admi tted Pa 45 in and £3 10s. premium), part hem in this Company by only S paying ll re re 'mina; as premium ss. per ng actua y p - -nd ss. per Share pre sented in value in the assets of the Company. Over a above e wh ic these advantages, there is th e p ro b a bl e en h anced valuh will attach to these Shares, in the same way that the Shares issued to the public at £2 18s. 4d. premium in Septeber,lB64, after having received £1 per Share in April last as dividend and. bonus, are now worth £5 ss. per £2 Share premium, making together £6 58. for what they paid 13e. 4d. for, being in one year more than 140 per cent. increase in value on the amount paid for premium. The Directors feel that with a paid-up capital of £ 1 ,000,000, a general reserve fund of £500,000, a dividend reserve fund of £lOO,OOO, making a total of £1,600,000, they will be in a position to meet the exigencies of any business that may be brought before them ; it is, however, the intention of the Directors to increase, out of future p r ofits, the dividend reserve fund to X 200,000, being in accordance with the plan announced in the last report, to ways in hand one year's minimum dividend at 20 P . O,r cent. per annum, calculated on the amount of the capi "4paid up for the time being. L I:he Directors further wish to place on record their deli ti opinion and conviction that this Company is dos :load in a very short period to take a foremost place among Lao leading monetary institutions of the country. hexed, 4 Pnions for Shares may be made in the form an ilr and must be accompanied by the payment of £1 per for,a e. Should a less number be allotted than is applied the Enna paid on account of such application will, so t " 48 it will extend, be applied in payment of the sum due on allotment. Pre&,....,. ligs, Porme of Application for Shares, and rNies of the Half -yearly Report, just published, may be ii",...,,_°n application to the Bankers, Solicitors, Stock .",rs, or of the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company, and 18, Cornhill, E.C. D AY T he lists of Application for Shares will be closed THIS ahi),„.:rlittrsday, the 2d Nov., at Four o'clock, for London, n;,-, ,_4-0-ISIORROVir, Friday, the 3d Nov., at Twelve - '' ° eK, for country applications, before the expiration of Whrich tun' e all applications must be made. 4.1°11d°73, Nov. 2, 1865. Form C.—General . FO RM OF APPL IC ATIONP ubIic FOR SHARES. No (To be retained by the Bankers.) To th e D 8 Directors of the Credit Foncier and Mobilier of Gentlere England (Limited). Ravi n Pn,---- b e i n , a ,f Paid to your Bankers* .e posit of £ 1 per Share on the sum of .£ . New Shares in thho dredit Foncierand Mobilier of England (Limited), I free to request that yon will allot me that number, and I allot to i n ~... accept such Shares, or any less number you may bit" "La) on the terms of the Prospectus, at £3 10s. pre -4110, Per hre, and I agree to pay the amount due on to i' ment, and the other instalments as they become due, , sign the Articles of Association if required, and I authe "se You to insert my name on the Register of Members for tlio number of Shares so allotted to me. Usual Signature .............................. Name in full ................................. Residence ...................................... Profession .................................... Date 18G5 * Insert Bankers' names. -~- . rich Me l a l so bette r -.03° an . Live i t i t y aor V I re , therefo r ',fenced bee t de" or s go rance fo r tona l " 1 other h ruqr a govt. ) 1 r at a ll 010 s. r 3 6 S t(4lB. to 316 e o r 50o; 11°. *all it dey 5 °I T; Iler. 0 11 13'ear l° • old ifi l ; Barley .0.. 26s to -- a - ; , large, 9° corn -. c o. and Pr' if )rt suPW Cd to 185 6 d 200 36 0 6 : A 19 0 0 7 ! 'l9e nd 420 32e Od oa 350 0d .Nor. IS. .Nov 12 : 1101; 5 1 .144 OY. 2 .D/o , r• 11 " .Nov. / .Nod. 12' of. 1 " NO. I°. , Nov. 11. ,Nov. .Nor. .Nor. .Nof. .Nor. b. .Nov. ii. .NOV. 3. 0 .NoY• I' 4 NOV. 13' :Nov. 1 Noy. f ; .oot. Itailr°. (l the • the Wi"Cif it ar °S t i s'e' of a s il ; s, fife of rgeSAII % til e lcisall is. ma y , ; s t/ 18 -I. ' ter po- fit et daalg i ; r o and ' 33,itiol# Dile° _cresc :h oer A df itiustow" iiau p e tlif gag ;DP° lt,E°o rr) 1: p CV It was proposed, seconded, and carried unanimously,— " That the Balance-sheet and Report be, and are hereby approved, confirmed, and adopted." It was also proposed, seconded, and carried unani mously,— " That the best thanks of this Meeting are due, and are hereby given, to the Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Directors, for the great care and attention they have given to the interests of the Shareholders, and for the extremely satisfactory results which have arisen therefrom." It was also proposed, seconded, and carried unani mously,— " That the cordial thanks of this Meeting are eminently due, and are hereby offered, to Albert Grant, Esq., M.P., the Managing Director, for the talent displayed by him in the administration of the affairs of the Company." It was further proposed, seconded, and carried unani mously,— " That the thanks of this Meeting be given to Alfred Lowe, Esq., Secretary, for his unvarying attention and to him and the other Officers of the Company for their in dustry and zeal during the past half-year. By order of the Court of Directors, J. STUART WORTLEY, Goyernor. ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. 17 and 18, Cornhill, London- 24th Oct., 1865. T HE CREDIT FONCIER and MOBILIER of ENGLAND (Limited). The PROSPECTUSES and FORMS of APPLICA TION for the SHARES of the New Issue of Capital in this Company are NOW READY, and, as well as copies of the Half -yearly Report and Balance-sheet, can be obtained at the Company's Offices. ALFRED LO WE, Secretary. 17 and 18, Cornhill, London, Oct. 24, 1865. BRITON MEDICAL and GENERAL and BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Chief Offices —429, Strand, London. City Branch-1, Princes-street. Bank. TRUSTEES. George Bevington, Esq. Sir Chas. Hastings, M.D., John Drewett. Esq. D.C.L. G. H. Barlow, M.D. R. Partridge, Esq, F.R.S. Sir James Duke, Bart., Ald., John Propert, Esq. M.P. And other Gentlemen. DIRECTORS. Chairman of the Board—GEORGE H. BARLOW, M.D. Deputy-Chairman—FßANClS WEBB, Esq. Wilson Atwell, Esq. lE. James Oliver, Esq. George Chapman, Esq. Samuel Richards, M.D. Millis Coventry, Nsq. E. H. Sievekinz, M.D. Wm. Hamilton, Esq., R.N. W. Tyler Smith, M.D. Thomas B. Jones, Esq. BANKERS. The Bank of London, Charing-cross Branch. Messrs. Dimsdale, Drewett. Fowler, and Barnard, 50, Cornhill. Secretary (City Office)—Andrew Francis, Esq. Actuary and Secretary---John Moment, Esq., F.1.A., F.S.S. The above Companies having been united, offer numerous advantages and every facility to persons about effecting As surances. Eighty per cent. of the profits are divided amongst the Policy Holders; and, by the peculiarly equitable manner adopted in their division, may be applied to render a Policy payable during the lifetime of the assured, no extra premium being charged. Policies absolutely indisputable and unchallengeable after 5 years the Annual Income exceeds £lBO,OOO. The New Business is progressing at the rate of £25,000 per The large Reserved Funds, together with the Capital sub scribed by a large and respectable hod/ of shareholders, com bined with the rapidly increasing income of the Company, afford the most perfect security to Assurers. Every description of Life Assurance transacted, terms for which, with detailed Prospectus, and every information, may be had on application to JOHN MESSENT, Fa.. A.., F.S.S. PARIS. GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE.- Establishbd in 1855.—Situated in the most Central part of Paris, Rue de Rivoli and Place du Petals Royal—Six Hundren Bed-rooms at from 3(r. to 20tr.—Sixty Sitting rooms at from 41r. to 2Dfr.—a richly-decorated Dining Saloon —Table d'HOte at six o'clock—Public Coffee and Dining Rooms —Choice Wines—Dinners served k la carte both in the oining rooms and the private apartments—Reading and Conversation Saloons ; also Saloons for Musical, Wedding, and other parties—all Newspapers and Serial Publications received—Divans, Coffee, Smoking and Billiard Rooms— numerous Bath-rooms—Carriages on the premises —first class Private Equipages at command -4 imnibusea running to all the railway at -Alone at al Letter- box —Tele g r ph Office day and night—Photograph Studio—A staff of servants speaking all languages. FURNITURE CHINTZES.—SEWELL and CO.'S Wide French CHINTZES, extraordinary b ir gains, front Is. per yard. All the newest and most exquisite designs in the fashionable CRETONNE CHLNTZES,Ir,m 2s. per yard. COMPTON HOUSE, Old Compton-street and Frith-street, Soho, W. CARPETS.-SEWELL and CO. have just received from the Levant a lot of the excessively rare real PERSIAN CARPETS. Aubussons in all sizes. Brussels Tapestry, and every other description of carpet. COMPTON ROUSE, Old Compton-street and Frith-street, Soho, W. OSBORNE'S ANALYSED PItOVISIONS. 31, LUDGATE-HILL. DR. CIILVERWELL'S GRAND TURKISH BATHS, 3, Great Marlborough-street, 3 doors from Poland-street, Ladles every Monday. Gentlemen all other days, 2s. each; 15, One Guinea. Also opposite the Post-office, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. STARCH MANUFACTURERS TO H. R. H. THE PRINCESS OP. WALES. G LENFIELD PATENT STARCH, - Used in the Royal Laundry, AND AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDAL, 1862. Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, &o. &o. WOTHEItSPOON and CO., Glasgow and London. SAUCE. —LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. This delicious condiment, pronounced by connoisseurs "THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE," Is prepared solely by LEA and PERRINS. The public are respectfully cautioned against worthless imitations, and should see that Lea and rerrins' names are on wrapper, label, bottle, and stopper. ASK for LEA and PERRINS' SAUCE. Sold nholesale and for eort the , ocester; Messrs. Crosse and Bl ackwe l l; M essr s. Barclay and Sons, London, dm. ; and by Grocers and Oilmen uni versally. KUPTURES.—By ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-M AIN LEVER TRUSS (PERMUTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1882), IS allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the moat effective nvention in the curative treatment of HERNI A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, 's here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Roc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease ind'•cioseness that it cannot be det ect ed, and may be worn luring sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir 3umferenoe of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 625. 6d. Postage, la Bd. An Umbilloal Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piooadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varioose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &a They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Prioe 4s. 6cL, 7s. Bd., 10s., to 16s. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer. 22w.. Piccadilly. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. This Hospital, fonndel in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and di ffi culty of Governors' orders, is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions and t!gacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the .lestitute sick has for a con •iderable period averaged between 1,000 and 4,000 weekly. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas• Kerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; G'.3rn and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; W Manta, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur ney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co. ,Berners-street ; I. Earned and 114 •• Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. STANFORD SMITH. Secretary. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to tho 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from 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: F• F•, A. t., . P., 16,aFe,faed 3 f i ti , t h en om , ei motheres both dead r , a d re o n se t r s t d ed ea b z her father. s• B•+ aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother aged 15, fallen, mother dead, 11 _0 aged 16, fallen. both parents dead. aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents, M. 11, aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. fallen father i to t t h h er pa d r e c a n d t . s dead. . , el all7l,efna,llbeout,h a ze ng ed a 1 1 7 8 , , b b o o t t h h paarreeanttas dead. W Con t_rigibreul.stioaninis een led astray from the The new home the Committee wish to form Would be for parents bo th path parents o fdvei dead. (it dead. d . o v : i t il e be hild re r c e v n, ire f d ro gr m a t t h ef e ul a lgy e b o y f e S e to sec Secretary, Mr. I) Barclay I . C ° o l 3 er, 88. Queen-street_ Cheapside; or by Messrs UK Cs, Lombard-street. 1115578',:fallen' mother dead. John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. Third Edition, price Is., A PRACTICAL TREATISE on CHOLERA. By WM. 31 A.RSDEN, Senior Surgeon to the Royal Free and Cancer Hospitals. Henry Renshaw, 356, Strand. REAL REFORM. Just published, price Sixpence. REFLECTIONS on REAL REFORM, aiming at PURITY and PARITY of REPRESENTATION. Inscribed (without permission) to the Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone. M.P. By an ELECTOR. London : EfAiigham Wilson, Royal Exchange. Published by J. Clements, Little Pulteney-street, price 7d., in cloth 13d., a New Work on the Teeth, entitled PURE DENTISTRY, and WHAT IT DOES FOR US. By A. ESKELL, Surgeon• Dentist, Grosvenor•street, W. •• The present may be looked upon in some measure as a popular supplement to the author's former work, • A Treatise on Dental Surgery ;' and should by perused by those who are troubled with their teeth."—Morning Advertiser, Aug. 31, 1865. 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L iii t an a rmy: Miterer`rciiVll MUM, "Clara Thorn, General Tom 1)ot, and the French Giant, surnamed Anak, the Anakin. Doors open at 7.3o.—Great James's-hall, Regent-street and Piccadilly. 4 the ''GREATEST GIANT in the WORLD.—Special RECEPTIONS EVERY DAY from '1 hree to Five o'clock, with the little Comic Actor, GENERAL TOR DOT. Morning Performance. Admis sion, Is. ; reserved seats, 2s. 6d. ANAK— ANAK—ANAK. " There were giants in those days." Great St. James's Hall, Regent-street and Piccadilly. ANAL will APPEAR EVERY NIGHT, with Professor ANDERSON. MACCABE, the Misses ANDERSON, at the GREAT ST. JAMES'S HALE,. An derson and the World of Magi.) at Might, Maccabe at Nine, and the Great Giant and General Tom Dot at 9.30. " This is the greatest combination entertainment in the metropolis." —Vide the Press. Admission, Is. ; balcony, 25.; reserved seats, 3s. ; stalls, ss. OHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Piccadilly.—The only original and veritable legitimate CHRIST Y MINSTRELS Every Night at 8, Saturdays at 3 and 8. On and after Wednesday, November Bth, an Extra Day Performance every Wednesday, at 3, retaining all the specialties and old favourites who originally created the re putation of the Company. Fauteuils, 55.; stalls, 3s ; unre served seats, 25.; gallery. Is. Tickets at Austin's, 28, Pie cadilly.—Mauager, Mr. Frederick Burgess. Tr H 0 X F O R D. 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, and a New CANTATA, by Meyerbeer, will be performed by Misses Russell, Barrie, Walmeidey, Tyrell, Ellen Reid, Madame Maria, and Miss Fitzllenry ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, Husk, Evans, W. Williams, and Senors Tivoli and Spagnoli, with full Band and Chorus, THIS EVENING. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. THE BRIDAL of BEAUTY, in which the Misses TESSY and SARA GUNNISS will appear. The HUNGARIANS —The Brothers and Sister KIRALFI will have the honour of introducing their National Dances in ocstume this evening. Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, Is.; private boxes, 10s. 6d. NOTICE. —Will shortly be proluced, first time in this country, THE MARKET GIRLS, by J. Offenbach, in which the whole of the Opera Compauy wilt appear. CANTERBURY HALL. KO KO RI KO. This wonderful entertainment, having proved the greatest hit ever marie, will be repeated EVERY EVENING, in ad dition to the Operatic Selections, supported by the whole talent of the establehment. Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall, Messrs. Duriah and Davies, the D'Aubans, Mons. Alex andre, mimic, and the Sisters Dashwood. On MONDAY NEXT the f *vourite, ARTHUR LLOYD, will make his Re-appearance with New and Original Songs. Director, Mr. F. Jongmans. All visitors to London at this season should see the above entertainment. 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Lombard- SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. pleTten,lwEsit.—"h tihteseetssh Twenty three windowsb of the successor p been owe fi rf n u is l h e d com pleting the twentlye exceptionha a t 1 lothe of asingleAladdin's resent office.o a b i n e t Palaceis choamve- as and th h e is se l a es i s e _ofhonaulnyrdtihno inherits eri thets But,Gt iiilaea just Giant, , task of on which Aladdin's Palac . e ;as built was never tho roughly comprehended t till Aladdin . undertook the a MiniArsohesis. task of completing '. t offices. We do not, of hpotabwrnwthbh.yfaic.tchhuietthdyeeolaarfycfluwuihtlyelechthds left for him to do con structing one of its least important occurred in supplying . course,n or o l w y — en. p d e o r w ha ed p what . that difficulty character and position ° never shall know ,impossiblein exactly—in e so consists. It is lif to imagine a man of fair the gifts of nature as toswiwthe be t unable to discharge the duties of the Chancellor Official business to perfo o r f m he Duchy of Lancaster. there . is none. H the holder is one of those whom it thought desirable to introduce into the Cabinet, he is intro duced ; if not, he can with equal tacc.a.nt be so in y be excluded. There are numerous and incontrovertible precedents both ways. This charming office is a charmin g s lipper that can fit any foot, a garment th a t il held adapt itself to any shoulders. It has been w by men of different positions, characters, and acquire ments. It was not thought below the acceptance of Lord Holland, it was held by Mr. Ni s b et H am i lton, Mr. Strutt, and Lord Granville, and, to come to later times, by Mr. Cardwell and Lord Clarendon, who have each in turn exchanged it for the position of a Secretary of State. As the office has no duties, no body can be said to be particularly qualified for it; and, on the other hand, nobody need be so extrava gantly modest as to consider himself disqualified. Such being the nature of the post, it must needs be a little surprising, to those who are not b e hi n d th e scenes, that it has remained vacant even during the fortnight w hi c hh a ssucceeded the death of Lord Pal merston. Perhaps it was not wise to call so much atten tion to the office at all as has ne cessar ily b een evoked by the omission to fill it up. It is one of those institutions that may well pass in a crowd, as it has often done before, but will scarely support a very rigorous or critical examination. It does, in deed, seem singular that it should have survived the abolition of so many offices,. the salary of which made them naturally an object of regard to the Minister of the day, while the absence of all duty to be rendered to the public in return for that salary made them just in the same proportion obnoxious to the advocates of economy and retrenchment. The office was defended on the ground that those who held the more i m portant offices under the Go vernment were so fully occupied in the discharge of the duties annexed to those offices as to be unable to defend in debate the general policy of the Government ; and it was urged that there was an obvious advantage in creating a post free fro m arduous and responsible official duties, to be held by a man who would thus be able to give his whole ti me to assisting the Prime Minister in the management of debates in the House of Commons. This id ea was, in fact, an anticipation of the notion which the logical genius of our neighbours across the Cha nne l has since produced—the distinction between acting and speaking Ministers — a distinction as old as the days when Moses, the man of action, associated to himself Aaron, the man of words. o extraordi nary success has waited upon this new idea in France, and the same may be most unquestionably said of it in England. The House listens with much patience to members of Opposition speaking on sub jects connected with public affairs upon which they possess very scanty information; it knows that they have not access to official documents and secrets; it recognises the utility of the functions they perform, and it treats them with indulgence ac cordingly. But from a Minister of State speaking on behalf of the Government the House of Com mons expects to get its information at first hand; it hears with impatience men who appear to speak from a brief furnished to them by an office with which they have no connexion, and seems to regard them rather in the light of professional advocates than of authoritative exponents of Ministerial policy. From this instinct of the House it probably arises that, with the exception of the law officers speaking on purely legal points, no Minister not in the Cabinet has ever made a reputation by making speeches in defence of the Government beyond the sphere of his own Department. The feeling always is that the Department should be defended by its own representative, and that if any further defence be needed the Government should find it in the goodwill and ability of its non-official supporters. Perhaps from these and similar causes—perhaps from the non-oratorical tendencies of the men who have held the office—it certainly does so happen that the Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster have for many years taken very little share in the debates of the House of Commons, and that the purpose for which the office was retained, or said to be retained, has been by no means fully answered. The duties of the office, such as they are, consist in the management, upon certain very well understood principles, which leave very small discretion to the holder, of a certain portion of the domains of the Crown, and might, without any conceivable injury to the public service, be transferred to the Office of Woods and Forests, to which they seem properly to belong. We do not here enter into the question whether it is desirable that the Crown lands, the income from which during the life of the present Sovereign is the property of the nation, should be administered by a person directly responsible to Parliament, or by a permanent official. One thing is quite certain, that both plans cannot be right, and that we should either extend the jurisdiction of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to all the lands of the Crown, or put an end to the anomaly of managing one part upon one system and another part upon another by placing the whole of them in the hands of the same office. It seems from these considerations that the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster is just one of those offices which exist simply because they have existed, and because plau sible reasons were advanced for their maintenance, which experience has failed to justify. The attention drawn to this office may be of good service if it shall put an end to a sinecure from which, tracing its history from the year 1848, when it was last called in question, the public seems to have received very little advan tage in return for an expenditure of some thirty-five thousand pounds. It does not follow, however, that if the office should be abolished the Government should lose a place in the House of Commons. It would be very easy to find departments which might be created, the head of which would be much more profitably employed than in the sinecure of the Duchy of Lancaster. Some of the great Departments of State—the Treasury, the Home-office, and the Foreign-office, for instance—complain of being overworked ; the duties discharged by the Secretary of the Treasury, who has gradually engrossed to himself almost all the powers of the Board, are larger than his official position iu the House of Commons warrants. It might not be thought too much, considering the great importance of the sub ject, should a. Cabinet Minister answer for the Foreign-office in each House of Parliament. Or, if such an innovation be thought too bold, there are many new Departments which might be suggested. The Ecclesiastical Commission would probably have given much less dissatisfaction, and been exposed to much less obloquy, if its defence had not always been allowed to go by default in the House of Com mons, and if the Government of the day had felt itself responsible for its proceedings. The affairs of the metropolis and its environs might well furnish occupation for a Minister of State, and it is pro bable that its inhabitants would view with much satisfaction any measure that should rescue them from, the present anarchy of boards and vestries, and place them under the guidance and direction of a single able and efficient Minister. It would not be difficult to enumerate other cases, but we have said enough to show that the money now wasted on a sinecure might easily be employed in a manner highly beneficial to the public. One of the most valuable political discoveries of the present day, far surpassing anything which the gentlemen of the Social Science Congress even profess to have effected, is, that affairs bungled and mismanaged by a board may be placed with the very best results to the pub lic service in the hands of a single responsible Minister. We do not press for the abolition of the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, we only suggest that to the position and the salary some kind of duty useful to the public should be added, and if none such can be found we are pre pared to acquiesce in the saving of the salary to the public. Our taxation sits easier on us than it did, but we are not yet rich enough to maintain offices which add nothing to the dignity of the Crown and confer no advantage on the subject. POST.—In America, as in England, the unofficial speeches of Cabinet Ministers not unfrequently furnish correct indications of a future Ministerial policy, and what have been termed the extra-parlia mentary utterances of those in power are listened to with equal attention on both sides of the Atlantic. Parliament is in no country in constant session, and the occasions on which a Minister is called on to respond to a toast at a dinner-table, or reply to a complimentary speech in a town-hall, are perhaps as good as could possibly be selected for affording to an inquisitive public some inkling of the manner in which a Ministry either are conducting, or pro pose to conduct, the affairs of the nation. Now, it so happens that Congress is not at present sitting in the United States, but there are nevertheless a variety of questions, both of foreign and domestic policy, on which the American public are desirous of being enlightened, and Mr. Seward, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has availed himself of an oppor tunity which recently presented itself of affording some little insight into the possible action of the Cabinet in that department of the State over which he presides. The American Government have of late had so much to do at home, that, however, de sirous they might have been of intermeddling in foreign matters, the possibility of doing so was vir tually denied o them. Now, however, that they have succeeded in bringing to a termination a se rious family quarrel, even though they have not as yet swept away the traces of the recent struggle, they seem to have found the much-desired leisure for reviewing the state of their foreign relations. Some little alfferenueo betwoon the Unifsd states and Great Britain, arising out of the late war, still remain unsettled, and an intervention by a foreign State in the affairs of a Republic which, though not part of the Union, still took its root, if it did not flourish, on American soil, has until now been completely disregarded. Both these matters must be looked to, and Mr. Seward in a speech, evidently intended for publication in Europe as well as in America, has given—in that rather obscure language in which statesmen delight when indicating a policy which is subject to modi fication by future events—some significant hints which it would be impossible to disregard. In re spect to the attitude which will be assumed by Mr. Johnson's Cabinet in regard to the claims made upon the English Government on account of the depredations committed by Confederate cruisers, the language of the American Secretary may be re garded as reassuring. A declaration that the Pre sident will conduct the settlement of those claims without compromising the national dignity and honour certainly seems not only to exclude the idea of having recourse to the ratio ultima regum in case the satisfaction of the demands made by the Ame rican Government is refused, but appears to con template the possibility of a course of action on the part of Mr. Johnson, which by some might be' in terpreted as amounting to a concession: Mr. Seward and the other advisers of the President have long since had before th em th e voluminous correspon dence which was published about a 'fortnight since in the London Gazette, and have probably come to the conclusion that the complaints addressed to the British Government were groundless, and the claims with which they were accompanied untenable. It is now placed beyond a doubt that it was the Ameri can Government which first created their opponents belligerents, not only by proclaiming a blockade of the Soulhern ports, but by proceeding to enforce such blockade before the English Government had ac corded to the Confederates a belligerent status. It also appears that Mr. Seward himself was the first Minister who, in an official despatch, made use of the word " neutrals," a term which can have no application except during the existence of a war. The demand for compensation rests on grounds by no means so substantial as those on which the Spanish and Portuguese Governments based the claims which, in 1818, they submitted to the Go vernment of the United States, and which that Go vernment declined to satisfy - . Mr. Johnson can scarcely deny the appositeness of a precedent created by one of his own predecessors, and we may there fore reasonably expect that the course resolved upon by the Government at Washington will be one which, "without compromising the national dignity and honour," will amount to a frank withdrawal of demands which could not equitably be sustained. The language in which Mr. Seward treated the Mexican question was far different in its tone. " The influence of the United States on the international conduct of foreign States, particularly on the Ame rican continent," would, he told his hearers, "though impaired by the civil war, be now re newed," and "he expected to see republican insti tutions, wherever heretofore established throughout the American continent, speedily v i n di ca t e d, re newed, and invigorated." Unless Mr. Seward em ploys language for the purpose of concealing his thoughts, instead of expressing them, these words only admit of one construction. It is no secret that the famous doctrine which has received the name of President Monroe is one which specially recom mends itself to the national vanity, and any action taken by the Government with the view of uphold ing it, even though at the cost of a foreign war, would be viewed with almost universal satisfaction. Hitherto the American Government have contented themselves with refusing to recognise the new Mex ican empire—they have simply remained passive—but now, to quote the language of their spokesman, "their influence will be renewed." One can hardly suppose a Cabinet Minister, even in America, would give utterance to what certainly sounds very like threats, if his Government had no intention of carrying those threats into execution ; and when Mr. Seward declares that he expects to see a republic where an empire now exists, people are justified in thinking that those with whose intentions he must be pre sumed to be acquainted have resolved on endea vouring to effect that change. American Ministers are so frequently betrayed into " bunkum" that we would willingly believe that in the present instance Mr. Seward had no other object in view than that of gratifying his audience by expressing sentiments which they would be sure to relish. But the Mexi can question is one, of all others, which ought only to be touched seriously. The present is certainly , not the occasion which the Government at Wash ington would be likely to select for embarking in another war ; and, whatever may be their designs, it is likely that the time for putting them into exe cution has not been determined upon. A distant policy must, however, be to a great extent depen dent on the course of events, and we may be per mitted to hope that, ere the subversion of the Mexican empire is resolved upon, the American people may be brought to regard in a different light the exclusive doctrine of President Monroe. The Albert Memorial Museum at Exeter. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Albert Memorial Museum, at Exeter, took place on Monday, when the main streets of the city were decorated with flags, and gave tokens of a festive day.. The site of the building is in Queen-street, adjoining the Post-office, and it is to be devoted to the purposes of a museum, library, reading-room, and school of art for the people. The building is erected in memory of the late Prince Consort; hence its name, the Albert Memorial Museum. When completed it will be a handsome structure of the medieval style, 160 feet by 60 feet, with a general elevation of 55 feet. It will be built of Pocombe stone, relieved by Bath stone and limestone dress ings. There will be a room for the museum of antiquities at one end, with a room for the natural history department above it. A corridor will lead from the lower museum to the library and the reading-room, above which will be the school of art. There will also be class rooms, a curator's room, and librarian's room and porters' rooms. The en trances will be in the centre, and will consist of an arcade of three arches, with polished granite shafts with handsomely carved capitals. The chief en trance will lead to the great staircase, the centre flight of which is to branch out on both aides and lead to the main rooms of the building on that floor. At -the top of the central staircase it is intended to place the bust of the late Prince Consort in a niche constructed for it. The windows are very artistic and deeply embossed. That portion of the building of which-the stone was laid on Monday is but two fifths of the completed building according to the design, and temporarily is to be appropriated to the purposes of a museum, though eventually for the free library, and the two class rooms-behind the entranct, staircase will be used for the public library until other portions are completed. The frontage of the building was given by Mr. R. S. Gard, who performed the ceremony of laying the founda tion stone. Amongst those who took part in the proceedings of Monday were the Mayor, the Earl of Devon, Sir Stafford Northcote, M.P., Sir Lawrence Palk, M.P., Lord Courtenay, M.P., Mr. T. Acland, M.P., &c. In the evening a dinner was held at the New London Inn, under the presidency of the Mayor. The company included Sir Stafford North cote, M.P., Lord Courtenay, M.P., Mr. J. D. Coleridge, M.P., Sir Lawrence Palk, M.P., Sir John Bowring. In proposing " Prosperity to the Institution," Sir Stafford Northcote said, whilst of late years we had paid attention to the education of the labouring and poorer as well as the middle classes, we had been somewhat remiss in paying proper attention to those branches of educa tion which were mainly connected with the promotion of the natural sciences, and the study of the laws of the world. And yet there was no coun try in which the study of those laws were of more importance, materially and morally, than in Great Britain. Materially, it had been felt of late that they had a great battle to fight with their rivals in other countries—that whereas some 50 years ago England had the advantage over these foreign na tions of a greater accumulation of capital, and a better system of machinery, andpossessed moreover certain exclusive privileges from which other nations were shut out—especially the great privileges which they had enjoyed under the system of re striction and monopoly which they prescribed, and which had enabled them to command the mer chandise of the world—it had been felt, he A;a, that for many years other nations had been gaining on them. They were accumulating capital, and would soon be nearly a match for England in that respect. Then as regarded the facilities of transport throughout the world which their country had enjoyed, the promulgation and acceptance of the doctrine of free trade had, as it were, put all nations on one footing in respect to what had been considered the peculiar national advantages. The pressure of foreign competition was being more and more felt, and if Englishmen were to maintain their position at the head of the manufacturing nations of the world, it must be by the study of those laws of nature and of art to which allusion had been made, and the application of which must be always felt to be of the greatest importance in connection with their commerce and with their manufacturing industry. It had been over and over again pointed out by those who had attended to these subjects—and he might appeal for confir mation of this fact to his friend Sir John Bowring, who at a very early period had studied the subject, and presented avert' valuable reportuponi appeared to many if England wasmaintaint had appeared herad to place amongst the great manufacturing countries of the Continent, it was ess ential, and absolutel y necessary, that she should not fall behind in the cultivation of science and art—the application of which by her rivals would render them more formidable ; but which, if England used th e m, would render her irresistible. And there was another view which had been pressed upon them. It would be found in the evidence laid be fore the Commissioners on Public Schools, and by the report of that Commission, that in order to secure the proper education of their youth, in order to develope properly all the faculties of the mind, it was necessary not only to,cultivate the faculties of reasoning, eloquence, and memory ---to which tliPy had perhaps paid too exclusive an attention—but SALISBURY.-TUESDAY. There was about an average attendance of farmers, millers, and dealers at this market to-day. A moderate supply of wheat was offered, but some of the samples were out of condition. A decidedly improved feeling was ex hibited in the trade, and an advance of 2s per qr. was esta blished for best dry ! qualities, and from is to 2s on secon dary sorts. Barley also more active. Secondary lots 2s per qr. more money than last week. Oats in some cases advanced ls. Beans likewise also advanced ls. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised from 36s to 52s ; barley, 36s to 39s ; oats, 22s to 30s ; beans, 40s to 50s ; and peas, 34s to 42s per qr. Tares, from 6s to 7s 3d per bushel ; Best bread, 12d ; household ditto, lld per 81b loaf. Flour, 32s to 38s per sack. MONMOUTIISHIRE--MoNDAY. The following are the average quotations :—Wheat, 5s ld to 5s 9d per bushel ; barley, 3s 3d to 3s 8d ; oats, 2s ld to 2s 7d. NEWCASTLE-TUESDAY. Wheat, both English and foreign, in good demand at 6d to is over Saturday's rates. Malting barley firm ; grind ing 6d to is dearer. Oats scarce, and fully 6d higher. Flour in request at 6d to is advance. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. ......... -----p s. d. s. d. Buddle'sWestHartley 18 6 Hartlepool Hotspur l9 0 Acorn Close 22 6 Hetton 26 6 Eden 22 6 East Hartlepool West Hartley Kepler Grange 22 3 Walls End Haswell._ 23 6 South Hetton Carway and Duffryn Stewart's Malting 24 0 South Durham 22 6 Tanfield Moor Butes 16 9 Tunstall Bowers' West Hartley 18 0 Framwellgate 2l 9 Carr's Hartley lB 0 Ships at market, 52 ; sold, 43. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Nov. 18 Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet Nov. 5. Ditto, by French packet Nov. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Nov. 21. China, Penang. and Singapore, via Sou' hampton Nov. Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Nov. 2 Ditto, via Marseilles . . Nov. 12 India (Bumbay), via Southampton. Nov. 11. Ditto, via Marseilles . Nov. 5 Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseire 3. Nov. s. Newfoundland Portugal .. .....Nov 5. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... • • United Mates and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry—Nov. 3. West Ccast of Africa. Madeira, and TcnerilTe Nov. .0. West Indies and Pacific 'except Baba i as, Cuba, and Mexico Nov. 13 Bahamas, via New 1 nrn. Bermuda, ditto Nev. Cuba and Mt xico EXTRAORDINARY PETITION.—The public women of Calcutta have sent in a petition to the Calcutta justices who are about to assist Government in establishing a Lock Hospital. The revelations they make are naively frank, without shocking decency, and are a terrible com mentary on Hindu idolatry. They say—" The number of the class, though already very large, is continually increas ing by reason of the non-marriage of widows, the practice of polygamy, and the inability of the poorer classes of women to find any means of subsistence. The position occupied in India•by women of the class is very different from that which is occupied by public women of Europe. In India such women form an essential part of society ; they are admitted to the most respectable Hindoo houses, both in the male and the female departments ; they per form important functions in the worship of idols on the occasion of Hindoo festivals, more especially on the Bth day of the Doorgah Poojah, in many ceremonies, and the festivals held to celebrate the arrival of the girls at the day of puberty. The most respectable Brahmins, who profess Goorooism, and are called divine guides, fre quently invite public women to their houses for the pur posos of worship, and public women invite Brahmins to their houses for the same purpose, and frequently make them their heirs." The memorialists quote the Calcutta .flevieto in support of those statements, and ask that they nay be preserved from the " vexatious applications under act 11 and 8 of 1860, section 14, which are constantly made use of by ill-disposed persons solely for the purpose of inflicting annoyance on them." They ask for relief from these " evils" either by the justices assigning to them some portion of the city in which they may live unmo lested, or by causing the section to be repealed, and allow ing actual offenders only to be punished under the ordinary provisions of this law. This audacious memorial was re- Sept. 22. ferrod to a committee.—Friend o f Loa, [ADVERTISEMENT.] Dyspepsia (indigestion), constipa tion, debility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly cur able by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of eases which had been con sidered hopeless, such as—cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, im purities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in preg nancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains in the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, &a We quote a few :—Cure No. 46,276. Mr James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and p ar tial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of ex treme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings; low spirits, and nervous fancies. —Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, lord lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting—Maria Joly.—Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpid ity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment. In tins, 1 lb., 25. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ; 51b., its. ; "lb" 22 L s o . n ; don; 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, also Phillips, tea dealers, 9, King William-stree t 0 likewise psgate at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49 t , ; 330, Strand ; street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street Regent-street, hill ; Close 54, Upper Baker-street ; 1 03 , 96, Upper-street, Islington, N. ; Harvey, t ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. Brothers, 65, High-street , respectable grocers and che mists.—Beware London ; and all mists.—Beware of spurious imitations. Tottenham-court - road a N m ot c t ort . -road ; Births. ABBOTT.—On the 30th ult., at 66, Belgrave-road, the .wife at 39,Lown, the of Charles Stuart Aubrey Ab bot t , E sq., of a son. BLACKWOOD.—On the 31 st ult., at Southsea, the wif e o f Si r mAI FI D •a E n N ci .— s Boinactkhweolosd,t iinst.,” of a daughter. de -streets ~ Vis countess Malden, of a son. Marriages. HOLLAND—CALDECOTT.---011 the 31st ult., at St. Mary's, Woodford, Loton Holland, Esq., to Emma, the second daughter of the late Andrew Caldecott, Esq., Woodford Hall, Essex. LLOYD—IinTG.—On the 31st ult., at Dublin, Guy Lloyd, Esq., D.L., of Croghan, co. Roscommon, to Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Sir Gilbert King, Bart., D.L., of Charlestown, in the same county, and Fitzwilliam-sqre., Dublin. Deaths. °monToN.—On the 31st ult., Mr. John Connorton, for upwards of 40 years connected with the West of England Fire Office, aged 72. EYRE.—On the 31st ult., at Chichester, Major-Gen. John Eyre, Royal Artillery, eldest son of the late Rev. James Eyre, Solihull, Warwickshire, aged 75. LINDLEY. —On the Ist inst., at his residence, Acton-green, John Lindley, F.R.S., Ph.D., and late Professor of Botany at University College, aged 66. LEE.—On the 30th ult., at Alpha Cottage, Canonbury park, Charles Lee, Esq., aged 72. SHEARMAN.—On the 30th ult., at Hardwick Cottage, Wim bledon, Surrey, Montague Shearman, Esq., aged 50. WITHINGTON.—On the 30th ult., George Withington, Esq., Parkfield, Didsbui7,. Lancashire, aged 76. WILLErr.—On the 31st ult., at 11, Victoria-terrace, Co burg-road, Old Kent-road, Wm. Smith Willett, aged 26. E 444