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"" ) , regardless of amount or distance. First. class at second-class prices Terms peculiarly liberal to fro g and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select nk amen qter ,P„ s played in Showrooms occupying an acre of ground. eLiel."cle Warranted. (118,,. MYREN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR to ` B l .. e kre respectfully informed that Vessrs. Cobbett and Ztlatire4 Publishittg an entirely New Edition of their mi l:, ' a ble e n°ll" FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo e„ erfirravinß•is of every description of Furniture and posf,fre-48, With prices attached. A copy sent gt atis and f3ll l)ef e application. This costly work also contains 1! 4 1 e: -e estimates for furnishing on the following revised A. & a A n en -ix-roomed Parsonage .. £ 74 0 A • .grhotc-mar o e o d m a e i d tt o ditto 2511 16 6 „,44et with`Tweye-roomli dto 3Ol 11 0 vat: l l e!, a erice List of purified Bedding, and a mass i n n ury forrn E ati ly onto all requiring housoh 31d furniture. ,;4',44,,,,ar bedding,. References kindly permitted to heat er 'Zentletnen in or near Great Malvern, Sonth eimpton, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, nttlitst.' elie %lord, 18'riglaon, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder q '4., Wellington. Croydon. Cambridge, ~tai nes, Dorking, ll'rehb,,'.a above Worcester, Ipswich, Peterbarough, St. David's, 600 other places in all parts of Great , In k r ; d s C . 2.. General House Furnishers, Deptford ' (ilh "I°YAL NAVAL, MILITARY, and "ERA ed A . L LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY sta ' a ee, D. 1837. under Royal atronage), 17, Waterloo- ARTHUR dos R. HAMILTON, Secretary. 4gents wante i in towns not yet represented. I r t 4T E R'S TELEGRAM COMPANY •a e , (Limited). t krat ei „„, cle the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1862. Ca p i tal £ 61, r, 00, in 10,C00 Shares of £25 each. e Whet First Issue 4,00) Shares, pfd, eu More than 2,000 Shares have been already sub ? • „ a _Yin ni . • e t - ;,, oti application £l. and on Allotment £4 per 4 '45'84" hot P te intended to call up more thin £2O per share. "vt. Mo i n n thL i t) intervene between each CalL uth„ S' n 'I, pent DIRECTORS. V I uOt t ,, , pp 3s, Grosvenor-square. -„..-ialrymle Hay Bar -., M.P., F.R.S. '', l l 'ol ll 4i 'antes Holland, Deputy Chairman London and 0 41 es . V ea ll ank. - Ydney Stopford, Esq., Director of the Agra and illia, - „ a ts Bank li]sq Managing Director. kes i . SOLICITORS. 4 014 -4. 1118110 ff Coxe and Bompas, 19, Coleman-street. AUDITOR. 414 E B ct (firm of Quilter, Ball, and Co.), 3, Moorgate street. BANKERS. , a nd Ras ternan's Bank (Limited), 35, Nicholas-lane. BROKERS. • 'B. Cazenove and Co., 52, Threadneedle-street. SECRETARY (pro tem.) Mr. Frederick J Griffiths. OFFICES. • I, Royal Exchange-bui . ding,s, London. t r; aes ta PaVis established to provide caplal for the pur ff• L i Me s'on o f the well-known Telegraphic Business t kt . ite„l' 8 heater. 1 11' NI , '4. has teen ears' labour, org nise ost kik 4l el e r sYs tern'ofTelegraphic correspondence, forobin kei;" reit ~I t unicating to his subscribers the earliest and a u'e Po!itical Financial, and Commercial Intelli to4 Dais R'e atrefrenue is now derived from this source, which is considerab e extension by the use of addLional riitelg ee a s i of Mr. Reuter as Managing Director have been '%l* e t of erne. of years, and in the agreement for the 4 •`:4, th e business is a clause by which Mr. Reuter is p.,°, - e i.',_fle event of his connection with the Company '0 ;`merit, S h er by the terminatio of the perio iof his en gi,tecti,,,,'"r from any other cause, not to assist direc ly or 04,'.• h et ,' , 41 the prosecution of any , Imilar business. ;141' ", s 'er Will continue to have the exclusive manage 100,V, a - '1 Telegraphic Department, which wil; be con vrti4 .eretofore, with the utmost secrecl, fidelity, and ty. ,(Ito tj, °l e Of the profits from the Ist of January will be n ' knr,",,pany t-t,,keirfucations !Jr Shares must be made according to the - ;fl4. b c) rns, at the Offices • f the Company, of the Brokers, li"-•eotter7okers. 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The Union Company's Cape Royal Mail steam ship Roman, Capt. W. Strutt, arrived here last night, bringing news from Natal to Jan. 3, Algoa Bay Jan. 6, Table Bay Jan. 12, St. Helena Jan. 19, and Ascension Jan. 23. She has 63 passengers, among whom are, from Natal, his Excellency ex- Governor Scott and Mrs. Scott ; from Table Bay, Lieut. Crozier, R.E. ; from Ascension, Lieut. Knowles, R.N., and Lieut. Mitchell, R.N. Th e Roman's cargo consists of four cases of bullion, about £1,500 ; 930 bales wool, 1,920 bags copper, 5 butts 5 qr. casks 34 cases wine, 109 packages ivory, 25 cases ostrich feathers, and 10 casks 16 loose sealskins. At the Cape, Col. Maclean, the late Lieutenant- Governor of British Kaffraria, had left King Wil liam's Town and proceeded to Natal, where he had been sworn in as Lieutenant-Governor of that colony. Before Col. Maclean left Kaffraria, in ad dition to numerous very satisfactory addresses pre sented to Mrs. Maclean and her children the very State, t u a b t testimonial ßrand, of their appreciation colonel's services in th e titl e d ee d s o f a valuable freehold estate k nown as t h e " C ove Rock Estate. " Mr. G ra h am, l ate c i v il commissioner at Graham's Town, h a d been sworn in as Governo r ' s D e p u ty over the t err it or i es o f British Kaffraria. The settleme n t o f th e B asuto d i fficulty continued to progress f avourably. The President of the Free termination on the inhabitants s hiofsrhetiurnlatbooßursl on noemfoont:hthinee congratulatedw b p o eaa u sc n e d a a b r l y e . In reply, he said that, next to Pro vidence, he had to thank Sir Philip Wode house for the peaceable and satisfactory solution of the dispute. Moshesh had. withdrawn his, people from the territory awarded to the Free State, and most of the burghers had passed through Bloem fontein on their way home ; three hundred, how ever, still continuing to patrol the border. Peace also prevails along the immediate colonial frontier elsewhere, but a furious native war that has con tinued for the last two years between the Hottentots and Damaras continued to prevail, and was becom ing every day more and serious, and more serious, and threatened utterly to efface what good had been effected by the missionaries among them. The present extent of country unsettled by this war, and likely soon to be fully involved in it, was estimated at 8 degrees of latitude and 10 of longi tude or from Angra to the Okovango north and south, and in the other direction from the coast to Lake Ngami. The South African Advertiser and Mail said it was suggested to be a case "in which a friendly British interference might be legitimately and beneficially exercised." The United States steam corvette Iroquois, 8, Commander C. J. R. Rodgers, arrived in Table Bay on January 9, on a cruise, last from Tristan d'Acunha, Dec. 28. From that island she brought 27 men, landed there by the Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, being part of the crews of the Federal schooner Lizzie M. Stacy, and barque Edward, which she had captured and burnt. The Cape papers contain voluminous accounts of this now-becoming famous cruiser (formerly the Sea King) and her doings, obtained from the Federal captains that had been prisoners on board of her. She is pierced for eight guns, and is armed with two 32- pounders, four 7-inch guns ordinary smooth-bores, and two small guns, supposed to be 8-pounders. She is commanded by a Captain Waddell, and had a complement of about 74 men. The following is a list of the captures made by the Shenandoah after taking in her armament and leaving Madeira : —The Alena, barque, of Ceres, Port Maine, from Cardiff to South America, general cargo, burned. The Susan, brig, of Boston, cargo coal, bound to South America, burned. The D. Godfrey, barque, of Boston, to Valparaiso, burned. The Charles Oak, ichltoner, of and from Boston, for San Fran cisco, general cargo, burned. The Kate Prince, ship, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from Eng land to Bahia, with coal ; she was boarded, and the prisoners from the previous ships put on board. The Adelaide, barque, under the Argentine flag bound to Rio ; the captain of the Shenandoah threatened to burn her, but finding that the princi pal owner, Mr. Prendergast, of Baltimore, was a Confederate friend he let her go. The Lizzie M. Stacy was a fine fore and aft schooner of about 140 tons, and belonged to Messrs. C. Brewer and Co. of Boston. The Edward was a whaling barque of New Bedford ; she had about 100 barrels of oil on board when captured. The Diocesan Synod of the Church of England in the diocese of Cape Town was to be opened at St. George's Cathedral on Jan. 19, by Bishop Gray. Some of the churches in the diocese had • abstained from electing lay delegates, but it is believed that the prejudice which existed against the adoption of that course prior to previous Synods has been to some extent relieved. A strong feeling, however, still existed that the bishop was prepared to bring about a separation of the Colonial Church from the Church of England, rather than abandon the position he had taken up with respect to Dr. Colenso. An active paper war was going on on the subject in the columns of the local Press. PRICE 4d, STAMPED 5d population, translated into every language of the Continent. No sensible Englishman expects or wishes it to read as well as a newspaper article, to contain any rhetorical flourishes, to display any of that frank strength always apparent in the addresses of the Emperor of the French. Terse ness would be unprecedented, eloquence alarm e ing, point unconstitutional. The Sove'reign in England does not argue, or threaten, or announce l n n S e a t u r s Buttoa° still tbedilel stiheplinrecorded,coißoyal ya commo tion, and are felt upon every Bourse almost as much q a u ll ot a o b y st f u u d t y u re co h il is tis t e o yin ri pn a oo n r s rt s yh ur eir) e ol to itie b s e Speech at the opening of Parliament is, or ought to criticised by b b y e quali ties,and as at s l u e c as h t s b h y oul a d st b a e te m ly ark di e r d e Of neither is there in this Speech the faintest trace. Her Majesty is actually made in one paragraph to announce that she has " employed a force to obtain satisfaction for the past and . security for the future" from--space. No enemy is mentioned, or indicated, or hinted at, unless indeed the context may be held on close analysis to imply that the enemy is India itself, which nevertheless enjoys a "general tran quillity." One expects involved sentences from Sir Charles Wood, whose style has necessarily been spoiled by reading Indian despatches, but other Ministers are almost equally guilty. Mr. Gladstone, who has most of the work of the session to do, is al most excluded from the Speech, merely informing Parliament that " the revenue realises its estimated amount ;" but even in these three words he com mits a barbarism for which, if he used them in an oration of his own, he would be tempted to apologise. What doeS Mr. Cowper mean by erecting law courts in a site, or the Chancellor _,by writing about' the important work for the revision of the statute law," or talking about bill s w hi c h " will be submitted for your consideration, for the amendment of the laws relating to patents for inventions, and for con ferring?" &c. Cannot his lordship get rid of " for asmuch" even in a memorandum for a Royal Message ? Earl Russell does not quite despise grammar, but his sentence recording that " the negotiations in which the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia were engaged with the King of Denmark were brought to a conclusion by a treaty peace," has a funny effect of being projected in vacuo, as if it had been an abstract remark to which dates, or tenses, or indications as to time and place were of no consequence whatever. Sir C. Wood, however, fairly outdoes his colleagues, and must be allowed to bear the palm for slipshod obscurity of diction. Not content with making his Sovereign declare war on space, he actually suggests the assertion that the prompt assistance of the officers of Government to sufferers by the cyclone occasioned those sufferings. " Prompt assistance," he says, " was rendered by the officers of the Government, and generous contri butions have been made in various parts of India to relieve the sufferings which have thus been occa sioned." One of the papers was wondering the other day why Sir Charles Phipps signed a Royal letter instead of the Minister in attendance. The secret is now clearly revealed—her Majesty , was too painfully aware of the untrustworthi ness of her Ministers' grammar. The matter of the Speech does not do much to redeem its faults of manner. The great object has been appa rently to say nothing in as many words of as little meaning as was easily possible. Her Majesty, of course desires a " friendly reconciliation" between the contending States of the Union, just as all the rest of the world desi r e it, though they have slightly divergent views as to the mode of " reconciliation' which could fairly be characterised as " friendly." The war between Denmark and Germany is only mentioned to express a " well-founded hope"—do the Cabinet intend in that phrase to impose on their Sovereign the prophetic function ?—" that no re newed disturbance is to be apprehended." The New Zealand trouble is mentioned, but only to affirm that the efforts of her Majesty's forces have been successful, although the conflict " has not been brought to a close," and that the terms offered to the tribes are " equitable," which they certainly are not—to the colonists, and the greatest project of the day, the Confederation of the American Colonies, receives only a formal approval. One single line in the Speech heartily recognising the loyalty of the Canadians, and their preferen ce for representative as contrasted with republican institutions, would have been worth a fleet on the Lakes ; but the word is not spoken, and the Canadians are left to feed on the secret suspicion that Canadian confederation is popular at home as leading to Canadian independence. The capture of Simonosaki is de clared to have been planned by the diplomatic agents and naval commanders of all the treaty powers, and " to have afforded additional strength of the Government of Japan ;" the little Indian war is alluded to only in the unintelligible paragraph for which Lord Granville apologised, and which Sir Charles Wood will doubtless not attempt to ex plain •, and the cyclone, a calamity which her Ma jesty deeply laments, is attributed to the Indian officials. At home the cotton distress is declared to have abated, Ireland is said to have " had its share in the advantage of a good harvest"—a statement which roused Irish members to a funny explosion of choler—and there the review of the past may be said to end. The promises for the future are of the very smallest kind. We are to have a palace of justice—" the children ask for bread, will ye give them a stone"—further revision of the statute law, which at some future period, when the Cabinet, let us say, is a little younger, may be " a step towards the formation of a digest of the law," a patent act, an increase in the powers of county courts, some measure or other, not stated, for improving the poor law, and a bill devised by a commission, and not by the Cabinet, upon public schools—a most miserable bill of fare ! Not a word of reform, or railway legis lation, or reductions, or the law of settlement, or spiritual tribunals, or any one subject in which the people can be justly conceived to take any interest, or the Government fairly expected to indicate its policy. So far as the Speech can be accepted as a guide, Lord Palmerston's policy is to do nothing, to offer no point to hostile critics, to let the session glide on, and then to send the Lib era l s to the country with his name only for a rallying cry, no programme, no policy, no reason for being elected except that being Liberals they are willing to support a Premier whom the Tories with loving appreciation hail as one of themselves. Politicians only wonder as they read it how the Premier ever strung himself up to any thing so definite as a bill for concentrating the Law Courts—why he did not content himself with a commission of inquiry into the possibility of im proving the ventilation of Westminster Hall A large fire took place in Maine-street, Port Elizabeth, on Jan. 9. The value of the property destroyed was estimated at £20,000. Most of the property was insured in full. PromiWes he evidently thinks are dangerous, sug gestions useless, reforms doubtful, innovations out of place, immutability the one attribute which in stitutions ought to share with the Power that in spite of the flaccidity of their supporters permits them still to stand. The impression produced by the Speech was of course one of utter deadness, mem bers asked loudly why they were dragged to Lon don, and the leader of the Opposition in the Com mons, for the first time in the history of the re formed Parliament, disdained to open his lips in reply to the Address. What was there for him to say ? There was nothing to object to in the Speech except its grammar, or in its policy except its colourlessness, or in its promises except th a t th e i r performance or failure do not signify a farthing, except to the architects who may be looking out for a job. Even that keen scimetar would have wasted its edge upon such stuff. THE " OBSERVER" ON METROPOLITAN IMPROVE MENTS.—The completion of the metropolitan rail ways seems to be no longer in doubt. The lines that were passed last session are about to be made. The company is formed for the inner circle under ground, and the capital is subscribed. So far the thoroughfares will be relieved ; we do not, however, believe that the r e li e f t o th e streets will be at all what is expected. Indeed, the more railways are made, the more crowded the streets seem to become. The new thoroughfares do not progress like the r ails. It is much to be hoped that the Hamilton-place opening will be proceeded with, as well as the Middle-row, Holborn, and the Whitechapel com munication. Let us at least h ave on e street opened from Pimlico to Bayswater and Oxford -street. We believe we shall want many more. The Strand seems more crowded than ever. We are glad to see that the proper sit e i s se lected for -the new courts, and that the bill is likely to pass. Amongst o th er advantages we are promised new and wider streets round the four sides of the new buildings. Let the one on the north side be extended to the west side of the new Post-office buildings, and this will re lieve the Strand and Fleet-street more than any thing else. Some new idea is ventilated in letters to the Times of putting the law courts near the river. But the new grounds and gardens are already inside the Embankment. i‘ b l e u sp ch ok as e f n o e r w t b h grounduile dings are wanted, open spaces are still more desirable. We oug h t to keep sacredly all those that we have, and get as much more as we can. Temple Bar is left out this year, in defer ence, we presume, to the Corporation of London. They will thus have th e trouble and cost of pulling it down themselves, which cannot be much longer To allay the public irritation felt at the delay in the commencement of the railway in the Eastern Province, the Governor had explained in a letter to the Mayor of Port Elizabeth that the difficulty was caused by the action of the Parliament during the last session. The Union Company'smail steamer Athens, Capt. R. B. Davie, had returned to Table Bay, Jan. 8, after inaugurating the extension of the company's mail packet line to Mauritius. At the island this new arrangement had been welcomed with great cordiality by the islanders, and a series of festive entertainments took place between them and the officers and passengers of the Athens. The presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce at Port Louis, in addressing Mr. Anderson, the representative of the Union Company present, said the Chamber had been looking forward for a long time for the establish ment of steam communication with the Cape, and expected great benefit from it. Trade had been somewhat depressed during the winter holidays, but was again looking up. The following have been the arrivals in Table Bay from England during the month .—Dec. 24, screw steamer Tararua, fro m L on d on t o thi s port and Mel bourne, and barque N a pi er , f rom London to Auck land; 2sth, barqu e L. d a Vi nc i, from Swansea, 26th, barque Eastward Dagmar, from Liverpool to Calcutta, Eastward Ho, from London, barque Rondinella, from London, b ar que Sultan, from Liverpool ; 28th, Geffrard, brig, from London; 29th Eali ng G rove, barque, from London, Acacia, barque, f rom Lon don ; 30th, Richard Cobden, bar que, f rom Cardiff ; A va , barque, from London ; s t h , paddle-wheel s 3 t l e s a t m , e J r o E seh Enterprise, t i erp ne ns , b e r , ig b , frounodm to o London ; January , Aberaman, from S un d erland. In Simon's Bay, Dee. 29th, the bar que R alahome, from London. In Algoa Bay, Jan. 2 , the barque Oleander, from Lon don ; barque Wi tch of the Seas, from London ; 4th, barque Minalto, from London. Calcutta BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. — Homoeopathic practitioners, and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doc trine of homoeopathy was first introduced into this country, there were to be obt fined no preparations of cocoa either at tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the not was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, Homoeopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn his attention to this subject, and at length succeeded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it passes through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most dell cious aroma. Dr. Hassan, in his work, "Food and Els Adulterations," says —" Cocoa contains a great variety of ii portant nutritive principles —every ingredient necessary to the growth and sustenance of the body." Again: "As si nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Sennr'e d in tin-lined &lb., }lb., and llb. labelled packets, and sold 1)7 all grocers, confectlonen, and chemiata.—[ADVT•] THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 18-65. CRYSTAL PALACE.—TO-MORROW to FRIDAY.—LUXURIOUSLY WARM and DRY.— Arrangements Daily: Orchestral Band Mr. Stokes on " Memory" in the Lecture Room 3.0 Great Organ Orchestral Band No extra c targe to the Lecture Room. - The thousand and one other attractions of the Palace in clude:—The Picture Galleries, the Fine Arts Courts, in variety and beauty unequalled In the world; bhakespeAre House, Montanari Models; Galleries of Models and Ships; Armour Plates, lent by official authority ; the extraordinary Chimpanzee, the unique Aquariums. All these things render the Crystal Palace the one place of holiday enjoyment. Admission, One Shilling. Children under Twelve, Six pence. Open for admission from 10 till dusk. 3/][R. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. JOHN PARRY, in PRE RIVAL COMPOSERS, in which the Sisters Pry will appear, with THE BARD and HIS BIRTHDAY; and to cone ude ROSELE AT THE SE A-S I DE. By Mr. John Parry. Every Evening except Saturday) at Eight; Saturday Ai ternoon, at Three. - -ROYAL GALLERY ON' ILLUSTItA LION, 11, Regent street. Unreserved seats, is., 2s. ; stalls, Se. ; stall spring chairs, ss. OPERA DI CAMERA, the SOLDIER'S LEGACY, by Macfarren, and TOO MANY COOKS, by Offenbach. Every TUE -DAY and T HURSDAY, at Three. T II E 0 X F OR D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). ORPHE E AUX ENFERS •(Off.nbach's brilliant Opera Comique), is achieving an unprecedented success. Vide, the Song : "King of Bceotia ;" " The Hymn to Bacchus ;" and the spirited "Hilliho " Chorus, by Eurydice, Diana, Cupid, and horus ; the side-splitting "Couplets," by Minerva, Diana, Venus, Cupid, Pluto, and Chorus ; a, d thial Minuet and Galop. Principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz henry, Barrie, Tyrrell, and Walmsley; Messrs. Greene and Lascellcs. Also, MA.SANIELLO, in which Mons. L AVESSIERE, the successful new Tenore, from the Theatre Lyrique, Paris, will make his appearance. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comedy, by Mr. WILLIAII RANDALL, Mr. GASTON MURRAY, LITTLE 808, SEST IL LION, and all the pro curable Talent oi the day. CANTERBURY HALL . The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). . , HODGE PODGE, the most extraordinary Christmas Entertainment in Lon don (incluiing the whole strength of the establishment), every even!ng at half-past Nine o'clock. The usual Operatic Selections by Hisses Russell, Barre, Hays. Godden, Jr.c. ; Messrs. Lascelles, Harland, Beaumont, Kimberley, &a Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Extra Comedy by Mr. and Mrs. RandW, Mr. Hilton, Stacey, Woodman, Little Bob, &c. R OYAL CAMBRIDGE MUSIC HALL, Commercial-street, Shoreditih. (Close to the Great Eastern Terminus , . Sole Proprietor, Mr. G. W. NI7GII.IT. Operatic Selection, SON ELLIBbNTAMULA. Prima Donna, Miss ON. Comic --NE LLY POWER, HARRIETT COVENEY. J. G. FORDE. WEST, FRED. FRENCH, CERITO SYLVES PER. The BROTHERS A LTOFF, from the Theatre Desarts, Rouen, and the ELLISTRAIS, from the Crystal Palace. Stalls, ls. ; balcony, 6d. ; area, 4d. Open every evening at Sevsn o'clock. Manager and Conductor, Mr. C. GLIM VILLE. M establ ished Al lE T 29y ll ear TA 'S a t the Bazaar aker EXHIBITION, -street. NEW ADDITIONS.—A Full-length PORTRAIT MODEL of MULLER, taken from life, and corrected from the Cast taken by Doctor Donovan; aUo a full-length MODEL of KOHL, taken at his trial -are now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy. Open, 11 till dusk, and 7 till 10 evening. Admittance, One Shilling ; extra rooms, Sixpence. A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. GRAND CASINO. CONCERT. First time in England, Gungl's new German Toy Waltz. Prince Imperial Quadrille, Huguenots, Robert le Diable, William Tell, and a variety of Dance Mutic. Conductor; M. LUIGI CURTL Admission, One Shilling. Manager, M. GRENET. TEETH. --Mr. ESKELL'S exclusive PATENT. The right to this patent was secured t.) Mr. Eskell, of 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street, by a Royal seal (July 17, 1860), a d can only be procured at his residence, where speci mens may be seen, and every information can be obtained. Under this patent, artificial teeth, to last a lifetime, are made, and fitted in a few hours without pain or extractions. They support loose teeth and protect tender gums; the►r re semblance to nature is perfect and undetectable, and they are guaranteed for mastication and articulation. Treatise on the subject sent for seven stamps. Consultations free. Terms strictly moderate.-8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street THE BENEFACTOR OF THE SKIN.- MOL LARD'S perfumed Toilet Sulphur Soap and Cream, highly patronised by the faculty, nobility, and gentry. Nothinz equals the properties and qualities of the Soap No. i for ordinary toilet purposes, and of :cos. 2 to 5 in all cases of cutaneous affections or rheumatism. _ Perfumed toilet cream, cold cream, and pomatnm for the hair. Barege cream for sulphur baths, without any disagreeable odour. All these preparations may be had at the central depot, 221 A, Regent-street, London, W. ; and at Messrs. Newbery and Sons, Barclay and Sons. Edwards, Keating, Sanger and Son, .)ozeaunetti, and all chemists. Pamphlets and test - monials tree on a plication. Agent for Edinburgh—Mr. John BPKay, chemist, 119, George-street NOTING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of the day, A MIA. AMARRLL 3. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., 3, King-court, Lombard street, London, Perfumors to her Majesty, respectfully offer to the public this truly marvellous flui t. which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue--no matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect coiour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, Ns. 61 Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted respectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wake. SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and 11011 E, Hampstead. Offices, 77, Cornhill. PATRON—The QUEEN. TRUSTEES. Capt. the Hon. Francis Maude, The Rev. Canon Charnppge I R.N. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.Y. TREASURERS. It. C. L. Bevan, Esq. $ Robert Hanbury, Esq. This Institution is designed to supply a great national want, viz., an asylum for the orphan daughters of sailors in the Royal Navy and Merchants service and of Marines. It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic service, and provides a home free of expense for former inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the temptations they might otherwise be exposed to. The Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU TIONS to meet the increasi g applications through the recent storms and loss cf life at sea, and to enable them eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000 sailors annually by casualties alone, without including those who may perish by war. Subscriptions thinkfully received by the bankers, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill. R. SWEETING, Hon. Sec. CHARLES NASH, Sec. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected I Tom want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a feW of the most recent cases : F. r., aged 15, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father. M. A. F., aged 13, homeles., both parents dead. A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother. S. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead. C. R., aged 15, fallen, mother dead, A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead. H. S., aged 14, h.'meless, deserted by her parents, M. H.. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead. E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, S. B. aged 17, fallen, both par e nts dead. M. A. W. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for oung girls, almost children, from the age of s to 15, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen•street, Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Co.. Lombard-street. SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS.-1n a paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences, M. Terreil gives an analysis of a piece of bronze and a piece of iron ore bearing traces of hav ing been cut by human hands, both specimens forming part of the various objects found in the ossiferous caverns of the Dordogne by MM. Lartet and Christie, and consequently affording very conclusive proof of the high antiquity of metallurgy. The piece of bronze has the appearance of having dropped out of a crucible while in a state of fusion, and it is composed of 86 parts of copper, 12 of tin, 1 of lead, half a part of zinc, and traces of iron. The crust with which the surface of this metal is covered contains, besides particles of the above-mentioned metals, a certain proportion of lime, chlorine, carbonic acid, and micacious clay. The piece of iron ore is a compound of 50 parts of peroxide of iron, 34 of silex and micacious clay, and 11 of alumina. M. Bianconi has examined the bones of the Epiornis maximus, a gigan tic bird now extinct. From certain anatomical peculiari ties, he concludes that this bird was not a Breripennis, or runner, but must have been much akin to the condor. It was a native of Madagascar and Southern Africa; and Marco Polo, in his travels, says that the gigantic bird of Madagascar, which he calls Rue (probably the Rue men tioned in the " Arabian Nights "), looked like an immense eagle. This passage has generally been treated as a mistake or a fiction ; but from the remains of the Epiornis it would appear that the celebrated Venetian traveller spoke the truth, as he generally dues. M. Flandrin, who, on the 25th of July, 1864, had deposited a sealed packet with the Academy of Sciences, caused it to be opened at the last sitting, when it was found to contain a project for employ ing ammonia as a moving power. This gas being extremely soluble in water, which, however, emits it again very rapidly in vacuo, M. Flandrin compresses it in a reservoir, whence he makes it pass into a cylinder, so as exactly to balance the pressure of the atmosphere. When the piston of the cylinder has thus been driven out, the ammonia escapes into a condenser containing water, where it is absorbed. But here an air-pump sucks up the gas from the water and carries it back to the reservoir, and thus the motion con tinues, the piston being at each stroke driven in again by Atmospheric preagpros—Galiynani• SPIRIT OF VIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. upon whicho the Fe T o mnp u r io E i thnD:acE expires "LONDONs:peeirliod evfsoffice doing 11:0 R ocitone E h g v i s oEi no s thing tas ' hTi ' oionhnNge quarter THE DEATH THROES sasa G w c et o v nht e t r auf n ron n yr : cu e oe n r dn : mured laissez faire on its lips merston, who has completed his half century of ad- Lord Pal ministi-ation without ever originating a measure, or standing by a principal that was not popular, con cludes his career with a recommendation to the State to build its Law Courts between Carey-street and the Strand ! As the fruit of experience beyond the average of mortals, the concentrated result of ob servation on the British Constitution the wise de . e t f W l wd6 gf s de ductions from a broad study of mankind through the Foreign Office and the Treasury since Napoleon fell, this veteran statesman spends his last breath in an entreaty that his countrymen shall extend the equitable jurisdiction of the County Courts in cases of small amount. Were these great objects effected, there would remain but one crowning glory for Eng land to achieve. Is it possible that Lord Palmer shall live to see these ideas adopted by the Legisla ture, and in the very same session to behold the Patent Laws amended.and another expurgatory Act of obsolete statutes passed ? Might this but be, he will have seen all he longs for. Two other measures indeed he has prevailed on the Crown torecommend. —a bill for altering the laws of poor relief, and another for reforming public schools. But these stand on the recommendation of Committees of the House of Commons, and might probably be carried into effect without the weight of the personal authority of the great Whig leader. And, indeed, the expurgatory statute belongs rather to the office of the.. Lord Chantellor's dranghtsmen .than to that of the head of her Majesty's Government. So let us fix our venerating eyes on those peculiar reforms which the Ministry, through its chief, de clares to be all that England wants, and which secured, he will only pray to depart in peace. New Law Courts, a little extension of County Court Jurisdiction, and amended Patent Laws ! Happy the country that has no history, but surely happier the people who have reached perfect institutions in every point but these ; and thrice happy that per suasion that nothing more than these are needed for the nation he has ruled so long. But if we look abroad at England's station in the world, is there not an equal reason for self-gratulation ? Do we not, in three places at once, disprove the assertion made by an older veteran, that " England cannot afford little wars ?" Have we not, as our Govern ment tells us, prosecuted with distinguished success, since Parliament separated and left the executive to pursue the path of glory unrestrained, some of the very smallest wars that have ever been recorded ? A war with Japan would, in the days when we had statesmen, have seemed almost too slight a thing to deserve notice from Royal lips ; but in this year of grace we draw satisfaction from thp lofty announcement that the diplomatic agents and the naval commanders of Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, and the United States of North America, undertook a combined operation" for the purpose of chastising a single rebel lord in that island. So a declaration that her Majesty had been obliged to employ her forces in India " to obtain satisfaction for the past and security for the future," is worded in a style so appropri ately magniloquent that it led to rumours of a new Sepoy rebellion, only quelled by Lord Granville's assurance that nothing more was meant than the insignificant expedition to Bhootan, which few but inveterate readers of every column of the Indian in telligence had in this country known to be in pro gress. Unhappily, that charact er d oes not app l y t o the third " little war" in which we are involved. Everybody knows that we are at war with the natives of New Zealand ; everybody knows that it costs us 10,000 British troops, or an annual charge of 'a million and a half ; everybody is ashamed of it, angry at it, weary of it ! The policy of her Ma jesty's Government in this matter has hitherto escaped condemnation because it has escaped in quiry ; but the presumption lies heavily against a system which has brought us to look to the exter mination of the finest race, physically and morally, we have yet taken under our protection--which secures our success only by attacking them on Sun days, on which days the religion we have taught them forbids them to fight, and which hag as yet, by these means, done no more than obtain the sub mission of a few among the " savages." In these circumstances, no common boldness is that which in the British House of Peers claims this as a " suc cessful effort" of her Majesty's forces, and which adds that those who are still in arms, and whom her Majesty's forces have been unable to subdue, " have been informed of the equitable conditions on which their submission would be accepted." Yet the auda city, of meanness for which her Majesty' s Govern ment demand applause at the antipodes is surpassed by the effrontery of imbecility with which it dares to refer to interests nearer home.. Could it be credited, without being seen, that those who egged on Denmark to resistance—who counselled her to retire only to a strong point where English sym pathy would become active aid—who bade her fight and then left her to fight alone—who called a Con ference to mediate, and then upbraided her for de manding the terms we had declared just and reason able—who boasted of English " opinion" and " moral force," and then admitted that we dared not lift a sword unless France stood by our side— that these men would have the courage to speak of Denmark's fate ? Such courage, however, her Ma jesty's Government possess. R is at least a courage which none will envy them, and which we may trust no future English Government will ever emulate— the courage of men who have sense neither of honour nor of shame—the courage of the unabashed brow and craven soul, that calmly and coolly refers to the truce when it shrank from a friend in peril, and bore with resignation the open contumely of a foe. So, consistent in self-seeking and self-contentment to the very last, the soul of pure Whiggery passes away. It has reached now that beatific state in which it withdraws itself from observation of ex ternal objects, and con cen t r ates its faculties i n in ward contemplation. It has no longer sight for the events of the world ; the birth-cry of a new creation fades in its ear into a languid hum of ancient com monplaces the agony of sc cial revolution s t r ik es it as a discomfort to be assuaged by new law courts and the giving of equity jurisdiction to the county judges. It is time it were gathered to its fathers, with the close of the political career of the astute leader who has guided it so long. For the nation has a weighty work before it, which the easy old formulas of a Royal Speech-have no words to speak of. That people for whose welfare and happiness the Royal solicitude prays,f the in rom language so tone of strangely earnest, and so dissonant all the rest that it enforces the conviction that it csme straight from' the Royal heart, and was not devised by the Royal Minister, is not the people that the Whigs were wont to evoke to save them selves from loss of office. It is a people that does not now break out in riot, as before the Reform Bill; that does not now agitate for impracticable objects, as before the Charter fell out of sight. But neither is it a people that is ignorant, or indifferent, or solely bent on the satisfaction of its animal de sires. Day by day it treads on the heels of the best educated in the land ; day by day it asserts silently its overwhelming power ; day by day it summons before the tribunal of its opinion the statesmen who presume to act in its name. Already it is supreme, for its bitterest opponents confess that they cannot stand before its force. But at the same time it is irresponsible, for the Constitution lays the duty of acting on but a small section of the body. This is the fact that we have to deal with—the peril that we have to remove. To place those who hold the power in their hands where they shall feel the solemn responsibility that it involves--to call in to the councils of action those by whose will all action is directed—to teach self-restraint and self-guid ance—by that practice Which alone can effec tually teach—to those who, on all great ques tions, are irresistible already, this is the great task that lies before our statesmen of the future. We can not bid the stream of time roll backwards, and bring us again the England of our youth, when but a few among her population were intelligent, and there fore but a few were worthy to govern. We must take the England of our day and of our sons' day— the England of railways, and telegraphs, and nul 1, ersal penny papers—the England in which public events, at home or abroad, warm the interest of millions whom as yet the Constitution does not ac knowledge—the Englandjwhich public opinion rules, but in which public opinion is the voice of the people, and not merely of the Houses of Parliament. This is the England to which the Queen, when she meets her new Parliament, will speak—the Eng land for which her Ministers, when Lord Palmer ston has ceased to hold the seals, will have to legis late. For the moment it is patient and still ; but who can predict what will rouse its wrath ? For the moment it is busy and occupied ; but who can tell when it will find that its patience has been abused and its indifference taken advantage of ? Always, too, it is considerate of past services, and reverent, perhaps beyond safe limits, of age. But these ire noble qualities, which it were wise not to tax too heavily. For one session more they will make the Premier's authority secure, and his duties easy as his conscience. But another Parliament will not be guided by mere admiration for veteran jocu larity, or sympathy with impressible good humour. The Royal Speech of 1865 is the last that will be constructed on the dolce far niente theory of Govern ment. As it stands, it-will remain the significant expression of what Whiggery left to itself can come to—and its epitaph. THE "SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE OPENING OF THE SESSION.—Peace has been signed between Denmark and the German powers. The war in America continues. A Japanese Daimio has been brought to his senses. The war in New Zealand continues. The North American Provinces are discussing a scheme of Confederation. Then is a little war on one of the Indian frontiers, and there has been a cyclone at Calcutta. The. Esti mates will be produced at the usual time. The re venue is flourishing ; and the last Irish harvest was tolerably good. All these things were already known with the addition of the name of the Indian seat of war ; and now they are offically known. The cap tain of a ship says, when he is told that it is twelve o'clock, "Make it so ;" and now the Queen, through her Commissioners, has made it so. Not, indeed, that an Irish harvest, or any other Irish fact, can be removed from the region of controversy. Lord Charlemont, having to propose the Address, con curred in the statement of the Speech, but Mr. Scully, though he could not say that the last sum mer was not fine, indignantly denounced the implied proposition that sunshine or anything else was good for Ireland. The chief crop of his country was, as he said, oats, and d r y wea th er was no t good for oats. As three rainy years in succession had caused great distress, and as a dry year did no good, Sir". Crossley's obsebiation that the English Governmffit could not provide Ireland with rain was irrelevant as well as unsympathetic. There would be no use in finding either rain or blue sky, if both conditions of the heavens are equally deleterious. The true want of Ireland is, according to Mr. Scully, a little more of that kind fine talk which is known in the indigenous dialect as " blarney." No people, as he says, are so easily cajoled as the Irish, and the Government is to blame for not providing an am pler supply of the cheapest of all commodities. The same object would be partially attained by the cog nate method of promoting two or three Irishmen to the Cabinet ; yet Mr. Scully himself asserts that it is not the fashion to read Irish history in Irish schools, and it therefore seems that by no conceivable pro cess can the condition of that singular country be understood. Amid conflicting generalisations it is satisfactory to turn td the statistics of Lord Charle- mont and Sir R. Peel, for the increase of savings, of crops, and of manufactures must, even in the most anomalous of . countries, indicate some material im provement. It is unfortunately true that disaffec tion is still widely prevalent, and that no plan has yet been devised by which the rights of the landlord can be sufficiently reconciled with the interest of the occupier. Mr. Maguire was justified in his asser tion that the welfare of Ireland is more important to the empire than the prosperity of India. Unfor tunately, the conditions of order and mutual har- mony were not satisfied in former ages. Mr. Scully might, after all, have produced a great historical ar gument in support of his theory of Irish wants. If Henry VIII. had taken a little more trouble to ca jole the Irish chiefs, and especially if he had given them a share of Church lands, they would have cor- dially supported him in his rejection of the autho rity of Rome, and their countrymen would at this moment recognise the bishops of the Establishment as the successors of St. Patrick. Turning from the past to the future, the officials framers of the Speech easily satisfied the languid curiosity which awaited their revelations. It is determined that Courts of Law shall be built in the space which separates Lincoln's-inn from Fleet-street, and it is possible that the arrangement will promote economy and despatch, while it is certain that it will tend to the convenience of the profession. As the only opposi tion to the scheme is raised by the Society of Lin coln's-inn, on the ground of the artificial value attached to chambers in the immediate neighbour hood of the present Courts, the Government will find little difficulty in passing the bill. A sentiment of regret for the removal of the Courts from West minster Hall will probably be confined to veteran lawyers. The architectural controversy is likely to be more serious, especially if Lord Palmerston insists on his opinion that all mediaeval buildings were , churches, and that modern business requires the same accommodation which was provided in Grecian temples. No similar question of art will arise in considering the modest proposal of the Government to complete the revision of the statutes. Her Majesty is advised to cherish a hope, which in the minds of her subjects will be mitigated to a wish, that the forthcoming bill may be a step towards the formation of a digest of the law. The statutes form an appreciable portion of the whole body of the law, the partial simplification of their contents may not improperly be called a step towards a digest ; but the difficult part of the work has yet to be commenced, and even to be projected. The other legal reforms which are contemplated will re quire and secure the careful attention of Parliament. The late decision of the Court of Queen's Bench on Mr. Feather's petition of right renders the subject of patents unusually interesting • but, until conflict ing opinions have approached to: an understanding or a compromise, the matter will not be ripe for comprehensive legislation. The Government will recommend to the adoption of Parliament the altera tions in the Poor-law which were proposed by the Committee of the House of Commons. There will be no difference of opinion as to the expediency of conferring on the county courts a limited equity jurisdiction, for it is often as necessary to compel the discharge of an obligation as to award damages for a breach of contract. The bill which is an nounced to confirm the conclusions of the Committee of Public Schools will probably, in accordance with the precedent established in the case of the Univer sities, provide for the appointment of Commissioners with legislative powers. Lord Derby did injustice to the Report when he applied to it Martial's esti mate of his own poems ; for it contains more good suggestions than bad, as well as some criticisms of doubtful value. If an Act of Parliament could be passed to secure in every school the appoint ment of a head -master of commanding and original ability, it would scarcely be necessary to enact any further reform. Mr. Baines and his friends have not persuaded the Government to stultify practitionersitselftt hhee death-bed purposes by artp ho -sbesed oecannot bringing onfthe nhoet the election.bpe rpers forward eevn a et Parliament fLor dr ßeform om B trying Derby ear i v l fo r the theirnoo rt the smallest d es i re to i nduce a crisis. As the ob served, the a u th or i sed physicians who are watching outside favourite experiments, it is probable that the sick man will be temporarily disturbed ; but the West Riding members may be well assured that the addi tional votes which they may probably catch will carry little moral weight in the House or the country. It would be impossible to convince any impartial observer that the present Parliament desires changes which it has almost unanimously declined to coun tenance or support. The £6 bill, and the £lO bill, and the Ballot resolution, will be successively intro duced, with a full understanding on all sides that Reform is only stirred in the House of Commons for the purpose of an appeal to the hustings. It would have been discreditable to Lord Palmerston and to Lord Russell to afford official countenance s is that, e to an insincere experiment on the patience of Par liament. Mr. Gladstone, even if he has made up peculiarityemed to be his mind to abandon his preface and to stand b y his speech, is probably well contented to postp one n e t t h i le mosthi s openingc remarkable ol colleagues a o g u f e t s he h a s v e e Session, of the Speech, the e while domestic inaction still corresponds to the his rivals.eaegjhat andi agitation n no f u general tranquillity, no foreign question occupies the immediate attention of the country or of Par liament. THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE MINISTERS' MES SAGE.—There is a limit of imbecility w hi c h oug h t not to be passed even in drawing up a Queen's Speech, and her Majesty's Ministers, we fear, this year have overpassed it. Cobbett in his grammar drew all his examples of vicious style from speeches put into the mouths of English Kings, but even he would have paused in amazement before the extra ordinary document lisped out by the Lord Chan cellor on Tuesday. The audience who listened to Lord Westbury's odd delivery so eagerly must have felt that the speech explained at once the otherwise inexplicable fact that the Sovereign who attends so assiduously to every other official duty declines to perform the first duty of all—that of lending dignity and grace to the opening of her Parliament. The Queen could not have read that rubbish aloud with out an unconstitutional feeling of ridicule for a Ca binet which, composed as it is of gentlemen and scholars, and containing as it does one great master of language, could yet prepare a State paper so en tirely devoid at once of dignity, of lucidity, and of force. The Queen's Message, .we are well aware , has now desce n ded into a formality, a scanty official programme of the work which Parliament may be called upon to attempt ; but still is a State p a p er , republished all over Great Bntaui, read by the whole (._ i L~~/~~' BANKERS. Union Bank of London. SOLICITORS. ke. keel avies, on ra• D ' S, Campbell, and Reeves. 4 4 • La BROKERS. Art icles, Surgey, and Woolley, Royal Exchange buildings. °PVIC Es-27, Cannon-street, London, E.C. SECRETARY (PRO TEM.) Reny C. 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