The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-25 00:00:00

I, " • 2 / `. - i ;" -• ' ' • ft - ; 7 ‘r?) \ • ' %. 'f -L, ri l V N EW BOOK on GENTLEMEN'S ATTIRE .E_ t 17- 12 ._ !_s- . _„7_ • • 0 .. 4 • • 1 I . C \.\. : '.-- t , , 7 . coil • 11r., _ i % ~.L. .. .). .p it' ,. 0 4t, - ... at C 1. - 7(/ ' ; • 1 ORTY-TWO PHOTOGRAPHIC FIGURES (36 k I'• 1 1 ' ' : ' ' ' • X ' iti) ' (S N .. . , I WO Nl* ' - . 4d k \ -I,lf C.; -,, K' N ',4 2 l ll , • ' ''' -' . 4,..- .-. being portraits of Kings and Princes) represent the - i : A+ - 4 4 Nck • ltft A r .g. - -..: ~. i• r , A .%•.-• - ' - ' l "C\ 14 .,... ._ -...- ', , ktsik ii r , .t- , s 1 ~..,. n , most fashionable and bkoming attire for every age and ' -5. , • "., ki • ' ' - s -,...;,-. - - ~, i, 3 - . .V 4 I • . • t=f ' ' it:''' ' - T:• - 'j...lAlllelltl ' 4 , - W V /X 4 9b11111&2 -4‘ . It. p,,, all occasions. The book contains also new rules for self- 4''. _,.. et,....., , '-..,-iW...-N., , - ....;C; /V ..-' 4 1. ,, g.• ...116. ".". .-, C:VC; • ..__... . Measure. Post free for six stamps, deducted from a pur- ~, • ; ' ." - J. - 757, D e ;( 4 4 441111t tar I L -0.0,,,,,..rj a - ~,,,,,, .. \' • i i i i 1 ' Z-Z - -(.. ' .. .'`, ,,__ 'n.„,\,,, • v•-• 'Y arN __ . _ ;,5, ' l l' IV' : :.`'''''' '" - --- --. NK c hase.SAMUEL, BROTHERS, merchant tailors, 50, Ludgate -hill. VEUCOATS, lls., 135., 15s.— OVERCOAT. \-/ for BOYS.—Read following 80 advertisements.- Ludgate -hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. N°. 23,257. OVERCOATS, 12s. ' 145., IGs.—OVERCOATS for BOYS.—Read first and last advertisements.- 50..— SAMUEL, BROTJIFRS. li INM[AN'S EXH L IB L ITIO W N ffi I'B S tS. ICY. --DUBLIN This celebrated OLD IRISH - WHISKY gained the 'ublin Prize Modal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole ome. Soil in Bottles, 3s. 81, at the Retail Houses in London ; y the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or xlinlAsalA at R. GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the 1131 Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded " Kinaban's LL Whisky." OVERCOATS, 175., 195., 21s.—OVERCOATS for BOYS.— Noto prices throughout the column.- 50.—SAMLTEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, Ils., 13.., 15s.—OVERCOATS in great variety, at th© above prices, for BOYS.— 50. —SAMUEL, BROTHERS'. IVERCOATS, 17s, 195., 218.—OVERCOATS v in superior textures and newest. style for BOYS.— Ludgate -hill, 50. SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVE UCOATS, 11s., 135., 15s.—OVERCOATS till iu very useful cloths, at above prices, for BOYS.— Ludgate -hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. VERCO A.TS, 175., 195., 21s.—ovE two AT s for immediate use, at all prices to 355., for BOYS.- 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS, at all prices, have silk velvet collars.—Ludgate-hill, O .—SANIUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS hill / to order by new self-measure rules.—Ludgate -114 A—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS are ordered from patterns sent post free.—Ludgate bill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOAT'S, 425., 555., 635. OVERCOATS not approved taken back and others made.—Ludgate hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS Lill for clerical use, in all fabrics and prices.—Ludgate affi, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. 0 VERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS professional, in all fabrics and prices.—Ludgate hill. 50.—S AMITEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS, for every purpose, in the suitable fabrics.—Ludgate -6ill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERGOAT O made from thoroughly shrunk cloths only.—Ludgate 50.— SAMUEL. BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS in the new brown and gold mixed Meltons.—Ludgate hill, 50. SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS in beautiful fur-face. gold-mixed beavers.—Ludgate `so.-SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOAV. in every kind of plain and fancy coatings.—Ludgate. hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 635. —OVERCOATS in the new rich bronze and gold mixtures.—Ludgate bill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 335. OVERCOATS , in all weights for every season and climate.—Ludgate uill, 50.—SAMITEL, BROTHERS. VERCOATS 428., 555., 338.—OVERCOATS in rich gold and olive mixed treble beavers.—Ludgate 50.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. iIVERCOATS, 215., 285., 335. - OVERCOATS ,\-- 1 of the new reefer sape, beautifullymade.—Ludgate 50.—SAMLTEL, BROTHERS. E COATS, 425, 555., 635. UA US in very beautiful West of England fabrics.—Ludgate hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OV)✓RCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS' in elegant, double-breasted Chesterfields.—Ludgate hill, 50, SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS in rich brown, Oxford, black, and steel cloths.— Ludgate -hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS 21s, 285., 335. OVERCOATS in new style single-breasted C hesterfields.—Lud gate-hill, EO.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS in new style Albions and all other shapes.—Lud gate-hill, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 335.--OVERCOATS this season are excellent value for the money.— Ludgate -hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. 0 VERCOATS, 428., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS at these prices are made of very choice fabrics.- 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. (AITERCOATS, 215., 285., 335.- -OVERCOATS VV are very necessary in this variable elimate.—Lud graP-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. 0 VERCOATS, 425., 555., 635. —0 VERCO ATS ~ in black Beavers, thoroughly tested and shrunk.— . ` 4l (lgate-hill, 50. —SAMUEL BRUT HERS. VERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS in Melton cloths, thoroughly tested and shrunk.— Ludgate -hill, 50. —SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS in black Melton cloths, west of England make. Lu dpr,ate-hil 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 28s, 335. OVERCOATS 4111 in Pilot cloths, f or h a rd, sArviceablo wear.--Ludgate , 50.—SAM1JEL, BROTHERS. • ,o o- VERCOATS, 425., 555., 636.-0 N t ERCO AT S in very beautiful west of England Potershams.— - Ludgate-hill. 50. —S IMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCO NTS sent to any part of the kingdom. Patterns free. 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVErICO A.TS, 425., 558., 635. —o7E r nt in hitrh-elass Witney textures. Patterns free.— Ludgate-hill, 50.— SAMUEL , BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS made with every regard to strength and comfort.- I _ l 4rulgate-hill, 50. -SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS in very rich, heavy, seal-black black ers.— Lud ate-hill, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 28g., 33s.—OVERCOATS ~. at these prices are in the most fashionable style.— .141 dgate-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVRRCOATS in very rich, heavy , seal-back brown beavers.— tudzate-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., - 13 s. OVERCOATS are represented in the new illustrated book.—Lud 50.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. 0 VERCO TS, 425., 555., 635. ()VERO( ) A.TS . A in very rich, heavy. seal-back Oxford beavers.— Ludgate -hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 635. OVERCOATS lined with silk. and vary beautifully quilted.—Lud gate-hill, 50, SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 28s 335. OVERCOATS in all the plain, strong, and most useful styles.- 50.—SA3117EL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 635. OVERCOATS lined with Italian cloth, and thickly quilted.—Lud g'ate-liill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 335. OVERCOATS reduced in price by a strict ready-money system.— 'urigate- hill, 50. SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 635. OVERCOATS at these prices are fit for any gentleman.—Ludgate hill, 50.—SAMIIEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 288., 335. OVERCOATS with warm woollen linings, for winter wear.—Lud 50.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS of all weights, ta suit every kind of climate.—Lud gate-hill, 50. —SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., GU—OVERCOATS made to measure by high-class scientific mon.—Lud 50.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. VERCOATS, 215., . 285.. 33s.—OVERCOATS for liveries are made of well-shrunk cloths.—Lud gate-hill, 50.—S AM UEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., Ms., 63s.—OVERCOATS guaranteed to fit by the new self-measure rules.— Imdgate-hill, P.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS can he ordered from patterns, which are sent free.— tudzate-hill, 50.—SAAUEL, BROTIIERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS have become an immense business in this house.- 50.-SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS exceeding five pounds value are carriage paid.—Lud- Rate-bill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 355., 63s.—OVERCOATS ordered from the country are always prepaid.—Lud- RVe-bill, 50.— SAMUEL BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS sent to France and any part of the Continent.—Lud gate-hill, 50. SAMUEL BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 638.—OVERCOATS sent to New York and any other part of America.- 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS sent to all parts of British North America.—Lud- Rate 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS sent to Tasmania and every part of Australia.—Lud 50.—SAMIIEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS in a variety of undressed cloths, forhard wear.—Lud gato-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS of the Inverness cape class in Whitney cloths.—Lud gate-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 215., 285., 33s.—OVERCOATS of the Inverness cape class in Melton class.—Lud- Rate-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS made plain or wirh lap seams, velvet collars.—Lud- MI.-hill 50 S BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 425., 555., 63s.—OVERCOATS made up with velvet edges and velvet collars.—Lud ra.-hill, 50.— SAMUEL, BROTHERS. ( VERCOA'PH, 215., 285., 335. 0 VERCOATS in every description of plain and fancy cloth.—Lud g'ate-hill, 50.—SAMIIEL, BROTHERS. - - - - - - OVERCOATS, 11s., 135., 15s.— OVERCOATS for boys. The now Reefer and Princelet coat. Livlg• t t h'll 50 SAMUEL, BROTHERS. OVERCOATS, 175., 195., 21s.—OVERCOATS for boys in, every fashionable and useful shape.- 50.—SAMITEL, BROTHERS. REAL FUR-SEAL WAISTCOATS, 255., 355., 42s.—Richly lustred and lined scarlet.—Ludgate hill O.—SAMUEL, BROTHERS. READ the SYSTEM SAMUEL, BROTHERS, conduct their business upon in the Illustrated Price L,1,88t hed 20 described at head of column. The firm has been esta " years on tbe principle of charging the lowest Price possible for ready money, an d mar ki ng th e same Pon each article i n pl a i n fi gures, from which no deviation alloWed.-00, , PRICE.... 4d. STAMPED 5d it E 7 RAILWAY—Trains every Ili_ five minutes. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY illoorgate s!rert Station. ETit oPOLITAN RAlLWAY—Aldersgate ilk street Station. ITETRo PO LIM N RA ILWAY—Farringdon 131_ strcet Station. 3I ETROPOLITAN R.AILWAY—KinB's-cross lIETROPOLITAN RAILWAY—Gower -street stqt on. ATETROPOLITAN RAILWAY Portland _AIL road Station. /tfETROPOLITAN RAILWAY Regent -1 V_IL circus Station (opposite the Polytechnic Institution, 283, Regent-street). The MET ROPoLI PAN RAILWAY CO3IeANY'S SPECIAL OMNIBUSES to and from Port— land-road Station meet every Train. fUTIJAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION L Inc,rporAted by Act, of L'arliam it, 'WASP: 1 .1,-STREET. COVENT-GARDEN. LONDON. Prompt ADVANCi,S on all description of Security. Forms free on application by letter to EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES, and BUSINESSES. FURNESS and KNEE'S List on application. Particulars for insertion received until the 27th of the month at their AUCL'ION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES. 5, Agar-street. Strand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Cross Railway Station. MANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner . ot Savoy-steps), London. U. 4 XHIBITORS at the PARIS EXHIBITION, who ADVERTISE in " THE SUN," can have the SERVICES of A SPECIAL AGENT in PARIS, whose address can be obtained at " The Sun" Office. He has a perfect knowledge of French, is also acquainted with busi ness, and has good connections. On application to " The Sun" Agent in Paris, either personally or by letter, he will obtain every possible facility for Exhibitors, or persons who may have other business iu Paris, or who may go there for pleasure only. PR IN T ING. —TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.—The Print ing and Machining of Newspapers, &c., done on exceed ingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager "Sun" Printing Offices, 3, Church row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. ISSUE OF 25,000 A PREFERENCE SHARES OF £lO EACH BEARING 8 PER CENT. INTEREST, AND REDEEMABLE AT £l5 PER SHARE. THE CREDIT PONCIER OP ENGLAND (LIMITED) ARE PREPARED TO RECEIVE APPLICATIONS FOR THE ABOVE SHARES IN THE BELGIAN PUBLIC WORKS COM PANY (Limited). Capital £350,000, in 35,000 Shares, £lO each. Divided into 25,000 A Preference Shares, £lO each (being the Shares now offered for subscription), and 10,000 B De ferred Shares, of £lO each. DIRECTORS. Frederic Doulton, Esq., M.P., Metropolitan Board of Works. Albert Grant, Esq., M.P., London. Lieut.-Colonel Edward Neville, Clargos-street. John Irving Pascoe, Esq., Ilighbury Now Park. Henry Pownall, Esq., Russell-square. Edward Warner, Esq., M.P., London. CONSULTING ENGINEER. J. W. Bazalgette, Esq., C.E., Engineer-in-Chief to the Metropolitan Board of Works. BANKERS. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard street, E.C. SOLICITORS. Messrs. West and King, 3, Charlotte-row, Mansion House, E.C. _ BROKERS. Francis Cope, Esq., 1, Angel-court, Throgmorton street, E.C. Messrs. Price and Devot, 54, Threadneedle -street, E.C. OFFICES. St. Clement's House, Clement's-lane, London, E.C. SECRETARY. W. J. L. Heriot, Esq. PROSPECTUS. The object of this Company is to carry out the conces sions granted by the Municipal Council of Brussels, in con cert with the authorities of the provinca of Brabant and the Belgian Government, for the drainage and coincident improvements of the capital of Belgium. The magnitude and value of those concessions will be understood by the fact that they include subsidies to be received by the Company in cash and Annuities, of the value together of 26,000,000 f., or £1,040,000 sterling, which have been voted by all the authorities and sanc tioned by the Crown. The original estimates for the principal part of those works were examined and verified by Mr. J. W. Bazalgette, Engineer-in-Chief to the Metropolitan Board of Works of London, under the sanction of that body ; and these esti mates have been further tested by months of minute and careful revision on the part of contractors and their respec tive engineers. It is intended that the whole of the works shall be com pleted within four years. The importance of the undertaking is evidenced in the protracted official debates in the Brussels Municipal Coun cil, and also in the Belgian Chambers and Senate on the subject, and by the special report thereon from Lord Howard de Walden, her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at Brussels, transmitted by the Earl of Clarendon, through Sir George Grey, to the Metropolitan Board of Works, in London, and recorded in their Minutes under date of May 18, 1866, an extract of which is annexed to the Prospectus. . _ fiis Majesty the King of the Belgians has expressed his desire to inaugurate the works by laying the first stone in State ceremony, which is fixed to tako place at Brussels on Wednesday, the 22nd of January next. It will be at once seen by this brief description of the concession that it is one of no ordinary character. The capital of the company is fixed at £350,000, in 35,000 shares of £lO each, dirided into 25,000 A Prefer ance Shares and 10,000 B Deferred Shares. The privileges attached to tho respective share capital are as follows : The A Preference Shares aro to be redeemed out of the assets of the Company, by drawing by lot, and each share paid off at £l5 per share, being a bonus of .£5 per share ; the drawings will take place on the following dates, viz. : On the 22nd January, 1870, 6,250 shares, or £62,500, 77 1871, 6,250 „ £62,500, 1872, 6,250 „ £62,500, 1873, 6,250 „ £62,500, 7? 71 Total shares 25,000 Z 250,000 Until so drawn and paid off, each share to bear interest at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, on the Ist of January and Ist July in each year, for which interest warrants will be attached to the shares. Reckoning the redemption at the dates and at the bonus named, the investment will pay subscribers a rate of in terest as follows :—those shares which are drawn, and thus are To bo paid off on 22nd of January, 1870, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 24i per cent. per annum. Those to be paid off on 22d January, 1871, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 20f per cent. per annum. Those to be paid off on 22d January, 1872, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 18 per cent. per annum. The Directors do not pledge themselves to make an allotment to every applicant, nor to allot the whole of the shares, it being their desiro to place this small capital in the hands of bona fide investors. Those to be paid off on 22d January, 1873, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 16} per cent. per annum The B Deferred Shares represent the Concessionaires' interest in the Company. These shares will not be en titled either to payment of any interest or capital until the whole of the Preference Shares have received their capital back, with the interest and bonus before referred to ; there fore the Deferred Shares become practically and virtually a guarantee to the Preference Shares. Applications for shares may be made in the annexed form, which must be accompanied by the payment of £2 per share deposit, without which no application will bo considered. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To be retained by the Bankers. No.--- To the Directors of the Belgian Public Works Company (Limited). Gentlemen—Having paid to your Bankers, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, the sum of £ , being a deposit of X 2 per Share on A Preference Shares in the above Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that number, and I agree to accept such Shares, or any less number you may allot to me on the terms of the Prospec tus, and I agree to pay the deposit on allotment, and to sign the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company, as duly registered, when required. And I au thorise you to insert my name on the register of members of the shares allotted to me. Usual Signature Name in full Residence Profession.- ... Date December, 1866 The above is only a short extract from the detailed Prospectus, which can be had, with copy of the letter of the British Minister in Brussels to Earl of Clarendon, on application to the Secretary at the offices of the Company. THE BELGIAN PUBLIC WORKS COM- PANY (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the LISTS of APPLICATION for SHARES in the above Company will be CLOSED on FRIDAY NEXT, the 28th instapi., for London, and SATURDAY, the 29th inst an t, for Country applications. By order of the Board, W. J. L. lIERIOT, Secretary. St. Clement's louse, Clements-lane, E.C. WHAT IS YOUR CREST AND WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO ? Send 3s. 6d. to CULLETON'S Heraldic Office for a Plain Sketch, or 6s. for a Coloured one. The Arms of man and wife blended together in proper heraldic form. The proper heraldic Colours for servants' liveries, what buttons to be used, and how the carriage should be painted, fee 10s. Just complete, a very valuable book, with 3,500 Engravings, arms, crests, and mottoes of nearly every family in the kingdom, the result of thirty years' labour, price £lO 108., printed in several colours. Family Pedi grees traced from authentic records, information as to the obtaining of a new grant of arms, how to change one's name, by T. Culleton, Engraver to her Majesty and Royal family ; also Diesinker to the Board of Trade, 25, Oran bourn-Atrot (corner of St. Martin's-Jane), THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY' EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1866. ANSION-HOUSE of filo SUFFEREII EXPLOSIONS. 'UND for the RELIEF by the recent COLLIERY Comx The Right lion tl R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. Samuel Morley, Esq. Geo. Moore, Esq. Mr. Alderman Finnic. J. P. Gassiot, Esq. Christopher T. Gabriel, Esq. Frederick Thompson, Esq. :ITTEE. te LORD MAYOR. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff \Vaterlow. Mr. Sheriff Lycett. Mr. Alderman Besley. Mr. Alderman Dakin. James Hill, Esq. H. N. Fowler, Esq. W. J. Maxwell, Mr. Alderman Cotton. R. A. Gray, Esq. Colonel Stuart Wortley. _ • The attention of the public is earnestly drawn to the suffering consequent on the terrible calamity produced by the recent colliery explosions. SUBSCRIPTIONS are greatly needed to relieve the numerous families made destitute thereby. The amount required to meet the memorable Hartley Colliery Accident in 1862 was £50,000 ; in that case 204 men and boys lost their lives ; in the present instance double that number are believed to have perished, there fore w make a suitable provision for the families depen dent upon them, about £lOO,OOO will be needed. At the final distribution of the surplus of the Hartley Fund, £3,140 was allotted to the districts in which the present accidents occurred, and this sum is now available towards the fund now being raised. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales ••••• H.R.11. the Prineess of Wales .. The Corporation of London Amount already advertised XlOO ZO 300 £7,432 13 7 Subscriptions will be received by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor; Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co. 54, Lom bard-street ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; Messrs. Glyn, Mills ' and Co., 67, Lombard-street; Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., 1 ; Lombard-street ; Messrs. Robarts, Lub bock, and Lombard-street ; Messrs. Dimsdale, Fowler, and Co., 50, Co., ornhill ; the London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury; the London Joint-Stock Bank, 5, Princes street ; Union Bank of London, and all its Branches ; Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., Lombard-street ; and by the several members of the Committee. JOSEPH GIBBS, Secretary. Mansion House, Dec. 20, 1866. ON SATURDAY, the 29th of Docemller, will be published, at No. 112, Strand, "THE WEST MINSTER GAZETTE," a new Catholic Weekly Paper, supported by it large number of known and approved writers. 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Payne, TII Li EVENING (MON DA Yy.- MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. NEW EDI floss. —Life-size Portrait-Models of JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., M.P., and the late RICHARD COBDEN, Esq., M.P. Open during Christmas Week, viz.. on Monday and Boxing Day from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m., and the remainder of the week from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. Admittance, Is. ; children, under ten, half-price; extra rooms, 6d. A RGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO, Windmill-atreet, Piccadilly. These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirely re decorated, are now OPEN EVERY EVENING for Concert and Dancing. Conductor, Signor LIIGI CURTL Manager. M. GRENET. Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. Reserved Seats, Two Shillings. EAU -DE-VIE.—This Pure PALE BRANDY, 185. per gallon, is vt ry superior to recent importations of Cognac, recommended by the medical profession, and ex tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 31s. per dozen, or in a case 395., railway carriage pal I.—HEN RY BRETT and CO., Old leurnival's Distillery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent street, S.W. Established 1829. CONTRACT FOR BEECH WEDGES. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, 14th Dec., 186 G. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, Do hereby give NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the Bth January next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Parsons as may be willing to Contract for supplying Her Majesty's Dockyard at Portsmouth with Hewed Wedges of Beech, under a Contract for twelve calendar months certain, and further until the expiration of three calendar months' warning. The average annual consumption, together with a Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contract, may be seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's Department, Admiralty, Somerset House. No Tender will be received after Two o'Clock on the day of Treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the Party attends, or an Agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Beech Wedges ;" and must also be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a Letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the Person tendering in tho sum of £2OO for the duo perfor mance of the Contract. By Order, ANTONIO BRAY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. TO GUNM AK ERS and Others, The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of receiving PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for BREECH-LOADING RIFLES, either repeating or not repeating, which may replace the present Service Rifles in future manufacture. The following are the conditions considered essential in military non-repeating Rifles A. WEIGHT. Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet. n. LENGTH. To be 51 inches, with short stock, measured from the hollow of the butt-plate to muzzle. c. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP. Must not exceed 61b. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for service. D. CARTRIDGES. Must carry their own ignition E. SIGHTS. The foresight must bo such as to admit. of a bayonet fixed according to the present system. F. STOCK. Must be such as to carry a light metal cleaning-rod, and allow a sling to be used. ... G. RECOIL. Must not exceed that of tho Enfield Rifle by more than 10 per cent. ___ H. THE ARM AS A WHOLE. Must bo as little liable to injury by long-continued firing, rough usage, and exposure, as the naval rifles converted to breech-loaders on the Snider system. To be as capable, also, of being used without accident by imperfectly trained men, and of being manufactured in quantities and of uni form quality. i. THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp, and exposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for Sni'ler's converted Enfiold rifle—also as little liable to acci dental explosion as the same cartridge, and as capable of being manufactured in large quantities, and of uniform quality. x. CALIBRE. Optional. L. THE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE. Optional. Optional. M. THE LOCK. x. RAPIDITY OF FIRE. Capable of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without aiming, the cartridges being arranged on a table. o. ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST. The arm must give a moan figure of merit of not morn than 36in. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at NO, and 6in. at 300. The mean to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty shots each. P. TRAJECTORY. Not to require at 500 yards an elevation of more than 1 deg. 30 min. Q. FOULING. The shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cont. at 1,000 yards after firing 250 rounds. R. PENETRATION. The mean penetration of five shots not to be less than that of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle— viz., 12 half-inch elm planks, which have been soaked 48 hours in water. Distanco 30 yards. s. LUBRICATION. Wax on bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant may be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought necessary by the competitor. 111. No arms will bo received without the usual proof marks. Specifications, and drawings of the methods proposed, stating the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a finished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu nition, should he sent to the "Director of Ordnance, War Office, Pall-mall," on or before the 30th March, 1867. The specifications and specimen arms will be considered by the Ordnance Select Committee and its associate mem bers, who will be selected by the Secretary of State for War, and who will, aftor firing the 20 preliminary rounds, select and recommend for further trial such of the systems as may appear to them sufficiently promising, rejecting all such as may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to warrant their being included in the competition, the con ditions of which are stated in this advertisement. Each accepted competitor will then be required to furnish for experiment, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity to the specimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am munition per arm, within four months after date of de mand- Each competitor will be required to disclose to the committee the exact nature of the lubrication he may em ploy. A sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted competitors, to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of the supply of ammunition required. The Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the arm which, on combination of all qualities, is considered by the committee to be the best submitted. A second reward of £6OO for the art: which, while at taining a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu lars, is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism. A third reward of £4 l 0 for the best cartridge. The qua ities which will be principally taken into consideration in awarding this prize will be economy of manufacture, power of sustaining rough usage, freedom from deterioration in various climates, and general serviceability. The shooting qualities of the cartridge must bo fair; but as they may depend upon the rifling of the arm with which the cartridge is associated, they will not be so much con sidered as those above-mentioned. It is clearly to be understood that under no circumstances will a competitor be entitled to more than ono prize ; but such prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be given to the inventor of the arm finally adopted into the service. I 1 1 ; MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. Magazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re ceived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech loading Rifles. They must not be loss in length than 48 inches, including the stock. _ _ _ The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at 911 b. ex clusive of the charges in the magazine. It is indispensable that the arms be made to take a bayonet. The Secretary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best Magazine or Repeating Arm produced that fulfils the above conditions ; and in the absence of experience does not at present define the standard of accuracy or other conditions to be fulfilled before such an arm can be adopted. Those Magazine orßepeating Arms, which are accepted for further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £OO each. This sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per arm. The Secretary of State will take care that no ingenious novelty produced in answer to this advertisement shall be adopted into the service without proper acknowledgment, and that the name of the individual with whom it origi nates shall be recorded in connection with it. if the rifle to which the first prize is awarded is adopted into the service, it will hear the inventor's name. J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director of Ordnance..; War Offices Oct. 22 1866. DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.- The medical profession for Thirty years have approved of this pure solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for Acidity of the Stomach, Headache, Heartburn, Gout, and Indigestion ; and as a mild aperient it is especially adapted for ladies and children. Prepared by DINNE FORD and CO., Chemists, 172, New Bond-street, London ; And sold throughout the world by all respectable chemists. CAUTION.—See that " Dinnetord and Co." is on each bottle and red label over the cork. RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBITIONS of 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective Invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects. is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moo-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and close ness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circum ference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Sine.le Truss, los., 215., 26s 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 4ts. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT VLASTIC STOCKINGS, 11J KNEE-CAPS, &c., .for Varicose Veins and all cases a t Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, sprains, A.c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 78. 6d., 10s., and 168. each. Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. H YAM & Co.'s ATTIRE. HYAM & Co., 66 and 67, OXFORD-ST. 11YAM & Co.'s WINTER OVERCOATS. HYAM & Co.'s SILK-FACED OVERCOATS. H YAM & Co.'s REEFERS. H YAM & Co.'s SUITS. H YAM & Co.'s MORNING COATS. H YAM & Co.'s PROVESSIONAL ATTIRE. H YAM & Co.'s VESTS and TROUSERS. H YAM & Co.'s LADIES' HABITS. H YAM & Co.'s LIVERIES._ H YAM & Co.'s HATS and HOSIERY. [ 'YAM & Co.'s ATTIRE for GENTLEMEN, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. Hymn & Co.'s Winter Tweed Overcoats 21s. to 30s. ti yarn & Co.'s Winter Overcoats 3os. to 84s. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Reefer 2ss. to 555. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Suits 42s. to 70s. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Jackets 2ls. to 425. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Frock Coats Hyam & Co.'s Winter Vests 6s. to 14s. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Trousers l4s. to 255. FIYAM & Co.'s BOYS' WINTER CLOTHING, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. The first establishment in the kingdom for Juvenile Clothing. • Boys' Sandringham Overcoats Boys' Prince Alfred Reefer Boys' Overcoats for Little Boys Boys' Knickerbocker Suits lss. to 355. Boys' Westminster and Osborne Suits lss. to 355. B , ys' Eaton, Harrow, and Rugby Suits Boys' Jackets for School and Home 9s. to 21s. TTYAM & Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS. 1. Gentlemen's Clothing for immediate wear. 2. Bespoke or Order Department. 3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department. 4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. TTYAM & Co.'s ESTABLISHMENTS. LONDON-66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET. BIRMINGIIAM-21, 22, and 23, NEW-STREET. LEEDS-42, BRIGGATE ; and DEWSBURY—WESTGATE. QPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair, 3s 6d, 58 6d, and iOs 64:1; sent by post for 51, 84, and 144 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. TIVONDERFTJL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. This preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, removing the very root. Price 4s; sent by post for 60 stamps. —248, Hlgh Holborn, London, and all Chemists. RAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX, ROSS'S CURLING FLUID ones Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 3s 6d, 68 6d, and 108 8d ; sent free for 54, 84. and 144 stamps. —Had of all Chemists. CI REY HAIR. —248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na tural in etre •t. Price 3s ed, 5s ed. and ;Os ed ; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps ; and all Chemi,ts. HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, London.—AL EX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms, without effect to the skin. Price 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and les 6d; gent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—Had of all Chemists. DIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the IL skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEri'ETA BLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sal lowness. Rto. 2s 9d and 7a Rd ; or peat for 40 and WO stamps. —ALEX. ROSS, 248. High Holborn, London, and all Che mists. TT , gi a nl c h and remains Chemists. mists.Alß COLOUR WASH.—B y was hi ng t h e head with this beautifully -perf ume d W as h , i n seven sent for stamps.—ALEX. o sßo r ob t s e y n s dn2a4o7cHtaisii hairocca si ona l alilou Is t no s u r ag m , e Li s oo i s t n s 6dd o o r n; 1 n n accol our , a y nd A B LE E L AU: ss. ; Just published, 2d ; sent by the auth or f or I s tamps. descriptive of articles and means used for improving being a Pamphlet U the a G pp L ea lN ran E oe S . S B London. 218, High Holborn, THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer 'Lan 455 poor, friendless, young fernalea were rejected from want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in fire years. young Olds, almost children, frem the age of 8 to 16, who halvihe°beneenwlehdomasetrtahyefCroommmthietteewish to form woald be for path of virtue.. gratefully by the Secretary, Sir. Daniel Contributions c oop er i , l s l s be e. Queen ee ee d s e tr e Cheapside ; or by M essrs Barclay and Co.. Lombard-street. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, L.V in th 3 immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. _ . Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prime of WALE Fi..llG. President—His Grace the Duke of BIJCCLEUCIL K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1823, the first to estab tich the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' bitten, is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions andt,zacies. 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 considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 1,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., Abchurch-lane; also by Messrs. Coutte and Co.; Lfrummonit and Co. ; Glyn and Co.: Retries end Co. ; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; « ilhtuas, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Bernoro-street : and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. STANFORD 81111193, bearillon WESTO N' S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Sole Proprietors, SWEASEY and 'TOLLAND. The most triumphant success ever attained in any Musical Establishment. Grand Selection from Auber's Opera of " MASANIELLO,” by 40 vocalists dressed in costume as at the opera. Terrific ovation of the Irish Minstrels, with songs, dances, and Irish anecdotes, under the direction of Pat Cord. A new and original overture composed and arranged expressly for the above minstrels by Mr. H. Baker. Comic supported by Arthur Lloyd, Jolly Nash, Georgina Smithson, Miss Faucuurt, Paddy Fannin, Patrick Sellers, and Harry and Kattie King. Majilton as Messestophles ; and Pis Watkin, the Persian Juggler. Band of 30 first-class mers, and large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera [losses. Musical Director, Mr. P. CORM. Prices of admission -Stalls and Balcony, ls.; Area, 6d.; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. Can be secured at the Box Office, between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open every Evening at 7 o'clock, commencing at Half-past. FALKNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY, ,4 Real Malt," 19s. per gallon, is sold in bottles and jars, bear ing his label and trade mark. Most liberal terms are offered to the trade for the sale of thi4 genuine old spirit, which is coming into universal consumption through England. For price lists apply at Offices. 14, Strand, London, W.C. Established in Graf ton-street, Dublin, A.D. 1780. DUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. "V.R." IRISH WHISKY. D UNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 1808. Quotations on application. TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the world."—London Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C., next the " Times." -FAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork, be - r to announce that they are able to supply the trade with their celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases, and to take orders in bond tad for exportation, at their offices, 7, Printing-house-square, London, E C.. the only house in the square not occupied by the "Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies briny the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial markets, as may be observed by reference to the "Journal of Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their whiskies fetch 6d. per gallon and is. per case over the next best, and Is. 6d per gallon and ss. 6d. a case over the lowest quotation. Always on hand a large supply of ve y old mellow whisky in the finest oondition, matured in sherry casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, supplied on the most reasonable terms. m.. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, leet-street, has introduced an entirely new descrip ti n of ARTIFICIAL TEET H, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly re,emb e the natural teeth as not to be distinguished fro a the originals by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require Vie extraction of roots, or any pain ful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastica tion. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastication. 52. Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. UNDER TIIE PATRONAGE OF THE ELITE OF EUROPE AND AMERICA. NO MORE CRUSHING OF DRESSES. THE only PRIZE for any class of TRUNKS at the Duti,in Exhibition, 1865, was AWARDED to Mr. MYERS, of CAVENDISH HO US E. Wigmore-stmet, Caven dish-scoare, London. for his newly-Invented Patent Self- Expanding DRitISS BASKET TRUNKS, which arc secured by Royal Letters Patent in England and France. All Americans visiting London are respectfully recom mended to visit the above Establishment and inspect the various descriptions and large assortment of Travelling Portmanteaus, Trunks, ttc , &o. Ladies especially will find in M. Myers's Royal Alexandra Self-Expanding and Collapsing Dress Baskets the ne plus ultra of perfection for their requirements. This Basket com prises every convenience the traveller can suggest. It is constructed to carry a large or small quantity of Dresses, ; and from its ueculiar mechanical contrivance will ex pand or collapse by its own action, thereby adapting itself to any size ; and it can therefore be used for either a short journey or a long tour. .AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN I_,/ EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be the beat medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which p*covokes frequent coughing. Ifl approaching consumption its effects arc truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. I'reparea only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-William-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 1301., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular. and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address are engraved on the stamp. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and 11 most useful invention of the day, AQUA A HARELL A. Nessrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, Perfumers to her Majesty, respect fully offer to the public this truly marvellous flui(f, which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of tLe 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 colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 63. Testimonials from artistes °tithe highest order, and from Individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Goonell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Prinoess of Wales. THE BEST REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION. NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi dently recommended as a simple but certain Remedy for Inditrestion, whi k I. the cause of nearly all the diseases to which we are Pubject, being a medicine so uniformly grate • Jul and beneficial, that it is w,th justice called the "Natural Strengthener of the Human Stomach." "Norton's Pills" act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient; are mild in their operation, safe under any circumstances, and thousands of persons can now bear testimony to the benefits to be derived from their use, as they have been a never-lalling Family Friend for upwards of 20 }ears. Sold in bottles at Is. lid., 2s. 9d, and Ila. each, in every town in the kingdom. CAUTION. --- - Re sure and ask for "NORTON'S PILLS." and do not be persu.d/.1 to pur.,:lia6e any of the variJus irdtattous which have sprung up In consequence ot the success ot NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING SHIP. £2,000 required. WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Boys' Ref age, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing the COUNTRY HOME. £1,040 required. WM. WILLI &MS, Secretary. Boys' Refuge, S. Great Queen-street. W.C. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys. One hundred and fifty are now in the Refuge. The annual expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at E 4,050, being' £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends have promised to pay fbr one boy each year. Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothburv, and 214, iligh Holborn; Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Pali-M a ll E as t ; and by . . WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.O. Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches. At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, aro given gratuitously every week. The poor from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that they aro homeless and starving. The Manager &c., receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each night numbers of young women, children, and orphans are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, and have to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda tion, 1'2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the work a sum of at least .£1,0130 more will 140 required. Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome, and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will be offered in your behalf. SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be gratefully received by thejlev. D. GILZEItT, D.a, No.. 22 rim:an-circus, 31ETROPOLUAN RAILWAY—Baker-street station. I%JEETROPOLITAN RAILWAY Edgware. _LT.J_ road Station. 11/ETROPOLITAN RAILWAY Bishop's _LTJL road Station. ETROPOLITAN RAILWAY—Trains every 111 fire minutes. MYLES FENTON, General Manager. - METROPOLITAN and GREAT WESTERN BM LWAYS.—CIIRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.—Extra Trains between the City, Kines-cross, Uower-street, Port land-road, Regent-circus, Baker-street, Edgware-road and Paddington, Hammersmith, Kensington, Shepherd's-bush, Notting-hid, and Westbourne-park. T HE MADRAS IRRIGATION AND CANAL COMPANY. NOTICE OF CALL. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in pursuance of a resolution passed at a Meeting of the Board of Directors held this day, the Shareholders of this Company are re quested to PAY to the Company's Bankers, Messrs. Ran some, Bouverie, and Co., No. 1, Pall-mall East, London, S.W., a CALL of £3 10s. per share (making £2O per share paid), on or before the 15th day January next, upon which sum of £3 10s. per share interest guaranteed by the Secre tary of State for India in Council at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum will be paid from the 21st day of January next. JOIIN WESTWOOD, Secretary to the Company. 8 and 9, Queen-street-place, Southwark-bridge, London, E.C., Dec. 6, 1866. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY 'room PASTR is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant tragranoe to the breath. Price la 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street. London. OSBORNE'S STILTON Is THE Cheese ! ALL the year round, and year after year, PARR'S LIFE PILLS are used by thousands, who thus insure good heal h without pain, inconvenience, or scarcely expense This medicine may be resorted to at any time good effects will result. THE OCEAN ST. LEGER of 1866.—What Lord Lyon was to his owner was the Taeping to her Captain, viz., winner of the race, having distanced all com petitors, as the fCASC INDIA TEA. CONIPANY have in fariab y done In their choi e and sale of fine new season's teas, now selling at importer's prices. Warehouses-9, Great St. ffelen's-churchyard. AVALUABLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.- A CHINESE; CADDY, containing Nibs. of really good Black Tea, sent carriage tree to any railway station or market town in England, Ireland, Scotland, or Wales, on re ceipt of 405., bj PHILLIPS and CO., Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City, E.C. TEA IS CHEAPER TITAN EVER.-Is. 6d , 25.. 2s 6 s. per lb. are the prices at which PIIILLIPS anti CO Tea Hierchants, 8, King William-street, City, Lon don, E.C., are selling.' good and fine BLACK TEA. A. price current post tree. 40s worth Cnrciage free to anv railway •tstion or mark.A town in the United Kingdom.—Observe— PHILLIPS and Co. have no Agents or any connexion with any house in Worcester or Swansea. Sugars are supplied at market prices. SPLENDID SPECULATIONS. G REAT SUCCESS. With a singr'e stake ot £l, you can realse £2s,nro ! ! With a single stake of X?, you can realise .£27,5 !! With a single stake ot XS, you can realise £37.000 !! With a single stake of XlO, you can realise £45,000! ! For prospectuses and particulars apply without delay to lir. EUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. FAMILY GATHERINGS. It is rather a fashion (says a Saturday Reviewer) among the cheerful young cynics who have seen to the bottom of all things alike in this world and the next to scoff loftily or acrimoniously, acc)rding to temperament, at the practice of observing holidays and festivals. They esteem it a mark of the very highest superiority to keep protesting that Christ mas-day, for example, bores them ; that it is neither a Sunday nor a week day ; that people would be much better employed in attending to their affairs than in going to church and afterwards over eating and over-drinking themselves ; that family gatherings are a mistake, because relation% gene rally agree best when they are apart, and so forth It may be noticed that, as a rule, the people who thus gird at their neighbours are themselves not much taxed with work, and therefore have no reason for enjoying one day more than another in their year of indolence. Again, on principle they object to the whole theory of the family, preferring to look at the individual as the unit of social life; and hence the name of a family gathering recalls all those ideas which jar most unpleasantly with their conception of duty to self as the first and highest of all possible duties. They scoff at the notion of people being mirth ful and gladsome at Christmas, only because they scoff at the notion of mirth and cheerfulness at any and all times. Considering that all life is a mere piece of acting and pretence, nothing better than a ppet show in their far see badly organised kind of pu ing eyes, it is perfectly natural that they should be more than usuallycontemptuouswhen the puppets give themselves airs of enjoyme n t, and try to make believe that life ha s some real advantages about it after all, which do something towards making it worth having. The agreeable cynic of modern times despises pleasure as bitterly as an old Puritan hated it. The Puritan detested the unseasonable joviali ties of Christmas because he thought them wicked in beings with souls to save. The cynic in patent leather boots and lavender kid gloves who has suc ceeded him as the Mentor of mankind detests jovi ality, because he looks on it as an impudent attempt on the part of a shadow to pass himself off as a reality. In some respects the nnaimiable theory about the celebration of anniversaries is in accord with other and wider tendencies. Circumstances combine to lessen, not the old strength of the sentiment of the family, but at all events to lessen the number of occasions on which it may be realised and exhi bited in the old-fashioned gatherings of which one reads in the novels of a couple of generations back. What may be called the superstition that clun g about the ties and duties of family, like everything else of a similar kind, fades away before the ad vance and penetration of a rationalistic spirit into all sorts of sacred nooks and corners. The sense of family obligation is, very likely, stronger than it ever was. But it is a prosaic kind of obligation ; and, above all, it is narrow. People who can only call themselves relations are thought less and less of. A man cannot deny that his second cousin or his great-uncle is of kin to him, but then, unles3 kinship is of the very closest and most direct sort, he does not feel that it ought to count fur any thing. Ile excludes from a practical sense of kin ship all who do not belong immediately to his own special twig of the family branch. Of course any decent person will admit the claims of anybody in the direct ascending or the direct descending line. A man's father and mother, or his grandfather and grandmother, his children or his grandchildren, can not be excluded from the very slenderest and most select conception of the family. But do people look upon uncles and aunts and cousins and nephews as close kinsfolk in the way in which they used to do ? Blood is still thicker than water, it is true. Other things being equal, a nephew stands nearer than a stranger. Only a constantly diminishing weight attaches to the argument in the nephew's favour. Where, a generation ago, the nephew's start might have been represented by 100 z ( v. V tras, t would now probably be reduced to some thing like 10, or even five. Although blood may be thicker than water, the difference in the degree of attenuation tends to become every day more trifling. For instance, persons who live in large and busy towns concern themselves much less with their less near relations than people do who live in the coun try. A man may live in the same town with his uncle without knowing anything of what the uncle is doing, and without seeing him more than three or four times a year, and then only by accident. In the country, as a rule, this is quite different. Men and women know all about the doings of their cog nates, take a keen interest in them, and, in the ab sence of a guard, meet frequently. In thoroughly cotuitry districts anyboly would be thought " nu canny" who evinced any respect for the systematic observance, and in a religious spirit, of the ancient rites of the family. Streaking with levity or flip pancy of a Christmas or a New Year gathering round the patriarchal heart would be nearly as bad as scepticism about the Pentateuch. Yet in big towns there is very little of this reproach attached to a neglect of family meetings. A man may boldly profess himself bored at the prospect of having to dine or spend a day wth a parcel of dull and stupid people, just because they happen to come from a common great-grand father. He may even positively decline to assist at the ceremony of the annual celebration of the family dulness, or stillness, or quarrelsomeness. Nobody living in town would on this account stigmatise him as a cold and heartless person. But, further afield, indifference to the rite of the sacred pudding would pass for something about as bad as indifference to the services of the Church. Indeed, it would be treated as the thin end of the wedge. A man who refused to partake of the Christmas morsel in company with pompous uncles and unkindly critical aunts would appear, to the utsophisticated minds of country places, to have entered into fatally rationalistic courses. There are plenty of reasons why it should come to pass that family ties sit more lightly than they ever did. Increased ardour for business, for instance, is one of them. The range of social ambition is much higher than it used to be. Men want more money, and consequently they are forced to devote both a great deal more time and a great deal more attention to money-making. The obvious result of this is a diminished capacity for thinking and caring about other people. There is scarcely room, in an ordi nary mind engrossed with the harassing anxieties of affairs, for anybody besides his wife and children. They alone more than fill up the spare corners of his attention. And this increase of the intensity of social ambition acts in a still more palpable way upon the family. England becomes too small for the number of her sons. How many families are there now of which some member does not find his way to India, to Australia, to Canada, to China, to New Zealand? It is no longer the black sheep only who leave home. More often they are now the most energetic and promising members of a home who cut asunder all retaining ties, and resolve to push their fortunes in remote colonies and dependencies. India, above all, makes dire gaps. The Christmas gathering is thus most painfully curtailed. It seems as if whole and entire families never met together nowadays as they used to do in the days of our grandfathers. From the point of view of mere feeling this is very saddening. Yet nobody denies that a man had better dine alone at Shanghai on Christmas Day, if he is making some way in the world, than dine at home with his grandmother and his parents and all his uncles and aunts and cousins, if he is making no way in the world. Loneliness, and a sense of the disruption of family ties, are obviously not the worst sources of gloominess that may befal a man. For all this, however, it requires some fortitude for friends at home to think tranquilly of the solitary man spending his first Christmas at Shanghai. One must be a bit of a Stoic to look at his empty place in church or at table, when we remember for many years his place was not empty. Of course this is nonsense, our cynic tel:ss us; Christmas Day is only a day comic un mitre, and he dines alone at Shanghai 361 other days as well every year. If you admit this, but humbly add that anniversaries bring these things more vividly before one, our ready friend sets you down as an incorrigible sentimen talist, inaccessible to considerations of pure reason, and incapable of looking at the bare facts. As if the bare facts were any the worse for being adorned with gracious and tender sentiment ; or, to borrow a simile from Mr. Carlyle, as if there were any harm, or anything other than good, in having a soft silken inner lining to the rough garment of one's existence. There is another aspect in which the family gather ing has altered. Every day,we seem to get more and more removed in practice from the old conception which made the domestic servant a quasi -member of the family. It is not that people ignore that they have a duty to their servants. They recognise this perfectly in theory, and in practice even they strive to realise it in a general way. But tho socially scientific idea of duty to servants is widely different from the exploded patriarchal idea. It is a question whether, in spite of the attractive grace of the patriarchal idea, it was not, in fact, much worse for the servant than even the arid mercies of social science. The patriarch always had the power of life and death over his servants, as over the rest of his family. The modern householder may be cold, and stiff, and unsympathetic towards his servants, but at least he does not bastinade them, nor have them decapitated. Still it would make a great im provement if we could superadd to the modern the more ancient theory ; and, while recognising the liberty of the inferior, could recognise the duty of protection and of a measure of friendship for him or her. Considering the extent to which they are cut _ _ off from their natural family, it would not be more than just or humane to give them a more admitted place in their artificial or adopted family. It will be a long time before we get back to the feudal plan of dining at table with the family retainers, even with the distinction of dining above and below the salt. Meanwhile the best thing is to recognise their right not merely to improve themselves, which is the idea of social science, but to enjoy themselves with as much of true jollity as the temper of modern times will permit. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton...— Deo. 20. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British paoket Jan. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Aeoension, and St. Helena Dee. 28. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Dec 20. Ditto, via Marseilles. Dee. 28 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Deo. 14. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dea. 2,). Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Dec. 20. Ditto, via Marseilles ... Dee. 23 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 2). Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 23. Mauritius, via Southampton Dec. 2) Ditto, via Marseil:e3. Jan. lg, Newfoundland ... Jan. 2. Portuga) _ Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp- ton ...... Ditto, via Cork Ditto, Dy l Panket, via Louniderry ..Dee. 1. Coats tot Africa, Madeira, and TAicriffe J an. 3 West Indica and Pacific (except Balialuaa and liondurai) • Dec'29 Babaim..4, via New 1 ork. Cuba aid !flexion Jan I'. Det". Bermuda, via Ilalit.tx Jan. 16. The report that three cargoes of small arms had been shipped. from the Baton Rouge Arsenal for a military force to be organised on the Mexican fron tier proves to have been incorrect, and arose no doubt from the shipping of arms from that place to New York for repairs. [ADVERTISEMENT.] -110110 y's Pills.— T irnely Warn ing. —The increasing number of deaths should not spread alarm, yet it should beget caution. 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