The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-26 00:00:00

Railway and. other Companies. FURNESS. A special general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Old Burlington-street, for the purpose of considering certain bills ; the Duke of Devonshire in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said three bills would be sub mitted for the consideration of the proprietors, which, when passed, would tend to improve the position of their property. The Solicitor read the heads of the following " An act for conferring additional powers on the Furness Railway Company for the construction of works and otherwise in relation to :their undertak ing." The bill empowered the company to raise £300,000. "An act for the amalgamation of the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway with the Furness Railway." "An act for supplying Grange, Cartmel, and other places in Lancashire and Arnside, inWestmoreland, with gas and water." The Furness Railway Gompany was empowered to subscribe a portion of the capital for carrying out this undertaking. Resolutions approving the bills were passed, and the proceedings terminated. ROYAL MAIL STEAMPAC.KET. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Captain Mangles in the chair. The report of the directors stated that towards the end of last year it was arranged with the Post master-General that each alternate fortnightly packet from St. Thomas for Colon and vice versa should proceed direct between those ports, instead of via Jamaica, and that on such occasions the Jamaica route should be perfo rmed by a separ vessel. Not only did the direct route shorten somewhat the passage from the Isthmus of Pa nama to England, but it admitted ,of the ser vice of the company being made to harmonise with that of the United" states Pacific Steamship Company, so a s to attain the desirable object of a through communication between California and England over the company's line with out an interval of delay on the Isthmus of Panama . It was hoped that this change might also be found advantageous in connection with the service which the Panama, New Zealand, and Aus tralian Royal Mail Company (limited), expected to commence next June, between Panama, New Zealand, and Australia, and which, in conjunction with the Royal Mail Company's service, would form a monthlyline of steam communication between this country, New Zealand, and Australia, via Panama. After alluding to the delay in obtaining delivery of the Danube, the directors stated that they were in a position to recommend that a distribution be made of £4 103. per share out of the balance of profit and loss account, and of £2 10s. per share as bonus from the insurance fund, both free of income tax, payable by warrants on the 28th inst. The CHAIRIIAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the company had now been in existence for 24 years, and during the last 10 years the re port and account had been made up in nearly the same form. There were some questions in the re port and many items in the accounts upon which they might expect to have explanations. The work ing account for the past year was very nearly the same as that for the year 1864. There was only a difference between the expenses of the two years of £260. There was an increase in the port charges of £lBO, in the sum paid for salaries of £353, and in the law charges of only £5B, the total charge for law being only £llO for the year. The item for pro visions had been more, in consequence of the in crease in the number of passengers. Taking the first four paragraphs in the report together they would find it mentioned that the Brazilian French line was competing with them, that service being highly sub sidised by the French Government. Since August there had been some diminution of receipts, but as facilities and improved accommodation were in creased the number of travellers was also found to increase, and thus the traffic that had fallen off would gradually recover itself. The falling off in the traffic had caused the directors to turn their attention to the matter, and it was very creditable to the managers that the expenses had been reduced. With regard to the item of washing for the company, they had by means of machinery saved £750, and they had also erected washing machinery at St.Thomas's,by which a similar sum would be saved. When he told them that the washing of bedclothes, table linen, &c., cost some thousands a year those savings were import ant. The expenses had been reduced in other items as much as possible. There were items of receipt and expenditure over which the directors could exercise but little control. There had been a reduction of £35,000 in the amount for homeward treasure over ' which they had no control, but they could and did effect something by the selection of popular and careful captains. The receipts from passengers ex ceeded that of the preceding year by £lO,OOO, and during the past ten years the receipts from that source had increased by nearly £lOO,OOO. During that period the ships had been made more comfort able, so that he believed they would compare in that and other respects with any ships in the world. Ile then adverted to the new service viaranama to New Zealand, and the desire of the directors of the Royal Mail Company to work harmoniously with the Pa nama, New Zealand, and Australian Royal Mail Company. They had made friendly arrangements with that company, and he thought they would bring a very considerable amount of traffic to their com pany. The noble chairman of that company was in the room a short time before, and he was going to suggest to his noble friend that if a system of return tickets from England to New Zealand and Australia could be arranged it might be made advantageous to both companies. They might also give facilities to travellers to circumnavigate the world in four or five months by means of their route from Southamp ton to Australia, and thence by means of the Penin sular and Oriental Company's steamer via the Red Sea to return to Southampton , and by that means add a considerable amount to r their d traffic. The con sumption of coal had been year. There had been areduee reduced during the past tioian the consu m pti on Douro, i of coal in the Rho ne an d the which reflected as great credit on their managerscompared with the Oneida, which had heretofore consumed less coal than any other ship on the Brazilian route. The average consumption for a year was 1,950 tons per voyage, while that of the Douro was only 1,607 tons, and of the Rhone 1,570 tons, which was a very great reduction as compared with 1,950 tons. The last of the new ships was the Douro, and her performance was most satisfactory. The average speed of the ships for the West India service was 10} knots per hour. The speed of the Oneida was 10.58 knots; the Rhone, 10.56 ; the Atrato, 10.74 ; the La Plata, 10.20 ; and the Tamar, 10.65. He considered that satisfactory. The speed for the Brazilian ser 7iee 6 " 9i knots per hour. ; The speed o f the Oneid a on th at Plata, 9, 95 t Rhone, route was 9.02 ; Parana, 9.76 ; La Douro, 10.30 ; and 9.91. So that the st earaer the public th e aanot only kept their time, but gave company had b ee v n allt age of greater speed than the that the cost of thPeanidldfor. He then explained written off, so that thereßbips had been gradually that head of £25,000, was now a balance under dis posed of there would be a clear balance the last one was of that account of £20,000. T h h alance to the credit ituld e se a tisfactory state of the company's insurance officers the great their ships. care taken by the captains and o The liberal bonuses to the shareholde rs fund resulted chiefly from the selection b; i t t h e of that o f careful commanders, who were requested on every vo yage to keep time if possible, but, above all things,eve- to take care of the shi p s and p assen gers. , y ear.) Mr. E. COLVILE, a director, seconded' the motion for adoption of the report, and explained that he Was also a director of the Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Company. They had every desire to act with the Royal Mail Company, so as to make the ser vice as efficient as possible. It was a great enterprise for them, their ships would have to steam across the Pacific, a distance in one run of 6,500 knots without touching anywhere, the specified rate being 10 knots per hour the whole way. He believed that their four steamers were in every respect well suited to per farm the contract, their speed being from 11 to 12 knots per hour, and their daily consumption of coal less than 30 tons. Every effort was being made to perform the service satisfactorily. The report was then unanimously pted, and on the motion for the re-election of Mr. Colvile, Lord C. HAMILTON seconded the resolution. He said, as the chairman had alluded to him in reference to the Panama and New Zealand steam service, he could only say that the first object of the company would be to work the contract for the mails satis factorily, and to earn the subsidy ; the next object would be to treat the public wants with the most liberal spirit possible. The motion was carried unanimously, and Mr. J. E. Mathieson, the other retiring director, was then re-elected. Mr. J. H. Daniellwas elected auditor in the room of Mr. J. Capel, resigned ; and a resolution pro posed by Mr. PEACH, to the effect that no proprie tor be allowed to propose the appropriation of any money belonging to the company, without giving previous notice of it, was adopted. The thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Capel the retiring director, after 11 years' gratuitous ser vices ; and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. REGENT'S CANAL. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, City -road Basin ; Mr. Parker in the chair. Mr. Abbott (the secretary) read the report, which stated that the traffic on the canal was still increas ing, having reached a total of 947,846 tons. The gross receipts from tolls were £37,236, the net profit being £24,527, or £2,579 in excess of the corres ponding period of last year. Including the balance of £4OB, the sum available for division was £24,735, out of which it was proposed to pay £21,614 for a dividend, free of income tax, of 16s. per share, to carry £1,226 to the reserve fund, to pay £1,317 for extra water—leaving £405. The loan of £ll,OOO had been obtained for five years at 5 per cent. in terest. The sum of £20,436 had been received on account of the new capital, and £5,261 expended. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Colonel WILSON, the report was unanimously adopted. After some opposition, £2,9s4—the expenses of an application to Parliament for power to make a railway from King's-cross to Limehouse--was allowed to be charged to capital, and the dividend was declared, payable on the sth of May. SINGAPORE GAS (LIMITED). The report of the directors states that the profits for the year 1865 were £1,732, which, together with £26 from the preceding year, made an available balance of £1,758. Out of this the directors re commended a dividend at the rate of 7i per cent. per annum on the paid-up preference capital, and a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum on the original capital, all free of income-tax, leaving £172. The report of Mr. Wells, the engineer, for the first year's working, ending the 31st of Decem ber last, stated that the undertaking thus far had been a decided success, and that the continued de mand for gas fully justified him in saying that the concern would be highly remunerative. Malays, flings, Chinese, Armenians, Parsees, Javanese, Bengalees, and other classes of natives were con sumers of gas, which had also been introduced into the Hindoo and Mahomedan temples. Gas was also extensively used for illuminations by the Chinese, and also for their theatres ; a device having been made in the Chinese characters which had given great satisfaction. London Institution. The annual general meeting of proprietors was held yesterday in the theatre of the institution ; Mr. T. BARING, M.P., the president, occupying the chair. The report stated that the club accommodations contemplated by the managers, or suggested by the proprietors, had been carried out at considerable ex pense. These arrangements were necessarily expe rimental. The subscription for the library of cir culation had been increased, by which the number of volumes had been augmented to 750 ; which ad ditional number had been fully required. Various additions had been made to the newspapers and pe riodical works. The lectures of the present season had principally consisted of short illustrative courses, referring especially to the recent advance of several departments of knowledge. The managers had re ceived an application from the Hanterian Medical Society, of which Mr. Alfred Smee, one of their own number, was the president, in consequence of the intended removal of the premises which that society at present partly occupies, requiring permission to transfer its valuable medical library of above 2,000 volumes, and also its meetings, to the London In stitution. The proprietors would have received a letter from one of their number with certain sugges tions for an amalgamation with the corporation of the London Institution with the proposed new cor poration of the Middle-class Schools. The mana gers considered this scheme to be of so much im portance as to 'call for their careful and unpreju diced consideration, and this they had resolved to give to it forthwith, so as to be able to issue to the pro prietors a report thereonlwithout delay. In the mean time the managers submitted to the proprietors for their consideration the scheme as presented to their board. These terms, which were appended to the report, provided that dissentient proprietors should be entitled to receive £25 for every share they held. The entire property of the London Institution was to be transferred to the School Corporation, with full power to adopt some of the present and erect other buildings for the purpose of a day school, as contemplated by the School Corpora tion, such school to be denominated, " The London Institution Middle-class School." Mr. B. STANDRING moved the following resolu tion :—" That the report of the management be re ceived, approved, and adopted, and that it be re commended to the board of management to adopt such measures as they may consider expedient to carry into effect the amalgamation of the London Institution with the proposed Middle Class School Corporation on the terms suggested in the appendix to the report." The alterations referred to in the report had failed to revive the prosperity of the in stitution, and he felt that the institution was gra dually dying down, owing to the altered state of affairs in the city since its first establishment. (" No, no.") Mr. CAZEIiOVE seconded the motion, believing it to be the best course to adopt. Mr. LLOYD disputed the position advanced by the' proposer of the resolution. He was convinced there were still elements of success in the institution if only some more attractive features were introduced into its programmes. It was not, he contended, for the advantage of the middle class school that they should form part of their building. They should rather be carried two or three miles further off, nearer to the homes of the likely scholars. He ad vised the proprietors to wait, and they would see their shares reach par. He moved au amendment to omit all the words of the resolution after the word " adopted." (Hear, hear.) Mr. ALFRED SMEE, in seconding the amendment, against the proposed sacrifice o f the pro perty.protested The railway companies were conc en t rat i ng their termini in the neighbourhood, and the London Institution must soon become one of the central points of the metropolis. (Hear, hear.) Mr. J. P. GAssloi, the vice-president, entered into a calculation showing that the property was vested in 940 proprietors. It consisted of Consols and the freehold, which together were estimated to be worth £74,000, and it was proposed to unite with a proprietary of S 2 possessed of £54,00 0. The property of the institution would remain intact, the theatre and library would be un touched, the proprietors would be relieved from their annual two guinea subscription, and in view of all these facts he thought the meeting'would be making a fatal mistake if it resolved to reject the scheme of amalgamation. (No, no, and hear, hear.) Mr. TITE, ALP' , the honorary secretary, though a warm advocate of n.e.n t r h e se o. ducation movement, and although heartily agreeing with what had fallen from the vice-president, assured the meeting that the managers had no desire to press the plan if the pro prietors did not thoroughly approve of it. He had, therefore, authority to announce that the proposal was withdrawn. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HARTRIDGE very much regretted this result, and demanded a ballot on the original resolution. He disputed an opinion of the Attorney-General, that the amalgamation could only be carried out under the authority of an act of Parliament. Put that, however, aside, and allowing for the cost of obtaining an act, he insisted that financial conside rations ought to induce them to accept the proposi tion. At all events no argument had been used for continuing the institution, and the only honest course was to wind up. (Hear, hear.) The PRESIDENT said the middle-class schools com mittee were not desirous of entering into negotiations at present. (Hear, hear.) The matter had been merely thrown out as a suggestion for the proprie tors to consider, but he put it to themeeting whether it would be for the interest of the educational pro ject that the question should be pushed to a division. (Hear, hear.) After a debate extending over nearly two hours and a half the resolution was withdrawn, and the usual motion carried for the adoption of the report and statement of accounts. A vote of thanks to the President closed the pro ceedings. Archaeological Association. Yesterday evening a meeting of the members of this association was held in their rooms in Sackville street. The chair was taken by Mr. Gordon Hills, who announced that the council had that day elected the officers of the association for the ensuing year, subject to confirmation at the next anniversary meeting. He stated that Lord Boston, who had so often contributed objects from his collection for exhibition at their meetings, had consented to be the president of the association, and to hold that office from year to year. Lord BOSTON exhibited, through the medium of Syer Cuming, various remains belonging to the stone, bronze, andßoman periods, excavated at Caer Leb, in the island of Anglesea. These remains com prised sepulchral urns and other vessels, pebble amulets, a heavy flail-stone and dolerite, a beautiful bronze fibula, a cross of green glass, a Semian ware patua, coins, &c. Mr. Cuming, in his remarks on these objects, pointed out the close resemblance be tween the sepulchral urns of the Ordbvicii and Cor navii, and exhibited an example wrought by the latter which was found by Chevalier Barlow at Wroxeter. These objects, he said, were of peculiar value, as so few specimens of a similar kind had been found in Wales. The Rev. S. MAYHEW contributed a variety of rare objects found in London, near the banks of the Thames, in making the railway bridge at Black friars, at a:depth of about 30 feet below the surface) where vast numbers of Roman remains were found. The specimens exhibited included a curious armlet of blue glass, decorated with devices in white enamel. Mr. BAILY and Mr. S. CUMING exhibited appa rently duplicate urns or drinking cups, consisting of hard baked surface-clay, with brown leaves. One of these urns was found in Fenchurch-street, the other in Gracechurch-street. Though associated with Ro man remains, it is supposed they belonged to the Saxon period. Each one was considered unique until its fellow was produced. They had been roughly turned on the wheel. Mr. NIMBLE exhibited one of several glass bottles which had lately been dug up in Little Britain, also an elegant bough-pot of blue and white delf ware in Great Winchester-street. Mr. C.:§ao produced some additional specimens of bone implements found in London, of which many were shown at a recent meeting, and caused much discussion as to the purpose for which the imple ments had been employed. Mr. BURNEL then read an elaborate paper on the antiquities of Chelsea, contributed by the Rev. Mr. Blunt, which was illustrated by drawings of parts of the church and by numerous rubbings from brasses. The meeting then adjourned. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1866. ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY. An ordinary meeting of this society was held wa Tuesday evening—Mr. John Crawfurd in the chair. The first paper was "On the British Super stitions relating to the Hare, the Goose, and the Fowl," by Mr. John Thrupp, founded on the narrative of Julius Casar. Mr. Thrupp explained that the superstition of the Britons regarding those animals did not approach to worshipping them, but they objected to eat them. As the number of the animals increased, however, and their value as ar ticles of food became appreciated, the superstitious feeling gave place to commercial considera tions. Mr. Crawfurd made some remarks on the subject, attributing the respect paid to the animals mentioned to their comparative rarity. The same feeling at the present day prevents the people of this country from eating parrots ; and in Scot land no singing birds are eaten. The Scotch have also a strong objection to eating eels, considering them akin to snakes. He alluded to the introduc tion of fowls into Europe from the east, and of turkeys from America. The former, he said,.were not introduced into Europe till the third or fourth century, and there was no mention in the Old Tes tament of a cock, and only once was it named in the New Testament. Turkeys even now are very rare in the East, and there are none whatever in China. It was, indeed, on record that when Sir John Malcolm was in the East Indies accounts were brought to him of the appearance of a very strange bird about 20 miles up the country, which the naturalist of the mission and another gentleman immediately set off to see, and on arriving at the place they found that the extraordinary bird they had gone so far to look at was only a common turkey cock. Mr. THOMAS WRIGHT read a paper "On the Intercourse of the Romans with Ireland," in which he took occasion to reply to some remarks in the Anthropological Review on a previous statement of his respecting the partial occupation of Ireland by the Romans. Mr. Wright quoted a passage from " Juvenal," to show that Agricola intended to in vade Ireland, and that he had calculated that it would only require a single legion to conquer that country. He alluded also to the discovery of a number of silver Roman coins in Ireland, and to the finding there of a bronze sword, and of a medicine stamp, the latter being in the form of a small metal seal. He said that several similar stamps had been found in England, though none had been discovered in Italy, and he contended that the stamp and the coins clearly indicated that the Romans had occupied the country. The fact that the three principal Roman roads in Britain wer concen trated in North Wales at the nearest accessible point to Ireland seemed also to show that there was much communication with that country. Mr. LUKE BURKE, as an Irishman, repudiated the notion that his ancestors had been conquered by the Romans. The traditions of the Irish noticed that the people of Greece, of Africa, and of Spain had visited Ireland, but there was no trace in those traditions of the Romans, which there would haVe been had they ever occupied the country. The round towers he considered closely allied to some Cyclopean structures in Greece. In reply to a remark by Mr. CRAWFURD— that St. Patrick, who is said to have converted the Irish to Christianity in the third century, and must have come from Rome—Alr. BURKE refused to recognise the saint and his reputed doings in Ireland, consi dering him altogether a myth, though he was quite willing to admit that " St. Patrick was a gentle man." The meeting adjourned till the Bth of May. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, EDINBURGH.—The " Mari ner's Compass" continues to be played with in creasing success. The "get up" of the shipwreck scene in the first act has been greatly improved since we first had the pleasure of noticing it. This and the drowning scene in the last act constitute the "sensational" features of the piece, the plot being simple, and the characters those o f e very-day life. The attraction of the play is due in a great measure to the acting of Mr. and Mrs. Holt, the latter of whom has a part well suited to her as Jessy Arnold ; and the unassuming part of Silas Engleheart, which in the hands of less discriminating artistes would be made conspicuous by rant and bombast, is acted by Mr. Holt with the quiet truthfulness of one who studies to re present nature, and not to court the applause of the gal lery. The drama will be repeated all this week.—Courant. Naval and Military Intelligence. Yesterday Major-General Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., commanding the forces in the Chatham district, held an inspection of the battalions of in fantry and the brigade of Royal Marines Light In fantry on Chatham lines. The forces on the ground included the Ist, 2d, and 3d depot battalions and the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light In fantry, the whole numbering about 3,000 bayonets. The Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers took no part in the manoeuvres. Intelligence has been received at Chatham gar rison of the embarkation at Calcutta, in the char tered troopshipAlumbagh, of time-expired men and invalid troops belonging to the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, 2d battalion 13th Prince Albert's Light Infantry, 2d battalion 22d Regiment, and 2d battalion 24th Regiment. The troops embarkedon the 19th of February. The Rev. J. C. Edghill, M.A., one of the chap lains to the forces at Chatham garrison, has been ordered to embark for Nova Scotia, where he is to be stationed. He will be succeeded at Chatham by the Rev. W. Sykes, M.A., from Devonport. Gen. George Powell Higginson died on the 19th inst., at Cannes, where he had been staying during the past winter. He entered the army as ensign in the Ist Regiment of Guards in 1805, and served with his regiment in Sicily in 1807, in the cam paign in the north of Spain, with Sir John Moore, in 1808 and 1809. He was present at the battle of Corunna. He ,'went with the expedition to Wal cheren in 1809. He joined the Grenadiers. in Por tugal, in 1812, and advanced with the army into Spain in 1813 ; he embarked with his regiment at Bordeaux, when the army left France in 1814. He went with reinforcements to the Netherlands in June, 1815, ani arrived at Paris shortly after its capture, and remained in France during the three years of its occupation by the allied army. In 1830 he was appointed aide-de-camp to Lord Hill, then Commander-in-Chief. Gen. Higginson was ap pointed Col. of the 94th Foot, in January, 1855, and his commissions bore date as follows :—Ensign, Nov. 6, 1805 ; Lieut. and Capt., April 3, 1811 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., Oct. 26, 1820 ; Col., Jan. 10, 1837 ; Major-Gen., Nov. 9, 1846 ; Lieut.-Gen., June 20, 1851 ; and Gen, Nov. 9, 1862. By his death the colonelcy of the 94th Regiment becomes vacant. The Cameleon, 17, 200 horse-power, Commander T. M. Jones, from the Pacific, has been stripped and dismantled in the steam basin, and will be paid off into the third division of the Steam Reserve in the Medway, on Saturday. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :--Capt. William C. Chamberlain, of the Resistance, to the Asia, for service in the Re serve, vice Caldwell; Commander J. E. Hunter to the Amazon, commissioned ; Lieut. D'Arcy A. Denny, as lieut. commanding. to the Forward, vice Fox, promoted ; Lieut. R. H. Thompson, as lieut. commanding to the Doterel, vice Elliot promoted; Lieut. Somerled M'Dougall to the Hastings, as Flag Lieut. to Rear-Admiral Charles Frederick ; Lieut. John J. F. Bell, Lieut. Edward A. Bolitho, Edward S. Evans, and Lieut. Francis F. Liardet to the Curacoa ; Lieut. Charles S. Broome, Lieutenant Harry L. H. Veitch, and Lieut. Philip H. C. Wogan to the Duncan ; Lieut. Astley R. Cooper and Lieut. Arthur S. Phillpotts to the Narcissus ; John G. O'Connell, master, to the Amazon ; Victor A. Brad shaw, midshipman, to the Barracouta ; A. M‘Leod and Wm. W. Pughe, midshipmen, to the Pallas ; Gilbert E. Harrison, naval cadet, to the Challenger; Fred. Day, engineer, to the Duke of Wellington ; Robt. W. Jones, engineer, to the Minstrel, commis sioned ; Thos. W. Sandars, engineer, to the Asia, for the Harrier; James Stinen, engineer, to the Cherub, commissioned; W. Waterfield, engineer, to the Royal George ; It. Sutherland, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Cherub ; R. Phillips, first-class assist.-engi neer, to the Minstrel ; Alfred J. Allen, acting second-class assist.-engineer, to the Cherub ; M. G. Moore, acting second-class assist.-engineer, to the Minstrel ; Staff-Commander Edward C. T. Youel, to command the Industry ; Lieut. Charles 11. Stir ling, to the Bellerophon ; Edward C. Smyth, mas ter additional, to the Cumberland for the Endy mion ; Sub-Lieut. Albert B. Jenkyns, to the Gla diator ; George A. Wells, chief engineer, to the Barracouta ; James Cooper, chief engineer, to the Amazon commissioned ; W. W. Hutton, second master, to the Industry ; Dr. Pierce Mansfield, surg., to the Amazon ; W. Roche (a), assist.-surg., to the Black Prince ; Dr. W. Yarde, assist.-surg., to the Industry ; 11. V. Forrest, assist.-paymaster in-charge, to the Industry ; Edwin Hawke, engi neer, to the Amazon ; Henry Jones, engineer, to the Industry ; "J. Watson (b), first-class assist.- engineer, to the Amazon ; 'l'. Young, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Industry ; T. G. Punnett, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Industry ; and B. R. King, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Indus try as supernumerary. Workmen's Clubs and Institute Union. The second social meeting held under the auspices of this society took place last night in the lower room of Exeter Hall, Lord Lyttleton presiding. The question for the evening was the reduction of the franchise, and in opening the discussion his lordship briefly adverted to the Government measure, but he declined to say whether he should support it or not, supposing it should ever reach the House of Lords. He could only repeat what occurred in one of Mr. Buckstone's comedies, " Time will show." Mr. Cyrus Symons, a working man, delivered an ad dress, contending that a large extension of the fran chise would promote the well-being of all classes of the community. He approved of fixing the limit at £7, and said one good effect he anticipated from giving working men a chance of getting into Parlia ment wouldbe the example of brevity they would set in their speeches. There had already been too much talk on this question, and the debates ge nerally required shortening. In the discussion which ensued the Government bill was generally accepted, and it was urged that the only remedy for corruption was the ballot. Mr. Geo. Brook, of the Reform League, one of the speakers, assured Lord Elcho, who sat in the body of the meeting, that his explanation at St. Martin's Hall had given much satisfaction to the working classes. Another speaker hoped the end of the week would see Mr. Glad stone's measure passed with a " crashing" majority, and that the House of Lords would follow suit. The noble chairman, in reply to this remark, said he thought if the bill came up with a " crashing" ma jority their lordships would think twice before they threw it out ; but if it did not, it would be another matter. Lord Elcho, responding to an appeal made to him, said he was a subscriber to the institution, believing that it would be the means of doing a great deal of good ; and he had attended in the hope of learning the views of the working class upon this question, which, it was said, were not understood in the House of Commons. He had listened with the utmost attention to what had been said, and with the exception of the argument that the fran chise was to be an educational instrument, he had heard nothing to support the proposition which had been advanced. It had been argued that by lower ing the franchise the man was to be raised, but his view of the matter was that it was most desirable the man should he induced to work himself up to the franchise. The debate terminated with a vote of thanks to the 'noble chairman, who was accom panied by his relative, the Earl of Lichfield. Sidi-Mohammed, Sultan of Morocco, who had been recently sufferilg from carbuncle, is now quite out of danger. As one cf his wives and four of his slaves bad died of the samo milady great alarm prevailed in the country. Public rejoicings took place, and alms and pre sents wero distributed by his Royal Highness on the occasion of his recovery. rAnvERTISEMENT. - - Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— The Best Way.—To gain any end there aro often many ways, but there is alvays a best way. This statement ap plies with wonderful force to Holloway's remedies, which overcome ill-health by driving noxious matter from the frame, by repairing iroken or injured structures, and by establishing regularly of action. This is the only safe and feasible method o f com b at i ng di seases an d se cur i ng sound health. Witt pure blood, good digestion, strong nerves, and perfect f tnct i onal order, m ost maladies may be vanquished and strei g th surely re - es tablished. The bal samic and healing quilities of Holloway's ointment render it invaluable in the nursery for healing cuts, scratches, and sores, for allaying inflammations, reducing swellings, and cleansing unhealthy skins. Miscellaneous American News. THE GREAT BOND ROBBERY--.ARREST OF TIIE THIEF AND RECOVERY OF THE WHOLE PROPERTY. —The New York papers contain full accounts of the arrest of the daring perpetrator of the New York bond robbery, for the detection of whom a large reward was offered. It appears that the City Marshal, J. V. L. Westcott, of Newburyport, being at New York at the time of the robbery of Mr. Lord, of United States securities and other property oc curred, got on the trail of one of the prin cipal robbers, and, aided by two deputy mar shals of New York, arrested John Jones on the train between New York and New Haven on the 19tkinstant. Jones was taken to Newbury port. Some of the stolen property was found in his possession. After considerable hard work the whole thing has been thoroughly sifted, and the result is the recovery of all the stolen property. Jones was taken to New York this evening. Mar shal Westcott has attained a high position by this act, and earned a reward which places him among the rich men of Newburyport. Another account says that Mr. Westcott, after hearing of the robbery, devoted his attention to the subject, and sending to Charlestown obtained information that led him to seek an interview with Mr. Lord, during which he informed him of his suspicions. Mr. Lord was incredulous, and a second interview took place, at which two de tectives were present. Mr. Lord declined taking any steps in the matter, and told Mr. Westcott that any further action must be taken through the de tective police. United States Marshal Murray, of New York, at Mr. Westcott's request, furnished him with two of his deputies to assist him. On the evening of March 19 Mr. Westcott saw the man whom he suspected enter the cars at the New Haven railroad station in New York. Mr. Westcott and the two deputies took passage on the same train, and soon after starting went to the baggage car and found a trunk with the initials of the suspected man's name upon it. He secured its deten tion, and going to where Jones was seated, informed him that he was his prisoner. Jones yielded without resistance, and was ironed. Westcott arrived here safely with his prisoner on Tuesday of last week, and Jones has been closely guarded at aihotel since. In Jones's trunk was found eight bonds of $l,OOO each, payable to Rufus L. Lord, thus proving that Westcott had fastened upon the right man. Detective Heath, of Boston, after a consultation with Mr. Westcott, went to New York and, in company with a detective of that city, com menced following up the trail. The details of the robbery show it to have been an exceedingly bold affair. Jones engaged the attention of Mr. Lord while three accomplices robbed the safe. After the robbery the four persons engaged in it went to Central Park, and upon opening the two tin boxes and the pocket-book were astonished at the large amount of the haul they had made. Detectives Young, of New York, and Jones and Heath, of Boston, left with the prisoner (John Jones) this evening for New York. The property will be de livered up to Mr. Lord on Monday.—Boston Advertiser. SAM. HOUSTON'S DEATII.—An interesting article on Sam. llouston in the April number of _Harper's Magazine thus speaks of his death :—" But if Houston's death where ended while adversity im pended over his country and his house he was not without hope in the great future, where the only war was punished by the expulsion of the Great Enemy of mankind, and of Peace. He died, as he had lived a number of years, a Calvinistic Baptist, in full faith and fellowship with his church. His last days were given to prayers for his distressed family and country, and in spiritual preparation, while yet on the narrew strip of land which sepa rates man from eternity.' These were his own words. In the absence of a minister of his own de nomination, for several weeks before his dissolution, he had the consolation of a Presbyterian divine, with whom he had lately reconciled previous differ ences. In the same manner he forgave all his ene mies, and he died as none but a Christian can die. He left a widow and seven children, no one of whom had obtained years of majority. He had owned a few slaves. He no longer looked to them as a de pendence after the first gun was fired. His lands are not available to his family. So that Houston died, as Benton said, a public man ought to die— poor. He had married late. His widow is a ster ling woman, who had greatly influenced and im proved his later years. In his darkest hours she had been his best adviser." GENERAL GRANT AND THE PRESIDENCY. The business of President making has begun in the West. Already two influential Union papers in Chicago have raised General Grant's name at the head of their editorial columns for President in 1868, and we copy below a somewhat significant article from the Galena Gazette—an old neighbour and friend of the General's—indicating that he would not be averse to the arrangement proposed : —" From our knowledge of General Grant we feel authorised in. saying, that in the future, as in the past, his position, and his opinions on all the great questions which are convulsing the country, will be made known as far as they can be through his official acts. He will want no other platform to stand upon before the American people than that which he makes by such official acts and by his military orders. They will be such as will show, when the time comes, that the great masses of the loyal people of this country can repose implicit confidence in him. We know all his hopes and sympathies are with the great and patriotic Union party of this country. In feeling and sentiment he is thoroughly identified with the millions of loyal people who, in the long years of war, and carnage, and blood, gave their heart, their blood, and their treasure to their country. He has neither sympathy nor toleration for any party, nor any set of men who were against the country in its terrible time of trial and peril through which it has safely passed. With no ambition but to serve the interests of his country, guided by the loftiest patriotism, looking to a regenerated nation, now resting upon the basis of universal liberty, all loyal and good men can now turn to him as their reliance and hope. If the good of the nation de mand it, there can be no doubt that he will, at the proper time, respond to the unanimous voice of his loyal countrymen, and permit them to rally under his banner, which will prove no less victorious in peace than it was in the storm-cloud of war." HIGH RATE OF MORTALITY AMONG LIQUOR SELLERS.—The National Provident Institution, an English life insurance company, has discontinued issuing policies to publicans, owing to the high rate of mortality among that class of citizens. The statistics of its own actuary led to this action, which is still further justified by the annual report" of the Manchester and Salford Licensed Victuallers' Asso ciation. This body numbers 481 members, and the loss by death last year was 39, being a death-rate of of about 80 in 1,000, while the death-rate for the whole population of the country is 18, and for trades considered unhealthy, such as shoemakers, tailors, &c., only 15 in 1,000. These figures speak for themselves, and show that the liquor traffic, like Saturn, swallows its own children. This state of things has been noticed before. The evidence before a Parliamentary committee in 1853 brought out the great mortality of liquor sellers, and up ward of ten years ago one of the Registrar-General's annual reports contained statistical data, showing that at every decennial period, reckoning from 25 years, the mortality among drink sellers was half as much again as the average of all classes collec tively of men above twenty years of age. CONCERNING JEFF. DAVIS.—A Fortress Monroe correspondent of the .New York herald says that Jeff. Davis's health continues good, and he keeps up the same- habits to which he has been accustomed for soma time past, including his daily outdoor exercise. He reads much, and keeps well posted on passing events. An officer who recently under took to draw out the rebel ex-chieftain on Fenian ism met with a complete failure, as Jeff. had a very mean opinion of the Fenian prospects. Jeff., through a great portion of his time disposed to be social and conversational, is frequently seized with fits of sourness and reticence. lie seldom alludes to his trial. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Tl3lES.—About 3 o'clock on Saturday morning we are to arrive at a crisis rather curious than grave. Two or three votes this way or that are to decide, not the fate of a nation, or of a legislature, or even perhaps of a Government, but of a manceuvre. Her Majesty's Ministers have not met an extraordinary occasion, for there is no such occasion ; they have not hit on any startling novelty, for nothing can be older or more familiar than their proposals ; but they consider that they have divided their foes, and are destroying them in d e t a il. S o i n the small lours of Saturday are we to know whether the wonderful piece of strategy is so far successful. In an age when a whole nation —nay, two whole nations—will divide themselves into the partisans of two horses, and enter into that question with a good deal of bitterness, we cannot wonder at the interest awakened by a race on the Westminster course, especially when it promises to be neck and neck to the whining-post. We decline to back either horse. Since the last news from the Parliamentary Tattersall's, Cam bridge has sent a vote to the side of the Amend ment, two votes have been lost to Government at Lancaster, two more at Windsor, and it must look to the result of other Election Committees with a certain misgiving. Such is the counting of noses upon a question the matter of which is nothing less than the basis of our Constitutional system—the men to elect the men that choose the rulers, and that dictate the policy of this great Empire. Some how or other there is a universal feeling that a very great business has been reduced to a very poor anti climax, and that a matter substantially of national life and death has been brought to a technicalissue, and made a game of forfeits. As it seems quit im possible that Samson can be held by such green withes as these, or that any important issue can really depend on a feat of the ring, however won derful in its way, there is a growing impression that it cannot so much signify which way the small ma jority will be. If on the side of Government, it will not secure the passing of the bill, or even make that at all probable • and if against Gover nmen t, it w ill not, it is hoped, the country of their services. That a small majority in their favour will not give the bill headway enough to carry it unscathed through committee, and compel the submission of the Lords, is too self-evident to require further re mark. As to the contingency of a small majority against them, they will, no doubt, if it should arise, do the right thing according to the laws and cus toms of the country. They will place their resig nations in her Majesty's hands, and give their oppo nents an opportunity of forming a Government if they can. No Government, however, can be formed with any prospect of success except upon a Liberal basis and including a good many members of the present Government, and, in the event of this being found impossible, our present rulers will, it is thought, have nothing to do but accept a defeat, weed out a few of those most irretrievably com mitted, and, for this session at least, direct their attention to business of more pressing urgency. It cannot be alleged that there has been any mis carriage of deliberation, any denial of hearing, or that there is more in the question than appears. Several times within living memory the Minister has had to allege facts that could not be divulged, fears that could not be expressed, opinions of the highest authority that could only be confided to statesmen, and factious obstructions that did not permit the debate to be fairly conducted. In the present in stance the most remarkable thing about the debate is the open field it has afforded for the utterance of every opinion and every argument on the Minis terial side. There has been quite as much variety of statement and of feeling on that side as on the other. Mr. Bright himself, as if the very character of the discussion permitted any amount of private divergency, has declared his belief that, so far as he has taken the trouble to inquire, Mr. Gladstone's Electoral Statistics are worthless upon the very question at issue. The debate has presented us with a succession of Essays, rather on the plan of some recent publications, in which the only bond of union is that made by the bookbinder. Industrious politicians who have taken the trouble to get up the Blue-books, and who really do believe in " working men," have been disappointed to find the debate going on night after night, without bringing them at all nearer the object of their political interest and faith, or at all nearer any particular ideal of Parliamentary Reform. We cannot say how this is, unless it be that there is a complete want of mental tension on the subject, arising, as it can only arise, from the want of any goal in view. The other night a member complained that there was a large body of young members who wished to speak, but under existing arrangements and circumstances saw no chance of being able, or, indeed, of being allowed, to do so. In the short conversation that ensued it seemed to be thought a matter of very little consequence whether they spoke or not. On both sides of the House there is one common wish that Government should have its say out—that it should make a clean breast—that it should tell everything that it knows, and declare the whole of its design. By the merest accident it was apprehended the other evening that Mr. Sheridan would insist on interrupting the debate by a night on fire insurance duties, but that gentleman has promptly declared there could not be a greater mistake, as he could not think of balking the public impatience in a matter so important as reform. Of course this is right; but perhaps it assumes an impatience which does not, exist. It is possible that more interest might be cre ated by a few interruptions. As it is, the stream of debate loses itself in a wide channel which it cannot fill, and in which it cannot make a straight course, or attain to the dignity of a current. Were there but a rock or two in the way—would the banks just con tract themselves, then we should hear the rush of waters. The crowning sign and proof of this indiffe rence is that unhappy boast made to show the inge nuity and success of this measure. The 100 repre sentatives of the condemned cities and boroughs are perfectly satisfied with it, and see in it nothing to alarm them. If it is worth anything, and answers the purpose of its framers, it will deprive every one of them of his snug little seat, and compel him to try his eloquence, or other resources he may possess, on constituencies of not less than 2,000 electors. Are there really 100 men in the House of Commons ready to offer themselves in a human hecatomb for the inauguration of a new electoral edifice ? These 100 men are not more patriotic than others, norless wise. They possess that secret lore as to electoral classes and the workingmen which, it appears, is only hidden in blue-books, and which certainly has not yet appeared in the debate. These 100 men are the depositories of knowledge and the masters of the po sition. It is to win their votes that Lord Russell ap pears before the world with a half-measure a trun cated policy, and a dividedparty. They will vote for this bill and no other, and Lord Russell h as conde scended to their policy. If this be so, we have nothing to do but turn round and see who these are, and what they can be about, who accept an invitation meant to be their destruction, and lend a willing hand in the first stage of their own slaughter. Do they really think they are performing a grand sacrifice, and, like the condemned in ancient times, carrying on their backs the instruments of their own torture and capital execution ? They think no such thing. They do not believe in the efficacy of the vote to be given on Saturday morning. They know that the proposed addition to the constituencies may or may not create additional demands of an unpar liamentary character, but that it will be politically insignificant. The oroughs thus augmented from the class below will return the same quality of men they now do, and we shall approach the question of redistribution under the same difficulties as those which have deterred Lord Russell from so much as touching it. DAILY NEWS.—Speculators for a fall are very busy just now with the movements of Italian troops. Having received a check in Germany, they are pur suing their operations in a country where the pos sibility of war can never be pronounced extinct so long as an Austrian army remains encamped be tween the Mincio and the Adriatic. Rumours of the concentration of Italian troops on the Austrian frontier have always an air of probability, and may easily be worked into a semblance of facts by dex terous manipulations of what is called " informa tion." Recently, indeed, the mutual exasperation of the two great German Powers, the noise of their offensive and defensive despatches, and the rancor ous display of their warlike preparations, have set the imaginations of the mischiefmongers on lire, and played havoc with the savings of credulous inven tors. It was more than enough that an Italian gene ral had visited Berlin and Hamburg, received the courtesies due to his military rank, visited arsenals, and attended reviews. From the arrival of General Govone in the Prussian capital to the conclusion of an alliance between Italy and Prussia was but a step. More than half the young linguists in pub lic offices, and especially the budding diplo matists, seem to be employed now-a-days in concocting mock treaties and' counterfeiting official documents of the gravest import with the most en terprising levity. Public journals, so often and so inconsiderately accused of exercising their invention in the absence of facts, are reduced to the thankless but necessary duty of contradicting false reports. Official amateurs cultivate forgery as a fine art. Telegraphic agencies vie with each other in antici pating events, more or less possible, summarising State papers which have never been written, and pointing the moral of contingencies that have not happened. There is no fairer field in all Europe for the manoeuvres of these ingenious disturbers of the public peace than Italy. Take Italy, France, and Austria, and shuffle them well together, and you may turn up apanic at any moment. Add 111. de Bismarck and the panic becomes a conflagration. Unfortu nately, the chronic crisis of the Italian kingdeni, be tween France and Austria, lends itself only too eas?, ith to the combinati ons o f calculating prophets. finances at the utmost st ra in, with an enemy in the midst, a Shylock for ally, and a peace that is .an armistice undefined and unconditional, wasting lik e a fever the energies it intensifies, Italy is the na tural prey of those who live by the dangers and disasters they provoke or precipitate. Of course ne friend of that interesting and important country can pretend to be blind t o th e precar i ousn ess and insta bility of its fortu nes , so l ong as its independenceanu unity are not secured. Not the least of the dangers that encompass Italy at this moment is the incessan t temptation which besets he r statesmen to mak e desperate rush ou t o f d omes ti c difficulties and t o set all the future on the hazard of a die. Of the two o great and const an t ev il s , an enemy th a t prefers a fals A e point of honour to a c hi va l rous reconciliation, an an . ally who exacts in secret the price of bed raises unfulfilled and the usury of a diaseohleuL .vassalage,.. the latter is beyond all question the most insidious and the most consuming. Yet we a r very far from believing that the Italian statesmen of to-day are so destit u t e o f th e h ere ditary astute ness_ and patience of th e i r race as t o suffer thenlr selves to be made th e dupes of occasions no t their own. To our thi n ki ng the text of a treaty b etween Italy and Prussia wasnot so much a premature as a silly fabrication. Such a d ocum ent would, u nder any circumstances, be superfluous. It needs no to acuteness of calculation, no gift of propneeY7 understand that it is the si m pl es t prudence on t' . part of Italy to be ready to take advantage of e r i „f portunities in Europe. But to take advantage opportunities is one thing ; to consult the convene' once of doubtful fri en d s an d d ang erous allies quite another. The visit of General Govone ,0 Prussia at a time when hostilities in German. seemed imminent might be explained, if it suite o in . the purpose of the speculato rs t o e xplain anything the simplest manner, w heth er or n ot the Cab in . of Berlin had made advances to the Italian Govern anent or simulated a desire for closer relations) in the event of a German war. The most prudent a n obvious step the Italian Government could take via , to send an officer of military experience and sags., city, and specially acqu a i n t e d w ith the organisat ie 7 of the Prussian army, t o j u d ge f or hi m self ville the • the warlike preparatio n s so loudlyand °stout& ta ously announced by I. de Bismark's journals wer e M really such as to indicate a seriousresol v e, or noth ing l more than the marching and countermarching. ° supernumeraries across a stage, and mere theatr ical thunder. General Govone will doubtless have satis fied himself of the true value of all this trumpetn i g t and parade, and will have informed his Governurn„ of the political and military aspects of a tedionoof German quarrel. But the misinterpreted mission General Govone can be no excuse to the Austria, Government for pretending to treat the wild ant ! unfounded reports of a concentration of Italian tree!! on her Venetian frontier as realities, to be enc eilli tered by a sudden increase and displacement of force: by hurried movements and by costly anneal-env! which can only have the effect of creating en ie d gencies ever present to the susceptible conscienc e a , the Cabinet of Vien na . Th e wor st of these In„, nacing military move men t s i s th a t the Italian t at vernment may feel itself obli g ed to resort to sull i measures for its own protecti on . Up to the pres e- Gl i time the Cabinet of Florence has done nothing. ~ the kind ; it has in no way threatened the Aust ria frontier, and the provocation, if provocation t hey , be, has proceeded from Vienna. It might be snl 3 _ posed that the Austrian Government was cont ent :, considering the actual condition of its finang s d e with the cost of its preparations to resist 13-1-: St Bismarck. In her defensive armaments again a f Prussian aggression, Austria had the symPa ti l, be all Europe. That sympathy will certainly ne":„, v extended to fictitious fears of Italian aggres- 51 ", c ; and to offensive preparations, which can have other motive or purpose than to exhaust the Ita . " exchequer. COUNTRY MARKETS. GAINSBOROUGH—TUESDAY. with Our Corn Exchange to-day was thinly supPlie — st wheat. The full rates of last week were realised for "In% sorts—white making from 52s to 53s ; and mixed frora loil to 51s per qr. Barley scarce and dear. Spring cor n generally firm. HULL.—TUESDAY. liSli Since our last a firm business has been done in A-11,.•r. wheat, at an advance in this district of is to 2 s P e yo. In foreign there have not been many transac tions• e t day there was a short supply of English wheat, which i ll a fair sale at a slight advance. English old white wheat, 48s to 52s ; old red, 42 s to 465,: Barley, English, 37s to 425. Oats, Russian, 24s W Beans, now English, 43s to 445. Peas, English blue, to 41s Od ; grinding, 40s to 41s Od per 36 stone. SALISBURY.—TUESDAY. ff Of We had a short supply of wheat on offer, part be.Ao,d. better quality ; but late rates were is per qr advan c '„t Barley was in active request, and made is to 2s on re v figures. A moderate business was done in oats, be 3 , l) c i and peas, generally at last week's figures. Flour rtue firm. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised fr°loll 38s to 52s ; barley, 35s to 445; oats, 22s to 32s ; beans, '7O to 525; and peas, 42s to 50s per qr. Tares, from 6$ to, Gd per bushel ; Best bread, 13d ; household ditto, I,' per 81b loaf. Flour, 3 , 1 s to 38s per sack. MONMOUTHSHIRE—TUESDAY. At most of the markets in this district there was a ti l l :3 c l ; able supply of wheat, more especially home-grown , Iv sold readil at the late advaced rates. The following are the average quotations:—Whe ..a" r 3dd; 5s Od to 5s 6d p er b us h e l ; i n f er i or ditt o , 4s 9d to 55 ;i n d- white, 5s 9cl to Gs ; malting barley, 36s to 43s per qr ; g . 2 65; lug ditto, 27s to 325; beans, 44s ; white oats, 24s ti d to black ditto, 23s 6d to 24 s d. LYNN —TUESDAY. hite, New wheat, 42s to 46s ; new re d , 41 s t o 44s • 01: 1 w .„." -- for Ms to 53s ; old red, 48s to 51 s per 36 stone. sr, malting, 37s to 40s ; secondary, 33s to 355. Oats, Oa's, 24s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 43s to 465. r ° 36s to 40s per 28 stone. NEWCASTLE—TUESDAY. heat At to-day's market there was but a small supply of w r 010 from the growers and coastwise, and not very much 'roe abroad. The trade ruled firm, with a dull business , 155 t English and foreign bringing the extreme rates of week. Barley was a small show, with more incl u : ‘ ,.l; Malt was firm. Beans and peas were unchanged. moved off at an advance of is per qr. Flour maintai n late prices. The average prices of Briti s h gra i n f or th e w eek D 3 r la been—wheat, 47s lld ; oat s , 30 s 11d ; b ar l ey, — s per 9.". [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Consumption, and all nervous, bi1ie,,.(13 stomach, and liver co m pl a i n t s, i n every stage, are 013 1 1 ,7 0 ; gravated and accelerated by d rugs of every d esc ription. " .ta perfectly curable by Du B arry ' s h ea l t h restor i n g ReVitit a d Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases whiell been considered hop eless; suc h as indigestion (dri3e,,P4:o- cough, asthma, cons um pti on , h a bit ua l cons tipation hcea, all gastric derangements, haemorrhoids, live. c 0 re plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness' fevers, °tune throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises 1 1 0 0, head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities. eruPt—.l.. hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, P-ot pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, er r 3 e 0, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or a ",, e e e r, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the nu Old er ; pains in the pit of the stomach and between the sh Sac. We quote a few.—Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James W ber se d timber merchant, of Frint ley Surrey, of thirty years' dil ee d, lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partia l " 013 ness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of ware Ito nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nell ° o - fancies.—Cure, No. 1,771. Lord St uar t d e D ec i e s, Lord -1 1 332 . tenant of Waterford, of many y ears ' dy s p e psia.—No• 4 !; oo , Fifty years' indescribable agony fr om dysp e psia, nervous -- ncl asthma, cough, const patien, flatulency, spasms, sickness' a T. °Jailing —Maria Jolly.- Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. Joie e . e : i ity Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and IA 01)1 of the liver. which had resisted all medical treatmell4ll% In tins, lib, 25 9d ; 21b, 4s ed ; 51b, 118 ; 121 b, 225 n . 405.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lonte likens; also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; at 61, Graceeharch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Rishopg a c ; street Within ; 63, 350, and 298, Oxford- s t reet ; 33 0 , Stran 6, 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tott en h am-court - ro ad ; ' 0 upper-street, Islington, N. ; H arvey, Notting-hill; Cl°4- Brothers, 65, High-street ; an d Stubbs, Queen's-terrao°, John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and elle mists.--Beware of snurious imitations. Births. s V•i ALCOCK—On the 25th inst., at Bickley Parsonag°l the wife of the R e v. J. P. Alcock, of a son. rden Sl GIBBES—On the 24th inst., a t 36, B runsw ick-ga Campden-hill, the wife of W. Gibbes, Esq., of a s° 73 * FROOM—On the 25th inst., at 4, C am b r id ge - sq uare, , park, the wife of C. P. Froom, ' Esq of a son. 7 TT •(1 0 ' SAMSON—On the 25th inst., at 10, Sussex-gardens, park, the wife of Louis Samson, Esq., of a son. Marriages. St' BOYLE—MONEY—On the 24th inst., a t th e Churc h ct Martin's-in-the-Fields, Maj or H on. E. Boyle, 85th-, r‘ to Ida Waldegrave, daught er o f the litte General X- °- and the late Lady Laura Money. HAnnis—FßAsEll—On the 24th inst., at 4, Glo,n, fi „ n b lit t s l; street, Edinburgh, David Harris, Esq , to E.,;' 4 7; c to Sutherland, only daughter of A. Fraser, Esq., Iv rp-r A s.i." the Signet, Sheriff Substitute, Fort Wiliam, 'Jnverl'" shire. Deaths. CHREES—On the 18th inst., at Croydon, John Chrees, vs 4" aged Cl. FOGDEN--On the 24th inst, at Donnington, near Chioh tor, George Fogden, aged 85. C. HARGRATE— On the 23d inst., at Bray, near Dublin', t he Hargrave, LL.D., F.R.S., one of th e Judges °A Landed Estates Court, Ireland. HENISLEY--On the 21st inst., at Gotham, Henry Ile ri/siel' Esq., aged 78. PHILLIPS — On the 23d inst., C. V. Phillips, of L ance' House, West Mailing, Kent, aged 73. , O' TOD --On the 17th ult., at Kamptee, Lieut.-Colonel Tod, Madras Staff Corps. nE O London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM AND- 1 12, of No. 112, Strand, ranter, at Tuz SUN offlao, NL O. t y f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy .41 the Cow" Riddleem—Thursday, April 26, 1866. 14 C EAT I( 1 uubli It i s ome. Sol, Vblc tl 8, Kin C' No 'bar ( allle, Thi 111.1 tam, ° et or o no 'r at Of an 13, ~„ B 1 , X 0 4 4, Of j i t ' l %Ili 11 3 , 10110, 14 1 Or to oft, th e ' it s i ale .e eol Calm tth INTR 124 $ 10: E arras r UDp OWe], Drod 54 Esai r r TE, • 40 1 , 4.1 *4s,.] A 1 4 1 le. 6 A 4 1 44 I' %Ai