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Nib nlAsftlA at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. OhservA thA Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork brand Kinahan's LL Whisky." N°. 23,259. AT UT a tl n A co L LOAN nor:te4by T rit...n ASSOCIATION tisso) Acr of Ul\ t 0 i.. 14, RUSSELL-STREET. COVENT-G4RDEN, LONDON. Prompt ADVANCES on all description of security. F.rms free on application by letter to ANSION-TIOUSE of the SUFFERER EXPLOSIONS. FUND for the RELIEF by the recent COLLIERY EDWARD RARPER, Secretary. The Right lion tl R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. Samuel Morley, Esq. Geo. Moore, Esq. Mr. Alderman J. P. Gassiot, Esq. Christopher T. Gabriel, Esq. Frederick Thompson, Esq. R. A. Gray, Esq. Colonel Stuart Wortley. The f the he LORD MAYOR. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Wate,rlow. Mr. Sheriff Lycett. Mr. Alderman liesley. Mr. Alderman•Dakiu. James Hill, Esq. R. N. Fowler, Esq. W.J. Maxwell ; Esq. Mr. Alderman Cotton. lie is earnestly drawn to the terrible calamity produced by COUNTRY lIOTELS, PUBLIC lIOUSES, ant BUSINESSES. FURNESS and KNEE'S List on application. Partin dars for insertio reacived until the 27th of the month at their AUCLION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES, 5, Azar-street. Sirand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing• Cr‘ - ‘ss Railway Station. T HE GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. no attention of the pub: suffering consequent on the Established 1821. No. 11. Lombard-street, London, B.C. REDUCTION OF FIRE INSMIANCE DUTY. f , ubseribed Capital, Two Million.. Total Invested Fundt u: wards of £2 7.50.000. Total Income upwards of £320,000. the recent collic;ry 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 to 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.H. the Princess of Wales The Corporation of London Amount already advertised £9,004 18 0 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE POLICIES which expire at CHRISTMAS must be RENEWED Within Fifteen Days at this 0111 c or with the Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become void. All Insurances now have the benefit of the Reduced Duty Of Is. Bd. per cent. For Prospectus and other informati n apply to the Com rany's Agents, or to T. TALLEMACH. Secretary. EXHIBITORS 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 in Paris, or who may go there for pleasure only. Subscriptions will be received by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor; Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co. 54, Lom bard-street ; Messrs. Coutts a nd C o ., Str an d ; Messrs. Glyn, Mills ' and Co., 67, Lombard-street; Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., 1, Lombard-street ; Messrs. Robarts, Lub bock, and Co., Lombard-street ; Messrs. Dimsdale, Fowler, and Co., 50, Cornhill ; 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 ; National Provincial Bank of England and all its branches ; and by the several members of the Committee. pR IN TIN G. —TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &o.—The Print ing and Machining of Newspapers, qtr., done ou exceed inetartititrable. tatillitr;• - use of Edltorfal and Publishing (Vices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of Slirticulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager "Sun" Printing Offices, 3, Church row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. - JOSEPH GIBBS, Secretary. Mansion House, Doc. 20, 1866. ' 1 ,..,3 /.. 4 1. ' 7 • ' p ,,,,/,,.,.,‘,/ . ",/___ • ......1 ‘-.-...• - g • ._,I , '' ' '..'4-• 7 - : rl :I - 1. : ', E• • •.4 . 7 d--4C 1,!....-7-7A... _,i i • I . 1. . .'t ....... : . -...... 41 ... -.. 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BARNSLEY, Wednesday Evening. 2 PRICE.... ....... 4d. STAMPED....Sd North Staffordshire Colliery Explosion. HANLEY, Wednesday Evening. The sump at the North Staffordshire Coal and Iron Company's pit at Talke has been emptied, and together with the entire workings, been completely examined, without the discovery of any additional corpses. The exact number of deaths by the ex plosion is, therefore, 91. The general committee for the relief of the per sons bereaved, held a meeting this afternoon ; Mr. Smith Child in the chair ; at which the following resolution was adopted :—" That in the opinion of this committee the following scale of relief should he adopted, subject to alteration by this committee if circumstances arise to render it desirable, viz.:— To each widow, ss. per week ; to each child, is. 6d. per week ; to any infirm adult dependent at the time of the accident on one of the killed, in each case a sum not exceeding ss. per week. The com mittee will require the children on whose account they make payments be sent to school, the school fees being provided out of the fund. In case of this rule not being strictly complied with the weekly payment will be discontinued." It will be seen by this resolution that the amountof relief to be granted is much smaller than in the case of the Hartley acci dent, and that there is no danger of the poor people being pampered, as was alleged in the case of Hartley. This committee has also decided that a marriage portion of £5 shall be given to each widow marry ing again, whereas at Hartley the marriage portion to each widow was £2O. It was further resolved, WiAtk thi4, o 9 l 44o44lficttiftd Ate. a_vamatbr Staffordshire Coal and Iron Company (Li[lifted), and with their resident `manager, Mr. Johnson, and to express its admiration of the liberality with which they have come forward to relieve the dis tress caused by the late disastrous explosions at their colliery." In the course of conversation, Mr. Gemmell, the treasurer, stated that he had received a letter from the Rev. Charles Kemble, rector of Bath, reporting that £467 6s. id. had been col lected in that city, of which one-fifth, or £9l 9s. 3d., would be appropriated to Talke. The Rev. C. P. Wilbraham •inquired upon what principle one-fifth had been allotted to Talke, and the chairman replied that as 360 lives had been lost at Barnsley and 90 at Talke, the proportion of loss at the latter place was just one-fifth of the whole. Mr. Roden, mayor of Hanley, said he had received a letter froin - Mr. , Patrick Beales, Mayor of Cam bridge, asking 'whether it was true that there was a large surplus froth the Hartley Relief Fund, which was available for the sufferers by this explosion. Such an impression existed at Cambridge, and tended to check subscriptions. The chairman said the impression was certainly an erroneous one. The amount appropriated to the North Staffordshire mining district from the surplus of the Hartley fund was between £5OO and £6OO, and the in terest on the sum, which was all that was avail able, was rather more than £BO. Additional subscriptions, amounting to about £5OO, have been received. Facts with regard to this sad event are only few to-day. Nevertheless. the interest is kept up by various means. A story, which to some seemed most credible, - obtained circulation to-day that several French engineers, with a sort of diving-bell, had descended, or were about to descend, the shaft. We need scarcely say that no such thing was ever attempted. The work of carrying out the resolution passed at a meeting of engineers on Monday is being carried out. The scaffolding which is to be lowered down the No. 2 shaft is being constructed as quickly as possible, as well as the pipe to allow the enst to escape. A meeting of local engineers was held at the office this morning, when means for carrying out the former resolution was discussed, and the necessary orders were given. The state of the mine is about the same as it was on Monday and yester day. The spoil in the furnace and No. 1 shafts sub sides only a little. Mr. Normansel, the secretary of the South York shire Miners' Association, at a meeting held yester day evening in Barnsley, made an interesting speech, which shows that the association is taking the ques tion of relief up in a very liberal manner. He said that the executive had allowed each widow ss. per week since the explosion, and each child ls. whose father was a member of the union. The funds had become distressed, but they hoped that with the as sistance of the trades unions throughout the coun try to be able to carry their rules. Subscriptions were coming in, and that day £3OO had been sent from a Sheffield trade union unasked for. Each widow whose husband had fallen a victim to the explosion, and whose bodies had been recovered, had received £8 funeral money, and those whose husbands were still in the pit had received £4, the other half being reserved until the bodies were recovered, or for a time. The Executive had also made gra n t s to the widows and relatives of those who were not members in sums varying from 30s. to £2. Not less than £6O had also been spent in meat for Christmas dinners, which were dealt out in 41bs. to each widow, and lib. to every child. Members and non-members were alike the recipients of this charity. The relief committee had not as then given a penny in relief. The Executive hoped to be able to meet the wants of the widows and orphans, and A twtohueldfodrtoniagllhtinlytmheeiertng of the p power i to do so. guar dians a number of applicationsfor relief oor- were law mad e . yesterday afternoon. In addition to the usual elected guardians, the Rev. 11. B. Cooke and E. B. Be n a t. u mont, Esq., two ex offl n liberally which c i o m embers, were pre seThe g uardia i ns , t ea, te f tdeerarsmhionretd o dea di t sc ussio l took place iu prva with the applications. The number of those who applied was not so large as it was expected, but it seems that the poor sufferers understood that the meeting would be held at the usual hour, one o'clock, instead of which it was held at nine, in con sequence of the Christmas holidays and market day. 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 FONCIER -OF ENGLAND (LIMITED) ARE PREPARED TO RECEIVE APPLICATIONS FOR THE ABOVE SHARES IN T HE BELGIAN PUBLIC: WORKS COM PANY .(Limited). Capital £350,000, is 35,000 Shares, £lO each. Divided into 25,000 A Preference Shares, £lO each (being- the Shares now offend -for subscription), and 10,000 B De ferred Shares, of .£lo l eaci. K C Dutßcrons. Frederiti' Doulton, Esq., .31. P., Metropolitan Board of -Works. Albert Grant, Esq., M.P., London. Lieut.-Colonel Edward Neville, Clarges-street. • John Irving Pascoe, Esq., Highbury New Pa&"k. 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. RESIDENT ENGINEER. John Bevan Smith, Esq., C.E. BANKERS. t Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard street, E.C. SOLICITORS. Messrs. West and Xing, 3, Charlotte-row, Mansion House, E.C. • - r• BRozzßs► Francis,' Oope,, Esq., 1, Angel-nurt, Throgmorton• street, E.C.' . - Messrs: Pike addDevook 54, Threitatesdle-street, E.C. CircEs. . St. Clement's House, Clement's-lane, Laton, E.C. SECRETAB.Y. W. J. L. Heditot; Esq. • • : ,I,OBPECTIJS. Tke object of this 06,mpa.ny is to calikey out the conces sions granted by the Municipal Council - of Brussels, in con cert with the authorities of the -provliee of Brabant and the Belgian Government, for the drainage and coincident improvements of the capital of Belgium. The magnitude and value of these concession.; will be understood by the fact that they include subsidies to be received by the Company iu 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 these works were examined and verified by Mr. J. W. Bazslgotte, 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. His 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 take 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, divided into 25,000 .A. Prefer ence Shares and 10,000 B Deferred Shares. The privileges attached to the respective share capital are as follows : The A Preference Shares are 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, 17 71 1871, 6,250 „ £62,500, 77 77 1872, 6,250 „ £62,500, 1873, 6,250 „ £62,500, 77 71 Total shares 25,000 or £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 th 6 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 Vaal interest and bonus of 24} per cent. per annum. Those to be paid off on 22d January, 1871, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 20} per cent. per annum. Thoso 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 desire to place this small capital in the hands of bona fide investors. Thoso to be paid off on 22d January, 1873, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 16 per cent. per annum The V 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 £2 per Share on A Preference Shares in the above Company, 1 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, w' it e n required. And I au thorise you to insert my nit.lne on the register of members of the shares allotted to in s . Usual Signature Name in full Residence Profession Dato 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 GIIILN, that the LISTS of APPLICATION for SHARES in the above Company will be CLOSED TO-MORROW (FRIDAY), the 28th instant, for Lendon, and SATURDAY, the 29th instant, for Country applications. By ordor of the Board, W. J. L. lIEBIOT, Secretary. St. Clemant'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 Gs. for a Coloured one. The Arms of man and wife blended together in proper heraldic form. Tho proper heraldic Colours for servants' liveries, what buttons to be used, and how the carr i age s h ou ld b e pa i n t e d , 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 10s., 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. Culloton, Engraver to her Majesty an d R o y a l bourn- family stneQt (c also D orner of iesinker to St ,t DSartiu'fi TO: he Board of Trade 2,5, Oran- FAU -DE-VIE.—This Pure PALE BRANDY, 18s. per gallon, is v.( ry superior to recent importations of Cognac, recommended by the medical profession, and ex tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 38s. per dozen, or in a case 395., railway carriage psi 1.-11 RY BR)JTT and CO., Old Furnival's ery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent street, S.W. Estitblished 1829. . CONTRACT FOR BEECH WEDGES. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, 14th Dec" 1868. 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 tOtreat with such Persons as may bo willing to Contract for supplying Her Majesty's Dockyard at Portsmouth with Ettiwe'd Wedges of Beech, under a Contract for twelve calendar months certain, and further until the expiration of three callmdar months' warning. • The aveia64 annual consumption, together with a Form alba Tender ind Conditiontrtif Contract, may be seen in 9tl by, of the Sterektoppig-General's Department, Admiralty Somerpet House. No Tender will be received after Two eChick ori the cliy of Treaty, nor will any be noticeektuletis the Party attend; or an Agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the leftAtand, corner the words " Tender for Beech Wedges ;" anifitrAust also be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Somerset House, accothpitnied by a Leiter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become, bound with the Person tendering in the sun of £2OO 'for the duo perfor mance of the Contract. _ •_ : _ ______ By Order, ANWO.NIO BRAY, ' Registrar of Contracts and Public • Seciaritios. . 0 "G?"1:1*N MAKERS and Others. T. • I. The SEGEVTAItrof STATE far WAThris desirous of receiving PROPOSALS from Ghnmakers 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-repeatipg Uifles A. WEIGHT. Not to exceed 91b.60i. without bayonet. B. 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 Glb. 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 cloaning•rod, and allow a sling to be used. G. RECOIL. Must not exceed that of the Enfield Rifle by more than 10 per cent. _ _ H. THE ARM AS A WHOLE. Must bo as HU% 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. a. 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 Snider's converted Enfield rifle—also as little liable to acci dental explosion as the same cartridge, and as capable of being manufactured in largo quantities, and of uniform quality. x. Optional. L. THE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE. Optional. M. THE LOCK. Optional. s. RAPIDITY OF FIRE. Capable of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without aiming, the cartridges being arranged on a table. o. ACCURACY WIIEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST. The arm must give a mean figure of merit of not more than 36in. at 1,000 yards, 301 n. at 800 yards, 12iu. at 500, 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 rain. Q. FOULING. The shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cent. 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 havo been soaked 48 hours in water. Distance 30 Yards. s. LUBRICATION. Wax on bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant may be superaddod or applied to the cartridge, if thought necessary by the competitor. 111. No arms will be 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 be sent to the "Director of Ordnance War Office, Pall-mall," on or before the 30th M arc h , 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, after firing the 20 preliminary roun d s , 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 arm which, while at taining a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu lars, is selected for merit in respect to its brooch mechanism. A third reward of £4OO 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 roug h usage , f ree l om f rom deterioration in various climates, and general serviceability. The shooting qualities of the cartridge must be 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 one 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. 1V; MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. Magazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will bo re ceived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech loading Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48 inches, including the stock. Tho limit of weight for these arms is fixed at nib. ex. elusive of the charges in the =gazing; It is indispensable that the arms be male to talc() a bayonet. The Secretary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best Magazine or Repeating Arm produced that fulfils tho 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 orßepeatingArms, which are accepted for further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O each. This sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per arm. V. 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 prizo is awarded is adopted into the service, it will bear the inventor's name. J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director • - of Ordnance. War Office, Oct. 22 1866. - ~'~,' MANSION -HOUSE RELIEF FUND. The fund now being raised in the City of London b y th e Lord Mayor and a committee of gentlemen continues materially to increase from day to day. L as t evening it amounted to about £lO,BOO, of which £756 was received in the course of the day. In eight churches and chapels £l2B odd was col lected on Sunday and Christmas-day, and subscrip tions came in from clerks in places of business, and from private families, not great in amount in any case, but still not the less welcome on that account, and all going to swell the fund for the humane ob ject in view. Poor widows send their mites, and working men small sums, spared in not a few cases by cheerfully foregoing some accustomed treat or little luxury at this festive season. Noblemen, bankers, merchants, and others, at the same time contribute sums proportionate to their moans from day to day, and by the constant accretions from these various sources the committee hope in the end to raise an amount sufficient with the local subscrip tions, and those collected by some of the large pro vincial towns, for a substantial provision for the widows and orphans, such as was made in the case of the Hartley calamity. Among the principal subscribers yesterday and on Christmas-day were Messrs. Matheson and Co., £lOO ; Lord Dynevor, through Messrs. Hoare and C 0.,, £5O ; Capt. John Gordon of Clunie, £5O ; Mr. M. P. W. Boulton, £5O; Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co., £3O ; Mr. Thomas Bridges, £25 ; the clerks and assistants of Messrs. Waterlow and Sons, £2l 10s. ; Messrs. Bryant and May, £2O ; Mr. F. H. Toone, £2O ; Hon. A. G. Tollemaclae, £2O ; Dr. C. Collier, £2O ; the Rev. Chas. A. Belli, £l5 ; Messrs. Charles Candy and Co. ) £lolos. ; Mr. J. C. Brown; Comm THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1860. ON SATURDAY, the 29th of December, will bo published, at No. 112, Strand, "THE WEST MINSTER GAZETTE," a new Catholic Weekly Paper, supported by a large number of known and approved writers. Its two main objects are, first, the exposition of Catholic principlis on all those great questions—ecclesias tical, philosophill, and social which are now agitating the intellect and heart of the country; and, second, a truthful statement. of facts as to the condition, political and religious, of Catholicismin the various countries of Europe. Foreign writers of note in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Spain are engaged as contributors to " Tim Westminster Gazette." The true interests of Ireland, its struggles for its unquestionable rights as Catholic nation to a Catholic system of Education, shall bo dis cussed always in a spirit free from the prejudice or passion of mere political partisanship. An important feature of the Now Paper will bo the large space especially allotted to reviews of books, both English and foreign, non- Catholic as well as Catholic. Orders received by all booksellers and news-agents, and at the office, 112, Strand, London. Price 265. per annum. Single copies, sd. ; stamped, 6d. Now ready, price 36i., Ni ith Map, POST -OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for 1867. Also a. New Edition of the SIX HOME COUNTIES DIRECTORY, now publishing, price 365. Kelly and Co., Old Boswell-court. S'rand, W.C.; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; and all Booksellers. ATETROPOLITAN RAILWAY—Trains every .131. five minutes. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY Moorgate. street Station. 111/ETROPOLITAN RAlLWAY—Aldersgate .01. street Station. vrETROPOLITAN RAlLWAY—Farringdon 1111_ street Station. I'IETROPOLITAN RAILWAY—King's-cross Station. NROP OL4AN RAILWA-'---qoyftr ; street 3I METROPOLITAN RAIL WAY Portland. road Station. itrETROPOLITAN RAILWAY Regent circus Station (opposite the Polytechnic Institution, ?BS, Regent-street). The METROPOLITAN RAILWAY COMPANY'S SPECIAL OMNIBUSES to and from Port— land-road Station meet every Train. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY—Baker-street Station. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY Edgware road Station. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY Bishop's. IN_L road Station. Tvi[EntoroLlTAN RAILWAY—Trains every fire minutes. MYLES FENTON, General Manager. METROPOLITAN and GREAT WESTERN R UWA YS.—CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.—Xxtra Trains between the City, Khig's-cross, ciower-street, Port land-road, Regent-circus, Baker-street, Edgware-road•and Paddington, Hammersmith, 'Kensington, Shepherd's-bush, Notting-hill, and Westbourne-park. J OHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOO PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protege the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fraaranse. to the breath. Price Is. Cal.—Red Bull Wharf, .1/3, Upper Thames-street, London. MYERS'S WATERPROOF TRAVELLING DRESS BASKET and PORTMANTEAU Manu factory, CAVENDISH Housic,.. IVlgmore-street, Cavendish-square. corner of Marylebonc lane, London, W., . MANFIELD'S PATE NT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. SPLENDID SPECULATIONS. GREAT SUCCESS. With a single stake of £l, you can realse £25,010 ! ! With a single stake of £2, you can realise £27,5 0!! With a single stake of £B, you can realise £3?.000!! With a single stake of £lO, you can realise £45,000! ! For prospectuses and particulars apply without delay to Mr. EUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. SWINSLOW lIALL, Winslow, Bucks, having been recently opened and fitted with requisites for the care and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr. BOISRAGON, announces that he his transferred his Estab lishment from Birmindiam to the above desirable resideLce, easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour and a-halt by the London and North-Western line, and fifty minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing prospect, are garden, me tnow, plantation, and recreation grounds. For terms and forms of admission address the proprietor. SAUCE. —LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. This delicious condiment, pronounced by connoisseurs "THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE," Is prepared solely by LEA and PERRINS. The public are respectfully cwitioned against worthless imitations, and should see that Lea and rerrins' names are on wrapper, label, bottle, and stopper, ASK for LEA and PERRINS' SAUCE. Sold wholesale and for export by the Proprietors, Wor cester; Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell; Messrs. Barclay and Sons, London, tto. ; and by Grocers and Oilmen uni versally. L_AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN ILA EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be the best 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 provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are 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. Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-William-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 130., 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. MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new descrip thn of ARTIFICIAL TEETH*, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble' the natural teeth as not to be distinguished fro n 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 ti,e extraction of roots, or ar.y 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. WONDERFUL 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. —2lB, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. LTAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and 10s 6d ; sent free for 51, 81, and 144 stamps. —Had of all Chemists. REY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— AT ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour Immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na tural in effe t. Price 3s Rd, 5s ed, and ioa ed ; sent by post [or 54, 81, and 141 stamps ; and all Cheralits. HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes superfluous hair from the lace, neck, and arms, without effect to the skin. Price 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and 105 6d ; sent for 51, 81, and 144 stamps.—llad of all Chemists, - , STODARE'S (MADAME) THEATRE OF MYSTERY. Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. " WHO'S ft 1, ?" PO-DAY, TO-MORROW. and SATURDAY MORNINGS and EVENING'S atThrec ant Eight. 'll II E 0 F 0 it D, 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., THE MUSICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF LONDON. clt,isr3rAs r.t t r,,IN.3[ENTs LES DR I.GONS DE YELL t. ItS (Opera Comique), Music by A. Mal lirt first time in tniscountr)), ES E VENING, in which Misi RUSSELL wt 1 Make 11:r Reaiipearance, as shted by Ills.es Barrie and Fitz Henry ; Me.,ars. A. St. Albyn, Bull+, Fox, Husk, Evan 4 and - Bury, with N: xtra Band and Ghorus ; produced and conducted by Mr. F. Joughmans. CO IIE DY. by Messrs. ll,rry Sydney, Dried( y, and Eger ton, W. J. Adams, the Rrotiurs Ptntland, W. R. Julian (the celebrated Mimic), F. Evans, and Miss Amy Rosalind, to zether with an Entirely New bivertisseinent, entitled TILE OXI"OLtD REVELS, arranged and produced under :he immediate sunerinten'ience of Kr; W. IL Payne, THIS EVENING (MONDAY). itirADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, ITI. BAKER-STREET. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. NEW EDITIONS. —Life-size Portrait-Models of JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., M.P., and the late RICHARD COBDEN, Esq., Open from 11 Lm. till du'k, and from 7 VII 10 p.m.. Admittance, IL ; children, under ten, half-price ; extra rooms, Gd. ARGYLL ROOMS. —GRAND CASINQ, Windmill-street, Picitadilly. These elegant and popular Rooms, baring been entirely re decorated, are now OPEN EVICHY IiWICNIN(i for Concert and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Ligit Cullrt. Manager, GRENET. Admission to Promenade. one Reserved Seats, Two 9.itlllings. WEST ON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, H LB. Sole Proprietors; SiVE a nd frouirn. The - most -triumphant success Wirer attained in any Musical F. eablishmont. 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 directin oof Pat Cord. A now and o r i g i na l o ve r ture composentnd arranged expressly for the above`minstrels by Mr. It. Baker. Comic supported by Arthur Lloyd, Jolly Nash, Georgina Smithson, Miss Fancourt, Paddy Fannin" Patrick Sellers, and Harry and Kattie King. Majaton':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 Horses. 'Musical Director, Mr. P. CORRI. Prices. of admission &tills and Balcony, ls.; Area, Gd. ; 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, " 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 this genuine old spirit, which is coming into universal consumption through England. For price lists apply at Offices, 14, Strand. London, W.C. Established id Grafton-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. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4, BEA.UFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Eatatil(shed 1808. Quotations on application. - FAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, Johre-street, 111 Cork, bey to announce that they are able to supply the trade with their, celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases, and to take orders in bond and for exportation, at their offices, 7, P4nfing-house-square, London, E C., the only house in the square not occupledby the " Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies briny the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial markets, as may be observed by relerenee to the "Journal of Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their whielals fetch 6d. per gallon and is. per case over the next beef, and Is. tid 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 condition, matured in sherry casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, supplied on the most reasonable terms. THE OCEAN ST. LEG-ER of jB66.—What Lord Lyon was to his owner was the 'Nevin to her Ca•ilain, viz., winner of the race, having distanced all com petitors, as the S:AS I' IV DIA TEA COUPANT - have in rariab y done in their choi e and mile of fine new season's teas, now selling at imprier's prices. Warehouses-9, Great St. Llelen's-churchyard. AVALUABLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.- A CHINESE CADDY, containing (Gibs. of really good Black Tea, sent carriage free to any railway station or market town in England, Ireland, Scotland, or Wales, on re ceipt of 405., by PHILLIPS and CO Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City, E.C. TEA IS CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d , 25., 2s 6 t. per lb. are the prices at which PHILLIPS and CO , Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City, Lon don. E.C.. are selling good and fine BLACK TEA. A. price current post free. 40s worth carriage free to any railway station or market 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. GE O L O G Y.-ELEMENTARY COLLEC TIONS, to illustrate the New Edition of "Lyell's Elements of Geology" and facilitate the important study of Mineralogy and Geology, can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50 to 500 guineas ; also single Specimens of Minerals, Rooks, Fossils, and Recent Shells, Geological Maps. Hammers, all the recent Publications, &c., of J. TENNANT, Mineralogist to Her Majesty, 149, Strand, London. Private Instruction is given in Mineralogy and Geology by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., 149, Strand, W.C. THE ITALIAN BISHOPS. FLORENCE, Dec. 22. The bishops who were exiled from their sees by decree of the Italian Government, and subsequently took up their residence at Rome, addressed a letter to Baron Ricasoli after the issue of his circular of the 22d October. The bishops were under the im pression that the permission to return, announced in the Ministerial circular, did not apply to those ecclesiastics residing in Rome, and complained of this exclusion in their letter to the President of the Council. Baron Ricasoli's reply, which follows beneath, was not originally intended for publica tion, but since the letter of the bishops has appeared in the Unita Cattolica, it was considered necessary that the public should be made acquainted with the terms in which the Minister replied. The letter of Baron Ricasoli bears date 2Gth November, and is as follows : " Monsignori,—l have only to-day received the letter which you have done me the honour to address to me from Rome, bearing date 15th inst., on the subject of the recall of the bishops to their sees. This letter was doubly agreeable to me from the important reasons for which your lord ships approve that measure, and in which lain happy to concur with you, and from the request that the permission to return to their dioceses, conceded to the bishops by the circular of the 22d Oct., should be also extended to the bishops residing at Rome, thus elemoustp i tir r ypsigpi t iueveresice. towards'tte — insti ionS an ws shadow you desire to live. I rejoice that I andel pated'Your wishes in this matter, and interpreted your sentiments aright by deciding, on the same du as that on which your letter was despatched, that the exception complained of should be removed. Of ,this I believe your lordships_ will already p have hadfoll and official cagnisanCe. "The decision adopted by the Government arises, as your lordships state, from the desire that perfect libektin the relations between Church and State should pass from the Abstract region of principle in which it had hitherto remained to the reality of fact. The Government, therefore,,po less ,_earnestly than your lordships, desires that Maly may . very soon en joylthe magnificent and imposing religious spectacle now afforded to the free citizens of the United States of America by the National Council of ka/timore, wherein religiontdoetrines are freely discussed, and whose decisionsiapprovxd by the Pope, will be pro claimed :and executed in every town and village without exequatur or placiti. I therefore beg your lordships to consider that it is liberty which has produced this admirable spectacle ; liberty professed and respected by all, in principle and in fact, in its amplest application to civil, political, and social life. In the United States every citizen is free to follow the persuasion thatohe may think best, and to wor- ship the Divinity blithe form that they may seem to him - pest appropriate. Side by side with the Catholic Church rises the Protestant temple, the Mussulman mosque, the Chinese pagoda. Side by side with the Romish clergy thetenevan 6onsistory and the Methodist assembly discharge theii-Dffice. This 'state. of: things generates neither :confusion nor clAshing,-- And why is this ? *ewe no religion=i asks: eilher special protection or privileged from the State, each lives, developes, and is followed Under the protection of the common law, and the equally respected by all, guarantees to all an equal liberty: - The Italian Governmient wishes to demonstrate ias far as possible thet it has faith in liberty, and fs..dheisous of applying it to the greatest extent compatible fvf* the intereste s of.public order. It therefore calls upon the bishops to return to their sees, whence they were removed by these very mo tives of public order. It makes no conditions save that one incumbent upon every citizen who desires to live peaceably, viz., that he should confine him self to his own duty and observe the laws. The State will insure that he be neither disturbed nor hindered, but let him not demand privileges if he wishes no bonds. The principle of every free State, that the law is equal for all, admits of no distinc tions of any kind. The Government would be glad to cast off all suspicion and abandon all precaution, and if it does not now wholly act up to this wish, it is because theprinciple of liberty which it has adopted and put into practice is not equally adopted and practised by the clergy. " Let your lordships remark the difference between the condition of the Church in America and the con dition of the Church in Europe. In those virgin re gions the Church is established in a new society, but which carried with it from the mother country all the elements of civil life. Representing the purest and most sacred of the social elements, the religious feeling which sanctions right and sanctifies duty, and carries human aspirations far above earthly things, the Church has there sought only that empire pleas- ing to God, the empire of souls. Companion of liberty, the Church has grown beneath its shelter, and has found all that sufficed for free development and the tranquil and fecund exercise of its ministry. It has never sought to deny to others the liberty which it enjoyed, nor to turn to its exclusive advan tage the institutions which protected it. In Europe, on the other hand, the Church arose with the deca dence of the great empire that had subjugated the earth. It became constituted amid the political and social cataclysms of the barbarous ages, and was com pelled to form an organisation strong enough toresist the shipwreck of all civilisation amid the rising flood of brute force and violence. But while the world, emerging from the chaos of the middle ages, re-en texed the path of progress marked out by God, the Church impressed upon all having any relation with it the immobility of the dogma entrusted to its guardianship. It viewed with suspicion the growth of intelligence and the multiplication of social forces, and declared itself the enemy of all liberty, denying the first and most incontestable of all, the liberty of conscience. Hence arose the contest between the ecclesiastical and the civil power ; since the former represented subjection and immobility, and the latter liberty and progress. The conflict, from peculiar circumstances, has greater proportions in Italy, be cause the Church, thinking that a kingdom was necessary to the independent exercise of its spiritual ministry, found that kingdom in Italy. The eccle siastical power from the same reason is here in con tradiction not only with the civil power, but national right. From these causes originated the distrust and precaution described in my circular which provoked your censure, but which were only dictated by necessity. The bishops cannot be considered among us as simple pastors of souls, since they are at the same time the instruments and defenders of a power at variance with the national aspirations. The civil power is therefore constrained to impose those mea sures upon the bishops which are necessary to pre serve its rights and those of the nation. How is it possible to terminate this deplorable and perilous conflict between the two powers—between Church and State ? Liberty can alone bring us to that happy state of things which your Lordships consider so enviable in America. Let us render unto Caesar the things that arc Caesar's, and unto God the things tivt arc God's, and peace between Church and State will be troubled no more. I desired to pay deference to these principles in removing the prohibition to the return of the bishops, and their residence in their sees. I believe that liberty is good in profession and practice, and, further, that it has the virtue of converting those who are called to enjoy its benefits. I trust that your lord ships, returning to your dioceses with the sincere sentiment of respect for the law expressed in your letter, among a people who wish to remain Catholic without relinquishing the rights and aspirations of the nation to which they belong, will bless that liberty which protects them, and upon which the reconciliation of interests hitherto appearing ir-, reconcilable pan alone be based. ic RicAsou." 62. Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily Produces whiskers and thickens hair, 3s 68, 5s 6d, and 10s 6d; sent by post for 54, 84, and 141 stamps.— ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. D I MPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. BASS'S VE[IETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sal lowness. &u. 28 9d and 7s ed or post for 40 and tOO stamps. —ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Che mists. HAIR COLOUR WASH.—By washing the heal with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in seven or ten days the hair assumes its original Colour, and remains so by an oce sional using. los ed ; sent for stamps.--ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another Loma to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer ban 155 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from want of FUNDS and room, making* a total of 3,087, who have been soot away in five years. rho new home the Committee wish to form would be for young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 16, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be rceelved gratefully by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, gavot:L.4lfeet, Chcapsidel ur by Messrs Barclay and Co.. Lombard-street OtAIL, Filth itOSPITAL 4 Graliwirtn=road, Li) in the immediate vicinity of the Gnat kfttithern Rail. way Terminus, King's-cross. ratyon—lier liost Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vlei-Patron—Efla Royal filghnecle the Prince of WALE 4 ,R G. President—ll is 0 ro•oe the Duke of BUCCL E UCH. K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. le wholly de pendent for support on voluntarycontributions and f,gaztes. It aff,rde relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute sick has for a censiderable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the bencrolent, 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., Abchureh-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co.;Giyn and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Presc ott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; 1 D illianss, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and CO., iiernerq:§treet : and at the limits]. from 10 till suouroaD 6MB'. bearu-Ny, RUPTURES.-11Y 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 Iwo Hundred Me Beal Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring . , so otten hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft b indage beim? worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power 14 supplied by the Moo-Main Pad and Patent Levu*, 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 thl truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cireum ierence of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 21g., ms 6d., and 31s. 6d Postage, Is. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 61 Postage, Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases ul Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, dm They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. Bd., 10s., and 16s. each. Postage, ed. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.' NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of the day, AQUA AMARICLL A. Messrs. 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 , t, which gradually restores tag human hair to its pristine line—no matter at what age. The Agna Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, Ms. 61. Testimonials from artistes ofithe highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John losnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS 1 a are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING SHIP. £2,000 required. WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. rj OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON- L 1 TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing the COUNTRY HOME. £l.OOO required. WM. WILLI ill% Secretary. Boys' Refuge, 8, 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 £6,000, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends have promised to pay for one boy each year. Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothbury, and 214, II igh Holborn; Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Ball-Mall East ; and by WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.c. 11.0 ROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, FOR 11- _-_----- HOMELESS WOMEN AND CiIthDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C. Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Supper 4 and Breakfasts, have boon 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, are given grat eito usly every week. The poor from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that they tire timeless and starving. The Manager dec., 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, £2,000 has been raised. but to accomplish the work a sum of at least £1,006 more will he required. Besides providing shelter for tho homeless, this yoar it is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pin.- 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 arc earnestly requested, and will be gratefully received bv.the_ROY.P. GILBERT D.D., Filablu•y-circus, E.O. • ~~. 2 )- 7 ) .£lO ; Sir John Musgrove, 110 10s. ; Mr. J. Far £10; E. P., £lO ; Mr. R. Bosanquet, £lO ; Spinster Lady, late C.V., £10; Mr. W. C. Gosling, £1o; Messrs. D. Hyams & Co., £lO lOs ; Messrs. Foster, Porter, and Co., £lO 10s., and Admiral Sir Wm. Bowles, £lO. There were besides many donations of smaller amount, all of which will be duly ackno - w. ledged by the Mansion House authorities. Murder of Two Children and Suicide of the Mother. Yesterday morning a terrible tragedy took place at Lower Edmonton. It appears that for some years past a coachsinith named IVi!limn Gudgeon and his wife, a very quiet hardworking woman, Anne Gud geon, have occupied a six-roomed house opposite the Great Eastern Railway Station at Lower Edmon ton. They had five children, the eldest of them being a girl of 14 years of age. On Christmas_ day the mother of the children complained to her husband of being unwell, and she went to bed at 7 o'clock in the evening. At 11 o'clock at night she got up and went down stairs and joined her husband and children. They remained together for an hour, and then the whole family retired to rest. The hus band states that he and his wife slept in a bed in the front top room of the house, and that in a corner of the same room a bed was made up for three of the lo e tar s e a s id in tmoyheeryeshus; put it children. When the wo man was going to bed she ti n a dle sh s o T k h e e d very ght w f t i h l e , candle out." He did so, and he then fell asleep. At that time the youngest child, a baby aged six months, was alive, and was lying asleep in the father's beA. At 2 o'clock yesterday morning one of the children, Selina, aged 10 years, was awoke by a quantit y , o f blood being squirted over her face. She stags that when she opened her eyes she was horrified, at seeing her mother kneeling upon the dead body of her little brother, Timothy George, who had been lying asleep alongside her sister, Sarah Anne. The little boy's, throat was cut in a most fearful manner, and blood eras gushing-front the wound. Tlxvinother looted very excited, and she held an open razor covered with blood in her sight hand. When Ashc.saw that she had awoke the girl Selinashe leaned over towards her and caught hold of her. The girl screamed, and a fearful struggle then . ensued. Selina, for the pur pose of protecting her throat, Caught hold of the bed clothes and held them over it. She cried out, " Oh, mother, why do you not put that razor down? You have killed Timothy, and now you want to murder us. Why do you want to cut our throats ?" The girl then wriggled and slid out of the bed, ran through the doorway, and rushed down the stairs, followed by her mother, who continued to hold the open razor in her hand. When the girl reached the bottom of the stairs she ran into the lower front room. Her mother rushed past her, and ran to the fireplace. The little girl felt in the dark and found a match box lying on the table. She struck a light, and then she saw her mother by the light of the match cutting her throat, and the blood flowing from the wound. The girl gave a loud scream, and she says that the light then went out, and she heard her mother fall upon the floor. The girl then ran up stairs, and went into her father's room. Her father was in a sound sleep, and by his side lay the dead body of the little baby, six ninths old. The child's throat was cut from ear to ear. Selina caught hold of her father and shook him violently. She had nearly to pull him out of bed before she could awake him. The girl than quickly told him that her mother had murdered two of her brothers. The father became most excited, and hurriedly dressing ran out of the house and called in a hlrs.Robertson, the wife of a railway employe, who lived near. While he was thus engaged the girl ran to another room in the house, where two of her uncles slept and awoke them. One, Thomas Gudgeon, instantly went to the police-station. Sergeant Howlett, who was on duty there, instantly accompanied him to the scene of the tragedy. When they entered the front parlour they found the dead body of the wretched mother lying near the fireplace. Her head rested on the fender, and there was an open black-handled razor lying on her breast. There was a severe gash across her throat. An iron pail, partly filled with blood, lay near her head. Dr. O'Brien, of Church-street, Edmonton, who was called in at the time, said that the wound was self innitgett, aLU Luau 1G tuuc6 1..wr0 usuaeU a111t.51 stantaneous death. The police and the doctor then went Upstairs, and in the front bed-room they found the dead bodies of the two children. The doctor examined the bodies, which were lying in pools of blood. In the bed, in the corner, which was di rectly facing the street lamp, they found Timothy George Gudgeon, a boy aged four years, lying dead. His throat had been cut, and it was the opinion of the doctor that his death must have been in stantaneous. The little baby had been killed in a similar manner. The police then questioned Selina Gudgeon, and then she gave the account of the dreadful occurrence which we have nar rated. When the father returned, he said that he had neither heard nor seen anything before he was awoke by his daughter. It was the opinion of several persons that if the little girl had not been accidentally awoke by her brother's blood falling upon her face, all in the house would have been murdered by her mother. The family have very respectable connections in the locality, and the father of the deceased, who was a coach-smith, h a d His wife was a very sober a workshop of his own. person, but the habits of her husband may be judged from the fact that, yesterday afternoon, he fell d run k on the railway platform. The deceased woman was and she was under the care of a latterly very ill, a doctor. Some short time a g o a brother-in-law of th e deceased woman died, and he left a widow and five children, and the fact that they were badly off, and that she could not do as much as she desired to do for them, preyed very much upon the deceased's mind. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.-EXETER HALL. The thirty-fifth annual Christmas performance of the "Messiah" takes place on Friday evening next, the 28th inst., when Mr. Sims Reeves will re-appear for the first time since his recent severe illness. TAUNTON AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.—The annual meeting and dinner of the members of the above association took place on Saturday, under ,the pre sidency of Mr. E. A. Sandford. At the dinner the chair man was supported by Sir Alex. Hood, Bart., M.P., and Mr. W. Gore Langton, M.P. After the loyal and constitu tional toasts, the chairman proposed " The Members of the Western Division of the County of Somerset." Sir Alex. Hood, in responding, expressed the satisfaction he felt that, although they had not that day the usual attraction of a cattle show in Taunton, Somerset had distinguished itself at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show, and that Mr . Farthing, a tenant of his father-in-law, had brought home with him five prizes. The present Government were taking every precaution against the disease being reimported, and the agriculturists of England must be contented to bear those restrictions which were so necessary:at the present moment to eradicate the disease. Ho rejoiced to see that the ovents of the present moment were bringing mon of mode rato opinion , : together, and he hoped that junction would continue to be formed. Sir Alexander next alluded to the overthrow of Austria by Prussia, which has led to a, united Italy and a united Germany, and which, in its re sult, more nearly balanced power, which afforded an ad ditional security to the peace of Europe. It would not do, however, for England not to take a lesson from what had occurred. She should be prepared, in case of sudden at tack, to hold her own, without trusting to the friendly interference of other nations. Besides, looking to the military and naval forces of the country, there was ono thing of paramount importance, viz., that they should be a united, contented, and loyal people. Ho trusted that the question which had excited so much interest in some parts of England would be treated in the next session of Parlia ment in a large, wide, and liberal spirit, such as would be consistent with the best, interests of the country. Ho did not himself think that the present Parliament would last long, perhaps not after next autumn. In conclusion, Sir Alexander intimated that at the next election it was not his intention to ask for a renewal of that confidence now reposed in him by his constituency, an announcement that was quite unexpected, and created some surprise. 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