The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-11 00:00:00

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D This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISK'YT gained the It n Prize M e d a l . :la B eau% is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole , Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses is London ; in the principal towns in England ; or R at ni,‘ TRE AT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. 4( M rVA thA Red Baal, Pink Label, and Cork branded LL Whisky." 4 - 4 ITUTITAL LOAN FUND AssocanoN; pro' Ino4rpor 4(41 by Act of Parliament, t4501' trBSEI. L - STREET. COVANT-GARDEN. LONDOY. fry o r nPt A TWA N letter by CZ 3 on all description of Security.:li..rms application to EDWARD HARPER. Secretary. ~--- ~L •r- -, •;,-- - .., , Ivan ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL saorsty;, : ',-" 4 13 - ri A \ Yesterday e ven i ng t h e third meeti ~, . ciety was held i n Burlington House Crawfurd in the chair. .AN ii S The first paper was a communication from Col. Tremenheere, R.E., " On the Physical Geography. of the Lower Indus," in which he particularly no ticed the conditions of the mouths of the Indus, in reference especially to the harbour of Kurrachee. The immense quantity of mud and silt brought down by the Indus causes a deposit in the plain through which it flows, for an extent of 500 miles, which has raised the banks of the river about 30ft. above the level of the country. This silt, carried out from the mouths of the Indus, has formed bars that render it impracticable for ships to enter. There are, in fact, only four harbours on the Indian peninsula, that of Bombay being the best, and Kur rachee is considered the next available for ships. .Large sums of money have been expended in im proving the harbour, and the principal object of the paper was to show that it has been nevertheless de teriorating, and a current sets in along the coast during the south-west monsoon which carries the silt brought down by the Indus along the sloping north-west coast directly towards the harbour of Kurrachee, and will ultimately choke it up. It was stated that numerous experiments had been made by throwing bottles into the sea at some distance from the land, and they were nearly all washed ashore on the north-west coast, proving, as Colonel Tremenheere conceived, that there was a prevailing current which would carry back the deposits from the river. ~'~. • 441141. 414-. !OPlt'• THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1866. N0.'23,245. PRICE.... 4d. STAMPED sd. the T ' lVIAD2late I. k cs AiE t otarc Irr b ()DA , to ß an E no c i w ce idw t o b at th o e f T OF , • MYSTERY. .k:glptian Hall, is OPE' for the SEA SO'. Madame Slat are will present the SP II INX, MARVEL OF MECCA, and BA. , KE r TRICK.. assisted by Mr. Fir bank Burman (pupil of the late Colonel Stodare), in Colon( 1 Stodare's ROYAL ENT B.', f:TAIN !WEN of MAGIC. On Friday, Dec. 11, in Svo., with Illustrations, 155., TVIY PIL . GRI B IIIA rL G I E zA to c E i A Iu ST LI ERN SHRINES. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. rOHN GOSNELL and Co.'s CHERRY Tooril P&STIC Is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teed' a pearl whiteness, protects the .fritnel from decay, and imparts a (Asmara fragrance to he breath Price is. 6,1--Bed Bull Wharf. w 3, Upper Thamei-street. T..onthuf. COUNTR Y HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES, and BUSINESSES. r , I ESS a n d KN EE ' S L i st on appl i cat i on. ~ u ntl liars f or i nsertion received until the 27th of the /It their "('' °ION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES. A zar - street, S rand, W.C., and nearly o2posite the Charing Cr - ss Railway SW!on. YARMOUTH BLOATERS. —l2 for 2s. 6d. ; 25, 45.; 50, 69. ; 100. Ss. ; 500, 3 . 15. ; 1,0 :0, 50s. No eliarvt fbr earriae-e to i.ondon. Cash on delivery. Country orde s paid in advance.—Forwardeo by FILEDIi.. BA.II,NBY, Purveyor of Fish, Great Yarmouth. Doors oen eves y evening at 7.30 ; ednesday and Satur day morninQs at 2.3). Admission—la. and 213.; stalls, 3s. Sehoo's and children hilt-price. Seats may be secured at the Box•office, from 11 till S, and at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. MR. JAMES WEAVER, Manager. ',U OED, T 6, OXFORD -STREET, W., Now realy, in 2 vols., Svo., :Os. bound, UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE ELITE OF EUROPE AND AMERICA. NO MORE CRUSHING OF DRESSES. STARCH MANUFACTURERS GTo H. R. H. THE PRINCESS OF VALES. LENFIELD PATENT STARCH, Used in the Royal Laundry, 421 D AWARDED TUE PRIZE MEDAL. Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, Ace. kc t"T AND .WEST, 'INDIA DOCK rh e COMPANY.c e ,„ co urt. of Dire^tors of the Fast and West India . Pock NitSiOY lIRREBY N 'TICE, that the PRA N 15th.- of the said Company will be S CUT on Saturday, t!,e the is of Decemb , r, IRAfi. and OPEN again on I uesdaY. " day of January 1887. , TIIE \IN:NT oF LONDON, ABOOK ABOUT LAWYERS. By J. C. JEAFFREFON, Barrister-at- aw. PRIZE for any class of TRUNKS at THE only theDnlin Exhibition, 1865, was AWARDED to Mr. MYERS, of CA VEN DISH HOUSE, Wigmore-street Caven dish-sqnare, London. for his newlv-invented Patent Self- Expandini DRESS BASKET TRUNKS, which arc secured by Royal Letters Patent in England and France. All Americans visiting London are respectfully recom mended to visit the above Establishment and inspect the various description.; and large assortment of Travelling Portmanteaus, Trunks, Ac , Ladies especially will find in AL Myers's Royal Alexandra Self-Expanding and Collapsing Dress Baskets the ne plus ultra of perfection for their requirements. This Basket com prises every convenience the traveller can suggest. It is constructed to carry a large or small quantity of Dresses, Ac. •, and from its t.ecullar mechanical contrivance will ex pand or collapse by its own action, thereby adapting itself to any size ; and it can therefore be used for either a short journey or a long tour. -Ii infant Revival - *Offenbach's "SIXTY.SIX." Mis-es Russel, Piti - kitnititAbd Barrie; 31e: , ers. St. Albyn, MarLr, end Burr.• Comeds , ' by rf-rrtrfilydney (the politicil Momusl, Robert Fraser (Buffo Vonatist and Comedian—a e , roat success). Mons. Peterson with his higli'y trained troupe of Performing Dog's. From the Times, Dec. 6:—"` A Book about Lawyers' de serves to be very popular. Mr. Jeaffreson has accomplished his work in a verycreditable manner. He has taken pains to ,collect iniortnation from persons as well as from books, and he writes Nt ith a sense of keen enjoyment, which greatly en hances the reader's pleasure." nice A we the Lueh 3go- - - - EXTRA ATTRACTIONS during the CATTLE`SIIOW at suecess of LES AlIkZ••/NES AU CHAMPAGNE DIVETCP , SSEMENT, tly the Misses PI S - -.l' and A. , tA Gl'l NTNE'S. r:ssisted by t sir talented troupe of artistes. Musical Dire;toiand Conductor, gr. F. Jonghmans. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.. (111RISTI-E'S FAITH. V By the Author of .timiggion—Area, .sd. ; stalls and balcony, is ; private boxes, with separate eatraneo, lOs. ed. Open every evening at 8. "No Church," "Owen," " Mottle," &c. "The interest of this story is so enthralling throughout that it holds the reader enchained during its progress, and the purpose of the story is so admirable that the wisest and best among us may justly consider the time well bestowed that is occupied by its perusal."—Sun. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. By order of the Court, Feet and GEORGE COLLIN, Seer tary. west India )ock House, /iilliter-square, Dec. 7, I£os. WESTON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. INDIA OFFICE, DEC. 7, 1866. AL SECRETARY of SIATE for INDIA in C O UNCIL Hereby Gives Notice, that the India AC `dent. Stock, which is redeemable on or aft 188 ( 7 111 F3 1870, will not be --;d ter cf but will be re d eema bl e a t par on or a ft er th e !at erette. t e on One year's previous notice being given by the G e a ? 1 7 of State for India in Council in the Londora ,e • JAMES FERGIISSON. Proprietckl/SwEAsEY and HOLLAND. The most triumphant success ever attained in any Musical Establishment. Grand Selection from Auber's Opera of " MASASICTIELLO," produced on a scale of mag never amore attempted at any Music Hall. ',Ai of the Irish Minstrels, 27 in number, three and four calls nightly. A new and originaloverture composed and arranged expressly for the, above minstrels by Mr. 11. Baker. Comic supported by Fred. French, Mrs. Bryan, Miss Faucnnrt, Paddy Fannin, Patrick Sellers, and Les Freres Risoralis. Majilton as Mesetopolan. Band of 30 first-class , performers, and large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera Houses. Musical Director, Mr. P. Comm Prices of admission - Stalls and Balcony, ls.; Area, Gd. ; Private Boxes, 10s. fid. 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. CATTLE SHOW WEEK. Extra Attractions at WESTON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL,- Holborn, the most elegant and comfortable Hall in London, entirely redeco rated. Now ready, complete in 2 vols. Bvo., emb3llithed with above 300 beautiful Illustrations, 425. bound. THE LIFE OF JOSIAH WEDGWOOD. From his Private Correspondence and Family Papers. By ELIZA IitIETEYA RD. "An admirable, writ written, honourably elaborate, and most interesting book— tll en reum. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. MEETING THIS DAY. " SINGE R," New Noiseless .Lock-Stitch Th„ FAMILY SKIVIN,I MACHINES. kre i c o s e Machines combine all the Latest Improvements, and ke Tit oti Exhibit' m for the first time. bean 4an improve ,tiadli""n Singer's celebrated "Letter A" Family t•ewlne altv e P!, ot 'which over One Hundred and If.i,,hty Thousand Viteeeen soli in all parts of the world. Inspection in ), Parch urou,. ) , ‘ "ere desirous of securing the best machines yet it Out should not fail to see them. Cata'oues post p r l'F IX SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, °Metal and Manufacturers cf the world-renowned "Singer" Sewing Machines. Chi ef (Ace for the United Kingdom, 147, Cheapside. Immediately, in 2 vols , post Bvo., IVODDEEO PARSONAGE. • From the origi nal Danish by the translator et " The Guardian " Richard Bentloy, New Burlington-street. NOW PUBLISHING, UGBY JUNCTION. Just out, price 2d., by post 3d., THE MALT TAX. A new and revised Pamphlet. London. BAT IS YOUR CREST AND WHAT IS pl Sem YOUR MOTTO - as. 6d. to CULLETON'S Heraldic Office for a 11 14 „ 11 Sketch, or 6s. for a Coloured one. The Arms of Th o and wife blended together in proper heraldic form. ,blitt i l r °Per heraldic Colours for servants' liveries, what lee CO to be used, and how the carriage should be . painted, E lle ;s Just complete, a very valuable book, with 3,500 farte vi tigs, arms, crests, and mottoes of nearly every pri, 3 Y the kingdom, the result of thirty years' labour, g rep ;elo lOs printed in several colours'. Family Pedi obtj,t.raced Prom authentic records, information as to the tkr a ," l ng of a new grant of arms, how to change one's far t , °Y Culleton, Engraver to her Majesty and Royal boti r J else Diesinker to the Board of Trade, 25, Oran o-street (corner of St. Martin's-lane), W.C. t I t I NTING.—TO PROPRIETORS OF 4'MVSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, dce.—The Print -11111 Machining of Newspapers, cue., done ou eicceed- Oe favourable terms.. Use of Editorial and Publishing . pa tt i e s, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of /344 1-li ars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. to w ., 'e Manager "Sun" Printing Offices, 3, Church 'avey, Strand, W.C. 1 1 U GUNMAKERS and Others. I. ye t i e SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of B$ li ng PROPOSALS from' Gunmakers and Others for tep e a-LO &DING RIFLES, e ith er re p ea ti ng or no t future ng, which may replace the present Service Rifles in manufacture. Th e n. knit f ollowing are the conditions considered essential in rY non-repeating Rifles:— A. WEIGHT. 19.0 t to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet. To B. LENGTH. 110110 be 51 i nc h es, w ith short stock, measured from the °f the butt-plate to muzzle. le . WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP. 4erv est not exceed 61b. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for )4. D. CARTRIDGES. dust easy thair own ignition. E. SIGHTS. LI foresight must bo such as to admit of a bayonet 4,nneording to the present a3-stem. F. STOCK... 4 11 0 148 t be such as be to c d arry a light metal cleaning . rod, and W a slin g to use. • • G. RECOIL. 10 Lust not ex cee d th a t o f the Enfield Rillo by more than P er cent. THE ARM AS A WHOLE. foit il it s t be as little liable to injury by long : continned firing, bre mi l l'nge, and exposure, as the naval rifles converted to also, -l oaders on the Snider system. To be as capable, rt h 4 f being used without accident by imperfectly trained for an d of being manufactured in quantities ana of uni a y. r• THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE. 444 list b e as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp, Ilii c e , l l 3o stire in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for den tal 8 converted Enfield rifle—also as little liable to acci tei,2 explosion as the same cartridge, and as capable of qt lai ',l l llanufactured in large quantities, and of uniform ° 4 3% x. CALIBRE. Mo w. 0 1 .• TIIE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE. Ptionai. ° Atio ti ,j . M. THE LOCK. C a N. RAPIDITY OF FIRE. at tn . Pablo of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without 0. 4 1 „, 4 8'. the cartridges being arranged on a table. Th'elißAOY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST. tl i , th " arra must give a inean figure of merit of not more ati,cAn. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500, T,": 11 -1. at 300. OtoC B Mean to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty 8 each. P. TRAJECTORY. tier. t o require at 500 yards an elevation of more than 1 FOULING. et 1 0 , shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cent. "" cl Yards after firing 250 rounds. Th F , R. PENETRATION. 'hat "' the tn eau penetration of five shots not to be less than present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle— ho? 1 2 h a lf - i nch elm planks, which have been soaked 48 b t6/ i n water. ist Mice 30 yards. Wa S. LUBRICATION. blay , on bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant t by 4 ecesZ snPeradded or mp applied to the cartridge, if thought -4 7 the th IST le,lenle will be received without tho usual proof marks. tati b 44 eations, and drawings of the methods proposed, 114 140,,t 110 probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a Ufespecimen h tt arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ftnimu eTh noutd be sent to the "Director of Ordnance, War he, P all-mall," on or before the 30th March, 1867. ,e3P th e s p e cifications and specimen arms will be considered 6 Ordnance Select Committee and its associate mei-li g-4 who will be selected by the Secretary of State for N e ' i s`nd who will, after firing the 20 preliminary rounds, il l ," an d recommend for further trial such of the systems &chi a ppear to them sufficiently promising, rejecting all ,Terra -8 may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to 'lti c) ' h i lt their being included in the competition, the con , 4:, 8 ,,nf which are stated in this advertisement. . pted competitor will then be required to furnish the went, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity m l l4l,;Pobrien arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am `ekilecel Per arm, within four months after . date of de '4'k Each competitor will be required to disclose to the piosraittee the exact nature of the lubrication he may em-_- et qh sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted th Petit ° e I. ; to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of 1, I , PP/5 , of ammunition required. L i ,n4 ~,,e l , B , eeretary of State offers a reward of £ l,OOO for the '"Y th"•ch, on combination of all qualities, is considered A co mmittee to be the best submitted. i'tih, --e4 nicl reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at 'are, ig a s atisfactory degree of excellence in other part!cu 1, V n ieoted for merit in respect to its breech mechanism. '414 reward of £4OO for the best cartridge. The qua %‘tlircif " I ch will he principally taken into consideration in st i ,,n,R this prize will be economy of manufacture, power r etlo,72 4 ning rough usage, freedom from deterioration in Th„" ,climates, and 5 eneral serviceability. th e ; s cooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but m ',„e depend upon the rifling of the arm with which - '"er e ,r Lugo is associated, they will not be so much con dill /t 4 8 those above-mentioned. Bchclearly t o b e understood that under no circumstances - ,, e 2 te Petitor be entitled to more than one prize; but Rive li tin'ze will be irrespective of any reward which may be the inventor of the arm finally adopted into the 1 v: ku.„I4IiGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. jelver2olo and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re thN' examined in a manner similar to the Breech 'ellienCi''ifies• They must not be less in length than 48 '.ooluding the stock. limit of vreiobt for these arms is fixed at 911 b. ex , t t ,e of the charges in the magazine. 14 . / % l ; B l i . ilidis Poosit ble that the arms be made to take a -a.:.-ocretary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best b ec : 46(l. k il „ e Repeating Arm produced that fulfils tho above and in the absence of experience does not at gat "fine the standard of accuracy or other conditions f4lfiLled beforesuch an arm can - be adopted. t3 t fkil' 4Lagazine orßepeatingArms, which are accepted itQuer is will be paid fo rounds rate of £6O . each. 41 To. 84 to is to include, 1,000 of ammunition per • c , d ° el 6 Th 4-ot;,eretary of State will . take care that no ingenious aad Dt e - d L .. .- ,, uuced in answer to this advertisement shall b t e th . : + l i t to the service without proper acknowledgmqn . , 40a be /lame of the individual with whom it °rip ullaall be recorded in connection with it. lilt ° the r aft° to which the first prize is awarded is adopted —rvice, it will bear the inventor's name. J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director far of Ordnance. Oct. 22, 1866. PROVIDENCE RO POR W NIGHT REFUGE, HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.O. Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches. At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c., receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each night numbers of young women, chilaren, and orphans are, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, audhave 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 £l,OOO more will be required. Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it is prop sed,_as far as the donations obtained for the pur pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome, and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will be offered in your behalf. SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT D.D, N 0722, By WILLIAM ItAi SMEE, Esq., F.S.A. Also, by the same Author, Second Edition, price 6d., JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Proposal to secure Deposits.placed at Interest. Mann Nephews, Cornhill, OSBORNE'S STILTON Is THE Cheese ! MANSFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers and who:esale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. • • TEA IS CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. Gd , 2a.. 2s. 6 I. per lb. arc the prices at which PHILLIPSS and CO , Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City, Lon don, E.C., bre sellimr good and fine BLACK TEA. A price current post free, 90s worth carriage free to any railway -t<Ltion or market town in the United Kingdom.—Obs(rve— PHILLIPS and Co. have no Agents or any connexion with any house in Worcester or Swansea. sugars are supplied at market prices. The 14th annual meeting of this society, at. which Vis count Ranelagh presided, was held to-day for the first time in the.new and spacious prentifies, being 11, Howard-street, and 33, Norfolk-street, combined in onevast edifice by Mr: Wylson, architect. The entrance to the building is in Norfolk-street, and the frontage extends to near:y the whole of . the northern side of Howard-street. The lower part is devoted to the Society's offices for investments and the sale of land. On the first floor is a capacious board room, in which the quarterly and annual meetings will be held, and to which room the Secretary's dikes are at tached. The upper portion of the edifice is devoted to the offices of the legal and surveying departments. The fagade of the building is simple yet imposing, having the title of the Society and the date of its formation extending along its entire length. It is another large edifice added to the many erections which have of late years sprung up in the metropolis,showing the great improvements made in street architecture. The Secretary (Mr. Gruncisen) having read the advertisement convening the meeting, the fol lowing annual report was submitted:— The Executive Committee, in presenting to the share holders of the Conservative Land Society their annual re port, are enabled to submit for their approval the audited statement of accounts and balance-sheet, showing that the completion of the fourteenth financial year on the 30th of September, 1866, has been attended with the most satisfac tory results, and that no cessation in the society's success has arisen from the adverse times in the monetary world of the present year. It is a significant fact that, during the period of the greatest pressure, public confidence in the Conservative Land Society was even more strongly mani fested than previously, by increased investments. The Boari can refer with pride and pleasure to the sub joined tabular returns, showing the shares issued, the total cash receipts for the respective quarters of the year 1865-6, and the grand totals since the commencement of the society in September, 1852. Shares in Shares Total AVALUABLE C HRISTMAS PR E SENT. - Qrs. ending p r ogress. Complete. Shares. Receipts. A CHINESE CADDY. containing 16 1 bs. of really -- good Black Tea, sent carriage free to any railway station or £ s. d. market town in Entriand, Ireland, Scotland. or Wales, on . re- Dec. 24, 1865 .... 503 .84 5>;7 28,181 11 8 ceipt of 10s., by PHILLIPS and CO , Tea Merchants, 8, March 25, 1886 .. 639 00 765 25,623 13 8 King William-street, City, E.C. Ju ne 24, 1 • 66.... 5(9 41 550 34,246 ll 8 Sept. 3 , , 1866.... 726 121 817 3%918 10 11 --- --- - SPLENDID SPECULATIONS. Four. Quarters 1 GREAT SCCOESS. end( , g . 3.14- chaelmas, 1-66 2,437 312 2,719 12',97) 10 I 1 With a single stake of £l, you can realise £25,(W0! ! Totals to Sept. With a single stake of X?, you can realise £27.5 0! ! • 30, 1865 18,224 4,6)9 22,925 862,619 15 11 With a single stake of £B, you can realise £ 3 7. 0001 ! With a single stake of £lO, you can realise £15,0001! Grand totals to For rospectuses and particulars apply without delay to Michaelmas, IE6 i 20,653 5,011 25,674 983 , - 6 1 0 613 )Yr. EUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. rm..... 1.....4. ..v....- 4.........-1 ...,.. 4" Viiralettalvvt.,, 1 Oen ....... KT... LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC -BALSAM.-AN EFFMTUAL ItEIIEIY, without confining the bowels or alfecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be the beat medicine tor immediately relieving' coughs, colds, .onfirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. it frequently cures persons wh.'m the faculty oronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which ptovnkes trequelt coughing. In approaching consumption its effects arm trulv beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or ,n•en lying down for tear of suffocation, may depend on re'iet An a twm sn3outee-aitore.**ll49---- L A .1111 , ; i;hem!st. k)liaring cross, London, itnd by all drugg sts, in botties, 13,d., and three qinintitiel in one, 2.i. 9d. each. Be particular. and ask ;or I.a..iibert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on t .e st ltUt*TU !t1:8.-11Y )YAL lETTP:ItS PA.TMNIT. MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS '(PERFECTED AND EXITTRITED TN TILE GREAT of Issl and 1862 , , is allowed by upwards of l'wo hundred Me 101 l Gentlemen to be the mO4 rfrectlre ,nventhn in rte curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a kteel spring, so o'tea hurtful in its eff,3 , ts. is !tete avoided—a solt b %tillage -; worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Aloc-Main I'ad and l'atent Lev r, fitting witlt so unclL ease and close ness that it cannot be detected, and mty be worn during deep. A descriptive circular may be hal, and th truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circum 'erence of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, '_2B, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 1 1 5., 215., ?Gs ad., an 1 31s. Gd Poatage, Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 42s ant 525. Gd. Postag . e, Is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. GI P,stage. Is. 10d. lost-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Ploeaddly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &a, for Varicose yeins and alt cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, 4 prains, fi.c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpen4ive, aud are drawn on ike an ordinary stocking. Price Is. 6d., is. 6d., 10s. and 16s. each. Postage, 6d. QPANISH FLY is the a c ti ng i ngre di en t in 4 - 0 ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL. which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair, as Bd, 5s kl, and 108 ad; sent by pod for 54, 84, and 144 41-I.:lps. AL Pa. ROSS, 248, High Holborn. London, and all Chemists. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one day by usitw ALEX. Ross's CHIROPO. Thi , preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, rem oving the veryroot. Price 4s ; sent by post for 80 stamps. —248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. EirAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls Ladles' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is apoded. Sold tt as td, 55 td, and 10s fld ; sent free for sf, 81, and 141 stamps. —Had of all Chemists. faREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— iiJAI ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour tmmecliatelyit is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na tural in effe t. Price 35 ed. 5s ed. and :os ed ; sent by post for 54, 84, and 141 stamps ; and all Chemists. HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, London.—AL KX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms, without effect to the skin. Price 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and lOs 6d; sent for 51, 94, and 144 stamps.—Had of till Chemists. DIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the akin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROS , 'S VE ;ETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove re.inoss, sal lowness, &u. 2s 9d and 78 ed ; or post for 43 and iOO 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, end remains so by an occislonal Will. lOs Fd; scut for stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 24R, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. Just published, 2d; sent by the author fort stamps, ITGUNESS and BEAUTY; being a Pamphlet descriptive of articles and means used for improving the appearance. By ALEX. BOSS, 248, High Holborn, London. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to acid another Lome to tho 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer ban 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected irom want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in five years. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for young girls, almost children, frem the age ofd to 15, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Daniel Cooper, Q 5, Queen •street,Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Co.. Lombard-street. The last share issued up to Michaelmas, 1866, was No. 25,674. The Reserve Fund to Michaelmas, 1866, amounts t 0... £12,561 18 1 Sale of land from the formation of the society to Michaelmas, 1866 £493,091 5 0 The total withdrawals since the formation of the society to Michaelmas, 1866, are... 286,364 16 4 The returns of the register of the order of rights (for tho next . Selection of plots In riltation on the order of .rights) are as follow : Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total. 6,207 2,aoa 1.758 11.270 Deduct rights exercised on estat6,' ~ 8,649 Unexercised rights .:„ „. 2,621 The last share number on the registrar by seniority of membership is No. 15,875. The total receipts for 1865-6, the largest since the formation of the Society, were £120,970 10 11 Receipts of 1861-5 ,„ 80,260 2 1 Total increase on tlio year Z 10,710 8 10 The following was the increase in each quarter:— Christmas ... £8,952 5 0 Lady Day ' 9,374 8 8 Midsummer 15,893 13 0 Michaelmas 6,490 2 2 Increase for 1865-6, as above £40,710 8 10 The Committee, regarding the Reserve Fuud as the safest guarantee for the society's permanent prosperity, have raised that fund to £13,000, being an increase of £l,OOO over the amount of the year 1864-5. The general healthy features of the business of the year 1865-6 are, that the actual annual income of the society has risen considerably, owing to the largo sales of land, the advances to allottees exercising the borrowing power having more than doubled in about two years. The amount of the stock of land on hand (unsold plots on estates) has been reduced from £83,000 to £48,000, sales which indicate the value of the properties acquired by the society. The committee can also congratulate the shareholders on the insignificant amount of losses accruing from the sales of property held as security for advances. A reference to the balance-sheet will show the increase of business in each department. The four auditors appointed at the quarterly meeting, on the 2d of October last, namely, Mr. Clemow and Mr. Goad, elected by the shareholders, and Mr. Persd Stace and Mr. Winstauley, nominated by the board, met on the 7th of November and subsequent days, and verified the vouchers, books, and securities, and signed the balance-sheet. The exe cutive committee are enabled, after increasing the reserve fundto£l3,ooo, to provide for the interest of 5 per cent. per annum on shares (completed or paid a year in advance), and for the interest of 4 per cent. per annum on deposit investments. The committee are also enabled to add to the accounts of members holding uncompleted invested shares (in respect of which no interest has been paid) a bonus equivalent to 6 per cent. per annum. As regards the addi tional interest of 1 per cent., to which the holders of com pleted shares and shares paid a year in advance will be entitled by the present declaration of bonus, the amount will be included in the half-yearly Lady-day interest war rants, issued and payable on and after May 1 next. Thus, after payment on the shares on the register at the present annual meeting, not being in arrear, will realise 6 per cent. per annum for the financial year, ending Sept. 30, 1866. The rate of interest on shares (completed) and shares in progress (paid a year in advance) will remain at 5 per cent. per annum, for which the half-yearly warrants up to Lady-day and Michaelmas will be issued at the customary periods, namely, May 1 and November 1. The rate of interest for the deposit department, that is, in vestors who are not members of the society, will remain unchanged at four per cent. per annum, payable half yearly, at the same period as the interest warrants on shares. The ordinary quarterly meetings were duly held on the 27th of March, the 3d of July, and the 28th of November. The following members of the executive com mittee retire by rotation, viz.:—Viscount Ranelagh, Col. Brownlow Knox, M.P., Viscount Ingestre, Major Jervis, M.P., and T. K. Holmes, Esq., and, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. The new estates and ground rents allotted in 1865-6 were :—New Ferry (Cheshire), opposite Liverpool, St. Austell (Cornwall), 30th Novem ber, 1865; Moorfield's Estate, Hereford (Herefordshire) 21st February, 1866 ; Castle Church Estate, Stafford (South Staffordshire), 28th March, 1866; West London Estate, North End, Fulham (Middlesex), 25th July, 1866 ; Rams gate Estate (East Kent), Saudown Estate, No. 2 (Isle of Wight), Ipswich Ground Rents (West Suffolk), 29th August, 1866 ; and Deal Estate, 2d portion (East Kent), 14th November, 1866. Of the above properties, the West London and the. Ramsgate estates, as also the Ipswich The roads and the greater p G o r r o t u i o n a d R o f e n t h t s e , have f b o e r e d n o e s n t t a i t r o e 1 y h d a s p n b o e s e c n d and works on the St. Austell, Stafford, and Hereford Estates have been completed ; those on the Deal estate are on the eve of completion ; the contract for the Now Ferry works is in progress; and tenders will be soon obtained f d o o r w t n h e No. 2 roads . on Deputationsthe h e board h ave attended Ramsgate, and San at public meetings at Hereford (Viscount Ranelagh, Colonel Knox, M.P., Colonel Meyrick, and Mr. Win stanley); at Stafford (Viscount Ranelagh, Viscount Ingestre, and Colonel Knox, M.P.); at Ramsgate (Colonel Knox, M.P., the Hon. and Rev. W. Talbot, and Mr. Winstanley) ; and at Deal (Mr. Winstanley). Reso lutions of confidence in the society's system, after explana tions of the working thereof, were unanimously passed at all these provincial meetings. The committee have given a free site for the erection of a district church at Hereford, in pursuance of a desire expressed by some of the leading inhabitants of that city. The following estates have been • 9 closed this year in the Aoclety s books—Sevett Sisters, ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-oroes. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majcaty the QTJEEN. Vice- Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WA LE 3,H G. President-111s Grace the Duke of BUCCL KUGEL K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year :828, the first to estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without ;he delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary zontributions and 1 , 43C1ea It affords 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 considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benecolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of :ontaining several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., Abehurch-lane; also by Messrs. Coutte and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; (hyn and Co. r Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; W 'Maras, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. STANFO r aD 8111T17, Bearetoy, Tottenhaan, and Bishop's Stortford, Herts. The new Kemp Town Railway, which crosses the Round Hill Estate, Brighton, is progressing rapidly; and if a new station be not placed on the society's property, the site will be in close vicinity to it, as the neighbourhood has recently much increased. The next estate to be allotted, the day fixed being the 13th inst., is ono of the most valuable building properties ever acquired by. the' society in the suburban districts. It will be called the East London Estate, and is close to the West Gate Station on the Great Eastern Railway. This fine property is adapted not only for villas and houses of a superior class, but for dwellingsfor the working-classes, like the Society's West London Estate. The allotment of the first portion on the 13th inst. will be confined to the large field front ing the road leading to Wanstead-common, which is within two minutes' walk of the land. As Forest Gate is only five miles from the centre of the City, and there aro 22 trains daily, at cheap fares to and from theßishopsgate station, the committee anticipate that the East London estate, bordering on Wanstead Flats and Epping Forest, will meet the wants and wishes of all classes of the com munity. After the routine business of the annual and quarterly meeting (this day) there will bo a drawing of 100 share numbers, to be placed on the Register of Rights, to settle the priority of choice for plots on the society's estates, should the holders of such rights elect to buy land. Fifty share numbers will be taken from the Seniority List, according to date of membership, provided such shares be not in arrear, and be added to the. Order of Rights. The Executive Committee have to congratulate the purchasers of land on the. Society's estates upon the marked success which has attended the claims made by the allottees in the Regis tration Courts, supported, as usual, free of expense. The executive committee confidently anticipate that, in enter ing upon their fifteenth year, a new era of success is in sured for the prosperity of the Conservative Land Society, by the opening for public business of the new offices at 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, with which the adjoining pre mises, 11, Howard-street, have been combined, so as to form a large edifice, within which all the different branches of the society's yearly extending operations can be carried on. The opening in due course of the Thames embankment, and of the new law courts, will render the Norfolk-street neighbourhood a central position for metropolitan busi ness. In concluding their report, the executive committee feel that they ought to renew their acknowledgments to the shareholders, who have honoured them with theircon fidence and support on all occasions ; for it is owing to the kindly feeling which has thus existed that the board has been enabled to carry on .the society's affairs with such permanent success financially, combined at the same time with social, moral, and political advantage. MADAME TITSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. NEW EDITIONS. —A Life-size Portrait-Model of the PRINCESS MARY OF CAMBRIDGE, a Marrlaze Gr nip of the PRINCESS HELENA. and PRINCE CLIRISTIAN. Admittance, Is. ; children, under ten, half-price; extra rooms, ed. Open from 11 a ra till dusk, and from 7 p.m. till 10. A RGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirely re decorated, are now OPE NI EVEttY EVENING for Concert and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Lust[ CIIRTL Manager, M. GRENET. Admission to Promenado, One Reserved Seats, Two Shillings. D UNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of . Lords. "V.lt." HUSH WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offiea and Stores, • 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 18(8. Quotations on application. FALKNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY, " Real Malt," 19s. per zallon, is sold in battles and jars, bear ing his label and trade mark. Most liberal terms are offered to the trade for the sa`e of thi4 crennina old spirit, wh)ch is coming into universal consumption through England. For price lists apply at OPar:es, 14, Strand. London, W.C. Established in Grab ton-street, Dublin, A.D. 1780. JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the - world." I.ondon °faces, 7, Printing•house-square, E.C., next the " Times." JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork, be. , to announce that they t.re tbie to supply the trade with their celebrated 'Whiskies, in casks or case., and to take orders in bond tad for explrtatio”, at their offices, 7, Printlmr-hotpe-square, London, E C . the otily house in the square not occup'ed by th. , "Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies bring the highest prices in the Australian and tithe- Colonial markets, as may ha. observed by relererice to the "Journal of C. oe i i Victoria," by which it w1:1 be aeon that th«ir whiskies tete - a 6d. t, et ga.llos, and Is. p..r case over the next b. st, and Is. ed t,e.vilon and ss. 61 a o tee over the lowest quiratinn.- - A.wayi on band Lollar:re supply or - Yeler.: - .old mellow avti.ky in the finest condition, matured in sherry casks, unsurpassal.ilt '_.ii quality and flavour, suAdted oa tha most reasonable terms. ripilE• OCEAN ST. LEGER of •1866.--What AL Lord Lyon was to his owner was the Taec ink to her Ca,tain, viz.. winner of the race, having - distaneei , 11 com petitors, as the t , ASl' I DIA TEA. t.;(1 t'AN have io nriab y dove in their c::oi e and s tie of flit: new season's teas, now at implrter's pride. War. houses-9, Great St. tielen's=churchyzird. EAU -DE-VIE.—This Pure PALE BRANDY, 18s. per gal:on, is vt ry superb° • to recent importations of Cognac, recommended by the medical profession, and ex tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 335. per dozen, or in a case , railway carriage pail.— HEN ItY BRETT and CO., Old Furnival's Distillery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent street, S.W. Established 182'). GE OLOG 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 50) guineas • also single Specimens of Minerals, Itolks, Fossils, and lte,:nt Shells, Gcological :daps. Hammers, all the recent Publications, to., of J. TENANT, Mineralogist to Iler Mak.sty, 119, Strand, London. Private Instruction 'e given in Mineralogy and Geology by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., 149, Strand, W.C. M R il li cet o .B lV re Aß h D as , in S tr U od ß ue G ed EaN en -p ire E l N y n T e i w S fi T e:cr s ip 2 . , ti. nof ARTIFICIAL TEE r fixed without spring,g, or ligatures. They so perfectly reFemb'e 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 the extraction of roots, or any pain ful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and ihastica- Hon. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastication. 52. Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. THE BEST REMEDY FOIL INDIGESTION. NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi dently recommender'r, as a simple but certain Remedy for Indigestion, whith I= the cause of nearly all the diseases to which we are subject, being a medicine so uniformly crate • ful and beneficial, that it is with justice called the "Natural Strengthener of the human Stomach." •"Norton'sQ Pills ". act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient; are milinn their operation, safe under any circumstances, and thousands of persons can now bear testimony to :he benefits to be derived from their use, as they have been a never-railing Family Friend for upwards of 20 years. Sold in bottles at Is. lid., 2s. Od , and lls. each, in every town in the kingdom. CAUTION. Be sure and ask for "NORTON'S PILLS," and do not be r,ersustio.l to purchase any of the various imitations which have sprumr, up in consequence of the success of NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS. wLNSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having been recently opened and fitted with requisites for the wire and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr. BOISRAGON, announces that he has transferred his Estab lishment from Birmingham to the above desirable resideece, easily accessible. and distant from London about an hour and a-halt by the London awl North-Western line, and duty minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, s'tuated on a sandy soil, at“ - I commanding an extensive and pleasing prospect, are garden, me dow, plantation, and reoreation grounds. For terms and forms of admission address the proprietor. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for fitting, up the TRAINING SHIP. X2OOO required. WM. WILLIA.IIS, Secretary. Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen•street, W.C. OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—CON . TRIBUTIONB are earnestly solicited for establishing the COUNTRY ROME. £l,OOO required. war..WILLI IS, Secretary. Boys' Refuge, 8. Great Queen-street, W.C. TJOMELESS 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 support!ng the 400 boys is estimated at £5,000, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends have promised to pay , for one buy each year. Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothbury. and 214, High Holborn; Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East; and by WM. WILLIAMS, Secrets.ty. Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. JOHN *UM. Manufacturer. 228. Piccadilly. VOTHDTG IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful nvention of the day, AI ETA AIWARELL 1. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, Perfumers to her Majesty. respect fully offer to the publics this truly marvellous which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue- no matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is onoe restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. !'rice one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, lOs. 63. Testimonials from artistes °Who highest order. and from individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal litzhness the Princes. of Wales.• Naval and Military Intelligence. Orders have been issued to fit out the Royal Alfred, ironclad, as a flagship for Sir R. Mundy, to replace the Duncan, which is come home with Sir J. Hope. The Royal Alfred carries a very heavy armament. The Wivern, 4, screw turret sloop, Capt. H. Bur goyne, V.C., bas been placed in the Warrior dock at Portsmouth yard, where her valves have been exa mined, hull cleaned below the water, and a renewed coating of the Hay composition given her at the water line. She was to be undocked this morning, in readiness to sail and join thelrish coast squadron. The Virago, 6, paddle stoop, Commander Bing ham, sailed from Spithead yesterday morning for Queenstown, Ireland. Her Majesty's screw troopship Orontes, Capt. Hire, sailed from Portsmouth at 1 p.m. yesterday for Queenstown, Ireland, with the 48th Regiment on board, under the command of Col. J. G. R. Aplin. The regiment arrived at Portsmouth by special train on the London and South-Western Railway, from Farnham and Aldershot. The Himalaya, screw iron troopship, is drawing near the completion of her repairs and alterations at the hands of the factory and shipwright depart ments of Portsmouth yard, and will then be again available for the public service in the transport of troops. The Himalaya has gone through a most ex tensive course of repairs both in her hull and ma chinery, and the arrangements of her internal fit tings have been materially altered. The construc tion of a line of offices on the upper deck, abreast and forward of the funnel, will give additional cabin room below on the main deck, over and above What she previously - possessed there. When next com missioned for service the Himalaya will be a stronger and a roomier ship than she was when first pur chased by the Admiralty. The Ariadne, unarmoured screw frigate, 3,214 tons, 800-horse power, is being put through a course of very heavy repairs to her hull in No. 8 dock at Portsmouth. The Terrible, paddle frigate, 1,850 tons, 800- horse power, Capt. J. Commerell, is having a thorough overhaul and refit in preparation for further service. The Urgent, screw iron troopship, Capt. J. 11. Henderson, is coaling in the steam basin of Ports mouth yard for trial of her machinery, in prepara tion for further foreign service. After her trial and the completion of her stores, the Urgent will sail on troop service to China, calling at the Cape of Good Hope on the voyage out. The Bellerophon riflemen disembarked from that frigate alongside Portsmouth Dockyard yesterday, and, headed by their band, marched out into the country for a long afternoon's drill. The steadiness of the riflemen under arms and their proficiency in rapid execution of light infantry mancevres is some thing astonishing. In this instance, seamen have become soldiers of the highest excellence. But few hands are now at work upon the Blanch, 4, 1,268 tons, 300-horse power, and the Myrmidon, 4, 695 tons, 200-horse power, the only wooden ves sels under construction at Chatham. A number of the workmen have been withdrawn and placed on the iron ships Hercules and Monarch, which to gether employ nearly 3,000 hands. Notwithstanding that very few weeks have elapsed since the turret ship Monarch was commenced in the dock in which she is building, so rapid has been the progress made in her construction that the operation of fixing her armour-plates along her broadsides will be begun before the close of the present month. At the pre li sent time there are upwards of 1,000 tons of 9-inch, 7-inch, and other armour-plates stacked in Chatham Dockyard, and in readiness for fixing to the armour plated ships now in course of construction. Yesterday the War Department traLsport Marl borough went alongside the Ordnance-wharf at Chatham, and commenced the shipment of 100 cases containing the old pattern Enfield rifles from the armoury, being the first consignment of rifles for the 'rower, for the purpose of being converted into breech-loaders. The want which has been so long experienced by the dockyard workmen at Chatham, of a suitable building in which those who are compelled to do so may dine in the yard, is at length likely to be sup plied. Hitherto there has been a difficulty in pro viding a suitable site for a building of the dimen sions required for accommodating about 2,000 work men—the number who now take their dinners in the yard—where every foot of space has to be appro priated for the requirements of the daily increasing establishment. In a report on.the subject made by Capt. Stewart to the Admiralty, the vacant ground near the entrance to the dockyard, adjoining the block of buildings erected as quarters fur the officers of the Royal Marines, is recommended as a site. Should the Lords of the Admiralty approve the re commendation, there is nothing to prevent the building being at once proceeded with, when the necess.try contracts could be made for furnishing the men daily with a substantial dinner at a cheap rate. Capt. the Hon. Arthur Cochrane, C. 8., has been engaged for some time past at Woolwich, on board her Majesty's 17-gun sloop Chanticleer, in perfect ing his patent vertical tube boiler. The space oc cupied by Capt. Cochrane's and the service boiler in the Chanticleer is the same. The weight of the patent boiler when filled with water for service is • 8.3 per cent. less than the ordinary boiler. The time for raising steam from similar temperatures was, on an average of five trials, 9 per cent. quicker in the patent than in the service boiler; and, when working to the utmost, the evaporative power, with equal weights of Welsh coals consumed in the same time, was 10 per cent. in favour of the patent boiler. When tried for economy, it produced 12 per cent. more steam with a similar weight of coals burnt in the same amount of time. With the-Admiralty mixture of two-thirds Welsh and one-third north country coal the patent boiler was 8•I per cent, more powerful, and when tried for economy produced 8.3 per cent. more steam. with an equal consumption of fuel. There was no priming. The boilers were tried under atmospheric pressure, and the coals and water used accurately weighed.. An element of success in the patent boiler was observed in the violent upward current of water passing through the vertical water tubes thus pre venting incrustation. The patent boiler has 600 ft. less heating surface than the ordinary boiler, the working of which was dispensed with, in order to carry out the principle of a large combustion cham ber in the patent boiler. The trials were under the supervision of. Commodore Edmonstone, C. 8., and were witnessed with much interest by the various naval officers and other officers of the dockyard . . Mr. Richardson, who is instituting experiments in burning petroleum and other oils, with a view of superseding the use of coals for steam purposes, has received permission from the Lords of the Admiralty to use a service boiler in Woolwich dockyard for one week, in order to demonstrate the advantage of shale oil as fuel„,,ghe trial has been requested by a number of sh4e oil manufacturers in Wales and Scotland and some scientific peisons. The 71st Highland Light Infantry, under the command of Col, W. Hope, C. 8., arrived at Ports mouth Dockyard yesterday afternoon from Alder shot, via Farnborough, by special train on the Lon don and South-Western Railway, and immediately embarked on her Majesty's screw troopship Tamar, Capt. Francis W. Sullivan, C. 8., for transport to Ireland. The Tamar was appointed to sail from Portsmouth at daylight this morning. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—William F. Law, master addi tional, to the Indus, for the Liffey ; Dr. David Duncan, surgeon, additional, to the Wellesley, for service in Chatham Dockyard; Richard F. Bridge ford, assist.-surg., to the Hector ; Henry Hadlow, assist.-surg., to Greenwich Hospital ; Edwin W. G. Hilliard, master's-assist., to the Fox, as super numerary ; and George S. Newton, second class assist.-engineer, to the Bristol. Reform Meeting at Burton-on-Trent. ----~ On Friday evening last, a public meeting was held in Messrs. Bass and Co.'s large branding room, Station-street, to hear addresses on the question of reform from Mr. Edmond Beales, Mr. Geo. Potter (London), Mr. George Mantle (Birmingham), the Rev. E. Browning, and a number of townsmen. The Rev. D. B. Joseph (Particular Baptist), presided, and in the body of the room were, amongst others, Mr. Bass, M.P. for Derby ; Mr. It. S. Tomlinson, J.P. ; Mr. Hamor Bass, Mr. W. 11. Worthington. The chairman opened the meeting with an excellent speech, and afterwards stated that the committee had received letters from various gentlemen and local members of Parliament; and he read the fol lowing:—" Old Palace-yard, S.W., Nov. 29, 1866. —Sir, I have to acknowledge the receipt of the in vitation of the Working Men's Reform Committee to take part in the proceedings of the Reform meet ing to be held at Burton on the 7th of next month, which I regret to be obliged to decline. Though I supported the bill introduced last session by Mr. Gladstone to the utmost of my power, and spoke in favour of it, and regret that it was unsuccessful, I am not prepared to adopt the sweeping condemna tion of the House of Commons contained in the first resolution to be proposed at the meeting; nor can I pledge myself to be satisfied with nothing less than manhood suffrage and vote by ballot as the only just ba,sis of representation. If present, therefore, I . &mould be obliged, either by silence apparently to rdopt the resolution, and expose myself to much misrepresentation, or by protesting against it in ternipt the unanimity and harmony of the meeting. On the whole, therefore, I beg to decline the invita tion, and hope to have a more favourable opportu nity of explaining and defending my views on some future occasion.—l remain, &c., " EDWARD a BULLER. " To Mr. T. Metcalfe." " Rangemoor, Burton-on-Trent, Nov. 21, 186 G. —Mr. T. Metcalfe—Sir, absence from home during the past week has prevented my replying sooner to your letter of the 16th inst., in which you are good enough to invite me to take a part in the re form meeting proposed to be held at Burton on the 7th proximo. I regret that, after due consideration, I feel compelled respectfully to decline the honour you propose to me ; and I do so because, while 1 will yield to no one in my sincere wish to promote both the material and moral welfare of the working classes, and while lam most anxious to assist in passing a measure of reform which will concede to them that increased influence in the representation of the country to which I believe them to be justly entitled, and which will attempt to deal with the gross inequalities at present existing between popu lation and representation, I cannot consent to ap pear, in however direct a manner, as a supporter of a meeting pledged to and conducted by gentlemen who are the leading advocates of manhood suffrage. It is possible that at some distant period the spread o f e ducation and intelligence may bring about the changes you desire ; but at the present 1 am con vinced that the feeling of the great majority of the electoral body—of the wealth, of the intelligence of the country, is opposed to any extension of the franchise which does not recognise either pro perty or education as its basis ; and for myself, I must confess that I would far rather remain as we are, unfair as I consider our present electoral system in many respects to be ; than adopt so un certain and revolutionary a measure as manhood suffrage. You must forgive me for saying, in con clusion, that the difficulties which now obstruct the passing a liberal and generous, but not sweeping measure of reform, are far more likely to be in creased than diminished by the public advocacy of such extreme opinions as those contained in the re solutions you propose to submit to the reform meeting on the 7th.—l have the honour to be, &c., M. A. BASS. Mr. EDWARDS proposed the first resolution, and Mr. G. B. Capes seconded the same. It was to the effect that the present House of Commons, by their rejection of Mr. Gladstone's Reform Bill, was utterly unworthy of their confidence, and they were determined to agitate for, and use all lawful means to secure, registered residential manhood suffrage, and vote by ballot, to protect electors from undue influence and intimidation at elections. Mr. BEALES supported the resolution, and urged upon the working men of Burton to form a branch of the Reform League, and join with them in the great national movement for the restoration of their own rights and those of their fellow-countrymen. Mr. BASS, M.P. for Derby, although he had de clined to take part in supporting or seconding any resolution contained in the programme, rose at the opposite side of the room to the platform, and made some remarks amidst considerable interruption. Mr. MANTLE, of Birmingha►", supported a reso lution recommending a redistribution of seats, and replied to the speech of Mr. Bass, amid the cheers of the auditory. Other resolutions f(Illowed. TILE PARIS E X IIIBITION.—In consequence of the numerous a pplications for assistanc e w hi c h are b made to the British Ch ar i ta bl e Fund of n t inually P ar is, by workmen who have been disappointed i n obtain ing em ployment at the Exhibition b u ildi ng, we are re con q uested by the committee of that charity to caution work men against going to Paris to seek such employment, un less they have obtained beforehand a positive engagement through persons officially connected with the Exhibition. The committee of the British Charitable Fund positively decline to afford assistance of any kind to this class of applicants. Mr. ANDREW, a gentleman connected with one of the Indian railways which has the harbour of Kurrachee for a terminus, controverted the opi nions expressed in the paper, and adduced seyeral facts to show that the harbour has greatly Cpproved and is improving; as an instance of which he men tioned that as many as 300 ships, bringing materials for the railway, had come into the harbour within a short period. The town of Kurrachee has been extending and improving, its imports have largely increased, and it :resembles an English town more than any other town in India. Mr. Parker, a civil engineer, who assisted Mr. Walker in improving the harbour, explained the nature of the works that had been effected. The chief work was the construction of a wall two miles in length on the east shore ex tending out to sea, which had increased the depth of water at the bar, and rendered the harbour more accessible. He denied that there was a current towards Kurrachee, and contended that the south west monsoon blows directly against the coast and not obliquely. Captain CONSTABLE spoke to the same effect, and from comparisons of the actual state of the harbour , as recorded at different periods during the last 40 years, he•showed that instead of filling up, as Colonel Tremenheere predicted it would do, it had greatly improved. Capt. MAURY said that judging from the manner in which the bars were formed at the mouths of the great rivers in America, he conceived that where there is a current, as at Kurrachee, the silt would be carried away, and he inferred, from what had been said by the preceding speakers; and from the direction of the shore, that the current would carry the silt from the harbour and not into it. Major GORDON, R.E., briefly defended his fellow officer from some of the attacks that had been made on his paper. A second communication was then read on Pan gong Lake, Thibet, from Captain Godwin Austen. The lake lies in 34 deg. north latitude, and about 79 deg. east longitude, and is situated among the lofty mountains of Thibet, at an elevation of 13,900 ft. There is an upper and a lower lake, connected by a small stream, the former of which is 43 miles long, and the latter about 30 miles. tending in a direction from north-west to south-east. The most remarkable fact concerning these lakes is that at such an eleva tion, among granite mountains, they are brackish, the upper one being too salt to be drinkable; the lower lake is less 5). They are only supplied by small rills from the glaciers and the surrounding tuountains, some of which arc 20,000 feet high. It was in the month of July that Capt. Austen visited the lake, in making a survey of the country, and at that time the water was not froam; one of the lake=, indeed, contained abundance of dbi resembling tench. There were no inhabitants, and the only animals were two wild asses. At the conclusion of the paper the meeting ad journed to the 14th January. Agricultural Prospects. The week opened with a wet morning ; it was afterwards fair for the most part of the day, but rain set in at night. Monday was an unsettled and showery day, wind south-west. Nothing in the shape of out- door work could be done, where there was yet anything left to do. The early-planted wheat has become tolerably strong where not too much attacked with the slug, and there are instances of its having become patchy; but sharp frost of the previous Friday night was very useful in checking the ravages of this enemy. Tuesday was an ex tremely wet day, blowing a gale throughout from S.W.; the rmome t er 52 deg., ',barometer 29.60 in. From Northumb er l an d our a d v i ces s t a t e d :—" The. weather since our last report was fine up to Satur day; since th en it h as b een d u ll an d showery, wind varying from N.W. to S.W. and S. With this sort of weather, and so thick an atmosphere, wheat thrashing could not be proceeded with to advantage; yet the farmers are anxious to se cur e the present such satisfactory prices, being s as they have no t ex perienced for a long time p ast, an d a favourable change in the weathe r would be very acc e pt a bl e f or Our Suffolk correspondent, on that this process." " Mild weather." From the E as t day, merely says , Riding of Yorkshire our advices states :—" 'Weather continues mild and open, and a good deal of rain has fallen during the week. The wheat plant comes forward slowly, especially on heavy soils, and farmers complain of its appearance." An other very wet day on Wednesday, with a strong gale of wind from the S.S.W., still continuing to blow, causing great disasters a t sea, flooding the country again in all the low-lying districts, and tending to injure the wheat plant where covered by water. From the west coast of Scotland it was stated : " The weather continues wet and boister ous." Farm work has gone on pretty well north of the Tweed, and a good portion of the wheat has been sown : one dry week more will finish it in Scotland, and a greater breadth than last year will have been planted, in the expectation of good prices ruling next year, from the closely worked up stocks at harvest time ; at least there is a prospect of that looming in the distance. Our present position is that the wheat at sea from various places,, added to the stocks on hand at the outport s, here and in the farmers' hands, may carry us safely over to the end of April, when spring s hipments from the north of Europe will commence. Thursday was a wet and boisterous day, being the fifth in succession w ith more or l ess rain, and a good deal of wate r ou t again in many parts of the country. Du r i ng t h at remained with fou. , ti m e the barometer any material variation, and in some parts of the country it has been steadily rising. On this account a correspon dent in the Isle of Wight wants some one to explain how this comes about. So far as our experience goes, we should say it forebodes frost at no great distance of time. Friday was the first dry day of the week, wind being W. to N.W., but yet the baro meter had gone down here. Saturday morning was cold, the day proving fine, thermometer then 37 deg., with a rapidly ri,ing barometer all day. This would prove a favourable day for the thrashing of wheat, and a supply may now be looked for, to pay the rents coming due at Christmas. From Warwick shire our advices stated, " Weather this week has been very foggy, wet, and miserable. Except on the heavy and wet lands, where the early wheat plant is not very promising, there are good reports of its condition and g rowth to the pre sent time. The deliveries of barley have this week been 4,325 qrs. more than wheat, showing that the former grain is being pushed to market whilst such excellent prices can be made, and the Burton ale brewers are still buyers of the most choice qualities, at comparatively high prices.-- ] Mark-lane Express. Mil. MARK LEMON'S' NEW WORK. Now ready at al the Libraries, in 3 vols., - E YT ON II A L L, And other Tales. • By MARK LEMON. 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