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NIUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Pariiam nt, IS 0), _ 11, RUSE: L-STREET, COVE T-GARDEN, LENDS MONEY on Personal and other Security, in sums Ot £2O to £5OO, to be repaid by instalments extending► over o ne, two. or three years. The la. ge C ipital of this Associa tion enables it to complete its transactions without delay. oc , nquiry or office fees. and strict secrecy observe I. Hills Discounted at short notice. Form sent free on receipt of a d:reeted stamped envelope. The Association also lands Money for the purchase of a 'house by a ter ant, or for the liquidation or mortgages, on '‘erMs most advantageous to the bot rower. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. the CREDIT FONCIER and MOBILIER of ENGLAND (Limited) in conjunction with the IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION (Limited), are prepared to RECErvE SUB SCRIPTIONS for £50,000 PREFERENCE SHARES, being the BALANCE of the CAPITAL Of THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY Not yet issued to the general eublie, viz.: - 5 4,000 Preference Shares of £5 each, bearing 8 per Cent. per Annum. 'reference Interest authorised by Special Act of Parliament. Deposit £1 per Share on Application, and £4 on Allotment. No further Liability of any kind. Each Subscriber's Liability being specially limited by Act of Parliament to the Amount of his Subscription. THE FOLLOWING ARE THE DIRECTORS OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. 'The Right Hon. JAMES STUART WORTLEY, Gover nor of the Credit Foncier and 31obilier of England (Limited), Chairman. Curtis M. Lampson, Esq. (Messrs. C. M. Lampson and Co.) London, Vice-Chairman. George Peabody, 22, Old Broad-street, London. Francis Le Breton, Esq., 21, Sussex-place, Regent's-park. John Pender, Esq., M.P., Manchester (Director of the Bri tish and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Co.). Edward Moon, Esq., Liverpool Samuel Gurney, Esq., M.P., 65, Lombard-street, London (Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co.). Edward Cropper, Esq., Swaylands, nearPenshurst (Director of the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Co.) Captain A. T. Hamilton, 12, Bolton-row, Piccadilly. G. P. Bidder, Esq., 24, Great George - street, Westminster (Director of the Electric and International Telegraph Uo., and late President of the Institution of Civil Engineers). air Edward Cunard, Bart., Old Broad-street, London. HONORARY DIRECTOR. W. H. Stephensbn, Esq., late Official Director on this Board on behalf of her Majesty's Government, and now Chair , man of the Board of Inland Revenue. ELECTRICIAN. Cromwell F. Varley, Esq. CONSULTING COMMITTEE. Captain Douglas Galion, R.E., F.R.S. William Fairbairn, Esq., F.R.S., late President of the British Association. Joseph Whitworth, Esq., F.R.S. Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S. Professor W. Thomson, F.R.S., of Glasgow. SECRETARY. George Saward, Esq. OFFICES-12, St. Helen's-place, B.C. • The distribution cf these shares will be made as nearly 11,3 possible as follows : 1 0,000 Shares will be appropriated to applicants who are Shareholders in the Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England (Limited). 1 0,000 Shares will be appropriated to applicants who are Shareholders in the Imperial Mercantile Credit Association (Limited). 1 0,000 Shares will be appropriated to applicants who are Shareholders in the Atlantic Telegraph • Company. 1 0,000 Shares will be appropriated to applicants who are Shareholders in the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company (Limited) ; and 1 0,000 Shares will be appropriated amongst the general - - - public. - - , The above numbers are so far approximative as to be sub- Act to reduction or increase according to the total number 01 applications made, it being the intention, however, that each. applicant shall receive an allotment. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, & Co., Lombard-street, London. 4The Union Bank of London, Princes - street , E . G . The Agra and Masterman's Bank (Limited), Nicholas lane, London. ttessrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, Lombard - street , London. The National Bank, London, Dublin, and its Branches in Ireland. The National Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, and its Branches in Scotland. The Consolidated Bank, London and Manchester. kessrs. J. Barned and Co.; Liverpool. BROKERS. Messrs. Laurence, Son, and Pearce, 9, Angel-court, E.C., ~London. essrs. Foster, Braithwaite, and Co., 27, Austinfriars. essrs. Taunton and Co., Liverpool. Messrs. Shore and Kirk, Manchester. kessrs. M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow. Of all the enterprises of a commercial character none has e ver excited so much attention and interest as that of the Atlantic Telegraph Company. The reason of this is perfectly obvious ; the immense Political importance of the Company, as well as the enor mous profit to be anticipated by its Shareholders, together with the scientific interest attached to it, combining to a degree •not found in any enterprise having commercial Profit for its legitimate end. An enterprise so important, and now become so compa ratively easy to accomplish, appeals not only to the great e °ramercial interests of Europe and America, but to the e Yrapathies of all classes in both countries ; its benefits to Peace and civilisation it is impossible to estimate. The near approach of the period when the cab l e i s to be , is already the cause of much excitement amongst all Who are aware of the fact. The date for the Great Eastern steamship's departure 'fith th e cable is actually fixed for the Bth July, about a fortnight from the present date. and it is not too much to e aY that from the hour of her leaving the whole c ontinent ?' Europe and America will be intent upon watching her progress. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has t estified his warm interest in the undertaking by personally 148 Pecting the cable on board the Great E astern about t hree weeks ago. The exceptional character of the undertaki n g is further show n by her Majesty's Government granting the services • ef two of her Majesty's men-of-war steamers, the Terrible and th e Sphynx, to accompany the Great Eastern, and assist In the operation of laying the cable. In calculating the rate of profit of this undertaking, of !curs e everything depends upon the scale of charges adopted for the transmission of messages; the first tariff agreed to I :,,hh her Majesty's Government was fixed at 2 s . 6d. p er iyerd, subsequently increased to s s. p er word, but as the ; Pie arrived when the cable would be ready for actual use, was seen that the mass of business this company would i mmediately find offered to it, would so far neutralise the bene fit of it by completely choking the line, that a representa tion to the Lords of the Treasury within the last few days Z ll the subject, has led their lordships to consent to the Company, until Ist September next, experimentally charging, without restriction, such rates for messages a ., 1 4 the Company may, on full consideratio n, deem reason able and proper ;" and ft is fully expected that by this a rrangement the net profits will reach one million sterling , Per annum. The capital of the Company is composed as follows : £lOO,OOO Five per Cent. Debentures. £600,000 Eight per Cent. Preference Shares (of which the presenrissue forms the balance). £600,000 Ordinary Shares. The amount vequired to pay 5 per cent. The amount on £lOO,OOO Debentures is £5,000 per annum. amount required to pay the Pre . Jerence Dividend of 8 per cent. on 4600,000 (of which the present issue ~forms the balance) 48,000 ~ "ne amount required to pay 4per cent 911 £600,000 ordinary capital is Making a total of £77,000 , Le aving £923,000 per annum surplus income. H i alf e alnount of revenue above the said £77,000 is available th for Yearly bonus to the holders of the said 8 per cent. Prefer , Vito Sha re s. Therefore, on the above-mentioned calcula f,Tl, the total available dividend and bonus would amount above 76 per cent. per annum, in addition to the 8 per cent. p re f erence as a bove, making an estimated total divi dend of 84 per cent. per annum on these Preference Shares, , ea ving, after deduction of 20 per cent. for the formation of e lrenewal fund for laying down a new cable , 64 per cent. t rr idend, of which 8 per cent. would be preferenti al divi "nd secured by Act of Parliament. What the price of these Shares will be a month hence, ritil such prospects, it is difficult to say, especially as the KR:llres above given do not, in the opin i o n of p ersons cora vvent to j u dge, at all represent the maximum pro bable re- CeiPts i ; but taking them as the basis for calculation, and "usidering the continued demand there must be for mes- Qg e s, consequent upon the ever-increasing business be- En the Continent of Europe, England, and America, and b earing in mind that this cable will complete the line of impro bable between San Francisco and India, it is not impro t„"'e that, by the time that telegraph communication be k3Leen England and America is an accomplished fact, these '''„,res may be worth £2O, or £l5 premium per Share. vie r roni the phalanx of talent existing in the scientific ad ers of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, and from the w et that the laying of the cable has been entrusted exclu- ZSly to te einent Contractin Company who have ha . d he a rge oft he m manufacture of it g pa , and whose staff of Engi eltn and Electricians have successfully laid most of the la t ,'lng cables, whether laid in deep or shallow seas, it t z ,Y Well be believed that every precaution has been taken th insure fhe successful laying of this cable : this achieved, ev e A , O nly bar to the Shares attaining the high value which 1 8 ' l 9 one acquainted with the undertaking places them at Lb r emoved ; this risk, however, may easily be assessed c t en it is mentioned that leading insurance companies and of e i Yd.'s have underwritten policies. embracing every risk tl a „,n/ng, insulation, &c., at 25 guineas per cent., showing i f r confidence in the result pa anticipated. lly, the Dire ctors of the several Companies interested the.,,, enterprise fully anticipate bei n g able to re p ort each 4 d uring the laying the favourable progr ess all believe n, and of the success of an undertaking which all look 111 )04 It a national work. that 4 "'d be seen from the proposed allot ment of the Shares as .1 10 distribution of them is intended to be made upon op;;" a basis as possible, so as to give the whole of the • b ebi l eants the assurance of receiving an allotment and of 4t a il permitted to join an unexampled commercially pro pr_u_ as well as politically important undertaking. of th 7Reetuses and Forms of Application can be obtained ~Alfruredit Foncier and Mobilier of England (Limited) ,d T, rta t ilC ulve l Esq., Secretary); at their Offices, 17 and 18. 4 ° 6 80 RC., London ;of the Imperial Mercantile Credit cia at t i t ci a ll e &L Q imi lac te o d s ? CW. C. Winterbottom, Esq., Secre -27, L9mbardittott atm i 4 tho At in s p a Arle e e4 14 111 er 4 P On ef N°. 22.780. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1865. lantic Telegraph Company (George Saward, Esq., Secre tary), at their Offices, 12, St. Helen's-place, E.C., London ; of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company (Limited) (W. Shuter, Esq., Secretary), at their Offices, 54. Old Broad-street; or of the Brokers or Bankers; but no application will be entertained unless the sum of £1 per Share on application has been paid to one of the Company's Bankers on the number applied for. Every applicant will receive an allotment, but should.a less number be allotted than is asked for, the amount paid will be applied towards the £4 per Share due on those allotted. London, 19th June, 1865. irANGHAM HOTEL, PORTLAND-PLACE. Thii commodious Hotel, "the hugest in London," is NOW I'EN ;it is situated on the most healthy side In the West-end, with all modern impr Nements, Suites of Apart ments, Stile it Itinger 100 by 40 feet, elegant Ladies' Roam, a spacious Gentlemen's Sittin4 - and Writing Room, dr.c. Within a short drive of all the railway termini. ieor terms to secure aaommodation, Address— The Managee, C. SCHUMANN. .N ow ready, at a 1 the Libraries, in 3 vols., Lamentable and Extraordinary Fatality. i tLEC FORBES OF HOWGLEN. By GEORGE ➢IAC DONALD, MA. _do._ "No account of this stori would give any idea of the pro found interest that pervades the work from the first page to the last. '—Athet: mum. "This book is full of good thought and 0 , 4 writing. Mr. Mac Dunald reads life and nature like a true poet."---Exami ner. . . We have to-day to record one of those sudden and fatal incidents which, when they occur, excite one feeling of sympathy throughout the whole com munity. Intelligence has been received in London of the death of Mrs..Arbuthnot by a most appalling accident. The young lady, who was only recently married, and was on her wedding tour, was struck by lightning yesterday near Interlachen, during a thunderstorm, and instantly killed. The circumstances, as far as they are known, are these. Mr. and Mrs. Arbuthnot had arrived, on their excursion, at Interlachen. Yesterday morn ing they set out on horseback, and accompanied by a guide to ascend the Schelthorn, one of the Bernese Alps. When they left the village the weather was as fine as could be desired for such a trip. They had reached 'lout halfway up the mountain, when they alighted and walked some distance further.. The sky then became ,overclouded, but there was nothing in the appearance of the atmosphere which gave any alarm to the guide, well accustomed to such sudden changes. Mrs. Arbuthnot, feeling a little tired, sat down to rest, and Mr Arbuthnot and the guide proceeded some distance further up the ascent, but never went out of sight or hearing of their companion. In a few minutes a furious thunderstorm burst over them, and they returned as rapidly as they could to the spot where they had left Mrs. Arbuthnot. They found her dead. She had been struck by lightning, and killed instan taneously. Mrs. Arbuthnot was the fourth daughter of Lord Rivers and niece of Earl Granville. Her untimely death will be mourned by a wide circle of relatives, but the awful manner in which a beautiful young bride was cut off, in the midst of bright hopes and happiness, cannot but make a deep impression in every rank of society. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great sfarltorou,7,ll-street. ROYAL NAVAL, AI IL IT A RY, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY (Esta blished A.D. 18:i7. under Royal i atronage), 17, Waterl,o place, London, S.W. AItTRUR R. HAMILTON, Secretary. Agents wantet in towns not yet represented. MR. BAILLIE COCHRANE'S NEW WORK. Now ready, nt all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 2' '218., EIGHT PER CENT. PREFERENCE SHARES OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPHIC COMPANY. Issue of 50,000 Shares, £5 each. No.— To the Directors of the Credit Fonder and Mobilier of England (Limited). Gentlemen,—Having paid to the (insert bankers' name) Bank the sum of £ , being 11 per Share on Eight per Cent. Preference Shares of £5 each in the At lantic Telegraph Company above-mentioned, I request you will allot me Shares in the said Company upon the terms of the Prospectus issued by you, and I agree to ac cept such Shares or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the further sum of £4 per Share thereon due on allotment. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant, Usual signature Name and surname in full Profession, trade, or occupation Residence Date June, 1865 HISTORIC PICTURES. By A.. BAILLIE COCIIRANE, M.P. NORWICH UNION FIRE OFFICE.— The lull benefit of the nEDucTioN of DULY to Is. 6d. per c •nt. from Midsummer next will be given to Insurers now effecting Policies with th s Company. By this Reduction and the BONUS S tor of the NORW IC t I UNIoN, the cost of insurance wlll be reduced to a Minimum Amount. - - From the Times.—" Mr. — MilMe Cochrane has published two entert titling volumes of s-udies from history. •I hey are lively rea:tin,cr. The wo-k is a study of the more interestii.g momt-nts of history - what, in.leea, the author hunse I calls it, • 11 into' is Pi..tures.' " Hurst and. Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. BOYLE'S TRAVELS IN BORNEO. Now ready, in R -vcx, with Iliustrations, 15a. bound, ADVENTURES AMONG THE DYADS OF uORNEO. By FREDERICK IfYYL E, Esq., F.R.G.S. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough- Street. This Day, price 25., uniform with " ANONYMA," SKITTLEs INPARIS. N.B.—No novel of the age .urpasses in interest thi4 ro man; e of real lite: it has a I the piquancy of fiction and all the charms of t uth. George VI kers, An,el-court, Strand. ISSUE of 50,000 EIGHT PER CENT. PRE FERENCK SHARES in the ATLANTIC TELE GRAPH COMPANY. The CREI'IT FO\CIER and MOBILIER of EVGLAND (Limited), HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that the t-UB A:11.1P TION LIST tor the above SHARE; wll CLOSE on TUE- 7 :DAY NEXT, the 27th instant, at Four o'clock, for London Appl.cations, and on WEDNESDAY N EXT, the 28th instant, at Twelve o'clock, for Country Applications. - - - Now ready, at al the Libraries, in 3 vols., LTFE : Its Nature, Varieties, and Phenomena . iiy Lr.O IL GEINDON. The Publisher begs to anpounce the issue of the Third Edition of the above populpy work in sixpenny mOuthly parts. Parts LA, IX. nowitificly. The work can be ha-I complete, in cloth, price 6s. 6d. • " To those who delight in the exercise of their intellectual powers, these very thoughtful and b.autifully-written reflec tions will be a welcome boon, and the source long afterwards, we may rest assured of many iruitful meditations and plea sant memories." —Sun. London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row. E.C. By order of the Court, ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. 17 and 18, Cornhill,•London, June 21, 1865. T HE LONDON MERCHANTS COMPANY (Limited . Incorporated under the Companies Act of 1862, with Limited Liability. Capital £1,500,000, in 15,000 Shares of £lOO each. £2 per Share to be paid on Application, and £8 on Allot ment. Cloth, price 2s. 6d., AHANDBOOK for the MAN of BUSINESS, applicable to ad Departments of Commercial Engage ments. London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, F.C. No further ()all will exceed £5 per Share, nor be made at intervals of less than Three Months. • It is not intended to call up more than £5O upon each Share. DIRECTORS. Extra cloth, price 55., • QC EP TICISM AND SPIRITUALISM. The experiences of a Sceptic. By the Authoress of " AURELIA." W. R Robinson, Esq., John Fleming, Esq., Messrs Robinson and Fleming. George Fleming, Esq., James Alexander Esq., Messrs Redfern, Alexander, Philip Vanderbyl, Esq., and Co. IL Stuart Lane, Esq., Horace E. Chapman, Esq., Messrs Lane, Hankey, and Co. F. H. Holbert, Esq., London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.O Demy Bvo., price 25., 7 OILI S M: An Essay toward Pathological Analysis. An Eclogue for Eventide. By JOHN FOYER, Author of "St. Thomas A'Beckett," " Anti- Colenso," &c. tte.. London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E C. . _ BANKERS. London and County Bank, Lombard-street. National Bank, Old Broad-street, and all its Branches. Messrs. Prescott, Grove, Cave, and Cave, Threadneedle. street. - ow ready, boards, price is. 6d., HITS; a Collection of the Best Tales contri buted to "Temple Bar," " Once a Week," . 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For notices of this starting work see the " Saturday Re- • view" of Awn I, entitled "Quacks and Quackery ; ' the Crimes ;" " The Sun" of April 12, " • Detector's' Broadside " The Quacks and their 0 " n W 4,2 e n e e l Weekly a D n April GUIDE TO THE QUACKS OF LONDON. A Series of Papers relative to Q'iacks, which appeared in the " eedical cul sr ? " with- the signature of "Detector," and Quackery." has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet The rea ter of " Punch" saould read this pamphlet also. He has of,en read, in the pages of "Punch," of o , rtain Quacks, frau dulent and noisome, who obtain money by false pretences, and more money by menaces and extortion, front green young men. For their names, which " Punch" would not advertise, he has refer' ed his readers to the lower corner of the adyertisin.; columns of low.newspapers, amongst which too many of Mr." Punch's" contempora , ies, especially in the country, may still be enumerated. But now he begs to pub lish the information that a nominal list or these ti,i , creants, with copies of their puffs and other earticulars concerning them, needful to be known, will be found in the parnphl t above referred to, which is entitled " Reveled, ns of Quacks an i Quackery," and is to be had at the "Medical Circular" Office, 20, King William-street, St , and, W.ti. The vile practices, the monstrou• imoudence, the cruel rapacity, rind the enormous dins of he obscene tribe of Qu,t, ks, the misalnet they do, the ruin they work, even to the causation of suicide, are sully set forth in " Revelations. of Quacks at , d Qa..stliery." And mark espee'ally that, as aforesaid, the names of the Quacks are puhlishel. The pamphlet in question thus constitutes a regular Quack Dl r.etory. b. con offing which every young man may know where he may go if he wishes to get plundered and destroyed Buy, therefore, reader, by all means buy " evelations of Quacks and Quackery." Its contents will astonish and amuse y.at, wide they invoke year indignation and disgust. Of course you do not want it on account of its warnings for your own sake, but you doubtless do for t hat of the many sinple ions with whom you must be acquainted, it your acquaint ance is large. " Who are the Quacks that' Punch' means ?" Consider what it is to he able to qnswer tats question of the young anti inexperienced, and, for charity's sake, if for no other, go and provide yourself With " Revelations of Quacks and Quackery," by Detector.—Punch, April 12. PROSPECTUS. This Company has been formed by the amalgamation of the following London Firms, for the purpose of carrying on and extending their business as Merchants under the Joint-Stock Companies Act, with limited liability. Messrs. Robinson and Fleming. Messrs. Redfern, Alexander, and Co. Messrs. Lane, Hankey, and Co. Experience has shown that undertakings established upon the principle of limited liability cask successfully carry out the most confidential operations of banking and finance, and the Directors feel assured that mercantile transactions will now be even more freely entrusted to a Company so formed than to private firms. It is believed that the periodical publication of a balance-sheet, with the security afforded by a large uncalled capital, will, when combined with the personal management of a board of ex perienced merchants, attract business of the best class, under permanently favourable conditions. The basis of the arrangement with the amalgamated firms is as follows :- 1. All the liabilities and obligations of each house are to be liquidated altogether independently of the Company, except where any such may hereafter be agreed to betaken over by the Board as new and desirable business. 2. The partners of each house bind themselves not to enter into any fresh mercantile operations in England of a s imilar character during ten years ; and the completeness of the transfer, with the efficient management of ea ch par ticular class of business, is insured by the leading mem bers of the three firms joining the Board and remaining as Directors. The qualification of each Director is fixed by the Articles of Association at £lO,OOO, to be held in the Stock of the Company. 3. The total goodwill of the amalgamated firms will be taken, one-third in Shares with £5O paid, and two-thirds in Debentures, payable with 5 per cent. interest, in equal annual instalments over ten years, thus identifying the interests of the vendors completely and continuously with that of the Company. The total amount thus paid to the three firms for good will in Shares and Debentures will be £375,000, which sum is calculated upon their actual profits for three years ; without estimating any increase from new business, or savings which will be effected by the amalgamation, and assuming only the present profits of the united firms, a large dividend may, therefore, be anticipated on the paid up capital, from the establishment of the company. The amalgamated firms and their immediate connexions are prepared to subscribe for a large portion of the pro posed capital ; but as it is believed that the influence and prosperity of the Company will be increased by establish ing it on a wide and a public basis, and that many inves tors will gladly seize the opportunity of thus becoming merchants without the unlimited risks of partnership, the directors have decided to open the subscription to the public. To meet the wishes of those who may desire to pay up at once the amount that is intended to be called on the shares, it has been decided to allow such prepayments to the extent of £5O per share, and such shares will then rank for dividend in proportion to the amount paid up. A separate form of application for such shares is enclosed. There will be no promotion-money paid for the forma tion of the Company. Applications for shares, accompanied by a remittance for the deposit, may be made to the Bankers and Brokers. The Articles of the Association are open for inspection at the Office of the Solicitors. APHOTOGRAPHIC CURIOSITY.- The Photographed fac-simile of the First Page of TUE SUN now publishing, and may be had On Paper at Os. 3d. On Card .......... Ditto, framed ls. 6d. By order of all Booksellers and Dea'ers in Photographs, and at THE SUN OFFICE, 112, Stiand. " ' The San ovening newspaper has just issued a photo graph, 9 inches by 7, of its first page as it apneared on the 2d of last January. The card towns quite a literary curiosity, a d is on , of the best specimens of minute typogrApLy ever published."—London Review. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR ORDINARY SHARES. __ (To be retained by the Bankers.) No To the Directors of the London Merchahts Company (Limited). Gentlemen, —Having paid to the Bankers, the sum of £ , being a deposit of £2 per Share on Shares in the above Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that number, and I agree to accept such Shares or any less number you may allot to me, and I agree to pay the sum of £8 per Share on allotment, and I autho rise you to insert my name on the Register of Members for the number of Shares allotted to me. Usual signature Name in full Residence Profession Date.. ..1865 FORM OF APPLICATION FOR £5O PAID -UP SHA. (To be retained by the Bankers.) No To the Directors of the London Merchants Company (Limited). Gentlemen, —Having paid to the Bankers, the sum of , being a deposit of £2 per Share on Shares in the above Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that number of L5O Paid-up Shares, and I agree to accept such Shares or any less number you may allot to me, on the terms of the Prospectus, and I agree to pay the balance of the amount, viz., £4B per Share on allotment, and to sign the Afticles of Association of the Company when required ; and I authorise you to insert my name on the Register of Members for the number of Shares alloted to me._ . Usual signature Name in full Residence Profession Date ~.1865 T HE LONDON MERCHANTS COMPANY (Limited . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the APPLICA TION LIST for the SHARES of this Company will be CLOSED on MONDAY NEXT, the 26th inst. J. D. O'BRIEN, Secretary (pro tem.) Temporary Offices-21, Austin-friars, June 22, 1865. DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. The medical profe •aion for Thirty years have approved of this pure solution of Ma nesia as the best remedy for Gout and stomach disorders of every kir d ; and as a mild aperient It is esr ecially adapted for ladies and children. Prepared solely by DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, ft., 172, New Bond-street. London ; Ard sold throughtut the world by alt respectable chemists. CAUTION —See hat " Dinneto label rd and Ccork o." is on each bottle and rcd over the . NOTHING DIPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most usetul invention of the day, AGUA A MAR ELL .1. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., 12, Three King-court, Lombard. esp street, ers to her Majesty, ect fully offer to the public London, this Perfu trul m y marvellous dull r . which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—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 wilt keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles. ice. 6i. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John G..snell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princes. of Wales. • . -- ^".*; ,- t7O - t* t...• _ _ .." - T . .•.. ...„, . ~, -4!,.. . . .ILo . - - ' , , , V- 1-- . -, ......• 1 61 , c /494:1. ,0 _. -. . . , 7.... / 0 ,0 fk. • ~ ~, ~ ~ , , ) , f --4. /' • - is _.... „..,,,,, / 0, ..,04- ~ 4 Nridk., ~ . . . . vtl „ . •• , , , • C, . 4 .:4, ' ~,, a , , • , ~ '• ,, '' ,,t , ~. , ~ . 4, ,,;-,, ~., , k „ 0.-;,. 7 / ..;.. ~. , 0t.,,,, 040, . 1.,0 DIE i :' a, 04404 . ::, I.' 4 P/ 1 1 111 1 .N'1651 ?: 11411.111 741 " :' b 13- RC:l'r' . 1 - ,..•? :. .._, . . cp - =.11 00 !:". .... _...; ....J., L .-- , PRICE 4d. The Lord Chancellor stated that the acts for the concen tration of the Courts of Justice having become law, instruc tions are being given for issuing a Royal Commission in the matter. The Government had advised her Majesty to issue a Commission, constituted in the main as follows :- 1. The Lord Chancellor and one or more of the Equity judges, with three of the officers in Chancery, to be from time to time selected by his lordship. 2. The chief justices of each'pf the three common law courts, and one of the puisne judges, with one of the officers of each court, to be selected by each chief justice respectively. 3. The judge of the Probate Court and one of his officers. 4. The Ad miralty judge and one of his officers. 5. The Attorney- General, Solicitor-General, and Queen's Advocate. 6. One of the benchers of each of the Inns of Court. 7. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer. 8. The Chief Commissioner of her Majesty's Roard of Works and one person to be named by him. 9. Three solicitors, to be selected by the Incor porated Law Society. 10. A member of the Corporation of London, the Lord Chancellor suggesting that ME Alderman Lawrence, M.P. for Lambeth, would be a fit person for the purpose. The Commission would hold its first meeting befor the Judges leave town on circuit. Alderman GIBBONS, agreeing that Alderman James Law rence would fitly represent the Corporation on the COmmis sion, thought it an extraordinary proceeding for the Lord Chancellor to dictate to the Common Council whom they should nominate to represent them. Eventually the Court appointed Mr. Alderman James Lawrence to represent them on the commission. THE RECORDER AND COMMON SERGEANT. The Law, Parliamentary, and City Courts Committee brought up a return, which had been ordered on the motion of Mn. H. L. Taylor, from which it appeared that during the eight years the present Recorder had held office he had received as counsel fo'r the several branches of the Corpora tion the sum of £4,540 odd, or an average of £567 10s. a year, and that the Common Sergeant had received during his period of office £4,574, or £594 7s. 6d. a year, indepen dently of their respective salaries; the salary of the Recorder being £3,000, and that of the Common Sergeant £1,500. The Court adjourned. Miss Long - worth and the ‘, Saturday Review." On Wednesday the First Division of the Court of Ses sion gave judgment on the reclaiming note for the defenders in the case of Maria Theresa Longworth, designing herself the Hon. Maria Theresa Longworth, or Yelverton, against Mr. Beresford Hope and Mr. Douglas Cook, proprietors of the Saturday Review, in which the pursuer claims £3,000 damages for an alleged libel on her character published in that journal on the 30th of July, 1864. Arrestments were made of sums due to the defenders by various publishers in Edinburgh, according to the mode of founding jurisdiction in the Scottish Courts, in the case of defenders residing furth of the country. The action was met by the defen ders with the preliminary pleas of want of jurisdiction and forum non competens. Lord Ordinary Jerviswoode on the 14th of March issued an interlocutor repelling these pleas, and appointing the case to be enrolled with a view to further procedure. Their lordships now unanimously sustained the judgment of the Lord Ordinary. The Lord President said—We have nothing to do at present with the character of the article in the Saturday Review, be it slanderous or not. The questions we have to deal with are the question of jurisdiction and the question of forum non competens. The defenders not being resi dent in this country, jurisdiction can only be founded by arrestments made for that purpose; and the ques tion is whether, in respect of the arrestments made in this case, there is jurisdiction in this Court. It is not disputed that by arrestment used for that purpose the Court does obtain jurisdiction in a great number of cases, and that it is quite acommon mode of proceeding against parties furth of this country. But it is said that it does not apply to all classes of cases, and that this is not one of the kind of -cases to which it applies, being an action of damages for alleged wrong, and not an action for the recovery of any sum due on any mercantile transactions leading to damages. There can be no doubt there are exceptional cases in which the jurisdiction of the Court could not be founded by the arrestment of movable securities ; but in reference to a pecuniary claim for damages for slander it does not appear to me that this objection has ever been sustained, and I think it is very difficult to distinguish that class of cases from those of any ordinary claim for debt. The next ques tion is the plea of forum non competens. That plea does not mean that the forum is one in which it is wholly incompe tent to deal with the questions raised. The plea is gene rally stated in reference to a class' of cases in which the Court has considered it more expedient for the ends of jus tice that the parties should seek for justice before another forum—cases where it must be an obvious hardship or in justice in requiring the party to come here, or where the means of ascertaining the truth more plainly existed elsewhere, or where the law to be administered ought more properly to be the law of another country. In the present case the pursuer sets forth that she has re sided in Edinburgh, and that she is alitigant inEdinburgh, as the records of this court show on more than one occa sion ; and she complains that, in reference to a litigation which has been depending here, and which was transferred to the House of Lords, although subsequently brought back to this forum,an article was published in the Saturday Review which she describes as libellous. The defenders allege that the pursuer is a domiciled Englishwoman, that she has no property or residence in Scotland, and only comes occasionally, and for a few days at a time, to Edin burgh, and while there she resides at a hotel. This is denied. They say they are domiciled in England, and that they have no business in Scotland, and no agencies, and that they are ready to answer in the proper courts in England. Now, as to the question of domicile, I do not think that has to do with the question. As to residence, the pursuer describes herself as resident in Edinburgh, and I do not think there is enough set forth to make it clear that she has left Eng land and come to Scotland for the purpose of availing her self of the law of Scotland in this matter. It is not stated by the defenders where she was when this publication took place. She describes herself as resident in Scotland at the date of raising this action, in August, 1864, and the date of the publication of the article was in July. It just comes to this—that this lady, though domiciled in England, being here litigating—pretty frequently, it may be—and residing, it appears, for some time here, hav ing interests here, and having litigations here, says that she is slandered by a publication issued from London, and sent down to Edinburgh, where her litigations are going on, and she says these slanders injure her in her character and reputation. It is admitted that copies of this journal are sent down to Scotland, and the pursuer's case is that the alleged slander is thereby published in Scotland ; she says it affects her character—that the publication in Scot land is an injury done to her in Scotland. Now, then, I see no reason why a party coming here complaining of an injury done to her in Scotland—it may be done to her in England also as well as in Scotland—should not be entitled to pur sue in this form. You are told that there may be incon veniences attending this course because of differences in the law of the two countries. It is not explained what these differences are, but I am not prepared to hold that the law of the other country is a law which is to regulate the consequences of a libel circulated in this country. I am not prepared to hold that if a person circulates in England, and sends down and circulates in Scotland that which by the law of Scotland is libellous and slanderous—even though by the law of England it is not so—he is to be exempted from the consequences of the circulation of that slander in Scotland, or that the party injured is to have no redress merely bec.ause in the country in which the thing was first given forth it is not a libel. It may be that in some countries there is no law of libel at all ; but are persons in this country to be subjected to injury consequent on the circulation of a slander, and the law to offer them no redress? On the whole, lam of opinion that this plea of non competens should be dismissed, and we should adhere to the judgment of the Lord Ordinary in the case. Lord Curriehill 'concurred. Lord Deas said he had arrived at the same result with their lordships and the Lord Ordinary. Upon thisquestion of founding jurisdictions he had doubt. The mode of founding jurisdiction was applicable generally to pecuniary claims, however they might arise. There were certain classes of claims involving status in which there were exceptions to this mode of founding jurisdiction, but it was imperative on the party objecting to the jurisdiction to show grounds for including any particular case among the exceptional cases ; but that had not been done in this case. The onll - on which he thought there could be any doubt in this case was the second question, whether this was the proper forum whore the action ought to be tried. The Court were not bound to exercise the jurisdiction if, by exercising their jurisdiction they would be putting the de fender who objected to it to an unfair disadvantage ; but it lay upon the party taking that objection to show that he would be clearly put to some unfair disadvantage by the case being tried in this country. According to the law of Scotland, the sending of any single copy of the newspaper to any individual in Scotland, be it the lady herself, would be sufficient to found an action for libel if the action were otherwise competent. In this case, however, it was ad mitted that there was a publication in Scotland. If any parties published a book or paper in the English lan guage in London—whether they gave it merely to their newsagent or to any other limited class of people, or if they put it out of their ownhands—it would require a great deal of consideration, if it came to Scotland, to say that they would not be subjected to an action for libel for the contents of the book or paper just as much as if they had sent the book or paper direct. • But they did not require to consider that question, because it was admitted that copies of the newspaper had been sent to parties in Scotland. Now, then, take the case that, instead of slandering this lady, which.she says they did, the slander had been directed againgt ib §M41.1 Perclutnt carrying 911, a large jawinefig nARK YOUR LINEN.-BOND'S PERMA NENT vIARKING INK is by tar the best for marking thtEsTs. NANIES, an INITIALS upon House hold i Men, Wearing App &c. Price is. a bottle. No 6d. size ever made Sold by N. R. BOND, 1 11 . Bishopsgate street. 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WEATHER SlGNALS.—Prussia is about to adopt the system of cautionary signals introduced in this country in 1861 by the late Vice-Admiral Fitzroy ; and the signals intended to be adopted in Prussia, as the best possible, are identical with those devised by Admiral Fitzroy. The Prussian Minister of Commerce and PublicWQrks /AN iNued a circular waking tho muiguncoramt. EXAMPLES OF PREMIUMS ,REDUCED BY BONUS. No. of Sum El nnu ,1 Iteducea Premium Policy. Insured. Premium. DOW payable. --- -- - £ £ P. d. X s. d. 941,411 92,F40 222 4 4 120 19 2 150,156 12,000 63 0 0 35 0 0 454, 1 73 6,800 35 14 0 19 16 8 ' 504 975 5,' , 0 7 10 0 4 6 4 The RATES of PRN.MIL.SI are in Nt) CAS r. HI iHER than those charged by the other principal offices giving no Bonus to their I .curers. The duty paid to Government for the year 1Q63 was £ , 44,15 lis. 9d.; the amount insured 43, Farming Stock was £10,203,•!72 For Prospectuses apply at the Socte'y's Offices, 29, Fleet street, E.C. ; and Surrey-street, Norwich. T HE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT A , SOCIATION (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the TRANSFER BOI)K, of this Association will be CLOSIcD froui the Ist unti. the 14th proximo, both days inclusive, preparatory to the Second Half-yearly General Meeting. By order, W. C. WINTERBoTTOM, Secretary. 27, Lombard-street, London, E.C., June 22, 1865. INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SOCIETY (Limited). Subscribed Capital X 3,000,000, in 150,000 shares of £2O each. Paid-up Capital £750,000. DIRECTORS. Messrs. ROBERT A. HEATH, Chairman. John Frederick Flemmich. Junius Speoce • Ilorgan. William Quentell. Lachlan M. Rate. Baron Herman De Stern. GENERAL MANAGER. Mr. William Hope, V.C. This Society is now prepared to issue Debentures for 3,5, or 7 years, being Interest at the rate of Five per cent. per annum, payable half yearly. The Debenture Bonds are fur £l6O, L 15u, £3OO, £5OO, £l,OOO. Forms of application may be obtained at the Offices of the Society, No. 00, ihreadneedie-street, E.C. By order, WALTER A. MICHAEL. Secretary. June 19, 1865. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. NOTICE TO BONDHOLDERS. In conformity with the terms on which the SECOND 11 )R [GAGE BONDS of she PENNSYLVANIA. and NEW YORK SEGTIONS of this Railway were issued to the pub ic, th- FIRST ANNUAL DRAWING of 4 percent. of th gross amount of these Bonds will take pla e at the office of Messrs S. F. Satte , thwalte ,ind Co., 38, Throgmorton-street, in the presence of Mr. Grain, Public Notary, on THURSDAY, 6th July, at Otte o'clock precisely. The authorised issue is as under, viz.:— PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION. • Dols. 050 Bonds of I,xoo dols. each.. 95 ,000 tO) „ of 100 „ „ .. 5 0 • Coupons due January and July. 1,00 . i.t 00 NEW YORK DIVISION. Duls. 400 Bonds of 1,000 dots. each.. 400,000 600 „ of 100 „ „ 3) 0 ,00J Coupons due 1000 „ of 0 p pig! and October. • 800,0 0 Four per cent. of each denlmination will be drawn on the above day, and the Bonds so drawn hat hay., been issued iu London wilt be paid oti at the rate of £22 for every 1,000 dollar Bowl, £ll2 10s. for every 500 do'hr Bond, and £22 1"s. for every 100 dollar Boni, on presentation at the Company's Offices, 5, Westminster-chambers, Victoria-street, West minster, the Bonds of the ,ew York section on the let October, 865, and of the P. unsyivania section on Ist January, 1866, in addition to the Coupon due ou those days, a ter whizth all interest will c•tase. On p..yment the drawn Bonds will be cancelled in the pre sence of a publi: notary. Offices, 5, Westminster-chambers, Victoria-street, Westminster, June 10, 186 TODARE.—Egyptian HaII—THEATRE OF MYSTERY. 'the new and marvellous Illusions, the I S VANTAN EOUS G ItO T ol FLOWER. TREES and the REAL INDIAN 8A...8.1E r FEAT, i s only pertormi d by Co onel Stodare and the Indian %logicians, and intro duced for the first time in this country by Colonel ,todare n Easter Monday, April 17. lBts, in his celebrated entertain ment of :11AGIC an i VENT QUI S NI. Every night at 8, Saturday included, and S ecial Day Representations on Wednesday ani Saturday Aftern ons at 3. Admission, la.; area, 2s. ; stalls, is. Tickets at Mr. -Mit chell'a, 31, old Bond - street, and at the Box-office, Egyi.tian Hall, from t to 5. " The sensation of the season."—Vide Punch, June P,18C5. R. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. ill JO UN PARRY. will appear in 'heir new entertain ment, entitled A Ptili_;ULIAR. FAMILY, After by illiam Brough. New scenery. by 'l'. and W. Grieve. W which, M. - . John Parry wi I give a few Memoranda from his M cal Note Boox, entitled "RECOLLIMIONS," vocal and instrumental. Every Evening', .xcept Saturday, at 8. A MO RNING REPREN fArION every WednesdAy and .:E Saturday, 3. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLU,,TRA TION, 14, Regent-street. Unreserved seats, ls. and 28. ; stalls, Is. ; stall spring chairs, ss. Stalls may be secured (without fee) in advance at the Gallery. T " 0 X FOR D, 6, OXFORD BTREET, NV. The Oxford and Canterbury IT 41 Company (limited\ 66, COMIC OPERETTA,byJ. Offenbach, and the BROTHER AND 813TER. by Sir Henry Bishop, will be performed during this week. Princip art.stes : Signor Spay.noli. M. Ms.rini, Mr. Green, and lir. Albyn. Misses Ru.'sell Barrie, and Tyrell, with full Band and Cho rus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comedy, by Mr. George Hodson (the celebrated Comedian and Mimic). Miss Kate Balte, Les Freres Talliott, the i; ro tesque, D'Aubalas, Les Freres Stonette, and Messrs. Duriali and Davis. The Misses JE SY and SARA. GU NNISS will have the honour of appearing To-morrow (Saturday ) even ng. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmaus. This Evening at Halt-pat S ven. Admissioa —area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, is.; priv4e s boxes, 10s. 6d. CIANTERBURY HALL. Seleltions from MARTHA and THE BROTHER AND SISTE it, supported by Miss RUSSELL, Migs H.ys. &c. ; Messrs. ST. ALBYN, Green, &c., with Full Vaud .‘nd Chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jongmans. rom.dy by Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, Messrs. Duriah and Davis, Miss Kate Bale, and the Grotesque D'Aubaus. nor)Git: PO g , ',N.—Th.s wonderful tllu , ion will be re peated for a short time longer, to enable country visitors to witness this most beautiful of the London ochibitions In a few days will be produ ced, with new Optical effects, the Illusion, entitled KO KO NI KO. • MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.- Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker-street. NEW A DDIT lON ---In accordance i‘ iih the season, the Exhibition has been entirely re-e iibilished. The whole o'' the ancient Court Dresses of the most costly description, faithfully c•miled from the most minute pictures, have been renewed. Modern Court D. esses of the most splendid de scription, selected from the first houses in Paris and London, and probably never equalled or su-passed, are now on view. A life-size Model of JOHN WILKES BOOTH, the base assassin of the late President Lincoln, is also to be seen. Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence. ARGYLL It 00M s, Windmill - street, Piccadilly. PROMENADE. CONCERT, and DANCE every Evening. This admired Band, under the direction of signor LUIGI CURTI, will perform at 9 o clock a Gr , nd Overture, at it o'clock a Selection trom a fay write Opera, and a series of novel Dance Music till 12 o'clock. Open'at half past 8. Admission, ls. Manager—M. GRENET. HAIR -CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—A.LEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curl , Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 51 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, Is. ed„ or 20 stamps. 0 HEY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London. — `Jr ALEX. 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He understood that no steps were taken in the first instance for their re covery, because it was said the persons immediately inte- rested in the matter were poor. The LORD MAYOR should say it was the duty of the district surveyor to interfere in such an emergency, and to secure the public from danger by having any dangerous structure propped up. It would also, he thought, come within the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of Sewers. Alderman WATERLOW, the alderman of the ward in which it happened, said he had his attention called to the fire on the Thursday morning, shortly after it occurred ; that he communicated with the district surveyor, and that the sur- veyor (who did not visit the scene until the Friday) said hehad only power to act where there were dangerous struc tures, and none to search for the bodies, and that if he at tempted to search for them he would be treated as a tres passer. He (Alderman Waterlow) had recourse next to Mr. Haywood, the engineer to the Commissioners of Sewers, who told him that he had no power to interfere, and that nothing could be done. He then went to the Commissioners of Sewers, while they were sitting on Tuesday last, and they, too, said they had no power to act in the matter, upon which he urged them—power or no power—to take on themselves the responsibility for once of acting in the emergency. They did so, and within an hour afterwards a search was made, which resulted in one of the bodies being found in the ruins. Deputy FARRAR, a Commissioner of Sewers, explained that the whole matter had been referred by them to a com- mittee to inquire whether there was not some local civic authority whose duty it was to search for sufferers or their remains on such occasions. Whenever a question of salvage arose at such times the insurance offices interested took care to institute a search; but in this particular instance the office concerned (there being a total loss and no salvage ex pected) declined to take any steps to recover the bodies. It was remarkable that what was known on Thursday morn- g to the whole city of London was not known to the dis ict surveyor (Mr. Young) until the Friday. He then took mmediate steps to shore up the dangerous walls, to prevent njury to those who were searching for the remains ; but _ _ five clays elapsed from the time of the fire before one of the bodies was found. Mr. FINLAY remarked upon the excessive punctiliousness of the men employed at the ruins under the district sur veyor in leaving off work in the emergency at 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, and not resuming it until Monday morning, the remains being allowed to lie in the ruins in the interval. Mr. BOWRING said that this was not the first occasion on which a search had not been made for the remains of persons who had lost their lives in a fire in the city of Lon don on some pretext of want of power. The subject then dropped. THE SUPPLY OF GAS TO THE CITY. Mr. HAINES, the chairman of the General Purposes Com mittee, brought up a report on the reference to them of Nov. 17 last of certain petitions presented to the Court from the inhabitants of various wards in the city complaining of the present supply of gas, which they alleged to be insuffi cient, costly, and inferior in illuminating power. The com mittee reported that the companies now engaged in the sup ply of gas to the city are'the Chartered Gas Company, in corporated in 1810 ; the City of London Gas Company, in 1817 ; and the Great Central Gas Company, in 1850. Prior to 1823 the first two companies competed in the supply, but in that year, under an act of Parliament, the city was divided between those two companies, and, as a necessary consequence, a monopoly was created. By the repeated action of the Commissioners of Sewers the price of gas, which was originally 15s. per 1,000 cubic feet, was gradu ally reduced to 65., which was the charge in 1847. Inves tigation, however, proved that even this amount was far above a reasonably remunerative price, and the failure to induce the two companies to make a further reduction led to the organisation of the Great Central Company, which, with the countenance and support of the city, obtained in 1851 their Act of Incorporation, and as the result gas was supplied to the citizens at 4s. per 1,000 cubic feet. This continued until 1860, when, in consequence of a previous action on the part of the gas companies surrounding the city, and with a view of reinstating the principle of dis tricts (which existed before the establishment of the Great Central Gas Company), and thereby stopping competition, the Metropolis Gas Act was passed. Under that act the three companies supplying the city raised the price of gas to 4s. 6d., and, notwithstanding a contract entered into by the Great Central Company, on the 12th of February, 1850, to supply gas at a price never to exceed 45., and to be reduced under certain circumstances to 35., the company was successful in proving their legal right to increase the charge to 4s. 6d.; and this abrogation I of the contract was estimated, as between 4s. and 4s. 6d.per 1,000 cubic feet, to give an excess charge of £25,000 upon the private consumption of gas in the city. With regard to the gas itself, the deputations that had attended before the committee had agreed in stating that it was impure and de ficient in illuminating power. A standard of purity was pre scribed by the Metropolis Gas Act, and though in many provincial towns a far higher chemical purity was now maintained, Dr. Letheby reported that the prescribed stan dard for the city had scarcely ever yet been attained, excepting recently, by the City of London Gas Company. As to the illuminating power of the gas, it would appear to be the general opinion that it was even less than it was before the passing of the Metropolis Gas Act, though that act provided a minimum power which appeared to be for the advantage of the citizens. The committee recom mended an application to Parliament for a modification of the Metropolis Gas Act of 1860, as far as it affects the city of London, and especially with the view of obtaining for the citizens gas of a higher illuminating power, of greater chemical purity, and at a cheaper price than that now sup plied, and such other powers as might be beneficial to the ratepayers and gas consumers. On the motion of Mr. E. D. ROGERS the report was re ferred back to the committee with instructions to confer with the Law, Parliamentary, and City Courts Committee, to consider as to an application to Parliament at the earliest possible period for an act to empower the Corporation either to purchase the existing mains, plant, and works in or supplying the city of London, and to contract for the supply of gas into those mains, or to erect works and enter into the manufacture and distribution of gas to the consu mers, as was now so successfully carried on by the Corpo ration of Manchester and other towns. HOLBORN VALLEY IMPROVEMENT. Bonds (149 in number) from the Mayor, commonalty, and citizens of London, were sealed for securing payment of various sums of money, amounting in the whole to £76,800, raised under the powers and for the purposes of the Hol born Valley Improvement Act, pursuant to an order of the Court of Common Council of the Bth Dec. last. CONCENTRATION OF THE COURTS OF LAW. The REMEDURANCER (Mr. (lonic) read a letter he had just received from the ;Agra claancellyz eu this subject. in Edinburgh or Glasgow, and the nature of ft had been to injure him in his mercantile character and in his feel. ings, could it be maintained for a moment that if he brought an action against thepublisher, who resided in London, and who was in a position which would subject him to the juris diction of the courts in this country, the Scotch merchant was to be compelled to go to the courts of England, about the laws and procedure of which he knew nothing, or to drop his action ? He thought that was out of the ques tion altogether. If parties published books or journals either in England or Ireland, and these were circulated in Scotland, they must lay their account for a remedy arising in favour of parties injured by themin the country in which they were injured, and in the country in Which the parties resided who could be cited as witnesses to the injury. It was said that this lady lived a good deal in England, and was not domiciled in Scotland. The Court knew that she lived long enough in Scotland to raise an important ques tion as to whether she had or had not contracted a marriage in Scotland, so that she was not a person unconnected with this country, although she might not happen to be con stantly residing in this country. lie agreed with the Lord President that an alleged difference between the laws of the two kingdoms would not be a ground for sending the pursuer to the English courts, but it might be a ground the other way. The prisoner alleged that she had been in jured in Scotland; and she had chosen to bring her action in that court which had jurisdiction, and it appeared to him that sufficient grounds had not been shown for refusing to allow her case to be tried in that court. Lord Ardmillan agreed with their lordships on the first point as to the question of jurisdiction; but on the second question, as to the proper forum, he had felt some difficulty. He thought it would have been more fitting and more ap propriate, under all the circumstances, to have tried the case under English law; but there was no sufficient reason for dismissing the action; and after the view which their lordships had taken he was not prepard to suggest what otherwise he would have been much disposed to do, that the action should be sisted until the pursuer had tried her cause in the English courts, where the defenders proclaim themselves to be ready to meet her. That course would have been very much according to his feelings of the ex pediencies and proprieties of the case, but he did not feel entitled to recommend that course after the opinions which their lordships had expressed. The Atlantic Telegraph. Yesterday, a distinguished company of visitors went down by special train from Charing-cross to the Great Eastern to see as much as can now be seen of the stowage of the great cable, and of the general arrangements which are being made for its careful subnfergence across the Atlantic. As this was the last visit which will be allowed to be made to the ship before her departure, great eagerness was shown to be present on the occasion, and a large and most distinguished party assembled. Among others were his Excellency the American Minister and Mrs. Adams, the Duke and Duchess of Suther- land, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, Lady Cowley and Lady Feodora Wellesley, Lord Clan- william, Lord Castlerosse, Lord and Lady Hard wicke, the Marquis of Hartington, Loid John Hay, Lord William Hay, Lord John Manners, the Duke and Duchess of Somerset and Lady Gwendoline St. Maur, Lord Shrewsbury and the Ladies Talbot, Lord Bradford, Lady Westmore land, the Hon. Stuart Wortley and Mrs. Wortley, Hon. J. Yorke, Mr. Edward Warner, M:P., the Mayor of Totnes, Mr. A. Seymour, M.P., the Honourable Robert and Lady Mary Meade, Captain Napier, R.N., and the officers of the Terrible ; Colonel Wilson Patten, M.P., Mr. J. Pender, M.P., Mr. Henry Prunall, Hon. J. C. Haliburton, M.P., Mr. Glass, Mr. Cyrus Field, Captain Hall, R.N., the Right Hon. E. P. Bou- eerie, M.P., Admiral Eden, Mr. Thomas Brassey, and very many others, with all the chief officers and electricians of the company. The party started soon after 12, and before 2 o'clock were alongside the great ship, which, even making allowance for her great depth in the water, now nearly 32 feet, still seems to look even more grand and massive than ever. There is little more than her size, how ever, just now to attract admiration, for probably at no time during her chquered career has the Great Eastern ever been so dirty or has her noble expanse of deck worn a more littered and unsightly aspect. In all directions it is broken up with tem porary offices, sheds, and shanties of every shape and size like the hasty shelters knocked up at the oil wells of Pennsylvania, only rather dirtier, and, if possible, more mixed up with wheels and cranks and fussy puffing engines. Stores of all kinds, too, cover the decks, which are further divided along their length with the - timber frameworks to hold the wheels over which the cable will run till it enters the paying out machine astern. A great deal of this apparent disorder is, however, always insepa rable from vessels commencing a voyage, and espe cially such a voyage as that on which the Great Eastern is bound. When ready for sea her appear ance will be very different, except in the matter of cleanliness, for clean she can never be until the cable has left her. The visitors yesterday made the usual rambling inspection of all parts of the vessel—saloons, berths, engine rooms, and everywhere. The great attrac tions were, of course, the coils, and especially that amidships, where the last couple of miles of the wire were being slowly wound inboard, and the very last fathom of which was safely stowed in the vessel last evening. Two short messages were sent through the cable—one through a section 1,500 miles long, another through its entire length from end to end. The battery powerused was very low, and the signals, though slow, were wonderfully clear and distinct. After these slight experiments had been completed, the visitors were conducted to the grand saloon, where a most excellent detainer had been laid, and to which their journey down enabled them to do substantial justice. At the conclusion of the dejetlner, Mr. Fen der, in the course of some brief remarks, expressed his belief and hope that the cable would be success fully laid, and that it would promote the happiness, the communion, and the peace of Great Britain and • the United States, which had already so much in common to unite them. The Duke of Somerset proposed " Success to the Atlantic Telegraph," and in a few emphatic words declared that the success of this great enterprise would tend to promote the best interests, political and commercial, of the two great and kindred nations. Mr. Fender observed that they were honoured with the presence of one who had devoted the energies of the last-few years of his life in England to preserve the amicable rela tions between the two countries, at a period of no ordinary difficulty, with singular energy and suc cess. He believed that whatever position Mr. Adams, whose father and grandfather had already filled such important offices, might be called on to fill in his own country, he would be followed by the good wishes and respect of all who knew what services he had rendered and what ability he had displayed while he was among us. Mr. Adams, who was warmly received, thanked the chairman and the company for the way in which they had expressed their sense of his services and for the manner in which they had alluded to his country. During the recent troubles he confessed he was selfish enough to hope the cable might not be laid, as he well knew he would have been overwhelmed with telegrams ; but now that the war which had distracted his country had been put an end to, he wished with all his heart that one of the greatest enterprises that had e ver been conceived might be successfully carried through, as he believed it would do more than any other agency to strengthen the bonds of Union between the two countries. The interests and objects of the Govern ment of Great Britain had all along been to main tain peace, and now that the contest which had dis tracted the United States had been put an end to, the sole object they had in view was peace also. The party then returned to town by boat and rail, reaching Charing-cross at 7 o'clock. All the arrangements connected with the trip to and fro were under the charge of Mr. Knight, and it is only fair to say they were most complete. It is intended that in the course of this day the Great Eastern shall get up steam just for the pur pose of turning her engines to see that all is in proper working order. The fires will be kept banked up during the night so that all may be in readiness for the start on Saturday morning to below the Nore Light. Here she will take in her final stores, and also her last supply of coal, 1,500 tons, which com pletes her • equipment, and here also she will be swung for the adjustment of her compasses, the de viation of which, caused by the magnetic influence of the cable, is of course considerable. All these operations will occupy from the 4th to the sth July, and on the 7th or Bth she starts for Valentia. The present condition of the 'cable is all that the share holders can desire, and with fair weather there seems almost a certainty . of the success of this great. undertaking. at an Log e "a of )1 1 '; a r , P er Pe g i' v 5 a, " e in k{ P` ,r 41. 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