The Sun. — London, England, 1866-05-03 00:00:00

1 OND ON must have a SUPPER an d MUSI C ~.4 ROOM for Gentlemen. Remember we wait for you at ANS' aft er the Covent-garden Opera and the Theatres. 1 --- ix,- tf. -LiN AIIAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN This EXHIBITION, 1865. ii) ub cele lin Prizebrated Medal OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the I t collieis P ure, Mild, M e ll ow, D el i c i ous, and very Whole by olde i n Bottles, 3 s. Bd ., at the Retail Houses in London ; th . A ge t nts in th e pr i nc i pal towns in England ; or Vholesale a , AsGerlt4AtiTe Red WINSTII, I LL-STREET, LONDON, W. iki nahan's LL Whisky;' Label, and Cork branded 'lt, --- ------_____ u TUAL L OAN FUND ASSOCIATION l i , ii-,,_ (Incorporated by Act of l'arliarneut, ISA)), iib tSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON. Freehold CES MONEY on Personal Security, Bills of Sal.',.r fee,or beneficial Leasehold Property, without inquiry threel a a n r Y deduction whatever, for periods of one, two, di scon _,_ !, repayable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Adances also tom e tte_%_,The greatest secrecy observed. 'ls y ear ra_d• the Purchase ora House, repayable in 5, 10, or ehvelopes:rornas free on application, or receipt of a stamped EDWARD HARPER. Secretary. Cr RONITS YE ill. —SPECIAL NOTICE. 1 ' E Iti CA_I, , ME- DICAT 4 AND GENERAL LIRE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The Flo- Established 1824. all w itt i ath Bonus will be declarei in January, Partici -Profit Policies in force on the 30th June, ..8 , b efor P j ate, s , 18 66 7, w a n i l d l that Fersons who complete such Assurances on e / .; e ll?le 30th next. will share in that Division, although !mum only will have been paid. Tabl of außates and Forms of Proposal can be obt fined Y of the Society's Agents, or of 13 GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. ..,..............._____' St Janles's-square, London, S.W. PARIS. GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE.- _trt ortitablished in 1 855.-Situated in the most Central x hilidteddras, Rue de Rivoli and Place du Petals R0y411 , 1 _ I'o o , B t t zed-rooms at from 31r. to 2Jfr.-Sixty im 1 00,8 a tS T o 41r. to 2Cfr.-a richly-decorated Dining Saloon 110 1 , 8 ° d Hate at six o'clock-Public Coffee and Dinin, di t i ne , -Choice Wines -Dinners served hla carte both in the Converrrootns and the private apartments-Readtnand itim other aon S aloon s ; also Saloons for 'Wittiest, " ending, 4 ° ive I),,l,rties-all Newspapers and Serial Publications k Ilbruer,_ - " l vans, Coffee, Smoking, and Billiard Rooms t ei 4e , prr Bath-r ooms-Carriages on the premises-firs - t ° all th:ate ICcitlips.ges at command -Omnibuses running tnn ee ~ -railway at is-Pistal Letter-box-Telegr , pfl spe ak i l l i aY and night g all languages. photograph St dl o-a staff of servants rr,,,DEBTORS IN DIFFICULTIES.-Mr. S. lio ns „c`',,C,9OPER, Public Accountant, arranges Compo3l - Creditors, advises persons in troub'e how to rept,.2e their ffairs, or to pass through the Court ot Bank- Tiv e g , and prepares all forms of accounts, public . or private. 10, B " . 7 ,edra of experien e Consultations gratis.- Offices, -8,,,gha11-street, oppo . Court of Bankruptcsite the y. French, German, and Italian spoken. Sw,,,EET OP OPO NA X.—PIESSE and ...t.,Bi r , Bona Othe r , ,_ N S mow PERFUME. Tn's and stre et, Lur choice at the laboratory of flowers. 2, New -- - ° " 011 . Sold in all parts o. the world. QPANf T , ---- ---- P\J ' 3ll FLY is the acting ingredient in ALE h s eedily 140 ( 1,.. X. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, whie I) ~ ti ""v" Whiskers and thickens hair, 38. 6d. ; sent tree tor sta ll , Pas P g - - ALEX. ROSS, 218, High Holborn, London. say on g a i ~.........___ r, Id. .11i.LX. ROSS'S BLOOM of ROSES, 3s. 6d, Of SI stampf.„ PIMPLE REMOVER.--All diseases of os t s h,e iv0t,311,1211771 ismKpirj7gpisone of removeALEreXcneltes, s a l - Th eof 24 8 ne " 4 ti. 28 9c1.; bv pcst for 40 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 1101boin, L.Aidon. ROSS'S FACE POWDER, is., or 14 tit ki lt,. - CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, Ladieß,—"don•—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls st a s. ,pr Gentl emen ' s hair immediately it is apptied. Sold 70r.; 2soetilanfriepes.f or Si stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, LIQUID ROUGE, ls• 1 or 18 stamps. iq RE Y r 4st .„ HAI R.-248, High Holborn, London.— patn e 4. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour Qum i „'‘e,,,lY It is used. It is permanent, and perfectly enect Price 3s. ed. ; sent by poe t for 54 stamps. na LADIES HAIR DYED, from 1 guinea; Gentle ,____ Men's, from 10s. 6d. PHOTOGRAPHIST. - INV-MT )) TOR of the CARTE de VISITE, Patent the 27th o f r o ;nr*mber, 1854, 70, 71, 72, Brook-street. Hanover-square, and to questrian Portraits at Hereford Lodge, Gloucester eu, Old Brompton-road, and 8, Boulevard des Italiens, Gloucester e, of kl ; DISDER I has on SALE 65,000 CARTES de VISITE DlP,the CELEBRITIES of the Day, and PANORAMIC tin c i .I.v), Establishments in LONDON i PARIS, MADRID, u ULON, for enlargements up to lfe size. VSDERI, PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST to an d 4 , 11 . I. MAJESTY the EMPEROR NAPOLEON 111. I FAMILY • to IL I. MAJESTY 111 th PEROMR of PERIAL ALL the RUSSIA ' S; also to IL I. MAJESTY woIpERN- of SPAIN and the ROYAL FAMILY; to IQN(t,,STY the KING of ITALY; to A. MAJESTY the lIOLLAND ; MUSIC; 11. MAJESTY the KING of of Ito l' 'GAL; to the IMPERIAL ACADEMY of t O GRAPIIER of the PALACE of the UNIVERSAL of 1855, &c. 15181)Ert1, PHOTO PAINTING.—In oil on canvas, JDEFRIES and SONS beg to call the special • attention of Merchants and the Trade to their NEW PATENT ASTRA BURNER, With Circular Wick, which for simplicity of construction. great brilliancy of light, perfect combustion. and its entire freedom from heat, sur passes everything that has yet been introduced. PIIOTOGRAPHIE on SILK.—His own new process, ITSDERT PHOTOGRAPHIE EMAIL-NOW process. DIT,ERI NATURAL PHOTOGRAPHY, ;;;f: Latut , every at ( o l uching. Reproductions and Enlarg,e- 1) ------------ISD ERL—The Excellent Situation of _ Mr. GARIP L IPERI'S S tudios enables him to OPERATE hE. SS of the WEATHER. --- (-)TICE..—By a new process of Mr. DIS I 411)1,,PERI's the "PORTRAITS CARTES DE VISITS" r 44 aNLARG-ED on PANVAS to any size. The 11 1 . 11 •,‘-_' tneanT,ieus obtain a PHOTOGIUPHIC DRAWING, by nn NZ f Which Skilful art.sts attached to the house . tb e ulde indications, such as the colour of the complexion,... I'AIA,I I rI the hair, obtain a splendid and truthful OIL kr, by G..,- ti t `buEll new process is valuable in this respect,__ s to th e a'yoids tiles eliousness of long sittings, and alsoadd tre ih r u i l iar rn , n of oil painting the great advantages of the. f, •‘ , 1.0"i-it s and a^cnracy ot Photograohy. ~- v er.,„„•-••48 and STUDIOS, 70, 71. 72, Brook-street, Han mlotte " 4 " and for Equestrian Portraits at Hereford Ledge, ester-ro,td, Old Brompton-road. StiIIorr„RIPTIONS for the WIDOW and for in -,"-11,DIZN of the lateCaptainGPONOW, tle etk ?r'Y of the Grenadier Guards and Au:hor of " Recol ar;e_r,;Laad Anecdotes," " Celebrities of London ari.d r , - . zaasrrife.fr• CaptainG °now who lately died in Paris, a veiclOw and four young children, by his second s ftbierar utterly destitute, without means to defrayki trot to e4 Ponses, or even to purchase bread. Captain eiaberlpvtliWera, sa d nherited by his father, in favour . o i f t cler an. and the small income whi: stat,,rived from the interest of a sum charged on the family froinr-',.cessd with his life • while the sums be received i tim e to , . filarnpilr?vi cling illne for his " Recollections" were expended for the increasing expenses of his young . _ Of edam 'Under these distressing circumstances the friends hppeie Gronow in Paris came to her aid, and they now Lond on ( ` to the liberality of her late husband's friends in co nt , and also to the readers of his Reminiscences, for thipributions to enable her to maintain and educate her eut en ' 1:,. eeriPtions received by Messrs. Satrnr, ELDER, and arki a „,... , Cornhill, and 45, Pall-mall ; and b Messp. C street E XWOOD, Army Agents, Craig's-court y , Parliament '---....._ ' IN T r ICO MORE PI LLS OR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. ' B ARRY'S delicious health- res t or i ng Invalids' Yield 41 '„d Infants' Food, THE REVALENTA ARABICA, nenr,P,Luree times as much assimilating and strenghening t iob; su lnent as the best meat, and restores perfect diges tion'stg nerves, f . sound lungs, healthy 1v r refreshing , unctional regularity, and energy to the ' most disor iliar en feebled-removing speedily and effectually h in a : hifißilien (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, consumption, h -at COnSti t. diarrhce.a, all gastric derangements, ag k , , pa N g , urrnois, liver complaints, flatulen .), . eata, biliousness, c^ Dervori s fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, head toArrbs, colds, influenza, noises in the hysears, r heumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, Dalhil."ta,, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, 81).__`-`4"°117 heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, 4111cr nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, 1 3 4.14, 11 g fi.tB7 bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, It ',- 1 1 l tne pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. Pali - 4 1 4 e most digestible of all foods and suitable for in ,,,,,e and infants in all complaints. Of t ' , quote_ a few out of 62,000 Cures:-Cure No. 58,216 liver COM pi,leit Zaarellioness de Brehan, of seven years' lvith , wasting away, debility, nervousness, irritability,. htft rit 4 nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion,con the Itn.ati sleeplessness, and the most intolerable . nervous on, Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right H . of well Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of the county gxeeirerford :-1 have derived much benefit from your conttent foo.---stuart de Decies, Dromana, 'Cappoquin, T. e Waerford. Cure No. 54,816, from the Rev. James fOlk . ara bell I' 7 Syderstone Rectory, near Fakenham, Nor the ii all eases of indigestion, and particularly ythen Nor be °. t. is more than usually affected, 1 consider it the fle W °- all remedies. It regulates the bile, and mkes it Fill„ne.in eases which would not admit of mercury in any () alli es , In short, healthy flow of the bilo is one of the T eas e t tild best symptoms. You can make what use you e , of this com munication.-I am, gentlemen, James ley e, aLtIOOII. Cure No. 5 2,42' ) .-Bridge House, Fnm- R lAt' urr eY :- Thirtyhree years' diseased lung . s, th, ear ! of blood, liver derangement, deafness, singing In Zeu 1, , (!onstipation, debility, shortness of breath,. and 1 4 ,, g nave been removed by your Revalonta Ambles. My itigsil perfectver, stomach, head, and ears are all right, my 11,.mr "cs. . ' a nd my recovery is a marvel to all my acq naint- Of Ai, "alnes Roberts, Timber Merchant. Cure No. 49,832. lie s , '3'3'ears' i ndescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervcrs tDß,' Uthnut, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sick 15.0.474 d vomiing-. - Maria Joly, of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure hidi T, 1.- Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousn7s, 9, ur"74"°l), gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Qi ri• -; °' 56 814.-Mr2 Saml. Lax ton,Leicester, of two years' t ls a . o l f ce a. The food is sold in canisters, 11b. 2s 9d ; 21b., ztb., 125.; C R. . ( ~i 121 b., 21s. • 241 b., 40s. Super-refined quality, lib., 2 11 f Sib., 225. ; IMb., 335. The 101 b., 121 b., and h 3, t canisters, carriage free on receipt of Post-office Order, *7 8.3 1111 al so i I ,ZY Pu Ba Dealer 0., 77. Regent-street, London; 1 at 65 (1 ' Ps, Te, 8, King William-street . ; like- Rate,- , racec hurch-street ;4, Cheapside : 49, Thts.hopB - Within ; 63 150, and 298, Oxford street , 330, r oad • 91. 54 -, TlPper Baker-stroet ; 163, Tottenham-court-. trrtio Brother; (N s ' , uPper-street, Islinton N.; Harvey, Notting-hill ; 65, nigh-street; and Stubbs, Queen't.3- gro c e :' Bt. John's -wood, London ; and all respectable vr s and Chemists. -Beware of spurious imitations. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vies-Patron—His Royal Highness the Princeot WA LE S, KG President—Die Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. This Hospital, foundei in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the principle of it ee, admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions and t :gactes. 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 1,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds, had the Committ - p the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Bias. , ermaii, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; [tarries and Co. ; Ransom and Co.; Presoott, Grote and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; W !liars's, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur ney, and Co. Nisbet and Co„ Berners-street ; I. Barned and C)., Liverpool': WI at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. BTAZIFOI3D BiIITH, Seciretszy. COUGHS, ASTHMA, and incipient CON SUMPTION are effectually cured by KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES, which are daily recommended by the Vacuity -testimonials from the nost eminent of whom may be inspected—as the most effectual. safe, speedy, and conve nient remedy for Cough and all Disorders of the Lungs, Chest, and Throat. Sold in boxes, Is. lid.; and tins, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d. and 1 Is. , each, by T. KEATING. Chemist, 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Sold by all Druggists, ctc. SUBSCRIPTION TESTIMONIAL TO GEORGE CLITIKSIIANK. PRESIDENT. JOHN RUSKIN, Esq., M.A. VICE-PRESIDENT. Sir W. C. TREVELYAN, Bart. TREASURER. Louis Huth, Esq, • BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, B.C. " Before the century was actually in its teens. we believe that George Cruiltshank was amusing the public. Is there no way in which the country could acknowledge the long services and brave csreer of such a friend and benefactor ?" TIIACICERAY. The public in general is invited to co-operate in this move ment. Subscriptions receivable as above, or by the under signed as honorary secretary, CHARLES A. HOWELL. 3, York-villas, Brixton, S. T)ROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C. 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, ex., receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each night numbers of young women, children, and orphan s are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, andhave 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 broad 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 request/ad, and will be gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT D.D., No. 22, Finsbury-circus g.c. DEPOSITS. DEPOSIT CERTIFICATES, With Quarterly Interest Warrants attached, Issued by THE CREDIT FONCIER and MOBILIER of ENGLAND (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That on and after Ist 3lay next, until further notice, Money will be received on Deposit, for which Deposit Certificates with Interest Warrants attached, payable quarterly, will be issued for the following periods, at the following fixed rates for such periods, viz.:— For 1 year 7 per cent. For 2 years - I, For 3 years 71 The distinctive features of these Deposit Certificates are 1. The perfect security afforded to Depositors by the large Subscribed and Paid-up Capital. 2. The large Reserve Funds. 3. The convenience of the Quarterly Interest Warrants, which can be detached and paid in through any Banker. Forms of Application can be obtained of the Secretary, to whom all communications must be addressed. - - - By order of the Court, ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. 17 and 18, Cornhill, London, 27th April, 1866. M. 23,051. NOTICE. -PLAIN JOHN ORPINGTON, the Sew Story, by the popular Author of "Lord Lynn's Wife" and "Lady Flavia," IS NOW READY at all Libraries, in 3 vols. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. FRANZ ABT'S LATEST BALLADS and SONGS are published exclusively by ROBT. COCKS and CO., of whom may be had (gratis and pod free) a list of this popular composer'A much-admired productions. Herr .Abt will arrive in London early in May. EVER THINE. Song. By F. ABT.—" We have much pleasure in noticing a very pretty song, re cently composed by Franz Abt, and published by this emi nent firm. It is entitled 'Ever Tnine,' the words by K and sung by Macrame Rudersdorff. The song is grac, ful and melodious, the flowing and brilliant accompaniment adding an ad,ti.ional charm to the composition. We commend it to the taste of our musical friends."—Vide CarmarthenJournal, March 3t, 1866. 35.; ditto for piano, 38. ; each free by post for 19 stamps. London: Robert Cocks and Co, New Burlington-street. Just published (Gratis), 11HE GREAT - CRINOLINE QUESTION L solved by her Majesty the Empress of the French. Ladies should at once obtain gratis of their Draper or Corset Maker, THOMSON'S new Illustration, showing the veritable "MODE DE L'IMPERATRICE." LIGHT ! LIGHT ! LIG HT! MATHEWS'S GAS LAMPS, Square or Globe, of every size and design. Al 6 inch Bent Top Square Lamp, painted and glazed, 25s ; a '6 inch powerful Reflect ing Lamp, with pendant iron and burner complete, £2 25.- 21 and 52, High-street, Bloomsbury. Publicans and other Lamps redecorated equal to new. HELIO-SCENE.—This very Handsome SUN BLIND is more effectual in keeping out the sun than any other, for the otvious reason that the hoods overlap each other, so as to place a double layer of cloth between the sun and window glass ; also the wide, open space between each hood insures oopious ventilation and 114)4 a clear view.—R. LOWTHER and CO., :ent-s' near Piccadilly. All kinds of blinds made and repaired. CHOCOLATE.-MENIER'S FRENCH. CHOCOLAT-MENIER, for Breakfast. CHOCOLAT-MENIER is pure, wholesome, and delicious. 3/lENIER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE. Warehouse, 23, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. Sold everywhere. POPULAR DWELLINGS in POPULOUS and SUBURBAN DISTRICTS. Mr. JAMES MORTIMER invites attention to his patented Plans for Improved Separate Dwellings for all classes, which embrace an increase of R treet paving for each storey, publics staircases, promenades, gardens, schools, reading, lecture, dining, and warerooms, baths, &c.; also workshops, with or without steam power. and perfect separation of tenants, to realise upwards of 12 per cent.—Further information of Mr. T. Mortimer, sc+, Queen's-road, Dalston, N.E.; or of Mr. J. Dunbar, 4, Westmiuster-chambers, Victoria-street, West minster, S.W. DO you wish to SING, or have a beautiful and powerful VOICE? If so, the "REGISTERED EUPHONIC NOTES " are truly wonderful in their action, and are unanimously pronounced the " Marvel of Science." They are invaluatle to all, and are guaranteed as a protective agent in all weathers. No Singer or Speak r should be without them. (See opinion of the press and testimonials.) The Euphonic Note, post free 14 stamps, in boxes 26 stamps, direct from the sole inventor, SEAGRAVE ALGEN, 1, Dorcas-terrace, Hammersmith-road, London, W. SECOND-HAND FIRE-PROOF SAFES and IRON DOORS. Call and inspect the Largest Assortment in the World, by Mimer, Alum Leadbeater, blordan, Thos. Perry and Son, and Geo. Price, at half the cost of new. Sketches and prices free. GRIFFITHS, Cannon-street, West. STARCH MANUFACTURERS TO H. R. 11. TILE PRINCESS OP WALES. G LENFIELD PATENT STARCH, Used in the Royal Laundry, AND AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDAL. 1862. Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, &c. &c. SAUCE. —LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. This delicious condiment, pronounced by cunnoissenrs "TILE ONLY GOOD SAUCE," Is prepared solely by LEA and PERRINS. The public, ure respectfully cautioned against worthless imitations, and should see that Lea and rerrins' names are on wrapper, bottle, and stopper. ASK for LEA and PERRINS' SAUCE. So!d wholesale and for export by the Propr'etors, Wor cester: Messrs. Crosse anu Blackwell ; Messrs. Barclay and Sons, London, &c. &c.; and by Grocers and Oilmen uni versally. A STRA LAMPS can be obtained from the hT ETROPOLITAN LIGHT COMPANY, 447, Strand, Rua from all Ironnctong - ers and Lamp Wan houses in T9WII and Country and the Patentee, 16 and 17, Commercial strt whitechapeL A STRA, PETROLEUM, and KEROSINE LAMPS on SHOW. tNew Designs.) ASTRA (Patent) LAMP, for MINERAL OIL. AS TRA LAM P.—Five Hundred NEW PATTERNS for the Season now on Show. TABLE GLASS, ENGRAVED AND CUT. T DEF RIES and SONS, 0 . 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET. TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS. Newest Patterns, Correct Measure. JT DEFRIES and SONS, . 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES, For 12 Persons, XI ISs. Ed. BREAKFAST and TEA SERVICES in great variety, £1 Is. T DEFRIES and SONS, CI • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-bTREET. CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS, New designs, for the Drawing-room, either for Gas or Candle. JDEFRIES and S ONS, . 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL -STREET. CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS, In the Grecian and Venetian Designs. JDEFRIES and SUNS, • 16 and 17. CO MIERCIAL-ST REET. BRONZED AND ORMOLU CHANDELIERS, New designs, for the Dining-room. JDEFRIES and SON S, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CRYSTAL LAMPS AND WALL LIGHTS (Registered) for India. JD EF RI ES and SONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. CLUB, MESS, AND FURNISHING ORDERS for the above Goods promptly executed. Works —LONDON and BIRMINGHAM. JDEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. T DEFRIES and SONS tf• Supply Merchants with Pattern Books Free. DEFRIES and SONS' TEMPORARY SHOW ROOMS. 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET, WHITECHAPEL, Five Minutes' walk from the Late Establishment, 147, HOUNDSDITCH. PHILLIPS AND COMPANY'S TEAS ARE BEST AND CHEAPEST. STRONG to FINE BLACK TEA, ls. 6d., 25., 2s. 6d., 35., 3s. 4d. Moot Delicious Black Tea is now only 3s. 6d. per pound. Pure, Rich, Rare, Choice Coffee, Is. 4d.. is. 6d., Is. Bd. PHILLIPS and CO.. TEA MERCMANTS, F, King William-street, City, London, E.C. A price current free. Sugars at market prices. PHILLIPS and CO. send all goods Carriage Free within, eight miles of No. 8, King William-street, 403. worth Car riage Free to any Railway Station or Market Town in Eng land. Phillips and Co. have no Agents, nor any connection with any house in Worcester or Swansea. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer than 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, from the age of a to 15, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Hr. Daniel Cooper, s 5, Queen •strees.Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Co., Lombard-street 77 -.- 2 ( NEW /tz- - rz?, be " .t‘c4) • . 4 ) sOir g ~4 4, 1 4 t. tz 1 rim • . s, —_ 'fit V` l '1 ficg, , ›' • • • , - „ V 74 11 1 • - 7-1 0 4 . 41 . .• r zil.i•je, fit I - DiE 14,0 'ApRoIT. r , • • 'SPAPER tyA . 44 '14, 1 7 ts" _ 114,• must be added £2,500 to zes ; an outlay that will doubtless be iereity t great numbers who will be almost certain to put in an ap pearance at such a fashionable affair. The display, too, will be most instructive as it is certain to be interesting, seeing it is expected there will be there the productions of the most eminent horticulturists and nurserymen in Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, and various cities in Germany and Prussia, in addition to those of the many famous London firms, and from others at Manchester, York, and the midland counties. At the early sea son of the year at which the exhibition will take place, azaleas, pelargoniums, stove and green-house plants, may be looked for as the main staple of the show ; but the early vegetables, for which the French are now so noted, will be an exceedingly interesting portion of the display. THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1866. INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL I , ximturioN, May 22, Tickets £1 Is ; May 23, 10$.; 1%; ay 24, 2s. od.; May 25, is. Tickets may be obtained of the principal I ondon Nurserymen, and of the usual London Agents. CRYSTAL PALACE.-SATURDAY NEXT, May S.—HANDEL'S favourite SERENATA, Acts and Galatea, the most charming and the most popular of the secular works of the giant composer, will be performed as the Opening Grand Concert of the season, on the Great Orches tra, with enlarged band and chorus, numbering in aft nearly 1, 03 performers. Conducted by Mr. MANNS. The solo parts will be sustained by the following artistes from Her Majesty's Theatre :—Galatea,!Mdlle. Titiens ; Adis, Signor Gardoni ; Damon, Signor Stagno ; Polyphemus, Mr. Santley. Admission, 55.; or by new May guinea season ticket, free. Admission ticket, if purchased beiore the thy, half-a-crown. A few numbered stalls, ss. each, or sets of stalls for the nine opera concerts one guinea. These tickets to be had at the Palace ; at No. 2, Exeter Hall; or by previous order of usual agents. r oTE.—Extra Railway Trains from all termini will be run early in the afternoon. M.R. W. S. WOODIN'S BADEN-BADEN and UP I' THE AIR, an entirely New Entertain ment. EVERY EV/NE:G. at Eight (except Saturday); Saturday Mornings az Three. POLYGRAPHIC HALL, King William-street. Ch..r.i,r-cross. Luxurious f 9fa sUos, es.; balcony stalls, 35.; area, 25.; amphitheatre,l , .—A pl. n o - stalls may be seen and seats secured at the Hall from Eleven o Five. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, ST. JAMES'S HALL. EVERT EVENING at Eight. WEDNESDATS and SATURDAYS, a;. Three and Eight,—The original and veri tably legitria; - e CHRISTY MINSTRELS. First Season in Londmi .hese five years. The only company in existence tvhic )9 . I?S;e3 :egal claim to the title, rom the fact of:its being: •he only one .Vh'elti rei.i:,,ns all the marked specialities and distrc i uisi , e(i .evouri 21 who originally gained the re putaJoi, o. e•:..mp , n , 9 , n the United States, And sub sequenlly it 1857. No other company as =awning •ne :;; 1e o' Ch - 's4 Minstrels poss. , ses • ,angle in dividuiq ineinte o the 'cast distinction who helouged to the origin 4orpe. Tire Christys (after an absence of five years) return ti Lonent with their band strengthened and im proved i. ev-ry :espect, their entertainment being unani mously by the metropolitan press to be the most sparklhvt I .,oncion. Price; Ai:mission—New and luxurious fauteuils, 55.; stalls, ; e ea, ?..; gallery, Is. ; juveniles, under twelve, 11,1; 1.'0'2 0 3c411s and are% only. Fauteuils and stalls may , be t .,u,,q1 a Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street; Mr. Austin's, 28, Piccadilly. - Manager, Mr. Frederic i: burgess. J. AND D. NICOLL, H• Tailors to the Queen, Royal Family, and the Courts of Europe, 114, 116, 118, 120, REGENT-STREET, and 22, CORNIIILL, LONDON ; 50, BOLD-STREET, LIVERPOOL; and 10, MOSLEY-STREET, MAisi- CHESTER. SPRING FASHIONS, for Gentlemen's Overcoats, Morning Coats, Trousers, and Vests. y'NEGLlGE,andotl sc or e. suits, HIGHLAND D I B t SS s , KNICKERBOCKERS, LADIES' RIDING HABITS, JACKETS, OVER COATS, CLOAKS, &c. H. J. and D. NICOLL'S GUINEA WATERPROOF TWEED COATS for Gentlemen, and CLOAKS for Ladies, are patronised by Travellers all over the world. 11. J. and D. NICOLL, 114, 116, 11 8 , 120, Regent street ; 22, Cornhill, London • 10, Mosley-street, Man chester ; and 50, Bold-street, Llverpool. THE CREDIT FONCIER and MOBILIER of ENGLAND (Limited). Capital Subscribed, Four Millions, in 200,000 Shares of £2O each. Capital paid up, Ono Million. General Reserve Fund, £500,000. Dividend Reserve Fund, £150,000. he had displayed in tracing the prisoner and leading to the recovery of so large au amount of property. Acting on this recommendation, he should order him to receive a reward of £2 for his exemplary conduct. Sentence. was Ilion dvforred until next sessions. James Cartermale was indicted for stealing a quantity of plated harness furniture from Mr. Moore, his master. Mr. Metcalfe (instructed by Mr. Vann) prosecuted ; Mr. Ribton (instructed by Mr. Maynard, of the firm of Beard and Maynard), defended. The case occupied several hours, and a great number of witnesses were examined, but the facts are briefly these:— The prosecutor is a saddlers' ironmonger, carrying on busi ness in Market-street, Finsbury, and the prisoner, who was considered to be a young man of great respectability and good family, was in his employ, and lodged at his house. Some time siace the grandson of Mr. Moore was detected in robbing him, and on that occasion the prisoner proved the identification of the property. This man was afterwards sentenced to four months' imprisonment, as he said, for picking up a purse in the Borough-road and not restoring it to its owner. Subsequently it seemed that a connexion sprung up between him and the prisoner, and the latter managed to abstract from the stock goods that were sold by the grandson, they dividing the proceeds between them. After the grandson came out of prison he made a commu nication to his mother, also in the service of the prosecutor, and one evening was appointed by the prisoner that ho should meet him with more of the prosecutor's property for the purpose of again sharing the proceeds. The police were then put on the alert, and accordingly the prisoner was detected leaving the house with some of the prosecutor's property upon him, and he was then given into custody. The grandson was called as a witness, and he minutely de tailed all the transactions in which the prisoner and him self had been jointly engaged, and how they divided the spoil between them. Mr. Ribton made a very able defence on behalf of the prisoner, and called several highly-respectable witnesses, who gave him a very excellent character, extending ever a long period of years. The Assistant-Judge summed up the evidence. The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of guilty, but recommended the prisoner to mercy on ac count of his previous good character. The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 12 months. H E O X F OR D, 3. 6, OXFORD-STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Ilan Company (Limited', IF I WERE KING, Comic Opera, by A DoLrun ADAM, Navin•; been enthusiastically received, will be performed, together with IL TROVATORE and MASANIELLO, by the whole of the talented Operatic Company EVERY EVENING in addition to the other novelties of the estab l.shment, including the ce'ebrated HUNGARIANS in their new entertainment, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr- RANDALL, aed Messrs. PERSIVANI and D'R HONDE. Notice.—The last Two Weeks of the Hungarians' appear ance in England. Admission—Area, ed.; stalls and balcony, la ; private boxes, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d. Doors open at halt-past 7. Commence at 8. ivrADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET, EASTER HOLIDAYO. NEW ADDITIONS.—SeveraI life-size Portrait Models of the most distinguished Personages of the day (including those of the late LORD PALMERSTON and GUS TAVUS V. BROOKE) have been added since the last Holidays ; and in the Chamber of Horrors are Effigies, taken from life, of SOUTHEY alias FORWOOD, and the notorious CHARLOTTE WINSOR. Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. Admittance, ls. ; children, under ten, half price ; Extra Rooms, 6d. A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Selections from all the favourite Operas will be performed by the celebrated ARGYLL BAND every Evening. Chef d'Orchestra, Signor L. CURTI. 3L LEVY, the Great Cornet Player, at Nine, Ten, and Eleven o'clock. Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock. Admission, Is. BOARD and RESIDENCE.—CIiff House, near Warrior-square, St. Leonards-on-Sea, two minutes' walk from the Parade. Address, Mrs. Richardson, as above. BURGLARS DEFIED.—JOHN TANN begs to invite the public to inspect his new PATENT FIRE and WEDGE-RESISTING SAFES and IRON DOORS, which ran be seen at his Patent Lock and Safe Warehouse, 30, Walbrook, London. WHAT DO THE WILD WAVES SAY NOW ? —That the FIERY CROSS has arrived, bringing some magnificent KAISOW CONGOUS of delicious flavour, and which may now be had, at a mere commission on the import price, of the EAST INDIA TEA CO VI PAN 1, No. 5, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, Bishopsgate-street. PHEASANT REARING for 1866.— JAMES CHAMBERLIN'S (opposite Corn Exchange, Nor wich) is the only depot in the world for proper Foul) for YIIEASANT FEEDING. Between 200 and 300 testimonials of list year's snecem Treatise on Hatching and Rearing, with other valuable hi i's. posted - free on application. Land owners. pheasant • na?ere, and gamekeepers can raise any number of birds by n,..ing Iva food. The aristocracy of the kingdom constant s- tr:e l:. Gentlemen requiring game keepers,-or gamek , epee-• requiring situations, are requested to apply to Mr. James Chamberlin, wine merchant and phea sant fool dealer, opposite Corn Exchange, Norwich. TEETH.-Mr. DAY (for many years principal assistant to Mr. Eskell. surgeon-dentist, of 8, Gros venor-street, W.) may be consul' ed on all cases of Deni tl de fect or deficiency. Ile has made strrairmnents foe the t"e of Mr. Eskell's by which moans exquisitely eq. Ite..ed ARTIVIC AL TEETIf of the utmost dur bill y r,e con structed (in a few iron • a when n-r , =qary), and are w .i upon tender :',117111 or roots of teeth or by neryou4 perms co , Jny lenoll of time, without pan. nnoleasantnes•,. o - disco Wort. 'the I. vention applied to teeth of ordinary or - I , ferior con struction. Painful teeth or diseased stumps extracted with out pain. No chloroform ! and perfectly safe. OS EO - ENAMEL, the exact colour of the natural teeth, used in all cases of stopping. Discoloured teeth restored. louse teeth fastened, and all operations on the most approved principles. Terms strictly moderate. Consultations free. 291, REGENT-STREET - (3 doors from the Polytechnic). SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of a new and eiegant assort ment of VAS E 6, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &c., in Italian, AlabzEter, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &a Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, W.C., London. - . . Air. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS. MINERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2,6, 10, 20. 50, to 500 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GICOLOGY and NINE- R&LOG Y is elven by Mr.TENNANT.F.G.S.. at 149. Strand. DEAFNESS. —The SOUND MAGNIFIER, and Invisible Voice Conductor. It fits into the ear, not perceptible; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the head is entirely removed. It affords immediate relief to deaf persons, and enables them to hear distinctly at church and public assemblies. Every other kind of hear ing instrument. Messrs. SOLOMON, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new descrip tion of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from 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 mastica tion. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastication. 52. Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. Number of Shareholders, 4,863. DIRECTORS. The Right Honourable James Stuart Wortley, Governor. James Levick, Esq. D e puty-Governors. James Nugent Daniell, Esq., James Childs, Esq. Les E. Newbon, Esq. Alexander Dunbar, Esq. }Wry Pownall, Esq., J.P. Charles Ellis, Esq. Joseph Mackrill Smith, Esq. Adolphe Hakim, Esq. Edward Warner, Esq., M.P. Wm. Harrison, Esq. James White, Esq., M.P. Richard Stuart Lane, Esq. Albert Grant, Esq., M.P., Managing Director. BANKERS. The Agra and Masterman's Bank (Limited). The National Bank. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths. The National Bank of Scotland. SECRETARY. Alfred Lowe, Esq. Offices-17 and 18, Cornhill, E.C. TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY._ The P. , ar o' pain and dread of operation inherent to all deter very many io whom ARTIFICIAL TENTH are of vital importance from availing t .. .emselvcs of the serv i ces of a dentist. In a n-actice founoei /C.:O r'd now ex; ending over greater !);, , of the kiry;do'n, ru experience unequalled has been ob ain d, , nablinc: us o oher even the moat sensi tive suft-rer a riem of dent stry perfect in its absolute freedom from psi 3. r speciftWe tel taining only to our prac tice and for hick her Majesty has granted her royal letters patent. This system emb" ac - s ',he r on-interference with all stumps, however decayed, he . mono •t•ng instead of extrac tion of loose teeth until tiler oecome firm and useful in mas tication, and the utter absence of all and every operation, so that the most nervous person can be supplied without fear of pain or inconvenience. These teeth are cheaper, more dur able, natural, and comfortable than any yet produced. Consultation free. Teeth from 58. Sets irom 5 to 25 ge., warranted. For the efficacy, utility, and success of this system, vide "Lancet." Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON MOSELY and SONS, 30, Beruers-street, Oxford-street, and 948, Strand, Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station. Daily attendance at 13. Whitefriargate, Hull ; 10, Norfolk street, Sheffield; 4, East-parade, Leeds; 14. St. Nicholas street, Scarbro' ; and 33, Coney-street, York. Established 1830. No connection with any one of the same name. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—May 2. (Before W. 11. Bodkin, Esq., Assistant-Judge.) EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF TAKING FORCIBLE POSSESSION AND PULLING DOWN A HOUSE.—Henry Holmes, the elder, Henry Holmes, the younger, Samuel llolmos, Alfred Holmes, and Joseph A shford were indicted for maliciously damaging a house. There were several counts varying the offence. Henry Holmes, the younger, did not surren der at the commencement of the case. Mr. Montagu Williams prosecuted ; Mr. Kemp defended the prisoners. It appeared that Mr. Alfred Samuel Moon Vospor in 1863 purchased some promises for a term of years in Morn ington-road, Bow, where he carried on the business of a manufacturer of sulphuric acid. In 1863 he let a house at tached to the factory to Henry Martin Radloff, as tenant from year to year. In 1864 Radloff got into pecuniary difficulties, and the business was carried on by two per sons named Terry and Watts, inspectors under the autho rity of the Court of Bankruptcy. In March, 1865, during the absence of Mr. Vospor, two of the Holmes family and another man went to the premises, representing that they had come from the Excise authorities, and not only took possession of the premises, but locked themselves in. They put themselves in a state of defence, and barricaded the house against all comers. They defied all who might come to dislodge them. They did not stop there, for they went to the Perseverance Oil Works, belonging to Mr. Vospor, and took possession of them. While these per sons had got posse'ssion of the premises and continued to occupy the house, they used the water that Mr. Vospor had to pay for, they used his gas, and they broke up doors and even furniture of the house, which they burnt as fuel. An action was brought by the inspectors of the Court of Bankruptcy to recover possession of the Perseverance Oil Works, and as there was substantially no title sot up by the Holmes family to the property, a writ of ejectment was ordered to issue, but unfortunately that did not include a dwelling-house also on the same premises. A few days after this, on Mr. Vospor going to the premises on the sth of March, he found Henry and Samuel Holmes on the roof of the dwelling-house taking the bricks from the parapet, throwing bricks into the chimneys, unroofing the house, smashing the windows, breaking up the window sills, and breaking up the brickwork underneath. Henry Brown, foreman, also proved that he saw Henry Holmes, jun., chopping the timber off the roof, and Samuel Holmes was stripping off the lead, which was lowered into a van. The van was driven off, and on being asked by a bystander what they were going to do with it, Samuel Holmes said they were going to take it to sell ; but, a policeman coming up, the van and lead were taken to the Poplar police-sta tion. The house was completely demolished, and injury done to the amount of between 4200 and X3OO. this ri T h h t P I e y r oj ou p i r y e. There were many witnesses ready to be examined, but as Mr. Kemp, who appeared for the prisoners, said he did not dispute the facts, Mr. Williams said that was the case for th e p rosecu ti on . Mr. Kemp then addressed the jury for the prisoners, and said this was a case of disputed possession, and ought t o have been tried at civil law. The H a olm a e l s eg f a am r il ig y h h t a t d o lived in the neighbourhood for 200 years, and, wheth er and found all the r w tls r : c ci. o n u g i l t y t e , d t h ir e e y n b r y e l H i e v o l e m d es, they se n .ha , other prisoners guilty. The Assistant -Judge deferred passing sentence until the next sessions. James Wheeler was indicted for stealing a quantity of boots, the property of Kauffman Grunbaum, hi s master ; and Susannah James for receiving them, well knowing them to have been stolen. Wheeler pleaded guilty, and no evidence was offered against James, who was acquitted by the jury. Mr. Collins prosecuted ; Mr. M. Williams appeared for Wheeler. prosecutor on t a ki ng stock g t o h o e ds to the value of b e t ween . £ 7OO The prosecutor is a wholesale shoe dealer, carry i ng on that goods had b een stolen by the business in Crown-street, Finsbury, and Wh ee l er was in his rsdweoemamfisacenit deficient na f actneoddf them had - f a s o e n u r d v n i x d c 6 8 11 oi as . s s e I f l o f t prisoner, and ton, a boot and shoe dealer in Southgate -road. Entries of purchases to a large amount were found in his books from the prisoner. Mr. Collins asked, as there were other charges against the male prisoner, that sentence should be deferred until the next sessions. The Assistant-Judge ordered the Witness Reddington to stand forward, and said he had received a presentation by the grand jury to the effect that they considered his conduct most blameable, if not criminal, in buying such largo quan tities of shoes from this man ; and to give effect to the observations of the grand jury, he sh ou ld re f use him any expenses, and he cautioned him as to what he was about, for if he came there again it would be remembered against him. Ho also found in the same presentation of the grand jury a recommendation that police-constable Miller, 148 C 4, should receive an acknowledgment at the hands of the Court for his truly meritorious services, and the great intelligence Armour-Clad Gun Vessels. Among the many armour-plated vessels of war that have been recently launched from the banks of the Thames, the Clyde, and the Mersey, there is one class that, from its formidable nature, its possession of great powers of offence and defence, carried on an exceptionally light draught of water at a high rate of speed, has attracted a great deal of attention from naval officers and others interested in per fecting the design and construction of ironclad ships of war. A vessel of this description made her trial trip on the Thames during the past week, and it was the unanimous opinion of all on board that not only was the vessel a success in point of speed, but that also for her tonnage she was unequalled by any other vessel afloat, turret or broadside-gun vessel, in her fighting powers. She seems especially suited for coast or river service, and pre-eminently so for service on the Cana dian lakes, to which her length and beam give her admission by the Welland Canal ; or as a defence for our Australian harbours and rivers. The Medusa—so the vessel referred to is named—is an armour-clad gunboat, 190 ft. in length, 36ft. in breadth, with a builder's tonnage of 1,160. Her hull is built of iron, with eight water-tight compartments, and is covered in with a i-in. iron-plated deck, on which is laid the usual wood planking. Round the water-line of the hull is fixed a belt of armour-plating, 41-in. thick and 4ft. wide, going completely round the bows and stern at the same thickness as on the sides. The stem of the ship is fitted on the "ram" principle, as introduced by the Chief Constructor of the English Navy, and which on the coasts or rivers of a country must prove a powerful weapon of offence in attacking an enemy. In a central position on the hull is built up a square armour-cased battery, covered with 4f-in. armour-plating, and pierced with eight gun ports—two on each broadside, and two at each end, the latter sweeping the fore and after decks, and firing in a line with the keel, the lower tills of the gunports on the broadsides when the vessel is complete is all respects for sea, being 6ft. from the water-line. This square battery is 54ft. in length by 36ft. in width—somewhat astonishing dimensions for so small a vessel, and will mount four ten ton rifled Whitworth guns, on improved carriages and slides. The sides of the battery are built up of the outer 4i-in. armour, backed with nine inches of teak, the latter carrying an inner skin of 1-in. iron. This iron inner skin is supported by vertical iron frames din. deep and 18in. apart, secured to the plating by Sin. double Angie irons, over the latter being laid a 4in. wooden lining inside all. Through the fore part of the battery rises the pilot house, covered with 4.1-in. armour. The engines of the vessel are of the ordinary direct acting, horizontal descrip tion, the cylinders having a diameter of 34in., and the stroke being 21in. They drive a pair of independently working screws of 7ft. Gin. diameter, and lift. Gin. pitch, the distance between their centres being 12ft. In the Medusa, contrary to previous practice with twin screw engines fitted on the Thames, the engines throw inwards —i.e., the two screws work towards each other. Revert ing, however, for a moment to the hull of the vessel, it is necessary to remark here that forward and aft of the central square battery a light iron bulwark, 3ft. Gin. in height from the deck, passes round the bow and stern of the vessel from each side of the battery, and throws down outwards in action in the same manner as the hinged bul works of the Royal Sovereign and our other turret ships. The draught of water of the Medusa, with all on board and complete for active service, will be but Mt. forward and aft ; and this fact, if considered in connexion with the power of the ship's armament, the size of her battery, and the extent and completeness of her defensive armour, will quite sufficiently demonstrate her formidable character. If we now shortly consider her speed under steam and her manoeuvring powers, her extraordinary capabilities of attack and defence will be still further shown. In putting her over the measured mile in the Lower hope, the wind during the first run was blowing with a force of 7, and the last run was completed in a violent squall. The vessel was heavily rigged as a brig —temporarily, to carry her out to her destination—and she drew Tin. beyond her load draught of Bft. from being crammed with coal and extra stores. Under all these un favourable conditions, she realized a mean speed of 10.713 knots. The area of her midship section was 300 square feet and her hull displacement 1,300 tons. The indicated horse power of the engines was 947, the mean revolutions 122, the steam 251 b., and the v acuum 24i n. The temperatures ' below during the time the ship was running the mile were unusually low, the engine -room thermometer registering 70 and the one in the stokehole 105. In testing the ship's manoeuvring powers under steam Admiral Sir Edward Belcher took command of the vessel, and, while the whole of the experiments were of a highly satisfactory inature, there was one fact rather unexpectedly arrived at which was of the greatest importance. We have already said that the engines of the Medusa work inwards, in lieu of out wards, the latter course having previously been the rule on the Thames. In turning the ship, with both engines work ing ahead, it was found that the time occupied by the Me dusa in completing a circle was in excess of the time that a single screw vessel would have occupied under similar conditions of dimensions and power, whereas with both en gines reversed and the ship making a circle " stern first" the time occupied in doing so was materially decreased, and in fact approximated to that of a vessel with the screws working outwards. The reason of this appears obvious enough. With screws working from each other they deliver their columns of water clear of the ship in two distinct columns. Working towards each other their water is thrown together under the vessel's stern, raising a great disturb ance of water, which boils up and lashes the ship's stern, and thus destroys the steering power of the screws. This view of the subject is, of course open to correction, but it was the opinion entertained by several on board the Medusa who have given great attention to every circum stance connected with the developement of the twin-screw principle. Apart from this drawback, the manoeuvres car ried out were, as already stated, very satisfactory,inas much as it was proved that, with the bulwarks of the Medusa thrown down as for action and guns pointed through the four forward or after ports, a more rapid and heavy fire could be maintained upon an enemy ahead or astern than could be effected from any turret-ship of similar tonnage ; the Medusa also possessing the great advantage of making her hull the training medium for her guns, by reversing the action of her screws, without having the weight of the turret to carry, and the risk of damage to its complicated revolving machinery. The Medusa was built by Messrs John and W. Dudgeon, of Cubitt Town Shipbuilding and Engineering-yard, Mill wall, and ha- engines were manufactured by James Watt and Co. The company on board during the vessel's trial included the Earl of Caithness, Admiral Sir E. Belcher, R.N., Admiral Ommanney, R.N., Captains Symonds, Wil- Messrs. John and Wm. Dulgeon, igeou, son, and Selwyn, R.N. ; the builders of the ship; Mr. IL Wollaston Blake and Mr. Langdon, of the firm of James Watt and Co., the manufac turers of her engines, and other gentlemen connected with iron shipbuilding and marine engineering. ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE LAWS OF MARRIAGE. —The commissioners met yesterday at 32, Abingdon street. There were present—Lord Chelmsford, Lord Lyveden, the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, M.P., Right Hon. the Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, the Solicitor- General for Scotland, Travers Twins, Esq., and John Fraser Macqueen, Esq., Q.C., secretary. Professor Muirhead and Professor Norman Macpherson (both of the University of Edinburgh) gave evidence. PRICY 4d. STAMPED sd. Railway Benevolent Institution. The anniversary festival in aid of the fun L of this institution was celebrated last evening at the F reemasons"favern, Great Queen-street, Lin coln's-inn-fields.children,and Mr. Milne r Gib son , M.P., t oo k the chair, supporte d b y a large number of gentlemen connected w ith th e ra il way i n t erest, an d others whose names are known to be associatedwith object s o f b enevolence. The institution was esta blished to p rov i de for the necessitiies of the members, orphans, and o ce man, in rs and servants of th e U n it e d Ki ng d om . Th e Chaff Proposing th e toast of "Th e A rmy, Navy, ~a s i a d i o d w t s o f h cservices aiNlv‘evraeymouffich e Volunteers," s, indebted for their efficiency to the railway system throughout the country. He remembered it having been stated at a railway• • inquiry that whereas it once took nine days and many marches to bring a regiment from Manchester to London it could now be accomplished in a few hours. In reference to the navy railways had proved a most valuable boon, in asmuch as through their agen cy ships could be much more quickly served with stores and ammunition ; and it might be truly said that the volunteers were greatly benefited by the facilities they derived from the operations of the railway system. The toast was responded to by Lord Harris. The Chairman, in proposing the toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the Railway Benevolent Institution," observed that Mr. Tidd Pratt in the course of his official duties told him—amd there could be no higher au thority—that this railway institution was one of an excellent character, and although he had not certi fied it, as it did not come under the legal definition of a friendly s o c i e ty, he was an earnest supporter of it, and he believed it was calculated to confer great benefit upon the classes for whom it was estab lished. Upwards of 160,000 persons composed the general body of the working men on the railways of this country. The public bad a deep interest in the well-being and contentment of those who bad the practical management of the railway traffic of the country, and in their being a faithful, vigilant, and well-conducted class of men, because upon them depended not only the safety of the lives of a great portion of the people of this country, but also the management and regular car rying on of the commercial traffic of the kingdom. Since the year 1834 the railway companies had been compelled to pay £135,000 in the shape of compen sation for injuries done to travellers, and it was difficult to say who could have a greater interest in carrying on the passenger traffic than the directors and managers themselves. He was, therefore, not prepared to advocate any measure for transferring the powers of those directors to any other authority. It was a fact which testified to the zeal aud vigi lance of the railway servants, that out of 2 20,000,000 of single passengers in the year 1864 there were only 15 deaths of passengers, while there were 103 rail way servants killed while in the performance of their duties and between 70 and 80 injured. It was therefore most important that such a class should be provided for, and the railway companies themselves ought to take a prominent part in supporting the Railway Benevolent Institution. The secretary an nounced that the subscriptions amounted to up wards of £B7O. The International Horticultural Exhibition. - - In three weeks' time a pretty and busy scene will be again enacting on the ground that in 1862 was teeming with the life and clatter of the second great exhibition of industrial products ; a small portion of that soil which has since been so long lying idle and unfruitful will become, for a little while, green with verdure and bright with beautiful flowers, brilliant with a fashionable crowd. In the midst of a barren desert of building refuse this garden of a few spring days' duration is now being brought into its ephe meral existence, and then, like all the card show houses of modern displays, is doomed to vanish like a vision and leave not a trace behind. On a strip of that classic ground where the world's workers four years since brought their wares will horticulturists on the 22d of this month bring their flowers and fruits, their rare trees, plants, and shrubs, and commoner but more useful vegetables. For four spring days only this oasis in the desert of South Kensington will last under its huge canvas tent, or rather booth, of seven long parallel galleries, orbays, each from 30 to 45 feet wide and 25 to 30 feet in height, covering a space of 562 feet in length by 393 feet in breadth, or about 163,000 feet superficial— an area in English land measure of 31 acres, and re quiring 38,000 yards of canvas three-quarters of a yard wide to roof it. Of this space 65,000 ft. super ficial will be appropriated for the general arrange ment of plants, and 10,000 for orchids and other tender plants ; this part will be heated with hot water by Ormson's multitubular boiler, connected with 1500 ft. of piping. For single specimens and specialities, such as tree-ferns, palms, &c., 24,000 ft: will be set apart ; 14,000 ft. will be devoted to the refreshment-rooms and offices, leaving 50,000 ft. clear for promenades, a sufficient amount to accommodate 15,000 persons at a time, a numberthat is not likely to be exceeded, as the Horticultural Society's gar dens will be opened to the visitors, and into them there will be a direct communication from the inter national show. As three fine bands are engaged to play there throughout the afternoons the attraction of their music will naturally tend to keep up a cir culation of the visitors through the exhibition. In the Western Arcade of the Horticultural Gardens, a display will be made of implements, fencings, mo dels of hot-houses, green-houses, and other appara tus connected with the practice of the gardening art, and this will also tend to relieve the great tent of anything like a stationary crowd, so that altogether comfort and convenience seem amply provided for. The framework is constructed of wood entirely, and the erection will have no pretensions to architec tural display. It consists of mere upright pillars with struts and ties supporting and bracing to.. gether the rafters of the roofing, and is therefore of the simplest nature ; but we shall be disap pointed if it does not prove very effective for the protection of the flowers and the convenient ventilation of the arena. Nor will it be, though simple, unsightly ; the plan adopted of colouring the framework of a bluish neutral tint will take away the rafter-like look of the roof, and as the light comes subdued through the canvas there will be a tendency in these long bays to assume a general grey atmospheric-like background that will permit the banks and parterres of flowers and trees to show themselves off to the best advantage. The design was furnished by Mr. Unite, the contractor, and de serves credit for its unostentatiousness. The interior is being laid out in banks and mounds of grass covered earth, variously disposed around a central amphitheatre, like what we are accustomed to see at the Botanic Society an incomparably larger scale. These mounds and have the banks, and artificial irregularities, in Regent's-park, only on d each other, and localising with . ad vantage of shutting off the p a rtic o u u la t r is d o is la p t laz g s from h fgrreolunpaorfaoiele)jd'ecptlsa, platform m ile o t f he ro v ek itto o r rk on ar e o n u t n e d rin a gwill, foun tain and cascade flowing into a broad pool, be able to gaze over the whole field of the exhibition, a n d obtain a splendid realisation of the tout ensemble of the display and its accompanying scenes. This plan for the show emanates from Mr. Gibson, whose labours at the Battersea and Victoria -Parks are familiar to all. During the exhibition special trains will be provided by the committee to take their dis tinguished foreign guests to Kew, Cleveden, and other interesting places. The inaugural banquet is arranged to trice place at tile Guildhall ; but we c a ha n v n e o p t r h o v e l e p d t i mo n r k e i n e g o thet n h v a e t ni. ent gr , p ea ro t fi te t n ah t l i e ts , ealfowdoaupld propriate. The expenses will be considerable, the structure will certainly not cost less than £3,000, and the artificial arrangements within it will pro bably take at least half as much more, to which THE MEDITERRANEAN. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamship China, Captain N. Roskell, arrived at Southampton yesterday afternoon, with the heavy Calcutta and China mails. She brought 153 passen gers, £1,660 in specie, 738 bales of cotton, and 893 pkgs. of general merchandise. The China left Alexandria on the 19th ult., Malta on the 231, and Gibraltar on the 27th. Strong head winds and high head seas were experienced between Alexandria and Malta ; thence to Gibraltar mode rate and high winds and fine weather ; to Cape Finisterre light southerly winds and swell ; across the Bay of Biscay fresh north-easterly winds, with high head sea, squally weather, and rain ; and in the Channel fine weather with light easterly winds. On the morning of the 27th a telegram was re ceived in Gibraltar of the wreck of the British steamer Nile on Trafalgar Reef on the night of the 26th. on shore, China stood in to within two miles of the reef on the ev en i ng o f t h e 27th, and o b served the steamer lying with her head to the S.E., qu it e up right, but apparently settled down on the reef with mast and funnels standing • no boats visible. A heavy surf was breaking around nhallvid and offered assistance, but receiving:o answer, and seeing no person on board, the captain of the China supposed her to be abandoned and pro ceeded 26th his ult.c°urs course. On the on the China spo k e the schooner Lancashire Witch, from the Canaries to Genoa • off Gibraltar, the schooner Fruiter, bound to the west ward ; and on the 2 8th the screw steamer Munster, standing to the southward and eastward. Her Majesty's shipaVictoria, Hibernia, Caledonia, Royal Oak, Phoebe, Racer, and Psyche were at Malta ; and the Skylark and Redpole at Gibraltar. The Terrible, Capt. Napier, six days from Malta, arrived at Gibraltar on the 24th ult., and having embarked invalids and time-expired men, left for England at 7.20 a.m. on the 26th. The storeship Supply, Master Commander Bawden, six days from Plymouth Sound, arrived at Gibraltar on the 23d, and left for the eastward on the 25th. The gun boat Icarus left for the westward on the morning of the 21st. The British steamer Roma, Capt. T. Livingstone, 10 days from Glasgow, for Tunis and Malta, arrived at Gibraltar on the 21st ; the Limerick, Capt. H. Spuring, 16 days from London and 1i from Lisbon, for Toulon, on the 22d ; the lonia, Capt. W. J. Tutt, 8 days from Liverpool, for Palermo, on the 23d ; and the Sanda, Capt. D. Ross, 11 days from Glasgow and 1i from Lisbon, for Cagliari, on the 23d. The brigantine Shepherdess, from Middles borough ; the brigantine Emily Burnyeat, from Newport ; and the bark ITmgene, from Liverpool, arrived at Gibraltar on the 24th. The brig Amphion, Capt. J. Connell, which ar rived at Gibraltar on the 25th ult. from Cardiff, reported having met with, on the morning of the 4th, off the Bristol Channel, a derelict vessel, sup posed to be a ship, with mizenmast gone, being under a lower fore topsail, foresail flying in ribands, rudder unshipped, and stripped of all rope and other material. Donkey engine and galley complete, with part of name " Tress." The Amphion could not take her in tow, the weather being squally. She was laden with teak timber. The latest quotations of exchange at Gibraltar were as follows :—London, 90 days' date, 491 ; Paris, ditto, of. 23c. ; Marseilles, 8 days' sight, Of. 14c. to 15e. ; Madrid, ditto, 14 to 2 dis. ; Cadiz, ditto, 4 dis. ; Seville, ditto, ato dis.; Malaga, ditto, dis. ; Barcelona, ditto, / dis. Premium on 5f,-pieces, 13 , to 1:1- per cent., in demand. The Spanish screw frigate Navas de Tolosa, which has been prepared to convey the newly-appointed Capt.-General (Lersundi) to the Havannah, left Cadiz on the 22d ult. for Alicante to embark his Excellency. The Spanish screw sloop Concordia, with the Chilian bark Alice Ward in tow as a prize, arrived at Cadiz, after a passage of 18 hours from Algesiras, on the 22c1 ult. The crew of the bark were landed on the 24th, and remained detained. Both vessels are stated to have subsequently left for Carraca, where a formal investigation would be entered upon. In reference to this capture the Gibraltar Chronicle of the 24th ult. says : " The Chinni bark Alice Ward, which on the 20th of February last sought refuge in this port from the danger ' of capture by Spanish cruisers, and has been lying here ever since, has fallen into the hands of her enemies in a singular manner. Between midnight on Saturday and daylight on Sunday morning she dragged her anchor, and, the wind being east, drifted out of British waters and across the Bay till her anchors again brought her up in Spanish waters between the two rivers, and she was quietly taken possession of by the boats of the Spanish gunboat anchored in Orange Grove Bay. There are a variety of rumours afloat respecting the occurrence, but the only au thentic information is that contained in the depositions of the second mate, who was in charge of the vessel at the time, the master being on shore, and of a boy on board the Alice Ward. These two left the vessel in a small boat when the Alice Ward was in the middle of the bay, and pulled over to this side. It appears from the mate's statement that he went to his berth at half-past 10, leaving orders that he should be called if anything particular happened. One look-out man, relieved at intervals of one hour and 20minutes, formed the night watch. The Alice Ward was lying in four fathoms of water, riding at a single anchor with 30 fathoms of chain veered out. About 3 o'clock the 100k -out man called up the mate, saying he thought the ship was adrift. The mate im mediately went on deck, and his own observatioa confirming the man's report, he turned out all hands, veered out 50 fathoms of chain to the port anchorby which the vessel had been riding, let go the starboard anchor with 60 fathoms of chain, and tried to find bottom with the lead and 20 fathoms of line, but without success. Tho extra l chain did not cause the anchors to hold, and the the ve vessel at con tinued to drift. As the mate this time to be about half way between ee t n he bank on this Algesiras, she must have drifted far c from oe of her anchors side, and there was, therefore, Do er the bows the mate dis touching bottom. On looking covering ovttdhiraecir e l n i. need dht sA iot i I t h e tbaehanet,nboslad;e:sleoleoy'crimantoe this boat were examin ing orscampavia with T . he w p i e th op lanthorns. On being asked 18 men an a d ing the sides of the sh te i r p the vessel was in, the reply from by the mate what water li t there was plenty of water - mean ing,Slpa4 na ni rs sh . gutu•dacosta le o r v o in w - the scampavia was t a ship in deep water, and Spanish. The scampavia after this that the waters were . . in the direction of the Spanish gunboat pulled away an chored at the Orange-grove, and we may suppose, there fore, perhaps, that the was Very a m r a k which the tvheessSePanish Government had or that her crew, by the aid of her lanthorns, had ascer tained finding that she was watched, hastened to give the intelli gence to the gunboat believed to be charged with that ser- Sapandnaisbhobyogatotbeinintog the o n a gs bip ile s small boat and pulled over to Gibraltar. The ship con tinued to drift until her anchor brought her up in the shoal water on the opposite side. At daylight she was seen riding at anchor between the two rivers ; at about a quarter be fore 6 boats from the Spanish gunboat in Orange-grove Bay boarded her, and shortly afterwards the Spanish flag Was hoisted over the vessel. There is nothing in all this to cause any surprise except the circumstance of the ves sel's dragging her anchor when it was not blowing hard, although there *ere occasionally stiff squalls from l the e enough at when all the other ships in the bay lay at their anchorage The cause of the u nfortunate by the tion in the case of the Alice Ward is vessel had been au thorities of the port to be this : I I I ': is e known that such rid ing some time at a single anchodr. seeure excel,- with danger. The flow or variable winds caus e calms, their anchors. The chain aanpdraecbtibce of fn the eis tide e rt a is nd attende vessels to swing round and theo slightest puff of wind caus inggs the anchor out of the vessel the e c drags. Curiously enough, precisely ground, and the fouls a th s e tr a a n tn ch u o po r, nand thennodu brin gs days Colu mbia, a few moderate ago to an Italian bark, the Colueast wind dragged her anch or bia, which in a S panish shore. Such an accident, the same accident tha t has ha pp ened to the Alice Ward and drifted over to the has th9ugh of small importance to any other vessel,,proved fatal to the Chilian bark , wh i c h h as drif ted into the hands of a national enemy." I