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MIMI 11 1, -~~ -e-4( ,G~ = ~~~Col~ LONDON must have a G en tl eman ' s SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM " EVAN'S " after Alfred ileTton's Concerto. o , —A•sti- - ='4% 4, .4- - • .--.. , • / St , . 41 0 , 4 "1 - • t 'l6 n. 141 • • , ••• it* • Na t , • 41 N.11 : ' •••.` W 7/ _ • 1 4116 • - • . , :Al -7/ 4 4 • r• . , - t 10% ' 2;ll ' DIE . 117 "'"" g; tly -Vele Einorr. s ( ig • . 1 LL WHI SKY v. COGNAC Tnis ode mated Old IRIS AN W DY HISKY rivals the finest PRRNCII BRANDY, It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. itSold in Bottles, 38. 84., at the Retail Rouses in London; by e Agents i n th e principal towns in England ; or wholesale r"in some ch is work epre to light. 8 , GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal. Pink Label, and Cork branded "gdrthao's LL Whisky. " ...—___.— MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1850), 14, RUSSE 1.14-STREET, COVENT-GAR DEN, oneLENDS MONEY on Personal and other Security, in sums 20 to £5OO, to be repaid by instalments extending over two. or three years. The large C►pital of this Associa x,Pn ena:iles it to complete its transactions without delay. • 3 inquiry or office fees, and - strict secrecy observel. Bills .-I.lscounted at short notice. Form sent free on receipt of a directed stamped envelope. ~,:rhe Association also lends Money for the purchase of a by a tenant, or for the liquidation of mortgages, on ''' 4l3 lB most advantageous to the borrower. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. IEI AY OF HAVANA AND MATANZAS RAILROAD (in the Island of Cuba). Loan of 4400,000 sterling, in Bonds of £lOO, bearing in terest at 7 per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly in London. AGENTS. In London—Messrs. J. Henry Schroder and Co. In Havana,—The Bank of Commerce, Francis Fraser, Esq., Manager. This Company was formed in 1857, obtained its conces sion the same year, and in 1861 the main road was com pleted from Regis, in the Bay of Havana, to Matanzas, a distance of 54 miles. Since then branch lines of considerable value have been const ructed. The cost of construction to this date is £1,056,000 ; of Ulla sum £448,000 was raised upon shares subscribed in the 4'250,000 was raised in London, in 1861, by a first mort gage loan, bearing 7 per cent. interest, and repayable by tho operation of a sinking of .£25,000 per annum, com mencing 1867, which will redeem the entire loan in 1876. £lOO,OOO was similarly raised i n 1863 f or th e cons t ruc ti on of two branch roads, secured by a second mortgage on the ,road, and guaranteed by the Bank of Commerce, repayable ' the operation of a sinking fund of £4,000 per annum, commencing in 1873. A. considerable portion of the remainder of the capital Ps been supplied from time t o ti me ou t o f th e earn i ngs o f tic road. , • The the undertaking have been very satisfac tos7, and show the following returns : 1862 Gross receipts £100,700 1863 1864 And 1865 gross receipts from January to June 000 £93,000 Against same period, 1864 82,000 The Bay of Havana and Matanzas Railroad Company has now effected the purchase of the Coliseo Railroad, running from Matanzas to Bemba, a distance of 35 miles, a very valuable road, and of immense importance to the Bay °f Havana and Matanzas Company, inasmuch as it is in direct junction with that road at Matanzas, traversing a district rich in sugar produce ; and being connected at It emha with the Cardenas and Jucaro Railroad, becomes a section of the central road of the island, which will very ah °rtly reach Villa Clara by the completion of the Car denas and Jucaro Railroad. The returns of the traffic of the Coliseo Railroad aro as follows 1860 Gross receipts £49,100 1862 • II 17 1864 And the ,200 returns of 1865, from Jan. to 20th May—£.l9,ooo Against 1864, same time 45,000 ....To comp l ete this purchase, the Bay of Havana and M atanzas Company desire to raise a loan in London of .£400,000, bearing interest at 7 per cent. per annum, pay able half -yearly in London. As security for this loan, the Bay of Havana and Matan- Coli Railroad Company w ill e ff ec t a fi rs t mor t gage on th e seo Railroad, its rolling stock, appurtenances, and all toperties ' • and also a mortgage on th e B a y o f H avana an d - ulatazzas Railroad and its branches, subject only to the existing mortgages of £350,000, of which the first mort gage of £250,000 will be paid off entirely in 1876, by the operation of the sinking fund which commences in 1867. • The property thus mortgaged is as follows : The Casco Railroad to be purchased out of the proceeds of this loan, producing a gross revenue in 1864 of £71,200. he Bay of Hav ana an d M a t anzas R a i lroad and its "'hes, costing £1,056,000, producing a revenue in ,„ - of £143,000 (subject only to the above-mentioned ..aori gages). It will be noticed that the revenue of the Bay of Havana and Matanzas, as well as that of the Coliseo Railroad, has or some years been steadily increasing at the rate of 20 per cent. per annum, and it is beyond a doubt that the amalga ation of the two road s , by a na t ura l i ncrease o f traffic and ra large saving of expenditure in the administrati on , w ill educe afar larger revenue, and may be fairly estimated ?ler the c om i ng year £250,000 gross, or fully £lOO,OOO et .M revenue. ran or th e repayment of this loan a sinking fund is ar d for, whereby £20,000 is to b e p a id o ff annua ll y, e ither by the purchase of bonds or public drawing, its ope ra_tieu to commence in 1877, by which time the first mort gftge loan of X 250,000 will be entirely redeemed. 'cr e The B on d s will be issued in sums of £lOO, and bear in thecoupons, payable 10th June an d 10th D ecem b er, at counting -house of Messrs. J. Henry Schrodernd Co. a T he first coupon will be payable 10th June next. lo lv ! 1° subscription price is 90 per cent., payable as .............. on a p p li ca ti on. .............. on allotment. • 3p .............. on 10th November. £3O Os. Less 0 14s. interest at 7 per cont. per annum upon 29 6s previous instalments. on 10th December. p a Interest at 5 per cent. p er annum w ill b e a ll owe d f or pre of any of the instalments. APplication for an allotment to be made to Messrs. J. HENRY SCHRODER and Co., 145, Leadenhall-street ; ' 3 r to the 'Brokers— :Messrs. LAURENCE, SON, and PEARCE. No. 7, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street. 145, Leadenhall-stroet, London, Sept. 7, 1865. SWEET OPOPONA X, NESSE and LUBIN'S 4,, new Perfume.—OPOPONAX is a native flower of for —c °.or rare fragrance. This scent, and a thousand others chemists ch, a n d perfumers. and - Lab each. Sold by all fashionable .14 and oratory of Flowers, 2, New -mond-street, London. ....._ S AUCE.—LEA and PERRINS' W ORCEoTERSHIRE SAUCE. This delicious condiment, pi onounced by connoisseurs "THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE," Is prepared solely by LEA and PEREINS. The public are respectfully cautioned against worthless imitations, and should see that Lea and terrins' names are on wrapper, label, bottle, and at opper. ASK for LEA and PERRINS' SAUCE. Sold wholesale and for export by the Propeetors, Wor cester: Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell; Messrs. Barclay and :Sons, Louden, &C. &O.; and by Grocers and Oilmen uni tersally. OSCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. RNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, :!eaa d Dining-room, cons i sting of a new and etegant assort t of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink :44(lN qeautiful Inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &0., in Italian, elsbast !r, Paean, Marble. Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &o. 2hported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine. ` 4lo 2lst to her ilajesty, 142, Stand, W.C.. London. it111,...r. Tennant arranges elementary oollections of ROCKS. •;-11RRALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition ‘Yell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facilitate illtereeting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, Lean be had at 2. 5, 10, 20. 50, to 590 guineas each. YIJACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GROLOGY and MINE -.4.LOGY is given by Mr.TENNANT,P.G.S., at 149. strPL,d 84-ILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS! SCHOOL and 11011 E, Hampstead. Or ces, 77, CornhilL PATRON—m• Cab t 4 , "' TRUSTEES. 4.4: 11C 11 °L Frans' Maude, I The Rev. Canon Champneya I Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. R. TREASURERS. This L. Bevan, Esq. I Robert Hanbury, Esq. Institution is designed to supply a great national tko ! ix, an asylu m f or th e orphan daughters of sailors in fe.oyal Navy and Merchants service and of Marines. Derv, clothes, maintains, and educates them tor domestic I ttruk ee f and provides a home free s for former teirc'es While out of situations, thus s hi el din g them from the Tptations they might otherwise be exposed to. Tt6l4,eonamittee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU tNke,;4 to meet the increasing applications through the e,„'L storms and loss f life at sea, and t o enable them h(4 ll ,ally to obtain premises more commensurate with the kaii,,„"les of thia great maritime country, which loses 2,000 Ivb,;`,R a nnually by casualties alone, without including those ,s u i s aY perish by war. Ilat„r. B "lrlitio ns thankfully receiv by the hankers, Messrs tary`Y, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre ' at the °Moos, No. 77, Cornhill. R. SWEETTNG, Hon. Sec. CHARLES NASH, Sea • _ ---.... ..rE , RESCUE SO ClETYVishes to add another ''ltui L'°lne to tho 12 now in operation. La e s r t e y r e e l eo r to no d f f e r w o e m r Iv itilf 456 _poor, friendless, young females w e 3,087, who have leeh dent FUNDS and room, making a total vt th e"'ltt away in five years. Here are brief details of a few oltost recent cases: xi. I . : ,, ged 16, fallen, mother dead, deserted b her father. dji ag ed ed 13, homeless, both parents dea t.*/),17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother. IC. il'i ed 15, fallen, mother dead. A ii , aged 15, fallen, mother dead, ,lf, s' abed 16, fallen, both parents dea d . AI. It' aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents; CI. ll'' aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. A, . 6 - : , aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. S. is Ved 18, fallen, father dead. N.. 11 aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, kA , ted 17, fallen, both parents dead. 1 . to - "*. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. Zl'h e ' a ged 5, fallen, both parents &id. NIII,' home the Committee wish to form wottldbe w fo o r "a_vetegiZt.a• almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who vo tat -.. im astray from the path of virtue. t. b Muttons will be received gratefully by the Secretary, "da relP li el Coop r, Q 5, Queen street Cheapside; or by Messrs -.7 and Co..Lorlibard-Ptreet. 4,1"-A -L FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, *ay 1,,, 4 1 the i mmediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail -Ntuall, liing's-crosa. pi e4. l:lttron—lfer Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. . 1 ., r atr on _ ..-. , --tits Royal highness the Prince of WA LES, 11.0 "Leaf-111 a Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. ltah h ia II ;;;-. the ital, founde admission ar 1828, the first to estab n" delat rm aiPle of free to t he sick p s oor, without whollytarede 'etldeot dif fi culty of Governors ' . orders. i x i t are uPPort on voluntary contributions and !Lodes. t aditi ergs relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in de 0) 1 to . atito.- this, the average number . of attendance of the 6 ' 630 a to si ck haa for a con iderable period averaged between 'l , l l nd 4 ,000 w bt e Commit "lY* 0 .. 11 evoi em _ tee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the tntracunn.,..".!_thae. premises of this Hospital are capable of 7,„ quiAtZv u e u r ds itu m ndr iedt m ore beds, had the Committee Vs,,..,3.atributions are recev i e l d a by the Treasurer, Edward Mas o : r, milttl, Es 1114,1,04, Nicholaa-lane; also by Messrs. 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THE ESSENTIALS OF SPELLING i s admirably adapted to aid adults di fficulties )y education has been neglected, in mastering the of English Orthography, without a teacher. Sent post free for 12 stamps. London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. Now ready, boards, price ls. 6d., HITS ; a Collection of the Best -Tales contri buted to "Temple Bar," " O nce a W eek, " "Cham bers's Journal," &c. By L EWIS HOUGH, M.A. With Two Illustrations by W. Schwench Gilbert. London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. Demy 4t0., cloth, price 7s. 6d., THE PSYCHONOMY of the HAND ; or, the Hand an Index of Mental Development, London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. G LASS, CHINA, EARTHENWARE, an d CHANDELIER SHOW ROOMS. Notice of Removal in consequence of the late Fire. T DEFRIES and SONS' Temporary SHOW • ROOMS. 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET, WIIITECHAPEL, Five Minutes' walk from their Late Establishment 147, HOUNDSDITCH. , CRYSTAL and BRONZED CHANDELIERS, New Designs, for the Dining and Drawing-room, either for Gas or Candle. DEFRIES and SONS, 16 an d 17 , J• COMMERCIAL -STREET. PETROLEUM LAMPS and WALL LIGHTS, MIRRORS (for India). T DEFRIES and SONS, 16 and 17, Pi • COMMERCIAL-STREET. TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS. Newest Patterns, Correct Measure. T DEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES, For 12 Persons, .£1 18s. 6d. DEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-6TREET. TABLE GLASS. CHINA. and EARTHENWARE. CLUB, MESS, and FURNISHING ORDERS for the above GOODS promptly executed. J DEFRIES and SONS supply Designs and • Pattern Books Free. Works —LONDON and BIRMINGHAM. HAIR -CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. RSS'S CURLING FLUID curls Ladies' or Gentlemen's hai immediately it is app tied. Sold at Ss. 6d.; sent free for 54 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, is. 6d., or 20 stamps. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perms. neatly Ladies' Hair from 7s. 6d. •, Gentlemen's from The Dye is sold at 3s. 6d ,or sent free for 51 stamps, It I most easy of use. HAIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn, London.—AL EX. ROSS'S DE PI L &TORY removes without effect to the skin, superfluous hair front the face, neck, and arms. 3s. 6d.; sent the same day as ordered by pose for 51 stamps. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient i n ALEX. ROSS'S CANTIIARIDES OIL, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. ild.; sent free for 54 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248 ,lligh Holborn, London. Essay on Hair, Id. PIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are Improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness dre. 2s. 9d.; by poet for 40 etimps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. ALEX. ROSS' FACE POWDER, is. ; sent for 14 stamps ; Eye Colour, 3s. Bd., or 54 stamps. Skin tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 48., or fiu stamps. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 64 stamps.—ALEM. ROSS, 218, High Holborn, London. HOME for LITTLE for the Reception, from Outcast and Destitute Boys, under lo years of age. President—ROßEßT VICE-PRE; Stephen Cave, Esq., M.P. Henry E. Gurney, Esq. Samuel Morley, Esq. BOYS, Tottenham, N. 1. all parts of the Kingdom, of ,and those verging on crime, lANBURY, Esq., 31.. P, :SIDENTS. ISir S. M. Peto, Bart., M.P. Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. COMMITTEE. Mr Alex. Anderson. Rev. IL N'Sorley. Mr. E. H. Burrows. M r. W . J. Maxwell. Mr. A. D. Chapman. Mr. Alfred Short. Mr. E. F. Gedge. Mr. Robert Sinclair. Mr. George Moore. I Mr. E. J. Tab rum. Mr. Francis Lycett. Mr. R. T. TurnbulL Treasurer—W. H. Wiliens, Esq., 78, Basine , hall-street. B.C. Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, Les Suffolk-street, Pall-Mall East, S.W. Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard- Jitreet, E.C, The mode of admissioff to the House is twofold, I st. Be eleetion of the subscribers. Boys thus admitted are received free, boarded, clothed, educated, and taught till They are 11 years of age. With the view I o secure the election of the most deserving cases, the Committe have from the first discouraged canvas sing, and they do not print any addresses of the subscribers. The voting papers contain a description of each case, as care ful y investigated by the Committee, and with this informa tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to those most eligible for free admission. This Home was opened in April, 1861. It was designed to take la the little ones whose charact r and circumstances disqualify the n for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tender age precludes their admission to the Refuges. Such are these who, from neglect, are already on the road to ruin. Such are those who have been deserted by their natural protectors and left to beecome idle wanderers. Such are those whose parents may have at one time or other received parish relief, and who are now friendless orphans. Such are those whose parents are breakers of the law, or are in prison, and who train their children in the same path. Such are those whose evil associations have already had their painful effect, and must lead them to a life of crime and misery. There are now 50 little inmates from about four years of age to 10. There is room for nearly 101, and the Committee would joyfully see the Home filled at once; they only wait for the necessary subscriptions. The Committee feel constrained to p'ead for those who cannot thus plead for themselves ; and, referring to the cir cumstances of some who have been already admitted, they ask—ls it right to make a widow and her family paupers for life because one of them (the naughty boy of the family) runs wild in the streets and is beyond her control ? Is it kind to tell her, because she has so large a family, that you will not h her to put one of them into a Home, but that they must ail go into " the house ?" Is it doing the best we can for the little destitute orphan to send him to the workhouse. Is it doing to others as we would they should do unto us that when these little ones have unnatural parents who turn them into the streets, or force them by ill-treatment to "run away," none of us shou d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe than ? Shall we leave them still on the doorstep, passing by on the other side, or else exclaiming " Ain I my brother's keeper ?" The necessity for an Institution for these little ones is evi dent from the police statistics, which show that in London alone, in one year, no fewer than 311 boys under 10 years of age, have been apprehended for various offences, 79 of whom were convicted and punished, while the bulk, 232 were dis charged by the magistrates with a rebuke, as being too young to punish, though not too young to learn the beginnings of crime. On the other hand, there are numbers who, but for the timely help afforded by such an Institution, must otherwise become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-rell• ante and self-help, be permanent burdens to the State. fhe Home for Little Boys has, therefore, been established to rescue the little ones, to save them from the prison on the one hand, and ''.ll.e workhouse on the other, and to endeavour to make them useful members of society. The daily routine of the Institution presents all the fea tures of a home, a school, and a workshop. The little ones are cared for as children ; they have their regular meals, their suitable clothing, their hours of play and amusement, and their singing class. They are treated as scholars ; every morning is devoted to school work—reading, and writing, and ciphering, and Scriptural instruction, with occasional lessons in otjects and other subjects. But they are also trained to work. As they must all, and that at a very early period in life, earn their living by the sweat of their brow, they are here at once taught habits of industry. So the after noons are occupied with various industrial occupations— making brown paper bags for bankers, and white paper bags for tradesmen, and door mats and servants' kneelers for any who will buy them ; picking the coil for the mats, mending the c othes, & c. Some assist the master in the garden, digging, planting, watering, weeding, and so forth. By degrees they are being made useful in the house, scrubbing and sweeping, while the elder ones clean all the boots, knives, etc. In this way it is sought to fit them for an active working life. 2d. By payment of 55. a week, made quarterly in advance. All children must be under 10 years of age at the time of admission. Those received on payment are admitted at any time as soon as approved by the Committee, Elections of children to be admitted free will take place as frequently as the increase in the annual subscriptions will admit, till the Home is full; they will then be held periodi cally Forms of application for the admission of children may be had at the Home, and of the Honorary Secretary, The British American Provinces. - (From Me Special Correspondent of the Times.) OTTAWA, Aug. 19. For two generations it has been the practice throughout the United States, with the exception of Massachusetts and Virginia, to remove the seats of Legislature from the great cities to small towns situated as nearly as possible in the centre of the Commonwealth. The reasons alleged were— first, the facility of access, supposed to lie in the equidistance of the Parliamentary centre from all points of the State; and, second, the freedom from mob influence and intimidation, to be found in the rural districts, and which could not be expected amid the rowdy and excitable population of large manu facturing and commercial cities. For a system of government whichrests upon the suffrages of a whole people, in which the mob (to use the word in no offensive sense) forms so large a proportion of the constituency, the plea of such a necessity is some what damaging. No one ever heard that the Parlia ment of Great Britain was not as safe in Westmin ster as it would have been in Kenilworth; but the people of the large States of New York, Pennsylva nia, and Ohio mistrusted the crowd too much, though they always boast of its educated intelligence, to consent tliat populous and wealthy New York, Phi ladelphia, and Cincinnati should be the seat of the Legislature. The consequence is that the capitals of these and most other States of the Union are but in considerable places, deriving a fictitious importance from the presence once a year of the local Legislature, but striving in vain to expand into the size or the dignity of cities. Washington itself, selected for the same reasons as the capital of the Union, has little of the appearance, and none of the amenities, of a veri table metropolis. It is a place of immense promise and small performance. Its design upon the topo graphical chart is magnificent. Its actual condition is petty and disappointing —a mixture of imposing public edifices, separated from each other by long intervals of inferior or half-built streets, in which the pigstye, the cabbage -garden, and the wooden shanty, alternate with the brick house and the marble mansion. Unpaved and unfinished, dirty and dis reputable, swarming with beershops, groggeries, gambling dens, and brothels, Washington can give no other excuse for its existence than the meeting of a Congress, which would have been much better housed at New York. To a great extent this unflattering but not incor rect description applies to Ottawa, the legislative capital of Upper and Lower Canada, and, if the proposed Confederation of the Provinces be consum mated, of the British American Union. Its situation is much more picturesque than that of Washington, and the noble quadrangle formed by the Houses of Parliament and the Government offices, standing on the crest of a hill which overlooks the beautiful valley of the still more beautiful river, from which the city takes its name, is alone sufficient to impress upon it a character of individuality and grandeur which few cities in America possess. In Ottawa the memory of the oldest inhabitant extends no further into antiquity than 89 years. It was but in 1826 that the first tree was cut down in the wilder ness, on which the city now stands, and when Colo nel By, of the Royal Engineers, gave the name of Bytown to the little collection of wooden huts that were the first results of his scientific "prospecting" in this lonely region. Nolv, the streets of the capital that has been arbitrarily, and, perhaps, un fortunately, fixed in this out-of-the-way spot are laid down on a scale sufficient to accommodate 150,000 or 200,000 inhabitants. Though so lately covered with forest trees, scarcely a bush flourishes within the municipal boundaries. With a strange wantonness of destruction on the part of the early settlers, and with an equally strange want of foresight on the part of the municipality, not an old tree remains and not a new tree has been planted to supply its place. • As the heat in summer is as oppressive in this latitude as in New York, the omission to plant such umbrageous trees as are to be found lining the main thoroughfares of all the cities and towns of the Federal Union is not easily to be accounted for on any principle consis tent with the public spirit, or even the common sense of the place. It is true that the evil adMits of remedy. Nevertheless, it is to be seared that the N°. 22,845 THE SUN, LONDON, THITIttsDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1865. GREAT ST. JAMES'S-HALL—WORLD of MAGIC, Second Sight, and " Begone, Dull Care," every evening at 8. A Day Performance, Saturday, at 3. " The most varied entertainment in the metropolis."—Vide the Press. Admission, is. PROFESSOR and the Misses ANDERSON.— Farewell season. —World of Magic. Second Sight, and the oziginal Indian Basket Trick, in conjunction with Fre deric (the great) Maocabe, the unrivalled ventriloquist, mimic, and character actor. VREDERIC MACCABE, Ventriloquist, Mimic, &e., in his oriinal entertainment, "Begone, Dull Care," " Miss Mary May," " Early in the Morning." Balcony, 2s. ; reserved seats, 3s. ; stalls, 55. ; at Mr. Austin's office, St. James's • hall, 28, Piccadilly. A, NIMBI% Acting Manager. T lI E X F O R D. 6, OXFORD STREET. W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). SIXTY-SIX, by U. Offenbach, performed by Misses Russell, Barrie, Walmesley, Tyrell ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, Husk, and Green, with full Band and Chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Bane'', Comedy, Burlesque, &c., by the celebrated D'Au bans, Messrs. Dnriah and Davis, and the Misses TESSY and SARA. 'GUNNISS. NONCE —The Oxford has been entirely Redecorated, Altered, Newly Lighted, and Ventilated, and now is one of the most agreeable places of resort in the kingdom.—OPEN EVERY EVENING at Eight o'clock. The Classical Ballet, entitled THE BRIDAL of BEAUTY, in which Miss TESSY GUNNISS will make her re appear ance THIS EVENING. Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL. KO KO RI KO. This wonderful entertainment, having proved the greatest hit ever made, will be repeated EVERY EVENING, in ad dition to the Operatic Belestions, supported by the whole talent of the establishment. Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall, Messrs. Duriah and Davies, the D'Aubans, and Arthur Lloyd. Director, Mr. F. Jongmans. All visitors to London at this season should pay a visit to the above establishment N[ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.- Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker -street. NEW ADDITIONS.—In accordance with the season, the Exhibition has been entirely re-embellished. The whole of the ancient Court Dresses of the most costly description, faithfully copied from the most minute pictures, have been renewed. Modern Court Dresses of the most splendid de scription, selected from the first houses in Paris and London, and probably never equalled or surpassed, are now on view. Life-size Models of DOCTOR E. W. PRITCHARD and CONSTANCE KENT are now added. Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street Piccadilly, will RE-OPEN for the Season on SATUR, DAY, Sept. 9. The above Rooms have been entirely re. decorated by Herr Rubardt and assistants. Musical Director, M. LUIGI CURTI. Manager, Mons. GRENET. - _ Doors open at half-past 8 o clock ; close live minutes to 12 o'clock. Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. STARCH MANUFACTURERS TO H. R. H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES. G LENFIELD PATENT STARC Used in the Royal Laundry, AND AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDAL, 1862. Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, &c. WOTHERSPOON and CO., Glasgow and London. future legislators of the British provinces will have but too much reason, as they swelter on a day such as this, in the unshaded streets of their dusty capital, to deplore that the contemporaries of Colonel By were too busy with the axe, and the men of to-day too indifferent or too ignorant to repair the evil they inflicted. The actual population of Ottawa is about 14,000, which will probably be increased by another 1,000 or 1,500 when the Legislature, together with the clerks and employe's of the Various public depart ments remove into the city, as they are expected to do within the next six weeks. Notwithstanding the sparseness of the people, compared with the extent Of ground occupied, the indications are strong that the professional and educated classes, always hard pressed for an opening, expect the city to grow and expand to the height and size of its pretensions. Several monster hotels after the American pattern are built but unoccupied, patiently awaiting the flush of business which is to enrich their lucky pro prietors. In addition to these are a score, more or less, of minor hostelries, of various degree of excel lence(and the reverse) alone sufficient to accommodate a travelling public thrice as numerous as is ever likely to need them. And still, after the American, rather than after the slower English fashion, two daily newspapers are published in the place, to com pete for the political influence and the advertising business which every capital city is supposed to afford. The medical profession is so largely repre sented that if one-half of the practitioners whose signs meet the eye, and whose advertisements cla mour for notice on the hoardings and dead walls of the city and in the columns of the newsapers, are enabled to earn a decent subsistence, the people of Ottawa must be among the most credulous and per sistent valemdinarians in the world. And as for the barristers and attorneys (the one resolving into the other at will, as in the United States), who are attracted to the capital in the hope of future busi ness, Edinburgh itself, where no one can tell where so many advocates and writers to the signet con tinue to make both ends meet, must be considered a very desert of the legal fraternity as compared with Ottawa. In anticipation of the future develop ment of the place, the price of land has gone up so extravagantly as to defeat the calculations of the too sanguine or too sordid proprietors, and to leave upon their hands many valuable " lots" which with more moderation on their parts might long ago have been disposed of at handsome profits. Ottawa is well lighted with gas, but though it stands on the bank of a river, which at the magnificent falls of the Chaudiere possesses a water power only second to that of Niagara, its inhabitants have no other water than that which the roofs of their houses sup ply from the rain, or which they pump from the private wells in their gardens. It does not appear any steps have yet been taken to remedy this seri ous defect, though it is obvious to the meanest capa city that, if nothing be done in this respect, Ottawa will never be a great city, or deserve to become one. The Parliament House and the two Departmental Buildings, the pride and ornament of Ottawa, are rapidly approaching completion. The foundation stone was laid in 1860 by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the works have since been pushed vigorously forward. The original estimate of cost was $900,000; but it was found necessary to expend nearly the whole of that sum in the foundations, and the subterranean buildings and apparatus necessary for the warming, the ventila tion, and the water supply of the three edifices. Upwards of two millions of dollars have already been exhausted, and it is calculated that when all the bills are paid the sum of three millions, or about £600,000 sterling, will not be found much more than sufficient for the purpose.. The Government offices are so far advanced as only to need furniture to be rea d y fo r oeetipation, azs it is-the prSgent intention of the heads of the several departments to migrate from Quebec to the new capital, in October or November. The Houses of Parliament are not in the same state of forwardness ; but as they will not be required until February or March, there is ample time to prepare them for the ensuing Session. The two Halls or Chambers for the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly are alike in size and design, and are simple and massive, rather than gaudy, or even ornamental in appearance. Both are of the exact dimensions of the House of Commons in the New Palace at Westminster, from which fact it may be inferred, without error, that the members, who are not likely, even in the case of Confedera tion, to exceed, 200 or 250 in number, will have abundance of elbow room. In Canada, as in other parts of America, the representatives of the people-- ultra-democrati c as they are—have a more aristo cratic regard for their Parliamentary comfort than their compeers In the old country. The member of the British Parliament, aristocratic as he may be in heart and sentiment, is con t en t w ith a very demo cratic amount of l uxury and convenience. If the House be crowded, it is not without difficulty that he can obtain a seat, except in the gallery, and on all occasions he has no other place for his papers, memoranda, and documents, than his pockets, his hands, or perhaps his hat. But not so in the United • States and Canada. Each repre sentative of the democracy has ample room and a private desk, provided with writing materials, and stowage for twenty times the amount of docume n t s which Mr. Gl a d s t one might need to refer to i n the introduction of hi s Budget. In this manner a Canadian legislator occupies three or four times as much space in the House as a British member of Parliament ; and for this reason the Parliamentary buildings at Ottawa are none too large for the gen tlemen who are to occupy them. It might be supposed that at Ottowa, if anywhere in British America, public opinion would be unani mous on the necessity and advantage of a Confede ration of the Provinces. Such, however, is not the case. Many of the citizens have a vague mis giving, notwithstanding all the money that has been spent, that their city, lying, as it were, on the very outskirts of the wilderness, will not be a very con venient capital for a Confederation of which such remote countries as Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward's Island, and Newfoundland, must feayritaimnteicippraote and not without Provinces, ces, other objecti ons to the projected in favour o f some more agree able and more accessible capital, s uc h , f or i nstance, a s. if ultimately theyufnform reason, an,w p wa a that i r ilv t the ae agT agitate e ' l isßraintisdhwAillmerica, in spite of all continue to be the trlhealatlegislationmetropolisMontreal, hof i may h do to create artificial rivals to it. postponed, Ottawa would be the c a pit a l o f Cana d a, and lpVeerrfeormConfaeldlertahteionfulecfteioanteds ' or indefinitely for which it was selected. It would be enriched to the full extent anticipated from the annual presen ce o f th e Legis perennial residenc e o f th e func of the G overnment, and if tlaiotnuraer,iesaanndd temp ioyes it did not expand so much as the proprietors of the soil and its other projectors desired, it would certainly grow more rapidly than it would have done had it remained, which may be called a pri vate rather than a public city. There are other reasons of a similar kind that induce many of the people of Ottawa to look somewhat coldly on the idea of Confederation. If Ottawa, on account of its beautiful public buildings and the money spent upon theni, should be retained as the capital of the new Union, it would cease to be the capital of Upper and Lower Canada, each of which would have a capital of its own, the one at Toronto and the other at for the tra nsact i on of i ts l oca l business. people have consequently T Quebec, Ottawa begun to reckon whether it would not be more to their pecuniary advantage to accommo d a t e the Legislatures of the two Canadas, as was or i g i na lly intended, than to part with that source of profit, and content themselves with the emoluments to be distributed among them and the di gn ity t o b e con ferred upon their city, by the assembled Legislatures of all the provinces. The calculation is no doubt mercenary and mean ; but the poor Canadas and the rich United States are equally sensitive to sor did influences, and the writer who would faithfully record the state of public feeling with regard to any great subject. such as this, cannot justly omit to mention even the lowest of the motives which may mould the actions of a community and affect the course of public policy. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. WENSUM VALLEY. IThe adjourned half-yearly meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the office, Poet's Corner, Westminster, Mr. W. P. Greenfield in the chair. The report stated that the directors were not in a position to report that effective progress had been made with the railway entrusted to them to carry out. The circumstances causing the delay had been be yond the control of the board. With regard to the prominence given to the case in the recent discus sions between sections of the Great Eastern Board, they state that the proposal to construct the Wen sum Valley Railway, often broached, was submitted to Parliament by independent promoters in the Ses sion of 1864 ; the line constructed was universally supported by the landowners, and was in every sense a landowner's line. It had been carefully laid out by engineers of character and experience, who fixed the capital in the usual way in the bill. The only opposition with which the bill was ever threatened in Parliament was that of the Great Eastern Com pany ; and in March, 1864, the directors of that com pany finding that there was no reasonable ground for opposing its construction, adopted, of their own spontaneous will and without solicitation from the Wensum Valley directors, the following resolution : "Parliamentary Committee, March 11, 1864.—Wensum Valley Railway. "Resolved,—That Mr. Maynard be instructed to offer to the Wensum Valley Railway Company the following terms : " That the Great Rastern Railway Company aro prepared to contribute one-third of the capital, and to work their line at 50 per cent., and will be prepared to concede, through booking from Lynn to Norwich, on the undertaking that they get corresponding through booking arrangements from March to Lincoln over new line." Negotiations followed, and a formal agreement was drawn up and executed in the usual manner, and scheduled in the Act, which passed without opposi- tion. The agreement thus concluded gave the Great Eastern Company the perpetual and exclusive use of the line—thus for all defensive and strategical pur poses constituting them owners of the line for one third of its cost. The Wensum Valley Company were to complete the line of works to the reasonable satisfaction of the engineer of the Great Eastern Company. • On subscribing one-third of the capital the Great Eastern were to appoint two directors at the Wensum Valley Board. The agreement also contained provisions for arbitration. In August, 1864, the Great Eastern Company unanimously agreed to subscribe one-third of the capital, and in the following October the Great Eastern Board ap pointed two of their body to sit at the board of the Wensum Valley Company. The report states that all subsequent proceedings of the Wensum Valley Board took place with the assent and in the presence of Great Eastern representatives. It was when the subscription of the Great Ens4tern Com pany was pressed for that, for the first time, excep tion was taken to the nominal cost of the railway. Discussions ensued, explanations were given, the serious contingencies as to land and other matters which the contract embraced were explained, and eventually the directors, while dissenting from its expediency, consented to obtain a fresh arrangement with the contractors, limited to works, excluding land, legal, en.gineering,Parliamentary and other exprises. This proposal was accepted, a new contract so limited' was submitted to Mr. Sinclair, arid dis cussed between him and this company's engineer ; the differences between them were narrowed by a comparative trifle, and would doubtless have been entirely removed by further examination and ex planation, when Mr. Sinclair was instructed by his board to suspend all action in the matter. It had also been stated in evidence before a Parliamentary Committee, by an influential member of the Great Eastern direction, that the directors had agreed to pay in cash, shares, and debentures for completion of the railway £293,000, whereas Mr. Sinclair's es timate was only £1.80,000. How far there was ground for charging (on Mr. Sinclair's or any other authority) extravagance in the arrangement Contem plated by the directors might be estimated by the fact that on two several occasions, and as to two distinct contracts, this company's engineer and Mr. Sinclair had been on one occasion in actual accord, on the other at a point so approximate as to have insured that ultimately there would be no real diffe- rence between them. The report concluded by stating that the directors had been reluctantly com pelled to take proceedings at law to enforce payment of the Great Eastern subscription. On the motion of the CIIAIIMAN, seconded by Mr. QUICK, the report was unanimously adopted, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro ceedings. RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFEeTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT ExHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective nventiou in the curative treatment of RERNI A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, here avoided--a soft bandage being worn round th e body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the 51 , 30-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be w orn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 188., 210., 28s. 6d., and 318.6 d. Postage, ls. & Double Truss, 310. Bd., 425., and 620. 6d. Postage, 18 Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post- office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c, for Varicose Veins and all oases of 'Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, Ac. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. bd., 10s., to les. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturor, 22R. Plocadillv. LLYNVI VALLEY. The report of the directors of this company stated that the traffic continued to increase, and the gross receipts for the half-year ending the 30th of June last had been £11,192 against £10,134 for the cor responding half of last year. The balance available for dividend, after deducting all expenses and in terest, amounted to £4,959. The amount required for the payment of 5 per cent. upon the first and second preference stock was £3,715, and the sum of £1,244 remained for division on the ordinary stock, being at the rate of £3 12s. per cent. per annum. In order to pay the usual rate at 4 per cent. per annum upon the ordinary stock, free of income tax, it was necessary to add only £l3B from the reserve fund, which would then amount to £3,324. . The capital account showed that there had been an expenditure on works during the past half-year of £12,263. This had been incurred in laying the nar row gauge between the junction with the Ogmore Railways and Porthcawl, and in additional works to render the line to that place fit for passenger traffic, as well as for the improvement of the old harbour. The narrow-gauge railway was now in use for both passengers and goods traffic, and the harbour was open for shipping. Considerable pro gress had been made towards the construction of the dock, breakwater, and other works, and the direc tors fully expected that this immense improvement would be completed in the course of next summer. The capital account showed that £307,306 had been received, and £304,905 expended, leaving a balance of 12,401. The report and dividends were agreed to by the shareholders. YARNA. The report of Mr. M'Candlish, the chief engineer, states that the works on this line were progressing most satisfactorily ; that, although the surveys were only commenced in April and the works in June last year, the earthworks had been completed ready for the ballasting and rails upon about 85 kilometres (53 miles) at the Varna end, and 60 kilometres (37 miles) at the Rustchuk end of the line. The whole force of labour was now employed upon the earth works on the central portion of the line, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) in length, and these would be completed, with very slight exceptions, before the ensuing winter. The masonry was well advanced, and the bridges and culverts were nearly completed. All the station buildings along the line have been commenced, and many of them completed, and all would, he hoped, be roofed in before the winter. On about 33 kilometres at each end of the line, or 66 kilometres (40 miles) in all, the rails had been laid. Ile had no doubt that on 80 miles of the line the rails would . be laid before the winter, leaving only about 59 miles to be laid . during next yeas'• The Turkish Government had lately received from PRICE 4d S TAMPED 5d.! their commissioner so favourabl e a rep or t upon the progress of the works that they had agreed to return at once to the company the whole amount of the caution money left in their hands, and which, according to the terms of the concession, was only repayable by instalments. The Government was making arrangements with Messrs. Peto, Betts, and Crampton for the immediate commencement of the works of the harbour at Varna. He trusted, there fore, that by the time the railway was opened for traffic sufficient harbour accommodation would be provided, and he had no doubt whatever that the whole line would be completely finished and ready for traffic before the winter of next year. benture. • • 2 . • ) • ,•• • A •Zys).-, -rj - " It r WlieV-41 . • and a further sum of xil4o4:willgiotilbtaerd.in 1861 upon this portion o f the system - i' . itialblOrWaOregate ex penditure on the oldnetworlaoL'bee.Bl,lB64Zl6,939,B26. Of the £1,149,242 expended upon the old network in 1864, £320,582 was laid out on lines previously in operation, and £828,660 on lines of the old network still in course of con struction. The total receipts on capital account in respect to the Aubin mines and ironworks to the close of 1864 were £685,911, and the total outlay to the same date was £675,752. Tho receipts on capital account to the close of last year in respect to the new network were £20,906,076, made up thus :—Obligations of the old Great Central, £2,359,174 ; obligation of the Paris and Orsay, £159,720 ; obligations attributed in exchange for the shares of the Great Central and the Paris and Orsay, £3,555,517 ; fourth loan, X 1,847,000 ; fifth loan, £2,971,597 ; sixth loan, £3,551,042 ; seventh loan, £1,271,215 ; eighth loan, £3,508,179; and ninth loan (partly negotiated),'£l,BB2,632. The outlay made on the network to {he close of 1864 may be summatsed thus :—Amount paid for the Great Central, £5,722,178 ; amount paid for the Parisand Orsay, £214,970; payments by the company for works on new lines (after giving credit for State conventions to the amount of X 2,264,140), X 9,990,686; service of interest on the capital engaged in the network (after giving credit for profits de rived from the lines in working to the amount of £866,013), £1,532,852 ; and contributive share of the company in the cost of the Pyrenees network, £280,000 ; total, £ 2 0,740,685. It will be seen that a heavy item in the ex penditure on capital account for the new network was in terest paid out of capital. By a convention concluded with the State in 1859 the company undertook to make good the interest and redemption service of the obligations de voted to the new network, after giving credit for the profits actually acquired upon that part of its system; and it will be seen that the responsibility thus assumed involved in 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864, a very considerable outlay. The annual charge of the obligations, interest, and redemption combined, is calculated at 5.75 per cent. per annum ; and after the Ist of January, 1865, this charge i s to be sustained for the greater part of the new lines out of the revenue of the old network, less, however, a State guarantee of 4.65 per cent., reducing the burden to FlO per cent., which will further be mat er i a ll y minimized by actual profits acquired. The total arnolnt (If capital raised to the close of 1864 for the old network, the Aubin works, and the new network combined, was £ 3 9,601,937, of which only about £12,000,000 had been obtained from shares (the nominal share capital figures in the accounts f0r£12,000,000, although £12,210,248 had been actually paid up to the close of last year). The amount derived from obligations was thus £27,391,689. The English theory in respect to c a a m p o it u a n i t is ra t is h e a d t it by sh a ou c l o d m n p o a t ny ex ; ce i e n d r on ra e n -third debentures. The obligation, however, is such a favourite t t b°h h e e r o rwo ry whoe a ld p e pears to be reversed, and shares take the place of channel of investment in France that it has gradually become a kind of preference share, as well as a do- The Charge of Perjury against Madame Valentin. At the Guildhall police-court, yesterday, Mine. Louise Pierrette Valentin appeared on remand before Mr. Alder man Finnis to answer a charge of perjury. Mr. Ribton was counsel for the prosecution ; and Mr. Leverson conducted the defence. The case against the defendant consisted, it will bo re membered, in her statement that she first came to London on the 27th September, whereas it was alleged that she came on the Bth September. M. Jean Ignace was now examined, and he said—l am a mason, or builder, but I have sold my business. I carried it on in Paris, where I now reside. I came with my cousin to London, and arrived here yesterday. I was in London before about a year ago ; it was in the month of September, 1864 ; that was the first time that I had been in London. We started on the 7th of September from Paris, and arrived on the Bth in London. We came via Dieppe. The witness went on to say that he travelled in the same carriage with the defendant, and stopped at the Hotel de Vile de Franco, and saw hOr there several times. Remained seven days in London, and returned to Paris on the 14th September. A Cousin of this witness gave similar testimony. Mr. Levorson, for the defence, said that the evidence of a double voyage, on which the charge of perjury was founded, had been concocted to take them by surprise, but he would bring forward evidence which would clearly show that Madame Valentin was in Paris during the whole of the first half of September, 1864, and that neither she;nor the other witnesses could have lodged at the Hotel de Ville de Franco, as it was shut up to all lodgers up to the 12th or 14th of the same month, in consequence of a fire. Mr. Leverson then called M. Jules Bourcier, who said— I reside at Paris. lam an ex-mayor, and also an ex French consul. On the 31st August or the beginning of September, I was called upon officially to appear before the chamber of the French advocate—it was for the purpose of giving some evidence to the President—and, therefore, as I saw the defendant almost daily for some days afterwards, when she called to visit my wife, it was impressed on my me mory. At the latter end of September she called and bid aclieu, as eho was going to London. She had not done so before. Mrs. Eulalie Katzenstoin said—l am tho wife of Fidelle Katzenstein, who keeps the Hotel de Ville de France, 38, Dean-street, Soho. On the 3d September a fire took place at a timber-yard next door to our hotel. Some of the timber was brought into the house from the back ware house. All the back of the house was damaged, and the painters were at work for some time, ,both inside and out. Whilst the hotel was in this condition we were not able to receive any guests in the rooms, as we were all in disorder. Eugenie Coulane gave evidence as to her going on a visit to the last witness in the early part of September, 1864, and corroborated her evidence as to the state of the house. Mr. Ribton said that he had a right to recall his witnesses as they had not been examined on the point as to the state of the house. Mr. Leverson objected on the ground that Mr. Ribton had closed his case, and said that his witnesses fixed their date by a fire the same as the other witnesses fixed theirs by letters. Mr. Martin—With respect to the re-examination of the witnesses for the prosecution, I must say that there has been a communication with them. Mr. Leverson—Yes, I saw Mr. Hall go over to them, and I accuse Mr. Hall with tampering with witnesses, with perjury, forgery, and robbery. Mr. Ribton—l must submit to you, sir, not to allow such infamous language to be used by Mr. Leverson towards a professional gentleman of far greater respectability than, himself. Mr. Leverson—l never committed forgery. Mr. Leverson here asked Mr. Ribton a question. Mr. Ribton (in answer)—l shall not answer any ques tion you ask; you have conducted yourself in such a way that I do not think you are entitled to it. Alderman Finnis—l do not think tha7t I can do any thingdiscussion it was ag ree d th at Madame Valen eL:e but send this case for tri a l. tin A s f h tm o r ul s° d ni be admitted to bail, herself in £lOO, and one surety of X5O. Mr. Leverson then applied to the court to impound a certain document put in evidence, and order Mr. Hall into custody for forgery. Mr. Alderman Finnis declined to take this step, and said it would be better for Mr. Laverson to pursue the regular course. Mr. Hall said he had no objection to the document in question remaining in the hands of the court, and if Mr. Leverson thought proper to give him into custody he would remain, in order that he might have the opportunity of doing so. Mr. Leverson then said ho would charge Mr. Hall with having fraudulently uttered, put off, and altered a docu ment for the purposes of the prosecution in that court ; but it did not appear that the charge was made. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DIIE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Sept. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet ...... Oct. 4. Ditto, by French packet Sept. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Sept. 21. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Sept. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Sept. 10. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Sep iB. Ditto, via Marseilles l2. India (Bombay), via Southampton. Sept. 10. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 4. Mauritius, via Southampton Sept, 10. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 4. Newfoundland • Sept. Is e Portugal . .. Sept. 4. United Dt t fi o t , abteyspr a i n v d at ßr e sihtlipshtoNoLritshboAnni. erica, by Bd. tish packet ........................ ........... Sept. 7. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp. toll ........................................ Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Sept. 8. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Sept. 10. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico . Sept. 13 Bahamas, via New York. Sept. 13 Bermuda, ditto Sept. 27. Cuba and Rodeo Sept. 28. ABD-EL-KADER.—A Paris correspondent of the Se'inaphore of Marseilles relates the following anec dote of Abd-el-Kader :—" During his recent stay in Paris the Emir went to Versailles to see the paintings represent ing the war in Africa. When passing before that repre senting the capture of his Smala, one of the persons of his suite constantly placed himself so as to provent the Emir from seeing what was likely to excite painful feelings. Abd-el-Kader begged the person in question to cease this mano3uvre, which he did not understand. The person then stood back, and the Emir, at once discovering the cause of the interference, turned to his suit and said, Ah gentlemen, if I had had painters in Africa, I should have had my pictures too." GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines the week ending the 19th of August amounted for local passengers to £6,675, for foreign passengers to £4,247, for emigrants to £238, for mails, &c., to £829, for local freight and live stock to £10,176, and for foreign freight and live stock to £1,832 ; total, £23,997, against £22,433 for the correspond ing week last year, showing an increase of £1,564. The total receipts from the Ist of July to the above date amounted to £173,108, and for the same period last year to £159,003, showing an in crease of £14,105. Great English and French Railways, THE ORLEANS. Many months have elapsed since a review was com menced in these, crowded columns of the position of the great railways of England and France. We have disposod in succession of the London and North WeStern, the Great Western, the Midland, the North Eastern, the Great East ern, and the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean ; but " cir cumstances"—a brief. but frequently most expressive term —have prevented our fully exhausting the subject. Per haps, after all, we are not losers by the delay, as we are now enabled to profit by the acquired experience of another year. To pass to another great French network—the Orleans—we may observe that that company was founded, May 26, 1838, by M. Cassimir Lecomte, as the Compagnio do Chemin. de Fer de Parish Orleans. A concession of the main line and various branches was accorded toM.Lecomte by a law dated July 7, 1838, and the statutes of the company were approved by a Royal ordonnance of Aug. 13, 1838. Such was the Orleans under Louis Philippe. That sovereign fled ten years later from the Tuileries, but the Orleans sur vived the barricades of 1848. Indeed, it began to expand and flourish under the firm rule of the Prince-President, and before Republican pomp had finally culminated in Im perial splendour the already powerful company absorbed (Sept. 27, 1852) the undertaking of the Centre (from Or leans Chateauroux and Nevers), the Tours and Nantes, and the Orleans and Bordeaux. These important amalgama tions—or fusions, as they term them in France—were ef fected on the following conditions. The share capital of the four companies, as really paid-up, was— Company. Shares. Paid-up. Total. Orleans ... ... 80,000 £2O £1,600,000 Centre 66,000 20 1,320,000 Bordeaux 130,000 11 1,430,000 Tours and - Nantes 89,000 17 1,360,000 Total ... 356,000 £5,710,000 A creation was made of 176,334 provisional shares of £2O each divided thus :—Orleans, one fusion share for one old share, 80,000 ; Centre, one fusion share for two old shares, 33,000; Bordeaux, one fusion share for three old shares, 43,334 ; Tours and Nantes, one fusion share for four old shares, 20,000; total, 176,334. These 176,334 shares indi cate a capital of £3,526,680 ; but the general meeting of May 25, 1852, considering that the capital of £5,710,000• really paid up by the shareholders of the four companies ought to be represented, decided that the number of shares should be carried to 300,000, with a capital of £6,000,000. In consequence of a resolution adopted to this effect, the 176,334 provisional shares were exchanged for de finitive shares at the rate of five provisional shares for eight definitive shares. This arrangement absorbed 282,131 definitive shares, and the 17,866 shares remaining were taken up at £2B each by the shareholders of the four companies. The 300,000 old shares of the Orleans re present, then, a paid up share capital of £6,210,208—viz., .0,710,000 actual share capital of the four fused companies, and £500,248 received from the subscription for the baL. 844ce of 17,866 definitive shares. rleu years more rolled away—ten tranquil years of kindly despotism—kindly, at at any rate, from a capitalist's point of view. A large num ber of new concessions and responsibilities were assumed, and an immense pyramid of obligations, or small deben tures, was created. To give additional security to these ob ligations the Minister of Public WTorks insisted that morn capital should also be raised by shares; and accordingly in 1862 a creation was made at par of 301,000 new shares, which carried the share capital to 600,000 shares, with a nominal capital of £12,000,000. To give an idea of the con tinual ettension of the undertaking, we may note that the Paris, Sceaux, and Orsay ceded its concession to the Or leans by a convention concluded in 1855, and approved by the Government in 1857 ; the transfer was made in consi deration of 5,000 obligations, bearing an interest of 3 per cent. por annum, handed to , the smaller company by the larger one, while the Orleans also undertook the charge of the loans contracted by the Paris, Sceaux, and Orleans. A part of the concessions (6731 miles) of the Great Central of Franco was attributed to the Orleans by a decree dated June 19, 1857, the consideration being the exchange of the shares of tho Great Central against obligations of the Orleans, and the service by the latter of the obliga tions of the Great Central in the proportion of 66 per 100, the remaining 34 per 100 being at the charge of the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean. At the same time that the Or leans thus obtained the greater part of the concessions of the Great Central it acquired from it the Aubin mines and ironworks, in consideration of its accepting the service of the obligations which the Great Central had devoted to the purchase of this portion of its undertaking. The Orleans had also a concession to the extent of pne-third of a line from Paris to Lyons, via Bourbonnais; bui it retroceded this concession in 1857 to the Paris, Lyons, an d 2Sediter rancan, in consideration of an indemnity of £44,000 for annum from Jan. 1, 1857, to the date of the opening of the entire line from Paris to Lyons, viaßoanne and St. Etienne (Sept. 21, 1861), and of £BB,OOO per annum from the date of that opening to the expiration of the three first complete exercises (Dec. 31, 1864). After this latter date the indem nity to the Orleans is to be fixed by umpires for the whole duration of the concession of the Bourbonnais. Scarcely a year has elapsed since 1852 in which various minor con cessions have not been granted to the company. It would be tedious to an English reader to go into further details on these heads, but we may sum matters up by stat ing that, according to the last. convention concluded with the State, in 1863, th e ag gregate concessions of the company had attained the following importance : —Old network, 1,2621 miles ; new network, 1,3361 miles; total, 2,5981 miles. The estimated cost of the old network, as thus defined, is £21,720,000, and of the now network, £30,644,000; making a total of £52,360,000. The amount actually expended by the company to the close of 1864—01 d network, £16,939,826 ; Aubin works, £675,752; new network, £20,740,685 ; making a total of £38,356,263. As the estimates aro almost certain to be exceeded, we may fairly conclude that the company will require at least an other £20,000,000 to carry out the imperial programme of which it has accepted the responsibilities. The gradual growth of the company's colossal undertaking will bo best summed up by the following recapitulation of the distance worked by it during the 25 years which have elapsed since it first began to run its trains-1840 51 miles, 1841 191 miles, 1842 19/ miles, 1843 ni miles, 1844 831 miles, 1845 83/ miles, 1846 83/ miles, 1847 83/ miles, 1848 83/ miles, 1849 83/ miles, 1850 83/ m il es, 1851 831 miles, 1852 515 miles, 1853 6351 miles, 1854 7141 miles, 1855 7231 miles, 1856 7181 mil es , 1857 798/ miles, 1858890 miles, 1859 1,100 miles, 1860 1,163/ miles, 1861 1,2341 miles, 1862 1,3691 miles, 1863 1,5331 miles, and 1864 1,630 miles. At the close of last year the company's concessions had thus still to be carried out to the extent of about 900 miles, but it is ex pected that by 1872 the whole system will be completed, unless fresh privileges and responsibilities are accepted in the meantime. The execution within the period named of the additional lines still remaining to be carried out is, of course, ma terially dependent upon the state of political and monetary affairs. Of late the works on hand have made considerable progress, and last month (July, 1865) the extent of line in operation on the new and old concessions combined had been carried to 1,8391 miles. The amount of capital raised in 1864 to meet the requirements of what is known as the first establishment account was £5,138,653. Of this sum, £1,967,271 was derived from calls on the new shares—which from Jan. 1, 1865, take dividend rateably with the old shares—while £3,171,382 was obtained from 112,250 obli gations forming the balance of the eighth series, and 162,918 obligations of the ninth s 3 ries . The 275,618 obli gations issued in 1864 produced an average of .£ll 10s. Gd. each, and they are repayable by drawings at £2O each, while until their repayment they bear an annual, interest of 12s. each. In 1863 the obligations sold realise an average of £lll6s. Bd. each, the falling off of Os. 2d. per obligation observable with respect to last year being the result of the relatively greater dearness of capital in 1864 as compared with 1863. The total .receipts on capital- ac count in regard 'to the ' old network amounted to the close of 1864 to £18,009,950, made up thus : —Sh are capital, £12,000,000 ; first loan, £392,960 ; second loan, £399,960; and third loan, £5,210,000. The expenditurel on the old network to the close of 1.863 was £15,790,584; Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., WILLIAM BATHURST. By LEWIS HOUGH, KA. " One of the best, most interesting. and enthralling novels we have seen this season. The style is very animated, and sparkles with wit and humour."—Sun. Hurst and Blankett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. say, item, eld eir ice ,i(3O