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[.... 1 .4.-......- :„ I 0 t '' . RIN ARAN'S LL WHISKY. - DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 1865. This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole some. • Sold in Bottles, 38. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholosalo at 8. GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observo tho Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded " Kinahan's LL Whisky." VIEU'rUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Inoorpor‘ted by Act of Varliamcnt, 18,50), 14 , RUSSELL -STREET. COVENT-GARDEN. LONDON. Prompt ADVANCES on all description of security. Forme free on application by letter to EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES, and BUSINESSES. FURNESS and KNEE'S List on application. Particulars for insertion received until the 27th of the Mouth at their AUCTION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES, 5 , Agar-street, Strand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Cross Railway Station. DUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. "V.R." IRISH WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 1808. Quotations on application. JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the Nvorld."— London Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C., next the " Times." JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork, beg to announce that they ire able to supply the trade with their celebrated Whiskies. in casks or cases, and take orders in bond tad for exportation, at their o ffi ces, 7, Pr inting-house -square, London, E C., the only house in the square not occupied by the "Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies brim, the hiohest prices in the Australian and other Colonial e lllaricets, as may be observed by relereoce to the ".Journal of ° lnflame of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their whiskies fetch 6d. per gallon and Is. per case over the next best, and Is. 6d per gallon and ss. 6d. a case over the lowest von.clnota Always on hand a large supply of ve . y old whisky in the finest condition, matured in sh e rry casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, supplied on the Most reasonable terms. CONTRACT FOR BARRACK STORES FOR THE ROYAL MARINES. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, 9th Jan., 1867. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, Do hereby give NOTICE, that on WEDNES DAY, the 23d inst., at Twelve o'Clock at Noon, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford all such quantities of Long -Hair Broom Heads, and Clamps and Blocks for Long Scrubbing Brushes, as may from time to time be demanded for the use of the Royal Marines, under a Contract for twelve calendar m on th s cer t a i n , and further until the expi ration of three calendar months' warning. Patterns of the articles may be seen at the Royal Marine 'Ace, New-street, Spring-gardens, between the hours of Eleven and Two o'Clock. No Tender will be received unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained On application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where the conditions of the Contract may be seen. No Tender w ill b e r e ceived after Twelve o'Clock at Noon on the day of Treaty; and it will not be required that the Party tendering, or an Agent on his behalf, should attend at.the Office on the day of Contract, as the result Of the offer received from each person will be communi cated to him and his proposed Sureties in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the !-drniraltv, and bear in the left-hand corner the words Tender . for Barrack Stores ;" and must also be delivered at the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admi- Somerset House, signed by two responsible persons, e ngaging to become bound with the Person tendering in the sum of £3OO for the due performance of the Contract. By Order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. TU GIINMAKERS and Others. I. ~T.Ye SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of ra )37,, e "1ng• PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for repeating, RIFLES, either repeating or not f „eMing, which may replace the present Service Rifles in future manufacture. The following are the conditions considered essential in military non-repeating Mlles : A. WEIGHT. Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet. B. LENGTH. t To be 51 inceg, with short stock, measured from the hollow of htate to muzzle. c. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP. Must not exceed 61b. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for Service. D. CARTRIDGES. • Must carry their own ignition. E. SIGHTS. The foresi g ht mus t b e suc h a s to admit. of a bayonet "zed according to the present system. P. STOCK. Must b e suc h as to carry a light metal cleaning rod, and al low a sling to be used. ...........___ G. RECOIL. Must not exceed that of the Enfield Rifle by more than " Per cent. H. THE ARM AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injurybylong-continued firing, brae usage, and exposure, as the naval rifles converted to ch-loaders on the Snider system. To be as capable, of being used without accident by imperfectly trained foern, andquality of being manufactured i n quantities and of uni el . L THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp, and exposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for Snider 's converted Enfield rifle—also as little liable to acci dental explosion as the same cartridge, and as capable of be ing manufactured in large quantities, and of uniform quality. x. CALIBRE. Optional. L. THE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE. Optional. Optional. M. THE LOCK. I.r. FIRE. Capable of firing at RAPIDITY least 12 ro OF unds per minute, without aiming, the cartridges being arranged on a table. o. ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST. The arm must give a mean figure of merit of not more thand 6i 3n. 6in at 300.. at 1,000 yards, 30i n. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500, an The mean to be taken upon at least. five targets of twenty shots each. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be the best medicine tor immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepares only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-William-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 1301., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lamberts Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address are engraved on the stamp. P. TRAJECTORY. Not to require at 500 yards an elevation of more than 1 deg. 30 min. Q. FOULING. The shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cent. at 1,000 yards after firing 250 rounds. R. PENETRATION. The mean penetration of five shots not to be less than that of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle— viz., 12 half-inch elm planks, which have been soaked 48 hours in water. Distance 30 yards. s. LN. Wax on bull e ts i s indis U pensable, BRICATIO but any other lubrican Il laY be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if though necessary by the competitor. 111. S No arm s w ill b e rece i ved without the usual proo f mar k s. i n , ecifications, and drawings of the methods proposed, stating the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a finished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu b 'flica ,ition, should b cent to the Director of Ordnance Pall-mall,e ""on or befort the 30th March, 1867., War The' specifications and specimen arms will be considered by the Ordnance Select Committee and its associate mem- L •Zs, who will be selected by the Secretary of State for "ar, and who will, after firing the 20 preliminary rounds, select and recommend for further trial such of the systems 48 May appear to them sufficiently promising, rejecting all anch as may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to 'warrant their being included in the competition, the con ditions of which are stated in this advertisement. or Each accept e d compe ti tor w ill t h en b e requ i red to furnish =experiment, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity to the specimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am munition per arm, within four months after date of de mand. Each competitor will be required to disclose to the co mmittee the exact nature of the lubrication he may em ctcy. A su m o f £3OO w ill b e pa id to each of the accepted the m copetitors, to cover the expense of th e s i x r ifl es, an d o f Supply of ammunition required. The Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the anm which, on combination of all qualities, is c ons id ere d by the committee to be the best submitted. A second reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at taining a satisfacto r y d egree o f exce ll ence i n ot h er particu lars, is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism. A third reward of £4OO for the best cartridge. The qua ities which will be principally taken into consideration in awarding this prize will be economy of manufacture, power of sustaining rough usage, freedom from deterioration in various climates, and general serviceability. The shooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but as they may depend upon the rifling of the arm w i t h w hi c h the cartridge is associated, they will not be so much con sidered as those above-mentioned. It is clearly to be understood that under no circumstances will a competitor be entitled to more than one prize ; but such prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be given to the inventor of the arm finally adopted into the service. NOTHING TMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL an d CO. Red Bull Wharf, 93, N most useful invention of the day, AQUA A-MARE LL A. Fjply offer , er Thames -street, Perfumers to 'her Majesty, respect gradually restores th e h uman h a i r t o it s p r i s ti ne hue—to to the public this truly marvellous whioh matter at what age. The Ague Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep tt in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, Ms. 63. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from Individuals of undoubted re play, be seen on application. Messrs. John orpoescnt e s i b i ll i d t y, Co. have be en appointed Perfumers to her Royal s a n Highness the Princess of Wales. - WHAT IS YOUR CREST AND WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO ? Send as. 6d. to CULLETON'S Heraldic Office for a Plain Sketch, or 6s. for a Coloured one. The Arms of man and wife blended together in proper heraldic form. The proper heraldic Colours for servants' liveries, what buttons to be used, and how the carriage should be painted, fee 10s. Just complete, a very valuable book, with 3,500 Engravings, arms, crests, and mottoes of nearly every family in the kingdom, the result of thirty years' labour, price £lO 10s., printed in several colours. Family Pedi grees traced from authentic records, information as to the obtaining of a new grant of arms, how t k o change one's name, by T. Culleton, Engraver to her Majesty and Royal family ; also Diesinker to the Board of Trade, 25, Cran bourn-street (corner of St. Martin's-lane), W.C. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS s -a --&- HIP. are earn 000 estly for fitting up the TRAINING WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Boys' Ref age, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. Iv MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. Magazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re eived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech oading Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48 aches, including the stock. The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at 91lb. ex clusive of the charges in the magazine. It is indispensable that the arms be made to take a bayonet. The Secretary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best Magazine or Repeating Arm produced that fulfils the above conditions • and in the absence of experience does not at Pmsent define the standard of accuracy or other conditions to be fulfilled before such an arm can be adopted. Those Magazine orßepeating Arms, which are accepted for further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O each. This sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per arm. The Secret a V. ry of State will take care that no ingenious novelty produced in answer to this advertisement shall be adopted into the service without proper acknowledgment, and that the name of the individual with whom it origi nates shall be.recorded in connection with it. if the rifle to which the first prize is awarded is adopted into the service , it. will bear t he inventor's name. J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director War Offi ce of Ordnance Oct. 22 1866 OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—CON . TRIBUTIONB are earnestly solicited for establishing the COUNTRY HOME. .£l,ouo required. WM. WILLI k MS, Secretary. Boys' Refuge, 8. Great Queen-street. W.C. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys. One hundred and fifty are now in the B,efuge. The annual expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at £4,000, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends have promised to pay for one boy each year. Subscriptions thankfully reoeived by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothburv. and 214, High llolbotn;•Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East; and by WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street. W.C. - PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, p E r S o S vid W en o c li e_ E ro N AND Finsbury,CHILDREN, E. o. FOR HOMELESS Breakfasts, have been given Lodgings, with Suppers and Sixty Thousand Nights' w ' this Institution to the destitute, who otherwisee would o have had to pass the nights in the bleak streets railway arches. w wi e tlSlpers and At present nearly 500 Nights' ruP e Lodgings,ve de r Breakfasts, are given gratuitously from all parts are admitted, the only croYnditieon he poor that they are homeless and starving. The being Manager receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand ing &c., the provision made by the Poor Rouses, ea night numbers of young women, chilaren, and orphans are, for want accommodation, refusedadmitt ance, and have to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda tion, X 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 proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome, and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will be offered in your behalf. S ÜBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be gratefully received by the Rey.).). GILBERT . D.D.,No 22 Finsbury-circus 8.0. No. 23,277. CIIVIL SERVICE OF INDlA.—Candidates V intending to present themselves at the OPEN COM PETITI+ commencing on April 9, are reminded that cer tificates of birth, health, and character-should be sent to the Office of the Civil Service Commissioners on or before Ist February. SHARE DEPARTMENT.-THE CONSER VATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—Shares may be taken out daily at the Norfolk-street Offices, or investors at a dis tance can ba enrolled as members by correspondence. Pre sent rate of interest, five per cent. per annum, payable in half-yearly warrants, with part,cipation of any profits de clared annually above that rate. No partnership liability, and power of withdrawal of subscriptions on shares at twenty-eight days' notice. The taking of land is entirely optionaL CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary. Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C. L AW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet-street, London, E.C., Jan. 3, 1867. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the Law Life As surance Society will be held at the Society's Office, Fleet street, London, on SATURDAY, the 2d day of February next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, pursuant to the pro visions of the Society's Deed of Settlement, for the pur pose of receiving the Auditors' Annual Report of the Accounts of the Society up to the 31st of December last ; to elect three Directors in the room of Mr. Serjeant Storks, deceased ; William Brougham, Esq., retired ; and William Henry Tinney, Esq., retired, and for general purposes. The Director to be chosen in the room of Mr. Serjeant Storks will remain in office until the 24th Juno, 1869. The Directors to be respectively chosen in the room of William Brougham, Esq., and William Henry Tinney, Esq., Q.C., will remain in office until the 24th June, 1870. By Order of the Directors, WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. 1/1 AN SI ON-HO US E FUND for the RELIEF of the SUFFERERS by the recent COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS. COMMITTEE. The Right Hon the LORD MAYOR. R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Samuel Morley, Esq. Waterlow. Geo. Moore, Esq. Mr. Sheriff Lycett. Mr. Alderman Finnis. Mr. Alderman Besley. J. P. Gassiot, Esq. Mr. Alderman Dakin. Christopher T. Gabriel, Esq. James Hill, Esq. Frederick Thompson, Esq. R. N. Fowler, Esq. R. A. Gray, Esq. W. J. Maxwell, Esq. Colonel Stuart Wortley. Mr. Alderman Cotton. The attention of the public is earnestly drawn to the suffering consequent on the terrible calamity produced by the recent colliery explosions. SUBSCRIPTIONS are greatly needed to relieve the numerous families made destitute thereby. The amount required to meet the memorable Hartley Colliery Accident in 1862 was £50,000 ; in that case 204 men and boys lost their lives ; in the present instance double that number are known to have perished, there fore to make a suitable provision for the families depen dent upon them about £lOO,OOO will be needed. At the final distribution of the surplus of the Hartley Fund, £3,140 was allotted to the districts in which the present accidents occurred, and this sum is now available towards the fund now being raised. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales ......... £loo H.R.H. the Princess of Wales The Corporation of London Amount already advertised £19,461 5 Subscriptions will be received by the Right lion. the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house; Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard street; Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., 1, Lombard-street; Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., Lombard-street; Messrs. Dimsdale, Fowler, and Co., 50, Coruhill ; the Lon don and Westminster Bank, Lothbury; the London Joint- Stock Bank, 5, Princes-street • the Union Bank of London ; London and County Bank ; ihe National Provincial Bank of England and all their branches; Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., Lombard-street; and by the several members of the Committee. JOSEPH GIBBS, Secretary. Mansion House, Jan. 14, 1867. MANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps). London. THE OCEAN ST. LEGER of 1866.—What Lord Lyon was to his owner was the Taeping to her Captain, viz., winner of the race, having distanced All com petitors, as the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY have in variab y done in their choi e and sale of fine new season's teas, now selling at importer's prices. Warehouses-9, Great St. Efelen's-churchyard. EAU -DE-VIE.---This Pure PALE BRANDY, 18s. per gallon, is very superior to recent importations of Cognac, recommended by the medical profession, and ex tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 31s. per dozen, or in a case 39s , railway carriage pal i.—HEN itY BRETT and CD., Old Furnival's Distillery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent street, S.W. Established 1829. RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBITIONS of 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwards of two Hundred Me - Heal Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effents. is hoe avoided—a soft bAndage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moo-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and close ness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and thl truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circum ference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE. 228, Piccadilly. A Sinele Truss, 144., 215., 26s 6d., and 31s. 64 Postage, Is. A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 42s and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases vi Weakness and Swelling of the Legs. • 4 prains, as They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on ike an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., ie. 6d., 10s.. and 16s. each. Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. / ,! i ~~f~ s 1 • • h • ‘ 'e 7 \ 4, 2 4 • , ml 4) ! , e:+l 4 Vary ' - c#3o ••• N irefe , ot,A. • ( • • An k ir . if i t • • \ • • • •••••••.. •,• kiBN . • - • . • •.-- - d 46111111 411111111 •• • ) • 4 •• • - -- 0 . i • 4 1w; - 4 0 o r -.mom 4- THE SUN, LONDON, T_H UESD AY EVENING, JANUA Y 17, 1867. AFTER, Covent-garden Theatre—EVANS' to suP. After Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Lyceum Theatre IeVANS' to SUP, Atter Adelphi Thehtre EVANS' to SUP. After Olympic l'heatre EVANS' to SUP. After Strand Theatre. After New it oytVty Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After St. James's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Prince of Wales' Theatre... EVANS' to SUP. London Singing and Supper Club, E 'AN3', Covent-garden. Vocal Entertainment at Eight. account for the fact that in so fertile and rich, in so compact and densely peopled a district as the plain of North Italy, across the richest lands of Piedmont and Lombardy, lines establishing the communications between such cities as Milan and Turin, Genoa and Bologna, to say nothing of the hundred minor ones with which that region is studded, at 10 or 12 miles' distance—lines, too, which have already been open from 10 to 15 years.—should hardly come up to the standard of those traversing some of the least favoured tracts to the North of the Alps. Aud it must be observed that as the Italian Govern ment attached the most vital importance to the promotion of these public works, and could put no reliance on the private speculation or the public spirit of the Italian people, it became necessary to have recourse to foreign companies, who dictated their own terms, so that the State what with original grants, and additional subven tions, and guaranteed interests,and purchase and re purchase of the lines and rolling-stock of defaulters, ended by paying twice and thrice over the value re ceived. And the necessity to which the rulers of the emancipated people bowed from the outset presses upon them more strongly than ever at the present moment ; for in roads and railroads, at what ever cost they may be procured, lies the cure of the worst evils with which the wildest Neapolitan Sicilian, and Sardinian provinces are still afflicted. The most direet cause of the failure of Italian rail ways is by the Opinione justly attributed to the scanty traffic both of passengers and goods—a scar city not to be counteracted by the extremely low fares on every line. The Italians neither travel nor trade. The slackness in the internal movement of the kingdom is commensurate with the sluggishness of its commercial relations with foreign countries. We already noticed in a former article how, although considerable increase in the imports of the kingdom has been perceptible of late years, the exports have been almost altogether stationary. The whole trade of Italy with foreign nations in 1864, amounted to 1,301,000,000 f. ; while that of France during the same year was 5,452,000,000 f. ; and that of Belgium, a state barely numbering a population of 5,000,000, rose to 1,285,000,000 f.—that is, very nearly equal that of Italy with her 21,00),000 souls. And it must be added, that while the exports in Italy were only of 405,000,000 f.—that is, less than one-third of the whole trade,—those of Belgium ex ceeded 597,000,000 f., or nearly come up to the im ports. Little, indeed, like life and work has been developed in Italy in the course of these last few years of her emancipation. The anxiety with which both the people and their rulers looked forward to the struggle out of which they had just come with success may doubtless account for much. Still the fact remains that the Italians have fallen terribly in the rear of other nations, and that they require the utmost exertions to make up for lost time. Roman Catholic Reunion at. Birmingham. The 13th annual reunion of the Roman Catholics of Birmingham and the district, in aid of the poor schools, was held on Tuesday night. The assembly was presided over by Dr. Manning, Archbishop of Westminster ; there were also present Bishop Ulla thorne, Bishop Amherst, and a large number of the Roman Catholic clergy and influential laity. The ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER said,—An hour or two ago I heard the Lord Bishop of this diocess lay down a very inconvenient law, which it is my deliberate purpose to break. (Laughter.) He laid down in my hearing that of ter the octave of the Epiphany no one can wish another a happy new year. (Laughter.) Nov I came here to-night for the deliberate purpose of 'wishing the Bishop of Birmingham and his flock assembled in this hall on this night many happy new years like the present. (Cheers.) And it gives me very great happiness to come and accept the welcome so kindly given me, and to assure you that there is nothing which is more cheering to the heart of the Catholic pastor than to see a Catholic bishop in the midst of his people, loved and venerated as the bishop of this diocess is. (Cheers.) And I may add that I see in this a proof of the present strength and future extension of the Catholic Church in England. (Hear, hear.) The Catholic Church in this land comes not in union with Royalty, though it is loyally submissive to the Crown. (Applause.) It comes not by statute of Parliament, nor by favour of aristocracy, nor by the influence of wealth, but in poverty, united with the people. (Applause.) It is the Church of the poor all the world over. (Applause.) It is the Church of the poor eminently in Ireland—(" hear, hear," and cheers)—and it is the Church of the poor in all the great towns of England ; and the whole .Catholic flock in England, without distinction of rank, or class, or wealth, is united together with such a perfect fusion and equality, under the spiritual care of its pastors, that there is no unity to be found throughout the Catholic world more perfect or more compact. (Applause.) lam sure that in no part of the Catholic world can there be found an episco pate united in more perfect brotherly love together, nor an episcopate that has the happiness of ruling over a body of clergy who with a more filial attach ment and a more perfect docility obey their spiritual guidance, and a flock more closely united to their pastors. (Applause.) What I see before me to night is a sample of what I have seen in the great towns of England of many years that are past, and most especially in the last 12 months, and this gives me a confidence that so long as the Catholic Church is united, pastors and people together, there is no power on earth that can hinder its continual expan sion. (Much applause.) Now, my lord, lam most glad to meet you and your flock to-night, and upon such an occasion as this, knowing as I do that it owes its origin to an effort to extend education among the children of the poor—a work most dear to the heart of every Catholic ; and I may say lam glad to speak of this work in Birmingham, because I think the people of this town have a very special prerogative of respect and of regard among the Catholics of England. (Applause.) I think Liver pool, Manchester, and Birmingham have set three bright examples which I trust the whole of England will follow. In Liverpool the Catholic population is mixed with the population of that city with a perfect equality of public and private respect, and the Catholics of that city are treated with the greatest consideration by the municipal authorities. (" Hear, hear," and applause.) I would point to the borough gaol of Liverpool as a luminous example of what the justice and the wisdom of Liverpool have done. (Applause.) In like manner I will say of Manchester, it has taken a lead in the matter of education with an equity and a justice and a pru dence, for which every Catholic ought to bear his tribute. I will say the same of Birmingham, know ing as I do that in a time when England was swept by a tempest Birmingham seemed to be the only spot where tranquillity reigned, like the centre of a whirl wind, always still, and that it was the influence of this great town, wise in industry, wise in its social pru dence, which began to diffuse a calm when other men had lost the' tranquillity of their spirits. (Ap plause.) I know, too, that the Catholic population of Birmingham is treated with respect, justice, and equity, both in public and in private—(hear)—and I believe that the Catholics of Birmingham bear very true and sincere attachment to their town, and to the friends who inhabit this town. (Applause.) And now, I believe, we are living in a period of the history of England which will be marked hereafter by one signal characteristic. Before her gracious Majesty ascended the throne great changes in the law and constitution of England were carried by the the Legislature statute-book —it tatute- b ; but ok t is is one thing another to to effect. Since the accession of h er g racious Ma j est y carrythe laws them o i n in t the changes which took place in the 10 p recedin g years have been perpetually realising thems e lves in the public and in the private life of E n g land. I w ill alter not refer to that earlier period when the condition of Catholics in this country was one which history would be glad to forget. We, lam happy to say, have entered into another period, in the light of the sun and the free air of heaven, and at this day, a so cial, political, and religious equality among all the subjects of her gracious Majesty is extending itself throughout the whole of our order and our system, so that I trust, before she closes her happy reign, there will not remain among us the smalleet remnant of the past. (Much cheering.) I know with what i __.:~ T " ( I X F 0 it 1), 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., THE MUSICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF LONDON. LES DRAGONS DE VILL ARS (Opera Comique), Music by A. Maillart, in which Miss RUSSELL will appear, as s Wed by Misses Barrie and Fitz Henry; Messrs. A. St. Albyu, Hulls, Fox, Husk, Evans, and Bury, with Extra Band and Chorus ; produced and conducted by Mr. F. Jonglnans. " the strength of Mr. Morton lies in his operatic selections, executed by a small but highly efficient band, and a well. selected body of vocalists, under the direction of Mr. F. 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Address—The Manager "Sue Printing Offices, 3, Church row, Stvoy, Staltud f ,W.C. , SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TigEs.—Strongly interested as we have been at all times in the full success of the national cause in Italy, we have, however, always looked upon the mere expulsion of the Austrians as the beginning, not the end, of the work of emancipation. Not only was Rome not to be built in a day, but the mere digging of the foundations for the new city walls would take considerable time. The Italians are now fairly launched. All that material or moral aid from abroad could do for them has been done. Henceforth they can only rely upon their own exer tions. Should their success come up to the antici tions of their most sanguine well wishers, it will not only be matter for gratified pride to these latter, but it will be a clear, positive gain for the whole world. On the other hand, should the experiment fail, and self-government achieve for one peninsula no greater good than it has done for the other, human progress would take but little account of the fallen. We should only have to resign some of our fondest illusions as to the indefinite perfectibility of our race in general, and as to the power of reaction and restoration of the Italian people in particular—the people which we had been told had lived two succes sive lives and aspired to a third—and that would be all. Wise men would still heartily wish for the Ita- • lians a continuation of the enjoyment of their inde pendent existence; but that would be rather for the common peace than from any hope that great good might come of it for the Italians themselves. The example of Spain should always be held up as a mir ror to Italian eyes. We have been led to these con siderations by some melancholy statements in one of the best Florence journals, the Opinione, with re spect to Italian railways. Mental and moral deve lopment must in all countries be proportionate to material well being. All engrossed as the Italian Government was with preparations for the great national struggle, it was, however, not unmindful of that truism, and never slackened in its' endeavours to give social and industrial life to all possible fin pulse. Imperfect success, in this respect, is less to be ascribed to want of judgment and improvidence on the part of the rulers than to the utter exhaustion of a prostrate people. In Italy the Government, however faulty, must for many years be in advance of the governed. Between 1815 and 1848 there was for Italy a period of uninterrupted decline. The only traces of advancement and prosperity were for some time perceptible in the Austrian dominions. Up to 1848 Piedmont had not com pleted the five miles' railway between Turin and Moncalieri ; and a Prince of Savoy, on his visit to Naples, where a Bourbon had constructed al6 miles' line from his town residence to his country seat at Castellatuar e , was ready to exclaim with envy and wonder, cc 0 fortunati, quorum jam meenia surgunt !" Between that time and the present a great change of conditions has taken place in diffe rent parts of the Peninsula. Public works have everywhere kept pace with political emancipation, and wherever an annexation occurred it was' always found that in the newly-incorporated province there was everything to be done. The report of the General Commission of Railways to which the Opinione refers comes no further down than the 3 ears 1864-5 ; FO sluggish is still the action of the Italian Government in its statistical productions, notwithstanding the appalling number of the officials. In the former year Italy had 3,173 kilo metres of railway is operation, and these rose to 3,595 kilometres in 1865, with an increase of 422 kilometres in a twelvemonth. The Opinione com putes the Italian lines at about one-fourth of those of France and one-fifth of those of England. Of the 3,595 kilometres for the whole of Italy, 1,773 belonged to the Northern lines ; 1,039 to the Cen tral or Roman lines ; 751 to the Southern lines, and 32 to the lines of Calabria and Sicily. We are aware that some progress has been made in those Southern provinces and in the island of Sardinia within this last year or two ; and it may be safely asserted that four-fifths of the works hitherto accomplished any where south of the Apennines, with the exception of Tuscany, date from the annexations of 1859-60. The aggregate produce of all the Italian lines was, in 1864, 58,726,752 f. ; in 1865, 60,765,577 f. ; the proportion being 18,508 f. per kilometre in the former, am:l'ooy 16,902 f. per kilometre in the latter year. The Opinione again compares this meagre produce of the Italian railways with that of the French lines, which ranges from 20,937 f. to 57,272 f., and to that of Germany, which is of 32,885 f. per kilometre in Prussia, of 29,740 f. per kilometre in Austria, and of 26,168 f. per kilometre in the minor States. Unsatisfactory as these general results may be for Italy in contrast with other countries, it must, however, be observed that the produce is not, as may be imagined, the same for the various Italian lines. Some of those in the Tuscan and Roman marshy regions (Maremmane) give no profit at all and do not even pay the current expenses of their daily traffic, while those of Northern Italy, the very best in the Peninsula, yield a produce of 23,374 per kilo metre, and that is'a little more than the worst French, and a little less than the worst German lines. For the Central linea r the produce is of 12,514 f. per 'kilo metre ; for the Southern lines of 8,046 f. ; for the Calabro-Sicilians of 8,662 f.—an array of numbers from which it will be easy to perceive the diminution of movement and activity at every step as one pro ceeds from North to South. We are willing to be lieve that these unfavourable results of Italian rail way enterprise may in some measure be ascribed to want of management, to waste and improvidence on the part of the administration; but this could hardly NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " EAST LYNNE." In the press, in 3 vols., post Bvo , LADY ADELAIDE'S OATH. By MRS. 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Coutts and Co.; orummonii and Co. ; G:yn and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co.; rresoott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and CO-. Berners-street and at tho Hospital, from 10 till 5. STANFORD SMITH, Reciretary, ~. ~,, 4d.I'RI CL STAMPED sd. equity and what justice the Catholic prisOners in the prisons of this town and county are treated. I know also the respect and consideration with which the poor and the little children of the poor are treated in the workhouse and the workhouse schools. (Hear, hear, and applause.) I look to these two as the index, like the degrees on a thermometer, which fixes the Christian justice of those who administer the law. I know that all that your lordship desires is not yet accomplished ; and I know that until every little Catholic child is in a Catholic school the whole work will not be accomplished. (Ap plause.) Equitable, just, and considerate as the administration of the Poor Law is at this time, it is impossible that the Cathoiic children in the workhouse schools can be trained in their faith as they ought to be. It is impossible that under the same roof there can be two systems of education, and there is only one way to remedy so great an evil as that Catholic children should all the day breathe an atmosphere which is not the atmosphere of the Catholic Church —namely, by their being freely and justly placed under the care of their own pastors, according to the desire of their parents, as it would be from their hearts, in schools which are purely and strictly of the Catholic Church. (Applause.) That this desire of your Lordship and the Church may be earnestly fulfilled is my earnest desire and petition. And now let me say that it seems to me that the happiest and most blessed condition of a people is to be perfectly united in religion. If there could be one faith, one heart, one mind, one worship, one altar round which the whole population is gathered, as I see it in Ireland . —(cheers)—with very little to disturb it, such would be the happiest condition of a people. Re ligious unity, or unity of faith, is the greatest gift of God to men, and that because, first of all, it is a pledge of truth, universally known and believed, and that one truth which admits no division and no contradiction ; next, because it is a guarantee of universal peace—no controversy and no conflict, and no divisions of households, no intestine and domestic strife ; and, lastly, because it insures the inheritance of truth and of faith to posterity to be hereafter born. Whereas, where the religious unity of a people is divided and fractured truth escapes, and children are born generation after generation disinherited of the heirloom of Christianity. (Ap plause.) For these reasons I do desire from my heart to see the unity of faith spreading more and more among us. This I believe to be the best state of a people. I believe the worst state of a people to be one of conflict, controversy, religious strife, theological bitterness. (Hear.) It seems to me that the plagues of Egypt are the types of such a state. (Applause.) Ido not' know whether to call it the iron or the brazen age. But as religious unity has passed—for men have forfeited it—l earnestly desire that the period of conflict may pass likewise as speedily as it may, and that, if we cannot re-enter into perfect unity, we may at least enter upon that silver period, less perfect than the first, in which, though we are not united in one faith, we may be united in kindliness, in mutual considera tion, justice one with another, and equity to those who differ from us. (Cheers.) But now, in order that I may illustrate my meaning, I will take au example not far off, and perhaps from a field where you would not expect it. 1 will take as an example of how a minority in religion is treated by a vast majority—from Ireland. I find in Ireland that in every gaol and in every workhouse the Protestant inmates and the Protestant prisoners have not only the most perfeetfreedom of religion, the most per fect freedom of education for their children, but the freest access for the ministers of their religion, and chaplains duly appointed and duly maintained for their care. (Applause.) I find, for example, in the workhouse of Limerick, where at the utmost there are sometimes five Protestant inmates usually— there is not so many as one on an average daily— nevertheless, the other day, when the minister of a neighbouring town applied for a salary as chaplain, the board, composed of a majority of Catholics, unanimously voted it. (Applause.) Again, in the West of Ireland there is often not a single Protes tant in the workhouse. (Hear, hear.) Neverthe less, there are Protestant chaplains receiving never less than £lO a year—(cheers)—and, from a report of the Poor-law Commissioners, it would appear that in nearly two-third of the appointments as chaplain the houses to which they are appointed have no Protestant inmates. (Laughter and ap plause.) I call this a fair example of equitable treatment of a minority in religion. (Laughter.) In respect to the prisoners in Ireland, in the year 1865 it appears that 982 Presbyterians were in the prisons. The average number daily in the prisons would be about 82 ; but this, of course, is over a number of prisoners, and there were 14 Presbyterian chaplains for the care of the 82 prisoners. (Laugh ter.) I find a case in which there was no Presby terian prisoner at all, nevertheless there was a chap lain, with a stipend of £3B per year. (Laughter.) I find that in Louth there was no Presbyterian pri soner, with a chaplain and a stipend. (Laughter.) In Fermanagh there were two Presbyterian pri soners, with a chaplain of £3O a year. At Cavan two Presbyterian prisoners had likewise a chaplain at £3O a year. In Donegal there were 16 Protestant prisoners, and a chaplain at £4O a year. In Monaghan there were 16 priso ners and a chaplain at £3O a year. In the county of Dublin there were 23 prisoners and a chaplain at £55 a year. Mark that these stipends, which Ido not grudge, and wouldnot rescind, be it known, are part of the cess or rate contributed by a vast majo*- rity of Catholic ratepayers. (Applause.) Now I would only recall the words I spoke in the outset. Liverpool has set a luminous example of justice in this matter. But before the year 1863 only 36 Ca tholic prisoners were visited by the Catholic priest ; for at that time there was no chaplain appointed. Since then Liverpool has set, I will say, a bright .example of doing full justice on the subject ; and what is the result ? That in the year 1866 4,375 passed under his care. (Applause.) In the last session Major O'Reilly moved for a return from the borough and county prisons of England, to ascer tain how many had acted upon the Prisons Ministers' Act. As far as I am able to make out fro m examin ing that return, from about 35 o r 36 prisons, at least 25 have not put it in to effect. ( Oh r " Shame 1") Now, it appears to me we have a fair example of how a minority in religion ought to be treated. Let me now apply what I have said a little to this country. I am quite aware that those who hitherto have not carried the statute law into effect have not done so wit h an y intention of depriving either the poor Catholic prisoner or the poor Catho lic pauper of his religion. I believe that it is the e ffect of old passive h abit, old immobility, that old s t a gnation, which, if it ru n s , runs like those streams so thick and turbid that their motion is hardly visible ; and, therefore, I must say, excepting exceptions— and I have those exceptions with chapter, verse, date, and name—l do not believe that what I must call the maladministration of the statute law re specting poorhouses and prisons has been the de liberate result of an intention to be unjust. I say excepting exceptions ; but I mean entirely t 6 de fraud your curiosity. If you have any desire to night to know from me what those exceptions are, I shall beg to be allowed to hold my tongue. (Laugh ter and applause.) At a proper time and in a proper place, chapter and verse, and date and name shall be stated. (Haar, hear.) It will not be in a friendly reunion of the Catholics of Birmingham. (Applause.) And now, as I have given you an example of how a minority in religion may be treated, I will give an example of what a minority in religion can do. 1 must beg that the remarks I am about to make may not excite anything like irritation. I do not :know whether those who hear me have ever seen a publication called The Month. There is a periodical religious publication every month under the title of The Month ; and 1 com mend to every one Nic3.lo hears me to read the first -40r-- , P.,.,..z . .,„.,.. 2 -~~~ ~..c>-~ article in the number for December last, under the very Arcadian title of " Irish Birds'-nests." (Laughter.) In Ireland there are no less than 31 what I may call prisons for little children, and thousands and tens of thousands of English money are collected every year for the purpose of founding and supporting refuges, orphanages, ragged-schools, nurseries, convent relief funds, ragged school relief funds, sleeping asylums, and " birds'-nests." for the sole purpose of perverting poor little Catholic children. (Oh, oh.) There is one of these " birds'- nests," in Kingstown, and a Catholic who visited it last summer held this conversation with the manager : " Have you many Roman Catholic children here?—They are all Roman Catholic children.. How many are there ?—One hundred and fifty-sir. Have their parents turned Protestant ?—No ; per haps one or two. Do the parents object to the children being brought up Protestants ?—lt would be no use if they did ; they know it will be done when they bring them in here. What is the reason that the parents send their children here ?—Princi pally poverty. Have you any difficulty in getting the Roman Catholic religion out of those children's heads?—Yes—(load and prolonged cheering)—the greatest difficulty sometimes, but it is our first en deavour; all our efforts are directed to it ; con troversy is the first lesson of this school." (Shame.) I have no desire to bring the name of any per son who in private life may be estimable and of good intentions before such a meeting as this, and therefore in the example lam about to give I suppress the names of those concerned and refer you to the Month. There was a poor woman named Roney, who had three daughters, and she was in duced to go before the magistrates and give up her chil dren to a Protestant lady to be put into a "birds'-nest" Some time after, her conscience reminding her night and day—as I have no doubt it did, being a Catholic—of the sin she had committed and the peril to which she had ex posed her children, she made an application to recover them, which application was refused. (Shame.) At last she applied to the Court of Queen's Bench, and then the lady wrote to the matron of the " birds'-nest"—" Madam, —Please to give Mrs. Roney her children, on paying you the expenses incurred for them ;" and in the same hand writing came—" Mrs. Roney, Dr. to the Birds'-nest Insti tution, for one year and six months, £33155." (Laughter.) One other case. A poor woman named Hogan put two boys into a refuge, intending, as many of these credulous and self-trusting parents do, to take them out before any mischief could happen, believing the children to be too young to suffer perversion, that the faith in them was too vivid to be easily extinguished, that the time would be but short until she could recover them and put them again under Catholic instruction. Year by year she was unable to do it, because she was unable to support them. At last she demanded them, and was refused. She then wrote a letter uuder direction—a lawyer's letter—and the secretary wrote to her, saying the children should be given up to her on payment, as by agreement, of £6 a year, that was £9O. I grieve to add that one of the boys was irretrievably perverted. Such is the way in which a minority can act towards a majority. I must add another fact. There is a sleeping asylum, where boys aro received and taught trades, and I have no doubt are treated kindly, as far as the mere kindness of material charity; but there is a rule that any boy who leaves without finding a substitute to be perverted cannot take with him his clothes. To show you the kind of flowers that flourish beneath the trees on which the birds' nests hang, one Scripture-reader writes, " We have here the rare phenomenon of a Romish congregation very ready, even well-disposed, to oppose their priest. Out of the Island and South Coast Extension Society's report I take these words :—" The people of this island have been latterly more willing to receive instruction. The loss of their potato crop has humbled them. (Laughter, and " Shame !") An Anglican clergyman of a true and manly heart, the Rev. G. Webster, Chancellor of Cork, wrote that he was an eye-witness on Sunday morning of large quan tities of bread being given to Roman Catholicsfor learning a verse of Scripture, and these same people in his presence went away cursing the persons who gave them the bread and taught them the verse. This is done by Greatßritain —a country which, above all others, proclaims just dealing to every man in matters of conscience, in a land which is entirely Catholic, devotedly Catholic, always and inter changeably Catholic--(cheers)—in a Catholic land that has been spoiled of all its endowments, reduced to the utmost poverty, which out of that poverty has, since the beginning of this century, expended five millions of money in covering the face of the land with Catholic churches, Catholic con vents, Catholic schools, Catholic works of charity, of every kind of magnificent proportions--these people are so treated by those who possess the wealth that once was theirs. (Cheers.) I wish no more than this, that that religious minority had to support its own pastors, build its own churches, maintain its own schools, and that it had less overflow of wealth to use in the perversion of little Catho lic children. (Applause. I will add a few words from the " Life of Archbishop Whately," recently published. Under his own hand we have positive proof that the system of education in Ireland was designed by him to undermine and enfeeble the faith of the Irish people. I will read the words of one of the most philosophical and greatest states men Englhnd has produced. In the year 1795 Mr. Burke spoke thus :—" In Ireland particularly the Roman Catholic religion should be upheld in high respect and veneration, and should be in its place provided with all the means of making it a blessing to the people who profess it." (Cheers.) Again, he said, " Let them (that is the Irish) grow lax, sceptical, careless, and indifferent with regard to religion, and so sure as we have an existence it is not an Anglican or a Scottish Church, but Jacobinism which will enter into the breach." (Applause.) And I add, show me an Irishman that has lost his faith, and I will show you a Fenian. (Prolonged cheering.) Every lax, sceptical Irishman is a Fenian. The inundation that is now settling upon Ireland is not a flush of water from the coast of France, but the Gulf stream, which traverses the Atlantic from the shores of America. (Applause.) For this reason I rejoice that we have passed from the iron and brazen period into one which, if it be not golden, at least is silver, that we are coming to a time when equality, justice, fairness, equity, consideration for the conscience, the heart, the feelings of Catholics is pervading thesociety of England and Ireland. (Applause.) That it is pene trating into the Legislature, that it is directing the course of public events, that it is softening the hearts of the administrators of public laws, that as sure as the frost which binds hard the ground at this hour will give way at the genial approach of spring, so the present temper of men's minds will, whether they have the intention or not, give way before the warmer and balmier influences of a more Christian and a more equitable spirit- (Applause.) The year 1866 has closed with a universal shaking of the a n h a l t e i Int s h o a f t w t h h e i o e h ar w th t;e th T o h u e g r h e t i s to o n be e t p h o e i n f e t e b ai l e e ente of u neml4o thevo- Holy See. (Much applause.) The Vicar of our Divine Master stands by a power which depends not on emperors, I n egis the la w tu ate re r s, (o n h o e r e u ru p ) o , n eu t a h ta e i w ne il d l feT r ro o e n u. dy li na e s i t e ie w s, e n lid or n u g p u o p n o by the Providence of God. It is the sole and only point of stability in the world. If nations are to be stable it is justice is to be done the religion of men minujsutsbeticere and if ed. Look at Australia and Canada. They are peaceful and prosperous because perfect equality pre vails between Catholic and Protestant. The mother country has to learn a lesson from her daughters. In con clusion, Dr. Manning said he hoped the result of the re union would be an increased interest in education, and in creased effort to promote it. " They that are learned shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that instruct many to justice, as the stars to all eternity." Tile Archbishop sat down amid much applause. MURDERING THE WRONG MAN. The Court of Assize sitting at Grenoble has just sentenced to 20 years' hard labour a mountebank named Stenegre, for the murder of one Rappelin, at a village fair in the neighbourhood. There had been a quarrel in the course of the day, and at night Stenegre, who had been badly beaten, went in search of his antagonist. He didnot find him, but falling in with Rappelin, who wore the same kind of dress, he used his knife upon him with fatal effect. FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last t S h it e tin y g ea M r, and Ch xt evr . Dun eu ei l a tOo a k y the chair as president for was appointed vice-president in his stead by 27 votes against 23 given to MM. Bertrand, Dupin, Charles, Serret, Fizeau, and de Tessan. A paper was received from MM. Woehler and H. Ste. Claire Devillo on graphitoid boron, an element which they thought they had obtained in the shape of hexagonal laminto of a pale copper colour ; but this, they now tell us, was a mistake, the sub stance in question being, not pure boron, but a combination of boron and aluminium. It is obtain ' able by treating amorphous boron with aluminium at very moderate heat, or else by keeping melted aluminium in contact with the vapours of chloride of boron. Dr. Carus sent in a note on the invasion of cholera which took place last year at Zwickau, a town of Saxony of 22,432 inhabitants. Some measures having been taken by the Government to protect the house of correction of that town from the epidemic, it hap pened to the surprise of every one that, while 250 persons were attacked with the disease in the immediate vicinity of the said establishment, and 119 of these died, there did not occur a single case among the 1,286 prisoners, though some of the functionaries were seized with the malady. This extraordinary result, Dr. Carus informs us, was obtained, not by administering medicines of any kind what ever, but solely by strict sanitary regulations, good diet, and keeping up the spirits of the prisoners. If such was indeed the result of these sanitary prescriptions, it is certainly to be regretted that the advantages of thesystem should have been reaped by the scum of humanity. M. do P3rville sent in a description of a new electrophorous. This is the third that has seen the light in the course of the last two months. NEW NOVEL. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Svo., S A T. L I C By EDWARD CAMPBELL TAINSIL E. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street 411!• 1 ~~ - - t---G I