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AFTER Covent-garden Theatre—EVANS' to SUP. After Drury-lane Theatre FVANS' to SUP. After Lyceum Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Adelphi Theatre After Olympic Theatre . .I4:VANS' to SUP. After 'ltrand Theatre EVANA' to SUP. After New Royalty Theatre ......F,V ANS' to SUP. After St. James's Theatre FVANS' to SUP. After Prince of Wales' Theatre....EVANS' to SUP. ondon Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden. Vocal Entertainment at Eight. MIAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXTTITITTION, 1865. nelebrited OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the nni Prizo Medal is Pure, Mild, • ltellow, Delicious, and very Whole anyno. Sni ' l in not tleq 3s. 84., at the 'Retail Houses in London vrlinthn & gents in the principal towns in England ; or Insal n at R, IIIIEAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Ohservn the ILA Sell, Pink Label, and Cork branded Icinahan's LL Whisky." ..-----____,, ()UNITY HOTELS, PITBLIC HOUSES, C fiININKSSES. 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HARRY SYDNEY. LITTLE Abili "''% ani PAT l'l NINA, MARCUS WIT KINSON ; thi,l, GER TRUDE and her Troupe of Performing Dogs, .vp n i nz lir, ,-. men ; tp " ,isT FRASER, Cow - Alan. , rith him new Entertain- AC', zntitled " NOTIONS OF THE BURLESQUE.' , ro"E".—The Bros. HANT.N. the celebrated American bats, will appear THIS O EVENING. ........._ ARGYLL ROOKS. - GRAND CASINO, 'rbeae ploy Windmill -street, Piccadilly. decorate ..ant and popular ltnoma, hay' n been entirely re and n i - u• are novr OPIOI EVERY EVENING for Concert GRirtivacT. Conductor, Signor Loan CURTL Manager, Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. Reserved Seats, Two Sh'lling's. Mr EST ON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, • HOLBORN. Solo Proprietors, SwEASEY and HOLLAND. EASTER FESTIVITIES. ? r and Sele c ti on from Donizetti's favourite Opera of _,AJOIA DI LAMMERMOOR." Principal vocalists— lqenat:4°7lll% IL De Brenner; Arturo, Mr. Douglas Mellon r leo, Mr. . Cor • Lucia,Miss Annie Tremarne ;in cost urn _ _ s a n , a t the opera. Arrllttn LLOYD, with New Songs; Mdlle. Colnnna, hilY Nash ; Jean' and Victor, the Sensation of Lon (l,lrA• Cr,)wiled lions(;s and Immense Success of the th 'eAI\TINY MINSTREIS, 12 in number, including /es° wonderful Children who played at the Royal of437Market Theatre as the Living Miniatures." Band fr ° first-class performers, and large Chorus chosen her M a j esty ' s and Covent Garden Opera Houses. AL Prices aka) Director, Mr. P. Coml.'. of adm ission —Stalls and Balcony, Is.; Promenade, ;,,e Private Boxes, hours Can be secured at the Box ci „, ° __ 0, between the. of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open verY Evenin g at 7 o'clock. EASTER HOLIDAYS. 1; 1 / 4 1[ 41)A ME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, A N ew BAKER-STREET. is n o v Portrait Model of MR AJ Y the QTTI7:, , EN i. APR 9,, ";Z(_!ed Princessest Modal of their Poyal N ice 4i„..ite Louise, and Beatrie , the it th.,°` ~,itnbridze. and Princess Mary A comrnemor •tire Ili k i; rt ',N the late Prince Consort. ilinstra ire of his Royal txhib,tro the or g i nator and founder o f I n t ern s lona, Adlnit ta n a! '' room s, 6d. nce, le.; children, under ten. half-price ; extra Open from 11 am till 10 p.m. ANP IELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per 41Lw4"ttly -1 ,Pure an unc.alourei To be had of all dealers (oorn e - ~ Savo' of . TORN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand Y-steps) London P._4`‘itrs;DE-VlE.—This Pure PALE BRANDY, Per ;cation, is c. ry superio- to recent importations tousi l ; el '"; reoloned by the medical profession, and ex ca4 use d in hospitals. In bottles, 3ss. psr doz.u. or in ~trn ivßi's ie-v. BRE I'T an i e' ) I' l9 • railw a y carra^_re ..—IFIENRY Atr eet, e-v. Holborn, E.O , and 39, Regent '" • Establi s h e d 182). OP TILE FEW IS TILE GAIN OP TILE M.INY." . "r , Panic of '66 and its consequent depression }cir _`. A . ((-;,,t:',,,,„.(20_10ni al NI r cets n a'. l l e o s 5 1;;1 F , T l , l Sj z , n. ` l ' , , k ( - ) N it Y r, 0 , c i . ‘ T e e , r f T o r P :3 ‘. B 6d: can't ' lr dear (1 41 h j,; ° , n 'IP/11 WS by Clipper Ships are really 9. (IraitSt Ilelen's Churdiyard, Ilishops,qate- Forcer, Jan. t, 1P67. 11n Dublimed, 2d; sent by the author for 3 stamps, (ILINTESS and BEAUTY ; being a Pamphlet the , t ,„ue43 riptive of articl es and means ivied for irnorovincr L oadg ear mice. By ALEX ROSS, 218, High Holborn, • 8 114 -Arsu FLY is the acting ingredient in s" , - , X Ross's CAA' T HARI DES 0 EL, whioll speedily Produces • se nt " _whiskers and thickens hair, 3s 64, 5854. and 10s 6d ; EX. ROSS, 248, 01416Yttlyp_t forriTdiLananddlaisl i la h ni etilts. A.l4 .______k'° _ ...._. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured T ht , in one d a y b y usiu r ALEX . 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PIMPLE REMOVER.—AII, diseases of the Vt„,skin aro improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSVB ) 0 .„6 FILE SM PILL. They remove re(inss, sal- ,a 9d E and 7s 9d S ; or nnst for 40 and ioo e stamps. tol ttr ; . F .:X. ROSS, 213, High Holborn, London, and all Che- VIAIR COLOUR WASH.—By washing the or ten, r assumesa't with this beautifully-nerfuel Wash, in seven en b y I •Ys the hair original colour, ,nd remains Itosoan 244 oe,siono "i n r, 10s ; sPut for stamps.' FLOM llolborn. London. and all Chemists. —AL ti tt ,„' our „SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS m J,LS.—A NEVER SlPrticot.thnut any mercurial ingredient, ( from the recipe of Dr. ' t 'frer c f ' • f E/r4 :lnleY, Kent. will be found Invaluable to all who ppaern_rom bilious snd liver complaints , indigestion, wind, cof osth,„ 4, Ciddieefis, lizziness of the eyes, hco. For habitual th e s leas. as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier ttoti ~,,,u loo d, they Ire truly excellent ; mild In their opera to ' f f.` zrottefui Pr epar ‘^'est to *he stomach, they create appelte, pro rm. and strengthen the whole nervous system. 1 " %.1 111 ell " 1 7 and slld by W. Lambert, Chemist, R, King ute ant-stret, Charing-erosa. London, and by most drug 2a, 9441,b0xe5,15. 44. and three times rhe quantity In one, T• 9d aure to ask , for Soott's and Liver Pills. rye a square g . reet lao)caze. with •• " la '?'" ,o -••• the sta'nn. i5tY1)1171,,,,„ lIIJNDRED and SIXTY-SEVEN lan AL ORPHA N S are being maintained in -"ati„f..-,,-,.tr ORPHAN ASI rollinzwood Court, ourreY• FUNDS czreatly needed "or their support. CH A. WALKER, see. 8, 96, Cheapside, E.C. ORPHAN ASYLUM, Mackenzie l ' iili teul' 2 ' 7 Bl °Ugh, Bucks (formerly at Clapham-riser. In- AID Ro '„ Bata q " --1 1. r Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. h, h nuB I n g titUtiOn will be gladly received by the f i at te Offices. No. 73, Cheapaide, E.G. 1 , 17;;T,R,T SYKES THORNTON, Treaimrer. s TILSON, J.l) . chairman of the Board. A f "'" R.F.EO CATTLEY, NI.A., Hon. Sec. DIACKENZ I E, Secretary. ICE - _ B OARD of MANAGEMENT of the NI *I, D IMIEFOPATHIC HOSPITAL wish to Nutt v - attention of their friends t , its poittion—during the tb a (1;." 'be beds have been almost constantly filled. an , 1°", tact. t:Z resources of the Hospital has consequent y tl at, T hey trust, therefore, that all the friends round both in .I,vti countlr, will rally Lainp‘ s ,'",! thus prevent ' the necessity nf curt the use °ti the Hospital b vhe arlmission of fewer catien s Pre y tly needed . Hankers Meecrs. •Ar.." 4 and OT e h a r r e n s e d s needle-stree . t; and Union 'lank, 41. •...ae. Regent -street o. 54 Gr eat Ormond-street,'WC. R. o WARREN, Clerk. ITP s TTIPIVRECKED SEAMEN and their of 4,a r) VED WIDOWS and 0 RPIIAN 4 . —lThwirds liritish vessels ar... annually wrecked, about 2.000 of 0,1 Isle, I ' A T A f'o the hart ßritish of ihe enast • ' where the SHIPWRECKED SOCIRCY i • not repr esented by an Hon. ' (when n m aked • ) and sends t, their }males e}jarit ."eked Persons of all n (tions and is the eliann.l of its Th e } The.,,,;(l the bereav e d w i l ows and orphans of the drcnyne t es @ t'urilMittee earnes'ly API'EXL r FIE LP. The l ast Ye AB always Ins'ant ' The Vociety relieved 11,221 persons riz ship • wr ed men widows, and orphans. Wiljr,, l tlons and subscriptions e4 thankfully received by Messrs. —Th s. Deacon, and Co.; and by the undersigned, itib FRANCIS LEAN, secretary " Ma - chambers, London-bridge rP - - , , IE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another 4 kn'pile to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer t 455 poor friendless, younz females were rejectedt rom hep,, awaY i NDS and room , makin a total of 3, 087 , who have nV re yea'rs. o• homts the Committee with to form "valid be for have been almost children, from the vane of 8 to 13, who "t led astray from the path of virtue. IStr, talons will be received gratfnlly by the Secntari. fa r Cooper, 85, Queen -street, cheapside; or by Xessra .Y >Wd CO., Losibard-street. PHOTOGRAPHER TO THE QUEEN, R BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT. DISDERI, Photographic Artist to 11.1. Majesty tip, Emperor Napol.!, n lii, and the Imperial Family ; to 11.1. Msjet-ty the Emperor of all the Rus+ias ; also to II I. Majesty the Queen of Spain and the Royal Family; to his Majesty the king of It aiy ; to his Majeeiy the King of Hol land; to his Majesty th e Ki ng of Portugal ; to the Imperial Academy of Music; Photographer of the l'aVace of the Uni versal Exhibition 011855, kc. The excellent situstion of Mr. Disderrs studio enables him to .operate regardless of the weather. No. 23,363. Now ready, in 1 Bvo., with numerous Illustrationo, WILD LIFE AMONG THE PACIFIC ISLANDERS. By E. 11. L 4.1110 N -P, Epci. Hurst and Bia:kett, 13, Great nar!borough-street Now ready at a 1 +he Libr.:lies. in 3 vols., RAYMOND'S HEROINE, THE NEW NOVEL. _ aturdav Review.— ' We recommen•l` ITeroine to those who e an appreciate the charms of a novel tii ough out which there m:,k,-s itself unmistikdbly m ,niCest the iyi ipt e-s of ;4, ncrous feeling and vigorous thought. Mho mum —" Raymond's llerouie ' dl pla7:s merits of a c lass and various kinds. It is a ye y ;.,o.;d story, well told." fell- [ail Gazette.—" The story of • Rsym ind's Hero ne is exeelkutly contrived, and most skiltuliy ivorked up to an tfle live crisis. It is interesting throw , hout." Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborou.fh-street. D UBLIN UNIVER N 0.413. FOR M. srry MAGAZINE.- AY. Price 2s. 6d. CONTENTS. 1. 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The public can th s obtain a photogr a phi c drawing by mans of which skilful artists attached to the house can, on simple in dications -such as the colour or the complexion, the eyes and the hair—obtain a splend d and truthful oil painting. Mr. Disderi's new process is valuable in this respect, that it avoids the led' ,usness of long sittings, and also adds to the charms of oil painting' the great advantages of th.t truthful ness and accuracy of photography. Saloons and studios, 70, 71. and 72, Brook-street, lianover-square ; AVd ft , Equestrian Portraits, at Hereford Lodge, Gloucester-road, Old Bromp ton-road ; fads, 8, Boulevard des flattens; Madrid, and Toulon. PRINTING. —TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.—The Print ing and Machining of Newspapers, &c., done on exceed ingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager "Sun" Printing Offices, 3, Church row, Savoy, Strand, W.O EXHIBITORS at the PARIS EXHIBITION, who ADVERTISE in "THE SUN," can have the SERVICES of A SPECIAL AGENT in PARIS, whose address can be obtained at " The Sun" Office. Ho has a perfect knowledge of French, is also acquainted with busi ness, and has good connections. On application to " The Sun" Agent in Paris, either personally or by letter, he will obtain every possible facility for Exhibitors, or persons who may have other business in Paris, er who may go there for pleasure only. GREAT NORTRERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, :slut Jon, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. This Hospital has relieved 4E31,954 patients since it was established at King's-cross in 1',56. Patients are ad.uitted free. BANKERS—Vessrs. Barnett, I,lny is, and C0.,60, Lombard street; Messrs. Ransom an 1 Bouverie, I, Pall-mall. LION. SEC.—F. Smith, Esq. GEORGE REID, Sea R OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, In the I.nmediate v:eittity of the Great Northern tafl way Terminus, king's-Cruse. Patron—Her Most Gracious Meje:ity the QUERN. Vies- Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WA LE Adi G. President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions and z shoe. it affords relict to a large number of in-ps it ute, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the lestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,0e0 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee ear estly solicit the &SST TANCE of the benevolent, as the pa 'nisei; of this Hudpit... are capable of containing several ne,ndred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received t.); their bankers. nessrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., Abchuroh-lane; also by Messrs. Coutte and Co.; Drummond and Co. ' • G.yn and Co. it ernes and Co. ; Hansom and Co.; rrescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; De noon, and Co.; Nisbet Rid CO., Bedlam-street : and at the Hospital, from 10 till b. OTALIFOSD ax,ITA. bectstury. ~~, /' 4_ ..'-- 4 L-. 4,. ~~ , V . : , . : . f .. a::.....q: ~ .. 4'. 4(* V -' c • )0/ 1 41 1 .. ' ',. . f - .... ,-... 1 1 , I'L.' ; t'S.4l . ' 4 , Q.' • . '. Vfq;r.2' 'l‘ .., s J 0 , ' 5... : li ftrer I .7 -- A • *-., Y. tfig F... --. 7,-11,trigui. - -:- ... .. L .-A„' ....,... ..., ~ ~,, -,-,...-- ~..., , ' z.... -ionorr.,- as ,-- , „ 4"-'7 ':-;• .... , , • 1 " . , . ~ ~,,1 .. , .:.- _— ...,-:- ______,/ ~ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. APRIL '29, 1867. IONDON NORTII-WESTERN RAILWAY. 1.1 CHESTER. RACES, April 30, May, 1,2, and 3. RETURN TICKETS istAtcd from London (Euston. Kensington, West Brompton, (Moises, Battersea, and (;lap ham Junction), to enEsTF,n, on MONDAY, April 29, soil following days, will be available for return by any Train (Irish and Limited Mails excepted), up to and in clusive of SATURDAY, May 4. SERVICE OF TRAINS 11 . E l' \VEEN EUS tON AND mission of the working classes to the franchise as if they were fighting with an enemy, and they therefore were desirous of adopting a system of weights and checks to neutralise his power, forget ting that on the very first opportunity the working classes would sweep away all the barriers by which it was attempted t o con fi ne them. The present bill at►in he held to . be o f so nnsa ti s f ac tory a character in all its e () ading ; provisionsm to tep t t ha t t o it was altogetherit, hope_ les s f and therefore he thought it.far better to reject it ou the third read ing, and to defer the question till another se. - ision, rather than .pass a measure which was universally looked upon as eminently uns ttisfactory. He was not of those who were desirous of seeing any bill passed so that they dealt with the question of Re form, because he maintained that a great constitu tional change of this character ought to be effected by the friends of Reform, and not by those who had always shown and declared themselves to be its determined and uncompromising opponents. At the present moment the Tories brought forward their measure under duress, as they sAw that the people would have it. Mr. Otway then alluded to the in , equalities in the present measure, and the unsatis factory nature of its principal clauses,. the Act in one town giving almost universal suffrage, as in Shef field, where it would give votes to 20,000, while in Birmingham it would exclude 36,000. It also created an invidious classification between the richer and poorer voters, inasmuch as the £lO voter was placed on a different footing from the voter below thet amount. There was also a fatal defect in the bill, as it provided for no lodger franchise, which, as Mr. Disraeli took his stand on personal rating, could not be adopted. Mr. Otway, after alluding to other points of the proposed measure, spoke of the parti ally successful efforts which he had made in Parlia ment to obtain the abolition of the lash in the army, and stated his determination not to relax his efforts until that punishment was entirely got rid of. The hon. gentleman also entered into some remarks respecting the present complications on the Conti nent, and while he expressed the hope that England would maintain a strict neutrality, he could not conceal the conviction that the result of hostilities between France and Prussia would terminate in Belgium being annexed by the former, and the kingdom of Holland by Prussia—a result which England could not look upon with complacency. Mr. Otway also alluded to the Alabama claims, which he trusted England, as she was clearly in the wrong, would, at once settle. The hon. gentleman, after speaking for an hour and a half, resumed his seat amid great applause, and at the termination of his speech a resolution expressing the approval of the meeting of the views expre s sed by him on the question of Reform, and acknowledging his services to the cause of humanity by his endeavours to ob tain the abolition of the lash in the army, was una nimously agreed to. Three cheers each for Mr. Otway, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Bright having been given, the vast audience dispersed. also supported in a few observations by Mr. Landon and Mr. 11 mater. Mr. 13tActotonn had no doubt but that the result of that meeting would be watched with most intense interest by men not only of their own, hut of all professions and trades. Such being the case, it be comes their duty as employers to he firmly united and determine 1. (i leer, Lear) attention was unions publicwere on their trial, and at that time more than ever directed to them in con sequence of the disgraceful disclosures recently made before the commission appointed to inquire into their actions. (Hear.) These combinations of workmen were paralysing the industry of the coun try, and driving capital from its legitimate and proper channels—(loud cries . of " Hear")—and it became their duty as employers, both for the sake of the empoyes as well as themselves, to put forth all their power to check their progress. (Hear, hear.) One means of check which. they had at command was to resist those monstrous extortions which their paid agitators, and not the unfortunate men them selves, were endeavouring to draw from the em ployer's pockets. (Hear, hear.) When once the working man, whether a tailor or anything else, got caught in the union net., he was no longer a free agent. (Hear.) They must obey the orders of its executive, contrary to their own judgment and in terest, to the ruin of themselves, their wives, and innocent children. (Hear, hear.) In taking the step which they were about to take, notwithstand ing the organs of ti agitators were constantly call ing them " oppressors" and " degradors," he:con tended that the employers were the real friends of the working men. (Cheers.) That had been proved by the charities they supported ; but it was neces sary that they should all unite, and further prove themselves the true friends of the workmen by their firmness in resisting this most unfair attempt at extortion, and which would be the readiest means of crushing this most unfair and unjust strike. (Applause.) Mr. SMALLPAGE said the men who had organised this strike had begun at the wrong end of the stick, as they generally did, for they had struck against the best houses, where they got the best wages, and where, according to their own admissions, they earned scarcely ever less than from 38s. to 40s. per week, and sometimes a great deal more. (Hear, hear.) If they had commenced with the slop tailors, and helped to put a stop to the rascalities of those who paid poor creatures at the rate of one or two shillings a-day, then there would be some reason in their movement, and the better class of tradesmen would help them. (Loud cries of " hear, hear.") They desired, they said, to help the poor women who were made the victims of these people, but they could not complain of the way women were treated in the better class houses, for they were paid at the same rate as the men. (Hear, hear.) His firm had determined to close their establish ment for a year if necessary rather than submit to this unjust demand, and if the masters were all pre p tred to adopt a similar course they would soon bring these men to their senses. (Loud applause.) Mr. LAWRENCE, Mr. BROWN, and several others said their firms were quite prepared to adopt the course suggested, an announcement which was loudly cheered. A gentleman in the body of the meeting wished it to be distinctly understood by the public that there was no desire whatever on the part of the masters to reduce the wages per hour, but they were determined to resist the demand of an increase now made by the men of 8d and 91. per hour. (hear.) Tile CHAIRMAN sail that was the real truth, and if there were any reasonable points to be discussed the masters were prepared to meet the men. As a proof of this he held in his hand a proposal for refer ring a subject which might be in dispute to arbitra tion. It was to the following effect :—" Both parties have agreed to refer any disputed point to an indif ferent person, whose decision shall be final, and abided by by both parties, such person to be chosen before the beginning of the conference under the signature of both committees." (Hear.) The resolution was then put from the chair, and ctrried unanimously, amidst loud cheering. The CHAIRMAN said a question had been put to him as to what was the position of the association. He begged to state that up to that moment the members of the association numbered 181 employers, and they had a guarantee fund to sustain their objects of £5,587. (Loud applause.) Some further discussion ensued, in the course of which it was stated that last year the increase of wages amounted to 16per cent., and that if the pre sent demands were acceded to it would make alto gether an increase of 35 per cent. since March, 1E66. A vote of thanks was given to the committee of the association for taking the initiative in the matter, and a similar compliment being paid to the chair man, the meeting, which was a most excited one, closed. CHESTER. IWN TRAINS. THE TAILORS' STRIKE. GREAT MEETING OF THE MASTERS. On Saturday afternoon there was a general meet ing of the master tailors of the metropolis (con vened by the Master Tailors' Association of the United Kingdom), held at the Hanover-square Rooms, for the purpose cf determining the steps necessary to be taken in regard to the present strike of the journeymen tailors. The meeting was a densely crowded and excited one, and the large hall of the Hanover-square Rooms was completely filled, there being upwards of one thousand persons present, including either the heads or repro entatives of most, if not all, the principal West-end firms in the tailoring trade. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said the vast assembly of the trade showed the im portance which was attached to the subject upon which they were assembled; important not alone to themselves as employers, but to those through whose proceedings they had been brought together. (Hear, hear.) That meeting proved also that the master tailors of the metropolis were not indif ferent to the call which had been made upon them to assemble together and discuss the subject of the strike of the workmen, and to consider if such a proceeding were justifiable on the part of the latter. (Hear, hear.) He thought that the mas ters would have no difficulty in proving to the public that day that it was not, and consequently that it was the duty of the employers to resist it. (Ap plause.) If they would refer to what had taken place last year upon this subject, they would find that the masters gave way to their employe's, and with respect to the time-log they agreed to give them what they required, namely, 7d. instead of Gd. per hour. Now, although last year it was their own proposal, it was asked by the men on strike that these sevenpences should be further increased, and those who made this demand had the assurance to assert that the increase of one penny on each six pence conceded to them last April was only a nominal increase. (Laughter, and Oh, oh.) How this conclusion could be arrived at he (the chairman) could not imagine, for what, he would ask, could be more actual, and by no means nominal, than the addition of a copp er penny to a Silver sixpen ce, ail other arrangements b e i ng l e ft as they were before —nothing either added to or diminished from ? In opposition to the calculation of those who said the additional penny was a nominal increase, he would contend that it was a clear increase of one-sixth when the Gd. became 7d. (Hear, hear.) But what was still further inexplicable in the matter on the part of the men was, that it was almost constantly contended in support of the increase of the number of these sevenpenccs they were not asking for an increase of money, but only for a time. (Oh, oll.) Now in his (the chairman's) opinion, in this case at least, time is money,' for an hour here wa s a synonymous terra for 7d. It was just the same, therefore, whether more hours be asked for in the making of a coat, or more sevenpences for its making. (Hear, hear.) Sometimes, also, the 2s. This was tr u e would say that the i s n p e e r a e k a e s r e s d at a • t y h e i men's na c o a tme was e t in onlygs as to a footman's coat, or a gentleman's lounging coat, which was formerly 24 hours, or 125., but the price for gentlemen' s su p erfin e cl oth coats had been i ncreas ed from 16s. to 18s., o r from 32 hours to 36 of mystifying a pl a i n i hours, at the 7d. per hour, ther efore, the increase upon was 35., making th e 18 s. coat 21s. The manner in which th ese d eman d s werefacti the ia d e v l a B ss s , a . thes with the view qu estion, by mixing up terms nit in a manner t h at the public did not un derstand, so as to make it ap pear that the journeymen tailors were unfairly dealt by, which everyone present knew was not really the fact. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BENNETT rcoved the first resolution " Resolved, that in the opinion of this meeting the time-log of the Ama lgamated Society presented by London operative tailors to their employers is unfair, and ought to be resisted ; and th a t th e act i on o f the Master Tailors' Association of the United King dom in resisting it is entitled to the full support of the trade, and this meeting pledges itself to give them their support in every way in their power." (Loud applause.) Mr. Bennett proceeded at some length to denounce the stateineuLs put forth at some of the men's meetings, that the masters had reduced the rate of wages, or had any desire to do so. The rate of payment, whether by the hour or by the garment, was what they had themselves fixed by th e l og o f last year. On the othe r hand, it was the workmen who were attempting to coerce the masters into giving them increased and unfair wages. If the trade generally would support the association in re sistance be bad but little doubt this strike, which could only result in injury to the men themselves and their families,would s pee dil y terminate. (hear, hear.) IVADL seconded the resolution, and it was 2) PRICE.. 4d. ST A. 31 PE D sd. that the " Nicaragua line," so called, is the most wretchedly conducted line of steamers that ever ran out of the port of New York. Inds!ed, tho lin) is a proverb ur inefficiency and failure; and many a family has a deplorable rzeollection of its short comings and delays, by the death of some of their best members, while abandoned by the company on the pestilential isthmus. Only a few months ago 300 United States soldiers. and as many more general passengers, were abandoned there, to do mesticate themselves, half-starved, among the half breeds of the Isthmus for a period of over 30 days, during which time, through the stupidity of a management, that had no steamer to tranship them, a large number of them miserably perished from the fevers of the country. To be the President of this company, the stock of which stands at 15 cents on the dollar (in contrast to the 50 and 60 cents under its previous President), and which has no credit or character of any sort whatever, is claimed by Mr. Webb's biographer to be one of the highest of human dignities, and he exclaims with conscious pride and irrepressible enthusiasm " that all the abilities of Mr. Webb are centred upon the duties of that station." rt is admitted that Mr. Webb has been successful in making money, but if he has any ideas, and they have impressed themselves upon his business, WQ know exactly how to measure them, by the results they have produced. The deaths upon the Isthmul, 'and the hielanclibly fate of the Re ctertalierraW The exemplars of them all. INTENSITY OF HEAT GENERATED BY PEAT. It is an acknowledged fact that peat produces an intense heat, a feature of so much importance as to entitle it to prominent mention and careful consideration. Its virtue in this respect is much increased, when properly prepared, solidified, and' dried, and it reaches its maximum of heating power when solidified and charred or coked. Mention has often been made of its peculiar qualities in this respect, but their importance will be more clearly comprehended when taken in connection with the facts in an interesting article on the " Calorific Value of Fuel," which we find in the American Railway 7imes, and which contains remarks so pertinent on this point that we quote as follows : " There are, in all, five important kinds of fuel only : these are wood, peat, coal, charcoal, and coke—the first three being natural, and the last two artificial fuels. The elements of which each of these is composed are practically identical, the difference of character being due to the proportion of those elements entering into the composition of each kind of 'fuel; and, according to those pro portions, each fuel takes its relative position in the scale of value. Taking the comparative chemical composition of the various kinds of fuel, according to Dr. Machaltie, their percentage stands thus : Carb. llyd. 0 sy. Nit. Sul. Ash. Wood (dried at 280 deg. F.) 50.0 6.0 42.9 1.0 1.0 Peat (dried at 220 deg. F.) 57.0 5.5 31.0 1.5 Coal 85.0 5.0 4.0 1.0 4.0 Charcoal Coke The amount of heat produced by fuels in their combustion does not always constitute their rela tive value. For some purposes, it is apparent that this would be the best criterion ; but, as a rule, in metallurgic processes, the quantity of heat is of far less importance than the intensity or power to raise substances to the highest temperature—and the fuel which affords the greatest quantity of heat is sometimes incapable of producing the greatest intensity. " In determining the intensity of the heat pro duced, it is necessary to know the available quan tity of heat produced in the combustion of a pound of fuel, the weight of the products of combustion, and the quantity or number of units of heat re quired to raise the products of the combustion of a pound of fuel, one degree Fahrenheit. Where very high temperatures are required the fuel which should be selected ought to approach as near as possible to pure carbon in its composition, and for the reason that carbon is the best substance for the purpose. " We now see the reasons for making coal into coke, and wood into charcoal. Coal cannot pro duce a temperature equal to that obtained from coke, neither can the temperature of wood be com pared with that of charcoal. And this resultg from the relative accession of carbon, and reduction of oxygen and hydrogen in them. This must be re ferred to the great difference between quantity and intensity of heat. If we cannot raise sufficient steam from a boiler by the use of one ton of coal, we can easily meet the point by burning two tons ; but, if the fusing point of metal cannot be attained with one ton of coal, it by no means follows that any additional amount of fuel will insure the re quired result. The great distinction to be observed is between quantity and intensity of heat. The first of these two conditions depends upon the quantity of fuel, but the last is referred entirely to the quality of .fuel. " Twenty tons of coal will not give a temperature so great as that afforded by one ton of coke." It should be observed that in the above state ment of comparative composition of fuels no men tion is made of peat charcoal. Now, it is au established fact that peat charcoal is of greater density and calorific power than the best woo 1 charcoal, and, calculating the amount of carbon in peat charcoal at no more than the relative amount as between wood and charcoal in the above table, peat charcoal will be represented by 98, which exceeds any of the fuel mentioned in Dr. Maehal tie's table. The intense heat generated by peat fuel is a sub ject of frequent remark, and will eventually be dwelt upon, we think, as a very important con sideration in estimating .its value.—Leavites Peat Journal. The New York Tribune says :—" A crowd of journalists, representing many sections of the country, have sailed for Paris; and the Great World's Fair, shortly to be held, will therefore have no want of historio graphers. From this city, Mr. Daniel 13. Seymour, the dramatic editor of The Times, and Mr. itemack, the musical connoisseur of the German press, have gone to gether; and Mr. George Alfred Townsend, one of the most brilliant of the newspaper men who hold roving commissions, has followed. Mr. E. 0. Haile, of the New Orleans Crescent, another journeyer to the Great Exposi tion, has set " the first thousand ems," typographically, towards the printers' fund for a monument to their bril liant fellow printer and benefactor, Artomus Ward. Mr. Hall, of the Crescent, travelled to New York to organise societies of printers to secure this monument. Each printer is to contribute the worth of a thousand ems, which is about 45 cents. A correspondent of the Springfield Republican gives the following instances of the feuds of literary people:—" In a recent letter something was said of the vindictiveness of literary people. Pages might bo written on this subject with illustrations. Two young poets, one resident in New York and 'one in Boston, and both of no inconsiderable reputation, hate each other with the fury of a scorned woman, lose no opportunity of procuring the publication of sneers and slurs upon each other, and won der, in presence of their friends, why So and So is so bitter. A reverend author of this city spends a good deal of his time in abusing a popular monthly magazine, simply because his contributions thereto have been " de clined, with thanks." But one of the most remarkable evidences of this literary eccentricity appears in a recent New York case. A divine of that city wrote and. published a volume of essays not long ago. It was received with general favour by the critics ; but one " leading journal" devoted an editorial column to its anni hilation. The review was ono of the finest specimens of the slaughtering style of review I ever saw, but its ani mus was plain enough. The writer of it came to New York some years ago, unknown and unfriended. By the kindness of the reverend author, he was put upon his feet and given an opportunity to display his great powers. Ti) put it mildly, his moral nature was weaker than his intel lectual, and his clerical friend found it necessary to warn the members of a family into which he h d introduced the a young man, against the latter's dangerous wiles. E. P. Whipple has written, at the request of Mr. Fields, an essay on Dickens, which will probably appear in the next number of the Atlantic. It is said to be ono of his finest productions. The preparation and publication of this essay in view of the publishing enterprise which now mainly engrosses Messrs. Ticknor and Field's attention, must be regarded as specially timely. Parton's article on sewing machines will also, 1 believe, make a part of the May Atlantic, having been "unavoidably postponed" from the April number. 1& 2 1& 2 12&31 1 & 2 1& 2 1& 2 1:i 2 1& 2 Class Class. Class. Class. Class. Class. Class. Class. L , I.VC London a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. .P.m. (Easton) 613 9 0 9 5 'll 0 11 '.!) 245 5 0 9 0 Arrive at a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.ni. Chester.... 11 n 5 230 535 425 535 810 10 12 215 UP TRAINS. 16.2 162 12&3 1&2 1&2 162 1&2 l&2 Class Class Class Class Class Class Class Class ---- - Leave am .a m am noon pm pm pm Pm Chester.... 435 925 925 12 5 2 0 4 2.5 530 11 6 Arrive at London p m a M (Euston) 940 230 350 550 915 950 10 55 6 0 FARES FOR THE DOUBLE JOURNEY. First Class 46s. 61 Second Class Return Tickets from Broad-street, Shoreditch, and Dal sten, to Chester, will also be available from Monday, April 29, up to May 4. • W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Euston Station, April 15, 1867. THE MALVERN lIILLS.—ALLOTMENT of VALUABLE LAND at MALVERN LINK, WEST WORC ES TERSIIIRE.— The CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIET Y.—Notice is Hereby Given, that the Allotment of the Malvern Link Estate will be commenced at the Royal Oak Inn (nearly opposite the Estate, on tho Wor cester and Malvern. High Road), after a Public Meeting at half-past Seven p.m., on WEDNESDAY, the Bth of May next, at which Viscount Ranelagh, Col. Browulow Knox, M.P., and Col. Meyrick will attend as a deputation from the Board. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, SecreCary. 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C. Plans of the Estate, price 6d, or 7d. by post. Eligible Plots are for Sale also on the West Malvern Estate, on the Worcester Estate (Ilenwic•k Road), and on the Hereford Estate (Moorfields). Land in 26 Counties. Prospectuses of the Share and Deposit Departments, for investment only, as well as printed Instructions how to acquire and pay for Land instalments, and a List of Villas and Houses for Sale sent free of charge. CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR HER MAJESTY'S DOCK YARDS, VICTUALLING YARDS, &c. CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY, SOMERSET HOUSE, April 27, 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 TUESDAY, the 14th May next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for supplying her Majesty's Dock Yards, Victualling Yards, Naval Hospitals, Greenwich Hospital, Royal Marine Bar racks and Infirmaries, and the Admiralty, Marine, and Coast-guard Offices in London with COALS. A Form of the Tender, with a Distribution of the Coals and Conditions of Contract, may be obtained at the above Dopat tment, Admiralty, Somerset House. No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left - hand co rner the w ords , " Tender for Coals;" and must also be delivered at the De partment of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person ten dering in the sum of £2O per 100 tons for the duo perform ance of the Contract. By Order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. A/lESSRS. ROBERT C LOGUES of the mo other house in Europe can oi Cataloguo of Elementary OCKS arid Co.'s CATA ropu'ar MU AC, such as no Catalogue of Violoncello Music. Catalogue of Organ Music. Catalogue of Piano Music. Catalogue of Vocal Music. Catalogue of Cathedral Music. Catalogue of Part Music. Thematic index of Briuley Richards's Student's Prac tice, and the Classical Pianist. E ac h application must state the Cattle:l-no required. Works. Cat:iloguo of Educational Works. 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The chair was taken by Mr. J. Baird, who briefly opened the proceedings by alluding to the services rendered by Mr. Otway since he had been returned as the repre sentative of that borough. Mr. OTWAY, who met with a very warm and cordial reception, said, since last he had the honour of addressing the electors of Chatham, the Tory Adininistration had undertaken to deal with the all-engrossing question of Reform, after defeating the former Ministry because they had attempted to settle that question, and had brought in a bill which from its crude state and the unsatisfactory nature of its leading provisions would still longer postpone the final settlement of this great question. The course pursued on this question by the Conserva tive party, in first opposing the moderate and emi nently satisfactory bill of the late Government, and then attempting to legislate on this que s ti on i n t h e ma nner they had, was most dishonest, the result being that that party had done more to bring Par liament into contempt than anybody of men since the corrupt days of Walpole and Pelham. That party had succeeded in ejecting Mr. Gladstone from power, and had brought in a measure which, if the Liberals did their duty, as he hoped they would, could be made to go very much further than any thing proposed by the late Ministry. In its present State the bill of the Tory Government would have an inappreciable effect in enlarging the borough con stituencies, and, while it unsettled everything, would, so far from settling the Reform question, cause a renewal of the agitation to a greater extent than be fore. The amendments on the bill proposed by Mr. Gladstone had been defeated by a majority of those who had deserted from the Liberal ranks, and what ever their motives might have been for that course certainly their logic, when they were properly called to account by their constituents, was most defective. lie observed that his excellent friend, Mr. Bass, grounded his reasons for supporting the bill on the circumstance that the bill was so thoroughly bad he thought it better to vote for it in the hope of mak ing it better. The time for the question of rating; composition rates, and other matters of that kind was now gone by, and the best course for the Liberal party to adopt was to show their loyalty to the con stitution and propose household suffrage, pure and simple. Ile believed that such a measure would settle this question for some time to come, and surely there was nothing iu the conduct or proceedings of the working classes to make them at all distrustful 01 them. The Conservative party treated the ad- THE CASE OF WILLIAM IL WEBB. There is an article in Wilkes' Spirit of the Times d Order,"friends in e tnh n oi t ns i o i l og e . e d n ' ti ' lte l m l a o la : ne r sr e o a tth t ea ll l a e s n m a n r e e ill-advised i t s n e which Mr. William H. Webb, the well-known panegyric on him in a ship builder of New York, obtains an unenviable promi weekly paper, never before seen by the Spirit, but whichwas forwarded, with the article on Mr. Webb, marked, trailed with ink all the way down two lon a a. columns. Mr. Webb is characterised by his bio grapher as of almost superhuman abilities. " Such men," he says, " are the very pillars of the Sta • • the foundation upon which the na ti on depends. te' Indeed," he exclaims, vaulting to his climax by a few more phrases like the above, "the value of such a man to the country it is impossible to estimate." Now, says the Spirit, all this froth is harmless enough, except to this man of very moderate abili ties, whom it makes egregiously ridiculous. But it is not harmless, and therefore not excusable, that his spurious glory should be supported by preten sions to inventions which belong to others (such as the invention of ironclad war steamers) ; nor is it a matter of indifference to the country that the man who built the Re de Italia, which was sunk at the first broadside by an Austrian ship; who con structed the Japanese steamer, for whose manifest defects the unhappy native agent was consigned by his Government to death ; who built the General Admiral, which has been an incubus upon the Rus sian navy ever since, and upon whose hands even this Dunderberg lies as a dead weight—we say that it is not a matter of indifference that the man who has made all these deplorable failures, should be put forward as the great American mechanic. Mr. Webb's biographer claims that in shipbuild ing "America has won, and has triumphantly main tained, the first place," and that " Mr. Webb is the man who has borne the American standard to this victory." Now, it is notorious to e v er y American of experience that the once undisputed superiority of Americii vessels upon the ocean, has yr.lded of late years to the superiority of the ships of England, and particularly the steamships of the Clyde ; and every intelligent American also knows, that this decadence of our naval archi tecture, as compared with that of Great Britain, has taken place during the very period through which Mr. Webb has figured as the most prominent ship. builder in the United States. If this melancholy fact is to prove his title to be one of the most ex traordinary men of the country, we can only agree to the proposition with a reservation, which must be far from gratifying to his worshippers. A great man impresses himself upon his period by lifting it forward in the path of progress ; not bysymbolising a grade of its decline. Mr. Webb will certainly prove himself a great man, if he gets that failure, the Dunderberg, off upon the Goverrimeat for two or three millions of dollars ; but to do that he will have to have great luck, and several relays of patent biographical paint. Following the assertions of Mr. Webb's genius in the way of shipbuilding, of which the unbought Dunderberg is made the great example, a claim is put in for " abilities of the highest order," in the masterly manner in which he has managed, and is managing, the affairs of the Nicaragua Transit Company, whose steamers purport to run between New York and California. Now, it is notorious e.... --e,,) ,y am ~ ~~.~i N EWS PAPER 5 k . 71, ; " 1 4, ‘..iic 4V-EA .; DR 4 MATIC PERFORMANCE BALLS. _ • ,c ~: 4 -a. At the Middlesex Sessions on Saturday, Mr. Frederick Strange, the managing director of the Alhambra Palace, appealed against a conviction of Mr. R. P. Tyrwhitt, dated Jan. 22d, 1867, on a summons which averred that he did "unlawfully keep a certain house or other place of public resort in Great Britain—to wit, the Alhambra Palace, Leicester-square, for the public performance of stage plays without authority by virtue of letters from her Majesty or her predecessors, or license from the Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's household, or her Majesty's justices of the peace for the s•tid county, within which the said house or place is situate (the sane house or place. not being a booth or show excepted from the statute), as in the Art of the Hones of Parliament, Gth and 7th years of her Map , sty, cap. Cti, fur re:7nlating theatres, contrary to tha statute in that case made and pr9vidol." Mr. Harding Ginn' said he. appeared in support of the conviction, which was made under the Gth and 7th Vict., which regulated theatrical representations, and it prescribed. certain licenses which should bo granted for the perforny arm , of stay plays; and the interpretation clause of ,that act defined what should be considered n tragedy, eomedy,• . farce, burlesque, pantomime, or a part thereof. Ho should call the attention of the court to what he considered to be a pantomime, or a part of a pantomime, which, if his inter pretation were correct, had been performed at the Alham bra without any license for such performance. The learned counsel then proceeded to glance at the principal incidents contained in the piece complained of, and when ho proved all these facts he should ask the court to confirm the con viction. Mr. Geo. Frederick Leicester, an actor, said he witnessed the performance of the piece entitled " W here's the Police" ? which was supported by the regular pantomimic chat-ac tors, who went through the usual business. There were tricks and changes. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine addressed the court on behalf of "the appellant, and contended that no stage play could exist without a consecutive plot, and without it could not come within the statute, which being a penal one, those who promoted this prosecution were bound to prove the whole of their case. The act of the 22d of George IL, under which these performances took place, licensed places for "music, dancing, and public entertainments of a like kind " Therefore it was quite clear that the Legis lature never intended to confine them to merely music or dancing, without trenching upon what was understood as a theatrical performance. lie contended that this case was identical with that which had been decided in that court, and one of the best judges who had ever sat in Westmin ster-hall had upheld their opinion by saying that they wore the proper persons to determine this question. Then it was only a part of a pantomime, and ho was sur• his learned friend would not say that a speech taken out of a play or a part of a ballet taken from a theatre constituted a stage play. Having alluded to the incidents of the ballet which were mentioned at the hearing of the former case, the learned sergeant said, if ho was right in his view that dis joined incidents could not be considered a stage play, then he was entitled to the judgment of the bench in his favour. After some other observations, the learned sergeant said that this was a question of law and not of sympathy; that the other side had failed to make out their case, and that the conviction must be reversed. The magistrates retired to consider their decision. On their return, The Assistant Judge said, considering the importance of this question, and how much these places contributed to the entertainment of the public, as the subject had already been considered by a. Parliamentary committee, it would be desirable if there was some enactment upon it ; but the Court had to give its opinion upon the question raised, and deal with it as a matter of fact, independent of any other considerations. The Court had been pressed much by a former decision, and it would be unpleasant to reverse its decision ; but there was a great distinction be tween this and the former case, and, taking all the facts of the case into consideration, and what had even been admitted by the learned counsel for the appellant, the Court was unanimously of opinion that this representation was part of a pantomime, and that the conviction must be affirmed. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine asked the court to postpone the enforcement of the penalties for throe months, pending the inquiry by Parliament, for if an act were passed no doubt there would be a clause inserted to deal with pending penalties. Tho Assistant Judge said they had nothing to do with that. He would make no order as to costs. PIGEON SHOOTING. GUN CLUB. The weather being favourable a large muster of the members of this club met at their shooting-ground, Shepherd's-bush, on Saturday last, and during the after noon no less than nine one sovereign sweepstakes were shot off. Lord Stormont, the newly-elected president of the club, was present for the first time this season, and proved by his shooting that ho was in first-rate " form." The following are the results : FIRST SWEEP.—This was divided between Capt. Bur nand, 27, Mr. J. Hodson, 251. Captain Ricardo killed two out of three, and the others missed their first and second birds. SECOND SWEEP.—Captain Ricardo, 24, and Mr. DaNies, 26, each killed their first three birds, and in shooting off both killed, so they divided. Mr. A. B. also killed three, but failed to bring down the foarth. THIRD SWEEP.—This was won by Mr. Rudd, 28, he having killed all three. Captain Burnand and Mr. Smith killed two each, but failed to score their third. FOURTH SWEEP.—Lord Stormont, 28, was the winner of this sweep, after having tied with Captain N. and A Burnand and Mr. Gregory. FIFTH SWEEP.—Mr J. H., 261, Mr. A. 8., 25k, Mr. Gregory, 27k, Captain Ricardo, 27}, and Mr. Hammersley, 22, all killed'two out of throe, and in shooting off all missed but Mr. A. 8., so the latter won the sweep. SIXTH SWEEP.--This was won by Mr. Charles Hambro, 27, who succeeded in bringing down all three. SEVENTH SWEEP.—Mr. M. Smith, 27, woO, after having tied with Sir Charles Lugard. EIGHTH SWEEP.—Mr. A. B. won by killing all three, Captain Stewart and Lord Stormont brought down two but missed their third. NINTH SWEEP. —Eight gentlemen shot in this sweep. Sir Charles Lugard, 2G, and Captain Stewart, 27, killed all their birds, so they YACHTING. PROGRAMM M E FOR 18G7 OF THE PRINCIPAL ETROPOLITAN CLUBS. May 14.—Prince of Wales' Yacht Club ; first match by yachts of 15 tons and under; prizes £25; from Erith to the Chapman Head and back. Entries to close May 3. May 29.—Royal London Yacht Club; first match, first class cutters, exceeding 25 tons, for two prizes, value £7O and Course from Erith round the Nom Light and back tt, Gravesend. Entries to close May 23. _ _ 1.1.ty 30.—Royal Thames Yacht Club ; first match for cutters of the first and second classes ; first class exceeding 33 tons, a prize value £lOO ; second class, exceeding 20 tons and not exceeding 35, a prize valse £5O. Course from Graves end round the Mouse and return. Entries to close May 27. June 8. —Royal London Yacht Club; ocean match open to any Royal club and the New York Yacht Club; prizes value about £l2O. Course from the Lower Hope into Harwich Harbour. Time of entry not yet fixed. Juno 10.—lloyal Thames Yacht Club; schooner match; open to vessels of any Royal Yacht Club or the New York Yacht Club; first prize value £lOO, second (if four start) value £5O; to sail with the usual fittings in ordinary sea going trim. Course from the Nore Light to Dover Har bour. Entries to close Juno G. June 28.—Royal Lond o n Yacht Club; second and third class yachts ; second, exceeding 12 tons and not exceeding 25 tons ; prize value £3O and £lO ; third class, not exceed ing 12 tons; prize value, £23 and £5. Course in both matches from Erith round the Nero Light, and return to Gravesend. Entries to close Juno 24. June 29.—Royal Thames Yacht Club; cutters of the third and fourth classes; third class, exceeding 12 tons and not exceeding 20 tors, prize value £3O; fourth class, 7 tons and not exceeding 12 tons, prize value £2O. Course from Gravesend round the Noro and return. Entries to close June 27. July 4.—Royal Thames Yacht Club; match open to vessels of any rig belonging to any Royal Yacht Club, or the New York Yacht Club; first prize value £100; second prize, it four start, value £5O ; no restriction as to canvas. Course from the Nore to Havre ; to sail with the ordinary fittings, in usual sea-going trim, pilot, but no extra hands; no limitation as to friends. Entries to close July 1. There is the usual time allowance in some of the above. The Prince of Wales's second match not yet fixed. Ristori returns to Europe in May. Her admir ing critic, Miss Kate Fiel:ls, goes with her. GENERAL SllEtt3lAN.—Captitin C. C. Duncan, the projector of the steamship voyage to Europe, has re ceived the following letter from General Sherman :—" St. Louis, March 28, 1867.—Captain C. C. Duncan. —D ear Sir- I am now fully euthori.;ed to act, b o th Gen. Grant' ' awl the President having committed themselves to my leave TO for the summer. You may,therefofroer, yreoguirsterny na me and that of my daughter, Minnie, excur sion. I have much to do in April an d May, but c an ho i n Now York punctually on any day you may appoint in June.--Truly yours, W. T. SHERMAN, Lieut.-General." 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