The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-28 00:00:00

T ~"~ r ' - ~~ G 6 - " z // ~,/ //7 "t ~~ v'",G% c~,~~' r;. L 9 % a ~ IMYSPAPE Ft . .. ~.: . f z,) ,,,, .t . : . , rq.N. ,_•-•:, - 1:-,..0.. t, 1.41.4 , Af, -,-- - 32:-.J. . ',.! f•-• ~..-:.lv. ~..., - 1. , , . - \r4w , . /s; - e. 4*f".l A penetrated the paper and mil *10:34414, surface, but in passing tthrough, 1 44rilocit' isea , t which gives light to coal gas, was 0 i'Mtrueteti a he flame was scarcely luminous. In another experi ment, a glass jar, containing hydrogen, was inverted over a porus earthenware vessel, filled with air, rind though there was no pressure exerted, the tend.enoy to diffuse forced the hydrogen through the vessel; and it rose in large bubbles in an inverted glass receiver filled with water. The discoveries of Mr. Graham have also extended to the changes effected in gases by transpiration forcibly through bodies with pores so minute as to be invisible ; and he has determined the proportions in which each gas can be thus trans pired. The remarkable fact in all these experiments is that when mixed gases are transpired, diffused, or penetrated, they do not pass through in the propor tions in which they were mixed, but in accordance with their relative powers of transpiration or diffu sion. Professor Otiling was somewhat hurried in his explanations of Mr. Graham's discoveries, in W a s anxiety to include a notice of them all within the hour ; but finding it impossible to do so, he sr.id he should continue the subject in another lecture after Easter. It had been announced in the programme that Professor Max Muller would deliver a lecture last evening, but in consequence of illness Professor Odling gave his lecture on gases a week before the time announced. The subject of the lecture next Friday will be on the Crystal Palace fire, by Mr. Scott Russell. , liIN lIIAN'S .LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHLBITION, 1865. This celebrat e d OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. I t is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole .▪ om e . sell in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; I '3▪ ' the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or o:6 lPfsal A a t R, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Ka], Pink Label, and Cork branded " Einaban's LL Whisky." • . . I ‘ri t° 6 =- I t •• • • • 04. 0-In • Ar • 1 'Ms r , . - . • . . N•s-,-1111eirli . • fir , — , • 4. 94, r •• DIE i. - i6 4 ' 0 .5 61 4,1 # '"Agr , DROIT. • - • ITUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Ino mpor tte. - 1 by Act of Varliaracnt. 1 , 3 , +0). ' 1 1.. 113 831 4 1T,L-STREET . COVEST-GARDEN. LONDON'. Ir e r *lPt ADVANCE by letter S on all description of Security. F,rms on application to EDWARD Fußr E it, Secretary. No. 23,286. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1867. PRICE.... 4d. STAMPED sd. AFTER Covent-garden Theatre—EVANS' to SUP. After Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Lyceum Theatre - EVANS' to SUP, After Adelphi Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Olympic Theatre .....EVANS' to SUP. Al ter Strand Theatre VVAN.i' to SUP. After New Hoyalty Theatre ......EVANS' to SUP. Alter St. James's l'heatrc ........EVANS' to SUP. Alter Prince of Walea' Theatre....EVANS' to SUP. London Singing and Supper Club, E VANS', Covent-garden, Vocal Entertainment at Eight. Administrative Reform. Mr. Childers, M.P., on Parliamentary and had been given to him. He should return to Par liament greatly strengthened and refreshed by the genuine and hearty manner in which they had been pleased to express their approval and confi dence. He concluded by moving a vote of thanks to the chairman, which was adopted unanimously, and the proceedings terminated. than it was in 1857, and that the urgency of the representations which overcame Mr. Glad stone's reluctance to the issue of the letter, was stimulated by panic. That the panic continued for several weeks afterwards, and that it was succeeded by a state of chronic distrust, from which we have scarcely yet emerged, proves nothing against the Bank Act; but it proves a great deal against the recklessness with which business was conducted by the organisations to which we have referred, so long as they had the power to conduct it. A motion for a Parliamentary inquiry, therefore, into the opera tion of the Back Act in 1866, would be simply raising a false issue. C° l -T'TRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES, ant BUSINESSES. F URNESS and KNEE'S List on application. for insertion received until the 27th of the h at their Now ready at all the LibraricP, in 3 vole., MR. MARK LE ci NI V I I LEYTON • HALL, We can heartily reccmmend these Ppiri ted ta7es to all who are in search of pleasing reading.'•— At li.nmurn. Burst atid Blackett, 13, Great Blirlborough-street. 5 AUCTION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES. Agar-street, S: raid, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Cross Railway Stition. H E 0 X F 0 RD, 6, QX.FORD-STREET, W., THE CRISES OF 1866 AND 1857. VALUABLE NEW-YEAR'S GIFT._ gad A CHINESE CADDY, containing 161135. of really Black Tee, sent carriage free to any railway station or "'!,rliet town in EnOand, Ireland, Scotland. or Wales, 0:1 re .:pt of 40 5., b PHILLIPS . and CO., Tea M erc h an t s, 8 , reet, City, E.C. • TANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per icetly pure an unealoured. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN BITKCIESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps). London. THE MUSICAT., ESTABLISHSIMNT OF LONDON. LES DRAGONS DE Vita. liS (Opera Comique), Music by A.•Maillart. in which Arts,. RUSSELL vail appear, as si.teil by MisQes Barrie and Fitz Benry ; Mears. A. St. Aibyn, Hulls, Fox. Husk, Evans, and Bury, with Extra Band and Chorus ; produced and conducted by Air. F. Jonglemaus. " The strength of Hr. Morton lies in his operatic selections, executed by a small but highly efficient bend, and a well selected body of vocalists, under the direction of Mr. F. Jon '—Times, Jan. 9,1867. (Front the Flu Monist) WILD-FOWL GUNS.—A large variety always -on hand. Single And double, various sizes, from £5 ss. Breech-loading Guns of large bores, single and double. This subject need not be prosecuted further at present ; but the view we have taken might be sup ported by other considerations than the simple condition of the Bank. It might be confirmed by references to the actual trade of the country ; by stocks of commodities which we hold and have paid for, stocks which negative the idea of a destruction of capital. Unless it can be shown that we have lost our commercial capital, there can be no case for inquiring into the administration of the Bank of England, or into the laws by which it is regulated. But as the loss of confidence and of credit, which marked the crisis of 186 G, arose from . causes independent of th e a d m i n i strat i on of th e Bank, and of the laws by which it is regulated, 11'11 IS CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d., ato 2s. 2s 61. per lb. are the prices at which PHILLIPS d u 0 • Tea Merchat 's, 111.1 fr William-street, City, Lon e°arr .., are sellin goo] rid line BLACK TEA. A price ,ent o• post free. 90a WO, t o carriage free to any railway ition or mark e t town in L..e United Kingdom.—Observe— rnmtes and CO. have no Agents or any connexion with house in W0]...1,s ter or Swansea. Sugars are supplied at w ftrke prises. Price Lists on application. E. M. REILLY and Co., 502, NEW OXFORD-STREET, LONDON. COMEDY, by Messrs. HARRY SYDNEY, MILBURN, G. W. ROSS, and Mr. FRANK HUSSEY. of the NEW AMERICAN MINSTI{ELS, THIS EVENING. " Of the decorum that prevails throughout .very section of the Hall it is imposzible to speak too highly. I —Times, Jan. v, 1867. DEAFNESS. The ORGANIC VIBRATOR.— It fits into the ear, not perceptible ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the head is entirely removed. It affords immediate relief to deaf persons, and enables them to hear distinctly at church and public assemb ies. Every other kind of hearing instrument —Messrs. SOLOMON, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. NOTICE. —)lr. ROBT. FIIASER, Comedian and Vocalist, will make his reappearance here THIS EVENING with his crop of comicalities and his new song, " The Boy at Dinghy." The At'antic and Great Western Itailw•ay, GEOLOG Y.-ELEMENTARY COLLEC -14 TioNs% to illustrate the New Edition of "Lyell's meats of neology" and facilitate the important study of g i :,' er4lo f.'y and Geolocry„ , can be had at 2,5, 1 0 , 20 , 50 to 500 an i d e as ; also single Specimens of Minerals, 1031 , 5, Fossils, „ .Ite,l(nt S Geologinal gar's. Hammers all te reecnt i 'cations, hells of TENNANT. Mineralogisth to Her 7. r B tY, 149. Stra' ' ad, London. Ai r. I iT at , Instru c ti on -t e given in Mineralogy and Gaology by • E NXANT, F.G.S., 149, Strand, W.C. 'JADAME TUSSAIM'S EXHIBITION, BARER-STREET. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. NEW ADM rroNS. —Life-size Models of the KINGS and QUEENS (4 VICTORIA. KNGLAND, fromWILLIIM of NORMANDY to Q Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admittance, Is.; children, under ten, half-price; extra rooms, &I _ARTIFICIAL TEETH.-A MONTH'S TRIM. GIVENT.—If not perfectly comfortable, use ful, and undetectable the money returned without hesitation. Mr. DAY, Dentist (many years with Mr. Eskcll, Surgeon- Dentist, of Grosvenor-street, W.), offers, as above, the most convincing proof of the unerring end painless prineples upon which he constructs incorrodible MINERAL ARTI FICIAL TEETH, whether singly or in partial or complete sets, to serve the purposes of mastication, articulation, and pers inal appearance. Ills terms will be found the most moderate of any advertised, compatible with pure materials and first-class workmanship, but they are apart front the ridiculous and tempting prices put forth to attract mere attention. "THE lUJIN OF THE FEW IS THE GAIN OF THE MANY." THE Panic of '66 and its consequent depression of the Colonial Mirsets enables tho ‘• EAST INDIA COAIPANY" to offer TEA 6 LOWER THAN EVER,. Pound 9 of Good 're% for 6s. Ad. can't be dear. (l e tt Co m mptiny's KAISOWS by the Clipper Ships are really 9 , Great St. Helen's Churchyard. Bishopsgate _. street, Jan. 1, 1867. there is a valid case for a Parliamentary enquiry into those causes. ARGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO, Windmill-street. Piccadilly. These elegant and popular Rnoms, having been entirely re decorated, are now OPEN EVEKY EVENING for Concert and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Lear CURTL Manager, M. GRENET. r Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. Reserved Seats, Two Shillings. WILLS AND BEQUEST?. lie guarantees painless manipulation, and in the generality of cases will make from one tooth to a complete set in a few lours. Extractions when necessary. and all the ordinary painful operations performed without giving the slighte,t pain by a new process, and without the use of chloroform or other dangerous ingredlent, Stopping decayed teeth, and discoloured teeth restere 1. Sze.. Attendance. 10 to 6.. All consultations free.-291, REGENT-ST aEET, three doors from the Polytechnic. D ix INNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. - thish m^dicat profession for Thirty years have approved A el Pure solution ot Magnesia as the best remedy for day of tin Stomach, Heartburn, Headaee, Gent, and 4 1 4 1 igestion ; and as the best mild aperient for delicate coo t utions e s pec iallyadapted for Ladles, Children, and In ants. WEST° N' S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. NOIICE OF REILOVAL. Sole Proprietors, SWEASBY and 'romaNn. Grand Selectfon from Auber's Opera of "MASA NIELLO," by 40 vocalists dressed in costume as at the opera. Everybody should see the Irish Minstrels, every evening at 9 o'clock, with songs, dances, and Irish anec dotes, under the direction of I'at Coml. A new and origi ml overture composed and arranged expressly for the above minstrels by Mr. H. Baker. Arthur Lloyd at 11, with a new song " Borachio, Pestachio, Lablachio, Moustachio, and the Roly Poly Eye "—Jolly Nash, Georgina Smithson, Paddy Fannin, Patrick Sellers, and Harry and Hattie King ; and Pio Watkini, the Japanaze Juggler. Band of 30 first-class performerg, and large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera Houses. Musical Director, Mr. P. Comtr. DINNE FORD and CO., Chemists, 172 New Bond-street, London ; and of all other chemists DEF_R_IES and SONS' J• NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS contain an entirely new an i extensive Stock of TABLE GLASS, China, and Chan delier..-147, Boundsditch. throughout the world. AIR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Vleet-street, has introduced an entirely new descrlp o-r 7, 0 0. f ARTIFICIAL TEE rH, fixed without springs, wires, as ',Mures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth be not to be distinguished fro n the originals by the closest b - e ' , f e o rver ; d and will they will never change colom or ecay, r not , and superior to any teeth ever before used. This u , nod does not require the extraction of roots, or any pain loLoPeration, and wilt support and preserve teeth that are ti' , and is guaranteed to restore articulation ang and useful Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful Mastication. • NOTICE OF REMOVAL. JDEFRIES and SON S' NEW CITY SHOW BOOM .—The New Oval-shaped ALEXANDRA. DINNER SERVICE, from £1 383. 6d.- 147, Houndsditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL• DE.FRIES and SONS • NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS.—BREAKFAST and TEA. SERVICES in great variety. from £1 is. upwards.- 147, Houndsditch. Prices . of admission—Stalls 'lnd Balcony, 1s • Area, 6d • • , • . Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. • Can be secured at the Box Office, between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open every • :.• Evening at 7 o'clock. 52. Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5 NONCE OF REMOVAL. JDEFRIEa and SON S' • NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS contain a beautiful assortment of DESSERT SICktVICES, from Li Is. to 100 guineas. CreAs and Monograms engraved on same. -147, Houndsditch. • R UPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETT KRS PATENT. lIITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS R x ( PERFECTED AND EXIIIBITED IN THE GREAT ntnITIONS ot 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwards of Lw %mitred Helical Gentlemen to be the most effecve 7e o ntion in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use ' 0 1 , steel spring, so otten hurtful in its effects, is here ided—a sot t b,nda, po ze being worn round the body, while p a e d re quisite resistinzpower i 4 supplied by the Moc -Afain ass and Patent Lev,r, fitting with so lunch ease and close sic_ that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during yip; A. descriptive circular may be had, and truss, u2ca cantot fail to fit, forwarded thept. on the oircum t`,'_enee of the body, two inches below hips, being sent to Manufacturer, A 81 Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. kle Truss,2ls., 26s 6d., and 315.6 d. Postage, Is. 414•nU mbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. Off s sP t- i dill dace Orders y to be made payable to John White, Post e°, cca, NEW PATENT p , ASTI C STOCKINGS, Weiii'• : 1111 E-CAPS, Sic., for Varicose Veins and all eases ut Per o —e gg and Swelling of the Legs, 4 prains, Ace. They are like aB ,ll 2'ht in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on each" ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 108 . , and 16 s. • oataqe 6d. J e s rlN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.' iXIIIBITORS at the PARIS EXHIBITION, SE -l i rt ,:whn ADVERTISE in AGENT SUN," can have the i d `" ICES of A SPECIAL in PARIS, whose mre ss can be obtained at " The Sun" Office. He has a !i)ereet knowledge of French, is also acquainted with busi -74, and has Paris connections. On application The O bAgent in, either personally or by letter, he will Whom:very possible facility for Exhibitors, or persons theyhave other bushieWla l'act§, , er who -- may go pleasure only. } TIN G.--TO PROPRIETORS OF . N EWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.—The Print !ng and M ac hi n i ng of Newspapers, &c., done ou exceed ingly favourabl e t erms. U se o f Edit or i a l an d P u bli s hi ng f4 coa, if r equ i re d . E s ti mates f orwarded on rece i pt of Particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. 1.-Address—The Manager "Sun" Printing Offices, 3,:Church- Qw, Savoy, Strand, W.O IVIANSION HOUSE. RELIEF D IS .-METROP 0 LITAN TRESS FUND. The LORD MAYOR, Chairman. 9keoo• . Bevan, E sq . Th e G overnor o f th e B ank of ". Moore, Esq. England. P. Gassiot, Esq W. Leaf. Esq. air. -Alderman Fin nis.. Rd. B. Wad e , E s q. e• P. Gabriel, Esq• Robt. Wigntm, Esq. ,C.,, , :?1• Stuart Wortle. Hy. Green, Esq. ..v • J. Maxwell, Esq. Rev. Wm. Rogers. arr. Alderman Besley. Rev. F. G. Blomfield. Mr. Alderman Dakin W. D. Bromley, Esq., M.P. Mr. Alderman mold Sheriff John H o h ns , E sq . Waterlow. ' Mr. Ald. Salomons, M.P. JkMr. Sheriff Lyeett. John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. . Thompson, E sq . Si r Anthy. Rothschild, Bart. as. Duke Hill, Esq. Alfred Rothschild, Esq. 11. A. Gray, Esq. Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P. R. N. F ow l er, Esq. Rt. Hon. G. J. Goschen. M.P. Mr. Alderman Cotton. R. W. Crawford, Esq. M.P. Samuel M or l e y, E sq. P. Cazenove, Esq., The Lord Mayor and the above committee, being anxious to alleviate the great distress w prevailin g x various parts of th e me t ropolis, will sa c. at - theMansi o in n House at Two o'clock d a il y f or that purpose, and earnestly request the benevolent p u bli c t o aid them with donations to enable them to carry out their object. Sul , scriptions will be received by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House, and the following Bankers, viz., Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co.; Messrs. Barnett, Hoares, and Co.; Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Messrs. Drummond and Co. ; Messrs. Dimsdale, Fowler, and Co. ; Messrs. Glyn , Mills, and Co.; Messrs. Prescott, Grote, auq C o.; Messrs.Robarts, Lubbock, and Co.; Messrs. Ransom Deuvetie and Co. ; Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart., and Co. ; Imperial Bank ; the London IV Westminster Bank; the London Joint-Stock Bank ; the National Provincial Bank, and all their Branches. JOSEPH GIBBS, Secretary. Mansion House, January 23, 1867. CONTRACT FOR SOUTH-WESTERS. CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIT' `"" A L Ty . 5 , Somerset House, 19th Janus- , 1867. HE COMMISSIONERS T the OFFICE of LORI` HIGH EXECUTING ..., H ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM "0t GREAT BRITAIN and IRE :LeAND do hereby f :ttve Notice, th a t on MONDAY, the 4th brua nex!-,,, at Twelve o'clock a t N oon, they will be ready 4Yry to teat with such p ersons as may b e willing to Con ti;, I;or supplying an d delivering into her M a j es t y ' s Vir g Stores at Deptford all such quantities of SOUTH -WES TERS Z s may from ti me t o ti me b e demanded under a Contract, "Or Tvvelvo Calendar Months certain, and further until the expiration cf Three Calendar Months' warning. thTmse he lv Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to thin an unlimited power of selection in accepting tho Tend ers. anNo T en d er will bo received unless made on the printed provided fo r th e p urpose, and which may be obtained application in the Lobby of the Depai tment of the Con trollertk of Vi c t ua l l i ng, Admiralty, Somerset House, where "0 Conditions of the Contract and a pattern South-Wester iay be seen. theo Tender will be received after 12 o'clock at noon on ;day of treaty ; and it will not be required that the party r ,",,,nderin g , or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the ` - "oce on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer re -ma from each person will be communicated to him and -ma proposed sureties in writing. A Every Tender m us t b e a dd ressed to the Secretary of the - rultniralty, an d b ear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for South-Westers," and must also be delivered at athe Department o f th e C ontroller of Victualling, Ad y, Somerset Somerset House, signed by two responsible per sons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of .£lOO for the due performance of the Con tract. By order, ANTONIO BRADT, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14e, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C. Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and treakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the destitute, who otherwise wo u ld h ave h a d t o pass t h e ' l ights in the bleak stre e t s or un d er ra il way arc h es. At present nearly 500 Ni g ht s ' L o d g i ngs, w ith S uppers and B reakfasts, are given grat u it ous l y every wee k . The poor from all parts are admitted, th e on l y con di t i on b eing that they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c., IreceiVPS no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand ling the provision m a d e b y th e P oor Houses, each night numbers of young women , c hi luren, and orphans for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, and hars to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the Pesidworks sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required. e providing shelter for the homeless, this year it Pols pro-posed, as far as the donations obtained for the kart se will allow, to give b rea d an d coa l s to poor families 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 stal 'iug ? Tho smallest donation will be most welcome, be a ndi night in d morning: the prayers of th e d es tit ute will offered and mornin the prayers of the dertitute will be Offered in Your be SUBSCRIPTIONShaI ar f s earnestly requested, and will be Ra.tsfully received by,the J,), GILBERT D.D.,1N0 22, 1114111 714.r0u0, B. 0„ NOTICE OF REDIOVAL. JDEFRIES and SONS • NEW CI rY sim W ROODS.—CRYSTAL CHAN DELIERS, New Designs for the Drawinz-room. either for Gas or Candle, and to suit all kinds of Decorations. —ll7 Houndsditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. T DEFRIES and S ONS I U NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS.—RRONZIC and OR. MOLU CHANDELIERS in great variety. New Designs for the Dining-room-147, lioundsditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. JDEFRIES and SONS' . NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS.—The ALEXANDRA FLOWER. VASE. This new and beautiful Vase can be Aeon in great variety, from 3i. to 30s. each —147, [founds ditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. J•DEFRIES and SONS' • NEW CITY snow - ROOTS.-The NEW JET DINING ROOJI VASE. Registered designs, in great variety.—l 47, Houndsditch. NOTION: OF REMOVAL, JbEFRIES and SONS' . NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS. TAVERN and HOTEL GLASS of the newest pa terns and correct mea sure.-147. Houndsditeh. NOTICE OF REMOVAL, DEFRIE S and S 0 NS' • NEW CITY 8110 W ROOMS.—ORNANIk'NTAL CLOCKS for the DINING and DRAWING-R 0031.-147, Donn& ditch. NOTICE OF hEMOVAL. DEFRIES and SONS' J• NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS — l Bferehant4 and the Trade supplied with PATT ERN BOOKS k'REE. —lf7, Huundsditch. Works—London, Birmingham, and Parts. Established 1803. Just published, 2d; sent by the author for 3 stamps, UGLINESS and BEAUTY ; being a Pamphlet descriptive of articles and means used for improving the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL. which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair, 8s 6d, 5s 6d, and tOs 6d; sent by post for 51, 84, and 14$ stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one day by usin , / ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. Tilt- preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, removin2: the veryroot. Price 48; sent by post for 60 stamps. —248, High Holborn, London, and alt Chemists. GEOLOGY. —KING'S COLLEGE, London._ Professor TENN ANT, F.G S., will commence a Course of WEDNESDAY EVENING LECTURES on GEOLOGY, from Sto 9. First• Lecture. Jan 50. Fee, 41 lg. And a more extended Course on WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY MORNINGS, from 9 to 10. First Lecture, Jan. 25. Thi s Course will be continued till May. Text-book—Lyell' s "Elements of Geology." R. W. JELL',, D.D., Principal. 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 18C8. Quotations on application. JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the world."—Loadon Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C., next the " Times." TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork, beg to announce that they are able to supply the trade with their celebrated Whiskies, in casks or easel, and to take orders in bond :ad for exportation, at their offices, 7, Printing-house-square, London, E•C., the only house in the square not occupied by the " Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies bring the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial markets, rs may be observed by reference to the "Journal of Commere, , of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their whiskies fete:► ed. per gallon and la. per CaSe over the next best, and Is. 6d per gallon and ss. 6d. ao. se 0 , et Oh: lowest quotation. Always on hand a lar;,o supply id ve y old mellow whisky in the finest condition, matured in sherry casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, supplied on the most reasonable terms. FAU-DE-VlE.—This P ure P ALE BANDY, J 18s. per gallon, is vt ry superior to recent importations of cognac, recommended by the medical profession, and ex tensively used in hospitals. In bottles , 38s. per dozen, or in a cafe 395., railway carriage paid.—HENRT BRETT and CO., Old Furnival's Distillery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent street, S.W. Established 1829. RAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holb orn , London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID ettrb. Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold St ng ad, 58 6d, and lOs 6d ; sent free for 54, 84, and 144 stamps —llad of all Chemists. CI HAIR.-248, High Holborn, LoPr l un. _ CI ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produceP tural in etre t. Price 3s ed. bg ' . perfect t c olour Immediately it is used. 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WILLIAMS, Secretary. Boys' Refuge, 8, 14reat Queen-street, N.C. OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-..CON TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing the COUNTRY HOME. £l,OOO required. WM. WILLI XMS, Secretary. Boys Refuge, 8. Great Queen-street. W.C. TI OAIELESS BOYS OF LOND ON. —The Commit a forre most anxious to provide 400 bos. One hundred a tee nd fifty are now in the Refuge. The annu y al expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at £6,oie, being Zl5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends have promised to pay for one boy each year. Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothburv, and 214, High Holborn; Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Yall-Mall East; and by WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. TIIE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another Lome to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer 'ban 455 pt'or, friendless, young females were rejected from want of rum DS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in Live years. rhe new home the Committee wish to form would be for young girls, almost children, Pram the age of b to 15, wh ( have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be recei ve d gra t e f u l ly by th . ^ '!r. Daniel Co o p er, 35, Queen • street, Cheap.' - 'effeLarY. Barclay and Co., Lomb ar d- streetw or by illessrr OYAT, F"'" AI,EE HOSPITAL, Gray's-road, immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail woY aminus, King's-0M t. Patron—MT Rost Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vice- Pis=lt—His Royal Highness the Prince of WA.LE 8, It G. President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. E.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the prinoiple of free admission to the sick poor, withou the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions andiganes. It affords relief to a large number of in-pa lents, and, in addition to this, the a verage lum b er o f atten d ance of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee ear estly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benecolent, as the pr nises of this Hospital aro capable en containing several la,udred more beds h ad the Committee the requisite muds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co.. Abehurch-lane; also by Messrs. 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London, and by most drug gists, in boxes,le. ifd., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask .for Dr. Soott'a Bilious and Liver FM& The genuine are a square green package, with Lambert." engraved on the stamp. • THE BEST REMEDY FOR INDIGE3TION. NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi dently recommended as a simple but certain Remedy for Indigestion, which I- , the cause ot nearly all the diseases to which we are 6ubject, being a rr e d lei ne so uniformlerate tut and beneficial, that it is with Justice called the "Natural Strengthener ot the unman Stomach." "Norton's Pills" act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient; are mild in their operation. sate under any circumstances, and thousands of persons can now bear testimony to the benefits to be derived from their use. as they have been a never-failing Family Friend for upwards of 20 years. Sold in bottles at Is. lid., 2s. 9d and lie. Oath, in every town in the kingdom. Be sure and ask fog I` CAUTION. persusdad to NORTON'S PILLS," and do not be Plrechase any of the various imitations which have sprung' it - • A _ e _ m consequence of the success. of NORTON b ~.....i.LE PILLS. WHAT IS YOUR CREST AND WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO I' Send as. al to Ct3tit,b 'OW l eraidic ace for a Plain 81tetch, or ds. 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 paintPcla fee 10s. Juit complete, a very valuable book With PO Engravings, arms, crests, and mottoes of nearly every .family in the kingdom, the result of thirty years laholit . 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 to change one's name, by T. Culleton, Engraver to her M4jesty and ItoYal family ; also Diesinker to the hoard tf Ti4Addi 25, draft!. bourn-street (cornet of St. Martin's-lane), W.C. Mr. C. Johnson, of Hull, says thathe has adopted Ihe suggestion of the Recorder of Hull for saving coal, by covering the bottom of the grate with a plate of iron, with the following result The result in my house, where I have had quarter-inch iron plates fitted at the bottom of two fire-grates, at an expense of 2s. each, is a saving in coal of about one-third, with a considerable increase in heat. A large number of persons here have already satisfactorily tried the experiment, and the use of the plates is likely to become general in this locality." This is valuable information during the present unusually severe winter, and when coals are daily becoming more expensive, A very singular accident oottrred on Sunday - evening at the Clapham-road Station of the London ) Chatham, and Dover Railway*: A gtntlenian named Young, of Xingsland ; stepped out of a carriage upon a plate of flooring glass about A yard square, which, being rendorod Mule by the frost i broke under his weight and he suddenly dill ideated. The glass was fixed to light A 4lairease by a shaft about 17 feet in depth. Mr. Young's clothes were much , ;tit and torn, an d he received several severe wounds ; iiieces of flesh being torn out by the pro jecting points of the broken material, besides being severely shaken by the fall. A grating over the glass would 'have prevented this accident. The Judge has taken time to consider his de cision in the case of Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited). It appears to us that many journals have overlooked the fact in commenting on this case that the promoters of the Limited Company were, substantially, the old firm. They argue as if that firm had disposed of their business to a body of promoters who proposed to form it into a Limited Liability Company. It is stated that the affairs of the firm were honestly laid bare to the promoters. But who were these promoters ? Were they not the members of the old firm, and their relations and friends ? This is a question of the deepest interest, and thaton which the culpability of the old company mainly rests. It is asserted that the Corps Legielltif will meet ) on the 11th of February. On Friday night Mr. Childers, M.P., addressel his constituents in the West Riding Court-house, Pontefract. Mr. Richard Maxon occupied the chair. Mr. CIULDERS was received with loud applause. He expressed the very great pleasure it gave him to be once more amongst them to give an account of his stewardship. He felt that it was a pleasure to put before them as clear a statement as he could of the present state of political matters, so that if he had their confidence he might be able to return to his duties in Parliament with satisfaction and alac rity. When he stood before them two years ago he stated that we had jUst passed through one of the great eras of politics—the era of free trade. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had by a suc cession of masterly movements pretty nearly ex hausted that budget of free trade to which the country and Parliament were committed some years ago, and he told them that they were ap proaching subjects of a difficult kind that required most careful deliberation. During the first four years he was in Parliament he was a member of the party supporting the Government of the day, and learnt his Parliamentary business upon the back benches of the Government side of the house—not always supporting them, but yielding to them a general allegiance—but rather more than two years ago he was called to bear his share in the govern ment of the country, and as they were pleased to approve the conduct he had adopted as an indepen dent member of Parliament, so they had been pleased to suppress his conduct as a subordinate member of her Majesty's Government. (Applause.) He now came before them as a member of the Opposition, his duty being to support the Government when he thought them right, and oppose them when he thought them wrong, for he was there as one of the representatives of this great country, above all party considerations, to endeavour to do his best for the country at large. Let him in a few words remind them that a Government supposed to be in a large majority in Parliament had been re placed by a Government supposed to be in a mino rity. Although not actually returned by the elec tors of Pontefract until 1860, he considered himself as their member from 1859, and in that year the question of reform was in the hands of a Conserva tive Government. He should never forget the cir cumstances of his canvass in 1859, when he saw all his opponents quite as stanch reformers as himself, indeed he was a little beaten in the race as to the extent of reform they were to ask for. The bill of Lord Derby's Government, however, met with the disapprobation of Parliament, and Lord Palmers ton's Government came into office. That Govern ment felt it to be its duty to propose to the Parlia ment a considerable reform in the representation of the people, but it was talked out of the house. Between 1860 and 1865 great growlings, took place on the subject, but the Government did not feel itself in a position to initiate further measures. Then came the election of 1865, and last year a moderate bill 'was proposed by her Majesty's Go vernment. Lord Palmerston had proposed a £6 bill for boroughs and £lO for counties, while that of Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone was a £7 bill for boroUghs and £l4 for counties; the difference therefore was an addition of no less than 300,000 electors by the last bill, against an addition of pos sibly 450,000 by the bill of 1860. Thus there was a material difference of 150,000 electors. It was said to be an imperfect bill because it did not deal with the question of the redistribution of seats. It was simply a franchise bill, which would not have taken effect until somewhere about the °loan of the preeou4s yew, and therefore there was plenty of time to deal with the question. (Applause.) While on that subject, let him remind them at any rate at Pontefract they had no personal interest in the question of redistribution, for Mr. Gladstone, in one of his speeches last year, had said that the borough of Pontefract was a constituency of mode rate size, and not a small borough in the sense of the bill then proposed, or in any bill ever introduced into Parliament by a Government which undertook to deal with the subject of small boroughs for the purpose of restricting their representation. (Loud cheers.) That, then, was the imperfect character of the bill, and it was to that supposed imperfect character of the bill that the severest attacks were directed, and he might almost say successfully directed. It was not, however, upon that question that the Government were finally defeated, for the final d e e o fe n a s t ti c tu am en e ey, from a noble lord representing an Irish valuation by rating instead of thevaluation by rental, which the p eop l e i n th i s par t o f the country who proposed the system o f so very much sympathised with. (Loud cheers.) The Government f e lt i t i ts duty to res i gn office, and he thought they would all agree that it had no other course—(hear, bear)—for it had been dragged through a succession o f di v i s i ons , i n which its ma jorities had been only 5, 10, 14, 7, until at last the majorities were convicted into a minority. Such, in short, was the history of tha late Reform Bill, and now they had in office the ablest men on the other side of politics, headed in both houses by those who had been the leaders of the party for many years past—as able men as could be found in the Con servative ranks. The question was to be asked hteW ought this Government to be treated by those who were their political opponents last year, and upon that question he was anxious to obtain their advice and support. Hi s a nswer would be positive Mid tindetibled elien g h, ne did not think they should deal with the present Government--he meant particularly those Who -were attached to the late Government—as if they httcl Weft turned out of office on an orditiary patt y division; they themselves being ettgef thid deAlfbiN bf Oflide: That certainly was not the line taken by Lord Derby di' his porters in both Houses of Parliament, for he showed a great desire to include in his Government men not attached to the Conservative ranks, They were not to treat the Government as if they had 11 „een bttstcd from office by a succession of intrigues. If a Govern ment did its duty, those who sat on the other side of thehotiSe showed them some forbearance ; for It took present ene both the sup porta nel h Considerable time td build t ip a il efiltierit t*ecti tive Ci- O VOiniitetit, and changed weakened an Mini wniisttroautitni alsothing:aentdti6 weakened, ak Government, , notwithin influence of the cou n t ry: H e was per pared ! geaerotte eGIISICICTati OR and forbearan ce Which their Meastires would justify. (Ch eers. ) T h at brought him to the question of Parliame n t ary re torm, upon which subj ect there were several courses b r t ed tthl to i tt e t y bad aright to expect from pe u tie a t friend s open to the Governm ent s They might bring in a bills i bring In no bill at a ll, an d say th e y might pr ocee d b y reso l ut i on; they house to supp or t th e m hi ap- t n of in qu i ry I or th ey m i g h t nothing they mightaboutaos k m itight i t thei ss i 0 wait, as had been suggested the other day, for the house to instruct them as to the action they should take. The last course was like asking them to be come political Macawbers of the day, waiting for ti ( t L si a d u e g b h .,e te fo r r a e nd tl a le p y o d a e u te se r .) ment, and that the present Government would not somethinginaiienefdeNVlt i b t ac eo t°, tne o u oli l ud d tr:s b ner etnt thato i l t t P e utterly if this suggestion were adopted take.l o y unworthy of any Govern. listen to it, and go about the consideration of this great question in such a light and childish manner. (Cheers.) Mr. J. CARTER (Knottingley), in proposing a vote of confidence to the hon. member, expressed his opinion that if the Government attempted to carry on without . bringing in a Reform Bill, they would have to resign within a week. (Applause.) Mr. KNIGHT seconded the proposition. He was very much pleased to see that Mr. Childers was prepared to support the principle of arbitration for the settlement of strikes. (Applause.) The vote was carried amidst prolonged cheering. Mr. CHILDERS acknowledged the vote, and ten dered his thanks for the very warm reception which The years 1866 and 1857, though separated by a wide interval of time, present, with regard to the Bank Act of 1844, some points of resemblance ; and if there are to be found some divergencies be tween them, there are also various points in which they are apparently, if not ac tually, identical. They were both remarkable for most serious crises; but the causes were different. In 1857 the crisis was commercial, arising from in flated trading; in 1866 it was financial, arising from boundless financing. In both years there was a call for the suspension of the Bank Act ; and in 1857 the Bank Act was actually, while in 1866 it was only virtually, suspended. The crisis of 1857 was followed by a grave Parliamentary inquiry, which established the conclusion that the Bank Act had nothing to do with the crisis. Tliat of 1866 was followed by a demand for a Parliamentary inquiry, and the Bank Act was charged with having intensified the crisis. Very little is now heard of the necessity for inquiry ; and it is uncertain whether the Government will assent to the demand if it be made.. But further comparisons I between the two periods may be made with some advantage, we think, in determining whether in quiry be - expedient, or, at all events, in determining in what direction the inquiry, if conceded, should be made. The directors of the Bank of England, we have reason to believe, are at present both neutral and passive ou this question. They are not opposed to inquiry, but they will not shrink from it ; and if it be instituted, the information in their power to communicate will be given simply and solely in the interest of the public. The crisis of 1857 had, no doubt, its silent origin in the gold discoveries some years previously, of California and Australia. The effect of those dis coveries was an enormous expansion of our foreign trade, a vast accumulation of bullion in the Bank, a high reserve of notes, and a low rate of discount. Between 1854 and the autumn of 1857, large amounts of capital were employed in the Australian and American trades ; the bullion held by the Bank fell to moderate proportions ; and the rate of dis count stood at 52 per cent. To these changes the outbreak of the Crimean war contributed a large share. Whilst this was the position there arose a sudden demand for specie for India, and directly afterwards there was nearly a universal suspension of specie payments by the banks of the United States. Great alarm and some most extensive failures were the inevitable results ; the conti nental banks advanced their rates ; and whilst the crash was in progress, it was discovered that certain banks iv. the North had been supporting a most un sound and illegitimate system of trading. The Bank of England faced the store with effect. The Government authorised the directors to increase their issues, which they did to the extent of £2,000,000 ; and the rate of discount was main tained at 10 per cent. for a period of six weeks, when it was at one movement lowered to 8, and subsequently to the normal terms of the market. Thus the crisis of 1857 arose from bad trading, aggravated by the suspension of specie payments in in the United States ;, and the Parliamentary corn mittee found that as the Bank Act, of 1844 could not possibly have checked or prevented these con ditions, it was not responsible for the consequences which ultimately followed them. The crisis of 1866 arose from different, yet in some respects, analogous causes to those in force before 1857. For example, though sixteen or seventeen years have elapsed since the gold discoveries of California and Australia, the impetus which they communicated to trade is not yet exhausted. The momentum continues ; and if the Crimean war de ranged the previous movement from 1854 to 1855, a greater disturbance arose from 1861 from the conflict within the United States. But the impel ling force of a constant production of gold created new or extended old markets with the ultimate result that our trade increased enormously between the years 1860 and 1865. The action on trade which originated from perpetual supplies of gold was accelerated, we should say intensified, by a series of three, if not four good harvests, each of which saved to the country a minimum of ten millions of capital. Whilst this condition was in course of development, two circumstances arose which, in their effects at least, were analogous to the unsound trading that preceded the crisis of 1857. These were, the legislative adoption of the principle of limited liability, concerning the true nature of which most people were profoundly un informed ; and the other the introduction, with ill considered haste, of numerous finance and credit companies, after the French model in their elemen tary form, but opposed to it in their legal effects as regarded the liability of shareholders. The public blindly engaged their fortunes to nominally limited companies, but to practically unlimited liabilities ; and the finance and credit companies, constituted exactly after the same fashion, engaged in great en terprises abroad as well as at home, and flooded, for a long time, the money market with their accept need and their debentures. Chiefly, mainly, from this cause money, notwithstanding the accumula tions arising from good harvests, a state of peace, and a sound general trade, was dear. The first signs of a collapse came from India, where a great ttpestilation had arisen through the sudden demand for cotton, owing to the closing of the American market ; and then by degrees It same out that an excessivtly unsound business had been done by the credit, the finance, and iopie of the discount com pile. Thqq, was a crash in London in which several banks disappedredi and also the great house of Overend, Gurney, and Company. All had, more or less, done an unsound business. At the heAght vf the panic there was ,a demand for the sus pension of the Bank Act of 1844 ; and one of the last public measures of Earl Russell's Government was to issue a letter empowering the Bank of Eng. land to increase its issues, charging 10 per cent. This letter was not acted upon, but the 10 per cent. minimum was maintained for a period of just three months. Can it be contended on this statement of facts that the Bank Act of 1844 is responsible for the crisis of 1866 ? We submit that it cannot; but that, if there is to be a Parliamentary inquiry into the causes of the crisis, its direction should obviously be to the operation of the principle of limited liabi li ty finance a day authorised the suspension of the Act In 1857 th e Government of the of 1844, upon their sole nd com in p t a o ni t e h s e . proceedings of the cre dit and day were urged to suspend the Act, by d e p utations and individuals , but not by the Bank directors , w ho, respons ibility, without any suggestoiovnerLormaepnptliocfattiohn from the City. I n 1866, the Government therefore, be useful to comp ' -t before the issue of the Bank at the two periods, jtb from that position, respective letters, to see whether, as in 1857, were reason for urging a there was in 1866 any valid passive inartehethmeapttoesrit.ionltofmtahye, Nov. 11, 1857 . Ma y 9, 1866. - 1, 000 ... X 13 1 156 ) 140 Bullion ............. £7,lr R eser ve of notes and. 5,811,745 ... coin .................. 1 , 461, 000 ssuuspeernflanioousn, w hich was unexercise d, and therefore p P r i va t e deposits ... 12 , 935,000 ... 13,515,537 P r i va t e securities... 26 , 113,000 814, 9 17 Let it be borne in m ind that d just were immediately positions • of the Bank of Eng lan before the issue of the Government letters. It ese 20the relative will be obvious, at a g lance, that the position of the ,Bank was greatly Owner in 1866 (From the Illustrated London News.) The will of the Right Hon. Lady Anna Maria Dawson, of Gloucester-place, Portman-square, was proved in London, on Dec. 27, 1866, by Caroline Stuart Erskine, her niece, the sole executrix. The personalty was sworn under £16,000. Her ladyship was the daughter of the first Earl of Portarlington, and was for many years Lady of the Bedchamber to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Her ladyship executed her will July 23, 1866, and died Dec. 12 last. Her ladyship has bequeathed to her nephew, Lionel Dawson Darner, a legacy of £3,000, and also leaves him specific bequests of plate and books. She bequeaths legacies of £l,OOO each to four of her nieces ; and there are specific bequests to other relatives and friends, and liberal legacies to her servants. Her ladyship leaves the large gold bracelet given to her by the Queen, containing the likeness and hair " of the dear Duchess of Kent," to her niece, Caroline Margaret Parnell. The residue of her property she leaves to her niece and execu trix, Caroline Stuart Erskine, absolutely. The will of Dr. Henry Jeafferson, M.D., late of Finsbury-square, was proved in London, on the 16th inst., by his relict Frances Jeaffreson ; his brother, Alfred M. Jeaffreson, Esq. ; and his brother-in-law, Robert F. Burnett, Esq., the joint acting executors. The personalty was sworn under £60,000. The will, with a codicil, are both dated Dec. 1, 1866 ; and he died on the 7th of the same month, aged 56. His signature is tremulously written. The attesting wit nesses are J. R. Bennett, M.D., and G. N. Edwards, M.D., both of Finsbury-square. Dr. Jeaffreson was senior physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to which he leaves a legacy of £lOO for general pur poses; and to Sister Elizabeth (Ann Taylor), of that hospital, 19 guineas. There are a few other legacies, namely, to Dr. Alex. Gordon, M.D., £25 ; to his brother, John F. Jeaffreson, 100 guineas ; to the nurse of his children, £5O ; to his butler, cook, and coachman, each 19 guineas and mourning. He be queaths to his wife au immediate legacy of £l,OOO and all the furniture, &c., and a life interest in his estate, called Denbigh, at Dorking, together with the interest arising from the residue of the personal estate. The real estate, at her decease, will devolve to his son, Henry Gordon Jeaffreson ; and from the residue of his personal estate he leaves to each of his two daughters £lO,OOO ; and the ultimate residue to his said son, Henry Gordon Jeaffreson. The will of Bartholomew Claypon, Esq., formerly of Boston, Lincolnshire, and late of Branch Hill Lodge, Hampstead, was proved in London by the executors and trustees—Francis T. White, Esq., solicitor, and William and Thomas Garfit, Esqrs., bankers, all of Boston. The personalty was sworn under £lBO,OOO. The testator died Oct. 27, 1866, aged 74, having executed his will Jan. 7, 1864. There are three legacies of £3,000 each to personal friends, and other bequests. The residue of his pro perty he divides into four parts, leaving one fourth to the children of his late sister, Mrs. Hill ; one fourth to the children of his late sister, Mrs. Hudson (his nephew, SeptimusHudson, receiving an annuity of £6O therefrom); one fourth to the children of his late sister Charlotte; and the remaining fourth to Lady Bellingham, wife of Sir Allan E. Bellingham, Bart. To each of his executors £5OO free of duty. The Irish probate of the will of the Hon. Letitia Susanna Le Peer Trench has passed the seal of the London Court. ROYAL INSTITUTION. On Friday evening Professor Odling delivered an interesting lecture to the members of the Royal In stitution on Mr. Graham's recent discoveries re specting the penetration, diffusion, and transpiration of gases. He commenced by explaining the construc tion of a new kind of air pump invented by Dr. Sprengel, by means of which the discoveries respect ing the penetration of gas have been made. The instrument in its simplest form consists of a long glass tube of small bore, to the top of which a fun nel is attached, and at a short distance below the funnel a horizontal arm branches off, which expands into a larger tube or vessel. In the funnel mer cury is poured, which falls in a succession of drops to the bottom of the perpendicular' tube. Each drop of mercury acts as a separate pis ton, and carries to the bottom all the air contained in the tube. By this means the air in the vessel con nected with the horizontal branch becomes gradually exhausted, and a vacuum is produced much more perfect than can be obtained by an ordinary air pump • it indeed closely approaches to a Torricel flan -vacuum. show how much more perfectly the air is exhausted by this me ans than b y an air-pump, currents of electricity were tra nsmitted through two glass tubes which had been exhausted by. the two different appliances, when the one wherein the va cuum had been produce d b y Dr. Sprengel, s method ex hibited the bluo light o f a tube that is perfectly vacuous, while the light of the other was tinged produced, it was w ith purple. When a vacuum Is so shown by a variety o f experiments that air will pene trate through substa nces usuali yimpervious to air in gases. A n indiarubber bag having been exhausted by an ordinary air-punip, was subsequently sub jected to the action of Dr. Sprengel's pump, in which i co ndition air pass ed through t, and in penetrating the pores of the membrane its composition was changed. The air, after passing through the india rubber, contained a much larger proportion of oxy gen than atmospheric air, as was proved by its ignit ing a partially extinguished taper. The proportion of oxygen to nitrogen was, in fact, nearly doubled. Metals, when heated, can by the same means be penetrated by gases, and the characters of the gases become altered also in passing through them. That effect was illustrated with a heated platinum tube, which was exhausted and surrounded by coal-gas, when a portion of hydrogen passed through. The degrees of penetration of the different gases have been ascertained to be as follows :—Nitrogen, 1 ; marsh-gas, 2.45 ; oxygen, 2.35 ; hydrogen, 5.30'; and carbonic acid, 13.32. In the experiment with common air the nitrogen and oxygen passed through the membrane in the proportions indicated, about 1 of the former to 2 of the latter. Several experi ments on the diffusion of gases were then exhibited for the purpose of showing the changes gases un dergo on passing through porous bodies. A piece of blotting paper was stretched horizontally, and a jet of coal gas was hold underneath, when the gas In the City Article of the Times on Thursday the fall in the securities of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company was attributed to a rumour that, owing to a series of attacks upon. the credit of the undertaking which have been uninter ruptedly carried on for a period of many months, it has been determined to refer its entire position to the examination of an independent committee, and that it may in the interval be resolved to to hold all payments in abeyance. A quarterly. dividend of £1 15s. per cent. became due , Ja the consolidated bonds on the 15th inst., and has thus far been met, about two-thirds of the coupons having been sent in and paid. Whether the pay ments will continue for the remainder, or be deferred for the opinion of the committee, is a question that does not seem to have been clearly settled. The Times considers that only a full investigation, con firmed by those in New York, in whom the public on this side can rely, will have any effect in estab lishing the property in the position it has always been described as entitled to claim. This railway has been one of the properties against which so strong a set has been made. It has the disadvap,„ tage of being on the other side of the Atlantic, a A d men cannot readily see and judge for themse'ives. Thus it has been peculiarly open to attack, for while a large portion of its bonds are held in Europe, the undertaking itself is far in the interior of the United States. The pity is that the inves tigation now hinted at has not long since taken place. We have little doubt that had a full report been submitted to the bondholders from a com mittee elected bythemselves to investigate the under taking and all the affairs relating thereto, that the price of these securities would at this moment have been much higher. The main points about which there can be no mistake are all in favour of the line. It has been constructed in a country in which railway property is rising in value faster than in any other. It connects points between which traffic is rapidly increasing. There are 507 miles open and in actual operation, and there is good authority for stating that the railroad is well and substantially formed. Financially the undertaking may be injured, however sound may be the property, if the bond holders, or those interested, allow their fears to be excited by all sorts of hostile rumours. Still their property cannot be snuffed out like a bank or credit institution, and if they make a sacrifice the loss will be theirs, and the gain that of other people. It is absurd to talk of the railway repudiating its liabilities. It might fail at a given time in liquidating its liabilities, as would any other railway whose bonds became due simultaneously with the destruction of its credit. Even supposing this were the case, what would happen is that the holders would have to con tinue to hold for some time longer. The real ques tion is the value of the property, and the sooner that is set at rest the better. There is no use in carrying on a paper war, and the financial agent to the undertaking would, if he attempted it, make a mistake, for the simple reason that he fights a battle placed in the worst possible position. lle has his enemy on his flanks, and in his rear, with mines charged beneath him, and unseen pit-falls before him. The best plan is to withdraw, leaving the field to the enemy, and to accumulate the facts from such a source that all their firing is but am munition wasted. It is easy to give a dog a bad name, and no howling or barking on the part of the animal is likely to better its condition. It is almost as easy to break down the credit of a new under taking situated in a foreign country. The answer to such attacks is in the course recommended by the I braes, and patience on the pars of those iuterested.—Anglo-American STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Jan. 25.—T he yarn market has been rather steadier to-day, at, about Tuesday's prices. In shipping yarns there is not much change. For home trade yarns it is difficult to get any advance, but business has been about of average amount. The cloth trade on the whole has been rather quiet, hut in some departments wo note an excep tion to the rule. In the finer and lighter fabrics, such as jaconets and twills, a large business has been done at fair prices, and some contracts have been placed for future de livery. For India shirtings and other goods there have been some large offers made at low prices. In most cases manu facturers have been indisposed to accept such rates, but there are others whose necessities have influenced them, and such offers have led to business in some instances. CARDIFF, 24th. —During the past few days there has been a slight falling off in the demand for steam coal from several of the foreign markets, and the collieries are not so actively employed as usual. It is expected, however, that this will only prove temporary, and that as the year ad vances the requirements of foreign buyers will increase. There is a brisk inquiry on inland account, and the metro politan markets are taking large quantities. For shipment at Birkenhead there is an average demand. House coal proprietors are fairly off for contracts, and the clearances coastwise since the commencement of the month have been considerable. The local consumption has largely increased, but with the advent of milder weather there is likely to be a falling off again. At some of the ironworks there are indi cations of a slight improvement in the placing of orders, but as a general rule matters in connexion with the trade re main in about the same date as last reported. More buoy ancy is confidently looked forward to in the home branch, and the prospects of spring business with the foreign mar kets are upon the whole satisfactory. Dulness characterises the pig-iron trade, and quotations are in favour of buyers. For tin plates the inquiry is moderately good. LEICESTER, 25.--The wool trade remains without any alteration in the amount of business transacted. There aro no orders excepting for lustre and hog wools. Farmers, who have hitherto been very firm, are said to display a more tender feeling, and prices to have a downward ten dency. For woollen yarns there is little more inquiry, but the uncertainty of prices'provents ordersboing given. Cot ton yarns aro also in inferior demand at late quotations. The improvement which has been noticed for the past few weeks in the worsted spinning department has given way entirely, and trade is again dull and lifeless. Prices are as before, but there is hardly sufficient doing to test the mar ket. In hosiery there is more business than for some weeks past, and spring orders are coming in fast. These had been kept back in consequence of the severe weather—buyers refusing to make purchases while the snow lay on the ground. In the elastic trade there still continues a good demand for gusset webs for shipping wants, but the home trade remains very inactive. Most of the manufacturers are, however, able to give their workpeople full employ ment. At the annual meeting of the London Athletic Club the other day it was suggested in the course of conversation that athletic sports, open to all corners, should be held at Paris during the regatta. If the idea were carried out, and prizes for running, walking, jumping, swimming, &c., offered, there is little doubt the very pick of our English athletes would find their way over to France to test, for the first time in history, in a friendly way, the thews and sinews of their country's old adversaries. HEAVY IMPORTATION OF AMERICAN GAME.—On Saturday the markets were very largely stocked with Ame rican grouse or prairie fowl, which were imported into London in a good state of preservation. They were sold at 3s. to 4s. Gd. per brace. There has been no importation this season of ptarmigan from Norway. Woodcocks from lielland are very plentiful. • NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., S T. 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