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ww..... TINAHA.N'S LT,. WITIRKY I)LTBLIN. T, - .- - cITTRTTT.OII, 1365. 0 +rve the 11,1 7,0 "?., , c Dll,l. awl Cork Branded "Kim, han This ce1eb.,;:...1 ±.i.t,J•S A 'A II sic. VA• fl the Dublin Pri e Marc, Mil, Mellow, Delicious, an:l very Wholesome. Sold in BO 'les, 3s. 8,1., at the Itetail Houses in London; by he Agents in %a-. 3 principal tcwns in Eurtlanili or wholesale at 8, GRTAT. WIND ILL-STREET, LONDON, W. -24 5 4 114.. ...., ._ , •i:, - -- -4-,,,...,,.- ..,, . , ~......,:vz.,_,,;--, ,_,_ ,- 14i i. , ..,. A 45 ...„-,.'4lrt '''"ztte-,, ,,, , ~., --t ...:, 1 i ~- a l • ' },;. At) *Wel. - e - kcir'i4 i s- , • -. 1..4 ? , --,-. r . Cl. l l • kA. . 4. , ....?". ' . I. • r. k,, type sr ..-.,. - K. .. ii'Z ' tpc,, •tt ....., ........Zz• ., "*; Or • ..., 1 ~: -------- - -*... 1 4:k \ . 1 '' -, . „ ~,,:a. if -,. 4. c, 4 ,...,-,...., Frti,,,,, io -at - - '''.,,,, '.,,, , ,0tt: : :,- . 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F or t unate l y, she is full of American provisions of various sorts, so that her crew and pas sengers will not suffer in this respect, should her m - tchinery move to have broken down. A list of the nassenaers. to the number of about thirty, who embarked In her at New York, has been published, but.not those who joined at Halifax. Excbangt mount of een mein t eas ier a instant. c. Ba nk n done 3t 511JTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859), 14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON, N°. 24,2 0. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAUCH 7, 1870. - , 1„ PRICE fit STAMPED ;xcheluer ►iISCELLANEOUS 'YEWS. 3. dis., 53* MR. W. S. WOODIN'S FIFTEENTH WEEK "AT HOME,' And 38, QUREN'S-RC U., BRIGHTON J)VANCES MONEY upon 'personal security, Bills of Sale, Free , old or Leasehold Property, for ono, two, or throe years, repay a - le weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. P ms free on receipt of stamped envelope, . EDWARD HARPER. Secretary. RES FI MEAT PRESERVATIVE.- PKRRY S PATENT.—WiII keen meat, fish, poultry. game, &e., sound in any climate, and during the greatest changes of temperature. without in the least injuring their flavour or nutritious qualities. Perry's Wine and Beer Preservative will Prevent acetone fermentation ta,:ing pace. The Preservatives are sold in casks and jars at 30. rd. per r. , ,a,llon.—Depot, 56. St. John-st eet, West Smithfield, London, E.C.—Agents wanted. THE DEAF & DUM R.—The Committee of the JEWS DEAF and DUMB HOME aro prepared to receive AP PL ECI,TIONS for the ADMISSION of DEAF and DUMB .CRILDREN, of all denominations, as Day pupils : for instruction- in audible speech and lip-roading. The' system adopted rigidly excludes the use of tho manual alphabet and all artificial signs. A public lesson is given every Wednesday, at 3 p.m., when the successful results of the system can be wit nessed. of her Applications tars, to he for term made to the course of instruction, and all W. VAN PRAA.GA, Esq., Director of the Jews' Deaf and Dumb Home, 44, Burton-crescent, W.C. FI J STABLISHMENT for GENTLEWOMEN during TEMPORARY ILLNESS. The relatives of Clergymen, Naval, Military, and Pro fessional Men, Governesses, and Artists may, for a small weekly payment, receive the comforts of a HOME, com bined with the best medical and surgical treatment, at the establishment, 90, Upper Harley-street. This establishment, which was opened in 1850, is patro nised by her Majesty. The Bishop of London is Visitor, and it is managed by the Marnhioness a Ormonde, the Lady Laura Palmer; Mrs. Edward Romilly, the Lady Caroline Russell, Mrs. Cecil Russell, and other ladies. All informa'iOn respecting it may be obtained on writ ten or personal application to the Lady Superintendent. Subscriptions received at the Institution. and by the Treasurer, at Messrs. Corals and Co.'s, 59, Strand. W. 0 SPRING TIME Hon, Sec. THE ROYAL INFIRMARY for DISEASES of CHILDREN and WOMEN, Watorloo-bridge- Upwards of 100 poor sick children are relieved daily at this Hospital. The Committee most earnestly solicit Contributions, to enable thb -- *i to continue the benefits of medical aid to those numerous p nor suffering children, who are rendered so helpless by sickness and poverty. Bankers, Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lombard street; and by Messrs. Contts and Co., Strand. CHARLES J. F. RENTON, Secretary. Waterloo -bridge-road, S E. THE ASSOCIATION for the WELFARE of the BLIND, 210, Oxford-street, and 127, Euston-road. ,Patroness—Her Most Gracious Majesty. the QUEEN. This Institution affords employment in various ways to 172 blind men and women. Pensions to various amounts are granted to the blind Who cannot earn their own living. 500 blind men and women am applying for help, which cannot be givon for WANT of FITNI/S. Contributions will be thankfully received by the Secre tary , Rev. 0. B. REID, M.A. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients sines it WRI3 e etablisbee at Ring's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted free_ Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Clo., 60, Lombard ttreek, Messrs. Ransom and Bonverie, 1, Pall-mall—Hon. ° OO .. Smith Esa. GEo. REm, See. LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL is the only in- Atitution in the Metropolis for the treatment and prevention of contagious fevers. „. CONTRIBUTIONS will be gratefully received by xessrs. Dimsdale and Co., 50 ,Cornhill ; Messrs. Drum mond, Charing-cross ; Messrs . Coutts, Strand ' • Messrs. lloare, Fleet-street : and by the Secretary, at the Hospital, Li verpool -road, Islington, N. REALTH RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. DU BARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids' and Infants' Food. THE REVALENTA ARABICA saves times its cost in other remedies ; and restores Perfect digestion strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the bunt disordered or enfeebled—removing speedily and eteettially indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con "naption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric de t_it nervousness, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, c ‘ ntarrhs, colds , influenza, noises in the bead and ears, t neatuatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, nen ri:l3la, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, -artburn, headache, debility dropsy, cramps, spasms, Vises. and sickness oven in pregnancy or at sea, sinking ta e bronchitis, scrofula, tightnees of the cheat, pains at n pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is the most digestible and nourishing of all foods, and suitable for invalids and infants is all complaints. IstzonmeNT CAUTION.—Beware of the many unsavoury g nu more than slopy imitations to which, without autho hty, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. Renceforth none will doubt the valuable properties of " 11 Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it bee already received from invalids whose position 'ead been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Roll knees the Pope, whose health leas been perfectly restored 'S it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. L YB quote from the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Cure No. "...,413):—TT Rome, July 21st, 1866. —The health of the " . ° I Y Father is excellent, especially, since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du :Ba rrY's Revalenta Arabic Food of which ho consumes a Plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot Praise this excellent food too highly." Care No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Tireha,n of seven Years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervous ness, irrit a bilit y w ith a nervous p a lpitation all over, bad ,ugestion constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation. „ Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord I tnart do D ec i es , L or d-Li eu te n ant of th e County of Water ford;_" I have denved much benefit from your excellent ,p 11 terford.---STuAnT DECIES, Dromana Cappognin, County a" Cure No. 49,832. —Of fifty years' indescribable agony 1 ")rn dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation a tulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121. —Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner vous fancies' Cure No. 56,814.—Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two y e ars' diarrh oea . The Food is sold in Canisters, at ls. 14d. ; llb., 2s. 9d., 21b., 48. 6d.; 121 b., 225. ; 241 b., 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. cisters carriage free on receipt of P. 0. Order. Also Du c ar rrY's Revilenta Arabica Chocolate Powder is packed in e aaisters : For 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3 s. 6d., for 48 "Ps at 65., for 288 cups at 305., for 576 caps at 555. Beiag about one penny per cup. The 30s. alai 555. tins are sent .„e0 el c arr i age in England on rece i pt o f P os t Office Order. Y Dl3 BARRY and Co., 77, Ilegent-street, London, 1 4 8 0 at Fortnum and Mason's; also at 4, Cheapside, 61, ~.e ' tceehu N ' l i-st-set ; 63 and 150, Oxford-street • and 121, 4.4 NT/ North -road. L on d on ; an d a ll grocers and Chemists. BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM, Mackenzie-park, Slough (formerly at Clapham-rise). Instituted 1827. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. For the gratuitous board, clothing, and education of destitute orphans from all parts of the British dominions, and of all denominations, whose parents were once in prosperous circumstances. One hundred and seventy-five orphans now in the In stitution , ample room for about 30 more. Increased support indispensable, as this Charity is not endowed, and is in the greatest need of further pecuniary assistance. Subscribers and the public are invited to inspect the I nstitution, and judge as to the nature of the Charity and its peculiar claims. The last Report can be obtained on application to the Secretary. THOS. TILSON, Chairman. CHAS. LEE, M.A. I. Hon. Secs. O. PRICE, M . A ., ALFRED MACKENZIE, Secretary. Offices, 73, Cheap side, Lond on, E . O . gine ;and M 13ankers—Nags Will iams, Deacon, and C o . , Birchin ossrs. Harwood Brothers, Manchester. THE HOSPITAL for WOMEN, Soho-square. —Bankers : Messrs. Barclay, Bevan and Co , Mess r s. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co.—The Committee. APPEAL very earnestly for CONTRIBUTIONS The Hospital is now open on Mondays, Wednesday; and Fri days to out-patients who are treated without letters of reoommendation. HENRY B. INGRAM, Secretary. PAST LONDON HOSPITAL for CHILD RE N -1 " The Committee earnestly desire to raise funds which shall enable them to establish the Hospital in morn suit able buildings. The premises now occupied are crowded and inconvenient, causing additional expense from that ci rcumstance. It is impossible even to purchase on whole sale terms many articles of daily consumption from want of room for stowage, every inch of available space being o ccupied. Th ere i s a d a il y d eman d for more beds, and the ?tag of nurses would be able to attend upon more children, Tit no more can be admitted 'n the present building. ;t B ,OOO at least i s requ i re d t o can y ou t this much-wished torand urgent scheme C ontributions will be thankfully remind by the Trea -41.3r, E.S. N ,rris, Esq., Shadwell ; or by SHEBRA.RD B. BURNABY, Hon: Soc., Rectory Wapping E 1-1-OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—FUNDS are earnestly solicit e d fo r th e p urc h ase o f food and clothing for the 128 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship. 150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street. girls in the Refugee, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing X7O children. (1 01 , t ,. /b keep boy or girl for one year. 21%7 lttions received by the London and Westminster Bank igh liolborn, ar.d 41. Lothbury, E.O. • and by secretary. Ll'). 'Sire° WILLIAM q"ellikeeti 14A09114'1-Inullel4., vay stocit ropolittln ury's ap )nt of the tendencY ants base ;liton has ayjd without ave been Lined the rem nr l 3 19 - g, 19,1) quarter 3 Lad three ,he Bank deman d r lowcr; Messrs. Ls of gold iderable, ustralis ; Indies ; 320,000. r ay ; the re is but probable ing . sa le; a of fin e , itineutAi gexie3ll i are not busine3g t of ill' to war& in, 311 d 1y a t tha we been ter fee l. astanceg dediter- Iniouth, import 3ved 1 on for °' tion hao )usinesg en dealt , Coo' !ed. i b e here, wri tho, ;sets to a thre e the `v3'l Mitch . o ffer Of r, ,t about D WILO . faatu r t ISeOld i 1 ki 4! w nwarir n taiDe O . W , oats, qs ch :11:1/A t' e l l 1 : r d jø of n sup ol s e: Luiet sti. ; 45. r Sa• 1 , ra5 ,11: ! " tal' eli 5 to, ICF ° ' o, Val q '' ll 6 • i. tO Strz" 41 9 1". )dUc . '" Lull 9'n4 t d ull. ' of li f, esoo• his cl'4' ey, Oav 01,; Aug'.%q" " gar Cli ' t, 34' bangi Ld b 484 , ,,y) I.` a 1 9 piog Beet, are , 3Pe e' i slOP , gill► ,ieuS• 2/ 01 1 Lulu arri' 22 0 ' 3ao ;5j 9 sop" . . . . • • . ' . . °_ .0 . . . - - cent. Second Edition, price One Shilling, per post 13 stamps, THE IRISH LAN D - QUESTION. By JAMES SANDERSON, Pall-mall East, London. London: Edward .t.tanford, 6 and 7, Charing-cross, S.W. This day is published, 1I C C ADILLY A FRAGMENT OF CON rEMPOItARY BIOGRAPHY. Ey LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Late ALP. for the Stirling Beigha Author of the "Russian Shores of th'a Btaek sea," CONTENTS T. LOVE. - IV. THE WORLD. 11. MADNESS. V. 'Ng FLEsit. 111. SUICIDE. VI. TuE CONCLUSION —MORAL. WI Hi EIGHT I LLUSTRATIONS BY RICIIIAIID DOYLE. In One Volume, Bvo., price 123. William Blackwood awl Sons, Edinburgh and London. TELEGRAPH IC NE WS.—The Proprietor of the " CENTRAL PRESS" is prepared to supply Tiegraphic News to Newspaper Proprietors, and to the managers of Clubs, News iiomus, and Exchanges; also to Private Persons, in accordance with the scale of charges for telegrams which comes into operation on February sth.. The following service of news has been arrangediv— GENERAL AND COMMERCIAL NEW S. LAt 8 a.m. daily (except Sundays) a message containing all the im portant news known up to that time will be carefully pre pared and Telegraphed to Newspapers, News Rooms, Clubs, and Exchanges. At 12.30 a Commercial Message will be forwarded, re porting the London Stock Exchange and the Chief Mar kets. At 2 p.m. a News Message will be sent, containing everything of importance known at that hour. At 6 p.m. a third message will be forwarded, containing all the news which has transpired up to that time. . The morning and evening messages will each contain about• 100 words.- The midday message will not Usually exceed 75 words, but on special occasions the number of words will be doubled if necessary. These messages will be pr •pared and telegraphed at a charge of 2s. per week fur each daily message. Sub scribers can take one or more of the daily messages ; the charge for the four, daily, will bo per week. No sub scription for less thani a month will be received. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. -At 7 p.m. a message will be forwarded from the House of Commons giving a statement of the proceedings up to that hour, the cost of which, including the charge for telegraphing, will be 2s. per week. The "CENTRAL PRESS," 112, Strand, London, W.C., Jan. 29th, 1870. DR. KING'S DANDELION and QUININE LIVER PILLS (Without Mercury) The very best remedy for BILE, WIND, INDIGESTION, ACIDITY, HEADACHE, HEARTBURN, &c., And acknowledged by many eminent surgeons to be the safest and mildest pills for every constitution. In boxes at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. &L, at all chemists. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN EFFECT UAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately re lieving cougbs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and inci pient consumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, and admirably allays the ticking which provokes frequent coughing. In approach ing consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca tion, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 131 d., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lamhert's Asth matic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the damp. RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS T Y (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 sod 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred Medical men to be .the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi site resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can cot fail to fit, forw‘rdel by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss. 425. and 525. 61 Postage, Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John. White, Post-office►, Piccadi"ly. NEW PATENT JLASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, Ize., for Varicose Veins and ::11 cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, itc. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., ,s. 6d. 10s., and lOs. each. Postage, Gd. JOEIN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.: HOME for the HELPLESS.—ST. JAMES'S DIOCESAN HOME. for FEMALE PENITENTS (Hammersmith). under the immediate direction of the Bishop of London. The work carried on by aSisterhood, "iu faithful accordance with the principles of the Re formed Church of England." FUNDS greatly needed. COUNCIL. 1 he Bishop of LONDON, Major-Gen. 'Rt. Hon. Percy Herbert, M.P. Her. J. E. Kempf, Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys Rev. S. W. Lloyd Rev. A. Martineau Rev. W. D. Maclagan Rev. Daniel Moore Rev. J. Moorhous‘ J. D. Morton, Esq. Rev. Canon Nepean Rev. E. Parry John Pearson, Esq., Q.C. Rev. G. F. rrescott Rev. F. Pigou R. T. Pigott, Esq. R. R. Pym, Esq. Hugh H. Seymour, Esq R. Wade, Esq. Loftus Wigram, Esa. ved by any of the above ; by and Co ; and by the Hon. , 14, Seymour-street, Port ications may bo addressed. Rev. J. W. Ayre Rev. F. G. Bloomfield Lion. and Rev. F. Byng Rev. R. G. Baker Rev. S. Brooke The Lord Clinton Rev. W. Cadman E. Charrington, Eeq. Rev. E. L. Cutts, Chaplain Rev. E. Capel Care Rev. J. E. Cox Octavins ()cope, Esq. Arthur Currie, Esq. Rev. J. Connell Rev. C. W. Furse C. J. Freake. Esq. J. S. Gilliat, Esq. Rev. Dr. F Hesseyi H G Heald, Esq. EL Hook, Esq., Treasurer Subscriptions will be recoi Messrs. Harries, Farquhar, Secrotrry, Rev. S. W. Lloyd man-square, to whom commr THE LONDON SURGICAL HOME for DISEASES and ACCIDENTS of WOMEN, for the Reception of Gentlewomen and Females of Respect ability upon a weekly payment. Under the management of Mr. Baker Brown. The private medical attendants of the patients are in sited to visit them, and to meet in consultation before treatment. Full particulars can be obtained on application to the Lady-Superintendent, 18, Stanley-terrace, Notting-hill, W. ; or to Mr. Baker Brown, 136, Harley-street, W. NURSING.—ST. JOHN'S HOUSE and 11 SISTERHOOD for TRAINING NURSES for HOSPITALS, Families, and the Poor: established 1848. President—The Lord Bishop of LONDON. _ . . The nursing at King's College and the Charing-cross Hospitals, and the Galignani English Hospital at Paris, is at present superintended by the Sisters of John's House. Ladies or others wishing to qualify themselves as members of the House or Sisterhood, or as pupils to be trained to nurse, aro quested to communicate with the Lady Superior. Donations and Subscriptions to the General Fund, the 'Sisters' Fund, or the Nurses' Pension Fund, may be paid to Messrs. Coutts ; or to the Lady Superior, at St. John's House Norfolk-street, Strand, W.O. ROY.AL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES, West-hill, Putney-heath. - Established 31st July, 1854. This Institution exists for the comfort and relief of per sons (being above the pauper class) afflicted with incur able bodily disease. Relief is -afforded—lst. By supplyin? a home, with medical attendance, nursing, and all requisites for the in valid. 2d. By granting an annuity of X2O to !patients at thei own homes. A row wing to the Hospital has just been completed at a cost of upwards of XlO,OOO, and FUNDS aro urgently NEEDED to liquidate the expenses incurred. There are 120 inmates and 237 pensioners, all entirely dependent upon voluntary subscriptions. Nearly 300 approved applicants are awaiting election For the maintenance of present operations, for the ex tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe cially annual subscriptions, are earnestly solicited. Life subscriptions, £5 ss. and upwards; annual subscriptions, half a guinea and upwards, with votes in proportion. Information will be supplied, with the rvatest pleasure upon application to the Secretary, by whom contributions will be thankfully received. FREDERIO ANDREW Secretary No. 10 Poultry London. E.O September IRBB. R O Y Or A F L ICE S R T - I ,o o f Q th L e Al f a o i r y, D IA A ns U ,I CT O ' w H n T , B E a R th S . of Instituted, A.., 1864. Under the Patronage of her D Maj- sty the QUEEN. Presi dent-11.RX. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G., &c. Chairman —'Major-General Sir A. J. LAWRENCE, K.C.B. This school has been founded upwards of four years, and it is intender] for the education of the daughters of officers of the army, Indian and Marines. There are already 70 pupils in the school, but more could be admitted if the committee had further funds; they, therefore APPEAL to the public to aid them in carrying out to its full extent the benefits of the only institution specially provided for the daughters of officers of the Army. Each donation of ss. entitles to ono life vote at all elections. Each annual subscription of .£5 5s entitles to one vote at all elections during the current year. The amount may be forwarded by an erdet on a bank, agent, E a b il l e r , Under Secr e t ary : 1 41 011 t a rk v Office 22 Cockspur-street London . or post-office Charing-cross),GEovv. I ONDON HOSPITAL, Whitechapel-road E. -1-4 The great East-end receptacle for Ac c id ents ' and Urgent Cases. 4,93 2 In-patients last year, of whom 4,059 were free cases. CONTRIBUTIONS earnestly requested. GYM. J. NagN, House Clovernor wad Occrotary, WITH his 'Famous and Original CARPET BAG and SKETCH-BOOK EN TERTAINMEN T in the Large Room EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly. Every Evening (except Saturday) at 8;. Saturday Morn ings at 3. "Mr. Woodin has spared no expense iu mag nificently decorating and luxuriously furnishing his salon for the comfort of his patrons." Seats may be securod in advance, at the Box-ollice, open from 10 till 5 ; also at Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond-street; and all the principal music-sellers. Stalls, 35.; Area, 25.; Balcony, - Is. Family Private Box, One, Two, and Three Guineas. Carriages at 10. Manag. , r, Mr. DUDLEY. ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Late NVESTOW.3. Proprietor Mr. J. S. S we, soy. :'CREASED A Tilt.% CTION. VANCE, MILBURN. P. SELLEIIS, SAPITI;:INI, Mr and Mrs ItAxDALL, Miss EMMA. DAY, M THEWS' CLEVER FAMILY (nine in number), the COURT MINSTRELS, and a host of other Stars, EVERY EVENING, making Vie most at tractive company in London. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION. Bake . -street. —A PO R CRAIT MO DEL of TROPMA N N is now added.—On View, amongst innumerable other relics, the original Lunette and Knife of the actual Guillotine used for the decapitation of Louis XVI., Marie Antoinette, and upwards of 2,0( 0 persons of the best and worst blood in France. Also au exact copy of the guillotine as in use. Admission, Is.; extra rooms, Gd. Open from 11 a.m. till 5, and from 7 till 10 p.m. ARGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly. The extraordinary success which has attended the production ;if the Shadow Dance, with the brilliant and varied effects of the electric light on the groups of dancers that nightly partici pate in it, combined with the admirable Operatic and Dance Music Selections presented in the often-changed programmes, have had the gratifying effect of making the r sent one the most extensively patronized season since its first opening. The celebrated Orchestra.. under the direction of its highly efficient, chef, Signor Luigi Curti, performs the choicest and latest com positions of ail distinguished composers—the solos in whichiare assigned to the eminent euphonionist, Signor L. Moses ; Messrs. W. Graves, L. Silberberg, and other able artistes. Manager, Mr Thomas Pitts. Professor Halliman M.C. Admission, ls.; Reserved Seats, 2s. R. R. bIUNELL, Proprietor SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consistingof a now and elegant as sortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obe lisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper Weights, &c., in Italian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derby shire Spar. &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly facili tate the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be Lad at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINERALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at 149, Strand. SAUCE. —LEA and PERRINS. THE "WORCESTERSHIRE," pronounced by Connoisseurs "THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE." Improves the appetite, and aids digestion. UNRIVALLED FOR PIQUANCY AND FLAVOUR. ASK for " LEA and PERRINS' " SATICE. 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BRITISH HOSPITAL for SKIN DISEASES, 56, Great Marlborough-street, W. Bankers, Messrs. Ransom. SUPPORT is earnestly solicited. ALEXANDER RIVINGTON, Hon. Sec. rrliE ROYAL HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the CHIST, City-road.—The wards for in-patients are constantly full, those for ont-patients crowded daily. F LINDS greatly needed. CHARLES L. KEMP, Secretary. MATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common, 1 Richmond, surrey. Founde , / 1819. Enlarged 1861. Under the patronage of R.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G., whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parte of the kingdom. The objet of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng lish education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house, and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other wise provided for when they attain 16 years of age, to obtain suitable situations for them. The aommittoe e'rnestly appeal for support. The Charity is entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions. HENRY KINGsCoTu, Treasurer, W El. WAYWIOK Secrots.ry. Office, 121, Pall-mall, W LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the St orms of the past twelve months the National Life boat Institution contributed to the saving of 1,233 lives from various shipwrecks and 29 vessels from destruction, The Institution also expended £24,746 in tho same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting £2,741 for rewards. The Institution has now 218 Lifeboat Stations under its management. Contributions will be thankfully received by the London xnd country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-stroot Adelphi, London. KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal street, Lincoln's-inn.--The Committee earnestly APPEAL for FUNDS to defray the heavy current ex penses. Assistance is urgently needed. J. W. WALDRON, Secretary. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL , Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, King's Cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious MATESTY the QUEEN. Vice-Patron— His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contrilintiots and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the desthuto sick bas for a considerable period averaged be tween 8,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requinite funds to maintain them. Conti ibLtions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hansom, and 00., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs. °mitts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Herries and 0o.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Paps ti, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and (Jo.,:Bernsrs-street Cand at the Hospital from 10 till M (~ZAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN kJ and CHILDREN, Lowor Seymour-street, Portman square. The only free Hospital for diseases of women 2,746 patients were treated last month without letters of recommendation. Subscriptions and donations are much needed ,and will be received by Messrs. Hatchard, Picca dilly ; Sir Samuel Scott, Bait; Messrs. Barclay, Coutts, Glyn, Ransom; and by the Secretary. SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL f o r WOMEN and CHILDREN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman square. The only Free Hospital for Diseases of Women ; 2,5.3 patients were treated last month without letters of recommendation. SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are much needed, and will be received by Messrs. Hatchard, Piccadilly ; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart. ; Messrs. Barclay, Coats, Glyn, Ransom; and by the Secretary. (NE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed. CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary' °face. 54, Cheapeide, London, E.O, , - 10AIPENSATION IN CASE OF INJURY, AND A FIXED SUM - IN CASE OF DEATII Caused by ACCIDENT OF ANY KW: may be secured by Policy of the RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY. An Annual Payment of to £6 ss. insures £l,OOO at Death, and an Allowance at the rate of £6 per week for Injury. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS ALONE may be provided against by Insurance Tickets for Single or Double Jouruies. For particulars apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, to the Local Agents, or at the Offices, 54, CORNRILL and 10, REGENT STREET, LONDON. WILLIAM J. VIAN Secretary, THE MESMERIC INFIRMARY, 36, Wey mouth-street, W. (where many cases deemed incur able are cured), much needs support. Inspection is in vited from 10 till 12.30. The Council have placed the Institution under the control of THOS. CHANDLER, Esq., M.R.C.S., who has above 30 years' experience in Mesmerism and nervous diseases. Consultations—gra tuitous, till 10.30; private, ti 1112.30. )All\ LESS and PRACTICAL DENTISTRY, by Mr. B. L. DIMLY, the Dentist by special appall:t alent, 312, RE GENT-STREET, iexactly opposite the [loyal Polytechnic, and 23, MOORGATE-STREET, CITY. Estab lished 1820. This, the most perfected system of pain less dentistry, originated and invented by Ur. B. L. Alosely, is recommended by:the Hospitals and adopted by the.profession as one of the greatest improvements of the age for the alleviation of pain and restoration of the natural functions, can solely be obtained in such perfected success (the result of forty years' practical experience) at his only residences, as above. The au nerlative excellence of this system is perfect immunity from pain, no operations, stumps, and decayed teeth ren dered useful, loose teeth and tender gums protected. Qualities : These teeth never change colour or decay—in fit unerring—ease and comfort unsurpassed—detection impossible—the facial anatomy faithfully studied and youthful appearance restored - mastication and articulation g,earauteed. The " Times" of March 6 says : "So good an imitation becomes the next best thing to the original." Teeth from 55.; sets, 5 to 30 guineas. Consultation free.—Only addresses, 312, Regent-street, .exactly facing the Royal Polytechnic; and 23, Moorgate-street, E. 0., opposite the Star Insurance Office. DARTRIDGE AND COOPER. MANUFACTITHING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET , (CORNED OF CHANCERY-LAND), LONDON (E.C.) THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES. CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s, per ream. s. d. 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An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes. Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, &c., post free. Established 1841. CAUTION. —POPULAR ERROR.—PRICES BENZODYNE, the newly-discovered Cure for Cough, Bronchitis, Consumption, and all wasting diseases, Cholera, Dysentery, &c., has nothing whatever to do with petroleum spirit, falsely called Benzoline, &c. This unique remedy may be obtained of all Chemists, and through the Proprietor, Mr. PRICE, Analytical Chemist, 2, Lower Seymour. street, London, W. Prices—ls. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. per bottle. DOOR SICK and HELPLESS CHILDREN. IL —The ROYAL INFIRMARY for CHILDREN and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge-road. Instituted 1810. Increased PECUNIARY ASSISTANCE is most urgently needed, and solicited, for continuing relief to the poor little suffering inmates at this Hospital. Office, Waterloo-bridge-road, S.E. Bankers—Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lom bard-street; and Messrs. Contts and Co., 59, Strand. CHARLES J. F. RE N TON, Secretary IVORTH LONDON or UNIVERSITY A- 1 COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Accidents and Sickness. —CONTRIBUTIONS earnesly solicited to meet the annual expenses, which exceed the income by .C 4,000. The committee also plead for help for the sick children, the little victims of starvation, neglect, and disease, who enjoy in the new wards, devoted to them, the privileges of nourishing food and careful nursing. Donations thank fully received by Edward Enfield, Esq., Treasurer, 19, Chester-terrace, Regent's-park; and at the office of the charity. HENRY J. KELLY, RN., Secrotary. FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN EITruTION. President—Rev. °ANON DALE. OONTRIBUTIONs for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Bleu gnat, Salt, and Co. 78, Lombard street, IC.C. ; Franci s Ni c h o ll s Zeq. (of the Comm ittee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C. E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W. lIORM of BEQUEST.—NATIONAL HOS PITAL for the PARALYSED and EPILEPTIC, Queen-square, Bloomsbury :—I give and bequeath to the Treasurer for the time being of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, established in London in 1859, the sum of ' free of legacy duty, to be paid out of such part of my estate as may by law be bequeathed for charitable purposes, and to be applied to the general use of the said Hospital. The Institution comprises an Hospital for In and Out Patients, a Samaritan Soc'ety to reliave the more de4i tuto out-patients and their families, a convalescent home, and a pension fund for the incurable. E. H. CHANDLER, Hon. Sec. HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT, -- Golden-square, W. President—His Grace the Duke f GRAFTON. The Committee of Management earnestly APPEAL for FUNDS to help them to meet the heavy current expenses. Upwards of 18,000 poor persons have been relieved in the last six years. GEORGE WOOD, Secretary. CIREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Cile donian-road, N.—Several beds in the new buildings cannot be occupied for WANT of FUNDS. F. SMITH, Esq., Hon. Secretary. GEORGE REID, Secretary. BRITISH HO ME FOR INC URA B LES, Clapham .rise. Instituted 1861 PATRONESS. Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES. TREASURERS. George Moore, Esq.; Mr. Alderman Gibbons. This Institution, extending its o perations to all parts of ,he kingdom, provides for those afflicted with incurable diseases a home for life, with every comfort and medical attendance. Patients are admitted, and annuities of £lO obtained by election. No person under 20 years of age, nor of the pauper class, is eligible. Full particulars and the necessary forms may be pro cured from the Secretary. Donations and annual sub scriptions are earnestly solicited. BANKERS. Messrs Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, E C.; and Messrs. Drummond, Cnaring-cross, S.W. EDWD. WEAVER Secretary. Offices, 73, Cheapside. Q EAMEN'S HOSPITAL, (th e Dreadnought), off Greenwich, for Sick and Diseased Seamen of All Nations, who aro received without any ree,oniendation. The Committee require upwards of £4,500 annually from voluntary bounty to meet the expenditure of this Hospital. SUBSCRIPTIONS will be most thankfully received by Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankers, i Brchin lane ; and at the Society's offices, 86, King Williamstreet, RC., by S. KEMBALL COOK, Secretary. Qualification for a Governor, 21s. annually ; Life Governor, £lolos. T HE METROPOLITAN CONVALESCENT INSTITUTION. President—His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON. Treasurers—The Right Hon. Buss!11 Gurney, M.P., and Atitt Jugh. Col. W. F. Grant. DONATIONS and SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly solicited, to enable the Board to meet the greatly increased expenditure of this old Charity. 240 adults aro received at Walton ; 80 children at Mitcham and Hendon. Bankers—London Joint-Stock Bank, Pall-mall. CHARLES HOLMES, Secretary Office, 32, Sackville-street. Piccadilly. THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES as follows : For Fallen Women. 28, Church-row, Ramp- 160, New Bent-road. stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke 13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington. tOWD. Maize-hill Cottage, Green -206, Great Portland• street. wish. For Young Girls in Danger. 27, Church-rosy, Hampstead. 9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s -wood. St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill. Country Hones—St. James's-street, Dover. Temporary Rome-85, Queen-street, Cheapside In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee have under their charge three homes for servants of good character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless servants annually. The home at Great Portland-street le for young fallen girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to open another house for this pitiable class. The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book. The Society's Report(of which a contributor writes, " I never read a report of any charitable institution which so entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my sympathy") may be bad on application. The Society is under the presidency of tho Earl of Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Bacclay and Co. The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the benevolent. DANL. COOPER, Sec. Cintatm-street Cheansidp. CIANCER HOSPITAL (Free) : founded 1851. 11.._) —Brampton, S.W., and 167, Piccadilly.—Over 8,000 cases treated since foundation. Remedies and diet very expensive. Over 40 in hospital, and many eases unable to be admitted for want of FUNDS ; at present over 300 out-patients. Treasurer—Geo. T. ITertslet, Esq., Lord Chamberlain's Office, St. James's Palace. Bankers—Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand. By order, H. JJ. JUPP. Mr. John Wood, a clerk in the Captain-Superin tendent's office at Chatham Dockyard, has ac cepted the favourable terms offered by the Admi ralty—ten years' service added in calculating the pension—and will retire on a superannuation of UN. MR. BRIGHT. The a,counts of Mr. Bright's health are favoturable, says the Daily News. "The President of th.a Board of Trade still remains at Norwood, and we are glad to learn tliat he is making good progress towards recovery." But hiS ' progress is not so rapid ai - to hold out any hope of his return to the House during , the Land hill debates. The measure will in all probability go up to the Upper House without assistance from the statesman to whom one large por- Coil of it is due. . .THE UNION AND THE DILL. Though the Education Union supports the govern ment measure in general, it, no less than the League, his its own amendments to suggest. The League complains of permissive, instead •of absolute compul son ; the Union objects to direct compulsion alto -0•J 9 9 ther preferring the indirect mod e , w hi c h cons i s t s in . reqmring education as a condition of the hired em ployment of children. A. clause has been drawn up pro viding that the school board may require the parents of such children as are between the ages of six and thirteen to send them to school, if hired to work for wa,::es, for a period of not less than ten hours a week. Other stipulations provide for the education of vagrant or pauper children,- and boards of guardians are enjoined to require certificates of at tendance at school as a condition of giving out-door Numdrous minor amendments are suggested, but these are the principal. TnE MANCTIF.StER COMMITTEE AND THE BILL. The, Manchester Education Bill Committee, too, has drawn up its scheme. It, likewise, approves of the Government measure in general, but would lip) some , modifications introduced. —Ma tine required to bring the provisions into operation—which might reach three years —is considered excessive. School boards ought to be called into existence at once. Compulsory attendance ought to be positive, and of universal application. It is exceedingly undesirable, also, the committee think, that religious teaching should be determined by the school boards. In accordance with those principles, the committee submit a series of amendments. The provisions for enforcing compulsory attendance are -very stringent, one providing that if an officer of the school board finds a child playing in the streets during school hours, he may at once trace the erring urchin to his source. There are thus three schemes of amendments between which Mr. Forster will have the privilege of choosing—those of the Union, the League, and the Manchester Committee. The two latter, however, are alike in principle. WORKMEN'S TRAINS AND COMPENSATION. The consciences of the metropolitan companies are troubling them touching the many working men who have .been ejected from their homes and driven to the London suburbs by the railway demo litions. The Railway News says that re presentatives of the leading companies have been for some time past in conference with the Board of Trade on the subject of providing addi tional facilities for workmen's trains. It is under stood that a maximum limit of compensation, such as that named by Mr. Bright, £lOO, will be the basis of this arrangement. It is likewise understood that the companies are preparing for a general raid upon the compensation law, with the view of effecting a change in their favour. This prospect leads the Saturday Review to pen one of the most savage articles that ever appeared in that savage paper. Railway property is less valuable than it ought to be, owing to the blundering of directors. "In order t o p ro p u p th e i r di v id en d s , the directors wish to get rid of a liability which the English law justly throws upon them as com mon carriers; and henceforth to have full licence to maim, smash, and blow up their passengers for a nominal. consideration. From the moment that Parliament is weak enough to give them an immunity never yet claimed by any carrying company, they will starve their service still further, will issue rules which they know cannot be obeyed, and censures which they know will be derided; and, after inflicting wholesale injury on their wretched passengers, will snap their fingers at the victims whom they have mutilated or pauperised, no less than at the public which they have defied, and the Legislature which they have bamboozled." BILLS DEPORT: PAIILIAMENT. A measure that will relieve to a certain extent the ratepayers of very poor unions, and cause a more equal poor-rate - to - tail upon - - the--wealtiiier—ehtss, is introduced by Mr. Goschen. It provides for the charging of in-door paupers in workhouses upon the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, thus distributing equally over the metropolis the burden of the maintenance of such paupers, as well as of those patients placed by union authorities in asylums and hospitals. Mr Lowe intends to lessen the stamp duty on certain leases, and to otherwise relieve holders of leases by entirely doing away - with these duties in some cases. Tho judges of the Superior Courts at Westminster are to have increased juris diction extended •to them by a bill, which has originated in the House of Lords. The now Merchant Shipping Code must have been a matter of much labour to its promoters, Mr. Bright, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, and Mr. Stansfeld. It consists of thirteen different parts containing no less than 603 clauses, and as it provides for many subjects connected with the alleged deterioration ,of our merchant seamen, it may be hoped that this bill may prove of benefit to the British nation. ABOLITION OF TROY WEIGHT. The Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Exchequer standards have issued their third report. They have, they say, taken the evidence of several witnesses selected as fairly representing the class of persons whose interests are involved in the abolition of Troy weight. The result of their inquiries is that they have unhesitatingly come to the conclusion that it will be for the public advantage to simplify the Imperial system of weights by abolishing Troy weight by a legislative enact ment. TITE ARMY ESTIMATES. The service papers are full of the two great schemes lately unfolded by the First Lord of the Admiratty and the War Secretary. On the whole, though they are not all praise of the details •of the Army and Navy Estimates, most of these papers seem to be willing to allow that the country ip indebted to Mr. Childers and Mr. Cardwell for very beneficial alterations in their respective departments. The Army and Navy Gazette, however, says that Mr. Cardwell's proposal to fuse cornets and ensigns with lieutenants is one which will entail pecu. niary loss to a serious extent on the officers, unless compensation is made for the over-regulation price of commissions. The payment of this over regulation price has long been tacitly acknowledged, and has, for the most part, been the bulk of younger sons' fortunes. Tho United Service Gazette gives Mr. Cardwell credit for patriotism, but is con vinced that he has begun at the wrong end. lie has ignored in his arrangements the unforeseen, than which proverbially nothing is more certain. Our army is havin g its teeth drawn and its claws pared. Instead of reducing our forces by 12,000 men, which would in itself make a decent little army, we should have increased it by 20,000 of the unemployed youth of the land. It is only the rich who cry out for a reduction of their small burdens. It would be better if those millionaires who could well afford it were liable to maintain a regiment at their own expense. THE NAVY. Passing. then to the naval debate of last Monday, we find the Army and Navy Gazette doing honour to Mr. Childers's three-hour speech., He spoke to a most attentive and numerous audience, and ably pour trayed the present and future history of our navy. Tho whole scheme is acknowledged even by political opponents to be " the most statesmanlike measure ever introduced on naval matters." It deserves the credit of being " thorough," no temporary sop, no mere patchwork, but a sweeping change of undoubted benefit to the country and to the officers of the fleet. The United Service Gazette is not quite so ready to accord its unqualified praise of the measure, and would prefer Captain Bedford Pim's more effectual plan. It, however, agrees with its contemporary jßst quoted, that the patch-work system to which we have been accustomed is in the present case conspicuous by its absence. The Broad Arrow desoribes the debate as a great sea-fight in the House of Common. Nothing could withstand the great Admiral's heavy metal. At the first round, bang 'Wont £lOO,OOO. Bang again, £178,000. Bang, bang, bang, reverberated. the votes, with at last a tremendous broadside T £300,000. Mr. Corry's shots took no effect. The Ministry came unscathed out of the contest, and. the Admiral returns to port taut and trim as the duke's ship in the " Tempest," ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE REGULATIONS. The committee appointed by the Admiralty and the Board of Trade to hold an inquiry into the work ing of the Royal Naval Reserve Regulations have issued their report. They recommend the division of ttlt3 duty of onrolutent which has existed since 1860 bitween the Board of Trade and :the Admiralty . as ti a infit ttLat could b 9 arigpted. AEs2tivithaskg the t2vidence collected on tue suuject, however, tllE' committee state their inability to decide whether it is desirable to continue the present arrangements, 01 whether it might not be undertaken by one depart-. ment. With regard to the existing regulations of the r3serve, the conclusions of the committee are numerous. Among other things, they recommend that the standard height should be definitely fixed at aft. sin., and that instead of the existing regulation, which allows a man to be enrolled by a chief boatman in charge of a station and a civil medical practitioner, all candidates should in future be examined by a naval com mander and a naval surgeon. Other divisions of the report, under the heads of training, batteries, uni7 form, 'discipline while on drill, and retirement and discharge from the reserve, contain•suggestions which the committee consider will add materially to the efficiency of the service. THE REIGN OF TERROR. The Irish judges continue their dismal charges in the Assize towns. In Westmeath Chief Jus tico Whiteside said that there had been three or four cases of murder whilst Her Majesty's commission was in the county, and yet no person had been made amenable. Crime had in creased, he said, to a groat extent since ho last pre sided in the county. Nevertheless, he was confident that the time would shortly arrive when peace and order would be restored, though on what grounds he based that confidence does not appear. In Cavan, Mr. Justice George said he found the same story that he found elsewhere : no person in custody, no trial—a total failure of justice. There were cases of adminis tering illegal oaths, and sending threatening letters and notices. in five cases unlawful oaths had been administered, and yet no one had been made amenable. Worse still, there had been no fewer than thirty-five cases of waiting threatening notices brought under the attention of the police, and yet there was but one case for trial. All classes were subjected to the tyranny of these foul documents. THE LICENSING SYSTEM. The expected measure on the licensing is exciting great attention just now. The brewing interest is active alike in holding meetings and in "interviewing" high functionaries. The brewers of Yorkshire and the brewers of Lancashire have formed two associations; and a deputation from these bodies has just waited upon Mr. Bruce. The speakers. complained of the applica tion by the magistrate of the Wine and Beerhouse Act of last session ; in Manchester WO persons had been deprived of their licences, and this they deemed a great hardship. They requested that the power of granting and renewing licences should be entrusted to a barrister, with a court of appeal consisting of three licensed barris ters, the question to be, on application ) suitability of the premises and the respectability or the applicant only. Licences ought to be charged as a percentage upon the rateable value as estimated for the property-tax. The licence, too, ought to attach to the house, and not to the occupant. Mr. Bruce of course said nothing in reply, save that his proposals would be made in the course of a short time. IIONTS DE PIETE. The pawnbrokers would like a little more profit. They have prepared a bill introducing a new schedule of interest, and empowering the trade to ex ceed the profits named in this schedule by special contract. It is further proposed to legalise the con fiscation of pawned goods in six months instead of a year, as at present. The Home Secretary, it is said, will not oppose the measure, provided it be referred to a select committee; but the trade find some diffi culty in getting members to father this legislative iufant. This difficulty is not surprising. What is meant by the "special contract" in virtue of which pawnbrokers may exceed the profits named in the schedule ? Does that mean that they may demand any rate of interest they please from the many poor wretches who pawn their clothes in order to buy food for their families whilst their husbands aro fuddling at the grog shop ? HANGING MITIGATION. A. parliamentary paper shews the number of per sons who have been reprieved of late years from capital sentences. This return was moved for by Sir George Jonlcinson, who probably hoped to derive from it a fine indictment against the excessive leniency of Mr. Bruce. But notwithstanding the outcry against the extraordinary "lettings-off" of the Home Sec retary, ho appears to have done quite an average amount of hanging. In 1869 he reprieved eight persons, and the same number in 1808. But in 1867, before Mr. Bruce under their this -plensintr 'welt - there were- seventeen reprieves ' • in 1866, fourteen ; in 1805, twelve ; and in 1864, thirteen. In IW3 only seven persons were reprieved ; but this was the year of the famous Townley. In 1861 and previous years the number of reprieves was much larger; but sentence of death was then often passed for offences other than murder. REORGANISATION OF THE IRISH CHURCH. An important election will take place in the Irish Church Convention next Thursday. The trustees of the Church funds and property, who are to be incor porated by Royal Charter, aro to be chosen. They will be called the Church Representative Body. The Lord Primate has again urged a greater expedition of business on the part of the Convention. It appears that nearly every delegate will have his say on some subject or other. The Primate has expressed his opinion that the Convention is drifting on a danger. lie considers that they are running the great risk of cooling the English sympathy. If the English people saw the signs of divergence, they would hold their hand, and would not meet them with that liberality and generosity with which they were at present in clined to meet them. SUFFRAGAN 13ISIIOPS. The two English archbishops, after consultation with the Government and the prelates of both pro vinces, have agreed to certain arrangements respecting suffragan bishops. These dignita ries are to have the formal title of " The Bishop Suffragan of -" Their style is to be "right reve rend." Their dignity is to be such as belongs inhe rently to the order of bishops, though no place or precedence is formally assigned to them. Lastly, " the authority of the aforesaid bishop should be fully defined by the commission under which he acts, but no prescribed district should be specially assigned to him in his commission, the functions of the suffra gan having relation not to a part of the diocese, but to the whole diocese in which he holds his com mission." LAY PREACHING IN PARISH CHURCHES. An interesting discussion was raised some little time since, a propos of the question of intercommunion between the State Church and Nonconformists, as to the rights of the laity—Dissenting ministers being of course considered as such—to preach in our churches. The Dean of Westminster reviewed the whole law of the case; gave it as his opinion that the laity were excluded from preaching. by a clause of the Act of Uniformity; and urged for the attainment of visible fellowship that that clause should' be repealed. Since then the whole question has been asked : what rights have the laity as regards their churches? Mr. Stephens, the well known ecclesiastical lawyer has been requested to give his opinion on the subject. His reply, published in John Bull of Saturday enters very .fully into the law and. authorities on the matter; and concludes that the incumbents and churchwardens of a church may legally permit laics to deliver religious ad dresses provided that no " common or open" prayers are said or sung previous to or after the sermon. Will lay addresses in parish churches now become the fashion ItAILWAY MURDER. A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette has been at some pains to ascertain the number of attempts made during the last two years to upset rail way trains. It is reasonable to suppose' taut some men laudable undertakings would never be discovered—the engine would remove or "bump" over the obstacle, but at any rate the instances actually published and investigated by the police aro 43 in number. Of these 17 took place in 1868, and 26 in 1869, from which it appears that the crime is on the increase. Of the 43 recorded cases in the last two years, 25 are due to England, eight to Scotland, seven to Ireland, and three to Wales. Out of all these offences the perpetrators of onlytwo were discovered. One of these culprits was a discharged railway guard, who was caught in the act, and who was sent to penal servitude for life. In the other case, a lad of thirteen, with some confederates, placed several iron chairs on the line, and actually ran the train of r, though no person was injured. It does not generally happen that loss of life is caused by these horrible crimes, hilt on several occasions the consequences have been most lamentable. In England, Stockport, Man chester, and Wigan aro the districts where such attempts are most frequently made. THE CITY OF BOSTON STEAMER. The Lords of the Admiralty on Friday wrote to inform the authorities at Lloyd's that no informa tion bad reached them on the subject of the missing steamer from the captain of her Majesty's ships Orontes or Captain. A tele gram had, however, been sent to the Orontes at Queenstown, which will probably have the effect of iiicreaaecLexertionctheinz =ado_ to ascertain tha FRENCH EDUCATION. French legislative measures are generally of a very simple character. Not unfrequently, the pre aiible, the vu this and vu that, occupies by far the great part of the bill ; and. nevertheless the French rarely seem to get into those terrible messes which the hazy wording of our Acts so often causes in England. The new measure on primary education in Franco contains only two clauses: one that instruction in all the com munal schools shall be gratuitous • another that every parent w h o d oes not sen.l his cliil,lron between the ages of six and thirteen to school, shall bo required to furnish proof that he is educating them at home. We are left entirely in the dark as to what will happen if he takes neither alternative. THE SUEZ CANAL SPECULATIO' r. An important conferenPo on the Suez Canal ha's been held at the Sec,: Ly of Arts. Sir Frederick Arrow, Deputy Master of the Trinity House, calcu lates that the new route will be able to compete with that by the Cape. A steamer can make the Canal voyage to Calcutta in 47 days ; a sailing vessel would occupy 99 days in getting round the Cape. Suppose that the former carried 900 tons of goods, and the latter 1,200. The dues on the 900 tons would be—at Os. £270; 400 tons c oal, a t 35 5. a ton, wou l d cost £700; wages and other expenses would be £3OO, making a total expense of £1,270. The freight on the 900 tons would amount to £2,700, leaving a profit of £1,430. The sailing vessel would make the passage in 99 days, carrying 1,200 tons, and receiving, say £3,600 for freight, out of which £7OO would be deducted for expenses, leaving £2,900. As, however, the steamer would make two voyages to the sailing ship's one, the canal route would be able to compete with the Cape. Captain Osborn pointed oat that but for the canal America might hav competed in carrying Indian goods by way of San Francisco. Sir Thomas Bazley, M.P., thought the Great Powers might contribute a million each for the purpose of widening and deepening the canal. A Parsee mBr chant observed that the success of the work was a matter of fact. He was receiving and sending goods that way. It must be remembered, too, that the expense of making the voyage is now at its highest; the cost must decline, whereas the route by the Cape can offer no prospect of further cheapness. GOLD IN AMERICA. Since that terrible gold campaign last autumn under the auspices of the immortal Fisk, the price of gold has been gradually declining. On Thursday it closed in New York at 114 ; but during the day it had touched so low as 1121, the shortest price reached since the first year of the war. The occurrence is regarded, and justly, as a great event in the United States. The Republicans rejoice greatly. In connection with this circumstance it may be mentioned that the committee appointed by Congress have exonerated. President Grant from all complicity in the specula tions of September. His name was mixed up in those dark intrigues, and direct charges against him were made by some of the " ring ; but that Fisk and Co. should perjure themselves is no new thing. WILLS AND BEQUESTS, The will of Don Gregorio de Mier y Feran has been proved in the London Court under £500,000 personal pro perty in this country. The will of Countess Antoinette Wilhehnina Jane Bentinck has been administered to in the London Court under 21,500 personalty in England. The will of Joseph Barratt, Esq., J.P., of Holywath, has been proved - at Lancaster under £140,000. The testator died November 9 last, aged forty-three, having executed his will August 2 preceding. He leaves certain of his estates, including his mining shares, to his t wo s i s t ers and his uncle Francis Barratt. There are also legacies to his uncle Francis Kent and to the widow and children of his uncle Alexander Barratt, and to other relatives, friends, and servants.—The will of John Parsons, Esq., of the city of Oxford, banker, was Proved in London on the 17th ult., under £160.000 per sonalty. The testator has left several legacies to his relatives, and to his personal friends, clerks, and servants. The corona tion cup presented to his father by his Majesty George IV. is to be preserved in the family. To his wife he leaves the interest of £30,000, and to each of his daughters a legacy of £13,000, and appoints his sons residuary lega tees. He has left the following charitable bequests—viz., to the Margate Infirmary, £500; the Wanstead Asylum and St. Ann's Society, each £3OO ; the Weymouth, Sanitarium, and nrompton Consump tion Hospital, each £200; the Blind Asylum, Deaf and Dumb Asylum, the Society for Promoting ;he Enlargement and 13uilding of Churches, the Society for. the Spread of the Gospel in ForeignParta and Addi tional Curate? Aid Society, each £lOO. All legacies to be paid free of duty.—The wills of the undermentioned .1110.e2ireccatly_proved :—J. S. Woodin £70,000 ; 'Thomas Criaiths (Durham), £60,000 ; John W. Pike (Wareham), £60,000 ; G. Hooper, £lO,OOO ; John L. Armitage, £50,000; John Kitson (Norwich), £9,000; and Samuel Last (New Bond-street), £25,000. INDIAN A PFAIII s. —T h e Bombay Gazette of the 12th February says that the :Madras Government has re solved to disallow the recent illicit grant of 12,000 rupees out of the Madras municipal fund for fireworl- - s to enter tain the Duke of Eainburgh and no one seeks to defend the grant. The Viceroy and his staff were to take a tour through the central provinces. It is believed that Sir Rutherford Aleoek's visit to Calcutta is to be made with the object of explaining the reasons of the provision in the new convention with Pekin, by which nearly half a million sterling of the opium revenue of India is likely to be sacrificed. Colonel Telly is to confer with the Viceroy on the best mode of establishing an Indian navy. Infor mation has been received by the Calcutta Chamber of Commerce, that Mr. Cooper, the explorer, in his attempt to reach China, had been stopped at the Ihibetarn frontier rnd compelled to return to Assam. DOMESTIC LIFE IN JAPAN.—M. lllllllbOrt, the wiss Minister at Jeddo, has just published some amusing details of the domestic life of the Japanese. In Japan marriage is the universal habit. Almost the only exceptions are to be found in the case of certain monastic orders and among the ladies in attendance upon the Empress. Men marry at about twenty and women at fifteen years of age, but except in the Buddhist sects the act is marked by no religious ceremony. Among the presents displayed is always to be seen a double-lipped vase. At a given moment one of the brides maids advances, fills it with saki, and presents it alter nately to the bridegroom and bride until the goblet is emptied. Under this symbol the idea is conveyed that together the husband and wife must drink the cup of conjugal life to the dregs—whether it be filled with ambrosia or with gall. Japanese mothers have greater authority over their children than their fathers, and the rights of women are so far recognised in the country that a woman has wielded the sceptre of the Mikados. But to return to the home life. The law of the country insists that each child shall be daily exposed to the air without clothes and with its head shaved, and in spite of both rain and sun. During infancy the child's ordinary playmates are a fat, short-legged dog, and fatter tailless cat. Instruction Is never forced upon either parents or children ; it is supposed to recommend itself naturally by its own intrinsic merits ; and every man and woman throughout the empire is able to read, write, and cipher. The thirtieth day after birth every citizen receives his first name ; on attaining his majority he takes a second, a third on his marriage, a fourth on being invested with any public function, which he changes upon attaining each higher grade, and so on to the name given to him after his death. The last is engraved on his tomb, and he is by it' known to all succeeding generations.—. Pall Mall Gazette. THE WEATHER IN BELGIUM.—TIIO indepenciance liege says that sudden changes of temperature are common enough in Belgium ; but that they have seldom experi enced one of so startling a nature as that which has just occurred. Last week the frost was exceptionally severe, the mercury standing at 14 below zero. In a single night the Sierian temperature was transformed to that of spring, and since Sunday the thermometer marks nearly 15 above, and people are walking about in Brussels in summer clothing. RITUALISM IN LIVERPOO L.--T heLiverpool Mercury says :—A number of the attendants at Christ Church, Hunter-street, are indignant at the appointment of the Rev. W. R. Scott, whom they describe as " a Romant Catholic priest in disguise," to that Church. Mr,..5 0 c . 0 t having declared in one of his sermons' ,tbat riii,na es- tantism had emptied heaven and filled hell,' P . .n tion meeting was held in November last,, an Since bishop of the diocese was asked to remove him. tha that time other complaints have been made to but bishop respecting Mr. Scott's ritualist practices, although the bishop has written several letters on the . in d ° the was therefore held on Thursd, -remng, at which res - sub ject, he has given no decided reply.. A second tions were passed against Mr bishops generally came in having done their duty by and it was threatened th rneetoi_iuig sanctioned Mr. Scott's ap] tion should be got up agar Int. DOLLINGER AND ' —The Civilta Cattolica, th plied to Dr. Doßinger's eel( tion in favour of the doetrin, that the present belief of fully proved by the very Council against which he linger's argument that the in Catholic Christianity, being insolent in venturing assembled at Rome, this pr it would deprive the Chur , a dogma. It declares t from the school to the with tolerance, it deman The Cuilta Cattolica also cannot read Latin, and cl conclusion it begs 'Dr. Dd in,* old, and to fix his min( f tet him ask himself wh. with a firm conficlefm afte: the highest prerogative of A WOMAN POACHER.—An at Dunblane. A woman maker, of Stirling, was eh; the Salmon Fisheries Act ' a " cleek" from the rive] watchers proved that the' and cut a long branch. having caught' a salmon dress. The Sheriff fined of payment this sportingmss. ursday evening, at Mr. Scott's appointment. The in for a share of i blame n • • y suppressing ritualist prat hat if the bishop of the di , ipointment a town's demo. inst it. THE " CIVILTA OATTO he organ of Infallibility, ielebrated criticism on t rine of infallibility, and d If the Church on the ques 7 petition of the Fath: remonstrates. Respectin► dogma would produce a rev the Ciiiith says that, ring to contradict the proposition is utterly fals • , rch of the right of ever that Gallicanism has de: streets, and no longer ids equal rights with the says that the German s aharges him with bad faitl ollinger to remember he is ad on the judgment seat of hether he will be able meet Ui• opposing, by act and f His representatiri . . -An unusual case has b: named Margaret Whit. Charged with a contrav: t by taking a salmon by er Teith. The evident). ay saw the accused go 3 To this she attached a h. she carried it, away her £2l2e. ed., and iii femsat wez4 Wrieoh f