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"-s article in the 'umbels for Decembe) 014 •••, very Arcadian title of " Irish (Laughter.) In Ireland there are . what I may call r . prisons for little chilikn, thousands and tens of thousands of Enghsh money are collected every year for the purpose of founding and supporting refuges, orphanages, ragged-schools, nurseries, convent relief funds, ragged school relief funds, sleeping asylums, and " birds'-nests," for the hole purpose of perverting poor little Catholic children. (Ole, oh.) There is one of these " nests," in Kingstown, and a Catholic rho visited it last Balmer held this conversation with the manager : Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or whnlAsalA at R. Q-REAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Obse rve the Red Seq,l, Pink Label, and Cork brands " Kinaban's LL Whisky." • lfirruAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION Ino ixgm itei by Act of earliatn ant, MM. tt II 34I4;.L 2 STREET. COVENT-GARDEN. LONDON. Prompt ADVANCE'; on all description of security. F,,rms tree on applioation by letter to EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. N°. 23,277. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1867. PRICE. 441. STAMPED 5d CEVIL SERVICE OF INDlA.—Candidates intending to present themselves at the 0PF.14 COM ,N, commencing' on April 9, are reminded that cer tificates of birt h, hoattli, and character should be sent to the (fire of the Cavil Service Comin4s:sloners on or bet,re Ist February. FTER Covent-garden Theatre—EVANS' to Sur. Alter Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Lyceum theatre EVANS' to SUP. Alter Adelphi Theutre After Olympic theatre . . VANS' to SUL'. Alter Strand Theatre EVAN& to SUP. After New lioyaty ThPatre l' VA NS' to SUP. .After St. James's ..... to SIP'. Alter Prince of Wa!el' 'Mei!re EVANS• to SUP. London Singing and Supper Club, E lANS', Covent-garden. Vocal Entertainment at Eight. account for the fact that in so fertile and rich, in so compact and densely peopled a district as the plain of North Italy, across the richest lands of Piedmont and Lombardy, lines establishing the communications between such cities as Milan and Turin, Genoa and Bologna, to say nothing of the hundred minor ones with which that region is studded, at 10 or 12 miles' distance—lines, too, which have already been open from 10 to 15 years—should hardly come up to the standard of those traversing some of the least favoured tracts to the North of the Alps. And it must be observed that as the Italian Govern ment attached the most vital importance to the promotion of these public works, and could put no reliance on the private speculation or the public spirit of the Italian people, it became necessary to have recourse to foreign companies, who dictated their own terms, so that the State what with original grants, and additional subven tions, and guaranteed interests,and purchase and re purchase of the lines and rolling-stock of defaulters, ended by paying twice and thrice over the value re ceived. Aud the necessity to which the rulers of the emancipated people bowed from the outset presses upon them more strongly than ever at the present moment ; for in roads and railroads, at what ever cost they may be procured, lies the cure of the worst evils with which the wildest Neapolitan Sicilian, and Sardinian provinces are still afflicted. The most direct cause of the failure of Italian rail ways is by the Opinione justly attributed to the scanty traffic both of passengers and goods —a scar city not to be counteracted by the extremely low fares on every line. The Italians neither travel nor trade. The slackness in the internal movement of the kingdom is commensurate with the sluggishness of its commercial relations with foreign countries. We already noticed in a former article how, although considerable-increase in the imports of the kingdom I has been perceptible of late years, the exports have been almost altogether stationary. The whole trade of Italy with foreign nations in 1864, amounted to 1,301,000,000 f. ; while that of France during the same year was 5,452,000,000 f. ; and that of Belgium, a state barely numbering a population of 5,000,000, rose to 1,285,000,000 f.—that is, very nearly equal that of Italy with her 21,00),000 souls. And it must be added, that while the exports in Italy were only of 405,000,000 f . --that is, less than one-third of the whole trade,—those of Belgium ex ceeded 597,000,000 f., or nearly come up to the im ports. developed in Italy in the little it i s ndeed,li rsekeelninfeanndf these work last fewhasbeen years of her emancipation. The anxiety with which both the people and their rulers looked forward to the struggle out of which they had just come with success may doubtless account for much. Still the fact remains that the Italians have fallen terribly in the rear of other nations, .and that they require the utmost exertions to make up for lost time. COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC -HOUSES, an , i BUSINESSES. FURNF.SS and KNEE'S List on application. Partic.ilars for insertion received until the 27th of the month at their AUCTION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES. 5 . Agar-street, Strand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Cross Railway Station. ‘,;;HARE DEPARTMENT.-THE CONSER VATIVE LAND SOCIET .I.—Shares may be taken out daily at the Norfolk-street Offices, or investors at a cis tance can b • elirolled as members by correspondence. Pre sent rate of Interco'', five per csnt. fer annum, p*iyable in half •yearly warrants, with part cipation of any profits de clared annually above that rate. No ; artoership and power of withdrawal of subscriptions on shares al t wenty-e4ht days' notice. The taking o: land is entirely optional. CHARLES LEWIS GPATN EISEN, Secretary. Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C. LAW NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " -EAST LYNNE.' In the press, iu 3 vols., post Bvo , LADY ADELAIDE'S - OATI By MRS. HENRY WOOD. Author of " Ea.t Lynn," '• The 0i :innings," and " Mrs. Hatiiburon's Troubles." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. T'E oxF 0 E 1), 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., DUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. MISS BRADDON'S NEW ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. Now Publishiar., prise One Shilling, Monthly, “BELGR AVIA:" "The best Shilting Magazine which England pos. sesses.''—StandarJ. Office: Warwick House, Paternoster-raw. London. TIIE MUSICAL ESTA.BLISHILENT OF LONDON. LES DRAGONS DE VILA, MKS (Opera Comique), Music by A. Maiilart, in which Miss RUSSELL vri 1 appear, as sktect by NI isqes Barrie and Fitz Ilenry ; 31e,srs. A. St. Albyn, Fox, Husk, Evans, and . Bury, with Extra Band and Chorus ; produced and conducted by 31r. F. Jonghrnans. LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet-street, London, E.C., Jan. 3, 1867. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the Law Life As surance Society will bo held at the Society's Office, Fleet street, London, on SATURDAY, the 2d day of February next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, pursuant to the pro visions of the Society's Deed of Settlement, for the pur pose of receiving the Auditors' Annual Report of the Accounts of the Society up to the 31st of December last ; to elect three Directors in the room of Mr. Serjeant Storks, deceased ; William Brougham, Esq., retired ; and William Henry Tinney, Esq., retired, and for general purposes. The Director to be chosen in the room of Mr. Serjeant Storks will remain in office until the 24th June, 1869. The Directors to be respectively chosen in the room of William Brougham, Esq., and William Henry Tinney, Esq., Q.C., will remain in office until the 24th June, 1870. By Order of the Directors, WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. " V.R." IRISH WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Oftl:es and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 180& Quotations on application. " 1 he strength of Mr. Morton lies in his operatic saections, executed by a small but highly efficient band, and a well. selected body of under the direction 01 Mr. F. Jon - ;hmans. —Times, Jao. 9,1857.. COMEDY: by Messrs. Harry Sydney, Brierley, and Eger ton; Mr. G. H. FREDERICKS and Mr. FRANK II USSE Y, or the NEW AMERICAN MINSTitii:I.S; together with an Entirely New Divertissement. entitled THE OXFORD REVELS, arranged and produced under the immediate superintendence of Mr. W. 11. Payne, THIS EVENING. TOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY ty TOOI . II PASTN is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. sd.—Red Bull Wharf, 113, Upper Thames-street. London. TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.--" The purest spirit and safest drink in the world."--I.orAdon Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C., next the "Times." AVALUABLE NEW-YE AR'S GIF T.- A CHINESE CADDY, containing 16Ibs. of really good Black Tea, sent carriage free to any railway station or market town in England, Ireland, t..:cotland. or Wales, o❑ re ceipt of 405.. by PHILLIPS and CO, Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City. E.C. • - - "Of the decorum that prey ills throuzhout very .n of 'he Hall it is i m2os ;b le to a _ ea t too highly." —Times, Jan. 9, 18,7. 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 cases, and to take orders in bowl and for exportation, at their offices, 7, P rinting -house-square, London, E C., the only house in the square not occupledby the "Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies brim the hiQhest prices in the Australian and other Colonial Markets, as may be observed by reference to the "Journal of Cgrnmerca of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their Whiskies felsh 6d. per gallon and Is. per case ore.' .he next best, and Ir.. 6d per gellon and 55. 6d. a case over the lowest quotation. Always on hand a large supply of ve y old mellow svMsky in the finest condition. matured in sherry Casks, uusurpassable in quality and flavour, supplied on the most reasonable terms. 1 ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. NEW ADM; lONS. —Life-size Models of the KINGS and QUEENS of ENGLAND, from WILLIAM of NORMANDY to QUEEN VICTORIA. Admittance, is.; children, airier ten, half-price; extra Open from 11 a.m. till d us k, and from 7 till 10 p.m: rooms, 6d. TEA IS CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d., 25.. 2s 6 1. per lb. are the prices at which PHILLIPS and CO , Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City, Lon don. E.C.. are selling good and fine BLACK TitA. A. price current post free. 40s worth carriage tree to any railway -tation or market town in the United Kingdom.—Observe— PHILLIPS and Co. have no Agents or any connexion with any house in Worcester or Swansea. Sugars are supplied at market prices. AIANSION-HOUSE FUND for the RELIEF of the SUFFERERS by the recent COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS. COMMITTEE. The Right Hon the LORD MAYOR. R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. Samuel Morley, Esq. Geo.--Moore, Esq. Mr. Alderman Finnis. A RGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO, Windmill-atm% Piccadilly. These elegant and popular Rinlms, having been entirelyre decorated, are now OPEN EVEItY EVENINII for Concert and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Luor Cum Manager, M. GItENET. CONTRACT FOR BARRACK STORES FOR THE ROYAL M.NRINES. ' Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, 9th Jan., 1867. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD IGH ADMIRAL of the U NITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, Do hereby give NOTICE, that on WEDNES DAY, the 23d inst., at Twelve o'Clock at No on , th ey w i ll be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford all such quantities of Long -Hair Broom Heads, and Clamps and Blocks for Long, - E4crubbing Brushes, as may from time to time be demanded for the use of the Royal Marines, under a Contract for twelve calendar months certain, and further until the expi-% ration of three calendar months' warning. Patterns of the articles may be seen at the Royal Marine office New-street, Spring-garden; between the hours of Eleven and Two o'Clock. No Tender will be received Unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application in tho Lobby of the Department. of the Con troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where the conditions of the Contract may be seen. No. Tender will be received after Twelve o'Clock at Noon on the day of Treaty; and it will not be required that the Party tendering, or an Agent on his behalf, should attend at the Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer received from each- person will be communi cated to him and his proposed Sureties in writing. Every' Tender must be addressed to the'Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Barrack Stores ;" and must also be delivered at the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admi ralty, Somerset House, signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the Person tendering in the sum Of £3OO for the due performance of the Contract. By Order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. I Mr. Alderman and Sheriff I Waterlow. 1 Mr. Sheriff Iyeett: Mr. Alderman Besley. Mr. Alderman Dakin. James Hill, Esq. IR. N. Fowler, Esq. W.J. Maxwell, Esq. Mr. Alderman Cotton. )lic is earnestly drawn to the terrible calamity produced by Is. GE O L O G Y.—ELEMENTARY COLLEC TIONS, to illustrate the New Edition of "Lysll's Elements of Geology" and facilitate the important study of Mineralogy and Geology, can be had at 2,5, 10,20, 50 to 500 guineas ;.also single Specimens of Minerals, Rooks, Fossils, and ite.,,ent Shells, Geologinal Maps. Hammers. ali the recent Pubications, tn., of J. TENNANT. Mineralogist to Her Majesty, 119, Strand, London. Private Instruction is given in Mineralogy and Geology by Mr. TENNAIVT, F.G.S.. 149, Strand, W.C. J. P. Gassiot, Esq. Christopher T. Gabriel, Esq. Frederick Thompson, Esq. R. A. Gray, Esq. Colonel Stuart Wortley. The attention of the pitli suffering consequent on the the recent colliery explosionL_ SUBSCRIPTIONS are greatly needed to relieve the numerous families made destitute thereby. The amount required to meet the memorable Hartley Colliery Accident in 1862 was £80,000; in that case 204 men and boys lost their li'ves ; in the present instance double that number are known to have perished, there fore to make a suitable provision for the families depen dent upon them about £lOO,OOO will be needed. At the final distribution of the surplus of the Hartley Fund,. £3,140 was allotted to the districts in which the present accidents occurred, and this sum is now available towards the fund now being raised. Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. Reserved Seats, Two Shillings. WE ST ON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. A, SPLENDID SPECULATIONS GREAT gIICCESS. With a single stake of £l, you can realse £25,000 ! ! With a single stake of £2, you can realise .£27,5"0 ! ! With a single stake of £B, you can realise £37,000! ! With a single stake of £lO, you can realise £45,000! ! For prospectuses and paiticulars apply Without delay to Mr. EUGENE TiLLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. Sole Proprietors, SWEASEY and HOLLAND. Grand Selection from Auber's Opera of " MASA NIELLO," by 40 vocalists dressed in costume as at the opera. Terrific ovation of the Irish Minstrel; at 9, with song; dances, and Irish anecdotes, under the direction of Pat Corri. A new and original overture composed and ar ranged expressly for the above minstrels by Mr. H. Baker. Arthur Lloyd at 11, with a new song " Borachio Pestachio, Lablachio, MoustAchio, and the R e ly Poly Eye Nash, Georgina Smithson, Paddy Fannin, Patrick Sellers, and Harry and Settle zing; and Pio Watkini, the Japauaze Juggler. Band of 30 first-class performers, and large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera Houses. Musical Director, Mr. P. Collin. SAUCE. —LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. • This delicious condiment, pronounced by connoisseurs "THE ONLY GOOD SA.UCE," Is prepared solely by LEA and PERRINS. The public are respectfully cagtioned against worthless Imitations, and should see that Lea and rerrins' names are on wrapper, label, bottle, and s:opper. ASK for LEA and PER RINS' SAUCE. Sold NI - holesale and for export by the Proprietors, Wm eester: Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell; Messrs. Barclay and Sons, London, &c. &c. ; and by Grocers and Oilmen uni versally. • H.R.H. the Prince of Wales the Princess of Wales The Corporation of London Amount already advertised £19,461 5 I Prices of admission—Stalls and Balcony, ls. ; Area, 6d. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. Can be secured at the Box Office, between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall op en every Evening at 7 o'clock. Subscriptions will be received by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house; Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard street; Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., 1, Lombard-street; Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., Lombard -street ; Messrs. Dimsdale, Fowler, and Co., 50, Cornhill ; the Lon don and Westminster Bank, Lothbury; the London Joint- Stock Bank, 5, Princes-street ; the Union Bank of London ; London and County Bank; the National Provincial Bank of England and all their branches; Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., Lombard-street; and by the several members of the Committee. Roman Catholic Reunion at Birmingham. EXHIBITORS at the PARIS EXHIBITION , who ADVERTISE in "THE SUN," can h ave th e SERVICES of A SPECIAL AGENT in PARIS, whose address can be obtained at " The Sun" Office. He has a perfect knowledge of French, is also acquainted with busi ness, and has good connections. On application to " The Sun" Agent in Paris, either personally or by letter, he will obtain every possible facility for Exhibitors, or persons who may have other business in Paris, or who may go there for pleasure only. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. DEFRIES and SONS' fl • NEW CITY SHOW IV lONS contain an entirely new ani extensive Stock of TABLE GLASS, China, and Chau delier+.-147, Houndsditch. NOTICE OF REMO VAL. JJDEFRIES and SONS' NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS.—The New Oval-shaped ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICE, from £1 ISs. ga . _ 147, Houndaditch. PRINTING. —TO PROPRIETORS OF -a- NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.—The Print ing and Machining of Newspapers, &c., done on exceed ingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager "Sun" Printing Offices, 3, Church row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. O G U NM A K E R S and Others. The l. SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of ree e i v i n z PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for re 13,1. E ECH-LO &DING RIFLES, either rep ea ti ng or not Peating, which may re pl ace th e p resen t S erv i ce R i fles in luture manufacture. JOSEPH GIBBS, Secretary. 'ansion Home, Jan. 14, 1867. MANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps). London. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. DEFRIES and SONS Pi • NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS.— BREAKFAST and TEA SERVICES in great variety. from £1 Is. upwards.- 147. Houndsditch. The following are the conditions considered essential in Mil itary non-repeating Rifles - - A. WEIGHT. Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet. B. LENGTH. , TOE 51 inches, with short stock, measured f r om th e nof the butt-plate to muzzle. , 0 . WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE in). Aust not exceed Glb. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for service. D. CARTRIDGES. M ust carry their own ignition. E. S IGH TS. The for es i g h t must be such as to admit of a bayonet fixed according to the present system. alloust w a F. CK Mbe su c h as to carrySTO Er light . metal cleaning rod, an d sling to be used. G. RECOIL. 10/lust Per cent not. exceed that of the Enfield Rifle by more than ARM AS A OLE. Must be a s Iit THE tle liable to injury by W lon H g:continued firing, t " e g li usage, and exposure, a s th e naval rifles converted t o lalso s° ch- loaders on the Snider s y s t em . T o b e as capa b le, ', of being used witho u t acc id en t b y i mper f ect l y trained rr en, and of being manuf ac t ure d i n quan ti t i es and of uni otu quality. I. THE AMMUNITION S A WHOLE. and Must be as little liable to injury A by rough us age, damp, exPosnre in ell climates, as the Boxer cartridge for oiler's converted Enfield rifle—also as little liable to acci- It e ptal explosion as th e same cartridge, and as capable of uelug manufactured in large quan titi es , an d of uniform q u ality. K. CALIBRE. Optional. L. OptionaTHE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE. l. M. THE LOOK. Optional. N. RAPIDITY OF FIRE. Capable of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without aiming, the cartridges being arranged on a table. o. ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST. The arm must give a mean figure of merit of not more than 3Gin. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500, and 6in. at 300. The mean to be taken u shots each. Pon at lea s t fi ve targets of twenty P. TRAJECTORY. Not to require at 500 yards an elevation of more than 1 deg. 30 min. Q. FOULING. The shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cent. at 1,000 yards after firing 250 rounds. R. PEN. The me an p ene tration of five shots not to be less than that of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle-- vz., 12 half- waterinch elm planks, which have been soak e d 48 hours in . Distance 30 yards. s. LN. Wax o n b u ll ets is indis U pensable, BßlCAT IO but any other lubricant b laY be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought necessary by the competitor. 111. No arms will be received without the usual proof marks. :t' •- p e cifications, and drawings of the methods proposed, a tinc.• the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a finished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu- P,i„,tion, should be sent to the "Director of Ordnance, War ''lrtrr,oo' Pall-mall," on or before the 30th March, 18G7. 1, Ihe specifications and specimen arms will be considered by the Ordnance Select Committee and its associate mem -;i'v.er_s, who will be selected by the Secretary of State for and who will, a f ter fi r i ng the 20 preliminary rounds, :select and recommend for further trial such of the systems ',4,111,a3r appear to them su ffi c i en tl y prom i sing, rejecting all Such as may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to I d N:arrant th e i r b e i ng i ncluded in the competition, the con it-piells of whi c h are stated in this advertisement. fo r - "ach accept e d competitor will then be required to furnish ex porim ent at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity to the specimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am 'h4l"ition per arm, within four months after date of de and. Each competitor will be req u i re d t o di sc l ose to the runittoe the exact nature of the lubrication lie may em- Ploy. A sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted tl ° lll l:oetiters, to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of a rn s uPPly of ammunition required. ':4 he Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the •_rni which, on combination of all qualities, is considered LT the committee to be the best submitted. ;ainisecond reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at n. g a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu 4ars, is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism. A. third reward of £4OO for the best cartridge. The qua es which w ill b e principally taken into consideration in awarding this prize will be economy o f manufacture, power o f sustaining rough usage, freedom from deterioration in various climates, and general serviceability. The shooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but i s they may d e p end upon the rifling of the arm with which he cartridge is associated, they will not be so much con sidored as those above-mentioned. It is clearly to be understood that under no circumstances Will a competitor be entitled to more than one prize ; but such en prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be service, giv to the inventor the arm finally a d opted into the IV MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. Magazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re cived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech cading Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48 aches, including the stock. The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at nib. ex clusive of the charges in the magazine. baYonet lt is indispensable that th e arms b e made to take a ....Th e S ecre t ary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best m agazine or Repeating Ann produced that fulfils the above conditions ; and in the absence of experience does not at Present define the standard of accuracy or other conditions to be fulfilled before such an arm can be adopted. _ Those Magazine orßepeatingArms, which are accepted for further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O each. arm, T his sum i s t o i nc l ude 1,000 rounds of ammunition per V. The Secretary of State will take care that no ingenious novelty produced in answer to this advertisement shall be adopted into the service without proper acknowledgment, an d that the name of the individual with whom it origi nates shall berecorded in connection with it. If the rifle to which the first prize is awarded is a d op t e d I nto the service it will be ar the inventor's name. J. ' ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director of Or;luau° .964 Of acis Oct. 22 1866] RUPTURES,-11Y ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAW LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBITIONS ot 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwards of Cwo Hundred Me goal Gentlemen to be the moat effective invention in the curative treatment ot HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so o: ten hurtful in its effelts, is hete avoided- a sot t bindage heing worn round the body, while the requisite reiisting, power i ; supplied by the Moo-Main Pad and Patent Lev,r. fitting with so nuch ease and close ness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during ;leer). A descriptive circular may be 119,11, end ill. truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post; on the circum erence of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufactuter, Mr. WHITE. 228, Piccadilly. A Sim/le Truss, Vs., 215., Nis 64., and 31s. 64 Poktage, 10. A. Double Truss, 31s. 64., 425., an 1 525. 6d. Postage, Is. 841. An Umbilical Truss, 429. and 525. 61 P:stage, is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White. Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT LASTIC STOCKINGS, 2.1 KNEE-CAPS, &a, for Varicose Veins and all cases ut Weakness and Swelling or the Legs, -prains, a. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpen , ive, and are drawn on ike an ordinary stocking. Prim 4s. 6d., 78. 6d., 10s. and 16s. each. P osta g e, ed. JO N WHIT 2, :Irv" le a c hirer, 228, Nand Illy. 'NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and 1 mos t usef all avention of the day, AGUA AMA KELL A. pi'esers. JOHN GOSNELL and ed Bull Wharf, 93, Pper Thames-street Perfumers to CO.,' her Majesty, respect fully offer to th e public this truly marvellous flat 1, which gradually restores tna human hair to its pristine hue -no clatter at what age. The Ages Amarella has none of the Properties of dyes ' • it, on the cont rar y , i s b ene fi c i a l to the " stel a , and when the hair is once restored one application per month wilt keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle. or in half bottles. 10s. 61. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order. and from individuals of undoubted re 71Peo s c n t e a l b l I 11t and s C a may ha vb: seen on application. Messrs. John been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Prinoess of Wales. WHAT IS YOUItEST AND WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO? Send 3s. 6d. to CULLETON'S heraldic Office for a Plain Sketch, or 6s. for a Coloured one. The Arms of man and wife blended together in proper heraldic form. The proper heraldic Colours for servants' liver!es, what buttons to be used, and how the carriage should be painted, fee 10s. 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The annual expenditure for supporting the 400 boy. is estimated at £ 4 ,000, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends have promised to nay for one boy each year. Subscription,. thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothbury, and 214, High Holborn; Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall Ran; and by WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. neen,.street, W.C. Refuge, 8, Great Qi PRovmE Nc ii ----- -------- OW NIGHT REFUGE, sity lt i o ih m l o c t lp E nr s do s viisi i iv iigenh o et r rL F o N ovr 7A gpi N nigs,n D sb C uw a ryi r hE D . RE o. N , destitute, who engievinsoulnd h th av is o Suppers and I h n a st d itu o ion pas t s o the Breakfasts, have be anitgliprtsesett the nearlybl bleak k 0 Nights'sotherwiser _or under railway arches. Lo dgulgfs, with Suppers and Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that N M ll o a o t n u w tai Manager t at e : receivesth o y ar e nhoomreelmessunearandtionstarviwhnateveTr.he ing the provision made by the Poor night numbers of young women, children, and (7; .g,ach are, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, anWavnes 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 work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required. Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really starving ? 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ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the Lnmediate vicinity of the Greet Northern Ball .-v,y fern:anus, King's-cross. --- Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vioe- Patron --His Royal Highness the Prince of WA LE S. HG. President —His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. K.G. This hospital, founded in the year 1828, th i t c ) . fst to estab lish the pri nc ipl e of free admission to the sic or, without the delay an d di ff iculty of Governors' ordere , wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions and I :qactes. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of a t ten d ance of the l estitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3 , 00 0 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee ear estly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the pr nises of this Hospital are capable of containing several h‘ndred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers,Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., Abehuroh-lane; also by Messrs. Colitis and Co.; Drummond and Co.;Giyn and Co. ; Ber r i es and Co.; and Ransom and Co. ; Presc ott, Grote, and Co.; S m ith, Payne, Co. • Barclay and Co. ;ti Mta as, Deacon, and C o . ; Ni sbet ill;14 CO ; Bernors-atreet ; and at the Hospital. [ rum 10 t i ll b. A.L , T/10)3,DSMTTka, begretial, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—Strongly interested as we have been at all times in the full success of the national cause in Italy, we have, ho wever, always looked upon the mere expulsion of the Austrians as the beginning, not the end, of the work of emancipation. Not only was Rome not to be built in a day, but the mere digging of the foundations for the new city walls would take considerable time. The Italians are now fairly launched. All that material or moral aid from abroad could do for them has been done. Henceforth they can only rely upon their own exer tions. Should their success come up to the andel tions of their most sanguine well - wishers, it will not only be matter for gratified pride to these latter, but it will be a clear, positive gain for the whole world. On the other hand, should the experiment fail, and self-government achieve for one peninsula no greater good than it has done for the other, human progress would take but little account of the fallen. We should only have to resign some of our fondest illusions as to the indefinite perfectibility of our race in general, and as to the power of reaction and restoration of the Italian people in particular—the people which we had been told had lived two succes sive lives and aspired to a third—and that would be all. Wise men would still heartily wish for the Ita lians a continuation of the enjoyment of their inde pendent existence; but that would be rather for the common peace than from any hope that great good might come of it for the Italians themselves. The example of Spain should always be held up as a mir ror to Italian eyes. We have been led to these coa siderations by some melancholy statements in one of the best Florence journals, Mental Opinione, with re spect to Itali an railways. ental and moral deve lopment must i n all countries be proportionate to material well being. All engrossed as the Italian Government was with preparations for the great national stru gg l e; i t was, however, not unm i ndful of that truism, and never slackened in its endeavours to give social and industrial life to all possible im pulse. Imperfect success, in this respect, is less to be ascribed to want of judgment and improvidence on the part of th e rulers than to the utter exhaustion of a prostrate p eop l e. In I ta l y th e G overnment, however faulty, of the gove rne d . Between 1815 and 1848 there a was for Italy must for many years be in advance period of uninterrupted decline. The only traces of advancement and prosperity were for some time perceptible in the Austrian dominions. Up to 1818 Piedmont had not com pleted the five miles' railway between Turin and Moncalieri ; and a Prince of Savoy, on his visit to Naples, where a Bourbon had constructed a 16 miles' line from his town residence to his country seat at Castellarnare, was ready to exclaim with envy and wonder, " 0 fortunati, quorum jam mcenia surgunt !" Between that time and the present a great change of conditions has taken place in diffe rent parts of the Peninsula. Public works have everywhere kept pace with political emancipation, and wherever an annexation occurred it was always found that in the newly-incorporated province there was everything to be done. The report of the General Commission of Railways to which the Opinione refers comes no further down than the 3 ears 1864-5 ; ro sluggish is still the action of the Italian Government in its statistical productions, notwithstanding the appalling number of the officials. In the former year Italy had 3,173 kilo metres of railway its operation, and these rose to 3,595 kilometres in 1865, with an increase of 422 kilometres in a twelvemonth. - The Opinione com putes the Italian lines at about one-fourth of those of France and one-fifth of those of England. Of the 3,595 kilometres for the whole of Italy, 1,773 belonged to the Northern lines ; 1,039 to the Cen tral or Roman lines ; 751 to the Southern lines, and 32 to the lines of Calabria and Sicily. We are aware that some progress has been made in those Southern provinces and in the island of Sardinia within this last year or two ; and it may be safely asserted that four-fifths of the works hitherto accomplished any where south of the Apennines, with the exception of Tuscany, date from the annexations of 1859-60. The aggregate produce of all th e I ta li an l i nes was, in ; in 1865, 60,765 , 577 f. ; ,s , nlB6 the proportion being 18,508 f. per kilometre in the former, and only 16,902 f. per kilometre in the latter year. The Opinione again compares this meagre produce of the Italian railways with that of the French lines, which ranges from 20,937 f. to 57,272 f., and to that of Germany, which is of 32,885 f. per kilometre in Prussia, of 29,740 f. per kilometre in Austria, and of 26,168 f. per kilometre in the minor States. Unsatisfactory as these general results may be for Italy in contrast with other countries, it must, however, be observed that the produce is not, as may be imagined, the same for the various Italian lines. Some of those in the Tuscan and Roman marshy regions (Marcmmane) give no profit at all and do not even pay the current expenses of their daily traffic, while those of Northern Italy, the very best in the Peninsula, yield a produce of 23,374 per kilo metre, and that is a little more than the worst French, and a little less than the worst German lines. For the Central lines the produce is of 12,514 f. per kilo metre ; for the Southern lines of 8,046 f. ; for the Calabro-Sicilians of 8,662 f.—an array of numbers from which it will be easy to perceive the diminution of movement and activity at every step as one pro ceeds from North to South. We are willing to be lieve that these unfavourable results of Italian rail way enterprise may in some measure be ascribed to want of management, to waste and improvidence on the part of the adraiumtration; but thin could hardly The 13th annual reunion of the Roman Catholics of Birmingham and the district, in aid of the poor schools, was held on Tuesday night. The assembly was presided over by Dr. Manning, Archbishop of Westminster; there were also present Bishop Ulla thorne, Bishop Amherst, and a large number of the Roman 'Catholic clergy and influential laity. The ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER said,—An hour or two ago I heard the Lord Bishop of this diocess lay down a very inconvenient law, which it is my deliberate purpose to break. (Laughter.) He laid down in my hearing that after the octave of the Epiphany no one can wish another a happy new year. (Laughter.) Now I came here to-night for the deliberate purpose of wishing the Bishop of Birmingham and his flock assembled in this-hall on this night many happy new years like the present. (Cheers.) And it gives me very great happiness to come and accept the welcome so kindly given me, and to assure you that there is nothing which is more cheering to the heart of the Catholic pastor than to see a Catholic bishop in the midst of his people, loved and venerated as the bishop of this diocess is. (Cheers.) And I may add that I see in this a proof of the present strength and future extension of the Catholic Church in England. (Hear, hear.) The Catholic Church in this land comes not in union with Royalty, though it is loyally submissive to the Crown. (Applause.) It comes not by statute of Parliament, nor by favour of aristocracy, nor by the influence of wealth, but in poverty, united with the people. (Applause.) It is the Church of the poor all the world over. (Applause.) It is the Church of the poor eminently in Ireland—(" hear, hear," and cheers)—and it is the Church of the poor in all the great towns of England ; and the whole Catholic flock in England, without distinction of rank, or class, or wealth, is united together with such a perfect fusion and equality, under the spiritual care of its pastors, that there is no unity to be found throughout the Catholic world more perfect or more compact. (Applause.) lam sure that in no part of the Catholic world can there be found an episco pate united in more perfect brotherly love together, nor an episcopate that has the happiness of ruling over a body of clergy who with a more filial attach ment and a more perfect docility obey their spiritual guidance, and a flock more closely united to their pastors. (Applause.) What I see before me to night is a sample of what I have seen in the great towns of England of many years that are past, and most especially in the last 12 months, and this gives me a confidence that so long as the Catholic Church is united, pastors and people together, there is no power ou earth that eau hinder its continual expan sion. (Much applause.) Now, my lord, lam most glad to meet you and your flock to-night, and upon such an occasion as this, knowing as I do that it owes its origin to an effort to extend education among the children of the poor—a work most dear to the heart of every Catholic ; and I may say lam glad to speak of this work in Birmingham, because I think the people of this town have a very special prerogative of respect and of regard among the Catholics of England. (Applause.) I think Liver pool, Manchester, and Birmingham have set three bright examples which I trust the whole of England will follow. In Liverpool the Catholic population is mixed with the population of that city with a perfect equality of public and private respect, and the Catholics of that city are treated with the greatest consideration by the municipal authorities. (" Hear, hear," and applause.) I would point to the borough gaol of Liverpool as a luminous example of what the justice and the wisdom of Liverpool have done. (Applause.) In like manner I will say of Manchester, it has taken a lead in the matter of education with an equity and a justice and a pru dence, for which every Catholic ought to bear his tribute. I will say the same of Birmingham, know ing as I do that in a time when England was swept by a tempest Birmingham seemed to be the only spot where tranquillity reigned, like the centre of a whirl wind, always still, and that it was the influence of this great town, wise in its industry, wise in its social pru dence, which began to diffuse a calm when other men had lost the tranquillity of their spirits. (Ap plause.) I know, too, that the Catholic population of Birmingham is treated with respect, justice, and equity, both in public and in private—(hear)—and I believe that the Catholics of Birmingham bear very true and sincere attachment to their town, and to the friends who inhabit this town. (Applause.) And now, I believe, we are living in a period of the history of England which will be marked hereafter by one signal characteristic. Before her gracious Majesty ascended the throne great changes in the law and constitution of England were carried by the Legislature ; but it is one thing to alter the laws in the statute-book—it is another to carry them into effect. Since the accession of her gracious Majesty the changes which took place in the 10 preceding years have been perpetually realising themselves in the public and in the private life of England. I will not refer to that earlier perio d when the condition of Catholics in this country was one which history would be glad to forget. We, lam happy to say, have entered into another period, in the light of the sun and the free air of heaven, and at this day, a so cial, political, and religious equality among all the subjects of her gracious Majesty is extending itself throughout the whole of our order and our system, so that I trust, before As closes her happy reign, there will not remain among us the sr - lancet remnant of the past. (Much cheering.) I know with what equity and what justice the Catholic prisoners in the prisons of this town and county are treated. I know also the respect and consideration with which the poor And the little children of the poor are treated in the workhouse and the workhouse schools. (Hear, hear, and applause.) I look to these two as the index, like the degrees on a thermometer, which fixes the Christian justice of those who administer the law. I know that all that yourlordship desires is not yet accomplished ; and I know that until every little Catholic child is in a Catholic school the whole work will not be accomplished. (Ap plause.) Equitable, just, and considerate as the administration of the Poor Law is at this time, it is impossible that the Cathoiic children in the workhouse schools can be trained in their faith as they ought to be. It is impossible that under the same roof there can be two systems of education, and there is only one way to remedy so great an evil as that Catholic children should all the day breathe an atmosphere which is not the atmosphere of the Catholic Church —namely, by their being freely and justly placed under the care of their own pastors, according to the desire of their parents, as it would be from their hearts, in schools which are purely and strictly of the Catholic Church. (Applause.) That this desire of your Lordship and the Church may be earnestly fulfilled is my earnest desire and petition. And now let me say that it seems to me that the happiest and most blessed condition of a people is to be perfectly united ill religion. If there could be one faith, one heart, one mind, one worship, one' alai- round which the whole population is gathered, as I see it in Ireland —(cheers)—with very little to disturb it, such would be the happiest condition of a people. Re ligious unity, or unity of faith, is the greatest gift of God to men, and that because, first of all, it is a pledge of truth, universally known and believed, and that one truth which admits no division and no contradiction ; next, because it is a guarantee of universal peace—no controversy and no conflict, and no divisions of households, no intestine and domestic strife ; and, lastly, because it insures the inheritance of truth and of faith to posterity to be hereafter born. Whereas, where the religious unity of a people is divided and fractured truth escapes, and children are born generation after generation disinherited of the heirloom of Christianity. (Ap plause.) For these reasons I do desire from my heart to see the unity of faith spreading more and more among us. This I believe to be the best state of a people. I believe the worst state of a people to be one of conflict, controversy, religious strife, theological bitterness. (Hear.) It seems to me that the plagues of Egypt are the types of such a state. (Applause.) Ido not know whether to call it, the iron or the brazen age. But as religious unity has passed—for men have forfeited it—l earnestly desire that the period of conflict may pass likewise as speedily as it may, and that, if we cannot re-enter into perfect unity, we may at least enter upon that silver period, less perfect than the first, in which, though we are not united in one faith, we may, be united in kindliness, in mutual .considera tion, justice one with another, and equity to those who differ from us. (Cheers.) But now, in order that I may illustrate my meaning, I will take an example not far off, and perhaps from a field where you would not expect it. 1 will take as an example of how a minority in religion is treated by a vast majority—from Ireland. I find in Ireland that in every gaol and in every workhouse the Protestant inmates and the Protestant prisoners have not only the most perfect freedom of religion, the most per fect freedom of education for their children, but the freest access for the ministers of their religion, and chaplains duly appointed and duly maintained for their care. (Applause.) I find, for example, in the workhouse of Limerick, where at the utmost there are sometimes five Protestant inmates usually— there is not so many as one on an average daily— nevertheless, the other day, when the minister of a neighbouring town applied for a salary as chaplain, the board, composed of a majority of Catholics, unanimously voted it. (Applause.) Again, in the West of Ireland there is often not a single Protes tant in the workhouse. (Hear, hear.) Neverthe less, there are Protestant chaplains receiving never less than £lO a year—(cheers)—and, from a report of the Poor-law Commissioners, it would appear that in nearly two-third of the appointments as chaplain the houses to which they are appointed have no Protestant inmates. (Laughter and ap plause.) I call this a fair example of equitable treatment of a minority in religion. (Laughter.) In respect to the prisoners in Ireland, in the year 1865 it appears that 982 Presbyterians were in the prisons. The average number daily in the prisons would be about 82 ; but this, of course, is over a number of prisoners, and there were 14 Presbyterian chaplains for the care of the 82 prisoners. (Laugh ter.) I find a case in which there was no Presby terian prisoner at all, nevertheless there was a chap lain, with a stipend of £3B per year. (Laughter.) I find that in Louth there was no Presbyterian pri soner, with a chaplain and a stipend. (Laughter.) In Fermanagh there were two Presbyterian pri soners, with a chaplain of £3O a year. At Cavan two Presbyterian prisoners had likewise a chaplain at £3O a year. In Donegal there were 16 Protestant prisoners, and a chaplain at £4O a year. In Monaghan there were 16 priso ners and a chaplain at £3O a year. In the county of Dublin there were 23 prisoners and a chaplain at £55 a year. Mark that these stipends, which Ido not grudge, and wouldnot rescind, be it known, are part of the cess or rate contributed by a vast majo rity of Catholic ratepayers. (Applause.) Now I would only recall the words I spoke in the outset. Liverpool has set a luminous example of .justice in this matter. But before the year 1863 only 36 Ca tholic prisoners were visited by the Catholic priest ; for at that time there was no chaplain appointed. Since then Liverpool has set, I will say, a bright y passed s si a a m et s l example under er d r cos his care., full ?c a rrre ha justicet(Ain the p ahn ue religion wvnaer subject lslanBi d6ftr6 aoh session Major O'Reilly moved for a return borough and county prisons of England, to ascer tainMinisters' least 25 have not put it. into effect. , at example of how a minority Act. howthAast many return, aar na syhl a adfmr actedoa b e aboututrmn make ee Prisonso o u r 3f6r from examin ingi(s o , n s treated. Let me now apply quite aware that those who to this country. I am Shame P') Now, it appea w rs inha t rt o ell n i a hitherto have not carried the intention of depriving have not done so with any believe that it is the effect of old passive habit, o statute law eouh i g n ahv to te t e ao ff f e ab c ier t o.pur.islodneirmomr immobility, that rthCaatthoold their motion is hardly visible ; s ti o nd t , therefore, I must say, excepting exceptions— and I have those exceptions with chapter, verse, d a te, and name—l do not believe that what I must stagnation,leethhpeiarckutphacenr and turbid of v o h r his ic which, if that r if e l Catholicitg l. runs, runs like those streams call the maladministration of the statute law re specting poorhouses and prisons has been the de liberate result of an intention to be unjust. I say excepting exceptions ; but I mean entirely to de fraud your curiosity. If you have any desire to night to know from me what those exceptions are, I shall beg to be allowed to hold my tongue. (Laugh ter and applause.) At a proper time and in a proper place, chapter and verse, and date and name shall be stated. (Hear, hear.) It will not be in a friendly reunion of the Catholics of Birmingham. (Applause.) And now, as I have given you an example of how a minority in religion may be treated, I will give an example of what a minority in religion can do. I must beg that the remarks I am about to make may not excite anything like. irritation. I do not know whether those who hear me have ever seen a publication called The Month. There is a periodical religious publication every month under the title of The Month ; and 1 com mend to every one who hears me to read the first n 2:4 littlea3 t last n7h dse " Have you many Roman Catholic children iere?—They are all Roman Catholic children. [low many are there ?—One hundred and fifty-six. Have their parents turned Protestant ?—No ; pr imps one or two. Do the parents object to the children being brought up Protestants ?--It would be no use if they did ; they know it will be done when they bring them in here. What is the reason that the parents snd their children here ?—Princi pally poverty. Have you any difficulty in getting the Roman Catholic religion out of those children's heads ?—Yes—(loud and prolonged cheering)—the greatest difficulty sometimes, but it is our first en deavour; all our efforts are directed to it ; con troversy is the first lesson of this school." (Shame.) I have no desire to bring the name of any per son who in private life may be estimable and of good intentions before such a meeting as this, and therefore in the example lam about to give I suppress the names of those concerned and refer you to the Month. There was a poor woman named Roney, who had three daughters, and she was in duced to go before the magistrates and give up her chil dren to a Protestant lady to be put into a "birds'-nest." Some time after, her conscience reminding her night and day —as I have no doubt it did, being a Catholic—of the sin s h e has committed and the peril to which she had ex posed her children, she made an application to recover —Please to - he . e : in c r a osa t . t i ;R o rao n ortnn w oeoyff a s hte.loh •re eer f s b e :sil d rd . di3rsee,: ( 7 S chieo h sn a_ 4l 2e :a .) ;iiiihn A es.t g u t , the expenses incurred for them ;" and in the same hand writing came—" Mrs. Riney, Dr. to the Birdte-nest Insti tution, for ono year and six months, £331.55." (Laughter.) One other case. A poor woman named Hogan put two boys into a refuge, intending, as many of these credulous and self-trusting parents do, to take them out before any mischief could happen, believing the children to bo too young to suffer perversion, that the faith in them was too vivid to be easily extinguished, that the time would be but short until she could recover them and put them again under Catholic instruction. Year by year she was unable to do it, because she was unable to support them. At last she demanded them, and was refused. She then wrote a letter under direction—a lawyer's letter—and the secretary wrote to her, saying the children should be given up to her on payment, as by agreement, of £6 a year, that was £9O. I grieve to add that one of the boys was irretrievably perverted. Such is the way in which a minority can act towards a majority. I must add another fact. There is a sleepingasylum, where boys are received and taught trades, and I have no doubt are treated kindly, as far as the mere kindness of material charity; but there is a rule that any boy who leaves without finding a substitute to be perverted cannot take with hi his clothes. To sho w y ou th e ki n d of flowers that flourish beneath the trees on which the birds' nests hang, one Scripture-reader writes, " We have hero the rare phenomenon of a Romish congregation very ready, even well-disposed, to oppose their priest. Out of the Island and South Coast Extension Society's report I take these words :—" The people of this island have been latterly more willing to. receive instruction. The loss of their potato crop has humbled them. (Laughter, and " Shame !") An Anglican clergyman of a true and manly heart, the Rev. G. Webster, Chancellor of Cork, wrote that he was an eye-witness on Sunday morning of large quan tities of bread being given to Roman Catholics for learning a verse of Scripture, and these same people in his presence went away cursing the persons who gave them the bread and.taught them the versa. This is done by Greatßritain —a country which, above all others, proclaims just dealing to every man in matters of conscience, in a land which is entirely Catholic, devotedly Catholic, always and inter changeably Catholic—(cheers)—in a Catholic land that has been spoiled of all its endowments, reduced to the utmost poverty, which out of that poverty has, since the beginning of this century, expended five millions of money in covering the face of the laud with Catholic churches, Catholic con vents, Catholic school; Catholic works of charity, of every kind of magnificent proportions—these people are so treated by those who possess the wealth that once was theirs. (Cheers.) I wish no more than this, that that religious minority had to support its own pastors, build its own churches, maintain its own schools, and that it had less overflow of wealth to use in the perversion of little Catho- • lie children. (Applause. I will add a few words from the " Life of Archbishop Whately," recently published. Under his own hand we have positive proof that the system of education in Ireland was -designed by him to undermine and enfeeble the faith of the Irish people. I will read the words of one of the most philosophical and greatest states men Englhnd has produced. In the year 1795 Mr. Burke spoke thus :—" In Ireland particularly the Roman Catholic religion should be uphold in high respect and veneration, and should be in its place provided with all the means of making it a blessing to the people who profess it." (Cheers.) Again, he said, " Let them (that is the Irish) grow lax, sceptical, careless, and indifferent with regard to religion, and so sure as we have an existence it is not an Anglican or a Scottish Church, but Jacobinism which will enter into the breach." (Applause.) And I add, show me an Irishman that has lost his faith, and I will show you a Fenian. (Prolonged cheering.) Every lax, sceptical Irishman is a Fenian. The inundation that is now settling upon Ireland is not a flush of water from the coast-of France, but the Gulf stream, which traverses the Atlantic from the shores of America. (Applause.) For this reason L rejoice that we have passed from the iron and brazen period into ono which, if it bo not golden, at least is silver, that wo aro coming to a time when equality, justice, fairness, equity, consideration for the conscience, the heart, the feelings of Catholics is pervading thesociety of England and Ireland. (Applause.) That it is pene trating into the Legislature, that it is directing the course of public events, that it is softening the hearts of the administrators of public laws, that as sure as the frost which binds hard the ground at this hour will give way at the genial approach of spring, so the present temper of men's minds will, whether they have the intention or not, nations of the earth. There is one point alone feeblest of all, the unmove able—that which was thought to be the h applause.) The Vicar of our Divine Holy Se©. (Much emperors, e su t s li t e a i w n e i I moregi T " h v o e year wCahyr lsbBtei6fir and hde a closed warmermore withe equitable dta universal bbl aeni spirit.ierinfluences shaking (A ipl o a fuos (Applause.) )a e of men. e Providence of God. It is the solo and only point d by the of stability in the world. If nations aro to be stable it is in justice, and if justice is to be done the religion of men must be respected. Look at Australia and Canada. They a an l k op i ro n Fuorpisavo which legislatures,et h h e depends orator(c n h o e (cheers), not urosP°n), aro peaceful and prosperous because perfect equality pre vails between Catholic and Protestant. The mother c e uu. wousni o t r y o D h a rl s .d t ub e lea ea nann r i n inno a c r i ne e na s is s de o d n f h interest from her on theorpese tdi at d h a eo u d g rue h e,s t ln e tl rs. In n education, on f, and do e o iren creased effort to promote it. " They that are learned shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that instruct many to justice, as the stars to all eternity." Tho Archbishop sat down amid much applause. MURDERING THE WRONG MAN.—The Court of Assize sitting at Grenoble has just sentenced to 20 years' hard labour a mountebank named Stenegre, for the murder of one Rappelin, at a village fair in the neighbourhood. There had been a quarrel in the course of the day, and at night Stenegre, who had been badly beaten, went in search of his antagonist. He didnot find him, but falling in with Rappelin, who wore the same kind of dross, he used his knife upon him with fatal effect. E to O k F t F t E g ic i‘, c r a . A h ecvArDeuro th S e e r e E h N ai C r ES as .— p A re t sid th en e t l f as or t the year, and M. D e l aunay was appointed vice-president in his stead by 27 votes against 23 given to MM. Bertrand, Dupin, Charles, Ser re t, Fi zeau, an d de Tessan. A paper was received from MM. Woehler and H. Ste. Claire Deville on gmpbitoid boron, an element which they thought they bad obtained in the shape of hexagonal laminae of a pale copper colour ; but this, they now • tell us, was a mistake, the sub stance in question being, not pure boron, but a combination of boron and aluminium. It is obtain able by treating amorphous boron with aluminium at a very moderate heat, or else by keeping melted aluminium in contact h the vapours of chloride of boron. Dr. Carus sent in a note on the invasion of cholera which took place last year at Zwickau, a town of Saxony of 22,432 inhabitants. Some measures having been taken by the Government to protect the house of correction of that town from the epidemic, it hap pened to the surprise of every one that, while 2ao persons were attacked with the discaso in th e immediate vicinity of the said establishment, and 119 of these died, there did not 1,286 prisoners, though some occur a single case among the • • w e re seized with the malady. This of the functionaries . extraordinary result, Dr. Carus informs us, was obtain e d, not by administering modici9es of any kind what ever, but solely by strict sanitary regulations, good diet, and keeping up the spirits of the prisoners. If such was indeed the result of these sanitary prescriptions, it is certainly to be regretted that the advantages of the system should have beou reaped by the scum of humanity. M. do Ravine sent in a description of a new olectrophorous. This is the third that has soon the light in the) course of the last two months. TIME OCEAN ST. 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