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THE SUN, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1870. PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY - DUBLIN. E iffIBITION, 1865. h ' 33 LL erve the Iled Seal, Pink Labe', and (Jerk Branded "Kina- Whisgy. •a- Th . :8 celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin ze Medal. Soli Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. th;.; in Bctt'es, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by ..gents in ‘no principal towns in England; or wholesale at ISSUE of £BOO,OOO STERLING, equal to $4,000,000 in GOLD, SEVEN PER CENT. FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS TO BEARER of the ILLINOIS AND ST. LOUIS BRIDGE COMPANY. A.D. 1720. R 0 YAL C E O X R C PO H R A A N T G IO E N. ASSURANCE (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. Offices—ROYAL EXCHANGE, London. Branch Office-29, Pall Mall, S.W. 8, GEE AT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. • MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 18.59), 14 , RUSSELL-STREET. COVENT-GARDEN. LONDON, Dv And 38, QURRN'S-ROAD, BRIGHTON. .NCES MONEY upon personal securitt, Bills of Sale, Free- U ; (1 or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, repay- Pa weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. suns free on receipt of stamped e nvelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary- Just published, price is 6d., by post is. Bd., the Second Edition, with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of tho Advertising Quat.ks. REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY. By' DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: H. Balliere, 218, Regent-street. The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday Review. Punch, Weekly Dispatch. Public Opinion, and other journals, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted wi'h this edition. 11 - 1 1 W WOODIN'S NINE TEENTH WEEK "AT HOME," 'WITH his Famous and Original CARPET-BAG Ito and-SKETCH-KOOK ENTERTAINMENT in the Large "a EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly. Every Evening (except Baturday) af 8 ; Saturday Mornings at 3. " Mr. Woodin has pared no expense in magnificently decorating and luxuriously furnishing his salon for the comfort of his patrons." Seats may secured in advance, at the Box-office, open from 10 till 5; also at Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond-street; and all the principal I ..??usic-sellers. St a ll s , 3s. • Area, 25.; Balcony, ls. Family Private J 'Ox, One, Two, and Three Guineas. Carriages at 10. Manager, Mr. DUDLEY. p OYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Late WESTON'S. Proprietor—Mr. J. S. Sweasey. Continued success of the Great VANCE. lJr J. 11. MILLBURN received nightly with unbounded applause. Miss EMMA DAY, the accomplished Serie-Comic. The 3IATHEWS FAMILY (Nine in number), with their varied Entertainment. Mr. and Mrs. RANDALL, the celebrated Burlesque Duettists. Return of the inimitable Stump Orator, W. WEST, and EMMA WEST. Engagement for six nights only of DUGWA.II, Juggler and Equilibrist. Miss KATE PALMER, the Royal Umbrella Belle, is engaged for a limited period at this Hall only. New Overtttres.—Ftill Orahestra. Balcony, 6d ; Stalls, ls. ; Orchestra Stalls, is 6d; Private Boxes, 40, 6d. Box-office open from 10 to 5. Grand Anniversary Night THURSDAY, April 28. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street.—A PORTRAIT MODEL of TROPMANN 4 1,novir added.—On View, amongst innumerable other relics, the ° d "ginal Lunette and Knife of the actual Guillotine used for the e caPitation of Louis XVI., Marie Antoinette, and upwards of 22,0t0 persons of the best [and worst blood in France. Also an eXe.ct copy of the guillotine as in use. Admission, le.; extra roem,, 6d. Open from 11 a.m. till 5.30, and from 7 till 10 p.m. ARGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly. The extraordinary success which has attended the production p, Lee Shadow Dance, with the s o brilliant and that nightly partici te in it, combined with the admirable Operatic and Dance eve Selections presented in the often-changed programmes, „7.:e had the gratifying effect of making the ;r. sen t . one the :Vet extensively patronized season since its first opening. The chef, Orchestra, under the direction of its highly efficient n e !' Signor Luigi Curti, performs the choicest and latest cora rntlons of ad distinguished composers—the solos in which are Vi l egned to the eminent euphonionist, Signor L. Moses; Messrs. Graves, L. Silberberg, and other able artistes. Manager, Mr. ' 4o naas Pitts. Professor Halliman, M.O. Admission, is.; Reserved Seats, 2s. R. R. Bitilizu, Proprietor. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENMAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort w ent of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink- I ta , n ds, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper Weights, &c., in Italian, mbaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported tiq manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her olajesty, 149, Strand, W.C., London. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, fuNERALS Elements FOSSILS to illustrate the new edition of of Geology ; they will greatly facilitate the into :sting studs of MINERA LOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, to 50 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINERA 'vaY is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at 149, Strand. CAUTION. -POPULAR ERROR.-PRICE'S BENZODYNE, the newly-discovered Cure for Cough, Bron chitis, Consumption, and all wasting diseases, Cholera, Dysentery, I " , has nothing whatever to do with petroleum spirit, falsely Sailed Benzoline, Sze. This unique remedy may be obtained of all Chemists, and through the Proprietor, Mr. Pain', Analytical Chemist, 2, Lower Seymour-street, London, W. Prices—ls. ltd., 2s. lid., and 4s. Cd per bottle. INN E F 'S FLUID MAGNESIA._ ] The medical O pr ß ofess D ion for Thirty Years have approved of h is Pure solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for Acidity of the the best eartburn, Headache, Gout, and Indigestion; and as best mild aperient for delicate constitutions, especially - tiaPted for Ladies, Children, and Infants. DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, 172 , New Bond-street, London; and of all other chemists throughout, the world. ]YL DING'S DANDELION and Q UININE R PILLS (Without Mercury). The very best remedy for BILE, WIND, INDIGESTION, ACIDITY, HEADACHE, And HEARTBURN, ex., acknowledged by many eminent surgeons to be the safest and mildest pills for every constitution. 11 1 boxes at ls. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d., at all chemists. R. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS.- - A NEVFR-FAILINU REMEDY.—Prepared without any 17reurial ingredient,will be found invaluable to all who suffer from d irus and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, zuless of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness, as a family !Pe i tient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly ex lent ; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they ;reate appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole per sYsteM.--Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, chemist, 8, . i ng William -street, Charing-cross, London, and by most drug tts, boxes, is. lid, and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. ar ' , lre to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine NVIIP a square green package, with " William Lambert, 8, King lani-street, Charing-cross," engraved on the Goveinment B RIIPTURES--BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS 18 5 ., tPcrfecte and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of and 182), is allowed by upwards of Five !Hundred !Medical 331 e u. v 9 rs n t be the most effective invention in the curative treatment exec The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its here avoided—a soft bandage being round th em the oe fiat .4711_ le the requisite resisting power is supplied a' "'act and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease y and cicse -2 that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. n o l' e periptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can bodyail ta fit, brwarded by post, on the circumference of the faeti; re t r wo inches below the hips, being sent to the mane Si Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. A brale Truss, 315.6 d, 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is. Bd. An Urn ic;al Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. ere s "flice Orders to be made payable to John White, Post Picee,dul y. NEW PATENT ELAsTIC STOCKINGS, po rou s ' eakNEE-eAps, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of V an . d Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are or ,,,L±lght in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like p ost '''"ux3T stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each. age, 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. • HEALTHs, RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. I) .U. BARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids and Infants' Food. THE REVALENTA ARABICA. saves fifty times its cost in other remdies, and restores perfect digestio n , strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled —removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dyspep sia), cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatu lency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleep essness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, and bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is the most digestible and noun nvallds antl infants in all shing of all foods, and suitable for nvalids and infants in all coin IMPORTANT CAtrrion.—Bewa re of the than slopy imitations to which, without - manY unsavoury and more name is most audaciously attached. authority, Baron Liebig's Henceforth none vill doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry s health-restoring R evalenta Arabic & Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of the it has already received from invalids whose position ha been deemed hopealeitshs,hwase been now add that of his Holiness the Pope, wh ose he 21et, z i rs ii tt 6 e 6._ du n ti di he " al T th . of the perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsu ~ G s ee eaarul medical treatment. We quote from the - ...Y 25th (Cure No. 48,413) :—" Rome, July Revalenth Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry' s It Arabic& Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every 1: • I effect on his health,m meal, has produced a surprisingly Holiness cannot praise this excellent beneficia food too highly." an his li ver debility, Cure No. 5 , ,2i6 of the Marchioness de Brehan of seven y ears ' ver complaint, wasting away, nervousness, irritability, With a n ervous pa l p i tat i on a ll over, bad digestion, constant sleep lessness and the most intolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 78, ofdyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Waterford; "I have derived much benefit from your excellent food.—STUART DE DE CIE„,B, Dromana, Cappoquin, County Waterford.: ble ony from d y 'ure No. 49,832.—0 f fifty years' indeseriba . flatulency, . s pepsia,',:neivousness, asthma, cough, constipation, s pasms, sickness, and vomiting—Maria Jolly of Lynn, Norfolk. ~ C ure No. 47,121.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme Frvous -e!s, indigestion, atherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. `"arch, No. 56,8 4. g Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' `"arrhcea. pThe Food is sold in Canisters, at ls. 1,1c1.•, 11b., 25. ikl., 21b., 4s. e • ; 121 b, 22 5.; 241 b., 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters, carriage je k an receipt of P. 0. O r d er Al so D u B arr y' s R eva lenta Ara . ica f uocolate Powder is packed in tin canisters : For 12 cups teor 2 4 cups at 3s. Gd., for 48 cups at 65., for 2SB cups at 301., for 5,6 as at 555. Being about one penny per cup. The 308. and 555. ~ are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office ',l'der. BARRY DU BARRY and CO., 77, Regent-street, London, also at Fortnum and Mason's; also at 4, Cheapside ; 61, Grace e..aurch-stree t ; 63 and 159, Oxford-street; and 121, New North `°a(l,•London ; and all Grocers and Chemists. 119 NE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE 1. ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the of R e , ALBICHT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate Der annuta each. Funds greatly needed. OTIAR L ES WATZEB, Secretary. v , s 45 4, cheSpeide, Undo, .14.4. NA'rIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common, Richmond, Surrey. 'rounded 1849. enlarged 1861. Under the patronage of H. 11.11. the Duke of CilatußinGE, K.G., whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan of the oh give orphan girls a plain Eng- Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations from all parts of charity is to the m keingobd object itch education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house, Ind laundry, to At them for domestic service; and, if not other wise provided for when they attain 15 years of age, to obtain suitable situations for them. The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions. HENRY KINOSOOTR, Treasurer W H. WIAWION, Secret►ry. Office, 121, Pall mall , EL W 1370. THE following is tba House List of GOVERNORS and DIRECTORS of the BANK of ENGLAND for tho year ensuing:— _ _ FOR GOVERNORS. ROBERT WIGRAM CRANFORD, Esq., Governor. GEORGE LYALL, Esq , Deputy-Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. Henry Wollaston Blake, Esq. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. John William Birch, Esq. Travers Buxton, Esq. Mark Wilks Collet, Esq. James Pattison Currie, Esq. Benjamin Buck Greene, Esq. James Alexander Guthrie, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq. Bar , Heath. John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. Thomas Newman Hant, Esq. Charles Frederick Huth, Esq. Alfred Latham, Esq. * William Lidderdale, Alexander Matheson, Esq. James Morris, Esq. George Warde Norman, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq. d,ron Hea *David Powell, Jun., Esq. Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Esq Albert George Sandeman, Esq Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq`. Christopher Weguelin, Esq. N.B. The Gentlemen against whose nam , s an asterisk is placed are new Candidates for the Direction. The Election for Governor aad Deputy-Governor will be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the sth Ai ril. and for Directors on Wednesday, the 6th April, from Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon till Four in the Afternoon. ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES, AN INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPER, Devoted to American Intelligence, ENLARGED to 24 PAGES. Reports of Congress, Personal, Financial, Mining, Railroad. &c. Members of Parliament, Commercial Men, and those having an interest in the United States, will find this newspaper of use. Published every SATURDAY MORNING, price 4d., 15, Catherine-street, Strand. FRENCH GALLERY, 120, PALL-MALL.—The SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of PICTURES, the contributions of Artists of the French and Flemish Schools, IS NOW OPEN. Admission, ls: Catalogue, 6d. C LERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing £227,000 ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested £1,612,000 SPECIAL NOTICE. The NINTH BONUS will be declared in January, 1872, and all With-Profit Policies in force on the Rath June. 1871, will participate. Assurances effected before June 30th, 1870, will participate on two Premiums, and thus receive a whole year's additional share of Profits over later Policies. Forms of Proposal, Balance Sheets, and every information, can be obtained from any of the Society's Agents, or of GEORGE CITTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. 13, St. James's-square, London, S.W. SHARE DEPARTMENT.-THE CONSERVA TIVE•LAND SOCIETY.—Shares may be taken out daily at the offices, or investors at a distance can be enrolled as members by correspondence. Present rate of interest, five pet cent. per annum, payable in half-yearly warrants. No partnership liability, and power of withdrawal of subscriptions on shares at twenty eight days' notice CHARLES LEWIS ORITNEESEN, Secretary. Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C. NEW ORLEANS, JACKSON, AND GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY. SECOND MORTGAGE CONSTRUCTION BONDS, endorsed Payable in Sterling in London—The HALF-YEARLY INTEREST on the above Bonds, due on the Ist April next, will be PAID on that day, and any succeeding day, at the Counting-house of Messrs. J. Henry Schroder and Co., 145, Lea lenhall-street, between the hours of Eleven and Two o'clock. The Coupons must be left for examination two clear days before applying for payment. London, March 16, 1870. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION (Established 1810). TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Thomas Hankey, Esq. R. W. Crawford, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. The report and balance-sheets of this Association for the year 1869, exhibiting in full details the amounts assured, ages of the members, with particulars of tho invested fund, may be had on application to the chief office, or to the agents. -- • - The annual income from premiums is .. From interest on investments ... 19,000 the invested fund, after payment of all claims, exceeds 415,000 The whole of the prollts divided among the members. Cash bonuses have already been allotted to the assured, amounting to £lOO,OOO. W. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. No. 15, Moorgate-street, March t, 1870. PARTRIDGE AND COOPER. MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLBEIT-STREET (CORNER OF OHANOEBY-LANE), LONDON (B. 0.) THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES. CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVBR 20s. Par ream. s. d. Fine Cream Laid Note ; a cheap paper Superfine Cream Laid Note; much approved . 4 0 Supeifine Thick Cream Laid Note; especially recommended 5 6 Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note .... 7 0 Straw Paper, " Patent;' adapted for rapid writing........ ... 2 6 Large Commercial Note Papers. 35., 48., 55., and 6 0 Foolscap Papers, blue or cream.......... 105. 6d., 12s. 6d., and 14 6 Outsides Foolscap Letter Paper for scribbling . plain, 4s. • ruled ditto, 4 6 Tinted Lined Note ..........five quires for is. 6d., or 5 6 The New Vellum Wove " Club House" iv ote, five quires for 2s. 6d. Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, 4s 6d, 85 Bd, & 65 tid Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4s 6d . per 1,000 Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c., 35. COLOUR STAMPING (Relief) reduced to ls. per 100. Polished steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the prices charged by the retail houses. An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Oases, Desks, &e , post free. Established 1811 UNRIVALLED SPECULATIONS SPLENDID SUCCESS. With a Single Stake of Twelve Shillings you can realise £3,000 ! —with £l, £22,000! !—with £2, £27,060! !—with £B, 37,000! For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. B RITISH HOME FOR INCURABLES, Clapham-rise. Instituted 1861. PATRONESS. Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES. TREASURERS. George Moore, Esq.; Mr. Alderman Gibbons. This Institution, extending its operations to all parts of the kingdom, provides for those afflicted with incurable diseases a home for life, with every comfort and medical att• ndance. Patients are admitted, and annuities of £lO obtained by election. No person under <0 ) ears of a m e, nor of the pauper class, is eligible. Full particulars and the necessary forms may b procured from the Secretary. Donations and annual subscriptions are earnestly solicited. BANKERS. Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, E.C. ; and Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W. EDWD. WEAVER, Secretary. Offices, 73, Cheapside. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, is the immediate 'vicinity of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, King's Cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY 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 frte admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and. in addition to this, the average number of attendance'of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 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 requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Glyn and Co.; Herries and Co.; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Bar clay and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Demers street; and at the Hospital from 10 to 3. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON..-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and clothing for the 126 boys on board the Ohichester Training Ship. 150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street. 94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing. 370 children. £1& will keep a boy or girl for one year. Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank 214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbnry, KC.; and by WILLIAM 'WILLIAMS, Secretary. No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON FEMALE PBEVENTIVZ and lIEFOIMA.TORY IN STITITTION. President—Rev. CANON DALE. CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1869 COO ART 'lO2u7 solicited, which may be sent to bankers , Messrs. Blon cluet4 Salt, sad Co. 78 Lombard street, ; Francis Nicholls ' ga g' (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers ' K.O. R. W. THOMAS, See., 200, Euston-road, N.W. KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal street, Lincoln's-inn. The Committee earnestly APPEAL for urgent ly FUNDS needed to defray the h eavy current expenses. Assistance is J. W. WALDRON, Secretary Messrs. J. S. MORGAN and Co. OFFER for PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION the above BONDS at the price of £lBO per Bond of VOO, payable by Instalments as under:— . £5 per cent. on Application. £l5 „ „ Allotment. £2O „ „ 1C th May. £25 ~. „ 10th June. £25 ;; ;; 11th July. £9O per cent. Allottees may pay the full amount in advance upon Allot ment, or on either of the above dates, and upon such pay ments discount at the rate of .5 per cent. per annum will be allowed. The Bonds will be to bearer for £2OO sterling or 1,000 dollars each, with interest Coupons attached. Both princi pal and interest will be payable, at the option of the holders, in gold in New York, or in sterling iu London, free from all Federal or State Taxes. The Bonds will carry interest at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, from the Ist of April, 1810; half yearly on Ist Oc tober and Ist April in each year, payable at the option of the holders, as under :-- In New York, 35 dollars in gold, at the National Bank of Commerce ; In London, £7 ss. sterling, at the Counting-house of Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co. A Sinking Fund of 55,000 dollars in gold, or £ll,OOO (being 11 per cent.), will be applied, together with the inte rest on the Bonds redeemed, to the reimbursement of tbis loan at par within 30 years, by annual drawings, in the month of November in each year, the first drawing to take place in November, 1873. The Bonds drawn will be paid on Ist April next following each drawing, either in gold in New York, or in sterling in London, at the option of the holder. The Bonds now offered are issued by the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Company, incorporated by Acts of the States of Missouri and Illinois, and consolidated by an Act of the Congress of the United States, 20th July, 1868. They are a first charge, under a Mortgage duly registered, upon the entire property, franchises, and charter privileges of the Company. By . the special Act of the Congress of the United States, the Bridge and its approaches are declared to be a national post road, thus placing the affairs of the Co m p any di rect l y under the control and jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the nation. The same Act makes the principal and interest of these Bonds payable in gold coin legal and imperative, this being the only instance in which Congress has provided for the payment in gold of Bonds issued by a private corporation. The object of the company is the connexion, by means o f a permanent Bridge, of the railway system of th e south west of the United tates, which centres in the city of St. Louis, on the west side of the Mississippi River, with the important lines on the east side of that river. By this means the present uncertain and unsatisfactory transfer of passen gers and traffic by means of a Ferry (now frequently inter fered with, and at times totally suspended for several days) will be avoided, and an -uninterrupted communica tion between the railroads on the east and west sides of the river secured. The Bridge Company have the exclusive right to bridge the river at St. Louis for 25' years, during which period no other Bridge can be erected within a river line of eight miles. The construction of the Bridge, which is designed also to accommodate ordinary road traffic, is being actively pro ceeded with; the piers of solid masonry, founded on the rock, have been successfully built ; and a contract has been entered into with the Keystone Bridge Company at Pitts burgh (the Company by whom most of the large Railway Bridges in the United States have been built) for the superstructure, which will consist of steel and wrought iron throughout, resting upon the piers of solid masonry before mentioned. The Contractors assume all risk of manufacture and erec tion, and are under agreement to complete the Bridge ready for traffic by the Ist December, 1871. Six Railway Companies having their termini at St. Louis (including the two lines owned or controlled by the Penn sylvania Railroad, forming part of its system for through traffic between the Atlantic and Pacific seaboard) have already ratified contracts binding themselves to pass their entire traffic over the Bridge at fixed rates of tolls in per petuity. At the time the construction of the Bridge was determined on in 1868, data were obtained from the books of the three Railway Companies whose lines at that time reached East St. Louis, and it then appeared that in the year 1867 the tonnage to and from East St. Louis, based upon the tolls which the Bridge Company is authorised to levy, and which it may be mentioned are very considerably in reduction of the Ferry charges, would have yielded to the Bridge a re venue of 768,683 dollars. • Since then, such has been the rapid development of tho country tributary to St. Louie, that it has been necessary to construct the additional lines eastward ; while on the west side the railway mileage has more than doubled, It is safe to estimate that the revenue of the Bridge from the lines which have already contracted to use it cannot be less than 1,000,000 dollars per annum, which must increase at a rapid rate. The requirement of the Bonded Debt will be 5335,000 Interest 5280,000 Sinking Fund 55,000 - $335,000 The amount already paid up upon the Share Capital, in addition to the proceeds of the sale of the above Bonds, will be amply sufficient for completing the Bridge and its ap proaches ; but, as an additional guarantee, there is an uncalled Capital of 1,800,000 dollars, and a reserve of Shares amount ing to 1,000,000 dollars. Upon the unpaid Capital a call has been made of 600,000 dollars to provide for the payment of interest during con struction. Applications for Allotments must bo made in the annexed form, but no application will be entertained unless accom panied by a deposit of £5 per cent. on the nominal amount of the Bonds applied for. In case default is made in payment on allotment, or of any of the instalments on the days named, the allotment will be liable to be cancelled, and the amounts then already paid forfeited. In cases in which no allotment is made the amount deposited will be returned to the applicant, without deduc tion. Upon payment of tho allotment money, Scrip Certi ficates to bearer will be issued to the Subscribers, which will be exchanged for the definitive Bonds as soon as pos sible after payment of the whole amount of the sub scription. 22, Old Broad-street, Ist April, 1870. No FIRST MORTGAGE SEVEN PER CENT. BONDS OF THE ILLINOIS AND ST. LOUIS BRIDGE COM PANY. FORM OF APPLICATION. To Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co. Gentlemen,—Having paid to you the sum of .£ I hereby request that you will allot me £2od (1,000 dole.) Bonds of the above-named Company, and I hereby agree to accept such Bonds, or any smaller num ber that may be allotted to me, and to pay the further sums due thereon according to the terms of the Prospectus issued by you. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, Signature Address in full Date , 1870 ISSUE OF £BOO,OOO STERLING 04,000,000 in GOLD), 7 per Cent., First Mottgage Bonds to Bearer of the ILLINOIS and ST. LOUIS BRIDGE COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the LIST of APPLICATIONS for these BONDS will CLOSE TO MORROW (Wednesday), at Four o'clock, for Town ; and on THURSDAY MORNING for the Country. J. S. MORGAN AND CO. 22, Old Broad-street, sth April, 1870. GUILDHALL, 24th MARCh, 1870.—The Com mittee for Letting the City's Lands will meet at Guild hall, on WEDNESDAY, the 13th April next, at half-past One o'clock precisely, to receive proposals for Leases in Lots of the several Houses, Nos. 8,9, 10, 12, 13, and 14, Butcher-row, and Nos. 2,4, 6' 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, and 36, Whitehorse-street, Rateliff. A Plan of the Property may be seen, and further particulars and Forms of Tender obtained, upon application at the Architect's Office, Guildhall. FERDD. BRAND, Comptroller. SAMARITAN FREE SPI . L for WOMEN and CHILDREN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square. The only free Hospital for diseases of women. Subscriptions and donations are much needed, and will be received by Messrs. Hat chard, Piccadilly; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.; Messrs, Barclay, COutta, Glyn, Amu= and by the taecretery. At the Londonderry Quarter Sessions there were no criminal cases to go before his worship and the grand jury were discharged thirty minutes past twelve. An inquest has been held on the body of the child found in a garden at Sutton Bridge, and which the man rruefit stated was murdered by himself and the mother, Maria Burridge. The jury returned a verdict that there was no proof that the child was born alive, but that True• fit; and Burridge had been guilty of concealment of birth. they were therefore committed for trial on thin ehartte. The packets of the Messageries Imperiales con veying mails for China, Japan, and the Mauritius, which nave hitherto left Marseilles every fourth Saturday, will, xi and after the 17th of April next, start on the morning Df every fourth Sunday. The mails will be made up in London twelve hours later than formerly. The next nails for Australia will be dispatched—Via Southampton April 16th, rid Marseilles April 22nd. The Bishop of Columbo, the Right Rev. Piers ialveley Claughton, D.D., will, it is believed, resign his see, and will accept the vicarage of Dudley, vacant by ;he death of Dr. Browne. The Bishop of Colombo has Seen in England for some time on account of his healt h, and had just received a further extension of three months' leave of absence from his diocese, to which he was ap pointed in 1862. The London papers have been hoaxed. Several f them published a report of a meeting touching Ritualism which was to have been held at the residence of the Bishop if London. Several leading Ritualists were invited, and actually went ; but on their arrival they found his lordship lonfined to his room by a severe attack of illness. The neeting did not, therefore, take place. The Bishop is now setter. A sad accident happened on Saturday afternoon on Liskeard and Looe Railway, Cornwall. Two brothers, lamed Harris, aged respectively sixteen and six, were walking one on each side of the line, when on seeing the ;rain approaching, the eldest of the two called to his brother to come to him. The poor little fellow hesitated for a moment, and on making the attempt was knocked Sown, and cut in two. The driver did all that he possibly .19uld to step tile tlain.but_dia not succeed. OCTAVIIIS WIGRAM, Esq Governor. JAMES STEWAICT 119DOSON, Esq Sub-• Governor. CHARLES TORN 31Atimna, Esq Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Robert Barclay, Esq. John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Edward James Daniell, Esq. William Davidson, Esq Lancelot William Dont, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq. Charles Hermann Goschen, Esq. Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq. Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Medical Referee, Sami William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Egerton Hubbard, Esq. Nevile Lubbock, Esq. George Forbes Malcolmson, Esq. Lord Joseeline Wtn. Percy. Charles Robinson, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Joseph Somos, Esq. . William Wallace, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq. Lel Solly, Esq., F.R.S. NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Lady-day will expire on the 9th of April. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on advantageous terms. FIRE DUTY.—This Tax having been abolished, the PREMIUM is NOW the only charge for Fire Insurances. FARMING STOCK.—No Extra Charge is made for the use of Steam Thrashing Machines. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee of 'a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption under Royal Charter from the liabilities of part nership. The advantages of modern practice, with the secu rity of an Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of a CENTURY AND A HALF. ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. FOREIGN and COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TRUST (SECOND ISSUE), In Certificates of £lOO each, bearing .5 per cent. Interest. To be issued at .60. TRUSTEES. The Right Hon. Lord Westbury. Lord Eustace Cecil, M.P. Geo. Wodehouse Currie, Esq. G. M. W. Sandford, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. The success of the Foreign and Colonial Government Trust, which was formed in May, 1868, has called for an extension of this mode of investment. In compliance, therefore, with a general desire, it has been determined to open a subscription for a second issue not exceeding £600,000, in Certificates of £lOO, to bear 5 percent. interest, to be issued at £BO. The object, which is now well understood, is to give to the Investor of moderate means the same advantages as the large capitalist, in diminishing the risk of investing in Foreign and Colonial Government Stocks, by spreading the investment over a number of different Stocks, and reserving a portion of the extra interest and the amounts received in redemption as a Sinking Fund to pay off the original capital ; and, in addition, to give to each Sub s3riber a pro rata participation in the ultimate reversion in these different Stocks, which will remain when the return of the original capital has by those means been accom plished. The Trust of the Second Issue will last for twenty-five years, at the expiration of which time it is estimated that a large proportion of the Certificates will, in all probabi lity, have been paid off, and that a large proportion of the Stocks will still remain for distribution as a reversion ; accordingly the Trust will be wound up as soon as all the Certificates have been drawn, or at the end of twenty-five years, whichever shall first happen, the remaining Stocks being then sold, and any Certificates not previously drawn being first paid off, after which the balance will form the reversion to be distributed pro rata. For each £BO of the total amount subscribed will be issued a Certificate of £lOO with Coupons attached, bearing 5 per cent. interest, payable at the Banking-house of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co. half yearly, on the 15th of January and the 15th of July, the first Coupon for the proportion of the half year falling due on the 15th my next. In addition to the Interest Coupons, a Coupon, repre senting the share accruing to the Certificate-holder in the above reversion, will be attached to each Certificate. This Coupon of Reversion will be retained by the holder when the Certificate is drawn, and entitle him to a pro rata divi sion of the ultimate reversion. The advantages of the investment may be summed up as follows: 1. interest at £6s. be. per cent. on the amount sub scribed. 2. A bonus of £2O per cent. by the repayment Of capi tal at par. 3. A reversion, eventually divisible among the holders of the Coupons of Reversion. Application to be made in the annexed Form, accom panied by a deposit of £lO per cent. Payments to be made as follows : O n a pplication £lo 0 0 On allotment 7O 0 0 £BO 0 0 Prospectus and Forms of Application may be ob tained of W. 13. Rose, Esq., Secretary, and of Messrs. Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co., Solicitors , at the same address ; and of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., Bankers, Lombard-street, where all subscriptions must be paid. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TRUST (SECOND ISSUE). To the Trustees of the Fund (care of Messrs. Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co., 6, Victoria-street, Westminster, London). Having paid to Messrs. Glyn and Co., to the account of the Foreign and Colonial Government Trust (Second Issue), the sum of £ ,as a Deposit on Cer tificates of £lOO each in the said Trust, I request you to allot to me that number of Certificates, and I engage to pay the further Instalmet of .£7O per Certificate upon that or any l esse r number n that you may allot to me at the time named in the letter of allotment, in default of which my previous payment will be liable to forfeiture. Name Address Description Signature PAINLESS and PRACTICAL DENTISTRY, by Mr. B. L. MOSELY, the Dentist by special appointment, 312, REGEN T-STREET, exactly opposite the Royal Polytechnic, a n d 23, MoORGATE -STREET, CITY. Established 18.20 . This, the most perfected system of painless dentistry, originated and invented by Mr. B. L. Mosey, 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 nat u r a l f unc ti ons, can solely be obtained in such perfected success (the r esu lt o f forty years' practical experience) at his only residences, as above. The superlative excellence of this system is perfect immunity from pain, no operations, stumps and decayed teeth rendered useful, loose teeth and tender gums protected. Qualities: These teeth nev er change colour or decay — in fit unerring - ease and comfort unsurpassed -detection impossible—the facial anatomy faithfully studied - and youthful appearance restored—mastication and arti culation guaranteed. The "Times" of March 6 says :—" So good an imitation becomes the next best thing to the original." Teeth from 55.; sets, sto 30 guineas. Consultation free.—Only addresses, 312, Regent-street, exactly facing the Royal Polytechnic; and 23, Moorgate-street, E. C., opposite the Star Insurance Office. Tne resumption of morning sittings forces upon the Times the question of whether our Parlia mentary system, as now conducted, does not make exorbitant demands on the strength, both phySical and mental, of all working members, but especially of those who have administrative as well as legislative duties to perform. The Prime Minister, for instance, must have got through an enormous amount of work last Friday. In the morn ing he was, dountless, engaged in disposing.of letters, and other business. At two o'clock the House of Commons met, and Mr. Gladstone discussed, or was engaged in the discussion of, the Irish Land Bill till seven o'clock. Then, after a short interval, followed an exciting debate, in which he took a leading part. This sort of strain is not exceptional. Mr. Gladstone will have to make equal exertions day after day, and week after week. Though it may be said that very few of our statesmen actually break down in harness, yet it does not prove that we lose nothing by taxing their faculties so unreasonably. Though the Times allows that it is easier to insist on this evil, than to propose a remedy for it, yet it thinks that the habit of - making speeches out of Parliument and that of receiving deputations, whose very numbers render conference impossible, are of quite recent growth, and involve a pure waste of a Prime Minister's strength. POSTAL " REFORM." More protests ate entered against the vexatious and unjust measure of the Post - office with regard to the transmission of printed matter. The proprietors of the British Trade Journal say that the postage upon 12,000 copies of that paper was previously £lBO. Now it is nearly three times as much. It seems quite useless to multiply argu ments against such a glaring injustice ; all that remains to be done is for a strong deputation to wait upon the Postmaster-General. CUPPING IN THE ARMY. Some time ago the attention of the public was called to statements that disabled soldiers, in order to be prevented from re-enlisting, were cupped and cross-cupped by the army medical authorities. When the question was asked in Parliament as to the truth of these statements, the Secretary of State for War replied that this treatment was only used as a remedy for disease. The Daily Telegraph says that at that time, though it exonerated Mr. Cardwell, it wrote of his Department :—" They have put into the mouth of the responsible Minister an answer which is the exact contrary of the truth." It affirmed that there was " a secret understanding between the Horse Guards and the Army Medical Department by which this detestable system had been carried out." A. Parliamentary return was ordered on the subject ; it has now appeared, sheaving that in 1867, 1868, and the first four months of the year 1809 the number of men branded in this way in regiments stationed in Great Britain and Ireland were twelve hundred. The return states various diseases as the reason for the practice in each instance, but the Telegraph declares that the Army surgeons know well, if they speak the truth, that instead of being " remedial " this practice has been, in simple language, deliberately deleterious. ABANDONMENT OF PROJECTED RAILWAYS. Herepath's Journal touches on the subject of the abandonment of projected railways, and refers to the hardship which may result from the intention of the Government to set its face against railway abandonment bills in general. It may, says the writer, have a salutary effect in preventing the concoction of schemes never intended to be carried out; but it should be considered that a great many lines years ago were, unhappily, projected by or for established companies which ought not to be made. If the companies, he adds, are compelled to construct a number of useless lines, the result will be an attempt to make the public pay higher fares or put up with diminished accommodation. This will be, he contends, a great national injury. - THE INDIAN BUDGET. The Indian budget has been laid before the council at Calcutta by Sir Richard Temple. A large balance has previously been lett against the Government for the working of the railways, but in the coming year it is estimated that there will be a surplus. In order to produce the much-desired equilibrium in Indian finance some large reductions are proposed, including £734,551 in the army expenditure, and over a million on the ordinary outlay on public works as compared with last year. Taxes remain almost entirely unchanged. It is proposed to raise a loan of £2,000,000 in England. THE RED RIVER INSURRECTION. Notwithstanding erroneous and contradictory reports, it seems pretty certain that active measures will now be taken by the Cana dian' Government against the Red River insurgents. Three hundred regulars, and a force of the Canadian Reserve, will, it is probable, be sent to the disturbed territory. It is quite time that some measure of the kind was taken. There is now' no doubt that an Irishman named Scott was shot by Riel, the insurgent leader, for no greater offence than escaping from prison with other Canadians, and joining the movement of Major Boulton against the rebels. That such a state of things should be allowed to continue is a disgrace to both the English and the Canadian Governments. Unfortunately it has not been possi ble to take speedy measures. Sending a force to the Red River isnot such easy work as pouring troops into Ireland. The territory between Canada and the insurgent settlement is of the most difficult and trackless character—a wild chaos of bogs and swamps. In fact the only route to, the Red River is through the United States, and the march of troops through British North America will be a difficult enterprise, something like an Abyssinian expedition. THE CAUSE OF DISCONTENT. , !in American correspondent in Le Te»zps, gives some facts on the subject of this insurrection, which may impart information on a topic of which not much is at present known. There are about 15,000 men in the settlement : Irishmen, Scotchmen, French-Canadians, and, above all, half castes. All the people speak English and French, or something of the kind ; and, living in a country where a proprietor who wishes to enlarge his estate has only so dig a new ditch, are happy enough to know nothing of administration or government of any kind. Great was the astonishment, then, when the news arrived that the Hudson's Bay Company had sold them like cattle for £75,000. The conse quence was the insurrection, which according to last accounts, bids fair to be very troublesome to the Canadian Government. PROTEST AGAINST THE COERCION BILL. -- - - A meeting has been held in the Dublin Rotundo to protest aga inst the Coercion Bill, and. to declare for Irish independence. Mr. Butt, Q.C., and Mr. G. H. Moore, for whose attendance the meeting had. been postponed. two days, were not present. Mr. Thomas Ryan was the chief speaker. He considered that if Mr. Gladstone was just, he would insert at the close of the Coercion Bill a clause declaring that any landlord who evicted a good and honest tenant should be guilty of a mis demeanour. The name of Mr. Gladstone was received with hisses. Resolutions were passed expressing the opinion of the " citizens of Dublin in public meeting assembled," that the Peace Preservation Act was a grave and unwarrantable attack on the liberty of the subject, subversive of constitutional principles, and a virtual withdrawal of the Constitution from the Irish people. It was also resolved that the peace and very existence of the United Kingdom are seriously endan gerod by the system of misrepresentation of Irish affairs and the seditious teaching of the English press. A. committee was appointed to decide upon the course of procedure. CYRUS FIELD AND THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. Mr. Cyrus Field, whose name is well-known in this country in connection with submarine telegraphy, has now undertaken a more arduous task than that of underspanning the Atlantic. He is at Washington, busy with a project for the settlement of the Alabama claims. He pro poses that the United States shall name three eminent persons, all crowned heads, as arbitrators in the matter, From these three Great Britain is to burCUL ona, una nis decision snail D 5 acknowledged as final by both parties. Mr. Field suggests also that the converse of the scheme may be tried, Great Britain nominating the three, and the United States making the final selection. Mr. Sumner, with whom Mr. Field has had a long con ference, does not, however, favour the pro position. lie does not think the crowned heads of Europe would be properly impartial in a matter where a Republican Government was concerned, and he thinks it, moreover, , beneath the dignity of the United State 3 to submit the affair to arbitration. THE TREATMENT OF LUNATICS. A very painful case has lately occurred at Hanwell Lunatic, Asylum, arousing uncomfortable suspicions as to the manner in which the unfortunate patients are occasionally treated. William Bird, a commercial traveller, 61 years old, became an inmate of Homell last February, after about two years' insanity. One day last week he was reported to have had a very bad fit, and the doctor, on visiting him, found him lying on a mattress in a padded room, strongly, convulsed. He prescribed the necessary remedies, and left him. The next day he was no better,- and the doctor's suspicions having been excited, he elicited that the patient had "had a fall." The next day he died, never. recovering his consciousness. A post mortem examination proved that four ribs were broken, and there were other injuries, but as the medical evidence showed that death was caused by epilepsy - , a verdict of " death from natural causes " was re turned. The only explanation given of the broken rib 3 is that the man had a fit and fell off his chair, not a very great fall to produce such results. Several of the daily papers are severe on the subject, and the Times remarks that it is very extraordinary that patients in our lunatic asylums are constantly getting their ribs broken, despite padded rooms and every other contrivance, and it is, to say the least of it, unfortunate that inquest after inquest should reveal instances of either preventible accidents or brutal violence. The negligence or indifference shewn after the events are scarcely less lamentable. ELECTION OF GUARDIANS. The St. Pancras doings have led to the formation of a "Ratepayer's Association," having for its object to secure the return of a different class of guardians at the forthcoming election. This body states in an address just issued that at the last election only 7,000 persons voted out of 19,000 who were qualified to vote. So it seems that parochial squabbles have taken away the ratepayers' interest in its representa tion. At Kensington, too, the !inhabitants are asked to elect Guardians of a different order from those who usually ,stand. Four gentlemen are proposed, of whom two are barristers, and one an ex-M.P. They are said to be men likely to devote themselves in earnest to the useful task of bringing the action of the poor law into harmony with that of tho local charities. TIM SMALLPDX RIOT. Proceedings have been taken by the authorities against the men concerned in the recent smallpox riot at White Waltham. Pursuant to Act of Parlia ment, the depositions of the owner of the house in which the depredations were committed by the men with blackened faces have been taken previously to an action for damages against Mr. Headington, of Baley Farm, the high-constable of the Hundred of Beynhurst, within which the riot took place. In addi tion to this, six of the coloured offenders have been recognized, and had summonses served upon them. The Maidenhead Board of Health have also sat in deliberation upon the matter. The clerk to that body reported that although the small-pox had in creased, it was still confined to one house, and three persons were suffering from it. Several suggestions were made, and it was resolved that a wooden house be built at once in the middle of a field, if land could be got. The father of the family was to be employed to disinfect the house and destroy his clothes, for which he was to be recouped and his wages paid by the Board. A MLTAIFICENT OFFER. Sir F. Crossley has made an offer through the Mayor of Halifax, the novelty of which is only exceeded by its munificence. He proposes to found a loan fund of £lO,OOO to assist men and women between the ages of 25 and 45, who shall have preserved a good character and been resident in the town for at least two years prior to the application. There is to be no security asked beyond satisfying the trustees that the borrower possesses as much property as he seeks to borrow. Men may borrow not less than £3O nor more than 300 ; women not less than £lO nor more than £lOO. The interest to be paid will be at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum, and 10 per cent, of the sum borrowed is to be repaid annually to the fund. If the fund should ever accumulate to £30,000 the trustees may distribute the surplus above that sum to such charities within the parish. of Halifax as they may deem deserving. IS ENGLAND A MUSICAL NATION ? " Azamat Batuk," writing to the Pall Ma Gazette, says that England has a bad reputation for its musical qualities. He, however, has a different opinion on the subject from that entertained by many nations on the continent. The musical abilities of a nation ought to be considered, he says, from three dis tinct points: the creative power, the appreciative facul ty, and the skill of catching and reproducing melodies. With regard to the creative power of England, much cannot be said, little being known of English music even in this country. In understanding and repro ducing good music, however, England is not inferior to other countries, and in some points positively superior. Italian ) German ) or even French music, if it is good, is sureto be listened to, sure to be applauded, and sure to be paid for here at a higher rate than anywhere else. In England both choral and solo singing of the mass of the people are of high merit, considering the little means which they have for the development of their abilities. Everybody may hear street boys singing popular songs in chorus, and very„ creditably improvising their respective parts, and an instance occurred the other day of the audience of the " Great Vance " in St. James's Hall taking up' the refrain of a favourite song so admirably that even those strangers who were astonished at such a proceeding, quickly became pacified, and by the ir; attention paid tributa to natural talent. THE FRAUDS ON LORD GEORGE HAMILTON. j MONDAY. At the Central Criminal Court to-day, before the Right. Hon. the Recorder, John Ashton and William Godfrey were indicted on several counts for obtaining money from Lord George Francis Hamilton by means of false and fraudulent pretences.—Lord Hamilton said that in 1869 he had seen the prisoner God. frey, who came to solicit subscriptions for a regatta held in 1869. In that year he did not subscribe to the Tottenham rowing match. In March last Ashton called at witness's house with sub scription lists for the Tottenham regatta. Witness asked if he was authorised to collect, and the accused replied in the affirmative. and added that the regatta would take place when sufficient money had been obtained. Witness gave him a guinea. Ashton said that though he did not live at Tottenham he had plenty of time on his hands and that was the reason he was collecting. Had subscribed, to fifteen or sixteen regattas during the present year.— John Holman, a policeman,. said that on the Bth of March he was called to Lord Hamilton's house to take Ashton in custody. Outside the house Ashton said that he did not know that he was doing wrong, and that the man who gave him the papers was close by. He then saw theother prisoner, Godfrey said that another man whom he did not know gave him the papers.—Edward Kreusher, editor of the Tottenham and Edmonton Herald, said for seven years he never knew of a regatta being held. There was no committee for setting up such regatta.—Joseph Noakes had lived at Tottenham for eighteen years, and had never heard of a regatta, nor a committee being formed.—Other evidence to the same effect was given.—Mr. Tom Hughes M.P., Regatta as he had never subscribed to the Tottenham as stated on the prosecutor's subscription list. Knew Godfrey's face. The signature on the list produced was not in witness's handwriting.— Mr. C. H. Mill, M.P., Lord Enfield, M.P., Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P., Mr. Talbot, M.P., gave evidence tending to shew that the signatures to the list were forgeries. The defence of the prisoners was that they had, been duped by a third person, who said he would give them a job, and who employed th em to collect subscriptions. —Th e jury, without leaving their box,lound the prisoners pilty. Mr. Straight, the counsel for the prosecution, said this was far from an isolated case, as both the prisoners had committed the same offence more than once previously.— , Evidence having been given in support of this statement, his lordship sentenced the prisoners to twelve calendar - MOW i4lPrik9Alelit with hArd IN ow ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vole., BRAVE LADY. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." ", A Brave Lady' is sure to be popular."--Daily News. " The 'Brave Lady' throughout rivets the unmingled sympathy of the reader."—Daily Telegraph. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.