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'l' I '1,6 ~, . - , \6 ‘ . •,...: __::........7 4; „,-; <,444 :012 -4 5z y„,...,;? ~ _ , ~.. t. ~ „to, -- .H.- DROIT• • s ei '''- f -1 0 4 s— ---•'/ ut ' ,\ . ,'' 4 ., I \ 4 : ,'. ' / fr ( 1.0 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1867. N°.23,273. PRICE.... 4d. STAMPED sd. Nov ready at all the Libraries, io 3 vols., VI A D 0 . N N A M A 11, Y. i yi . By Mrs. OLI PH ANT. "From first to last ' 3ladonna Mary' is written with vizour, and ove, flows with the best qualities of it* we;ter's fancy aud humour. Tile story is thoroughly ort :.inal "—At henreum. Miguel ; he had no idea that the Crown of Por tugal fell to him by right. Long before, in the year 1824, the Infant Dom Miguel had been forced o quit his fatherland, in consequence of the r ONDON STREET REFORM SOCIETY. PRESIDENT. Sir WILLIAM FRASER y Bart., M.A., F.S.A. On the 13th of June, 1865, it was admitted unanimously in the Rous e of Commons that the condition of London, as regards Paving, Lighting, and Cleansing, was disgraceful. No improvement has taken place. The Traffic of London becomes every day more un manageable. The Public Vehicles are inferior to those of Provincial and Continental Cities. This Society has been formed to stimulate public atten tion ; to collect, condense, and make known facts ; to point out defects in the law ; to enforce provisions at, Present neglected ; and to watch Bills introduced into Par liament on these e.ubjects. The London Street Reform Society is not pledged to suppla any specific change in the Government of the Metropolis. • Those who may wish to join the Society are requested to write to J. S. Tilly, Esq., Hon. Sec. L.S.R.S., 88, St. J ames's -street, S. w 3ttmt piblished, !cap. Bvo., cloth 1 4 .1 t, pr'ce (11., L OND ON SELF-GOVERNED. ny Sir V4 - 11.1.TN11 FRASER. Bart., 11. ' Fran-is II I.) vey. 4, St. Jarn.s',-ktreet. CONTRACT FUR BARRACK STORES FOR THE Contr P s ' e O t Y D A ep L lr 3 t M A L, A F A S m . irattv, Somerset . . 9th Jan. 1867. TILE COMMISSIONERS for , EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD 'HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, Do hereby give NOTICE, that on WEDNES DAY, the 23,1 inst., at Twelve o'Clock at Noon, they will 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 L ong -Hair Broom Heads, and Clamps and Blocks for Long Scrubbing Brushes, as may from time to time be demanded for the use of the Royal Marines, under a Contract for twelve calendar month s certain, and further until the expi ration of three calendar months' warning. I'atterns of the articles may bo seen at the Royal Marine °Mee, New-street, Sp r i ng - gar d ens, b e t ween th e hours of Eleven and Two o'Clock. No Tender will be received unless made on the printed form Provided for the pu-pose, and which may be obtained on application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where the conditions of the Contract may be seen. No Tend er w ill b e received after T we l ve 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. CONTRACT FOR FRESH OX BEEF AND VEGE- TABLES AT FOYNES. CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY. Somerset House, 27th December, 1866. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and of IRE LAND do hereby Give Notice, that on Tuesday, the 15th January next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to con tract for supplying all such quantities of FRESH OX BEEF and VEGETABLES, for the we of her Majesty's ships and vessels at Foynes as may be demanded from the 15th January to the 30th June, 1 867, both days included. The Contractor is to supply good fat well-fed Ox Beef, as no Heifer meat will be admitted. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders. Tenders must be made at rates per 1001 b., and to atten tion will be paid to any offers not so made. The Contractor in claiming p a y men t f or th e su ppli es, i s to mak e out his invoices in pounds at per 100 lb. • Every Tend er must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and mus t a l so be delivered at the department 2f the Comptroller of Vict ua lli ng , Ad m i ra lt y, S omerse t Youse,ecome signed by two resp ons ibl e persons, engag i ng t o £3OO bd with the person tendering in the sum of for the due performance of the Contract for Fresh Ox Baer, and £lOO for the Contract for Vegetables. The Co n t ractor to the Con tracts and Bonds pay half the amount of the stamps on By order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. 0 GUNMAK ER S and Others. The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of receivinz PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for BREECH-L OA.D ING RIFLES, either repeating repeating, Whi c h may or not replace the present Service Rifles in future manufacture. 11. The following are the co ditions considered essential in military non -repeating Rifles:— Not to e xceed 91b A. 'WEIGHT. . soz, without bayonet. hollo w B LENGTH. .To be 51 i butt- nches, with short stock, measured from the of the plate to muzzle. C. WE IGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP. Must not exceed Glb. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for service. CARTRIDGE M D. Must carry thbir own ignition. S. . SIGHT Th e foreßizi l t mustE bo such as S. to admit of a bayonet fixed according. to the present system. P. STOK 11 / 4 1 C b I, q e such as t o carry a light . motal cleaning.rod, and allow a slig to bo usod. G. . A lhist not exceed that of RECOIL the Enfield Rifle b more than lu p er cent. y R. THE ARM AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injurybylong-continued firing, ro ugh usage, and exposure, as the naval rifles converted to breech -loaders on tho Snider system. To be as capable. also, of being used without accident by imperfectly trained l e en, and o f b e i ng manufactured in quantities and of uni form quality. I. THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp, a nd exposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for Suiler's converted Enfleht rifle —also as little liable to acci dental explosion as the same cartridge, and as capable of being manufactured in large quantities, and of uniform quality. K. CALIBRE. Optional. L. THE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE. Optional. Optional. M. THE LOCK. is. RAPIDITY OF FIRE. Capable of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without aiming, the cartridges being lwranged on a table. o. ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST. The arm must. give a mean figure of merit o' not more than 36in. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500, and fin. at 300. The mean to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty shots each. r. TRAORY. Not to require at 500 yards aan T 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. PENETRATION. • The mean penetration of five shots not to be less than that of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle— viz., 12 half-inch elm planks, which have been soaked 48 hours in water. Distance 30 yards.. R MOAT lON. Wax o n bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant may be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought necessary by the competitor. __ ;Nro ar 111. o ms will be received without the usual proof marks. Pecifications, and drawings of the methods prposed, st ating the p ro b a bl e cost per arm, and accompanied by a finished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu nition, should be sent to the "Director of Ordnance, War ..nlcc‘' Pall-mall," on or b e f ore th e 30th M arc h , 1867 . The specifications and sp ec i men arms w ill b e cons id ere d by the Ordnance Select Committee and its associate mem xvho will be selected by the Secretary of State for War, and who will, after firing the 20 preliminary rounds, select and recommend for further trial such of the systems as may appear to them sufficiently promising, rejecting all such as may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to Int their being included in the competition, the con .,nts of which are stated in this advertisement. for e‘ accepted competitor will then be required to furnish to thezPeriment, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity s pecimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am munition per arm, within four months after date of de mand. Each competitor will be required to disclose to the committee the exact nature of the lubrication he may em- Ploy. A sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted competitor; to cover the ex p ense o f th e s i x rifle; and of the supply of ammunition req. The Secretary of State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the arm which, on combination of all qualities, is considered by the committee to be the best submitted. A second reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at taining a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu lars, is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism. A third reward of .£4OO for the best cartridge. The qua ities which will be principally taken into consideration in awarding this prize will be economy of manufacture, power of sustaining rough usage, freedom from deterioration in various climates, and general serviceability. The shooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair • but as they may d epend upon the rifling of the arm with Which the cartridge is Associated, they will not be so much con sidered 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 prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be given to the inventor of the arm finally adopted into the service. MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. Magazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re eived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech °ailing Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48 aches, including the stock. The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at 91lb. ex clusive of the charges in the magazine. It is indispensable that the arms be made to take a bayonet. The Secretary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best Magazine or Repeating Arm produced that fulfils the abevo 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. This sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per arm. 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, and that the name of the individual with whom it origi nates shall be recorded in connection with it. _ll the rifle to which the first prize is awarded is adopted nto the service, it will bear the inventor's name. J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General l Director War Office :of Ordnance , Oct. 22 1866 IN _XIIAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 1865. Tfiic enlebrafed - OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole ;onto. Soil in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; tby the Agents in the principal towns in England; or -414.m1. at R. GREAT 'WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Bad Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded " Kinahan's LL ttlAcy." UT(.JAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIA'FION Lio,wpor.ted by _let of rarliarn tnt, 1 , 3!.0), 4, rtI.T3SE: L-STREET. COVE ST-GARDEN, LONPOY. Prompt AD VAN CF.3 on all description of Security. F.,rms free on application by letter to EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES, and BUSINESSES. FURNESS and KNEE'S List on application. Particulars for insertioa reaeived until the 27th of the month at their AUCTION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES, 5, Azar street. Strand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Cross Hallway Station. iNI ANSION-HOUSE of the SUFFERER! EXPLOSIONS. FUND for the RELIEF 1 by the recent COLLIERY COMMITTEE. The Right ion the LORD MAYOR. R. C. L. Bevan, Eq. J Mr. Alderman and Sheriff . _ Samuel Morley, Esq. I Waterlow. Geo. Moore, Esq. I Mr. Sheriff Lycett. Mr. Alderman Finnis. Mr. Alderman Risley. J. P. Gassiot, Esq. Mr. Alderman Dakin. Christopher T. Gabriel, Esq. James Hill, Esq. Frederick Thompson, Esq. It. N. Fowler, Esq. IL A. Gray, Esq. W.J. Maxwell, Esq. Colonel Stuart Wortley. Mr. Alderman Cotton. The attention of the public is earnestly drawn to the suffering consequen; on the terrible calamity produced by the recent colliery explosions. 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 £50,000 ; in that case 204 men and boys lost their lives ; in the present instance double that number are known to have perished, there fore w 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. H.R.IL the Prince of Wales ......... £loo H.R.H. the Princess of Wales The Corporation of London Amount already advertised £15,531 11 11 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. JOSEPH GIBBS, Secretary. Mansion House, Jan. 7, 1867. D UNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. WHISKY. D UNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WRISKY, BELFAST. LondOnOffi;e3 and Stored, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 18C8. Quotations on application. JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the world."—Loadon Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C., next the " Times." TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers , J ohn- s t reet , Cork, beg. to announce that they ire able to supply the trade with their celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases, and to take orde -a in bond tit d for expartation, at their offices, 7, Printing-hotrie-square, London, E C., the only house in the square not occupfedbythq " Times." .T. D. and Co.'s whiskies brin4. the highest prices in the Australian and othe^ Colonial markets, as may ba observed by reverence to the "Journal of C•mmerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their whiskies fetch Od. per gallon and Is. per c:isc over the next st, and IF. 6d per gallon arta ,s. 63. c.ae o er the loweat quotation. Always ~u hand lar;.,e supply of ve y old mellow whisky in the finest niclition, matured in sherry casks, unsurpassable f quality and flavour, sit, plied oa the most reasonable rer...6. ANFIELIY3 PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure an I uncsdoure.l. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN BUKGES3 and EON, 107, strand (corner of savoy-steps). London. -- SPLENDID SPECULATIONS GRNAT SUCCESS' With a single stake of £l, you can realse £25,0r0 11 With a Fin gle stake of £2, you can remise £27.5'.0 ! ! With a single stake of .£B, you can - realise £37.000 !1 With a single stake of £lO, you can realise £15,000! ! For prospectuses and particulars apply without ,delay to Mr. EUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. THE BEST REMEDY FOR. IN DIGE 3TION. NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS' are confi dently recommended as a simple but certain Remedy for Indigestion, which i the cause of nearly all the diseases to wAich we are t•ubject, being a medicine so uniformly e rat e fu! and beneficial, that it is witli Justice called the " Natural Strengthener of the human Stomach." "Norton's Pills: act as a rowerfnl tonic and gentle aperient; an, mild in their operation, sate under Ilny circumtances, and thousands of persons can now bear testimony to he benefits to be derived from their use, as they have been a never-tailing Family Friend for upwards of 21 years. Sold in bottles at ls. 14d., 2s. 9d, and 11s. each, in every town in the kingdom. CAUTION. Be sure and ask for "NORTON'S PILLS." and do not be persußderi to purchase any of the various imitations which have sprung up in consequence of the success of NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS. R. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, leet-street, has introduced art entirely new deserip ti. nof ARTIFICIAL IRE LI, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly ro.emb'e the natural teeth as nut to bu distingui,hed fro .1. the originals by the closest o seyver; they will r ever change colour or decay, and will be founi ruperior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require tie extraction of roots, or any pain ful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are l?ose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastica tion. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastication. 52. Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. L.AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN -AA EFFECTUAL REM ED Y, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be th e b est medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. it frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling uhich provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes alter taking it. I'r , plt ea on.y and soil by W. L . 11 . 11 N11.12 , Chemist 8, Kin-W.lliam-street, Charing cross, Landon, and by all druggists, in bottles, 1,%d., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d, each. Be particular. and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp, N OII IIING IMPOSSIBLE —The greatest and meet useful inventi on of the day, AQUA AMA HELL Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and ed Bull Wharf, 9:3, Upper Thames-street, Perf umers to CO.,'her Majesty, respect fully offer to the public this truly marvellous thug, which gradually rest.res the human hair to Its pristine line-- n o matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ' • it, on the contr ary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep It in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, Ns. et Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal highness the Princess of Wales. ITOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS -a- are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING SHIP. £2,800 required. WTI. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—CON. the o B R u y 'r ?(3 1 36 1 . are . ne o e r tl e y qu ecl r li e lted for establialdui WM. WILLI N HS, Secretary. Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON. —The Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys. One hundred and fifty are now in the Refuge. The annual expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at £s,ooo, being: £IS a year for each boy. Several kind friends have promised to pay for one boy each year. Subscrtions thankfull rceived by the London and West. minster B ip ank,•4l, Lothbury y. e and 214, High Holborn; Messrs Ransom and Ca., 1, Pall-Mall East ; and by WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary, Refuge, )3, Great Queen-street. W.C. ROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, FOR TIOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C. Sixty Thousand Ni g ht s ' L o d g i ngs, with Suppers and Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to tlu3 destitute, w h o otherwise would have had to pass the nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches. Breakfasts, are given y v gs, At present nearly 500 Nights' w w eek. Sukpers and gratuitou L sl odg e h from all parts are admitted, the enly e c r o y ndition being that they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c. , receives no remu nera ti on whatever. Notwithstand ing the provision made by tho Poor Houses, each night numbers of young women, children, and orphans %re, for want accommodation, refused admittance, and have 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 f am ili es 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 ? The smallest donation will bo most welcome, and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will be offered in your behalf. SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly , requested, and be gratefully received bv.theAv.:D. GinavatT i :D.D., No ; 22, Fimbliry-circutis LO, i-11.i.ekett, 13, Great 31arlborou 4h-str;:et. Now ready at all the Libraries; in 3 vols., A/1. MA UK LEHON'S LEYTON HALL, and ether Tales. " These volumes arc full of interest, humour, and pathos. They are sure.to be popul tr."--.:slar. . llnrst and DI icketf, 13, Great Malborough-street. LADY CAMPBELL'S NEW :NOVEL. Now ready nt all the Libraries, in 3 vols , A WOMAN'S CONFESSION. By LADY CAMPBELL. "'A Woman's ConfeatOn' deserves to be a successful novel." —morning Post. Hurst and 131ackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. • NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR .OF " EAST -LYNNE," In the press, in 3 vols., pest Bvo , LAD.Y ADELAIDE'S OATH. By MRS„ HENRY WOOD,. Author of" Eaßt Lynne." "The Channings," and . " ton's Troubles." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. MISS BRADDON'S NEW ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. Npw PublisltinZ price One Shilling, Monthly, "BELGRAVIA:" "The best Shilling Magazine which England pos sesses.''—Standard, Ofßze: Warwick Tlouse,.raternoster-row, London. TITOIiSON'S GLOVt-FITTING" CORSETS, ON IST FEBRUARY. THE OCEAN ST. LEGER of 1866.—What Lord Lyon was to his owner was the Taeping.r, to her Captain, viz., winner of the race, having - distanced all com petitors, as the EAST INDIA TEA. COMPANY have in fariab y done in their choi e and sale of fine new season's teas, now selling at importer's prices. Warehouses-9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard. RUPTURES.-I3Y ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBITIONS 01 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwards of Iwo Hundred Metioal Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a bteel spring, so often hurtful in its effects. is here avoided— a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moo-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and close ness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be hail, and the 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 manufacturer, 31 . r. WHITE, ri2l3, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, les., 215., ?6s 6d., and 318. 6d Postage, Is. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d, 42s and 525. 6d. Posta:re, Is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, is. 10d. 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There is a very large inland traffic carried on in Welsh steam by the railway companies, which would be still larger if there was a sufficiency of accommodation. House coal meets .with an average inquiry, and a good business is being transacted on coasting account. In the iron trade there has been no change for the better, and many makers find it difficult to keep their mills and furnaces going with any degree of regularity. The leading houses manage, however, to do this, but the smaller makers feel the present depression most severely. Scarcely an order worthy of notice has been placed on home account since last report, but now the question of prices has been settled it is hoped that new life will be infused into transactions. DOM MIGUEL, K(NG OF PORTUGAL. (Prom the Westminster Gazette.) A tourist in Western Germany, passing through leidelberg or Wurzburg, can easily make an nteresting excursion to a charming wooded valley hidden deep in the solitude of an old German forest, where Dom Miguel, King of Portugal, found a hospitable reception while awaiting the close of a life full of vicissitudes. At Bischofs- heim, lately devastated by the Prussians, the Wiirzburgh and Heidelberg railway meets a lovely little river, the Tauber, and the traveller on de scending the valley of the river (a branch railway is now in course of construction there) will soon reach the ancient Cistercian abbey of Bronnbach, a town in which he will find a comfortable inn. It is four English miles above Wertheim, where the Tauber falls into the Main. The abbey came into the possession of its recent proprietor, Prince Charles von Liiwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, in consequence of political changes, and with the Papal sanction ; he resides himself on the lovely banks of the Main, at Henbach, near Aschaffen burg, and his now widowed sister, who was mar ried to Dom Miguel, at the old- abbey of Bronn bach.. The abbey is but little changed, and the interior arrangements that meet the eye of the stranger remind him more forcibly of the monas tery than of the Prince's palace. Here the illus trious pair dwelled long together with their many children, and with but few attendants. They were distinguished in the eyes of the world only by their piety, their charity, and their affability to all. Dom Miguel especially was remarkable for an almost excessive goodness of heart, at all times and under all circumstances, and to such a degree that his political adversaries were quite at a loss to reconcile his life and character, as manifested here during a long course of years with the preva lent myths of his government in Portugal. They unreservedly declare that, according to all human experience, it is quite impossible that such a public character could ever turn out such a private character. " Who can believe," say they, " that this noble, modest, conscientious, and amiable man who has been living among us for years, and whose private life and character every one is forced to honour, should be the sanguinary despot of Portugal ?" The explanation is simple enough, and to the unprejudiced inquirer has long ceased to be an enigma. The works of political partisans honoured with the title of historical annals are worthless productions, through which party prejudice succeeded formerly in England, and still more in Germany, in confusing and mis leading the public opinion of the day. Even now, when . death has overtaken the aged but still hale and active prince, while engaged in manly field sports in the forest of the Spessart,—even at such a moment, when a sudden death (though, God be praised, not an unprovided one—for he never let the highest, the last ends of his life out of view) — had just released their noble victim from his earthly banishment, some harsh voices are raised to re-echo the old cry about the Portuguese tyrant. But the people here are still too uncorrupt, possess too much good and honest feeling, not to be stirred with the deepest indignation, at hearing such demoniacal outcries of party hate and party prejudice. Our simple-hearted townsfolk, though conscious of not being able to see their way through the mazes of politics, are not less in dignant at the impiety, as well as the indelicacy, at the present moment of such unworthy attacks on the deceased Prince. " What do we know," do they exclaim to one another, " about revolu tionary struggles in a foreign country, where one party has succeeded in driving out the other ? Those who abuse the laidest have generally the worst conscience. As soon as the Prussians drove out the King of Hanover, see how the Prussian papers were filled with abuse of him. To us Dom Miguel came as a stranger, robbed of his kingdom and of his property; where is there an individual in the country who can accuse him of ever having in the least injured or offended him? Who can say that Dora Miguel ever let an opportunity of doing good pass by unnoticed? How many have to thank him for benefits received, although he was far from wealthy ; in the late devastating war no poor wounded soldier lay in the neighbourhood of Bronnbach without receiving from thence help and comfort for soul and body I" This is the kind of dirge which our honest towns folk and country people sing in honour of the exiled Sovereign. And I believe that every right minded man, whether political adversary or not, must join in the simple expression of popular feeling. I am myself no political adversary of Dora Miguel, but am a friend of unprejudiced historical inquiry, and I believe that to such of your readers as have failed to obtain an exact and strictly historical account of the revolu tion, to which Dom Miguel fell a victim, a few words of explanation will be useful: Those, to whom this history is not new, will pardon me for bringing forward facts, with which they are as well, if not better, acquainted than myself ; they know how difficult it is in these days for truth to withstand the flood of falsehood that pours down upon it on all sides from a thousand sources. True it was a party struggle to which Dorn Miguel fell a victim. But we owe it to him above all to have these parties placed in their true light— to show that the parties engaged in this struggle were no other than that of right and of injustice, of legitimacy and of revolution, of Catholicism and of freemasonry, of national independence and of foreign intervention and preponderance. Dom Miguel, the second son of Dom John VI., was neither ignorant of nor disputed the ori ginal claims of his brother to the throne of Por tugal ; he only erred in having, through ignorance of his own rights, acknowledged the claims of his brother Dom Pedro when those claims no longer existed. According to an undisputed law of the kingdom of Portugal, the elder brother, in the year 1825, forfeited his right of inheritance to the kingdom of Portugal. Dom Pedro had rebelled against his father in Brazil, but on the 15th of October, 1825, concluded a treaty with him, by virtue of which Brazil ceased to be united with Portugal, and became an entirely independent kingdom ; it was agreed upon that after the death of Dom John VI., Dom Pedro should ascend the throne of Brazil as Emperor. From this moment Dom Pedro ceased to have any right of inheritance in Portugal, by a fundamental law of the country when a King of Portugal dies leaving sons behind him, and bequeathing an independent Crown as an inheritance in the family, the Crown of Portugal falls to the second son, and he alone, as legitimate heir to the throne of Portugal, is entitled to claim an oath of allegiance . In March, 1826, King John died. But no one was less acquainted with what passed in Portugal and Brazil than . Dom pointment is not to be wondered at, and it was ren d er ed all the more b itter by the confident assurance with which they had awaited the suc cess of their fine-spun machinations. A prince, who in service of the revolution is willing to cast off the holiest obligations, and to tread under foot the faith of treaties , such a p rince may, indeed, gather around him from all sides a crowd of par tizans, praising and exalt in g him, the i of the day, because, rising superior to prejudice, he has discerned his historic mission, and made the true welfare of the nation, the development of civiliza tion and political progrew, the sole rule and guide unhappy party struggles that distracted Portugal. lle resided in Vienna, and the dominant party in Portugal took care that he should be kept in the hands of people who would never permit him to learn what they desired to keep concealed from him. And this advantage the party insidi ously made use of to obtain from him a renunci ation of his rights to the Crown of Portugal. Ile fell into the snare laid for him, and solemnly pro mised to fulfil what they desired; he acknow ledged rights in the existence of which he undoubtedly believed, although their existence was illusory, and he failed to guard or claim rights (his own as well as those of his people) of whose existence he was not aware. The enemies of the young and inexperienced prince believed him to be inextricably entangled in the meshes of the net they had woven for him with wondrous subtlety, but the texture of it was not as strong as it was fine. Ile was required totally to renounce certain rights, and was to remain ignorant of those rights. His promises were grounded on a totally false basis, and yet promises so made were to be held binding on him ! The partisans of the revolution in Portugal had carefully prepared their schemes. The father of Dom Pedro had scarcely breathed his last when the then dominant revolutionary party proclaimed that prince King of Portugal. Ile overthrew the ancient constitution of the country, and set up a new revolutionary constitution in its stead. It is true the Portuguese -people rose up and loudly protested against these changes, but the revolutionists succeeded, with the assistance of England, in stifling their efforts to right themselves ; warned by this opposition, and by the attachment they now perceived the nation cherished for their rightful prince, the exiled Dora Miguel, the party changed their tactics. Through the influence of England they induced Dom Pedro to renounce his pretensions to the Throne of Portugal in favour of his daughter. Their plan was as follows :—Dom Miguel was to return home to be betrothed to Donna Maria, and to be Regent during her minority. What ensued? On the 22d of February, 1828, the deluded Infant arrived in Lisbon, and scarcely had he assumed the Regency when a fresh popular insurrection broke out, and this time of a strength to overpower all resistance. The truth, that had been so long kept back from Dora Miguel, now burst upon him ; he saw how he had been duped in Vienna ; how he had acted without • knowing what he was about, in acknowledging a claim which was founded only on usurpation ; how he had made promises which he ought not to make, which he ought not, could not, keep without violating the Constitution, without sacrificing the most sacred rights of the nation. He heard but one opinion from the mouths of all: the same was avouched by the bishops of the Church, was averred by the great nobles of the kingdom, wa s confirmed by the first lawyers of the land. In truth, all Portugal—the great majority, at least, of the nation—was decidedly in favour of the righteous cause of their legitimate prince ; the minority consisted but of a portion of the towns people, who, under English influence, had been corrupted by the machinations of the secret societies. As soon as Dom Miguel was con vinced of his claims, the nation was restored to its lights. In June of the same year the ancient Cortez assembled in great numbers, and declared that, according to the order of succession estab lished in Portugal, Dom Miguel was the legitimate successor of his father. Thus was law and order restored in Portugal. Dom Miguel reigned six year as a truly national prince. He governed as a Catholic prince of a Catholic people. He restored to the Church the possessions and the freedom of which the revolution had robbed her. No wonder, then, that the Church recognised in him her most faithful, her obedient son. He displayed on the throne of Portugal the same qualities which distinguished his character down to the latest period of his life, when we had the privilege of becoming personally acquainted with him. His character was one of unshaken, undaunted rectitude and of deep religious feeling, At all times modest and full of moderation, never provoking discussion, he only now and then revealed by a word, or an animated and expressive glance, the feelings with which he watched, from his distant rural retreat, in the bosom of his peaceful and happy home, the development of the mighty events which had agitated the world since his downfal. The clearer and the more indisputable the title of Dom Miguel according to the fundamental laws of the Portuguese constitution, the louder rose the clamour of his adversaries about the breach of the promises made in Vienna. Their bitter disap , of his actions. But let a legitimate prince ensnared in the nets of a revolutionary faction, deceived and betrayed, succeed at length in freeing himself from their thraldom, let him, retracting invalid and un lawful promises as simply inoperative, retrieve as soon as possible the error he committed in making them, then, forsooth, against such a prince the cry of broken faith may rightly be raised and pro pagated far and wide. Upon falseness like this comment is needless. But there is another view we cannot leave en tirely unnoticed. Many a man of rectitude may exclaim, not without a feeling of uneasiness, " True it is, Dom Miguel was legitimate King of Portugal, the promises made at Vienna could not, ought not, to prevent him from acting as he did in Lisbon ; yet it was at least a proof of levity that he allowed himself to be seduced into making such promises. This reproach will ever weigh heavily on him." Well, we acknowledge this to be pretty nearly our own opinion, although we are not per fectly informed on the subject, and have reason to believe that hereafter these transactions in Vienna will be placed in a clearer light. But, allowing that this prince had been guilty of an act of youthful indiscretion, this circumstance could not have the slightest influence on the question of right, which is the question now chiefly under con sideration. Neither do I believe will the image of this fine character be dimmed in our memories by the recollection of these transactions in Vienna. If a single individual among the many m en of rectitude who may ever become acquainted with the history of the much -agitated and chequered life, can say that his own youth was entirely guilt less of a similar weakness, then I hope he will not make the remark without earth thanking so almost God for a happiness so great, so u heard of. THE SEARCH OF PASSENGERS' LUGGAGE.—The following nwmorial, numerously signed, has been presented to the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer :—" Sir, —We beg to urge upon your considera tion the desirability of substituting Custom-house surveil lance, through detective or other officers, for the practice of individual and personal search of baggage at the ports and in London, in the case of travellers by railway between London and Paris for the seven months of the Great In ternational Exhibition of 1867. The concession suggested involves the comfort and convenience of several hun dred thousands of her Majesty's subjects, and of Americans and other tra , :ellers from abroad passing through England on the interesting occadon_offered by the Emperor for the assembly of people of all nations at Paris. It cannot mate rially affect the revenue or prejudice the future practice of the Custom-house, as the concession is to meet an excep tional case, in which the duty of co-operating to make the Exhibition in every sense a success must be admitted by her Majesty's Government. It is understood that the Go vernment of the Emperor, placed under far greater diffi culty than our own from the fact of their much larger number and heavier scale of customs duties, will mate rially modify their system of search during the Exhibition and aro also ready to discuss the whole question with you on the principal of reciprocal action ; and we cannot doubt that you, on equally enlightened views, will sympathise with our object, and be led to deal with any technical or departmental difficulties which - may present tb.emselves." ing. A man -named Curran, a shipmaster, was the first witness examined. His evidence was of the same character as that of the previous witnesses, quite exculpating the people and condemnatory of the soldiers. Ile stated that when the voters and their military escort came up, he saw Major Womb well, who was in command of the Lancers, attack two men, on whom he used hissword freely, but the witness could not say whether be used the edge, back, or flat of it. The men tried to force them selves between the rails of au enclosure in order to escape from him, but did not succeed. Before that assault there was no attack, either on Major Womb well, the voters, or the soldiers. Mr. Cornelius Redtnond, proprietor of the lifizter ford News, was next examined. lie dcseribcd the entry of the voters, who, he said, passed quietly through the crowd on the bridge, who left them ample space, and only shouted as they passed. The noise, he said, was rather a buzz than a shout. There was no attempt to take the voters from the escort. After they had passed the crowd closed in again, and then the Lancers turned round and plunged their horses among the people, stooping forward, and holding their lances in their hands. The people ran away, and the Lancers rushed after them "as if they were going into battle." The crowd was much smaller and quieter than he had ever seen at any election, and the witness had seen many contested ones within the last 20 years. In his opinion, the management of affairs should have been left to the police, of whom there were quite enough to preserve order without the military, And who " understand the people better" than sol _tiers do. " The Lancers," said the witness, " looked fierce and determined. I never saw men took so fierce as they did when charging." Dr. Anthony, who attended .O'Brien immedi ately after the receipt of his fatal intdries, described the nature of them. There was a circumscribed swelling on the left side of the hack of the head, over the occipital hone. On pressing that portion of the head he appeared to wince, as if he felt. I infer from that that there must have been some ex ternal violence used to cause the injury. There was no abrasion of the skin at all ; it was only puffed, and it must have been caused by some round, hard instrument. The butt end of a lance would do it. Were there any other marks upon him ?—A very slight abrasion or excoriation over one of the eye brows. That might be caused by a fall on the ground. Would the injuries that you saw on that man be sufficient to account for his death ?—I did not see sufficient external appearances to lead to the con clusion. Concussion may be caused without any external appearance at all. Do you believe that this man's death was caused by the blow on the head?—l do. I did not hold a post-mortem examination. Between fifteen and eighteen people had wounds dressed in my estab lishment during the day cf the election. I only dressed four or five of them myself. The injuries that I dressed appeared to me to be lanes wounds, piercing the hat and scalp, and stopped at the skull. In two or three instances the wounds, which were from a sharp-pointed instrument, pierced the hat and the scalp, and stopped at the skull. Those were instances of old people. The wounds did not go farther than the skull, fortu nately for them. They were all old people whose wounds I dressed, with the exception of one young man that got a blow inside my own door from the end of a lance. I did not see him get the wound, but I came up at the time, and he showed me the wound. It was on the side of the neck. He told me that he received the wound when he ran into my hall for shelter. Two of those people whose wounds I dressed had their hats pierced, and another had a scalp wound about 23 in. long. Dr. Anthony stated that the concussion of the brain might have been produced either by the man falling on his head when knocked down by the horse, or by a thrust with the butt of a lance. Some con troversy arose as to whether a lance-butt could inflict such injuries as the doctor described, and the jury desiring to examine the weapon for themselves, it was arranged that a lance should be sent for to Cork, where the regiment is stationed. Another witness named Connery stated that he was struck and knocked down by two lancers, each of whom cut him about the eyebrow. He sported a small bit of sticking-plaster on his forehead, but on examination, even with the aid of a candle, not the slightest abrasion could be discovered. He saw " girls and childs" shaking their hands at the soldiers, and saying, " Down with the Tories !" The evidence of the next witness contrasted in many particulars with the unvaried tale of military brutality and popular passiveness so often repeated. He was a very intelligent man, named John Martin, and was highly complimented by the agents on both sides, and by the coroner, for the candid and straightforward manner in which he gave his testimony. On the day of the election he was working as a carpenter at the new bank, where he had a view of the scene from one of the windows. There were about 500 people in the vicinity of the bridge, and when the voters approached the advanced guard of the lancers rode forward to drive the people back, and then stones were thrown at them. The lancers then rode among the crowd at a gallop, striking the people, some using the lances crosswise, and others the butt-ends. They drove the people into a timber yard, and then stones were thrown thickly for about a minute, but before they first essayed to drive back the people there was not a stone thrown. He calculated that at least 100 stones were thrown. (This statement caused great sensation in the court.) The stones were chiefly the size of those broken on the road, but many of them were three times the size of a macadam paving-stone. After the lancers charged the stone-throwing continued for a short time. The persons within the timber yard threw stones at them until the police got in and drove them out to the strand. As the yard was being cleared the lancers broke the gate and got in, but even then the stone-throwing did not completely cease. About 20— what appeared to witness the last volley—were hurled afterwards. Four witnesses were examined yesterday. Dr. Hunt believed that the concussion which killed O'Brien was not caused by a lance. Mr. Greene, resident magistrate, Monaghan, deposed that stones were showered like hail, and that the troops acted with forbearance. Similar evidence was given by Mr. Maguire, magistrate. A labourer that o sw ore that the deceased threw a stone at the l ancers immediately before he was p knocked ngary an down. It wn. a It was reported yesterday man named Maguire, another of those injured had died. The Waterford Mail says that the con duct of the stipendiary magistrates and the military during the late election riots is likely to be investi gated by a special commission. Ironmasters' Quarterly Meeting. --I, BIRMINGHAM, Thursday Evening. The great meeting of the ironmasters of this district was held here to-day ; the floor of the Town-hall was crowded, and the trade in every department, including those who are connected with it in other iron producing districts, was well represented. There NiaS not much business doing, for the reason that nobody knows what course to take, while a difficulty with the men is threatening, so that the impor tant business of quarter-day was almost reduced to no thingness on that account. There was, however, suffi cient inquiry ou the part of home customers and others to load to the conclusion that if the men accept the terms offered to them a moderate amount of business may be done. So far as relates to this day's meeting, however, it was characterised by extreme quietude, but with much de sultory talk in reference to the future. The transactions in pig-iron wore on a limited scale: it is at all times difficult to quote the price of that article, re gard being had to accuracy, because of the exceptional circumstances under which it is sold, and especially so at this moment ; but wo place the ordinary all-mine iron of South Staffordshire at 678. Gd. to 70s. per ton that is, from 2s. Gd. to ss. per ton below the price of last quarter dziy, and not taking into account cinder pigs, the extreme range of price of the class of iron now referred to will be from 675. 6d. to 82s. per ton. In reference to the threatened strike, it is thought to be not improbable that, as a preliminary measure, it will be attempted at some three or four works. If such should be the case, it will most likely be met on the part of the by a general lock-out.