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Ills descriptions of scenery in the Alps and of the Italian cities are exceedingly graphic, shewing much sympathy with nature, and a refined intelligence, Though the style of the book is somewhat sketchy , it is thorou g hly readable, especially in the passages referring to the Council, which have in some degree the value of contemporary history."— Daily Telegraph. " Those who have followed the well-known route, and visited the spots described by Mr. Evill, are scarcely likely to add much to their fund of information by reading his lively sketches ; yet we are far from saying that the publication is superfluous. To gain knowledge is not the only object which induces a man or woman to take ap a new volume ; and if Mr. Evill does not add distinctly to our stock, he has the art—a rare one—of placing familiar scenes in a fresh and agreeable light. . . . . The book has the merit of being thoroughly readable."—Pall Mall Gazette. 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" There ism pretension whatever about the book of travels, and though it relates very little of what is new, it tells of nothing that is uninteresting, vapid, or dull. To the truthfulness of its descriptions of places and works of art we can thoroughly, testify, and assure our readers that such of them as are meditating an Italian tour could not possibly do better than furnish themselves with a copy:"—Bell's Weekly Messenger. " hzr. Evill's visit to Rome was opportunely timed to enable him to witness the great gathering of prelates in attendance at the opening of the (Ecumenical Council ; his journey was accomplished with great rapidity, but his hasty en route sketches are lively and amusing."—Record. " In this pleasant little book we have an abundance of inter esting matter, such as a professed bookmaker might extend into the compass of two goodly volumes ln the very first page we are satisfied with the book, and are engrossed with its contents We recommend the entire little volume as well to readers as to intending tourists in search of continental information."—News of the World. - - - - "The ground was all new to Mr. Evill, and, in spite of the season of the year, he saw it under peculiarly favourable cir cumstances. Ile has an eye quick to see, and a pen that enables him to tell right pleasantly, and not a little vividly, what he has seen. . . • • Mr. Evill was fortunate enough, in company with his friend, Mr. Charles Kent, the poet, to see the pro cession in St. Peter's, on the opening day of the Vatican Council. His description of it is very graphic."—Western Morning News. " Italy has been described to the reading world again and again, and, therefore, the charm of Mr. Evill's book is not the charm of novelty, but it has a charm. There is a fresh, inge nuous manner, that appeqls to the reader. The author records his impressions and describes minutely the beauty of the Italian scenery without a thought of the travellers who have gone before. Some passages, descriptive, are really excellent. The exterior and interior of Milan cathedral are put before us in glowing terms, and the long ceremonies of the opening of the (Ecumenical Council are forcibly described. His description of Venice is excellent. Mr. Evill's word-painting is far above the average of such description& We are sure that readers, after a perusal of this book, will have a vivid impression of the scenery described, and be grateful to Mr. Evill for his pleasant recollec tions."—Lloyd's Weekly News. " Accuracy of description will cause this little book to be read, and probably enjoyed, by those Englishmen and English women whom necessity keeps at home year after year . . • The profits are to be given to a charity, and we heartily wish it every success, and think that many untravelled Englishmen will find something to interest them in Mr. Evill's " Winter Journey to Rome."—The Examiner. " This little volume, containing, together with careful descrip tions of places and cities, an account of the opening of the (Ecumenical Council, it is worthy of notice, is dedicated, not in irony or without permission, but in friendship and with full authority, by a Protestant to a Roman Catholic. 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Two weeks' notice must be given before the expiration of the current quaster W if the ILservice is not to be continued. LIAM SAUNDERS, Proprietor. 112,+ Strand, London. W. 0., December 1, 1870. EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY, Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament. For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity In Situations of Trust. Chief Office-17, Waterloo-Place, Pall-mall, London. Annual Income, £300,000. ()spite', subscribed by m ore than 1,600 Shareholders, nearly 4800,000. DIRECTORS. CHAIRMAN—GeneraI Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K. 11., F.R.S. The Rev. A. Alston, D.D. R. M. Carter, Esq., M.P. E. Hamilton Anson, Esq. Edmund Heeley, Esq. A. R. Bristow, Esq. Reginald Read, Esq., M.D. This Society are now ISSUIN COMPLETE LIFE POLICIES. The peculiar features of these Policies are as follow 1. The payments Cease after Ten or Twenty Years. 2. The Policy is not forfeited by the non-payment of renewal premium during the ten or twenty years. 3. 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Bd., the Second Edition with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Oases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks. R e EVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY By DETECITCi R e p r inted from the dical Circular." London: H. Salliere, n 9, Regent-street. The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, or other journals, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted with this edition. CITY of LONDON HOSPITAL for DISEASES of tht CHEST, Victoria Park. Special APPEAL for the NEW WING Amount still required, 44,000. Number of beds now occupied, 120. Number of beds available with proposed addition, 184. "he Hospital is entirely dependent on voluntary support. ankers, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street HENRY SEWELL, Hon. Soc. Offices, 24, Finsbury-dram RICHARD P. SLATER, Sec. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied as soon as published, every Evening, by S. WILSON, newsagent, and special agent for the North-western District, 24., Delancey-street, Camden-town, N W THE MILIT kRY SITUATION After many days of indecision and desultory, though obstinate, fighting, the campaign on the Loire has once more assumed an intelligible form. Once more things have taken a turn from which great events may speedly be anticipated. Of course we may at once dis miss the German telegrams, announcing the break up of the French forces on the Loire. The battles under .D'Aurelles, which ended in the evacuation of Orleans were altogether in favour of the Germans, but there was no rout. The Loire army divided into two parts. One went across the Loire and retreated south ; the other remained on the north bank and went west. This division is the key to the present situation. There has been no attempt to . unite the two parts. Their move ments have taken the form of a right angle of which Chanzy has taken the western arm, and Boui•- bald the southern one. The latter retired directly upon Bourges, and not being very closely followed up, has done no fighting since. The former, going westwards, has contested every inch of ground. He fought four days in the forest about Marchenoir ; then retreated upon Ven dome, and fought two days there ; and now he is retiring upon Le Mans. There he will find heavy reinforcements, of poor quality, it is true, but still of very great force in numbers. With these it is hoped that he will be able at least to hold the Germans undt , r Mecklenburg in check, whilA Bourbaki comes up from the south. The position, then, is this : the Germans on the Loire have two armies to oppose, each well nigh as large as their whole force. At present the bulk of their awn bers is directed against Chanzy, who has hitherto done all thefighting. But if they continue to concentrate themselvhs towards Le Mans, Bourbaki may slip past to Fontaine bleau, and if they turn round to stop Bourbaki, Chanzy will go on to Chartres. Prince Frederick Charles may divide his army into two, opposing one half to each of the French armies ; but it has already been proved that Mecklenburg alone was not able to withstand •Chanzy. He had to be reinforced by two out of three of Prince Frederick's corps, leaving a mere fragment in front of Bourbaki. So far from the campaign on the Loire being finished, it is but just commencing. The fighting on the Loir, a little tributary of the Loie, and not to be confounded with that river was very severe. So hard pressed have been the Germans, that they have actually brought up the exhaustbd Bavarians to assist them. Everything depends uphn Bourbaki. Is his force in a position to move forward ? That is the question. THE ALBERT RECONSTRUCTION SCHEME. In pursuance of the directions of Vice-Chancellor 4ir James Bacon, a meeting of the policy holders claiming p be creditors of this company, was held yesterday at the Cannon street Hotel in order to determine the questihn whether the Western Life Assurance Company assentcd or dissented from the plan of reconstruction of the Albert Life Assurance Company which had been proposed by the committee of which Mr. James Thompson is the chairman. Mr. Price, liquidator of the Alb i tt Association, occupied the chair. In opening e business of the meeting he said two or three words world suffice to explain his position. He took the chair by order of the Court of Chancery, in order to hear the scheme of reconstruction of the Albert Company, as proposed by Mr. Thompson's committee, and would call on Mr. Thompson to detail his plan. Mr. Thompson said the question the meeting had to determine was between liquidation and reconstruction according to the scheme now before them. When he spoke of reconstruction he spoke of something intelligibly clear and definite, which would not only inspire confidence in the capacity of the scheme to carry out what it professed, but as well in the governing body. It was very well for anyone to Say If you pay me your premiums, I'll lay aside a certain proportion and keep the remainder for my labour apd that of my associates." How that proportion was to lbe raised he was not quite certain—whether in slate quarries, American bonds, or investment in the giji Islands. (Cries of "'Question.") The speaker went on to argue in favour of reconstruction, against liquidation, observing that it had been decided by the Court of Chancery that policy holders of the Albert had not forfeited their claim against the Western. It was the intention of the committee to modify the scheme so as to pay the policy holders in full ; but, eVen supposing their scheme did not become a fact, they had still liquidation left them as before. The liquidation had been. carried en in a most vigorous spirit, but looking' at the enormous expenses that had been the consequence, he had no hope in that course. The committee believed that liquidation would be disastrous to their interests, and they therefore called upon the policy holders to support their scheme with a vigour equal to that displayed on the part of the liquidation. He concluded by proposing " That the policy-holders of the Western Life Association present at this meeting assent to the plan of reconstruction embodied in the agreement now submitted to this meeting, subject to such modifications as may be sanctioned by the Court of Chancery."—Mr. Webster, Q.C. seconded the resolution, contending that to proceed with the liquidation would be to pursue an endless course of litigation. —Mr. William Rutherford, of Liverpool, handed in a protest on the part of a deceased policy holder to the extent of £4,000 against the scheme of recon struction. —Mr. Hartley complained that Mr. Thompson had not given them the names of the Actuaries who had supplied him with the figures on which his calculations were based. Six or seven years ago he wrote to Mr. Scratchley, Actuary of the Western Company, expressing his opi nion that the Albert was insolvent, and protestin g against being handed over to that wretched concern. He believed that the best thing would be to go to liquidation at once and insure a better affair, so that their wives and fami lies might not go on expecting at their deaths what would never come.—The Chairman, in answer to the question of a policy-holder, said, as he understood, the scheme of of reconstruction was that the policy-bolder would have not only to pay up the premiums now due, but those in arrear. After some further discussion, Mr. Thompson replied : With regarcl to the question that had been put to him as to the actuaries on whose figures the Reconstruction Com mittee had based their calculations, he might say that it would afford him pleasure to give the names. He might first give that of Mr. Smith, who was engaged on the old Albert. Dr. Farr was another—a gentleman who bore a European reputation, to which might be added those of Mr. Ingle and Mr. Sprague. There was another gentleman, whose name he was not at liberty to mention, more distinguished perhaps than any of them ; and it was upon their figures the calculations of the committee had been laid. With regard to the financial basis of the scheme the committee relied on the unpaid capital of the Albert. What proportion of the policy holders might be obtained to secure the result which the committee had in view depended rather on the ratio than the amount. But, even allowing for the greatest amount of estimated with drawals the reconstruction would pay £BO for every £l.OO. There was, however, little doubt that it would pay £95. In conclusion he begged the meeting to understand that he spoke to them as a diein terested person, as an honest man, and a man of business ; and therefore it was he urged them to vote in favour of the scheme laid before them. A policy-holder asked where was the £150,000 that came from the Albert shareholders. Mr. Thompson said the guarantees amounted to more than 184,000 at the least, and should the estimate be exceeded the excess would go to strengthen the scheme. A show of hands was then taken, when there were sixty-seven to fifty-three held up in favour of the resolu tion. A poll was then demanded. A resolution in favour of the scheme was carried by a majority of 17 to 5. A meeting of the policy holders of the Medical Invalid Assurance Society, another of the amalgamated com panies, was held in the same hotel at three o'clock, J. Yonge, Esq., in the chair. The amount of capital con tributed to the Albert by this society was shewn to be £24,725. A WISE Cow.—ln a Dublin paper we find the following advertisement :—" Found coming from the Fair of Naas, on the 22nd of November, a two-year-old heifer." Most probably the heifer " found coming " from the fair was an enlightened animal, gifted with more than the ordinary instinct of cattle. The Christmas markets are this week obliged to be kept well stocked, and, bear ing this fact in mind, the cow no doubt slipped away from what seemed certain death, on finding her owner's back turned. The advertiser seems to believe in the cunning ingenuity of -his charge. The Salut Public of Lyons relates a daring feat per formed a few days since by forty men of a free company from the Doubs, commanded by Captain Huot. Having learnt that a body of 120 French prisoners, who had formed part of Garibaldi's force, and had been captured at Dijon, were being sent off to Germany, Captain Huot suddenly fell upon the Prussian escort, numbering seventy men, and succeeded in putting them to flight and rescuing the prisoners. A. letter from Laiche, near Florenville, says :—" A Turco has passed through here, escaping from the Prus sians for the fourth time. Made prisoner at Woerth, he contrived to escape and rejoin the remains of M`Mahon's corps. Sold at Sedan (his own expression), he a second time got away and took refuge in Verdun ; on the capitu lation of this place he again became a prisoner of war — not for long; for he arrived at Montmedy in time to be besieged. This time the Prussians did not know of his presence, for as they entered with their band in front he quietly walked the street before them in the dress of a labourer, and then took the key of the fields." LAW AND POLICI A BATCH OF PICKPOCKETS. Three lads, named Douglas Cane, John Shean, and Samuel Bywater, were charged before Mr. Newton, at tlie Marlborough -street Police-court, with attempting to pick pockets in the Tot tenham-court-road. Police:constables Hill, 111 E, and Nickolls, 184 E, saw the prisoners in Tottenham-court road, amongst a crowd of persons, principally females, and after watching them for three-quarters of an hour, and seeing them try several persons' pockets, they took the prisoners into custody. The prisoner's said the officers had made a mistake, ,and that they were only selling lights and papers. Cane said he was only selling papers. Hill said that- was not the case, and that he saw Cane purposely push against a lady. He had cautioned Cane before, and he knew the prisoners to belong to a gang of thieves. Mr. Newton said he bad no doubt the prisoners as stated belonged to a gang of young thieves, and com mitted them each for a month'with hard labour. THE LATE ELOPEMENT AND ROBBERY.—Mr. James Edwards, of No. 9. Cotton-street, Poplar, applied to Mr. Lushington, at the Thames Police-court, to-day for a warrant to apprehend Mrs. Cummings, who, he believed, induced his wife to leave her home on the 28th of last month, when she took with her 170 Australian sovereigns. Mr. Lushington : You were before my colleague, Mr. Paget, last week. Edwards : Yes, I was, sir. I have since ascertained that Mrs. Cummings and child came over from Australia in the ship Dover Castle, and arrived here in September. I arrived here in the Crusader a few days before them. They soon discovered me out.. I was induced to marry Bridget M`Knight, whom I had known in Australia. Mrs Cummings came to my house on the 28th November ; and after she had been closetted with my wife for half an hour they both left together. Mr. Lushington : You have no evidence that Mrs. Cummings took your money. Edwards : No, sir ; but I believe she induced my wife to rob me. Mr. Lushington : You can not charge your wife with robbery. If you can prove that Mrs. Cummings had any of your money you can proceed against her. Edwards believed that his wife and Mrs. Cummings were in some suburb in London. Mr. Lushington : In what suburb ? Edwards : I really don't know, sir. I have some information conveyed to me by letter. Mr. Lushington said he must decline to grant a warkaut, and ,advised the applicant to consult the police, on the subject. Edwards said he would capture Mrs. Cummings, and never leave the pursuit of her until he fell in with her. He then retired.- - SERIOUS CHARGES OF FORGING AND UTTERING.—Mr. Thomas Joseph Smitherman, a builder, of 144, Brompton road, was charged at the Westminster Police-court with uttering two forged acceptances for £7O and £24 10s., well knowing them to be forged and counterfeit. Mr. G. F. Powell prosecuted, Mr. W. Smyth, solicitor, of Roches ter-row, defended. Mr.' Powell having opened the case, stated that the defendant and prosecutor had large deal ings, the prisoner being what is termed a " till fixer," as well as a builder. They had done busi ness for four years, and had had many bills and money transactions. The prisoner changed his account from the Suburban Bank to the Imperial Bank, Fulham road, aud late in November took the two bills, one for £7O aud another for £24 10s., and requested money on them. Mr. Phillpot, the manager, remarked that it was rather singular of a new customer, and requested time for inquiries. He made inquiries and ascertained they were both forgeries, and impounded them. Mr. John Wilson, the Kosecutor, said the bill .for £24 10s. was a forgery. Prisoner was remanded. KILLED BY BEING RUN OVER.—At the Thames Police court, Joseph Beser, an omnibus driver, aged 20 years, of No. 4, New-street, Adam-street, Rotherhithe, and wearing the badge No. 4,920, was brought before Mr. Lushington on a charge of manslaughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Pogson., George Pogson, the husband of the deceased, said he was on his way home with his wife on Saturday night, at 20 minutes past 12 o'clock. He was passing along the Mile-end-road a few yards in advance of her, when he heard a crash and a scream. He turned round, and saw his wife under the wheel of an omnibus called the " Loyal Red," travelling between Bow and the City. He took her home to St. Dun stan-road, Stepney. She was dead, and fearfully crushed. John Fleming, of No. 12, Copley-street, Stepney, said he was riding on the top of a " Loyal Red " omnibus, driven by the prisoner, on Saturday night. The prisoner pulled up at the King's Arms Tavern, in the Mile-end-road, ' for more passengers, and there being none, went on again directly, and had just got into a gentle trot or walk when he saw the deceased under the left wheel, about 3ft. from 1 the kerb stone. Briden, a detective police sergeant of the K division, said he arrested the prisoner on Sunday morning, and upon informing him of what had happened he said he did not know whether he pulled up at the King's Arms or not. ' The prisoner also said that the woman must have fallen off the footpath, and that he was skidding the wheel at the time. There was no descent of the road at the place. Mr. Aaron Atkins, surgeon, of No. 232, Mile-end-road, said that Mrs. Pogson was brought dead to his surgery on Saturday night. The clavicle or collar-bone was broken, and two ribs on one side and one on the other fractured. There were other injuries, and death must have been almost instantaneous. The deceased appeared to have been perfectly sober. The prisoner offered no defence, and Mr. Lushington remanded him without bail. . NEWS FROM INDIA. The Bombay mail has brought news from Calcutta to the 23rd, and from Bombay to the 26th of November, We take the following items from the overland sum maries of the Bombay papers : Mr. J. F. D. Inglis, of the Bengal Civil Service has been appointed an additional member of the Viceregal Legislative Council. Mr. Inglis is senior member of the revenue board in the North West Provinces. Surgeon-Major F. J. Mouat, Inspector-General of gaols, Lower Provinces, Bengal, has been permitted to retire from the service on a pension of £550 per annum. Dr. Mouat is to be succeeded by Dr. Fawcus, the Deputy Inspector-General. A memorial praying for a Royal Commission upon the system of Government in India is now in course of circu lation in Calcutta, with a view to eventual transmission to England. The sum of over £1,420 sterling has been remitted from the Bombay public to Colonel Lloyd Lindsay for the wounded in the Franco-German war. This is indepen dently of £7OO raised among the Masonic bodies, and nearly £l,OOO collected by the German Consul. The Bishop of Calcutta is at present in Bombay. A Church conference will be held shortly. A memorial of the late Sir Herbert Edwardes is to he constructed at Peshawur, in the shape of an ornamental fountain. The women of Calcutta who have joined the Brahmo religious movement have presented to Baboo Keshub Chtmder Sen an address welcoming him back, thanking him heartily for the perils he had encountered in behalf of their religion, and assuring him of their kind affection and reverence. Cholera has broken out in the camp of his Majesty the, Shah of Persia, who had set out on his pilgrimage to Ker• beta. The Turkish quarantine authorities were in doubts as to how they could turn his Majesty aside for a time from Turkish territory. The expedient of a grand hunt had been thought of. At the meeting of the Viceregal Council, which was to be held on the 25th of November, Mr. Fitzjames Stephen was expected to deliver an elaborate speech on the Wahabees and other dangerous tribes in the hills. Respecting Mr. Stephen's proposed amendments to the Penal Code, which were laid before the Council on the 18th of November, the Calcutta corres , pondent of the Times, who was present on the occasion, says : —" I came away with the impression that it must be hard work to a man like Mr. Stephen to bear up against the dead weight of a Council that is itself overweighted with dignified form. I should say that when a man intends to do anything in the Council of India he must find the inspiration from within, for the chances are that he will have none from without." A European broker in Bombay named Henry Robert Reel, who was in pecuniary difficulties, has committed suicide by taking opium. The Pioneer's Calcfitta correspondent alludes to the cold reception the Viceroy got from the Calcutta public, and mentions a rumour that the names of certain persons who have in a marked manner absented themselves from Go vernment House since his Excellency's return are about to be struck off the Visitors' List. The erection of a floating bridge for the Hooghly is said to have been sanctioned by the Government of India. Mr. Leslie, the etigineer, will proceed to England shortly, and it is expected that the bridge will be actively commenced about December of next year. We understand that Captain Poynter, late a the 16th Regiment, has commenced legal proceedings in the Irish Court of Common Pleas to recover damages, laid at £5,000, from Mr. J. G. V. Porter, of Belleisle, for a mult and battery in connection with the recent singular trans actions near Enniskillen.— Saunders's Newsletter.