The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-24 00:00:00

r 3 `r - ..-.-- . " --- r --...---0 ~ ;~.. , , A FTER Covent-garden Opera—EVANS' to SUP. . _ _ - -- . After Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After llaymarket Theatre EVANS' to SUP, After Adelphi Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Olympic Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Strand Theatre After New Royalty Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After St. James's Theatre EVANS' to SUP, After Prince of Wales' Theatre EVANS' to SUP. • . Adon Singing and Supper Club, EVAN&, Covent-garden. Vocal Entertainment at Eight. MAISON DOREE, THE NOW FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT AND LUNCHEON BAR, GLASSHOUSE-STREET (One door from Regent-street), CUISINE FRANCAISE, High-class Wines at wholesale prices. Spirits and Beors, cvc• Private room for Parties. HAMPERS PREPARED AND SENT OFF TO ORDER. Terms, CASH. On and after MONDAY, Dec. 9, SUPPERS from Nine P•m. to One a.m. Manager, CHARLES CASTLE. lINAHAN'S Lb WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 1865. Tnia celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained tho Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 38. ScL, at the Retail Houses in London; by the Agents in the princip a l t owns in England; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork andet."Kins han'aa LL Whisk.y." IgUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Lncorporated by Act of Parliament, 1850), ~ RUSSELL-STREET COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON, AD VANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free huh'. or Le.sehold Property, for one, two,nr three yea's, repay able weakly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. Forms free on roceipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER. Secretary. A RGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly. Sole Proprietor, Mr. R. R. Brc4NELL. This magnificent Terpsichorean and Musical Establishment, having been Re-decorated in the highest style of Italian art "Y Messrs. Rubardt and other eminent artists, is NOW OPEN for the AUTUMN SEASON. Solo Euphonion. Signor Mose& Solo Cornet, M. Graves. Conductor, Signor Curti. Doors open at half-past 8. Admission, ls.; Reserved Seats, 2s. MADAME 2USSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. . , • A Life-size PORTRAIT MODEL of TH.EODORE, KING bf ,''' . ABYSSINIA,- is now added; also all the Kings and Queens of r ngllnd, American Celebrities. &c. Room of Horrors. Open on -- using-day, from 9 in the morning till 11 at night; Christmas Holidays, from 10 in the morning till 10 at night. Admittance, • ls. ; children under 10, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. 1 I MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBMON.-A PORTRAIT MODEL of FREDERICK BAKER is now added to the Chamber of Horrors. Open on Boxing-day, from 9 . in the morning till 11 at night; Christmas Holidays, from 10 in the morning till 10 at night. Admission, ls.; children under 10 Years of age, 6d.; extra rooms, 6d. T H E OXFOR D, 6. OXFORD-STREET. W. During the Week will be given .a GRAND SELEC TION from Offenbach's Comic Operetta, ORPHEE AUX ENFERS, LA TROVATURE, and the New Cantata MERRY CHRISTMAS. Principal Artistes: Misses Russell, Rivers, and Fitz- Henry ; Messrs. Bury, Metier, R. Greene, and Do Brenner. Pull Band and Chorus: Instrumentalists: Miss Bryant ; Messrs. Paque, Melling, and Plumpton. COMEDY, &c., by the LEVITES, Miss and Mr. FOS TER, HARRY SYDNEY, FRED. FRENDH, Mr. H. RICHARDS, and ALFRED PERRIER (his 2d appear ance in England). Mr. E. W. MACKNEY will positively appear on Mon day next, tho 80th inst. STODARE'S MARVELS of MAGIC THIS EVENING. Conduc'or—Mr. F. Jonglunana. Private boxes, 10s. 6d. ; stalls, balcony, and grand pro. lnena•le, Is.—THIS EVENING. W EST 0 N'S GRAND MUSIC HALL; Proprietor, ➢ir. J. S. Sweasey. kr. SWE A SEY begs to inform the public, in consequence of the flattering patronage he has received, he has engaged the fol lowing talented Compank:—The Great VANCE; GEORGE LEY tOURNE, the Lion Comique ; JEAN BOND, the unrivalled Equili rist ; GEORGE ELLIS, the Australian Buffo ; the Brothers DANIELS (who are allowed by the Press to be unapproachable by any other artiste in their performances); SIDNEY BARNES (his first r _ a PPoarance); Miss ALICE DUNNING, the most fascinating Serio " Jule Singer and Dancer at the present time; Miss LIZIZE zEARSE (her first appearance in London), allowed to be by the t!ovincial press the most rising artiste of the day; Miss ANNE KEENAINE, the English Ballad Singer, is re-engaged after a most successful provincial tour. Full Orchestra, in which Mr. H. Baker, the unrivalled Cornet ? layer, will appear, in conjunction with Mr. J. Young , the g reat Flute Player. The whole under the direction of Mr. P. CORRL It t , TANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers, and wholesale of JOHN BTHIGESS and SON. 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily Produces whiskers and thickens hair, Price 3s. 6d.. 55. 6d., and 10s, gel.; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps,—ALEX. ROSS ' lB , High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. "Tale of a Hair," 6d. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. This Preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a to hours, re- Moving the very root. Price 45.; sent by post for 60 stamps.— 21 0, High Holborn London, and all Chemists. Face Powder, is. AIR - CU RLING FLUID, 248, Hi g h Holborn, H AIR - CU RLING _ London.— ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID earls Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 38 . 6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. 6d.; sent free for 54, 84, and 144 stamps. '—Had of Chemists. Advice upon all subjects of the Toilet. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London. — ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour t intnediately it is used, It is permanent, and perfectly natural in effect. Price 38. 6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. 6d; sent by post for H, 84, and 144 .tames; and all Chemists. Bloom of Roses, 3s. ecl. I_IAIR DESTROYER.--248, Ili gh Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes super fluous hair from the face, neck, and arms, without effect to the akin. Price Is. 6d., Is. 6d., and 10s. 6d.; sent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—Had of all Chemists. Skin Tonic, ss. 61 PIMPLE REMOVER. All diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE „TABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sallowness, &c. • lid, and 7s. 6d.; or post for 40 and 100 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 4 * B , High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. HYAM and CO.'S PRICE LIST for GEN TLEMEN'S ATTIRE, Ready-made or to Order. New Styles in Tweed Overcoats New Styles in Sandringham Overcoats 2ss. to 635. New Styles in Silk-lined Overcoats 42s. to 84s. New Styles in Reefers New Styles in Dress and Frock Coats New Styles in Morning Coats New Styles in Dress and Undress Suits— 425. to 70s. New Styles in Vests 14s. to 255. New Styles in Trousers HYAM and CO.'S LATEST STYLES and PRICES for YOUNG GENTLEMEN'S ATTIRE. Sandringham Overcoats , 21s. to 425. Prince Alfred Reefers l6s. to 30s. Overcoats for Little Boys l2s. to 30s. Inverness Capes Knickerbocker Suits Braided Patent and Silk Velvet do 3ss. to 90s. Harrow and Rugby Suits Wimbledon Suits for Elder Youths Trousers in all the New. Materials Waistcoats for all purposes Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. 6d, tiAllt COLOUR WASH. —By damping the head with this beautifully -perfumed Wash, in seven or ton days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains so by " occasional using. 10s. 6d. ; sen t f ox stamps. —ALE X ROSS, 8 , High Holborn, London, an I all Chemists. Just published, 2a. ; -- sent by the author for 3 stamps, UGLINESS and BEAUTY; being a Pamphlet of and means used for improving t aPpearance. descriptive By ALEX. articles ROSS. 248, High Holborn. London. he tio.d of all booksellers. Ur REAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. 1h This Hospital has re in lieved !MG. 48 Patients are admitted free. since it was estab `oo4 at liing's-crow, kr id ankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, aud Co., 60, Lombard-streen i a lsra. Hansom slid Bouyerie Pall-mail—Hon. Sec., F. Smith, Gico. BED). Sen. BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM, Mackenzie Park, Slough, Bucks (formerly at Clapham-rise). Insti 41ted, 1827. Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QITEES. v Aid to this Institution will be gladly received by the Secretary, (Coos, No. 71. Chelphide. E.C. MENP.Y S. THORNTON, Treasurer, Tuolt.L; TILSON, J.P., Chairman of the Board. STEPHEN IL CATTLEY, MA., Hon. SOC. ALFRED MACKENZIE, Secretary. lIIIE BOARD of MANAGEMENT of the u LONDON HoIDEOPATITIC HOSMAI, wish to call the attention t heir friends 14 its pasition.. Daring the past year the beds love been almost c to stand" , tilled, and the drain on the resources fob, Hospital h3s cou-ec re:ltly boon great. They trust, there ha all the frleu.:s of hout.ropathy, both in town and conn- Y. will rail/ round them, end thus prevent the necessity of rrtalling the usefuhns:,Hospital by the admission of iavrer patients. Subscrlpti,,ns earnestly requested. Banker 55rs. Prescott and Co., Thremlneedil-strect, and Union Bank. 4 Yll-placo, Itegent-street. JOAN R. WARREN, Clerk No. 52, Great Orniond-street. W.O. I IEALTH RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. IyBARRY'S delicate lzerlth-restoring Invalids and Infants' Food. THE REVALENTA ARABICA 114 .1;" 8 fifty times its cost in other remedies, and restores pellet ;• - •,gestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing ~'",.e e P, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered k - L e ufeebled—removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dy ,T`Psia)cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, plr, lll2 aa, stric derangement?, htemorrhoids, liver cons ges, flatulen, nervousness, biliousness fevers, sore throats 'vutileria catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises ' i n the head and ears', n e urnatisin, gout, mp eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, ir `daility sle les ness acidity palpitation, heartburn, headache, ' dro;s P y, :ramp ' s, spasm ' s, nausea and sickness even in ancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronc is, scrofula, tightness • `Lie chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the ..",„ ° ,,aiders. It is the most digestible and nourishing of all foods, sUitable for invalids and infants in all complaints. 1 ,,,_ - UtrOttrANT CAUTioN.-13eware of the many unsar v ury a a r n wi d 12re than sloppy imitations to which, without authorit., , B ~e b ig's name is most audaciously attached. t,;7' cuceforth nouo will doubt the valuable properties of Du F Ys health-restcring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Infants' since to the thousands of blessings it has already received invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, Wa may ,• ", add that of his Holiness the Pope' whose health has ITen ts ".,T e tlY restored by it after thirt- year ' s of unsuccessful medical IsT -nl ent. We quote from the "Oft. ' zetto du Midi," July 25th (Cure Z,G 3 ,413) ome, „lie 7 is excellent, especially since, July 21st, 1866.—The health of the Holy abandoning all , other rem t e- a A ra Vie has confined himself entirely to Du flat cy It h n ' ic a .. _ Food, of which he consumes a plateful at b.*, ••• , rroduceilqt surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, ata, e holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." liv ei . re No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven rays With coinplaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, irritability, I,„ ir it nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleep et;_ss: sail the most intolerable nervous agitation. fie " 0. 78, of dyspepsia, from the Right lion. the Lord Stuart h ave c_.cies, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of is s I bz ei ,..enved much benefit from your excellent ART .1) o„`,r, Dromana, Cappoquin, County Waterford." 3 ,„,' 1 : 6 No. 49,632.—0 f fifty years' indescribable agony from siaZ l) ka, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, e tz 7 s, ,,sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, of Lynn, Norfolk. 47,121.—Mi5s Eli z abeth Jacob s , of extreme nervous gatherins low spirits, and nervous fancies. di ar T l e c, N , o. 56,814.—Mr. Samuel Laxtun, Leicester, of two years e , p • 48. Th is sold in Canlsters, ls. 104 11b., 25. 21b., ea—,_ • • 121 b., 22 9.; 210)., 40s. The 121 b. and 241 h. cats star, tar, free on rec e ipt of Post-office Order, by BARRY DU 1 1 .14m.' and Co.. 77, Regent-street, London; also at Fortnum - "'' 814 1 , 9, sad sold by all respectable Grocers mid Chemists. OYAL FitEE IJOSTITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate tininity of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, King's-cross. Patron--Her Most (Jracions MAJESTY the WHEN. Vice-Patron--His Roya! Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. 7,868 . No. 23,567. • .4, er,;--. - • . J .. I ~.0 • •,, \a. df 4 , , !.- 5 5 ',:, r• ~,, ;I-. 1 ~ •0 1 „, , ~ 4 ... , ~/ ON and After the Opening of the Queen's Theatre / Long-Acre, EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. • After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. _ ____ LONDON SINGING AND SUPPER CLUB.______- AT EVANS' COVENT GARDEN VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT, At Eight o'Clock. METROPOLITAN AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. Extra Trains between the CITY, King's Cross, Gower Street, Portland Road (for Regent's Circus), Baker Street, Paddington, KENSINGTON (for Crystal Palace and West London Line), HAMMERSMITH, Shepherd's Bush, Notting Hill, and West bourne Park. Omnibuses meet the Trains at Portland Road for Regent's Circus. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Acts of Parliament. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Policies should be renewed within fifteen days from the 25th inst. Receipts may be had of the various agencies and branches, and at the Head Office. London: 61, Threadneedle-street, E.C. „ West-End Office, 8, Waterloo-place, S.W. December, 1867. EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY.- Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. Life Assurance—Annuities--Guarantee Policies payable during Life.--Indisputable—Not liable to Forfeiture. Chairman— General Sir FREDERIC SMITH, ICIL, F.R.S. The ROYAL, NAVAL, MILITARY, and EAST INDIA LIFE DE PARTMENT, affording Peculiar Advantages to Officers and others in the Navy and Army, is under the especial Patronage of Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. New Premium Income in 1858, 1859, 1860 £76,000 " 1861, 1862, 1863 £117,000 41 64 1864, 1865, 1866 £171,000 The EUROPEAN is specially authorised by the Imperial Par liament to Guarantee the Fidelity of Government Officials. Full particulars of the popular principles of this Society will be found in the Prospectus, which will be forwarded to applicants post free. Chief Offices, 316, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place, • Pall-mall. HENRY LAKE, General Manager. 'WALKER'S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES are superseding all others. Prize medals, London, 1862; Paris, 1867. Gold from £l6 155.. silver from £6 66.-68, Cornhill, and 230, Regent-street. FURNISHED HOUSES, from £ 2 2s. to £ 2O per Week.—D. S. HUMPHRIES has at all times a number oi 1 0 1 m-class RESIDb: , CES to be LET. furnished or unfurnished. or sold, morel articularly in the neighbour hoods of Sydenham, Upper Norwood. Forest-hill. and vici nity.—Particulars may be had at the Office, Printing House square. HOUSES and APART MEN f 3 WANTED. and to be LET or SOLD, BUSINESSES for DISPOSAL, - PROPERTY, FREEHOLD or LEASEHOLD. D. T. HUMPIIREs:S has continual applications for all descriptions of PROPERTY which will pay good interest for outlay. Houses out of repair not objected io. T. a Humphries can at all times find customers ior all desci fp lions of businesses. Hotels, public hong s, , sold and transferral. Apply, D. T. Humphries, Estate Agent, Print ing House-square. IBltEhi)h-LOADERS.-- The FINEST ASSORTMENT IN LONDON, in which purchasers may select the best systems and superior workmanship, at moderate prices. Direct-action, central-fire Breech-loaders, the perfection of this excellent principle, possess great shooting powers, facility of loading, and durability. Cartridges, loading instruments, belts, pouches, and every use tul novelty. E. M. REILLY AND CO., NEW OxioaD-sraErr ; ALSO NEAR REGENT-0/RM. CANDLES. —A Hint to Purchasers.-1)o not make sure that you know what price you are paying per pound foryour candles until you have stripped them sad but them in the scale. Some candles are right weight with out the wrappers, some with moderately thick wrappers, some with very thick wrappers, and some are not nearly right weight with wrappers howeVer thick. PRICE'S " GOLD MEDAL PALMITINE," " SHERWOOD PALMITINE," " BELMONT SPERM," and " BEL MONT :WAX," "BEST," " No. 2," ." No 3," and "BAT TERSEA" COMPOSITES, "PRICE'S PARAFFINS," and " BELMONTINE," and all other candles of Price's PatTnt Candle Company Limited, are full weight without the wrappers. H YAM & Co.'s GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. For immediate Wear or to Order. The assortment is most extensive and varied, comprehend ing every possible description of Attire, both costly and of moderate price. All the articles are designed, trimmed, and made in strict accordance with the prevailing styles of the day. FIYAM & Co.'s SANDRINGHAM OVER COATS. HYAM & Co.'s SILK-LINED OVERCOATS. H YAM &- Co.'s FASHIONABLE REEFERS. H YAM & Co.'s SUITS. HYAM & Co.'s MORNING COATS. 11YAM & Co.'s PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE. HYAM & Co.'s VESTS and TROUSERS. HYAM & Co.'s LADIES' HABITS. H YAM & Co.'s LIVERIES. HYAM & Co.'s HATS and HOSIERY. TTYAM & CO.'S SELECT DEPARTMENTS. No. 1. Gentlemen's Clothing for immediate wear. No. 2. Bespoke or Order Department. No. 3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department. No. 4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. HYAM and CO.'S ESTABLISHMENTS. LONDON-66 and 67, Oxford-street. BIRMINGHAM-21, 22, and 23, New-street, LEEDS —42, Briggate, and DEWSBURY—Westgate. RAPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBI- Tioxs of 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the moat effective invention inthe curs tire treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which oannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, • Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 211. 6d., and 31s. Bd. Postage, le. A Double Truss, 31s. 61, 425., and 325. 6d. Postage, ls. Bd, An Umbilical Truss, 428., and 325. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John 'White, Post, office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT L ASI .22.1 KNEE-CAPS, &A, for Varicose Veins and all eases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, drc. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 78. 6d., 105- and 16s. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly F&c.. --The Printing and RIN TIN G. -TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, aehining of Newspapers, &c., done on exceedingly favourable terms. use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager " Sere Printing Offices, 3, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. HELP FOR THE DESTITUTE Metropolitan Free Hospital, Devonshire-square, CUT. Instituted for the immediate gratuitous Relief of the Sick Poor of every nation and creed, without letters of recommendation. Funds are urgently needed to maintain its efficiency. , Bankers—Messrs. Bartlett, bares, and Co.. 62, Lombard-street. JNO. GURNEY FRY, Chairman. ave. CROXTON. SeCretarl President—His Grace the Dake of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establlsh the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the de lay and difficulty of Goveruors* orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in ado& don to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 8,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevo lent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them _ Contributioiasare received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hanson, and Co., Abchurch-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co.; Glyn and Co.; Berries and Co.; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Demers-street; and at the riospital, frora.lo till 6. AT...101k irAttltV - , - Igg 1 / • - _ Ca znorr- - #44 D I THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1867. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., SECOND EDITION of OLD SIR DOUGLAS. By the Hon. Mrs. NORTON'. The Times.—" There is a great deal worth reading in these volumes. The incidents are powerfully and picturesquely told." Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., EDITH'S MARRIAGE. Ry ARNOLD HEATH. _ _ "There is enough of incident and romance in this story to satisfy most readers."—London Scotsman. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Juit Published, price ls. Gd., by post, Is. Rd., the Second Edition, with Eidden la, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks. REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted front the "Medical Circular." AT CHRISTMAS many persons are induced to take more than is wholesome. Two or three of PARR'S LIFE PILLS will clear off acidities, and remove feverish headache and other unpleasant symptoms, with out pain or inconvenience. PARR' '; LIFE PILLS may be obtained of any medicine vendor, in boxes, is. lid., 2s. 9d., and in family packets, lls. each. Directions with each box. T B. It OFFICIAL RETURNS, EY THE SEVERAL SEWING MACHINE COMPANIES, For the Year ending June 10th,•1867, show FORTY-THREE THOUSAND AND FIFTY THREE Sold by THE " SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Being 4,99 more than Sold by any other Manufacturer. Prospectuses and Samples of Work sent Post Free. Agents in every Town. Chief Office in the United Kingdom: 47, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON, E.C. District Agencies : NEWINGTON BUTTS, S.E. KING'S-ROAD, CHELSEA, S.W., H. Conics, Agent. BISHOP'S-ROAD, PADDINGTON, W., GADSEN and Co., Agents. 93, UPPER-STREET, ISLINGTON, N., J. MILLARD, Agent. • IOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from do cay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price le. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. D UNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, • Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. " V.R.' IRISH WHISKY. ' DUNVILLE and CO.'S. " V.R.!' OLD _ IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 1808. Quotations on application. QTOOPING HABITS, ROUND SHOULDERS, PIGEON CHESTS, and other Deformities, are prevented and cured by wearing CHANDLER'S IMPROVED HYGIENIC CHM EXPANDING BRACE, for both sexes of all ages. It strengthens the voice and lungs, relieves indigestion, pains in the chest and back, and is especially recommended to children for assist ing the growth, promoting health and symmetry of figure, super seding the use of braces and stays. Price from 10s. 6d. each. .-66, Beaters-street, Oxford-street, W. Illustrated circulars for warded. POWELL'S BALSAM OF ANISEED, for COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, Sore Throat, Difficulty of Breathing, and all similar affections of the Respiratory Organs. Sold by Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the World. In Bottles only, price Is. lid., 2e. 3d., and lie. each. Established nearly half a Century. MR. JOHN BRIGHT AT ROCHDALE. --e-- ROCHDALE, Monday. A numerously attended public meeting was held in the new theatre of this town this evening, for the purpose of presenting an address to Mr. Jacob Bright, congratulating him upon his election for Manchester: The mayor (Mr. Whitaker) occupied the chair, and among those present were—Mr. John Bright, M.P., Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P., Mr. E. Ashworth, Mr. J. Robinson, Mr. 11. Kelsall, Mr. Alderman Heape, Mr. W. Fenton, Mr. Alderman Tatham, &c. The CHAIRMAN briefly opened the proceedings, after which an address, the adoption of which was moved at great length by Mr. E. ASHWORTH, and seconded by Mr. ROBINSON, the ex-mayor, was presented to Mr. Jacob Bright. Mr. JACOB BRIGHT, M.P., acknowledged the com pliment paid to him in feeling language. His speech was almost entirely confined to a review of the recent election in Manchester, and the victory which he and the advanced Liberals had gained. Mr. H. KELSALL moved, seconded by Mr. Alder man IIEAPE, the following resolution :--" That this meeting regards the Manchester election and other manifestations of public opinion as decisive proofs that the peopie of this country gratefully recognised those gentlemen to whose service a Reform Bill is justly due, and that the attempts to delude them, made by a Tory Government, have failed ; and, whilst it regrets the many defects of the bill just passed, anticipates their speedy amendment in a new Parliament elected under the extended fran chise which the bill provides." Mr. JOHN BRIGHT, on rising to address the meet ing, was received with great cheering. He said— The first object of this meeting is doubtless to con gratulate my—shall I say fortunate or unfortunate? —brother--(laughter)--on his initiation into the perils and the difficulties and the disappointments of parliamentary life ; but as I shall probably not be considered capable of dealing with that question impartially—(laughter)- - ---I shall advance a little further, and say that we are met for the purpose of congratulating our fellow countrymen, who are members of the constituency of the city of Man chester, that they have by their recent choice re stored that city to its rightful position as the centre of the great Liberal party of the kingdom. (Cheers.) Looking back but a few years to what happened in Manchester, and remembering how far I was connected with it, I may be forgiven if I may take more than a common interest in what has recently been transacted. I have always known that popular constituencies are in some respects very much like individuals—they are liable occa sionally to fickleness and to error, and to what may be termed aberration from a straight course. But there is a consolation in knowing that whilst in political warfare we meet necessarily with great changes, now with a great reverse, and now with a great triumph, yet in that respect we of the Liberal party differ most essentially from those whom I would call our friends if they were not so constantly our opponents—(laughter)—l mean the Tory party. Our disasters, which are by no means unfrequent, and which sometimes give us great grief, are always followed at no distant period by a corresponding triumph ; whereas with our Tory friends a disaster is generally final and irreversible. (Laughter.) Their policy and their principles, when once overthrown by the advancing intelligence of the people, are buried, and they hope for no resurrection. (Laugh ter.) But there is one thing even in connection with this which we may congratulate them upon ; for, as we know, the rain falls upon the just and upon the unjust, so we know that our opponents Qf the Tory party share fully with us the spoils and the advantages which the nation derives from our vic tories over them. A very distinguished French woman, Madame de Stael, left on record her defi nition of what she understood by the word hap piness. She said that happiness consisted in a constant occupation for a desirable object, with a sense of continual progress. Well, if that be so, I think we may consider ourselves, politically speak ing at any rate, as amongst the happiest of mortals, for we have a constant occupation. The end we seek is not only desirable in the ordinary use of that term, but it is good in the highest degree as we be lieve, and whether we look backwards or forwards, to the past or the future, I think we have attendant upon us constantly a sense of continual progress. (Cheers.) Our friends the Tories unhappily are in a very different position. They have had full and constant employment, for we for the last 25 years have found them a great deal to do—(laughter)-- but as the result has shown, from year to year, and even from generation to generation, they have no desirable end in view, as they themselves find out in time; and, more than that, whether they look backwards or forwards, it is utterly impossible that any one of them, except the mere seeker for some office, can have any feeling that there is a conti nual progress —except it be that sort of progress which in this neighbourhood is called a progress back wards. (Laughter.) Just look back for a moment so far as the year 1832. You will remember bow the Tories were alarmed, almost to mental distur bance, at the thought of the passing of the Reform Bill of that year. Go forward 14 years, to the year 1846, and call to mind if you can the things that were spoken by men most eminent— that were written by i thousands of writers for the press—be lieved in, t may be, by thousands upon thousands of the people—as to the tremendous and appalling consequences which would spring from allowing the people of this country to have free access to unlimited supplies of food grown in other countries. Remember the state of feeling into which those unfortunate Tories were plunged by that pros pect. Now come down to the present year 1867—is it possible that it can be all untrue, that which was said by them as to the disasters that would arise if ever a moderate measure for the suffrage were forced through or granted by Parliament ? That unfortunate party—l am not speaking of the leaders ; they make it profitable enough ; they know very well what they are doing ; they, many of them, understand these questions just as well, and as much as we understand them—but I speak of the Tory party in the country, who are the pawns and the chessmen with which these leaders play their game. Only imagine, and if you can it will only be to excite your commiseration, how these men have been misled from time to time—how they have been alarmed ; how they have striven, as if for life, against the very things that were calculated to do them good ; how they have spent time and money ; how they have spent millions of money and oceans of beer—(laughter)—in fighting contested elections, to lose which would be the greatest possible advan tage to themselves and to the country. (Laughter.) But all that fear, these terrors, this striving, this political warfaie, this vast expenditure, is in vain, for one or two things always happen. Either we entirely overthrow them as we did by the uprising of public opinion in 1832 in the time of the first Reform Bill, or, as in 1848 and 1867, their own leaders came forward and capitulated. (Cheers.) I must say_ and if there be any member of the Tory party here, I hope he will convey my feelings to his friends—l must say I feel for them a great commiseration, for it seems to me that their political life must be one unvarying cup of sorrow and disappointment— (laughter)—and it seems as if the least drop of it were never to be taken—there is always something more left which afterwards they have to swallow. I know Mr. Mill, the eminent member for West minster, says the Tory party are naturally the stupid party. (Laughter.) Well, that, I believe, is not denied by any intelligent man amongst Tories, unless they are so stupid that they cannot easily feel. The retrospect must be to them ex ceedingly humiliating, and the . future, if they endeavour to look into it, must be equally gloomy ; but this last humiliation appears to , 3:m to be almost the deepest of all. Lord DeASy has been considered more than any other man to be relied on—" Among the faithless, faithless only (Laughter and cheers.) Everybody has not b of that opinion, even amongst the Tories, Pot. I r - collect once by an accident spending an evening 2, t a Welsh watering-place in company with the pro prietor of an out-and-out Tory journal published ii this country, and he told me that he did not thin' much of Lord Derby. (Laughter.) He used' t.rm which will be understood by a good many here. He did not think Lord Derby was thorougli bred as a Tory—he was only a " broken haired 'un.."' (Laughter and cheers.) My friend evidently knew rather more about Lord Derby than some of those who followed him ; but if you look back upon Lord Derby's career you will see some reason why his friends should have trusted him, because in 1835 he quitted the Whig party of tLat day because he would not consent to inquire into or to interfere with the revenues of the Irish Established Church ; and then 1856 he quitted Sir Robert Peel and his Government because he would not consent to go with the rest of Sir Robert Peel's colleagues from protection to free trade. Seeing that lie had been so faithful to all that is worst in the Tory creed— in 1835 as to the Irish Church, and in 1816 with regard to the corn law—l say there was very fair reasons to believe that he was a man who might be implicitly trusted ; that, at any rate, whatever might come, Lord Derby would not haul kwn the Conser vative flag. Well, that might have been fairly said up to last year ; but in 1867, the year which is now about to close, the whole scene changed. In the coming pantomime that will probably be exhibited here there will be nothing more wonderful, and, if there were something in it melancholy hardly more amusing, than the transformation scene that has taken place. All the arguments that were before used have been forgotten. Every fact upon which orators and writers relied has been kicked aside. Speeches without number, votes more than I can tell, protestations of the most fervent character, principles which you thought never could be stirred from their hearts—all these have been buried for ever, and it is considered an indiscreet thing thing even to refer to them. Even now the insolence of Lord Derby, which he has sometimes manifested in his speeches, the invective of Mr. Disraeli, the scurrilous vituperation of the Tory press—of which we have heard and seen more, I hope, than some of us took the trouble to read— all this, poured upon me and others for years, has now been proved to be entirely a mistake. In point of fact it is discovered in the year 1867, and I think it ought to be chronicled with another great discovery of the century—certainly of the year— that my principles all along have been entirely con stitutional and my course perfectly patriotic. (Great cheering.) It has been found this year that the man who alone was considered faithful to his party has hauled down his flag. He has ordered a general retreat, and has forced through Parliament, and permitted to be given to the country, a Reform Bill, so far as the suffrage in the borough goes, of a very extensive character. Indeed, I say it is a de mocratic bill, because I maintain that it is impossible in the boroughs of England and Wales to give a more thoroughly democratic bill as regards the boroughs than that which has been passed, and that the suffrage which has been permitted to be passed by the Government of Lord Derby is as demo cratic as if it had enacted that portion refer ring to the suffrage contained in the People's Charter—(C'heers) ;—and bear in mind that, al though at present it is confined to the boroughs, all the arguments on which chey have supported it are arguments which go to justify the extension of the same suffrage to the counties. If it be better that the institutions of the country should be established on a wider basis in the towns, why not in the coon - ties ? If the people feel such attachment to the Throne and to the institutions of the country, if they admire so much the House of Lards and the Established Church within the limits of the boroughs, is it not reasonable to suppose that all these affectionate feelings exist even to a stronger degree outside the boroughs and in those portions of the kingdom which we call counties ? In point of fact, having made the concession which they have made this year, though it may be withheld by votes for a time, they can't in the slightest degree account by argument for withholding the suffrage from the great body of the people living in the counties. There only requires two things to be done to give us a really Democratic Parliament. The one is that the distribution of seats should be in some degree in proportion to the population, and that every voter should be permitted by the shelter and the machinery of the ballot to vote according to his own honest intentions—(cheers)—and when that is done, and I think the ballot is not a very long way off, I expect another very important thing, in the distribution of seats, may be seen to at no great distance. When that is done, then I say we shall have a democratic and a popular House of Commons, and whether the legislation and administration of the country be wise or foolish will depend upon the :wisdom or the folly of the great body of the people. (Cheers.) Lord Derby has done all in a certain way ; that is, he has held the reins of office whilst in the confu sion of parties the thing has been done, and he has done it rather than surrender office. (Cheers.) It is not saying anything unfair to Lord Derby to say that he does not, and did not, believe in the advan- tages of household suffrage. It is impossible that, between the session of 1866 and the ses session of 1867 he should have made this great change in his opinions and convictions. He has done it to keep his party together, as he took office in the summer of 1866 in order that he might not break up his party owing to the discourage ment which it:would feel if he failed to do so. ['hat is his own admission, and it is provable beyond all contest that he brought in a Reform Bill and per mitted that bill to be carried, not because he ap proved of that bill, but because he was determined that on this question, at all events, his opponents should not eject him from office. If any one of you will call to mind what took place in the session of 1866, you will be convinced at once that the great object of the Tory party was to drive Mr. Glad stone from office and to take his place. It was not to carry a more liberal bill than that which they had denounced because it was so liberal, for when they came to form a Government it is said, and I believe truly, that they entered into direct negotiations with a distin guished opponent of Reform (Mr. Lowe), a n d asked him to join Lord Derby's Government. At that time they were determined against Reform. But what changed their opinions between then and the session of 1867 ? Without doubt the great meetings which took place in different parts of the country, which showed them that if they met Par- liament without the promise of a bill they would within a single fortnight after its meeting have to go back to that side of the house which they had sat upon so long, and never seemed to feel the smallest degree of comfort. (Cheers.) During the session of 1866, it is impossible in language which would not be exaggerated, unfair, and even insulting, to describe the eager and howling rage which they ex hibited against the unfortunate proposal of the £7 franchise. Their bitterness and malice against the bill would have been scarcely justified if the bill had been as bad as they said it was, and it is clear now that it was not nearly so bad as they de clared it to be. Their conduct in the pursuit of office reminds me of some lines which were pub lished a good many years ago, which never had a more exact application than when they describe the course of the Tory party last year. The poet in the " Rejected Addresses" says : " So when dogs meet, re-echoing through the street, Lush sympathetic dogs from their retreat. Beams with bright blaze their supplicating eyes, Slab; their land legs, ascend their joyful cries :„ PRICE.... 4d. STAMPED sd. Then wild with hope and maddening to prevail, Points the quick ear and wags the expectant tail." (Loud laughter.) Sir Robert Peel, when he re signed office upon one occasion, admitted candidly that Ireland was his difficulty, not because he had not done his best to deal with it, but because of the party that sat behind him, and the stolid opinion which then prevailed widely in the country that he dare not propose to Parliament the measures which he knew were essential to the pacification of Ireland (Cheers.) lie knew that if he proposed them he would have been driven from the leadership of his party, therefore he carried on the Government as long as he could, doing his best, although he failed, at the last confessing that Ireland was his great dif ficulty. What, then, can the Tory party do with Ireland ? There is no part of the United King dom in which the principles of the Tory party have had such full and perfect exhibition as they have had iu Ireland. They have had an Estab lished Church to their hearts' content ; they have usurped the ecclesiastical revenues of the whole na tion and given them to a small section whose whole number does not much exceed the populatio n of all Manchester and Salford—(cheers)—they have had nearly all the land in the hands of great proprie tors ; nearly all the magistrates have been chosen from these landowners and the Protestant party ; they have had any amount of soldiery and police ; there is not a single thing thrt the most obtuse and bigoted Tory can desire which has not been had in the most full and complete shape in Ireland— (cheers)—but unfortunateiy for the 'Tories their only specific when danger arises is terror. They have no security, and don't comprehend any, for al legiance but that which consists iu powerlessness to rebel, and the consequence is now that I fear they will do as in time past. They will adopt repressive measures, and often of the most stringent character, with a severe administration of the law, calling on the people of England to support them in all that is severe. (Cheers.) I could make some excuse for a severe administration of the law if I saw that they would rapidly and earnestly advance measures likely to give satisfaction to a disloyal people. (Cheers.) At present I see nothing of the kind. Perhaps when Parliament opens we may see something of it, but I venture to say that there is no man in Ireland who is a greater traitor to the Queen and the laws of his country than a Minister who continues to hold office and is at the same time not enlightened enough, who has not moral courage enough to recommend to the Crown and to propose to Parliament measures of justice for the pacification of Ireland. (Loud cheers.) Do not let me be understood as saying that, if there were a change of Government, this question would be grappled with with the force which is necessary. There are amongst the leading men of the Whig party men who have fair sentiments with regard to Ireland, but who, whenever they treat of this ques tion, are afraid of dealing with it as it must be dealt with, and therefore it might be necessary, even if there were a change of Government, suppose that change of Government were such as people generally expect, to stimulate with strong language and by a strong expression of public opinion the timid coun cils of those who might succeed the present Go vernment when it resigned office. But the more I consider this question the more I am impressed with its indescribable seriousness. I think of it many things, and which I am sure are not without foundation, which I cannot, and which I dare not, publicly discuss before this audience—l think it has within it perils such as for a long time this country has not known, and that it requires great resolution and wisdom such as we do not often find in our Go vernments to meet as it requires to be met. If lre land is to be made content, if her wounds are to be healed, if there is to be henceforth what there never has yet been, an United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, if the sceptre of the Queen, representing the majesty of the law, shall ever be of equal authority cast and west of the Channel, it must be done, and it can only be done, by measures of great statesmanship and of justice. (Cheers.) The morals of the turf, laid on the floor of Parliament or in the secrecy of the Cabinet, will fail here. The disease which we are discussing is one of a different character ; but there are remedies, unless it be that the remedies are too late. Has this country fallen so low that it can produce no statesman equal to these things ? (Cheers.) I say the man who, leading in the coun cils of the Queen's Government, shall grasp this great question and end it--who shall comprehend the remedies, and shall administer them and make them law—he would do that which in future the pen of history will delight to trace. (Cheers.) He may to the very full gratify the noblest ambition of his mind, and he may build up for himself a lasting memorial in the happiness and the gratitude of a regenerated nation. (Loud cheers.) The lion. gentleman resumed his seat at 10 o'clock, having spoken for rather over an hour. The resolution was carried, and Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P., and others subsequently addressed the meeting. STVIMMING. ALLIANCE SWIMMING CLUB. At this season of the year it is somewhat a novelty to hear of a swimming handicap taking place, yet still the members of the Alliance Club gave prizes to be competed for yesterday evening, at the City of London Baths, Golden-lane. No less than twenty entered for the race, which was six lengths of the baths in the trial heats, and eight in the final. We think this a slight mistake in the arrangements of handicaps; for why make a difference in the distance of the preliminary and final heats, as it only causes an additional start to be given, tand cannot possibly be of the slightest advantage to he swimmer. The competitors were drawn in four heats, which were won as follows :—First Heat—H. Matthews, 43 seconds start, won by about three feet, H. I'. Foale, 58, second ; two others also started. Second Heat—J. Wood, 48, won by a yard and a half ; J. Smart, 50, being second. Third Ileat...V. Grant, 30, won very easily, beating D. Bed ford, 56, second. Fourth Heat—J. Clare, 50, came in first by ten yards ; H. Bedford, 35, second. Final Heat—This was won by V. Grant easily, who had nine seconds added for the extra two lengths ; Clare, 60, being second, and Wood, 56, third. Previous to deciding the final heat for the handicap Messrs. H. Parker and W. Smith swam a match of twenty lengths for a silver Leander medal. It was a close race throughout, and Smith eventually won by a few inches. H. B. Kent officiated as starter and judge. LIVERPOOL GYMNASIUM.—Upwards of 1,000 ladies, together with about 30 of the leading medical men of Liverpool, assembled at the Gymnasium on Saturday evening last for the purpose of witnessing a series of exercises gone through by a large number of the members of the ladies' classes, and illustrative of the class practice. Dr. Grimsdale presided, and at the termination of the exercises delivered an address on the importance of physi cal education for women. 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Ottespeide, and Regent-circus, Oxford-street, London. PAINLESS DENTISTRY. MESSRS. GABRIEL, DENTISTS (Established • 1815), of London 5B, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, 64, Ludgate-Hill, E.G., Liverpool 34, Duke-street, and Brighton have Itt3t published a NEW PAMPII f ;ET explaining their Pain less System of Dentistry, and self-adhesive Teeth without springs, at moDslals qwep.wbje way .be 1194 troo py pot 19r four otatom t-,#/ ~..s.=---4 - qv , i ~,„, . i I ,t Ac: + t E ADVANCi ...'l' N i io ABITSDII4. The Times correspondeup-sends a f,ranslation4i m the Amharic of Sir Robert Xaik*'s- , ptoelamatico' to the AbYssinians. The Amharic st' i yle isArioltly complex and involved, and the - conjunctions and prepositions are scattered about very grotesquely. The following is a sample " WORDS PROCLAMATION FROM Srn ROBERT NAPIER HEAD (OF) ARMY OF ENGLAND. FROM COUNTRY (OF) INDIA, To THE GovEnrrons AND CHIEFS AND TO THE CONVENTS AND HOUSES CHRISTIAN, AND TO ALL PEOPLE OF ETHIOPIA. Hear ! Tedros of Abyssinia, the Consul Cameron of England, The Envoy Balsam, with other many men witn in binding, of every country The people by laws abiding the law having violated that he is. Now—of friendship the means all them in order to free useless having become, By the Queen commanded, with an army wit:, to liberats them lam coming." &c., &c. This proclamation is dated 17th of the month Maska nam (September). Down to " Tedros," this corresp indent writes, is plain sailing enough, but after that I fear some of your readers may break down as I did, and so I subjoin a translation : " Hear ! 'Tedros, King of Abyssinia, by binding Cameron the Consul of England, and Rassam, the Envoy of Eng land, with many other men, has violated the law of every country where the people abide by laws. Now, all friendly measures tried to free them having proved useless, I am coming, commanded by the Queen, with an army to liberate them. Whoever is the friend of those prisoners, and who will help to deliver them, shall be rewarded, but whoever illtreats them shall receive severe punishment. Further, reflect in your heart, 0 people of Ethiopia, in the time of the coming of the army into your country, that the Queen of England has not a thought of anger against you, your country, your liberty, and existence. All your persons and property, all your con vent s and cliiirehe your country, shall be protected with much care. may bring provisions for sale will receive theitriiagteki inhabitants who remain quietwill not be troubled by any ono." The proclamation is said to have produced a very good effect in Tigre, the only part of the country from which there has been time enough to bear of its arrival. Scouts have, indeed, come down to this camp with reports that Kassai, a great Tigre chief, has mustered 7,000 men at the head of the Koomaylee Pass to oppose our progress, and that a convoy has already been seized. But nobody believes these reports, though proper precautions have been taken to guard against a surprise. If 7,000 men have really mustered there, it is probably out of curiosity onto make a good bargain for assisting us with forage andiood, protecting our convoys, &c. Colonel Merewether has of late been actively engages: in exploring the country about here in various directions. The chief result of his exertions is that our route up the Abyssinian plateau has been definitely decided upon. There are in this direction three mountain passes—the Aligodd Pass, leading due west to Kiagnor ; the Huddas Pass, leading in a southerly direction towards Halai ; and the Koomaylee Pass, running east of the Huddas, and almost parallel to it, towards Senafe. Of these three the last, the Koomaylee, has been chosen as by far the most practicable. It has already been made throughout easily accessible for mule carriage ; and although there is one bit which it will be very hard work to make practicable for wheeled ordnance, it is hoped that this, the only difficulty, will soon be overcome. If the worst comes to the worst, however, and the pass prove impracticable for wheeled carriages, even our heaviest ordnance can be taken up piecemeal on elephants. It is said, by the way, that our use of trained elephants will do more than almost anything else to impress the natives of Abyssinia with a sense of our superior ingenuity and civi lisation. At present they declare that the stories told them of our complete control over these animals are travellers' lies. The pass to Kiagnor is not at all likely to be used. It might be of service if the Tigreans proved troublesome ; but, so far from this, eighty-three villages on the eastern frontier, numbering about 12,000 souls, have already, on receiving Sir Robert Napier's proclamation, made friendly overtures. Colonel Merewether explored the Hucldas Pass a few days ago, and found that so much labour would be required to make it practicable that it is not, for the present at any rate, likely to be turned to account. He ascended by it right up into Abyssinia, and found there a charming climate and splendid scenery ; there was also fair promise of forage. A road has already been made by Major Baigrie from our camp to the foot of the third pass, the Koomaylee, a distance of about twelve miles, and a tramway com menced from the pier. No European troops will be allowed to remain in this camp even one night, but will be carried immediately on landing to Koomaylee, where there are good wells. Thence they will either push on up the pass to Lower Sooroo, where there is abundance of clear running water and a capital climate, or turn A to the right and halt at Udoda and Weeah. All these places have been used as depots, most of the troops already landed here—in all some 1,600 strong—having been distributed among them, and they would serve the purpose admirably but for two drawbacks—firstly, every atom of food and forage has to be carried out from Annesley Bay to them— no light task in the present state of our labour-market, the Commissariat Department having to solve a problem rather like the famous fox and geese puzzle, since where there is forage there is no water, and where there is water there is no forage ; secondly—and this, I regret to say, is a much more serious matter—a terrible epidemic has broken out among the cavalry horses, and they are dying .off rapidly. The disease is said to be a sort of inflammatory fever, in the incipient stagejvery like glanders. It has so far baffled the skill of our veterinary surgeons, but they have not yet had time to grapple with it. I hope in my next letter to have better accounts to send you. The disease, it appears, is very common in this country. At some military station near here—Massowah or Arafild, I forget now which—the Egyptians lost 120 out of 150 horses in one month. There is, however, one consolatory feature in this malady. It seems confined exclusively to the horses. I have not, at least, yet heard of one case among the baggage animals. The troops, too, are well—the officers wonderfully so, considering the hard work, both mental and physical, they have to get through in this far from :promising spot. The advance into Abyssinia is thus described in a letter dated Upper Sooroo, Dec. 2 :—" We left Mulkutto yes terday at three in the afternoon, and reached Koomaylee about six. The road, just finished by Major Baigrie, lay for the greater part of the journey over a dead level of sand, covered for the first mile or two with salt plants, and afterwards with acacias. It was hard when first made, but was soon cut up by traffic, and is now very heavy for men and horses. Bags of rice and grain, here and there strewn over it, bore witness to the carelessness of our baggage men and the honesty or apathy of the natives, who seemed, however, to have no villages or habitations very near. Once or twice we came upon some spot where a handful of deserted huts, made in the rudest fashion out of the branches of the acacia, showed where a native vil lage had stood. The framework of each hut seemed still in perfect preservation, and I am told that the proprietor can always return to it, as lie is always ready to move out of it, at a day's notice, ' packing-up '—that bugbear of civilised life—being with him a very simple process. The ride offered no fine views, the mountain ranges in front of us—we were going due west—being obscured by haze and clouds of dust. There have been fearful dust storms in the camp lately, half blinding and choking everybody, turning cups of tea into little pools of muddy water, salt into pepper, ' officers and gentlemen' into grimy, disreputable looking nondescripts whom their mothers wouldn't recog nise. Everyone was glad enough to reach Koomaylee, which is prettily situate in a hollow formed by the semi-circular sweep of a low mountain range, and in which there is no dust, and a fair supply of fresh water. It was quite a treat to be able to wash in clear, fresh water, instead of the brackish muddy stuff which at Mul kutto made the process of soaping a mere matter of form to be observed simply out of deference to tradition. This morning we were up before daybreak, but could not start the baggage before six o'clock. A finger -post, in the best British style, informed us that we were on the ' Road to Abyssinia,' and after about half a mile we reached the bed of the torrent up which the pass winds towards the mountain plateau. For the first eight miles the pass offered no difficulties, even for a wheeled carriage, which it required more than a little labour to over come. The ascent was very gradual, and there was no defile narrow enough to be troublesome. Nor was the scenery at all what I had been led to expect by tra vellers' accounts of Abyssinian passes. The acacia covered every mountain side with monotonous uniformity, no other shrub whatever being visible, until after some four miles or so we came upon occasional specimens of the salvadora, tamarisk, tamarind, and wild fig-tree ; and the mountains themselves, though often displaying great beauty of outline, had little grandeur or majesty about them. But within three or four miles of Upper Soroo, at which I am now writing, and which is sonic twelve miles distant from Koomaylee, the character of the scenery suddenly and completely changed. The pass narrowed until now and then it appeared about to be brought to an abrupt termination by huge masses of converging rock, and the mountains, instead of receding, as they had hitherto done, in graceful slopes, leant forward, seemingly overhanging their bases, their summits towering at a tremendous height immediately above the pass. At every turn of the road, which was often hidden altogether from our view at a few paces' distance, we found ourselves, as it were, _close prisoners in a fresh chain of precipitous cliffs. Huge boulders, washed down by the torrents, con stantly lay right across the path, and gave it, to my unpractised eye, the appearance of being utterly impas sable to wheeled ordnance ; but I am told that the engi neers consider there are no obstacles which cannot bcl overcome," Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., HERO'S WORK. By MRS. DUFFUS HARDY. "A powerful, interesting, and well-wrought novel."—Athe nteum. "A. Hero's Work' deserves the highest praise. It is fairly entitled to rank among the most earnest and successful novels of the season."—London Review, Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.