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~: .~ LONDON STREET REFORM SOCIETY PRESIDENT. Sir,,,WILLIAM FRASER, Bart., 11.4 P.S.A. Owthe 13th of June, 1865, it was admitted unanimously in the ; House of Commons that the c on diti on o f London,as regards Paving, Lighting, and Cleansing , was disgraceful. NG 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 kilown 'facts ; to point out defects in the law ; to enforce_ provisions at present neglected; .anal to watch Bills introduced into par liament on these subjects. ,Tho London Street • Reform Society is not pledged- to support any specific change in the Government . of the . Metropolis. Those who may wish to join the Society- are requested to write to J. S. Haly; Esq., Hon. Sec. L.S.R:S., .88, St. James's-street, S. LW. • CONTRACT FOR BEECH WEDGES. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, 14th Dec, 1866: THE COMMISSIONERS foi EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, Do hereby give NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the Bth January next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to 4reat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying Her Majesty's Dockyard at Portsmouth with Hewed Wedges of Beech, under a Contract for twelve calendar months certain, and further until the expiration of three calendar months' warning. Tho average annual consumption, together with a Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contract, may bo seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's Department, Admiralty, Somerset House. No Tender will be received after Two o'Clock on the day of Treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the Party attends, or an Agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Beech Wedges ;" and must also be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a Letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the Person tendering in the sum of £2OO for the due perfor mance of the Contract. ." By Order, ANTONIO BRAY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. CONTRACT FOR FRE.iII OX BEEF AND VEGE TABLES AT FOYNES. CONTRAMPEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY. Somerset HouSe, .97th December, 1866. TIIE 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 Tuesday, the 15th January next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will bo 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 use of her Majesty's ships and vessels at Foynes as may be demandel from the 15th January to the 30th June, 1867, 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 100 lb., and no atten tion will be paid to any offers not so made. The Contractor, in claiming payment for the supplies, is to make out his invoices in pounds at per 100th. The Contractor to reside on the spot, or to have an agent resident there. If non-resident, the name and ad dress of the agent must be inserted in the Tender. No Tender will be received unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, or to the Postmaster at Foynes, where also the conditions of the contract may be seen. No Tender will be received after 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 communicated to him and his proposed sureties in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and must also be delivered at the department of the Comptroller of Victualling, Admiralty, 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 for Fresh Ox Beef, and £lOO for the Contract for Vegetables. The Contractor to pay half the amount of the stamps on the Contracts and Bonds. By order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. GUNMAKERS and Others, The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of receiving PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for BREECILLOADING RIFLES, either repeating or not repeating, which may replace the present Service Rifles in future manufacture. The following are the conditions considered essential in military non -repeating Rifles:— A. WEIGHT. Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet. E. LENGTH. To be 51 inches, with short stock, measured from the hollow of the butt-plate to muzzle. c. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP. Must not exceed 61b. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for Service. D. CARTRIDGES . Must carry their own ignition. E. SIGHTS. The foresight must be such as to admit of a bayonet fixed according to the present system. F. STOCK. Must be su c h as to carry a light metal cleaning rod, and allow a sling to be used. a. . Must not exceed th a t of RECOIL the Enfield Rifle by more than 10 per cent. H. THE AAS A HOLE. Must be a s little liable R to M injury bylWong-continued firing, rough usage, and exposure, as the naval rifles converted to breech-loaders on the Snider system. To be as capable, also, of being used without accident by imperfectly trained men, and of being manufactured in quantities and of uni form quality. r. THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp, and exposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for Snider's converted Enfield 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 GR OOVE. Optional. Optional. 3f. THE LOCK. • N. F FIRE. Capable of firin RAPIDITY at least 12 rounds per minute, with out aiming, the cartridges being arranged on a table. O. ACCURACY WHENFIRED FROM A FIXED REST. The arm must give a mean figure of merit of not more than 36in. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500, and bin. at 300. The mean to be taken upon at least five targets of twenty shots each. P. TRA . Not to require at 500 yards JE an CTORY elevation of more than 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 Rine— viz., 12 half-inch elm planks, which have been soaked 48 hours in water. Distance 30 yards. s. LUBRICATION. Wax on bullets is indispensable, but any other lubricant may be snperadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought necessary by the competitor. No arms will be received without the usual proof marks. specifications, and drawings of the methods proposed, stating the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a flnistu3d specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu nition, should be sent to the "Director of Ordnance, War Office; Pall-mall," on or before the 30th March, 1867. Tho specifications and specimen arms will be considered • by the Ordnance Select Committee and its associate mem bers, who will be selected by the Secretary of State for War, and who will, after firi ng th e 20 preliminary roundp, 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 warrant their being included in the competition, the con ditions of which are stated in this advertisement. Each accepted competitor will then be required to furnish for experiment, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity to the specimen 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 bo paid to each of the accepted competitors, to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of the supply of ammunition required. 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 depend 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 mere 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. 11 1 : MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. Magazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will bo re ceived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech loading Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48 inches, including the stock. The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at 911 b. 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 above conditions ; and in the absence of experience does not at present define the standard of accuracy or other conditions to be fulfilled before such an arm can be adopted. Those Magazine orßepeatingArms, which are accepted for further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O each. This sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per arm. The Secreta r y o f 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. if the rifle to which the first prize is awarded is adopted into the service, it will bear the inventor's name. J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director War Offi ' of Ordnance ce, Oct. 22 1866. BOYS' at 66 and 67, OXFORD-ST. BOYS' NEW STYLE OVERCOATS. BOYS' NEW STYLE REEFERS. BOYS' KNICKERBOCKER SUITS. BOYS' OSBORNE SUITS. BOYS' HARROW SUITS. OYS' JACKETS for ALL PURPOSES. BOYS' TROUSERS and VESTS. B YS' HOSIERY and SHIRTS. BOYS' HATS, CAPS, &c., Scc. HYAM & Co.'s BOYS' WINTER CLOTHING, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. 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AVALUABLE NEW-YE A R'S GIFT.- A CHINESE CADDY, containing ]bibs. of really good Black Tea, sent carriage tree to any railway station or market town in England, Ireland, ~ c ottand. or WaleN on re ceipt of 408., by PHILLIPS and CO., Tea Merchants, 8, King William -street, City, E.C. ILEA IS CHEAPER THAN EVER.--Is. 6d , 25., 2s. 6 I. per lb. are the prices at which PHILLIPS and CO Tea Merchants, 8, Kinp, - William-street, City, Lon don, E.('., are selling good and fine BLACK Tt.A. A. price current post free. 40s worth carriage tree to any railway • t•aion or market town in the Unired Kiiigdom.=-Obstrve— PHILLirs Emil Co. have no Agents or any connexion with any house in Worcester or Swansea. ~.., u garce are supplied at market prices. L'XHIBITORS at the PARIS EXHIBITION, who ADVERTISE in "THE SUN," can have the SERVICES of A. SPECIAL AGENT in PARIS, whose address can be obtained at " The Sun" Office. 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R OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, In the Laimecliate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminals, King's-cross. Patron—Her Most Graoious Maje@ty the QUEEN. Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of W .ALE Q,K G. President—ills Grace the Duke ot BUUCLEUCU, K.G. This Hospital, founds I in the year 1828, the first to estab tish the principle of free admission to the sick po or, Without the delay and difficulty ot Governors' ordere, la wh olly de pendent for support on voluntary contribution s and acies . It affords relief to a large number of in - patients, and, i n addition to this, the average number of attendance of the lestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee ear estly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the pr nines of this Hospital are capable of containing several h.,ndred more buds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by thcir bankers, Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., Abellurch-lane; also by liessra. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Giya and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ilan.om and Co.; Prescott, Groie, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street : and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. STANFORD 8 MIT 11 BeoTet tr y, THE SUN, LONDON, Tt ; P>DA Y EYLNING, JANUAtiY 1, 1867. • STOIARE'S (MADAME) THEATRE OF mYsTERY, Et2.yptian dull, Piccadilly. " WHERE IS SUN V A new Illusion, will shortly be produced. QTODXRE Madarbe (Widow of the late Colonel Stodare). Great suecetis of W.HO'S HE? and Madame Stodare's CHRISTMAS DISTRIBUTION of PRESETS. Magic by Mr. Firbank Burman, pupill of Colonel Stodare. SPHINX, MARVEL 0l MECCA, and BASKET TRICK, as ustial.. Every Evening at Eight, Wednesday and S ttur day Morning at Three. Admissiqu-Is. and Is.; stalls, 3s. Schools and ch'hiren half-pricei Seats secured at the Box office, from 1I till 6, and at Mitchell's, 33, Old Bond-street. MR. JAMES WEAVER, Manager. T HE X F O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., THE MUSICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF LONDON. RIS T HAS ENTER VAINMENTS. LES DRAGONS DE VILL titS (Opera Comique), Music by A. Mailhrt tfirst time in this country), THIS EVENING, in which Miss RUSSELL w ill make her Reappearance, as sisted by Idia.es Barrie and Fitz Henry ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, Hulls, Fox, Hitsk, Evans, and. Bury, with Extra Band and Chorus ; produced and conducted by .Ir. F. Jonghmans. COMEDY, by Mt.ssrs. Hirry Sydney, Brierley, and Eger- ton, W. J. Adams, the Brothers Pentland, W. R. Julian (the celebrated Mimic), F. Evans, and liiss Amy Rosalind, to gether with an Entirely New Divertissement, entitled THE OXFORD REVELS, arranged and produced under the immediate superintendence of Mr. W. H. Payne, THIS EVENING. r MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER -STREET. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. NEW EDITIONS. —Life-size Portrait-Models of JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., M.P., and the late RICHARD COBDEN, Esq., M.P. 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Observe tin - Red S ai , Pink Label, and Cork branded Kinaban's LL Whisky.". a i r UTUAL LOAN- FUND ASSOCIATION LY. L (Incorporate-a by Act of Parliaralnt, MO), 4, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GAR DEN. LONDON. Prompt ADVANCES on all description of Security. Forms free on application by letter to EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. COUNTRY lIQTELS,, PUBLIC HOUSES, and BUSINESSES. FURNESS and KNEE'S List on applicatiOn. Particulars for insertion received until the 27th of the month at their AUCTION AND noTEL AGENCY OFFICES, 5, Agar-street, Strand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Cross Railway Station. - STILTON Is T R Cheese! GOOD APPETITE and Increased BODILY ENJOY:MLNT•may be insured by a gentle course of PARR'S LIFE PILLS. PARR'S LIFE PILLS dear from the Body all hurtful impurities. restore _a healthy action of the liver, bowels, and kidneys, witho. the-least pain or incon= venieuee. May had of ext J 01 -1N GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOO I'll PASTE Is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price Is. fid.—Red Bull Wharf, 0, Upper Thames-street, London. ANFIELD'S PATE NT PICKLES are per fectly pure and unc.loured. To be had of a!! dealers and wholesale of .JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps). Loudon. D UNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. " V.R." IRISH )VRISKY. TIUNVILLE and CO":8 IthSl.l WHISKY, BELkAST. London Offi:es and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 1808. Quotations on application. FAMES 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." . JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork, beo• to announce that they ere Able to supply the trade with their celebrated Whiskies, In casks or cases, and to take orders in bond :ad for exportation, at their offices, 7, Printing-house-square, London, E C.. the only house in the square not occupied by thA " Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies brine the highest prices in the Australian and ()the^ Colonial markets, as may be observed by reference to the "Journal of Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their whiskies fetch 6d. per gallon and Is. per case over the next best, and Is. 6d per gallon ana ss. 6d. a case over the lowest quotation. Always on hand a large supply of ve y old mellow whisky In the finest condition, matured in sherry casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, supplied on the most reasonable terms. GrE ()LOG Y.-ELEMENTARY COLLEC TIONS, to illustrate the New Edition of "Lyell'a Elements of neology" and facilitate the important study of Mineralogy and Geology, can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50 to 500 guineas; also single Specimens of Minerals, Rocks, Fossils, and Recent Shells, Geological Mans. Hammers. al; the recent Publeation., (to.. o , " J. TENNANT,' Mineralogist to Her Majtsty, 149, Strand. London. . Private Instruction is given in Mineralogy and Geology by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., 149, Strand. W.C. RueTuaws.—By ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. _ WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE EXHIBITIONS ot 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwatds of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative 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 bythe Moo-Main Pad and Patent Lev, r, fitting with so much ease and close ness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post. on .the oircum i erenoe of the holy, two inches below the-tips, being sent , to the manufaeturer,,' Me. WHITE. '228, - ricoadilry. , • . _ _ A Single Truss, 165., 215., 26s 6d., and 31s. 6d Postage, le. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. Bd. Postage, is. 8d An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post' office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT FLASTI C STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &o. for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains. ie. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordina r y s t oc ki ng. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 168. each. Poetry -Ye . Od. . JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Mandllly. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING SHIP. £2,000 required. WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Boys' Ref age, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing the COUNTRY 110 ME. £l,OOO required. WM. WILLIAMS, 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 L 5,000, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends have promised to pay for one boy each year. Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothburv, and 214, High Holborn; Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East ; and by WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C. Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, have boon given in this Institution to the destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches. At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c., receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each night numbers of young women, children, and orphans tre, for want accommodation, refused admittance, and have to spend ni g ht a f ter n i ght in the cold, wet, and sleet. To meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required. Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really starving ? 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 will be gratefully received by the Roy. D. GrawnT D.D., Finsbury-circus,' E.O. FAU-DE-VlE.—This Pure PALE BRANDY, 18s. per gallon, is ry superio- to recent importations 01 Cognac, recommended by the medical profession. and ex tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 38s. per dozen, or in a case 305., railway carriage paiI.—HENRY BRETT and CO.. Old Furnival's Distillery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent street, S.W. Established 1829. THE OCEAN ST. LEGER of 1866.—What Lord Lyon was to his owner was the Taeping to her Ca fain, viz., winner of the *tic?, Ii vine distanced 41 com petitors, as the AS 17 IN DIA pv.A. COMPANY have in ♦ •dab y done in their c!toi e and sale of floe new season's tans, now sellinf at Unp3rter's prizes. War houses-9, Great St. Ileletes-cburchydrd. ' SPLENDID SPECULATIONS. GRICAT SUCCESS. With a single stake of £l, you can realise £25,000! ! With a single stake of you can realise .£27,5 0!! . With a single stake of XS, you can realise £3? 000 !! With a single stake of .£lO, you can realise £45,000! For p - ospectu.es and particulars apply without delay to Mr. EUGENE TILLor, General Merchant, Guernsey. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN EIeFEUTUA L TtEMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, Is ad mitted to be the beat medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, oonfirmed cases of aathma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling sshich provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects am truly beneficial. Persona deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking' It.. Preparen on.) , and Witty W. LANol 4 .lttr.,(;lieffe,st. 8, King-William-street; , Uhitring. cross, London, and .by all druggists, in bottles, 13; d.,` an 4 three quantities in'one; 2s. MI each. Be particular. and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCIIANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First', FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pail-mall, S.W. OCTAVIUS WIG RAM, Esq., Governor. .TAMES STEWART lIODGSON, Esq., Sub-Governor. CIIARLES JOIIN MANNING, Esq., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Robert Barclay, Esq. Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. John G arratt Cattley, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Stark Currie Close, Esq. Neviie Lubbock, Esq. Edward James Daniell, Esq. Geo. P. Malcolmson, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. Thomas Dent, Esq. I Lord &isocline IV. Percy. Alexander Druce, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Charles H. t-loschen, Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. RiversdaleW. Grenfell, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq. William Wallace, I , lsq. Rob,. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLT, Esq., P.R.S. NOTICE. The usnarid t tfteen Diaji allowed for Payment of FIRM PREii lUMS falling due at CHRISTMAS will ex pire on the 9th of January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on ad vantageous terms. , The Duty on Fire Assurances has been reduced to the uni form rate of Is. lid. per cent, per annum. No charge is made by this Corporation for Fire Policy or Stamp, however small the Asiurance may be. FA RMING-STOCK.—No extra charge is made fo•• the use of Steam Thrashing Machines. The Reversionary Bonus on British LIFE POLICIES has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Any sum not exceeding- £15,000 may be insured on one Life. - This Corporation affords to - the - Assured— • Liberal participation in Profits—with the guarantee of a large ~i nvested C ap i tal Stock, and exempt i on, un d er The advantages o f mo d ern pract i ce, Royal Charter, trinn the liabilities of partnership. of an Offic e w h ose resources have been tested b y t h e ex perience of nearly a C ENTURY AND A HALF . ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. —with the security ROBT. 1). STEELE. Secretary. 11/jANSIoN-MOUSE FUND for the RELIEF of the SUFFERERS by the recent COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS. COMMITTEE. The Right Hon the LORD MAYOR. - • IL C. Tj. Bevan, Esq. M r. Ald erman an d Sheri Samuel Morley, Esq. Waterlow. Geo. Moore, Esq. Mr. Sheriff Lycett. Mr. Alderman Finnis. Mr. Alderman Besley. J. P. Gassiot, Esq. Mr. Alderman Dakiu. Christopher T. Gabriel, Esq. James Hill, Esq. Frederick Thompson, E. R. N. Fowler, Esq. R. A. Gray, Esq. W.J. Maxwell, Esq. Colonel Stuart Wortley. Mr. Alderman Cotton. The attention of the public is earnestly drawn to the suffering consequent on the terrible calamity produced by the recent colliery explosions. SUBSCRIPTIONS are greatly needed to relieve the numerous familieh Made destitute thereby. C _ The amount required to meet the memorable Hartley Colliery Accident_ in 1862 was £50,000 ; in that case 204 men and b o y s lesttheir live s -; in the present instance double that number are.known to have perished, there fore to make- a su i table provision for the families depen dent upon them about £lOO,OOO w ill be need e d. At th e final distributi on of the surplus of the Hartley Fund, £ 3 ,1 40 -waiallotted to the districts in which the present accidents occurred, and. this sum is now available towards the fund now being raised. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales • • £lOO H.R.H. the Princess of Wales The Corporation of London Amount already advertised £12,774 5 2 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., &trend ; 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, Coruhill ; the Lon don and Westminster Bank, Lothbury; the London Joint- Stock Bank, 5, Princes-stre e t ; the Union Bank of London ; London and County Bank ; the National Provincial Bank of England and all their branches; Messre.Willis, Percival, and Co., Lombard-street; and by th e several members of the Committee. JOSEPH GIBBS, Secretary. Mansion House, Dec. 29, 1866. PRINTING. —TO PROPR IETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, itc.—The Print ing and Machining of Newspaper s , &C., done ou exceed ingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager "Sun" Printing Offices, 8, Church row, Savoy, Strand, W.O. WHAT IS YOUR CREST AND WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO ? Send 3s. 6d. to CULLETON'S Heraldic Office for a Plain Sketch, or Gs. for a Coloured one. The Arms of man and wife blended together in proper heraldic form. The proper heraldic Colours for servants' liver;es, what buttons to be used, and how the carriage should be painted, fee 10s. Just complete, a very valuable book, with 3,500 Engraving; arms, crests, and mottoes of nearly every family in the kingdom, the result of thirty years' labour, price £lO 10s., prir.ted in several colours. Family Pedi grees traced from authentic records, information as to the obtaining of a new grant of arms, how to change one's name, by T. Culleton, Engraver to her Majesty and Royal family; also Diesinker to the Board of Trade, 25, Oran bourn-street (corner of St. Martin's-lane), W.C. The Lyons and Mediterranean Railway have drawn up an official account of the accident which I mentioned. It appears from this statement that the number of killed was 14, and not 12, as was first supposed. Five were Baden soldiers, and the rest commercial travellers and persons employed on the Railway. The Siecle, alluding to the advice given to the Emperor Maximilian, by the. French General, to abdicate, treats that result as almost an accomplished fact, there being now only a " few formalities" to fulfil. " Whether 'he should abdicate in favour of young Iturbide," says the Siecle, " or depart purely and simply, the abdication must take place." _Review of the iron Warket. (Prom the Circular of Jfemrs. G. B. Toms and Co., chit,' Lonckm, Jan. 1.) Since our circular of the 15th September last, the course of prices for British malleable iron has tended so continuously downwards, from the extreme slack ness of demand, that it has appeared useless to con tinue ring4crely verbal changes upon the same series of Cully discouraging facts. Railway bars have now fallen to a point in South Wales that has not been touched since 1861, when the civil war in America broke out, which, by sud denly arresting large shipments, paralysed our ex port iron trade for a time ; Welsh 'Manufactured iron therefore being at present cheaper in situ, than any other in the world (not excepting Belgian), such orders as may come upon the market will na turally flow to the Principality for execution, pro vided nothing under the heact of fiscal regulations, place of delivery, specification, or payment, tends to create a preference for, or give advantage to, other sources of supply. Whenever the cup shall overflow in Wales, and orders there become plenti ful enough to enable makers to get better prices, Cleveland will again obtain a share of busi ness to employ its too numerous mills, forges, and furnaCes; but not till then. On the Thames in activity 'pervades the engineering establishments and shipbuilding- yards; while the 'artificers have fitlien,frora high prospeeity, , into • Atter deatitutioni It was expected that the large Soane bridge, for the East India Railway Company, would have been constructed here, but the tenders from Yorkshire and the Tyne carried the day. Contracts for all kinds of iron work are now very hotly con tested, and the ironmasters themselves are entering the arena. Orders for iron steamers can be placed with builders on our river upon much easier terms than for some time past, owing to the reduced cost of material and labour ; and the Government is wisely availing itself of pre sent circumstances to increase the British navy at Chatham Dockyard. As to prospects, let us not forget that " if speech be silvan, silence is golden." Russia is purchasing rails in our markets ; America halts till duties are settled ; India will become yearly a larger and better customer ; Italy buys of those who will grant credit ; Canada's consumption, is good, healthy, and profitable ; and the whole world, in our era, must have iron, in spite of all the disas ters and disgraces in commercial practice which the past year has disclosed, and the personal wrecks it has left behind. The situation of the iron trade, however, at this conjuncture is unique, and its sufferings are directly traceable to au enormous over-extension of works, chiefly on the Tees ; to the payment of wages on a scale exceeding by one third what the sale price of finished iron has justi fied; and to the sudden collapse of the demand for •shipbuilding.as well as railway construction, occa sioned by the frightful events in the English money market last summer. The ancillary causes of the present state of things have doubtless been the con stant strikes of the workpeople, and the state of perpetual menace and alarm in which einployers have consequently been kept by them and their unions, led by brawling and unprincipled dema gogue=, themselves living upon the ignorance and infatuation which prevail, while effecting those arti ficial combinations for maintaining wages which have well-nigh ruined the productive industry of Great Britain. Notwithstanding recent complaints of mischief having arisen from foreign competition— complaints which sound like the whining agricultural cries that preceded the repeal of the corn laws—our actual imports during the past year of finished mer chant bars, rails, and plates from France have been in significant, from Belgium inconsiderable ; but foreign ironmasters have, it is true, obtained certain large engine and rail orders for lines on the continent, for which orders we competed in vain, some special cir cumstances having given them the advantage ; we have, however, been left undisputed furnishers of those large quantities of rails used in the East Indies ; and in the American market English rails have been sold on a very much heavier scale than those of Belgian manufacture. It ought also to be stated that in a competition last month for 10,000 tons of Dutch State-Railway rails, Welsh and Middlesborough houses were successful in securing contracts, in spire of the circumstance that proximity of delivery was so favourable to the Belgian works; there is no reason therefore to sit down in despon dency and declare the game up, for all time, with the British ironmaster, but every ground exists for confidence in the future, provided only that he diminishes the cost of production, so as to enable him to meet present market prices without loss. For rails of high quality, such, for instance, as the Brighton or East Indian Railways would lay down, we have nothing to fear at present from Belgium, because the tests employed are declared insupport able at the foreign works, and it is only in common iron that their prices even approach those of Wales. They have not secured the 40,000 tons of rails for Russia, as stated. Another point which deserves attention when discussing the continental iron trade is the heavy shipments of Cleveland and Scotch pig iron which have gone ..into consumption lately in Belgium and France, from which it must be inferred that those countries possess no superiority whatever over the United Kingdom in smelting the ores of iron, or they would not be importing forge pigs from us. On the other hand, it would equally appear some advantage must lie in the cheaper labour which foreigners can command for the subsequent mani pulatory processes by which malleable iron is pro duced. In other words, we have paid a great deal too much money to our puddlers, millmen, and forge men, as indeed was strikingly proved and brought out by the facts published at Middlesborough during the late stubborn and senseless struggle of the iron workers to support a false and extravagant rate of remuneration, far beyond what many educated gentlemen either receive or expect in professional and mercantile life. All this will, no doubt, be remedied in future, if the men shall emancipate themselves from the tyranny of those organised conspiracies called " Unions," and begin to discover that they must themselves sink or swim along with the ironmasters, because both are in the same boat, and the natural relations between capital and labour, and supply and demand, cannot be divorced with impunity by either party. The growth of metal lurgical industry abroad during the past twenty years has not, however, escaped observation any where out of Staffordshire ; nor have its evidences, at the Exhibitions of London and Paris, passed without recognition and comment by the trade in general on various other occasions. Every annual visit to the continent has confirmed the impression that our national supremacy in the applications of iron may not last for ever, because skill and genius have been more widely distributed than our insular conceit has liked to admit, but in the production of the raw material nature has so richly dowered Great Britain that we have never thought our trade therein pregnable, and it is as certain as it is satis factory to note that British exports of iron during the past year have still exceeded those of every other nation on the globe. The abundance of money with which the new year opens, coupled with a re suscitation of credit, may, as we have seen hereto fore, re-awaken enterprise, and cause business again to brighten in an article whose range of fluctuation is nearly cent. per cent., but which, all things, con sidered, was, we suppose, never affording a less re munerative return for the capital employed in its production than at this present moment, while its sister mineral product, coal, is yielding handsomer profits than at any former period. The Hanoverian postal authorities have received orders to put on the Prussian uniform from the Ist of January. The average cost of a Prussian soldier, including the pay of - officers, &c., is estimated at 200 thalers (£3O) a year ; of a French soldier, 1,000 francs (£4O) a year. 1.:0 a . -- ...... ; i! ) . AUS I'EALIA AND.TTE W LZEA.L/11. We are indebted for the following intelligenctt to an "extra" of the Panama Star aarl pub liAed on the 7th of December :-- " The Peninsula and New Zealand and Austra lian Royal Mail Company's steamship Ruahine, Captain Beale, arrived in the harbour on the Gth inst., after the closing of the regular mails for Europe. " Sydney, Nov. 1, 3 p.m.—The Royal Mail steamer Rualii rived here on the 10th ult., but her advices w ticipated by those via the Torres Straits mail, h arrived two days previously, and the Peninsula id. Oriental Company's mail, which arrived at A -on the same morning. " The Peninsula and New Zealand Company's last new steamer Mataura arrived at Melbourne on Sunday last, after a passage of over 70 days from Plymouth ; defects iu machinery caused the delay. She will be repaired here and leave with the mails on the Ist proximo. " The Victoria Government has'recently shown a disposition to enter into arrangements with that of New south Wales for payment of a portion of the Panama mail subsidy. If they do so the line may be looked upon as likely to be carried on for some years, unless the company fails ,to carry out the contract. They have despatched the Prince Alfred to Panama with a cargo of coals, and to be used as apare boat' should occasiorcnriiid '-" "The Royal Mail steamer Ruahine leaves in : a few minutes, and takes a fair number of passengers, but no specie. The latter is attributable to the fact that the banks here have reduced exchange on England to 13- per cent. premium. In Melbourne they are drawing on London at 3- per cent. premium. Ever since the departure of the last mail via Panama, per Kaikoura, commercial affairs have been in an unsatisfactory position. Several large houses have succumbed to the pressure and and brought down a number of smaller ones. The aggregate liabilities of those who have sus pended payment amounts in round numbers to about half a million sterling. The greater portion of this sum as represented by the estates of Messrs. L. E. Threlk.eld and Co., and Messrs. Wilkinson Brothers, an American house doing business chiefly with Bos ton, Valparaiso, and California. These .two firms are almost the only ones that were engaged in foreign trade; the debts owing by the others are nearly all local. The feeling at present is that we have seen the worst of it ; and although the losses incurred by many of our commercial houses have been very large, there does not appear to be any probability of any old established firms being ob liged to suspend payment. The crisis through which we have passed was unusually severe, and it speaks well for our commercial stability that so trying a test has not been attended by any worse results. No fresh failures have occurred since the departure of the last overland mail. It is only reasonable to expect that the circumstances just referred to would depress business and weaken confidence. They have done so. Merchants have declined to force their goods on the market at ruinous prices, and consequently stocks of all kinds are accumulating, and must do so until shipments hence are checked. The prospects of an unusually good harvest, now almost ready, and the fact that unless something very extraordinary occurs we shall have sufficient grain in the colonies for the year's consumption, give a cheering aspect to the future. The amount of hard cash which has gone out of the Australian colonies for breadstuffs during the past three sea sons cannot have been less than a million and a half sterling. Under more favourable circumstances the whole of this money would have passed into the hands of our farmers, without the expenditure of any more capital than they lost in efforts which drought, blight, rust, and floodsrendere 1 useless. It is cal liilated that South Australia - alone will this season have a surplus of over 100,000 tons of breadstuffs, and the crops of our own colony will be much larger than was anticipated a month ago. "NEW SOUTH WALES.—After a fierce struggle, the Legislative Assembly has passed through all its stages a bill making education more unsectarian, and extending the public school system into thinly populated districts. The Bank of New South Wales has declared a dividend of 9 per cent. for the past half-year ; the New South Assurance Company a dividend of 5 per cent. for same period; the Sydney Insurance a similar divi dend. The Sussex-street mystery has been cleared up. The police have arrested the murderer, and the limbs and other missing portions of the remains have been found in a water-closet. The victim was a woman named Scott. The murderer, a butcher named William Henry Scott, was her husband. He recently married another wife in Melbourne, hence the incentive to one of the foulest deeds ever perpetrated in Australia. The Tenter field bank robbers have all been convicted. The ringleader, a German, got ten years OR the roads. Great preparations have been made for the ade quate representation of the industry of the colony at the world's fair at Paris. A large quantity of the exhibits have been shipped to London per Nine veh. 111adame Jaffa, the piauistc, has sailed for California, per Golden Sunset. The report of Dan Setchell, the American comedian, having arrived safely is unfounded ; no tidings have ever been re ceived of the ship in which he sailed. Large num bers of unemployed men have solicited the Ame rican Consul for free passage to America. Over 2,000 are now in this city seeking work. The 50th Regiment has arrived here. Her Majesty's ships Curacoa and Eclipse have sailed for England. " VICTORIA.--The Intercolonial Exhibition, pre paratory to that of Paris, was opened with great pomp on the 25th ult., by his Excellency Governor Manners Sutton, who is becoming very popular. Bourke, the bushranger, who was chased out of New South Wales by the police, reappeared near Melbourne and commenced his outrages. He visited a farmhouse near Melbourne, and attempted to shoot the son of a settler named Hurst, who at once fired, but missed, and was sh)t dead by Bourke. The latter was at once secured and committed for trial for murder. The ship Result, belonging to Messrs. Phillips, Shaw, and Maxton, of London, has been destroyed by fire at Sandridge, while load- ing for England. About 500 tons of cargo were consumed. The goldfields continue very prosperous. Trade dull ; failures numerous. Flour selling at £lO to £l2 ; wheat, 4s. 31 to 53. Parliament is further prorogued to February next. The bulk of the new wool clip has been shipped, or is now going on board, and will reach England in time fur the February sales. The Melbourne Cup will be run for to-day, value about £l,OOO. Twenty-four horses will start. " ADELAIDE.—The Government has decided upon abandoning the new settlement at Cape York. Al‘Kinlay, the explorer, reports that the whole affair has been badly managed. A resolution has passed Parliament urging reciprocity between the c )lonies in all colonial manufactures. llarvest prospects splendid. The crop promises to be the largest for years. Emigration from England at Government expense has been stopped. " QuEENsLAND.--The new taxes are found very oppressive, and large numbers of newly arrived im migrants are leaving the colony. Parliament has been prorogued. New diggings have been discov ered near Bowen. The Crocodile mines are yield ing largely. Numerous incendiary fires recently occurred in and about Brisbane. A large reward has been offered for the perpetrators. A terrific hailstorm passed over Brisbane on list Friday night. The Ipswich coach was upset and one passenger killed ; a boat on the river swamped and drowned one man. Great destruction to house property. A subterranean telegraph wire now gives instant communication between the Bourse and the Grand Hotei on the Boulevards, so that the residents may have quick knowledge of the price of the funds and of any news officially posted up. , . • • , ; ,4,4.• ; • ' ~`;3 %'tom` <l~_ -rte_ • " 44 , . *.".. A : AV 4,4 ' _ • ' Extraordinary Death from Poison. Yesterday morning Win- , Htfinphreys , resnmea an inquiry, at the Green Gate:Du/ern, ..;ity-road,.re specting the death, under verge .singular. circum—, stances, of Henry Poplar, wed 55 years. The . de- , ceased had been for several "yelifs an inmate of, St., Luke's workhouse. He expirsSl on the bth , tilt: For a short time previous to his d?ath he had been under' the care of Mr. Ilarris, the medical officer of the workhouse, for pains in the region of the bladder. After the deceased's death Mr. Harris gave Li certi ficate to the effect that the deceased had died from disease of the kidneys, the result of natural causes. The deceased's brother hail iiiisgiviwYs about the cause of his relative's death, and he communicated - with the coroner for the district, Mr. Humphreys, who ordered an inquest to be held. A witness deposed that on the day of the deceased's death he found him dead in the water-closet at the work house. Dr. James Edwards said that in conse quence of having received directions from the coroner f iffr had made a post-mortem examination of de ceased's body. As he could discover no natural cause for the deceased's death, he sent the stomach and intestines to Dr. Letheby for analysis. 'Witness believed from the first that the deceased had died from the effects of prussic acid. Dr. Henry Letheby's report of the analysis of the stomach and intestines of the deceased was read to the court. It stated the heart was quite healthy. The kidneys were large and much congested. - The stomach was Of a deep violet colour, and it.con tained 3oz. of- an alkaline liquid of a deep colour, bearing the odour. of prussic add.' The mucous - coat of the stomach was much inflamed;-and- was of - a violet colour from the action of poison. 'On analy sis he found that it contained nearly thrbe grains of prussic acid, and about 10 grains of carbonate of potash. There was no doubt, therefore, that the i dea - fir - was occasioned by cyanide of potassium, of which about 12 grains remained in the stomach. There was no other poison present. Dr. C. 11. Harris, the medical officer at the workhouse, said that the deceased had been ill since the 4th of No vember. Witness ordered him to the sick ward of the workhouse. He was therefore granted permis sion to go and see a doctor. He had during the course of his illness been under care of three doctors at three hospitals. Witness had made inquiries since the deceased's death, and he had been informed that in none of those doctors' prescriptions had any medicine containing prussic acid been prescribed. The deceased had permission to leave the work house two days every week to see an hospital doc tor, as he preferred their treatment. The jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict " That deceased died from the effects of having taken cyanide of potassium,but under what circumstances it was swallowed there was no evidence to prove." Were the Directors of Overeni, GurnPy, and Co. to Blame ? The Tim's, after some shifting, has entered the field as the apologists of the directors of Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited). In the City Article of Wednesday an attempt is made to show that the business was not insolvent at the time it was formed into a Limited Liability Company. We believe the motives of the City Editor to be good. lie knows that at the root of the unequalled depression which has lasted for so many months is the want of belief on the part of the public in the honesty of those who have directed the affairs of their Joint-Stock Companies. The most prominent and notorious scandal was that of this celebrated Discount House. If he can prove that the directors were not to blame in this affair, the directors of no others need de spair of showing themselves as innocent as lambs being led to the slaughter. We fear, how ever, that the attempt will not do ; and that no amount of writing will wipe out the stain. The liabilities taken over were £4,109,000, and the assets handed in by the old firm amounted to £4,887,000, leaving a surplus of £688,000. Among these assets is the sum of £500,000 for goodwill. This the Limited Company paid. The company also paid £1,000,000, together with a large portion of another million, being the proceeds of the call of £lO, which, when fully paid, will realise a million. Yet there are not sufficient funds in the hands of the liquidators seven months and a-half after the failure to pay more than ss. in the pound. The partners of the old firm could not, unaided, have carried on their business. This they saw and knew even in a time of unparalleled buoyancy. They had either to stop or take the course they did. That course would not have been available had they honestly told the truth. None of their shareholders were aware that the private estates of the partners, the balance due to them in the books of the old firm, and the goodwill, were all thrown in to make up an acknowledged defi ciency in the assets to cover the liabilities. Had they known this they would have been aware of the insolvency of the old house. It is argued that the principal losers consisted of relations, connections, and faithful friends of the old firm— that one of the most active directors not only sub scribed for 700 shares and held them to the last, but was at the moment of stoppage also a depositor to the extent of £3o,ooo—and that one of the managing directors made, a few weeks before the final crash, an investment in the shares of the con cern of money he could ill spare. No doubt all this is true. It was the " relatives, connections, " and faithful friends," who were directly interested in staving off the insolvency, and in making a vigorous attempt to tide the concern over its diffi culties. Those who saw their own ruin in the ruin of the house might fairly be expected to play a deep game to avert that ruin. It was well known that the GURNEYS used every possible means to support the shares on the Stock Exchange against the full force of the run by the speculators previous to the failure. They induced their friends to aid them ; nor did they stop there—as many an unfor tunate knows to his cost. 'flue Directors announced a meeting when a dividend was to be declared, a few weeks before the company failed with such disastrous ruin to all concerned. Here was another gross deception. But it may be proved that the directors saw their way to a dividend, and were justified in making this declaration. Nothing could more tend to strengthen confidence than the free purchase of shares by the directors, and no doubt not one, but many, endeavoured thus to frighten the " bears" from their prey. This, together with the bold proposal of a dividend, were the only steps open to those who at all hazards were bent on sup porting the company, and were utterly regardless of the means by which this end was to be accom plished. It is alleged that the company was formed upon misrepresentation, amounting almost to fraud, and that the last act of the directors was in keeping with the first—viz., a shameful attempt to deceive the public. Mr. J. H. GURNEY affirms that the prospectus was intended to give —and, to the best of his belief, does give—the honest opinion of the directors as to the probable results of taking over the business. Now we have some knowledge of what the results have been. Had the directors, or even the old partners, anticipated this result they would not have formed the limited company. The firm would have failed, the shock would have been severe, and the ruin awful. 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