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Third series, for 1870, ready in November, price 4d, C. H. CLARKE, 13, PAT ERNOSTER ROW And all Booksellers and /A , ewsmen. THE NEW POEM BY MIL GIBBS. NOTICE! HAROLD ERLE : A. BIOGRAPHY. By W. A. GIBBS, author of "The Story of a Life." Will be published on ➢Monday, January 2, and can be then had of all Booksellers and Librarians in the United Kingdom. •- London : E. Diloxon, Son, and Co., 44, Dover-street. Now Published, A WINTER JOURNEY TO ROME AND BACK, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE OPENING OF THE . CECUMENICAL COUNCIL, AND GLANCES AT MILAN, FLORENCE, NAPLES, POMPEII, AND VENICE. BY WILLIAM EVILL. STANFORD, Charing Cross. Price 4s. 6d " Mr. W. Evil has written a lively and agreeable account of A Winter Journey to Rome.' His descriptions of scenery in the Alps and of the Italian cities are exceedingly graphic, shewing much sympathy with nature, and a refined intelligence, Though the style of the book is somewh'at sketchy, it is thoroughly readable, especially in the passages referring to the Council, which have in some degree the value of contemporary history."— Daily Telegraph. "Those who have followed the well-known route, and visited the spots described by Mr. Evill, are scarcely likely to add much to their fund of information by reading his lively sketches ; yet we are far from saying that the publication is superfluous. To gain knowledge is not the only object which induces a man or woman to take ap a new volume ; and if Mr. Evill does not add distinctly to our stock, he has the art—a rare one—of placing familiar scenes in a fresh and agreeable light. . . . . The book has the merit of being thoroughly readable."—Pall Mall Gazette. " Having read the book through from cover to cover—of itself an eulogium from any reviewer—we could certainly not spare Mr. Evill's always animated, often graphic, and more than once or twice really eloquent descriptions, any more than we could spare his account of the wonderful pageantry of the Papal func tions in Rome, and of the marvellous masterpieces In sculpture and painting scattered among the Palaces and Basilicas. . . . As a graphic delineator of the superb scenery and the renowned cities through which he made this winter journey, he has acquitted himself admirably well."—Sun. " The author has evidently a feeling for the beautiful and the picturesque, and describes what he saw in forcible and some times eloquent language. .. . Notwithstanding his well worn subject, Mr. Evil has produced an agreeable little volume, which may not unprofitably detain the reader."—Daily News. "There is no pretension whatever about the book of travels, and though it relates very little of what is new, it tells of nothing that is uninteresting, vapid, or dull. To the truthfulness of its descriptions of places and works of art we can thoroughly testify, and assure our readers that such of them as are meditating an Italian tour could not possibly do better than furnish themselves with a oopy."—Bell's Weekly Menenger. " Mr. Evill's visit to Rome was opportunely timed to enable him to witness the great gathering of prelates in attendance at the opening of the (Ecumenical Council ; his journey was accomplished with great rapidity, but his hasty en route sketches are lively and amusing."—Record. " In this pleasant little book we have an abundance of inter esting matter, such as a professed bookmaker might extend into the compass of two goodly volumes ln the very first page we are satisfied with the book, .and are engrossed with its contents We recommend the entire little volume as well to readers as to intending tourists in search of continental information."—News of the World. - - " The ground was all new to Mr. Evill, and, in spite of the season of the year, he saw it under peculiarly favourable cir cumstances. He has an eye quick to see, and a pen that enables him to tell right pleasantly, and not a little vividly, what he has seen. . . . . Mr. Evill was fortunate enough, in company with his friend, Mr. Charles Kent, the poet, to see the pro cession in St. Peter's, on the opening day of the Vatican Council. His description of it is very graphic."—Western Morning News. " Italy has been described to the reading world again and again, and, therefore, the charm of Mr. Evill's book is not the charm of novelty, but it has a charm. There is a fresh, inge nuous manner, that appeals to the reader. The author records his impressions and describes minutely the beauty of the Italian scenery without a thought of the travellers who have gone before. Some passages, descriptive, are really excellent. The exterior and interior of Milan cathedral are put before us in glowing terms, and the long ceremonies •of the opening of the (Ecumenical Council are forcibly described. His description of Venice is excellent. Mr. Evill's word-painting is far above the average of such descriptions. We are sure that readers, after a perusal of this book, will have a vivid impression of the scenery described, and be grateful to Mr. Evill for his pleasant recollec tions."—Lloyd's Weekly News. "Accuracy of description will cause this little book to be read, and probably enjoyed, by those Englishmen and English women whom necessity keeps at home year after year . . . The profits are to be given to a charity, and we heartily wish it every success, and think that many untravelled Englishmen will find something to interest them in Mr. Evill's " Winter Journey to Rome."—The Examiner. " This little volume, containing, together with careful descrip tions of places and cities, an account of the opening of the (Ecumenical Council, it is worthy of notice, is dedicated, not in irony or without permission, but in friendship and with full authority, by a Protestant to a Roman Catholic. 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CruramAN--General Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., F.R.S. The Rev. A. Alston, D.D. R. M. Carter, Esq., M.P. E. Hamilton Anson, Esq. Edmund Heeley, A. R. Bristow, Esq. Reginald Read, Esq., M.D. This Society are now ISSUIN COMPLETE LIFE POLICIES. The peculiar features of these Policies are as follow :- 1. The Payments Cease after Ten or Twenty Years. 2. The Policy is not forfeited by the non-payment of renewal premium during the ten or twenty years. 3. The Assurer is entitled for each yearly payment lie has made to a paid-up Policy for one-tenth or one-twentieth of the sum Assured. HENRY B. PARMINTER, Manager. To Officers in the Army and Navy, • r ELEGRAPHY.—Private Tuition in the higher _IL branches of Private Telegraphy at the Electric Telegraph Schools of Instruction, 166, City-road, B.C. For terms and opinions of the press apply to T. EVANS LUNDY, Secretary. IIFEBOAT SERVICES. —Daring the Storms of —1 the past eleven months the National Lifeboat Institution has contributed to, the saving of 918 lives from various ship wrecks and 24 vessels from destruction. It has also expended £23,287 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting £2,023 for rewards. The Institution has now 223 Lifeboat Stations under its management. Contributions are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by the London and Country bankers, and by the Secre tary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. CHARACTERISTICS OF TIIE CANADIAN. The popular English idea of the Canadians pictures them—so far as it pictures them at all—as being pretty thoroughly Americanised. Of the richer classes in Canada this idea is hardly a true one. Coming direct from England amongst them you may he struck by their un likeness to their fellow-subjects at home; but, returning into Canada after any stay-in the States, you are so forcibly struck by the resemblance of the Cana dians to our own people that you almost feel as if you had got home again. In look, and in many points of manner and address, in accent and in costume, the men now seem to you nearly English. All our writers upon Canada have noticed the fresh, ruddy English com plexions, the fair round English proportions (~f body, as distinguishing marks of the British parts of the continent ; and a recent French writer has said about Canada, " Il y aici dana les figures une bonne humeur que vous chercheriez en vain sur la face osseuse et maussade des Yankees." The people of the States also claim that a can tell a Canadian at a glance from one of themselves ; and it is certainly not rare for an Englishman travelling among them, who has been found out at once to be a stranger, but has not as yet been thoroughly investigated, to be asked, in the first place, whether he is English or Canadian ; as if this were one of the points - about him not to be made out with certainty by simple inspection. In the ladies, perhaps, a greater di vergence from the. English type strikes the eye, than in the men. Among the former the free naturalness in manner, as well as the graceful luxury in dress, of their neighbours in the States, tend not strangely, and perhaps not unfortunately, to make more and more way. But the ladies of Canada would be much more shocked, even than the men, at being thought " un-English." It has hitherto been a matter of study among all Canadians—except, as it may be, the very poorest class—to save their English nationality intact. With respect to this, a change is said to be now taking place. In a conversation recently held with an Upper Canadian, about the probable future annexation of British America to the States, when it was remarked to him that, whatever might be the advantages, there certainly was a drawback in the dissimilar character of the Canadian people, " You are a separate nationality and more like Englishmen than like Americans," "Like Englishmen !" he answered ; " why we are Englishmen. Why we have hardly any Yankee blood in us. But we are getting to be less English. I remember very well when any departure from what was English was scouted and resented by all of us, however trifling the matter in which it had shewn itself. I remember when, if a Canadian was seen with anything noticeably American in his dress, or borrow ed American phrases in his talk, his friends would reproach him with it at once. But we have changed all that now. We don't so much care about being like the Englishman, and we have no such great horror of being like the Yankee."—" Sketches from America," by John Whyte. YOUNG LADIES AS THEY ARE. If we say that we rather like the frivolity of Rosebud and her sisters, we shall of course be reckoned among the opponents of the " intellectual development " of women, and shall be charged with desiring to keep women igno rant, in order that they may remain content in slavery. But the jealousy of educated women which is sometimes ascribed to educated men is, we believe, imaginary. Let women enter trades and professions freely, but let them not expect, after they have done so, that they can compete for men's affection with our Rosebud, if she could only be better educated and leave off reading gorgeous descriptions of Lady Alicia's boudoir and the ball-room at the French Embassy. Of course it is open to a woman to say that she does not care for marriage ;but if she does she might bewarned that adoctor of law or physic might find a dangerous rival even in an unimproved, unsophisticated Rosebud, who with an imperfectly developed intellect hangs with breathless interest over the stories, and is actually capable of ad miring the poetry of the Ybung Ladies' Journal. We are happy to observe that the editor of this publication gives no countenance to the modern doctrine that marriage may or may not be desirable for women. Indeed, we should like to see how the editor would answer a correspondent who might have the temerity to propound this doctrine. The editor's views as to the expediency of marriage for men are very decidedly expressed in a passage which describes the borne of " the forlorn single man," who drowns for a while his cares in "'the intoxicating bowl," then rushes to the gambling saloon, and ends his selfish career a mise rable drunkard. We are sure that any unmarried man who reads this description of the fate which awaits h nd im will dtermine to gather a Rosebud while . he may, a here s e a garden full of them. —Saturday Baum A LEXANDRA ORPHANAGE for INFANTS Hornsey-rise, near Highgate, N. Children eligible from any .part of the Kingdom. Under the immediate patronage of Their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE and PRINCESS of WALES, and the CROWN PRINCESS of PRUSSIA. A MEETING of Governors was held on THURSDAY, November 17, 1870, at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, for the ELECTION of TEN INFANTS, Two of whom to be retained until sixteen years of age. ROBERT JONES, Esq., Sheriff of London and Middlesex, in the Chair. At the close of the Ballot the following were declared to be SUCCESSFUL : REACTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL SIXTEEN I EARS OF AGE. 1. Scarlett, Alice Maud.... 635 12. BlOom, Louisa .. ..... 611 ELECTED 'I 0 CONTINUE UNTIL NINE YEARS OF AGE. 3. Richards, Henry William 648 7. Stevens, Elizabeth .... 452 4. Leigh, Charles Edward.. 576 8. Mather, Selina Agnes.. 439 5. Eyles, Alfred Henry .. 490 9. Bennett, Louisa Mary.. 431 6. Childs, Alice Rebecca .. 458 10. Curtis, Elizabeth Maud 429 A vote of thanks to the Chairman and to the Scrutineers terminated the proceedings One of the sufferers by a late railway accident was rushing wildly about, when some one asked if he was hurt. r '" No," he said, "but I can't find my umbrella." GREAT SNOWSTORM IN YORKSHIRE.—During the greater part of Sunday and Monday snow fell con tinuously across the two ridings, and on some of the moors it is reported two feet deep on the level. The night was tolerably still, and drifting is not great, therefore the railway traffic got through, except in some of the moor places on the mineral lines. Great numbers of people were on the Castle Howard and Wellman Lakes, on ice rough from snow. Some accidents occurred, including one to a lady. A member of a yeomanry cavalry regiment was' asked if he had ever been called out on active duty. To which be replied, "I'm 'appy to say, sir, never but once ; and then I got enough to last me some time. The pitmen was a rioting in the Black Country, and we was called out. It was ;the edge of night ; but the sky wasn't lighted up as usual, because most of the fires were out, the men being on strike. Well, we had to be ready to jump into the saddle at the • word of command. There were our 'osses, and there were "4„,,,EAMN'S HOSPITAIIA (late Dreadnought).— we a standing by our 'osses"eads. This w ent on for two j Notice is hereby given, th a t this HOSPITAL is now RE- mortal hours • when up rides the colonel , a nd m y heart LOVED to the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital , Green - went up into 'my mouth in a minute. 'My lads, says the 'rich, where any seaman, needing medical or surgical care, will be admitted on personal application, as heretofore, without re-n colonel, 'we aint wanted, and you may all go home troduction or recommendation. The Society's offices are . again.' So home we went, and precious glad he was, I moved from the City to the same building. can assure you, sir. That was the only time I was ever KBALBALL COOK, He and Secretary. on active duty, sir, and I hope it'll be the last." JOSEPH SOUL, Hon. Secretary, 73, Cheapside. _ _ _ , URGENT APPEAL—The Committee very earnestly appeal for Contributions in aid of the BUILDING FUND especially, as well as for the general purposes of the Charity, which has no funded property, but depends wholly upon voluntary support. No salaries are paid but to the household. The Orphange is open to visitors. THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. The Glasgow Daily Mail publishes the following special telegram from a correspondent with the eclipse expedi tion : " Catania, December 23, 1870. " The Sicilian eclipse expedition was attended with but partial success, owing to the bad weather. "No observations were possible at Catania, where Lockyer was, or at Etna, where Roscoe had made his preparations. "At Syracuse and Porte Auguste the observers were more fortunate. The American observations of the ex istence of a green line in the spectrum of the corona, if confirmed, indicate, probably, a new element. Watson, the American, saw the corona to perfection, and some beautiful sketches were obtained. The photographs were good ; chemical observations moderately good." THE MONT CENIS TUNNEL. As this marvellous feat of engineering enterprise is now completed, the following interesting account of it by Professor Ansted, which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for November, will be read with interest " The great tunnel through the Alps passes under the Mont Frejus, about 16 miles west of the Mont Cenis and the pass known by that name. It is therefore very in correctly termed the Mont Cenis Tunnel. It cuts through the watershed of the Rhone and the I'o, which in this part of the Alps is a crest varying from 7,000 feet to 10,000 feet above the sea. Mont Tabor, the highest part of this crest, is a few miles to the west of the tunnel, and is 10,430 ft. above the sea, while the Mont Cenis pass, the lowest point, is about the same distance to the east and is 6,890 ft. above the sea. The height of the observatory on the summit of the ridge over the tunnel is 9,679 ft. The levels of the valleys to the north and south of this crest or watershed are respectively 3,612 ft. and 4,380 ft. This difference of level, upwards of 75Gft., by which the valley on the south or Italian side exceeds the northern or French side, would seem at first sight to offer some difficulties in constructing the tunnel, especially if much water had been met with. By taking advantage, however, of the form of the valley, the railway will be carried by a zigzag on the mountain Side to some hundred feet higher level before entering the mountain on the French side, reaching the entrance of the tunnel at 4,046 ft. There thus remains a difference of 334 ft., which, when distributed over the 7i miles, is found to be equivalent to a gradient of 44ft. in a mile, or one in 120. The tunnel has not been in course of actual construction more than 12 years, but it had been suggested as long ago as in 1841, in a pamph let published at Lyons by Signor Medail, of Bardoneche. • This pamphlet wee brought under the notice of Charles Albert, at that time King of Sar dinia, in whose dominions were included the whole valley of the Arc, as well as both sides of the mountain crest. The work was thus from the first exclusively Italian, and France only became interested in it when it took posses sion of Savoy. The work has been carried on throughout from both sides by Italian engineers, according to the terms of the treaty by which Savoy was ceded to France. The King referred the matter to the Minister of the In terior to make due inquiries, and the engineering and physical questions involved were submitted to the consideration and judgment of M. Maus, a Belgian, who was engineer-in-chief of the Turin and Genoa Rail way, ihen in course of construction, and Professor Sismonda, a very eminent geologist employed in the preparation of a geological map of Sardinia, • since published. These two gentlemen, after visiting and car efully examining the whole of the chain between Mont Cenis and Monte Ginevra, reported favourably of the line selected by M. Medail, which was ultimately adopted. The matter then went into the hands of other engineers, who have now undertaken the work for the Government; but as, on further investigation and calculation, based on the rate of progress of similar works already undertaken, it was estimated that at least thirty five years would be required for the tunneling, even if no unexpected difficulties and no accidents supervened, it was natural enough that the Government should pause before deciding on a work of such magnitude entirely for the bene fit of a future generation. Then came the question whether by some mechanical contrivance it might not be possible to accelerate the progress. It was soon found altogether outof the question to attack the tunnel at any point between the two extremities. In most cases when railway tunnels are required a shaft or many shafts are sunk from the surface, and the work goes on from each shaft towards both ends, at the same time that the two ends are being driven. In this way, by means of two shafts, a tunnel of three miles might be divided into six sections of half a mile each, and so in proportion. But in the case before us the height of rock above the tunnel would be as much as 1,500 feet at a distance of less than half a mile on the Piedmont side, and almost as much on the Savoy side. To sink two shafts to a depth of 1,500 feet in an Alpine country, and after all leave an interval of more than six miles, was not to be considered for a moment. '['he whole distance (seven and a half miles) must there fore be pierced from the two ends. A machine was con trived by M. Maus which, takinc , advantage of the water power abundantly available on both sides of the moun tain, was expected to reduce the time required for the work by one-fourth, but owing to the political events of 1848 this machine was never actually put together and used. After the disturbed times had passed, and when Italy became a kingdom, the engineer charged with the execution of the work had perfected the ingenious and most effective machinery that has since been used for perforating the rocks. Some time, of course, elapsed before operations could be carried on with steadiness and vigour, but for many years past the tunnelling has been going on, not only steadily but with gradually increasing certainty and facility, and the work is now, as we have already seen, almost in a complete state." The Athenaeum states that Mr. Archibald Forbes, of the Daily .Areivs, is entitled to the prefix of Major. The Roman Catholic clergy and laity of Killaloe have just presented a sum of over £BOO as a testimonial to their bishop. 11R. AND MRS. CHARLES MATTHEWS.—A letter from Melbourne dated November Bth, says : —Mr. and Mrs. Charles Matthews are still in this colony. They have visited professionally the neighbouring colonies of New South \Vales and South Australia, and have sometimes had very good houses and sometimes very bad ones. Nevertheless, their trip to the antipodes must have paid on the whole. THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT BARNSLEY.-011 Friday several of the directors and officials of the Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, including Sir E. Watkin, Lord Auckland, Lord Wharncliffe, Mr. Fenwick, Mr. linderdown (general manager), Mr. Ross (secretary), Mr. Lazenby, and Mr. Bradley, met, by ap pointment, a deputation from the inhabitants of Ardsley, near to that place. The old station where the accident occurred was visited, and a site for a new one was fixed upon, where the public will have increased accommo dation. THE EDUC &TION Devon and Cornwall the elementary education question has been discussed by public meetings in several towns and villages within the last few days, and since Wednesday the voluntary prin ciple has been adopted at Dawlish, Ilsington, Wendron, Sithney, Marazion, Pelynt, and Lifton ; at the last-named place one person has munificently offered to supply suffi cient school accommodation for the parish, the estimates for which amount to about £9OO. School Boards have been adopted at Helston, Launceston, Liskeard, and East and West Love. Devonport has also applied, through the Town Council, for a Board ; at a public meeting it was stated that there were ninety schocls in the borough, and forty of them were rooms in which people lived, and in many cases slept. Four teachers had been found who could not write, and who, instead of writing th eir names, had simply put' marks. Accommodation would have to be provided for about 2,000 children. THE LATE Mn. THOMAS BREWER.—The death of the indefatigable secretary . of the City of London School, which occurred on Christmas Day, after a brief illness, has to be recorded. Mr. Brewer was born in 1807, and at' the early age of 16 entered the service of the Cur , poration of London, in the town clerk's office, and at the ti m e of his death he was the sen ior servant of the corpora tion. The antiquarian tastes of Mr. Brewer while in the town-clerk's office led to the exhumation of ancient re cords which were of much service in placing that ancient foundation, the City of London School, in its present state of development and efficiency. Mr. Brewer was elected secretary to the school in 1836, which office he held until his death. In recognition of his various public services, the freedom of the City of London was awarded to him by honorary grant of the corporation in 1842. He was one of the founders of the Sacred Harmonic Society in 1832, and was its honorary secretary from that time until the commencement of the present season, when he was elected president of the society, an honourable posi tion which he unhappily enjoyed but a few weeks. As an author Mr. Brewer produced a life of John Carpenter, the founder of the City of London School in the time of Henry V. and VI., and some biographies of other eminent citizens. THE LAYING OUT OF SEWAGE FARMS.—An Ob vious distinction must be drawn between the irrigation of land with sewage as practised in the Cragentinny style some years ago, and that which now prevails in those in stances in which irrigation has been adopted. Again, to go a little f ur ther, an other and a nicer distinction must be made between the mere irrigation of land, judiciously and scientifically carried out to a certain point, and the thorough practical application of the system. Th e latter consists in the establishment of a sewage faint upon which various crops are grown, instead of the utili sation of the sewage being limited, as it originally was, to grass c rops. Not only was rye grase the only crop to which sewage was first applied, but many able and unpre judiced parties sincerely believed that the principle of its utilisation was not capable of being ex tended to roots and cereals. It is needle.7:3 to assert now as we always have asserted that this idea is fallacious. and that ultimately it will be found that sewage can be advantage ally and profitably applied to every description of plant and crop. This was first partially but conclusively demon strated by the Lodge Farm at Barking, upon whicli, by the application of London sewage, nearly every plant that could be of use to mankind was grown, either in large qiiantities , for the market, or in smaller for the sake of experiment and proof.—The Engineer. 300, s of heir 1 an ,nch Cant ;:utta telli- ly on veral ,r 25, The 'vice, ative and loan truc- Toned order •thily hibi- xcep- Lord i the nten xcel- mbay Le 9th Twill spec-