The Sun. — London, England, 1867-04-09 00:00:00

--- ..._. --) ,'" ,---- ...." -V' ___< 7 a" ---- - _ -, , :\ -, . : _ --- ,t----e - " -- T - , ; -. $ i , 42 +......‹, . .") -.. , mi........... ..„.....91 *-.,,,. „,.. (._., 4 7 ' 4 f l -431 , ,A 0 ' ~,.., ...1 ... .--- • ~,,..,, , ,:, fl . " '''- ' - ‘1,1t1, , ,,"„-it •1, .1 0 . _ ' 'A. 1. • At li _ 7 . t,.. \,_, . , .... ~, ~.. - --,••. . --_ i AFTER Covent-garden Theatre—EVAN'S' to .• • . Jr ----- , _,___,"-- N , c -4At ," ....__ - yl - . . i . I,' , C.' —.. , , . SUP. • --•<, . ,\ -.....-- • r.. ‘.‘ i . \ 4 . - ~,.. _ ...d ~,,,_) v i.. 6•41 - , -?-t- , ..44.::: ,- , 1 ~ -, After Drury-lane Theatre FVANS' to SUP. i g- -,- : .".", ‘ .,-, 7 I r % ' .f. • - • -c- -.W"' :\ ... , "4 .. N ''' ' i , ~./ . \ :..t.: : ,,,,,::1 414 im Are../ : ,....c, & ..i.,....4.4.. ...... t.L. i . ..ii ' 4.. ,,,4. 11: : :: ~ , .. iik.„.. ,:, , ;rk . , . ~ _. i : ....... 1 V ' : 9 'A After Lyceum. 'rheatre FVANS' to SUP :... ' „ - .. : After Adelphi Theatre ..,....,_. _-_,- , -.......c, ~, ..c, , 4 _,_--),_, 7 , .. zu , E ,, „ in , .7 ,.., -Nj .P - L:7, , - , tilv : . , : K . _ 1 , 4 % - _,,*,__ 4 - 4,.. , ,. , Dr.orr t , , - , -.:, %,_.-- .7 , • 45 , . ~,...,.. After Olympic Theatre —EVANS' to SLIP. \ - e , - ~. 'ti' " ' . P .."4". N/ '...? ..,- , ... . After Strand Theatre I'VANs' to SUP. '••".- \ '-',%. •-.._.- " ii. After New Royalty Theatre ...... EV ANS' to SUP. . I _..,.._-- After St. James'e Theatre FVANS' to SUP. I , " After Prince of Wales' Theatre ....E VANS' to SUP. London Singing and Supper Club, E VANS', Covent-garden. Vocal Entertainment at Eight. ARAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION, This celebrated OLD IRISHWHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole- Sold in Bottles 3s. 81 at the Retail Houses in Londo n Y A g entsthe - . - in the 'principal towns in England ; or Wholesale at R. GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Kinallan's LL 'Whisky." C 0" TRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES, and BUSINESSES. F URNESS and KNEE'S List on application. Particulars for Insertion received until the 27th of the Month at their AUC :lON AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES. 5 , Azar -street. S , rand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Cross Railway Station. VEUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION anclrpor tted by Act of Parliament. 'Mtn 1A:n,,,. • ► .T:TSSB I EL-ST RE ET, COVE NT-GARDEN. LONDON, A -NCE MONEY . noon Personal Security, Bills of Sale Freehold or Leasehold Proper y, for one, two, or three years, rpaYable week y, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly di scounted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. THE O X F O RD , 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., THE ,tUSICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF LONDON. OPERATIC SELEr, tlONS.—Princi al artistes, Miser s xt.,,,,ussell, Barrie, and FitzFienry ; Fog, Messrs. A. St. Albyn, Hulls, ox. Rusk, Evans, and Bury, with Extra Band and Chorus Conductor, Mr. F. Jonglimans Solo Cornet-a-Piston. Mr. REYNOLDS, of the Coldstream Gua - ds' Band and A. Mellon's Concerts. COMEDY. 133, Messrs. HARRY SYDNEY, G. W. ROSS ; the celebrated JAPANESE JUGGLERS; the Brothers BALE, the Wonders of the World; McUle. GERTRUDE and her Troupe of Performing Dogs, this Evening. Ar. ROBT. FRASER, Comedian, with his cron of comic:di ties and his new song, "THE BOY AT MUGnY." NOTICE.—The Broi. TIA.NLON. the celebrated American Acrobats, will make their re-appearance THIS EVENING. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. NEW ADDI rIONS. —Life-size Models of the RINGS and QUEENS of VICENGLAND, from WILLIAM of NORMANDY to QUEEN TORIA.. Open from 11 a.m till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admittance, le.; children, under ten, half-price; extra rooms, 6d. A RGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO, Windmill -street, Piccadilly. These elegant and popular Rooms, havine• been entirely re decorated, are now OPEN EVERY EVENIN(4 for Concert and Dancing'. Conductor, Slg - ,nor Loot Ctrarr. Manager, GRENET. Admission to Promenade, One Shillinz. Reserved Seats, Two Shilllng:B. WEST ON' S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Sole Proprietors, SWEASEY and HOLLAND. Grand S e l ec ti on f rom D on i zett i' s favourite Opera of " LUCIA DI LAMMERM.OOR." Principal vocalists— Edgard°, Mr. H.De Brenne r; Art ur o, M r . D oug l as Mellon ; Henrico, Mr. P. Corti; Lucia, Miss Annie Tremaine. Also a Selection from Verdi's favourite Opera, " IL TROVA TORE," at 9 o'clo c k. P r i nc i pa l voca li sts — M anr i co, M r. Douglas Mellon ; Conte di Luna, Mr. P. Corti ; Leonora, Miss Annie Tremaine ; Azucena, Miss Ellen Read. ARTHUR LLOYD'S Burlesque Drama, entitled " MUGGET'S BROOK ,• or, the Wicked Squire ;" Jolly Nash, Emma Bruce, Paddy Fannin, Patrick Sellers, Frank Ellmore, Jig Dan cer ; Jean and Victor, the Sensation of London. Band of 30 first-class performers, and large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera Houses. Musical Director, Mr. P. Com Prices of admission Stalls and Balcony, ls. • Area, 6d.; Priv a t e B oxes, 10s. 6d — . Can be secured at the 'Box Office, between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open every Evenin g at 7 o'clock. MANFIELD'S PATE NT PICKLES are per andre and uncoloured. To be had of ail dealers N wholesale of and uncoloured . BURPESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps),Londonx. EAU -DE-VlE.—This Pure PALE BRANDY, of Co 18 5. per zallon, is ry superior to recent importations raw e l y used In hos g*nae, recommended by the medical profession, and ex pitals. In bottles, Vs. per dozen, or in e t j a " 39 5.. railway carria.ze paiI. — HENRY BRETT and Old Furnival's Distillery, Holborn, E.O , and 3 0 , Regent "Lreet, S.W. Established 1829. "TIER RUIN OF THE FEW IS THE GAIN OF 111 E MANY." 11" E Panic of '66 a n d its consequent depression of of t he Colonial 31 ir rze t s enables the '• E AST INDIA Sid C ONIPANY" to offer TEAS LOWER THAN EVER. Pounds of Gold Tel. for 6s. M. can't be dear. TIIQ Comp 's KAISO WS by th e Clipp er Ships are really deli ;ion s. 9, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, Bishopegate street, Jan. 1, 1887. W. 23,346 THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, In 3 vols., RAYMOND'S HEROINE. A NoveL Hurst and Blaokett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. DIXON'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in 2 vols., Bvo., with Illustrations, 305., SIXTH EDITION OF NEW AMERICA. By WILLIAM lIEPWoRTII DIXON. " Avery inter estin! book. Mr. Dixon has written thought fully and well. He gives us an excellent account of the Mor mons, and striking descriptions of the scenes he saw and the conversations he held with many of the saint."—Times. Burst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-st. 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-BUILDINGL3, STRAND, W.C. Established 1808. Quotations on application. JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the world."—Loudon Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C., next the " Times." TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork, beer to announce that they ore Able to supply the trade with their celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases, and to take orders in bond and for exp3rtation, at their offices, 7, Priotintr-house-square, London, E C., the only house in the square not occupied by the " Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies bring 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 and ss. 6d. a case over the lowest quotation. Always on hand a large supply of ye y old mellow whisky in the finest condition, 'natured in sherry casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, sa,oplied on the most reasonable terms. H YAM & Co.'s ATTIRE. - H YAM & Co., 66 and 67, OXFORD-ST. HYAII.I & Co.'s TWEED OVERCOATS. H YAM & Co.'s SILK-FACED OVERCOATS HYAM & Co.'s FACED MELTON OVER COATS. HYAM & Co.'s SUITS. HYAM & Co.'s MORNING COATS. H YAM & Co.'s PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE HYAM & Co.'s VESTS and TROUSERS. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., m AI Author I E 4 , 3 : I II " Zo o nie D es of Dartmoor,"4t. MARSII. Maidenhood' contains pleasing incident and minute painting ot character."—Athenwum. "Full of life and interest." Observer. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., SYBIL'S SECOND LOVE. By JULIA KAVANAGH-, Author of "Nathalie," " Adele," &c. " Miss Kavanagh has written no more interesting or cha racteristic novel than Sybil's Second Love.' " t'ost. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 'UJust published, 2d; sent by the author for 3 stamps, GLINESS and BEAUTY ; being a Pamphlet the de scriptive of articles and means used for improving Londou apt, .earance. By ALEX. ROSS, 218, High llolborn, S P ANISH FLY is th e ac ti ng i ngre di en t i n Produc A .LRX. ROSS'S CA.NTHARIDES OIL. which speedily Bent es whi.k2rs and thickens h a i r , 3 s 6d , 5 s 6d , an d l OS (id ; by post for L o n do n , and 144 stampo.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, aigh R I o born, and all Chemists. ______ WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one day by usithr ALEX. ROSS'S °Fir RO PO. This preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, removing the very root. Price 45; sent by post for 60 stamps. —248 , High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. AIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—A.LlCX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID one@ Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 31 6d, 6s 6d, and 10s 6d ; sent free for 54, 84, and 144 stamps. —Had of all Chemists. riREY HAIR.-248, Hi g h H ol b orn, London.-- T ALEX. ItoBs'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour Immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na tural in etre t. Price 3s Id, Is 6d, and 10s 6d ; sent by post for 64, 81, and 141 stamps ; and all Chemists. olborn, HAIR DESTROYER.-248, Hi g h H London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes superfluous hair from the ace, neck. and arms, without effect to the skin. Price 3s 6d, Is 6d, and 108 6d ; sent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—Had of all Chemists. PIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEr.4ETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sal lowness, dro. 2s Sd and 7s ed ; or post for 40 and 100 stamps. —ALEX. ROSS, 21S, High Holborn, London, and all Che- Mists. HAIR, COLOUR WASH.-By washing the head with beautifull-perfumed ash, in seven or ten days the hair this assumes its original colour, and remains Bo by an occasional usinT. lOs Rd ; sent for stamps.—AL EX. ROSS, 243, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. DR- SCOTT'S LINER AND BILIOUS PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.--Pre offDared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. er of Bromley, Kent. will be found invaluable t o all who suffer from bilious and liver nomplaints, indigestion, wind. 'Tamils, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual costi v eness, u a f am il y aper i ent medicine, and as a puri fi er blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and cfratefhl to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote dlzestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Prepared only and 531 d by W. Lambert, Chemist, s, King William -street, Charing-cross. London, and by most drag gists, in boxes,ls. and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a sq uare greet package. with " William Lambert." engraved on the stamp. ONE HUNDRED and SIXTY-SEVEN DESTITUTE ORPHANS are being maintained in the ALBERT ORPHAN ASTLUNI, Coningwood Court, Baohot, Surrey. FUNDS area* needed for their support. CHARLES A. WALKER, S ec. Offices, 90, Cheapside, E.C. BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM , M ackenzie Park, Slough, Bucks (formerly at Clapham-rise). In stituted 1827. PATRONLHer Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. AID tl this Institution will be gladly received by the Secretary, at the Offices. No. 73, Cheapside, E.C. HENRY SYKES THORNTON, Treasurer. THOMAS TILSON, J.P. , Chairman of the Board. STE'll EN REED CATTLEY, W.A., Hon. Sec. ALFRED MACKENZIE, Secretary. THE BOARD of MANA GE M ENT of the LONDON lIOM(EOPA'P HIC HOSPITAL to call the attention of their friends t its duringposttion— the Past year the beds have been almost constantly filled, and the drain on the resources of the Hospital has consequently been great. They trust, therefore, that all the friends of ho panty, both in town and country, will rally round them, and thus prevent the necessity of curtailing the use fulness of the Hospital by the admission of fewer patients S U BSC IPT JO NS earnestly needed. Bankers Messrs. Pres-ott and Co, Threadneedle-street; and Union Bank, Argyll-place, 4egent-street. No. 52, 52, Great Ormond-street PCW R. WARREN, Clerk.. OUR SHIPWRECKED SEAMEN and their BERE k vED WIDO WS and ORPHANS -Upw.‘rds of 4,00 / British vessels are annually wrecked, about 2,000 of Which are on the British Isle., There is no part of the coast where the SITIPWRECKFD MARIN ERS' SOCIE I'Y is not represented by an ll (when naked) and sends to their homes A-Zent, who clo'hes shipwrecked parslns of all nations. and is the channel of its charity to the bereaved widows and orphans of the drowned. The Committee earnestly APPEAL Inr HELP. The dis t ess is always instant. The Society relieved 11,221 persons last year, viz , ship ivreckcd men, widows, and orphans. Donations and subscriptions thankfnllyre.ceiyed by Mes srs . Williams. Deacon, and Co.; and by the unc ersigned, FRANCIS LEAN, Secretary Hibernia-chambers, London -bridge S.E. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another Loma to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer than 155 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have bee:. sent away in five years. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for Puna girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel Cooper, R 5, Queen street, Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Co.. Lombard -study FHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1867. TORENCH GALLERY, 120, PALL-MALL.- The FOURTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of PICTURES, the Contributions of Artists of the French and Flemish Schools, 13 NOW OPEN. Admission, Is. Catalogue, td. LOHN GOE N ELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOO I'll PAST M is greatly supe:lor 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. 61—Red Bull Wharf. ud, Upper Thames-street, London. OSBORNE'S STILTON Is THE Cheese ! IIEA IS CHEAPER THAN EVER. is. 61, 25., 2s 64. per lb. arc the prices at which PHILLIPS and CO., Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City, London, E.C.. are selling good and fine BLACK TEA. A price current post free. 40s worth carriage free to any Railway Station or Market Town in the United Kingdom. All goods carriage free to all pia.; of London. Observe—PHILLIPS and Co. have no Agents. Sugars are supplied at market prices. FITZG-ERALD'S GROWTH.-Mr. FELIX DU P I N. Advocate, Proprietor of Fitzgerald's Growth, Member of Central Society of Agriculture of Herault, de livers direct to customers his VINTAGE of 166 (fled St. George Wine). The only means to drink a natural wine is to apply to a proprietor, avoidinx intermediate agents. Hr. F. Dupin sells his WINE by Cases containing 10 gallons, or by Stocks containing 25 gallons. The case forwarded in England, carriage tree to purchaser's residence, costs £2 ; and the Stocks, on same condi ions, £5, Apply is French to Mr, F. Dupin, Montpellier. ATADAME RACHEL.—Youth, Beauty, Bril -1 1 ant Eyes, Golden Tresses, Ruby Lips, Fe irly Teeth, Soft, rich-like Complexion, and all that enhance and pre serve the charms of woman.--47A, New Band-street. DEAFNESS. —The ORGANIC VIBRATOR._ It fits into the ear, not perceptible ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the bead is entirely removed. It affords immediate relief to deat persons, and enables them to hear distinctly at church and pulrtic assembles. Every other kind of hearing instrument. -Messrs. SOLOMON, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. GEOLOG Y.-ELEMENTARY COLLEC TIONS, to illustrate the New Edition of "Lyell's Elements of Geology" and facilitate the important study of Mineralogy and Geology, can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 5) to 503 guineas ; also single Specimens of Minerals, Rooks, Fossils, and Resent Shells, Geological Maps. Hammers, all the recent l'ub'ications, eta, of J. TENNANT, Mineralogist to Her Majesty, 149, Strand, London. Private Instruction is given in Mineralogy and Geology by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., 149, Strand, W.C. ha 3 comiolidated by ages of time no human hand can dissolve. The onward march of Divine Providence has accomplished this fusion of races, in their higher and mightier unity. There is no re turning upon the past. The wheat in the ear can not go back into the stalk, nor the stalk into the blade. As the world moves onward, the provi dence of God calls into existence new social orders ; and out of them arise right, justice, and sove reignty. For this reason the Apostle says—" Let every soul be subject to higher powers : for there is no power but from God ; and those that are, are ordained of God. Therefore he that resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resist, purchase to themselves damnation." In these words S. Paul is speaking of the heathen empire of Rome : of a civil power always active in persecuting the Church. He declares the government of the empire to be from God, and to have a claim upon the conscience of Christians to obey it. If so, the empire of Great Britain has the same rights and claims, the same obligation on our conscience, and on our obedience. To rise against it, is to resist the ordinance of God ; and they that resist shall receive to themselvea not only the penalties of man, but the judgment of God. We have long ago warned those who praised, flat tered, abetted, justified, glorified the revolutions of the continent, and above all the revolution in Italy, to take heed lest their own principles should recoil upon themselves. They have recoiled upon us now. The same anti-social, anti-Christian principles, which have been conspiring in the dark against the Government of the Sovereign Pontiff, have now con spired against the English monarchy. We have always condemned these principles everywhere, and equally, as intrinsically sinful. The temporal power of the Pope, on the lowest ground, rests on the same providential ordinance as the British Empire. The British Empire, on its highest base, rests upon the same foundation. We have consistently defended both upon the same laws and principles ; and we likewise condemn all conspiracy, and all excitement to sedition from neighbouring States, whether in Italy or in Ireland, as anti-social and anti-Christian. I am the more watchful to warn you, dear chil dren in Jesus Christ, because at this moment the principles of rebellion have been openly and syste matically published among you. The first number of a paper has been sent to me, addressed especially to my flock in London, and intended as a means of uniting others in a common cause throughout Eng land. It is my duty to declare to you the nature of that paper, and my judgment upon it. Whatever be the good intentions or patriotic virtues of its authors, I am bound not to suffer errors to enter among you without warning. In the first number, then, published on March 16, I find the following words : " As long as prelates and priests, when from the pulpit or the altar they preach to their flocks, con fine themselves to spiritual topics, to subjects purely religious, so long should not a layman criti cise their sermons, exhortations, or discourses ; but if the bishop or the priest discourses ethics, then we have the right to criticise the subject under consi deration. And for the good reason that, with very few emendations made by the Church, the morals or ethics of Cicero or Aristotle—Pagans—are those now in use. Their principles a learned layman can apply to the analysis of any theme, just as well as the most exalted ecclesiastical dignitary." That is to say, bishops and priests are to be listened to when they preach the doctrines of faith, but not when they preach the doc trines of morals ; their authority is confined to the faith alone. But the Church is infallible both in faith and morals ; and bishops and priests are bound to preach the infallible truths and laws both of faith and morals, under and by the authority of the Church. Now " ethics" are morals ; and the first laws of politics are a part of morals. It was as a teacher of political morality that S. Paul enjoined obedience to the powers, and condemned rebellion as a sin. This proposition is therefore at least erro neous ; but if it be intended to deny to your pastors the office to teach and guide you in these first principles of political morality, it denies the office of the Church as the teacher of morals, it is there fore heretical ; and for either or both these reasons it is scandalous. It was in this way that the leaders of the rebel lion in 1848 against the authority of the Holy Father began their insidious course. One of the foremost in assurance addressed to the Sovereign Pontiff the supercilious warning to " withdraw from the turbulent affairs of the world to the serene sphere of dogma, and there to pray, bless, and par don ;" that is, to be silent, to deliver over the Chris tian world to revolution. But politics arc a part of morals, because they are the morals of society. S. Paul was teaching both morals and politics when he said, " There is no power but from God ;" and S. Peter when he said, "Be ye subject there fore to every human creature for God's sake : whe ther it be to the king as supreme, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of the good. For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may silence the igno rance of foolish men : as free, and not as making liberty a cloak of malice, but as the servants of God." Again, in the same paper I read as follows: "Now we have closely read the Canons, Bulls, Decretals, and Rescripts of Popes, respecting 'Secret and Oath bound Societies,' and we have not been able to dis cover any' sentence in ' any' of them—not even of Pio Nono—which could be interpreted as bearing upon Fenianism, which we have been discussing on its abstract merits. Fenianism is consequently not opposed to, much less is it for, the overthrow of Catholicity." This affirms 1. That Fenianism is not condemned by name, and is therefore not condemned at all. 2. That the condemnation of the Church applies to " oath-bound societies," and that it therefore does not apply to Fenianism. 3. That Fenianism is not opposed to Catholicity, and is therefore not condemned. These three propositions are alike erroneous and false. 1. First, it is not necessary that a Secret Society should be condemned by name. All seditious societies are condemned by definition, by description, and by indentity with those which are condemned by name. In the Allocution of Sept. 14th, 1865, the Holy Father, after renewing the condemnations of Clement XII., Benedict XIV., Pius VII., Leo XII., declares that the last named Pontiff condemned all the clandestine societies which had been specifi cally named, and " all others whatsoever, by what soever name they might be called, which conspire against the Church and civil power, and prohibited them to all the faithful under the severest pain of excommunication." 2. Secondly, oaths are accidents. This is as serted in the Encyclical of 1864, by which it is de clared that "all clandestine societies, whether any oath of secrecy be exacted in them or not, together with their followers and abetters are condemned." This condemnation falls upon all societies cr con spiracies, open or secret, against the Church or the civil power. In order to perfect certainty upon this paint, the Archbishop of _Dublin, in 1864, consulted the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda, which, on June 7th, 1864, answered in these words, " The secret societies, of which there is question in the Pon tifical Constitution, are understood to be all such as purpose to themselves anything against the Church or the Civil Government, whether They require on oath of secrecy or not." 3. Lastly, all such conspiracies, whether directed against the Church and Civil Power, or against the Church alone, or against the State alone, are by the same Allocution condemned. The words of the Holy Father are these We confirm the before. cited Constitutions of our predecessors ; and by our Apostolical authority we reprobate and condemn the sect of Freemasons, and other societies of the same kind,w hich, though in appearance different, day by day are forming themselves, and labouring openly or secretly against the Church or legitimate autho rities." The Church hereby declares, by the voice of its head, that all conspiracy, whether against the Church or the State severally, is sin. Against the Church it cannot be without heresy, schism, or apostasy ; against the State it is rebellion ; and apostasy and rebellion are each and severally mortal sin against God. The same is declared in the Encyclicals of 1846 and 1849, in the Allocution of 1847, and the Apostolic Letters of 1860 ; and finally in the Encyclical of 1864, which condemns the proposition, " that it is lawful to withdraw obedience, and to rebel against legitimate Bove . _. reigns." Let no man then deceive you. Trust to no guides or teachers who contradict the voice of the Vicar of Jesus Christ. Their words make anarchy. his words make law. They are not the interpreters of canons, bulls, decretals and rescripts ; but the So vereign Pontiff is. They are not the expositors of the Pontifical law. He is both expositor and legis lator. You have it, therefore, dear children in Jesus Christ, not from my lips but from his, that all con spiracy, open or secret, with or without oaths, against the Church or the civil power is mortal sin. Lay this to heart, and make it known to all who may bo, in danger of being misled. Dissuade, exhort, and beseech with all love, earnestness, and patience, that no man may be carried through natural but misguided emotions into a sinful path. My heart bleeds for the Catholic people of Ireland. I know its history, its sufferings, its wounds, the sting which has been planted in its conscience, its heart, its faith, its highest, noblest instincts. I know that in the past the wound has gone to the quick, that the iron has entered into its soul. I know, therefore, the present danger of its sons. Much that is good in them rises up in behalf of their homes and of their faith. It is their higher, purer, most human and deepest instincts which are worked upon ; and the past has ripened them to take the influence of evil counsels coining from abroad. Letters from Ireland tell me that many who have become entangled in this sinful rising have done so in full belief that it was a holy cause. They were men who loved their faith, who went, before meet- ing the hour of danger, to make their peace with God : unconscious of doing wrong, misled, con fused in mind by the consciousness of all that Ire land has suffered, and over-persuaded by evil voices and the false principles I have here exposed. Even in this there is a pledge of better things. If the Irish people ever lose the Catholic instinct of obe dience to the powers ordained of God, what shall restrain them from giving way to the temptations to insubordination which the history of Ireland un happily ministers, and to the influences of American sedition which are profusely at work? I have said this before, and I say it now again, to open the eyes, if opened they can be, of those who think to pacify and to tranquillise Ireland, or even to calm and govern it, while they put public dishonour and legal contempt upon the faith and the Church of Ireland. They who would undermine the faith of Ireland by mixed education and by mercenary conversion are the worst enemies of the peace of Ireland, and of the union of the two kingdoms. In the measure in which they succeed, in that measure they weaken over the Irish people the mightiest power of obe dience, faith in the Church of God. At this mo ment much that is noble, generous, pure, unselfish, manly, humane, and even religious in the heart of Irishmen, is alienated by the wrongs of the past, and wounded by much that survives both in the letter and iu the spirit. And this alienation is the invitation to foreign sedition, and the predisposition to all manner of moral and social disease. It would be an ill day for a kingdom if the highest and noblest instincts of its people, if the manhood and the faith of its sous, be estranged from its allegiance and run wild in sedition. While lam compelled by duty to publish the authoritative condemna tions of the Church upon all such as break the Christian law by rebellion, I grieve for those who are misled by an affection which England counts one of its chief virtues, the love of our country. But the words of our Divine Lord are clear : " All who take the sword shall perish with the sword." There is a higher and mightier power, and weapons against which the world cannot stand. It was not by force that the Christians won the empire of the world. It was not by the sword that S. Patrick subdued Ireland. It was not by arms that your great leader and counsellor, forty years ago, to whom, more than to any one man, you owe your Christian emancipation, vindicated for you the free dom we now enjoy : it was his rule that no political changes were worth one drop of blood. The only violence you can use without breaking God's law is the violence of faith ; th a t is,:of justice, reason, patience. This is the invincible power of the king dom of God. Wheresoever the violence of this world enters it destroys those that use it. The revolution in France sacrificed Ireland in 1798. Bloodshed, misery, executions, widowhood, social hatreds, and thirty years more of penal law were the conse quence. The revolutions of 1818 all but sacrificed It again. For nearly twenty years peace and a better order has been coming, slowly but surely. God avert that America should sacrifice Ireland for the third time. Press on as in the last twenty years, and Ireland will be like the Provinces of the Rhine, or like Belgium, fertile and peaceful, with their thousand towns and villages, their ten thousand industries and busy ploughs, mountains covered with cattle, and fields rich with harvest. Listen to the gospel of sedition, and the land we love so well may be like the Southern States of America, wrecked and desolate ; or, far worse, like Russian Poland, bleeding and crushed in freedom and in faith. Why should Ireland be always between the upper and nether millstone, between England and France, England and Revolution, England and America, broken and ground to powder ? Work together with the wise and peaceful providence of God, and all is before us. There is a tide in time as in the waters of the sea. All things are moving onwards, and no human hand can turn the current back. Two things are certain : the one that these three kingdoms are indissoluble ; the other that they must all be equal. Scotland has been lifted to the prosperity of England: Ireland must be lifted to equality with both. Every badg e of o pp ression and of persecution must be effaced from the statute book, from the face of society, from the heart of the people. The Church and faith of the Irish people must be the Church and faith of Ireland. The Catholic Church ill all the amplitude and dignity of public recognition, right, and law must be acknow ledged by man as it is constituted and honoured by God. It was a senseless illusion to ignore the breadth of Ireland beyond the pale. It is a more senseless fiction to ignore the Catholic Church which alone is recognised by Ireland and by the world. It is hard to kick against the goad. It is harder to contend against the providence of God. Catholic, Ireland was, is, and always will be. Thwart or vio late its faith, and it can never be at rest. Honour and cherish its dearest treasure, and it will be peace ful, loyal, and content. When the faith of a people has free expanse, society prospers. And society springs from the furrow ; labour builds homes, villages, towns, with all the acts of life and grada tions of social order Er) fine and closely knit that the commonwealth is one, with one action, heart, and will. Commonwealth is a common welfare ; and such Ireland will be be if the god of this world do not enter in to mar the work of peace : if our rulers be wise and just, and if you, children of St. Patrick, keep his word and are true to his example ; steadfast in the faith, submissive to the Vicar of Jesus Christ, united to your pastors, self -controlling, peaceful, and makers of peace. Then you may confide in the promise of God to His chosen people : "If you return and be ~ =Z j PRICE.... Id. STAMPED sd. quiet, you shall bc saved : iu silence and in hope shall your strength be." And again : "Be still, and see that I am God." And may the God of peace abundantly bless you, and your people in every place, above all in the land so dear to our hearts, and fill it with every bene diction of His Grace through Jesus - Christ. f HENRY EDWARD, Archbishop of Westminster. RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBI MN 01 1851 and 1862!, is allowed by up warda of wo Hundred 3le Sind Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so oiten hurtful in its effects, is lime avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moc-Main Pad and Patent Lev,r, fitting with so ouch ease and close— ness that it cannot be cl,tecteil, and miy be vtorn during . sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and thi truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circum erence of the body, two inches below - the hips, being sent to the manufactut er, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. • A Sin , le Truss, Vs., 215., Nis 6d., and 31s. 6d Postage, ls. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 42s and 525. Bd. Posta!re, ls. Bd. kn Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 61 Pistage, Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &e., for Varicose Veins and all eases ut Weakness and Swelling of the Legs. , prains, mz.c. They arc porous, light in texture, and inexpen , ive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 70. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each. Postage, ed. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. MOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and .I_ll most useful invention of the day, AGUA &MAR ELL A. nessrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, Perfumers to her Isfaiesty, respect fully offer to the public this truly marvellous MAI, which zradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. The Ague Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 108. 61. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from Individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. PASTORAL LETTER OP THE ARCH- BISHOP OF WESTMINSTER. HENRY EDWARD, by the Grace of God and the Favour of the Apostolic See, Archbishop of Westminster, to the Faithful of the said Diocese. Dear Children in Jesus Christ, On this Feast of St. Patrick I speak to you with a mixed feeling of joy and sorrow. The festival of your great Apostle and Father brings vividly before us the grace which through him has descended upon you, and upon your children, and likewise his glory which through your faith is always increasing both on earth and in heaven. Excepting the Apostles of our Divine Master, there is perhaps no saint whose spiritual children are so faithful and so fer vent, so numerous or so widely spread. They are in Ireland, England, and Scotland, in Canada, throughout the United States, on the shores of both their seas, in the West Indies, in India, in Australia, in the islands of the Pacific. It is a wonderful fact in the providence of God that when the English tongue began to contradict the Catholic Church, the children of St. Patrick took it as if their own, and have spread the Catholic faith wheresoever the English speech is ;heard ; not only throughout the empire of Britain, but wheresoever the Anglo-Saxon race and language have extended. North America and Australia are evidently marked out for a great future. Empires will one day rise out of them ; and in their destinies the children of St. Patrick must bear a large proportion. St. Patrick has left on record his confidence that the people whom God had given him, in the ends of the earth, would never be lost to his inheritance ; and that confi dence has been signally justified. The children of St. Patrick have continued faithful to their saint and father with a fidelity not surpassed by any nation of the Christian world. This day bears wit ness throughout the world that you are steadfast to the faith he taught you, and to the laws which • he delivered to you. You love him as the great and powerful intercessor who is praying for you before the Throne of God, and as the Spiritual Father through whom you have passed from death to life. It is he that made you heirs of the kingdom of heaven. You owe to him a great debt of gratitude ; and I know that you faithfully fulfil towards him the obligations he has laid upon you. He has taught you to believe the Holy Catholic Faith, to hold fast by the Catholic unity, and to adhere, even at the cost of life, to the Vicar of Jesus Christ. • By his example and by his words he has taught you the duty of mortification, of detachment from the world, and of peacefulness. This is the inheritance of the children of St. Patrick, and these are the fruits he will look to find in return for all his toil. And I bear witness that in steadfast adherence to the Catholic Faith and to the Catholic Church, and in close filial union with your pastors, you show your selves to be the true children of St. Patrick, throughout this great city and in all the world. This then is the cause of my joy. But 1 have also a cause of sorrow. It is because the country we love so well is at this moment in affliction. You have a right to know my thoughts at such a time as this, and I have a duty to warn and to guide you. God forbid that I should be silent when I ought to speak, or that I should in mistaken prudence keep back from you what you • ought to know. I do so the more freely because ever since I was of age to know the history of Ire land, all the sympathy of my heart has been with its faithful, noble, and martyred people. If my prayers or my efforts can avail anything, they shall never LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN EFFECTUAL IRE NIEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, i s ad mitted to be the best medicine tor immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequ en tl y cures persons' whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. I'reparea only and sold by W. A Chemist, 8, Ki ng -W . lll am-stree t , Charing crosle,LlßLßn,T' and by all druggists, in bottles, th r ee quantities in one, 2s. 9d. eac h . Be particular. an d as k for Lambert'The name an Lamberts Asthmatic Balsam. d addressare eng raved on the stamp. 130., and PRINT IN G. —TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.—The Print ing and Machining of Newspapers, &C., done on 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" Printin g Offices, 3, phurch row, Savoy. Strand, W.O LIXHIBITORS at the PARIS EXHIBITION, .I_2l who ADVERTISE in " THE SUN," can have the SERVICES of A SPECIAL AGENT in PARIS, whose address can be obtained at "The Sun" Office. He has a perfect knowledge of French, is also acquainted with busi ness, and has good connections. On application to " The Sun" Agent in Paris, either personally or by letter, he will obtain every possible facility for Exhibitors, or persons who may have other business in Paris, or who may go there for pleasure only. THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL has URGENT NEED of FUNDS: —Donations and Sub scriptions will be thankfully received by Messrs. Dimsdale and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Messrs. Drummond and Co., Charing cross; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand; Messrs. Hoare, Fleet-street ; and by the undersigned, at the Hospital, Liverpool-road, N., CHARLES FINN, Sec. HELP for the DESTITUTE SICK.— METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, Devon shire-square, City. 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 —Mes sr s. Barnett, Mares. and Co.. 62, Lombard street. JNO. GURNEY FRY, Chairman. GEO. CiiOXTON. Secretary. G REAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Volunt try Contributions. This Hospital has relieved 981,051 patients since it was established at King's-cross in 1856. Patients ara admitted free. BANKERS—Messrs. Barnett, Lloyds, and C0.,60, Lombard- Street; Messm Ransom and Bouverie, 1, Pail-mall. lion. SEC.--F. Smith. Esq. GEORGE REID, Sea cease for Ireland. The centuries of conflict of race against race, embittered seven-fold by conflict of R OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's -inn -road, religion against religion, have left upon Irelandanin the immediate vicinity of the G rea t Northern Rail - accumulation of evils and sufferings which genera way Terminus, King's-cross. tions alone can remove. But removed they must Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab- and will be, if only the gradual and onward move- Ush the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without meat of England and Ireland to perfect unity and the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is ,wholly de pendent for support on voluntary oontributions andt,..Tactes. equality be not hindered by violence. It affords relief to a large number of in-pa - lents, and, in The past is past, and cannot be recalled. Spain lestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between was once divided into many peoples and 3 , 0 00 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee ear estly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the dynasties : it has been fused and united into benevolent, as the pr vises of this Hospital are capable of containing several la..ndred more beds had the Committee one kingdom. France was once many states the requisite iunds to maintain them. and monarchies : it is now one indissoluble race Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and and people. England was once seven king- Co. • Ltrummonii and Co.;G.yn and Co. ; Berries iCnii Co.;Ransom and Co. • Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne ' , dome : for 1,000 years it has been a monarchy. Eng and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet land , Scotland, and Ireland were once three king and Co., Bernere-street : and at the hospital, from 10 till 5. .BT4LNYOUD 8111TH, segrettry. doms: they are now one indivisible realm, What Now published at 3d., per post 4d., I)AINLESS TOOTH EXTRACTION ; or, Antesthesia Locally Applied. By A. ESKFILL, Surgeon-Dentist, Author of " Dental Surgery," " Pare Dentistry," &o. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ; all booksellers ; or of the author, at his residence, 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street. H YAM & Co.'s LADIES' lIABITS. HYAM & Co.'s LIVERIES. H YAM & Co.'s HATS and HOSIERY. lIYAM and Co.'s PRICE LIST for GENTLE MEN. 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. Hyam & Co.'s Spring Tweed Overcoats. 21s. to 30s. Hyam & Co.'s Spring Overcoats Hyam & Co.'s Spring Reefer 2ss. to 555. Hyam & Co.'s Spring Suits Ilyam & Co.'s Spring Jackets Hyam & Co.'s Spring Frock Coats 3os. to 70s. Hyam & Co.'s Spring Vests 6s. to 14s. Hyam & Co.'s Spring Trousers l4s. to 255. H YAM & Co.'s BOYS' SPRING CLOTHING, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. The first establishment in the kingdom for Juvenile Clothing. Boys' Sandringham Overcoats Boys' Prince Alfrod Reefer Boys' Overcoats for Little Boys Boys' Knickerbocker Suits Boys' Westminster and Osborne Suits lss. to 355. Boys' Eaton, Harrow, and Rugby Suits 255. to 425. Boys' Jackets for School and Homo 9s. to 21s. nYAM & Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS. 1. Gentlemen's Clothing for immediate wear. 2. Bespoke or Order Department. 3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department. 4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. HYAM and Co's ONLY ESTABLISHMENTS , LONDON-66 and 67 OXFORD-STREET. B IRMINGHAM -21, 22 : and 23, NEW-STREET. LEEDS-42, BRIGGATE, and DEWSBURY—WESTGATE. Pailway and other Companies. GREAT EASTERN. Messrs. C. E. Stewart, Mr. G. P. Bidder, Mr. J. D. Birchall, and Mr. J. Chadwick, having been de puted by a meeting of the principal holders of the preference and ordinary stocks in this company to consider and advise on the course to be adopted for the preservation of their property, reported :----That the net annual revenue of the company was suffi cient to pay all the preference interest and divi dends, but, from the distrust now affecting all rail way securities, the company had been obliged to employ that revenue in meeting capital obligations ; hence the non-payment of the two last half-years' preference dividends. To meet the dividends now due, and to liquidate the existing engagements of the company on capital account (other than the Metropolitan Extensions, which would be sepa rately provided for), would require one million and a half sterling. The interest paid last year upon £BOO,OOO of temporary loans exceeded £60,000, which would represent the interest upon £1,200,000 of the debenture stock subsequently referred to. They deemed it essential to the restoration of the company's credit, and to the permanent security of the preference holders :—" Ist. That, in ;order to meet the interest on the debentures and debenture stock, and so afford absolute security to the inves tors, there shall be paid, under Parliamentary obli gation, week by week, to the credit of the three trustees, to be nominated by the Governor of the Bank of England such a proportion of the traffic receipts as will meet the current interest on the whole of the debentures and debenture stock of the company : 2, that three trustees, to be appointed by the preference shareholders,' shall be vested , with power to veto any further capital expenditure or liability beyond that now existing which they may disapprove ; 3, that in order to provide for the divi dends now due, and to meet the pressing require ments on capital account, there shall be created, under Parliamentary sanction, one million and a half of debenturestock, bearing interest at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum, to be offered to preference share holders, and such persons as are willing to receive it in satisfaction of their claims, and to be payable by instalments ranging over three years from the present time, having the dividends or sums now due written up in part payment." 'They confidently recommended this arrangement for adoption. As an example of how it would work, it was shown that a holder of £l,OOO of 5 per cent. stock, with one year's dividend (£5O) unpaid, would receive scrip representing four years' dividend, or say for £2OO, of which £5O would be written up as paid, leaving £l5O to fall due, by instalments of £25, on the Ist of September and the Ist of March in each year, until fully paid up. There was no obligation on the holder of preference stock to keep the scrip. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The report of the directors of this company states that the gross receipts for the half-year ending the 31st of December last, upon the whole undertaking, including the Buffalo and Champlain lines, had been £719,370, and the ordinary working expenses £413,608, or 57.49 per cent., leaving a balance of 1305,762. From this was deducted £72,392, the proportion of renewals of the permanent way and works debited to revenue, leaving an available net balance of £233,370. Out of this was deducted £174,891, including £20,722 for postal and military service bonds, £61,826 discount on American cur rency, £32,786 rent of Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railway, £11,250 rent of the Detroit line, £10,779 interest on equipment mortgage, and £31,580 for proportion of Montreal and Champlain and Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway Company's traffic, leaving, with £2OO from the preceding half-year, a balance of £58,680, which would provide for a cash divi dend on the first preference bonds, leaving a balance of £326 for next account. This dividend would be payable on and after the 22d inst., and cer tificates for the arrears of interest to be capitalised on the second preference bonds and on the third and fourth preference stocks would, under the terms of the Act of 1862,be subsequently issued. The increasein the aggregate receipts for the half-year, as compared with the same period of 1865, was £1,500, the total revenue being the largest yet received in any one half-year. The decrease of net revenue was caused by an increase in loss on currency, an increase in legal charges, the debit of a sum under award to the Brantford Gas Company, and a larger outlay in the locomotive department for new engines and cars to maintain the existing stock in an efficient state. The two last items, together about £l6,ooo,accounted for the increased working expenses. In appropriat ing the net revenue £5,359 had been paid to the postal and military bondholders, in excess of the sum due to them in the corresponding half of 1865. This had arisen from increased receipts for the con veyance of troops and stores arising out of the Fenian raid. The receipts from passenger traffic, mails, &c., showed an increase over the corresponding period of 1865 of £5,165, or 1.67 per cent. ; but the merchan dise receipts showed a falling off of £420. The dimi nution of revenue in the freight traffic was entirely in live stock, and was in consequence of the 'United States tariff laws which came into operation on the repeal of the Reciprocity Treaty. The live stock 'receipts in the corresponding half of 1865 were £36,011, while those for 1866 were only £16,333. The average receipt of passengers per head was 7s. 2d., against 7s. 10d. in 1865, and the average per ton was 15s. 11d. as compared with 15s. sd. in 1865. The working expenses were 57.49 per cent. for the past half-year, 55.35 for the same half of 1865, 59.68 per cent. for the same half of 1864, 57.11 per cent. for same half of 1863, 59 . 68 per cent. for same half of 1862, and 68'64 per cent. for same half of 1861. The total loss on the American currency since June, 1862, amounted to £290,384, the loss for the past half-year being £61,828. The enormous loss occasioned by this wholly extraneous cause had altered the entire aspect of the recent finances of the company. The price of gold fluctuated during the six months ended Dec. last between 154 in July and 131 in Dec. The continued inflation of the prices of labour and materials in the United States, con sequent upon the state of the currency, still led to an excessive cost in many departments. The amount expended out of the revenue in renewals of perma nent way, from 1862 to 1866 inclusive, had been £621,543, and of the extremely large expenditure in the past half-year of £97,392 the board had charged £25,000 to capital account. The debit for stock of stores in hand had been reduced from £245,419, the amount in Dec., 1865, to £202,357. The reciprocity treaty with the United States ended in March, 186 G. The full results of its repeal had, however, been more apparent in the past half-year, and while the local traffic had kept up in a very satisfactory man ner, the interchange of traffic between Canada and the United States had suffered. All accounts with the Government of Canada and her Majesty's Go vernment were now settled and disposed of. hooking to the heavy loss which had during the last fiveyears arisen from the condition of the American currency, to the pressure of the excessive outlay for r enewals of the permanent way, to the imposs i bility of the railway earning even the amount of revenue now obt a inable without an increas in g q uantity of rolling stock, and to the realisation of the expectations, so long formed, of the construction of the lntercolonial Railway, the board considered the time had arrived for maturing a plan under which the progress of the traffic and the resources of the undertaking —now destined to become an integral portion of a great Z-- - z_ _ .-* ( e-e-e. continental highway—should be fully kept pace with. In five years, 1861-6, the traffic had increased 47i per cent., or from £17,700 to £26,092 per wok. Such a rate of increase was almost without example. Friendly interviews had recently taken place between deputations from theboards of the Grand Trunk and Great Western of Canada, and propositions for a more cordial and complete interchange of traffic had been discussed. It was hoped that those discussions might lead to some practical issue. < IMPERIAL G.S. The report of the directors of this company states that the balance of profit and loss for the half-year amounts to £57,499, which is insufficient by £7,809 to pay a dividend of 5 per cent. for the half year. That stun, therefore, must be taken from the reserve fund to enable the shareholders to divide at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum on the old capital, and 7 per cent. upon so much of the new capital as was paid up on Dec. 31 last. The directors deeply deplore the depreciation of gas property consequent upon the agitation which has existed during the past 12 months; and they further regret that the Govern ment should have introduced a bill into Parliament which proposes to repeal the Gas Acts of 1847 and 1860, upon the faith of which so large an amount of capital has been invested. The directors are per suaded that Parliament will not sanction such a breach of good faith. Application has been made to Parliament to raise more capital and hold more land upon which to erect new works at West Ham marshes, with a frontage to the river Lea. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday, in the House of Lords' Committee, the Northumberland Central Bill was passed. In the House of Commons' Committee, in Group 3, the Ilfracombe was adjourned until to-day"; the Devon and Somerset and Bristol and Exeter Bills was proceeded with and adjourned ; and also the Devon and Somerset and the Devon and Somerset (Extension) Bills were adjourned. In Group E the promoters of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Bill proved the preamble. Fenianism in America. Fenianism is producing a disagreeable result to the United States, where it has grown and thriven. The military organisation of a strong band of foreigners for the accomplishment of an object in which the country is :no way interested is more likely to be injurious to the nation which shelters it than to that against which it is directed. England can meet Fenians as enemies, and repel them by force of arms; but the United States cannot sup press within her boundaries such a body. It may be very patriotic for the Irish, while freely received into that land of promise, to use their liberty for the benefit of their native country, without any regard to the injury their proceedings may do to their adopted country. But, however flattering such a course may be to Ireland, it is the reverse of flattering to the United States. The native-born American can scarcely be gratified at seeing his country used as a tool by a set of rowdy Irish con spirators, whose avowed object it is to involve the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race in war, to give an ascendancy to a party in his native island. Americans are beginning to be impressed with the fact that there is no American object or interest whatever involved in the proceedings of these Feuiaus. Processions are formed, military displays made in the streets, and much buncombe talked, but.all on questions of no concern whatever either to North or South, Democrat or Republican. Why should Irishmen be encouraged to slay and rob native Americans because they are born on the left bank of the St. Lawrence? Surely the ties of their great father-land should be stronger than the professions of a political creed ! But if Americans look with indifference or approval at these proceedings directed against their brethren across the border, they are beginning to learn that it is unpleasant to experience the aggression themselves, and the weapons of these marauders are as ready at their own throats as at their neighbours. They had a disagreeable proof of this on St. Pat rick's Day in New York. A grand procession dragged its long length through the centre of the city, cutting it in halves, and impeding the traffic. All communication between the upper and lower portions was suspended ; none dared to cross the living barrier except those who held their lives in their hands. The mail waggons have, by law, the right of way, and the driver of one, as in duty bound, attempted to make good his passage. He was pulled down from his seat and cruelly beaten, and his horses fared no better. Long lines of cars blocked up the roads, detained while the Irish flaunted in the face of "New America " their Hibernian patriotism. " Fancy our indignation," exclaims the American correspondent of the Stand ard, " at being ordered about by drunken, brutal Irishmen,whoseonly titles to authority were the green badges they had placed in their button-holes and the swords and clubs they carried." Fancy the feelings of the passengers with their baggage on board the ocean steamers, starting at noon, as they watched the interminable procession, hour after hour, slipping by. Imagine their annoyance on reaching the place of embarkation to see the smoke of the steamer in the distance, with their forfeited fare and their wardrobe on board. But all were not p re pared to endure with p atience the interruption. A fight, of course, was the consequence, and 22 policemen were the victims. So long as they came up by ones and twos they fell an easy prey to the mob, but experience taught wisdom to the myr midons of the law, and at last a solid phalanx marched down Grand-street with a front that showed they were bent on mischief. The mob in stantly scattered, leaving on the ground the bodies of the adventurous men who, single-handed, had thrust themselves on the scene of action, all badly wounded. Playing with edged tools is proverbially dangerous ; encouragement to fillibusters may be a policy of expediency, but can never be one of wisdom. The ascendancy of such a lawless party as the Fenians can work nothing but evil. It is suicidal to encourage the large and growing Celtic party to band together for the accomplishment of a purpose purely Irish, and to seek interests separate and apart from those of the nation. By such means a community is formed in the United States, but not of the United States. The nationality is main tained where true policy would direct that that nationality should be abolished—that the natural ised Irishman should cease to be an Irishman and become an American. Even where the objects are sought peaceably such organisations should not be encouraged, but where sought by force of arms the impolicy becomes a danger. The inzperium in imperio assumes then a threaten ing aspect, and the combination accustomed to demand what they assert to be their rights with arms in their hands may, when baulked or success ful against a foreign Power, turn on the Govern ment of the country which has harboured them. The United States should not trust too much to their powers of absorption, for this party haS tendency to grow at a quicker rat io than any other- in the Union ; and it might become a very dan gerous one, if led, as it surely will be led, by greedy and unscrupulous men. The Americans may depend upon the fact, which has been proved by by the pages of histo r y , that the Irish are easy people to govern. From out the mass men of the most brilliant capacity, of the most extraor dinary intellect, of genius, are constantly stepping, but the mass delight in secret association and in open violence, whom no benefits can conciliate, no laws control when the spirit of opposition is fairly roused. It is for the benefit of this party,a well as of the nu merous emigrants thrown be shipload sdirected o n the American so il, that it should in and controlled — in one word, governed. By such means the Irish will become a most valuable class to the Union, but if left to their own devices they may yet form its most dangerous element.—Anglo- A merica n Times. The Life and Labours of the late John Camp bell, D.D., we learn, arc in course of preparation, under the editorship of the Rev. Dr. Ferguson, and the. Rev. Dr. Brown, of Cheltenham, assisted by his son. The work is largely from the doctor's own pen, and the material prepared by his own hand. It will be shortly published by John Snow and Co., of Ivy-lane, Paternoster-row, London. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " CASTE." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., 1%1 Y SON'S By the Author of " Caste," IFE. "This novel is a goof one, and will he a general favourite. There is great interest in the tale."—Observer. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. '"-•\