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/ ) y ~G - . ~T~. y ,l ' • • * 4l; Itt)-vx") • . •21'4. - : , _ • . , - 1,4. • ‘‘' r 4,414) WYII."- • ;•:‘, _DRO . D IE 1 ‘." 4_ , -IN - rwsT)NPER LONDON STREET REFORM SOCIETY. PRESIDENT. c , „ „ `:- _ ' •+..,.. i- ''',Ci-.;:4LW:r, --‘ : , ''' `' 1 / •: - :"i '''..,, z, yf:'::;?, A DUBLI ;Jan..l7.!"i'--77:' '''' ' 7' .- ; The frost brok e u p w ith a tremendo - stOrrn.o4 . - : • ,-7 Saturday night. Th e snow was accomp i'4l by... 4 ' ..,. \-' _,' rapid thaw, an turned to rain towards mitignga S The mailpacket due at 7 5 yesterday morning did not arrive till 3 p.m. She had no mails from any place except Holyhead, the train from London having been snowed up on the line. The steamer which should have been in at six o'clock yesterday evening did not arrive till 9 p.m., and was again without the London mails, for the same reason. The gale carne mainly from the south-east, a bad point for shipping on this coast. I learn from the Kingstown correspondent of the Daily Express that numerous vessels were seen running for Dublin, many with bare poles, and some with masts aid spars carried away. At Bray at midnight, in the height of the gale, a large French brigantine came ashore near the strand, the sea breaking over the deck every moment. The captain and crew managed to escape. Another vessel, the Catherine Porter, of Chester, struck on the Kish bank, and was wrecked. The master and two men were drowned. Two of the crew were saved at Wicklow by the lightship's crew, who behaved with great gallantry. The ves sel has since been driven ashore. Sir WILLIAM FRASER, Bart., M.A., F.S.A. On thel3th of June, 1865, it was admitted unanimously in the House of Commons that the condition of London, as regards Paving, Lighting, and Cleansing, was disgraceful. No 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 known facts ; to point out defects in the law ; to enforce provisions at present neglected; and to watch Bills introduced into Par liament on these subjects. The 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. Italy, Esq., Hon. Sec. L.S.R.S., 88, St. Jame s's- st reet, S. W. N°. 23,269. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1867. PRICE.... 4d. STAMPED sd . KO II lAN S LL 1 - DUBLIN EXIIIBITIO ‘rIII NI6K-Y. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., AFTER Covent-garden Theatre—EVANS' to SUP. After Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Lyceum Theatre EVANS' to SUP, After Adelphi Thetare EVANS' to SUP. After Olympic Theatre . ........ EVANS' to SUP. Atter Strand 'theatre EVANo' to SUP. Atter New Voya ty Theatre --EVANS' to SUP. Atter St. James's Theatr, Ii'VANS' to SUP. Atter Prince of Wales' Theatre EVANS' to SUP. London Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden, Vocal Entertainment at Eight. Mr. J. Bright, M.P., and Mr. It. Garth, M.P. — This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the )üblin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole ,orno. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; y the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or Tbolosale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded " Kinaban's LL Whisky." 3 p. MARK L9I? h N'' raI LEYTON HALL, The following correspondence has passed between Mr. Bright, M.P., and Mr. Richard Garth, the newly-elected member for Guildford : "These volumes Are full of interest, humour, and pathos. They are sure to be popul tr."--Star. "We commend 'l.eyton Hall' most heartily. The story is an extremely good one."—lllustrated News. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great 31 irlborough-street. CONTRA CT FOR BEECH WEDGES. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, 14th Dec., 1866. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, Do hereby give NOTICE, th a t on TUESDAY, the Bth January next, at Two o'Clock, they will bo ready to treat 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. The average annual consumption, together with a Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contract, may be 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. "Rochdale, Dec. 21, 18G6. LADY CAMPBELL'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols , "r OMAN'S CONFESSION. By LADY C.OIPBELL. QTUDARE'S, Madame (Widow of the late Col. Stodare) T liE AT RE OF MYSTERY, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.—The new Illusion, " WIII4:EX IS SILL ?" will shortly b produe:d. VIIUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Inc,rpor.ited by Act of l'arliam mt, 1850). 4, 1;u. sELL-sTitEET. COVENT-GARDEN. LONDON. Prompt ADVANCES on all description of :Security. Forms tree on application by letter to EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. " A 'Woman's Confeision` deserves to be a successful novel."-31orning P&L Hurst and Blae , :ett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ST ODA R E, Madame.—Great Success of "WHO'S II E - ?" the funniest Ventriloquist In the world, G. W. JESTER, and Madame Stodare's CHRIST MAS DISTRIBUTION of PRESENTS. Magic, SPHINX, MARVEL OF' MECCA, and BASKET TRICK, Every Evening at Eight, Wednesday and S Iturday Mornings at Three. by Mr. Firbank Burman, pupil of Colonel Stodare. Admission—is. and 25.; stalls, 3 s . Schools and children half-price. Seats secured at th e Box-office, from 11 till 6, and at Mitchell's, 33, Old Bond-street. COUNTRY HOTELS, 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 HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES, 5, Agar-street, Strand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Cress Railway Station. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., A NNALS of a QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD. By GEORGE MAC DONALD, M.A., " Mr. Macdonald is a true poet. The Annals' are as full of music as was Prospero's island ; rich in strains that take the ear captive when they a-e first heard, and afterwards linger long upon it."—S..turday Review, Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MISS BRADDON'S NEW ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. Now Publishinz, price One Shilling, Monthly, “BELGRAVIA:" " The best Shilling Magazine which England pos ses,,es.”—Standar,i. Office : Warwick House, Paternoster-row, London. MR. JAMES WEAVER, Manager. ANSION-HOUSE -I- of the SUFFERER: EXPLOSIONS. 'UND for the RELIEF by the recent COLLIERY COMM The Right Hon ti :ITTEE. to LORD MAYOR. By Order, ANTONIO BRAY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. 0. L. Pevan, Esq. Samuel Morley, Esq. Geo. Moore, Esq. Mr. Alderman Finnis. J. P. Gassiot, Esq. Christopher T. Gabriel, Esq. Frederick Thompson, Esq. 11. A. Gray, Esq. Colonel Stuart Wortley. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Waterlow. Mr. Sheriff Lycett. Mr. Alderman liesley. Mr. Alderman Dakiu. James Hill, Esq. R. N. Fowler, Esq. VV. J. Maxwell, Esq. Mr. Alderman Cotton. Jut pubilshed, PROPOSED LONDON RAILWAYS, &c.— STANFORD'S NEW MAP of the PROPOSED mETRO PO LIT A N RAILWAYS and AIISCELLANEOITS IMPROVEMENTS for Session 1867 ; showing also the Sanctioned Lines and It dlways in Operation, with a List of the Plans numbered to correspond with this Map, and the Private Bill °lnca List; the Names of the Engineers, and the Lengths of the Proposed Lines. The map is on the scale of two inches to a mile; size, 35 inches by 30, and ac curately compiled from the Deposited Plans. Price, in sheet, 2s 6d. ; mounted in case, ss. . - 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 families made destitute thereby. The amount required to meet the memorable Hartley Colliery Accident in 1862 was .£50,000 ; in that case 204 men and boys lost their lives ; in the present instance double that number are known to have perished, there fore to make a suitable provision for the families depen dent upon them about £lOO,OOO will be needed. At the final distribution of the surplus of the Hartley Fund, £3,140 was allotted 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 11.11.11. the Princess of Wales The Corporation of London Amount already advertised Subscriptions will be received by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor ' at the Mansion-horse; Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Stra n d ; 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, Cornhill ; the Lon don and Westminster Bank, Lothbury; the London Joint- Stock Bank, 5, Princes-street ; the Union Bank of London ; London and County Bank; the National Provincial Bank of England and all their branches; Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., Lombard-street; and by the several members of the Committee. London : Edward Stanford, 6, Clta , lng-cross, S.W. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, 17_1. BAKER-STREET. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. NEW EDITIONS. —Life-size Portrait-Models of JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., M.P., and the late RICHARD COBDEN, Esq., 31. P. Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till to p.m.. Admittance, ls. ; children, under ten, half-price; extra rooms, ad. SPLENDID SPECULATIONS. GREAT BUCCES.3 With a single stake of £l, you can realise £25,0e0 ! With a single stake of .£2, you can realise .£27,5"k0 1! With a single stake of £B, you can realise £ 1 .000 ! I With a single stake of .£lO, you can realise £45,0001! For prospectuses and particulars apply without delay to Mr. EUGENE TH.Lor,,General Merchant, Guernsey. UNDER TILE PATRONAGE OF THE ELITE OF EUROPE AND AMERICA. NO MORE CRUSHING OF DRESSES. ARGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO, Windmill-street , Piccadilly. These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirely re decorated, are now OPEN EVERY EVENING for Concert and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Luct CURTI. Manager, M. GRENET. THE only PRIZE for any class of TRUNKS at the Duh:in Exhibition, 1865, was AWARDED to Mr. MYE itS, of CAVE ND IS R HOUSE, WL,, , more-street, Caven dish-square, London, for his newly-Invented Patent Self- Expanding, DRESS BASKET TRUNKS, which arc secured by Royal Letters Patent in England and Prance. All Americans visiting London are respectfully recom mended to visit the above Establishment and inspect the various decriptions and large assortment of Travelling Portmanteaus, Trunks, tte , Ladies especially will find in M. Myers's Royal Alexandra Self-Expanding and Collapsing , Dress Baskets the ne plus ultra of perfection for their requirements. This Basket com prises every convenience the traveller can suggest, It i s constructed to carry a large or small quantity of Dresses, &c. ; and from its rxculiar mechanical contrivance will ex pand or collapse by its own action, thereby adapting itself to any size ; and it can therefore be used for either a short journey or a long tour. Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. Reserved Seats, Two Shillings. WESTON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, 11 LBORN. Solo Proprietors, SWEASEY and HOLLAND. Grand Selection from Auber's Opera of " MASA NIELLO," by 40 vocalists dressed in costume as at the opera. Terr,fic ovation of the Irish Minstrels, with songs, dances, and Irish anecdotes, under the direction of Pat Conj. A new and original overture composed and ar ranged expressly for the above minstrels by Mr. H. Baker. Comic—Arthur Lloyd's new song " Borachio, Pestachio, Lablachip, Moustachio, and the Roly Poly Eye,"—Jolly, Nash, Georgina Smithson, Sing y Fannin, Patrick Sellers and Harry and- Kattie King ; and Pio Watkini, the Japanazo Juggler. Band of 30 first-class performers, and large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera Houses. Musical Director, Mr. P. CORRI. JOSEPH GIBBS, Secretary. Mansion House, Jan. 7, 1867. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. DUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. DEFRIES and SONS' T-7• NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS contain an entirely new an , l extensive Stock of TABLE GLASS, China, and Chan- Houndaditch. CONTRACT FOR FRESH OX BEEF AND VEGE TABLES AT FOYNES. CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY. TSomerset Heuse, ,27th D, 1806. lIE COMMISSIONERS for ecember EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND do hereby Give Notic, that on Tuesday, the 15th January n ex t, a t T we l ve o ' clock at Noon, they will be 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 u , o of her Majesty's ships and vessels at Foynes as may be demanded from the 15th January to the 30th June, 1867, both (lays 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 1001 b., 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 100 lb. 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 bo 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 duo 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. T O U N 11.1 AK. E R7BaTricl Others. Tho SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of rocoivincr, PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for EREECII-LO A.DING RIFLES, either repeating or not repeating, which may replace the present Service Rifles in future manufacture. I The followi ng are the conditions considered essential in military non -repeating Rifles:— - A. WIGHT. Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet. n. LENGTH. To ho 51 inches, with short stock, measured from the hollow of the butt-plate to muzzle. c. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP. Must not exceed Glb. 4oz. for sixty rounds as paced for service. D. Must carry thei r own CARTRI ignitionDGES.. E. SIGHTS. The foresight must be such as to admit of a bayonet fixed according to the present system. F. STOCK. Must b e suc h as to carry a light metal cloaning•rod, and allow a sling to be used. G. . Must not excee d that of RECOIL the Enfield Rifle by more than 10 per cent. H. THE ARM AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injury by long-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. a. 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 B nirler'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 FORA.' OF GROOVE. Optional. M. THE LOCK. Optional. N. RAPIDITY FIRE. Capable of firing at least 12 ro OF unds Crp minute, without aiming, the cartridges being arranged on a table. o. ACCURACY WHEN FIRED 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. r. ORY. • Not to require at 500 yards anTRAJECT elevation of more than 1 dog. 30 min. Q. FOULING. The shooting n o t t o deteriorate more than 20 at 1,000 yards after firing 250 roun d s. per cent. R. PENETRATION. Tim moan penetration of five shots not to be less than that of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle-- viz., 12 half-inch elm planks, which have been soaked 48 hours in water. Distance 30 yards. s. LBRICATN. Wax o u b u ll ets is indi U sreasable, IO but any other lubrican may be superadded o r app li ed to the cartridge, if though necessary by the competitor. 111. No arm s w il l b e received without the usual proof marks. Specifications, and drawings of the methods proposed, stating the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a finished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu nition, should he sent to the " Director of Ordnance, War Office, Pall-mall," on or before the 30th March, 1867. The 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 ' a or War, and w h o will, aster firing the 20 lir,- select and r ecommend for further trial such ,m •ina , rounds, as may appear to them sufficiently pro , --• '-'` the systems such as may not be considered to -asing, rejecting all warrant their being included ! offer sufficient merits to ditiens of which are staf- in the competition, the con- Each accepted en"- -id in this advertisement, for experiment -.petit:yr will then be required to furnish to the spo o. ,at 'Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity . „ eon. arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am muuitiejd per arm, within four months after date of de lila .1. Each competitor will be required to disclose to the c. 3 mmittee the exact nature of the lubrication be may em ploy. A sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted competitors, to co ver t h e expense of the six rifles, and of the supply of ammunition required. The Secretary of Stat e o ff ers a reward of £l,OOO for the arm which, mittee to be the best on combination of a sub qll mitted.ualities, is considered by the c om 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 such prize w ill be irrespective of any reward which may be more than on e pr i ze ; but given to the inventor of fiervice, the arm finally adopt © d i nto the I V; MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. Mafrazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will , „ c , re _ eived and ex am i ne d i n a manner similar to +;, o Breech loading Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48 riches, including the stock. The of weight for these arms is fixed at 911 b. ex clu,ivo 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 he 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 includo - 1,000 rounds of ammunition per arm. The Se cre t a V. ry of State will take care that no inenious no velty produce(' 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 bo recorded in connection with it. if the rifle to which the first prize is awarded is adopted into the service, it will bea r th e i nventor ' s name. J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director of Ordnance War Mee, Oct. 22 1866 " V.R." IRISH WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices find Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 1808. Quotations on application. TAINIES DALy and CO., Distillers, John-stre e t, *Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the world."— London Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, Ex., next the " Times." JDALY and CO., Di s till ers , J o h n -street, CI Cork, beg to announce that they are able to supply the trade with their celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases, and to take orders in bond and for exportation, at their offices, 7, Printing-house-square, London, E C., the only house in the square not occupied by th. " Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies briny the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial markets, as mey be observed by reverence to the "Journal of Commerce oi Victoria," by which it w ill be aeon that their whiskies fetch 6d. per gallon and Is. per case over the next best, and Is. 64 per gallon and ss. 6d. a case over the lowest quotation. • Always on hand a large supply of ve-1 mellow wh.sky i n th e fi nest condition, matured in sherry casks, unsurpasseble in quality and flavour, supplied on the most reasonable terms. EAU -DE-VIE. —This Pure PALE BRANDY, 18s. per gallon, is ye ry snperior to recent Importations of Cognac, recommended by the medical profession, and ex tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 335. per dozen, or in a case 395., railway carriage pal I.—HEN RY 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 Ca9tain, viz., winne: of the race, having distanced all com petitors, as the IcAST INT DIA TEA COMPANY have in • iriab y done la their cimi e and sale of line new season's teas, now selling at importer's prices, Warehouses -9, Great St. Helen's -churchyard. LAMBERT'S ASTHM ATIC BALSAM.-AN EFFECT UAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affectio the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be the beat medicine for immediately relieving cou,,rias, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which pl ()yokes frequent coughing. In approaching consump its effects a re t ru l y beneficial. I'ersons deprived of sleep, tion or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepares on,y and sold by W. LANIBERT, Chemist, 8, Ki ng - William -street, Charing cross, and by all drikggists, in bottles, 13td., and three tiesquanti in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular. and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address are engraved on the stamp. WRUPTURES. —BY ROYAL GETTERS PATENT. HITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS ( PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBITIONS ot 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Me lioal Gentlemen to be the most etTectire Invention in the curative treatment ot HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hqrtful in its effects. is here avoided —a sott b an d age being worn round the body, while requisite resisting- power is supplied by the Moo-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with, so much ease and 3103C ness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during AA. descritive circular may be had, and tha truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post. on the circum ierence of Utz body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the Inanelactuter, - Mr. WRITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 16g., 215., 26s 6d., and 31s. 6d Postage, Is. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. ed. Posta. , e, Is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. fid. Postage, Is. 10 d. Post -office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT LASTIC STOCKINGS) F KNEE-CAPB,&c., for Varicose Veins and all eagos et Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, qprainsk .ittl , . 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Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly s o li c it e d for fitting up the TRAINING SHIP, £2,000 required. WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Boys Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON TRIBUTIONS are earnestly s o li c it e d f or establishing the COUNTRY ROME. £l,OOO required. WM. WILLIAMS, Seoret ary , Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.IA HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON. The Committee are most the to provide for 400 boys. One hundred and fifty are now In the Refuge. The annual expenditure for supporting the 400 boys fs estimated At £",000, being £l5 a year for each boy, Sereral kind friends have promised to pay for one boy each year. Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothbury, and 214 i Mgt liolborii% Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall Eftet % and by Wid. WILLIAMS, Secret a r y. Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. 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" Sir,—Through the courtesy of an elector of Guildford I have received a handbill printed by Mr. Stent, printer, stationer, &c., Guildford, purporting to contain a report of a speech delivered by you to an enthusiastic. meeting of Mr. Garth's supporters, held at the White hart Hotel, Friday evening, Dec. 14, 1866.' I wish to call your attention to some passages in this speech. I pass by much which is open to criticism, and confine myself to certain exact statements to which you appear to have com mitted yourself. 1. You ask, What has Mr. Bright done for his own people ? Has he ever stood for his own place? Dare he ever stand for it? Not he! He has been hooted away from his own premises ; his own people distrust him.' 2. You ask, What did he do in the cotton famine ? When thousands of men were out of employment, when people down here who had no direct interest in the matter sub scribed soliberally,—why he did not subscribe a half penny.' 3. You say, I will tell you what he did. He wanted to give them a loan which was to be re paid in so many years, so that during those years he would have these people as his serfs at his beck and call, to do ;what he pleased with, and to prevent their rising when he chose to put wages at whatever rate he liked.' You state that I have not answered charges of a similar kind made against me, and you therefore assume that they are true. I cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of any poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. lam quite sure you will not venture to say on the floor of Par liament, where I could meet you, what you have had the courage to say at the White Hart in Guild ford, and, therefore, I address this letter to you rather than wait till the opening of Parliament. With re gard to the paragraph which I have marked No. 1, I beg to tell you that the only part of it which is not false is that which assumes or asserts that I have not stood as a candidate for the borough of Rochdale. I have not been a candidate for this borough, though on several occasions I have been asked to stand by the most eminent men of the Liberal party, which has a large majority in the borough. I believe there is not a respectable man in Rochdale, of your own party, who will not admit that, if I had wished it, and had consented to leave the great constituency which has for nine years past honoured me with its confidence, I might, at this moment, have been the Parliamentary representa tive of this borough. The rest of the paragraph marked No. 1 is simply a falsehood in every part of it. Of the assertion in paragraph No. 2 I may say the same. It is a falsehood in every part of it. I am not in the habit of boasting of what I give, and I shall not now enter into particulars that I may , confute you. I may say that, after we had sub scribed as largely as any other firm in the town, my only complaint against the relief committee in this district was that it did not make further calls upon the millowners here before it applied for assistance from the general fund at the disposal of the com mittee in Manchester. I may say further, that, according to my means, I believe I did not fall short of what was done by any other contributor to the fund, whether in or out of this county. Pos sibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade in the disas trous years of the American war. In paragraph No. 3 you make a strange assertion both as to fact and motive. I am obliged to tell you that the whole paragraph is false from beginning to end. You must be singularly ignorant of the condition and temper of the working men of this-district to imagine that any employer can have them 'as his serfs at his beck and call," to do what he pleases with, and to prevent their rising when he chooses to put wages at whatever rate he likes.' I have now called your attention to some statements of your speech. I say that these statements are false—wholly and absolutely false. If you knew them to be false when you made them, I need not write the word which would properly describe you. If you made them, not knowing whether they were true or false, I can only pity your disregard of all honourable feeling and caution when dealing with the character of your opponents. I do not expect you will deny the accuracy of the report of your speech, for I find that you repeated the substance of the slanders in your speech at the nomination for Guildford. I do not expect that you will attempt to prove the charges you have made, for that I know to be impossible. Whether you will retract what you have said, and express sorrow for having said it, will depend on whether, being a Queen's Counsel and a member of Parlia ment, you possess the qualities which are never found 'wanting in the character of a gentleman.— I am, respectfully, "JOHN BRIGHT. " R. Garth, Esq., M.P., 3, Paper buildings, Temple." " Temple, Jan. 3. " Sir,—l have already explained to you my reasons for not replying earlier to your letter of the 24th of last month. I was anxious, in justice to you, as well as to myself, to put you in possession, as far as I could, of the sources of information upon which the statements I made at Guildford, and of which you complain, were founded. I have no personal knowledge either of yourself or of Roch dale, and my impressions have been derived partly from your own speeches and partly from correspon dence and other statements which have appeared from time to time in the public prints. I have not yet been able to lay my hand upon some of these, but I would call your attention to two speeches, which I have recently read, and which, no doubt, were fresh in ray memory at the time when I ad dressed my friends at Guildford. The first of these is a speech of Mr. Pope Hennessy, addressed to the electors of the county of Wexford, and reported in the Times of the 6th of November last, from which the following is an extract :—' He is a great manufacturer, and he employs what he calls a good many hand* . . . he employs a large number of human beings—men, women, and children. Now, no man stands up so stoutly for his own strong class as against the weak instruments they employ as Mr. Bright; he was a leader in the de fence of the cruel old system of slavery, of disease, of ignorance, of shortened, unhappy lives which the Factory Acts have successfully attacked. Hardly two years have passed since, at a meeting of the magnates of Manchester, he boasted of his former opposition to the Factory Acts, and said be should be prepared to do the same again. He kept his word ; for when the Lace Factories Bill was before the house, and the Bleachworks Bill, and a bill to give some protection to the poor girls who work in the Bradford warehouses , he w as not only present, but violent in his opposition to those salutary and benevolent acts. Ile fought, and the other Radical manufacturers with him, for what he deemed to be a sort of property of his—the right of doing what he liked with his own workpeople. e carried his class feelings even below the surface of the earth, and when the Mines Regulation Bill was before P a rliament he and his class w ould not give the smallest help to the miner to get better ventilation or greater safety from accidents, simply because bet e ,' ventilation and greater safety means addi tional expense to the mine owner. . . . lB6l a deputation from the miners came to London, and presented me with an address of thanks for omos little services I tried to ren der them, and from she men I hoard a unanimous condemnation of Mr. Bright.' The other speech to which I alludwie (and of which printed copies have, I believe, been dely circulated) wad delivered by Mr. F erra nd to the Working Men's Conservative Association at Brad ford, on the 20th of November last. In this speech Mr. Ferrand says I have watched Mr. Bright for years, and although, as I have told you, he is possessed of marvellous powers of eloquence, a greater political coward never entered the House of Commons. . . I never heard him make a speech which indicated peace and goodwill among men ; but, on the contrary, he has always tried to set the different classes of the community against each other, and thereby to encourage bloodshed. For 25 years I have worked with you working men of Bradford in obtaining many great and conciliating measures from Parliament, while he has opposed them all. During that time I never heard him speak a word in favour of working men in the House of Commons. You have been reminded of what his conduct was in Lancashire during the cotton famine. He took no part, either in purse or person, to relieve the distress in his native county ; but when I met, at Manchester, a great assembly of delegates from the cotton districts of Cheshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, they unanimously de clared that England had no more bitter enemy than Mr. Bright, and that he was detested by all the working men in Lancashire.' I can hardly suppose that your attention as a public man has not been directed to these passages ; and I am not aware that they have ever been contradicted. I had seen other public statements, and I had heard reports evincing your unpopularity among the working classes at Rochdale, and in Lancashire generally, and I .cer tainly did believe that you were unpopular there. You admit that you never stood for Rochdale, al though you have been invited to do so by your friends ; and it was therefore surely not unreasonable that I should form an opinion, which I believe I share in common with many others, that if you had stood for Rochdale you would not have been successful. My views in this respect may have been erroneous ; but I consider that I had a perfect right to entertain those views and to express them. I also most firmly believed, from statements and reports which I had seen and heard, that you had been hooted from your own premises and were distrusted by your workpeople, but as you tell me that what I said in this respect was wholly without foundation, I, of course, take it for granted that I was misinformed, and I beg, not only to retract my statement, but to express my sincere regret for having made it. With regard to the other paragraphs of which you complain, I must observe that the report of my speech is in some respects in accurate. I disclaim having ever said or intended to say that you had not subscribed a halfpenny' in aid of the distress which prevailed during the cotton famine. I sincerely hope and trust that there was no manufacturer in any of the cotton districts against whom such a charge could justly be made. But I believe that I am quite correct in supposing that at Rochdale, in the month of January, 1862, you did propose or suggest that instead of raising further subscriptions, the Poor Law Guardians, or the mill-owners, or both, should lend sums of money to the distressed operatives, upon the under standing that such loans should be repaid out of their earnings as soon as they should be restored to work. It was this proposition of yours to which I alluded, and upon which I animadverted in my speech at Guildford ; and I certainly was of opinion then, and I am so still, that the effect of such a scheme as you proposed would have been to entail a very heavy load of obligation upon the working men, which would have placed theln, possibly for years, in great measure under the control of their employers, who might have exercised that control either in regulating the amount of wages, or in other ways ; and I was, and am still further of opinion that, to have carried out your proposition at such a time, and under such circuttstanees, would have been by no means a liberal or generous policy towards the distressed operatives. It is almost unnecessary to add, that you are quite at liberty to make any use you please of this letter.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, I "John Bright, Esq." "RICHARD GARTH. " ROCHDALE, Jan. 4, 1867. F'Sir,—Your letter of yesterday has just arrived, and I find it almost precisely what I expected. After a week's search, you have not found a single fact to establish the gross charges brought against me in your speech at Guildford. Instead of facts and proofs you fill three pages of your letter with extracts from speeches of Mr. Ferrand and Mr. Hennessy, which speeches have doubtless been spoken, but which I have never read. I will give you an anecdote of Mr. Ferrand. About 20 years ago he was in the House of Commons, And on one occasion he made a ferocious and vulgar attack on my lamented friend Mr. Cobden. At the con clusion of his speech, Mr. Byng, then member for Middlesex, one of the most respected members of the House, came up to Mr. Cobden, and said to him, ' Don't trouble yourself about him—l have been in the House for 50 years, and no such ruffian has been here before in my time.' You will not be surprised, therefore, that I do not trouble myself with what Mr. Ferrand may say. But in what Mr. Ferrand and Mr. Hennessy have said I find no proof of the truth of what you have said. You made three charges of the most distinct character—that I had been hooted from my own premises—that I have not given ' a halfpenny' to the relief of the distress in these districts— and that I wished to support the suffering workmen by loans, that I might have them at my ' beck and call," to do what I pleased with,' and to prevent their rising when I chose to put wages at whatever rate I liked.' Your authority for the first charge is evidently such that you dare not produce it ; it is not even equal to the authority of Mr. Ferrand and Mr. Hennessy, and, therefore, you retract it. The second charge you escape from by denying the ac curacy of the report, without saying what you ac tually did say in place of what you are reported to have said. With regard to the third charge, you seek to avoid it by expressing an opinion that if money were lent to families in distress it would be burdensome to repay it, which nobody doubts ; but you express no regret that you charged me with recommending a system of loans in order that I might use them as a means of oppressing the work men during the period that would be required for the repayment of the loans. My object in suggest ing loans was to give relief in such a manner, to a large number of persons, as would not bring them into the list of ordinary paupers, and would not wound their honourable pride ; and if the distress had lasted only for a few months, as was then hoped would be the case, the plan would have been prac ticable, and might have been adopted with great advantage. On a revie w of your speech and your letter, I come to this conclusion —that you wished to get into Parliament, and were not particular as to the path which might lead to it. You threw dirt during your canvass, doubtless knowing that, if needful, you could eat it afterwards. There are man y men who go through dirt to dignities,' and I suspect you have no objection to be one of them.— I a m, with whatever respect is due to you, yours, &c., "JOHN BRIGHT. 4 4 Richard Garth, Esq., M.P,, Temple, London." " Temple, Jan. 5. "Sir,—ln acknowledging your letter of the 4th inst., I only think it necessary to observe that the conclusion at which you say you have arrived, and which you are pleased to express in such elegant phrase, is to inc a matter of the most perfect in difference. Whether your opinion of me is correct or not I shall leave to those who know me better to determine. " I am quite aware that I am not your match in the use of discourteous and insulting language, and therefore, instead of concluding my letter in the agreeable form which you have thought proper to adopt, I beg to subscribe myself, with conventional courtesy, your obedient servant, " RICHARD GARTII. " John Bright, Esq., M.P." The English line of railway near Bangor and Rhyl had been snowed up by a heavy drift to the depth of 15 feet, which completely prevented the further progress of mails and passengers by the Saturday night down limited Irish mail from London till the road was cleared. The Leinster, on this being ascer tained at Holyhead, left at 11 a.m., without mails or passengers, in order to carry out the Kingstown, passengers in the evening at 7 15 p.m. The Cou naught, which left Kingstown on Saturday evening in the gale for Holyhead, experienced the heaviest passage ever remembered by her commander., Capt. Tindell. She was 6 hours and 20 minutes out, and a heavy sea striking her carriel away the binnacle head on her quarter deck. 0 wing to the blo c k Up • near Rhyl the Ulster mail steamer did not leave Holyhead last evening till a linTe la hh t e e nst h eb o lee u ge r nra , arriving ip.ahiiuo na Kingstown oioation a o b n o t t i h t e8.30p English . ni . e c a o ai by the sno Gw w e s rde to a- r ut m. psotr T uat h ihn e e. o r u nA t r g lr o ian i n n eg g teo A ms m eenn e t r c i c hi a ta n voe m nhe a ea i e l rnl w yn z:s taidl i i n es o t h n e t s h n e o morning by special train to Queenstown to meet the Cunard steamer outward bound. as T s li ton e rem E vey n r g w l i i ie s ita h hthe a r n etr d ro. is been h so mail de r a a n n d g ed as h y passenger th t e r a ffi e h present It is still blowing a gale from the same point while I write, so that it is doubtful whether the Holyhead mail will be able to start at the usual hour this morning. An explosion of Fenian munitions of war yester day took place accidentally in Essex-street. It ap pears, as far as the facts have at present transpired, that on Friday evening a stranger called at the house No. 8, Essex-street, and inquired for lodgings. A man named Edward Connolly occupied the drawing room floor, and, as the stranger said he required nothing but a bed, agreed to let him a small closet adjoining the drawing room. The man minutely in spected the room, and expressed himself satisfied with the accommodation it afforded. He then went away, and shortly afterwards returned with a small box, which he carefully placed on a table, saying he would shortly return. He again left the house, bat has not since been beard of. Yesterday Connolly being dis engaged, and having his curiosity aroused by the non-appearance of his tenant resolved to ascertain the contents of the parcel. Accordingly he proceeded with great care to open the box and examine the contents in such a careful manner that were the owner to re turn he might not discover that his goods had been disturbed. The first articles he met with were two round bottles carefully corked and covered on the top with chamois leather. He placed the bottles on a table at the window, and proceeded to further in vestigate the contents of the box. A large paper parcel next presented itself, and on being touched by Connolly exploded with such terrific force as to knock down the side walls and partition of the room, and blow the windows completely out of the house. Connolly received sericus injuries about the head and hands. Inspector Armstrong, of the A division, who happened to be in the neighbourhood at the time, heard the explosion, and immediately hastened to Essex-street. On his way thither he meta police constable, who informed him that a house was on fire. The inspector desired the constable to alarm the Fire Brigade, and proceeded himself to the loca lity indicated. On arriving in Essex-street he found the air strongly impregnated with gunpowder, and saw a large crowd assembled around the house No. 8. His suspicions then became aroused, and, suspect ing that some Fenian arsenal had exploded, he des patched a messenger for the detective officers. The inspector next entered the house, and, having heard what had occurred, proceeded to the drawing-room. He discovered Connolly lying on the floor writhing in agony, while the apartment itself was in a perfect state of ruin. From the force of the concussion con sequent upon the explosion, the windows in the houses 3g and 40, on the opposite side of the street, were all broken, and it was stated that the persons in the house No. 8 were either all knocked down or violently thrown against the walls. Fortunately the two bottles (supposed to contain Greek fire) which Connolly had removed from the box re mained uninjured on the table ; but next Connolly, lying on the floor, the inspector discovered a large parcel, which he at first considered were candles ; but which eventually proved to be a par cel of ball-cartridges. The package was on fire, and the cartridges had actually ignited when the inspector's attention was attracted to them. They were immediately quenched, and taken charge of b w y as th th e en po r l e ic m e o , vasedwtoerteheahlsoosptihtael,baonttdlecs.aptC. Connolly not having arrived in the interim with the fire-engines, required, left and finding that his service s were some of the brigade men with Inspector Armstrong to clear the house of the ru ins. This object having been effected, the premises were ta ken char g e of by the police. Up to the present t he owner of the box has not been discovered, neither has it been ascer tained what material actually caused the explosion. Connolly, who was removed to Me rcer's Hos p ital, will, it is considered, if he recovers , b e de p rived of the use of his sight. Dr. F. R. Cruise, writing in the British Medical Journal, gives details of the recen t outbreak of cholera in Mountjoy Prison. They w ill serve to cor rect various erroneous statements that have been made on the subject. There has been no new case since Dec. 27. The attack commenced on Sunday, Dec. 23, the health of the establishment having been previously quite satisfactory. The epidemic lasted five days, during which time nine cases of cholera, with collapse, occurred, and four terminated fatally. The inhabitants of the prison are convicts, together with about 140 untried prisoners, now confined un der the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. Most of the cases of cholera occurred among the convicts. The outbreak was immediately notified to the Govern ment, and the most active sanitary measures were at once put into force, under the direction of the medi cal officer of the prison, Dr. R. M'Donnell. To the promptitude and energy with which these measures were carried out may fairly be attributed the rapid. subjection of the attack. Perhaps the most interest ing point in connexion with this particular visitation is the difficulty in tracing its origin. No case of cholera has taken place among the officers of the esta blishment or their families. 'The prisoners in the vari ous divisions of the prison do not communicate with each other, nor with the same officers ; neverthe less, cases arose simultaneously in these divisions. The water supply is derived from the reservoirs of the north side of the city. It is received in a supply bank, from which it is pumped by a steam engine to cisterns on the top of the building. This supply bank is pumped empty every 24 hours. From its situation it is absolutely secure from all risk of contamination from sewage, &c. The adjoining Female Convict Prison is supplied from the same Prison. The food recently suppliedhas, on quality. tank. But no case of cholera o ccurred in the Female exami nation, been reported of unexceptionable The different divisions of the prison are not on the same diet, neither is the food for them cooked in the same vessels. Nevertheless the disease appeared in all the divisions. The disease could not be ascribed to atmospheric influences, for the prison is one of the healthiest situations in Dublin. THOXF 0 K D, 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., THE MUSICAL ESTABLISH 3IENT OF LONDON. Cif IST MAS ENTER CA_INMENTS. LES DRAGONS DE VILL KS (Opera Comique), Music by A. Maillart (first time in this countr) IS E VEN (NG, in wh;rh Misa RUSSELL vvi I make li r Reagpearanee, as si.tel by Misses Barrie and Fitz Henry ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, Hulls, Fox, Husk, Evan., and Bury, with Extra Band and Chorus ;.produced and conducted by Mx. F. Jonglimans COMEDY, by Messrs. IFirry Sydney, Brierley„ and Eger ton, the Brothers Pentland, W. R. Julian (the celebrated Mimic), together with an Ent'rely New Divertissement, en titled THE OXFORD gEviiLs, arranged and produced under the immediate superintendence - ot Mr. W. 11. Payne, 'THIS EVENING. NOTICE. -Mr. FRANK RUSSET, of the NEW AME RICAN MINSTRELS, having. made a great success, will have the honour to make his appearance again this evening.