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EDWARD RARPER, -Secretary. CRYSTAL PALACE.—THIS DAY, Shilling Day.—Gardens and Park, refreshed by rain, now in great beauty. • Palace open for admission from .. .. 10.0 till 7.0 Orchestral Band.. .. .. 1.0 and 4.15 Display of Fountains .. • • .. 2.15 Festival Organ for Promenade till .. 8. 0 Admission ls., or by guinea season tickets. Present issue admitting to-day and to Great Drill Review by Prince and Princess Teck, and Great Dog Show, To - morrow ; Gr eat Rose Show, June 25 ; Operas and Dramatic Performances, Archery Meeting, County Cricket Matches, Grand Summer Concerts, and generally until 31st May, 1871. At all entrances and agents this day. Fine Arts Courts, Picture Gallery, Statuary, Flowers, Portraits, Busts, Birds Singing, Fountains Playing. G REA.T DRILL REVIEW, 2 , 000 Boys, To morrow.--CRYSTAL PALACE. CRYSTAL PALACE. To-mbrrow. GREAT DRILL RETIEW, by 11.5. H. the Prince of TECK and H.R.H. the Princess of TECK. More than 3,000 boys will take part in the evolutions. After the review the boys will go through various gymnastic exercises, swimming, ikc. The school bands will play during the review and afterwards. Prizes will be awarded by the Society of Arts nder whose direction the review will be given) to the best Drill School. Admission as usual, ls., or by guinea season tickets. CRYSTAL PALA_CE.—To-Monnow.-- - GREA.T DOG SHOW, Great Drill Review, Swimming and other Gymnastic Competitions, 3,000 Boys, Juvenile Bands, &c. ARRANGEMENTS. Palace open for admission from.. .. • • .. .. 10. 0 Judging of Dogs on Upper Terrace from about .. .. 10. 0 Orchestral Band of the Company 12. 0 The Boys form line on Grand Terrace at .. • . 1. 0 Review by H.S.H. Prince of Teck .. 2. 0 Swimming and other Competitive Exercises .. • • .. 3.30 Orchestral Band .. • • • . 4.15 Boys' Band of St. Marylebone Schools in Centre Transept. 6. 0 Festival Organ (Mr. Coward) and Promenade till .. .. 8. 0 Admission to Palace for Review, &c., is. ; or by Guinea Season Tickets free ; children half price. Admission to Dog Show Judging day), 2s. 6d. ; or by Guinea Season Tickets free. CRYSTAL PALACE.- GREAT NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF DOGS, Tp-MoßnoW (Tuesday), to Fri day, £l,OOO given in Prizes. Exhibitions of various descriptions have been from time to time held at the Crystal Palace—the Flower Shows and Rose Shows take of course the foremost place ; those for poultry, pigeons, rabbits, cage birds, have always proved very attrac tive, and it is confidently believed that the addition of this great Show of Dogs to the list of exhibitions held will be gra tifying to the large number of season ticket holders and other habitues of the Palace. No expense and no trouble have been spared to render the show a great success. It will be held in the basement, the greater part under canvas. Every precaution will be taken to insure perfect ventilation, and to render the exhibition a cool and most agreeable lounge. Nearly 1,000 specimens, ranging from the grandest mastiff and bloodhound to the timidest of toy terriers, as will be seen from the list below. The management of the exhibition has been undertaken by a committee of gen. tlemeu. Bloodhounds Deerhounds Greyhounds Otterhounds Hariers Beagles Fox Terriers Pointers Setters Admission to the crown ; other days each day to the Pal as usual, one shilli• Retrievers Terriers Water Spaniels King Charles's Spaniels Puppies Italian Greyhounds Mastiffs Toy Terriers St. Bernards Dandie Dinmonts Sheep Dogs Pomeranians Newfoundlands Pugs Dalmatians Blenheims Bull Dogs Maltese Le Show :—To-morrow (Judging Day), halts; -s, one shilling. Guinea season tickets free lace and Show. Admission to Palace each day NOTE.—The Chad race at 3.each aft Eng. mpion Dogs will be paraded on the "Upper Ter ernoon. GREAT DOG SHOW.—JUDGING D 4 1. Y, To morrow. Note.—The judging will take place on Upper Terrace. Visitors to the exhibition will not be admitted inside the Show until after the judging. ®NE THOUSAND DOGS.---£l,OOO Prizes. — Crystal Palace.—To-morrow to Friday.—The SHOW OPEN rom 10 till dusk each day. CRYSTAL PALACE. -Wednesday next.- TONIC SOL-FA ASSOCIATION .—ANNUAL JUVENILE CONCERT (5,000 voices), at 3 o'cl ck. Conductors, Mr. JOAN EARL and Mr. JOSEPH PROUDMAN. Organist, Mr. James Ilk- Coward. One shilling, or by guinea season tickets. Stalls, 2s. 6d., now ready. MR W. S. WOODIN'S TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK "AT HOME," WITH his Famous and Original CARPET-BAG and SKETCH- BOOK ENTERTAINMENT in the Large Room EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly. Every Evening (except Saturday) at 8 ; Saturday Mornings at 8. 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A Sheet sheaving the various strata upon which London is built, commonly known as the-Lowlaullasim Stewing also the localities where the various strata come to the surface.. The Diagram represents the various Epochs, Systerns,•. and Characters ad. Rocks, from the Plutonic, through the whole Serie,, to the latest Alluvium, coloured so as to represent real specimens, with the organic remains to be found in each, and the localities in Great Britain where they severally occupy the surface. Being the most concise and instractis e publication on the science that has ever been before the public. B Smith Evans, Esti., E.G.S. Price Is. Louttam—W. T DTP,. 337. St.rn.ll,l TWEEDIE'S TEMPERANCE YEAR BOOK OF FACT AND HISTORY FOIL 1870. CONTENT , . General Review of the Tempe- E cc l es iastical Sayings and I ranee Movement. Doings. Chronicle of the Temperance Temperance and Longevity. Movement. Hindrances to the Gospel. • Teetotalism an Agent in Civi- I Temperance Literature. lisation. • Temperance Societies, London Researches Respecting Alcohol. and Provincial. The Result of the Personal and Temperance Associations. Professional Experience of the Temperance Provident Associa- Benefits of Total Abstinence. lions. Physiology of Drinking. • • Facts, Legislative and Social. Analysis of Bitter Ale and Beer. I Calendar—Eelipses—Postal Infor- Judicial Testimonies. 'nation. Statistics in Reference to Intoxi- I Royal Family and other Useful eating Drinks. Information usually found in PreslaanthelDeclaratiens. Almanacs. London—W. T rim :EDIE. 337. Strand. THE NATURALISTS' CALENDAR : a Reg iSter of Periodic Natural Phenomena, referring to more than a thousand native and cultivated plants, native insects, native and domesticated mammals, native and domesticated birds and birds cf passage, and giving the mean times of appearance of insects, the periods of birds in respect of song, migration, Sic. ; the tune of hybernation and first appearance of reptiles and mollusks ; the time of leafing, flowering, and fruiting of trees and other plants, &c. Prefixed to each day is the mean temperature—i e., the temperature at nine a.m.—deduced from an average of thirty - five years at Green wich. Also, a complete plan of entomological operations for each season, shelving when, where, and how to capture the various orders throughout the year. Appended is a review of organic nature, namely:-1. The Vege table Kingdom, including a census of the plants of the world, die manner and proportion of their distribution ; census of British plants, their distribution' and origin. 2. The Animal Kingdom, divided into families, classes, and orders ; estimate of the numb° , s of each; and their distribution, with special reference to British Animals. &c., ,Sic. Also, Weather Prognostics, from the aspect and other indications furnished by inanimate nature, the conditio - i of plants and flowers. and the actions of animals. Illustrated by Wood Engravings in the highest style of art-- British Plants, British Insects, British Reptiles, British Birds. London- W. TWEEDIE. 337. Strand. In royal Svo., handsomely bound in cloth, full gilt, gilt edges price 205., post free 21s. THE ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY of BRITISH MOTHS. By Edward Newman, F.L.S., F.Z.S. Giving a full description of the perfect insect from nature ; also a description of the Caterpillar, Chrysalis, Food Plant, Time of Appearance, and Localities where found. Each moth is drawn from nature by George Willis, and engraved in his best style by John Kerchner. The figures are life-size of every species ; and if varic.:Cos require it, three, four, five, and even six figures are given. The work is complete in thirty-one monthly numbers, at Gd. each. The work is also issued in quarterly parts, in covers, at Is. Gd. each part. Part X. new ready, price 2s, Back numbers reprinted; and may be had. "We congratulate British entomologists on the completion and publication of this magnificent work"—Field. " Both to the beginner and the proficient in that study this work will be invaluable. —Daily Telegraph. " It is illustrated with life-size figures from nature of each species, and of the more striking varieties, and it possesses great advantages over. all similar works, inasmuch as the caterpillar of each moth, with his habits and season, is described. This, to collectors, will be an immense boon, and by its means they will be enabled to obtain many rare specimens."—Standard. "The completion of Mr. Newman' work on the British Moths is a benefit to entomologists of all classes. It is at once a text-book by a 113gh authority, most' valuable fin' reference, and a handsome, taste fully got-up volume, which will be an ornament to any library or drawing-room table. It embodies the results of many years' earnest and intelligent work by one whose reputation as an ento mologist. deservedly stands high. . . . . We notice also with satisfaction that Mr. Newman's descriptions, whilst thoroughly scientific and minute, are given in plain and unaffected English. With the help of these and the very excellent woodcuts, even a very young collector may with ease identify any moth he may cap ture. The figures are so well drawn that there is no need of colour to render them life-like. . . We unhesitatingly commend this volume to our readers. We regard it as a very useful addition to our library." Land and TValer, Oct. 9. London—W. TWEMDIZ. 337. Strand. W.O. Just published, price is 6d., by post is. Bd., the Second Edition, with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quadis. REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: H. Ballicre, 219, Regent-street. The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, and other journals, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted with this edition. ENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR STOPPING x_} THE SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS ON SUN DAY. London Auxiliary. _ _ A great open-air Working Men's Demonstration will take place at Trafalgar-square, Charing Cross, on Saturday evening, June 25th, in support of Mr. Rylands's SUNDAY CLOSING BILL. Addresses will be delivered by Revs. C. J. Whitmore, Who will refer to the success of Sunday closing in Scotland, J. B. Wright, W. C. Van Meter, of New York, who will refer to the success of Sunday closing in the United States, E. Mathews, M.A., travelling secretary of the Central Association, and Messrs. G. Dibley, J. West, J. Bormond, P. Carigan, and other friends of the measure. A petition to Parliament will be submitted to the meeting. Thechair will be taken at half-past six by Benjamin Whitworth Esq., J. P., Ex-M.P. Mr. Rylands will move for the second reading of his bill on the 20th instant. RESOLUTIONS 1. That in view of the religious condition of mankind, of whom over two-thirds are still heathen, and of the grave scandal and difficulties caused by the unhappy divisions among Christians, this Meeting desires to record its conviction of the paramount importance of the Reunion of East and West round the Primacy anciently recognised by both alike, as well for securing the in tegrity as for promoting the dissemination of the Christian Faith. 2. That the only adequate remedy for the social and religious dangers of England, and the surest guarantee for the future of English Christianity, lies in her restoration to Visible Unity pri marily with the Churches of the Western Patriarchate, and then with the Eastern Churches also. 8. That the advance of the Reunion movement during the last twelve years, and the critical circumstances of the present time, call at once for deep thankfulness and for increased energy in the prosecution of this holy work. BATHING SEASON. T. LAWRENCE-ON-SEA, ISLE OF THANET. . W. CLEMSON begs to inform the nobility and gentry that he is now prepared to enter into arrangements for the forth coming season for the Private Houses attached to and served from (if required) the GRANVILLE HOTEL. Rents for the season, from £250 to £4OO. The above houses are being Fur nished from the most recent designs of E. Welby Pugin, Esq. N.B.—Ramsgate is the nearest station on both lines. riIHORLEY'S HORSE and CATTLE SPICE, In Penny Packets only, of all Corn Chandlers in Loudon, and Of all Grocers, Druggists, and Corn Dealers in the Country. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENMAL PRESENTS ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper Weights, &c., in Italian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty. 149 ; Strand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facilitate the inte resting study of MINERA LOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2. 5, 10, 20, 50. to 500 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINERA LOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at 149, Strand. DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS.— A NEVER-FAILING REMEDY.—Prepared without any mercurial ingredient,will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly ex cellent; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen , the whole ner vous system.—Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, chemist, 8'• King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by most drug. gists, in boxes, Is. 10., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. ?d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are in a square green package, with " William Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross," engraved on the Goveinment stamp. REAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian k_T road, N.—FUNDS urgently NEEDED. Accidents often refused for want of beds. F. SMITH, Esq., Hon. Secretary. GEORGE REID, Secretary. 1870. - ONDURASNM TEN ENT RAILWAY LO PERAN. CENT. GOVER £2,500,000, in 25,000 Bonds of £ lOO each. Bearing 10 per cent. Annual Interest, payable half-yearly, viz., on Ist January and Ist July. Issued at 80 per cent., and to be redeemed at p art n sterling within fifteen years by yearly drawings, on the 31st December in each year, by means of an accumulative Sinking Fund o f 8 per cent. per annum. The first Drawing to take place on the 31st December, 1870. The instalments to be paid as follows 15 per cent. on allotment. 10 per cent. on Ist August. 10 per cent. on Ist September. 15 per cent. on Ist October. 16 per cent. on Ist November. 16 per cent. on 15th December, when Definitive Bonds, with a Coupon of £5 payable on the Ist January attached, will be given in exchange for Scrip. SO per cent, Interest will date from the Ist July. The Instalments may be anticipated at any time, when an Instalment falls due, under discount at the Bank of England rate • PROSPECTUS. His Excellency Senor Don Carlos Gutierrez, Minister Plenipo tentiary for the Government of the Republic of Honduras to the Court of St. James% being authorised by full powers, dated 14th M illions ste a r r l c t h o , g l o B e 7 t o ; f t o o r r t a h is e e e f o o m r h p i l s et G to o l v t er fr n o m m en e t e a a L t o o an ee o e f T of wo th l i ll e Inter oceanic Honduras Railway, has instructed the London and County Bank to receive applications for the same. The Loan will be represented by bonds to bearer of £lOO each, bearing interest until redeemed at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, on the Ist January and let July in each year, at The London and County Bank. The whole Loan will be redeemed with in 15 y ears by an ac cumulative Sinking Fund of 3 per cent. per annum, to be applied by annual drawings, the said drawings to take place on the 31st December in each year, in the presence of the Honduras Minister in London, a representative of Messrs. Bischoffshebn and Gold schmidt, and a Notary Public, and the Bonds so drawn will be paid within one month thereafter. This Loan is raised to complete the Interoceanic Railway, and to place the line from sea to sea in thorough and efficient work ing order. As in the case of the previous Loan , the proceeds, of the present Loan will be paid into the hands of trustees ap pointed for that purpose. The entire Railway and its revenue is mortgaged to the bond holders of all denominations, and the proceeds of the State domains will be applied in a like manner. The first section is contracted to be finished next November. Messrs. Waring Brothers and McCandlish have undertaken, under heavy penalty, to complete the second section at the end of 1871, and a new contract has been signed with them to com plete the entire Railway from Puerto Caballos, on the Atlantic coast to the Bay of Fonseca, on the Pacific. and deliver it over in efficient working order in the autumn of 1872. The Railway is under the protection of the British Government by a treaty which declares ;—• In order to secure the construction and permanence " of the route or road herein contemplated, and also to. " secure for the benefit of mankind the uninterrupted " advantages of such communication from sea to sea, " her Britannic Majesty recognises the rights of sove " reignty and property of Honduras in and over the line of "the said road, and for the same reason guarantees post " tively and efficaciously, the entire neutrality of the " same. And when the proposed road shall have been " completed her Britannic Majesty equally engages, in 141f.1 sur4.l4: I.[ Clonr.+ HOLBORN ROYAL MUSIC HALL, Late WESTON'S. Proprietor—Mr.T. S. Sweasey. Groat combination ;of '► alent! or the Whitsuntide Holidays, Re-engagement of Mr. A. Vance, Mr. J. He Milburn, Miss Louie Sherrington, Mr. H. Collard, the smallest man in the world, the Le Petit Sims Reeves, and the Brothers Voltaire, Champion Gymnasts, and the first appearance of Mr. Baldwin, Miss Georgina Smithson, Miss Nelly Wood, Mr. J. H. Ryley, and Madame Marie Barnam; Mr. P. Corti, Mr. St. Albyns, and Miss Barrie will appear in Operatic Selection, with full Orchestra, every evening. A-7 ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION. g Baker-street —On view, New and Magnificent COURT DRESSES from the first houses in Paris. Admission, Is. ; chil dren under ten years of age, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. ARGYLL. ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly. The extraordinary success which has attended the production of the Shadow Dance, with the brilliant and varied effects of the electric light on the groups of dancers that nightly partici pate in it, combined with the admirable Operatic and Dance Music Selections presented in the often-changed programmes, have had the gratifying effect of making the ix, sent one the most extensively patronized season since its first opening. The celebrated Orchestra, under the direction of its highly efficient chef, Signor Luigi Curti, performs the choicest and latest corn- Positions of all distinguished composers—the solos in which are assigned to the eminent euphonionist, Signor L. Mona; Messrs. W. Graves L. Silberberg, and other able artistes . Mana g er, Mr. Thomas Pitts. Professor Halliman, M.C. Admission, Is.; Resened Seats, 2s. R. R. BIEiNELL, Proprietor. CAUTION. -POPULAR ERROR.-PRICE'S BENZODYNE, the newly-discovered Cure for Cough, Bron chitis, Consumption, and all wasting diseases, Cholera, Dysentery, atc., has nothing whatever to do with petroleum spirit, falsely called Benzoline, &c. This unique remedy may be obtained of all Chemists, and through the Proprietor, Mr. Plan, Analytical Chemist, 2, Lower Seymour-street, London, W. Prices—is. 13d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d per bottle. HEALTH RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE DU BARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids, and Infants' Food, THE REVALENTA. ARABICA, Eaves fifty times its cost in other remedies, and restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled—removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dyspep sia}, cough; asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatu lency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleep lessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness, even in pregnancy or at' sea, sinking fits, and bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is the most digestible and nourishing of all foods, and suitable for invalids and infants in all complaints. IMPORTANT CAUTION.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than slopy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. Henceforth none will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Infants' Food since to the thousands of blessings it has already receiv e d frominvalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been Perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the • Gazette du Midi," July 25th. (Cure No. 48,412):—"R0me, ,July 21st, 1866.—The health of the l ielY Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Ai able.% Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his 'fellness cannot praise this excellent food too highly.' Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, irritability, :with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleep lessness. and the most intolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 78, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the LOrd Stu art de Denies, I ord Lieutenant of the County of Waterford:—" I have derived much benefit from your excellent food."—STUART DE "RCM, Dromana, Cappoquin, County Watedord. Cure No 49,1 , 32. —Of fifty years' indescribable agony irom u s'aPepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vo miting.-7,laria Jolly of Lynn, Norfolk. „ Cure No. 4702 L—Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervous ness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 56854.—Mr. S a muel Laxton, Leicester of two years' diarrhoea ' „ „ The food is sold in Canisters. at Is ; 11b, 2s 9d ; 21b, 4s 6d free ; 121 b, ;2s; 241 b, 41s. The 121 b an d cflb canisters carriage on receipt of P. 0. Order. Also Du Barry's 11 evalenta abica Chocolate Powder is packed in tin canisters: For 12 9„ 1 4 1 . 1)13 at ? a, for 24 cups at 'a 6.), for 4t Cu, 6 at l's, for 288 cups •1 0 ,S, for 576 cups at s 's. Beln.l - about one penny per cup. Wfe, -40 a and 555 tins arc sent ire of carr ia g e in En g land on Ipt of Post Office Order. BARR • DU BARRY and 0., ft7lao"egen "street, London, also at Fortnum and Mason ' s ; xt _ at 4 , Cheapside ; 6 , G racee hurch-street; 63 and 150, O ord-street ; 121 New North-road, London ; and all Groce: a nd chemists. REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM.—AII persons interested in the Reunion of Christendom are invited to attend a Meeting, to be held at the Rooms of the Architectural Exhibition Society, 9, Conduit-street, on MONDAY, 20th June, at 8 p.m. precisely—LOßD ELIOT in the Chair. Tickets, price ls. ; reserved seats, 2s. ed.—may be procured from Messrs. Masters, Parker, Rivington, Skeffington, Pickering, G. J. Palmer, Hayes, Bosworth, Westell, and the Church Press Company. Among those who have already promised to speak are the Earl of Limerick, Viscount Kilcoursie, Mr. A. P. de Lisle, Revs. C. F. Loroder, George Nugee, H. N. Oxenham, George Williams. T ILL . • N MORIN G B UENOS AYRES SIX PER CENT. STATE LOAN, 1870, Under the authority of the State Laws of the 17th (Isth) November, 1868, and 27th (28th) January, 1870 ;. 18th (19th) p 1 February, 1869 (as varied by a further Law of 3rd (4th) September, 1869), and 27th (28th) January, 1870, FOR £1,034,700 STERLING, In Bonds to Bearer for £lOO, £5OO, and £l,OOO each. The Interest payable half-yearly in London. The Loan to be redeemed at par by Annual Drawings in about thirty-three years, by means of an accumulative. Sinking Ftind, which, however, the Government reserves to itself the right to increase, so as to redeem the Loan at an earlier period. "conjunction with the Republic of Honduras, to protect same from interruption, seizure; or unjust confls " cation, from whatsoever quarter the attempt may "proceed." Treaties signed by the Honduras Government with France and the United States contain the same provisions. A general Bond, executed by His Excellency Don Carlos Gutierrez, on behalf of the Government of Honduras, wiil be deposited at the Bank of England for security of the entire Loan, and the Definitive Bonds of this Loan will be signed by his Ex cellency Don Carlos Gutierrez, on behalf of his Government, and cfmntersigned by • Messrs. Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt, Agents of the Government in England. Applications for the Loan will be received by : the London and County Bank, 21, Lombard-street, and Branche s, where P ros pectuses and Forms of Application can - be obtained. Louden, Juno 20th, 1870. :ONDURA.S GOVERNMENT TEN PER CENT, RAILWAY LOAN FOR £2,500,000. FORM OF APPLICATION. To be retained by the Bankers. To HIS EXCELLENCY M DON ter CAR in LonLOS GUTIERREZ, Honduras inisdon. Per London and County Bank. I sir, • I hereby request that you will allot to me Stock of the above Loan, on the terms of the Prospectus issued, and I hereby agree to accept that or any smaller sum which may be allotted to me, and to pay the instalments thereon according to the terms of your Prospectus of the 20th June, 1870. I am, Your Excellency's obedient servant, Signature Address in full (Addition to be _filled up-if Applicant wishes to pay up - in ful - desire to pay up - Subscription in full, receiving dis count thereon at the Bank of England rate now current. LOANS ON DEBENTURES.—The Directors of the Great Eastern Railway Company are prepared to receive Loans of Money for three, five, or seven years, at 4t per cent., on the security of the Company's Debentures. Applica tions to be addressed to the undersigned. By Order, J. B. OWEN, Secretary. • Bishopsgate Terminus, 17th June, 1870. PRICE OF. ISSUE, SS PER CENT. Messrs. C. DE MURRIETA and Co. are authorised by Senor Don Luis L. Dominguez, the Special Commissioner duly empowered by, the Government of the State or Province of Buenos Ayres, to receive applications for the above Loan on the following conditions :- 1, The Loan will be represented by Bonds to Bearer for £lOO, £5OO, and £l,OOO each, with Coupons for Interest, at 6 per cent. per annum, attached, payable half-yearly in London, at the Counting-house of Messrs. C. de Murrieta and Co., on Ist April and lst October of each year. The first half-yearly Coupon will be payable on Ist April, 1871. 2. A Sinking Fund of 1 per cent on the principal sum of £1,034.700 will be applied annually, together with' the Interest on the Bonds paid off, to the reimbursement by Annual Drawings of the Loan at par. The first Drawing will take place so that the payment off of the Bonds will commence on Ist October, 1871. The Government reserves to itself the right to increase the amount of the Sinking Fund, available to the redemption of the Loan at par. 3. The Price of Issue is 88 per cent., payable 6 per cent. on application ; 15 „ on allotment 15 -„- _on.the 3rd. August, 1870.: 15 „ on the let October, 1870 (less 10s., allowance for Interest on Instal ' meats, less English In come tax). 18 „ on the 15th November, 1870 ; 20 „ on the 30th December, 1870. £BB 4. An allowance of £lO per £lOO nominal (being equivalent to interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum) on the instalments from the date of payment to the let October, will be made and deducted from the instalment falling due on that day. The instalments may be anticipated on any of the dates fixed for their payments, under discount, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, with allowance of interest as above, which, in that case, will be deducted at the time of payment in full. Scrip Certificates to Bearer will be issued against Allotment Letters, and will be exchanged for Bonds to Bearer, as early as possible after payment of all the instalments. The Bonds will be signed by the Government Commissioner, under special powers granted to him for that purpose, and countersigned by Messrs. C. de Murrieta and Co., as agents for the Loan. The General Bond, specifying the conditions of the Loan, executed by the Government Commissioner, Senor Don Luis L. Dominguez, will be deposited, together with the original Powers granted to the Commissioner, at the Bank of England. A copy of the General Bond is appended. Applications must be made in the annexed form, accompanied by a deposit of £5 per cent., to be paid to Messrs. Martin and Co., Bankers, 68, Lombard-street. E.G., on the nominal amount of the Bonds applied for. In case default is made in payment on allotment, or of any of the instalments on the days named above, the allotment will be liable to be cancelled, and the sums then already paid to be forfeited. - In case no allotment is made, the money deposited will be returned to the applicant without deduction. The Subscription List will be opened in London by Messrs. C. de Murrieta and Co. ' on Monday, the 20th, and will be closed o n or before Thursday, 23rd Tune. Adam's Court, Old Broad-street, London, 20th Tune, 1870. MEMORANDUM FURNISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONER. Buenos Ayres, as is well known, is, by its geographical position, its wealth and population, the principal of the fourteen Provinces or States which form the Argentine Republic. The Customs and other imposts of the Republic amounted in 1869 to £2,587,077, of which five-sixths were produed by the Province of Buenos Ayres. The flourishing City of Buenos Ayres, which is at once the Capital of the Province and of the Republic, has a population of 200,000 inhabitants, busily occupied in the export and import business, the value of which in 1868 was about £13,000,000. The Province possesses a Government Bank (the net profits of which last year amounted to £200,000), and an enormous extent of landed property. It is furnished with three Main Lines of Railway, all con verging on its Capital City, and feeding it with the materials (hides, wool, jerked beef, grease, bones, &c., dm.) which form its export trade. One of these railways, "The Western Railway," belongs to the Government. At present it is finished only to the extent of 160 kilometers, and a portion of the proceeds of the loan is destined to its extension. In its present incomplete state it yields a net income exceeding 7 per cent. per annum. "The G reat Southern of Buenos Ayres Railway," belonging to an English Company, has freed itself entirely from the Government gua rantee of 7 per cent. under which it started, and yieids a hand some return to the shareholders, whilst the " Northern Rail way" has now also a remunerative traffic. The proceeds of this Loan will be applied exclusively to works of public industry. The Province of Buenos Ayres (whilst yet an independent State) contracted in 1824 a loan in London of £1,000,000, and in 1857 issued bonds representing deferred Interest. There was also an internal debt of about £400,000. These debts (which were all the public debts of the State of Buenos Ayres) were adopted by the Argentine Republic on the establishment of the National Government, so that at this time the Province is not burthened with any public debt beyond an amount (including the present loan) of £1,061,225. The revenues of the Province arise from a direct tax on houses and land, stamp duties, leases of public lands, duties on salting establishments, &c., &c. The duties voted annually by the Legislative Body are calculated so as to, meet precisely the requirements of the Administration, and thus a balance of the receipts and expenditure of the Province is maintained. This expenditure has recently, and during the Paraguayan war, included considerable sums spent in public works, including an outlay in England in connection therewith, during the last eight years, of upwards of half a million of pounds sterling. BUENOS AYRES SIX PER BO CENT. STATE LOAN FOR £1,034.700 STERLING. FORM OF APPLICATION. !ci be retained by Messrs. Martin and Co., the Bankers.) To Messrs. C. DE MIIRRIETA and Co., London. Gentlemen, Having paid for your account with Messrs. Martin and Co. the sum of Z.... • I hereby request that you will allot me nominal amount of the above Loan, and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any smaller amount that may be allotted to me, and to paylthe further sums due on such allotment, according to the terms of the Prospectus issued by you. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, Signature ......... Address in full ... Date ... . BUENOS AYRES SIX P 870. E CENT. STATE LOAN 1 R FOR £1,034,700 STERLING. RECEIPT FOR DEPOSIT. (To be retained by the Applicant.) Received for account of Messrs. C. de Murrieta and Co. the sum of £..........., being the deposit required on an appli cation for an allotm or ent oessrs Z.. . • . • Martin and .. .. of the above Loan. F M. Co. THE QUEEN'S STATE BREAKFAST. The arrangements are nearly complete for the State breakfast which will be given by her Majesty on Thursday next. The range of tents now being erected upon the lawn in front of the East Terrace comprises a drawing-room and breakfast-room and other apartments. The handsome Tipoo Saib and other tents with silver poles from Windsor Castle, as well as tents from Buckingham Palace and Woolwich, will be called into use. EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO. The New York papers, delivered on Saturday, bring the following news from Havana, dated the 6th inst. : " A violent earthquake has visited the State of Oaxaca. Its effects were especially disastrous in Oaxaca, the capital of the State. 103 persons were killed and 53 wounded. A third of the city was rendered uninhabitable. The earth quake extended to the mines, where 11 men were killed and many wounded. Buildings in all parts of the State were destroyed, and reports of additional deaths are corning in. SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT. A terrible accident has occurred on the branch line of the Great. Northern Railway from Spalding to Bourne. A farm labourer, named John Horse pool, and a lad named James Caistor, wore cross ing the line in a oart just as a train was due. The horse became restive whilst Horsepool was unlocking the gate, and in endeavouring to get it clear of the line the train came up, and the man, lad, and horsewere caught by and dragged under the engine. The man was killed instantly, as was also the horse, and the poor lad died about three hours afterwards. The jury have acquitted the driver of the engine of blame. ALARMING FIRE AT OLD FORD. At a few minutes before one o'clock yesterday great alarm was caused in the immediate vicinity of Prince Albert-yard, Russian-lane, Old Ford, owing to the out break of a fire in the large range of stabling belonging to Mr. W. C. Day. The discovery was fortunately made in sufficient time to enable the police and others to get the whole of the valuable horses out of the premises. The firemen and the London Salvage corpswere quick in their attendance, when they found the stabling and provender stores were in one immense sheet of flame. Plenty of water was at once procured, and all present went to work in an admirable manner, but the flames could not be conquered until the stabling, more than 50 feet long, and the lofts were destroyed, and the roof burned off. The origin of the fire is at present unknown. Mr. Day was insured in the Union Fire-office. Five other fires took place yesterday, but the damage done at each was inconsiderable, although the flTemen had great difficulty in subduing one at the Patent Bottle Envelope Works, in Golden-lane, St. Luke's. THE BABY-FARMING CASE AT BRIXTON. The case against the two women, Walters and Ellis, who were charged at Lambeth Police-court, on Tues day, with neglecting children entrusted to them to nurse, has assumed a somewhat serious aspect. The police have ascertained that they ' have been corresponding with many ladies on the subject of adopting children, using different names in each instance. In the letters it was stated that the pa rents need not even see or hear of the children again, and that a person would be sent to take the children away by night. The nine infants who were taken from the house, 4, Frederick-terrace, Gordon-grove, Brixton, to the Lam beth Workhouse, are, with the exception of two, progress ing favourably. Their ages vary from one to eighteen months. The prisoners have refused to give the names of the parents of the children, one of them stating that she would rather suffer death than do so. The police, however, are in possession of important information, which will probably lead to some very extraordinary dis closures. THE LATE STORM. --- Stories of the mischief, as well as the good wrought by the thunder and rainstorm continue to flow in. In the Grand Surrey Canal the water rose three or four inches. At Whitefriars the sewers overflowed, and filled the base ments, and in several instances even the ground floors. In Lambeth, Rotherhithe, and Bermondsey the cellars of publicans became overflowed, the barrels of beer, ale. and casks of spirits were sent rolling about, and a vast amount of stock-in-trade was destroyed. The market gardens which all stood in need of rain, soon became flooded, but the water quickly soaked into the ground. The lightning set fire to the furze on Clapham-common, but the rain almost immediately extinguished it. Fires are also reported by the railway guards to have taken place from the lightning in Mid-Surrey, Sussex, Cam bridge, along the Midland Railway, and at Cookham and Maidenhead, all caused by the lightning. In the river the sails of some coasting vessels were burned. The lightning at one time was so vivid, and the rain fell in such torrents, that it was impossible to bear against the wind, especially in the Channel ; and whilst a sailing barge, termed the Ixion, was bearing up against the tide, the man in charge, named George Ayres, of Christ Church, Blackfriars, was struck down by lightning, and, falling into the river, was carried away by the tide. At a vil lage near Feltham, Surrey, as a man and his wife were returning home, they were overtaken by the storm, and the woman was killed by lightning. The man was knocked down, and the money he had in his possess sion, as well as his watch, considerably damaged. Much damage was done by the storm in the Bolton dis trict. The lightning struck a dwelling at Dembhill and set it on fire, but the flames were soon extinguished. In Bolton the main sewer burst, making a gap in the street eight yards long and endangering the co-operative stores. Five farmers' houses in the neighbourheod were flooded, and the inmates rescued from the bedroom windows. The Farnworth and Ashley-bridge suffered considerably. At Theapstone, Northamptonshire, a man was struck by lightning, and is not expected to re cover. EXTRAORDINARY AC CIDENT.—A serious accident has happened at Woolwich Arsenal, just as the working staff of the new Army Service Corps was leaving work. Some men of the corps were engaged in taking down the heavy shot from immense piles in a pyramid form, ranged along the east end of the arsenal, fronting the river, for the purpose of inspecting and repairing them, according to the general rule at this time of the year. The men, instead of commencing to unpile the shot-68-pounders from the top of the pyramid, began by removing those in the lowest tier at the base ; consequently, directly they were levered out the whole of the shot above them rolled down, entirely burying one man and crushing the legs of two others, while several more only just managed to escape in time. Every effort was made to extricate the sufferers, when, strange to say, the man entirely covered with the metal was drawn out almost unhurt—save from a severe squeezing ; but the other two, named Halpin and Salter, were very much hurt. tr nnw.v.l.n4,l‘l 1-tnv. 721.14.nwrZir. -rn • • ---. JUNE 20,.1.870 PAUPER CHILDREN Mr. Tuffiell, the inspector of schools, in his report for the year 1869 on the education of pauper children, which has just been printed, speaks in high terms of the depauperising influences of the large London schools. It is a very rare circumstance, he remarks, for any child brought up in these large pauper schools to fail to main tain an independent livelihood when launched into the world. The education therein imparted not only seems to stop hereditary pauperism, which was once the great blot on poor-law administration, but to have a sort of retroactive effect in inducing such a dislike to dependence on the rates in those children trained in these establishments, that they not only become depauperised themselves, but seek and often succeed in depauperising their relations. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. The Elementary Education Billwill be taken in commit tee to-day. The Sligo and Cashel Disfranchisement Bill is also fixed for third reading, the Post Office Bill for second reading, and the Lords' amendments on the Bridgwater and Beverley Disfranchisement Bill, are on the paper for consideration by the House of Commons. Among the questions to be asked will be one by Mr. Peek with reference to the small consideration the council of the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, receive from the hands of the Government in return for the means of enjoyment and instruction they afford to the public. The poor accommodation granted in the House of Commons to Reporters will be also the subject of a question to be,putly Mr- Taylor; anclAix e , Stacpoole intends asking the Postmaster-General what steps he is prepared to take in the way of facilitating te legraphic communication with Ireland. To-day Sir Henry Hoare will, moreover, ask the First Commissioner of Works whether plans shewing the deviation of the new Kensington road into Hyde - park, and which threaten to interfere with the traffic of Rotten row, have not been prepared, and if so whether such plans ought not to be submitted to the House for approval. The appointment of a select committee to report on the Kennington-road Improvement Bill, returns of the students in the Irish Queen's Colleges, and correspondence relating to the capture of Englishmen in Spain by brigands, will probably be asked for, and the Merchant Shipping Code Bill be considered in committee before the House rises. On Tuesday, Captain Dawson- Damer will ask Mr. Ayrton if measures are not now in progress for letting the enclosure in Leicester-square for building purposes, and whether it would not be advisable to keep the square as an open space for the public. The ad journed debate on the Ballot Bill will be resumed. The Absconding Debtors' Bill and the Lodgers' Protection Bill will come up for a second reading on Wednesday. The Stamp Duties' Bill will no doubt be taken in Committee on Thursday, and on that day the University Tests Bill will also in its amended form come under consideration. Mr. Stacpoole will, moreover, put a question with reference to the filling up of the vacancy in the city' of Dublin.—The second reading of the Benefit Societies Bill, as well as of the Clerical Disabilities Bill, is fixed for Friday, on which day also Mr. Bass intends calling the attention of Parliament to the advantage of taking more special notice of industrial occupations in connection with the census of 187 L (From the .Western Mail of Saturday.) LONDON, Friday Evening. The suddenness, the appalling, suddenness, of the death of Charles Dickens, has realised, perhaps, more distinctly than anything else could have done the hold he had ob tained under the royal sign manual of 'his genius; not merely over the admiration, but over the tender affec tions of his fellow-creatures. His dying thus abruptly in the fulness of his powers, and in the zenith of his popu larity, has fallen like a home-grief on the hearts of the million. There is something very noticeable, here, in London, in the number of people one sees in the streets and public places who have gone into mourning, who have assumed the signs of the heavy sorrow they have at heart, and in common. Again, when London awoke in the forenoon of Tuesday last to the knowledge that early that morning the wish of the nation had been quietly realized, by the mortal remains of the great author having been laid in the grave in Westminster Abbey, you should have seen the thronging hundreds and thousands who crowded in relays into Poet's Corner, to cast a loving look down upon the oaken coffin, bearing upon its lid the beloved name, Charles Dickens, with the date of his birth, 7th February, 1812, and the date of his death, 9th June, 1870—with those loving looks, there being rained down there many a tear and many a flower, some of the flowers being tenderly kissed before they were dr9ipped into the grave. Readers of Charles Dickens, who had never set eyes upon - hini; — niotfrzi,ia - OTie - iFkf -- his death as ever a personal bereavement. Those conse quently, who, like myself, were admitted to the happiness and privilege of his affectionate friendship, have no words in which to express the magnitude and bitterness of the loss, that to them is simply irreparable. The appalling abruptness of the blow to myself is hardly to be expressed. I Who had seen him in his usual health, and in his blithest spirits only a very few days previously; I who had heard from him on the very day of his death, in a letter (probably the last letter he over wrote) penned by him just before he was stricken down insensible, overnight on the fatal Wednesday, and received by me on the afternoon of the yet more fatal Thursday. At three o'clock on that very day I was to be with him, by his own appointment ; upon my going to keep which, at the eagerly looked-for hour indicated, that noble heart —one of the noblest it ,has been my happy lot to know and love—waa already, unconsciously to itself, near its last pulsation. Merely thinking of this great loss is an anguish hardly to be expressed, being, I repeat, simply irreparable. To those who knew and loved him, the man himself was far, immeasurably beyond, all his radiant writings massed together ; and those books of his have secured him an enduring place among the most be loved of the great masters of imaginative literature— among the greatest of the great original creators of cha racter in all literature. Adieu to that noble heart, now resting calmly among its peers, in its only fitting resting place—the grand old Abbey at Westminster ! You are probably aware that it is in a great measure owing to the generous consideration and the eager promp titude of Dean Stanley that the public wish was gratified by the finding of a grave, nowhere else than in Poet's Corner, for the great delineator of English life in all its varieties in the nineteenth century. You will be in terested to learn from me, what is not in any way, I believe, known as yet to the general public, that it was only very recently indeed that Charles Dickens and the Dean of Westminster were introduced to each other. Mr. Frederick Locker, who is now the editor of the Graphic, is married to a sister of Lady Augusta Stanley, the wife of the Dean of Westminster, and it was at Mr. Locker's dinner-table that Mr. Dickens and the Dean were, only a few weeks since, for the first time brought together. Immediately the melancholy tidings spread through London on Friday morning—those tidings that saddened all hearts, and brought the tears into the eyes of men and women alike—Dean Stanley wrote to Mr. Locker a most touching letter, thanking him for his recent introduction to " the most delightful man he had ever met !" As an evidence of the popular interest awakened in re gard to anything in the shape of a memento of the deceased favourite of the nation, I may mention, in regard to one of our first photographers, that his studio is besieged now every morning before the doors are opened, his desk being covered with letters and telegrams, from all partg of the country, for album portraits and carte de visite likenesses of that bright, handsome, animated, manly face of Dickens, so familiar to us all, but that we shall never again look upon, save in these shadowy reflections ! As the great novelist said himself so very recently, when he, closed his reading in St. James's Hall, with a few charm ing words of farewell, words exquisitely quoted as the motto of the memorial card sold the other day at the door of Westminster Abbey immediately after the funeral : "From these garish lights I vanish now for evermore." It ifs consolatory to learn that the late alarming ru mours as to the health of Baron Justus Liebig, are mon strously exaggerated. Instead of being in the hopeless condition described, the great chemical philosopher is, everyone now hears with delight, in a fair way to recovery. It was only just in time to admit of his succeeding the late Mark Lemon as editor of Punch that Shirley Brooks recovered from a very complicated, and at one time alarming, illness. Are public readings prejudicial to the health of the reader, 1 wonder? Here was another recently prostrated by his exertions, or by nervous excitement, coupled with frequent whirlings hither and thither on railways—Mr. Bellew, to wit, who was obliged for a while to interrupt his labours and lay up. Strange how, in any particularly dull assembly, a very small joke will go a very long way. Only within a few days from the present time, the Lord Chief Justice, in a trial that was going on before him in regard to some arbit rary decision by a bench of magistrates who happened to be military men, remarked parenthetically that he sup posed it was a specimen of martial law, whereupon the whole court was in a roar of laughter, as though that were the wittiest remark possible. Sir Alexander, who is, conversationally, as brilliant as any one in society, must have been heartily ashamed of the disproportioned mirth excited by this flippant little morceau of persiflage. Another artistic gallery has been opened, thus late in the season, in the case of the New British Institution— the formidable attraction of the Royal Academy, hard by, still continuing. It is curious, by the way, to notice the wide divergence of opinion, in regard to one and the same subject of criticism, now in the judgment pronounced upon a picture in this and in that critique, now in the estimate formed of a book by this and by that reviewer. The Athenceum, for example, pronounces adversely, and that, moreover, in the very strongest terms, in regard to an artist who is eulogised in terms the most extravagant by another of our contemporaries. " Lothair," again, have we not seen that work cried up one day by the Times as a literary masterpiece, and cried down the next by Blackwood as an outrage at one and the same time on the English Parliament and upon English literature ? Be tween contradictions so astounding who shall decide ? The eccentric and bewildering circumstance, in the latter instance, being this, that the eulogist, i.e., the Times, is presumably the opponent of the ex-Premier ; while, on the other hand, the assailant, i.e. Blackwood, is presum ably (until there came forth this slating against him) the apologist, or champion, or organ of that same right hon. gentleman. Comparing photography with portrait painting, one world naturally feel disposed to give the palm for accuracy to the former, and for artistic effect to the latter. Let anyone, however, contrast the ordinary carte-de-visite photos of Mrs. Rousby, now .charming all eyes at the Queen's Theatre, in " 'Tvvixt Axe and Crown," with the elaborate portrait of her on the walls of the Academy, from the hand of a great artist like Mr. Frith, the Royal Academician. The picture is in an extraordinary degree unsatisfactory, the photographs, almost any of them, being exquisite. Yet, remembering Romsey's deliciously beautiful delineations of Lady Hamilton—Nelson's Lady Hamilton—one feels instinctively that the lovely creature thus pourtrayed by a pencil of one enamoured by her charms, fared better at Romsey's hands than she could possibly have done when 'posed and focussed by the most skilled pho tographer. Welcome intelligence was that given to the world of art and to the world of students in modern history yes terday by Lord Clinton, in a letter to the Times, wherein it was announced by the noble correspondent of the leading journal that the supposed lost picture of Sir Charles East lake, representing the Great Napoleon, as he appeared in 1815, at the commencement of his captivity, on board H.M.S. Bellerophon, is not lost at all, being in possession of the noble lord making this announcement. One grieves to see market being made, immediately after death, of a beloved reputation. The thought occurs to me with a sort of pang when I observe, upon the morrow of Charles Dickens's burial in Westminster Abbey, the ad vertising of all sorts of little catch-penny publications purporting to give memorials of him—anecdotal records just simply stamped up in a hurry to catch the curiosity of the general multitude, the latter naturally enough snatching at any information about their lost and tenderly-lamented favourite. The biography of Charles Dickens must be written somewhat more de liberately, and ought to be commenced only when the first anguish of our regrets shall by the mere lapse of assuaging time, have become in some degree mitigated. Written by some one intimate with the theme and competent to pronounce his opinion upon a genius so unique in its originality, and upon writings so matchless in their combination of the pathetic and the humorous, the "Life of Charles Dickens" admits of being rendered a work as charming in its way as even one of the best of his own inimitable masterpieces. Looking for ward to the time when some such consoling narrative may be produced, I turn my thoughts again for the moment to that newly opened and rapidly closed grave in the Poet's Corner, breathing over it, out of my heart,words of loving and grateful farewell. CLEAN BREASTS. Uneasy consciences are giving a great deal of work to the police just now. There is more than one confession of murder under consideration. At Cheadle, in Stafford shire, the authorities are looking up a murder said to have been committed some years ago. It is certain that at the date in question a grinder disappeared in a some what unaccountable manner. He had called one night at a publichouse at Dilhorn, and was engaged to grind a knife belonging to one of the company in the house. He attempted to steal the knife, or exchange it for one of an inferior quality. After he had left the at tempted fraud was discovered, and three men—two named Thorley, one of whom is now dead, the other being in penal servitude for burglary, awl a third named Boulton—followed him along the road in the direction of Forsbrook, with the avowed intention of punishing the grinder. They returned some hours later, and the grinder was never afterwards seen in the village. It is reported that the landlord of the public-house, Rigby by name,. now dead, went along the Forsbrook-road, and saw the grinder weltering in blood ; that on returning home he related what he had seen, adding, "They have killed the old grinder," and that the next morning, at an early hour, Rigby went to the spot, and removed the blood marks from the surface of the road. A few days ago Edward Harvey was at the same public-house, when a disturbance arose, which led to reference being made to the supposed murder, and Harvey declared that Boulton, on his deathbed, and Rigby also previously, told him that the murder had been committed by Boulton and the Thorleys, and that the body was buried in Callow-wood. The grinder's machine went out of sight when he disappeared, but it is said that the stone of it had been found on the premises of one of the persons concerned during the investigation, which is not yet completed.—Besides this Cheadle affair, a man named Dyer has confessed in England that he murdci ed his mate, George Wilson, at the Mia-Mia Creek, Newstead , Aus tralia, in 1857. The Melbourne papers, referring to this confession, state that Wilson's remains, which were interred in a cemetery near Castlemaine, were exhumed on the 4th of April, and examined by Dr. Norman Gow. In the skull were two holes, such as would be made by the point of a pick. There were also two depressions flatten ing the skull, as if made by the same instrument. A war rant was issued for the apprehension of Dyer in England. MURDER OF A WARDER AT PORTLAND. Portland prison seems destined to acquire an unenviable pre-eminence in the not very common crime of warder slaughter. Twelve months ago a warder named Trevitt was brutally murdered by a convict. A second victim, after lying between life and death for some three months has just succumbed to the injuries inflicted upon him. On the afternoon of the 20th of April a warder, named Edward Bly, had charge of a gang of convicts on the Government works, amongst which was a man named Thomas Ratcliffe. Whilst the warder, was in the act of mounting an eminence for the purpose of being better able to watch the operations of his party, Ratcliffe crept behind him with a shovel with which he was at work, and raising it edgeways with both hands, made a blow at the warder's head. Some of the convicts who were at work near by called to Lie warder to look out, on hearing which he partly turned round, and saw Ratcliffe in the very act of carrying out his murderous design. He endeavoured to avoid the blow, but, unfortunately for the poor fellow, the shovel came down with terrific force on one of his shoulders, making a frightful gash, and bringing him down. Although the convicts in Bly's gang saw the murderous assault, at present it does not appear that they offered to render any assistance to the poor fellow until Ratcliffee had given him several more blows, for whilst he lay on the ground partly stunned and bleeding, his assailant con tinued to hack him with the edge of the shovel, and it was not until then that two of the convicts rushed upon Rat cliffe and prevented him killing Bly on the spot. The poor fellow was at once removed to the prison infirmary, where it was ascertained that the injuries were of the most frightful nature; and, as he appeared to be in a dying state, his deposition was taken the same evening. When in the presence of the dying man, the convict, who is a most determined wretch, did not hesitate to say that he fully intended to take Bly's life although h@ had done him no harm ' • and that he would as soon be strung up for it as be kept half-starved at Port land. Although every attention has been paid Bly by the medical officers of the prison, the poor fellow gra dually sank, and died the other night. He is said to have been a most kind and considerate officer, never find ing fault with the men under his care without cause, and he was much respected by his brother officers. The mill of Mr. Orlando Hinchcliffe, at Gatesend, about two miles from Mytholmroyd has been destroyed by fire. The mill had been recently filled with new machinery. The damage is estimated at several thousand pounds, which is partly covered by insurance. One man was seriously injured by a fall. LITERARY AND MUSICAL GOSSIP.—The Orchestra says :—Mr. Joseph Irving has been for some weeks very ill.—Mr. Albery and Mr. Dilley are the joint authors of the second T. P. Cooke prize drama, " The Mate of the Mountjoy," which has not yet been placed on the stage.— " With a Show in the North : Reminiscences of Mark Lemon," is the title of a series of papers to be commenced next week in the Gentleman's Magazine. The Glasgow Daily Express says the editor accompanied Mark Lemon, on his Falstaff tour in the North, "as companion, friend, and amateur impresario." PLOTJGHING UP GOLD.—Another instance of the remarkable way in which nuggets are sometimes turned up in this colony was furnished last week, when a nugget weighing 690 z. was ploughed up on Mr. Allan's farm, Mount Prospect, Bullarook, near Ballarat. .As nuggets are always welcome things, and as this may lead to the opening up of new ground, it may be honoured as a very pleasant and `'welcome stranger." The lump was only a few . inches below the surface, and h as w h a t l oo k s like ferruginous conglomerate attached to it, but is nearly all gold, and well waterworn.— Melbourne Argus, April 23rd. THE AYRSHIRE CATASTROPHE.—The lad Norton, suspected of having shot the servant girl at Craig's farm house, near Dundonald, Ayrshire, was apprehended on Thursday. From his own statement it would appear that the melancholy affair has been the result of an accident. 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