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On thel3th of June, 1885, it was admitted unanimously in the House of Commons that the condition of London, as regards Pavin g , Li g hti ng, an d 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. Haly, Esq., Hon. Sec. L.S.R.S., 88, St. James's -street, S. w. CE V~. invttsTAPE _ - _ --.,;- - -.: ...--,--- , - ; -7---., were restored to their father. She, thinkin that \•:;-,..,. thepenalty of this decree would be . the %;olit''of the . .,•oi,- 4 : matter, let the two months expire, d actually paid : ii. 7 the large sum of 60,00 f. into co ' t -- itit: l- 14 - Ifiat',.,-, 4 1-, she was prepared to sacrifice rather ia . 1 . 4r--' . the girls to their obdurate father. Bt the ‘ali brought a further action, laying damages at a mil lion of francs. M. Desmarest, the lady's counsel, told her that the law was altogether on the father's side, and that if she did not give the children up he might go on bringing actions until he utterly ruined her. Acting upon M. Destuarest's advice, the grand mother has now brought the young lathes back frc rn Glasgow. The father has gained his point, they are now in his custody. The only queAtion ulti mately before the ccort was, what damages she should pay to the father for interfering with his authority. . This, afts:r hi3couns,l (M. Jules Farm) had been heard, was fixed at 5,000 f., and the ' balance of the 60,000 f. interest is to be refunded to the lady. As matters now stand Madlle. Baisson cannot marry in France till 25 without her father's consent—but in a few months she will be 21, and, then he will have no legal right to prevent her frkn n living where the pleases. LADY CAMPBELL'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols , W OM A N's• CONFESSION. fly L A.D' CA MPIIKLI.. Thirst and Blac%ett, 13, Grcat Marlborough-street. .11 E 0 X F 0 it 1) , 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., THE MUSICAL EgTABLISIDIENT OF LONDON. CHRISTmAs ENTEItrAINMENT3 PRICE, Id. STAMPED 51. ANTHROPOLOGICAL 'OCIETY. , K.IN ALLAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXIIEBITION, 1865. This celebnlteil OLD mai WHISKY gained the )üblin Prize MO,ll. 'Phis society held its annual general meeting at its rooms in St. Martin's-place yesterday. Dr. Hunt occupied the chair, and the usual formal business was gone through. The SECRETARY read a very lengthy report, which gave in coniiderable &nail an account of the pro gress of this young society. The balance-sheet for the year showed a small sum to the credit of the association ; the receipts were £1,51.5145. 10d. ; the expenditure £1,413 25., leaving a balance of £lO2 2s. 10d. There are at present 706 fellows on the books, 42 corresponding members, and 49 local secretaries in Great Britain. The Rev. Dr. ICING (formerly prominent in the Ethnological Society) moved the adoption of there port. Mysterious Murder near Glasgow. LES DRAGONS DE PILL BS (Opera Comiquel, Music by A. Mail ,rt (11 - st time in this coAntry), FIN EVENING, in wh'eh %Liss RUSSELL mill make h: , r Reappearance, as si t.,•1 by llisQes Barrie and Fitz Henry ; Meters. A. St. Albyn, Bull+, Fox, Husk, Eyarp and Bury, with yxtra B an d and °torus ; producedand conducted by Ur. F. Jonghmans COMEDY. by Messrs. IL , rry Sydney, Brierley, and Eger ton, the ttmtlicre Pentland. W. R. Julian (the celebrated Mimic), together with a' Entirely New Liyertissernent, en titled E OXFORD REVELS, arranged and prodim d under the immediate superintendenle of Mr. W. IL Payne, TIIIS EVENING. It is Puro, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole 4orno. A mysterious, and, according to what is known of the circumstances at present, an unprovoked murder took place in the burgh of Govan on Satur day night. The whole affair at present is a mys tery, although the police have been making every endeavour to unravel it, they have hitherto met with but little success. The information which they are in possession of at present is of the most meagre description, and is somewhat as follows : On Saturday evening, about 40 apprentice carpen ters in the employment of Messrs. R. Napier and Sons, met in Mr. Alexander Mluroy's public-house, Rutland-place, Paisley-road, for the purpose of going through the ceremony known under the name of " brothering of apprentice carpenters." The deceased, a young man named John Young, aged 20, formed one of the party, and seems to have partaken freely of liquor. About nine o'clock he left the house, and proceeded on his way home. Nothing is known as to what followed afterwards, except what fell from his own lips, shortly before he expired ; but the next time he was seen in the vicinity of Govan, he was then seen staggering helplessly along the road. Two boys who ob served him put some inquiries to him as to where he was going, and who he was, but he seems to have returned very unsatisfactory answers, and they, fearing that something might befall him if they allowed him to wander about, con- A/soft-UM . to a touse at 58,, Main-street, occu pied by Wm. Johnstone. After remaining there for some time, he stated that he lodged with an engine keeper named Denham, residing at 12, Three-Ell road, and he was removed there about 2 o'clock on Sunday morning. Deceased at that time made no complaint of being injured, but the people with whom he lodged, suspecting from his faintness that CONTRACT FOR BEECH WEDGES. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, 14th Dec., 1866. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH di UNITED KINGDOM o f GREAT BRITAIN ADMIRAL and of IRE e LAND, Do hereby give NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the Bth January next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying Her M a j es t y ' s D oc k yard 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. At all Libraries, in 2 voli , XTODDEBO PARSONAGE. From the Danish Original. By the Translator of " The Guirdian." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Sold in Bottlog, 3s. 81, at the 116 tail Hortses in London ; )3- the Agents in the principal towns in England; or xholAsala at R. GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. 0 - bservA the TZ.d Son], Pink Libel, and Cork branded " ICinaban's LL Whiaky." THE CLOUD AND THE BEAM. By ALFRED GARDNER. Crown Svo., with Prontis,•iiCe and Vignt tie, price i s. THE NEW DOUBLE ACROSTICS. By A. A. Y. Printed on toned paper, 18mo., cloth, gilt edges. Price 2s. Lid. London: Lothian and Co., Amen-corner, Paternoster-row. 3r th a er • OTICE. - Mr. FRANK HUSSEY. of the NEW AME RICAN MINSTRICI,S, will hive the honour to make his rirst Appearance here on MONDAY NEXT, January 7th. % /UT - UAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION rtioJrporAted by Act of #, IZUSSEI.L-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDO'S. Prompt ADVA.NCE -3 on all description of security. F,:rms free on application by letter to EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. l 0 • Or it/rADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. NEW EDIT lONS. —Life-size Portrait-Models cf BRIGHT, Esq., M.P., and the late RICHARD COBDEN, Esq., P. Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m.. Admittance, Is.; children, under ten, half-price; extra rooms, 6d. COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES, and BUSINESSES. FURNESS and KNEE'S List on application. Particulars for insertion reoeiveci until the 27th of the month at their Aucriom AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES. 5, Agar street. Strand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Cress Railway Station. A NEW VOLUME of the " BUILDER."—The i• BUILDER," an Jllu3tra+cd Weekly Journal, con toductedby Hr. Gonwns, addresses itself not merely .trchitcets, construe ors, and operatives, but to lovers of art, sanitary reformers, and all who are interested in the material progress of the kingdom and the colonies. The first Number for the new year co. tains some fine en,ravings sd. and numerous papers o n i mportant subjects ; 9d., or by post No. 1, York -street. W.C., and all newsman. Anne Taylor's Death. The motion having been seconded, was at once agreed to. MANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of JOIIN BUtitaSS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of S'aroy-steps). London. JOIIN GOENELT, an d CO.'S CHERRY TOO 1 . 11 PASTiC is greatly superior to say tooth powder: gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath Pri e s la. &I —Red Bull Wharf. 93, Upper Thames-street. London. The Rev. Dr. HEATH then moved the adoption of certain amended rules, and the motion was agreed to. Votes of thanks were returned to the presidents, vice-presidents, hon. secretaries, treasurer, and other officers of the society. Dr. HUNT, F.R.S. (who now retires from the office of president, and assumes the position of di rector of the general management of the society, which, now will have no hon. secretaries), then read his farewell address. Ile commenced by congratu lating the - anthropologists on having now secured a position in'olie of the sections of the British Asset By Order, ANTONIO BRAY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. A VALUABLE NEW-YEAR'S GIFT.- A CHINESE CADDY, containing 16lbs. of really GIFT.-- good Black Tea, sent carriage free to any railway station or market town in England,,lreland, ',.cotiand. or Wales, oa re ceipt of Ws., by PHILLIPS and CO, Tea Merchants, 8, King William -street, City, E.C. EAU -DE-VIE. —This Pure PALE BRANDY, 18s. per zallon, is vt ry superio - to recent importations of Coanac, recommended by the medical profession, and ex tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 345. per dozen, or in a case 395., railway ca rr l aze pat L-111.141NRY BRETT and CO., Old Furnival's Distil ery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent street, S.W. Established 1829. CONTRACT FOR FRESH ON BEEF AND VEGE TABLES AT FOYNES. CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY. Somerset- House, 27th December, 1866. MIIE COMMISSIONERS f or EXE CUTING W. the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND do hereby Give Notice, that on Tuesday, the 15th January next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will 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 use of her Majesty's ships and vessels at Foynes as may be demande3 from the 15th January to the 30th June, 1867, both days included. The Contractor is to supply good fat well-fed Ox Beef, as no Heifer meat will be admitted. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders. Tenders must be made at rates per 100 lb., and no atten tion will be paid to any offers not so made. The Contractor, in claiming payment for the supplies, is to make out his invoices in pounds at per 100Ib. The Contractor to reside on the spot, or to have an agent resident there. If non-resident, the name and ad dress of the agent must be inserted in the Tender. No Tender will be received unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, or to the Postmaster at Foynes, where also the conditions of the contract may be seen. No Tender will be received after Noon on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his proposed sureties in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and must also be delivered at the department of the Comptroller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sup of £3OO for the due rformance of th Contrac f Beef, a n d £l OO fort the Contract for e Vegetablt esorFresh O x 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. WE ST ON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN.• Sole Proprietors, SWEASEY and HOLLAND. Grand Selection from Auber's Opera of " MASA NIELLO," by 40 vocalists dressed is costume as at the opera. Terr fib ovation of the Irish Minstrels, with songs, dances, and Irish anecdotes, under-the direction of Pat Corri. A new and origins,' overture composed and ar ranged expressly for the above minstrels by Mr. H. Baker. Comic—Arthur Lloyd's new song "Borachio, Pestachio, Lablachio, Moustachio, and the Roly Poly Eye,"—Jolly Nash, Georgina Smithson, Miss Fancourt, Paddy Fannin, Patrick Sellers, and Harry and Kettle King; and Pio Watkini, tho Persian Juggler. Band of 30 first-class per formers, and large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera Houses. Musical Director, Mr. P. COItRI. rrEA IS CHEA.PER THAN EVER.-4s. 6rl ; _IL and CO 25.. 's 6 . per lb. are th e p rices at which PHILLIPS , Tea lie.vhan's, 8, Kix , Wdliam-street, City, Lon don, tre sellin. , goal and Line BLACK TEA. A. price current; pose tree. 40s vro_•ib carrine tree to any railway r.t.etion or markei; town is the United Kingdom.—Obstrve— PHILLIPS and Co. h..ve no Agents or any connexion with any house iu Worcester or Swansea. Sugars are supplied at market prices. L. OCEAN ST. LEGER of 1866.—What Lord Lyon was to his owner was the Taei inz to her Ca- , air), viz., winner of the race, h.ying, &stance I -11 com petitors, as ;he itAST I DIA TEA COMPANY have ill y ;dab y done in their c`tol e and s tie of floe new season's teas, noir selling at importer's prices. Warthouses-9, Great St. Ifelen's-eturchyard. ciation. He did not accept that position as final ; but he should not recommend that the society should at present take any steps to alter it ; he felt that they should rather wait until they had fully established themselves and shown that the im- DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOU S Jared PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING} RESlLDY.—Pre without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. izott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who miler from bilious and liver somplaints, indigestion, wind, `Palma, giddiness, dizziueGs of the eyes, &a. For habitual ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a p urldei "I the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and :crateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote diveatton, t. 4 and strengthen the whole nervous system. Prepared only and sold by W. L a mbert, Chemist, , King William -street, Charing-cross. London, and by most drug gitta, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. lid. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Yills. The genuine are a square zreec package. with " William Lambert." enzraved on the stamp. portance of their science entitled it to a separate section' at the meeting of the British Association. He, in complimentary terms, mentioned the assist ance Professor Huxley had afforded the anthropo logists in getting them acknowedged by the associa- Prices of admission—Stalls and Balcony, ls.; Area, 6d. ; Pkivate Boxes, 10s. 6d. Can be secured at the Box Office, between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall ope n every Evening at 7 o'clock. there was something more than drink wrong with him, made an examination, and found two deep wounds in his abdomen, which were supposed to have been inflicted either with a knife or carpen ter's chisel. Medical assistance was procured, but notwithstanding everything that could be done, inflammation commenced, and he died shortly after 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Before his death he stated that, after leaving M'lnroy's public-home, he proceeded in the direction of Govan, and on reaching Bain-street, he stopped for a few minutes close to a house occupied by a Mrs. Stenhouse. Two men came up at the time, with whom he en tered into conversation ; but he could not remember what passed between them, and was unable to give any description of what the strangers were like. It would appear, however, that they must have stabbed the unfortunate young man, although he seems to have been unaware of the fact. His as sailants, after committing their cowardly attack, must have made off, as deceased was seen wander ing alone about the streets in the manner we have described above. Capt. Young and his officers have been making every inquiry into the case, but they have been unable as yet to find any trace of the party or parties who committed the assault.— Yorth British Daily Mail. D UNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISIf, BELFAST, tion, and adverted to some differences of opinion that existed between him and the learned professor. The president then detailed what had been done in the way of meetings, translations, &c., and said it was now proposed to considerably increase the number of fellows. He pointed out that at one time certain persons condemned them and denied their right to attempt to trace the origin of man ; that right had now been almost universally admit- Is regularly supplied to the house of Lords. "V. 11." IRIS!! WIII ay. TUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. THE BEST REMEDY FO It INDIGE3TION. NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi dently recommended as •-t simple but certain Remedy for Indigestion, which 14 the cause of nearly all the diseases to which we are subject, being a medicine so uniformly_e rate int and benefi c i a l , th a t i t i s with j ust i ce called the "Natural Strengthener of the Human Stomach." "Norton's Pills" act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient; are mild in their operation, safe under any circumstances, and thousands of persons can now bey' testimony to the benefits to be derived from their use, as they have been a never-failing Family Friend for upwards of 20 years. Sold in bottles at Is. lid., 2s. tad , and Ils. each, in every town in the kingdom. London Offizes and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 18(8. Quotations on application. T HE JOINT STOCK COAL COMPANY (Limited), Incorporated under the " Companies' Act, 1862," by which the liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of his Shares. Capital, £lOO,OOO, in 100,000 Shares of £1 each. First Issue of 50,000 fully subscribed. ss. per Share to be paid on Application, ss. on Allotment, and the remainder, if required, in calls of not less than ss. per Share, at intervals of tot less than three months. CHAIRMAN.—JOHN WHITE ORAM, Esq. MANAGING DlRECTOR.—Frederick A. New, Esq. BANKERS.—The 'London and County Bank, Lombard street; and Metropolitan and Provincial Branches. Chief Office \Vest-end Dublin Liverpool Office Colchester Hythe Quay. Brighton The Company is now in full operation, having seven depots in London, also depots and wharves at Dublin, Liverpool, Colchester ' and Brighton. Th e Directors a re also supplying trucks of Coal to the various stations in the Eastern Counties, the Home Counties, and also on the South line of rails. To supply their trade promptly and independently, the Company has in constant working up wards of 300 railway trucks, and also owns a large stock of horses and vans in excellent condition. JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers?, John-street, Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the world."—Loodon Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C., next the '• Times." ted, provided they did not put forward crude and undigested theories, and this they had no desire to do. He described the opponents of the science of anthropology as those suffering from religious mania, who were pretty nearly harmless ; those suffering from the "rights of man" mania,which led them to the belief that every one was equal. Human equality was one of the most unwarrantable assumptions, in his opinion, that ever existed, and in the science of comparative anthropology no justification for that assumption would be found by the philoso phers of the class of Mr. John Stuart Mill. He AMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork, be to announce that they are able to supply the trade with their celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases, and to take orders in bowl and for exportation, at their offices, 7, Printing-house-square, London, E C. , the oul y house in the square not occupied by thq "Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies brim, the highest prices in the Australian and othe- Colonial markets, as may be observed by reference to the "Journal of Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their whiskies fetch 6d. per gallon and ls. per ctse over the next best, and is. 6d per gallon and ss. 6d. a case ov , r the lowest quotation. Always on hand a large supply of ve - y old mellow whisky -in the finest condition, matured in sherry casks, unsurpassrble in quality anti flavour, supplied on the most reasonable terms. CAUTION. Re sure and ask for "NORTON'S PILLS." and do not be persuaded to purchase any of the various imitations which have sprung up in consequence of the success of NORTON'S CA.IIO.IIILE PILLS. HYAM & Co.'s ATTIRE. HYAM & Co., 66 and 67, OXFORD-ST. HYAM & Co.'s WINTER OVERCOATS. Tr 0 GIINMAKERS and I. Others. The SECRETARY or STATE for WAR is desirous of receiving. PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for EREECH-LOA.DING RIFLES, either repeating or n r epenting, which may replace th e present Service Rifles in future manufacture. The following are the conditions considered essential in military non -repeating Rifles : A. WEIG HT. Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet. B. LENGTH. To be 51 inches, with short stock, measured from the hollow of the butt- plate to muzzle. C WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP. Must not-eisCled sib AMMUNITION for sixty rounds as packed for service. Must carry their own D. CARTRIDGES. ignition. E . SIGHTS. fixed The foresight must be suc h as to admit. of a ba accordin g to th e present SyStOrtl. yonet F. STOCK. Must be s uc h as to carry allow a s li ng to be used. a light me t a l cleaning•rod, and G. Must n o t exceed that of RECOIL. tho Enfield Rifle by more th an 10 her cent. H. THE ARM AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injury by long-continued firing, rough usage, and ea posom 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, a - ad of being manufactured in quantities and of uni form quality. I• THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE. Must 183 as little liable ►o iniury by rough usage, damp, and exposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for Sniler'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. $• CALIBRE. Optional. L. THE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE. Optional. it. THE LOCK. Optional. N. RA PIDITY OF FIRE . aimi n Capable of firing at le as t 12 rounds per minute, without g, tho cartridgesbeim; Arranged on a t a bl e. o. ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST. The crm must give a mean figure of merit of not more than C6in. at 1000 yard; 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500, and 6M. et 300., The shots each.mean to be t a k en upon at least five targets of twenty P. TRAJECTORY. deg. 30 mi n . Not to require 500 yards an elevation o f more than 1 Q. FOULING.The shooting not to deteriorate mo at 1,000 y ar d s a f ter firing 250 rounds.re than 20 per cent. PENETRATION. The mean penetration of five shots not to be less that of th e p resent service muzzle-loading Enfield Riflthae n viz., 12 h a lf - i nch elm planks, which have been soaked 48 hours in water. Distance 30 yards. • . LUBRICATI. Wax on bullets is s indispensable, but any other lubricant may be superaddeet or applied to the cartridge, if thought necessary by the competitor. 111. No arms will be received without the usual proof marks. Specifications, and drawings of the methods proposed, stating the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a finished specimen arm wiLh 20 rounds of suitable ammu nition, should be sent . to the "Director of Ordnance, War Office., Pall-mall," on or hafore the 30th March, 1867. The specifications an.: opacimen arms will be considered by the Ordnaiwa Se,ect Omamittee and its associate mem bers, who will ha selected by the Secretary of State for War, and who will, af,er firing the 20 preliminary rounds, select and recommend for furiA•er trial such of the systems as may appear to them sualc'er ay promising, rejectin g a ll such as may not be cons i dered to offer sufficient merits to warrant Ceeir laving included in the competition, the con ditions of which are stated in this advertisement. Each accepted competitor will then be required to furnish for e xperiment, at Woolwich, six arms in strict conformity to the specimen arm submitted, with 1,000 rounds of am munition per arm, within four months after date of de mand. Each competitor will be required to disclose to the committee the exact nature of the lubrication he may em ploy. A sum of £3OO will be paid to each of the accepted competitors, to cover the expense of the six rifles, and of the supply oZ ammunition required. The S ecre t ary or State offers a reward of £l,OOO for the arm which, on combination of all qualities, is considered by the committee to be the best submitted. A second reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at- , taining a satisfactory degree of excellence in other particu lars, is selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism. A third reward of £4OO for the best cartridge. The qua ities which 1 - !ill 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 more than one prize ; but such prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be given to the inventor of the arm finally adopted into the' service. I V., MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. Magazine and Repeating A rms for Infantry will be r e _ ceived and exami ne d i n a manner s i milar to the Breech loading Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48 inches, including the stock. The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at 91 , 1 b. ex clusive of the charges in the magazine. It is indispensable that the arms be made to take a bayonet. ho Secretary- of State offers a reward of 300 for the best Magazine or Repeating Arm produced tbatfulfils the above conditions ; and in the absence of experience does not at present define the, standard of accuracy or other conditions to be fulfilled before such an arm can be adopted. Those Magazine orßepeatingArms, which are accepted for further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6O each. This sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per arm. The Secret ary o f State will take care that no ingenious novelty produced in answer to this advertisement shall be adopted into the service without proper acknowledgment, and that the name of the individual with whom it origi nates shall 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 War Cece, O c t. 22 1866 Ordnance .1; H YAM & Co.'s SILK-FACED OVERCOATS, YAM 84 Co.'s REEFERS. H YAM & Co.'s SUITS. H YAM & Co.'s MORNING COATS. H YAM & Co.'s PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE H YAM & Co.'s VESTS and TROUSERS. H YAM & Co.'s LADIES' HABITS. H YAM & Co.'s LIVERIES. YAM Sc Co.'s HATS and HOSIERY. HYAM & Co.'s ATTIRE for GENTLEMEN, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Tweed Overcoats 21s. to 308. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Overcoats 3os. to 84s. Hymn & Co.'s Winter Reefer 2ss. to Ms. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Suits 42s. to 708. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Jackets 2ls. to 425. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Frock Coats Hyam & Co.'s Winter Vests 6s. to 14s. Hyam & Co.'s Winter Trousers l4s. to 255. H YAM & Co.'s BOYS' WINTER CLOTHING, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. The first establishment in the kingdom for Juvenile othing. ,Cl Boys' S an d r i ng h am Overcoats Boys' Princo Alfred Reefer Boys' Overcoats for Little Boys Boys' Knickerbocker Suits lss. to 355. Boys' Westminster and Osborne Suits lss. to 355. 131ys' Eaton, Harrow, and Rugby Suits Boys' Jackets for School and Home 9s. to 21s. .___________ iTYAM & Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS. 1. Gentlemen's Clothing for immediate wear. 2. 'Bespoke or-Order Department. 3 . Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department. 4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. HYAM & Co.' s ESTABLISHMENTS . LONDON-66 and 67, OXFORD-STREET. BIRMINGHAM -21, 22, and 23, NEW-STREET. LEEDS -42 BRIGGATE ; and bEWSBURY—WESTGATE. UJust pUblished, 2d ; sent by the author for 3 stamps, GLINESS and BEAUTY ; bein g a Pamphlet L PPearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, the a descriptive of articles and means used for improving ondou. ____ High Holborn, S A NISTI FLY is the acting p ALRX. 13.0888 C ANTRABIDES Off...which speedily Ben whiskers and thickens hair, 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and ;Os 6d; sent by post for 4, 84, and 144 siAmps.—AL EX- _ROSS, 248, ingredient in Iligh tiolboru, T """s'ndOni and all Chemists. td a y b L y u p s tlnSx DIS COVERY. —c orns R R Y 6 — s p s w ironEe Thi, preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, removing the yeryroot. Price 4a; sent by post for 60 stamps. High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. 00 1 8 1 R e co il; c o d . —248, ETAIR-CIIRLING FLUID, 248 High Holborn, London.—ALlM ROSS'S CURLING FLUID ourla Ladles' or Gentlemen's bee I mmediately it to applied. Sold at 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and tOs ad ; sent free for 54, 84. and 144 stamps. —Had of all Chemiqs. REY HAIR 248, High Holborn, London. Ji ALEX. ROSA'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect color imme diately it is used. I t i s permanent, and perfectly nau tural in are t. Price 3s 6d, 58 lid, and ;os 6d; sent by post for 54, 81, and 141 stamps ; and all Cherrthts. AIR D ESTROYER.-248, Hi au gh Ho re lbor London. —AL i. ;X. ROSS'S DEPILA T ORY removes perfluous hair from the faee, neck. and Qrma , without effect to the skin. Price 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and 103 Si; sent for 51, - and 144 stamps.—Had of 1,11 Chemists. DIMPLE REMOVER.—AII di seases of the VE , ;, skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSI'S skin SKIN PILLS . They remove redness, sal -ALE lowne es, tife. Is 9d and 7 s ed ; or post for 44 and 100 stamps. mists. X. ROSS, 248, Hi g h H o lb orn, London, and all Che- HAIR COLOUR WASH.—By washing the hea I with this beautifully -perfumed Wash, in seven or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, ~nd remains so by an oce-sional usin ICBM ; sent for stamps.—A.LEX. ROSS, 21% High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wisl tea to add another Lome to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer 'ban 555 poor , friendless, young female 8 were rejected irom want of IetINDS and room , making a total of 3,087, whckhave been sent away in five years. rile new home the Committee wish to loam would be for young' Or's, almost children, from the vg e of 8 to 15, who have bet•r t led astray from the path of virtu e. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secrettuy. Mr. f )aniel Cooper, s 5, Qu.e n •s;reet. Cheap fide: or by Items Barclay and Co.. Lombard -street. OYAL FE,EE HOSPITAL, .111.. ti in the immediate vicinity of the tire at :N rT orther 2,201.. way Terminus, Ring's-omen. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majes ty the QuEr,N Vice- Patron—n is Royal nighties s the Pr in ce o f mr IL R „ Presldent—fits Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCII,-.. This Hospital, founded in the year 11 tbe first two estab- L o ' 3 w rl i thout fish the principle of free admission to tiesiok the delay and difficulty of Governors' ordern, pendent for support on voluntary contributions B.nd t - , 49 7 2 d e , e- It affords relief to a large number of:in - patients: and 1 ,1 addition to this, the average number 3f attend ance of the Jeatitute sick has for a considerable pert od averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee ear estly solicit the IiSSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the pr nises of this Ho vital are capable of containing several ht,ndred more beda had the Committee the requisite tunas to maintain them. Contributions are received by thtirbr.nkers, Messrs. Brow b, Janson, and Co., Abchurch-lane; also by Messrs. Coutta Co.; mammon(' and Co.;GAyn and ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, rind Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Deacon, and Ce_ ; 'Ni s b et and CO., Serum-Wed and at the IlogiNtal. from Al) till is. f3TA.Nr9Up /41.1 TH. geactuy, . ASPHALTE ROOFING FELT, ONE PENNY per Square Foot. C R O GGON and C 0., Manufacturers, 63, New Earl-street, I London, E. C. 34, Bread-street, 59, George-square, Glasgow; 2, Goree Piazzas, Liverpool. GEOLO G- Y.-ELEMENTARY COLLEC TIONS, to illustrate the New Edition of "Lyell's Elements of Geology" and facilitat, the important study of Mineralo;:y and Geology, can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 511 to 500 guineas ; a1:..0 single Specimens of Minerels, 110-tt 8, Fossils, and Raz"( nt Shells, Geological traps. Hammers, all the recent Pub'icalionQ, km. o J. TENNANT, Miueralogist to lier Maitsty, 140. Strand, London. _ I"riviie Instru tion is given in Mineralogy and Geo'ogy by Ur. TENNANT. F.G.S., 149, Strand, W.C. IJINSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having been recently opened and fitted with requisites for the wire and comfort of the I N'SANfil, the proprietor, Dr. t3OI3ItAG ON, announces that he his transferred his Estab lishment from Ilirmintzham to the above desirable residence, easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour and a-halt by the London and North-Western line, and fifty minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on a sandy soil, ati , t commanding an extensive and pleasing prospect, pre garden, me (tow, plantation, and recreation grounds. ]'or terms and forms of admission address the proprietor. OTIILNG I.IILP 0 SSIB greatest and `9 most fleet al invention of the day, AGUA AMARELL n. 51essrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO. ' Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street. Perfumers to her Majesty. respect fully offer to the public this truly marvellous IMO. which gradually restores Oa human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. The Agna Amarella has none of tLe properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and. when the hair is once restored one application per month wilt keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, Ms. 61. Testimonials from artistes oflthe highest order, and from Individuals of undoubted re spectability, Gosnell and Co. have be en app o int e d Perfumers to her Royal maY be seen on application. Messrs. John Highness the Princes., of Wales. NOTICE OP REMOVAL. _T DEFRIES and SONS' efi NEW Or l'Y SRO ROOMS.—(7RYSTAL CHAN -31;i14%-tiS, New Designs for the Drawing-room. either ,or Gas or Candle, and -to suit all kinds of Decorations. —ll7, Houndsditch. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION tErtablished by Charter of his Majesty George the First\ FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall, S.W. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. JAMES STEWART HonGsox, Esq., Sub-Governor. CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Robert Barclay, Esq. John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Ed ward James Daniell, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. Thomas Dent, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Charles H. (4 osciten, Esq. RiversdaleW. Grenfell, Esq. Francis Alex. Hamilton. Eeq. Robe. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' Wiimot Holland, Esq. Nevfle Lubbock, Esq. Geo. F. Malcolmson, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. Lord Josceline W. Percy. Charles Robinson, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. NOTICE. The usual Fifteen Days allowed for Payment of FIRE PRE HMIS falling due at CHRISTMAS will ex pire on the 9th of January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on ad vantageous terms. The Duty on Fire Assurances has been reduced to the uni form rate of Is. 6d. per cent. per annum. No charge is made by this Corporation for Fire Policy or Stamp, however small the Assurance may be. FARMING-STOCK—No extra charge is made for the use of Steam Thrashing Machines. The Reversionary Bonus on British LIFE POLICIES has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured— Liberal participation in Profits—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption, under Royal Charter, from the liabilities of partnership. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING SHIP. £2,000 required. WM. WILLIA.MS, Secretary. Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON , TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing the COUNTRY RO3l/1. 41,010 required. WM. WILLI AILS, Secretary. Boys' Refuse, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys. One hundred and fifty are now In the Refuge. The annual expenditure for supporting the 400 boy, is estimated at £A,OOO, being. £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends have promised to pay for one bay each year. Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothburv. and 214, High Holborn; Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East; and by WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Refuge, 8, Ureat Queen-street, W.C. DItOVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, - FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C. Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches. M present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that they aro homeless and starving. The Manager &c., :eeeives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each night numbers of young women, children, and orphans are, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, andha ve to spend night a ft er n i g h t in ' the cold, wet, and sleet. To meet this evil, and to provido more ample accommoda tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required. Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome, and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will be offered in your behalf. SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be gratefully received by the Rev.)). GILBERT D.D., No X 22, Finsbury-circus," E. 6. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. DEFRIES and SONS' NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS. ORNAIIi• NTAL CLOCKS for the DINING and DRAWING-RUOIL-147. Houndeditch. NOTICE OF hEMOVA.L. T DEFRIES and SONS' ei• NEW cur SHOW ROOMS.—fferehanti and the Trade Flipplied with MATT ERN BOOKS FREE.— 117, Houndsditch. Works—London, Birmingham, and Parts. Established 1803. UXHIBITORS at the PARIS EXHIBIT I ON , JUJ who ADVERTISE in " THE SUN," can have the SERVICES of A SPECIAL AGENT in PARIS, whose address can be obtained at " Th e Sun" Office. He has a perfect knowledge of French, is also acquainted with busi ness, and has good . connections. O n appl i cation to " The Sun" Agent in Parp, either personally or by letter, he will obtain every possible facility for Exhibit ors , or p ersons who may have other business in Paris, or who may go there for pleasure only. PRI N T ING. —TO PROPRIETORS OF done on exceed -1- NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.—The Print iinngglyanfdavMounmehbinleintegrnofig.NeirsepaopfeErsdito&rinl and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager "Sue Printing Offices, 3, Church row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. WHAT IS YOUR CREST AND WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO ? Send 3s. 6d. to CULLETON'S Heraldic Office for a Plain Sketch, or 6s. for a Coloured one. The Arms of man and wife blended together in proper heraldic form. The proper heraldic Colours for servants' liver'es, what buttons to be used, and how the carriage sh ou ld b e pa i n t e d , fee 10s. Just complete, a very valuable b oo k, w i t h 3 , 500 Engravings, arms, crests, and mott oes of nearly every family in the kingdom, the result of thirty years' labour, price £lO 10s., printed in several colours. Family Pedi grees traced from authentic records, information as to the obtaining of a new grant of arms, how-to change one's name, by T. Culleton, Engraver to her Majesty and Royal family ; also Diesinker to the Board of Trade, 25, Oran bourn-street (corner of St. Martin's_janei W.C. It is announced that the section of the railway from Nantes to Napoleon Vendde and that of Napo leon Vendde to Sables d'Olonne will be opened for traffic on Saturday next. SMALL-PDX IN MARYLEBONE. -- -Yesterday a special meeting, convened by requisition of the representative vestry of St. Marylebone, was held at the court-house, to receive and decide on a request made by the board of guardians for the immediate use of the iron house in the .stone yard for the reception of small-pox cases, for which there is no accommodation either in the workhouse or Small-pox Hospital. After some discussion, in the courso of which the necessity for increased small-pox and fever hospital accommodation was enforCed, the application was granted unanimously. The liability of Shareholders is limited to the amount of shares taken. From the rapidity with which the first issue of 50,000 Shares was subscribed, and the applications al ready on hand, the Directors anticipate being obliged at an early period to close the Share List for the Second Issue. Applications for detailed Prospectuses and Shares to be made to the Managing Director at the Offices or Depots of the Company: NOTICE OF RE3IOVAL. DEFRIES and SONS' • NEW CITY SHOW ItOO3IS contain an entirely new and extensive Stock of TABLE GLASS, Lltina, and Cil4ll - Houndsditcli. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. DEFRIES and SONS' J. NEW CITY snow itOolif 4 . —The New Oval-shaped ALEXANDRA. DINNEJt SERVICE, from £1 18s. 6d.- 147, Houndeditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL, DEFRIEi and SONS CP • NEW CITY SHOW li,oollS. BREAKF (ST and TEA SERVICES in great variety, from Li is. upwards.- 147, Houndoditell. NO DICE OF REMOVAL. DEFRIES and SONS' t , • NEW WY SHOW ROOMS contain a beautiful assortment of DESSERT SEtt.VICEQ, from LI I. to 100 guineas. Crests and Monograms engraved on same. -147, Houndsditeh. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. DEFRIES and SON S ' • NEW CITY SFYOW ROOMS. —BRONZE and OR MOLU CHANDELIERS in great variety. New Designs Lir the Dining-room.--147, Boundsditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. DEF ES and SONS' • NEW cm' Snow ROOMS.—The ALEXANDRA FL°W EIt VASE. This new and beautioul Vase can he secn in great 7arlety, from 33. to 3Cs. each. —II7, Hounds ditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. DEFRIES and SONS' • NEW CITY 81.10%7 ROWIS.—The NEW JET DINE ROOM. VASE. Registered designs, in great variety.-147, Houndsditeli.. NOTICE OP REMOVAL. rir DE PRIES and SONS' T-- , • NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS.—The NEW PATENT ASTRA LAMP. for Petroleum and Mineral Oils ; also CRYSTAL LAMPS and WALL LIGHTS (registered) for India.-147, Houndsditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. DEFRIES and SONS' stjure-IN47l:WRouCnlditsdritchBoW BOOMS. —TAVERN TAVERN and HOTEL GLASS of the newest pasterns and correct mea -7 trusted that the time was not far distant when the importance of such a society, and the science it dealt with, would be acknowledged by philoso phers, philanthropists, and politicians, and that it would be seen that nations could be better governed by the deductions from natural facts than by assump tions. He concluded by remarking on the progress anthropology had made in England and abroad, and the yet lamentable ignorance that prevailed of the science of man, and thanking the society for the support he had received in his position as president during the past four years. Mr. flloorss moved a vote of thanks to Dr. llun as their ex-president, and that his address be printed. Mr. W. 11. WESLEY seconded_ the motion, and it was agreed to. • Dr. HUNT acknowledged the,compllinent, and the pfoceedings terminated. SirG. Bowyer, M.P., on the Roman Question The hon. member for Dundalk addressed a meet ing of Roman Catholics in the Exchange, Wolver hampton, on Monday night. He said that lately a great deal had been heard in the newspapers and elsewhere about the " solution of the Roman ques tion." He, however, denied, that there was any Roman question at all. (Cheers.) He could not better illustrate this Roman question than by the following question. Supposing any of them going home that nightshould be met by two or three stout ruffians who were to say—" Your money or your life !" (Laughter and applause.) That was the Roman question. (Renewed laughter and ap plause.) It was simply a question of robbery. (Applause.) The Piedwontese, the Government of Victor Emmanuel, were acting in the most hypo critical manner possible. They talked about the desire of the Pope to introduce retorms into his government, but they did not want reforms at all. 1% hat they wanted was to take Rome, and no re forms would satisfy them. Then they talked about the impossibility of a reconciliation between the Pope and the Government of Florence. He thought that he could illustrate that proposition in a =li ner which would rather resemble the illustration he had just given. It was just precisely as if a man, after robbing them of their watch and their money, were to say.—" I will be reconciled to you, provided you will make over to me all the rest of your pro perty." (Laughter and applause.) Their reconcilia tion was this—They said, " Give us Rome ; give us the whole of your dominions ; give us everything you have got left ; we have taken the greater part of it; give us all the rest, and we will be reconciled to you." (Laughter and applause.) Now, how very kind that was, was it not? (Laughter.) But he would not give much for such reconciliation. Then they said, " We will not take the whole of your power from you ; we will have a garrison in Rome." That was very much like the wolf protecting the sheep. Such a protec tion could not be listened to, and it could not be offered without a great deal of bad faith and dis honesty. If the Pope allowed those people to have possession of Rome he would be a prisoner, and he would be compelled to leave his capital and lose the independence absolutely necessary for the perform ance of his sacred duties. But there was another object; they did not only want territory and that magnificent city of Rome, but they wanted another thing. Rome was the centre of the whole civilised world. In that city were all the threads by which the affairs of Christendom were managed. Every thing centred at Rome. They wanted to get hold of that centre of the Catholic Church. It was the ob ject of the impious people who composed the secret society to effect the complete destruction of the reli gious orders. They foolishly thought that they could destroy the Church by getting hold of Rome and of the head of the Church. If they should do this they would subvert the providence of God. (Cheers.) But they did not want them to get hold of Rome, for if they did they would produce a great deal of mis chief and plunder the rest of the Church. In proof of this let them bear in mind what had just happened in Venice. The people who had been deprived of their livelihood because of the departure of the Aus trian troops cried for " Bread, bread," at the doors of the Government offices. Upon that there came out one of Victor Emmanuel's officers and said the Government would do everything they could; and, in order that they might have work, the Govern ment had ordered the destruction of two religious houses. If these people were allowed to get hold of Home the devastation of the Church would follow, and a great and serious calamity to the Catholic. Church would ensue. Sir George discountenanced the habit of some in denouncing the Emperor of the French, who, be said, had promised to send his sol diers back to the relief of the Pope if their aid should be required; and he concluded by urging the assem bly to contribute Peter's pence, by which hitherto the Holy Father had been enabled to fulfil punctu ally and exactly all demands as they became due, whiilt the spoiler and the robber, King Victor Em manuel, remained upon the verge of bankruptcy. (Cheers.) • Extraordinary Law Suit in Paris. O A very extraordinary family law suit concerning he custody of two young ladies, aged respectively 20 and 17, occupied one of the Paris courts last week. The plaintiff, M. Baisson, a gentleman of property, living in the Rue St. Honore, is the father of the minors in question by a first wife, who died many years ago. M. Baisson has several children by a second marriage. Immediately after the death of his first wife he placed his two children, then in fants of tender years, under the care of his mother in-law, the defendant, &widow. This lady became passionately attached to the girls, took the utmost care of their education, treated them in all respects as her adopted children, relieved the father of all expenses for their maintenance, and made no secret of her intention to leave them the whole of her very large fortune. Under these apparently most happy circumstances the utmost harmony prevailed be tween M. Baisson and the mother of his first wife; he was able to devote himself to his new family with the knowledge that his elder children were in the hands of a tender, judicious, and wealthy relation, whose greatest object in life was their welfare. But a few months ago it happened that the eldest Madlle. Baisson fell in love—a most improper thing for any young lady to do according to French no tions. The rule of good French society is that a girl until married is never to speak to any man un less in the presence of her parents or guardians, and then only in monosyllables. A well-bred French girl knows that she is one day to be married, and looks forward to the event with pleasure, as one which will give her an opportunity of making many old schoolfellows jealous by the display of her trous- But she is to have no preference on the sub ect. One day her father comes to her and says, My love, I have found you a husband." To which she replies, kissing her father on the forehead, "Merci, mon pore!—who is it?" He gives the name, mentions a proximate day for the wedding, and then the young lady consults with her mother about the wedding outfit. These well-known rules were not regarded in the case of Madll6. Baisson's attachment. Yes !—she absolutely formed an at tachment, and her rich grandmother, who had brought her up and was prepared to do everything requisite, humanly speaking, to make her future life happy, was privy to it. The object of her at tachment is an army surgeon, a man of merit both personally and through his foregoers. His father was a distinguished general officer, and he himself wears upon his breast a constellation of medals and decorations attesting his good services. But his only fortune is his commission, and on this sole ground M. Baisson, when informed of the engage ment by his mother-in-law, peremptorily declared that the army surgeon was no fit match for his daughter. The father, who had been content to delegate to her grandmother the entire care of his daughter from her earliest infancy, came forward re solutely to exercise the stern parental authority which the law gives him in order to prevent the marriage of a girl almost of age with the man of her choice, who had courted her with the approbation of the relation who stood in loco parentis, and . had been throughout her life her best friend. Al. Baisson went to his mother-in-law's house, saw his daughter, seau. told her that he would never give his consent to the marriage ; and, moreover, that he would no longer allow her to live with her grandmother, and that she must come away with him directly. The young lady, in obedience to this parental command, packed up her trunks and got into her father's carriage, which was in waiting, but the carriage had only gone a few yards, when sho suddenly opened a door, at the risk of breaking her neck, jumped out into the street, and ran back to her grandmother's. M. Baisson thought it undesirable to make a scene by attempt ing then and there to bring his daughter away by force. He contented himself by saying that he was inflexible, and she would hear from him in a few days, When next he went to the house he was in- formed that the whole family had gone away, and had left no address. M. Baisson went over almost all Europe in search of his daughters. He inquired at all the German watering-places and at every town in Belgium, but without any result. At length be hit upon the expedient of sending a money letter to the grandmother at her old address in Paris, and he learned through the post-office that this letter was delivered to the very army surgeon whose pretensions :o his eldest daughter's hand foamed the casus Belli, lie, found that the two girls were con cealed under false names in a Catholic convent in Glasgow. Thereupon he brought an action against his mother-in-law, requiring her to bring the girls back to France and hand them over to his custody. The Tribunal of First Instance made a decree in his favour, and ordered the young ladies' grandmother to pay I,ooof. a day for two months unless the girls says The last of " the Taylors of Ongar" has gone to her rest. On the 20th ult. died, at Nottingham, in her 85th year, the above -named lady, the widow of the late Rev. Joseph Gilbert, but who was better known in literature as Anne Taylor of Ongar. Anne Taylor was a member of an essentially lite rary family. She was the daughter of the Rev. Isaac Taylor, of Ongar, whose wife was the author of works that were popular in the last century. Her uncle, Charles Taylor, was the learned editor of Calmet. Her brother Isaac was the well-known author of the " Natural History of Enthusiasrc," and numerous other philosophical and religions works. Tier second brother, Jeffrey, was the author of many andtiymous productions, the - atief perhaps of which was The Apostolic Age iftßritain; Her sister Jane shared with her the authorship of a •r - e r y celebrated little work, older than -the century in which it still lives, Original Poems for Infant Minds.' One peculiarity respecting this work is, that while poetry much more pretentious, but once popular, has perished, these original poems continue to be republished. From the period of their first appearanCe down to the present year they contri buted a handsome annuity to the authors,--of late years to the survivor of the two. This work was among the first on which Anne Taylor was en, gaged, and her last labour was devotea, as Coe readers of the Athenzum will remember, to the emendation of a verse in the most popular poem of the whole collection, 'My Mother.' Anne Taylor married, in 1813, the Rev. Joseph Gilbert, author of ' The Christian Atonement, its Basis, Nature, and Bearings,' and member of a Lincolnshire family that contributed two officers to Captain Cook's expeditions, one of whom has left in manuscript his account of the voyage of the Reso lution and Discovery (1776-1780) in search of a North-West passage. Although the Taylors of Ungar have now all passed away, the literary spirit of the family survives. Mrs. Gilbert's son Josiah is, with Mr. W. Churchill, the author of the work on the Dolomite Mountains, of which we had recently to speak with much commendation. Another son, Dr. Henry Gilbert, is known by his Elucidations of Agricultural Chemistry ;' and her nephew, the Rev. Isaac Taylor, has taken lite rary rank by his " Words and Places." Few whole families have so completely belonged to literature as that of the aged lady of whose death we make record. The daytime of her life was one of varied and useful labour; with labour, rest, and recreation heartily enjoyed, and an exercise of abounding hos pitality in as pious and gay a home as ever illus trated the bright cheerfulness of a religious and intellectual life. The evening of such a life was, most appropriately, the calm evening of a long day of sunshine and of shade, blending so quietly with the night that it was hardly possible to say when the one ended or the other began. In the loving memories of her family and friends Anne Taylor will not die.—Athenxtun. In addition to the models of the various ironclad broadside, turret, and other vessels built during the last few years at Chatham dockyard which are now in course of preparation to be transmitted to Paris, to be placed in the French Exhibition, an order has been received at the establishment directing a speci men of every description of boat used in the British navy to be constructed at Chatham dockyard, for forwarding, with the models, to Paris. The boats will include the various descriptions supplied to a man-of-war, from the 42-feet launch down to the smallest dingey, all of the exact size. Besides one of the ordinary ship's launches a specimen of a steam launch is also to be sent to Paris, with the high pressure engines complete fitted on board for driv ing the double screws. Two of the models of the vessels in course of preparation have been completed at Chatham dockyard, and transmitted to the Ad miralty for approval. An official letter has since been received at the yard expressing their Lordships' un qualified satisfaction at the execution and finish of the models, and directing that those in hand may be completed and finished in precisely the same manner. The boats and models are to be ready for transmission to the French Exhibition by the Ist of February. , The Journal des Debats has an interesting article apon the subject of M. de Ricasoli's letter to the Bishops of Rome who had left their dioceses, but who have now returned. The Debuts compares the doctrines propounded by the Italian Minister in his letter to the celebrated formula of Count de Cavour —" A free Church in a free State." It then illus trates M. Ricasoli's principles by the following extract from his letter :—" By the side of the Ca tholic church a Protestant church is erected, the Mussulman mosque and the Chinese pagoda. By the side of the Catholic clergy the consistory of Geneva and the Methodist congregation fulfil their functions. Such a state of things does not en gender either confusion or lukewarmness. Why ? Because neither religion demands from the State either special protection or special privilege. Each religion exists and is developed under the shield of the law common to all; and the law, equally respected by all, guarantees to each equal liberty." In conclusion, the Debuts charac terises the letter as "a programme of reconciliation between the Church and modern society." A widow lady named Gravis, whose husband was an army surgeon, is now residing at Calais, who, although 99 years old, is in full possession of all her faculties, and is in excellent health. She has in her possession a relic, of which she takes great care. Is is a spoon of boxwood, which was used by Marie Antoinette while she was in prison at the Con ciergerie in 1793. Madame Gravis was in that prison at the same time, having been incarcerated by the Revolutionists. The spoon came into her possession in this way. After the death of Robe spierre, Madame Gravis was sent from the Con ciergerie to the College du Plessis, which was converted into a prison. A Savoyard woman, who had been condemned to death, attended upon the Queen in the Conciergerie, was also sent to• the College, where she also offered her services to Madame Gravis. This woman sold her several articles, and amongst them this spoon, which was used by Marie Antoinette when her plate was taken from her. Madame Gravis, regarding it as an his torical relic, purchased the spoon of the woman and gave her for it the sum of 25 francs in assignats. The Siecle, in refcrenc3 to the Speech of M. Bis marck, relative to the annexation of the Duchies, " In whatever way the sense of the speech may be tortured, it is difficult not to discover in it the expression of the desire felt by the whole of Ger many to remain upon terms of peace and friendship with France. The conduct of Prussia during re cent events may be judged with severity, it may even be appreciated in the least flattering manner as regards the feeling which we all entertain of the influence which Prussian aggrandisment may have in deteriorating the power of France ; but one con clusion must be arrived at. Should we prepare to make war against Prussia, or would it not be pre ferablet itowacchepNtefwaitGrmhefullyanay the ecem facts,relations d onsoi and maintain peace and good neighbourhood ?" A RGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirelyre decorated, are now OPEN EVERY F,VENIN , ; for Concert and I)..ncing. Conductor, Signor LuGt CURTL Manager, NI. 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