The Sun. — London, England, 1867-09-16 00:00:00

ll' AFTER Covent-garde EVANS' to SUP. After Drury-lane Theatre After Elaymarket Theatre After Adelphi Theatre After Olympic Theatre .. After Strand Theatre After New Royalty Theati After St. James's Theatre ..... After Prince of Wales' Theatre....EVANS' to SUP. London Singing and Supper Club, E VANS', Covent-garden . Vocal Entertainment at Eight RINARAN'S LL 1S DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 18G5. This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole no. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London , br they Agents in the principal towns in England ; Vieleaale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. tho Tied Slal, Pink Label, and Cork brandel lcinaban's LL Whisk'." I/TUT-UAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (No n.nor Lte , l by Not of Parliana 'of:, 1;4501 It, fltliciEr.L-STRFIET, LONOOW. ADVkNIII , I4 1111NRY noon Personal Security, Bills of Sale, Freehold or Leasehold Pronery, for one, two, or three years. repLyahle weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARP IC R, Selretary. T HE 0 X F O RD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., ...FIRST APPEARANCES—LE PETIT BONNAY and Masters A.UGUSTE and ENELE S k TIBET. from Covent garden Prnmenad 3 Concerts (xylophone, violin, ant piano forte soloists. TILES EVENTING, in addition to solos and seleltions from English and foreian operas. Principal artistes ::Misses Rus sell, Rivers, and Fitz Henry ; Messrs. Bury, Mader, and N. ne Brennar. Full Band and Chorus Instrumentalists : Miss Bryant; Messrs. Paque, Melling. and Plumpton. _COMEDY. &c., by Mr. HARRY LISTON. ORV ILLE PARKER, MR. and MISS CARLE, and Miss KATE BANTLEY. _ _ _ Conductor, Sir. F. jonghmans. Private boxes. lns. ad. stalls, balcony, and grand pro menade, Is.—THIS EVENING. W EST ON' S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Proprietors, SWEASEY and HOLLAND. GREAT COMIC FESTIVAL SEASON.I All the Comic Stars engaged. The most popular entertainment in London. Immense success; of the following talented artistes ; —The GREAT 'VANCE, G. LEYROURNE (the Lion Oorniquo), STEAD (the Cure), ANNIE ADAMS, W. WEST and EMMA WEST, the BROTHERS GIRARDES, and M. Jullien's original DRUM POLKA bythe Drums andßugles of the 2d battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, by the kind permission of the Lieut.-Colonel commanding, assisted by H. Baker's superb band of 30 performers, Every Evening. Stalls and Balcony, ls.; Area, 6d. Private Boxes, 10s. 6 d., can be secured at the Office. Doors open at half past 7. P. CORRI, Musical Director. TUESDAY, NOTICE.—Mr. P. CORRI'S BENEFIT, uESDAY, Sept. 17. EADAME TIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. A PORTAIT MODEL of II I.M. the SULTAN is now added ; all the Kings and Queens of England, in gorgeous costumes ; the Crowned Heads of Europe ; American Cele brities ; Napoleon Relics ; Chamber of horrors. Admission, le.; children, under ten, ad. ; extra rooms, 6d. Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. ARGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly. Sole Proprietor, Mr. R. R. BIGNELL. This magnificent Terpsio' , oeean and Musical Establish intmt, having been Re-decorated in the highest style of Italian art by Messrs. Rubardt and other eminent artists, is NOW OPEN for the AUTUMN SEASON. Solo Euphonion , Ismor Mosca ; Solo Cornet, H. Graves. Conductor, Signor Curti. Doors open at half-plst 8. Admission, is. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, ° Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the World.'—London Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, L.C., neat the " Times." TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, tr Cork, beg to announce that they are able to supply the to with their celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases , and to take orders in bond and for exportation, at their offices, 7, p rinting -house-square, London. IC C.. the only house in the !cirlare not occupied by thA "Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies Drina the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial Markets, as may be observed by reference to the "Journal of C °lnmeree of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their Whiskies fetch 6d. per zallon and Is. per case over the next best, and Is. 6d per gallon and ss. 6d. a case over the lowest Elnotation. Always on hand a large supply of wry old mellow whisky in the finest condition, matured in sherr y 'asks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, supplied on the most reasonable terms. ANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers a nd wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SOX, 107, Strand (C orner of Savoy-steps). London. "THE RUIN OF THE FEW IS THE GAIN OF 110 MANY." THE Panic of '66 and its consequent depression v t ,„ of the Colonial ITarkets enables the "E AST INDIA TFk CO3IP kNY" to offer TM AS LOWER TITAN EVER. x Pounds cr Gond Tel for es. R 1. can't ba dear. The Company's ii.i.ISOWS by the Clipper Ships are really delicious. 9 , Great St. Efelisn's Churchyard, Ilishopsgatc __ street, Jan. 1, 1567. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in „ ALEX. E.OSS'S CIOTTECARIDES OIL. whiot speedily r 4 noeB whiskers and thielrens hair 38 sd, 58 5 d, and 10s 6,1 , e ast by p os t f or 54, 84, an d 141 stamps .—ALEX , ROS S, 249, ; ' Ut ah lbo 0 rn, London, and all Chemists. 'WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. —Corns cured in one d gradua lly g ALEX. ROSS'S f e w OO This Preparation dissolves the Corn in a hours, ernovine the very root. Price 48 ; sent by p^s ` for 60 stamps. s-248 , High Holborn, London, and all Chewi3ts. AIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—A.Lßl. ROSB's CURLING FLUID earls 41ase or Gentlemen's hair Immediately it is spotted. Bold . s 6d, Se Rd, and lOs 6d ; seat free for 54, 81, and 144 stamps "Ad of all Chemists. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London..— PREY A,LEX, ROSS'S HAIR DYR protinoes a perfect colour lurnelis.tely it is met It is permanent, and perfec tl y na tural in eire t . P r i ce I s ad, Is 641, and 10s 6d ; sent by po st for 64 8 4, and 111 stamps ; and all Cherests. RAM. DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, London.—A.Llea. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes f i l "e'finons hair from the fuse, neak. and arms, without effect cad ") the akin. Price Ss Rd, 58 R 4, an 4 1.08 Rd; Bent for 51, 94, 1 4k atamp9.—Had of all Chemiats. DIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are Improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S V i i l - TETA.RLIC STUN PILLS. They remove redness, sal lowness, Ant 2s 9d and 7s id ; or post for 41) and 100 stamps. — ALEX. ROSS, 243, High Holborn, London, and all Che- i_TAIR COLOUR WASH.—By washing the hear' with this beantifully-nerfnmei Wash, in seven or ten days the hair assumes its orizinal oolour, and remains so by an oeoisional nsins. lOs rtd ; sent for stamps.—ALEX. ItOSS, 243, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. , .rust published, 2d; sent by the author for 3 stamps, UGLINESS and BENUTY ; being a Pamphlet p,_ descriptive of articles and means used for imorovinv , f,' ondon. kPpearance. By ALEX. BOSS, 248, High Holborn, 9 NE HUNDRED and SIXTY-SEVEN DESTITUTE ORPHANS are beinz maintained In t i ne ALBERT ORPHAN ASTLIDI. Collingrwood Court, '"aglshot, Surrey. FUNDS ereatly needed for their support. CHARLES A. WALKER, See. Ofliees, 96, Cheapside, B.C. lIRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM, Mackenzie Park, Slow% Bucks (formerly at Clapham-rise). In stituted 1827. P A.TRON-ller Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. $ o k ID to this Institution will be gladly received by the -eret a l 7, at the Mem No. 73, Cheapside, E.C. HENRY SYKES THORNTON, Treasurer. THOMAS 'FILSON, J.P.. Chairman of the Board. STEPHEN REED CATTLEY, ALA., Hon. Sea ALFRED MACKENZIE, Secretary. GREAT NORTEIERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Volunt try Contributions. This Unspital has relieved 48054 patients since it was established at King's-cross in IRB6. Patients ars admitted free. _ . li iNlCEßS—lressre. Barnett, Lloyds, and Co., 60, Lombard wroet ; liless-s. Ransom and Bouverle. 1. Pall-mall. HON. to.—F. Smith, Esq. GEORGE REID, Seo. THE BOARD of MANAGEMENT of the LONDON HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL wish to call the attention of their friends tl its position—during the I' L aßt year the beds have been almost constantly filled, and b ite drain on the resources of the Hospital has consequently h e en great. They trust, therefore, that all the friends of m n nleeoputhy, both in town and country, wilt rally round eni, and thus pr necessit of the use janess of the Hospital event by the the admission of curtailing fewer patients Pre earnestly needed. Bankers —Messrs. Prescott and Co., Threadneedle-street; and Union Bank, A rgyll -place, Regent-street. JOHN R. WARREN, Clerk. No. 52. Great Ormond-street. W.C. ____ HE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another t , Lome to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer " 4 5% roor, friendless, young females were rejected from I, 'ant of FUNDS and room , making a total of 8,087, who have been sent away in fire years. he new home tho Committee wish to form woald be for have girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 18, who been lad astray from the path of virtue , ` lol 3tributions will be received gratefully by the secretary, naniel Cooper, Si, Queen -street Cheapside; or by Messrs zarelay and Co.. Lombard-street. RROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, hi the 12nmediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail- WaY Terminus, King's-cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Flea -Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALE S, KG. P resident—His firaoe the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. K.G. If This Hospital, founded In the yel.r IR2B, the first to estab -0..81 the principle of free admission to the , sick poor, without 'te delay and difiloalty of Governors' orders. is wholly de- Dendet for support on voluntarycontributions and l , gacies. It affords relief to a largo number of in-pa nte, and, in Fr!dtlition to this, the aversee number of attenda n c e of the esti tate sick has for a considerable period averaged between 00 0 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee ear esti,' solicit the A.SSYSTANCR of the benevolent, ac the premises of this Huspit.l are capable of !'putaining several nuudred more bode had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Co unbuttons are received by their bankers. Messrs. Brown, c " 83 n, and Co., Abchurch-l a ne ; also by Messrs. Coutts and „o• ; Drum mond and Co. ; Glyn and Co.; Herries and Co.; nansom and Co.; Presoott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, 1 14.1 (70, ; Rarolay and Co. ; W illiurxe, Deaoon, and Co.; Nisbet Oat Co., Berners-Eireet ; and at the hospital, from 10 till 5, ISTANTOILD SMITH. tleatetarir. rt's" 4 / (-T) CEi 1- 6.7 ; 2 I • . • • „„,e -.0.4i • Promenade Concerts— :47 ---- , • '-'1 16 101" • 'sl:lC4*. toviso lli' EVANS' to SIT P. .4 , ! ' EvANs , to sup. ( 'sl 7r . i o % „ „ .EVANS' to Silt tr- - s , ..EvAms• to sur. .- norr . \' 00000 ••• FVANeP to SUP. " DIEL — AV. - 4 : ' re to SUP. -..EVANS' to SUP. No. 23,482. Nov ready at all the Libraries, In 3 vols., H E GIRAFFE HUNTERS. By CAP I'AIN MAYNE REID, Author of "The Rifle Rang, , ers," &o. ITurst ani Blackett, 13, Great Maritorough-street. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. , T HUGUENOT FAMILY. By MAR 11l TY ri,e,v, Abthor of "Citoyenne Jarg'elbwt•," ..te. "The best of Mies Tytler's 'rho author of 'The Hitzuenot I"atnily' is a writer of true, sweet• and originil genius, and her book is one of pertnant nt value, the iutereht of which npeated itataings wil not exhauv." G azette. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Gvat Marao:on.ih-street. NEW VOLUMES OF BENTLEY'S FAVOURITE NOVELS. In one vol. crown Svo , with Illustration, 6s. r. WHICH SHALL 11 1 BE? 11. BROKEN TO HARNESS. By EDMUND YATES. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET, &C. In 3 vols., at all Libraries, BIRDS OF PREY.- Second Edition. In 2 vole , Reprinted front " BELGRAV,IA." I R C E.- TO INVESTORS. UNITED STATES 5-20 BONDS, redeemable 1882 and 1885, Principal and Interest payable in Gold (at present prices paying as an investment 71 per cent.), bought, sold, or exchanged at Stock Exchange prices, and Coupons cashed by BELDING, KEITH, and Co., 80, Lombard-street, London. For full particulars re lating to American Securities and Exchanges, see 8., K., and Co 's Pamphlet, forwarded free by post, on application. MAC CABE, MIMIC and VENTRILOQUIST, EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY, EVERY EVENING at Eight ; SATURDAY at Three and Eight—in his now universally popular Musical, Dramatic, and Ventriloquial Entertainments, entitled BEGONE, DULL CARE ; or, the " Tria Juncta in Uno" of Mirth, Music, and Mimicry. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. Admission, ls. Tickets a n d pl aces at Mr. Mitchell ' s, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond -street ; Mr. Austin's Ticket Office, 28, Piccadilly; and at the Box-office of the Hall from 10 till 5 daily.—Manager, Mr. John F. Sutton. S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, DITNVILLE' BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the /louse of Lords. "V.R." IRISH WHIS KY. D UNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London-offiCes and Stores, 4, BEA.UFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, w.c . Established 1808. Quotations on application. .AMPLOUGH'S PYRETIC SALINE forms a JILA most invigorating summer draught, curing headache, giddiness, sea and bilious sickness. or any form of skin affecttons. Sold by all chemists, and the maker, H. Lamplough, 113, Holborn-hill, E.C. EAU -DE-VIE.—This Pure PALE BRANDY, 18s. per gallon, Is of ry supe rior to recent im p ort ations of Cognac, recommended by the medical profession, and ex tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 335. per dozen, or in a case 395., railway carriage pat I.—HEN RY BRETT and CO., Old Furnival's Distillery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, u —egent street, S.W. Established 1821 LECTURES on MINERALOGY and GEO LOGY at KING'S COLLEGE , Lo n don , are given on Wednesday and Friday Momino from Nine to Ten. T hose on MINERALOGY beAin Friday, October the 4th, a n d ter minate at Christmas. Fee, L 2 25 . Those on GEOLOGY commence in January and continue till Ju .e. A sh nyter Course of Lectures on MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY i s de livered on Thursday Evenings from 8 till O. These b eg i n October the 10th end terminate at Easter. Fee, £1 Its. 6d Mr. TENNANT accompanies his Students to the Public Museums and to places of Geological interest in the country. PAINLESS TOOTH EXTRACTION ; or, Anaesthesia Locally Applied. By A. ESKELL, Surgeon Dentist. Simpkin, Marshall. and Co.; all Booksellers; or of the Auth'r, at his residence, 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond -street. Post free for four stamps. DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS PILLB.—A. NEVER FAILING RMlEDY.—Pro )ared without any mercurial *ngrellent, from the recipe of Dr. 'Gott, of Bromley, Kent. will be found invaluable to all who ‘uffer from bilious and livcr complaints, hiligeaticn, wind, Tams, giddiness, aizzineba of the eyes, &o. For habitual vstiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier )1 the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Prepared only and 031 d by W. Lambert, Chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most drug gists, in boxes, is. lid., and three times the qu an tit y i n one, s. 901 Re sure to ask for Dr. Soott ' s Bilious a nd Li ver Pi lls. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert." engraved le the stamp. RIIPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT ExurnivioNs 01 1851 and 1862), is allowed by up wards of two Hundred Helical Gentlemen to be the moat effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects. is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moc•Hain Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and close ness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circum ference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE. 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 191., 2I&, 268 ed., and 31s. tld Postage, Is. Double Truss, 31s. ed., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 528. 81 Postage. Is. 10d ;lost-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office. Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &0., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, sprains, 40. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpenetve, and are drawn on tike an ordinary stocking. Price 45. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 165. each. Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer, 223, Ple3adUly. PR IN TIN G.—TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODIOALS, etc.—The Print ing and Machining of Newspapers, &c., done ou epeed ingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager "San" Printing Offices, 8, Church row, Savoy, Strand, W.O. VXHIBITORS at the PARIS EXHIBITION, KJ who ADVERTISE in "THE SUN," can have the SERVICES of A SPECIAL AGENT in PARIS, whose address can be obtained at "The Sun" Office. He has a perfect knowledge of French, is also acquainted with busi ness, and has good connections. On application to " The Sun" Agent in Paris, either personally or by letter, he will obtain every possible facility for Exhibitors, or persons who may have other business in Paris, or who may go there for pleasure only. H ELP for the DESTITUTE SICK. — METROPOLITAN FREIf HOSPITAL, Den shire-square, City. Instituted for the immediate gratuivtous Relief of the Sick Poor of every Nation and Creed, without letters of recommendation. FUNDS are urgently needed to maintain its efficiency. BANKERS—Messrs, Barnett, Hoares. and Co.. 62, Lombard street. JNO. GURNEY FRY, Chairman. GEO. c ItOX TON, Secretary. HEALTH RESTORED wrraour MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. DU BARRY'S delicate health-restoring Inva lids and Infants' Food. THE REVAL ENT 1 AR ARICA saves fifty timmi its cost in other remedies. and restores per fect digestion, strong* nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, re freshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy, to the most disordered or enfeebled, —removing speed' y and effec tually indigestion dys;'ensitil, cnlgh, asthma, consumption. habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, hmmorrhoids, liver complaints, fi itulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, so e throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, Impurities, eruptio is, hysterP, neuralgia, irritability, sleep lessness, acidity, palpitation. heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spssins. nausea and sickness even in preg nancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and be tween the shoulders. It is Me most digestible and nourish ing of all foods. and suitable for invalids and infants in all complaints. I M PORTANT CAUTION , — Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without autho rity, Baroncone will doubt 's name is most audaciously properties of attached. He Du Barry's health -restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousand , of blessings it has sire . received from invalids whose position had been now add that of his Holness the deemed hope ess. we may Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty; cars of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote f oni the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Cure No. 68,413), "Rome, July 21st, 1856.—The health of th e Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning' aother remedies he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which heconsurnes a p' ateful at every meal. It has produced a en surprisingly beficial effect on hi ea t th, and His Holiness canuit praise this excellent food oo highly." Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehm. of seven years' 1 ver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous lon all over, bad diges tion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 7', of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Water fu rd :—" I have derived m uch benefit from your excellent Food.—STUART DE DECIES, Dromana, Capp:qui,, County Waterford." Cure No. 49,831. —Of fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepf la, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatu lency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Joly, of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure No. 47.121.—Mhis Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness. indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 56,514. —Mr. Samuel Layton, Leicester, of two years' diarrlicea. The rood is sold in Canisters. at Is. lid.; alb.. 20. 9d.; 21b., 4s. 64. ; 121 b., 225. ; 241 b., 405. The 121 b. and 241 b canis ters, carriage-free on receipt of Post-Office Order, by BARRY DU BARRY and Co. , 77, Re g ent-street, L ondon ; also.at Fortnum and !Minn's, and sold by all respectable Grocers and Chemists. THE SUN, LONDON, _MONDAY EVENING, SEP I'EMBER IG, 1867. STOCK and SHARE DEALER. Mr. PETER WATSON, English and Foreign Stock, Share, and Mining ()flicks, 79, Old Broad-street., Lon don, E.G. Railway ' Joint-Stock Banks, Dock, Insurance, Canal , Steamship, dr.e., and evary other de,cription of SHARES. BOUGHT and SOLD at t prices. TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES to Buy er Sell Railway, Bank, Mine, and other Shares and Stocks, punctually attended to, at Net Prices for Cash, or for Fortnightly Sott'ements, with Advice as to Purchases or Sales. Twenty-three Years' Experience! (Two in Cornwall and Twenty-one iu London.) BANKERS. THE ALLIANCE BANK, AND UNION BANK OF LONDON. From the close proximity of his Offices to the Stock Exchange, as well as the Mining Exchange, I'. W. is enabled to act with promptitude on all orders entrusted to him, which at all times are carried out with punctuality and to the best advantage of his customers. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT- L ANTIQUE, 8, Place Vendome, Paris. NEW YORK VIA HAV.RE AND BREST. The undermentioned Steamers sail every 14 days as follows: From RAVRE-26th September, 10th and 24th October, 7th and 21st November, sth and 19th December, 1867. From BREST-14th and 28th September, 12th and 26th October, 9th and 23d November, 7th and 21st De cember, 1867. NAPOLEON 111. ... Paidle 1,200 h-p. VILLE DE PARIS... ... Screw 1,000 „ PEREIRE ... do. 1,000 „ ST. LAURENT ... do. l,OOO „ EUROPE ... ... Paddle 900 „ RATES OF PASSAGE. Havre or Brest to New York, ISt Class £33 0 0 2d Class l7 0 0 17 3d Class l4 0 0 London : STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and CO., 8, Austinfriars, E.C. Havre : W. ISELIN and CO. VEST INDIES AND TIM GULF _OF T • - - THE COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT- L ANTIQUE. The LOUISIANE (s) will sail on the 16th September, for St. Thomas, Havana., and Vera Cruz, with branch lines from SL Thomas to Guadeloupe, Martinique, Porto Rico, Cape Hayti, Santiago, and Jamaica; also from Vera Cruz to Tampico, Matamoras, and New Orleans. For freight of goods and rates of passage, and other particulars, apply to STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and CO., 8, Austinfriars, E.C. Letters addressed via St. Nazaire, and posted in London on the evening of the 14th, will be sent by the above line. JAPAN, HONG KONG, SHANGHAE, AND PACIFIC PORTS, VIA PANAMA. THE COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLAN PIQUE ander POSTAL CONTRACT with the FRENCH GOVERNMENT. The Steamer IMPERATRICE EUGENIE will sail from St. Nazairo for Martinique, Santa Martha, Colon, Japan and China, Aspinwall, Isthmus of Panama, La Guayra, Porto Cabello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Surinam, Cayenne, &e., Callao, Valparaiso, San Jose, and San Francisco. For rate of freight of goods and of passage, and other information, apply to - STRINGER S PEMBROKE, and CU, 8, Austinfriars, E.C. ARMY CONTRACTS. Tenders will be received by the Director of Con tracts, War Office, Pall Mall, London, until Twelve o'clock noon on the 26th September, for the supply of FORAGE for the use of her liajesty ; frops, stationed in the fol lowing places, from Ist November, 1867, to 30th April, 1868. LONDON DISTRICT Commissariat Office, 109, Victoria- street, 'Westminster :- 1. Hyde Park, Kensington 3. Hampton Court. Regent's Park, and Horse 4. Windsor. Guards. 5. Brighton. 2. Hownslow and Kneller 6. Sandhurst. Hall. 7. Enfield. NORTHERN DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, Barrack street, Hume, Manchester :- 1. Bury. 7. Birmingham. 2. Sheffield. 8. Coventry. 3. Preston. 9. Northampton. 4. Ashton-under-Lyne. 10. Weedon. 5. Burnley. 11. York. 6. Manchester. 12. Newcastle-on-Tyne. EASTERN DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, Camp , ,Colchester : 1. Colchester. 2. Ipswich. 3. Norwich. WOOLWICH DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, Royal Artillery Barracks Woolwich (S.E.) :- 1. Woolwich. 2. Shoeburyness. 3. Warley Barracks. 4. Maidstone. CHATHAM DISTRICT, Commissariat, Offico, The Barracks, Chatham:— No. 1, Chatham. SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT, Commissariat Oflico, Camp, Shorn° :- 1. Shorncliffe. 2. Canterbury. SOUTH-WESTERN DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, SE Thomas-street, Portsmouth : 1. Portsmouth and Hilsea. 2. Dorchester. 3. Netley. WESTERN DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, 20, East Emma Place, Stonehouse, Plymouth :- 1. Plymouth, Devonport, Tregantle, and Scraesdon Forts, Maker Barracks, and Heights. 2. Exeter and Topsham. 3. 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TEE T H. —Messrs. G A B It I E L. (ESTABLISHED 1815). NEW PAMPHLET, FREE BY POST FOR FOUR STAMPS, Explaining the Painless System of Dentistry, and self-adhesive Teeth without springs, AT MODERATE CHARGES. * * 61, *** 513, Ha LUGATE-HILLITY, rley-s D treet, CavendishC squ are, London. . *** 134, Duke-street, Liverpool. IRE LABOUR CONGRESS AT CHICAGO. f The p l a s r o t e e mail f g s r o m o f A t h n e i er ic National a brought La h fullLabour r Congress accounts at Chicago. Early this year the meeting was called for the 19th August, each of the 1,200 trade unions being requested to send a representative. The meeting was in every respect a failure, only 100 o delegates in and the re venue ra i se d g, n small amount, no d eep i nterest shw attending, ts in the subject. The Congress opened with ad dresses from the president and secretary, both men of weight in the unions. Their exposition of the objects to be attained were, the more extensive formation of labour unions, the establishment of distinct unions among the Southern negroes, a strong and combined stand against the encroachments of capital, the establishment of a journal to advocate these objects, the limit throughout all the States to eight hours of labour out of each 21, the election of those who favour these projects, and to make poli tical action available for labour questions in the next Presidential campaigns. The president was voted a salary of $l,OOO annually, and authorised to employ lecturers to travel over the country. Th e Congress effected a permanent organisation under a constitution, annual meetings to be held, the next in Pittsburgh early in the ensuing May. The eight-hour laws lately passed by four States were denounced as frauds and shams. The delegates de sire the eight-hour laws to be imperative, and to be passed by both Congress and the State Legislatures, and they demand from the Government a gift of $25,000,000. They require a better regulation of the currency, as it appears to them " that money is the medium of distribution to non-producing capital and producing labour, the rate of interest deter mining what proportion of the products of labour shall be awarded to capital for its use, and what to labour for its productions ; the duty of Congress being so to make money and regulate its value that it may be a correct and uniform standard cf value, and distribute the products of labour equitably between capital and labour according to the service or labour performed in their production." This is a sufficient specimen of the political economy of the labour Congress. A favourable report was made on the co-operative system, but it was not heartily received. It was decided that a delegate should be despatched to Europe to investigate the system of co-operation there, and by treaty or otherwise to prevent the importation of labourers to impoverish alike the working men of America and of Europe, and to effect a more perfect understanding between the Reform Labour Associations of both countries. The Congress considered that the Public Lauds should be given to actual settlers, and that Govern ment Loans should not be exempt front taxation. THE NEIV PROCESS FUR MAKING CHLORINE. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE MINING JOURNAL. Sir,—The British Association for the Advance ment of Science may, or may not, be remarkable for the number and importance of the discoveries which it has given to the world ; but it certainly reckons among its supporters many eminent men of European reputation, whose names alone would seem to guarantee the correctness and validity of its proceedings. The association was, if I mistake not, originally constituted for bringing together men of science at this particular season, in order that by mutual communication and discussion new facts might be developed, and the domains of philosophy enlarged. Of late years, however, the genuine worshippers of science who are in the habit of attending these gatherings have been, in a measure, supplemented by certain worshippers of the Golden Calf, who seize the no less golden opportunity afforded by these annual meetings for thrusting their plagiarised, ideas and pretended dis coveries upon the notice of the general public as fresh-blown novelties of their own. The meeting of the British Association is a grand advertisement to persons of this clao.- .NQr have they arty - ffiffieufty in promptly turning it to their advantage; for the bulk of the people who patronise these assemblies are for the most part in search of amusement, or recreative instruc tion at most, and having so many - calls upon their attention in different ways, they have no time to inquire into the truth or fallacy of any particular position which is advanced, but sit there and swallow the scientific boluses presented to them as fast as ever the learned professors can make them up. The consequence is that all the hetero geneous matter which is brought before the different sections finds its way unchallenged into the public papers as the true and accredited report of the British Association. In the report of the meeting at Dundee, in this day's Standard, j find under the heading, "Section B —Chemical Science," a long account of the sup posed new process for making chlorine, by Mr. Walter Weldon. The substance of this new method may be thus briefly described Chlorine is eliminated in the usual way from black oxide of manganese and hydrochloric acid. 2. The residual liquor (chloride of manganese) is decomposed by the addition of an equivalent of lime. 3. Atmo spheric air is brought into intimate contact with the resulting protoxide of manganese by blowing through it, or otherwise; whereby the latter com bines with a further portion of oxygen. 4. After draining off the soluble chloride of calcium from this mixture, hydrochloric acid is again poured upon the resulting oxide of manganese, when chlorine is evolved as before, and the above operations, and the recovery of the maganese, are consecutively re peated as often as required. But this is not all : Mr. Walter Weldon renders the process continuous, and has absolutely succeeded in performing by turn all these varied operations in one and the same vessel. This statement comprises the entire in vention. Now, in order to arrive at the value of Mr. Weldon's discovery, let us first regard the matter as as abstract chemical question. What is the quan tity of oxygen absorbed by the white protoxide of manganese when the latter is brought into con tinuous contact with the atmospheric air ? Mr. Weldon is fully alive to the importance of this question; he knows that every thing hinges upon it, and he informs us that the oxide most frequently obtained by the process above described contains (perhaps he means is equivalent to) about 65 per cent. of binoxide. I am in a position to inform the public most positively that such is not the case. I have repeatedly performed very careful analyses of the substance so prepared, and so subjected to the action of atmospheric air, and can safely affirm that an average of 45 per cent, is much nearer the truth than 65 per cent. A friend of mine has the accu rate record of at least 50 such analyses performed by me and another chemist to decide this very question. But any of your readers who may be interested in the matter can easily verify my state ment by repeating the experiment and analysis for himself. So I pass on to another question, also affecting the practical value of the said discovery. Mr. Weldon, as above set forth, performs all the operations named in one vessel, whereby he avoids all risk of loss by removal ; and, according to his own account, effects a great saving of time. Indeed, he states that even when operating upon the largest scale the process may be completed within one hour. Is Mr. Walter Weldon asleep? Is he theorising upon the matter of which ho speaks, or has he actually performed the operation in question ? If the latter, then upon what scale ? Was it by the ton or cwt., or was it a mere experiment in a test tube or a tea cup? This statement is so utterly at variance with my own experience that I am bound to ask these questions. He talks of the subsidence of the oxide of manganese from the solution of chloride of calcium, and drawing off the latter solu tion preparatory to a fresh operation, as if it were the easiest and quickest thing to accomplish in the world. One would suppose he was speaking of the precipitation of some salt of lead, or silver, or mer cury ; it is so very easy, and so very soon done. Let any one add an equivalent of lime to a solution of manganese, and he will understand the difficulty of separating the insoluble oxide from the associated liquor far better than any mere description can convey. The former will not sink more than a trifling distance in the body of the liquid, even after a lapse of many hours ; and any attempt to draw the latter off by a syphon, or otherwise, quickly causes the oxide to follow it in a state of intimate mixture. In fact, it is a bulky and intractable precipitate,and can by no means be de dealt with in the off-hand manner which Mr. Weldon would have us suppose. More over, the vessel which he etnplo3s for effecting these decompositions is a still. He declares it to be so in his paper, and, indeed, as chlorine is to be generated in it, it can be no other. A large leaden still, with blown joints and seams, just as is required for this purpose, is not so rapidly productive even when at work ; and it will scarcely pay to lie idle during the process of restoration. Besides what are the men to do? Are they to go to something else, or are they to strike, or smoke a quiet pipe, while the manganese is going down, and the counter affini ties aro bracing up the elements for a fresh start? These are very serious considerations ; but the lightly lveh touched e ti n p t i o o n n iaslrneoa not n y iz s h w a l r y . most serious consideration of a ll i s that which has ew . It r tirely my invention whi c h is thus lucidly beenawnda lWalter en us de scribed before the British Association. Three, four, and five years ago I was working hard upon this very thing, at Maidstone and elsewhere—this very thing, identical in all its chemical details, and dif fering now only in a worthless mechanical adapta lion. I used some tons of lime, and some tons of acid and manganese, so I think I can speak to the point with some little confidence and knowledge ; and, more than this ; I can bring forward one or two dozen skilled artizans and respectable workmen to attest the truth of my words —men who in various ways assisted in those very experiments. Did I ever, then, communicate this matter to Mr. Weldon, that it should thus appear in a bran new dress before the British Association? No! But in 1862, at the Suho Mills, at Woburn, I did communicate the rationale of the whole process to Mr. Townsend Hook, the well known proprietor of the Snodland Paper Mills, Kent, who is Mr. Walter Weldon's partner. Per haps—vaind, I only say perhaps—both Ur. Hook and Mr. Weldon will start at the idea of there being any partnership at all between them. Very li izely ? But if they tell me so, I am certainly called ul otti to believe it. Perhaps they will Inth recollect cAlinl: upon me in a cab about 5 or 6 o'clock one Showery Friday evening, in the summer of 1836. It was to discuss some projected improvements of mine in tbo manufacture of bleach (chlorine). The appoint me3•t lay with Mr. Hook alone, for I had previously to. d him that the communication I had to Make wa.l entirely confidential, and I wished no chemist to be present.. I was, therefore, surprised on his arrival to find he had not come alone, and I naturally asked him if his companion was a chemist, tow hich he re plied, " Yes ; but it is all right, it is only my part ner, Mr. Weldon." As some further questions which I then asked were not answered satisfactorily, it is only just to Mr. Weldon, as well as to myself, to say that I took care-in what followed to keep my own counsel. I only refer to the fact to point to the association and declared partnership existing between Mr. Hook, to whom I had made the confidential communica tion of the invention at Woburn, and Mr. Weldon, who has just brought forward the self-same in vention as the genuine coinage of his own brain, before the assembled savans at Dundee. I might intensify the inference which will naturally present itself to the mind from a consideration of these facts, by stating that during the two or three years my experiments were proceeding Mr. Hook never lost an opportunity at the monthly dinners of the Paper Makers' Association to endeitvour to elicit information as to their progress. But I have said enough, I think, to dispossess Mr. Weldon of his borrowed plumage, and to show the true and real origin of the invention which he now brings forward with such pomp and circumstance. With all his cleverness, he yet wants, besides the quality of originality, the keystone to the fabric which he seeks to appropriate. There is something yet to be done, Mr. Weldon, before your object is attained ; and whether that something falls to your lot or mine remains to be seen. One little parting precept, however, I will venture to offer, and it is this —that for the future you pursue a more independent and original train of thought and of effort. It is not unlikely to lead you on to some good and useful results ; and, if so, it will certainly enable you, with better promise of success, to meet the great high priests of science in the September of the ensuing year. ISHAM BAGGS. 54, Chancery-lane, London, Sept. 9. OXIDE OF MANGANESE. At a recent sitting of the British Association (Section 8., Chemical Science), Mr. Walter Weldon read the following paper on " A new Manufacturing Process for the Perpetual Regeneration of the Oxide of Manganese, used for the Liberation of Chlorine from Hydrochloric Acid." Every process, previous to that to be described in the present paper, by which it has been attempted to regenerate oxide of manganese from the residues of the manufacture of chlorine has been peformed in the dry way, and has thus required considerable time, and has involved not only at least one—more or less troublesome and costly—furnace operation, but also several removals of the material from vessel to vessel and from place to place, every such removal, of course, curtailing more or less loss of material. The process, how ever, which is about to be described is performed in the wet way, and may be completed, even when operating on the largest scale, within as little as one hour. Moreover, all the operations of the process are performed in the same vessel as that in which the oxide produced by it is afterwards employed to react with hydrochloric acid, and from this vessel or still the manganese is never removed, so that it is entirely free from risk of loss by removal, and as it is not subject to any other cause of loss, a charge of Manganese, once put iiito a still, when treated by this process, not only never needs to be replaced, but never needs even to be added to, while it will liberate an equivalent of chlorine every few hours for literally any length of time. The starting-point of any process for the regenera tion of the oxide of manganese employed in the manufacture of chlorine, must of course be that residue which is known as " still liquor," being that which remains in the stills when oxide of manga nese and hydrochloric acid have been digested to gether until all the chlorine which the oxide is capable of liberating from the acid has been libe rated and given off. When working with a native oxide of manganese, the still liquor contains, in addition to a quantity of proto-chloride of manga nese equivalent to the quantity of manganese which has been dissolved, a considerable quantity of free acid, and more or less chlorides of iron and other bases, due to the native oxide of manganese being always more or less associated with other oxides. When working, however, with the artificial oxide of manganese, produced as is about to be described, the still-liquor scarcely contains anything what ever but proto-chloride of manganese, and the new process consists simply in first adding an equivalent of lime to this liquor, without removing the liquor from the still, and then blowing atmo spheric air through the resulting mixture of pro toxide of manganese and solution of chloride of calcium. The white protoxide is thereby rapidly converted into a very dark-coloured higher oxide, and when this product has been allowed to subside from the solution of chloride of calcium in which it was formed, and the greater part of that solution has then been drawn off from it, it is ready to be treated with hydrochloric acid, from which it then liberates chlorine, with reproduction of exactly as much proto -chloride of manganese as was commenced with. From this point the very simple series of operations described is repeated just as before, and so on, over and over again, for any required number of times. The manganese is thus constantly under going, always in one and the same vessel, a round of recurring changes of state of combination, by which it passes, first, from the state of proto-chloride to that of protoxide, next from the state of protoxide to that of a higher oxide, capable of liberating chlorine from hydrochloric acid, then back again to the state of protochloride, and so on continually. As regards the richness of the oxide produced by the process above described, sesquioxide is all that one would have expected to obtain by means of it, but it actually yields a richer than sesquioxide. Ses quioxide of manganese is, practically—at least from a chlorine manufacturer's point of view----a mixture or compound of about 55.5 per cent (being one equi valent) of binoxide with ab0u944 . 5 per cent. (being also ono equivalent) of protoxide ; while the oxide most frequently obtained by the process above de scribed contains about 65 per cent. of binoxide, which is about the proportion of binoxide that would be contained in a mixture or compound of three equivalents of binoxide with two equivalents of pro toxide. The. richest native oxides of manganese which clorine manufacturers have been in the habit of using contain about 70 per cent. of binoxide, but a native oxide is practically much less valuable, so far as the manufacture of chlorine is concerned, than au artificial oxide containing considerably less oxygen. The reason is that in order to dissolve a hard, compact anhycrous native oxide of manga nese, it has to be digested with a large excess of acid, resulting in the production of a still liquor con taining a very large quantity of free acid, all of which is practically lost; whereas a recently formed, artificial, hydrated oxide, in an exceedingly minute state of division, will dissolve in a bare equivalent of acid, producing a still liquor containing no free acid at all. Hence, whereas when using a7O per cent. native oxide it is rarely found possible to ob. tain in the free state more than one-sixth of the Chlorine contained in the hydro chloric acid put into the still, an artificial oxide of less even than 60 per cent. will liberate fully one-third of the chlorine contained in the acid put into the stills, and this in far lea time : and at much less cost for labour and PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. fuel , than the native oxide requires for the libera -1 tion of half the quantity. The process which I have had the honour to bring before the section thus not only substitutes the cost of about 7s. worth of lime and 33. worth of blowing for every six or seven pounds which the manufacturer of bleaching powder and other chloride products has hitherto had to spend upon peroxide of manganese, but also enables him to nearly double his productions of those pro ducts from a given quantity of hydrochloric acid. A very animated discussion followed the reading of this paper. Professor Williamson, Mr. R. C. Olapham, and others suggested several questions as to the practical working of the process, and these were replied to by Mr. Weldon. Professor Anderson regarded the communication as one of great importance, other processes for similar purposes being most elaborate, while this WAS of the utmost simplicity. Other processes would be very much hampered by the cost of manganese ; but this process was one of extraordinary simplicity, and must be of great advantage to the manufacturer. The Houses of Parliament• TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE TIMES. Sir,—With reference to the long letter from Mr. E. W. Pugin, which appeared in:the Times of the 7th inst., I wish to crave a very small portion of the space it occupies. Correspondence in the columns of a newspaper is obviously not the fittest or most convenient way either of. arriving at-a' clear exposition of facts or of affording the public suitable means of forming a correct dezision on the merits of such a case as the present. Mr. Pugin at first addressed himself to the Building News, then to the Pall Mull Gazette, to the Sun, to the Globe, and possibly other papers which I have not seen, and, lastly, to the Times, and the letters inserted in each of these have not been con tinuous, have not invariably been the same, refer to one another in a most perplexing way, and have therefore formed an imperfect basis in each case for the editorial comments, and a still more imperfect one for the judgment of the public reader. The letter in the Times of Saturday, for instance, refers to letters in other papers from four or five different persons, which are not reprinted, to which Mr. Pugin alludes with some effrontery as helping his case, but which if read in their entirety would simply be found to demolish it. Exactly in the same way in making his original claim he had the folly to refer to certain gentlemen—Mr. Terrey, Mr. Tal bot Bury, and Mr. Wright—as persons able to cor roborate his statements, and they one and all took the earliest opportunity of contradicting them publicly. Again, it should be noted that all the evidence Mr. Pugin thinks he can draw from private letters of my father in his possession is given in " extracts" from those letters, which, if published complete, might most probably give a totally different colour to that which he thinks suits his views. The diary of his father is also referred to and relied on by him as furnishing evidence. This, of course, may be so, but I have been credibly informed by one who knew the late Mr. Pugin very well that he never kept a diary in the proper meaning of the word, though he may have made notes of special subjects he desired to remember. In the same way he speaks in this letter of some one person to whom alone, with him, " all the facts are known," but he does not venture to name this important witness. He must pardon me for doubt ing if any such person exists at all, but if he does, and if he knows all the facts, he will, I f , ;el sure, fail Mr. Pugin, as the above gentlemen have done, and for the obvious reason that Mr. Pugin is alleging what is " not a fact," though he may have misled himself, or been misled, into thinking it one. The only way that I can conceive as being satis factory will be the inquiry that has been suggested by the Royal Institute of British Architects, of which all parties concerned (except, by the way, the late Mr. Pugiii) were, or are members, and, pend ing this, I now content myself with reiterating in the most positive manner my denial that the late Mr. Pugin stood in any other relation to my father than he has himself stated in his published letter of the Gth of September, 1845, or that he was in any sense " the architect of the New Palace at West minster." I trust I may not have to trouble you with any further request for space, and have the honour to be your obedient servant, CHARLES BARRY. 1, Westminster-chambers, Victoria-street, Westminster, S.W., Sept. 9. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "TIMES." Sir,—Without questioning the very impartial verdict, as matters stand, which you have pro nounced on the relations which existed between Sir Charles Barry and Mr. Pugin in regard to the build ing of the Houses of Parliament, will you allow me to suggest an explanation of what, as you justly observe, seems so incredible—viz., that Pugin in his lifetime should never have advanced his claims, but, on the contrary, have quietly allowed Sir Charles Barry to enjoy the credit of a work which belonged exclusively to himself ? The clue to this mystery, I am convinced, is given in that letter of Sir Charles Barry's—pub lished in Mr. E. Welby Pugin's statement in the Times on Saturday—in which he speaks of Pugin's indifference to " filthy lucre," and of his readiness cc to make a sacrifice for the glory of making the Houses of Parliament the means of establishing for the future what you believe," he writes to Pugin, " the one and only true style of art." In these words lies the secret of Sir Charles Barry's power over Pugin. He knew his man, none better. He knew the one idea of Pugin's life, the dream of his youth, the aim of his manhood, was the revival of Gothic architecture in England. To this passionate enthusiasm he was ready to sacrifice hope of personal fame, position, and wealth. This disinterested enthusiasm was the key to his character. With this key Sir Charles Barry unlocked the treasures of Pugin's creative and fertile mind, and turned them to his own account. They who knew Pugin well are not in the least surprised at what to others seems simply incredible; on the contrary, they would have been far more surprised, knowing the nature of the man, had he not, without hesitation or regret, sacrificed prospect of fame, of advancement in life, of wealth, to the glory of seeing revived in England the art which he loved, " if not wisely, yet too well." This was the " glory" which Sir Charles Barry held out before his eager eyes; this was the hope which fired his imagination ; this was the " price " offered and taken for his services. Pugin was not a man to do things by halves ; if he once put his hand to the plough, even though another man's, he would never draw it back. Fascinated , w giltohrytl,r which hich Sir gloryof rev i v i n g Gothic architecture—a "glory" Charles Barry knew so well how to appeal to—and having once offered up at this shrine hope of fame, it was not in his nature to violate his un d ers t an di ng with Barry by afterwards putting forward claims to personal credit or emolument. Pu g in was a singularly unselfish man, an d a man also, as every one who has ever known him intimately and there must be many such men still living—can con firm, of scrupulous and almost Quixotic delicacy. Ile was just such a man as would serve Barry's purpose. His genius, his enthusiasm, his lov.e of his art for its own sake, his unworldliness, his singular consideration for others and unexampled generosity conspired to make him just the man whom Barry stood in need of. There are many men, unfortunately, who would act as Sir Charles Barry seems to have acted, but there are, perhaps, none who - would have acted as Pugin did. But then Pugin was a genius, an enthusiast, an ex ceptional character, and not to be judged of as other men, 'especially in business transactions. What in ordinary men would be amply incredible ' ~ -~Ys2 ~/ ~h • _ /f - 7_,(' ~ _~ i• - ' was in Pugin, if not natural, yet highlfprobable. k This probability is the point la m seekin to_prove. ",; I am not entering into an ex am i na ti o Wthe _ j•- credibility of the facts related and vouchedJJor 1 in Mr. E. Welby Pugin's clear and well -arranged statement, but am only arguing against the a priori incredibility of the relations alleged to have existed between Sir Charles Barry and Mr. Pugin ; and I do so by calling attention to the fact that Pugin'A character and motives of action were quite excep tional, and that, therefore, the ordinary rules of interpreting men's actions do not apply in his case. In his case it is not just to draw inferences from " generals "to "particulars." That Pugin, under the circumztances, to put the case simply on the score of probability, was more likely than not to have acted towards Mr. Barry in the manner alleged I appeal with confidence to the judgment of those, not exclusively professional men, who knew him. well, who knew his disinterestedness, his enthu siasm, and the passionate love he had for his art, and I trust to you, sir, to allow this appeal to be heard.—Yours, &c., EDMUND SILEEIDAN PURCELL. 11, Wyndham -place, Bryanston-square. THE THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Finding that no one has hitherto come for ward to testify to the circumstances under which the late Mr. Pugin wrote the letter of September G, 1845, so often referred to by the Messrs. Barry,. I am requested by my wife to communicate them to you. She was visiting at St. Augustine's Grange when Mr. Pugin returned from London, and she tells me it is impossible to describe the state of prostration in which he entered the house. In reply to her inquiries as to its cause he said, " I have been up all night. Barry is in an awful state re specting the reports that have oozed out about my being the architect of the Houses, and he wants me to write a letter to save his reputation —it is gone if I do not, and 1 have no alter native." These sentences, which are as fresh upon her memory as on the very day he uttered them, were spoken while explaining to her that, on. the one hand, he was committed to secrecy with regard to his relations to Sir Charles Barry, and could not acknowledge thlt he was the architect of the Houses ; on the other, that he would not lend himself to any denial of his own work in 1835 ; and therefore his great anxiety was to write such a letter as would save Sir C. Barry and at the same time not stultify himself. This letter my wife knows from her own personal knowledge was worded in such a way as to refer to nothing more than his engagement in an official capacity under Government, when it was perfectly true that he was working from the general designs which he had made for Sir C. Barry ten years pre viously, and which he considered by his contract with Sir Charles to be his property. Any one read ing the letter can see at a glance the circumstances under which it was written, and that it bears no necessary reference to the transactions of 1835 ; and indeed, although Sir C. Barry intended that it should at once smother the reports in question, and Mr. Pugin felt it his duty to save Sir Charles, yet he was determined that its phraseology should in no way convey a denial of his claim to having been the original author of the designs for the Houses, and this claim it in no way touches. I am fortunately able myself to confirm this ex planation by a recollection of speaking to several gentlemen connected with the House of Commons shortly after the letter appeared, and they quite ridiculed the idea of its throwing the least doubt on Mr. Pugin's claim. Trusting that you will kindly give this letter an early insertion, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JOHN MARES. 21, Lower Belgrave-street, Sept. 14. THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM ON NATIONAL ANTIQUITIES. The Bucks Archas)logical Society held its annual meeting on Thursday, at Wotton, one of the seats of the Duke of Buckingham. An excursion was made to Boarstall, Brill, and several other places of historical interest. The duke presided at the busi ness meeting, in the course of which Sir Harry Verney, M.P., made some remarks on the destruc tion of valuable antiquities through neglect., and suggested that these remains should be under the care of local authorities, and the supervision of a responsible Minister of the Crown. A vote of thanks to the Duke of Buckingham for his hospi tality, and also for his kindness in presiding, having been passed, in acknowledging the compliment his Grace remarked :—" Sir Harry Verney has alluded to the destruction of many monuments of antiquity in various parts of England. I have seen in Corn wall a great deal of this going on under the eyes of persons who, if their attention were drawn to it, would be the first to say it should not continue. 'There are close to Buckingham farm buildings erected in great part by my own family out of the destruction of most ancient Roman remains. We discovered very curious pavements, rooms, and so on, showing that if the search had been made 50 or 60 years before we might have laid open the arcana of a Roman house, and all its domestic arrange ments, as perfectly as any preserved in Hercula neum and Pompeii. I have much more faith in the voluntary efforts of persons interested in the preservation of these relics- than in Government taking charge of them. The first thing in the way of State interference would be the employment of a great number of people to do very little. These persons would not do a great deal of work without many other good people to look after them, and I do not think that would be found extremely pleas ing to the House of Commons. There is another point of disadvantage. Government have the care and direction of large museums in London and the neighbourhood, national collections into which it is their duty to get every valuable relic, showing the past history of the country, and exemplifying the progress of art. The first thing that would result from Government care would be the centralisation of everything in London, on the plea that it is im possible to take care of it in the country. I want rather to see these old relics preserved iu their own localities, and I really think it will be done far better by local associations calling the attention of local residents to them than by any possible Government provision that can be devised. There are many things in our own county, for example, the curious works thrown up in the civil war, near Muswell bill, in front of these windows, and Boarstall Tower, which you have seen to-day. Their preservation must depend upon how the tower is occupied, and as to the earthworks on whether the farmer is allowed to plough over them. These are not matters which can be trusted to Government. If we look at what Governments do in other countries—for exam ple, in France-1 doubt if you will find this work better carried out than in England." a L p L o i l N e o G n . — w rr e n h t e w s i t p h e c h i i a s l s t u r i in pe TR ro A r V N E wh I ic IPE th R e IA B L ai totn Paris to Salzburg is described as exceeding in comfort and elegance anything of the kind that has hitherto been known. The train consisted of nine carriages, communi cating with each other by tastefully decorated bridges. In the middle was a handsome sitting-room, furnished with chairs, ottomans, sofas, mirrors, pictures, clocks, and chan deliers. On one side of this room was the dining room, and on the other the Emperor's study. In the centre of the dining room there was a table, capable of being ex tended or contracted at pleasure, with easy chairs placed parallel to the sides of the carriage. The Emperor's study contained au elegant writing table, a clock in the style of the rainaissance, a thermometer, a barometer, and a tele graphic apparatus, by means of which telegraphic com munication was established with the apartments of T the various court officials travelling w i t h his Majesty. Isiext to the study was the bedroom of the Emperor and Empress, with two beds placed transv ersel y a g ainst the sides of the carriage. Two dressing rooms were attached to t h e bed room. The remaining carriages consisted of a kitchen, a wine cellar, and the apartments of the suite. Thera was also a conservatory filled with the choicest flowers. The Train. • . 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