The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-06 00:00:00

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I le poor or tolo was n° .J 6 the the el ler oh ; , 1 so the eng' -e ist ° cutting 11 : 0 1. 10 04 le d up h tole Healthtiu tef three s its cos 0d lv rip, ryes, ocl a n d o%o' c larity, 3 ; c idy, 0 0: trig bP e 0 0 8 • Co u 00f sp /AO: ta lenol , in fieeo, , c0 1d.,. e . co ;es, impar i .da , s'nese, a ci o pOitioi vum., be elieb t ' r g eo r9 O We 19 ac• d • r eetore. s6 6,lo o illy 21, 0, • .11 1 9 ° ' ne tir° llo :ievielf ot oo o o coo' D o 0 .10 ;It be ; 3 , til l / urPrisr i rtlis! 1 0 4 nnno t gidif pe r , sue ,001,015 i o ablo 9 '501' job; Loatiooloxie 3 00, :oS." 111.'1;4, No. 4 " 0, 113n1 Cr o s s, •P 1641 rings, of o ,,,, e isti,f/ , to vi• ,; 11e :ttoc l ‘1 10 F, dourly 11, 0 ; o . ' ; 6d core ol o r an% 1 , 1_4 g 3001 1 - i p, 3; 63, Op , Old e lle Hon tl/ t1 sector., 11 0 .1 o f he wile eec'a: i Bt .p .1. 13 s . b e: , r 0,, 0 ot e d rof tb ter IL, IO I POO' V °' t CUl too , fecl'O. v of w3i dro t ! te r „. &am : s v ioars s 66. doe, gge.ol, fir Fo Esq ., vga 0 ikent 33 ' L P ' l . d _stree" 9,0 7. [ s utton, et - 1 41) 0 1 1.1 'i ri4 w 0 4 31 : 00,001 4 ,0 o tli A . FTE it Covent-garden Opera --EVAN'S` SUP. After Drnry-lono Theatre . .EVAN' Afer li• market T 1 t **** • pvANTs' to S" A yfeu TO After Olympic, After Adelpfli Thchtre . E v A . N' •:,' to SUP Pic I h.atre . ....... ... EVA N•i' After qtr Theatre ' EVAN.-i' to SUP to Si) After ',Tow Povaltv Theatre .. ...EVA NS' to Sire. After St. Jatnes'm Th ea t re . f , ' VANS' to SUP After Prince of Wa!es' rheatre....E VANS' to SU London Singin'2: and Supper Club, E VANS', Covent-gar , Vocal F.:ntertainfnc.nt at Eight. RAISON DORE E, TUE NOW FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT AND 1:CICCIIEON DAR, GLASSHOUSE-STREET (One door from Regent-street). CUISINE FRANCAISE, &c. I„Tg.h-elass Wines at whol esa l e pr i ces. - S p i r i ts an d B eers, & c. O `Lll-te room f or Parties. HAMPERS PREPARED AND SENT OFF TO "EIL Terms, CASIf. 4 e 4 m a in riil after MONDAY, Dec. 9, SUPPERS from Nine p.m. to Mani...er, CHARLES CASTLE. IN VIAN - 'S LI, WI I !SKY. DUBLIN Thi s EXHIBITION, 1R65. üblia P ce lebr m at c e id d al O . OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the riz olt i g Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole me. S" 6,7%)1,(1ei1l B ottles, 3s. Bd., at th e R e t a il Houses in London - wh oi % 43 /le t nt s in th e pr i nc i pa l towns in England , o, r GREAT W INDMILL -STREET, LONDON, W. 1, e thAiled R eal, Pink Label, and Cork branded ' lll a l3 au's LL Whisky." ITUTig AL LOAN Film) ASSOCIATION 14, 1113.8sc.Inourporaterl by kat of Paritam.n., IMO), Abv,iv,;',LL-STREET COTletiTT-GIRDFIN. LONDON. Prp, o l``-' 4 '3 uu . on Personal Security, Bills of Sale, re na ,,,.4 or Lertgehold Pronery, for one, two, or three years, t1i5c,j r , 2 ,," 4. ,e weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly 'Led. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. T 8 E OXFORD, 6 . OXFORD -STREET, W., 110 N. the Week will be ziven a GRAND SEIEC AUx Th„,frorti Offenbach's Comic Operetta. ORPHEE Me O Pm PNRS and Feliclen David's HERCULANEUM. tim;nal artiates Hisses Russell. Rivera, an Fitz Henry ; 8 10 . 1. 1l u in.y . R Greene, and De Brenner. Full Band kelp ~. In stru , entalists : Miss Bryant; Messrs..Paque, n -t lt and Plunapton. by the LF,VIT ES, Miss and Mr. FOSTER, NOTt ',LCHARDS, and Miss KATE SANTLEY. Nt,xITODARE'S MARVELS of MAGIC on BM- Pri va , Conductor, Mr. F. Jongiamans. frie Qa(ie : , boxes, los. Pd. ; stalls, balcony, and grand pro- TFUS EVENING. . zirr /1 1 EB T ON' S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Pro • Pnetors, SWEAREY and HOLLAND. INCREASED ATTRACTION DURING THE CATTLE SHOW. Fligv. kr Last Week of the LITTLE FAMILY, THE lII7LINES. All the Comic Stars engaged. T he MISSE S M'GREGOR, Scotch Duettists. 11 ,o`;Great L INGARD'S new Statues, King Theodore Nob m ir Rol)ert Napier, at 9.30 ; ITARRY LIST°N , ~TLLyChild, at 10.45; STEAD (the enrol. Miss N ELLy coRTIT, Serio Comics KATE GARSTONE and ANTE Idl °ON, the Marvellous ALMONTE DLL , and DELL VANTE Signor LERONI (from the gntro rne, ) and H. Baker's superb band of 30 per very Evening. per- Stalls ', and Bal cony, ls ; Area, 6d. Private Boxes, lOs c o i;, 1 :, 'an be enee at half-p secured at the Office. Doom open at seven, ast seven. Opp " P. CORRI, Musical Director. reto,o.4—L NOTTCE.—The Brothers DANIELS, the ea Musical Clowns, on MONDAY, Dec. 9. 11 1 411 AME lISSAUD'S EXHIBITION, ,A BAKER-STREET. e:'lzo PORTRAIT MODEL of TITEODOI_IE_, King of 1,11,:plOia, is now added ; als ill the Kin d Queens a (i ors () ,land, American Celebrities, &c. Room ni orr . d. taitr from a tn. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m._ A Ince, Is.; children, under ten, Ad. ; extra rooms, 6d. A.RYLL ROOMS., IVINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly. hia S ole Proprietor. Mr. R. R. Bre:NELL. ,I)rr % tlli it n" isrilaZni avin,'tleent Ternsicecorated in `lo-ean andthe Musical Egstyle tablish- I a: been Re-deco of R PPr 1 , 11 ,,j Ilf' the s Rublr.it and other eminent artists, is tor t AILTTUITNT. ._ Solo 14lnphnnion, C urti . ' ,B ea; Soto Cornet, '.Nr Graves. Conductor, Signor Doors open at half-p 'st S. Admission, is. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. 11•ANYTELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per an had of all dealers 1 "vhfoeicetsivl D" 7 17 / l iT u N7ll l l37t r i e 4 4 E S 3 1‘O an b l SON, 107. Strand H'e" of' Sa a vo e y?stepsl, London. ' ij OrIST - T FLY is the actinrr inared is ie f, la t „n i i p , lir bin ALE X. ROSS'S CI A.N r ITA.nroEs 011- ::7, 115 „,",, i r : o ', Ad : licli t V4 whiskera and thickens hair, as Ilf_ : - )21_"_'_' - ill th _`;' Post for 4, 84. and 144 4 -1.7N 1 T ) 4.- I I‘..X BOSS, 24.. .aolbo rti, Llnrlnn. 1.,11 all nheinista. 1 _ " T4le of a TT air. ' n•l. - 1 1 7() N r DEtFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns onrNi ' i 7 AT VT ROR's'cl CHIROPO. 1 1 , In one day bv 04 • 1 '. - ee,t,,Preriaration gradually dissolves the Corn In a f it e o w t i a io m n p rs s , -.24 8 ,.c1iz the very root. Price 4s ; sent by pis t for s • ' "ligil Holborn, London, and all (The:nista. hate Powder, Is. r t i A T TIL CURLTI\.TG FLUID, 248, High Holb n o n r:) .: 3 / 4 ‘lle,s' - ' 3 n 40 n- kT,V.I. ROSS'S OVELANI:I'apPoLIErerd.D Bol d I t 1, „ ht or Gentlemen's hair '144 ei:llelibrAennicirtss.6ll ; seat Tre% li f a or e il l l. 84. and 144 stamps •••.___, Advice up )13 all subjects of the Toilet. , ... riety lIAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— 1 ,toarrcefti ii• t.. e i X. ROSS'S HAIR DYE prodnoes a perfect colour oft. kal i n yit is used. It is permanent, and pe for 61, iprre t. Price ls Id ' -., and 141 stainns ' and all Chem' tts. 5s all and lea 6d ; sent by post I , Bloom of Roses, 3s. tld. tiAi R D ESTROYER.-248 "5 LS44DEPILATORY t ertinn °it-ALEX. ROSS'S High Holborn, i e th, ~..14 hair from the faee. neck. and arms, without effect .41 i s emn. p ile , 3 ,, ~, 5 , z qi , an d los 6,1 ; sent for 54, 54, statn, s. _,. ' uad of 'all Chemists. Skin Tonic ss. sd. rrAtkP,Lpi REMOVER.—AII diseases of the 1 ~,i-r,k-11,,itre improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S ° . 4 e , e --. '. 1 SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, ls Zpiti . --0 ,, ; a9d and 75 id ;or post for 40 and 100 stamp . - " s ta. --- - ?• 0 8S, 249, High Holborn, London, and all Che ,._ _dvice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. dd. to te4Athillatm with h L t y s b R etu l ti V h _ i k u S y H.—By damping the _ D e f t (mei Wash, em i r nse a v in en s i t i n hr a , °Y' t he hair as sumes i ts or i g i nal colour, and 'BB, 24471.310hnal Kolb:1n, ii,ndoi Ls a en nd t TT ,. ehe m ra p tgts A LE X. lrr.-c,,tilt Dnhlished 2d • sen t by the author for 3 stamps, tl,lo°j:Dprii::'ll‘Tr'rlitEDtSl.! o 'a t Tl a d r ' ti ß cl E es A an UTY d mea ; ns 2 b - e - ing a Pamphlet ig ed fi f t o g r h im lfo r l o b v o i rn. "an' Tlacde'of all booksellers. °SS' ' ,IY„tp.,,,Itt,NDREI) and SIXTY-SEVEN g.,- ALlit,rruTp. ORPHANS are being maintained in -Klhot:R'lll' ORPHAN ASYLUM. Collingwood Cou rt, -111.reY. FUNDS Greatly needed for their supp ort. Oft, e CHARLES A. WALKER, Sec. i1i\..,.,.....i:.. cheapside. EC. 1 1.I'r k, p 1! 1 * ORPHAN ASYLUM, Mackenzie "1,,-;4(te„l,i,louzli, Bucks (formerly at Clapham-riser. n - Allto ' • s:kII) to --ter nost Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. e Nta r thtg I nstitution will be alertly received by the Y i i . at the Offices. No. 73, Cheapside, E.C. Tra l ‘ ll- SYKES THORNTON, Treasu t re o r._ oar . .. 8-1,„,,1AS TILSON, .T.P., Chairman of h Board. A . tf RN R.F.F.',D CATTLEY, Nt.A., Hon. B .IL.PRED MACKENZIE, Secretary. 1..1t p , A C i - -T NoRTITERN HOSPITAL, Q e aledonia”-road. Islington, N. f:t l. , h t tg T!„"unDorted by Volunt 954 ntributions. - '`olim ignital has relieved 48 patients since it wit! ' R e A 4 e' 4t I thaws-cro ' ss in 1956. Patients are admitted iltp, e , lit t ,._ . „ fit, L; Nreag. Ifessrs. Barnett. T,loyill. an 6 0, 'Lombard r e I. Co., rrHON. -.--P. I.4‘i t ß i l l 4l g n : °lll a" Bc'uve f}E . OßGE REID, See. Tilt B OARD esl i tI I,ON I/ t(i -., - D of MANAGEMENT of w of fsh th to e at, le atte N IT OPEoPN.TII . I . O HOSPITALthe,,Year th e of their friends t . ) its position-during the 4''Pain " beds have been almost constantly filled, a t nd h4.,:il great ou h.„. . the re srces of the Hospital has consequently . Iher s Dat 1 ', 11, '.v trust, therefore • that all the friends of I nla - ' 4 tid - .1,' uoth in town and country, will rally round ~s l ij;k‘,.%l of fi 1 ". 4 .,... Prevent the necessity of curtailine the use 're,,,;'''ldtp,,.llospital by the admission of fewer patients. Ar - ntt "ONS earnestly needed. Bankers -Messrs. Irl'll, "4 Co 'pi ' Pla te -,.),_-i Th readneedle-street; and Union Bank, ~1,T0.t2. ..i Vent-street. JOHN R. WARREN. Clerk. ----.9:!!tr t Ormond -Rtreet• W.C. lit 1t. t .,,,,, tt litn t e.j..,. C UR SOCIETY wishes to add another It% iss-...,,th,, 12 now in operation. Last year no . f, f c_w_e m r 1, tr..... ern% fd ~ _„ , bt., .•elpsir.„. .nu , ess, young females were raj 7 ._°_ haveru .w a - 1 ;;Infl room. making a total of , ,wao ), a nte: il, . n .. 1 119 veers. i1 , ,,,,LZ11.1. 4, T i .a ' tll9 Committee wish to form wonld__be w to o r .. N.,,4111.4k_71,0rit children, from the age of 8 to la, who 7I ; L il t i 1t i f. , 4 I w Tr i f i l 2 :: ra r e t h i e , path t , h r 301,Tiurltuye. by l the Secretary, elkY I ' l l . fi C'l T *, 'ls. Qa:e e n•s e treet Cheapside: or by Messrs tir4:l-4) Co. ..orr,bsrd-straef. IN ~ Ntp-I,, r ,C'r the I)IiSTITuTE SICK.— ,Itjt','(l.4, , ;'„ P oT.ITAN . 1, , p r 1.1 ! - 4 OS PITA L. Devon lef,,,.',f ti; - ,' s . r.r. Ins AN fa its 1 for the inn:Ala tErratnitous 4111 11 t °F. re-, " P , cr of every Nition an I Creed, without i lly 'lb its ;n'nendatio EU AD 3 &re urgently needed to 144 is tl‘ , ,ficieno. • .4 's•---Messra. Barnett. TTnares. and Co., 62, Lombard ,--,______ :rye). GURNEY PRY, Chairman. 4 -- GE°. f;.tox . roN. Secretary. "I' AT - r - ; -------------- ---- r , • °ity link 0 1 , , "r -,E l IOSPITA.L, Gray's-inn-road, -4‘lll2edtme v:etatty of the Great Northern Rail- VI P(ttr,,, ' Moe's-cross. cla.,,ptrozi=ger Most Gracious Majesty the QUICEN' ii l 'l r l: '"4e ot---.11 1 , ' 11°711 Highness the Prince of WA LE K 3 • G R . G. i',:.1,1 til e t togpit o : s fo ' l :rr the Duke of BUCC p•,' ' 41 4 4'140 4)1e of 'irtialn pi e l yo a! ItBl,2s,,,tihoLiceEpBU,r)Csotril,iwo i e t e h t o a u b - t i l t ri "t tel 4 B l (Itk•ulty- of r(7.0.',4er°,,n0'r0,,,, o'r e l e r, l . is wholly .de ,,,1,-fsl'oTorcfs 4 Rpqrt on vol anttiryzontributione and I -:-.za.laL. 1/,-atii-t.ill 41Z ° - t c, e a a large number of in-pa , ntg, an d , the .i i i) , l 4 1 ' 1 . bik h" _ o,enra,!.e number ot sen b , •'.1 , ,, (! .;,Oo ; ) wee i ly z . stdersb:e period Avers d ge n d between .it' t tee ear estly ths V;STsTANCE of the t z . I .'‘ . !ni n „ , ,, ka tht , e , ,-tem.l.es CifkthiB utHi - ;it-d are capable of ,1 0 2`,11 jilte.j, - . o 7,titaldreti , nor: beds had the Committee II , riblti c ,. ', TO 1 aint , 4,71 th orn 0)I, 4 , 4 " g. are received Ii r bankers Messrs. Brown, b a a Grq,„4,"0., lane Abchuroh • , n by Me . ssrs. Count and 4,1 Ertl tlad'l ai ll eo. ; ( .3-lyn a ' ; 3, l Ca. ; !Terries and Co.: 4 11,1 e 0 , : 11,,,, a 0 . ; Preecr. tt, Grotn, and Co.; Smith, Fily,Oei .' Il erZer Y "d "°• 1 ; ' l ' Barns, Deacon, and Cu.; Nis b et s-stroat ; and st the Flacpltsl, from 10 till 6'. • ~.--.) I ,' Ns , 4' ~-,'.:-.:,..11:11:}7- 17' +: .. . . , . . . ......„,....-- ~ - ~ . ~ ,, _ , c ...-- ,r4 ,, ,,,,,/,_ . t . .4. • ,r ti A ., y • ' _.._. , •.—..,..,. . - . ~ ..,.-__.,.- . 7- : .., ~,"..,•:. ‘ \ 11. - ` 2 l -:•::. • • '•-•" // 07 •:) ' : -- tr_... lICE-PTIBLIC , ..........,.. r.,-.... I x N , • - - • --- 4 ' . 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After Queen's Theatre . EVANS' to SUP. LONDON SINGING AND SUPPER CLUB. At EVANS' COVENT-GARDEN VOCAL ENTERTAIN MENT, at Eight o'Clock. JIIANSI PRIZE MONEY. INDIA OFFICE, 4th Dec.„ 1867. I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that PRIZE ROLLS for the undermentioned Corps of her Majesty's late Indian Forces, on account of the FIRST DISTRIBUTION of the .JIIANSI, formerly called the "Central India," PRIZE MONEY for services in the field between the Ist April and 10th June, 1858, containing the names of those offieers and men whose shares have not been paid in India, have been received, and that distribu tion of such shares will commence at the Military De partment of this Office on the 2d January next, and will be continued daily (Saturday excepted) between the hours of Eleven and Two o'clock. _ NEW NOVEL BY ARNOLD HEATH. February, of moving that the circumstances of Ireland be taken into consideration. 711 E NA7IO-N.4 L C URI?E NCY Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., ED IT 'S MARRIAGE. By ARNOLD HEATH. lli r t and Blackitt, 13, Great Slarlborougb-street. HACKNEY CARRIAGE ACT. (&cm the Nation.) Alderman LAWRENCE gave notice that immediately after the recess he should move that the taxation on hackney carriages be taken into consideration with a view to their revision, reduction, and equalisation. Lord ELCIIO gave notice of his intention after the re cess to move for a select committee to inquire into the question of cab conveyance. The approaching session of Congress is likely to become memorable for the number of financial measures submitted to its discussion. The ques tions of currency contraction, of payment of the national debt, of further greenback issues, and of the substitution of greenbacks for the notes of national banks, will all be brought up for .decision at an early day ; but, unlike the many financial measures passed during the last six years, those now to be brought forward are being discussed in ad vance of Congress, and there is a fair chance that we shall thus be saved from further legislative cru dities such_ as now afflict us. The National Bank Act is one of the many specimens of the blundering legislation o s fc o ut in ipl e ai d t t i i t At n y e e, es aeinxndtarnayc partyt e il d o n f o r zu o er m aalb. I C e o un n ln g ed r n e e s r s h at b hv y ee i s no e cn d es, national banks in a ll p ar t s o f th e country, a opig n rrugo d oav have invested in them time, money, character, and ability. The investment has generally proved a very profitable one, mainly owing to the privi lege given to these banks to issue paper money, the now well-known national bank currency. This currency was at first very popular every where, but latterly public opinion has some what changed, and it has come to be generally understood that this currency, while very profit able to the banks is also very expensive to the people ; hence the proposition recently made, and certain to be urged upon Congress, to substitute greenbacks for the national bank currency, seems LO be received with almost universal favour. It would seem natural that the owners of national banks should feel aggrieved at an attempt to deprive them of valuable privileges conferred upon them by law, and should use every legitimate means to defeat it ; but the only open attempt so far made to defend their position, the letter of their great leader, Mr. Jay Cooke, is so thoroughly specious, laboured, and unsound that it has had no effect upon the public beyond convincing it that the position of the banks admits of no defence. The question is, however, far from beim -, as simple as the public generally seems disposed to consider it. Stripped of all its technicalities, the case stands precisely as follows :'When the greenbacks or United States currency were first issued, it was generally understood that they were a temporary expedient only, that they were, in the phraseology of the times, emphatically a " war measure," and that with the end of the war the existence of the greenbacks was to come to an end likewise. An irredeemable paper currency was entirely antagonistic to the general feeling and judgment of the country; and although, in the total absence of all cur renc y a t th e time the Act was passed, the legal tenders or green-, backs were received as an inestimable blessing, yet there has been no time since when the sober thought of the people has not looked upon them as intruders to be expelled as soon as possible, and has not reverted with natural longing to the promised return to specie payments and a currency redeem able in coin. This desirable result, amor , others, it was thought could and would be obtained througl the national banks. They were to be allowed to issue bank-notes or currency to the amount of three, hundred millions (the amount of currency which it was supposed would be required in times of peace), and these notes they were bound to redeem on de mand in " legal-tender" currency. As long as there were greenbacks in circulation, the national banks could redeem their notes in that kind of " legal-tender." But the supply of greenbacks was to be, and is now being, rapidly reduced by contraction. A time will soon come when there will be no longer any greenbacks out, and then the na tional banks will be compelled to redeem their notes in the only kind of " legal-tender" left, viz., gold and silver coin and thus specie payments we r e t o be restored. In order to have ample security that the banks would, according to agreement, redeem the notes so issued when called upon, they were required to purchase and deposit in the Treasury at 'Washington an amount of United States bonds equal to or a little larger than the amount of currency they were allowed to issue. These bonds of course belong to the banks, although temporarily pledged to the United States Treasury, and the interest accruing ou them is regularly paid to the banks as it would be to any other owner. There seems at first sight nothing objectionable in this, but there is nevertheless much. UTURRICANE IN 1 11 MANSION-HOUSE the SUFFERERS. COMM' Right Hon. the LORI Baron Lionel de Rothschild, I 'IIE WEST INDIES. — FUND for the RELIEF of [TTEP. ) MAYOR, Chairman. 71r. James Allan, Director of M.P. Right Hon. Russell Gurney, 31. P. the Peninsular and Orien talteam Navigation Com pany. Mr. George 'Moffatt, M.P. Mr. Alderman Finnis. Sir Wm. Anderson Bose. Mr. Alderman Causton. Mr. Charles Oppenheim. Mr. Alderman Bosley. Mr. B. H. Hartley. Mr. Alderman Carter. Captain Engledue. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Mr. Arthur Anderson, Chair- Stone. man of the Peninsular and Alderman Colonel Wilson. Oriental Steam Navigation Mr. Alderman Salomons, Company. M.P. The above committee has been formed for the purpose of Relieving the deplorable distress consequent upon the recent - disastrous Hurricane in the West Indies, by which dreadful calamity it is known that over 600 persons lost their lives, and an immense amount of property belonging to all classes has been destroyed. It is computed that 1,000 persons at the Port of South ampton and other places in Great Britain (including the widows and orphans of sailors) have been deprived of their means of support. The Committee therefore appeal to a generous public for assistance. Officers on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief in India. SUBSCRIPTIONS will be received at the Mansion- House Daily between the hours of Ten and Four; and by the following Bankers : Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lano. „ Coutts and Co., Strand. „ Smith, Payne, and Co., 1, Lombard-street. „ Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street. „ Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. „ Barnetts, lioares and Co., 60, Lombard-street. „ Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., 15, Lombard-street. „ Child and Co., Temple-bar. „ Herries, Farquhar, and Co., St. James's-street. The Colonial Bank, 13, Bishopsgate-street Within. London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury. London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street. Union Bank of London, Princes-street. London and County Bank, 21, Lombard-street. The Alliance Bank, Bartholomew-lane. The Imperial Bank, Lothbury. The National Bank, Old Broad-street. The City Bank, Threadneedle-street. The Consolidated Bank, Threadneedle-street. The East London Bank, 52, Cornhill. London and South-Western Bank, 29, Lombard-street. Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, 75, Cornhill. 'National and Provincial Bank of England, 112, Bishops gate-street Within. Officers, Ist Company, Artillery, Hyderabad, Contingent. 2d 77 ~ . . 7/ ~ ~ „ 4th „ 71 77 Ist Regiment, Cavalry „ 3d 7 , 17 77 4th 77 „ 3d „ Infantry Divisional Staff. Ist Brigade Staff. 2d „ Commissariat Department. Engineer 71 Ordnance Ist Troop, Bombay Horse Artillery. 3d „ 71 77 71 2d Company Reserve Artillery, and No. 18 Light Field Battery. 4th Company, 2d Battalion, Artillery. Ist Regiment, Bombay Light Cavalry. 3d „ 77 77 3d Bombay European Regiment. 10th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry. 24th 77 77 77 77 25th 77 17 2d Company, Bombay Sappers and Miners. sth Applications from soldiers who belonged to those force s (men now serving in her Majesty's British regiments ex cepted) must be addressed to the Military Secretary, India Office, and must contain full particulars of corps, regi mental numb r, Applications from men formerly belonging to her Ma jesty's Indian forces who have te-enlisted into regiments of her Majesty's British service can only be received through the officer commanding the corps in which such men are now serving. Pensioners must apply through the Staff Officer of Pen sioners of their district. T. T. PEARS, Major General, Military Secretary. JOSEPII GIBBS, Secretary Mansion-llonso, Dec. 5, 1867. TIIOMAS & CO.'S PATENT SEWING MACHINES. The celebrated No. 2 Machine unequalled for general work £lO. The new Domestic Machines complete (Lock Stitch), £5 55., £6 65., and £B. Catalogues free. W. F. Thomas and Co., 1 and 2, Cheapside, and Regent circus, Oxford-street, London. T HE "SINGER" NEW FAMILY MACHINE is fitted with a new PATENT TUCK MARKER, which GAUGES and MARKS each succeeding TUCK while sowing, a MOST VALUABLE ACCESSORY, not to be had with any other Machine. T" "SINGER" NEW FAMILY SEWING bIACHINES are the most complete, with all acces sories for the family, seamstress, manufacturers of shirt collars, shirts, cloaks, mantles, children's clothing, caps, corsets, linen and silk goods, umbrellas, parasols, &c. Catalogues and Samples of Work post free. THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 147, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. TO ADMIRERS OF LIGHT CARRIAGES. II A R 79, NEW BOND-STREET, has iutroducel one of the lightest four-whee:ed Carriages in London. The style is the T cart or Stanhope phaeton, on an improved principle. The peculiarity of this carriage is, it has sufficient room for four persons, if required, and is 3 cwt. less than the usual ones ; it has no ,perch, and can lock round in any narrow lane. The wheels aro hickory, with steel tyres, springs only one inch wide, and has Lone's patent steel coated iron axles, which have received so many testimo nials. S. 11. wishes to remind the public it has been proved many valuable horses are ruined by being overloaded with a heavy carriage. It is a well-known fact that the intro duction of light carriages is only now in its infancy. One is on viaw, and several to be seen building to order. An inspection is solicited. yARMOUTH BLOATERS, 25 for 4s. ; 50, 6s. ; 100, 10s. ; 500, 40s. Fresh Fish in ice, three kinds, for 10s. Delivered free to all parts of London and country upon receipt of remittance, by FRED. BARNEY and CO., Fish Purveyors, Great Yarmouth. TRANSPARENT CANDLES.—If yo u on ly want something pretty to look at, without minding a little smoke and smell, and a little bending and running over if the room should happen to be rather warmer than usual, buy any of the very transparent low quality Para fine Candles now sold freely everywhere at ono shilling per pound; but if, along with beauty of appearance, you require steady brilliancy of light, and freedom from risk of these little occasional mishaps, tell your dealer to supply you with —' "PRICE'S GOLD MEDAL PALMITINE CANDLES," which, though charged at a higher price per pound, aro really cheaper when the difference of quality is taken into account. They are believed to be the very best substitute yet produced for real Wax and Spermaceti, now at such an extravagant price, and are being introduced in place of them in the West-end Clubs and elsewhere where ex cellence of quality is studied as well as economy. QTOOPING HABITS, ROUND SHOULDERS, PIGEON CHESTS, and other Detormitie4, are pre vented and cured by wearing CHANDLER'S IMPROVE) lIYGI EN IC CHEST EXPANDING BRACE, for both sexes of all ages. It strengthens the voice and lungs, relieves in digestion, pains in the chest and back, and is especially re commended to children for assisting the growth, promoting health and symmetry of figure, superseding the use of braces and stays. Price from 10s. 6d. each.-66, 13erners street, Oxford-street, W. Illustrated circulars forwarded. 77 77 77 77 1) 17 77 77 T HELO N D 0 N, 191, Fleet-street, Temple-bar. The LONDON DINNER at 2s. 9d. ; ATTENDANCE, 3d. c, - Served from 4 till 8 o'clock: 0 ,r , T 1 TIIIS DAY. a' . t, -,';," Potages. 0 ' Mulligatawney. tt '-? M op t'l A la Julienne. 1-- - cn -, E-1 Poissons. y'...i 1-q Soles ), la Maitre do Hotel. ';:' Medium Frits. I ' EntrCes. 't --- : cr. tt . 0 Ris do Vau aux Champignons. 2 la c., 9... cd pi Haricot de Mouton. 't u ) -,..71 Mt. 0 -4 -5. ';, . i- . -4 Sirloin of Boef. i--' S A.'-a ~ El Entreme4. rn e, e Patisserie de Gonoise. rt P , . 5 Plum Pudding. ..„.--, 1 - :. 11 "Z Pi rl b" - i i"4 Fromage, &c. , -.m u, sa 0 ... M E , The LONDON DINNER 0° ;.; ; 0 For TO-MORROW, SATURDAY, DEC. 7TH. 4 ~. M c..,:-.- (Served from 4 till 8 o'clock). r , -1 it ;., Potages. P , - P > Pi -.)'-'. P.., p De Queue do Bceuf. gE. Italienne. t . . 1 ` 1 sn 0 P-- 4 0 Poissons. aaCabillaud aux Huitres. 5 3 57 ,c 4 0 , Filets do Barbue Frites. ', ..P-, C o g <1 Entrdes. '211 4 ,ti fr-q Cotelette do Veau aux Finesherbs. 1-3,, 0 Rissoles do Howard. '2l• ri),.., Gigot de Mouton Bouilli. 1-3 V, U p Entremets. t -1 4 2 c• 72 • -, Pudding d'Albort. tt - 7 4 A 4 ;- ; 4 4 A Beignets a la Victoria. P c7 .--( --- tt g JFromage, Ix. V-' r? Pr-i r.- 'A cc IN TILE COFFEE-ROOM.—Diener from the Joint, includ ing Vegetables, Bread, Cheese, ls. 9d. ; Joint, with Soup or Fish, 2s. 6d.; Fish Diuuer, ls. 6d.; attendance, 3d. extra. The Carte for to-day includes Pheasants, Partridges, Grouse, Woodcocks, Teal, Golden Plovers, Chickens, and every other kind of Poultry and Game in season. The Bill of Fare of the "London Dinner" is published in THE SUN every evening. FREDERICK SAWYER, Sole Proprietor. DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REREDY.—Pre pared without any mercurial ingradient, from the reoipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found Invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver ,omplaints, inligesti cn , w i n d , spasms, giddiness, dizziness. , of the eyes, &o, For habitual costiveness, as a faintly aperient medicine, and as a purifier of 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 said by W. Lambert, Chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most drug gists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, zs. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilioas and Live r Pill s: The genuine are a square green pant:age, with William Lambert." enceraved on the stamp. PRIN T ING. —TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.—The Print ing and Machining of Newbpwers, &c., done ou exceed ingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager "Sun" Printing Offices, 3, Church row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. H&ALTH RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. DU BARRY'S delicate health-restoring Inva lids and Infante' Food, WALKER'S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES are superseding all others Prize medals, London, 1862, Park, 1867. Gold from .£l5 155., silver from £6 65.- 68, Cornhill, and 230, Regent-street. FURNISHED HOUSES, from £2 2s. to £2O per Week.—D. S. HUMPHRIES hus at all times a number of Firs ..class TLESIDr.INCES to be LET. furnished or unfurnished. or sold, more particularly in the neWthour hoods of Sydenham, Upper Norwood, Forest-hill. and yid nity.—Particulars may be had at the Office, Printing House square. HOUSES and APAR r NIEN f WANTED, and to be LET or SOLD, BUSINTESS ES for DISPOSAL, &c. PROPERTY, FREEHOLD or LEASEHOLD. D. T. HUH MIMES has continual applications for all descriptions of PROPERTY which will pay good interest for outlay. Houses out of repair not objected to. T. D. Humphries can at all times find customers tor all descrip tions of businesses. Hotels, public hous s, dr,c , sold and transferred. Apply, D. T. Humphries, Estate Agent, Print ing House-square. pAitTRIDGE AND COOPER, WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LON DON (E.C.) THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES. THE REVAL BNTA AR /IBICA saves fifty times 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 speedily and effec tually indi,:estion dyspepsia), cough, asthma, consumption. habitual constipation, diarrhcea, all gastric derangements, hmmorrhotds, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, Influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysterls, neuralgia, irritability, sleep lessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms. 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 the most digestible and nourish ing of all foods, and suitable for invalids and infants in all complaints. 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GI, by post Is. lid., the Sirond Edi tion. with A.ddenda,containing• additional nuts and Cases in it ustr4tion of the nefarious pro.:eedings of the Adver tising Qu-ielts. REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY. By DETECTOR,. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London : H. B illiere, 219, Regent-street. The numerous reviews of Ihis stirtlity , work by the Satur day Review, Punch. Weekly Despatch, Public Opinion, and otherjournals, recommending it 4 universal perusal, are re printed with this e lition. RUE'T'LTRES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT VITHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBI :lONS of 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwards of Cwo Hundred Helical Gentlemen to be the most effective Invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects. is hoe avoided—a soft blndage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power ii supplied by the Moe-Main 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 tha truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the °intim fereace of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Sln,le Truss, 1 ia., 21.8., 268 6d., and 318. 6d Postage, Is. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 42a., and 525. 6d. Posta , c, is. 84. An Umbilical Truss, 428. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. Post-oilice Orders to be made payable to John White, Post ai:ice, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ,nish settlements of St. Thomas anetilt. J.kai S lave been ceded to the United States. The harbour of `St. Thomas, as the Times points out, has one of the worst - reputations in the world. It is a nest of fever. All that is said of the convenience of its position, the security of the port, and the excellence of the accommodation may be true enough, but, for all that, the pert itself is as deadly as any river's mouth on the coast of Africa. One would have thought that the recent hurricanes must have swept any place clear of infection, at least for a time ; but the Tamar,_ which left St. Thomas a fortnight after the tempest, and which arrived on Tuesday evening, had twenty-four cases of fever and seven deaths on her voyage home. That she brought this fever from St. Thomas is beyond question, but she reports, singu larly enough, that there was no fever in the island. It is not in the island, nor even, apparently, in the town itself, that the pestilence is generated, but merely in the harbour. If there is yellow fever anywhere— and this year it has been terribly epidemic—the plague is sure to be found among the shipping at St. Thomas. Unfortu '3:lately, the place is a port of call for our mail steamers, and the waste of life is cruel in the extreme. The mail ships go into the harbour to coal, and when they leave the coal wharf they carry away the fever. The regular, or, at least, the periodical mortality arising from this cause amounts to a tax levied on life. So afflicting are the results that it has recently been proposed to change the coaling station, and to substitute a port which, if some what less convenient, may at any rate be less fatal to health. That this suggestion was justifiable we do not deny, but now, before the natural advantages of St. Thomas are surrendered, it would be advisable to wait and see what may be done under the new administration of the port and island. The Americans are more energetic, more enterprising, and more restless than the Danes ; in fact, they resemble no people so much as the Danes of a thou sand years ago. We may probably trust these modern northmen to make St. Thomas healthy as well as conve nient, if healthy it can be made. Its conveniences are so obvious that we cannot afford to sacrifice them unnecessa rily. It was not made the port of call arbitrarily or by acci dent, but entirely through its natural attractions. If these advantages are to be inevitably neutralised by the fatality of the place, the question of profit and loss may bo judiciously entertained, but it appears to us that there is no necessity in the conclusion, and that the Americans are exceedingly likely to demonstrate the facts. They will be gratified with their new acquisition, they will be on their mettle in turning it to the best account, they have inexhaustible means, and great experience. General Butler, whatever else he may have done, did keep New Orleans free from fever for a whole season, and we hope to find that somebody no less active will do much or more for St. Thomas. The original founders of a national bank contri bute in greenbacks a capital of a million dollars. With these greenbacks they buy a million of bonds; the bonds are deposited in Washington, where they draw 6 per cent. interest in coin, or 7 per cent. interest on its capital, the same as any other capitalist who invests his money in bonds ; but the bank in addition receives from the Treasury a million of national bank-bills, which are money in all parts of the United States, and which the bank can loan in Wall-street or anywhere else for another 7 per cent. per annum. It is evident that capital invested in a national bank gets a double rate of interest—one seven per cent. from the people who borrow its bills, and another seven per cent. from the United States Treasury for interest on the bonds deposited with it. The seven per cent. paid by the Treasury is, of course, paid by the people at large, and it is this interest, amounting to over twenty millions of dollars per annum, which it is proposed to save by substituting greenbacks for the notes of the national banks. If, instead of selling to the national banks the three hundred millions of bonds, against which they are authorised to issue their currency, the Treasury had in the first instance issued three hundred millions of its own currency— greenbacks—it is evident that there would have been no more currency out and no leas than there is now, that the total of the national debt would have been no larger than it is now, but that three hundred millions more of that debt would have been free of interest instead of costing, as they now do, over twenty millions of dollars annually, which are taken from the people by taxation to be put in the pockets of the national bank stockholders. This is the great error, the great wrong, of the National Bank Act, and the all but unanimous voice of the country demands that the error should be corrected and the wrong redressed. As matters now stand, a one-dollar national bank note is nothing more than a promise to pay a one dollar greenback on demand. The popular argument is, that if the greenback itself is, as it must be, pre ferable to any promise to furnish it, no matter how substantial or well-secured, and the greenback, the actual thing, can be had without cost to the people, it is a self-evident absurdity to make the people pay a heavy tax for somebody's promise to furnish that greenback on demand. The argument, we take it, is unanswerable. But the remedial measure, so readily deduced from this argument, to substitute greenbacks for the national notes, to let the cheap actual thing promised take the place of the expen sive promise, is more open to objection. In the first place, the practical execution of the measure is fraught with great and serious difficulty. The bonds deposited in the Treasury certainly be long to the banks. Congress may withdraw the right to issue currency against these bonds, but it cannot compel the banks to sell them. It is true, if the banks are deprived of their currency they may be forced to sell their bonds from want of money, but they will then sell them in the open market and get the current price, which is far above the nominal par value of the bonds. if the Government declares its willingness to buy the bonds of the banks at market price, who is to fix that price, and which market price is to be taken— that of the day when the law is passed, or that of the day when the bank surrenders its currency, or ' that of any other day ? And if the Government buys these bonds at market price, paying the heavy premium on them (what injustice to other bond holders!), why should the bonds of the banks alone be redeemed ? Or if the banks are compelled or allowed to sell their bonds in the open market, what disastrous fluctuations would result from the sudden or even gradual sale of such an immense additional amount of securities, what luss would result to the banks and to a thousand other innocent holders ! It is very easy to say the banks shall call in their currency, but do they control it ? It is in the hands of the people, who want it for their daily business transactions, and who will not take the trouble to pre sent it for r edemption, unless compelled by a threat of depreciation. And what effect would it have on the business of the country if the national cur rency were suddenly threatened with depreciation ? Why every bank and private banker, every mer chant or retail dealer, every manufacturer in the United States would be bankrupt in less than a mouth, and thousands of people thrown out of em ployment and brought to the verge of starvation. A cry of distress runs through the land at Mr. M'Culloch's persistent contraction of four millions a month ; but to comiel redemption of the national currency is equal to contraction of three hundred millions in a day. We could fill a column with the enumeration of practical difficulties in the way of the measure proposed, Lut practical difficulties rarely trouble visionaries and demagogues. LASTIC STOCKINGS, -A KNE e:-CA eze., for Varicose Veins and all cases vt Weakness and Swellin;. of the =prains, No. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price is. 6d., 75. 6d., 105., and 16s. each. Postage ad. JOHN WHITE, Manufactarir, 224, Plooadilly. In looking at the work which has characterised the pro ceedings of Parliament during its brief autumn sitting, the Post remarks that perhaps the most noticeable fact which may be observed is the moderate and cautious tone of Mr. Gladstone, and the support he has on more than one occasion given to the Ministers. This was to be remarked particularly in the discussion of the Fenian executions. When some members were pressing on the Government a different view of an alteration in the power of appeal to the Crown to that which was offered by the Home Secretary, Mr. Glad stone threw the weight of his opinion on the side of the Government in a clear and decided tone, and no doubt by this act strengthened the decis: ,n of the House. The actual results of this unusual meeting of Parliament have been the sanction of the two Houses to the war in Abyssinia and the imposition of increased taxation on the people. It has been decided that the course adopted with reference to the captives was the only one open, and the House of Commons has provided the necessary supplies. But this is not the last debate we shall have on Abyssinia ; the next will be certain to pro voke more discussion and greater interest, as its impor tance and its consequences becomes more and more conspicuous. The Herald, in reviewing the proceedings in the Lords and Commons on Thursday night, says that the debates were so far satisfactory that they shewed the members of both Houses to be unanimous in their approval of the Government in the manner in which the arrange. ments for the Abyssinian expedition have been made. These arrangements were criticised, indeed, by one member in each House. The speeches of Lord Ellenbo rough and Mr. Osborne were made in so different a tone that they can scarcely be compared or treated with equal respect. The vast experience in such matters of the ma-i who was formerly Governor-General of India gives a value to his warnings and a weight to his opinions, invests them with a character altogether different from that of the frivolous objections advanced by the civilian in the Lower House, who would feel that he was out of his element if he were not finding fault, and who is never so happy as when constituting a minority of one on some question which arouses the deep sympathy of the mass of Us fellow-countrymen. In noticing the reception of Mr. Charles Dickens in the United States, the Standard observes :—lt is an incident of interest illustrating the nature of American sentiment, after, though not in any way connected with, the late civil war. We are informed that almost the entire press have given him a friendly welcome, that he excites a social en. thusiasm wherever he goes, that his readings are antici. pated with eager curiosity, and that not an echo remains of the denunciation which once pursued his name on account of a book he wrote twenty-five years ago. We are glad to hear all this. It speaks well for the American nation, and well for their guest. There may be, in the demonstration provided for our popular novelist, a good deal of the lionising ele ment, of vulgar condescension to success, of clap-trap, and tuft-hunting. Nevertheless, it is perfectly certain that there was a time when, ih a country where a hundred years ago a book by a native writer was a rarity, Mr. Dickens would have encountered a different greeting from Americans. And there is something worthy of note in these changes of public feeling and personal amenities. May we not hope, in fact, that the people of the United States are growing out of their jealous and captious sen sibility to our criticisms ? Many a source of argument, of contention, and of annoyance remains open, it is true, between the two countries ; but a better aspect is obser. vable in their commentaries upon one another. The Telegraph throws off a light little leader on tne alleged decadence of our most cherished Christmas cus toms. Kissing, it is said, goes by favour, but " mistletoe is an article of commerce." At least such is the assertion of a contemporary, who also informs us that 114 tons of mistletoe have been sent out of Herefordshire in ono season. Tons ! It is a sum in the rule of three— or in this case the rule of two—how many kisses go to the ton ? Perhaps there was a time when the mistletoe sane. tioned kissing, but we fear that golden age is passed ; for no matter how the pleasant-looking branches may deco. rate London chandeliers, faint hearts are too m an y, and our fair ladies far too cold, to allow the old Druid emblem to have any power. Whoever saw a lady permitting under the mistletoe a salute she would not have sanctioned without it ! In Ireland the mistletoe is unknown, and yet kissing goes on ; and probably a day will come in England when the sacred branches shall die. appear. But then, as Cobden said, "We are not Con. servative, but Chinese." Look at Valentine's Day. Of all possible ways of making love, or even of pleasing children, sending valentines is the most expensive. Yet it flourishes ; there are London houses that do nothing all the year round but make valentines, consuming thousands of pounds' worth of tinselled and perforated paper; and every year more are sent. As to the other old custom supposed to thrive under the mistletoe, we fear its public use is hopelessly gone, until some bold spirit introduces kissing by competitive examination as a reform on the present system, remarkable as it is for gross favouritism. and admitted though not unblushing monopoly. THE RECENT HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDIES.• The hydrographer to the Admiralty has issued circulars, requesting all the information which captains of vessels which were in the West Indian seas during the hurricane of the 29th October can afford, in order that the charts of the hurricane district in the West Indies which are now being prepared may be completed with greater fullness and accuracy. The chief points of information desired aro the ship's position, direction and force of the wind, the state of the sea, or swell, the registrations of the bare. meter, and the temperature of the air and the sea. PROPOSED TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL —A series of conferences has just closed at the East Central Coffee house, Jewin-street, on the subject of erecting a Tem perance College Hospital, &c., where the sick may be cured without the use of stimulants. A statement pre sented to the meeting last held by Mr. Richardson averred that the project was intended to obviate the hin drance to the temperance cause by medical prescription of alcoholic stimulants, and that at the present time hundreds of the sick poor are rejected from the hospitals simply from want of room. The proposal was to levy a shilling from every teetotaller in the United Kingdom, which would enable the provisional committee to take at once a suitable house in the centre of London, and to fit it up as a temporary hospital until a permanent one could be erected. Dr. McLaurine, from Canada, approved the project ; and the conference adopted the recommendations of the provisional committee, based on the resolution unanimously passed, viz. :—" That this conference is of opinion that the time lies come for the friends of tempe rance to erect a hospital for themselves, where all diseases common to mankind may be' cured without the aid of alcoholic poisons." An address, asking Mr. Samuel Morley to become the president of the hospital, was also carried ; and Mr. J. W. Richardson has undertaken the the duties 91_ h949r§ry secretary. SATISFACTORY LETTER. 5, Wood-street, Millbank, Westminster, October 5, 1867. Somr , months back I had an attack of Bronchitis, which left at times a tickling in the Throat, with other un pleasant feelings. I was advised to try the BALSAM or ANISEED ; I did so, and have found very great relief ; it is most comforting in allaying the irritation, and giving strength to the voice. 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Lord DERBY said that their lordships must be all aware of the incident which the night before last had stopped all the cab traffic in London. He was sorry that such au occurrence should have taken place, but ; he could not but remark on the moderation and good feeling MIMI had characterised their meeting, and on the subse quent deputation to the Home Secretary the point was left open until this bill was brought up for committal. The hard ships of which cabmen complained was that they should be compelled to carry lamps, and especially as the question bad been left in the hands of the Commissioners of Police. It was therefore proposed by his hon. friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department to introduce a clause that the introduction of lamps should rest with the Secre tary of State alone, and this appeared to give satisfaction. He believed that it was ultimately proposed to appoint a select committee to investigate into the whole question. After a few remarks this clause was added to the bill. The Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Bill passed through committee. The Totnes, &c., Writs Bill was read a third time. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. The Declaration of War against Abyssinia having been read, Lord DERBY moved that the hcuse do concur in the following resolution, communicated by the Commons, viz. : —" That her Majesty having directed a military expedi tion to Abyssinia, consisting mainly of troops, both European and native, at present maintained out of the revenues of India, the ordinary pay of such troops, as well as the ordinary charges of vessels which would be charged upon the revenues of India if such troops and vessels had remained in that country or adjacent seas, shall continue to be so chargeable ; provided, however, that it should be necessary to replace these forces and vessels, the expense of raising, maintaining, and providing them shall be repaid out of any moneys which may be provided by Parliament for the purposes of the said expedition." His lordship said that ho would thank their lordships for their readi ness to co-operate with her Majesty in the expedition to Abyssinia. The questions then were, first, that the troops of the expedition should be sent from India; second, that the expense should be borne by the Indian Govern ment; and thirdly, what proportion of revenues should be devoted to the purpose. With regard to the first, the position of India rendered it obviously desirable that the forces should come from India, and the landing place in Abyssinia would be more accessible from India by the Red Sea. The Governor-General of India had expressed his opinion so long as May last that an expedition would be necessary, and he never expressed any other opinion than that it should come from India. As to the second question it was thought desirable that the charges, subject to the consent of Parliament, should be on the revenues of India. There was a double check upon the expenditure of the revenuesof India—the consent of the Council of India, and Parliament must also consent. The necessity of having that was, that the revenues of India could not be expended without it. Therefore it was resolved that the Indian revenues should be employed. There was no means of ascertaining what portion of the revenues should be paid by the Indian Government, therefore it was resolved that the Indian Government should pay no more than it would have cost it if the troops and vessels had remained, and if other expenditure was required for replacing these troops and vessels that it should be defrayed by the Im perial Government, so that India would, under the circum stances, pay no more than she would originally have done. As for any extraordinaryexpense that might occur in sanding out these vessels, the Imperial Govern ment guarantee the expense. His lordship then paid a high testimony to the impartial manner in which the late Chancellor of the Exchequer of India had supported the action of the Government in the matter. Therefore, it appeared that there was unanimity in the de termination to send the expedition from India. As far as the English troops were concerned, they could be sent without the consent of Parliament, and the latter had con sented to the native troops being sent, which he considered was in conformity with the Act of 1858. It was necessary to have their lordships' concurrence, and he would there fore ask them to accept the resolution of the House of Commons. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGII said that he entirely concurred with the noble lord that the troops should be sent from India. According to our notions of the law of nations King Theodore had violated this law, and therefore the object of the expedition was a perfectly just one. He stigmatised the King as an unreasonable and unchecked tyrant, and therefore he did not think that the expedition would succeed in its object. He was afraid that, when we aroused the ferocity of the King, a massacre would take Place like that of Cawupore. When ho wont out to India the advice to him was—." Keep your communication with the sea." Lord DE ROS, knowing the abilities and character of Sir Robert Napier, could not imagine that he would not take every possible precaution. The expedition possibly might not be able to rescue the captives; but he had little fear that it would easily make good its return to the coast. Earl RUSSELL thought Government would have been inexcusable if it had not attempted to release the captives, and it was only right that Parliament should regard their conduct in so difficult an undertaking with the utmost consideration. The Earl of DENBIGH did not consider the war either just or necessary. Mr. Cameron ought to have been re called long ago on account of his conduct in interfering with the internal affairs of the country, and the detention of Mr. Rassam was owing to the mismanagement of Earl Russell. Lord LYVEDEN approved of the course taken by the Government. Tho Earl of DERBY replied. Government believed the difficulties were surmountable, and Sir Stafford North cote had that day received a despatch which reported favourably of the surveys of the passe; the supply of water, and the health of the troops already landed. The resolution was tken agreed to. The Income Tax Bill and the Consolidated Fund Bill were read a second time and passed through committee. Earl RUSSELL called attention to the despatch of the French Minister to the Italian Government, stating that before the French troops could leave Civita Vecchia the security of the Holy Father must be guaranteed, and as the first step to that measures must be taken to facilitate the meeting of the conference. As the basis of the con ference was that the Pope's temporal dominions were to be guaranteed, he considered that no English Minister could take part in it. . _ _ The Earl of DERBY said the Secretary for Foreign Affairs had replied to the French Government that it would be useless to go into a conference unless some basis were laid down beforehand. What steps had been taken by the French Governmeni , to arrange with the other powers for the meeting of the conference ho could not say. The house adjourned at a quarter past 7 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMA:IONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. IRELAND. Mr. MAGUIRE gave notice of his iutention, ou the earliest possible day after the meeting of the house in THE METRIC SYSTEM. Mr. EWART asked the Vice-President of the Board of Trade what steps her Majesty's Government were pre pared to take with reference to the recommendations of the International Monetary Conference and the Conference on International Weights, Measures, and Coins held at Paris in Juno last : And whether they were prepared to bring in a measure to amend the Weights and Measures Act of 1864, with a view to provide for the verification and stamping of metric weights and measures legalised by that act ; also for V e maintenance of metric standards in the Depart ment of the Warden of the Standards. Mr CAVE said the Master of the Mint and Mr. Rivers attended the conference and made a report to the Govern ment, which was under consideration. .It would be pre mature •to make any alteration in the weights and mea sures pending the report of the commission appointed last year. . . POSTAGE TO AMERICA. Mr. SEELY asked the Secretary to the Treasury whe ther the National Steamship Company (Limited), whose steamers ply weekly between Liverpool, Queenstown, and New York, had, as had been reported, offered to the Post Office authorities to convey the ,mails one day in each week to New York at the rate of a penny per half ounce for letters. Mr. HUNT said it was quite true that such an offer was made by the company, who wero one of the parties who sent in tenders. They proposed to carry letters between Queenstown at ld. par half ounce every 14 days under certain penalties, but it had not been thought advisable to accept the offer, as the usual rate of payment for ship letters was ld. each irrespective of weight, and in any case it was not thought proper at present to alter that arrange ment. THE CHARGES AGAINST MR. MURRAY. Mr. WYLD asked the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs if ho had seen a statement in the Morning Post charging the Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs with malversation of office. Lord STANLEY said he had seen the statement, and he was very glad that he had an opportunity of stating that the assertion that the Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs levied tolls upon those with whom ho came in contact was simply and absolutely un founded. (Hear, hear.) If the charge related to the agency of the Foreign-office, that bad been abolished, and Mr. Murray received no other emolument than his salary. He could only say ho regretted that a respectable journal should have made such a statement without inquiring. With respect to the statement that had be,n made that papers had been kept back from the head of the department was the fact. He was certain no papers ever carne back from him, and with respect to the document referred to, Lord Russell must have seen it, as the cover of it bore the mark of the noble lord, but it was quite open to the noble earl not to read its contents. Mr. LAYARD said he had to bear his testimony to tho' high character of Mr. Murray. With respect to the letter in question, ho had never seen it, and he had spoken to Earl Russell on the sub ject. The covering of the despatch was dated 12th of February. The arrangement of the business at the Foreign Office was divided between two Under Secretaries, the permanent and the political, and the letter, he should imagine, had been sent to Mr. Hammond, as his duty to dispose of all matters relative to the East. He could only say he had never seen the letter, and if the noble earl bad seen it he did not think it required his attention, and it had accordingly been sent to the India Mr. OSBORNE said the onus of this business rested with the Foreign Office, and we had been plunged into au expensive war through the bungling which had taken place during the time his hon. friend was Under-Secretary. We were embarking in war without knowing what it was about. The war had been brought about because King Theodore's letter had not receive I proper attention. What had become of that letter ? Nobody had seen it ; but it had now been answered ; but by whom ? (Hear, hear.) The fact was, had there been no Foreign-office there would have been no war. Colon 4 SYKES said it was now sought to fix this mat ter on the Indian Office, but he had to say on behalf of Mr. Kay that the letter had been sent over to the India Office and laid on the desk, and the presumption was that it had been an swered by the Foreign-office, and was only sent to the India-office for the personal information. No opi nion of the officer was asked when the letter was sent, and therefore the fair inference was, it had been fully attended. However, after three years King Theodore had got an answer to his letter, and the postage of it would cost the country between four and five millions of money, to raise which the income-tax had to be increased, and he thought that that circumstance would make people think more about it than they otherwise would. Mr. OTWAY said the great error of the present expe ditio'n was that it was b3iug carried on on too large a scale, and that it would in the end result in failure. Mr. NE WDEGATE again referred to the statement the hon. member for Southwark had made respecting Dr. Beke. Mr. LAYARD said it was ridiculous to say that the Abyssinian war had boon brought about by no answer being sent to King 1 hoodore's letter. It had in fact nothing to do with it. With respect to the imputation that he had shown tho utmost indifference to the fate of Mr. Sterne, because he had had a private quarrel with him, he could only say that such a charge was most unjust. With respect to some of the observations ho had made in the debate, he must say that if he had made any statement which was unjust, either as it affected Dr. Beke or Mr. Sterne, he could only say he regretted it, and he wished to withdraw the observa tions, with explanation that if ho had made them he had been led into it by his endeavour to protect the character of Mr. Bassani from undue calumny. Sir G. BOWYER said it was clear Consul Cameron had no business in Abyssinia. If he went there he was a wrong-doer, and if he got into prison it was his own fault, and there was no necessity to send another envoy to pro cure his release. Mr. AYRTON remarked that it was not to be assumed that the house had expressed an approval of this policy of the. expedition. Sir S. NORTUCOTE observed that it was not con venient to discuss the general policy of the expedition without notice, but ho answered one or two of the points which had been raised, and particularly with regard to the number of forces which he said the home government had sanctioned. The motion was then withdrawn. Mr. HUNT moved that the contract entered into with Mr. W. Cunard for the conveyance of mails between Hali fax, Bermuda, and St. Thomas be approved. The sum to be given he said,was £19,500 a year, and power was given to the Postmaster-General to require another station to be used instead of St. Thomas. Mr. Alderman LUSK asked why the service could not be carried on by the Government vessels. Mr. CORRY replied that two vessels would have to be built, and the wear and tear and wages would amount to £25,000 a year. The motion was agreed to. Bills were introduced by Mr. Walpole to make further provision for the good government and extension of cer tain public schools in England; and by Lord R. Montagu for the establishment of a foreign cattle market for the metropolis, and for other purposes connected therewith. The house adjourned at five minutes to seven o'clock. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. n.uatralls. and New Zealand. via Southampton Deo 20 Ditto, via Marseilles • Dec. 14 Ditto, via Panama Dec. —. Brazil, Baenos Ayres, and Monte Video Dec. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape Verde. by Brazil paclcet ...... _ Dec. 4. Cape of Good Elope. Ascension, and St. nacos... Deo 23 China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton—Dec.2o Ditto, via Marseilles .. . • Dec. 14 Falkland Islands Dee. 1. Gibraltar, via Southampton India, via Southampton Dec. It Ditto, via Maned es D. c. 23 Malta, Egypt, &a. Ditto, Marseilles Dec. Q. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and - Natal, via Southampton Dec..o Ditto, Mareeiaes Dec. 11. Newfoundla Ld Portugal Deo. i. Ditto, by p ie ship to Oporto .. Ditto t Otto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &c., by British packet Ditto, by L i ited States packet Ditto ditto New York) Ditto ditto Ntw York) Ditto ditt( (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffo Dec. 17 West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha mas)