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-7 1 LONDON STREET REFORM SOCIETY. PRESIDENT. Sir WILLrAM FRASER, Bart., M.A., F.S.A. On thol3th of June, 1865, it was admitted unanimously in the House of Commons that the condition of London, as regards Paving, Lighting, and Cl eans i ng, was disgraceful. No improvement has taken place. The Traffic of London becomes every day more un manageable. The Public Vehicles are inferior to those of Provincial and Continental Cities. This Society has been formed to stimulate public atten tion; to collect, condense, and make known facts; to point out defects in the law ; to enforce provisions at present neglected; and to watch Bills introduced into Par liament on those subjects. The London Street Reform Society is not pledged to support any specific change in the Government of the Metropolis. Those who may wish to join the Society are requested to write to J. S. Halt', Esq., Hon. Sec. L.S.R.S., 88, St. James's -street, S. w. CONTRACT FOR BEECH WEDGES. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, 14th Dec, 1866. rpm COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING tt- the OFFICE of LORD 'HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, Do hereby give NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the Bth January next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying Her Majesty's Dockyard at Portsmouth with Rowed Wedges of Beech, under a Contract for twelve calendar months certain, and further until the expiration of three calendar months' warning. The average annual consumption, together with a Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contract, may be seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's Department, Admiralty, Somerset House. No Tender will be received after Two o'Clock on the day of Treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the Party attends, or an Agent for him duly authorised in writing. Admi r ry Eve Tender mu s t b e a dd resse d t o t h e Secretary of the alty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Beech Wedges ;" and must also be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a Letter signed by two responsible persons engaging to become bound with th e P erson tenderi ng in the sum of £2OO for the due perfor mance of the Contract. By Order, ANTONIO BRAY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. CONTRACT FOR FRE.3II OX BEEF AND VEGE TABLES AT FOYNES. CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY. Somerset House, 27th December, 1866. TIE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING T the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND do hereby Give Notice that on Tuesday, th e 15th January next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be , ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to con tract for supplying all such quantities of PRES H OX BEEF and VEGETABLES, for the use of her Majesty's ships and vessels at Foynes as may be d eman d e l f rom the 15th January to the 30th June, 1867, both days included. The Contractor is to supply good fat well-fed Ox Beef, as no Heifer meat will be admitted. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to themlv an unlimited po wer o f selection in accepting Tenders. Tenders must be made at rates per 100 lb., and no atten tion will be paid to any offers not so made. The Contractor, in claiming payment for the supplies, is to make out his invoices in pounds at per 1001 b. The Contractor to reside on the spot, or to have an agent resident there. If non-resident, the name and ad dress of the agent must be inserted in the Tender. No Tender will be received unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House or to the Postmaster a t F oynes, where also the conditions of the contract may be seen. No Tender will be received after Noon on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his proposed sureties in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and must also be delivered at the department of the Comptroller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of £3OO for the due performance of the Contract for Fresh Ox Baef, and £lOO for the C ontract for Vegetables. The Contractor to pay half the amount of the stamps on the Contracts and Bonds. By order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. TO GUNMAKERS and Others. The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of receirinK PROPOSALS from Gnnmakers and Others for BREECH -LOADING RIFLES, either repeating or not repeating, which may replace the present Service Rifles in future manufacture. The following are the conditions considered essential in military non -repeating Rifles:— A. H Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet. B. LENGTH. To be 51 i n ch es, with short stock, m hollow of the b utt-plate to muzzle. easured from th e c. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP. Must not exceed 61b. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for servico. D. CARTRID GES. Must carry their own ignition. E. StG The f ores i ght must- be su h HT as . to admit of a bayonet fixed according to the present system. Must F. STOCK. be su c h as to carry a light m e t a l cleaning-rod, and allow a slin g t o b e used. G. Must not exceed that ofRECOIL. the Enfield Rifle by more than 10 per cent. IL THE ARM AS A WHOLE. Must be as little liable to injury bylong-continued firing, roughsage'ma, and e x p osure, as the naval rifles convert e d t o. breech - loaders on the S n id er system. To be as capable, also, of being used Without accident by imperfectly trained forM men qaual nd of being m anu f actured in quantities and of uni- T. TityHE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE. Must be as littl e li able to injury by rough usage, damp, and exposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for Spider's converted Enfield rifle—also as little liable to acci dental. explosion as the same cartridge, and as capable of b eing manufactured in large quantities, and of uniform quality. x. CALIBRE. Optional. L. Optional. opal TWIST AND FO RM OF GROOVE. H M. THE LOCK. Optional, N. RAPIDITY OF FIRE. Capable' of firing at least 12 rounds per minute, without aiming, th e cartridges being arranged on a tabl e . o. ACCURACY WHEN FIRED FROM A FIXED REST. The arm must give a mean figure of merit of not more than 86in. at 1,000 yards, 30in. at 800 yards, 12in. at 500, and 6in. at 300. Tho mean to be taken u shots each. Pon at least fi ve targets of twenty _ r. TRAJEC TORY. • Not to require at 500 yards an elevation of more than 1 deg. 30 min. Q. POTJLING. The shooting not to deteriorate more than 20 per cent. at 1 ,000 yards after firing 250 rounds. it. PENETRATION. The m ean penetration of five shots not to be less th an that of the present service muzzle-loading Enfield Rifle— viz., 12 half-i nc h elm planks, which have been soak e d 4 8 hours in Water. Distance 30 yards. s. LUBRICATION. Wax on bullets is indismsable, but any other lubricant butY be superadded or applied to the cartridge, if thought necessary by the competitor. 111. No arm s w i ll be received without the us ua l proof marks. Specifications, and drawings of the methods proposed, stating the probable cost per arm, and accompanied by a Eoished specimen arm, with 20 rounds of suitable ammu nition, should be sent to the "Director of Ordnance, War Offico, Pall-nuill," on or before the 30th March, 1867. The specifications and specimen arms will be considered by the Ordnance Select Committee and its associate mem bers, who will be selected bthe Secretary of State for War, and who will, after grin the 20 preliminary rounds, select and recommend for further trial such of the systems as may appear to them sufficiently promising, rejecting all such as may not be considered to offer sufficient merits to warrant their being included in the competitie, th e e on _ ditions of which are stated in this advertf,,,ree'ni. Each accepted competitor will theme t .. 00 required to furnish for xperiment, at Woolwich. ' . .x arms in strict conformity to e the specimen arm sutnitiad, with 1,000 rounds of am munition per arm, v;.ithin four months after date of de mandm . Each c '.;.opetit or w ill be required to disclose to the cttee ilLe exact nature of th e l ubrication he may em- P l oy- 1 1. s um of T o l`petito £ 3 OO will be paid to each of the accepted ra, to cover the w expense of the si x r ifl es, and of e supply of ammunition require& arm The Secretary o f S tate offers a reward of £l,OOO for the which, on combination of all qualities, is considered by the committee to be the best submitted. , A second reward of £6OO for the arm which, while at " L ining a satisfactory degree of exc e ll ence i n other particu lars, 113 selected for merit in respect to its breech mechanism. A. third reward of £4OO for the best cartridge. The qua ies which will b e p r i nc i pally taken into consideration in b.warding this prize will be economy of manufacture, power of sustaining rough usage, freedom from deterioration in Various climates, and general serviceability. The sLooting qualities of the cartridge must be fair; but as they may depend upon the rifling of the arm with which the cartridge is associated, they will not be so much con sidered as those above-mentioned. It is clearly to be understood that under no circumstances will a competitor be entitled to more than One prize ; but such prize will be irrespective of any reward which may be g . ven to the inventor of the arm finally adopted into the i Service. I v: MAGAZINE AND REPEATING ARMS. Magazine and Repeating Arms for Infantry will be re eived and examined in a manner similar to the Breech loading Rifles. They must not be less in length than 48 nebes, including the stock. The limit of weight for these arms is fixed at 91-Ib. ex elusive of the charges in the magazine. It is indispensable that the arms be made to take a bayonet. ~,The S ecre t ary of State offers a reward of 300 for the best Magazine or Repeating Arm produced that fulfils the above conditions ; and in the absence of experience does not at present define the standard of accuracy or other conditions to be fulfilled before such an arm can be adopted. _ Those Maga z i ne orßepeatingArms, which are accepted for further trial, will be paid for at the rate of £6o , each. This sum is to include 1,000 rounds of ammunition per arm. tov . The Sec re t ary of State Will take care that no i ngen i ous elty produced in answer to this advertisement shall be Adopted into the service without proper acknowledgment, arid that t h e name of the individual with whom it origi tntos shall bo recorded in conuection with it. intolf tho rig© to which the first prize is awarded is adopted the service, it will bear the inventor's name. h. .. J. ST. GEORGE, Major-General, Director' of Ordnance'Nl' O fQce, Oct. 22 4866 No. 23,269. KIN .A.IfAN 'SEXHIATIOWNHISSGKSY. DUBLIN - This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild,- Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole erne. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; y the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or , cholosnio et GREATB. WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. ObservA the Red Soal, Pink Label, and Cork branded " Kinahan's LL Whisky." UTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (lumirpor4ted by Act of tzussEt.L-STREET. COVENT-GARDEN. LONDON. Prompt ADVANCES on all description of Security. Forms tree on application by letter to EDW&RD KAUPEIt, Secretary. COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSE S, and BUSINESSES. FURNESS and KNEE'S List on application. Particulars for insertion received until the 27th of the month at their AUCTION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES, 5, Agar•street, Strand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing Cross Railway Station. M ANSION -HOUSE FUND for the RELIEF of the SUFFERERS by the recent COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS. COMMITTEE. The Right Hon the LORD MAYOR. R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. I Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Samuel Morley, Esq. I Water] ow. Geo. Moore, Esq. Mr. Sheriff Lycett. Mr. Alderman Finnis. Mr. Alderman Besley. J. P. Gassiot, Esq. Mr. Alderman Dakin. Christopher T. Gabriel, Esq. James Hill, Esq. Frederick Thompson, Esq. R. N. Fowler, Esq. R. A. Gray, Esq. I W.J. Maxwell, Esq. Colonel Stuart Wortley. Mr. Alderman Cotton. The attention of the public is earnestly drawn to the suffering consequent on the terrible calamity produced by the recent colliery explosions. SUBSCRIPTIONS aro greatly needed to relieve the numerous families made destitute thereby. The amount required to meet the memorable Hartley Colliery Accident in 1862 was £30,000 ; in that case 204 men and boys lost their lives ; in the present instance double that number aro known to have perished, there fore to make a suitable provision for the families depen dent upon them about £lOO,OOO will be needed. At the final distribution of the surplus of the Hartley Fund, £3,140 was allotted to the districts in which the present accidents occurred, and this sum is now available towards the fund now being raised. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales SIP £lOO H.R.H. the Princess of Wales The Corporation of London Amount already advertised £15,531 11 11 Subscriptions will be received by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house; Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co. ' 54, Lombard-street ; Messrs. Coutts an d Co., Str an d ; Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard street ; Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., 1, Lombard -street ; Messrs. Roberts, Lubbock, and Co., Lombard -street ; Messrs. Dimsdale, Fowler, and Co., 50, Cornhill ; the Lon don and Westminster Bank, Lothbury; the London Joint- Stock Bank, 5, Princes-street ; the Union Bank of London ; London and County Bank ; the National Provincial Bank of England and all their branches; Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., Lombard-street; and by the several members of the Committee. JOSEPH GIBBS, Secretary. Mansion House, Jan. 7, 1867. UNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. "P.R." IRISH WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offims and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 1808. Quotations on application. JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the world."—London Offices, 7, Printing - house - square, Ex., next the " Times." JAMES DALY a n d CO ., Di st i llers, John-street, Cork, be to announce that they are Ale to supply the ta trade with th e i r celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases, and to take o r d ers in bond d for exportation, at their offices, 7, Printing-house -square, London, E C., the only h ouse in the square not occ u pi ed b y thq " Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies brim,: the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial whmarkets, as may be observed by relerence to the "Journal of iskies 6; Victoria," by which it will be seen that their fetc:f 6d. per galloa and Is. per as over the next best, and ls. 6d per gallon and ss. Gd. a case owl- the lowest quotation. Alway s on hand a large supply of ye y old mellow wiLsky in the finest condition, matured in sherry casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, supplied on the most reasonable terms. VAU-DE-VlE . —T his Pure PALE BRANDY Jul 18s. per gallon, is vt ry superior to recent importations of Cognac, recommended by the medical profession, and ex tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 335, per dozen, or in a case 395., railway carriage pail,--HENRY BRETT and CO., Old Furnival's Distiltery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent street, S. f{', Established 1829. THE OCEAN ST. LEGER, of 1866.—What Lord Lyon was to his owner was the Taeping to her Captain, viz., vrinner of the race, having distanced all com petitors, as the NAST INDIA TEA. COHL'A.NY have in- Yariab'y dope in their ehoi e and sale of' fine new season's teas, now selliag at St. Helen's-churchy ar importer's pric es . W arehouses—g, Great ____ LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM-AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or erecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be the beat medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma., and inoipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which pt.ovokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoe , ation, may depend on relief In a few minutes after taking it. Prepares oniy and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, Kin g-WAlliarn-street, Charing cross, London, and by all dru ggists,Bebottles, 13d., and cross London, in one, 2s. Od. each. Be particular. and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. WnuPTuttEs e _ ily rtoyAiricEts PATENT. HITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER muss (PERFECTED AND. EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT Exrtißtrioxs ot 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two trundred Meiical Gentlemen to be the molt e ff ective invention in the curative treatment ot HERNIA. The use of a kteel spring, so cdtert hurtful in its effects. is here avided—a soft bandage tieing worn round the body, while there quisite resistin power is supplied by the Moo-Main Pad and Patent Lev.:r, fitting with so much ease and close ness that it cannot be deteeted, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and ths 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, PieissdlllT A Sinzle Truss, Vs., 215., 26s 6d., and 318. 64 Postage, Is. A Double Truss, 315. 6d., 428., and 528. Bd. Postau-e, Is. Bd. An 'Umbilical Truss, 425. and 528. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. Post -office Orders to be m a d e payable toJohn White, Post office, Picoadaly. W PATENT VILA NE STI C STOCKINGS, uj KNEE-CAPS,Sm., for Varicose Veins and all eases of Weakness and Swelling. of the Legs. ' , prattle, „te. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpen4ve, end are drawn on like an ordinary Stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 75. 6d., 105., and 16s. each. Postage. Bd. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. NOTHING Th jT --- --p ssmLE ____T ------_,hei eatest and mostundulitrtention of the day:, A.GITA AMA.RELL A. Messrs, JonN GOSNELL and co., Red Bull Wharf, 93, (Wet Thames -street, Perfumers to her Majesty, respect ' hu e--no tally offer to the public this truly marvellous nal , . which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine p in r a o t p t e e r r ti a e t s ()t whet dv e a s g . e. it ,Tohne the e gu eo a n A tr m ar a y r . e i l s ia be h n a e s d n c o i al e to the e 13)8 , pertemmontahnwdii keepe toreprdiceonoeneagpuipiniceastpioenr nlihte in bottle, or in half bottles. 10s. 6J. Testimonials from artistes agthe highest order, and from Individuals of undoubted re rife perfect colour. res spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs._John_ a oanell a n d Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Wetness the Princess of Wales. II -- OARLESS BOYS OF LONDON. —FUNDS are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING X2,(100 required. WM. WILLIA.MS, Secretary. 13° Y 6 ' R ef age, 8, Great Queen -street, W.C. OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CO . --A. TRIB UTIONS are earnestly so li c it e d f or establishing the COUNTRY HOME. £l,OOO required. WM. WILLI SIM Secretary, Boys' Refuge, 8. Great Queen-street, W.C. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys. One hundred and fifty are now in the Refuge. The annual expenditure for supporting the 400 boys fs estimated at £ 4 ,000, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends have promised to pay for one boy each year. Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothburv, and 214, High Holborn; Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Pali-Mall East; and by Refu WM, WILLIAMS, Secr e t ary. ge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUG R HOMEL ESS WOME N AANID atinkunErf, i4A, Providence -tot, Pinaliiiit EX' Sixty Thousatul liigh.tt' '"l this Institution to the hhy.ti at 4 1 gihga, *ith Suppers and destithte, Who oth erwiZ v w en oui n d had to pass the nights in the bleak streets or under ave ra ilway arches. with Sutpera and At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The Iv dr from all parts are admitted, the only erlnditiAn Wiitt ittt they are homeless and staffing, The Matwgdt meetves no rchnitidtation whatever. Notwithstane ing the provision made by th e P oor Houses, each night numbers of young women, children, and or are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, andhave phans to spend night aft er ni g ht in the cold, wet, and sleet. To meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required. Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it is propsed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give shelter to the realty homeless, and food to the really starving? The smallest donation will be most welcome, and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will be offered in your behalf. SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be gratdally received by,theillev,:,D ‘ GILIIEBT . :D.D,, No 22, 11 , 10u:7-circus, E.O. ~n -> i ~U~ 2 ~ _,,, -~~ 1 ' Aillk i 4zri::l4 SI ...1.,_ , ,:::.":".":, ,tifl:C ' 1121r -A—"*.c. ..44 ':::-- ) - ---:- - ' k , _ 2....."1,...0 ' . . VV 4 4 • tt ' -, ; ... - . _.. 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Now rewly at all the Libraries, in 3 volt, AWOMAN'S CONFESSION. IV LADY CAMPBELL. " A Womln's Confeieion' deserves to be a successful novel."—)iorning Post. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., ANNALS of a QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD. By GEORGE MAC DONALD, M.A., "Mr. Macdonald is a true poet. The Annals' are as full of music as was Prospero's island ; rich in strains that take the ear captive when they are first heard, and afterwards linger long upon it."—S Aurday Review, Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MISS BRADDON'S NEW ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. Now Publishinz, price One Shilling, Monthly, "BELG - RAVIA:" " The best Shilling Magazine which England pos ses es."—Standard. Office: Warwick House, Paternoster-row, London. Just published, PROPOSED LONDON RAILWAYS, &c.— STANFORD'S NkW MAP of the PROPOSED M RO LIT AN RAILWAYS and MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENTS for Session 1867; showing, also the Sanctioned Lines and .ilways in Operation, with a List of the Plans numbered to correspond with this Map, and the Private Bill Oflica List; the Names of the Engineers, and the Lengths of the Proposed Lines. The map is on the scale of two inches to a mile; size, 35 inches by 30, and ac curately compiled from the Deposited Plans. Price. in sheet, 2s 6d. ; mounted in case, ss. NOTICE OF REMOVAL . JDEFRIES and SONS' • NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS.—The NEW PATENT ASTRA LAMP, for Petroleum and Mineral Oils; also CRYSTAL LA MPS and WALL LIGHTS (registered) for INDIA.-147, Houndsditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. JDEFRIES and SONS' . NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS. —TAVERN and HOTEL GLASS of the newest patterns and correct mea sure.-147, Houndsditch. NOTICE OF REROVAL. DEFRIES and SONS' .T. NEW crrr SHOW KOONS.— ORNANUNTAL CLOCKS for the DINING and DRAWING-R 0031 .-14 7. Hounded itch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. • DEFRIES and SONS' J• NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS.—Merehanti and the Trade eu• plied with PATTERN BOOKS FREE. —ll7, Houndsditch. Works —Lonaon, Birmingham, and Paris. Established 1803. Just published, 2d ; sent by the author for 3 stamps. UGLINESS and BEAUTY; being a Pamphlet descriptive of articles and means used for improving the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. QPANISII FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL. which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair, Sa 6d. 586 d, and 105 841; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 st4mps.— ALEX. ROSS, 248, 'Ruh liolborn, London, and all Chemists. WON - MAIL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. This preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, removing the very root. Price 4s • sent by post for 60 stamps. —248, Mot Holborn, London, and all Chemists. AFTER. 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The following correspondence has passed between Mr. Bright, M.P., and Mr. Richard Garth, the newly-elected member for Guildford : "Rochdale, Dec. 2i, 1866. " Sir,—Through the courtesy of an elector of Guildford I have received a handbill printed by Mr. Stent, printer, stationer, &c., Guildford, purporting to contain a report of a speech delivered by you to an ' enthusiastic meeting of Mr. Garth's supporters, held at the White Hart Hotel, Friday evening, Dec. 14, 1866.' I wish to call your attention to some passages in this speech. I pass by much which is open to criticism, and confine myself to certain exact statements to which you appear to have com mitted yourself. 1. .You ask, What has Mr. Bright done for his own people? Has he ever stood for his own place? Dare he ever stand for it? Not he! Ile has been hooted away from his own premises ; his own people distrust him.' 2. You ask, What did he do in the cotton famine ? When thousands of men were out of employment, when people down here who had no direct interest in the matter sub scribed so liberally,—why he did not subscribe a half penny.' 3. You say, I will tell you what he did He wanted to give them a loan which was to be re paid in so many years, so that during those years he would have these people as his serfs at his beck and call,_to do (what he pleased with, and to prevent their rising when he chose to put wages at whatever rate he liked.' You state that I have not answered charges of a similar kind made against me, and you therefore assume that they are true. I cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of any poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. lam quite sure you will not venture to say on the floor of Par liament, where I could meet you, what you have had the courage to say at the White Hart in Guild ford, and, therefore, I address thisletter to you rather than wait till the opening of Parliament. With re gard to the paragraph which I have marked No. 1, I beg to tell you that the only part of it which is not false is that which assumes or asserts that I have not stood as a candidate for the borough of Rochdale. I have not been a candidate for this borough, though on several occasions I have been asked to stand by the most eminent men of the Liberal party, which has a large majority in the borough. I believe there is not a respectable man in Rochdale, of your own party, who will not admit that, if I had wished it, and had consented to leave the great constituency which has for nine years past honoured me with its confidence, I might, at this moment, have been the Parliamentary representa tive of this borough. The rest of the paragraph marked No. 1 is simply a falsehood in every part of it. Of the assertion in paragraph No. 2 I may say the same. It is a falsehood in every part of it. I am not in the habit of boasting of what I give, and I shall not now enter into particulars that I may confute you. I may say that, after we had sub scribed as largely as any other firm in the town, my only complaint against the relief committee in this district was that it did not make further calls upon the millowners here before it applied for assistance from the general fund at the disposal of the com mittee in Manchester. I may say further, that, according to my means, I believe I did not fall short of what was done by any other contributor to the fund, whether in or out of this county. Pos sibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade in the disas trous years of the American war. In paragraph No. 3 you make a strange assertion both as to fact and motive. I am obliged to tell you that the whole paragraph is false from beginning to end. You must be singularly ignorant of the condition and temper of the working men of this district to imagine that any employer can have them as his serfs at his beck and call, to do what he pleases with, and to prevent their rising when he chooses to put wages at whatever rate he likes.' I have.now called your attention to some statements of your speech. I say that these statements are false—wholly and absolutely false. If you knew them to be false when you made them, I need not write the word which would properly describe you. If you made them, not knowing whether they were true or false, I can only pity your disregard of all honourable feeling and caution when dealing with the character of your opponents. I do not expect you will deny the accuracy of the report of your speech, for I find that you repeated the substance of the slanders in your speech at the nomination for Guildford. I do not expect that you will attempt to prove the charges you have made, for that I know to be impossible. Whether you will retract what you have said, and express sorrow for having said it, will depend on whether, being a Queen's Counsel and a member of Parlia ment, you possess the qualities which are never found wanting in the character of a gentleman.— I am, respectfully, "JOIN BRIGHT. " R. Garth, Esq., M.P., 3, Paper buildings, Temple." "Temple, Jan. 3. 1 " Sir,--I have already explained to you my ' ! reasons for not replying earlier to your letter of the 24th of last month. I was anxious, in justice to you, as well as to myself, to put you in possession, as far as I could, of the sources of information upon which the statements I made at Guildford, and of which you complain, were founded. I have no personal knowledge either of yourself or of Roch dale, and my impressions have been derived partly from your own speeches and partly from correspon dence and other statements which have appeared from time to time in the public prints. I have not yet been able to lay my hand upon some of these, but I would call your attention to two speeches, which I have recently read, and which, no doubt, were fresh in my memory at the time when I ad dressed my friends at Guildford. The first of these is a speech of Mr. Pope Hennessy, addressed to the electors of the county of Wexford, and reported in the Times of the 6th of November last, from which the following is an extract :—' He is a great manufacturer, and he employs what he calls a good many hands:; • . . he employs a large number of human beings —men, women, and children. Now, no man stands up so stoutly for his own strong class as against the weak instruments they employ as Mr. Bright ; he was a leader in the de fence of the cruel old system of slavery, of disease, of ignorance, of shortened, unhappy lives which the Factory Acts have successfully attacked. Hardly two years have passed since, at a meeting of themagnates of Manchester, he boasted of his former opposition to the Factory Acts, and said he should be prepared to do the same again. He kept his word ; for when the Lace Factories Bill was before the house, and the Bleachworks Bill, and a bill to give some protection to the poor girls who work in the Bradford warehouses, he was not only present, but violent in his opposition to those salutary nnd, benevolent acts. He fought, and the other R adical manufacturers with him, for what he deemed to be a sort of property of his—the right of doing what he liked with his own workpcople. He carried his class feelings even below the surface of the earth, and when the Mines Regulation Bill was before Parliament he and his class would not give the smallest help to the miner to get better ventilation or greater safety from accidents, simply because better ventilation and greater safety mean ln addi tional expense to the mine owner. . . . 1861 a deputation from the miners came to London, and presented me with an address of thanks for some little services I tried to reader them, and from those men I heard a unanimous condemnation of Mr. Bright.' The other speech to which I allude (and of which printed copies have, I believe, been widely circulated) was delivered by Mr, Ferraud to the PRICE.... 4d. STAMPED sd. Working Men's Conservative Association at Brad ford, on the 20th of November last. In this speech Mr. Ferrand says I have watched Mr. Bright for years, and although, as I have told you, he is possessed of marvellous powers of eloquence, a greater political coward never entered the Hon=e of Commons. . . . I never heard him make a speech which indicated peace and goodwill among men ; but, on the contrary, he has always tried to set the different classes of the community against each other, and thereby to encourage bloodshed. For 25 years I have worked with you working men of Bradford in obtaining many great and conciliating measures from Parliament, while he has opposed them all. During that time I never heard him speak a word in favour of working men in the House of Commons. You have been reminded of what his conduct was in Lancashire during the cotton famine. He took no part, either in purse or person, to relieve the distress in his native county ; but when I met, at Manchester, a great assembly of delegates from the cotton districts of Cheshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, they unanimously de clared that England had no more bitter enemy than Mr. Bright, and that he was detested by all the working men in Lancashire.' I can hardly suppose that your attention as a public man has not been directed to these passages ; and I am not aware that they have ever been contradicted. I had seen other public statements, and I had heard reports evincing your unpopularity among the working classes at Rochdale, and in Lancashire generally, and I cer tainly did believe that you were unpopular there. You admit that you never stood for Rochdale, al though you have been invited to do so by your friends ; and it was therefore surely not unreasonable that I should form an opinion, which .1 believe I share in common with many others, that if you had stood for Rochdale you would not have been successful. My views in this respect may have been erroneous ; but I consider that I had a perfect right to entertain those views and to express them. 1 also most firmly believed, from statements and reports which I had seen and heard, that you had been hooted from your own premises and were distrusted by your workpeople, but as you tell me that what I said in this respect was wholly without foundation, I, of course, take it for granted that I was misinformed, and I beg, not only to retract my statement, but to express my sincere regret for having made it. With regard to the other paragraphs of which you complain, I must observe that the report of my speech is in some respects in accurate. I disclaim having ever said or intended to say that you had not subscribed a halfpenny' in aid of the distress which prevailed during the cotton famine. I sincerely hope and trust that there was no manufacturer in any of the cotton districts against whom such a charge could justly be made. But I believe that I am quite correct in supposing that at Rochdale, in the month of January, 1862, you did propose or suggest that instead of raising further subscriptions, the Poor Law Guardians, or the mill-owners, or both, should lend sums of money to the distressed operatives, upon the under standing that such loans should be repaid out of their earnings as soon as they should be restored to work. It was this proposition of yours to which I alluded, and upon which I animadverted in my speech at Guildford ; and I certainly was of opinion then, and I am so still, that the effect of such a scheme as you proposed would have been to entail a very heavy load of obligation upon the working men, which would have placed them, possibly for years, in great measure under the control of their employers, who might have exercised that control either in regulating the amount of wages, or in other ways ; and I was, and am still further of opinion that, to have carried out your proposition at such a time, and under such circutr.stances, would have been by no means a liberal or generous policy towards the distressed operatives. It is almost unnecessary to add, that you are quite at liberty to make any use you please of this letter.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, "John Bright, Esq." "RICHARD GARTH. " ROCHDALE, Jan. 4, 1867. " sir,—Your letter of yesterday has just arrived, and I find it almost precisely what I expected. After a week's search, you have not found a single fact to establish the gross charges brought against me in your speech at Guildford. Instead of facts and proofs you fill three pages of your letter with extracts from speeches of Mr. Ferrand and Mr. Hennessy, which speeches have doubtless been spoken, but which I have never read.. I will give you an anecdote of Mr. Ferrand. About 20 years ago he was in the House of Commons, and on one occasion he made a ferocious and vulgar attack on my lamented friend Mr. Cobden. At the con clusion of his speech, Mr. Byng, then member for Middlesex, one of the most respected members of the House, came up to Mr. Cobden, and said to him, ' Don't trouble yourself about him—l have been in the Howe for 50 years, and no such ruffian has been here before in my time.' You will not be surprised, therefore, that I do not trouble myself with what Mr. Ferrand may say. But in what Mr. Ferrand and Mr. Hennessy have said I find no proof of the truth of what you have said. You made three charges of the most distinct character--that I had been hocted from my own premises—that I have not given halfpenny' to the relief of the distress in these districts— and that I wished to support the suffering workmen by loans, that I might have them at my beck and call,' 'to do what I pleased with,' and to prevent their rising when I chose' to put wages at whatever rate I liked.' Your authority for the first charge is evidently such that you dare not produce it ; it is not even equal to the authority of Mr. Ferrand an4l Air. Hennessy, and, therefore, you retract it. The second charge you escape from by denying the ac curacy of the report, without saying what you ac tually did say in place of what you are reported to have said. With regard to the third charge, you seek to avoid it by expressing an opinion that if money were lent to families in distress it would be burdensome to repay it, which nobody doubts ; but you express no regret that you charged me with recommending a system of loans in order that I might use them as a means of oppressing the work men during the period that would be required for the repayment of the loans. My object in suggest ing loans was to give relief in such a manner, to a large number of persons, as would not bring them into the list of ordinary paupers, and would not wound their honourable pride ; and if the distress had lasted only for a few months, as was then hoped would be the case, the plan would have been prac ticable, and might have been adopted with great advantage. On a review of your speech and your letter, I come to this conclusion—that you wished to get into Parliament, and were not particular as to the path which might lead to it. You threw dirt daring your canvass, doubtless knowing that, if needful, you could cat it afterwards. There are many men who go through dirt to dignities,' and I suspect you have no objection to be one of them.-- I am, with whatever respect is due to you, yours, Szc., " JOHN BRIGHT. " Richard Garth, Esq., M.P,, Temple, London." 4 , Temple, Jan. 5. " Sir,—ln acknowledging your letter of the 4th inst., I only think it necessary to observe that the conclusion at which you say you have arrived, and which you are pleased to express in such elegant phrase, is to me a matter of the most perfect in difference. Whether your opinion of me is correct or not I shall leave to those who know me better to determine. 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Last year no fewer 'llan OS poor, friendless, young females were rejected from want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been COI a, 4 4 1 4,11tereftzs. t t f t.M.AtttOlitre sflt !MT, would be for g youn atinoht turen, fieue tile f 1 of Bto Is, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions Will be received gratefully by the Secretary, 3fr. Daniel Cooper, P 5, Queen-strecv, Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Cc., Lombard-street. n otA Filtt itOsk4Atii_dfdf;sziOid44, x... 7.) ill OA •i zti'E' 1 . 1 1,9 11 ' 4 4kt Ohlki tiki way Terminus, King's -Orooo7 Patron —Tier Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vice-Patron —His Royal Highness the Prince of W &LE S, HG. Pre3iticnt—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the principle of free adiression to the sick poor without the delay an d difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de pendent for support on voluntaryeontributions and l:gaeles. It a ffords relief t o a l arge num b er of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the Jestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3 . 0 00 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee ear estly solicit 1110 ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the pr 'niers of this Hospital are capable of containing several h ndred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to L maintain them. " ' " '""ns P . " trTNIVnd tr 7 r':or ke - s, Messrs. Ercwit„ Janson. and Co., Abchurch-lare; also by Messrs. Coutta and Co.; Drummond and Co.; CI lin and Co.;Berries and Co.; Rand Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, Co; Barclay and Co - , ; Deacon , Vla Co.; and Co. "d Nisbet bemire-attest ; grad at t' HcaPitaf• from 10 till 6 ' _8 TA far- .L1Y0) 2 4) 81/11Tir, gegetasy, ... __ .... ,,. ar t r - „ s - f ~~ ~~ !~~ El 4 l . ) ) IRELAND, `uBLI ,atiot,- ;ndo strt ;compam wards mo D The frost broke up with a treme: Saturday night. The snow was ac( rapid thaw, and turned to rain to\ The mailpacket due at 7 5 yesterday morning did not arrive till 3 p.m. She had no mails from any place except Holyhead, the train from London having been snowed up on the line. The steamer which should have been in at six o'clock yesterday evening did not arrive till 9 p.m., and was again, without the London mails, for the same reason. The gale came ma i n l y f rom the south-east, a bad point for shipping o n thi s coast. I learn fromthe Kingstown corr es p on d en t o f t h e Daily T=.tys ess that numerous vessels were seen running for Dublin, many with bare poles, and some with, masts a..(1 spars carried away. At Bray at midnight, in the height of the gale, a large French brigantine camo ashore near the strand, the sea breaking over the deck every moment. The captain and crew managed to escape. Another vessel, the Catherine Porter, of Chester, struck on the Kish bank, and was wrecked. The master and two men were drowned. Two of the crew were saved at Wicklow by the lightship's crew, who behaved with great gallantry. The ves sel has since been driven ashore. The English line of railway near Bangor and Rhyl had been snowed up by a heavy drift to the depth of 15 feet, which completely prevented the further progress of mails and passengers by the Saturday night down limited Irish mail from London till the road was cleared. The Leinster, on this being ascer tained at Holyhead, left at 11 a.m., without mails or passengers, in order to carry out the Kingstown, passengers in the evening at 715 p.m. The naught, which left Kingstown on Saturday evensn g in the gale for Holyhead, experienced the heaviest passage ever remembered by her commander., Capt. Tindell. She was 6 hours and 20 minutes ( int, and a heavy sea striking her carried away the binnacle head on her quarter deck. Owing to the block up near Rhyl the Ulster mail steamer did not leave Holyhead last evening till a late hour, arriving tat Kingstown about 8.30 p.m. The telegraphic rJom munication on the English line has been injured by the snowstorm. The outgoing American milli was in the snowed-up train. Arrangements have been made on the Great Southern line to send it on early this morning by special train to Queenstown to meet the Cunard steamer outward bound. The English and Irish mail and passenger traffic has never hitherto been so deranged as by the present stormy weather. It is still blowing a gale from the same point while I write, so that it is doubtful whether the Holyhead mail will be able to start at the usual hour this morning. An explosion of Fenian munitions of war yester day took place accidentally in Essex-street. It ap pears, as far as the facts have at present transpired, that on Friday evening a stranger called at the house No. 8, Essex-street, and inquired for lodgings. A man named Edward Connolly occupied the drawing room floor, and, as the stranger said he required nothing but a bed, agreed to let him a small closet adjoining the drawing room. The man minutely in spected the room, and expressed himself satisfied with the accommodation it afforded. He then went away, and shortly afterwards returned with a small box, which he carefully placed on a table, saying he would shortly return. lie again left the house, but has not since been heard of. Yesterday Connolly being dis engaged, and having his curiosity aroused by the non-appearance of his tenant resolved to ascertain the contents of the parcel. Accordingly he proceeded with great care to open the box and examine the contents iu such a careful manner that were the owner to re turn he might not discover that his goods had been disturbed. The first articles be met with were two round bottles carefully corked and covered on the top with chamois leather. He placed the bottles on a table at the window, and proceeded to further in vestigate the contents of the box. A large paper parcel next presented itself, and on being touched by Connolly exploded with such terrific force as to knock down the side wallsandpartition of the room, and blow the windows completely out of the house. Connolly received serious injuries about the head and hands. Inspector Armstrong, of the A division, who happened to be in the neighbourhood at tho time, heard the explosion, and immediately hastened to Essex-street. On his way thither he meta police constable, who informed him that a house was on fire. The inspector desired the constable to alarm the Fire Brigade, and proceeded himself to the loca lity indicated. On arriving in Essex-street he found the air strongly impregnated with gunpowder, and saw a large crowd assembled around the house No. 8. His suspicions then became aroused, and, suspect ing that some Fenian arsenal had exploded, he des patched a messenger for the detective officers. The inspector next entered the house, and, having heard what had occurred, proceeded to the drawing-room. He discovered Connolly lying on the floor writhing in agony, while the apartment itself was in a perfect state of ruin. From the force of the concussion con- sequent upon the explosion, the windows in the houses 39 and 40, on the opposite side of the street, were all broken, and it was stated that the persons in the house No. 8 were either all knocked down or violently thrown against the walls. Fortunately the two bottles (supposed to contain Greek fire) which Connolly had removed from the box re- inained uninjured on the table; but next Connolly, lying on the floor, the inspector discovered a large parcel, which he at first considered were candles ; but which eventually proved to be a par cel of ball-cartridges. The package was on fire, and the cartridges had actually ignited when the inspector's attention was attracted to them. They were immediately quenched, and taken charge of _ ... by the police, as were also the bottles. Connolly was then removed to the hospital, and Capt. Ingram having arrived in the interim with the fire-engines, and finding that his services were not required, left some of the brigade men. with Inspector Armstrong to clear the house of the ruins. This object having _ _ been effected, the premises were taken charge of by the police. • Up to the present the owner of the box has not been discovered, neither has it been ascer tained what material actually caused the explosion. Connolly, who was removed to Mercer's Hospital, will, it is considered, if ho recovers, be deprived of the use of his sight. Dr. F. R. Cruise, writing in the British Medical Journal, gives details of the recent outbreak of cholera in Mountjoy Prison. They will serve to cor- rect various erroneous statements that have been made on the subject. There has been no new case since Dec. 27. The attack commenced on Sunday, Dec. 23, the health of the establishment having been previously quite satisfactory. The epidemic - lasted five days, during which time nine cases of cholera, with collapse, occurred, and four terminated fatally. The inhabitants of the prison are convicts, together with about 140 untried prisoners, now confined un der the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. Most of the cases of cholera occurred among the convicts. The outbreak was immediately notified to the Govern ment, and the most active sanitary measures were at once put into force, under the direction of the medi . cal officer of the prison, Dr. R. APDonnell. To the promptitude and energy with which these measures were carried out may fairly be attributed the rapid subjection of the attack. Perhaps the most interest ing point in connexion with this particular visitation is the difficulty in tracing its origin. No case of cholera has taken place atnong the officers of the esta blishment or their families. The prisoners in the vari ous divisions of the prison do not communicate with each other, nor with the same officers ; neverthe less, cases arose simultaneously in these division;7. The water supply is derived from the reservoirs of the north side of the city. It is received in a supply bank, from which it is pumped by a steam engine to cisterns on the top of the building. This supply bank is pumped empty every 24 hours. From its situation it is absolutely secure from all risk of contamination from sewage, &c. The adjoining Female Convict Prison is supplied from the same tank. But no case of cholera occurred in the Female Prison. The food recently supplied has, on exarni- nation, been reported of unexceptionable quality. The different divisions of the prison are not ou the same diet, neither is the food for them cooked in the same vessels. Nevertheless the disease appeared in all the divisions. The disease could not be ascribed to atmospheric influences, for the prison is one of the healthiest situations iu Dublin. I T SPA PER 7 7 /IY ~ r ~~ ;~~~ \~:.¢~ S• ~~ r 1:' `i7_ • •