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AJIAN'S LL WHISKY. - DUBLIN EXHIBITION 1865. This celebrated OLD IRISH , WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. it is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole -801/10. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or Wholesale at R, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. " Observ e the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Knaha's LL Whisky." - UTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION atunrporated by Act of 17 t R IISSELL-STR.E ET, COVE NT-G kit DEN, LONDON. bee ADVANCES on all description of Security. Forms ee on application by letter to EDWARD HARPER. Secretary. COUNTRY lIOTELS, PUBLIC ROUSES, and BUSINESSES. P URNESS and KNEE'S List on application. Particulars for insertion received until the 27th of the m outh at their AUCTION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES. Agtkr-street, Strand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing- Cross. Railway Station. WILD-FOWL GUNS.—A large variety always on hand. Si ng l e an d d ou bl e , var ious sizes, from "`") us• Breech-loading Guns of large bores, single and double. Price Lists on application. E. M. REILLY and Co., 502, NEW OXFORD-STREET, LONDON. gIkVALUABLE PACKAGE OF TEA.- - A. CHINESE CADDY, containing 161bs. of really ° ll Black Tea, sent carriage free to any railway station or Mar ket town in E n ol an d, I re l an d, Scotland. or Wales, on re hl3t of 40 5., by PHILLIPS and CO., Tea Merchants , 8, nZ, William -street, City, E.C. TEA IS CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d., a 25., 28 6t. per lb. are the prices at which PHILLIPSCO Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City, Lon ueln• } IC., are selli ng goo d and fine BLACK T EA. A. price c irrp post free. 40s worth carriage tree to any railw a y ißa tion_ or mark e t t own i n th e U n ited Kingdom. All goods a l r c r l ll 2:e free to all puts of London. Observe—PHILLIPS CO. have no Agents. Sugars are supplied at market Drifts. " TILE RUIN OF THE FEW Is TILE GAIN OF VIE MANY." LIE Panic of '66 and its consequent depression of the Colonial M.traets enables the "EAST INDIA a•IA. COMPANY" to offer TEAS LOWER THAN EVER. gls Pounds of Good Tea for 6s. Ad. can't be dear. deli Comp Y ious.mpann KAISOWS by the Clipper Ships are really 9 , Great St. Helen's Churchyard, Bishopsgate street, Jan. 1, 1867. ARTIFICIAL TEETH.-A MONTH'S TRIAL GIVEN.—If not pertec 4 ly comfortable, use ful, and undetectable the money returned without hesitation. Mr. DAY, Dentist (many years with Mr. Eskell, Surgeon- Dentist, of 8, Grosvenor-street, W.), offers, as above, the most convincing proof of the unerring anti painless princ.ples upon which he constructs incorrodible MINERAL ARTI FICIAL TEETH, whether singly or in partial or complete sets, to serve the purposes of mastication, articulation, and Pers final appearance. His terms will be found the most moderate of any advertised, compatible with pure materials and first-class Norkmanshlp, but they are apart from the ridiculous and tempting prices put forth to attract mere attention. lie guarantees painless manipulation, and in the generality of cases will make from one tooth to a complete set in a few hours. Extractions when necessary, and all the ordinary painful operations performed without giving the slivitte+t pain by a new process, and without the use of chloroform or other dangerous ingredient, Stopping decayed teeth, and discoloured teeth restoret &c. Attenda , fce, 10 to 6. All consultations free.-201, REGENT-ST itEET, three doors from the Polytechnic. DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre- Pared Without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent. will be found invaluable to all who stiffer from bilious end liver nomplaints, indigestion, wind, 1148 M, giddiness, Mzzinew of the eyes, Am For habituti c ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier tlthe blood, they are t ru ly exce llent ; mild in their opera on and grateful to •he stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Prepared only and s )ld by W. Lambert., Chemist, P, King Willlana-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most drag riga, boxes,ls. lid . , and three times the quantity in one, V"d- Be sure t o ask for Dr. Scott's °Mous and Liver Pills. , genuine are a square greet package. with " William ..-arnhort." the stamp. CONTRACTS FOR MILITARY PURVEYOR'S STORES. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all parties desiroui of TENDERING for the supply of such quantities of the undermentioned articles, namely :- 1. Mustard, Pepper, Salt, &c. 2. Blacking and other Cleaning Articles. 3. Bottled Ale and Porter, Sherry, and Brandy. 4 • Milk, Fowl., Eg, , rs, Butter, and Nish. 3. Potatoes, Vegetables, Lemons, Oranges, tt e., A l l B 2 ll tY be requi re d during' a e , lod of six months , from I st March. IRV, for the service of the Military Elo,pitale at 4. , 'erabot Camp, that particulars and forms of tender may ; obtained by application to the Principal Purveyor to the ° s rceg, at his Office, New Hospital, South Camp, A 1 dershot. .ealed Tenders must be delivered at the s .id office of , the . c ir a ri t e n ‘ ci Pal Purveyor, properly filled up and signed in tr pli Ra Q ie o ,i n or before the 12th February, 1887, accompanied by CONTRACT FOR BARRACK STORES FOR THE ROYAL MARINES. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, 30th Jan., 1867. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of ilie VITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE thAND, Do hereby give Notice, that on WEDNESDAY, 13th of February next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, they 011 be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford all such quan tities of ep HAND SCRUBBING BRUSHES, CLOTHES BRUSHES, and ROUND TOWELS, as may from tie to time be demanded for the u so of the Royal Marines, m under a Contract for Twelve Calendar Months certain and further until the expiration of three calendar month ' s' warning. Patterns of the articles may be seen at the Royal Marine- L, °Moo, And T wo t, Sp lo Sc ring-gardens, between the hours of ve o'ck. No Tend er w i ll b e received unless made on the printed form Provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained " application in the Lobby of th e D epar t men t o f th e Con t throller of Victualling, Admiralty, Som erse t H ouse, w h ore e conditions of the Contract may be seen. No Tender will be received after Twelve 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 communi cated to him and his proposed Sureties in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Barrack Stores ;" and must also be d e li vere d at the D e p ar t ment of the Controller of Victualling, Admi ralty, 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. 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WILLIAMS, Secretary. / 30 3 , c ' Refuge 8 , Great Queen-street, W.C. OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON „ - TRIBUTIONB are earnestly solicited for e st a bli s hi ng ..e COUNTRY HOME. £l,OOO required. WM. WILLI &MS, Secretary. / 30 Y8' Refute, 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 is estimated at 46 ,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, tl igh llolborn; Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East ; and byj WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. PROVIDENCE ROW /sTiedn --- ; -- 1 ----- / REFUGE, FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches. At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, aro given gratuitously every week. The poor from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c., receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand tng the provision made by the Poor Houses, each night numbers of young women, children, and orphans are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, andhave M to spend night aft er n i g ht i n the cold, wet, a n d s l ee t. T o eet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda tion, £2,000 has been raised. but to accomplish the 1 3 ork a es sum of at least 1',1,300 more will be requ i re d. i "W Providing shelter for the homeless, thi s year it s proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur- P°se will allow, t o g i ve b rea d an d coa l s t o poor fam i lies ill w ant Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and accomplishi what has been begun ? Will you help to give starring to the really homeless, and food to the really an ring ? The smallest donation will be most welcome, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will be offered in your behalf. S ETBSCRIPTIONS' are earnestly requested, gratefully • and will bo received by the Rev. D. GILBERT D.D., No. 22, Pi usbul7-eircus, E,O R. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Fleet-vtreet, has introduced an entirely new descrip itui of ARTIFICIAL FEErH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly ro-emb'e the natural teeth as not to be distinguished fro n the orig!nals by the closest observer; they w , ll never change colour or decay, and will be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require tie extr action of roots, or any pain_ ful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastica tion. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastication. 52. Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. DEFRIES and SONS' J• NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS contain an entirely new and extensive Stock of TABLE GLASS, China, and Chan delier 4.-147, lioundsditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. JDEFRIES and SONS' NEW CITY SHOW IWOMA.—The New Oval-shaped ALF.XANDRA. DINNER SERVICE, from £1 18s. 6d.- 197, Houndsditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. I DEFRIES and SONS J • NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS.— BREAKFAST and TEA SERVICES in great variety, from £1 ls. upwards.- 147, Houndeditch. ~~- --. 1• R • S p~~«;~`. .4 N°. 23,292. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., S T . A L I C By EDWARD CAMPBELL TAINSIL E. " A. very goo I story, beautifully conceived, and well wrought out. It must command the attention of many readers. The writing is fresh and vigorous."—Star. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. SECOND EDITION. Now ready, in 2 vols , tvo., with Illustrations, TIOs„ NE A ME RICA. By WILLIAM HEPWORTH DIXON. "A very interesting book. Mr. Dixon has written thought fully and well, He gives us an excellent account of the Mor mons, and some striki. g descriptions of the scenes which he saw, and the conversations which he held with many of the saints." —The Times. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Price One Shilling, THE TEMPLE-BAR MAGAZINE FOR FEBRUARY. At all Booksellers and Railway Stations. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. HENRY RUSSELL'S new and admired serio comic SONG, " The Quiet Lit•le 31an " Poetry by Charles Mackay. 38. ; free for .9 stamps. Sung everywhere with unbounded applause. London : Robert Cocks and Co., New Burlington-street, W. THE NEW ENGLISH BALLADS. —"Among the sentimental ballads by Mr. W. T. Wrighton, the English ballad composer, and songs, we must particularly notice A wearied dove,' very appropriately dedicated to the queen of benevolence. Miss Burdett Coutts ; 'They tell me I am quite forgot," Grieve not for me,' &c. We consider the musical public are greatly indebted to Messrs. Cocks, and we should advi e our readers, at home and abroad, to make ap plication forthwith for a copy of their catalogue."—Vide the Brazil Mail. Each ballad i.ost free for 10 stamps. London : Robert Cocks and Co., New Burlington-street, and of all musicsellers. "WANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES a re per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN -BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps). London. EAU -DE-VIE.—This Pure PALE BRANDY, 18s. per gallon, is vt 17 superior to recent importations of Cognac, recommended by the medical profession, tensively used in hospitals. In bottle s, 38s. per dozen, or in a case 30a., railway carriage pat I.—HEN it'Y BRETT and CO., Old Furnival's Distillery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent street, S.W. Established 1829. GEOLOG Y.-ELEMENTARY COLLEC TIONS, to illustrate the New Edition of "Lyell's Elements of Geology" and facilitat e t he important study of 50 to 500 Mineralogy and Geology, can be had a t 2,5, guineas ; also single Specimens of Minerals, Woks, Fossils, and Itectiat Shells, Geologhal Nlans. Hammers. all the recent Publoations, of .7. TENNANT, Mineralogist to Her Majcsty,Strctioand, London. Private Instruction is given in Mineralogy and Geo!ogy by Mr. TENNANT, E.G.S., 140. Strand, W.C. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. 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LAMP, for Petroleum and Oils; also CRYSTAL LA MPS and WALL LIGHTS Mineral (registered) for INDIA.-147, Houndsditch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. JbEFRIES and SONS' . NEW CITY SHOW ROO3IS. TAVERN and HOTEL GLASS of the newest patterns and correct mea sure.-147, Houndsditch. NOTICE OF RENIOVAL. DEFRIES and SONS' Jo NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS.—ORNAMENTAL CLOCKS for the DINING and DRAWING-ROOM.- 117 , H oundsd itch. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. DEFRIES and SONS' NEW CITY SHOW ROOMS.—Merchants and the Trade supplied with PATTERN BOOKS FREE. —ll7, Houndsditch. Works—London, Birmingham, and Paris. Established 1803. Just published, 2d; sent by the author for a stamps, UGLINESS and BEAUTY; being a Pamphlet d escriptive of articl es an d means use d f or i m p rov ing the apar peance. ,By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. QPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTRARIDES OlL,which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair, 8e 6d, 5s Bd, and iOs 6d; sent by post for 64, 84, and 144 qt amps.—ALkX. ROSS, 248, Rich Holborn, London, and all Chemists. WONDERFUL D ISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. This preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, remo ving the very root. Price 45 ; sent by post for 60 stamps. —248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. ['AIR -CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn; London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at as 6d, 5s 6d, and 10s 6d ; sent free for 54, 84, and 144 stamps. —Had of all Chemists. P REY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— CT ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na tural in effo .t. Price 3s sd, 5s 6d. and los 6d; sent by post for 54, 84, and 141 stamps ; and all Chemists. HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, London. —AL EX. ROSS'S D E PIL AT ORY removes superfluous hair from the lace, neck, and arms, without effect to the skin. Price 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and 105 6d; sent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—Had of all Chemists. PIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VE r fETA.BLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sal lowness, Are. 2s 9d and 7s 43d ; or post for 40 and 100 stamps. —ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Che mists. HAIR COLOUR WASH.—By washing the head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in seven or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, snd remains so by an occasional usinv... 10s ed ; sent for stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another Lome to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer 'llan 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in five years. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for young girls, almost children, frem the age Of 8 to 15, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, YU'. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen •street, Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Co.. Lombard -street ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-orons. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUERN. Pico-Patron—llia Royal Highness the Prince of NV A.LES,TiG President—Elis Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. K.G. This Hospital. foundel in the year MS, the first to estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, w i t h out the delay and difficulty of Governors' orderb, is wholly- de pendent for support oa voluntary contributions ands -gae, es. It affords relief to a large number of in-pa :ants, and, in addition to this, the average number of aVendlnoe of the .lestitute eick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee car estly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the pr niece of this Hospital are capable of oontatninc,r several ht.ndred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are reoeived by their bankers. Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., Abchuroh-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co.;• Giyn and Co.;Denies and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and do.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street : and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. sTANyoaD Beuretay, .N - E: W S pA pE R• • .. , .• • -... v• , ~ , ,„------ 2 .). / 1---- /--) r f ,/ ............................._-,_ -.A t •.,., , / - ',. ' iz( ) p e i.2zeiA l I 4 - . •-.. _ . - % - r• . -,.... %. 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If all were to desert the Church who put a large and liberal construction on its terms of communion, or who would wish to see those terms widened, the national provision for religious teaching and worjlip would beleft utterly to those who take the narrowe,t, the, moA literal, and purely textual view of the formularies; who, though by no incni4 bigots, are under the great di2advalit a g e of h av i ng the bigots for their allies, and who, however great their merits may be—and they are often very great —yet, if the Church is improvable, are not the most likely persons to improve it. Therefore, if it were not all impertinence in me to fender advice in such a matter, I :,hould say, let all who conscien tiously can remain in the Church. A Church is far more easily improved from within than from without. Almost all the illustrious reformers of religion began by being clergymen; but they did not think that their profession as clergymen was in consistent with being reformers. They mostly, in deed, ended their days outside the Churches in which they were born ; but it was because the Churches, in an evil hour for themselves, cast them out. They did not think it any business of theirs to withdraw. They thought they had a better right to remain in the fold than those had who expelled them. (Loud applause.) After some observations on aesthetic culture, which deserved to be regarded in a more serious light than was the custom, the Rector concluded iby an appeal to the students on the use of the intellect. " You are," he said, "to be a part of the public who are to welcome, en courage, and help forward the future intellectual benefactors of humanity ; and you are, if possible, to furnish your contingent to the number of those benefactors." Mr. Mill, who was listened to throughout with close and sustained attention, sat down amid loud cheering. He again rose, and intimated the adjudication of two prizes for the best essays on literary subjects. The proceedings were closed with the benediction. 2d. ST.131V1:1) sd. ing how to discriminate truth is not confined to the large truths. All through life it is our most press ing interest to find out the truth about all the mat ters we are concerned with. Now, there are but two roads by which truth can be discovered—ob servation and reasoning—olviervation, cf course, in cluding experiment. We all observe, and we all reason, and, therefore, more or less successfully, we all ascertain truths, but most of us do it very ill, and could not get on at all were we not able to fall back on others who do it better. If we could not do it in any degree, we should be mere instruments in the hands of those who could—they would be able to reiuce us to slavery. Then, how shall we best learn to do this ? By being shown the way in which it has already been successfully done. The processes by which truth is attained, reasoning and observation, have been carried to their greatest _ _ known perfection in the physical sciences. As classical literature furnishes the most perfect types of the art of expression, so do the physical sciences those of the art of thinking. Mathematics, and its application to astronomy and natural philosophy, arc the most complete example of the discovery of truths by reasoning ; experimental science, of their discovery by direct observation. Mr. Mill having given the outline of a com plete scientific education, went on to say : Those branches of politics, or of the laws of social 'e in which there exists a collection of facts or ,oughts sufficiently sifted and methodised to form the beginning of a science should be taught ex pro- fesso. Among the chief of these is political economy; the sources and conditions of wealth and material prosperity for aggregate bodies of human beings. The study approaches nearer to the rank of a science, in the sense in which we apply that name to the physical sciences, than anything else connected with politics yet does. I need not enlarge on the impor tant lessons which it affords for the guidance of life, and for the estimation of laws and institutions, or on the necessity of knowing all that it can teach, in order to have true views of the course of human affairs, or form plans for their improvement which will stand actual trial. The same persons who cry down logic will generally warn you against political economy. It is unfeeling, they will tell you. It recognises unpleasant facts. For my part, the most unfeeling thing I know of is the law of gravitation ; it breaks the neck of the best and most amiable per son without scruple, if he forgets for asingle moment to give heed to it. The winds and waves, too, arc very unfeeling. Would you advise those who go to sea to deny the winds and waves—or to make a use of them, and find the means of guarding against their dangers ? My advice to you is to study the great writers on political economy, and hold firmly by whatever in them you find true ; and depend upon it that if you are not selfish or hardhearted already political economy will not make you so. (Applause.) After some observation on the im portance of the studies of jurisprudence, inter ' national law, and moral philosophy, the speaker touched on the position of the University towards the training of religion. He said—l shall not enter into the question which has been debated with so much vehemence in the last and pre sent generation, whether religion ought to be taught at all in Universities and public schools, seeing that religion is the subject of all others on which men's opinions are most widely at variance. On neither side of this controversy do the disputants seem to me to have sufficiently freed their minds from the old notion of education, that it consists in the dogmatic inculcation from authority of what the teacher deems true. Why should it be impossible that information of the greatest value on subjects connected with religion should be brought before the student's mind ; that he should be made acquainted with so important a part of the national thought, and of the intellectual labours of past generations as those relating to reli gion, without being taught dogmatically the doc trines of any Church or sect ? Christianity being a historical religion, the sort of religious instruction which seems to me most appropriate to a University is the study of ecclesiastic history. The teaching should not be in the spirit of dogmatism, but iu that of inquiry. The pupil should not be addressed as if religion had been chosen for him, but as one who will have to choose it for himself. The various Churches, established and unestablished, are quite competent to the task which is peculiarly theirs—that of teach ing its own doctrines, as far as necessary, to its own rising generation. The proper business of a Uni versity is different, not to tell us from authority what we ought to believe, and make us accept the belief as a .duty,- but to give us information and training, and help us to form our own belief in a manner worthy of intelligent beings, who seek for truth at all hazards, and demand to know all the difficulties, in order that they may be better quali fied to find, or recognise, the most satisfactory mode of resolving them. Ido not affirm that a Univer sity if it represses free thought and inquiry, must be altogether a failure, for the freest thinkers have often been trained in the most slavish seminaries of learning. The great Christian reformers were taught in Catholic Universities ; the sceptical philo sophers of FranQe were. mostly educated by the Jesuits. The human mind is sometimes impelled all the more violently in one direction by an over zealous and demonstrative attempt to drag it in the opposite. But this is not what Universities are ap pointed for—to drive men from them, even unto good, by excess of evil. A University ought to be a place of free speculation. The more dilgently it does its duty in all other respects, the more certain it is to be that. The old English Universities, in the present genera tion, are doing better work than they have done within human memory in teaching the ordinary studies of their curriculum ; and one of the conse citoueenxeisets thought, and the chaining up of the individual in ihnaasinbleyeuf o t that, a t t h , o w hreerperaess repression i h o e u y formerly independent d epende seemed l:lt in tellect and conscience, they are now the great foci of free and manly inquiry to the higher and pro fessional classes south of the Tweed. The ruling mind of those ancient seminaries have at last re membered that to place themselves in hostility to the free use of the understanding is to abdicate their o t d w ef n er b en es c t e . , P a r rity of the specially instruct ed is becoming in a at vi leastl e g e — l3 r t o h v a i t s o o n f aguiding it united. A m a u o t d h e o s there is no united authority— w hen the spec that almost any a opinion can boast of some , hih authority, and no youthful and imperfectly fo rmed mind; buiatllwyhienu structed are so divided a nd scattered the (Applause.) clericalpp l au s p e r . o ) f e ss T i l o t n o s ea arc, may see reason to c h an ge his opinion — t he n whatever you do, one who uses his m ind freely kee, all risks, your mind on ; do not barter away opinion whatever can claim malel—lywithuepnr,ohtahhelreeftohraet, at it can never be deem ed extremely n o doubt, so far held to a certain nu mber of doc fgolrit. trines that if they ceased to b e li eve them they y y o o u ur w f h re o ed ar o would not be justified in remaining in a position iu which they would be required to teach insincerely. e m de o s f tin th ed ou But use your influence to make those doctrines as few as possible. It is not right that men should be bribed to hold out against conviction —to shut their ears against objections, or, if the objections pene trate, when it confidence that i if men i honestly sl r en. ad Neither sy profess s to to continue professing full and unfaltering belief have changed souse of their religious opinions their honesty should as a matter of course exclude them from taking a part for which they may be admir ably qualified in the spiritual instruction to the nation. The tendency of the age, on both sides of the ancient border, is towards the relation of ' formularies, and a less rigid construction of articles. This very circumstance, by making the limits of • orthodoxy less definite, and obliging every one to draw the line for himself, is an embarrassment to consciences. But I bold entirely with those clergy ' men who elect ton emain in the National Church so ' long as they are ,t.t.t.le to accept its Articles and THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, IF UM Ally 4, 1867. AFTER Covent-garden Theatre—EVANS' to SUP. After Drury-lane Theatre FVANS' to SUP. After Lyceum 'theatre FVANS' to SUP, Atter Adelphi Theatre FVANS' to SUP. After Olympic l'licatre . EVANS' to SUP. After Strand Theatre EVAN:i' to SUP. Atter New loyalty Theatre EVANS' to SUP. Alter St. James's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. Alter rriuce of Wales' Theatre EVANS' to SUP. London Singing and Supper Club, E VANS', Covent-garden, Vocal Entertainment at Eight. THE JAPANESE TROUPE HAVE ARRIVED. JAPANESE TROUPE.—GAENSEE.—First ti Appearance of this novel artiste in Europe, the unrivalled Top Spinner to the Tycoon, whose extraordi nary and unparalleled performances have been pronounced by all Eastern travellers to be truly marvellous. Full programme on Thursday next. Gaonsee—Gaonsee— Gaensee—Monday, February 11, 1867.—Great St. Martin's JAPANESE TROUPE.—First Appearance in Europe of .A.SI-KITCHI-SAN, the original per former of the groat Japanese Butterfly Trick. 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FRENCH MONUMENTS IN ENGLAND.—A corre spondent, signing himself " A Visitor to Dartmoor in 1866," has written the following letter to the Times:—" Without the walls of Dartmoor prison are laid the bodies of the many French prisoners of war who died there in the early part of the pre sent century. Last year this burial-ground, whose turf walls had been trodden down, and into which swine might wander at will, was thoroughly en closed, ornamentally planted, and a central granite obelisk reared, bearing an inscription—' To the memory of the French prisoners of war who died on Dartmoor. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.' A lesser monument marks the resting: place of the American prisoners. Coincidently this is somewhat remarkable, as done at the orders of the Governor, who is uncle of the present Vis count Hood, for the tomb of whose grandfather his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French rhas graciously directed a similar care to be shown." Mr. Stuart Mill at St. Andrews As reported by telegraph on Saturday, Mr. Stuart Mill, M.P., Rector of the University of St. Andrew's, delivered his inaugural address on Friday, and re ceived on the occasion the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The address was of great length, the Rector taking a survey of the whole range of literary and scientific study, and treating each point in its rela tion to the work of the University. Ile began by commending the usage which prescribes to the rector of a University the duty of addressing to his consti tuency a few thoughts on the subjects which most nearly concern a seat of liberal education, seeing education isone of the most inexhaustibleof all topics; was to its first explorers. and is still as fresh t o th ose w ho came to it with a fresh mind as it Not withstanding the grea t mas s of excellent things which have been said respecting it, no thoughtful person finds any lack of things, both great and small, still waiting to be said, or waiting to be developed and followed out to their consequences. Education, moreover, is one of the subjects which most essen tially require to be considered by various minds and from a variety of points of view. For, of all many sided subjects, it is the one which has the greatest number of sides. The learned Rector, remarking that he proposed to speak of education as" the cul ture which each generation purposely gives to those who are to be its succeksors , i l e order to qualify them for at least keeping up and if possible, raising the level of improvement which has been attained," went on to describe the functions of a University in national education. It is not, he remarked, a place of professional education. Universities are not intended to teach the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining their livelihood. Their object is not to make skilful lawyers, or phy sicians, or engineers, but capable and cultivated human beings. It is right that there should be public facilities for the study of professions. It is well that there should be schools of law and of medi cine, and it would be well if there were schools of engineering and industrial arts. The countries which have such institutions are greatly better for them ; and there is something to be said for having them in the same localities and under the same ge neral superintendence as the establishments devoted to education properly so called. But these things are no part of what every generation owes to the next, as that on which its civilisation and worth will principally depend. They are needed only by c p o r t i n v p at a e ra i t nd i ve u l cn yefree:t' who are und er th e s t ronges t S to acquire them by their own efforts ; and even those few do not require them until after their education, in the ordinary sense, has been completed. Men are men before they are lawyers, physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers, and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians. What professional men should carry away with them from a university is not professional knowledge, but that which should direct the use of their professional knowledge, and bring the light of general culture to illuminate the technicalities of a special pursuit. After some ob servations on the duties of the lower schools, Mr. Stuart Mill proceeded to say a few words on the great controversy of the present day with regard to the higher education— the difference which most broadly divides educational reformers and Conser vatives ; the vexed question between the ancient languages and the modern sciences and arts ; whe ther general education should be classical = let me use a wider expression, and say literary—or scien tific. On this point he said—We are not obliged to ask ourselves whether it is more important to know the languages or the sciences. Short as life is, and shorter still as we make it by the time we waste on things which are neither business, nor medita tion, nor pleasure, we are not so badly off that our scholars need be ignorant of the laws and properties of the world they live in, or our scientific men des titute of poetic feeling and artistic cultivation. I am amazed at the limited conception which many educa tional reformers have formed to themselves of a human being's power o f acqu i s i t i on. Th e stu d y o f science, they truly say , is indispensable; our present education neglects it. There is truth in this, too, though it is not all truth. And they think it impos sible to find room for the studies which they desire to encourage but by turning out, at least from general education, those which are now chiefly cultivated. How absurd, they say, that the whole of boyhood should be taken up in acquiring an imperfect know ledge of two dead l anguages. Ab sur d, i n deed; but is the human mi n d' s capacity to l e arn measured by that of Eton and W estm i nster to t eac h ? I should • prefer to see these reformers pointing their attacks against the shameful inefficiency of the schools, pub lic and private, which pretend to teach these two languages and do not. I should like to hear them denounce the wretched methods of teaching, and the criminal idleneness and supineness, which waste the entire boyhood of the pupils without really giving to most of them more than a smattering, if even that, of the only kind of knowledge which is even pretended to be cared for. Let us try what con scientious and intelligent teaching can do before we decide what cannot be done. Scotland has, on the whole, in this respect been considerably more fortu nate than England. Scotch youths have never found it impossible to leave school or the University, hav ing learnt somewhat of other things besides Greek and Latin. And why ? Becauie Greek and Latin have been better taught. A beginning of classical instruction has all along been made in the com mon schools ; and the common schools of Scotland, like her Universiti es, h ave n ever been the mere shams the English Universities were during the last century, and the greater part of the English classi cal schools still are. The only tolerable Latin gram mars for school purposes that I know of which had been produced iu these islands until very lately were written by Scotchmen. Reason, indeed, is begin ning to find its way by gradual infiltration even into English schools, and to maintain a contest, though as yet a very unequal one, against routine. A few prac tical reformers of school tuition, of whom Arnold was the most eminent, have made a beginning of and reform even of Go vernments and Churches is not so slow that of amendment ar e i n a l mwaanyys slow, , s ; but reforms worthy of thename schools, for there is the great preliminary difficulty of fashioning the instruments—teachin g the teachers. If all the improvements in the mode of teaching languages which are already sanctioned by expe rience were adopted into our classical schools, we should soon cease to hear of Latin and Greek as studies which must engross the school years and ren der impossible any other acquirements. I will say confidently that if the two classical languages were properly taught there would be no need whatever for ejecting them from the school course in order to have sufficient time for everything else that need be included therein. Let me say a few more words on this strangely limited estimate of what it is possible for human beings to learn, resting on a tacit assump tion that they are already as efficiently taught as they ever can be. It is not the utmost liinit of human acquirement to know only one thing, bat to combine a minute knowledge of one or a few things with a general knowledge of many things. By a general knowledge I do not mean a few vague impressions. An eminent man, one of whose writings is part of the course of this University, Archbishop Whately, has well discriminated between a general knowledge and a superficial knowledge. To have - a general knowledge of a subject is to know only its leading truths, but to know these not superficially, but tho roughly, so as to have a true conception of the sub ject in its great features, leaving the minor details to those who require them for the purposes of their special pursuit. There is no incompatibility between knowing a wide range of subjects up to this point and some one subject with the completeness required by those who make it their principal occupation. It is this combination which gives an enlightened pub lie—a body of cultivated intellects, each taught by its attairnnents in it 2 own province what real huow- ledge is, and knowing enough of other subjects to be able to discern who are those that know them better. Mr. Mill went to speak of those branches which were more appropriately taught without than within the University. He did not agree with those reformers who would give a regular and prominent place in the school or University course to modern languages. Ile thought the living languages should be acquired, if possible, in the places in which they were spoken, where a few months, if properly employed, would go much further than as many years of school les sons. It was really a waste of time for those to whom that easier method was attainable to labour at them with no help but that of books and masters. In time that shorter method would be attainable to many more than at present by the establishment of international colleges and schools. Again, be said, it has always seemed to me a great absurdity that history and geography should be taught in schools, except in elementary schools for the children of the labouring classes, whose subsequent access to books is limited. Who ever really learnt history and geo graphy except by private reading ? And what an utter failure a system of education must be if it has not given the pupil a sufficient taste for reading to seek for himself those most attractive and easily in telligible of all kinds of knowledge ? Besides, such history and geography as can be taught in schools exercise none of the faculties of the intelligence ex cept the memory. The only languages, then, and the only literature to which I would allow a place in the ordinary curriculum are those of the Greeks and Romans ; and to these I would preserve the position in it which they at present occupy. That position is justified by the great value, in education, of know ing well some other cultivated language and litera ture than one's own, and by the peculiar value of those particular languages and literatures. Even as mere languages, no modern European language is so valuable a discipline to the intellect as those of Greece and Rome, on account of their regular and complicated structure. The structure of every sen tence is a lesson of logic. In the next place, I would notice the treasure which that literature accumulated of what might be called the wisdom of life--the rich store of experience of human nature and conduct which the acute and observing minds of those ages, aided in their observations by the greater simplicity of manners and life, consigned to their writings, and most of which retained all its value. In cultivating the ancient languages as our best literary education, we are all the while laying an admirable foundation for ethical and philosophical culture. In purely literary excellence—in perfection of form—the pre eminence of the ancients is not disputed. In every department which they attempted, and they attempted almost all, their composition, like their sculpture, has been to the greatest modern artists an example, to be looked up to with hopeless admiration, but of inappreciable value as a light on high guiding their own endeavours. In prose and in poetry, in epic, lyric, or dramatic, as in historical, philosophical, and oratorical art, the pinnacle on which they stand is equally eminent. I am now speaking of the form, the artistic perfection of treat ment; for as regards substance I consider modern poetry to be superior to ancient, in the same man ner, though in a less degree, as modern science ; it enters deeper into nature. The feelings of the modern mind are more various, more complex and manifold than those of the ancients ever were. The modern mind is, what the ancient mind was not, brooding and self-conscious ; and its meditative self-consciousness has discovered depths in the human soul which the Greeks and Romans did not dream of, and would not have understood. But what they had to express they expressed in a manner which few even of the greatest moderns have seri ously attempted to rival. It must be remembered that they had more time, and that they wrote chiefly for a select class, possessed of leisure. To us who write in a hurry for people who read in a hurry, the attempt to give an equal degree of finish would be a loss of time. But to be familiar with perfect models is not the less important to us because the element in which we work precludes even the effort to equal them. They show us, at least, what ex cellence is, and make us desire it, and strive to get as near to it as is within our reach. And this is the value to us of the ancient writers, 'all the more emphatically because their excellence does not admit of being copied or directly imitated. It does not consist in a trick which can be learnt, but in the perfect adaptation of means to ends. The secret of the_ style of the great Greek and Roman authors is that it is the perfection of good sense. In the first place, they never use a word without a meaning, or a word which adds nothing to the meaning. Their style is exactly described by Swift's definition, " the right words in the right places." Look at an oration of Demosthenes, there is nothing in it which calls attention to itself as style at all ; it is only after a close examination we perceive that every word is what it should be, and whore it should be, to lead the heart smoothly and imperceptibly into the state of mind which the orator wishes to produce. The perfection of the workmanship is only visible in the total absence of any blemish or fault, and of anything which checks the flow, of thought and feeling, anything which even momentarily distracts the mind from the main purpose. • But then, as has been well said, it was not the object of Demosthenes to make the Athe nians cry out, " What a splendid speaker ;" but to make them say, " Let us march against Philip." (Applause.) Mr. Mill proceeded to point out two lessons in composition to be learnt from the clas sical authors—first that it was only in the decline of ancient literature that ornament began to be cul tivated as mere ornament ; and second, that the ancients were concise while the moderns are prolix. He next spoke of the proper limitation of classical studies. To what purpose, he asked, should the precious years of e c a r r e ly ne li ce f s e sa b r e yur ir e r h e l p s a e r i a t b a ly t most squandered in learning to write bad Latin and Greek verses ? Ido not see that we are much the better even for those who end by writing good ones. I am often tempted to ask the favourites of nature and fortune whether all the serious and important work of the world is done that their time and energy can be spared for these nitgat difficlies? I am not blind to the utility of composing in a lan guage as a means of learning it accurately. I hardly know any other means 'equally effectual. But why should not prose composition suffice? What need is there of original composition at all? If that can be called original which unfortunate schoolboys, without any thoughts to express, ham mer out on compulsion from mere memory, acquir ing the pernicious habit which a teacher should con sider it one of his first duties to repress, that of merely stringing together borrowed phrases ? The exercise in composition most suitable for the require ment of learners is that most valuable one of re translating from translated passages of a good author; and to this might be added, what still exist in many continental places of education, occasional practice in talking Latin. There would be something to be said for the time spent in the manufacture of l ie dbe en joymentbversesti te better to t i o f lo s of t ceah that hc et practicenetjpoetry; oy e v: it fo N r vo t u i the value of scientific instruction as a tram' intellect for the proper reyli;t thou gh than to p fit T th l e ie Rector . then . sico g ke an o d f s dw o , jos re e l x ) extravagant g g h a u ; trn t eae a ne s p s r t ic e e. being. The most incessant occu p ability to judge between th a e t s i o a i n d o , f t i t , e h c a s h e u e m r t a intellect t re t u hi h o n. u ti g ile l l i tr o inh u g t a l l e i if)ehl opinions, I was require s , which are offered to us as vital truths ; to choose what doctrines we will receive in the matter of re re- ligion, i e o unr d , Tories,f duty r t y Whigs,ex t a o m example or l e c to i' ;Radicals,th e d a g e judge whether w ; ee or t t e l e ew r r:n w la t e Nav li o ire u ianc g tghi ht to tlength it conviction on great questions of legislation and in ternal policy, and on the m anlier the e foreign g country n n a s l t i i o e u n l s. d behaveAndthetonee wedependencies have of and knew- to f w. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER STEEPLCHA.SES, FLAT, AND HURDLE RACES.; SATURDAY. Handicap Hurdle Race of 5 sous each, with 25 added ; win ners extra; second to save stake. About ono mile and a half; over four hurdles. Mr. Sparks's Tumult, byCommotion—Oulton Lass, 4 yrs, 9st 131 b (inc 71b extra) (E. Jones) 1 Mr. J. Phillips's Diana, aged, lOst 41b ......(Tomlinson) 2 Mr. A, W. Clayton's Grapeshot, 5 yrs, lOst 71b (Hoystead) 0 Mr. C. Falshaw's Carnizette, 4 yrs, 9st 101 b (G. Waddington) 0 Mr. Wild's Reuben, aged, Ost 6th (Mr. Newton) 0 Mr. T. Martin's Lady of Peak, 5 yrs, 9st (Brady) 0 Betting-6 to 4 agst Diana, 4to 1 agst Grapeshot, sto 1 agst Carnizette. Won by three lengths ; nothing but the two placed passed the post. Stretford Steeplechase (Handicap) of 5 sous each, 1 ft, with 50 added ; winners extra ; second to save stake. About three miles. Mr. F. Williams's Arlescott, by Birkenhead—Gratis. aged, 11st 131 b (inc. 71b extra) (Ellison) 1 Mr. A. W. Clayton's Crusade, aged, list 21b (E. Jones) 2 Mr. Somers's The Rogue, agedillst 21b (J. Knott) 0 Betting—lt to 8 on Arlescott, 5 to 2 agst The Rogue, 5 to 1 agst Crusade. Won by 30 lengths. The Rogue did not pass the post. Old Trafford Handicap of 3 soya each, with 20 added ; second to save stake ; winners extra. About three quarters of a mile on the flat. Mr. H. Green's Libertine, by Newminster —License, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Jarvis) 1 Mr. T. Smith's Gentille, 3 yrs, Est 21b —(S. Brown) 2 Mr. Backhouse's Wallet, 4 yrs, Bst 61b (Thompson) 3 Mr. J. Phillips's Diana, aged, Ost 31b (inc. 71b extra) (Tomlinson) 4 Mr. T. Merono's Terror, 5 yrs, Bst 41b (J. Harrison) 0 Mr. W. H. Scott's Merry Boy, 3 yrs, Gst 121 b (J. Edwards) 0 Betting-6 to 4on Libertine, sto 1 agst Diana, Bto 1 agst Wallet. Won by three lengths ; a length between se cond and third. Terror threw his rider. AQUATICS. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE EIGHT-OAR RACE. The Oxford crew are now getting into good training and doing their work well; this afternoon (Saturday) and the day previous the crew, under the captaincy of Mr. A. Hall, of University College, the well-known Eton oars man, rowed down toloy and back, twice each day. This 'has been their practice daily all the week, except Wednes day, when the weather p-eveuted them. Mr. 'l'. Crump, of Wadham, hold the stroke oar until Friday, when ho was displaced by the present one. The following are the names of the crew as at present constituted : Bow. C. 11. Bowman University College. 2. G. 11. Swinny Exeter College. 3. E. Carter Worcester College. 4. J. H. Fish Worcester College, 5. J. C. Thine University College. G. R. G. Mai's(lon - Merton College. 7. J. P. R. Goodden Trinity College. - Stroko. A. Hall University College. _ . Mr. Willan, the President of the Oxford University Boat Club, who is a most indefatigable officer, has had the as sistance of Messrs. C. R. Carr, of Wadham, a former pre sident, and Mr. Brown of Trinity, the victorious Oxford stroke, who steered them down alternately. The latter gentleman will very probably be again elected to that post of honour—the stroke oarship. Mr. BPn SIIOOTING A GAMEKEEPER.—Two men, named Edward Parmenter and Robert Parmenter, were on Friday committed for trial at the ensuing Suffolk assizes, on a charge of shooting at James Mothersole, a gamekeeper to Earl Howe, at Acton Park, on Jan. 19 . Seven or e i g ht witnesses were examined, four of whom swore positive l y to having seen Edward Parmenter fire the gun at the keepers, and several of them spoke to seeing his b rother Robert with him before the affray. It appeared t hat on the night in question, about ten o'clock, Mothersolo and three or four under-keepers were watching in a wo od, having reason to suspect that poachers were about. Hearing a rustling among the underwood, they crouc hed in the ditch, and saw two men come within twelve yards of men to seize the poachers, and Ed ward Parmenter, seeing them. The headkeeper, Mothersole , g ave a signal them rise, fired off his gun immediate l y at them. The c harge struck Mothorsole on the side of the head, and ono of the shots also struck an un der -keeper named Steed. The to his p o achers then turned and r an, but were followed by the k ee pers out of the wood and across a field into Acton-lane, w h ere Edward was se ized, but his brother got away. Ed war d was taken to t he kee p er's house, but with some difficulty, as he res isted violentl y , and Ins p ector Gower wa s sent for, and took him to the lock-u p at Melford. His gun had been taken from him by ono of the keepe r s , and w hen ho was searched a powder - flask and shot-pouch— both nearly full—a'number of gun-caps, a snare, and other articles, were found in his'possession. Robert Parmenter , who had been identified by two of the keepers as ho was running, away, was apprehended on Monday, the 28 th ult. in his own house at Acton. Mothersole, notwithstanding his wounds and great loss of blood, ran after the prison ers, and assisted to take one. As soon as he got home Mr. S p encer, surgeon, of Melford, was sent for, and d r e ssed his wounds. Two of the shots had passed thro u g h the lobe of the left Spencer c e him r stated, o nh t i n e oar, grazing his head, and six s hots p assed between the scalp and the scull-bone, and , afte r travellin g from an inch to an inch and a half, passed out a g ain. For some da y s th thfa night n inchtn question. to the right As the charge would cer tainlyMothersole was in considerable danger from the shock to reply to one of the magistrates, that if the gun had been eins on y s ed al have the a e n n d t e l o r e s d s o t f h e b l oforeheadand and kille d spot. The prisoner Edward Parmenter d en i e d having seen the keepers at all, but admitted h av i ng fi re d th e gu n ; and Robert Parmenter de n i e d h av i ng b een i n th e woo d at l before stated, they were committed for trial. INCREASE OF POSTAGE ON NEWSPAPERS FOR NEW the public N v o i . ZEALAND, &C., VIA PANAMA.--The rate of postage °u noticenewspapers,to p b n a Panama, 24, o f May a last,specifiedwiinll the be reverted to, the reduced rate of id. each newspaper, which has been levied since September last, being insufficient to cover the cost of the transit of the newspapers across the Isthmus of Panama. In future, therefore, newspapers for New Zealand or Australia, sent via Panama, will be liable to the following rates of postage, which must be paid ill advance :--Not exceeding 4oz. 4d. ; above 40z., and not exceeding pb., Bd.—General Post Office, January 28. BEARS' FLESll.—Bears' flesh is now being sold in Paris as an article o f food, at lf. 25c. a pound. LADVERTISEMENTI-11olloway'sOintmer!t an , d Am i putat i on Abolished. —Surgery is sometimes too ready with the knife, which can never be necessary except iu so yen) accident. For all constitutional diseases affecting any p?r tion of the human body Holloway's °ointment and Pills are infallible specifics, which supersede the use of the knife. In many desperate cases these inestimable preparations have worked wonders both in hospital and in private practice. In all humours, cancers,. diseases of the bones, ulcers, and bad logs, a fair trial will prove their merit, which patients have acknowledged with unfeigned gratitude. The Pills purify the blood and expedite the cure, working well with this healing ointment, which se cures ease and establishes healthy action from the first mo ment of its applicetion. 1