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- 4WV 1 I (11l 7 • ) , A e P A - -• K] = l l ltl t t. • •v•w _ • , • , 0 L -1 r 1 • A '#*4 Tru ~_ ;4: ' tt"--.4:16,/ N.DROn s" MAY 26, 1870. good character should not reckon for something. If Brittan had full possession of his wits, he would know what to do next time he feels criminally in clined ; he would not content himself with pocketing a duck, he would commit a murder or two, in which case he would be certain to get his sentence com muted. Welsh Schoolmasters_ and the Education Bill. A conference of schoolmasters in South Wales and Monmouthshire has been held to discuss various subjects in connection with the Education question. The result was the carrying of several resolutions. These expressed an opinion that the existing arrange ments for religious teaching, had, in the experience of the masters, been rarely objected to. A thorough unaminity prevailed as to the impracticability of the time-table conscience clause, but the meeting was not in favour of prohibiting doctrinal instruction. The principle of direct compulsory attendance of children at either existing or rate-supported schools was advo cated. It was unanimouslyresolved that superannuation would be a powerful means for securing and retaining efficient teachers. LONDON THURSDAY, NO. 24,329. KINAHAN'S LL WIIISKY.— u L BLIN E BITION, 1865. b an e the [le Seal, Pink Labe,, and work Branded "Bina pr,"'s celebra te d OLD IRISH HISKY gained the Dublin ze " (Ira. Pure, IST,Id, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Chef H A . ' in lictt.es, Is. Bd., at the Retail ouses in London; by gants tuu principal towns in England; or wholesale at Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE HEIR EXPECTANT. By the Author of "Raymond's H eroine," &c. "An admirable novel. In plot, details, completeness, and the unflagging interest which carries the reader resistlessly to the end `The Heir Expectant' is a triumph of novelistic skill."—Saturday Review. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now Beady, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols , N OR A. By LADY EMILY PONSONBY, Author of "The Discipline of Life," &c. " A story of very superior merit. The style is easy, graceful, and eloquent The author possesses an extensive knowleige of human nature.—Examiner. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. BY GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. Will be ready shortly. Just published, price is 6d., by post is. Bd., the Second Edition with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks. REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: H. Be.ll . iere, 219, Regent-!treet. The numerous reviews of this 'star tling work by the Saturday Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, and other journals, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted with this edition. B EWARE OF IMITATIONS.—Every Wheel bears the Name. F ITCH'S PATENT FIRE WHEELS. L'HE ONLY REALLY EFFECTIVE FIRE LIGHTER. ONE WHEEL will light a fire without wood or paper. ONE WHEEL will boil three pints of water in a few minutes. ONE WHEEL will cook a rasher of bacon, chop, or stcak. ONE WHEEL will burn half an hour. SOLD EVERYWHERE. FOUR A PENNY. Manufactured only by HILL & CO., CALEDONIAN WORKS, BELLE ISLE, YORK-ROAD, KING'S (ROSS, LOA DON, N. t, GREAT WH;;D3IILL-STREET, LONDON, W. MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859), '4, RUSSELL-STREET. COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON, \r And 38, QUEEN'S-ROkO, BRIGHTON. CLS MONEY upon personad security, Bills of Sale, repay - Fee Or Leasehold Property, for ono, two, or three years, repay- Fe, „ W eekly, monthly, or quarterly. ME promptly discounted. •fi free on receipt of stamped envelope. • EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. I 1; W. S. WOODIN'S TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK " AT HOME," AVITH his Famous and Original CARPET-BAG SKETCH-1:00K ENTEkTAINMENT in the Large S a y,T. EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly. Every Evening (except sParelay) at 8; Saturday Mornings at 3. "Mr. Woodin has 1'1 45w :1,2 1 0 expense in magnificently decorating and luxuriously be "leg his salon for the comfort of hls patrons." Seats may at lieured in advance, at Old, open from 10 till 5; also Music -sellers. .itchell's Royal Library, Bond-street; and all the rincipal p'''ne-sellers. Stalls, 35.; Area, 28.; Balcony, 18. Family Private "iz, One, Two, and I hree Guineas. Carriages at 10. Manager, Mr. DUDLEY. RoyAL MUS L IC t I TL'j HOLBORN. Proprietor —Mr. J. S. Sweasey. TA/ b , of the Wondrous Gymnasts, THE BROTHERS VOL ; their Tremendous Leap for Life and wonderful Ladder q i . 4 ness are without parallel. Mr. HENRY COLLARD, the bjat Little Tenor. THE SMALLEST MAN IN THE WORLD, fir e r t i g less than Tom Thumb or Commodore Nutt, will make his Lt o pPearance since his late severe in:disposition : Mr. ARTHUR GE ORGE still delights the audience with Favourite Songs. Mr. CL A t,.GE LEYBOURNE is as versatile as ever. Mr. HENRI th e the Mad Butcher. Miss LOUISE SHERRINGTON, eh ""igliing Favourite. Miss KATE GARSTONE nightly puatunt her favourite songs. Messrs. HOLMES and GANT, the Coi n Negro Negro Delineators, give some extraordinary Burlesques of hi r :"ted Life. Mr. YOUNG, Mr. CORRI, and Favourite Over -6":„0Y the GREAT BAND every evening. 10 `"elra Stalls, Is 6d; Stalls, ls. ; Balcony, 6d; Private Boxes, 6,1 cc 'ox-office at open 5. a irman—Mr A. Young Musical Director—Mr P. Corri. Phire A L NOTICE —Ms Samuel Adams, late proprietoi of tbe arniOnic will take a Farewell Benefit at the Royal Music L aIL on Monday, May 3 th. AOAME TUSSAH'S EXHIBITION. Baker -street. A PO RTR AIT MODE L of TR( )PMA l 0 1.; „' atlcled.—On View, amongst innumerable . other relics, the Luuette and Knife of the actual illotmAused for the ;27P 1 tation of Louis XVI., Marie Antoinette, and upwards of e~et Persons of the best 'and worst blood in France. Also an L tI„" Copy of the guillotine as in use. Admission, ls. ; extra ' B , 6d. Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. AR , GYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, Th e e. extraordinary success which has attended the production th e " Shadow Dance, with the brilliant and varied effects of p at _ electric light on the groups of dancers that nightly partici -1/41 in it, combined with the admirable Operatic and Dance e Selections presented in the often-changed pro• rammes, te e :, had the gratifying effect of making the r. sent one the extensively patronized season since its ffrst opening. The ei zp rated Orchestra, under the direction of its highly efficient p o ,4 4 ignor Luigi Curti, performs the choicest and latest coin age""ons of distinguished composers—the solos in which are W . l gn n ed to the eminent euphonionist, Signor L. Moses.; Messrs. Th n -raves, L. Silberberg, and other able artistes. Manager, Mr. ' rl, as Pitts. ProfessoiHalliman, Admission, ls.; Reserved Seats, 2s. R. R. 15n4L.M.1., Proprietor. IN NEFOR D'S FLUID MAGNESIA.— thi, The medical profession for Thirty Years have approved of t e „Pure solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for Acidity of ,t 4 ,turaach, eartburn, Headache, Gout, and Indigestion; . and m e "le best mild aperient for delicate constitutions, especially Pted for Ladies, Children, and Infants. DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, 172 , New Bond-street, London; and of all other chemists throughout the world. THORLEY'S HORSE and CATTLE SPICE, In Penny Pack ets only, of all Corn Chandlers in London, and Of all Grocers, Druggists, and Corn Dealers in the Country. SAL T and CO.'S EAST INDIA PALE and BURTON ALES. Brewery—Burton-on-Trent. STORES: London—St. Pancras Station, Old St. Pancras-road, N.W. Liverpool--72, Henry-street. Manchester—Bridgewater-chambers, Brown-street. Birmingham—Old Court House, High-street. Wolverhampton-15, Snow-hill. Bristol-16, Small-street. Nottingham —44, Greyhound-street. SALT and CO.'S ALES may be obtained in casks of 18 gallons and upwards, and in glass from the principal bottlers. S A U C E.—LEA and PERRINS. THE " WORCESTERSHIRK," pronounced by Connoisseurs " THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE." Improve the appetite, and aid-4 digestion. UNRIVALLED FOR PIQUANCY AND FLAVOUR. ASK FOR " LEA AND PERR INS" SAUCE. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, and see the names of LEA and PERRINS on all bottles and labels. Agents—Crosse and Blackwetl, London, and told by all Dealers in Sauce throughout the World. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ANNAL INCOME, steadily increasi ASSUR U ANCE FUND, safely invested ng £1,649, , 000 TheSPECIAL NOTICE. NINTH BONUS will be declared in January, 1872, and all A k ith -Profit Policies in force on the 3th June, 1 8 7 1 , will participate. 4 e sur ances effected before June 30th, 1870, will participate on two ra luxas, and thus receive a whole year's additional share of °fits over later Policies. be °-- -. 13 of Prosal, Balance Sheets, and every information, can obtained fro op m any of the Society's Agents, or of GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, a Actuary and Secretary. James's-square, London, S.W. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENMAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, den and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort tta t : of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper Weights, &c., in Italian, eia raster, Parian, arble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported Is la . Manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her ?sty, 149, Strand, W.C., London. MINERALSnt arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, Ly el , and FOSSILS to illustrate the new editioil of r est Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facilitate the lute 21713tticlt of MINER A LOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had 10, 20, 50, to 50') guineas each. Lo q .„ -, CTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINERA ' 1 8 given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at 149, Strand. PARTRIDGE AND COOPER, 1 92 MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, , n t FLEET-STREET (CORNEA OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.C.) CAt P IE PUBLIC - UPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES. -111 AGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s. 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WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith, Zh a 'nesti W ' ---- FUNDS are urgently needed, and the Committee -eir Y aPpeal to the benevolent to assist them in carrying on llsef al work. T. ALEXANDER, Sec. and Sup. of LONDON HOSPITAL for DISEASES of tht CHEST, Victoria Park. - 481) -- e o cia l APPEAL for the NEW WING. lira still required, £4,000. IsZ i b i, er of beds now occupied, 120. The ' ue r of beds available with proposed addition, 164. tal l i:esPital is ent* el dependent on voluntary support. ' l.B , Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street. Oft',HENRY SEWELL, Hon. Scc. es, 2 4, Finsb • RICHARD P. SLATER, Sec. Finsbury-circus. 11 ° SY1TAL f or DISEASES o f th e THROAT, t te sidellt Golden-square, W. is It o ,. -- . -- ihe Right Hon. the Earl of STRAFFORD, F : R.S. atid atio Vital has relieved upwards of 24,000 patients slime its tt ellt e .„„.! and is in great NEED of FUNDS to meet the heavy -venses. ---._ EDMUND WYLD, Secretary. -r ' sA-141\1 ' 8 ' HOSPITAL (late Dreadnought).— kolittice is hereby given, that this HOSPITAL is now Dreadnought).-- h',wilt° the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Green : t e n a Pinitt, r ,, e any seaman, needing medical or surgical . care, will thr".fleti,„7 Personal:application, as heretofore, without in -15ved or recommendation. The Society's offices are re call the City to the same building. ]iMBALL COOK, House-Governor and Secretary. INSTITUTION for DISEASES !t au, r ,of the SKIN, Gray's-inn-road and Mitre-street. Physi- N e ' MEADOWS, 49, Dover-street, Piccadilly. Ave etterallaaber of Patients under treatment, 1000 are available for neces s it ous applicants., weekly. Free THOMAS ROBINSON, Hon. Sec. CAUTION. -POPULAR ERRO R. -PRIC L'S BENZODYNE, the newly-discovered Cure for Cough, Bron chitis, Consumption, and all wasting diseases, Cholera, Dysentery, &c., has nothing whatever to do with petroleum spirit, falsely called Benzoline, &c. This unique remedy may be obtained of all Chemists, and through the Proprietor, Mr. PniCF., Analytical Chemist, 2, Lower Seymour-sheet, London, W. Prices—is. 1 d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. Gd per bottle. DR. KING'S DANDELION and QUININE LIV.• IL PILLS (Without Mercury). The very best remedy for BILE, WIND, INDIGESTION, ACIDITY, HEADACHE, HEARTBURN, &c., And acknowledged by many eminent surgeons to be the safest and mildest pills for every constitution. In boxes at Is. lid., 2e. 9d., and 4s. 6d., at all chemists. RUPTURES-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 182), is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred Medical men to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so oaten hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe- Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and close ness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can not fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manu facturer, Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. A. Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 318.6 d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. Bd. An Um bilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, is. 10d. 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D U BARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids, and Infanta' Food , THE REVALENTA ARA:BICA, saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, and restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled—removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dyspep sia), cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, ha3morrhoids, liver complaints, flatu lency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleep lessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, and bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. 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It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, irritability, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleep lessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 78, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies, I ord Lieutenant of the County of Waterford :—" I have derived much benefit from your excellent food."—STUART DR Damn, Dromana, Cappoquin, County Waterford. Cure No 49,632. —Of fifty years' indescribable agony irom dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure No. 47,021.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervous ness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 56,854.—Mr. San.uel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea The Food is sold in Canisters. at Is lid; Ilb, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 6d; 121 b, 2s; 211 b, 40s. The 121 b and nlb canisters carriage free on receipt of P. O. Order. Also Du Barry's Revalenta Acabica Chocolate Powder is packed in tin canisters : For 2 cups at 5, for 21 cvps at s 60, for 48 cups at Cs, for 288 cups nt ios, for 570 cups at 5 5. Being about one penny per cup. She :Os and 55s tins are sent fre of c.rria_e in England on receipt of Post Office Order. BARR ." DU . BARRY and 0., 77, Regen -street, London, also at Fortnum and Mason's ' • also at 4, Cheapside ; 6 , Gracechurch-street; 63 and 50, Oxford-strect ; 121, New North-road, 1 ondon ; and all Groce s and Chemists. THE " SUN" forwarded by Morning and Evening Mail with undeviating regularity, and nelivered in Town as soon as Published. Advertisements inserted. Apply to W. ALEXANDER, 24, Old Cavendish -street, W. Established 1760. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " i supplied as soon as published, every Evening, by S. WILSON, newsagent, and special agent for the North-western District, 24, Delancey-street, Camden town, N W THE LATES I EDITION of "THE SUN" supplied as soon as published, containing all the LATEST NEWS t.nd SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by H. W. HARRIS, Newspaper Agent, 4, Blackfriars-road London. EVENING EDITION. TO THE BONDHOLDERS, DEBENTURE HOLDERS, AND CREDITORS of the ATLANTIC and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. The accompanying programme for the reorganisation of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company, having been already agreed to by a majority of the creditors holding first charges, is now presented for acceptance to all classes of cre ditors. It is probably known to the creditors generally that suits for foreclosure and sale have for some twelve months past been pending in each of the States through which the railway rims, the result of which must ultimately be a sale of the property for the satisfaction of the First mortgagees of each section, and the subsequent creditors will be completely shut out unless some arrangement be previously come to between them and the holders of the First mortgages. The present plan has been prepared with a view to such arrangement, and is believed to offer to all parties interested the most substantial justice. While preserving the general in tegrity of the prior mortgages and asking for them, in considera tion of a prompt and harmonious settlement, such concessions only as they may reasonably allow, it provides that the prospec tive increase in the resources of the Company shall be available for the benefit of those creditors• behind them. The total ca pital of the reorganized Company, as proposed in this scheme, is deemed to be quite as large in amount as it can safel y b e made ; a fact which will be evident upon comparison with the accounts of other well-organised and conservative American Railways. Upon the Ist of January of this year there were liabilities yet unpaid of the late Receivers to a considerable amount. These must in the first instance be met, and it is assumed that the entire revenues of the current year will be required to discharge this indebtedness. The bonds to be issued by the reorgnazed Company will commence to bear interest from Ist kmuary, 1871, by which date it is hoped that the reorganization will be com pleted. The payment of interest and Sinking Fund upon the New First and interest upon the'New Second Mortgages Bonds will require an annual net revenue of 1,220,000 dols. gold, after which the earnings of the line will be applicable to the payment, either partially or in full, •of the interest upon the third Mortgage Bonds which it is proposed to issue to the Consolidated Bond holders in the proportion of 75 dollars for every 100 dollars prin cipal sum of their present holdings. It is not anticipated that the revenues of the line will at present suffice to pay the full rate of seven per cent. upon these Third Mortgage Bonds, and they will therefore only draw such interest as may be actually earned in any one year. This provision is essential to protect the under taking from future embarrassments, and was adopted with much success in the reorganization of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway Company, the most successfully reconstructed railway in America. Mr. Meyer, one of the Committee named in the present plan, took a very prominent part in the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago reorganization. As regards the Share. Capital, which it is proposed to apply in settlement of various open claims, its value must depend upon the future increase of traffic, and it cannot be expected that any dividends thereon will be earned for some time. Inasmuch, how ever, as the Bondholders will have voting power, the control and management of the road will, in the meantime, remain in their hands, and the creation of this Share Capital will not prejudi cially affect their interests. To leave the control of the road in the hands of those having only a very remote intererest in its welfare would be manifestly unsafe ; but to leave to these remote interests a certain prospect of sharing in the future development of the undertaking is, as a matter of justice, not objectionable, and as a matter of policy, advisable. Creditors desiring to participate in the benefits of this re organization are requested to send in full particulars of their claims to 21, Lombard-street, in London, THE LONDON AND COUNTY BANK, FREDRIK W. OEWEL, 1 in Amsterdam, WERTHEIM AND GOMPERTZ, The United States Trust Company, in New York, ou or before the 25th June, 1870, in London and Amsterdam, and on or before the 9th July, 1870, in New York, and the varios usecurities will be hereafter collected and exchanged at the same places. The trustees for the reorganization will include in the benefits of this plan such bondholders and creditors only as shall signify their assent, and send in their securities to be stamped, by the date named. Non-assenting creditors can only have their simple legal claims for dividend out of any fund remaining in Court after foreclosure and sale. FRED. W. OEWEL, Agent and Representative of the Dutch Holders of First Mortgage Bonds. Amsterdam, 24th May, 1870. PROTOCOL FOR REORGANIZATION OF THE ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. NEW FIRST MO RTGAYABAGE, INTEREST IN GOLD. AND PRINCIPAL PAYABLE It is proposed to issue a New First Mortgage, covering the whole line of road from Salamanca to Dayton, and including all the branches and leased lines. The bonds secured by this mort gage shall have thirty-two (32) years to run—sinking fund accu mulative of one per cent.—bear seven (7) per cent. interest, pay able semi-annually, and shall have the power of voting, the same as ordinary stock in other roads ; that is, one vote for every $lOO of bonded debt represented. This mortgage shall be for $10,000,000 Gold, and be distributed as follows, viz. Ist Divisionals in hands of public .. $5,714,500 Four years over due Coupons .. .. 1,600,060 $7,314,560 7,314,560 Ist DivisionaLs in Debenture Trust .. .. $1,415,900 Four years over due Coupons .. .. 396,452 $1,812,352 1,812,352 Over due Coupons on Ist Divisionals, prior to 16th .. January, 1867 410,657 Surplus to be applied to new equipment, expenses of _ reorganization, contingencies, &c., &c. 462,431 $10,000,000 NEW SECOND MORTGAGE, INTEREST AND PRINCIPAL PAYABLE IN GOLD. It is proposed to issue a New Second Mortgage, covering the whole line of road from Salamanca to Dayton, and including all the branches and leased lines. The bonds secured by this mort gage shall have fifty (50) years to run, bear seven (7) per cent. interest, payable semi-annually, and shall have the power of voting, the same as ordinary stock in other roads ; that is, one vote for every $lOO of bonded debt represented. This mortgage shall be for $6,000,000 Gold, and be distributed as follows :- 2d Divisionals in hands of public .. $1,469,400 Four years over due Coupons .. .. 411,432 $1,880,832 1,880,832 2d Divisionals in Debenture Trust 2,438,700 Four years over due Coupons .. .. 682,836 0,121,536 3,121,536 Over due Coupons on Second Divisional, prior to 16th January, 1867 • • • • • • • • • • • • 328,262 Surplus to be applied to new equipment, expenses of reorganization, contingencies, &c., &c. 669,370 $6,000,000 NEW THIRD MORTGAGE, INTEREST AND PRINCIPAL PAYABLE IN GOLD. It is proposed to issue a New Third Mortgage, covering the whole line of road from Salamanca to Dayton, and including all the branches and leased lines. The bonds secured by this mort gage shall have fifty years to run—bear interest at such rate, not exceeding seven per centum per annum, as the net earnings here inafter defined of the said Railway, in each calendar year, may suffice to pay, after satisfying the interest and Sinking Fund on the First, and interest on the Second Mortgage Bonds of the said Company, and shall have the power of voting, the same as ordi nary stock in other roads ; that is, one vote for every $2OO of bonded debt represented. The words " net earnings," as used above, shall be construed to mean such surplus of the earnings of the said railway as shall remain after paying all the expenses of operating the said Rail way, and carrying on its business, including all taxes and assess ments and payments on incumbrances (being prior liens upon specific portions of the said mortgaged property), of completing, repairing, or replacing the said Railway, its appurtenances and equipments, so that the same shall be in high condition, and of providing such additional equipment as the said Company shall deem necessary for the business of the said Railway. This mortgage shall be for $16,500,000 gold, and shall be dis tributed as follows, viz.:— Consolidated bonds in hands of Public $18,458,00 0 75 per cent. $13,i43,500 Coupons on ditto, prior to , 16th January, 1867...... 1,000,000 75 „ 825,000 Buffalo Extension Bonds (in debenture trust) 1,382,000 par 1,382,000 $16„050,500 Surplus for contingencies and expenses of reorgani sation, &c. ..........., ........ ...... • • • • • • • • • • • • 449,500 $16,500 NEW STOCK. The amount of New Stock to be issued under the reorganizatio] shall be $12,500,000, which shall be distributed as follows 50 per cent. of nominal amount of Deben tures of 1868 ($13,000,000) • • • . $6,500,000 50 per cent, of balance of Debentures, 1864 ($7,000,000) .. • • .. 3,500,000 For other creditors and contingencies .. 2,500,000 $12,500,000 $12,500,000 The Common Stock shall be issued in shares of $lOO each, but shall have no power of voting for Directo rs, until the interest, sinking fund, and all applications of moneys provided for under the three Mortgages shall have been made. No other Bonds than those above specified shall be created, nor shall any debt be contracted exceeding in the aggregate at any one time five per cent. on the par amount of the capital stock of said Company, unless the same shall have been previously authorised by a vote of two-thirds in interest of the stock and bondholders, at a meeting duly held. There shall be a sale under foreclosure of three divisions of road from Salamanca to Dayton, and all the property belonging to the same, and at such sale the same shall be purchased for the benefit of the various parties coming into the foregoing arrange ment. The purchasing committee shall consist of four persons, who shall have general charge of the legal and other proceedings necessary to carry out the plan of reorganisation, and shall consist of the following gentlemen, who in case of vacancy shall have power to appoint their successors : L. M. MEYER (Director Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway Company). C. N. JORDAN (Third National Bank). R. C. BURLAGE (Dutch Consul-General). H. AMY (of Messrs. H. Amy and Co). Amsterdam, May 24th, 1870. FORM OF MEMORANDUM, Which will be stamped upon the Securities brought in. This Bond is held upon and subject to the conditions of a Pro tocol of reorganisation bearing date the 24th May, 1870, a printed copy of which Protocol is deposited at the London and County Bank, Lombard-street, London, and may be seen there on appli cation ; and Title to this Bond can only be transferred subject to those conditions. FORM OF MEMORANDUM, To be signed by each Creditor leaving Securities to be stamped. The undersigned of for good and valuable con siderations him thereto moving, does hereby assent and agree in respect of the several Bonds and Securities specified in the sche dule at foot hereof, and in respect of the Coupons belonging to such Bonds, to the plan of reorganisation set forth in a Protocol of reorganisation dated the 24th day of May (a printed copy of which Protocol is deposited at the London and County Bank, Lombard-street, London), and agrees upon notice by adver tisement in the " Times" London newspaper to surrender the said Bonds and Securities, and to accept in lieu thereof the new Bonds and Share Certificates respectively specified in said Protocol as exchangeable therefor. And the said does hereby authorise Lewis H. Meyer, C. N. Jordan, Rudolf C. Burlage, and Henry Amy, all of New York City, or the survivors or survivor of them, and any person or persons to be named and appointed by the major part of them in the place of any one or more of them dying, resigning, or becoming incapable, to act as his agents, and on his behalf to carry into execution the said plan of reorganization. And the Bonds and Securities named in the annexed Schedule are herewith delivered to the London and County Banking Company, to be accordingly stamped with a Memorandum referring to the said Protocol, in order that the title to such Bonds and Securities may hereafter only pass subject to such Agreement. Dated this day of One thousand eight hundred and seventy (Signed) TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Tile Proprietor of the' .I._ CENTRAL PRESS furnishes Telegraphic News to Newspap( r Proprie,ors, to the Mant.gers,of Clubs, Exchanges, News Rooms, Reading Rooms, and Hotels. GENE RA L NEWS. —Four services_ are _supplied daily. 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It is noticeable that all the leading Liberal papers resist the motion of Mr. Watkin Williams to dis establish the Church in Wales on the ground, not that it is desirable to have such a Church, but that it is inexpedient to deal with the English and the Welsh establishments separately. Says the Times, "Eng land and Wales are absolutely one ; the Church is one throughout the island south of the Tweed, and it is impossible to • legislate with respect to it in departments. The sub ject must be taken as a whole." The Daily News is more outspoken, and declares that the Church of England is only in a legal sense the Church of Wales. It is not the religious home of the people, and its ministers are not their teachers and guides. The Telegraph declares that Dissent is the su preme power in the Principality, and it has steadily gathered strength down to our time ; until, by Mr. Gladstone, its adherents are computed to be now four times as many as those of the Church—by Mr. Williams to be six times—and by other students of the subject to be eight or nine times. It would bo futile to conceal the gravity of this fact; but still the subject cannot be dealt with piecemeal. If the Church in Wales be disestablished there is no reason why the Church in Cornwall should not follow. Injury-to the Telegraph Wires. The appeal which Mr. Scudamore has thought it necessary to make to "schoolmasters and all those who have the charge of youths," with reference to the practice of stone-throwing at telegraph wires reveals a destructive spirit among the boys of England, the positive existence of which it is hard to believe in. That an insulator here and there was wilfully aimed at and destroyed is possible and even natural, but that "500 insulators were wantonly broken in the course of six weeks at Newcastle," and one hundred and fifty smashed "in the same period between Loughborough and Leicester," causes serious astonishment. In the name of all that is vigilant, what were the telegraph authorities doing when they allowed the work of demolition to proceed at the places mentioned, after the first weeks' damages ? Ordinary minds would have imagined that after twenty-five insulators had been destroyed, " between Loughborough and Leices ter," an inspector or two would have been detailed to watch for the ladtras who perpeted the outrage. The Massacre at Uxbridge. The terrible series of murders, which have been perpetrated at a small cottage in one of the prettiest villages in Middlesex, has startled the public mind into a state of horror and shame. That in enlightened and happy England there was a per son having so little fear of God or man as to murder helpless women and innocent children one after the other, and so much of the beast-like craving for blood in him as to lose even his identity as a man at all, has before been testified to by the author, De Quincy, tut in late years those old horrors recorded in the annals of England have been either attributed to the ignorance and brutality of the times or partially disbelieved in, and the recurrence of such atrocities has been looked upon as an impossibility. The Pantin tragedy, how ever, prepared Englishmen for the foul deeds which have now been accomplished within a few miles of the English capital—hideous deeds which only rival in barbarity the wholesale murders perpe trated by the sailor referred to by .1)e Quincy, but the circumstances of this new holo caust even leave that diabolical and ghastly butchery far behind in the shade. The name of the sailor was Williams. He had " yellow hair, fierce eyes, haggard face, and a manner like the fawning of a hungry beast of prey." It is said that it was for the sake of revenge that this demon entered a tradesman's house in Ratcliffe Highway in 1812, and murdered the husband, wife, apprentice, and little child, and for the sake of plunder, his bloody appetite being whetted, that he a fortnight afterwards put to death the proprietor of a dwelling-house in the same neigh bourhood, his wife, and a young servant girl, How to Deal with Vagrants. Mr. Charles S. Smith, the Secretary of the New castle Mendicity Society, points out a method by which that town has been cleared of mendicants, and suggests its adoption in other places. He says that all applicants are referred to a central office by means of small printed paper tickets, perforated sheets of which are distributed to every householder in the town with an earnest request that nothing be given to any beggar but one such ticket. At the central office the mendicants are examined by a comyetent officer, and if worthy they are suitably relieved. Every applicant, however unworthy, receives as much bread as he can eat on the premises ; but no vagrant is relieved more than once. If he appear a second time, he is handed over to the police. The result of this system, Mr. Smith says, has been that scores of professional mendicants have left the town, which, instead of being sorely infested with beggars, now enjoys absolute immunity from their wearisome appeals. Copyright in Fine Arts. The vexed question of copyright has been brought forward, at the Mansion House, in respect to the infringement of certain photographic rights. The defendant was charged with copying a photograph belonging to the London Ste reoscopic Company representing the popular actress Mrs. Rousby as Lady Elizabeth in " 'Twixt Axe and Crown." The original had an enormous sale, and the copyright of the photograph was valu able. The same firm took a photograph of the American poet Longfellow, which the de fendant also copied. This photograph was also a valuable one, as might be expected from the English admiration for the author of "Evangeline." The prosecutor said that no copy could ever equal the original photograph, however skilfully done. The case against the defendant was not concluded, but it is interesting as shewing the general anxiety which exists to obtain the like ness of any person distinguished from the rest. The Greek brigands of European notoriety are now sharing our shop windows with statesmen, philoso phers, and ecclesiastics. The Bishop of London's Fund. The report of the executive committee presented at the quarterly board meeting of the Bishop of London s Fund shews an improvement in every way. Owing to the large sum (amounting to £0,500) which it was necessary to pro vide in the first instance for the staff of clergy and lay agents during the current year, the committee have been prevented from making any new grants during the last four months. This amount has now been provided and the grants will be resumed at the vote meeting of the 31st inst. It appeared that the total amount of receipts for the year has been £13,062, of which £9,149 is new money. The legacy of £lO,OOO lately bequeathed to the fund by a gentle man will be in the hands of the treasurer by April next year. The total amount paid and promised amounts in round numbers to £402,000. English Travellers Captives Again. . telegram from Madrid informs us that "aband of brigands, or marauders, have captured four English men near Gibraltar. It may astonish some minds to learn, moreover,that the Government, quite forgetful of possible slaughter on the Greek pattern, have sent troops in pursuit, with the view of rescue. It is, however, well to know that the appearance of brigands in the Peninsula has been unexpected, and it is hoped that, as they are few in number, they will not dare to offer resistance to the soldiers, or resort to murderous extremities in the face of the terrible punishment, which would assuredly follow if they did. Conference of Christians of all Nations. President Grant, Vice-President Colfax, and Mr. Fish, the American Secretary of State, have forwarded a gratifying letter to the London secre tary of the Conference of Christians of all nations. They say that, having heard of the intended general conference of eminent divines, learned professors, and others from foreign countries and their own, to be held in New York in September next, under the auspices of the Evangelical Affiance, they have great pleasure in evincing their interest in that important assemblage of great and good men. They state their approval of the objects contemplated by it, and express a hope that its deliberations may tend to the advancement of civil and religious liberty, and the promotion of peace and good-will towards men. ra.9 l ?, r i ' a fullY Cook e 1 d the L a nla n ; lck poo+ fire a )risolier Live r a s bee n rathe r oast of trial `' n . v itucl,„e' lio v/ e r late ~ frail st bee/1 , ee d 00 r e , of k for " .1010 Ga l / Fr e"' t 0'4 , 1 1 El so' dy is ii°`' 21b ATS OCO' r 44 :0 6 ; 3$ 00' s. 'Clo' a 41 06 3V. be F , S C Vai ha rt'? Ir v . ier , 1)116) ,iic itorf RE 1 0f fo. oti • The Division. Seotehmen, Welshmen, Irishmen, and Radicals generally joined together to promote the disesta blishment of the Church in Wales. Alas ! they mustered only 45, and tellers, against 209 ; but there were many stout hearts amongst them. For, instance, Mr. Whalley is in favour of disestablishment, so is Mr. Taylor, the im placable White, and Fawcett of Brighton, Mr. T. B. Potter, and Mr. Jacob Bright. Mr. Candlish, and Mr. Cave, of Barnstaple, voted in favour of Mr. Watkin Williams. On the other side was a vast array of Liberals and Conservatives combined. Mr. Miall did not take part in the division. The Laws of Horse Racing. In the division which followed Mr. Hughes's motion to amend the laws of horse racing, in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening, 132 members voted in favour of the measure, while the Noes only numbered 44. Several prominent Conservatives, including Lord Claud Hamilton, Mr. S. R. Graves, Mr. Assheton Cross, Captain Archdall, and Mr. John Hardy, supported Mr. Hughes, while in the opposition list the names of Mr. Barclay, the Right lion. Wm. Cogan, Mr. John Locke, Colonel Kingscote, Mr. Alfred Seymour, and Mr. Seely, appear. Law Digest Commission. A. second report of the Digest of Law Com mission has been printed. In the first report the commissioners explained the grounds for their opinion that a digest of the law was expedient, and in order to avoid the immediate out lay of a large sum of money in appointing a Com mission to execute the work, they advised that small portions of the Digest as speci mens of the whole work should be attempted. In this second report the commissioners give the result of their experience in the three subjects they selected to begin a digest upon, namely bills of exchange, mortgages, and easements. Three gentlemen of the Bar assisted the commissioners in their undertaking, and laid before them materials of considerable value, which have enabled them to form conclusions as to the conduct of the whole work. The commissioners, however, have come to the conclusion that it would be unadvisable to continue any further thcir mode of proceeding, inasmuch as they found that the examination and supervision of the materials put before them would involve serious delay and vast expense, while on the other hand they were satis fied that the specimens would again have to be revised, and perhaps recast, when the time arrived for inserting them as portions of a complete and sys tematic work. The commissioners, therefore, express their opinion that it is expedient that three skilled persons should be engaged, at high remuneration, to undertake the duty of executing the digest as a whole, and that they should in their labour act under such directions and control either of a committee of the Privy Council, or otherwise, as her Majesty may think fit. To this recommendation one of the commissioners, Sir James Shaw Willes, appends his dissent. Although agreeing that a first rate modern digest of English law is to be desired (for professional men) he thinks it will when made, after all be only a makeshift for a code, or rather series of codes. This is the gro undof his objection. Women Electors. Miss Lydia Becker is not going to allow the defeat of the .Women's Disabilities Bill to be passed over in silence, or without investigation. Mr. Love Jones Parry, member for Carnarvonshire, is the first voter on Mr. Bouverie's side who has been taunted with faithlessness to a cause which Miss Becker asserts he " distinctly pledged himself to support." He rece ived a letter from that lady, and he replies that his devotion to the Liberal party caused him, reluctantly, to vote against his interests and the ladies. Without en tering into the gallantry of this course, it may be noticed that Mr. Parry's excuse is an old one, a refutation of which Mrs. Fawcett has already attempted to make. He says in North Wales all the women are Liberals, whereas in Bath and other places they are Conservatives. He considered, therefore, that if he was to vote for the enfranchise ment of electors who, in certain boroughs, constituted a large Conservative majority, he would be tending to uphold his enemies to the danger of his party. Of course that answer will not satisfy the ladies, but Miss Becker does not, as might have been anti cipated, pooh-pooh the hon. member's attempt to get himself out of a fix. She acts very honourably in the matter for, in her letter of comment, she merely observes that many of the members may have been induced to vote against lady electors on the same grounds as Mr. Parry, and ex presses an opinion that women had a right to expect that votes would be given on the merits of the case, and not out of party considerations. Mr. Bruce and the Ducks. The Telegraph is highly indignant with our un lucky Home Secretary for his conduct about the stolen ducks; whose fate has excited so much comment. A half witted man of excellent character was convicted of stealing them, on slender grounds. Subsequently two other men were convicted of the theft, and the magi strates of Trowbridge, where the affair took place, became uneasy as to the justice of their first sen tence. They accordingly sent up the depositions on both sides for the opinion of the Home Secretary. Unluckily for the first defendant, Mr. Bruce's scep ticism as to muriers does not extend to thefts. He thinks it quite possible, as he told the House of Com mons, that three men might be engaged in stealingtwo ducks, and comfortably disposed of the matter by condemning all alike. Brittan, the half-witted man, was, he thought, employed by the others to fetch the two ducks out of their hiding-place. The Telegraph wishes to know whether Brittan'e previoue PRICE 1 d. STAMPED 2d. The Great American Trial, The particulars of the M'Farland trial in Ne w York have been already laid before the public on this side of the Atlantic,but some of the details of its conclusion are singular enough to deserve comment. Mrs. M'Farland, the unhappy heroine of the tragedy, has written a long statement describing the miseries of her married life since she first dis covered M'Farland's habit of drinking, and giving the particulars of her acquaintanc e with Richardson. A lette: written by Richardson in 1807, after M‘Far land's first attempt on his life, and marked not to be opened until after his death, is added to the statement. It confirms in a great measure Mrs. M'Farland's story. This letter was referred to during the trial, but was not allowed to be put in. Mrs. M'Farland gave her statement to the editor of the New York Tribune, which has throughout warmly espoused her cause, Richardson having been a pro minent contributor to that paper, and having been shot while standing in its office. She stipulated that it should not be published until after the close of the trial, that it might not affect the verdict. The trial concluded on Tuesday, the 10th, and the day following the statement was published. the eagerness to obtain it was some thing wonderful, even for New York. The office of the Tribune was besieged, and large sums given for copies. The presses were incessantly at work throughout the day, but were unable to keep pace with the popular demand, so the statement was stereotyped and printed on a separate sheet. Strange stories are told of the efforts made by rivals in the press to Obtain early copies. The Tribune declares that an editor of the New York Sun offered one of their employes two dollars for a sheet, but was imposed upon by an old page with a pasted heading ! The Tribune offers to return the money it the dupe will call at the office for it ! PARIS CORRESPONDENCE. TUESDAY EVENING. The Central Committtee of the Plebiscite of 1870 have issued the following circular : " Yielding to numerous and pressing solicitations, the Central Committee of the Plebiscite of 1870 asked permission from the Government to form itself into a permanent association, with the object of rendering all future administra tive intervention in the election of Deputies use less, according to the views expressed in the Minis terial declaration of February last in the Corps Legislatif. M. le Garde des Sceaux having, however, informed them that they could not receive the necessary authorisa- tion, the committee have no alternative but to consider their work accomplished, and to dissolve,which they have now done. The debate on the new Press Law was resumed in the Corps Legislatif on Monday, when the articles which had been referred to the committee, were discussed. The first article which reserves for the court of assize, political and press offences, was the subject of an amendment by M. Laroche Foubert, who insisted that the offences meant should be plainly specified. M. Genton, the reporter of the committee, having declared that this proposition was simply impractiCable, the amendment was rejected, and Article 1 read as it stood. Article 2, providing that offences of libel or verbal defamation, and certain other press of fences, shall remain under the jurisdiction of the correctional police, gave rise to an animated discus sion. M. Cremicux had an amendment on the paper to modify the effect of the clause, but M. Grevy adopted the shorter and more efficacious method of suggesting its abolition altogether. The great point at issue was whether the police should have jurisdiction over any offences of the kind, and M.M. Gr6vy and Cremieux, as you may suppose, fought vigo rously for the rights of the gentlemen of the tribune and the pen. The former indignantly denounced the arbitrary division of offences of this class into three degrees of cri minality, and declared that in regard to press offences everything was conventional. There was hardly ever any question of actual morality or public virtue, but only a matter which was innocent or guilty according to the intention of the, writer. National freedom, concluded M. Grdvy, consists in making a nation and applying its laws itself." The second condition is no less necessary than the first. Measure the part which the jury plays in the application of the laws, and the part which the country plays in the making of the laws, and you will know what distance separates us from liberty !" (Loud applause from the Left.) M. Philis, State Councillor and Commissary of the Government, followed M. Grevy in an eloquent speech, and defended the Government measure, which he said was introduced as a concession to the wishes of the Opposition. He was also loudly applauded. M. Cremieux, who accepted M. Grevy's improvement on his amendment, reminded the Government that to give with one hand and withdraw with the other, was held to be no gift at all. He saw, he said, with the greatest re gret that at the present moment a large number of press prosecutions were being conducted before the Correctional Tribunal, and that they were usually followed by convic tions. The prisons no longer sufficed for the prisoners (a fact confirmed by M. Pelletan, who stated that two detenus had been put in one cell. If these convictions, added M. Cremieux, were the work of a jury, we should regret, but respect them. Coming from the 'correctional tribunals, they were afflicting on behalf of the magistrates no less than of the accused. Let the trials be removed to the cognizance of a jury, and then let them see how many acquittals there would be. However, the Ministry which had distributed four million journals throughout the country to secure Oui need not surely fear such acquittals. The discussion continued for some time, but I need not tell you that little alteration was made in the form of the bill. YACHTING. THE SAPPHO AND CAMBRIA. We, Bell's Life, are informed that Mr. Douglas, the owner of the Sappho, has challenged the Cambria to sail a return match, to consist of two races, each sixty miles to windward and back. In one race Mr. Douglas offers to give the Cambria allowance for difference of tonnage according to the Royal Thames Yacht Club measurement, and in the other according to the New York Yacht Club measurement. ROYAL HARWICH YACHT CLUB. The entries for the Ocean Race, on Saturday next, from Southend to Harwich, for the Commodore's Cup, closed on Saturday. The Commodore of the club (Mr. J. Ashbury) will accompany the yachts in his schooner, the Cambria, which will lie in Harwich Harbour till after the club regatta, which takes place on Monday, May 30. The regatta promises to be the most successful the club ever held. The Duchess of Montebello, Lady of Honour to the Empress, has just died after a long and painful illness. The General went himself to announce the sad event to the Empress. The Church Herald announces that the long talked-of meeting to promote the re-union of Christendom is to take place next month. Lord Eliot has consented to take the chair, and the meeting will be held at Willis's Rooms. At the quarter sessions of the county of Chester, the chief constable reported that - foot and mouth disease was spreading among the cattle in the county. Last week there was an increase of 200 cases, and in the pre vious week of 300. The Rev. Mr. Jackson, of Ledbury, writes to the Sheffield Telegraph to say that the demonstration of from 800 to 1,000 of his parishioners in his favour was quite spontaneous, and did not consist of the rabble, as his enemies have said. Mr. Theed has moulded in the clay his colossal statue of Sir Robert Peel for Huddersfield. The de ceased statesman is represented as standing and speak ing, dressed in the handsome official robes of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, CASES IN THE DIVORCE COURT.—On Tuesday the list of business for the Divorce Court for the term now commencing was issued. It contains as many as 142 cases, of -which thirteen are to be tried by special juries, thirty by common juries, and ninety-nine without juries. A great improvement in the crops is reported from many parts of especially from Meath and Louth. " It is gratifying," says a correspondent, "to be able to State that up to the present we have not been for many years favoured with more hopeful prospects," The Tamar will on the let inst. embark at Ports mouth discharged dockyard workmen and their families as emigrants for conveyance to Canada. Th e C roco dil e, at Portsmouth, is preparing for the embarkation, about the 7th prox., of discharged dockyard workmen and their families for conveyance to Canada. The late Mark Lemon, being a married man and having a numerous family, had effected an insurance upon his life of £5,000. One of the daughters of the deceased in 1866 was married to Mr. Robert Romer, who was senior wrangler at Cambridge in the year 1863, and who is now Professor of Mathematics in the Queen's College at Cork, r w. 0