The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-31 00:00:00

REMEMTIER! WE WAIT SUPPER for you of er the Covent Garden Opera, at }.VANS'. Fail not A. wit i vAlN "S .LI, WHISKY V. COGNAC t m BP.ANDY. --A - , oe . le Old IRIS II WHISKY rivals the finest 11 . 1 ' TAY, v • re;-ZL4 ellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. tottle4,l6s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by ats in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale g, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. • 01;serye the Red . Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded o ,liinahan's LL Whisky." • ESTABLISHED 1837, fl LIFE JL COMPANY. Empowered by special Act of Parliament 4 Viet., cap. 9. ASSURANCE 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted at the lowest rate , of 1.)•e - rdurn consistent with security. The various T.;bles, some of whica are peculiar to this Com pany, 'have buca stuuiously adapted to the requirements of every class of Assurers. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. ruitiE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND _II GLOBE INSUIZ A.NCE COMPANY. • Established 1330. Offices-1, Dale, , treet, Liverpool; 23 and 21, Pouliry, 7, Cornhill, and 50, Charing-cress, London. . (Empowered Special:y by Parliament.) INVESrED FUNDS EXCEED £3.0(0,030 STERLING. lly an Act of the last Session of Parliament, the Globe Insurance Company of London was amalgamated. as from the 29th September, !SC2, with the Liverpool and London Com pa,,y, rnd by a clause in the Act the name of the latter Com pany was subsequently changed to THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON. AND GLOBE INSURANCE CO.MPANY. The CAPITAL of the Company is Two Millions, of which £390,001 is paid up and invested ; and in addition there are Reserve Funds, which, independently of the Life Reserve, amount to £1,200,000.. • F I lI,E INS IJRANCE.—The Premiums in 1803 exceeded £580,000, and were c reator than those of any other Company by upwards of £200,000. The position in the Duty Return will be understood from the following statement:— The Sun, established in 1710, collected duty in 1863, £215,000 The Phoenix „ 1782, ,I „ 138,00) The Liverpool and) ~ ~, 133,000 London and Globe j —"" ~ ~ *whilst no other Company collected as much a 5...... 00,000 LIFE INSURANCE—The Premiums received ia 1863 Were £200,510, and the Annuities paid amounted to £33,500. The Fund accumulated to meet these Liabilities is L 1,450,000. The Liab lity of Proprietors is unlimited. SWINTON BOIJLT, Secretary to tile Company. JOHN ATLANTIC • AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Offices-2, Old Broad-street, Lond , m, E.C. ISSUE OF SECOND MORTGAGE BONDS, (Ohio Division) . .- Payable in London. V- 4,C00,000 Dollars. Due in 1 8 83 , Coupons due let January and Ist July. Secured by a Registered Mortgage on the Income and all Corporate Itizlits, Pi ivileges, Lends, Franchises, Plant, and Property of the Ohio Division of the Railway. The Bonds are redeemable at par in New York, or in Lon don at 4s. 6d. per dollar. and are transferable widiout stamp or endorsement ; Interest Coupons are attached to the Bonds, payable semi- annu-l-y, - at the Cons lidated Bank in London, at the fixed rate of 4s. to _the dollar. The Bonds will be 'salad at 66, at w'h - ch rate Bonds of 1,00,0 dollars vlll COst , i , £l , lBl.lose,lorrt/nk Coupons due January - 1;1865. - - The, couppns represent £l4 per annum on each Bond of '• I,OW Collhls,bi 94 Icel. pent interest on prize of issue. . -4 ':Tlie-ueveral diVisiOns of the Atlantic and Great Western .., Ititilay have beep c , nottlicia' ed . . under the government of . • Jame Robb, Esq., whose reputjimv, as a Banker and Rail , way Adriiiiistrator is 'eatabfighetf in'Eifrope as well as in I Ameriet.4.44.Watil.as President Ot , the. , .Allantic And Great 'Wes tetnAoatga - y;jdins the Direction) of the Erie and other lifrea.ft , lMMtlid"Tlirouzh Route bet Ween new York and St. -4 al; to secure unity of action. , -, -•— , . ' Oprice of issue has bv 4 n,fixed (6. ' . . I • robi e terms of issue are as follows --, ' ,^-4. Ati , di ''-- -•---- - 7 . ~,... .. c : 7 :i . i4 7 f , Perecut‘etiCaPPWatlott,letnol.l 51) per bond of 1040 dole. ~ lu „ on allotment , 2ZJO 0 „ i al5 19th NoVember s ',7 "33 'l5 0 ~ ~ _ , 15 ,„;.!:'x 19th D..eetittier4; , , , .33 .15 0 „ • - „„aet'a Januaty,... . ;;... i'7, -5 0 less £7 CouPon!due` , • ' 4- IA011111i:17 ~,y ' k „ -'4, - .,- lie--; , - . , , -4 , ) xi-i-wio 0 • ' , . SW:n:om have the optiouvitpaying• the, instalment!, in • adviio;and will be allowed adi,sconnt of 9.per cent ~per,anr" f.r.-- • ~‘CUra on-ouch pre-payme s n. a:- , • '' ' ' a,. , fi;',AfW",;all.Qtrilejit,: .Scrip:.: Certificates. will,-be issued, to " lrarer."„ir These Certificates...Wi II .13e exchar ged for Bonds (' I' tt) `.beater" onpa l ymt;lit - ofthe'ilear instalment.' , , 1 FochwoirApplication nlitY toe tbtalued at the-Consolidated Eank,orat the offices .of the Company, No: 2, 914 Broad ). - -, l . tiletet, .Lo . liqn;_,JlC.,'"oi • of ."- ,- -...-. , 1.. ..,, ~ - . , i ~ Z."F. PAT/ 1 14:;HT4TWAITE,"Broker, • ' '-. ~. I ! B.',,..TlirOgrnorlofi-strep.t, London, E.C. ' 7. '' LOndon, Oct. 12, 1804. I' ‘A'N'Tif a- i ,N, nd - GREAT • WESTER - . . A -RAILWAY: 4—lsstie -.of , SECOND -.MORTGAGE' BONDS, . paya 4 l9 ,hu l.xiAlon. NOT,' CH, 'di lIER EB IC ' GIVEN, That no Apnlication for these Bonds will be! re ceived atter TII IS' DAY, • Oc t. - 31. ' By Order. No. 2, Old Broad-street, October 31, 1844. . . THE NORTHERN- ASSAM TEA COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated and r the Companies' Act, 1812. Capital £200,000, in 20,C00 shares of £lO each. First issue, 15,000 shares. 40z. per share on.appl 7 cation ; 10s. on allotment. No Call to exceed 10s. per share, or to ba made at a less interval than „three raxatlis from a prev , cus Call. It is not intended to call up More than 30s. per share f r twelve months. AFllere no allotment is mide the deposit money will be re turned in full. piil4lll24,,Pividend payable :half-ear. ••in'•July and. .1 - aim:try, of 10 per cent. per aTinurn, for Three years, Is secured to the shareholders, to the satisfaction of tue Direc ors. DIRECTORS. E. W. Wingrove, Esq., Chairman (late Mackerzie, Lyall, and Co., Calcutta). I' rciral Battiscombe, Esq., Sevcnoaks, Kent. *E. if. Higgs, Esq., Instow, North Devon, and Dibrooghur, Assam. :7:.tavely King, E`q•• 39, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square. J. tV. Mitcbell, Esq. (Messrs. Mitchell and Aspinall), 8, Great Tower-street, B.C• Cu!. T. 11. Sissmorc, Bengal Artillery, Houghton Lodge, Stockbra4c. J, II Young, Esq., B.C.S.,late Commissioner Burdwan Divi sion, Bengal. * This gentleman will join the Board as Managing Direct .r when the transfer of the Estates is completed. CALCUTTA AGENTS. Messrs. Thomson, Shaw, and Co. BANKERS. The London and County Bank, Lombard-street. The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, Calcutta. SOLICITORS. • Messrs. So7e, Turners, and Hardwick, 63, Al 'crmanbury. lIROKERS. Messrs, Seymour and Co, 38, Throgmorton-street. SECRETARY PRO TEM. Mr. C. 11. Fielder. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 35, Ducklersbury, Loudon, E.C. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. This Company is formed for the purchase of Twelve valu able Tea Estates, situated in Northern Assam, on the south side of the Brahmapo tra river, at distances varying from two and a half to ten miles from Dibroog,hur, the principal shipping port of Upper Assam. The purchase money is fixed at £s4,(oo,.payalie .£7,00 In cash, and the residue by four annual instalments, commencing in January, 183, , _4, witti interest at 5 per cant. The vendor has substantially guaranteed to the directors a minimum dividend of 10 per cent. on the paid-up capital during the first three years ; but from the estimates of pro duce and expenses, which have been carefully examined, the directors are justified in anticipating of er the first yearcon siderably larger dividends. The Articles of Association end Cmstract with Mr. Riggs may be seen at the Offices of the Company. Applications for Shares to be made on or before Monday, 31st October, 18:',4, on whioh date the list wi.l be closed. T EI E NORTHERN ASSAM TEA COMPANY (Limited). NOTICE.—No application for Shares in this Company wLI be received after Tlll6 DAY, Oct. 31. By order, C. IL FIELDER, Secretary, pro tem. Temporary Offices-35, Bucklersbury, London, E.C., 31st October, 1861. rp EE T H.—Mr. ESKELL'S PATENT, —The It exclusive right to this Patent was secured to Mr. Eskell, of Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, by liar Ma jesty's Roval -cal (July 17, 18G0), and can only be procured at his residence, whe e specimens maybe seen, and every infor m,,tion can be obtained. Under this Patent, Artificial Teeth, to last a lifetime, are made, and fitted in a few hours without pain or extrwitions. They support loose teeth , and protect tender gums; their resemblance to nature is perfect and un detectable, and they are guaranteed for mastication and articulation. Treatise on the subject sent for seven stamps. Consultations free. OPINIONS OF VIE PRESS. "711 - r. dental-surgeon, has succeeded in producing artificial teeth, and so constructing . them that they last their purpose a lifetime. . . . The process has been patented, and promises to be most valuable. Court Journal, August 4, 1850. "A surprising novelty in the adaptation of artificial teeth to the gum by a patented principle, which secures the most periect aid, combined with the greatest eas 0 e l a B6o nd agreeable a ppearance." —Morning Advertiser, August , . Decayed teeth stopped, &o. Terms strictly moderate. 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street. THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER. The REAL NICKEL SILVER, introduced more than thirty years ago by WILLIAM S. BURTON, when PLATED by the patent process of Messrs. Elkington and Co., is, beyond all comparison, the very best article, next to sterling silver, that can be employed as such, either use fully or ornamentally, as by no possible test can it be distin guished from real silver. A small useful set, guaranteed of first quality for finish and durability, as follows : Fiddle Thread King's or Old Bead' or Brun or Silver Pattern swick Lily —_--. Pattern Pattern Sze. -- £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.l £ s. d. 12 Table Forks ............ 1 13 0 2 0 0 2 4 0! 2 10 0 12 Table Spoons .......... 1 13 0, 2 0 0 2 4 0 2 10 0 12 Dessert Forks .......... 1 4 0; 1 10 0 1 12 0 1 15 0 12 Dcssert Spoons ........1 4 () 1 10 0 1 12 0, 1 15 0 12 Tea Spoons 6 Egg Spoons, gilt bowls 0 10 0 1 0 12 0 0 12 0 01 0 11 0 1 0 0 13 3 6 2 Sauce L a dles 0 6 0 , 0 8 0 0 8 0 010 0 0 1. G r avy Spoon 0 0 6 1 0 2 Salt Spoons, gilt bowls 0 3 4' 0 4 0 0 4 01 0 4 6 1 Mustard Spoon, gilt bowl 0 1 8. 0 2 0 0 2 0; 0 2 3 1 Pair of Sugar Tongs 026.0360 3 6! 0 4 0 1 Pair of Fish Carvers-- 1 4 0; 1 10 0 1 1 0 0' : , 0 ;1 10 6 1 Butter Knife 0 2 6' 0 4 0 0 5 6; 0 6 0 1 Soup Ladle ........ 0 3 0 4 61 1 046 0 5 6 0 10 0 0 19 0 0 16 0; 0 17 0 " 1 Sugar Sifter ;-- 1 T0ta1.... 010 o'l'2 0 o! 13 9 014 17 3 Any article to be had singly at the same prices. An oak chest to contain the above, and a relative number of knives, £2 15s. Tea and coffee sets, dish covers and cornerdishes, cruet and liqueur frames, &e., at proportionate prices. All kinds of re-plating done by the patent process. WILLIAM S. BURTON, GENERAL FURNISHING IRONMONGER, by appointment to H.R.H. th • Prince of Wales, ►ends a CA TA LOG URI grati4. and post paid. It contains unwards c f GOO Illustrations of his illimited Stock of Sterling Silver and Electro Plate, Nickel Silver aid Britannia Metal Goods, Dish Covers, Hot-water Dishes, Stoves, Fenders, Marble Chimneypieces, Kitchen ju w w, Lamps, Gaseliers, Tea Trays, _Urns, and Kettles, Clocks, Table Cutlery, Baths Toilet Ware, Turnery, Iron and Brass Bedsteads, Bedding, Bed-room Cabinet Furniture, &e., wi h Lists of Prices, and P ans of the Twenty large Show Rooms, at 39, Oxfor'd-street, W. ;1, 2,3, and 4, Newman street ; 4,5, and 6, l'erry's-place; and 1, Newman-yard, London. PIGS! PIGS! PIGS!-INDIAN PIG MEAL, without husks, supplied to the Royal farms , Windsor, and in every county in England, IGs 6d per cwt. ; one cwt. equal to 14 cwt. barley or any meal. Delivered free in Lon don. Established 1858.— THOMAS PEARCE, Manager, 66, Lant-street, Southwark. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing - room, Library , And Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &a., in Italian; Alabas er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &o. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine• ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly f ac ilitate Vie interesting study of MIN ERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY, ind GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand. W.C. PRIZE MED AL.—INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &0., &0., To the Queen and the Prince of Wales. (Established 1720.) The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862, testifies to he excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' manufacture. A disti❑guished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says:-- " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, _ I com mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with tatted Wicks, patented.. 2s, Id. per lb. Ordinary quality .. .. is. Od. per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a mixture of Wax. Best quality .. ls. sd. per lb. Second quality is. 3d. per lb. Third quality .. ls. Id. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., 8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of the day, A GUA AMAEELL A. Messrs. JOHN GOS NELL and CO., 3, Kinr-court, Lombard street, London, Perfumols to her Majesty, respectfully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid. which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in pet feet colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, Its. 63. Testimonials from ari istes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted respectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosncll and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princes 5 of Wales. R. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre ,;ared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. cott, of liromley, hent,will be found invaluable to all who uffer from bilious and liver complaints, irrlig2sticn, wind, ,palm®, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &o. For habitual ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier f the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and grAteful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stitmp. N°. 22,575. Now ready, in 2 vols , Svo., with Portrait, T HE HON. GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S LIFE AND RECOLLECTIONS. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. To be had at all the Booksellers and Libraries. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE MASTER OF MARTON. "This work will take a very high place amorg the novels of the season. It is well written, and has an interest in r The dialogue throughout is good, sparkling every where with geniality and wit."—Star. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vole., THE 'QUEEN OF THE COUNTY , By the Author of "Margaret and her Bridesmalds,"ti c "'The Queen of the County' is a novel of the first class. It is a story of exciting interest, and a delightful study of female character. Independently of its interesting plot, an elevated mo-al tone and great literary ability give it accu mulated claims to a place in s andard literature."—Post. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in:crown Bvo., with a Portrait of the Princess, Gs, 31EMOIRS of HENRIETTA CARACCIOLO, of the Princes of Forino, ex-Benedictine Nun. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET," &O. FOURTH EDITION, READY, E DOCTOR!S WIFE John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. NEW NOVEL BY GUSTAVE ADIARD. This Day, in 3 vols., THE BEE-HUNTRESS By GUSTAVE AIMARD. Pubilfsherg, 122, FlOt-street. A NI.W NOVEL BY A NEW AUTHOR. This day, in 3 vols., GASPER TRENCHARD, By BRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG, Barrister-at-Law. John Maxwell and Co., Fublishers, 122, Fleet street. A NEW NOVEL BY A NEW AUTHOR. Oth Thoussnd, price Is., DR. HARVEY ON CORPULENCE.—Its diminution and cure without injury to health, with Remarks upon the Maladies produced by obesity. CANCER and CONSUMPTION. New and painless treat ment. Price Is. By Jorm HARVEY, M.D., 9, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square. Smith and Co., 5?, Long-acre. rir HE SOLDIEreg: LEGACY.—Mr. GERMAN REED'S New tirtieri'di Camera TO-NIGHT, at Eight, entitled THE SOLPIERIS LEGACY, composed by G. A. Macfarren, Esq , and written .by Jbhn Oxentord. .t.sq., in 'which Miss R. Uenderson, Mr. Witiffin, Mr. P. A. Shaw, and Miss Poole (by the kind permission 'Ol the New Opera Com pany), will appear. Concluding:Witi TOO MANY COOKS, sustained by Mi's D'Este Finlayson, Mr. J. A. Shaw, and Mr. Willi:dn.—ROYAL GALLERY of ILLUSTRATION, ,14, Regent-street. Unreserved ' , Seats, ls., 25. ; stalls, 3s. ; stall chairs, ss. ; may be secured in advance without fee. F 0 R 1), T 6, OXFO'RD D STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury H9ll Company (limited). THIS ,EVENING;wiII be oroduced (fifth time in this country), ORPHEE XXIX ENFERS, by Offenbach. MASANIELLO, IiARTHA, LA TROVATORE, and THE FAVOR ITE, ,by the tollow Ina - Artistes, viz., Misses Russell, Fitz-Henry,Walmsley, Tyrrell, (tc. With augmented Band and Chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jong - hmans. Mr. JACKSONJIA:NES, the Champion Skater, in his per formanc, •on the Brawing Room Skates, of Quadrilles, Varsovie;nes, &c. UNSWORTH (or nandherEUGENE, W. Randall, H. Nash, Herr Herman Mdlle. Cava:ho. LE PETIT BLONDIN.. Admission—Area, 6d, ; stalls and balcony, le. ; private boxes, 100. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL. Triumphant Success of PRINCE PERFUME AND PRINCESS BOUQUET. Under the title of Prince Perfume and Princess Bouquet is nightly to be seen at the Canterbury Hall a Magic Spectacle far transcendinz in poetry of concept on, b may and in veouity of arrangement, scenic effect, and brilliancy of light and colour any former aptilication (even at this Hall) of the principle kr Own as the OPTICAL IL I.lh S.ON. n this last C4lleCtivk disp , ak of scenic art and of brilliant choreographiC and statuesque 1:4 - reaping will be found pie n es surpas , ing some of the greatest achievements of the Mcdern Extra vaganza—S, e " THE SHIPWRECK," "THE PHANTOM CO MBA I'," and " THE CURTAIN OF FT 11E." The "Illusive Sketch," which is the centre of these corus cations, is by Mr. W. F. Vanderyell; the overture and inci dental music by Willem Vandervell. Prince Perfume, Mrs. William Rand 01. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). .TRAND MUSICK HALL. PROMENADE CONCERTS EVERY EVENING. With a full Band of Forty Performers. Conductor, Mr. F Kingsbury. Vocalists :—Madll,s. Wilks, Molidoff, and Mayer. Instrumentalists : —Violin, Signor Giovanni Adelmann ; Cornet, M. Duhem ; Pianoforte, M. Mattel, Pianist to his Majesty the King of Italy. Admission, ls. ; Private boxes, 10s. 6d. ; stalls, 2s. ComTence at Eight. STRAND MUSICK HALL. MUSICK AT EIGHT O'CLOCK. COMICK AT TEN O'CLOCK. EVERY EVENING, THE GREAT VANCE AT HALF-PAST TEN. MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL GALLERY : established 28 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street. NEW ADDITION. A full length portrait model of DR. GOUTY DE LA POMMERAIS, the Poisoner, f taken from the original photogr a p h, by Mons. Trinquart, o Paris, from life, is now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy. Admittance, le. ; Napoleon Rooms and Chamber of Horrors, 6d. extra. Open from 11 till 5, and from 7 till 10. • , • //t ~.. . • . ~......,............. i 3 ....... ......- A N. ~.. .. s . ..... . ... . 'N.- tier,. 1 .f i •:-.- ..., mo . . ....t: .4k . .! .- ' ,e,... ~. ''': - • \ ..." '-. - ,4lVi . j,..” 1d . 1., : , ri . . p io‘ f . 6 :74 ./. ac , .. ' 1.-- , • ...1.- 7 A ttelpft . . - ' - ~_ 4.--„- , -.,. \,...... ..,.....:.......„„ . ....„,., ~ : rtiollret, it-i•galiA040:1111.. : I.l' ;"'•,.., ...ii Il k ...,•'''' _ ' 1.. - ' '' . 4- 1; ' - -30#'71''',. ' - - 0 ,1 0 --- -- ...-IP.__ . ,:,,,...., - ..1., :"••-• c}minimmitusemitaimagampir "W. --_______ll .amer.........emimap PRICE ..4d. STAMPED ....sd. graphic communication which is to connect us with India, and eventually with China and Australia, begins with the Mediterranean cable, or that which runs between Malta and Alexandria, of the length of 1,550 miles. This has proved the most success ful of all the long submarine cables, yet it has snapped three times in three years, producing an interruption'of communication of 137 days by the admission of its own engineer. The mete first cosi of this cable is said to have been £400,000. Next comes the no'orious R-d Sea cable. The cost ci this was £BOO,OOO, and the Government has gua ranteed on that capital an interest of 41 per cent. down to the year of our Lord 1908. This cable has proved a total failure, but we, our children, and our grandchildren will have to pay for the failure the yearly sum of £36,000! We come, then, to the Persian Gulf cable, which was to have comp!eted the communication, land and sea, between England and our Indian dominions. We do not know what it cost, but in the estimated accounts for the Home Government of India for 18S4 we find it credited with the handsome sum of £306,000. It gave on the 24th of Jaly last, and up to this day has not been in operation. The cable, indeed, is said not to be worth repairing, and the construc tion of an improved one is in contemplation. Sir Charles Bright, its engineer, and one of the con troversialists in the 2imes, ought to have told us all this when he was holding up the hope of a tele graph to the Antipodes in three years THE " SPECTATOR" ON ADOPTED CIIILDREN.—TiIsra ic ; aaertain absurdity which vas goaig the round last - wleli of the lady who asked a Board of Guardians for " a child only two years old, with blue eyes, and light hair, and a complete orphan." One felt that the demand had been dictated rather by sentiment than - by genuine kindliness, that the child was selected on the same principles as a doll might have been, but the anecdote indicated a curious defi ciency in our law. The practice of adoption, so frequent in the Roman and the modern Asiatic world, allowed by all German laws, sanctioned by the Code Napoleon, has never received in England any kind of legal recog nition. It is not opposed to our manners, is rather approved by opinion, and is among the philanthropic an incident Of very frequent occurrence, but the laW takes no notice of it, provides no ceremonial for recerding it, and imposes no obligations upon those who attempt it. Yet it would. be difficult to suggest a practice which might be prof native of more general benefit to a society which like our own is unfavourable to marriage, which throws the time further and further back in every generation, and which allows in the same family excessive inequalities of fortune. There are thousands of old maids among us, well to do and excellent, to whom the privilege would bring a new zest to theirlives, new interests, and new occupation, thousands of widowers whose lives are passed in a sort of unwilling solitude, thou sands of married homes where the only thing wanting to life is the sound of childrens' voices. There seems no rea son, natural or artificial, why a void due chiefly to the ac tion of an imperfect social system should not by that system be filled up. Adoption of a kind is indeed already much more frequent than the public imagine. Let any one of ourreaders look round his acquaintance, and he will find cases where children loft unproVided for have been brought up by rela tions, friends, and even strangers, with a kindnes which makes thei , . circle at last almost forget that the children are not their own. Indeed, the complete success of such ar rangements sometimes suggests a doubt whether " natural feeling" is quite so strong an instinct as it js the fashionto assume, whether it is not the relationship of intercourse which begets family affection rather than that of blood, whether a - child does not love its mother as ninOwilien!„ its reliance upon her as from any natural instinct beyond 'its own control. Children love nurses more than their mothers very often indeed, and the poetry thrown by all races 'round the relationship of foster-mother has a justification in fact. Frequent as the incident is, however, the law throws difli cnities in the way of a7O positive kind. The adopted child, for example, does not inherit Unless throngla a rela tionship other than thelicloption, which:very seldom exists. The tendency is of -. otilirse•to adopt relatives, but they will as often be the wife's as the husband's, and in that case the legacy duties are ati heavy as 'if 'the adopted were utter;' strangers. So with the most just and expedient of all forms Of' adoption—tUe recognition of a man's illegitimate child, which though provided for in everyother country of Europe,-even in Calvinistic Scotland, is in England kit withoutany gal slue ; ion whatever. The legac' i -ulty may ,*1 by settle= melts, but people are un% 'cir • to settle ma roperty even on their own child!. it impair too tench• the . , pleasant sense of possessi ; antrirclio:ice. A still mere setious impediment is th- ifllfulty or rA44Ltppossibility of terminating the rights of die - teal pareutsi w r to natural parents can always reclaim their ofLpring, at le - a's'illpAo the age of discretion, and we know of a case where that" power was sacrificed for their adopted children as much cs jar their own. The lady who asked for a " complete orphan" probably dreaded contact with vulgar or tvil relatives, tut the fear that all care may La thrown away by a sudden demand fur the child's restoration greatly dimi nishes the practice. TILE "SATURDAY REVIEW" ON PROGRESS.—As every thing is done by association in our days,so there are compa nies of thinkers, in perhaps a new sense—people who club their ideas and throw them into a common stock, not on ac count of their identity of thought or aim, but as if with view of realising the magic of numbers, the strength of an imposing title, and of a united front against a common foe. One of these companies has taken to itself the striking title of Advanced Thinkers, with the motto "Excelsior,' and shows us what wonders can be effected by a name, not only on those who hear it, but on its self-elected possessors— especially if those who use it do not know its meaning, as is the case both Mr Longfellow and the Advanced Thinkers, who ought to be, like Saul, taller than his neighbours. The sense of fellowship arising from a common badge end title, the concerted action against established ideas, seems to in duce in them a feeling of advance, of general successful movement, which it would have been impossible for the most sanguine member to entertain as a private solitary thinker, and which is so far unreasonable that not one brother of the community holds positively with another, or believes in his panacea. As members of the company, these men talk as though they expected some fundamental radical change in human nature, and as if this change were already at work; and they can so manage books and figures that their accounts shall seem to prove it; only we observe that the view is not an actuating one, and that, in their private capacity, they have no more faith in men than the rest of theworld. So we conclude that the theory needs an association for its full development, with a ma chinery of commissions and reports; for no man of any school, looking about him in a humble retail sort of way, can make his conclusions fit in with theirs. We do not positively deny the facts or deductions of the grand scale, but we are unable to reconcile them with our personal ex periences, and we fail to perceive that the members of the fraternity are more successful in this than ourselves. It is a strange thing, if we think of it, that the world should have reached this time of day, and that it shou'd be matter of dispute whether it is immeasurably better or linmeasare ably worse than when history first reveals it to us—the disputants not being wholly at variance as to what is better or worse. It really depends on a few points, not of the essence of the question, whether men pronounce the world they live in to be miserably degenerate and vicious beyond all former precedent, or a scene of perpetual improvement— of fair performance, and yet fairer hopes. And it is, perhaps, equally strange to the neutral looker-on that the feelings of a partisan of either faction towards such specimens of the world in dispute as come immediately before him should be so little influenced by his theory, or influenced, if at all, by a rule of contr. ry. The asserter of progress has apparently arrived at his favourable conclusions in spite of his face-to-face intercourse with mankind, and of a sour, critical tendency that renders ordinary acquaintance dis tasteful ; while the mourner over the world's degeneracy is as likely as not to be a good fellow cf the genial sort, who gets on with everybody he meets, and is generally pleased with his company. And this paradoi presents itself so often that we come to expect that every proclaimer of the world's perfectibility will despise most people, and hate some ono or two with a particular rancour; while the favourite of society, and the man who enjoys himself in it, is pretty sure to be one who sighs for the good old times, and finds nothing in the moderns to compare with the giants of the past. Dr Johnson, who lived in an age of good follows, had occasion to quarrel with this universal tendency to exalt the past. "I am always angry when I hear ancient times praised at the expense of modern ones," he says—a sentiment that might almost consti tute him a prospictive member of the band of associate thinkers, but that his grounds for his op nion would not satisfy their more confident claime, and would reduce him to neutrality in the contest. "Theme is more learning in the world than there was formerly," he goes on to say, "for it is more universally diffused. We may not hale Bentley or a Newton, but more men know Greek and Latin and mathematics than formerly." Thus he believed in great men of the past, though not in the past's general superiority, and would have had something to say, we doubt not, to Mr Emerson's view that the world has not yet seen a Man, and that it remains for the New World to produce him. II ever, this anticipation of a prc-eminent and model man is not a necessary part of the new hopes. The advanced thinkers seem to look rather to a gradual assimilation, to end in universal equality. There is to be no Saul in the future towering above his fellows, for the whole host are to reach Saul's stature. They are ready, in fact, to meet their opponents with the admission that progress is fast doing away with great men. There will be no more philosophers of world-wide fame, because all men will be Aristotles and Bacons; there will be no more learned men, because all will surpass Bentley and Newton. 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Suddenly there ig a great blank among us, and the shadow of a great darkness► One of our dearest and most delightful companions, one whom not only we, but also all whose eyes will rest upon these columns, must think of as in some sort a cherished companion, is taken from us, John Leech, known to the public as one of the Most kindly and the most graceful humourists that ever lived, known to his friends for a peculiar gentleness and refinement of character that at first sight seemed as it were in opposition to the robustness of his judgmen►, and therefore took many people by surprise, died on Saturday evening at 7 o'clock. The death of Garrick was said to have eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and the death of Mr Leech will touch many more hearts both of this and other nations, than Garrick ever reached. Although he looked strong, he had been long a suffererer, and complained of sleeplessness; his incessant brainwork induced a peculiar irrita bility with which meat persons have a tendency to jest rather than to sympathise. He was much affected by noise,- and was literally driven from his house in Brunswick-square by street music. He hoped to get peacoat Kensington, especially as he shut them out by the device of double windows; but he had no peace, and in addition to the torment of the organs he caste to be tifilictea at early dawn bytttelmainekof so:tie anWil mechanic. Hie friends made light of it, and tried to jest wall him. ,6 You may laugh,", he would say, "but I aesure you it will kill me." He was so unwell that during this last summer he was obliged to go abroad, and he was forbidden to indulge in his favourite exer cise of riding on horseback. He came back better in the autumn, but still be was strangely susceptible to noise, and only than a fortnight ago he spoke with more than his usual earnestness, with something even of passionate entreaty in his tones about the suffering which the street organs gave him, and about the smallness of the sympathy wnich he received frt m people who have to work their brains in a mere routine. At last his sufferings have come to an end, and if any of his friends were inclined to treat them as imaginary they will now be convinced. It is not a year since he stood in tears by the grave of his schoolfellow, Thackeray, and now his friends will follow him, too, to his long home. They were schoolfellows together, they were fellow-workers t tideltreilkfFunch ; both had something even of womanly gentleness intermingled with the strength of their characters; and both were' in their styles of working classical. Although Mr Leech lived to be 47 years of age, the record of his life is short and simple. He was born in London in 1817, and was educated at the Charterhouse. He left school to atudy medicine, and had made-considerable progress in that direc tion before he discovered what wAs_lto be his true path in life. His first sketch in Punch, entitled "Foreign Affairs," appeared in the fitst Week! of August, 1841, and thenceforward the:history of his • lite is to be seen week by week in .the pages of that popular periodical. No doubt, he - was otherwise engaged also. He illustrated almanacs and novels, books of travel and poems. A Christmas tide with out two dozen sketches by Leech, Julia the most graaefal and delicate humour, would iv a strange Christmas indeed, a Christmas which might as ell be without holly and mistletoe, dancing•and god cheer. He always took great pains as Christmas drew nigh, and year by year seemed to surpiiss himself in delicacies of touch, and in the charm; of his humour. But it was through the weekly pages of Punch, far more than through the yearly almanac, that Mr Leech was besti i known to the public; and his life is there tefiqkcit He _goes to grance and. drawsa French scene, to Scotland anddraws a Scotch one. Then his experiences of our social life—his pictures of balls, dinner parties, mess-rooms, bache lors' chambers, Rotten-row, gardens, parks, streets, watering places, shooting parties, hunting fields. boating, fishing, and we know net what else, make up such a history of his limo as to the future historian will be invaluable. The fashion of the day, the passion of the hour is rifLeted on his page as in a photograph. And while we have thus in his sketches a curiously complete history of certain phases of this Victorian era, we have also in them a picture and a chronicle of the artist's own life, Anyone, without knowing Mr Leech personally, can detect in these sketches the work of a keen sighted, hearty sort of man, healthy and broad in his sympathies, full of fun, but still more charmed with grace, and sensitive to beauty, fond of chil dren, fond of dwelling on all youthful beauty, fond of beautiful dogs and horses, but above all filings of truth and nature. We have said that he was classical in his style of working. One cannot well speak of the ridiculous in itself as classical; and much of Mr Leech's work concerned the ridiculous. But in him the sense of the grotesque and the love of satire was never allowed to interfere with, much less to over-ride, his attraction to whatever was beautiful and true. There never was a caricaturist who was so little of a ca• ricaturist ; who would gi the truth of nature on so many different sides, and seemed at the same time to have so quick an eye for whatever is lovely in nature. He drew with equal ease a fine lady and a crossing-sweeper —and on the same page he would bewitch the reader of Punch with the loveliest of little maidens, and provoke him with the vulgarest of upstarts. And ha was always seeing and drawing something new. Suddenly we should be astonished with some sea-piece in which the billows were ren dered with wonderful skill. Or we had some moun tain scenery, or a glade in a wood, or ploughed fields, or standing corn. He never stood still. When we wondered what should come next, we had some rare sky, some curious effect of light. And all this display of scenery was the mere background to views in which men, and women, and children were the chief objects of interest. All seemed to flow from his pencil so easily that people scarcely enough understood how hard he worked. He must have worked very hard to produce so much variety in constant succession week after week for more than 20 years. He died, too, in harness, working to the last, and working, indeed, beyond his strength. 'With cha racteristic generosity he made unusual exertions in aid of his relatives, and his labours were latterly more severe than they need have been if he had had only to think of himself and his household. These anxieties and exertions have at length struck him down—and who is there to fill his place ? A good, great man, of fine and rare genius, has gone from among us,and we shall not know how much he was to us until we discover by his loss that nature does not often produce such artists as John Leech. One of our greatest artists, Sir Edwin Landseer, has said that there is scarcely a sketch of Mr. Leech's which is not worthy to be framed by itself and hung on our walls. Other artists are equally strong in his praise. No mar envied him. The public at large think more of the human interest that belongs to his drawings and the amusement which may be de. rived from them. But, over and above all this, they have qualities which, notwithstanding the lowli nose of the material employed, will hereafter confer on Mr. Leech's sketches a very high renown es works of art. To these few observations we append the follow ing letter, which will have a sad interest at the present moment. When Mr. Bass proposed to bring a bill into Parliament relating to street music he received a number of letters from various persons who wished him success. He published these letters, and among them we find the following. We will only add that, though Mr. Leech suffered much, his life was not supposed to be in immediate danger. Ho went out to consult Dr. Quain on Friday, and there was a child's party in his home at the time of his death : " Punch Office, 85, Fleet-street, 231 Muy, 1861. " Sir, --I venture upon what might possibly be consi dered an impertinence, were not the subject of my note of public interest. " I am so greatly interested in the success of your mea• sure for the regulation of street music that I am desirous of strengthening your hands by putting you in possession of some facts within my knowledge. I formerly lived in GJr don-street, Gordon-square, but was compelled to quit Lon don to escape the distressing consequences of street music, although Gordon-street was comparatively a quiet locality. A dear friend of mine, and one to whom the public has been indebted fur 20 years for weekly supplies of innocent amuse ment, and whose name will End a place in the future history of Art, has not been so fortunate. He lived in Brunswick. square, and remained there until the nervous system was so seriously affr cted by the continual disturbance to which he was subjected while at work that he was compelled to abandon a most desirable home and seek a retreat at Ken sington. After expending considerable sums to make his present residence convenient fir his art work—placing double windows to the front of his house, ice.. he is again driven from his home by the continual visitation of street bands and organ grinders. The effect upon his health pro duced—on my honour, by the causes I have named—is so serious that he is forbidden to take horse exercise, or indulge in fast walking, as a palpitation of the heart has been pro duced—a form of angina pectoris, I believe—and his friends are most anxiously concerned for his safety. He is ordered to Homburg, and I know that the expatriation will entail a loss of nearly £5O a week upon him just at present. lam sure I need not withhold from Sou the name of this poor gentleman—it is Mr John Leech. "If those gentlemen who laugh at complaints such as this letter contains were to know what are the natural penalties of constant brain work, they would not encourage or defend such unnecessary inflictions as street music entails upon some of the benefactors of their age. Such men akia the last to interfere with the enjoyilentp of Moir - poorei? fel low-labouters, but they claim to be allowed to pursue their calling in peace, and to have the comfort of their homes secured to them. All they ask is to have the same immu nity from the annoyances of street music as the rest of the community have from dustmen's bells, post-horns, and other unnecessary disturbance. The objection to street noises is not a matter of taste. It involves the progress of hontst labour and the avoidance of great mental affliction. "Apologising for the liberty I have taken, " Believe me, yours faithfully, "M. T. Bass, Esq., M.P." "MARK. LEMON. SPIRIT OF THE _PUBLIC JOURNALS. • • TEE "LONDON REVIEW" ON THE EARLDOM OF WICKLOW.—The reverses of fortune are not to be ccmpared to those which men bring upon them selves by their vices. If chance makes them penni. less, they have still left their energies and their self-respect. • They can battle against the world, though they are obliged to put off most of its come forts, and can feel, even if they sink in the struggle, that they have foUght their light well, though not successfully. It is otherwise when men involve themselves in ruin by wanton folly or the indulg ence of degrading propensities. In the life of each a man there is nothing to respect. We would rather blot out all trace of him, and forget, when he has gone his way, that such a being ever cum bered the ground. Ho has been an enemy to him: self and to all who have come within his influence; as well to those who have ministered to his vices as to those who have suffered by them. He has been a disgrace to his name and a scandal to the world. And yet it may be that, with all this, the source of his errors has not ,been so much an original baseness as a softness of temper, an absence of the sense of responsibility, vacuity' of - intellect, and exemption . from the necessity .of labour. If the uses of adversity are not precisely sweet they are for the most pare wholesome. There is an energy within us which some way or other must be em ployed. We may appease it by healthy toil of any kind, or we may deaden its cravings by the indul gence of ourpassions. Wise men take the one course, fools Ilia ocher: Yet the fool's vices may have had their !origin in nothing worse than weakness, which the necessity of labour might have fostered into strength. 'lf, in his last moments, the unfortunate man who:died last week in a brothel in oile of the lowest slums in the neighbourhood of Dublin could have contrasted his death-bed and its surroundings with his social sta'e, his opportunities end expecta tions, he might have cursed the hour which brought him into the world with the certainty, of most of these advantages, and withahe stronglinssibility of 1 enjoying all of them. It ' rid designate before one's birth in what posit torn, it would not et' iris wis should be cfici:lncy of judg ment to resolve on' Le leieg into the woild as did the rate William George Howard. Many years before his death he was presumptive heir to the earldom of Wicklow; and though, if a man had thb right to select to which out of a d( z,2u earldoms he would like to succeed, it would not be difficult to choose a more attractive one than that of Wicklow, it twist be admitted Cap•ain Howard's prosptct of succession was rot to be looked down upon. Ile was, to say the least, nobly born. It the revenues which ho had the strong probability of inheriting were not immense, they were sufficient to enable him to raise very large sums of money from the Jews. When, some years ago, he came before the Insolvent Court, his debts were stated at little. if anything, less than £lOO,OOO. And this enormous sum had been raised upon post obit bonds. Yet in the history of this man we find not a single trace of any feeling that he owed to himself or to others the duty of living decently for a single day. His associates were the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile. In the peerage he ranked as heir to an earldom. In society the most abandoned and despicable knew him and saluted him as " Billy." And when last week he bade farewell to the world he had scandilised, the historian of his last hours was an " unfortunate" in whose arms he expired. In such miserable companionship did the heir to the earldom of Wicklow breathe his last—in the prime of manhood, with hostages given to fortune, in a wife who had borne him one child and was about to bear him another. It would appear that, as if led by the instincts which had debased him from his early youth, he had left the roof which sheltered wife and child to close his days in a manner more befitting his antecedents than their society. He had known the woman in whose house he died for eleven months, and on the Tuesday week before his death he took up his quarters with her. It is a dreary narrative that we now learn from her lips. He told her he had been ill, He complained of cramps and diarrhea, but would neither see a medi cal man nor take medicine. He would take whisky ; and day after day he lay in bed drinking whisky— sometimes a quart a day ; and, when he found that whisky did him no good, drinking brandy. During the ten days preceding his death, he appears only to have eaten one egg and one chop, but not to have retained either on his stomach. Day after day his cry was the same—" whisky." And so drifting out to sea, the wretched man spent his last hour, till on 'Wednesday week he became delirious, craving to his last breath for drink. "He continued wandering and delirious," says the unfortunate who attended him, " up to the time of his death. It was at half-past ten o'clock, and he had been asking me to lift him out of bed all day. I had promised to raise him up, and when I caught his hand to raise him he said, ' Don't catch me.' I then put my hand behind his back, but he said let me lie down, and ho fell back. I then heard something in his throat, but I did not think he was dying. He died then, but I did not know he was dead. I asked him to speak to me, but he did not, for he was dead." So passed the scion of a noble house. 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The numerous and urgent appeals of the sick poor for ad mission compel the Committee to entreat the bounty of the affluent and humane, as the medical officers are daily obliged t) treat as out-patients many distresiing cases which. with more adequate funds, they would gladly admit into the wards. The premises of the Hospital are capable of containing 500 beds. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on voluntary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, Edward 51as !ern - lan, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; [ferries and Co. ; Ransom and Co.;Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; G:yn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co.; .111 ams, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gurney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; Masterman and Co. ; I. Barned and Co., Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary. The Tunnel through the Alps, Before the tunnel of Mont Cenis was undertaken, the most daring engineers did not venture on the construction of a tunnel one-fifth of its leegth ; and they were espe cially careful, by vertical shafts, to provide for venti lation. It was considered that, without such a precaution, even the tunnels then executed would be, at least, highly injurious to human life. Yet not only will the Alpine tunnel to of very great length, but ventila tion by vertical shafts is out of the question, on acccunt of the enormous height of the mountains above. Ordinary tunnels are excavated simultaneously in various parts. Such a mode of proceeding was impossible in this case, and for the same reason that ventilation cannot be obtained by means of vertical shafts—the altitude of the mass above. Hence if the boring were effected in the usual way, the work would be exceedingly tedious; it could not be completed in less than 36 years, on account of the imperfect ventilation, and the limited number of men that could be employed upon it. These difficulties have been overcome. Air, compressed by water power, obtained at each extremity, is driven through tubes to the farthest portions of the excavations; and thus, not only is pure air supplied in abundance, but motive power is conveyed to the very place where the drills are at work. At the northern side there are twelve of these drills, mounted in a strong moveable frame; at the southern, somewhat fewer. Each of them revolves as it strikes the rock, the effect being produced both by tapping and boring. Each system of drills can be applied to the face of the rock at any desired place. They form an opening ten feet wide and ten feet deep; this is enlarged to the proper size by the workmen, after which the walls and vault are constructed. The work proceeds at • about a yard a day at each end—that is about twice as fast as if carried on by manual labour alone. At this rate, twelve years will be required for its completion ; but it is expected so to accelerate it, after a while, that it will be finished in seven. About 1,700 yards are already executed on the French side, about 1,250 on the Italian. It may well be supposed that to advance with such accu racy, that the two portions of the tunnel may at'laet exactly meet, is a matter requiring great care and ingenuity. In stances bavo occurred, with comparatively short tunnels, in which the excavators have passed each other by. This would be a very serious thing in the present case, but it is rendered impossible by extremely stmple means. A lamp is placed in the centre of the rock at the inner extremity of the excavation, and signal posts in the proper direction on the mountain above. The tunnel is known to run in exactly the required direction when the lamp and the posts aro shown by a theodolite to be in the same vertical plane; that ie, when the signal posts are seen if the inettument is raised, and the lamp if it is depressed—the motion being, so to speak, in a truly perpendicular direction. When the work is completed the Alps will be passed in half au hour. Cassell s 16(eotrated Fans i Taper, .--`. -17 a 411: cc g c ?AZ, :7 17 :1V) prefer our own age to li ve i n before;kor 14lieiltr7t,7 thatall the appliances and discoverievCo*o:sl*' ' be intolerably missed if we were removed are forced to grant, too ; that in every pastoe'perioa o of we should fiad a lower tone of general public opinion than that which prevails now—still we must all allow that there is each a thing as progress, that society in some way improves with time, that not only in science, but also in social morals, some steps are gained as years roll by, and that these steps, once gained, are permanent acquisitions. Whether it be so or not, we cannot believe it otherwise. We can neither believe that, having learnt the power of steam, men will go back to pack-horses, nor that the moral social enlightenment which they have now reached will ever relapse into degradation and barbarism ; and to call tLe the world wiser and better than it was is, we suppose, in a certain sense, to allow that the men and women who compose it are wiser and better. Thus we are all disciples of progress ; we are so because, in this sense, it is impossible for men .to be otherwise. Nevertheless there is something irrittliir:r, and prompting to instinctive contradiction, in the assumptions of " advauced thinkers" on this head. They are for ever Saying with the boastful Capaneus, " «e ara much better than our fathers'— Far more than heirs of all our parents' fame, Our glories darken their diminished name— 'the children of cur day know more than the sags of the past," and so on. Under such talk, and even under our own admissions, we know that a fallacy lurks, if they are intended to mean that the old boundaries of human nature the old capacities fir human wisdom and greatness, are ex tended by the course of acquisition and discovery. It is not knowledge, but thought, which makes the wise man, Just as the children who know so much are very common place children still with all their knowledge, so the sages who were ignorant of most of the things they know were sages still. Ncr, for that matter, can we see that the diffusion of useful knowledge, railways, and elec tricity, and the penny post, would have made them much wiser in the line in which we now look up to and revere them, and still accept them as teachers and exponents. They found their way to the heart of things; they could look as far as we ; their imagination could, to say the least, take as long flighte ; they cop* think, and-afeely and Aolk, and,play - the than With any of their deacendants, let the world last as long as it may. They left names which will never be sur passed; -and this is BO universally granted that, to the great majority of men, even to those who talk most of progress, it would be ujoke to compare any one they know with the great men who have been. Extravagance is never felt to have so utterly exceeded bounds as when the hero of the hour is compared. with some hero of the past, looking out on us from the far mietydistapee. Even the boasters haws their moments of depression and compulsory tentage, like the French sculptor viho, after proving to demonstra tion that his' horses were in every respect--in- beauty of form, in anatomy, in arrengement—immeasurably superior to the group of Lysippus, broke in uponhis eLge in a passion of unwilling candour, " 2fais it put avoket—it must be granted that those ugly brutes are living and mine are dead," Their own heroes they patroniee as their own creation, but what has stood the test of ages and achieved an enduring name they know to be another sort of - thing altogether. However, involuntary candour is a frequent visitant to no one, and certainly one cause 'of the optimist's exaltation of the present is a defective a pprehension of past merit; th e y are too mu c h occupied with themselves and their own views to realise the diffiCulties and the achievements cf pre vieus, 'and especially remote, times. To such men as Theodore Parker all the thinkers of Christian times before the Reformation are merely puerile "shabby .A.fiicana," and the like. lt matters not that these Africans gave. the cue to ages of thought; they fasten on same weak point, which is never hard to find, draw comparisons between - what they know and what the others were ignorant of,-end conclude that every tiro of the present day who is well up in its commonplaces excels St. Austin, not only in knpw lodge, but in grasp and largeness of mind—is laterally and intellectually above him. And if, in some points, they cannot prove any advance at all over the past—if the noblest poetry, the grandest architecture, the art eVes-.,. premien- in its heroic perfection, is not to,,,l4e . foitildrra scarcely pretend e d t o i n our time-,--thesi are tl4pgs 'Which "advanced tiaitifeik".494ot - care for, . take no seconn4 of, and consider W 3 have'ktiiied." , -2 oard of Trade Returns. The official ret re a. g months rade - and naviga tion for the.nine ended the 30ih Septnoker have, just been published. From these it 'appears the total declared va l ue o f the exports from the United Kingdom was £123,404,161 against `X104,294,713 on the like period of 1863, showing '`an increase of X 19,109,448, the increase is Most perceptible in coals and calm, cotton yarn, eottem manufac:ureP, earthenware, haberdashery and millinery, hardwares and cutlery linen many ,iiio4.iiPeer—artrutrivrEffriiLeTrarlainbs' wool and woolen manufaCtures. Tho impor.2t~ti~an. f. La ilki‘lts *tn.: 'larger as r g.rds raw -cot ton, E. heep and lambs' woo!, fi tu, quicksilver, czar, brandy, tobacco, and wine. There has been a dimi nution, however, in provisions, raw silk, tallow, cocoa, wheat, barley, unrefined sugar, end tea. The shipping accounts exhibit an increase in the amount of tonnage employed in the foreign trade of the United Kingdom for the entries inward:, as also for the clearances outwards. In the coasting trade, however, for the same period, there has been a slight decrease in the tonnage engaged for both the entries inwards and the clearances outwards. The Lord Mayor and the Charing-cross Railway. At the Lord Mayor's Caurt on Saturday, before Mr Kerslake, Q.C., as assessor, and a special jury, a compensa tion case which has been pending some time, Lawrence and others v. the Charing-cress Railway Company, was heard and occupied the whole day. Mr Bovill, Q.C„ and Mr 11, Lloyd were counsel for the Lord Mayor, and Mr Lloyd, with whom was Mr Shiel, represented the company. The claim was for two houses, Nos. 5 and 6, Cannon-street, near Turnwheel lane, which were built in 1852 by Mr Al derman Lawrence, and let respectively at £350 and £450, One was leased to Baron Rothshild and would expire in 1866,the other to a public company, and would expire in 1574. The principal question raised was the value of the rever sion. All the witnesses admitted that property in the City of London had greatly increased in value within the last few years. It had "enormously" risen in price within the "commercial area," and a question was mooted whether the houses were within that area. Several witnesses de scribed the houses as worth respectively £650 and £B5O et )eel.. One was at the corner of Turnwheel-lane. On the part of Mr. Alderman Lawrence the property was valued at upwards of £30,000, the highest sum being nearly £30,700. On the other hand, for the company the valuers estimated the worth of the two houses from £21,000 to £21,6J0, including the usual 10 per cent. for a compulsory sale. Mr, Ryde,:the surveyor of the Charing-cross Railway, said he had purchased property for the South-Eastern and the Charing cross Railway to nearly £3,000,000. He considered that £21,641 was a liberal price for the property in question. In a letter which was -read to the jury, addressed to the Lord Mayor, Mr. Hyde said that in order to settle the matter and on account of the "uncertain view which juries took of pro perty in the city of London," he offered a sum of 423,000. The Lord Mayor, in answer, said that was not a fair value for the increase in the price of property, and he would sub mit the case to a jury. Mr Lloyd entreated the jury not to be led away to give an extravagant sum. His experience, connected as he was with railway companies, as to compen sation claims, was a painful one. Enormous sums had been demanded, and if property was to increase in value a§ it had. within the last feyv years, there were trades that could not be carried on within the city, as they could not give the rent demanded. His opinion was, that property had now reached its culminating point in the city—it had attained its apex, and it must go down. He (Mr Lloyd) thought that at the present time, when money was fetching 8 and 9 per cent., a gentleman would be glad to receive his money. Juries had been in the, habit of giving 10 per cent. to cover any difficulty as to investment, but now there was a demand for money, and large interest was to be obtained. He prayed the jury not to give an extravagant price. A very fair offer of £23,000 had been made to avoid the present litiga tion, which was an expensive affair, but upwards of £30,009 had been demanded. Mr Bovill ridiculed the view taken by Mr Lloyd, as to the culminating point in the value of pro perty and the means of investment at the present time. The value given had been attained in the last 10 years, and was increasing. It showed the great wealth of England, and the large sums made by commerce. The question was not what was to be obtained for money at a month or so, which might be 8 or 9 per cent., but what it would yield as a permanent investment in the funds, which would be from 3 to 3i per cent. The learned assessor, in placing the case before the jury, contrasted the evidence given on both sides, and told them that the question was, what was a fair and liberal compensation for the property. There was nothing in the Act as to 10 per cent, being given fora compulsory sale. It had been the practice for juries to do so, and it wee tee th eei to give the amount or any other sum. They had heard of the offer made by the company and the sum demanded they had heard of the value put on it by respectable men on b e.h sides, from £29,000 and some hundreds to £30,700, and on the other side to £21,000 and upwards. The jury retired, end on their return assessed the value at 100 £15,, for tiVures. including4loo _TA call of £2 lOs p:r :,hve has been rimle by the directors of the City Offices Company. An accident cceurred at the Theatre of Nii - mea (Gard) a few evenings since, during the performance of the 4, pirates de la Savane." An actor who was performing the part of Itiberio arrived on the stage on horsLbaek, whop the animal, being frightened by the glare of light, became unruly and fell into the orchestra. Both the rider and horse fortunately escaped unhurt, and the damage was limited to the breaking of a few music desks. Tile performance con tinued after a short interruption. L .. !., , 1_!C1.:1,F) , " ..! 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