The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-30 00:00:00

N what " Happy Land" can I see you after the "Opera?" I only know of One HAPPY LAND to. which a Gentleman may Sup—EVANS', COVENT u.ARDEN, my dear fellow! RINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest BRANDY, It Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. , Sold in Bottles, 3s. Sc!., at th e Retail Houses in London ; by ;t t he Agents in the principal t own s in England; or wholesale 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. . Observe the Red Seal Pink Label, and Cork branded Ifi's LL Whisky."' THE CREDIT FONCIER ( Limited ) , SO, Lombard-street, E.C. Capital, ,C 1,000,000, in 20,0 0 Shares of £5O each. Subscribed Capital, £500,000, in 10,000 Shares. DIRECTORS. Chairman—The Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley. Deputy Chairman—James Levick, Esq. The Hon. T. C. Haliburton, Adolphe Hakim, Esq. Henry Pownali, Esq., J.P. -Edward Warner, Esq., ST.P. John Westm)rland, Esq. Alexander Dunbar, Esq. Charles E, Newbon, Esq. Charles El Esq. MANAGER. Albert Grant, Esq. EANXERS. Messrs. Masterman, Peters, Mildred, and Co. Bank of London. _ This Company advances money on the deposit of Title ueeds of approved Freehold or Leasehold Property in Great Rritain, with or without regular Mortgage. Guarantees Titles or Securities, and, as Agent, negotiates Loan on Mortgage, for long or short periods ; also, Receives Money on Deposit for FIXED PERIODS ONLY, St special rates to be agreed upon. Communications to be addressed to the Manager. ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. Temporary Office, 80, Lombard-street, E.C. THE CREDIT MOBIL IE R ( Limited ) , 80, Lombard-street, E.C. Capital, 41,000,000, in 20,000 Shares of 450 each. Subscribed Capital, 4500,000, in 10,000 Shares. DIRECTORS. Chairman—The Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley. The Hon. T. C. Halburton, John Westmorland, Esq. Edward Warner, Esq., M.P. Alexander Dunbar, Esq. Char.es Ellis, Esq. Ado'phe Hakim, Esq. James Levick, Esq. Charles E. Newbon, Esq. Henry Pownall, Esq. MANAGER. Albert Grant, Esq. RANKERS. Mewls: liftieWman, Peters, Mildred. and Co., London. Messrs. smath, Payne, and Smiths, London. This Companyls prepared to nego ti ate Governmen t an d Municipal Loans t and to aid in carrying oat Concessions. To make advances on approved securities. To effect the purchase and sale of Shares, Stocks, drc., and to transact financial business generally. _Also to receive,money on deposit, for BRIEF or EX TENDED periods; on terms to be agreed upon. Communications to be made to the Manager. THOMAS SHORT, Secretary. Temporary Offices, 80, Lombard-street, London. E.C. THE EBBW VALE COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862. Capital Four Millions, in 80,r00 shares of £5O each. Deposit on application £1 per share, and £4 on allotment. Vurther calls wi 1 not exceed £5 per share, made at intervals ;, • of not less than three months, and will extend over a period of three years. It is estimated that not mere than two-thirds of the total capital will be required to be called up. DIRECTORS. Abraham Darby, Esq., Ebbw Vale Park, Monmouthshire, Chairman and Managing Director. Joseph Robinson, Esq., Berkhampstead and London, Deputy Chairman. Vraccis Tothill, Esq.. Bristol. John Platt, Esq., Oldham. G. S. Beecroft, Esq , M.P., Leeds. , James Asuinall Turner s Esq., M.P.. Manchester. ' Harry George Gordon, Esq., 1, Clilden-place, Hyde-park, London. Charles King Anderson, Esq., 65, Old Broad-street, London. BANKERS. The Bank of England. ; And its several Branches at :Xanchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Leeds, New castle, Hull, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Leicester. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Fresh& ds and Newman, London. BROKERS. Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son, London. AUDITORS. ,David Chadwick, Esq. (Messrs.o hadwiek, Adamson, M`Kenna, and Co.), 27, Great George-stree , Westminster. • John Young, Esq. (Messrs. Co:eman, Turquand, Youngs, and Co.), Tokenhouse-yard, City. OFFCES, PRO TEM. lice 27, Great George-s I reet, Westminster, and 7, Laurence Pountney-hill, C.ty. The Company is formed for the purpose of carrying into _Effect an agreement made fo r th e purc h ase o f th e undermen , cloned 'Coal, Iron, and other Works, which have for a long time been, carried on with very satisfactory results by private Individuals, and are capable of considerable expansion, with greatly increased profits. T vo h ti e P b roperties and Works have been purchased on very ra le terms, on value:ions made by eminent mining engineers. The Works consist of— 1. The Ebbw Vale Collieries and Iron Work s. 2. The Sirhowy Collieries and Iron Wor k s. 3. The Victoria C o lli er i es and Iron Wor ks. 4. The Abersychan. Collieries and Iron Works.. 5. The Pontypool Collieries and Iron and Tin-plate Worn!. 43. The Abercarn Chllieries and the Chapel Farm Estate. 7 - Wharves and Landing Stages at Newport. All in the county of Monmouth. 8. Elmmatite Iron and Coal Galeages er Royalties in the Forest of Dean, in the county of Gloucester 'D. The Brendon Hills Carbonate of Iron or Spathose Mines, in the county of Somerset. And the Estates comprise :- 3,251 acres of Freehold Land and Mines. 7,215 acres of Leasehold Mines, and agreements for leases having upwards of 8) years unexpired. 2,137 acres of Leasehold Mines, having from 10 to 50 years Unexpired. 70 e acres of Mines in the Forest of Dean, held under a Crown lease, renewable in perpetuity for perio is of 21 years. Abotet 9 miles in length, or about 3, 1 00 acres. on the course 1. 4 Spathose iron ore veins, in Somersetsh r e, under leases or about 50 years unexpired. The leaseho d coal and iron-stone royalties are held on Very moderate terms. There are upwards of 2,000 houses and Cottages on the free hold and leasehold estates. The rentals from land, farms, and houses, amount to about 414,000 a-year. The works afford employment to more than 15,000 persons, representing a population of 50,000 people. Schools for the a:commodation of 2,200 children, and a Me chanics' Institute have been erected upon the estates. There are 23 blast-furnaces, of which 16 are in operation at the preSent time—three being cold blast. The present annual produce of the various col'ieries is 1350,000 t ons o f coal ; and t hi s quan tity c a n, with a compara tively small outlay, be increased to m illion tons annually. The produc e o f i ron - s t one i s 2 80 , 000 t on s annually , which can be increased to 450,000 tons. The iron-making coals on theseproperties are of a superior quality, free from sulphur, and eminently adapted for the tuenufacttue of the best class of iron or steel. The present annual yield from the furnaces is about 130,000 tens of pig iron, including 12,000 tons of Pontypool cold blast , ut the arrangements are adapted for the production of 180,000 tons. About 90,000 tons of rails and finished iron are Sold annually, which can be increased to 120,000 tons with the Present applianc s. All the properties are very favourably placed in regard to situatien of worts and facilities of transport. The coal and iron-stone mines, which are now drained and proved, will supply the present consumption, without any material in crease of dead charges or outlay of capital, for upwards of 50 Years ; and with a small outlay will yield a further supplYer 8 00,000 toe s of coal per annum, for household and ~team pur- Poses, for a like period. The haematite iron ore and coal properties held in the Forest of Dean will shortly be opened, and placed in direct communication by railway with the various iron. tvorks, the distances between which and the place of pro duction will be irom 2 , to 42 miles only, whilst this class of Ore is now t arried to the works 3.0 miles by water and 30 Miles by rail. The Forest of Dean ore contains from 3 to 42 per cent. of iron, and is well known for its superior quality over other hrem*tite ores for the manufacture of the best iron and steel. It is estimated that, when full' opened, the mines now held by the Company will produce 100,000 tons annually for 60 years. The very extensive and valuable mines of Spathose iron Ore, in Somersetshire, belonging exclusively to the Company, are the only mines of their kind now being worked in Ors at Britain, excepting the small veins found in the Durham lead Mines. When these mines are fully developed the works of the Company will possess advantages greater than any other works in the supply of this most valuable materia for the Manufacture of the best quality of iron and steel. And the cost of producing spiegeleisn (pig iron , with this ore will not 'exceed half the present cost of spiegeleisn delis'' , red in England from Germany, which country furnishes matey the whole of the supply required for the present consump tion. The Directors have agreed for a licence for the manufac ture of steel by the Bessemer process, which. from the pecu liar resources they possess, they will be enabled to produce in v, ry large quantities. and at a price that in comparison with other works, ill insure to them the same advantages in the manufacture of steel rails as the Ebbw Vale Company have so long enjoyed in respect of iron rails. The stocks of material and finished iron will be taken at the cost price, as entered in the books at the ast stock taking in September, 1863, and are to be paid for within six months. The'contracts on hand, which are large, and at remunera tive prices, will be transferred to the new Company. Mr. Abraham Darby, the principal proprietor and manag ing partner of the whole col the concerns comprised in the Present purchase, will undertake the duties ot Chairman of the Board, and has consented to act as Managing Director for a period ot five years, thereby securing to the new Company the benefit of his leng practical ex p tient of the works. er ience in the manage - Mr. Joseph Robinson, also a proprietor in all the above concerns, and who for many years, as the London partner, has had the princip it management of their commercial ope rations, will, under the direction of the Board, conduct the business of the Company as heretofore, From certified reports on the profits of the various works, extending over a considerable period, and from a due con sideration of the advantages possessed by the Company, the Directors feel justified in anticioating that the annual dividends will be such as to give satisfaction to the Share holders. The Vendors will subscribe for Shares in the Company t o the extent of half a million sterling:. Three hundred thousand pounds of the purchase-money will be paid within two months, and the remainder by six equal half-yearly instalments, with interest at 5 per cent. paid. No promotion-money or other similar payment will be made. Forms of Application for Shares may be obtained at the }lank of England, and its several Branc hes ; from the Brokers ; or from the undersigned, by whom any further Information required will be furnished. CHADWICK, ADAMSON, 31'KENNA, and Co., Financial Agents, 27, Great George-street. Westminster, and 61, Cross-street, Manchester, THE EBBW VALE COMPANY (Limited). Capital £1,000,030, in 80,030,00) Shares of £5O each. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR ALLOTMENT OF SaARES. No. To the Directors of "The Ebbw Vale Company (Limited)," per Messrs. Chadwick, Adamson, M'Kenna, and Co., Finan cial Agents, 27, Great George-street, Westminster, and 61, Cross-street, Manchester. Gentlemen, Having paid a deposit of £1 rer Share, I beg to apply for Shares of £5O each, in the proposed "Ebbw Vale Company (Limited)," and I hereby agree to become a Share holder in that Company, subject to its rules and regulations, and to accept such Shares, or any less number that may be allotted to me. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, Name in full .............• Address in full Profession or occupation Date •• • j,':, ~, W ~~~- ~/~ No. 22,470. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1864. ?EitSONS SEEKING LANDED 11.:_;iATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPER rIES GENERALLY— To RE lIAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, No. 67, Chancery-b ine , L on d on , Messrs. E. and 11. 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No luggage allowed. Children under 12 years of age half price. THERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur. cnaser is introduced throuth Messrs. Lumley's Agency, *ad then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlb3rough-street. D UBLIN UNIVEI No. 379. FOR J SITY MAGAZINE.- ILY. Price 2s. 6d. writings. We may add too that he was most liberal in com municating the notes he had brought together of the con tents of the collection to fellow-students who sought his assistance, and that not a few or the least important of the publication from these manuscripts by other editors were undertaken at his suggestion. We have thought it well to bring into one view all the important results of Dr. Cureton's examination of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum. But these do not em brace all his labours in the field of Oriental literature. He was an active promoter, if not the founder, of the Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts, of which he was the honorary secretary until about the year 1850, and for which he edited Al Sharastani's " Book of Religious and Philoso phical Sects," published in two parts in 1842 and 1846 ; Rabbi Tanchum's " Commentary on the Book of Lamenta tions," published in 1843, and in the same year en-Nasafi's " Pillar of the Creed of the Sunnites." He was also an active member of the committee of the Oriental Translation Fund, of which he became deputy chairman in 1848, and chairman in 1863, on the death of Mr. Beriah Botfield. In 1859 Dr. Cureton was appointed by the Queen the Crown trustee of the British Museum. In 1855 Dr. Cureton was elected a corresponding member of the Institute of France, to supply the vacancy caused by the death of Dr, Gaisford, and in 1860 he succeeded Professor Wilson as Foreign As sociate of the Institute. He was also a member of many other learned societies of Europe, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. CONTENTS. 1. Maud Ruthyn. By J. S. 6. Shakespeare. Le Fanu, 1t .—Chaps. I. 7. Yaxlcy and its Neighbour to XIII. hood.—Chapters XLII. to 2. Charles Townsend Wit XLVIII. and Statesman.—Part I. 8. The Grand Tour. 3. Fragments of an Old Ro- 9. Edmond About and the manza. Landes. 4. The History of a Hero. 10. Notes on the Condition of 5. Icelandic Legends. Ireland. Dublin: George Herbert. London: Hurst and Blackett. Had Dr. Cureton been able to indulge his inclinations, they might, perhaps, have led him to confine his attention to his favourite branch of Oriental learning; but the duties of a minister of the Church of England were laid upon him, and he did not neglect them. The first curacy which he served was that of Oddington, in the county of Oxford. In 1840 he was nominated one of the select preachers of the University of Oxford. In 1847 he was appointed chaplain in ordinary to the Queen, and in the following year he was selected by the Prince Consort, by whom he was held in much esteem, to preach the anniversary sermon before the corporation of Trinity House. To Earl Russell is due the credit of recognising the claims of Dr. Cureton to substan tial preferment. In 1849 he became, through his lordship, Canon of Westminster, Rural Dean, and Rector of St. Mar garet's, Westminster. He felt a deep interest in all those committed to his spiritual charge. Through his exertions the Church of St. Andrew, in Ashley-place, Westminster, was built and con secrated. The parish is also indebted to him for convenient school-rooms for boys, girls, and infants, in which, in addi tion to the instruction given to the children, a lecture, founded by him, is delivered weekly to the adult working classes. And it must be borne in mind that this was accomplished under the disadvantage of an exodus of the more wealthy part of the inhabitants which took place between the years 1847 and 1850, and was caused by the increase in the value of the houses in Great George -street and Parliament-street, which were required for railway offices. He exerted himself with much success to promote habits of economy and saving among the poorer classes. The following extract from his last report for the Provident Fund and Schools, issued in March, 1863, will show with what success his exertions were crowned : " In the year 1853 the amount of the sums deposited in the Provident Fund was £144, and in the year 1862 it has reached £1,358, although during the same period the num ber of persons for whose benefit the Provident Fund was established has been reduced to less than half of what it was 10 years ago by the great demolition of houses in the rectory district." We have also reason to believe that in the appropriation of the capitular funds he was always ready to contribute to all schemes for the interests of the poor, either by the erection of churches or schools. He was most anxious to bring to gether in occasional social intercourse the different classes as parishioners, and thus identified himself more closely with all. The kindly feeling engendered by this course manifested itself on many occasions. The parishioners had his portrait painted by subscription, and presented it to Mrs Cureton, and on the day of his funeral showed their respect for his memory by closing their houses. Dr Cureton's life was one of labour well directed; the bread which he has thrown upon the waters will be 'found after many days.— Times, RACING AND RACEHORSES. =~~~ • , • , _ . _ _ _ ft: , I ) k. / 11 11b; - , - 149 11 . " _-_ Ol , -11 0 1 E r * . :46 ' - 11 ,7 % , ' i o N t sav e . "7. would have set forth Dr Cureton's reasons for believing that the epistles ascribed to our Lord and Ring Abgar of Edessa were not improbably genuine. Whether right or wrong, he had certainly studied the question most care fully, and no man was more competent to form a correct opinion upon the subject. The eminence attained byDr Cureton was mainly founded on his publications from those ancient Syriac manusczipts, distinguished as they are by the intrinsic value of the works selected, by the accuracy of his editions, and the scholarship and honesty displayed in setting them forth and illustrating them. In these qualities of judicious selection, accuracy, scholarship, and freedom from prejudice Dr Cure ton standspre-eminentamong allEnglishmenand foreigners who have followed him in the work of editing these Syriac PRICE ..4d. STAMPED ....sd. Despatch of Baron Beust to Earl Russell, [REUTER'S EXPRESS.] DRESDEN, Jane 27. The following despatch has been published here : " London, June 1. " Monsieur le Comte—ln endeavouring to explain at our meeting of yesterday the existing situation, and to demonstrate to the Plenipotentiaries of the neutral Powers the point of view at which it is requisite they should place themselves, to arrive at a just and equitable appreciation of the concessions which the Germanic Confederation would make in the interests of peace, it appeared to me that I pro duced a feeling of surprise. For this reason I oc cupy myself to-day, pen in hand, in once more explaining my idea, and in resuming tho thread of my argument, so as to remove all misapprehension from a discussion in which it is above all, necessary that we should come to a good understanding. "I believed it necessary to recall in principl e the fact that a different order of succession had been considered, from all time and incontestibly, a s legally established in the Kingdom of Denmark properly so called, and in the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. I added that according to this same order of succession the legitimate sovereign of Hol stein ought to be regarded as the legitimate sove reign of Schleswig after the extinction of the Royal branch of which Frederick VII. was the last representative. "In proof that the fact alleged in no way rested upon a German hallucination, but had equally been regarded in this light elsewhere, I quoted the note upon which Lord Palmerston addressed on the 23d May, 1848, to M. de Bunsen—a document, the draft of which will easily be found among the records of the Foreign Office, and from which I have the honour to annex an extract. So far as lam aware it is the note in which Lord Palmerston has taken the initiative of suggesting a partition of Schles wig, an idea now revived pos tot diserimina rerum. " I also called attention to the fact that the ques tion which now occupies us had already occupied the Cabinet of Copenhagen in 1846, Christian VIII. • having attempted to solve it by his well known patent, without, nevertheless, succeeding in so doing. It is evident, thus, that in the eyes of the Germanic Confederation, which has never accepted the Treaty of 1852 (equally intended to solve the problem unsolved by the patent of 1846), the Dake of Holstein, whoever he might be, is ipso jure et ipso facto Duke of Schleswig. So long as this duchy was in the possession of a foreign Power, the question whether the Confederation ought or ought not to take up arms to assist the Duke of Holstein establishing his rights to Schleswig was reserved for the decision of the Diet, Bat now that this latter Duchy is in the power of German troops, this question is set aside and determined by facts ; and public opinion, convinced as it is of the con stitutional inseparability of the two Duchies, would scarcely understand how it would be possible to give up non-Federal territory, bat appertaining by right to a member of the Confederation, in favour of a foreign Sovereign. The plenipotentiary of the Confederation must take public opinion, such as it is, into account; his commission renders it impos sible that he should ignore it; and I should con sider myself deficient in good faith, and failing at the same time in respect due to my colleagues, if I al lowed a doubt to exist as to the limits within which my moderation and my desire to remove the exist- ing difficulties find themselves necessarily conined. "To arrive at a solid and lasting peace, the con cessions which I might be called upon to subscribe ought to be presented in a form which the public opinion of Germany can accept, in a form which is not in direct opposition to the ideas which pervade the Governments and the rwerued ; it not, every concession on my part would only be illusory, and might justly be made the subject of reproach as a lure when the Diet refused to cover my responsibi lity by its ratification. The frankness which is my habit is, therefore, upon this occasion, a duty I shall not fail to fulfil. I desire above all that we sL o ild not begoing in two different directions at, once. If we take right for our basis, I cannot repeat suffi ciently often that in the eyes of Germany King Christian IX. has not the shadow of a right to make good to the Duchy of Schleswig, since the day when the Confederation, as it has done, refused to recog nise him as Doke of Holstein. This Prince there fore would be unable to cede a portion of this Duchy to the Confederation, or to any one whatever ; on the contrary, it would be the Confederation, or one of its members, which might be induced, in the in terest of European order, to give up to him a por tion of the territory at present occupied by the Ger. man troops. For the better attainment of the end we reciprocally desire—the arrival ultimately at a solid and durable peace—Germany might consent to give up the portion of Schleswig containing a population the majority of whom are Danes. The principle of nationalities is not among our tradi tions; it has not been put forward by us. But as the Government of her Britannic Majesty, in concert with the Imperial Government of France, has pro posed to consult the populations, I do tot think important reasons exist upon this occasion for Ger many to offer opposition. The wishes of the Ger man populations in the two Duchies are gained in advance for the solution which Austria, Prussia, and the Confederation have proposed in the Con ference; and the principle of the popular wish once adopted, it will be right—l will go further, it will be indispensable—to apply it to the population calling itself Danish, and to have the boundaries which may be judged suitable sanctioned by a vote freely and loyally obtained. " An agreement would thus be arrived at upon a frontier which would leave the Danish element out side the new State, to which the Duchy of Lauen burg would be united as equivalent. I hasten to add that, in the opinion of the Diet, the succession question in Lauenburg may be considered as doubt. ful, but in no way as decided in favour of his Dani s h Majesty. As for the engagement not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Denmark when the line of demarcation is once fixed and accepted, nothing prevents our subs cr ibi ng this agreement ; we shall do so with the more pleasure, as we should consider such an engagement a gua rantee of peace and a means of cutting short all future complications. But it is evident that an engagement of this character would become either impossible or illusory under an arrangement aban doning an entirely German population to Denmark. "This is, M. le Comte, the order of ideas which I endeavoured to set forth, and which must neces sarily guide me i n the difficult negotiations with " which I am ch arge d. limits, Within these traced out for me by the logic of facts and the force of circumstances, you will always find me r ead y to conc ur with you in everything which might serve to remove the diffi culties of detail still opposing the work of pacifica. tine upon the basis accepted in principle by the German plenipotentiaries. (Signed) " BEUST." The following is the extract alluded to in the above despatch, of a note addressed by Lord Pal• merston to Chevalier Bunsen, dated June 23, 1848: "The future condition of the Duchy of Schleswig shall be settled upon ono or other of the two follow ing plans, according to the choice of the King Duke : "First, the Duchy of Schleswig might be divided into two parts, with reference to the German or . Danish maionality of its inhabitants, the Southern and German put being to be called the Southern Duchy, the northern or Danish part being to be called the Northern Duchy. The King would then become a member of the German Confedera tion in his capacity of Duke of Southern Schleswig, as well as in his capacity of Duke of Holstein, and Southern Schleswig would, like Holstein, form part of the territory of the German Confederation, and L'IURNITURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and FLOORCLOTH, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First-class goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted. CLERGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. 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The stock of pianofortes and other musical instruments for sale and hire -one of the most extensive in the metropolis— is, and has for a long time been, highly remunerative. A conditional agreem nt has been entered into with Mr. Wood, the only surviving partner and present proprietor, for the trail, fer to the Company as from the 3 at of December last, of the entire business (free from all liabilities\ in perfect working order, including the whole sock-in-trade, and the leases of the commanding premises, 199, 201, '207, and 209, Regent-street, 67, Conduit-street, and 65, King-street, at a price the Directors believe to be reasonable and advantageous to the Company. The Directors are fortified in this view by the valuations of competen authorities. Mr. Wood wil. discharge all liabilities up to the 3 th June, 1864, and will pay over the profits from the i at January, 1864. He has also agreed to accept a large proportion of the pur chase money in paid-up shares. In the interests of the shareholders it has been thought desirable to keep the present proprietor identified with the business, and arrangements have been made with him which will secure his services in the capacity of General Manager or a period of at least three years. During this time, and for the further period of two years, Mr. Wood undertakes to guarantee—in any manner required by the Directors to make the shareholders secure—the pay ment of a minimum dividend of £lO per cent. per annum upon the capital, Messrs. Broom, Bagshaw, and Westcott, pubic accoun tants, have investigated the account of the business, and are satisfied of the solidity of the undertaking. With a business in active operation, and a minimum divi- dend of £lO per cent. insured for five years, the Company offers unusual advantages as an investment. It is believed that for a long time it will be unnecessary to call up more than £4 per share beyond the amounts payable on deposit and allotment. 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Pamphlets and test - monials tree on a plication. Agent for Edinburgh—Mr. John M'Kay, chemist, 119, George-street. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of W A LE S,K.G President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. 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 tl treat as out-patients many distressing 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 Alas ierman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; He rr i es an d Co.o ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W illiams, 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. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I trust you will allow me space for but a few words of comment on Admiral Rous's letter. He appears to consider that the increased size given to our breed of racehorses, from their having been for many generations reared in a highly artificial man ner, and fed on factitiously rich food, can be at tended with unmixed advantage ; but the whole his tory of our breeds of stocks of all kinds—witness the successive breeds of dairy cattle, and some of our breeds of sheep—show that you cannot give an un. natural enlargement to a race of animals to fit them for any of the various uses of man without in sonic way interfering with their natural vigour. Thus some of our breeds of dairy cattle have either died out or have been crossed with a hardier race of animals, living in a more natural state and feeding on natural food. Thus, what was called the breed of new Lei cester sheep acquired a delicacy that rendered them of little value unless crossed with animals of a more vigorous race. I readily believe that our race- , horses would vanquish the best Arabs in any trial but one of very long endurance; hut the fact that the former have more speed than the latter does not prove that the racehorse would not receive improve ment in stoutness and soundness by a cross with a breed living under more natural conditions. The vigour of any race of animals is always greatest when the race is at its natural size. This vigour of consatution must not be confounded with muscular power, which is quite a different thing. lam glad that Admiral Rous admits that the regulations for the Queen's Plate were revised in the years 1833, 1847, and 1861, " because they broke down so many horses," for we are always told that the racehorse of the present day could run the old distances under heavy weights with impunity if his owner called upon him to do so. The fact is, when the old distances and weights became too severe for the horses then in possession of the turf, only two alternatives remained to those who had the con. trol of the turf and to the breeders—either to go in quest of fresh blood, or to lower the standard by which the racehorse was tried. Unfortunately for those who regret the test of stoutness being given up, the latter alternative was chosen. A test that would be barbarous now was not so at the begin. ning of the century and earlier; for while in these days a single race, as the Derby or St. Leger, is often sufficient to render the winner unsound for life, we know that horses of former times remained five and six years on the turf, and ran great distances under great weights without breaking down. No one would dispute that " those who pay the fiddler have a right to call the tune," or that those who own horses have not a perfect right to do what they will with their own ; but when those who agree with me on the question of the deterioration of horses in certain useful qualities see all the great component parts of the racing system—as, for in stance, the light weight handicaps, and the univer. sal practice of running horses at a tender age.... lamented and deprecated by maay of high autho rity on the Turf, we may be excused if we think that it has ceased to be a system likely to secure and maintain to us a race of stout sound horses for general purposes, and if we consider, to use Admi- Roes's graphic words, that it has become "a ;;;.me of weights."—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, PErtCY WYNDHAM. 44, Belgrave-square, June 29. LIBERATION OF GENERAL LANGIEWICZ. The Austrian Government, on the application of the Swiss Federal Council, has released General Morgan Langiewica, who had been confined as a prisoner in the fortress of Joseph stadt. The Federal Government has given an assurance that the general will not return to Poland. The Nord states that Mdlle. Fustovoloff, the " ea-companion in arms" of General Langiowiez, is about to be married to a litho grapher at Vienna, a Polo by birth. The late Canon Cureton, D, D,, F,R,S, By the death of Dr Cureton the world has lost a ripe and accurate scholar. and the Church of England an earnest and laborious minister. On the 29th of May, 1863, he met with a severe railsVay accident while returning with his family from Eastbourne, from the effects of which he never reco vered; every improvement was followed by a more severe relapse, and he finally sank at 1 o'clock of the morning of Friday, the 17th inst., in the 56th year of his age, William Cureton was born at Westbury, in Shropshire, in the year 1808, and was the second son of Mr William Cureton, of that place, He was educated at the Free Gram mar School of Newport, in his native county, whence he proceeded to Oxford with a Careswell Exhibition at the age of 18. He had intended to join the University as a com moner, but his father having died about this time, leaving the family property much embarrassed, he entered Christ Church as a servitor, in order that his mother might enjoy the full proceeds of his patrimony. I n this act he displayed that fiadePelidince, affectionate nature, and practical good ness which characterised him through life. He was a dili gent student, and graduated in 1830. He was ordained deacon in 1831 by Dr Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, and priest by Dr Murray, Bishop of Rochester, in 1832, He took the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Di 7inity by accumulation in 1858, having been previously created Doctor of Divinity by an honorary diploma of the University of Halle. Dr Gaisford, then Dean of Christ Church, who was much at tached to him,made him a chaplain of his college, and in 1834 introduced him to Dr Bandinel, the Bodlean Librarian, as a good son and a fit person to be under-librarian. He con tinued in that post until 1837, when he succeeded Sir Fred. Madden as assistant keeper of the manuscripts in the British Museum. He was selected for his office on account of his special acquaintance with Oriental languages, parti cularly Arable, to the study of which he had devoted him self from the year 1830, when he took his B.A. degree. In the British Museum Dr Cureton found employment suited to his tastes and studies, The duty assigned to him was the preparation of a classed catalogue of the Arabic por tion of the collection. The first part of this work, com prising Christian writings and the divisions of Mahomedan theology, jurisprudence, and history, and in which every volume noticed was minutely described in Latin, was pub lished in the spring of 1846. Much also of the material for the remainder of the catalogue had been prepared by him before the year 1850, when he resigned his appointment. But the preparation of this catalogue was not the most important nor the most laborious of Dr Cureton's duties at the British Museum. As early as the year 1841 his work on the Arabic catalogue had been interrupted, through the acquisition by the trustees of that institution of a very re markable collection of manuscripts in the Syriac language, obtained through the agency of Dr. Tattam from the Monastery of St. Mary Deipara, in the desert of Nitria or Scete, not far from Cairo. This event furnished him with materials for researches, at once varied and profound, in a new field. On the arrival of the MSS.—the first portion in 1841, the second in 1843—he threw himself heart and soul into the study of the Syraic language and literature. On him in the first instance devolved the task of classifying the volumes, of gathering together, collating, and arranging the numberless fragments and loose leaves of which the Nitrian Collection consisted, and of drawing up a brief summary of their contents for the catalogue of additional MSS. in the Museum. One of the first results of these labours was an article in the Quarterly Review, No. cliii., December, 1845, giving an account of the way in which the MSS. were procured, and a rough sketch of their contents ; and in the same year appeared the first edition of the ancient Syriac version cf the epistle of St. Ignatius to St. Polycarp, tho Ephesians, and the Romans. The views propounded by Dr. Cureton,—that we have here the genuine epistles of St. Ignatius in their original form ; that the previously- known recensions of these three epistles are much altered and interpolated ; and that all others ascribed to tha t Father are suppositious—views such as these were cer tain to excite much controversy in the theological world. Commenced by Wordsworth in the English Review, No. viii., July, 1345, the strife was continued by Samuel Lee (British Magazine, vol. xxx ), Bunsen, Baur, Ililgenfeld, Denzinger, Hefele, Jacobson, and others, of whom the firs two supported Cureton, while the rest combated his views. Cureton himself took the field against Wordsworth in his " Vindicias Ignatiante" (1846)—a calm but crushing refu tation of his opponent's allegation ,that the Syriac version was a miserable epitome by an Eutychian heretic." The year 1849 saw the publication of the " Corpus Ignatianum," an enlarged edition of the work of 1845, almost contempo raneously with which appeared Petermann'a edition of the Ignatian epistles. Since then discussion has been continued by Lipsius (1859) on the siie of Cureton, and Marx (1861) on that of his opponents, and is not even yet brought to a final settlement. Cureton, however, remained steadfast to the views stated with such clearness and learning in the " Corpus Ignatianum," and would, if his life had been spared, have once again stepped fot ward to sum and con clude the controversy. While the Ignatian controversy was at its height Dr Cureton edited the test of a portion of the Syriao version of the long-lost " Festal Letters of St. Athanasius," of which he had been the fortunate discoverer. The preface to these letters contain an interesting account of the Nitrian Collection, more especially of a third portion, which reached the Museum in 1847. These letters have been translated into English by Burgess (1854), and form one of the vo lumes.of Pusey's Library of the Fathers. A German trans lation from the pen of the well-known Syrian scholar Larsow appeared in 1852. In 1851 Cureton edited for the trustees of the British Museum the palimps eat fragments of the " Iliad of Homer," contained y in the Nitrian MS., now numbered " Add. 17, 210." In 1853 there issued from the University Press of Oxford an important contribution to our historical knowledge—the third part of the " Ecclesiastical Ristory of John Bishop of Ephesus," edited by Cureton, from the Add. MS. 14,640. Of this he intended to publish a translation, but other labours prevented hfm, and his wishes were carried out by the ReV. R. Payne Smith, sub-librarian of the Bod leian Library, whose version appeared in 1860. There is also a German translation by Schonfelder (1862). Two years later this indefatigable scholar published his "Spicilegium Syriacum," containin g remains ascribed to Bardesanes, Melito of Sardes, Ambrose, &c., with an Eng lish translation and notes. The first of those, called in the MS. the "Book of the Laws of Countries," is the Syriac original of the celebrated "Dialogue on Fate." A German translation of it has been given by Men, in his work " Bar desanes von Edessa" (1863), who has shown that it is in reality the production of a disciple of Batdesanes named Philip. The second tract contained in the " Spicilegium" is, in all probability, not the "Apology"of Melito, but, as Ewald and Land have maintained, the treatise of that Father 7repi driecias. The third is the same, with some modifications, as the AcCyor rpOr EXX, pas , which i s sometimes attributed to Justin Martyr. In 1868 Cureton edited, perhaps, the most valuable of all his works, and one which has given rise to scarcely less con troversy than the Ignatian Epistles, He discovered in the Add. MS. 14,451, which belongs to the latter half of the fifth century, the remains of an ancient recension of the Syriac Gospels, differing notably from the ordinary Pehito version. In his preface he dwelt on these divergencies, more especially in the text of the Gospel of St. Matthew— summed up the evidence in favour of the Hebrew original no fact relating to the ethhatteteGroyspel, of tthhaen New Testament perhaps, Teetement is more fully and satisfactorily established ; and endeavour to prove that this particular MS. represented the Hebrew far more faithfully than the Peshito does —at least in the shape it is generally known to European scholars, His views have been warmly espoused by that able critic Dr. Tregel les. It was Dr. Cureton's intention to have returned in after years to this subject, and made known additional evi dence which he had collected upon these points. Three years later Cureton brought outtthe last work that he was destined to finish—" The History of the Martyrs in Palestine," by Eusebius of Caasarea, taken from the same venerable MS. from which Dr S. Lee edited the Thophania of that father. The last years of his life were employed in completing a work which he had announced in the prune to The Festal Letters of St Athanasius, p. xxiii., note. The text and part of the translation were printed at the time when he met with the railway accident that ultimately caused his death. Fortunately ho was able to finish the translation and notes before his health altogether gave way; but the preface, in which the results of the work were to have been summed up, and his views regarding various questions stated, has we fear never been written. According to his own statement the book contains, among other things, " a considerable por tion of the,original Aramic document which Eusebius cites as preserved in the archives of Edessa, and various passages from it, quoted by several authors, with other testimonies, which seem to be sufficient to establish the fact of the early conversion of many of ihe inhabitants of that city,and among them of the King himself, although his successors after wards relapsed into paganism,'!. The unwritten preface -x~ 7 ~~~ EIVSPAPEI (c . :4,,,,,ATA=""7 , 45, e.i" . ?W; - i - -1 r ,.‘ NY, I the sovereignty of Southern Schleswig would 6140 47:7i, -° "IN.O the same line of succession as the sovereignii:" Nrt e ,?‘ le- , - - - v - Holstein. • 1 --..,,,,-- -' "On the other hand, Northern Schleswig iN:OuJd--':'-'-f: be attached by its law of succession to the Cr'' of Denmark, and the sovereignty of that Duch37l l- ... would be inseparably united with the Danish Crown. FAAp . :.sz~ II N " Secondly, if this arrangement should not be thought expedient, the Duchy of Schleswig mig!tt remain entire and undivided, such as it now is; it might continue to be administered as it has been by an Administration established for Schleswig and Holstein jointly; and there should also be pro vincial estates in which the representatives of the two Duchies would be assembled together in their proper respective proportions. In this case the King of Denmark would remain, as he now is, a member of the Germanic Confederation in his capa city of Duke of Holstein ; Lot he would not become member of the Confederation in his cap :city of Duke of Schleswig. "No change would in this case be made in the law of succe6sion i n &hleswipz." Opening of the Danish Parliament, We have received the full text of the speech of the King of Denmark, read at the opening of the Rigsraad on Saturday, by the President of the Council. It was as follows : We, Christian IX., send to the Rigsraad our royal salutation. The critical situation of the coun• try and the extraordinary expenses which the war has already entailed, and which its continuation may yet farther require, have imposed upon us the necessity of convoking the Rigsraad, in order that you may approve of the steps which our Goverment has taken, end that you may give your consent to the measures intended to cream the resources which are indispensable. It is nut we who have provoked war. Our conscience tells us that we have done all that was in our power to avoid it. We have been attacked by a superior enemy, under the pretext that we have not observed the arrangements of 1851 and 1852. Before the commencement of hostilities our adversaries refased to accept a conference to consult in a friendly way with the other signitaries of the London treaty, and it was not until they had seized the greater part of the peninsula that they consented to its meeting, but declaring even then that they did not regard themselves as bound by the transactions of 1851 and 1852. During the short time that our reign has lasted we have learnt by bitter experience how little the clearest rights now weigh in the political balance of Europe, and how a king and his people may be abandoned to themselves in the most unequal contest. Therefore it is that when England, sup ported by all the neutral powers which sat in the Conference of London, demanded of us to renounce altogether the portion of territory belonging to the Danish monarchy situated to the south of the Schlei and Dannewerke, we resigned ourselves to submis. sion to a sacrifice which was so grievous to us. This sacrifice has not been accepted by the German powers. We cannot sacrifice more. To the exhortations which have been made to us we have responded by a negative, in the firm convic tion that our refusal is that also of the Danish people. May God change the dispositions of the powers that hold the destiny of Europe in their hands ! May He at least grant that the sympathy of one amongst them be transformed into efficacious co-operation ! Hereupon we assure the Rigsraad of our royal favour. The reading of the Ring's message was received by the members of bath houses with loud cheers. At the sitting• of the Lower House in the evening Director :Brix requested explanations from the Ministry of the state of negotiations at the Confer ence. The President of the Council replied : I consider it quite natural that the house should desire to receive as soon as possible such caplana. tions as it is in my power to give, but I should not be justified in yet communicating what has taken place at the earlier meetings of the Conference. 1 must reserve that until I cm able to bring up the records of the procHdings. At present I must con fine myself to recounting the state cf the negotia. tions at the latest sdvices, The situation lust Satur day was as follows. Tne enemy persisted in their demand that Holstein and Lauenburg, with that portion of Schleswig south of a line drawn from Apenrade to Mier, shou'd be deprived of all per sonal connection with Denmark, to form a separate state under a separate sovereign. The Danish plenipotentiary had declared that his Majesty would not oppose a cession of territory, provided not only peace but the entire independence of the rest of the country would be thereby secured. They proposed Eckernferde, the Dannewerke, and Frederickstadt as the frontier line calculated to offer the necessary military and commerciol security. These two propositions had been made after Earl Russell, in conjunction with the other neutral powers, had brought forward a plan placing the line of demarca tion south of the Schlei and the Dannewerke, at the sitting of the Conference on May 28. The Danish plenipotentiaries had been empowered to accept this proposition as an ultimatum, as well as to consent to a prolongation of the suspension of arms for a fortnight, provided they were assured Lord Russell would adhere firmly to the proposal put for. ward by the English Government, and supported by the three neutral powers. After the Danish plenid potentiaries had communicated these instructions to Lord Russell, the English Minister promised "that he would net himself bring forward, nor support any motion brought forward by another party, whi c h should be more unfavourable to Denmark than that of the 28th May, unless the Danish Government should itself consent." After this declaration the Danish plenipotentiaries consented to a prolonga tion of the suspension of arms until the 25th inst. This was the situation up to Saturday last (the 18th), but at the sitting held that day, Lord Russell came forward with an entirely new proposition, accord ing to which only the line of Apenrade to Hoier should be secured to us, while it should be left to the good offices of a neutral power to decide how large a portion of the territory lying between this line and Eckernforde should be given to Denmark. The minor details of this last turn of the negotia tions are not yet exactly known to me, and I am unable to explain how far this last proposal—to which the Government of the King has undoubtedly not agreed—is reconcileable with the declaration made by Lord Russell to the Danish plenipoten tiaries. lam only as yet able to state that the red presentative of the King rejected the proposition at the sitting of Wednesday, and that the hostile powers accompanied their acceptance of it with such reserves and limitations as to leave the general im. pression, at the Conference, that their assent was rather to be regarded as a refusal. lam unable to give any intelligence as to the result of to-day's sitting, but as no order of the day had been settled, I assume this meeting was the last. I cannot ex press any opinion as to the turn political relations will take after the termination of the Conference and the resumption of the war, for they will not begin to develop themselves—especially in England —until after these events have taken place. PRESIDENT LINCOLN AT HIS STORYTELLING AGAIN.—The representatives of the Union League waited on President Lincoln at the White House on the oth inst,, to congratulate him on his renomination by the Baltimore Convention. Mr Lincoln made the following reply :—" Gentlemen,—l am very grateful for the renewed confidence which has been accorded to me, both by the Con vention and the Nation a l L eague. lam no t i nsens ibl e a t all to the personal compliment there is in this, yet I do not allow myself to believe that any but a small portion of it is to be appropriated as a pomonal compliment. The Conven tima and the nation, I am assured, are alike animat• d by a higher View of tilt) interests of the country for the present and the great future, and the part I am (-Willed to appro ibt, opinion of the Conve n ti on an d of the h pr o i l a d te ofasasabecioung3pliment is only that part which I may lay League, that 1 a w not unworthy to be entrusted with the place I have occupied for the last t hree years. I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this con nection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a com panion once that 'it was not best to swop horses when crossing streams.' " Persons in debt may obtain instant protection against imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an entire release from all debts and lial;ilities without publicity, by application to Messrs. Marshall, solicitors of the Court of Bankruptcy, Charges under £5 payable by easy instalments. 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